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STEAM announcements & updates 2012 Thread - Summer sales usually last week of June

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amrod

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Where is the cheapest to preorder Sniper Elite V2 ... On gamers-gate with 15% ign prime discount its like $38 for me, anything cheaper?
 

zkylon

zkylewd
Thanks to those who made backlog suggestions for me, btw. I decided to go with Bastion, and having played the first 4 stages now, it's extremely enjoyable and very, very atmospheric! I just hope it doesn't end too prematurely and leave me wanting more.
Good choice. The game is long enough, don't worry about that, and it's kinda interesting to beat on NG+.
 

AcridMeat

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Relax.MX

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I really trying to like Mount and Blade Warband, the combat is fun but the other things is just awkward..im 4 hours in the game...¿advice? i really like the concept :(
 

Stitch

Gold Member
Just got F.E.A.R.

FPS is hovering around 22, I've read about some problems with Logitech devices but my only mouse is a Logitech...

Any ideas?

Go to your Device Manager and disable all HID-compliant devices.
It's actually a weird bug that happens in a few other games too. The Kane & Lynch games, Ninja Blade and I think a few other games.
 

zkylon

zkylewd
I really trying to like Mount and Blade Warband, the combat is fun but the other things is just awkward..im 4 hours in the game...¿advice? i really like the concept :(
Try to build yourself a small band of mercenaries and level them up by killing looters and weak bandits (like forest bandits). Take quests from town mayors and nobles (make sure they're easy, like collecting taxes, rescuing kidnapped daughters, sending letters, taking out a bandit camp, etc.) and explore. Visit each town's tavern and hire named heroes, those adept in healing will be specially useful (like Jeremus), but good fighters are really useful too (like Firentis).

If you make good enough rep with a noble, they might ask you to join their ranks as a mercenary, and later they'll invite you to pledge allegiance to them, eventually granting you a feud. All of those things are pretty cool, so try to find a noble you like and do a bunch of his quests.

Finally, install the diplomacy mod (http://mountandblade.nexusmods.com/mods/1887). If you want to use the same save as before, install it, select the diplomacy module from teh dropdown box in the M&B launcher and start a new game. Then save and quit the game, go to Documents/Mount&Blade Warband Savegames/Diplomacy. Erase everything there, copy your save from documents/Mount&Blade Warband Savegames/Native and paste it inside Diplomacy. It should work, but it's not 100% certain.

If you want some more/better advice let me know, I love this game and the more people enjoying it the better.
 
I started playing BEEP from my backlog. While I'm sure it is not the most impressive of platformers, I must say that I am enjoying my time with it. The shooting feels great at least.
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allansm

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I started playing BEEP from my backlog. While I'm sure it is not the most impressive of platformers, I must say that I am enjoying my time with it. The shooting feels great at least.
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I finished BEEP yesterday and I liked. The first world isn't that great, but it gets better later. One of the things I liked the most is the pacing. Each world changes the way you play a little, the first level being easy and the others being progressively more challenging.
 

ArjanN

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After Thief Gold, Thief II is also in the registry now.

Could be preparation for Thief 4 PR I guess. "Preorder Thief 4 and get Thief 1 and 2" sort of thing.

Wonder if they did any work on them, because I remember those games being pretty tricky to get working right on modern machines.
 

hym

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i wish The Binding of Issaac and Super Meat Boy would go on sale soon, I haven't seen either on sale for so long =\

Just get Binding of Isaac now for $4.99, it's absolutely worth 4 times that (and that's what I paid because I bought it first on Steam and then got myself the Unholy Edition boxed for $15), at the end of May the Wrath of the Lamb expansion releases so probably best to explore the game before that's available. Super Meat Boy is guaranteed to get a big discount during summer sales, end of June.
 

Salsa

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weird how Analogue: A Hate Story doesnt appear as i game i own under my profile (thus not tracking gameplay time, etc)

ive seen games that dont appear or have no icon but they always under the gameplay stats with how long you've played, this one doesnt (i mean below the steam rating thing and all).

weird, wonder why that is. I do appear in-game for community chat and such so its not like steam isnt recognizing the game launching or whatever. Not that i care that much i just find it odd, never happened before.
 
After Thief Gold, Thief II is also in the registry now.

Could be preparation for Thief 4 PR I guess. "Preorder Thief 4 and get Thief 1 and 2" sort of thing.

Wonder if they did any work on them, because I remember those games being pretty tricky to get working right on modern machines.

I don't think I could resist if that happened. Deus Ex: HR is one of my favourite games this generation and I've always been eager to play Thief.
 
weird how Analogue: A Hate Story doesnt appear as i game i own under my profile (thus not tracking gameplay time, etc)

ive seen games that dont appear or have no icon but they always under the gameplay stats with how long you've played, this one doesnt (i mean below the steam rating thing and all).

weird, wonder why that is. I do appear in-game for community chat and such so its not like steam isnt recognizing the game launching or whatever. Not that i care that much i just find it odd, never happened before.
the Krater beta is like that.

it also sounds similar to how doom 1 and 2 were until an update last year. they wouldn't even display the in-game status except for a brief second when first launched.

and welcome back
 

Twinduct

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the Krater beta is like that.

it also sounds similar to how doom 1 and 2 were until an update last year. they wouldn't even display the in-game status except for a brief second when first launched.

and welcome back

And here I though the game had no beta.
Thanks Pre-ordered at their site. Been looking forward to this.
 
After Thief Gold, Thief II is also in the registry now.

Could be preparation for Thief 4 PR I guess. "Preorder Thief 4 and get Thief 1 and 2" sort of thing.

Wonder if they did any work on them, because I remember those games being pretty tricky to get working right on modern machines.
Ooo! Having all the Thief games on Steam would be glorious.

weird how Analogue: A Hate Story doesnt appear as i game i own under my profile (thus not tracking gameplay time, etc)

ive seen games that dont appear or have no icon but they always under the gameplay stats with how long you've played, this one doesnt (i mean below the steam rating thing and all).

weird, wonder why that is. I do appear in-game for community chat and such so its not like steam isnt recognizing the game launching or whatever. Not that i care that much i just find it odd, never happened before.
Rayman Origins was like that for a couple months, only recently fixed.
 

epmode

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Yeah, I don't believe Rayman Origins has been patched yet. Digital movement controls are still fucked when you press a diagonal. Ubisoft!
 

Firebrand

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50% off on Sega products over at Gamersgate.

Steam titles include Sonic CD, Sonic Generations + DLC, Shogun 2 + DLC, Football Manager 2012 (70%).
 

morningbus

Serious Sam is a wicked gahbidge series for chowdaheads.
50% off on Sega products over at Gamersgate.

Steam titles include Sonic CD, Sonic Generations + DLC, Shogun 2 + DLC, Football Manager 2012 (70%).

Sonic CD for 2.50 is a fantastic price. Such a great port of a great game.

Some things to keep in mind: you may already have blue coins from previous purchases, so see if it is worth topping off your blue coins to buy things. Also keep in mind that you may have a 15% off IGN discount from a Prime free trial.

In other words, I just bought the b.s. Casino Nights DLC for Sonic Generations for, like, 600 blue coins.

And before anyone asks, to my knowledge, Sega is all Steamworks.

It's worth double-checking the page though. Earlier Sega titles are included in the sale and are not Steamworks. Like Condemned: Criminal Origins, which isn't even on Steam at all.

Here are some other games from the top of my head which are not Steamworks:

Virtua Tennis 4
Any Sega Megadrive/Genesis Game
Any Dreamcast port
Sonic & Sega Allstar Racing.

Basically any game older than a year old is probably not Steamworks.
 

Blizzard

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I have all these random cheap Steam games I don't play. I finally played some more SpaceChem last night...I had nearly finished the training before, but this time I got to an actual planet or at least did the first two pipeline missions or so. Game is crazy, and my solutions always seem to be more expensive than average with too many instructions.

I'm a programmer but I STILL don't feel like the game is similar to programming as much as it's similar to VHDL (very-high-speed-integrated-circuit hardware description language) or VLSI (very large scale integration) design. I feel like it's weird to think of things in a programming sense unless there is some trick to doing a for/while loop N number of times. I did notice that you can use instructions twice in two different directions, but I figure that's the limit? I can only imagine how daunting the game will get later on.

I actually like what they are doing with the story pages. I'm curious to see what happens later on. The game is presumably educational in terms of learning molecule names, also.
 

theBishop

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After Thief Gold, Thief II is also in the registry now.

Could be preparation for Thief 4 PR I guess. "Preorder Thief 4 and get Thief 1 and 2" sort of thing.

Wonder if they did any work on them, because I remember those games being pretty tricky to get working right on modern machines.

Nice, i'd replay the whole series if it's got hd+gamepad support.
 

theBishop

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Why the hell doesn't Steam remember my birthdate for all these age gates? I can buy games without entering my credit card info, but i can't watch a trailer without entering my birthday? WTF!
 
Why the hell doesn't Steam remember my birthdate for all these age gates? I can buy games without entering my credit card info, but i can't watch a trailer without entering my birthday? WTF!

It's absurd. On the bright side, at least the browser cookie now remembers the last date you put in so you can just set it once and then just click go from the next time onwards.
 
Haven't been to Steam gifts in forever. Randomly went there a couple days ago and used up my points. Fucking won Dead Space. Pretty awesome. Guy actually delivered it also, unlike my other win. Awesome start to the day.


Why the hell doesn't Steam remember my birthdate for all these age gates? I can buy games without entering my credit card info, but i can't watch a trailer without entering my birthday? WTF!

This bugs the shit out of me also.
 

morningbus

Serious Sam is a wicked gahbidge series for chowdaheads.
Ah, I see.

I'm very tempted to get Sonic CD but every spare dollar saved for my SteelSeries Sensei counts. Must be strong...

I have a simple rule: if you were given arm's length heavy-duty gloves and a face mask, the amount of money we're talking about had been be placed inside a heavy duty, air tight bag, and put at the bottom of a small container of animal waste, and you wouldn't be willing to retrieve it, then it isn't worth worrying about and you should just spend it.

Or we can just say that it's a box of cereal, man.
 
I have a simple rule: if you were given arm's length heavy-duty gloves and a face mask, the amount of money we're talking about had been be placed inside a heavy duty, air tight bag, and put at the bottom of a small container of animal waste, and you wouldn't be willing to retrieve it, then it isn't worth worrying about and you should just spend it.

Or we can just say that it's a box of cereal, man.

I would do that for 2 dollars, i mean you are wearing gloves and the money is sealed. There is no downside really.
 
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