Nightdive Studios is making good on a six-year-old promise: a remastered model of the basic Wanting Glass sport System Shock 2. Nightdive and Sony revealed a trailer for System Shock 2: twenty fifth Anniversary Remaster, in addition to a launch date of June twenty sixth for PC, Xbox One and Xbox Collection X|S, and PlayStation 4 and 5 consoles.
Because the title suggests, this can be a touched-up model of System Shock 2, not a complete remake like Nightdive’s (superb) 2023 take on System Shock. The trailer and screenshots on Sony’s announcement blog post exhibit some gentle visible updates, however they seem like sharpened variations of issues like enemy fashions — sustaining the texture of a 25-year-old sport with rather less blur. (Your weapons have seen arms holding them now, too.)
An even bigger deal for many individuals could be an up to date, console-friendly model of its difficult mouse and keyboard interface, together with DualSense help and a quickbar for weapons and talents. If you happen to’re nostalgic for the outdated RPG overlay look, although, the visible design seems almost unchanged. There’s even cross-play help for the sport’s notoriously rocky cooperative multiplayer mode.
In response to Nightdive’s website and feedback from a moderator within the studio Discord server, the sport is meant to incorporate a few of the authentic’s present group mods on high of providing broader mod help. The Discord moderator says the remaster will ship with the SS2 Group Patch or SCP, which rebalances some irritating options, amongst different patches. (This was discussed by Nightdive again in 2020.) We’ve reached out to Nightdive to substantiate the small print on what precisely mod help will seem like, together with how the remastered model would possibly play with the ShockEd fan mission editor. The System Shock 2 group has been basically remastering the sport for many years, however an official model makes these efforts so much simpler to seek out.