Just showing off a voice assistant project I figured y'all might appreciate. Vibe coded, the code isn't easily cut out and shared, but some tech specs in case anyone wants to try to adapt to their own system, since it lets you skip a lot of trial and error:

• Opus 5.5 built
• Custom firmware on a FutureProof Homes Satellite 1
• OpenBMB's VoxCPM 1.5 16-bit version with 10 steps via audioCPP
• Audio sent through a little media center pc with a radeon 780m (I'm amazed that potato can process it in real time)
• Home assistant managing the voice assistant
• Stt through nabu casa cloud
• Llm is haiku 5.5.
• I stripped the ambience from the reference voice so it could process the words, but it adds the ambience loop back on replies at 20dB under the voice volume.

The interesting part was how few models could manage the robotic tone, even with ample reference audio, because they're all specifically trained NOT to sound like this.

The most confusing shit ever, and the whole cargo area was the most boring section ever to the point that me and buddies almost quit playing our coop world because we thought the game was getting boring. But eventually we made it through, and we played the entirety of Hydroponics, there we got new upgrades and weapons and the game is fun again. Also the Deck 4 Shodan revealing herself cutscene was PEAK! Hopefully the game only gets better from here on, we are now in the middle of Operation deck. NEVER EVER wanna experience Engineering again :(

Edit: The only good thing about Engineering is the music, that shit is fire. And walking through the tight coolant tubes is cool ig....

Edit 2: Why am I only getting downvotes, I am simply speaking the truth and I stand by it! (I gave myself the first upvote)

Edit 3: keep giving me downvotes boomers 😂

I recently finished the remaster if 2 and loved it. The game ends on a cliffhanger annoyingly and there have been multiple attempts at making a 3rd game. The 1 I'm most interested in is the 1 Ken Levine (designer of System Shock 2) pitched, but EA weren't interested https://web.archive.org/web/20100724070839/http://www.computerandvideogames.com/article.php?id=143616

Does anyone know what the story for it would have been?

When SHODAN is masquerading as Polito, her voice never wavers or stutters. Every syllable is enunciated perfectly and every sentence flows naturally. After you get to Deck 4 and reveal that Polito is dead and you've actually been taking directives from SHODAN using her identity, her voice goes back to being fragmented and stuttery and seemingly unable to complete a single sentence without exhibiting these flaws.

Never really thought about that before.

Yeah, yeah yeah, it's free but you have to create a account for the website or download the launcher. But it costs them money for every game installed.
If you enjoy it, just but it on sale with steam. Brought it on launch and it was nice not to have to edit task manager runtimes to try be on a single core computer. Dev's get paid, epic get to be pathetic meat bags. Like those in Tau Ceti. End of Report.

This game was an absolutely phenomenal experience. I had so much fun exploring the Von Braun and kicking android/cyborg/mutant ass.

You can really feel the love and care that the devs put into the game. The storytelling and voice acting were amazing, and the level design felt so appropriate for a spaceship setting. The ending gave me a good chuckle as well.

Super excited for another playthrough with different skills, probably a Psi/Melee build.

Close to biting the bullet and buying the Anniversary Remaster on Steam,

but last time I heard the coop is still broken.

Is it still the case?

And did they mess up enemy-attack-patterns somehow, or was this fixed, too?

This is going to be PEAK! I've always wanted to play this game!

I’m finally getting around to playing through SS2, and I’m absolutely loving it. Went with a basic weapon build with cyberskills (hacking, repair, maintenance, etc.) and it’s been a blast.

I love that the game doesn’t spoon-feed you with waypoints but still gives you a checklist of things you need to do next. I didn’t mind taking notes when playing SS1 Remake, but I think this is a great middle ground.

Just got to floor 4 and experienced the “big reveal” and I can’t wait to play more. Had to cut myself off after 5 hours straight yesterday.

I’d love to get a co-op game going at some point, but last time I tried we’d get disconnected after about 1-2 minutes of playing. Nothing we tried worked, so we kinda gave up and I let the game sit for a while until yesterday. Any tips or info would be greatly appreciated!

It's a relatively throwaway and harmless quirk of the game that I've nevertheless often wondered about, and I haven't seen anyone else talking about it.

Nobody ever calls the game 'Shock: System Shock 2', and it's a wild choice of words to repeat the title within the subtitle. It'd be like if Thief 1 was called 'Dark: The Dark Project'.

Google's dumb AI overview throws up a variety of explanations without any relevant sources; namely:

* It reflects the game's (supposed) original title of 'Shock' while it was being developed as a standalone game without the System Shock license. (I've never seen any sources that the game was originally going to be named 'Shock'.)

* It's meant to evoke 'SHODAN: System Shock 2' without explicitly mentioning her name and spoiling her 'surprise' appearance in the sequel. (Again, kind of skeptical considering we also see SHODAN's face in the intro.)

* It's simply highlighting that SS2 is part of the Shock series.

Does anyone happen to know the actual reason? If not, any opinions?

i literally have all that on screen all the time and i cant make it dissapear, anyone can help me?

It's not super big or any release date yet, but I'm chipping away at it slowly. It's been a lot of fun!!

I played through the game a dozen or so times and played through the console port once, and was wondering if there were any cheat codes to play with. I tried looking online, and I only see the keyboard shortcut, but idk if keyboards can work on the Switch 2

I am just finishing the remake of the first game and it's incredible. I can't wait to play the sequel coop with my brother. I'm aware of the graphical downgrade to the sequel and it doesn't bug me. I'm just hoping that coop will be somewhat stable until we beat the game. Any word on this?

The wrench won’t do the power/overhand attack if I hold the attack button. Is this a known issue?

Playing the physical switch version from Limited Run Games which came pre patched with 1.3.

Edit - realised I haven’t unlocked the perk yet. Just me being an idiot.

My brother, sister, and I have just started a new game on the remaster. We have been trying to play but keep getting a weird glitch where our hud will vanish. We first noticed when our HP disappeared, and we could no longer see the green box highlighting objects that we could interact with, along with seeing enemy health. The only way we managed to fix it was though restarting. That worked for a while, then we noticed that when we entered a new area sometimes it would glitch again. Now we can't see the green boxes around things, we can't see level requirements, (eg, hack 4 needed) and we can't see enemy health. When we reload an old save it comes back, but only for that old save. It seems that at some point during the game it glitched again. Does anyone know about this? The only person that seems imune from this is the host. Any help would be appreciated.

Hey is anyone able to tell me what the PPSA code is on the information tab of the digital version on ps5? Need to see if it matches up with my disc version (PPSA-26809)

Was gonna rebuy the digital so a second account user has access but wanna see if itll split the game into two different playtime trackings which drives me up the wall lol.

I'm playing it again now and want to research all the items and find every audio log. Are there any really well hidden ones in secret rooms (like in Duke Nukem lol) or are they all relatively easy to find? And is it even worth leveling up Research 6 and Hacking 6?

dunno what happened to mine, I probably dropped it and didn't notice. where can I find another one? I just now unlocked the elevator