Quoting: EikeUnder "deathmatch", I'd understand a game with respawning. IMHO, there's a lot less tension when you just get the death count one up instead of having lost the game immediately.

*edit*
http://www.gamerevolution.com/guides/380633-pubg-war-mode-access-deathmatch-respawns [External Link]

AFAICR Quake II had "last man standing" checkbox in deathmatch settings (back in 1997). Can't be sure but I think Quake had it as well. It's nothing new.

Quoting: JetriNo respawns, survival aspect, weapon drops.

No respawns: last man standing = permadeath. Old thing.
Weapon drops: all games have some kind of weapon drops, spawns, pickups. Nothing new here either.
Survival aspect: maybe... is it enough to define a genre, though?

Quoting: EhvisFor me personally I associate BR with a bigger scale though. I can't really see the concept working on smaller maps with only 10 people because it doesn't really allow enough time to find you stuff before you've run into everyone.

So, it's a large scale last man standing deathmatch with survival elements... I'm not convinced. I mean all games grow because they can - technical restrictions are less and less, maps are getting bigger, servers and links can handle more and more real-time players with tolerable ping, anti-lag prediction algorithms and tricks are getting better and smarter. And survival aspects + large scale + PvP is what crafting MMOs are all about so it's not "new" per se. IDK about you but I think I got pulled by a PR mumbo jumbo and an artificial hype created around PUBG for a while and now I'm getting my senses back. Is it a successful marketing campaign? Yes. New genre? IMO not enough.

View this comment - View article - View full comments

Okay, somebody has to explain why we call deathmatch a battle royale now. What's so different about it to constitute a whole new genre??

View this comment - View article - View full comments

Quoting: Comandante ÑoñardoWith no one who can check all the market info that Valve release to the public, We can not know if They are telling the truth or if They are lying...

Nothing changed then because we couldn't know before either.

View this comment - View article - View full comments

Quoting: liamdaweStrange, I don't remember having issues with it, but there's the possibility I'm remembering wrong it has been a while. At least now I shouldn't need to do anything :)

Steam OpenID doesn't give access to anything but Steam 64bit user ID (numeric). It authorizes the session, i.e. it says this connection to your website is a Steam user number 1234123412341234, that's it. All other things, like list of games a user owns, playtime, groups, etc., are obtained by asking a different API and passing the previously mentioned user ID but only public or authorized data are being returned in the process. Applications like the ones powering SteamSpy either use these other APIs or data-mine SteamCommunity WWW (probably asking Steam to return XML instead of HTML where possible).

By "authorized data" I mean data that are accessible to a given API key. API key authorization works exactly the same as friends permissions, e.g. using your own API key you can access:

• your own (public and private) data,


• public data of your friends,


• data of your friends that are set to be accessible by friends only,


• public data of strangers.

If you'd like to pass all your data to a trusted website, you'd have to provide it with your API key (and this website would have to use it, which is cumbersome when you have many users). Steam, however, only allows you to generate one full-access API key, therefore it would be nuts to give it away.

Above said, there's a parameter in OpenID request that should let the API user to specify more permissions but I never managed to use it.

View this comment - View article - View full comments

Battle Royale is a genre!? :O
Please, don't tell me we call deathmatch a genre. :'(
What has happened to this world. :S:

View this comment - View article - View full comments

Waiting for Steam release with a penguin icon (I know it's not a penguin icon any more). And a free weekend.

View this comment - View article - View full comments

Liam, do you get partnership money if I only sub for Humble for this month and unsub immediately?

View this comment - View article - View full comments

Quoting: ErzfeindJust when I bought Superhot :P

Same here... but I still reached for first two tiers. For 5 bucks it's a steal.

View this comment - View article - View full comments

Quoting: Comandante ÑoñardoI want to know the system requirements for 4k..

A DisplayPort cable less than 2 meters. ;)

View this comment - View article - View full comments

If it comes as free update I'll play the game again. Visuals aren't important enough to make me pay money.

View this comment - View article - View full comments