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Want to pick up Space Marine for 16 bucks? Miss a Dawn of War game somewhere down the line? Want to pick up some DLC for any of the above for dirt cheap? Check Steam!
http://store.steampowered.com/sale/WarhammerWeekend/
For 6 bucks you can't go wrong!

I got that message, I have everything but SM, I may have to just snag it while it;s cheap.

People will think you meant the tabletop game as well, and be disappointed when they click the link

Is all of this downloadable content only, or do they send you hard copies of the items?

It's Steam, so everything will be downloaded. (This includes the games themselves)

MAn I hope we get more influx of Last stand players.

You know, I got the complete DoW1 last time it was deeply discounted and I haven't ran it once.

Well, I'm down for some 33 cent DLC, anyway.

The problem with Steam is that every six months or so it just stops working and the launcher won't even open up. I can't get it fixed short of deleting the Steam folder and reinstalling everything. It takes 10 hours to download TF2 over steam. :/

Breotan wrote:The problem with Steam is that every six months or so it just stops working and the launcher won't even open up. I can't get it fixed short of deleting the Steam folder and reinstalling everything. It takes 10 hours to download TF2 over steam. :/

this is because your screwing around with torrented steam games, the solution is either to stop, or to delete client.blob every time you launch steam.

Breotan wrote:The problem with Steam is that every six months or so it just stops working and the launcher won't even open up. I can't get it fixed short of deleting the Steam folder and reinstalling everything. It takes 10 hours to download TF2 over steam. :/

Delete clientregistry.blob, and also save your folders. You can just move your games back into your Steam folder and they'll be fine.

TBD wrote:People will think you meant the tabletop game as well, and be disappointed when they click the link

If you play PC games, you know what Steam is.

Grundz wrote:this is because your screwing around with torrented steam games

Screwing around? You mean launching TF2 via Steam and playing the normal way?

Breotan, you've gotta have something else going on with your computer. I've had Steam installed for literally years. I don't have issues with it.

Issues happen to different people in different ways. Dont tell someone just cus it hasnt happened to you its impossible for it to happen to anyone else

Nope. Basically when they put out a new patch like they did around a month ago, steam just stops working. I mean, the launcher stops working. Can't get to the online store, community, or anything, much less even get to a game.

Lormax wrote:Breotan, you've gotta have something else going on with your computer. I've had Steam installed for literally years. I don't have issues with it.

I've had steam just randomly break utterly, twice (since Half-Life 2 launched). All I did was move my steamapps folder elsewhere, uninstall, reinstall, move back the steamapps folder, and recheck. Tedious but not as time consuming as full blown reinstalls.

I've had lots of other very minor issues over the years. Sometimes the friends list wouldn't display. Once steam guard prompted for a new computer code every single login. Once it was stuck in offline mode. All those were fixed by deleting various blobs. I don't find steam to be especially buggy, but it's not like it's utterly flawless either. No software really is. There are almost 70 million google results for "Steam won't launch", so I hazard to say your mileage may vary.

Thanks for the heads up.

Bewteen DoW (and its expansions) and DoWII (and its expansions), what would be the best one to try to see how I like it?

I got DoW Gold, Dark Crusade, and DoW 2: Retribution for $23. Not bad! (And I can't even run DoW 2 yet...)

Steam breaks at random all by itself.

You don't even have to move folders around. Delete all the files in the base Steam directory, leaving all the subdirectories and steam.exe. Run steam.exe and it will repair all the client files. You game library will remain untouched.

Niccolo wrote:Thanks for the heads up.

Bewteen DoW (and its expansions) and DoWII (and its expansions), what would be the best one to try to see how I like it?

How comfortable are you with strategy games? For random skirmishes and a larger scale (if less tactically rich) game, Dawn of War 1 is your best bet. For faster paced gameplay, smaller, more tactical scale, and a far better multiplayer game, play DoW2. If you want an RPG/RTS hybrid single player campaign, the DoW2 and DoW2: Chaos Rising campaigns are excellent. If you want a Risk-style campaign of interlinked skirmishes (mostly just generic fights against the AI) Dawn of War: Dark Crusade is for you. The campaigns in DoW vanilla and Winter Assault are decent, and the campaign in DoW2: Retribution is mediocre, but has elements of story from every Dawn of War game if you play the campaign as Space Marines, which is nice if you care.

Honestly, they're all solid games with their ups and downs and I recommend them all.

Niccolo wrote:Thanks for the heads up.

Bewteen DoW (and its expansions) and DoWII (and its expansions), what would be the best one to try to see how I like it?

You'd have to try them both because they're different genre. DOW1 and it's expansions are real-time strategy games, and DOW2 and it's variants are real-time tacticals.

Dam i wish a could get a credit card. Mum insists they are demonic in nature or something.

Grrr this is video games -_- thought was 40k

oh well, they need the extra publicity of dakka to help with their MMORPG fund

LunaHound wrote:Grrr this is video games -_- thought was 40k

oh well, they need the extra publicity of dakka to help with their MMORPG fund

How don't you know what Steam is? Even if you're tangentially familiar with video games, you should know what it is.

Yup, really, the title is very clear.

Breotan wrote:The problem with Steam is that every six months or so it just stops working and the launcher won't even open up. I can't get it fixed short of deleting the Steam folder and reinstalling everything. It takes 10 hours to download TF2 over steam. :/

Ive been using steam since the release of halflife 2 and ive never had that issue

Cryage wrote:

Breotan wrote:The problem with Steam is that every six months or so it just stops working and the launcher won't even open up. I can't get it fixed short of deleting the Steam folder and reinstalling everything. It takes 10 hours to download TF2 over steam. :/

Ive been using steam since the release of halflife 2 and ive never had that issue

Yea? So? You want a cookie?

Any reason to pick up DoW2 and Chaos Rising, or are you safe to just skip ahead to Retribution? I don't care about the campaigns in DoW2 and Chaos Rising, but I know that DoW1 gated multiplayer content if you didn't have earlier expansions to the game.

SkaerKrow wrote:Any reason to pick up DoW2 and Chaos Rising, or are you safe to just skip ahead to Retribution? I don't care about the campaigns in DoW2 and Chaos Rising, but I know that DoW1 gated multiplayer content if you didn't have earlier expansions to the game.

Retribution is stand alone

If you want Multi player, get Ret

Why?

DoW2+Chaos rising uses GFWL
Ret skips through that and just uses steam. Two completely different systems

Would be nice if Blood Bowl was on special, too.