/r/lambdawars

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Lambda Wars is a free multiplayer Source Engine modification for Alien Swarm set in the Half-Life 2 universe that brings the war between mankind and their brutal Combine overlords to a traditional real-time strategy (RTS) setting.

Lambda Wars is a free multiplayer Source Engine modification for Alien Swarm set in the Half-Life 2 universe that brings the war between mankind and their brutal Combine overlords to a traditional real-time strategy (RTS) setting.

/r/lambdawars

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Does the enemy AI ever use heavy units?

Heavy units as in Striders, Crab synths and Dog. In my time playing i don't think I've ever seen those units be played by the AI, even on Hard. A real shame as id like a challenge, fighting swarms of low tier units gets boring when you're all set up defensively, it just becomes a meat grinder.

1 Comment
2024/09/16
20:18 UTC

4

Hey yall, looking to do a one day revival thing. I miss playing Lambda wars dearly, big playerbase and lots of strategic fun. Reminded me of when Halo Wars first came out.

This Wednesday, August 21st, I’m looking to do a big revival of the game. It hasn’t been updated in a bit, but I just want that one big revival for if only a day. August 21st, from sun up to sun down, let’s have one day of some good, half life strategy fun. Hope to see a lot of you there!

1 Comment
2024/08/18
00:04 UTC

2

Anyone up for a game of Lambda?

0 Comments
2024/08/11
00:47 UTC

1

flicker

the world keeps flickering rapidly the farther i get into a game and it doesnt affect gameplay but it is just really annoying

0 Comments
2024/07/28
03:23 UTC

3

how to become a combine?

idk how

1 Comment
2024/07/05
18:20 UTC

12

Soo, this sucks..

Yeah, I just found out what happened to lambda wars, and it's honestly extremely sad to see the game die out due to lack of passion. I just found out about this game, and although around 20 people play it on average, most of them don't seem to actually get into online games and probably just play offline mode.

The game has so much potential, it's still so fun to play despite the obvious balancing issues and I just wish there was a team of modders/developers that could pick this game up and get it back on it's feet, but unfortunately RTS games as a whole are underappreciated and this game barely gets recognized.

I just wanted to vent here for a bit because it sucks to know that it's more likely this game will die out and be forgotten as a lost legend that could have been great. I truly do hope someone decides to do something with the game, and honestly wish I could be the one to do it, but I have no idea how to develop games and know no one who can.

Best of luck to the people who still play Lambda Wars, me included. I try and get people on whenever I can, but I can only do so much.

- this is madness

4 Comments
2024/02/04
06:56 UTC

3

im still standing.

after all this time.

1 Comment
2024/01/07
06:18 UTC

2

Community issue

Is anyone tired of being kicked out by russian or ukranian kids, players leaving during matches or completely ignoring you for hours ?

0 Comments
2023/06/20
08:28 UTC

10

What happened?

Title says all. What happened to Lambda Wars?

It's always been a mystery for me. It seems strange that they'd give the game a full release, then never update the game afterwards or mention anything about leaving the game; especially considering their last update stated that their playercount increased in size, and that there was a lot of articles about the game.

Here, one person says (when translated to English) that the developers said they didn't have time to maintain the game anymore. They apparently said this in another post, but this user doesn't cite the aforementioned post.

Another person speculates that the developers may have gotten hired by Valve, but no definitive evidence exists of this.

Does anyone have a for-sure answer? This has been a question that has been on my mind for a while now. It all seems a little weird to just abandon a game like this.

10 Comments
2022/11/27
09:57 UTC

3

Anyone alive??

Last post was 2 months ago anyone still on?

4 Comments
2022/03/26
10:04 UTC

5

Is the game still being worked on?

0 Comments
2022/01/10
01:12 UTC

2

Vehicles?

I saw before mentions of a rebel Jeep and it got me thinking about if it would be possible for other vehicles to show up like the Combine APC. Or maybe a rebel version of the dropship that's just a helicopter with a lambda on it

0 Comments
2022/01/03
22:26 UTC

11

Which team do you use the most?

0 Comments
2021/12/19
11:49 UTC

2

I love this game but those Combines!

So i love this game very much and i play alot of skirmish competitive as Rebels, but i noticed that the combines in general are too powerful, for starters, they have many strong units and a variety of them, not to mention the fast strong Hunters, Striders, and others , also the combines soldiers health is more than the rebels normal soldiers even after purchasing the upgraded rebel soldiers with AR2 and spawning those new units they are still weak in health being 180hp in comparison to a regular combine with 200hp.

Also those small flying units and balls of combines are very fast and can eliminate rebels easily, the rebels don’t have such robotic units.

Even the auto turret is strong enough for thé combines to have (I’m not saying it shouldn’t exists) I like it, but Rebels are very weak and I’m not sure what needs to happen to balance it (maybe more units and health increase for rebels)

And the defense system of the Combines, that annihilator is something else completely! it could literally wipe put an entire army in seconds, not to mention the accuracy of it, There’s nothing close to that for the Rebels, even the explosive barrels are a hit or miss most of the time, and not as effective as those annihilators.

What i also noticed is that the Combines are fast pace, no time to waste style: even in collecting resources they are far better, faster because all you gotta do to collect resources in playing as combines is to just deploy machine on the resource and it would auto collect without sacrificing unit counts, which leads me to the other point which is: population, population upgrades/ increase is a click of a button faster than building few house homes with Rebels, which makes it kinda unfair for combines to build their momentum and you’re still slowly gradually trying to help yourself to compete, and by the time you build those slow population buildings and wasted some of your peasants units in collecting, the combines has already gathered all their army and they are ready to annihilate me.

Thanks for reading my overview i hope the devs read this and tell me what they think, other than that great job indeed, very addictive game.

8 Comments
2021/10/10
14:04 UTC

3

I need help with the game

So I used to play Lambda Wars a lot back in the day, but for some reason after getting the game back in my computer, it won't run properly.

It does run, but I can't see the game screen, it keeps on sending me back to the desktop, anyone knows how to fix?

5 Comments
2021/09/21
13:46 UTC

3

I'm new to this game and not very good, any tips?

I just started playing a few days ago and can't really beat the combine in Annihilation (I'll only ever play rebels) any tips?

2 Comments
2021/09/09
01:00 UTC

2

How to Combine?

I played the game lately and I gotta say it is great. Thankfully I managed to figure out how most of the Combine's game mechanics work however I am having a hard time increasing the pop cap. I only managed to reach it up to 20 (compared to the rebels that have as much population as they have those box houses) how do you increase population for the combine further?

4 Comments
2021/05/30
11:47 UTC

3

Striders

They're very powerful but Vondigaunts or whatever they're called just piss all over them.

Or so it felt.

I've been playing a friend and it got thrashed by them.

I prefer playing Rebels. Has anyone calculated the best units?

1 Comment
2021/03/13
23:31 UTC

3

Hi, i am new. Is this group alive? I saw a lot of messages acrhived

Hello

7 Comments
2021/03/02
22:04 UTC

5

what faction do you play?

1 Comment
2021/02/03
09:43 UTC

9

No caption needed.

0 Comments
2020/08/02
06:44 UTC

5

Can someone help please (Apologies for low-quality image)?

3 Comments
2020/05/18
14:05 UTC

5

What group has more players?

Does the Combine or the Resistance have more players?

1 Comment
2020/05/13
21:11 UTC

3

How do i counter teleporters

Title they're really annoying whats the best counter

2 Comments
2020/05/03
02:42 UTC

1

Hi

2 Comments
2019/12/10
18:17 UTC

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