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Article #694937System Shock Enhanced - respawning monsters?
From: Spalls Hurgenson
Date: Fri, 11 Dec 2015 14:54
Date: Fri, 11 Dec 2015 14:54
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So I've decided to give the System Shock Enhanced Edition a spin-through. The first System Shock was never my favorite but it's been a long enough time since last I played that it deserves another look. But man, the respawning. I remember System Shock had respawning, but not that it was this bad. It seems to literally respawn a new monster every thirty seconds. For instance, Level 3 is a small loop with rooms hanging off of it. If I kill a monster at the start of the loop, by the time I get all the way around the loop (30 seconds or so), that monster will have respawned. Reactor level is similar (its loop is bigger, so I'll see at least two monsters as I run around). The floor is literally becoming coated with corpses. This excessively high respawn rate is really killing the mood. I don't remember it being this bad last time I played the game and I can't help but wonder if it is a bug in the enhanced edition or something caused by running it on a faster-than-expected CPU (possibly the respawn timer is tied to CPU cycles). Either way, it will probably keep me from finishing the game. Anyone else experiencing this? Am I just mis-remembering how cruel the original was?
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