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Alien Breed 2: Assault

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Alien Breed 2: Assault
Alien Breed 2: Assault cover
Developers
Team17
Engines
Unreal Engine 3
Release dates
Windows September 22, 2010
Reception
Metacritic 63
Taxonomy
Monetization One-time game purchase
Modes Singleplayer, Multiplayer
Pacing Real-time
Perspectives Bird's-eye view
Controls Direct control
Genres Action, Shooter
Themes Sci-fi
Series Alien Breed
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General information

GOG.com Community Discussions for the Alien Breed Trilogy
GOG.com Support Page
Steam Community Discussions

Availability

Source DRM Notes Keys OS
Developer website
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Windows
Amazon.com
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Windows
GamersGate
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Windows
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Windows
GOG.com
DRM-free
Windows
Green Man Gaming
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Windows
Humble Store
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Alien Breed Trilogy.
Windows
Steam
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Windows

Version differences

The GOG.com version does not include multiplayer[1] or leaderboards.

Game data

Configuration file(s) location

System Location
Windows %USERPROFILE%\Documents\My Games\UnrealEngine3\AlienBreed2AssaultGame\Config\
Steam Play (Linux) <Steam-folder>/steamapps/compatdata/22650/pfx/[Note 1]

Save game data location

System Location
Windows %USERPROFILE%\Documents\My Games\UnrealEngine3\AlienBreed2AssaultGame\SaveData\
Steam Play (Linux) <Steam-folder>/steamapps/compatdata/22650/pfx/[Note 1]

Save game cloud syncing

System Native Notes
GOG Galaxy
OneDrive
Requires enabling backup of the Documents folder in OneDrive on all computers.
Steam Cloud

Video

Anisotropic filtering (AF)

Anisotropic Filtering[citation needed]
  1. Go to %USERPROFILE%\Documents\My Games\UnrealEngine3\AlienBreed2AssaultGame\Config.
  2. Open AlienBreed2AssaultEngine.ini.
  3. Locate MaxAnisotropy and select the amount of anisotropic filtering you want ranging from 0-16.
  4. Once you have set the anisotropic filtering to your liking save the file.
  5. Right click on the file AlienBreed2AssaultEngine.ini and select Properties.
  6. Enable Read-only to prevent the game from overwriting the file.

Anti-aliasing (AA)

Enable MSAA or SGSSAA[citation needed]
  1. Go to %USERPROFILE%\Documents\My Games\UnrealEngine3\AlienBreed2AssaultGame\Config.
  2. Open AlienBreed2AssaultEngine.ini.
  3. Locate MaxMultisamples and set it to 0.
  4. Right click on the file AlienBreed2AssaultEngine.ini and select Properties.
  5. Enable Read-only to prevent the game from overwriting the file.
  6. Force Antialiasing in GPU Control Panel.

Note

Nvidia users will need to use Nvidia Profile Inspector and use the compatibility bit 0x00000041 for MSAA or 0x000000C1 for SGSSAA.

Input

Audio

Audio feature State Notes
Separate volume controls
Surround sound
Subtitles
Closed captions
Mute on focus lost
Royalty free audio

Localizations

Language UI Audio Sub Notes
English
French
German
Hungarian
Fan translation, #1, #2.
Italian
Japanese
Russian
Fan translation by «ENPY Studio»
Spanish

Network

Multiplayer types

Type Native Players Notes
Local play
2 Co-op
2 player co-op on consoles and PC demo. Use Nucleus Co-op.
LAN play
Online play
2 Co-op

Other information

API

Technical specs Supported Notes
Direct3D 9.0c
Executable 32-bit 64-bit Notes
Windows

System requirements

Windows
Minimum
Operating system (OS) XP SP2
Processor (CPU) 2.0+ GHz Single Core
System memory (RAM) 1 GB
Hard disk drive (HDD) 1.5 GB
Video card (GPU) Nvidia GeForce 6800
ATI Radeon X700
DirectX 9.0c compatible


Notes

  1. 1.0 1.1 File/folder structure within this directory reflects the path(s) listed for Windows and/or Steam game data (use Wine regedit to access Windows registry paths). Games with Steam Cloud support may store data in ~/.steam/steam/userdata/<user-id>/22650/ in addition to or instead of this directory. The app ID (22650) may differ in some cases. Treat backslashes as forward slashes. See the glossary page for details.

References

  1. GOG.com - Alien Breed 2: Assault - last accessed on 2022-07-04
    "Please note: Online co-op mode is unavailable."