Harebrained Schemes General Discussion Thread

[V_K]

It seems sensible enough to me; you can't take their items and put them into your stash, and they're responsible for re-buying their own supplies, not you.

I don't mean between-mission resets, that's fair enough. But they also reset (at least for the bots) inside the missions, when you e.g. get to another dungeon floor if that floor is represented as a separate map.

 

[LESS T_T]

From the recent big leak from Geforece DB, next HSB game's project name is "Project FPS": (beware big page) https://gist.github.com/xPaw/6a42aa...d2#file-geforce_games_with_no_steam-csv-L4137

 

[vibehunter]

From the recent big leak from Geforece DB, next HSB game's project name is "Project FPS": (beware big page) https://gist.github.com/xPaw/6a42aa...d2#file-geforce_games_with_no_steam-csv-L4137

Anyone got ideas on what it could be? I’d like a new Shadowrun but I doubt that’s what they’re doing.

 

[Verylittlefishes]

can we have another Shadowrun Returns but without cyberspace thing and actually non-linear?

 

[agris]

Isn't there a codex pet theory that HBS took over VTMB2? FPS fits the perspective..

 

[Roguey]

Isn't there a codex pet theory that HBS took over VTMB2? FPS fits the perspective..

A mystery, but they've been working on a horror game since 2019 and their job listings made it clear it was going to be turn-based https://rpgcodex.net/forums/threads...-discussion-thread.106230/page-5#post-6474192

Calling it FPS may just be their idea of a joke (would be rather odd for Paradox to buy the Battletech and Shadowrun people and tell them to make a game in an entirely different genre).

 

[Taka-Haradin puolipeikko]

I spotted this earlier this summer.

 

[Infinitron]

Isn't there a codex pet theory that HBS took over VTMB2? FPS fits the perspective..

A mystery, but they've been working on a horror game since 2019 and their job listings made it clear it was going to be turn-based https://rpgcodex.net/forums/threads...-discussion-thread.106230/page-5#post-6474192

Calling it FPS may just be their idea of a joke (would be rather odd for Paradox to buy the Battletech and Shadowrun people and tell them to make a game in an entirely different genre).

At one point Mitch Gitelman said they were working on two games, so the horror game isn't necessarily the turn-based one. After three years of radio silence who knows what's going on there though.

 

[nimateb]

HBS will never make anything close to dragonfall again.
compare the credits of dragonfall to battletech
https://www.mobygames.com/game/windows/shadowrun-dragonfall/credits
https://www.mobygames.com/game/windows/battletech/credits

Half the people listed in shadowrun are interns, temps, or QA. The core team was very small. And many of those people are either missing or had very minor roles in battletech per the credits.

This explains the abysmal drop in quality between shadowrun games and battletech. Very sad.

 

[Humbaba]

HBS will never make anything close to dragonfall again.
compare the credits of dragonfall to battletech
https://www.mobygames.com/game/windows/shadowrun-dragonfall/credits
https://www.mobygames.com/game/windows/battletech/credits

Half the people listed in shadowrun are interns, temps, or QA. The core team was very small. And many of those people are either missing or had very minor roles in battletech per the credits.

This explains the abysmal drop in quality between shadowrun games and battletech. Very sad.

Many such cases. The vidyagaem industry has a notoriously high turnover rate, mostly due to notoriously shit working conditions. Those poor assholes need unions.

 

[Jedi Master Radek]

HBS will never make anything close to dragonfall again.
compare the credits of dragonfall to battletech
https://www.mobygames.com/game/windows/shadowrun-dragonfall/credits
https://www.mobygames.com/game/windows/battletech/credits

Half the people listed in shadowrun are interns, temps, or QA. The core team was very small. And many of those people are either missing or had very minor roles in battletech per the credits.

This explains the abysmal drop in quality between shadowrun games and battletech. Very sad.

Yeah, unpaid interns do all the work, boss takes all the credit, everyone praises boss and belittle interns for being entitled. Capitalism 101.

 

[Roguey]

Many such cases. The vidyagaem industry has a notoriously high turnover rate, mostly due to notoriously shit working conditions. Those poor assholes need unions.

HBS's glassdoor reviews are 100% positive filled with nothing but people who talk about what a great place it is to work.

 

[almondblight]

(would be rather odd for Paradox to buy the Battletech and Shadowrun people and tell them to make a game in an entirely different genre).

Well, they're also the Necropolis people, for better or worse.

 

[T.Ashpool]

are they making another shadowrun? if not i don't give a shit

 

[Smerlus]

Just fucking tease something already. They were pumping out game news quite frequently before they were bought out and now turned into mutes.

 

[Roguey]

Just fucking tease something already. They were pumping out game news quite frequently before they were bought out and now turned into mutes.

Easy to do when you're crowdfunding and your own publisher. Now they have to abide by Paradox's marketing strategy.

 

[Infinitron]

Hmmm, the Shadowrun games are coming to Nintendo Switch next year, published by Paradox:

 

[Abu Antar]

Make VtMB2 for us, and we'll publish all your previous games on all platforms. (Maybe)

 

[PorkyThePaladin]

Dragonfall was EXCELLENT. Imho, the best iso RPG in the last 15 years at least. These people need to get back to making more of that type of game.

 

[HoboForEternity]

I found even hong kong still pretty fun, even though it's not as good as DF.

 

[T.Ashpool]

hong kong had the best team for sure. racter and gaichu > everyone else. i also always put gobbet in the team as the token female. that lolsorandumb gamer girl is0bel and that whiny fag duncan were left behind at the base.
the dragonfall team was just okay. i didn't like dietrich and blitz. eiger wasn't bad i hated her at first but she got better. glory was my waifu. my ideal shadowrun team would honestly be gaichu, racter and glory. wish i could just shoot the rest.

 

[PorkyThePaladin]

I think a Dragonfall type game with actual exploration (ie larger freeform maps with optional content) would be the bee's knees.

 

[fantadomat]

Hong kong is a better game than dragonfall,don't know why people prefer df over it. Maybe they just dropped the games and didn't play the HK. In all aspects it is a better game.

 

[DeepOcean]

That minigame on the Matrix segments was awful though.

 

[vibehunter]

Hong Kong doesn’t get enough love. The setting, premise, and characters were more interesting to me than in DF.

There’s a lot of potential in HBS Shadowrun that has yet to be realized. I really hope they haven’t dropped the series for good. 2 games is not enough.