Defender's Quest: Valley of the Forgotten

[Hearteater]

Just checked out the demo.  Sigh, another $10 disappears.  It's for a worthy cause.

[Cyborg]

Fantastic demo. I'm in. So much customization opportunities for approaching the battles, even during battles. Really gives a chance for high skilled players to shine, especially on extreme mode.

[keith.lamothe]

Yea, the difference between "playing ok" and "playing well" (on both the party-setup and during-battle levels) is astronomical.

[KingIsaacLinksr]

Yeah OMD2 turned me off with its DLC SPAM A THON they've got going on now. Maybe I'll return to the game one day, but with them constantly expecting me to pay up to play the game has got me rubbed the wrong way. Which is a pity as I really enjoyed OMD.

I'll definitely check this game out though, it intrigues me as I usually enjoy the TD-genre.

[Aklyon]

Hehe. The Bonus thingie on the main menu wasn't there last time I played, and I had a laugh clicking no all the time to see what i would say.

[Wanderer]

Highly amusing game, thanks for pointing it out.

[zespri]

I wonder if it's possible to get a stand alone version if I bought on steam. Want to play on a computer without internet connection.

[Hearteater]

I'm pretty sure you can install steam, install the game, turn steam to offline mode, and you'll be able to play without internet from then on.  Even if you are using your steam account online elsewhere.  That's assuming you can get internet on the target computer in the first place.

[madcow]

I'm pretty sure you can install steam, install the game, turn steam to offline mode, and you'll be able to play without internet from then on.  Even if you are using your steam account online elsewhere.  That's assuming you can get internet on the target computer in the first place.

You can, it stores your steam verification locally for offline mode, so if you have connected to steam, you can stay in offline mode and never go back online again, good idea to test and confirm that the verification is saved before removing the internet connection though.

[keith.lamothe]

Offline mode is pretty sketchy for some users.  Like for me

It works, but only if I've remembered to put it in offline mode before moving away from the connection.  Otherwise it won't let me start steam at all.  Apparently other folks have no trouble starting steam in offline mode on a computer that's lost its connection, even if it was running in online mode last time.  But not me

And iirc there's some kind of expiration on the saved credentials, like 30 days, but I could be misremembering.

[relmz32]

Offline mode is pretty sketchy for some users.  Like for me

It works, but only if I've remembered to put it in offline mode before moving away from the connection.  Otherwise it won't let me start steam at all.  Apparently other folks have no trouble starting steam in offline mode on a computer that's lost its connection, even if it was running in online mode last time.  But not me

And iirc there's some kind of expiration on the saved credentials, like 30 days, but I could be misremembering.

Yeah, steam acts up for me too.

[madcow]

I've heard this as well, I guess the issue is steam not storing validation info locally?

While I usually put it into offline mode while I still have connection, I'm able to start up steam and have it detect there's no connection and will prompt asking if I want to retry or go offline.

[Kahuna]

When I complete the game and start a new one. Will the new game be the same? Does it have randomly generated levels and other random stuff?

[zespri]

I'm pretty sure you can install steam, install the game, turn steam to offline mode, and you'll be able to play without internet from then on.  Even if you are using your steam account online elsewhere.  That's assuming you can get internet on the target computer in the first place.

You need internet to install steam and install the game. Which is absent on the box in this case.
But what works is this: on a machine where there is internet make a new folder, copy steam.exe there and nothing else and run and login. It starts with no games installed. If it starts installing anything, pause and delete. Install Defender's Quest. Shut down. Now you can copy the folder with steam on a pc without internet and run in offline mode.

It also turned out that there is a bug in defender quest and it requires c++ runtime although it's not using it. So if the machine in question does not have it it hangs. At first I thought this was in my case because I was trying to run on Windows 8, but turned out, it was just because it was the very first game I put on this machine and it did not have c++ runtime on it.

In the end everything worked =)

[zespri]

When I complete the game and start a new one. Will the new game be the same? Does it have randomly generated levels and other random stuff?

As I understand it will be the same, it's just there are 4 difficulty levels for each level and it will take you quite awhile to finish all of them. Also there is a mysterious game+ mode, no idea what it is.

Just out of curiosity, can you give an example of TD game that HAVE random levels? It kind of defeating the point of TD, no?