Backlogger
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Harder than the first one? Meh...
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STEAM | September 2016 - Good job doing previous stuff, let's do new stuff
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Harder than the first one? Meh...
pantsattack
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Cool! Building a PC is so fun. What kind of games do you like?
Tyrant Rave
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Been playing a lot of Trails in the Sky lately. Had a hard time getting into it last year but I gave it another go and it's really clicking with me now. Very relaxing game to play at night, even if I don't make a ton of progress with my sessions. Think I'm near the end of Chapter 1 and it's quite good.
There's an easy mode, but I don't know if Vamphuntr was playing that mode.
The main reason the game is harder than before is because they changed how the status effects works. Now you and enemies have two new resources, Physical and Magical armor, which blocks some damage but their main effect is that they stop status effects like burned or stuns or poison, which means you can't start every fight burning and stunning and poisoning everyone and everything immediately, you have to break their armor first. This doesn't necessarily means the game's harder, but that old strategies don't work anymore.
Also when Larian designed the maps for the first game they didn't have the basics of the battle system ready, this is something I think Swen talked about in a video or in twitter, but because of that enemies in the first game were much closer together than in this game, which means that AoE attacks were simply too powerful. Now that they had the basics of the combat system ready before start working on the map and encounters they designed the maps with that in mind.
And lastly, this is still an alpha, the only people who have played and help balance the game until now have been Larian's testers, people who understand the system because they have played it a lot. Now that it's on EA Larian will have much more feedback to help balance the game.
Storywise, I must say that the simply fact that the game is between Beyond Divinity and Divinity II continuity-wise and they have a lot of references to Lucian, the player character of Divine Divinity, immediately makes the world more interesting to me.
Yay! We need more Kiseki fans like we need more IM@S fans.
BoosterDuck
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god
why the hell don't they leave the games industry and go work in the tech sector
why the hell don't they leave the games industry and go work in the tech sector
illusionary
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They just don't stop digging, do they?
texhnolyze
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Was checking out Guilty Gear Xrd @ 8K resolution today. It's amazing how this game can run so smooth at such a ridiculously high resolution. The game is so clean it almost looks like a target render. Makes me want Revelator pretty bad. Arc Sys Work is slacking off again
Not really. They released a boat load of stuff this year.
Stumpokapow
listen to the mad man
Broke my fucking Steam Controller dongle again 
morningbus
Serious Sam is a wicked gahbidge series for chowdaheads.
Broke my fucking Steam Controller dongle again
Use that caddy/extension cord broheim.
LurkerPrime
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DH pls stop. Just pls.
This is a good reminder for me to play the earlier Divinity games some time. Divinity 2 is as far back as I've gone, I think.
This is a good reminder for me to play the earlier Divinity games some time. Divinity 2 is as far back as I've gone, I think.
Stumpokapow
listen to the mad man
That's how I broke it this time; I had it mounted under a frame that got knocked off the wall and hit it in the caddy, which bent it and now the controller won't sync.
Shit, that sucks.
morningbus
Serious Sam is a wicked gahbidge series for chowdaheads.
Damn. I imagine Valve will give you another one, though. So it isn't as bad as it could be at least.
Stumpokapow
listen to the mad man
Last time Valve sent me a replacement unit express but I assume a few years from now when I'm on Dongle #40 they'll stop sending me free ones. And you can't buy the dongle separately. I'd just put it on one of my rear USB ports but the wireless range is garbage, and even with the extension cord the thing gives me a damn unignorable popup that says "Hey Your Signal Isn't Very Good!!!!" every 13 seconds even though I sit like 12 feet from the dongle because I guess my router being in the same room means it's a Steam signal dead zone?
To be fair I haven't completed DD or BD, just Divinity 2. I binge read a LP of Divine Divinity and Beyond Divinity once when I was in bed sick for a few days.
Those are good LPs if you want to know the story but don't have the time to play the older games.
I still plan to play them someday.
morningbus
Serious Sam is a wicked gahbidge series for chowdaheads.
Oh, wow. Yeah, there must be a lot of competing signals in your space. I can use mine from a room on the other side of my house and a floor down from the host PC.
If I remember correctly, I thought someone found pages to buy the dongle separately, so that may still be in the cards.
AcademicSaucer
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How is RIVE, is around $10 on Steam for my region so Im temped.
RoyaleDuke
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Ugh, I wish I could sell all these TF2 items I have. :X
Then I might be able to do something with them... or trade them for stuff.
Not enough card drops.
Then I might be able to do something with them... or trade them for stuff.
Not enough card drops.
Ugh, I wish I could sell all these TF2 items I have. :X
Then I might be able to do something with them... or trade them for stuff.
Not enough card drops.
Want my custom named unusual for real money?
I did it.
Are you taking about that sweet no space between banners ? How ? Last time I tried the old tweak it wasn't so effective.
Tizoc
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Nobody cared about Digital Homicide after the Jimquisition eps. that centered on them, I don't recall seeing them pop up on gaming news either for the better part of a year.
While I can't find the video itself atm, I recall Jim made an 'anniversary video' about his DH vid from 2015. Some time after that DH started going into this spiral of madness.
This sounds like finger pointing, and I wish it wasn't, but had DH did go about doing what they had done in the past couple of months WITHOUT that anniversary video being amde I'd have been more sympathetic towards to Jim, for one thing.
As is though, it seemed to me like it ended up turning into poking a hornet's nest and DH are in the spotlight again.
Nobody cared about DH, nobody NEEDED to talk or care about DH again like it is now. Some things better be left alone.
UcchedavÄda
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Looks like Valve has changed the format of the 'packageinfo.vdf' file, so now Depressurizer bails out 3/4 of the way through my library. I just get a "Error updating from local files: Unexpected character '48' found when expecting key." message, and an incomplete list of games.
At least somebody has already opened an issue:
https://github.com/Theo47/depressurizer/issues/64
At least somebody has already opened an issue:
https://github.com/Theo47/depressurizer/issues/64
wtf is wrong with them
Depends on who you ask. But yes.
Tizoc
Member
Mega Ultra slim imo.
Maybe after VR and Scorpio flop, MS realizes that they can make bigger bucks by selling their stuff on Steam as proper PC releases and then we'll see their stuff on there.
One can dream
Dragon1893
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DF Retro's MDK video brought back so many memories, what a mindblowing experience that was at the time.
I should replay it one day.
I should replay it one day.
freshVeggie
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Heresy.
Open Steam\resource\layout\gamespage_grid.layout and change the interiorspacing and GridView.DropShadowLeading values to -1.
Works perfect.
Thanks for repeating the tweak, I re-did it and yeah it seems to work. I think I was disatisfied the last time because max size is not without spacing. Well, that's some months ago, memory is fuzzy.
Isn't that a bit of a retcon? I mean Source as a power is never mentioned in the later games, right? Seems a bit weird, for something so universally powerful.
Wok
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I did not play till that point, because I got the DRM-free game for free on the producer's website (they released an episode for free every fortnight) and then thought I would get to finish it only when I get the Steam version. Achievements, you know.
Edit: In retrospect, I should have gotten it with bundlestars.
This game is a piece of bugged garbage. The steam forum is plenty of people with this same issue. I read the bug triggers if you talk with a character while Alice is speaking, but restarting the game should fix it: it doesn't in my case, and instead of doing the whole chapter again I prefer to uninstall the game.
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Humble bundle extra, I had no idea owned this game already.
freshVeggie
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You are right, it can get finnicky with certain window and icon sizes. Gotta have to tweak. You can also change the icon sizes in gamespage_grid.layout
and even the brightness of installed and not-installed games.
Boss Doggie
all my loli wolf companions are so moe
Jawmuncher
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I'm still debating playing the fear DLC, I really did enjoy the original. But that DL is so big for such an old game.
DLCs are nice. They are full expansions and not proper DLCs anyway, this is why they are big.
Baron von Loathsome
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Welcome aboard the Steam Train, Bones!
thanks! i used to work on cars a lot when i was younger and this is really recapturing a lot of what i loved about that. the planning, the physicality of building something, etc.
i am most excited to play sims like Planet Coaster, Civ VI, Cities Skylines & Stardew Valley. love the genre, but have been very limited in my ability to play them with my current PS4 / macbook set up.
ayyy! what's up homie
Baron von Loathsome
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Getting ready to put in a new graphics card, figuring out how to deal with the onslaught of Civ, Dishonored, and Planet Coaster in the coming months, and conspicuously little comic-reading.
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