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StrixNebulosa posted:Paging Fart of Presto! I'm down to one variety pack and the new free one, as I haven't been buying new packs for quite a while. Bought it... Thanks for the heads up 
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Ugly In The Morning posted:Is there more than just the prologue? I went to buy it on steam but there’s no purchase option. I think, at least for pre-release demos, a lot of devs have moved to making a separate free "Prologue" listing for the game instead of using the built-in demo feature. It's a little confusing but makes sense from a discoverability standpoint because it gives you game a chance to feature on "New and trending" with a sexy "Free" pricetag next to it, and also gives people the opportunity to write reviews, etc. Otherwise the best you could hope for is getting on the "Popular upcoming" list, with no indication your game has a playable demo until someone clicks on it
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Yeah it's a good way to game visibility on the steam storefront, just having a demo on your main game's page right away just means your game stats buries until it comes out. Releasing your demo as a free "Prologue" lets you double dip on visibility with a single release.
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Ugh..... I want to mod a Steam game which doesn't like games being in 'program files (x86)' but Steam isn't capable of having multiple installation directories on the same drive (different drives are easy, same drive gets you an error). 'No big deal' I thought, 'I'll just move my games to a new directory which I should have done from the beginning.'. Well, Steam doesn't even have a tool to do that. Instead they recommend a tedious process of backing up your entire steamapps, moving it, and then verifying each game individually and crossing your fingers that everything will work. So in summary, you can have multiple libraries on different drives but not multiple on the same drive for reasons.
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Video game essays are good. It's not really something I watch to decide whether to buy a game, though, because most of them obviously spoil absolutely everything that happens in the game.
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drat Dirty Ape posted:Ugh..... I want to mod a Steam game which doesn't like games being in 'program files (x86)' but Steam isn't capable of having multiple installation directories on the same drive (different drives are easy, same drive gets you an error). I think you can edit install.vdf to allow multiple steam libraries on the same drive, but don't quote me on that. E: a quick Google suggests it might be libraryfolders.vdf instead. tight aspirations fucked around with this message at 20:02 on Jan 10, 2021 |
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I'm currently playing through Iron Danger (which is 75% off and has a demo that shows off the basic game process). It's very engaging, and I heavily struggle with "just one more level" syndrome (which is pretty neat - I'm currently outright slogging my way through several games just because I'm stubborn about finishing them). Important to emphasize because (as usual) I'm probably going to bitch about more or less petty details quite a bit. A lot of reviews refer to it as "turning save-scumming into a mechanic" and it kinda is, but not in the Hotline Miami or Superhot "retry until you succeed" sense. It's a fairly basic isometric action-rpg, one where just hammering "attack" will have the enemies maneuver around you and tear you apart in an instant. To avoid that, you have a time rewind ability (only up to 14 If you're a deeply stupid person, you might Except of course, things get way more complex. You get to burn, freeze and poison enemies and environments. Topple trees, log piles and pillars, place bear traps, mines and fuel canisters as traps, grow vegetation to conduct fire, enrage enemies into attacking each other (for literally 5 seconds until upgraded) lure giant trolls and roosterfish to massacre enemy giant mechs... at this point you're basically playing an proper puzzle-action-rpg where the time rewind mechanic is only occasionally used to correct fuckups (and to compensate for the fact that the game intentionally doesn't bother to telegraph random poo poo). It's pretty addictive, but the ambition on display (a full AA RPG) for the first game (?) the studio ever made is possibly a bit too much. Here's a list of nitpicks to illustrate: No sidequests, no dialog trees, practically no NPCs. Fair enough, it's an action-rpg, not Bioware. Many of the levels are basically the same - land somewhere on your boat, fight your way to the temple doors, navigate the temple (solving a puzzle at either \ both stages), receive a new set of powers, fight your way back to your boat across the same level (each part is bite-sized, 10 minutes without trance, 30-40 with, so an hour or two per "level"). Well, yeah, but the locations are fairly differentiated, each temple is unique and... well, you actually do fight the same enemies both ways more often than not... Other stuff padding out the game to 15-20 hours - Four different sections where you have to walk and talk through a town. Walk, not run. You only ever control 2 NPCs (the protagonist and 1 of three companions), while the other two wait on the No friendly AI NPCs helping in combat (annoying, because I know the game can do that) and very little three-way fights unless you go out of your way to instigate them. The enemy soldiers get along perfectly well with most monsters. No gear, no skill trees, one new set of skills for the protagonist per temple, one skill upgrade for the protagonist or a companion per level. Only item pickups are consumables. (Which, fair enough, that's the design). No new game + (which is a shame). No replay function at the end of the fight (a-la Superhot) and no level editor (!) which could have been a lot of fun. The camera is really a freaking nightmare. There's no set point of reference - it hovers vaguely above the characters and you have a huge chore getting a proper "eye in the sky" view of the whole battlefield or investigating the enemy locations just a few steps away from the characters noses. Whenever a tiny enemy is fighting a giant automaton you control and blunders right into it, the automaton's hitbox covers the enemy and you can't attack it (oh, and there's no "just keep attacking" option) Area of effect spell cones "helpfully" keep jumping to focus on the nearest enemy in a way that will get you blown up as you try desperately to target a cluster of other enemies and carefully assembled traps (actually really hard to overcome). Characters often just outright refuse to pick up consumables (even though they have free space) Annoying little breaks in *my immersion*. Oh, apparently the automatons guarding the temples are only hostile to the player, and outright don't react if you lure enemies towards them? What happens if you try to kill the giant boss you're supposed to run from but can still damage? He just stops taking damage at a certain point. Hooray. You heal the big giant monster and its friendly to you now. Does it attack enemies kited to it? Does it bubkis. The story is kinda basic and lacking even in seemingly obligatory twists. It has a straightforward non-US sensibility, but I'm not sure that really helps that much. Xander77 fucked around with this message at 19:35 on Jan 11, 2021 |
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Jan 10, 2021 20:33
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Cream-of-Plenty posted:Do you have a minute to vote for my friend's team? Paypal me 5 bucks first, then sure, no problem
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indivisible's two biggest flaws are: #1) the things that people are critical about avatar korra (which are wrong dont @ me), they're actually true about this protag Anja. and so she has likeable aspects of being hotheaded and dumb, but without any of the growth. again don't @ me about korra i do not care. #2) the game has a lot of technical demanding platforming, but the engine can't keep up with it. the camera has trouble keeping up with the player, and the axe-in-wall and spear-in-ceiling mechanics don't always 'stick' resulting in frustrating whiffs. the mountain sections of the game are like if indivisible saw the vertical climb secret part of Guacamelee and said "what if we did that twice in the same game" i still enjoyed it because i like challenging platforming, but the engine felt made for one thing and not another and it had some real jankiness because of it. also the hundreds of unimportant, clearly kickstarter backer NPCs are so silly. they all spout lines that are like people's little tumblr OCs.
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Jan 10, 2021 23:40
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Anyone know who hachida is on the forums?
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Jan 10, 2021 23:40
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The account stealing never ends.
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Jan 10, 2021 23:42
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I just want to give a shout-out to the three dozen goons on my friendslist who don't have any friends to vote for.
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The 7th Guest posted:the things that people are critical about avatar korra (which are wrong dont @ me), they're actually true about this protag Anja. and so she has likeable aspects of being hotheaded and dumb, but without any of the growth. again don't @ me about korra i do not care. ... gently caress, you're right
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Ghostlight posted:I just want to give a shout-out to the three dozen goons on my friendslist who don't have any friends to vote for. I think it's very kind of these goons to vote for these peoples teams. Stupid, but very nice.
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Jamfrost posted:The account stealing never ends.
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Jamfrost posted:The account stealing never ends. How are those accounts even being stolen? People without 2FA? Or can it be bypassed somehow?
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Ambaire posted:How are those accounts even being stolen? People without 2FA? Or can it be bypassed somehow? The link has a fake steam log-in page, including the 2FA code. They just take it and use it to log into your account.
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Ambaire posted:How are those accounts even being stolen? People without 2FA? Or can it be bypassed somehow? People logging in to a bogus site and supplying their Steam Guard codes, which get used by the attackers ASAP.
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The 7th Guest posted:indivisible's two biggest flaws are: #1) the things that people are critical about avatar korra (which are wrong dont @ me), they're actually true about this protag Anja. and so she has likeable aspects of being hotheaded and dumb, but without any of the growth. again don't @ me about korra i do not care. #2) the game has a lot of technical demanding platforming, but the engine can't keep up with it. the camera has trouble keeping up with the player, and the axe-in-wall and spear-in-ceiling mechanics don't always 'stick' resulting in frustrating whiffs. #3) Combat seems interesting at first, but turns out to be simple and boring.
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Jan 11, 2021 00:32
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The easiest and most reliable method of bypassing any kind of account security or authentication method is and will always be to talk someone into just giving it to you.
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Oh for gently caress's sake
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got me beat to the punch ^ and just had Tarquinn ask about voting for friends 
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How the gently caress did I get beaten on something like this? Well, it's cool to see that apparently they contact everyone on the friends list at once.
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Well, at least he's active on the forums, so he should be able to see the PM I just sent him. We really need the mods to change the thread title at least.
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Jan 11, 2021 00:37
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Steam Thread: my friends team need a little bit more votes to qualify on tournament could you vote pls
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I actually see Tarquin around too
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Yeah, he posts in this thread every so often even, doesn't he?
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my friends thread need a little bit more 5s to qualify on goldmine can you vote pls?
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I’m wondering if there is some other vulnerability that they’re using on top of social engineering, the scam is pretty well known at this point.
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It's just social engineering, and not even good social engineering. The site isn't bad but the URL makes it fairly clear that it's not legit.
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Ugly In The Morning posted:I’m wondering if there is some other vulnerability that they’re using on top of social engineering, the scam is pretty well known at this point. The general public is incredibly stupid.
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The nice thing about social engineering is that unlike computers, people never get any security upgrades or have their vulnerabilities patched out. You don't really need to be good at it when enough of your marks are figuratively still running on an unpatched Windows 95. You just need to hit a lot of them.
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And goons are usually up for helping other goons, so one scammer nabbing one goon is gonna spread like, uh Wildfire, yeah, that's a good analogy
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Cardiovorax posted:The nice thing about social engineering is that unlike computers, people never get any security upgrades or have their vulnerabilities patched out. You don't really need to be good at it when enough of your marks are figuratively still running on an unpatched Windows 95. You just need to hit a lot of them. Speaking of, I wish to god Windows 7 would explode the computers of anyone still using it
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Xarbala posted:...the format of the video essay as a whole, which I pounced on as a roundabout lead-in to complain at length about Tom Hooper and the Cats movie in the steam thread. Hey, I enjoyed the time I spent learning about the Cats movie this evening, so thank you. My takeaway is hoo boy is Tom Hooper tremendously unqualified to make a movie that's all singing and dancing, but I'll watch the butthole cut if it ever gets leaked (I did some extra research).
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This is important so lets clear this up right now: are you implying there's a cut where all the cats have human/house cat hybrid buttholes showing?
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https://www.vanityfair.com/hollywood/2020/04/cats-butthole-cut-vfx-editor
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Tom Hooper is tremendously unqualified to make a movie.
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quote:“When we were looking at the playbacks, we were like, ‘What the hell? You guys see that?!’” the source told the outlet. “We paused it. We went to call our supervisor, and we’re like, ‘There’s a loving rear end in a top hat in there! There’s buttholes!’ It wasn’t prominent but you saw it…And you [were] just like, ‘What the hell is that?... There’s a loving butthole in there.’ It wasn’t in your face—but at the same time, too, if you’re looking, you’ll see it.” On the other hand? God help those people if they should ever have the misfortune to encounter an actual cat, because pants? Cats kinda just don't do those. At all.
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Finally beat Yakuza 7. Jesus gently caress what an insane final act. That had to be the most inappropriate end credit music ever.
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