graywolf323
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looks like the Railworks Complete DLC Pack is back
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STEAM- Announcements & Updates 2011 Edition
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PumpkinPie
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Not sure if this is the right place to ask, but how would one hypothetically go about selling a STEAM account? I know that it isn't allowed but I also know that it is done.
The_Inquisitor
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PumpkinPie said:
Illegal here and for steam. If you get caught Valve has the right to outright ban your entire account.
Union Carbine
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I couldn't find a way to pre-order it via the Steam app. Do you have a link?Trojita said:
Rodney McKay said:So I just picked up and downloaded Dawn of War II and Chaos Rising and it seems to run fine except for one slightly amusing glitch on the main menu.
The dude in armor standing at the main menu when you start the game up is missing his head.
It loaded the first time I started it up then it restarted when I tweaked the settings and his head and other parts were blacked out, so I restarted it again. Now he looks fine except for the missing head.
I'm thinking of just reinstalling it to see if that fixes it unless anyone has another solution.
I'm running a Athlon 2 X4 3.0Ghz quad core and a Radeon 5770.
That is a weird bug, try playing with the graphics settings. Else reinstall / check game files
Yeah, I'm running an i7 / 5970 and get the same issue. Messed around with the graphic settings while keeping all other settings at their max. Changing the texture detail appears to impact this weird glitch.Rodney McKay said:So I just picked up and downloaded Dawn of War II and Chaos Rising and it seems to run fine except for one slightly amusing glitch on the main menu.
The dude in armor standing at the main menu when you start the game up is missing his head.
It loaded the first time I started it up then it restarted when I tweaked the settings and his head and other parts were blacked out, so I restarted it again. Now he looks fine except for the missing head.
I'm thinking of just reinstalling it to see if that fixes it unless anyone has another solution.
I'm running a Athlon 2 X4 3.0Ghz quad core and a Radeon 5770.
Low and Medium = Everything shows up fine
High = Specific armor pieces showing up but blank
Ultra = Everything shows up but the Head
Now actual gameplay everything is fine with no glitches what so ever... it's just the main menu. Very Weird.
The_Inquisitor said:
Why is it illegal? Is breaking TOS really illegal? Certainly if Valve catches you they would argue they have the right to ban you and might do so. It's not like your selling copies of games while you can still play them. Hell, here on Gaf people exchanging money for gifts to get around bad regional pricing is most definitely against the TOS.
I just did a quick ebay search and several people have their Steam accounts up for sale. No bids though. You could also try Craig's List.
It's true if Valve caught you they could ban you, but I'm not sure how they'd catch you. They could probably tell ebay to take the auction down though, but that doesn't seem to be happening.
And I know people sell vouchers on ebay all the time for Steam games, like if you get one with your gpu, or if you buy a game that comes with another game you already have and it's one of the ones Valve lets you gift away.
Joe Molotov
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Union Carbine said:
You can't preorder it yet, but they announced what the preorder bonuses would be for each retailer.
Sorry if this is a little OT, but with steam, can you have your downloaded games spread across more than one drive? I was thinking of getting a small SSD and put on (besides the OS) some bigger games (HL2, Borderlands, etc) to help with load times, and others on my regular internal.
Union Carbine
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Ah, okay. I put it in my wish list. I'll check back on it closer to release.Joe Molotov said:
archnemesis
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Yes, it's a standalone expansion. All games in the series are worth playing if you have the time. You can import your heroes from Dawn of War II to the Chaos Rising expansion, and probably also to the new Retribution expansion.Dice said:
Edit: You can get both the base game and the first expansion for cheap from the THQ Winter sale.
Warhammer 40,000: Dawn of War II - $7.50
Warhammer 40,000: Dawn of War II - Chaos Rising - $5
Dice said:
Dawn of War 2 = Main Game
Chaos Rising = Expansion number one
Retribution = Expansion number two
Play the campaign in that order. Can't wait till March 1 to get my hands on Retribution.
The campaign might be separate in Retribution, not sure. However all character stats from DoW2 campaign carries over to Chaos Rising.^Yes, CR registers.
You definitely want to play vanilla + xpac first. For the gameplay and to be caught up on the story.
Retribution is 100% standalone, because it drops GFWL. The only connectivity is with it allowing you to import your profiles from the other games.Dice said:
You definitely want to play vanilla + xpac first. For the gameplay and to be caught up on the story.
Dice
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Okay, done. This is a nice deal. It also seems like the perfect blend for me between RTS/RPG/Looter. Not too mindless (Torchlight), not too complex (Dragon Age), not too intense (Starcraft 2), not too slow (Total War), not too douchebaggy (MMOs) not too bland (Elder Scrolls)
Cloak said:
Yes, but you'll have to do it yourself; you'll need to create symbolic links to where you moved your files/folders on the SSD. There was a thread about it recently: http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showthread.php?t=420200
This should be a good place to ask.
Has anyone played through all of the current HL episodes? Im not really a big fps fan and wondering if I should play through them.
I absolutely loathe horror games. If theres going to be fucking shit jumping out of nowhere on me with volume+++ scating the shit out of me Ill just watch a playthrough on youtube. Im only considering playing through it because supposedly portal could possibly tie into HL E3 or something down the road. Even if it were only a slight link itd be cool as shit.
Has anyone played through all of the current HL episodes? Im not really a big fps fan and wondering if I should play through them.
I absolutely loathe horror games. If theres going to be fucking shit jumping out of nowhere on me with volume+++ scating the shit out of me Ill just watch a playthrough on youtube. Im only considering playing through it because supposedly portal could possibly tie into HL E3 or something down the road. Even if it were only a slight link itd be cool as shit.
Aaron said:
Didn't have any of these problems. I guess repetitive since sometimes your troops get sent back to an old area but you are always getting new things to do and new lewt to find. Chaos Rising has a more linear campaign. I don't know if it is any better or worse overall. I liked them both.
Diomedeskun
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I have only played a little of HL 1, which is definitely a faster paced action game with plenty of things that jump out at you, although what I have played is really good.
I have played all of Half Life 2 after spending decades as a platformer and JRPG player with only Doom era fps experience and with Portal and Fallout 3 as my introduction to modern computer gaming.
Half Life 2 is eminently playable for anyone who can grasp WASD controls and is absolutely required gaming. You will love (almost) every moment of the game even if you do not normally care for FPS gaming. It is much more deliberate and focused on creative gaming and cinematic set pieces than the average action game, and it has a great story and great characters. Half Life 1 is not necessary, and many characters that seem to carry over really were not particularly developed in the first game, so you don't really get to know them until HL2 anyway.
I have played all of Half Life 2 after spending decades as a platformer and JRPG player with only Doom era fps experience and with Portal and Fallout 3 as my introduction to modern computer gaming.
Half Life 2 is eminently playable for anyone who can grasp WASD controls and is absolutely required gaming. You will love (almost) every moment of the game even if you do not normally care for FPS gaming. It is much more deliberate and focused on creative gaming and cinematic set pieces than the average action game, and it has a great story and great characters. Half Life 1 is not necessary, and many characters that seem to carry over really were not particularly developed in the first game, so you don't really get to know them until HL2 anyway.
Cipherr said:
HL is no scary game, yeah there are a bunch of boo zombies but it's about as scary as RE4, in other words not at all. I'm gonna get stabbed here, but imo Half Life games are average fps's. The story is goofy and the weapons feel like they have no power. It's not that they are bad games but they aren't a must play like some people make them out to be.
arts&crafts
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I am going to ask in this thread because I am running out of ideas. I am getting these random css lag spikes that last 1 second. I have 20ping (doesnt fluctuate when these spikes happen) and 150-200fps (doesnt dip when I get these spikes) I am on wireless internet. Anyone have any ideas? Maybe it is a directX thing?
They are more about world building than they are satisfying gunplay. Half Life 1 was very impressive on release for a number of reasons, Half Life 2 was great as well but less impressive. The thing is, it released alongside Doom 3 and Halo 2, and clearly demolished them both in quality. It doesn't really hold up on repeated playthroughs, but it's a great one-time thing (minus the boat and buggy sections). I agree it is overpraised, but it's still worth playing.Xapati said:
Episode 1 and 2 are both better than the main game. Episode 2 especially. They are leading the series in a more focused direction, and it's better for that.
As for the scares, there is a section of HL2 called Ravenholm that is especially tense, and it's the closest the series skirts with horror. The tension comes less with "shit out of nowhere" jumps and more "oh my god when will these things stop cominOH SHIT NO NOT ANOTHER FAST ONE."
Minsc
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Aaron said:
It's punishing, repetitive and badly structured, but it's still fun. It really makes you appreciate the characters and level design even more in Chaos Rising. I think if you just skip DoW 2 for CR, you might have more fun, but you miss out on all the banter from the original.
The original campaign was clear the area and then fight the boss, while being unable to save until you've cleared the entire (too long) stage. Every area I played was set up this exact same way, and it was just boring. Chaos Rising is more dynamic with various objectives and situations, plus you can save anywhere. I think it's easily better.Mrbob said:
So I'm just coming back to steam after a bit of a hiatus and it's gone all buggy on me. Continuously crashes, won't install games, won't resume downloads, won't launch games (funnily enough I managed to buy games though, yay King Arthur). I've reinstalled multiple times having saved across my steamapps folder, tried steam both with and without replacing the steamapps folder with my old one and still no dice, it just freezes up or stops responding and then windows asks me if I want to close it or wait (waiting does nothing, tried it)....
Man I just wanna play Recettear... Left it on the final stage of installing where it says it's creating local cache files or whatever for 4 hours last night, kinda over it. 177 games and I can't play any of them. Frustrating, hope the steam support guys get back to me soon
Man I just wanna play Recettear... Left it on the final stage of installing where it says it's creating local cache files or whatever for 4 hours last night, kinda over it. 177 games and I can't play any of them. Frustrating, hope the steam support guys get back to me soon
Minsc
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Aaron said:
Oh there's no doubt it is vastly better. In every way. I'd still suggest playing DoW 2 because the characters were enjoyable for me even if the missions weren't... I looked forward to the time between missions where they talk amongst themselves. Leveling up and loot distribution was enjoyable as well, but all that's even better in CR.
I didn't enjoy not being able to save in DoW 2 either, especially when missions could stretch past 45 minutes, however I did appreciate the tension it adds to some missions, since you can't replay them if you lose. Also the difficulty on the defend the base missions could be downright brutal if you don't have a proper strategy/build. I think I played on hard though, so that may have hurt my experience somewhat.
If you can't install and run Steam on a completely clean directory (no clientregistry.blob, no steamapps folder), then it sounds like something may be severely wrong with your computer. You may want to try some spybot search & destroy and/or antivirus scans, or maybe scandisk to make sure your hard disk isn't dying.Soule said:
Finally started CR after finishing a Primarch run on DoW II. Christ, this was punishing at first.
Once I got a bit of upgraded loot, back to rolling through but man, the campaigns play so differently. From slow & methodical to utter ... chaos.
That said, first campaign is still worth a playthrough. If one has issues, just sub Cyrus in for the easy run.
Once I got a bit of upgraded loot, back to rolling through but man, the campaigns play so differently. From slow & methodical to utter ... chaos.
That said, first campaign is still worth a playthrough. If one has issues, just sub Cyrus in for the easy run.
Dice
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Okay so I guess that blacked out sections ARE going to show up in game at some point, and that it is apparently a glitch related to the morphological AA. The problem with that is I had that on with the 10.10e hotfix, but then my drivers updated and the little checkbox is gone now. So what do I do? My card is a 5850.
Edit: Trying 11.1a hotfix.
Edit: Trying 11.1a hotfix.
Dice said:
I'd turf your old drivers completely with Driver Sweeper and then install the newest ones clean.
Thanks, just doing that now. I reinstalled steam. again. This time I tried to install Black Ops and it's downloading* super smooth. I'm starting to think maybe it's recettear? And yet it moves installed straight away, black ops is downloading the fastest I've ever seen it download, it's only frozen when the installer for Recettear wouldn't complete and I tried to abandon it, I'm gonna let Black Ops download and then try launching that see how I go from there.Blizzard said:
Dice
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Okay that worked, but for different reasons than expected.
I guess the real issue was that it was set to Adaptive MSAA. For some reason even though I said "Use game settings" that still made it bug out, and it is also what was making the shadows look like shit. The other two settings work fine, and I have it set to SSAA now and everything is pretty with no black areas.
I guess the real issue was that it was set to Adaptive MSAA. For some reason even though I said "Use game settings" that still made it bug out, and it is also what was making the shadows look like shit. The other two settings work fine, and I have it set to SSAA now and everything is pretty with no black areas.
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