The Official Alien Swarm Thread

[YoYoClock]

This is the worst day of my gaming life

[Silly Putty Clock]

This is the worst day of my gaming life

Haha, poor Yoyo.

[buttplug]

It seems source games have been going a bit crazy fro me lately, too. I'm getting weird spikes and pings I never used to get, and Sourcemod radio doesn't work for me anymore. It will load the page and everything, but when I select a genre to play, the little media player thing in the browser that pops up just isn't there. Jukebox also does not work, it does everything except actually play the songs.

I have tried everything I can think of to remedy these things, but nothing works. I believe it all started after the Engie update.

[TelephoneClock]

whenever I click the play now button it says it has encountered an error

=(

[Topcatyo]

I wish there was more than one campaign.

Although, to its credit, the one campaign is much longer than one Left 4 Dead campaign.

I'm actually gonna have to disagree there.  It usually takes about 30 minutes to beat a map in Left 4 Dead, assuming everything goes right, and there are five maps in a campaign.  Generally a Left 4 Dead campaign takes around 2 to 2 and a half hours to complete.

Meanwhile, Alien Swarm has 7 maps on it, but one can beat the maps in around 5-10 minutes, with barely any match going on longer than then.  Assuming all goes well, like we're assuming with the Left 4 Dead campaign, and assuming every map takes 10 minutes to beat, that's only an hour and 10 minutes to finish the campaign.  That's a lot shorter than Left 4 Dead, even if we added another 10 minutes to compensate for choosing weapons in the loadout screen.

Game's still fun as hell, though.

[GearBoxClock]

I like it but the game quits midmatch for no reason

[Marlin Clock]

So who wants to plan for a session tonight?

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So who wants to plan for a session tonight?

This guy

[AmberArachnidClock]

Well I realized I'm too busy to make a flash movie about the slurpee poem so I'll post the song I made out of it that I was going to use for the animation.
check it out

[AC Slater]

I have figured out how to make maps for the game so I'm going to be doing that for the next couple of hours. However, I don't know how I'll be able to play them with you guys. I'll post what I make up here for you all to see!

[GearBoxClock]

How does the map making work?
Does it have an editor?
Do I need to use a SDK?

[RobClock]

I'd love to see a pac-man maze map for this game. Just swap ghosts for aliens and you're golden!

[SoBe Clock]

I'm actually gonna have to disagree there.  It usually takes about 30 minutes to beat a map in Left 4 Dead, assuming everything goes right, and there are five maps in a campaign.  Generally a Left 4 Dead campaign takes around 2 to 2 and a half hours to complete.

Meanwhile, Alien Swarm has 7 maps on it, but one can beat the maps in around 5-10 minutes, with barely any match going on longer than then.  Assuming all goes well, like we're assuming with the Left 4 Dead campaign, and assuming every map takes 10 minutes to beat, that's only an hour and 10 minutes to finish the campaign.  That's a lot shorter than Left 4 Dead, even if we added another 10 minutes to compensate for choosing weapons in the loadout screen.

Game's still fun as hell, though.

Weird, the missions seem longer than 10 minutes to me.

[GearBoxClock]

I really like the custom soundtracks, as I have a bunch of songs that aren't right for action scenes

[AC Slater]

How does the map making work?
Does it have an editor?
Do I need to use a SDK?

There's an SDK for it under the tools tab in steam and there's a basic map editor in game. I'm using that first, then exporting the VMF file and editing it in Hammer.

[GearBoxClock]

Huh. Well, I'm probably never going to make a map

[AmberArachnidClock]

I tried mapmaking but I couldn't get it to work right

[AC Slater]

I tried mapmaking but I couldn't get it to work right

What issues were you having? I'm only having issues when I load it into Hammer and that's most likely because I don't know what I'm doing in there. I'll learn eventually though.

[AmberArachnidClock]

What issues were you having? I'm only having issues when I load it into Hammer and that's most likely because I don't know what I'm doing in there. I'll learn eventually though.

Everything was magenta and white

[Topcatyo]

Weird, the missions seem longer than 10 minutes to me.

Nah, they're pretty short.  The speed run achievements for the game are all less than 3 minutes for each level, too.