Alien Swarm RAGE!

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Flying-Emu

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dfcrackhead said:
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?
That is by no means the fault of the game.

This game is like L4D: It SUCKS unless you either play with friends or with people who all have mics.
 

Tony2077

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Flying-Emu said:
dfcrackhead said:
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?
That is by no means the fault of the game.

This game is like L4D: It SUCKS unless you either play with friends or with people who all have mics.
guess I'm out then no mic
 

Brikson

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I liked the game. One qualm would be with the allied ai. My medic ran out of ammo while I was trying to hack a terminal, and decided to run away from the group and melee attack the swarm. My laptop is far too poor to run it decently and I thought it crashed in the elevator during the training mission. I'll be trying again tomorrow if my pc can manage to connect to the servers.
 

blankedboy

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I paused the download. I can't download 2gb at this time of the month, looks like I get to wait until the 12th when my fucking capped bandwidth rolls over.

og loc said:
how many gigs is it?
2.
 

Flying-Emu

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tony2077 said:
Flying-Emu said:
dfcrackhead said:
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?
That is by no means the fault of the game.

This game is like L4D: It SUCKS unless you either play with friends or with people who all have mics.
guess I'm out then no mic
Not necessarily. As long as you have one person who has a mic, and takes a leadership role, just follow his orders and you'll survive.
 

BoxCutter

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I'm enjoying the hell out of it, hoping they keep updating it and release some more campaigns.
 

SomebodyNowhere

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as a precautionary measure pretty much everytime one of my teams has gotten to the last few sections we've ended up with 2 medics and at least one of them being a medigun and medpacks medic.

I forget the level but at one point you do unlock an upgrade that can get a parasite off you without the help of a medic.
 

Valdsator

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Just played a bit. Really fun, the controls are nice and smooth, and the source engine updates look great.

As a tip for new players: In the missions with those silly infecting monsters, make sure the medic is Faith. She heals through infections better than that other guy.

Definitely one of the better freeware games out there.
 

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Glademaster said:
Boring as I am near my monthly download cap and must wait until next month to get it.
There's a monthly download cap? Damn, another reason to stop buying games like crazy...

oh, wait, you meant YOU'RE download cap... thought you were talking about some steam regulated cap... sorry, it's one in the morning, you gotta cut me some slack here.
 

Flying-Emu

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SomebodyNowhere said:
as a precautionary measure pretty much everytime one of my teams has gotten to the last few sections we've ended up with 2 medics and at least one of them being a medigun and medpacks medic.

I forget the level but at one point you do unlock an upgrade that can get a parasite off you without the help of a medic.
Yeah, the Shock Armor. Too bad it takes a few seconds to initialize, so you've already taken half your HP in damage and need a medic anyways.
 

w-Jinksy

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i had a quick go last night single player i got near the end and the i got over run those bugs are tricky bastards.

but whatever me and a friend are going on it later and it'll go better this time possibly because a person won't be as dumb as the ai which likes to stand still, possibly because ill be jumped up on energy drinks or most likely i'll have the starship troopers theme on constant loop and as everyone knows that song increases alien murdering skills by up to 85%.
 

sgtshock

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Just finished the last mission, the ending was epic. I've enjoyed the hell out of it so far, I just hope it has the replay value of L4D or other games.

dathwampeer said:
Is this game going to stay free? Or is that just like a special promotional offer to try and get people to download steam?

I want the game but I haven't got my gaming PC set up at the minute. So I was wondering whether I had a time frame to get this done by.
As far as I know, it's $0 price tag isn't changing anytime soon, so you should have plenty of time.
 

Anarchemitis

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In one word: Fun.
In two words: Very Fun.

The solution is paramount:
[HEADING=1]TEAMWORK 101: STICK TOGETHER[/HEADING]
Also, have lots of medkits. You'll need them.
 

Nouw

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Long download time? Took me 2-3 hours. Can't play it yet though for numerous reasons
 
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Treblaine said:
You think 100gb is bad I am on 30gb cap. Downloading games constantly for one day I can actually reach over half my cap with one day of downloading. I am definitely happy with the faster broadband but the 30gb cap is way too restrictive. I am just at 26gb and need to keep the rest for the rest of the month. Also to answer your question yes that should work in fact I am fairly sure you can do that.

Fidelias said:
It's fine. It's not you that gave me the cap. I used to be on literally unlimited now I have a 30gb/month cap on my broadband and I am sitting around 26gbs now.
 

andeve3

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Its great, its allot more tactical than i thought i would be, and it actually fairly challenging.