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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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You guys remember Alien Swarm? That co-op down down UT2k4 mod? Valve bought the team that made it, and...
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Free shit! Cool.
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Visceral Monkey
Fuck yeah!
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TaintedSyringe
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inchwide
Nice. So will it just show up in my Library on Steam?
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gooblerampling
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Wow, that is very cool. Thanks for the heads up.
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humbleone
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This settles it! Valve clearly abuses its power in the market by being very cool and giving stuff away. ...
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Lightzout
A house of dicks they are.
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Godhatesfatpeople
http://www.alienswarm.com/
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Visceral Monkey
AWESOME
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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...
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gooblerampling
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The first one is always free. Next up. DLC, then Alien Swarn 2
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Slowtreme
The attack of the Alien Swan - the sequel
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humbleone
It's seems like most if the people who work at valve used to be part of a mod team.
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thecatinthehat
been waiting on this for ages
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okellyc
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Man what, where did this come from?
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Zek
They saw my post and moved quickly: http://www.shacknews.com/laryn.x?id=23469310
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ieGod
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FUCK YESEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEESSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS...
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ieGod
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Sorry CS:S Mondays you've just been replaced.
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ieGod
i deleted CS:S yesterday. i'm sick of it getting stuck updating constantly and never finishing
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dantastic
WHAATtt. Awesome = D
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pixelat3d
Holy shit I forgot about this game. Is the sequel a stand alone?
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oldschoolbob-o
Game over, bitches.
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MercFox1
PLEASE LET THERE BE AN OSX RELEASE ON DAY ONE!
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Kentor
GJ Valve - I always wondered what happened to this game.
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dedgecko
whoa, awesome! btw, when are they going to fire the developers?
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Nitrium
Interesting
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sanchez
FREE? WHAT!? <3
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pyide
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<3 you GabeN
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Cheeziologist
SEconded. Man hugs from random dudes on the internet!
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squigiliwams
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The front page article suggests that this could be the DotA Icefrog project.
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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 ...
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pyide
I agree, I have my doubts.
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The Grolar Bear
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Has anyone played Alien Breed: Impact ? http://store.steampowered.com/app/22610/ It is a similar game ...
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TroZ
it's pretty meh imo
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dedgecko
This looks pretty sweet.
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spazzium
SWEEET
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askedrelic
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What's the catch!?! Nothing is free!
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pigvomit
microtransactions for ammo
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ass-street
You gotta suck off a random Valve employee. If it were any other company I'd take issue with that!
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node
Gonna rock!
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AgentPothead
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what's the just of this game for someone who's never played it or UT
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indosauros
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class based coop survival shooter. top down presentation in the vein of smash tv. \ you basically kill...
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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...
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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...
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pyide
I know right? I would have shelled out $40+ for this easy.
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ieGod
The only thing UT has to do with it was that's the engine the original was on. http://en.wikipedia.org/wi...
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AgentPothead
looks cool
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ass-street
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dont understand how this is free. any way, pretty damn cool.
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wurt
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You pay no money for it. Thus, it's free.
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Gary the Llama
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I DONT GET IT
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wurt
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wurt, can I give you a hug?
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The Grolar Bear
Only if he pays for it!
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etherboy
thats awesome
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maulla
Any news on if it will be on Mac?
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jojomcbobo
great news, that mod was awesome
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qwpeoriu
SWEET! I love this mod, so much that I even made a map for it (AO-BugCity). SO HARD RIGHT NOW
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Rehevkor
Awesome news. I'm psyched to try it.
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Poor Yurik
I'm going to check this out, thanks crummynz
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Piett23
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Boo Windows only:(
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ovrlrd
I sense you are disappointed often.
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ryuuseki
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based off Source engine so shouldnt be long before its ported to OSX
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Vanitas
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Hope so, I loved playing Alien Swarm coop, it was insanely hard but awesome.
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ovrlrd
The forced-on friendly fire made for some tense LAN parties.
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crummynz
OMFG. Awesome.
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Rice-Rocketeer
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wtf this looks awesome. eta?
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atom519
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Three days. Crazy, huh?
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Magitek
In two days, they'll announce that the source code was leaked and it's been pushed back to 2011.
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BlackCat9
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why the hell is this shit free, I would pay for this hands down
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brewsterdog
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Show your appreciation and buy the next Valve game. :D
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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 ...
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brewsterdog
every *valve* game
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brewsterdog
I'm speculating, when they hired the team, the first thing they did was port their mod to Source SDK to l...
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slambast
They asked this question to play testers actually. "How much would you pay for this?" ... "What if w...
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Agrona
The Source version was announced aeons ago (I remember, it was one of my first infs). I'm surprised they'...
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aaarrrgh
Free? whoa. I actually wish this was an xbl game. I would easily pay $10-15 for it.
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d3tached
Yessssssss http://cdn.steampowered.com/v/gfx/apps/630/ss_1f1d196ebb925cb93caf845e7e352e85542d9e76.1920x1...
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Godhatesfatpeople
Holy shit yes!
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stygian_whisper
Dear Valve FUCK YEAH!
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locater16
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OS X? =(
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brickmatt
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It's a free game. Expecting it to ship on OSX and Windows at launch seems a little ... entitled?
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midgetherder
Well, Valve said that everything they release is going to be on OS X day one and it sounds like Valve is ...
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BlackCat9
Its just an honest question and sad face. They have released other titles for free in OS X.
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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?
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askedrelic
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The original game was made with the UT engine, did they even port it to source?
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Halen
Yes
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marmite
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I'm just asking, OS X seems to be a direction Valve is pursuing!
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brickmatt
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WHATEVER YOU ENTITLED FAGGOT
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busdriver3030
FUCKING ENTITLED FUCKING MAC OWNERS FUCKING SUCK.
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brickmatt
I'm sure an OSX version will happen once PC tests it enough :p
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Godhatesfatpeople
Valve and free game based on an awesome mod is like awesome^2.
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freshyk
Sick. I definitely sunk many hours into Alien Swarm. And Deathball. For now there is Greed, which remi...
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Wheatloaf
NICE. All over this.
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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...
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jasenmp
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This is the shack group: http://steamcommunity.com/groups/shacknews I think it's private tho, so link...
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crummynz
Thank you kind sir.
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jasenmp
Invite me Please: http://steamcommunity.com/id/JasenMP
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jasenmp
I guess I should make it public now. No real purpose for it to be private still.
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freshyk
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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...
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Magitek
Seriously, I was bummed we'd never see AS:S. GG Valve, as always!!
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quadeh
Actually, you can see this May 2010 update to http://www.blackcatgames.com/swarm/
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Agrona
that game was very fun
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packav
It is amazing how un-Unreal the game looks in those screenshots. The lack of normal maps everywhere reall...
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byorn
Since this game has finally been released, maybe this means They Hunger actually will too.
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Fish_Bulb
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So its L4D with aliens instead of zombies?
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rick
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And a top-down camera?
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rick
Yeah... I guess. Here's gameplay from the original mod: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nfp97y4NccU
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crummynz
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Oh HELL YES, I <3 U VALVE!
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Saman
I wish my gf was as cool about gaming as valve is...
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Saman
can't argue with the price. looks good, too
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X-GOUKI
Can't wait.
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VectorJKL