Скачать или смотреть I played the System Shock remake and all I got was this INCREDIBLE audio! 🎧

USE HEADPHONES ONLY with any virtual surround like Windows Sonic turned off. Best HRTF effects at 8:38, 13:53, and 20:18. Actual gameplay begins at 0:57.

It seems that Night Dive Studios' System Shock remake is the gift that keeps on giving...more reasons to be disappointed in it. Released as a limited 48-hour demo for The 2019 Game Awards (making this a historical video), the new Unreal Engine 4 version of System Shock was met with a cold reception. The main problem? Fucking horrendous optimization, that's what. You might watch the first two minutes (and then X out like you usually do) and think it doesn't look that bad, but it just gets worse and worse as the game keeps running. The kicker? This is all on the lowest setting which the game defaults to! You can try to boost it to Ultra and reboot the game for the changes to take effect, but then the game persistently crashes on startup until you delete the SystemReshock folder from %LOCALAPPDATA%. That's not even the worst part, though.

System Shock: Adventure Alpha does not support X3DAudio HRTF despite using the default UE4 audio driver.

As such, I was forced to use HeSuVi virtual surround [irc37.wav preset] for this time capsule video. The effect is honestly pretty bad. Maybe not Bioshock 1 with HeSuVi bad, but it's bad nonetheless. As for the rest of the game, well...I don't like it. I'm ashamed to admit that I've never finished the original game, but at least the original played well for its time. System Shock remake feels like a clunky, boring mess with combat far worse than even System Shock 2 from 20 years ago. I wish I could chalk this up to the game being in a rough pre-alpha state, but in reality it has been in development for several years now with quite a few delays. I'd argue that it even looks worse than the original Unity demo, too, with TAA ruining the sharp, unfiltered look they were originally going for.

I can't help but feel pessimistic about the whole debacle, really. I have a feeling that the System Shock remake is going to wind up as one of those infamous games that Youtubers make video essays about for years to come. All it really needs is an Epic Games Store exclusivity deal and it will probably go down as one of the most disasterous remakes in gaming history.


HRTF grade:
D+

Settings:
Windows Control Panel: 7.1 speakers
Creative Audio Panel: 7.1 speakers
HeSuVi HRIR preset: irc37.wav

Links:
https://equalizerapo.sourceforge.io/
https://sourceforge.net/projects/hesuvi/
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