Community MetaSteam | November 2021 - Bienvenidos a Mexico. Sombreros no incluidos

[PC-tan]

I once almost got main Google account hacked. Once that happens in this day and age, it's all over.

I fell for this one thing that did look sketchy (I knew at the time that it was an old design that Google hadn't used in 5+ years. And then I got an email from Google saying that there was a login attempt for my account form somewhere in Africa.


I still have my account and everything but if I had lost my account that would have been terrible that would be 8 years worth of stuff just lost.

 

[Yoshi]

also ouch

Remember back in the day when people would undermine Valve's contributions on Portal and Left 4 Dead?

How the tables have turned

 

[Deleted member 113]

Screwfly Studios (Zafehouse: Diaries series, Deadnaut, Fear Equation) has formally announced their new game, Deadnaut: Signal Lost.

The Steam page is up:

 

[fspm]

prudis didn't contact me, he isn't my friend

He knows you are unemployed and won't be able to afford fancy cs go knives any time soon

 

[r3n4ud]

She be out and lookin’ mighty good

 

[Deleted member 113]

Yet another game played because of a Halloween update/event, and another decent surprise.

I played a bit over an hour of:


And so far, the first impressions are good.
Resident Evil was the videogame version of a "b movie". And this one is the "b movie" version of... Resident Evil. Which makes it what???

But seriously, this one is a lower budget, slightly "trashier" version of a classic survival horror game.
It starts off with a gratuitous scene of nudity, with the main character waking up naked in a bathtub, and a very unwelcome surprise (which I won't spoil).
From then, you basically have a game in the vein of the classic Alone In The Dark / Resident Evil games, with everything you'd expect: the (optional) tank controls, the puzzles, the limited saves.
On the plus side, the game looks rather good for what is surely a lower budget effort, the soundtrack is quite moody and appealing, and the premise is truly straight from a genre flick. I dig it so far.

 

[r3n4ud]

Lots of nice looking releases tomorrow folks

 

[Kvik]

Lots of nice looking releases tomorrow folks

Unpacking looks relaxing.

 

[r3n4ud]

Unpacking looks relaxing.

Totally agree yep can’t wait for that one

 

[dummmyy]

all right who else needs me to vote for their friends csgo team?!

 

[Madventure]

I don't know anything about a CS:GO team but definitely need to get in contact with some of you about your extended car warranties

 

[Cacher]

Two things happen today:

1. I finally managed to stabilise GTA4 framerate so now it runs fine without major stutter even during rainfall. Going to replay the main story first then move on to the two DLCs (which I haven't played in the past)

2. Japan Government announced that they are going to reopen the border to business travelers this month. After waiting for over a year, I should be finally able to return to my original job in Japan soon. I AM SO HAPPY!

 

[Jawmuncher]

Everytime I post on meta, my hunger for the Steam Deck grows lol

 

[Kvik]

Out on Early Access.

 

[Prodigy]

Controller, lol. It was specifically designed for it. K&M won't feel as comfortable. The game has an auto-lock on feature plus there's no need for precise shoots.

I assume it is just me, but I have preferred K&M in this game, because something seems really wrong with the aim acceleration on controller. No matter where I put the bar in the settings it seems to stay the same, so you move the stick lets say 80% and it is slow and as you go go past that point it speeds way up.

 

[Li Kao]

Sorry, everyone. I was a total fool, I hope all is fine now and no one is getting weird messages anymore

When you have the time, I will be grateful if you re-friend me. Always appreciated you as a poster.

Man... I am looking forward to more Forza Horizon. If only it had cross-save with the Steam and Xbox versions... Ugh.

It doesn’t ?

 

[Kiru]

Its November already

Best and worst thing about this month is black friday so what is everyone shopping for this year?

I'm gonna look into some nice wireless over ear headphones and maybe finally jump in on a 4k monitor.

Also great thread lashman

Hoping for a big ass SSD on sale. These Forza games are getting huge and loading times could probably also be much better vs current HDD.

 

[dex3108]

More and more this NFT sh*t is popping up in gaming and I am afraid that worst is yet to come. I just hope that one of those will grow big and scam enough people that entire movement dies because I don't see other way to get rid of it. Especially now when big publishers like Ubisoft are investing in it and thinking about making games with it.

 

[curi0usBystander]

Ubisoft are investing in it and thinking about making games with it.

Already have.

With that said, I'm still not sure why big publishers would want to make blockchain and/or NFT games it doesn't work with games (I'm still waiting to hear about a practical example where it would make sense).

 

[Kiru]

More and more this NFT sh*t is popping up in gaming and I am afraid that worst is yet to come. I just hope that one of those will grow big and scam enough people that entire movement dies because I don't see other way to get rid of it. Especially now when big publishers like Ubisoft are investing in it and thinking about making games with it.

I helped some guy who I know from Fall Guys to get some kind of stuff in a game called "Blankos Block Party". I was surprised that it had its own crappy launcher, but after I've read that article about Valve banning Blockchain/NFT games it made sense... Game wasn't even fun to me. I mean the guy I helped was also just into this whole collecting craze. I guess the skins you earn are worth a lot of money too...

 

[Ascheroth]

Happy Choice day, everyone. Hopefully we get something nice.
Here's some of my wishlist that I think is plausible(I would be happy if there's one of these in the bundle):

Ace Attorney
Resident Evil 7
Ace Combat 7
One of the Ni No Kunis
Greedfall
A Plague Tale
Remnant: From the Ashes
Outer Wilds
Monster Sanctuary

I also except Yakuza 4 to be in a bundle soon, or Persona 4. But I already have them

 

[Li Kao]

Ah, today is the day. Windows 11 upgrade available. Now, do I take the risk to fuck everything and gain lower perf on Ryzen ?
Why, yes I do

(Just a little wary, my luck hasn't been the best for the last few days, better check my backups)

 

[「Echo」]

I too lost some steamfriends to the hax. Must have been pretty widespread. o_o

they messaged me too, but i was in hospital getting anemia infusions so i didn't feel like clicking on shit at the time. Thank goodness I guess lol.
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I also am hoping for a decent Humble Choice day.

 

[Deku]

Happy Choice day, everyone. Hopefully we get something nice.
Here's some of my wishlist that I think is plausible(I would be happy if there's one of these in the bundle):

Ace Attorney
Resident Evil 7
Ace Combat 7
One of the Ni No Kunis
Greedfall
A Plague Tale
Remnant: From the Ashes
Outer Wilds
Monster Sanctuary

I also except Yakuza 4 to be in a bundle soon, or Persona 4. But I already have them

I want to hope that the next bundle will be great

 

[Nabs]

Happy Humble Choice Day. Lets hope the $6 coupon isn't a bad sign.

ScourgeBringer just left GP, so I expect that in a Choice soon.

 

[Li Kao]

We couldn't install the update, you can try again error code 0x80070005
I can definitely say we are going places, Cotton.

 

[prudis]

PS: prudis I see you sent me an invite, I assume everything good with your account now?

everything good now

She be out and lookin’ mighty good

 

[Mivey]

Best 3D platformer comes from Microsoft, what a time to be alive

To be fair, one is a brand new game, and the other is a re-release with a small additional campaign.

 

[Le Pertti]

To be fair, one is a brand new game, and the other is a re-release with a small additional campaign.

You are right, I was also considering Ratchet & Clank. But still it is a quite a feat, never I would have thought would ever happen.

 

[FeedMeAStrayCat]

too.
many.
games.

 

[Kal1m3r0]

can't wait for friends of mine coming late to party in a couple of months and try to convince me how NFTs in gaming is actually the future™ like they did with doge coin

 

[kafiend]

Lots of nice looking releases tomorrow folks

I hate trailers that skip from scene to scene every second. Show me the game if you have confidence in it.
I had interest enough to start watching the trailer, but from the beginning onwards it had rapid scene jumps. I left with still no idea if it would be a fun time or not.

 

[Li Kao]

Looks like I have permission issues in windows update. Tried a few low risk tinkerings and nope, still no dice.
At this point I think the safest course of action would be a format and clean install, but I don't have the spare HD space to backup my C.
Fuck everything.

 

[Wok]

I ended up ranking games released this year using OpenCritic. Games are:

• only eligible if they have at least 90% recommendations, a mighty rating, and at least 90 reviews.
• then sorted by i) percentage of recommendations, ii) top score for ties, iii) number of reviews for the remaining ties.

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[Li Kao]

WHAT ? The new settlers released in 2019 ? Or am I mixing up my episodes and there is indeed a new Settlers that has been in dev hell for some years ?

Oh, yeah, History Edition of an old Settlers.

 

[LEANIJA]

Looks like I have permission issues in windows update. Tried a few low risk tinkerings and nope, still no dice.
At this point I think the safest course of action would be a format and clean install, but I don't have the spare HD space to backup my C.
Fuck everything.

Maybe use dropbox or Google drive or something?

 

[Wok]

In 2021, you don't "format and clean install" anymore. You reset (or whatever it is called) Windows with the option to keep your data.

 

[Li Kao]

Am bored.
Malwarebytes quick scan only found some infected chrome files (didn't use it for years), and the long scan... is long. Only found two supposedly malicious .exe I keep for the sake of memory, from the shareware (?) version of the excellent 'Excellent Card Games'.
On the other hand, before that I used some MS program, Msert, that found, you can't write those jokes, too big, won't pass, '63 results' while searching and finished with 'no infected files detected'.

So yeah, at this point I can categorically say that I have a Shroedinger PC. It is full of malwares. And it is clean. At the same time.

In 2021, you don't "format and clean install" anymore. You reset (or whatever it is called) Windows with the option to keep your data.

I have no middle ground

 

[EdwardTivrusky]

Looks like I have permission issues in windows update. Tried a few low risk tinkerings and nope, still no dice.
At this point I think the safest course of action would be a format and clean install, but I don't have the spare HD space to backup my C.
Fuck everything.

Shoot i'm at work and didn't reply. Have you tried SFC & DISM?
Elevate a command prompt and run these.
SFC /Scannow
Then try these commands.
DISM /Online /Cleanup-Image /CheckHealth
DISM /Online /Cleanup-Image /ScanHealth
DISM /Online /Cleanup-Image /RestoreHealth

 

[Li Kao]

Shoot i'm at work and didn't reply. Have you tried SFC & DISM?
Elevate a command prompt and run these.
SFC /Scannow
Then try these commands.
DISM /Online /Cleanup-Image /CheckHealth
DISM /Online /Cleanup-Image /ScanHealth
DISM /Online /Cleanup-Image /RestoreHealth

Nope, those were solutions proposed on unkown web pages and I played it safe. If you vet for them, I will report back.

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SFC /Scannow
Some corrupted files were fixed, point me to two different logs.

DISM /Online /Cleanup-Image /CheckHealth
Good

DISM /Online /Cleanup-Image /ScanHealth
Good

DISM /Online /Cleanup-Image /RestoreHealth
Restoration successful.

I guess I will reboot and see if I can update now.

 

[Digoman]

In 2021, you don't "format and clean install" anymore. You reset (or whatever it is called) Windows with the option to keep your data.

Well sir... I will have you know that I still do "clean format reinstall" all the time

Granted, that's probably because the only thing in my C: drive are Windows and apps, and I usually want to reset my user profile because all the crap that gets stuck in there. So it's just easier to nuke the system drive/partition and do a fresh install.

Also, and I know these are my "old ways" talking, I would never trust Windows to "keep my files safe" during an OS install/upgrade, no matter how many times it tells me so.

Nope, those were solutions proposed on unkown web pages and I played it safe. If you vet for them, I will report back.

Those are normal troubleshooting commands for Windows. I think the first one is a general system integrity check and the others ones check and restore windows files from Microsoft online images.

 

[Hektor]

If i ever write any of you on steam it ain't me cuz who still uses the steamchat in this day and age

Yet another game played because of a Halloween update/event, and another decent surprise.

I played a bit over an hour of:


And so far, the first impressions are good.
Resident Evil was the videogame version of a "b movie". And this one is the "b movie" version of... Resident Evil. Which makes it what???

But seriously, this one is a lower budget, slightly "trashier" version of a classic survival horror game.
It starts off with a gratuitous scene of nudity, with the main character waking up naked in a bathtub, and a very unwelcome surprise (which I won't spoil).
From then, you basically have a game in the vein of the classic Alone In The Dark / Resident Evil games, with everything you'd expect: the (optional) tank controls, the puzzles, the limited saves.
On the plus side, the game looks rather good for what is surely a lower budget effort, the soundtrack is quite moody and appealing, and the premise is truly straight from a genre flick. I dig it so far.

I played the Demo last week and was positively surprised how well made this was.
Unfortunately i walked straight past the saveroom when exploring and thus had to play the entire beginning again after i died, so i was too frustrated to try again (my own mistake, mind you).

Better yet, log out of the internet and lead a happy life

Tried this and all i got was a broken heart and e-girls that forced me back online.

But I also really wanna play Battlefield and the Yoko Taro Card game.
Also Inscryption... Botan played it and it looked awesome. And Hektor hyped the heck out of it too. ;p Which makes me curious cuz we tend to like a lot of the same story beats.

Apart from not being incredibly sad, Inscryption feels more like a Yoko Taro Card game than Yoko Taro's actual Card Game in which you don't feel his involvement all that much.

 

[EdwardTivrusky]

If i ever write any of you on steam it ain't me cuz who still uses the steamchat in this day and age

Yeah, who would use such a thing. Not me for sure. It's not like most of the people i would chat with are on Steam most of the time so it would be an easy way to just send stupid links and stuff to them. Nope.

I'm only in the two Meta Steam Chats and one with some friends who know i don't play CSGO and wouldn't message me about it anyway. Not that i use Steam Chat.

 

[Li Kao]

I'm back on this train ! Will I pass the dreaded 8% ?

Edit. My update died on its way back to its own planet. Still crashing at 8%

 

[ExistentialThought]

I know there are a lot of nuance to these numbers, however, I hope this at least makes folks reconsider their preconceived notion that players need progression systems. The amount of times folks have argued games like L4D would be dead in the water in this day and age ignore how things like mods, community servers, and quick pick up can still matter.

That is not to say that I think progression systems are inherently bad or anything, just too often a modern trapping to ensure folks stay engaged with games regardless of whether it is meaningful engagement.

 

[Wok]

 

[ZKenir]

In 2021, you don't "format and clean install" anymore. You reset (or whatever it is called) Windows with the option to keep your data.

I do my data (at least the stuff i care about) is saved all in the cloud anyway

 

[LEANIJA]

Li Kao
Use Manjaro and all your problems will be solved.
Maybe.

 

[Digoman]

I have absolutely no idea how reliable this is:

But it would be so nice if we could get an actual sequel this time.... this still hurts:

 

[prudis]