Comments on: Alpha Weekend: City of Steam

By: HarbingerZero

HarbingerZero — Tue, 21 Aug 2012 22:39:35 +0000

Even so, that makes you a plebs with connections and networking relationships. That’s how alpha’s work! (-:

By: flosch

flosch — Mon, 20 Aug 2012 19:21:00 +0000

Also, hey, you were the first person I ever heard about City of Steam from, so there!

By: flosch

flosch — Mon, 20 Aug 2012 18:06:13 +0000

It was my first alpha, though it wasn’t like I was approached by the developers telling me “hey, you’re cool, we want you to test-drive our game”. That’s more something for people like Keen (and Azuriel, it seems? at least he has something that looks like an interview). I’m just a run-of-the-mill plebs who got a key via a giveaway at another blog.

By: flosch

flosch — Mon, 20 Aug 2012 18:04:20 +0000

The problem is that for security reasons, the unity player creates a sandbox, and, for example, restricts filesystem access. So it’s not possible to write files to the disk of the user, at least as far as I understood it. Maybe there’s a way around that. Funny enough, from the 2 minutes I invested into searching, it looks like it might have support to write files onto the server it’s running from, so if that’s true, they could in theory save your screenshots there, limited the number, and allow you to download them via their normal website later.

I really wish I made more screenshots, in all games that I play. Often enough, I look into my screenshot folder and realize there’s less than a dozen, and nothing that I’m looking for.

By: HarbingerZero

HarbingerZero — Mon, 20 Aug 2012 17:26:44 +0000

Was this your first alpha? If so, congratulations! That was, to me, a crowning moment in my blogging “career.”

By: bhagpuss

bhagpuss — Mon, 20 Aug 2012 16:51:03 +0000

Thanks again for the cross-linking. As you probably noticed, I really like City of Steam a lot. I love the setting and I have no issues with browser games (in fact I generally can’t tell the difference I get way more connection/lag issues in EQ2, for example than I ever get in CoS).

The screenshot thing drives me nuts, though. It hadn’t even occurred to me that was because of the browser format. I hope they can find some way round that for beta or at least for Live. That said, I probably need to be stopped from taking screenshots for my own good!