[Administrator]

Alien Swarm was released in July 2010 and many GSPs, clans, etc. would like to get a server running. The following simple guide will help you get your Alien Swarm Server up and running.

• Download and Install the hldsupdatetool
• Navigate to where you have installed the hldsupdatetool.
• Run the following to get the server files downloaded to your server:

  • hldsupdatetool.exe -command update -game "alienswarm" -dir "pathtoalienswarm" -verify_all

  • pathtoalienswarm would be the path where you want to download/run the server. Example G:\Gameservers\user1\alienswarm or if you have the hldsupdatetool in the directory that you want to install it put a . for the directory -dir .
• Setting up a command line for the server.
  • The regular command line for source games will work fine.
  • Navigate to the directory where the srcds.exe is located and run the following from command line or service daemon.
  • For internal use:

    • srcds.exe -game swarm -ip 127.0.0.1 -port 27015 -maxplayers 4 +exec server.cfg +map lobby -lan 1

  • For public internet servers*

    • srcds.exe -game swarm -ip 192.168.1.2 -port 27015 -maxplayers 4 +exec  server.cfg +map lobby -lan 0 -console

    • 192.168.1.2 being your computers ip address which can be found by running ipconfig from the command line.
    • For dedicated servers you can use any ip address allocated to your nic card as long as the ip and port are not in use.
  • Make sure you use a public internet IP if you are in a datacenter and an available port, if you are running your server from home(not recommend) you can use your computers private IP address.
  • If you want to see what is going on with the server you can add -console to the command line argument.
  • *If you get the message from the server starting in LAN mode because it could not load STEAM library you will need to copy the STEAM dlls to your gameserver folder.
    
    • Files that you will need to copy over are:
    • Steam.dll, steamclient.dll, tier0_s.dll, vstdlib_s.dll
• You should now be able to run a nice Alien Swarm dedicated server.
• Alien Swarm Official Website / Alien Swarm STEAM App Page.