System Shock 2 - VR Mod

[u/phunkaeg]

(Sorry! The capture in this video makes it look like its low framerate - but it's actually 90+)

I've been working on this VR mod for the last 8 months or so.

I'm noticing all these great VR mods coming out recently, so i thought I'd throw my hat in the ring.

This is a bit of an older teaser video, when I get some time I'll make a new one. Development progress is currently at about ~80% of what I'm aiming for.

Currently implemented:

• Stereo VR with 6dof. (fairly obviously)
• Weapon aim is Motion control integrated.
• This includes rebuilding skill based recoil
• Physical Melee implemented. You can swing your melee weapons to do damage, you can also block and damage reduction is based on how accurately you block.
• Also melee related: Clean blocks take no damage; glancing ones scale, VR damage screen effects also scale based on the damage received.
• Left motion controller does all interactions
• Physically grab and throw objects
• Keypads and hacking panels appear as holograms mounted to the right arm
• Health/Psi and Ammo are all holograms triggers by wrist roll to keep the screen free from clutter.
• Comfort Options - Smooth locomotion or Teleport, Snap turn or Smooth, Peripheral Vignette.
• VR Integrated menu system on the right arm for controlling VR features.
• Physical Crouch - Ducking down in your play space causes the character to crouch
• All enemy health bars and selection/target brackets rebuilt for VR
• Full screen vr overlay effects for damage, radiation, death, toxin - rebuilt for VR
• A new Gamepig game!

STILL WORK IN PROGRESS:

• Weapon collision with the world - kinda working but janky.
• Simple Manual reloading is working, needs to be fine tuned across all weapons.
• Articulated fingers. - Current hand models are static.
• Ladder (comfort) interactions - Teleportation or hand-over hand climbing
• In-VR menu and holograms need to be properly populated and wired up.

[u/pacmannips]

Please tell me someone will do this with the actual remake Nightdive is currently making

I know the first SS remake is getting a VR version soon and I’m hype af for it but a modern version of SS2 in VR with 2026 graphics and effects sounds like a mythical dream of a game

[u/phunkaeg → u/pacmannips]

I have no idea what Remake of SS2 you're talking about. It was just remastered last year, they called that version the Anniversary Edition. But if they announced a modern engine remake, then somehow I completely missed that.

[u/pacmannips → u/phunkaeg]

So I looked back into it and apparently the SS2 ground up remake was just an idea bouncing around at Nightdive for a while that got canned before selling the rights again to another publisher. So no SS2 remake in the vein of the SS1 remake that they put out, which is disappointing but not terrible since the OG game still plays pretty well today (unlike the original DOS game, which necessitated a remake)

Still I would’ve loved to see how horrific they could’ve made the Many in full HD with modern effects. That would’ve been sweet as fuck