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inm8num2

Member
Changes to gift tradability

All new games purchased as a gift and placed in the purchaser's inventory will be untradable for 30 days. The gift may still be gifted at any time. The only change is to trading.

We've made this change to make trading gifts a better experience for those receiving the gifts. We're hoping this lowers the number of people who trade for a game only to have the game revoked later due to issues with the purchaser's payment method.

(Originally posted by jshackles in the Steam community thread.)
 
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Particulars got cards.


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Also, a Venom table is coming to Pinball FX2.

 

KenOD

a kinder, gentler sort of Scrooge
Steam Exploration Sale is currently going. Ending on the 2nd of December.

Not to be confused with the upcoming, and much larger Winter/Summer Sale for the last part of December.
 

Daheza

Member
Steam Exploration Sale is currently going. Ending on the 2nd of December.

Not to be confused with the upcoming, and much larger Winter/Summer Sale for the last part of December.

So should I wait on purchasing these games in hopes of better deals during the later christmas sale?
 
Steam Exploration Sale is currently going. Ending on the 2nd of December.

Not to be confused with the upcoming, and much larger Winter/Summer Sale for the last part of December.

I was just about to say "is this the winter sale cos it looks a bit shit so far". Part of the hightlight for me is the flash sales and the voter choice sales. I would sorely miss my bi-annually "who the hell voted for that to be on sale" rants.
 

Zeknurn

Member
The Steam Exploration Sale is here! For the next six days, take advantage of huge savings throughout the Steam store on thousands of titles. Plus, discover new and recommended games on your personalized Exploration Sale page here. Check back each day for new Daily Deals.

Today’s Featured Deals Include:

Watchdogs - 50% off
Counter-Strike: Global Offensive - 50% off
The Evil Within - 66% off
Sid Meier’s Civilization: Beyond Earth - 30% off
Lords of the Fallen - 40% off
Goat Simulator - 50% off
The Long Dark - 50% off
Don’t Starve - 75% off
Company of Heroes 2 - 75% off

The Steam Exploration Sale runs from now until 10AM Pacific Time, December 2nd. Complete information on Daily Deals and other special offers can be found on Steam.
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http://store.steampowered.com/news/15081/

Some good discounts.
 

KenOD

a kinder, gentler sort of Scrooge
So should I wait on purchasing these games in hopes of better deals during the later Christmas sale?

Small titles are generally safe. So if for example you really want Gunhound EX at 80% off, there isn't a huge risk of getting it now.
Any DLC you might want now outside of big name franchises are worth grabbing now as well.
If it's something you will play right away, then getting something like The Evil Within at 66% or Don't Starve at 75% off are worth it right now as well as those are still good deals. Otherwise wait on it, a title like Yaiba: Ninja Gaiden Z either will get a better deal for the Winter/Summer sale or will simply stay at the exact same discount and nothing is lost in waiting if you can do so.

Using http://steamsales.rhekua.com/ and taking advantage of Enhanced Steam, you can also check to see the past history of sales for a game if you want to see what can be expected for some games. It's highly unlikely Toki Tori 2+ will get a better deal than 90% for example.

That is how I generally see it. If you want other opinions, the community for SteamGAF is at http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showthread.php?t=938215
They can tell you better about any deals, specials, and potential chances for things improving for a game price than I can. Also good place just to discuss any of the games you might be interested in and want some thoughts on.
 

Momentary

Banned
KOF 98 UM Final Edition has a release day of 12 DEC 2014

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It also comes with the OG version of KOF98. There's currently a 20% discount on it bringing the game down to $11.99. Definitely worth it if you ask me.

Thanks to Rhaknar for pointing this out in the Community thread.

PS: Hiroaki art is the best SNK art. I take that back. New school Shinkiro art is pretty damn good too.
 

Rhaknar

The Steam equivalent of the drunk friend who keeps offering to pay your tab all night.
what was the other KOF that was coming? 2000?
 

MRORANGE

Member
As mentioned I would be posting recommendations for each month of upcoming games in here:

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METAL GEAR SOLID V: GROUND ZEROES
- Dr Dogg
Well better late than never. Actually it's a very pleasant surprise to see Metal Gear back on PC. Released earlier in the year on PS3,
360, PS4 and Xbox One, MGSV: Ground Zeroes is a taste of what's to come for the true sequel The Phantom Pain. The events of the
game pick up a few months after the end of Peace Walker. Speaking of which while this might seem daunting for newcomers but there
is a text based catch up via the title screen to explain who some returning characters are and set the scene but it's fairly self contained
and the start in a new chapter of Metal Gear.

Snake (Kiefer Sutherland's first outing as the legendary hero) infiltrates Camp Omega, an American black site in Cuba, with the objective
to extract Paz Ortega, an innocent schoolgirl with a hidden secret and Chico, a former child soldier who both go missing at the end of
Peace Walker . Providing mission support is Kaz (Master Miller from the first MGS) from Mother Base. As Snake scales the cliff face
leading into the camp a commander of the mysterious Special Forces unit XOF who are in control of Camp Omega is leaving on a
helicopter. Is the figure known as Skull Face behind this? I won't spoil anything about the story but the comparisons with The Tanker
chapter of MGS2 are very apt and this is a great setup for TPP.

On the gameplay front there is one main Op and four additional Side Ops that can be undertaken after finishing the main story segment.
The Camp is a open and quite a large area with various viable approaches, entry and extraction points. Stealth and sneaking are still the
main orders of the day with CQC and the threat detection system still big parts too. Binoculars allow you to mark enemies now and
there's a new gadget in the iDroid which serves as a holographic map of the camp, used to select helicopter extraction points and a few
other functions. If spotted there's the new Reflex system which slows down time and focuses in on your enemy to quickly silence them
before alerting others. Seeing as iPods weren't around in the 70's Snake has a Walkman now and you can pick up tapes which have
recorded messages as well as some MGS series tunes to play whilst sneaking. On the PC side of things there looks to be a good amount
of settings to scale the game to a wide range of hardware as well some additional or expanded effects work from the previous releases.



Lara Croft and the Temple of Osiris
- Uzzy
Lara Croft and the Temple of Osiris, from Crystal Dynamics, is an isometric twin stick shooter for up to four players, in solo, co-operative
and/or competitive gameplay. Temple of Osiris sees Lara travel to Egypt, where upon being trapped in the temple along with a rival
archaeologist, Carter Bell, finds herself having to work with him and two Egyptian gods, Isis and Horus, to battle their way through the
tomb, dodging traps, fighting monsters and solving puzzles to recover the remains of Osiris and save themselves from Osiris' curse of
death.

Back when Lara Croft spent her time raiding tombs, a little gem of a game called Lara Croft and the Guardian of Light came out, pushing
the classic themes of the Tomb Raider franchise to the fore. But with the rather different path the latest game went down, I feared that the
series was dead, so the announcement at E3 of a sequel where Lara would return in all her dinosaur killing, Thor’s hammer wielding,
Keeley Hawes sounding, tomb raiding greatness was really quite a delight. The original was a great mix of platforming, arcadey style fast
paced combat, and puzzle solving, and the sequel looks to be keeping to that formula, and expanding it with the addition of 4 player co-op.



BlazBlue Continuum Shift Extend
- Rayge
I know what people are thinking with this release. “Man! Why the hell are they not giving us the latest and greatest?” Well first off, not
even the consoles have the latest iteration of BlazBlue. The arcades already have a newer version with 2 additional characters. Second,
I feel like the company wants that’s publishing this wants to bring the entire story of the series over as well. Third, you should be
celebrating ladies and gents, this is the first ASW fighter we’ve gotten that didn’t have a PC port already. I’m very excited with this
release as it’s the first sign that ASW is really wanting.

As for the game itself, you’re getting a more streamlined retelling of the first games storyline without all the needless fluff along with a
continuation from what happened in the first game. I believe this is one of the few fighting games that does not have a convoluted story
line. So those looking for coherency in their fighting game story, feel free to dive right on into this one. It’s almost like a visual novel.
There are more characters from the last iteration which increases the roster from 12 to 19. Mechanics from the last game have been
reworked and renamed. The combo system has been tweaked to allow for more variations while giving a penalty to those who consistently
string the same move in the same combo. On the defensive side of things, this game does not favor “turtlers” and “dp” mashers. There’s
Burst Break which can be used to get out of a combo string, but it depletes you Guard Primer which puts you in a guard break status when
it reaches zero. There’s a beginner mode for those who just want to enjoy the game’s story and are not really into the competitiveness of
the whole fighting game scene. Finally, the most important thing, this game WILL have online play. My Steam name is Rayge if you’re
looking for a punching bag.

If you’re looking to get more ASW fighters on Steam, try to support this game. From their recent tweets it looks like they are really giving
PC some serious thought. Maybe BlazBlue CT and GGXX performed better than expected. If they didn’t, we surely wouldn’t be getting
this. I feel like we can expect a console AND Steam release of BBCP 2.0 whenever it gets released for consumers if things go well
enough. Hell, we might ever see Persona and GGXrd within the next year.



The Talos Principle
- Yrael
A game that I'm looking forward to trying when it releases in December is "The Talos Principle." It is a rather tricky puzzle game with a
philosophical bent, involving players working their way through a number of open environments (each with rather gorgeous graphics) by
solving puzzles. As you progress, the narrative becomes more introspective - as described by the creators: "You must decide whether
to have faith, or to ask the difficult questions: Who are you? What is your purpose? And what are you going to do about it?"
You may well enjoy this if you liked Portal. There is already a free to play public test on Steam for those wanting to check it out!



Dead State
- zkylon
Dead State is doublebear productions' first game, a "zombie rpg" that combines classic fallout turn based combat and character
interaction with base management, exploration and scavenging, rescuing and training survivors and other such x-com-y things.

You're the leader of a small texan town's survivor shelter, tasked with managing the morale and needs of the other survivors, setting
up defenses for the shelter and jobs for everyone, piecing up clues of how the apocalypse came to be and eventually heading outside
and bashing zombie (and looter) skull to find food, antibiotics, weapons, etc.

Interesting details for rpg fans like myself are things like the crisis events, in which characters might rise against your rule or fight each
other over depressing apocalyptic stuff, forcing you to make tough decisions and alliances, a highly reactive story with multiple endings
and "middles", and a leveling system that awards experience for completing tasks rather than for killing stuff (aka the best experience
system there is) and well, brian mitsoda (of vampire the masquerade bloodlines and alpha protocol fame) is helming it, so there's that.



Mount & Blade: Warband's: Viking Conquest
- SilentMatthew
Viking Conquest is the latest expansion for Mount&Blade Warband. Like its other DLC/expansion,Napoleonic Wars, Taleworlds contracted
a team from its massive modding community to work on this project. The team in question were modders of a mod set in Dark Age
(6th-7th century) British Isles called Brytenwalda. Which had an impressive single-player with a great many of additions to the
Mount & Blade sandbox formula. Although, its multiplayer was forgettable at best.

As it should be expected from this former mod team, Viking Conquest would have a historically accurate map of the Frisia, Norway,
Denmark and the British Isles. Of which would include 21 kingdoms and a story mode involving the sons of Ragner. Minor additions and
fixes introduced by modders to the singleplayer of Warband over the past three years. Major additions include: building and customization
of your homebase and fleet (as well as your personal ship).

This expansion will have multiplayer with factions such as Picts, Irish, Britons, Saxons and Vikings. It is expected that servers can
support up to 200 players like Napoleonic Wars. Most servers will have manual blocking enable, which would put your M&B skills to the
test. Up! Down! Left! Right! Block! Feint! Hold attack! Chamber(parry)! Stay moving! is all you need to know. Also learning weapon
animations/timing might help. Just a bit.



Dungeon Defenders II
- MRORANGE
DDII builds on the highly successful first game, as you may know the game developer has decided to branch out the game as a moba
but the sequel is a seperate entity and DDII is still the same tower defense game that we all love and admire. Expect everything from
the first game from the loot system to the stratetic swarm encounters, this time round everything has been refined with new combat,
skills and weapons. This game however really does shine as a co-op game with friends, having played with 4 other mates I can truly
say this was one of the more rewarding experiences in tower defense gameplay I have ever encountered. The first one sold like
bucket-loads and I won't be surprised if this one does the same.



Final Fantasy 13-2
- Arthea
Have you ever thought what would happen if you went back in time and killed you grandfather, later changed your mind, went back
before you killed your grandfather and killed yourself, then added to all that reincarnation is as real as taxes? Here you have FF13-2 in
the nutshell. There are time paradoxes, then there are paradoxes of paradoxes and then there is a paradox scope, that paradoxifies a
paradox.

As your sanity is at stake here, just don't try to comprehend story of this game, ignore it. That being said, it has some nice endings,
yes, endings, plural. Now, when we are done with fun part, let's talk business. People complained a lot about FF13 not being a FF
game and lacking everything from cities to talks to NPC, to sidequests that aren't hunts, to minigames, to exploration, to things to do.

Surprisingly enough SE listened. FF13-2 has everything: a city, NPCs to talk to, sidequests, puzzles, quizzes, minigames,
exploration and more exploration in different timelines and even monster catching. Gameplay is certainly better and variety is there.
Not to make a game too good, random rare encounters are back and there are only two playable characters. But even then, if you
were unhappy with FF13 being not FF enough, FF13-2 tried to remedy that and partly succeeded. It is a better game of two.

 

iosefe

Member
Red Faction: Guerilla Beta Patch notes

UPDATE 2nd December 2014
Changelog
- Fixed team balancing when joining in progress
- Cheat menu enabled
- Fixed crash when hosting LAN games


UPDATE 1st December 2014
Changelog
- Fixed bugs in displaying and reporting players statistics
- Fixed limit of players that can join the match
- Join in progress temporarly disabled in Team Objective and Large Mixer playlists
- Added Polish, Russian and Czech language

UPDATE 30th November 2014
Changelog
- Added functionality to join in progress games
(There are some limitation to that, but most games can be joined in the first minutes of play.


UPDATE 29th November 2014
Changelog
- Host Migration support added: When host leaves, the game should now choose a new host and continue instead of returning to the menu.
yay for the return of the cheat menu, which means your singleplayer unlockables are back etc. this seems very vary along and and aside from other fixes, i think we may see the official patch soon
 

Zeknurn

Member
Steam Client Beta Update - December 2nd
General

Added Steam Broadcasting Beta. See http://steamcommunity.com/updates/broadcasting for more info.
Fixed restoring game specific hardware mouse cursors when exiting the in-game overlay
When Steam has internally scheduled a game update to be queued some time in the future, the UI will now display a note to the user indicating that time
Fixed errors in web views not localizing properly

Big Picture

Fixed to ask the user if they'd like to launch immediately or begin updating the game if an update is available but the game has been played recently
When running in 720p mode scale embedded web views so they are readable
Fixed EULA display occasionally failing to display
Revised navigation on profile menu

Broadcasting seems neat.
 

iosefe

Member
Red Faction: Guerilla Beta Patch notes


yay for the return of the cheat menu, which means your singleplayer unlockables are back etc. this seems very vary along and and aside from other fixes, i think we may see the official patch soon

*ADDENDUM* full release is out, and the game is currently available for $2.99
 
Red Faction: Guerilla Beta Patch notes


yay for the return of the cheat menu, which means your singleplayer unlockables are back etc. this seems very vary along and and aside from other fixes, i think we may see the official patch soon

fuck yes bro

this my game of the generation. time to download it again
 

Zeknurn

Member
@SteamDB: Also, the previously mentioned "goo" stuff is not related to the Winter Sale. You will be able to make booster packs from extra items.
@SteamDB: Recycling Community Items will give you Scrap that can be used to make new booster packs.


Awesome.
 

Nzyme32

Member

Oh I missed this, excellent idea, especially since I often get a ton of vouchers and emotes or backgrounds I don't need and won't sell for much! I wonder if very cheap cards can be discarded of in this manner, as booster packs offer a bit more value?

I was wondering how Goo, could be related to Winter or holiday season. Then I though..... oh god NO. Haha
 

Zeknurn

Member
DayZ standalone received a major update that added its first vehicle among other things.

http://forums.dayzgame.com/index.php?/topic/216238-changelog-stable-051125720/

As always, we will be watching server data, and the feedback tracker for any potential severe issues and will address them accordingly with a hot fix. For any bugs/issues you run into, please let us know by filing it on the feedback tracker: http://feedback.dayzgame.com

New Items:
  • V3S
  • Ghillie Suite (Hood, Bushrag, Top)
  • Ghillie Weapon Wrap
  • Jerry can
  • Military Tent
  • Human Flesh
  • Netting
  • Steyr Aug
  • MP133 with pistol grip
  • Burlap strips

New Mechanics:
  • Vehicles
  • Vehicles refueling
  • Prion Disease
  • New crafting recipes
  • Updated heat transfer
  • Watering plants

Fixed:
  • Abuse of vomiting to gain energy
  • Mending balaclavas
  • Splitting and combining netting
  • Splitting and combining burlap strips
  • Ammo box dragging on magazines
  • Combining and splitting worms
  • Breaking out of restraints fixes
  • Uncuffing using keys
  • Picking up mp133 from the ground
  • Rangefinder mechanics
  • Items are no longer pristine only
  • Skinning should now give pelts properly
  • V3S going uphill
  • V3S physics simulation
  • V3S damage to characters
  • V3S collisions
  • V3S fueling mechanic
  • Memory Leaks
  • And a lot more!


Known Issues:
  • Item locked in hands slot
  • Items can't be picked up sometimes
  • Left earpiece sound volume is lowered sometimes
  • Ghillie will probably react badly on chemlight, flare and other light sources
  • Some items will freeze in midair when you throw them multiple times in a row
  • Some items will visually duplicate themselves if used from the ground
 

Nabs

Member
Not sure if this has been posted yet:

Xeodrifter Banner
http://store.steampowered.com/app/319140/?snr=1_7_7_comingsoon_150_1

Yeesss!!!

That was quick. I didn't expect a PC release so soon.

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Enter the Gungeon was announced this weekend at PSX. It's coming out for Steam (PC/Mac/Linux) next year (Q3) and will be published by Devolver Digital. It's a dungeon crawler with guns.



Enter the Gungeon is a gunfight dungeon crawler following a band of misfits seeking to shoot, loot, dodge roll and table-flip their way to personal absolution by reaching the legendary Gungeon’s ultimate treasure: the gun that can kill the past. Select a hero and battle your way to the bottom of the Gungeon by surviving a challenging and evolving series of floors filled with the dangerously adorable Gundead and fearsome Gungeon bosses armed to the teeth. Gather precious loot, discover hidden secrets, and chat with opportunistic merchants and shopkeepers to purchase powerful items to gain an edge.

Trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OMh0tw0bADs
 
Crusader Kings II is getting a new expansion called Way of Life

STOCKHOLM – December 9, 2014 – Paradox Interactive and Paradox Development Studio today announced that Crusader Kings II: Way of Life, the next expansion for the award winning strategy franchise, will be released on December 16th via digital storefronts worldwide. Way of Life will be available on PC, Mac, and Linux for $7.99.

Way of Life delves into the role-playing aspects of Crusader Kings II, giving players the ability to fine-tune their methods of seduction and break ups, and also the ability to set a focus for your character that will influence the types of events that befall your character during their lifetime. Featuring hundreds of new events as well as over 20 new event pictures, Way of Life will give players control over their characters in ways never before available—for better, for worse, or for entertainment.

Way of Life features:

New diplomatic interactions – Dispatch foes by challenging them to duels, choose who to seduce, break up with lovers, spy on people, free prisonors from captivity, and more are now available to players.

Set a Focus - Give your rulers a “way of life” by assigning them a Focus that will give an immediate boost to their skills and help shape the course of their development through events and decisions – new and old. There are ten different Focuses available to your characters:

• Rulership – Be a better king!
• Business – Gold is good
• Hunting – Kill the beast!
• War – What’s yours is mine
• Family – the most important thing, right?
• Carousing - ahem
• Seduction – double ahem
• Intrigue – sneaky, sneak
• Scholarship – We love to learn
• Theology – Do it for the big guy upstair

New events – Hundreds of new events have been added into Way of Life, alongside 20 new event images, which tie in directly to a character’s Focus. Specific events can be triggered only if a character is assigned a corresponding Focus.
 

Rhaknar

The Steam equivalent of the drunk friend who keeps offering to pay your tab all night.
what game is that getting 75% off, thats what I want to know
 

Blizzard

Banned
The winter sale starts on the 18th :D
Code:
[IMG]http://i.imgur.com/ztuE861.jpg[/IMG]
Valve kicked everyone without a Steam developer badge out of the Steamworks group possibly as part of an effort to prevent leaking Steam sales, but apparently it didn't work. D:
 

Garou

Member
Valve kicked everyone without a Steam developer badge out of the Steamworks group possibly as part of an effort to prevent leaking Steam sales, but apparently it didn't work. D:

This is not from a developer, it's the Newsletter of PayPal Japan which lists several places to shop for the holidays.
 

inm8num2

Member
Strife, a classic 90s FPS with RPG elements, is getting a re-release on December 12 (tomorrow) courtesy of Night Dive Studios.



New Features Include:

  • Support for high resolutions, with proper aspect ratio.
  • OpenGL for video backend to provide portability and support for vertical sync.
  • Dynamic lighting and bloom
  • Widescreen support.
  • Ability to freely rebind all keyboard, mouse, and gamepad inputs.
  • Steam Achievements
  • Steam Trading Cards
 

MRORANGE

Member
http://steamcommunity.com/auction

"Recycle Steam Community items like Trading Cards, backgrounds, and emoticons from your Inventory into Gems and use it to bid on games up for auction. The first auction round ends on 15 Dec @ 3:00pm with a new round ending every 45 minutes until the last auction round ends on 18 Dec @ 6:00pm. At the end of each auction round, the top bidder for each title wins.
Pro tip: Need more items to turn into Gems? More than 1,200 games on Steam drop Trading Cards just for playing them. Find out which of your games has drops remaining on your Badges page. Also, don’t forget to craft the Trading Cards into badges, the resulting emoticons and backgrounds have a higher Gem value. If you have nothing in your Inventory to recycle, you can also trade for Gems or purchase them on the Community Market.
The Auction runs 15 Dec @ 3:00pm to 18 Dec @ 6:00pm when the Holiday Sale begins.
"

Taken from Locust in Steam CM Thread.
 
I really can't sort the list to put my wishlist items on top? Or sort the list by highest top bid? Seems pretty lame

EDIT: Sorry, didn't realize I was in the news thread rather than the main steam thread.
 
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