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Title: Dead Space for free
Post by: cahdoge on April 05, 2014, 09:41:12 am

Hey guys
I bought Titanfall as my first shooter some weeks ago.
And took a deeper look on Origin an found the on the house section.
'till the 8th of May you are able to download Dead Space for free.

By the way Titanfall is a shooter very gratefull to all who want to enter the World of shooter's.

Title: Re: Dead Space for free
Post by: Colonol Dekker on April 05, 2014, 09:52:17 am

Good shout for those with origin.

Title: Re: Dead Space for free
Post by: deathspeed on April 05, 2014, 12:18:07 pm

They do that every once in a while - some time ago they offered battlefield 1942 for free.  :)

Title: Re: Dead Space for free
Post by: Mongoose on April 05, 2014, 02:27:53 pm

Hmm, wonder if that's worth getting an Origin account...

Title: Re: Dead Space for free
Post by: Mebber on April 05, 2014, 04:21:02 pm

If you don't have an issue with progs like origin as a matter of principle, sure. It's a nice game.

Title: Re: Dead Space for free
Post by: Colonol Dekker on April 05, 2014, 04:29:51 pm

Playstation plus is all I use and deadspace was free a while ago.

Title: Re: Dead Space for free
Post by: General Battuta on April 05, 2014, 05:12:40 pm

While EA is ****ty in a lot of ways, Origin is harmless and not worth avoiding if you're curious about the game.

Title: Re: Dead Space for free
Post by: Mongoose on April 05, 2014, 06:40:36 pm

Yeah, I avoided it more out of convenience and lack of necessity than on principle, but if they're giving away a solid game I might as well.

Title: Re: Dead Space for free
Post by: Mebber on April 05, 2014, 06:53:56 pm

Origin is kind of confusing, at least in my experience and compared to similiar programs like steam. But a free game is a free game... :)

Title: Re: Dead Space for free
Post by: Mongoose on April 05, 2014, 08:19:12 pm

Well then...I've just tried installing Origin multiple times, and each time the installer has returned the lovely generic "X has encountered a serious problem and needs to close" dialog.  A quick search isn't turning up any useful info, either.  Great first impression, EA. :lol:

On the plus side, I've manged to get both Dead Space and BF 1942 associated with my account as freebies.  I just can't do jack **** with them yet.

Editz: I finally got the damn thing to install by booting in safe mode.  No idea why it needed that, but at least it runs now.

Title: Re: Dead Space for free
Post by: Klaustrophobia on April 07, 2014, 01:39:52 am

program with history of acting as spyware needs to be installed in safe mode.


yeah.  that sounds legit.

Title: Re: Dead Space for free
Post by: Hades on April 07, 2014, 05:21:28 am

so, I've tried playing it but it's ****ing abysmal with the mouse. Mouse acceleration all over the place and the sensitivity is garbage on top of that!

Title: Re: Dead Space for free
Post by: Colonol Dekker on April 07, 2014, 05:34:03 am

Plays best with Xbox pad.

Title: Re: Dead Space for free
Post by: Mpez on April 07, 2014, 06:19:29 am

Quote from: Hades on April 07, 2014, 05:21:28 am

so, I've tried playing it but it's ****ing abysmal with the mouse. Mouse acceleration all over the place and the sensitivity is garbage on top of that!

I think you have turn on (or was it off?) vsync and then it runs smoothly

Title: Re: Dead Space for free
Post by: Mebber on April 07, 2014, 07:27:21 am

Yeah, ingame vsync is bugged. Disable it and use your graphic card settings to force vsync.

You can also increase the Mouse sensitivity in the config file to make the mouse much faster than with the ingame settings.