Game News Shadowrun: Hong Kong Kickstarter Update #23: $1M raised, mini-campaign stretch goal unlocked

[<3sRichardSimmons]

Hope all the extra money they're making will extend the mini-campaign a bit.

When you have near maxed out stats, you can only have so much fun content.

Well, that seems a bit cynical to me. A big part of this pitch was them acknowledging the prior games' systemic short-comings, and promising to expand upon and refine said systems. There's no doubt their pre-prod vision won't be entirely realized, but HBS have pretty conclusively proven themselves as total bros in my eyes. They've demonstrated that they know how to iterate, and that they have a real passion for the material they're working with. As such, I feel pretty confident that they've got ideas on how to make a high level game interesting.

And if I'm wrong, meh. Not as though broken high-level gameplay ruined HotU, MotB, FO2, etc.

 

[Sensuki]

When you have maxed out stats, you should be fighting 'epic level' enemies

Just because you can't build any higher, doesn't mean that fights can't be tactical/challenging.

 

[SCO]

maybe this time enemies will attack more than once a turn in very hard

 

[mindx2]

I haven't backed yet and I'm hesitating where should I put my money in. On Kickstarter or on The Codex. So my question. Will 15$ here give me the same rewards as 15 dollars on Kickstarter?

You're too late for the Codex fundraiser. DU has already sent them the money.

http://www.rpgcodex.net/forums/index.php?threads/shadowrun-hong-kong-codex-fundraiser-is-officially-live.96757/page-8#post-3753043

 

[Tytus]

I haven't backed yet and I'm hesitating where should I put my money in. On Kickstarter or on The Codex. So my question. Will 15$ here give me the same rewards as 15 dollars on Kickstarter?

You're too late for the Codex fundraiser. DU has already sent them the money.

http://www.rpgcodex.net/forums/index.php?threads/shadowrun-hong-kong-codex-fundraiser-is-officially-live.96757/page-8#post-3753043

Thanks for the tip.

 

[JarlFrank]

maybe this time enemies will attack more than once a turn in very hard

They already did in the DC

 

[tuluse]

Well, that seems a bit cynical to me. A big part of this pitch was them acknowledging the prior games' systemic short-comings, and promising to expand upon and refine said systems. There's no doubt there pre-prod vision won't be entirely realized, but HBS have pretty conclusively proven themselves as total bros in my eyes. They've demonstrated that they know how to iterate, and that they have a real passion for the material they're working with. As such, I feel pretty confident that they've got ideas on how to make a high level game interesting.

And if I'm wrong, meh. Not as though broken high-level gameplay ruined HotU, MotB, FO2, etc.

When you have maxed out stats, you should be fighting 'epic level' enemies

Just because you can't build any higher, doesn't mean that fights can't be tactical/challenging.

I said only so much, not zero.

They already did in the DC

Only bosses afaik, which was the same as DMS.

 

[uaciaut]

By far the most competent one yet.

They did have a much better understanding of how far KS could take you after the first wave of big KS projects and everything else that followed though.

I'm really curious about how much of the old HBS team stayed and how well the studio has been doing overeall since they did the first KS

 

[TwinkieGorilla]

August, eh? Life is waiting. Any idea when Torment's supposed to drop?

 

[Kem0sabe]

August, eh? Life is waiting. Any idea when Torment's supposed to drop?

No sooner than 2016 is my estimate.

 

[StaticSpine]

August, eh? Life is waiting. Any idea when Torment's supposed to drop?

Officially it's still end of 2015, but I aggree with Kem0sabe, that it will most likely be moved to 2016.

 

[Mieron]

This will probably close out at about 1.2 million at this rate, which isn't too shabby. Would've hoped for more considering how competent these guys are at delivering what they promised, but the extra money past the last goal will at least be useful for fixing any issues or boosting whatever project they go for next time.