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Shadowrun: Hong Kong |OT| Little Trouble in Big China
- Thread starter cj_iwakura
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MichaelFassbender
Member
A decker, of course. It's the only way to fly.
A battlemage is good, most of the rest is really well covered by your (super fun) team.
Edit: Decker is ok too I guess.
Gurgelhals
Member
Decker it is. If you're not the decker, you'll probably have to replace one of your three core team members with a decker for most missions. You don't want to do this, because a) the three core team members in Dragonfall are awesome and you'll want them in your party for every mission and b) the fourth party member in Dragonfall (= the decker) is a bit of a twat 
Mass_Pincup
Banned
Can't wait, love me some Shadowrun.
BrokenFiction
Member
StereoVsn
Member
Decker it is. If you're not the decker, you'll probably have to replace one of your three core team members with a decker for most missions. You don't want to do this, because a) the three core team members in Dragonfall are awesome and you'll want them in your party for every mission and b) the fourth party member in Dragonfall (= the decker) is a bit of a twat
Eh, while being a decker is fine, need to make sure that MC is strong at combat as other characters are not great in quite a few situations. Hong Kong makes it easier on the other hand because you have at least couple good combat chars.
E_Darkness
Member
I really hope they tell us what the extra 5 hours are at some point.
I mean I'm going to do another playthrough now with the game being (probably) more polished than it was at launch and the extra content.
Probably going to go decker this time. I went with a cyber augmented melee troll my first time through. Cyberware is pretty great.
I mean I'm going to do another playthrough now with the game being (probably) more polished than it was at launch and the extra content.
Probably going to go decker this time. I went with a cyber augmented melee troll my first time through. Cyberware is pretty great.
It's the post-game mini-campaign.
E_Darkness
Member
So it is. I might've missed them actually posting that somewhere but I found it in their twitter feed/
Mini-campaign to be released today.
Not great timing, HBS, not great timing at all.
Not great timing, HBS, not great timing at all.
Glad to have it all the same.
Mass_Pincup
Banned
BrokenFiction
Member
I had to restart Steam for it to see the update, but it's downloading now.
666MB...lol
666MB...lol
E_Darkness
Member
I think it's out now. Steam has changed the title to Extended Edition.
Edit: Also out on GOG. It's downloading now.
His Majesty
Banned
Awesome news! Can't wait to dive back in.
You are correct.
E_Darkness
Member
Thankfully I haven't played enough of Enemy Within to care about XCOM 2! But I'm going away this weekend so actually it still came out at a bad time for me...
Dick Justice
Banned
The shabbiness of XCOM 2's current technical performance means I'll probably be playing this extended campaign sooner rather than later.
GavinUK86
Member
Glad I'm not the only one.
Psychoward
Banned
Extended campaign? I almost bought it during the winter sale, glad I held off I guess.
E_Darkness
Member
I forgot how bad download speeds GOG is. I've been downloading this for 2 hours. And it's only at 60%.
Edit: oh it suddenly installed and is all done.
I wish the bonus campaign had a cool name, instead of just being called (Bonus!)
Edit: oh it suddenly installed and is all done.
I wish the bonus campaign had a cool name, instead of just being called (Bonus!)
E_Darkness
Member
I guess as a heads up, Dragonfall Director's Cut is 80% off.
For all the people who are just wondering in I guess.
For all the people who are just wondering in I guess.
Terra_Ex
Member
Well that slipped completely under the radar. I uninstalled the game the other day too. Oh well, time to redownload it.
Soyongdori
Member
So what did they add other than 6 extra missions?
E_Darkness
Member
Audio Commentary.
XCOM is a little buggy and has performance issues that are keeping me away. I'll probably fire this up over the weekend.
Seems to be randomly hitting people, i was ready to get a refund and buy somethings in the sale if i got hit but I've had no issues so far.
I agree this was very bad timing but hey its free and i'll certainly get to it at some point before Necropolis hits in March.
It's a free upgrade.
Had no idea about this til just now, definitely excited to get back to Hong Kong.
Gurgelhals
Member
Happy that the mini campaign is out; was looking forward to it.
Not so happy that this is probably going to be the last bit of HBS-developed Shadowrun for quite some time. They're busy with Mechwarrior now, so I guess it's probably going to be a few years until they'll do another Shadowrun campaign.
Not so happy that this is probably going to be the last bit of HBS-developed Shadowrun for quite some time. They're busy with Mechwarrior now, so I guess it's probably going to be a few years until they'll do another Shadowrun campaign.
BrokenFiction
Member
I love HBS to death, but I'd be OK with this. A little break and then hopefully a major engine upgrade before we hit the Sixth World again.
I'm cool with that, they brought Shadowrun back in a big way, now they can do the same thing for Battletech. Then they can hopefully take some of that new engine juju and give us new Shadowrun again a few years from now.
Holy shit, I've been wishing for a mech strategy game since I got into Gundam a couple years ago and couldn't find any good ones. Had no idea HBS was making one. They're working their way up my favorite developer list pretty quick.
His Majesty
Banned
I wouldn't mind a yearly release if they could manage to keep on the level of Dragonfall and Hong Kong.
One hour in into the new campaign by the way, great start.
One hour in into the new campaign by the way, great start.
cj_iwakura
Member
Eh, I really didn't like XCOM 1, have no interest in the sequel.
HBS just released all (?) the remaining rewards via backer kit - the e-novel, the Hong Kong source book, the annotated short story anthology.
The e-novel appears to be a (massive, at 340+ pages) straight novelization of the game's main story. Might be great alternative way to refresh your memory of the original campaign before diving into the bonus campaign. It also comes in a mobi version, so I think I'm gonna put this on my Kindle right now and start reading.
The annotated anthology looks like a real treat for Shadowrun fans, though a lot of the annotations are basically just the authors poking fun at their own writing and edgy 1990s conceptions of a cyberpunk future.
The e-novel appears to be a (massive, at 340+ pages) straight novelization of the game's main story. Might be great alternative way to refresh your memory of the original campaign before diving into the bonus campaign. It also comes in a mobi version, so I think I'm gonna put this on my Kindle right now and start reading.
The annotated anthology looks like a real treat for Shadowrun fans, though a lot of the annotations are basically just the authors poking fun at their own writing and edgy 1990s conceptions of a cyberpunk future.
cj_iwakura
Member
I wonder if they played Soul Hackers, which was basically Atlus' attempt at the same thing.
And glad the novel's finally out, a little disappointed it's not original though.
