Ryu Connor on 28/9/2012 at 18:33
Quote Posted by DarkDragon
Ive just been testing it out over the laptop and a lot of character animations are broken in Multiplayer now.
Firing the pistol will play some kind of 'being hit' animation, overloading the psy-blast will now make the character do the macarena, using the Cyber Affinity will make the character fall over as if he just overloaded his shot.
Hoping that gets fixed in 2.5, if there is a 2.5
I'd note that said bug existed in 2.3 as well. The netcode of the game has some issues.
Only time will tell if the .exe continues to evolve and whether such things will be overhauled.
Vae on 28/9/2012 at 19:38
From the ThiefGen forum...
Quote Posted by DrK
HOLY CRAP, Le Corbeau connected back on Ariane4ever !!!!
He posted this (roughly translated) :
The Raven is the messenger. From his perch, he watches the shadows who found themselves back.
DromEd.exe @ 0x14A701 change 02 to 01
ShockEd.exe @ 0x18EC11 change 02 to 01What would it do ?
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http://ariane4ever.free.fr/ariane4ever/viewtopic.php?f=2&t=4287&start=45)
Zanderat on 28/9/2012 at 19:55
Quote Posted by Vae
From the ThiefGen forum...
Wut?
Vae on 28/9/2012 at 20:20
The "Thief Series General Discussion" forum...here at TTLG.
blaydes99 on 28/9/2012 at 21:33
Quote Posted by Vae
From the ThiefGen forum...
Wow, awesome. This is legendary! Gotta check this out.
But, among other things:
Quote Posted by DarkDragon
"overloading the psy-blast will now make the character do the macarena"
Why is this a bad thing? :p
ToxicFrog on 28/9/2012 at 23:11
Quote Posted by Vae
From the ThiefGen forum...
And they've figured out what this does: it fixes the issue with shadows not being properly cast by sunlight.
Vae on 28/9/2012 at 23:27
Yep...and so far, that was the only major bug found...now eliminated...:cool:
"The Raven is the messenger. From his perch, he watches the shadows who found themselves back."
The purpose was hidden in this message.
ArclightBorealis on 28/9/2012 at 23:44
It sucks that I'm short on cash whenever I feel the desire to get System Shock 2, this time being no exception. At least the demo with the new patch gave me a chance to see if I'd love playing the game, and sure enough, yes I will.
Just one thing that struck me from that 2.4 demo was the cutscene that plays when the player is waking up from cryo. For one, it was widescreen instead of 4:3, and then, the player character model was more detailed. All these fixes and improvements to the game, and one of those are redone cutscenes that match up with the graphics mods that were applied. Talk about extra effort.
Again, it sucks I don't have the money to get the game when I so clearly want it, and it doesn't help that there are other games coming out now wanting for my attention. But hey, at least there's a demo for me to play.
Clockface on 28/9/2012 at 23:53
Quote Posted by ZylonBane
I've been following various other forums discussing these patches, and there seems to be overall more discussion of SS2 than of Thief.
Oh right. I'd be interested to visit other SS/SS2 forums, as the only ones I know of are here, systemshock.org, and gamefaqs.com. What other good SS and/or SS2 forums are there please?
I only started playing System Shock a couple of weeks back (though I've been a huge fan of SS2 since it came out) - I never played SS back in the day, and the strange controls put me off, until I discovered System Shock Portable, which adds full mouse-look and re-definable keys, and I have to say that SS is fantastic, and really was *way* ahead of it's time. And thanks to DOSBox, there's none of the complex memory configurations SS is so infamous for demanding.
Vae, I too would love a fan-made System Shock 2.5 or SS3, especially if it were up to the standards of Thief2x. I'd say that I'd love to see an official SS3 release, but I imagine that nowdays it would be dumbed down so much that it wouldn't be a SS shock game at all, except in name and (a few) references. Look at Bioshock - I love Bioshock and Bioshock 2, don't get me wrong they are two of my favourite games of this generation, maybe of all time, but they were so dumbed down that they didn't believe the *shock name. The world B1 and B2 shows us is so immensely atmospheric and detailed, that it's wasted on a 'mere' first person shooter (and I say that as someone who's favourite genre is the FPS). If Bioshock had had the same atmosphere and amazingly well done graphics and sound that it has now, with the levels and characters and weapons, etc, but had System Shock 2's depth of gameplay, including genuinely important RPG stats, real and intelligent story branching, and plot driven reasons to explore Rapture (Bioshock's city) then it might well have been the best game ever made. Instead they took this amazing world and filled it with a (too easy) first person shooter. Still a great game, but it could have been a defining game, one of the very few true milestones in gaming history.
theabyss on 29/9/2012 at 01:37
Fantastic News!
I am excited! :D
