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zkylon

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BernardoOne said:
Is "fun" spelled "bad" now?
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there are better uses of your time than collecting orbs + mediocre shooting when there's not even a story to pull you in

i wouldn't say it's entirely bad because it's derivative of sr4 and sr3 which were much better but it's pretty bad as in it doesn't have a real story (as in humor) and that's kind of the draw of saints row nowadays and all the other stuff is done better in sr4

i can't even remember if it has a proper dildo bat
 
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Ludens

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zkylon said:
there are better uses of your time than collecting orbs + mediocre shooting when there's not even a story to pull you in

i wouldn't say it's entirely bad because it's derivative of sr4 and sr3 which were much better but it's pretty bad as in it doesn't have a real story (as in humor) and that's kind of the draw of saints row nowadays and all the other stuff is done better in sr4

i can't even remember if it has a proper dildo bat
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Eh, I know. I mean, Gat out of Hell is exactly the stuff I usually skip when doing Saints games (I only do main missions and sides with some kind of "plot").
But still people wrote there are some nice cutscenes, this is why I want to get it, but only for a really cheap price.
 
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Hektor

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I think i'm going to believe it today and tomorrow so i'll be able to witness it on the weekend. Tho, i also wanted to free the oxen at some point.

Tizoc said:
there greatest tragedy of our era is that 50 cent blood on the sands never got a steam release
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Get low, get low!

zkylon said:
man xcom is so filled with content, it's kind of insane just how much stuff is in it, all these different enemy types and different missions and locations and upgrades and whatnot
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Most of the missions are randomly generated, so you'll never really run out of content to see in later playthroughs.

This game is going to have leeeeeeeegs.
 
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Buraindo

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Why does everyone that isn't an important character in Far Cry 3 sound like they're talking through Skype from a basement with a low quality microphone?
 
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texhnolyze

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zkylon said:
man xcom is so filled with content, it's kind of insane just how much stuff is in it, all these different enemy types and different missions and locations and upgrades and whatnot

it's super impressive
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Hektor said:
Most of the missions are randomly generated, so you'll never really run out of content to see in later playthroughs.

This game is going to have leeeeeeeegs.
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Well, shit. My hype meter just raised a little bit there after reading these.
Or maybe more than just a little bit.

Need moar steam money. ಥ_ಥ
 
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zkylon

zkylewd
Ludens said:
Eh, I know. I mean, Gat out of Hell is exactly the stuff I usually skip when doing Saints games (I only do main missions and sides with some kind of "plot").
But still people wrote there are some nice cutscenes, this is why I want to get it, but only for a really cheap price.
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honestly, there's like 2 nice cutscenes in the whole game and you should just youtube it

youtube the
singing
cutscene. it's not much of a spoiler, tho it was a nice surprise when playing it

but that's about it for the game

Hektor said:
Most of the missions are randomly generated, so you'll never really run out of content to see in later playthroughs.

This game is going to have leeeeeeeegs.
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and lots of modding support

needs to run better for me to consider a second run but i'm really impressed at how packed with content it is

it's like exactly what i wanted
 
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diabolusinmusica said:
Some spare keys!
Firs time with ModBot, hope everything is ok.
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Madridista said:
So it seems like some people are beginning to receive their Hitman beta codes from Amazon. Did you receive anything?
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I didn't even know these orders were eligible for the beta... ffff I hope Amazon didn't try to charge my prepaid CC because of this (didn't offset it yet). But I didn't receive any notification about anything regarding this order, so I guess everything's fine.

E: Oh, right there on the store page. derp
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Ucchedavāda;194788424 said:
What kind of issues does the game have, other than performance related ones?
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Recalling some posts from the OT, some people have problems with transitioning between outdoors and indoors, characters getting stuck or that sort of things that might break your game if you're playing Ironman mode.
 
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Corpekata

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Ucchedavāda;194788424 said:
What kind of issues does the game have, other than performance related ones?
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Weird things like animations not playing and simply reporting the results. Things like robots jumping high into the air (usually because they are leaping up onto a roof) and staying there for the following turn. Some event timers going past 0 into negatives. There's a load of weird bugs. Seem to happen the longer a game is going.
 
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Ucchedavāda;194788424 said:
What kind of issues does the game have, other than performance related ones?
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The biggest one I know of is if you create a save and quit while a chryssalid is burrowed it will corrupt your save.

I wouldn't recommend Ironman at this point for sure, but most of the bugs are manageable.

The game itself is amazing, even my hatred of RNG doesn't sour me on it.
okay maybe a little
 
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Children of Morta finally up on steam to be added to the wish list. Thanks Lashman.

Looking at the videos, it's really well animated (in the realm of HLD but obviously not there), and I'm really intrigued by the story.

Wish I backed it when I could :(
 
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PetriP-TNT said:
Have you ever played Lost Vikings?

edit: What's that newish (as in ~2010 that's kinda like Lostr Vikings too)
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Yeah, played it and it was damn fun, if it'll be anything closer it could be good.

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Atraveller said:
Recalling some posts from the OT, some people have problems with transitioning between outdoors and indoors, characters getting stuck or that sort of things that might break your game if you're playing Ironman mode.
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Corpekata said:
Weird things like animations not playing and simply reporting the results. Things like robots jumping high into the air (usually because they are leaping up onto a roof) and staying there for the following turn. Some event timers going past 0 into negatives. There's a load of weird bugs. Seem to happen the longer a game is going.
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Thanks for the details.
While I am not concerned about performance issues, it still seems like it would be worth waiting a bit for the worst jank to get sorted out, before picking it up. And I haven't played EW yet, despite having owned it for a while.


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I did small experiment regarding SteamSpy numbers for XCOM 2 and results are surprisingly good. I tried to see if there is connection between number of concurrent players on release day and number of sold copies after 3 days. And you can guess range of sold copies. It is not super accurate but it is not wrong that much ether (i predicted between 500K and 600K and number is 560K) . And this experiment was based on a few new releases and their numbers (RotTR, The Witness, Just Cause 3...). Most common multiplier was around N = 7 (number of concurrent users day one x N = number of copies after 3 days). I wonder if there is more to this when you look data at larger scale? Is there some kind of average multiplier that could be used for rough prediction? Or this is only isolated case? :D
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I was thinking about something similar recently, but haven't gotten to actually implementing it, which would be trying to correlate the number of user reviews with the number of copies sold. However, I expect that using the peak / average number of players on release day will give a better indication, since reviews are subject to a number of biases / bandwagoning effects (like a bad release leading to inflated numbers of (negative) reviews).

Two factors I would consider looking at for your model would be the day-of-the-week and time-of-day the game was released, since I would expect that these could greatly influence the numbers of (concurrent) players you observe on release day.
 
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Ucchedavāda;194789453 said:
Thanks for the details.
While I am not concerned about performance issues, it still seems like it would be worth waiting a bit for the worst jank to get sorted out, before picking it up. And I haven't played EW yet, despite having owned it for a while.
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Game seems to be fine for most people, just steer clear of Ironman for now, you couldn't reload to avoid technical problems in that mode.
 
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Amazon released a brand new game engine yesterday. Unfortunate deforestational connotations aside, Lumberyard reads like a Good Thing: free, Twitch-integrated and by all appearances very capable. Naturally, there are limits to its use: developers are obliged to use Amazon’s Web Services if they’re in need of third-party servers, and a clause in the engine’s terms prevents its use in safety-critical systems like medical equipment, air traffic control, manned spacecraft or nuclear facilities.

However! Never one to consciously contribute to the downfall of civilisation, Amazon are prepared to waive that last clause in the event of an outbreak that finds the dead rising as carriers of a deadly viral infection.

That unlikely yet vivid scenario would clear Lumberyard developers to develop software for autonomous vehicles, aircraft and military systems connected to live combat, to name a smattering of examples. There are sensible precautions, of course: the pandemic would need to have been certified by the United States Centers for Diseases Control, or whoever the “successor body” is in this imagined broken society.

Here’s the precise wording of clause 57.10, buried at the bottom of the service terms for Amazon Web Services:

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http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=605535648

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That makes me wonder how games are accepted to the Steam store. There are ton of crap games that seems never gone through Greenlight and yet are released. While Danmaku which the second game is already is available in Steam store has go through Greenlight to be released. Why can't it skip the GL at all?
 
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There is a new scamming accounts outbreak on steam, apparently all measures Valve took did nothing.
stay safe steamgaf, don't accept friend requests you aren't sure about, especially with private profiles.
 
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Arthea said:
There is a new scamming accounts outbreak on steam, apparently all measures Valve took did nothing.
stay safe steamgaf, don't accept friend requests you aren't sure about, especially with private profiles.
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My friend has a problem. He cant access his Steam Account. Can you maybe try to log in with yours here:
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That makes me wonder how games are accepted to the Steam store. There are ton of crap games that seems never gone through Greenlight and yet are released. While Danmaku which the second game is already is available in Steam store has go through Greenlight to be released. Why can't it skip the GL at all?
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I also wonder about that. Some publishers use it for PR purposes though like SekaiProject. They dont need to use Greenlight for their games, but do it nonetheless for whatever reason. I mean their games get GL in 2 days.
 
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