Dear steam

f*** you

Bots are only available on Offline Practice.
For online play, you need human players, and you cannot start an online game alone. You need at least 2 players to start, and one of them has to be Tech Specialist.

lulz Gormaz do you have any online gaming buddies over there in mainland china?

if you see a level 1 Tech, leave the game. Seriously.
else, you be the tech.

Looks like a great game. Downloading right now. Hopefully can join some of you playing it if you don't mind co-oping with a newbie

Just finished a PUG campaign just now and...

hmmm

Its not really very much like the Alien Swarm I remember... I mean, sure its very much a remake since almost all the missions are the same as the original (Yes, it even had that lame slowmo on the giant lift)... But its also a very much forgiving game.
The swarm aren't as deadly (Previously if you were infested, you were pretty much dead unless you had a REALLY high level medic, coz he was the only one that could cure it).
Friendly fire is too forgiving.
The swarm in general is too slow (Making the autogun's autoaim helpful but not a necessity like before).
Your marines are ridiculously hardy and I'm quite saddened that the persistent HP across missions didn't get carried over (Basically if your marines got injured in a mission, they'd be a bit crappy for the next until they recover).
Its quite bright (Yes, this is very petty, but considering how the flashlight was an equippable item, you'll understand why I felt it lost something by not having it)

Overall it feels very much like an overhead version of L4D2 with aliens... That's not a bad thing... Just that I was hoping it would've been harder as it kinda loses that "Aliens" feel when it no longer does.

Now I finished the game on Normal and it did get pretty dicey a few times, but on the original, I couldn't even finish on Easy.

I'll still be playing it (Lots of items to use which is great) but I'm still sad that this "remake" (I wouldn't be so mad if it was a straight sequel) isn't as faithful as I remember.

Now, here's to hoping they port the much harder Alien Swarm expansion (Whose name I can't remember at all now) and include a hardcore mode or something.

there's bad lag even if it's hosted dedi.

win two co-op missions in a row to unlock TF2 parasite hat.
Speaking of infected parasites, they. are. annoying. no medic/no electric armor = bb

Can imagine a range hero (drow ranger) running away while keep shooting at the melee hero (treant).

Anyone have any idea of a good place that we can read up on the game (items, classes, story, etc)?

What do you mean by FF?