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[Steam|Source] SteamCloud keeps your saves and keybinds globally.

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  • übergeekübergeek Sector 2814Registered User regular
    edited June 2008
    WHAT?!? $5?!?!

    I'm tempted, but it doesn't have the Suds seal of approval yet. If he and other people declare it awesome, I'll get that and UT2k4 tonight.

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  • Pajama_ManPajama_Man Registered User regular
    edited June 2008
    Red Orchestra: Ostfront 41-45 is 5$, y/n?

    Yes

    ...although not as many players/server as was a year ago.

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  • TychoCelchuuuTychoCelchuuu PIGEON Registered User regular
    edited June 2008
    Buy Red Orchestra, everyone. Just a heads up. I'll make a thread about it but I figured I should tell you all here too.

    edit: okay it's Red Orchestra time for everyone with a mouse, keyboard, and brain! And $5.

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  • übergeekübergeek Sector 2814Registered User regular
    edited June 2008
    Bought.

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  • Lord JezoLord Jezo Registered User regular
    edited June 2008
    About this SteamCloud thing..

    Are all games going to support it or will it just be the ones that decide to use it, like the Steam Acheivement community thing, as in no one really but Valve themselves?

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  • RookRook Registered User regular
    edited June 2008
    Lord Jezo wrote: »
    About this SteamCloud thing..

    Are all games going to support it or will it just be the ones that decide to use it, like the Steam Acheivement community thing, as in no one really but Valve themselves?

    It's part of steamworks which means any dev can use it for free.

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  • PeewiPeewi Registered User regular
    edited June 2008
    Rook wrote: »
    Lord Jezo wrote: »
    About this SteamCloud thing..

    Are all games going to support it or will it just be the ones that decide to use it, like the Steam Acheivement community thing, as in no one really but Valve themselves?

    It's part of steamworks which means any dev can use it for free.

    I think he wants to know if it'll work with games already on Steam, without them receiving updates from the developer.

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  • Lord JezoLord Jezo Registered User regular
    edited June 2008
    Peewi wrote: »
    Rook wrote: »
    Lord Jezo wrote: »
    About this SteamCloud thing..

    Are all games going to support it or will it just be the ones that decide to use it, like the Steam Acheivement community thing, as in no one really but Valve themselves?

    It's part of steamworks which means any dev can use it for free.

    I think he wants to know if it'll work with games already on Steam, without them receiving updates from the developer.

    Ya, so that makes me think that if it's just part of Steamworks then no one will use it as no one is really using it at all now.

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  • RookRook Registered User regular
    edited June 2008
    Lord Jezo wrote: »
    Peewi wrote: »
    Rook wrote: »
    Lord Jezo wrote: »
    About this SteamCloud thing..

    Are all games going to support it or will it just be the ones that decide to use it, like the Steam Acheivement community thing, as in no one really but Valve themselves?

    It's part of steamworks which means any dev can use it for free.

    I think he wants to know if it'll work with games already on Steam, without them receiving updates from the developer.

    Ya, so that makes me think that if it's just part of Steamworks then no one will use it as no one is really using it at all now.

    They've only just released steamworks, they did announce it before it was finished.

    Rook on
  • zimfanzimfan Registered User regular
    edited June 2008
    So, how's Eternal Silence 3.0?

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  • JaramrJaramr Registered User regular
    edited June 2008
    zimfan wrote: »
    So, how's Eternal Silence 3.0?

    Its pretty good, although a lot more time is spent in space instead of infantry combat. This is mainly because you cant get inside a hanger without destroying the corvettes, as in, theres a invisible wall there, it wont let you.


    Some people on the server I was playing on said the infantry combat was a lot worse between versions, but I was having to much fun using the flamethrower on large groups of people.

    Space combat is actually a quite a bit better in the new version, theres a lot more depth to it now that theres a lot more ships and types of ships in space, bombers doing bombing runs on the corvettes while dodging flak fire and the seven fighters after him, etc. Theres also a unique ship to each side, a Interceptor for the UTF, and a Heavy Fighter for the NGM (It has goddamn flak cannons, yes.)

    So yeah, its pretty good.

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  • zimfanzimfan Registered User regular
    edited June 2008
    Jaramr wrote: »
    zimfan wrote: »
    So, how's Eternal Silence 3.0?

    Its pretty good, although a lot more time is spent in space instead of infantry combat. This is mainly because you cant get inside a hanger without destroying the corvettes, as in, theres a invisible wall there, it wont let you.


    Some people on the server I was playing on said the infantry combat was a lot worse between versions, but I was having to much fun using the flamethrower on large groups of people.

    Space combat is actually a quite a bit better in the new version, theres a lot more depth to it now that theres a lot more ships and types of ships in space, bombers doing bombing runs on the corvettes while dodging flak fire and the seven fighters after him, etc. Theres also a unique ship to each side, a Interceptor for the UTF, and a Heavy Fighter for the NGM (It has goddamn flak cannons, yes.)

    So yeah, its pretty good.

    I'll try it out.
    My only problem with Eternal Silence 2 was the lack of players, but this might be different.

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  • JaramrJaramr Registered User regular
    edited June 2008
    Yesterday there were about 4 full 32 player servers within 70 ping. There shouldn't be much of a problem with population for a while.

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  • ChewyWafflesChewyWaffles Registered User regular
    edited June 2008
    Company of Heroes really pissed me off this past week. I bought it and the exp pack off Steam just before I left for a week-long vacation knowing that I would not have Internet access. I went into offline mode and could play all my games offline just fine except for CoH, which kept telling me "Cannot verify media". Pissed me off something fierce that I could have probably pirated it and played just fine.

    EDIT: proper grammar are good

    EDIT 2: New Steam client update just now:
    Fixed games failing to launch on Windows Vista from a fresh game install

    Possible fix for my problem? Either way, I'm home now, where there's always Internet.

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  • TaminTamin Registered User regular
    edited June 2008
    Did you verify it before leaving?

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  • TychoCelchuuuTychoCelchuuu PIGEON Registered User regular
    edited June 2008
    As long as you run it once before you go offline you should be fine forever and ever.

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  • ChewyWafflesChewyWaffles Registered User regular
    edited June 2008
    Tamin wrote: »
    Did you verify it before leaving?

    Not sure what verify means. I wouldn't have thought I'd need to do anything to use the game offline as long as I bought it and then used the "Go offline" feature.

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  • TaminTamin Registered User regular
    edited June 2008
    What TychoCelchuu said, basically. So long as you've booted it up while connected, it should cross off the 'authenticate' line on its to-do list.

    It's exactly the same as needing to put in the CD-Key during installation, except that the CD-Key is being retrieved from a remote server and tied to your account.

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  • augustaugust where you come from is gone Registered User regular
    edited June 2008
    You also have to do it every time a game updates.

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  • ZilartZilart Registered User regular
    edited June 2008
    I bought Red Orchestra. It is awesome for just a measly $5.

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  • FyreWulffFyreWulff YouRegistered User, ClubPA regular
    edited June 2008
    Rook wrote: »
    Lord Jezo wrote: »
    About this SteamCloud thing..

    Are all games going to support it or will it just be the ones that decide to use it, like the Steam Acheivement community thing, as in no one really but Valve themselves?

    It's part of steamworks which means any dev can use it for free.

    When Steamworks starts to exist anyway..

    edit: in that no game uses it yet in public and you still have to contact them, and you get no reply..

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  • PeewiPeewi Registered User regular
    edited June 2008
    FyreWulff wrote: »
    Rook wrote: »
    Lord Jezo wrote: »
    About this SteamCloud thing..

    Are all games going to support it or will it just be the ones that decide to use it, like the Steam Acheivement community thing, as in no one really but Valve themselves?

    It's part of steamworks which means any dev can use it for free.

    When Steamworks starts to exist anyway..

    edit: in that no game uses it yet in public and you still have to contact them, and you get no reply..


    If you by "games in public" mean games that has been released, you are wrong.
    A number of non-Valve games, such as Audiosurf and Ninja Reflex: Steamworks Edition, has achievements which is a part of Steamworks. In addition, some time back Red Orchestra received a Steamworks update making it use the Steam server browser and friends system.

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  • TaminTamin Registered User regular
    edited June 2008
    So, ES is awesome. Needs a few things, here and there:
    • either more ships, or customizable ones. Different weapon layouts, etc
    • ability to command those gunboats/corvettes.
    • gunners need a radar. Or, at least, a way to figure out where the shots are coming from.
    • infantry combat feels a little weak, at the moment. Fun, but hard to tell what killed you, where they were, things like that.
    ... and, in the realm of competely dreaming, have it more like a fleet than just the stationary 3 + base layout.

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  • FyreWulffFyreWulff YouRegistered User, ClubPA regular
    edited June 2008
    Peewi wrote: »
    FyreWulff wrote: »
    Rook wrote: »
    Lord Jezo wrote: »
    About this SteamCloud thing..

    Are all games going to support it or will it just be the ones that decide to use it, like the Steam Acheivement community thing, as in no one really but Valve themselves?

    It's part of steamworks which means any dev can use it for free.

    When Steamworks starts to exist anyway..

    edit: in that no game uses it yet in public and you still have to contact them, and you get no reply..


    If you by "games in public" mean games that has been released, you are wrong.
    A number of non-Valve games, such as Audiosurf and Ninja Reflex: Steamworks Edition, has achievements which is a part of Steamworks. In addition, some time back Red Orchestra received a Steamworks update making it use the Steam server browser and friends system.

    All of those games developers have pre-existing relationships with Valve.

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  • zimfanzimfan Registered User regular
    edited June 2008
    So, anyone here play Insurgency? just got into it, it's pretty satisfying.

    It's my poor man's CoD 4 ^_^
    (I like to pretend to myself i'm playing CoD4 and not a cool Mod sometimes)

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  • ImpersonatorImpersonator Registered User regular
    edited June 2008
    Insurgency is fucking cool, like professional-cool

    It's just so well made, it's a shame it's not my type of game

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  • LaCabraLaCabra MelbourneRegistered User regular
    edited June 2008
    Valve have released their particle, commentary and materials editors. They'll be pretty sweet when I have any idea how they work!
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  • TychoCelchuuuTychoCelchuuu PIGEON Registered User regular
    edited June 2008
    Materials editor eh? I like the sound of that.

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  • SteevLSteevL What can I do for you? Registered User regular
    edited June 2008
    Hopefully there aren't any of an anomalous nature.

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  • augustaugust where you come from is gone Registered User regular
    edited June 2008
    That might lead to unforeseen consequences.

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  • LaCabraLaCabra MelbourneRegistered User regular
    edited June 2008
    I'll be safe here in my office complex.

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  • DusdaDusda is ashamed of this post SLC, UTRegistered User regular
    edited June 2008
    Oooo, a particles editor. I'm going to have to check that one out.

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    and this sig. and this twitch stream.
  • LaCabraLaCabra MelbourneRegistered User regular
    edited June 2008
    God damnit, you broke it.

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  • PeewiPeewi Registered User regular
    edited June 2008
    LaCabra wrote: »
    Valve have released their particle, commentary and materials editors. They'll be pretty sweet when I have any idea how they work!
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    Not that I'd know how to use it, but where do you get it? I tried looking in the Source SDK and didn't see anything new.

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  • LaCabraLaCabra MelbourneRegistered User regular
    edited June 2008
    Just add -tools to ep2.

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  • SudsSuds Registered User regular
    edited June 2008
    It's almost time for a new OP. I'll get to writing one sometime today.

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  • ImpersonatorImpersonator Registered User regular
    edited June 2008
    I just tried Ballmen, a mp mod for HL2, it has a really cool premise but..only 1 server :?

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  • TychoCelchuuuTychoCelchuuu PIGEON Registered User regular
    edited June 2008
    I really liked Ballmen but yeah. 1 server.

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  • ImpersonatorImpersonator Registered User regular
    edited June 2008
    With 0 people :(

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