Valve will be releasing Alien Swarm Source for free.
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sabin1981
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PostPosted: Tue, 20th Jul 2010 17:24    Post subject:
Bottom line is; the game was great fun (with friends) up until that goddamn level with the mega performance drop, the insane amount of parasites, and the patently bullshit damage they do - despite MULTIPLE healing attempts.
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dezztroy




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PostPosted: Tue, 20th Jul 2010 17:29    Post subject:
What difficulty are you playing on? Cause I know that Faith fully cures an infestation with one beacon on Hard.
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sabin1981
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PostPosted: Tue, 20th Jul 2010 17:30    Post subject:
Normal and my mate played AS Faith for healing. Still didn't work. The health drop was more than the beacon could restore.
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PostPosted: Tue, 20th Jul 2010 18:10    Post subject:
sabin1981 wrote:
Normal and my mate played AS Faith for healing. Still didn't work. The health drop was more than the beacon could restore.


Have you tried having the medic use the heal gun? Also, the shield can mitigate most of the parasite damage.
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sabin1981
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PostPosted: Tue, 20th Jul 2010 18:13    Post subject:
Nah, we didn't have the gun on that mission. Given how many aliens were spawning, we thought it would be better to pack firepower.
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PostPosted: Tue, 20th Jul 2010 18:21    Post subject:
The medic gun is much more effective at curing infestations.

Also, extra ammo is a necessity, why aren't you using it? Just have a special weapons guy grab an autogun and an ammo pack.
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sabin1981
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PostPosted: Tue, 20th Jul 2010 18:22    Post subject:
We ARE using extra ammo, we're just not sticking extra ammo packs on EVERYONE. If that was the case, you might as well remove classes right now - because the way you're making it sound is that everyone should automatically play as, and be equipped as, Medic/Ammo Dispensers©
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dezztroy




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PostPosted: Tue, 20th Jul 2010 18:30    Post subject:
On the mission you're talking about I found it VERY helpful to bring 2 ammo packs.
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madness




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PostPosted: Tue, 20th Jul 2010 18:49    Post subject:
I have no friends in Steam... Sad

anyone wanna play ?
http://steamcommunity.com/id/madness_
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JBeckman
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PostPosted: Tue, 20th Jul 2010 18:57    Post subject:
Heh, seems the game has a mission/map generator, though it's a bit hidden and perhaps a bit basic.

http://www.shacknews.com/laryn.x?id=23513037#itemanchor_23513037
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sabin1981
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PostPosted: Tue, 20th Jul 2010 18:59    Post subject:
Holy shit! Hahaha, that's a wicked find! Very Happy
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dezztroy




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PostPosted: Tue, 20th Jul 2010 19:08    Post subject:
Find? Huh. It's advertised on the Steam page.

"Tile-based map generation tool"
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PostPosted: Tue, 20th Jul 2010 19:16    Post subject:
JBeckman wrote:
Heh, seems the game has a mission/map generator, though it's a bit hidden and perhaps a bit basic.

And where exactly is it hidden?
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sabin1981
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PostPosted: Tue, 20th Jul 2010 19:17    Post subject:
Well it sure as hell isn't in plain sight. The Steam site says it has one, but to even find the commands you have to go to the AS wiki and look for the articles there. So a "bit hidden" is entirely accurate.
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dezztroy




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PostPosted: Tue, 20th Jul 2010 19:20    Post subject:
It's kinda pointless anyways. The example tiles you get can't be used for much, and to make more tiles you have to make them yourself in Hammer. And the, why not just make the whole map in Hammer?
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PostPosted: Tue, 20th Jul 2010 19:21    Post subject:
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JBeckman
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PostPosted: Tue, 20th Jul 2010 20:01    Post subject:
The SDK probably has this feature but this command (As listed in the post/comment I linked to.) allows it to be used in-game, I haven't tried it myself and as I kinda suspected it might have been a bit simplistic and more for SDK use to get a basis to work with and then fine tune into a proper game level.
(Or however it works, seems it's based on campaigns but standard levels can be loaded trough the console and maybe the dedicated server without having a campaign loaded, it might be on the official wiki somewhere that was helpfully linked to in the above post.)

EDIT: I read the wiki article, it confirms it and explains it much better. Smile
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Mussolinka
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PostPosted: Tue, 20th Jul 2010 21:02    Post subject:
Got to the sewers on hard with a single friend already, It's realy easy if you know how to actualy play.


sabin1981 wrote:
Fuck you troll. Fuck you and your entire aids-infested family. Get cancer and die. Slowly.
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dezztroy




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PostPosted: Wed, 21st Jul 2010 16:02    Post subject:
Pretty rad playing with customizable skill points.

Also, cool how you can put in your own battle music. Pretty damn awesome when this starts playing while swarmed by aliens:

Edit: Also. You can't cure infestation with one beacon on Hard, eh? Smug
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madness




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PostPosted: Thu, 22nd Jul 2010 17:06    Post subject:
How do you join other people ?
I always get this "Server is not responding" message in Steam. Sad

E: Oh, and when I quit the game, my router restarts. WTF! Scratch Head
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PostPosted: Thu, 22nd Jul 2010 19:25    Post subject:
Nice game.


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PostPosted: Fri, 23rd Jul 2010 20:58    Post subject:
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Complicated as it may seem, if you’ve been playing video games on the PC for an extended period of time, this shouldn’t pose any sort of problem to you. But thankfully, the commands to take you from a sky view and into the boots of your marine have been made available.

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PostPosted: Tue, 1st Oct 2013 04:40    Post subject:
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Onslaught mode is very fucking unforgiving

Says someone who never finished BeyondInsane on brutal with Onslaught enabled :3


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Vulgarr




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PostPosted: Tue, 1st Oct 2013 19:38    Post subject:
Wow, I hadn't thought about this game in ages. I really liked it when it came out. Might have to check it out again if I can remember lol.
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flipp




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PostPosted: Thu, 20th Apr 2017 16:15    Post subject:
I'll just leave this here:
https://reactive-drop-stats.appspot.com/
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Vulgarr




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PostPosted: Thu, 20th Apr 2017 16:45    Post subject:
Nice! Been eagerly waiting for this one.
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Bob Barnsen




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PostPosted: Thu, 20th Apr 2017 16:46    Post subject:
And i just leave this here:


http://store.steampowered.com/app/563560
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Bob Barnsen




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PostPosted: Sat, 22nd Apr 2017 07:30    Post subject:
Available now.


Seems to be very good from the reviews.
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