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There is a DLC already out called "realm of the diggle gods", it adds 5 more levels to the dungeon and is seemingly themed around some kind of diggle-cthulu.
The DLC also adds the vegan, pirate, hunter, were-diggle and emomancy skills.
No, I've pretty much gotten coal through the achievements.
The people in the past who convinced themselves to do unspeakable things were no less human than you or I. They made their decisions; the only thing that prevents history from repeating itself is making different ones.
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Avatar 720 wrote:Well, I got Sins... it crashes whenever I try and play a game.
That's a shame, have you tried all of the basic fixes like running as admin or closing out all other windows while its running? I know that TF2 will crash if I'm running Steam at the same time thanks to the HL2 engine running the game.
My friend got a copy of Mount and Blade so he's pretty happy with himself. I got a 50% off of Operation Flashpoint: Red River and a 50% off of GTA4 Complete, but traded the 50% off of GTA4 for Red Faction and got a piece of coal for the trading achievement. I would also like to note that some of the achievements are from F2P games so its worth downloading them just to do the achievement before getting rid of the game.
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dogma wrote:Section 8: Prejudice will tide over all Tribes fans until Ascend is released, and only $6.46 with all DLC.
I've sadly never played Tribes. What's Section 8 like?
The people in the past who convinced themselves to do unspeakable things were no less human than you or I. They made their decisions; the only thing that prevents history from repeating itself is making different ones.
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Melissia wrote:I've sadly never played Tribes. What's Section 8 like?
You should definitely give Tribes: Ascend a shot (Its basically a modern clone of Tribes 2, my favorite game of all time.)
As for Section 8:
Really good, in my opinion, but I like the whole vertical shooter concept. My main complaint is that its fairly slow, compared to Tribes (which compares with the UT series in terms of speed), and the weapons seem a bit weak.
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Life does not cease to be funny when people die any more than it ceases to be serious when people laugh.
As an aside, Space Pirates and Zombies (SPaZ) is AWESOME! An for only 2.50, it's a friggin' steal for how awesome it is.
It's sort of like Gratuitous Space Battles if you could actually control the spaceships in battle, and has an actual story beyond galactic conquest.
Automatically Appended Next Post: Also, I'm trying out Section 8: Prejudice. It seems fun enough.
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The people in the past who convinced themselves to do unspeakable things were no less human than you or I. They made their decisions; the only thing that prevents history from repeating itself is making different ones.
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What's everyone's personal opinion on Empire: Total War?
I got Civ V and I've been enjoying the hell out of it, I really like Steam and I wish the folks at Minecraft would work something out with them, maybe streamline the purchasing process.
Empire is good, though the sea combat is wonky. I would get Napoleon myself, as they're essentially the same game, but Napoleon has a number of improvements over Empire.
Also, if you (all) haven't played the Oddworld games, then you would be remiss in missing the Oddbox. All the Oddworld games for $3.74.
Also, also: my first Valve gift was the Codemasters Racing Pack, which has turned out to be pretty cool.
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Life does not cease to be funny when people die any more than it ceases to be serious when people laugh.
It's fun, but the controls are a bit too awkward for me.
Oddworld I mean.
The people in the past who convinced themselves to do unspeakable things were no less human than you or I. They made their decisions; the only thing that prevents history from repeating itself is making different ones.
-- Adam Serwer
My blog
The people in the past who convinced themselves to do unspeakable things were no less human than you or I. They made their decisions; the only thing that prevents history from repeating itself is making different ones.
-- Adam Serwer
My blog
Melissia wrote:I kinda wish they'd focus more on building a stronghold to defend than th economic side...
Is stronghold anything like the old Castle games?
In Stronghold 1, the primary focus is on building a castle and defending it. You harvest wood, stone, iron, and food through various means, and build workshops to make weapons and armor. Then you build castle walls, towers, traps, set oil down, prepare siege engines and anti-siege engines, etc, and make a defensive position which an enemy army will rush towards to attack.
It's almost like a precursor to tower defense games actually come to think of it.
In the second stronghold game, they greatly expand on the economic side, adding things like having a section of the castle clean up crap piles to prevent disease, a system by which your lord throws parties for "honor" which can be used to advance in rank to gain more stuff or used to purchase certain units for your army, having criminals, enforcers, and punishment (including execution if you desire), and so on.
Then there's the spinoff games, like Crusader (set in the Crusades of course, otherwise like the first Stronghold), Legends (a weird game which has things like magical items, dragons, king arthur, vlad dracul, siegfried of xanten), and Stronghold Kingdoms (an MMORTS that I haven't played). Then finally there's stronghold 3, which again, I haven't played.
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The people in the past who convinced themselves to do unspeakable things were no less human than you or I. They made their decisions; the only thing that prevents history from repeating itself is making different ones.
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Is anyone else experiencing hellishly slow DL speeds over Steam? I bought the Empire and Napoleon: Total War bundle yesterday, and the one I allow to DL to improve speed does so at peak (1.5mb/s) for about five minutes, then falls to 800kb-1mb/s, and then further to 600kb/s, and then to 30-50kb/s and stays there until I pause it and resume it, at which point it takes five mins to restart and then rinse repeats the process.
Mandorallen turned back toward the insolently sneering baron. 'My Lord,' The great knight said distantly, 'I find thy face apelike and thy form misshapen. Thy beard, moreover, is an offence against decency, resembling more closely the scabrous fur which doth decorate the hinder portion of a mongrel dog than a proper adornment for a human face. Is it possibly that thy mother, seized by some wild lechery, did dally at some time past with a randy goat?' - Mimbrate Knight Protector Mandorallen.
Excerpt from "Seeress of Kell", Book Five of The Malloreon series by David Eddings.
"You need not fear us, unless you are a dark heart, a vile one who preys on the innocent; I promise, you can’t hide forever in the empty darkness, for we will hunt you down like the animals you are, and pull you into the very bowels of hell." Iron - Within Temptation
I thought that too, but Sins downloaded at my usual rate of 1.5mb/s and that was during the sale too. I've also tested it at different times during the day and I get the exact same result mid-morning, afternoon, evening and night.
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Mandorallen turned back toward the insolently sneering baron. 'My Lord,' The great knight said distantly, 'I find thy face apelike and thy form misshapen. Thy beard, moreover, is an offence against decency, resembling more closely the scabrous fur which doth decorate the hinder portion of a mongrel dog than a proper adornment for a human face. Is it possibly that thy mother, seized by some wild lechery, did dally at some time past with a randy goat?' - Mimbrate Knight Protector Mandorallen.
Excerpt from "Seeress of Kell", Book Five of The Malloreon series by David Eddings.
"You need not fear us, unless you are a dark heart, a vile one who preys on the innocent; I promise, you can’t hide forever in the empty darkness, for we will hunt you down like the animals you are, and pull you into the very bowels of hell." Iron - Within Temptation
I was up until 4am this morning after buying the games at 4:10pm yesterday trying to figure out what the hell was throttling my speed, I doubt it's the sales rush that's doing it if it can only stay constant at 30-50kb/s for 12 hours from mid-afternoon to the early hours of the next morning, and from 2pm onwards after that (because i'm still trying to figure it out).
Mandorallen turned back toward the insolently sneering baron. 'My Lord,' The great knight said distantly, 'I find thy face apelike and thy form misshapen. Thy beard, moreover, is an offence against decency, resembling more closely the scabrous fur which doth decorate the hinder portion of a mongrel dog than a proper adornment for a human face. Is it possibly that thy mother, seized by some wild lechery, did dally at some time past with a randy goat?' - Mimbrate Knight Protector Mandorallen.
Excerpt from "Seeress of Kell", Book Five of The Malloreon series by David Eddings.
"You need not fear us, unless you are a dark heart, a vile one who preys on the innocent; I promise, you can’t hide forever in the empty darkness, for we will hunt you down like the animals you are, and pull you into the very bowels of hell." Iron - Within Temptation
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I seem to be having the opposite problem.
All my games download, on average, around 400 kb/s (versus my usual 250-300 kb/s). It's nice seeing Steam predict a full day of downloading to get a game finished, and it winds up taking like 6 hours.
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