The STEAM Sales and Releases Thread

[Lone Wolf]

Has anyone tried Infinite Adventures? I'm semi-tempted, but I'm not a big blobber guy.

 

[Great Deceiver]

In the last page of this thread: people who don't have the slightest idea about blobbers or their quality, and who have probably never played a classic Wizardry in their lives, opining negatively on the objectively best blobber of the past 10 years, because it "looks bad" and because it lacks an awesome button or quest compass.

Welcome to the Codex

 

[ortucis]

Manual, motherfuckers, do you even read it:

Spoiler

It came with the game, so you have no excuse to not read it. I fear that even if Cleve releases the manual, people are still going to complain because they don't read it.
Also, find me a fucking Paladin Class here:

Spoiler

This isn't fucking 90s, put a manual in-game.

Or hey, here's a revolutionary idea, TOOLTIPS. Yeah, imagine that.


Even Syndicate Wars had tooltips when it came out.

 

[Viata]

Here is also a revolutionary idea: Stop being a retard. Imagine that. You could enjoy games without being a kid saying "this is not 90s, I want easy games like every other new game while I come to codex to complain about the decline of rpg".

 

[ortucis]

Here is also a revolutionary idea: Stop being a retard. Imagine that. You could enjoy games without being a kid saying "this is not 90s, I want easy games like every other new game while I come to codex to complain about the decline of rpg".

Don't be a dumbfuck (probably impossible), I mentioned Syndicate Wars for a reason. When do you think the game was released? Playing games with shit UI doesn't make you "hardcore" or "cool" like you're pretending to be. It just makes you look even more retarded than usual.

 

[Melcar]

Wait what? Someone on the motherfucking Codex complaining about motherfucking game manuals? Motherfucker get the fuck out.

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[FreshCorpse]

And thinking about underrail.

 

[Astral Rag]

What's there to think about?

 

[FreshCorpse]

Whether it's mostly an RPG or mostly a dunegon crawler. I've heard there's not much branching and a lot of combat which makes me unsure

 

[Baron Dupek]

Air, Land & Sea Expansion Pass for Just Cause 3 for free
https://steamdb.info/app/401850/
no need to pay for XL version or DLC itself

Whether it's mostly an RPG or mostly a dunegon crawler. I've heard there's not much branching and a lot of combat which makes me unsure

I guess you never played RPGs if you have problem with combat because vast majority of them have a lot of fights.
Now srsly - buy Underrail and get good game and support incline with your hardly earned cash
Game itself - yes, it's about exploring dank caves, enormous tunnels and either finding cities and villages somewhere there or getting ganked by local fauna and flora.
It's post apocalypse, of course there is a lot of combat. Who the hell want pacifist post apo (except that weird Fallout Tactics mod The Sum).
If you don't like combat much then either use easy builds or sneaky character.

 

[Hellion]

 

[Damned Registrations]

To be fair elminage gothic has easily the second worst him I have ever seen, surpassed only by solium infernum. Dwarf fortress has a better ui. And while his specific examples were mostly rtfm shit, the game has plenty of terrible aspects mechanically.

 

[Solid Snail]

https://freebies.indiegala.com/2dar...utm_campaign=FRIDAY+SPECIAL+BUNDLE+-+20181228

2Dark for free (drm free)

 

[Solid Snail]

A couple of giveaways:

 

[Don Peste]

 

[oldmanpaco]

You know you need it.

 

[Viata]

 

[Hellion]

So many GOTY candidates.

 

[Solid Snail]

Just completed The Messenger, which is (or was? I didn't check if it's still here) free via Twitch Prime. Awesome game, one of the best entry in this 2018 for me. It's Ninja Gaiden how it should be in 2018, it was hard but never frustrating to the point I wanted to quit. The game is fairly long too, when I thought I was near the end of the game I discovered I wasn't even half-way through it.

 

[Baron Dupek]

Star Control: Origins was removed from Steam
https://steamcommunity.com/app/271260/discussions/1/1742229167221237036/

Draginol [developer]
We have received news today that Paul Reiche III and Fred Ford, contractors on the classic DOS game, Star Control 2 for Accolade have issued a DMCA take down notice to Valve to take down Star Control: Origins.

 

[Sykar]

Is Xenonauts worth a buy? 80% off and I still play the original "X-Com:Enemy Unknown" and "Terror from the Deep" from time to time.

 

[Konjad]

Is Xenonauts worth a buy? 80% off and I still play the original "X-Com:Enemy Unknown" and "Terror from the Deep" from time to time.

no.

As I wrote in my steam review:



Posted: 10 Apr, 2016 @ 4:03pm

I like old UFO games and I like the new XCOM: Enemy Unknown (and EW add on and LW mod). I like tactical games. I like turn based games.

And I really tried to like Xenonauts. I tried to like it because in theory it's a great game and because I wanted to justify spending money on it.

But I couldn't.

EVERYTHING in this game is crappy. The first jarring thing is air combat. While in theory very good, it's just too bugged. About 5-10% of my air fights end up in my and enemy aircrafts circling around each other forever at the same spot, and if I try to move my plane it's an obvious suicide, so I can either do that or alt+F4. Other than this annoyance air combat is fine as it is, however, it's much better to just hit autoresolve and spare yourself some irritation from time to time.

The next extremely annoying thing is a field of vision of soldiers. It seems they are are incredibly shortsighted to a point they can't see anything over 10 meters away and miss targets that are five meters away by fvkking miles. The best tactic is to run at enemies to stand one meter away from them as in melee fight and then shoot them because otherwise your dvmb♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥t4rded soldier will miss or even perhaps kill one of the other squad members shooting in a wrong direction by a 90 degrees. In addition, while the player is walking around the maps almost blindly, aliens always know where the player's units are. Even if they are on the other side of the map they already see you. So skreew you if you wanted to use a short vision against the enemy.

The next thing is that aliens just love "camping". A bunch of them will just sit in their aircraft with a closed door (so far I did not find a way to just blow upthe whole aircrafts with those t4rrds inside) and wait for you. If you run a soldier over there, they will murder him and close the door. In consequence you just put a bunch of soldiers around the door, run with one tw4t through the fvkken door and get him shredded due to aliens' reaction fire and then shoot everything inside with the rest of the squad. Every fight same tactics. It's repetitive and boring.

While your guys can't shoot anything 5 meters away, aliens seem to have better aim, but that's not even very noticeable. What is very noticeable is that sometimes they shoot from twice your vision or through walls which are impenetrable for your guys. Ultimate trolls.

It's also funny to see a fully armored combat vehicle to explode into pieces after a "bullet" from the enemy's gun hits it. It looks like a tank exploding after being shot by a gun. Why, what I don't even... either don't put such vehicles in the game if they seem too powerful or make them very expensive, but why put such a vehicle only to be as easily destroyed as a random soldier? Especially when the vehicle takes 6 slots, meaning you could put 6 soldiers on its place? Sure, it has a very powerful gun, but so what if it gets destroyed withing a few rounds.

The game also crashes like crazy on Linux. Loading new map... crash. Air combat... crash. New round... crash.


I do not recommend this game to anyone. It's a waste of money, time and nerves. If you like old XCOM/UFO, then just play them or go ahead with the modern casualized version that is XCOM: Enemy Unknown/Within, which is still a great game on its own. Try out the Long War for more fun. But for your own good stay the heck away from a tvrrd that is Xenonauts. I wasted money that would buy me a few sacks of potatoes or some burgers, do not make the same mistake. Actually, don't even buy it when this game will get cheap and hits -75% sales. It's just unplayable.

 

[Heretic]

 

[ortucis]

Haven't bought any game yet, been selling hundreds of cards in my inventory.

Already made enough wallet cash to buy two Indie games I listed. So I'll sell off everything else before I buy the games from my wishlist. I recommend everyone who ignored these cards, to look into selling them. Tomorrow Steam sale ends, so go through everything in your inventory.

 

[Jinn]

Bought



and



That's probably going to be it. A weird craving for Total War: Warhammer II hit me, so I thought I'd give in at 50% off. No regrets. Game is very fun so far.