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mastercheff
07-17-2010, 05:47 PM
About the Game

Alien Swarm is a game and Source SDK release from a group of talented designers at Valve who were hired from the Mod community.

Available free of charge, the game thrusts players into an epic bug hunt featuring a unique blend of co-op play and squad-level tactics. With your friends, form a squad of four distinct IAF Marine classes. Plan your attack using an unlockable arsenal of weapons with countless loadout configurations against a wide variety of aliens. Blaze your way through an overrun, off-world colony, eradicating the alien infestation in environments ranging from the icy planet's surface, to a subterranean lava-flooded mining facility.

Along with the game get the complete code base for Alien Swarm that features updates to the Source engine as well as the SDK. Alien Swarm adds 3rd person camera, depth of field, improved dynamic shadows and a wide variety of gameplay additions to the Source engine. * Tactical, 4 player co-op action game with a top-down perspective * Complete game code and mod tools * Unlock persistent items by gaining levels * Over 40 weapons and equipment with countless loadout configurations * 4 unique classes and 8 unique characters * Matchmaking, Steam Cloud, Steam Stats * 64 achievements * Tile-based map generation tool * Powered by Source and Steam

And yes, for those of you who are reading this, it was developed and published by Valve.


tl;dr valve makes sequel to alien breed, its like l4d,kf,and avp

BladeTwinSwords
07-17-2010, 06:05 PM
Kind of surprised it's free but since I'm probably one of the ONLY people who has played Alien Breed, I have a feeling it might be promising.

๖ReS
07-17-2010, 06:10 PM
It's available now ?

mastercheff
07-17-2010, 06:20 PM
It's available now ?

In 1 day, 22 hours.

mastercheff
07-19-2010, 12:42 PM
T-minus around 2 hours.

Holy-Sonic
07-19-2010, 12:50 PM
T-minus around 2 hours.

lol CHEFF i plan to pay admin for you when my comp ships in ;p

mastercheff
07-19-2010, 12:54 PM
lol CHEFF i plan to pay admin for you when my comp ships in ;p

Yea I was wondering when you'll get me it....anyways T-MINUS 1 HOUR.

X 1 Viper1
07-19-2010, 01:29 PM
Yea I was wondering when you'll get me it....anyways T-MINUS 1 HOUR.

Alright Cheff get on with me and res when its released, and i think res mentioned james playing, all i know is we need atleast a 4th.:smirk:

mastercheff
07-19-2010, 01:33 PM
Alright Cheff get on with me and res when its released, and i think res mentioned james playing, all i know is we need atleast a 4th.:smirk:

It...got....delayed....2...more hours....FFFFFFFFFFUUUUUUUUUCCCCCCCCCKKKKKKKKKK. :headache:

X 1 Viper1
07-19-2010, 01:43 PM
It...got....delayed....2...more hours....FFFFFFFFFFUUUUUUUUUCCCCCCCCCKKKKKKKKKK. :headache:

Yah Res just messaged me. WHAT THE FUCK?!?!?!?!?!?!!?!?

ZERO
07-19-2010, 01:46 PM
It is very stable, we promise... just hold on a few more hours while we patch some bugs. We mentioned it is stable right?

mastercheff
07-19-2010, 01:57 PM
It is very stable, we promise... just hold on a few more hours while we patch some bugs. We mentioned it is stable right?

Hehe....good one ZERO :smirk:.

BladeTwinSwords
07-19-2010, 02:34 PM
I will be downloading it as well.

acolyte_to_jippity
07-19-2010, 02:37 PM
I will be downloading it as well.

as will i, as soon as i'm done dinner

mastercheff
07-19-2010, 02:59 PM
Around 50 minutes left....YOU BETTER NOT FUCK WITH US VALVE.

BladeTwinSwords
07-19-2010, 03:20 PM
Installing now

mastercheff
07-19-2010, 03:23 PM
Installing now

UGH DAMN YOU ENORMOUS AMOUNT OF PEOPLE gah i gotta change download providers

BladeTwinSwords
07-19-2010, 03:30 PM
Installed and playing :D

X 1 Viper1
07-19-2010, 03:35 PM
Installed and playing :D

You already finished installing it? wtf

mastercheff
07-19-2010, 03:38 PM
I guess we're gonna have a game together tomorrow, I can't even get my download started ><.

X 1 Viper1
07-19-2010, 03:43 PM
I guess we're gonna have a game together tomorrow, I can't even get my download started ><.

Mines half done in like 10 minutes i can play with you blade.

mastercheff
07-19-2010, 03:44 PM
i got mine to start, in 3 hours it'll finish, btw i have like 150kb/s download speed, don't judge me i can get in there around 7 or 8pm if nothing bad happens to me connection

X 1 Viper1
07-19-2010, 03:45 PM
i got mine to start, in 3 hours it'll finish, btw i have like 150kb/s download speed, don't judge me i can get in there around 7 or 8pm if nothing bad happens to me connection

Wow that is fail im going at 1.5mb/s lol i rape.

maynard
07-19-2010, 03:50 PM
Wow that is fail im going at 1.5mb/s lol i rape.

2.1mb for me, I pwwn.

mastercheff
07-19-2010, 04:30 PM
finish 2 missions online and i get a free tf2 hat FUCK YEA!!!!!!1

BladeTwinSwords
07-19-2010, 05:41 PM
Already Level 7. Pretty fun.

acolyte_to_jippity
07-19-2010, 05:42 PM
Already Level 7. Pretty fun.

i'll get on later tonight. dinner then buying a linux for dummies book to start learning shit!!

yours' truely
07-22-2010, 02:58 PM
i got it too, not good at it at all... need more playtime.

acolyte_to_jippity
07-22-2010, 03:01 PM
i got it too, not good at it at all... need more playtime.

...ew

this game...it needs a secondary weapon w/ unlim ammo like l4d. it's too survival-horror for me