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STEAM- Announcements & Updates 2011 Edition
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Nabs
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SpaceChem is getting a nice update with Steam Achievements, friend leaderboards, and a level editor. Oh, and TF2 items. Here's hoping for a Midweek Madness sale.
BentMyWookiee
Member
And only $8.99LovingSteam said:
Seems like a great price, so no point in waiting for a sale for me! I'm going to grab this as soon as I get home today.
Stallion Free
Cock Encumbered
No it's fairly dead. I just played some the other day and there were about 25 or so people online and the one group I got in with was all retardedly high level. I'm just waiting for a couple more of my friends to pick it up at some point.DoctorWho said:
Sir Garbageman
Member
Ermac said:
YES
Played a bit of M&B Warband last night. It strikes me as a fairly typical indie game. And I mean that in the best possible way (I play a lot of indie games).
That is to say, it is very unpolished and lots of elements are poorly explained, but it also has a lot of exciting new ideas. I can tell if you can get past that initial hump it'll probably turn into something really compelling.
That seems to be the way a lot of indie games are. If you can get over that initial hump, where it's completely unforgiving, and you have no idea what's going on, and you run into bugs within the first 10 minutes, etc., underneath all that you'll end up experiencing something compelling and new and obviously put together with a lot of love and soul.
On my first game I ended up with a band of about 25 guys, all semi-trained. Took a quest from a king to capture three prisoners from the nation he's at war with. But I couldn't actually figure out how to take the prisoners.
First I raided the enemy's caravan. Afterwards I could steal some goods, but not take prisoners.
I raided one of the enemy nation's villages, thinking that when I won I could take a few of them prisoner. But instead, I just slaughtered the entire town (55 dead!). Normally you can take prisoners after a battle, but that wasn't an option here.
Opposing nation sent out a huge force and pwned me. Game over.
That is to say, it is very unpolished and lots of elements are poorly explained, but it also has a lot of exciting new ideas. I can tell if you can get past that initial hump it'll probably turn into something really compelling.
That seems to be the way a lot of indie games are. If you can get over that initial hump, where it's completely unforgiving, and you have no idea what's going on, and you run into bugs within the first 10 minutes, etc., underneath all that you'll end up experiencing something compelling and new and obviously put together with a lot of love and soul.
On my first game I ended up with a band of about 25 guys, all semi-trained. Took a quest from a king to capture three prisoners from the nation he's at war with. But I couldn't actually figure out how to take the prisoners.
First I raided the enemy's caravan. Afterwards I could steal some goods, but not take prisoners.
I raided one of the enemy nation's villages, thinking that when I won I could take a few of them prisoner. But instead, I just slaughtered the entire town (55 dead!). Normally you can take prisoners after a battle, but that wasn't an option here.
Opposing nation sent out a huge force and pwned me. Game over.
LocoMrPollock
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bigace33 said:
The community patch is a requirement no matter what OS you're running. The game is buggy as shit without it. But yeah, it'll run on Windows 7.
Minsc
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bigace33 said:
Yes, get Wesp's latest patch (it does everything, official patch, memory fix, etc), install the non-plus version when prompted, and then you can browse to the installation folder and in the tools directory there's an .exe to tweak the resolutions to the aspect ratio of your choice instead of the default (and only) 4:3 ones.
Don't kid yourself though, works properly is at best, slightly better than the 10,000 bugs it had at release. That's not to say you'll hit 1,000 bugs, many people don't encounter any, but don't be dumb and only use a single save file either.
Of All Trades
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The easiest way to get prisoners is to take them down with a staff (or to have staff-equipped soldiers). The game has a lot of weird quirks and some of them IMO kinda limit the freedom the game seems to promise.GDJustin said:
LocoMrPollock
Banned
Minsc said:Yes, get Wesp's latest patch (it does everything, official patch, memory fix, etc), install the non-plus version when prompted, and then you can browse to the installation folder and in the tools directory there's an .exe to tweak the resolutions to the aspect ratio of your choice instead of the default (and only) 4:3 ones.
Don't kid yourself though, works properly is at best, slightly better than the 10,000 bugs it had at release. That's not to say you'll hit 1,000 bugs, many people don't encounter any, but don't be dumb and only use a single save file either.
Pretty sure you still have to open the console in-game at least once and type in a command in there as well. But then once you save, you never have to do it again.
Yeah you need to change to FOV and switch it to animorphic here it is for those who will need it.
Full thread here.
platypotamus
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GDJustin said:
You get prisoners from enemies that are wounded but not killed in battle. This happens from them getting dealt bludgeoning damage (horse trample counts, as does falling damage, though that's rare).
And what do you mean game over? There's no game over, just build yourself back up!
(Early game helpful tip: search taverns for people with names that you can get to join you as companions. They have useful skills, can't be killed (knocked out only), and are just super useful. Some hate each other though, so you'll have to do some Baldur's Gate style party selection to end up with a solid group that gets along (somewhere between 6 and 8, I think, depending on who you choose).
Minsc
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LocoMrPollock said:
I'll double check later, but I'm pretty sure that's outdated, and the patcher also fixes the FOV (it's part of the patcher's UI, you pick what FOV you want). I don't remember ever having to go to the console to get the resolutions, they show up right in the game's options.
LocoMrPollock
Banned
speculawyer
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Kotick pulls off the ultimate trolling of Steam GAF.Zimbardo said:
platypotamus
Member
GDJustin said:
A couple of them kind of are when you first get them, but when they level, you can give them party skills, like tracking, or training, or (most importantly) the medic skills. There are too many of these for you to have them all on your main character, and they are supremely useful.
LocoMrPollock
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Minsc said:
Joe Molotov
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LocoMrPollock said:
lol, when I first read then I thought you were censoring out a certain four-letter word, and that you meant it played really bad.
Stumpokapow
listen to the mad man
I'm done waiting for Bloodlines. If it's part of the Steam summer sale, I'll buy it. If not, I'll buy it the day the Steam summer sale ends.
Joe Molotov
Member
3chopl0x said:
And I'll probably buy it too.
MasterShotgun
brazen editing lynx
3chopl0x said:
I must be part of that market. I know what part of my night is going to consist of.
SapientWolf
Trucker Sexologist
Did War for Cybertron ever get an official fps unlock? It was originally locked to 30 on the PC.Zimbardo said:
OK, that Universe sandbox is actually sweet looking. They seem to be treating galaxies the same as solor systems, tho, with the inner part rotating much faster than the outer. That's not actually true for galaxies due to them being 90% dark matter (at least that's the current thinking). It'd still be cool to slam their basic galaxies together.
Psy-Phi
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Why not buy it from D2D now? Maybe I missed an earlier conversation....Stumpokapow said:
I just bought it. I recently got to the point that I don't care where the game comes from anymore. (so long as their DRM isn't atrocious). Just as long as I get the game. And D2D is reliable. Used to be a Steam baby, if it wasn't on steam I didn't want it.
Scott32020
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Just got Universe Sandbox, but when I try to open it I get the message:
"Unable to load DLL 'SteamworksWrapper.dll': The specified module could not be found. (Exception from HRESULT: 0x8007007E)
Error Code: 2.1.0 Steam - PPOHO"
Anyone have a clue on how to fix this? The SteamworksWrapper file is in the steamapps -> common -> universe sandbox folder.
"Unable to load DLL 'SteamworksWrapper.dll': The specified module could not be found. (Exception from HRESULT: 0x8007007E)
Error Code: 2.1.0 Steam - PPOHO"
Anyone have a clue on how to fix this? The SteamworksWrapper file is in the steamapps -> common -> universe sandbox folder.
3chopl0x said:
Holy shit this sounds awesome. Someone buy it now and tell us if it's as awesome as it sounds.
RE: Bloodlines, I almost went for the deal but I've become a total Steamtard and I'll just buy it sale or not when I actually have time to play it. Right now I'm working on ME2 and Witcher 2 will be out by the time I'm done with that so it would have been backlogged either way.
Scott32020
Member
It's there in the folder, but it gives me this message regardless. Afterwards it asks me if I want to load it in safe mode or normally, but either way the circular loading icon just comes up yet the program doesn't open (it shows the UniverseSandbox.exe in task manager however)desu said:
Scott32020
Member
Found the solution here, apparently only for the initial people who installed, but it's fine from people who installed from the fix onward.pal670 said:
Joe Molotov
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Bought Runaway 3, The Next Big Thing, and Hector: Episode 1 today. ADVENTURE TIME!
Syphon Filter
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Question about Mass Effect 1 and 2 on Steam. The store page mentions "END USER LICENSE AGREEMENT REQUIRED TO PLAY". My question is do you need to accept the EULA every time you want to play or only when you are first installing it?
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