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STEAM- Announcements & Updates 2011 Edition |OT2|

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Chronoja

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Ionic said:
I honestly don't know why they don't just update the game with at least the iPad version's assets. That one runs at a higher resolution, right?
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I imagine that Ea's aquiring of Popcap makes such an idea seem much less likely to happen as well. Yet not impossible. Just a thought.
 
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PixyJunket

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Interestingly enough, Faerie Solitaire (that also runs at 800x600) just had an iOS version released with repainted higher resolution graphics. The developer hinted on their forums that they may release the iOS version (which has a bunch of other changes and additions) as a separate game on Steam and anybody that has the current version should get the new one for free.
 
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Shaneus

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PixyJunket said:
This could be the greatest post in this thread, possibly forum.
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Agreed. We should have random shit videogame reviews, particularly when there's a sale on. I'm sure I have a couple in my library I could knock up...
 
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CarbonatedFalcon

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Civ V is a steal at $17 if you didn't already get it from the (Gamersgate was it?) or Steam Summer Sale. Even cheaper now than it was as a daily in the Steam Sale. Shame that the DLC isn't on sale though.
 
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Gvaz

Banned
Civ 4 is worth your time I think more than Civ 5. There's just too many design flaws with civ 5 that can't be ironed out with patches. The biggest change (grid system) is the biggest flaw.
 
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Schmattakopf

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Joe Molotov said:
This game is about three things: mom, apple pie, and freedom.

http://i.imgur.com/fHBo7.jpg

Well, I played John Deere: Drive Green for about an hour, which is more than one should. Not a good game. The game does support the X360 pad though, so that's a plus. I turned mine on, and we're off to the races. The first thing I noticed about it is that the walking animation is hilariously bad. Your little man just pumps his arm back and forth and slides his feet along the ground like he's walking on ice. The running animation is even better; it's the walking animation at about 1.5x speed. The game is all about the tractors, so clearly they weren't going to spend more than a buck-fifty on the walking animation.

http://i.imgur.com/G9xEk.jpg

You have your own farm, but you have no cash to buy implements and stuff at the beginning, so you have to get jobs from the sign board (that's conveniently posted 10 feet in front of your house) and do odd tractoring jobs around the neighborhood. I took the first one, and it was tilling up some dude's field. You drive up one row and then down the next until it's down. It was a small field, took about 5 minutes, no problem. Then I took the next job, it was planting corn for some guy. Well, it turns out planting corn is exactly the same as tilling, you drive up one row down the next etc. Except this guy's field was about 4x as big, so it took 4x as long, or about 20 minutes. My trigger finger was numb by the time I got done from holding down the gas.

http://i.imgur.com/pBtdh.jpg

Okay, that was last job was soul wrenching, but I decided to bend over for one more round of punishment before I sold this game back to Steam. The third job was to spray a field with fertilizer or something because the crops were all brown and wilty. Actually, I think you were just spraying green paint, because the crops magically turned green and vibrant as soon as your spraying passed over them. You're like the Jesus of radishes! This job only took about 3 minutes, so it wasn't that bad, but I was already past the point of no return. Before I quit though, I went to spend my money and purchase The Gator, aka the only vehicle in the game capable of going faster than 2mph.

http://i.imgur.com/QImeI.jpg

I hoped on the ol' gator and started tear-assing around the farm. And well, you make your own fun because there's really nothing to do except look for buried fossils. Which as far as I can tell do nothing. The game claims to be putting them in storage for you, but I never found this "storage". With no people to run over, no cars to crash into, and only chickens to harrass, I decided to do a little amphibious driving.

http://i.imgur.com/6Adto.jpg

Nothing runs like a deere, bitch! A JOHN MOTHERFUCKING DEERE! That's right, I'm driving on the water. Farm Jesus strikes again. And although it might seem like in this screenshot that the water's just really shallow, if you turn the camera angle just right, you can see that the ground is actually several feet below you.

Anyway, at that point, I think I'd rung pretty much any possible fun out of the game. Oh wait there was also this. Why? Why not, I say.

http://i.imgur.com/QUoXD.jpg
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Hahahaha, you played way more of this than I would ever try.
 
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Sober

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Gvaz said:
Civ 4 is worth your time I think more than Civ 5. There's just too many design flaws with civ 5 that can't be ironed out with patches. The biggest change (grid system) is the biggest flaw.
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What in the world...

1UPT is the real flaw perhaps, but hexes are definitely better than squares. And stacks of doom? No thanks.
 
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Schmattakopf

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Gvaz said:
Civ 4 is worth your time I think more than Civ 5. There's just too many design flaws with civ 5 that can't be ironed out with patches. The biggest change (grid system) is the biggest flaw.
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That's the one thing I like about Civ 5.
 
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Salsa

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Gvaz said:
Civ 4 is worth your time I think more than Civ 5. There's just too many design flaws with civ 5 that can't be ironed out with patches. The biggest change (grid system) is the biggest flaw.
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I disagree with this post 100 percent

at launch it was heavily flawed, after all the patches its my favorite Civ game, and the grids are a fantastic change wtf? the squares are way inferior, specially in combat
 
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Sinatar

Official GAF Bottom Feeder
Yea Civ 5 is my favorite of the series. The changes to the combat are what puts it ahead. I love the new tactical system over the silly megastacks of doom.
 
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witchedwiz

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LuchaShaq said:
I think I lost my account, have tried steam support twice now (once today once last Friday no responses so far). :(

Had this error https://support.steampowered.com/kb_article.php?ref=3093-MKUJ-5773

Fixed my issue (happened before).

When I rebooted steam it said I was on an unfamiliar cpu, but I've only used this pc for my steam games. So it asks me for email verification. Problem is during the psn fiasco I lost the old ass yahoo email account connected to this, and despite two different tickets to steam they wouldn't help me switch email accounts. Yahoo wouldn't let me get access to the account due to the fact the "security emergency email" was from my old college I only attended for 1 year, which had shut down my account.


Do I have any chance of getting my account back? I love steam but my experience with their customer service has always been silent responses back to my issues.
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contact them and explain the stuff...
they are a bit slow, but I doubt they'll turn you down..
worst case scenario, provided the account is associated with your REAL name&data, you might solve the issue offering to send a scan of your identity card or something similar depending on your country :)
 
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Sysgen

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Joe Molotov said:
Okay, confession time. I have a lot of games. Some of them I've barely even touched. So, along the lines of what Stallion Free's doing, I thought I'd take a random game everyday and play it for an hour or so, then post some impressions. And it's really going to be random. As in, I just created a list of all my games in Steam, ran it through a list randomizer, and now I'm going to play them in that order.

First up....Frozen Synapse. I know a lot of people have been hyping this one up, so I'm excited to take a crack at it. I'm not really the best strategic mind of all time though, so we'll see how it goes. I'll report back later.

BTW, here's what it gave me for my first 10 games.

1. Frozen Synapse
2. Bullet Candy
3. The Maw
4. Age of Wonders 2
5. Super Street Fighter IV: Arcade Edition
6. Capsized
7. Tom Clancy's Ghost Recon: Island Thunder
8. Puzzle Kingdoms
9. John Deere: Drive Green
10. Prince of Persia: Warrior Within
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Steam never updated Bullet Candy to Bullet Candy Perfect which is available here and it's pay what you want (min:$1).
 
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Princess Skittles

Prince's's 'Skittle's
Sysgen said:
Steam never updated Bullet Candy to Bullet Candy Perfect which is available here and it's pay what you want (min:$1).
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A quick check on the game's forum on Steam indicates that the developer has been trying to get it up there (along with his next game).

For all the love Steam apparently has for indie games, there seems to be just as much hassle.
 
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1-D_FTW

Member
Joe Molotov said:
I think I'll put Frozen Synapse on hold. It's hurting my brain.
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We should play a game of online Frozen Synapse for shits and giggles. I couldn't force myself past about 10 minutes of the tutorial, but if neither of us knew what we were doing, multiplayer could be kind of fun(ny).
 
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Derrick01

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I've been playing through Bloodlines and so far I'm not all that impressed with it. People were saying it's a deus ex type game but there's hardly any interaction with the environment or loot, like 80% of doors are just there and can't be opened or lockpicked, and I haven't noticed a ton of ways to do each thing so far. It's still a good game but nowhere near Deus Ex (I'm in the downtown area now for reference, completed santa monica).
 
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Nabs

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1-D_FTW said:
We should play a game of online Frozen Synapse for shits and giggles. I couldn't force myself past about 10 minutes of the tutorial, but if neither of us knew what we were doing, multiplayer could be kind of fun(ny).
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Yeah, multi is a great way to get into it.
 
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nexen

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Derrick01 said:
I've been playing through Bloodlines and so far I'm not all that impressed with it. People were saying it's a deus ex type game but there's hardly any interaction with the environment or loot, like 80% of doors are just there and can't be opened or lockpicked, and I haven't noticed a ton of ways to do each thing so far. It's still a good game but nowhere near Deus Ex (I'm in the downtown area now for reference, completed santa monica).
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I don't get the lavish praise either of those games get, tbh. They are definitely good games but people act like they are the be-all, end-all of gaming.

Princess Skittles said:
Eufloria $5.10.
http://store.steampowered.com/app/41210/
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Good little game, that.
 
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MNC

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nexen said:
I don't get the lavish praise either of those games get, tbh. They are definitely good games but people act like they are the be-all, end-all of gaming.
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Deus ex deserves that praise. So much thought and variety has been put in that game; no two playthroughs will be identical. I'm nearing the end of my first playthrough and there are soooo much things I missed, locations or secret dialogue that would be really logical to get to, but I just didn't get because I took a different path.
 
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Derrick01

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nexen said:
I don't get the lavish praise either of those games get, tbh. They are definitely good games but people act like they are the be-all, end-all of gaming.
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Deus Ex definitely deserves the praise it gets. It's been around 10 years and I still discover a secret or new way to do something every now and then. It's just brilliant.

But Bloodlines doesn't deserve it so far. I don't dislike it but I find that I'm constantly re-adjusting my expectations each time it disappoints me in regards to being a "deus ex type" game. About 20 minutes ago I went through a mansion with like 10 doors and only 1 of them was interactive. That frustrates the explorer in me.
 
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Schmattakopf

Member
Derrick01 said:
But Bloodlines doesn't deserve it so far. I don't dislike it but I find that I'm constantly re-adjusting my expectations each time it disappoints me in regards to being a "deus ex type" game.
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It's definitely inferior to its predecessors.
 
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nexen

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MNC said:
Deus ex deserves that praise. So much thought and variety has been put in that game; no two playthroughs will be identical. I'm nearing the end of my first playthrough and there are soooo much things I missed, locations or secret dialogue that would be really logical to get to, but I just didn't get because I took a different path.
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Derrick01 said:
Deus Ex definitely deserves the praise it gets. It's been around 10 years and I still discover a secret or new way to do something every now and then. It's just brilliant.
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I know I'm in the minority opinion here. I played Deus Ex day one and was mildly disappointed with it. I can honestly say that I preferred Thief 2.
 
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Stumpokapow

listen to the mad man
Princess Skittles said:
A quick check on the game's forum on Steam indicates that the developer has been trying to get it up there (along with his next game).

For all the love Steam apparently has for indie games, there seems to be just as much hassle.
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To be fair, if he made Perfect a free patch for Bullet Candy he'd have no problems at all.
 
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Volcynika

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svegis said:
It's Dead Air release, not Beta, but they will iron out bugs as they come along.
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Updates to Left 4 Dead 2 have been released. The updates will be applied automatically when your Steam client is restarted. The major changes include:

Left 4 Dead 2
Beta release of Dead Air Campaign


Beta!
 
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svegis

Member
Volcynika said:
Updates to Left 4 Dead 2 have been released. The updates will be applied automatically when your Steam client is restarted. The major changes include:

Left 4 Dead 2
Beta release of Dead Air Campaign


Beta!
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Saw that afterwards, felt silly for correcting. :\ But in my defense, it is a proper release, as far as I know/knew. I'll stick to calling it Beta!
 
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Cfuentes

Neo Member
Grizza said:
I want Civ 5, but I never could get Civ 4 to run on my Windows 7 (AMD/ATI) rig. Anyone else have that problem?
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Win7 Pro x64, Athlon II P360 + AMD Vision (HD5400+ HD4200) and no problems...
 
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1-D_FTW

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Since it seems people have had this issue before, I'm just going to ask it here: How do you make your EA ID be your Origin ID? If I try and login to Origin with it, it says it's taken. Is this what people were contacting EA support about?

EDIT: Fuck. It seems I never created a master EA ID. What a bunch of bullshit.

2ND EDIT: Bullshit. I just tried using another ID I once created for BC 2 and there's no way anyone else would have taken that one. It has to be disallowing indiscriminately.
 
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GJS

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1-D_FTW said:
Since it seems people have had this issue before, I'm just going to ask it here: How do you make your EA ID be your Origin ID? If I try and login to Origin with it, it says it's taken. Is this what people were contacting EA support about?

EDIT: Fuck. It seems I never created a master EA ID. What a bunch of bullshit.

2ND EDIT: Bullshit. I just tried using another ID I once created for BC 2 and there's no way anyone else would have taken that one. It has to be disallowing indiscriminately.
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Try logging in with your email address? I've never used an ID to login to EADM/Origin or anything related to EA.
 
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1-D_FTW

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GJS said:
Try logging in with your email address? I've never used an ID to login to EADM/Origin or anything related to EA.
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If I login into Origins like that, it prompts me to create a Master Id.
 
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1-D_FTW

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Gvaz said:
I just log in to origin with my master ID that I made in the first place :S
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Brilliant. Unless all of your account creations were for specific games and just assumed they were EA accounts and not worthless subsets.
 
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GJS

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1-D_FTW said:
If I login into Origins like that, it prompts me to create a Master Id.
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Well yeah that is what is supposed to happen if you have never set a Master ID before, if you have set one before then it gives a one time chance to change that ID.

EA changed over to the Master ID system years ago now, I have something like 18 personas of the same name under the Master ID.
 
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1-D_FTW

Member
GJS said:
Well yeah that is what is supposed to happen if you have never set a Master ID before, if you have set one before then it gives a one time chance to change that ID.

EA changed over to the Master ID system years ago now, I have something like 18 personas of the same name under the Master ID.
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Talk to me like an idiot here. I created a specific new account for BC2 on December 20th, 2010. Are you telling me the only way that could be created is by master account? Because if so, then I should own that and be able to login into Origins without getting name taken.
 
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GJS

Member
1-D_FTW said:
Talk to me like an idiot here. I created a specific new account for BC2 on December 20th, 2010. Are you telling me the only way that could be created is by master account? Because if so, then I should own that and be able to login into Origins without getting name taken.
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If you already have a Master EA ID then it will be listed on this page under other identities.
https://www.ea.com/profile

On this page https://profile.ea.com/myprofile.do you can see all of the persona's from the various games you have registered for using the same email address.


Bad company 2 accounts use email addresses and each email address should be associated to one Master ID on the EA system.
 
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