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You guys remember Alien Swarm? That co-op down down UT2k4 mod?

Valve bought the team that made it, and now they're about to release a sequel on Steam:
http://store.steampowered.com/app/630/

Free!

Jul 16, 2010 11:03am PDT

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- Free shit! Cool. : Visceral Monkey
- Fuck yeah! : TaintedSyringe
- +inf : inchwide
- Nice. So will it just show up in my Library on Steam? : gooblerampling
- +inf Wow, that is very cool. Thanks for the heads up. : humbleone
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  This settles it! Valve clearly abuses its power in the market by being very cool and giving stuff away. ... : Lightzout
  - A house of dicks they are. : Godhatesfatpeople
- http://www.alienswarm.com/ : Visceral Monkey
- AWESOME : orgcaptainnemo
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  Valve must just be full of money. So they are paying these guys a salary plus benefits for the entire tim... : gooblerampling
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    The first one is always free. Next up. DLC, then Alien Swarn 2 : Slowtreme
    - The attack of the Alien Swan - the sequel : humbleone
  - It's seems like most if the people who work at valve used to be part of a mod team. : thecatinthehat
- been waiting on this for ages : okellyc
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  Man what, where did this come from? : Zek
  - They saw my post and moved quickly: http://www.shacknews.com/laryn.x?id=23469310 : ieGod
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  FUCK YESEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEESSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS... : ieGod
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    Sorry CS:S Mondays you've just been replaced. : ieGod
    - i deleted CS:S yesterday. i'm sick of it getting stuck updating constantly and never finishing : dantastic
- WHAATtt. Awesome = D : pixelat3d
- Holy shit I forgot about this game. Is the sequel a stand alone? : oldschoolbob-o
- Game over, bitches. : MercFox1
- PLEASE LET THERE BE AN OSX RELEASE ON DAY ONE! : Kentor
- GJ Valve - I always wondered what happened to this game. : dedgecko
- whoa, awesome! btw, when are they going to fire the developers? : Nitrium
- Interesting : sanchez
- FREE? WHAT!? <3 : pyide
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  <3 you GabeN : Cheeziologist
  - SEconded. Man hugs from random dudes on the internet! : squigiliwams
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  The front page article suggests that this could be the DotA Icefrog project. : The Grolar Bear
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    Really? Seems like the project the AS mod team hires would have been on. They announced a source version ... : pyide
    - I agree, I have my doubts. : The Grolar Bear
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  Has anyone played Alien Breed: Impact ? http://store.steampowered.com/app/22610/ It is a similar game ... : TroZ
  - it's pretty meh imo : dedgecko
- This looks pretty sweet. : spazzium
- SWEEET : askedrelic
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  What's the catch!?! Nothing is free! : pigvomit
  - microtransactions for ammo : ass-street
  - You gotta suck off a random Valve employee. If it were any other company I'd take issue with that! : node
- Gonna rock! : AgentPothead
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  what's the just of this game for someone who's never played it or UT : indosauros
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    class based coop survival shooter. top down presentation in the vein of smash tv. \ you basically kill... : pyide
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      Oh god you remember that one level with the trip lasers? I spent hours playing that one and laughing mani... : ieGod
      
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      This news really makes me want to go play the mod again but I'd rather dive into this one fresh spankin n... : pyide
      
      I know right? I would have shelled out $40+ for this easy. : ieGod
  - The only thing UT has to do with it was that's the engine the original was on. http://en.wikipedia.org/wi... : AgentPothead
- looks cool : ass-street
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  dont understand how this is free. any way, pretty damn cool. : wurt
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    You pay no money for it. Thus, it's free. : Gary the Llama
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      I DONT GET IT : wurt
      
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      wurt, can I give you a hug? : The Grolar Bear
      
      Only if he pays for it! : etherboy
- thats awesome : maulla
- Any news on if it will be on Mac? : jojomcbobo
- great news, that mod was awesome : qwpeoriu
- SWEET! I love this mod, so much that I even made a map for it (AO-BugCity). SO HARD RIGHT NOW : Rehevkor
- Awesome news. I'm psyched to try it. : Poor Yurik
- I'm going to check this out, thanks crummynz : Piett23
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  Boo Windows only:( : ovrlrd
  - I sense you are disappointed often. : ryuuseki
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    based off Source engine so shouldnt be long before its ported to OSX : Vanitas
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      Hope so, I loved playing Alien Swarm coop, it was insanely hard but awesome. : ovrlrd
      
      The forced-on friendly fire made for some tense LAN parties. : crummynz
- OMFG. Awesome. : Rice-Rocketeer
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  wtf this looks awesome. eta? : atom519
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    Three days. Crazy, huh? : Magitek
    - In two days, they'll announce that the source code was leaked and it's been pushed back to 2011. : BlackCat9
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  why the hell is this shit free, I would pay for this hands down
  
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  why the hell is this shit free, I would pay for this hands down : brewsterdog
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    Show your appreciation and buy the next Valve game. :D : MercFox1
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      every game is a first day purchase, but I want to show appreciation to these specific guys so valve will ... : brewsterdog
      
      every *valve* game : brewsterdog
  - I'm speculating, when they hired the team, the first thing they did was port their mod to Source SDK to l... : slambast
  - They asked this question to play testers actually. "How much would you pay for this?" ... "What if w... : Agrona
- The Source version was announced aeons ago (I remember, it was one of my first infs). I'm surprised they'... : aaarrrgh
- Free? whoa. I actually wish this was an xbl game. I would easily pay $10-15 for it. : d3tached
- Yessssssss http://cdn.steampowered.com/v/gfx/apps/630/ss_1f1d196ebb925cb93caf845e7e352e85542d9e76.1920x1... : Godhatesfatpeople
- Holy shit yes! : stygian_whisper
- Dear Valve FUCK YEAH! : locater16
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  OS X? =( : brickmatt
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    It's a free game. Expecting it to ship on OSX and Windows at launch seems a little ... entitled? : midgetherder
    - Well, Valve said that everything they release is going to be on OS X day one and it sounds like Valve is ... : BlackCat9
    - Its just an honest question and sad face. They have released other titles for free in OS X. : not work safe
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      fuck you, ship everything on OSX, isn't valve supposed to have made this easy with source now? : askedrelic
      
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      The original game was made with the UT engine, did they even port it to source? : Halen
      
      Yes : marmite
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      I'm just asking, OS X seems to be a direction Valve is pursuing! : brickmatt
      
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      WHATEVER YOU ENTITLED FAGGOT : busdriver3030
      
      FUCKING ENTITLED FUCKING MAC OWNERS FUCKING SUCK. : brickmatt
  - I'm sure an OSX version will happen once PC tests it enough :p : Godhatesfatpeople
- Valve and free game based on an awesome mod is like awesome^2. : freshyk
- Sick. I definitely sunk many hours into Alien Swarm. And Deathball. For now there is Greed, which remi... : Wheatloaf
- NICE. All over this. : tcxsnoop
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  I would be interested in playing this coop, I'm "new" to the Shack. Would anyone like to drop their Steam... : jasenmp
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    This is the shack group: http://steamcommunity.com/groups/shacknews I think it's private tho, so link... : crummynz
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  Weird, I googled the UT mod a few weeks ago looking to see if the team had made any progress on the seque... : Magitek
  - Seriously, I was bummed we'd never see AS:S. GG Valve, as always!! : quadeh
  - Actually, you can see this May 2010 update to http://www.blackcatgames.com/swarm/ : Agrona
- that game was very fun : packav
- It is amazing how un-Unreal the game looks in those screenshots. The lack of normal maps everywhere reall... : byorn
- Since this game has finally been released, maybe this means They Hunger actually will too. : Fish_Bulb
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  So its L4D with aliens instead of zombies? : rick
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    And a top-down camera? : rick
    - Yeah... I guess. Here's gameplay from the original mod: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nfp97y4NccU : crummynz
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  Oh HELL YES, I <3 U VALVE! : Saman
  - I wish my gf was as cool about gaming as valve is... : Saman
- can't argue with the price. looks good, too : X-GOUKI
- Can't wait. : VectorJKL