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Shadowrun Shadowrun: Hong Kong - Extended Edition
- Thread starter Ulminati
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Played for a couple hours. Good, but not different enough from Dragonfall to be worth the time investment. Backlogged.
Still looking forward to Battletech.
Still looking forward to Battletech.
V_K
Arcane
To talk down the final boss you need to propose a deal to here, and after some fuss pick the "I have a counterproposal" option.
You can't quit shadowrunning - but it's logical: even with the APB lifted, you're still SINless, so there's not much else for you to do.
Fredward
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To get the tricksy ending you need to:
Exhaust dialogue with Izzy and Crafty (maaaybe Gobbet), sleep every time you can sleep and repeat the phrase that you and Duncan reminisce about, that Raymond says his mother always said. The option crops up right before you go into the Walled City for the last time while Raymond and Duncan are arguing. I missed that part the first time cuz I thought it was cheesy AF but you need to say it cuz it reveals a bit of info (more Yama Kings can slip through). And then mention you wanna deal with her at the end obviously.
And I imagine that if they DO add the option to quit shadowrunning they'll at least wait till they release the mini-campaign. Not that they seem to want you to want that.
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eXalted
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I'm at the Ares mission with the weapon prototype and I'm just curious..
Do you generally read deeply the technobabble in such games? I mean things like email correspondence where the problems around the research of the high tech weapon are discussed with all kind of "scientific" terms?
Do you generally read deeply the technobabble in such games? I mean things like email correspondence where the problems around the research of the high tech weapon are discussed with all kind of "scientific" terms?
GarfunkeL
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I like reading that stuff but the more people post in this thread, the more I'm feeling like a freak for doing so.
Zetor
Arcane
Naw, I think many people do read it... the writing is good for the most part, it just needs an editor. You could list just as many instances of bad / awkward writing from any game if you went through each dialogue with a microscope, too.
Personally, I always got a feel for a particular writer by reading the first few dialogues in a run, then deciding whether to skim the rest or not.
I just leave this here:
http://www.rpgcodex.net/forums/inde...s-a-minor-offense.78755/page-418#post-4111807
http://www.rpgcodex.net/forums/inde...s-a-minor-offense.78755/page-418#post-4111807
Immortal
Arcane
In Shadowrun the technical babble is usually more babble less technical - It's part of the charm of Shadowrun.. Similar to like Steam Punk games where you take 3 gears and weld them to a crystal and bam you have a magical gun.
The email correspondence is more to talk about the relationships between employees and to show how fascist a lot of the corps are. I think the writers for Dragonfall / Hong Kong really tried to give some small attempts at making the technical side sound less ridiculous.. which I actually appreciate.
Shadow Run really needs some anchors to reality sometimes or it just gets fucking silly.
(I mean FFS you have shape changing dragons controlling companies and one of the most powerful beings is a elf dressed like a clown who defends the world from C'thulhu beings from the dark world)
When you start digging into the lore especially going back to the early 90's.. shadowrun is just a fetish fantasy of some basement nerds.. the story credibility is weak, these writers do a great job in general of glossing over the more cringy stuff.
When you start digging into the lore especially going back to the early 90's.. shadowrun is just a fetish fantasy of some basement nerds.. the story credibility is weak, these writers do a great job in general of glossing over the more cringy stuff.
Bros, a couple of questions: how do I trigger Racter side-quest and how do I finish Is0bel's story?
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Isobel's story concludes at the very end of the game provide you talked to her and did her quest.
For Racter you just need to talk to him until he doesn't have anything more to say, IIRC.
His side-quest is a part of a run so just talk to him every time you get/accept runs on your computer and he should mention wanting to come along for one of them.
eXalted
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I also read everything, my question was provoked by the correspondence about the problems with the prototype weapon - dissipation, heat and so on.
I appreciate though that it's not some hard sci-fi stuff where the writer describes in details a theoretic way of how the gadget works actually.
Shit, I may have missed that, don't you remember which one?
anus_pounder
Arcane
Maybe you need to pass some/all of the skill checks on the stuff in his room? Just fizzled out for me too.
Maybe it's that you need to look over his stuff before talking to him for the final time?
His story ends just after the point of no return, right? So seems unlikely he'll give you a run at that point. Maybe just a quick fetch quest in the hub.
You only get a karma point for going through with Ambrose's story. And it ends before the point of no return, at least it did for me.
Luckily enough it was one of two uncompleted runs on my mission computer, but anyway I got Racter on a mission and took his stuff from the safe.
Back on base I only have dialog options with him: 1) what do you think about the last run? 2) talk later
How do I finish his quest line?
If it's the achievement you're after, I don't think it "activates" until a final conversation as the game ends.
I got Gobbet + Gaichu during the story and Is0bel + Racter after.
I got Gobbet + Gaichu during the story and Is0bel + Racter after.
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