It lacks a few levels, but otherwise it captures the feeling of the PC game perfectly. Great game, it's incredible what the little GBA could do.
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Chance Hale
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How does it prevent you from playing? Suppose I'm lucky and social club has never caused issues across platforms. I enjoy the stat tracking elements.
Just FYI, LoD is largely CPU bound, and you are more than likely to run into framerate problems in Shantytown (unless something was done to the game since launch).
Note that putting LoD on medium doesn't really change how the game looks much.
Apparently I'm not the only one.
The social club login pops up and instantly disappears. Last night it was logging me in as someone else, not I can't log in at at all.
Chance Hale
Member
Seems that it's a recent issue, Social Club is probably getting a makeover before GTAV launches. Still unfortunate though, hopefully it's resolved soon. I signed out of social club and had to spam to log back in so obviously something going on. It even says "SC offline" in the upper right.
Whats wrong with the social club?
The social club is DRM? What? First time I've heard of this. I've only played this gen Rockstar games on consoles and the social club is optional.
Chance Hale
Member
Social Club is actually kind of rad though if you get into the contests between friends and such. People can play if they go offline apparently but of course they shouldn't have to. One imagines Rockstar knows about it and will be working on a fix. They aren't entirely GTAV focused. It's more prevalent in Max Payne 3 because of the crew system for multiplayer.
You have to register the game upon first play via it if I remember. After that you can play offline while remaining connected to steam. GTAIV has the option to play offline right from the launcher.
jediyoshi
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You can't pass the press start screen in MP3 unless it's logged in.
Fucking worst. I have to go through every variation of reinstalling social club, disabling the overlay, changing compatibility before it wants to randomly accept the log in.
I don't have that message in the upper right. It just says "Press home to access social club feature" or something along those lines. Then it disappears, along with the social club login screen.
For the past two nights, it's kept me from playing Max Payne 3.
Chance Hale
Member
You have to be logged in to receive that special message! *evil laugh*
Looking forward to this update. It looks much better than the default listing
A handful of things that come to mind: I wasn't particularly fond of the locations as they were aesthetically and architecturally uninteresting; I didn't like the over-simplification of the free running system; I didn't like the lack of thought that went into the secondary mission objectives; I did like the homestead system as a concept but felt that too many of the related missions were poorly conceived and, consequently, frustratingly dull (I imagine herding pigs in a game is about as fun as herding pigs in real life); and I didn't like that the assassin tombs were all but given the flick (the concept lived on in the form of a few small locations you can visit once you completed enough naval missions).
CrunchyFrog
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that's what I've been busy with. It'll be in the next version of Enhanced Steam.
Have you ever seriously considered going to Valve with your code? You've done some great work. With the exception of the price checking bit, I'm pretty sure Valve would be more than happy to get all of that stuff in the proper client.
As far as I know, jshackles is still waiting for a phone call from Valve
dirtywhirlwind
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List of bundles where Omegalodon was featured in
Build a Bundle 3
Green Light Bundle 2
Indie Gala 10
Sucks to be me, I did not purchase any of these bundles
rainking187
Member
Finally got my Paranautical Activity key from Groupees, but I had to email them about it first.
List of bundles where Omegalodon was featured in
Build a Bundle 3
Green Light Bundle 2
Indie Gala 10
Sucks to be me, I did not purchase any of these bundles
Cheers. I bought BAB3 but didn't opt for Omegalodon; fortunately, though, I also bought IG10. Lucky!
Holy shit dude, I didn't know I wanted that, but I SO want that. You're AMAZING. I second that guy from earlier, you REALLY should get on the horn with Valve and show them what you've done with their client. You deserve a gold knife out of Gabe's collection.
Valve is acutely aware of his work; he's just not had any luck thus far.
ashecitism
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let's try this again
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I am giving away a Steam key. To enter this giveaway, send a PM to ModBot with any subject line. In the body, copy and paste the entire line below containing the key.
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FTL: Faster Than Light --MB-45C6F4E2B4F11ABE- Taken by Spawn. 4 entrants total.
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Wok
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I own the game, but it does not appear in the collection, only in the Desura client.
ashecitism
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What kind of changes did they make in the final game?
Indeed
ModBot said:Just quote this message and paste the quote in the thread:
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Noitu Love 2 Devolution -- ?????modbot edit fail
As usual, this giveaway of mine isn't just a matter of copy and paste. The key is hidden somewhere.
gwynplaine
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think i found it but i have no idea what the game is about. going to read some reviews first
EDIT: o wow the game has cards too and fine i'll edit it out
Don't just copy it there for everyone to see! jeez
rainking187
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I took Noitu Love 2, thanks Accent. I think I found it about the same time as gwynplaine did. I was pretty surprised that the game was only 12 MB on Steam.
HP_Wuvcraft
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GIVE IT TO ME.
Servizio
I don't really need a tag, but I figured I'd get one to make people jealous. Is it working?
Something something glass houses...
haha oh well
I didn't know that idiom, thanks
edit: for those wondering, it was in an email tag in an old post of mine, which the arrow next to Wok's name in the giveaway post led to
EmergentFocus
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Same here. Received it last night after emailing them. If anybody else is still waiting on them I'd recommend simply contacting support@groupees.com and they should fix you up pretty quickly.
Boss Doggie
all my loli wolf companions are so moe
So... is RA3 good, or should I go for CnC3 instead?
bobnowhere
Member
Yeah, I got mine today sometime between leaving for work and getting home again. I was one of the last people to get a Guncraft key as well. Still can't complain it's not like I bought the pack solely for the purpose of getting a steam key, it's a nice bonus.
This is the second time the C&C games have been on sale since the Summer Sale ended. I still can't quite settle on a prognostication regarding EA's relatively frequent sales over the past six or so months: are they happening because EA wants to know how much money it's leaving on the table due to the ignoring of Steam since Origin launched or is it because the company's remaining Steam catalogue is going to be yanked also?
bobnowhere
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Good point, get everyone on origin with the charity bundle and them permanently cut the steam strings when one of the big hits, BF4, Titanfall etc... lands.
Atraveller
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I hope it's the former, and I want them to bring complete version of games back on Steam.
Boss Doggie
all my loli wolf companions are so moe
So yeah, will RA3 scratch my RTS itch? I don't even play campaign.
Motorbreath
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enjoy
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Serious Sam HD: The First Encounter --MB-EB877442CEFAC620- Taken by Boss Doggie
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derExperte
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And here I thought javadots was the low point of SteamGAF. Srsly.
He, at least Groupee finally go me a Paranautical Activity key, day saved.
I'll keep this in mind when I get to that place, thanks. My CPU is over 4 years old, so I'll definitely have problems there.
While you wait for somebody to weigh in with an informed opinion, poke around these threads. From a cursory glance it seems C&C3 is recommended more often.
You need to backtrack to get most stuff anyway since you need specific powers for them.
The PC version of AC2 is fucked and actually has worse graphics settings (specifically the LoD) than the console version. It can't be fixed AFAIK and it looks horrendous. It's a joke. First and only time I demanded (and got) a refund from Steam.
Just look at it:
Oh I see. Then I guess it's fine, but I'd rather choose to replay levels myself by seeing that I lack the required skills than be forced to do so because of level and progression design.
Got mine too, let's hope it was worth the wait.
And hey, if you're a fan of the Barrett era, I don't wanna hear that. Anything prior to Atom Heart Mother can go die in a fire, except for "The narrow way" which is cool.
I don't remember that ever happening honestly, I'm pretty sure I got everything I could on my first playthrough and then went back to get the ones you needed powers for.
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