Alien Swarm - free Valve game

[jmc777]

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

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.

Out on the 19th.

 

[Glaucus]

sounds interesting, so who's up for 4 player co-op on 19th.

 

[Subliminal Aura]

I'm ashamed to say that I've never installed steam.

Will I need to pay a subscription or something ?

 

[PixelChef]

I'm ashamed to say that I've never installed steam.

Will I need to pay a subscription or something ?

Nope steam on its own is free.

 

[Rhys-M]

I played the UT2004 mod many years ago, it was pretty good. This one has been in the works for ages

 

[Subliminal Aura]

Nope steam on its own is free.

So, I'll be able to download this game and play it (for free) ? Surely there must be a catch somewhere if I want to play online multiplayer ?

Guess I've been living in the dark ages !

Thanks for the heads up

 

[DampCat]

No catch.

 

[pieplough]

I thought to run a source SDK release you needed a source game installed?

Looks pretty cool anyway

 

[Subliminal Aura]

Thanks .... I'm in .... Frag a noob... my openarena / quake 3 demo days are over !

 

[Cookeh]

I'm ashamed to say that I've never installed steam.

And ashamed you should be!

 

[Lyon85]

Where did this come from? Valve + Free =

I thought to run a source SDK release you needed a source game installed?

Looks pretty cool anyway

It's no mod, it comes with the full SDK (looks like a new version of source).

 

[Silent UK]

Looks good!

 

[Mahnsikir]

Didnt this used to be a Unreal 2004 mod?

Did pretty well in the Make Somthing Unreal competition I think.

 

[Chaos]

Looks decent will check it out.

 

[DampCat]

Looks kinda ace. Like futuristic diablo.

im totally getting it.

 

[pieplough]

Where did this come from? Valve + Free =


It's no mod, it comes with the full SDK (looks like a new version of source).

Ahh, thats pretty sweet. Will check it out for sure.

 

[Chaos]

Didnt this used to be a Unreal 2004 mod?

Did pretty well in the Make Somthing Unreal competition I think.

Seen this posted elsewhere -


"Two years ago Valve hired the talented team behind the popular top down co-op mod Alien Swarm. Since then they have been busy working on the Left 4 Dead Series, and now Portal 2. However, we never forgot about Alien Swarm and the team has spent a lot of time bringing the game to Source in between their contributions to the other Valve projects.

On Monday, July 19th Alien Swarm is going to be released for free via Steam.

In addition to the game, Valve will also release the complete code base for Alien Swarm. This includes updates to the Source engine SDK and full Steamworks integration. If you’ve ever thought about developing a mod on the Source engine with Steamworks, this release provides more insight and examples for using Steamworks in game production.

Please visit http://www.alienswarm.com for more information."

 

[Klo]

Looks kinda ace. Like futuristic diablo.

im totally getting it.

It won't play like one though

 

[FrenchTart]

Amazing.. I've been waiting for this for years

 

[Nerusy]

Woah looks like a decent game, looking forward to it