System Shock 2 Remaster Trophy Guide & Roadmap

Skills can be upgraded by spending Cyber Modules at Upgrade Stations, found all around the game. All skills can be upgraded to level 6, and the cost from 0 will depend on the difficulty you are playing on:

Easy:

• Stats: 87
• Technical: 91
• Weapon: 105

Normal:

• Stats: 106
• Technical: 110
• Weapon: 127

Hard:

• Stats: 145
• Technical: 149
• Weapon: 174

Impossible:

• Stats: 187
• Technical: 193
• Weapon: 224

Each trophy for getting a skill to level 6 will pop the instant you reach it, even without confirming it, so you can simply save up the minimum requirement for all skills on your current difficulty, then temporarily increase each skill to level 6 to unlock all the skill trophies without investing your Cyber Modules.

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Armor-Piercing rounds are the grey bullets that can be used with the Pistol and Assault Rifle. Simply kill any of the Maintenance, Security or Assault Robots with these. You will likely do this naturally as long as you use the Standard Weapon skill.

The Laser Rapier is an Energy Weapon that requires Level 3 in Agility and Level 4 in Energy Weapons. It is a relatively powerful melee weapon and can be found at multiple points throughout the game, the earliest being inside the Engine Core in Deck 1: Engineering.

The Stasis Field Generator is a Heavy Weapon that requires Level 3 in Strength and Level 3 in Heavy Weapons. This will stun enemies temporarily, allowing you to kill them with ease. It is found multiple times throughout the game, with the earliest being in the Med/Sci Sub-Armory, which can be unlocked with the code 98383.

Weapons can be upgraded either with the Modify skill or by using French-Epstein devices on them, of which there are 7 scattered throughout the game (5 on Hard and Impossible).

The Fusion Cannon is a Heavy Weapon that requires Level 4 in Strength and Level 6 in Heavy Weapons. It can first be found in the Operations Armory, which can be unlocked with the code 13433. It is an extremely powerful explosive weapon that can be set to Death Mode by inspecting with and changing modes. Upgrade it to Level 2 either with Level 6 Modify, or more realistically 2 French-Epstein devices, then kill an enemy with it.

The Annelid Launcher is an Exotic Weapon that requires Level 3 in Agility and Strength, and Level 6 in Exotic Weapons and Research, making it the most expensive weapon in the game to unlock. It can first be found in William Diego’s quarters in the UNN Rickenbacker. It uses Worms as ammunition, which if you don’t find normally can be collected by using a glass beaker on a pile of worms.

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Throughout the game are security cameras that will turn red and set off an alarm if you remain in sight for too long. When this happens a 120 second alert will begin. This can be immediately disabled by interacting with a Security Station (marked with S on the map), which will award this trophy.

In order to hack turrets, you will need to either have Level 4 in Hack, or the Tier 4 Psionic ability Remote Circuitry Manipulation. Hacking normally will require you to be up close to a turret and dodge it while hacking, whereas Remote Circuitry Manipulation will allow you to do it from a distance and hide behind cover while hacking. You can also simply use an ICE-Pick, which is a rare item that will instantly hack anything, regardless of level.

The GAMEPIG is a handheld console you can find regularly throughout the game that lets you play variations of classic arcade games. The earliest can be found on a body in Med/Sci 1, near the entrance to Med/Sci 2. In order to hack a GAMEPIG, you will need either Level 6 in Hack, or an ICE-Pick, which is a rare item that will instantly hack anything, regardless of level.

Kinetic Redirection is a Tier 1 Psionic ability which is effectively telekinesis. Throughout the game you’ll notice items in hard-to-reach locations, which can be reached using Kinetic Redirection. The earliest case is right at the beginning in the room with the first four upgrade stations, take the elevator up and into the eastern room to spot some items sitting on a broken rail through the door.

Electron Cascade is a Tier 3 Psionic ability and can be used to charge any battery or charge-based items. This includes implants, Power Armor and Energy Weapons.

Photonic Redirection is a Tier 4 Psionic ability which renders you invisible for a short time or until you perform an attack. As you can only attack once while invisible, you will need to find an enemy weak enough to die in a single hit, or weaken an enemy before attacking them while invisible.

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Soma Transference is a Tier 5 Psionic ability that will drain Annelid enemies to restore your health. Simply target any Annelid (Hybrids, Cyborg Midwives, Spiders, Ramblers) to drain their health for this trophy.

Imposed Neural Restructuring is a Tier 5 Psionic ability that will temporarily turn any non-robotic enemy into an ally. Find any two enemies nearby and turn one of them, letting them fight to the death. Depending on which enemies you are using, you may need to weaken the one you intend to die and re-cast the ability if your target recovers from the ability.

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See Lock and Load!  .

See Lock and Load!  .

See Lock and Load!  .

This is for completing an optional objective for meeting Delacroix in Deck 6: Command. When you are tasked with destroying the two shuttles at the Shuttle Bay, you will need to destroy the second one by acquiring a Sympathetic Resonator. After destroying it, the previously-locked blast door to Cargo Bay A will be destroyed, and SHODAN will warn you not to go in if you try to. Ignore her and you will find Delacroix inside. Read the Audio Log, then when you leave the Cargo Bay you will earn this trophy.

In Deck 5: Recreation, in Recreation C, you will find the Sensual Stimulation Units in the northwest of the area. Upstairs will be four locked doors and a Replicator selling access cards to these doors. You will need to unlock all four doors for this trophy. The access cards will be costly, so you may want to hack the Replicator to get them cheaper. Alternatively you can simply save beforehand, unlock all doors and then revert the save. The only room with anything of value is Nikki’s, as it has some cyber modules and 500 nanites.

There are 147 Audio Logs spread throughout the game. They are physical objects found around the world, on corpses or in objects like desks and crates. You can track which Audio Logs you have obtained by using your PDA, as it lists all Audio Logs found and the Deck they were found on, so if you miss any, you can reference this to see what you have missed.

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There are 4 OS Upgrade Stations spread throughout the game. OS Upgrade Stations are permanent upgrades that can be used once each, and are generally found nearby regular upgrade stations.

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In order to get this trophy, you will first need to find a basketball in the Prologue. As soon as you go up the gravity elevator onto the street, instead of entering the UNN Building turn to the right and there will be a ramped wall next to where you came up. Climb onto this (jump and hold  to mount the wall) and you will find a basketball sitting on top. Make sure to pick this up, then it will appear in your inventory.

You will need to bring this to Deck 5: Recreation for a secret email and trophy, so make sure to never lose it. While carrying it throughout the game, never put it in the far right inventory slots, as if you ever lose a strength level even temporarily, you will lose inventory slots from the right and if there is no inventory space for the items in those spots, they will get dropped to the ground, meaning it’s possible to not notice and have the basketball drop somewhere random.

Once you have access to the Athletics area in Recreation A, head inside to find a basketball court. Position yourself in front of the basketball hoop and look at it, then open your inventory and drop the basketball to throw it. You will get a secret email and this trophy.

You will get this immediately after the first upgrade stations at the beginning of Med/Sci.

You will get this after completing the objectives in Med/Sci and going down to Engineering.

You will get this after completing the objectives in Engineering.

You will get this after completing the objectives in Hydroponics.

You will get this after completing the objectives in Operations.

You will get this after completing the objectives in Recreation.

You will get this after completing the objectives in Body of the Many.

You will get this after completing the objectives in UNN Rickenbacker.

OSA is best for Impossible as the potential Cyber Module cost of the starting skills and psionic abilities is higher than that of Marine and Navy, plus it can start with multiple helpful psionic abilities which are very beneficial when dealing with low health. It won’t start with any weapon skills however, so until you can upgrade them you will need to rely on your Wrench and psionic abilities. Overall this isn’t too difficult however as once you start getting weapons you can quickly overcome anything in the game and still have plenty of resources.

Weapon-wise you will want to get the Shotgun, Assault Rifle and Grenade Launcher. These are by far the most powerful all-around weapons and allows you to focus on one weapon type with only 1 level into Heavy. Combine these with 1 level in Modify and you’ll be able to get the first modification upgrade on the Shotgun and Grenade Launcher easily, then use any French-Epstein Devices you find to get their second modifications and both Assault Rifle modifications.

Due to your low health, it is recommended that you save regularly so you don’t lose too much progress if you die, at least until you have activated the Regenerator in your current area. This can also be used to easily open locked crates without investing too much into Hack, as you can simply save in front of one and reload if you use too many nanites or the crate explodes from you failing.

The exact spread of skills is up to you, and if you want to use different weapons or go a different build you can, but for reference I completed it with the below skills and still had an abundance of ammo, supplies and nanites.

Stats:

• Strength: 3
• Endurance: 3
• Psionic Ability: 3
• Agility: 3
• Cybernetic Affinity: 3

Tech:

• Hack: 3
• Repair: 0
• Modify: 1
• Maintenance:4
• Research: 0 (Use LabAssistant implant for all Level 1 Researches)

Weapon:

• Standard: 6
• Energy: 0
• Heavy: 1
• Exotic: 0

Psionics:

• First Tier Neural Capacity
  • Psycho-Reflective Screen
  • Psychogenic Agility
• Second Tier Neural Capacity
  • Neural Decontamination
  • Cerebro-Stimulated Regeneration
• Fourth Tier Neural Capacity
  • Photonic Redirection
  • Molecular Transmutation
• Fifth Tier Neural Capacity
  • Advanced Cerebro-Stimulated Regeneration
  • Psycho-Reflective Aura

OS Upgrades:

• Cybernetically Enhanced – allows the use of two different implants simultaneously
• Sharpshooter – increases the damage of non-psionic ranged weapons by 15%
• Pharmo-Friendly – increases potency and length from all hypos by 20%
• Tank – increases HP by 10