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STEAM- Announcements & Updates 2011 Edition |OT2|
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Shao Kahn Brewing a Stew
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Alright, Master race: time to shine.
I am Internet-less for the next 48 hours and my cellphone data has a mere dozen MB left. I want to put that dozen MB to good use.
Which game should I play? I present you the greatest games I've never played and stayed in my backlog; and I'm ashamed for that:
- Star Wars: Jedi Knight series (if so: which one?)
- STALKER (Yes, Chernobyl > Pripyat. I know that by now lol)
- Deus Ex (Again; GOTY > Invisible What?!)
- Elder Scroll (Morrowind or Oblivion?)
- Half-life (in chronological order or not?)
- Just Cause 2
- Mass Effect 2 (Was ME1 ever released on PC?)
- Serious Sam HD (First or Second)
- Alpha Protocol
P.S. Thanks for letting me know how Offline Mode works!
I am Internet-less for the next 48 hours and my cellphone data has a mere dozen MB left. I want to put that dozen MB to good use.
Which game should I play? I present you the greatest games I've never played and stayed in my backlog; and I'm ashamed for that:
- Star Wars: Jedi Knight series (if so: which one?)
- STALKER (Yes, Chernobyl > Pripyat. I know that by now lol)
- Deus Ex (Again; GOTY > Invisible What?!)
- Elder Scroll (Morrowind or Oblivion?)
- Half-life (in chronological order or not?)
- Just Cause 2
- Mass Effect 2 (Was ME1 ever released on PC?)
- Serious Sam HD (First or Second)
- Alpha Protocol
P.S. Thanks for letting me know how Offline Mode works!
Sye d'Burns
Member
Flying_Phoenix said:
I've got a setup pretty much like that. Basically, I have two installations of Steam. My primary is on a 1TB partition of a firewire drive. I also have a separate Steam installation on my laptop itself (technically two, one mac and the other 7). Speaking here only of windows, I just have two launchers on the desktop. "Steam" and "Steam C".
Steam C gives me the ability to take games on the road. I just download the game to the firewire drive and then copy it over to the boot camp and I can of course use the firewire install for either laptop or desktop.
To answer your question, I suppose one could instead install one set to one and one to the other if they so chose.
slidewinder
Banned
Really? I dunno.shagg_187 said:
Anyway, to narrow things down a bit, what kind of game are you in the mood for generally?
Shao Kahn Brewing a Stew
Banned
According to GAF, Chernobyl is better, unless I misread the statements/sarcasms. I own both though!slidewinder said:
Oh and I want something that doesn't consume hours of my time as I have to be up in 7:30 hrs, and something that I'll look forward to the next day like cocaine. Need something to keep me busy for the next hour or so with mindless action without heavy scripting (Screw you Homefront and your insanely heavy scripting!)
Sye d'Burns
Member
shagg_187 said:
Well you can scratch Stalker, Mass Effect, Elder Scrolls anything and Alpha Protocol off your list.
My vote is for Just Cause 2 as well. Perfect sandbox.
Shao Kahn Brewing a Stew
Banned
Alright. Just Cause 2 it is! (That was easy! Thanks!). I don't own a wired controller though (Damn you 360 wireless controller requiring adapter for PC play).
Shao Kahn Brewing a Stew
Banned
Hahaha Gotcha!SalsaShark said:
Oh and the opening mission: so cheesily good!
Discotheque
Banned
Holy shit, Reznor lives.
Shaneus said:
I managed to get a second hand Wired Xbox 360 Controller from EB Games (AU) for like $20. I love it, because like 60 of my PC games use it.
For those that care
Direct2Drive has Warhammer 40K: Dawn of War 2 (original) for $9.95, game must register on Steam.
Alsp Amazon has the Digital download version of Supreme Commander 2 for $5.99
Shao Kahn Brewing a Stew
Banned
Wait what? I thought it works specifically on 360 controller?Snuggler said:
LiK said:
Not sure about how to fix your problem, I played through all three CoH less than a month ago on Windows 7 64-bit, so I'm just going to assume there's something bonkers with your setup. I know that doesn't help you, but sorting out a hardware error is a lot easier than an entire OS. Hope it gets sorted!
jaundicejuice
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There are some seriously neat easter eggs hidden away in Sanctum and I'm talking about something other than the random objects you can find secreted away in various corners of each map. Without getting too specific it's kind of like the first time you get to peer behind the walls of Aperture Science and see the gear works. Kind of like that.
kurtrussell
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Why is Steam's customer service so bad? I've been waiting for a support request of a game that I couldn't order for three days now...
I've not had much call to get in touch with support from any download sites, but I will say that Green Man Gaming gave a near instant response and extended a discount code for me that I hadn't realised had expired. Origin's support is also different class - repsonses to support requests within 24 hours, live chat if needed and they have twice now given me free $20 game codes for nothing just to keep me happy (once I incorrectly ordered the wrong title, they let me keep it and just gave me a free key for the game I actually wanted).
The support aspect is really letting Valve and Steam down at the moment, and really pales compared to the excellent experience EA have given me.
I've not had much call to get in touch with support from any download sites, but I will say that Green Man Gaming gave a near instant response and extended a discount code for me that I hadn't realised had expired. Origin's support is also different class - repsonses to support requests within 24 hours, live chat if needed and they have twice now given me free $20 game codes for nothing just to keep me happy (once I incorrectly ordered the wrong title, they let me keep it and just gave me a free key for the game I actually wanted).
The support aspect is really letting Valve and Steam down at the moment, and really pales compared to the excellent experience EA have given me.
kurtrussell said:
Steams customer service has being terrible for years now, there is no "to be fair" about it. On 2 seperate occasions i have waited weeks to get a response to query, and when i did it was some generic automated answer.
+1 To Greenman Gamings customer service.
I hate to say this aswell, but EA has good customer service.
Valve should be ashamed with their customer service department. There are no excuses, it's being bad for a long time now.
Minsc
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MNC said:Oh my God GameSaveManager, I'm totally going to try that out.
Though problem is, things like Deus Ex savefiles are huge, as well as Company of Heroes. I don't want to fill my entire Dropbox folder with savefiles
There's a good chance with the 7-zip compression option they aren't that huge. The Witcher 1 saves total in the GBs when you have a lot of them, and they generally compress to ~90%, so they end up being only in the 100s of MBs.
Minsc said:
Yah, as I was approaching the end of the Witcher it would take about 2 minutes for the load screen to pop up because I had so many saves, and the saves are so big. Of course it was easy to just move 95% of them to another folder which is what I eventually did, or even just delete them.
I don't know about that X3, man, I just don't know. I want to like it but the tutorial was just...go through a gate...kill one ship...go through a gate...kill one ship....ad naseum for about 45 minutes but it's a tutorial whatever. So I get through that and get my first optional mission that I got in a space station, which is to go pick someone's ship up for them, and it's a ship that goes fucking 107m/s max and I can't use that time warp thingy to speed things up because I guess that's a module that has to be installed. WHAT...THE...FUCK...I have to take it back 4 jumps which doesn't seem like much but I've gone through one jump so far and I'm about 10 minutes in. Also, I'm not sure how I'll fly back to my ship so that's fun.
I hope this picks up or I can make money without doing missions. I really, really want to like this game. It seems cool, why are you making me not enjoy it, devs?
I hope this picks up or I can make money without doing missions. I really, really want to like this game. It seems cool, why are you making me not enjoy it, devs?
Philthy
Member
Aselith said:
Depending what type of pilot you picked, you should be able to sell some of your starting stuff early on and basically get your first trade ship up and going. It's been a while... Also, you should be able to select your own ship through a menu and tell it to auto-pilot its way back to your current star base. The game is absolutely mind bendingly cool, but the learning curve is about half of what Dwarf Fortress is, which is quite a bit. It's worth keeping on with it.
Also, Dungeons of Dredmor should be out today! A graphical roguelike with scoreboards and optional permadeath mode (obviously) and all sorts of cool skills and items and loots and death. I think they were aiming at $5 for the game. DO a google for more info. They expect it to drop sometime this afternoon on Steam.
PixyJunket
Member
Interest piqued.Philthy said:
But do I want to spend more money on Steam so soon?
Watch this walkthrough: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p73C60btBi8Aselith said:
These are deep games. There's little in the way of instant gratification to be had and there's a lot going on and even more to learn.
Derrick01 said:
There's nothing demanding or hardcore about setting autopilot for a gate and then watching your distance countdown. I start out 78km away and my ship goes 107m/s with nothing to speed that up that's at every gate. My other ship goes 2.5x as fast as this piece of shit jalopy they gave me and has a temporal distortion thingy that speeds up time to 6x normal. You can warp to zero in EVE and this journey would take 5 minutes. They could have given me a ship that made the journey reasonable but they didn't. It's a boring mission and I don't know what they were thinking.
Edit: I started my four gate trip with an 1 and ten minute time left to do the mission and I made it with 8 minutes to spare that was in order to earn 1300 credits which is the nearly same amount they give you for free when you start a game. I shit you not.
I want to play that opening mission over and over. I actually died on purpose a couple times because I wanted to pop more tires.shagg_187 said:
Also, I have my opinions about X3 as well. I found myself wishing a few aspects were more like EVE: the mechanics of piloting your spaceship (feels too rough, like I can turn on a time.. I don't like that), warping/SETA (why make it difficult to get to your destinations?), and I can't believe I'm saying this, but a better understanding of what you're supposed to do (after the initial tutorial, what the hell happens now?) and more of that "instant gratification" with the world still holding all of the complexity that it does.
My thing right now in X3, and I do enjoy it, is that I've got how to fly my ship down from the tutorial. Got it. The tutorial covered that for me. But how in the hell do I buy and sell and equipment and find things to make my ship better? So far it hasn't broached that at ALL. I apparently have 4 shield modules in my cargo, but they aren't equipped? How the hell.DTKT said:
Hell, I should say I even immediately got a mission that gave me a STATION somewhere. Right off the bat. But I have no friggin clue what to do with it. That was even before I did the intial combat tutorial. Simply chose the first one in my list and now I have a power station, but no clue wtf I need to do with it.
Philthy
Member
In X3 you eventually can put jump drives on your ships and just jump to sectors. Starting out you're just a scrub, so don't expect anything to be handed to you. Eventually you will have a fleet of ships all automated trading on their own, jumping on their own, guarding sectors on their own, etc.
The best way to learn the game is to pour through tutorials and starter guides.
http://forum.egosoft.com/viewtopic.php?t=162408
Try this:
http://forum.egosoft.com/viewtopic.php?t=268611
The best way to learn the game is to pour through tutorials and starter guides.
http://forum.egosoft.com/viewtopic.php?t=162408
Try this:
http://forum.egosoft.com/viewtopic.php?t=268611
How do I order my ship to autodock? I docked it at the station I'm supposed to be at and nothing happened. I opened comm with everyone in the station and nothing, no option to complete or talk about it. I got out of my ship by the dock and went in the station as an astronaut and nothing happened. I can only think that it has to dock itself but there's no option to do that and when I ordered it to follow me it wrecked into the station and was destroyed.
Aselith said:
You have to select the station, open the comms menu, and select permission to dock. then it will give you a green circle of where you fly to in order to actually dock. This is the only way to dock if you are close to the station (couple km). If you are farther away, select the station and click shift D and it will autodock.
ToyD said:
I think you're misunderstanding. How do I mkae the ship dock itself without me being in it? I did a search on google and everything I found is abotu doing something else that involves having the ship dock itself and it's all like well first you order the ship to dock itself and then you, blah blah blah. How do you order it to do that? I can't find a menu that lets you do that. There's one for follow me and destroy that, etc but nothing for go here or dock here.
Can anyone tell me why this guy is not giving me the option to give him his ship? As you can see, the failure message comes from him but it's the right station and the right ship so what the fuck?:
Aselith said:
Oh, apparently there might be software in the ship to upgrade? I know that's available, but not sure if that controls the feature you're speaking of.
Oh, watch this vid: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EQuWmtqz6sI&NR=1
He commands a ship to dock remotely.
Joe Molotov
Member
So Cthulhu and Dungeons of Dredmor are both coming out today? Hmmm...I don't even know if I can swing $8 at this point. Maybe I'll just get Cthulhu.
PixyJunket
Member
Sweet, I'll pick it up for a Lincoln.Pandoracell said:
I'll be passing on Cthulhu.
Necromanti
Member
So did no one on GAF win in the drawing? Some people here had practically done all the summer challenges.
Some people here had practically done all the summer challenges.Rodney McKay
Member
shagg_187 said:
-Star wars: Go with Jedi Outcast: Jedi Knight 2.
-Never played Stalker
-Deus Ex, eh, I don't know. I don't think it holds up in the gameplay department, but if you can look past that there is a lot of cool stuff.
-Elder Scrolls: Morrowind has a much better world, but the combat isn't great at least early on (death by tiny hoping slugs). Oblivion has annoying level scaling (Didn't notice it when I played it back when it came out, but now it's very noticable) but there are mods to fix that if you don't like it. There are probably a lot of mods for Morrowind as well. I think there's one that lets you play the game using Oblivion's engine. Called Morroblivion or something like that.
-Half-Life: Play in order definitely. About halfway through 1 it got very frustrating for me so I turned on cheats to get through the rest of it. HL2 and it's episodes are all fantastic, though.
-Just Cause 2: Fantastic game to just mess around with. Easiest game I've ever modded too.
-Mass Effect 2: Yes ME1 is on the PC and is much better than the 360 version. If you don't own it/don't want to play it, you can buy Mass Effect Genesis for about $4. It's an interactive comic that goes through ME1 and lets you make choices that carry over to ME2. I love ME1 and 2. Be sure to pick up the DLC for ME2. It's expensive to buy it the DLC on the PC (about $30 for all he gameplay ones), but I like having even more Mass Effect 2.
-Serious Sam HD: They recently updated SSHD second to include all the levels of the first so you only need that one installed.
-Alpha Protocol: Meh. Bad gameplay and I didn't care about the story at all. If you build your character very specifically (Pistol, Stealth) then it can be OK. It does some neat stuff, but I didn't think they excused the rest of the games quality.
I would play through the Half-Life series first (I just replayed HL 2 and episodes this weekend, fantastic!). It will break your heart having to wait for HL3.
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