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STEAM announcements & updates 2013 - Year of the SteamBox
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Public Service Announcement for those going for the King's Bounty deal at GMG:
The whole series is made for 16:10 resolutions and the engine doesn't have very good stretching abilities. If you use anything but 16:10 the text will be fucked up and everything else not quite crisp. Since I have a 1080p monitor, I run mine windowed (which requires an ini edit) in 1680x1050.
Other than that, King's Bounty is fucking awesome! Get it!
The whole series is made for 16:10 resolutions and the engine doesn't have very good stretching abilities. If you use anything but 16:10 the text will be fucked up and everything else not quite crisp. Since I have a 1080p monitor, I run mine windowed (which requires an ini edit) in 1680x1050.
Other than that, King's Bounty is fucking awesome! Get it!
My beautifully sterile and empty-souled friendslist on Steam has recently been invaded by GAFfers thanks to the holiday gifting / giraffe-bingoing antics. As such, I suppose now is as good a time as any to go wholehog and plunge into the murky depths of intersocial-gameonics and join the SteamGAF group. By which I mean, can I get an invite? SteamID: deelessthanthree.
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Yeah, wasn't worth the 12$ I got it for. Play an actual Total War game instead.
balladofwindfishes
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you can play games against bots. The bots aren't really bad players, they emulate a beginning tier player pretty well
chixdiggit
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Really? Was this always there? I will give Dota 2 another shot if true.
I never knew this either. Then again, looking at the playtime of people on my friends list, perhaps it's best I never try.
SteveWinwood
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Been there for a long while yep. And the bots aren't too bad. If you keep in mind that it's a complicated game they're pretty impressive.
Still have trine 1 available?
Emerson
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I was insanely intimidated by Dota 2 not too long ago, but wanted to play it. Here's what I did, and now I hang pretty well in any matchmade game I get.
1) Watch this
2) Pick an easy character e.g. Crystal Maiden or Lion. Via the "Learn" tab in the game, review what their abilities are
3) Play a co-op bot match. Perform terribly.
4) Try again. This time, go to www.dota2wiki.com and look at your hero's page. Review the recommended items to buy in-game for him/her.
5) Slowly get better in co-op bot matches, and eventually try matchmaking.
The game is intimidating but really not all that hard and it's fun as hell.
Why the group was disabled I can only imagine. Call Gabe and tell him Sammy sent you.
Nice info. Not sure I want to go down that rabbit hole, but I'll definitely follow this advice if I give it another shot.
jediyoshi
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http://www.game.co.uk/en/elder-scrolls-bundle-oblivion-goty-skyrim-heathfire-dawnguard-199776
Morrowwind GOTY
Oblivion GOTY
Skyrim
Dawnguard
Hearthfire
£20.61
reddit comments sez using a US address works fine, totals $33~
Morrowwind GOTY
Oblivion GOTY
Skyrim
Dawnguard
Hearthfire
£20.61
reddit comments sez using a US address works fine, totals $33~
SteveWinwood
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Check out the op of the dota thread. It's pretty good.
Are you talking about the discount coupon? It's GMG25-XTYYZ-POSL1.
Just tested it myself.
I think I speak for everyone when I say that no, we don't have free copies of recently released, $50 games to give away. Plenty of Dota 2 invites though if that interests you.
No, was talking about the pre purchase bonus. I think its the industrial revolution flash game thing.
SteveWinwood
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Never said he wouldn't pay for it!
hmm seems like the full Pack has 18 while the Franchise has 17
think it's missing the season pass or something
That or pick a handful (around 2 to 5) characters you think you'd think you like after trying a few out - either the same type or something and read guides or watch matches/replays of people using them well to see where you should go.
Yeah, this game kinda takes a lot to just to get in, it's kind of why I stopped only after 30 hours and after way many more back in Allstars.
morningbus
Serious Sam is a wicked gahbidge series for chowdaheads.
I think it's been there since the beginning of Steam cloud saves. It only pops up if there is a file conflict, obviously.First time I've seen this dialog. Huge addition.
zerokoolpsx
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Wait, I remember now. I lost progress on my DoTP 2013 with most decks unlocked. Had to do it all over again. 25 hours gone. Yea, choose carefully which one to upload or download.First time I've seen this dialog. Huge addition.
First time I've seen this dialog. Huge addition.
Choose wisely when you see this screen. I lost progress more than once when it popped up.
Sigh, wish this would have popped up for my dead island and Alan wake saves. At least then I could have blamed myself for overwriting something instead of the system.
Still haven't gone back to either since I lost tons in progress in both.
There are many programs like this of course, this is just the one I use. Just point it towards your Google drive or similar and you're set. It also keep multiple backup folders. Just tell it how many you want.
http://www.dirsyncpro.org/
Just picked up F1 Race Stars for £4.85 from ShopTo! Not sure how good it is but for that price I'm willing to find out.
I did see they're charging £3.59 per track for DLC though, which is insane.
I did see they're charging £3.59 per track for DLC though, which is insane.
Wow, they've finally added times to both files - I remember being presented with this a few weeks ago and the descriptions being "yesterday" and "yesterday". Helpful...First time I've seen this dialog. Huge addition.
AngmarsKing701
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Just bought King's Bounty: WotN for $6 on GMG. Dayum.
Haven't played any of the KB games so I'm hoping I'm not missing anything important if I jump straight into this one.
Haven't played any of the KB games so I'm hoping I'm not missing anything important if I jump straight into this one.
Nabs
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They added that months ago.
Does anyone know if Tropico 4 DLC was Steamworks, or it it for retail copies? ShopTo have the new Vigilante DLC for £2.84, but they don't mention whether or not it can be activated on Steam.
Weird. It definitely didn't show up for me, I remember posting a screenshot in here to see which option to choose as neither of them had time information.
Do you use a custom steam skin?
I may have been at the time actually yeah. Used to use Pixelvision, but I'm not right now as I've just upgraded to Win8, reinstalled Steam and haven't got round to downloading the skin yet.
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When in doubt, ALWAYS ALWAYS ALWAYS pick local files.
flipswitch
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I've previously backed up both Borderlands 2 and Dishonored to my portable hdd. Now I want to restore them from my portable hdd, but there's no steambackup file for me to restore them like the other games I have. Is there a way to restore them back?
Open the backup and restore on steam and point them to your backup folder. It should detect the games.
flipswitch
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There is no backup and restore function in steam as I havent got the game installed yet. Doesnt have the option.
edit: it's ok, i found it now.
flipswitch
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Another problem. It's asking me to insert disk 2, but Im using a portable hdd and there's no option select my hard drive! Think Im stuffed now.
it's ok i fixed it. I chose disk 1 to install instead of just the dishonored folder.
it's ok i fixed it. I chose disk 1 to install instead of just the dishonored folder.
Emerson
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Castle Crashers?
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I beat it on Win 7 or 8 64-bit zero issues, including saves.
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