#shadownrun

[antunesketch]

"John, I'm Only Dancing" by @antunesketch

Colors soon/cores em breve/colores de pronto

[jamesshawgames]

Spoilers for Neon Fire i guess. But does Spider always die or am i doing something wrong?

Thanks for the ask! Nah, he always dies. (That's why he's the only one who isn't gender selectable: I couldn't be bothered doing all the variable gender code for someone who's only around for four screens or so!)

[samuraiblack]

jix. commission.

april 2021

[gwadakidd]

Get the GAME for FREE here!

[krellyn]

Manganiello & Stephen Discuss 'Dungeons & Dragons' Only

'Dungeons & Dragons' had never been discussed in such detail on late night TV until Stephen sat down with Joe Manganiello, the man behind the 'Death Saves' D...

A couple of weeks ago I was looking at content on YouTube about gaming in general and the good ‘ol algorithm brought this up. I’m a little bit older gamer and have never looked at content online as much and some. My home group has been together since the early 90′s so to me there just wasn’t much reason to search around, but there is a lot more dialog out there than I ever expected and this video opened my eyes a lot and started a rabbit hole I will not soon climb out of.  

[crossroadsalpha]

Last year developer Hairbrained Schemes released an expansion to their mediocre cRPG, Shadowrun Returns. The expansion, Dragonfall, was a critical success and was later sold as a stand alone title. This success encouraged Hairbrained to return to the Shadowrun series with their third and most-recent effort, Shadowrun: Hong Kong which strikes a middle ground between [...]

[theoldoilhouse]

Man. I do so miss 80s/ 90s Cyberpunk, before the Matrix came in and ruined all the fun

[swetland]

Shadowrun Returns

I massively enjoyed playing through Shadowrun Returns and look forward to future first and third party modules/campaigns/whateveryoucallems.  I love the setting in general, and the art was great, and the game was a fun blend of RPG and tactical combat (somewhere between Baldur's Gate and XCOM, in a way).

I did run into a number of annoyances with the game (none of which were completely game-breaking, thankfully) that I hope the fine folks at Harebrained Schemes might fix in future updates.  I'm jotting them down here before sending them on.

Hiring Runners and Party Inventory

- You can only add items (grenades, medkits, etc) to the inventory of Runners you hire, not provide them with different weapons or other gear.  I'd love to be able to buy a better gun and loan it to a Runner I hire (perhaps not all would be willing to accept such loans?)

- You can't get items back from Runners even if unused and they survive the mission.  If I provide a Runner with a DocWagon card, it's gone at the end of the mission, even if they don't use it.

- Being able to hand items from one character to another during a mission would be nice too.  Occasionally I had a character pick up a grenade or something but not have the skills/stats to use it or use it well, but another party member could have.

Keyboard Bindings

The game looks like it should make the transition to tablets well, with the nice friendly big buttons for things, but I really wish there were clear keyboard bindings for selecting/cycling weapons and abilities, overwatch, confirm/cancel, etc.  I was doing a lot more clicking than ideal.

General Jankiness

I played this on a ~3GHz 3rd Gen Core-i7, 6-core, 12GB, GTX 670, Windows 7 machine.  It was a little sad to have audio break up and the UI stutter in menus and such.

Save System

This isn't horrible, but I really wish the auto-save happened just a bit more often than on level load -- say at the start of combat.  I never really got bit by this at Normal difficulty, and I don't mind the thought of getting utterly destroyed in a fight and having to redo it, but having to repeat a long sequence of running around chatting with NPCs and *then* redo a fight would indeed be frustrating.