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Ha ha, thanks :P
But I want to take break from playing, so when I will beat games from Kratos1 reply I will have small vacation from steam :D
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I have some hopes for the Mystery Item - hopefully some real Summer Event that will make use of Event Cards bringing their price up instead down to like 5 cents even before the sale.
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What support do you expect? Just "!play appid" and voilà.
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I hope "playing" those event games like that, doesn't get me in trouble, like getting a VAC ban or something? It sure feels like cheating. But then again, I really don't want to download and install all those games on my secondary account. Also, do you happen to know how to send those ASF commands to my main account (sending them via steamchat to the other account configured as "bot", works well, but I can hardly chat with myself)?
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!play [bot instance] [appID]If you haven't setup your main account in ASF, then start with that. For example, I've named my main account "Main" and my alt "AltDragon" - If I want to send a command to my own account, I do !play Main 34900 and for my alt account, I simply replace "Main" with "AltDragon".
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i tried so hard but still haven't figured out yet, where to enter the commands?
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Either using 2 account and talking to one another using steam chat, or make private steam group to talk to yourself having only 1 account. Check my other post here ⬆️ or ⬇️
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I certainly won't explain in details how ASF works, there's a wiki for that. :P
You send these messages to your bot instances on Steam. Just follow the step-by-step instructions from the wiki, and read up on the commands.
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Works like a charm, thanks. I also had to set "ShutdownOnFarmingFinished: false", in order prevent ASF from disconnecting my main account again, as there's no cards to farm. Still wondering if this isn't considered cheating, but it it sure comes in handy, as I recently had to replace my harddrive and I consequently don't have many games installed.
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To chat with yourself you have to create private steam group, then configure your bot .json - https://github.com/JustArchi/ArchiSteamFarm/wiki/Configuration#bot-config - SteamMasterClanID, SteamUserPermissions and SteamOwnerID are important. Then just start ASF, enter your grop chat and use commands talking to yourself.
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Nope, but it was a key for the Divinity Dragon Commander beta. I'm downloading it now (12gb for a dead beta, worth it), will report back if it actually gives me the badge.
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interesting, what if you remove it, will it take the next in the row? ^^
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...download the first thing on this page ...
Nov 16, 2004 Half-Life 2 Retail Standard
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Gasp! You beat me by 2 and a half whole years! :D
11 Apr, 2007 Half-Life 2 Game of the Year
These younglings, they have no idea how easy it is these days! In our time, we had to defragment our drives by hand!
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download the first thing on this page ...
27 Mar, 2004 Half-Life Platinum Pack
Maybe the USA got Half-Life 2 a few days sooner or I activated it a few days later. ;D
18 Nov, 2004 Half-Life 2 Retail Standard
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Wow your account is old. Mine is 20 Dec, 2012 Dota 2 - Gift
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lol the game steam told me to play is actually the 5th one on that list
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Nope, but it was a key for the Divinity Dragon Commander beta. I'm downloading it now (12gb for a dead beta, worth it), will report back if it actually gives me the badge.
I can confirm it works properly for removed games, as well.
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mine is metro 2033 O.O really? that's the first thing I ever added? I am actually surprised
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This looks good!
Surprisingly nice change to steam, and encourages more clearing of backlogs :')
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Not really... the most will use a idle Prog/Script to let it look as they played anything.
As long as this is possible i can only say "good thinked, bad made"^^
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I don't think it will clear any backlog, we'll just DL the game, and idle it for a second then move on :D
but I might be more of a barrel dweller than most :p
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Nice Steam event for once. I'm gonna play those games for real.
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Correct me if I'm wrong, but I believe this is the first time since the Coal Sale (2012?) that steam is trying to get people to actually play their games.
Amazing!
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Got 4 Emoticon+ 1 Mystery Item box + 1 Background so far
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same
ty for your comment this is what i was looking for
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Can you use ASF and such programs to 'play' the needed games? Don't want to dl games just to 'play' them...
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I used steam achievement manager to simulate playing and worked like a charm
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Yes, ASF works for both the Daily tasks and the Projects
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How I do that? what command?
Can you help me please?
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!play accountname gameID
for example:
!play *accountname* 255710
will start playing Cities: Skylines
!resume or !resume asf to start normal farming again.
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Hi, i try this and work, but not for the first trophy (speed clean)
any idea?
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If you don't already own the game you need to add the free weekend license for the game first. Either do this manual through steam client or look at steamdb.info for the subid use addlicense with that subid and then use play appid.
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Where do I put this command?
Edit: Nevermind . I managed to configure the group chat functionality
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The only one's ASF didn't work on for me (yet) was two of the three daily tasks: Speed Clean and Spin Cycle
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To do Speed Clean using ASF you need to add the game (license) first.
Using Dead by deadlight
!addlicense ASF 381210
!play ASF 381210
:)
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The first event after a lot of years that i am really excited. Lets clean our backlogs:)
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Interesting tasks on paper but playing 21 games in 5 days seems rather pointless to me
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I would play them normally too, but when I have to dl 1 gb+ just for 1h to then 'abandon' it. And that for several games... that's quite a task. But when you already have the games installed, I can understand this stance.
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I used to play more games at the same time, but the result was that I would almost never finish anything, so now I try to stick to 3 (so I can easily track their progress just looking at my profile).
I still want to get everything so I think I'll do a bit of both playing and cheating. But I hope there are more games eligible than what they actually show, the lists are much shorter than what they should actually be.
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Did Cities: Skyline count for the free trial game as you already own it ? Hope I can do Castle Crashers for it another day then since I wanted to play this soon.
For daily tasks at least it looks like you can't just play any game that meets the requirement. I've started a game I never played before and it didn't unlock that.
Slayaway Camp is fun though that's one of those games that I didn't finish, so I'm sure the Friday the 13th spin-off is fun as well
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Did Cities: Skyline count for the free trial game as you already own it ? Hope I can do Castle Crashers for it another day then since I wanted to play this soon.
Yes it did
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Well, already unlocked 3 inadvertently while trying to cheat on the free trial one since I'm not interested in that, launching Aviary Attorney that I already finished recently unlocked game bought in last 6 months, game recommended by a friend and game recommended by a curator.
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It's mostly "download and install", rather than play, which mostly just makes me wonder just how much internet speed and harddrive space they think we all have. -.-
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That's a bit off-topic to my comment. :P
I was saying, they were asking us to download a significant number of games, and simply load them up, rather than basing it off of actual playtime on a smaller number of games. Either method can be circumvented via 3rd-party software, so that's completely irrelevant. The point is that Valve seems less interested in getting us to play games, and more in getting us to download and install them.
Given that a "playing" approach is not only thematically better, but less demanding on those with limited internet speed, bandwidth, or HD space, it comes across a bit awkward. If we related it to your point, it seems to be encouraging 3rd-party software use more than a play-based approach would.
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Cant complete the speed clean trophy because both recommended game (city skylines and dead by daylight) requires at least 64 bit windows7 while my pc is only 32 bit. Kinda sucks, but other than that, this whole even isnt so bad
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High chance if you install the game and start it, even before the game really starts it already counts for Steam.
For me I did Cities because it's much smaller and it counted right after I clicked Play and it didn't even show up on my screen yet ^^
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Steam doesnt even let me download it, its toss me out in the store page that i do not own the required hardware
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Serious? never knew it would work like that, that sucks!
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It doesn't count. I had one game download 0 bytes (empty/broken depot), when pressing Play I got "missing executable" and it wasn't counted.
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No, it only counts if Steam can actually start the game up, if it gives an error before it can even launch it doesn't work, but lets say you click Play even though the game can't work for you but it still tries to start the game without an error right away, that might work.
It was just a guess because I never had that problem.
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As above, use ASF or the little prog that comes with IdleMaster.
E.g. I just did this: steam-idle.exe 255710 for Cities: Skylines
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Steam idle just stop working when im starting it, guess i have no cure for my problem.
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Did you run it from the command prompt or just double-click the icon?
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My problem is solved, but thank you for the help, it might be useful for others :)
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how did u solve this? i still can't get speed clean trophy.
i fix the problem, you must click play in the steam client and wait until the game try to install and then it will work.
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Try the one from here:
https://github.com/JonasNilson/idle_master_extended/releases
Im using this one with this bat file below: Here's how to idle a SPECIFIC GAME through Idle Master
works perfectly.. :)
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you are a lifesaver, I really don't want to download all those games just to open them once.
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we have this event so you can play games!
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salut, how to idle games?
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This event makes me feel old(just turned 30). First game I bought was Counterstrike........back in 2005. I was still in high school :(
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So... ehm... for how long do we have to play them? Does anybody know that (yet). Because although I like the idea... I HAVE GAMES TO PLAY! NO TIME TO DILLYDALLY! ;) panicing running around trying not to panic more
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Starting the game up is enough for Steam to accept it!
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My problem is that I don't like to mess up my BLAEO Games played this month page. :(
Not sure what to do.
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Had to look up "tipex." *blush* We call it Whiteout, although apparently that's just a brand name for the generic term, "correction fluid."
And I wish I could to that BLAEO page!
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Take a can full of white colour. Use can of white colour on monitor. Look at monitor with white colour.
\o/
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Yes, I have to imagine the Steam download servers are taking a beating...
I'm pretty sure my first game added to Steam is still installed (or at least one of them is).
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Not participate? Conquer the mass pressure and the fear of missing out? The badge should disappear eventually if it does not reach level 1, so you can forget about the event after a while.
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so you can forget about the event after a while.
Or at least, you'll try and forget.
But more and more as time goes on, you'll find yourself waking in cold sweats, thinking of what you missed out on.
It'll slowly creep into your daily life, leaving every moment one of anxiety and depression.
You'll become bitter and withdrawn, seeking solace in substance abuse.
Slowly, you realize there's only one solution- Kill Gabe Newell.
Well, that or dedicate yourself to building a functional time-machine-
But let's focus on less absurd contemplations.
But wait! There's an alternative consideration.
Take out all your stress, without the mess!
Steam Sale Rage: The Gabe Newell Murder Simulator: Releasing on Steam April 1st, 2019
#StillBetterThanAverageForASteamRelease
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Well, it looks like it's pretty easy to get the Level 1 badge. I might even be able to get it without doing anything I wouldn't have otherwise done. I seldom try to achieve more than Level 1 of these events.
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5/18 tasks complete.... aw man, that's so many tasks to do.
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Mine was Brawlhalla, didn't even remember it was :)
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Interesting that "purchased" actually just means added to your account. Overall I have a nice selection, though my first game is Emily is Away which I'd have no reason to ever start again. At least it's a small game that'll download quickly.
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The first game on my account was Portal 2. Couldn't ask for a better game to go back and play for the event.
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I'm guessing you're not the only one in that situation. Portal, Portal 2, Half-Life, etc. probably lead the pack. Not me, though.
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Half-Life 2 was my first Steam key, which I guess will be a common situation.
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This seems nice but it really came at an awkward moment, I won't have much free time this weekend and I just started a game I was planning to spend that little free time with :/
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No worries. The choices are rather big and you just need to start it for a few sec to earn the badges.
More troublesome is to get back to the games you already got sucked into. That in deed might cause some trouble :P
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Yeah, figured that out. I've already got 4 easy trophies (got 2 from my most played game, that seemed counterintuitive), I guess I'll get the other 2 later today.
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Go here, do your tasks, earn trophies.
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