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STEAM announcements & updates 2012 Thread - Summer sales usually last week of June
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It's fine if you have beefy hardware. It's just poorly optimized.
Dice
Pokémon Parentage Conspiracy Theorist
WTF I thought it was the original JSR.
My bad, I meant Jet Set Radio. I've been replaying the XBox sequel recently.
In my experience, it works fine if you remember to load up the games you wish to play offline prior to switching to Offline Mode, as any games that Steam has detected an update for will otherwise refuse to load. At the very least, Valve should have the Offline Mode option force an update check on all installed games prior to switching; though, ideally, any installed game should run fine as-is.
SteveWinwood
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I've actually had offline mode work for like 5 out of the 6 times I've tried it. But that fact that people still complain about it working, and that one of the "fixes" is unplug your ethernet cord? It's too busted to not fix.
faceless007
Member
Store slow for anyone else?
jediyoshi
Member
Wok
Member
I did not enjoy it so much, but I have still played it for more than 20 hours. I cannot explain this.
I will try the demo then.
The graphics are what makes me want to try it. Otherwise, I really did not like the mod.
http://www.gamersgate.com/DD-SRTSP/saints-row-the-third-season-pass
for 10USD. worth it?
for 10USD. worth it?
I think I remember people complaining that the season pass for SR3 was a joke.
BertleTheTurtle
Member
I think this one is running out of names to use ><
I don't even know who half my friends are anymore lol
Steam should have added nicknames a long time ago.
Every other messenger service already has them.
Glass Rebel
Member
I hope that Bioshock double pack deal shows up, always wanted to have them on Steam.
The Square Enix Ultimate Collection is a pretty great deal if you don't own Just Cause 2 and Guardian of Light. Don't know if you can activate TR:Underworld either...
TheNamelessOne
Member
There's that ARMAII-deal I was looking for last week. Too bad I won't buy it now that D3 is out.
Glass Rebel
Member
The Bioshock double pack price is updated btw., $7.50
I don't think I've ever seen it below $15 before on Steam, so bought me Divinity II.
TouchMyBox
Member
Is this a post from the past, or did I just dream up steam getting this functionality a few months ago?
Boss Doggie
all my loli wolf companions are so moe
Oh, Arma II in Amazon isn't in Steam?
SR2 patched should play just fine on Win 7. I played it on Win 7 a few months back on my laptop (which obviously isn't as well specced as your rig) and had no problems at all. The issue is the key Gamersgate sells registers on Steam as the German version which is heavily censored and does not work with the community patches/mods. At least this used to be the case, I'd not risk it unless you can find confirmation that this is absolutely no longer true.
Lord British
Member
They've fixed that, I believe. It's the standard edition now. I had that problem but they replaced the key with a US one, which I assume they do now by default.
It was $9.99 during Steam winter sale.
Yeah, you're right. I found confirmation in a FAQ on the Steam forums. Also good reading if you're considering buying the game, the main issue with Win 7 is the speedup bug which you'll probably need to use Powertools to correct. Luckily it's a simple fix. I don't believe I even used the Gentlemen of the Row mod when I played thru the game a while back as it add/changes a lot of stuff that's more suitable for a 2nd playthrough.
Whoa. SS DLC? On it.
Joe Molotov
Member
The Dream Machine is awesome, fyi.
So awesome. I will wait until all episodes are out before I buy the rest though. I want to play them in one go.
Wok
Member
I have been playing some of my backlog: although Hamilton's Great Adventure looks like a casual game with nice 3D effects, it can get quite frustrating if you try to get into the high-score tables, in which case it get literally supermeatboyee. I have finally been rewarded by beating on one level this milk_T guy at the top of every high-score tables.
This is a game for every kind of gamer. If you have it and like action-puzzle games, try it!
This is a game for every kind of gamer. If you have it and like action-puzzle games, try it!
Yeah, but by this point, those people have changed their name so many times, I don't even know who they originally were anymore.
SteveWinwood
Member
We call these people dota 2 gaf.
Depends, if they set up their profile link to use a name instead of a string of numbers, you can find out who they are by looking at it.
Stallion Free
Cock Encumbered
Steam just needs to add aliasing. That way I can correct all the people on the part of my friends list I care about whose names start with lower case letters.
jediyoshi
Member
Interesting how they went ahead and got Steam codes after all this time having just the Steam-free versions. Might have to double dip.
Stumpokapow
listen to the mad man
Visualante2
Member
Why'd they have to put SecuROM on Bioshock 2... I wanted to play Minerva's Den at some point. Guess I'll have to find a console copy in some bargain bin.
Glass Rebel
Member
Unlimited activations. But you can't buy Minerva's Den on Steam anyway thanks to GFWL.
v ah, ok, just wanted to let you know.
Visualante2
Member
Oh I didn't care about that. I have spare
Taken, thanks!
I don't like DRM, and I don't like SecuROM, but what are your objections for this particular game? I could understand if it was the SecuROM level 7 or whatever from days of yore that used a kernel driver, or a SecuROM like Crysis 1 where they had limited installations you couldn't revoke...
But in this case, neither of those apply. So what negative effects does it have for this game? It's less DRM than Steam as far as I can tell, since you could presumably play it offline (and some people have problems with Steam offline mode).
Eh, I wasn't really impressed. If you like Euro ARPGs (Gothic, Risen), you might enjoy it though. The combat had no oomph, or visual flair whatsoever. It has neither Skyrim's visual eye candy, nor KoA:R's impactful combat. The setting is pretty generic European medieval stuff. I just couldn't get into it enough to make it to the parts where the dragon-ish stuff start happening. Maybe I should give it another go. Too many better things to play atm though (Tropico has completely sucked me in).
Visualante2
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SecuROM doesn't offer me any value, and I don't see their activation servers lasting forever. I don't keep up enough with the repositioning of anti consumer technologies, but I do know as you pointed out that the company has done some nasty shit in the past. And that is enough to put me off it. /stubborn philosophy
I have access to a 360 currently, maybe if I didn't I'd be more inclined to put up with it.
I have access to a 360 currently, maybe if I didn't I'd be more inclined to put up with it.
So what was the deal with the recent Steam patch?
I've had the CD version lying around for years. Heard it had good 3D, so I figured I'd finally play it. But when I installed it, my 360 controller would not work at all (briefly tried it years ago and worked with a generic controller). Also, couldn't go any higher than 1680*1050@100hz or 1920*1080@60hz (wanted 1080P@120hz). And when I exited out, it crashed to black. And then the entire Windows OS was running in windowed mode. Finally closed it down and was going to uninstall, but I did a google search for patches and saw Steam got a recent patch nobody else did?
So is the Steam patch really all that? Does it include default 360 support? I guess I'll pick it up next time it's on sale if it truly does address some of these issues.
I've had the CD version lying around for years. Heard it had good 3D, so I figured I'd finally play it. But when I installed it, my 360 controller would not work at all (briefly tried it years ago and worked with a generic controller). Also, couldn't go any higher than 1680*1050@100hz or 1920*1080@60hz (wanted 1080P@120hz). And when I exited out, it crashed to black. And then the entire Windows OS was running in windowed mode. Finally closed it down and was going to uninstall, but I did a google search for patches and saw Steam got a recent patch nobody else did?
So is the Steam patch really all that? Does it include default 360 support? I guess I'll pick it up next time it's on sale if it truly does address some of these issues.
Adds native 360 pad support, fixes various graphical issues and adds in engine AA and some other tweaks.
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