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Escape from Rhea has been released in conjunction with Alien Swarm 1.32!
This all new campaign for Alien Swarm is available as a standalone download or packaged with the updated Telic Campaign. Escape From Rhea continues right where Telic left your unfortunate squad of brave marines: stuck in the heart of the xenomorph brain lair, surrounded by pointy teeth and esurient growls in the dark. Utilize all your wits and cunning, your best team tactics, and an array of deadly new gadgets to overcome the neverending onslaught of angry aliens and insidious farewell presents left by the shady Telic corporation in order to lead your soldiers to victory, fame, booze'n'babes, and, most important, continued existence.

The Telic Campaign ver 1.1 contains all of the EFR content as well as an updated AO-Daylight map compatible with ASw ver 1.32 and AoTelicBeta.int for added server support. Play on!
 

Wow. It's been a whole year since any news was posted here. In case you haven't heard, Donator has been heading up a small team working on a follow-on campaign for Telic. Escape From Rhea is the title, and as you can probably guess, involves the marines escaping from the Planet Rhea where all the action in the Telic Campaign went down. At this point in time the campaign is being tested, so you shouldn't have long to wait. More news to come...
 

smattbac just prodded me to let you know that the custom campaign mutator was updated recently to fix some problems with the difficulty setting in custom campaigns. Most of you out there probably already know this, but for those of you who don't, you may want to grab the latest version (1.5b) right here.
 

The past few days have been an exciting time for the Alien Swarm community. It is encouraging to see so many servers full of players around the clock. We have received lots of great feedback on Telic via e-mail and the Alien Swarm forums, and in response to that we have published a Telic Campaign Faq. Check it out, and if your question isn't answered here send it to us.

The Telic Team would like to thank all the players who have been flooding the servers to furiously hunt down the Swarm throughout the Telic facilities. We would also like to welcome all the new faces who have come to check out Telic and Alien Swarm, in some cases even bothering to reinstall UT2K4 to do so. That gives us lots of encouragement. As far as the future goes, we will be releasing chapter 3 of the telic story quite soon, and at some point we will probably release a patch to fix any bugs that slipped through the cracks.
 

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The Telic Campaign for Alien Swarm has been released!
Please note that you must have Alien Swarm 1.3 in order to play telic.
Please enjoy responsibly.

mirrors:
IAF Database
File Shack
Fileplanet
Torrent
 

The release date for the Telic Campaign and Alien Swarm 1.3 has been set. December 16th - just one short week away. In preparation for the upcoming release, we have published some new screenshots, and most importantly the Telic Campaign Manual is now online. Have fun reading - see you in a week!
 

The final release candidate is being evaluated and tested. We are not far off at all. In preparation for shipping out to Rhea, check that all your inoculations are current, resume 0500 morning workouts, and recertify on all standard weapons at the shooting range. Vacation is almost over.
 

Donator has finished up another chapter of the Telic Campaign's backstory. Crash continues to fill us in on the events immediately preceeding the first mission in the campaign. If you haven't read the first chapter yet, click the 'story' link over on the left menu.
 

Rumors of our demise have been greatly exaggerated. Although things have been rather quiet around here, rest assured that we have been quite busy. Expect things to pick up a bit now as we are very close to done. When?! soon. very soon.
 

Just a small update to let you know we released a new batch of screenshots today. You can find them on the downloads page along with 2 new wallpapers to make your ugly desktop pretty. Also there are some new screenshots over on the right hand column of the site. That area is going to be used to show off some beauty shots of the various maps contained in the Telic Campaign. enjoy!
 

Steroids has put together a very nice video showing off some footage from the Telic Campaign. You will need the Xvid codec in order to view the video.
You can download the video from the following mirrors:

Mirror #1 (FilePlanet)
Mirror #2 (UK)
Mirror #3 (Belgium)
 

The Telic Campaign is quickly approaching beta status and we'll be needing a dedicated group of players to help us find bugs and to give us feedback so we can tweak every aspect of the maps. We'll be setting our own dedicated server for beta testing, with 24/7 availability. We need people that can be available at least 4 hours a week to participate in play testing sessions. If you would like to be a beta tester, send us an email and tell us a bit about yourself and about any experience you might have beta testing games, playing alien swarm or anything else that you might consider relevant to the job.
 

The website is up, so I guess this is the official presentation of Telic. Browse to the about and story sections to find out what this mod is about. A mod of a mod - sound crazy? Well, Alien Swarm is a fantastic mod - so good that it will soon be a standalone game on the source engine. Telic is the product of several hard working Alien Swarm fans. It brings quite a few new elements to the game, and it's something that we enjoy playing. We hope others will enjoy it too.