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[quote name="FABIO"][quote name="CrackerBarrel"][quote name="TAFKAM"][quote name="Jhoh Creexul"][quote name="TAFKAM"][quote name="Jhoh Creexul"]I'm in love with Cate Archer. ;-;[/quote] I would, but she's got a nasty case of the Lithtechs. Also: Infinitely respawning enemies is not a viable substitute for competent game designers who know how to guage difficulty.[/quote] Maybe that's supposed to be a better incentive to stay hidden. I think enemies will stop respawning <b>if you stop alerting them</b>.[/quote] I stand corrected. Brilliant game design. Force the player to play a certain way to compensate for your lack of skill. Funny, Thief 1/2 didn't have any respawning.[/quote] But System Shock 2 did. It sort of contrived a deus ex machina (arf arf) for this, but there's no hiding it. And although the spawns, active only when the alarm was sounded and, it seemed, at the higher level, were annoying and nervewracking, I don't feel it got in the way of an excellent game. Or at least not too much.[/quote] No, the spawns happened ALL THE TIME ON ALL DIFFICULTY LEVELS! The absolute worst spawn points were the engineering deck corridor leading to the shuttle bay (one zombie or protocal droid every 30 seconds) and the entirety of deck 4 (shotgun zombie through any door right next to you every TEN seconds). To anyone who loves SS2, what if I told you I made a mod for Thief that totally removed the sound/shadow stealth elements, eliminated the enemy AI so all the guard either totally didn't see you or saw you from 20 feet away and ran straight at you and never stopped, implimented a new system that required you to pay tons of gold in order to gain the skill necessary to use any of the items or weapons you picked up, forced you to stop and repair your bow every 2 shots, gave you a gun that you could just shoot all the sword-armed guards dead with before they even got near you, and increased the amount of leaking steam pipes by %900? Would you say my mod sucks? Funny, BECAUSE THAT MOD WOULD BE SS2![/quote]