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[JaseC]

~1 hr

~1 hour for normal countries is like ~10 hours in Australia.

Feel ~bad for them.

Weird, I visited the US and UK Steam Store sites and they both said ~10 hours. The release countdown timer must now be IP-based.

Edit: The page still read 9 hours when I visited it with Spotflux enabled. In any case, why must Sega endeavour to make Australia hate it? There is absolutely no excuse for a digital-only title not releasing worldwide at the same bloody time.

 

[Stallion Free]

CS:GO just added a straight-up deathmatch mode. So hyped to try it.

 

[Sober]

CS:GO just added a straight-up deathmatch mode. So hyped to try it.

So none of the gungame stuff, just straight up shoot dudes, die -> respawn -> keep going?

Seems cool, wondered what that update was. Dunno if it'll take off real well because CSGO isn't stricken with unlock fever, so I'm sure most people will just play normal game modes as usual.

 

[The Wizard]

Weird, I visited the US and UK Steam Store sites and they both said ~10 hours. The release countdown timer must now be IP-based.

Seems like the steam countdown is just a placeholder to cover the delay, Ron Gilbert tweeted it would be at 4pm PST which is in less than an hour.
And now as I'm writing this there is no countdown timer. Is it out?

 

[Stallion Free]

So none of the gungame stuff, just straight up shoot dudes, die -> respawn -> keep going?

Seems cool, wondered what that update was. Dunno if it'll take off real well because CSGO isn't stricken with unlock fever, so I'm sure most people will just play normal game modes as usual.

I'm gonna grind out some weapon achievements in it. It will certainly work better than gun game in that respect.

 

[Sober]

I'm gonna grind out some weapon achievements in it.

Of course.

Also, at least in Canada, The Cave's timer is gone, but trying to install is still a no-no.

 

[Nabs]

Restart Steam. Downloading The Cave right now.

 

[Tomodachi]

Seems like the steam countdown is just a placeholder to cover the delay, Ron Gilbert tweeted it would be at 4pm PST which is in less than an hour.
And now as I'm writing this there is no countdown timer. Is it out?

Yep. It's out guys. Countdown was a placeholder.

 

[Stallion Free]

Restart Steam. Downloading The Cave right now.

Ditto. See you in ~9 hours Jasec!

 

[Gav47]

Is this new?

No more staring at "Steam is updating..." wondering how long it'll take.

 

[crimsonheadGCN]

Is this new?

No more staring at "Steam is updating..." wondering how long it'll take.

The Steam for Windows update procedure switched over to the new content delivery system most likely. The OSX and Linux versions were already on it and Valve did a beta for the Windows version like 2-3 months ago.

 

[JaseC]

Seems like the steam countdown is just a placeholder to cover the delay, Ron Gilbert tweeted it would be at 4pm PST which is in less than an hour.
And now as I'm writing this there is no countdown timer. Is it out?

Ah, nice. The game is downloading at the moment. With any luck it shouldn't take ~9 hours to complete.

 

[dreamfall]

Whoa! It's time for The Cave, finally! Off to download!

 

[Spazo]

weird name in the notification area icons..

 

[zkylon]

Restart Steam. Downloading The Cave right now.

Damn why didn't I read this sooner...

Anyone knows if you can play this on offline co-op on PC? I'd be looking at two controllers + keyboard.

 

[SteveWinwood]

My Cave download got all messed up.

 

[xenoflux2113]

Just noticed that I had 4 chat messages that were unread in the notifications. This is when I am logged in via browser and not the client. So yeah browser steam chat now in the beta will lower my work productivity even more then the mobile client.

 

[Burekma]

yep, just noticed it too.

http://steamcommunity.com/chat/

Also, offline messaging is now available. Can't seem to get it to work in the client chat, just the web chat.

 

[MagicWithEarvin]

Condemned: Criminal Origins will be $3 at GMG this Friday (after their 20% off voucher).

 

[Stallion Free]

Condemned: Criminal Origins will be $3 at GMG this Friday (after their 20% off voucher).

Bought so hard.

yep, just noticed it too.

http://steamcommunity.com/chat/

Also, offline messaging is now available. Can't seem to get it to work in the client chat, just the web chat.

That looks fantastic.

 

[BoosterDuck]

Condemned: Criminal Origins will be $3 at GMG this Friday (after their 20% off voucher).

Man do I love Sega.

 

[xenoflux2113]

That looks fantastic.

It is great.

 

[Dingotech]

Condemned: Criminal Origins will be $3 at GMG this Friday (after their 20% off voucher).

NICE! Loved the Xbox360 version when I completed it.

 

[DukeBobby]

Condemned: Criminal Origins will be $3 at GMG this Friday (after their 20% off voucher).

Fuck, I just bought it recently as well

 

[JustinBB7]

Loving this new Steam beta.

 

[Spazo]

yep, just noticed it too.

http://steamcommunity.com/chat/

Also, offline messaging is now available. Can't seem to get it to work in the client chat, just the web chat.

With this Steam Client Beta, we've also made some changes to how we organize and announce beta updates:

Added a new Community group for following and discussing Client betas: http://steamcommunity.com/groups/SteamClientBeta
When a beta update is available, the update dialog will now show Steam Client Beta changes instead of showing only the released client changes.


Client changes:

Offline messaging: You can now send messages to users who are offline. They will receive the message when they next log in.
Opening a chat dialog with a friend will show some recent chat history
A web chat interface is available, you can find it by navigating to the Steam Community Friend Activity page in your web browser. NOTE: during the beta, web chat users will show as "Online on Mobile Device".
fixed several issues with scroll bars in the store and community views
Added a caps lock warning indicator to the login dialog password textbox
Removed "/me" chat command, which allowed some users to modify the color of their chat text
Fixed forum links opening in external browser windows
Reduced retail install time when reading from optical disc on Windows XP/Vista
Added support for better content sharing between games
Mac: greatly reduced CPU usage and power consumption
Mac: fixed command-W and other keyboard shortcuts
Mac: fixed bugs with window management and the Window menu

http://steamcommunity.com/groups/SteamClientBeta#announcements

 

[1cmanny1]

How is the Sims 3 just by itself? My girlfriend is interested in it but no idea if you really need any of the expansions

It is a bit boring, you really need the expansion packs. But they cost shit loads, even the silly "Stuff" packs. It is robbery.

 

[dot]

Wow, offline messaging? Nice.

Still need a proper chat log instead of recent chat history (or maybe that's what it is).

 

[JaseC]

With this Steam Client Beta, we've also made some changes to how we organize and announce beta updates:

Added a new Community group for following and discussing Client betas: http://steamcommunity.com/groups/SteamClientBeta
When a beta update is available, the update dialog will now show Steam Client Beta changes instead of showing only the released client changes.


Client changes:

Offline messaging: You can now send messages to users who are offline. They will receive the message when they next log in.
Opening a chat dialog with a friend will show some recent chat history
A web chat interface is available, you can find it by navigating to the Steam Community Friend Activity page in your web browser. NOTE: during the beta, web chat users will show as "Online on Mobile Device".
fixed several issues with scroll bars in the store and community views
Added a caps lock warning indicator to the login dialog password textbox
Removed "/me" chat command, which allowed some users to modify the color of their chat text
Fixed forum links opening in external browser windows
Reduced retail install time when reading from optical disc on Windows XP/Vista
Added support for better content sharing between games
Mac: greatly reduced CPU usage and power consumption
Mac: fixed command-W and other keyboard shortcuts
Mac: fixed bugs with window management and the Window menu

http://steamcommunity.com/groups/SteamClientBeta#announcements

Fina-fucking-ly. Proper chat logs can't be too far off, then.

 

[derExperte]

Did anymore already receive the TF2 items for preordering The Cave?

 

[Zimbardo]

is The Secret World a pretty decent game? its on sale for $10 on Origin ...
http://store.origin.com/store/ea/en_US/DisplayProductDetailsPage/productID.245138900

 

[DTKT]

is The Secret World a pretty decent game? its on sale for $10 on Origin ...
http://store.origin.com/store/ea/en_US/DisplayProductDetailsPage/productID.245138900

It's also free to play. I'm not sure about it's F2P model though. It might be really restrictive.

 

[amrod]

Start up Steam and get

Click Restart and Get

Then

Then it starts back up at the top image... Its stuck in a endless loop

 

[Cloudius12]

Start up Steam and get

Click Restart and Get

Then

Then it starts back up at the top image... Its stuck in a endless loop

just got that, except I didn't want to restart

 

[carbonbased]

Condemned: Criminal Origins will be $3 at GMG this Friday (after their 20% off voucher).

wonderful news. i love me some horror games and monolith is the shit. been dying to play it for what feels like an eternity.

 

[esai]

Condemned: Criminal Origins will be $3 at GMG this Friday (after their 20% off voucher).

Sweet. ill be picking this up. in other news, if anyone wants to play Sanctum or Chivalry ill be on for a while so send me an invite.

 

[Jawmuncher]

Got a question regarding PC game chat in general. (Figured I'd ask here since this is basically pc gaming thread)

Was wondering is there anyway to make it so that chat is through headphones and all other audio is from the speakers?

I heard Skype and a USB headset allow for this but not sure how to set it up. I play on a tv so hearing friends through the tv is kinda annoying

 

[esai]

Got a question regarding PC game chat in general. (Figured I'd ask here since this is basically pc gaming thread)

Was wondering is there anyway to make it so that chat is through headphones and all other audio is from the speakers?

I heard Skype and a USB headset allow for this but not sure how to set it up. I play on a tv so hearing friends through the tv is kinda annoying

cant you change audio output settings under sound playback or under skype settings itself?

 

[Jawmuncher]

cant you change audio output settings under sound playback or under skype settings itself?

I tried when I change it the game audio goes along with it.
I use hdmi for sound so I should be able to have both

 

[derExperte]

It's also free to play. I'm not sure about it's F2P model though. It might be really restrictive.

It's 'pay once, play forever' now like Guild Wars 2. And 10$ is an excellent deal.

 

[JaseC]

Did anymore already receive the TF2 items for preordering The Cave?

Yes. Remember that you have to load up TF2 for any new promo items to be added to your inventory.

 

[Dice]

It's also free to play. I'm not sure about it's F2P model though. It might be really restrictive.

it went f2p? when did this happen?

edit

It's 'pay once, play forever' now like Guild Wars 2. And 10$ is an excellent deal.

oh, okay. the game looks fantastic so I'd be interested.

 

[esai]

I tried when I change it the game audio goes along with it.
I use hdmi for sound so I should be able to have both

my skype settings look this way when i plug in my microphone to the front and speakers to the back.

the second output is the mic.

 

[cicero]

Amazon updates from Tony:

http://www.cheapassgamer.com/forums/showpost.php?p=10415671&postcount=2322

I just heard back from Microsoft. Some things have changed

http://www.cheapassgamer.com/forums/showpost.php?p=10415792&postcount=2353

oh sorry, did I leave you guys hanging???

Everything was approved the only thing that changed was Age of Empires being added to the EC list at $9.99 pre coupon.

Edit:

Cheers,
Tony

http://www.cheapassgamer.com/forums/showpost.php?p=10415837&postcount=2374

Sorry dates are sunday-sat next week. deal of the week. fyi responding from mobile. Aoe is the product I linked to before.

Cheers,
Tony

http://www.cheapassgamer.com/forums/showpost.php?p=10415940&postcount=2395

$9.99 pre coupon for both. We don't have keys for the Fable 3 DLCs yet so we will launch that bundle when we get them (might be later than Sunday) .

Everything else is in place and exists.

Cheers,
Tony

So to recap, we are getting these, ALL of them activate on Steam:

MS Arcade Bundle - $9.99 ($4.99 after coupon)

• Deadlight
• Insanely Twisted
• Iron Brigade
• Mark of the Ninja
• Toy Soldiers

Fable Bundle - $9.99 ($4.99 after coupon)

• Fable: Lost Chapters
• Fable 3
• Fable 3 DLC

Age of Empires Complete (Does NOT require GFWL!!!) - $9.99 ($4.99 after coupon)

 

[chixdiggit]

Was wondering is there anyway to make it so that chat is through headphones and all other audio is from the speakers?

Don't think so. I use just a mic and hear all audio through my surround sound. I have no problems but I also have some high end speakers.

 

[derExperte]

Yes. Remember that you have to load up TF2 for any new promo items to be added to your inventory.

And there they are. Thanks for the reminder.

 

[Doomrider]

Amazon updates from Tony:

Outstanding. I'll enjoy slicing fools in MotN.

 

[chixdiggit]

my skype settings look this way when i plug in my microphone to the front and speakers to the back.
the second output is the mic.

And this allows you to hear just game chat through the headphone? While all other audio goes through speakers?

 

[esai]

And this allows you to hear just game chat through the headphone? While all other audio goes through speakers?

yeah. i get skype and vent on headset and all other sounds through my speakers. the only thing i cant separate are steam sounds and steam chat.

 

[Jawmuncher]

my skype settings look this way when i plug in my microphone to the front and speakers to the back.

the second output is the mic.

Yeah I get it but even with my rear speakers and headset In front it does the same.
My headset isn't USB so that might be it