Rifftrax Members On STEAM

[Lembach]

I go by Lembach on Steam.

I'm most approachable anytime on Tuesdays and Wednesdays.

I, too, would enjoy me some Payday 2 action. But I have to have my buddy Kazi221 available to play, too.

[The Lurker]

Anyone else having trouble with the game limited time free trials? Tried the Worms Clan Wars game and had texture issues.  I've encountered glitches in other games that had a limited time free trial.

[mrbasehart]

STEAM friends! I've got some tradeable items in my inventory that I'll gladly give away to anyone who wants them -

I've got a 33% off System Shock 2 coupon, a 33% off Alan Wake's American Nightmare Coupon and a 90% off Portal 2 coupon.

[Compound]

A heads up.


When I get bored, I'll spend a few bucks on Steam trading cards. When I crafted a random pack today, I got a snow globe. So, I think some sort of Christmas promotion is about to hit, ala the summer sale.

[d00hickey]

A heads up.


When I get bored, I'll spend a few bucks on Steam trading cards. When I crafted a random pack today, I got a snow globe. So, I think some sort of Christmas promotion is about to hit, ala the summer sale.

They have a sale for every season, Winter and Summer are always the best, Autumn and Spring are kind of meh. I was a little concerned about the winter sale this year because it usually lines up with Christmas but the Autumn sale was really late and just ended.  GOG winter sale is just starting so keep an eye on that, I would recommend Shadow Warrior but the Steam sale will probably have a better price. I wish GOG would be more successful because they're so damn ethical, but it's like a small business competing with Walmart, you just can't compete with prices that low.

[Compound]

Hey Steam? You know what would be nice? A little checkmark or something next to the DLC on a product showing me that I own it. Good Old Games tells me this. Heck, Rifftrax does this. But if  a product has 30 or pieces of DLC, I'd really like to easily be able to determine what to buy in an easier manner than "Click on dlc, see if the green text appears, hit back arrow, re-expand DLC listing on prior page as it's reminimized back to showing only 3 of the listings..." It's a pain in the neck.

[Pak-Man]

I usually just "Add all DLC to Cart." In the cart they tell you what you already have (Which, yes, they really should do up front) and then you can remove the duplicate items.

[Variety of Cells]

Wait... I can pick which games I want installed on which hard drive natively within steam?  Wish I would have realized that sooner.  Now I can free up a lot of room on my C: drive. 

[d00hickey]

Wait... I can pick which games I want installed on which hard drive natively within steam?  Wish I would have realized that sooner.  Now I can free up a lot of room on my C: drive.

Yep, you just need a folder labeled steam anywhere you want. you can move it around as much as you like too. One time I moved L4D2 to a different drive and when I opened I got a VAC warning though so there might be some risk to it. Now that I have an SSD I keep whatever I play most on the SSD and move it to a HDD when I'm done with it.

[Variety of Cells]

Wait... I can pick which games I want installed on which hard drive natively within steam?  Wish I would have realized that sooner.  Now I can free up a lot of room on my C: drive.

Yep, you just need a folder labeled steam anywhere you want. you can move it around as much as you like too. One time I moved L4D2 to a different drive and when I opened I got a VAC warning though so there might be some risk to it. Now that I have an SSD I keep whatever I play most on the SSD and move it to a HDD when I'm done with it.

Are you saying I can move a game from my C: Drive to my E: drive without uninstalling it and reinstalling it?

[d00hickey]

Wait... I can pick which games I want installed on which hard drive natively within steam?  Wish I would have realized that sooner.  Now I can free up a lot of room on my C: drive.

Yep, you just need a folder labeled steam anywhere you want. you can move it around as much as you like too. One time I moved L4D2 to a different drive and when I opened I got a VAC warning though so there might be some risk to it. Now that I have an SSD I keep whatever I play most on the SSD and move it to a HDD when I'm done with it.

Are you saying I can move a game from my C: Drive to my E: drive without uninstalling it and reinstalling it?

Yup. Close Steam, cut from old dir and paste game folder in new dir, open Steam, click install on the game, choose directory you moved it to, click continue/finish and it's there immediately. Just make sure when you move the game you move it to another folder named 'steam'

Like I said though I got a VAC warning on L4D2 basically accusing me of cheating. I've done this countless times with other multiplayer games and no issue. I tried it recently with Origin and Uplay but no dice with them.

[Variety of Cells]

Very cool.  Tried it and it worked. 

I've also found that steam's big picture mode works really well.  Using autohotkey I made a script that lets me fire up steam from my 360 controller, and I also made it so my controller can wake up my Home Theater PC in my living room.  So now I don't have to touch the keyboard if I just want to play some games from the couch. 

I wish the web navigation mode for steam was available for my whole computer so I could control it with just my 360 controller.  My hope is that when the steam controller is released it will come with nice mouse emulation and a nice text UI. 

[Variety of Cells]

Ohh I get it.  That's how people earn so many badges, they use the marketplace.  Jesus that's addicting.  Thankfully I managed to only spend money that I made through selling other cards and items.  But I did waste quite a few real world hours doing it.

I'd really like to complete my Pinball Arcade badge, but I'm not sure I'll be able to save up the scratch for the $1.50 Star Trek card.  Perhaps if I get a few more Summer Sale cards, they seem to sell pretty reliably. 

[The Lurker]

Anyone know of some controllers that work well with Steam?

[d00hickey]

Anyone know of some controllers that work well with Steam?

You can use almost any controller for steam if your willing to fiddle with some settings. All (or at least 95%) of Steam games that support controllers are plug and play with an Xbox 360 controller, that also means that all the button prompts on screen during games are for the 360 controller. I use a program called Motioninjoy with a Dual Shock 3 and a Bluetooth dongle. Motioninjoy will emulate almost all controllers into 360 controllers making them immediately recognizable by steam.

You can buy a Logitec or other knock of PC brand controller but they are not very well optimized and cheap feeling. The higher end Razer controllers work really good but tend to be over priced.

If I was setting out to get a new, nice controller set up for PC and Steam I would buy the new Dual Shock 4 and an appropriate blue tooth dongle because you can bind the touch pad to mouse controls. Google around about setting it up for Steam and PC.