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STEAM announcements & updates 2012 Thread 2 - Bad Rats Daily Deal for next 6 months
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Nabs
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Avast has been deleting Steam files for the last few days/weeks. You will probably need to create an exception for the Steam folder.
I loved those achievements, but I saw what they did to people who didn't play much Toki Tori. You should definitely give it another chance.
morningbus
Serious Sam is a wicked gahbidge series for chowdaheads.
The last time I saw someone contort themselves like this, I paid $20 and got wet.
You seem to have your mouse pointer poised over the "Add To Cart" button, yet none of it's on sale.
Yeah, I'm really late to the party with that one. It was actually on the Xbox as Operation Flashpoint, but I never paid any attention to it back then. Military sims were just never on my radar, but footage of ARMA 2 made me want to check out Bohemia Interactive's work.
Other than some hilarious looking character models and the outdated visuals, it wears it's age well in the gameplay department. Not a bad way to spend $5.99 and makes today's shooters seem pathetic by comparison.
LOL, maybe one of these days I'll catch up and have a rig that can handle ARMA 2 and also 3 when it comes out. But for now, I'll just enjoy this and may pick up Combat Operaions for $7.99 as well. The demo ran well enough on normal. Probably best I get the hang of these games before jumping head first into the newer ones anyway.
Glad to hear you're enjoying it! It's terribly hard sometimes, but a fantastic experience nonetheless. I don't know whether the newer Arma games are worth it, but if they are in any way similar to Operation Flashpoint, I won't regret the purchase in the slightest (I'm not interested at all in DayZ, so that won't be an incentive for getting Arma 2: CO).
Last Baron
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This sounds like it. I scanned with Superantispyware and Malwarebytes both of which found nothing so I submitted a false-positive report.
It flagged one of the DLLs for me, but when I scanned it after relaunching Steam (and thus redownloading), Avast had no problem with the updated version. I haven't had to create any exceptions or had other issues with Steam/antivirus in the last few weeks.
GMG offers are so random. Half the time the numbers don't even add up. Sleeping Dogs with 25% discount code drops it down to 33.75, meanwhile Sleeping Dogs with 30% code drops it down to 34.65. Does it work better for £ or $ customers?
They have five different discount codes, seven individual discount codes, random prices on every game that change daily, sometimes hourly. Some codes work for few minutes, others do something they shouldn't do. All in all, you are lucky to get the best pre-order price from them.
But I still keep using them. Just not on Sleeping Dogs because it's much cheaper elsewhere thanks to £ pricing available on other sites.
Mystery solved. Toki Tori target audience = Gallagher attendees.
Last Baron
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It keeps flagging for me even after re-downloading. I'm still trying to figure out how to make Avast ignore the folder completely. The exclusion I made is apparently only good for scans, not whatever active defense thing it keeps tripping.
morningbus
Serious Sam is a wicked gahbidge series for chowdaheads.
Gallagher is not a contortionist, his show costs more than $20, and only the first 4 rows are in the danger zone. Premise invalidated.
You're like a walking encyclopedia of Gallagher knowledge. Premise confirmed
I'm just not a fan of pure puzzle games. For 1.24, though, I'd recommend everyone buy and judge for themselves.
lol
So true. I didn't buy it, though
I don't know what's worse: this or the fact that I almost preordered the new NFS off Origin during the weekend
morningbus
Serious Sam is a wicked gahbidge series for chowdaheads.
You're like a walking encyclopedia of Gallagher knowledge. Premise confirmed
I'm just not a fan of pure puzzle games. For 1.24, though, I'd recommend everyone buy and judge for themselves.
I blame Comedy Central in the 90s for this knowledge.
What game is that?
Super Paper Mario, the best one in the series
in my opinion
morningbus
Serious Sam is a wicked gahbidge series for chowdaheads.
Stormfront is that way, Snuggler.
Yours is an ideology that becomes ever more irrelevant with each passing generation. You may never play Toki-Tori, but your children will.
PixelHorror
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For Skyrim fans: Dawnguard is $15USD on GMG using ORDER-NTCOM-PLETE as a voucher
(If the link doesn't work, go to their website, they have some crazy stuff with their url's)
(If the link doesn't work, go to their website, they have some crazy stuff with their url's)
What, you mean last October?
AVAST sucks about as much dick as AVG.
MSE is okay but you need to get NOD32 instead. It's simply the best one.
VGChampion
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I can't believe people get so worked up about stuff like that.
And all the more curious since I stated people were being pedantic and most people didn't give a fuck in the official thread.
I know I can be a little cheeky sometimes about where I'm really coming from, but it's not like I was being subtle and open to confusion on my stance.
Yoshichan
And they made him a Lord of Cinder. Not for virtue, but for might. Such is a lord, I suppose. But here I ask. Do we have a sodding chance?
zerokoolpsx
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That's a pretty good description. Ever played True Crime? Its like that, but with a lot more improved gameplay.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kbl_L6XywjE
Yup! Friends-list is down for me
Credoooooooo T_T
It is back up
Only heard about it. Seems pretty neat, like a more compact, more vivid open world GTA.
Steamworks I presume? Are there any system requirements available?
edit: HOLY SHIT THE COMBAT!
Stallion Free
Cock Encumbered
The power of the Internet lol.
Jasper Avenue
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I really wish they would release some system reqs for Sleeping Dogs. I'm not worried that I won't meet them but it seems really weird that the game is coming out in 2 weeks and nothing has been released yet.
Thank you! Always wanted to play this but somehow never got around buying this.
45 mins longer and i would've missed the deal...
Too bad i can't actually play the game now though, along with the rest of my Steam library...
Jasper Avenue
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Hmmm Those actually seem pretty easy to meet for an open world game. Hopefully it's optimized like many of the other Square-Enix-Eidos games.
I'll have to check that one out, AVG seems to get worse and worse over time. System hog too.
What happened to your library?
I only ever played the free multiplayer parts of ET:RTCW. If I don't own the singleplayer I will try to pick that up.
Yup, it can seriously prevent people from preordering the game, for fear of not meeting the minimum requirements. That's what happening to me with Hitman Absolution, wouldn't like to spend 34 bucks for a game I can't even run.
Rumor has it that the game won't support XP users at all. I don't know if that's a good or bad thing. But not hearing anything about the PC version is very unlike Eidos and I'm worried it'll be a worse port than saints row 3.
Last Baron
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Why is it the best one?
derExperte
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NOD32 is getting worse and worse as well, it's not nearly as good anymore as it once was. Too slow, in comparison average detection rates and expensive. Imo AVAST is still very good (waaay better than MSE in everything) but one of the best now is Norton, I know they were bad once and have a bad rep but they're number one in a lot of categories, even system resource use.
It isn't. Basically lives off of it's good reputation from around five years ago but they've fallen behind.
Try to play games with an overheating laptop. Over ten old games can make this thing overheat...
Yeah, i know, somethings wrong with this thing but since i mostly use this for browsing, i don't bother fixing the issue. Need to get newer hardware soon anyway.
So, i have a Steam library but it is just sitting there, waiting to be played.
Low memory footprint, low cpu overhead, lots of power and customization. Good with catching shit that is bad and ignoring safe or false positive files.
I've used most of the other popular shit lately and NOD32 is the best one I've used that wasn't a memory hog, that didn't have a lack of features and fine advanced controls, and didn't report every little generic compression program as a virus in disguise.
If you didn't say NOD32 in particular, I'd have thought you were referring to MSE.
Edit: The new Dailies are Fallout, Fallout 2, and Fallout Tactics, by the way (-66%/$3.39).
Edit 2: The three are available in a package for $6.79.
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