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Alien Swarm - Free 4 player co-op bug hunt from Valve

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Post Post subject: Alien Swarm - Free 4 player co-op bug hunt from Valve
Posted: Mon Jul 19, 2010 10:37 PM
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store.steampowered.com/app/630/

Ignoring a certain dislike for the Steam platform that a certain person will certainly voice their opinion in this particular thread, ( Razz ) Valve have released this game, for free, to anyone that has a Steam account.

If you don't have a Steam account, that's free too - just install the client:
store.steampowered.com/about/

Anyway, the game:
This is a 4 player top-down objective based co-op bug hunt, where your team - a Soldier, Medic, Technician and Demolitions expert - must traverse alien infested installations and get out alive, achieving certain tasks as they proceed.

This used to be a popular UT2004 mod ( www.blackcatgames.com/asv1/index ) and all went quiet on development about 3 years ago. Quite clearly, this is when Valve hired the mod team and they have since developed this version.

Also released free, the game includes a Dedicated Server, and a full SDK - including mapping tools (one of which is a tile-based map generator) and the full source code.

If anyone wants me to join them, contact me on Steam - my steam username is "subenji".







Update

OK I've just played it a bit with my brother, and I have impressions!

1st - even though it was only the 2 of us, the game's difficulty scaled well - it didn't seem overwhelming, or that it was unbeatable without a full team. I will say though that a Technician is mandatory - and a Medic is a good idea too. For single player, the game has bots, but they won't fill up empty multiplayer slots.

2nd - it looks great! A lot of people think the Source engine is getting too old, but this game looks brilliant, and ran at full graphics settings smoothly on my 3 year old PC!

3rd - there's not a whole lot of content. There is 1 campaign, 5 maps long (there is a 'mod example' campaign too, but that amounts to just a basic tutorial along with the obvious example for modders) which will take about an hour or so with a full group to get through. They are certainly betting on a lot of modders making content for this, but personally, I don't have any doubts about that - there will be plenty for this.

4th - it's fun - very fun. I suggest everyone have a microphone, but you'll all have a blast!


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Post Post subject: Alien Swarm - Free 4 player co-op bug hunt from Valve
Posted: Tue Jul 20, 2010 02:43 PM
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YOU LIE
there is no subenji in steam Sad
Anyways, the game is great, tried it in SP, and hoping to try it in MP with someone.

uh also [CW]Herbis my nickname in steam(thats the only way you will find me)
And yes, I have a mic. Twisted Evil

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Post Post subject: Alien Swarm - Free 4 player co-op bug hunt from Valve
Posted: Tue Jul 20, 2010 08:08 PM
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Yes there is, dunno what you did wrong - here's my community page anyway (yes I know this one is subenji99, I used to have a different steam account and the community nicknames got mixed)

steamcommunity.com/id/subenji99

Also I just put 'subenji' into the "add friend" dialog and it complained "you can't add yourself!" so yeah. Also it couldn't find you, but you said nickname - so I had to find you on the community.


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