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While I mentioned this game having had its fair share of bugs, one that it was spared from was the stat-inflating difficulty one that reared its head in the last two games, so we'll be playing on Hard this time. Very Hard was retired for some reason. But you know... we had like zero game overs in the previous LP and I know people love seeing blood, so why not spice things up a bit more this time?

Kanfy posted:

Kanfy posted:

There also seems to be a minor exploit here where loaning an item to a crew member with full locked-in inventory like Duncan's here and back actually unlocks one of their items as if it were ours, but we'll abstain from that one.

Kanfy posted:

Between this and the scarce medical supplies we start with, it's no great surprise that the Steam achievement for dying in the opening mission isn't a terribly rare one. And be also reminded that the AI has been modded to use all of its AP instead of being limited to one action per turn, and that we're basically a soft bullet magnet who brought a (large) knife to a gunfight.

Kanfy posted:

Part 13 - CSI: Hong Kong



The crew tech wiz is mostly brains over brawn as expected, but Is0bel clearly did also pay attention during Elder Ip's lessons as she can fire a gun almost as well as Duncan. She has no cyberware other than the Datajack she needs to do her job and which enables potential Smartlink weapon usage.

As a minor side note, her base attributes at this level are actually identical to those of Blitz from the previous game.

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Racter toolkit bugs

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When examining the wall smears in Tong's shop:

Whoa, check that out. It's like a paint-by-numbers game, except using ugly wallpaper and a dead guy's guts. They sure didn't teach me that kind in kindergarten!

You went to kindergarten?

Well... No. But I've seen a lot of trid shows! It's all sitting around fingerpainting, cutting up paper into stars, and learning how to code your first program, right? And it's always taught by somebody in a stuffed animal suit.

[Is0bel rolls her eyes.]

Gobbet... Just... Stop talking, please.

Kanfy posted:

They don't know what they're missing, though! One episode of "Thousand Cranes of Autumn" and they'd be hooked for life. I'm just at the part where O-Rin has confessed her love to Takayama, but he's got to get his mech suit out to the front lines on Mars, so he can't be with her. Downright heartbreaking, I tell you.

Kanfy posted:

Tank War Europa? I haven't seen one of those cabinets in years.

Kanfy posted:

Well, without going into any detail on this game's missions because we haven't seen any of them yet past this one, I personally think that while Director's Cut added some definite aces to Dragonfall, the base mission set of that game is not actually super memorable. It's like yeah, the MKVI was a memorable character, but I can't necessarily say the same about the run itself through AG Chemie Europa's offices. Same goes for things like the SCHERING Pharma AG lab that was kind of a slog, or the weapon merchant's job in Gesundbrunnen for example. I don't remember any details about the Humanis compound between the opening ambush and the last confrontation, and I've played and LP'd the crap out of that game.

The likes of Feuerstelle and Sutterlin Bioscience added in Dragonfall: Director's Cut are very hard to top, but I do think that playing through the average Hong Kong mission is design-wise more enjoyable and has a richer amount of variety and smaller highlight moments than the average Dragonfall mission. But YMMV of course, and I'm curious to see what people who haven't played the games will feel about it once we have more Hong Kong runs under our belt.

Cythereal posted:

As has been brought up, they probably thought they were going ghoul hunting.

Would these Red Samurai bozos tolerate one of their own becoming a ghoul?

GhostStalker posted:

, she literally shits out rare magical reagents that she can sell for the nuyen.

Alacron posted:

NO
Goddammit Taz.

Stroth posted:

"Why the gently caress do you have an assault cannon?"

Waffleman_ posted:

https://twitter.com/videogamedeals/status/1408410349649502208?s=20

The three HBS Shadowrun games are free on GOG

Kanfy posted:

Foxfire_ posted:

It was originally invented as a mechanical game balance thing so that players couldn't have magic and cyberware at the same time.

The Lone Badger posted:

Some of those corpses don't have much meat on em though. Too much metal.

Kanfy posted:

Alright thread, unlike in the previous game, dedicated personal runs aren't automatically just with the person in question. We get to bring one other companion with us to DeckCon, so this is a simple vote for one person . For predictable reasons Gaichu has the most unique interactions on this run as well, but it doesn't matter too much who we bring overall, so have at it!

Kanfy posted:

Not sure how relevant this is to us, but all the best to Chef Bun in their future endeavors, with a name like that they were clearly born for the job.