Aliens vs. Predator PC and Napoleon: Total War Incorporate Steamworks, Require Steam
Both games will utilize the Steamworks platform for achievements, matchmaking, leaderboards, stats, and server-side Cloud data storage, explained Valve. Aliens vs. Predator launches February 16, with Napoleon: Total War coming February 23.
SEGA utilized Steamworks with the last Total War entry, Empire, joined by the likes of Warhammer 40,000: Dawn of War II and Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2. But while Valve claims that "Steamworks makes DRM obsolete," other retailers and distributors have described it as a "Trojan Horse," specifically taking issue with its integration into Modern Warfare 2 whilst continuing to sell other Steamworks-enabled games.
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Steamworks is succeeding where Gamespy failed.
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ASE was great for griefing, you can stalk players by typing in their player name and adding it to your friends without need for confirmation.
My buddy and I had this one guy ragequit when we kept killing him in Desert Combat Mod with our Black Hawk and minigun. So whenever we saw him online we'd join his game and I'd fly the helicopter and my friend mowed him down with the minigun.
He said, "It's YOU GUYS!" and eventually he quit playing DC Mod after like a week of us doing that.
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