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Grief.exe · Oct 21, 2014

UnaiGamer said:
Yah, but it would be cool to have Steam achievements as an excuse to replay the game.

Yep.

jpax · Oct 21, 2014

I do not get it? Will I have two version of the game then? One with steamworks and one with gfwl? I thought it would be just an update which removes gfwl... What are tokens?

ROBOKITTYZILLA · Oct 21, 2014

For those familiar with the Ace Combat update, will it still convert your saves, achievements, etc. if you can no longer log into your GFWL account?

Bronetta · Oct 21, 2014

This is amazing news. I picked up Dark Souls over the Sale Summer and it wouldn't even work for me.

Grief.exe · Oct 22, 2014

From/Namco already making a flurry of updates to the beta depot yesterday.

RecursiveFault · Oct 22, 2014

jpax said:
I do not get it? Will I have two version of the game then? One with steamworks and one with gfwl? I thought it would be just an update which removes gfwl... What are tokens?

I think that is if you purchased the game through the GFWL store. Steam users will hopefully just receive the new version.

gelf · Oct 22, 2014

The save migration begs the question that if they are able/allowed to preserve saves why haven't more GFWL to Steam transfers allowed it. For example why did the Batman games not support it and instead users were forced to do a hex edit to keep saves.

Veritigo_X · Oct 22, 2014

Mrgoodwil said:
I think that is if you purchased the game through the GFWL store. Steam users will hopefully just receive the new version.

Other games have a specific "Steam version" when they get updates like these. Hopefully it's not the case with Dark Souls because it's really annoying. Would be nice to be able to hide games...

Spaghetti · Oct 22, 2014

pretty excited if they're also fixing the port.

gelf · Oct 22, 2014

Veritigo_X said:
Other games have a specific "Steam version" when they get updates like these. Hopefully it's not the case with Dark Souls because it's really annoying. Would be nice to be able to hide games...

You can already hide games, just go to the game and "Set category":

RecursiveFault · Oct 22, 2014

Veritigo_X said:
Other games have a specific "Steam version" when they get updates like these. Hopefully it's not the case with Dark Souls because it's really annoying. Would be nice to be able to hide games...

Ah, really? That's unfortunate.

RedSwirl · Oct 22, 2014

Now what about Red Faction. That already switch over? Or will it ever?

gngf123 · Oct 22, 2014

Veritigo_X said:
Other games have a specific "Steam version" when they get updates like these. Hopefully it's not the case with Dark Souls because it's really annoying. Would be nice to be able to hide games...

I don't believe that was the case for SF4, back when AE switched over.

Grief.exe · Oct 22, 2014

gelf said:
The save migration begs the question that if they are able/allowed to preserve saves why haven't more GFWL to Steam transfers allowed it. For example why did the Batman games not support it and instead users were forced to do a hex edit to keep saves.

Just an extra hoop to jump through, which will increase the cost.

Dark Souls 1 has sold several million copies on PC at this point. For a port that was already done at the minimum cost, they can afford the extra luxuries.

RedSwirl said:
Now what about Red Faction. That already switch over? Or will it ever?

Red Faction Guerrilla has been receiving updates to the beta depots. Red Faction II is also seeing some work done.

daninthemix · Oct 22, 2014

Grief.exe said:
Just an extra hoop to jump through, which will increase the cost.

Dark Souls 1 has sold several million copies on PC at this point. For a port that was already done at the minimum cost, they can afford the extra luxuries.

Red Faction Guerrilla has been receiving updates to the beta depots. Red Faction II is also seeing some work done.

You are the man for keeping abreast of all this stuff.

chupon · Oct 22, 2014

The wording on the official statement is kind of vague. It says players 'will' be able to. Does this mean it's an optional update like Toy Soldiers or Ms Splosion Man where the player can choose to launch with/without GFWL?

Nevadatan · Oct 22, 2014

Grief.exe said:
From/Namco already making a flurry of updates to the beta depot yesterday.

btw Grief, im pretty intriged by this on the history of the app

Code:

Changed Depots
211421/encryptedmanifests/steambuilddebug/encrypted_gid: * hidden *
211421/maxsize: 4086651783 (3.81 GB)  7937922601 (7.39 GB) (diff = +3.59 GB)
branches/steambuilddebug/buildid: 415828
branches/steambuilddebug/description: NOG4WL Debug
branches/steambuilddebug/pwdrequired: 1

they added 3.59GB? are they pushing 2 versions of the game?

Veritigo_X · Oct 22, 2014

gelf said:
You can already hide games, just go to the game and "Set category":

Holy shit, mind blown. There are so many betas and duplicate games I've been wanting to hide. Did they add this recently?

Cachuli · Oct 22, 2014

im praying to get performance patch at the same time

gngf123 · Oct 22, 2014

Veritigo_X said:
Holy shit, mind blown. There are so many betas and duplicate games I've been wanting to hide. Did they add this recently?

http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showthread.php?t=870302

Not long ago.

Orin GA · Oct 22, 2014

1ECA5150CDD4363F87193E7B38DCC3A465384FA5

My body is ready

Nevadatan · Oct 22, 2014

Orin GA said:
My body is ready

B3FB34BC443F1450817A011BF5E15B36FF389BF4

so is mine

Unai · Oct 22, 2014

Nevadatan said:
so is mine

lol

Is this native or a mod?

Nevadatan · Oct 22, 2014

UnaiGamer said:
lol

Is this native or a mod?

it depends of what are you refering as "native or mod"

Nokterian · Oct 22, 2014

So i can finally play it and this game is cured from GFWL?

Praise the sun!

Unai · Oct 22, 2014

Nevadatan said:
it depends of what are you refering as "native or mod"

Sorry. I was refering to the armor and the mask.

Ferr986 · Oct 22, 2014

Guess I'll be back to Dark Souls in November.

Nevadatan · Oct 22, 2014

UnaiGamer said:
Sorry. I was refering to the armor and the mask.

its all vanille.
its the mask of the father. famous by that video of giant dad

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oyA8odjCzZ4

and the rest is just havel's gaunlets, black knight leggins and the witch cloak

ElTopo · Oct 22, 2014

So, which do you guys think is better?

Artorias Greatsword

or

Artorias Greatshield

Personally, since there are plenty of amazing weapons in the game I go with the Greatshield. Easily the best shield in the entire game. You can block a Wheel Skeleton's attack and take maybe 1% damage and lose maybe 5% stamina and you can block all of Gwyn's attacks and take maybe 5% damage and have about 70% stamina left. Did I mention that I don't Parry?

BasilZero · Oct 22, 2014

AlexSA2 said:
So, which do you guys think is better?

Artorias Greatsword

or

Artorias Greatshield

Personally, since there are plenty of amazing weapons in the game I go with the Greatshield. Easily the best shield in the entire game. You can block a Wheel Skeleton's attack and take maybe 1% damage and lose maybe 5% stamina and you can block all of Gwyn's attacks and take maybe 5% damage and have about 70% stamina left. Did I mention that I don't Parry?

I went with the shield.

Nevadatan · Oct 22, 2014

AlexSA2 said:
So, which do you guys think is better?

Artorias Greatsword

or

Artorias Greatshield

Personally, since there are plenty of amazing weapons in the game I go with the Greatshield. Easily the best shield in the entire game. You can block a Wheel Skeleton's attack and take maybe 1% damage and lose maybe 5% stamina and you can block all of Gwyn's attacks and take maybe 5% damage and have about 70% stamina left. Did I mention that I don't Parry?

Shield all the way

Orin GA · Oct 22, 2014

The Shield is pretty OP. I only use it in boss fights tho where you cant parry. I don't actually use the Great-sword, (unless I'm fighting skeletons) the claymore has a much better move set. My weapon of choice is the Great Scythe tho

ebullientprism · Oct 22, 2014

Holy crap if they fix the multiplayer summoning and invasions, I am back in.

BigBoss · Oct 22, 2014

What are the chances this also happens for GTA4?

Nevadatan · Oct 22, 2014

BigBoss said:
What are the chances this also happens for GTA4?

pretty slim. as Rockstar Games hasnt issue any official respond about GFWL.
Bandai Namco said back in June that they were "seeking alternatives for the game"

yatesl · Oct 22, 2014

Part of me was hoping achievements wouldn't carry over. I wanted a reason to 1000/1000 the game again.

Looks like I'll be buying Lords of the Fallen after all.

Parsnip · Oct 22, 2014

AlexSA2 said:
So, which do you guys think is better?

Artorias Greatsword

or

Artorias Greatshield

Personally, since there are plenty of amazing weapons in the game I go with the Greatshield. Easily the best shield in the entire game. You can block a Wheel Skeleton's attack and take maybe 1% damage and lose maybe 5% stamina and you can block all of Gwyn's attacks and take maybe 5% damage and have about 70% stamina left. Did I mention that I don't Parry?

Eventually I went with both, I can't remember which I grabbed first though.

Nzyme32 · Oct 22, 2014

BigBoss said:
What are the chances this also happens for GTA4?

Watch them do it on the launch day of GTA V for the consoles

chaobreaker · Oct 22, 2014

I see the achievements are already in. Do they work?

Orin GA · Oct 22, 2014

They could have done a better job with these achievements. Most of them are item based. Beat DS on lvl 1 or beat DS on highest difficulty would have been nice.

Nzyme32 · Oct 22, 2014

Orin GA said:
They could have done a better job with these achievements. Most of them are item based. Beat DS on lvl 1 or beat DS on highest difficulty would have been nice.

I lot of them are hidden, so you'd have to check SteamDB or something

yatesl · Oct 22, 2014

Orin GA said:
They could have done a better job with these achievements. Most of them are item based. Beat DS on lvl 1 or beat DS on highest difficulty would have been nice.

Aren't they the same ones as GFWL/Xbox 360/PS3?

chaobreaker · Oct 22, 2014

Who else here is relishing the moment when all your steam achievements pop up at once?

Orin GA · Oct 22, 2014

yatesl said:
Aren't they the same ones as GFWL/Xbox 360/PS3?

Good question, I used a "no GFW"L executable so i never saw what the achievements were.

yatesl · Oct 22, 2014

chaobreaker said:
Who else here is relishing the moment when all your steam achievements pop up at once?

Yup.

PepsimanVsJoe · Oct 22, 2014

yatesl said:
Aren't they the same ones as GFWL/Xbox 360/PS3?

Yes they are.

jblank83 · Oct 22, 2014

Confirmed: Dark Souls PC to migrate from GFWL to Steam in Nov

YES

Nzyme32 · Oct 22, 2014

Orin GA said:
Good question, I used a "no GFW"L executable so i never saw what the achievements were.

https://steamdb.info/app/211420/stats/

Fuz · Oct 22, 2014

Uhm, just a little question about it.
What about people who were fine with GFWL but are not fine with steam?

Freedom = $1.05 · Oct 22, 2014

Fuz said:
Uhm, just a little question about it.
What about people who were fine with GFWL but are not fine with steam?

you can't plan for the impossible

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