Nightdive Studios launched the System Shock remake final 12 months to a constructive however not uncritical reception. Nevertheless, builders are nonetheless tweaking the sport. A brand new patch, coming April 11, reworks the ending, introduces a feminine gender choice, and gameplay enhancements.
System Shock will get a feminine Hacker, a reworked ending, fight modifications, and extra
Nightdive initially proposed including a girl model of Hacker as a Kickstarter stretch aim eight years in the past. “We knew we wished to patch that in,” Nightdive founder Stephen Kick advised PC Gamer. “It was simply a kind of issues that we knew wouldn’t have any form of rapid impact on gameplay, however simply having that choice form of provides to the immersive high quality of the sport.”
System Shock is a first-person recreation, and Hacker is a silent protagonist. Nevertheless, Nightdive nonetheless wanted to document new NPC dialogue and design a brand new character mannequin for lower scenes and demise screens. Nevertheless, Kick thinks that including gender choices makes it simpler for gamers to step contained in the character.
“It’s a kind of early gaming staples, the place it’s an everyman or everywoman form of situation,” he defined. “You could possibly put your self within the sneakers of the character and form of undertaking your self into the world versus there being a preset persona that you simply’re enjoying as.”
Sadly, builders didn’t have as a lot to say in regards to the modifications to System’ Shock’s ending. Nevertheless, the modifications principally appear to contain overhauling the sport’s controversial closing boss to play extra like the remainder of the sport.
The brand new replace additionally introduces “Mutant Fight Enhancements” and provides a waypoint system to Simple mode. Nevertheless, it’s not but clear exactly what the upcoming fight enhancements entail.
