Alien Swarm Add-on for UT2004 Showcased 86
Crusader writes "Black Cat Games has announced the release of Alien Swarm, their Unreal Tournament 2004 modification that features an overhead POV cooperative multiplayer battle against AI-driven aliens. There's torrents for both the trailer and the mod itself. Linux users are catered to as well: the ZIP package contains a shell script-based installer."
Re:slashdot swarm (Score:1)
No. (Score:1)
It wasn't dead. It worked when I first clicked on it...
You murderers!
"It was Slashdotted from orbit..." (Score:2, Funny)
heh [shacknews.com]
On a serious note-- is there a way to get the bots in single player to respond to voice commands? You can do it in vanilla UT2K4 single player [xe0.com], but so far I haven't been able to get that working in the Alien Swarm mod/tc.
Re:slashdot swarm (Score:1)
And where are all the guys with the beefy bandwidth ? Cmon, Its less than a 1.0Mbit / sec
Re:slashdot swarm (Score:2)
This game mod looks nice. (Score:3, Interesting)
Re:This game mod looks nice. (Score:5, Informative)
Starcraft (Score:1)
Re:This game mod looks nice. (Score:4, Interesting)
Re:This game mod looks nice. (Score:5, Interesting)
Sort of like a real-time multiplayer X-Com.
Re:This game mod looks nice. (Score:2)
NS (Score:2, Informative)
Re:NS (Score:2)
Re:NS (Score:1)
I wouldn't know as this looks like Slashdot Swarm Add-on for Black-Cat Studio's webserver is the #1 showstopper for May 2004.
Re:NS (Score:2)
I don't know if Alien Breed was "inspired" by some previous game too but I wouldn't be surprised.
Try the game. (Score:2, Interesting)
NOT natural selection (Score:5, Informative)
BTW, no you cannot switch to first person mode, but that is very intentional..
Find a few people owning ut04, set up a teamspeak server and have fun with this
Re:NOT natural selection (Score:4, Informative)
Re:NOT natural selection (Score:1, Interesting)
Re:NOT natural selection (Score:1)
Re:NOT natural selection (Score:2, Interesting)
Re:NOT natural selection (Score:3, Informative)
It works pretty well too.
Re:NOT natural selection (Score:1, Interesting)
Re:NOT natural selection (Score:2)
Chances are if you think it would be a good idea then someone has already asked (and asnwered) the question on the forums.
Re:NOT natural selection (Score:2)
Re:NOT natural selection (Score:2)
And for anybody wondering what the hell we're talking about, follow the link to Natural-Selection [natural-selection.org].
Re:NOT natural selection (Score:4, Informative)
This game, you control up to 4 characters (1 at a time, rest are either "hold" or "follow") in a top-down game. There's no building (although you can pick a deployable sentry as one of two weapons for any of your characters) and no resources. Really no "RTS" to this at all. More like old-school scrolling games although it looks pretty nice.
The graphics are pretty good although a bit dark in spots. Gameplay is fairly hard (at least for the 2 of us who were playing) and you'll probably want to take a smart rifle for yourself. (The ai players are fast enough with a regular rifle.) A flashlight or flare will also be a huge blessing.
There IS a slight RPG aspect to the game. Team members that make it through the level gain medals and skill points that can be used to improve your characters.
Quite enjoyable althoug long-term it may not hold your attention.
Definitely worth a download though.
Multiplayer troubles with the Linux client? (Score:2)
Re:Multiplayer troubles with the Linux client? (Score:2, Informative)
Here's what I did to fix it. Load up the game, hit join multiplayer, select a normal gametype (DM, CTF, etc) in the drop down menu like you would if you were searching for a server to join, then hit back, and exit the game. Start up the game again and then connecting to Alien Swarm games should be no problem. It worked for me, but I am running on Windows. Yo
Re:Multiplayer troubles with the Linux client? (Score:1)
Jaysyn
Re:Multiplayer troubles with the Linux client? (Score:1)
Jaysyn
The website is working for me (Score:2)
get newer bittorrent (Score:2)
Re:get newer bittorrent (Score:2)
More Mirrors (Score:5, Informative)
http://www.3ddownloads.com/Action/Unreal%20Tournam ent%202004/Mods/AlienSwarm [3ddownloads.com]
There's also a Loki Setup-based Linux package here:
http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/liflg/alien.swa rm_1.0-english.run?download [sourceforge.net]
Re:More Mirrors (Score:2, Informative)
Mirror 1 - 3ddownloads.com [3ddownloads.com]
Mirror 2 - icculus.org [icculus.org]
Mirror 3 - Brody [acurateam.net]
Mirror 4 - nim-rod.net [nim-rod.net]
Mirror 5 - Fileshack [fileshack.com]
Mirror 6 - Fileplanet [fileplanet.com]
Mirror 7 - ut2003hq.com [tinyurl.com]
Mirror 8 - extreme-players.de [extreme-players.de]
Re:Linux users are "Catered to?" (Score:1, Insightful)
Re:Yeah right (Score:2)
Re:Linux users are "Catered to?" (Score:2, Interesting)
jesus christ, so you're bitter because they're finally accepting you as a market and you whine that they're just "jumping on the bandwagon"? what exactly do you want them to do? either way you're going to be bitching.
Re:Linux users are "Catered to?" (Score:3, Insightful)
Jeez, you're pissed just 'cos you might have to pay for software every now and again? come on...
Re:Linux users are "Catered to?" (Your Lucky) (Score:1)
Re:Linux users are "Catered to?" (Your Lucky) (Score:1)
On another note... (Score:5, Informative)
Jaysyn
Patch (Score:5, Informative)
Pretty cool (Score:4, Interesting)
The top down perspective makes things feel like there's something around the corner but you can't quite see far enough....but it's beeping at you..gah!
Reminds me of Mazogs for the Sinclair ZX-81 (Score:1)
Then again, Mazogs was really good gameplay. I wish I could find an emulator and play it again.
But I also wish I could change the camera angle on this conversion to something that makes a little more sense to my 3D-pampered brain.
Re:Reminds me of Mazogs for the Sinclair ZX-81 (Score:2)
http://www.mypenguin.de/zx81/index.php3
Here's the game:
http://www.mypenguin.de/zx81/ftp/lab.zip
Enjoy.
Expensive? (Score:2)
Granted, this sold like hotcakes, and I couldn't get a copy. I settled for the normal edition: $35. Yah, so anyways, I'm totally broke now, because it was so expensive. I couldn't afford rent and so now I live on the street.
hrmmm (Score:3, Funny)
"KEKEKEKEKEKEKE ZERG RUSH!! ^___^"
on ut2k4?
Link to the Google Cache (Score:2, Informative)
Sloooooooooow copy, though...
Mod Community Comes Through Again (Score:2, Interesting)
The mod communites that pop around PC games never cease to amaze me. Ever since Wolfenstein
Problems with Alien Swarm (Score:1)
_X11TransSocketOpen: socket() failed for tcp
_X11TransSocketOpenCOTSClient: Unable to open socket for tcp
_X11TransOpen: transport open failed for tcp/0:0
Couldn't set video mode: Could not create GL context
I got the same error when I installed Red Orchestra (another mod), but installing the patch fixed it. I 've obviously still got the patch installed, so I'm at a loss for what to do. Any advice?
Re:Problems with Alien Swarm (Score:1)
Just a tip to everyone else playing with UT mods...*never* put anything from a mod in the main UT system directory. It was trying to load Red Orchestra stuff cause I tried putting the RedOrchestra/System stuff into the ut system directory...and it gave me that X11 error as a result.
Looks like... (Score:3, Informative)
They have definitely been inspired by the movie Aliens, as the opening scene in the trailer is almost a direct copy of the USS Sullaco orbitting LV-426 except that the ship is called the USS Actaeon.
Are the aliens the same as that in the aforementioned film? If so they are asking Fox to shut down this mod.
better than UT's version? (Score:2)
Re:better than UT's version? (Score:3, Informative)
Voice control of bots in single player.. (Score:1)
Is there a way to get the bots in single player to respond to voice commands? You can do it in vanilla UT2K4 single player [xe0.com], but so far I haven't been able to get that working in the Alien Swarm mod/tc.
Anyone have any luck?
Crossposted to other forums-- (Score:1)
Shacknews thread [shacknews.com]
Black Cat Forums thread [blackcatgames.com]
md5sum problems (Score:3, Interesting)
[~]$ md5sum alien.swarm_1.0-english.run
81a8f7e45c7a5e9cdb9e
[~]$ cat alien.swarm_1.0-english.run.md5
2a372dcfae462105
[~]$ sh
Verifying archive integrity...Error in MD5 checksums: bcc7daefa6fb3c0a04789b9419afd7ff is different from c4fb1c402cd02027e3392292efa1538e
Charming! Four different md5sums. Wassup, doc? I'm just going to get the tar.bz2 from BitTorrent, I think.
Alien breed (Score:1)