What's a "Moral Compass Cricket Thingy"?

[Moonface]

Edit: OH S***, the Demo's publicly available?! Did not realize that, nor did I know that pre-ordering would get me the System Shock 2 Remaster for free. I really wish I had the cash right now to grab it...

Edit 2: Having played the demo now, my general thoughts of the video were proven true: it's good, but still quite a bit janky. I've caught enemies floating on air, and not responding to being attacked myself, as well as items floating after interacting with them. Personally, I'd want to give it another 3 months before releasing it, at minimum, to work out a few of those kinks, but it's not like professional, non-kickstarter budgeted games haven't released in such a state (looking RIGHT at you, Bethesda). Overall, outside of the kinks, it's an easy 9/10. And bringing back the original SHODAN VA is just *chef's kiss*. It really is a great reimagining of a classic that is difficult to play, nowadays (the original game is very, VERY clunky to play by modern standards).

I wasn't aware there was a demo either actually otherwise I'd have mentioned it for you in my previous post.

As for the part I highlighted, it was announced earlier today that the game will release on May 30:

That probably only gives it at most another 6-8 weeks of dev time depending on how much time they need from the game going gold to being released. I dunno if digital-only titles really have anything that needs to be done once they go gold besides submitting a copy of the game onto storefronts and maybe to the rating boards compared to a physical game that has to factor in time to produce and ship all the discs. Maybe the demo is from an earlier build that was stable enough to put out and more work had already been done to the game by the time that demo was circulating. It wouldn't be unusual since a lot of games tend to not put out demos that indicate the exact current state of the game behind closed doors.