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System Shock 2 Community Patch (SC⁠P) — Beta 5

"Our Last, Best Hope for Final" Release



About
SC⁠P is intended to serve as an unofficial patch for System Shock 2 that delivers an authentic but also highly polished SS2 gameplay experience—hopefully approximating the form SS2 would have taken if Irrational had had a few more months to work on it before release. All changes have been made with the intent of respecting Irrational’s original vision. The other goal of SC⁠P is to upgrade SS2 to take advantage of the enhanced graphical features of the NewDark engine in those ways that are beyond the means of standalone mods.

The guiding principle for SC⁠P has been that SS2’s gameplay is fine as-is, and that its greatest strength is immersion—its ability to make players feel like they’re really trapped on board the Von Braun with all its horrors. So while we’ve tweaked game systems and made adjustments to the level geometry, the goal hasn’t been balancing gameplay, but rather eliminating those things that don’t make sense to the point that they take you out of the game. Anything illogical, gamey, or otherwise immersion-breaking, we’ve tried to correct.

SC⁠P requires System Shock 2 patched to version 2.48+ (SS2Tool). You must start a new game. You cannot install or update SC⁠P mid-game.

Other Mods

• SHTUP-ND and 400 are highly recommended for use with SC⁠P.
• SC⁠P Minimods are optional mods created for SC⁠P, like RealSG.
• Olfred's Fixed Objects v14 is incorporated in this release, so there's no need to install it separately.

Report any issues (other than installation issues) in this thread.

Download Here (please try these links first)
Google Drive: SCP_beta5.7z
Google Drive: SCP_beta5_readme.pdf

No not these ▼▼▼ links dummy, the ones up there ▲▲▲. These are just mirrors in case the primary links go dead.

Happy new year!

Note that SHTUP-ND and 400 have also been updated for this release.

If you use the English Subtitles mod, you will need to upgrade to v4 or higher.

here we go again!

Congratulations on this momentous update!

Always one of my favorite surprises, thanks guys.