Alien Swarm

[OzzofAsura]

How do you get a promotion?

[Corrderio]

Keep leveling and once you hit the highest level you'll get a button by your level or something that says "Promote"

Promoting gives you a new star and achievement, but you also start back at level 1 and lose all your unlocked items/weapons.

[geno]

I'm on the second star right now, nothing significant about it either.

[Corrderio]

Alien Swarm
- Matchmaking distinguishes between games in progress and games in the briefing
- Updated Hammer’s simple compile options
- Fixed fast reload sounds and incidental marine conversations

Step in the right direction, but lobby still needs more work. Also, what's considered a fast reload?

[Insanecyclone]

Step in the right direction, but lobby still needs more work. Also, what's considered a fast reload?

Click R right as the line goes over the white area while reloading. It's sorta like the fast reload, well it technically is, in Gears of War games.

[Corrderio]

Ahh that's what the line was.

[Chrian]

anyone up for a quick run through of normal mode?

[Corrderio]

anyone up for a quick run through of normal mode?

I'm game.

[Chrian]

well steam name is (OBK) Kiddy Fiddler if you wanna join in, then can set it to public.

[Corrderio]

Name was invalid, think it needs to be your account name or whatever.

[Chrian]

try groundchan then but got a full game now orz

[Corrderio]

It's cool, hope you have better luck than I did tonight.

[Fayttt]

Got landing bay speed run done tonight after like an hour or two of attempts. Fucking hack at the end can be such a bitch.

[geno]

My friend made videos out of the demos from our speed runs. Gives our strategy to do each of them with two, but if you have more people there should be some pretty easy ways to save additional time on top of everything else or lighten the load on the tech with an adrenaline.

Landing Bay
Cargo Elevator
Deima Surface Bridge
Rydberg Reactor
SynTek Residential
Sewer Junction B5
Timor Station

[Corrderio]

Nice, if I ever try a time trial I'll have to look into those. Right now I'm just trying to get stuff done on hard. My team did pretty kick ass.

[OzzofAsura]

Yeah, that was fun. So much better playing with people who have some kinda connection. Much more enjoyable without the douchebags.

[Isawa]

I wish you guys were using mics, I would have ran around screaming Medic lines from TF2 .

[OzzofAsura]

I tried the mic test. It was all static. I have a logitech USB headset, I dunno if I have to adjust some settings or it may be incompatible. I'll try to get it working for next time.

[Corrderio]

My mic works, but it's pretty crappy.

[OzzofAsura]

I got it sorted out. It was using the shitty mic on my usb camera. Next time we play I'll be able to speak.