rapture
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I'm in the Shadowrun beta
Submitted by rapture on Mon, 02/12/2007 - 3:44am.
I've been playing the Shadowrun beta on XBOX 360 (although I'd rather play on Vista with a keyboard and mouse) for the past few weeks. The NDA is pretty strict so I can't say anything about the beta that isn't already legally public. That said, there is a good bit of information out there that I want to share with everyone. I'll do that later. I plan on writing a pre-NDA-lift summary and a post-NDA-lift summary. That said, I've been playing the Shadowrun beta whenever I'm free to play on the 360 bar a few exceptions. Now, if I could get into the Shadowrun Vista beta.
Shadowrun beta: check
HALO 3 beta: check
Interesting... I'm assuming
Interesting...
I'm assuming you're playing cross-platform in the beta, or is it just against other 360s at the moment? If you can't say, that's fine.
I wonder how they'll level the playing field between the mice and keyboards against controllers. They'll probably give PC gamers handicaps and the console version with lots of auto-aim for it to be fair. :)
I don't know of anyone
I don't know of anyone playing the beta from a PC.
The playing field is going to be leveled by "crippling" the PC player. They have talked about distorting the reticle of the PC player while he moves the mouse. I'm not happy about that.
I'm hearing from people that have played at tradeshows and conventions that the console players have the advantage now. : /
Big Shadowrun news coming tomorrow...
The beta will be public?
The beta will be public?
The next Shadowrun for XBOX
The next Shadowrun for XBOX 360 beta round is supposed to be public.
There is no word of a public Shadowrun for Vista test. I hope there is one, though.
How did you get into the
How did you get into the Shadowrun beta?
You can apply for the beta
You can apply for the beta by following instructions on this page:
http://www.xbox.com/en-US/community/news/2006/1128-shadowrunbetainvitation.htm