Nightdive Studios launched the System Shock remake final yr to a optimistic however not uncritical reception. Nonetheless, builders are nonetheless tweaking the sport. A brand new patch, coming April 11, reworks the ending, introduces a feminine gender possibility, 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 objective eight years in the past. “We knew we needed to patch that in,” Nightdive founder Stephen Kick advised PC Gamer. “It was simply a type of issues that we knew wouldn’t have any type of quick impact on gameplay, however simply having that possibility type of provides to the immersive high quality of the sport.”
System Shock is a first-person sport, and Hacker is a silent protagonist. Nonetheless, Nightdive nonetheless wanted to document new NPC dialogue and design a brand new character mannequin for minimize scenes and loss of life screens. Nonetheless, Kick thinks that including gender choices makes it simpler for gamers to step contained in the character.
“It’s a type of early gaming staples, the place it’s an everyman or everywoman type of state of affairs,” he defined. “You possibly can put your self within the sneakers of the character and type of mission 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. Nonetheless, the modifications largely 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. Nonetheless, it’s not but clear exactly what the upcoming fight enhancements entail.