Alien Swarm

[Pikarya]

Are you coming over to my house, or am I missing something? :D

I'll be over in 10

Also just for anyone that cares.

"mat_grain_scale_override 0" in console to remove the shitty grain effect. Or put it in the config file.

[Corrderio]

Nearly done with this. How is the online co-op?

[OzzofAsura]

It's good! Though, the group I was with got rocked towards the end of the level. I like the challenge, but one thing that is hard to get used to is the friendly fire. It's easier in something like Left 4 Dead, but in this a player can block a significant amount with their body and it's difficult to shoot past them.

[Corrderio]

Urgh, friendly fire in co-op? Bad time to admit I'm trigger happy >.>

[OzzofAsura]

lol yeah... the shitty part is I often ended up shooting players in the back or not helping them at all for fear of shooting them.

[Krandor]

I was trying it out with the offline practice and as soon as I saw the friendly fire warning pop up I couldn't help but cringe at the kind of horror this could unleash.

[Kaisha]

Heh, won't be long before people download the game to just grief people for their own enjoyment.

[Corrderio]

Heh, won't be long before people download the game to just grief people for their own enjoyment.

Followed by a bitchfest and probably a patch to turn on/off friendly fire I hope.

[Kiarax]

Friendly fire seems completely negligible on Normal difficulty, gets worse on higher ones I assume? Fun game, but holy shit it's impossible to play online with a reasonably high ping. Tried playing with some US friends and it was laggy as fuck, every time you get hit the camera has a seizure and goes all over the place leaving it impossible to defend yourself. Gonna try and get a low ping game now, can use openserverbrowser command in console to bring up a server list instead of using the shitty default one.

Edit: Yeah, million times better now. Joined a server with 30-40 ping and it's fun as hell. So much easier with a competent medic too.

[Corrderio]

How do you get ammo? I tried practice and ran out with everyone about halfway through

[Iku]

there are ammo crates scatter around the level. You can pick them up by pressing E. or carry the ammo crate yourself.

[Corrderio]

Steam is corrderio if anyone wants to add me to a friend and try some online missiosn.

[Pikarya]

Added you, just needed a 4th to show some friends how to play.

[lilfoo]

Have to say this much about harder difficulties:

Abuse sentries
Medi-gun or GTFO!
flamer needs to take point when there are a lot of the infestors (2-3 infestations is GG in hard+)

Currently i play as Bastille w/ Flamer, Medi-gun, Adrenaline

No way in hell I can finish my insane play though in pubs though :/

[Corrderio]

Added you, just needed a 4th to show some friends how to play.

Awesome game time, hope to do it again soon.

[Kurp]

I finished it up on normal and did a few on hard, going to try and finish it on hard and insane soon. It's a pretty fun game. The weapon selection seems really nice so far and I have quite a bit to unlock, I'm only level 11.

[Corrderio]

Wonder how much addons will cost....

[Korietsu]

Games good, pretty hard with pubbies too. Currently run tech or medic with the tesla gun, then just power my way though with melees to save ammo on the little guys. Been having fun with adrenaline too.

[Wintermute]

Fucking Awesome.
I can't join a game and when I do I immediately disconnect.

There any way to look for servers based on Ping instead of that stupid lobby?

[Kiarax]

openserverbrowser in console