Community MetaSteam | May 2019 - Raging About the Rats in Kamurocho

[prudis]

News - The Vale (audio-based action adventure) coming in August 2019

THE VALE | The Vale | Falling Squirrel Inc. | Canada A sightless warrior’s world is that of intimate detail: An enemy’s, rasping breath; a foot shifts on swampy ground; the crack of steel on leather. The Vale is a audio based action adventure game that sets out to breathe new life into medieval...

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[DeejayDoom]

 

[prudis]

Beat Saber :: Steam Community :: Beat Saber v1.0.0 released!

 

[lashman]

News - Valve is developing their own version of "Dota Auto Chess"

Dota Auto Chess | Dota 2 So in February we flew the Drodo team over from China to chat about the future of Dota Auto Chess, and to see if they’d want to collaborate directly with us (this was also during one of the worst weeks of snow we’ve had in years, sorry about that, Drodo). We had great...

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[MonthOLDpickle]

How come I can only buy as gift for Sims 4 on Origin, I don't own it.

 

[crimsonheadGCN]

I was able to obtain the free version of The Sims 4 on Origin despite having Origin Access.

 

[prudis]

 

[Digoman]

Man.... why do I keep being tempted to buy Just Cause 4 even when it's "mostly negative". And is not for the lack options. I think this past month every single week something interesting on my wishlist has gone on sale.

Maybe I should just do a clean install for Windows 10 1903 just keep myself occupied for a while

How come I can only buy as gift for Sims 4 on Origin, I don't own it.

I think Tizoc had a similar problem and was able to buy using the client.

 

[Gevin]

Bless

 

[Wildebeet]

So remember Radio the Universe from the Kickstarter back in 1974? Turns out it has an itch.io page and is doing the preorder thing. Comes with a steam key.

Radio the Universe by 6E6E6E

Welcome to the end.

sixesixesixe.itch.io

I guess it has been up since February but it's news to me. I'm just glad to see this project isn't dead and might even come out this year!

 

[「Echo」]

Well I hope Octopath is a good port. Just pre-ordered it and I intend to remain a Steam refund virgin so I can enjoy the faster card drops.

 

[MonthOLDpickle]

I think Tizoc had a similar problem and was able to buy using the client.

I had to use the browser xD

 

[MJunioR]

Man.... why do I keep being tempted to buy Just Cause 4 even when it's "mostly negative". And is not for the lack options. I think this past month every single week something interesting on my wishlist has gone on sale.

Maybe I should just do a clean install for Windows 10 1903 just keep myself occupied for a while

Same thing with me but instead of JC4, it's WWE 2K19. You open any changelog on Steam and there's a lot of comments reporting different issues and it's clear that they won't be patched now. Plus I'm yet to see a WWE game on PC that was decently ported, other than WWE RAW from 15+ years ago. Hadn't the same luck regarding my wishlist though

 

[texhnolyze]

Wait, Ancestors Legacy has full controller support and is coming to consoles. How does it work? It's a real-time strategy.

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In the other news, Star Wars Jedi: Fallen Order Official Gameplay Reveal Stream set for June 9th at 12:30 PM EST

 

[Nabs]

New Valve employee helps add much needed improvements to the workshop:


New Steam Chat Mobile App:

The new Steam Chat mobile app is a modernized Steam chat experience available for free on iOS and Android platforms.

The app includes many key features of the Steam Client desktop chat, including:

• Friends List - See who’s in game or online at a glance. Never miss an opportunity to play.
  
  
• Rich Chat - Your chats get even better with higher fidelity links, videos, tweets, GIFs, Giphy, Steam emoticons, and more.
  
  
• Invite Links - Add new friends on Steam with a link. Generate an invite link you can text or email.
  
  
• Customizable Notifications - Mobile notifications mean you'll never miss a message or game invite. You can customize your notifications per friend, group chat, and chat channel.
  
  
• Group Chats - Get everyone on the same page. Groups make it easier to do things like stay in touch with your communities and organize game night with your best friends.

Try it out now
iOS: get the app on the Apple App Store
Android: get the app on Google Play

We're always interested to hear what you think of our products. If you have suggestions or opinions on the app we want to hear from you.

What's next?
We’re already working on improvements to the Steam Chat app, including voice chat. With Steam Chat moving to its own dedicated app, the original Steam Mobile app will see significant upgrades focused on account security. Our plans include better Steam Guard options to help securely log into your Steam account, such as QR codes and one-touch login, and improved app navigation.

 

[MJunioR]

Steam Blog :: The new Steam Chat mobile app is available

 

[texhnolyze]

Looks decent. But why would I want to install it while I already have Discord?

Unless people are moving in droves to Steam chat, I ain't installing it soon.

 

[QFNS]

Steam chat is nice but that isn't what I use the mobile app for. I want the Steam guard notifications so I can sell those cards and buy games when I find sales I'm missing at work (where steam is blocked).

 

[texhnolyze]

Steam chat is nice but that isn't what I use the mobile app for. I want the Steam guard notifications so I can sell those cards and buy games when I find sales I'm missing at work (where steam is blocked).

There's already a Steam mobile app for all of that, isn't it? I use it and it's pretty handy.

 

[uraizen]

Well I hope Octopath is a good port. Just pre-ordered it and I intend to remain a Steam refund virgin so I can enjoy the faster card drops.

At least you got the Neptunia Shooter in case you're disappointed.

 

[Theswweet]

Valve were waaay too slow with the new steam chat. If the goal was to counter Discord offering games by trying to eat their own pie, neither company succeeded.

 

[Digoman]

A little slow for me but most importantly... where is my invisible mode?

But at least it is... some progress. Now how about to improve the "main" app so it starts sending steam guard push notifications again for me? I know they say that upgrading Steamguard is next... but like... a quickfix would be nice instead of waiting Valve-time for a full upgrade.

 

[texhnolyze]

Looking solid.

 

[Jiggaloboy]

New league looks great. Looking forward to playing with Cyclone.

 

[Alextended]

Ace Combat 7 was updated with support for more Thrustmaster sticks and hotas.

Thrustmaster | Wheels, Joysticks and Gamepads for video games

Designer and manufacturer of hardware and accessories for PC and game consoles since 1990. For amateur, intermediate and expert gamers.

www.thrustmaster.com

Mine is now supported but I'm still not happy. They still only treat them like Xbox 360 controller equivalents and don't let you reconfigure the controls in any way. Hell, nobody even tells you what gamepad controls they have mapped to what part of your device, I'll need to try everything and memorize it.

There are also conflicts with the keyboard controls so you can't properly use both together, the crappy throttle lever on my joystick's base is always considered so if it's maxed and I press decelerate on my keyboard it will only decelerate to half, no less, likewise if it's set to zero and I accelerate with the keyboard it will only go to the half point again, while once I let go of the keyboard key it won't stick but revert to the throttle lever's level right away in both cases.

Perhaps I can try to set it to the halfway point on the stick (if I can find it so exactly), I imagine that may let the keyboard keys take it to max/zero if held. Edit: yeah, deleting the stick's throttle input in the input.ini file gave me this behavior. It's still not ideal as it reverts to half-throttle whenever I let go of either decelerate or accelerate rather than act incrementally and stick, I suppose even their keyboard mapping acts like an Xbox controller equivalent, lol.

I might be able to use that ini file to remap some controls to my liking at least, if I bother delving into that stuff and figuring out which button is what.

They seriously need to finally add a decent configuration menu where you can select a game function then press a button or an axis and have it mapped rather than try to add support for specific brands and models and only let you use their own settings for it (and also let the last device used for a function take over it rather than have it always check for what all devices do with it so the moment you let go of one it reverts to the other even if it didn't send new input).

 

[Kuro]

Valve were waaay too slow with the new steam chat. If the goal was to counter Discord offering games by trying to eat their own pie, neither company succeeded.

Was thinking the same, both companies failed at their attempts

 

[texhnolyze]

I'm not sure if this is a god or bad news?

THQ Nordic acquires Piranha Bytes

THQ Nordic has acquired Piranha Bytes, the studio behind the Gothic, Risen, and Elex series, the company announced.

gematsu.com

 

[Swenhir]

I really want to get into it with the melee revamp (detailed here) but I'm running into two issues : first the installer requires an obscene amount of disk space, even 40gigs aren't enough for it.

Then I wonder if it will run at all. My hardware is very, very old. How is the performance of the game on, say, something from 10 years ago?

 

[Derrick01]

I'm not sure if this is a god or bad news?

THQ Nordic acquires Piranha Bytes

THQ Nordic has acquired Piranha Bytes, the studio behind the Gothic, Risen, and Elex series, the company announced.

gematsu.com

I see it as mostly a neutral move from their previous position since they were already working with Nordic/Deep Silver for many years. Maybe now as an official dev they'll get extra funding but I don't know, THQ seems to want to keep things as tightly budgeted as possible.

 

[fspm]

New Valve employee helps add much needed improvements to the workshop:

I'd prefer not to wait for half eternity to trade 1 card without some mobile bs

 

[Kvik]

New detective game for FunktionJCB .


Riding on the coattails of Laura Bow's popularity.

 

[KainXVIII]

Steam Blog :: The new Steam Chat mobile app is available

Not compatible with your phone, thanks vulve

 

[Le Pertti]

Got happy there for a moment thinking they finally updated their app. That has to be close also right?

 

[Deku]

Couldn't they update their Steam app to have the new chat features instead of making a new app?
There are three different Steam apps now

"Lite" client
Steam Link
Steam Chat

 

[beep boop]

At some point I read speculation that Valve hasn't updated the old app because they'd have to take out the store (or share their cut) in order to be in line with some new standards on the App Store. I dunno. Sounds like it could be true.

In any case, this is what it says in the announcement about the Steam app:

With Steam Chat moving to its own dedicated app, the original Steam Mobile app will see significant upgrades focused on account security. Our plans include better Steam Guard options to help securely log into your Steam account, such as QR codes and one-touch login, and improved app navigation.

 

[hankenta]

Couldn't they update their Steam app to have the new chat features instead of making a new app?
There are three different Steam apps now

"Lite" client
Steam Link
Steam Chat

There's a lite client? Does it have steam guard?

 

[Deku]

There's a lite client? Does it have steam guard?

Sorry if I wasn't clear on this, it's the old app that they have, with Steam Guard

 

[Le Pertti]

I hope they don't remove the ability buy and sell cards, but if it is about Google getting a cut then I can see that happening.

 

[Deku]

I saw that lashman bought BBTAG DLC Character Pack Vol.7 which was released yesterday. So I checked it out. The All characters DLC pack states that it has has Vol 7, but it's not in the list. What gives? And it looks like that Vol 7 should be free for all who bought the deluxe edition or the All in one pack. But in Steam forums people are saying that they don't have it

 

[Milena]

I want to get The Sims 4 on Origin, but I can't remember which email I used to create my account

 

[prudis]

 

[crimsonheadGCN]

 

[prudis]

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Planet Coaster: Ghostbusters DLC pack also sees Dan Aykroyd voice his original role as the iconic Raymond Stantz, mentoring players throughout their campaign as they build their park and take care of the ghostly issues that besiege their rides. Joining Aykroyd, William Atherton will also voice his role as Ghostbusters antagonist Walter Peck.


The most ambitious content pack for Planet Coaster to date
, Planet Coaster: Ghostbusters includes:
● A fully-voiced, narrative campaign featuring the voice talents of Dan Aykroyd and William Atherton.
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● A new, Slimer-themed kiddie coaster, the RollerGhoster.
● Classic Ghostbusters characters such as Raymond Stantz, Slimer, the Stay Puft Marshmallow Man and a few surprises!
● Authentic scenery pieces and sound s straight from the 1984 original movie, including the Ghostbusters HQ, Spook Central, ECTO -1 and Ray Parker Jr’s classic Ghostbusters theme.

Planet Coaster: Ghostbusters* will be available to purchase from Steam or the Frontier Store for £12.99 ($14.99, €14.99)

 

[Deleted member 113]

I saw that lashman bought BBTAG DLC Character Pack Vol.7 which was released yesterday. So I checked it out. The All characters DLC pack states that it has has Vol 7, but it's not in the list. What gives? And it looks like that Vol 7 should be free for all who bought the deluxe edition or the All in one pack. But in Steam forums people are saying that they don't have it

It seems those who bought that pass, or the Deluxe Edition, are supposed to get that DLC for free.
Some people can see the characters/content in-game, despite the store not showing this DLC as owned.

But, at least until last night, when I checked, it seems there was a problem with people who pre-ordered the deluxe edition (like me), because for those entries it seems the depot of this latest DLC was yet to be added.
I'm hoping it's fixed soon.

 

[Joe Spangle]

Has anyone got any thoughts on...


Yet? User reviews seem positive but we all know they are rubbish I might pick it up this weekend (Bank holiday woo!)

 

[Durante]

The phone chat app seems to work pretty well at least.

I was actually annoyed that you couldn't use group chats from your phone previously.

 

[Mor]

The phone chat app seems to work pretty well at least.

I was actually annoyed that you couldn't use group chats from your phone previously.

Indeed, I have been using a bit for testing and so far it works without problems, haven't seen any bug and UI is cool with some soft effects that are really great, I'm linking it.

 

[Le Pertti]

Not sure why I installed the chat app, I never talk to anyone.XD

 

[Rosenkrantz]

Prices on Atelier games are ridiculously high here. Niche C-list franchise ain't worth it even with discounts, can't KT learn to price their games from IF?

 

[prudis]

Punch Line finally on Steam tomorrow