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Alien Shooter

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Alien Shooter
Alien Shooter cover
Developers
Sigma Team
Release dates
Windows June 12, 2003
Taxonomy
Series Alien Shooter
Alien Shooter on HowLongToBeat
Alien Shooter on MobyGames
Alien Shooter on Wikipedia
Alien Shooter
Alien Shooter 2003
Theseus: Return of the Hero 2005
Alien Shooter: Vengeance 2007
Alien Shooter 2: Reloaded 2009
Alien Shooter: Revisited 2009
Alien Shooter 2: Conscription 2010
Alien Shooter TD 2017
Alien Shooter 2: The Legend 2020

Key points

Very limited graphical options.
Keys can only be rebound by editing a config file.

General information

GOG.com Community Discussions for game series
GOG.com Support Page
Steam Community Discussions

Availability

Source DRM Notes Keys OS
Retail
Requires online activation
ASProtect DRM in Russia. UK version was sold as Invasion: Earth. In-game text is different from Alien Shooter.
Windows
GOG.com
DRM-free
Bundled with both expansions.
Windows
ZOOM Platform
DRM-free
Bundled with both expansions.
Windows
Steam
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Version 1.22.
Windows
Developer website
Requires online activation
ASProtect DRM. Base game only. Expansions available standalone.
Windows
Developer website
Requires online activation
ASProtect DRM. Alien Shooter Gold Pack. Base game only. Also contains Alien Shooter 2: Reloaded and Zombie Shooter.
Windows
Developer website
Requires online activation
Russian version.
Windows

DLC and expansion packs

Name Notes
Fight for Life
Windows
The Experiment
Windows

Game data

Configuration file(s) location

System Location
Windows HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\SigmaTeam\AlienShooter\
<path-to-game>\AlienShooter.cfg[Note 1]
Steam Play (Linux) <Steam-folder>/steamapps/compatdata/33100/pfx/[Note 2]

Save game data location

System Location
Windows HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\SigmaTeam\AlienShooter\<user-id>
Steam Play (Linux) <Steam-folder>/steamapps/compatdata/33100/pfx/[Note 2]

Save game cloud syncing

System Native Notes
GOG Galaxy
Steam Cloud

Video

Game's launcher.
Game's launcher.

Graphics feature State Notes
Widescreen resolution
Limited to 640x480, 800x600 and 1024x768 by default. Steam version in fullscreen 1440x900 (inside perhaps 1280x720 with black borders). A hack for GOG version enables several resolutions up to 1920x1080. There's a similar one for Steam. At least one level for the expansion, The Experiment [Mission 04 - Testing Laboratory] will crash if set to a higher resolution. Also, high resolutions allow a bit of cheating by being able to shoot further than monsters can normally see.
Multi-monitor
Ultra-widescreen
4K Ultra HD
Field of view (FOV)
Windowed
See Windowed. Steam version toggleable.
Borderless fullscreen windowed
See the glossary page for potential workarounds.
Anisotropic filtering (AF)
Anti-aliasing (AA)
Vertical sync (Vsync)
Enabled by default. See Vertical sync (Vsync).
60 FPS
120+ FPS

Windowed

Edit registry to set window mode[citation needed]
Playing in a window mode may be problematic, as the mouse cursor is not grabbed by the game's window.
  1. Go to HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\ETeam\SW
  2. Change the FullScreen value to 0.

Vertical sync (Vsync)

Disable Vsync by editing AlienShooter.cfg[citation needed]
  1. Go to the installation folder.
  2. Open AlienShooter.cfg
  3. Change VSync=1 to VSync=0.

Input

Remapping

Change controls by editing AlienShooter.cfg[citation needed]
  1. Go to the installation folder.
  2. Open AlienShooter.cfg using Notepad.
  3. Below [control] you'll find actions bound to specific keys.
  4. Change keys to your liking leaving action names unchanged.

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
Polish
Local retail version only. Patch for digital release here.
Russian
Spanish
Fan translation, download.
Portuguese
Fan translation by rubinho146, Including expansions, Download

Other information

API

Executable 32-bit 64-bit Notes
Windows

System requirements

Windows
Minimum
Operating system (OS) 2000, XP, Vista
Processor (CPU) Intel Pentium III 800 MHz
System memory (RAM) 128 MB
Hard disk drive (HDD) 50 MB
Video card (GPU) 32 MB of VRAM


Notes

  1. When running this game without elevated privileges (Run as administrator option), write operations against a location below %PROGRAMFILES%, %PROGRAMDATA%, or %WINDIR% might be redirected to %LOCALAPPDATA%\VirtualStore on Windows Vista and later (more details).
  2. 2.0 2.1 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>/33100/ in addition to or instead of this directory. The app ID (33100) may differ in some cases. Treat backslashes as forward slashes. See the glossary page for details.

References