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STEAM | December 2014 - Read OP for winter sale questions

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Well, I'm rusty, I didn't touch this from March.

wait, did you finished it in 15 minutes? o_O
 

jshackles

Gentlemen, we can rebuild it. We have the capability to make the world's first enhanced store. Steam will be that store. Better than it was before.
Man, you do what you can. I applaud your effort and work.

Well, I've resolved that these servers are handling the load just fine only that there are not enough of them to keep up with the demand. Since the sale started less than 4 hours ago, the API servers have received connection requests from over 550,000 unique addresses. Over a half million people have used (or tried to use) Enhanced Steam in the last 3 1/2 hours. That's pretty insane and certainly not anticipated.
 

Volotaire

Member
Well, I've resolved that these servers are handling the load just fine only that there are not enough of them to keep up with the demand. Since the sale started less than 4 hours ago, the API servers have received connection requests from over 550,000 unique addresses. Over a half million people have used (or tried to use) Enhanced Steam in the last 3 1/2 hours. That's pretty insane and certainly not anticipated.

I saw some posters on reddit linking your extension on the hottest Steam post. Thank Reddit!
 

jshackles

Gentlemen, we can rebuild it. We have the capability to make the world's first enhanced store. Steam will be that store. Better than it was before.
I may buy soul suspect (when/if it hits daily).

I have a craving for a middle tier game.

I also miss alan wake

You might be just the right target market for this game then. It's basically an Indiana Jones / Alan Wake mash-up. I personally didn't care for it, but it's also only $4 on Humble.
 

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Some quick impressions on the Outcast 1.1 release:

If you have an i5, don't choose 1080p, performance isn't pretty good and there are graphical glitches.

720p works fine and looks really good (taking into account that the game is from '99)

The new launcher is pretty good, you can rebind everything (though some inputs aren't accepted, like trying to bind middle mouse button to pull out the gun)
There's also an option to skip the intro video (which was really good for the time, not so good now)

Steam overlay doesn't work right now but the dev is looking into it. If you are running Windows 8.1 make sure to put both exes in compatibility mode with Win 8.

Something very important, this isn't a remake or reboot, it's the same game with support for higher resolutions and a new launcher (I've seen people expecting big graphical upgrades and then feeling disappointed over the final result)
 

Jawmuncher

Member
Jesus it's obvious as fuck that the B team did DS2.
At the lava boss all good, not too hard. But oh that lava blast from his hand can clip through the wall. Like all the way through. No effect to make it look like it's supposed to it just goes through.

Also was enemies that stop spawning a thing in DS1? I don't remember that at all.
 
Wow, Revengance is actually cheaper in Europe than in the USA… I'd buy it, but I only have 10 steameuros for the entire sale… :/

I may buy soul suspect (when/if it hits daily).

I have a craving for a middle tier game.

I also miss alan wake

You can probably get it for cheap thanks to trading, since it was in the Square Humble Bundle and the Christmas Surprise Box.
 

AHA-Lambda

Member
Jesus it's obvious as fuck that the B team did DS2.
At the lava boss all good, not too hard. But oh that lava blast from his hand can clip through the wall. Like all the way through. No effect to make it look like it's supposed to it just goes through.

Also was enemies that stop spawning a thing in DS1? I don't remember that at all.

Nope.
 

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Dark Souls 2 -- MB-0D30DB963ABE54CB - Taken by PLASTICA-MAN. 110 entrants total.


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jshackles

Gentlemen, we can rebuild it. We have the capability to make the world's first enhanced store. Steam will be that store. Better than it was before.
For those that use Enhanced Steam but haven't tried Idle Master because they think the setup is too hard:


clicking will give you this menu:


There will be another menu that will pop up when you click "generate settings file" that will ask what type of idle sorting you'd like. Hopefully I'll be able to make it works so that once that's done it will just download your settings.txt which you can copy into your Idle Master directory and you're good to go.
 

Onionkid

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For those that use Enhanced Steam but haven't tried Idle Master because they think the setup is too hard:



clicking will give you this menu:



There will be another menu that will pop up when you click "generate settings file" that will ask what type of idle sorting you'd like. Hopefully I'll be able to make it works so that once that's done it will just download your settings.txt which you can copy into your Idle Master directory and you're good to go.

The setup is already pretty easy but wow, thanks for going above and beyond for user convenience! Great work, man.
 

dani_dc

Member
So a friend of mine was gifted a $20 Steam gift card, but he also just went to Norway (where they use the Norwegian Krone) and will be there for the next few months.

Is there anything he can do regarding the different currencies?
 

Deitus

Member

Nice giveaway. Since the DLC is still not on sale, I think I'll pass on the DS2 PC version for now. I already beat the main game on PS3, so the main reason for picking up the PC version would be to play the DLC.

Nope. At least not in Italy. Here was 51€, then it dropped to 41 before launch.

That sucks. In the US they actually dropped it to $30. It's terrible that developers are still employing the Euro tax.
 

Knurek

Member
DualShock4 is an amazing gamepad.
Very easy to setup, everything seems to be responsive, buttons aren't clicky, triggers don't require much force, D-pad is as great as was in DS2.
Still keeping DS2 near the computer, whenever my buddy comes over to play PES, but yea... Definitely switching over.
Solid first day, MGRR deal is amazing. Hoping for strong 2nd round of flashes.
 

Kiru

Member
So a friend of mine was gifted a $20 Steam gift card, but he also just went to Norway (where they use the Norwegian Krone) and will be there for the next few months.

Is there anything he can do regarding the different currencies?

I think the value should be converted after redeeming. Happened to my 5$ card once, I got the value in €, 3.something.
 

iosefe

Member
DualShock4 is an amazing gamepad.
Very easy to setup, everything seems to be responsive, buttons aren't clicky, triggers don't require much force, D-pad is as great as was in DS2.
Still keeping DS2 near the computer, whenever my buddy comes over to play PES, but yea... Definitely switching over.
Solid first day, MGRR deal is amazing. Hoping for strong 2nd round of flashes.
You've done well by getting a DS4
 
DualShock4 is an amazing gamepad.
Very easy to setup, everything seems to be responsive, buttons aren't clicky, triggers don't require much force, D-pad is as great as was in DS2.
Still keeping DS2 near the computer, whenever my buddy comes over to play PES, but yea... Definitely switching over.
Solid first day, MGRR deal is amazing. Hoping for strong 2nd round of flashes.

Do you know how easy it is to switch the ds4 from being paired to the PC and to a PS4?

I've tried using an xbox one controller for both x one and PC, but every time I want to use it on the x one again, I have to plug it into the xbox via usb for it to work again. I want to use one controller and not have to get off of my ass.
 

Maniac

Banned

Fuck... That's... Holy shit yes!
Last sale they gave game items for crafting the holiday badge.

I was honestly just waiting to see if there was more team stuff as I couldn't recall if normal badges gave points or not. Aswell as the fact that I've been lazy.
Ok, I figured I was missing something. I thought he was just crafting 70 badges in general, not all holiday badges.

That's...a whole lot.

They're... All normal badges. No holiday ones until I've finished crafting these. Now that I know there's no team-race-event-thing, I suppose I can 'safely' do them but I just can't be arsed... 70 is a lot of clicking -_-

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Rhak, Phawx, you two guys... You're fucking sweethearts. :'D
 
DualShock4 is an amazing gamepad.
Very easy to setup, everything seems to be responsive, buttons aren't clicky, triggers don't require much force, D-pad is as great as was in DS2.
Still keeping DS2 near the computer, whenever my buddy comes over to play PES, but yea... Definitely switching over.
Solid first day, MGRR deal is amazing. Hoping for strong 2nd round of flashes.

Don't you mean DS3? Isn't DS2 the PS2 controller?
 
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