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3chopl0x said:
Cheers. You said something about a referral code? If I sign up and refer you, do we both get £5 credit free?
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STEAM- Announcements & Updates 2011 Edition |OT2|
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Cheers. You said something about a referral code? If I sign up and refer you, do we both get £5 credit free?
Stumpokapow
listen to the mad man
Gez said:
Man, I think the game looks kind of crappy and I still haven't finished Bound in Blood, but $20.40 for a release week game is mental.
ClovingWestbrook
Banned
Are you feeling lucky punk?
Download link at the link
Download link at the link
Traced-Velocity said:
Not a strict reply only to you, but a reply to the "fantastic, no more xxx" replies to come, well, I guess here, that games using the now "old" method, like Witcher 2 and Company of Heroes will still have to download the big chunk of data again unless they redo the coding for that particular data file. But that's just my guess, and I hope at least Witcher 2 will have it redone cause I can imagine 9gb is a pain!
crimsonheadGCN
Banned
3chopl0x said:
I wonder how soon for Dota 2. If they are already holding a tournament for it then that has to mean that it's close to an open beta and release.
So I was originally hoping to make a LTTP thread for Freedom Force but I ultimately gave up half way through. So instead Ill just post a few of my thoughts in here since hopefully theyll be brief.
The game is basically a turn based RPG that occurs in real time but can be paused at any time. In addition you can speed it up and slow it down to extremes which is nice when you have to run across a map or feel a battle is progressing too quickly but you dont want to pause it every other second. Its set in a Silver Age of comic book themed world and you control a team of superheroes. Both the superheroes and supervillains you will face are as campy as can be, and the voice acting and dialogue mostly fit perfectly. This theme also carries over to the art which is all wonderfully colorful and bright. At first this world and the characters were a lot of fun, a nice recall back to the terrible comic book stories I read as a kid. Unfortunately, I guess Im just not as fond of those comic books as some others, because while it never got annoying to me, it also wasnt enough to keep me playing when the mechanics started getting frustrating.
And boy do the mechanics get frustrating. For me, it basically played out like a microRTS game with a pause button. You have 4 heroes (think hero units from Warcraft 3) each with 4-6 powers that you can use that vary from direct melee attacks to buffs/debuffs to ranged projectiles, etc. Every attack has a certain damage quality like fire, ice, etc. and everyone has certain resistances and sensitivities. I love micro, especially micro where I control the speed, and so this was wonderful for me at first. I really loved the first 15-20 levels or so of coming up with a strategy and arranging my guys just so and then watching them pull off the exact move I wanted and feeling so badass. But as your heroes level up, their powers keep getting harder and harder to control and not in a good way. The best example of this is El Diablo, the Human Torch of the game. Hes a fiery latino, and so about 50-75% of the time when you tell him to do something, he decides to overpower it. Unfortunately, if you overpower a special move beyond your energy stores, it stuns you. In addition, his best attack (only useful attack for awhile) is an area of effect fireball that does tons of damage, knockback, and environmental destruct. Power determines the size of effect, so when he overpowers it, he will often hit other heroes causing friendly fire and destroy buildings that were far outside the zone you initially targeted. And he stuns himself. So you have two choices either only use the fireball when its overpowered, or stay on him every time you give him an order and if he yells Overpower! pause the game, and give him the exact order again. Of course, he may choose to overpower it again, and youll have to pause again, and give the order again, repeat ad nauseum. The targeting system can also be kind of wack. Ill tell a hero to target one part of a roof, and instead he targets a completely different part of the building. This can obviously have dire effects. Sometimes you can catch this and retarget to a slightly different area and sometimes you cant.
Fighting with my heroes to get them to do what I wanted them to do eventually just became frustrating to the point that the game wasnt fun anymore for me.
The game is basically a turn based RPG that occurs in real time but can be paused at any time. In addition you can speed it up and slow it down to extremes which is nice when you have to run across a map or feel a battle is progressing too quickly but you dont want to pause it every other second. Its set in a Silver Age of comic book themed world and you control a team of superheroes. Both the superheroes and supervillains you will face are as campy as can be, and the voice acting and dialogue mostly fit perfectly. This theme also carries over to the art which is all wonderfully colorful and bright. At first this world and the characters were a lot of fun, a nice recall back to the terrible comic book stories I read as a kid. Unfortunately, I guess Im just not as fond of those comic books as some others, because while it never got annoying to me, it also wasnt enough to keep me playing when the mechanics started getting frustrating.
And boy do the mechanics get frustrating. For me, it basically played out like a microRTS game with a pause button. You have 4 heroes (think hero units from Warcraft 3) each with 4-6 powers that you can use that vary from direct melee attacks to buffs/debuffs to ranged projectiles, etc. Every attack has a certain damage quality like fire, ice, etc. and everyone has certain resistances and sensitivities. I love micro, especially micro where I control the speed, and so this was wonderful for me at first. I really loved the first 15-20 levels or so of coming up with a strategy and arranging my guys just so and then watching them pull off the exact move I wanted and feeling so badass. But as your heroes level up, their powers keep getting harder and harder to control and not in a good way. The best example of this is El Diablo, the Human Torch of the game. Hes a fiery latino, and so about 50-75% of the time when you tell him to do something, he decides to overpower it. Unfortunately, if you overpower a special move beyond your energy stores, it stuns you. In addition, his best attack (only useful attack for awhile) is an area of effect fireball that does tons of damage, knockback, and environmental destruct. Power determines the size of effect, so when he overpowers it, he will often hit other heroes causing friendly fire and destroy buildings that were far outside the zone you initially targeted. And he stuns himself. So you have two choices either only use the fireball when its overpowered, or stay on him every time you give him an order and if he yells Overpower! pause the game, and give him the exact order again. Of course, he may choose to overpower it again, and youll have to pause again, and give the order again, repeat ad nauseum. The targeting system can also be kind of wack. Ill tell a hero to target one part of a roof, and instead he targets a completely different part of the building. This can obviously have dire effects. Sometimes you can catch this and retarget to a slightly different area and sometimes you cant.
Fighting with my heroes to get them to do what I wanted them to do eventually just became frustrating to the point that the game wasnt fun anymore for me.
Foliorum Viridum
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Open Steam, close your eyes, wave your mouse around like a maniac and then stop. Play what it's over.Drkirby said:
I just saved you bandwidth and HDD space. You're welcome!
Foliorum Viridum
Banned
It's a sign. Gimme your Steam login info!Drkirby said:
Joe Molotov
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Drkirby said:
Works for me. It launched Bookworm Adventures Deluxe, but I didn't really feel like playing it again.
Recieved an answer for my "cant recieve gifts" issue:
Right, so even though i already clarified that it doesnt work for ANY of my friends, making pretty clear that the problem is on my side and not theirs, they will still need to contact support. And if someone might want to send me a gift that is a daily deal, he'll have to wait for steam support to respond, wich in itself ussually takes more than a day. Makes no sense.
Ugh, fucking customer support.
Right, so even though i already clarified that it doesnt work for ANY of my friends, making pretty clear that the problem is on my side and not theirs, they will still need to contact support. And if someone might want to send me a gift that is a daily deal, he'll have to wait for steam support to respond, wich in itself ussually takes more than a day. Makes no sense.
Ugh, fucking customer support.
Joe Molotov
Member
SalsaShark said:
Right, so if we'll just gift you something so you can test it, I see where this is going...
Foliorum Viridum
Banned
He would've got away with it if it wasn't for those pesky kids...
Freeza Under The Shower
Member
It kind of extreme to use a 'I feel lucky' for a database that you can order yourself in 'stuff to do' and 'junk'.
You could also consider selling your full steamaccount. And going to a rent structure if a digital version of that is to emerge in the future. Which I would think is going to happen sooner then we expect it anyway, looking at OnLive and Gaikai as tools to create that kind of market.
(getting people to accept an idea of renting a game for 5 bucks versus having to wait for a sale to buy it permanently at that price where it will just hang out as junk anyway)
but that is speculative future babble on my part.
You could also consider selling your full steamaccount. And going to a rent structure if a digital version of that is to emerge in the future. Which I would think is going to happen sooner then we expect it anyway, looking at OnLive and Gaikai as tools to create that kind of market.
(getting people to accept an idea of renting a game for 5 bucks versus having to wait for a sale to buy it permanently at that price where it will just hang out as junk anyway)
but that is speculative future babble on my part.
morningbus
Serious Sam is a wicked gahbidge series for chowdaheads.
I'm sorry. There is just way too much other stuff to focus on in that picture.
Clean behind that monitor.
Or get a bigger monitor so we don't have to see it in your photo.
For the love of God.
Clean behind that monitor.
Or get a bigger monitor so we don't have to see it in your photo.
For the love of God.
Dog Problems
Banned
Looks like a hamburger wrapper on the top-left.
But nice controller!
But nice controller!
Dog Problems
Banned
Eh, I think your monitor is fine.
jaundicejuice
Member
Can access the store via the website, can't access it via my client. Already restarted once.
LocoMrPollock
Banned
Kind of annoying that I can't buy Dungeons of Dredmore.
Schmattakopf
Member
This happened to me when I switched the client language to English so I could answer someone's question. When I restarted, suddenly it was redownloading every single game that had the option of switching languages. Didn't even ask me if that's what I wanted to do. I don't know if this is the same situation.SalsaShark said:
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