AssCreed 2 and beyond do; the original uses TAGES.
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STEAM 2013 Announcements & Updates VII: Known bug with library game count.
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AssCreed 2 and beyond do; the original uses TAGES.
poopninjamvc3mk
I sucked six dicks to get this tag.
Will it still allow us to use it on select games, emulators, and with x360ce since that doesn't have an official driver either?
Backlogger
Member
Has the King's Quest collection been in the GOG limited quantity deals yet? If not is it expected to be? That's really the only one at the top of my wish list from GOG.
Nabs
Member
Just wrapped up Rise of the Triad, some thoughts:
This game was pretty much made for Family Sharing. You'll understand why by the end of my breakdown I hope. Fortunately one of my Steam Family members bought this game on release and Valve has seen fit to bless me with the ability to play it. Thanks Valve!
What I liked:
What I was okay with:
- The first episode is rather fun. It shows that old school game design can definitely work in a modern release.
- The visuals are often times rather nice for a fairly low budget UE3 release. There are a lot of nice little effects like elevators casting blue light onto the surrounding walls.
- The special weapons are entertaining to use and have a good variety. They actually made the rest of the weapons depressing to use because of how delightful they were.
What I disliked:
- The length of the game. It drags a bit in the last episode, but it didn't go on long enough to make me resent it.
- The level design was a real mixed bag. Some were really entertaining to work through while others felt tedious or bland.
- The second, third and fourth episodes were largely a step down from the first apart from a couple standout levels.
- The enemy design lacked variety and many of the ones introduced in later levels were downright awful (tracking projectiles are always a terrible decision).
- The default weaponry felt severely underpowered and almost completely useless against the later enemies.
- The majority of the attempts at platforming segments were really poorly executed. The precision demanded at times was ridiculous and it was never exciting or fun.
- There were some really stupid difficulty spikes, even on easy. The final boss was the most egregious. It left me with a sour taste in my mouth rather than feeling rewarding.
- I'm not one to delve into technical issues, but I will in this case. The devs clearly didn't know how to use UE3 as well as they should have. There are absurd performance drops no matter what settings I used and it is clearly due to misuse of engine features rather than my hardware.
Conclusion
I like Doom 1 and Quake 1 an awful lot. Rise of the Triad reminded me of those games in a rather nice manner for the first couple hours (I even bothered to 100% the levels). A demo would not have been long enough to sell me on that the way Family Sharing did. However, the last 70% of the game didn't go down anywhere near as smoothly and made me grateful I didn't buy the game myself. So if you have a friend who owns it, definitely check it out. However, if you check out somewhere in Episode 2, don't feel bad and feel comfortable knowing you got to witness the best the game has to offer.
Random note: the game left ~2gb of log files in my documents that I didn't notice till uninstalling the game. If you have 2 gb randomly get used up on your C drive that's why.
Thanks for the impressions. I don't feel so bad for dropping it now.
jshackles
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.
Without a driver, your computer won't know how to communicate with the device at all.
Meaning, it won't interpret your input.
So we'll have to wait for a driver before it's usable in any way.
Terra_Ex
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Thanks for Gravi, JaseC.
This list shows whats been in the sale so far: http://www.reddit.com/r/GameDeals/comments/1qjevg/gog_fall_insomnia_megathread_limited_quantity/
This list shows whats been in the sale so far: http://www.reddit.com/r/GameDeals/comments/1qjevg/gog_fall_insomnia_megathread_limited_quantity/
AHA-Lambda
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Just wrapped up Rise of the Triad, some thoughts:
Ouch, that's really off putting tbh =/
If I ever purchase Rise of the Triad, which I intend to at some point I will not be playing it for the campaign.
Did you give the multiplayer a go? It's been awhile since there has been a decent-good arcade style arena shooter.
Stallion Free
Cock Encumbered
Nah I have zero interest or faith in any arena post Q3.
Off to play Shadow Warrior now!
scorpscarx
Member
Thankfully Flying Wild Hogs came to the rescue with Shadow Warrior, it's definitely my goty if I was to name such a thing.
Nabs
Member
YES! Shadow Warrior was amazing.
derExperte
Member
No. And only repeats now as far as I've seen.
Thank you for Skyward Collapse Jase! Decided to enter for this one because I'm curious. I actually bought as a gift for a GAFfer from Steam when it was released but I never got it for myself.
Karma.
No worries.
I was looking forward to giving it a whirl (I played Q3 competitively way back in its heyday), however there's no bot support.
poopninjamvc3mk
I sucked six dicks to get this tag.
I understand the whole without a driver thing, But it doesn't have any random plain driver say like if you plug in PS2 to PC adapter you give you a plain gamepad driver until decide to actually install the correct drivers? Or are we just speculating here?
I can't imagine it not at least installing a plain gamepad driver for it but then again that sort of what happened with Dualshock 3 at first.
YianGaruga
Banned
I managed to get a free key for The Wolf Among Us yesterday, so here's a heads up since GamesRadar is doing it again:
From their twitter. Just like the page and refresh every so often until you see something change at the bottom. You have to enter a name and an email and press a button so that your key will appear. Last time the page switched at the change of the hour, but I don't know if that always happens. Don't shoot me if it's already over.
From their twitter. Just like the page and refresh every so often until you see something change at the bottom. You have to enter a name and an email and press a button so that your key will appear. Last time the page switched at the change of the hour, but I don't know if that always happens. Don't shoot me if it's already over.
Backlogger
Member
"There are no codes being given away at this time. Please check back tomorrow for chance to get a code."
jshackles
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.
I would say it's 99% certain it will NOT work with a generic driver. It took them about a year to get the Xbox 360 controller working on the PC, I expect it will be a similar situation here, since they've announced it won't be XInput compatible.
Success!
Right I don't know how many people this will ever apply to but it might be handy to know in the future.
If you want to move game installations from one pc to another and not use the backup tools or copy the whole steamapps folder then all you need to do is grab the folder in the common directory and move it to the new pc in the same directory tree layout AND the corresponding .acf file. This is one directory back (eg c:\program files\steam\steamapps\) and starts appmanifest_xxxx.acf where xxxx is the app id (which you can look up in a few ways).
Once they are transferred over in the same locations start up Steam and what ever you moved will now be under installed. You might need to download some dependencies (correct directx, xna, air ect.) but is a lot quicker than downloading everything.
Right I don't know how many people this will ever apply to but it might be handy to know in the future.
If you want to move game installations from one pc to another and not use the backup tools or copy the whole steamapps folder then all you need to do is grab the folder in the common directory and move it to the new pc in the same directory tree layout AND the corresponding .acf file. This is one directory back (eg c:\program files\steam\steamapps\) and starts appmanifest_xxxx.acf where xxxx is the app id (which you can look up in a few ways).
Once they are transferred over in the same locations start up Steam and what ever you moved will now be under installed. You might need to download some dependencies (correct directx, xna, air ect.) but is a lot quicker than downloading everything.
Thanks. Guess I'm staying up for another 15-odd minutes.
YianGaruga
Banned
Yeah, when I checked yesterday it only said "There are no codes being given away at this time." so maybe it's over for today already. Made the post as soon as I saw their message on twitter so sorry if that's the case. There should be another 50 codes available tomorrow.
Ogedai_Khan
Member
Thanks for LOTR AHA-Lambda!
Will be trying nonetheless, really looking forward to giving this a go as I love Fables. Just waiting for a decent enough sale.
jshackles
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.
Gotta stay up and check out the new Humble Weekly and Humble Store offerings, eh?
thanks for Edna and Harvey New Eyes
If you want to to get the most out of the AI in the game, then yes.
fernandes
Member
Payday 2 uses one of the worst patching systems ever. It looks like it copies the whole game to a new temporary folder, slowly patches the files and then copies it back to the original location. And it takes forever too.
Chairmanchuck
Member
It was 2,49 sometimes.
morningbus
Serious Sam is a wicked gahbidge series for chowdaheads.
For games that dont feature a hard mode, I just drink a gallon of water and hold my pee through the entire playthrough.
tylergregg
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Thanks to jshackles for Starvoid. It came with an extra giftable copy, so:
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Nabs
Member
Thanks for the heads up. Just snatched one.
Wow thanks. After control+R'ing that page every 5 seconds for the last 10 minutes I got a key.
AHA-Lambda
Member
Damn it, up for a brief second and that was it
I tend to to just have a bottle on my desk if I need a pee, it's way too far trying to go to the loo while gaming.
On a serious note about FEAR you should disable the slowmo for your 2nd play-through, you really do have to be quick on your feet and plan your entry points of attack, it turns the game into a fast paced tactical shooter. I just find it enjoyable playing the game without using the core mechanic of the game.
Chairmanchuck
Member
Got a Wolf among us key.
Thanks Yian
Thanks Yian
MMBosstones86
Member
humble weekly : bitComposer Games
$1 :
Air Conflicts: Pacific Carriers
Galaxy on Fire 2: Full HD
Thunder Wolves
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Jagged Alliance: Crossfire
Expeditions: Conquistador
$1 :
Air Conflicts: Pacific Carriers
Galaxy on Fire 2: Full HD
Thunder Wolves
Jagged Alliance: Classics
$6 :
Jagged Alliance: Crossfire
Expeditions: Conquistador
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