Alien Swarm Created 14 years ago2010-07-21 02:24:24 UTC by Captain Terror

Does anyone dislike the the way you move in the game? i can't get used to NOT using the mouse to turn left,right,up,down. =( (actually i spacebar roll most of the time to move cuz that seems more natural..

Is there anyway to change "turning" to the mouse, or would that fuck up the way you aim (probably).

Other than that, i really like the game!

I don't know. I found it a bit odd first, but I kinda got used to it now. But yeah, it still bothers me a bit.

What I hate the most is that sometimes the camera goes wild with no apparent reason (I mean, at times when I'm not getting hit).

I haven't noticed that camera glitch. =(

And ya, i just spacebar-roll all the time now to move.. it's kinda annoying, but the other way is impossible for me.. Again, mouse movement would be about 100,000,000-times better =)

I got used to the controls really quickly, although I admit they seemed really odd when I first started.
Never experienced any camera glitch, though.

I really, really like this game- and not just compared to other free games, but compared to a lot of ?20 games.

My only issues are that friendly fire is almost guaranteed and that only one campaign on release leaves me wanting more already.

It has got my mapping juices flowing, though.

I got the camera glitch yesterday but I think it was lag generated by playing on some foreign server that caused it.

I don't mind the mouse movement, but that combined with friendly fire becomes really annoying since it's harder to aim.

I love the controls. I had it under control in a few minutes and I disagree with skals I think it makes it easier to aim rather than making it worse.

I mean imagen if the WASD keys was relative to the player which it seemed as if you guys would have wanted instead, wouldn't that be more of a mess?
Turn the player 180 degreeds and suddenly up is down and down is up. I've played a few games with that, and I think it's horrible

It's fun. The maps are a bit dark, and a bit limited quantity-wise, but it's nice. I've never had a problem with the controls once I figured out that there was no alt fire and action-reload was included. (There's one bad thing about the game) I lagged myself to death a few times, but that's not really the game's fault.

Oh yeah, one last point, The default resolution was too high for my monitor to display, I had to use game launch settings to even see the main menu.

Why are so many assholes play this game?

Because it's free

Free trolling is so much better than when you have to pay

I just installed it too. Didn't play yet.

@Capt: It happens when you have a ridiculously high ping. Apparently they rolled out a fix for it yesterday.

@Jeff: Strange, it came in 640x480 as default for me. What's action reload? How do you do it?

there was no alt fire

Yes there is...

What's action reload? How do you do it?

Quick reload. Watch above your name bottom right when you reload. Press R again when the bar goes into the white section to reload in about half the time.

Punch "asw_fast_reload_under_marine 1" in console and it will move the reload thing right under your player so your eyes don't have to move so much.

That's one of the first things I did, helps a lot. It's also visible in the crosshair, but it's a total pain trying to judge off that.

There's also a command (which I forget) to turn off the auto-reload. Another plus for me.

I love this game, it's a lot of fun to play, and to map for. Valve just need to work on a couple more official campaigns.

The controls are good. I can't imagine any other way to make the movement/shooting better than it is now. It took me a few minutes to get used to. And spacebar jumping slows you down, how can you even do that all the time?

SpaG: you know how you can use the mouse to change direction when you roll(spacebar)? That and one key bound for movement would be immensely better imo... (you could also just keep the regular movement keys the same if you wanted, just like a fps game)

And yeah, "spacebar jumping" does suck, but the controls the other way are impossible for me.. =( Maybe some mo' practice?

Oh and another thing, i wish when you hit "v" to rally, the men would come right up to you rather then just get kinda close. it's easy to leave players behind welded doors, and just makes it harder in general to control bots.

I'm happy with the controls but I understand if not everyone is. Captain a simple solution to your "v" problem is to not play with bots, the game's so much more fun with real players anyway.

I don't think you can gain experience points in practice mode anyway.

I'm happy with the controls, and the space bar jump isn't that bad. They need to fix a lot of interface glitches.

^You don't. Only gaming experience.

I wonder if I'll ever meet any TWHLers in-game.

I've now played it with Tawnos Prime and Rimrook. You probably wont run into TWHLers coincedentally, though. (I invited/joined them)

I've played with ATDestroy, Livewire and Instant Mix. If anyone's playing and need another player, invite me. I'm in the TWHL Steam group.

There's a TWHL Steam group?

Yes.

Found it. Should I join?

Yes.

Would you know it's me?

Yes.

I have a question..Is there a vac system on it? Because if not then have a look at this;

to play in first person mode type these into command;

sv_cheats 1
firstperson
asw_hide_marine
asw_controls 0

@Rim: Then you're welcome to interact with me. My interactions are limited because I'm a cheapskate.

I have a question..Is there a vac system on it? Because if not then have a look at this;

Aside from switching to firstperson (which is flagged as a cheat AFAIK), they forgot to mark certain console vars as cheats too - notably, the ones that control how many health packs, hornet rockets, grenades, etc that you can carry

I'm pretty sure the game is VAC secured; it's also like L4D2 in that it seems to restrict sv_cheats to local listen servers only. In any event, toggling cheats on/off at will in a multiplayer game shouldn't get you VAC-banned by any means.

The controls were weird for maybe 5 minutes, then they got pretty natural. Its a great game as is, just needs more campaigns.

Why are so many assholes play this game?

Because its free, and the swarm of people still trying to get the tf2 hat.

Played with a group of public people, and they killed me at the end of cargo elevator because I was getting a few extra kills for an acheivment from that near-infinite spawn at the end. I seriously wasn't doing it for more than 30 seconds, but they all opened fire on me anyway. I left.

Played with a group of public people, tried doing the same thing. Some guy starts flipping out on me over his mic for taking too long. I reply "Whats the matter, gotta go jack off in five minutes? give me a fucking break and let me get an extra 9 or 10 kills" When we got back to the lobby, I was kicked.

TRIED playing with a group of public people, a bunch of arrogant third-level promotion level 27s, who kept telling me all the weapons and items I used suck, and that I'm a "nub faggot" Might I say squad inventory coordination isnt terribly neccesary on NORMAL. I left.

Enough ranting about asshole player-bases.

tl;dr A large number of Alien Swarm players are angry little kids who wouldn't be able to afford the game, but have it anyway because its free.

Heh, ATDestroy. The first TWHLer I come across while playing AS

Who will be next?

I haven't encountered players with attitude problems. Most strangers I played with were polite enough. Only once I joined a server where, right when the round started, one of the players killed all the others with a chainsaw. And I ocassionally get kicked from games for no apparent reason.