System Shock (2023)

Prerelease Info

Cheat Menu#

The 1.2 update added a hidden cheat menu which can be accessed when outside of Cyberspace by pausing the game, then holding Ctrl+Tab and clicking on the small triangle in the center of the TriOptimum logo. It also can be activated by left trigger + left bumper + right bumper + clicking in right stick + the button that pulls up MFD.

Using the cheats menu disables achievements, to reenable simply exit to the main menu.

The available options are:

• Enable/Disable God Mode - Toggles invulnerability
• Refill Vitals - Sets both health and energy to maximum. If God Mode is enabled, this only refills energy.
• Destroy CPU Nodes - Destroys all CPU Nodes on the level you are on.
• Destroy Enemies - Destroys all non-Cyberspace enemies on the level you are on.
• Reveal Map - Fills out the entire automap for the current level, including all markers/waypoints.
• Grant Loadout - StarterKit - Refills vitals and gives the following items:
  • Weapons: Lead Pipe, TB-05 Sparqbeam Sidearm, KE-41 Minipistol, 2 Frag Grenades
  • Ammo: 30 Standard 9MM Rounds
  • Hardware: System Analyzer, Multimedia Data Reader, v1 Head-Mounted Vision Unit, v1 Navigation and Mapping Unit, v1 Biological Systems Monitor, v3 Turbo-Motion Boots
  • Access cards: Standard
• Grant Loadout - Marketing - Refills vitals and gives the following items:
  • Both Micro Pocket Dimensions
  • Weapons: KF-18 Skorpion, SK-27 Shotgun, MARK III Assault Rifle, RW-45 Ion Pulse Rifle, EM-83 Grenade Launcher, JW-76 Mag-Pulse Rifle, Magnum 2100, DG-04 Laser Rapier, TB-05 Sparqbeam Sidearm, 20 Frag Grenades, 10 Gas Grenades, 10 EMP Grenades, 5 Proximity Mines
  • Ammo: 1,000 Standard 9MM Rounds, 1,000 Teflon-Coated Rounds, 100 Osmium Rounds , 1,000 Magnesium-Tip Rounds, 100 Magnetic-Pulse Cartridges, 100 Flechette Rounds, 100 Dragon's Breath Rounds
  • Consumables: 5 Medipatches, 3 First Aid Kits
  • Hardware: System Analyzer, Multimedia Data Reader, v1 Energy/Projectile Shield, v3 Target Identifier, v1 Biological Systems Monitor, v2 Turbo-Motion Boots
  • Access cards: Standard
• Grant Coins - Gives 500 Tri-Credits.
• Grant Logic Probe - Gives 1 Logic Probe.

Note that while the menu is accessible during the intro, none of the options do anything until you reach Citadel itself.

Debug Options#

Download Debug Patch File: System Shock debug menu patch.zip (11.3kb) (info)

The cheat menu has several additional options which are normally disabled in release builds. They can be re-enabled by downloading the above patch and extracting it to [location of game]/SystemShock/Content/Paks/.

The additional options are:

• Enable/Disable Ghost - A version of no-clip that does not allow for height adjustment. Does not work in retail branches.
• Skip SHODAN Arena - Skips to the ending if used during the final battle. Does nothing when used anywhere else.
• Toggle HUD - Hides/shows the entire HUD.
• Set Timescale 1x / 0.05x / 5x Runs the game at normal, very slow, or very fast speed.
• Grant Loadout - Cyber Abilities
  • Software: Pulser Combat, I.C.E. Drill, Turbo Dash, 10 Decoy Evasion.
• Grant Loadout - Cyber Items
  • Software: 5 Recall Escape, 5 Decoy Evasion.
• Allow CPU Boost - Does not work in retail branches. Was for testing Switch docked versus undocked performance.
• Toggle Music Debugger - Adds an overlay to the screen that presumably corresponds to the dynamic music system. When active, this overlay will block selecting the triangle to reopen cheat menu, but the player can use the controller command to return to the cheat menu and turn it off again.

The bottom of the menu also features the ability to warp to any non-Cyberspace map on Citadel Station, as well as SHODAN's arena. There are two basic exceptions:

• Warping to Storage traps you inside the freight elevator without the ability to open the door until you save and reload the game.
• Warping to SHODAN's arena spawns you in the middle of the void, where you will immediately fall to your death.

Unused Graphics#

Cyberspace#

/Game/Art/Cyberspace/GUI/T_CyberspaceSoftwareIcons contains a total of eight software hotbar icons, three of which are unused. The PDF manual (which was removed from the Steam release in the 1.2 update) lists these as "Cyber Shield", "Damage Multiplier", and "Time", respectively.

A model for the unused shield pickup can also be found at /Game/Cyberspace/Pickups/Assets/CyberShield/SK_CYBR_CyberShield.

A number of other unused HUD elements are also present in /Game/Art/Cyberspace/GUI/. Note that these are just the raw textures, without any effects applied (colorizing, translucency, etc.) like what you'd actually see in game.

T_CyberspacePickUpIcon uses the red and green color channels to store two different icons in a single texture. The corresponding material definitions (in the same directory) are called MAT_CyberspacePickUpIcon_DataLog and MAT_CyberspacePickUpIcon_FunPak.

GamePig#

/Game/Art/MiniGames/TriPet/babypets contains a few leftover baby pet sprites from the cut game TriPets.

Other#

/Game/TOREMOVE/TEXTURES/T_ScreenCamera/FeedLost is a rudimentary texture that was presumably displayed on broadcast camera screens when the camera itself was destroyed. In the final game, doing this makes the screen display static instead.

Unused Audio#

Intro#

/Game/Sound/VO/Cinematics/Intro/ contains an unused voice clip from the intro. The subtitles are stored in /Game/Blueprints/Inventory/Items/Media/DT_AtmosphericTranscriptions.

Edward Diego#

/Game/Sound/VO/Cinematics/Interrogation/Old/ contains early versions of some of Diego's dialogue from the intro without any filter effects applied.

/Game/Sound/VO/Environmental/ also contains two unused Diego monologues in addition to the three you normally hear at various points. The subtitles are stored in /Game/Blueprints/Inventory/Items/Media/DT_AtmosphericTranscriptions.

SHODAN#

/Game/Sound/VO/Cinematics/DeathScene/ contains one unused voiceover for the death cutscene in addition to the six normally used ones.

/Game/Sound/VO/Environmental/ contains several unused voice lines for the final battle. The subtitles are stored in /Game/Blueprints/Inventory/Items/Media/DT_AtmosphericTranscriptions.

Citadel PA#

/Game/Sound/VO/Citadel_PA_System/ contains the voice lines for the station's PA system, including several unused ones, most of which also went unused in the original game. As with several other of the voice lines, the subtitles are stored in /Game/Blueprints/Inventory/Items/Media/DT_AtmosphericTranscriptions.

Sound Effects#

/Game/Sound/Cyberspace/UI/Cyberspace_UI_Timer_CountDown is a sound effect that would have presumably gone with the unused cyberspace timer graphics.

Gamepig Minigames#

/Game/Sound/Minigame/SpaceMinotaur contains sound effects from one of many cut Gamepig Minigames. The only sound effects remaining are from Space Minotaur, although others were teased prior and later cancelled. These files can only be found on 1.0 versions of the game and were removed during one of the game's patches.

Cyberspace Logs#

/Sound/VO/AudioLogs/Cyberspace are logs still in the game but in the files they are separate from the level logs. This is because they were originally going to be collected inside Cyberspace but were instead moved to just outside the Cyberspace Terminals. The pick-up for the item is no longer in the files, but an image of it can be seen in the game's manual.

Renamed Logs#

In the files, certain audio logs feature different names that what is in-game. Why they were changed is unknown.

The following are all the logs in question:

• KS-Premiere Station (Originally called KS-A Life Chosen)
• Outages (Originally called Power Outages)
• KS-Chicago (Originally called KS-Leave Chicago)
• Stashed Pack (Originally called Suit Recall)
• Enviro-Packs (Originally called New Enviro-Packs)
• Project Cortex (Originally called Cortex Prototypes)
• I Got Tickets! (Originally called Exec Line)
• Gold Exec-Bots (Originally called How Did He Get a Variant?)

Original Game#

/Game/Sound/VO/Original_Game/ contains almost all of the original game's voiceover audio, most likely to be used as placeholders during development.

Unused Messages#

In addition to the unused voiceover audio above, there are also a number of messages that have subtitle definitions but no audio.

Edward Diego#

/Game/Blueprints/Inventory/Items/Media/DT_MediaEmailTranscriptions contains an unused message from Diego, stored right after the one he sends you when you're making your way to the escape pods.

Vending & Credit Machines#

/Game/Blueprints/Inventory/Items/Media/DT_AtmosphericTranscriptions contains several additional unused SnackTron voice lines, some of which are alternate versions of normally used lines. The same file also features a fully unused set of lines for the coffee machines (which can't be interacted with) and the credit/ATM machines (which can be used, but don't talk to you when you use them).

Revisional Differences#

To do: More revisional differences. Launch versions on consoles.

1.0.16944#

Launch version of the game.

1.1.17082#

Released on June 9th, 2023.

• Fixed a crash that could occur when entering Flight Deck with older DX11 versions.
• Fixed a crash that could occur when exiting Maintenance Cyberspace.
• Fixed a crash that could occur when playing Grove Chess.
• Fixed Ragdolls to not fall into place when loading into levels or saves [Players will have to save at least once to see it take effect after downloading this patch]
• Improved grenade rolling behavior when thrown.
• Improved ragdoll behavior on Human Corpse attached to Cortex Reaver.
• Fix for weapons with installed Modkits not always showing their attachments properly.
• Fix Magnum laser sight FX not working properly when loading a save with it enabled.
• Fix elevator music not stopping when the player dies in an elevator and respawns on another level.
• Fix for Audio Log Portrait disappearing in certain cases.
• Fix for game pausing unexpectedly after loading a game.
• Fix equipment soft-lock that could occur when dying while arming an explosive.
• Fix equipment soft-lock when saving and loading while focusing on a puzzle.
• Credit Machines will dispense Tri-Credits when a Finance Chip is used on them.
• Broadcast Monitors can now be shattered when attacked.
• Minipistol Burst-Fire Modkit shoots three rounds instead of two, and can be toggled on/off.
• Bio-Tanks that are destroyed will stop generating hazards after a short duration.
• Items can be bound to the hotbar by pressing a hotbar hotkey while mousing over the item.
• Balance tweaks to Maintenance Cyberspace Level
• Removed duplicate Audio Log from Flight Deck
• Fixed Softlock in Research Level by making Elevator Lobby doors and Circuit Breaker Room door always open if that Quadrant has power disabled.
• Fixed Softlock in Reactor when pulling the Reactor Self-Destruct Lever and reloading a save
• Improved Realspace Enemy AI
• Improved Cyberspace Enemy AI
• Improved Magnum Weapon laser dot FX
• Improved Mag-Pulse Weapon impact vortex FX
• Add Headbob Option to Accessibility Settings
• Added Autosave after using Surgery Machine on every Difficulty
• Fix for Surgery Machine getting stuck in a permanent busy state
• Fix for Energy Shield screen FX not restoring after loading a save
• Fix for pressing Back in the Media Reader to not close entire MFD
• Corrected the Escape Pod Status in MFD Status Screen when triggering Self Destruct sequence

1.2.18830#

Released on April 11th, 2024.

• A female Hacker has now been added as a playable character
• Reworked the entire final fight with new mechanics and a unique flow
• Cloud Sync support has been added

Other major Changes

• Alpha Strain enemies have a new attack
• Avian Mutant enemies have a new attack
• Cyborg Diego has new movement options
• Continued refining enemy AI and behaviors
• Mission waypoints have been implemented for (Easy mission difficulty)
• Better Gamepad handling and implementation
• Major optimizations across the entire game — Steam Deck users rejoice!
• Achievements are properly awarded when completing the requirements
• Some first person Hacker animations have been corrected
• General combat and speed balance adjustments across enemies and weapons
• Credits added to the Title Screen
• Improved quest logic behavior across several areas of the game
• Players can now no longer save over the AutoSave, and the AutoSave will now only appear in the Load Game menu
• Game Over screen can now be skipped
• Recycle Station ‘inventory’ size has increased to 4x3 from 3x3 to allow recycling of bigger junk items. Scrapper rejoice!
• The max payout from a Recycle Station is now 120 Credits
• EMP stun duration has been reduced by 25%
• SHODAN will lock the Research control room door if the player fires the Mining Laser at Earth
• Detox patch now has a 25% protection bonus against environment hazards while active
• Fix a soft lock that could occur when dying while interacting with a Surgery Machine
• Items dropped inside of elevators should no longer disappear
• Pathfinding performance improvements in Flight Deck and Groves
• Fix a case where the player was able to clip through the world by loading games while crouched
• Fix a case where plasma projectile FX would spawn every frame and wouldn’t clean up properly, causing major frame drops

Minor changes

• Easier to see total counts of collected Media items
• Added a button to the entrance of the Security level to ensure you can backtrack to the rest of the Station
• General FX improvements and tweaks
• New artwork on monitors across Citadel Station
• Enemy callouts and vocals are less frequent now
• Better text sizing for all languages
• Jump Jet behavior improved
• The color of some projectiles were tweaked
• Sped up animations of using Dermal Patches
• Enemies who are near Restoration Bays will be teleported to their spawn location to ensure the Hacker doesn’t get softlocked by being killed repeatedly
• Save files are now counted incrementally
• Fix ups of various Cyberspace levels and enemy placements within
• Better handling of Hacker death in unlikely scenarios
• SHODAN now has a surprise for the player when Diego is killed on the Security level
• Total Enemy Reinforcements have been increased across all levels
• Reduced the number of enemies that can bunch up in the same Reinforcement Volume
• Enemies will remember the player for longer on all difficulties
• Enemy line of checks include the projectile collision radius whenever possible so that their attacks fail less often
• Fixed an enemy ambush that wasn’t activating properly in the Medical CPU room if the player comes back later in the game
• Kickstarter corpse tokens added to enemies
• Enemy awareness in the Flight Deck trap room after saving and loading has been fixed
• Diego boss AI adjustments, largely in the first encounter
• Cortex Reavers can now perform a strafe jump to more quickly engage the player
• Mutated Cyborg and Tiger-Gorilla dismemberment has been fixed
• Cyborg Mantis walks faster, will sprint more frequently, and HP increased slightly
• Flier-Bots now have an Autocannon in addition to Gas Grenade attacks
• Striker-Bots now have a Laser Cannon in addition to Homing Missile attacks
• Flier-Bot and Striker-Bot textures have been improved
• Fix for Hoppers and Mobile Lasers not being able to hit the player while leaning behind a wall
• Security-1 Bot now has a rapid fire attack pose
• Cyborg Warrior now has a moving attack similar to the Security-2 Bot
• Cyborg Elite Guard head-mounted laser attack damage increased from 60 to 80
• Alpha Strain long range attack now has a unique animation
• Skorpion default inventory size has been reduced from 4x2 to 3x2
• Assault Rifle damage increased slightly from 24 to 25 per round
• Plasma Rifle now has an animation to unload the active Plasma Core
• Abe Ghiran’s Head inventory size has been increased from 1x1 to 2x2
• Missing character portraits have been added
• Cyberspace I.C.E Shield FX has been improved
• Wire Puzzle has new FX to more clearly indicate the required power level to solve it
• Fix for Circuit Puzzle dead-end nodes filling from the wrong side in some cases
• Fixed holes in the walls in Research tiles,
• Berserk patches now cost 5 Tri-Credits from a dispenser instead of 4
• Shotgun ammo cost in Ammo Depots has been reduced from 15 to 14 credits
• Loot table adjustments to reduce quantity of ammo received from Exec-Bots, Flier-Bots, Striker-Bots and Cyborg Enforcers
• Ammo adjustments in Reactor, Alpha Grove, Delta Grove, Engineering, Security, and Bridge
• Reduced the number of First Aid Kit pickups in Flight Deck, Security and Bridge
• Assigned the correct idle animation to the Cyborg Drones (No more hovering guns while they are charging)
• Jump Jet improvements while in Low Gravity Volumes
• Loading a save while falling will properly restore the player’s velocity
• Barrel dispensers will no longer drop their dispensed barrels when the player leaves and comes back to a level.
• Energy Drain Mines will no longer prepend multiple “Destroyed” strings to their name after being repeatedly destroyed
• Fix for player losing Low-Grav/Repulsor mods when switching to certain weapons
• Improvements to how the enemy AI handles changing Repulsor Lift direction
• Reactor’s Repulsor Lifts have been adjusted slightly to fix potential soft locks
• Fix for the player being able to exit the Diego V1 arena by blocking main doorway
• Doors will more elegantly restore their collision state when loading a save
• Shotgun shell texture has been fixed
• Crack-O’s are now no longer considered Junk
• Fix for certain wall monitors not breaking when attacked
• Fixed small animation issue with the Isolinear Chipset on the Bridge
• Fixed sparking cable issues on Maintenance
• Fix for several achievements not completing properly
• Small text adjustments and spellings
• Music playback adjustments
• Fixed a potential audio component memory leak when concurrency limits were reached
• Added a Controller Vibration accessibility option
• Improved gamepad support on MFD
• Improved automap performance
• Fixed several visual artefacts on the automap
• Automap will always update the map info bar with the data for the currently selected level
• Implant tooltips will no longer display off the edge of the screen on certain display configs
• Fix for the ‘Back’ button on gamepad causing the player to crouch when exiting menus
• Credits updated
• Other minor improvements, adjustments and balance tweaks

1.2.18887#

Released on April 25th, 2024.

Fixed:

• Fix for 1.1 saves not loading properly on maps with a Loader Bot present.
• Fix a case where after loading a save the player would remain in a combat state indefinitely.
• Fix several cases where mission waypoints were showing up incorrectly.
• Fix for user waypoints not showing up on the map.
• Fix for Shodan not animating in the final pseudospace sequence.
• Fix for several effects not rendering properly on the female hacker.
• Fix vertical spacing issues on subtitle text on certain display configs.
• Fix for movement inputs sticking when entering and exiting menus.
• Fix for not being able to throw grenades when jumping.
• Fix for corpses and limbs being frustum culled while still on the screen.
• Fix for computer node monitors on Storage not displaying the correct code in certain cases.
• Fix Reactor region labels on the automap.
• Fix for cargo lift screen not displaying level transition properly in some cases.
• Fix for cyberspace FOV interfering with realspace FOV in certain cases.
• Fix for Diego remaining invisible if staggered while teleporting.
• Fix for coins sometimes being invisible when dispensed from Credit Machines.

Adjusted:

• Shotgun reloading will now prioritize small ammo stacks.
• 'Vaporize All' will ignore existing scrap items.
• Reduced Avian Mutant health from 125 to 100.
• Force Diego V3 to reappear when he dies to prevent cases where his corpse would be invisible.
• Hacking a robot will reduce their awareness by 90% instead of only 50%, but the effect wears off instantly if they are damaged.
• Hooked up cooldown and disabled states for cyberspace software.
• Made Decoy and Recall software obey stacking mechanics and consume only one per use.

Added:

• Added the ability to create messages for user waypoints.
• Added a health bar for the player in the final pseudospace sequence.
• Added shortcuts to use Explosives and Consumables on the RB/LB buttons on the gamepad.

1.2.18890#

Released on May 17th, 2026.

Fixed:

• Full-auto modkit now allow the AR to fire individual shots as fast as it should have.
• A case where an empty hotbar slot could be highlighted as if it was equipped has been fixed.
• The Hacker's gender no longer resets to male when loading a game. This is in order to handle 1.1 saves properly due to the field not being serialized. Bug only occurs when swapping between 1.2 female and 1.1 male saves.
• Force update dismembered limb bounds when visible = true.

1.2.3/18898#

Released on May 21st, 2024.

Fixed:

• Looking around in Cyberspace has improved on when using gamepad controls,
• Fixed scaling of buttons in software hotbar list,
• Added dedicated gamepad icons to support different Options Button icon.

1.3.0/19128#

Released on September 20th, 2025.

• Improved gamepad handling in MFD
• Improved actions for Inventory Sorting and Auto-Vaporizing
• Added the option to Toggle Sprint
• Fixed issues with Female Hacker voice sounds not playing properly
• Fixed issues with Traditional and Simplified Chinese text
• Adjustments to item placement across several levels
• Additional adjustments to enemy optimization
• Additional art adjustments for improved consistency