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General Category => Entertainment and Media => Topic started by: local_dunce on October 21, 2008, 12:23:19 am
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GW STEAM COMMUNITY
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THE LOWDOWN
Basically the current GW steam community is pretty horrific. It is not updated ever, Mike is an admin and has not been online in nearly a year maybe? it is not clear that it exists, there are never any events and overall it is pretty poor and not managed at all. So me and Rowain who use Steam and play our Steam games everyday have decided that with the upcoming release of l4d it would be a good time to start promoting steam and set up a better steam group. GAMING WORLS was taken so we bring to you the google adsense discussion group (gadg) (http://steamcommunity.com/groups/gadg)
Now that we are hoping to re-vitalize the steam community pitch in any suggestions you have for events or organizing of games and we'll definitely take it into account. Even if it is not a case of doing it frequently and you just want to say HEY LET'S ALL PLAY GMOD ON FRIDAY then throw it this way and hopefully we can get some GW community games going. Also when l4d is released I don't really want to play with random netjerks so we should organize group games between the lot of us so we can actually play with cool chaps and not idiots who are going to get us demerits by running in front of us while we are shooting.
WHAT ARE THE REQUIREMENTS TO JOIN YOUR CLAN I AM NOT GOOD AT SHOTTER GAMES
This is not a clan, you do not need to wear a tag or any of that gay shit. If you enjoy playing games then just hit the join button and don't ask permission and don't wear a gaytag. We are hopefully just a group of people who play games and want to play more games in groups of cool people.
WHAT ARE THE POPULAR GAMES THAT YOU GUYS PLAY?
Once it becomes clearer what games people are playing regularly then I will update this list but currently we play a lot of this:
- Team Fortress 2
- left4dead (we will play a lot of this no doubt about it)
- Garry's Mod
- Zombie Panic! Source
- D.I.P R.I.P Warm Up
Other games that people might play but unconfirmed.
- Counterstrike
- Team Fortress Classic
- Day of Defeat
- Half-Life 2: DM
- Insurgency
- Synergy
Got something to add to this list? Let us know...
CONCLUSION
The old GW steam community was stale, old, boring and never updated... this one is better. Join us and let's play games.
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I can' tplay left for dead on this heap of junk but maybe I'll join you for some TF2
But probably not I hate you guys
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I can' tplay left for dead on this heap of junk but maybe I'll join you for some TF2
But probably not I hate you guys
It's okay you're not any good at TF2 anyway.
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i joined (motdidr) because i want to get tf2 and P.L.A.Y. A.L.L. D.A.Y. but i am broke so i can only play cs for now
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It's okay you're not any good at TF2 anyway.
bm: "hey mark wanna play tf2 w/ me?"
mark: "sure"
bm: *tries to get tf2 working for 20 mins*
bm: "sorry i suck too much :("
mark: "sure"
real chatlog
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mark can i shot u? lmao
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If you guys want to get a TF2 day going again then let me know. Like if you want to redo that SUN-DAY thing then we can do that just suggest a day, although sunday is not the best day for me.
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im joining and you cant stop me
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Hey so I got Rowain to post an l4d release day party event plan. On the day l4d is released we are all going to party it up and shot some zombies. It's a Tuesday, 18th, all day. Be there or be square.
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I'll game all of these except l4d because I ain't buying it :crossed: :arms: :smug: :look:
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I can' tplay left for dead on this heap of junk but maybe I'll join you for some TF2
But probably not I hate you guys
They will be using the same engine, so L4D should have very similar performance to TF2. Less models on screen, and far less projectiles/particles flying everywhere means heated action won't chop as bad. They are actually improving dual core support, so if you have a multi core processor you should have a better chance of smooth gameplay. Valve is great at making their games scale well with lower end systems. Even if you have to turn the graphics down a bit, it will, at it's worst, look like a very awesome hl2 zombie mod.
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Actually L4D, while being a Source game, has almost twice as big system requirements as TF2. I can't find the system specs but they were pretty high.
EDIT:
Actually the specs are pretty similar BUT I think the recommended TF2 specs are the same as the minimum specs for L4D, I don't know for sure because it doesn't say anywhere whether these are minimum or recommended.
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Someone should just contact Mike and get him to hand the reins of the group over to someone who's online more because I doubt enough people will join this.
also BAD NAME FUCK YOU GUYS
Joined anyways.
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They will be using the same engine, so L4D should have very similar performance to TF2. Less models on screen, and far less projectiles/particles flying everywhere means heated action won't chop as bad. They are actually improving dual core support, so if you have a multi core processor you should have a better chance of smooth gameplay. Valve is great at making their games scale well with lower end systems. Even if you have to turn the graphics down a bit, it will, at it's worst, look like a very awesome hl2 zombie mod.
This is what I assumed but the released requirements are much higher
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Someone should just contact Mike and get him to hand the reins of the group over to someone who's online more because I doubt enough people will join this.
also BAD NAME FUCK YOU GUYS
Joined anyways.
It's the best name. We brainstormed for like 43 seconds to come up with this name.
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This is what I assumed but the released requirements are much higher
Actually they're the exact same as TF2/Episode 2's reccomended requirements. Just like how TF2 runs as well as HL2:Ep2, we can expect VERY similar performance in L4D. If it runs slower than either, it will be only slightly so. Same engine, its pretty much a TC mod for it. And like I was talking about earlier, the smaller rooms and increased dual core support will no doubt shrink whatever gap there may be, if any. I can say with great confidence that if you can run Episode 2 and Team Fortress 2 fine, playing L4D should be no issue.
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hells yea we gonna play left4dead
insurgency is a great game if you like ducking and covering for hours on end. i know i dont.
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They will be using the same engine, so L4D should have very similar performance to TF2. Less models on screen, and far less projectiles/particles flying everywhere means heated action won't chop as bad. They are actually improving dual core support, so if you have a multi core processor you should have a better chance of smooth gameplay. Valve is great at making their games scale well with lower end systems. Even if you have to turn the graphics down a bit, it will, at it's worst, look like a very awesome hl2 zombie mod.
From what's been released so far, if someone has to run TF2 on really really low / use -dxlevel 80, they might not be able to play L4D. While it uses a similar engine, the advanced AI and shaders and such used in the game to give it its distinct movie-esque feel is going to really affect the specs for the lower end PCs that might be able to run TF2. Anyone who can run it modestly or on high has nothing to worry about though.
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i have orange box and im prolly gonna buy left4dead so idk, count me in maybe. i'm usually kinda too busy to SIT DOWN, PLAY GAMES for extended periods of time but whatever, maybe sometimes!
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I agree with all this (and yes I will be at the forefront shooting zombies in the face soon), but the name is just so shit. It's kinda funny the first time (sorta, not in a 'lol' way - more a 'oh. THATS gw?'), but it just totally defeats the purpose. NOBODY knows what the fuck it is, even at Gaming World, unless someone specifically tells them. If someone goes looking for 'our' group on steam they're gonna see this and ignore it. The GW group, whilst a bit fucked, is definately MORE useful than this. Just gotta get mike to hand it over.
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i have orange box and im prolly gonna buy left4dead so idk, count me in maybe. i'm usually kinda too busy to SIT DOWN, PLAY GAMES for extended periods of time but whatever, maybe sometimes!
You can make a window in youre busy debating schedule to play games with us I'm sure..!
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From what's been released so far, if someone has to run TF2 on really really low / use -dxlevel 80, they might not be able to play L4D. While it uses a similar engine, the advanced AI and shaders and such used in the game to give it its distinct movie-esque feel is going to really affect the specs for the lower end PCs that might be able to run TF2. Anyone who can run it modestly or on high has nothing to worry about though.
The shaders and will be able to be lowered (possibly even compatible with -dxlevel 80 parameter) for lower spec systems, and the AI will only be processed on the server computer (unless you want to play it alone, haha). We can't really say what improvements or optimizations they've made to the engine besides the ones they've announced, I'm surprised by every new iteration of the HL2 engine and it will no doubt be so close to the other games that use the current version, that >95% of people running them playably are going to have no issue running L4D even IF its slower (cause it won't be by that much).
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I play TF2 on the regular and my Steam name is TheNotoriousMoogle.
Add me, I'll play with you and shit.
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I agree with all this (and yes I will be at the forefront shooting zombies in the face soon), but the name is just so shit. It's kinda funny the first time (sorta, not in a 'lol' way - more a 'oh. THATS gw?'), but it just totally defeats the purpose. NOBODY knows what the fuck it is, even at Gaming World, unless someone specifically tells them. If someone goes looking for 'our' group on steam they're gonna see this and ignore it.
"Cry some more" ~the Heavy, 'Team Fortress Two'
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My steam name is strafedemon and i'll probably join the group later.
I haven't played steam games in a while, but I used to play TF2 a bit as well as Garry's Mod.
Left4Dead looks pretty awesome, so I might play that when it comes out(if my PC can handle it - it handles TF2 quite well.)
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I have Insurgency, the Ship, and HLM. I'll join the group if I ever get on a computer that can play those games. I'd really like to play the ship with people I know but that's not going to happen
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Some of us played the ship (I think the HL1 version) awhile back when we were also playing Science and Industry. It was pretty fun for a short while
Also I'd definitely play Insurgency Mod
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The Left4Dead specs have been updated, by the way.
You only need a 128MB video card now.
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By the way, zombie matches on Garry's mod really rule!
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By the way, zombie matches on Garry's mod really rule!
But they are way easy. You can spawn 100 fast zombies around you and take them all down without taking a single point of damage. Also if they are too far away from you they just get bored and give up. I put myself in a cage for safety and spawned as many fast zombies as I could expecting them to bombard the cage but they didn't. They couldn't immediately reach me so they just walked around aimlessly.
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I've never really played Garry's Mod but I think I bought it or I have it from somewhere or something.
You should add Trackmania to that list because I know quite a few people enjoy it from the old GW group.
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So I ordered L4D yesterday (a physical copy, not through Steam) so if my comp runs it at all I'll be playing dat with dem gwers.
They announced that the DEMO is available to all who pre-ordered through steam on 6th and everyone else gets a taste of it at 11th.
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So I ordered L4D yesterday (a physical copy, not through Steam) so if my comp runs it at all I'll be playing dat with dem gwers.
They announced that the DEMO is available to all who pre-ordered through steam on 6th and everyone else gets a taste of it at 11th.
Yeah a couple of us have been playing it today, Me, Neophyte, goat, Rowain, it's pretty sweet.
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I've heard the game is pretty fun and filled with a variety of effects that change the experience every time. Unfortunately I've also been hearing mixed opinions on the matchmaking service which they pretty much are forcing players to use in the demo. I'm hoping since this is just the demo that they will change it, but how is it working out for you all?
Bad things I have heard:
1. You are forced to use the matchmaking service which has a cheap consolish appearance, not something more akin to PC like a server browser (apparently there's some console command that brings up the server browser)
2. It randomly assigns you players from outside your country. You can be in the U.S. and end up having players from Germany or Australia
3. No dedicated servers for matchmaking. Instead you play off of somebody else's computer. It's going to be great playing on some guy's 512k upstream
How is the friends play lobby? Does it just randomly assign you to some of your friends, or can you at least choose who you want to play with?
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There is a host and you invite people to games. Also it is really bad, the only game I have been able to connect to so far is goat's and when he left I haven't been able to play because I cannot connect to anyone else apparently.
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Yeah that's a really bad thing they did, I don't know why they even did it. They didn't do that with the TF2 demo did they? It's ridiculous, I really do hope they fix that.
I am really interested in how versus mode is. I don't know why they didn't include that in the demo. It feels weird that PC users basically get something that feels like it was from the Xbox live marketplace. It feels like Valve didn't want to short change the 360 owners, so they cut out stuff for us PC users since demos on the marketplace never have the full content. The whole experience feels very consolish, I don't remember TF2 doing that at all.
But the game is very enjoyable, especially with friends. It's a shame there isn't enough content to really get a grasp of how good things could be.
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You should add Trackmania to that list because I know quite a few people enjoy it from the old GW group.
yes indeed!
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I dunno about all this L4D, I should be insanely excited as me and my friends have always wanted a co-op zombie killing game but I'm not really excited. Guess I'm just waiting til I see it in action or get a new motherboard so I can install my new 3d card! Plus I want a 360 so I dunno if I wanna spend the money.
Anyways guys, it's out like, tomorrow in the US? So let us know it goes.
I still fucking love TF2, just for the record. Probably the best team based online shooter I've ever played.
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Anyways guys, it's out like, tomorrow in the US? So let us know it goes.
The demo goes public today, retail isn't out 'till the 18th, so try it for yourself!
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I've pre-ordered L4D and currently hooked on the ol' demo, so. My Steam ID is MrHibbert.
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i'll need someone to play with because i do not want to play trough the game on single player.
all my irl friends who're getting this are 380 kilometers away and are going to LAN with each other.
fucking pricks
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L4D TOMORROW!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Will YOU be left....... 4 the dead?!?!?
You can preload now!
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YES! PRE-LOADING THIS SHIZZLE. L4D PARTY DAY TOMORROW, BRING SPARE PANTS.
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We should compile a list of names of GWs playing Steam.
I just signed up as The Dude
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We should compile a list of names of GWs playing Steam.
I just signed up as The Dude
Well if you go to the GW Steam Community page then you can see everyone who is registered. Playing a game, etc.
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Yeah uh that's the entire point of Steam communities.
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Yeah I'm a twit. I found that like right after posting.
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i can haz... lasagne?!?
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I can' tplay left for dead on this heap of junk but maybe I'll join you for some TF2
But probably not I hate you guys
THX
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THEY'RE BECOMING SENTIENT
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anyone playing the new cod? i'm thinking about getting it.
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wewt i just downloaded it, got me some cheap ass orange box <3 (Yeah I know, welcome to 1000 years ago :() Brother kept nagging at me that I had to play TF2
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ma steam id be gangsta_mark03 hit em up so u can play wit me. I got alotta shit to play i wont spit to stay just destroy the ricta scale