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[edddeduck]

Anyone know if Steam Cloud, ie all your Steam games now automatically save to the cloud? I assume games still save locally when Steam Cloud is active. Thanks!

Regarding games found on Steam, I'm currently playing

ARK: Survival Evolved- Sandbox, big thumbs up and MAC version!
Subnautica- Sandbox, big thumbs up and MAC version!!

SteamCloud is an opt in feature so it depends on the game. Most newer games support this but games will massive save files like the Total War series (each save being ~20 to 50MB) won't sync the saves. You can however see if this option is being used in the game properties and on the Steam store page.

 

[Huntn]

SteamCloud is an opt in feature so it depends on the game. Most newer games support this but games will massive save files like the Total War series (each save being ~20 to 50MB) won't sync the saves. You can however see if this option is being used in the game properties and on the Steam store page.

I'll check that out. Thanks! Big game saves? The ARK Survival Evolved solo game save is 2.5 Gb. I presume Stream cloud is not saving those. I make my own backups. Too much work to have it evaporate on me.

 

[Huntn]

Orion: Prelude (Steam)- Mechs, Tanks, Jetpacks, and Dinos for $1. Waves of aggressive dinos attack! Anyone playing this? Can you go wrong for $1? Well I'm fairly hard core into ARK: Survival Evolved (which is Mac/Windows), so I took a chance on dino mayhem... will report back. Trying to figure out if this is a MMO setting, multiple independent servers, and/or solo game.

 

[EdwardSmith36]

No I'm new here, I haven't checked it yet! The Hunter: Primal, pre-release version seems quite interesting. I would love to play this game as soon as possible.

 

[Huntn]

No I'm new here, I haven't checked it yet! The Hunter: Primal, pre-release version seems quite interesting. I would love to play this game as soon as possible.

Welcome to MRs!

Hunter: Primal sounds and looks interesting. Have you played ARK: Survival Evolved? That's what I'd compare it to. ARK is outstanding, played solo and better yet as part of a tribe. For HP, I read the first page of reviews- mixed. Questions I would ask, can you build? Can you tame? Can you use your tamed dinos as attack dogs? There is an ARK thread and ARK Guide threads in this forum.

 

[Huntn]

Looked at my Steam Queue, where they try to push new games on me, 95% were Early Access Sandbox, survival, sandbox, and/or PVP games. They all look they they are trying to do the same kind of thing... Most of them, I'd be hesitant to jump into. For exotic, I have ARK:Survival Evolved and for Ocean, Subnautica. Those are the benchmarks I'm comparing most of them with. A Mid-evil sandbox game, kind of boring in comparison.

Orion: Prelude (Steam)- Mechs, Tanks, Jetpacks, and Dinos for $1. Waves of aggressive dinos attack! Anyone playing this? Can you go wrong for $1? Well I'm fairly hard core into ARK: Survival Evolved (which is Mac/Windows), so I took a chance on dino mayhem... will report back. Trying to figure out if this is a MMO setting, multiple independent servers, and/or solo game.

Well I've played this and can take it or leave it. With a group, it could be an entertaining diversion.

 

[Huntn]

Don't know if this has all ready been mentioned in this forum, but I saw a blurb at Steam which directed me this Rock, Paper, Shotgun link regarding System Shock 3 announcement.

 

[Huntn]

American Truck Simulator- $20. Anyone playing? I don't see the appeal of driving a truck from point A to B, but maybe this game is intended to play somewhat like Railroad Tycoon II Platinum (which can be purchased on Steam for $4.99 but unfortunately is only offered for Windows), where you are managing loads and route development? Of interest when I look at the RR Tycoon screenshots, it's looking kind of dated. For trains, something more modern would be Trainz:A New Area which includes a Mac version.

RRTycoon 2 Platinum

TrainZ A New Era
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I also stumbled across Rise of the Tomb Raider. Looks Awesome.

 

[Mackilroy]

I enjoyed Tomb Raider quite a lot, when Rise of the Tomb Raider goes on sale I'll pick it up.

 

[Huntn]

Holy Crap Turok, release date 1997 is now available on Steam. But, but the graphics are severely dated. Does it matter? Yeah, it represents a special time in my gaming life, but I'll probably pass even at $10 (sale),

[doublepost=1461357824][/doublepost]The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt on Steam- did anyone play this? I'd like to know if it's an open world of if there are invisible walls and alleys? I've never liked those type of limits. Thanks!

Update: Reports online- not an open world, say like Skyrim.

One impressive trailer:

 

[antonis]

Holy Crap Turok, release date 1997 is now available on Steam. But, but the graphics are severely dated. Does it matter? Yeah, it represents a special time in my gaming life, but I'll probably pass even at $10 (sale),

[doublepost=1461357824][/doublepost]The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt on Steam- did anyone play this? I'd like to know if it's an open world of if there are invisible walls and alleys? I've never liked those type of limits. Thanks!

Update: Reports online- not an open world, say like Skyrim.

One impressive trailer:

With no exaggeration, Wild Hunt is one of the best games ever made. You just need to be in the game world and you'll just get at once why. Its second - and bigger - expansion is also around the corner.

 

[Huntn]

With no exaggeration, Wild Hunt is one of the best games ever made. You just need to be in the game world and you'll just get at once why. Its second - and bigger - expansion is also around the corner.

I'm going to keep an eye out for this on sale at Steam.

 

[Huntn]

Steam Sharing- Just discovered this and it's cool.

Just jumped into The Forest, a survival sandbox, fight off the cannibals. Anyone playing? Impressions requested.

Also recently started playing Cities: Skylines. Not a bad Sim City clone.

 

[Suture]

Thinking of trying out Space Hulk sometime this summer. Just waiting for a sale.

 

[gkarris]

Thought I missed out on TRON RUN/r sale but it is on sale again...

God, I hate Steam...

 

[Mackilroy]

I used to use Steam sharing quite a bit--haven't lately though. Cities: Skylines is a very good game! Is that your city, @Huntn?

 

[Huntn]

I used to use Steam sharing quite a bit--haven't lately though. Cities: Skylines is a very good game! Is that your city, @Huntn?

No it's not. I've found that I don't like the kind of city I end up with following a budget, so after 3 tries, I turned the money spicket on so I can plan the city the way I like and not worry about taxing my citizens to death. Yes, it's cheating.

 

[panda76]

Steam summer sale incoming

Brace your wallets

 

[Huntn]

Don't miss Resident Evil 6, for $8 on Steam during the Summer Sale (for the next 41 hrs of this posting, Windows only ). You can't beat that price for a fun game, especially coop. And you can move while you shoot. It's got a Walking Dead vibe.

http://store.steampowered.com/app/242760/?snr=1_7_7_151_150_1​

The Forest- $11.99

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[gkarris]

Steam summer sale incoming

Brace your wallets

I was sadly unable to do so...

 

[xSinghx]

Don't miss Resident Evil 6...you can move while you shoot.

Yes but the real question is...can you move backwards while you shoot?

Some favorites:

Guacamelee! (controller required)
OSX version
Win version

Sleeping Dogs (OSX & Win)

Saint's Row 4 (Win Only)
Skyrim (Win Only)
Bioshock (Win Only - no idea why since the app store has it)
Risen (Win Only)

Civ V (OSX & WIN)
Borderlands2 GOTY (OSX & Win)
Batman: Arkham City (OSX & Win)
Portal 2 (OSX & Win)
Deus Ex:HR (OSX & Win)

 

[Huntn]

Yes but the real question is...can you move backwards while you shoot?

Some favorites:

Guacamelee! (controller required)
OSX version
Win version

Sleeping Dogs (OSX & Win)

Saint's Row 4 (Win Only)
Skyrim (Win Only)
Bioshock (Win Only - no idea why since the app store has it)
Risen (Win Only)

Civ V (OSX & WIN)
Borderlands2 GOTY (OSX & Win)
Batman: Arkham City (OSX & Win)
Portal 2 (OSX & Win)
Deus Ex:HR (OSX & Win)

I may be confusing one of the Resident Evil chapters with a zombie shooter on a tropical island, where to aim your weapon, the game locked you in place. Was that a Resudent Evil or a Dead Island? Which ever, I played it briefly and after playing the most wonderful Left4Dead, was indignant at this mechanic.

Thumbs up for Skyrim, Bioshock, Borderlands, Civilization, and Portal!

 

[Suture]

I completely lost control of myself during this Summer Sale. So much that I bought a new PC to play stuff on.

 

[Mackilroy]

Bought or built? I prefer the latter.

 

[Suture]

Bought -- actually this is the first time I haven't built a PC from scratch. I don't currently have a PC desktop and I sold my fully optioned out 27" iMac, so I decided to try out something different.

I know many don't like Alienware, but I had no issues with the build quality or anything on the AW13 I had for a little while. I wound up ordering an Alienware Area-51 (6 core, 16GB RAM, 2 TB spin HD, dual 970s). I have a nice Asus 1440P 27" display at home I'll be hooking it up to and picked up a 1TB SSD also to toss in. I'd never pay their asking prices. I found a very nice 30% coupon and called to get another 10% knocked off... and then another 5%.