oh my god its engie tan in RL...errr comic RL

EXACTLY how I felt.

Except for the pyro, it fits well on his head.

It's actually a pretty ugly hat.

wait these hats might be a trap to get a foot hold in tf2 for the zerg. soon we be up to are necks of infected soldiers, scouts, and spies in the release of sc2.

I don't really like the game, to be honest. It's free, so I'm not going to complain, but it's also about the same quality you'd expect from something with that price tag.

The hat is ugly as sin, too, but I got it anyway because I miss most event hats. What I wouldn't give to have Bill's hat...

the game is realy good, most people play for the hat but then stay and keep playing (i once played with someone who's name was hats hats hats, i called him a noob on the assumption he was just there for the hat, but then i found out he was lvl 27... and he got me kicked, i later went on to pwn moar)

@ARLINDER: you can take promotion, like Prestige in CoD

37? I'm pretty sure the level cap is 27.
Unless you were talking about the missions.

Yeah, I started playing for the hat. That was about 37 levels ago...

@Roflstomper: YOu know its possible to play singleplayer if you wwant to read the logs with a bot team
type in "asw_show_all_singleplayer_maps 1" into the dev console without quotes then go to offline mode and you'll have all your campaigns and missions installed accesible

The parasite levels aren't that much of a bother if you take 2 medics, 1 as a general healer and 1 as faith with a medigun, flamer and tesla armor. Send faith in to clear the rooms of parasites and they aren't a threat anymore.

Alien Swarm kicks ass.

Yesterday, i had an amazing game going. My whole squad death, nearly out of ammo, and we hadn't even cleared the sewer off parasite eggs.
I solo'd from there, and ended up winning.

Is that -Tan version of Jo?

Jo-Tan?

@Derp:
Flamethrower - YES! Burn your squad to crisp and solo the level - without worrying about parasites, friendly fire, etc.

love the look of joy in the last panel

@Derp:

Or use the Electric Powered Armor :P

I laugh when one of my team member gets parasited I deploy the "healing thingy" and he decides to run FAAAAR FAAAAR AWAAAY from it instead of you know healing himself? I mean why of all the things they decide to escape and run away is beyond my comprehension

The hat is now DIAMONDS!

@Red: I doub valve will ban ANYONE because they don't like a hat

@blakyoshi7: Obviously, you're one of those people who like easy games and thinks there shouldn't be any challenges. Most of the game's easy, I beat insane with some friends in a few hours, but the parasites are the real challenge. Figuring out how to overcome a challenge and surprises make it fun.

Alien Swarm is awesome, totally worth downloading...whoever is whining about parasites needs to learn to play and stop sucking, pronto.

@Batabii:


Hm, Looks like I'm not the only one with an issue with proper placing of apostrophes.

:)

If your squad is constantly dying to parasites, you should probably do two things:

1. Play with people who know what parasites are.
2. Bring a flamethrower. It helps a lot.

Moar pyro kid

@blakyoshi7: You know, you can heal off the parasite... Anyone turned on electric armor? Then it's even easier.

Also, pre-emptives!!! Tesla gun is a total cake, good flamethrower user (who uses short bursts instead of FLAAAAAME) is even better. Autoaim guns kill the creeps almost as easy.

Sadly, this was my exact reaction. Could care less about the game, curse my ocd for hat status in tf2.

Alien Swarm is pretty good, and the slownotion parts make it look like the matrix, better yet, parasites are easy to remove, just have 2 medics

People like this game? Really? I guess people like repeatedly smashing their heads into brick walls too. The worst part is that I'd like it a lot if it weren't for Parasites turning the entire game into a dice roll.

Another plus about Alien Swarm, is that it being on the Source Engine of course, people in the modding community are already working on maps to play in from other games.

One such instance as of right now is Pallet Town from Pokemon.

Why does a hat have to be "rare" to be cool? I like my soldier with a gibus and my heavy with a halo, I like my engy with a towering pile and my pyro with an ALIEN!

All hats are good hats, if you disagree valve will perm-ban you.

First,she's all like ;( but then she's all like :D

It's terrible when you play this game, and see 3 of your 4 players die to parasites within a 30 second span.

Huh; I just found out about Alien Swarm free on Steam about an hour ago...and then while waiting for the d/l I decided to read my webcomix, and here I find... :)

One day parasite will share the same hate with the gibus and halo for being too common. (Maybe *sniff* maybe...)

Parasite is op

Yeah it's a awesome ... but half of us can't play it (including me)and gabe doesn't give a shit about the crashes.

@Internet Guy: http://www.apostropheabuse.com

This game is actually very awesome. The hat was just the icing on the cake.

I LOVE THIS GAME. played throught the mission with the biomass but then the server shut down, made some steam friends and got an awesome experience.

The hat is just gravy

@Roflstomper: wow, it's free quit whining, saying that's like being given a free donut in the street then whining cause you don't like sprinkles.

as the old saying goes "beggers can't be choosers"

I've already promoted up and working my way through the levels again. It's a god damn fun game.

Oh look, my demands were answered

@Roflstomper:

Although, I will admit, the audio books/cell phone things are poorly implemented, no player's really going to stop to read the things, even if they're not in immediate danger.

@Batabii: I think he's referring to the original mod as AS 1, and the new one as AS 2...

I didn't even know about the hat until I started playing, having loved the original mod. It's like finding out your birthday present is christmas!

@Roflstomper

"It isn't easy to tell which class is which"

Going to disagree with that one, Officer's are Green with square backpacks, Spec.Wep's are blueish with cylindrical packs, Tech's are yellow with glowing square pack's, and medic's are red/white with glowing square pack's.

@Hitman Spike: i feel your pain. i hope they dont make it drain health... especially not as fast as in the actual game >:

This game is amazing. I feel bad for my mac brothers without knowledge of Wine who miss out on it, because it's a great free game to play with friends. And running around with both the alien hat and the earbuds is a nice bonus. :D

The game is fucking awesome. But the hat scares me. Wanna know why? Play as a Medic while your entire team is screaming at you to get the damn things off.

@MuthSera: What? Of course you can control the bots.

Also what's alien swarm 2?

The computer is now a diamond!

As far as free games go this one isn't the worst of them. I'd go so far as to say I'd probably at least pay 20 bucks for this, and by doing so I've jinxed you all.

@Roflstomper: Well Roflstomper when the Alien Swarm hits you feel free to stop and tweet to all your buddies as much as you damn well please.

The rest of us will act like sane human beings and continue moving.

I am SO there.

The characters did indeed have personality in Alien Swarm 1. Not so much in Alien swarm 2, actually. They don't talk to one another much if any, but you do still have the original audio when they're shooting/getting munched on/crying for a medic or some such. This game is pretty much AS1 otherwise.

The Aliens? Or the soldiers?
The soldiers say something every once in a while. I wouldn't call it personality. The aliens are just there to kill you, Not make conversation.

They have personalities? I didnt even notice cus i was too busy shooting aliens in the face with my generic soldier's FREAKIN AUTO CANNON

lol yeah I'm sad :(

XD
Another reason why Pc > Mac.

Mac users

Ugh, That's a tough one.
Does it have something to do with pirating TF2?

here a riddle: Who plays tf2, but cannot get this hat?

I've played Smash TV through to the end (freeplay mode FTW) and Alien swarm is nothing like it. Smash TV is just a stupid hard arcade arena shooter with six degrees of fire and motion. Alien Swarm is... much better.

it's like the ultimate wowfag bait

she's purty

It isn't easy to tell which class is which*

Seriously, at least Bioshock's audio logs you could listen to while playing, but you want us to stop and read when aliens are clawing at us? Valve didn't have a hand in designing this, and it shows.

Not to mention the armor which completely covers their body isn't very well designed, either. It isn't each to tell which class is which, because it's the same bulky half-a-car's worth of metal Warhammer 40k design. It sucks. And why do you give us fucking reading material during an online mission?

Game is okay, the hat sucks. I hate the character design of the game, though. Eight different characters with text log bullshit giving a detailed personality which we will never, ever see, because they're stuck in the default space marine battle armor

I like the game, though i havent played much of it because my friend cant get his freaking server to work. The hat.... well..... I think it's better than the brainslug... which is my least favorite pyro hat and the only pyro hat which has droped for me...

Alien Swarm was awesome
Can't wait till they release more DLC for it

THIS WINDOW IS MINE!!!

Don't worry Jo...we understand what you're getting at loud and clear

Played Alien Swarm mod for UT2004... And the new game is even more freaking awesome!

BTW... L4D being released about a year after Valve hired these guys... I feel a connection *_*

haha.
the game is awesome
the hat is awesome.
i got both.

comic is right on the money actually. Dont think I would've given the game a shot if I hadnt heard about teh hat. Then I got the hat in like ten mins and just kept playing because it's kinda addicting.

meh, game is solid and entertaining which is made awesome since it's free, the hat, well its not so good but hey who gives a shit it was easy as all hell to get!

the game's gella fun, but the hat looks like crap ingame. i didn't know there was a hat till it got dropped for me ingame.

anyone getting the crash at startup or loading a game?

I was gonna download as soon as I saw the trailer, then I heard there was a hat and wanted to ply it even more xD

its such a good game for being free and it comes with the complete game code, allowing for unlimited modding. The tf2 hat is just a bonus.

@Ambassador: http://wiki.teamfortress.com/wiki/Alien_Swarm_Parasite

I didn't even know about the hat, I just downloaded it because I thought it was cool.

Is there really a TF2 hat for this or are you joking?

It originally was a game of sadomasochistic difficulty.. which got harder as you got more players, because the bots were deadly accurate and reliable and people are stupid. That, mixed with the aliens just being.. flat out meaner. I dunno. Still absolutely fun tho. :D

But yeah. The bots feel a bit strange as you can't take direct control over them. A few of the design changes feel unnessesary and strange, such as the way ammo is handled. You can't level up your characters anymore, but instead you level up.. and the game feels..... easier.

I played the original Alien Swarm for UT2004 and loved it. I've waited for years for this game.. and thought it was just.. dead. I'd checked on it several times and no news. Then all of a sudden, it's on steam, it's going to be free, and it's going to be released in 1 day, and 13 hours?! oh shi-

Also of note is that not only is it much older then L4D, the group of modders who made it got hired by Valve to work on Portal and L4D. This is why there is a strong similarity between this and L4D. Both are 4 player coop survival games against never ending enemy swarms, among other similarities.

Remember, this game is actually much older than L4D since it started its life as UT04 mod in 2004 and pretty much was complete back then, too.

I'm kinda disappointed by this, it's going to drag a lot of faggots in that just want to do the achievements and get out again. :<

Honestly I'm downloading for the hat. But I'm also looking forward to some 4 player co-op action. How good is this game?

Yeah, I got the game too. Am a lvl 8 now... normally playing medic.

Heard about it personally from a friend. I found out about the hat after I started downloading it as a result of mouse-over-ing a random achievement.

@Ikinone: Agreed

Heard about the game because of its 4 player co-op, loadsa weapons and alien shooting. Liked the sound of it, downloaded it, played it, got hat. Unexpected, but was nice. Nice free game.

Hat looks awful, game is great though. Don't judge it by the offline mode.

You know what? I wouldnt mind a mega buster for my spy.........

Civvie?!? Didn't know the TF2 crew had civilian identities.

I wonder if the sam and max hat will this open up companies who want publicity to dump hats in Tf2.
can't wait to see the rage come in when Capcom repays valve for their steam service by giving engineer a Bionic commando gunslinger or the spy a mega buster.

Oh my sap, there is a fat hat with this game?! I download it because some friends wanted to play it in coop :s

I hate the people who download this game just for the hat.

I was gonna download it when I first heard about it, and the hat is a neat bonus.

Man, this sense of superiority is awesome.

@Macfag: Wait a week or a month. It's not a limited hat.

They had this project going for some time before the mac update, and since it's source, it'll steamplay in no time.


So no, you're not allowed to bitch. Be patient, not spoiled.

Played it right now. It's fuckawesome. :D

@Grug:

Shame really, it's a fun game, but most of the folks who download it are probably only going to do it for the hat, then stop playing it once they get said hat.

Along with that, a lot of folks compare it too L4D/Dead Space, but it play's a lot more like Smash TV.

Played it.


It's really good fun, really well made, especially when you have a couple buddies playing with you.

Also, the hat is a nice treat, but it only really looks good on the Pyro, in my opinion.

It's really a great game for being free+recycled L4D code.

@Macfag

Enjoy your faggotry.

@Grug: does FREE mean anything to you?

@Macfag This is the internet, of course you can.

Honestly, how else could they have gotten people to play it?

I'm gonna try my hand at making a level.

So question. Are we mac users allowed to bitch and throw temper tantrums about this hat like many PC users did about the earbuds, since we cannot get this hat through normal means?

The game is fun.

Still, though... f***ing parasites.

This game is so fun. :P

@sConed Also, within the first 6 hours of the games release, me and some friends beat this game on both Hard and Insane difficulties, and I unlocked every weapon in the game. ;D

Hey, if its from steam, it has to be good. If it ain't then, you get what you paid for.

The game is amazing. Alien Swarm really shows what you can still do with the Source engine and throws away the idea that "the Source engine is only good for 1st person shooters." Though the game only has 1 short campaign, people should be encouraged to create their own content.

That headcrab's a SPAH and has 6 legs!

That hat is my buddeh! :3

reminds me of the reaction guys.

How could dis- ASSUMING DIRECT KONTROL.

It's always the hat isn't it?

First! And I love the face at the last panel