We're nuts about Alien Swarm scripting!

Hey, thanks for posting. The new update with brutal difficulty and improved director mode is pretty good. If only we had a new campaign for it.

to fancy up the kills add:

//Fancy flying aliens
asw_drone_hurl_chance 1
asw_alien_break_chance 0.85
asw_alien_fancy_death_chance 0.5

^^

hi modders and scripters,

Just joined. To make a nice first contribution here's a link to a compilation of the alien swarm custom maps:
http://thepiratebay.org/torrent/5769344/Alien_Swarm_Maps_etc._(1house_of_pain_pack) .

This also contains a premade autoexec with several fps improvements, customized hud with fast reload and healthbar directly under the marines (health also shows permanently on teammates to see who is in trouble) a Square scanner for better view distance, singleplayer has a mission and diff selection,

For those who love copy + paste wordpad this to the autoexec.cfg you have in alien swarms cfg folder:

////////////////
//Alien Swarm
////////////////

//single player selection
asw_ignore_need_two_player_requirement 1
asw_show_all_singleplayer_maps 1

//hud
asw_marine_labels_cursor_maxdist 1000
asw_fast_reload_under_marine 1

//fps/cam improvement
mat_grain_enable 0
asw_camera_shake 0
asw_motionblur_addalpha 0

//Square scanner
asw_scanner_classic 1
/////////////

Working on a script to switch to the nade launcher, fire a round and return to the primary weapon.

Tired of unequipping combat flares every time you start the game? Change the default loadouts in your autoexec.cfg and it will be ready when you start the game. http://alienswarm.wikia.com/wiki/Console_Commands

Example setup:

asw_default_primary_0 13
asw_default_primary_1 13
asw_default_primary_2 13
asw_default_primary_3 13
asw_default_primary_4 13
asw_default_primary_5 13
asw_default_primary_6 13
asw_default_primary_7 13
asw_default_primary_8 13
asw_default_secondary_0 12
asw_default_secondary_1 12
asw_default_secondary_2 11
asw_default_secondary_3 12
asw_default_secondary_4 12
asw_default_secondary_5 15
asw_default_secondary_6 11
asw_default_secondary_7 18
asw_default_secondary_8 12
asw_default_extra_0 8
asw_default_extra_1 8
asw_default_extra_2 8
asw_default_extra_3 8
asw_default_extra_4 8
asw_default_extra_5 8
asw_default_extra_6 8
asw_default_extra_7 8
asw_default_extra_8 8

This setup will start most of your team off with medguns, flamers, PDWs and adrenaline by default.

Here's a simple script that will heal yourself with medical gun and then switch back to your primary weapon with another keypress. Make sure the medgun is your secondary weapon when using it.

bind 4 "healme"
alias healme "ASW_ActivateSecondary; +attack2; bind 4 stophealme"
alias stophealme "-attack2; ASW_ActivatePrimary; bind 4 healme"

Put this script in a file named autoexec.cfg in C:\Program Files\Steam\SteamApps\common\alien swarm\swarm\cfg to use it.