Alien Swarm First Person Mod
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An interesting-looking game. Source: Steam What is Alien Swarm?Alien Swarm is a free-to-play shooter game developed by Valve with assistance from the team behind the Unreal Tournament games. From what I could find, the game was originally a mod of Unreal Tournament 4 and won GameSpy’s Mod of the Year award back in 2004.It’s also kind of a weird shooter in that you’re not actually on the battlefieldtechnically you’re above it.
Yes, you read that correctly; you are somewhere above the field looking down on it.I can’t say much on the subject of story because there doesn’t really seem to be one. Although, some of the stuff I read mentioned that there’s a planet infested with aliens and you and your team of marines are sent to clear them out. Not exactly new territory but hey, it’s better than nothing. Where does Alien Swarm excel?Conceptually, the game is interesting (although it shares some similarities with DOOM II) as well as visually stunning. Level design appears to be fairly solid as is the sound design.
The aliens are unique in appearance and are suitably creepy.The environments are all suitably lit for a dark and creepy horror/shooter game. The idea of looking down onto the action is an interesting approach which differs from the usual approach of a shooter which has the player right in the middle of the action.It’s also quite a challenge when you’re suddenly swarmed by aliens so that’s a plus. In this one you’re looking down on people holding guns. It’s not necessarily a bad thing but it’s just not the same. There’s also no actual tutorial to help you learn the controls; you’re just sort of thrown into the deep end and expected to swim.Another stumbling point is the controls.I hated the controls of this game! It’s funny the first time the guy you’re controlling walks into a wall; after 2 or 3 instances it stops being funny and starts to wear on your patience.The AI characters who serve as your squad mates in the single player practice portion of the game also have a tendency to go off and do their own thing which is decidedly frustrating because, more often than not, you get skewered by an alien whilst trying to retrieve your wayward squad mate.
Final Thoughts: Flawed but FunIn spite of its flaws, Alien Swarm is ultimately a lot of fun to play. I’ve gone back a couple of times to try my luck and been killed every time.
I can’t say that it’s the best game I’ve ever played. It’s certainly not the best shooter I’ve ever played – that probably goes to Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2.I’m not sure I’d recommend it to hardcore FPS fans or even to just gamers in general; it’s just got a few too many problems in my opinion. That said, it’s free on Steam so you could play it without worrying about having to ask for a refund. With that in mind, and if you don’t necessarily care about the problems I listed, feel free to check it out.
Alien Swarm Reactive Drop First Person Mod
Contents Getting StartedTo enable the console, navigate to the Options - Keyboard/Mouse menu and check the option labeled 'Enable developer console'. The keybind to open the console can be changed in this same menu. By default it is bound to tilde.To automatically apply commands whenever the game is started, create an autoexec.cfg file in:SteamSteamAppscommonalien swarmswarmcfgHowever, autoexec.cfg won't work with certain commands that reset everytime a new map is loaded, such as:matdisablebloom 1rshadows 0To have the aforementioned commands work, edit newmapsettings.cfg, which is located in the same folder, instead.To edit the.cfg file, open the file in a word processing application, such as notepad, and place within any console commands that are to be automatically executed. Save the file and restart Alien Swarm for any changes to take effect.Client-side CommandsClient-side commands will take effect in any game the player joins or hosts. These commands only affect the person whose client they are used on. None of these commands require 'svcheats' to be enabled.PerformanceDisable the film grain effect, which may improve performance on some machines.matgrainenable 0Disable the third person popup window present while the slow motion effect is running.aswspinningstimcam 0Remove the camera shake on melee damage.aswcamerashake 0CustomizationTurn off the auto-reload feature so that the player must initiate the reload process manually.
This can make fast reloading easier, at the cost of a higher chance of being caught with no shot ready.aswautoreload 0Display a fast-reload bar floating under the marine when reloading.aswfastreloadundermarine 1Always display other marines health bars.aswmarinelabelscursormaxdist 550Change the color of light emitted by the. The three following commands correspond respectively to the amount red, blue, and green light emitted.aswflarer # (Replace # with any value 0-255.)aswflareb # (Replace # with any value 0-255.)aswflareg # (Replace # with any value 0-255.)Open a menu that will allow the player to chose custom music to be played during slow motion sequences.aswpickstimmusicEmotesBind a key to display an emote icon over the marine's head. With the exception of the 'out of ammo' and 'anime smile' emotes, all of these can normally be accessed through the radial communications menu.bind 'clemote #'Replace # with one of the following:0 - Medic!1 - Out of ammo2 - Smile3 - Hold position4 - Follow me5 - Be careful6 - Anime smile7 - Ready? Voice ChatterEnable additional automatic conversation between marines.aswrealisticdeathchatter 1aswhearfrommarine 1Bind a key to a specific voice sample.