Steam Community

ElysiumGX

The latest update to Steam includes the Steam Community. This allows you to share a profile, and view who's online and what they're playing, and join them, friends, groups, etc. It can be accessed as an overlay while playing games. If anyone else is playing, my ID is ElysiumGX.

Psst...this will be awesome for TF2 if you're in the beta.

Mark Dygert

Fighting urge to buy orange box... must resist...

Lee3dee

we should make a polycount community group

monster

ID: monsterBlues

Steam Servers are down currently. Can't friend anybody up just yet.

Emil Mujanovic

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ID: monsterBlues

Steam Servers are down currently. Can't friend anybody up just yet.

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HAHAHA! Why am I not surprised. Took them forever to get the Friends system to even work.

-caseyjones

Steve Schulze

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Fighting urge to buy orange box... must resist...

[/ QUOTE ]Its about $30US dollars cheaper than buying the components separately and you get HL2 and Ep1 as a bonus. Oh and Peggle Extreme. You know you want it.

James Edwards

Caved and bought it too. I want some TF2 beta action ASAP.

ID: Gwot

Polycount group anyone?

Fuse

ID: Fuse_box

tried creating a group, but i think steam is laggy... Come to think of it, I might not have a pc for a while when I move so perhaps it's better that someone else make it..

Make sure to make it a Private Group

ps: Gwot i cant seem to find you on friends

bounchfx

ID: Darkend

Richard Kain

ID: Richard Kain

I don't know how this thing is going to pan out. But what I've seen so far looks pretty good. It's simple and to-the-point.

adam

hey - your ID isn't your name on your friend list.

open steam, what's it say in the top left corner?

STEAM - xxxx

xxxx = your ID

mine is methyd_X

aesir

I'm aesur.

TheWinterLord

ID: PontusB

il add you guys when I have TF2 :P

Neo_God

ID - Neo_God though I don't do many steam games online.

Striff

I created a private Polycount group but when ever I try to invite someone it just lags out will have to try again later. I don't see any option to like put a password on it to join or anything..looks like invite only.

NeoShroomish

neoshroomish is my steam friends name thing :]

Mark Dygert

ID - mitking
But the community tab says my SteamID is Vig (but I think this is an alias and should work too)

TheWinterLord

Striff Try sending invites again as soon as possible :P I added everyone here so far, if I see you in css or any other game i have on steam il join you. TF2 ftw
quite a few added me before i got a chance to add them :P

Richard Kain

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ID - Neo_God though I don't do many steam games online.

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Well, that's one of the nice things about this new Steam Community. It features an overlay format. So basically, it can function all the time, no matter what you're doing on your computer. If you are playing a non-Steam PC game, it will still run over that game. (I believe the default short cut to pop it up in-game is Shift+Tab) So you could pretty much use it as a messaging and voice-chat client for any and every PC game you own.

coldwolf

ID: cold_wolf

All I play anymore is Geometry Wars Who has that PC group up? Is it working?

Steam in general seems to be extremely slow and... quite frankly a waste of cpu time. I just want to play my fucking games, not wait for another app to update or startup. Arrr...

Joshua Stubbles

ID: Vassago

plays:
- CSS
- DoD:S
- Stalker
- Defcon

bearkub

go ahead and send an invite to bearkub too, please. ;D

PfhorRunner

pfhorender

Striff

Still having problems inviting people to the group....yay steam...

Ramucho

ID - Ramuchissimo

TheWinterLord

I see people seem to enjoy peggle extreme, thats some addictive stuff.
Striff keep at it, I seem to get disconnected every now and then from steam friends.

I got the orange crater, first online buy on steam, I was nervous because on 2 computers I couldnt write my name as it is on my credit card. couldnt get the acute over the E like this

Emil Mujanovic

ID: caseyjones

-caseyjones

TelekineticFrog

ID: TKFROG

Add me and I can't wait to shoot em up in TF2!

TheWinterLord

unable to find caseyjones

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hey - your ID isn't your name on your friend list.

open steam, what's it say in the top left corner?

STEAM - xxxx

xxxx = your ID

mine is methyd_X

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adam

Hey, I made a group. I know someone here said they've done so already but I was able to get this up and going no problem. 4 members in 1 minute already.

Either search for "Polycounters" or add me to your friends: methyd_x.

If that group that the other guy made actually worked I'll delete this one.

coldwolf

Rad. How do I join the group? I don't see an option for it. I'm pretty sure you're on my friends list, Adam, as... manchild? Seriously? One of my buddies from college had that nickname. I shant speak of that here...

ElysiumGX

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I see people seem to enjoy peggle extreme, thats some addictive stuff.

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You are so right.

adam

cold and ely, i've added you both

adam

9 members now, this is cool stuff.

Nilium

ID is ncower.

coldwolf

Thanks Adam! But I was referring to PC, not Threewave, tho that's cool too

Striff

Steam still being stoopid with me inviting people to the PC group.....

adam

striff, just join the one I did up. It's working fine, 14 members so far.

coldwolf - what?

TheWinterLord

I got into both striffs group and AdamBromes group :P

Striff

Thanks for making the other group Adam. Anyone know how I can delete the other one?

Seyiji

ID: Seyiji

gauss

ID gauss989.

i resisted pre-ordering the Orange Box for approximately 30 seconds, btw.

edit: Adam what's up with the invite only group? And why isn't a pic of Greentooth used for the group image?

coldwolf

30 seconds? Impressive

Adam, the only invite I got from you was to join the group "Threewave".

edit: gauss and ged, "Steam was unable to find [you]". The first id you posted worked gauss...

gauss

coldwolf: yeah i was still adding it when i posted it. it should work now, though.

TheWinterLord

hehe still doesnt work. cant find gauss or geds

Ok so anyone who is already a member of a group can invite others.

there are 9 members in polycount

and 18 members in polycounters

most I have talked to wants the polycount name so im suggesting that everyone jumps over to the polycount one now when everyone that is in it can send invites.

gauss

both polycount groups are invite-only, is there a way to get around that?

Striff

Yea I need an invite to Adam's PC group....lets use his group. I wish I could delete the one I made.

flaagan

Added a bunch of you, I'm going as flaagan, as always.

Bromenstein, sign me up for that crew!

coldwolf

I can't fucking believe I just bought the Orange Box. All I want is Ep2 and Portal, but it's actually MORE expensive to buy them individually!



...so that's why you guys are playing Peggle...

Anyway, I just invited every PCer I have on my list to the PolyCount group. I'm not in the other one, so, meh. I don't care which one we go with honestly.

Also, I'm in the chat if anyone wants to shoot the shit with me.

acc

ID: accurain (SteamID: madpixelante, for reference) Lemme in! I need people to kick my ass in TF2 next week.

Ha ha coldwolf, you're a good complement to the "ffs all I wanted was TF2" people. If only you could have split the package.

coldwolf

acc: seriously, that would've been nice. It's nice that Valve set up the whole gift thing though, that was a good idea. But by the gods of Olympus not good enough. Also, Steam couldn't find you. You sure you typed your ID correctly?