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	Message: : System Shock Marathon Comparison & talkthrough Season 1: System Shock 1: : Enhanced Edition : : Episode 4: Eternal Engine : Act 1: Ridley me this – Systems Engineering : Last time was a relatively short trip to maintenance in order to fix the : master jettison enable lever and then launch Beta Grove. Now as I return : to the elevator to level 7 in Diego’s new quarters, Rebecca radios me : again confirming what we learned on level 5. : : : : Ignoring her (SHODAN that is, not Lansing), I take the elevator to the : Engineering level. The Nine Inch Nails reactor theme goes pumping through : my ears again and SHODAN radios me a second time. : : Behind and above me is a cyborg assassin. Those buggers will be placed in : hard to spot locations from now on. The ramp to my left leads to the lower : floor of the central hub. The log on the floor says that there’s no way to : reach the upper floor of the hub from gamma or beta and to send a rope : ladder or something to make it up there. We don’t get one so we have to : use our jump jet boots. There’s a small maze down a grav lift to the right : where I can find the best gun in the game. : : The Skorpion assault rifle. Yes it’s actually spelled with a K. It’s a fully : automatic rifle that fires molten slag bullets like we see resistance : soldiers firing in Sonic Forces (cutscenes only). It’s so overpowered, the : only alternate ammo is a 50% bigger clip. : : : : The west satellite is nearby, guarded by security 1 bots and a cyborg : enforcer on the walkway outside. Get used to seeing those girls as there’s : a lot on this level. : : Open the cover on the antenna’s base and insert the plastique under the dish. : Run before it blows as the explosion will kill you if you are nearby. : The passages twist and turn to a looping 3D maze near the hub where I find a : log on a dead body: he says he thinks he’s the only one left and he wants : to blow the station. However, he doesn’t have the systems authorisation : code which will let him do it. No code for the lifepods either. He says he : needs to get to the bridge, but as we see he didn’t make it. The maze is : flooded with cyborg enforcers and I find the next satellite in due time. : The ramp opposite leads to the upper level of the hub. : Down below is a mancubus looking thing that fires green plasma shots. That’s : a mutated cyborg, one of SHODAN’s potential goals. Colored wire puzzles : guard the way into Gamma and Beta up here. I can’t be arsed to solve them : as they’re boring and hard so I use a logic probe. Under some forcefield : doors here is the third and final surgery machine, a recharge station and : the last pattern buffer in the game. Don’t get too close to the surgery : machine when you use it as it’s mined. Turns out I was mistaken earlier as : I hadn’t played in a while: there is a ladder inside beta but the door is : locked by the lockpicking puzzle. Near here I find the next satellite and : it’s also mined. Shooting them removes them. : Back near the start, I find a log from Bianca Schuler I read while stoned. : She takes a wrong turn and is cornered before getting captured. : : Under a light bridge floor nearby next to some grating I find a power : station, a logic probe and a level 3 upgrade to my jump jet boots. Near a : shaft back out I need the boots for is a log from SHODAN. : : : I return to beta quadrant through the lower level of the hub. The passageway : is irradiated due to waste barrels being strewn about all over the shop. : The level 3 upgrade to my energy shield aug is here. Hidden behind some : debris at the far end of the room and blending in with it is a level 3 : hazard suit which will make returning to the reactor even easier. Hiding : it here is kind of dickish. Up the stairs is the CPU server room. No : number recording for us. In a small room here is a log on its dead owner : talking about the systems authorisation code again. : : : : The door here loops back to the area below where the pattern buffer and : surgery machine are. The final satellite dish is here. : : That was easy. Too easy. : : I could just take the death and respawn at the pattern buffer, but I don’t : wanna. : : Do what I did and use a reflex pill to give you enough time to pick the lock. : Rebecca and SHODAN both contact me via radio after the satellite blows. : : Here’s the mutated cyborg I mentioned before. It guards the elevator to the : security level. : Next mission: we finally learn the point of the CPU servers if we haven’t : already.
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