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Steam Summer Sales Thread: remember: you can actually play after buying

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Salsa

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Painraze said:
sorry, missed that :X
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oh np, just pointing it out

i guess the achievements will still be there though, only no tickets

kinda like how the Portal content from the potato hunt is still in every game
 
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Salsa

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echoshifting said:
Seems pretty straightforward to me...Valve cheev day incoming, hopefully with a few cool easter eggs.
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nah

Source Engine Changes (CS:S, DoD:S, TF2, HL2:DM)

Added FCVAR_NOT_CONNECTED back to the ConVar fps_max to prevent client cheats
Fixed a bug with playback of SourceTV demos
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Portal 2 could be a daily though, sure
 
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Gvaz

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Enco said:
Tried the beat hazard demo.

Like audiosurf, the menu system is pretty horrific. The shooting colors are pretty though.
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Horrific? Not really. I think your standards are too high.
 
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Capt.Haddock

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new achievement of portal 2,tomorrows daily achievement i guess.
 
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hawkshockey11

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ZZMitch said:
Is it a pretty demanding game? How would it run on a new laptop (6750m, 2.2 ghz quad core).

I already have it on my main gaming PC, but I am wondering if it is worth the download for my Macbook Pro.
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You should have no problem with that. I ran it with good settings on my integrated graphics, i3 laptop.
 
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Typographenia

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Gvaz said:
Horrific? Not really. I think your standards are too high.
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The menu gets really jumpy on me at times when I play.

Also, does the game properly close for anyone? Every time I quit it fails to quit properly and does an "audiosurf isn't responding" before it closes. I've tried validating my files, but it never fixed it.
 
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echoshifting

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Oh yeah, forgot about the L4D2 cheev. Still! That was kinda a zombie theme day.

One way or another, very happy Portal 2's day in the sun is nearly upon us.
 
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Saren is Bad

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Alright, Steam genies, which is the best server to download from right now? I heard Atlanta, only getting 400kb/s. Located in Houston.

Also, I realize it may be slow cuz of the sale just wanted to see if there are any tricks to the downloading trade.
 
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L00P

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Guardian of Light get!

Downloads are freaking slow, though. I guess it will stay like this until the sales ends.
 
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Proxy

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Damn, I forgot to purchase Killing Floor and AA before I left for work this morning. Oh well, looks like I'll pick up Audiosurf and CoH : ToV.
 
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Omikron

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Xzior said:
I did it in under one hour.
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Cheers, only got a fairly short amount of time each day for gaming. So gotta use it efficiently. :p

Thinking L4D2 one tonight however. Should take ~30 mins on Normal.
 
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Caerith

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Saren is Bad said:
Alright, Steam genies, which is the best server to download from right now? I heard Atlanta, only getting 400kb/s. Located in Houston.

Also, I realize it may be slow cuz of the sale just wanted to see if there are any tricks to the downloading trade.
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I set mine to Romania when Meet the Medic came out. It's been working just fine ever since. So, uh... NOT Romania.
 
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Narag

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Stallion Free said:
Kanye West has a ton of sick music for Beat Hazard.
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I've been abusing that and Daft Punk. I need more crazy music though. Surprisingly the frenetic Go Team! songs work better than I expected.
 
LiquidMetal14

LiquidMetal14

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Is anyone else having trouble buying or getting your DL's to start? It let me finally buy Audiosurf, still won't let me add funds, and the DL has said starting for like 10 minutes now.
 
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dani_dc

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Omi said:
How long does that Wonderful End of the World ticket take? :p
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1~2 hours depending on how good you are/aren't.
If you played Katamari games or Wonder End of the world before you might be able to do it in less.

Be sure to go to the options and click on "reset profile" even if you never played the game before.

Apparently people that aren't doing that aren't getting the ticket.
 
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knitoe

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Saren is Bad said:
Alright, Steam genies, which is the best server to download from right now? I heard Atlanta, only getting 400kb/s. Located in Houston.

Also, I realize it may be slow cuz of the sale just wanted to see if there are any tricks to the downloading trade.
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Steam downloads at half of my max speed, but I notice New York and St Louis are pretty fast, ~900KB/s. Amazon and D2D blows steam away in speed.
 
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Hixx

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Every game I've got so far, after putting at least an hour into each of them (apart from Armoured Princess cos I've barely scratched the surface of The Legend, 6 hours into which is quite telling) I don't think I've bought a dud yet. Hopefully Terraria and Blur appear in the next 2 days.
 
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ZZMitch

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DualShadow said:
So which Command & Conquer titles are worth picking up?

C&C4 for $4 sounds pretty good but I haven't heard good things about it.
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Red Alert 3!

It is no Red Alert 2 but it is still fucking awesome.
 
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mrgone

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History will record that getting 21 blocks queued in Audiosurf without eliminating any is what started the greatest war

All the queues filled, no red paint. You're kind of a hipster asshole, Audiosurf.
 
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Easy_D

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Is the Risen demo a good indicator whether I'd like the full game or not? I'm this close to just reinstalling Divinity 2 to get my RPG fix because the Risen demo was awful :(
 
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Artofwar420

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mrgone said:
History will record that getting 21 blocks queued in Audiosurf without eliminating any is what started the greatest war
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Try the pro picker or something like that. Just try not to get matching blocks and wait on the sides, when you spot that red paint square, you'll jizz your pants.
 
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Gvaz

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Easy_D said:
Is the Risen demo a good indicator whether I'd like the full game or not? I'm this close to just reinstalling Divinity 2 to get my RPG fix because the Risen demo was awful :(
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The risen demo is meh, from what I remember.
 
LiquidMetal14

LiquidMetal14

hide your water-based mammals
I'm getting like 45kb a sec right now. That is stupidly slow by my connections standards. I normally get 2.8-3mbps. And still can't add funds to wallet :/
 
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Card Boy

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I'm fucken done with Portal 2, everytime there is a patch for it it basically redownloads the whole game. I downloaded 2gig of the game again at 100KB over the past couple days and this morning with the new patch it went back to zero.

That brings me to my next rant, whats the point of having these mega sales if for 30 days a year you can't download the games? Valve needs to fix this shit. The redownloading of whole games pisses me off the most.
 
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Nabs

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LiquidMetal14 said:
I'm getting like 45kb a sec right now. That is stupidly slow by my connections standards. I normally get 2.8-3mbps. And still can't add funds to wallet :/
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You should probably change your download server. If you're a comcast user, try one of the comcast servers.
 
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