Community MetaSteam | June 2022 - It's Hot Outside! Sit and Play Some Videogames.

[C-Dub]

Warning regarding AI: The Somnium Files 2 - controllers do not work if you're running Windows 11 (I personally tested this with DirectInput and Xinput pads, neither work).

Per the game's own Steam discussion forum, it appears to be some kind of conflict with the Steam overlay, and affects both Somnium Files 1 and 2. Spike Chunsoft is aware of the issue and are supposedly working on a fix. But for now, if you're planning on playing using a pad, you should hold off on picking up the Steam version.

I feel like I'm playing a different game from some people here.

It worked perfectly fine using my Xbox One Elite controller in Windows 11. Plus I've had no issues playing this game on Steam Deck.

Edit: For what it's worth, I have SteamInput disabled for all my controllers except the Steam Controller, so maybe that's the solution? If you have SteamInput enabled generally, maybe try disabling it for this game?

 

[jads653]

Some pretty cool things happening. A modder has created a DLLS to FSR2.0 translation layer. Currently, it only works in Cyberpunk but with a bit of work can be made to work with other games in the future. Works under Proton so should work on SteamDeck.

 

[prudis]

meanwhile, another EGSie:

seems like they changed Release date from : "Fall 2022" to

 

[「Echo」]

Been messing around with FF7R over the past couple of days, it's been fun doing model swaps.

The arresting tale of our vapid hero, Noctis, vs. his sworn arch enemy, that prick Master Chief

I'm Commander Shepard (sometimes) and this is my favorite post on the Citadel since FF7R came out.

 

[gabbo]

seems like they changed Release date from : "Fall 2022" to

God dammit. ACE Team what are you doing?

 

[hersheyfan]

I feel like I'm playing a different game from some people here.

It worked perfectly fine using my Xbox One Elite controller in Windows 11. Plus I've had no issues playing this game on Steam Deck.

Edit: For what it's worth, I have SteamInput disabled for all my controllers except the Steam Controller, so maybe that's the solution? If you have SteamInput enabled generally, maybe try disabling it for this game?

I did turn off SteamInput, based on the feedback in the discussions forum my test units were a DualSense (DirectInput) and the 8bitDo Xbox Pro2 Wired (Xinput).

Just to be 100% sure, will test again using the standard Xbox `Series pad, wired and wireless.

Edit: What the hell?? Now both xinput and dinput work I'm 100% sure I had it off earlier. But everything suddenly started working after I plugged in the OEM Xbox pad, even the DS. I didn't change the SteamInput setting, I just checked to see if it was still off.

Anyway, whatever this was, the game apparently works now, so I'd better edit my last post to avoid dissuading anyone from buying this. Thanks C-Dub!

 

[dex3108]

Bought The Pathless on CDKeys, can't activate it, it says that it's not available in my region anymore...

 

[Dragon1893]

RE2 Remake is so hard to put down once you get started, it's like crack.

 

[Jawmuncher]

Continuing with emulation I'm amazed how good is right now original xbox emulation on PC.
Just tried Conker and DOAX1 and ran perfect.

and the more important Dino Crisis 3 worked perfect too.

can be rendered 4k just with few framedrops except on videos (this need to be improved) but wow.
xemu is amazing.

It's great finally seeing some actual strides on Xbox Emu after it was just kind of in limbo for so long.
Gonna chalk it up a bit to the generation that grew up with the device being old enough now to put in the effort for this.

 

[Mivey]

Gonna chalk it up a bit to the generation that grew up with the device being old enough now to put in the effort for this.

I think it's mostly just that emulating x86 is incredibly hard. And the Xbox did enough strange things that you can't just run it on Windows, you have to properly emulate or virtualise it. It was always going to be hard work, and I think the console just didn't have the popularity that your Playstations or Nintendo consoles have had.

 

[spindoctor]

Leaked Bloodlines 2 screenshots from the cancelled Hardsuit Labs version. Found on Reddit. Credit to Viktor Blanke:

Click to view

Little late but what the fuck man this looks like it was in a pretty advanced stage of completion. Either that or it was pulled from a fairly elaborate vertical slice. Otherwise there's no way a game will have that level of detail, effects, lighting etc. if it isn't close to the finish line.

God damn why is this IP so cursed

 

[Lashley]

Fuck dx12

 

[Mivey]

Fuck dx12

the issue isn't DX12 (or more specifically D3D12). The issue is just that the ports don't make good use of it. It seems like a very widespread problem, though. Kinda hope over time, as more experience and best practices with DX12 and Vulcan accumulate, that things will get better. For anything that doesn't use RT, it's probably ultimately less work to just keep using DX11.

 

[crimsonheadGCN]

This looks interesting. It is a game similar to Oregon Trail but with pirates.

 

[pinson]

Omfg there is a part 4 in Yakuza 5.
Does it ever end?!?!

 

[NarohDethan]

Omfg there is a part 4 in Yakuza 5.
Does it ever end?!?!

no

 

[Lashley]

Omfg there is a part 4 in Yakuza 5.
Does it ever end?!?!

lol no

 

[Li Kao]

I like TMNT. Not really what I expected as I replayed SOR4 today and this play nothing like it. I don’t remember the old fight em up in the franchise playing like that either. Enemies are no sponge at all, engagements are super quick. It’s cool, it differentiate itself in a very samey genre.

 

[toxicitizen]

So Gamersgate kinda sucks, uh? Pre-ordered Capcom Fighting Collection from them and never got my code yesterday. Contacted support and they told me they were "in constant contact with the publisher" but that they couldn't give me a timeframe for when I'd get my code. So I asked them to refund my purchase and they stopped replying to me.

I don't know where they are located though, so my email may have gotten to them after office hours but it's the next day and still nothing so who knows? You'd think they'd have staff on even during the week-ends for when shit like this happens. Surely they wouldn't just sit on the keys until monday morning?

 

[Alexandros]

So Gamersgate kinda sucks, uh? Pre-ordered Capcom Fighting Collection from them and never got my code yesterday. Contacted support and they told me they were "in constant contact with the publisher" but that they couldn't give me a timeframe for when I'd get my code. So I asked them to refund my purchase and they stopped replying to me.

I don't know where they are located though, so my email may have gotten to them after office hours but it's the next day and still nothing so who knows? You'd think they'd have staff on even during the week-ends for when shit like this happens. Surely they wouldn't just sit on the keys until monday morning?

I think they are based in Northern Europe.

 

[Mor]

Omfg there is a part 4 in Yakuza 5.
Does it ever end?!?!

Welcome to Yakuza 5

 

[Panda Pedinte]

I posted about The Hunter's Journal previously in the thread, and they are all on sale now!

And now summer is officially here with the Steam Summer Sale! All of the books are 50% off for the duration, so grab any you have not already picked up.

Steam Search

store.steampowered.com

 

[Knurek]

I posted about The Hunter's Journal previously in the thread, and they are all on sale now!

I bough all five, pity the dev didn't make a bundle with them all.

 

[Ge0force]

Hey Durante, you got a fan-thread on r/fuckepic

 

[Shahem]

Hey Durante, you got a fan-thread on r/fuckepic

Based answer. Based Durante.

 

[Spamlynguist]

This looks interesting. It is a game similar to Oregon Trail but with pirates.

I'm only slightly annoyed they didn't call it Oregon Sail then.

 

[TioChuck]

Just tested the FSR2.0 mod for Cyberpunk 2077, on performance mode, I got 20+ extra fps on my 1070, visual got a little worse, but I gladly trade a little of uglyness for 20+ fps, the only problem is the ghosting, if they can fix it or even mitigate it, would be perfect.

 

[Le Pertti]

There’s been a few times Reddit been talking about Durante and linking to meta council. Making us famous!

 

[Stevey]

Shame most of reddit is cringe

 

[lashman]

I bough all five, pity the dev didn't make a bundle with them all.

paging Grindwheel Games

 

[Grindwheel Games]

paging Grindwheel Games

I am planning on looking into making steam bundles once book 6 is squared away. At the very least 6 and 7 will be packaged together. when they are both out.

 

[Li Kao]

I wish the JRPG book was being sold in pdf only. Heresy I know, but I’m more interested in the content than the object anyway.

I should look at hardcoregamer101 books too. That being said, not sure either would fit my purpose right now, and no idea if any books or sites exist for what I’m looking for. TMNT basically supercharged my nostalgia and I would be really interested in video games essays that contextualize them within their market at the time. How to be clearer ? I’m not that interested that Super Raptor 3 Turbo released then and there with these options, I’m far more intrigued when there is a snapshot of society and pop culture at the time of release. The more I analyse my question the more I’m beginning to think I want a Tim Rogers book… maybe ?
Are there books in that vein ?

 

[curi0usBystander]

I wish the JRPG book was being sold in pdf only. Heresy I know, but I’m more interested in the content than the object anyway.

Are you speaking about the bitmap books one ?

IIRC, when i got it they sent me an email that said that if I downloaded the pdf but cancel my order they would not refund the whole thing. In other words It would be a roundabout way of buying only a pdf version.

 

[Le Pertti]

If it’s just the pdf…

 

[toxicitizen]

Update: got my refund and was able to buy the game from GMG instead. It's pretty good!

Also Gamersgate gave me a 50% off coupon as an apology so that's pretty cool.

 

[PC-tan]

I went to the Honda dealership today and cosigned a car for my little sister. She now has a new and nicer car than me.


That could have been me.


So that's what I have been up to today.


I'm not sure how it is where you guys are at but Honda has been "marking up" Hondas because of how hard they are to get, so even though MSRP may be $30,000 USD they are adding a $7000USD charge to it since they don't have many to sell. That's just dumb.

Almost all new cars are pretty much sold within 24 hours it seems.

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When did Cars start going up in price? Was it late 2020? I got mine used in Summer 2020 and was able to get a decent price for it, but now stuff has just shot up it seems.

 

[NarohDethan]

I went to the Honda dealership today and cosigned a car for my little sister. She now has a new and nicer car than me.


That could have been me.


So that's what I have been up to today.


I'm not sure how it is where you guys are at but Honda has been "marking up" Hondas because of how hard they are to get, so even though MSRP may be $30,000 USD they are adding a $7000USD charge to it since they don't have many to sell. That's just dumb.

Almost all new cars are pretty much sold within 24 hours it seems.

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When did Cars start going up in price? Was it late 2020? I got mine used in Summer 2020 and was able to get a decent price for it, but now stuff has just shot up it seems.

Honda is expensive af and covid fucked the prices even more.

Great cars though, worth every cent.

 

[TheTrain]

I went to the Honda dealership today and cosigned a car for my little sister. She now has a new and nicer car than me.


That could have been me.


So that's what I have been up to today.


I'm not sure how it is where you guys are at but Honda has been "marking up" Hondas because of how hard they are to get, so even though MSRP may be $30,000 USD they are adding a $7000USD charge to it since they don't have many to sell. That's just dumb.

Almost all new cars are pretty much sold within 24 hours it seems.

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When did Cars start going up in price? Was it late 2020? I got mine used in Summer 2020 and was able to get a decent price for it, but now stuff has just shot up it seems.

During the start of the pandemy, mostly because shipping dates started levitating from the usual 3 months to 9/12 months. Now it's, unfortunately, the worstt time to buy a car because price is into the scalper territory for new and used as well. It's an identical situation compared to what we've seen in the gpu space
I bought a Ford in February 2020, they lend it to me only in July and according the dealer I was been even lucky because order from a week apart from mine were being delivered only in December (As an estimate)

 

[ZKenir]

both Tiny Tina and FFVIIR seem to be still holding in the top 10 during the sale

 

[dex3108]

I installed The Pathless yesterday and this is so far the first game where i really had to go all in for tweaking to extract best performance. If you just go with in-game settings and don't tweak CPU/GPU settings on Deck you won't go far. But if you tweak ini file and GPU power you can get above 40FPS with these settings

Keep in mind that real Render Resolution is actually 66% (tweaked in ini file and then i made ini file Read Only). You need to set GPU Power manually and it should be at at least 1300MHz (keeping it controlled by Deck pushes CPU more then it needs and doesn't give GPU enough juice). And so far min FPS is 43 and it goes above 50FPS dpending where you look.

 

[Lashley]

both Tiny Tina and FFVIIR seem to be still holding in the top 10 during the sale

Shows why publishers keep taking the epic deals

 

[fantomena]

Shows why publishers keep taking the epic deals

Yet if they failed on Steam they would be like

"See, it's good we took the Epic money deal, our game failed on Steam".

 

[Mivey]

It will be interesting to see if FF VII Rebirth still gets a one year exclusivity period. Now that the first game has a big audience on Steam, you'd think Square would ask for a lot more money to keep the next game off of Steam. At least that's what I would do in their shoes. At the very least, I doubt it's going to be another full year of exclusivity.

 

[Hektor]

It will be interesting to see if FF VII Rebirth still gets a one year exclusivity period. Now that the first game has a big audience on Steam, you'd think Square would ask for a lot more money to keep the next game off of Steam. At least that's what I would do in their shoes. At the very least, I doubt it's going to be another full year of exclusivity.

You are placing Square Enix too far into the realm of logicism.
With Rebirth being announced PS5 only for now, im pretty sure they are gonna milk exclusivity payments dry as much as they can.

 

[Alexandros]

Shows why publishers keep taking the epic deals

Publishers and developers will always go for the guaranteed paycheck (assuming it's large enough). The key to Timmy's strategy failing is that the games bomb on EGS so that eventually Epic stops offering said paychecks.

 

[Mivey]

You are placing Square Enix too far into the realm of logicism.
With Rebirth being announced PS5 only for now, im pretty sure they are gonna milk exclusivity payments dry as much as they can.

Yeah, you are probably right. After all, we are talking about the same company that still openly talks about how crypto is the future, even as literally the entire crypto market keeps crashing to the ground around them.

 

[Arc]

Speaking of former EGS exclusives, I bought Chivalry 2. I'm awful at the game, but it's enjoyable when I actually get a kill. I've like it so much that I can say I likely would have bought it day 1 on Steam.

Yeah, you are probably right. After all, we are talking about the same company that still openly talks about how crypto is the future, even as literally the entire crypto market keeps crashing to the ground around them.

 

[Dandy]

I'm on the final chapter of A Plage Tale! I may actually finish a game I started! I just need to take a break cause it's stressing me out.

 

[Li Kao]

Hmm, I don’t know what to do. I’m in the mood for a good old DRPG that I will probably drop midway because of how horribly repetitive games in the genre get, but really torn about which. I have Operation Abyss New Tokyo Legacy, Ray Gigant and the original Stranger of Sword City.
I’m eyeing Coven of Dusk, interested in Sword City Revisited and chomping at the bits for Undernauts, but this motherfucker is 40 discounted.

My available games choice is meh. I already tried Operation Abyss on Vita years ago and it already felt old at the time. And the game vexated me with hidden fucking non mandatory door in the first dungeon.
Ray Gigant looks pretty cool, but it is famous for being piss easy.
On the other hand the original Sword City steam reviews make it feels like a good emulation of slowly cutting your testicles hair with your bare hands.

I’m really. Not interested in Coven of Dusk whole pupppet thing and grindy as fuck endgame, but its reputation is solid. Sword City Revisited is famous for easying up the original to the point of sorta breaking it, cool. But 30. And Undernauts aestethics is just so damn cool. But 40.

Yeah, when I hesitate, I do it wholeheartedly.

Supposed fans of the genre alert :
Theswweet Durante and I have to check the name of the councilor with a lizardman as avy, ah, Arulan


edit. I mean I must have other games like Elminage but I’m not into S&M.

 

[AHA-Lambda]

enjoy! but it's easily the worst LiS game, hands down!

Fixed that for ya