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STEAM | September 2016 - Good job doing previous stuff, let's do new stuff
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I have more than 400 games on my wishlist, which basically kills the purpose of a wishlist
Worst thing, most are out since the last 3 years, which is not good, the wishlist has few hopes to decrease ...
delete everything, start fresh
It's garbage dump since I'm not 100% sure whether all keys are working...
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I think there are open levels, it's not open world. Make a fps arena an open-world would be the worst idea ever.
It needs to replace FFXV.
PLASTICA-MAN
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What the... Quantum Break got delayed to September 29th.
Pretty awesome chest, regret not preordering warhammer. Guess ill just wait for the prices of it to go down some more.
Care to explain that? I've played the game over a year since closed beta and they've never given ready made decks besides the basics everyone gets when they start the game.
Also you're talking of the same Steam discussion board where people cry "OP OP" about basic cards that have been some of the weakest ones even during closed beta with no change, like ranged minions, or Shadow Watcher.
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The code I got was already activated....
Seems like somebody doesn't have their site-cache configured correctly.
yeah i got a dupe too, meh
bobnowhere
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I need to download the UK/AUS English language mod. Too many Z's and not enough U's in the the American English version for my liking!
Large Professor
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I was wondering who this mysterious "mostra altro" guy was, until I saw the "lang=it" in the address bar.
Enjoy your weekend.
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LurkerPrime
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Ok... fine. I'll install Dota 2 and get a mobile authenticator.
Have a giant backlog of cards anyways, so I guess this works out.
freshVeggie
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Nice. 5 second card drop worked again. 29 cards in a matter of minutes.
Going to have to wait and see since we don't have enough information to pass judgement right now. Flying Wild Hog has proven they know what they are doing for gameplay, so give them the benefit of the doubt.
You can probably launch it through the appid, without having to install.
Goddammit. I was stupid, tripped in one of the USB cable and broke one of the USB front ports. Well, at least I have about 5 extra ports.
Lol, somebody has the same problem, same port too. Took the pic from overclocker forum.
Ok, but not giving devs this year the benefit of the doubt save me money from No Mans Sky and Deus Ex.
Lol, somebody has the same problem, same port too. Took the pic from overclocker forum.
Ok, but not giving devs this year the benefit of the doubt save me money from No Mans Sky and Deus Ex.
I just finished The Turing Test. Here's some thoughts.
You play the role of Ava Turing, an astronaut awoken from cryogenic slumber on a station orbiting around Europa. Contact's been lost with the ground crew, so you're sent down by the AI overseer of the mission, the Technical Operations Machine (or TOM for short) to investigate the base and uncover what's gone on. Blocking your path are a number of puzzles, described as 'Turing Tests', which the AI overseer cannot solve due to restrictions on his programming, but you can.
So the main appeal of this game was the story, with the promise of delving into the philosophy of the mind, touching on themes of consciousness and artificial intelligence and, of course, if an AI can 'think'. I'm quite a big fan of anything that delves into those kind of issues, and and while I appreciated the references to Dennett, Searle and the Chinese room thought experiment and the like, I didn't feel it did anything truly spectacular or new with the premise. These are well trodden grounds for a mass of sci-fi stories, and The Turing Test doesn't really do much to stand out from the crowd.
The story mostly unfolds through dialogue between Ava and TOM, with new lines being doled out in each new room. Which, depending on how long you spend in each room, can be a little awkward and unnatural, as you might go a good ten minutes between dialogue. While I enjoyed the performances delivered by the two main characters, the performances in the inevitable audio logs scattered around the station were a bit lacking. Also having to stand still to listen to an audio log is immensely frustrating. Stop that.
The actual puzzles in the game are all solved through the manipulation of the flow of electricity, which you accomplish in a number of ways like removing fuse boxes from walls, or moving electricity from one point to another via your energy manipulation tool. The designers managed to get a decent amount of mileage out of these rather straightforward mechanics, but again, nothing really excels. Solutions aren't hard to come by, and you can blow through a number of rooms quite quickly. Frequently the only thing stopping me solving a puzzle was figuring out how to mechanically do it, as I had mentally solved it quite quickly.
If you're after challenging puzzles, this isn't the game for you. I still enjoyed solving the puzzles offered, but I'd have appreciated something a little tougher, or puzzles that really made me think outside the box. There's a few optional 'challenge' rooms you'll encounter during your playthrough, which do demand a little more lateral thinking and are the highlight of the game both mechanically and for story, but they're just not enough.
Overall, while The Turing Test offers some good ideas, it doesn't really delve into those ideas enough to truly satisfy.
You play the role of Ava Turing, an astronaut awoken from cryogenic slumber on a station orbiting around Europa. Contact's been lost with the ground crew, so you're sent down by the AI overseer of the mission, the Technical Operations Machine (or TOM for short) to investigate the base and uncover what's gone on. Blocking your path are a number of puzzles, described as 'Turing Tests', which the AI overseer cannot solve due to restrictions on his programming, but you can.
Story: It is always cold on Europa.
So the main appeal of this game was the story, with the promise of delving into the philosophy of the mind, touching on themes of consciousness and artificial intelligence and, of course, if an AI can 'think'. I'm quite a big fan of anything that delves into those kind of issues, and and while I appreciated the references to Dennett, Searle and the Chinese room thought experiment and the like, I didn't feel it did anything truly spectacular or new with the premise. These are well trodden grounds for a mass of sci-fi stories, and The Turing Test doesn't really do much to stand out from the crowd.
The story mostly unfolds through dialogue between Ava and TOM, with new lines being doled out in each new room. Which, depending on how long you spend in each room, can be a little awkward and unnatural, as you might go a good ten minutes between dialogue. While I enjoyed the performances delivered by the two main characters, the performances in the inevitable audio logs scattered around the station were a bit lacking. Also having to stand still to listen to an audio log is immensely frustrating. Stop that.
Gameplay: It has some
The actual puzzles in the game are all solved through the manipulation of the flow of electricity, which you accomplish in a number of ways like removing fuse boxes from walls, or moving electricity from one point to another via your energy manipulation tool. The designers managed to get a decent amount of mileage out of these rather straightforward mechanics, but again, nothing really excels. Solutions aren't hard to come by, and you can blow through a number of rooms quite quickly. Frequently the only thing stopping me solving a puzzle was figuring out how to mechanically do it, as I had mentally solved it quite quickly.
If you're after challenging puzzles, this isn't the game for you. I still enjoyed solving the puzzles offered, but I'd have appreciated something a little tougher, or puzzles that really made me think outside the box. There's a few optional 'challenge' rooms you'll encounter during your playthrough, which do demand a little more lateral thinking and are the highlight of the game both mechanically and for story, but they're just not enough.
Overall, while The Turing Test offers some good ideas, it doesn't really delve into those ideas enough to truly satisfy.
Snakethesniper
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Is there any good management/simulation game you guys can suggest me? I already have city skyline and the rollercoaster tycoon(s). I saw parkitect but it's early access, and software inc seems interesting but people say that when you figure out how to play it becomes boring
Large Professor
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Prison Architect.
William Bonney
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It was. Kendrick's character was fun, though overall I preferred Grosse Point Blank.
Baron von Loathsome
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Goddamn. Back when this KS was going on, it was this or Shantae for me (I was a Homestuck fanboy). I'm so glad I went with Shantae instead.
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Baron von Loathsome
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New computer, but it still can't run Doom at an acceptable framerate. I'm on minimum settings, switched to Vulkan, updated my graphics card, and even lowered the resolution, but it still runs really choppy.
Banished.
Ignore the Early Access tags on Factorio and Rimworld, they are truly irrelevant.
I had to lower the scaling to like 75% on my 670 and even then I couldn't get a stable FPS all the time. It's those imps and their fire.
Uhm, how?
morningbus
Serious Sam is a wicked gahbidge series for chowdaheads.
My internal Kickstarter-governor seems to be working as I didn't back any of those projects.
But I also haven't backed a videogame project in over a year, so that either speaks to my skepticism or that the quality and believability of projects is way down.
Baron von Loathsome
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I sunk a good six hours into it back when it was in early access. I oughta try the 2.0 version sometime.
William Bonney
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Unfortunately there was a 75% off sale on PA that just ended a couple days ago.
I'm definitely going to be checking out Rimworld, artwork looks like it was ripped right from PA.
I'm definitely going to be checking out Rimworld, artwork looks like it was ripped right from PA.
LurkerPrime
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Ugh, I forgot that mobile auth doesn't remove the trade restriction right away...
Here's to hoping that the Warhammer Dota item holds its value or goes up!
It's original art, but the PA inspiration for Rimworld is pretty obvious.
Sort of like Banished, it's a cool take on a roguelike city builder/management kind of game. Although you can go full sandbox if you want.
Here's to hoping that the Warhammer Dota item holds its value or goes up!
It's original art, but the PA inspiration for Rimworld is pretty obvious.
Sort of like Banished, it's a cool take on a roguelike city builder/management kind of game. Although you can go full sandbox if you want.
- Go to a random individual game folder (Steam>Steamapps>common>Big Bang Empire)
- Open the file, or create the file, steam_appid.txt
- Insert the appid of the game you wish to run, in this case 570 for Dota 2 (this can be found via the URL from the Steam page or on Steamdb).
- Run the game through Steam.
This game is pretty good but seems to have flown under the radar. Enjoy
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Snakethesniper
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Banished.
Ignore the Early Access tags on Factorio and Rimworld, they are truly irrelevant.
Thanks, I have everything except for Football Manager (I'm not a football guy) and stardew valley
No Man's Sky Update
Objectives and stuck without Hyper-drive Issues
Getting Stuck in the world
Save / Load
Crash Fixes
PC Only Issues
Objectives and stuck without Hyper-drive Issues
- Player no longer able to redeem your pre-order ship at a point which would then prevent you learning the hyper-drive blueprint (and if you have done this, we save you).
- Player no longer able to bypass being sent to find hyper-drive tech by reloading a save in game at a very specific point.
Getting Stuck in the world
- Fixed a couple of low repro bugs that could result in you falling through the world and getting stuck underground.
- A raycast in some space stations could hit a very specific point that would put the player inside the floor.
- Fixed an issue that would cause your ship to be thrown in the sky at high speed when taking off (in rare cases could in turn lead to getting stuck).
- Fixed an issue that would cause your ship to get stuck in terrain and prevent you from taking off, if the player managed to out run generation of terrain LOD 1, and land inside an overhang.
- Some players were unable to achieve the extreme survival journey milestone, this has been resolved.
- Fixed an issue where some players had some technology types being reported as “already known” when they weren’t actually known.
- Under some circumstances a message was sometimes misinforming you that you learnt a blueprint when you hadn’t, this has been fixed now.
- It was possible you could use up all available slots for waypoints on the galaxy map and be unable to set new waypoints. This is much better now.
- There was a bug that could cause objective markers to disappear when you loaded a previous save. This is fixed now.
- Fixed a rare issue when scanning creatures that would cause all planets to show as 100% complete even if you had only completed one.
Save / Load
- Fixed a bug what could cause some corrupt save games to not be loaded, this is now fixed.
- Fixed an issue where saves made with the system clock set in the future could cause problems.
Crash Fixes
- Fixed a crash that would sometimes happen when warping into a system with a space battle in progress.
- Fixed a crash that could happen when interacting with an NPC.
- It is now easier to scan flying creatures.
- Fixed height and weight stats being the wrong way around for creatures.
- Gek towers can no longer be interacted with repeatedly.
- The ‘You have unredeemed items’ message will now only show for the first 5 minutes.
- Fixed getting 0% charge on Photon Cannon when buying a new ship and constantly being prompted to charge it.
- Reduce Suit VO for life support warnings and only do life support VO on 25% and 50%.
- Fixed grave being transferred to the new star system after you warp.
- Fixed toxic protection 3 (theta) from having the wrong name.
- Fixed incorrect marking of sea caves under floating islands.
- Turning down music and SFX volume in the options will now work correctly (mutes the VO also).
- If you change ship or multi-tool and then revert to previous save the ship should now be the one you had at the time.
- Atlas station collision improvements to prevent you from bumping into them too much.
- Fix for the stars not being discarded during load/warp (causing duplicate stars).
PC Only Issues
- Editing the settings file and corrupting it could cause the game to crash. Instead of crashing it will now revert back to the default settings.
- The inventory screen now works correctly regardless of resolution.
- Added error message for older CPUs without SSE3 support.
- Synchronise frame capping with the first vsync (removes some framerate issues).
- Added steam id to login call to help track down some login issues.
- Fixed the X key size on the galaxy map.
- If you press Tab+P in quick succession, the game paused and didn’t let you out of it.
- Fixed a performance issue by defaulting your texture resolution to a sensible value based on available GPU memory.
spindoctor
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Thanks for your thoughts. Sounds like a sale purchase I guess? Maybe give the devs time to fix some stuff (like being able to move while listening to audio logs and all).
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