Counter-Strike 2 - contact@rockpapershotgun.com (Alec Meer)

Like a man dancing to Belle & Sebastian, last week’s best-selling Steam games saw some shaking at the top but not a lot of movement below. IS YOUR FAVOURITE GAME HERE AND WHAT DOES IT SAY ABOUT YOU AS A PERSON IF IT’S NOT? … [visit site to read more]

The Witness - contact@rockpapershotgun.com (RPS)

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Counter-Strike 2 - contact@rockpapershotgun.com (Alec Meer)

It’s yer regular round-up of what shifted the most copies on Steam over the previous week. Last week, Total Warhammer was dark master of all it surveyed, but a bug-eyed old friend has displaced it after just one week…

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Stellaris - contact@rockpapershotgun.com (Graham Smith)

Alice is still on holiday, not back till Monday, which means it falls to me to do the terrible duty this week of asking and telling: what are we all playing this weekend? Read on for the optimistic lies we tell ourselves.

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Total War: WARHAMMER - contact@rockpapershotgun.com (Adam Smith)

Raze, sack, slaughter, burn, maraud. The life of a Total War: Warhammer [official site] Chaos Warrior is simple, with few diplomatic interruptions and little in the way of urban planning. There are buildings to construct, but they’re part of the caravan of carnage that makes up your nomadic horde, and when you lay waste to a settlement, occupation isn’t on the cards. The Old World map becomes a chain of battles and the core of any Chaos strategy is to build and maintain forward momentum as you carve your way through the factions.

Playing as Chaos, the game really is Total War, with no distractions. I’ve spent some time campaigning with Khorne and co to figure out if this barebones approach to the game is effective.

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Stellaris - contact@rockpapershotgun.com (Adam Smith)

We’re not even at the halfway point and 2016 is already one of the best years for PC gaming that I can remember. XCOM 2 and Darkest Dungeon already seem like distant memories, and this month alone we’ve had Kathy Rain, Stellaris, DOOM, Salt and Sanctuary, Overwatch and Total War: Warhammer. Today there’s another Hitman episode incoming and after the joy of Sapienza, I can’t wait to get stuck into Marrakesh. I’ve been starved of games for half of the month thanks to holidays and press trips so I’ve undoubtedly missed some splendid releases, so I put it to you, dear readers: what was May’s best game?

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Counter-Strike 2 - contact@rockpapershotgun.com (Alec Meer)

Here’s yer weekly top ten Steam best-sellers. That being what most tore up the charts last week. Is DOOM still king? What happens to Total Warhammer now it’s actually released? And what in the name of all that’s holy is YouTubers Life? … [visit site to read more]

Total War: WARHAMMER - contact@rockpapershotgun.com (Alice O'Connor)

Look, Warhammer 40k is more my thing. This appears to be some kind of... Space Marine recruitment planet? Presumably the Emperor's chosen descend from the skies to swipe the greatest warriors.

Total War: Warhammer [official site] developers The Creative Assembly have hurried out a little hotfix to fix those launch day problems. This is what happens when you invite orcs to your launch party: they’ll keep on coming and coming and screaming “Waaagh!” until your house is bursting at the seams and some folks end up trapped in a corner with no hope of reaching the fridge. That’s a highly technical explanation of why some folks have struggled to play Total Warhammer today. In theory, that should now be fixed. You may now fetch yourself a warbeer.

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Total War: WARHAMMER - Joey CA
We’ve had tens of thousands of people playing already, but we know some players had some early-doors issues when the game went live, due in part to a bit of unexpected server load and the way the game handles that. This was causing the game to hang too long on start-up and the multiplayer server list to become unresponsive.

We’ve just updated the Steam build with a hotfix to solve these issues, so we recommend you save your game, quit to desktop, and restart Steam to start the hotfix download. Check the entry for Total War: WARHAMMER in your Steam Library upon restarting – you should see a super-quick download happening (it’s only around 100Mb!). If this doesn’t happen of its own accord, you can force the download by right-clicking Total War: WARHAMMER in your Steam Library, and click properties->Local Files->Verify integrity of game cache.

Once you’ve got the hotfix, and if you want to play multiplayer, any games you see listed in red are being hosted by people who don’t yet have the hotfix, and you’ll be unable to join them. Look for listings with black text.

Thanks for bearing with us – and if you read this and haven’t yet fired up the game, you can ignore it all!

Happy WAAAGH! day,

-CA
Total War: WARHAMMER - Joey CA
We’ve had tens of thousands of people playing already, but we know some players had some early-doors issues when the game went live, due in part to a bit of unexpected server load and the way the game handles that. This was causing the game to hang too long on start-up and the multiplayer server list to become unresponsive.

We’ve just updated the Steam build with a hotfix to solve these issues, so we recommend you save your game, quit to desktop, and restart Steam to start the hotfix download. Check the entry for Total War: WARHAMMER in your Steam Library upon restarting – you should see a super-quick download happening (it’s only around 100Mb!). If this doesn’t happen of its own accord, you can force the download by right-clicking Total War: WARHAMMER in your Steam Library, and click properties->Local Files->Verify integrity of game cache.

Once you’ve got the hotfix, and if you want to play multiplayer, any games you see listed in red are being hosted by people who don’t yet have the hotfix, and you’ll be unable to join them. Look for listings with black text.

Thanks for bearing with us – and if you read this and haven’t yet fired up the game, you can ignore it all!

Happy WAAAGH! day,

-CA
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