24 hour Steam Sale

[billygoat333]

The sale was for 5 days only, hence the "5 day 24 hour sale". Each sale price only lasted for 24 hours and they rotated the games, so different games for sale each day.

ahh didnt notice the 5 day part. makes sense.

[artoodeeto]

you know what I love about sales on Steam....they never run out of stock.

I don't suppose anyone has any idea if the Steam version of the original Dark Forces supports level mods? I have the original DOS version of the game, runs on my vista x64 system via dosbox, but it'd be nice to have it through steam instead so I can eventually dispense with dosbox. But I've saved a lot of the level mods I downloaded back in the day, and don't want to find myself unable to play them. Same goes for some of the other older games in that series (for instance, I've got the currently-6-level Dark Forces mod that a group made for Jedi Academy, but I don't know if that mod would run under the Steam version of JK Academy...)

[UnWantedSoldier]

my experience with modding games in steam that are not steam games (i.e. basically anything not made by valve or made to work with steam specifically for drm) has been pretty straight forward. all the games have a normal directory structure in you steam folder (typically they can be found under steam/steamapps/common) Just place the mods in their correct location as you would if they weren't installed via steam. I had to mod stalker shadows of Chernobyl so that i could attach the m203 to the gp37. i just followed the instructions for modding it as if it wasn't a steam game and it worked perfectly i assume the same would be true for jka but i dont know about dark forces since they will have had to modify the game to run outside of a dos environment.

[d_stilgar]

I know there isn't a sale on right now, but I thought I would recommend a few games to you guys if you haven't played some of these.

Plants vs Zombies (Easy but fun and funny)
Defense Grid (Another tower defense game, but the best I've ever played)
Hammerfight (2D sidescrolling action. You fight with your mouse. My mouse has never felt so heavy!)
Braid (Good time puzzle action. You will love it)

[artoodeeto]

my experience with modding games in steam that are not steam games (i.e. basically anything not made by valve or made to work with steam specifically for drm) has been pretty straight forward. all the games have a normal directory structure in you steam folder (typically they can be found under steam/steamapps/common) Just place the mods in their correct location as you would if they weren't installed via steam. I had to mod stalker shadows of Chernobyl so that i could attach the m203 to the gp37. i just followed the instructions for modding it as if it wasn't a steam game and it worked perfectly i assume the same would be true for jka but i dont know about dark forces since they will have had to modify the game to run outside of a dos environment.

hmm....k. Maybe I'll just buy the games on steam, and if they work with the mods great, and if not I can always hang onto the older standalone versions. I have Far Cry, and at least one mod I tried downloading for it didn't work. but I may not have stuck it inside the steam directory structure, I don't remember. Thanks for the tips though, here's hopin' it works!

[artoodeeto]

FAWW - (For Anyone Who's Wondering... I just made up my own acronym! )

I gave in to temptation and bought the Jedi Knight set on Steam, $20 for Dark Forces, JK, JK II, Mysteries of the Sith, and Jedi Academy. The user-made mods that I have for JKII and Jedi Academy all work, but not for Dark Forces. I never tried them under my old standalone DosBox install, so I'm not sure they even worked before.