Alien Swarm: Reactive Drop is a standalone expansion for Valve's Alien Swarm game. Available free of charge, the game thrusts players into an epic bug hunt featuring a unique blend of co-op play and squad-level tactics. With your friends, form a squad of four distinct IAF Marine classes. Plan your attack using an unlockable arsenal of weapons with countless loadout configurations against a wide variety of aliens. Blaze your way through various locations eradicating the alien infestation.
Team[]
- Dmitriy - Developer, Founder
- Ben Lubar - Developer, Stats site
- Rayman1103 - Developer
- Orange - Developer, Campaigns/Maps (Orion's Threat)
- Mithrand - Developer, Website
- YOJIMBO - QA & Servers
- Haikü - Visuals
- Darky - Campaigns/Maps (Area 9800)
- Floggar - Weapons (Devastator, Desert Eagle)
- Sk1p - Weapons (Heavy Rifle, Medical SMG)
- Duke M - Wiki, German Translation
- and many more through Steam Workshop
Campaigns[]
- Main article: Campaigns
There are several official campaigns available for Alien Swarm: Reactive Drop, including;
- Jacob's Rest; the single official campaign of 2010s Alien Swarm Source
- Nam Humanum
- Adanaxis
- BioGen Corporation
- Operation Cleansweep
- Tears for Tarnor
- Paranoia
- Area 9800
- Tilarus-5
- Lana's Escape
- Research 7
- Bonus Missions
- Deathmatch
Gameplay[]
- Tactical co-op or PvP action game with a top-down perspective
- Supports solo play with bots, or up to 8 players with online multiplayer
- Complete game code and mod tools, and workshop support
- Unlock persistent items by gaining experience and levelling up
- "Promotion" system; reset your level to zero to gain special profile badges
- Over 40 weapons and usable items, including class-specific equipment
- 4 unique classes and 8 unique characters, with specialties and skills
- Matchmaking, Steam Cloud, Steam Stats, ingame leaderboards
- 151 achievements
- Tile-based map generation tool
- Powered by Source and Steam
Statistics[]
AS:RD has its own stats-app which shows various statistics, globally and player-specific. It also includes the official Speedrun leaderboards.
Alongside the app, AS:RD tracks the best players in-game through the main menu item Heroes of the Interstellar Armed Forces.
Source Code[]
Along with the game came the complete code base for Alien Swarm too. Which features updates to the Source Engine as well as the SDK and workshop support.
System Requirements[]
Minimum[]
- OS: Windows® XP or above
- Processor: Pentium 4 3.0GHz
- Memory: 2 GB
- Graphics: DirectX 9 compatible video card with 128 MB, Shader model 2.0. ATI X800, NVidia 6600 or better
- DirectX: Version 9.0
- Storage: 4 GB available space
- Sound Card: DirectX 9.0c compatible sound card
Recommended[]
- OS: Windows® XP or above
- Processor: Intel core 2 duo 2.4GHz
- Memory: 4 GB
- Graphics: DirectX 9 compatible video card with 128 MB, Shader model 2.0. ATI X800, NVidia 6600 or better
- DirectX: Version 9.0c
- Network: Broadband Internet connection
- Storage: 6 GB available space
- Sound Card: DirectX 9.0c compatible sound card
Campaigns • Characters • Enemies • Equipment • Promotions • Skills • Weapons Background • Challenges • Console • Difficulty • Experience • Server setup • Speedrunning • Steam achievements • Strategy |