Shadowrun gets some title update #3 love
by Dustin Burg 
{ Aug 20th 2007 at 2:30PM }
[Thanks, MageGriff]
Shadowrun Update #3
Gameplay
Dwarves can no longer be unawared with the katana or Artifact.
Elves' regeneration ability has been tweaked:
- Increased time before Elf begins to heal by a quarter second.
- Increased essence cost of healing by ~15%.
Audio
Enemy footstep audio will now be easier to hear in Live games.
Bots
Bot difficulty will scale with players' average Trueskill in Public Match games.
UI
Added "Advanced Settings" screen when setting up a Private Game, which contains the following options:
- Max players - Ability to determine the maximum number of players that can join the game
- Preferences - Ability to use the preferences of all players to determine the map rotation
- Handicapping - Ability to turn Karma on or off
Fixed "stop" functionality for when a game-start countdown has begun in the lobby.
Improved messaging for when your party is split or rejoined due to team balance.
Improved messaging about Artifact clearing bodies in Attrition.
Network
Improved server reliability.
Dedicated Server
Improved voting reliability.
Improved network reliability.
Improved error messaging.
General
Local Match games can now be played without a profile.
Fixed numerous crashes.
Fixed numerous exploits and glitches.
Improved Vista multi-monitor functionality.
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Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)
wa27 @ Aug 20th 2007 2:37PM
This was released 5 or 6 days ago, actually.
Chris @ Aug 20th 2007 2:47PM
I don't get the second elf one.
And the quarter second makes no difference. They should make it one second. Although that could completely nerf the elf.
They need to beef up the dwarf as well.
Phazzer @ Aug 20th 2007 2:51PM
@2: What you mean you don't get it? It costs approximatly 15% more essence to heal your elf. Not to hard to understand.
xenocidic @ Aug 20th 2007 2:56PM
@2
Dwarves can no longer be unawared with the katana or Artifact.
wa27 @ Aug 20th 2007 3:05PM
you can't make dwarfs bleed out with the katana/artifact anymore.
DjDATZ @ Aug 20th 2007 3:07PM
Great...3 updates to download when I get my 360 back AND decide to play shadowrun...lol
Joshua @ Aug 20th 2007 3:23PM
Well xenocidic in case you didn't read I bought Shadowrun a day after our conversation.
It has grown on me except I don't like playing the same map almost nonstop. It is fun to play once you get down the controls.
I have to say I hate ass bags on my own team that bleed me out so that they can get their percious rez acheivment.
Chris @ Aug 20th 2007 3:25PM
@3
I meant to say I haven't seen a difference. Boy did that come out wrong.
xenocidic @ Aug 20th 2007 3:32PM
@joshua, glad to hear it.
i'll admit i think we need a few more maps... just a few more...and maybe one more gametype =)
that'll keep it fresh.
Alex @ Aug 20th 2007 3:56PM
nice they finally added more tweaks, they really need to add more tweaks/customization to games and preferences (howabout saving my preference duh!) seeing that it is online only.
xenocidic @ Aug 20th 2007 4:02PM
@10 if you're talking about Matchmaking preferences, it does save those.
Modeps @ Aug 20th 2007 4:26PM
spellchick ruelz!
waffle @ Aug 20th 2007 4:37PM
Great, this is the one they released five days ago? Well, in that case they might want to reevaluate the Network reliability points they just "improved". I've had more problems in the last five days than I did before.
"Lost connection to server"
"Lost connection to server"
"Lost connection to server"
"Lost connection to server"
"Lost connection to server"
seems like every other game I get a connection failure message. never had this many problems in a xbl game before. you'd think that considering the scope of the beta and that this is a major Games for Windows title, Microsoft would have been able to do something about it. so do something already.
zackiyp @ Aug 20th 2007 5:14PM
Joshua, that's fucking strange. The rez achievement is one of the easiest achievements to get. I hate when I dwarves on my team that buy glider first fucking round. They don't understand that it's a team based game.
The achievements don't help either. I once asked a dwarf why he doesn't have rez and he replied, "Rez is for fags, I'm just going for my dwarf player achievement."
skunkworks @ Aug 20th 2007 7:11PM
I like shadowrun, but for an online only fps you would think some character customization would be there. Theres nothing like a whole team of elves that look exactly the same. :\
mec11 @ Aug 20th 2007 10:45PM
@ 7 & 14
I get this too, then sometimes they rez or throw a tree for you. Many times seems they work in pairs and have -$
Believe they are trying to get the Healer and 100 Bleed out achievements. Very annoying to start a map and within 10sec you are bleeding out and wondering what happened. Thankfully this is prevalent that I can just join another game or kick/wait for them to leave.
Anticrawl @ Aug 20th 2007 11:22PM
Unfortunatly those server disconnects that have been happening so frequently after this update are because they tried to stop people from getting out of the maps. In certain places when you get out know it causes the game to lag out. I won't tell you on what map and where but it does.
Mister Webmastr @ Aug 21st 2007 9:07AM
Support for the game? Obviously you haven't played the Vista version. The first patch was released on June 24, and almost all vista players with normal networks (that is to say, use a router to connect to the net), and it took them till August 2nd (after the 2nd patch was released) to put up manual downloads. And with this third patch, we're still waiting on a manual download, because guess what? Vista players with routers STILL cannot automatically update (and no, it's not GfWL, Halo 2 updates fine, automatically)