u/Selflezz

Get Steam AppId but never publish the game?

Hey there.

So I have this problem. I am almost finished with my UE game but I just made it for me and my friends and it's not for publishing.

But I use steam for hosting and finding lobbies with the AppID 480. But with this AppID on certain days on certain times I can't find the lobbies. Yesterday was Friday and we tried playing it at around 8pm. No lobby could be found even when trying to change to other download regions. Today, Saturday 10am, everything works great. I read then that there are times when the APPid is so heavily used that my lobbie gets dropped before it gets shown in the search lobbie window.

I am thinking about buying an AppID from Steam but hide the game from the store and never publish it. So with my own APPid these problems should not exist afaik.

Does this make any sense? Is it even possible?

Best regards!

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u/Selflezz — 2 days ago

Hi there.

So as the noob that I am I got a sniper rifle asset from fab that uses a Scene2dcomponent for the scope. It uses a reder target in Format RGBA16f and as source Scene Color Hdr. When using LDR color the scope shows only black. The view through the scope then is very dark compared to the level itself. Is there a way to brighten it up? I tried "color" and "linear color" as Sampler type. And RGBA8 as format. But I only get it to work with hdr and not with LDR. Sorry if this is a stupid question. Best regards!

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u/Selflezz — 2 months ago