Alien Swarm - free Valve game

overclick · 20 Jul 2010 at 00:53

managed 2.2mb/sec (which is my max D/L rate) but took a few goes to get the D/L started. A bit late so i just had a burst on single player 1st level. I've obviously not seen much of the game yet but looks pretty damn sweet for a freebie!

Will have to try work out how to get a decent group going 2morrow

PGdude · 20 Jul 2010 at 00:53

Oh finally. Getting speeds. Will be done soon.

~>Dg<~ · 20 Jul 2010 at 01:00

just had a few games really liking it very different :cool:

Oddw1re · 20 Jul 2010 at 01:09

Played a few rounds then got disconnected

Awesome game though.

Locke · 20 Jul 2010 at 01:13

Awesome game, had some games where people run around like Looney's

Managed to gain a few levels though, which was nice.

just Scott · 20 Jul 2010 at 01:22

Eh don't really like the game that much. I just want the TF2 hat.

Klo · 20 Jul 2010 at 01:31

Hmm, not sure about it, I think I just suck as I can't beat any levels playing single player.

FrenchTart · 20 Jul 2010 at 01:35

Klo said:
Hmm, not sure about it, I think I just suck as I can't beat any levels playing single player.

Go multiplayer. As per all games, bots suck.

chaotic_uk · 20 Jul 2010 at 02:29

tried it and hated it tbh , mind you i do not like top down games apart from rts games like sc2 lol

OminousLatinNoun · 20 Jul 2010 at 04:10

Pretty fun, the backgrounds ingame make my skin crawl though.

Valve will probably sell off addons / extra campaigns for it, a good idea imo as a ton of people who wouldn't have otherwise been interested have tried out the game. :3

Tefal · 20 Jul 2010 at 06:44

I did the smart thing, went to bed (well i had been up all night

) at 6pm and am now downloading it at 800kbs without any of the "ZOMG HURRY UP and un lock/download" rage

Bobmunkhouse · 20 Jul 2010 at 06:54

Well I decided not to bother with the crazy busy servers last night so turned on pc 10mins ago and nearly done now......only good thing about getting up at 6:30.....

Aod · 20 Jul 2010 at 07:02

got invited into a game by Natima - that was awesome as hell. we fried 'dem bugz good!

Natima · 20 Jul 2010 at 07:34

Hah, so we did!

uv · 20 Jul 2010 at 07:45

just did a quick pre-breakfast SP skirmish, and it runs like a buttery dream pretty much maxed on my laptop - extremely well optimized

seems very easy though.. even on a trackpad

I expect the [LT] server will always be on hard mode for it to be a challenge

dmcg · 20 Jul 2010 at 08:00

is annoying to have dumb people in your team though

I mean this game isnt exactly complicated to understand

dave1983 · 20 Jul 2010 at 09:02

it least it's something different than a normal FPS, i think once you have a good team with perks, it will be an insane game.

Deific · 20 Jul 2010 at 09:15

It's really annoying how people don't grasp the concept of friendly fire and sjust shoot you in the back or consistantly or run in your LOF

gord · 20 Jul 2010 at 09:17

Is this game infinite? I mean like the L4D survivor mode?

I need scoreboards to retain my interest.

FrenchTart · 20 Jul 2010 at 09:43

gord said:
Is this game infinite? I mean like the L4D survivor mode?

I need scoreboards to retain my interest.

Not yet but I wouldn't be at all surprised if a mod to do that comes out fairly soon. We've been given a hell of a lot of developer tools for this

uv said:
just did a quick pre-breakfast SP skirmish, and it runs like a buttery dream pretty much maxed on my laptop - extremely well optimized

seems very easy though.. even on a trackpad

I expect the [LT] server will always be on hard mode for it to be a challenge

New LAN game

I reckon one normal, two hard and one suicidal...assuming the game doesn't pwn the servers too much with cpu usage.