STEAM- Announcements & Updates 2011 Edition |OT2|

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svegis 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!
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Everything else plays fine, nothing wrong with my rig. Been checking Steam and CoH forums and seems like its an issue with newer gfx cards too. Looks like the only fix is to manually change the settings in the config file.

No one else knows how to fix it.
 
TheBez said:
I bought JC2 during the sale and installed it. Started playing and the audio during cutscenes is way out of sync. Did anyone else have this problem and know of a fix?
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Are you running a modern PC? I've heard and seen it happen before, where the audio just plays normally but the game itself isn't keeping up.
 
Necromanti said:
So did no one on GAF win in the drawing? :( Some people here had practically done all the summer challenges.
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I was about to ask if they've even announced the winners, or that they've notified the winners. I knew they did the drawing but I don't remember seeing anything about notifying the winners.
 
Necromanti said:
So did no one on GAF win in the drawing? :( Some people here had practically done all the summer challenges.
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The odds were still pretty awful. Could have stopped at a gas station, plopped down a dollar on a Cash 3 ticked (1-3-9), and had better odds of winning. The 500 bucks would have paid for most people's top 10 wishlist too.

Derrick01 said:
I was about to ask if they've even announced the winners, or that they've notified the winners. I knew they did the drawing but I don't remember seeing anything about notifying the winners.
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They don't do that. Which is why I burned out on previous ones. Only evidence drawings even exist is people randomly post their winning e-mails on internet forums.
 
At least during the Thanksgiving Scavenger Hunt, they announced what games had been won, even if they didn't announce the names of the winners.
 
1-D_FTW said:
The odds were still pretty awful. Could have stopped at a gas station, plopped down a dollar on a Cash 3 ticked (1-3-9), and had better odds of winning. The 500 bucks would have paid for most people's top 10 wishlist too.
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Not really. 100 winners out of the accounts that entered. There are what, at most 20 million active accounts, but probably fewer than that participated.

Let's say 10 million users bothered to go for tickets, that's still a 1 in 100,000 chance to win assuming you got the average number of tickets. I wonder what the average number of tickets was.

1 in 100,000 would be much better odds than a lottery jackpot.
 
Zzoram said:
Not really. 100 winners out of the accounts that entered. There are what, at most 20 million active accounts, but probably fewer than that participated.

Let's say 10 million users bothered to go for tickets, that's still a 1 in 100,000 chance to win assuming you got the average number of tickets. I wonder what the average number of tickets was.

1 in 100,000 would be much better odds than a lottery jackpot.
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If 3 million users averaged 3 tickets each, that's a total of 9,000,000 tickets. There's 100 winners. That cuts it down to 90,000:1. And lets say you had 50 tickets. That brings you down to 1:800:1. A cash 3 drawing only has 1000 combinations. The odds are 1000:1 to win 500 dollars.
 
Joe Molotov said:
At least during the Thanksgiving Scavenger Hunt, they announced what games had been won, even if they didn't announce the names of the winners.
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Those were daily draws, seeing as the summer event is over I doubt we'll see what anyone won.
 
Pandoracell said:
Are you running a modern PC? I've heard and seen it happen before, where the audio just plays normally but the game itself isn't keeping up.
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Yup modern PC can run all games at highest settings. THough I haven't stress tested with Witcher 2 yet. And yeah the problem is the audio plays faster than the cutscenes are happening. It's not like they are lagging just the audio doesn't pause accordingly.
 
TheBez said:
Yup modern PC can run all games at highest settings. THough I haven't stress tested with Witcher 2 yet. And yeah the problem is the audio plays faster than the cutscenes are happening. It's not like they are lagging just the audio doesn't pause accordingly.
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Not sure what to tell you in this case :/

I would post in the "I need a new PC" thread as well if you haven't already, as those guys are always helpful with performance questions.
 
1-D_FTW said:
The odds were still pretty awful. Could have stopped at a gas station, plopped down a dollar on a Cash 3 ticked (1-3-9), and had better odds of winning. The 500 bucks would have paid for most people's top 10 wishlist too.



They don't do that. Which is why I burned out on previous ones. Only evidence drawings even exist is people randomly post their winning e-mails on internet forums.
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I figured as much. I wish Valve would fill us in on something every now and then, not that I'm expecting to win.
 
They have the double pack up with both games, and each individual game, each at $2.69. Make sure you purchase the double pack instead of one of the single games by accident. Unless you really want to support the devs, in which case buy them singularly.
 
Nabs said:
Cthulhu Saves the World / BoDVII - $2.69
http://store.steampowered.com/app/107310/
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bought! :-D

HBroward said:
They have the double pack up with both games, and each individual game, each at $2.69. Make sure you purchase the double pack instead of one of the single games by accident. Unless you really want to support the devs, in which case buy them singularly.
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actually the individual game pages just have the double pack listed
 
Aselith 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.
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I hear ya. I tried out X3 for the first time last night as well, and I think I've decided it will be a game I play when I have a book (or my phone) with me, ha. But a couple things to keep in mind:

1) Games of this nature intentionally start you off really scrubby. This is so the improvements actually feel good. So the gamer actually appreciates them. Yes it's a bad first impression and yes it's not fun to have to spend literally 5+ minutes to fly anywhere. But it's done this way so the player truly appreciates The value of their first jump drive, for example. And so the feeling of relief/elation when the player gets it is genuinely earned.

2) Missions can be dropped or ignored at any time. Once you saw it was going to take a while and the credit payout was low, feel free to just ignore it. Fly somewhere else and see what else is happening in space.
 
Nabs said:
Cthulhu Saves the World / BoDVII - $2.69
http://store.steampowered.com/app/107310/
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Bought. I won't be playing it any time soon so I broke my own rule. (If you won't play it right away, wait for a sale). I made an exception because I appreciate that the indie didn't go to $5 or $10 like they could have, and I want to support them.

Edit: Encourage you to gift this to anyone on your Steam list you see playing or owning other RPGs.
 
Palette Swap said:
Which translates to 1.74€.
Bought and gifted.
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I had a review code, but have already gifted it to 3 friends. Seriously buy it people, absolutely fantastic. And the price of a sandwich. If that.
 
Philthy said:
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.
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You had me at roguelike. Bought! I also picked up Cthulhu Saves the World / BoDVII

So much gaming goodness in 7 dollars.
 
Announcement on the Sale group, the title had my interest piqued but the rest is pretty plain :
It's gonna be the future soon.
posted by Cheweh @ 10:43AM on July 13, 2011
Thanks for coming out to summer camp this year.

I think my favorite thing was watching counselor Burton being chased by all the beavers after messing with their dam.

Do you have something that really stood out to you?

We plan to send out more newsletters throughout the year so be sure to stay tuned.

Regards,
Zach and the rest of the camp counselors
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I got a little problem. I recieved the double pack as a gift, and tried to activate it through my email. But when I click the link in the email, just the blank "gift ready" page comes up.

Any way to look at pending gifts inside the steam client?
 
gdt5016 said:
I got a little problem. I recieved the double pack as a gift, and tried to activate it through my email. But when I click the link in the email, just the blank "gift ready" page comes up.

Any way to look at pending gifts inside the steam client?
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At the top: Games > Manage Gifts and Guest Passes
 
I played the demo of Cthulhu Saves the World on XBLIG and it is awesome. Double pack under 3 dollars is a steal!

Dungeons of Dredmor looks interesting too. I might have to give it a whirl as well.
 
Dungeons of Dredmor looks like it could be fun but the art style is pretty amateurish, I feel it could hurt the game in the long run.

I don't think there are any graphical rogue-likes on Steam though, so kudos to DoD.
 
gdt5016 said:
When I go there, it says I have no gifts available lol.
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For what it's worth, the games didn't show up at all in my library after I bought them. A Steam restart somehow solved it. Maybe it's the same with your gifted copies?
 
Palette Swap said:
For what it's worth, the games didn't show up at all in my library after I bought them. A Steam restart somehow solved it. Maybe it's the same with your gifted copies?
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Rebooting my client did the trick. Thanks!
 
I bought that Cthulhu/BoD pack without even thinking about it. I bought it pretty hard, too.
 
GDJustin said:
Bought. I won't be playing it any time soon so I broke my own rule. (If you won't play it right away, wait for a sale). I made an exception because I appreciate that the indie didn't go to $5 or $10 like they could have, and I want to support them.

Edit: Encourage you to gift this to anyone on your Steam list you see playing or owning other RPGs.
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Same here. I appreciate indie devs bringing old school style games, and while I don't think I'll play it right away, I do want to support these guys.
 
I got the Cthulu double pack and dredmore. Good day for indie RPG's.

Played a bit of Breath of Death before heading off to work here and it's pretty cool.
 
Does anyone have any opinions on the daily deal - IL-2 Sturmovik: 1946. It looks pretty interesting, and seems like it has a great amount of content for $5.

Any opinions?
 
eemijun said:
Does anyone have any opinions on the daily deal - IL-2 Sturmovik: 1946. It looks pretty interesting, and seems like it has a great amount of content for $5.

Any opinions?
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I really want to know about this too. Looks good.
 
Figure I'd ask here since it was ignored in the TF2 thread (and I'm still not sure if this is the right place to ask). Thanks in advance.

Luminate said:
So very recently I've been having a problem with TF2/Steam constantly crashing. TF2 runs perfectly fine when I'm actually playing, but whenever I try to quit, the game crashes and freezes so bad, I can't even Force Quit and have to hard shutdown. Tried just logging into Steam this morning (no game playing) for about 10 minutes and then logout, Steam crashes from that too and I have to Force Quit. It was running just fine about a week ago.

Anyone know what the deal is? On a Macbook Pro and don't have anything usually running w/Steam besides an already loaded page on Chrome if that helps.
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GAF, help me. I'm OCD about my Steam list. I don't want games in it that I don't have any interest in. I never buy indie packs, I only buy the games I really want, even if they're more expensive.

I want Cthulhu but not that other thing (Breath of whatever). Now what? Will they be released separately?
 
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