SS2 Pop's Difficulty and Enhancement Mod

[673fac02d3485johnnythewolf]

Oh yeah...

But even with a smiley, I'm never sure if someone is earnest or not... I encountered many idiots (not talking about you, jonas) who were using smileys like punctuation, whether they were sarcastic or not.

[673fac02d359dsgt.jonas grant]

well, with godmod on, take a wrench, go in a room full of rumbler, and even this is gonna be easy

[673fac02d3737Kolya]

Well yeah. But godmode isn't part of this mod.

[673fac02d381dsgt.jonas grant]

oh, ok, i'll try to make myself more clear in the future then

edit: why the heck did i told this?

[673fac02d38f2Kolya]

No idea

[673fac02d39d810111010]

I think this mod is great fun... a little to hard though for my tastes. What i would give for only the blood and bullethole effects, that would be awsome.

[673fac02d3b11ste0]

I can't seem to get this mod properly installed. The gameplay is fine - enemies harder, cameras indestructible and go off faster, upgrades are more expensive and all of the other stuff works fine - but the text and icons for all of the psi powers remain the same, so cryokinesis is actually psi strength and localised pyrokinesis is actually transmutation and so on. The same goes for the O/S upgrades but that's not so much of an issue. I've tried deactivating all other mods and I've tried it with and without mod manager but nothing seems to work

[673fac02d3be7johnnythewolf]

Jeez, is this mod discontinued or what? It's been months since the last update.

[673fac02d3d1fPopulism]

Sorry bout the long wait...I've got my old hard drive...and installed it in a new p.c. I have today off and will work on the new version with a couple of changes...but it's been a long time since I've messed with these files and apps, so I am unsure as to what I'm doing exactly. If all goes well you should have it sometime today...though it won't be tested much.

I need to go over what Miracle was saying about breaking the weapon draw animations and bashing dmg to see what I can do about that, other than that it should be straight forward...surprised no one has done it themselves.


Edit: New version is done...Hope you like it

[673fac02d3e80johnnythewolf]

Time to reinstall SS2, hehe... 

I'm gonna try this mod asap. Looks already much better!

EDIT: Okay, there are still a few minor bugs around. For example, in Sci sector, I had a brawn boost implant equiped, but as soon as I arrived in Med, it was gone from my inventory, although the strength bonus is still visible in the MFD. As a Navy, I also got a free research bonus skill point.
And is it normal if the upgrade costs are the same on every skill level?

Oh and it seems the cameras are still capable of hearing, because, even after hacking security, I managed to trigger an alarm by hitting an hybrid with my wrench.

Otherwise, the mod is great and very fun. Good work!

[673fac02d3f6ejohnnythewolf]

I also noticed that hacking cameras doesn't neutralize them permanently, like in Flatliner's mod. Is it to avoid a bug?

[673fac02d40b4Populism]

Thanks Johnny I appreciate your efforts, Keep the info coming as you progress through the game.....maybe you'll be the first to get all the way through it. I'm curious to know how each character type fairs in the later levels.

P.s Sorry it took so long for the update....I'm just working alot and by the time I get home and do what I need to do it's almost time for bed, so it was hard getting the motivation to patch the mod, and no to the camera question..I just didn't want any way to premanently shut down security.

I'mma try and get some screenies up for the gore part of the mod soon, oh and if you haven't tried it yet..summon up a grenade launcher and try out the different ammo types on the grunts and what not...have fun.

[673fac02d41b0johnnythewolf]

I see. So, there is really no way to desactivate camera hearing for now? It's my only real concern for now.

As for the grenade launcher, I've located one but I'm keeping my CMs for better use... at least, for now! Gotta get past Engineering first, then I'll give it a shot, litteraly!

[673fac02d429dPopulism]

No the camera's can't hear now...not sure why that would be, I'll have another look. In the little testing I did (all on med sci) I used the wrench and pistol near cameras and on grunts...I got no reaction from them.

[673fac02d43aejohnnythewolf]

Hmm, I'm not sure about this. I'm on Eng now and indeed cameras don't react to noises... although they seem to turn to yellow status if you start firing around them.

But I might actually know why some cameras are noise-sensitive and some don't: I'm playing with Zygo's randomizer and, as you know, some cameras are set at different places in levels than in vanilla game. I'm pretty sure all the triggered alarms were caused by those.

[673fac02d44caPopulism]

Yeah that might be it.....they turn yellow if they notice damage or see the projectiles. I have a much bigger problem now though....I can't find my ss2 game disc anywhere....my question now is....is it possible to buy this game still?

[673fac02d479ejohnnythewolf]

Yeah that might be it.....they turn yellow if they notice damage or see the projectiles. I have a much bigger problem now though....I can't find my ss2 game disc anywhere....my question now is....is it possible to buy this game still?

Do you still have the game installed? You could use a crack or even better Kolya's SS2 tools to disable the CD-check.

After all, if you owned the game, I think you have the right to crack it.

[673fac02d48c9Populism]

I need the disc...ack! Thought I had it when I did the patch, now I'm not sure. They don't make SS2 anymore right? I might have left it when I moved out here....could have swore I seen it when I recieved my games and what not. Hope I find it.

Edit: I have the game on another hard drive..can I just burn the files to a cd and use it that way?

[673fac02d49a9Kolya]

When you copy them off the CD again all files might be write protected, otherwise it should work.

[673fac02d4a8bjohnnythewolf]

Just wondering: did you fix (or "have you fixed"?) the issue with hacked turrets and bots that shoot at cameras?

[673fac02d4b80Populism]

Thanks Koyla, I'll try that if I can't find another option.

No Johnny there's no way to fix that without altering a whole bunch of stuff

BTW I found new copies of SS2 on Amazon.com there selling for 65 to 95 dollars

[673fac02d4dfbRainalkar]

I'm playing your mod on impossible, so far have passed Hydro, write you soon. You have some brilliant ideas, yet some things really need to be remedied asap.

[673fac02d5050johnnythewolf]

I'm playing your mod on impossible, so far have passed Hydro, write you soon. You have some brilliant ideas, yet some things really need to be remedied asap.

Either you're really really good at SS2 or you're truly a masochist.

I mean, you're playing this mod... on IMPOSSIBLE?!?

[673fac02d53b6Assassin]

I'm playing your mod on impossible, so far have passed Hydro, write you soon. You have some brilliant ideas, yet some things really need to be remedied asap.

Either you're really really good at SS2 or you're truly a masochist.

I mean, you're playing this mod... on IMPOSSIBLE?!?

It is nearly immposible to pass some things at engineering at hard.On impossible difficulty this mod would reach the most sadistic mod:Half-Quake