Well the idea of unifying the player base and game version via GFWL was a good idea, though Valve made moves in this direction with moving away from WON and making Steam for Counter Strike 1.6 (though we all know they had way bigger plans). It was the whole pay to play online via a P2P infrastructure that went down like a lead balloon and thank christ it did or who knows where we might be now.
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Well the idea of unifying the player base and game version via GFWL was a good idea, though Valve made moves in this direction with moving away from WON and making Steam for Counter Strike 1.6 (though we all know they had way bigger plans). It was the whole pay to play online via a P2P infrastructure that went down like a lead balloon and thank christ it did or who knows where we might be now.
If you have remaining card drops, then yes.
Kiru
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Awesome. Thanks. Woo right when I wrote this I got my first one.
Chance Hale
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The ships in Galactic Civilizations 3 look so damn good, great detail and lighting. Can't wait to see what some of the more creative players come up with, I never got to crazy with mine.
The Legendary Edition of Skyrim is 75% off over at Ubisoft's store (AUD$12.50 for Aussies).
crazyrabbits
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The good times really stopped after last year's winter sale. It was around that time that coupons went from being 20% off anything, regardless of price, to 20% off orders of minimum $10.
I still go on every now and then, but I rarely see deals on the level of the $6 ME3 deluxe edition or some of the ridiculously cheap games. There was one day during their summer sale when they had 20% off anything with no restrictions, but that's it.
Glass Rebel
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Opening a uPlay link from Switzerland is always a fun experience
I don't even know where to begin.
Crimsonclaw111
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FWIW Ikaruga just got patched yesterday. No idea if that means it sold enough to keep caring or if Treasure is just dedicated to their craft but I did my part on day one.
Glass Rebel
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It is still confusing
Today I learned he was born a short train ride from where I live. Pretty cool.
How stable is the Steam Beta channel? Is it worth it to switch to?
I have been using Chrome's Beta channel for years now and never had any significant bugs that made me switch to the Stable channel.
Is it the same with Steam?
(Btw, fellow Chrome 64-bit users: the 64-bit Beta channel today implemented a new font system. Fonts look a LOT more clearer now.
In the past I had to browse NeoGAF with a 110% zoom; now I can use the default size without any issues.
EDIT: Scratch that: it seems it's a system wide change due to my latest Windows updates. The font in for example IE also changed.
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I have been using Chrome's Beta channel for years now and never had any significant bugs that made me switch to the Stable channel.
Is it the same with Steam?
(Btw, fellow Chrome 64-bit users: the 64-bit Beta channel today implemented a new font system. Fonts look a LOT more clearer now.
In the past I had to browse NeoGAF with a 110% zoom; now I can use the default size without any issues.
EDIT: Scratch that: it seems it's a system wide change due to my latest Windows updates. The font in for example IE also changed.
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Chance Hale
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I've used the beta since it was an option(been long enough that I don't remember when that was) and have only run into issues once where there was an infinite reload bug that required a fix of some sort. Was a while ago, you can feel safe using it.
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Hero Prinny
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Morning steamgaf, how is everyone? Going to finally play valient hearts once again, its been forever since I played it. Going to try amd finish it to clear another one out of the backlog
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Started up Tomb Raider this morning. Game is absolutely gorgeous. Just killed a deer, and made it back to camp before I had to get ready for work. Liking it so far!
Ran the benchmark with graphics set to ultimate, lowest fps was 30, avg 43, 60 max.
What can I drop to run a constant 60? Also, is this TressFX supposed to look so wonky? That hair is a mass of spider legs flying around at 100mph.
Ran the benchmark with graphics set to ultimate, lowest fps was 30, avg 43, 60 max.
What can I drop to run a constant 60? Also, is this TressFX supposed to look so wonky? That hair is a mass of spider legs flying around at 100mph.
Look, we all have bad hair days. It happens.
Hero Prinny
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Haha the hair was like that for me too! That game was good brainless fun
It is still confusing
Today I learned he was born a short train ride from where I live. Pretty cool.
Langue or country selectors on gaming websites let alone store fronts have always been a bit funny. It used to be 'You speak English? Well you must be from the US then' with Bioware tipping the balance and having a Canadian flag.
Robbie is a cool dude and one of the nice guys in football.
You could say he was playing with fire, heh. Yeah I'll get my coat.
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Chance Hale
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Turning TressFx off will bring your framerate up by a lot if you're using an Nvidia card. I thought it looked better than the alternative most of the time but it's not worth the performance cost unless you're running a higher end card. Make sure you don't have the anti aliasing at max as well, believe the game has built in super sampling which would kill your FPS if you aren't using an enthusiast level card.
TheLetdown
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I'm going to give Divinity: Dragon Commander a go at lunch today. I'll try to see if I can formulate some opinions for anyone interested.
The Waterloo level on Psychonauts (which I felt was the best level by far) is to thank for that game flying up my backlog.
The Waterloo level on Psychonauts (which I felt was the best level by far) is to thank for that game flying up my backlog.
Yeah, it's a seriously good looking game. I haven't checked what kind of framerate I'm getting in-game since I don't quite trust the benchmark (IIRC I was getting better results with one or two options set higher), but I find it very very playable and I'm guessing close to a constant 60 with most settings at High, textures on Ultra. On a pretty modest GPU, too.
Only have a 760 4gb. So I'll say goodby to tressfx then!
Crimsonclaw111
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TressFX looked hilariously bad for such a touted feature.
I had an issue with in-home streaming last week. Host and client both running beta. Host machine is Win 8.1 64-bit and client is OS X. I was getting sound but a black screen. I flipped my client to stable and everything worked fine. This was the only issue I ever had with their beta releases.
The biggest downside to the Steam beta channel is frequent updates, sometimes multiple in a day. I ended up opting out because I just got tired of that and didn't feel like it was worth it, usually the stable updates aren't more than a few weeks behind and they are far less frequent. Occasionally the Beta channel will get a weird bug but usually they get fixed pretty quick.
YianGaruga
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90% of questions that are asked in this thread about problems with the client can be answered with "opt out of the beta release". I don't see any reason to use it honestly.
Stallion Free
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Yeah it broke way too often to be worthwhile IMO. And like physx particles/debris it sometimes didn't match the area light well and looked awkward.
It looks quite nice during gameplay due to the camera distance, but, yeah, it falls apart a bit during cutscenes.
Crimsonclaw111
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Hanging upside down was ridiculous. Not sure how they looked at that and said it was alright to call a defining feature.
Maybe in the future it'll look better, who knows.
I haven't played this yet, but if the game has you going through the DC Metro, making it tedious is an accurate depiction of the real DC Metro system.
freshVeggie
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Haha, tell me about it. I was using computers/game consoles for years without the Internet being available. It was like entering the future from one day to the other, when we first hooked up our modem and went "online". I clearly remember being astonished that I wrote something and a person far away in America responded to me within mere minutes. Holy smokes! You remember having to choose between the telephone being active or the internet? Tough choices had been made, when I cancelled a 800MB download mere(!) hours before completion. Just because we needed to use the phone. Ha.
So much changed so fast. Really fascinating.
Freedom = $1.05
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Fallout 3 basically has 2-3 types of dungeons but it's about 60-70% underground metros that look identical to each other. It gets pretty old by the end of it. It's one of the reasons i haven't exactly jumped into New Vegas even though i did really like F3.
I used to get a kick out of turing it off then back on again in the options and Poof! Hairspolsion!
On an older release before it was patched to work more efficiently on Nvidia cards Lara's hair used to freak out if you could get a high enough framerate. Didn't notice it until I was playing around with the benchmark tool but at around 80fps her hair started to become unstable.
I guess I was the only one that loved the feature and it looked great on my rig as well. Just finished tomb raider a week ago.
Crimsonclaw111
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I mean sometimes it looks okay. But generally, it's all over the place and doesn't make sense for "real" hair.
Original Famous Ray
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Every morning when I boot up my pc and steam I get a few updates for games. Every day..yet not ONE of them comes with patch notes. If they do have update notes its usually valve games. It should be mandatory that these devs have one person type up a damn note on what is updated. In fact, Risen 2 has an update upcoming on my list for some reason. I'm sure there will be no update note for it.
Now there is there is a "recently updated" section on the main page but none of the games that are updated for me are ever there. Sorry for the morning rant. I need some coffee!
Now there is there is a "recently updated" section on the main page but none of the games that are updated for me are ever there. Sorry for the morning rant. I need some coffee!
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Sharkiller
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So sad that gmg has so bad sales for a long time. low discounts, restriction for coupons, they only put on sale the worst version of a game (like a game with a lot of dlcs, complete versions, bundles, they put only the standard version without anything. no dlcs, no complete versions, lame).
Looks like now they are known they dont care with the good prices anymore.
Looks like now they are known they dont care with the good prices anymore.
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Crimsonclaw111
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Also still waiting for that GZ page. Don't be $30 or I got to pass until later unfortunately.
No qualms about a $60 TPP though.
No qualms about a $60 TPP though.
Somehow when playing Metal Gear Rising it always takes 2 screenshots instead of two. I just found out it actually makes it really easy to make 3D (crosseyed) screenshots with it! Especially during cutscenes that revolve around a subject. I'll post them up later tonight if people are interested. Will definitely experiment more with this.
freshVeggie
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Hey Komedy, great giveaway. You have to click "quote" on the PM ModBot sends you.
Then copy that and post it here in this thread
Thanks for Metro, woot!
Yeah. The store page coincided with the game being pre-purchaseable.
NingenJanai
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Hey Komedy, great giveaway. You have to click "quote" on the PM ModBot sends you.
Then copy that and post it here in this thread
Thanks for Metro, woot!
you won Metro? congrats, I wanted it....
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