Author Topic: Alien Swarm (Read 4601 times)

Amplifier · « **on:** July 17, 2010, 10:26:44 PM »

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Alien Swarm is a game and Source SDK release from a group of talented designers at Valve who were hired from the Mod community.

Available free of charge, the game thrusts players into an epic bug hunt featuring a unique blend of co-op play and squad-level tactics. With your friends, form a squad of four distinct IAF Marine classes. Plan your attack using an unlockable arsenal of weapons with countless loadout configurations against a wide variety of aliens. Blaze your way through an overrun, off-world colony, eradicating the alien infestation in environments ranging from the icy planet's surface, to a subterranean lava-flooded mining facility.

Along with the game get the complete code base for Alien Swarm that features updates to the Source engine as well as the SDK. Alien Swarm adds 3rd person camera, depth of field, improved dynamic shadows and a wide variety of gameplay additions to the Source engine.

Tactical, 4 player co-op action game with a top-down perspective
Complete game code and mod tools
Unlock persistent items by gaining levels
Over 40 weapons and equipment with countless loadout configurations
4 unique classes and 8 unique characters
Matchmaking, Steam Cloud, Steam Stats
64 achievements
Tile-based map generation tool
Powered by Source and Steam

Alien Swarm @ Steam

Amplifier · « **Reply #1 on:** July 19, 2010, 11:01:41 PM »

Alien Swarm is available now (if you can get it to download, fufufu~)

Ayabie · « **Reply #2 on:** July 19, 2010, 11:24:54 PM »

Downloading at 1.1kb/s! No wait... 2.2kb/s! Aw shit, make that bytes!

Anyway, let's get some games going this weekend.

boykun · « **Reply #3 on:** July 19, 2010, 11:37:23 PM »

Werd up, I just finished downloading it.

nimrod · « **Reply #4 on:** July 20, 2010, 02:11:35 AM »

The game always crashes after the start here

edit: http://forums.steampowered.com/forums/showthread.php?t=1368316&page=73

fail

boykun · « **Reply #5 on:** July 20, 2010, 03:38:26 AM »

I got it working fine here.

Played a couple of levels. It's pretty fun, though you need a pretty decent team to get through

Amplifier · « **Reply #6 on:** July 20, 2010, 05:26:02 AM »

Had a lot of fun playing earlier, with Stryfe and boykun. I like the different weapons, and tools you can use. Rocket boots

Definitely suggest more than two players at once, however, or things can get a bit hairy (and it's game over if the tech dies

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GET IT

boykun · « **Reply #7 on:** July 20, 2010, 11:18:04 AM »

Shiiiiiiiiit I just checked back and for some reason I've been reset to level 1 T_T

shirenuファクトリー · « **Reply #8 on:** July 20, 2010, 11:30:04 AM »

I'm leeching Alien Swarm at 115kbps

shurastriker · « **Reply #9 on:** July 20, 2010, 05:23:46 PM »

me too
http://steamcommunity.com/id/shurastriker

Amplifier · « **Reply #10 on:** July 20, 2010, 06:45:13 PM »

Finished the included campaign with shishi, stryfe, koko earlier. Was some tough stuff in parts. It's a pretty sweet game, I'm seriously looking forward to user-created content for it.

shirenuファクトリー · « **Reply #11 on:** July 20, 2010, 06:50:25 PM »

I SUCK AT IT SO MUCH

I want to level up more T_T

Amplifier · « **Reply #12 on:** July 23, 2010, 08:24:12 PM »

"http://www.gametrailers.com/remote_wrap.php?umid=347646"

Video demonstrating Alien Swarm in first person mode.

Source + Instructions: http://www.rockpapershotgun.com/2010/07/22/left-4-aliens-well-kinda/

shirenuファクトリー · « **Reply #13 on:** July 23, 2010, 09:17:24 PM »

lol That looks pretty cool xD

Amplifier · « **Reply #14 on:** July 24, 2010, 01:21:38 PM »

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Updates to Alien Swarm have been released. The updates will be applied automatically when your Steam client is restarted. The major changes include:

The Vindicator’s grenade explosion effect should no longer crash users running a GTX260 graphics card.
Fixed a bug where marines would continue to be buffed by the Damage Amp if they were standing in it when it expired.
Fixed ammo usage on the Tesla Cannon to properly decrease 4 times a second instead of 2 (doubled clip size to account for this).
Rebalanced Tesla Cannon’s damage to encourage it to be used more as a support weapon.
Tesla Cannon will now use ammo slowly even when it isn’t damaging something.
Fixed Unicode text chat

Source: http://store.steampowered.com/news/4119/

LOVE IS OVER

shirenuファクトリー · « **Reply #15 on:** July 24, 2010, 01:23:24 PM »

WHYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYY

TESLAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA

TT___TT

....

Stryfe · « **Reply #16 on:** July 24, 2010, 02:42:51 PM »

Ooh baby, more challenge.

Blu-Cherri · « **Reply #17 on:** July 24, 2010, 07:13:22 PM »

I read the tesla news this morning, omg so sad. They ruined my weapon!! T_T
NOOO TESLA!!! YOU WERE TOO YOUNG!!

also I'm at lvl27 finally lol

Stryfe · « **Reply #18 on:** July 25, 2010, 05:25:44 PM »

Outstanding Execution yeah baby!

GJ amp, xero, shirenu! Not dying is surprisingly hard, ainnit. 8D

Amplifier · « **Reply #19 on:** July 25, 2010, 05:58:37 PM »

FUCK YEAH, TEAM JPH!P! Surprisingly hard on Normal, even. Couple times parasites caught me off guard, even with my liberal flaming of every corner.

Some of the custom maps are starting to look nice, think we could start rolling on them soon