Alien vs Predator demo comes out tomorrow!
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Hey kids,
Not sure how many of you have been following this, but I've been pretty excited about it for the past few months.
There will be a multi-player deathmatch with all three playable species released tomorrow on Xbox Live, Steam, and PSN.
Check out the stories here!
http://www.joystiq.com/2010/02/03/aliens-vs-predator-demo-confirmed-for-thursday/
http://www.computerandvideogames.com/article.php?id=233606
I will be playing on PC, so I hope to see some of you on there
Not sure how many of you have been following this, but I've been pretty excited about it for the past few months.
There will be a multi-player deathmatch with all three playable species released tomorrow on Xbox Live, Steam, and PSN.
Check out the stories here!
http://www.joystiq.com/2010/02/03/aliens-vs-predator-demo-confirmed-for-thursday/
http://www.computerandvideogames.com/article.php?id=233606
I will be playing on PC, so I hope to see some of you on there
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Played the 2000 version when I was younger ALOT, can't wait for the new one!
Steam servers have maintenance at 6pm to 9pm Pacific time tomorrow. In which you can't download anything off the service and most of the features will be down (at least that's what I believe).
You can check it out on Steam! I am downloading it now...
I'm DLing it now too
The new bill stars Friday, but that's a whole day late.
Going to wait till tomorrow for the dust to settle before trying to play this game again... *very angry face*
Or it's leading to their downfall. I don't know. I just know something's fishy when every game is designed to be an Xbox 360 game.
Blast!! have to renew my steam account for this.
For this new one, it took, literally, 10 minutes to join a game. I was forced to play as an alien, because it wouldn't let me select another species. I played 1 multi round before getting disconnected. The time in the pre-game lobby there was awful feedback & echo filled VOIP from some player that was so bad I just shut off my headphones. I hope they release a single player demo because this one did NOT make me want to buy this game.
couldnt agree more, a few days ago i almost preordered it. Im happy i did not. Demo's are suppose to make you want to buy the game, not deter you.
This is an excellent case of terrible design flaws
i felt the same way, i was soooo excited. But when playing i was just like meh
A lot of my friends and I were all players of AvP2 multi, and it's a little disappointing they made the demo an FFA DM.
AvP2's LEAST PLAYED AND LEAST LIKED MULTIPLAYER was FFA DM. Why make the demo for this game be free for all death match?
To use items as Predator: There are 3 attack buttons: Weak, Strong, and Secondary. Essentially your melee blades are ALWAYS out. Pressing 1, 2, 3, 4 will only select the "Secondary Weapon." To USE the secondary weapon, you must used the key you bound to "Secondary Attack" or whatever its named.
To Switch Race in Lobby: You must click the large picture. This will cycle you through the available races, if too many players are a certain race, it won't let you cycle to that race. Also, if you clicked on the change skin button, you must click "ACCEPT" at the bottom of the screen to get out of it, then you can click the big picture to change race.
I agree with the fact that this type of demo is not a proper way to show off this game. Total chaos is not the structure best suited for a game based on 3 races in this setting.
As for controlling the alien, it took me several games to get used to it, but now I can control them pretty well. Even with experience, moving from walls to ceilings is finicky. The old system from 1999 where you held a button to cling to the walls worked better.
Still looking for two others to pre-order Bioshock 2 with for the major discount. Hit me up with a PM.
Fuck that noise. Looks like I'm not missing a whole lot, anyway.
I'll check it out on the weekend.
I really enjoyed AVP2. here's hoping it lives up to the others before it.
-Wall walking with aliens is super fun, and sets up some great ambushes
-Pred super jump is a great escape/initiate skill
-Has a lot of fun potential
Cons:
-The fun potential is not really in this demo
-No game browser
-Melee combat is choppy
-Grab is nearly impossible to pull off unless you stand still in front of your opponent. Who's trying to shred/shoot your balls off.
-Pred super jump could be a lot smoother to execute
-Can't join a game most of the time. This demo is pretty much a boatload of fail, not cause of the gameplay, but the dreadful package it's delivered in. If you're making an mp demo, make sure people can easily create, find and join games.
Still L4D's demo was a little bit rocky but got patched fucking quickly, perhaps there will be a decent turn around on this.
- Oh, and on seeing Alien gameplay i just wanna fire up Natural selection and get into that haha. NS2 soon plz.
First impression: Shit sux. Haven't seen any of the game though.
Read in Edge that this new AVP seriously lacks polish with actual in-game visuals, too.
Still. Downloading the demo anyways. Hope you're all wrong!
Otherwise, marine seemed slow and chunky, possibly the way it's supposed to be.
Alien I actually liked, even though the controls suffered from wtf's, there was some kind of timing to melee-attacked, a bit unpolished, but quite satisfying, especially the grab-attacks.
I had yet to succeed with a batmanstyle grab from above though.
the game will use steamworks no?, so that means it'll get a serverbrowser, for now the matchmaking is slightly broken.
polish game stability, requirements, and controls and it could be lots of fun.
fingers crossed they rushed out the demo and the final thing is more polished.. I'd happily wait a bit longer for them to just tie up the loose ends a bit more
So I play for a few mins, and I fight HARD... Against the controls... Damn... Way to rape my memories. In the old AVP it was easy as hell to play as the alien. I think it used to be crouch then jump and you launched forward, you could just aim at a wall and cling on to it and sprint away... I couldn't do anything. Every time I got onto a wall, my view messed up, and it was hard to see anything... Attacking people was near pointless as my damage was so low it made it seem like why bother... But thats the issue. Aliens were never attackers like that in the old games, tey hid in the shadow, and then when the timing was right, attacked... But I can't do that now, because... I dont know where the SHADOW is...? All I can see us a big washed out screen of ugly...
I can't comment on the other classes. I want to at least try each of them before I cancel my pre-order... Its £18 on play.com and I dont want to pass that up... But from how they destroyed the alien class all so it works on a pad, I'm not happy... I may try again later when the servers are filling up... I say servers, but what I really mean is "IW.Net .67 ALPHA" because this system is WANK...
Console ports FTL...
EDIT: One last moan... I have a 16:10 monitor... AVP Plays fine in my max res of 1680x1050... But holy shit balls, no chance of going any lower. Lower it, and the screen shrinks in vertical but not horizontal aspect... Whers 1280x800? Why are there no options to select aspect ratios? Christ, I don't even get paid to design the OverDose UI and it took me a few minutes to add a whole host of graphics options to the UI. To say we are in 2010 and I get a whopping 4 or so choices of GRAPHICAL tweaking is stupid, and should NOT be allowed. Not to mention the UI is horrid to work with... You try changing controls mid game, EVERY page has to load as you go back, no just pressing ESC a few quick times...
Sloppy console port is sloppy, and my heart is broken so much atm
EDIT2: ok, sorry to spam this thread with a huge post lol... Just got a chance to play as the Marine. Now, the marine should be the easiest to get right. Its just a copy paste of other FPSgames, right...? Wrong... Let me start by saying the controls got better because I used my 360 pad. Its clear that this game was made for a console... Anyway, a few new issues cropped up... Gone was the ultra bright lighting. Thats good. Means its only for the alien. But who the hell thought of these controls? RB as Melee? No iron sights, in this day and age...? Start firing at an alien and "Woa" my screen just flicked all over the place... AUTO AIM? Seriously? Theres auto aim and then theres "HERE, WHY DONT I JUST DO IT FOR YOU". Takes the mick. And who the hell thought of the idea to lower your weapon if you get hit
Cancelling my pre-order sadly... This is a console port mess