Steam sale thread: Summer 2017 Edition

Jawehawk
Considering buying Digital Combat Simulator: Black Shark and the A10 game by the same company. Love helicopters, and who doesn't love an A10? Seeing just how many buttons you have to press to just take off in the Black Shark. I can totally imagining myself spending an hour flicking buttons until I finally get results. :lol:

Does anyone have any experience with these games? How are they with just a mouse and keyboard?
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Not all that great... They're proper simulators, so imagine playing a racing sim with a keyboard, except instead of just three pedals, a wheel and shifter, you have two pedals, one stick, one throttle, trims, safeties, ignitions, starters, the A-10C's MFD... Even my X52 Pro HOTAS doesn't have anywhere near enough buttons to control everything on the A-10.

Just a heads up though, the keys you get for DCS's modules on Steam work to unlock the relevant modules in DCS World, which is a free to play (ish) flight sim. It comes with an Su-25 Frogfoot but you have to buy all the others, but they're pretty damn realistic. Anyway, so you enter your keys there to get the aircraft in that instead. There's also a P-51D Mustang, a UH-1H Huey, Flaming Cliffs 3 which features a few fighters and... Another module that lets you use and command some (pretty poorly modelled) ground units as well. Combined Arms, maybe? You get them from the DCS site anyway. Also there's a sequel to Black Shark called - shockingly - Black Shark 2. I haven't tried that yet but if Take On Helicopters is any indication, it's going to be hell with a keyboard and mouse.
 
LogiForce
Let me know when laugh turns into addiction. ;)
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I'm still laughing at how stupid the AI cars are.

The normal everyday Golf seem to crash into whichever truck they can find, right in front of me.

Or they try to overtake a truck, then coming towards me in my lane! I mean, it's just like real life... :sly:
 
I've had this new computer for a couple weeks, and it can run some games, but not many, so I bought CSS and Garry's mod because those games are pretty easy to run, and have a pretty consistent frame rate.

Tried to get the Burnout Paradise demo from some site to see if it was worth buying, but the installer kept crashing. I won't get it because I don't think my computer would run it, eh, I have other things to spend money on.
 
Yesterdays only purchase was To The Moon.

At the moment Tomb Raider is up at 75% off (£7.49), it would be rude not to really so it is downloading as I type.
 
Phoenix
I'm still laughing at how stupid the AI cars are.

The normal everyday Golf seem to crash into whichever truck they can find, right in front of me.

Or they try to overtake a truck, then coming towards me in my lane! I mean, it's just like real life... :sly:
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Are you on version 1.4.1?
I felt the AI was improved in that last update.

Oh yeah, you wouldn't know how many stupid overtaking maneuvers I have seen in my life, and in my holidays. It is like real life sometimes.
I mean we have death roads for a reason. One reason is overtaking on a road when they can't see upcoming traffic and take risks.
 
I haven't really tried any of the small selection of steam games I have in recent months, but I took the opportunity to finally get The Walking Dead since I've been waiting for a proper price drop.

Still thinking about getting Chivalry later though, and I also bought JC2 since it's below £2. I'm sure it'll run on my laptop although I'm always hesitant to try with games like that. I could do with a decent mouse first as well.
 
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neema_t
Not all that great... They're proper simulators, so imagine playing a racing sim with a keyboard, except instead of just three pedals, a wheel and shifter, you have two pedals, one stick, one throttle, trims, safeties, ignitions, starters, the A-10C's MFD... Even my X52 Pro HOTAS doesn't have anywhere near enough buttons to control everything on the A-10.
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Hmmm. Guess I'll skip over the A10 game then. Still intruiged by the Black Shark.
 
I'm mildly interested by Tomb Raider, but if I buy it that's a third of my budget gone already. Maybe if it comes up in the community choice or flash sale nearer the end, or even the encore sale on the last day, I'll pick it up then.

Jawehawk
Hmmm. Guess I'll skip over the A10 game then. Still intruiged by the Black Shark.
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Oh, it turns out Black Shark isn't compatible with DCS World, but you can use your key for it to get a discount on Black Shark 2. Sorry about that. Also I wouldn't bet that the Ka-50 would be any easier to fly with a keyboard, but I haven't tried it myself so I don't know for sure.

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Jawehawk
Wanted to buy Just Cause 2. Tried the demo to make sure it would run on my PC, and I get some error code, making it impossible for me to even start the game. Don't remember the error code, but I can't be bothered spending hours to get the full game to work, so no buy.

Wanted to buy the original Bioshock. Again I try the demo to make sure it works. Can't start the game normally, as the game just says "parental control access denied". Can start the game in Windows XP compatibility mode, but then it just crashes if I change video settings. Meaning I'd have to play it at a low resolution... No buy.

PC gaming in a nutshell. :grumpy:

Sick and tired of the fact that half the games I try/buy for my PC don't work from the get go.
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Do you have DEP turned on? Assuming you're on Windows 7, anyway. I don't think DEP gave me any errors with either of those games but it does sometimes cause inexplicable SNAFUs with other stuff.
 
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So I got the RPG Maker because I've been eyeing it for quite a while now. I've had an idea for a gaming floating around in my head since one really boring class back in my college days. I have dialog, character, a setting and a story all wrote down in a notebook and it would be cool to see it become a game. I realize it won't be easy, but I figure I've wasted time on less lofty goals before.
 
I'm getting more of an urge to collect trading cards, if anybody has any spares I will happily take them if you don't mind :) My Steam is Carl the Sloth.
 
neema_t
Oh, it turns out Black Shark isn't compatible with DCS World, but you can use your key for it to get a discount on Black Shark 2. Sorry about that. Also I wouldn't bet that the Ka-50 would be any easier to fly with a keyboard, but I haven't tried it myself so I don't know for sure.

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Do you have DEP turned on? Assuming you're on Windows 7, anyway. I don't think DEP gave me any errors with either of those games but it does sometimes cause inexplicable SNAFUs with other stuff.
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But the original DCS Black Shark is dirt cheap with the discount. Hence why I'm inclined to buy it.

What is DEP? I'm on Windows 7 64 bit. (Just redownloaded the demo, and a message pops up when I try to start the game, saying "This program is blocked by group policy".)


Currently looking at Borderlands 2 as well. hmmm.... Decisions!
 
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chromatic9
Tomb Raider deal is pretty good, wasn't expecting it. Bought.
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I was pretty surprised by the 75% myself, considering it seems to be a pretty well received big title that's only a few months old.



Brett
I finished To the Moon yesterday. Enjoy it. It is a nice little game.
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Thanks, I'm looking forward to playing it, still only played Hotline Miami so far and I'm liking that a lot.

ETA I've got Hitman for the PS3, I would say it's pretty good but nothing spectacular. Not sure how good the PC version is but I imagine at £4.99 you will get reasonable value from it.
 
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I've just bought Tomb Raider having played it at my brother's house a few weeks back and enjoying it. He paid full price for a console release though. :P
 
DCS A-10 on for $15.99!

I think that I may have to get it...

Even if I really do want a fighter instead of an attack sim, but it's DCS so...
 
Jawehawk
What is DEP?
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Data Execution Prevention, I'll let you google how to turn it off but give it a shot. Or try running the demo as admin?

dice1998
Tomb Raider teases me. Maybe I'll buy it..
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Yeah I'm kind of in the same boat (I think I mentioned that though), but as I'm not massively enthusiastic about it I'm happy to wait and see if it comes up again later.

Brett
EDIT: Hitman Absolution? Yay? Nay?
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I would say... Nay if you're expecting it to be anything like the previous Hitmans, but if you haven't played them, then yay, it's a decent enough game in its own right but it's not a true Hitman sequel. If Blood Money is also discounted I'd say get that as well, or instead perhaps; that's a proper Hitman. Not quite as good as Hitman 2 but that hasn't aged all that well.
 
neema_t
Data Execution Prevention, I'll let you google how to turn it off but give it a shot. Or try running the demo as admin?
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I don't like doing anything to settings for PC stuff that I know little about. :)
Too often I mess something up, and end up paying for it one way or another. Just Cause 2 simply won't happen for me. I did of course search around a little for any advise on how to fix the problem, but didn't have any luck.

In any case. DSC Black Shark should keep me quite busy if I hope to master the controls of that beast of a helicopter.
 
DCS A-10, Just Cause 2, and Silent Hunter III. 25 bucks total.
First time I've ever used my credit card online. ^ _ ^

(I actually have SH3, but Starforce is a pain, and it was only 6 bucks on Steam.)
 
If I get DCS-A10 I am afraid I will need (read as desperately want) the Thrustmaster stick too. :(
 
Bopop4
What stick do you have right now?
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Logitech Wingman Force 3D if I am not mistaking.

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This one...

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Technicolors
I bought it too, although it was meant as a gift. I'm actually a bit surprised my PC can handle the game at high settings.
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I ended up only buying the last TR. They upped the price of the older tomb raider games in my region just before I wanted to buy them, so no sale. :grumpy:
 

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