What are you currently playing?

[Hashoosh]

So it looks like this post is where you're getting the 174INF/ART brigades figure
http://forum.paradoxplaza.com/forum/show...st11001328

Obviously without knowing what you did I can't tell you where you switched away from his playthrough, but it looks like you were going for the his Plan 1A and that post outlines Plan 1B. Is MP or IC limiting you?

[NobleHelium]

I'm currently wrapping up the Dragonfall expansion campaign for Shadowrun Returns. It's pretty good- about 1/4 traditional isometric Western RPG, 1/4 Adventure Game and 1/2 X-Com: Enemy Unknown. The writing is great and really sells the game, despite the premise of the setting being outrageously stupid. I have a serious soft spot for anything Cyberpunk though.

How does the length compare to the original campaign?

[Bobchillingworth]

I'll let you know when I finish


I'm currently crossing a point-of-no-return in the game, but according to the very nice people in the Steam forums there are multiple such moments, and I've still got at least a few missions to go (I had asked to make sure I wasn't missing any optional missions before advancing the plot). Assuming that's the case, and they each take as long as the average run, I'd say it's maybe a few hours longer than the DMS campaign? It's def. at least the same length, if you do the optional runs (there are several this time around).


Replay value should be better as well, there are a lot more optional / alternative mission solutions and dialogue checks based on different stats which you won't be able to meet in any single run. Charisma actually doesn't suck this time around for non-mages! There is also apparently a secret mission for Deckers which I missed, since I haven't invested any points in the skill.

[TheHumanHydra]

So it looks like this post is where you're getting the 174INF/ART brigades figure
http://forum.paradoxplaza.com/forum/show...st11001328

Obviously without knowing what you did I can't tell you where you switched away from his playthrough, but it looks like you were going for the his Plan 1A and that post outlines Plan 1B. Is MP or IC limiting you?

Well, it's a hybrid of the two - I'm reinforcing the existing 37 3x Inf divisions with 1x Art each, then building as many 3x Inf 1x Art divisions as I can. The greater proportion of Inf brigades should make this scheme IC-cheaper than his 1B. Yet I'm finding myself IC-limited rather than MP-limited, as his AAR claimed to be.

A thought: should I be building everything in brigades instead of divisions, so differences in infantry and artillery practicals don't slow down the production of the composite divisions? Kanitation didn't indicate how he built his divisions.

[Hashoosh]

It looks like that's how he's got his production queued up:

http://forum.paradoxplaza.com/forum/show...st10986230

He's finishing his infantry complement in Jan '38. It does seem that most of his serial queues are brigades, but he does have two sets of infantry divisions in there.

[TheHumanHydra]

Maybe I'll try that next time I have time for a run-through.

[pindicator]

A friend recently pointed in me in the direction of this wonderful little time sink:

http://gabrielecirulli.github.io/2048/

[antisocialmunky]

My greedy algorithm for 2048 that I developed at work.

1)down

2)left

3)down

4)right

5)repeat

You can get pretty far doing this. Usually it craps out around 512 because this strategy tend to lead to formations of high numbers in the bottom middle 2x2 slots.

Advanced Algorithm:

1)left

2)down

3)repeat 1 and 2 until you cannot do it any further

4)right

5)down

6) Get the big number in the bottom left, then repeat. You'll have to adjust for bad luck. If you can't get the nubmr back, you can try to revert to the first algorithm.

[novice]

My greedy algorithm for 2048 that I developed at work.

[Bobchillingworth]

I'll let you know when I finish

Finished the game off last night. I guess the campaign is about 15 hours, if you do all the optional missions and talk to everyone every time the story advances. The writing is consistently fantastic, some of the best I've read in an RPG. There are a couple Big Choices to make starting with the penultimate run which determine what ending you get, so there's def. more reason to replay than with the DMS story.

I recommend it; it reminded me a lot of a Bioware RPG from before Bioware became a parody of itself.


Edit: I should also add that one of the endings allows you to go hilariously off the rails, which is a nice change from DMS resolving the same way regardless of your decisions.