fyi steams nearly giving away games

madc0w · Post by **madc0w** » Sun Dec 28, 2008 9:39 pm

Add me Dernubenfrieken
We should get a group together to play left4dead of all benheckers.

Post by **bicostp** » Sun Dec 28, 2008 9:54 pm

I'm up for a Benheck TF2 or Garry's Mod event sometime next weekend.

I'll send you a group invite, Madc0w.
EDIT: Done. Check your invites!

Oh man, FlatOut and FlatOUt 2: $7.50 for both. Can't get these prices in the store.

typamc95 · Post by **typamc95** » Sun Dec 28, 2008 11:36 pm

Me, Harshboy, Longhorn, and Gamemaster_AS were playing some CS:S

Kurt_ · Post by **Kurt_** » Mon Dec 29, 2008 12:19 am

Do you all blow? If so I'll play some too. Kurtbert is the name, dying in the first 15 seconds and watching the match is the game. (I only have CS: S)

gamemasterAS · Post by **gamemasterAS** » Mon Dec 29, 2008 8:29 am

Kurt_ wrote:Do you all blow? If so I'll play some too. Kurtbert is the name, dying in the first 15 seconds and watching the match is the game. (I only have CS: S)

I'm pretty bad, have probably played the game less then 10 hours total.

Harshboy · Post by **Harshboy** » Mon Dec 29, 2008 12:08 pm

I used to be pretty decent but last night my K/D spread was like 0.20

I haven't played it in a year and was basically forced by typamc95 to get off Fallout 3 and play CS:S.

Post by **benheck** » Mon Dec 29, 2008 2:09 pm

I've added those Steam friends. Anyone else want on?

Could probably do a L4D night next week, after I get back from MAGFest.

Hopefully I don't run into any Super-Mutants out there...

-Ben

Jongamer · Post by **Jongamer** » Mon Dec 29, 2008 2:17 pm

Added everybody that posted their here.

Mine is Geek72790

DK · Post by DK » Mon Dec 29, 2008 2:24 pm

I'm duffman1990. would love to play some L4D with some proper players for once, can't stand playing with headsetless noobs

typamc95 · Post by **typamc95** » Mon Dec 29, 2008 3:24 pm

Mine is
[yas] TMlord95

DJ711 · Post by **DJ711** » Mon Dec 29, 2008 3:43 pm

Wish I had a gaming computer

Kurt_ · Post by **Kurt_** » Mon Dec 29, 2008 4:03 pm

I don't use a headset

.

And right now, I don't use a mouse either. Go IBM nub!

No but seriously, I will if I play with y'all and not just bots to kill some time.

rockem sockem forever! · Mon Dec 29, 2008 4:11 pm

add me, sevenD3F.

don't have L4D but will play TF2,Insurgency and HL2:dm.

Post by **bicostp** » Mon Dec 29, 2008 4:30 pm

Anyone who's not in the Steam group, send me an email and I'll send you an invite. Please do NOT PM me here or through Steam for invite requests. Use the email button at the bottom of this post.

DJ711 wrote:Wish I had a gaming computer

You don't need a supercomputer for a lot of these games. Some of them have been around a while (Counter-Strike came out in 2004, for example), so any PC made since then shouldn't have a problem running at one setting or another.

I've run Half-Life 2, Episode 1, Episode 2, and Audiosurf on a crappy old 1.4 ghz Pentuim III based Celeron PC with a Radeon 9250 graphics card.

My current 3.2 ghz Celeron D HTPC with a Radeon HD 2600 Pro AGP card can run the entire Orange Box, the games listed above, most fo the recent Need for Speed games, Bioshock, and even Crysis. (Yes, Crysis runs on a single-core P4 based Celeron. You just have to turn everything down to low. After that it runs at 20+ FPS.) By no means does it run everything perfectly, but on low to medium settings it can run a lot of things at a playable rate. (Not bad for a $200 DIY PC.)

My 2 ghz Turion 64 and Mobility Radeon Xpress 200m graphics equipped laptop can handle TF2 and Portal no problem. (In DirectX 8 mode with lots of crap turned down because the graphics chipset is barely a step above crayons and graph paper.) Hell, Half-Life 1 runs on a really old 500 mhz P3 Toshiba laptop we have, and it only has something like a Trident CyberBlade.

Even a $50 graphics card can tide you over if your CPU is up to snuff.

Also remember that when you buy a game on Steam, it's yours no matter what PC you use it on.

Harshboy · Post by **Harshboy** » Mon Dec 29, 2008 6:04 pm

The two biggest games people play on Steam here are Counter Strike: Source and Team Fortress 2. Left 4 Dead is played a lot now too since it came out recently, but Counter Strike: Source is probably the most played.

PS: typamc95 sucks at CS:S