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Alien Swarm Add-on for UT2004 Showcased

Posted by michael on from the nuke-them-from-orbit dept.

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."

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  1. NS by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Informative

    This looks like Natural Selection to me. Except not as cool because you can't play alien in this mod. www.natural-selection.org

  2. Re:This game mod looks nice. by homb · · Score: 4, Informative

    It's only 3rd person from above. That's a design choice, to encourage a more squad-level tactical experience.

  3. NOT natural selection by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Informative

    this is not a deathmatch mod, it's coop and single player. Its alot of fun really and pulled off very professionally!
    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 :-)

    1. Re:NOT natural selection by PhrostyMcByte · · Score: 3, Informative

      Why TeamSpeak? UT2004 has its own voice support.

    2. Re:NOT natural selection by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Informative

      Although NS isn't just a deathmatch game, this game is nothing like NS. (NS players, I am a constellation player who's been playing since first release. Trust me, this is nothing like NS.)

      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. :D

      Quite enjoyable althoug long-term it may not hold your attention.

      Definitely worth a download though.

    3. Re:NOT natural selection by Robmonster · · Score: 2, Informative

      Actually it DOES have voice activation. You just have to edit the .ini fgile to activate it and set the volume level. They dont give you a way to set this up in the main game.

      It works pretty well too.

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  4. More Mirrors by CrusadeR · · Score: 4, Informative
    http://www.fileshack.com/file.x?fid=5020

    http://www.3ddownloads.com/Action/Unreal%20Tournam ent%202004/Mods/AlienSwarm

    There's also a Loki Setup-based Linux package here:

    http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/liflg/alien.swa rm_1.0-english.run?download

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    1. Re:More Mirrors by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Informative

      AlienSwarm_v1.zip:
      Mirror 1 - 3ddownloads.com
      Mirror 2 - icculus.org
      Mirror 3 - Brody
      Mirror 4 - nim-rod.net
      Mirror 5 - Fileshack
      Mirror 6 - Fileplanet
      Mirror 7 - ut2003hq.com
      Mirror 8 - extreme-players.de

  5. Re:Multiplayer troubles with the Linux client? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Informative

    This happened to me. I installed the Jailbreak mod the other day and the game seems to act goofy like that when switching between unofficial gametypes.

    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. You might have to do this again if you switch between custom mods often.

  6. On another note... by Jaysyn · · Score: 5, Informative

    ... Jailbreak 200x is also out (yesterday) & is lots of fun!

    Jaysyn

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  7. Patch by dryan · · Score: 5, Informative

    FYI, this mod requires the latest patch.

  8. Link to the Google Cache by tacarat · · Score: 2, Informative

    http://64.233.161.104/search?q=cache:bA95RIAgNowJ: www.blackcatgames.com/swarm/
    Sloooooooooow copy, though...

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  9. Looks like... by galaga79 · · Score: 2, Informative

    A lot like that game that came out years ago called Alien Breed.

    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.

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  10. Re:better than UT's version? by Neophytus · · Score: 2, Informative

    If you're looking for an improved game of invasion try Fraghouse Invasion.