Alien Swarm RAGE!

[mrwoo112]

I hate this, people who get angrey that a FREE game is not up to par with there extremely high standerds.

its been out for less than a day. chill the fuck out.

 

[Ze_Reaper_Of_Zeath]

500 kb speed currently, done in 1 hour or so.....

 

[Sacman]

The servers are too busy!!!

 

[Sneaky-Pie]

It's a pretty fun game. Had some good coop matches.

Those parasites though kill you way too fast.

 

[Gindil]

With a long and tedious download time, thanks for asking.

My name is Gindil, and I approve this message. ()*&%*(^% Download times...

 

[FinalHeart95]

I'm actually downloading Steam for this because:
1) It's free
2) I'm really FUCKING BORED

I just hope my computer can run the damn thing. I can barely run Lost Planet on this thing.

(if you CAN run Lost Planet, you should manage with a top down shooter like this)

Looks like Valve has proven there is no better publicity than handing out free stuff. I mean, what else would it have taken for you to give Steam a go?

Yeah, it turns out I'm clear for everything except possibly the processor. Can't hurt to try.

Later I mean. When the damn thing downloads.

 

[Escapefromwhatever]

I really don't think people have a right to complain about a free game...

 

[Cpu46]

Downloading it now at 800-900kb/s probably won't get to play it until tomorrow. Is it an online only game like TF2 or does it have an offline mode as well like L4D?

It has an offline "practice" mode, but I haven't tried it yet

I have, the AI teammates are ok up until a point where all of mine just decided to rush the enemies by themselves, I died shortly after.

 

[Angus565]

I finally (FINALLY!!!) managed to download it after the "steam servers are too busy" window popped up like 60 times but I had it installed within the hour of finally clicking install.
So far I like it, it's better then I expected. Although I never finished the fist mission got my entire AI squad killed. Gonna try online with my friend when he gets back next week.

 

[Maeshone]

Game hasn't even been out a day and I've already got rage on it.

There's an enemy called "Parasite", they latch on and infect you. ONly way to survive is to be healed by the team medic. My team medic is smart, they ran away from the entire team and I got infected. As I called for medic I saw that he/she was nowhere to be found. I died, then the medic got infected and died, then the rest of the team followed suit.

How has your first experience with Alien Swarm been so far?

Tell you the truth, I've hated the parasites since the original Alien Swarm mod. I'm also my teams designated medic, so I'm the one who has to heal people. Trust me, it sucked when you had to use multiple charges to get a single parasite out of a member, so I am loving the new area heal they've added!

I think you guys will like the game.

It seems like a 3rd person, slower paced Left 4 Dead to me, but still very frantic and intense. I only played a single round of Offline Practice, and with that I noticed a couple little problems.

Each class has their own special perk, like distributing ammo or creating a healing area. The only problem is, I can't see any gauge or number saying how many of those you have left. So in the first half of the level, I used up all the ammo cases, and had to just hope there was ammo lying around somewhere. Also, the objectives don't seem clear enough to me, I missed a major objective where you have to "download data" from a computer, and got all the way to the end of the level, only to not complete the mission. I couldn't go back, since I was out of ammo, so I was screwed.

It's still tons of fun though, you guys will enjoy it, no doubt.

As far as I could tell from my romp though offline practice, all the info for the relevant item you have equipped is displayed in the lower left corner of the screen, which means that you'll have to equip the med-satchel or ammo-bag to see how many charges are left in it.

My experience has been great. The biggest challenge I've found is trying not to shoot my teammates, though I recently got an achievement for having all four players not have a friendly fire incident and I was honestly surprised.

The game is fantastic, though, especially considering it was free. Took a while to download, though, but anyone having connection problems just give it a while and it will be all worth it.

Me and my friends played the original on every single LAN we've ever had, and we still haven't had a single game that didn't involve some kind of friendly fire. Sometimes literally, since I have kind of a fetish for the flamethrower!

 

[Tzekelkan]

So the Steam servers are busy on a launch day for a free game? Wow, what a shocker; do what I do and set your download region to Ukraine. I got 500kB-1MB/s download and it came pretty fast.

The game's super awesome, though hard. You need a competent team to get through and a lot of luck so you don't disconnect. The corridors are very narrow and there's no way to crouch, so expect a lot of friendly fire. You NEED to have someone with an ammo resupply pack or you'll be out of ammo by the end of the level.

Otherwise, it's very similar to Left 4 Dead. Stick together, complement each other's abilities and use voice chat whenever possible. Flamethrower = awesome.

The two downsides so far are 1. the fact that the weapons you get at higher levels (like shotguns and electric rifles) seem to run out of ammo VERY quickly compared to the standard rifle and 2. the matchmaking system is still a little wonky and sometimes it'll put you in a game where there are 4 people already and all you can do is spectate.

Bottom line: they'll probably balance it and fix the bugs soon anyway, and I can't complain over an awesome free game.

 

[Korten12]

beat the game! woooh! now to level up and stuff...

 

[steamweedlegoblin]

My first experience was pretty similar to the OP. Our team didn't have a medic at all and one by one we all got infected and died. The second round was much better though. I switched to a medic and we managed to make it through the level. Pretty fun game, IMO. I can't believe it's free! I would have payed for this game.

 

[MaVeN1337]

Servers are being raped.
Everybody and there grandmother is downloading it.

 

[onewheeled]

beat the game!

God dammit, man. Don't say that.

OT: I think this game's a keeper. If you get with a good team that isn't meleeing everybody in the healing area, you'll have tons of fun.

 

[Baralak]

Good game, and great fun when it isn't lagging... Hopefully it'll be beter tomorrow, when everyone isn't downloading all at once...

 

[Caliostro]

ONly way to survive is to be healed by the team medic.

Best way to survive is to use a medkit. I agree though, those are the worse things in the game.

 

[Worgen]

wow I started dling it as soon as it was available and I got my usually 340kbs for it, I loves it altho the parasites do suck, really helps to have someone with an auto gun so they can shoot them easier before they get to you and a medi gun really helps too, works better then the medi pack thing

 

[Akihiko]

I did the entire campaign on normal with a few friends. Was fairly fun overall. The infestation is a real ***** though, definitely the most annoying thing about the campaign.