Shadowrun Shadowrun Returns Pre-Release Thread

[evdk]

So, apparently the poll is a tie between Hong Kong and Berlin and now there's a new poll to choose from these two cities. Check your spam folders, etc...

Voted Hong Kong, because fuck Lofwyr.

 

[Deleted member 7219]

Voted Berlin because I've seen Chinese settings done more than German ones.

 

[Azalin]

More Seattle didn't make it into the play-offs

I voted Honk Kong between those two,it looks more interesting and Shadowrun is a quasi-cyberpunk setting so an asian city seems more fitting

 

[Ulminati]

Voted Hong Kong, because fuck Lofwyr.

same

 

[DwarvenFood]

Voted Berlin because Ulminati.

 

[Roguey]

Voting Berlin as fast as I can because fuck ignorant racist depictions of Asian cities/cultures from repulsive gweilos.

 

[Humanity has risen!]

Voting Berlin as fast as I can because fuck ignorant racist depictions of Asian cities/cultures from repulsive gweilos.

Exactly why I voted Berlin as well.

 

[OSK]

I didn't get a survey yet.

I must vote Hong Kong to hold back the decline.

 

[Jaesun]

I didn't get a survey yet.

I must vote Hong Kong to hold back the decline.

maybe it got sent to junkmail? Mine came from a jordan@hbr something. I almost overlooked it.

 

[Shannow]

Voted Hong Kong just to piss off Burning Bridges.

Nah, actually because I imagine Seattle/Hong Kong will lead to larger variations in setting, stories and characters than Seattle/Berlin would have done.

 

[Jaesun]

Voted Hong Kong.

 

[RedScum]

Voted Berlin.

THIRD REICH!

 

[OSK]

I didn't get a survey yet.

I must vote Hong Kong to hold back the decline.

maybe it got sent to junkmail? Mine came from a jordan@hbr something. I almost overlooked it.

Finally got mine. It was just late.

I voted Hong Kong because Berlin sounds boring as fuck.

 

[Deleted member 7219]

I didn't get a survey yet.

I must vote Hong Kong to hold back the decline.

maybe it got sent to junkmail? Mine came from a jordan@hbr something. I almost overlooked it.

Finally got mine. It was just late.

I voted Hong Kong because Berlin sounds boring as fuck.

"Let's spend our honeymoon in east Berlin..."

 

[SuicideBunny]

mine still hasn't come

 

[Jarpie]

Check your junkmail folder, my Thunderbird marked it as junkmail and moved to the junk folder.

 

[SuicideBunny]

a) gmail webmailer, b) not in spam folder or anywhere else.
there seem to be quite a few people this time around who got the first mail but not the one for the vs poll.

 

[Humanity has risen!]

How does magic work in Shadowrun on Genesis? It seems to make you randomly dizzy, but does it also lowers your capability to make successful rolls when you use it repeatedly? You can set parameters for it, what's this about?

It's a shame that the game is so repetitive, grindy, brutal and random, because some aspects of it are truly fantastic.

 

[DwarvenFood]

a) gmail webmailer, b) not in spam folder or anywhere else.
there seem to be quite a few people this time around who got the first mail but not the one for the vs poll.

Yeah here too.. shame, really.

 

[Ulminati]

How does magic work in Shadowrun on Genesis? It seems to make you randomly dizzy, but does it also lowers your capability to make successful rolls when you use it repeatedly? You can set parameters for it, what's this about?

It's a shame that the game is so repetitive, grindy, brutal and random, because some aspects of it are truly fantastic.

I haven't played the genesis game (didn't own colsoles back then) but it sounds pretty much like how magic is handled in pen & paper.

For those who haven't played pen & paper, basically the way magic works is this (in p&p): When you cast a spell, you determine the "Force" you want to cast it at. The Force of a spell determines how powerful the effect is, but also directly determines how large the drain is. Once the spell is cast, you take the drain in stun damage (or physical damage if the force was way above your magic ability. Yay overcast) which you can then try to resist. So you could theoretically cast spells all day without running out of mana/spell slots. But in most practical situations you'll eventually fail to resist all the drain and the damage begins to rack up.

The way damage works in Shadowrun p&p is that you have 2 damage tracks -- physical and stun. If either gets filled up you die/drop unconscious. But every 3 boxes of damage you've begun to accrue (so at 1 damage, 4 damage, 7 damage etc) in either track give syou a cumultative -1 modifier to all die rolls. Including subsequent tests for drain if you're casting spells. So once you botch one drain test things can suddenly go downhill fast.

I imagine Shadowrun Returns will have a similar system in place considering it's the same people making it as who did p&p, and the drain system has been left more or less unaltered in all versions of SR P&P and would be easy to implement on teh computar.

 

[asper]

a) gmail webmailer, b) not in spam folder or anywhere else.
there seem to be quite a few people this time around who got the first mail but not the one for the vs poll.

Yeah here too.. shame, really.

Make sure to thoroughly search your spam folder. Just searching for "shadowrun" doesn't work, search for "survey". I got mine from "jordan@hbs-studios".

 

[SuicideBunny]

a) gmail webmailer, b) not in spam folder or anywhere else.
there seem to be quite a few people this time around who got the first mail but not the one for the vs poll.

Yeah here too.. shame, really.

pm'd mitch hbs on the forums, he resent the mail and this time it arrived just fine.

 

[HanoverF]

Berlin won, see kickstarter comment section fill with rage.

Denver still sounds like the best option

 

[Jaesun]

I wonder how close it was. Oh well. What's done is done.

 

[Hobo Elf]

fuck yeah Berlin