Here are my recommendations for Day 2 of the Steam Summer Sale
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Day 2 of the Steam Summer Sale has rolled on by, and with it the money from my Steam account, but its all for a good cause! I'm sure I'll get the time to play all of these games I've bought within the next decade or so.
Continuing on with the grand tradition set yesterday, here are my recommendations on which games to grab during Day 2 of the Steam Summer Sale. As before, I'm focusing on quality games with deep discounts attached to them, with the order being completely and utterly random:
Shovel Knight developers are looking for suggestions on which game to make next
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[Update]: Shovel Knight devs are working on a new 8-bit action-adventure - Mina the Hollower!
Deciding on a course of action, especially one that will consume the next two years of your life, is an impossibly difficult decision, so it shouldn't come as much of a surprise to hear that Yacht Club is looking for community suggestions on what to develop next.
Since simply asking the question in an online forum would be a disastrously terrible idea, the devs opted to instead go with a simple poll where you get to rate how excited you are about certain concepts. There's 12 concepts in total, and I'm happy to say that every single one of them is an idea well worth exploring!
Sean Bean and the latest Civilization 6 gameplay demo detail the rise of a nation
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Sean Bean, seemingly on a break from dying in every movie he stars in, has opted to a bit of voice-work for the E3 gameplay demo of Civilization 6, and the results are quite glorious, I must admit. You'll also be happy to know that he does indeed make it to the very end of the 12 minute long demo!
Silliness aside, the gameplay demo charts the rise of a nation, from its humble beginnings, all the way to its cosmic destiny. If you ever wondered what the Civilization series is all about, this video will give you a pretty clear picture of what exactly goes into creating a worldwide superpower, without any of the sleepless nights that somehow always occur in the process:
The Banner Saga 2 has been updated with a free Survival Mode
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After nearly two months of development the Survival Mode Update has arrived for The Banner Saga 2. Best of all, its completely free! Well, as long as you own the game anyway...
In Survival Mode you will need to assemble your combat team from a wide range of existing Banner Saga characters, and then pit them against 40 waves of various nasties. Most interestingly, there is perma-death in battle, so if one of your heroes dies, that's it, there's no coming back for them.
Overwatch's Jeff Kaplan has responded to the complaints surrounding the Sudden Death mode
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Overwatch's ranked mode recently entered public testing, and while the majority of its features have received nothing but praise, the Sudden Death mechanic has garnered a fair bit of negative criticism. The issue, as the community sees it, is that each Sudden Death is decided by a "coin flip", rather than through a display of superior skill. The coin flip in this case being whether the matchmaker assigns your team as the attacker or the defender during Sudden Death, mostly because the attackers have a much easier time achieving victory outside of the final capture point.
While its understandable, and expected, to see people complain about changes that seem unfair, its not very often that you see a game's director come out and tackle the complaints head on. However, that is exactly what Jeff Kaplan did, and trough a rather lengthy forum post he explained the team's decisions behind Sudden Death, what works and what doesn't, and what exactly will be changed in the future. Since the whole thing is too big to quote properly, here's a couple of the most relevant and interesting paragraphs:
Steam's big Summer Sale has arrived, here's a couple of recommendations for Day 1
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After being mercilessly teased and rumored for a couple of months now, the big Steam Summer Sale has finally arrived! And then promptly went away as millions of people pile-drove the Steam servers back into the Stone Age.
Now that the storefront has recovered and the deals display more than empty percentages, its time to dig in and see what exactly is worth grabbing today. The following games have been chosen based on their quality (in my humble opinion anyway) and the depth of their discount, with the order being pretty much completely random:
Sins of a Solar Empire: Rebellion has been expanded with the "Outlaw Sectors" DLC
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[Update]: Fourteen years later, Sins of a Solar Empire is now getting an ambitious new sequel!
Seemingly out of nowhere, Stardock has released a brand new DLC for their space-based RTS/4X hybrid Sins of a Solar Empire: Rebellion.
The Outlaw Sectors DLC brings with it a whole bunch of new maps, 11 of them in total, as well as a variety of changes to increase the volatility of sectors. Pirates have been emboldened and will now strike out against multiple players at once. Autonomous planetary militias will grown, raid nearby systems, and eventually repopulate themselves in order to force the players into action, and finally, you can now designate a planet as a smuggling hub that brings with it numerous advantages, but also a large dosage of corruption.