Downloaded it to extract all the old assets but it still needs an encrypted depot key
>error!! -- extract: missing depot key!, pass --key if you know it though
Some people reported that "--key 0000000000000000" or "--key 0" works on some depots... well not here
bob1029 6 hours ago [-]
> the old assets
The old version of LoL has the best aesthetic. The new art style was bad enough to get me to quit the game.
amatecha 5 hours ago [-]
Interestingly they recently brought back the old version (I think from Season 3 or so?) as "League of Legends Classic"
accrual 8 hours ago [-]
I wonder if this will allow for reviving old SRCDS (Source Dedicated Server) versions.
Older versions of popular titles like Counter-Strike: Source would still be playable on their original hardware if the old clients + servers were available. As it is now, these games are no longer playable on original early-mid 2000s hardware because Steam no longer supports Win2k/XP, and even if it did, the games themselves have been heavily patched and updated over the years and have higher system requirements. Old clients still exist (even prior to "teraleak"), but the SRCDS versions are gone as far as I can tell.
I just think it'd be fun to host retro LAN parties using the hardware and software we had back then, or even just to revisit what it was like to be a server OP in those days.
mister_mort 11 hours ago [-]
I think the most interesting thing I've seen from these leaks are the Portal 2 beta content videos. The temporary time-slow mechanic and the beta voice acting have been really interesting to see. The time slow mechanic in particular could have made the game a lot more accessible to gamers with slow reflexes and refocused the game on the puzzle elements.
Stevvo 5 hours ago [-]
There is no puzzle in Portal 2 that requires fast reflexes.
zamadatix 51 minutes ago [-]
What "fast reflexes" is will vary by person but keep in mind the average person (not necessarily the average gamer) struggles with moving the character/camera in the way they want when things are stationary with normal physics. Now try taking that to launching a portal while flying midair, maybe even on controller. I mean I got through it fine but it would have helped make 2 player a lot easier with my dad at the time.
vablings 5 hours ago [-]
My teenage self who was pretty good on the controller would disagree. Some of the puzzles required turning around midair or carefully timed shots. Also, they did use the slow-motion mechanic at the end of the game to prompt you to shoot the "killing portal"
anal_reactor 7 hours ago [-]
> made the game a lot more accessible to gamers with slow reflexes
Just no. A perfect game isn't a game that casts a wide net, a perfect game is a game that satisfies its target audience.
pibaker 6 hours ago [-]
Why does an optional, opt in easy mode take away the satisfaction of its target audience? You are not required to play it. It is like saying having a gluten free option on the menu takes away the enjoyment of a meal's target audience.
BoxwoodSeed 4 hours ago [-]
Imagine if there was a lift to the peak of Mt. Everest. That existing alone would undermine the achievement of having reached said peak.
Also, it's very hard to get multiple difficulty settings right. It's much better to have cheats available to make the experience easier and learn to get better at the game through those.
pibaker 30 minutes ago [-]
Does the availability of oxygen bottles undermine the achievement of people who summited Mount Everest without supplementary oxygen?
fckgw 4 hours ago [-]
I would respectfully disagree that playing a video game is equivalent to climbing the world's tallest mountain peak. Sometimes I want to play a game to experience the story.
anal_reactor 5 hours ago [-]
> It is like saying having a gluten free option on the menu takes away the enjoyment of a meal's target audience.
Having a gluten-free option takes away resources from other parts of the restaurant. Considering the fact that gluten allergy can be pretty serious, having gluten-free options means shitload of money spent on making sure there's no cross-contamination. Money that could be invested in better croissants for example.
Anyway, easy modes shift and break the game. It's very visible with GTA for example.
Savehouses in GTA III, VC and SA are very memorable because the game forced you to go there pretty much after every mission to save. In GTA IV we got autosave after each mission plus GPS which means we don't remember shit from what Liberty City looked like and especially we have zero emotional connection to savehouses. Technically you could go back to the savehouse just to save, but really, you didn't. You could turn off GPS in options, but really, you didn't.
There was this one fucking mission in GTA VC where you had to fly a toy aircraft but controls were fucked and after every fail you had to go through this over and over again. It was memorable because it was annoying. In GTA SA there was the famous line
> All we had to do, was follow the damn train, CJ!
As a result of a broken voiceline where Smoke told you to get closer while in fact you needed to get further away. The fact that after each fail we had to do the mission again from the start made it frustrating, but also memorable.
In GTA V we have mission checkpoints. All friction has been removed because general audience hates friction.
TaLiTr 7 hours ago [-]
> A perfect game isn't a game that casts a wide net, a perfect game is a game that satisfies its target audience.
Maybe, but that's completely tangential to what the GP said.
And aside from that those games with a wide net do have a target audience, that's how they end up in that situation to begin with.
anal_reactor 7 hours ago [-]
The game has both puzzle and platforming elements. A similar argument could be made "they could make puzzles easier for people who don't like puzzles" which is silly because one of the reasons why the game got so popular is that people liked the synergy of puzzles and platforming.
Either way, I really doubt that Portal 2 suffered from lack of recognition and further improvements were necessary in this area. You'd be way more likely to break something that works.
indrora 6 hours ago [-]
As someone who is firmly in Portal's "target audience"
I would have enjoyed the game immensely with such an adaptive feature. Just like I appreciate the amount of work that Valve has put into closed captioning for their games.
cindyllm 7 hours ago [-]
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zetalyrae 13 hours ago [-]
Tangential, but it's interesting to me that there are "Valve watchers", people who are big on social media for doing Valve analysis and kremlinology. Humans are so cool.
jokoon 12 hours ago [-]
Sorry what's the link between valve and kremlin?
AdamN 11 hours ago [-]
kremlinology is the term for any political intelligence gathering that's all second-order. In the canonical case of the Kremlin it's because it was very difficult to get inside data and even then there were so many moving parts that you needed an expert in just that area who had alot of data like who was having drinks with whom to predict who might be on the out and who might be ascendant.
ahazred8ta 4 hours ago [-]
There was one analyst reading Pravda who noticed a lot of people were suddenly being promoted into positions held by members of a certain large clique, with no notice about what was happening to the former appointees.
After one of the nuclear treaties was signed, there was a guy whose photo was published in Pravda, shaking hands with Gorbachev; a different fresh photo of him shaking hands with Gorbachev every day for an entire month. He turned out to be the head of the ministry of strategic deception.
vlyan 11 hours ago [-]
>In the canonical case of the Kremlin it's because it was very difficult to get inside data
not anymore, apparently. even random ~~grifters~~ geopolitics experts on youtube now have people on the inside.
NooneAtAll3 11 hours ago [-]
we mostly live in misinformation age
don't get fooled that only one side does that
Schlagbohrer 12 hours ago [-]
kremlinology is an old pre-1989 term for people trying to observe and interpret the workings of a tightly sealed institution. Could be used for Vatican rumors and news, too, for example, or North Korea, etc.
ramses0 11 hours ago [-]
Pentagon pizza tracker?
mister_mort 11 hours ago [-]
Similar to that idea of trying to derive stuff from an indirect channel, but much more distant. (There is an obvious link between food consumption and building occupancy.)
Stuff like watching the order of names on public lists of attendees for dinner events, etc. If someone disappeared or moved off the top few names, perhaps they're in trouble or have been purged from the party ... or maybe they're just sick this week.
pwdisswordfishq 7 hours ago [-]
I'd tell you, but then I'd have to kill you.
vivzkestrel 8 hours ago [-]
- would be nice to see ubisoft game source codes leak for their 20 yr old games which they have completely abandoned at this point
austin-cheney 7 hours ago [-]
I did not know what to look for, so I looked at the list to see what is in there and had no idea what I was looking at. I am making a lot of assumptions and don't know how any of this works.
* It appears the dats_dates.txt file is a list of depot item contents string sorted by depo numeric identifier.
* It also appears the depo identifier is the first underscore separated value on a given line
* It seems the more popular artifacts are referenced multiple times in the list due to the quantity of contents and versions associated with a given depo
All of that could be wrong, but nonetheless I wrote a small 2minute Node.js script to analyze the list. It takes about 0.03 seconds to execute, on my machine anyways, and produces as output a list of depo identifiers sorted by the frequency in which those identifiers occur in the dats_date.txt file.
These identifiers do not always resolve to a game title using the steamdb.info site but several do. Because though because steamdb.info applies rate limiting and then a temporary IP address block.
@dang - may be combine these discussions although one has no comments yet.
cwillu 9 hours ago [-]
"@dang" doesn't do anything; email the address in the footer if you want to propose something to a mod.
guillybarres 9 hours ago [-]
This is one of the craziest "breach" stories I've come across recently, I feel like it's gone a little bit under the radar considering the size and scope.
giov4 14 hours ago [-]
If it will be really seeded forever that would be a great way of archiving for posterity!
btw interestingly from the leak homepage:
"To the operators of browsers/indexers: please look into caching or mirroring the blobs, as a large volume of requests at this point are coming from these, which seem to be impacting downloads for everyone. It's a 15 GB directory that would save the time of many people. Many people should have them all downloaded by now.
We are facing pretty severe link oversaturation. If you managed to download something please try seeding them on the torrent and/or sharing the original files on third party services to spare us some load. The more torrent seeds the faster and more viable it shall be."
gosub100 11 hours ago [-]
I think there could be a market for distributed cloud storage: the client promises a coin payment for $X, in return for storing Y mb/GB of encrypted data. The way to prove it is still there is by sending periodic hash checks of random segments of the file. If the correct match comes back, a portion (rent) is paid to renew the storage. Upon retrieval, the final sum is paid.
MyelinatedT 11 hours ago [-]
There is Filecoin, which sounds somewhat similar conceptually to what you describe (albeit with the standard blockchain caveats).
Dylan16807 3 hours ago [-]
Filecoin was really weird on top of the standard caveats. I couldn't even figure out how to directly use and earn it. And all the straightforward options to touch filecoin were brokers offering free storage based on incentive programs.
Storj is a much more straightforward implementation. So is Sia, I think.
pigeons 5 hours ago [-]
How is filecoin looking for surviving IPFS's great decline?
creaturemachine 10 hours ago [-]
So, Pied Piper?
superkuh 7 hours ago [-]
A torrent is fine. Things will settle out and the torrent with it's seeds, just normal people with normal human motivations to do so, will still exist for a long time. No need to bring in money and ruin things.
mmastrac 11 hours ago [-]
Is there a lookup that gives you a title to blob mapping?
thataccount 7 hours ago [-]
Feels more like a kind of closure to an era than it does a discovery.
Steam.com was for the longest time unrelated to Valve, which is why you'll find Steam under steampowered.com instead.
netruk44 11 hours ago [-]
Valve owns s.team now, as well. That’ll bring you to the store page
It also acts as a url shortener for their hardware support pages.
s.team/deck, and s.team/machine take you to the appropriate support pages.
sejje 8 hours ago [-]
I will never remember that, but I could instantly remember steam.com
flexagoon 13 hours ago [-]
It's still unrelated AFAIK. From what I remember, the owner refused to sell the domain, and then eventually asked Valve for a huge fee that they refused to pay. So now the domain is just unused.
inigyou 13 hours ago [-]
That's what happens when you name your project after someone else's domain. A usual part of starting a project now is picking an unused domain name.
dewey 13 hours ago [-]
Using a dictionary word for your project will never be easy, but what often happens now is to just not get the .com domain (Likely taken), or prefix with "get" and then later hope that you can time it right so that you can afford the clean .com domain...but not be famous enough that the buyer would want to get some crazy amount for it.
gessha 9 hours ago [-]
Parking domains and not using them is poor taste. Finders keepers is okay compared to pay to win but if someone has a better use for the domain, maybe release it for a reasonable price?
inigyou 5 hours ago [-]
What incentivises the domain holder to do that? Under the UDRP, parking is only not allowed if it's obviously done to screw with someone's trademark, has no other purpose, and their trademark came first.
Cthulhu_ 9 hours ago [-]
I have a theory that's what happened to my company's rebrand, they now use a 4 lettered .com domain name. Not even a word, just an abbreviation.
wincy 9 hours ago [-]
Or if you’re worth a trillion dollars you just literally buy the domain chat.com for over $15 million
manytimesaway 8 hours ago [-]
Steam used to be steamgames.com, too.
9 hours ago [-]
inigyou 13 hours ago [-]
They could also choose to just get sued - they will lose, but the site will be up until that happens (possibly years) if they don't have trigger-happy hosting provider
r_lee 12 hours ago [-]
in the gaming community there's infinite amounts of cheat devs, mods, leaks like this, etc.
it's not like regular stuff where companies just sue you left and right, this stuff is hard to pursue and usually not worth it
it can get taken down but that's about it
47282847 13 hours ago [-]
Likely bought with anonymous or stolen payment info.
self_awareness 15 hours ago [-]
They probably will, that's why it's good to grab the torrent while we can.
haunter 14 hours ago [-]
The DHT network picked it up already so the magnet link is enough. At this point it will be available forever (as long as there are seeders)
0f3e7a75c0f885dde481054d4bcd8cd14eab51c8
WithinReason 12 hours ago [-]
The readme from it:
welcome to terarelease - a as-complete-as-possible steam2 content server dump
extractor howto:
for the majority of depots you need to download blobs & dats for wanted version *as well as all past versions*
as the files are stored as deltas inside the dat files, HOWEVER IF you encounter a depot that has duplicate blobs & dats,
that means at some point in time valve did a full reset in which case you need to provide the CRC of the wanted
blob (3rd file name component) to the extractor using --blobcrc, source code for the extractor is also left in this
folder if you want to have a peek at it
examples:
extract /mnt/big/blobs /mnt/big/dats 852 0 | for depots w/o reset
extract /mnt/big/blobs /mnt/big/dats 841 0 --blobcrc 83ced978 | for depots that did reset
win64 build is provided, for linux you have to build it yourself as any kind of binary compatibility is inexistent except for wine
(you are using linux, you should know how to build it yourself right? ...right?)
sharing:
you are very much encouraged to share and mirror/seed this release as possible
SHARING IS CARING
warm n good wishes to all hoarders who had stuff from this collection <3
My own gaming days are over, but I am very annoyed that the big corporations killed libgen effectively (it is not entirely gone, but the old content is nowhere near as it used to be, and Anna's archive is also nowhere near as good either, unfortunately).
flexagoon 13 hours ago [-]
> but the old content is nowhere near as it used to be, and Anna's archive is also nowhere near as good either
Not sure what you mean, Anna's Archive includes all of Libgen's content
self_awareness 11 hours ago [-]
I kind of have mixed feelings about this, because from one point of view we're fighting the corporations, but from another, Valve is a major force in pushing Linux gaming so that more gaming can be done outside of big corpo operating systems.
It seems to me that fighting with Valve is like fighting against what we would want to have.
haunter 11 hours ago [-]
Mind you Valve has done equal amount of bad as well by inventing the whole battle pass system and thus bringing even more FOMO to games, and making unregulated gambling available to millions which is still going strong and surprisingly no one cares about it. There are some lawsuits here and there but they focus on the lootbox gacha element and not the whole gambling market running on the Steam API
One giant megacorp with a benevolent dictator? Well, maybe you want that - but I do not. And we have a couple of examples of how it goes.
self_awareness 8 hours ago [-]
I guess a comparison would be: a megacorp invests in children in africa (schooling, money) so later they can hire them and make more money. Should we support this or resist?
justsomehnguy 7 hours ago [-]
If a false comparison in the first place but you/we already have a such megacorp! Sure, sure, benevolent dictator is judicially removed from the leadership for 30 years and no longer guides the megacorp in any meaningful way... but he does invest in kids in Africa.
You can have a whole one try to guess who is this.
And if you guess it right (I doubt you can answer wrong, lol) you would know a whole bunch of different reasons - including personal qualities of that "benevolent dictator" too.
NB honestly, if anything it's "his" OS what gave a lot of opportunities to the kids in the developing countries everywhere, not just Africa alone - just by providing the means to run the apps and games on almost anything. OLPC on the other hand provided an example how a specialized device made with the best intentions was a piece of shit.
shevy-java 14 hours ago [-]
My harddisc is only 2TB!
BoxwoodSeed 4 hours ago [-]
Good excuse to become a data hoarder, but bad timing giving the pricing situation.
prmoustache 7 hours ago [-]
Thanksfully bittorrent clients allow you to only download the files you want in a particular torrent.
WorseIsBetter 15 hours ago [-]
Good question. Probably in a jurisdiction Valve can't touch, or they're just indexing stuff without hosting the actual files. Either way, it's risky. Valve's lawyers are definitely already on it
Might not be the most interesting game in the leak but old versions of live service games are almost impossible to come by
https://steamdb.info/app/20590/
Downloaded it to extract all the old assets but it still needs an encrypted depot key
>error!! -- extract: missing depot key!, pass --key if you know it though
Some people reported that "--key 0000000000000000" or "--key 0" works on some depots... well not here
The old version of LoL has the best aesthetic. The new art style was bad enough to get me to quit the game.
Older versions of popular titles like Counter-Strike: Source would still be playable on their original hardware if the old clients + servers were available. As it is now, these games are no longer playable on original early-mid 2000s hardware because Steam no longer supports Win2k/XP, and even if it did, the games themselves have been heavily patched and updated over the years and have higher system requirements. Old clients still exist (even prior to "teraleak"), but the SRCDS versions are gone as far as I can tell.
I just think it'd be fun to host retro LAN parties using the hardware and software we had back then, or even just to revisit what it was like to be a server OP in those days.
Just no. A perfect game isn't a game that casts a wide net, a perfect game is a game that satisfies its target audience.
Also, it's very hard to get multiple difficulty settings right. It's much better to have cheats available to make the experience easier and learn to get better at the game through those.
Having a gluten-free option takes away resources from other parts of the restaurant. Considering the fact that gluten allergy can be pretty serious, having gluten-free options means shitload of money spent on making sure there's no cross-contamination. Money that could be invested in better croissants for example.
Anyway, easy modes shift and break the game. It's very visible with GTA for example.
Savehouses in GTA III, VC and SA are very memorable because the game forced you to go there pretty much after every mission to save. In GTA IV we got autosave after each mission plus GPS which means we don't remember shit from what Liberty City looked like and especially we have zero emotional connection to savehouses. Technically you could go back to the savehouse just to save, but really, you didn't. You could turn off GPS in options, but really, you didn't.
There was this one fucking mission in GTA VC where you had to fly a toy aircraft but controls were fucked and after every fail you had to go through this over and over again. It was memorable because it was annoying. In GTA SA there was the famous line
> All we had to do, was follow the damn train, CJ!
As a result of a broken voiceline where Smoke told you to get closer while in fact you needed to get further away. The fact that after each fail we had to do the mission again from the start made it frustrating, but also memorable.
In GTA V we have mission checkpoints. All friction has been removed because general audience hates friction.
Maybe, but that's completely tangential to what the GP said. And aside from that those games with a wide net do have a target audience, that's how they end up in that situation to begin with.
Either way, I really doubt that Portal 2 suffered from lack of recognition and further improvements were necessary in this area. You'd be way more likely to break something that works.
I would have enjoyed the game immensely with such an adaptive feature. Just like I appreciate the amount of work that Valve has put into closed captioning for their games.
After one of the nuclear treaties was signed, there was a guy whose photo was published in Pravda, shaking hands with Gorbachev; a different fresh photo of him shaking hands with Gorbachev every day for an entire month. He turned out to be the head of the ministry of strategic deception.
not anymore, apparently. even random ~~grifters~~ geopolitics experts on youtube now have people on the inside.
don't get fooled that only one side does that
Stuff like watching the order of names on public lists of attendees for dinner events, etc. If someone disappeared or moved off the top few names, perhaps they're in trouble or have been purged from the party ... or maybe they're just sick this week.
* It appears the dats_dates.txt file is a list of depot item contents string sorted by depo numeric identifier.
* It also appears the depo identifier is the first underscore separated value on a given line
* It seems the more popular artifacts are referenced multiple times in the list due to the quantity of contents and versions associated with a given depo
All of that could be wrong, but nonetheless I wrote a small 2minute Node.js script to analyze the list. It takes about 0.03 seconds to execute, on my machine anyways, and produces as output a list of depo identifiers sorted by the frequency in which those identifiers occur in the dats_date.txt file.
These identifiers do not always resolve to a game title using the steamdb.info site but several do. Because though because steamdb.info applies rate limiting and then a temporary IP address block.
https://gist.github.com/prettydiff/fe1456dbd458b8a376961f4f6...
btw interestingly from the leak homepage:
"To the operators of browsers/indexers: please look into caching or mirroring the blobs, as a large volume of requests at this point are coming from these, which seem to be impacting downloads for everyone. It's a 15 GB directory that would save the time of many people. Many people should have them all downloaded by now.
We are facing pretty severe link oversaturation. If you managed to download something please try seeding them on the torrent and/or sharing the original files on third party services to spare us some load. The more torrent seeds the faster and more viable it shall be."
Storj is a much more straightforward implementation. So is Sia, I think.
It also acts as a url shortener for their hardware support pages.
s.team/deck, and s.team/machine take you to the appropriate support pages.
it's not like regular stuff where companies just sue you left and right, this stuff is hard to pursue and usually not worth it
it can get taken down but that's about it
0f3e7a75c0f885dde481054d4bcd8cd14eab51c8
welcome to terarelease - a as-complete-as-possible steam2 content server dump
extractor howto: for the majority of depots you need to download blobs & dats for wanted version *as well as all past versions* as the files are stored as deltas inside the dat files, HOWEVER IF you encounter a depot that has duplicate blobs & dats, that means at some point in time valve did a full reset in which case you need to provide the CRC of the wanted blob (3rd file name component) to the extractor using --blobcrc, source code for the extractor is also left in this folder if you want to have a peek at it
examples: extract /mnt/big/blobs /mnt/big/dats 852 0 | for depots w/o reset extract /mnt/big/blobs /mnt/big/dats 841 0 --blobcrc 83ced978 | for depots that did reset
win64 build is provided, for linux you have to build it yourself as any kind of binary compatibility is inexistent except for wine (you are using linux, you should know how to build it yourself right? ...right?)
sharing: you are very much encouraged to share and mirror/seed this release as possible SHARING IS CARING
warm n good wishes to all hoarders who had stuff from this collection <3
donos (bandwidth [ shit aint cheap :( ]/seedboxes/estrogen :D): bc1qttqxa2vrfnrs3u3tmuj7dne5j7lptxmc2cy9ah
My own gaming days are over, but I am very annoyed that the big corporations killed libgen effectively (it is not entirely gone, but the old content is nowhere near as it used to be, and Anna's archive is also nowhere near as good either, unfortunately).
Not sure what you mean, Anna's Archive includes all of Libgen's content
It seems to me that fighting with Valve is like fighting against what we would want to have.
Valve could shut it down any single day just by disabling trading but hey, that doesn't let you buy a 110m long superyacht (; https://www.yachtcharterfleet.com/luxury-charter-yacht-53601...
One giant megacorp with a benevolent dictator? Well, maybe you want that - but I do not. And we have a couple of examples of how it goes.
You can have a whole one try to guess who is this.
And if you guess it right (I doubt you can answer wrong, lol) you would know a whole bunch of different reasons - including personal qualities of that "benevolent dictator" too.
NB honestly, if anything it's "his" OS what gave a lot of opportunities to the kids in the developing countries everywhere, not just Africa alone - just by providing the means to run the apps and games on almost anything. OLPC on the other hand provided an example how a specialized device made with the best intentions was a piece of shit.