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Revision as of 09:20, 1 June 2020

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System Shock: Enhanced Edition
System Shock: Enhanced Edition cover
Developers
Original game Looking Glass Studios
Enhanced Edition Nightdive Studios
Publishers
Nightdive Studios
Engines
Current Kex Engine
Original System Shock engine[1]
Release dates
Windows September 22, 2015[2]
Taxonomy
Microtransactions None
Modes Singleplayer
Pacing Real-time
Perspectives First-person
Controls Direct control, Point and select
Genres Immersive sim, Shooter
Art styles Realistic
Themes Cyberpunk, Horror, Sci-fi, Space
Series System Shock
System Shock: Enhanced Edition guide on StrategyWiki
System Shock: Enhanced Edition on MobyGames
System Shock: Enhanced Edition on Wikipedia
System Shock
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
System Shock
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

Modern source port of System Shock offering features such as hardware acceleration, improved widescreen, in-game control rebinding, and more.
On 6 September 2018, a major update of the Enhanced Edition ported it to the Kex Engine, offering additional features such as higher resolutions, mouselook, rebindable keys and use of the high resolution assets from the Mac version [3]

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
GOG.com
DRM-free
Includes System Shock as Classic Edition.[4]
Windows
Green Man Gaming
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Windows
Humble Store
DRM-free
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Windows
Steam
DRM-free after installation through Steam client (notes may include more details)
Includes System Shock as Classic.[5]
Can be played without Steam by using the command-line argument -no-social.[6]
Windows

Essential improvements

Gigaquad's Enhanced log texts mod

Matches the text to match with the spoken audio.
Updated to work with the Sept 2018 source port.

VirtualMIDIsynth

Improves music playback. Windows 10 users may want to see MIDI mapper workarounds First.

High-res objects

Note that this mod is currently incompatible with the Sept 2018 source port release.[7]
Improves texture quality whilst not suffering from the slow downs the DOS version had.
  • Download only "hi-res3DSS.rar", ignoring "v2" - version 2 only adds adding parameters, useless if you don't want to mod the game.

Game data

Configuration file(s) location

System Location
Windows <path-to-game>\kexengine.cfg[Note 1]
Steam Play (Linux) <Steam-folder>/steamapps/compatdata/410710/pfx/[Note 2]

Save game data location

System Location
Windows %APPDATA%\Nightdive Studios\System Shock EE\savegame\archive\savgam**.dat
%APPDATA%\Nightdive Studios\System Shock EE\savegame\archive\currsave.dat
Steam Play (Linux) <Steam-folder>/steamapps/compatdata/410710/pfx/[Note 2]
Saves made before the Source Port Update are stored in <path-to-game>\res\data\[8] or <path-to-game>\res\missions\archive\.

Save game cloud syncing

System Native Notes
GOG Galaxy
Steam Cloud

Video settings

Template:Video settings

Input settings

Template: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]

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
Requires R (stand) to be rebound for use by reloading.
Additional binding that may be worth looking at and changing are Alt+' (throw grenade), Ctrl+' (next grenade), Alt+: (use patch), Ctrl+: (next patch) and Ctrl+A (automap).

Adding mouse-wheel support

The following section is redundant since the 6 September 2018 Source port update; the game now natively supports binding actions to mousewheel up and down
Use AutoHotkey[citation needed]

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.

If you modified the key bindings you may have to modify the script as well to be compatible with your new layout (! is for Alt, ^ is for Ctrl, + is for Shift).
Making the Steam launcher and GOG Galaxy open the scripts instead of the executable alone may require compiling the batch script into an exe, renaming sshock.exe (don't forget to edit the batch to reference the new name prior to compiling) and name the newly compiled batch in it's place.

Audio settings

Template:Audio settings

This game supports General MIDI for music.

Localizations

Language UI Audio Sub Notes
English
French
German
Spanish
Fan translation, download
Russian
Fan translation, download

Issues fixed

System Shock won't launch

Turn off MSI afterburner[9]
Run the game in Windows 95 compatibility mode[10]

Game crashes with "ERROR!" after intro

Move the game installation path to somewhere that is shorter than 64 characters.[11]

Final boss fills the screen too fast

Enable V-sync[12]

Reactor code is no longer randomized

Replace archive.dat[13]

Download the archive.dat file and replace the one found in \res\data. The tool reactor-rng can also be used to patch a game that is already in progress.

Note: This fix can cause issues with the automap MFD on the second level. The display can become off-center and significantly zoomed out, preventing the player from using the mini-map.[14]

VR support

3D modes State Notes
vorpX
G3D
User created game profile, see vorpx forum profile introduction.

Other information

API

Technical specs Supported Notes
Direct3D
Added in source port update.
OpenGL
Utilizes SDL 2.0 for output.
Software renderer
Edit shock.ini and set SoftRenderer to on.
Executable 32-bit 64-bit Notes
Windows

Mods

The 6 September 2018 source port introduced official mod support.

SYSTEM SHOCK: ReWired

The very first full fan made singleplayer campaign for the original System Shock in over 24 years!

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
Minimum Recommended
Operating system (OS) 7
Processor (CPU) 1 GHz
System memory (RAM) 128 MB
Hard disk drive (HDD) 1 GB
Video card (GPU) OpenGL-Compatible Card

Notes

  1. 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. 2.0 2.1 File/folder structure within this directory reflects the path(s) listed for Windows and/or Steam game data (use Wine regedit to access Windows registry paths). Games with Steam Cloud support may store data in ~/.steam/steam/userdata/<user-id>/410710/ in addition to or instead of this directory. The app ID (410710) may differ in some cases. Treat backslashes as forward slashes. See the glossary page for details.

References

  1. [1] - last accessed on 2019-12-21
    "We wrote the engine from scratch for System Shock, but we knew we had time pressure, and I was thinking "Gee, this is too bad, I wish we had another six months" so that the engine would support completely arbitrary surfaces instead of being tile based."
  2. Release: System Shock - GOG.com
  3. "The Source Port Update" is available now!
  4. SystemShock Enhanced DOS?, GOG Community Discussions for the System Shock series
  5. System Shock: Enhanced Edition on Steam
  6. System Shock: Enhanced Edition :: Source Port Update #1 is available now! - last accessed on November 2018
  7. SS1 hires objects mod needs a fix
  8. System shock enhanced edition, can't load saves, page 1 - Forum - GOG.com
  9. https://steamcommunity.com/app/410710/discussions/0/2595630410184390678
  10. https://steamcommunity.com/app/410710/discussions/0/2727382174626587040/?ctp=3#c1742230617623899562
  11. https://www.gog.com/forum/system_shock_series/system_shock_enhanced_edition_mini_faq/page1
  12. [2] GOG Community Discussion
  13. https://www.systemshock.org/index.php?topic=9890
  14. [3], System Shock.org Community Discussions