How do you jettison a grove?

[Mistr James]

I was doing the maintenance level and read that I had to do some stuff on the sixth floor in order progress and I'm completely stuck. I've gone and cleared out both alpha and delta grove and interacted with the unlock (still have no idea where beta grove is). I know this is a beat for beat remake of a game from 1994, but they really couldn't have been bothered to include some modern conveniences. There's a reason games stopped doing the whole after dying three times, you have to start the entire thing over.

[Stargoat]

Beta Grove is toward the lower end of Executive - it's not too hard to spot (has the same kind of door as the others), but the door is locked initially. You can find a log that hints at where to find the switch.

[Mistr James]

Originally posted by Stargoat:

Beta Grove is toward the lower end of Executive - it's not too hard to spot (has the same kind of door as the others), but the door is locked initially. You can find a log that hints at where to find the switch.

Can you just tell me where the switch is. I'm really frustrated with this game at this point.

[Kiros]

To add to what Stargoat said, there's also a log detailing the exact steps needed to jettison a grove

[Rail/ slave]

Originally posted by Mistr James:

Originally posted by Stargoat:

Beta Grove is toward the lower end of Executive - it's not too hard to spot (has the same kind of door as the others), but the door is locked initially. You can find a log that hints at where to find the switch.

Can you just tell me where the switch is. I'm really frustrated with this game at this point.

A big part of the fun is finding a corner to hide in and going through voice logs, the title usually helps.
This quest is enough to put anybody off though. Take breaks if you have too .

[Stargoat]

Originally posted by Mistr James:

Originally posted by Stargoat:

Beta Grove is toward the lower end of Executive - it's not too hard to spot (has the same kind of door as the others), but the door is locked initially. You can find a log that hints at where to find the switch.

Can you just tell me where the switch is. I'm really frustrated with this game at this point.

Welcome to System Shock!

It wouldn't be any fun if I just told you! The switch is in the same general area, From memory, the log in question is in regards to crew members facing the same issue that you are.

[Jukseri]

Beta Grove is in the southern part of the Executive level. You can unlock the grove door by doing the Executive level Cyberspace. You should be able to enter the southern part of the Executive level after you have obtained the ADMIN(ADM) keycard from the executive level.

To Jettison the grove use the Master Jettison control button after you have interacted with all the groves safety interlocks. After succesfully using the Master Jettison button, go to Beta Jettison and pull the lever.

[Trevor Reznik]

SHODAN tells you how to jettison a grove, she's just great like that.

[Benjafins]

You are close! You can find access to Beta Grove on that level. I like to consider this part of the game the most puzzling and difficult in general... and its the most important part of the game to listen to the audio logs and pay attention because its going to ask you to jump around different floors a lot to proceed.

It gets much more linear after this section. Take breaks during this part and reset your brain a bit. Stepping away from the game for an hour and coming back actually helps contextualize things.

[Stargoat]

Originally posted by Rail/ slave:

This quest is enough to put anybody off though. Take breaks if you have too .

It does have a kind of sadistic flavour to it.

[Casey]

I'm actually confused here as well -- I'm running in circles at this point. I went into Beta Grove, pushed some buttons, hit the switch, that did nothing. Came back in, went to Maintenance, fixed some decombobulator thing, went back to see if that did it, Jettison is still not enabled. SHODAN mentioned it was a switch in Gamma. I go there and see nothing. In fact, it's mostly just offices/rooms. Totally at a loss now. Already beat up another boss. Went to the Groves. Nothing found anywhere.

edit: wow found it. I was expecting it to be in a "flight control" type room, not just in a nook next to some guy's penthouse -_-

Doesn't help the scanner did not pick it up lol

[DarkFenix]

As SHODAN herself so generously tells you, the procedure for jettisoning groves has been changed:
1 - Hit the switch in each grove.
2 - Enable master jettison in gamma (switch in the same room as the elevator to engineering)
3 - Hit the switch from the appropriate grove's control room.

Step 2 goes a bit wrong of course, something breaks. But the game tells you what to do there too, as does common sense (there's a deck named suspiciously as though you might go there when something breaks).

This game really wants you to pay attention, both to the world around you and to the audio and text logs you pick up. This isn't like all other modern games where they're just pointless exposition you can ignore.

[Phantom Mercenary]

Originally posted by DarkFenix:

As SHODAN herself so generously tells you.

I came here to post this too. lol

[kumadonburi]

There are plenty of walkthroughs that are just a Google away, do you guys not have phones?

[Phantom Mercenary]

Originally posted by Trevor Reznik:

SHODAN tells you how to jettison a grove, she's just great like that.

SHODAN's need for customer service is hard-coded into her programming. No matter how megalomanical she gets, she can't stop telling protagonists about her kyptonite.

[Thradar]

Doesn't SHODAN literally tell you how to do it?