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[jshackles]

For Jshackles: what do you think about this software?
http://www.steamgifts.com/discussio...rm-asf-idle-master-alternative/search?page=11

It's an interesting software package and obviously a bit more complex than Idle Master. They're building a SteamKit instance of Steam rather than relying on the client to determine their "in-game" status. Because of this, it's capable of idling games from multiple accounts at the same time, which is a nice bonus for some people (judging by the number of folks that have emailed me asking if Idle Master can do this). It looks like it also has standard "steam-bot" capabilities where you can easily trade between your alts and easily funnel your cards back to your primary account.

I've not used the software so I can't comment on how well it works. Idle Master has always been a "it's good enough for me, and you might get some use out of it too" kind of software. I do have multiple Steam accounts but I don't redeem my extra games to my alt accounts or anything, I really just use them to test different functionality in Enhanced Steam - for example, "what happens on this page if I own less than 1,000 games?" so that's what I use my alt accounts for.

Obviously, one of the things everyone is worried about with Idle Master is "can Valve detect that I'm doing this?" And while it might be possible for them to determine that you're using Idle Master (based on things like how it switches games, average time per game based on it's card drop rate, etc) it would be significantly easier for Valve to detect something like this other program because from their server-side backend they can literally see you and all of your alt accounts connecting from the same IP, and they can easily track all the trades funneling back to your main account. It seems pretty obvious that they don't care about such things, but it is something to keep in mind when using automation software like this. There were several changes I wanted to make to Idle Master to make it more automated, but ultimately decided against it because I felt it made the system too automated and thus much easier for Valve to detect.

Of course, if you connect to a VAC enabled server while either program is running, Valve can see things like what processes are running in memory and can easily detect if you're running Idle Master or the other program (or any program, really) so that's why I don't recommend doing that. Again, it doesn't seem like Valve cares - so I'd say use the best tool for the job that fits your individual needs the best.

 

[tuxfool]

i guess i misunderstood then

so then it's probably running on the idtech5 engine. It's the only other possible answer

UE3, actually.

 

[Parsnip]

i guess i misunderstood then

so then it's probably running on the idtech5 engine. It's the only other possible answer

I could be wrong of course.

My guess for the big download is that they created a shit ton of parcels and plots for the procedurally generated environments. If I could remember his twitter handle at this moment I would ask the engineer who was in the panel.

 

[NingenJanai]

losing all my masters, not sure I can be arsed to level a bunch of newbies up again if it goes completely down the drain >_<

hey at least theres a bunch of new slots for more people to die! dont even know who im missing now tbh

RIP, hope I did good while I was alive.

 

[shortsFortallPeople]

UE3, actually.

i was joking

I could be wrong of course.

My guess for the big download is that they created a shit ton of parcels and plots for the procedurally generated environments. If I could remember his twitter handle at this moment I would ask the engineer who was in the panel.

makes sense. Glad i have another 2 tbs arriving in the mail today, these 50 gig games are really putting a hurting on my current 1 tb drive

 

[the_firewithin]

can somebody refresh me...do we know how long Firewatch will roughly be?

 

[AHA-Lambda]

can somebody refresh me...do we know how long Firewatch will roughly be?

5-6 hours apparently

 

[Rhaknar]

Put me in coach(?)

RIP, hope I did good while I was alive.

your death was funny at least. it was a boss run, the run itself was fine, but the boss went terribly wrong, everyone started dying and you were the last one alive, and because of how youre setup as a healing sniper, you had no melee skills at all, so it was you alive in the far right spot, with no skills to use. So since it was a wipe, I tried to at least get you out alive, I retreated from the boss, but as soon as you got out of the room, you had a heart attack and died lol >_<

Does that game automatically pick people from your friendlist or are you naming them all yourself?

its me. its like xcom, you can rename your dudes

 

[Nyteshade517]

asking again...

Are the Uplay keys Nuuvem sells (Far Cry Primal & The Division) still able to be activated in the US without a VPN? I know I'd have to get a SA person to purchase.

I've bought some from them but that was before they started locking everything down

 

[freshVeggie]

Dirt Rally is legit



I swear those screenshots looked 20 times better in motion, but you people are going to downsample from 5k or whatever with your silly high tech graphic processors anyway

Those look great. Yeah, in stills you can see trees looking bad etc. but it's a racing game so it's better they took priorities somewhere else. It does look great in motion.

MetroUI in Win8 always popping up at the borders and corners gets to me :/
OK, I'll give it a last shot with my weird Win8.1 key. If that doesn't work, I'm not sure I'll pay for a Win7 key though.

 

[lashman]

Cemu WiiU Emulator - Pikmin 3 Ingame (Cemu v1.3.1)

 

[gelf]

I feel this idea usually comes from fan paranoia more then anything stated by the publisher so I can't call it "ransom". This paranoia is fuelled by many Japanese companies not tending to be very transparent with their future plans and still appearing to be in limbo about what they think of the PC as a platform. Even if you complain then you feel like your complaining to some shell of the companies western base that has no decision making influence rather then the actual people in charge. Also some publishers are notorious for being very conservative and likely to react poorly to low sales for any reason.

Not knowing what's going on and feeling unable to communicate to the publisher why a game is unpopular brings the idea that the game must sell well regardless or we'll get no more. So its not exactly ransom, its just shitty in other ways thanks to poor communication.

 

[Leafhopper]

Godus Wars (EA)

Maybe you should have just taken that hackers advice.

I cant keep dodging Champion dungeons (the highest) for long with this roster ;_;

I keep getting RNG'd hard out in the Cove and losing characters. So my highest is only a single level 3. Not having too much luck with this game despite liking it a lot.

 

[fantomena]

Just checked out Playstations official YT channel and a trailer for Runner 2 is there.

WHEN THE FUCK WAS RUNNER 2 ANNOUNCED!?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=of37zXCBkdg

Edit: Oh, that's the old one? Thought a new one was announced. Got too excited.

 

[AHA-Lambda]

asking again...

I'm not sure, fwiw the last UPlay key I got from Nuuvem was Zombi when it came out and it redeemed ok

 

[Large Professor]

Just checked out Playstations official YT channel and a trailer for Runner 2 is there.

WHEN THE FUCK WAS RUNNER 2 ANNOUNCED!?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=of37zXCBkdg

It's even already in my steam library. But I'm from the future.

 

[fantomena]

It's even already in my steam library. But I'm from the future.

Edited my post.

Btw, also looked at the Dirt Rally console content trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t1oUCLc-MyY

Is this content that's coming to PC too or exclusive for console?

 

[MMBosstones86]

your death was funny at least. it was a boss run, the run itself was fine, but the boss went terribly wrong, everyone started dying and you were the last one alive, and because of how youre setup as a healing sniper, you had no melee skills at all, so it was you alive in the far right spot, with no skills to use. So since it was a wipe, I tried to at least get you out alive, I retreated from the boss, but as soon as you got out of the room, you had a heart attack and died lol >_<



its me. its like xcom, you can rename your dudes

If you need another meat shield I'll volunteer. It worked out ok for iosefe in XCOM I think....

 

[Dr Dogg]

Since Origin is my new digital client best friend (don't worry Uplay it's just a phase I'm going through) I thought I better check out what's coming soon. Complete forgot that Need for Speed, the new one that is from last year, still isn't on PC yet. That's going to be DOA. Though if it pops up on EA Access it's totally worth £4 just to experience the shitty FMVs. They're so bad but soooo good.

 

[Maniac]

Edited my post.

Btw, also looked at the Dirt Rally console content trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t1oUCLc-MyY

Is this content that's coming to PC too or exclusive for console?

Coming to PC around the time of the console release.

 

[shortsFortallPeople]

finished bionic commando, i dont even know how that thing got greenlit. It's a game about transversal that severely limits your ability to actually explore, it's a game where the main character's design was radically changed from the first game (much to everyone's dismay) and there's zero in game reason given to why he's some sort of focus grouped dreadlocked dirty hippy man now after being a legit badass in the first game and rearmed, the story sucks, and the swinging is only enjoyable until it breaks where then it's a most annoying shit ever.

It's a looker, sure, and that soundtrack is fantastic, yeah, and there are a few moments where i honestly thought "hey, that's kinda neat." but the overall package is just a barely tolerable TPS that should've been much more.

All this witness talk lately reminded me that i never put more than like 30 minutes into Braid so that's what i'll tackle next.

 

[Pachimari]

How much space do The Witness need? I'm running out of space on my hard drives.

 

[Leafhopper]

Since Origin is my new digital client best friend (don't worry Uplay it's just a phase I'm going through) I thought I better check out what's coming soon. Complete forgot that Need for Speed, the new one that is from last year, still isn't on PC yet. That's going to be DOA. Though if it pops up on EA Access it's totally worth £4 just to experience the shitty FMVs. They're so bad but soooo good.

It's been what over 2 months and they were trying to figure out how to unlock the framerate or something? That was their reasoning I think.

 

[MaxiLive]

How much space do The Witness need? I'm running out of space on my hard drives.

I think it is around 4GB on my HDD.

 

[NightmareTrigger]

finished bionic commando, i dont even know how that thing got greenlit. It's a game about transversal that severely limits your ability to actually explore, it's a game where the main character's design was radically changed from the first game (much to everyone's dismay) and there's zero in game reason given to why he's some sort of focus grouped dreadlocked dirty hippy man now after being a legit badass in the first game and rearmed, the story sucks, and the swinging is only enjoyable until it breaks where then it's a most annoying shit ever.

It's a looker, sure, and that soundtrack is fantastic, yeah, and there are a few moments where i honestly thought "hey, that's kinda neat." but the overall package is just a barely tolerable TPS that should've been much more.

All this witness talk lately reminded me that i never put more than like 30 minutes into Braid so that's what i'll tackle next.

Yeah, but your

Spoiler

wife

is your

Spoiler

arm

. That's Grade-A genius there!

How much space do The Witness need? I'm running out of space on my hard drives.

~4GB I think

 

[Baron von Loathsome]

LTTP: The existence of BIT.TRIP RUNNER 2

 

[Kurt Russell]

See? thanks to Sony we can enjoy Runner 2 and new content for Dirt Rally. People should thank them for all the work they are doing for us.

 

[Nyteshade517]

Since Origin is my new digital client best friend (don't worry Uplay it's just a phase I'm going through) I thought I better check out what's coming soon. Complete forgot that Need for Speed, the new one that is from last year, still isn't on PC yet. That's going to be DOA. Though if it pops up on EA Access it's totally worth £4 just to experience the shitty FMVs. They're so bad but soooo good.

Unravel is coming next week on Origin...Access people can play the first two levels for up to 10 hours before release

 

[morningbus]

See? thanks to Sony we can enjoy Runner 2 and new content for Dirt Rally. People should thank them for all the work they are doing for us.

#PromisesKept
#ThankYouSony

But let's move it over to the official OT: http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showthread.php?t=1158116

 

[MUnited83]

Just checked out Playstations official YT channel and a trailer for Runner 2 is there.

WHEN THE FUCK WAS RUNNER 2 ANNOUNCED!?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=of37zXCBkdg

Edit: Oh, that's the old one? Thought a new one was announced. Got too excited.

Loooool, most hilarious post today. Almost 3 years LTTP xD

 

[Baron von Loathsome]

#PromisesKept
#ThankYouSony

But let's move it over to the official OT: http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showthread.php?t=1158116

if you see this post while scrolling

you have been visited by the sony master race

good games and exclusives will come to you

but only if reply 'thank mr sony' to this post

 

[jshackles]

if you see this post while scrolling

you have been visited by the sony master race

good games and exclusives will come to you

but only if reply 'thank mr sony' to this post

Needs more ascii art

 

[fantomena]

See? thanks to Sony we can enjoy Runner 2 and new content for Dirt Rally. People should thank them for all the work they are doing for us.

The trailer almost got me a hearth attack. If a sequel to Runner 2 is announced, I must be the first one to know about it.

 

[Jazz573]

The trailer almost got me a hearth attack. If a sequel to Runner 2 is announced, I must be the first one to know about it.

Don't burn yourself.

 

[freshVeggie]

After the mind-numbing blandness of Tomb Raider, I think it's finally time to give The Swapper a whirl. Should help resuscitate at least some of the cells hurt by TR. Wish me luck, I hear it's a mind-bender.

 

[Jazz573]

After the mind-numbing blandness of Tomb Raider, I think it's finally time to give The Swapper a whirl. Should help resuscitate at least some of the cells hurt by TR. Wish me luck, I hear it's a mind-bender.

Tired of murdering everyone?

 

[lashman]

The Culling (EA)

 

[shortsFortallPeople]

Swapper was good.

It happens to everyone, there will be a couple of times where that game will break you. dont fear checking out a guide once in a while just so you can kinda wrap your head around some of the game's logic.

I had to use a guide 3-4 times because some of the puzzles were mind melting

 

[Messiah]

Tired of murdering everyone?

Then he wouldn't play the Swapper, no?

 

[Ucchedavāda]

Then he wouldn't play the Swapper, no?

I don't think it counts as murder if it's yourself you are killing

Spoiler

over and over and over again

.

 

[Endruen]

After the mind-numbing blandness of Tomb Raider, I think it's finally time to give The Swapper a whirl. Should help resuscitate at least some of the cells hurt by TR. Wish me luck, I hear it's a mind-bender.

I really liked, but some of the puzzles turn out to be very difficult. I had to look for a walkthrough for a couple of them.
Also, you might wanna know that for the achievements you are supposed to find secret rooms that are behind fake walls. Nobody tells you that at any point, so better if you know what you have to look for.

I don't think it counts as murder if it's yourself you are killing

Spoiler

over and over and over again

.

Spoiler

I gues you didn't swap with the other guy at the end, did you?

 

[Ludens]

It's an interesting software package and obviously a bit more complex than Idle Master. They're building a SteamKit instance of Steam rather than relying on the client to determine their "in-game" status. Because of this, it's capable of idling games from multiple accounts at the same time, which is a nice bonus for some people (judging by the number of folks that have emailed me asking if Idle Master can do this). It looks like it also has standard "steam-bot" capabilities where you can easily trade between your alts and easily funnel your cards back to your primary account.

I've not used the software so I can't comment on how well it works. Idle Master has always been a "it's good enough for me, and you might get some use out of it too" kind of software. I do have multiple Steam accounts but I don't redeem my extra games to my alt accounts or anything, I really just use them to test different functionality in Enhanced Steam - for example, "what happens on this page if I own less than 1,000 games?" so that's what I use my alt accounts for.

Obviously, one of the things everyone is worried about with Idle Master is "can Valve detect that I'm doing this?" And while it might be possible for them to determine that you're using Idle Master (based on things like how it switches games, average time per game based on it's card drop rate, etc) it would be significantly easier for Valve to detect something like this other program because from their server-side backend they can literally see you and all of your alt accounts connecting from the same IP, and they can easily track all the trades funneling back to your main account. It seems pretty obvious that they don't care about such things, but it is something to keep in mind when using automation software like this. There were several changes I wanted to make to Idle Master to make it more automated, but ultimately decided against it because I felt it made the system too automated and thus much easier for Valve to detect.

Of course, if you connect to a VAC enabled server while either program is running, Valve can see things like what processes are running in memory and can easily detect if you're running Idle Master or the other program (or any program, really) so that's why I don't recommend doing that. Again, it doesn't seem like Valve cares - so I'd say use the best tool for the job that fits your individual needs the best.

Thanks for the explanation, I'm ok with Idlemaster, but I was curious on how this software works.

 

[TheLetdown]

I really liked, but some of the puzzles turn out to be very difficult. I had to look for a walkthrough for a couple of them.
Also, you might wanna know that for the achievements you are supposed to find secret rooms that are behind fake walls. Nobody tells you that at any point, so better if you know what you have to look for.

I'm inclined to say skip the achievements completely.

Like others have said, don't feel too ashamed about using a walkthrough, but give the puzzles time before you do. Sometimes messing up a dozen times makes the way through clearer.

The Culling (EA)

The premise here is alright, possibly even cool.

The presentation looks bland, though. It's a shame that the games hit hardest by the market saturation are indie multiplayer games. They can't seem to sustain a playerbase. Rocket League aside, of course.

 

[PandaPedinte]

losing all my masters, not sure I can be arsed to level a bunch of newbies up again if it goes completely down the drain >_<

hey at least theres a bunch of new slots for more people to die! dont even know who im missing now tbh

Put me in coach! I won't disappoint you.

 

[Ucchedavāda]

Spoiler

I gues you didn't swap with the other guy at the end, did you?

Spoiler

I had forgotten about that ending (I did both the swap and the jump ending). But that's just one person per ~5 hours, which is nothing compared to neo Tomb Raider.

 

[Pachimari]

Do anyone know if The Sims 4 is missing anything from prior installments anymore? I think they added pools and whatnot, right?

 

[shortsFortallPeople]

i didn't find a single hidden room in the swapper. Hell, i finished the whole game and got zero achievements.

Didn't affect me but i didn't even think that was possible

 

[Sch1sm]

Do anyone know if The Sims 4 is missing anything from prior installments anymore? I think they added pools and whatnot, right?

You can drown people in those pools now. c:

 

[Ucchedavāda]

i didn't find a single hidden room in the swapper. Hell, i finished the whole game and got zero achievements.

Didn't affect me but i didn't even think that was possible

I didn't find a single hidden room either in my play-through, either, nor did I get any achievements. Apparently all achievements are for the hidden rooms, which explains that.

The premise here is alright, possibly even cool.

The presentation looks bland, though. It's a shame that the games hit hardest by the market saturation are indie multiplayer games. They can't seem to sustain a playerbase. Rocket League aside, of course.

A big problem I see with this game is that you have 20 minute matches, and you are out for the rest of the match once you die. So if you are unlucky, you get to spend 20 minutes doing nothing.

 

[TheLetdown]

i didn't find a single hidden room in the swapper. Hell, i finished the whole game and got zero achievements.

Didn't affect me but i didn't even think that was possible

Same here. And I loved the game.

I remember really digging the game's sound. Deep bass tones resonate well with space games.