From the creator of Shadowrun... Shadowrun

[Zetor]

Still haven't won the final fight yet.

[Strazos]

[Tebonas]

[Aiwass]

The 200mb patch that was released the day after the game released was supposed to address parts of the final confrontation. You guys using the steam version and have updated it?

[Tebonas]

I have played it through before the update.

[Strazos]

So has anyone found any worthwhile modules yet? I know it's early...

[Zetor]

So has anyone found any worthwhile modules yet? I know it's early...

Jacked-Up seems to be getting good reviews, though it's still a work in progress. Lost Lamb is fine, though the author is called "Dyslexicoedr" for a reason. There is a really quick "Food Fight"-esque run out there, and a few other shorter ones I haven't tried.

"Life on a Limb" is really ambitious (and probably has the most content right now), but also unfinished and buggy. Also, at least one of the writers seems to have some... issues. I'd avoid it for now.

e: "Kraken Myth" is said to be pretty good as well, though short. I think "short" will be a common thing in high-quality UGC for a while... in COH, creating a really high-quality story arc took a MONTH, and that toolset was a lot more primitive.

[Soln]

Fawk.  Unity is eating huge amounts of space.  5.3 GB on my SSD C-drive (AppData).  Check this out:

http://www.shadowrun.com/forums/discussion/31959/huge-amount-of-cache-files-generated-by-the-game-in-c/p1

edit: Unity!

[Velorath]

Cold blooded.

[Phred]

If you use an SSD as many people are now you are probably better off moving your user directory off the ssd as constant writes and deletes aren't particularly good for the SSD's lifespan. http://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/windows/en-US/312e210e-f0c7-4e47-ad59-c39eed759ffe/relocate-your-user-folder-to-a-different-drive

[Furiously]

If you use an SSD as many people are now you are probably better off moving your user directory off the ssd as constant writes and deletes aren't particularly good for the SSD's lifespan. http://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/windows/en-US/312e210e-f0c7-4e47-ad59-c39eed759ffe/relocate-your-user-folder-to-a-different-drive

And what happens when your mechanical drive fails (which is probably more likely)?

[Phred]

And what happens when your mechanical drive fails (which is probably more likely)?

Not sure if serious but if so you restore the backups you've been religously making to a new one. What? You don't make backups? SSD's fail too you know.
I use a 500gig usb drive and just zip up my entire user directory every few months.

[WayAbvPar]

Cold blooded.

Glad someone is on the same page as me. This made me giggle 

[IainC]

The kickstarter rewards are out now and the Doc Wagon badges feature a QR code which leads you to this awesomely terrible promo trailer for the PnP game.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8GPGQoR6f6w

[Ginaz]

Expansion has been confirmed for sometime in Jan. 2014, with a save anywhere, anytime feature. 

http://e2.ma/message/x05eg/9tgots

[Fabricated]

Expansion has been out for a few days FYI, and it's pretty good!

It still has a bit of the "TILESET AND FEATURE DEMO" feel to it but its way more engaging and so far a lot less buggy than the original campaign. Saving almost anywhere is nice too.

It wastes some of its strengths though; like you now have a big team of runners and they all have stories/conversations/character arcs and they have personality quirks where they react to how you talk to them or conduct yourself on runs...but for your initial team the game literally hands you dossiers on them that're like, "Oh, this person doesn't like it if you're overly polite, you'll need to put them in their place a bit to get their respect." Gee thanks, I know what dialog options I'm not picking now?

[Zetor]

Also, it's an expansion in the old sense of the word -- it is longer than the original campaign the game shipped with, and is better in pretty much every way. A lot of people are going to go "DLC for $15 when the game was only $20?! Get out.", only in this case the price is actually warranted.

[Tebonas]

Loving it too, although it still has some minor bugs which will undoubtedly be squashed in the near future.

For example, the whole  part completely bugged out on me after the first payment I got from them. But then I wouldn't know what to do with too much money anyway!  

[Kail]

I wish I could import my character from the original campaign, balance be damned.  Adepts still blow chunks, and I don't want to start yet another sam or rigger from scratch, so I'm not sure what class to choose.

I'm not sure if it's a feature added with the expansion, or if I just never noticed it before, but max ranges on weapons are annoying.  Get behind cover > select throwing knife > click on enemy to attack > RUN OUT OF COVER IN TO THE OPEN TO CHUCK KNIFE AT ENEMY > stand there like a moron for rest of turn because you're out of AP. 

Minor griping aside, it does seem like a solid expansion so far, though I haven't seen much.

[Phildo]

I had a lot of fun with this over the weekend, definitely worth the price of admission.

[PalmTrees]

It's steam so it'll be on sale sometime. I'll get it then. Game was kind of bland, combat wise, and I have no real desire to start my character over. I think if I was continuing my char I'd be picking it up whenever I had a lull, rather than waiting on a sale.

[Phildo]

I haven't checked yet, but there's probably a mod out there that lets you import stats.  It didn't take long for the original game to have a New Game + mod, after all.

[Fabricated]

Basically to make Dragonfall capable of importing a character you just run the editor, load up the campaign, edit the campaign's properties being sure to check the box for "allow character import" and then make sure the right starting scene is selected so the module runs.

[PalmTrees]

Heh, didn't even know there was an editor. Just checked the nexus, shadowrun: 84 files, skyrim: 32,285.

[Nevermore]

Heh, didn't even know there was an editor. Just checked the nexus, shadowrun: 84 files, skyrim: 32,285.

Yeah, but 31,869 of the Skyrim files are just nude mods. 

[Zetor]

Heh, didn't even know there was an editor. Just checked the nexus, shadowrun: 84 files, skyrim: 32,285.

Most of the SRR files are in the steam workshop.

That said, it's still too early in the game's life to have any decent campaigns out (though Nightmare Harvest is good, I hear).

[Fabricated]

Nightmare Harvest is indeed really, really good. Well written, multiple endings I think (only beat it once), lots of stuff to do, very well made.

I think it's a tad generous on the Karma but you get a shitload of dudes thrown at you in some sections.

[Fabricated]

I think I'm pretty far into Dragonfall; this is really good. Like leagues better than the base campaign and about the limits of what you can do with their pretty simple engine.

[Tebonas]

Trying my luck with the mods now that I finished Dragonfall, any tips which mods are finished and good? Doing Nightmare harvest right now and loving it apart from the loading times

[Fabricated]

Finally completed it. Final battle setup certainly looks cool but is only hard because there's a time limit and is kinda disappointing in the end.

The ending is pretty good.

[Falconeer]

Shadowrun Online on Steam Early Access next week.

[Setanta]

Did they fix the cache issue by any chance?

[Ironwood]

Is this game worth the 3.73 they're charging for it right now ?

My gut says yes ! but please tell me if it's just acid stomach.

[Rasix]

Yup.  I am hesitant to ever recommend anything to you, but this easily passes at this price point.

[Ironwood]

Is it because I'm a moaning bastard ?

Took your advice and got the Dragonfall one at the same time.  Thus far I'm gloriously lost.  'Feels' great;  just what I was looking for.