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 objective eight years in the past. “We knew we wished to patch that in,” Nightdive founder Stephen Kick informed PC Gamer. “It was simply a type of issues that we knew wouldn’t have any sort of rapid impact on gameplay, however simply having that choice sort 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 file new NPC dialogue and design a brand new character mannequin for reduce scenes and dying screens. Nevertheless, 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 sort of situation,” he defined. “You can put your self within the footwear of the character and sort of venture your self into the world versus there being a preset character 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 largely appear to contain overhauling the sport’s controversial last 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.