How many times have you beaten System Shock 2? Have you tried all the different kinds of builds?

Ive lost count a long time ago but ive probably played the base game 40 or so times, not counting secmod, FMs or now the remaster i guess. My favorite build is the energy only build where you carry a bunch of laser pistols set to overcharge so you can fire another shot as fast as you can swap between them, plus the obligatory Rapier and EMP rifle

>>713927596 (OP)
Not once, it heckin' scares me.

>>713927997
SS2 is one of the only legitimately scary games

>>713928157
Thief 1 is scarier.
>>713927984
I have never tried that laser pistol swapping exploit. I've done playthroughs for energy, psi, heavy, standard, exotic, melee only. I wonder how fucked a pacifist (as much as possible) run would be, probably pretty ass until you get the invisibility spell.

>>713927596 (OP)
>steam didn't alert me
is steam a failed platform?

Is the multiplayer stable now? When I play it many years ago it was fun but a fucking trainwreck to sync with my friends.

>>713928404
There was a guy back during ss2's lets play era in the early 2010's, ShephardReborn, who did a pacifist run of SS2. Iirc, he makes it up until Ops where the game requires you to start killing specific enemies to progress (malick's assassins, Korenchkin, the black eggs, ect)

>>713929164
Wait for the remaster to get a few patches. A lot of people are reporting bugs and crashing with co-op. That said it's still probably more stable than the original's co-op which was barely functional.

>>713929216
Not hard to just make exceptions for main quest enemies.

>>713927596 (OP)
just started the remaster today. got it for free cus i preordered the ss1 remake like 3 years ago

>they got rid of shodan's colorful kimono in the remaster and replaced it with some boring diamond-pattern dress
I am coping, seething, malding and upset. One of the main things I was waiting to see with the remaster was an updated model for shodan in her kimono.

>>713929895
>Company led by a leftoid whitewashes the little known schizo lore that SHODAN is meant to be japanese coded, ignoring the cut dojo level
Fucking kek

>>713927596 (OP)
The remaster should have added a hoard mode, boss rush, time attack challenges and touhou like extra mode

>>713930414
>hoard mode
That's the normal game.

>mfw I hack the rocket turret on the bridge so that it can bully Korenchkin's floaty ass on the revisit when you gotta go back there

>>713927596 (OP)
I only beat it once. Didn't feel it was that interesting of a game. It's probably because I tried to do mostly PSI and the game utterly fucked me, so that left me feeling the game is a lot shallower than it appears.

>>713927596 (OP)
How's SS2 compare to the remake? I have the remaster because of I pre-ordered the remake, but I didn't enjoy the combat of the first game.

>>713930871
What difficulty? Psi on Impossible difficulty for example requires a lot of specialization and ignoring stats and misc non-psi skills, I'd usually only recommend an OSA playthrough for someone who has beaten the game multiple times but hasn't tried it. Navy is the best jack of all trades that lets you experiment the most and use a variety of skills.

>>713929895
Yeah this sucks. New design is still good though but the kimono was much cooler. This one feels a bit sterile and it looks more like it belongs in the SS1 remake. Idk why they couldn't just make it more accurate, every other design they did is spot on but this one is completely different and worse because of it

>>713931061
Also yeah, as the OSA archetype you're stuck holding your grey ball the entire game, occasionally you can pull out your psi blade which is just a generic melee weapon that looks different to the wrench and crystal shard. Using the other weapons is way more interesting and fun than ice balls, fire balls, psi blade and utility spells.

>>713930969
It isn't very different combat-wise, except for 2 being a straight up RPG with skills and classes and shit.

Just play it, you have the game already.

>>713931252
>the way the sleeves cover half of her hands
sexo

>>713931538
We were robbed

>received a free copy for pre-ordering the first game's remake
Is the game still good or should I just wait for the remake?

>>713931928
SS2 is not going to get a remake. The remaster is the furthest Nightdive will probably go with this particular game.

>>713930234
Occam's razor says it was probably just incompetence or misdirection. Like the game director tells the art guy "make her like in the remake we just did" instead of making her like she is in SS2 originally. Though a cynic might say that she was changed because she has a white voice actress and the character is a caucasian type of character so her wearing a kimono is cultural appropriation and racism, or something. I hope it's not some retarded shit like that. She's meant to be a weeb.

>>713932306
We don't know why it happened so it's retarded to get mad about literal made up reasons for why it may have happened. Just be mad about the shit design.

Btw the fact that they changed her face/head to the SS1 remake design points towards the first possibility you mentioned (but that doesn't exclude the possibility of them deliberately getting rid of the kimono either)

Did they touch the balance at all? I remember Energy weapons sucking ass outside the Pistol and the Rapier.

>>713933903
What else is there apart from the EMP Rifle? The EMP Rifle absolutely fucks the big robots but by design does nothing to the many fleshies in the game. You're not meant to use the EMP Rifle on anything but robotic enemies.

Does it matter at all?

>>713934615
For a couple of hours.

>>713934615
They decide your starting stats.

What difficulty should I pick for a first playthrough?
I've started on hard but even though I'm focusing on hacking I keep finding shit way beyond my hacking skill while being ultra cucked in every other area as result.

>>713934836
Normal or Hard, probably. Impossible requires a level of specialization with your cybermodules that requires game knowledge to carry out properly.

>>713934836
Hard is not a difficulty.
Play it on Normal like a normal player or on Impossibru when things will be too easy.
You are supposed to return back to these locked crates, especially lvl 6 ones.
DO NOT REDEEM ICE PICKS. DO NOT. PICKLE THEM. YOU WILL NEED THEM AT THE VERY LAST MOMENT.

>>713935037
There's 4 ice picks in the game and you only need 3 for the last moment.

>>713935114
If you know where all four are, you're well beyond this advice.

>>713935170
I'm not that anon, you're right. I've beaten the game on Impossible at least 5 times. I was just being pedantic.

>>713935246
Yeah, I know. It was a figurative (you).
If I remember correctly, a casual playthrough without looking into every nook and cranny will yield you only 2 ice picks, though it's hard for me to tell nowadays.

>>713935037
Oh is it like arx fatalis where the game gives you important endgame quest items that you can lose/sell without telling you?

>>713935474
No, nothing like that.
It's just with ice picks you can make the very end much more smooth than otherwise.
They are not required, they're just the meta oldfags automatically default to after twenty five years.

>>713927596 (OP)
Every time the music hits I get an urge to replay

>>713935474
Ice picks are not required but they do make it like 300% easier. Doing the needful without the ice picks is actually challenging.

The dragon dildos in Arx Fatalis that you can throw into a pool of lava 9 hours before you realize you need them to open the final door is a whole different kettle of fish.

>>713935037
I played it like 2 years ago and I have no idea what youre talking about.

>>713929895
genuinely a horrible design, what were they fucking thinking? i was looking forward to high res kimono for... reasons.

nah

>>713935881
wife

is the stroy good as bio shock

[UPLIFTING NEWS] The System Shock 2 Remaster has been released

>>713936061
The marketing even says she's seductive.

The cyborg assassins are literally ninjas that throw energy shurikens, but they got rid of Shodan's kimono?

Is there any interesting prerelease content in the remasters vault?

>>713936362
I listened to a radio talk show call-in interview with Ken Levine from 1998. Bit of a nostalgia trip.

>>713936179
It's weird how there's an entire subset of loli shodan art when nothing in the games even remotely hint at something like that.

>>713936584
What about prerelease screenshots

>>713936810
There's a ton of those yeah. The vault is full of stuff like that. Very crunchy low res.

>>713936854
I've seen a few and they were common ones that I've seen a hundred times

>>713937150
Oh, are you asking if there's new never before seen stuff? In that case probably not. It's more of a collection of all that shit in one place, but I don't know for sure. Nightdive aren't the remnants of LGS or Irrational, after all, they probably do have a lot of old source files for SS2 but prerelease builds and stuff I doubt it.

>>713935881
It really is sexless and boring compared to the original. Look at that art you posted and see how big her mammaries are. I guess it doesn't really make a whole lot of sense for her to be larping as a human woman with boobies when she thinks the human race are insect scum. You could maybe justify it with her seducing people to do her will (SS1 Diego, Delacroix, Polito, Soldier) by appearing as a sexy goddess with big bazongas in a kimono. The original SS2 model probably had the intention of boobs on it even if it's hard to make out, the new model has no distinct features at all from the neck down.

>>713937426
Well they had cool never before seen stuff for quake 2, that's disappointing

>>713937706
I know it's really a coomer thing to say but the original model had decent hips, too.

Found what I was talking about a few posts ago. I don't think SHODAN being in the game was ever supposed to be the real twist. The real twist is that you're stuck working with her.

>>713937784
They were were working with the continuation of (probably not the same people) the original studio that made Quake and Quake 2 for those remasters. Said studio probably has all their old shit in their 20 year old drives and archives. LGS dying took all that shit with them and Nightdive were basically just working on what they do have.

>>713938073
The real twist is just learning that Polito was SHODAN the whole time, not that SHODAN is in the game at all, and then yes, you're stuck working with her as you had been previously.

nope

>>713938187
>>713938073
She's in all the marketing, you were probably just meant to think she was up to her old tricks with mutant experiments like in the first game and that she was the big bad responsible (I mean I guess she still is) for the many taking over the ship, not that her experiments went rogue and she wants them dead as much as you do. It is a little let down by xerxes and the many constantly telling you the deck 4 reveal.

>>713927596 (OP)
ive never played it

So if the rumors are true, Nightdive wants to get the rights for SS3 back from Tencent so they can make it themselves. I hope they go with human hybrid SHODAN sequel and not the offshoot SHODAN at a triop blacksite shit that Otherside were working on.
>freely donated the sequel rights to Warren Spector and Otherside in hopes they'd do it justice
>their Underworld game is ass and flops and the company goes under
>instead of giving the sequel rights back the jew sells them on to Tencent and sells Otherside Entertainment to crypto bros
Stephen Kuck probably seethed and malded hard after finding out SS3 (and I believe SS4) rights were sold to Tencent after he graciously gave them away.

>>713938864
otherside's SS3 actually sounded like complete nonsense

>AI that hates humans visualises herself in the shape of a human woman with big fat titties
it'd make mor sense for her to keep being the cybercarrot from the first game

>>713939101
i like that she's a massive hypocrite though and how she always gets fucked by her ego in the end.

>>713938864
They don't have the talent to do it justice, hell the original creator was going to basically just fuck it's shit up, give it to me, you will get to fuck Shodan if I get to make it, well she will fuck you, but nonetheless.

>>713939030
Idk, it's not totally out there that big evil cyberpunk corpo TriOp would try to make another SHODAN happen (this time on purpose... for military reasons or something idk) at a blacksite, after seeing how fucked citadel station got by unleashing her without ethical restraints. But it would have been set between SS1 and SS2 and had no impact at all on the events of SS2 so it by definition would not have been SS3, but an interquel.

>>713939489
it also planned to somehow bring the hacker and soldier in

>>713939489
The first game's setting was god tier
I miss playing that game

>>713939552
I think that was a different pitch for SS3. Afaik the Otherside TriOp blacksite SS3 was set between 1 & 2 as I said, so it wouldn't have made sense for the Soldier to appear as he hasn't even gone to Tau Ceti yet. I think the blacksite setting was chosen partly because it could plausibly not be mentioned at all by anyone in SS2 despite it happening before that game. The pitch with both the hacker and soldier showing up was (I believe) something else, or maybe a variant where it is actually set after SS2 (involving human hybrid shodan?)

Reminder that Nightdive fixed SS2's biggest plot hole by mentioning wormholes in the remake of SS1.

>>713928404
Ii would call it less scary and more stressful. Id get the occasional jump scare from a screaming zombie cyborg charging at me sure, but the respawning guys did do a pretty good job of creating an oppressive atmosphere where you really dont feel safe anywhere, at least it was like that on my first playthrough.

>>713940130
What is the plot hole in SS2?

>>713940291
How did the jettisoned grove get to Tau Ceti in 40 years with no FTL travel.

>>713927596 (OP)
Reminder to paid shills that there's a place for you to suffer after your life ends. Also being a paid shill for a scam LOL

>>713934615
Nah, by the time you finish the first level it's irrelevant. Unless you go for the honeypot skills you can easily max 2 weapon types and have decent skills/stats even on impossible

>>713940403
Retard. The remaster is buggy as shit and barely functional, I doubt they could afford to pay me to shill it (I'm not a pajeet who can live for a month on a single dollar like you) when they can't even ship a finished remaster after 10 years of dev time. It gave me an excuse to play through it again so I did. Fuck off out of my thread nigger.

>>713940570
Repair and Maintenance even being able to go to 6 is a fucking scam. Those skills should be capped at 3 or be like 50% of their cost.

Reminder that if you make a thread with a sincere question instead of specifically trying to start a flamewar for (You)s over nothing then you a shill paid to promote a game.

>>713927596 (OP)
Play it for her.

>>713931652
This design looks like ass in both the old and new versions, but this particular picture looks decent. It looks sort of like a demon you'd find in SMT.

>>713940613
>The remaster is buggy as shit and barely functional
It's fine really. The worst problems already got patched, the only real remaining problem now is that reloading animations are janky

>>713941626
From reading the forums there seems to be a laundry list of bugs and crashes, specifically to do with co-op (the one feature you would hope they would have polished for this). I experienced a few notable bugs and 1 crash in my playthrough of the remaster.

>>713938073
one of xerses first lines spoils it too

>>713941226
nah

>>713940965
Yes actually. You're a shill

>>713927596 (OP)
Beat it about 7 times, and used a rebalance mod last run(it was really good) amazing game, still one of the few games that can constantly scare me.

Really dont fucking care about the remake.

do old mods work with the remaster?

Stephen Russell's Diego is just Garrett. His intro cutscene voice, hybrid voices and xerxes voice are more distinct but still noticeable him.

>>713941969
Notice how the opening post doesn't even mention the remaster.

>>713942380
Really? I thought Diego was actually Ken Levine.

Didnt kenny boy voice someone? Fuck him for infinites fuck up

>>713942075
As far as I know; no. Apart from a bunch of them just being packaged in to the remaster.

>>713942643
Diego is clearly Stephen Russell, it's the most Stephen Russell of all the Stephen Russell voices in the game. God bless the UNN.