Information Shadowrun Returns Kickstarter Update #19: Berlin Sweeps Past Hong Kong

[Crooked Bee]

Tags: Harebrained Schemes; Shadowrun Returns

As the latest update for Shadowrun Returns informs us, Berlin has won over Hong Kong as the second in-game city:

It was a hard-fought battle but as any geek can tell you, There Can Be Only One. . .

. . . and that's BERLIN!

That's right, Berlin came from behind and swept past Hong Kong, taking it's place as the second city in Shadowrun Returns.

Congratulations to EVERYONE who participated in the voting (and the attempts at swaying the vote). It's really a joy to make this game for you!

Talk to you soon!​

Biggest victory for the West since the Opium Wars.

 

[Stinger]

Oh good. I was really worried there that we'd have yet ANOTHER cyberpunk game in Hong Kong and Berlin seems like an interesting setting so it all looks pretty good to me.

 

[Ulminati]

Spoiler

It's Lofwyr that's backing it. there, that's your Berlin plot in its entirety

Good job voting in the most boring of the possible cities in shadowrun. Me and the rest of the lorefags from the dumpshock forums eagerly await telling you we told you so after the game gets released and you get a second, blander seattle with less interesting plot.

 

[hakuroshi]

I've hoped for more Seattle actually, but that was shot in previous round.

 

[Cantello]

I'd hoped for Chicago but that did not seem to be overly popular... Second best choice would have been more Seattle. Better to have one fully fleshed out city than two mediocre ones.

 

[RedScum]

Who cares about the story, just give us the city of aryans.

 

[Luzur]

i would have voted on Stockholm.

 

[evdk]

Fuck

 

[felipepepe]

Nice, Hong Kong is WAAAAAY overdone in this kind of setting...

 

[OSK]

Nice, Hong Kong is WAAAAAY overdone in this kind of setting...

It's not real-world Hong Kong. The weakest of the possible settings was voted in precisely because people couldn't make this simple distinction.

 

[Roguey]

A victory for social justice! I am pleased. Don't care how boring it is as long as racism is kept to a minimum.

 

[Humanity has risen!]

I voted Berlin, glad it was chosen. Hong Kong would have been full of annoying Asian clichés. Shadowrun already has too many of them as it stands.

I don't understand the people who don't like Berlin because a dragon controls everything there. I think what makes Shadowrun fun is not just the drama between the factions and races, but most of all the oppressive backdrop of the game.

 

[EG]

Why not Quebec? Everyone loves to kill the pseudo-French!

 

[Jaesun]

People need to read the source books instead of just picking some random city. Anyways, it is now Berlin. So be it.

 

[Brayko]

Hong Kong would be more Blade Runner-ish but Berlin shouldn't be too bad either, but things need to be in German setting-wise or else it would feel like just another bland western city. Put that master language to good use.

 

[Alex_Steel]

What were all the options?

 

[commie]

Shitty options: No Szczecin for starters...

A victory for social justice! I am pleased. Don't care how boring it is as long as racism is kept to a minimum.

It will be racist. I doubt there will be any Turks in the game Berlin.

 

[villain of the story]

Or if you will find any doner kebabs to restore health

 

[almondblight]

Shitty options: No Szczecin for starters...

Poland in Shadowrun looks good:

"2023—In Częstochowa, visitors to Jasna Góra Monastery report seeing visions of the Apostles. The area soon becomes flooded with pilgrims hoping to see their own visions. The apparitions continue to appear annually and the area becomes known as a holy site."

"2035—In Oświęcim, the monks of Order of St. Sylvester construct a network of astral wards called the “Soul Barrier” to contain the ghosts of Nazi-era concentratin camp, Auschwitz-Birkenau."

"2062-? State of war exists between Russia and Polish resistance controlled territories like Free Republic of Poland. Both sides are exhausted, and prepearing for a new stage in war, low-level fighting takes place all along the border, with Russians controlling most of the airspace and launching air raids, up to carpet bombing, at Polish-held targets."

 

[Ulminati]

A victory for social justice! I am pleased. Don't care how boring it is as long as racism is kept to a minimum.

Racism is rife everywhere in Shadowrun. The elves made their own tiny nations (Tir Taingire, Tir na nOg) and have a servere superiority complex. The orcs and trolls of seattle have their own little subterrainian ghetto (Ork Underground). The nation of Japan, being progressive sorts, actually revoked the citizenship of the first metahumans to appear and shipped them all off to a tiny island. Heck, one of the common newbie runner opponents is Humanis Policlub who beleive all those goddamn elves, orcs, trolls, dwarves and whatnot should be rounded up and shot. It's like what would happen if Ku Klux Klan decided that black and white could live together in harmony if they both decided to gang up on green.


Don't these guys just look swell to you?
http://pl.shadowrun.wikia.com/wiki/Humanis_Policlub

The generating NPCs section in the 3rd edition shadowrun book suggested you roll a D6 to determine if the given NPC had any racial prejudces, then another D6 to determine which race(s) they were prejudiced against. That means a full 1/6th of the SR world is racist!

 

[Commissar Draco]

Are there any Orc Machete rape gangs?
Voted for Berlin, although Seattle would be easier to make by Kwan developers... Not German myself so should not notice if they'll make decent job.

 

[Roguey]

Ulminati - I'm talking about the kind that comes from the writers themselves, not in-universe prejudice.

 

[serch]

Too many codexers voting for their Reich. I'm not surprised about how this turned out.

 

[DwarvenFood]

Shitty options: No Szczecin for starters...

Poland in Shadowrun looks good:

"2023—In Częstochowa, visitors to Jasna Góra Monastery report seeing visions of the Apostles. The area soon becomes flooded with pilgrims hoping to see their own visions. The apparitions continue to appear annually and the area becomes known as a holy site."

"2035—In Oświęcim, the monks of Order of St. Sylvester construct a network of astral wards called the “Soul Barrier” to contain the ghosts of Nazi-era concentratin camp, Auschwitz-Birkenau."

"2062-? State of war exists between Russia and Polish resistance controlled territories like Free Republic of Poland. Both sides are exhausted, and prepearing for a new stage in war, low-level fighting takes place all along the border, with Russians controlling most of the airspace and launching air raids, up to carpet bombing, at Polish-held targets."

I'd buy that DLC instantly