Nightdive Studios released the System Shock remake last year to a positive but not critical reception. However, the developers are still tweaking the game. A new patch, coming on April 11th, reworks the ending, introduces a female gender option and gameplay improvements.

System Shock is getting a female Hacker, a redesigned ending, combat changes and more

Nightdive originally proposed adding a female version of Hacker as a Kickstarter stretch goal eight years ago. “We knew we wanted to fix it,” said Nightdive founder Stephen Kick PC Gamer. “It was just one of those things that we knew wouldn’t have any kind of immediate effect on gameplay, but just having that option adds to the immersive quality of the game.”

System Shock is a first person game and Hacker is a silent protagonist. However, Nightdive still needed to record new NPC dialogue and design a new character model for cutscenes and death screens. However, Kick believes that adding gender options makes it easier for players to get into the character.

“It’s one of those early gaming staples where it’s an everyman or everywoman scenario,” he explained. “You could put yourself in the shoes of the character and project yourself into the world, as opposed to having a predetermined personality that you play.”

Unfortunately, the developers didn’t have much to say about the changes at the end of System’ Shock. However, the changes seem to mainly include overhauling the game’s controversial final boss to play more like the rest of the game.

The new update also introduces “Mutant Combat Improvements” and adds a waypoint system to Easy mode. However, it’s still unclear exactly what the upcoming combat improvements entail.