Alien Swarm

[geno]

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.

We're now 3/7 with 2-man insane runs as well, having a lot of trouble with the reactor one though now. One run we almost had it and then both died for really stupid reasons. Most other runs we haven't gotten close

[Corrderio]

-The Vindicator’s grenade explosion effect should no longer crash users running a GTX260 graphics card.
-Fixed a bug where marines would continue to be buffed by the Damage Amp if they were standing in it when it expired.
-Fixed ammo usage on the Tesla Cannon to properly decrease 4 times a second instead of 2 (doubled clip size to account for this).
-Rebalanced Tesla Cannon’s damage to encourage it to be used more as a support weapon.
-Tesla Cannon will now use ammo slowly even when it isn’t damaging something.
-Fixed Unicode text chat

/rage

[Fayttt]

I sure as hell hope that tesla nerf isn't hard

[Corrderio]

It wasn't the best thing to fight with anyway. It was fine on smaller swarm but on larger things (Tanks, those things that spawn mini swarm, and the one that spreads bombs around when it dies) it's ineffective as a damage weapon.

[Fayttt]

I really liked the stun/slowdown effect on it tbh even if it wasn't as effective as other weapons. The whole not having to worry about friendly fire is a plus too, because well, everyone likes to get in eachothers way of gunfire. Game can be such a clusterfuck sometimes :V

[geno]

Flamethrower is still the most broken thing in the world so its all good.

In other news, I think I'm done playing this game. Hit 27 on third promotion, so no more leveling to do. Got all achievements except 25K and 100K which would be boring to pursue. Did 2 man speed and insane runs for all the maps.

Lot of fun and a decent amount of playtime for a free game! Certainly helped to bridge the gap to the SC2 launch at least.

[geno]

Turns out beating all those insane modes isn't going to look too impressive anymore.

Apparently they forgot to make the commands that do this require sv_cheats 1

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tfje7gk1L08

Tried it out in game a bit earlier and it actually does work online (and is as destructive as it looks). Also fucked up my steam stats page for hornet barrage, lol.

[Cjskater]

Turns out beating all those insane modes isn't going to look too impressive anymore.

Apparently they forgot to make the commands that do this require sv_cheats 1

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tfje7gk1L08

Tried it out in game a bit earlier and it actually does work online (and is as destructive as it looks). Also fucked up my steam stats page for hornet barrage, lol.

I would be lying if I said that didn't look fucking awesome.

[Pikarya]

They seriously need to just gut "bullet time" from this game. Its use is very limited currently and it seems to me more as a hinderance than a beneficial tool.

[Corrderio]

Alien Swarm
- Fixed performance issues on SynTek Residential
- Added Dedicated Server Browser to the main menu
- Cheat protected marine skill values.

Finally. The framerate was brutal when you had to fight parasites.

[Corrderio]

Wow time trials are nuts. Our closest was about 1 second away from the time. Then we got one at the time, but lost a marine.

[LD]

Game is awesome, only thing that bugs me is the long initial load.

[Chrian]

taken from new update today at 2:08 pm pst
Alien Swarm update adds 3 new ranks
Platinum Star,
Osmium Star,
Iridium Medallion.
new onslaught mode that uses the ai director automatically so no level plays the same.
and new difficulty Brutal. Also added is a Hardcore Friendly Fire toggle where weapons do full damage to your squadmates, turrets turn you into swiss cheese and people who use flamethrowers have a higher chance of completely incinerating your entire team. So now with that enabled it tests your squads skill and teamwork.