you always say that but i still see you playing your games

I lol'ed reading the official forums.
Quoted by some average forumer at the Steam Powered forum.
http://forums.steampowered.com/forums/show...d.php?t=1369605

Tried the offline practice for a while just now - the game play is not bad though as said, it seems quite easy so far. I was still figuring out to do the '1,1,1,1' code hack thing while my bots defended me until the terminal got bored of me and opened up automatically. Thought I was going to die for sure.

Haha, I was looking at the right screen as I click up and down - was wondering whether I need to make all "1" or make all four black squares to four white squares. Just curious too, anyone know how we get ammo for this game? I reloaded too often like L4D2 and wasted the clips.

Skyboxes for Alien Swarm are placed below the map (the red/orange burning effect). Their maps also have a huge box that covers the whole map.

Also I found this on Facepunch, someone already changed playermodels to awesome Space Marines.

Hopefully people will read why Alien Swarm is free, and quit with the endless threads asking the same thing, here you go

When many of us played Alien Swarm, we immediately thought "Why is such a good game being released for free?". If Valve had sold this for $5, it would have been more profitable, right?

Nope. Valve really knew what it was doing when it released this game for free. And here are the reasons that they did it.

The Game isn't a Full Game
Currently, it only has one complete campaign that can be beat in an hour or two. Yes, it has plenty of replay value, but not enough to place a price-tag on it. Before Valve spends more resources on the game, they want to see that it is successful.

It Builds Brand Loyalty
Gamers like free stuff. Gamers also like good support. Releasing a game for free makes people love Valve (hell, it works for me). Valve also releases free content and support for past games, which leads to the same effect.

It Encourages Modding (ie free content)
This game is a modder's dream come true. It was created by a team of former modders that Valve hired. This gives current modders a sense of hope that their mods will be appreciated and picked up by Valve, which increases modder output. More modder output means more content for Valve games without any development cost for Valve. You can tell that Valve is counting on modders for Alien Swarm given the release of the SDK and the open nature of the game.

And last, but definitely NOT least:

It Showcases Steam to New Users
This game is designed to be played with your friends. When I first discovered Alien Swarm, my initial reaction was to tell all of my bros how awesome this deal was. Many of those friends had never used Steam before. One friend had given up on Steam a few years back, and told me that this game was "A reason to go back to Steam again". This reaction is precisely what Valve wants. They want gamers to see all the new features that Steam has to offer for free. They want to show how easy it is to install a game using Steam. They hope that Alien Swarm players will browse the store and think "Damn, these are some good deals!". More Steam purchases=More money in Valve coffers.


It's an awesome deal for everyone- Steam users get a free game and more friends to play games with, Modders have more tools to mod with, and Valve has more paying customers.

And that, my friends, is why Alien Swarm has come to us free of charge.

Well, at least Valve did not practice some un-healthy marketing to promote their products.

Nah, I don't think Valve were really being 100% angels in this regard. I believe its mostly situational.

Its probably because, when they acquired Black Cat Games, the game was mostly finished, and then they realized that since its mostly a remake of the original (Which was free), was fairly short and for the most part was kind of in the same competitive field of L4D and other 4 player coop games, they probably wanted to rework the whole game using their standard "reiteration" procedure, but then decided not to waste all that work, so they went up to the Black Cat ppl and said "Hey, let's just mold this to fit our high standards and release it as a free game while you guys start on something completely new!".

how many stages are there in this game?

why rush...enjoy the game la...

Modders? They were actually planning to make a feature release of Alien Swarm: Source. I was looking forward to it a lot and then they went silent for almost 2 years (Even their forum was a deadzone... It was like the devs literally died or something).

I assumed it would be a whole new game. But since its basically just a remake of the original, I suppose I would never have bought it if they charged anything more than USD 10.

Therefore, I assume that Valve are making this free because it wouldn't work so much if they charged money for it and since all the work was already done, might as well just release it for free.

So got a news that some dude from Something Awful is still under the development of modding the models to Real Space Marines

Sarge = Officer
Normal Space Marine = Heavy Weapons
Tech Marine = Techie
Apoc = Medic

2nd set of characters should be Imperial Guards if not mistaken

And they planned to reworked the voice which is like what over 250 lines per character
The patient hunter gets the mod

I dunno how to hack lol, the 0 and 1 puzzle, don't know what to do...

Ok thanks.

EDIT: Cheeseniumm, I added you to my steam, accept it, also lets play AS together

Imperial Guard ? Now that's more suitable.

ah cool.

Speaking of modding, someone out there should have made those marines from Aliens by now.

Hey guys how to select/join e-club server?

What do you mean by FF?

o.o less vague please.

new campaign?