Corridor on 21/12/2012 at 10:51
Holy crap. I don't know what you did, but you fixed it. You are some kind of wizard. Thanks so much! I'm going to add SHTUP and Rebirthv2 and see if the game works with them now too (because those cyborg assassins totally look like they're wrapped in garbage bags). I'm tempted to restart just so I can play through it unhampered by annoyance.
Quote Posted by Al_B
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best way is just to use guns less and use the wrench more (IMHO). I made the mistake when I first played the game of using guns almost exclusively and ran into major degradation and ammo problems towards the end. In subsequent play-throughs I used the wrench a lot more and found it a much better experience.
However, if you do want to tweak it then just open or create the file user.cfg in a text editor. Find or add a line with the text:
Code:
gun_degrade_rate 1.0
Set the 1.0 figure to somewhere between 0 and 1.0 to reduce it - e.g. 0.5 to half it, or (I assume) set it above 1.0 to increase the degradation rate. If you have the official patch installed the details should be in the file readmep.wri in your game directory which you can open in WordPad, Word or similar - it has details of this and some other configuration variables.
Dude, there are like a ton of different types of weapons in this game, and no end to ammo lying around (at least on normal), you bet your ass I'm gonna be using those guns. It's why they are there! I mean I do use the wrench a *lot* and it is my main weapon of choice, but there's resource management and efficiency, and then there's just bad balancing. The devs even [RIGHT][/RIGHT]said somewhere that the weapon degrade rate was higher than they intended it to be.
Thank you for the instructions. :) I've set the rate to 0.5, hopefully things will be more manageable.
voodoo47 on 21/12/2012 at 12:57
Quote Posted by Corridor
Holy crap. I don't know what you did, but you fixed it. You are some kind of wizard.
no. actually, it's the opposite, I've messed up - it took me quite a while to realize you did not use (
http://www.systemshock.org/index.php?topic=4141.0) ss2tool to patch up your game. there is (
http://www.ttlg.com/forums/showthread.php?t=140560&p=2157220&viewfull=1#post2157220) one variable in the config that is disabled the original, "raw" patch, but enabled in the ss2tool, and for some reason, slower graphics cards really need it enabled to avoid uneven framerate.
I strongly suggest that you make a new, clean install of ss2 according to (
http://www.systemshock.org/index.php/topic,106.0.html) these instructions, especially if you want to use mods. when you are done, either disable multisampling yourself
Code:
; multisampling (anti-aliasing) level
; IMPORTANT: some integrated graphics HW may not work correctly with multisampling and you will be left with a
; black screen, if that happens disable this option again
;multisampletype 8
or use that config file I've shared again. that should make sure everything is patched up properly this time.
