Buttonbasher
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It's like 99 cents every sale.
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STEAM announcements & updates 2012 Thread 2 - Bad Rats Daily Deal for next 6 months
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It's like 99 cents every sale.
xenoflux2113
Member
Then the sale better get here soon.
Jables Swan
Member
lol fair enough.
Raijin_Cain
Member
Ok! All games are gone.
Thought apparently I also got the Mac versions for 2 games.
Anyone interested?
Fortix 2 (Mac)
Dark Avenger (Mac)
Thought apparently I also got the Mac versions for 2 games.
Anyone interested?
Fortix 2 (Mac)
Dark Avenger (Mac)
Set up a picket line for the summer sale.
Joking aside I would ask for a tour, I heard if you email Valve and Gabe nicely they set it up.
moojito
Member
Seriously, do that. And if you see a giant lever that says "SUMMER SALE SWITCH - DO NOT PULL TIL 15TH JULY" you throw that motherfucker and run. Do it for us.
Is this sequel to Mordor or am I thinking about another Demise?
I only just upgraded from that to 1-2 mb/s. It's so much nicer for games.
Like2Drive
Banned
So my question is like this, what if there isn't a steam summer sale?
What then?
What then?
Well if you don't have a reason to fear somebody taking an unused key, the only real downside is that somebody else will be able to access the direct download links (this is probably not a problem because you'll still be able to access them yourself as well.) and you'll lose credit for having bought the bundle in your indie roayle collection. If you don't care about that, then there really isn't a problem with giving away the key.
The summer sale was a couple of days ago - Revelations 2012.
People just won't accept it.
EternalGamer
Banned
Space Marine is the best $7.50 I have spent in a long long while. I can't put it down.
I was a little leary because I get sick of shooters pretty quickly. I was bored with Gears 3 about half way through but I just am enjoying this so much more. I think part of it is the atmosphere and the world but a large part of it is also that it is a pretty solid action/melee game blended with a well done shooter. The melee combat is actually really fun and feels good.
I also usually don't like games with hordes of enemies that just poor in mindlessly like Serious Sam but that is because just aiming a cursor at endless hordes is boring. I usually sigh when I see big groups of enemies pouring into a room in most games. But here you have so many toys to play: great guns, great melee combat, and a really fun couple of rage modes (traditional Gow/DMC style fury and slo-mo Max Payne gunplay) that I just have a grin on my face everytime I lead into a big crowd.
The level design is nothing too special but the game mechanics are so solid that it's just flat out fun play. And almost every level gives you a new weapon or upgrade of some sort to muck about with.
Definitely one of the hidden gems of last year that was severely overlooked.
I was a little leary because I get sick of shooters pretty quickly. I was bored with Gears 3 about half way through but I just am enjoying this so much more. I think part of it is the atmosphere and the world but a large part of it is also that it is a pretty solid action/melee game blended with a well done shooter. The melee combat is actually really fun and feels good.
I also usually don't like games with hordes of enemies that just poor in mindlessly like Serious Sam but that is because just aiming a cursor at endless hordes is boring. I usually sigh when I see big groups of enemies pouring into a room in most games. But here you have so many toys to play: great guns, great melee combat, and a really fun couple of rage modes (traditional Gow/DMC style fury and slo-mo Max Payne gunplay) that I just have a grin on my face everytime I lead into a big crowd.
The level design is nothing too special but the game mechanics are so solid that it's just flat out fun play. And almost every level gives you a new weapon or upgrade of some sort to muck about with.
Definitely one of the hidden gems of last year that was severely overlooked.
Mackenzie 92
Member
Wowsers. That's amazing.
Joe Molotov
Member
Feel free to gift it to me. ^_^
You realise of course that your cousins aren't really playing games but only using your PC to look up porn when you're not there?
You realise of course that your cousins aren't really playing games but only using your PC to look up porn when you're not there?
props on kid, considering he's only 6
Thanks got the code! No clue what it is beside it being in the new indie royale bundle lol.
AngmarsKing701
Member
Ugh.
This is why I went to console gaming.
1. I see Dawn of War II on sale for $5. I excitedly pick it up.
2. I apparently didn't get a key, so I had to wait more than 24 hours before I was able to install the game. Given that I got it for $5, I shrug and accept that waiting 24 hours for something that's been out for several years isn't all that bad. Still, I am slightly annoyed.
3. Finally have key. Can install. Must now wait a couple hours while the game downloads. Ugh.
4. Game has downloaded! Fire it up! Great opening cinematic. "This world is ours, witch." Sweet! I choose my character name. I get to see all the worlds. Opening cinematic ends and I'm ready to ... CRASH.
5. Don't report problem. Close Steam. Restart Steam. Boot up game. Opening cinematic ends and I'm ready to... CRASH.
6. Sigh... fill in data. Send error report. 7 hours later, no message from anyone who might give a shit that the game I bought is unplayable.
This is why I went to console gaming.
1. I see Dawn of War II on sale for $5. I excitedly pick it up.
2. I apparently didn't get a key, so I had to wait more than 24 hours before I was able to install the game. Given that I got it for $5, I shrug and accept that waiting 24 hours for something that's been out for several years isn't all that bad. Still, I am slightly annoyed.
3. Finally have key. Can install. Must now wait a couple hours while the game downloads. Ugh.
4. Game has downloaded! Fire it up! Great opening cinematic. "This world is ours, witch." Sweet! I choose my character name. I get to see all the worlds. Opening cinematic ends and I'm ready to ... CRASH.
5. Don't report problem. Close Steam. Restart Steam. Boot up game. Opening cinematic ends and I'm ready to... CRASH.
6. Sigh... fill in data. Send error report. 7 hours later, no message from anyone who might give a shit that the game I bought is unplayable.
I have it from what ever bundle it was in last time, I havn't played it yet. So I can't say.
benjipwns
Banned
Stumpokapow
listen to the mad man
For what it's worth, Dawn of War II is basically one of the "worst case scenario" games. Easily one of the top 10 complained about games due to DRM or key activation issues. Sorry.
EternalGamer
Banned
Number one is one of the reasons PC gaming is awrsome. Number 2 is very rare and number 3 would have happened even on console.
As for the game crash after load up, the first thing to do is aggressively google for a fix. I actually had the exact same problem freezing in the exact same spot with the game a year ago when I bought but I found a solution by googling in about 10 minutes.
I'm trying to remember what my issue/ fix was. Are you using a Radeon card with Radeon Pro? If so try turning that off. A good step after reseting your PC is to try gradually turning off programs running in the background, but Google is always your first and best friend.
Edit: if I recall correctly I remember restarting my PC before I played always made the game run fine. Later discoverd the root of the problem but a reboot a
Ways got it working.
derExperte
Member
Looking through my stuff and I think I haven't given away old IndieRoyale codes for Nimbus (which I really liked, put over 16hrs into it) and Sanctum so quote if you want one or all of them.
Jables Swan
Member
Cheers mate. I pinched them.
MisterLuffy
Member
I can't wait for Skull Girls to come out on steam. Should I wait for summer sales to buy it?
Well, it'll be out after the conclusion of the summer sale. You could wait to see if it's then discounted during the Winter Sale if so inclined.
benjipwns
Banned
I'd figure that has a pretty good chance.
Jive Turkey
Unconfirmed Member
It won't even be out for this year's summer sale.
Jables Swan
Member
I'd say there's a good chance of BoI and SMB being a daily, but even if not it will almost certainly be part of the general Steam-wide sale discount. BoI + WoL expansion in a bundle for ~$2.50 is pretty likely, but if you really want to play it right now the game's cheap at full price anyway.
Feels bad, man. I hope you get it working.
It is a little scary downloading a PC game and not knowing for sure that it will actually work. I never had any troubles with DoW II, but the trouble I had getting the Minerva's Den DLC for Bioshock 2 to work was the stuff of nightmares.
Boss Doggie
all my loli wolf companions are so moe
Tribes Ascend is fine and all but my ping sucks hard
EternalGamer
Banned
Yeah but at most you'll be saving $2. If you want to play it, just buy it. Waiting on a $5 ga,e to drop doesnt seem worth it. Its a great game too.
EternalGamer
Banned
Game is awesome. Ive been hooked on it all day. Health isnt really an issue since your shield regenerates ifyou just hide out and eveytime you use rage you get health back.
Im certanly no gaing wiz and in one day, Im on chapter 10 and havent had an issue with save points on normal. There have nly beeb a couple of battles that I got stuck on for a few tries. It also autosaves pretty much after every encounter/room.
derExperte
Member
Great, have fun (either by playing or just looking at them in your library, I won't judge *g*).
It looks simple and relaxing at first, nice visuals, soothing music, nothing special. But there are tons of levels, the learning curve is great ("how did he get that time?"->"lol at that time!"), climbing up the leaderboards is addictive and then there are the coins, some of which I still have no idea how to reach. Sometimes the controls didn't work as I wanted them to and there are frustrating parts but overall it deserves more recognition.
AngmarsKing701
Member
Thanks! Turning anti-aliasing off worked. Still annoying how much fiddling these things take to get working. My son is trying to play the demo and it immediately crashes, never gets out of Steam and into the game.
AngmarsKing701
Member
You know what's funny? There was a guy at work the other day indicating that he didn't know what the max parameter was for this other product's threads, so while he was talking I Googled it and showed him the answer.
So yeah, should have gone there first!
benjipwns
Banned
As Stump noted, Relic games have reputations for these kinds of things. GFWL + Relic's sign-in thing is maybe only second to the Rockstar Social Club in things that have given me issues.
One "good" thing about PCs is that you're often not the first to run into an issue.
Though there is always that one problem where all you find is six year old unanswered forum posts.
I really like how they implement the leaderboards in Nimbus. A nice slice is right there on the stage select which is great when you pair it along with some snappy stage loading. You even see them every time you finish a level.
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