Steam/PC Mega Thread

[Ruki]

I do enjoy free things!

[LL!]

I do enjoy everything!

[King Ellis]

Except psycho bitches.

[Herr Matzat]

The "THQ games cheap everywere" trend continues, today at amazon.com.

http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00A3F5S0O/ref=as_li_ss_tl?ie=UTF8&tag=xbox360poker-20&linkCode=as2&camp=1789&creative=390957&creativeASIN=B00A3F5S0Ohttp://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00A3F5S0O/ref=as_li_ss_tl?ie=UTF8&tag=xbox360poker-20&linkCode=as2&camp=1789&creative=390957&creativeASIN=B00A3F5S0Ohttp://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00A3F5S0O/ref=as_li_ss_tl?ie=UTF8&tag=xbox360poker-20&linkCode=as2&camp=1789&creative=390957&creativeASIN=B00A3F5S0O

[MDK]

Anyone know if it is possible to update steam games offline? I don't have internet at my new place but I'm at my mums using a laptop. Basically, I want the new FM patch.

Any ideas?

[KevinStorm]

It's barely possible to PLAY steam games offline. I doubt they let you update them offline.

[LUKIE]

The Cave is up for pre-orders on Steam.

[KONGO]

I have Bully! It's pretty fun. I don't see myself ever beating it.

[Herr Matzat]

The Omerta 2 pack seems like a good deal. But i´ll hold of on that one. I want to love it so bad...

[Ruki]

The Omerta 2 pack seems like a good deal. But i´ll hold of on that one. I want to love it so bad...

I was thinking the same thing ($25 instead of $30), but I dunno...it looks like it can be a lot of fun. but it also looks like it might be a dud. I wanna see some reviews.

[MDK]

Ugh, I hate offline mode. I was fine last night, tried to play FM today and I need to go online to go offline and my internet from my phone isn't good enough. Blah.

[Nick Adams]

Does anybody know how the hell to get game controllers to work with Steam games? I've gotten so used to my XBox that using a mouse and keyboard is seriously making me rethink whether getting any FPS and TPS games was a good idea.

[TKz]

Most games auto use the controller if it's plugged in. You need to use a wired controller, though.

[Quom]

No you don't. I bought a 360 pad which is called something like 360 PC controller, it came with a USB receiver and the pad. It was pretty much the same price as the 360 pad is normally, might have been like $5-10 more. Although it does take normally batteries without a play and charge kit. Having said that have used mine a bit and haven't needed to change batteries if it was the PS3 remote would easily have needed to charge it 3 times or so.

As long as it's switched on when you load the game it generally works as default control. Make sure your driver for it is up to date. Windows 7 recognised the 360 and wireless thing and said it was set up and it wasn't, needed to download the new driver off the MS site.

[MDK]

Big picture mode makes it easier to work. Except with audiosurf, I can't get that to work with my pad.

[TKz]

Anyone else find that Steam kinda sucks for redownloading games lately? I downloaded Dead Space again to give it another try and it's going at like, 100kb a sec. That's like... 1/100 of my max. >_> Also do you need anything in particular to use Big Picture? I'd like to try it, but I get the feeling my TV is probably missing some feature.

EDIT: Wait, so Big Picture is just another UI for Steam? That... really doesn't seem worth advertising. I knew I could set up my PC to my TV with a HDMI cable... it doesn't make it any less of a pain to drag it over to the TV with a new UI. >_> That sucks. I figured it was some cool new way they'd figured out how to wirelessly stream the video or something.

[MalaCloudy Black]

Games download and update at their normal pace for me.

[Herr Matzat]

Free Games. Not for steam i think, but free games!

http://theturtle.editions.free.fr/nanigaming/freeindiebundle/

As for the steam download speed. Sometimes it can help you a ton if you just select a different steam server in the options menu.

[RoHitman Reigns]

I got to the end of FTL and lost versus the boss ship. I need to work on upgrading more even if the fleet does catch up to me in certain areas.

[Ruki]