Secmod 3 needs its own wiki
If you haven't given a look at ThiefsieFool's massive overhaul/new content mod, you owe it to yourself to try it now.
https://www.systemshock.org/index.php?topic=7153.0
Partial list of the awesomeness involved:
Badly-needed rebalance/cleanup of the OS upgrades and PSI powers , some of which were duplicates or functionally useless.
SS1-style wire puzzles
New puzzles
New explorable areas
Multiple new weapons
Repairable turrets
An actual new level
Ability to McGyver all kinds of things into other things
Seriously, I've just finished a playthrough of this and quite honestly I don't think any other mod combo can really touch it. TF has put a MASSIVE amount of work adding all manner of new, functional things that significantly add to the game. About the o…
When you wish you could reload from a save point...
Just saw my darling little sister all decked out in the wedding dress, all a-glow in white and looking angelic. To say she looks beautiful would be the understatement of the century. I can hardly believe that in the space of a year she'll have gone from single to engaged to married. She'll be half the country (or more) away for good and not even have the same last name as her big brother.
I'll miss her more than my 486 and my first laptop put together.
I'll miss her more than my old bedroom at my parents' house.
I'll miss her signature laugh, the way she stuck her tongue out at my bad jokes, and her whiter-than-paper smile.
...where do I go to hit F9 on real life and reload a save?
All I need to know NOT to do I learned from smashing the environment.
It's funny how after all these years of enjoying System Shock, I'm managing to find yet more surprises. Today, for instance, I found out that while the rare one-click-heals-all Surgery Machines can take a surprising amount of damage they will explode, hurting you but far worse permanently depriving you of an incredibly valuable resource. The icing on that crap cake would be if you happened to be on your last few hit points, sending you to the revival chamber, and the absolute cherry on top would be if you hadn't yet disabled SHODAN's cyborg conversion protocols. Call it 'the revenge of the auto-doctor'.
I suppose that technically something going boom from being repeatedly shot shouldn't really shock me (haha) but I got used to beating up invi…
All I need to know I learned from smashing the environment.
Started a new game of System Shock to obtain some images for the wiki. In the beginning medical area there is a Control Pedestal next to where you find your first Dart Gun, and instead of a texture on a wall it's an actual 3D environment item. It can't be interacted with so being the compulsive gamer that I am, I decided to smash it with my brand new Lead Pipe to see if something happened.
Indeed, something DID happen. It exploded, revealing a pack of explosive needles for my nice new gun on the floor where the Control Pedestal had been.
I'm equal parts excited to find something actually new and amused at how the game rewards randomly smashing stuff.
After ten long years...
It's now been ten long, weary years since I last was seriously involved in the System Shock fan community in any way. Now that I have too much time after work and too little energy and money to do much of anything, I figure it's about time I made some small contributions back to the community
I won't bother to go into all the ruddy drama except to say it feels like yesterday I compiled my very first level in Dromed, back long before NewDark was available. It was embarrassingly crude in design: a single room designed somewhat like my own bedroom, with a door that didn't work. But I felt like I'd conquered the world because I FINALLY managed to get the cantankerous level editor to behave, and by gosh and by golly I'd made something all by mys…