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STEAM | September 2017 - Summer Ys Ending
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They lowered the discount when the open beta hit. That said, I think they have the lowest price right now.
And a heads up... if you want all the preorder bonuses, it seems that Battle.net is the only way to adquire them.
FiveElementNinja
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Mine was just canceled saying it was sold out, but Dragon Age: Inquisition arrived today. It looked like it had been opened and resealed, but the key inside was still good.
Edit: Strangely, they never charged me for my order, but they did refund me the amount first, then charged me that same amount, so it seems I'm essentially getting DA:I for free.
Jawmuncher
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It probably was a display from a store they sent back to the warehouse
Nabs
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Thankfully my DA:I, BF4, and SotD all registered fine.
Jawmuncher
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They didn't touch it at all. It's the same as it was at the end of RE7
pantsattack
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In that case, I can't wait for mine. The gag of that happening is worth a dollar.
Huh, weird.
Though I guess I only saw some random screenshots before so that probably explains it.
Wait, Chris is in Resident Evil 7? Fuck, I had no idea. I knew he was the star of the Not a Hero DLC but I didn't know he would turn up
by the end of the main campaign.
Baron von Loathsome
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Are Giphy gifs not working for anyone else?
Scrooge McDuck
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Hey! I've been using "hella" way before Life Is Strange is a thing!
And now that I think about it, I don't know where I got it from.
Jawmuncher
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He's not in the RE7 campaign. After the credits you just see a tease for Not a Hero
Rickenslacker
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South Park or someone referencing it, probably.
Se7enSword
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I wish i could, building a new desktop soon, so i barely have enough to buy the base game
ussjtrunks
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Guys when did steam increase the wallet limit? Kind of amazing seeing csgo skins worth 1.5k on the market
Crimsonclaw111
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I'm kinda tempted to upgrade my PC. I don't think 8gb of ddr3 will be cutting it soon, and I don't want to buy more ddr3 to upgrade it.
Jawmuncher
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Game is pretty fun. Got the platinum on vita
There was a whole episode of South park many moons ago with Cartman saying hella and annoying everybody so probably from that.
GoldandBlue
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I'm near the end of Ys Seven. At first I wasn't sure if I was going to like it, the reaction to it seems all over the place
but I ended up loving it. The gameplay feels good and I like the party system a lot. It's a very short game, at least by RPG standards but that's fine since I'll be playing Ys VIII soon enough.
and then I heard you can't even jump in the game
Jawmuncher
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We need to bring radical and tubular back
Scrooge McDuck
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Naw, I don't watch it and South Park isn't really known in my country.
Not necessarily this one, but probably songs, yea.
... does that mean that I actually am a meme chasing forum poster?
pantsattack
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My Watch Dogs sure looked used. I would have bet a dollar on it. If it was on a thrift store shelf I would have passed, but the key worked surprisingly.
Edit: And now the whole thing goes in the trash. That's a weird feeling after having not bought physical games in four years.
Edit: And now the whole thing goes in the trash. That's a weird feeling after having not bought physical games in four years.
OK, fine. I bought Brawl last week for three dollars.
Rickenslacker
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I usually don't post things because I assume they've already been posted to death by the time I get to 'em, but screw it. Four year old on Cuphead tutorial.
Scrooge McDuck
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Gnarly dude.
thanks for replying... with a meme
This was a lot more fun to read without any context on the conversation.
"Everyone is dude."
Coreda
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Depth of field needs to be very carefully built, because if not, it's just the "Can't see shit Captain" meme
Yeah. Stylistically some would argue that a game view doesn't represent our eyes but rather that of a camera so anything goes (and tbf a range of irl camera-like properties/effects are regularly used in games), but the argument is rather weak if the important area of the scene is out of focus (in the above shot the surrounding view rather than the playable character).
Blur only really makes sense for situations where mid to long range visibility isn't necessary for gameplay, views where the subject of the scene is a character or some other foreground object holding your attention (dialog, etc). In MGSV the full view is always in focus apart from climbing cliffs/high towers where a more shallow DoF is used to focus on the climb. Pseudo-'DoF' was also used to obscure image quality weaknesses in the distance such as TW3 but that's a different use. Unless of course the shallow DoF is purely for screenshot purposes in which case go nuts.
Speaking about graphical settings, i tested GTX 1080ti, changed only GPU (old one was GTX 770). Turned on every feature and settings to ultra, and after comparing benchmark results i guess i did right thing that didn't bought 4K monitor. Even 1080ti can't handle stable 60FPS with all shit enabled in most graphically demanding games.
For example, Deus Ex: Mankind Divided (Ultra settings, MSAA x4):
GTX 770
Average: 23.6 FPS
Min: 7.9 FPS
Max: 30 FPS
GTX 1080ti
Average: 50.1 FPS
Min: 7.9 FPS
Max: 62.2 FPS
Rise of the Tomb Raider (Ultra, SSAA x4):
GTX 770
GTX 1080ti
Far Cry Primal
GTX 770
Average: 29 FPS
Min: 38 FPS
Max: 62.2 FPS
GTX 1080ti
Average: 73 FPS
Min: 47 FPS
Max: 90 FPS
System specs except GPU remains the same, CPU i5-3507k and 8gb DDR3, DX11, 1920x1080. Not sure if CPU and memory are bottleneck in this case, but personally i just got confirmation that it's not the right time to upgrade for 4K and better wait another 2-3 years for new GPU and monitors generations.
A couple of things to consider:
1) MSAA is generally expensive in modern games as it's applied during each render pass, so there's a linear increase in cost
2) 4x SSAA means you're actually rendering the game at a resolution four times higher than that of your display
Time is tracked client-side and stored server-side. If you bring up the overlay while playing something in Offline Mode, you'll notice Steam is tracking the playtime of that session, but as that information isn't stored locally for uploading later, it isn't added to your recorded total or taken into account when requesting a refund.
Coreda
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Are you saying users could play a game more than two hours in offline mode and still successfully be issued a refund?
Scrooge McDuck
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Yar, that's what I was going for!
Or alternatively...
That was always my assumption and I imagine it's even more exploitable if the game is DRM-free. But when you are already willing to go that far, might as well download it from torrent and skip the busywork.
Yeah, but that's something Valve would catch on to eventually since achievement data does sync. Theoretically, though, you could use Offline Mode to finish games that don't support anything that may give away the fact you've played them and get your money back via refunds, but if you're going to that much effort to avoid a permanent ding to your bank account, you might as well just take the easier path of pirating them, which is probably why Valve hasn't bothered closing the loophole.
Edit: The loophole does have its legitimate uses, too. I myself recommend that people use Offline Mode when first launching a game (or after authentication in cases where Denuvo needs to be assuaged) as then any fiddling they need to do doesn't count against the two-hour window.
Jawmuncher
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Wow really SteamGAF? Posting memes in the thread?
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