Thread: Favorite Alien Swarm Class?

Simple poll, what is your favorite class and why?

Special weapons all the way for me. It continues my trend in gaming of loving heavy, barely mobile guns that spit lots of bullets. The second tier minigun is an awesome weapon and makes me feel just like I'm playing TF2!

SW auto gun nuff said. I'm also fan of the medic I love being back bone of the team. I just started playing tech the puzzles are a nice touch rather than some generic load bar.

So far, I love the Tech

special weapons. nothing can stop me now.

Medic or Tech. Only reason to be an Officer is for the Vindicator, since the "leadership aura" doesn't seem to do much (much in the same way the Damage Amp aux doesn't seem to do much.) Special Weapons is in the same boat - unless you really like the autogun and minigun (which are designed to kill masses of swarm at once, which the flamer and tesla cannon do with better ammo efficiency and better mobility), there's no reason to be Special Weapons.

Medic with Tesla Cannon or Flamer (depending on if the team already has a Flamer), Medigun, and Adrenaline. You can literally solo entire maps with this. Well, you can solo them except for the bits that require a Tech. But you can easily have more kills than the rest of your team combined if you play it right. Heal beacons work as well, but I like being able to heal on the move, and the Medigun definitely heals much faster.

Unfortunately the SP and Officer are almost the same, aside from weapons. I really wish that each class had it's own 'thing' that it does. Medics are the only ones that heal. Techs are the only ones that can unlock doors, and they are the only ones that show enemies on radar. Seems like SP and officers got a little screwed. I do love the gun for the SP tho.

damnit to hell now I needa play. Hit me up if you wanna too.

They just need to restrict more weapons to classes. Flamers should be a Special Weapons specialty. Tesla Cannons should be a Tech specialty. While I think it makes more sense for sentry guns to be a Tech thing, that'd overload the class, so let's make them an Officer specialty.

When I beat Insane, it was basically me and the other Medic duoing the entire map with the tech being dragged along behind us to open doors for us, and the idiot special weapons/officer (he kept switching) more or less losing track of us and getting horribly mauled on his own. The other Medic lit everything on fire with his flamer, I stunned it with my tesla cannon while it burned. If we got in trouble I'd heal him with a medigun or he'd drop a beacon. If we REALLY got into trouble, I'd just pop adrenaline or he'd throw a freeze grenade.

I think that if Alien Swarm is to become a deeper, more strategic game, it's going to come from fan-created stuff. I do think the game has ample potential, but since it's a free game done mostly so the modders (who started in UT2k4, where it was also very enjoyable) can show everyone what they're capable of, they might not support it heavily.

But given that Alien Swarm is on the level of Killing Floor in terms of production values (Killing Floor was also a UT2k4 mod, and I believe it was also a contest-winner like the original Alien Swarm was), I'm pretty surprised it's free.

I agree with Pizza on more restrictions on the weapons, especially the tesla cannon.


Officer for me at this point, the vindicator is a godly weapon when used correctly (i.e. on aliens not teammates).