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Author Topic: New Alien Swarm on Steam Monday 7/19  (Read 40532 times)

Grakelin

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Re: New Alien Swarm on Steam Monday 7/19
« Reply #465 on: July 27, 2010, 12:16:17 pm »

Thanks for warning us of this 1 in 300 000 chance.
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Re: New Alien Swarm on Steam Monday 7/19
« Reply #466 on: July 27, 2010, 01:30:59 pm »

Hm, well this is annoying.  My USB ports have apparently up and died so now I can't use my headset nor my tablet which I never used anyway, nor my logitech dual stick controller...  I really have GOT to find out what the hell is wrong with my computer.
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Re: New Alien Swarm on Steam Monday 7/19
« Reply #467 on: July 27, 2010, 01:34:29 pm »

"Oh, on Insane there are only the really good guys playing, you know, the ones who know their shit and stick together", I thought.

How wrong I was.

Also, a guy bent on making teams fail. "I'll be medic" and then getting killed at the first possible moment, shouting FAIL. Be warned.

That's why I always take the medic in random teams...
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Re: New Alien Swarm on Steam Monday 7/19
« Reply #468 on: July 27, 2010, 03:52:42 pm »

He had "Fail :D" in his name, just so you know. I think he did it on purpose.

Also, the shortest campaign ever: on insane there's parasites just beyond the first door. The tech dies, we fail within 30 seconds of playing...  ::)
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Re: New Alien Swarm on Steam Monday 7/19
« Reply #469 on: July 28, 2010, 02:32:38 am »

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Re: New Alien Swarm on Steam Monday 7/19
« Reply #470 on: July 28, 2010, 03:18:04 am »

Nice story indeed. Those are the stories I play for, and occasionally you can actually get them.

I also noticed that praising your fellow players (if warranted, of course) really makes them feel good, especially if you're "higher ranked" than them. Don't skimp on the praise, people!
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Re: New Alien Swarm on Steam Monday 7/19
« Reply #471 on: July 28, 2010, 04:52:25 am »

Going online with a friend now. If anyone's up for joining my first Insane run, drop me a message XD
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Re: New Alien Swarm on Steam Monday 7/19
« Reply #472 on: July 28, 2010, 05:18:30 am »

Does anybody else have the game crash on them when the host disconnects?
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Re: New Alien Swarm on Steam Monday 7/19
« Reply #473 on: July 28, 2010, 06:18:28 am »

Nope, just a return to main menu, and a lingering feeling of loss and loneliness.
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Re: New Alien Swarm on Steam Monday 7/19
« Reply #474 on: July 28, 2010, 06:31:27 am »

Does anybody else have the game crash on them when the host disconnects?
I think something went absolutely cockward when I got dropped, possibly related to that it was an involuntary disconnect. Maybe I tried to fire my medigun while it happened and something went nuts when a medigun was firing from nowhere, except for that bots take over, so I have no idea.
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Re: New Alien Swarm on Steam Monday 7/19
« Reply #475 on: July 28, 2010, 09:09:02 am »

I'm not sure yet, how my evening will go today, but I have the bad feeling I'll end up playing alien swarm... so, in about 6 hours from now, 22 CET that is, I could probably use a team. I'm a bit rusty, but I still want to beat insane (maybe start on hard to warm up?) and I prefer any role but medic. (Strange, normally I love to be medic, but in alien swarm not so much)

I'll be in the DFC chatroom. (Hopefully not, because the other plans for the evening are so much more awesome...)

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Re: New Alien Swarm on Steam Monday 7/19
« Reply #476 on: July 28, 2010, 09:20:40 am »

Normally, you don't have to stop parasites...

Ahhh I love insane. Once you get used to it, hard becomes a joke by comparison. Problem of course is when you go back to hard for your friends that don't play, and you're suddenly dealing with guys who don't keep in formation and waste too much ammo on the drones.
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Re: New Alien Swarm on Steam Monday 7/19
« Reply #477 on: July 28, 2010, 09:31:09 am »

Is anyone else finding it borderline impossible to actually get into a game, or am I just cursed?

I spent 2+ hours trying to get into a game the other night...

More often than not it wouldn't even connect me to the game lobby.  A couple times I got into the lobby, only to have the host bail because we weren't filling up fast enough.  Then it failed to load the map a couple times.  I got kicked for absolutely no reason a couple times.

I managed to actually join just four games, over the course of over two hours.

Of those four games, two of them ended successfully.  One of them just ended abruptly - I suddenly found myself looking at the main menu again.  I'm not sure if I got kicked, or my connection dropped, or what.  One of them ended after the host got himself killed and he quit.

Over two hours of trying to connect...  Over and over again...  For about 20 minutes of actual gameplay.
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Re: New Alien Swarm on Steam Monday 7/19
« Reply #478 on: July 28, 2010, 10:15:33 am »

Sometimes you get kicked because people were waiting for a friend to connect, and you were taking that space, it happens. Matchmaking has improved but is still nowhere near what it should be.
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Re: New Alien Swarm on Steam Monday 7/19
« Reply #479 on: July 28, 2010, 04:41:41 pm »

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