Aliens: Fireteam Elite Guide | How to Play Technician

This guide explains how to play the Technician in Aliens: Fireteam Elite, focusing on the class's role, abilities, weapon archetypes, and practical playstyle. The Technician specializes in zone control and defensive DPS, setting up kill zones with deployables and area-denial tools. 

This guide will help you understand how the Technician class functions and how to use its core tools effectively.

Role Overview

When fighting the Xenomorph threat, a colonial marine is one of humanity's best defenses. Not every marine has the same role and abilities; the Technician is all about zone control and defensive damage. 

The class specializes in setting up kill zones via the Sentry Turret, Charged Coils, and weaponry. While the Technician may not appear to deal the highest burst damage on the surface, the class is mighty when used to lock down choke points and support a fire team.

Weapon Archetypes

The Technician has access to Handguns as well as CQW Weapons. This limits effective long-range engagement because the class does not have access to rifles; however, it does not reduce overall damage output. 

Handguns still allow for some long-range damage, and CQW Weapons excel at eliminating enemies that get up close, especially Shotguns. These weapons are complemented by class abilities that increase close-quarters lethality.

Abilities

The Technician is equipped with two kit abilities and one kit perk. The first kit ability is the Sentry Turret — the iconic deployable that assists a fire team in dealing with waves of aliens. 

When activated, the ability deploys a turret that must be confirmed; the turret then automatically fires at enemies until it is destroyed or manually picked up. If the turret is picked up rather than destroyed, it receives a reduced cooldown before it can be redeployed.

The second ability is the Charged Coils. These function like throwable grenades that stick to walls, floors, or other surfaces and unleash directed electrical shocks in an area.

The Charged Coils damage enemies and reduce their movement speed, allowing you to control specific areas. They are instrumental when placed in choke points as a swarm approaches the fire team.

Kit Perk

The Cross-Platform Synergy perk is part of the kit. Friends who stand next to your Sentry Turret take 10 less damage. Also, the gun heals itself 5% faster every second when you stand next to it. 

This perk heals the turret and lowers the damage done by all of the fire team by a small but essential amount. As time goes on and more perks are unlocked, abilities can be improved. This lets you make different builds and specialize in specific roles.

Playstyle: Strengths and Weaknesses

The Technician's greatest strength is zone control. Thanks to the Sentry Turret and Charged Coils, the class can lock down areas and set up kill zones where the fire team can deal massive amounts of damage to approaching swarms. 

The build also excels in close-quarters combat due to access to Handguns and CQW Weapons, especially Shotguns. Enemies that make it past the Sentry Turret and Charged Coils will often find a marine ready to deal high damage at close range.

The primary weakness is a relative lack of long-range capability. The Technician suffers somewhat at range because rifles are not available. Still, this drawback is mitigated by the fact that most enemies in Aliens: Fireteam Elite prefer to close the distance and engage up close.

Progression and Builds

More perks and choices become available as the game goes on, which changes how the Technician can be built. Perks will let you play in different ways and improve your skills, so you can specialize in defensive support, attacking close-quarters damage, or a mix of the two.

Try different builds by moving turrets and using charged coils in various ways to see what works best for the map, task, and fire team.

Tactical Advice

Place Sentry Turrets where they can cover choke points and retreat paths so they can draw enemy attention and help the fire team control waves.

Use Charged Coils on walls and floors at likely approach routes to slow and damage swarms. 

Stand near deployed turrets to benefit from Cross-Platform Synergy and keep the turret's health regenerating.

Reserve pick-up of a turret when it is advantageous to redeploy it quickly for another high-threat area rather than allowing it to be destroyed.

Final Notes

The Technician is a powerful class in Horde modes and excels at dealing with nearly every enemy type except certain synthetics that interact differently with turrets and electrical effects. 

Tactically set up kill zones; any enemy that penetrates defenses will often face a Shotgun or other CQW Weapon backed by the Technician's abilities.

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