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So, er yeah. That explains the dozen or so crappy Viagra spams I got sent to my spam account. Even then, all but one got sent to the spam folder, and now the spam seems to have stopped. Rubbish hacker is rubbish.

I'm working on the assumption that the first DLC is a timed exclusive. Certainly, I wouldn't be at all surprised if a PC (and PS3) version was announced in January or February. Nope, Windows' popularity is pretty much entirely due to is popularity in businesses. I'm guessing M$ wants people to buy a 360, so that they totally control their games and extract more money from them. Plus, they get to thumb their nose at Sony.

Or you can, y'know, start up the Steam client while it's online. Unless there's something I've missed, or if you're using a cracked version (in which case: hard cheese).

A big patch is being submitted to testing and certification and stuff, according to the Bethesda Blog. It won't be deployed for a few weeks yet, but it should *hopefully* improve things. In the mean time, a smaller patch for the PC version will be released (via Steam) that should fix save file corruption (read: allow Valve to turn on Steam Cloud again), Havok physics issues and improve people who recent Nvidia drivers.

Since there's no indication of re-use on the description of the original mod, I'm going to assume that you're going to have to ask for permission.

That's true, I guess, but considering people can just download it and Alien Swarm for free, I can't see why they wouldn't try it before QQing.

Garbage statement is garbage. Reliance on Steam does not equal no support. I would raise TF2 at this point, but that would be too easy. So instead, I'll point out Supreme Commander 2, which has been receiving a slow, but constant, trickle of patches to this day (or, at least, their last patch was a month ago).

Admin Note: You were given a strike for this behavior and you do it again in such a short time frame. Time to find a new place to troll. Buddah Not sure how that would constitute as trolling. Probably the word "pedo" got him into trouble. The rule of "if you have nothing good constructive to say, say nothing at all" very much applies to these forums. The small fact that he has multiple accounts doesn't help either.

Delete ClientRegristy.blob and try again (making sure you've connected to the internet before you nuke the blob).

Nope. Well, you could install the game to a computer with an internet connection (*points to sig*), let Steam download the patches on said connection, and then copy the steamapps folder over to your gaming PC, but you'll probably nuke your save files in the process.

Cheers for the heads up.

Indeed, calling HAAAAAX on NuclearDestination. AFAIK console commands disable achievements for that play session. To re-enable Achievements, quit to Windows and fire the game up again. Please note that this only matters when the achievements are triggered (for example, if you've disabled Achievements when you've beat the game, hard cheese. However, if you save, quit and restart just before you beat the game, you should get the acheesemints).

Shut down Steam, delete Client Registry.blob from the Steam folder, start Steam up again (assuming you're connected to the internet).

@Marthos: I guess that was back in the days of Half Life 2's launch. I have no idea how Steam could break your operating system, especially considering my understanding of how it works, but I can tell you my best guess at why Steamworks was picked instead of no DRM or GfWL: it's for DLC distribution. Games for Windows Live was, by all accords, rubbish at that, and the only alternative currently is Steam. The small fact that GfWL is definitely withering on the vine also helps in this decision.

I say, I say, I say, there's quite a lot of free games on Steam if you know where to look. On topic: Good write-up. Since I'm about to fire my copy up myself, it's good to know what to expect. Nice and spoiler-free too.

To be fair, this argument applies to pretty much every major PC game released in the last three years or so, with a few notable exceptions.

Huh. Now the consoles are getting Crash To Desktops as well. The singularity must be near.

Bad business model? It's actually a good business model. The number of people Steamworks alienates is probably insignificant than using, say, GfWL, and the small fact that Steamworks is free, which is more than can be said than GfWL, SecuROM or most other DRMs. Valve recoups their losses in people buying direct from Steam, Bethesda saves money they would have spent on the DRM. Win-win, as far as they are concerned.

You don't have to pay valve a cent to play fallout: NV. Or MW2 for that matter. Or any non-valve game that uses steam. Unless you buy the game direct from Steam of course, in which Valve gets a cut. (But then and only then.)

http://www.thenexusf..._1#entry2215753 Enough said. (I really should put that link in my sig...) I maintain my opinion that people complaining about having to download the game from the web must have done something wrong, but there's the fix. Certainly, I can confirm that the retail disc does contain the game files. (i.e. It worked for me.)

(1) Excuse the language, but bulls***. Steam doesn't track keystrokes. It does detect the hardware you're using, but so does pretty much every major game these days. You have the option to send in your hardware stats if you get picked for their Hardware Surveys. (2) Steam, Settings, Interface, Uncheck "Notify me...", OK. Problem solved. (3) I suspect something's wrong at your end. 30-45 seconds is plausable, not 12 minutes. (4) Fair point, the .pdf is borked. (5) Launcher problem. Blame Bethesda and/or Obsidian. I hear there's a mod for that. (6) You'll be a console gamer by next week then, especially when you find out what Ubisoft includes in their games. http://www.thenexusforums.com/public/style_emoticons/dark/tongue.gif

No, due to all the artists listed still being under copyright. We might get away with The Slip (by Nine Inch Nails), but the rest, there's no chance. Besides, that's what the MP3 player mods are for.

No it doesn't with mods, Stop spreading false Information. I got a recent achievement with modded content, and there was absolutely no problem. With console commands however, that one is questionable. AFAIK entering a console command disables Achievements for that play session. You can re-enable achievements by closing the game and starting it up again.

If you have the disc, and Steam wants to download 7Gb+ worth of game, then read this. If it's wanting to download below 1Gb of stuff, it's more than likely the two patches that's been released already (they're probably about 400Mb or so in size together, AFAIK. Probably less, actually). Trust me, you want them.

Easiest way would probably be using this mod.