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What's coming out on Wednesday on Steam?

seriously dissapointed about the lack of any big-names on today's update, my only hope is that valve, being valve, do some crazy huge release in a coupla weeks that blows all our balls off...
 
Just purchased a Razer Deathadder. I am excited since I am using a Microsoft Intellimouse I found cheap after my favorite mouse ever (Logitech MX510) finally kicked the bucket a few years ago.
 
YES! I'm so happy for Killing Floor. It gets about equal time to the L4D games at my lan get togethers. :D Some of my friends prefer it. (I don't personally but it's still a blast)

Its pretty different to L4D.. A bit more repetitive but with a lot more customisation, levelling up, character classes etc. Definitely worth the money IMO.

Looking forward to L4D2 and TF2 still, but it's no biggie, they're still on bootcamp. Win-win. XD
 
mixel said:
YES! I'm so happy for Killing Floor. It gets about equal time to the L4D games at my lan get togethers. :D Some of my friends prefer it. (I don't personally but it's still a blast)

Its pretty different to L4D.. A bit more repetitive but with a lot more customisation, levelling up, character classes etc. Definitely worth the money IMO.

Looking forward to L4D2 and TF2 still, but it's no biggie, they're still on bootcamp. Win-win. XD
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Well, KF is definitely better if you want to play on more than 5 maps. :)
 
Irishman said:
Well, KF is definitely better if you want to play on more than 5 maps. :)
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But once you know the maps you just end up going back to the same places anyway… :D Well my group always do.. And KF's gameplay isn't as dynamic.. Never really any surprises. I like the L4D gameplay mode options too. No KF vs!

If they made a happy medium between the two it'd be nice. :) A full blown KF sequel could be great.
 
Irishman said:
Well, KF is definitely better if you want to play on more than 5 maps. :)
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L4D has more than 5 maps. Each campaign has 5 maps and there's 4 of them (plus a smaller 3 map campaign). And there's Versus and Survival modes ;).

There's some preliminary data from the last week-
- Roughly two thirds of all Steam Mac users are running on a laptop.
- Portal (with the same code base across platforms) is one fifth as likely to crash on a Mac than on Windows.
- And one week after launch, already more than eleven percent of all Steam purchases are for the Mac.
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Dagless said:
L4D has more than 5 maps. Each campaign has 5 maps and there's 4 of them (plus a smaller 3 map campaign). And there's Versus and Survival modes ;).

There's some preliminary data from the last week-
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Choice is a good thing eh?:)
 
mixel said:
YES! I'm so happy for Killing Floor. It gets about equal time to the L4D games at my lan get togethers. :D Some of my friends prefer it. (I don't personally but it's still a blast)

Its pretty different to L4D.. A bit more repetitive but with a lot more customisation, levelling up, character classes etc. Definitely worth the money IMO.

Looking forward to L4D2 and TF2 still, but it's no biggie, they're still on bootcamp. Win-win. XD
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I might get that myself at some point!
 
altitude is such a simple game, yet fun! man, steam has sure brought a lot of games that have gone unnoticed to me to light! So tempted to buy the indie pack as well!
 
BenXiaoHai said:
altitude is such a simple game, yet fun! man, steam has sure brought a lot of games that have gone unnoticed to me to light! So tempted to buy the indie pack as well!
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It is! I've just been playing it online for the last half hour and it's not a bad game at all! Wish there were more demos around though so you could try before paying!
 
BenXiaoHai said:
altitude is such a simple game, yet fun! man, steam has sure brought a lot of games that have gone unnoticed to me to light! So tempted to buy the indie pack as well!
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I haven't played it since the day I bought it but it was very fun indeed! Might spend the rest of the night playing through these games on my macbook.
 
I'm thinking Orange Box might be released next Wednesday. Portal free trial lasts until the 24th so Valve might be using that to keep us occupied until a big release on the 26th. Just a thought.
 
I was really hoping (and expecting) valve to have wednesdays set aside for their own Source titles. I didn't know they were talking about other games as well :(.
Oh well, now I know what to expect.. Or not to expect.
 
bb714 said:
I'm thinking Orange Box might be released next Wednesday. Portal free trial lasts until the 24th so Valve might be using that to keep us occupied until a big release on the 26th. Just a thought.
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My understanding is that it's not a free trial, it's a free copy. i.e. anyone who downloads it for free before the 24th gets to continue using it as long as they like. After the 24th, it goes back to whatever it's normal price is. Think of it as a 100% off sale.

-Nick
 
NGL said:
My understanding is that it's not a free trial, it's a free copy. i.e. anyone who downloads it for free before the 24th gets to continue using it as long as they like. After the 24th, it goes back to whatever it's normal price is. Think of it as a 100% off sale.

-Nick
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Ah. Thanks for clearing that up. The same concept still apply though. Perhaps it's a plan to get a good number of Mac users before launching the really awesome stuff. <-- I hope.
 
Dagless said:
I haven't played it since the day I bought it but it was very fun indeed! Might spend the rest of the night playing through these games on my macbook.
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I've been playing the demo quite a bit – it's simple but fun. :)
 
bb714 said:
Perhaps it's a plan to get a good number of Mac users before launching the really awesome stuff. <-- I hope.
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I wouldn't be surprised if it was also to get a bunch of feedback on what they need to fix so they can avoid problems with the release of the rest of the catalogue.
 
deadwulfe said:
I wouldn't be surprised if it was also to get a bunch of feedback on what they need to fix so they can avoid problems with the release of the rest of the catalogue.
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Not a bad thought. My biggest complaint with Steam right now is that it totally disregards "Spaces." If it is the selected program and you switch spaces, mouse-overs will still pop up in the new space. Very annoying.

It also crashes for me if I quit it with Apple+Q but not if I use the menu.

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Well its Thursday now was there any release on Wednesday? Also anyone know why Team Fortress 2 doesn't show in the library list, even when you own it?
 
I hope the big updates to CS:S, HL2 and TF2 are released to coincide with the OSX launch;

CS:S's mighty big update,
HL2 and those sneaky achievements and hopefully Steam Cloud,
TF2's engineer update.

Be nice if they added Steam Cloud to their older titles too.
 
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