That would be cool.
That much I supposed, it's just that I didn't know about it until yesterday when I got an achievement under 10% for the first time since I joined the beta.
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PC Gaming ERA | October 2019 - No Truce With The Outer Worlds
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Speaking about, I noticed yesterday that rare achievements glow now.
I would like something similar to Playstation, though, were you have something like a total achievement level.
Yes please!!!
Cheevo sfx 🤔
They only have to do like Xbox and PS and add different values for the achievements so every developer can assign a value to each one. It would break with those 1000 achievements games, because they'll probably assign the maximum score to each cheevo, but I don't think they are much of a problem for the average user.
Just disable the pop ups and ignore them?
in most cases, it's a s simple as playing the GOG version, lol.
And speaking of Pine: Decay of Logos (that other BoW-looking game with the rideable elk) that had such a disastrous launch last month has been releasing patches. Apparently now it's playable on Windows 7 (at launch it was Win 10 only, which is why I skipped it).
Might grab it down the line now. It's cheap enough, and the devs are open enough about the challenges of its development to elicit some sympathy from me. Plus, original 3D action games are always nice to have.
You can disable the pop-up and sound in the settings, though the library achievement list is unavoidable rn.
It is a shame you can't disable 'em entirely.
I cant find Pine on metacritic or opencritic so will have to wait a while until I get see some reviews or some serious impressions.
Only review I saw so far was a 3 min Escapist one. It was overall positive, but with caveats.
Interesting, sounds decent. I will have to check it out after work.
Achievement popups piss me off too, mostly during story games. I always turn the whole overlay off when playing something with a story but it sucks that there isn't a more elegant solution.
I'll never forget how ridiculous it was to be fighting a major boss and story character in one of the early God Of War games and when his HP bar depleted a "KILLED ______" playstation achievement popped up completely ruining the important cutscene that followed (it wasn't a meaningless boss that you knew for certain would die during this specific fight).
I'll never forget how ridiculous it was to be fighting a major boss and story character in one of the early God Of War games and when his HP bar depleted a "KILLED ______" playstation achievement popped up completely ruining the important cutscene that followed (it wasn't a meaningless boss that you knew for certain would die during this specific fight).
Full achievements give you a ribbon.Speaking about, I noticed yesterday that rare achievements glow now.
I would like something similar to Playstation, though, were you have something like a total achievement level.
Really?
*checks*
Holy shit, you're right!
It took me longer than I would like to admit to find a game which I got all the achievements for...
Did EGS' recent freebie Arkham Knight include the dlc? Googling suggests it did, but I see no mention of it in the Store's page for the game, and there is no separate dlc listing for the game.
Btw, this weeks freebie Surviving Mars has free dlc so don't miss that, and next weeks games are >observer and Alan Wake's American Nightmare.
Btw, this weeks freebie Surviving Mars has free dlc so don't miss that, and next weeks games are >observer and Alan Wake's American Nightmare.
After glancing at the most recent Tipping thread on the OT forum I realized how similar they are to the Store cut threads in gaming: they show up once a week, they go over the same arguments every single time, they never reach a consensus, they go on for days, and finally, all participants stay with the exact same belief they had before entering the thread - nothing is learned!
Honestly you could swap the tipping thread posts for the Store cut posts and it'd still work somehow.
Honestly you could swap the tipping thread posts for the Store cut posts and it'd still work somehow.
I know about the "don't argue for free things" but honestly 90% of the games Epic is giving away for free were already free from Humble, included in some dirty cheap bundle or Twitch Prime. Yes there are nice exceptions like Celeste, Conarium and Thimbleweed Park, but the majority of titles were already n my Steam library.
Subnautica, Mutant Year Zero Road to Eden, The Witness, Batman Trilogy, Celese you already mentioned, those have been free elsewhere? Remember Twitch Prime isn't fully free either, since you need to be subbed to Twitch or Amazon Prime.
They werent free, but in really cheap bundles before, at least most of them besides Celeste.
Batman games have all been available in cheap bundles or heavily discounted multiple times over the years. The Witness has also been in a bunch of bundles.
I still dont know how I got Arkham Knight, cause I sure as hell didnt buy it.
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Well that was unexpected. I really like her as an interviewer during TI, she seems really genuine and really natural and has greatly evolved since her first TI to become one of the better parts of it.
What I would do to E N H A N C E Steam Achievements:
1) Session Achievement Summary: Give an option to make it so that Steam will show your achievement popups after you exit a game, with a popup window like the screenshot window showing a collection of the cheevs you got during that session, your already earned cheevs and cheev tracking for other ones. This could be in addition to your cheev popups during game or to take the place of them (so they don't show at inopportune times if you don't want them to).
2) The ability to turn off Achievement popups separate from all other popups. Hell, allow it on a per-game basis.
3) Customizable Achievement popups (noises and animations). Make it open sourced like Steam skins, but also work with developers to create promotional ones, marketable ones, or order bonuses or whatever. Allow users to apply different cheev popups based on rarity of achievement or achievement value (think like the different donation jingles/animations that Twitch streamers use).
4) Assign 1000 points to each game/application that divides the value of the points based on a normalization of the rarity of the achieved achievements. Gives people that Xbox-style race for points if people want to. Sure, Steam achievement unlocker breaks this, but achievements are ultimately worthless so who cares.
5) Create an API that developers can implement that allow users to create their own community achievements to challenge friends or Steam groups or whatever. It would just hook into different variables in the code and allow unlocking when conditionals are hit. Probably a bit too pie-in-the-sky, but it might be neat.
1) Session Achievement Summary: Give an option to make it so that Steam will show your achievement popups after you exit a game, with a popup window like the screenshot window showing a collection of the cheevs you got during that session, your already earned cheevs and cheev tracking for other ones. This could be in addition to your cheev popups during game or to take the place of them (so they don't show at inopportune times if you don't want them to).
2) The ability to turn off Achievement popups separate from all other popups. Hell, allow it on a per-game basis.
3) Customizable Achievement popups (noises and animations). Make it open sourced like Steam skins, but also work with developers to create promotional ones, marketable ones, or order bonuses or whatever. Allow users to apply different cheev popups based on rarity of achievement or achievement value (think like the different donation jingles/animations that Twitch streamers use).
4) Assign 1000 points to each game/application that divides the value of the points based on a normalization of the rarity of the achieved achievements. Gives people that Xbox-style race for points if people want to. Sure, Steam achievement unlocker breaks this, but achievements are ultimately worthless so who cares.
5) Create an API that developers can implement that allow users to create their own community achievements to challenge friends or Steam groups or whatever. It would just hook into different variables in the code and allow unlocking when conditionals are hit. Probably a bit too pie-in-the-sky, but it might be neat.
The new library has something similar, just that it wont show up after closing the game, but it will show you part of the old activity page:
Just need to open the storepage again after exiting the game.
Woah, neat. Kaci is great. I wonder what her non-Dota roles will be, if anything.
Yep, looks like this and pops up when you close the game.
tfw still no Digimon store page
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Also I am embarrassed to say that I just found out that Atelier Ryza will have swimsuit DLC and its made me seriously consider dropping the $66 on the game as a preorder for the Digital Deluxe Edition. This will be the most money I have ever spent on a brand new anime game.
;_;
Also I am embarrassed to say that I just found out that Atelier Ryza will have swimsuit DLC and its made me seriously consider dropping the $66 on the game as a preorder for the Digital Deluxe Edition. This will be the most money I have ever spent on a brand new anime game.
Mutant and The Witness were in the Monthly, Batman titles were in other bundles, Subnautica was in a Humble Bundle too.
Yeah, the new post game summary + the old screenshot popup could be combined. Would be neat.
I'm still surprised that the achievements popup noises aren't a thing on Steam. Taking a screenshot has a shutter sound so they already have that functionality in the client.
I'm still surprised that the achievements popup noises aren't a thing on Steam. Taking a screenshot has a shutter sound so they already have that functionality in the client.
Yep, looks like this and pops up when you close the game.
On topic of Bioshock - should I be playing the OG version or the remaster?
I prefer the remasters but I know a lot of people prefer the look of the originals. They changed shaders a bit and the remasters lose a bit of atmosphere (subjectively)
Either one will be fine though so you could do some A/B screenshot comparisons and figure what you like better. as far as content and gameplay they are pretty much identical.
Yeah my country is not supported on Rockstar Launcher Store, after free San Andreas promo ended Store button just vanished. I can't even see RDR2 in library. Support is useless, yesterday i spent like hour and a half with them trying to solve that issue and nothing. Today they are sending me ToS to read and telling me how my Country or ISP are blocking their Store even though i actually can use Rockstar Warehouse store. As soon as i turn VPN on store shows up. So they are clearly blocking my country for some reason. That means that i can't use current upgrade to Premium version for the price of Standard one and other bonuses. Why the hell these companies even launch their Stores if they can't do them right? For the love of God even Origin and UPlay supported my country when launched, hell Ubisoft supported my country even when they used Digital River services. I guess that this is what you get when you live in market so small that companies don't even care if users will buy game XD
I still haven't bothered opting into the beta but I'm tempted for it because of the upcoming one for https://arstechnica.com/gaming/2019...-make-any-local-multiplayer-game-work-online/
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