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Knurek

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These handheld devices are getting better fast but will always be held back by our hilariously bad battery tech.

We need the power source the Horizon world has. Shit somehow still works after a thousand years of decay. Meanwhile if I don't use my joycons for a week they die on their own.
Just attach a 500g or so chunk of Plutonium-238, should give you enough power to drive the device for the next 50 years or so.
 

ExistentialThought

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I'm guessing most of that 230k was on Steam. I know it sold 300k in ~18 months on EGS, so the Steam version could outsell the EGS version in the near future.
I am waiting on controller and Steam Deck support since there is no appreciable discount. Not super excited for it based on my time watching and playing the demo.

230K sales is more than I would have guessed given its price increase. I imagine it will outsell EGS after the first few discounts, especially if they keep the discount for DD1 owners.
 
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MonthOLDpickle

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I am waiting on controller and Steam Deck support since there is no appreciable discount. Not super excited for it based on my time watching and playing the demo.

230K sales is more than I would have guessed given its price increase. I imagine it will outsell EGS after the first few discounts, especially if they keep the discount for DD1 owners.
I got it 25% off on steam with good regional pricing

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Player Privacy First
All the tools and features that we discuss here are built with player privacy in mind; Steam will continue to not share personally identifiable information. This approach to privacy means that some trade-offs have been made along the way that limits how specific some reporting can be. In most cases, it simply means that any traffic sources that are below a threshold of volume will get reported as "other". We intentionally don't collect or store demographic information about users such as age, gender, or race.
Ending Steam Support For Google Analytics
As of this coming July, Google will no longer operate Universal Analytics (UA), which is a third-party traffic reporting system that we've had available for measuring traffic sources to Steam store pages. Their announced replacement will be a system called Google Analytics 4 (GA4). You can read Google's help article about the topic.

As time has gone on we’ve come to realize that Google’s tracking solutions don't align well with our approach to customer privacy, and so with the migration to GA4 we’ve made the decision to end our support of Google's analytics systems on Steam. Instead, we're focused on building the most useful parts of aggregated reporting into Steam itself, as described above.

If you are currently making use of UA, you will find that as of July 1st, your Google Analytics reporting will no longer be getting data from Steam.
I know jack about all the PII Google grabs, but it's cool that Valve says they're privacy focused.

I am waiting on controller and Steam Deck support since there is no appreciable discount. Not super excited for it based on my time watching and playing the demo.

230K sales is more than I would have guessed given its price increase. I imagine it will outsell EGS after the first few discounts, especially if they keep the discount for DD1 owners.
By the near future I meant in like a week or two. :face-with-stuck-out-tongue-and-tightly-closed-eyes: I'd buy it, but it would be wasting money because of a certain game I'm enamored with.

Speaking of which, I'm going to play that game right now.
 

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Has Doom II total conversion My House been discussed yet?

It dropped a couple months ago and it is quite amazing. Super-surreal and astonishing on a technical level.

The vid above is a great deep-dive if you're into that kind of thing, but any interested parties should go in blind if at all possible.

Only things I would note is that A) you want to run the .pk3 file (not the .wad) and B) finishing the first map is not the end of the game (not even close).

The Google drive also has weird & wild Journal entries, photos, etc. that tease out the lore making the entire package feel larger than life.

Damn I love the Wild West of fan-made garage development.

Few more install deets here: https://www.pcgamer.com/the-doom-mod-of-the-year-just-dropped-in-a-mysterious-forum-post-and-goes-so-hard-we-dont-even-want-to-spoil-what-comes-next/
 

ExistentialThought

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Still undecided if I want to buy it. But that decision is more about the 70€ price tag
I logged into Battle.net for the first time in years and tried the beta. I had a lot of fun and considered purchasing it, but man... this video actually puts me off from it. I did not even think about battle passes and that sobers me up. Also, can I say that I hate the phrase battle pass the more I think about it.
 

Blu

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Pretty decent bundle


If you redeem Biped by the 18th you get this for free.


 

Derrick01

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Atlus games will cost $70 and still include tens of dollars of skin microtransactions so you can dress up as Joker for the umpteenth time.
I mean you have to have swimsuit dlc. You can't have an anime game without swimsuit dlc. That's like having an anime without the beach episode.
 
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Ascheroth

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Times are weird, you have AAA stuff getting more and more expensive (80€!?) meanwhile I'm spending like 10-15 bucks a year on F2P stuff like Genshin where I get what feels like multiple games worth of quality content every year and don't really feel pressured into spending more or feel like I'm missing out by not throwing more money at it.
But then again I realize that my 10-15 bucks a year aren't actually funding that stuff and the ceiling for spending is dramatically higher there (and people obviously do spend a lot there).
 

low-G

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Has Doom II total conversion My House been discussed yet?

It dropped a couple months ago and it is quite amazing. Super-surreal and astonishing on a technical level.

The vid above is a great deep-dive if you're into that kind of thing, but any interested parties should go in blind if at all possible.

Only things I would note is that A) you want to run the .pk3 file (not the .wad) and B) finishing the first map is not the end of the game (not even close).

The Google drive also has weird & wild Journal entries, photos, etc. that tease out the lore making the entire package feel larger than life.

Damn I love the Wild West of fan-made garage development.

Few more install deets here: https://www.pcgamer.com/the-doom-mod-of-the-year-just-dropped-in-a-mysterious-forum-post-and-goes-so-hard-we-dont-even-want-to-spoil-what-comes-next/
I played it a while when it first came out. A bit too complicated of a puzzler for my liking but I love how it is set up to troll Doom knowers, too. Really impressive.
 

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Purchased 2k drive (via cdkeys key)
It's on early access for pre-orders, it supports playstation prompts, recgonize DualSense, at least shows on controller screen but I have to try if it has haptic feedback).
On other "news" 2FA Authenticator app for Battle.net games it's being replaced by Battle.net app on iOs. People should do the change as soon as they can if they don't want to have future issues to login on Battle.net.
 
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New The King of Fighter XV DLC character available

It's included in Fighters pass, so be sure don't purchase it again, specially when SNK or Valve are doing shit with this game purchased licenses, and doesn't show as purchased on Steam store.
PS: imo great character dessign
 
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Madventure

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They changed the games entire genre from PVE CO-OP shooter to
PvPvE Extraction Shooter so Tarkov Like or Division Darkzone like

Lol. You can request access to try it out on the steam page for whenever they do their game testing in the summer
 

dex3108

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Boy am I glad that I dropped multiplayer games long time ago. With all these failed promises and changes that are happening left and right in MP sphere and on top of grind that is in every MP game these days, it would really be miserable experience.
 

yuraya

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Boy am I glad that I dropped multiplayer games long time ago. With all these failed promises and changes that are happening left and right in MP sphere and on top of grind that is in every MP game these days, it would really be miserable experience.
Best way to go about it is to never believe any of the bs that devs promise post launch. Take the game for what it is and enjoy it. And then drop it because not every game needs to be played forever.
 

dex3108

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Best way to go about it is to never believe any of the bs that devs promise post launch. Take the game for what it is and enjoy it. And then drop it because not every game needs to be played forever.
It's not just promises. This whole thing about vaulting content whenever they feel to do it (even paid one in case of Destiny) is kind of ridiculous. But that's just me, I dropped MP games around Modern Warfare 3 (CoD was main MP game and I loved MW1 MP, especially custom servers and Pro Mod) where main point of the game was to have fun with basically meaningless progression that most people ignored. Today MP games are designed to push people to grind and condition younger players to play those games to get carrot on the stick (skins, dances...) and with objectives in game that have nothing to do with actual point of the mode (Halo Infinite MP is obvious one).
 
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