Comments on: AvP Classic 2000 Gets Multiplayer Via Steam

By: James

James — Sat, 06 Mar 2010 22:48:08 +0000

I bought this the second I saw it listed! The multiplayer was a pleasant surprise

By: freepower

freepower — Thu, 04 Feb 2010 00:07:52 +0000

Can I just say I’ve been playing this since it came out and have never known this existed, despite being familiar with the co-op mod, etc etc? Brilliant work sir!

By: Joey

Joey — Wed, 03 Feb 2010 19:26:58 +0000

bwahahaha, and purchased

By: Nickiepoo

Nickiepoo — Wed, 03 Feb 2010 10:58:07 +0000

Though, the statement was still logically accurate.

By: Shadowcat

Shadowcat — Wed, 03 Feb 2010 06:49:16 +0000

By the way, how many games HAVE been properly updated by their original developer? I can only think of this one, Monkey Island, and Riddick.

Serious Sam is saddened by your lack of awareness. Pirates and Trackmania also spring to mind.

AvP is different to all of these other examples, mind, as it is literally a port of the original game to make it run on modern PCs. Everything else mentioned has had game content updates as well.

If we’re just talking about keeping an old game running on new hardware, the list gets much bigger.

By: Bret

Bret — Wed, 03 Feb 2010 06:08:58 +0000

Matzerath said:
By the way, how many games HAVE been properly updated by their original developer? I can only think of this one, Monkey Island, and Riddick. Fallout has been fan and Gog patched admirably, but that doesn’t quite count – Morrowind as well. Anything else?

Metroid Prime Trilogy adds new controls, rebalanced some fights, all that.

Good deal, but it was a full priced release.

By: SomeCallMeDave

SomeCallMeDave — Wed, 03 Feb 2010 00:00:57 +0000

Can you say buggy as f$&k?!

4 out of every 5 servers i log into seems to have characters (including humans and preds) running in the air and yes they take hit damage when you aim up at them. Needing a fix methinks

By: Matzerath

Matzerath — Tue, 02 Feb 2010 22:50:39 +0000

By the way, how many games HAVE been properly updated by their original developer? I can only think of this one, Monkey Island, and Riddick. Fallout has been fan and Gog patched admirably, but that doesn’t quite count – Morrowind as well. Anything else?

By: beistet

beistet — Tue, 02 Feb 2010 19:42:48 +0000

Urm.. Never mind about “bots in LAN”. That was my bad. Though you could launch a solo game on just about any map and bring along some bots.

http://www.leinensoft.com/software/games.htm

This might not work that well with the Steam package…

By: beistet

beistet — Tue, 02 Feb 2010 19:32:51 +0000

There were dedicated servers modded in. Nobody used them, since this mod came too late and had no internet lobby whatsoever. You needed to go to a webpage to check for the IP.

It was possible to add bots in LAN. I do not remember if that required a dev-code to launch the game right, or a special launch program. If it was a custom launch program, then it was the most common one. To run around as a marine, creating a “base” of fellow bot-controlled marines and then dropping xenoborgs into the sewers.

There was also a user-made map editor, named after the predator. It never took off. No real support for this sort of thing. Almost every computer game has a map editor that made it, but the original editor for this game was never released.

AVP could easily have been L4D, with a human dungeon master. “Hey guys! Who wants to survive a run through my atmospheric processor?” Instead we had Mplayer, who thought flash commercials was brilliant in the age of 64k… Yes, I am bitter.

By: Malagate

Malagate — Tue, 02 Feb 2010 19:25:20 +0000

terry said:
And it was patched in on Saturday. Jeez, where’ve you all been?!?

….playing AvP 2000 multiplayer >_>
It was only when I got to work and I couldn’t play it that I thought “ohh, post it on RPS!” I’d clearly be useless as any kind of Journalist, but I’d be slightly ahead of John!

By: DMJ

DMJ — Tue, 02 Feb 2010 19:01:03 +0000

Well, that little addition just elevated this game to “mandatory purchase”.

Time to get back into the armoured carapace of the Alien. And once again prove the truth of the words “If you can’t see the Alien, it’s behind you about to bite your head off”.