XCOM 2
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Guest, it's time once again for the massively important and exciting FoH Asshat Tournament!
Go here and give us your nominations!Who's been the biggest Asshat in the last year? Give us your worst ones!
hodj
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Awesome.
Google "Australian VPN". Services like GoldenFrog and VyperVPN are good enough for what you need.
If you can find one with a free trial, or they don't bill you till after like a 3 day trial period with full access, that's what you want to go for so you don't have to pay anything.
Sign up for an account with whoever.
Log out of Steam.
Log into the VPN in the region you are wanting to spoof your IP from, in this case probably Australia. I like Sydney usually.
Log into Steam.
Go Settings -> Account Detail -> Change your country to the region where you've got a VPN set up.
Change your download location to that region as well.
Restart Steam.
When the game launches, activate and unpack it and launch it once.
Exit the game.
Put Steam into Offline Mode.
Disconnect from VPN. If you're not stupid and don't put Steam back into Online mode until the game launches in your region, then you can go ahead and cancel your VPN service now. If you want to hold on until the game officially launches in case you need to redo the steps for some reason, go ahead.
Play game in offline mode until it launches.
That's the general gist of things.
Added: Ignore anyone who says you'll risk your Steam account for this. They're wrong. They'll only ban you for bypassing regional pricing, not for unlocking games early.
Gavinmad
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Onoes
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Unless my math is off, 6 pm gmt is 1 pm Thursday est. 11 am for me in sunny AZ. I think I know what I'm doing at work all day tomorrow. ...
hodj
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You still get achievements in offline mode, they just don't register till you go back online.
But whatever floats your goat.
Edit: Just realized the times given are in GMT, so the time you'd be able to download is 10 pm tomorrow evening in Eastern US if you spoofed an Australian VPN.
Onoes
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I'm not crazy right, you guys are all just really bad at math? It should be 1 p.m. tomorrow if you spoof an Australian VPN and are on the East Coast. Again, maybe I'm crazy, but I think that's right.
hodj
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Correct.
But the mistake I made was I glossed over that the top times were in GMT. I usedThe World Clock - Time Zone Converter - Time Zone - UTC vs U.S.A. - Kentucky - Lexington-Fayetteto convert 6:01 pm in Sydney, which is time zone Australian Eastern Time Zone, instead of GMT.
Sulrn
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May or may not help you, but this is now floating around. Looks like Steam Controllers are a go for release.
Also,Xenonauts 2 Announced Itselftoday.
Denamian
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As posted earlier in the thread, GMG is giving you 2 keys, so don't just copy/paste the whole string. One is for the game, one is for the preorder bonus. For me, the 2nd key listed was actually the game, which you need to redeem first.
Dandai
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It could be better explained, but both keys work, so is it reallythatbig of a deal?
That depends on how much time one spent derping around.
Someone I know may or may not have spent an undisclosed amount of time looking like this:
Jait
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You just saved 20 bucks. They put the two keys stacked...granted the expansion one is the first they gave you. But even on Steams redemption it tells you "Please input the other key first to activate the main product" if you happened to put them in the wrong order. Even Steam tells you what a valid key looks like, so combining the two stacked keys isn't really possible.
It wasn't that complicated
I do the same shit. Not with this game but with other shit.
