Author Topic: Alien Swarm  (Read 771 times)

Offline Kurses

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Alien Swarm
« on: August 01, 2010, 06:00:18 AM »
Hey hey, anyone play this freebie from steam yet? I'm having quite a lot of fun with it.  It's short but sweet.

I'd easily pay money for extra campaigns if they made em.

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Re: Alien Swarm
« Reply #1 on: August 01, 2010, 06:25:21 AM »
I hear there are already player made maps for it, as I understand it the tools for it were quite good. So wait a while and you'll see some more campaigns made by players.

The idea that you can max and then start over with no benefits except a nice mark next to your name was an interesting choice to promote grinding. Went quite fast to max level, like 10 play hours.

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Re: Alien Swarm
« Reply #2 on: August 01, 2010, 06:38:25 AM »
Whats your favourite class and weapon combo?

I'm a huge fan of support so I kind of enjoy using Vegas (Tech) with the Tesla Cannon, a spare ammo box since my buddies are always running out and either a welder or a damage amplifier.  On Insane difficulty I'll take the power fist sometimes since Vegas can sometimes still melee pretty well with it at that level.

Faith is fun too, on higher difficulties you pretty much have to go full healer through and take heal gun + med kits.  On earlier levels without the face hugger parasites I'll sometimes axe the kits and go with a shotgun though.

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Re: Alien Swarm
« Reply #3 on: August 01, 2010, 07:09:59 AM »
I havn't played much on insane. I liked faith or the top commander. The commander is fun on the elevator level since you can solo it on hard if you play well (if they allowed you start it like that...).

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Re: Alien Swarm
« Reply #4 on: August 01, 2010, 12:13:00 PM »
I just don't understand 1 thing, wtf does 'Leadership skill' contribute to? Yelling?
I myself suck as a medic, but I like going out as tech and weapon specialist...

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Re: Alien Swarm
« Reply #5 on: August 01, 2010, 12:58:37 PM »
Leadership is group bonus damage as I understand it.

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Re: Alien Swarm
« Reply #6 on: August 01, 2010, 03:54:16 PM »
I keep trying to get my friends to play so I can get my god damned TF2 hat, but no cigar yet >.<

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Re: Alien Swarm
« Reply #7 on: August 01, 2010, 05:27:01 PM »
Well I'm always up for a game, I don't have much going on this weekend.  I'm a member of the BakaBT steam community if people wanna hook up.

http://steamcommunity.com/groups/bakabt

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Re: Alien Swarm
« Reply #8 on: August 02, 2010, 08:25:57 AM »
Don't let members of staff from here get behind you with a gun in this game. Seriously, it hurts. T_T
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Re: Alien Swarm
« Reply #9 on: August 02, 2010, 08:20:39 PM »
I play a medic, it's a bit harder for me to shoot you in the back. (Not that I won't try =p)

Seriously though, this game is a blast.
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