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Valve Announce Alien Swarm

Postby ad_hominem on Fri Jul 16, 2010 6:23 pm

While not as exciting as Portal 2 or HL2:Ep3, Valve have announced that a new, free, game will be released on steam from a small team of internal developers.

Alien Swarm is a game and Source SDK release from a group of talented designers at Valve who were hired from the Mod community.

Available free of charge, the game thrusts players into an epic bug hunt featuring a unique blend of co-op play and squad-level tactics. With your friends, form a squad of four distinct IAF Marine classes. Plan your attack using an unlockable arsenal of weapons with countless loadout configurations against a wide variety of aliens. Blaze your way through an overrun, off-world colony, eradicating the alien infestation in environments ranging from the icy planet's surface, to a subterranean lava-flooded mining facility.

Along with the game get the complete code base for Alien Swarm that features updates to the Source engine as well as the SDK. Alien Swarm adds 3rd person camera, depth of field, improved dynamic shadows and a wide variety of gameplay additions to the Source engine.


More info on the new game can be found on the steam page. The game looks set to release in just 3 days.
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Re: Valve Announce Alien Swarm

Postby Phott on Fri Jul 16, 2010 6:28 pm

Whoa! That's bloody epic, but isn't there a game on the Unreal engine under the same name?

Yeap: http://www.blackcatgames.com/swarm/
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Re: Valve Announce Alien Swarm

Postby ad_hominem on Fri Jul 16, 2010 6:29 pm

Yeah, it's the same guys. Valve hired them.
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Re: Valve Announce Alien Swarm

Postby Phott on Fri Jul 16, 2010 6:30 pm

Oh shi-
Nice, should've read your post more carefully quoting about the IAF marines.
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Re: Valve Announce Alien Swarm

Postby Chopium on Fri Jul 16, 2010 6:30 pm

That's the surprise. Finally.
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Re: Valve Announce Alien Swarm

Postby MáØ on Fri Jul 16, 2010 6:41 pm

"Along with the game get the complete code base for Alien Swarm that features updates to the Source engine as well as the SDK. Alien Swarm adds 3rd person camera, depth of field, improved dynamic shadows and a wide variety of gameplay additions to the Source engine."

HAPPY DANCE
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Re: Valve Announce Alien Swarm

Postby city14 on Fri Jul 16, 2010 6:50 pm

YAY!

That sounds like a fun game and those code updates are going to be AMAZING!

Can't wait to... *cough*steal code*cough* Well, not really, but... no?

Sounds like a good time
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Re: Valve Announce Alien Swarm

Postby BubbleQ on Fri Jul 16, 2010 6:54 pm

wow, really nice to se that vale is using low paied guys to create samml and epic games :D Nah, it looks very cool and refreshing with top down view in source. But I would personaly seen a more tactical game or something, sins probaly Icefrog (known as creator of dota) has been working much on this.
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Re: Valve Announce Alien Swarm

Postby MáØ on Fri Jul 16, 2010 6:57 pm

I doubt this is what Icefrog is working on, DotA is his baby (that he stole but that's a different story), I don't think he'd work on anything else.
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Re: Valve Announce Alien Swarm

Postby Gradius on Fri Jul 16, 2010 6:58 pm

http://cdn.steampowered.com/v/gfx/apps/ ... 1279301460

Is dat sum sum phong on world geometry?

Or do you guys think it's just all model based?
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Re: Valve Announce Alien Swarm

Postby Dr. Delta on Fri Jul 16, 2010 7:12 pm

Mr. Chop wrote:That's the surprise. Finally.


Yes.

MáØ wrote:"Along with the game get the complete code base for Alien Swarm that features updates to the Source engine as well as the SDK. Alien Swarm adds 3rd person camera, depth of field, improved dynamic shadows and a wide variety of gameplay additions to the Source engine."

HAPPY DANCE


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Re: Valve Announce Alien Swarm

Postby Armageddon on Fri Jul 16, 2010 7:36 pm

SO AWESOME! HEAD EXPLODES!
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Re: Valve Announce Alien Swarm

Postby Chopium on Fri Jul 16, 2010 7:46 pm

I'm guessing the levels are made out of modular model tiles that fit together. They are adding an editor that uses them apparently.
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Re: Valve Announce Alien Swarm

Postby Generalvivi on Fri Jul 16, 2010 7:48 pm

its' always nice to see people from a mod community get hired. Warms my heart :)
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Re: Valve Announce Alien Swarm

Postby Mr. Happy on Fri Jul 16, 2010 8:54 pm

Mr. Chop wrote:I'm guessing the levels are made out of modular model tiles that fit together. They are adding an editor that uses them apparently.


And THAT mustve been hard to do in Source.

I want to make tiles!
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