System Shock 2 Status (Patreon)

The votes are tallied, and System Shock 2 pulled ahead! 

No worries about the other entries, as they're ones I'm hoping to have done by the year's end or at least early next year so they're still not too far off. Also congratulations to ninetails1 for his lizard drawing he was too shy to post publicly. 

System Shock 2 is a game I play again roughly every two years, so actually collecting thoughts on it is work that's mainly already been done. However I've done three playthroughs again at the time of writing, and trying out some weird builds I never attempted before to get a real sense of the balance back to back rather than years apart, and I have decided to go ahead and talk about the community patch for the game. It's rare for me to recommend overhauls for a first time through a game, but there'll be some comparisons between it and vanilla so first timers will understand why this is. It's actually kind of shocking it doesn't have much in the way of dedicated videos and instead typically appears in some about compilation mod packs. Please stop installing Rebirth. 

On that note, I was hoping to have done this video many, many moons ago since I was under the impression Nightdive's System Shock 2 Enhanced Edition would be out, but that's still cooking from what I understand. I might be able to swing getting some more information on it, but I'm still not entirely sure. I also corresponded with a LookingGlass contact back and forth for a few months after the Shock 1 video, and I asked for permission to reveal a few things I was told through email about the series so I'm also waiting to hear back on that. As usual, I'm also trying to get a sale setup (though one is going right now I believe) that could get a discount for both games. So ironically while this should be something I think would be a faster production process I am waiting on a few things to see how the video will get shaped up, and I'm suspecting it might be a longer one. I'm currently aiming for the 13th of August to release it and I can't imagine a situation that would delay it short of some kind of emergency or horrible computer error. I should have a generous space of time between the video basically being done and that date, so I'll be continuing to record footage for the video after since I'm bouncing between Kingdom Under Fire and RUINER. Everything is smooth sailing so far.

Thanks as always for your support!