Players can try out the upcoming patch and find any bugs

Aug 15, 2013 18:03 GMT  ·  By

After launching several updates for Shadowrun Returns, a brand new patch has just been released, taking it to version 1.04 and improving plenty of bugs and glitches, while adding Steam Trading Cards.

Shadowrun Returns has been a huge hit even before its actual release, as many fans supported it via crowdfunding website Kickstarter.

Now, a brand new patch has just been posted by developer Harebrained Schemes, in the form of update 1.04, which improves many areas, fixes plenty of bugs, even if it still has a few known issues that are being worked on by Harebrained and by Valve.

Check out the changelog below, via the official community group.

New Features, Improvements  - Steam Trading Cards are now available - Shotguns: Kneecap cooldown reduced to 2 from 3 - Headshot: Critical hit chance increased. AP cost reduced to 1 from 2. - Cooldown of 2 added. - Drones: Aim now works like the Aim ability that normal characters use. AP cost reduced to 1 from 2, cooldown of 3 added. - UI Tweaks and revisions. - Increased ESP movement speed so they can keep up with their masters. - Updated tutorial about essence loss and spell slots. - Slightly improved load times between levels for some users. - Editor: New trigger “Remove prop by tag." - Editor: New trigger "Remove item by skill type." - Editor: New trigger "Check for weapon holster state." - Editor: Allow heal HP Damage trigger to revive

Bug Fixes

- Audio should be much less “hitchy” now. - Fixed bug where player's team would still end their turn even after using haste on an ally. - Joysticks/Gamepads/Flight Controls should no longer move the camera. - Fixed bug with dispel magic not always functioning. - Fixed item duplication bug on equip screen. - Fixed sending an event through a trigger in conversation. - Fixed issue with save games being bloated with redundant tag data. - Fixed issue with players sometimes gaining +1 AP when they already had 3 AP. - Fixed issue preventing some players from receiving +1 AP after reaching the Karma threshold. - Fixed issue with actors entering fog of war erroneously running super fast. - DMS: Fixed several places where base attribute or skill was being checked instead of current attribute or skill in conversations. - DMS: Fixed prop placement issues in various levels. - DMS: Fixed more typos. - Editor: Editor should now be able to select subscribed content packs as dependencies. - UGC: Fixed bug causing some subscribed content packs from appearing in game. - UGC: Fixed an issue preventing content packs larger than 100MB from being uploaded.

Known Issues

- Some users are experiencing occasional timeouts while uploading content packs (especially larger ones). This has been identified as an issue with the Steam Workshop servers and Valve is working on a fix. - Some users are reporting excessive disk space being used by the asset caching process. We are looking into ways to address and/or minimize this issue.

The new update will be automatically downloaded the next time you start Steam up.