Nightdive Studios have announced their System Shock remake is set for a huge update arriving on April 11th, that will make it a whole lot better for everyone, especially Steam Deck players.
Some of the major additions include a female Hacker added as a playable character, a rework of the final fight with "new mechanics and a unique flow", Cloud Sync support to pick up and continue on any machine, Alpha Strain enemies have a new attack, Avian Mutant enemies have a new attack, continued refinements to enemy AI and behaviours, some improvement animations, better gamepad handling, crash bug fixes and a whole lot more.
A fun one for Steam Deck players is that they specifically noted "Major optimizations across the entire game — Steam Deck users rejoice!"
Quite glad I've held off on a full play-through, as all the additions and tweaks sound fantastic. Currently System Shock is rated Steam Deck Playable and Gold on ProtonDB (but overall appears to work great with Proton).
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Article taken from GamingOnLinux.com.
witchymary Apr 6
Quoting: dziadulewiczPromised Linux port (and a stretch goal) passed in around 1 million IIRC, when?UE4 Linux ports tend to not perform super well. I feel like proton would just run better anyways, and make it kinda pointless.
Quoting: witchymaryDoesn't change the fact that they had it as a stretch goal and that goal was reached. If anyone backed based on that promise, they're entitled to feel disappointed.Quoting: dziadulewiczPromised Linux port (and a stretch goal) passed in around 1 million IIRC, when?UE4 Linux ports tend to not perform super well. I feel like proton would just run better anyways, and make it kinda pointless.
Last edited by tuubi on 6 April 2024 at 10:25 am UTC
dziadulewicz Apr 8
Quoting: tuubiQuoting: witchymaryDoesn't change the fact that they had it as a stretch goal and that goal was reached. If anyone backed based on that promise, they're entitled to feel disappointed.Quoting: dziadulewiczPromised Linux port (and a stretch goal) passed in around 1 million IIRC, when?UE4 Linux ports tend to not perform super well. I feel like proton would just run better anyways, and make it kinda pointless.
Exactly. The Linux-based backers who put thei money where their mouth is have been lied to. Nightdive Studios (or any instance for that matter) shouldn't make promises nor stretch goals that they can't fulfill.
TimeFreeze Apr 8
Quoting: dziadulewiczQuoting: tuubiQuoting: witchymaryDoesn't change the fact that they had it as a stretch goal and that goal was reached. If anyone backed based on that promise, they're entitled to feel disappointed.Quoting: dziadulewiczPromised Linux port (and a stretch goal) passed in around 1 million IIRC, when?UE4 Linux ports tend to not perform super well. I feel like proton would just run better anyways, and make it kinda pointless.
Exactly. The Linux-based backers who put thei money where their mouth is have been lied to. Nightdive Studios (or any instance for that matter) shouldn't make promises nor stretch goals that they can't fulfill.
Sadly its nothing new for Nightdive, same happend with System Shock Enhanced Edition & Blood Fresh Supply. Linux & Mac versions got promised and then nothing happend. Not to mention that i'm also still annoyed at them for not releasing the Linux version of Turok 2 on GOG.
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