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-----------------------------WHATS NEW IN 3.0

- An entire new level has been added to the Hydroponics Deck, it is accessible through the Maintenance Access visible on the map and must be completed in order to finish Hydro
   - an Oxygen Meter has been added to the interface to serve you in this level and others
   - there's some tips at the bottom of the readme if you have trouble with this level..

- SS1 style Wire Puzzles have been added throughout the game (you can break and recreate the correct combination to use the circuit as a button repeatedly)

- Headshots have been added, they are possible only with the modified Sharpshooter OS upgrade

- Even more OS upgrades have been buffed, including Pack Rat (adds extra strength) and Power Psi (damage enemies as soon as you touch them)

- Many new sequences, scares and events added to the levels

- Modifications interface and balance improved, 3 modifications can be applied in total, a few special pre-modified weapons can be found

- Reduced size of weapon clips, making it so you actually reload in combat and want to increase clip capacity with mods

- Overall improved balance, functionality and looks, difficulty is also better with Easy being much easier than before
    - Localized Pyro makes you immune to Protocol Droids again, the power is balanced in cost/duration instead

- Restored the Many cutscene in Engineering, it is now skippable via right-click

- Expanded "crafting" system with new combinations

- Added stuff that was always supposed to be in the mod, like hacked keypad graphics, crate opening animation and the Natural Selection Smartgun model

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- Deck name displayed when you first enter a deck, same tech as the mission year texts

- Changed codes in several areas of the game, read the logs' text carefully

- If you're looking for a card in Recreation, it's on a window sill

- Multiplayer is still not fixed, I recommend sticking to singleplayer

- Upscaling the UI or playing at a low resolution can lead to custom UI panels (like the one for gun mods) being obscured

- It's best to have Secmod active with the lowest priority under other graphical mods like SHTUP/Rebirth

- NewDark v2.45+ is required

- Blue Mod Manager recommended

- Needs SS2tool 26feb2023 update, you need to repatch with the tool if you are running anything older.

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- Secmod_RealSG is a Secmod compatible version of RealSG. Load it as a standalone mod.

- Secmod_Rebirth_RealSG is a Secmod with Rebirth compatible version of RealSG. Load it as a standalone mod.

- Modifications interface and balance improved, 3 mods can be applied in total...

 

Wow this update is insanely impressive.

The hacking mini-game is a cool throwback to SS1.

The wrench look and animation is AWESOME. I'm also in love with the pistol. Unsure if this is a bug or intentional, but the blood on the wrench is a nice touch.

The scripted events with the hybrids are a nice touch. I found the hybrid with the battery to be hilarious.

Sometimes the mouse doesn't work right in the menus (it doesn't "register" a click and the cursor "twitches".)

Edit: wrench seems to clip through terrain.

Shotgun does splash damage now? 

Minor oversight: the shotgun you find in med sci is loaded with 6 bullets.

A lot of the SecMod maps are still stripped - it might be possible to copy over the terrain brushes from SCP once it's released.

Hm I believe I may have run into a glitch. I frobbed the battery off of the hybrid rather than looting it from his inventory. After going to the recharger, I noticed the battery isn't in my inventory.

For anyone who's wondering, this appears to be the crate he's talking about.
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one word - new_mantle.

yeah, earth has quite a few of those.

bug:
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I gave it a quick run, had BIG issues killing the first worms with the new wrench animation. will double check later.

//ok, important note - the maps are not compatible with ss2tool 6.0 dml set, but the maps are close enough to the originals to pass the dml fingerprinting and the game will load them. so the user needs to either delete the misdml folder, run Secmod as FM, or a qvar "scplevel" with a value of "1" needs to be added to all the maps.

also, shattered glass shards spin way too much, and the wrench animation feels odd at times. and while the mechanics are impressive (read: f*cking impressive), there was no upgrade to the lighting (still 16bit - feels like a bit of a waste), and no touches to (bad) texturing and (bad) obj placement. I have to say that after running around the silky smooth SCP maps for the last couple of months, seeing all the unfixed stuff again was a harsh experience.

I'm confused about what actually happens with the DML thing, are the DMLs applied or not?
I actually did relight some levels with reconstruct_lights where I could easily see if things got weird, but nothing as early as Medsci/Eng.

Wow this update is insanely impressive.

The hacking mini-game is a cool throwback to SS1.

The wrench look and animation is AWESOME. I'm also in love with the pistol. Unsure if this is a bug or intentional, but the blood on the wrench is a nice touch.

The scripted events with the hybrids are a nice touch. I found the hybrid with the battery to be hilarious.

Sometimes the mouse doesn't work right in the menus (it doesn't "register" a click and the cursor "twitches".)

Edit: wrench seems to clip through terrain.

Shotgun does splash damage now? 

Minor oversight: the shotgun you find in med sci is loaded with 6 bullets.

Nope, no splash except when firing pellets, just like the original game.
Also thanks, I did fix the 6 shell shotgun now but it didn't make it into the patch here, will be in the next which should be soon.

Ah, I guess I'll be adding those qvars, I'd like to see a list of the changes though (couldn't find one right away, or extract the dmls from ss2tool without running it) I have some vague hope that they might not break anything after all and can be left alone.

Wouldn't SecMod3 just need nvscript.osm then?

And while we're on this, wouldn't it be best to distribute nvscript.osm centrally?