Alien Swarm - Free on steam

Artanix

Artanix

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Rawr :D

Anybody picked this up yet? I've got it downloading today while I'm at work, and wondering if anybody else has noticed it?

Quite a nice thing from valve too, some guys made an unreal 2004 (i think) mod, called alien swarm, top down shooter that reminds me of loaded or alien breed (back in the amiga days). Anywho, Valve hired those guys who did this. 4 years later, they've made a source mod for it.

Released it for free, with the full SDK and map making tools. So anyways, linkies to follow: (pictures on the link)

http://store.steampowered.com/app/630/

Looks very much like a top down shooty version of L4D.


Anyway, I'll be playing it this week and see if it holds, I'm on Artanixuk and I'll probably be playing with my g/f (carpetbagpoem), who's currently nerding at my house too haha :)

edit: pic removed, as it was bigger than my room.
 
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Aciiid

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Dart and I played some last night and it was great fun.

I also had a quick play with the SDK and it's using the hammer editor just like lots of other games so I'd expect lots of user designed levels to come out imminently.
 
Artanix

Artanix

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yeah theres a few bugs and what not. As a standalone game, theres not much to it (granted its free :)), but the possibility of some great user created stuff should beef up the replayability.

Also all the Half life maps from source games work for this, people have converted stuff from TF2 already (albeit no aliens ;))
 
Brutus

Brutus

Hairier than thou
Couldn't agree more, its great fun and very enjoyable with decent communications and some good team players (on teh internets????). I think it will be very popular as long as there is good quality content around for it.
 
Dart

Dart

Dead Again, I need a Rez
The modders (Black Cat Games) that did the UT2004 Alien Swarm game. Announced they would be doing another with the Source engine called Alien Swarm: Infested. The games site stopped getting updates a few years ago.

Turns out Valve hired them.
 
Chick

Chick

Cartwheel RIGHT
having a bit of a lan session this afternoon if anyone want's to join.
look for steam tag: Iteken
 
Dart

Dart

Dead Again, I need a Rez
They added a new difficulty level, "Brutal" in case you thought "Insane" was too easy.

New "Onslaught" mode, which introduces an AI Director that dynamically generates swarms of aliens based on several factors.

And "Hardcore Friendly Fire" toggle. When enabled, friendly fire deals full damage immediately, flamethrowers set teammates on fire much faster, and turrets will hurt you if get caught in their crossfire.

So who wants to try out this with me?
 
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