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Duuvian

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Re: Free Game List
« Reply #2115 on: June 03, 2024, 03:42:04 am »

Some sort of petition to ask Valve to go after bots and possibly video game cheaters in Team Fortress 2 has emerged. I saw it on the Steam discusson forums where there is an information contest between the two sides at this time. I don't often check the TF2 discussion forums so it's a bit of a fluke I saw it on what appears to be the initial day of the campaign.

Here is a thread with a basic description:
https://steamcommunity.com/app/440/discussions/0/4339860800343270535/

EDIT2: I only chose that thread because it had what looked like a description of what was happening whle all of the others I saw did not. I didn't cliick any links or such. The anti-petition group had forewarning and were waiting, according to the discussion forum.

Here is the main forum for TF2 if you want to check out the information contest and the threads it's spawning. I recommend the anti-petition meeting room thread as it's an interesting read.

https://steamcommunity.com/app/440/discussions/

EDIT: Posted it here as the TF2 thread was last posted in 2018 and because it's a free game.
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« Reply #2116 on: June 03, 2024, 04:46:47 am »

Oh presumably they saw the lawsuit that activision won and everybody celebrates as a victory... How thick do you have to be this is terrible jurisprudence, do you actually trust crusty old judges to be able to differentiate between mod makers and cheatmakers?! I should make a service where people who believe that can be enabled to win some sidemoney with the toothfairy.


Stupid billion dollar companies too lazy to do actual computer science work, don't you worry you will get your anticheat, your denuvo, your 5 exceptions in the firewall for our superflouos launcher, and they will accomplish jack shit except spy on paying customers.... Let the lawyers handle the cheatmakers.

I allways knew mutahar is some legal andy who will wake up drenched in sweat if ever he dreams he jaywalked... But man this topic takes barely any imagination at all. You want to talk cheats? What about the fucking black ops games, first released on ps3, still being sold for 40€ while the internet tells people to stay away from the pc version because some exploit enables hackers to run arbitrary code... Oh but this is totally cool, let daddy activision get the bag from cheaters, this is how this should be handled right....
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« Reply #2117 on: June 05, 2024, 04:11:53 am »

Hey, I checked and I was right, it's still going.

I don't think the Activision thing was what it was about.

That other thing you said was like the same thing they were talking about in one of the threads on the day I noticed it. TF2 users or bots can do weird shit like spread a virus for accepting whatever the hell a special effect is that can be offered by other players... except they are bots or Manns planting a virus of some sort or something. I'm not very clear on the issue but that was the word on the discussion forums. Ironically the person warning others about the name of the bot or Mann who was doing it was warned by another user that it was naming and shaming and against steam rules.

I agree on the various anti-cheats that don't work well and if they spy on the user. The last bit is probably necessary to some reasonable degree afaik to function as an antii-cheat but monetizing all or maybe even most data is bad, old people. That's a bigger problem than even video game cheating.

I played a game for a few weeks called THE FINALS, which was like TF2 with 3 classes instead of the 9+1 secret class of TF 2. It was simply plagued by cheats when it launched, and whiile it started off with a big playerbase it suffered drop quickly, and I think it was due to the cheating issue more than anything. However, I just checked the Steam discussion forum, and I don't see any threads on cheats in the first 6 pages. The devs had acknowledged the issue and pledged to fix it, maybe I'll try it again and see if it worked.

THE FINALS is also a free game, I guess I can mention that it's on steam and in all caps. Like my old favorite Planetside 2 it seems to be cosmetic purchases that pay the bills for the most part while the game effective stuff is earnable, if I understood it correctly but I didn't doublecheck. It however does lack the scale that makes Planetside 2 unique; THE FINALS is a traditional small map small teams shooter that is far more prevalent. It has breakable terrain and has in TF2 terms a heavy who is like heavy weapons guy plus soldier, a light is like scout plus spy, and a medium who is like... uh... medic with a better gun?

It has crossplay with console so there is some aim assist in on that side, but it's optional for keyboard and mouse so I turn that off. Last time I tried the autoaim seemed quite good but I think they toned it down a bit to require fine correction. I had trouble against it unless I used a grenade launcher in a way that would make demoman proud: it was rarely used so people weren't familiar with it and because I was a demoman main back in TF2 for many long Great Recession years. I assume the built-in autoaim sucks at using the grenade launcher (probably can't bounce it or aim at feets) since I was almost the only one using it. The main cool thing in THE FINALS is the breakable terrain. you can level a medium sized building as a heavy with explosives and bring a capture point to the ground floor for example. Also the heavy has a cool gun that shoots out big foam balls that you can build a fort with, or jump up walls by making stairs. The game also seemed to be popular internationally so there was some playerbase at nighttime when I'm up. It has small teams, you do capture the flag or bounties in non-ranked and there are tournaments in ranked. I haven't played it in some months so not sure how it is now. Overall though if you don't have something else in the genre to do it's not a bad game at all, especially if the cheating is less pervasive now as the discussion forums imply from not having frequent threads about it.
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Re: Free Game List
« Reply #2118 on: June 21, 2024, 09:41:00 am »

There's a bit less than 3 days to claim for free on gog the action RPG  "Shadows : Awakening"
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Re: Free Game List
« Reply #2119 on: June 27, 2024, 05:02:37 am »

A game called “Islands of Insight” will be free for a few more hours.
One last thing. The base game is available for FREE (to keep forever!) for 24 hours – so until tomorrow, June 27 at 1pm ET. This is your sign to join other Seekers and get your puzzle-solving on.
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« Reply #2120 on: June 27, 2024, 10:14:55 am »

this week on the epic store the freebie is "Sunless Skies: Sovereign Edition" from the people that made Sunless Seas
basically galaxy express 999 in cosmic horror settings
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Re: Free Game List
« Reply #2121 on: July 03, 2024, 01:21:21 pm »

On gog you have a few days to claim for free "The First Templar - Special Edition"
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« Reply #2122 on: July 08, 2024, 09:42:11 am »

All Walls Must Fall is now free to keep on Steam.

Some review: https://www.rockpapershotgun.com/all-walls-must-fall-review
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Re: Free Game List
« Reply #2123 on: July 09, 2024, 11:13:01 pm »

Yeah it also looks like it is free on itchio as well
https://inbetweengames.itch.io/awmf/devlog/760809/all-walls-must-fall-is-now-free
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Pizza Hero
https://store.steampowered.com/app/2202770/Pizza_Hero/

According to this post the game will become paid soon. So it is only temporarily free.
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« Reply #2124 on: July 12, 2024, 11:07:55 am »

Marathon 2 is now on Steam.  Still no Marathon Infinity

https://store.steampowered.com/app/2398490/Classic_Marathon_2/
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Re: Free Game List
« Reply #2125 on: July 15, 2024, 12:46:14 pm »

temporarily free

https://store.steampowered.com/app/1486630/Intravenous/

Hey folks!

It's time for big news: Intravenous 2 finally hits Steam on August 15!

To mark the occasion, the first installment in the series, Intravenous, will be available to grab for free within 24 hours starting today, July 15 at 10 AM PT. Don't miss your chance to play or revisit a classic!
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Re: Free Game List
« Reply #2126 on: August 08, 2024, 08:48:22 am »

you have 23 hours to claim Intravenous for free on gog
it's a "hotline miami with stealth"
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« Reply #2127 on: August 15, 2024, 10:14:37 am »

On the epic store this week freebie is "Death's Gambit - Afterlife"
That's a metroidvania with soul-like mechanics.
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« Reply #2128 on: August 22, 2024, 11:34:16 am »

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« Reply #2129 on: August 23, 2024, 01:22:40 am »

More temporarily free games:

Weapon of Choice DX
https://store.steampowered.com/app/373600/Weapon_of_Choice_DX/
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Free to keep when you get it before Sep 22 @ 12:00pm. Some limitations apply. (?)

Distant Space
https://store.steampowered.com/app/569610/Distant_Space/
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Free to keep when you get it before Aug 24 @ 10:00am. Some limitations apply. (?)

Gigantic: Rampage Edition
https://store.epicgames.com/en-US/p/gigantic-rampage-edition-03f532
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Sale ends 8/29/2024 at 10:00 AM

The Callisto Protocol
https://store.epicgames.com/p/the-callisto-protocol
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