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STEAM- Announcements & Updates 2011 Edition
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jaundicejuice said:
I'm replacing my wireless 360 with the Razer Onza (seen as 360 controller on PC) as soon as Best Buy gets some new stock in. From what I can see, it seems like the new champion.
Current controller has become a worthless POS because the stick drift is out of control. When it kicks in badly, I can't even play games. I preferred the d-pad in Nimbus, but the left stick was drifting and I had dualing inputs occuring while playing. This is after having the chord shorting out in my previous 360 controller. Razer build quality can't be any worse, and hopefully they have their standard warranty in place.
Stallion Free
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Brilliant decision on someone's part.1-D_FTW said:
BloodySinner
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The D-PAD is still garbage. Just FYI.
Other than having different triggers, it's the same. Triggers are a lot longer and have more movement, so I guess it'd be better for acceleration in racing games, but it feels weird in FPSes (even though the amount to pull in order to fire is minuscule, it's just strange to have that much more to pull to hit the end).
Face buttons = mechanical, so they feel infinitely better.
I think the DPAD is fine for FPSes that use it for actions or abilities, since they're distinct buttons and there's less chance of hitting a diagonal and getting no reaction. But yeah, for diagonals they're garbage.
Face buttons = mechanical, so they feel infinitely better.
I think the DPAD is fine for FPSes that use it for actions or abilities, since they're distinct buttons and there's less chance of hitting a diagonal and getting no reaction. But yeah, for diagonals they're garbage.
gregor7777
Banned
I just bought BC2 on Steam last night. I guarantee that's what goes on sale next lol.
Princess Skittles
Prince's's 'Skittle's
I'm a proud owner of the Xbox 360 and Saturn USB controller combo. THE BEST.
Edit: (plus a couple of Hori 360 sticks).
Edit: (plus a couple of Hori 360 sticks).
I'm using a Logitech F310. Outside of not having rumble, (there's another model that does) it's a pretty good controller! The d-pad is nice, and it uses X-input and Direct-input so it's pretty much compatible with everything. And the software is easy to use to set up keyboard or mouse emulation for those few (Vanguard Princess!!) that are stubborn about inputs! And it's cheap! I know this post sounds kinda viral marketeerish, but it's honestly a good controller and it replaced my wired 360 pad effortlessly.
LiquidMetal14
hide your water-based mammals
I feel like an idiot for jumping on it for 20 when I first put my PC together 3 months ago. It's been on sale for 5 like 3 times since lolgregor7777 said:
From The Dust
Banned
Veal said:
I'm thinking about getting the wireless 710. though I don't know if it's better to get a 360 controller or this
Stumpokapow
listen to the mad man
&Divius said:
~$7.50, iirc, but I think the effective price might have been lower in the Potato Pack.
Winterblink
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Dammit. Last minute debate in getting the Mount & Blade pack... is this game any good?
BobsRevenge
I do not avoid women, GAF, but I do deny them my essence.
imo, if you see Amnesia on sale you should use it as a reminder and rush to their official website and pay full price for it anyways. hahaha&Divius said:
edit: Mount and Blade is incredible. Way more addictive than I thought it was going to be.
I have a Razer onza, the first impressions are very good, but one week later, the A button stop working, two weeks later the rb trigger stop working, 3 weeks later the pad is in the garbage, I own a razer mice and i'm surprised for the bag off crap the pad is compared to their products, and the customers services are shit (at least in europe), if you have a stock 360 controller stay with it, don't waste the money.
And of course the D-pad are usseles, great for shooter's, crap for other games.
And of course the D-pad are usseles, great for shooter's, crap for other games.
crimsonheadGCN
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F.E.A.R. 3 will most likely be a Steamworks title, since the GamersGate page kinda confirms it:
http://www.gamersgate.com/DD-FEAR3/fear-3?aff=fb
Note: GFWL titles have "Other DRM." Steam titles have "Requires a 3rd party download and account."
Since it's being published by WB then there is a pretty good chance that they'll be using Steamworks for the new Batman.
http://www.gamersgate.com/DD-FEAR3/fear-3?aff=fb
Note: GFWL titles have "Other DRM." Steam titles have "Requires a 3rd party download and account."
Since it's being published by WB then there is a pretty good chance that they'll be using Steamworks for the new Batman.
Consider this a forewarning.
Do not buy King Arthur, even if it's a dollar. The performance is inexcusably bad, regardless of where the settings are.
I'm not the only one seeing this, either. There's threads on RPS and the Steam forum, discussing this issue.
Do not buy King Arthur, even if it's a dollar. The performance is inexcusably bad, regardless of where the settings are.
I'm not the only one seeing this, either. There's threads on RPS and the Steam forum, discussing this issue.
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I hope so fucking bad they use Steamworks for the new Batman because backing up saves for Arkham Asylum was quite possibly the greatest clusterfuck I have ever encountered on PC.crimsonheadGCN said:
Sir Garbageman
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TheExodu5 said:
Is it that bad? I bought it for $2 or so way back when and it's been sitting in my backlog forever, I was finally going to give it a shot soon though.
slidewinder
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No, it's an OK game. The performance does really suck, though.
Well Logitech generally makes good products and build quality is usually not an issue with them. A few things that may swing you more towards buying the 360 pad are the triggers and stick placement. The triggers have a ton of resistance but the travel is shorter the 360 pad. Dirt 2 was a little weird at first, but I quickly acclimated. I generally like asymmetrical stick placement, so I guess I'm a bit disappointed that there isn't a variant version out there.From The Dust said:
gregor7777
Banned
LiquidMetal14 said:
Eh, I'd be pissed if it went on sale literally the next day but otherwise I don't mind when that happens. I needed a new multi game.
That's the thing. There seems to be no consistent reason, for some having poor performance, while others are good to go.3chopl0x said:
It's not an AMD vs Nvidia thing either.
Here's something I noticed today:
That's mid-battle. The game is using next to none of my CPU.
I'm getting the same sub-20 frames, regardless of whether I'm on 1080p or 800x600.
LocoMrPollock
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Stallion Free said:
Copying a .sav file was that difficult?
Edit: Not trying to sound like an ass. Just really not understanding why it was difficult.
K.Jack said:
Runs fine for me as well, and it's really not a bad game.
LiquidMetal14
hide your water-based mammals
I needed that one game to test my PC with and I picked it for that reason. I waited on Crysis to go on sale before rebuying that for a second time though.gregor7777 said:
Ickman3400
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LocoMrPollock said:
I'm betting it had everything to do with games for windows.
As for that king arthur game I too haven't really had any problems with the game but I haven't put a ton of time into it. It ran well though.
Stallion Free
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I'm not sure if they changed in GOTY edition, but in the original release, my saves refused to be "valid" unless I backed up my GFWL profile info... which I found out too late. They never warn you or explain any part of it and the profile stuff wasn't in the same folder. It was needlessly complicated.LocoMrPollock said:
From another forum explaining it better:
But, yeah you sound like an ass whether you were trying to or not. I mean it took me 15 seconds of googling to make sure I wasn't imagining things.
Rodney McKay
Member
Ditto for me. Although that was only about 10 minutes before uninstalling it because I didn't need yet another game to distract me from my backlog wait list.Ickman3400 said:
MacGurcules
Member
Yeah, it's a pain in the dick. GFWL inexplicably encrypts your save games and ties them to your profile as well as something apparently random. So unless you backup both your save as well as your profile data you're boned if you ever want to resume from that save. That means that you can't just download someone else's save from the Internet nor can you just sign into your own profile on a fresh GFWL install and use just the save file.LocoMrPollock said:
The GFWL overlay crashed on me while I was playing Arkham Asylum and took my save with it. I was like 80% of the way through it. Had to start all over again. Man, it's a shame that such a great game was punctuated by such garbage. GFWL and Securom online activation? C'mon people.
slidewinder
Banned
I'm surprised more people around here don't use GameSave Manager. It's free, regularly updated, and deals well with potentially problematic saves, GFWL or otherwise.
The Broken Ska Record
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The Wishlist will do that! Except, you don't get an email/text or other notification, really, when something's on sale. But it's a quick way to see if anything you want has a lower price.cackhyena said:
Copying a single save file does NOT work for GFWL. Because MS is so terrified that we'll be able to share save files (read: achievements) with other people, they made it so that the save file is also linked to your GFWL profile. You need to back up a bunch of files from two separate locations or the save file won't work.LocoMrPollock said:
I lost a few massive saves in a reformat because of this.
edit: Oh, beaten.
LocoMrPollock
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epmode said:
You can just copy the .sav file and then start a new game and rename/replace it as well. Works so long as it's the same profile. I do it all the time.
Guess it is a bit more of a hassle then it should be, but it's not really rocket surgery either.
Stallion Free said:
Yeah, I always just used the above method. I figured it out myself because, for some reason only known to the devs of Flatout: UC, the online and offline saves are separate and don't share the same data. But yeah, it works with every GFWL game I own, even on different PC's.
plc268 said:
Great program. Except when I was ready to reformat my PC and made a file of all my saves with it, I somehow forgot to actually back it up anyway. I wish Steam had something like this for games without native cloud support so I could at least have it automatically find all of my save games.
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