Apparently this launched from Early Access yesterday
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Lot of good stuff this month imo 
AC7
RE2 DLC
Metro (well I got it on Steam anyway)
Devotion
Yakuza Kiwami
AC7
RE2 DLC
Metro (well I got it on Steam anyway)
Devotion
Yakuza Kiwami
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... and Sunless SkiesLot of good stuff this month imo
AC7
RE2 DLC
Metro (well I got it on Steam anyway)
Devotion
Yakuza Kiwami
what an early launch trailer :-D
This launched on Thursday ;-)
Featuring simple and satisfying drifting and nitro mechanics, Super Pixel Racers lets players race it out in numerous modes from classic Rally to pixelated mayhem in Takedown. Splitscreen and online multiplayer on the pocket-sized versions of world famous racing locations like sandy Bahrein or snowy Canada and an energetic soundtrack is sure to make for addictive gameplay.
Features
The game lets you hop straight into the driver’s seat, but advanced features let players customize their racing experience even further. Your winnings let you purchase new cars of individual driving quality and upgrade schemes, from a pixelated F500 to your very own 16-bit Lancer Evolution. As the game progresses, find out which car suits the different disciplines and yourself best. Some features to look forward to are:
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This launched on Thursday ;-)
Featuring simple and satisfying drifting and nitro mechanics, Super Pixel Racers lets players race it out in numerous modes from classic Rally to pixelated mayhem in Takedown. Splitscreen and online multiplayer on the pocket-sized versions of world famous racing locations like sandy Bahrein or snowy Canada and an energetic soundtrack is sure to make for addictive gameplay.
Features
The game lets you hop straight into the driver’s seat, but advanced features let players customize their racing experience even further. Your winnings let you purchase new cars of individual driving quality and upgrade schemes, from a pixelated F500 to your very own 16-bit Lancer Evolution. As the game progresses, find out which car suits the different disciplines and yourself best. Some features to look forward to are:
- Rally Cross: Classic race against up to 7 other drivers
- Rally: Reach checkpoints on a procedurally generated outdoor track
- Land Rush: Be in front of the pack when the time ends
- Takedown: Destroy the other cars
- Hunt: Chase the target down
- Drift Show: Score points by drifting
- Thirteen Unique Racetracks: From desert dunes to the city streets. A host of unique pixel environments set the stage for some truly super pixel racing.
- Hone your drifting, score some Nitro: The more you drift, the quicker your nitro gauge fills up. Use it for an instant hit of speed; equally useful for dodging obstacles or slamming into opponents.
- Vehicle Damage & Explosion Mechanics: In-race collisions result in visible damage to your pixel racer. Once a car takes too many hits, it goes up in flames!
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And even if it were, what's wrong with not wanting to install extra crap on my PC? I choose to install what I want, so if I'm being forced to use a new program, I have every right to complain.
PSA: The Steam Awards cards from this past Winter sale will expire in less than 8 hours. Either convert them to gems or sell them ASAP.
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Thanks. I had few cards left in my inventory.
Hit me up with recommendations for the March highlight thread. It'll be posted on here as well, but I'm too lazy to remember everything that releases.
Of course, a customer has always the right to complain.
thesteamthread.com linking to here now?
How devious, someone using their monopoly on thesteamthread.com to prey on my insurmountable lazyness. Guess I'm trapped here now. Forever.
How devious, someone using their monopoly on thesteamthread.com to prey on my insurmountable lazyness. Guess I'm trapped here now. Forever.
This is exactly the reason why I'm ignoring certain game related sites for a while. It's easy to ignore Epic since there are plenty of other great games to play, but it's god damn frustrating to see editors, devs and gaming enthusiasts I like praising Epic's current strategy.
This makes a lot of sense. I guess most people really don't know what Valve does. And the only thing they read about them are Polygons terrible articles where they are shitting on Valve. I'm using Steam every day, and I wouldn't even be aware of the shovelware and toxicity if the media didn't write about it.
Agreed. I have a lot of respect for the mods on Era, but the amount of console gamers shitting on pc related stuff is ridiculous. I'm done fighting a useless fight with these people.
Glad to see you here by the way. I always enjoy reading your insightful comments.
I hope so as well. Because Epic's moneyhats will end sooner or later. As long as a significant part of the PC gaming community keeps buying their games on Steam, there's no reason for devs to go Epic Store exclusive unless Epic pays them to do so.
From memory
DMC5
The Occupation
The Sinking City (maybe? Devs have been very cagey about the date now and not confirmed either way)
Zanki Zero
Sekiro
Katana Zero
FFXV DLC
TWD S4E4
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yeah, exactly ... it's always interesting to see people (regular people, in forums and comments) say how awful volvo are about curation and how steam is drowning in shovelware, but when you ask them to show you their main store page - it's usually full of good recommendations
and that's what i'm talking about - people usually just hear about how awful steam is somewhere and just roll with that opinion ... don't even bother checking themselves ... i mean - "if devs themselves and journalists are saying it's awful then it must be awful" kind of thing, you know
and then there's also another thing - the vast majority of people playing on PC aren't really super-hardcore like we are here ... they usually buy a few games per year and usually also own at least one console ... so they aren't really all that invested in any of the community features volvo offers, and they probably also don't really care where they play their games (probably most of them on consoles and only play on PC when it's a game that's only on PC)
Seems like i missed another one from Thursday
Set on a distant uncharted & hostile planet, where descendants of a colony fleet that struck disaster have clung on to survive until the eventual rescue. However, decades later, without contact from the fleet, the growing colonies have begun skirmishes over limited resources.
A full blown war of conquest looms on the horizon that could risk humanity's fragile existence on this harsh new world.
As the chaos approaches, you take the role as the leader of a rag-tag bunch of scavengers / mercenaries. Your goal is to scavenge, trade, sabotage, hunt, fight and help conquer your way to fame and glory.
Along the journey, you will meet allies that will join in the struggle to survive the wasteland, and perhaps together, you can unravel the mystery on the origins of the colony and change the fate of all those who call this barren world home.
Key Features:
Set on a distant uncharted & hostile planet, where descendants of a colony fleet that struck disaster have clung on to survive until the eventual rescue. However, decades later, without contact from the fleet, the growing colonies have begun skirmishes over limited resources.
A full blown war of conquest looms on the horizon that could risk humanity's fragile existence on this harsh new world.
As the chaos approaches, you take the role as the leader of a rag-tag bunch of scavengers / mercenaries. Your goal is to scavenge, trade, sabotage, hunt, fight and help conquer your way to fame and glory.
Along the journey, you will meet allies that will join in the struggle to survive the wasteland, and perhaps together, you can unravel the mystery on the origins of the colony and change the fate of all those who call this barren world home.
Key Features:
- An intelligent economic simulation creates opportunities for emergent gameplay, where the world reacts to player actions or inaction. A world where your choices matters as the factions try to survive and wage wars of conquest.
- A competitive design where other groups of free scavengers roam the world seeking the same opportunities to exploit as the player. Want those precious advanced alloys from the recent fallen space debris? Or that lucrative trade request? So do others, and they will not appreciate your rag-tag gang interfering.
- Factions will raise militia armies to defend or raid and conquer their enemies. Each recruit needs to be equipped and supplied, including basics such as munitions, without which, their guns will fall silent in battle.
- Mercenary contracts that carry consequences. Be it clearing raiders for a faction to help their economy grow, or sabotage their enemy's outposts to cripple their war capability.
- Equip your squad with many different weapons, each providing a unique balance and tactical options. Train their combat skills as they gain levels, and specialize them further with a selection of many perks.
- Hunt the xenobeasts on this hostile world and use their skin, carapace, and organs in crafting useful items and armor.
- An epic sci-fi story awaits, along with side-quests and random encounters.
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Rise to Ruins :: So Long (Patreon), and Thanks For All The Fish!
So Long (Patreon), and Thanks For All The Fish!
2 Feb @ 6:56am - Rayvolution
Greetings guys, after some very, very careful consideration. I've decided to shut down the Patreon. The reason being Rise to Ruins easily sustains my livelihood and a nice rainy day account that can keep SixtyGig Games running through the hard times now, so I don't feel right taking additional money from you guys! Your support has and always will be appreciated and I thank you all for your pledges, reviews and of course, buying the game.
Rise to Ruins has been doing increasingly well over the last 6 months or so, and to return the thanks you gave me by pledging, I would like to return to you 2 times the amount you pledged to me since the Patreon began. Meaning, if you've pledged $10, I'll return $20!
Anyone who wants to take me up on this offer, simply send me a message on Patreon with your PayPal information (Or post a comment in the Patreon announcement linked below) and I'll handle the rest! If you don't have a PayPal. I can also offer Steam gift card codes.
Please, don't look at this as a negative, I greatly appreciate everything you guys have and will do! This is actually a great thing; as Rise to Ruins has become so successful a rainy day fund this Patreon set out to build is no longer necessary.
Thank you guys for everything! I look forward to your messages.
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So long, and thanks for all the fish! | Raymond Doerr of SixtyGig Games on Patreon
impossible ... what about the Volvo causing Indipocalypse :-O
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Aaaah at the library that has fast internet speeds, 8.8mb/s downloading D:OS2.
Thought I would have to sit here all day but it will be finished soon!
Thought I would have to sit here all day but it will be finished soon!
I have this game, and I don't remember how and when
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But I don't drink. I am not allowed to drinkstop drinking so much
I fucking hate Windows fucking Store with a fucking passion. Can't download anything from the Windows Store and the only reason I care is I want to get Gamepass for like a month to play Crackdown 3 since I'm such a massive Crackdown fan. Tried all the ways to remedy it but no dice, I could try to reinstall from scratch but fuck that, what a nuiscance. I mean Epic may be cunts with their shenanigans but at least you can download the fucking games from their store. (sorry for the rant!)
I assume you are on the very latest W10 version? And how are you updating apps? Doesn't that work either?
Here are some more hardcore suggestions, including making a new user account: How To Reinstall Store And Other Apps In Windows 10
Sometimes someone disabeling some service or using one of those privacy tools to turn off Windows features can lead to weird issues much, much later. Difficult to track down the underlying cause.
Thankfully I haven't had any issues with the store not working and don't mind it too much for apps but of course it was never made for big games and I'd rebuy stuff like FH4 on Steam in an instant.
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This is a good game with a great, dedicated dev. Please, please support it.
It used to be called Retro Pixel Castles. You probably got it when it was in an Indiegala bundle back in 2014ish!
Monooboe
AFAIK you miss out on some background story stuff and a major side quest or so...
but, you can customize the "official" characters the same way like a 100% custom one except for looks and their background story, you can still use whatever class and skills... so there is no real reason to not use a official one imo... at least for the first play through
AFAIK you miss out on some background story stuff and a major side quest or so...
but, you can customize the "official" characters the same way like a 100% custom one except for looks and their background story, you can still use whatever class and skills... so there is no real reason to not use a official one imo... at least for the first play through
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Mm I assumed as much, so went with an origin char. Went with the Red Prince.
I'm so happy I could cry, I've waited for this game since I kickstarted it!It only took like two months, but Epic has already brought major PC devs back to Epic's former anti-PC stance of 2006-2012.
MUH COMPETITION
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I guess it also confirms that devs got nothing out of epic moneybags to make it exclusive (which Galyonkin said would cover at least difference between sales on epic & steam).
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so we basically went from "saving poor devs" to "more money for the publishers"
even better
Wow, now they are blackmailing, "you better buy on Epic Store or you get nothing!"
Thanks for the link. Yeah I tried all those before and none of them worked unfortunately, well apart from the new account I might try that later. I can get into the store no problem, it just won't download unfortunately. I mean I'm not THAT concerned and if I can be bothered I'll maybe do a complete reinstall but for now I'm just 'meh' and playing other things.
I can't tell if the 4A developers are at the A - ANGER stage of the DABDA grief cycle or the B - BARGAINING stage.
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Hey, people can still use era.steamthread.com. They'll be fine, it's just another launcher.
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Monooboe the red prince is great, fun character and he has great dialog options... have fun!
I mean it will absolutely sell on PC, just not until February 2020.
If it depends on me I'll only buy Metro Exodus after it's releasing on Steam and when it gets a good discount.
Well it's only one dude. Can hardly get mad over someone going off the rails on some Russian forum.
PRAISE.
I mean I understand the passion and anger of PC folk at Epics nonsense but from my perspective I'm not angry or sad or anything. They're releasing something I want on a platform I use in 2020 and that's when I'll get it, nothing more and nothing less. I'll still be using the Epic Store for Fortnite Save The World, I'll still be using Origin, GOG, Uplay and even the Bethesda Launcher. But to act like customers are crazy for voicing and showing their disapproval is something I don't understand. I don't blame folks for getting annoyed, they're getting told by other fuckwit posters that they're 'entitled' and they're also getting told by articles on gaming websites how they're entitled, just for showing their disapproval at a business move ? Fuck outta here. Don't be voicing your disapproval via reviews now cause that would be bad and make the poor publisher upset now. Again, fuck outta here. All whilst they're releasing new trailers on stores that they aren't releasing on for a year after just removing purchasing options (with the other stores logo in the trailer), using those forums on those stores for bug fixes since that's one of the few ways customers can interact with them, people making profit from skimming data from a particular store whilst working for a competitor etc. Makes me chuckle at the bullshit on display.
Yeah I'm not really angry and not really worried for the future of steam as such. More surprised even one dude at the company would get so defensive enough to write about it in such manner.
The things irks me (even considering it's just one dude) is that it sounds way to similar to something like:
"Be happy with what we are offering and if you don't buy it we will be leaving the PC market.". And that is something we have heard sooooo many times over the years.
In other news; Holy crap people weren't kidding about the mouse controls on Anthem. I didn't even try the demo itself because of how bad it was in the hub area, and I'm one of those guys that could play the original Dead Space.... pheeeew.
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Forgot to talk about the great post from lashman, and specifically this part:
"Be happy with what we are offering and if you don't buy it we will be leaving the PC market.". And that is something we have heard sooooo many times over the years.
In other news; Holy crap people weren't kidding about the mouse controls on Anthem. I didn't even try the demo itself because of how bad it was in the hub area, and I'm one of those guys that could play the original Dead Space.... pheeeew.
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Forgot to talk about the great post from lashman, and specifically this part:
I was just thinking yesterday how the usual "complete silence" and no PR from Valve isn't really helping the situation right now, so thank you for articulating way better than I could. I think they really should change the strategy in this area, but it is probably too late now.
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I’ve been dying for years to re-play and finally beat Dark Earth. I believe I’ve mentioned this game before. Also, it’s been begged for by the GoGies for a while now.
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you know you can remove the "post was merged" message afterwards, right?
it's just a tag in the post - you can edit it out hahayeah ... volvo suuuuuuuuuuuuuuuck IMMENSELY when it comes to communication ... with pretty much anyone: the media, the consumers, and even the goddamn devs!
they really should fix that ASAP because especially now it's REALLY hurting them
If people boycott Exodus and it bombs on PC, what will happen is that the next Metro game will be released on Steam unless Epic pays an even bigger moneyhat. Suggesting that a company like THQ would skip the platform entirely in this day and age is nothing short of laughable, and the attempt to suggest so is pathetic.
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I think they're still thinking how to best tackle this situation and that's why there's no news. I doubt they want to 'punish' publishers and burn bridges, so it's a delicate situation.
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i hope not ... and they DEFINITELY shouldn't ... that would be like the worst thing they could do right now
I’ve been semi-away due to my little girl’s birthday today, but I wanted to say Humble looks good this month. I think I have some keys to give away from last month, so be on the lookout.
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It certainly is delicate, but given that journalists are simply not doing any research whatsoever, I think they will have to change tactics. Even the little message they put up on the Metro Exodus page showed how Epic is counting on them being silent, with Galyonkin even replying on twitter "Do you find a store owner attaching a note like this to a product made by people they disagree with a bit weird? ".
Now, I don't know how it would be the best way to react, is just that I really don't think the standard silence and "the market will take care of it" is the best response to all that Fortnite money. Doing nothing may lead to the "death by a thousand cuts" scenario.
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