zerokoolpsx
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Well time to get some Faerie Soltaire cards and hopefully a foil. 
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STEAM announcements & updates 2013 II - ITT we buy $1 games and complain about them
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Since sibarraz isn't taking it, can I have Hotline Miami? "xanxanlol"
Also whoever wants a code for that 3rd Penny-Arcade Rainslick game can just quote me and I'll PM the code. I just want to delete this text file from my desktop.
chixdiggit
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Sorry... just sent it to him.
chixdiggit
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You want Capsized?
Thanks for the offer but I think someone else can have it. I'm trying to stop adding games to my library I'll probably never play.
chixdiggit
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Haha all right. If someone wants it just PM me. Going to bed.
CheesecakeRecipe
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Well, since I feel kinda bad for this, I bought another bundle so I could give you hotline miami
Also had the other games to gift, so quote me so I could send the respective keys of the game that you want
Thomas Was Alone
AwesomeNauts
Intrusion 2
Proteus
Little Inferno
Dear Esther
Capsized
Tiny and Big in Granpda's Leftovers
English Country Tune
Oil Rush
Oh wow thanks, Hotline Miami was all that I wanted from that bundle so I couldn't justify getting it on it's own. I recommend giving away the rest of them in that Steam Take One Give One thread. You're a motherfather gentleman.
oipic
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Well time to get some Faerie Soltaire cards and hopefully a foil.
Alas, no karmic reward for my 80+ hours (!) of Faerie Solitaire play time - no foils. It just wasn't to be. Great little game, though - I'm glad to see some folks actually gave it a go, if only briefly (and for obvious reasons).
Can I be so bold as to please ask for Proteus, if it's still available?
Don't know, wasn't that thread derailed for guys getting expensive games for the price of cheap bundles? don't think that's fair
Can I have Tiny & Big? Already have all the others.
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nvm...it was added in humble bundle apparently.
You have to complete a set of cards and craft a badge.
How to get all cards you ask? Either by trading/sell other cards/items or spend money on the market.
Eh you're giving away a cheap bundle itself so there's no way someone else can replace it with something cheaper right?
zerokoolpsx
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Can I get Thomas Was Alone?
I didn't use it.
The Broken Ska Record
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Damn. The Runner 2 cards are going for a good chunk of change.
zerokoolpsx
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Thanks sibarraz!
I got every achievement in Runner 2
give me a fucking gold star or something
this card business is the worst
what's more; it's ruining the "importance" some people gave to the gameplay trime tracking since everyone's just idling like crazy people
yeah I still dont hate this any less
give me a fucking gold star or something
this card business is the worst
what's more; it's ruining the "importance" some people gave to the gameplay trime tracking since everyone's just idling like crazy people
yeah I still dont hate this any less
almostheathen
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Now get back to swapnote chop chop.
i'd take english country tune if you still have it
i'd be down for AwesomeN. or Little Inferno if still available steam: lawstkoz
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Keeping fighting the good fight.
Do you still happen to have the Oil Rush key by chance?
Well, I apparently had to reset my cable modem to get a connection when I powered everything on today, but before I did that I had already tried to connect to Steam. As a result, Steam got me back for not usually having problems with offline mode:
I tried unplugging the Ethernet cable and got the same thing. As far as I know I -always- shut down Steam properly. So now, it's experiment time. I haven't restarted Steam since getting internet back, and I seem to recall there are instructions somewhere about a workaround, so I'm going to try to check if it's possible to get offline mode if you get stuck in this situation.
So since I'm an engineer, I obsessively did more experiments.
- Tried disabling adapter in Network Connections, same problem
- Tried overwriting winui.gcf with an old version from a backup hard drive, same problem
- Tried copying a winui.gcf from a different backup directory, same problem
- HOWEVER, note that in the second directory mentioned above, I have an old version of Steam.exe, which DOES bring up the window with the button to start in offline mode. But, clicking the button to start in offline mode just brings up another error window saying that the it cannot connect to the Steam network.
- Tried running Steam.exe from a backup Steam folder on an external hard disk...SUCCESS! Got the window with the offline mode button, and it worked, got to the games list, launched Team Fortress 2 and Mirror's Edge to make sure it worked, which it did.
- Tried copying winui.gcf from the working offline steamapps folder to the broken one...same problem.
- Tried copying AppUpdateStats.blob and ClientRegistry.blob from the working offline folder...same problem.
- Replaced Steam\userdata directory with one from working offline directory...same problem
- Replaced Steam\steam with one from working offline directory...same problem
- Tried running Steam.exe as administrator...same problem
- Replaced Steam\appcache with one from working offline directory...same problem
- Replaced top-level files in Steam\config with ones from working directory...same problem
- Deleted steamapps\appmanifest_440.acf (was modified recently)
- Copied everything top-level from the working Steam offline directory, as well as the entire bin folder. Once I did this, Steam gave me the offline button, and it brought up a game list, but it seemed weird, showed a red message from Steam support alert at the top, and only showed two games installed.
- At this point I tried deleting ClientRegistry.blob and AppUpdateStats.blob and launched Steam.exe again...and got back to my original problem, the popup I posted earlier.
- Copied old ClientRegistry.blob and AppUpdateStats.blob back again, got to glitchy games list again.
- Tried ONLY deleting ClientRegistry.blob and restarting Steam.exe...same problem. Had to get old blob again.
- At this point, just out of curiosity, I tried my old external hard drive Steam.exe running off of the external. It STILL worked and brought up the good games list, not a glitchy one.
- Copied the modern-day Steam.exe back, tried deleting the bin directory and everything but Steam.exe,
and ran Steam.exe. It recreated things, but brought up the original popup error I had earlier today. - After this I gave up and reenabled the network connection, restoring my various modern-day backups to the Steam folder, noting in the process that Steam had forgotten the password, so I had to do the Steam guard support email thing to get back in.
Conclusion of all of the above:
- An old Steam install directory from 2010 on an external hard drive still works in offline mode, which is nice.
- Unfortunately, enough has apparently changed since then that I do not know ANY way to recover Steam if you get in this situation now. However, I will try backing up winui.gcf, ClientRegistry.blob, and AppUpdateStats.blog from the Steam directory with working modern-day offline mode running in case this happens to me again so I can experiment further.
VALLLLLLLLVE
People like that have lots of choices:
- Actually play the game instead of idle it
- Buy cards on the market to avoid running the game
- Don't worry about the few paltry card drops they have, unless they value the accuracy of the time tracking feature at a whopping $3
- Ask themselves why ten thousand hours of TF2 on everyone's profiles didn't have the same effect
- Get a therapist
@blizzard big ass post
dam dude, thats quite interesting. i was starting to worry when people were saying you could only be offline for 2 weeks and then others were saying the Steam shutdown problems like you mentioned. Ive never had a problem playing the few times offline, but i always assumed you could play your sp offline indefinetely if you needed to.
dam dude, thats quite interesting. i was starting to worry when people were saying you could only be offline for 2 weeks and then others were saying the Steam shutdown problems like you mentioned. Ive never had a problem playing the few times offline, but i always assumed you could play your sp offline indefinetely if you needed to.
What CPU, video card, and RAM do you have?
- get a new Steam account with "untainted" playtime, throw a tantrum about on it GAF, get banned
i7 4770k, GTX Titan, 16GB DDR3 2133mhz.
Is the game CPU dependent? If so, I'll be OCing my CPU tomorrow. Just built my computer.
Alright I've been scouring google.
Company of Heroes 2 is apparently garbage.
GTX 780 is having even less frames than me on a 1080p setup.
The game is just utter garbage, or the drivers are optimized for it. Either way CoH2 looks, graphically, shitty, yet requires so much performance.
What a joke.
Company of Heroes 2 is apparently garbage.
GTX 780 is having even less frames than me on a 1080p setup.
The game is just utter garbage, or the drivers are optimized for it. Either way CoH2 looks, graphically, shitty, yet requires so much performance.
What a joke.
Nvidia drivers probably aren't up to snuff yet.
If you read their patch notes it doesn't even seem like they are focusing on the game.
Whoa. Settle down, game isn't even released yet.
Do you know what Beta means? Bugs, glitches, and unoptimized games are par for the course.
I don't own the game but I can't imagine you being limited with that system, so I'll have to defer to other people with CoH 2 and nVidia cards. :/
*edit* I was wanting to get an nVidia card so I could finally use the wonders of PhysX and SGSSAA and so forth, but that's kind of disheartening news.
Normally I thought nVidia works pretty closely with game devs.Did you get all the retro carts? I'm lacking 6 of them.
And of course, I'm just starting my Hard playthrough, and haven't done it on Easy either.
Just console warrior's trying to scare people, do not believe their lies
I had never had a problem with offline mode either, which was partly why I was so motivated to experiment first-hand so I'd be able to better address the issue in the future.Just console warrior's trying to scare people, do not believe their lies
Cydonian__Knight
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Good call, I guess I could actually do that new between TF2 and Half Life 2. I was just hoping to maximize my (admittedly very small) change to get a foil.
Know of a trading bot? I'd like to complete my Don't Starve badge.
I don't own the game but I can't imagine you being limited with that system, so I'll have to defer to other people with CoH 2 and nVidia cards. :/
*edit* I was wanting to get an nVidia card so I could finally use the wonders of PhysX and SGSSAA and so forth, but that's kind of disheartening news.
It could be a driver issue, and I will have to wait until CoH2 launch to see what the true potential is.
Because if I can get 70+ fps maxed out on a 64 man server with maxed AA and everything on Battlefield 3, and I can't even average that in this game, which is ugly to boot, something is wrong.
Not to mention I can't find a game. So in Company of Heroes fashion, their matchmaking is still broken. I couldn't even play multiplayer in CoH1 because of intense lag or not being able to connect, even with open ports.
I just dont like it and think its dumb.
I thought this before when Valve were doing stuff like letting you sell beta invites and getting a cut. That was pretty much when it got iffy or when it set a limit for me on what I personally wanted out of their whole market experiment
this is pretty much the limit for me as far as their concept of "gamification on everything" goes
it's funny cause in essence I like these ideas a lot, and didnt think there would be situations where I didnt like them anymore, but yeah
of course I can just ignore them and just use what I want out of them (ocassionally getting some and selling them because money), and i'll continue to do that, but I generally like using Steam's features and be a part of that whole thing when done right.
as a sidenote I really dont like the new profiles either. I don't like how having the last games you've played on top of comments/etc is supposedly an improvement over constantly having them on the bar on the right, occupying less space, stuff like that. It's super big, super ugly.. old one was way better.
it's all minor but im just ocassionally commenting on it cause it's like the first move Steam has made that I dont like, really.
Redeemed Cave Story+! Thanks!
I know it's not the take one/leave one thread, but there may be a key for Double Fine Prototypes hidden in this post. Just sayin'. You don't even have to offer Dear Esther if you take it.
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