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Any thoughts on Guncraft?
It seems to be pretty dead, but I'm tempted to grab in from the current daily Humble Bundle just to play with its character skin and weapon editor.
Two examples from the Steam Workshop:
Dish out the deals and cut all the prices... as Father Christmas-Sale himself! Gabe "GIB HL3 PLOX" Newell!
Annihilate your enemys, and their wallets, with this Gaben approved* long distance Steam Sale!
*Not actually approved by the all-powerful Gaben.
SteevLWhat can I do for you?Registered Userregular
@Kalnaur messaged me earlier and pointed out that Dungeons & Dragons: Chronicles of Mystara was on sale and noted it was on my wishlist. I thanked him, fully intending to buy the game a little later. A little over an hour later he asked me if I bought it yet; when I responded that I hadn't, he hits me with a code.
GoodKingJayIIIThey wanna get mygold on the ceilingRegistered Userregular
Ok, I really hate to be "that guy" but I'm finding Vavle's directions for activating streaming really unclear. I can't seem to get it to work, and I'm not really sure what I'm doing incorrectly.
Ok, I really hate to be "that guy" but I'm finding Vavle's directions for activating streaming really unclear. I can't seem to get it to work, and I'm not really sure what I'm doing incorrectly.
I had to activate it? I just went on my laptop the other day, signed in, and saw that there was a drop-down menu on the play button.
For the record, if I had any money for a birthday giveaway, I would give away Space Marine because that is an awesome game that more people should play.
For the record, if I had any money for a birthday giveaway, I would give away Space Marine because that is an awesome game that more people should play.
So LaCabra posted a link over in the Game Dev thread but I don't think we've talked about it in here. He's got a really meaty blog post up about sales figures for InFlux: http://impromptugames.com/
Fascinating stuff. I'm always grateful when devs pull back the curtain and share sales figures.
I was playing it tonight - beautiful game - because I saw that it has Steam cards. Is that new? It's not even listed on the store page. Very few of my Steam friends have the cards. I hope he'll follow up on this post down the line and share any impact Steam cards have had on revenue and or actual game sales.
Also this:
Just under an hour a day? to get in on this, folks.
Or you could just buy it.
Or if you have it you could play it and get the new Steam cards and then buy the cards you need to complete the badge.
Ok, I really hate to be "that guy" but I'm finding Vavle's directions for activating streaming really unclear. I can't seem to get it to work, and I'm not really sure what I'm doing incorrectly.
I had to activate it? I just went on my laptop the other day, signed in, and saw that there was a drop-down menu on the play button.
That's all I did. Sign in on both devices and press play on whatever game, on the machine you want to stream to.
It didn't work too well for me streaming to a shitty netbook over a wireless connection, but the basic functionality is there. It was a little trippy seeing stuff like Mass Effect and Borderlands 2 playing on my netbook that can barely run FTL.
So Guacamelee is pretty fun judging by how it's now 2 AM and I didn't even notice. Just got the Dimension Swap move. I really like how tight the combat is with how I can attack, grapple, and dodge without it feeling unresponsive. The first time I got locked in a corridor with a ton of spawning skeletons and I destroyed them all without a scratch, and a really high hit count, felt great. Completely different from Blade Kitten's floaty and unresponsive combat.
i really need to get this game
but i feel like it would be a bear to play without a joypad
For the record, if I had any money for a birthday giveaway, I would give away Space Marine because that is an awesome game that more people should play.
For the record, if I had any money for a birthday giveaway, I would give away Space Marine because that is an awesome game that more people should play.
Will a 460gtx run watch dogs? I don't remember if it's a dx11 card or not and my friend ran out yesterday to buy a new card because he said the game required 11 which may or may not be true. I haven't really looked into it?
GTX 460 is listed at the bottom of the steam page as a supported graphics card (and the minimum required), so you should be alright.
oh doh. I always forget about that on the store.Thank you though.
Has anyone used a Surface Pro (first generation) to stream to a TV? I've never used my Surface for anything but watching netflix in bed and as a digital sheet music display when playing piano. I assume it would work if I got a mini DisplayPort cable that would let me plug it into the HDMI port on my TV. Exciting idea to be able to play some of my stream library on the big screen without running a 40 ft cable through my house.
Has anyone played the PC version of Mortal Kombat? It's $5 on Amazon but a bunch of the reviews claims it runs like garbage even on decent PCs. I can run Injustice just fine...should I be ok to pick up a copy?
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Is Drunken Robot Pornography worth buying?
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Has anyone used a Surface Pro (first generation) to stream to a TV? I've never used my Surface for anything but watching netflix in bed and as a digital sheet music display when playing piano. I assume it would work if I got a mini DisplayPort cable that would let me plug it into the HDMI port on my TV. Exciting idea to be able to play some of my stream library on the big screen without running a 40 ft cable through my house.
I use it to stream videos from my main computer, and also for Netflix when the girlie comes over. I do have a mini-displayport to HDMI though. I got one for cheap off amazon, they have the best decent-sized HDMI cables for very little money compared to your average tech store. However, since it's a first generation Surface Pro, I rarely play video games on it. The on-board graphics doesn't pump a lot of power even though the CPU, RAM, and SSD are great. I play DotA on it sometimes, but the performance is very noticeable and sometimes hinders my play. For less graphically intensive games, it works pretty well.
I have yet to stream Steam to my Surface, but now that you mentioned it... it will have to be done.
Has anyone played the PC version of Mortal Kombat? It's $5 on Amazon but a bunch of the reviews claims it runs like garbage even on decent PCs. I can run Injustice just fine...should I be ok to pick up a copy?
Yeah you should be fine. The online is probably all borked up but I play those games for the story mode and random ai fights myself.
Has anyone used a Surface Pro (first generation) to stream to a TV? I've never used my Surface for anything but watching netflix in bed and as a digital sheet music display when playing piano. I assume it would work if I got a mini DisplayPort cable that would let me plug it into the HDMI port on my TV. Exciting idea to be able to play some of my stream library on the big screen without running a 40 ft cable through my house.
I use it to stream videos from my main computer, and also for Netflix when the girlie comes over. I do have a mini-displayport to HDMI though. I got one for cheap off amazon, they have the best decent-sized HDMI cables for very little money compared to your average tech store. However, since it's a first generation Surface Pro, I rarely play video games on it. The on-board graphics doesn't pump a lot of power even though the CPU, RAM, and SSD are great. I play DotA on it sometimes, but the performance is very noticeable and sometimes hinders my play. For less graphically intensive games, it works pretty well.
I have yet to stream Steam to my Surface, but now that you mentioned it... it will have to be done.
So, I just tried it. Really simple to set up, just launch Steam from both computers, make sure you have beta mode enabled. I only tested two games, Dark Souls II and Naruto. Dark Souls II runs pretty well. I wasn't able to move my mouse on my type keyboard and move at the same time though, which makes it unplayable. Maybe with a controller plugged in it wouldn't be an issue. There's some random lag spikes too, but I can blame that on my low end Netgear router, and that I have it set to Beautiful setting instead of Fast.
Naruto on the other hand was kind of a mess. It's one of those games that runs an intro screen before actually starting the game with options like play, graphics configurations, controller configuration, exit, etc... When it starts streaming, it zooms in on this screen and was really difficult to navigate. After struggling to hit Play, I couldn't even get passed the title screen that says "Press Start to Play" without a controller. I had to alt+tab out of it because I don't have a controller on me right now/ am lazy.
So my experience so far is that it's neat, kind of a novelty, but impractical for me personally because I'll want to be playing directly on my gamer machine anyway and not my TV. However, I can easily see someone getting this to work great with the first gen Surface Pro if they wanted to enjoy playing on a big screen without moving equipment around. I'd suggest getting a high end wireless router though, as your one USB will be used for a controller and not for a wired Ethernet adapter.
Has anyone played this Arkham Origins: Blackgate game? I hear it's kinda shitty, but I imagine my tolerance level would be a bit higher since A. It's Batman who I like on occasion and B. It's a metroidvania, which I love on occasion.
Get Arkham Asylum instead. It is infinitely better at being both a Batman game and a Metroidvania. I played Arkham Origins Blackgate, and the port to PC can't have fixed the awful boss fights, the confusing map, and the sluggish combat.
@Stragint I have an extra copy of it if you would like it, assuming you didn't buy it already.
@KoopahTroopah awesome sir, thanks a lot for all that info. I think I'll give it a whirl and see how it does for me. I plan to really only play games that work well with a controller, so anything else I'll just play upstairs on the PC as normal.
@Iolo thanks for the suggestion, I was perusing the thread over there.
@malakaius just gifted me Cloudbuilt! @drake's ramblings about it got interested in it so I'm reallly looking forward to trying it out, thanks mal!
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Can someone help me figure out a game? It was posted here awhile back. It had 16 bit graphics, it was an rpg, and it's in alpha or beta right now. I think it was 4 person co op. Looked kind of like link to the past. I remember some enemies had jack o lantern heads.
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Can someone help me figure out a game? It was posted here awhile back. It had 16 bit graphics, it was an rpg, and it's in alpha or beta right now. I think it was 4 person co op. Looked kind of like link to the past. I remember some enemies had jack o lantern heads.
Ok, I really hate to be "that guy" but I'm finding Vavle's directions for activating streaming really unclear. I can't seem to get it to work, and I'm not really sure what I'm doing incorrectly.
Yeah I had a lot of issues getting it going too.
It sounded a lot more obvious than it ended up being; mainly because you can't force (as far as I can tell anyway) Steam to update, so you're kinda just going on its whim and hoping it's up to date.
But long story short, when you're sure both PC's have the correct version of Steam (you might even try a full restart on the PC's), and they're on the same network, you'll start up the 'main' PC's steam first, get it all loaded and logged in. Then you go and load up Steam on the PC you want to stream to and get logged in (to the same account). After a minute you should get an automatic popup on your main PC that your other PC is going to be connected, accept that and you should be good to go. The stream PC will automatically show all of the games you have on your main PC and you just click stream and it loads them up with whatever settings you have them set to on your main PC.
Be aware of resolution differences; it will stream the resolution your main pc is at by default (for me 1080), even if your second PC can't handle that resolution (mine is 720-ish), and it will result in a more stuttery stream and everything will be slightly unreadable. On your main PC in Steam > Settings there's a section for streaming and you can limit the stream resolution and it helps both that issue and it's somewhat lower bandwidth; incidentally you can also either limit bandwidth or set it to unlimited and to prioritize the stream for network traffic.
@Stragint I have an extra copy of it if you would like it, assuming you didn't buy it already.
@KoopahTroopah awesome sir, thanks a lot for all that info. I think I'll give it a whirl and see how it does for me. I plan to really only play games that work well with a controller, so anything else I'll just play upstairs on the PC as normal.
@Iolo thanks for the suggestion, I was perusing the thread over there.
Thanks for the offer but I did already buy it. The screen shots were too tempting.
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What is the point of being alive if you don't at least try to do something remarkable? ~ Mario Novak
I never fear death or dyin', I only fear never trying.
Can someone help me figure out a game? It was posted here awhile back. It had 16 bit graphics, it was an rpg, and it's in alpha or beta right now. I think it was 4 person co op. Looked kind of like link to the past. I remember some enemies had jack o lantern heads.
Wow, pretty much everything in Bioshock is harder to do after playing Bioshock 2 first. Although, knowing the story, the little bits and pieces left out make it a very interesting playthrough.
For the moment, the second one has a better engine and better gameplay, the first one has a more interesting story.
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It seems to be pretty dead, but I'm tempted to grab in from the current daily Humble Bundle just to play with its character skin and weapon editor.
Two examples from the Steam Workshop:
Dish out the deals and cut all the prices... as Father Christmas-Sale himself! Gabe "GIB HL3 PLOX" Newell!
Annihilate your enemys, and their wallets, with this Gaben approved* long distance Steam Sale!
*Not actually approved by the all-powerful Gaben.
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Oh wow, thanks!
I shall feast on turkey legs in your honor.
I had to activate it? I just went on my laptop the other day, signed in, and saw that there was a drop-down menu on the play button.
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Bless you sir.
One day I'm going to win the lottery and rain joy down upon this thread.
Just under an hour a day? to get in on this, folks.
Or you could just buy it.
Or if you have it you could play it and get the new Steam cards and then buy the cards you need to complete the badge.
Lots of options, here, people.
EDIT: Plus how can you not love this badge title:
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Getting started with BATTLETECH: Part 1 / Part 2
That's all I did. Sign in on both devices and press play on whatever game, on the machine you want to stream to.
It didn't work too well for me streaming to a shitty netbook over a wireless connection, but the basic functionality is there. It was a little trippy seeing stuff like Mass Effect and Borderlands 2 playing on my netbook that can barely run FTL.
i really need to get this game
but i feel like it would be a bear to play without a joypad
confirm/deny?
But it's worth it because of stuff like this: http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=263609932
I know how you feel. Once I'm out of school and have a good job, I'm going to rock this thread like orbital artillery.
we still need to sort out your gift problem
I worked my way pretty far through Rogue Legacy if that means anything?
edit: whoa, momma!
i managed to stop being the poorest person
but now i'm always working and this thread moves like a rocket. it is a conundrum.
edit: except now. so i triple post. and look foolish.
oh doh. I always forget about that on the store.Thank you though.
What is the point of being alive if you don't at least try to do something remarkable? ~ Mario Novak
I never fear death or dyin', I only fear never trying.
I use it to stream videos from my main computer, and also for Netflix when the girlie comes over. I do have a mini-displayport to HDMI though. I got one for cheap off amazon, they have the best decent-sized HDMI cables for very little money compared to your average tech store. However, since it's a first generation Surface Pro, I rarely play video games on it. The on-board graphics doesn't pump a lot of power even though the CPU, RAM, and SSD are great. I play DotA on it sometimes, but the performance is very noticeable and sometimes hinders my play. For less graphically intensive games, it works pretty well.
I have yet to stream Steam to my Surface, but now that you mentioned it... it will have to be done.
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Getting started with BATTLETECH: Part 1 / Part 2
Yeah you should be fine. The online is probably all borked up but I play those games for the story mode and random ai fights myself.
it has to be worth buying just for the name, the only person on my friends list that owns it is @Corpekata
So, I just tried it. Really simple to set up, just launch Steam from both computers, make sure you have beta mode enabled. I only tested two games, Dark Souls II and Naruto. Dark Souls II runs pretty well. I wasn't able to move my mouse on my type keyboard and move at the same time though, which makes it unplayable. Maybe with a controller plugged in it wouldn't be an issue. There's some random lag spikes too, but I can blame that on my low end Netgear router, and that I have it set to Beautiful setting instead of Fast.
Naruto on the other hand was kind of a mess. It's one of those games that runs an intro screen before actually starting the game with options like play, graphics configurations, controller configuration, exit, etc... When it starts streaming, it zooms in on this screen and was really difficult to navigate. After struggling to hit Play, I couldn't even get passed the title screen that says "Press Start to Play" without a controller. I had to alt+tab out of it because I don't have a controller on me right now/ am lazy.
So my experience so far is that it's neat, kind of a novelty, but impractical for me personally because I'll want to be playing directly on my gamer machine anyway and not my TV. However, I can easily see someone getting this to work great with the first gen Surface Pro if they wanted to enjoy playing on a big screen without moving equipment around. I'd suggest getting a high end wireless router though, as your one USB will be used for a controller and not for a wired Ethernet adapter.
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Get Arkham Asylum instead. It is infinitely better at being both a Batman game and a Metroidvania. I played Arkham Origins Blackgate, and the port to PC can't have fixed the awful boss fights, the confusing map, and the sluggish combat.
@Stragint I have an extra copy of it if you would like it, assuming you didn't buy it already.
@KoopahTroopah awesome sir, thanks a lot for all that info. I think I'll give it a whirl and see how it does for me. I plan to really only play games that work well with a controller, so anything else I'll just play upstairs on the PC as normal.
@Iolo thanks for the suggestion, I was perusing the thread over there.
Secrets of Grindea?
Yeah I had a lot of issues getting it going too.
It sounded a lot more obvious than it ended up being; mainly because you can't force (as far as I can tell anyway) Steam to update, so you're kinda just going on its whim and hoping it's up to date.
But long story short, when you're sure both PC's have the correct version of Steam (you might even try a full restart on the PC's), and they're on the same network, you'll start up the 'main' PC's steam first, get it all loaded and logged in. Then you go and load up Steam on the PC you want to stream to and get logged in (to the same account). After a minute you should get an automatic popup on your main PC that your other PC is going to be connected, accept that and you should be good to go. The stream PC will automatically show all of the games you have on your main PC and you just click stream and it loads them up with whatever settings you have them set to on your main PC.
Be aware of resolution differences; it will stream the resolution your main pc is at by default (for me 1080), even if your second PC can't handle that resolution (mine is 720-ish), and it will result in a more stuttery stream and everything will be slightly unreadable. On your main PC in Steam > Settings there's a section for streaming and you can limit the stream resolution and it helps both that issue and it's somewhat lower bandwidth; incidentally you can also either limit bandwidth or set it to unlimited and to prioritize the stream for network traffic.
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Are there specific rules/limitations for how many frames, or size, to set your avatars to animate?
<-- is an animated gif but the forum isn't animating it. I'm guessing it is too many frames or something? Is there an outline anywhere about this?
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Thanks for the offer but I did already buy it. The screen shots were too tempting.
What is the point of being alive if you don't at least try to do something remarkable? ~ Mario Novak
I never fear death or dyin', I only fear never trying.
The only thing I can directly compare it to is the old PlayStation game Jumping Flash.
Yes! Thank you.
For the moment, the second one has a better engine and better gameplay, the first one has a more interesting story.
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