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STEAM | May 2014 - every time improve protection Steam Guard
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Elaborate more please? I wanna try justifying dropping $4 just to get Gray Matter Steam key
Here's what I wrote about it in the last Steam thread a month or so ago.
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So I put an hour or so into Rescue - Everyday Heroes and it...kind of kicks ass?
I'm pretty surprised to be honest. I thought it looked novel but I wasn't expecting much. Yet I've discovered a Fire/EMS game that plays like The Sims with light management/rpg elements.
Presentation is on the upper scale for the genre. Graphics look great, as do the animations. I smiled when I held the held down the mouse wheel and the camera rotated around just like The Sims (I thought the game had a locked-isometric view for some reason). Menu/UI/tutorial cards are smart too.
Game systems are pretty detailed. You hire staff and buy equipment for your firehouse. Employees have skill traits, both technical and personality. You buy/upgrade fire trucks, ambulances, hoses, etc. as well as aesthetic stuff like mess hall, weight room, rec room, etc. You rotate/place the objects like in The Sims and everything you invest in and order your employees to focus on directly affects their skill level and moral.
Outside of Management mode you're off to Dispatch once you get a mission where you put together the vehicle/staff combo you want to take out to the emergency site. Once you launch the mission you take full control of the vehicles & staff. Firing up the sirens and selecting a parking location (hopefully next to a hydrant!). You're not just clicking on the fire to put it out...you have to connect various hose types, navigate your guys around the map, load up stretchers and more. Left-click to select character and right-click vehicles and equipment to get option boxes. It's a lot of detail-oriented fun.
For the "U.S. Edition", I understand that they fixed the problematic A.I. pathfinding and made the Mission Timer toggle-able, defaulted to Off if that's any indication how people felt about it.
Anyway, REH isn't GOTY or anything so I don't want to oversell it, but turns out it's a lot more substantial, polished, and fun than I expected. I love being pleasantly surprised.
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.
That's a shame, but their reasoning is valid.
Nabs
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Thanks!
The Grim Heaper
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I really have to ask, why does Postal 2 now have Workshop support? Who asked for that?
Ha, that's hilarious. Everyone's farming either way, either with SAM or with app_id trick.
It's a pity -- and, well, stupid -- that store-bought DLC doesn't award card drops for free games. There are plenty of $5 games with cards so, say, releasing the OST for $5 would be a good way to get around the rule.
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.
True, but the value of a game's trading cards hardly ever exceeds the cost of the game itself, and if it did at some point, it wouldn't for long because people would open an alt account, buy the game, idle the cards, and sell them.
That's what they're trying to prevent - if a free game has cards, it's only a matter of hours before the market gets absolutely overloaded with people selling them for $0.03 each after idling the cards on hundreds of alt accounts at once.
True - it seems that wouldn't be hard to accomplish on Valve's end either, since they do essentially the same thing by permanently tying a free game to your library after you purchase DLC for it.
Rickenslacker
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That doesn't always seem to be the case. Pinball Arcade is F2P, I bought a table pack as DLC on the Steam store page, and it granted me card drops afterwards.
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.
New in version 6.1
I believe the "rule" is still 1 card drop for every $9 spent on a free game's DLC or in-game purchase. I believe JaseC is lamenting the fact that buying one piece of DLC can't unlock a game's "regular" card drops (half of the available number of cards, rounded up).
arts&crafts
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What time do the humble sale dailies update?
Ah, interesting. Can't say I'm aware of any other examples (I haven't even bought any Pinball Arcade DLC, apparently). Maybe it's something that developers can opt into.
Consequence
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Thank you for questrun!
Rickenslacker
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I wonder why that doesn't work for Free To Play then as none of those cards ever surfaced. I guess Steam doesn't interpret it as DLC for it since they're DOTA items?
It was pretty wonky as well. I didn't get card drops immediately after purchasing the DLC, then they came up after a time, then some more time later more drops surfaced despite not buying anything else.
Da DreadLord
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yup
i luv it >
but not a khaleesi fan tbh so u know
also way to insult my work yo
I saw that
arts&crafts
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New humble deals are out. Ironclad tactics is #1 on my wish list I think I will buy
RavenValor95
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AHA-Lambda
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Ah shit, Jedi Academy hangs and freezes at startup and then just closes down.
Any help??
EDIT: nvm, the Mac copy works ok at least.
Any help??
EDIT: nvm, the Mac copy works ok at least.
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, even though the DLC is old on the "Free to Play" page, if you click on an individual DLC it will clearly show at the top that it's actually DLC for DOTA2. So buying it would give you DOTA2 card drops, not Free to Play card drops.
what can i do, i just see little finger and varys together as king and queen
TheLetdown
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I haven't played it in a while, but Natural Selection 2 is one hell of a game, for fans of multiplayer shooters.
It got a rap for having a community with a tendency to rage, but I never caught any of that. People were pretty quick to vote out a bad commander, and people were just as quick to step up when needed.
Kiru
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Didn't notice ANY music in the game. So what would he sell ? He would need to compose something I guess.^^
Also got a card drop today from Conquest of Champions, another F2P game. Registered a starter kit key that was given away yesterday on some site, listed as DLC on steamdb.
EDIT: Now I read jshackles post. Makes sense, Conquest of Champions DLC is worth $10.
Ah, that's right, haha. Can't believe I forgot about that... especially since I loaded up XCOM yesterday to use up the drops I earned for buying Enemy Within.
It was mentioned as a possible solution in the thread so I just assumed there was music.
Yeah, my brain fell asleep and I forgot about DLC generally awarding drops. I had two or three extra drops in XCOM thanks to buying Enemy Within.
ramoisdead
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Volgarr The Viking is $5.39 at the Humble Store. I think that's the lowest it's been. Looks like I'm gonna have to bite.
PandaPedinte
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Or the period of VN discrimination.
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Steve would probably be the first to tell you that he doesn't need it.
But they are working on a digital version, aren't they?
I am sad to have missed such a glorious and wondrous time.
Haha, knew what this was before clicking.
What's the app_id trick?
Mavromatis
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I wonder what this game loads for 10 seconds on every screen?
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Basically, you just make a steam_appid.txt file in the directory containing the game's executable, fill it with nothing but the app id of another game, and then launch the executable from within the directory (this is important as launching the game through Steam itself will override the value in the text file). Here's an example I put together about six months ago:
Rinse and repeat as you use up your drops.
Edit: Aw.
It's also an amazingly not discounted game on the French store.
Think I would have held off to spare some money but still, fuck.
Edit - Apologize to 2K, it is indeed discounted.
Consequence
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Oops
Are you a wizard? Or did you just screen-shot a post to make a thumbnail/image-capture of a post you're linking to.
Yeah I've been following Space Engineers for awhile and it does look awesome. I've got too many early access games though lol. I'm sure I'll eventually give in to temptation. Congrats to them though.
Mavromatis
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Quote button is disabled for closed threads, so I screenshotted the old post, manually added it as a quote and a link to the original post.
morningbus
Serious Sam is a wicked gahbidge series for chowdaheads.
God, I wish I could support these games.
But I just can't give my money to games that feature jet propulsion.
Amazing! Congrats to them on 500k. Its been on my radar. I am waiting on maybe one more update with additional content b4 picking up the game myself.
If you just want to idle and not use system resources, I can recommend Constant C, which will crash on start because the appID doesn't match, but will stay open until you close the dialog box.
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