Playing Alien Swarm on Brutal is nothing short of hilarious, because it is so excessively difficult.
Is there somewhere (steam forums or elsewhere) that has a list of the stats of the aliens when played on Brutal?
The Brutal-ity of Alien Swarm
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Best Answer
A fully manned brutal mission under default settings features a swarm that has 2.6 times as much health as it has under a fully manned normal game. The damage dealt is also scaled by 2.6 times.
Additonally both the swarm and the players are faster, although I don't think they're any faster than they are in Insane (that's 20% faster for aliens and 4.8% faster for marines).
From
sdk_src\game\shared\swarm\asw_gamerules.cpp
:...where
GetMissionDifficulty()
returns 13 (for brutal, 10 for insane, 7 for hard, 5 for normal, 3 for easy), with one point deducted per missing marine (and a hard lower limit of 2).(Comments within
/* */
are mine.)