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  • PeewiPeewi Registered User regular
    edited May 2010
    I have no idea why, but multiplayer in GRID isn't working for me. Whenever I join a game I am instantly kicked (at least that's what the message says) and if I try to create a game it says it couldn't connect.

    I'm wondering if logging out and back in would fix it, but I'm not seeing any options for logging out anywhere.

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  • CG FaggotryCG Faggotry BristolRegistered User regular
    edited May 2010
    Athenor wrote: »
    I try to play nice, but I'm not above bumping, nudging, and the like.

    Oh, I don't mind that. It's the full on 90 degree angle ramming that happens way too often that irritates me.

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  • AthenorAthenor Battle Hardened Optimist The Skies of HiigaraRegistered User regular
    edited May 2010
    Peewi wrote: »
    I have no idea why, but multiplayer in GRID isn't working for me. Whenever I join a game I am instantly kicked (at least that's what the message says) and if I try to create a game it says it couldn't connect.

    I'm wondering if logging out and back in would fix it, but I'm not seeing any options for logging out anywhere.

    Did you plug your CD Key into Live?

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  • CG FaggotryCG Faggotry BristolRegistered User regular
    edited May 2010
    On a lighter note, what are people's preferences for camera choice? Personally, I play every racing game I can with cockpit view. I find it adds an extra degree of caution & hence I drive (somewaht counter-intuitively) much cleaner with it.

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  • PeewiPeewi Registered User regular
    edited May 2010
    Athenor wrote: »
    Peewi wrote: »
    I have no idea why, but multiplayer in GRID isn't working for me. Whenever I join a game I am instantly kicked (at least that's what the message says) and if I try to create a game it says it couldn't connect.

    I'm wondering if logging out and back in would fix it, but I'm not seeing any options for logging out anywhere.

    Did you plug your CD Key into Live?

    GRID doesn't use Live. I made an account from inside the game and I did manage to play an online game two days ago, but now it's not working.

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  • Michael HMichael H Registered User regular
    edited May 2010
    On a lighter note, what are people's preferences for camera choice? Personally, I play every racing game I can with cockpit view. I find it adds an extra degree of caution & hence I drive (somewaht counter-intuitively) much cleaner with it.

    I made this same discovery during my Gran Turismo 3 days. I played that game obsessively, and always liked cockpit mode better. Every racing game since for me has been first person view.

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  • AthenorAthenor Battle Hardened Optimist The Skies of HiigaraRegistered User regular
    edited May 2010
    On a lighter note, what are people's preferences for camera choice? Personally, I play every racing game I can with cockpit view. I find it adds an extra degree of caution & hence I drive (somewaht counter-intuitively) much cleaner with it.

    I much prefer in-cockpit, and I wish Dirt had the bonus xp/winnings for only using that view.

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  • SmokeStacksSmokeStacks Registered User regular
    edited May 2010
    Athenor wrote: »
    I try to play nice, but I'm not above bumping, nudging, and the like.

    No, no, he didn't slam you, he didn't bump you, he didn't nudge you... he rubbed you. And rubbin, son, is racing.
    On a lighter note, what are people's preferences for camera choice? Personally, I play every racing game I can with cockpit view. I find it adds an extra degree of caution & hence I drive (somewaht counter-intuitively) much cleaner with it.

    I like a third person view so I can have a better spatial sense of where my car is. Unrealistic, sure, but it makes the crashes look a lot better as a side effect.

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  • BartholamueBartholamue Registered User regular
    edited May 2010
    It varies. For games like Gran Turismo where it's super realistic, I like cockpit view, but more arcadey racers I like behind the car view.

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  • GoodKingJayIIIGoodKingJayIII They wanna get my gold on the ceilingRegistered User regular
    edited May 2010
    I buckled. The Guild Wars deal is just too good to pass on, especially since I always wanted to play Factions and Nightfall.

    Unfortunately this account linking stuff is bad news. I remember I had a pretty decent Warrior/Necromancer from about four years ago, unfortunately I have no idea how to recall that information. I'm pretty sure that Guild Wars account is not linked to my NCSoft account. Hmm...

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  • BartholamueBartholamue Registered User regular
    edited May 2010
    Dang it...I bought the Codemasters pack plus GTA Vice City. They sure get me with impulse buys.

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  • WaldoWaldo Registered User regular
    edited May 2010
    Thanks to Tube's big ol' Hitman: Blood Money thread I just bought that game. This may have been the first time in 2010 I bought something on steam that wasn't on sale (even if it was $10).

    Also really miffed that I missed another max payne 2 sale, which means I missed all three and hope is probably lost for getting it for $2.50.
    :(

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  • CG FaggotryCG Faggotry BristolRegistered User regular
    edited May 2010
    Also, the amount of control one gains when manual-clutch is a feature is quite amazing.

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  • DroolDrool Science! AustinRegistered User regular
    edited May 2010
    After messing with the demo a bit more I guess I might have to buy Dirt 2. I finally started to get used to the slot cars on ice feel and actually one the point to point race.

    Also The Lost and Damned is pretty fantastic. It's great to see the best character from GTAIV (Liberty City) from a whole different angle, and riding around on sweet choppers is fun.

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  • FremFrem Registered User regular
    edited May 2010
    DiRT 2 is supposed to be great, but it won't run on my laptop. How is the first one? I saw a youtube video showing a DiRT 2 race with a lot of branching/rejoining paths. Is the first game like that? Most of the YouTUbe footage of it appears to be on single-lane dirt roads in some sort of time trial mode.

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  • AthenorAthenor Battle Hardened Optimist The Skies of HiigaraRegistered User regular
    edited May 2010
    Also, the amount of control one gains when manual-clutch is a feature is quite amazing.

    I am doing automatic ATM, just so I can focus on keeping the car going where I want. I know how much manual helps with turns and proper control, but I'm just not there yet.

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  • CG FaggotryCG Faggotry BristolRegistered User regular
    edited May 2010
    Frem wrote: »
    DiRT 2 is supposed to be great, but it won't run on my laptop. How is the first one? I saw a youtube video showing a DiRT 2 race with a lot of branching/rejoining paths. Is the first game like that? Most of the YouTUbe footage of it appears to be on single-lane dirt roads in some sort of time trial mode.

    Dirt 1 is slightly more sim-like, as I feel the driving model is actually more realistic in the first game. I also miss the Hill Climbing races, they were an absolute blast. I also greatly prefer the asthetic, as I highly dislike the Dirt 2 "WHAD'UP BRO, CHUG SOME MONSTER" styling.

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  • RobmanRobman Registered User regular
    edited May 2010
    Frem wrote: »
    DiRT 2 is supposed to be great, but it won't run on my laptop. How is the first one? I saw a youtube video showing a DiRT 2 race with a lot of branching/rejoining paths. Is the first game like that? Most of the YouTUbe footage of it appears to be on single-lane dirt roads in some sort of time trial mode.

    Dirt 1 is slightly more sim-like, as I feel the driving model is actually more realistic in the first game. I also miss the Hill Climbing races, they were an absolute blast. I also greatly prefer the asthetic, as I highly dislike the Dirt 2 "WHAD'UP BRO, CHUG SOME MONSTER" styling.

    DIRT2 is pretty much what modern rally racing is all about aka WADDUP BRO CHUG SOME MONSTAR ALSO BABES EVERYWHERE

    Like seriously I've never seen a racing suit hug an ass so tightly as the chicks hanging out by your trailer in DIRT 2, that's some custom tailored shit for boners right there.

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  • DroolDrool Science! AustinRegistered User regular
    edited May 2010
    Frem wrote: »
    DiRT 2 is supposed to be great, but it won't run on my laptop. How is the first one? I saw a youtube video showing a DiRT 2 race with a lot of branching/rejoining paths. Is the first game like that? Most of the YouTUbe footage of it appears to be on single-lane dirt roads in some sort of time trial mode.

    It's called Rally, or some perverse XTREEEME version of it.

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  • CG FaggotryCG Faggotry BristolRegistered User regular
    edited May 2010
    Robman wrote: »
    Frem wrote: »
    DiRT 2 is supposed to be great, but it won't run on my laptop. How is the first one? I saw a youtube video showing a DiRT 2 race with a lot of branching/rejoining paths. Is the first game like that? Most of the YouTUbe footage of it appears to be on single-lane dirt roads in some sort of time trial mode.

    Dirt 1 is slightly more sim-like, as I feel the driving model is actually more realistic in the first game. I also miss the Hill Climbing races, they were an absolute blast. I also greatly prefer the asthetic, as I highly dislike the Dirt 2 "WHAD'UP BRO, CHUG SOME MONSTER" styling.

    DIRT2 is pretty much what modern rally racing is all about aka WADDUP BRO CHUG SOME MONSTAR ALSO BABES EVERYWHERE

    Like seriously I've never seen a racing suit hug an ass so tightly as the chicks hanging out by your trailer in DIRT 2, that's some custom tailored shit for boners right there.

    To me, Rally is completely insane Finns doing stupid things on ice.

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  • SudsSuds Registered User regular
    edited May 2010
    On a lighter note, what are people's preferences for camera choice? Personally, I play every racing game I can with cockpit view. I find it adds an extra degree of caution & hence I drive (somewaht counter-intuitively) much cleaner with it.

    Cockpit view. And I use TrackIR so I can look around.

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  • CG FaggotryCG Faggotry BristolRegistered User regular
    edited May 2010
    Suds wrote: »
    On a lighter note, what are people's preferences for camera choice? Personally, I play every racing game I can with cockpit view. I find it adds an extra degree of caution & hence I drive (somewaht counter-intuitively) much cleaner with it.

    Cockpit view. And I use TrackIR so I can look around.

    Hmmph. Me & my crude right thumbstick.

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  • StormwatcherStormwatcher Blegh BlughRegistered User regular
    edited May 2010
    I never do racing games with manual transmission
    Funny thing is that I only ever drove manual shift cars in real life.

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  • RobmanRobman Registered User regular
    edited May 2010
    The speed in DIRT 2 feels off. I can take hairpins at 40ish KM/H on gravel, something I would never ever be able to do in a real car. It kind of feels like they've multiplied the KM/H displayed by 1.5 or so, to make us think we're going faster.

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  • DroolDrool Science! AustinRegistered User regular
    edited May 2010
    Buy Episodes from Liberty City. It's definitely worth the $22 they are charging for it for the next 4 hours.

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  • SmokeStacksSmokeStacks Registered User regular
    edited May 2010
    Robman wrote: »
    The speed in DIRT 2 feels off. I can take hairpins at 40ish KM/H on gravel, something I would never ever be able to do in a real car.

    Not in your two wheel drive commuter sedan with economy tires, no.

    In a $400,000 car built from the ground up to drive extremely quickly off road? Maybe.

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  • StormwatcherStormwatcher Blegh BlughRegistered User regular
    edited May 2010
    Robman wrote: »
    The speed in DIRT 2 feels off. I can take hairpins at 40ish KM/H on gravel, something I would never ever be able to do in a real car.

    Not in your two wheel drive commuter sedan with economy tires, no.

    In a $400,000 car built from the ground up to drive extremely quickly off road? Maybe.

    Yeah, that.
    Those are kickass rally cars. And Codemasters has been making rally games for decades.

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  • LawndartLawndart Registered User regular
    edited May 2010
    Oh hey Steam thread.

    Not sure if this is the right place to ask, but I fell for the GTA Classics deal and am having issues getting my Xbox 360 controller to fully work with both GTA 3 and Vice City (and San Andreas eventually, I guess).

    All I've been able to find as far as online advice is "Download Xpadder and tada!" So I downloaded Xpadder but it neither game will recognize the right analog stick even after Xpadder has theoretically remapped it to echo mouselook.

    Is there something else I'm missing here, or is partial control support the best I'm going to get?

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  • HyperAquaBlastHyperAquaBlast Registered User regular
    edited May 2010
    Aww man I just saw that Beat Hazard is only $5 on the Xbox but $10 on Steam.

    Can't complain to much though since I have been playing the game nonstop this weekend although it does look nicer on the tv.

    Are there any other music games like this other then Audiosurf?

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  • DroolDrool Science! AustinRegistered User regular
    edited May 2010
    Lawndart wrote: »
    Oh hey Steam thread.

    Not sure if this is the right place to ask, but I fell for the GTA Classics deal and am having issues getting my Xbox 360 controller to fully work with both GTA 3 and Vice City (and San Andreas eventually, I guess).

    All I've been able to find as far as online advice is "Download Xpadder and tada!" So I downloaded Xpadder but it neither game will recognize the right analog stick even after Xpadder has theoretically remapped it to echo mouselook.

    Is there something else I'm missing here, or is partial control support the best I'm going to get?

    I had my 360 controller working perfectly in Vice City with Xpadder back when. You did go into Xpadder and configure it right?

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  • maximumzeromaximumzero I...wait, what? New Orleans, LARegistered User regular
    edited May 2010
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    I'm ready to get back into TF2. Any other Mac folks coming out of Steam retirement or is it just me?

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  • FatsFats Corvallis, ORRegistered User regular
    edited May 2010
    Did they ever enable that mouse to register both left and right buttons at the same time?

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  • maximumzeromaximumzero I...wait, what? New Orleans, LARegistered User regular
    edited May 2010
    Fats wrote: »
    Did they ever enable that mouse to register both left and right buttons at the same time?

    No, and it's not really something they could patch. It's a physical problem.

    Edit: Clicking one side or the other is actually clicking down the entire face of the mouse.

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  • ultimakayultimakay Registered User regular
    edited May 2010
    Aww man I just saw that Beat Hazard is only $5 on the Xbox but $10 on Steam.

    Can't complain to much though since I have been playing the game nonstop this weekend although it does look nicer on the tv.

    Are there any other music games like this other then Audiosurf?

    I thought at first that the 360 would be a better deal, but I'm finding it quite nice not have to put my music onto my 360. Though watching it on the t.v would be pretty awesome, and co-op too.

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  • LawndartLawndart Registered User regular
    edited May 2010
    Drool wrote: »
    Lawndart wrote: »
    Oh hey Steam thread.

    Not sure if this is the right place to ask, but I fell for the GTA Classics deal and am having issues getting my Xbox 360 controller to fully work with both GTA 3 and Vice City (and San Andreas eventually, I guess).

    All I've been able to find as far as online advice is "Download Xpadder and tada!" So I downloaded Xpadder but it neither game will recognize the right analog stick even after Xpadder has theoretically remapped it to echo mouselook.

    Is there something else I'm missing here, or is partial control support the best I'm going to get?

    I had my 360 controller working perfectly in Vice City with Xpadder back when. You did go into Xpadder and configure it right?

    I honestly have no clue. I assigned all the buttons, and bound the left analog stick to WASD and the right analog stick to Mouse Up/Down/Left/Right, saved the controller profile, kept Xpadder on, booted up Vice City and the right stick still didn't register.

    It doesn't help that Xpadder, or at least the free version, seems to be completely lacking in documentation.

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  • SenshiSenshi BALLING OUT OF CONTROL WavefrontRegistered User regular
    edited May 2010
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    I'm ready to get back into TF2. Any other Mac folks coming out of Steam retirement or is it just me?

    Me too

    thankfully, I'm not using a mighty mouse

    heh

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  • DisDis Registered User regular
    edited May 2010
    Apple need to start using a rat with more buttons.

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  • DehumanizedDehumanized Registered User regular
    edited May 2010
    magic mouse in source could actually be pretty awesome if configured right

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  • DualEdgeDualEdge Registered User regular
    edited May 2010
    Did anyone else who bought X3: Terran Conflict run into a "failed to contact key server" error?

    The Steam forums board for this series is rather barren and was of no help.

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  • FatsFats Corvallis, ORRegistered User regular
    edited May 2010
    magic mouse in source could actually be pretty awesome if configured right

    Playing heavy would be difficult.

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