There was a bug with the Steam key redemption system for Kickstarter backers that I encountered, but after emailing the help desk they got it fixed and I now have a score of mods installed for my first Steam game. :)

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Yes! I backed the original Kickstarter campaign, and while I've enjoyed playing some of the earlier alphas released to backers I find the hassle of having to manually re-download each new version a pain. (Yes, I'm lazy. :P ) I'm really looking forward to having it on Steam finally.

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Apparently the help isn't completely finished—trying to read entries on Elements, Battles, and Wars got me a little pop-up about missing text or image files and an instant crash. It's also flat-out wrong in places—the cancel key is not B, it's X.

The game itself isn't exactly my cup of tea from the half hour I've played, but that video review made it sound so compelling I'm willing to give it a go.

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Quoting: liamdaweYeah I know. It's just the usual for us, but it would still be nice if porters were able to get in early enough so that we don't see delays.

It's not exactly a long delay, which is more my point.

It doesn't matter how long the delay is, you're still losing money you could be earning by putting out a finished product. That's two more months of rent, bills, food costs, etc. that you'd need to be paying while sitting on a finished product that you could put on sale right now. For a small studio that doesn't have millions in the bank, that's a very significant consideration.

While I very much agree it'd be nice to see more development done in such a way that there are simultaneous cross-platform releases (definitely support the developers who do!), from a financial standpoint it'd be absolutely insane not to release a finished game on as many platforms as possible as soon as possible. What, exactly, would they be gaining by waiting?

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Quoting: GuestSo this DLC adds part of what XCOM:Enemy Within added, minus the genetically enhanced soldiers and other stuff that EW had. I wonder if next we'll get the enhanced soldiers, too.

I sure hope so, that was my favorite part of Enemy Within!

Every time I'd gene mod someone my brain would start concocting these stories about how on earth, after the war had been won, these veteran soldiers would integrate back into civilian life: the man who could leap three stories in a single bound. The woman who could sense other creature's electromagnetic fields. The person with two hearts, or the one able to make rage-inducing pheromones. Would these genetic modifications be passed on to their kids, or would it require additional Meld to do so? So much rich food for thought…

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I'm a bit disappointed my favorite medi gun (the Quick-Fix) got a bit of a nerf, but it's not too bad (and giving its ability to keep up with faster heal targets to all medi guns is really a net gain), and I'm incredibly excited by the fact that teleporters absolutely plummeted in cost from 125 metal to 50. That's going to change so much about the Engineer set up phase on RED.

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I just have to mention the main menu music; it is ludicrously, ridiculously happy. Like, I can't even explain. Or stop listening. I can't wait until the soundtrack is available.

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Oh, are we allowed to participate? That'd be cool. I've got EU IV and CK II, though I have about six times as much experience with the former. One possibility, like you mentioned, would be for everyone to play in the same general area of the map, and have some sort of themed challenge, like everyone play in the HRE, or everyone play in central Africa, or India, or something like that (I'm thinking of EU IV here, I don't know what something similar in CK II would be like).

I also wouldn't mind seeing a stream of Stellaris or HoI IV.

Also also, if you're thinking of going with the once-a-week-over-many-weeks thing, you might consider looking in the Paradox Multiplayer sub-forums for the game you choose. People there have a lot of little rules for dealing with situations like when one person can't make it one week (are you allowed to attack his or her computer-controlled country, or not?) that you might want to adapt as some ground rules. Just a thought.

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Is there some secret to getting Livestreamer working? I tried it today with a random Twitch.tv stream just to see if it would work and it just gives me an error, even while I'm watching that exact stream in Opera at the same time:

$ livestreamer twitch.tv/catilena1890
[cli][info] Found matching plugin twitch for URL twitch.tv/catilena1890
error: No streams found on this URL: twitch.tv/catilena1890

I tried with all the permutations of "www" and "http://" I could think of at the beggining of the URL as well, same result, and closed the stream window in case it was messing with Livestreamer. Tried it with a few different streams, still no luck. I'm just confused why it couldn't pick up the stream when the browser could just fine.

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Wow, I am currently subscribed to 41 mods, after going through the list a while back, and I still hadn't heard of Quick Soldier Info or Show More Buff Details, both of which sound good.

In the interest of mods that don't really change game balance, here are a few more I'm using:

1. Show Enemies on Mission Planning
This just replicates the information from the Shadow Chamber from the screen where you select a mission to the screen where you select and outfit your soldiers. If you're like me, you used the information to select a mission and then immediately forgot it when outfitting your soldiers. This mod will help your prepare for the enemies you'll be facing without a whole bunch of tedious screen switching.

2. More Maps Pack
3. World Expansion Project: ADVENT
4. Maps by Vozati
Several mods that add additional map plots and parcels to the map generation pool, just to spice up your locations a bit.

Mods that technically change balance a little bit:

5. Stabilize Me!
This mod lets soldiers stabilize a downed soldier who is carrying a medikit with his own medikit; i.e., no more bleeding-out deaths for your single medic while his comrades stand around looking helpless. I feel like this should be in the base game.

6. Haywire Protocol bug fix for turret control
According the ability description, Haywire Protocol is supposed to make hacked turrets remain yours forever, however, by default they only remained hacked for a few turns, just like mech units. This mod fixes that. Note that having a hacked turret remain yours indefinitely isn't as big of a game-changer as you might think: since turrets are stationary it's likely only get two or three (mostly ineffectual) shots off before your front moves past it and it can't help you any more. It does save you having to kill the thing when the hack wears off, though.

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