Community MetaSteam | April 2020 - A Disaster Report From Raccoon City

[Aaron D.]

So is this like a complete stealth drop? Don't recall hearing anything of its development.

$10 / -50% Day One discount sounds fair.

So, we have a new LudoNarraCon next week, with demos, streams, and deals.



I enjoyed previous events, so I'm looking forward to check out the upcoming one.

I'm not sure why I can't properly link to the post on the fellow traveller steam page, but do check the announcement below for more details on the participants, and the panels:

Steam :: Fellow Traveller :: Events

steamcommunity.com

Nice. Looks like In Other Waters will have a demo.

Wonderful for exposure. Check it out, fools!

 

[fantomena]

Probably both. Souls-like games seem to be doing very well on PC.

Part of why I don't find myself worrying about Elden Ring being an EGS exclusive + the fact that Bandai seems to love Steam, pretty much everything they are publishing is releasing on Steam.

 

[Mor]

Member Timed Exclusive Speculation (probably bad ofc, this is Valve after all) about future of SteamDB & friends:

[Hidden content]

Could be end of era.

If this happens I will be fucking sad.

 

[Wok]

Does Receiver 2 have online multiplayer or VR support?
No, Receiver 2 is designed to be a single-player experience played on a monitor with a mouse and keyboard.

A missed opportunity. This game screams VR.

 

[Alextended]

Probably a matter of gameplay & style, things that are deliberately finicky to do in the original, from reloading manually with a sequence of keys to aiming your guns, are actually super easy and intuitive and natural when performed with real actions in VR, it's how pretty much any VR game with guns does it. It's like the opposite of people wanting to play VR games like Alyx out of VR, when the gunplay and everything else will be pretty meh without the manual action needed. Of course it'd be great if we did get a made for VR gun based rogue-lite in the style but I guess they didn't consider it at all, oh well. Maybe Crunch Element

 

[Stevey]

67% off

 

[Stone Ocean]

Finished RE3. Fun game, even if disappointing compared to 2. Reaaaaaaally wish we could get a Mercs DLC.

 

[fantomena]

Why did y'all buy Xcom 2.5 already? The 50% discount goes days beyond the release date. I'll just wait for reviews and user reviews.

 

[ISee]

Why did y'all buy Xcom 2.5 already?

Just a technical correction: War of the Chosen was X-Com 2.5
This is X-Com, the petite standalone Complex. But hopefully not the terrible Hollywood adaption.

I bought it because Firaxis did a great job in bringing X-Com back. They evolved the series from X-Com to X-Com 2 and War of the Chosen. And this is a new, unknown smaller team, but Firaxis deserves a bit of benefit of the doubt. Especially as refunding on Steam is no problem at all.

 

[lashman]

I have no clue but lots of blocked links in here. Changed nothing and bam now getting this.

I can't find it in any of my addons either.


s9e.github.io

i believe that's the addon that is responsible for like 90% of the embeds on xenforo

what's wrong with it?

 

[Tizoc]

Humble 2K's Game Together Bundle

Gather the gang for a night of gaming and support charity!

www.humblebundle.com

All I want is NBA PLaygrounds 2 @3@

 

[Blizniak]

That sure sounds like Chris Remo.

 

[PC-tan]

I wonder why the Remnant DLC is hitting PC before consoles which the trailer says "coming soon". Did it sell better on PC so they focused on PC first or is PC easier to patch?

I have the game on Steam, but haven't played it yet.

Souls like are popular on PC, perfect world is the publisher (more of a focus on PC?)
There was this one dev that did a GDC video and he mentioned that of the people that he watched, a big portion of them were "attracted to" (aka the store logo for that game caught their attention). It was also a top sellers for a while.

It's also likely a lot easier to patch things before time to just do it on PC first.


Like the video says it was a "sleeper hit", it came out without a lot of fan fare and sold rather decently (potentially somewhere between 300k-400k on Steam alone?). Would it come as a shock if the game still has not sold 1 million copies and that half of what it sold was on PC?

We can sort of compare it to Code Vein (vaguely similar, they released about a month or two apart). Code vein sold over 1 million copies with potentially PS4 being something like 40%-60% of total sales and then the rest would be PC and Xbox. PC would at least have sold 300k for Code Vein? Code Vein was also sort of a sleeper hit (although Bandai did do more to promote that came compared to Perfect World).

Part of why I don't find myself worrying about Elden Ring being an EGS exclusive + the fact that Bandai seems to love Steam, pretty much everything they are publishing is releasing on Steam.

Including stuff like idolm@ster and even stuff like Gundam (that is still Steam exclusive in the west....) that as of now is only set to release on PS4 and Steam

 

[Jav]

Crash Bandicoot is way more infuriating than I remembered

 

[kio]

Frostpunk and Children of Morta on Steam

An interesting bundle if you're interested in Children of Morta and already have Frostpunk.

 

[Tizoc]

Crash Bandicoot is way more infuriating than I remembered

Crash 1 was silly difficult
Crash 2's at decent difficulty IMO
Crash 3 is easy and doable, but needed more platforming levels.

Honestly, I'd have settled for a more lenient control scheme at the least

 

[Aaron D.]

Stoneshard - 0.5.8.0 "Trollslayer" is Live! - Changelog - Steam News

Hello everyone! We are happy to inform you that the first major update “Trollslayer” can now be downloaded and played! This expansion adds a new boss, two skill trees, many new items, and lots of fixes, improvements, and additions – the full changelog can be seen below. Keep in mind that because...

store.steampowered.com

Nice. Looks like Stoneshard got its first big content update. And a mid-week discount to boot.

Time to dive back in.

 

[Firewithin]

i had forgotten how wonderful the music in KR0 is. cant wait to replay act 3 again which may have one of the best music scenes in a game ever.

 

[Jav]

Crash 1 was silly difficult
Crash 2's at decent difficulty IMO
Crash 3 is easy and doable, but needed more platforming levels.

Honestly, I'd have settled for a more lenient control scheme at the least

I don't know if I'm going blind but seems like I have some problems with... depth perception? or something like that while playing this f*cking game

 

[fantomena]

Sayonara Wild Hearts is such a fun and good game. The music is glorious too, Even added 2 songs to my Spotify playlist.

One of them:


Seems to have done great on Steam too. 2,1k reviews.

 

[Line]

I don't know if I'm going blind but seems like I have some problems with... depth perception? or something like that while playing this f*cking game

They fucked up the physics and collisions.
Crash's hitbox is significantly smaller than it seems for platforms. But much larger for ennemies. People think it's because it's pill shaped... I don't know what it is, but it absolutely isn't correct. Play as Coco and it's more manageable, but also blatantly obvious that it's messed up: she can just floats in the void, slightly lower than platforms she's supposed to be standing on.
The same is true for inertia, which has nothing to do with the originals.

 

[QFNS]

The SoraVoice patch for Ao no Kiseki just got an update to add configurable Turbo and 60FPS! I need to test it more but after a quick boot the Turbo definitely works. I can't tell if the FPS is exactly 60 or not, but it's higher for sure.

The translation is still bad, but at least the frame rate isn't painful anymore.

 

[LEANIJA]

I finally did a purge on my Steam wishlist, cutting about a hundred games out that I am sure I wouldnt play anyway. Now I have 54 games (still a lot tbh) that i would actually play. Feels good

 

[xxr]

I finally did a purge on my Steam wishlist, cutting about a hundred games out that I am sure I wouldnt play anyway. Now I have 54 games (still a lot tbh) that i would actually play. Feels good

I've managed to cut mine down to 470 from ~2,200. I don't think I can go any lower. I've gone through it a few times and tried deleting some more, but I don't want to delete anything.

 

[Durante]

Frostpunk and Children of Morta on Steam

An interesting bundle if you're interested in Children of Morta and already have Frostpunk.

Children of Morta is really good by the way.

Not very roguelike for a roguelike (in terms of permanent progress), but a fun, really fast-paced coop action RPG (well, RPG-lite).

 

[Nabs]

Frostpunk and Children of Morta on Steam

An interesting bundle if you're interested in Children of Morta and already have Frostpunk.

Just keep in mind that Frostpunk was in a Choice bundle and that Morta might be in the future (it's currently on Gamepass).

 

[MJunioR]

Finished Cold Steel 3.

The final chapters were just too great, and after them it will be super hard to wait for the PC port (although I will 100% double dip it when it releases next year if I can't wait for it).

Damn, I love this series so much.

 

[PossiblyPudding]

because BlindRhythm is too shy to mention it :

Community - MetaCouncil Co-op Corner

April update! Added Fallout 76 to the OP co-op section and our co-op list Added Moving Out to the OP co-op section and our co-op list Added Biped to the OP co-op section and our co-op list (thanks Francis W.M.) Added Hacktag to our co-op list (thanks Echoes) Added One Piece Pirate Warriors 4...

metacouncil.com

Giving this one more quote to get some more eyes on it.

For those curious I'm doing a giveaway in the co-op thread to celebrate my one year anniversary on Meta. I'm giving away one $60 single player game of the winner's choosing and a $60 co-op game of another winner's choosing. Everyone is welcome to enter even if you've never checked out the Co-op Corner thread before.

Queen was also kind enough to donate a code for £40 to redeem on GMG.

I've taken inspiration from her generous giveaways and I'm using a similar system. Post a number and whether you're interested in the single player or co-op game and also if you would like a chance to get that code for GMG. I believe the next number would be 8.

Good luck to all who enter and don't worry if you do choose to enter for the co-op game, you're in no way obligated to play with folks unless you want to.

 

[lashman]

For those curious I'm doing a giveaway in the co-op thread to celebrate my one year anniversary on Meta.

 

[FeedMeAStrayCat]

 

[lashman]

 

[freshVeggie]

ARMA 3 APEX: OLD MAN IS NOW AVAILABLE | News | Arma 3 | Official Website

Return to Tanoa and assume the role of a retired Legionnaire in a brand-new, open-world, singleplayer scenario.

arma3.com

In Arma 3 Apex: Old Man, you assume the role of a retired Legionnaire living on the South Pacific island of Tanoa. When a new strain of malaria causes yet another humanitarian crisis, and local authorities fail to distribute an effective vaccine to the civilian population, you're tipped off about a possible plot. Together with a former military contact, you attempt to avert a catastrophic power play in the region.

Free new scenario/mini-campaign as a free update. If you had the beta from the Steam Workshop before, you need to unsubscribe from it.

 

[ExistentialThought]

Ooooh I want this, semi-gaming related, though not Steam related.

New DLC is available for DJMAX, but I think Neowiz messed up linking it to the main page? You can only view it directly.

They had issues last time as well.

 

[「Echo」]

Durante

So I did manage to capture the weird bubble that forms around your character when you pan the camera. (Click to make bigger.)

It's like motion blur is being applied to everything but the character? Or is that indeed the TAA artifacting?

The lighting in this game is driving me nuts. It's otherwise quite enjoyable. But having nearly every edge in the game be accompanied by aliased neon lighting is...

I gotta restart it though. I ended up thinking I could do better in character creation, also, I see there are mods for the game over on Nexus....

 

[Mivey]

The SoraVoice patch for Ao no Kiseki just got an update to add configurable Turbo and 60FPS! I need to test it more but after a quick boot the Turbo definitely works. I can't tell if the FPS is exactly 60 or not, but it's higher for sure.

The translation is still bad, but at least the frame rate isn't painful anymore.

Is it actually 60 FPS? Last I tried it just speeds up the game to produce twice as many frames, not interpolating existing animation to play at 60 FPS.

I wish Geofronts programmers could just release the source code to their patch for Zero and let people figure out how to apply it to Ao.

 

[texhnolyze]

Just released earlier. No English language yet,

 

[KainXVIII]

Ori 2 escape sequences are still as bad as in original game (and tanks performance too, even in 1080p lol)

 

[Hektor]

Durante

So I did manage to capture the weird bubble that forms around your character when you pan the camera. (Click to make bigger.)

It's like motion blur is being applied to everything but the character? Or is that indeed the TAA artifacting?

The lighting in this game is driving me nuts. It's otherwise quite enjoyable. But having nearly every edge in the game be accompanied by aliased neon lighting is...

I gotta restart it though. I ended up thinking I could do better in character creation, also, I see there are mods for the game over on Nexus....

Barf.

I hate Motion blur so goddamn much, literally the first thing i do when starting a new game is disabling it.

 

[Joe Spangle]

I finally did a purge on my Steam wishlist, cutting about a hundred games out that I am sure I wouldnt play anyway. Now I have 54 games (still a lot tbh) that i would actually play. Feels good

I've managed to cut mine down to 470 from ~2,200. I don't think I can go any lower. I've gone through it a few times and tried deleting some more, but I don't want to delete anything.

Yeah i recently trimmed the old wishlist down a bit....to 284.

And this is a terrific argument as to why games, even very good games will struggle in this day and age. Its not the amount of 'bloat' games on Steam. Its the amount of quality games on Steam. When a game releases today its competing (for my money) with 284 other games that i have my eye on.

 

[「Echo」]

Barf.

I hate Motion blur so goddamn much, literally the first thing i do when starting a new game is disabling it.

I like all the cinematic effects, including blur, at least when they're done right.

Even CA can be a tasteful artistic addition that I don't mind (as in Life Is Strange)... but BAMCO is fuckin' nuts with it. All their UE4 games I tried so far just BLEED CA. Honestly, BAMCO kinda is weird with all of UE4's post-processing. Too much blur, too much CA, max-allowable AF = 8 via in-game settings (you can set it to 16 via engine.ini edit), they apparently used the low-tier TAA that UE4 provides when they could have used a better version (that UE4 also provides).

... I don't really get them.

I got an engine.ini edit that's crazy long and that you can practically copy and paste from UE4 game to UE4 game. Though it does increase performance cost quite a bit, and it disallows texture streaming (which forces games to load them all at once when you enter a new area.) So not recommended for low VRAM cards. (In theory you sacrfice some load time to claw back some performance by not having to stream textures later.)

 

[EdwardTivrusky]

Disable Headbob
Increase FOV
Disable/Turn Down Motion Blur

First things i check in any FPS i play. Everything else i'll leave until it annoys me.

 

[FunnyJay]

Yeah i recently trimmed the old wishlist down a bit....to 284.

Cut mine down to 74 just now. It's been around 100 for awhile, but there's lots of games that have been on that list for ages, and I have no idea when I will have the time to get to them.
It just shows that there are too many good games being released, and since they are competing with all the "legacy" games as well, it's hard to find the time for them all.

 

[curi0usBystander]

Disable Headbob
Increase FOV

If I don't do that I'd be laying down and feeling like I'm going to puke in less that 30 minutes.

 

[Dragon1893]

More X-Com for that price is pretty damn tempting, I'll wait for some impressions though.

 

[Line]

Ori 2 escape sequences are still as bad as in original game (and tanks performance too, even in 1080p lol)

They're mercifully shorter at least.
And I didn't think they were too bad... except near the end maybe.


As for motion blur, it all depends on its use. Just blurring the entire screen when you move the camera is horrible, but it's a good way to support object motion. FFVIIR uses it extremely well, especially during the real time with pause menu.

The only thing I can't stand is depth of field, it's fine during a cut scene, but during gameplay I will never, ever support it. Even without getting the usual out of focus bug when the camera don't know what you're trying to look at, I don't see how it makes any sense.
That's not AT ALL how the real world works, we're not taking pictures with our eyes and if most of the world gets blurry when you look at a person in front of you, get your eyes checked.

 

[crimsonheadGCN]

I have been thinking about what I will preorder in the next year and my list so far is:

Next week: Gears Tactics and Xcom
May: Death Stranding and Command & Conquer
August: Marvel's Avengers and will get a free key for Amazon's New World
2020: Dying Light 2, Horizon Zero Dawn, Sea of Thieves, Torchlight 3, and Serious Sam 4.

I'll preorder stuff between 1 to 4 weeks before release.

 

[Tizoc]

June is mr. Driller month~

 

[Deleted member 113]

June is mr. Driller month~

I still need that Splatterhouse announcement...

 

[Nabs]

Indivisible's 4 Player co-op has gone live. Breakdown here: Steam :: Indivisible :: 4-Player Couch Co-op and New Game Plus now available!

Mike Z has been extra busy, also improving Skullgirls already great netcode for those with less than great connections: Steam :: Skullgirls :: Hot dang, it's an opportunity to test an online improvement!

 

[Swenhir]

Durante

So I did manage to capture the weird bubble that forms around your character when you pan the camera. (Click to make bigger.)

It's like motion blur is being applied to everything but the character? Or is that indeed the TAA artifacting?

The lighting in this game is driving me nuts. It's otherwise quite enjoyable. But having nearly every edge in the game be accompanied by aliased neon lighting is...

I gotta restart it though. I ended up thinking I could do better in character creation, also, I see there are mods for the game over on Nexus....

I'm not Durante but that looks like an issue where at the pixel location, the previous frame was on the character and is now on the background. Thus there is a mismatch between this frame's object position at these pixel coordinates compared the previous frame's according to the motion vectors. I'm not quite awake but it seems like the TAA doesn't quite discard those invalid samples. It does look like the usual ghosting artifacts where pixels are suddenly revealed..