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STEAM | August 2017 - Toot toot, Cold Steel Warrior, shaka brah

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Tnx lash

Meh. I only want AoE 1 HD on Steam.
 

MRORANGE

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Updated PC gaming threads, give a shout if I have missed something from the list:

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What is this thread about?
A reference list of all relevant PC threads and communities that are active on GAF.

How do I contribute?
You can submit or update a PC thread by posting it here (avoid gaming OT's, mod threads for a particular game are okay).


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LIST OF THREADS
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PC Hardware & Overclocking
I Need a New PC! 2016
2016+ Gaming Laptop Thread
Race Your PC Thread 2 of Voiding Warranties
Mechanical keyboards
120/144Hz Thread of Lightboosting
Official Headphone Thread
TechSupportGAF Thread of No Case Too Big, No Case Too Small
Alienware X51 Thread
21:9 Gaming Thread | That cinematic feel
Mayflash Wii U Pro Controller Adapter review
Alienware Alpha first impressions and benchmarks
Portable PC Gaming Thread | Play Crysis on a $99 tablet
Comfy Couch PC Gaming Thread | Cheap streaming is now here
Surface Pro Gaming
Oculus Rift Launch Thread
HTC Vive Launch Thread
G-Sync Thread
Thunderbolt Thread

PC Controllers
How to use your XBO controller as a PC controller
How to use your PS4 controller as a PC controller
How to use your PS3 controller as a PC controller
How to use your Wii U Pro Padc controller as a PC controller
8Bitdo SNES30/SFC30 Bluetooth Pad
Steam Controller Thread | Comfy Couch Sold Separately
Xbox Elite Controller |OT|
NeoGAF Arcade Stick Thread


Mods and Enhancements
PC Performance Threads - A big thanks to blackMamba1187
GeDoSaTo - Downsampling from Infinity and Beyond!
Dark Souls internal rendering resolution fix (DSfix)
Downsampling, a simple method for making your pc-games look better.
Downsampling for AMD Cards
iCEnhancer 3.0 for GTA4
The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim Mod Discussion and News
Crysis mods/tweaks to make the game look maximum eyecandy
Fallout 3 and New Vegas Mod Discussion
TESIV: Oblivion Mod Guide
FXAA to all DX9 games
The Silent Hill 2, 3 & 4 PC thread - A guide to a better HD Collection
Source Mod Megathread
DOOM Franchise Community Thread
Deadly Premonition PC Fix
Vampire: The Masquerade Mods
Running PC games at 30Hz
Watch Dogs original graphical effects
Triple buffering: "Why we love it"
The Witcher 2: Extreme Quality Flora Mod
Crysis 2 - PC modding and tweaking
Deus Ex New Vision Graphical Overhaul
A3D (Aureal) wrapper
OpenRA C&C remaster project
The Thief Collection: Tweaks
Final Fantasy XIII resolution unlocking (GeDoSaTo plugin) released - pre-alpha
MGS Ground Zeroes editing tools released
Deus Ex Revision
DOA5:LR PC Modding Thread
GTA V modding thread
The Witcher 3 Modding
ReShade OT
Valkyria Chronicles "Gallian Crossfire" PC rebalance mod
Sayonara 544p (Sayonara Umihara Kawase resolution unlock)
Portrait Gaming: Bringing Your Games to New Heights
Fallout 4 Modding Thread
Tales of Zestiria 60 FPS Mod
Alien Isolation Accumulation TAA
Halo: CE mod SPV3


Software & Tools
Let's Talk About Recording / Streaming Software
Pro Tips for PC Gaming (like a Pro)
Most useful PC applications
Mumble - Making Ventrilo and TeamSpeak Obsolete
Open Broadcaster Software: Stream Games Live on PC
LIMELIGHT | Stream PC games
Windows 10 Troubleshooting Thread
PS4 PC/Mac Remote Play client available now


Emulation
Dolphin - Emulating Wii and Gamecube Games
PS2 Emulation with PCSX2 - share your game configs!
Cemu |OT| Emulating Wii U Games
PPSSPP Emulation and Discussion Thread
RETROARCH - The all-in-one emulator
Nintendo DS Games in HD
RPCS3 Is A New PS3 Emulator, Still In Early Stage, Boots Commercial Game
Supermodel (Sega Model 3 Arcade Emulator)
3DS Emulator Citra Boots First Commercial Game
EmulationStation | A pretty UI for launching your games
Xenia | Xbox 360 Emulator, News & Updates
64DD emulation coming soon


Gaming Communities & Recommendations
Indie Games 2015
Introduction to MOBAs
PC Racing Sim Thread
Point n Click Adventure GAF 2015
Life of MMo gamers
Recommended GOG Games
"I'm new to PC games, what should I get..."
PC Shoot'em Ups / Shmups / STGs Release Archive
understanding specs thread
PC games which support 4+ local players
The High-end VR Discussion Thread
Linux Gaming Thread




Screenshots and User Content
2017 PC Screenshot Thread
The NeoGAF Screenshotter's Compendium Thread
2013 PC Bullshot thread
2014 Game GIF Thread
Show off that gaming PC
Show us the inside of your PC
2014 Screenshot Art Thread of Artificial Concept Art
PC Low Settings Screenshot Thread
Emulator Screenshot Thread


Steam
Steam Thread
STEAM News Thread - Read rules before posting
Steam Trading | Games/Cards/Keys/Money/Items
GAF Steam ID List
Steam Greenlight
Custom Steam icons for Grid View
Idle Master Thread - Get your Steam Trading Cards the Easy Way
Neogaf Games Night |OT| We actually play games
Enhanced Steam Discussion Thread - Ideas, Suggestions, and Feedback
SteamOS
Steam Family Sharing Thread
GAF Steamgifts Group Invite Thread
Steam In-home Streaming Beta
Steam Universe (beta) videos, impressions
SteamSpy - Approximate LTD sales for every game on Steam
Steam In-Home Streaming and Steam Link thread



Other Digital Download Services
GOG Thread
Green Man Gaming Thread
Origin Thread
Ubisoft Uplay Thread
Windows 10 Store |OT


Development Scene
Oculus Rift - Dev Kit Discussion
Oculus Rift Development Kit 2
Indie Game Development Discussion Thread
GAF Learns - Unity [Game Engine]
Unreal Engine 4 Thread
Unreal Tournament 4 Pre-Alpha builds -> You can play and test it for free.
Resident Evil 4 HD Project - Progress Thread
Fan made Shenmue HD project
Let's build a Sega Dreamcast game from scratch - Breakout
RPG Maker Community Thread |OT|
Super Mario ReMaker


Misc*
Giving Away Steam Keys with ModBot
Official DD (Steam/D2D/etc) gifting thread of equal global distribution
Kickstarter Thread - 2015
Indie Bundle Thread
The Comprehensive PC Games Sales Figures Thread.
Playfire Rewards Discussion
Frame Latency - Why you should stop talking about FPS
Nvidia Shield Thread
NVIDIA SHIELD Tablet
Old computer games you're pretty sure no one but you ever played
RPG Maker Game Competition
10 years later - Resident Evil Outbreak 1 & 2 are back online!
PC gamers: What is the most comfortable desk chair ever?
Steam 1998 to 2015 Million Seller
Raspberry Pi Retro Gaming thread
Past 10 Years of Intel Processors Compared
State of the GPU industry market summed up in one video
Plasma, LCD, OLED, LED, best tv for next gen
GOG Connect
 

Nzyme32

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AGE OF EMPRIES IV YAS YAS YAS YAS YAS FUCK ME DADDY

good thing you didn't get ur hopes up

Too perfect!

The development wouldn't even be viable without a Steam release.

I wonder how the remakes will even handle modding.

AoE2 HD sold nearly 5 million copies on Steam, these games are going to release on steam at some point.

It's releasing on Steam eventually, just a timed exclusive.

Steam eventually seems likely but by that point I'd have to see what other games have taken my interest. Generally when this happens I am well into other games so I simply don't buy these late ones. I would be down with any distribution method other than UWP / any other restricted formats. As far as modding goes, it would certainly be nice and easy with Workshop and the usual hilarity that ensues. Lord knows I'm not going to get reasonable Steam Controller / Link usage through UWP
 

Zia

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I need a new "hobby" game.

CS:GO is dull, infrequently updated and the community sucks. Pretty burnt out on Dota 2 post-TI. TF2 has been broken for awhile and Valve is taking forever on the next update, which probably won't fix the things they ruined. And PUBG runs like shit on my PC... in fact, played two matches today, one was fine and the next crashed my computer and I had to hard restart.

Any ideas? Doesn't necessarily have to be comp MP... could be a really in-depth, open-ended SP game. Would prefer the Steam environment though. Just need something new.
 

Jawmuncher

Member
I need a new "hobby" game.

CS:GO is dull, infrequently updated and the community sucks. Pretty burnt out on Dota 2 post-TI. TF2 has been broken for awhile and Valve is taking forever on the next update, which probably won't fix the things they ruined. And PUBG runs like shit on my PC... in fact, played two matches today, one was fine and the next crashed my computer and I had to hard restart.

Any ideas? Doesn't necessarily have to be comp MP... could be a really in-depth, open-ended SP game. Would prefer the Steam environment though. Just need something new.

Just take a gander in that F2P section and go while.
I hear Warframe and Paladins is pretty fun
 
How do I enable?

In game:

Go to settings
Graphics
Video Capture
Shadowplay

The game will ask you when you get to the lobby if you want it to record. Agree, and its automatic from there! Every kill it will record, and every death as well by default. Post match, Shadowplay shows you all of the clips it saved.
 

zkylon

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i wasn't expecting hollow knight to be like a billion hours long

can't believe i already played 20 hours of it, and i'm only 2/3 of the creepy masks with plenty of shit to do

such a great game tho, it's pulling from tropes i feel pretty tired of, but it uses them super elegantly and has enough of its own flair to make up for it

i'm hoping to wrap it up soon-ish tho, i'll probably try to get as many secrets as i can and maybe look up the ones i've missed since finding everything is so enjoyable, but i'm also feeling this game might be a bit too long for me atm
 

Jawmuncher

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I played the hell out of the original battletoads on Rare Replay. Even got the achievement for surviving in the Infinite turbo tunnel
 
My folks rented Battletoads for me back in the day. I think I got to the second level.

They also rented Shadowrun for me so I forgive them.

that agents of mayhem quicklook looks pretty rough

like it was a bigger game that got chopped up into this

You just described Saints Row 4 as well.
 
Damn... Dissidia looks like it will probably be exclusive. Box says Only on PS. I hope that doesn't mean much.
Actually this is the first time I've seen square enix slap a "exclusivity on PS4" on all marketing and promo materials for one of their games. It makes me think that it might actually stay exclusive.
 

DasFool

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You guys should play Darkwood. I feel like it hasn't received enough coverage. It's a recently released horror game that's best described as a top-down STALKER. Put around 6 hours into it today and the encounters are tense and surprising.
 

Seraphis Cain

bad gameplay lol
I need a new "hobby" game.

CS:GO is dull, infrequently updated and the community sucks. Pretty burnt out on Dota 2 post-TI. TF2 has been broken for awhile and Valve is taking forever on the next update, which probably won't fix the things they ruined. And PUBG runs like shit on my PC... in fact, played two matches today, one was fine and the next crashed my computer and I had to hard restart.

Any ideas? Doesn't necessarily have to be comp MP... could be a really in-depth, open-ended SP game. Would prefer the Steam environment though. Just need something new.

Seconding the Warframe recommendation. It's really great.
 

abelasabel

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I need a new "hobby" game.

CS:GO is dull, infrequently updated and the community sucks. Pretty burnt out on Dota 2 post-TI. TF2 has been broken for awhile and Valve is taking forever on the next update, which probably won't fix the things they ruined. And PUBG runs like shit on my PC... in fact, played two matches today, one was fine and the next crashed my computer and I had to hard restart.

Any ideas? Doesn't necessarily have to be comp MP... could be a really in-depth, open-ended SP game. Would prefer the Steam environment though. Just need something new.

i second the Paladins recommendation as a former player myself, but as for now i highly recommend Gigantic as it is more appealing to me in terms of gameplay pace and visuals.
 
I need a new "hobby" game.

CS:GO is dull, infrequently updated and the community sucks. Pretty burnt out on Dota 2 post-TI. TF2 has been broken for awhile and Valve is taking forever on the next update, which probably won't fix the things they ruined. And PUBG runs like shit on my PC... in fact, played two matches today, one was fine and the next crashed my computer and I had to hard restart.

Any ideas? Doesn't necessarily have to be comp MP... could be a really in-depth, open-ended SP game. Would prefer the Steam environment though. Just need something new.
I'm an expat of Team Fortress 2, and while I sort of tolerate CS:GO I've never really been that into the series. That said, I tried Overwatch to get my fix and hoped for a TF2 without all the bloat and duct-tape holding it together, but received a terribly shallow game with poor mechanics but I guess it looks pretty!

Rainbow Six: Siege and Titanfall 2 have been the things I've been able to glue myself to lately. Siege is kind of scratching the TF2 itch of having classes with unique abilities, but also scratching a CS itch in it being grounded and hitscan-oriented but without all the things that make CS terrible to play like overbearing match times and economy element, dull weapon variety, terrible movement and gun mechanics, and being unable to accurately toss a grenade without having internalized a rote memorization of arcane shortcuts to get them where you want them. It's also fun because there's a lot of floor and wall destruction that completely recontextualizes how you end up viewing a map. Siege is something I've found to be great for both a casual and competitive ranked experience.

Titanfall 2 is more of a purely casual experience, but it's been satisfying my desire for crazy movement that I got out of rocket jumping in TF2. It's got a smaller community but you're not going to have a hard time finding a match, it's less intense and more carefree and feels like more of a communal experience as you're going to be seeing some of the same people throughout your sessions, and in that sense it reminds me of the pub crawling of old, except in a matchmaking environment. Anyways, this isn't the kind of game to take seriously, but it's been great for being able to swing around with grappling hooks (and learn to slingshot around like Spider-Man with it) and chaining slidehops and wallruns and just gaining crazy freeflow momentum with some giant robot fighting in-between.

There's also Quake Champions, which is launching on Steam tomorrow. So maybe the stars are aligning and telling you to play that. I know I will.
 
I'm an expat of Team Fortress 2, and while I sort of tolerate CS:GO I've never really been that into the series. That said, I tried Overwatch to get my fix and hoped for a TF2 without all the bloat and duct-tape holding it together, but received a terribly shallow game with poor mechanics but I guess it looks pretty!

Rainbow Six: Siege and Titanfall 2 have been the things I've been able to glue myself to lately. Siege is kind of scratching the TF2 itch of having classes with unique abilities, but also scratching a CS itch in it being grounded and hitscan-oriented but without all the things that make CS terrible to play like overbearing match times and economy element, dull weapon variety, terrible movement and gun mechanics, and being unable to accurately toss a grenade without having internalized a rote memorization of arcane shortcuts to get them where you want them. It's also fun because there's a lot of floor and wall destruction that completely recontextualizes how you end up viewing a map. Siege is something I've found to be great for both a casual and competitive ranked experience.

Titanfall 2 is more of a purely casual experience, but it's been satisfying my desire for crazy movement that I got out of rocket jumping in TF2. It's got a smaller community but you're not going to have a hard time finding a match, it's less intense and more carefree and feels like more of a communal experience as you're going to be seeing some of the same people throughout your sessions, and in that sense it reminds me of the pub crawling of old, except in a matchmaking environment. Anyways, this isn't the kind of game to take seriously, but it's been great for being able to swing around with grappling hooks (and learn to slingshot around like Spider-Man with it) and chaining slidehops and wallruns and just gaining crazy freeflow momentum with some giant robot fighting in-between.

There's also Quake Champions, which is launching on Steam tomorrow. So maybe the stars are aligning and telling you to play that. I know I will.

My god...

I can't imagine how bad Siege must be if that's what you think of CS.
 
It's great. People use more than three weapons and strategies don't turn into a tug of war of kicking people when they're down, so each round is pretty damn fun.

I agree the community is shit, like in almost every other game, but to call the movement and gun mechanics terrible or the economy "overbearing" just makes it seem like you don't really know a good game when you see it. If you think people don't use more than three weapons you're probably thinking of 1.6 (even then AK, M4, AWP, deag = 4). Or just one of those anti-Valve multiplayer people, I dunno.

It's ok if you can't master the recoil or movement but they're pretty much tops in the genre right now even with Valve not updating the game much. They don't have to try because there's really no other competitive shooter that competes with them. As seen by the competitive scene, eSports, etc.
 
I agree the community is shit, like in almost every other game, but to call the movement and gun mechanics terrible or the economy "overbearing" just makes it seem like you don't really know a good game when you see it. Or just one of those anti-Valve multiplayer people, I dunno.

It's ok if you can't master the recoil or movement but they're pretty much tops in the genre right now even with Valve not updating the game much. They don't have to try because there's really no other competitive shooter that competes with them. As seen by the competitive scene, eSports, etc.
I dunno, would you call it a good game when it became competitive out of fluke more than intention? Given that only one game mode is actually viable, and that only a small pool of weapons are as well. I call the match times and economy overbearing because I just don't need a game to go on for 30+ minutes, especially when it's paced that way due to the economy element that in itself frames a lot of rounds towards dudes that are properly kitted out versus sacrificial lambs. Mastering the recoil ends up coming down to mastering the recoil of two weapons, because no one wants to learn anything else, I don't know if it's still the case but for the longest time the silenced M4 was king shit on CT side because you didn't need to bother with recoil. I just find it hard to take a game competitively serious when it allows even having your initial shot whiff by chance, at least in Siege you can always make your first shot count.
 
Again, if you think only two weapons are used in low level, mid level, high level or pro CSGO then you're completely ignorant. Not much else to say on the matter. I guess some people need weapon unlocks and red dot sights to play FPS these days. Sad!
 
Again, if you think only two weapons are used in low level, mid level, high level or pro CSGO then you're completely ignorant. Not much else to say on the matter. I guess some people need weapon unlocks and red dot sights to play FPS these days. Sad!
Hey at least get my hyperbole right I said they used three weapons, only needing to learn recoil of two
and arguably one when the original M4 was ditched in favour for the silenced.
 

bbd23

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siege would be cool if I could distinguish enemies from the map. ill come back when that lighting change comes next year or whatever
 
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