User manual GAMES PC SYSTEM SHOCK 2 (UK)

[. . . ] SYSTEM SHOCK 2® WARNING: TO OWNERS OF PROJECTION TELEVISIONS STILL PICTURES OR IMAGES MAY CAUSE PERMANENT PICTURE-TUBE DAMAGE OR MARK THE PHOSPHOR OF THE CRT. AVOID REPEATED OR EXTENDED USE OF VIDEO GAMES ON LARGESCREEN PROJECTION TELEVISIONS. EPILEPSY WARNING PLEASE READ BEFORE USING THIS GAME OR ALLOWING YOUR CHILDREN TO USE IT. Some people are susceptible to epileptic seizures or loss of consciousness when exposed to certain flashing lights or light patterns in everyday life. Such people may have a seizure while watching television images or playing certain video games. [. . . ] You can recover parts from destroyed robots and use them to heal yourself. All items in replicators cost you 20% less. The cost in nanites for making weapon modifications is 50% cheaper. Your automap for each area of the Von Braun is always filled in. SKILLS You have five technical skills, four weapons skills and five tiers of psi discipline, with seven disciplines per tier. Technical skills: (covered at greater length in the sections on individual skills) benefit from the appropriate technical software, and include: Hacking : This skill allows you to re-program turrets, replicators, access keypads and various types of computer. Critical failure in hacking breaks most target items (not turrets!) Repair : With the repair skill, you can un-jam weapons and repair items, including those broken in hacking failure. Critical failure in repair completely destroys the target item. Modify: This skill allows you to make up to two custom modifications to any given weapon, including increasing the rate of fire and increasing the clip size. A failure in modification breaks the target item. 22 23 USEFUL ITEMS Listed below are some of the items you may run across on the Von Braun, and the Rickenbacker and what some of their characteristics are. WEAPONS Wrench: While it's not the fastest or most powerful of weapons, the wrench doesn't require any ammunition, either. The wrench cannot be modified, and does not have multiple settings. The Talon M2A3 pistol has two settings: single-shot and threeshot automatic. Three types of ammunition can be used: normal, anti-personnel and armour piercing. The pistol can be modified to have a larger clip and to reload more quickly. Shotgun: The shotgun does more damage than the pistol, and has a stronger kick. Settings include single shot and triple shot, ammunition includes anti-personnel pellets and rifled slugs. The shotgun can When the rail launcher rounds were spent, when the autobe modified to reload faster mines were bypassed, when the neuron acceleration field was neutralised, the men still had their M-22's and their gunpowder. and also to decrease kick. And, by God, they used them to good effect. " STATIONARY ITEMS Replicator: The Value-Rep nanite-driven replicator allows users to purchase useful items. The motivated hacker may find it useful to hack replicators, allowing for purchase of cheaper or more useful items. Surgical Unit: Surgical units are one of the fastest and most convenient ways to heal damage, radiation effects and toxic effects, at a cost of five nanites. Not all surgical units are kept active; inactive units must be activated with the use of an activation key. Quantum Bio-Reconstruction Machine: Though originally given a bad reputation by their perversion on Citadel Station by SHODAN, who used them as a method of creating cyborgs, these resurrection stations are facilities which can take quantum entanglement samples, genetic and physical templates of a specific person. If the person with the stored template later dies, the machine can restore them to a semblance of their past, healthier condition. [. . . ] Shock is literally built out of the same codebase as Thief - we are still able to build a hybrid executable that allows you to play both Thief and Shock levels!The strength of this arrangement was that we shared with the Thief team new features that they added in and benefited from their bug fixes. The downside is that we also shared their bugs and the code instability that went along with getting Thief out the door. We also had to work hard to ferret out game specific elements that crept through the engine into Shock - like having mutant monkeys block your wrench with an invisible sword! [. . . ]