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JaxDragon
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by JaxDragon Sat Jul 17, 2010 1:46 am
Alien Swarm is a game and Source SDK release from a group of talented designers at Valve who were hired from the Mod community. Available free of charge, the game thrusts players into an epic bug hunt featuring a unique blend of co-op play and squad-level tactics. With your friends, form a squad of four distinct IAF Marine classes.
Not only is this game free, so is its source code.
Along with the game get the complete code base for Alien Swarm that features updates to the Source engine as well as the SDK. Alien Swarm adds 3rd person camera, depth of field, improved dynamic shadows and a wide variety of gameplay additions to the Source engine.
It will be unlocked on monday.
http://store.steampowered.com/app/630/
My thoughts? Glad you asked. I think it looks like a free third person left 4 dead. With aliens instead of zombies. Win.
eatcomics
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by eatcomics Sat Jul 17, 2010 4:25 pm
I'm in :D
dandymcgee
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by dandymcgee Sat Jul 17, 2010 6:00 pm
This is Awesome.
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JaxDragon
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by JaxDragon Sat Jul 17, 2010 7:11 pm
Indeed. Hopefully it doesn't suck monkey testicles.
ibly31
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by ibly31 Sun Jul 18, 2010 3:27 pm
I was so psyched, but then I saw the platform requirements. Not for Mac...
It looks great though, if I just get off my lazy ass and make a bootcamp partition.
SD021
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by SD021 Sun Jul 18, 2010 5:22 pm
JaxDragon wrote: Indeed. Hopefully it doesn't suck monkey testicles.
Even if it does. Meh. Free code
eatcomics
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by eatcomics Mon Jul 19, 2010 10:57 pm
sadly... I couldn't download
anyone get to? Says the servers are too busy
JaxDragon
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by JaxDragon Mon Jul 19, 2010 11:29 pm
I had that for a while. Just keep trying. 2GB download. Which sucks when you only have 80kb/s download :*( Im at 61% and I've been downloading for 8 hours.
SD021
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by SD021 Tue Jul 20, 2010 9:00 am
Set your steam download region to a less busy region and you'll download faster. I played it last night. Wasn't very engaging. Not my type of game I suppose..
JaxDragon
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by JaxDragon Tue Jul 20, 2010 12:56 pm
I just played it. It seems like the kind of game I would play when I'm bored, with people on my friends list.
isamgray
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by isamgray Tue Jul 20, 2010 1:32 pm
I just hope they port it to Mac soon, cause it looks pretty fun.
eatcomics
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by eatcomics Wed Jul 21, 2010 6:59 pm
If you guys weren't too keen on it, I'll stick to SC2 and Gmod :D
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by isamgray Wed Jul 21, 2010 8:24 pm
eatcomics wrote: If you guys weren't too keen on it, I'll stick to SC2 and Gmod :D
I <3 SC2. Such an amazing game...
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by Bakkon Thu Jul 22, 2010 3:10 pm
This game is really fun with 3 buddies all screaming over the mic. Especially for being free.
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by K-Bal Thu Jul 22, 2010 3:50 pm
I played it for roughly 30 minutes and it seems like there is not much more to discover.
It looks great though, if I just get off my lazy ass and make a bootcamp partition.
