[Stealth[cro]]

Let's see...

I've downloaded a total of 31 MB of SS2 mods... think I'll get anywhere?
(yes, SHTUP v4 is in the collection, I'l probably dump all the mods in at the same time and see what happens )

[Setekh]

Holy crap ZB, those shots are awesome. Well done to you, sir.

[mikhael]

Wow. ZB is good for something after all. Well done, indeed.

[J3Vr6]

Great work, Zylon.

I didn't read all of the other threads, but does it say in there somewhere that all the models (including the zombie type people) are going to be redone?

[ZylonBane]

AI mesh upgrades are all in the SS2 Rebirth camp. SHTUP is only object textures (with some tweaks to terrain textures here and there). Unfortunately Rebirth is on indefinite hold, as the the author got hired to work on Arx Fatalis 2!

The Dark Engine (which powers SS2 and the Thief games) only supports up to 256x256 textures, but considering that many of the original textures are only 128x128 or even 64x64, it's still a huge leap in quality. Also, many of the original textures were palettized down to a common set of palettes, as if SS2 was originally going to support a 256-color software mode.

[neo_hermes]

[talking to self] i hate those damn Shotgun toting Xenomorph things and their pipe toting cousin!

They came and killed me then ate my brains everytime i entered that Damn Cargo bay.

Also who would want to bring ****ing chimps along for a space ride? [/talking to self]

And Stating this last I was Scared ****less when i saw the first Xenomorph thing. This game should be Put in the Hall of fame for scaring the most people.

edit: i'm not good at this game at all.

[J3Vr6]

I wish I still had my copy  No idea where to get it now

[Stealth[cro]]

Alright, I managed to drop the whole kit'n'kaboodle into the game folder, and suffice to say... SS2 got a major facelift

Setekh, the images by themselves say nothing, you should see what it was like before... makes it look all the more sweeter

J3Vr6 - like ZB said, Rebirth covered a lot so far - From crewpeople and their ghosts to all the Many hybrids, Midwives, Cyborg Assasins and, as of late, the Rumbler. I haven't seen too many of them (luckily, I just restarted the game), but as far as the Hybrids go, they got about 10x their regular poly-count to say the least.

ZB[/b] - I see some of the textures still aren't covered... might be worth taking a look at those, if I can find the time, especially those few animated screens that are still WIP. It's all zipped in CRF files, right?

[ZylonBane]

Yep, CRFs are just ZIP files. And yeah, SHTUP has quite a long way to go before it's done. However, don't hold out any hope for the animated screens to be upgraded-- those are terrain textures, not objects. Increasing the resolution of terrain textures only causes them to become larger in-game. Sucks, but there it is.

[J3Vr6]

Zylon, u da man.  I just wish I could see it in-game.  Maybe my brother in law can burn me a copy of his CD.

So rebirth project actually did some of the people/monsters?  Wow, cool...

[Flaser]

Rebirth already covered the most problematic enemies - I mean polygone wise. The rest of them didn't suffer as much from the low polyness as the rest.

[magatsu1]

Someone should sort the weapons next. The assualt rifle is wayyyy too powerful.

[Stealth[cro]]

magatsu, I spotted about six or seven different gamesys-mods that alter weapons one way or another. http://www.digitalnugget.com/others/ss2/ <= This site alone has all that I know of, though I'm not sure if anyplace else has other downloads.

[Cyker]

Oooh!
Ahem, yeah someone DID read your Shivan Manifesto Antares

It would just like to say for the record that I found the Psychic Monkies scarier than Doom 3.

Picture me, Navy Hacker, running away from Shotgun toting hybrid due to lack of health, runs smack into room full of Psychic Monkies.

"Aww, how cute!
You monkey dudes got some food or something to stop me bleeding? Huh?
NO! NOT CRYOKINI-"

Sadistic monkey bastards!!!

My only consolation is that I got to empty a clip of assult rifle ammo into one of them later. Damn that felt good.
Pity the freakin' cyborg ninja killed me afterwards because I ran out of ammo. And because I was too busy screaming like a girl to aim properly...

[Petrarch of the VBB]

There are laws against exhuming bodies.

[Martinus]

[color=66ff00]SS2: I fully endorse this product and or service.
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[.::Tin Can::.]

And why did you bring this topic back?

[Gigaplow]

System Shock 2!  *Good Memories*

An awesome game, to this day.