There's a distinct lack of smugness in those but they're pretty close. Thanks.
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There's a distinct lack of smugness in those but they're pretty close. Thanks.
cicero
Member
This is why you only BTA on the first week if you are certain that you want the full bundle or you are buying it as a gift. Otherwise, just spend $1, it locks the BTA price in at the price it is currently at when you purchase it for $1. The second week you can determine if it is worth it and then ADD enough money to the bundle so it hits that old BTA bundle price that you are locked into.
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.
It looks that isn't possible right now. You can set it to "only friends I invite" then not invite anyone. Or, opt out of the Beta.
Florida Man
Banned
RF: G was loads of fun!
Wow, I didn't know that... Thanks!
cicero
Member
I would prefer that we could specifically regulate all privacy settings by individual friends, group of friends that are tagged, or individual games. In this day and age, one size fits all is just annoyingly obtuse.
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.
Interesting, and long overdue. I wonder if the booster will be random, or based on the game that the item you liquified is from. Either way, hopefully it'll bring up the value of some of those $0.03 items without crashing the price of cards completely.
Phawx
Member
It's been awhile since I've done this, please excuse the mega impressions block:
Saviors - My Let's Play - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HVzNeVK_JRU
Quick Impressions: I really enjoyed this game. It's just plain fun. If you like bullet-hell shmups at all, give this one a go. I played on the hard difficulty setting and that seemed to be appropriate for me. Bosses were challenging (and at least the second boss, vexxing-in-a-good-way), varied/interesting power-ups that you can switch before levels. Level design and enemy placement forces you to use the simple inputs. There is that point in bullet-hell games where I can feel my brain creaking under the pressure and even when I died, I just wanted to have one more go.
Recommended.
Distance - My Let's Play - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oUKOjyZNUZk
Quick Impressions: Initially the game feels kind of slow even when you have that blur-thing happening. But the first few stages are tutorials getting you accustomed to the game. Even though the game never actually gets any faster, the obstacles thrown in front of you creates a very real feeling of speed. Looking back at my LP, it does seem slow, but when I was playing, it was hectic.
There is a nice magnetic grip to the car. It's not way overpowered, it's tuned very nicely and helps with all of the crazy go-nuts car flipping to perpendicular roadways. I've already seen some speed runs and I'm excited to see what comes of it.
Lastly, there are already UGC for the levels: http://steamcommunity.com/app/233610/workshop/
I toyed around with the level editor at the end of my LP and I have no idea what I'm doing, but it seems fairly simple after you get the hotkeys situated in your head.
Recommended.
Joe Dever's Lone Wolf HD - My Let's Play - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W4dLAmGuAdA
Quick Impressions: I was indifferent to this game from the outset. I had first seen this game as an iOS/mobile game, so I was more (morbidly?) curious with how they would handle the port than the game itself.
Spoiler: While the port itself is excellent in presentation, there are still lots of gesture-commands to handle input. This isn't a terrible thing as all of the combat scenes are nothing more than a series of QTE++ sequences, but still. I wish there were additional input methods available.
That small complaint aside, I can start to see the attraction to VNs. Lone Wolf started as a series of Gamebooks (choose your own adventure) and as far as I can see it's literally the interactive version of that. Complete with battle sequences, lock-picking and attempting different situations via one of four special powers that you picked when you created your character. An example would be the animal kinship trait that helps you past a situation by communing with wildlife for secret intel.
It's not fast paced but I found myself interested in the story and my part in it. Mission accomplished as far as I'm concerned.
Recommended.
Foresight - My Let's Play - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o0LXg9ApWw0
Quick Impressions: Feels like a bad RTS game from 2002. Voice acting is atrocious and is punctuated by Elevator Music all-the-while taking 120 seconds to pan across a single image "cutscene"
Not Recommended.
Fat Chicken - My Let's Play - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ACJS3X7_JWA
Quick Impressions: It's a Tower Offense game? Tower Buff Game? I'm not sure how you'd want to label it. Regardless, if you are familiar with Tower Defense games, normally your objective is to stop a wave of baddies from reaching the endzone. In Fat Chicken, the objective is to "shoot" the farm's livestock with food / growth hormone / water to prevent them from dying as well as fatten them up before reaching the slaughtering yard.
Your objective is to achieve varying levels of net-weight sellable butchered meat on a three-star scale. Earned stars can be used to enhance your Food-and-Hormone-shooters to tackle more difficult levels.
It's an interesting take on the tower defense genre that still has all of the vestiges that it's (started?) a mobile game. It's certainly not bad. It just didn't grasp my funtention. If you are a fan of Tower Defense, you might want to give it a try.
Recommended
Blackguards 2 - My Let's Play - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=szC29woS_yo
Quick Impressions: The first thing that stood out immediately was the exceptional voice acting. Truly top notch. The only weird bit is the amount of aliasing that was present on the models. Not sure what that was about. But I have an early access version so perhaps things will get sorted out.
Gameplay wise, It's a pretty standard tactical turn-based strategy with hex-based grid. As you level while advancing through the game, you'll dictate the class of your character. I initially spent all of my points on bow proficiency, which turned out to be a mistake very quickly when I ran out of arrows XD, but it's pretty simple to see what choices are available to you when looking at the tech tree.
I'm only allowed to share so much, but what I did play was strongly encouraging. Including the beginning, story-wise.
Recommended
Saviors - My Let's Play - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HVzNeVK_JRU
Quick Impressions: I really enjoyed this game. It's just plain fun. If you like bullet-hell shmups at all, give this one a go. I played on the hard difficulty setting and that seemed to be appropriate for me. Bosses were challenging (and at least the second boss, vexxing-in-a-good-way), varied/interesting power-ups that you can switch before levels. Level design and enemy placement forces you to use the simple inputs. There is that point in bullet-hell games where I can feel my brain creaking under the pressure and even when I died, I just wanted to have one more go.
Recommended.
Distance - My Let's Play - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oUKOjyZNUZk
Quick Impressions: Initially the game feels kind of slow even when you have that blur-thing happening. But the first few stages are tutorials getting you accustomed to the game. Even though the game never actually gets any faster, the obstacles thrown in front of you creates a very real feeling of speed. Looking back at my LP, it does seem slow, but when I was playing, it was hectic.
There is a nice magnetic grip to the car. It's not way overpowered, it's tuned very nicely and helps with all of the crazy go-nuts car flipping to perpendicular roadways. I've already seen some speed runs and I'm excited to see what comes of it.
Lastly, there are already UGC for the levels: http://steamcommunity.com/app/233610/workshop/
I toyed around with the level editor at the end of my LP and I have no idea what I'm doing, but it seems fairly simple after you get the hotkeys situated in your head.
Recommended.
Joe Dever's Lone Wolf HD - My Let's Play - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W4dLAmGuAdA
Quick Impressions: I was indifferent to this game from the outset. I had first seen this game as an iOS/mobile game, so I was more (morbidly?) curious with how they would handle the port than the game itself.
Spoiler: While the port itself is excellent in presentation, there are still lots of gesture-commands to handle input. This isn't a terrible thing as all of the combat scenes are nothing more than a series of QTE++ sequences, but still. I wish there were additional input methods available.
That small complaint aside, I can start to see the attraction to VNs. Lone Wolf started as a series of Gamebooks (choose your own adventure) and as far as I can see it's literally the interactive version of that. Complete with battle sequences, lock-picking and attempting different situations via one of four special powers that you picked when you created your character. An example would be the animal kinship trait that helps you past a situation by communing with wildlife for secret intel.
It's not fast paced but I found myself interested in the story and my part in it. Mission accomplished as far as I'm concerned.
Recommended.
Foresight - My Let's Play - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o0LXg9ApWw0
Quick Impressions: Feels like a bad RTS game from 2002. Voice acting is atrocious and is punctuated by Elevator Music all-the-while taking 120 seconds to pan across a single image "cutscene"
Not Recommended.
Fat Chicken - My Let's Play - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ACJS3X7_JWA
Quick Impressions: It's a Tower Offense game? Tower Buff Game? I'm not sure how you'd want to label it. Regardless, if you are familiar with Tower Defense games, normally your objective is to stop a wave of baddies from reaching the endzone. In Fat Chicken, the objective is to "shoot" the farm's livestock with food / growth hormone / water to prevent them from dying as well as fatten them up before reaching the slaughtering yard.
Your objective is to achieve varying levels of net-weight sellable butchered meat on a three-star scale. Earned stars can be used to enhance your Food-and-Hormone-shooters to tackle more difficult levels.
It's an interesting take on the tower defense genre that still has all of the vestiges that it's (started?) a mobile game. It's certainly not bad. It just didn't grasp my funtention. If you are a fan of Tower Defense, you might want to give it a try.
Recommended
Blackguards 2 - My Let's Play - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=szC29woS_yo
Quick Impressions: The first thing that stood out immediately was the exceptional voice acting. Truly top notch. The only weird bit is the amount of aliasing that was present on the models. Not sure what that was about. But I have an early access version so perhaps things will get sorted out.
Gameplay wise, It's a pretty standard tactical turn-based strategy with hex-based grid. As you level while advancing through the game, you'll dictate the class of your character. I initially spent all of my points on bow proficiency, which turned out to be a mistake very quickly when I ran out of arrows XD, but it's pretty simple to see what choices are available to you when looking at the tech tree.
I'm only allowed to share so much, but what I did play was strongly encouraging. Including the beginning, story-wise.
Recommended
The first one is great, the second one... less so.
Guerilla is a nice idea that gets fucking boring after a while.
Armageddon is a pretty generic shooter.
Dude, seriously, fuck off with that bullshit
Freedom = $1.05
Banned
yup. I'll finally have something to do with those .03 backgrounds and icons that have been sitting around forever.
I wish it would let me get rid of those unmarketable TF2 items, too
BinaryPork2737
Unconfirmed Member
Not bad. I was thinking about buying Generations, glad I held off.
I assume it would just give you an error code or a black screen.
That makes Steam levels seem a little less useful now. I also wonder how it'll affect the market overall.
MrTeachwell
Member
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I always forget to write a message for these things. The low average for this bundle hooked me.
There'd better be a way to turn it on and off before they push this thing live.
Be warned the game is long as fuck. Lords of shadow 1 and 2 are two of the best games I've played in awhile. The story, music, and combat had me hooked. Been awhile since I felt emotionally attached to videogame characters like I did here.
Here's betting that broadcasting for me will kneecap my internet connection.
Also I don't know if it's just being in the right place at the right time but a fair bit of my junk on the market like emotes and backgrounds have slowly been seeling the past couple of weeks.
Yeah I plonked it right up on my wishlist so will have my eyes on it like a hawk!
South Park is up there with my fav games of the year. Really nailed the atmosphere, and aesthetic of the show and the combat, while heavily rifting off Paper Mario, was quite enjoyable. Though bleed damage is over powered and playing as the Jew class can easily break the game. Tranistor is another great game this year which is really pleasing on the eyes and ears. The comabt system when it opens up really does encourage and reward experimentation.
Also I don't know if it's just being in the right place at the right time but a fair bit of my junk on the market like emotes and backgrounds have slowly been seeling the past couple of weeks.
Yeah I plonked it right up on my wishlist so will have my eyes on it like a hawk!
South Park is up there with my fav games of the year. Really nailed the atmosphere, and aesthetic of the show and the combat, while heavily rifting off Paper Mario, was quite enjoyable. Though bleed damage is over powered and playing as the Jew class can easily break the game. Tranistor is another great game this year which is really pleasing on the eyes and ears. The comabt system when it opens up really does encourage and reward experimentation.
I hope it's true, I really want it to be true, and not taking thousands of objects to make one booster.
Welp Steam servers will be even more loaded now after Broadcast update
Streams seem to be hosted by Akamai.
(http://broadcast.akamai.steamstatic.com)
Phawx
Member
It would be interesting if the recycled item's value was directly proportional to the steam market value.
That sounds awesome, I hope they implemented fairly and not something draconian like 100 scraps for 1 booster of a random game on your pool.
ashecitism
Member
So the user uploads to the server, and the server re-distributes? That's great. Means that many people can watch at once.
Yes.
i've tried to watch, but it says it's not supported on your system?
Mr. Luchador
Member
Steam Broadcast chat delay is ~10 seconds.
IDK, wouldn't it end cheap cards? It would be more beneficial to make a booster and hope for a high value one, instead of selling cheap cards.
So when are The Keighley's on? This Friday?
I think that's about the delay I was getting through regular Steam chat when Rhaknar was sorting out his SLI setup through Twitch. Then again I have a pitful internet connection
I think that's about the delay I was getting through regular Steam chat when Rhaknar was sorting out his SLI setup through Twitch. Then again I have a pitful internet connection
2 hours ago.
Wow... That's even better than I expected. They went all in with this new feature.
Thanks for the link...
I think I may be one of about 3 people who didn't already own Sonic Generations, but yes plz.
NingenJanai
Member
Now the traders can advertise their games on their streams.
Mr. Luchador
Member
Just wait for SteamTV chat, to be even more infamous and notorious compared to Twitch chat. I dread to think of the weird culture that might occur in there
(p)RAISE YOUR GABENS!!!!
Just wait for SteamTV chat, to be even more infamous and notorious compared to Twitch chat. I dread to think of the weird culture that might occur in there
we need a kappa substitute immediately.
Kurt Russell
Member
"Steam Broadcasting is not currently supported on zkylon's system"
That's what I got when I tried.
You know what's worse - I bet Valve know full well that the market is going to see some action as people try to get the rare versions of whatever SteamTV Chat has as Kappa
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.
From a purely economical standpoint:
The average selling price of booster packs on Steam right now is $0.9924936823314644. Let's call it $1 for simplicity sake. Currently the lowest selling items on the store are $0.03 (due to Valve's fee) but in reality your cut is $0.01. So theoretically, 1 booster pack from a random game is worth approximately the same as 100 worthless profile backgrounds/emoticons/whatever.
If Valve's goal is to just allow people to "delete" these items, I expect there will be a 100/1 ratio. This makes the most sense, because $1 is merely the average: some are worth more, and some are worth less. So like a lot of Valve-things, it'll be gambling.
If Valve's goal is to increase the value of said worthless items, there will be a less than 100/1 ratio. Maybe even 50/1.
Whatever the outcome, there will still be a direct relation between items and booster packs. Therefore we can reasonably expect the price of one or the other to fluctuate based on ratio of items required to make a new booster pack.
they can be. now that GFWL isn't an issue, we can easier host game nights
and we should
You know what's worse - I bet Valve know full well that the market is going to see some action as people try to get the rare versions of whatever SteamTV Chat has as Kappa
Imagine the icon market, delicious.
Backlogger
Member
I second this. Guerilla was a great game! Didn't really get into the others so much, but I do plan to play through them eventually...