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Li Kao

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Is steam shitting the bed for anyone else ?
I okayed the maintenance, looked up on google and saw that something must have changed the steam service in services.msc to manual. Set it back to auto.
But now when I enter a store page I have no tag and can't click the screenshots.

I suppose the two issues are unrelated but you will pardon me if I raise an eyebrow.
 

Avern

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I played the first 2 chapters of Necromunda. It's fantastic! Jank as hell and probably an acquired taste, but it's right up my alley. It's got the same approach to environmental design as E.Y.E., where levels feel unnecessarily large, which fits 40k perfectly. You get great mobility options that make it fun just to run around, despite the size of the levels. A quick mantle, fast slide, double jump, no fall damage, and a wall-run that causes you to rocket off at a bajillion miles an hour. And that's all before you get the grappling hook.

Arenas are extremely vertical and packed with objects to platform off. Since most enemies are hitscanners and the weapons I've found so far are inaccurate at range, it encourages zooming around to quickly and safely close the distance to targets so you can delete them with a burst up close. It also has a riff on Bloodborne's rally system to further encourage aggression. It's frantic in a way FPS titles don't often capture.

The RPG mechanics seem cool, but I haven't been able to do much with them yet. There's a decent variety of augmentations though, so I'm hoping for crazy shenanigans once I get some stuff unlocked.

Game runs like garbage though. I've had a lot of bad hitches and one crash so far. If you get it, consider buying directly from Steam and keeping an eye on the refund window.

Still, an awesome game, maybe even a GOTY contender for me if it keeps it up. I didn't expect to be falling back in love with hitscan-heavy shooters, but between this and Cruelty Squad, it's been a great year for them.
 

thekeats1999

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Expect a lot of jank, though. And the "glory kills/meele takedowns", while abusable, aren't pleasing to perform. The camera and animation work isn't good.
yeah, I have had it completely ignore the Glory Kills when trying to regain health. Fortunately if you are quick enough you regain health via ranged kills as well.
 

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Can’t.....stop.....doing.....Biomutant....sidequests....!

Dunno why and there’s so many 😲

And there are sidequests that cannot be completed unless you first complete a sidequest of the sidequest... I guess you can call it a side-sidequest? Whatever you call it it’s a lot for this old brain to handle
how are you liking it? Havent played much beoynd the prologue myself yet :-/

Aslo big patch just released
 

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Yeah, I think your assessment is accurate. Matador is a nasty spike early on, but outside of that, only the true last boss struck me as being unfair. I get the impression most of the really busted stuff is on hard mode, such as this legendary bit of BS:
HÆÆÆ???? THE FUCK ARE YOU EVEN WHAT

IT TOOK ME 2 H O U R S OF GRINDING, GETTING SOME DEMON WITH FOG BREATH, GRINDING MYSELF UP, GETTING THE FORCE MAGATAMA, AND A HEALER
 
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Not sure if you've played through the PS2 Devil Summoner games, but yes, you are right. Raidou can indeed travel through time. :p

Anyway, Raidou's cooler than Dante. Don't @ me, thanks. :blobmorning2:
yeah i'm a fan of dante in the later games when he's like "wahoo i dont have to care also im a comedian"
i picked raidou for my playthrough, but if raidou can indeed travel through time and space, then i can fully go for the TDE without any worries
 

MaskedCircle

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it keeps getting worse, huh.
Not sure if you've played through the PS2 Devil Summoner games, but yes, you are right. Raidou can indeed travel through time. :p

Anyway, Raidou's cooler than Dante. Don't @ me, thanks. :blobmorning2:
Raidou is one of my fav design in megaten, I don't even mind Dante being locked behind DLC, I wanted to play the raidou version anyway.
I really wanted to play nocturne again, wish it was regional priced here, the pricing is insane, hope it doesn't take long to go on a sale.
 
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beep boop

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Anyone here have an idea why certain (non-Steam) games that you add to Steam will only recognize controller configurations if you run Steam as admin?

Edit: probably because the game I'm launching is also run as admin :smart-thinking-blob:
 
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I have a DVD-drive in my current PC, but I doubt I will in my next. I never use it. Sad thing is that I have certain physical games like Lost Via Domus that's not available digital.
 
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MaskedCircle

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maybe its the platinum that cares :drinking-blob:
I mean nier automata received an update after 4 years, platinum ports are great but it's the only platinum port that was horrible and it just happened to be under Square Enix.
 

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I mean nier automata received an update after 4 years, platinum ports are great but it's the only platinum port that was horrible and it just happened to be under Square Enix.
iun case of Near A Tomato.... based on the post by the porting company of the new version .. the request for the new port was from the side of "On special request of Platinum" and not Square
 

MaskedCircle

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iun case of Near A Tomato.... based on the post by the porting company of the new version .. the request for the new port was from the side of Platinum and not Square
well, I'll repeat myself again then, why every port from platinum was fine but the only port which just happened to be under 'square' was such an abomination.
 

MegaApple

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Ghost Recon : WILDLANDS or BREAKPOINT?

Which is better to play with friends?
 

Madventure

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Ghost Recon : WILDLANDS or BREAKPOINT?

Which is better to play with friends?
I mean they're basically the same thing now

but I 100%d Wildlands with my buddy in Co-Op Main Story, Side Missions and all collectables, and that took us 118? hours total
We both liked it a lot and you can set your own individual difficulty as well so if you want to be on carebear mode while they're on get hit once die instantly that's doable.

We just started up Break point and it's similar but it has a lot of differences to it that I can say that Wildlands is easier to get into right away because they wanted to do something completely different with breakpoint and it shows. Then they tried walking it back because no one actually wanted that, they just wanted a wildlands 2. Which they got to that after like a year + of updates to fix it lol
 

didamangi

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It's not available in my region :V
If you're willing to use microsoft store.


Choose stay in us store, add the game to your account, should work. At least it works for me. The game is also blocked in my region on steam and microsoft store.
 
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MegaApple

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I mean they're basically the same thing now

but I 100%d Wildlands with my buddy in Co-Op Main Story, Side Missions and all collectables, and that took us 118? hours total
We both liked it a lot and you can set your own individual difficulty as well so if you want to be on carebear mode while they're on get hit once die instantly that's doable.

We just started up Break point and it's similar but it has a lot of differences to it that I can say that Wildlands is easier to get into right away because they wanted to do something completely different with breakpoint and it shows. Then they tried walking it back because no one actually wanted that, they just wanted a wildlands 2. Which they got to that after like a year + of updates to fix it lol
(For Breakpoint) you mean the looter stuff? what all differences did you find from Wildland?
Have you tried the Breakpoint's hardcore mode (which turns off the lootershooter aspects)?
 

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(For Breakpoint) you mean the looter stuff? what all differences did you find from Wildland?
Have you tried the Breakpoint's hardcore mode (which turns off the lootershooter aspects)?
My friend and I have got like 2? hours in breakpoint and that got us to the point of figuring out all our settings and doing 1 mission I think we pretty much got it set to as much like wildlands as possible but the game as classes where wildlands has no class system and just lets you pick skills

Figuring out how to disable the lootershooter shit was the first thing we did, Its basically all in breakpoints difficulty settings but it's alot more elaborate than just "This guy is tougher" they have sliders for it all but it affects stuff from how many primary weapons you can carry so like a sniper rifle/assault rifle or just one a rifle kind of deal

where as Wild Lands on the hardest difficulty it didn't change things like that and it was just changing the difficulty got rid of bad guy tags and minimap stuff so it was obivous what was happening
 
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My friend and I have got like 2? hours in breakpoint and that got us to the point of figuring out all our settings and doing 1 mission I think we pretty much got it set to as much like wildlands as possible but the game as classes where wildlands has no class system and just lets you pick skills

Figuring out how to disable the lootershooter shit was the first thing we did, Its basically all in breakpoints difficulty settings but it's alot more elaborate than just "This guy is tougher" they have sliders for it all but it affects stuff from how many primary weapons you can carry so like a sniper rifle/assault rifle or just one a rifle kind of deal

where as Wild Lands on the hardest difficulty it didn't change things like that and it was just changing the difficulty got rid of bad guy tags and minimap stuff so it was obivous what was happening
Great, thanks for the info.
Seems there will be some initial setting up to do in Breakpoint, while in Wildlands you will be good to go from the start.
I'll do a little more research before buying, but this was very important info.
 

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yup ... it's completely useless nowadays (for me at least)
I used it (the USB DVD drive I have) at some point to try and play Heavy Metal FAKK2...but it didnt work anyway (the game, I mean). and I burned a MP3 CD for the car for whenever Im too lazy to connect my phone for music ;)
 
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EdwardTivrusky

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Thinking of taking my DVD drive out my PC to tidy it up a bit, haven't bought any cds in ages so might as well
I bought this one as my the case i bought for my new machine doesn't even have any space for an optical drive. It is also MakeMKV Compatible which is handy when using VLC/MPC to watch Blurays.

Archgon Style - External USB 3 Bluray


Anyone here have an idea why certain (non-Steam) games that you add to Steam will only recognize controller configurations if you run Steam as admin?
Edit: probably because the game I'm launching is also run as admin :smart-thinking-blob:
If the game doesn't need elevation to run then you can try starting it with a batch file that uses "RunAsInvoker" and this will stop the UAC prompt popping up unless you've disabled that for some reason.
Code:
@echo off
cmd /min /C "set __COMPAT_LAYER=RUNASINVOKER && start "" "PATH-TO-GAME-EXE"
( I'll fire up my PC and check the exact cmd file i use for some of my John Tiller games that say they need Admin Rights but actually don't )
 
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So this is what it was. I was very confused because when I clicked a link on this one indie game I thought I was on a completely different site. And then when I saw it was steam I thought it was on a sub page or something.


I like this new update because on my phone I can now see reviews scores at the top without having to scroll all the way to the review section to see the score. With my older phone that was not an issue.
 

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I was freaked out when my Lenovo Tab M8 was showing glitches on the screen.
Turned out, the MicroSD i installed, which it is using as its main memory storage, wasn't being read properly which is what caused those glitches ^^;

Works fine now :3
 
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Man Cities Skylines highlights my weird need for perfectionism. Maybe its OCD but i keep getting a reasonable sized city, about 25k and then think nah, i want it better and re-starting.

I got fed up of having limited buildings at the start so now what i do is just get a decent amount of money saved and then using a mod bulldoze the whole city and start again. I know its weird coz you can just build with no money constraints from the off but i do like the progress element to the game and want that to continue.

Ive got it running now whilst i watch tele to build up around 5million spondooles and then ill re-start Spangleton for the 3rd or 4th time this week.

send help.
I keep thinking about going back to Cities Skylines every now and then. I never got really good with making the traffic work.

Also that game is 6 years old, I wonder if they are any close to revealing the next one.
 
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NMS continues to evolve
 

beep boop

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If the game doesn't need elevation to run then you can try starting it with a batch file that uses "RunAsInvoker" and this will stop the UAC prompt popping up unless you've disabled that for some reason.
Code:
@echo off
cmd /min /C "set __COMPAT_LAYER=RUNASINVOKER && start "" "PATH-TO-GAME-EXE"
( I'll fire up my PC and check the exact cmd file i use for some of my John Tiller games that say they need Admin Rights but actually don't )
Cool! My current use case is Genshin Impact, so I'm not sure it'd be smart to run the game like that if I don't want to risk a ban. I also just realized it doesn't give a UAC prompt when running it through Steam, but it does when you go through its launcher. Is it possible for it to silently demand admin privileges? I can't get custom controller stuff to work with it if Steam's not run in admin. Or maybe there's some entirely different thing that's preventing it.
 

EdwardTivrusky

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boop beep Hmmm, yeah. Genshin Impact is a service game with MTX so i'd imagine there's some Anti-Cheat mechanism involved but i don't know anything about it as i don't play it sorry. The games i use that command on are 90% of the time old games with no need for elevation and no online components so there's no problem using RunAsInvoker with them.
 
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Dinjoralo

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Why oh why does Steam need to wipe it's settings if my PC shuts down unexpectedly?
Anyone here have an idea why certain (non-Steam) games that you add to Steam will only recognize controller configurations if you run Steam as admin?

Edit: probably because the game I'm launching is also run as admin :smart-thinking-blob:
Genshin? Yeah, that game runs in admin for anticheat stuff.
Steam Input in general breaks down if an Admin window is in focus. This also happens when bringing up the Task Manager using the Steam Controller in Desktop mode, for example.
 
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