System Shock Remastered Edition Update #47

This month’s Kickstarter update for Nightdive Studios’ System Shock Remastered Edition shares plenty of fresh screenshots, shows off some work-in-progress art, and even mentions the source port update for the Enhanced Edition of System Shock that’s out now as a free update for anyone who owns the game. Check it out in action:

A bit more on that:

For the first time ever, System Shock has been rebuilt from the original source code as a FREE update to all owners of the game!

System Shock: Enhanced Edition features:

• Higher resolution support up to 4K widescreen mode
• Mouselook support
• Rebindable keyboard/mouse/joystick commands
• Adapted to Nightdive’s KEX engine
• Support for both Direct3D and OpenGL
• Option to switch between hi-resolution Mac assets and the original DOS assets
• Official support for fan missions and fan mods
• New unified options menu that allows changing preferences before gameplay
• Adjustable FOV (Field of View)
• Smoother camera rotation and translation
• Improved control scheme which allows faster and streamlined experience
• Brand new achievements
• In-Game remappable keys with three profiles to choose from: original controls, custom controls, and lefthanded controls.
• Many original game bugs fixed.

We hope you enjoy this free update for System Shock: Enhanced Edition!

Feel free to let us know what you think about it in the forums. We’ll be monitoring it a lot over the next few weeks or so to gather information.

Enjoy the update, and keep the fries salted!

-Daniel
Nightdive Studios.