[AJCarrington]

Well, release day has come 

Steam

A review posted earlier on Hardcore Gamer (4.5/5):

Review: Shadowrun: Hong Kong

[Kincaid]

So excited to fire this up when I get home from the office.

[Sendaz]

Be sure to post if you see Bull & Opti in game.

Am curious to see what they did for them as NPCs.

[Bull]

I'll be doing a YouTube play through of the whole game.  First few videos are up now, couple more will be up tonight.

https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL8wyatPMskpYfXoi0MotMjlBZGfi9y9vN

[Sabato Kuroi]

OK I'm pretty sure Green Lucifer has a cameo  in SR:HK


Inside the Mahjong Parlor (Kindly Cheng's base of operations) first table on the right

Must be him

[AJCarrington]

I'll be doing a YouTube play through of the whole game.  First few videos are up now, couple more will be up tonight.

https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL8wyatPMskpYfXoi0MotMjlBZGfi9y9vN

Subscribed, but might hold off watching until I've got a little further into the campaign...spoilers and all

[ScytheKnight]

Wow... talking to Racter there's some really interesting stuff going on there.

[ScytheKnight]

Is it just me or is cash WAY tighter in HK than the previous games? Previous games you could easily handle upgrades for 2 focuses, and even kinda keep up with 3. But damn it seems freaken near impossible to keep up with even just 2 in HK.

[ProfGast]

Opti and Bull sighting confirmed.  Last seen in an Ares R&D lab.

[Snake Eyes]

Couldn't wait, had to buy this

Yup, i can confirm that Bull & Opti sighting

[tasti man LH]

Goddamn I was not expecting the new Matrix to be like this!

I've been following the game as much as anyone else and knew the Matrix was getting revamped, but this? Stealth gameplay, mini-games when hacking, new and varied types of IC...dayum!

Of course, the game doesn't exactly let you know what's up with these new elements so when I did my first dive into the Matrix...things went pretty bad really quickly.

[Jack_Spade]

Yeah, can someone tell me what's up with this number game? Am I supposed to hit the buttons as they light up?

[MijRai]

Yeah, can someone tell me what's up with this number game? Am I supposed to hit the buttons as they light up?

It's a pattern recognition game; watch the pattern, click it out.  Like Bop-It, but less tactile. 

[Bagels]

Yeah, can someone tell me what's up with this number game? Am I supposed to hit the buttons as they light up?

There's two stages of hacking Blocker IC (the big gates with the new hacking minigame):

Stage 1 - You start off with the keypad in the lower left of the screen. Like MijRai said, it's a pattern recognition game - just repeat the number sequence that lights up. Every successful repeat adds time for the second stage.

Stage 2 - Once you have put enough time on your clock (I usually stop after 5-6 successful attempts on the number pad in Stage 1), you move on to Stage 2 by hitting the "Next" button on the keypad. This starts your hacking clock to run down. You now have to figure out which string of symbols (of the many options available) will unlock the IC. Random symbols will flash on the top bar of the hacking window corresponding to the correct screen. You have to figure out which symbol string is the right one before your time runs out.

All of the time you were adding in Stage 1 gives you more time in Stage 2 to guess the right symbol string.

[ProfGast]

For those of you who have very fast typist skills with numpads, you can also use the numpad on your keyboard to punch in the keypad numbers for stage 1.  Also, if you have good memory and a little luck you don't REALLY need to even do stage 1 to match all the stage 2 items.  I rarely have taken longer than 20 seconds to line up all of the Stage 2 symbols, and higher level cyberdecks usually give you 30s base to solve.

Bear in mind if you "miss" a stage one your total time continues to count down.  Either hit Start (0) again or hit next to get to the actual Blocker IC Breaking.