System Shock: Enhanced Edition
Developers | |
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Looking Glass Studios | |
Malba Tahan | |
Publishers | |
Night Dive Studios | |
Engines | |
Underworld engine | |
Release dates | |
Windows | September 22, 2015[1] |
System Shock | |
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System Shock | 1994 |
System Shock 2 | 1999 |
System Shock: Enhanced Edition | 2015 |
System Shock (2023) | 2023 |
System Shock 2 Enhanced Edition | TBA |
System Shock 3 | TBA |
Key points
- Uses an enhanced proprietary version of Malba Tahan's SHLink and mouselook/key mapping/high resolution mod.
- A source port of the game is currently in Closed Beta and is accessible to owners of the Steam version. The port offers features such as hardware acceleration, in-game control rebinding, and more.
General information
- GOG.com Community Discussions for game series
- GOG.com Support Page
- Steam Community Discussions
- System Shock, the biggest forum about the game.
- SHODANPEDIA - A wiki for the System Shock series
Availability
Source | DRM | Notes | Keys | OS |
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GOG.com | Includes System Shock as Classic Edition.[2] | |||
Humble Store | ||||
Steam | Includes System Shock as Classic.[3] |
Essential improvements
Gigaquad's Enhanced log texts mod
- Gigaquad's Enhanced log texts mod matches the audio and text dialogue.
VirtualMIDIsynth
- Improves music playback. Windows 10 users may want to see MIDI mapper workarounds First.
High-res objects
- Improves texture quality whilst not suffering from the slow downs the DOS version had.
Game data
Configuration file(s) location
System | Location |
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Windows | <path-to-game>\sshock.ini[Note 1] <path-to-game>\controls.cfg[Note 1] |
Steam Play (Linux) | <SteamLibrary-folder>/steamapps/compatdata/410710/pfx/[Note 2] |
Save game data location
System | Location |
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Windows | <path-to-game>\res\data\savgam**.dat[Note 1] |
Steam Play (Linux) | <SteamLibrary-folder>/steamapps/compatdata/410710/pfx/[Note 2] |
Save game cloud syncing
System | Native | Notes |
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GOG Galaxy | ||
Steam Cloud |
Video settings
Widescreen resolution
- The Enhanced Edition lists a single internal widescreen resolution (854x480). This can be changed to a different resolution.
Edit sshock.ini[citation needed] |
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Notes
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Input settings
Enable reloading and switching ammo with a single keyboard key
Few people know that System Shock has (and always had) a shortcut for both reloading and switching alternate ammo types (Alt+← Backspace and Ctrl+← Backspace). Unfortunately these keyboard shortcuts are less than convenient for modern standards. Luckily they can be changed in Enhanced Edition.
Edit controls.cfg[citation needed] |
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Add the following lines, preferably under the "custom profile" section: bind r cmd.ammotype default 0 bind shift+r cmd.ammotype default 0 bind tab cmd.ammotype default 1 bind shift+tab cmd.ammotype default 1
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Adding mouse-wheel support
Use AutoHotkey[citation needed] |
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Copy the following into a text editor and name it MOUSEWHEEL.AHK: #ifWinActive, ahk_class SDL_app #SingleInstance Ignore *WheelUp:: SendEvent +{q Down} Sleep 200 SendEvent +{q Up} Return *WheelDown:: SendEvent {q Down} Sleep 200 SendEvent {q Up} Return ; Middle mouse button: Grenade, the "e" key below counters ModePicking allowing you to retain aim after prepping the grenade *mbutton:: SendEvent, !{'} SendEvent, !{'} SendEvent, {e} Return ; 4th mouse button = Inventory left XButton1::Send, !{[} ; 5th mouse button = Inventory right XButton2::Send, !{]} WheelLeft::Send, !{[} WheelRight::Send, !{]} Assuming you already have the AutoHotkey suite installed, compile the script into an application. Now open a text editor again and copy the following into it, save it as a .bat file: @ECHO OFF TITLE System Shock: Enhanced Edition IF EXIST MOUSEWHEEL.exe START MOUSEWHEEL.exe sshock.exe IF EXIST MOUSEWHEEL.exe TASKKILL /IM MOUSEWHEEL.exe EXIT Place both the batch file and the compiled app into your System Shock: Enhanced Edition installation folder and use the batch script to launch the game.
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Audio settings
- This game supports General MIDI for music.
Localizations
Language | UI | Audio | Sub | Notes |
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English | ||||
French | ||||
German | ||||
Spanish |
Select MIDI Device
- System Shock: Enhanced Edition has MIDI playback hard-coded to Device 0.
Hex edit executable to change MIDI device[citation needed] |
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Issues fixed
System Shock wont launch
Turn off MSI afterburner[4] |
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Final boss fills the screen too fast
Enable V-sync[5] |
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Reactor code is no longer randomized
Replace archive.dat[6] |
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Download the archive.dat
file and replace the one found in
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Other information
API
Technical specs | Supported | Notes |
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OpenGL | Utilizes SDL 2.0 for output. | |
Software renderer | Edit shock.ini and set SoftRenderer to on. |
Executable | 32-bit | 64-bit | Notes |
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Windows |
Mods
Cortex Reaver Challenge
- A challenge room that pit the player up against Cortex Reavers using a Laser Rapier; kill as many as you can before you die, there is no restoration chamber.
System requirements
Windows | ||
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Minimum | Recommended | |
Operating system (OS) | 7 | 10 |
Processor (CPU) | 1 GHz | 1.5 GHz |
System memory (RAM) | 128 MB | 256 MB |
Hard disk drive (HDD) | 1 GB | |
Video card (GPU) | OpenGL-Compatible Card |
Notes
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 When running this game without elevated privileges (Run as administrator option), write operations against a location below
%PROGRAMFILES%
,%PROGRAMDATA%
, or%WINDIR%
might be redirected to%LOCALAPPDATA%\VirtualStore
on Windows Vista and later (more details). - ↑ 2.0 2.1 Notes regarding Steam Play (Linux) data:
- File/folder structure within this directory reflects the path(s) listed for Windows and/or Steam game data.
- Use Wine's registry editor to access any Windows registry paths.
- The app ID (410710) may differ in some cases.
- Treat backslashes as forward slashes.
- See the glossary page for details on Windows data paths.
References
- ↑ Release: System Shock - GOG.com
- ↑ SystemShock Enhanced DOS?, GOG Community Discussions for the System Shock series
- ↑ System Shock: Enhanced Edition on Steam
- ↑ https://steamcommunity.com/app/410710/discussions/0/2595630410184390678
- ↑ [1] GOG Community Discussion
- ↑ https://www.systemshock.org/index.php?topic=9890
- ↑ [2], System Shock.org Community Discussions
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