No, I'm pretty sure what it means is the game can be played during the weekend for free. Don't confuse me man.
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STEAM announcements & updates 2013 - Year of the SteamBox
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No, I'm pretty sure what it means is the game can be played during the weekend for free. Don't confuse me man.
With THQ going down...
What games should I get from the list before they disappear?
http://store.steampowered.com/search/?sort_by=Price&sort_order=DESC&term=thq
The only one I might want to add to my backlog is Supreme Commander.
What games should I get from the list before they disappear?
http://store.steampowered.com/search/?sort_by=Price&sort_order=DESC&term=thq
The only one I might want to add to my backlog is Supreme Commander.
The Company of Heroes and STALKER series are pretty well-regarded. However, I would presume they will both still be available after THQ being gone due to STALKER being external to THQ (I may be wrong on this) and Relic being purchased by SEGA (and thus hopefully still releasing Company of Heroes 2 soon).
Glass Rebel
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Saints Row, Metro, Homefront and Company of Heroes have been sold to other publishers so everything else except the Warhammer 40k games might maybe possibly disappear.
jim-jam bongs
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Just use Steam for Linux, you don't need to worry about such alarming occurrences or anything inconvenient like being able to play your games.
Haha.
jim-jam bongs
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Don't laugh! I was once like you!
carbonbased
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big shout out to MRORANGE! Sleeping Dogs looks awesome and after all the gifs posted around here I am really looking forward to giving it a go. very generous giveaway, and it gave me an excuse to expand on my goty post about Natural Selection 2 and hopefully push some of you into playing it. 
Do you think Darksiders 2 will disappear?
Stumpokapow
listen to the mad man
tense horror fps with emphasis on melee combat over gunplay, great lighting, modern-day setting, 8-ish hour campaign, story falls apart at the end but still a great game.
Glass Rebel
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Unless a publisher interested in keeping it on Steam buys it in the coming auction it will. It's hard to gauge publisher interest for it though.
Really good, it's got the sound design and lighting to tense you into a pulling a muscle or something.
Hopefully it doesn't turn into an amalur where it is still available on the steam store, but never discounted.
I guess that's a better option than removing the game entirely though.
Tizoc
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Can we expect these titles to go on sale soon tho?
snoopeasystreet
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Does Condemned support the 360 controller?
Rickenslacker
Banned
Did you miss them going on repeat sales for the last 3 months? :X
BadAss2961
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I didn't win, but i'll second this. Very generous giveaway.big shout out to MRORANGE! Sleeping Dogs looks awesome and after all the gifs posted around here I am really looking forward to giving it a go. very generous giveaway, and it gave me an excuse to expand on my goty post about Natural Selection 2 and hopefully push some of you into playing it.
Tizoc
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Not really but I'm mainly giving a heads up before buying any of thier titles @_@
Nabs
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A bunch of people pre-loaded it yesterday.
Refreshment.01
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Where's the executable for the Chivalry trial? The reason i ask is that i need to find the file to cap the frame rate.
Well then...
Nabs
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I think it's udkgame.exe under binaries/win32. Are you planning on playing at 30fps with your controller? True console experience right there.
Not everyone!
Rickenslacker
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It's in your steam/steamapps/common/chivalrymedievalwarfare/Binaries/Win32/ directory as UDKGame.exe
Glass Rebel
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Macmanus
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Certainly hope so. The melee combat lends itself nicely to a controller aesthetic since it doesn't require the precision that gunplay warrants.
Everything but the triggers. Use Xpadder for those.
Refreshment.01
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Thank you, but since i noticed it was a Unreal powered game i did by a command line.
Now the keybindings for controller don't work for me, the default control scheme is not very logical.
About console experience my goal is under 50% GPU usage for all games, it's like me chasing white wales XD
For two days now I have not been able to access Steam at well. Well, I log in fine, my downloaded games work fine, but nothing else will download, the store page won't load, and it won't even load from Firefox at http://store.steampowered.com. Anyone know what could be causing this? I already tried turning off my firewalls and such to no avail.
XANDER CAGE
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The official Hotline Miami soundtrack release is lazy as hell. It's dumped in your game folder (I know that's how Steam works, but still), and has no unifying album tags, artist tags, track numbers, or album art. I was happy to spend ten dollars on it but now I feel slightly burned.
You'd think they'd put some more effort into presenting one of the most praised soundtracks of 2012. I essentially just paid ten dollars for them to convert the .oggs into MP3s.
You'd think they'd put some more effort into presenting one of the most praised soundtracks of 2012. I essentially just paid ten dollars for them to convert the .oggs into MP3s.
Might be a dumb question, but is there any particular reason to want *.ogg versus *.mp3 files? Any mp3 app or hardware player that I've personally used can support either format, in addition to FLAC.
I mean, storage is cheap and plentiful these days, compared to the size of uncompressed audio.
I mean, storage is cheap and plentiful these days, compared to the size of uncompressed audio.
OGG Vorbis codec is open and free, MP3 is not.
Alexios
Cores, shaders and BIOS oh my!
Euro Truck Simulator 2 is oddly compelling. I'm raising money to buy a truck (though a bank said they can give me 500k credit I still just wanna do a few more jobs). Perhaps my interest won't last but yeah, it's been cool to drive through all these different locations. It makes me think those tourism games people have discussed could actually work out well.
It's not much of a sim, the driving is piece of cake, the trucks handle mostly all the same and the only tricky bit is sometimes to back up and park the cargo properly depending on what it is you're carrying, but you can even skip that part of the process and only miss out on some xp or whatever, though so far I've managed to do it manually. The cockpit view is cool though.
Either way, trucking along until nightfall, maybe with rain, is somehow relaxing (these vehicles offer surprisingly smooth and quiet rides, the engine is only loud outside, not in the cockpit) and entering a bright city after the dark outdoors is cool too.
I haven't delved into the management aspects yet but it seems like it will be a case of linear progress you basically can't fail, only progress faster or slower based on your income, much like the driving jobs, where it's easy to pick the highest paying ones, and where (sadly) nothing out of the ordinary ever happens, at most you miss a turn because you weren't paying attention and so you back up or maybe get a fine for something (speeding, passing red lights, crashing, etc).
It doesn't seem like there's going to be much depth to it but still I'm enjoying it. I've read things don't vary depending on the country you've chosen either, which is unfortunate. Even after its fun wears thin perhaps modders can make something more entertaining out of it. Hopefully ETS3 will focus on adding more variety, gameplay and emergent situations, rather than redoing some graphics or whatever. Also, every huge world game should have trucks and freeways like these.
It's not much of a sim, the driving is piece of cake, the trucks handle mostly all the same and the only tricky bit is sometimes to back up and park the cargo properly depending on what it is you're carrying, but you can even skip that part of the process and only miss out on some xp or whatever, though so far I've managed to do it manually. The cockpit view is cool though.
Either way, trucking along until nightfall, maybe with rain, is somehow relaxing (these vehicles offer surprisingly smooth and quiet rides, the engine is only loud outside, not in the cockpit) and entering a bright city after the dark outdoors is cool too.
I haven't delved into the management aspects yet but it seems like it will be a case of linear progress you basically can't fail, only progress faster or slower based on your income, much like the driving jobs, where it's easy to pick the highest paying ones, and where (sadly) nothing out of the ordinary ever happens, at most you miss a turn because you weren't paying attention and so you back up or maybe get a fine for something (speeding, passing red lights, crashing, etc).
It doesn't seem like there's going to be much depth to it but still I'm enjoying it. I've read things don't vary depending on the country you've chosen either, which is unfortunate. Even after its fun wears thin perhaps modders can make something more entertaining out of it. Hopefully ETS3 will focus on adding more variety, gameplay and emergent situations, rather than redoing some graphics or whatever. Also, every huge world game should have trucks and freeways like these.
The Dead Island parent company bought both Volition AND Saint's Row.
Everything I read about Sega only talks about them buying Relic.
I wonder if the CoH IP comes along.
Glass Rebel
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It does. No Homeworld though, classified as Legacy IP.
cicero
Member
How about a rant post OR a rant thread over something so small, and not both?
MrNyarlathotep
Banned
DNS issue?
Open a command prompt, type in tracert steampowered.com and see if it can resolve it.
If it can't you're gonna be having 'fun' with network diagnostics and google
scorpscarx
Member
You probably already know this, but:
http://www.pcgamer.com/2013/01/24/crowdfunding-homeworld-thq/
Neogaf should buy the Homeworld franchise lol.
SteveWinwood
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That seems like a waste of money to me. Make a good game, who cares what it's called. It's not like you need the IP to use it's ideas.
Glass Rebel
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I trust GAF more than those clowns but I'd rather have the IP back in Relic's hands
scorpscarx
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I trust GAF more than those clowns but I'd rather have the IP back in Relic's hands
Totally agree, but glad to see that at least someone is interested in making Homeworld 3 lol.
Try ipconfig /flushdns
Madrugador
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I have at least 16 people on my friend list with Sleeping Dogs and it looks like Jasec is the only one that played Nightmare in North Point. That's kinda disappointing.
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