Alien Swarm: New Free Game from Valve

Does anyone here use the drawing on the minimap thing? So far I’ve seen it used for drawing penises. Thats it.

That was me. My bad.

I like to change it up sometimes with ya know swastikas. But no the maps aren’t that complicated so there really isn’t a need for it afaik.

We had some fun with it trying to be tactical, but there’s not much point.

Perhaps when some really complex mod-campaigns come out it’ll be worth it.

But even then if someone knows the way you just follow them, and tactical situations are always easiest just to say in voice chat. I think the only use is to communicate to people that your keyboard is broken and you can’t continue.

I don’t have the ability to communicate by voice, and it can be used to quickly guide people to certain objectives if you’re dead.

Also helps to point out which path of two needs to be followed… If people take you seriously.

I’m now working on a campaign which probably will require path decision making. Especially if you don’t want to have to repeat it. And the shortest path may not be the best choice :evil:

Sounds sexy. There are splitting paths in mine, but I have triggers that randomly generate barricades so each time you play, there may be two paths, three paths, or only one path. But the paths are different every time.

Bah, what were those commands to raise fps? I’m starting to drop to unplayable levels here; especially at Insane difficulty (parasites + low fps = bad things)

Same issue here with FPS but the game is generating some cracking stories everyplay through…

Any TF2 fps config works, and I bet a l4d one would work better if you’ve got a l4d one link meh the download. I use m0re’s https://m0re.nocrits.com/index.php?site=files&cat=1

Anyone interested in doing the speedrun achievements? So far only managed to get one, I need more players.

finding good players in pubs is tough. Yea, you may get teamed up with someone decent, but generally at least one of the other two guys is a slow, useless fuck with a gun. On insane and hard, playing without the right equipment is tough and there is only so much one can accomplish alone.

i wrote ass on the map where they were going all the time so all they could read was ass on their map, that’s about it

Already bored of this game :<

Repetition, it’s never fun.

Can anyone give me a quick runthrough of things that are significantly different from mapping for CSS/HL2?

I thought it was gonna be like a test for linking achievements with the TF2 hat and all.

Repetition of what? Video games revolve around repetition. What matters is whether it’s done right or not, and what is repetitious and what is not. If you get tired of playing the same maps, I agree but you can download more if I’m not mistaken.

I played Alien Swarm and I must say, before the updates, it could become very annoyng because of the bugs.
Once, all the squad died on the last map of the campaign (The only official one, I believe) while fighting to the death against a single, immortal alien.
Believe me: we tried igniting it, shooting it down with machineguns, shotguns and all other “…guns” available, not forgetting the melee attacks.

Yes you can, but there are few actual campaigns its mostly survival.

Well good luck finding another game there, Joe.

All games involve repetition, Bob.

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