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You need to be better than the bots at those tasks. You have significant experience with each classīots generally can't do class specific tasks very well. Now, 'You are skilled' is not very measureable, so you can probably skip this point entirely, I just felt that it was worth mentioning on a general fan base level. Fortunately, I believe that anyone, with sufficient time and effort, can improve their skill up to a level that is by far enough for completing Brutal with bots. If there is not enough skill, then Brutal will not be possible. Alien Swarm is also a game that furthers this accomodation of skill by providing proportional opposition in the form of difficulty that is befitting of those with high skill, for example Brutal. This means that player skill both plays a heavy role in succeeding on missions, and, more particularly, that the game is constructed in such a way as to allow greater skill to have more influence on success up to a very high level of skill. Alien Swarm is a game with a high skill ceiling. If you are seriously considering doing Brutal with bots only without any experience of Alien Swarm on Brutal difficulty, then make sure you are not going to just waste your own time.Īs guidance, I would say that, before attempting Brutal with bots only, you should find yourself satisfying most of the following.Īs you'd expect, there is a necessary skill requirement that if not met will make some missions impossible. Right, this is Brutal we are talking about. When I say 'computer' I mean a chunky machine or monitor display that holds the Tech-only computer (1s and 0s) minigame. When I say 'terminal' I mean a chunky machine holding critical data which can be downloaded by anyone When I say 'panel' I mean either a button on a wall, usually next to a door, that can be activated by anyone, or a button on a wall that activates when the Tech completes the wire minigame

I have tried to separate them as I have done quality checks, but I may have missed some. It seems I used the terms 'panel', 'terminal', and 'computer' quite interchangeably on first draft of this guide. Whether it is worth it to gain the four marines or not, I cannot tell. I have heard and somewhat observed that more than four marines causes twice as many enemies to spawn. Perhaps the whole experience would have been different with seven bots. I originally started with the hope of doing every campaign mission on Brutal with three bots only and level one gear only. Expect a lot of complaining about bots and some general repetition. This guide is adapted from my kind of diary of my experience playing through every campaign mission with bots (I commented on my own screenshots as I went through). As a rough estimate, it took me 40 hours to do all campaigns on Brutal with three bots. What's really annoying is when they change their pattern for no reason without any indication. I had to learn every quirk of every map and every bot one by one. It doesn't nearly make up for all the stupid things they do.īelieve me, completing every campaign of Reactive Drop with only bots was no end of frustration. My experience has differed dramatically.įirstly, yes, bots are really good at shooting. From what I have heard, the Alien Swarm community considers bots to be really powerful in Reactive Drop.