Re: What Have You Been Playing... IN JUNE 2025?

Anssi Saari <anssi.saari@usenet.mail.kapsi.fi> looked up from reading
the entrails of the porn spammer to utter  "The Augury is good, the
signs say:

Spalls Hurgenson <spallshurgenson@gmail.com> writes:
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* System Shock 2 25th Anniversary Remaster
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There are a few things I didn't like. They took out the hack to
disable the weapon degradation. I always hated how guns in "System
Shock 2" broke after firing them a dozen times; originally you could
edit a config file to minimize this annoyance. That's gone now. The
developers also added a really annoying head-bob animation too;

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They *added* head-bob? In my recent playthrough I found the game really
looked like you were rolling around on a bent unicycle. I thought it
silly and also that's just how you rolled in the '90s :) But maybe that
was included in the fan patch I used? I noticed some things were changed
that didn't need to be changed which is my usual beef with fan
patches. OTOH, the original's rampant respawning was really low but I
thought it was due to the easy difficulty level I chose.

Is the headbob not toggleable in the settings?
If it cannot be turned off somehow that makes the remake and absolute NO
for me.

Or how is it in "vanilla" SS2, is it safe to visit med/sci (surgery) and
hydroponics (convenient charging station right next to the elevator)
when you're working on the upper decks, operations and recreation? Or do
enemies just keep on respawning there?

In Vanilla SS1 and SS2 enemies always respawned.   The idea was  living
environment where critters would move into cleared areas because there
was nothing living there.

Xocyll
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