Maddocks
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Yeah, Enclave key was taken. No worries though.
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STEAM | June 2014 - Enhanced Electronics Edition
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Yeah, Enclave key was taken. No worries though.
jaundicejuice
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The faction bonuses and penalties just makes your playstyle kind of fixed and limited. You have decided at the start of the game how you will play and there's no adapting based off of what you encounter in game. It's not like Civ where you can switch to warmongering when your culture victory run fails. As the Terra Salvum, I probably can't fight an aggressive war without having a significant numerical and technological advantage but I'd have no problem fighting on the defensive. By virtue of expanding as much as I have I now control 33% of Pandora's population. There's still plenty of territory to expand to so I can probably block off a military victory if I can hold all of my cities.
There is no culture in this game, basically think of it being like Civ V with no policies, no espionage, no religion or ideologies. There's just research. You basically start the game off with your ideology when you pick your faction. Pandora feels like a limited sci-fi version of Civ V vanilla. Trade agreements are just dialogues with other leaders. You don't establish land or sea trade routes, you don't have a religion or ideology binding various factions together against others. It's a lot like Civ V vanilla with a bunch of assholes just duking it out to win. Pandora is kind of limited and game-y.
One interesting thing has happened though, at a certain turn the previous owners of Pandora (or maybe those who wiped its previous inhabitants out) have returned. Haven't encountered them yet, they landed closer to the warmonger than they did to me. Dunno if it's a purely hostile faction or if I can research my way up to communicating with them.
Also the tech tree and units are kind of fun. I'm making bipedal tanks with laser arms, tanks with lasers, missile turrets or mortars, heavy armor storm troopers armed with rocket launchers and flamethrowers that kinda look like the bastard lovechild of the Master Chief and Space Marines.
The game also runs very well. Civ V tends to get a little bogged down the more turns you get into a game but then there's also significantly less for the game to calculate with there only being six factions and some xeno's scuttling about. I kinda miss city-states or Endless Legends sub-factions.
corrosivefrost
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DISAGREE.
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I know my webm uploads are eagerly anticipated, but for anyone who likes twin stick shooters and would like to see some sample Crimsonland gameplay from my first time in survival mode, here it is (2 parts, I will edit part 2 in momentarily):
Part 1: http://a.pomf.se/tdcroi.webm
Part 2: http://a.pomf.se/eyraty.webm
Started Bastion on my iPad but wanted to pick it up on PC at some point for the controls, so thanks a lot!
Jawmuncher
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I took the story as a comic issue and had no issues with it. But then again I enjoy alien resurrection for what it is, so yeah.
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South Park: The Stick of Truth --
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-MD-
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That's shots fired?
Yep. I still do not enjoy MEGA64's brand of 'humor'.
I really enjoyed the both of them.
. Sorry about that.You're not a machine right?
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.
These buy orders... I don't know.
I just put in a buy order for 4 G-man cards for $0.09 each (for testing the buy order totals in Enhanced Steam).
Instead it automatically purchased 4 G-man cards for $0.18 each. Yikes.
I just put in a buy order for 4 G-man cards for $0.09 each (for testing the buy order totals in Enhanced Steam).
Instead it automatically purchased 4 G-man cards for $0.18 each. Yikes.
corrosivefrost
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They probably weren't innocent...
Oh shi... modbot has downloaded his consciousness into Jshackles body... IT HAS BEGUN!
Anyone notice on GMG for Ultra Street Fighter IV Upgrade it says
"NOTE: You must own Super Street Fighter IV Arcade Edition to utilize this content. Digital Upgrade does not include any additional DLC costumes."
does that mean we don't get the "challenger's pack" dlc that comes when you preorder it normally?
http://www.greenmangaming.com/s/us/en/pc/games/action/ultra-street-fighter-iv-upgrade/
"NOTE: You must own Super Street Fighter IV Arcade Edition to utilize this content. Digital Upgrade does not include any additional DLC costumes."
does that mean we don't get the "challenger's pack" dlc that comes when you preorder it normally?
http://www.greenmangaming.com/s/us/en/pc/games/action/ultra-street-fighter-iv-upgrade/
Stumpokapow
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MMBosstones86
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um. I think so? My case runs pretty cool and this card has 3 fans on it as well.
man I hope so. Can't wait to try it on Witcher 2 this weekend.
.... that's not good.
OMG WHAT A DAY, Chile beats Spain in the WC and then I find out I have 40 dollars in tax recharges, SUMMER SALE HAS BEEN SAVED FOR ME, THIS DAY HAS BEEN GLORIOUS.
All of these should be in the OP.
All of these should be in the OP.
Atraveller
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Stock 290x is pretty hot, around 90 degrees under load. What's the manufacturer?
i asked that earlier and someone said that it probably means you dont get all the old ass super costumes that you get with the full version of ultra
probably
That's not going to stop them. Nothing can.
Oh I see, I thought all cards were eligible
Blue Ninja
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I'm probably gonna have to turn TW3 down to 30fps and/or Medium/High settings with my 660 GTX. I'll probably upgrade during the fall of the next year, unless I decide to skip out on Halo 2 Anniversary and the Xbone this november after all.
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.
On the plus side, buying the cards you need to craft multiple levels of a badge should be much easier now.
EDIT: lost $0.25 on that little bug after selling the cards back.
Stumpokapow
listen to the mad man
It'd be pretty easy to write an automatic card to :weed: conversion robot. Wonder if that'd be EV+
corrosivefrost
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Didn't realize that... but right now it only works for HL2, right?
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.
Yep, for the moment.
People are going to flip their shit when they do this for TF2 keys.
MMBosstones86
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corrosivefrost
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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.
I'll be putting a buy order in then.
Surprised that's not where they started...
I suspect it has to do with volume and price. For example, my buy order bugged and I lost $0.25. If I put in a buy order for 10 TF2 keys and it accidentally doubled my buy order price, I would have lost $25: meaning I would be putting in a support ticket to get my money back.
Atraveller
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I hate how those Taiwanese brands are more expensive in Taiwan, 290X still retails around 700 bucks.
38 entrants for Stick of Truth seems...low
That megagiver rule really that much of a wall? Seems almost impossible these days to not have given away 25 games with the ammount of bundles every week
That megagiver rule really that much of a wall? Seems almost impossible these days to not have given away 25 games with the ammount of bundles every week
Sleeping dogs is one of the games that takes on a genre dominated by a single IP, GTA in this case, and carves out it's own niche instead of just being an imitation. The game is influenced by, and replicates quite successfully, Martial Arts and Police action films from Hong Kong and Thailand. In fact, many of the unlockable costumes and later DLC are parodies of the famous movies it was inspired by.
Mechanically, the game focuses on martial arts based fighting, allowing various knives, sticks and other etc if the player needs an edge. Guns exist, but they are consumable items, thrown away by the main character once bereft of ammo. The violence is turned up to exploitation levels by Wei Shin, the protagonist. Ramming heads into AC fan blades, beating them with public payphones, impaling them on meat hooks, using table saws, are just some of the environmental kills that the game offers the player in his quest to earn the respect and ultimately take down the triad gangs of Hong Kong as an undercover police officer. This over the top violence is even experienced by Wei himself in a moment of black comedy. With cars, the action movie influence doesn't stop. Stealing cars is a more action oriented version of what Far Cry 4 is attempting to do now, with Wei ignoring the laws of physics as he leaps from his car to that of the victims. Chase scenes in missions allow Wei to fire weapons at enemies while recklessly breaking the speed limit, accurate shots to the tires causing other cars to immediately flip and roll like in a typical movie production.
Grand Theft Auto IV was the biggest kid on the block and the developers used the game as a template for their own, sometimes to ill effect. Just as IV introduced 'Girlfriends' mainly as side missions, and add a chance for Rockstar to joke about the fallout from the Hot Coffee scandal, SD uses a similar mechanic. But unlike IV, the Girlfriends in SD are mostly wasted, only appearing once or twice as main missions to introduce some of the game mechanics to the player. One exception being a optional side mission involving one of the girls, which gives a unprecedented amount on animus to what are usually background distractions. Some bad practices in IV, like the inability to use a menu to change car colors instead forcing the players to cycle through the entire selection, is not improved upon in Sleeping Dogs. A odd over site considering that the game offers a selection menu for players to quickly change Wei Shin's outfit. Just as GTA had various types of side missions, SD does not disappoint. Karaoke, with samples that allow you to sing along to the Clash (so you know the developers have great taste) and other classic songs, Stealing cars for profit, gambling on cock fights, and fighting in back alley tournaments are some of the activities that Sleeping Dog offers. There is also a reputation mechanic wherein Wei learns new skills from two trees by gaining either Triad or Police points during missions. It works pretty well, with reckless actions toward innocent civilians and property increasing the former's points and clean runs increasing the latter. The only issue is that it is hard to grind Triad points outside of missions, so you might want to wear clothes that amplify Triad points if you wish to unlock certain abilities faster and or unlock related achievements.
This is mainstream thread, so it would be inappropriate to post the fighting and execution images, sorry.
I thought someone else should enjoy the title, so here you go:
The giveaway can now be located here.
Good luck!
Stumpokapow
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It's a three hour giveaway on a Wednesday night the day before the summer sale (so the least useful time to read the Steam thread) on a day where tons of other people gave away tons of other stuff. Can't get 100 entrants on all of them!
Stallion Free
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Though they weren't named, I'm sure a fair number of people got called out in the recent events and if they weren't actually guilty, they probably felt guilty with intent.
I was gonna enter but I wasn't sure if my computer could run it.
Thanks for Alpha Kimori!
Well, not everyone likes South Park.
Also, is the megagivers 3 month rule in effect?
Pretty sure that counts me out for megagivers, for example.
(Not that I entered for SP)
I'm a day late to this (and a day is apparently almost exactly 1600 Steam thread posts), but I just saw this linked elsewhere and it was actually a lot funnier than I expected. Thanks for sharing!
SourCinnamon
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As someone said before, almost everyone can be a megagiver with a couple of bundles (max. $10.00). So I would say no, that doesn't explain the low number of entrants.
PixyJunket
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What's the poop icon in the Modbot text for?
Probably doesn't help that GAF has been up and down today, either.
Stump, could you tell us how many givers there are vs how many megagivers? Within the three month window, I mean.
Bad game.
BinaryPork2737
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Games that are widely regarded as terrible.
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It's a shit game that people try to dump on others through modbot. Stump saw fit to warn people.
derExperte
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Does the number include everything, even entries not valid? I got a game earlier long after the countdown was done and it suddenly said '4 entrants'. So it would be even less 'real' participants (I probably got kicked out by the 3 month rule).
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