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STEAM | May 2016 - VAC to life, VAC to reality

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Ludens

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These troll giveaways are getting out of hand. Stump pls.

When, they are not troll giveaways, they are mystery giveaways with an hint in the title :D
And you can interpret them as you wish.
A troll giveaway is one reporting "Dark Souls 3", you enter and it's Woodle Tree.

Also I think mystery are fun, still remember that Pillars night.
 
Also, most of the time someone will enter and discover they already have it.

Yeah. Thats the biggest problem imo. Why not just give the games away normally so people know its a game they already have.

Its fun if its like a giveway "one game is DOOM, the other 4 are bad rats", but not just give away a bundle game that "everyone" has.
 

mp1990

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i've found it's really hard to get more than 2 kills with d.va once you have a few games under your belt cos ppl just know the range and can predict when you're gonna nuke rush them

i guess you can be sneakier about it, but i haven't been able to yet

it's kind of a pity it's so hard to track what are sometimes the actual plays of the game

like sometimes you don't get a quadra kill but you break the siege by making the snipers fall back and maybe kill the bastion or break down a turret and that's enough for you to capture the point. but i feel like actually tracking that would be super hard
Definitely, I like how her ultimate serves to more strategic purposes than just trying to kill the entire enemy squad. It can be really useful when you're being wrecked by the enemy team in a escort mission, throw it in the middle of the gunfight and force those damn Bastions to step back, and give your team some space to breath. I haven't played enough with any of the other characters to take any conclusions about their abilities, but I suppose there's something similar in every one of them. Still, I've found that using the boosters in addition to the ultimate helps a lot in catching the enemy unguarded, since you can throw the robot armor from farther, saving yourself from it, and whoever be in the range of its explosion will have less time to react.

And honestly I can't even blame Play of the Match for not being able to track things like these, it must be really to measure how useful a play was, tactically wise.
 

wilflare

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Steam is somewhat confusing for me now. Gone are the days of simplicity, gotta worry about region-lock, different subs and what not._.
 

Nzyme32

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Steam is somewhat confusing for me now. Gone are the days of simplicity, gotta worry about region-lock, different subs and what not._.

Not sure if I have the timeline right:

> Valve push for localised pricing across regions to sell more to more users
> third parties and users exploit the lowest region pricing
> traditional publishers am confuse. Make crazy subs or wacky prices. Those am fix
> Valve thinks region locking might help
> traditional publish am smart. Lock all things
 

wilflare

Member
Not sure if I have the timeline right:

> Valve push for localised pricing across regions to sell more to more users
> third parties and users exploit the lowest region pricing
> traditional publishers am confuse. Make crazy subs or wacky prices. Those am fix
> Valve thinks region locking might help
> traditional publish am smart. Lock all things

yeap! all the messy subs... and rebuying because locked content._.

but I guess such has been a problem from the start. just worse now
 

Rhaknar

The Steam equivalent of the drunk friend who keeps offering to pay your tab all night.
Renowed Explorers seems super neat. Very original with a ton of systems I havent figured out yet. Great art style aswell
 
Another Spike Chunsoft interview
Seems like Zero Time Dilemma is indeed getting a simultaneous release, on both handhelds and PC... but more importantly, they seem to have a "backlog of ports" :")
Nein Nein Nein, ZE:VLR, ZTD gogogo!
Maybe Battlefield is better but it doesn't release on platforms I own.
Huh, I thought you were playing on a PC?...... Oh. Oh!
lol

Here some first-person-shooters of recent time I enjoyed quite a bit and think you should try out sometime.



Bad Company 2 is usually very cheap in sales and the campaign is one of the most fun FPS campaigns I've played. Thoroughly enjoyed it.



Very colorful shooter with a few dark tones and an overall good story and cast. Huge world where I had loads of joy exploring.



Impressive world-building got me highly immersed and the vast options of tackling objectives make this also great gameplay-wise.



While an aggressive approach is viable the mechanics truly shine when playing as either a stealthy predator or an invisible ghost. Great artstyle, world-building and characters.



Even though shooting is the weakest aspect, the story, themes, artstyle, characters make up for it in spades. Play it on easy to get most out of it.



Great, great gunplay which feels satisfying and powerful. Open-world aspect and samey mission structures leads to a feeling of tedium. Would have been more enjoyable as a linear game but it's still good fun.
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Super-secret-not-new-at-all-but-totally-worth-playing-still recommendation



At some point in the campaign the laser sword and force powers get introduced which usually become the focus in combat but it still has a sizable amount of content which can be enjoyed as a first-person shooter. Totally recommend. Great epic adventure.
 

Lashley

Why does he wear the mask!?
FF X/X2 will be purchased for the third time when it releases on PC

Haven't finished it once

Woosa
 
At some point in the campaign the laser sword and force powers get introduced which usually become the focus in combat but it still has a sizable amount of content which can be enjoyed as a first-person shooter. Totally recommend. Great epic adventure.

Laser sword!?

spaceballs-02.jpg
 
This is kind of random but it was so easy that I thought some would like to know, download the CinemaNow app on whatever device you use to watch movies, add Deadpool HD rental to your cart, use code DEADPOOLUSA or DEADPOOLCA for America's hat people. Free rental of Deadpool, saw it on reddit and it took about 2 minutes to do. Now payment method required, just skip that step in the account creation process.
 

Rhaknar

The Steam equivalent of the drunk friend who keeps offering to pay your tab all night.
( -_-)/ Slip of thought.

Lightsaber of course.

took you awhile to google the actual name huh?

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Rhaknar

The Steam equivalent of the drunk friend who keeps offering to pay your tab all night.
Velvet Assassin
Data Hacker Initiation
Legendary

that gmg giveaway hurt to win

Velvet Assassin is one of my guilty pleasures. Dont get me wrong, its fucking awful, but I liked it. Im a sucker for steath games ;_;

speaking of which, I just noticed Shadwen is out on the 17th o_O Shadwen and (possibly) Salt and Sanctuary? wru money
 

Endruen

Member
When, they are not troll giveaways, they are mystery giveaways with an hint in the title :D
And you can interpret them as you wish.
A troll giveaway is one reporting "Dark Souls 3", you enter and it's Woodle Tree.

Also I think mystery are fun, still remember that Pillars night.

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