#SYSTEM SHOCK 2 AUDIO LOGS CODE#

but you'll have encountered at least one by the time you find the audio log in question, you'd chase them down, kill them, and loot them anyway, and it's too vague to be helpful to boot) then they're useless because you have to alreadyВ know what they're talking about to get what they mean. If they're not redundant (Example: one audio log indirectly informs you that items you need are on red Cyborg Assassins. Oh, System Shock 2 tries to occasionally have audio logs tell you something of relevance worth paying attention to, but it invariably botches it.

#SYSTEM SHOCK 2 AUDIO LOGS CODE#

(Exception: the devs actually missed the Med-Sci sub-armory's audio log code in this regard, so that you'll have to actually listen to the audio log. In System Shock 2, you do what the voices in your head tell you to do and ignore audio logs entirely the only mechanicalВ incentive to pay attention to audio logs in System Shock 2 is that they occasionally contain a code for a keypad, and the game undermines even thatВ utility by making it so that just picking upВ an audio log will shove the relevant code into your Notes tab. In System Shock 1, you pay attention to everyВ note or email you get, just in case it contains critical information on what to do next. System Shock 2 bringing in a radio buddy tellingВ you what to do is ripping out one of the primaryВ functions of such logs. This was a natural and organic way of handling the intersection of 'largely silent, undefined protagonist' and 'no direct interaction with friendly NPCs' and 'the objectives for the game are nonetheless more varied than just killing everything or getting to end-of-level locations'. Many of your objectives are fairly literally 'I found a note where a now-dead group of people trying to resist SHODAN's takeover were laying out their intended plan, so I guess I'll go execute that plan myself'.

You were cut loose into the game world and left to fend for yourself, trying to figure out what's what from the clues scattered among emails and whatnot you find around the station. See, in System Shock 1, you didn't have a radio buddy constantly telling you exactly what to do next.

System shock 2 audio logs