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An intense techno breakbeat is the perfect soundtrack to me crouched in a bathroom trying to fit a grenade launcher into my inventory full of potato chips.
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GOG Store Page is up, I assume the Steam one will be up imminently.quote:System Shock 2: Enhanced Edition modernizes the 1999 sci-fi horror classic using Nightdive Studios’ proprietary KEX Engine for a definitive version of the game featuring updated visuals, enhanced cutscenes, and up to 4K 120 FPS performance.
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definitely seems like Quake 1&2 remasters are the blueprint for any Nightdive remaster going forward, doing subtle upgrading of models/weapons and adding fan content. i'm all for it
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Oct 19, 2023 19:34
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SS2 is so good, and after enjoying the SS remake this year I’m very ready for another run at it.
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The Kins posted:GOG Store Page is up, I assume the Steam one will be up imminently. gamepad support 
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mind the walrus posted:Neat. Wonder if they'll update the OST to include less techno and amp up the horror, b/c that's what they're selling it on. This is a sourceport that bakes in the most commonly-used mods, so no. e; wonder if this will be a free upgrade to those who already own sshock2 on Steam. e2; poo poo, I just realised that KEX sshock2 makes KEX Thief and T2 a possibility. Not that there's anything wrong with the Newdark release but the convenience would be nice. Lemon-Lime fucked around with this message at 19:54 on Oct 19, 2023 |
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Oct 19, 2023 19:47
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Lemon-Lime posted:This is a sourceport that bakes in the most commonly-used mods, so no.
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The 7th Guest posted:nightdive just showed off system shock 2 remaster on Indie Horror Showcase let's fuckin gooooo Uuuuuuuuhhh....? That's exactly how SS2 looks when you play it nowadays, HD texture packs have been out for a decade or two. I'm totally serious, I was keeping a sharp eye out and the only possible difference I saw was on the rumbler model. Maybe the droid model looked a touch cleaner?
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Serephina posted:Uuuuuuuuhhh....? That's exactly how SS2 looks when you play it nowadays, HD texture packs have been out for a decade or two. I'm totally serious, I was keeping a sharp eye out and the only possible difference I saw was on the rumbler model. Maybe the droid model looked a touch cleaner? Nightdive got bought out/folded into a bigger fish a little while ago so this is most likely the last big project they had on dock before their incredible and improbable run of excellent remasters ends as they succumb to corporate bullshit. Enjoy what could very likely be the swan song. I mean the advantage is that now you can buy a copy and not have to worry about finagling a bunch of mods, which will get a few casual buyers like Zoomers to try it out. I would certainly appreciate a tighter UI/UX for the whole thing, but that might just be my inability to map to Ye Olde Dark Engine.
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szary posted:What? No, don't they dare touch the music. Yeah what the hell, the soundtrack was really good! I thought the soundtrack was pretty spooky even if it was pretty nontraditional for a horror game. mind the walrus posted:Nightdive got bought out/folded into a bigger fish a little while ago so this is most likely the last big project they had on dock before their incredible and improbable run of excellent remasters ends as they succumb to corporate bullshit. Enjoy what could very likely be the swan song. I hope not, I'm still hoping and praying for them to do something with Earthsiege/Earthsiege 2/Starsiege (NOT Tribes!) even though they aren't exactly FPS games. The 7th Guest posted:definitely seems like Quake 1&2 remasters are the blueprint for any Nightdive remaster going forward, doing subtle upgrading of models/weapons and adding fan content. i'm all for it Hello Nightdive, I get that it's really late in the remaster and I'm just screaming into the void but please get Machine Games to do a second campaign for System Shock 2 BattleMaster fucked around with this message at 00:08 on Oct 20, 2023 |
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mind the walrus posted:Nightdive got bought out/folded into a bigger fish a little while ago so this is most likely the last big project they had on dock before their incredible and improbable run of excellent remasters ends as they succumb to corporate bullshit. Enjoy what could very likely be the swan song. Rocket Pan posted:Atari purchasing Nightdive is not a bad thing, and there won't be anything changing outside of things like being able to hire more staff, a thing we've needed for a while now to be frank. Rocket Pan posted:The current CEO of Atari is someone who has already been investing in Nightdive for years. We aren't going anywhere or changing anything, aside from using the extra financial backing to actually improve on deals and licensing.
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Volte posted:Rocket Pan already dismissed this idea at the time I'm not crying about it, or saying it's a bad thing. All things end and part of being a decent consumer is recognizing the signs. It won't be for at least half a decade before it's really felt, so pointing out that they've peaked isn't the same thing as saying let's stop enjoying the ride.
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Unconditional doomer platitudes aren't exactly a stellar predictor of performance
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The 7th Guest posted:nightdive just showed off system shock 2 remaster on Indie Horror Showcase let's fuckin gooooo UE5 remake when
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mind the walrus posted:Oh yeah sure let's believe Rocket Pan over decades of capitalism that proves this cycle is inevitable. terminally walrus brained
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Licherally zero reason to touch the soundtrack to SS2. It absolutely rules. The 90's breakcore has this sinister edge to it and more than half the soundtrack is dark ambient drones. It rules and the composer (Ramin Djawadi, not Eric Brosius) would go on to write one of the best movie themes ever  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pnFdDqSDRDE
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I wish we got more sci-fi dungeon crawlers after SS2. Not really "Shock" games, exactly...
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Al Cu Ad Solte posted:Licherally zero reason to touch the soundtrack to SS2. It absolutely rules. The 90's breakcore has this sinister edge to it and more than half the soundtrack is dark ambient drones. It rules and the composer (Ramin Djawadi, not Eric Brosius) would go on to write one of the best movie themes ever Wait, REALLY??
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Any word from Rocket Pan or gossip columnists of the FPS world over whether Blood: Fresh Supply will see another patch or two? Seems like there was some excitement after the acquisition but nothing since.
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Hasturtium posted:Any word from Rocket Pan or gossip columnists of the FPS world over whether Blood: Fresh Supply will see another patch or two? Seems like there was some excitement after the acquisition but nothing since.
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Hasturtium posted:Any word from Rocket Pan or gossip columnists of the FPS world over whether Blood: Fresh Supply will see another patch or two? Seems like there was some excitement after the acquisition but nothing since. We have Blood access back and I tried updating some stuff but found one specific bug fix I needed to backport relied too much on Kex4 render context and multithreading code to function. So right now I'm doing an update of Blood to Kex4 instead during my spare time, it'll take a bit. Otherwise I have the DOS version packaged and working that I might just push out at random (I.e when I feel I have a week to field any bug reports from any configuration weirdness.) mind the walrus posted:Oh yeah sure let's believe Rocket Pan over decades of capitalism that proves this cycle is inevitable. Well I am literally a senior programmer for Nightdive. Rocket Pan fucked around with this message at 02:58 on Oct 20, 2023 |
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Rocket Pan posted:
well that just means you're, like, part of the system, man
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kirbysuperstar posted:terminally walrus brained
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Al Cu Ad Solte posted:Licherally zero reason to touch the soundtrack to SS2. It absolutely rules. The 90's breakcore has this sinister edge to it and more than half the soundtrack is dark ambient drones. It rules and the composer (Ramin Djawadi, not Eric Brosius) would go on to write one of the best movie themes ever Holy poo poo, never knew that SS2's techno was done by the same guy that did Game of Thrones. That's awesome.
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A.o.D. posted:Wait, REALLY?? Yeah! And he has the same type of synesthesia as me which means I'm taking partial credit for how awesome his compositions are. Don't ask me how that works.
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Traveller posted:I wish we got more sci-fi dungeon crawlers after SS2. Not really "Shock" games, exactly... After finishing the System Shock remake all I wanted was more dungeon crawlers on space ships/stations.
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System Shock 2's soundtrack was always divisive. Can't for the life of my understand why though, it's one of my favourite OSTs. More spooky sci-fi games should use DnB in their soundtracks.
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Here's the real question, though: will the SS2 remake have an arachnophobia toggle or slider? The spiders in the original were pure nightmare fuel and I'd never have been able to play that game without the no spiders mod.
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anilEhilated posted:Here's the real question, though: will the SS2 remake have an arachnophobia toggle or slider? The spiders in the original were pure nightmare fuel and I'd never have been able to play that game without the no spiders mod. The spiders are exactly what got me to stop playing SS2 in like 2004, fuckin JRR Tolkien making giant spiders a thing
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mind the walrus posted:Oh yeah sure let's believe Rocket Pan over decades of capitalism that proves this cycle is inevitable. It's inevitable but it doesn't seem we're there yet with Atari so yes I'd take the word of someone who knows what's going on in the company they work for over someone guessing on a forum. There's at least a little legitimate interest from the new leadership in restoring the brand as a legit video game company, or at least that's what they've been trying to project. I suspect that they see the good will that Nightdive have established and the good work that they do as beneficial in rebuilding. They've made other decisions that indicate movement in that direction, most notably dropping the plans for the hotel and casino business that their predecessors were gunning for: Wikipedia posted:On 18 April 2022, Atari announced the termination of all license agreements with ICICB Group and its subsidiaries ("ICICB"). The license agreements between Atari and ICICB, including the Atari Chain Limited license (the "Joint Venture") and the related licenses including hotel and casino licenses, have been terminated effective 18 April 2022. ICICB is not authorized to represent Atari or its brands in any manner. Of course Atari are also still pushing a blockchain thing, which to me is more terrifying than any creative meddling since I'm sure it'll inevitably fail and result in Atari needing to tighten up. Nightdive seems like the type of well loved company that'd be seen as not-profitable-enough and culled first. All that aside I think it's a bit ignorant to assume that their day-to-day operations are being messed with given what we know and what they've been working on.
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Rocket Pan posted:We have Blood access back and I tried updating some stuff but found one specific bug fix I needed to backport relied too much on Kex4 render context and multithreading code to function. So right now I'm doing an update of Blood to Kex4 instead during my spare time, it'll take a bit. This is great and I'm fine waiting as I can already play and enjoy it with Made to Order. Now a quick question about the Quake 2 remaster on consoles. I tried the mouse and keyboard support on both Series S and PS5 at launch and was good but sometimes rebinding keys was funky (not working sometimes) on the menu, didn't check in a month and sadly due to work can't check, do you guys patched/looked into that? Quake 1 binding was perfect on console. kirbysuperstar posted:terminally walrus brained 
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Groovelord Neato posted:After finishing the System Shock remake all I wanted was more dungeon crawlers on space ships/stations.  I'm just getting to the last deck in the Shock remake and the game is much longer than I expected, but also, I have never gotten bored with it. Tbh I think there's more of System Shock's DNA in Dark Souls than I realized. Just a totally satisfying gameplay loop, death runs and all.
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To resolve the one issue that has plagued SS2 fans for years, night dive should add a dialogue choice for the final word spoken in the game: 1. Nah 2. Naaaaaaah 3. Naaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa (continues indefinitely until player presses alt+f4)
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Guillermus posted:Now a quick question about the Quake 2 remaster on consoles. I tried the mouse and keyboard support on both Series S and PS5 at launch and was good but sometimes rebinding keys was funky (not working sometimes) on the menu, didn't check in a month and sadly due to work can't check, do you guys patched/looked into that? Quake 1 binding was perfect on console. I don't feel like we had a report of that nature, the binds menu seemed to function fine, but we did fix one specific issue with two binds around the wrong way. You may need to just retest.
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A.o.D. posted:Wait, REALLY?? Yes really. Djawadi attended and graduated from Berklee College of Music in Boston, MA, which I imagine is the bit of serendipity that caused his path and that of Irrational/Looking Glass to intersect. anilEhilated posted:Here's the real question, though: will the SS2 remake have an arachnophobia toggle or slider? The spiders in the original were pure nightmare fuel and I'd never have been able to play that game without the no spiders mod. More games need an aranchnaphobia slider like in Grounded that turns spiders into Rover from The Prisoner Angry_Ed fucked around with this message at 15:58 on Oct 20, 2023 |
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Rocket Pan posted:We have Blood access back and I tried updating some stuff but found one specific bug fix I needed to backport relied too much on Kex4 render context and multithreading code to function. So right now I'm doing an update of Blood to Kex4 instead during my spare time, it'll take a bit. This is a very interesting development
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Rocket Pan posted:I don't feel like we had a report of that nature, the binds menu seemed to function fine, but we did fix one specific issue with two binds around the wrong way. You may need to just retest. Oh cool ty. Need to be at home and update the game. The remaster is amazing and the analog aiming options to tune acceleration and such are great.
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Milo and POTUS posted:I would simply use my weapons to reduce the spiders health to 0 let's break that down into steps: 1. see spider 2. continue looking at spider while lining up gun 3. shoot spider and keep looking at it to see if it dies as you may notice, all three steps involve looking at a spider. this may be a problem for people who have a pathological fear of spiders, particularly when playing system shock 2, a game noted for featuring some of the most terrifying giant spiders in videogaming history Convex fucked around with this message at 17:43 on Oct 20, 2023 |
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