I think I've discovered why SS2 has always been so hard for me - by charlestheoaf
Sangman on 12/4/2007 at 20:32
Quote Posted by ZylonBane
What, you mean you refuse to turn them on?
That's just dumb.
No, that's just different from the way you play, okay?
Back on topic, I wasn't too ashamed to use the med hypos myself. Especially not around those damn turrets. Always had to use a med hypo or 2 after I encountered one of those laser turrets (well, until I got better weapons)
Kolya on 12/4/2007 at 21:56
Quote Posted by Sangman
No, that's just different from the way you play, okay?
The QBRMs were put there to keep you from abusing save & reload. I know it may seem hard to pay the ten nanites...but just once try and imagine you are really on that ship. No saves, no backdoors. You will enjoy it.
Nameless Voice on 12/4/2007 at 22:09
That's something I've never quite been able to do.
It just seems wrong, somehow, to be able to keep going after dying.
I'm torn as to whether using QBRMs makes the game harder or easier, though.
I think easier; you can just die to get past a difficult situation and back to the QBRM, getting basically free teleportation and healing, to the point where you hardly even care if you die anymore and can just start to use death as a quick way to get around, whereas with the save-abusing method, you have to always make sure to keep yourself alive, which means using a lot more healing and being a lot more careful about your health.
Bjossi on 12/4/2007 at 22:15
Quote Posted by Kolya
The QBRMs were put there to keep you from abusing save & reload. I know it may seem hard to pay the ten nanites...but just once try and imagine you are really on that ship. No saves, no backdoors. You will enjoy it.
10 is easy to pay when you have stocked up some supplies, but I think it's wise to avoid the QBRMs in the first two decks. (you don't really need them that early in the game anyways)
Firefreak on 13/4/2007 at 06:00
Quote Posted by D'Arcy
Why use the Skorpion to kill an enemy in one second when you can also kill him in thirty seconds by shooting him fifty times with the Pistol?
Quote Posted by the hacker's guide to sin
A sign of decadence among System Shock players is when you go around using the Magnum on cameras because you have nothing less powerful...
word. :P
Rogue Keeper on 13/4/2007 at 08:51
Reading this I got a taste for a third SS2 run on Impossible. :p
Bjossi on 13/4/2007 at 13:23
I could easily have shot the cameras in SS1 with the Magnum or pretty much any gun, I had endless amounts of ammo of all sizes and shapes. :p
ZylonBane on 13/4/2007 at 13:39
Quote Posted by Nameless Voice
I'm torn as to whether using QBRMs makes the game harder or easier, though.
Harder or easier isn't really relevant, IMHO. The reason they exist is to make the game more immersive. They provide a means by which a lone human could plausibly survive the events of the game from beginning to end.
Vigil on 13/4/2007 at 15:45
And a means by which most of the rest of the crew should plausibly have survived.
ZylonBane on 13/4/2007 at 16:26
You didn't seriously miss the part where Polito tells you Xerxes took them all offline, did you?
