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88 months ago by
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Hello Everyone,

I guess this is the moment you have been waiting for :-)

We just uploaded beta of MW2081 onto Steam and it works perfectly.

If you own copy of MW2081 (purchased here at minerwars.com, or Desura, Gamestop, Gamersgate, or almost any other place):
- go get your Steam key from your profile page: http://www.minerwars.com/SteamKeys.aspx
- open your Steam client, go to menu, click 'Games', then 'Activate a product on Steam'
- type the key and wait until the game installs
- play Miner Wars 2081
(you will be logged under your existing MW account)

For those who didn't purchase MW2081 at minerwars.com: first you have to activate the game on minerwars.com. Enter the serial key you got from your distributor: http://www.minerwars.com/EnterSerialKey.aspx

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Today's update of the public build has a new intro footage - it introduces you to the world in MW. To see it, start a new story.

We also decreased difficulty in the first mission. I mean, now you can't even die :)

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This is still just a BETA (not official launch), so please let us know if there are ANY technical problems or if something isn't clearly described.

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Thanks

Marek

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88 months ago by
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Muahahaha Okay, will do :P

What will happen to the test builds etc?

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88 months ago by
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Test build is an independent branch... actually we also updated it yesterday.

We plan to use test build before we go to public build, so nothing changes here.

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i'm happy to hear this. Its nice to have MW2081 with the rest of my games. and best of luck to the launch.

Edit: will the demo in steam be updated to full release???

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88 months ago by
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Awesome, thank you. I hope you will add Steam Cloud and Achievements and maybe Steam Workshop for mods too. :)

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88 months ago by
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Just added MW2081 onto my Steam account. Awesome!
I'm glad you made it to Steam. You can reach many many gamers there. :-)

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88 months ago by
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Well, I guess MW2081 is working on Steam for everybody - because I haven't heard any complains...

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"Steam Cloud" should be enabled now... please let us know if you have troubles with it.

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88 months ago by
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Hmmm not sure if it is just me but I loaded up the game on steam and had a play around with it.

Great to see my save games / profile was there to begin with.

ONly problem though, I went to join another persons game, joined a few and now when I go to play single player all my progress seems to have disappeared as the only option I have is to creata a new game?

Anyone else encountered this? :(

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88 months ago by
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AussieMarkMelb,

when MW uses "steam cloud", it saves progress into a different folder than public/test build downloaded from this web site. If you don't want to loose your progress, you can copy those files manually.

I would suggest playing from the start on November 28th anyway.

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88 months ago by
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well the strange thing is my save games were there (when i loaded from steam the first time) but not anymore.

Strange how they disappeared when I ran it from steam 30 min ago and it was fine...

I'll double check things my end but yeah will wait for Nov 28 launch just wanted to let you know in case it was a bug

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88 months ago by
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It's coming.....!

http://store.steampowered.com/app/223430/

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88 months ago by
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So.. we'll have to re-download it again?

Not overly pleased about having to restart *again* though, I dislike steam for their 'wait time' for playing games but meh.

I'll just see what I can figure out till then.

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88 months ago by
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marcus you do have to redownload but your profile and save games should be there automatically :p

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88 months ago by
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PS I wrote a quick recommendation and might i recommend others to write one also

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88 months ago by
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Yay finally, one of the main reasons i've been put off trying this is because it wasn't on Steam.

If it goes on sale on steam, I bet the purchases rocket up

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88 months ago by
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how much is it on steam 19.99 or 39.99?

AS I see some sites selling it for 39.99 and i cannot view the steam price

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88 months ago by
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The price of full release is 39.99 and it will be in steam too.

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88 months ago by
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Awe-to the-some!

My friends will finally get this game! I'm looking forward to play with them!

Great job!

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Wow. I stand in the opposite crowd as the rest of the people posting here. I bought into MinerWars with the hope that it would NOT be a Steam-based game.

I have no problems with selling it on Steam, the bigger the audience, the better, but I didn't want to see the game itself tied to any specific platform.

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88 months ago by
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Dinasis,

you don't need Steam to play Miner Wars.

Public/Test build are still working (see downloads page).

Steam is just an option.

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88 months ago by
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Thank you for the clarification and the very quick response, Marek. That's encouraging to hear, but will this hold true when the game is complete and goes retail?

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It's going to be released on November 28th (next week) - and it's mostly digital (this web site, Steam, Desura, etc)

I say 'mostly digital' - because there's one exception. Here in Czech Republic and Slovak Republic - we are going to have a retail/boxed distribution too - through Playman.cz

Having worldwide retail distribution is still an open topic, nothing is set yet.

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88 months ago by
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Marek,
To be honest, I let myself fall out of the information loop and relied on the newsletter for updates. I didn't realize until this thread that release was that close. Congratulations to you and everyone at Keen Software House!

I originally purchased MinerWars from Impulse/GameStop, but I usually log in here and go through the website to install/re-install. Now, if you don't mind me confirming to be sure I understand correctly, when I download the final version on the 28th from either here or via Impulse, I won't need to install Steam to play?

If I were to download it through Steam, I'd expect Steam, but if I'm getting it elsewhere, I don't want anything to do with Steam. That's what I really hope to have happen.

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88 months ago by
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Yes Dinasis, you don't need to install Steam to play.

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88 months ago by
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Marek,

You just made my day.

Thank you!

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88 months ago by
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Dinasis you are a very rare kind of an individual.

i'm curious. what makes you dislike steam? most of PC gamer's tend to uphold it as a religion.

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88 months ago by
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I...I.... want a retail :(

Also smoker, I don't like steam either. Why?

I LOVE RETAIL. Meaning: I like to have a physical copy of the game I bought, it installs faster and I don't need to re-download it when I decide to play it again after a year (and having it kicked off)

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well not having to download a physical copy does not apply any more these days.
most of the AAA titles you buy physically must be downloaded trough steam, origin or some other platform.

and as a bonus it still keeps all your games in one place all ways accessible.

but for each and every one they'r opinion. but Marcus.. retail games are a dying breed digital will take over.
thus i end my post witch doesn't really have anything to do with the topic.

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Yeah, I know that retail is a dying breed. I suppose the only things that will remain are the 'deluxe' versions (like the skyrim one with the dragon etc.).

I must say that I did not have to download my titles trough steam though. You need to verify them and steam performs some checks I guess, but I did not have to download 12 gigabytes o.O

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Woow, 5 days to go, that's some anticipation. Especially for you devs, you must be very excited, and working as hard as you can of course..

I just wanted to ask, if there is any chance to get a key for Desura as well??

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If wonder if anyone yet completed the whole campaign :)

I haven't. When I play-test the game, I just run individual mission (mostly for checking music, dialogues, script, overall design/flow, engagement level...)

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I dare not to play the game because i don't want to experience too many bugs. so i hope you fix most by launch.

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88 months ago by
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i figure i must be close to the end by now up to rechistag II?

Couple of bugs slowed me down though but excited to finish :)

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I think my only regret is that you guys (the developers) will never know first-hand, what it's like to experience Miner Wars 2081 for the first time as a finished product.

It's the developer's greatest sacrifice.

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QUOTE:
If wonder if anyone yet completed the whole campaign :)

I would, but the game bug [no new mission after finding the... SPOILER ;)] prevents me from progressing again. I will wait till the game is released and try again.

Regarding dislike of the Steam- well, just read the user agreement. If 50% of Steam lovers would read it they would have much less fans :P

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QUOTE:
I think my only regret is that you guys (the developers) will never know first-hand, what it's like to experience Miner Wars 2081 for the first time as a finished product.

This is so true :) I can only image how it can be to play MW for the first time. Maybe it's not that different because I enjoy playing it... hmm, maybe the downside is that I know what is where, and then where it ends, etc. But actually I don't know all maps in MW, there are still places that were made by designers and I haven't visited them much.

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Awww, I think that over time, when some dedicated players make agreeable or very good maps for the game in their spare time, along with a good mission, even the devs will enjoy things as if it were a first time :)

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some bad luck there when the game is all most out of the top 10 new games in first minutes of release. but let's hope for the best and a 1 billion copies in sales so the franchise will grow to thrive.

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Im having one tiny issue with the whole key thing.

i just bought the game on steam and it didnt give me any key so i can verify on your site. Do your server sync with the steam servers (using same email on both sides) or am i just blind and not seeing my key ?

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87 months ago by
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You can play it with you're steam account and don't need to activate it here.

back before steam if you bought the game from somewhere else you had to activate it here but no longer.
so good luck to you'r journey.

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87 months ago by
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allrighty, i was just wondering how it would work if i'd like to buy the cheat codes as well , can i activate them through here or ?

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