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

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Well, my computer bit the BIOS bullet. I was playing Shadowverse when my computer completely froze and I tried to reboot only to find a BIOS screen. Tried a few imes to boot and reboot from there and now my computer won't even turn on. This smells like hard drive failure, but now that the power's not even working, I'm not sure. I don't know if I should just buy new parts for my PC or find a new hard drive. Does anyone have any advice? Thank you.

Try and separate and test if possible. Starting with the PSU.

If I had to guess I would say mobo or PSU is the problem.
 

Knurek

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Well, my computer bit the BIOS bullet. I was playing Shadowverse when my computer completely froze and I tried to reboot only to find a BIOS screen. Tried a few imes to boot and reboot from there and now my computer won't even turn on. This smells like hard drive failure, but now that the power's not even working, I'm not sure. I don't know if I should just buy new parts for my PC or find a new hard drive. Does anyone have any advice? Thank you.

More like PSU issue. :(
 

madjoki

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GG, Valve. If you request to join private groups, you might be able to see private forums even before you're accepted/declined.

Whoops.
 

Nabs

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Finally got around to buying CrossCells. Enjoying it a lot but get the impression it's going to hurt my brain even more than HexPlusInfiniteSquareCells :O

I like CrossCells, but I feel like more could have been done to make it a smoother experience. I just end up taking screenshots of the puzzle, and pasting into GIMP so I can properly mark it up.
 

Ladekabel

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I'll get a little bit money for donating blood on Friday. I'd like to buy a game for the amount I'm going to get. Am I better off with this years Prey or Rimworld?

Different genres, I know but these are the games I currently want the most.

Rimworld seems like a great timesink which I currently have enough off though I probably could play it on my macbook. Prey looks cool and I'm coming around on Dark Messiah of M&M after rage deinstalling and reinstalling it.
 

Rhaknar

The Steam equivalent of the drunk friend who keeps offering to pay your tab all night.
Nabs mentioned that Cold Steel was cheaper on Humble Store with the monthly discount, and the same thing is true for Slime Rancher by the way, if you're interested.

It has the same 33% discount as steam plus the 10% which drops it to 10.24€ as opposed to 13.39€ on steam.

Actually more inclined to getting this instead of Cold Steel tbh.
 

Sarcasm

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I'll get a little bit money for donating blood on Friday. I'd like to buy a game for the amount I'm going to get. Am I better off with this years Prey or Rimworld?

Different genres, I know but these are the games I currently want the most.

Rimworld seems like a great timesink which I currently have enough off though I probably could play it on my macbook. Prey looks cool and I'm coming around on Dark Messiah of M&M after rage deinstalling and reinstalling it.

I vouch for Rimworld.
 

MadGear

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I'm so glad you guys talked me out of refunding MGSV:TPP, I'm having so much fun with it. But oh boy, this cover system ... sure it works most of the time but sometimes Snake just won't take cover unless I approach the wall at a very specific angle. A "take cover" button would have been super helpful.
 

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I'm really enjoying Dishonored 2 so far. A lot more than the original (Which I played on 360). While I don't usually play with M&KB for games. It just feels right for Arkane games where there's a lot more going on and such. Currently just going high chaos and it seems to lend itself far better to this style than the original did.
 

Lain

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I guess Cold Steel isn't at the level of Fate, where the DLC costs more than the main game, but it's somewhat disappointing to not see even a discounted bundle for it.
 
Damn, I wanted to hear Prey and get Rimworld later down the line but you make it harder for me.
Prey is the first game of its type that can hold a candle to the likes of Deus Ex imo. It's my favourite game this year by far and something I imagine will be considered a classic down the line. That said, I have no experience with Rimworld.
 

Tonton

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Goddamn, was it hidden? Added later? Didn't see it before when looking at the store page. Nice deal.

It's not appearing at the game Store page for some reason, but appears on the page for the individual DLCs

It's a pretty good discount too, I grabbed it alongside the game
 

Rhaknar

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is slime rancher demanding? I wonder if I can run it on my laptop
 

Sarcasm

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is slime rancher demanding? I wonder if I can run it on my laptop

Should not be that demanding. Try it as the download is very small..it also has a demo if you do not own the game.

If you buy and are a monthly humble sub, cheaper on HB as 33% + 10%.
 

Nabs

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that smells like a "that game sucks" under your breath there Nabs

What you're hearing is "you should have bought Xanadu Next when it was on sale." I played a bit of Rancher and had no idea what I was doing. I'll give it a try now that it's out of EA.
 

Rhaknar

The Steam equivalent of the drunk friend who keeps offering to pay your tab all night.
What you're hearing is "you should have bought Xanadu Next when it was on sale." I played a bit of Rancher and had no idea what I was doing. I'll give it a try now that it's out of EA.

if I wanted trash I would get it for free just outside my house.

my street is filthy :(
 

JaseC

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could you get access to the Steamworks Development group forums with this? LOL

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Endruen

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Thanks a lot!

Well, I'm a total noob in visual novels and had no idea which game was the best one, so I quickly went for the one used to promote the bundle in the IndieGala email I got (Crystal City). Hope it's good!

Oh, so it was you the one who stole the only one of those in my wishlist?
It's ok, Bad End looks neat :p
 

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Looking at the screenshots for Crystal City on Steam... oh, man, looks like I chose wisely ^_^

Oh, so it was you the one who stole the only one of those in my wishlist?
It's ok, Bad End looks neat :p

Lol... sorry about that! Well, at least you just got a new friend on Steam ^_^

Now where is that filthy gaffer who got the Might and Magic X key a few days ago, mere seconds before I sent my PM to modbot?
I want to add him as a friend too :)
 

preta

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Thank you so much for the explanation, I always passed them up because honestly I cannot be bothered to grind nowadays and I figured I will have to like most old school jrpg.

One last question, you say it's a connected saga, so I cannot just jump in with the latest one? Or is it like the Witcher, as in connected yes but you still can play the 3nd one without any issues.

You can start with Cold Steel and understand the vast majority of its story with no issues, but be aware that CS1 spoils a fairly major twist from Trails in the Sky SC (the second Sky game) and CS2 spoils several more from across the Sky trilogy. There's also some subtext in CS1 that you won't get without playing Sky first, and a late-game reveal will have less impact without context from Sky.

So I'd still recommend Sky as a better starting point, honestly. It employs the same experience-scaling system, so you won't have to grind much (if at all) there either.

Regardless of where you start though, it's a fantastic series.
 

bbd23

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I'm really enjoying Dishonored 2 so far. A lot more than the original (Which I played on 360). While I don't usually play with M&KB for games. It just feels right for Arkane games where there's a lot more going on and such. Currently just going high chaos and it seems to lend itself far better to this style than the original did.

This is good to hear.

waiting until monthly reveal for the early unlock Friday before picking this up.
 

Lain

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I'm imagining Cold Steel had a good launch, better than I imagined anyways, since it's sitting at the 2nd spot behind Playerunknown in the global sale list.
 

Rhaknar

The Steam equivalent of the drunk friend who keeps offering to pay your tab all night.
Nice standards you have there.

its the impression I got from what he said from knowing him, and from his reply, I was right.

or were you supposed to quote me trashing Xanadu and fucked up? Because if so, I havent played Xanadu, its just way too easy to trigger this place with some games. That being one of them :p

edit: tried the Slime Rancher demo, it's cute AF but I was already bored 15mins in :/ I guess farming games just arent for me (I also got bored of Stardew very fast) :(
 
Holy shit at that Horrizon DF thread, it's a graveyard.

I didn't know that it was a dumpster fire before modbot making a new thread.
 
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