System Shock 2 to come to GOG

[FrenchTart]

Ta Tarty!

Amazingly I was just looking at that having found a link elsewhere!

Going to have to give it a whirl tonight.

M.

Good luck

Personally I don't mind the respawning and find it adds to the atmosphere. I can understand it's a personal choice though.

 

[FrenchTart]

I don't mind it normally it's just that, not having played the game for 5 years or so, when I'm looking around sometimes I miss areas so I end up back tracking and having a shed load of monsters re-spawning all the time gets a little annoying. I'm sure on my second run through with another dude I will remove the patch.

M.

Sounds like a plan I'd get SecMod on there for a 2nd run too. Really ups the ante in terms of challenge

 

[FrenchTart]

Just a word of caution with sec mod, if you are planning to play multiplayer it has a game breaking bug when you reach engineering.

Only the player that activates the door / lift to reach engineering is able to move apparently.

Gutted, I want to play coop with secmod installed, had anyone found a patch or fix for this?

I saw some discussion about this but I'm not sure that there's much you can do :/ I think some people have tried replacing the SecMod engineering .mis file with the original one and that kind of works (though introduces a few other bugs - possibly not show-stoppers though).

 

[FrenchTart]

Ah well, not to worry. My friend hasn't played SS2 before so I have reverted to your new player friendly version, will try and have a go tonight.

Here's hoping the multiplayer is easy to get going!

Good stuff It's quite easy to get working from memory (and should be even easier given the 2.4 patch). Just the usual forward ports, supply external IP, etc.

Multiplayer can be a bit buggy sometimes though. You may find you have to cheat at some point as items can go missing (rare but happened to me at least once across 3 coop playthroughs).

 

[FrenchTart]

Ah ok thanks for the info. My friend will have his laptop with him and we will be in the same house connected to a wifi router. Hoping it is straight forward

Ah yeah. LAN play is far far easier than online (and less likely to be buggy)

 

[FrenchTart]

Glad they're working for you

I've just had a fairly major bug on hydro but I think it was caused by me messing around with files earlier. I don't think it will be a problem for most people playing. At the moment half of hydro has reset for me...sigh.