Aliens: Fireteam Elite 2 Squad Planner

Use this tool to plan your four-player squad composition. Select four classes and see recommended synergies, role coverage, and optimised build paths.

How to use

Select one class per slot using the selectors below. The tool will show your squad’s role coverage and recommend any gaps.

Squad roles

A complete squad covers these five roles:

Heavy — Room-clearing explosive damage. Provided by Marauder.

DPS — Sustained primary weapon damage. Provided by Duelist.

Tech — Area denial and deployable support. Provided by Machinist.

Precision — Weak-point damage and enemy control. Provided by Hunter.

Support — Healing and revive speed. Provided by Medic.

Role coverage guide

The Specialist can fill any single role by selecting fragments from the corresponding base class. A Specialist with Machinist fragments fills the Tech role.

Recommended squads

Balanced (all content) Marauder + Duelist + Machinist + Medic

Horde optimised Marauder + Duelist + Machinist + Specialist (Machinist fragments)

Aggressive push Marauder + Duelist + Duelist + Specialist (Marauder fragments)

Notes

This is a reference tool. Actual performance depends on player skill, build quality, and squad coordination. Patch 1 restored companion-bot perks in multiplayer and rebalanced bot heals on high difficulty, so a three-human plus one synthetic lobby is less of a trap than preview builds suggested. Explosive Duelist is viable again — do not bench residual explosives out of habit.

Empty slots fill with Alpha, Beta, and Gamma. They shoot and revive, but they will not replace a human Medic on Intense and above. If you host a P2P session, region matchmaking from Patch 1 should pick a closer host; hitching that only happens when you host is a connection problem, not a bad class mix. See PC settings if the hive hitchs on the host machine.

Why four seats matter

The first game ran three marines. Four seats mean you can cover Heavy, DPS, Tech, and Support without asking Hunter to also be the medic. Hunter is the fifth role: take it when the fireteam already has sustain and you need weak points on Wardens and Praetorians. Double Duelist is a speed-run luxury, not a pub default.

Campaign Standard — Marauder + Duelist + Machinist + Medic. Learn doors, then swap Hunter in for Ancient Anomaly synthetics.

Intense achievement farm — Medic + Marauder + Duelist + Machinist. Leave residual explosives off for Pure Professionals.

Horde 20-plus — Marauder + Machinist + Medic + Specialist (Machinist or Marauder major). Turrets hold the lane while rockets delete heavies.

Cross-check enemies on the dossier and kits on the Classes hub. Horde economy is on How to Beat Horde.

Specialist fill rules

One major fragment, several minors. A Specialist with Medic Combat Stims is Support, not a second Heavy. Do not list two Specialists as covering four roles unless you have actually slotted four different majors across two players — you cannot.

Re-spec is free in the hub. Change the plan between campaigns; do not mid-wave.

What the planner cannot do

It cannot read your save, assign fragments, or replace a voice call. If two humans both lock Hunter, you still have a weak-point pair and no Heavy. The role list is a checklist, not a matchmaking API. After Patch 1, treat Explosive Duelist as a real A-tier option on Horde maps that reward residual explosives, and treat synthetic companions as extra guns, not as a fourth human Medic. For campaign Intense achievement farming, keep residual explosives off and run the balanced four. For Ancient Anomaly synthetics, swap Hunter in only after Machinist and Medic are already seated.