Valve Announce Alien Swarm

[jgoodroad]

I hope I can fix my map before the updates...

[joe_rogers_11155]

I can see it now...

Six months from now...

Valve, creators of such fine franchises as Half-Life, Left 4 Dead, and Team Fortress, are announcing Alien Swarm 2: The Revenge, which is a direct sequel to their freeware game Alien Swarm. The game will continue the lively gameplay and succor or the original, but will include all-new maps, mechanics, and Source engine improvments. It will cost US $60.00 and Valve has pledged to impose VAC bans on the members or founders of boycott groups that may arise.

YEP.

[F0xHunter]

The SDK for Mac OSX? Is this the time?

[Major Banter]

Fuck the game, give me the code.

[Psy]

I'm dead excited about Monday now. Updated engine plus a quite fantastic looking game and all for free!

[Tokoya]

I love these unexpected game and mod releases that have close release dates, I cant wait to checkout all of these new features and 4 player co-op is win.

[Smurftyours]

Fuck the game, give me the code.

I want these dynamic light improvements and other post processing effects and third person camera really badly, but how will it work? Is it a new sdk tool or just an update of source sdk to be compatible with it? I also want to know if there would be an easy way to patch the new effects into mods after the release of the game? I guess I just have to wait and see.

[Major Banter]

Fuck the game, give me the code.

I want these dynamic light improvements and other post processing effects and third person camera really badly, but how will it work? Is it a new sdk tool or just an update of source sdk to be compatible with it? I also want to know if there would be an easy way to patch the new effects into mods after the release of the game? I guess I just have to wait and see.

Apparently there'll be "SDK updates".

Problem is, is that for the game SDK or the SDK as a whole? Is it optional? Will it be an engine update across the board for Ep2 and so on?

I think not, which makes me sad face.

[Smurftyours]

Apparently there'll be "SDK updates".

Problem is, is that for the game SDK or the SDK as a whole? Is it optional? Will it be an engine update across the board for Ep2 and so on?

I think not, which makes me sad face.

Nonetheless I think these features and source code of this game will come in handy for many mod teams.

[ErikKiller]

AWESOME!

[St.Penguin]

Nice! Good news for modders all around.
As for as the game goes, I'm pretty pumped...I remember having quite a bit of co-op fun on the original with friends.

[Mess]

can they hurry up and release the 2009 codebase so we can finish C17?

also, C17 has phong on world-brushes

[MrTwoVideoCards]

Fuck the game, give me the code.

[Terr]

And THAT mustve been hard to do in Source.

Wasn't there a recent update that added a bunch of support for prefabs and "instances" in Hammer?

[nub]

can they hurry up and release the 2009 codebase so we can finish C17?

also, C17 has phong on world-brushes

Wha...guh...


Phong on world brushes = one step closer to perfecting the Mirrors Edge art style in Source.