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STEAM announcements & updates 2012 Thread - Summer sales usually last week of June
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Sanic
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Yep, this worked.
ROBOKITTYZILLA
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Anyone ever run into any issues with Steam achievements being very slow to pop (common) or not popping at all (rare -- the achievement unlocks I just don't get a pop up when this happens)? On another machine in the house they pop almost instantly.
Fantastic. I've been avoiding the game as I'd prefer to co-op it with a mate. (I assume "Serious Sam" is "Serious Sam 3".)
LiquidMetal14
hide your water-based mammals
DOUBLE D
oops, thanks, edited my post.
Sweet! Hopefully they manage to get enough keys for the sale this time :>
carbonbased
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game is super fun. i am a huge mommy's best fan and they put together another fun little shooter. i would be all over that bundle if i didn't pick up double d and the random encounter during the winter sale.
this time i am going to pounce all over it. still kicking myself for hesitating during their last sale.
10% XO if you still want the coupon send me a PM
Shorty11857
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I have a 33% Paradox coupon, if you have any decent coupons I'd trade but if not I don't mind giving it away
SteveWinwood
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Thanks to this awesome guy. I squeaked by with the daily.
Didn't see you until just now. Thanks for offering though!
I would recommend medal of honor to anyone interested but keep in mind you're likely spending more money than it takes to beat the game. Takes about 4 hours to finish on normal, but it's a well done campaign.
Stay away from multiplayer though. It's awful, DICE mailed it in here.
Stay away from multiplayer though. It's awful, DICE mailed it in here.
Terrible short SP, nothing too amazing, hilarious diving mechanic which makes you slide everywhere I would avoid.
MP is bad from what I tried from the beta.
I played MoH on PS3, and the Multiplayer is pretty good. I'd describe the MP as something between Call of Duty and Battlefield. The MP is made by Dice, therefore it feels a bit more like Battlefield than CoD. Overall it was a great experience.
Snkfanatic
Banned
MOH is worth picking up at that price just for the SP. I had a good time playing through it and felt like the 10 bucks I payed for it was justified.
Shorty11857
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Stumpokapow
listen to the mad man
These fucking CSS errors are getting a bit out of control. :/
CornBurrito
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Woah something odd is happening. I got a 360 controller today, and I tested it out. Whenever I hit the X button the game I am in freezes until I unplug the controller.
What the hell is going on.
Actually it seems to freeze the game at certain parts. Like in Sonic Generations if I try to boost it freezes. If I try to use the homing attack it freezes.
What the hell is going on.
Actually it seems to freeze the game at certain parts. Like in Sonic Generations if I try to boost it freezes. If I try to use the homing attack it freezes.
Spectacular Dr Dawg
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FPS GOTY 2011. Get this if you liked the earlier Serious Sam games.
Saren is Bad
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Are these issues that y'all have been discussing the reason I can't fucking play Skyrim right now? Says "game is not available at this time."
Hmm been waiting for Medal of Honor for some time. Anyone interested in a trade?
I have Amnesia, Magicka, Dungeon Defenders, Frozen Synapse and L4D GOTY. I'd be willing to give 2 games for either Medal of Honor or Dustforce
PM if Interested!
Edit: Got Medal of Honor thanks to Iron Badger! Thanks man!
I have Amnesia, Magicka, Dungeon Defenders, Frozen Synapse and L4D GOTY. I'd be willing to give 2 games for either Medal of Honor or Dustforce
PM if Interested!
Edit: Got Medal of Honor thanks to Iron Badger! Thanks man!
Refreshment.01
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Was from the Skyrim topic. Is it truth that even if i put the game to not update automatically, it will do so anyway if im connected to Steam? That the only way to prevent that is using the offline mode.
So Warhammer 40,000: Space Marine was a pretty interesting game. It was half of what I was expecting (RPS's comment that it was basically more of the demo) and also not what I was expecting. I picked this up for 12.50$ on GMG earlier this month. Steam says I put about 12 hours into it, 6 or so was spent on SP, the rest on MP. I mostly did Seize Ground in MP, stopped at level 20 mostly because I couldn't take playing MP any more.
Single Player - played all on a 360 pad, normal difficulty
+ I feel like a damn Space Marine - the thudding on my foot steps and even having too much inertia when stopping from sprinting
+ Both melee and ranged combat are satisfying, being able to mix it up at will was great too
+ Jetpack sequences were always fun, though they could've lasted a bit longer at times
= The story was pretty standard fare Warhammer I felt minus a few twists
- also, Chaos showing up is the least spoiler of them all
- Some of the scripting was off, or sometimes my squadmates would fall off the map and I'd have to reload the checkpoint to continue (to get on an elevator). Happened only a handful of times but its pretty annoying that it happened at all
- They said it wasn't going to end up being Gears of Warhammer 40k, but when Chaos Marines show up, you sorta have to start firing from some cover or corner or eschew melee for the most part. A few CSMs I could possibly melee if my squadmates are around, but throwing you into a room with 5 CSMs and renegade guardsmen will chip away your armour and health pretty fast that closing in to melee is rarely an option (especially at the end when you are solo).
- The checkpoints for this game are sometimes terribly placed, mostly because they put them too far back from the action. The last bossfight checkpoint is just egregious because they place it right before where the cache of weapons is, then another 10 second walk and a cutscene before the fight starts (you can skip 2-3 seconds in). Why not just place one after the cutscene?
Multiplayer - all kb/m, did not play co-op though sadly
+ The Copy Loadout feature is pretty fun but that's about all the good I can say about MP. At least if someone completely annihilates you you can try out their extra weapons and perks for a while.
+ The appearance customizer is pretty fun, that's about it though
= Annihilation is boring and short - 41 kills is nothing while seize ground is a bit more fun and easier to grind XP from when capping/uncapping/rounds lasting more than 7 minutes
= Unlocking armour pieces I can live with (cosmetic) but it is very grindy (die/kill/assist/etc up to 5000 or so times) for things like shoulders and helmets.
- Matchmaking is P2P. I've never used it before so I never knew what it felt like but host migration and people skipping and rubber banding around is not my idea of fun in MP.
- Unlocking weapons would've been okay (I've played plenty of CoD4) except all the ranged weapons (esp on Tacs) are so fundamentally different that it feels weird having to grind your way up to just have them. (again, compared to something like CoD4, the starting weapons are already good/serviceable, not shitty in comparison; same with perks, you get better surface piercing and the increased damage perks from the start)
- The starting bolter literally can only tickle people's armour - until you kill enough people for the weapon perk. At that point you can actually face people on somewhat even ground, which is annoying seeing as the other two classes can work somewhat fine even naked at the start of your MP career. (I literally went from picking off stragglers with the bolter - 3-5 kills a round at best - to getting regular 4+ killstreaks with it after getting the Kraken Shells perk)
What I wish they did
- At least for SP, there should have been some minor character creation or customization and some RPG elements. There were plenty in the Dawn of War II series but all of a sudden it became a straight up action game.
- MP scaling was very off but it went by relatively fast if you did seize ground primarily to level up with. Weapon unlocking feels terribly slow when all the weapons feel and handle different, then require you to do abnormal amounts of grinding to get their respective perks (about 250 kills and 50 killstreaks respectively) to work 'better'. For CoD4, at least you started getting attachments like 25 kills in and weapons functioned about the same (and optical attachments didn't really do much in COD4). In comparison to BF3, SM is still worse because grinding optical attachments (from what I played in the beta) wasn't as bad as having to grind killstreaks to get them (easier to get I suppose)
- There feels like an underlying lack of polish in both modes. The game runs fine and smooth pretty much all the time but the little bugs and the seemingly lack of MP balance ruin an otherwise pretty fun game.
I would wait for 20$ or under to buy. I thought it was well worth my 12.50$. It's a damn shame it didn't do well enough for a sequel but they are adding more premium DLC to it (sadly in the form of MP maps/modes) to squeeze some more money out of it. It's unfortunately they didn't leverage any of the customization/RPG-ishness they had in DoW2/the tabletop game into the video game, which would have made it more interesting than a straight up action game (albeit the action was at least very fun for the most part).
Single Player - played all on a 360 pad, normal difficulty
+ I feel like a damn Space Marine - the thudding on my foot steps and even having too much inertia when stopping from sprinting
+ Both melee and ranged combat are satisfying, being able to mix it up at will was great too
+ Jetpack sequences were always fun, though they could've lasted a bit longer at times
= The story was pretty standard fare Warhammer I felt minus a few twists
well, the Inquisitor I wasn't expecting to have turned from the start but he started telegraphing crazy pretty close to halfway to his reveal
- Some of the scripting was off, or sometimes my squadmates would fall off the map and I'd have to reload the checkpoint to continue (to get on an elevator). Happened only a handful of times but its pretty annoying that it happened at all
- They said it wasn't going to end up being Gears of Warhammer 40k, but when Chaos Marines show up, you sorta have to start firing from some cover or corner or eschew melee for the most part. A few CSMs I could possibly melee if my squadmates are around, but throwing you into a room with 5 CSMs and renegade guardsmen will chip away your armour and health pretty fast that closing in to melee is rarely an option (especially at the end when you are solo).
- The checkpoints for this game are sometimes terribly placed, mostly because they put them too far back from the action. The last bossfight checkpoint is just egregious because they place it right before where the cache of weapons is, then another 10 second walk and a cutscene before the fight starts (you can skip 2-3 seconds in). Why not just place one after the cutscene?
Multiplayer - all kb/m, did not play co-op though sadly
+ The Copy Loadout feature is pretty fun but that's about all the good I can say about MP. At least if someone completely annihilates you you can try out their extra weapons and perks for a while.
+ The appearance customizer is pretty fun, that's about it though
= Annihilation is boring and short - 41 kills is nothing while seize ground is a bit more fun and easier to grind XP from when capping/uncapping/rounds lasting more than 7 minutes
= Unlocking armour pieces I can live with (cosmetic) but it is very grindy (die/kill/assist/etc up to 5000 or so times) for things like shoulders and helmets.
- Matchmaking is P2P. I've never used it before so I never knew what it felt like but host migration and people skipping and rubber banding around is not my idea of fun in MP.
- Unlocking weapons would've been okay (I've played plenty of CoD4) except all the ranged weapons (esp on Tacs) are so fundamentally different that it feels weird having to grind your way up to just have them. (again, compared to something like CoD4, the starting weapons are already good/serviceable, not shitty in comparison; same with perks, you get better surface piercing and the increased damage perks from the start)
- The starting bolter literally can only tickle people's armour - until you kill enough people for the weapon perk. At that point you can actually face people on somewhat even ground, which is annoying seeing as the other two classes can work somewhat fine even naked at the start of your MP career. (I literally went from picking off stragglers with the bolter - 3-5 kills a round at best - to getting regular 4+ killstreaks with it after getting the Kraken Shells perk)
What I wish they did
- At least for SP, there should have been some minor character creation or customization and some RPG elements. There were plenty in the Dawn of War II series but all of a sudden it became a straight up action game.
- MP scaling was very off but it went by relatively fast if you did seize ground primarily to level up with. Weapon unlocking feels terribly slow when all the weapons feel and handle different, then require you to do abnormal amounts of grinding to get their respective perks (about 250 kills and 50 killstreaks respectively) to work 'better'. For CoD4, at least you started getting attachments like 25 kills in and weapons functioned about the same (and optical attachments didn't really do much in COD4). In comparison to BF3, SM is still worse because grinding optical attachments (from what I played in the beta) wasn't as bad as having to grind killstreaks to get them (easier to get I suppose)
- There feels like an underlying lack of polish in both modes. The game runs fine and smooth pretty much all the time but the little bugs and the seemingly lack of MP balance ruin an otherwise pretty fun game.
I would wait for 20$ or under to buy. I thought it was well worth my 12.50$. It's a damn shame it didn't do well enough for a sequel but they are adding more premium DLC to it (sadly in the form of MP maps/modes) to squeeze some more money out of it. It's unfortunately they didn't leverage any of the customization/RPG-ishness they had in DoW2/the tabletop game into the video game, which would have made it more interesting than a straight up action game (albeit the action was at least very fun for the most part).
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Correct, I know of no way around this as long as you're using a Steamworks executable, unfortunately.
And if you go online and back offline, and Steam detects there has been a Skyrim update, it MIGHT not download the update if you have updates turned off in the Steam properties for Skyrim...but it might also not let you play the game anymore in offline mode, telling you that you need to update. I don't know this part for sure though.
You should make a list of what games have saves that are important to you, and then start researching where the saves for each of those games goes. Some games might transfer saves via Steam cloud, some might store local save files in your documents folder, or possibly in a variety of other more obscure locations. There isn't any standard answer, unfortunately.
Im_Special
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The standard answer is actually this http://www.gamesave-manager.com/
Yeah. Or, a more detailed reply from the Pro Tips thread:
I wanted to rave about one of my favourite tools in the PC gaming kit: Dropbox.
The purpose of Dropbox is to provide cloud-storage which can be mapped to a local folder on every PC you use, regardless of the OS. It also has Android and iPhone apps so that you can get to your stuff on the move.
It's also arguably the best place to host images and your ticket to cloud-saving in any game.
Images
This one is easy. There is a folder in the root of newly created Dropboxen called "Public". If you have an old Dropbox account you might need to create the folder. Anything placed in there is publicly accessible, and you can right-click it and select the Dropbox submenu to copy the public link to the clipboard.
The reasons for doing this are simple. Personally I like to take all my screenshots as uncompressed PNGs out of Fraps, and I don't trust any image host to handle them properly, except abload.de which is too slow for me (Australia).
Cloud Saves
This is insanely simple thanks to Game Save Manager which includes Dropbox support:
If the game isn't supported by GSM you can use the original manual technique. The first thing that you need to do is grab the Dropbox Folder Sync addon and install it. Then it's simply a matter of finding the save folder for the game, and selecting the sync option:
Now that your saves are in The Cloud, you'll want to access them from another PC for maximum PC Gaming Pro-ness. This is simply a matter of repeating the step above on that PC. If you already have saves in both folders you'll be given the option to merge/overwrite the files at that time.
And that's it! The next time you format your PC your saves are the last thing you need to worry about, and if you game on multiple PCs you now have perfect synchronisation between them. Also, the above technique will also work on settings files/folders so if you want to keep those in synch too you can.
N.B.: If you're familiar with creating NTFS junctions (i.e. symlinks) you can perform the above using the CLI.
This man is wise, because he prepares himself for tinkering. In case you have trouble, make sure that you back the folder up before trying this.
I've lost my Torchlight saves at least half a dozen times as they're tucked away in AppData\Roaming\runic games.
GFWL actually puts some in hidden folders. Which is the genius of Game Save Manager. It finds it all.
That is simultaneously hilarious and unsurprising.
Wouldn't Steam's small Community notification banner have lit up as a result of the additional gifts?
Nice, congrats! I couldn't be bothered to do any of the achievements, so didn't end up with anything... Great that it paid off for you, though
It doesn't seem to, I just had the games added to my library. To be truthful, I think I wouldn't have noticed w/o the email. I normally use the only installed filter.
On the off chance someone needs a valve 33% off coupon, PM me.
HP_Wuvcraft
Banned
I survived the night. Did not buy XCOM.
DyslexicAlucard
Member
So anyone have a Medal of Honor coupon I could use? $5 seems juuuust a bit over what I'm willing to pay
Planet_JASE
Member
$7.50?
It would have to be awful to not be worth that price. It is thankfully not.
Proceed.
it real good. only final boss was kinda broken but then its def worth your 7.50
slidewinder
Banned
A couple of Gamesave Manager alternatives I've come across recently, though not yet tried myself:
SaveGameBackup.net
MASGAU
SaveGameBackup.net
MASGAU
This was true, but there was a client update released a couple months ago that fixed the problem.
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