Welcome to the last major Early Access Update 10 of Shadowrun Chronicles: Boston Lockdown. This update adds several features and gets the game close to the state it will launch in, but does NOT contain the final balancing!
New Features
- Team up! Coop has been extensively reworked and now allows up to four players to go on a run together. Please take note that now everyone on your team can take action at the same time, so no more waiting for your turn!
- Meet up! Other players will join you now in the hub, even if they are not in your group. Meet up, swap tales of your deeds or tactical advice and roleplay to your heart's content.
- Cyber up! Improve your body with Cyberware. Keep in mind though that augmenting your meatbody reduces your essence and thus affects your spellcasting!
- Going deeper: A lot of new missions take you deeper into the story of the Boston Lockdown than ever before! The 3rd Act of our game and several side missions have been added for you to explore.
- Talk to me! Partial Voice overs have been added to the game, bringing our main characters to life! Hear Smedley, Jane, Payday, Sarah and others talk!
- New Map: The Map of Boston has been extensively reworked and now shows districts and sights, but also signals the state the districts are in.
- Skin Color: It is now possible to change the skin tone of your character during Character Creation.
- Paint and Needles: Facepaint and Tattoos are now available in stores to customize your character further.
- Checking in: The Matrix Hub now lets you check back with Johnsons and other characters in situations when you cannot return to the normal hub.
- Starting up: Shadowrun Chronicles now features a proper launcher that allows you to set the language, screen resolutions and to redeem coupons. Please note: While it is already possible to redeem coupons (i.e. weapon or promotion codes), you will NOT receive these items in game till launch.
- Sprechen Sie Deutsch? German text is now available in the game.
Fixes, Changes and Improvements
- The ragdoll animations have been adjusted, so graphical issues when a character dies should now occur less often.
- When starting a new career you will now start the first mission automatically before you get to enter the hub. Please note that it is now also impossible to return to character creation once you’ve made your choices there and entered the game!
- Dialogues in the hub will now be presented with a new camera angle, giving you a proper view of who you are talking to.
- Items in the gear and shop screens can now be filtered by category.
- Female characters can now have beards.
- Some parts of the levels are now destructible (i.e. glass panes).
- New Outfits have been added.
- From now on only one item will be taken into the run per consumable slot, even if you have a whole stack available.
- Beards and hairstyles cannot be sold anymore.
- It is now possible to log out of your current career and return to the selection screen from the options menu.
- In the friends list you will now also see the account name of your friends, not just the name of their current character.
- Characters in the hub now have idle animations.
- The loot notification has been improved.
- The player character should not become available as a henchman anymore.
- Autopicker, Remote Det, Portable Bodyscan and Hacking Autosoft have been removed from the game.
- Some issues with the chat have been fixed.
- Backgrounds, effects, missions. Skills and skilltrees have been iterated, improved and polished.
- Lots of other small fixes, corrections, clarifications and improvements