Trash
Pointing and laughing.
So, how do you actually start a codex game with the steam group?
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Alien Swarm - On steam, for free
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Wulfstand
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Gotta replay it someday on Insane difficulty, because hard just doesn't feel...well, hard. I also hope we'll see some more campaigns quite soon, else it'll get boring real fast.
Well, you create your own friends only game, and then you click on the 'invite friends button', after which a list will appear with all your friends and your groups that you've joined. You click on the RPG Codex group to enlarge that list, and check out which player is online, and then you do what I do, as in you start spamming all of them with invites to your game, after which hopefully 2-3 players will join.
Trash said:
Well, you create your own friends only game, and then you click on the 'invite friends button', after which a list will appear with all your friends and your groups that you've joined. You click on the RPG Codex group to enlarge that list, and check out which player is online, and then you do what I do, as in you start spamming all of them with invites to your game, after which hopefully 2-3 players will join.
deshields538
Scholar
Finally played through the campaign with friends on normal difficulty. I've have never played the mod so I don't know (or care) how it compares with it.
It was quite easy (but then, it is normal after all. I have yet to try a higher difficulty) as long as everyone talked to each other over the mic and pointed out aliens coming our way. Then we got to the mission which gave us our first taste of parasites and hell broke lose. One guy got infected and ran around begging for a medic but he couldn't get the healing beacons down in time so he promptly exploded right in the middle of our group sending parasites out everywhere and the same happened to us too.
This process continued until I unlocked the medic gun which was able to deal with infections much more effectively than the beacons, it was hilarious while it lasted though.
On another note does anyone know if the "customize battle music" option is working properly? It's found in audio from options IIRC. I put some of the Final Liberation soundtrack into it but the music only played twice in the campaign (during the lift sequence near the beginning and while escaping from the nuke at the end). One of my friends said his music didn't play at all while another said his played pretty often.
It was quite easy (but then, it is normal after all. I have yet to try a higher difficulty) as long as everyone talked to each other over the mic and pointed out aliens coming our way. Then we got to the mission which gave us our first taste of parasites and hell broke lose. One guy got infected and ran around begging for a medic but he couldn't get the healing beacons down in time so he promptly exploded right in the middle of our group sending parasites out everywhere and the same happened to us too.
This process continued until I unlocked the medic gun which was able to deal with infections much more effectively than the beacons, it was hilarious while it lasted though.
On another note does anyone know if the "customize battle music" option is working properly? It's found in audio from options IIRC. I put some of the Final Liberation soundtrack into it but the music only played twice in the campaign (during the lift sequence near the beginning and while escaping from the nuke at the end). One of my friends said his music didn't play at all while another said his played pretty often.
Trash
Pointing and laughing.
Thanks for the explanation Wulf. Too bad the game crashes as soon as a map loads. From the forum it seems like I'm not the only one with the problem. Probably a driver error as they all seem to have nvidia cards.
Wulfstand
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Trash said:
Well that's strange, since I also have a nvidia geforge fx 9600 card. And I've also heard of this from another codexer, Jim Cojones I think. He said that there's a 50 page thread over at valve's forums, so a patch'll soon be available.
Trash
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Cool, looking forward to play this one.
ScottishMartialArts
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The internets are a wonderful place.
MapMan
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Ok, so I tried speed runs with friends. Its absolutely insane. We managed to finish the first map in 1:25 which is exactly the time needed for the achievement. Try it, there isnt even time to shoot enemies, you just have to skip pretty much everything. Really hardcore.
Multi-headed Cow
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I do my part and either write penis or draw one too.Joghurt said:HA HA Today I've played Alien Swarm in about 10 different random groups of people and 7/10 times after we complete a level somebody draws a penis on the map.
Also, if you guys are in the group chat room you can turn on voice chat and chat with anyone there.
Multi-headed Cow
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Hahaha.
http://store.steampowered.com/stats/
Alien Swarm has crazy amounts of players. As it should considering the quality and the cost, but still. Modders need to get some more maps out.
http://store.steampowered.com/stats/
Alien Swarm has crazy amounts of players. As it should considering the quality and the cost, but still. Modders need to get some more maps out.
If you had any decency, you'd draw a penis + a swastika, like I always did in Guild Wars
Played it with some friends yesterday. Lots of fun.
Dirk Diggler
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Anybody want to schedule a time to play tonight(or day, wherever the fuck you may be)? I haven't gotten a chance to play it seriously yet.
ScottishMartialArts
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PM your Steam handle, Kaiserin. And be sure to join the Codex Steam Group, there's always at least a few of us on.
Dirk Diggler
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I'm memestream on the codex group.
MetalCraze
Arcane
Now you have a one stealing jew less in your guild.
You did a right thing.
You did a right thing.
Ashery
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Oh hell yes.
Seems as though some models designed more in the vein of the original aliens are still in the game.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L2hfqt7ui4s
Seems as though some models designed more in the vein of the original aliens are still in the game.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L2hfqt7ui4s
DefJam101
Arcane
Game is very cool but too easy and short. They really left things up to the modders, feels like Mount & Blade with pseudopods and machine guns.
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