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STEAM announcements & updates 2012 Thread 3 -
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Madrugador
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Mother of God, Dirt 2 looks amazing with Ultra settings. Now I need to play this again :lol
Let's try Dirt 3 now.
Fuck.
Let's try Dirt 3 now.
Fuck.
jaundicejuice
Member
Mothership Zeta down. It was kinda fun, more of a dungeon than anything else, got some nice new energy weapons from it but that's about it. Better than Point Lookout but I didn't enjoy it as much as Operation Anchorage or The Pitt.
Now the only add-on left to beat is Broken Steel.
Now the only add-on left to beat is Broken Steel.
Glass Rebel
Member
As I mentioned earlier, I already beat the Griever in my previous save game so I didn't really go in blind.
Man, it feels like I'm talking about a dead person :/
Season Pass. For Darksiders II. Hmm...
I assume that's equivalent to buying just the Abyssal Forge Pack and ignoring anything else the Season Pass claims to contain at some future point?
I'll buy it at $5. And then not play it.
Try aiming for around 80% in the first world, and 60% thereafter. The game is pretty forgiving in terms of progression.
Isn't it funny how all of Amazon's recent deals have been for THQ games? It's almost as if they're trying to clear their stock of keys.
edit: ok well I guess it's not just Amazon, but I'm seeing THQ games on sale so extremely frequently that I don't even care bout them anymore
Glass Rebel
Member
That's a bit steep for a game I probably won't play for a while but on the other hand it might be one of the last chances to buy it...
Thank you for the heads up anyway.
Funny you mention that, cause this Friday's Amazon/Gamespot PC DD deal is $10 for the following THQ games:
S.T.A.L.K.E.R.: Shadow of Chernobyl
Metro 2033
Red Faction Guerrilla
Homefront
Red Faction Armageddon
Space Marine
All redeemable on Steam
Delusibeta
Banned
Is that $10 each or $10 for all of them? Because if it's the latter, I'm buying it.
MagicWithEarvin
Member
It's $10 for the bundle.
TouchMyBox
Member
AKA THQ needs some quick cash so they don't close up shop.
Bleh, that's me for buying most of them separate. Looks like 10$ for RFA and Homefront though, so I guess that's still okay. 5$ a piece and I guess I can give the spare keys to my brother or something.
If anyone is up for selling their Space Marine Key for a few dollars. I would very much Love It
Oh snap!
Lucky I have anything I care about in that bundle already, because I bought Space Marine for $6.50 last week.
Yeah that's crazy.
Only SoC is published by THQ, the other two aren't.
The Grim Heaper
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Oh shiiiit, I forgot about this. Might grab 2 to give stuff away on my birthday.
Freeza Under The Shower
Member
cool.
If you activate a code for a game you already have, does that game go to the inventory automatically?
MrTeachwell
Member
Ahh cool, so has it been confirmed all are steam redeemable since it was first announced?
MagicWithEarvin
Member
Yes.
Yes.
Also, I won't be needing Homefront, Metro 2033 and STALKER so I can split this pack with those who need those games.
jaundicejuice
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Broken Steel is complete as well. That's every quest in Fallout 3 and its add-ons completed except for the Nuka Cola Challenge. I could have easily completed that quest if I had accepted it earlier in the game but for whatever reason, the moment I did take on it I didn't find many Quantum Nuka Cola's. I even got that perk towards the end that converts a regular one out of every six (or ten?) Nuka Cola's to a Quantum Nuka Cola but it wasn't enough. I didn't accrue enough Quantum Nuka Cola's by the time I completed all of the add-ons and I'm not really going to grind it out to find the last few just to finish the quest line.
The Pitt was easily my favorite add-on. It's the darkest, most atmospheric bit of content in the game with its (too few) ambiguous choices. I actually kind of felt conflicted about some of the choices I was forced to make or actions I did, which never happened in the main game.
I wish there were more moments like that in the main game, where the "right" action doesn't always have the intended outcome.
The Pitt is closely trailed by Operation Anchorage but that's not for the add-on itself, mainly its rewards. You can get the best power armor in the game through it and power armor training through it as soon as you escape Vault 101. The Chinese Stealth Armor is even more amazing. When coupled with 100 sneak you're so invisible you can crouch walk by anything, right in front of it and not get discovered.
If I had to rank the others it would be Mothership Zeta, Broken Steel and Point Lookout coming in at a distant last place. Mothership Zeta, like Operation Anchorage, isn't all that great but you can get some decent gear from it. The alien energy weapons you get in the add-on aren't as great as the Alien Ray Gun you can find by the downed UFO in the base game, which is just weird. At least Mothership Zeta provides you with more ammo and the alien apoxy, which allows you to repair you equipped weapon sans having to break down a duplicate weapon. I found Broken Steel to simply be a dull extension to the main quest line. Brotherhood of Steel are the paladins of the wasteland and the Enclave are the evil empire, whatever. Point Lookout had a lot of potential that was just kind of wasted.
There was potential in the idea of Point Lookout but the writing wasn't really there and the rewards were terrible.
tldr:
1. The Pitt
2. Operation Anchorage
3. Mothership Zeta
4. Broken Steel
5. Point Lookout
Leveling up in Fallout 3 is pretty busted. At level 29 I had almost every single stat up to 100. A perk every level too is kind of ridiculous. The whole concept of a character build almost gets thrown out the window on the road to 20. At 30 that idea is completely gone, you pretty much are the master of, well, everything.
The Pitt was easily my favorite add-on. It's the darkest, most atmospheric bit of content in the game with its (too few) ambiguous choices. I actually kind of felt conflicted about some of the choices I was forced to make or actions I did, which never happened in the main game.
Healing a wounded slave only to have a slaver thank me for getting another week out of the slave, or saving a man from his mutated brother only to have him stay by the corpse and weep.
The Pitt is closely trailed by Operation Anchorage but that's not for the add-on itself, mainly its rewards. You can get the best power armor in the game through it and power armor training through it as soon as you escape Vault 101. The Chinese Stealth Armor is even more amazing. When coupled with 100 sneak you're so invisible you can crouch walk by anything, right in front of it and not get discovered.
If I had to rank the others it would be Mothership Zeta, Broken Steel and Point Lookout coming in at a distant last place. Mothership Zeta, like Operation Anchorage, isn't all that great but you can get some decent gear from it. The alien energy weapons you get in the add-on aren't as great as the Alien Ray Gun you can find by the downed UFO in the base game, which is just weird. At least Mothership Zeta provides you with more ammo and the alien apoxy, which allows you to repair you equipped weapon sans having to break down a duplicate weapon. I found Broken Steel to simply be a dull extension to the main quest line. Brotherhood of Steel are the paladins of the wasteland and the Enclave are the evil empire, whatever. Point Lookout had a lot of potential that was just kind of wasted.
There's this hint, this taste of an epic two hundred year long feud that extends back to a period during/before the war that wiped everything out but it's never really expanded on. It doesn't help that the main characters in it are one dimensional, unlikable and have terrible dialogue and voice acting (Desmond in particular).
tldr:
1. The Pitt
2. Operation Anchorage
3. Mothership Zeta
4. Broken Steel
5. Point Lookout
Leveling up in Fallout 3 is pretty busted. At level 29 I had almost every single stat up to 100. A perk every level too is kind of ridiculous. The whole concept of a character build almost gets thrown out the window on the road to 20. At 30 that idea is completely gone, you pretty much are the master of, well, everything.
Last few purchases I've noticed for Groupees bundles haven't been instantly completely.. It's like they sit in a 'not yet shipped' status despite them charging my card straight away - paying via Google Wallet.
I'm pretty sure it used to be instant? Or maybe I wasn't paying with Google?
EDIT: Only lasted about 10 minutes but still seemed strange - games showing in account list now.
I'm pretty sure it used to be instant? Or maybe I wasn't paying with Google?
EDIT: Only lasted about 10 minutes but still seemed strange - games showing in account list now.
MagicWithEarvin
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Just got Rage (Anarchy Edition) retail from Newegg. Should I install off the disc or through Steam?
Winter sale is so soon, you'll probably regret whatever you buy now unless you reaaaally wanna play it immediately or it's already 75% off.
scorpscarx
Member
It's like 25 Gigs...
Yeah, I figured. I have so many god damn Steam games because I can't help myself anytime something is on sale and i'm remotely interested. I should wait. Thanks
On another note, all of my non-steam games that I have added (and added custom grid images for) have disappeared from my Steam Library. Ugh. I have like 15-20 games to manually add back. Fuck this. Any easy fix?
Jeez. I hope THQ doesn't close shop.
Got my copy from Newegg last week. Installed through the disk because downloading from Steam would have taken ages on my 12 Mbps connection. It's like a 23GB game.
MagicWithEarvin
Member
Alright, disc it is. I just wanted to ask because I thought I read somewhere that someone had to redownload everything off Steam again because the disc version didn't register on Steam or something.
Anyway, thanks HoosTrax for saving me $6 by purchasing BLOPS2 for me. =p
Not available yet.
MagicWithEarvin
Member
I have a tendency to buy games and not play them... >_>
Is that wrong? I can't resist a good deal.
well this is the steam thread, so, no, or maybe yes?
I dont do that as much, I always play one thing or the other but these last couple weeks ive been like BLEH
feel like im gonna stay this way till Hitman
You're in the right place.
The disc version definitely does register on Steam. It asks for you key "found in the case" when you put the disc in. It will download a 300MB update once it's installed though.
Kazuma Kiryu
Member
it's okay, all the cool kids do it. my steam backlog is huge because of steam season sales and daily deals.
I too have this problem.
I already own all the Red Factions, heard lots of bad things about Homefront and am not interested in STALKER or Metro 2033. $10 for Space Marine sounds a little too much :/
Is this better on PC now/safe to buy?
MagicWithEarvin
Member
Before I purchased it on Newegg last week, I made sure with SteamGAF that it was alright to purchase and that it was optimized. SteamGAF don't tell no lie.
Damn it's tempting, but I don't want to spend more money on games this month. And Hitman's coming out in a couple of days, and I haven't finished my replay of Blood Money yet. What do GAF?
MagicWithEarvin
Member
Wait on the Winter sale, IMO.
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