Swat 4 Expansion pack

[Slippery_Jim]

In case you haven't read this yet the "big" news is that Swat 4 will be getting an expansion pack made by IG Australia and will contain many fixes to the things people complained about.



http://forums.vugames.com/thread.jspa?threadID=3716&tsta rt=0



[predaeus] said it best in that thread "I won't pay for a patch."

[[furrycat]]

Indeed not.

[-Dick]

OK, Jive forums?



I hope the backend is better for the admins, because the front end is teh gay.



Oh well, change is good.  On the up side the userdatabase seems to be purged and I was able to create a new [-dick] account.  W00t/

[[DoubleTap]]

Tell me again why we have a Swat 4 forum?

[-Dick]

Its a place to tease a new version of a game that will never live up to its old self.



Perpetual update hope.

[Slippery_Jim]

It is here just so I have a place to bitch about the game since Pie has me banned in the official forums and 10-David, lol.



From the little I have read the expansion seems to focus on fixing coop.  Smart of them to realise that the hardcore fans are all coop players and the people most likely to down... *cough* buy an expansion pack.



TeamWarfare is supposed to have a thread with the article posted but the website seems down for me:



http:///www.teamwarfare.com/forums/showthread.asp?forumid=28 1&threadid=256078

[[jimforthewin]]

Technically its not Pie that has you banned in the official forums anymore.  

[Slippery_Jim]

Yes fully aware who's hands I am suffering punishment now from  

[-Dick]

Have your tried with the new forums at VU?  I was banned and was able to sign up.  I'm not sure if it was due to purging the user database or the handjob I have Icy.

[[jimforthewin]]

Bans carried over.

[Slippery_Jim]

-Dick I am sure with two mods on your side they could convince the Nascar people to unban you.

[-Dick]

Nah, Icy tastes like butterscotch, I would have done it without a alternate need.

[Slippery_Jim]

Do I need the Enigma machine to decode that?



Ah well, back to insulting Swat 4.  It is amusing to see the developers completely gone from the forums considering the game is only out for 5 months.   I remember Rod and company sticking around the Swat 3 forums for years and that game sold a lot less units.



According to 10David here are the features of the expansion pack:



- Compliant, but unsecured suspects can no longer be considered secured. They will have to be secured, as was the case in SWAT 3.

- The expansion pack promises to offer missions which will be tied together by a linked storyline (a suspect is on the run across multiple missions).

- Simultaneous commands to both the red and blue teams is possible.

- Co-op missions for 10 players will now be supported.

- The quick mission maker can create scenarios which can be used in co-op.

- Voice-issued commands now play a crucial role in both single-player and multiplayer manuevers.

- Suspects will now use blind supression fire.

- Evidence at a crime scene can be disposed of by suspects.

- A new multiplayer mode is planned which will feature "asymmetric" weapon distribution (think of Splinter Cell's multiplayer modes, perhaps?).



That definitely is just a patch IMHO.  Remember the multiplayer patch we got with Swat 3?  The big question is will people pay $50 for game and then an additional $30 (?) for these features?

[[Longbow]]

NO!!!

[nN]

Then again the multiplayer patch for SWAT3 was originally announced as an expansion pack.