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FPS => FPS General Discussion => Topic started by: Tricky on August 02, 2010, 03:05:37 PM

Title: Alien Swarm
Post by: Tricky on August 02, 2010, 03:05:37 PM
It's a free Steam co-op online game based on the Unreal engine and it's very good. It's actually a top down shooter by default although a console command turns it into a FPS. I know that Col and Arathrael have it because we've played online (Col dies a lot 8O) but anyone else got it?

If you haven't you should get it - it's free for gawds sake!  :D I like the way you can plant sentry guns and stuff. Although I tend to die trying to get them up.
Title: Re: Alien Swarm
Post by: Undergrid on August 02, 2010, 04:06:04 PM
I've got it but not tried it yet.

Also you can hack it into first person mode: http://www.ripten.com/2010/07/21/play-alien-swarm-in-first-person-sam-n/ (http://www.ripten.com/2010/07/21/play-alien-swarm-in-first-person-sam-n/)
Title: Re: Alien Swarm
Post by: Arathrael on August 02, 2010, 07:52:30 PM
There's a lot of other console commands too: http://alienswarm.wikia.com/wiki/Console_Commands

Being able to spawn bots when there's less than four of you is handy. :)
Title: Re: Alien Swarm
Post by: |fury| on August 03, 2010, 08:58:05 AM
I have it, had a little spin, looked quite good  :badger:
Title: Re: Alien Swarm
Post by: Tricky on August 03, 2010, 10:23:04 AM
I've only played a few levels but I can see it gets harder - and the weapons get cooler. These big spider thingies turn up as well. And they fire fried eggs that explode when they die. It's mad.
Title: Re: Alien Swarm
Post by: Arathrael on August 03, 2010, 07:57:52 PM
If anyone's up for some Alien Swarm at any point just give me a poke on IRC. I'm around a fair bit of the time. :)
Title: Re: Alien Swarm
Post by: Undergrid on August 03, 2010, 08:32:24 PM
I jumped on earlier when I saw Tricky online, accidently took a couple of points off someone else in the team, and the git deliberatly killed me.  Some people are assholes.  :cop:

Still not a bad game for nothign :)