The big one is Secmod, but I personally recommend a collection of mods, namely RSD, Repairman, QBR Breaker, Alarming Cameras, Scary Monsters, and a handful of others.

As a result of this, you are likely going to want to play gameplay mods of some kind after your first playthrough. System Shock 2 was very rushed in development, and as a result, major gameplay issues remain in the vanilla game - Exotic is borderline useless, Research is very front-loaded (getting research 5-6 is mostly a waste), as are many other skills, half the O/S upgrades are useless, nanites are abundant, and many many many many more issues. My only recommendation to deviate from the recommended mod list is to not install Rebirth, because it looks worse than vanilla.įor a second (and beyond) playthrough, it's very likely that NewDark will be the go-to, depending what level of mod support is available in EE. Setting up the game on a modern machine and using the recommended mods list will make the game look quite decent already. The new models and graphics in the enhanced edition look okay, but not particularly amazing, and some things look worse than modded NewDark. If you're planning to play without mods for your first playthrough, it will probably not matter much, and it might not be worth waiting for the enhanced edition. NewDark is a complicated beast, and it entirely depends on how well it's features are implemented into the KEX engine. I don't think anyone can realistically say for certain what level of mod support the Enhanced Edition will have, because it's not as simple as adding some new graphics on the existing engine.

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