System Shock Infinite 2.0 looking for playtesters

[66339ea179f83xdiesp]

I'm looking for playtesters to try out the beta for System Shock Infinite 2.0, as our usual suspects aren't available at the moment!  Development was recently resumed after a long hiatus: now 2.0 is finally complete, save for one missing video. I'll improvise a features list, below: but if you could just take a look at the new MedSci deck, you would find it already showcases the same information and better.

Download: http://www.moddb.com/mods/system-shock-infinite

[66339ea17a24dChandlermaki]

I volunteer! This is definitely what I was looking forward to the most out of all the shock2 mods that have popped up recently. Amazing work once again!

[66339ea17a40bVegoraptor]

I'll also have a look at it, but I guarantee for nothing, since I got quite a lot of stuff to do at the moment.
Edit: The game crashes when I try to hack into my past self for the first time in med/sci, just after the loading screen. Everything I saw up to that point varied from "nice" to "mindblowing."

[66339ea17a513Chandlermaki]

When entering the security station in Medsci 1, a very unpleasant hissing sound begins playing repeatedly.

[66339ea17a8bcxdiesp]

Thank you very much for your help!

When entering the security station in Medsci 1, a very unpleasant hissing sound begins playing repeatedly.

It could be some random bug... it never happened before, but one time I dropped a gun and the "decompression scene" would play on a loop for no reason. I'll look into it, btw I've only tested this with the Steam version of SS2.

[66339ea17abf7xdiesp]

Edit: The game crashes when I try to hack into my past self for the first time in med/sci, just after the loading screen. Everything I saw up to that point varied from "nice" to "mindblowing."

Hell, does it always and you can't progress at all? Do you want me to provide you a savegame back there? It might have something to do with the version of the game: in the past weeks, I switched from my very old GOG installation to the current Steam one because Cyberspace 3 kept crashing. It never did afterwards.

[66339ea17adc3Vegoraptor]

I didn't play for that much longer, but as it seems I can progress normally with the exclusion of said cyberspace segment. I can upload the crashdump if you think this helps, personally I can't read anything out of that.
I'm using the GOG-Version, so this might be the problem.

[66339ea17af4dxdiesp]

Were you able to use the tear without crashes? I used to get a crash when I entered Cyberspace in Hydroponics, then I installed the mod on the Steam version and they stopped. I was using a very old installation, all messed up, and gathered that maybe the problem was just that (and often it would stop playing movies).

I had posted the crash dump from that Hydroponics problem in another thread, but got no replies. Maybe it's just a conflict with a single setting on a marker, who knows. See to save your game before map changes, and retry doing Cyberspace because it would be a real pity to be unable to play it.

edit I can't pinpoint the cause of the crashes yet, but I asked around so there's hope. Try the mod with the Steam version for the time being, if you can.

[66339ea17b053Vegoraptor]

Nope, I can't use the tear either as it turns out. I guess this is caused by the loading algorithm since I definitely have both the .gam and the .mis files of both cyberspace and tear.

[66339ea17b375xdiesp]

Nope, I can't use the tear either as it turns out. I guess this is caused by the loading algorithm since I definitely have both the .gam and the .mis files of both cyberspace and tear.

Maybe you're right: please, would you try again with this updated code? It's for tear and cyberspace in Medsci.

/fingers crossed

[66339ea17b518Vegoraptor]

Critical hit! It had no effect...
I also notice the problem Chandlermaki was talking about, when loading some of my savegames (4 out of my current 7) I get some weird pseudo-white noise on the left speaker which gradually stops after a few minutes, sounds a little like a Geiger counter gone wild.

[66339ea17b653xdiesp]

Damn, I was counting on that. T_T

Listen, I know it's asking much but I got an expert willing to take a look into this. Please, would you be available to restart a new game and just run into the tear of Medsci2 (skipping all quests and combat, just enter the door on the right that's always open) so I can show him the crash dump? There's also the vague hope that doing this, the method of the fix actually works... I was really hoping it would work lol.

[66339ea17b7f0voodoo47]

first_level medsci2.mis in the cam.cfg should make that journey shorter.

[66339ea17b8f6Vegoraptor]

There you go. That thing is surprisingly huge.

[66339ea17b9cexdiesp]

Thank you very much!

[66339ea17baffvoodoo47]

the crashdumps compress nicely, if you zip one with 7zip, it should have around 20-40MB.

//also, anyone reporting an issue or submitting a crashdump should also attach his shock2.log to the post. so basically, zip the crashdump, upload it somewhere, post the link, and add the log as attachment. or paste the contents into the post using the code /code tags.

[66339ea17bff1Vegoraptor]

Sorry, did not know that. Attempt 2, for the sake of convenience.

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: -----------------------------------------------------------
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: -----------------------------------------------------------
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[66339ea17c13bvoodoo47]

update to 2.43 before doing anything. the log is from 2.4 (crashdump 2 as well, I would assume), a release 2+ years old. ss2tool to the rescue (back up your cam_mod.ini before patching, and restore it once done or you will have to set up BMM from scratch).

[66339ea17c230Vegoraptor]

*facepalm*
That was waaaay to easy. (Everything works, everything is fine, thanks to voodoo).
Stupid me indeed.

[66339ea17c332voodoo47]

just for fun - how the heck did you end up with such an old release? GOG and steam use 2.42 for quite a while afaik.

also;

.\DMM\Shnup

enjoy your peanut butter and brick sandwich.

[66339ea17c47cxdiesp]

I applaud you guys! So the moral of the story, is to never leave home without SS2Tool. I will add a note about it above.

Vegoraptor: if they don't crash anymore, see if you like Tears and Cyberspace. But keep saving in different slots, before every bulkhead\cyberspace, because you never know...

edit I added another link on top, to a small patch containing the new readme and a couple fixes. Also, the description of "Marie disabling security" gave me an idea: now, she can also hack turrets.

[66339ea17c96cKolya]

just for fun - how the heck did you end up with such an old release? GOG and steam use 2.42 for quite a while afaik.

I don't think there's an automatic update feature for gog installs. All good old manual work, so it happens.

[66339ea17cadcvoodoo47]

true.

and a reminder - considering the extensive changes you've made to the levels, you probably don't want the orig dml set to be loaded. you can accomplish this by adding a mission quest data var "scplevel" with the value of "1" (without the ""). this will prevent the dmls from loading.

[66339ea17cfb5xdiesp]

true.

and a reminder - considering the extensive changes you've made to the levels, you probably don't want the orig dml set to be loaded. you can accomplish this by adding a mission quest data var "scplevel" with the value of "1" (without the ""). this will prevent the dmls from loading.

Thanks! I never used Mission Quest Data, actually no menu comes up when I click on it! But I wonder, Infinite's levels use different names like "1_medsci1", "1_hydro1": are the DMLs still loaded like this?