Deus Ex: Human Revolution Director's Cut is $4 right now.
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Buy this game. Buy. This. Game.
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Buy this game. Buy. This. Game.
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Nope, not unless you're using the ion engine. Otherwise, you have to sit through every painful minute.
Answered in dedicated Kerbal Space Program thread, this forum. However, they need to warp time for all circumstances. I won't watch a 1 hour burn. That's too much realism.
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Sid Meier's StarShips and Civ: Beyond Earth are on Steam Sale now for combined $27 - which is awesome since Civ:BE is on sale for $25 and Starships on sale for $13.50 ... so you get a super discount on the bundle
It's all most over Sega Weekend- Alien Isolation on sale for $12. Sale ends on March 30th. Reportedly the best Alien game ever... This is just too scary for me...
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It's all most over Sega Weekend- Alien Isolation on sale for THB 390.54 Sale ends on March 30th. Reportedly the best Alien game ever... This is just too scary for me...
Unfortunately my external Bootcamp install has messed itself up somehow and all games ran terribly on it, like a stop motion video, so I won't be able to play Alien: Isolation.
Currently, I'm trying to game on OSX until Windows 10 hits to avoid installing Windows every quarter lol. My "gaming" Mac is the iMac 5K with m295x, surprisingly games do look crisper at 1440p in OSX compared to Windows, even if the output is still 1440p. There's some Retina magic working there. Though I guess I'll need to change a lot of settings, any chance someone would share their settings on 1440p for Cities Skylines, KSP, and Witcher 2? I used to be able to max everything in Cities Skylines under Windows, but on OSX it ran "almost" smooth. As for Witcher 2 it doesn't seem to remember my custom graphic settings.
Unfortunately my external Bootcamp install has messed itself up somehow and all games ran terribly on it, like a stop motion video, so I won't be able to play Alien: Isolation.
Currently, I'm trying to game on OSX until Windows 10 hits to avoid installing Windows every quarter lol. My "gaming" Mac is the iMac 5K with m295x, surprisingly games do look crisper at 1440p in OSX compared to Windows, even if the output is still 1440p. There's some Retina magic working there. Though I guess I'll need to change a lot of settings, any chance someone would share their settings on 1440p for Cities Skylines, KSP, and Witcher 2? I used to be able to max everything in Cities Skylines under Windows, but on OSX it ran "almost" smooth. As for Witcher 2 it doesn't seem to remember my custom graphic settings.
I'm running Windows 7. If you are having performance issues, I'm sure you know this, but I'll reinforce, instead of native, your Mac will run games faster on... Windows 7 which is inexpensive to purchase. I'm seeing it as low as $40.
I have a Windows 8.1 install, which provided even better performance particularly boot time. However as stated the install magically became sluggish overnight so I'm gaming on OSX for now, while debating whether it's worth a reinstall right now or not with Windows 10 coming.
Consider buying and installing Tuneup Utilities. It does a lot for keeping Windows clean, and has a turbo mode, which automatically (after you set it up ) runs a lean and mean Windows securing background programs.
Out of curiosity, how did you set up your external partition? I've heard of two ways, one using a Thunderbolt enclosure (expensive) and the other involving first connecting the HDD internally, installing, and then moving it over to an enclosure (a bit of a pain that limits you to 2.5" drives). Has a better way been identified?Unfortunately my external Bootcamp install has messed itself up somehow and all games ran terribly on it, like a stop motion video, so I won't be able to play Alien: Isolation.
I use VMware Fusion to install Windows 8.1 with Win2USB (had to create a EFI partition before also) on a USB 3 SSD. Well, that was quick, simple, and ran fine for about 4 months. Yes, practically most of the non-raid TB drives work, unfortunately most USB 3 drives don't work. If you can boot from it you can install on it.
Interesting, thanks for that. I don't have USB3 but may give it a shot with Parallels and a Firewire drive...
Anyone playing Ark:Survival Evolved? It's on Steam.
Sandbox, builder, Dino hunting/taming game. I saw some negative reviews from players they spent 20hours building a base just to log in later to find it trashed by other players. I heard that you can run your own server by invite and just wondering if any of you have experience with this? PVP vs PVE, server stability, hosting your own server, which is supposedly possible. It looks impressive. Thanks!
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Update: (June 2015) I found this review on YouTube. It's vulgar and hilarious. The high points- amazing potential and it should have never been released in its current optimization state.
Sandbox, builder, Dino hunting/taming game. I saw some negative reviews from players they spent 20hours building a base just to log in later to find it trashed by other players. I heard that you can run your own server by invite and just wondering if any of you have experience with this? PVP vs PVE, server stability, hosting your own server, which is supposedly possible. It looks impressive. Thanks!
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Finished this game a few months ago. Highly recommended. Engaging story and the gameplay is left up to you (talk your way out, fight, stealth, etc.). I'm looking forward to the next one.
Is there a Steam group for this forum? If not we should set one up so we can easily play add each other and have some epic co-op fun and/or frag fests
MacRumors Users- 550 members. For those not familiar, log into Steam, click on your user name, in the list pick out "groups", go there and search for... click on join.
Too bad Battlenet does not have a group structure... Does it? I've not noticed it, just friends you've designated.
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During a Midweek sale, I took a chance and purchased Anno 2070, I believe a Sim City type game on sale $10, for the next 37 hours. Anyone play(ed) this? Tell me something good! It was claimed it was award winning!
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I will, it's great, the best sandbox game I've ever played!
ARK:Survival Evolved anyone? I want someone to tell me how good this game is.
I will, it's great, the best sandbox game I've ever played!
I love the Anno games, but didn't grab this one when it launched and have still not bought it. I have heard really good things from fans of the series, and still have it on my wish list ...
I love the Anno games, but didn't grab this one when it launched and have still not bought it. I have heard really good things from fans of the series, and still have it on my wish list ...
Thanks! I really like the variations in terrain. Some of those buildings look fantastic. I wonder if you have any control designing them or they just come out of the box premade? There are choices to make an eco or an industrial city. Naturally I would do an Eco city. The irony is that the high rise, highly compacted, but IMO undesirable sardine build is more efficient, with a smaller footprint, but not as pleasant, but actually more environmentally friendly versus a large sprawling city with suburbs.
Anyone know if Steam Cloud, ie all your Steam games now automatically save to the cloud? I assume games still save locally when Steam Cloud is active. Thanks!
Regarding games found on Steam, I'm currently playing
ARK: Survival Evolved- Sandbox, big thumbs up and MAC version!
Subnautica- Sandbox, big thumbs up and MAC version!!
Regarding games found on Steam, I'm currently playing
ARK: Survival Evolved- Sandbox, big thumbs up and MAC version!
Subnautica- Sandbox, big thumbs up and MAC version!!
Anyone know if Steam Cloud, ie all your Steam games now automatically save to the cloud? I assume games still save locally when Steam Cloud is active. Thanks!
Regarding games found on Steam, I'm currently playing
ARK: Survival Evolved- Sandbox, big thumbs up and MAC version!
Subnautica- Sandbox, big thumbs up and MAC version!!
I think game progresses are stored in the cloud in some way or another. Not sure if all games on Steam do this though.
I purchased Skyrim 2 weeks ago, which I played on a El Cap partition. Then I installed Skyrim on my main boot volume (10.8.5), and all the "autosaves" were automatically downloaded. However, custom saves were not downloaded. That being said, I noticed games were still being saved locally on the computer as well.