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That is indeed what it means.

Why?

Because there are people who feel that it encourages a certain kind of playstyle over all others, and I agree. It also adds a ton of skill points to the pool, which detracts from the balance of the skills because you can simply get all of them, or close enough.

I'm happy it's gone. Thanks.

These observations are based purely on having played Shifter 1.83 and reading the Readme for Biomod: Shifter's random item generator allows people to be carrying Augmentation Upgrade Canisters. However, Biomod only allows the pickpocketing of keys. That means killing or knocking out enemies is still more rewarding than pure stealth. A player who only sometimes plays stealth would probably benefit from other goodies that people might carry that they won't be able to get while playing that style.
I realize it's not very realistic for the player to be able to pickpocket large items. On the other hand, I also realize it's not very realistic for the enemy to be carrying them. If the latter is allowed, then the former should be as well.

I think it would be almost perfect if you could pickpocket keys and upgrade canisters, but nothing else. Purely stealth characters would have no need for things like ammo anyway

Also, Feature Request. There should be an "item filter" which allows us to configure which items we want to immediately drop after picking up, because it is quite annoying picking up a pistol off every single enemy when doing a stealth run, for example

I don't know if it's intentional but I'm still getting skill points for bot kills.
I've never played Deus Ex without Shifter, so I am just assuming that the original Deus Ex didn't give skill points for that.

I'll point out here that *having* skill points doesn't mean one has to *use* them.

Just to add in here I discovered that one can get almost all the skill points through regular gameplay including EMP bot kills.

Just add 36000 skill points through the SkillPointsAvail cheat at the start of the game.

Again NO ONE says people HAVE to do that but that's a way if people still want all the tasty skill points.

Otherwise using this version of the mod one can get an 'adequate' amount of skill points through normal gameplay (and EMP bot kills) by the end of the game.

that's why i loved the Shifter mod

In my testing, that variable would reset itself every time you change maps/missions, making it unfeasible to play on anything other than the default. That and the stealth bonus prompted me to simply remove it rather than to turn it off by default as I had originally planned.

read the readme. Also, the command is "noscoped"

I THINK there's a global crosshair on/off in the game options. That may be no good to you, though if you want to do this on a, 'per weapon' basis.

Think you're correct, Arach666. The autosave thing I BELIEVE is meant to HELP with crashes--and you can always restart the game close to where you were--but it *can* get annoying.

It'd be nice to be able to shut that off.

I solved it by reverting to vanilla shifter and since then no more crashes,and to be honest,although the biomod added some nice features I don´t miss it that much,aside from the fact that it was a bit more challenging.

At this point I´m just enjoying the Revision,very nicely done.