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STEAM- Announcements & Updates 2011 Edition |OT2|
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coopolon said:
I think (sadly) that unless you have your credentials saved, (they are needed to authenticate with Steam) it's no good, but if you can contact authentication server you could get online just for a quick second, which is needed to go offline properly, it's bit of a mess. Hopefully, you are able to tether a phone or borrow someone's wifi quickly, if not I think you're going to have to wait. :/
Offline mode has worked as it should only once for me. Typically, I have to set Steam to offline mode while still connected to the internet, run the games I wish to play offline (those left out will refuse to load), then disconnect from the internet. Granted, I haven't used it in about a year.
Well shit, lets make it a party. http://steamcommunity.com/id/cwmartin/
I'll one up ya'll. Most interested titles to play online: CoH, DoD:S, Borderlands (just started), Magicka (haven't started), and always CS/CS:S.
I'll one up ya'll. Most interested titles to play online: CoH, DoD:S, Borderlands (just started), Magicka (haven't started), and always CS/CS:S.
coopolon said:
The way I've seen it, and just as JaseC(and MRORANGE) says, unless you have your credentials saved(prepared for offline time I guess) or if you are logged in to Steam and are able to 'go offline' in the top menu, then I do believe it's a no go. I know there's been talk about it being changed in Beta, but I'll wait until then. To quote the "Go Offline" text:
"Offline Mode is used when you're about to unplug your laptop, or are otherwise expecting to not be connected to the internet. Many features such as Friends and the Server Browser, will not be available while offline. Only games that are fully up-to-date will be available."
MRORANGE said:
It's always been buggered for me, except the last time I used it, which despite not running experiments thereafter I nonetheless consider a fluke. To my great surprise it worked flawlessly; I set Steam to offline mode, booted up my PC later on in the day sans internet connection and discovered that all of my games were perfectly functional.
Servbot #42
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So i got Atom Zombie Smasher from the HB3 and only yesterday i got around to it, that game fucking awesome, weird yes but awesome nonetheless.
MRORANGE said:
This is how it still is for me. We're in thunderstorm season in Florida so I've lost internet a few times and I've been able to play any game I want just by clicking on the desktop icon like I normally do, didn't even have to switch to offline mode. I don't know why or anything like that but as long as it works I don't tend to question it lol
balladofwindfishes
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http://steamcommunity.com/id/ballad
there, you'll be on an exclusive friends list with people from the TF2 Wiki and a few old irl friends.
Enjoy
there, you'll be on an exclusive friends list with people from the TF2 Wiki and a few old irl friends.
Enjoy
morningbus
Serious Sam is a wicked gahbidge series for chowdaheads.
wilflare said:
I think we'd finally break Stallion Free if Deus Ex joined our prison economy.
balladofwindfishes
Member
I've gotten a lot of nice free games from AMD lol
Shogun Total War 2 and Dirt 3
Shogun Total War 2 and Dirt 3
balladofwindfishes
Member
Got Total War for the purchase and Dirt 3 when everyone else did.wilflare said:
So that's like 100 dollars off the card, except I probably wouldn't have ever bought both games anyway.
Internet is back. Yay! It's kind of funny, after the internet came back my desktop still wouldn't connect to the internet and for the life of me I couldn't figure out what the problem was. I had forgotten that I had pulled the ethernet able in my efforts to get Steam to start.
Hope they do change how offline mode work, seems kind of silly as it is. Next hurricane I'll know to go into offline mode beforehand.
Hope they do change how offline mode work, seems kind of silly as it is. Next hurricane I'll know to go into offline mode beforehand.
morningbus
Serious Sam is a wicked gahbidge series for chowdaheads.
Randy said:
Why don't you go wash up. I'll join you in a minute.
Word of warning to those who want to move their Steam games.. move the steamapps folder first before uninstalling the Steam executable. It uninstalled all my associated games with it.. had to re-download 16 gigs yesterday and that was just a fraction of all my titles I had downloaded.
Ill add everybody who posted so far but you can add me as well. http://steamcommunity.com/id/Gerhalt22/
Piercedveil
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I can get CS:S + Garry's Mod for $6.24 and I still don't have them. I don't understand why this is.
Feel free to add me too: http://steamcommunity.com/id/PaulLFC/
I don't think you even have to uninstall anything to move your Steam games. IIRC all you have to do is move your Steam Apps folder along with the Steam.exe to wherever you want them and when you login and relaunch the .exe from the new location it'll fill out the rest of the needed files automatically.
blackMamba1187
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confused said:
My review from the User Review thread:
Numen
Platforms: PC (available on Steam)
Hm.. Well lets say I was trying to play it with the thought in mind that its a cheap 2$ Diablo Clone (which it actually isnt because it was released for 40 or 50 and its not isometric).
Anyway, the controls:
Actually they are not that big of an issue if you dont want to control with WASD. You cant control the character Diablo like by clicking to a spot because the camera is pretty near your character, not too far zoomed out, and you are inclined to play over the shoulder view instead of overhead view. You can control the character pretty well by walking forward with w and pressing the right mouse button to shift the camera in the direction you want to go.
Works pretty well I'd say.
Graphics:
Well its... not ugly but... dated. Art direction can make up for a lot but this thing is definitely not something you play for graphics or art direction, some of the enemies look nice though.
Gameplay:
The fights are a bit slow. Some of the enemies do look nice, I dare to say somewhat even original designed and you might get the occasional "i need to fight THAT?" moment. The fighting system you choose to use (bow, handweapon, magic) is a bit unflexible for my tastes but you randomly get new magic after leveling up. Which is fine in itself, but you dont have much choice over the skills you get. In the end you dont NEED more but it would be nicer to get the feeling that you played the game a bit more creatively instead of taking what has been chosen for you.
However it was nice that some monster do actually have "resistances" to some attacks so you need to adjust your fighting style a bit... but only a bit since the game is pretty easy (also due to the simple combat) and also gives you levels at a constant rate. You gain a level every 5 minutes more or less.
And again, fighting is too .. unflexible. You can and will choose between different attacks so you have some variations but since the characters are pretty limited in their movements you just stand there while spamming magic and hope that you enemies die before you do. Walking backwards and attacking (even with the ranged classes) is impossible since the movement is soooo slow backwards.
Story:
Weeeeeeell... Its bad, and even worse written. They really wanted you to care about that and so they sometimes wrote quite a lot to "immerse" you into the story but its just.. well.. bad.
Loot:
The thing that Torchlight and Diablo nailed was the Loot. Which is exactly where Numen fails. Even quite a bit into the game I constantly got the same items as drops by enemies. Another thing that bugged me was the inventory system. It was too small and not confortable to read and really would need some more colors or other distinctions to make it easier to browse through the items as I basically sometimes just picked up the stuff and didnt care much about what I found (also due to the fact that it was too easy and not that necessary to be up to date with your gear the whole time)
Also there is not much for ... values added to your armor and weapons. You get +12 to armor, + 3 strength and all variants but nothing like "absorb mana", "12% faster walking speed" and all that.
But at least your character changes according to the items you put on.
Conclusion:
Setting, enemies are nice sometimes, but the overall graphic makes it feel dated. Okayish way to fill the Loot urge, but nowhere near as good as Torchlight in that regard. For 2 bucks it fills 1 or 2 boring evenings (since its short) if you dont mind doing simple minded actions.
4/10 (-)
Glass Rebel
Member
I swear Numen has been more often on sale than any other game.
LocoMrPollock
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Toma said:
why would you compare it to diablo?
it plays more like a single player mmo, closer to guild wars
LocoMrPollock said:
... true, but then a description of a Single Player mmorpg isnt far off from Diablo itself. Its just the perspective and some changes in game progression. It scratched my Diablo itch slightly, even though very bad, for some reason. And that was a long time ago, so i cant tell you more than from what I've written there. Only that I remember it being very bland and boring. But yeah, lots of Mmo-style fetch quests or go-there-kill-that quests.
Dr. Zoidberg
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Regarding Numen: There's a demo on Steam if you really want to try it, or you can take my word that it is boring and not even worth $2.50.
I just noticed the Cossacks and American Conquest Pack on sale for $14.99
Any impressions? Have any of these games aged well?
Any impressions? Have any of these games aged well?
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