xerxes2044 on 9/12/2006 at 05:23
im deep into ponterbee station (excellent mod christine, if by some crazy chance ur reading this), and at one point on deck 6 im jumping in midair to shoot at a projection of shodan, and a cyborg assassin blindsides me and kills me. the problem is, i saved the game about .3 seconds before he kills me, so when i load up, im dead immediately. theres no quantum bioreconstruction machines on that level, and if there is then i havent touched it, so i get dumped back at the main menu. i really dont want to start this all over again, especially considering im playing this on impossible. i wouldnt mind doing it again, but i want to enjoy it, and doing it again would just be a pain in the ass.
i found a link that said that if i add a line to the "user.cfg" file that reads, without quotes, "undead", then i should be invincible. but im running on version 2.23 and this file doesnt seem to exist!
can someone help? or am i doomed to start all over again?
Hemebond on 9/12/2006 at 05:44
Create the file. It's just a text file. Add that line.
xerxes2044 on 9/12/2006 at 06:45
apparently, when i tried to pull off a miracle and get out of that snag by ducking/healing, i saved it again after i was killed. so when i load, im already dead. anything i can do? or am i really screwed now?
Hemebond on 9/12/2006 at 07:16
It's probably possible to edit the save game in ShockEd. I don't know how and it's probably not worth the effort.
Nameless Voice on 9/12/2006 at 13:18
Surely you had saved on a different slot at some point?
Did you try the autosave from when you entered the level?
As far as I know, it isn't possible to load saved games into the System Shock 2 version of DromEd (the commands that you can use to do this in Thief are missing), but you could modify the gamesys to temporarily make your character invulnerable, load the game, avoid the damage, save, and then restore a backup of the correct gamesys.
xerxes2044 on 9/12/2006 at 15:09
naw i never used any of the savegame slots. autosave all the way. hey its more convenient and i dont have to interrupt the tension of the game to save my progress.
but i guess now im screwed huh?
David on 9/12/2006 at 15:09
You can edit the save game.
Start ShockEd -> go in game (the default room is fine) -> Esc -> Load Game -> Alt + E -> Make Edits -> Alt + G -> Esc -> Save Game -> Quit ShockEd
xerxes2044 on 9/12/2006 at 15:22
uhhh..ive never used shocked in my life. so could u walk me through this please? id really appreciate it.
Assidragon on 9/12/2006 at 16:44
Reason to not just rely on autosave. And I think you're screwed anyway. :p
xerxes2044 on 9/12/2006 at 16:56
bah if there were only a bioreconstruction machine on that level. i've got plenty of nanites!! damn you christine! ::shakes fist::
just kidding, ma'am. your work is most excellent and i very much hope you continue to do expansion packs for ss2 for many, many years to come. and don't ignore thief either, cause eventually i'll return to beat that as well. :P
..and i just realized she'll never read this. oh well. it's the thought that counts.
btw thank u for all ur help guys. i guess i will have to start over. oh well. med/sci here i come!
