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El Heisenberg
BibiMaghoo
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Orion: Dino hoard is on sale.
Yeah? or nay?
Yeah? or nay?
jshackles
Gentlemen, we can rebuild it. We have the capability to make the world's first enhanced store. Steam will be that store. Better than it was before.
Obviously at the top of my wishlist for GFWL removal is Fallout 3 - which I mentioned in a recent interview.
I know there is a fan-made mod that patches out GFWL, but at that point you may as well download the pirated version.
I know there is a fan-made mod that patches out GFWL, but at that point you may as well download the pirated version.
It is free for 5 days, look in your library
Perfectly fair. People wanted to give their keys away or they wouldn't be registered in the first place. No use letting them rot.
Stumpokapow
listen to the mad man
That's my sense, but I also wanted there to be a fairly easy way for people to change their mind because they are reverse-Grinches and their hearts shrink two sizes this day.
jshackles
Gentlemen, we can rebuild it. We have the capability to make the world's first enhanced store. Steam will be that store. Better than it was before.
derExperte
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Now that the Nuuvem situation has been cleared up you can buy it there, I don't think it'll be much cheaper during the next sale on Steam.
Modbot policy update: The "my loot" command now reports BOTH what you've won for ModBot, and any unclaimed keys you've offered to ModBot. This will be useful if no one claims a key and you want to go back and nuke it. Or because you can't keep track of all the stuff you're giving away!!!! WOW, so generous! Also useful if you want to repost stuff because it got lost in the shuffle. Remember when you repost keys, generate a new giveaway, don't just quote the original.
How the my loot command works exactly ? Send a message to ModBot with register in the title and my loot in the message ?
Good work, I think this is fair. One question, will the keys go up all at once and if so, what time? Want to make sure I don't miss it! Actually there's another question, any chance of making the big giveaway a raffle or would that just overload Modbot? Might make it less dependent on being there at the moment it goes up.
Stumpokapow
listen to the mad man
Send a PM to ModBot with my loot in the title
body doesn't matter
http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showthread.php?t=617641
I haven't decided those answers yet and a lot of them are going to depend on the content of the raffle. If it's 37 unclaimed Cogs keys, I probably will just do whatever is the least amount of work. If it's a wide variety of stuff that slipped through the cracks, I'll probably do in batches and give ample warning. I am sensitive to user desires for this stuff
That's kind of a leap.
jshackles
Gentlemen, we can rebuild it. We have the capability to make the world's first enhanced store. Steam will be that store. Better than it was before.
True, after looking into the tool in question it doesn't seem as bad as it was when the game was released. Seems like they've dumbed it down to a simple toggle. Which make me wonder, especially with the impending doom of GFWL, why it hasn't been officially patched out yet.
#Griefbait
BibiMaghoo
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Don't want to download it if it is really bad, if good, I'll buy it at that price.
I think a lot of the problem comes from:
Run bro
I think this was the damage before it was pulled from steam and 'remade'. I remember some scuffle about it when it came out. People raged about...Something.
Ok! I guess that there's going to be a bunch of repeats, especially for stuff like the Origin bundle, but I can't shake the feeling tgere's a diamond in the roughI haven't decided those answers yet and a lot of them are going to depend on the content of the raffle. If it's 37 unclaimed Cogs keys, I probably will just do whatever is the least amount of work. If it's a wide variety of stuff that slipped through the cracks, I'll probably do in batches and give ample warning. I am sensitive to user desires for this stuff
will trust your judgement!Made it to the final boss for the first time. Brought the key down from the mines to create the temple shortcut in two tries.
Killing the final boss is now in sight. Lets do this.
Yep. That's definitely the final boss alright...
heheh
Could you possibly edit in a link in that thread like there is at the top of giveaways that takes you directly to PMing ModBot? Would just be nice for convenience. I actually never manually PMd anyone before ModBot, so it was initially confusing. Not that learning is bad, but it certainly took longer than clicking a name. =p
Edit: Thanks!
Chance Hale
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Can anyone who played Analogue a Hate Story tell me where the save file for the game is? It transfers over to Hate Plus it seems and I think I'll have to hook up my old computer to move it over.
Dice
Pokémon Parentage Conspiracy Theorist
Okay so Steam is still always telling me that game downloads will be twice what they actually are. Today before work I said goodbye to 40GB of HD space and set Hitman and Van Helsing downloading, now I get home and see it was only 20GB. What is the deal?
Stumpokapow
listen to the mad man
done
Chance Hale
Member
Maybe it's like PSN where you need close to double the space at first while it decompresses files during the installation process.
toddhunter
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Great work Stumpokapow. All seems perfectly fair.
Using my loot does present an issue though. It says I have four unclaimed keys like anti chamber. I know these were taken.
I'll nuke them, but people should check.
Using my loot does present an issue though. It says I have four unclaimed keys like anti chamber. I know these were taken.
I'll nuke them, but people should check.
Pretty sure Steam tells you the space the games will take on disc, not the size of the download.
Van Helsing is a 9 gig download that extracts to about 19 gigs.
Dice
Pokémon Parentage Conspiracy Theorist
So you're saying I shouldn't give those 2 steam keys for Mirror's Edge and Dead Space that were unclaimed to other people.
Sounds like real efficient data structuring there.
jediyoshi
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This. A lot "safer" to list the amount of storage needed for the entire process rather than just install or download.
Stumpokapow
listen to the mad man
Do whatever you want. The free-for-all will make it very clear that a lot of the keys will probably be already claimed. But if you have the time, it'd be nice to nuke the keys if you choose to gift them away using another method.
I'll check into it, I think it's an issue with some earlier giveaways where stuff wasn't quite working. I'll be weeding out most of the apparent garbage in short order.
loaded up saints row the third to re-upload my character and ended up spending 20 minutes wrecking chaos
IV's gonna be great maaaaan
oh man bring the Anthology
IV's gonna be great maaaaan
oh man bring the Anthology
Compression for data transport will always be better than compression you want to be able to use on the fly.
Man I wish that was real!modbot said:
Chance Hale
Member
Hate Plus has the best achievement ever.
Nabs
Member
More adventures in we never asked for this
This just means Halo is closer.
jaundicejuice
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Alright, here's my initial impressions off of my first 20 minute long life.
For a game with such a stylised, cartoon-y aesthetic, Sir, You Are Being Hunted is pretty intense and kind of scary. I jump when I get shot at and get startled by the weird electronic hum and chatter the robots generate. Which is your cue to try and not get shot at, like I did
To answer my own questions about the game, the end goal isn't mere survival, ultimately it's escape. You're trapped on a five island archipelago across which there are scattered twenty five pieces of a mystery device. Once found and assembled this device will allow you to escape. That really wasn't made clear in any of the walkthrough videos of Sir I watched.
Initially I thought this game's world generation was going to be similar to Minecraft, you pick a biome type, make a world and go. In Sir you can choose a biome per island, which is pretty neat. Currently there's three or four to pick, I went with Fens, Rural and Moutain.
The game starts you off by a savepoint with one device piece, some rags for bandages and a pair of binoculars. You can only save by these lodestones or a boat (that you use to travel to another island), you cannot save while bleeding or starving. Oh and your vitality meter starts ticking down right away. The rate your vitality drops is kind of ridiculous, you basically have to constantly eat to keep it up but I guess it dictates the pacing at which you need to forage and explore. Adds some pressure to make you explore a village despite it being patrolled by a pack of hunting rifle-toting robo-British country gents.
Your main goal is to wander the islands, looking for columns of rising smoke, these are device pieces. But to be able to do this you constantly have to forage for food, weapons and supplies along the way. Currently that's limited to downed enemies and walking up to a the door of a house and pressing e (based off of my limited play time). You don't actually enter the building, you just interact with it at a door. I've read that they are working on adding interiors of buildings but they don't want separate instances for this (like interiors in Skyrim for example). They're going to try and make it so that the open world and building interior are int he same instance. Currently that's not the case.
You've got limited inventory space, those device pieces can take up roughly 1/4 of your entire inventory and those pieces need to be deposited at a save point, perhaps just the lodestones.
Sir has a stealth system similar to Thief, you have a visibility gauge in the HUD and sound plays a huge role in avoiding confrontations. You can find weapons and traps but based off of my botched attempt at hatcheting a hunter I failed to evade, it's something you want to avoid.
Sorry for the scattered, kind of rambling stream of thought. It's a little rough around the edges, but Sir looks like it could be something amazing.
C:\Users\Tom\AppData\Roaming\RenPy\Analogue
replace "tom" for your own name
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The Broken Ska Record
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More adventures in we never asked for this
Maybe REORC will get an update to make it playable without GFWL.
Chance Hale
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Thanks!
aww man we should've co-oped, I need those last few cheevos
np, thanks for reminding me hate plus exists
toddhunter
Member
Thanks Jaundicejuice for the impressions. Not a game I'll jump on early, but certainly one I'm watching.
Dice
Pokémon Parentage Conspiracy Theorist
FiveElementNinja
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Man I just played ORION: Dino Horde and now I see why it's free all week. Normally I'm all for games that are so bad they're good, especially when dinosaurs are involved, but this game... no so much. :/
jaundicejuice
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Isn't there a free Day of Defeat Source mod that replaces the Axis forces with Dinosaurs?
I've never played any of Christine Love's VN's, but they sound interesting, and I'm tempted to check them out... but then I read the description of Hate Plus on Steam and I can't shake this feeling that the author's screwing with me and the whole game's going to turn out to be some sort of elaborate troll.
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