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STEAM | May 2016 - VAC to life, VAC to reality
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pantsattack
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The mouse wheel control for Chaos Theory's walking speed is so sublime. I loved it. I don't know why other games haven't taken it. I rarely use the mouse wheel for weapon selection in general.
Finished Unepic. "Finished". Will come to that later.
Premise is simple but well executed with plenty self-aware humor and nods to many cliches and franchises. During a D&D game-night with friends you get sucked into a real dungeon or rather castle. And boy is it a castle indeed. It's huge. Separated into several areas with unique themes and enemies. You slowly get to explore the castle, open up new areas in your journey to meet the master of the castle Harnakon. Each area has a boss fight which drops a key opening a previously locked area. Besides the main quest each area also harbors a Pure Spirit with a quest. These are particularly interesting since the loot is a whole new character skill which opens the path for various spells and skills. On top of these there are also more menial side quests abound which net you either gold, a companion pet or a special weapon. All in all, there is always something to do once you go exploring a new area. These quests sadly are almost always very similar in that you need to collect certain elements in the near vicinity and thus can get repetitive. The rewards make them still worthwhile.
The way you beat the plethora of enemies in the castle depends on you though. From classic melee weaponry to staves, potions to spells, the options at hand are enormous. You will need to decide early on which playstyle to choose since enemies become more powerful as you explore further and the necessary stats to wield apt weapon, spells and armor increases as well. Thankfully there was a side quest that netted me a one-time item to respec. I got stumped at a certain boss for good after having neglected Bow stats. This aspect, the stats and immense amount of spells, swords, maces, axes, hammers, bows, robes, armor, potions, staves, wands and their each respective stats you can level up surprised me by sheer depth. It was fun to change pace from melee combat to magic based combat. Weirdly enough Shields are a total no-show. A shame since melee combat ends up mindless button mostly.
The boss fights were usually the highlight of each area. They are all very unique not only visually but in their regular and special attacks which makes for a fun and fair challenge even while dying many times. For the most part. And this is where the grand finale comes up again. It's a blunder. A dud. A total wreck. Everything you learned up to this point gets thrown out the window. Suddenly you find yourself under time pressure. Not only fighting a boss but going through a whole area filled with enemies. But that's not even the worst part. You also get suddenly control over a second character where you have to fend of enemy waves with some light strategy/tower-defense elements. This especially does not work well with the game. Having two dozen characters have an all-out war is not meant for this viewpoint. You don't see what is happening, who is friend or foe, even where your own character is. Most importantly it is not fun. The best moments in the game are boss encounters where you have to time attacks, run at the right time and repeat. These fights give you control, clarity and the time needed for the right tactic. The final fight is a rushed catastrophe compared to that. You never feel certain what is happening with all the character switching, strategic NPC placement and time pressure. And when you die, you start the whole area from start.
No thanks. If it's not fun, I'm not game. So I still call this a finished game since I got to the end. All in all, Unepic is a fun and surprisingly deep and big game with passable combat mechanics. This won't be a good time for many I assume. Movement, combat they all feel not overtly satisfying but it's definitely a case of greater than the sum of its parts. Give it a try. You might like it like I did and get close to 30 hours of a good time out of it.
Thanks for your impressions. I thought the protagonist was insufferable for the ~3 hours that I played. That final battle sounds very annoying as well.
Stumpokapow
listen to the mad man
It's really stupid that Valve hasn't yet implemented a way to filter your purchased library, in the client, by quality. Like, they're so obsessed with putting user reviews everywhere as part of making your purchasing decisions easier, but heaven forbid it be easy to say "Show me some good games to play that I own".
So Ibuki isn't being released today. She's being released at the same time the story mode drops, sometime in June.
Good job Capcom. Nice to finally tell everyone that, in the Japanese blog, and not even in the Capcom Unity blog post detailing Ibuki that was posted yesterday.
Good job Capcom. Nice to finally tell everyone that, in the Japanese blog, and not even in the Capcom Unity blog post detailing Ibuki that was posted yesterday.
Stumpokapow
listen to the mad man
any discount coupons to apply during checkout or is this as good as it gets?
Walking simulator? Walking simulator.
I've spent some time on Aura Kingdom, a F2P MMO. I played it a bit in the past, reaching level 12 but then stopped. Now I've made it to level 48 and I'm keeping going. Considering the F2P part and that it's published by Aeria, which seems to have a bad reputation, I'm surprised about how, so far, the game hasn't pushed me to pay for stuff outside of showing me cool Eidolons (summoned companions that fight at your side).
Yes. So true. 4500 games and most of it is bundle trash. Valve doesnt care because most users only have, on average, 4 games. You can sort by Metacritic scores in list view. And then select all the games with metacritic reviews and assign them to categories. Assign games without reviews to "bundle trash" categorie.
FUCK YESSSSSSSSSS
Woah. June 1st keeps giving.
Stumpokapow
listen to the mad man
I hadn't realized that Nuuvem started actually verifying your address through Paypal now. Jeez.
You know, those are the kinds of things you ought to check before buying a second monitor... >.>
Stumpokapow
listen to the mad man
I downloaded this but the feature you mention didn't seem to exist in the last release. I can just autocategorize by genre. I see the developer abandoned it and another developer picked it up, so I downloaded from his branch. For some reason the app now uses a hideous non-standard skin and apparently my 32GB of RAM isn't enough to prevent it from lagging like crazy on my library (only 2500 games). It also no longer picks up on my current categories. I think the reason it is lagging is because it's stuck displaying box art for every game, poorly. This release does let me sort by reviews, but autocategorize is still just by genre. What a fiasco.
BoosterDuck
Banned
Did I miss the mention about Daedalic Entertainment finally offering upgrade paths for some of its games?
Mainly Blackguards Deluxe Edition Upgrade but The Night of the Rabbit Premium Edition Upgrade and Goodbye Deponia Premium Edition Upgrade are useful too.
Mainly Blackguards Deluxe Edition Upgrade but The Night of the Rabbit Premium Edition Upgrade and Goodbye Deponia Premium Edition Upgrade are useful too.
Sounds like normal GTA V to me tho.
IIRC, you can add custom autocategorize schemes, I recall needing to do so for my setup (Ctrl-T or Profile->Edit AutoCats)
Will share my config if you don't want to tinker with the program when I get back from work.
EDIT: I have not used the fork, did not even know it existed. Everything I mention can be done by the original Depressurizer.
You should consider its fork which is still maintained.
https://github.com/Theo47/depressurizer
There is also an unofficial Steam group for the Depressurizer project.
https://steamcommunity.com/groups/depressurizer
shit man i was only counting on senran kagura with my gems. how can i decide what waifu cards I invest in now?
Also, what a surprise last hour announcement lol
i think the gta thing might be just the game not loading while you alt tab cos i just tried it again without alt tabbing and it only took 30s
weird
dumb
well i'd need a vga -> hdmi thing i think
is that a thing?
weird
dumb
well i'd need a vga -> hdmi thing i think
is that a thing?
Stumpokapow
listen to the mad man
Yes that this the absolutely hideous looking fork that I downloaded and that is currently choking on my library because it won't let me turn box arts off. I'll leave it running for 15 or 20 minutes see if it's just doing some background downloading of game data without giving me any visible feedback. Maybe that's why it's choking.
It also doesn't load the online mode while you're in the Steam Overlay, which is stupid.
A lot of games don't load when you alt-tab, I don't know why.
bobnowhere
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I really need to get back to Blackguards 1 at some point. Played 2 earlier in the year and thoroughly enjoyed it. Though once I got across the initial difficulty hump it became pretty simplistic.
Hey let's introduce this cool new thing called "user defined tags"! Do you think maybe we should integrate them into the library? Nah, wait...what are User-defined tags again, I'm all into VR now?
I agree it is ugly and I also preferred the light philosophy of its predecessor.
Hopefully once the banners cache is done it works fine and there are some new categorization options which can be useful.
I use the "Autocategorize". It took me time to customize it at my will but now it does the job well for my entire library (minus the games which has no more a store page).
GhostTrick
Banned
I just bought it on PC a couple of days back and I'm running it on an HD7870. No glitches on my end. Could it be you have the NVIDIA hair stuff turned on?
Wok
Member
Thank you, I did as you did and it worked super well.
Edit: Except that some games like "Her Story" are not in the correct category...
Atraveller
Banned
Should have finish reading the Tower of Swallows before I started Blood and Wine.
Dice
Pokémon Parentage Conspiracy Theorist
That doesn't affect it. The hair part of the horse is actually fine, it's the body that is all stretched out triangles and whatnot. But that's only when I'm close to it. If I back up the body just isn't there so it's floating hair and saddle. It's so weird because the horse of the dude I'm supposed to follow is fine. I'm taking a billion years to verify/repair files now.
I'm on the 16.5.3 Crimson drivers.
You need to also refresh the user ratings, as Depressurizer uses local database for sorting.
Ctrl-D (Tools->Database Editor), then Fetch List, select all entries (Ctrl-A), Scrape Selected (which takes about 30 minutes for my 3000+ list), then Ctrl-S (File->Save Database).
You can always delete your previous ratings categories and re-categorize the entries.
Wok
Member
Okay folks, pack it up, Steam is done.
https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/store/apps/bomberman94/9wzdncrdf3t4
https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/store/apps/bomberman94/9wzdncrdf3t4
Okay folks, pack it up, Steam is done.
https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/store/apps/bomberman94/9wzdncrdf3t4
Think it was posted before, and no online play sucks...
Steam trading cards. Waifu ones like Senran Kagura will have can sell for quite a lot, as well as it's backgrounds and emoticons. I've bought a crapload of gems in antecipation SK's release so I can do some nice profit
HP_Wuvcraft
Banned
"The Witcher 3 isn't sexist."
"IT'S SJW BULLSHIT THAT THEY MAKE YOU PLAY CIRI."
The internet over the last three hours.
"IT'S SJW BULLSHIT THAT THEY MAKE YOU PLAY CIRI."
The internet over the last three hours.
Atraveller
Banned
What?
HP_Wuvcraft
Banned
Oh just various forums and Twitch.
Atraveller
Banned
Why were you reading Twitch chat? Why do you hate yourself so?
HP_Wuvcraft
Banned
Because I'm a fat whore.
I have a 270X and I don't remember to see any glitches prior 1.20 patch.
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