How do you play it by yourself?
Alien Swarm - free Valve game
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How do you play it by yourself?
Really? I'd of said save those for the Shield Bugs. Easiest place to get caught out with that many of them + the little bomb bugs.
You have to start an online game yourself.
asw_ignore (Something) in console, it'll pop up, just change it to 1
Solo'd Timor on insane now, next goal is to solo it on insane with the speed run time, I got 4:32, 7 seconds needed to knock off.
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Is the game very long?
Yeah its just excessive. I could understand the usual scaling like harder hitting, higher health, etc, but the sudden change of enemy numbers, static spawns and placing really leaves makes it over the top. Hard could've done with more of the same so the step from Normal to Hard is more than just increased damage.
No but then its only 1 campaign. Assuming you don't die you could probably run through it in under 30 minutes. But then the game was free and the SDK was released for custom content so nothing to complain about really.
On the topic of max level... why 27? It just seems like such a weird number. Guess it could be raised if they felt like adding more stuff though. Wonder if they plan to increase the max after third promotion with a later update so you can unlock more gear.
Maniac!
Wish I didn't get bored of this game after the 2nd day, for some reason the novelty of this type of game wore off for me o_O (maybe I raged at some noobs, I can't remember
)Still a great game for some fun though
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me and my mates can get up to level 4 on insane, then everything we try seems to fail.
Excellent especially considering it's free. Some very nice ideas in there and you can tell a lot of effort and polish has been put in to this project but alas, it's not quite the ticket for me. I wouldn't play it for long, I'll put it that way.
http://forums.steampowered.com/forums/showthread.php?t=1370358
console commands for FPS:
* sv_cheats 1
* firstperson
* asw_hide_marine
* asw_controls 0
console commands to bring it back to normal:
* sv_cheats 1
* thirdperson
* asw_hide_marine
* asw_controls 1
http://www.moddb.com/mods/alien-swarm-firt-person-shooter
console commands for FPS:
* sv_cheats 1
* firstperson
* asw_hide_marine
* asw_controls 0
console commands to bring it back to normal:
* sv_cheats 1
* thirdperson
* asw_hide_marine
* asw_controls 1
http://www.moddb.com/mods/alien-swarm-firt-person-shooter
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Sometimes if they pick unsuitable weapons which don't gel with the mission/ other players you're better to kick them right away before they go rambo with the tech.
I've done the campaign a few times on insane, not without failing a few times.
I think its an excellent game and I've spent more time on it than I have on L4D2 which I got in the sale.
I'm having a look at the SDK, I've never attempted to map before. I would like to create an alien like a boomer in L4D2. The tools are there but I imagine it would be more technical than a pure map layout.
I'll see how long I last reading about the SDK rather than playing.
Only map idea I have atm, is a gauntlet of ranged bombers while the squad travels down an exposed walkway with a drop into lava either side.