Can someone tell me bout fan missions?

[Thumper]

1st off, sorry for being late to the table, I played SS2 waaaay back in the day, countless hours, but lost the disk somehow, and never went back. SS2 tops my list of all time best games. Ok, nuff said.

Now when I launch the game, there are 2 options, play or fan mission, I did not know there were fan based mods, so can someone fill in the blanks for me here, I would really like to see more. I did click on fan missions and it took me to what looked like a window type editor, and not knowing what was what, I closed it and just went back to playing, don't be shy, pretend I don't know anything about SS2 in your reply. thx, in advance

[ps47.3dfx]

a fan mission is, well, an extra mission made by a fan. meaning you get Goggles (the Shock Guy), a few more levels to run around, and some more mutants to slay.

not many are around (as the editor is hard, and resources uneasy to create), but if you crave something Shocky but not the vanilla game, a FM might just be the thing - see the FM subforum[www.systemshock.org].

Return to the UNN[www.systemshock.org] (SS2 Blaydes99 RttUNN) would be a good start. note that it needs a few mods to be loaded for everything to work as it should, so you'll probably want to check the mod guide[www.systemshock.org] as well.

[Thumper]

Thx for the quick reply, I recall "Thief Deadly Shadows" has a large fan base, with lots of modded maps to pick n choose, but as I looked into it, I saw very little in the way of quality and/or replayability. I will look at your picks here, and see where they go.

BTW, last nite a friend n I got to play SS2 coop (1st time) I was unable to play coop before, well, what I expected, was not what I got. It was just us, replaying the story mode on the same ship. LOL, he had not played it b4 and kept running into the camera's, it took me till the end of level 2 to settle him down and just let me take out the camera's so he could go in and clean up. We saved at the start of level 4, I told him getting here was the easy part, now the fun starts.

[ps47.3dfx]

it's Thief2 and Thief1, actually (the ones with a big fanbase and loads of fan missions). the FM quality varies from "hey, I made a level that doesn't crash the game" to multilevel campaigns that would rival the original games with little effort. that's why most Thief FM download sites have a FM ranking system.

[Thumper]

now that i didn't know, i loved the Thief series but did not get the last one after reading he no longer had a jump command.

[ps47.3dfx]

yeah, Thief3 (Deadly Shadows) is usually considered a lesser brother of the first two, but it's still part of the family, while the fourth (Thief 2014, or Thi4f) is pretty much completely ignored and considered a big flop/failure. it's been referenced as the ULTIMATE example of how to NOT remake a game when we were discussing the SS1 remaster with NightDive.

[Thumper]

yea thats what i heard. but i still liked T3, T1 and those add-on maps were some of the best game play. T2 did crash on me when i was in a map where he picks up a gun laying on the floor but don't remember much after that

[SHODANFreeman]

System Shock Infinite and the 4 Christine mods are pretty nice also.

[Thumper]

ok thx for those also, now when i launch from the user mod option, where do i access these titles?

[Craftian]

Originally posted by SHODANFreeman:

System Shock Infinite and the 4 Christine mods are pretty nice also.

The Infinite mod is definitely worth a look as it's essentially a fanmade expansion to the original game and one of the better works to emerge from the community. It's been a while, but you should just be able to play the loaded mod from one of the custom launchers, like FMSel or BMM, and rebooting with the default option will take you back to the main game as normal.

I'd strongly recommend checking this out before going any further.

[ps47.3dfx]

Originally posted by Thumper:

ok thx for those also, now when i launch from the user mod option, where do i access these titles?

you need to have the fan mission unzipped in its own folder inside the FMs folder (in your SS2 folder). see here[www.systemshock.org], or just patch up with the tool[www.systemshock.org], that will create the folder and shortcuts - if you want mods, you will have to do it anyway.

[Thumper]

Hey this is some of the better replys I've gotten then with other games, and i'm too tired now to even go there, so i'm done here for the nite. I'll be looking into this tomorrow. any problems I may encounter, I'll be back looking for you guys by mid-morning.

Oh 1 more thing, we are having problems tring to host or join a coop with incorrect IP#'s, and unable to change them. maybe you can help there too. thx, gent's c-ya later