Alien Swarm

[Costa 1st MRB]

Alien Swarm is a free game released by Valve.

No really it's free go download the damn thing.

Also a bit of warning, this game doesn't like every computer and every setup especially with Gforce 260 cards that tend to result in locking up computers.

But Alien Swarm is based off of an old UT2k4 mod and is pretty much the same basic concept, but runs on a early version of Portal2's Engine. You're dropped off and you need to finish all objectives then proceed to the exit. After each (official) mission/map you're rewarded with experience based on your performance which levels you up and unlocks more gear and guns.

There are 4 different classes in Alien Swarm with two variations on each one in the form of characters. Each character has his or her own unique stats that vary from person to person. Certain classes can only use certain weapons/gear, theres only a handful of gear/weapons that's locked to classes so there's no real worry.

There's also the tile-based map creator and mission based random map generator. To use these go into console and type (without quotes) "sv_cheats 1" Then "asw_tilegen". The first tab is the tile-based mapmaker so you won't have to bother with learning hammer. The second tab allows you to create randomly generated maps based on specific variables you add in (with a spiffy music adder for intense battles).

Also keep an eye out on mods for this game, it was released with just about everything needed to make a modder cream himself.

[Collins]

terrible game

[Goodwin 1st MRB]

My buddy told me to DL it so we could play together.

Can't wait to give it a shot tonight.

He said it's like Diablo meets sci-fi. If that's true - I will enjoy. I loved Diablo and Diablo II (still play that one occasionaly)

[J. Stutler]

True its not the greatest game, but for a free one? I find it to be pretty fun. It's like borderlands meets diablo 2 with out so much RPG type stuff. Nice change of pace from playing DoD:S day in and day out.

[Costa 1st MRB]

Found a few console commands that can be really god damn helpful.

asw_fast_reload_under_marine 1

This makes it so the fast reload bar pops up underneath your health when you reload so you don't have to look at the bottom left for it.

asw_camera_shake 0

This removes the camera shake when struck, this can also help fix weird bugs when you get melee'd and your character turns around (sometimes).

Now these are kinda wonky so don't expect to get too far or for it to be smooth but if you want to fuck around do this.

You might have to run these with sv_cheats turned on.

FPS Alien Swarm

firstperson

This actually switches you to FPS (derp).

asw_hide_marine 1

This removes the marine so you can actually see, if you leave it on all you'll see is your dude's fat head.

asw_controls 0

This makes the controls a bit more FPS like.

asw_ignore_need_two_player_requirement

This allows you to play any map by yourself with no bots. Hard as fuck but still pretty fun.

EDIT: This doesn't require you to turn cheats on, you can actually use this to gain experience by yourself if you don't want to risk getting stuck with god awful pubbies.

asw_horde_override 1

This toggles on a LFD style AI director that will send hordes of swarms. Also pretty god damn hard.

Edited July 22, 2010 by Costa 1st MRB

[Englebretson 1st MRB]

oh and dont play with costa....he sucks

[Costa 1st MRB]

Hey I don't suck!

I just happen to be a very bad team player.

[GMoney BAR]

Personally I think the game is just stupid and boring. A bunch of non-sense running around and shooting. I played it, leveled up some and now I'm pretty sure it's coming off my computer.

[Yamagata 1st MRB]

Yeah, it's pretty boring unless you have friends to play with.

[GMoney BAR]

Yeah even playing with other people I just don't get the game. It's just me though. I guess the game is pretty popular though with a bunch of people.

[Tryba]

To get these commands to run every time automatically, follow the following:

1. Go to C:\Program Files\Steam\steamapps\common\alien swarm\swarm\cfg

2. Add a new note from notepad called "autoexec.cfg"

3. In the notepad type the config commands you want to run for every level such as:

asw_ignore_need_two_player_requirement

asw_fast_reload_under_marine 1

asw_camera_shake 0

Edited July 26, 2010 by Tryba 1st MRB

[Zahl 1st MRB]

its a good game apart from the extreme short campaign... I played Trine which is in the same genre and trine is one of my favourite game.. Alien swarm is worth trying

[Costa 1st MRB]

What's that do Tryba?

The autoexec.cfg makes it so console commands run when the game is run, so every time you start the game you don't have to put them in manually. You can do this in any Valve game that I know of if you put a autoexec.cfg in the cfg folder of the game and yo9u can put in any console commands or scripts that you want.

[Ford 1st MRB]

Now all they have to do is not make the game suck epically, and everything would be solved.