System Shock Remake Adds Playable Female Hacker, Revised Ending, and More on April 11

System Shock (2023), a remake of LookingGlass Technologies’ classic 1994 first-person action-adventure game, will be receiving a major update next week on April 11 that delivers a playable female hacker, reworked final battle, cloud saves, and more for players on Steam, the Epic Games Store, and GOG, developer Nightdive Studios and publisher Prime Matter have announced. A console version of System Shock remains on track for release on May 21, 2024.

Highlights include:

• A female Hacker has now been added as a playable character
• Reworked the entire final fight with new mechanics and a unique flow
• Cloud Sync support has been added

A peek at the female hacker and new final fight:

Other major changes include:

• Alpha Strain enemies have a new attack
• Avian Mutant enemies have a new attack
• Cyborg Diego has new movement options
• Continued refining enemy AI and behaviors
• Mission waypoints have been implemented for (Easy mission difficulty)
• Better Gamepad handling and implementation
• Major optimizations across the entire game — Steam Deck users rejoice!
• Achievements are properly awarded when completing the requirements
• Some first person Hacker animations have been corrected
• General combat and speed balance adjustments across enemies and weapons
• Credits added to the Title Screen
• Improved quest logic behavior across several areas of the game
• Players can now no longer save over the AutoSave, and the AutoSave will now only appear in the Load Game menu
• Game Over screen can now be skipped
• Recycle Station ‘inventory’ size has increased to 4×3 from 3×3 to allow recycling of bigger junk items. Scrapper rejoice!
• The max payout from a Recycle Station is now 120 Credits
• EMP stun duration has been reduced by 25%
• SHODAN will lock the Research control room door if the player fires the Mining Laser at Earth
• Detox patch now has a 25% protection bonus against environment hazards while active
• Fix a soft lock that could occur when dying while interacting with a Surgery Machine
• Items dropped inside of elevators should no longer disappear
• Pathfinding performance improvements in Flight Deck and Groves
• Fix a case where the player was able to clip through the world by loading games while crouched
• Fix a case where plasma projectile FX would spawn every frame and wouldn’t clean up properly, causing major frame drops

And here are all of the “minor” changes:

• Easier to see total counts of collected Media items
• Added a button to the entrance of the Security level to ensure you can backtrack to the rest of the Station
• General FX improvements and tweaks
• New artwork on monitors across Citadel Station
• Enemy callouts and vocals are less frequent now
• Better text sizing for all languages
• Jump Jet behavior improved
• The color of some projectiles were tweaked
• Sped up animations of using Dermal Patches
• Enemies who are near Restoration Bays will be teleported to their spawn location to ensure the Hacker doesn’t get softlocked by being killed repeatedly
• Save files are now counted incrementally
• Fix ups of various Cyberspace levels and enemy placements within
• Better handling of Hacker death in unlikely scenarios
• SHODAN now has a surprise for the player when Diego is killed on the Security level
• Total Enemy Reinforcements have been increased across all levels
• Reduced the number of enemies that can bunch up in the same Reinforcement Volume
• Enemies will remember the player for longer on all difficulties
• Enemy line of checks include the projectile collision radius whenever possible so that their attacks fail less often
• Fixed an enemy ambush that wasn’t activating properly in the Medical CPU room if the player comes back later in the game
• Kickstarter corpse tokens added to enemies
• Enemy awareness in the Flight Deck trap room after saving and loading has been fixed
• Diego boss AI adjustments, largely in the first encounter
• Cortex Reavers can now perform a strafe jump to more quickly engage the player
• Mutated Cyborg and Tiger-Gorilla dismemberment has been fixed
• Cyborg Mantis walks faster, will sprint more frequently, and HP increased slightly
• Flier-Bots now have an Autocannon in addition to Gas Grenade attacks
• Striker-Bots now have a Laser Cannon in addition to Homing Missile attacks
• Flier-Bot and Striker-Bot textures have been improved
• Fix for Hoppers and Mobile Lasers not being able to hit the player while leaning behind a wall
• Security-1 Bot now has a rapid fire attack pose
• Cyborg Warrior now has a moving attack similar to the Security-2 Bot
• Cyborg Elite Guard head-mounted laser attack damage increased from 60 to 80
• Alpha Strain long range attack now has a unique animation
• Skorpion default inventory size has been reduced from 4×2 to 3×2
• Assault Rifle damage increased slightly from 24 to 25 per round
• Plasma Rifle now has an animation to unload the active Plasma Core
• Abe Ghiran’s Head inventory size has been increased from 1×1 to 2×2
• Missing character portraits have been added
• Cyberspace I.C.E Shield FX has been improved
• Wire Puzzle has new FX to more clearly indicate the required power level to solve it
• Fix for Circuit Puzzle dead-end nodes filling from the wrong side in some cases
• Fixed holes in the walls in Research tiles,
• Berserk patches now cost 5 Tri-Credits from a dispenser instead of 4
• Shotgun ammo cost in Ammo Depots has been reduced from 15 to 14 credits
• Loot table adjustments to reduce quantity of ammo received from Exec-Bots, Flier-Bots, Striker-Bots and Cyborg Enforcers
• Ammo adjustments in Reactor, Alpha Grove, Delta Grove, Engineering, Security, and Bridge
• Reduced the number of First Aid Kit pickups in Flight Deck, Security and Bridge
• Assigned the correct idle animation to the Cyborg Drones (No more hovering guns while they are charging)
• Jump Jet improvements while in Low Gravity Volumes
• Loading a save while falling will properly restore the player’s velocity
• Barrel dispensers will no longer drop their dispensed barrels when the player leaves and comes back to a level.
• Energy Drain Mines will no longer prepend multiple “Destroyed” strings to their name after being repeatedly destroyed
• Fix for player losing Low-Grav/Repulsor mods when switching to certain weapons
• Improvements to how the enemy AI handles changing Repulsor Lift direction
• Reactor’s Repulsor Lifts have been adjusted slightly to fix potential soft locks
• Fix for the player being able to exit the Diego V1 arena by blocking main doorway
• Doors will more elegantly restore their collision state when loading a save
• Shotgun shell texture has been fixed
• Crack-O’s are now no longer considered Junk
• Fix for certain wall monitors not breaking when attacked
• Fixed small animation issue with the Isolinear Chipset on the Bridge
• Fixed sparking cable issues on Maintenance
• Fix for several achievements not completing properly
• Small text adjustments and spellings
• Music playback adjustments
• Fixed a potential audio component memory leak when concurrency limits were reached
• Added a Controller Vibration accessibility option
• Improved gamepad support on MFD
• Improved automap performance
• Fixed several visual artefacts on the automap
• Automap will always update the map info bar with the data for the currently selected level
• Implant tooltips will no longer display off the edge of the screen on certain display configs
• Fix for the ‘Back’ button on gamepad causing the player to crouch when exiting menus
• Credits updated
• Other minor improvements, adjustments and balance tweaks

Console announcement:

Nightdive on the new remake:

The System Shock remake combines the gameplay of the iconic original game with all-new HD visuals, updated controls, an overhauled interface and all-new sounds and music. Never-before-seen enemies, quality-of-life gameplay tweaks, a revamped hacking system and visceral new combat options — featuring a brutal dismemberment system —also await players new and old.

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