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Some people just get personally offended at the thought of being denied bOoBs no matter what the context. It's weird.
Why would cyborg midwives need breasts? You realize they weren't literally nursing the eggs, right? So they got chopped off. That's the entire point of the horror of the midwives, that everything human about them, including their free will, was stripped away except the bare essentials needed to tend to the eggs.Some people just get personally offended at the thought of being denied bOoBs no matter what the context. It's weird.
Don't worry, I feel exactly as you do. Exactly. Whether that makes you feel any better is another story lol.I'll tell you why she has metal plates over her boobs. It's because the designers didn't want to show them. We can only speculate what made them squeamish about that but it looks stupid to me too. They were pretty clear in the logs that they wanted caregivers for the eggs and Nurse Bloome had the sweetness and gentleness that made her the ideal caregiver to serve as the prototype. Now one of system shock's themes is to distort our understanding of what human is, so they peeled her face off and butchered a good half of her so she looked like an abomination. That's fine with me. The mechanical legs were due to the corrosive/toxic nature of the eggs and the fumes they give off IIRC. The face was probably a creative/thematic decision. Everything else was just censorship.Download the original rebirth version, not the ones that have been updated here. Then you have to pull fembot.bin/.cal and the associated textures from the txt16 folder out of that mod and overwrite those you'd find in the latest version. It's not too hard once you have both versions. The first one is in Kolya's post just under the main post.
JacklynnUm, I'm gonna warn against that. As of late fileplant has been distributing some "innova media download manager" malware crap. Besides, doesn't the latest version already have the cyborg midwifes' titties out? They're even more noticeable with this texture.
SHTUP-ND_beta1.7 - After downloading the file it's named 1 instead of 1.7 to help with confusion
My god... the current filename for SHTUP is "SHTUP-ND_beta1.7z ". The "7z" is the FILE TYPE. There is no "1.7" version of SHTUP, nor is there any version that's labeled as such.
I always assumed it was a creative decision but my god. What is the point in ripping the face off? How do you even try to justify that? Do worms and swarms recoil at the sight of human females? Maybe they're Klingon. Again, I'm reminded of how Eldron elegantly dealt with this problem as well by making the face look as if it had some sort of necrosis going on rather than the face being quite obviously ripped off. Having said that, while his model is in my opinion the best one, I personally prefer the Cyberblutch midwife's overall appearance. Maybe part of that is because it looks more generic than having dozens of Bloomes walking around. That's probably what prompted me to make a mod that used Eldron's model only for the Bloome encounter. That way I could use the Cyberblutch model for all others.
I know this is an old post, but the whole point of the original aesthetic is to make it scary and intimidating to the player. You could say the same for the sounds and speech that the enemies make, and on and on. The goal to create a sci-fi horror environment and impact the player is what is most important, and not to be superseded by trying to make a model that is more practical or realistic in the "game world". When I first played SS2, I dreaded fighting midwives (for a while at least) because they looked creepy, sounded creepy, and did lots of damage.
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