Steam: trading cards for profit

I would love to share with you, my blog viewers, a little trade profit I managed to make on steam by buying and selling steam game cards and opening booster packs

http://steam.tools/cards/

Here is your main to-go website if you want to make some sweet deals on steam cards.

You get to see various prices for cards, sets and most importantly

The profit meter: "Booster", which tells you the profit you get for opening a booster pack. 2 cards equal (in most cases) the sum you paid in getting the pack, so the 3rd card is pure profit


Let me show you what I did

1. Got myself Revolution ace for a real bargain

2. Crafted a badge, got a booster pack (for the first time, pure random luck)

3. Bought another booster pack for 0.15 cents

4. Unpacked it to get 6 cards, that happen to be about 54 cents all in all, but I would say ~40 because you pay 2 cents for selling em on the market again.

5. By selling the cards again I can definitely say I won 2 cards, about 14(+3) cents or so just by trading (not counting the 30 cents for crafting a badge)

And that is just the beginning

There isn't a huge profit in this, but I cannot say I am not glad to get several cents just by buying and selling

Sadly, the revolution ace cards sellers seem to have balanced the prices, so there isn't a lot of room to profit.

But, it is still valuable information to have.

Who knows what cards might become really valuable in the coming future, so keep an eye out









There is one more thing: Booster pack creation.
 GEMS

Since gems have been introduced there is no limit on how many booster packs are available for the market, since everyone can just craft them.

0.62 cents will get you this.


Depending on the game (I put that in caps for a reason), you can craft yourself a booster pack of a game you own.

And this is a good potential to find yourself a hidden gold mine.

If you manage to get yourself a sack of gems (either buying on the market, or *crafting it yourself*) you can spend those gems on crafting a booster pack, which might have cards in them, that cost more than the gems you spend money on, so you make cash

*Crafting it yourself* as far as I have checked, it's better to buy a sack of gems, since you will pay 0.70 for 1000 gems

IF SOMEWHERE there is an item, that gives you a bigger sum of gems in proportions to the medicon, you might want to buy all the stock, craft sack of gems and sell them or make booster packs idk, it's up to you.




TL:DR
http://steam.tools/cards/ for card, boost and set prices
REMEMBER TO ALWAYS KEEP IN MIND THE STEAM TAX FOR SELLING ON THE MARKET If you forget this you might lose cash in the end!

Check for games on sale that are quite cheap and have steam cards
Compare prices on cards, booster packs and look for a chance to find a profitable win

Bonus tip!

When you use the link above to check the average card price PLEASE keep in mind cards might vary in value very steeply. Keep in mind that you might open a pack that has 2-3 of the cheapest cards and compare the cheapest price with the booster pack price. Keep in mind this risk

(Also to keep in mind)
Opening a booster pack has a chance of giving you a Foil card, which usually is around 10 times the price of a regular card. Just keep that in mind.


Buying Revolution Ace was a pure profit deal for me, I made more cash than paying for the game itself. I welcome you to remember the steps of my guide and search for a small profit. Remember!
This is a quite relaxing, safe way to make a little bit of extra cash. I will talk about the big gamblers in the next posts.

Oblivion is now old

As I looked at the Oblivion mods in the Nexusmods I noticed how empty the Elder scrolls: Oblivion mod page was.
 Quite naturally, the older game gets less attention. At this given time it's quite clear, that it is not worthwhile to spend time modding Oblivion anymore. I am sure the replayability of that game has been drained at this point, and since no new big mods are being released...nothing is going to change that.

It is only sensible to look at Skyrim at this point for the Elder scroll gameplay need. As far as Skyrim goes, it's modding community is very much alive and bigger in numbers. I saw some very great quest, land, overhaul, graphic overhaul mods. No doubt, they are perfect for people who love to mod the game.


The big thing to remember is:

Newer games provide more gameplay mechanics that can be modded. That is why a musket mod works quite good in skyrim, but sadly looks very odd in oblivion (check the video below)


Like with most games, we have to accept games get abandoned, like many mmo/mmorpg lobbies of the good classic games.

All I can hope for is a new Elder Scrolls that would take us back into the atmosphere as Oblivion once did.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WzX2QQd2lNU

Should you try heroes and generals?

Heroes and generals
F2P ww2 shooter

Heroes and generals offers a experience by becoming a ww2 soldier and testing out your skills in ww2 scenarios. It amazes with realism, customization and varied game play methods.



You start off by picking one of two (now three!) characters. A german, an american and a soviet.

You get to choose between a rifle and a sub machine gun (I recommend the rifle) And you dive right into battle. The main goal is to capture objective locations. How you get to the objective point is your choice, You can sit in a car, on a bike or just run. Beware! Enemies don't show up on the map often. Make sure to scout the terain yourself. Every movement on the screen is crucial! (just like in real war)

Features:
VERY detailed gun customization. No decals yet, but the ability to change the barrel, the trigger, the iron sight, the bullets...you name it.

Ribbons. Unlocked as you perform certain actions. The higher lvl ribbons you have, the more medals and guns, cars, tanks you get

Medals. Unlocked by completing ribbon levels give you one choosable bonus, allowing you to find the best strategy for your soldier.

Global ranking

A nice variety of maps. Some maps are amazing in size. Plus, nice authentic landscape of ww2 Europe, especially the architecture

Global war. All players can participate in it. Your good results add to the results of the ongoing war.

Ranking up. A very crucial part of a game for me. You get to rank up even up to general!

Squads. Play with your friends

Tanks! Planes! Armored vehicles. Awesome for all the vehicle fans

Realistic shooting. It's not enough to just point at the enemy when being a sniper. Take in account the distance and speed of the enemy. Sometimes nerve wrecking, but real ww2 realism

Negative things
Things that aren't that good. By spending real cash you can unlock buy guns and features faster. Oh well...That is to be expected I guess

The K/D ratio can be depressing at times...

So, do you like ww2 and want a free, realistic fps game that gets constant updates and has a large player fanbase? Then this game might be just for you.

Improved channel name

Hello everyone!

Yesterday, after putting in some thought into this matter, I decided to change my youtube channel into a more relevant name. The old, no sense making Kaimas7 was finally changed to BethesdaFan1

I think it's a good improvement since it delivers a clear message to the youtube users and should make the search for my channel a bit easier, I hope.
As far as I have checked both my usernames still give my channel as a search result, so that should help anyone who is not familiar with my new channel name...

I am really glad I could fix the mistake I made many, many years ago by naming my channel a random word. I always had the desire to change it, but at that time it was not possible. I stuck with this channel even through the name that made no sense and still managed to attract my loveable subscribers and get great numbers of views.
I will make sure this channel stays as active and even more popular than before, and I thank every fan for being a part of the youtube channel and the blog.

Have a wonderful day and...till next time!
Bethesdafan1

Turning Fallout New vegas into a brutal, realistic combat challenge

New Vegas is a very popular game in the Fallout series. I have done some reviews, tutorials and videos about it. Although it's 4 years old now, it still has many players who enjoy it.

There are. however some complains about the game being too easy and the enemies are pretty mundane and boring. I am here to guide you how to fix that. We will need some mods:



Jsawyear
The first one is made by a official developer of the game. The mod is considered to be a great fix for the game and it even makes combat harder somehow
http://www.moddb.com/games/fallout-new-vegas/addons/jsawyer-mod

Next:
This beast mod changes everything. I just started using it and it alone makes the wasteland a brutal slaughterfest.
Monster Mod.
Adds tons of new monster to the game. Check the screens and the video below. The enemies are definitely difficult!
http://www.nexusmods.com/newvegas/mods/41361/?
 Here are some screens:

 This comedic video below shows me in a combat situation. Showcases all the mod recommendations I am giving right now, including the monster mod
::

(Notice the health bar of the screenshot the mob! It spawned in the cave near Goodsprings!)
Aesthetic changes:

Increased Weapon Jamming.
This adds weapon jamming to guns in bad condition. Adds realism to dangerous combat situations.

http://www.nexusmods.com/newvegas/mods/45003/?

Realistic Reloading.  
Doesn't allow you to recover your bullets instanly when emptying a cartridge or magazine adding even more real life combat realism. To recover the bullets you need to find an ammo bench.
http://www.nexusmods.com/newvegas/mods/48242/?

Realistic Bullet Speed New Vegas. 
Supposed to mimic bullet physics to be just like in real life.
http://www.nexusmods.com/newvegas/mods/47841/?

CaliberX.
Adds all kinds of cool weapon ammunition name changes to the real life ones.
http://www.nexusmods.com/newvegas/mods/39981/?

Enchanced blood textures
http://www.nexusmods.com/newvegas/mods/34917/?

The textures of the blood can be seen in the screen next to you and in the video

Improved Sound FX and distant gunfire sound fix
Fixes an annoying gun sound bug and replaces gun sounds of the vanilla guns to realistic ones. A must have! (The mods are supposedly conflicting with each other when in use, but I haven't noticed a problem)
http://www.nexusmods.com/newvegas/mods/35293/? and http://www.nexusmods.com/newvegas/mods/35331/?

JIP Realistic Weapon Overhaul (requires MCM)
All the mods above don't even require NVSE to my knowledge ( script extender), but with this mod you will need it. If you are new to modding then maybe pass on to the next mod. Otherwise, adds heat to a gun that is being fired too fast just like in real life.
http://www.nexusmods.com/newvegas/mods/49892/?

More shells
Shells stay for a bit longer, shows you how intense the battle was.
http://www.nexusmods.com/newvegas/mods/34956/?

Recommended:
Weapon mod extension WMX
A glorious mod that extends the vanilla gun modding. Definitely a nice mod
http://www.nexusmods.com/newvegas/mods/39651/?

Weapon retexturing project.
A stunning mod that retextures the boring vanilla guns to have nicer textures. If used with WMX, add a compatibility patch that is included in the download selection.
http://www.nexusmods.com/newvegas/mods/38285/?



And some last points to make sure the combat stays heart pounding and nerve wreaking:::

Set the difficulty to very hard.

Don't mod overpowered weapons into the game

For an even extra boost ridiculous boost, take away S.P.E.C.I.A.L endurance points early in the game, but this is definitely overkill

Survive!

And have fun. Thanks for reading.

How to delete save files in pcsx2 (1.2.1)

So, you've been playing on the emulator for a while now and you get the message that you need to clear some files of your memory card.

This is a step by step guide how you can easily do it.

1.Make sure you select the following option. Be SURE not to have a game running or you will be bombarded by messages.

2. Boot the cd dvd like you usually do

 You will this message →

3. Click the browser

4. Choose your memory card








5. Find the savefiles you want to be deleted


6. Delete them!


And this is how you delete your savefiles.

After this turn your cdvd back to ISO

Pcsx 2 and your pc hardware

 A couple of weeks ago, I decided to improve my pc by replacing my old video card the Geforce 9600gt with the several times more powerful Geforce 660.

Naturally, as a fan of ps2 games, I wanted to emulate a game called Vice city stories. If you read my blog already, you would know that open world games very often cause an fps drop when emulating, since it is difficult to handle them for your pc. The reason for this is: the emulator is still in development and not 100% complete. But I gotta say, the emulation itself is very nice, graphical bugs are non existent in the current version (comparing it to the old versions that I had used before, even emulating this game).

Here are my results with the new graphics card:

The fps drops have not changed.


 As it turns out the emulator takes almost all power from the CPU.

If you upgrade that, then you will truly see a difference.

For now the performance is based on CPU>GPU

The developers are trying to change it to GPU>CPU, but it might take years for it to happen.

Pc games that I own, however have shown great improvements.

This is a quick notice to ps2, (pcsx2) fans. I hope this information is valuable to your own experience.