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STEAM 2013 Announcements & Updates VIII - Don't ask when the sales are starting.

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Stumpokapow

listen to the mad man
You get a card for crafting medals?

You get a badge, a background, an emoticon, and a coupon for a random game, During the summer sale instead of getting a coupon you got a summer sale themed card used to craft the summer badge. During the winter sale you will get these snow globe cards, presumably used to craft a winter badge.
 

Boss Doggie

all my loli wolf companions are so moe
Man I wish Valve and Nintendo made some team up. I want Valve related items in AC and Pokemon, and vice-versa.
 
Crytek is great at optimizations. Crysis 2 looks and runs better than The Witcher 2 and League of Legends does on my PC. Those two games can drop to 50fps at times(excluding ubersampling in witcher 2), but I do not drop from 60fps in Crysis 2 max.
Witcher 2 drops is because ubersampling is too taxing.
 

Zia

Member
Feel like a shill but, seriously, if you, like me, enjoy mastery of very elegant mechanics (Super Hexagon), think about picking up Samurai Gunn even if you're friendless. I've been playing Survival for about two hours now and it's making me squeal and laugh. Kind of embarrassing, but it's really fun, challenging stuff.
 

Jawmuncher

Member
Feel like a shill but, seriously, if you, like me, enjoy mastery of very elegant mechanics (Super Hexagon), think about picking up Samurai Gunn even if you're friendless. I've been playing Survival for about two hours now and it's making me squeal and laugh. Kind of embarrassing, but it's really fun, challenging stuff.

I'll be adding it to my wishlist.
 
So I guess I'm in the small group that liked C2.

I actually just finished it and thought that it was pretty solid. I believe that I'd lay it out like Non-Aliens C1 >> C2 > Aliens C1 in my ranking. It didn't have those massive combat arenas that I loved from C1, but at the same time I did appreciate some of the streamlining (I have terrible spatial navigation skills, so I appreciated C2 getting me from area to area better) and I found the C2 aliens more fun to fight. And I found the city pretty fun to fight in and the guns were enjoyable as always.
 

KenOD

a kinder, gentler sort of Scrooge
What is this Wheelman

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JaseC

gave away the keys to the kingdom.
So, the 38 Studios auction ends in a few minutes. No idea when we'll get word on who bought what, but with any luck perhaps later today.
 

denx

Member
Talking about games that are not anymore on Steam, I saw three retail PC copies of Prey the other day. I was ready to buy one of them, until the clerk told me each one of them costed our regional equivalent of 40 dollars.

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That was a sad day.
 

Jawmuncher

Member
Is it worth tracking down a ps3 version?

Honestly I would say yes. 360 or PS3 is fi ne.
The game is dirt cheap used nowadays anyway.
If you at all like F&F and the like you can't go wrong with this game.
I would honestly compare it to sleeping dogs gameplay wise. Though obviously none of the hand to hand stuff or terrain traversing. But the driving and the like is very similar. Especially that you use the right analog to move the car to ram and such.

Just make sure you go in expecting a B-Tier experience and not some AAA fest.
Also don't bother trying to do all the missions. You get more than enough from just the main story.
 

JaseC

gave away the keys to the kingdom.
Talking about games that are not anymore on Steam, I saw three retail PC copies of Prey the other day. I was ready to buy one of them, until the clerk told me each one of them costed our regional equivalent of 40 dollars.

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That was a sad day.

Have a UK GAFer buy you a copy from Amazon. You only need the key, after all.
 

Dr Dogg

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Talking about games that are not anymore on Steam, I saw three retail PC copies of Prey the other day. I was ready to buy one of them, until the clerk told me each one of them costed our regional equivalent of 40 dollars.

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If you don't mind waiting until after crimbo I know a reliable way to get copies cheap. Sadly I'm not going to be at my house as of the end of the week until early Jan. Unless anybody else in the UK is willing to help you out. Linky [url]http://www.gameseek.co.uk/pd/PCv8xzf0cw210ksy6p/[/url]
 

Anteater

Member
I couldn't get crysis to stop stuttering when moving too quickly, so I stopped playing, I need to revisit it once I figure out a more optimal settings. Crysis 2 runs like a dream though but the areas are pretty small.
 

Iseeyou

Banned
Talking about games that are not anymore on Steam, I saw three retail PC copies of Prey the other day. I was ready to buy one of them, until the clerk told me each one of them costed our regional equivalent of 40 dollars.

269.gif


That was a sad day.

I can get a sealed copy right now for 5 US dollars, They're HUNDREDS of them lying about retail hehe.
 
Some games i didn't like in the Indie Capsule Bundle. hope someone enjoy them :p
Didn't like as in the trailers gave me a bad impression, and tought someone else would have more fun than me.
ModBot said:
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Faabulous

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So, I bought a Starbound 4-pack. It got into my account and said I had 3 new gifts, but the thing is, Steam went down soon after, now the 3 copies are missing from my inventory, and Steam support just told me to make sure they aren't there. What to do?
 

Nabs

Member
So, I bought a Starbound 4-pack. It got into my account and said I had 3 new gifts, but the thing is, Steam went down soon after, now the 3 copies are missing from my inventory, and Steam support just told me to make sure they aren't there. What to do?

Keep at it with support. They should be able to check your account to see what's going on.
 

Sini

Member
-Weapon parts system is nice... but having to find the weapon parts by complete luck/chance is crazy (I wouldn't have found a sniper scope if an FAQ for a level didn't say to look for it, for instance)
Did you expect to find sniper scope in the first level? There's no chance involved, enemies have always the same weapons. There were at least two sniper scopes just lying around in third level. Plus the most oblivious locations - snipers in guard towers. There were 4 or 5 of them in that level. Next level had Sniper rifle with scope literally in the first house you see.
Do you just run to the objective marker and not explore even a little bit at all?
-Way too much shit that isn't needed and is only there because PC/keyboard. (Binos especially) Because...
Binoculars are useless? I really can't see why you consider binoculars useless and clunky. They are really useful for scouting ahead and they can tag enemies so they will show up on the radar. Only thing that was useless was night vision because there weren't any levels dark enough to make them useful.
-Enemies spawn all over you, FarCry 2 (yes, no Crytek I know)-style. "Oh, you want to flank around them via Stealth because you are outnumbered!? TOO BAD MOTHERFUCKER! *spawns enemies on top of you*"
Far Cry 2 respawning enemies were terrible, but there are no enemies that can spawn around you in Crysis except for the building in second level with hostage in it. They only spawn around you in editor when decide to start playing in the middle of combat area.
Or are you talking about Crysis 2? Because it actually had annoying respawning enemies. Dunno about 3 because I haven't played it.
 

Nzyme32

Member
So, I bought a Starbound 4-pack. It got into my account and said I had 3 new gifts, but the thing is, Steam went down soon after, now the 3 copies are missing from my inventory, and Steam support just told me to make sure they aren't there. What to do?

Keep hassling support, they will be able to see that it is not in your inventory and that there were no trades or transfers with others
 

JaseC

gave away the keys to the kingdom.
So, I bought a Starbound 4-pack. It got into my account and said I had 3 new gifts, but the thing is, Steam went down soon after, now the 3 copies are missing from my inventory, and Steam support just told me to make sure they aren't there. What to do?

That Support told you to double-check is weird to me as surely Valve has the power to look at user inventories. As Nzyme32 said, though, just follow it up: "I've double-checked and they're definitely not present."
 

Faabulous

Member
Keep at it with support. They should be able to check your account to see what's going on.

Keep hassling support, they will be able to see that it is not in your inventory and that there were no trades or transfers with others

Ok I guess.
It's kind of shitty because the people I split it with already payed, and steam already took the money from me, so I can't pay them back. Also, support took almost 2 days just to tell me that. They really need to improve their support service.
 

JaseC

gave away the keys to the kingdom.
The last time I contacted Support my problem was fixed without any sort of response to the ticket I'd lodged. I only discovered as much when I checked my inventory about a week after submitting the request.
 
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