Alien Swarm to be released for free Monday

the_syco

Hrm. Too pricey it's 2GB, and only have 2.4GB left on that HDD

LoL. Steam folder is 51GB's atm. May be able to make room if I look through the Windows.old dir, and see if I have anything installed elsewhere, as the game does look fun.

/edit
Had a quick look through, and any game that I haven't played in the past year, I deleted. 17GB's freed up. Getting AS now.

Da Bounca

66% downloaded and counting!

Damn it's slow

Krieg

Great fun

Fanny Cradock

the_syco wrote: »

Hrm. Too pricey it's 2GB, and only have 2.4GB left on that HDD

LoL. Steam folder is 51GB's atm. May be able to make room if I look through the Windows.old dir, and see if I have anything installed elsewhere, as the game does look fun.

/edit
Had a quick look through, and any game that I haven't played in the past year, I deleted. 17GB's freed up. Getting AS now.

I would imagine that your system's performance is being adversely effected. I'd recommend installing CCleaner. It's a great little program that should clear some space and also delete some loose ends in your registry.

5uspect

+1 for CCleaner.

Played a quick match there. Good fun. Keyboard & Mouse vs gamepad...

the_syco

Fanny Cradock wrote: »

I would imagine that your system's performance is being adversely effected. I'd recommend installing CCleaner. It's a great little program that should clear some space and also delete some loose ends in your registry.

Nah. They were from the beta of Windows 7. When I installed the one I bought, it just renamed the folder to Windows.old and threw everything (Program Files, WINNT, etc) into it. I still use some programs in it, so I'll leave it there.

Overheal

the_syco wrote: »

Hrm. Too pricey it's 2GB, and only have 2.4GB left on that HDD

LoL. Steam folder is 51GB's atm. May be able to make room if I look through the Windows.old dir, and see if I have anything installed elsewhere, as the game does look fun.

/edit
Had a quick look through, and any game that I haven't played in the past year, I deleted. 17GB's freed up. Getting AS now.

i dunno what you fill your hard disk with but dayamn son.

I guess since the US markets dont impose download caps I havent seen the need to horde porn :cool:

Fanny Cradock

Not sure what you mean. It is a good program all the same.

D

nice game but it gets very repetitive and boring pretty soon.

humanji

Overheal wrote: »

my fps went to shiiiiiiit during the elevator.

Actually, I think it goes into slow-mo at the start of the elevator level. And I also realised you can shoot the aliens as they climb up the shaft, which was a pretty cool touch.

Overheal

oh my sentrygun realised that as well

Wossack

suffers a bit from the l4d matchmaking, so use the console (enable developer console under keyboard settings), and use 'openserverbrowser' as the command to open ye ole faithful server browser

great game for nout - level 26 already

Fanny Cradock

humanji wrote: »

Actually, I think it goes into slow-mo at the start of the elevator level. And I also realised you can shoot the aliens as they climb up the shaft, which was a pretty cool touch.

Yeah, from what I gather (and I've only played it a little) the game briefly modulates in speed at various points - specifically really difficult bits. I've seen it happen on two maps, I believe.

It's a nice touch.

Overheal

i havent had a chance to play since monday am i wrong in thinking its top-down l4d or have i not played enough yet.

I'd be more interested in Survival-Mode here. Like the mission Desperate Alliance mission in Starcraft (hold out for 30 mins).

veXual

Can be played in 1st person too, still in work so havn't had a chance but enter the following commands in the console and you'll be able to:

firstperson
asw_hide_marine 1
asw_controls 0

Can't wait to try this

Mataguri

veXual wrote: »

Can be played in 1st person too, still in work so havn't had a chance but enter the following commands in the console and you'll be able to:

firstperson
asw_hide_marine 1
asw_controls 0

Can't wait to try this

For a game designed from a third person perspective it doesnt look half bad in first person:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eOvAYCZfo_g

Hopefully someone will use the SDK to create a mod that tidies this up a bit, like putting a ceiling on top of the corridors

Robby91

I must say, for a free game, it's pretty damn good - finished the campaign earlier on Normal (would've had it last night apart from some weird pathing glitch which got a squad member stuck behind a pillar :mad:). So far, the Residential Complex is probably my favourite map ^^

So far, I'm growing very fond of the Assault Rifle with a Flamer as backup and Hornets as my third item - Flamer seems a tad overpowered (although, that could just be an issue with Normal difficulty) since a horde of the more common Swarm can be destroyed without using a lot of ammo. Freeze grenades are pretty fun too

Coriolanus

Only just got around to dl'ing it. Pretty enjoyable.

Overheal

finished the campaign today on normal and upset that theres not more

anxious to see if Valve plans to release more campaigns or if they are just leaving it up to the community. Either way I don't know what their angle is.... except to probably give their employees a nice platform to promote their in-house mod

if they decide after this to release a fully fledged purchase-version I'd be all about it.

Gonzovision

Finished it on hard....want more. User created stuff is crap so far. Insane is impossible. Want more missions, crackin game, want more missions,too many parasites on insane, bah great game,

Krieg

We are trying it on insane mode, but really need to set down some tactics and placments, I think it can be done.

Wossack

Can be done, did it the other night

Probably not in the spirit of things though - last level we went, 2 medics, 2 techs all using tesla's (pre-nerf), and ran by everything that was bigger then a drone

Not enough ammo to do it properly we found

Kazuma

I had really really wanted to go ghostbusters on the aliens...and then they nerfed the tesla...was so disappointing