can i reserve a spot? i want to get some impressions first
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STEAM Announcements & Updates 2013 IV - Christmas in July is over, back to real life
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Prophane33
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woosh.*
*The sound of the joke going over your head.
I'm obsessed with the game, nothing is better than cruising down the highway when something awesome comes on one of the internet radio stations (once Judas Priest - Turbo Lover came on!). Or that feeling of finally completing your longest long-distance job.
Edit: This is one of those games that by the title sounds ridiculous, but you just don't understand it until you actually start playing...also I now see that you saw my avatar
Chance Hale
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I know now, I edited my previous post, lol
That's exactly how I felt, though I haven't attempted any long distance job. In fact, I don't think I've unlocked them yet. I'm still very poor (less than 12000 euros), so I can't even afford my own truck.
Prophane33
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You should try taking out a loan. The rates aren't that terrible compared to the amount of money you can make with your own truck.
i see. i think i wait for now. remove my reservationWell, I want to order sometime within the next 20 minutes. Dinner reservation
exmachina64
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When I hit lvl 4, I had 30K euros and the bank emailed me during that job to say I had been approved for credit up to 500K. I took out a 400K loan, bought a truck, upgraded my garage, bought another truck and hired another driver. Feels good.
Totally worth it because the next time I looked for jobs, I went from jobs that paid 8K to jobs that paid 30K.
Chance Hale
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Wrong thread
Yep, a 100k loan at 2k installment a day, when you are making trips worth 6k a day, works itself out.
Chance Hale
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Someone bought my Firesteed Secret of the Magic Crystal card for 2 dollars. Thanks!
Morbid curiosity has the better of me now. I'm going to install this thing and find out what I've been "missing".
$35-100? I hate the community at times.
Prophane33
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a brony bought my cards for around .79 but not 2 bucks. Was that a foil?
Chance Hale
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oipic
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Forgive my self-indulgent self-quoting, but all this ETS2 talk makes me want to say this again!
How have you guys fared with the whole parking thing? My efforts would probably make for a very comical (but embarrassing) video.
How have you guys fared with the whole parking thing? My efforts would probably make for a very comical (but embarrassing) video.
Prophane33
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I actually never park it. I have no problem backing it up to pick up freight. Actually parking the freight at it's destination...doesn't go so well. I also hear that the "precision bonus" doesn't really make a huge difference. I still practice on shorter runs when I'm not under a big time crunch. I believe that eventually I'll get the hang of it. It might also be easier using a wheel (I'm using a 360 controller).
Monado Blade
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Europe in a truck is awesome. The best game I got out of the sale.
My biggest regret from the sale is not getting it. Here's hoping for a daily/weekend sale!
Pops Maellard
Member
Why. Just why.
spindoctor
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I gave up on manually parking. I can manage it but it just takes me way too long and not really worth the bonus :\
toddhunter
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You have 3.5 hours if you still want it: http://store.indiegala.com/index.php/euro-truck-simulator-2.html
Stronghammer22
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I was excited to pick up Prison Architect in the sale and it hasn't disappointed me. I had a few early missteps... I dilly-dallied when it came to getting the critical buildings up, thus, my prisoners weren't too pleased when they hadn't eaten or showered in days. There was a lot of fighting in that holding cell. lol. A few of them also ran for the hills when a worker opened a door to outside, oops. Lesson learned. My new prison is coming along nicely; I enjoy planning the layout.
It was definitely worth the money.
It was definitely worth the money.
oipic
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I'm tackling it with a 360 controller as well, but nearly dug out my wheel (after 30 minutes or so of repeated 7-point turns, having tied my truck in knots repeatedly) in some vain hope that it might help with dropping off freight...but I suspect it won't! I guess I'll keep chipping away at it, as you say, it'll most likely 'click' at some point.
I'd watched plenty of let's plays and whatnot before getting behind the wheel myself, but videos don't do full justice to the 'experience' this game provides. It is indeed a surprise packet.
They can be applied on top of an existing discount, which in the case of the TT2+ coupons is notable as this isn't the default behaviour.
Well it was primarily the boosters once you have all the allowed drops, but luckily someone explained a few posts later.
Other than that, the foil cards. I guess those are just random drops beyond the allowed number?
30 additional games? Bloody hell.
Prophane33
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...and that's just today.
NingenJanai
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Indeed, it's weird they didn't add the cards during the sale.
NingenJanai
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We'll miss you too, have fun in OT.
This is on medium for Metro Last Light
Jesus fuck this is probably one of the best looking games on the PC right now.
also the engine runs a LOT better than Metro 2033, as I just got done playing it.
Gunplay is dope, sounds dope, atmospheric as fuck, animations are better, sneaking is the cat's pajamas, level design is catnip, story is straightforward but still able to surprise you.
I already loved the metro series (books included) and this is worming its way into my GOTY for 2013. I had to tear myself away to stop playing the whole fucking thing in one sitting.
Jesus fuck this is probably one of the best looking games on the PC right now.
also the engine runs a LOT better than Metro 2033, as I just got done playing it.
Gunplay is dope, sounds dope, atmospheric as fuck, animations are better, sneaking is the cat's pajamas, level design is catnip, story is straightforward but still able to surprise you.
I already loved the metro series (books included) and this is worming its way into my GOTY for 2013. I had to tear myself away to stop playing the whole fucking thing in one sitting.
Even adding a handful of card updates each day of the sale was overdoing it. Releasing another 30 into the wild in a single day is just ridiculous.
Chance Hale
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The one negative about Metro Last Light's visuals are they seriously toned down the smoke effects for gun firing to almost nill. In the first game every shot would cause smoke to go out and spread across the room and get affected by the light and so on. Was one of the more impressive effects I've seen in a game.
Still in Last Light but it goes away after a few seconds for the most part.
Still in Last Light but it goes away after a few seconds for the most part.
La ringrazio molto, ho ceduto e comprato dopo tutto!
No clue what the hell is going on with the italian paypal on indiegala, but I bought it and the key works, downloading on Steam as we speak. Cheers!
NingenJanai
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But even if those games weren't dailies/flash sales, they might have gotten a boost in sales with the added cards, now most people are broke from the sale, so even if they add cards I don't think many people will buy them.
Monado Blade
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I bought a lot of games as gifts during the sale and decided to add them all to my library today.
Whoops. Now the "Friends recently bought" list on the side are just a long list of games bought by Monado Blade.
Sorry people who have me on their friends list!
Whoops. Now the "Friends recently bought" list on the side are just a long list of games bought by Monado Blade.
Sorry people who have me on their friends list!
That makes 31 sets.
super-famicom
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Aww yiss.
Sure, I'm just annoyed because I've now got almost 50 games to use up drops in. I can't keep up!
Metro LL is probably the best looking game I've played. This screen looks ridiculous even with Steam's compression.
1/4 so far, probably going to do away with it, don't have the patience or the skills.
That works out to less than $2 per game and you can give away the rest via ModBot. Win-win!
Agreed, it's quite overwhelming. I guess the average person is not trying to get all their drops to sell or craft or whatever, though (or doesn't own all the games, at that!). I'm just trying to do level 1 of each badge at this point, by coming up with the other half of cards I don't get the drops for. Downloaded them all, gonna be a lot of idling tomorrow when I wake up.
If we had back the original drop rate/ability to idle multiple games at a time it would be fine, but I guess they thought that dropped the value of the cards too fast.
SmarterUnconscious
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I'm a little late but, yeah Saints Row 2 was great, I loved it. Even though I played the pc port, which crashed 80% of the time I tried to change my appearance and during the end of some missions, the game was good enough for me to look past all that frustration.
Unfortunately I couldn't beat the final mission cause the quest was bugged for me but eh it was a great ride. I was actually thinking of playing through it again before Saint's Row 4 comes out so thanks for reminding me.
I just posted this in another thread, but Dark Souls does look pretty good for what it is.
Just getting psyched for the sequel, with lead development taking place on PC.
And Steamworks.
Just getting psyched for the sequel, with lead development taking place on PC.
And Steamworks.
Dark Souls just looks amazing.
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