Alien Swarm

[Soldiero]

We had 4 last night and played a couple rounds. Stephen, BoyButtSlappa, Wrath and myself. Wrath must have thought it was some kind of race because every time the round started he'd take off like a bat out of hell and leave the three of us to figure out where to go. Easiest way to catch up to him was to follow the trail of alien guts. And then, at the end of a long dark tunnel, there was Wrath...dead. On the wall he had written in blood, "Usain Bolt ain't got nothing on me."

I think you do better if you stick together. And the viewing angle wasn't directly above like grand theft auto, it was more at a slight angle.

yeah the angle reminded me of the PSP Killzone game that I played like once or twice but other than the lag Tahko mentioned it was fun and I had just a little lag when we played

[wisoka]

Played through the campaign with a Arm and some pub(e)s today. Good times.

Arm needs to stop playing already. It's one damn campaign and he's already leveled enough to prestige. Settle down there buddy, it's not a race.

[Armisael]

I'm only at Prestige 2 Level 4!

I've only played the game half the time it's been out!

[xxplicitt]

Drugs are bad mmkay!

[Hell_Rell]

You can prestige in this game...bah lol. Going back to TF2, without a good team i cant stand this thing.

[Desseler]

needs DirectX 8 support. :<

[SirDumpling]

tesla cannon is way too good
near infinite ammo
no friendly fire
autoaim/lasers bend
stuns 2-3 targets at a time while damaging them

oh also, cool story incoming:
got level 20 after beating campaign twice. comp BSODs on last level while i fucked around with the inside of my comp to see if anything was overheating (nothing was) since my fps was low. comp restarts just fine, start up steam, rejoin game with friends. i dropped to level 1 with all my weapons gone, yet my achievements were still achieved.
HNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNGH

[Newman]

Were you connected to the Steam Cloud?

[Hell_Rell]

Alien Swarm, Now Vastly Improved
Kotaku
I've been playing a little Alien Swarm this week. It's a pretty good game as is, but that's not why it was provided free of charge. No, it was provided free of charge so you kids could mess with it.

And we're already seeing the fruits of these labours. Shrimpsess over on the Steam forums has posted a long list if command line tweaks you can make to the game, which with just a few characters can introduce a range of features other developers would be charging for as premium downloadable content.

Like the introduction of a "director mode", like the one found in Left 4 Dead, that intelligently spawns enemies. Or an actual, working first-person mode for the game. There are also some minor (though welcome) changes, like shifting the Gears-of-War-a-like "fast reload" system underneath your guy instead of hiding it in the corner and enabling 360 controller support.

List of useful Alien Swarm console commands [Steam, via PC Gamer]

[xxplicitt]

I wants me some director mode tomorroww!