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Alien Swarm

16 Jul 2010, 21:02

Hello, the word is about a new game developed by a group of designers at Valve who were hired from the Mod community.

It will be available for download on July 19 (in 2 days)
LINK

Its a 4 player coop game (incl. 64 steam achievements) with top down camera view.
Its on source engine of course, and here are some features named on steam

* 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


P.S. ITS FREE

Re: Alien Swarm

16 Jul 2010, 21:10

Sounds cool. Gotta try it. You had me at COOP.

Re: Alien Swarm

16 Jul 2010, 21:11

Awesome thanks for the heads up.

Aya loves free games. :D

Re: Alien Swarm

16 Jul 2010, 21:31

We should have an Aprilon alien picnic-outing in 2 days and 16 hours. Oh wait.. I'm not home. DAMN!

Re: Alien Swarm

17 Jul 2010, 12:36

Those dynamic soft-shadows look teh awesome! Thats what HL2 has been missing :v

Re: Alien Swarm

17 Jul 2010, 15:28

Looks interesting.

Re: Alien Swarm

17 Jul 2010, 16:58

I can't wait to play this!

I want to preload it or it'd take 34958732 hours to download it on monday.

Re: Alien Swarm

17 Jul 2010, 17:00

Aya wrote:I can't wait to play this!

I want to preload it or it'd take 34958732 hours to download it on monday.

Yeah people will be over it like like kids on free porn, content servers will probably be clogged up.
I tried steam://install/630 but it doesn't work :(

Re: Alien Swarm

19 Jul 2010, 19:48

...

"This game will unlock in approximately 23 hours"
....Waiting....
"This game will unlock in approximately 12 hours"
....Waiting....
"This game will unlock in approximately 3 hours"
....Waiting....
"This game will unlock in approximately 1 hours"
....Waiting....
About 20 mins to that last hour to lapse
....Waiting....
"This game will unlock in approximately 3 hours"

FFFFFFFUUUUUUUUUU Steam!

Re: Alien Swarm

19 Jul 2010, 19:53

I was just talking to a bunch of steam friends about that Natrix xD it's classic valve tbh...

http://developer.valvesoftware.com/wiki/Valve_Time

Re: Alien Swarm

19 Jul 2010, 20:28

Triturus wrote:...

"This game will unlock in approximately 23 hours"
....Waiting....
"This game will unlock in approximately 12 hours"
....Waiting....
"This game will unlock in approximately 3 hours"
....Waiting....
"This game will unlock in approximately 1 hours"
....Waiting....
About 20 mins to that last hour to lapse
....Waiting....
"This game will unlock in approximately 3 hours"

FFFFFFFUUUUUUUUUU Steam!


This very much this :/

Good job its not a paid pre-order

Re: Alien Swarm

19 Jul 2010, 21:29

Its out! steam://install/630

Re: Alien Swarm

19 Jul 2010, 22:24

Downloading it through the Ukraine region. Fuck yeah Ukraine. Only 100kb/s slower than normally. Downloading 750kb/s atm.

Re: Alien Swarm

19 Jul 2010, 22:26

Dl-ing it alrdy^^
Since its playing Sinus Wave between 1mb/s and 50Byte/s i dont know how much time will it take to dl but after that i would be happy to play with some of you guys:D
(Remaining time changes between 8-12 mins right now:D)

Re: Alien Swarm

20 Jul 2010, 13:05

ITS AWESOME
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