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STEAM announcements & updates 2011 Thread 3 | Buy now, play later.

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Zzoram

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There are probably 5 million people entering the contest for 10 chances to win their wishlist. It's almost as hard as winning the lottery.
 
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ArjanN

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Some of the achievements that are going to be in the xmas sale event are already active.
I've already gotten the ones in Killing Floor, Hard Reset and HOARD.

Other games with xmas achievements and likely to be part of the xmas sale event/contest:

Bolded are active achievements.

A Game of Thrones - Genesis
AaaaaAAaaaAAAaaAAAAaAAAAA!!! -- A Reckless Disregard for Gravity - Awesome
Air Conflicts - Secret Wars
Alien Zombie Megadeath
Anomaly Warzone Earth
Bastion
Beat Hazard
Bunch Of Heroes
Cargo! - The quest for gravity
Cave Story+
Costume Quest
Crimecraft: BLEEDOUT Starter Kit
DEFCON
Demolition, Inc.
Detour (No achievement yet)
Dino D-Day(No achievement yet)
Dungeon Defenders
E.Y.E: Divine Cybermancy
EDGE
Fate of the World
Greed Corp
Guardians of Graxia
Hard Reset
HOARD
Jamestown
Killing Floor
Nation Red(No achievement yet)
Nuclear Dawn
Orcs Must Die!
PAYDAY: The Heist
The Polynomial
Post Apocalyptic Mayhem
Psychonauts
Red Orchestra 2: Heroes of Stalingrad
Renegade Ops
Revenge Of The Titans
Rise of Immortals
Rock of Ages
RUSH
Sanctum
Sequence
Space Pirates and Zombies
Super Meat Boy
Swords and Soldiers HD
Toki Tori
Warhammer 40,000 Space Marine
Warhammer® 40,000®: Dawn of War® II – Retribution™
Wings of Prey
Xotic

For people planning to participate it's probably a good idea to download the games on this list that you already own now, and not during the sale/event when Steam servers will likely be crippled by massive traffic. :p
 
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ArjanN

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Volcynika said:
I got the ones in Beat Hazard already. Might go for the Payday one tonight.
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I think the ones in Beat Hazard only show up in the game and aren't active on steam yet. From a post from the developer on the steam forums it seems like you'll have to do them again once they become active.
 
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Volcynika

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ArjanN said:
I think the ones in Beat Hazard only show up in the game and aren't active on steam yet. From a post from the developer on the steam forums it seems like you'll have to do them again once they become active.
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Ffffffffffffffffffffffffffff.

Ah well. I have literally everything unlocked anyways.
 
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JaseC

gave away the keys to the kingdom.
Archie said:
Acquire enough achievements and you might get some hats!
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Yeah, it's likely they'll function similarly to the Summer Camp achievements earlier in the year in that earning them awards you tickets that unlock items/games.
 
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Aselith

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Is there a quick key way to switch between show desktop on monitor 1 and show desktop on monitor 2? I have a smaller LCD for web surfing and shit and a HD TV for gaming potentially and I'd like to be able to switch them up on the fly. If I duplicate the desktop on both it makes the TV lose signal for whatever reason and makes the monitor look weird (don't know how else to describe it, it just looks a little off)
 
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famousmortimer

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Aselith said:
Is there a quick key way to switch between show desktop on monitor 1 and show desktop on monitor 2? I have a smaller LCD for web surfing and shit and a HD TV for gaming potentially and I'd like to be able to switch them up on the fly. If I duplicate the desktop on both it makes the TV lose signal for whatever reason and makes the monitor look weird (don't know how else to describe it, it just looks a little off)
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There is a program called Ultramon that I use that allows you to do what you are asking, if I understand your question correctly.





Now my own question...


Is it safe to assume that Kingdoms of Amalur: Reckoning won't be on steam since it's being published by EA? Amazon has it for 15% off on the preorder (http://www.amazon.com/dp/B0064TYL0G/?tag=neogaf0e-20) and i kinda want to jump on that, but i would prefer a steam version. My ocd hates not having the steam game time thing work.
 
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Aselith

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famousmortimer said:
There is a program called Ultramon that I use that allows you to do what you are asking, if I understand your question correctly.





Now my own question...


Is it safe to assume that Kingdoms of Amalur: Reckoning won't be on steam since it's being published by EA? Amazon has it for 15% off on the preorder (http://www.amazon.com/dp/B0064TYL0G/?tag=neogaf0e-20) and i kinda want to jump on that, but i would prefer a steam version. My ocd hates not having the steam game time thing work.
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That seems way, way too expensive to pay for my limited need. What I need it to go from only displaying on monitor 1 to only displaying on monitor 2. Like if you go into the windows display options it gives you options to extend display, duplicate display or display only on monitor 1 or 2, I want to change that third possibility from 1 to 2 with just a few keystrokes rather than to go into the windows display menu every time to change the setting.

It's not worth $40 to be able to do that to me if that's the only option. I'll just do it the hard way.


You can actually switch between displaying only on the PC to doing duplicate and extended display by hitting window key + P but it doesn't give me the option to switch to the HDTV only. :(
 
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camerooni

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Aselith said:
You can actually switch between displaying only on the PC to doing duplicate and extended display by hitting window key + P but it doesn't give me the option to switch to the HDTV only. :(
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What make of laptop is it? try playing with the function key and the 'F' buttons.. most laptops i've seen have display modes tied to Fnc + F7? Worth a shot?
 
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camerooni

Neo Member
JaseC said:
Yeah, it's likely they'll function similarly to the Summer Camp achievements earlier in the year in that earning them awards you tickets that unlock items/games.
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From what I've been hearing.. coupons will potentially be playing a BIG part of it all as well. But apparently lots of free stuff (games, dlc, etc.) will be floating around as well!

Gotta be in it to win it ;)
 
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K.Jack

Knowledge is power, guard it well
Aselith said:
Is there a quick key way to switch between show desktop on monitor 1 and show desktop on monitor 2? I have a smaller LCD for web surfing and shit and a HD TV for gaming potentially and I'd like to be able to switch them up on the fly. If I duplicate the desktop on both it makes the TV lose signal for whatever reason and makes the monitor look weird (don't know how else to describe it, it just looks a little off)
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Fn + F7 does exactly what you seek on my notebook's keyboard.
 
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JaseC

gave away the keys to the kingdom.
camerooni said:
From what I've been hearing.. coupons will potentially be playing a BIG part of it all as well. But apparently lots of free stuff (games, dlc, etc.) will be floating around as well!

Gotta be in it to win it ;)
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I wasn't even aware of the Steam Coupon system until the other day.

Hawk xSx said:
Well I bought both, The Force Unleashed is just about 30GB and The Force Unleashed II is 10GB
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The PC version of TFU uses the PS3's uncompressed audio assets, for some reason.
 
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Aselith

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camerooni said:
What make of laptop is it? try playing with the function key and the 'F' buttons.. most laptops i've seen have display modes tied to Fnc + F7? Worth a shot?
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It's not a laptop. It's a desktop on Windows 7.

I tried shift, alt, ctrl and window + F7 and none did anything I'm afraid :(
 
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Aselith

Member
poweld said:
Windows key + P
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Unfortunately, that allows me to go on monitor only or extend or duplicate but does not allow me to switch between having one active or the other.

Edit: Oh wait! I guess the option to switch to the HDTV is called Projector Only. I thought that one was showing a red line through the TV when I looked at it before. Obviously, I didn't look closely enough. :p
 
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Sinatar

Official GAF Bottom Feeder
Even at $5 TFU2 isn't giving an hour per dollar playtime ratio.

The game sucks so bad though that the hilarious playtime is actually a blessing.
 
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TouchMyBox

Member
Sinatar said:
Even at $5 TFU2 isn't giving an hour per dollar playtime ratio.

The game sucks so bad though that the hilarious playtime is actually a blessing.
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My buddy who had a huge hard-on for the first game told me that II is not worth $5. I thought that was pretty telling.
 
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BobJustBob

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STFU2 is obviously unfinished and its short length is still significantly padded, but it's not a broken train wreck like the first game. I vote for 2 > 1.
 
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JaseC

gave away the keys to the kingdom.
BobJustBob said:
STFU2 is obviously unfinished and its short length is still significantly padded, but it's not a broken train wreck like the first game. I vote for 2 > 1.
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No, you STFU.

Oh, wait.

Edit: I just noticed that WB are this close to fixing Batman: Arkham City's title.
 
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Sober

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Relax.MX said:
Is just me or the new update of Dungeons of Dredmor make the game easy? (rogue like mode)
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Maybe you just got lucky? I got pretty far (like the 3rd floor) before dying. I certainly feel like maybe it's a bit more balanced to give you stuff you need instead of crap you don't (I felt like I was getting plenty of ore and bars), though I could just guess I was lucky.

I think the DLC is out to(day/morrow), its supposed to add a bunch of more stuff.
 
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ezodagrom

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In the Steam Registry, in the subscriptions tab this appeared today:

age31.jpg


I went to check the applications tab to see if there was more information about it, and...it's Age of Empires 3. o_o

age32.jpg


(The DLC 1 and DLC 2 mentioned there are the 2 expansions)
 
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XDDX

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The Humble Bundle 4 was added to the Registry and 3chopl0x just saw it. Credit to him for the pictures as well.

Here are the games in the bundle: The pic doesn't show it, but Nightsky is also included in the bundle.
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And the games you get if you beat the average price:
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DJ Crimson

Banned
XDDX said:
The Humble Bundle 4 was added to the Registry and 3chopl0x just saw it. Credit to him for the pictures as well.

Here are the games in the bundle:
^^^

And the games you get if you beat the average price:
^^^^^
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Definitely worth making a new topic considering how popular the Humble Bundle series are. I guess I can make it if no one else plans to.
 
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