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STEAM | August II 2014 - Kept you waiting, huh?

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Nabs

Nabs

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DunderHassan said:
Had quite a fun "war" with a scammer today.
He wanted to sell me keys for Paypal, obviously I checked his account first and found out that he's using an alt of a scammer account.
Since I was bored to hell, I decided to have some fun with him and I offered to buy his earbud too.
Pretended to scam him and messed with him for a good 30 mins or so before I traded him back.
That bastard reported me before I could do that though (even when I told him I'd trade him back his stuff), so now I'm marked in Steamrep with a pending report, the glory!

My report: http://forums.steamrep.com/threads/report-76561198125075374-none-no-items.75781/
His report: http://forums.steamrep.com/threads/report-76561197965158947-tf2-team-fortress-2-items.75786/
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So, now, who wanna challenge me on Speedrunners!!!!?!?
New rules, I will not use a single weapon during our races, but you're free to use all weapons!
All competitors get the chance to win 1 free random game once.
Only official maps as usual, 1 race each.

1. Dunder
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Can I get in on this? You can even keep the free game I'm going to win.
 
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Mono

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ashecitism said:
People are getting impatient about a patch which would include a much requested hero and compendium stretch goals. Valve said they're aiming for the end of August. Nothing yet. Not sure if the community will pull another Diretide. Hopefully not.
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Uh oh! ༼ つ ◕_◕ ༽つ
 
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MarcoZombieCannon

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ashecitism said:
People are getting impatient about a patch which would include a much requested hero and compendium stretch goals. Valve said they're aiming for the end of August. Nothing yet. Not sure if the community will pull another Diretide. Hopefully not.
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Well, Diretide did work, even if it was a giant pain in the ass. But Valve still has a couple days left in the month, so I wouldn't panic yet.

But...

༼ つ ◕_◕ ༽つ
 
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Sgt.Pepper

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ashecitism said:
Valve on the verge again of pissing off the Dota community. It's a never ending cycle. Both hilarious and sad.

I bet most non-Dota Valve fans would put their hands together if their game of choice got even quarter of a attention Dota gets.

Well, excluding TF2 and GO (they got also pissed off very recently lol), I guess.
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Apart from L4D2, which is mostly abandoned thanks to the rumored L4D3, Portal 2 online was always dead. There's no other games to update!
 
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RionaaM

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Parsnip said:
Does anyone own the original pc release of Metal Gear Solid? Does it work on modern machines well or at all?

I hope that Konami will dust that off (assuming they have the assets :( ), show it some love (really just modern OS, high resolutions and xinput is all it needs I think) and release it sometime, along with the HD collection.
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I do, and it works with a patch. If you want I can send you the files via pm, I probably have them somewhere even after uninstalling the game (or so I hope.)
 
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Zeliard

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Deitus said:
I just checked the Who Posted for the previous thread and saw nbnt and Zeliard sitting at 5 posts. Bunch of moochers. :p
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Hey now, my last attempt at winning a modbot giveaway was before the previous thread was created. I won't accept such sordid implications, sir.
 
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BruteUA

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MadGear said:
You don't play the game when you are just into drops. If stats don't matter to you, simply join one of the many achievement/idle servers and do something else while CS:GO runs in the background.
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That's even less fun then being on the wrong side of a tryhard dickmeasuring competition.
 
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FiveElementNinja

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RionaaM

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SalsaShark said:
thanks for the greetings bros

knowing my luck for some reason I dont have internet on the house today so it's a steamless birthday. only have shitty data from my phone but still nice to read stuff
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Today is your birthday? Happy birthday man! Too bad you live on the other side of the river, otherwise I'd invite you to a beer.

morningbus said:
So, theoretically, if I made a program like Sam that unlocked achievements over time using some math (total number of global users with achievement weighted against howlongtobeat says a completionist run takes), it would be okay?
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Not really, because not all people are able to get every achievement (some involve missable collectibles, others require skills the person may not have) and Playfire counts on that. If suddenly everyone was able to get every single achievement that's part of the program, it'll probably be no good for them.

DunderHassan said:
Had quite a fun "war" with a scammer today.
He wanted to sell me keys for Paypal, obviously I checked his account first and found out that he's using an alt of a scammer account.
Since I was bored to hell, I decided to have some fun with him and I offered to buy his earbud too.
Pretended to scam him and messed with him for a good 30 mins or so before I traded him back.
That bastard reported me before I could do that though (even when I told him I'd trade him back his stuff), so now I'm marked in Steamrep with a pending report, the glory!

My report: http://forums.steamrep.com/threads/report-76561198125075374-none-no-items.75781/
His report: http://forums.steamrep.com/threads/report-76561197965158947-tf2-team-fortress-2-items.75786/
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Nobody messes with His Dunderness. Nobody.



Vuze said:
This game is so good despite its flaws. I really hope they don't mess up the reboot.
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Atraveller said:
I thought it was going to be a sequel?
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Dio Brando said:
I understood that it was going to be a prequel, not really a reboot.
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BernardoOne said:
It's actually a pre-sequel!
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lol

You know what? It's set in an alternate universe :p
 
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Deitus

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Zeliard said:
Hey now, my last attempt at winning a modbot giveaway was before the previous thread was created. I won't accept such sordid implications, sir.
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I wouldn't dare besmirch your honor like that. ;)

For the record that the reason I mentioned you and nbnt is because of how comically absurd it would be to think either of you were just mooching giveaways.

Although while I was writing the post, I considered adding "Please don't ban me" to the end of it.
 
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spindoctor

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ashecitism said:
Valve on the verge again of pissing off the Dota community. It's a never ending cycle. Both hilarious and sad.

I bet most non-Dota Valve fans would put their hands together if their game of choice got even quarter of a attention Dota gets.

Well, excluding TF2 and GO (they got also pissed off very recently lol), I guess.
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I really hope we don't get another Diretide type whinefest. That shit was embarrassing as hell.
 
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RionaaM

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Trying to buy some Pinball FX2 DLC, I came up with a new idea for Enhanced Steam: highlighting the games you added to the cart in a different color, like red or something. It would be useful both in the game/DLC page and DLC list. No idea if I'm saying stupid stuff, and if I am I'm sorry!
 
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FiveElementNinja

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RionaaM said:
Trying to buy some Pinball FX2 DLC, I came up with a new idea for Enhanced Steam: highlighting the games you added to the cart in a different color, like red or something. It would be useful both in the game/DLC page and DLC list. No idea if I'm saying stupid stuff, and if I am I'm sorry!
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I, too, would like this feature.
 
SSPssp

SSPssp

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Khronico said:
I swear, ultra graphics on State of Decay looks worse to me than medium or low. That motion blur makes me sick.
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Better on Medium:

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MarcoZombieCannon said:
Not to mention the AA is crap, and doing the necessary steps to get downsampling working causes more graphical glitches...

Yet I like it a lot anyway...
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If you have an Nvidia card you can use AA compatibility bits 0x000012C1 and get MSAA up and running easy peasy and if you have enough GPU power SGSSAA on top of that. You don't get better AA than that.
 
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wetflame

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Just want to point out that FiveElementNinja is a gentleman and a scholar. That is all. Looking forward to puzzling over Hexcells and Containment!

AHA-Lambda said:
damn, really tempted by the alien isolation price. Just not sure my pc will run it though =/
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Didn't stop me, ha. Fingers crossed!
 
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FiveElementNinja

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wetflame said:
Just want to point out that FiveElementNinja is a gentleman and a scholar. That is all. Looking forward to puzzling over Hexcells and Containment
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:)

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corrosivefrost

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morningbus said:
So, theoretically, if I made a program like Sam that unlocked achievements over time using some math (total number of global users with achievement weighted against howlongtobeat says a completionist run takes), it would be okay?
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The ethics of committing fraud aside?

If you could factor in gamer skill levels so that every achievement for every game someone owns isn't unlocked, I suppose GMG wouldn't care. The reason it matters for GMG is because they are giving out store credit (in days before cheaters ruined it) by the bucket load. As Sub Zero noted, he knew people who would just use SAM every time a new game was added to the list and had earned hundreds of dollars in credit. This is what GMG wants to prevent and the reason achievements were weighted on skill/time in terms of value as well as why they were actively looking for and banning those who cheated.

So mathematically, if you removed a gamer's choice in which achievements would be unlocked (and they didn't care about actually *earning* the credit/achievement), then I think your answer is yes.
 
jshackles

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Gentlemen, we can rebuild it. We have the capability to make the world's first enhanced store. Steam will be that store. Better than it was before.
RionaaM said:
Trying to buy some Pinball FX2 DLC, I came up with a new idea for Enhanced Steam: highlighting the games you added to the cart in a different color, like red or something. It would be useful both in the game/DLC page and DLC list. No idea if I'm saying stupid stuff, and if I am I'm sorry!
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Not a bad idea, but in order to get this information I would have to grab and parse the /cart/ page on each page load. I could cache the information, but Enhanced Steam doesn't run at all during the checkout process so I would have no way of knowing that things left your cart after purchasing.

So... I'll look into it. I might not have a highlight but probably just a "shopping cart" icon where the price would be or something.

Of course, the new store layout is supposedly going to be doing this already, so I might not bother with it honestly.
 
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MarcoZombieCannon

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JaseC said:
The monitor can wait unless it's broken. ;) I'm still using a 22" 1680x1050 monitor that's literally falling apart.
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30" 1360x768 TV, aww yiss.
On the bright side I can get as few jaggies as my resolution allows for with a relatively low downsampling resolution and still get good framerates.

On the dark side, text looks gross.
 
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Monooboe

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Buying a game with keys, a game that hasn't come out yet, does Steam count that as an preorder? Thinking about all those games that have preorder stuff, like Alien Isolation.
 
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Monooboe said:
Buying a game with keys, a game that hasn't come out yet, does Steam count that as an preorder? Thinking about all those games that have preorder stuff, like Alien Isolation.
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Yep. You'll get the bonus DLC or whatever they offer as pre-order incentives.

PSA - Jasec just switched to a scary avatar on Steam and is currently ignoring requests to change it back.
 
Kiru

Kiru

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Oh man, after seeing the worst PC ports thread I expected much worse from Saints Row 2. I'm enjoying the game though and I get like 40 fps on everything high, enough for me. Guess still having my old GTS 250 is good lol. My CPU can't be that close to Xbox 360 clock speed (I have the i7-4790K)...
 
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Some bundle extras this time, as well as 2 copies of Metro 2033 to celebrate the Redux release, enter if you dare...
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JaseC

gave away the keys to the kingdom.
Monooboe said:
Buying a game with keys, a game that hasn't come out yet, does Steam count that as an preorder? Thinking about all those games that have preorder stuff, like Alien Isolation.
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You're buying a gift copy, so yes. You could leave it sitting in your inventory for 10 years and you'd still get the incentives.

spindoctor said:
Yep. You'll get the bonus DLC or whatever they offer as pre-order incentives.

PSA - Jasec just switched to a scary avatar on Steam and is currently ignoring requests to change it back.
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Haha, I killed the Remote Desktop window.
 
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unbias

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Rise of Nations, Age of Mythology and Age of Empires being on sale at the same time is awesome. Well nice! Love these types of games.
 
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