Maybe I just cant find it, but was the Steam thread deleted?
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Maybe I just cant find it, but was the Steam thread deleted?
It was removed, I'm guessing the overwhelming enthusiasm the thread gathered was just too much :p
Well it looks better over at steam from the comments in the forum there :D
Maybe .. it's a soft opening ? And we'll see the emails going out to accounts active and inactive alike next week, I mean it's just a send to group click right ?
Hoping so.
So tried adding it to library, as I already have the data, but ofc it forces you to download it...
Unless I'm missing something?
Still a steam nub myself.
On the bright side, we got a new Icon: https://s2.postimg.org/pm73pu6lh/Capture.jpg
I'm seeing it as a soft opening too. I've noticed that I get a Funcom promotional e-mail anywhere from a day to week after an event has started for AO.
the re-download is standard Steam behavior and one of the biggest complaints about it. You've just installed a 30+ gb game from DVD and have to do it all over again? Yep. I like Steam a lot but it does have warts!
Still wondering who made that page and vetted that content on there. Why is the steamlaunch without some sort of membership offer, mega sale on all the packs and stuff that you can buy?
Is the marketing dept. run by interns?
It looks like the only difference between the (old) clients is that the (old) steam client has an empty file named "steam" in the root folder and a lack of a manual uninstall program.
The presence of the "steam" file adds the "New Account" button to the login screen. It's just a flag.
You can directly copy over the new client over the old client and it will run as expected.
My PC runs AO with a lower performance when openeing from Steam, so I Will probably just stick with regular client.
As an experiment, I literally copied + pasted my live AO folder (new engine ndGUI, reshade maps etc) over the steam AO folder and launched the game, works fine only snag was it lost some of the graphics slider settings and turned FXAA on, easy to set right again, however steam overlay doesn't work still, but if you add AO as a non-steam game ... it does go figure.
Small problem atm : games sticks @ 1 minutes played so you can't do any review about AO in Steam (with limit of 5 minutes minimal playtime to post).
It has been resolved by this brilliant hack :)
http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfile.../?id=870229920
Works only on Intel, apparently. And it's a bandaid wich need deeper fix. Also, the Steam stats for AO doesn't work neither ... 1 player since 24 hours ? C'mon :D
http://steamcharts.com/app/396280
I wrote that and I have an AMD CPU. How did you come up with that clearly incorrect assumption?
I've just been *clearly* following the guide, step by step and, even the few times i managed the exe to be suspended by PE (nb : sometimes it simply refused the operation, even with ProcExplorer under admin user ...) it still went to "Ready to play" instead of "Playing" status within Steam, aka stucking at 1 min 4 ever. As read on Steam forums, where someone suggested the trick worked for Intel only, i've supposed (hence the word "apparently", wich suggest i'm not sure of anything) it explained my issue as i'm AMD.
Bottom line, the Legendfluff trick with SAM (Steam Achievement Manager) using AO ID (396280) worked for me : with this, i managed Steam to believe the game was running ("Playing" status on) during 4 minutes - wich is still far from the 12 years i've spent around as froob+sloob. After that i could review the game pretty much positively.
But that still need real fix as both tricks (PE or SAM) are just band-aids ;)