AvP 2010 - Demo is out, Wangland-Yutani Steam Group now active

precisionk

Does this have split-screen co-op of any kind?

Ninja Snarl P

Hm, kinda irritated. Game is telling me I don't have DX11 hardware, yet I have a very DX11-compatible 5850 in my system. Sigh. Hopefully that'll get fixed quick. However, I have to say that even with DX9 in place, this game looks shit hot.

Only played as the Predator so far and things look completely fantastic. Not to mention the fact that I picked the Predator first to start out with the "boring" campaign first and I was so wrong for thinking that. The combat and stealth system make fighting both other races pretty intense, even if I still haven't quite figured out what humans will and won't detect. Fighting 3-4 Aliens at once while leaping around, blocking attacks, and ripping out mouths feels seriously badass. And the best part is that it still feels creepy as hell to see an Alien come over an object, see you, and call to its hivemates to come swarm you. Seeing those black monsters crawling around just waiting to attack you feels so wrong and so right at the same time.

One thing to keep in mind for Preds: water will knock out your cloak. Got me killed once and I couldn't figure out how the hell anybody saw me; on the retry, I noticed that walking into some water killed my cloak. Pretty easy thing to miss when you're focused on stalking a Marine or leaping around.

Mr. Eyeball

Damned, I got the box in my hand right now but steam won't unlock the game untill friday.
The predator on the cover is staring right at me. "Oh you want to play this game right now, maybe go rip out some marine spines? Well, too bad, you pussy."
Oh well, I guess I've got bioshock 2 for now (which I haven't yet been able to play either due to a similliar issue).

gunwarrior

Thank god. There is a push to talk button in multiplayer lobbies, so no more damn mic noise from that guy who is playing in the middle of traffic. The game also saves your settings from the demo, so you're good to go from the start

Rubycat

Someone make sure to do some Dx11 screencaptures.

I got my 4870 last year and its going to be my card for a while still.

Stabbity Style

gunwarrior wrote: »

Thank god. There is a push to talk button in multiplayer lobbies, so no more damn mic noise from that guy who is playing in the middle of traffic. The game also saves your settings from the demo, so you're good to go from the start

Yeeeessssssss.

75% done, can't wait to play.

Haikira

OTB wrote: »

Hey dudes, long time lurker here, just chiming in...

Im most curious about feedback from any pc players whove gotten a hold of it, if any are reading this (though most are probably just playing the shit out of it at the moment), did they manage to smooth out the control scheme in the full retail? When I would play pc demo, and I would play alien more often than not, it just seemed that they had a small failure in the reaction time with the mouse and keyboard. Other than that, the game ran fine. The demo on 360 runs perfectly for me, Ive rarely seen lag, so I was planning on getting it on the xbox.

Im torn right now because it seems that only the ps3 copies have made it to the island I live on, so, I could wait and hope they come sooner than later, or I can simply download it on steam.

SWEET MOTHER OF MERCY I NEED TO TEAR SOME THROATS OUT

About that reaction time. Did you have Vsync on? I had the same problem, and turning off V lock cleared it up fine.

gunwarrior

As for multiplayer, ranked play uses a CoD system. Quick play only, like the demo. However non-ranked play lets you create and browse servers.

OTB

Haikira wrote: »

OTB wrote: »

Hey dudes, long time lurker here, just chiming in...

Im most curious about feedback from any pc players whove gotten a hold of it, if any are reading this (though most are probably just playing the shit out of it at the moment), did they manage to smooth out the control scheme in the full retail? When I would play pc demo, and I would play alien more often than not, it just seemed that they had a small failure in the reaction time with the mouse and keyboard. Other than that, the game ran fine. The demo on 360 runs perfectly for me, Ive rarely seen lag, so I was planning on getting it on the xbox.

Im torn right now because it seems that only the ps3 copies have made it to the island I live on, so, I could wait and hope they come sooner than later, or I can simply download it on steam.

SWEET MOTHER OF MERCY I NEED TO TEAR SOME THROATS OUT

About that reaction time. Did you have Vsync on? I had the same problem, and turning off V lock cleared it up fine.

Holy shit I didnt even think of it. Thanks for the heads up man.

Capt Howdy

Those reviewers can suck it; the first Marine mission was more intense than anything in Dead Space, and I thought Dead Space was flat out amazing. D:

gunwarrior

This game is awesome, loving it so far. But I can see that this is probably gonna be a very hit or miss game

gunwarrior

they also changed the alien's heavy attack animathion to something more recognizable

randombattle

Sigh this is taking forever to download.. Only at 55%

Zephos

played a bit of single now trying multi, but it seems i'm having trouble finding a match on the 360.

Lanz

Anyone with the PC version, odd request

Marine Mission 1

Spoiler:

When you go turn the sentry/laptop back on, can you get a screencap of what it looks like when you do, like, the keyboard? I was wondering how they had it laid out and it was a bit hard to check that out when Xenomorphs are on my back

Zephos

if anyone wants to play on xbox live shoot me a message.

Klash

I don't think this was posted yet:

http://xbox360.ign.com/dor/objects/14322168/aliens-vs-predator-2009/videos/avp_vdr_021610.html?show=hi

IGN (not UK) has their review up. They seem alot more reasonable than the more negative reviewers. The guy talks about the positives in relation to how the devs honoured the fiction. And lets be honest, this was a game made by fans of AVP for fans of AVP. If you're not into AVP, Aliens or Predators, then this probably isn't going to be a fun game.

Raiden333

Hey guys

All friend requests sent to the 360 group tag ("WanglandYutani") have been confirmed. Since I sadly can't join in the fun till Friday, I'll be leaving my 360 on and checking the account for more friend requests as the night goes on, so if you haven't joined the group tag yet just shoot a friend request over.

Lanz

043 wrote: »

Hiryu02 - Consider it done.

My only complaint so far is the saving system, which saves checkpoints as you play them, but make sure to actually pause and save before switching campaigns. Luckily, I only lost about twenty minutes of Marine gameplay to this lil' flaw.

I really like how the story seems to weave itself together throughout the three races.

wait, do you mean pause and save is the only way to switch back and forth?

or can I go back and forth between campains after each mission?

Zephos

Lanz wrote: »

043 wrote: »

Hiryu02 - Consider it done.

My only complaint so far is the saving system, which saves checkpoints as you play them, but make sure to actually pause and save before switching campaigns. Luckily, I only lost about twenty minutes of Marine gameplay to this lil' flaw.

I really like how the story seems to weave itself together throughout the three races.

wait, do you mean pause and save is the only way to switch back and forth?

or can I go back and forth between campains after each mission?

You finish a single player map and it asks right there if you'd like to do a predator/alien mission for example if your playing as a marine, very cool.

brynstar

Perusing this thread finally got me to try out the PC demo for myself...and I have to say it was quite fun. I might have to buy this.

Zephos

Raiden333 wrote: »

Hey guys

All friend requests sent to the 360 group tag ("WanglandYutani") have been confirmed. Since I sadly can't join in the fun till Friday, I'll be leaving my 360 on and checking the account for more friend requests as the night goes on, so if you haven't joined the group tag yet just shoot a friend request over.

also if enough people are on i wouldnt mind trying to get the group with 6 friends achievement.

Lanz

Zephos wrote: »

Lanz wrote: »

043 wrote: »

Hiryu02 - Consider it done.

My only complaint so far is the saving system, which saves checkpoints as you play them, but make sure to actually pause and save before switching campaigns. Luckily, I only lost about twenty minutes of Marine gameplay to this lil' flaw.

I really like how the story seems to weave itself together throughout the three races.

wait, do you mean pause and save is the only way to switch back and forth?

or can I go back and forth between campains after each mission?

You finish a single player map and it asks right there if you'd like to do a predator/alien mission for example if your playing as a marine, very cool.

Oh yeah, I knew that. Just the way he worded things I was paranoid I was losing my progress in the other campaigns by switching out.

Zephos

theres save spots you can load too, i know for sure i played part of the predator campaign, switched to marine, then loaded the rest of the pred campaign later.

Ninja Snarl P

Maybe it's because I'm playing on the PC, but knocking the game for "unimaginative" FPS elements and bad gameplay mechanics? The second part is an opinion I just happen to disagree with, but for the first part? How many damn Call of Duty games have their been with virtually identical FPS gameplay?

I guess I just don't understand what one expects out of a Marine campaign in a game like this. Personally, I expected to be a) a Marine and b) a Marine killing things trying to kill me horribly. It just sounds to me like some reviewers are actively reaching for bad things to say about the game. What do they want, you to be able to cast magic spells by making motions with the mouse or something?

Stabbity Style

Yeah, so far it's everything I expected it to be.

Also, I'm terribad at the multiplayer.

Zephos

but damn it all if the multiplayer isn't a freaking riot.

ThePrimm

is the online for the ps3 going to be like the demo or will it be better? as in actually being able to find games

Mike99TA

So whats the best way to get into a game with other wangland-yutani steam members? I dont see a way to join/invite people from a group you're in. Do I need to add everyone as friends? I can hardly get into a game on PC with more than3 people in it.

Mike99TA

Also my game just kind of goes out of whack 3 out of 4 times I run it. I get to the main menu or 1 menu in, and the screen just freezes up but the mouse/sound still works and I can hear things being moused over. Only solution appears to be alt+f4 and try again.

elliotw2

How do the campaigns compare to AVP2's? Are they more scripted, or do the aliens randomly spawn and move through the level like AVP1? Can you switch weapons, or are you stuck carrying only one at a time, like in the demo? Is the lag in multiplayer fixed?

randombattle

I think this video can answer any questions you might have about aliens vs predator

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OgXd6Npj4ZY

-Loki-

There's some 2-3 minute gameplay videos of each of the campaigns on gametrailers. I really, really hope the guy is just bad at the game. When he's playing as Alien, he doesn't really stalk the enemies, he just drops to the floor and charges. When he plays as predator, he does the same, but cloaks first, and only uses non-melee weapons like twice. As a marine, he can't hit a fucking thing, and uses half a clip from a pulse rifle to even wing an alien.

Destiny's Desire

Wait, are all the levels the same, but you just choose which species you want to be?

KMGor

Uh, the escape the mine bit, I think the scripting on mine broke. I got to the point where the objective marker is on the other side of a door, it gives the check point message, I walk forward, and then nothing.

I reloaded and did it again, and nothing. So I walked along the wall for the entire mission to see if I missed something. Nothing. What gives?

Playing on PC...

elliotw2

Destiny's Desire wrote: »

Wait, are all the levels the same, but you just choose which species you want to be?

Nah, each species has a full campaign of their own levels. Think of it as the first two Call of Duty games, where you get to play the same time span, from 3 points of view

Rubycat

That's a bit different then. because the only cross over levels in AVP 1 are the extras for beating directors cut.

elliotw2

You can't really count AVP1 as having a campaign, really. It's a bunch of disjointed levels, with no goal outside of reaching the exit point alive. This new one has some story and plot to it, and all three campaigns happen at the same time

Lanz

So, if I understand correctly, Predators basically think of humans as the stupid savages of the universe, but fun to hunt?

PracticalProblemSolver

Pretty sure he meant avp2