This guide is presented as follows:

• Introduction - This section. Explains what each section is for and how this guide should be used.
  
• Damage Mechanics - The core of this guide. Explains how the damage is calculated.
  
• Weapons' Statistics - Explains what each weapon's statistic means.
  
• Melee/Projectile/Energy/Explosive Weapons - Lists the values of each weapon's statistics.
  
• Enemies' Defenses - Contains tables listing each enemy's defensive statistics and their vulnerabilities and resistances.
  
• Conclusion - Some tips, credits, and final thoughts.

I suggest reading and memorizing the "Damage Mechanics" section, using the "Weapons' Statistics" section if unsure about what a particular weapon stat does, and utilizing the "Weapons" and "Enemies' Defenses" sections as references when needed to avoid spoiling the game. The "Conclusion" section might contain useful tips.

Damage calculations undergo four major steps:

• 1. Armor Absorption - If a hit is scored, the weapon's penetration value is compared to the target's armor value. If the armor value isn't greater than the penetration value, the target's armor doesn't affect the hit and the creature takes the weapon's full damage. If the armor value is greater than the penetration value, the damage is reduced by that many points.
  
  
• 2. Weapon Vulnerabilities - The attack type of the weapon is then compared to the vulnerabilities of the enemy. The damage can be either nullified if the enemy is immune to that type of attack, doubled if it is vulnerable, quadrupled if it is very vulnerable, or left unmodified if the enemy is neither particularly resistant nor vulnerable to that type of damage. Check the creatures vulnerabilities section for their exact values.
  
  
• 3. Critical Hits - Next, the weapon's offense value is compared to the creature's defense value. If the attack value is higher than the defense value, you can score a critical hit (a hit that strikes the weakest part of a creature's armor). If not, a critical hit is not possible. The greater the difference between these two values, the greater the chance of scoring a critical hit, and the greater the damage of the critical hit. Critical hits can result in anywhere from 33% to 300% extra damage. Critical hit damage is in addition to the result of any weapon vulnerabilities. If a weapon scores a critical hit on a particularly vulnerable creature, that hit might inflict up to 16 times the normal damage.
  
  
• 4. Random Factor - Finally, the weapon's total damage is randomized by a value between -10% and +10%. Damage randomization can change how much damage the same weapon delivers during different attacks.

• Ammo - Projectile weapons only. Ammunition count per clip, type and characteristics. If a weapon can utilize multiple types of ammo, subsequent stats will indicate separate values for each round type.
  
  
• Energy cost - Energy weapons only. How much energy is drained from your reserves by one blast. Values can be a range indicating the minimum and maximum drain if the weapon allows setting the charge of the blast, and may contain an overload value if the weapon can be overcharged.
  
  
• Attack type - What method of attack the weapon uses. This is compared to a creature's vulnerability to determine if the damage can be amplified or mitigated.
  
  
• Damage - The damage inflicted by the weapon to the enemy's hit points with each hit, before damage calculations.
  
  
• Armor penetration - The weapon's armor penetration strength. This is compared to a creature's armor value to determine if the damage can be reduced and eventually by how much.
  
  
• Offense value - The attack value of the weapon. This is compared to a creature's defense value to determine the probability of a critical hit and its magnitude.
  
  
• Range - Melee only. The distance (in meters) at which the weapon can damage a target.
  
  
• Blast radius - Explosives only. The radius of the explosion (in meters). Any target inside this radius receives damage.
  
  
• Operation - How the weapon delivers its attack. Semi-automatic weapons release one round of ammo each time you fire, while automatic weapons fire continuous rounds. Projectile and energy weapons have different operating characteristics, with some energy weapons including setting-specific information. Grenades are detonated either through initial contact, a timer, or as a mine.

• Lead Pipe
  
  Attack type: Projectile
  Damage: 15
  Armor penetration: 40
  Offense value: 3
  Range: 1
  Operation: Melee
  
  
• TS-04 Laser Rapier
  
  Attack type: Beam
  Damage: 200
  Armor penetration: 80
  Offense value: 5
  Range: 2
  Operation: Melee

• DC-05 Riot Gun
  
  Ammo: 20 rubber slugs
  Attack type: Projectile
  Damage: 6
  Armor penetration: 0
  Offense value: 2
  Operation: Manual repeating, pump-action
  
  
• SV-23 Dart Pistol
  
  Ammo: 15 needles / 15 tranquilizer needles
  Attack type: Needle / Tranquilizer
  Damage: 15 / 5
  Armor penetration: 6 / 0
  Offense value: 2 / 3
  Operation: Semi-automatic
  
  
• ML-41 Minipistol
  
  Ammo: 20 standard rounds / 20 teflon-coated rounds
  Attack type: Projectile / Projectile
  Damage: 20 / 30
  Armor penetration: 20 / 30
  Offense value: 2 / 3
  Operation: Semi-automatic
  
  
• AM-27 Flechette
  
  Ammo: 60 hornets / 60 splinters
  Attack type: Needle / Needle
  Damage: 10 / 22
  Armor penetration: 35 / 32
  Offense value: 2 / 3
  Operation: Automatic
  
  
• Magnum 2100 Pistol
  
  Ammo: 12 hollow-tip rounds / 12 heavy slug rounds
  Attack type: Projectile / Projectile
  Damage: 60 / 85
  Armor penetration: 30 / 25
  Offense value: 4 / 5
  Operation: Semi-automatic
  
  
• RF-07 Skorpion
  
  Ammo: 50 slags / 100 slags (same rounds, just larger magazine)
  Attack type: Projectile
  Damage: 35
  Armor penetration: 40
  Offense value: 2
  Operation: Automatic
  
  
• SB-20 Mag-Pulse Rifle
  
  Ammo: 25-count mag-pulse cartridge
  Attack type: Magnetic
  Damage: 45
  Armor penetration: 100
  Offense value: 4
  Operation: Semi-automatic, slow projectile
  
  
• MARK III Assault Rifle
  
  Ammo: 10 magnesium-tips / 8 penetrators
  Attack type: Projectile / Projectile
  Damage: 75 / 160
  Armor penetration: 50 / 70
  Offense value: 4 / 5
  Operation: Semi-automatic
  
  
• MM-76 Accelerator Rail Gun
  
  Ammo: 12-count clip
  Attack type: Projectile
  Damage: 200
  Armor penetration: 35
  Offense value: 6
  Operation: Semi-automatic, slow projectile

• DH-07 Stun Gun
  
  Energy cost: 3 to 30
  Attack type: Beam
  Damage: 2 to 15
  Armor penetration: 0
  Offense value: 3
  Operation: Low-intensity, concentric energy burst
  
  
• Sparq Beam Sidearm
  
  Energy cost: 2 to 8 / 24 (overload)
  Attack type: Beam
  Damage: 6 to 36 / 60 (overload)
  Armor penetration: 25
  Offense value: 3
  Operation: Electron burst
  
  
• ER-90 Laser Blaster
  
  Energy cost: 3 to 15 / 50 (overload)
  Attack type: Beam
  Damage: 12 to 70 / 115 (overload)
  Armor penetration: 25
  Offense value: 4
  Operation: Single-pulse ultraviolet ray
  
  
• RW-45 Ion Pulse Rifle
  
  Energy cost: 5 to 30 / 100 (overload)
  Attack type: Beam
  Damage: 18 to 108 / 180 (overload)
  Armor penetration: 35
  Offense value: 6
  Operation: Particle beam burst
  
  
• LG-XX Plasma Rifle
  
  Energy cost: 13 to 130
  Attack type: Beam
  Damage: 35 to 350
  Armor penetration: 100
  Offense value: 6
  Operation: Refracting plasma projectile

• Gas Grenade
  
  Attack type: Gas
  Damage: 150
  Armor penetration: 100
  Offense value: 3
  Blast radius: 4
  Operation: Contact
  
  
• Fragmentation Grenade
  
  Attack type: Projectile
  Damage: 150
  Armor penetration: 20
  Offense value: 3
  Blast radius: 4
  Operation: Contact
  
  
• EMP Grenade
  
  Attack type: Magnetic
  Damage: 80
  Armor penetration: 100
  Offense value: 3
  Blast radius: 6
  Operation: Contact
  
  
• Concussion Bomb
  
  Attack type: Projectile
  Damage: 325
  Armor penetration: 35
  Offense value: 6
  Blast radius: 6
  Operation: Contact
  
  
• Nitropack
  
  Attack type: Projectile
  Damage: 200
  Armor penetration: 25
  Offense value: 3
  Blast radius: 5
  Operation: Timed
  
  
• Earth Shaker
  
  Attack type: Projectile
  Damage: 375
  Armor penetration: 50
  Offense value: 6
  Blast radius: 6
  Operation: Timed
  
  
• Land Mine
  
  Attack type: Projectile
  Damage: 230
  Armor penetration: 35
  Offense value: 5
  Blast radius: 5
  Operation: Mine

A list of all the game's creatures, with their respective hit points, armor, defense and vulnerabilities. As stated in the damage calculations section, based on the enemy's vulnerabilities the damage can be multiplied by 2 or 4 if the creature is vulnerable or very vulnerable to that type of attack respectively, by 0 (nullified) if resistant, or by 1 (not modified) if neutral.







I left out one particular enemy to avoid spoiling if you didn't complete the game:

Unique Cyborg

Creature

Hit points

Armor

Defense

Projectile

Beam

Magnetic

Needle

Tranquilizer

Gas

Edward Diego

900

55

6

x1

x1

x2

x1

x0

x1

All enemies appear to have the same vulnerability to "beam" and "projectile" type weapons, so I'm not totally sure if there is actually a difference between the two. Also some weapons are tagged both as "projectile" and "beam", again I'm not sure about what the difference is.

Anyways, the whole guide can be reassumed in one tip: grab the laser rapier as soon as you can and wreak the game. Really, after getting it I never used any other weapon until the end of the game.

All the information contained in this guide has been gathered from the official I.C.E. Breaker game guide (included in the game's folder by the way). The reason I wrote this is that it is simpler to Shift-Tab here and look at the statistics in this format. All credits to them.

The images contained in this guide are not my property. Weapon images have been gathered from a post[www.systemshock.org] in the System Shock forum, the Shodan picture has been downloaded from the internet. All credits to them.

Rights reserved to Looking Glass or whoever, I'm not a lawyer.

I might expand the guide in the future. I hope someone finds this useful, I spent hours to get this right. Also Steam's interface is horrible and not user friendly at all, I wonder when Mr. GabeN intends to update this eyesore outdated garbage.

Happy things to everyone, thanks for reading, I appreciate constructive criticism, and most of all: