Alien Swarm - free Valve game

Wasn't really impressed by it at first, but when I got a bit further in and unlocked some more entertaining weapons (flamethrower) I found the game much more fun.

It's brilliant for something free, and who can say no to a free TF2 hat? :D
 
Sumanji said:
Is there any way to move the reload bar more centrally on the screen? Above/below your character would be awesome. Also, has anyone played this with a 360 pad? What's it like?

Cheers,

Su
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I've recently been playing this with the 360 pad and actually prefer it controlled this way as imo it's almost meant to be a console game. Feel more intuitive using this control scheme too.

Give it a try, map some of the keys correctly (like the pick up key!!) and it's pretty perfect
 
Just played this in offline mode, pretty cool :) Especially as its free

Do you guys play together then?
 
Delvis said:
Just played this in offline mode, pretty cool :) Especially as its free

Do you guys play together then?
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A little.

I've been trying the speedruns of late with a couple of others....and finishing off my final levels after the third promotion.

Exciting stuff.
 
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I am completely new to mapping and its taken many hours to get this far. I still have a lot of work and more honing my skills before I release this map.

I asked on 2 different forums how to make this alien climb the cliff but no one could help much; apart from someone insisting there was an example in the SDK after I already looked for it.

Its not as simple as a copy n paste, you have to understand this function and a larger function and consequently only copy the relevant parts. I'm talking about the way valve implemented the cargo elevator platform with a stationary elevator and moving walls + aliens moving on those walls too.
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I think there is going to be a lot of user made content, and its pretty easy to download, just an external link from within game.
 
Christ i hope they nerf the Flamethrower soon.

Its getting tiresome seeing people solo entire levels purely because the Flamethrower renders most of the basic enemies useless after a single shot so they can just run rings around everything. Not to mention those servers modded with instagib Tesla.
 
Evilsod said:
Christ i hope they nerf the Flamethrower soon.

Its getting tiresome seeing people solo entire levels purely because the Flamethrower renders most of the basic enemies useless after a single shot so they can just run rings around everything. Not to mention those servers modded with instagib Tesla.
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Play on insane - flamethrower is nowhere near as effective.
 
FrenchTart said:
Play on insane - flamethrower is nowhere near as effective.
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True, but i'm waiting till i hit lvl27 3rd prestige before i do that, only about 7 levels to go.

Only 2 kill achievements i need now are Grenade Launcher (which shouldn't be too bad) and Tesla (which is nigh impossible now they nerfed it). Incendiary Mines are pure awesome though, at least on Hard/Normal.
 
Insane all the way to level up, +40% xp bonus. However I wasn't leveling up just playing the game, easily made it to 27 3rd merit.
 
Evilsod said:
True, but i'm waiting till i hit lvl27 3rd prestige before i do that, only about 7 levels to go.

Only 2 kill achievements i need now are Grenade Launcher (which shouldn't be too bad) and Tesla (which is nigh impossible now they nerfed it). Incendiary Mines are pure awesome though, at least on Hard/Normal.
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Inc mines rock on insane too in the right places (e.g. the start of the cargo lift level).

Bad luck re the Tesla. I got it before the nerf luckily - I tried it as soon as I unlocked it and didn't realise just how broken it was until I then tried another weapon and thought 'wtf'.
 
megatron said:
Insane all the way to level up, +40% xp bonus. However I wasn't leveling up just playing the game, easily made it to 27 3rd merit.
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Pff, +50% over Hard maybe, but only an extra 20% with a much higher chance of failure, especailly at low levels, I think i'll take Hard for exp. I'm not really experienced with public Insane games but i can't imagine they're upto much.

FrenchTart said:
Inc mines rock on insane too in the right places (e.g. the start of the cargo lift level).

Bad luck re the Tesla. I got it before the nerf luckily - I tried it as soon as I unlocked it and didn't realise just how broken it was until I then tried another weapon and thought 'wtf'.
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They're great on the Surface Bridge too, especially the first 'defence'. 1 outside a door thats welded and the other inside deals with 80% of the enemies that attacked, leaving you the 1 window. I just rarely play officer though... tend to use only Special Weapons or Tech.
 
Evilsod said:
Pff, +50% over Hard maybe, but only an extra 20% with a much higher chance of failure, especailly at low levels, I think i'll take Hard for exp. I'm not really experienced with public Insane games but i can't imagine they're upto much.



They're great on the Surface Bridge too, especially the first 'defence'. 1 outside a door thats welded and the other inside deals with 80% of the enemies that attacked, leaving you the 1 window. I just rarely play officer though... tend to use only Special Weapons or Tech.
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Yeah...I'm a Wildcat whore myself. PDWs or shotguns are nice...

If you mean the hacking area yeah, I can see the advantage. We tend to speed run that bit though - two hold up outside at the entrance to the bridge whilst the tech and one other get inside and stim + hack quickly. It means they can get out before the worst of the horde block you in, letting you avoid killing a lot of them (though the two holding up outside obviously need to be on the ball).

I don't tend to play public games though so may experience is probably slightly different.
 
FrenchTart said:
I don't tend to play public games though so may experience is probably slightly different.
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Quite :p

I must say i'm not too keen on the PDW though. They burn through ammo very quickly and using them just means i have to constantly check how many bullets i have left so i don't reload at an inconvenient time. Good weapons but feel a bit more like a chore than the Twin Pistols.

Only major problem with playing Hard/Normal so much is i know what setups (roughly) are effective for which chars and the whole thing changes on Insane where it turns out you can't 1 shot the basic alien after all and you get raped ><
 
Evilsod said:
Quite :p

I must say i'm not too keen on the PDW though. They burn through ammo very quickly and using them just means i have to constantly check how many bullets i have left so i don't reload at an inconvenient time. Good weapons but feel a bit more like a chore than the Twin Pistols.

Only major problem with playing Hard/Normal so much is i know what setups (roughly) are effective for which chars and the whole thing changes on Insane where it turns out you can't 1 shot the basic alien after all and you get raped ><
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Absolutely..It was quite painful making the switch to insane (only did that on Saturday..I'm about halfway through the missions now). The game is so much more rewarding to play now though - we really have to work together and play tactically. Before I could Leroy around with wildcat and shotguns/pdws.

The PDWs are only really decent if you take two sets of them. That stops the ammo being such a massive issue and lets you really take advantage of them having the highest damage output (per second) out of all the guns :)
 
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