Shadowrun Shadowrun Returns Pre-Release Thread

[Flacracker]

No relayshunships where I can sex an elf? No buy. Going back to play greatest rpg ever Dragon Age 2 for the fourth time.

 

[Roguey]

As mentioned in the thread I linked to, you can easily mod in your own romances.

 

[Flacracker]

I'm going to announce my feelings here to the world: I thought the Shadowrun FPS was pretty damn good. Sure it might not of had anything to do with Shadowrun, but I don't know or give shit about the Shadowrun universe really. It was a great team based multiplayer FPS that still has a lot of unique mechanics.

 

[Jaesun]

http://www.rpgcodex.net/forums/index.php?members/flacracker.14017/ignore

 

[Flacracker]

Please. Did you even play it? The different skills you could buy set it apart from other run of the mill FPS. If it had been only guns you could buy like Counter Strike the game would have been complete shit. The skills were pretty much cheat codes hax but they all had counters and interesting combos. I'm not going to pander to the status quo hive mind of the Codex and say that I didn't have fun with the game.

 

[Castanova]

Please. Did you even play it? The different skills you could buy set it apart from other run of the mill FPS. If it had been only guns you could buy like Counter Strike the game would have been complete shit. The skills were pretty much cheat codes hax but they all had counters and interesting combos. I'm not going to pander to the status quo hive mind of the Codex and say that I didn't have fun with the game.

I'm actually with you. It's one of the few multiplayer FPS games on modern consoles that I actually remember. It wasn't a perfect game by any means and obviously it raped the Shadowrun name but the game itself was quite memorable and fun. Who doesn't like going around as that invisible samurai sword dude?

 

[SuicideBunny]

it was way overpriced, had almost no content for said price and most of all was dx10/vista exclusive on pc despite running fine on dx9 and xp. no amount of interesting mechanics is going to change the fact that that amounts to it being shit.

 

[Sensuki]

FPS ... console

hahahaha

 

[crawlkill]

they're still charging, like, $20 to this fucking day. years later after a universal panning. you'd think they'd be civil and drop down to the $2.50 price point or something, especially since a fucking multiplayer-only game nobody bought is worth nnnothing.

I think it's been asked and answered but I forget, does the editor easily support persistent follow-you-everywhere companions in the traditional cRPG style? Or would it take a lot of dicking around to hack that together?

 

[Excidium]

I think it's been asked and answered but I forget, does the editor easily support persistent follow-you-everywhere companions in the traditional cRPG style? Or would it take a lot of dicking around to hack that together?

Good question, I'm also curious about the possibility of a whole player-made group.

 

[Jackalope]

What I'm curious is if the editor would allow for the creation of custom classes for the custom campaigns. I kinda want to make a Face class.

 

[Ulminati]

I think it's been asked and answered but I forget, does the editor easily support persistent follow-you-everywhere companions in the traditional cRPG style? Or would it take a lot of dicking around to hack that together?

Good question, I'm also curious about the possibility of a whole player-made group.

You're right. This question has been asked and answered several times already ITT. If only your search-fu was as good as your memory.

 

[Excidium]

2lazy

 

[Ulminati]

CBA to answer the question again. I guess you weren't meant to know.

 

[crawlkill]

What I'm curious is if the editor would allow for the creation of custom classes for the custom campaigns. I kinda want to make a Face class.

aren't the classes more or less just starting distributions of skills? last time I looked into it they were still trying to retain Shadowrun's open-purchase character system. with classes just being templates, expanding the palette wouldn't be that meaningful. I was wondering if you can generate new pieces of cyberware/spells and how sophisticatedly you could tinker with them if you did.

You're right. This question has been asked and answered several times already ITT. If only your search-fu was as good as your memory.

digging through a shitload of interviews many of which are only video and were never transcribed to attempt to find a reference to something without a formal name is totally better than asking a yes or no question on a forum amirite? not like the other 78 pages of this discussion, where nothing has ever been repeated ever ever once.

but now I actually turn on my brain I remember that I've already seen persistent parties used in a user-generated module from the beta. someone was talking in some thread or other too about the difficulties in having third parties interject in conversations. I think they said it was pretty possible, with a few minor concerns.

 

[Wizfall]

The Shadowrun FPS...
Honestly i don't know if it was good or not but i remember very well when i see it on the shelves of a video game shop.
I was not aware a Shadowrun game was being made and was amazed.
When i looked at the back of the box to see it was an FPS i was totally disgusted.
I mean really disgusted, the great setting and the Shadowrun RPG fan base to create a FPS.
Seriously, what a waste, who is the moron that had this great idea...

 

[crawlkill]

There's nothing wrong with the FPS as a format. System Shock was an FPS. People say the problem with the Shadowrun game was that it was shockingly low on content and totally unfaithful to the source material.

 

[slackerwizrd]

I just down know if I should pre-order this or not... I want that 10% off. What do the Supreme RPG Authorities of the RPGCodex think about it so far?

Is 2 USD really that much of a savings for you? I can understand that some people are cash-strapped, but if you're debating a 2$ savings, then you should probably consider not buying the game at all.

 

[Flacracker]

I just down know if I should pre-order this or not... I want that 10% off. What do the Supreme RPG Authorities of the RPGCodex think about it so far?

Is 2 USD really that much of a savings for you? I can understand that some people are cash-strapped, but if you're debating a 2$ savings, then you should probably consider not buying the game at all.

I already took the plunge and bought it just now.

 

[Grunker]

I think it's been asked and answered but I forget, does the editor easily support persistent follow-you-everywhere companions in the traditional cRPG style? Or would it take a lot of dicking around to hack that together?

Good question, I'm also curious about the possibility of a whole player-made group.

I'm curious as well.

CBA to answer the question again. I guess you weren't meant to know.

But you could be assed to comment on it twice?

 

[crawlkill]

I'm curious as well.

If you missed it, I remembered that I'd actually already seen it done in a custom module created with the beta editor. It looked like it happened perfectly naturally. They followed the dude around out of combat and everything. Maybe there was some sophisticated engine hacking behind that, but I prefer to doubt it.

 

[Ulminati]

CBA to answer the question again. I guess you weren't meant to know.

But you could be assed to comment on it twice?

It was answered 2-3 times in the last 10 pages. I can ALWAYS be assed to tell people they're lazy idiots.

 

[Excidium]

I guess it's not your fault for having autism but just answering the question that got lost in a sea of sperging again would have taken less effort for everyone including you.

 

[crawlkill]

I can ALWAYS be assed to tell people they're lazy idiots.

>describes not reading every post of a 78-page thread as laziness

You're one of those people who talks about MMOs as if they should be 'work,' aren'tcha? You're sure puttin in the hours tellin us off, though. Good thing your Codex work is gettin done. It would be terrible to see people slacking in their duty to decline.

 

[Chaotic_Heretic]

It was answered 2-3 times in the last 10 pages. I can ALWAYS be assed to tell people they're lazy idiots.

So you expect everyone to read and remember all the tantrums on megathreads?