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STEAM announcements & updates 2012 Thread 2 - Bad Rats Daily Deal for next 6 months
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Mr. Luchador
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Hey guys, remember that day we all got excited as we thought the Steam Summer Sale was going to start. Man, those were the days.
dave is ok
aztek is ok
Gaben has forsaken us.
The Grim Heaper
Member
I guess I don't want to download DFO yet.
ROBOKITTYZILLA
Member
Hmm.. I always wanted to give this a try but the client always launched into a black screen and would never load the game or just crash. It was a pretty widespread problem back then but it has been a while.
Was your account hacked or rolled back?
The Grim Heaper
Member
I'm gonna guess hacked, since I see a few purchases made with free NX I racked up(last time it happened was 2 months ago, apparently. I wanted to play the other day and... yeah.) Killed my buzz. I'm thinking about contacting their support, but it might be too late at this point.
UnluckyKate
Member
Going to buy Dawn of War 2 with extension. but there is also, a shitload of dlc for the Retribution extension ? What is it ? is it worth the aditional 5.49 euros ?
Restart Steam.
Dang, not available in Germany
It's been "coming soon" to Europe for years now.
Also anyone played Analogue: A Hate Story, thoughts?. Reviews seem pretty solid.
The Grim Heaper
Member
Obvious solution. Thank you!
benjipwns
Banned
Restart Steam.
Spirit of Jazz
Banned
Is it worth getting DoW2 complete or would I be better off just playing Retribution?
Sgt.Pepper
Banned
Who plays on a Mac and has managed to play with the 360 controller?
I liked DOW2 vanilla and chaos rising more than retribution. But I may be in the minority.
I've never done it personally, but I seem to recall that there are even custom drivers for the 360 controller + chatpad on Mac, so I have to think that there's a way to use the wired 360 controller with it. What problem are you having?
DoW2 and DoW2: Chaos Rising have way better SP campaigns than Retribution. They felt the need to add the other factions as playable ones for Retribution, but as a result, they cut a lot of corners and half your squad members have no personality or voice overs whatsoever. Which is made all the more unappealing because regardless of which faction you pick, you play the same maps through the campaign anyway. I have 103+ hours in DoW2 + Chaos Rising (from replaying the campaign multiples times and trying different storyline arcs and squad builds), but only 13 in Retribution.
I would consider the campaigns in both the various Dawn of War and Companies of Heroes games well worth playing, unlike some games where SP is an afterthought (a lot of FPSs).
Gully State
Member
If you never touch multiplayer, it's better to go with complete. If you plan on playing multiplayer a lot only, then go with retribution.
DOW2 + Chaos Rising had better singleplayer
Sgt.Pepper
Banned
I installed the custom driver, but isn't really working. The buttons appear in the game (Super Meat Boy to be exact, when you check the controls the 360 buttons appear when it is connected), but they don't really do anything.
I can see the controller is on, and in Settings you can check the AXIS and stuff. So I really don't know what's going on.
any way us non-US folks can get those Steam keys?
I think you can order with a US address and it will count. You should go to the Amazon DD thread we have here and double check as I'm not 100% sure.
http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showthread.php?t=456563
Palette Swap
Member
If you were in mostly for the campaign/story, that makes sense.
Well I'm not too sad now. GamersGate has SSF4AE for 10 bucks, so that'll tide me over until the summer sale.Thankfully I checked the SSF4 steam forums to find it!
I haven't seen this posted elsewhere, but they also are having a Sale on EA games. Just picked up all three Mass Effect games and SSF4AE for about 60 bucks total.
Thanks.
Curiously, they sort of did the same thing with DoW1 (did away with the dedicated single faction campaign in latter installments of the series, and let you play the campaign through as any of the factions), but I felt like it worked a lot better in that case.
Maybe because DoW1
C/S were pure RTSs, with open, non-linear maps and non-linear campaign progression, so the addition of the other factions didn't "water down" the experience and vastly added to the replayability of the SP campaign. That, and the citadel assault maps were epic.Retribution SP felt linear in both map design and overall campaign structure, to the point where it felt on rails most of the time, and if you played it through once, you've seen all there is to see.
Glass Rebel
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Just got my Robot Chicken hat from [AS]
THE DAY IS SAVED
THE DAY IS SAVED
Yeah. My main enjoyment of the series was co-op w/ a friend of mine. We went through the complete campaign in all 3 and enjoyed vanilla + chaos rising a LOT more.
Dog Problems
Banned
Excellent! We didn't get the massive Steam sale, but at least there's deals to be had somewhere.
My frown has turned upside down.
Denied good sir.
you have a gun right?
It says i'm not eligible, even though I have a shitload of hours in BF3, Borderlands, Team Fortress 2 and Duke Nukem Forever.
This goddamn raptr thing never tracks my hours properly.
RetroGreg
Member
Thanks.
The Grim Heaper
Member
Oh, that's great to hear, then! I shall not expect a reply. ):
It's GFWL game, so nope.
Rawket Lawnchair
Member
If you plan on just playing the campaign, don't touch the DLC, it will be wasted money.
If you want to play the multiplayer as well, then that's a different case.
I might be interested in mp. What is the impact?
Not surprising, I sent them a ticket in October and still no response.
They really have the worst customer support in the world, worse than Origin.
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