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Alien Swarm: Originally a total conversion mod for Unreal Tournament 2004. Me and my buddies still play the crap out of it on LANs.
Now: It lives again!
Get it here soon!
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Now: It lives again!
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
Get it here soon!
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Oh shit, so in three days this is free to get? Goddamnit Valve stop being the most amazing company on the planet.
Cause, I think someone should be saying 'Game On' right about now...
Looking forward to playing it when it comes out on monday.
I believe Valve hired the team. (read the first sentence of the quote)
I can hardly wait for it to go live
I'd definitely like to play this again. They've been working on a sort of sequel for years (Alien Swarm: Infested) but progress has been *really* slow. Or maybe this IS basically AS:I! (It was originally supposed to be a retail game)
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Uh, hence the part about "A couple of guys WHO WORK AT VALVE made a mod in their spare time"
Like Natural Selection, I figured this would be a Source sequel that would take forever to get out. I recall their Sudoku game released as a way to raise funds. Good to see it's still around.
Alien Swarm: Top-Down action game, originally a UT2004 mod, the follow-up "Alien Swarm: Infested" was going to be a Source engine mod, but the guys who made it got bought by Valve and now it's a full-on stand-alone free Steam release.
Natural Selection: A hybrid FPS/RTS, originally a Half-Life 1 mod, the follow-up "Natural Selection 2" was going to be a Source engine game, but they later decided to make their own engine. They're the ones who released the Soduku game to help fund NS2.
I'm there.
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Watch me struggle to learn streaming! Point and laugh!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DwwPJ-KiN7c
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B4qMW8g8BQs
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And yeah, this game is Alien Swarm: Infested or Alien Swarm: Source by Black Cat Games. Two years ago the core team was hired by Valve to finish the game.
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Either way this is pretty awesome, it looks like Valve decided to give it away as a seed game to encourage non-FPS Source development.
I love me some coop.
What's the catch!?
Objective: Get more customers.
Solution: I'll just leave this here game on this fishing hook and yoink... Oh look, I caught another wallet, that's the twentieth one today.
That would be my guess anyway. What better way to show off the marketplace and the community system than with a coop shooter that has all the steamworks accessories and achievements?
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No it's objective based with you travelling through the levels. Not really about surviving waves like that.
Also, I'm amazed someone other than me remembers Crimsonland.
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If I didn't already use Steam, I certainly wouldn't be pleased if I was told I had to buy something to add people to my friends list for a free game.
You should do what your roommates are suggesting, even if that comes after playing this for several hours.
Make it so.
But they can accept invitations from the other person so it's just an anti-spam measure.
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Really? As far as I remember, when I tried to play HL2 DM with a friend that didn't already use Steam, his friends list window just said that he couldn't use friends without buying anything.
Even if you're right, it doesn't help if two people that don't use Steam want to play this free game with each other. I guess Valve could just not care because it's free.