I still remember my ICQ number, and that damn 'uh oh!' sound that my friend left enabled and it drove me crazy when I was over to his house.
And I still have music hosted on an old tripod site. Ah memories.
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STEAM announcements & updates 2013 - Year of the SteamBox
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I still remember my ICQ number, and that damn 'uh oh!' sound that my friend left enabled and it drove me crazy when I was over to his house.
And I still have music hosted on an old tripod site. Ah memories.
Glass Rebel
Member
Here we come, Gaming Community
Anyone have an extra Fallout: New Vegas to trade? My son wants it badly, and he's tired of waiting for it to go on sale. I have these to trade.
Witcher Enhanced Edition Director's Cut
Vampire Masquerade Bloodlines
STALKER Clear Sky
Beat Hazard Complete
Demigod
Nuclear Dawn
Please PM, and thanks.
Witcher Enhanced Edition Director's Cut
Vampire Masquerade Bloodlines
STALKER Clear Sky
Beat Hazard Complete
Demigod
Nuclear Dawn
Please PM, and thanks.
What have you just done to me. Now I suddenly want this stupid doo-dad.
Can people farm these? Like just create a bunch of Steam accounts, log into TF2 using them, and collect them for future usage? It kills my incentive if they're going to be common items because of this.
Go to gaming community forum and look to the appropriate thread
Fuck you, I was going to make the GeoCities joke first! I'm only 40 minutes late
indigo-cyclops
Member
Haha, I'd actually say 1998...
Technically, you can.
Realistically, you'd have to assign a payment method and spend at least 5 dollars per account (to make it a confirmed account from which you can trade items).
It's doable, but at what cost?
Ah. I didn't realize those were the requirements. Maybe I will try and tie one to my account. Just for the heck of it.
Are you sure that's accurate? My memory might be fuzzy, but I think I've seen things in the Mann Co store for $0.99. There is no set amount of money you have to pay to convert a free account to a premium account (eligible to get cosmetic items) -- you just need to make a single purchase of any amount from Mann Co.
Nabs
Member
i heard it was as good as borderlands2 XD
To convert your Free TF2 account to a premium account, you have to buy an item from the Mann CO Store.
If you want to buy things from the Mann CO store, you have to add funds to your wallet.
You can't add less than 5 bucks to your wallet.
Thus, you have to spend at least 5 bucks.
Unless there's a way (which I'm not aware of and would like to know more) to pay for items on the Mann CO store directly through a Credit Card, without having to have Steam Wallet funds
Ah, hadn't thought about that little issue.
Jzero
Member
What do people hate so much about the Borderlands series? I finished the first one and i just started playing the second one and it seems fine so far.
morningbus
Serious Sam is a wicked gahbidge series for chowdaheads.
Oh, I could tell you some things.
Don't get me wrong: I don't think not having a Premium Account will prevent you from getting a hat if you play on Linux (would be a dick move by Valve towards all the free players, I think), you just won't be able to trade it for anything.
SteveWinwood
Member
Is there a Jone?
How to install Ubuntu on your PC: easy way on how to do it.
1. Go to start, type in Computer Management
2. Drop down to Disk Management in that window
3. Select your active drive (one with windows installed), right click and select "Shrink Volume"
4. Shrink the drive to 25GB or 25600mb
5. Go to Ubuntu and download the 32bit version of 12.10
6. You can either burn to CD or make a bootable USB, I went for USB, download Pen Drive Linux's USB Installer
7. Open the app, select your ISO of Ubuntu and the USB drive you want to install too.
8. In the persistent file size option, you can set it to any size (4096mb max) if you want to try out Steam on the USB drive before installing Ubuntu.
9. Once completed restart your computer, remember to set the Bios to boot from USB!
10. If everything has worked you can boot into Ubuntu, depending on your hardware you may have no internet connection from WLAN, I reccomend a LAN cable.
11. Once you are in you have two choices, Install Ubuntu or try it out on your USB drive - click on install
12. Go through the basic setup options, Ubunut is smart enough to detect that 25gb space you made and will install it on that.
13. Once completed restart your pc and remove the USB drive from the computer.
14. Boot into Ubuntu and login, you will realize that you have this purple screen at start-up, we will fix this later.
15. Launch Firefox and go to the steam website and download the client.
16. Open the downloaded file and click install, it might ask you for your password, go ahead.
17. Once the debian package of ubuntu has installed you will have a steam icon on your desktop, click it and let it update.
18. Steam might download some packages that are missing in the terminal window, agree ('y') and type in your password.
19. Login into steam and download TF2!
20. I recommend click on the navigation bar at the top which says steam and search for video drivers while installing TF2. I also recommend doing any software updates that Ubuntu wants to carry out.
21. Once installed, launch TF2 and pray to Gaben you can get past the Valve logo screen.
How to get rid of the Ubuntu bootloader at start-up:
1. Turn on the computer and select Windows.
2. Login and download EasyBCD 2.
3. Launch the program and go to Manage Bootloader, select 'Re-install the Windows Vista/7 Booatloader' and then click on 'Write MBR'
4. Click on Add/Remove Entries and see if Windows and Ubuntu are listed, if Ubuntu is not there add and Entry under Linux
5. For Type select : GRUB 2, Name: what ever you want: 'Ubuntu' and for device: select the Linux partition.
6. Click on the Save button and exit program, restart your PC to see if it has worked.
You have the hat, how to remove Ubuntu:
1. Go to start, type in Computer Management.
2. Drop down to Disk Management in that window.
3. Delete the 25gb partition that you used for Ubuntu. (including the swap partition!)
4. Select your Windows drive, right click and click 'extend partition'.
5. Select the size you want to reclaim.
6. Launch EasyBCD 2
7. Click on Add/Remove Entries and remove Ubuntu from the list.
8. Save and restart the PC, your computer will directly boot into Windows now and will have no trace of Ubuntu.
1. Go to start, type in Computer Management
2. Drop down to Disk Management in that window
3. Select your active drive (one with windows installed), right click and select "Shrink Volume"
4. Shrink the drive to 25GB or 25600mb
5. Go to Ubuntu and download the 32bit version of 12.10
6. You can either burn to CD or make a bootable USB, I went for USB, download Pen Drive Linux's USB Installer
7. Open the app, select your ISO of Ubuntu and the USB drive you want to install too.
8. In the persistent file size option, you can set it to any size (4096mb max) if you want to try out Steam on the USB drive before installing Ubuntu.
9. Once completed restart your computer, remember to set the Bios to boot from USB!
10. If everything has worked you can boot into Ubuntu, depending on your hardware you may have no internet connection from WLAN, I reccomend a LAN cable.
11. Once you are in you have two choices, Install Ubuntu or try it out on your USB drive - click on install
12. Go through the basic setup options, Ubunut is smart enough to detect that 25gb space you made and will install it on that.
13. Once completed restart your pc and remove the USB drive from the computer.
14. Boot into Ubuntu and login, you will realize that you have this purple screen at start-up, we will fix this later.
15. Launch Firefox and go to the steam website and download the client.
16. Open the downloaded file and click install, it might ask you for your password, go ahead.
17. Once the debian package of ubuntu has installed you will have a steam icon on your desktop, click it and let it update.
18. Steam might download some packages that are missing in the terminal window, agree ('y') and type in your password.
19. Login into steam and download TF2!
20. I recommend click on the navigation bar at the top which says steam and search for video drivers while installing TF2. I also recommend doing any software updates that Ubuntu wants to carry out.
21. Once installed, launch TF2 and pray to Gaben you can get past the Valve logo screen.
How to get rid of the Ubuntu bootloader at start-up:
1. Turn on the computer and select Windows.
2. Login and download EasyBCD 2.
3. Launch the program and go to Manage Bootloader, select 'Re-install the Windows Vista/7 Booatloader' and then click on 'Write MBR'
4. Click on Add/Remove Entries and see if Windows and Ubuntu are listed, if Ubuntu is not there add and Entry under Linux
5. For Type select : GRUB 2, Name: what ever you want: 'Ubuntu' and for device: select the Linux partition.
6. Click on the Save button and exit program, restart your PC to see if it has worked.
You have the hat, how to remove Ubuntu:
1. Go to start, type in Computer Management.
2. Drop down to Disk Management in that window.
3. Delete the 25gb partition that you used for Ubuntu. (including the swap partition!)
4. Select your Windows drive, right click and click 'extend partition'.
5. Select the size you want to reclaim.
6. Launch EasyBCD 2
7. Click on Add/Remove Entries and remove Ubuntu from the list.
8. Save and restart the PC, your computer will directly boot into Windows now and will have no trace of Ubuntu.
Madrugador
Member
Thanks MRORANGE, I'll try that later.
Delusibeta
Banned
The other small detail is that Steam Wallet funds are taken out first when buying Steam games, so you can top up your wallet by $5, spend $1 to convert your TF2 into Premium, and then get a $4 discount on your next Steam game.
Stallion Free
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How far did you get in it?
20 minutes? Let's just say my issue wasn't with the second half going down the toilet.
On the upside, I booted up From Dust next and it seems that game might not totally suck. Seems mildly interesting and I'm going to give it a chance.
Stallion Free
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What was your issue?
Last Baron
Member
I'm still amazed I finished Deadlight.
I ended up snagging quite a few games from GG's Codemasters catalogue; it would seem most of Cm's forgotten titles are no longer discounted beyond 33%.
Stronghammer22
Member
GRID doesn't use GFWL.
Joe Molotov
Member
If you couldn't handle the first 20 minutes of Deadlight, I'd love to see what you thought of the sewers. :lol
Joe Molotov
Member
Haha, yeah the VA and the plot were pretty hilarious. Also, there was some really weird stuff in the extras, like one note that implied that Kennedy was a coward for not escalating the Cuban Missile Crisis and that was the cause somehow for the zombie outbreak.
lol wut?
lol wut?
I can't get more than 40 minutes of gameplay before experiencing a crash to desktop on that game. I resorted to quicksave every 10 seconds.
I should go back to it someday, as it is a good game that for reasons unknown I stopped playing 2 months ago.
jediyoshi
Member
The writing deserves blame too, it drones on forever in cutscenes with people constantly reiterating what they've just said and by the end of each one the story's usually barely progressed enough to justify it. Same with the ingame VO which was practically worse since it usually sucks up a bunch of the immersion.
The part where some hockey rink was supposed to be a significant location in seattle was pretty amazing as well.
I want to buy it, but I know I'll never play it. but it IS 50% off. hmmmm
PrematureQuiche
Member
Cheers. Ordered it cause I loved playing the first one even though it scared the shit out of me. Someone should make a thread!
wwm0nkey made a thread about this yesterday. I'm tempted but since a Steam release is still up in the air I think I'll hold off.
Chairmanchuck
Member
I already asked yesterday, but I try again.
Is there any good sale for DMC? I remember it was about 12 two weeks ago. Any similar sale for it now?
Is there any good sale for DMC? I remember it was about 12 two weeks ago. Any similar sale for it now?
Wok
Member
I have received three coupons. They are good until Feb 18, 2013. Maybe you can stack them with the discounts of the Linux sale.
50% off Splice
50% off Dejobaan Complete Pack:
50% off The Wonderful End of the World:
Quote to see.
There is a taste of Quantum Conundrum in the screenshots of The Witness. The pink trees are fluffy. And these yellow wires and blue panels...
The management of lights is clearly wrong.
50% off Splice
50% off Dejobaan Complete Pack:
50% off The Wonderful End of the World:
Quote to see.
There is a taste of Quantum Conundrum in the screenshots of The Witness. The pink trees are fluffy. And these yellow wires and blue panels...
The management of lights is clearly wrong.
Hmm- the horrors of Damnation could be pretty tempting! That was an amazing set of links you provided there!
I shouldn't do this... but I must!
Edit: Full disclosure, absolutely love some pretty terrible games...
really? here it was pretty straightforward....
I guess I just wasn't in the mood for an ugly run from left-to-right side of screen game. The animation also put me off. It's one thing to play these type of games in the past, but it just felt like something from the early 90s in that department. All of which would not have been a big issue, but the game just completely failed to capture my imagination. And it was simplistic. Fittingly, when I hit the start button to quit, it also hard-locked my computer.
Stallion Free
Cock Encumbered
It was pretty for half the game and then they switched to a vomit inspired color palette.
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