Well the DLC for Dragon Age has been a bit hit or miss, with the most recent ones being non-essential to the main games story line, let alone the addon pack. For they either occur before as in Leliana's Song or after (Witch Hunt, Golems of Amgarrak). Actually I think Witch Hunt is something peeps probably wish was apart of Awakening, even with it being the epilogue & link to Dragon Age 2. They were also very short.
Then we've Mass Effect 2 where to some the DLC was "Joy, content that missed the shipping date", "Heh! not more guns", "What! More clothes for Jack!?!" or "Oh noes Mako mish!" up till: Lair of the Shadow Broker. Which unlike what everyone's expectations is a in-main-storyline addition, not a "Oh, you've screwed over the Collectors & the Reapers, for now! Game Over!....oh have some more story" thing. I'm liking the Shadow Broker's base, it randomly gets sent stuff (minerals, upgrades, credits). Then there's the video archive system, it's an in-game youtube, probably has a limited number of clips they can use.
I must finish ME2 someday soon, I've still yet to travel through the Omega 4 relay, in any playthrough.
--Rod.H
I'm very hesitant to buy any DLC for ME2 given that the free stuff fails to find my Steam install.
I didn't have the same problem with the DLC for ME1, so I know that it's possible for them to do this correctly. But they seemed to have done a real slip-shod job with the pc-dlc :/
If anyone has heard of them getting this right, I'll be happy to give it another go and try again, but my faith isn't very strong with them.
-Terry
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"so listen up boy, or pornography starring your mother will be the second worst thing to happen to you today"
TF2: Spy
I picked up all the ME2 DLC through the internal downloader, and worked fine.
I have not had any issues installing the DLC with a steam-install of ME2. I haven't tried to mess with steam on Linux, but for Win7 I just grab it off of the Bioware Social Network "Your Registered Game Promotions" page ( purchased through
http://social.bioware.com/page/me2-dlc ) , fire up the installer, and okay the admin-confirm. It goes fine.
You might want to check your files and/or registry keys or something. What particular packs are having issues?
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The Master said: "It is all in vain! I have never yet seen a man who can perceive his own faults and bring the charge home against himself."
>Analects: Book V, Chaper XXVI
I've noticed with many Steam games that, if you've moved your Steam games folder somewhere besides the default install location, many patchers don't have the brains to find it. It's not a Steam problem per se, it's the developers not following basic coding principles. Did you install somewhere other than the default, or move it?
Regardless, I've managed to get all patches working by manually installing them and pointing them at the right location. And the Steam forums are surprisingly helpful in this regard, generally.
--sofaspud
--"Listening to your kid is the audio equivalent of a Salvador Dali painting, Spud." --OpMegs
Ya I have it in a non standard location (different disk) I'll have to look at the internal installer. Is that what the Cerberus network thingy is?
-Terry
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"so listen up boy, or pornography starring your mother will be the second worst thing to happen to you today"
TF2: Spy
Bingo, that's the one.
--sofaspud
--"Listening to your kid is the audio equivalent of a Salvador Dali painting, Spud." --OpMegs
I have just tried to use the in game system (Cerberus network) and all I could get it to do was kick me to a web page.
I have managed to download the 5 free dlc packs, but when I try to manually install them nothing happens
The only things the forums have said is "get access to a pc with steam installed in a standard location, install the dlc there, export the game. And then import to your computer". And that is not something I am going to jump through hoops to do.
perhaps if I move the steam install onto my main system disk into the default location it might find it...
Could someone who is running win7 and has steam installed in the default location be kind enough to tell me the default install location?
-Terry
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"so listen up boy, or pornography starring your mother will be the second worst thing to happen to you today"
TF2: Spy
For 64-bit:
C
rogram Files (x86)SteamsteamappscommonMass Effect 2BioGameDLC
(The default for Steam is all just C
rogram Files (x86)Steam, if that's what you want)
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The Master said: "It is all in vain! I have never yet seen a man who can perceive his own faults and bring the charge home against himself."
>Analects: Book V, Chaper XXVI
thanks, I'll give it a shot later tonight
-Terry
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"so listen up boy, or pornography starring your mother will be the second worst thing to happen to you today"
TF2: Spy
Um, yeah. The internal downloader pretty much only works that way for the console version, PC fires you off to Bioware's ME2 downloads webpage and you've got to do it all manually. Which I've not had too much trouble with, aside from the installer exclaiming that it may not have run properly can it try again with admin.
Then again, I'm not using the Steam release either. Oh no I'm playing it both on the PC (retail box) & Xbox360 (Collectors ed). Why play on both, to increase me Gamerscore with some "easy" to get achievements. Still have to finish a play through of the original on the Xbox, but boy did Demiurge improve that UI for the PC port.
alright, thanks Sofa and Ankh.
It took me far too long to move the 70+ gigs of steam onto the system drive.
But It's now working (or at least installing) now.
I'm still feeling some rage at the programmers for tossing up a dialog box that says 'hi, we can't find your steam folder. please specify it here...'
-Terry
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"so listen up boy, or pornography starring your mother will be the second worst thing to happen to you today"
TF2: Spy