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STEAM | June 2014 - Enhanced Electronics Edition
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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.
When Indie Gala first got their "redeem directly to this account" system set up, giving the links out would expose the person who redeemed it's email address. So if you redeemed a link that was publicly available, everyone would know it was you and would be able to see your email address by clicking on the link after you redeemed it.
The issue has since been resolved it would seem.
online better be fixed
Seems unlikely honestly. Did we ever even get a single patch for MK9? I bought MK9 day one for the PC release and don't regret it as I only cared about the single player experience (which I loved), but I'll definitely be waiting for a sale on MKX
unless I can get it for $22 on GMG again.
Also have to cite the delay of the port and the poor online netcode.
no, but to be fair it was a late port and they acknowledged the issues. Injustice PC is apparently already better in that aspect.
them announcing this for PC same day as they do for consoles gives me hope that they'll take it more seriously since the demand is there
Me, i own all fighting games on Steam and they are all dead except for SF4. If you are not american then good luck.
Stumpokapow
listen to the mad man
I expressed concern that I was bothered by the fact that Steam has no way on Steam's side to prohibit sites from continuing to read your account data once you've linked, and so even though IndiaGala theoretically allows you to disconnect your account, I have no reason to trust them. Now, as for what they're actually able to read, it's really just your profile ID, but still. jshackles had noted that the account linking does not give them access to very much at all.
im in freakin Uruguay and I play Skullgirls all day erry day
you can't blame people for not playing MK9 when the net code is atrocious, and the others already played hours of it on consoles before it came to PC as a late port
saying there's no audience or community for fighting games on PC is dumb. Then why do they suddenly put them all on Steam?
spindoctor
Member
If Fallout 4 goes console exclusive I will break something. Probably more than one thing.
Also WB have being terrible at online games for years now, i doubt it will get fixed on PC. If its not working day 1 it wont get fixed.
Why would it? Skyrim has being huge on PC. I doubt Beshitda will throw that away.
Why would it? Skyrim has being huge on PC. I doubt Beshitda will throw that away.
Oh, so I can give to modbot without my e-mail/their e-mails being shown?
Syphon Filter
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ok i was disappointed when indiegala switched to the humble style key redemption...but i just bought two bundles and added 10 games to my account in about 2 minutes. activating keys in the client takes about a minute (or longer) each. i definitely think i prefer this system now. and thats coming from someone who has had their humble account hacked with my steam acct linked.
my only option is to join Steam communities to find people to fight and make friends with randoms.
toddhunter
Member
MK9 still did well and it was an awful fighting game in a lot of ways.
If MKX is actually good I'm sure it will be well supported.
If MKX is actually good I'm sure it will be well supported.
what ways?
I think it was the best Mortal Kombat ever, MK2 being close
which might not be saying much for some, but it still stands. It was a nice break from Street Fighter. I still play it with a bud who hates SF. It's just dumb and fun. Granted I never took it so seriously so if you get into specifics or very competitive online play (wish I could..) it might be borked I guess.
Not really. KoF '13 was dead right after it left closed-beta. Utterly insane how that population dropped from 4,000 to "4,000 people used to play this... Now it's a ghost town."
I can think of some reasons which would make someone not like it but calling it an awful game is a bit of a stretch.
spindoctor
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I think that's a somewhat valid point
and I say somewhat in the sense that KOF is still a much more niche game than SF/MK, and certainly a lot harder to get into. People who go into it trying to do a fireball and not much else are gonna be immediatly put off by the game having more than one fucking jump even, hah.
I bought it at release and I could play a match last week, but I see what you're saying
the real surprise and proof is how well Skullgirls did and how many people are (apparently, for me in terms of finding matches, didnt check numbers) still playing it
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 just checked the IndieGala links I gave away over Modbot earlier today, and they appear to be fine. You can still see the redeeming user's Steam name, but you no longer see their email address.
And being Modbot (where the links aren't public, but only shared with the giver and receiver) you should be perfectly fine.
After all this time and with many sales on? WTF.
Valve strikes with yet another retroactive region lock. I'd be pissed if it actually worked (I suppose it fizzed out because the 4-pack user was from a ROW region, have to test tomorrow).
jaundicejuice
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If you think of the A.I. Civ's as petulant 12 year olds, a few of which are gently retarded while the rest are just vicious little cunts that will grow up to be sociopaths, it makes dealing with and understanding them a little easier.
It's nice to have a goal like a culture victory in mind when you start playing but your immediate neighbours and what they do will impact or outright change that goal. The more Civ you play, the more you get familiar with its rogues gallery. You will cultivate game spanning hatred for some of these Civs.
Yeah. I kinda wish there was more of a shitstorm about this bullshit but it never gains momentum.
toddhunter
Member
I called it an awful fighting game.
These ways. I realise some people support it strongly and that is my point. If they added things like better netcode, improved controls/responsiveness and actual character animation it could be a huge game.
There never will be, because it only impacts an extremely small portion of the user base, and Valve/Publishers can say that most of the people who it does affect are trying to misuse the system.
It's going to be hilarious when the MOBA bubble bursts.
edit: Also my main image host i normally use is dead so all my OTs are fucked.
corrosivefrost
Member
The character animation and controls in MK9 were great. Now if you want to talk horrible animation, go play Injustice.
I don't know how the PC netcode is, but the console netcode was hit/miss -- it's a shame most developers won't just pay to license GGPO and go from there.
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Y'know what happens when DmC comes up, as it did earlier...
I get to thinking about Capcom and outsourcing remakes or reboots of storied franchises to western developers.
And if I had to guess who would have made the worst of all of them, I would've originally guessed Ninja Theory.
But in the end (not having played ORC, but hearing mostly negative things about it), it seems to me that the NT ended up making the best of the 3 I'm currently thinking of (with Double Helix almost undoubtedly making the worst).
BinaryPork2737
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The sad thing is that I can this happening in the future.
They can region lock it all they want, but at least create a new sub for it. Retroactive locking is completely retarded, especially after all this time. Several thousand trades have been made with it and there was no way to tell the origin of your copy.
Won earlier (thanks The_Super_Inframan), so here is a giveaway. Hopefully I did this right.
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Eh, GTAIV has such an absurd amount of DRM that it totally deserves having a gazillion red warning banners.
Hopefully they fix the hair too.
online better be fixed
MMBosstones86
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play until your computer shuts off from dustpocolypse.
For those that are interested, I had quite an eye-opening day.
Credits to How to Geek
I could have chosen Microsoft Essentials instead of ESET but I have been trusting it for many years. This process took me half day because I had to re-install 151 Windows Updates + another more. I also decided not to use CCleaner to remove/fix/repair anything to do with registry so I will only use it to remove general junk.
Anyway I have personally learned my lesson and now I will be more cautious. I am no expert but I hope the information I provided was somewhat useful.
- I installed Windows 8.1 and I thought what the fuck is this shit.
- Reinstalled to Windows 7 Pro.
- Installed 14.4 AMD Catalyst and then installed all Windows Updates.
- Installed Mozilla Firefox but did not install Java, only Flash Plug In.
- Used Disk Clean to remove Windows.old folder.
- Installed ESET Nod32, Malwarebytes Anti-Malware and the fantastic Revo Pro Uninstaller (removes completely a program by deleting all its registry folders,files,ect).
- Allowed Nod32 to perform its first-time scan and removed all schedule scans apart from the updates.
- Installed Daemon Lite.
- Installed CCleaner Slim.
- Modify some stuff in the balance power plan but did not change minimum processor state.
- Did not change the Update Speed through Windows Task Manager.
- Did not download Razor Booster.
- Did not allow any shortcuts to appear in the Desktop or Start Menu apart from Killer is Dead.
Why Memory Optimizers and RAM Boosters Are Worse Than Useless
Many companies want to sell you memory optimizers, often as part of PC optimization programs. These programs are worse than useless not only will they not speed up your computer, theyll slow it down.
Such programs take advantage of inexperienced users, making false promises about boosting performance. In reality, your computer knows how to manage RAM on its own. It will use RAM to increase your computers performance theres no point in having RAM sit empty.
Is Your Computers RAM Filling Up? Thats Good!
Memory optimizers are based on a misunderstanding. You may look at your computers RAM and see it filling up for example, you may have 4 GB of RAM and see that 3 GB is full with only 1 GB to spare. That can be surprising to some people look how bloated modern versions of Windows are! How are you ever going to run additional programs with so little memory available?
In reality, modern operating systems are pretty good at managing memory on their own. That 3 GB of used RAM doesnt necessarily indicate waste. Instead, your computer uses your RAM to cache data for faster access. Whether its copies of web pages you had open in your browser, applications you previously opened, or any other type of data you might need again soon, your computer hangs onto it in its RAM. When you need the data again, your computer doesnt have to hit your hard drive it can just load the files from RAM.
Crucially, theres no point in having RAM empty. Even if your RAM is completely full and your computer needs more of it to run an application, your computer can instantly discard the cached data from your RAM and use that space for the application. Theres no point in having RAM sit empty if its empty, its being wasted. If its full, theres a good chance it can help speed up program loading times and anything else that would use your computers hard drive.
Notice that very little RAM is actually free in the screenshot below. The RAM is being used as a cache, but its still marked as available for any program that needs to use it.
In the past, full RAM did indicate a problem. If you were running Windows Vista on a computer with half a gig of RAM, you could feel the computer constantly slowing down it had to constantly read and write to the hard drive, using the hard drives page file as an inefficient replacement for RAM. However, modern computers generally have enough RAM for most users. Even low-end computers generally ship with 4GB of RAM, which should be more than enough unless youre doing intensive gaming, running multiple virtual machines, or editing videos.
Even if RAM was a problem for you, theres no reason to use a memory optimizer. Memory optimizers are snake oil that are useless at best and harmful at worst.
How Memory Optimizers Work
When you use a memory optimizer, youll see your computers RAM usage go down. This may seem like an easy win youve decreased RAM usage just be pressing a button, after all. But its not that simple.
Memory optimizers actually work in one of two ways:
They call the EmptyWorkingSet Windows API function, forcing running applications to write their working memory to the Windows page file.
They quickly allocate a large amount of memory to themselves, forcing Windows to discard cached data and write application data to the page file. They then deallocate the memory, leaving it empty.
Both of these tricks will indeed free up RAM, making it empty. However, all this does is slow things down now the applications you use will have to get the data they need from the page file, reading from the hard drive and taking longer to work. Any memory being used for cache may be discarded, so Windows will have to get the data it needs from the hard drive.
In other words, these programs free up fast memory by forcing data you need onto slower memory, where it will have to be moved back to fast memory again. This makes no sense! All it accomplishes is selling you another system optimization program you dont need.
PC Cleaning Apps are a Scam: Heres Why (and How to Speed Up Your PC)
If Windows needs RAM, it will push data to the page file or discard cached data, anyway. This all happens automatically when it needs to theres no point in slowing things down by forcing it to happen before its necessary.
Like PC cleaning apps, memory optimizers are a scam. They appear to be doing something positive to people who dont understand how memory management works, but theyre actually doing something harmful.
How to Actually Optimize Your Memory
If you do want to have more available RAM, skip the memory optimizer. Instead, try to get rid of running applications you dont need purge unnecessary programs from your system tray, disable useless startup programs, and so on.
If you do need more RAM for what you do, try buying some more RAM. RAM is pretty cheap and its not too hard to install it yourself using one of the RAM installing guides available online. Just ensure you buy the correct type of RAM for your computer.
Yes, memory optimizers can free up some of your PCs RAM. However, thats a bad thing you want your computer to use its RAM to speed things up. Theres no point in having free memory.
Credits to How to Geek
I could have chosen Microsoft Essentials instead of ESET but I have been trusting it for many years. This process took me half day because I had to re-install 151 Windows Updates + another more. I also decided not to use CCleaner to remove/fix/repair anything to do with registry so I will only use it to remove general junk.
Anyway I have personally learned my lesson and now I will be more cautious. I am no expert but I hope the information I provided was somewhat useful.
Well, now you have full time for the World Cup!
That truly sucks, I'm sorry bro
You dun goofed.
CheesecakeRecipe
Stormy Grey
Kinda need to give it longer than a day and an install of classic shell or Start8 there, man.
Gauntlet does seem an awful lot like the proto-MOBA! Though they hadn't developed the key component of MOBA rage just yet. I guess being within punching distance of teammates might've stunted the potential growth of the genre back then
(I wouldn't be surprised if it ends up as a spin-off of Arrowhead's reboot, though.)
I'm not saying it's right or fair, in fact I think retroactive locking is really bogus, I'm just saying you're never going to hear an outcry because it doesn't affect that many people (I think several thousand is on the high side but even that's pretty small all told), and the ones that it does affect are actively participating in something that the publishers who institute those locks clearly don't want happening.
There is a slight learning curve coming off older versions of Windows, but Windows 8 is just fine if you give it a chance.
I really don't understand the start button argument all that much, just hit the Windows key and type what you want. That is all I ever do.
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