Shadowrun Shadowrun: Dragonfall - Director's Cut

[Jools]

I think I'll restart playing the whole thing, vanilla campaign and then DF one. I was quite enjoying SR then I've stopped playing because of pesky real life getting in the way, but I'm hearing an alluring call... In no small part due to the recent reading of Gibson's novels...

 

[GarfunkeL]

During a mission? No.

But if your inventory is full, you can get them to pick up stuff so it's at least usable in the mission and doesn't just go back to stash.

 

[Lujo]

Fuckin' Apex fight man. In my opinion, that's how you design a "boss fight" for a turnbased game. The Matrix layer works great here and you have to make decisions on how to best use your team. And goddamn enemy-cunts with tasers to take away your precious actionpoints.

It's glorious I think.

Only if you do the matrix part - if you just decide to delete APEX, then it's a cakewalk.

 

[Gord]

During a mission? No.

But if your inventory is full, you can get them to pick up stuff so it's at least usable in the mission and doesn't just go back to stash.

Only in combat mode though, afaik, since you otherwise only control your own char.

 

[WhiteGuts]

Yeah, I could never pick stuff up (or interact with the environment) with my other characters outside of combat.

 

[dryan]

During a mission? No.

But if your inventory is full, you can get them to pick up stuff so it's at least usable in the mission and doesn't just go back to stash.

Only in combat mode though, afaik, since you otherwise only control your own char.

I was under the impression that if you have a full inventory, and you pick up an item out of combat, it goes to your first companion with a free inventory slot. That replace/stash window opens only after everyone has all slots occupied.

But I always stock up before runs, loaning BuMoNa's to Eiger and medkits to Dietrich, so I'm not sure.

 

[GarfunkeL]

Nah, stash opens if your inventory is full.

Didn't they add an option to manually launch combat mode? Or was I imagining things.

 

[Infinitron]

Not sure how long this has been up: http://harebrained-schemes.com/about/job-openings/

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• Drive the creation of 3D game environments for Unity. We expect you to bring new tricks and techniques to our team.
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• Working with a small art team, create 3D assets that can be efficiently re-used, reconfigured, and plugged-in to a modular system.

Required XP

• You love making (and playing) games, not just making art. Though you love that too!
• Wizard-level modeling skills in Maya. You place each polygon with the precision of a master surgeon.
• You know that realism is not the destination. You aspire to create 3D worlds that are beautiful and unique, not to capture every grass blade and each texture in fine specular detail.
• You know all the stuff we’d expect you to know about art: color, value, lighting, composition, creating focus, atmospheric perspective, and so on.
• You know how to work with shaders and get them to do what you want. You know your way around lighting/lightmaps in Unity.
• You are familiar with technical constraints and considerations like batch count, texture sizes, and atlasing.
• You’re a thought-leader in game environment creation – and you know how to set up the *right* environment art production pipeline based on the needs of the project and the size of the team.
• You’ve shipped several games on PC (ideally with Unity!), and you’re comfortable creating and setting up an environment “end-to-end” – your job’s done when the environment art looks great at runtime, not in Maya.
• You’re organized and comfortable determining your tasks and priorities on your own.
• Nobody else has a good answer? You say “challenge accepted”.
• You love working with others – ‘cause you’ll be stuck working with us, and we’re a highly-collaborative bunch.

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• You’re awesome at effects art, too! Particularly within Unity.
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Procedurally generated. Console limitations on a PC game? Hmmm.

 

[Wizfall]

Not sure how long this has been up: http://harebrained-schemes.com/about/job-openings/

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Procedurally generated. Console limitations on a PC game? Hmmm.

i was hoping for another shadowrun game using an enhanced version of their engine (not in term of graphics but features, especially a better character system) but it does not really look like that.
Also i have doubt about the 3D thing, SRR was considered 2D or 3D ?

 

[Athelas]

3D (...) Unity

 

[tuluse]

i was hoping for another shadowrun game using an enhanced version of their engine (not in term of graphics but features, especially a better character system) but it does not really look like that.
Also i have doubt about the 3D thing, SRR was considered 2D or 3D ?

SRR was very simple 3D with fancy 2D on top.

 

[Wizfall]

i was hoping for another shadowrun game using an enhanced version of their engine (not in term of graphics but features, especially a better character system) but it does not really look like that.
Also i have doubt about the 3D thing, SRR was considered 2D or 3D ?

SRR was very simple 3D with fancy 2D on top.

It worked perfectly IMO, the fix isometric view was perfect, way better than a rotating camera like in W2.
I hope HBS don't want to go full 3D.

 

[DeepOcean]

The words procedually generated, Unity, not absolutely realistc, atmospheric perspective and modular design, unless they want to make a Minecraft clone, what wouldn't make sense based on the fan base they built with Shadowrun Returns, this scream 3d isometric game. There is a game exactly like that and is called Satellite Reign, it is on Unity, 3d and uses modular design and it looks awesome. I could very easily see a Shadowrun Returns 2 made that way.

 

[Infinitron]

It could also be some sort of roguelike.

 

[tuluse]

Or an Xcom style game, procedurally generated modulely created levels.

 

[DeepOcean]

Or an Xcom style game, procedurally generated modulely created levels.

Yep, and shadowrun returns combat is already Xcom like.

 

[WhiteGuts]

Aaaand done. Really gud game. That last fight was hella intense.

Spoiler

Gave the whole to APEX. And according to the ending, it repelled Lofwyr attmept to take over Berlin, and by 2066 or so it's still fighting the dragons. So not THAT bad of a decision, I guess.

 

[V_K]

They might have something like Genesis Shadowrun in mind - manually designed story runs mixed with procedurally-generated generic "everyday" jobs.

 

[DalekFlay]

If they're smart they'll use the good will from Dragonfall and the lessons learned and translate that into a new IP they actually control. As much as I want a third campaign, making their own IP makes ten times more sense.

 

[Rake]

I would love a new IP from them, but the words "procedurally-generated" is an instant "i don't care about it, will not buy" for me. I quess i will wait and see what exactly they are planing.

 

[V_K]

I dunno about new IP. Half of SRR's charm is its setting and atmosphere, and I doubt they'll be able to make something equally interesting from scratch.

 

[Shadowfang]

There seems to be new uses for the Shadowrunner etiquette, in the Loose ends mission, if you decide to talk with the rigger.

I wish they kept working on shadowrun, but the more attention the ip gets the more likely it is to get raped by microsoft in the future.
Let's hope some gems come out of the editor like it happened with the aurora toolset.

 

[almondblight]

They might have something like Genesis Shadowrun in mind - manually designed story runs mixed with procedurally-generated generic "everyday" jobs.

Yeah, I think the Shadowrun Unlimited mod already does that with the current engine, so something a bit more complex hopefully isn't too difficult for them.

 

[DalekFlay]

I would love a new IP from them, but the words "procedurally-generated" is an instant "i don't care about it, will not buy" for me. I quess i will wait and see what exactly they are planing.

I mostly agree, but it depends on what the goal is. If it's a structured overworld and quest/story system with procedurally-generated dungeons (like, say, Diablo) then I could be okay with that. If it's a pure random roguelike then that's not my style.

 

[dryan]

Weird thing I just noticed: In the Harfeld Manor run, both Glory and Dietrich had overwatch, but later in the Drug Pit one, neither of them have this ability. Is this a bug?