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STEAM | July 2017 - Magical Pyres can't melt Cold Steel
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Madventure
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Yeah I used it once to show a friend a game and I had to ask them like 12 times to find out if it was working and then periodically ask them to see if it was still working or not. Just because I had no idea if it even was or if they were still there watching.
illusionary
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The Microsoft help pages just refer to using the "All apps" page or the Programs and Features menu - so I'd assume not.
uncredited male
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Stumpokapow
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You're probably right, it feels like that and the Game Awards are the only times anyone is using something related to the tech. Maybe it's worth it for those rare events, maybe it isn't (Apple has their own proprietary streaming tech which exists just for Apple keynotes! More power to them!), but right now it's UI cruft no one cares about.
The real use of this feature isn't visiting some random stream, it's right clicking your friend's name and immediately and effortlessly watching them play.
Stumpokapow
listen to the mad man
Is this something people do? It doesn't seem to be.
I do lol.
Servizio
I don't really need a tag, but I figured I'd get one to make people jealous. Is it working?
All the time. I like to hang out and watch my friends play, while we chat on Discord. Right now I'm watching my buddy play though Tales of Berseria. It's pretty nice. I get to watch the story without having to deal with the combat (I'm pretty bad at reflex games.)
morningbus
Serious Sam is a wicked gahbidge series for chowdaheads.
It's something I do occasionally, especially when a friend has bought a new game.
texhnolyze
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I've had my friends asked to watch me play games. I never do it though.
boybrushdRED
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AHA-Lambda
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I've done it before, mostly to mess around with friends while we're in discord
I've done it once or twice and got asked once or twice.
AHA-Lambda
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How accessible is it compared to Overwatch?
I'm always told that's easy to get into yet I'm shit at that too :/
Coreda
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Interestingly after successfully editing various appmanifest files (.acf) which kept games from appearing in the update queue a couple have now returned despite the appmanifest file having the same StateFlags value as before ('4').
So somehow Steam is bypassing the value in the file rather than editing and changing the value as it did previously. I wonder if this was a client update and who would be paying attention to this little known tweak.
So somehow Steam is bypassing the value in the file rather than editing and changing the value as it did previously. I wonder if this was a client update and who would be paying attention to this little known tweak.
I thought that might happen. Steam refreshes library -> detects an update it previously wasn't aware of -> queues update.
Rickenslacker
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Well that really depends on your goal going into it. It's a 100 player last man standing match, is it easy to get to get to number one? No. But is it easy to get a grasp on the flow, find a playstyle that is fun for you, and get some fun scenarios out of it? Absolutely. It's not a very competitive game I would say, it's a game that instills a lot of chance and the outcomes from that are what make it so appealing. It's a really simple game when it comes down to it, but it's still a shooter -- so you'll need to be able to spot people (this can be harder than it sounds) and shoot them.
Coreda
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Yeah but previously when it would detect an update from time to time despite the manual editing of the ACF file it would always edit the StateFlags value in the file (to '6' for those I observed), now it no longer does so I'm unable to manually change the value back and keep it out of the queue.
Ah.
Edit: Hmm, I just switched to the dev branch for Garry's Mod and StateFlags was changed to 6 when the update was detected and again to 1030 when it started downloading. Closing Steam and manually changing the value to 4 worked as you'd expect.
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Edit edit edit: Steam just detected an update for Dragon's Trap and, as with the Garry's Mod branch change test, StatesFlag was set to 6 and manually changing the value to 4 removed the update from the queue.
uncredited male
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TIL people think Hope is the best Ravager.
Wok
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Edit: Ah, I did not see these posts.
Wok
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Add it to my library of removed games. 😫
Edit: Anyway, it cost 20 € and was never discounted. Not worth it.
I only had Rhaknar request to watch me play once, but my connection isn't up for that kind of stuff so I wonder what he managed to see really.
so yeah, 70+ games finished this year and this
on unrelated note, anybody has an issue with abload logging you out constantly now?
I have no words
on unrelated note, anybody has an issue with abload logging you out constantly now?
I have no words
the heck? /\
I can't stand people watching me play, like IDK what to even compare it, it's kinda distracting and kills most of fun.
I can't stand people watching me play, like IDK what to even compare it, it's kinda distracting and kills most of fun.
I watched my buddy who use to have like 300 kbs up. Got to set it right lol -.-
donaldt has added EREFIA to their wishlist.SMH
Frost watched me play Dark souls once, when I had that feature turned on.
Rather than sunset it, they should expand it to have "game dvr" functionality so no one would have to use GeForce Experience for Shadowplay ever again.
You can do that with OBS Studio, it uses NVENC so it's pretty much the same.
I have like 40kbs up. Yeah.
Nvidia holds some features to themselves in the experience. They don't allow third parties to use it.
spindoctor
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They clearly don't give much of a damn about their PC exclusive franchises anymore. Stuff like HoMM, Anno, Trackmania/Nadeo and Settlers have been mishandled for years.
Wok
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Nidhogg 2 mid August.
Cook, Serve, Delicious 2
Of course I can do it with any number of external applications. I haven't used the nvidia shitapp in ages.
But if they built that in to Steam, I wouldn't have to use external apps at all.
A million and one Falcom games.
so yeah, 70+ games finished this year and this
In a way I should be thankful to those achievement-whore games, they removed any interest I had in steam achievements.
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