next time he'll be complaining about the pyro field not making the toilets scream anymore.

I need footage of this!

Imagine using one of the most overpowered skills in the game and then getting upset because it doesn't ALSO give you a completely free (and undocumented) psi-shield on top of it.

If you're really mad, you can install the Balance Revert mod.

cheaters and exploiters will be shown no mercy.

You want to talk about being wrong, it's probably best not to think too hard about how the first real email you receive has Polito's voice reacting to the radar dish becoming unstable as it's happening. Neat trick for a pre-recorded message.

Umm... Yes

Many of the emails in the game seem to be very wacky in terms of time dilation.

The "readings indicate the elevator shaft is clear" email seems to be in real time too, seeing as how you hear it within a second of the annelids screaming.

Same with the "damn, Xerxes has control of the elevator as well" as soon as you push the button.

I don't see how that makes me (or anyone else) wrong on the internet, though.

Most likely, since Sholito doesn't actually have to speak, she can likely generate a spoken email much quicker than it would take to actually speak the contents of it.

For all we know, the first email we receive was generated 10msec before we receive it, immediately after she detects the radar dish anomaly. That wouldn't explain the sudden tone shift from "I'm getting strange readings" to "move!" though, unless that was a ploy to stop us being suspicious.

Most likely, the developers didn't really think about the realism of email timings, they just linked them to tripwires and called it a day.

As much as people can talk about the realism of emails vs pa, at the end of the day this is a videogame and the realism of the world is going to take a back seat to the technical details of what's possible in the engine. I think it makes sense as an email, and I gave what I believe are good reasons why. You don't. That's fine.

Of course. I don't really care either way and was very skeptical that it would even be possible to add because of how wacky the sounds around it are.

I just hate when people are wrong on the internet.

Can you prove that?
Polito talking over the same PA system Xerxes uses.

The PA system she never uses again, including when you're still in the same room just moments later?

"Hmm, the area is about to depressurize, I was just using the pa system, which would be a good way to warn him, but I'll send him an email about it instead"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uesx85EHRTo

I find it far harder to accept that Sholito has access to a PA system she uses once, that's never mentioned again, and that's very likely controlled by Xerxes, rather than the far more reasonable idea that Irrational didn't implement a system for pre-read emails and didn't care enough to include the one in the cutscene. They cut quite a lot of other corners with the game and that whole intro segment has multiple emails that never play, so it's obvious that section was reworked a lot before what we got in the final version.

Obviously I don't have definitive proof that it's an email. At the same time, I don't have to prove it. All the other explanations make far less sense and offer far less evidence (can you prove it's a PA message?). I claimed it's most likely an email and I gave good reasons why they might not have added it. You can argue that they didn't add it deliberately because they intended it to be a PA message, but that isn't a very strong argument considering the lack of intent elsewhere.

But this isn't going to go anywhere. SCP is your (and voodoos) mod. Add it if you want to add it. Don't if you don't. If someone wants the email to appear correctly, there's always DML

Whether it's possible (or worth doing) on a technical level is a different question, but "it's not an email" is flat out wrong.

Can you prove that?

If it's not an email then what is it?

Polito talking over the same PA system Xerxes uses.

Non-email messages are either telepathic transmissions or physically heard. Shodan has access to neither option at the start of the game.

ZB probably could script it that way, but I'm thinking he has bigger fish to fry.

hmm.. now that I think about it more, it may not be so easy to add an email and set it as already played from the get-go.

technically doable (though the audio would have to ripped from the cutscene, possibly lowering its quality), but somewhat unnecessary perhaps? the goal gets logged, so it's not like you won't know what to do if you manage to skip the cutscene by mistake or something.

yeah. just be glad we are not hosting Svэtlana the slooty midwife here.

I'm just waiting for the inevitable "my nude hybrids mod was censored" topic

also, from my experience, mods do not make this worse, unless you are running something horrible from that one mod topic where all the crazy from the east is gathered.

I thought you were talking about my gameplay experiments topic for a second there, until I read east

same thing happened to me a few days ago while playtesting beta5. good to know it's not us.

The game in general seems to have some general weirdness - random crashes, things suddenly losing their links so frobbing doesn't work. It's generally unstable. It gets a lot more crashy and unstable on Linux under Wine, and/or with lots of mods installed.

I really hope the source code to NewDark releases, because I definitely want to see if these back-end issues are fixable.

yes I did, check the main crash topic.

well it's not good, but better not good than us actually causing it. that would be a worse not good.

same thing happened to me a few days ago while playtesting beta5. good to know it's not us.

Sorry, Pokémodder? (also I apologize for bumping all over your topic)

"Gotta catch 'em all." doi.

Mod it until it crashes!
All jokes aside, all things have been really stable so far, except those 2 crashes that can happen at level transition in the cargo bay and that lift button still in the cargo bays, but those happen even just with vanilla iirc.

Oh god another Pokémodder.

SHTUP already includes a high-res space upgrade, y'know.

here you go, good luck with that!

https://i.ibb.co/swBgJ7j/image.png

I'm waiting for a hotfix for RSD and so should you, but aside from that you're ready to go.
Oh and also, the "Selected Laser Rapier" is a modification on top of the original mod, so you won't find that one, I think the correct name for that mod is "Colored Laser Rapier"
Of course avoid the grayed things

A more modern take of the game.

I've already downloaded quite a few mods, but haven't started the game yet.

Apologize for the bumps out of nowhere, I just finished System Shock 1 Remake and wanted to "try out" the second game, when I came across this forum with unlimited methods to modify the game and as always, I try to get the most recent version of everything.

Hello, any news about Beta 5 or this mod is considered complete now?

Well that's new.