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Charles Get-Out posted:My nerves are running high like a kid on christmas. Can't wait to shoot aliens with my squad of native americans and k-pop idols. I'm just gonna fiddle with the character pool for the first hour or so. I love that you can designate certain characters as scientists/engineers only, gonna build myself a science team.
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Demiurge4 posted:I'm just gonna fiddle with the character pool for the first hour or so. I love that you can designate certain characters as scientists/engineers only, gonna build myself a science team. First hour? Man, I hardly ever cared about customization in EU/EW but god help me if I don't see myself losing hours to just messing around with XCOM2's soldier dolls.
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Feb 4, 2016 09:24
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What the hell is an alien codex?
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Feb 4, 2016 09:31
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Lunethex posted:What the hell is an alien codex? firewall/data nexus for alien psychic communications, kinda outsider equivalent
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Feb 4, 2016 09:39
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I'm facing my greatest dilemma of my life to date: whether to make my planned David Bowie XCOM soldier into a Sword Ranger or a Psy-Operative.
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Feb 4, 2016 09:44
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Definitely psy-ops.
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Feb 4, 2016 09:45
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He's the Man Who Fell To Earth, naturally.
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Feb 4, 2016 09:49
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Christopher Odd made a video showing how to export/import character pools and stuff. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fo_AlvNvfa8
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Feb 4, 2016 10:00
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so apparently steam changed the way you change your billing address from when people were vpning for fallout 4. you now have to put in actual information to change it. Please enter a first name for your billing information. Please enter a last name for your billing information. Please enter your billing address. Please enter your billing city. Please enter a State or Province. Please enter your zip or postal code. thats the information you need. so rip vpning to play earlier i guess. Roobanguy fucked around with this message at 10:08 on Feb 4, 2016 |
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Feb 4, 2016 10:01
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Roobanguy posted:so apparently steam changed the way you change your billing address from when people were vpning for fallout 4. you now have to put in actual information to change it. Care to expand on this?
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Feb 4, 2016 10:06
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So what, Steam requires you to change your billing address if you log in from a different region, even if you aren't buying anything? 
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Feb 4, 2016 10:08
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While the game may not have regular controller support, it looks like it has pretty good Steam Controller support. Like Kerbal Space Program, it'll dynamically change bindings depending on what screen you are on in the game.   
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Feb 4, 2016 10:09
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Roobanguy posted:so apparently steam changed the way you change your billing address from when people were vpning for fallout 4. you now have to put in actual information to change it. What are you talking about, you don't need to change anything except turn off steam, turn on vpn, turn on steam.
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Vodos posted:What are you talking about, you don't need to change anything except turn off steam, turn on vpn, turn on steam. check the release date while vpning. if you dont change your billing address, it stays the same for your actual time zone. when you change your billing address and restart steam, the release date then changes. i dont know if the store release date actually matters, but people seemed to think it did for fallout 4.
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So you need to put in an aussie address fitting your VPN's general region? What's the australian equivalent of 1060 West Addison? E: are you looking at the page in steam or firefox/chrome? That reddit post said to eye the clock with a browser, not steam, and that so long as you were VPN'd at the time of the release it'd start the unpacking. Related: is there a convenient way to have my phone get pinged when this poo poo is Ready To Play? I plan to go run some errands while I wait for it, and knowing when exactly I could come home would own. SpookyLizard fucked around with this message at 10:17 on Feb 4, 2016 |
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Feb 4, 2016 10:13
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Just google a McDonalds or something in Australia, it's not that hard.
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Roobanguy posted:so apparently steam changed the way you change your billing address from when people were vpning for fallout 4. you now have to put in actual information to change it. You don't need to do this, don't change your steam billing information unless you want to actually risk a ban.
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Everyone vpning use the address on this page here http://www.pipalyatjara.sa.edu.au/contact.htm
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Elliotw2 posted:You don't need to do this, don't change your steam billing information unless you want to actually risk a ban. are you 100% sure? because everyone in the fallout 4 thread seemed to think you had to before release. also i did that for fallout 4 and didnt get banned. i honestly don't know if changing the billing address actually matters for the unlocking, but if you don't change it, the timers on the store page don't change.
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You've never had to change your address. You just logged in through a VPN and Steam would go "Oh you're in Korea now, cool, here's this game that you can play since you're obviously definitely in Korea and not California." Like that's the entire point of using a VPN.
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Feb 4, 2016 10:21
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Veotax posted:While the game may not have regular controller support, it looks like it has pretty good Steam Controller support. So uh, I've kept dark on this game... why the gently caress did they remove controller support I loved using a gamepad in XCOM, the controls were perfect and I chilled on my couch zapping aliens for several weeks.
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Feb 4, 2016 10:23
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VDay posted:You've never had to change your address. You just logged in through a VPN and Steam would go "Oh you're in Korea now, cool, here's this game that you can play since you're obviously definitely in Korea and not California." ill take your word for it then. just another reason why the fallout 4 thread is bad.
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VDay posted:Just google a McDonalds or something in Australia, it's not that hard. But then I wouldn't be making an oblique Blues Brothers reference.
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victrix posted:So uh, I've kept dark on this game... why the gently caress did they remove controller support Apparently they didn't think it was important since the game isn't coming out on consoles.
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Feb 4, 2016 10:25
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1 hour left on preload, working tonight, finishing at 4:45 in the morning, will get home just in time for unlock. Things are shaping up nicely!
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Veotax posted:Apparently they didn't think it was important since the game isn't coming out on consoles. thats RETARDED
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victrix posted:So uh, I've kept dark on this game... why the gently caress did they remove controller support Yeah first I was shocked this wasn't coming for PS4, and now no controller support when it was by far my most preferred input unit. The weird thing is I hate using the controller for pretty much anything else, FPS on a controller? blergh.
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WTf ?!?!?! why can't they use the same scheme as before? ? ? ? ? ? ?
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Steam will gently caress you if you try to buy games for a different currency. I live in Iceland right now but I still have my steam account tied to my Danish card with my home billing address, I'm paying in Euro's which is fine. But if I were to try and VPN myself to Mexico and pay in Mexibucks (with an EU card) they'd take issue with that. All you need to do is log in, Steam checks the game against your location and unlocks and you log off, turn off the VPN and download the day 1patch. It takes all of 10 seconds.
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So you're saying if you log into steam right now, with Australia set as your vpn location, it'll tell you to update your home address? And you've seen this screen/prompt? Has anyone else? edit: I re-read this page of the thread. Apparently it'll probably just work as normal, according to other posters. redreader fucked around with this message at 10:36 on Feb 4, 2016 |
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Demiurge4 posted:Steam will gently caress you if you try to buy games for a different currency. I live in Iceland right now but I still have my steam account tied to my Danish card with my home billing address, I'm paying in Euro's which is fine. But if I were to try and VPN myself to Mexico and pay in Mexibucks (with an EU card) they'd take issue with that. All you need to do is log in, Steam checks the game against your location and unlocks and you log off, turn off the VPN and download the day 1patch. It takes all of 10 seconds. Actually nowadays the game will re-lock itself if you turn off the VPN. You need to go into Steam's offline mode to circumvent that, or just leave the VPN running until it's unlocked in your region.
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Vodos posted:Actually nowadays the game will re-lock itself if you turn off the VPN. You need to go into Steam's offline mode to circumvent that, or just leave the VPN running until it's unlocked in your region. Really? I didn't have that issue with Fallout 4.
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I remember having to manually change store region for Fallout 4, but I didn't need to change my billing address.
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Demiurge4 posted:Really? I didn't have that issue with Fallout 4. Interesting, so that would be something the developers can control? I definitely had that issue with a game, I can't remember which game it was though, something in November 2015 I guess.
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Vodos posted:Interesting, so that would be something the developers can control? I definitely had that issue with a game, I can't remember which game it was though, something in November 2015 I guess. No I'm misremembering, I didn't unlock Fallout 4 early, it was The Witcher 3 which is almost a year ago now so it could easily have changed.
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I tried to VPN Fallout 4, but ended up loving my poo poo over so much that I lost my pre-load and had to wait nearly a day extra just to redownload the game from start again. Basically, I'd only do the VPN if I had a substantial gain from it and being forced to redownload the entire thing because it got corrupted tells me I just want to do it normally this time.
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Mordaedil posted:I tried to VPN Fallout 4, but ended up loving my poo poo over so much that I lost my pre-load and had to wait nearly a day extra just to redownload the game from start again. Is that because you have a slow connection, or some other reason? I'm on 120mb/s (terrible awful comcast) so I downloaded the pre-load in under an hour, wasn't really paying attention to the exact time. Or is it because you couldn't log in for a day, or something?
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Luckily I have ice hockey practice tonight so i'm fairly sure i'm going to get home and sleep through until it unlocks. Go faster time dammit!
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Mordaedil posted:I tried to VPN Fallout 4, but ended up loving my poo poo over so much that I lost my pre-load and had to wait nearly a day extra just to redownload the game from start again. OTOH I did the same with Fallout 4 and never had any trouble (besides its inherent bugginess). I really don't know how you'd messed up so bad you need to redownload.
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VDay posted:You've never had to change your address. You just logged in through a VPN and Steam would go "Oh you're in Korea now, cool, here's this game that you can play since you're obviously definitely in Korea and not California." I don't know much about this stuff but I am literally in Korea and my steam client lists the game as being available at North/South America's release time, and not Korea's. However, if I view it through the browser it lists the game as being available at Asia/Australia's release time so I don't know what the gently caress
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