Alien Swarm - free Valve game

Lyon85 · 19 Jul 2010 at 23:09

Everyone seems to be playing on normal, I tried hard on offline mode briefly and it was way too easy. Gonna wait till tomorrow to get an insane mode game going I think. Seems fun though.

chaotic_uk · 19 Jul 2010 at 23:10

from the manchester steam server i am getting 1byte/s , takes me back to the dialup days lol

Hunders · 19 Jul 2010 at 23:16

I've given up all hope of getting this tonight. The servers are getting hammered!

MouthBoy · 19 Jul 2010 at 23:36

UK - London, 2.7mb/s!

uv · 19 Jul 2010 at 23:37

smeaney said:
UK - London, 2.7mb/s!

damn you, I'm getting between 8k and 140k :'(

MouthBoy · 19 Jul 2010 at 23:40

uv said:
damn you, I'm getting between 8k and 140k :'(

3.3mb/s now!

FrenchTart · 19 Jul 2010 at 23:41

97%..wootz!

Now no doubt the speed will drop back to 1KB/sec and it'll take two hours for the last 3%

ordinaryjoe · 19 Jul 2010 at 23:43

Servers seem to be giving random speeds? I tried out about 8 or so different servers and couldn't get above 150 KB/s. My friend's was set to Netherlands and he got 400 KB/s, but when I tried that server, I barely got 50 KB/s. However, I found one which gave me 150 KB/s and stayed on it, and it's now giving me 350 KB/s... I think they prioritise people who've been on the server longer, or who's d/l is nearer finished or something? Not too sure.

Hunders · 19 Jul 2010 at 23:43

Scratch what I said earlier. I'm getting 1.5MB/s from France now.

MouthBoy · 19 Jul 2010 at 23:44

Heh, so much for my bragging. It got to 20mb left to go and slowed to around 100k. Oh well, less then a minute!

Locke · 19 Jul 2010 at 23:46

Lyon85 said:
Everyone seems to be playing on normal, I tried hard on offline mode briefly and it was way too easy. Gonna wait till tomorrow to get an insane mode game going I think. Seems fun though.

Hmm, further on and it gets insane.....

D18241 · 19 Jul 2010 at 23:53

yeah been playing it on normall got to lvl8 , those things that infect you are a right pain to get rid of

Lyon85 · 19 Jul 2010 at 23:55

Locke said:
Hmm, further on and it gets insane.....

Yeah I retract my previous statement

orderoftheflame · 19 Jul 2010 at 23:58

Frenchy server gave me a good speed.

bledd · 20 Jul 2010 at 00:03

Subliminal Aura said:
I'm ashamed to say that I've never installed steam.

Will I need to pay a subscription or something ?

That's like having a mobile phone and never using it to text or call anyone

thingemajib · 20 Jul 2010 at 00:10

FlukeRogi said:
Mine's stuck in some sort of temporal anomaly. It's been at 16 minutes remaining for the past hour and a half.

valve have discovered how to time travel?!?!?

Klo · 20 Jul 2010 at 00:13

orderoftheflame said:
Frenchy server gave me a good speed.

An exabyte a second isn't to bad I guess

orderoftheflame · 20 Jul 2010 at 00:18

Klo said:
An exabyte a second isn't to bad I guess

It's measured in MB/S already. That Sir, is Zetta-bytes/s.

jmc777 · 20 Jul 2010 at 00:18

Got to the 4th or 5th level in a public game and got bumped back to the menu.

FrenchTart · 20 Jul 2010 at 00:38

Just played two games and spec'd another... Captures the feel of the first one brilliantly and manages to make it nicely more hectic without the 'insta death' the first one often inspired.

Definitely an amazing game