Author: magicpoweredmoose

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Free Metro Last Light Redux (Epic)

https://store.epicgames.com/en-US/p/metro-last-light-redux

If you like this, try to find the original Metro 2033 , i.e. not the Redux one. The original one has more lighthearted voice acting and it does not look like Call of Duty. This is supposed to be a suspenseful adventure into unknown metro territory, not a military first-person shooter. But to each of its own, the old version does let you shoot your way through it if you really want to. You simply need more bullets.

Free Splinter Cell (Ubisoft Spain)

  1. The easy way: Start the Uplay / Ubisoft Connect application, go to Free Games and click on the game and few other things a couple of times to add it to your library. It should not take more than 30 seconds minus the loading times.
  2. The super hard way: Get a web browser that you do not use for anything (important), wipe out its cookies, install Tunnel Bear and set the location to Spain. Then go to https://store.ubi.com/es/game?pid=56c4948a88a7e300458b481c&dwvar_56c4948a88a7e300458b481c_Platform=pcdl&edition=Standard%20Edition&source=detail with this fresh browser and try to get the game, there should be a link saying something about ‘gratis’ (I guess ‘free’ in Spanish). You are asked to login and maybe allowed to finalize the “sale.” If it still detects that you are not Spanish, you have to use the Ubisoft Connect app way. The game should be listed among the Free Games in the app that you can simply add to your library.

Free Zombie Shooter Ares Virus (SteamDB / Steam, a Unity mobile port)

Two ways to get it:

a) Click this link: steam://install/1032750

b) Have an active Steam login in the browser (i.e. your Steam page shows you logged in) and then hit “Install” on the following page: https://steamdb.info/app/1032750/ . The Steam downloading dialogue box should eventually appear.

Warning: it is a mobile game port made with Unity. Those things usually run like crap, no matter how antiquated the graphics are. Keep your expectations at zero. This is proven to be true by the CPU-ravishing main menu that milks an entire core dry and lags up the whole Windows 10 system. As if Win10 did not already hog too much resources.

Free World of Warcraft Shadowlands Expansion (Battle.net)

In short, you have a free Shadowlands expansion gift waiting for you on until Sept 5 if you have bought any other expansion in the past.

“

  1. Open the Battle.net Desktop App and log in.
    • If you don’t have the App installed, download it here.
  2. Click the gift icon* on the top right side of the app, next to the notification bell icon.
  3. In the confirmation window, look for your gifts and click the CLAIM button.
  4. Launch World of Warcraft® and enjoy your FREE copy of the Shadowlands Base Edition and Level 50 Character Boost.

“

Update VirtualBox If No Sounds

Win XP 64-bit played sounds fine under Win 10, though VirtualBox 5.2.x did not properly pass it onto the host system. 6.1.x fixed the issue. Also in general, Windows 7 and up play much better in never versions.

A common issue with Linux hosts of no sound, is about setting the Virtual Box host system audio driver in a certain way. In most cases the ALSA option works, though some people have gotten it to work with PulseAudio.

BTW, Virtual Box 4.3.x is practically unusable on Windows 10. A Windows 10 update rendered the normal start-up procedure completely dysfunctional and 4.3.x has no alternative ones, such as the Headless Start workaround in 5.x versions. The 6.1.x is able to start the virtual system without workarounds and those annoying Hardening errors.

In short, update your VirtualBox and after that, try configuring settings. 6.1.x works pretty well outta box.

Free-to-Play Fall Guys (Epic)

https://store.epicgames.com/en-US/p/fall-guys?creator_id=blacktyroneonurmum

(The creator id referer code is fake. I want some engineer processing the error log to see Tyrone antics. 😀 )

BTW, the game was pulled from Steam. Epic most likely gave them something worthwhile for it. A quote from the Steam page of the game (recorded 2022-06-22): “

BTW, the game was pulled from Steam. Epic most likely gave them something worthwhile for it. A quote from the Steam page of the game (recorded 2022-06-22): “Notice: At the request of the publisher, Fall Guys is no longer available for sale on Steam.”

Free Elder Scrolls Arena and Daggerfall and Wolfenstein Enemy Territory (Steam)

  1. Arena https://store.steampowered.com/app/1812290/The_Elder_Scrolls_Arena/
  2. Daggerfall https://store.steampowered.com/app/1812390/The_Elder_Scrolls_II_Daggerfall/
  3. Wolfenstein Enemy Territory https://store.steampowered.com/app/1873030/Wolfenstein_Enemy_Territory/

These games are allegedly free FOR NOW, though that guarantees nothing in the long term. Ground Control 1 used to be freeware, though now it is back in sale. Back them up yourself to be sure. Similar un-freeware’d cases:

Heart of the China

Dragonsphere

Death Rally (in about 2010, until freeware’d again in 2021)

A Great Free Promo / Discount Listing Site: IsThereAnyDeal.com

https://isthereanydeal.com/

Go tell them that you know them. You can tell them that TyroneOnUrMum sent you there (for lulz). 😀

Yes, they list places A WAY CHEAPER than Steam Sales prices. You can see the all-time low place and the price and also the current cheapest place and time. It depends on your currency what place is the cheapest, e.g. GOG tends to be slightly cheaper at times for euro people and Steam tends to be cheaper for the United States Dollar (USD) folks. For detailed Steam local prizing, look into SteamDB: https://steamdb.info/

Free Shadow Tactics Blades of Shogun (GOG), Cave Story’s Secret Santa (Steam, GOG, Epic) Snowball (IndieGala)

Shadow Tactics https://www.gog.com/#giveaway

Cave Story’s Secret Santa https://store.steampowered.com/app/1812280/Cave_Storys_Secret_Santa/ , https://www.gog.com/game/cave_storys_secret_santa , https://www.epicgames.com/store/en-US/p/cave-storys-secret-santa-b6d437

Snowball https://freebies.indiegala.com/snowball?ref=JamalOnUrMum

Free Tom Clancy’s Ghost Recon and Ghost Recon Wild Lands Fallen Ghosts and Ghost Recon Breakpoint Deep State Adventure DLCs

Tom Clancy’s Ghost Recon, a base game (required to register its DLCs): https://register.ubisoft.com/ghostrecon-giveaway/en-US

DLCs: 1. Wild Lands – Fallen Ghosts: https://register.ubisoft.com/grw_dlc_giveaway/en-US on Uplay / Connect and https://store.steampowered.com/app/573832/Tom_Clancys_Ghost_Recon_Wildlands__Fallen_Ghosts/ on Steam (it allegedly requires Wild Lands though seems to let you unlock the DLC even if you do not have the base game)

2. Ghost Recon Break Point Deep State Adventure: no registration page available – boot up the game and go to the Expanse menu to unlock it i.e. to “buy” it for 0 currency.

This is a part of the Ghost Recon 20-year anniversary promotion. For official information: https://www.ubisoft.com/en-us/game/ghost-recon/breakpoint/news-updates/4P4NwbBFUUFvk1IeorXExL/ghost-recon-20th-anniversary-giveaways-october-2021

Free Saints Row the Third Remastered AND Automachef (Epic)

Saints Row the Third Remastered https://www.epicgames.com/store/en-US/p/saints-row-the-third-remastered

Automachef https://www.epicgames.com/store/en-US/p/automachef

P.S. A Londoner rant about the crappy upcoming “Saints Row” reboot : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xhXASsIfDFQ

BTW, the original Third, especially with the mod Gentlemen of the Third, is one of my favorite video games. Even if it is half broken, that other half is a lot of fun. I hope this Remaster works with the mod. A lot of Remaster titles break mod support for no gain *cough FU Beamdog cough*

List of Most Censoring Search Engines (Web)

The S¤¤t List:

Google

Yahoo

Startpage AKA ixquick

Baidu

Kiddle

As a rule of thumb, the smaller search engines cannot afford to mess with the results because that would quickly bankrupt them. Generally, most smaller sites are better than anything on the list above, though be cautious of sites that are mere re-skins of Google and DuckDuckGo, which seems to be quite common. In practice, if the smaller site has the exact same search results as those two, use something else. I have resorted to Bing for quite a while, though Yandex might be even better as it is fast as hell and the results are decent.

Free Little Nightmares (Bandai Namco, Steam) & Heroes of Three Kingdoms (Steam)

  1. Get a Bandai Namco account and use it to claim Little Nightmares [PC Download] Standard Edition and activate the given Steam key. https://store.bandainamcoent.eu/eu/product/437895/little-nightmares-pc-download EDIT: It took about 30 minutes to until the key became available on the order history page https://store.bandainamcoent.eu/eu/account#/orders . Use the Steam product activation page to manually claim it: https://store.steampowered.com/account/registerkey (or use a similar feature on the Steam client).
  2. Get Heroes of Three Kingdoms at Steam. https://store.steampowered.com/app/1437820/Heroes_of_the_Three_Kingdoms/

Basic Things Epic Games Launcher Fails to Implement

1. Pausing and canceling a game download takes effect about 150 seconds later (instead of zero).

2. The Store page is the default landing page when starting the launcher AND you cannot change that. The launcher downloads about five megs of image data (no, it never caches anything, meaning you will have to re-download the same page data if you get back to it again).

3. You can only order one game at a time. Keep in mind there are plenty of games with almost two dozen DLCs. It takes a while to load the order page because the launcher downloads megabytes of data for it for no good reason.

4. Any time you move to another page, the launcher clears and locks up the content page, meaning you cannot do anything anything before it has fully loaded the target page.

5. The launcher minimizes if you start an Epic Games Store game.

6. The launcher refuses to start any games if you have an active download going on. A lot of functionality is hindered or blocked by a download. I guess this is to make sure every single activity is logged and authenticated before new ones can be processed. This is super slow and any bottleneck can quickly slow everything down to a crawl. For example, a slow Internet connection. This will not affect hackers as they largely bypass any hindering actions. Basically Epic does not trust you to play your own games without supervision. This kind of controlling behavior feeds the demand for hassle-free pirate versions. The point of having games is to play them, not to validate things to the platform every 5 seconds.

7. The launcher gets glitched and refuses to start if there is an update for it. It does not tell you this. It simply fails to start. Usually this means you have to give it its sweet-ass time (while wasting yours) to get going again.

8. Has no idea how to display cellular network traffic. Windows 10 often has the same issue and major updates take turns fixing it and re-breaking it. Overall, the downloader is very crappy, something a teen could put together and better during an afternoon.

9. You have no idea how big the game is before you start downloading it. The “game-debate” site is the most reliable source for the hard drive space info. The information available on the launcher is close to zero and even that is 99 % for irrelevant marketing purposes.

10. The launcher uses the same pages as the web portal, though it does not periodically disconnect you and it loads noticeably less and does not bug out like the web version does.

11. You cannot play the games without the launcher getting all DRM on your ass. Even the shortcuts are simply protocol calls for the launcher to request a start-up. You are pretty much gimped up to 11, having to ask for permission EVERY TIME you want to play one of your own games.

12. The “Home” page is not the landing page despite the name (the Store one is). Home is filled with useless tidbit news about promotions and launched games. It is so useless I bet it is going to get removed and / or re-designed at some point. You mostly use the “Library” page that displays your games. You can clumsily search from there, which already makes this one vastly better than the Bethesda one. Not being the bottom of the barrel is not an achievement.

13. There are dysfunctional Settings settings. For example the “Throttle Downloads” option does nothing.

Epic Games Launcher makes feel envy towards the pirate copies of the games I legally own on the platform. They would be a vastly better experience than the ones eternally shackled to the ridiculously badly implemented EG platform. Of other platforms, GOG is probably the most practical and keeps adding the most valuable features, e.g. the recent cross-platform multiplay support. Steam’s last UI update is terrible. It seems hackier and more crowded with over-stuffed layouts than the very early Steam clients. Do not give money to Epic Games.

Whatever they are doing, it is not going towards improving the EGL client one bit. It is still the same clunky POS it was two years ago. I seem to recall it being significantly better few months ago with a much simpler game library listings. I have no positive experience with Epic Games Launcher or even the games played on it.

Free Cities Skylines (Epic) + DLC

https://www.epicgames.com/store/en-US/product/cities-skylines/home

  1. Get the F-ing game.

2. Get the DLC (“Add-Ons”):

I Pearls from the East https://www.epicgames.com/store/en-US/product/cities-skylines/pearls-from-the-east

II Carols Candles and Candy https://www.epicgames.com/store/en-US/product/cities-skylines/carols-candles-and-candy

III Match Day https://www.epicgames.com/store/en-US/product/cities-skylines/match-day

Free Ubisoft Connect Games “Happy Holidays” (Uplay)

The current day’s promotion: https://ubi.li/happyholidays

https://register.ubisoft.com/happyholidays2020-day1/en-US – AC Valhalla skin EXPIRED

https://register.ubisoft.com/happyholidays2020-day2/en-US – Starlink EXPIRED

https://register.ubisoft.com/happyholidays2020-day3/en-US – Watch Dogs Legion skin EXPIRED

https://register.ubisoft.com/happyholidays2020-day4/en-US – Trials Rising EXPIRED

https://register.ubisoft.com/happyholidays2020-day5/en-US – Hyperscape Rewards Pack EXPIRED

https://register.ubisoft.com/happyholidays2020-lastchance/ – Get all + Anno 1701 Historical Edition

Free Might and Magic X Legacy (Uplay, Hong Kong / China VPN)

  1. Set your VPN to Hong Kong or China or get one with the free hola Chrome extension https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/hola-free-vpn-proxy-unblo/gkojfkhlekighikafcpjkiklfbnlmeio/ (remembuh to set the right VPN country or it won’t work)
  2. Login at https://register.ubisoft.com/might-and-magic-x/ and the game will be added to your account. (Ubi / Uplay account, ofc)

Free Endless Zone, Armor of Heroes (Steam) & Ghost Sweeper (IndieGala)

https://store.steampowered.com/app/1368450/Endless_Zone/

https://store.steampowered.com/app/1368440/Armor_of_Heroes/

https://freebies.indiegala.com/ghost-sweeper/?ref=UrMum4Tyrone

These seem like a mobile game ports by SEGA recently dumped onto Steam et al.

E.g. “Streets of Kamurocho” is set to be released on the following day for free on Steam here: https://store.steampowered.com/app/1368430/Streets_Of_Kamurocho/

METADATA: Is free on the store?Yes

Source: https://steamdb.info/app/1368430/

IOW, expect more of these strange, mobile-game-like releases very soon.

Free Watch Dogs 2 & Football Manager 2020 (Epic)

https://www.epicgames.com/store/en-US/free-games?sessionInvalidated=true&urmompwnedbyme=true
Ze gamez

You can find most LEGIT free giveaways yourself just by following e.g. these tracker sites:

https://www.epicbundle.com/category/article/for-free/

FREE STEAM KEYS

https://www.gamerpower.com/

Free Gam IndieGameBundolo

You can find the weekly Epic giveaways with the same link:

https://www.epicgames.com/store/en-US/free-games?sessionInvalidated=true&urmumpwnedbyblackmentonite=true