Posted July 23, 2016
Started recently and I'm finding it a bit hard to enjoy SS1 for the moment. Even with mouse look, controls are a bit hard and the 3D/2D hybrid (3D world, but lots of sprites are 2D) is giving me a bit of motion sickness.
I hope it's just a matter of getting used to, like it was in case of Magic Carpet. The first few levels there were a torture, but after getting the hang of it turned out to be a great game. Which is why I'm not giving up on this yet.
Combat in general is bad. The best thing that seems to work is just whacking enemies with a lead pipe. For example: by the time I click on a zillion things to get to that grenade, the enemy is already upon me.
Cyberspace is the worst so far. It gets disorienting very fast.
Anyway, few questions about it:
1) Found something called Ping Game. How do I use it and what's it for? Surprisingly googling "system shock cyberspace ping" doesn't help.
2) How do I defeat the cyberguard in the 3rd room of first level? And enemies in general? Just fire at them by spamming right-click?
3) Should I be worried about entering/exiting cyberspace too much? Will it have any adverse effects (other than driving me crazy in real life?) The manual says time is a precious commodity in cyberspace, so is it possible to reach a situation where you wasted too much time in early levels, that later cyberspace levels become unfinishable?
I hope it's just a matter of getting used to, like it was in case of Magic Carpet. The first few levels there were a torture, but after getting the hang of it turned out to be a great game. Which is why I'm not giving up on this yet.
Combat in general is bad. The best thing that seems to work is just whacking enemies with a lead pipe. For example: by the time I click on a zillion things to get to that grenade, the enemy is already upon me.
Cyberspace is the worst so far. It gets disorienting very fast.
Anyway, few questions about it:
1) Found something called Ping Game. How do I use it and what's it for? Surprisingly googling "system shock cyberspace ping" doesn't help.
2) How do I defeat the cyberguard in the 3rd room of first level? And enemies in general? Just fire at them by spamming right-click?
3) Should I be worried about entering/exiting cyberspace too much? Will it have any adverse effects (other than driving me crazy in real life?) The manual says time is a precious commodity in cyberspace, so is it possible to reach a situation where you wasted too much time in early levels, that later cyberspace levels become unfinishable?
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