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rtcn63

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I'm just glad the Witcher 2 (PC) had the option of turning off bloom. Going through my backlog of last-gen console games, bloom is here, there, all-consuming. Still never finished the first act because of the obtuse combat, but still.
 
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Salsa

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I never finished The Witcher 1 and I barely played The Witcher 2. I got them both at release.

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#JustJaseCThings



The Witcher 3 already looks 10 times more appealing to me tho.
 
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JaseC

gave away the keys to the kingdom.
SalsaShark said:
man I totally forgot about Killer is Dead, guess im using that money for Watch Doggies tho

also that Murdered Souls game appeals to me in a Ghost Trick way, hope it's good
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I intend to use my GMG Bucks to pre-order the game for ~$20 (less still if some other sets of easy-peasy rewards pop up between now and release) but it ultimately depends on whether or not the in-game guide is a DLC app. If it's simply added in with an additional data depot then I'll likely wait for a sale instead and save the credit for something else.
 
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topyy

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JaseC said:
That list is inaccurate. For one, it's missing some people (like myself, and hundreds of Valve employees), and the figure is pulled from the All Games tab (or rather the same data source that the tab uses), which includes F2P games with play time and, erroneously, many pieces of DLC.

Edit: Oh, and some games don't show up in the All Games tab for whatever reason. Serious Sam HD: TSE is one such example.

Edit Edit: Ah, apparently the list only includes people who have claimed their profile.



I haven't gone through the list, but I can say that VALIS is a GAFer (although he hasn't posted in almost a year), and textonly has been posting in these Steam threads here and there over the past couple of months or so.
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you should add your page by yourself or other user at least (find >>find/add user>>use COMMUNITYID),nobody add your page before so no your page.
now it is working.
maybe that games number has a bug,not fixed,games number includes DLC before?

is there something wrong,quick reply= send message to myself,how did I sent a PM to myself? O.O
 
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Dr Dogg

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Kirosia said:
I'm just glad the Witcher 2 (PC) had the option of turning off bloom. Going through my backlog of last-gen console games, bloom is here, there, all-consuming. Still never finished the first act because of the obtuse combat, but still.
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I know Syndicate gets some stick for over use of bloom but Oblivion takes the award hands down as the most obnoxious use of bloom last gen. Should have come packaged with sun glasses.
 
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Chance Hale

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Overclocking a GPU sure is tedious, now I remember why I went back to default. Still, going to finish this time. Is neat seeing performance in the benchmark get better as you change the clock rate.
 
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Salsa

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ricochetguro said:
Overclocking a GPU sure is tedious, now I remember why I went back to default. Still, going to finish this time. Is neat seeing performance in the benchmark get better as you change the clock rate.
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really? there's a bit of leeway but mostly you just look at the numbers most people tend to push it, do that, run a couple benchmarks and you're done

you can pretty much OC any card, default is always a bit underclocked to cover their asses

unless you get greedy and such. Im on a pretty mild 680 OC that a lot of people do yet BF4 (and just BF4) gives me a blue screen after playing for a while. Only game I have to downclock for, could be partially blamed on how much of a mess that game is on PC
 
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JaseC

gave away the keys to the kingdom.
topyy said:
you should add your page by yourself or other user at least (find >>find/add user>>use COMMUNITYID),nobody add your page before so no your page.
now it is working.
maybe that games number has a bug,not fixed,games number includes DLC before?
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The All Games tab has always been a little screwy like that. The profile game count, which is accurate, did include DLC in the past, but this was changed during the current Steam Community's beta phase.

is there something wrong,quick reply= send message to myself,how did I sent a PM to myself? O.O
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That's a good question. :p
 
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Chance Hale

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SalsaShark said:
really? there's a bit of leeway but mostly you just look at the numbers most people tend to push it, do that, run a couple benchmarks and you're done
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I should probably do bigger increments, but it still takes 2 or 3 minutes to complete a benchmark and make sure it didn't crash. Then you have to do smaller steps to see where your max is and so on.
 
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Salsa

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this is my 680 since the day I bought it

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did one big increment and left Heaven running all night

edit: I think I did go like 20mhz less on the clock for some reason at one point tho
 
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Chance Hale

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Will probably get Galax on the vita but it really does look like fun. Looking forward to it.

Edit: Now heaven is crashing in fullscreen mode despite working fine the past 20 minutes. *sigh* I am terrible.
 
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Creamium

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I finished Stacking. Liked it, but somehow I was expecting a more complex game, at least puzzle wise. It started out pretty straight forward, and ended that way too. Charming little game, but nothing more. Don't know if I'll go back to 100% the areas or play the dlc chapter.
 
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Salsa

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ricochetguro said:
Edit: Now heaven is crashing in fullscreen mode despite working fine the past 20 minutes. *sigh* I am terrible.
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keep in mind Heaven is pushing that thing to the max. It's a good way to be completely on the safe side but there's little chance that any game is gonna make your card reach the point an extended heaven benchmark does
 
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corrosivefrost

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ricochetguro said:
Will probably get Galax on the vita but it really does look like fun. Looking forward to it.
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If it's good enough, like Luftrausers and comes with a PS+ discount, I probably will too, though I immediately bought Luftrausers on PC after getting the Vita version because it is fantastic and I wanted to support the developer.

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Speaking of indies, Drinkbox released a trailer/concept for their next game. At this point, I'm less than hyped as it looks like a mobile game of sorts since everything is gesture based (and it's first person too, which I think goes against their strengths I think (they excel in the 2D platforming space, IMO).
 
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AScotAbroad

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Guys, I think tonight is the night I finally load Witcher 2 up again. I got to the first town after the Prologue, and then decided to wait for the combat balance mod. Sounds like it's a bit rubbish though, and I'd be better just playing vanilla?
 
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Htown

STOP SHITTING ON MY MOTHER'S HEADSTONE
hey does anybody know a good place to look to see the status of all the GFWL games and if they're being updated in the database or whatever?
 
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Dr Dogg

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wilflare said:
all those GIFs..
why is SteamGAF not part of the WebM revolution
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As great as it is that there's a big fuss about WebM it's not a .gif replacement. A better alternative would be .apng or .webp as they are both lossless and more importantly not bloody video files! You've been able to embed .mp4 container 120fps videos in chrome for years but no one jumped on that but WebM comes along and everyone is acting like it's a dawn of a new age.

Hahaha right my cranky arse needs to get some sleep.
 
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valeo

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Dr Dogg said:
As great as it is that there's a big fuss about WebM it's not a .gif replacement. A better alternative would be .apng or .webp as they are both lossless and more importantly not bloody video files! You've been able to embed .mp4 container 120fps videos in chrome for years but no one jumped on that but WebM comes along and everyone is acting like it's a dawn of a new age.

Hahaha right my cranky arse needs to get some sleep.
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This. Been saying the same thing; people are jumping on the wrong bandwagon.
 
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Sajjaja

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Dr Dogg said:
As great as it is that there's a big fuss about WebM it's not a .gif replacement. A better alternative would be .apng or .webp as they are both lossless and more importantly not bloody video files! You've been able to embed .mp4 container 120fps videos in chrome for years but no one jumped on that but WebM comes along and everyone is acting like it's a dawn of a new age.

Hahaha right my cranky arse needs to get some sleep.
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wilflare

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yea I noted that too but hey, whatever works!
if WebP, APNG is a better replacement, post it too! (we just need Andrex to update his extension to show it if necessary!)
 
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Stumpokapow

listen to the mad man
Htown said:
hey does anybody know a good place to look to see the status of all the GFWL games and if they're being updated in the database or whatever?
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There's no good place because there's no actual information about anything. The few sites who have reached out to publishers have got pretty noncommittal answers or none at all. I would be extremely skeptical of anyone who says that such-and-such a publisher is talking about patching their game, ergo it'll be patched.

Here are the GFWL games currently on sale on Steam:
Blacklight: Tango Down
Dark Souls: Prepare to Die Edition * Has a beta branch, widely believed to be being patched, but no one knows for sure.
Dark Void * Was released as a GFWL game but it's not clear if uses GFWL on Steam. Enhanced Steam just says SecuROM.
Dead Rising 2
Dead Rising 2: Off the Record
Dirt 3
F1 2010
F1 2011
Fallout 3 * Inert, GFWL not needed to play, but it's not clear if the game still has GFWL or not.
FlatOut: Ultimate Carnage
Grand Theft Auto IV
Grand Theft Auto: Episodes from Liberty City
Iron Brigade
Kane & Lynch: Dead Men
Lost Planet 2
Mortal Kombat Arcade Kollection
Operation Flashpoint: Red River
Red Faction: Guerrilla
Resident Evil 5
Resident Evil: Operation Raccoon City
Section 8 * Buy button disabled, presumably being removed?
Section 8: Prejudice
Star Wars: The Clone Wars
Street Fighter IV / Super Street Fighter IV Arcade Edition * Not being patched, but possible upgrade path to Ultimate SF4
Street Fighter X Tekken
Super Street Fighter IV Arcade Edition * Not being patched, but possible upgrade path to Ultimate SF4
Test Drive: Ferrari Racing Legends * This is the only game I'm not sure on whether or not it actually requires GFWL.
Virtua Tennis 4
Warhammer 40,000: Dawn of War II + Warhammer 40,000: Dawn of War II – Chaos Rising * I believe this is going to be patched or has, but the situation for these games has never been clear to me.


There are also quite a few removed games; The Club, Stormrise, and... I wanna say at least one other SEGA game got removed this week. Bulletstorm. FUEL. Dirt 2. Fable III. No one knows if these games will get patched and re-added or not. I believe at least one of the racing games has a separate app, implying it'll be rereleased.
 
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Tenrius

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And now I have 700 thanks to mannerbot and his unexpected shenanigans.

Let it be known that I, Tenrius, shall be adding "the Heptacentous" to the long list of my titles and accolades on this day, 14th of April, in year 2014 Anno Domini.
 
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Beeblebrox

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If anyone wants Skulls of the Shogun 75% off coupon, shoot me a PM, and it's yours. It's valid for one more day. It brings down the price of the game to 3.5€, and I would gladly buy it, but knowing myself, I won't play it any time soon.

(yep, checked it, it's valid "until Tue Apr 15 2014 21:37:00 GMT+0200 (Central European Daylight Time)")
 
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ShogunX

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It's that time again!!!

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