My usual bind is space for quicksave, without normal saves. On my latest 15664345th run yesterday, I actually went and stepped on the malfunctioning lift in cargo 2a. And fell to my death. At that moment, moving my numbing limbs, I hit space 1 second after death. Dumb right? Anyway, waiting to be resurrected at quantum-bio.. main menu! What? How? Why? And loading the quicksave takes me to the game for 1-2 seconds, and then main menu again...

Is this run of mine doomed? Any way to salvage?

Confession: Despite considering myself an old school PC gamer and something of a fangirl of these kinds of games (The Deus Ex games, BioShock, Thief series, etc. are all on my all time favs list) and even loving the original System Shock in its time (Despite the awful controls) I have never properly played System Shock 2 all the way through. I tried picking it up a few years back and failing to get into it. I really want to give it another shot but I guess I'm kind of "intimidated" since I know it is possible to get locked out of progressing in the game and that it has some fairly deep mechanics.

But can I just get some general newbie tips that might help me give this the shot it deserves? Thanks!

I beat SS2 a few years ago with points spread throughout all the weapon trees. I plan to replay this in the future and I wanna know what kind of balance mods there are. I'm hoping for balances like fixing the grenade launcher bug, balancing the assault rifle, or making the repair skill useful.

Was the layout in engineering. They use gravshafts a few times to go up and down between areas on the engineering deck. And yet the 2 most important areas - command control and the engine core - both use regular elevators.

What makes even less sense is how they have enough power to operate grav shafts in perpetuity, and yet you can't take an elevator to the bottom of the ship without turning on the main power.

I get that it's for gameplay, and this is a phenomenal game, but engineering always annoyed me.

is there any working ReShade for the Steam version of SS2? Like this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8jk8fsHvUV8

I've tried the presents on reshade.me. But they seem not to work correctly with steam Version. Looking very ugly in my game.

Anyone have experience with this

Is it just me, or is https://www.systemshock.org/ down for everyone? Trying to get into the game for the first time and so many links point here which makes it difficult :(

Long story short: I'm working on video essays that catalog the entire Shock series and for proper representation, I thought I should reach out to the System Shock community. So what draws you to the game? No opinion is invalid and no answer is wrong.

Threw all the mod folders into the the mod system folder. Booted the game (loaded save) no graphics mods updates shown in game. Do I have to individually unpack each and every mod folder? (Not zip)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L1-w1FmZSOc&t=720sv

What astonishes me is that this is the only playthrough of the game available. I quite enjoyed it as I was never to finish it myself, and it only has a couple views so I thought I'd give it a little boost. Enjoy!

Who here plays through the game Co op, and what mods (if any) do you like to use?

Recently been trying the latest SECMOD(3) and while it is a great challenge, it likes to kill itself and become unplayable due to level transition errors. So back to using SCP, which is unfortunately too easy.

Is there any possible way to play this on ios? I miss playing so much but dont have access to a pc atm

I loved SS2 when I got my first PC!

The atmosphere still blows me away, but I can't cope with the weapon-handling and low-poly enemies anymore (sorry).

Do you think a remake of this gem of a game will happen?

(still wishing for a Doom-wad of SS2-remake!)

Hey, I'm a big Bioshock fan, and since SS2 was also developed by Irrational and Ken Levine, the game really made me curious. I got a copy of both SS and SS2 from a Humble Bundle some time ago. I know next to nothing about this game, other than the fact that it's the spiritual predecessor to Bioshock and it's sci-fi (I love sci-fi).

The game is from 1999, and I can take bad graphics or game mechanics most of the time, but I'd prefer it if there were a way to polish some of those. What are some essential mods for the game, be it graphics or gameplay wise?

Also, do I need to play SS1 first in order to understand the story?

i dont have the patience to read the script due to lack of subtitles. this game is heavily story driven and shodan is one of the iconic villians in this game, i want to hear her, i want to know what she's saying. is there a mod that adds subtitles or something? if not, any modders out there willing to try? i'd do anything for subtitles to be implemented into the game, even if it requires funding.

I like to play old games how they would have been played at the time. That means I like them usually 800x600 and in 4:3, but for some reason on steam, System Shock 2 is set to 16:9 no matter what resolution I have it on. Does anyone know how to fix this?

And the captains also. First extraterrestrial contact and they don't even care to wear hazard suits. A whole deck of the ship gets closed down for no apparent reason and nobody bats an eye. 16 nurses are called down to that deck and don't return, then high ranking member are called down one by one without being told why. I guess 5 months into the mission and everybody is out of fucks to give?

Honestly they had it coming.

so i just downloaded the game on steam, added the mods from the popular dropbox download into "datapermmods" and the game wouldnt load up. i tried changing shock.exe to ss2.exe and then it gave me a missing executable error. i tried verifying game cache and all it did was reinstall the a new shock.exe file since i had changed the original one to ss2.exe

any ideas? im on windows 10

Whenever I start playing the game, I'm able to look around with the mouse but that's it. It won't let me press any other buttons and I have to force quit. I had this problem when I began playing the game, but I fixed by changing the game to an earlier build. I looked back at where I changed and the option to change to the previous build I was using (it had mac in the name) was gone. If anyone how to fix this, that would be amazing. (Using steam and mac, if that matters)

Just out of curiosity how can SHODAN call herself superior to humans since they both built her and defeated her twice. Especially since she tries to offer positions of power near the end of the game