Shadowrun Shadowrun: Hong Kong - Extended Edition

[J_C]

Fuck you J_C, shouldn't you be paying like a gazillion forint for fast Internet? What's your almost-dictatorship good for if I can't even get better Internet connections over here?

So fucking slow... 2 hours for 1GB.

There is so much shit in our country, but at least we have cheap and fast internet. Who needs good medical system when we have good internet?

 

[Nekot-The-Brave]

First impressions of the hacking minigame: "What am I doing?"

It's like being given a cyberdeck in real life and being told: "Hack!", when you have zero previous experience despite actually playing the previous two games.

 

[Ninjerk]

Spent enough time in combat to get sick of the combat track.

 

[eXalted]

Spent enough time in combat to get sick of the combat track.

Well, nothing new there.

Played Dragonfall with Deus Ex Human Revolution soundtrack for background.

 

[SwiftCrack]

HKPF AI did something really strange for me on the opening mission: one conjures a Fire Spirit and then they all just stand there waiting to get shot.

I had the same thing. But instead of standing there, the two officers started attacking their own fire spirit.

Great into sequence. First mission was really standard but it just flows from the story.

 

[Zetor]

Spent enough time in combat to get sick of the combat track.

Yea... after the intro, the first thing I did was turn off ingame music and put on some Perturbator in spotify instead. I can just listen to the OST later, anyway...

 

[Ninjerk]

So if you jump the other smugglers with your music turned off, it turns the combat track on anyway after you attack them and then turns it off on your next turn.

 

[imweasel]

Me the whole time:



I am fucking loving it. :D

 

[Unbeliever]

in first couple of fights, enemies concentrate fire on same target and retreat when in problem. Looks good.

 

[khavi]

Really hope combat difficulty has been scaled up for Hard. Way up.

 

[Cyberarmy]

A hot dwarven chick with a granade launcher? Is this what real love feels like?!?!?!

 

[Excidium II]

Why can't anyone copy Arcanum's equipment buying at character creation?

A simple but extremely effective system that even feeds off your history traits / class selection.
Would brofist if I could, not sure why this isn't done more.

It's not like shopping for spells/foci/cyberware/weapons/armour/etc is an important part of chargen in Shadowrun.

 

[Alfons]

Are there any new abilities or spells?

 

[Immortal]

It's not like shopping for spells/foci/cyberware/weapons/armour/etc is an important part of chargen in Shadowrun.

I was hoping Hong Kong would have more items / selection.

 

[GarfunkeL]

OKAY!

GOG download is 9.5 gigs. As soon as it is done, I'll be streaming the game over here:
http://www.twitch.tv/gar_funkel_00

I'll post when I go live.

 

[Cadmus]

shit shit...I know I shouldn't play it because it will inevitably receive 20 patches and DLCs and Director's Cuts and shit...But I want it!!

Keep posting. Tomorrow's the official Codex review, right?

 

[mutonizer]

in first couple of fights, enemies concentrate fire on same target and retreat when in problem. Looks good.

Err lol what?
Started on hard, then out of the 3 first fights, I had dudes wielding assault rifles run right up to me and my shotgun, dudes standing out in the open wondering wtf was going on and others grenading their own dudes just to get one or two of my guys, then I remembered how fucking retarded combat is in this game and restarted on normal. Cover/LOS system's still shit and arbitrary, AI's still as moronic as ever.

Writing's not too bad though, as usual, once you get past the intro section.

 

[Unbeliever]

Err lol what?
Started on hard, then out of the 3 first fights, I had dudes wielding assault rifles run right up to me and my shotgun, dudes standing out in the open wondering wtf was going on and others grenading their own dudes just to get one or two of my guys, then I remembered how fucking retarded combat is in this game and restarted on normal. Cover/LOS system's still shit and arbitrary, AI's still as moronic as ever.

Writing's not too bad though, as usual, once you get past the intro section.

Different story in my case. In first fight, everybody fired on police chick because she was not in good cover. And last man tried to pull back and find new cover after i kill his friends. Something similar happened in second fight.

 

[Ninjerk]

http://www.twitch.tv/directory/game/Shadowrun: Hong Kong

 

[GarfunkeL]

And I'm starting the stream at http://www.twitch.tv/gar_funkel_00 for those who cannot play for themselves yet.

 

[Zetor]

I'm liking the matrix so far (even with the minigame), the 'stealth' / puzzle-action segment of dodge-the-watcher ICs is kinda fun, and the rewards seem to be worth it. Of course it may get old eventually.

Speaking of particularly nice rewards from decking, a semi-protip for those playing on Hard:

not sure if I should spoiler this

be sure to bring a decker along for the museum run... your support caster will love you for it.

 

[mutonizer]

Different story in my case. In first fight, everybody fired on police chick because she was not in good cover. And last man tried to pull back and find new cover after i kill his friends. Something similar happened in second fight.

Hmm, odd. I'll try to pay more attention on how they move and whatnot but really not impressed so far.

 

[Zombra]

Started on hard, then out of the 3 first fights, I had dudes wielding assault rifles run right up to me and my shotgun, dudes standing out in the open wondering wtf was going on and others grenading their own dudes just to get one or two of my guys, then I remembered how fucking retarded combat is in this game and restarted on normal. Cover/LOS system's still shit and arbitrary, AI's still as moronic as ever.

* Complains AI is too easy
* Turns down difficulty

 

[Ninjerk]

So far dialogue checks for Shadowrunner, Academic, Body, Intelligence, and Spirit Summoning. Body and Intel were probably useless FWIW, didn't have Academic at the time. I'm approaching the Triad guy in the Walled City soon.

 

[hoverdog]

oh boy, I actually laughed out loud when I got the disturb the feng shui mission. marvelous