>finally decide to try this >spend an hour downloading

stop being a pussy meatbag and play the damn game

>>378279061
>>immediately realize it's a horror game

It's a horror game if you're a fucking faggot.

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>>378279061
play the game, faggot!

It's not a horror game. Don't tell me you couldn't play Doom 3 as well.

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>>378279397
It fucking feels like one. Am I really the only one?

Play it you fuck.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oR6WBGKw0MA

If this shit spooks you and doesn't make you want to play the game, may SHODAN have mercy on you, insect.

>>378279061
You have to get used to it anon. Don't be a pussy because SS2 isn't scary. It has ninjas ffs.

>>378279674
God, I forgot how fucking creepy this game could be. I remember the midwives for it but somehow I blotted the deep echoing voice out of my memory.

>>378279061
play SS1 instead, its the better game.

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Little ones need rest

>>378279061
its not really a horror game in a way you'd expect. its suppose to creep you out, not try to hurt your ears with a loud noise in an attempt to make you shit your pants.

think HP lovecraft/edgar allen poe scary, not paranormie activity scary.

Is SS2 better than SS1? Currently playing SS1 and it's pretty fun

>>378279061
>Mods
It's not a horror game, OP. I'm a huge pussy who can't play horror games and I got through this and I only jumped a few times!

>>378279061
Turn the music volume up, it'll help

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>>378279061
play it for her

>>378281006
They are pretty different. Both fun though.

SS2 basically invented the modern horror FPS genre. Games have been using what it did for decades after.

>>378279061
or get a buddy and play it co-op. it'll no longer be a horror game but still fun in a different way.

>>378281006
No

>>378281006
It's different. They're both worth playing, though.

SS2 is much more atmospheric and less shooty than the first game. It also introduces RPG elements so there's a greater degree of customization.

>>378279061
I want to replay this game but I know no matter what "build" I'll aim towards I'll still just wrench anything to death. Shit even the big ol' robots you just circle strafe because they're too slow to actually turn and hit you.

You can always play it coop as well. That takes the spook factor right out once you see another player moving around doing stuff because they look half-retarded due to the limitations of the time with the character models.

>>378281006

It's difficult to compare them.

SS1 is good, but it felt like Doom with a bunch of systems tacked on. SS2 feels more like a survival horror game with more RPG elements. Both are good in their own way and are worth playing.

>>378281272
The game doesn't really give you enough ammo to facilitate a wrenchless playthrough.

>>378281186
>>378281272
The biggest point with co-op is you know there's someone watching your back, whereas one of the main jumps are when you're hacking stuff and shit comes up from behind.

>>378281006
I'd say SS2 is better. SS1 probably would've been more atmospheric if it weren't for SS2 having much better ambient sound design.

>>378279061
Better than my experience at least

>Start up system shock 2 few weeks ago
>Start playing the tutorial part
>find glitch where I can take practically infinite ammo out of tutorial into the main game
>entire game becomes unscary cakewalk

And no, don't tell me not to use exploits. If the developers were stupid enough to keep them in there, they should be exploited.

Fix your game. Age is not an excuse.

>>378281272
the only reason people end up using wrench is because of the shitty "you need to level up hacking" meme that retards always shout towards newer players. If you go for a hybrid build between two weapons branches you will almost always have enough ammo to kill stuff without meelee. 3 in standard 6 in heavy for instance gives you like 6 guns with different ammo types, and you can one shot half the enemies on impossible

>>378279061
>spend an hour downloading and setting up all the right mods for the perfect experience

disgusting

you dont need to "mod" ss2

>>378281186
>tfw no friends here at uni
I just finished the training, should I go with Navy, OSA, or Marines?

>>378281690
Once you get competent you can pretty easily melee nearly everything without taking damage anyway. Whenever I play now I default to hitting things most of the time since hey, may as well not waste ammo if I don't have to. And then I finish with like 3000 nanites and hundreds of bullets again.

>>378282109
Navy is the easiest to start with so you may as well go with that if you're new.
Take the choices that give you hacking, standard weapons, and then either agility or endurance.

>>378282109
Navy is hacking, research, etc
OSA is sort of psy focus if you've played bioshock it's sort of similar to plasmids
Marines is gun focus

I prefer OSA

>>378281690
Hand held weapons are overpowered as shit. Once you get the laser rapier and spends points in strength and get the aug that allows you to do even more melee damage you become a god that can take out a rumbler in 1 to 2 shots

>>378282312
Well I'd say it depends on the enemy. Some types like rumblers and wrench hybrids are easy to strafe around. Others like mechs and cyborg assassins have wonky hitboxes that can still screw you at meelee range. I prefer to take them out with grenades.

>>378281094
Post Tsundere SHODAN

>>378279061
I have like 90 hours in this game and wanna try something new. Can anyone guide me on how to get co op set up on this?

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>>378282685
this is what I found

>mods on your first playthrough
Fucking disgusting

>>378282790
Nothing wrong with adding graphical mods

>>378282851
For the FIRST playthrough yeah there is, you're literally ruining any artistic direction the original game had.

>>378282947
Not really, especially this one.

http://www.moddb.com/mods/shtup-system-shock-2-texture-upgrade

it's the exact same objects but higher rez

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>>378282947

>>378283069
The first picture is kinda pushing it with the bump mapping or whatever but I'll admit the rest are actually really faithful, I guess that's ok.

>>378283069
Except that's not, are you retarded?

>>378282514
Don't forget that ridiculous psi power that buffs melee damage. At low PSI it gives you a really big boost. At high PSI it's completely ridiculous since you do like 7 times normal damage.

>>378279061
MAN THE FUCK UP or you will end up a cuck


there's nothing scary after the psycho monkeys anyway

>>378279061
There are mods to tone down some of the horror elements, like the mod that removes all the spiders from the game.

Endlessly respawning enemies is an indefensible design mechanic though. That's why I stopped playing it.

>>378281624
Please elaborate. I am interested.

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>>378279653

No. It's a very unsettling/creepy game. One of the few games where I would legitimately run and hide with my back pressed in a corner so nothing could sneak up on me while I recovered.

Of course, now I've beaten it several times, and it's just rote and the terror is mostly gone.

Well I got wrecked because this wrench sucks balls

theres nothing to be afraid of, you big baby

invisible spiders

>>378284037

Wrench is the most OP weapon in the game though.

>wrench
>up strength in character creation tutorial segment
>lethal weapon OS upgrade
>smasher

You can literally one hit most of the enemies you encounter in the first 3 decks, and hoard ammo the whole time.

i read about a mod that prevent endlessly spawning enemies at certain points? anyone know anything about that?

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>>378282685

>>378284435

just go to systemshock.org and poke around. I've never used it, but I do believe there is a mod to stop endless respawns.

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>>378279653
SS2 scared me a lot too. The atmosphere is really unsettling. I had to abuse save spamming to get myself through most of it. By the end of the game I was powerful enough that nothing was much of a threat and the game lost a lot of its scariness.

I highly recommend play through it anyway. SS2 immediately became one of my all time favorite games.

>>378284435
Is it really that big of a deal? I only ever had one trash mob respawn every like 5 or 10 minutes

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>>378281624
People like you are the biggest faggots
>I absolutely have to take advantage of everything the game lets me do even though it ruins my experience! I can't possibly NOT cheat if the game lets me cheat!
Never reply to me or post again you disgusting pleb.

>>378283837
It's not indefensible, it's just not to your taste. The game would be pretty broken without it anyway.
>>378283906
Go to the weapons tutorial and keep picking up ammo (it respawns since it's training, so you can take as much as you want). Now stand in front of the exit and then open your inventory and pick up the ammo like you're going to drag it to another slot, but don't actually move it anywhere, just walk out holding it.
That's it, all the ammo you want. You may as well just use the actual cheats if you're going to be like that, though. I mean, you're pretty much cheating already.

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>>378284463

>>378279061

Do you think Half-Life is a horror game too?

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>>378284816

>>378281735
>>378282790
>mods are bad
>one of the biggest benefits of pc gaming
As long as it's tasteful mods that just enhance what's there, it's fine. Mods that add big tits to everything or heavily change the style are trash though, like the deus ex revision

>>378285130
modding anything your first playthrough ruins your opportunity to play the game without them first, to truely experience the game with the way the developer intended (for the most part) and also ruins the appreciation of the work modders do.

Basically you're a faggot kill yourself if your first playthrough of anything isnt vanilla/community bugfixes

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>>378285130
modding a game on your first playthrough should be punishable by death, for crimes against vidya

but for subsequent playthroughs you should feel free to mod to your heart's content, though

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>Not knowing that System Shock is a horror series
How can you be this sheltered?

>>378285130
>with the way the developer intended
wrong, they ALWAYS make compromises and cut corners. Their vision is almost never fully realized.

>>378285728
meant for
>>378285281

>>378285728
>for the most part
almost like autism compells you

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>>378283526
trying this for my next play through

>>378279061
>using mods before a vanilla playthrough

This is where you fucked up

>>378282851
Sure except that the graphical mods are all shit

>>378286526
They're still better than vanilla which is very blurry

>>378279653
Nah.

I didnt get scared when playing this game, only turned on when shodan started calling me insect

>>378281624
check out this fag

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Ss2 is not scary in the slightest. It MIGHT'VE been a little bit scary if there weren't the crazy space-age techno tracks playing all the time. Not that they're bad, don't get me wrong, but it hypes the game to the point where you just feel like a sci-fi movie killing machine. It just isn't scary.

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>>378289180
I'm not alone I see

Can SHODAN have an orgasm?

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>>378290371
you can turn the music off, but I agree. A more ambient track list would be better.
>>378291582
I'm sure someone programmed it in

>>378279061
Is not a horror game.

It has some atmosphere with the voice recorders but sweet Jesus the music ruins it and the combat is laughably easy that you can melee your way out of everything (except of those fucking robots).

>>378282779
Holy fuck, that's cute.

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>>378279061
>>378279653
It was pretty scary back in the day when it came out (especially those hybrids and their eerie-as-fuck voices), but replaying it today I don't find it scary at all.
Of course, I was also a hell of a lot younger back then.

The level designs are somewhat creepy, sure, with all that empty space and poor lighting. But with rave music playing as the game's soundtrack, it kinda takes away from that atmosphere.

>>378279061
It's not a horror game. Just join the fucking Many already, you little bitch.

>>378292779
you can apparently do that with mods

>>378290371
>it hypes the game to the point where you just feel like a sci-fi movie killing machine
Yeah, the music doesn't suit the scenario well.

When the game started and the music began blasting, I honestly thought I was jumping into a hectic, chaotic situation and was expecting to see random characters running around in panic.

But no, I was all alone and everybody was already dead. Huh.

>tfw really enjoy ss2
>get to the many
>get lost in literally same corridors
>after getting lost in literally same corridors of living quarters
>lose interest
good game just art design is dogshit

>>378286526
There is literally nothing wrong with >>378283067

>>378283716
The psycho monkeys weren't scary, just annoying with their brain bolts.

Hell, they actually felt pretty out of place.

>>378279061
>spend an hour downloading and setting up all the right mods for the perfect experience
You done fucking goofed right off the bat, faggot.
Uninstall EVERYTHING, and go 100% vanilla first.

>>378279653
>Kids are this pussified these days.

>>378295206
The textures are fine but all the model packs are pure shit

>>378291582
She probably gets pretty orgasmic whenever people die.