Community MetaSteam | September 2019 - Valve, I Know What You Did Last Summer!

[Kvik]

Atelier Dusk Trilogy Deluxe Pack announced for PS4, Switch, and PC

Publisher Koei Tecmo and developer Gust announced Atelier Dusk Trilogy Deluxe Pack for PlayStation 4, Switch, and PC (Steam) during the “Atelier Ryza: Ever Darkness & the Secret Hideout …

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I had just ripped my PS3 copies some months back to play it in RPCS3. Looks like I'm double dipping. Again.

 

[MJunioR]

Made a video about my adventures in trying to run Crysis Warhead on modern OS at 4K/60 with max settings


This game is a beautiful technical mess, but I have a soft spot for it because it's actually the very first game I've ever reviewed. If only EA and Crytek bothered to fix it or at least remove that fucking DRM...

The way that they named the graphical settings are something else, like the fuck are mainstream level shadows or gamer postprocessing quality

 

[uraizen]

gotta love where PC gaming is heading ........

if any of this is true, naturally

Oh... So we're going back to these levels of bullshit DRM. Gonna use webcam authentication next to make sure it's only me playing the game?

 

[beep boop]

Oh... So we're going back to these levels of bullshit DRM. Gonna use webcam authentication next to make sure it's only me playing the game?

Raise your arms and yell RANDY PITCHFORD to authenticate access to Borderlands 3.

 

[Panda Pedinte]

Where is that Randy tweet where he said BL3 could change gaming or something like that?

 

[Alexandros]

Oh... So we're going back to these levels of bullshit DRM. Gonna use webcam authentication next to make sure it's only me playing the game?

A blood test isn't too far at the horizon.

 

[Samson]

Every game should copy Death Stranding’s “Very Easy Mode”

Not every player wants to suffer through gatekeeping challenges just to see a game.

arstechnica.com

You know what every gaming platform should actually copy? Mod support and game file access. I still don’t understand why this “ difficulty” thing is the angle that people are taking for accessibility. If you want an accessible platform, one that (like PC) allows me to modify any internal game values or input methods is the obvious way to go.

I played a tycoon game earlier in the year that had a horrible balance on the last two levels. I tried dropping the difficulty down, but then it was piss easy. So what did I do? I just went in and changed a few values to make the cash gain more respectable. Boom. Problem solved. Oh my camera is wobbling weirdly in GreedFall and making me sick? There’s an FOV fix for that. Dark Souls kicking my ass? Ooh there’s cheat tables for that.

Support platforms that allow mods you fools

 

[prudis]

 

[Spamlynguist]

Using storyboards in your trailer is uh... certainly different.

 

[PC-tan]

Just a few more hours and we might hear about HLVR!!!

 

[Cordelia]

I hope it'll be as good as the previous games.

 

[texhnolyze]

Every game should copy Death Stranding’s “Very Easy Mode”

Not every player wants to suffer through gatekeeping challenges just to see a game.

arstechnica.com

You know what every gaming platform should actually copy? Mod support and game file access. I still don’t understand why this “ difficulty” thing is the angle that people are taking for accessibility. If you want an accessible platform, one that (like PC) allows me to modify any internal game values or input methods is the obvious way to go.

I played a tycoon game earlier in the year that had a horrible balance on the last two levels. I tried dropping the difficulty down, but then it was piss easy. So what did I do? I just went in and changed a few values to make the cash gain more respectable. Boom. Problem solved. Oh my camera is wobbling weirdly in GreedFall and making me sick? There’s an FOV fix for that. Dark Souls kicking my ass? Ooh there’s cheat tables for that.

Support platforms that allow mods you fools

But.. but you're ruining the devs' vision of game design!

 

[prudis]

I hope it'll be as good as the previous games.

Isnt the old studio who mae the originals dead now? And this is made as some wierd online.only persistent world nonsense?

 

[Cordelia]

Isnt the old studio who mae the originals dead now? And this is made as some wierd online.only persistent world nonsense?

Really? Damn.... Well no hurt trying.

 

[xinek]

Every game should copy Death Stranding’s “Very Easy Mode”

Not every player wants to suffer through gatekeeping challenges just to see a game.

arstechnica.com

You know what every gaming platform should actually copy? Mod support and game file access. I still don’t understand why this “ difficulty” thing is the angle that people are taking for accessibility. If you want an accessible platform, one that (like PC) allows me to modify any internal game values or input methods is the obvious way to go.

I couldn't agree more with this. It's always been nonsensical to me how people conflate accessibility concerns with game difficulty. They aren't even close to the same thing. No surprise that this is another example "reporting" by Kyle Orland, who I consider to be the worst writer on Ars and probably the entire gaming press. Not a fan.

 

[Wok]

I hope it'll be as good as the previous games.

What is this launcher?

 

[Arsene]

What is this launcher?

Perfect World’s launcher. Torchlight Frontiers is exclusive to it. At least for the alpha.

 

[Samson]

But.. but you're ruining the devs' vision of game design!

I consider mod support to be the most friendly accessibility option to authorial intent!

With mod support, devs can worry about one finely tuned difficulty level (like say Dark Souls), and when it’s released we can either play that finely tuned vision, or modify it to whatever we specifically need.

Boom, my specific needs can be addressed, and devs don’t have to waste time tuning difficulty levels that they don’t want to make (and anyways no number of difficulty levels can ever account for the full variety of personal preference or personal needs/conditions).

 

[crimsonheadGCN]

I wonder if Perfect World Entertainment will still continue to push their launcher after Steam Platform (China) releases?

BTW, the Arc launcher looks like a rip off of the Battle.net launcher.

 

[Ascheroth]

I consider mod support to be the most friendly accessibility option to authorial intent!

With mod support, devs can worry about one finely tuned difficulty level (like say Dark Souls), and when it’s released we can either play that finely tuned vision, or modify it to whatever we specifically need.

Boom, my specific needs can be addressed, and devs don’t have to waste time tuning difficulty levels that they don’t want to make (and anyways no number of difficulty levels can ever account for the full variety of personal preference or personal needs/conditions).

A thousand times this.

 

[TioChuck]

I wonder if Perfect World Entertainment will still continue to push their launcher after Steam Platform (China) releases?

BTW, the Arc launcher looks like a rip off of the Battle.net launcher.

They are not even pushing right now, Remnant From the Ashes, a game they published, released direct onto Steam, you could buy a Steam Key from Arc.

 

[Cordelia]

What is this launcher?

Arc Store

Shop page for Arc games

www.arcgames.com

 

[Parsnip]

Question about Yakuza 0 side activities. Are they gradually introduced through the story or am I supposed to actively seek them out myself?

 

[Chance Hale]

The tone of Iconoclasts is really bizarre, you have these exaggerated main characters and speech patterns contrasted against a rather dark plot about class war in a facist religious state where npcs get killed and pummeled into submission constantly.

Game is so fluid to play tho and the art style and bouncy animations are a nice contrast to Blasphemous for religious themed 2d games.

 

[Stone Ocean]

Question about Yakuza 0 side activities. Are they gradually introduced through the story or am I supposed to actively seek them out myself?

Some of them are, some of them aren't.

 

[Álvaro de Campos]

I hope it'll be as good as the previous games.

I hope it'll be better, but from what I've seen of pre-release streams and whatnot I have my reservations. Let us know how you find it.

 

[708]

Just a few more hours and we might hear about HLVR!!!

What's happening?

 

[Tizoc]

Tested out Nvidia Shadowplay and wow that thing records really well quality wise!
I recorded my playthrough of a stage in Brave and here is Part 1. Funnily enough I had a phone call at the point where the video ends, so I continued recording afterwards.
Due to my net connection, uploading to YT is slow so I'll put up Part 2 later

 

[AHA-Lambda]

Just a few more hours and we might hear about HLVR!!!

Eh??

 

[PC-tan]

Valve dev at digipen

 

[Parsnip]

Some of them are, some of them aren't.

Around when would you say they start? Does the game encourage you to seek stuff out? I'm somewhere in chapter 2 right now and while I've met a few NPC's and done a few one off side missions that I happened by, I've been mostly sticking with driving the main story forward.

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Currently chasing down some real estate people, just fetched some booze to bunch of homeless people.

 

[Li Kao]

Nioh second boss is down. After 2 hours and dozens of attempts. And you all were lying, I didn’t feel the fabled rush of euphoria you are supposed to have in those situations.
On the brightside, when a mob attack I’m all ‘can’t touch me, lol’, ‘neither that way, bro’, ‘let’s put you out of your misery you poor scrub mob’.

 

[CommodoreKong]

Eh??

A Valve employee Kerry Davis is going to talk about his work at Valve in about half an hour at Digipen, and the description says he's going to talk about their upcoming flagship VR game.

I doubt we'll get a ton of specifics about the VR game, just some general information though it still will probably be an interesting talk.

 

[Le Pertti]

Haha I was feeling like I didn't want to continue with Yakuza 0 after having problems with even chapter one, thought I would give it a go still because there is so much I like... Then I met Mr shakedown. Holy Jesus fucking Christ that has to be the worst gameplay element designed in the history of the medium.XD

 

[Tizoc]

Refresh my memory, in Dark Souls 1 what're the suggested stats to increase if not max out early on? Stamina and weight are stuff I'd focus on first since I don't want to be 'gated' by them.

 

[yuraya]

Refresh my memory, in Dark Souls 1 what're the suggested stats to increase if not max out early on? Stamina and weight are stuff I'd focus on first since I don't want to be 'gated' by them.

Just go by the weapons or spells/pyromancy you want to use. Put stats in wtvr you need to enjoy playing the way you want. Also fyi if you don't have enough strength you can 2 hand a weapon which will let you bypass several points via a bonus. I don't remember if it works with dex as well but keep that in mind for your build so you don't overspend for a fun/early pve build.

 

[Firewithin]

started up some Rage 2. from what i have played so far the gunplay def feels pretty good

 

[Nabs]

Dicey Dungeons 1.4 adds Steam Achievements and Steam Cards. Workshop Support coming in the future.

 

[lashman]

Workshop Support coming in the future.

ooooooh ... now THAT is exciting!

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also:

 

[Le Pertti]

What are people expecting from the talk? I assumed it wouldn't be anything exciting, more like just interesting stuff and such.

 

[lashman]

What are people expecting from the talk? I assumed it wouldn't be anything exciting, more like just interesting stuff and such.

apparently that's exactly what it's going to be

 

[gabbo]

apparently that's exactly what it's going to be

Even Valve's dry tech talks are interesting. Now if a crowbar showed up... then we'd have something

 

[Wildebeet]

What are people expecting from the talk? I assumed it wouldn't be anything exciting, more like just interesting stuff and such.

Portal is coming up free on EGS. But everybody already owns it.

 

[Stone Ocean]

Around when would you say they start? Does the game encourage you to seek stuff out? I'm somewhere in chapter 2 right now and while I've met a few NPC's and done a few one off side missions that I happened by, I've been mostly sticking with driving the main story forward.

See more

Currently chasing down some real estate people, just fetched some booze to bunch of homeless people.

Yeah, they start rolling a few chapters in. Yakuza games are kind of a slow burn, the first few chapters are usually veeeeeeeeeery introductory then the game opens up a whole bunch.

 

[PC-tan]

One of the big things that he talked about was doors in VR. It sounded like Valve tried to make door act as realistic as possible but the issue is that people just were not use to it and they kind of had to scrape a lot of that work. They were able to make some compromises and were able to get something decent.

Also some people at Valve like the flagship VR game and other seem to hate it because of its "scale" (it's technically difficulties, both hardware and software wise, or something like that)

 

[texhnolyze]

I consider mod support to be the most friendly accessibility option to authorial intent!

With mod support, devs can worry about one finely tuned difficulty level (like say Dark Souls), and when it’s released we can either play that finely tuned vision, or modify it to whatever we specifically need.

Boom, my specific needs can be addressed, and devs don’t have to waste time tuning difficulty levels that they don’t want to make (and anyways no number of difficulty levels can ever account for the full variety of personal preference or personal needs/conditions).

Absolutely.

The thing is, games don't really need official modding support. As long as the engine is mod friendly and I'll be happy enough. I don't remember the last time I didn't mod my PC games. There's always something that I mod, whether from Nexus, .ini files, even some touch of Reshade. I always mod my PC games.

 

[Kvik]

The voice acting in GreedFall is actually better than what I expected. It feels kind of weird having the lip-sync not entirely matching the spoken dialogue, but I guess it's part of the charm. Is there an Nvidia Game Ready driver for this game? I'm still on 411.xx.

 

[Ex-User (119)]

i feel like this was a very important emoji to add



Kurt Russell

 

[Samson]

Absolutely.

The thing is, games don't really need official modding support. As long as the engine is mod friendly and I'll be happy enough. I don't remember the last time I didn't mod my PC games. There's always something that I mod, whether from Nexus, .ini files, even some touch of Reshade. I always mod my PC games.

Oh yeah, on PC this stuff is trivially easy, official support or not. Like in my example of tinkering with a tycoon game, there was no actual mod support until seven months later, so I was just messing around with the save files manually. And that was easy to figure out even for me.

I was more addressing how the “put more easy difficulties” discussion seems to come from a perspective of closed platforms, i.e. consoles. And if people want better accessibility, the obvious answer is to demand more open access on currently walled game platforms and supporting platforms (PC) that already do provide an open experience.

 

[Panda Pedinte]

lashman I just finished Retro/Grade so put me in the list of people who finished the monthly challenge.