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STEAM | August 2017 - Toot toot, Cold Steel Warrior, shaka brah

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People always say Steam has no QA, but ToCS actually failed the first round of approval because they said it doesn't have full controller support.

It totally does have full controller support though, and it just went through (finally, it's cutting it pretty close).

Maybe it's covered under NDA but i would love to read more about Valve approval proccess. Some people on gaming side act like you can put a game with a virus in Steam.
 
Should i bother with Trials of Cold Steel if i never played any other game from this series? After Nier: Automata i rather suspicious when you guys hyping another anime game in steam thread, sorry. And am i the only one how keeps confusing anime Trials with platform racing Trails? It's all trivials for me
 

Ascheroth

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Should i bother with Trials of Cold Steel if i never played any other game from this series? After Nier: Automata i rather suspicious when you guys hyping another anime game in steam thread, sorry. And am i the only one how keeps confusing anime Trials with platform racing Trails? It's all trivials for me
It's a totally fine entry-point to the franchise, although it seems to be a little more 'anime' than the Trails in the Sky games, but not that much and not as much as Xseeds marketing might make it seem.
From what I've heard at least, haven't played it myself yet.
 

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Shantom

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Should i bother with Trials of Cold Steel if i never played any other game from this series? After Nier: Automata i rather suspicious when you guys hyping another anime game in steam thread, sorry. And am i the only one how keeps confusing anime Trials with platform racing Trails? It's all trivials for me
The Sky trilogy is better than Cold Steel, and Cold Steel, while mostly being newcomer-friendly, spoils something major from the Sky trilogy. Play the other games first, they're really good!
 

Durante

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Should i bother with Trials of Cold Steel if i never played any other game from this series? After Nier: Automata i rather suspicious when you guys hyping another anime game in steam thread, sorry. And am i the only one how keeps confusing anime Trials with platform racing Trails? It's all trivials for me
It's a good entry point -- it takes place on the same continent, but there are no important direct story connections.

As for Nier:A, that's a completely different type of game. This is a JRPG with turn-based positional battles. Also, I can guarantee that this has a better PC port that will also be patched more quickly in case anything goes wrong (or even if nothing goes wrong :p).

By the way, is anyone making a ToCS PC thread?
 

Ascheroth

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It's a good entry point -- it takes place on the same continent, but there are no important direct story connections.

As for Nier:A, that's a completely different type of game. This is a JRPG with turn-based positional battles. Also, I can guarantee that this has a better PC port that will also be patched more quickly in case anything goes wrong (or even if nothing goes wrong :p).

By the way, is anyone making a ToCS PC thread?
There was some OT title brainstorming in the Trails Community thread, but I don't think anyone committed to making the thread itself? Might want to ask there.
OT title suggestions starting from here, if anyone's curious
 
Bought the Metro Redux bundle off GMG and for some reason threw in a 10 key mystery bundle. Went better than expected.


The remaining dross:

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Cold Steel PC |OT| Noble Version
Cold Steel PC |OT| PC Towa Version

I'm not good at this
The ones I found amusing from the other thread were

ToCS PC |OT| Super ultra alpha Ex+ edition
ToCS PC |OT| Sara calls Heinrich a jackass, Localiser rejoices, live from Erebonia
ToCS PC |OT| Framerate Liberation Front
ToCS PC |OT| 60 head-pats per second
 

Mivey

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So apparently the Developer for Grimoire didn't know that there was a review by period for submitted things and I guess assumed it scanned it automagically when it was.
It sounds like he used the count down timer as a last point for me to make changes and submit to valve, but according to design docs for submission it takes 3-5 business days. So..
Now he's chain shit posting in his "games" discussion board.
Talk about a dumpster fire
It's been two decades. What's another 5 days?
 

Grug

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I actually like both, especially the PC Towa Version.
But they are probably a bit opaque for non-insiders :p

Hey, it also does 240 :p
Yeah, as a non-insider I have no clue what they reference.

Well then make it ToCS PC |OT| 240 head-pats per second :p
 

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Happy Trails of Cold Steel PC launch day.

I hope Durante and XSEED don't have a nerve-racking launch. Also can't wait to read about that final Durante XSEED blog.
 
This game looks quite interesting, particularly due to the nice portraits and cool music. The launch price is apparently going to be pretty cheap too. Hopefully enough people are willing to give it a chance, so that they can translate the remaining faction stories.



What's the price ?
 

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Got these laying around for quite some time now.
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$5.11 CAD!? I actually have Scheherazade on my wishlist, but will I actually play it? That is the question.
Btw you can get whole bundle for around 2$ if you'll manage to find spot in group buy

Edit: Thank you guys for answers about Cold Steel, but i just realized that this is 60+ hours game and i'll be able to play it only in September at best, and this autumn is packed for me with games already.
 
Where and how do I do this "group buy"? Someone said it was a steam group?
Yeah, this group - http://steamcommunity.com/groups/groupbuys/discussions/

Edit: Whoops, i missed "how" in your question. It's easy, you look for host with available spots, comment in thread to reserve spot, and then when happy hour happened you send payment to host (usually by paypal) and receive giftlink on bundle. 2$ is price with added paypal fee by the way, if you able to do "friends and family" payment it will be around 0.4$ cheaper.
 

Ladekabel

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I really tried to like Dark Messiah of Might & Magic but the walking makes me nauseous and the game starts to crash after 5 minutes or so.
 

madjoki

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It shouldn't be Legends. It's from an old bundle "Humble Staff Picks Bundle: Nick" and afaik, it was a paid game. Looks like it's been removed or something? I don't know.

EDIT: This was the banner.

Now it just gives +1 and library entry as they didn't give anything to those who paid for base game before it went F2P.
 

Coreda

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steam randomly drops them

higher profile level = better chance

Is this officially documented as a higher profile perk? Never heard about this before. A little bit more useful than an increasing friend capacity and profile number.
 

Anno

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Not that I'm complaining, but why do I keep getting free random booster packs?

If you have earned all your cards for a game there's a chance that you get a free pack when someone else crafts a badge for the game, I think. So if you idle a bunch of games and get a high Steam level i think you can actually get a decent number of free packs.
 
Is this officially documented as a higher profile perk? Never heard about this before.

http://steamcommunity.com/tradingcards/faq/
Once eligible, your Steam Level increases your rate of receiving a booster pack drop:
Level 10: +20% increase in your drop rate
Level 20: +40% increase in your drop rate
Level 30: +60% increase in your drop rate
Level 40: +80% increase in your drop rate
Level 50: +100% increase in your drop rate (i.e. the rate has doubled)
Etc.
 
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