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Kvik

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Downunder.
This is now an FF XIV server. :wd_p:






Help me Council! GOG.com What should I grab?
My light haul.



I probably don't need to sell you on Diablo, but Anachronox and Nox is underappreciated RPG titles everyone should play. I always thought Nox is closest to a western take of Ys series. I haven't played Bloodnet before, but cyberpunk and vampirism is an interesting mix, so I get it. Superhero League of Hoboken was kind of nostalgic for me. I remember borrowing the FDs from my mate's in year 7/8? can't remember. It got nice MIDI music so if you setup
your emulator properly it'll sound really good.
 

gabbo

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This is now an FF XIV server. :wd_p:








My light haul.



I probably don't need to sell you on Diablo, but Anachronox and Nox is underappreciated RPG titles everyone should play. I always thought Nox is closest to a western take of Ys series. I haven't played Bloodnet before, but cyberpunk and vampirism is an interesting mix, so I get it. Superhero League of Hoboken was kind of nostalgic for me. I remember borrowing the FDs from my mate's in year 7/8? can't remember. It got nice MIDI music so if you setup
your emulator properly it'll sound really good.
Already own anachronox and was one of the first games I bought on gog. Diablo you don't have to sell me on, but I won't be picking it up this sale :D
 

texhnolyze

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It's been a few days since God Wars released and it's.. not looking so good.


Only 90 peak players which is abysmal. The thing is, they put quite a lot of effort to market the game on PC. They released a few introductory and PC features videos and a lot of articles in the Steam page in the past few months. They've also had a few sponsored articles posted in various sites.Feels bad man.

If only the other publishers put at least half of that effort for the much bigger Japanese games. :neutral-face:
 

NarohDethan

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It's been a few days since God Wars released and it's.. not looking so good.


Only 90 peak players which is abysmal. The thing is, they put quite a lot of effort to market the game on PC. They released a few introductory and PC features videos and a lot of articles in the Steam page in the past few months. They've also had a few sponsored articles posted in various sites.Feels bad man.

If only the other publishers put at least half of that effort for the much bigger Japanese games. :neutral-face:
I'll buy it tomorrow if I have some spare money after paying the bills.
 
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It's been a few days since God Wars released and it's.. not looking so good.


Only 90 peak players which is abysmal. The thing is, they put quite a lot of effort to market the game on PC. They released a few introductory and PC features videos and a lot of articles in the Steam page in the past few months. They've also had a few sponsored articles posted in various sites.Feels bad man.

If only the other publishers put at least half of that effort for the much bigger Japanese games. :neutral-face:
I plan to get it eventually. Were the sales good elsewhere? I actually pre-ordered and sold the Vita/PS4 collector’s edition; I can’t remember which version. I purchased again on Switch, but I gifted it to someone. I doubt this sees a a discount during the sale, right?
 

MegaApple

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Has there been any word on 2 and 3 ever seeing the pc light of day?
Phil said he's isn't sure about 360 emulation on PC, but he'll look into it.
Also I believe that if Halo (and Gears 5) do well on Steam/MS PC store, they can port it natively.
 
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Phil said he's isn't sure about 360 emulation on PC, but he'll look into it.
Also I believe that if Halo (and Gears 5) do well on Steam/MS PC store, they can port it natively.
Assuming that The Master Chief collection sells as well as the popularity of it's wishlist performance suggests I imagine we'll see a Gears collection on PC sometime down the road.
 

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It's been a few days since God Wars released and it's.. not looking so good.


Only 90 peak players which is abysmal. The thing is, they put quite a lot of effort to market the game on PC. They released a few introductory and PC features videos and a lot of articles in the Steam page in the past few months. They've also had a few sponsored articles posted in various sites.Feels bad man.

If only the other publishers put at least half of that effort for the much bigger Japanese games. :neutral-face:
For what it's worth I'm waiting the sales. Even without discount of any sort I'll have a couple of sales card with it.
I think that isn't a good timing, for a niche/indie game, to be released so near a big sales on Steam.
 

Kvik

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If only the other publishers put at least half of that effort for the much bigger Japanese games
Seems like they've put a lot of efforts in polishing the QoL for PC release. 100+ hrs of gameplay for $43 AUD is agreeable in my book. I'll pick this up shortly.
 

「Echo」

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I started as a Cat-people in FFXIV. (Pictured on left here, Right is guild-leader I think this was after we cleared Coil first time? or maybe after I beat story first time don't really remember.)


Then Dragon-folk came, and that was that! Picked up a phantasia and changed immediately.


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It's been a few days since God Wars released and it's.. not looking so good.


Only 90 peak players which is abysmal. The thing is, they put quite a lot of effort to market the game on PC. They released a few introductory and PC features videos and a lot of articles in the Steam page in the past few months. They've also had a few sponsored articles posted in various sites.Feels bad man.

If only the other publishers put at least half of that effort for the much bigger Japanese games. :neutral-face:
I hope it does well in the end. I would have liked to support it day-1 myself, but lately I haven't been working due to all the happenings in the last month or so. :face-with-cold-sweat:

I don't even think I'll be able to participate in Summer Sale tbh.
 

Ascheroth

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It's been a few days since God Wars released and it's.. not looking so good.


Only 90 peak players which is abysmal. The thing is, they put quite a lot of effort to market the game on PC. They released a few introductory and PC features videos and a lot of articles in the Steam page in the past few months. They've also had a few sponsored articles posted in various sites.Feels bad man.

If only the other publishers put at least half of that effort for the much bigger Japanese games. :neutral-face:
Oof. I think the timing and release strategy are unfortunate though. They should have had a -10% launch discount and extend it throughout the summer sale, to get more eyes on it.
 

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Is it true that the seperate games in the Master Chief collection will only cost 10 bucks? If so I will pick up the ones I want (Reach, 2 and ODST) definitly.

Also, anyone played Phantom Doctrine and can tell me how it is? Can get it for 15,99€ currently on Voidu and am interested in it.
 
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Speaking of MMOs, anyone regularly play ESO? How’s the new expansion?
I play it and bought Elseweyr... but I haven't actually done any expansion stuff other than roll a necromancer and then immediately start the base-game main quest. I got as far as Cold Harbour and then I started Divinity Original Sin 2 and now it has a claim on all my gaming time. I should probably cancel my sub for the time being...
 
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Is it true that the seperate games in the Master Chief collection will only cost 10 bucks? If so I will pick up the ones I want (Reach, 2 and ODST) definitly.

Also, anyone played Phantom Doctrine and can tell me how it is? Can get it for 15,99€ currently on Voidu and am interested in it.
Only the Halo 3: ODST campaign costs $4.99 to purchase. The rest is $10 each.
 
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A quite large (19.8 GB) Quake Champions started downloading.I guess that's the June patch.
From the game's update page

Greetings Champions!

Today's update includes the brand new mode: Time Limit Duel, a new season of Free & Premium Battle Pass, champion and weapon balance changes and a ton of new QoL updates including a bunch of cool new toggle options in main menu for community-requested features like switch weapon on empty; low health warning; and show damage indicator; just to name a few.

Build Highlights

New Game Mode: TIME LIMIT DUEL
Available only in Custom Game, Time Limit Duel is a a roundless, time limit-based duel mode. Players select one Champion in the Custom Game Lobby before the match and fight for dominance until time has elapsed.

Battle Pass – Season 3
Season 3 progression and rewards available, including:
  • 4 New Champion Vanities (see below)
  • 1 New Summertime Outfit for B.J. Blazkowicz (see below)
  • 14 new Profile Icons
  • 17 new Nameplates
  • 6 Goroth Lore Scrolls, earn the complete set to unlock Goroth Weapon Shaders
  • 775 Platinum
  • 113 Shards of Progression
  • 70 Shards on Weekly Challenges
  • 6 Reliquaries
  • 1 XP Booster
  • Extended Progression. Players who complete the Battle Pass at Level 100 unlock additional levels!

NEW VANITY ITEM: SCALEBEARER MILITARY ISSUE GUARD
Titanium enforced and ready for heavy combat.

NEW VANITY ITEM: EISEN ELECTROWELD
High-powered, portable welding kit. It even works in a vacuum and in zero-g environments.

NEW VANITY ITEM: DEATH KNIGHT CABAL IKON
Those who forged him protected this weapon with intense jealousy. He took the IKON with him after he tore through their flesh.


NEW VANITY ITEM: NYX BLUE ANGEL
Many myths still surround phantom energy, chief among them its origins. It is theorized that when Ghost Walk is activated, a hole in reality is opened to somewhere else. But where?


NEW SUMMERTIME OUTFIT FOR B.J. BLAZKOWICZ
There's no better way to spend a hot summer day than at the beach. BJ is ready for some R&R.


Quality of Life Updates
  • Switch on Empty: Choose whether the weapon auto-switches away when attempting to fire without ammo
  • Show Damage Indicator: Choose to enable/disable the radial UI element on the HUD that shows the direction of incoming damage
  • Taking Damage Warning: Choose to enable/disable the sound effect that plays every time you receive damage. When disabled, your champion pain sounds become your primary audio cue for damage received
  • Low Health Warning: Choose to enable/disable the sound effect that plays when you reach 25 hp or below
  • Low Health Heavy Breathing: Choose to enable/disable the Heavy Breathing VO that plays when a champion is 25 hp & below
  • Champion VO Quips: Control the frequency of the Champion Quips on Frag, Assist, Respawn, and Critical Health voice overs. 0 = off, 0.5 = 50% of the time, 1.0 = always play
  • Kill Beep: Control the sound effect played when killing a player to Off/Default/Ding


New Weapons available for Shards
- Joining last Seasons additions of the Ebony & Ivory Shotguns, the EXTERMINATOR Railgun has been added



  • Bots now strafe jump for higher skilled bots
  • Bots now randomize outfits and vanities and use the full array of names that were available in Custom Game when multiple bots of the same Champion type were added
  • Item pick-ups are disabled in warm-up during the pre-game countdown
  • Reduced, by default, how often your Champion plays a voice over quips by 50%
  • Critical Health VO: Added 3 new VO lines for each Champion. When a Champion falls below 25 HP, they can play one of these quips to let you know that you are critically low on health and should heal up.
  • Removed Breakables in Ranked Modes
  • In 2v2 TDM, reduced maximum respawn time from 15 to 10 seconds
  • Existing users accounts will now have to abide by our name filters. In the event that your name is no longer allowed by the most recent filters, you will be prompted to rename on login.


Anarki
  • Shooting & zooming delay after Injection increased 0.4 to 1.0 sec
  • Max speed decreased from 680 to 625 ups
  • Injection Speed Boost reduced from 816 to 700 ups
  • Friction 8 to 6
  • Ordinal Acceleration 15 to 10
  • Wishspeed from 35 to 30
  • Circle Strafe Friction 12 to 8

Clutch
  • Barrier Shield Protection reduced 50 to 40%
  • Health Decay Rate reduced from 1 to 2 seconds (1 pt every 2 seconds)
  • Movement collision box reduced from 48u to 40u
  • Weapon Fire Delay after ability removed
  • Reduced hitbox size

Keel
  • Splash Damage Reduction increased from 10 to 15%
  • Health Decay Rate reduced from 1 to 2 seconds (1 pt every 2 seconds)
  • Reduced hitbox size

Scalebearer
  • Health Decay Rate reduced from 1 to 2 seconds (1 pt every 2 seconds)
  • Reduced hitbox size
  • Weapon Fire Delay after ability reduced from 0.4 to 0.2 sec

Sorlag
  • Health Decay Rate reduced from 1 to 2 seconds (1 pt every 2 seconds)
  • Max speed decreased from 680 to 640 ups
  • Friction 8 to 6
  • Ordinal Acceleration 15 to 10
  • Wishspeed from 35 to 30
  • Circle Strafe Friction 12 to 8
  • Movement collision box reduced from 48u to 40u
  • Reduced hitbox size

Strogg & Peeker
- Stroyent Cells now give 5% cooldown, in addition to healing


Starting Machinegun
- Damage 9 to 8

Shotgun
  • Pellets “18 Pellets x 5 dmg = 90 Damage” to “20 Pellets x 4 dmg = 80 Damage”
  • Pattern: “2 Rings of 9” to “2 Rings of 10”
  • Pellet Knockback 1.25 to 2
  • Total Knockback 22.5 to 40

Super Shotgun
  • Pellets “28 Pellets x 5 dmg = 140 Damage” to “30 Pellets x 4 dmg = 120 Damage”
  • Pattern “3 Rings of 9 plus 1 Centered Pellet” to “3 Rings of 10”
  • Pellet Knockback 2.75 to 2
  • Total Knockback 77 to 60

Nailgun and Super Nailgun
- Nail Radius 0.1 to 0 m

Rocket Launcher
  • Direct Ground Enemy Knockback 100 to 90
  • Direct Air Enemy Knockback 110 to 90
  • Splash Ground Enemy Knockback 110 to 90
  • Splash Air Enemy Knockback 121 to 90
  • Note: Self Knockback not affected

Lightning Gun
  • Ground Knockback 8.4 to 8
  • Air Knockback 10.8 to 10

Fixes

  • Fixed the Stuck on Loading Screen Bug – The game client could crash and get stuck in an internal loading screen following a match, most frequently seen following Slipgate matches
  • Fixed the Daily Challenge Reroll Bug – The game client could get into a bad UI state if the player rerolled a challenge and receive a duplicate of another Daily Challenge they have already completed. This would prevent them from playing until the Daily Challenges recycle.
  • Fixed memory leak found with Tri-bolt projectiles
  • Reduced how far dropped items are tossed from dead players; players were getting denied their earned power-ups when killing carriers because the power-up would toss out so far in random directions.
  • Duel scoreboards no longer reveal important enemy pickup information (HP earned, MH pickups, medals, xp earned hidden)
  • Reduce Nail Size. This change makes nails points like our rockets so that they can pass through grates and aren’t quite as easy to land.
  • Fixed Galena’s Totem HUD UI, which would sometimes show more than the max 3 totems
  • Fixed the ability overlay (ex. Nyx blue screen fx, Doom Slayer red screen fx) were broken when players were using FXAA antialiasing
  • Match Time added to Death UI HUDs in all modes
  • The Contact list is now alphabetized to help players quickly locate their friends and followers
  • Contact searches will no longer return banned accounts
  • Added Crosshair Scale, Swear Filter, Audio Soundtrack, and this updates new batch of client options to your cloud settings so that they will migrate with you to new machines like our previous settings
  • Fixed an issue that could cause your autoJump to become disabled on the backend
  • Removed an outdated Clutch loading screen tip
  • Reported backtick in ENEMY`S PICK fixed to ENEMY'S PICK
 

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I guess I'm done following Troubleshooter on Steam. They have a new update like once a day and it's not exciting anymore. Looks like they're content being in early access for a very long time.
 
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I guess I'm done following Troubleshooter on Steam. They have a new update like once a day and it's not exciting anymore. Looks like they're content being in early access for a very long time.
Yeah, I quickly decided to wait for the "final" game, since they have frequent, big updates.
Most times I opened Steam, I had an update waiting. :unsure:
 

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You mean here?

Nope, I don't have to. I just liked your comment just fine. :unsure:
I initially like this post:

You have to really stay on top of the Market when you list a lot of cards.

I want to say it was bobnowhere that mentioned this.
And a confirmation window popped up. For others it hasn't. Weird. Maybe as I was mentioned in it?
 

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The annual pass for Destiny 2 is mine... Gods help me. This game has an unnatural hold over me.

Anyone else here still play it?
 

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i haven't even played it yet (i don't have a bnet account and i don't want to have one) ... so i'm waiting for it to hit steam :p
fair enough, hah

hope the Steam release attracts plenty of new folks, it's good fun (outside of the timed events stuf)
 
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The annual pass for Destiny 2 is mine... Gods help me. This game has an unnatural hold over me.

Anyone else here still play it?
Hope to start playing it once it hits Steam, September can't come soon enough!
 

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Is there a point of buying the 40$ package atm? (As someone who barely played)
Is that the Forsaken bundle (i.e. Complete Collection)? If so, that also includes all Year 1 content, which is the part that will go F2P. It'd give you a head start for when it hits Steam, but you might be overpaying a tad. I wouldn't be surprised if the price of the Forsaken expansion + Annual Pass Year 2 will be cheaper than that. Shadowkeep + Annual Pass for Year 3 is now 35 USD/EUR after all. Neither the Shadowkeep pre-order or F2P version include the Forsaken expansion, to my knowledge.

It's a good deal with a whole lot of game, but, like Ryna said, perhaps it's better to give the base game a shot before going in whole hog.

No. The $40 package is the 2nd expansion which doesnt include the 1st. Play the base game and then decide if you want the expansions
If you mean Warmind and Curse of Osiris, that's been included in the Forsaken bundle (aka Complete Collection) for a while now.
 
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A quite large (19.8 GB) Quake Champions started downloading.I guess that's the June patch.
No, that's just the game uninstalling itself because it's sad it gets abused and neglected from its developers.

No, really, they fucked up and the steam version uninstalled itself. I took it as a hint to keep it uninstalled because it got worse and worse during the last year. We are in last breath territory with this game and it's sad, I had high hopes. Still early access, lol.
 
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I purchased Destiny 1 on PS4 back in the day and still feel it was one of the worst pre-orders I ever made. I've never touched anything after it. Granted, I didn't really play with others; however, I wasn't too keen on doing the same thing over and over again. I'm also not big on grinding for that RNG gold.
 
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