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STEAM announcements & updates 2012 Thread 2 - Bad Rats Daily Deal for next 6 months
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bigace33
Member
Thanks a million my friend. Downloading the game now.
Death to Spies please if it's still available.
Thanks!
Madrugador
Member
Uninstalled Dota 2. Updates were driving me crazy.
Can I have UFO: Afterlight please?
Nabs
Member
You can always disable automatic updates.
Artofwar420
Member
You could have just disabled "keep up to date".
Madrugador
Member
Well, I don't play it anyway.
Ingueferroque
Banned
I'd love Rig'N Roll, actually!
Ingueferroque
Banned
Thank you for the code, Katoki!
SteveWinwood
Member
Haha. I hear you. I disabled updates, but not before a big update had already started. I've had the update paused for a good 2 months now. One of these days I'll let it update so Steam can stop being in a yellow state in the taskbar.
Nabs
Member
Jasper Avenue
Member
Has anyone given Wanderlust a go yet? It looks pretty neat.
ShineALight
Member
I went in on a four-pack but won't be able to play until Sunday, so I'd really appreciate some impressions as well.
It (sometimes, for some people?) worked as long as you didn't ever launch the game. Once you launch a Steam game you always have to update regardless.
Empty Space
Member
I'm still looking to join a borderlands 2 4-pack if anybody has a slot open.
Me too
I've only played an Elementalist solo in story mode through the end of Chapter 2, so I don't have a lot of impressions but I'll try my best with what I've got. First understand you are essentially playing a top down hack n slash "lite". The game is fun, but the controls are frustrating. Gamepad is in the options, but it doesn't include all the keys you need on your pad for any class, so that is useless. I tried Xpadder and couldn't get that to work either. Once you get used to the WASD movement and click to attack it's not that bad, but you'll find yourself hung up on environmental objects, aiming wrong and the usual pitfalls of less than perfect controls and collision detection.
You can choose whether to have 3 NPCs of other classes accompany you if you're not co-opping, which is nice and gives you sense of what 4 player would be like. Chaotic. Everything is quite small and it gets busy. Enemies get pushed back into corners or behind the environment or your party becomes entangled in one big group of friend/foe and you can't really see what you're doing, so you just spam fireball/shock/freeze from afar and hope you see it "Whack!" the baddies. Battles are likely to remain somewhat of a spamfest for all classes, so yeah, top down hack & slash lite. Enemies drop loot components (each character has their own drops, like D3!), there is a crafting system and you can outfit your character with gear. You also have a stash in the camp.
The skill system looks pretty sweet and like it will take a long time to build your character up. On my Elementalist I had plenty of spells I could learn or upgrade, some way out of my league in point cost so I can only imagine what they look like/their effects. With the ability to replay chapters and the crawl/survival mode, there's supposed to be a lot of replayability. It's not a once and done kind of game, so much like Diablo (though not as complex) your character is your save, not the world. You're supposed to get attached to your character. You earn points to put into spells/stats after finishing chapters (which are very short so far) based on how well you did/completion rate. I was only getting ~60% so not sure what I'm doing wrong. The waypoints (dots leading to a destination, having to stop at each) you have to go through on the way to story points on the world map are very small encounter areas, boring and feel kind of pointless. Hoping this improves later with some larger environments, but the Chapter 2 main quest environment was promising. The screens I've seen from further in the game have very varied environments so I'm sure it's no issue.
Windowed the game is in a small box resolution and I couldn't get Steam overlay to work, so I'm guessing like 1024x768? It looks nice and crisp like this, but you can full screen it and stretch/blur it out which looks terrible. The lobby/camp is full of people chatting so it's a good time for MP. Crawl/survival mode is not available to play until you've finished Chapter 8, so I have no experience with that.
Sorry this was mostly an unhelpful ramble. I usually don't write about a game until I'm done with it or well into it, but there you go.
Looking to trade anything in my Steam inventory for the Sniper Elite v2 DLC. It's $7
http://steamcommunity.com/id/kamspy/inventory/
http://steamcommunity.com/id/kamspy/inventory/
ShineALight
Member
Thanks a lot xelios, gives me a better idea of what I'm getting into. Seems promising enough for a fiver, hopefully it gets a lot of support.
Man siege battles in Shogun 2 with me= ihavenoideawhatimdoing.jpg
I do good defending but attacking I'm apparently missing something. Even on easy I get destroyed if they don't leave the castle.
I have archers try to take people out inside...they get sniped by the enemy's protected archers and towers.
I climb up the walls...they get destroyed before they can get up there.
I burn the walls/door down...I get wedged into a tight corridor and get slaughtered.
I have a ninja sabotage the gates before the battle...same result as the one above.
I do good defending but attacking I'm apparently missing something. Even on easy I get destroyed if they don't leave the castle.
I have archers try to take people out inside...they get sniped by the enemy's protected archers and towers.
I climb up the walls...they get destroyed before they can get up there.
I burn the walls/door down...I get wedged into a tight corridor and get slaughtered.
I have a ninja sabotage the gates before the battle...same result as the one above.
Yeah I really felt weird calling it a top down hack n slash but couldn't think of anything more appropriate. So now I just added "lite" to the end of it.
I'm in if it's the UK price!
I'm also sittin' on some copies of E.Y.E. at the Steam sale Four-Pack price if anyone's keen.
[edit] I'm pretty sure it was $1.75.
SteveWinwood
Member
What do I do with these dumb gala points? I have a bunch of them.
Nothing yet.
gala points?
SteveWinwood
Member
Truly exciting.
If you have bought indie gala bundles before you get some points for...
something.
Jasper Avenue
Member
I wouldn't mind getting in on a Borderlands 2 UK pre-order bundle.
they tweeted today that they should be launching a new site with a use for gala points next week.
I expect them to be used for like trading 2.5k for games like bad rats
XeroSauce
Member
Awww yea. Have yo done co-op?
Who was that? I still don't know...
I still don't know who that is xD
Funny thing is I've been watching it for the first time this past couple of weeks, so the timing was very appropriate. Great game too, although I wish I could un-fullscreen it =/
You can, go to the Gemini Rue directory and run winsetup.exe.
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