Steam Message Board older than one year ago

I think a lot of people were pretty surprised when Surgeon Simulator 2013 made the cut for Steam Greenlight. I mean, it’s an impressive, exceedingly hilarious little production, but it emerged from the bounty-filled chest cavity of Global Game Jam. It’s amazing that something with such high production values came out of such a short development period at all, but the fact is, Surgeon Sim’s roots show. It’s a silly sideshow, but it hardly seems primed for primetime. Fortunately, Bossa’s not hanging up its gore-caked coat just because it’s sharing a practice with the likes of TF2′s Medic and, er… yeah, mostly him. New additions are on the way, so as to make this the most realistic simulation of a deranged, depth-perception-less sloth creature performing surgery ever.  Contrary to popular belief, you don’t have to be a brain surgeon to operate the break, after which you’ll find a video conclusively proving that you also don’t have to be a brain surgeon to be, well, a brain surgeon.

(more…)

The SuperVillain Studios team is proud to announce Steam Workshop support for Tower Wars! They've just launched an all new editor for creating new battle maps, characters, and mods. Steam Workshop makes it easy to share those creations and for others to find, download, and play them.

The Tower Wars Workshop launches with a new map and new character skin for just a small taste of what you can do. But why stop there? Check out this official guide to get started modding or mapping.

To celebrate, the game is 40% off for a week, including friend and team-packs to share with your friends.

Version 11

Add: Citizen jobs and groups
Add: Light items
Add: Configurable FX and music volume
Add: Fishing dock and fishing set items, used for fishing
Add: Food variety bonus
Add: "Interior" roofs
Add: Possibility to set a square area for certain actions instead of a row (IE. planting wheat, building scaffolds)
Add: New customizable priorities (move_to_caravan, build_buildings and feed_animals)
Add: Toggable 3D mouse. Useful to build things on other layers than the current one
Add: New walls and, a new wooden road item, a well and a pond
Add: Ogre, werewolf, snickers, fire head and ghoul isometric graphics
Add: New living, the Snoat! (Snow goat). It replaces the old reindeers and does
Add: Flat blocks for the wheat and all the roofs
Add: Chance to idle livings to move more than 1 cell
Add: Animated living entities even when they do not move (birds, brownie bar rider, ghosts and fire head)
Add: Enemies stats when you right click on them
Add: New damage types and resistances to weapons, armors and monsters
Change: Spanish names for the armor sets
Change: Almost all the effects but the direct ones will not notify with a message when a living receives it
Change: Military items are not displayed on the livings panel if the living have the graphic change effect (IE. Citizen turned to a pig)
Change: Townies will stop the "Move to caravan" and the "Autoequip" tasks to eat if necessary
Change: Big sieges will not stuck the citizens when search a path
Change: Menu item "Delete" by "Delete scaffolds"
Change: Dynamic pile/container configuration panel
Change: Items and livings now are shadowed if they stand in a dark cell
Change: Reduced drop percentage to heads and bones
Change: Green block and green road now needs green color instead of yellow flowers to be built
Change: Wooden block and Wooden moss block removed from the utilities type
Change: Increased the difficulty of the last dungeon
Change: Bone carver item has been removed from the bone armor prerequisites (still in the menu for save compatibility)
Change: Now you can set the maximum stock you want in the "burn items" actions
Change: Military prices increased a bit. Spider bow value reduced.
Remove: Snow birds
Fix: Empty group names no longer allowed
Fix: Mini issues/typos in the xmls
Fix: Citizens no longer will change their mining point after other citizens ends their mine tasks
Fix: Crash when a citizen decides to drop an item when he just died (over a stockpile)
Fix: Incorrect coins ammount was being displayed when loading a saved game (The issue didn't affect the real coins ammount)
Fix: Occasions when a citizen has two rooms while changing personal room owner
Fix: Tooltips in a soldier panel when the soldier list is empty
Fix: Citizens won't move locked items on certain conditions
Fix: Only 1 auto-production item was placed on the queue on some circumstances
Fix: Freeze when a wounded citizen uses a 2nd level dormitory bed
Fix: Projectiles data are loaded properly when you load a game (this avoids the "null sticks null" messages)
Fix: Equipment menus are no longer partly rendered out of the screen

Modders: New tag on the livingentities.xml. Possible values are true or false (default). Used on birds, brownie bat rider, ghosts and fire head
Modders: New tag on the items.xml. Possible values are true or false (default). Used on windows and glass walls
Modders: New tag on the items.xml. It allows a numerical value (default 0). Used on items that produce light
Modders: New , and tag on the items.xml. It allows the values FULL, HALF or NONE (default). Used on items that produce light
Modders: New tag on the actions.xml. Possible valueas are true or false (default). Used on the "burn items" actions. This way the stock number acts as a maximum
Modders: Property "COLOR" removed from the graphics.ini

Dungeon-Party is Free to Play and Now Available on Steam!

Dungeon Party is a free online game that is played in teams. You are plunged into a totally crazy, heroic-fantasy world, where you compete in teams of heroes in dungeons full of deadly traps and awesome monsters to win the treasures they are trying so hard to hide.

In Dungeon Party, you create your character and customize him using a vast range of different outfits and items. From the enthusiastic wizard to the wise-guy thief, via the executioner who ain't exactly a sweet old grandma, anything goes! Each player equips his character with various objects and weapons before sending him into battle against the different teams.

The Coco McFly DLC and Bionic Raelynn Skin are Now Available for Awesomenauts.

The year is 3587. Conflict spans the stars as huge robot armies are locked in an enduring stalemate. In their bid for galactic supremacy, they call upon the most powerful group of mercenaries in the universe: the Awesomenauts!

Today's Deal: Save 75% on Game of Thrones Bundle!

Look for the deals each day on the front page of Steam. Or follow us on twitter or Facebook for instant notifications wherever you are!

The strange and sordid saga of Xi3′s Steambox/apparently not a Steambox/grapefruit of the fuuuuuuuuture slogs on. You’ll remember that Valve publicly denounced the little-PC-that-could (cost $1000) yesterday, which came as a strange turn of events after it was first announced with an investment from the very same Steam-powered empire. Right hand, meet left? Or maybe this was all an evil plot hatched by none other than Nega-Newell, who’s spent the past couple years masquerading as the real deal and making a series of baffling decisions. It sounds just as plausible as anything else, I think, given that Xi3′s now revealed that the rabbit hole runs even deeper. Apparently, it was actually Valve who commissioned them to make the damn thing in the first place.

(more…)

Update Notes - March 12th

NEW FEATURES:
-Rain comes during the summer to ruin your fires and dampen your spirits. Watch out for lightning strikes!
-Sandbox custom mode sliders are all unlocked. You can make the game really, really hard now.
-Pathfinding works over long distances.
-Day length changes throughout seasons
-Modders can now bring up an interactive lua console with the ~ key

ADVENTURE MODE:
-Put in very rough sketches of the actual adventure levels. Its very rough at this point, and the story bits are missing, but the basic structure is in place.
-Added lots of little setpieces using new objects that try to impede your progress.

NEW CREATURES:
-Clockwork Knight
-Merms
-Guardian Pigs

NEW ITEMS TO BUILD:
-Drying Rack and Jerky
-Honey Poultice
-Gunpowder
-One Man Band
-Purple Gem
-Fire Staff
-Shadow Manipulator
-Rainometer
-Umbrella
-Ham Bat

NEW STUFF IN THE WORLD:
-Mushrooms (3 kinds)
-A bit of Maxwell ground is starting to creep into the world around some Teleportato parts
-Pig Torches
-Killer Bee Hives
-Variant Berry Bush
-(In)sanity obelisks that block areas when you are (in)sane
-Hound Mound
-Now two types of ponds - frog ponds and mosquito ponds
-Marble pillars
-Evil flowers and petals
-Gears
-Nitre
-Eggs
-Carpet Flooring
-Marble Tiles
-Treeguards drop special, magical wood that is used in some recipes

TUNING:
-Magical recipes have mostly been moved the Shadow Manipulator
-Icebox now require Gears to create
-Tallbirds spawn more often
-Ponds freeze in the winter, and stop spawning things
-Beefalo mating season is shorter, and there are fewer babies
-Ranged weapons actually shoot projectiles
-Health and Sanity effects of foods have been reduced (you restore these by other means now)
-Monster meat perishes faster
-Blow dart causes more damage
-Graves have gems, gears, and nightmare fuel in them sometimes

BUG FIXES:
-You can kill small creatures directly in your inventory / toss them into fires
-Season onsets work better in Adventure mode
-AOE attacks cause area damage even if the targeted hit misses
-Deerclops can not be stunlocked, and doesnt panic when he is lit on fire
-Koalefants can no longer fly across water when you arent watching
-Koalefant tracks point more accurately in the correct direction
-Attempting to store a weapon in Chester no longer attacks him
-Chester follows through wormholes when using a backpack
-Right click an equipped tool with another item no longer destroys the tool
-When wilson uses up a tool, he automatically equips a replacement if one is available
-You can no longer light Beefalo (or other creatures) on fire by using a torch on them
-Mandrakes get picked up properly when using Spacebar

#piston Hardware maker Xi3 has addressed today's confusion, telling Kotaku tonight that despite Valve's statements to the contrary, Valve actually asked Xi3 to make the Piston PC. More »

Save 66% on Blood Bowl: Chaos Edition and Blood Bowl: Legendary Editionduring this week's Midweek Madness*!

Inspired by the Warhammer Fantasy world, Blood Bowl is an ultra-violent combination of strategy and sports games. The Chaos Edition features 23 playable races, including 3 that are totally new, each offering its own game style! Make a competitive team, train it and buy the best equipment. Brutal victory after victory, improve your players' skills to make them into true Blood Bowl players! This is a no holds barred bonecrunching sport! Even if tactics are your favored route, you can also choose from a large selection of incredible and vicious moves: bribe the ref, devastating spells or illegal weapons…

*Offer ends Thursday at 4PM Pacific Time

Today's Deal: Save 75% on Red Faction Collection!

Look for the deals each day on the front page of Steam. Or follow us on twitter or Facebook for instant notifications wherever you are!

Save 66% on Transformers™: Fall of Cybertron™ during this week's Midweek Madness*!

Transformers: Fall of Cybertron transports you to the final days of the planet Cybertron where you will experience the darkest hours of the apocalyptic war between the AUTOBOTS and DECEPTICONS. Embark on an adrenaline-fueled journey through a wide range of missions and massive environments designed around each characters unique abilities.

*Offer ends Thursday at 4PM Pacific Time

Year of the Snake, new content for Sleeping Dogs, is now available on Steam!

It is the eve of Chinese New Year, and Cultists have emerged to cleanse the city of Hong Kong so that they will earn their salvation after what they believe will be the end of the world. Earn back your honor in the HKPD by sabotaging the cultist plot across six new missions set after the original Sleeping Dogs story.

The Onslaught Packs, three new content packs for Blacklight: Retribution, are now available on Steam!

The Bronze Pack will unlock everything that has been released in the past year for the game for 7 Full Days
The Silver Pack contains permanent versions of all receivers, gear, and tactical gear.
While the Gold Pack will grant permanent access to every item you could want in Blacklight: Retribution. It contains all receivers, attachments, gear, tactical gear, depot items, armor, heroes, and camo that were released in the last year of the game.

These packs are only available for a limited time so act fast!

Steam has announced its latest round of weekly deals, with physics-focused platformer Rochard dropping to $2.49, along with Jet Set Radio. Left 4 Dead 2 and Arcania are both available for $4.99, and the Emperor Special Edition of Endless Space (which includes the soundtrack and a number of other in-game goodies) is $17.49.

All of these deals last through March 18 at 10am PST, so you've got one week to look under as many couch cushions as possible for the right amount of pocket change. And why stop at your own couch?

If you don’t watch the trailer for 4X Action-Strategy game StarDrive and immediately go 1) “HOLY BALLS SPACEBEARS” 2) “JINKIES! That captain-type man smoking a pipe looks jolly good wot wot” or 3) “I really want to make my own little ship to laser people with” then you are probably not me. But don’t worry! I hear that if you do like the look of this space shenanigan you can preorder it on Steam now and get immediate access to the Beta along with a 15% discount on it at the same time. I can bearly contain myself. Have a look:

(more…)

Save up to 75% on this week's Week Long Deals on Steam, available now until March 18th at 10AM Pacific time!

Today's Deal: Save 66% on Galaxy on Fire 2™ Full HD!

Look for the deals each day on the front page of Steam. Or follow us on twitter or Facebook for instant notifications wherever you are!

VIRTUAL AWAKENING (1.0.65)
CHANGES AND ADDITIONS
- Add-On introduction and illustration
- Victory warnings alert messages
- Improved blockade effects: now activated on guard and invasion only
- New scrapping button for unnecessary improvements on the Empire view
- Tax rate tooltip in the Empire view
- Reworked game speed effects:
+ Outpost are converted into colony in 15 turns (fast), 30 turns (normal), 45 turns (slow)
+ Ownership progresses 2x faster in fast and 2x slower in slow
+ Bushido, revenge and other traits linked to a turn limit are now bind to the game speed
+ Locus point limit is now affected by the game speed
+ Invasion progress is multiplied by 2 in fast and divided by 2 in slow
+ Max Invasion Limit is now 50% in fast and 12% in slow

FREE WEEKEND REWARDS
- 4 new heroes with their own biography and illustration
+ Pirate
+ Deuyivan
+ Automaton
+ Virtual Endless
- 1 new Technology
+ Gas Giant Transformation
- 2 new Buildings
+ Deep Space Facility (G2G)
+ High Energy Array
- 3 new Planet Anomalies
+ Hostile Dust
+ Endless Trouble
+ Humeris Insidentes
- 4 new random events including stackable/escalating game events
+ Mad Scientist (G2G)
+ New Religion (G2G)
+ Sleeping War machines (G2G)
+ Endless Facility
- 6 new Exploration Rewards
+ Pool of heroes is refreshed (G2G) reset or replaced
+ Unveil surrounding systems
+ Boost industry or approval (4 rewards)

AI IMPROVEMENTS
- Option to allow AI governors to auto-scrap buildings
- Enhanced hero management
- Better affinity and faction traits management

FIXES
- Fixed an issue with hero commander class skill tree that could lead to misunderstanding
- Fixed an issue with hero pilot class skill tree that could lead to misunderstanding
- Changed influence calculation to fix the bad value of the income applied during the first turn

1.0.61
FIXES
- Fixed an issue where the list of available heroes could be empty at the beginning of a game (after creating games many times without restarting Endless space)
- Fixed a potential desync occurring when a player just destroyed a pirate fleet which was blockading a system.

Today's Deal: Save 75% on Sleeping Dogs!

Look for the deals each day on the front page of Steam. Or follow us on twitter or Facebook for instant notifications wherever you are!

Every new Indie Royale bundle comes with a theme. This time around, the six-game Debut Bundle features four "new games or versions debuting on PC," while two are the first games from their respective developers.

Available now, the Debut Bundle includes episode one of Cognition: An Erica Reed Thriller by Phoenix Online Studios, McDROID by Elefantopia; DarkWave Games' Master of Alchemy: Rise of the Mechanologists, CloudPhobia by Marsbound, Wimp: Who Stole My Pants? from FlexileStudio and 6180 the Moon from Turtle Cream and PokPoong Games.

All six games can be purchased for the pay-the-minimum price, which started at $3.99, through Friday, March 15. Players that pick up the bundle for $8 will also receive the chiptune album Motorway by Fearofdark.

#piston Xi3's Piston—the first unofficial Steam Box console—will launch this holiday at a starting price of $1,000, the hardware manufacturer announced today. More »

Today's Deal: Save 66% on STAR WARS: Knights of the Old Republic™ II!

Look for the deals each day on the front page of Steam. Or follow us on twitter or Facebook for instant notifications wherever you are!

Pre-Purchase StarDrive and receive immediate access to the StarDrive beta on Steam and 15% off!*

StarDrive sets a new benchmark for the 4X Space Strategy genre. Starting with a single planet and a small number of space-worthy vessels, you must venture forth into the galaxy, conquer new worlds, build new colonies and defend your very existence against those who would take what is yours. How you play is your decision. Use diplomacy or brute force. Trade, spy and research your way to galactic domination. Make friends, or create mortal enemies…

The heart of StarDrive is its ship design and combat engine.

StarDrive takes a modular approach to ship design, allowing the player to create custom ships where the composition and placement of ship modules really matters to the performance of a ship.. In combat, if your portside armour is taking a beating, then rotate around and show them the starboard side! Hide behind a friendly capital ships shields; warp into and out of the fray, launch fighters, lay mines, and so much more.

*Offer ends April 19th at 10AM Pacific Time.

Valve has had to deactivate 1,341 Steam keys for Natural Selection 2, a result of a scam that saw developer Unknown Worlds Entertainment out a total of $30,000. These 1,341 keys were purchased through the developer using stolen credit cards. The real credit card owners made chargeback claims on the fraudulent charges, and as a result the developer never received its money and was instead hit with the $30,000 fee to recoup the stolen funds.

Essentially someone "purchased" keys through Unknown Worlds, sold them to third parties at a discount, then when the original credit card holders emerged and disputed the initial charge to Unknown Worlds, the thief pocketed the cash and made off into the night. As a result, Unknown Worlds has temporarily closed its store, meaning the only eligible place to purchase Natural Selection 2 is through Steam at the moment.

As of today, anyone who purchased those illegitimate keys will find their game deactivated. Unknown Worlds suggests contacting the site you purchased the key from for a full refund - good luck with that!

Sword of the Stars: The Pit is Now Available on Steam and is 10% off!

Sword of the Stars: The Pit is a fun, fast, light-hearted turn-based RPG, where the tradition of Rogue and other old school dungeon-diving games meets the sci-fi Sword of the Stars universe, where the question to ask isn't "Did you make it to the end?" so much as "How far did you make it before the monsters got you?"

Be brave, press on for the sake of your planet, and when all else fails, go out in a blaze of glory!

*Offer ends March 15th at 10AM Pacific Time

Pre-load Sniper Ghost Warrior 2 now and be ready to play when it releases!

Plus, all Steam Pre-Purchasers receive a free copy of Sniper Ghost Warrior Gold Edition, and the exclusive MK 14 EBR Rifle! Already own Sniper Ghost Warrior Gold Edition? Gift it to a friend.

Check out the game page for more details.

#brothersataleoftwosons I've been waiting to see more of the world of Brothers: A Tale of Two Sons. The downloadable game looks so different than most of the games that Starbreeze has put out and seems to be an eye-catching mix of exploration and co-operative puzzle-solving. The twist, though, is that you'll need to co-operate with yourself. Specifically, each thumbstick on a gamepad will control one of the game's siblings. More »

Euro Truck Simulator is Now Available on Steam and is 20% off until March 15th at 10AM PST.

The original Euro Truck Simulator - the game which has become the classic of the genre and is still relevant today. The first truck simulation game in a European setting, with European long haul trucks!

Drive freight from London to Rome to Berlin to Madrid to Prague - and many more cities - in realistic vehicles. Faithful reproduction of driving trucks on the European road. Pick up a variety of cargoes, and deliver them on time! Highly realistic, meticulously detailed models based on real trucks. Actual working instruments such as flashing indicators, temperature and low fuel warning lights, wipers, and a full set of gauges. Pan the camera around the cabin, just as if you were actually sitting at the wheel.

The entire Tropico Franchise is 75% off until March 15th at 10AM PST!