Valve has broken me.
Jul. 16th, 2012 08:35 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
theweaselkingSteam's doing daily deals again, complete with change-every-8-hours "flash deals". For the next 4.5 hours, Fallout: New Vegas is $5, and the Ultimate Edition (with all the DLC - which you DO WANT) is $10.
Seriously, one of the best games in the last decade.
Seriously, one of the best games in the last decade.
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Date: 2012-07-16 12:58 pm (UTC)(no subject)
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Date: 2012-07-16 05:18 pm (UTC)FAULT RHYMES WITH VAULT
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Date: 2012-07-16 01:33 pm (UTC)In the end, I spent 20 minutes playing Beanbag Tag with a deathclaw to get the "heal 10,000 HP with food" achievement.
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Date: 2012-07-16 06:28 pm (UTC)Seriously - Deathclaws? Are you mad?!
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Date: 2012-07-16 06:30 pm (UTC)(Seriously: Beanbag rounds in the shotgun to slow it down and keep the attacks down slower than the food-based regen, A TON OF FOOD-BASED REGEN, and 10,000 HP of healing went by pretty quickly!)
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Date: 2012-07-16 05:01 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2012-07-16 04:51 pm (UTC)(Goodness grief, is everyone on Steam these days?)
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Date: 2012-07-16 05:18 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2012-07-16 05:22 pm (UTC)(Of course, for $5 I decided to put UP with the crap and get Assassin's Creed, and discovered that it's a really fun game. Enough so that I bought the sequels. It turns out there IS a price point where I will put up with always-on-requirements.)
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Date: 2012-07-16 05:27 pm (UTC)Do not tempt me for a new game you! Vile temptation! Vile!
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Date: 2012-07-16 05:39 pm (UTC)If Steam launched in offline mode (with a "you are offline!" message), and Mass Effect launched, and you just couldn't see any of your saved games? That's Mass Effect's fault. That means they're using "cloud sync" to hide your saved games online (so you can get them from any computer) without properly leaving you a local copy. I didn't think ME did that, but I could be wrong - a lot of older first-gen-cloud-sync games did. [1].
If Steam launched but Mass Effect didn't (claiming you have to be online), that's Mass Effect, but I didn't think ME did that.
If Steam wouldn't launch because you weren't online, that's Valve. And that *usually* only happens if there's a pending Steam update that it can't apply offline, and that it's not smart enough to let you say "apply later" to. That's rare. That's not SUPPOSED to happen, although some people report it occasionally. for me, if my internet is down Steam starts without a hitch on both my machines, and lets me play any not-always-on game. And even Ubisoft's "always online" games are getting WAY better about letting you play offline and just not counting your stats or unlocking your achievements until you sync back up.
(Something like World Of Warcraft, of course? You're screwed, offline. But, again, that's not the same thing.)
What I'm saying is, I haven't had any problems, and my experience is the most-commonly-reported one, but it's not the only reported one.
[1]: Fallout 3, for example - I played for days, then decided I wanted to buy some DLC so I connected it to Live, and enabled Cloud Sync. I bought my DLC, started the game, and.... no saves.
It turns out the offline saves were only visible when NOT connected, and the online saves were only visible while connected. So the "fix" was to load the game offline, load my save, go online, and save, but it gave me a heart attack while finding out.
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Date: 2012-07-16 05:37 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2012-07-16 01:41 pm (UTC)*gasp* oooooooooooooooo
(pant pant pant)
Could you get that for BuxomDemon, pretty pleases? I'm at work for the next 8 hours.
I bought the Bethesda pack for a friend's B day. He was thrilled and planned on giving Lili the Fall Out 3 spare and all DLC - but you don't get duplicate copies that way for that company.
You can only get dupes for Half Life, Left 4Dead and Dawn of War.
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Date: 2012-07-16 02:19 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2012-07-16 02:52 pm (UTC)Oh I got everything "Vegas, Baby!"
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