Alien Swarm

[Amerikaner]

Two years ago Valve hired the talented team behind the popular top down co-op mod Alien Swarm. Since then they have been busy working on the Left 4 Dead Series, and now Portal 2. However, we never forgot about Alien Swarm and the team has spent a lot of time bringing the game to Source in between their contributions to the other Valve projects.

On Monday, July 19th Alien Swarm is going to be released for free via Steam.

In addition to the game, Valve will also release the complete code base for Alien Swarm. This includes updates to the Source engine SDK and full Steamworks integration. If you’ve ever thought about developing a mod on the Source engine with Steamworks, this release provides more insight and examples for using Steamworks in game production.

www.alienswarm.com

Wow. Was waiting for and wondering about Alien Swarm retail. This is by far the best thing that could have happened to it. Awesome move by Valve.

 

[Dcode]

Wow incredible stuff.

Nice one Valve

 

[Murphy]

Ooooh, goody-goody!
Thanks for the heads up!

 

[Major Liability]

They delayed Alien Swarm for Left 4 Dead? What a horrible decision.

 

[Crusher]

Who's cares, it's free. At first I was thinking "hmm, looks like fun, but it's not like I'm going to buy it *FREE ON STEAM* COOOOOoooooooool"

 

[smokeythebear]

So cool. Valve is amazing for doing this.

I hope other old UT2k4 mods come out of nowhere with a release date this summer.

I miss Air Buccaneers

 

[Amerikaner]

I miss Air Buccaneers

YESSSSSSSSSSSS! No joke, Air Bucs is one of the greatest games ever made. So underrated its ridiculous.

 

[Crusher]

I loved Air bucs. Nothing more fun as flying close to another balloon, jumping on another one, drop some bombs, then jump from the the balloon and hang under it with a rope hoping the drop won't kill you and then wait for someone else to pick you up.

 

[REZ]

Yeah Air Bucs was great, although I could never get more than a couple people playing it at a time; a full server would be amazing.

 

[smokeythebear]

For the uninitiated;

YouTube - Air Buccaneers Comeback

 

[REZ]

I'd love to see it fully fleshed out and brought to retail level quality on the latest Unreal engine. I'd buy it inna heartbeat.

 

[Rak]

I can't wait. Alien Swarm was quite intensive, and team cooperation was awesome.

 

[Fedorov]

Awesome, now lets just wait till TWI realizes how awesome Air Buc is and decide to do a KF-like remake of it =P

 

[Amerikaner]

Awesome, now lets just wait till TWI realizes how awesome Air Buc is and decide to do a KF-like remake of it =P

That'd be incredible. I wonder if the developers (LudoCraft) are still around to help out like was done with KF.

 

[Mr. Explosion]

Shame what happened to the Alien Swarm guys, but the company behind Steam acting unethically isn't really surprising.

On a more positive note, I'm installing UT2004 right now. Let's see how Alien Swarm, Air Buccaneers and of course the good Red Orchestra are doing

 

[Xendance]

Shame what happened to the Alien Swarm guys, but the company behind Steam acting unethically isn't really surprising.

On a more positive note, I'm installing UT2004 right now. Let's see how Alien Swarm, Air Buccaneers and of course the good Red Orchestra are doing

Shame? The game looks ****ing awesome.

 

[Mr. Explosion]

Yeah, looks exactly like the mod, and that was awesome indeed

"Shame" refers more to the development... a promising coop game gets bought out because the publisher of L4D wants to curb the competition, then delays the game by two years and eventually degrades its status from "commercial" to "giveaway".

Saw 2 active servers for Alien Swarm today, 1 for Air Buccaneers, and sadly no one for Red Orchestra

 

[DraKon2k]

"Shame" refers more to the development... a promising coop game gets bought out because the publisher of L4D wants to curb the competition, then delays the game by two years and eventually degrades its status from "commercial" to "giveaway".

My reaction to this summed up ->

 

[Xendance]

Yeah, looks exactly like the mod, and that was awesome indeed

"Shame" refers more to the development... a promising coop game gets bought out because the publisher of L4D wants to curb the competition, then delays the game by two years and eventually degrades its status from "commercial" to "giveaway".

Saw 2 active servers for Alien Swarm today, 1 for Air Buccaneers, and sadly no one for Red Orchestra

What the ****? You surely realize that Valve has paid the developers to do it, and pretty good I imagine, since they agreed to release it for free. This looks loads better than the original UT 2004 mod, stop viewing stuff with nostalglasses on.

 

[fOgGy]

Yippies it's free Looks very similar to Alien Breed though with 4 player co-op.