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Programmer, data miner, creator of @SteamDB
Joined September 2010
Steam is working on allowing you to mark a game as private and hide it from your friends.
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CS2 premier experience so far: teammates don't talk, enemies are faceit 10s.
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It's interesting how overall weekend peaks on Steam disappeared once lockdowns started happening in March.
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I can confirmed legitimacy of these executables. get_good is a python program to sync builds, not a cheat.
Something weird just happened again, looks like CS:GO Source 2 executables going around, someone just sent me them, and it's legit.
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The CS:GO item schema API includes internal things for whatever reason, which includes such bangers like:. One-time Payment for Map 'de_anubis' (USD $150,000.00).One-time Payment for Map 'de_tuscan' (USD $150,000.00)
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TF2 currently has 150k concurrent players on Steam for the first time ever
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> Premier matchmaking is now the most popular mode in Counter-Strike, which we didn't predict. Well you did remove everything else.
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Recap of last night's CSGO Source 2 / CS2 updates. 1. Valve added a "Limited Test Build" launch option to the CS:GO app, which uses "cs2.exe" as the executable, and requires owning app 2279720 for it to show up. 2. They created another private branch "dprp", normally it's "dpr".
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🚨 CS2 added a new cvar that improves frame times when using fps_max and fixes world rendering appearing to stutter. engine_low_latency_sleep_after_client_tick true. It's off by default. Try it, did it improve things for you?. h/t @vampH7per . Image shows fps_max 200 frametimes
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Heres a leaked Deadlock (which is to be believed renamed from Neon Prime) screenshot that got posted on 4chan (I saw this screenshot before)
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Steam Deck reservations leak the reservation queue sizes. For the 512gb model so far:.US: 50k.EU: 8.4k.GB: 7k. Trying to figure out whether there are more regional pools.
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Valve is working on a feature to login into Steam by scanning a QR code with the Steam mobile app.
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There's a thread on Reddit asking about their favorite CS 1.6 maps and at least three comments mention deahtrun_temple, it's surprising to me that a map I made while I was in school was so popular.
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> Your account activity does not show that you are part of the same household as the existing members. o7 steam family sharing
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de_mirage is possibly getting an overhaul in CS2? there's de_mirage/building_appartments_01.vpk and it contains this. Do you recognize this spot?
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Seems like CS2 hardcoded the tickrate in the client binary, so even if server binary is patched (they got rid of GetTickInterval function which made this easy), it shouldn't matter. Valve should be improving stuff that is subpar, rather than bruteforcing it with 128 tick.
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Is it the game devs that don't know how to use unreal engine 5, or the engine is just unfixable with its temporal smears?. this is "epic" preset with ray tracing on and no upscaling.
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Steam Deck UI, it's basically the desktop library just reformatted a bit. There is no way to access the store at the moment.
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Valve has been working on 'game recording clips', but there's not enough details to figure out how it will work. Probably recording and sharing clips from Steam client?. And they're preparing to ship the redesigned cart to beta client users.
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Steam is still working on clip recording. It supports background recording, includes timeline markers in supported games for various events. Clips can be shared similar to screenshots, via the Steam community.
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Valve is working on a "game notes" system, which will be available in the Steam library, and on the web.
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6 months later the Steam game recording is coming to beta soon, and it's quite cool. Games can add custom markers and game states. You can configure it to continually record (add RAM option please), has easy sharing.
Valve has been working on 'game recording clips', but there's not enough details to figure out how it will work. Probably recording and sharing clips from Steam client?. And they're preparing to ship the redesigned cart to beta client users.
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What are your impressions of @CounterStrike 2 release?. CSGO is gone, no new maps or game modes were added since the last beta update. Seemingly a lot of danger zone and gungame cvars were removed, are these modes even coming?.
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I find it silly that people say creating a PSN account is equivalent to other accounts (EA, Ubisoft, Rockstar, etc), except these companies don't block over 170 countries from making an account.
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Valve is working on loyalty awards/rewards. It has a point system, and a system to add reactions to user reviews. Also includes reward items, redeeming points for badge levels, and possiblity game discounts.
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GameTracking is cool, ran by yours truly. They also added new depots to the CS:GO app in preparation for S2. 2279721 is the workshop tools dlc. Similar setup to the Dota app.
Biggest CS:GO leak on Source 2 just appeared in the latest Dota 2 update, there's A LOT, so I'll post everything in thread.
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Can anyone help getting in touch with SEGA?. Their lawyers are trying to take down Yakuza: Like a Dragon's SteamDB page claiming that we distribute the game. I took the page down because they did not reply to the first abuse report and sent a new one to our hoster.
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Valve continues working on updating profile page styling. Now there's two themes: default and cosmic.
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Talked to some map makers, Valve asks map makers to create a hidden skin so they can set up workshop revenue flow. Then Valve creates "payments" in the item schema, which ends up linked to said workshop item. Basically a hack to pay mappers as if they submitted a skin.
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New VRF (Source 2 viewer) release!. Highlights:.🗃️ Explorer that finds S2 games and workshop content.💡 Baked lighting support and paralax corrected cubemaps in map viewer.🐌 Sped up material exporting in glTF.
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Valve are working on getting the Steam store ready for the Steam Deck (they also call it a tablet mode).
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@CounterStrike I don't enjoy begging for access, but I would like to have access to CS2 to work on my tools ( and provide feedback where possible. 76561197972494985.
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Valve lawyers sent out emails to Dota 2 custom game creators asking them to stop all monetization by August 17th. This includes third-party payment methods, battle passes, susbcriptions, items, currencies, skins, etc…
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CS2 added a new server location in Amsterdam, now visible on @SteamStatus . Since I've asked CS team to add it to the status api, they've also removed north/east/etc from EU/US server names and use country/state names now.
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Computer enhance. The inferno easter egg is missing the texture, but we can see what it's supposed to display in the cubemap
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Why are you limiting verified accounts if verification was supposed to solve the bot issue?.
To address extreme levels of data scraping & system manipulation, we’ve applied the following temporary limits:. - Verified accounts are limited to reading 6000 posts/day.- Unverified accounts to 600 posts/day.- New unverified accounts to 300/day.
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Source 2 is possibly getting RTX/Raytracing support. Last Artifact Beta got "Raytracing Shader" and "RTX" strings added.
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New VRF (Source 2 viewer) release! Lots of improvements and bug fixes (along with new bugs that need to be fixed in the next release). A big new feature is decompiling maps to vmap for hammer, and models to vmdl for modeldoc. Lots of rendering improvements and bug fixes.
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Ubisoft Connect PC Client was added to Steam's default package (all accounts have access to this by default), are new Ubisoft games coming to Steam?.
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I screwed up my sleep by staying up until 5am, so I'm not doing that again today. SteamDB has been running for over 10 years for free and without ads, an invaluable tool for the hype machine. Gifts are appreciated!
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Valve is working on a "year in review" page for the winter sale. So far it indicates playtime and total sessions for the year.
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I hope they don't just release full game, it needs more work. Open beta perhaps?.
What are you doing next Wednesday?.
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Seems like Valve gonna sell 'certified refurbished' Steam Decks at a discount. 64GB - 319$.256GB - 419$.512GB - 519$
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HL: Alyx is second top selling on Steam this week. DOOM Eternal is certainly big.
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I deployed a few easy performance fixes to steamdb, please don't kill it again i'm going back to bed.
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The CS2 text message changes are very welcome, and I'm almost positive they looked at my text mod. Messages like joined team, attacked a teammate, match clinched got color tags, but they don't work because they didn't add a space in front. Screen is vanilla CS!
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You had a good thing going, @PlayStation . How is your service so shit that people in most countries can't even make an account?.
Steam is now refunding Ghost of Tsushima for people in affected countries.
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Last Steam beta introduced an important change to game downloads. With this change, it is no longer possible to download older game versions, because client asks for a code (GetManifestRequestCode) that rotates every five minutes.
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Since Valve refuses to fix performance of the "all games" page on Steam community profiles, I did it for them: All I did was hook the row building and make it build into a fragment (temporary element), and not append all the sub menu popups to body.
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Personal achievement unlocked: mentioned 50k people with @\everyone because I expected the "are you sure" confirmation window from Discord, but it just the message straight away.
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In preparation for CS2 it's a good time to call out that we have a Source 2 asset/resource viewer and decompiler. S2 is complicated and we would love to have more people to help out with development.
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Have you been getting UAC prompt every time you launched CS2? That's because it was trying to install directx, but the installer was removed. I sent an email this morning, and they fixed it
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steamdb extension now has a button to claim the daily steam sale item/sticker from discovery queue page so you don't have to hunt for it
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CS:GO team does anything — Valorant made them do it!. Steam team does anything — Epic games made them do it!.
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Besides the free armor bug this commands allows you to do, but you can also refund outside of the buyzone, after the buytime has expired. Also refunding while controlling a bot gives you the money.
There is an undocumented "sellback" command which you can use to refund all items. alias "refundall" "sellback 0;sellback 1;sellback 2;sellback 3;sellback 4;sellback 5;sellback 6;sellback 8;sellback 9;sellback 10;sellback 11;sellback 12;sellback 13;sellback 14;sellback
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A good example would be downloading games on Steam Deck directly from your PC instead of the internet. If it will read installed game on disk, that should also avoid the decryption step for each chunk.
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CS2 practice config (infinite warmup, ammo, spawn with all the nades, buy anywhere)
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Valve worked on a voxel-based game engine back when they were uncertain about Source 2. The game this was being worked on is referred interally as "A.R.T.I"
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And the fact that a community member has to run a status page (hey that's me) is just silly. Valve does not provide any status pages or updates anywhere.
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Steam Big Picture will eventually be replaced with the same UI as seen on the Steam Deck (which really, is the same React UI on desktop currently). However I wonder what they will do with store and community pages both on the Deck and in Big Picture?
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