• S.T.A.L.K.E.R Series Megathread: Maybe someday games releasing edition
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Is it really flooded? I got the impression that it was supposed to be rivers and the water is gone now. Hence all the ships and cranes. Is it really flooded if it's just the original water level?
Isn't the Swamps meant to be flooded as a result of a diverted river or dammed body of water? You see a fair amount of this sort of thing, in one direction or another: Yantar, the Swamps, Zaton. I always assumed they were being diverted as cooling water for one nefarious lab/factory or another
It's not flooded, it's a lake, or was. It was drained after the reactor exploded, though it could be filled up now. The other swamps were flooded because of a dam, but Zaton has always been a lake bed.
Its not a lake... All those areas are river floods, forgot English name for them... They are basically lagoon-like big water reservoirs connected to Pripyat and Hlynytsya rivers that where used for transporting materials, that why there are cranes. Like seriously why the hell you would need big transporting cranes on a lake? -_- Area in game is not REAL, before you start talking about it, take this in to the account. Zaton map is mix of few areas from Chernobyl/Pripyat area, but that SPECIFIC place where cranes are, IS flooded. https://testchamber.net/wp-content/uploads/2017/08/Pripyat-527.jpg Like seriously I cant believe that fans of game still dont even bother to actually spend some time to research such amazing things from game... seriously reading and looking at such pictures are sometimes better than game.... Here you have more images to encourage you all to actually look for info about real places used in game, or places like famous “Cafe Pripyat": http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-G4RQUsb8VNU/UusYqGqFs6I/AAAAAAAABPk/w177U8BSkD4/s1600/barges001.jpg http://farm4.staticflickr.com/3717/10352474965_6eb054a742_o.jpg
Sorry for the lack of content lately guys, I'm not going to get too personal here but I suffer from pretty a bad case of both ADD/depression and haven't had access to my medicine for the past three weeks - meaning practically no progress has been made on the mod in this time. Luckily, I've been able to work out something with my doctors and have gotten much cheaper generics of these medicines, which is the only reason I have even been able to muster up the motivation to make this post and inform everyone of where I've been the past three weeks. So sorry for dropping off the face of the Earth for a moment there. I'm feeling much better now with my medication, and I'm gonna start getting back in the groove of working on the mod. Expect content soon!
Welcome in the club.... Im on alprazolam and desvenlafaxine for good 6 years, and Im always trying to make fun of it or talk about it as something normal just to get rid of that feeling that Im F up for rest of my life :] So dont be afraid to talk about it and pointing it out that its mess your plans. People should realize that anxiety is not some crap that modern teenagers made up just because they are shy to talk to others. This is serious thing and almost everyday Im praying that EVERYONE should get it just one time to realize how F###et up it is. This is not some movie-like ""depression"" where you sit in couch and sad music play in the background. You can be depressed after your dog died. Anxiety is literally lack of control over your brain. All switches turn off/on randomly, making your body and mind exhausted like you would just run 100km and did complex math exam for 10 hours. Now Im 30 years old, but because Im filling my self with pills every morning I feel like Im damn 70 years old, but I managed to keep my shape and pretty normal family life so its not that bad... I meet older people with that, hell, my doctor have that and he is 65! So dont be afraid to use medications, even if some moronic doctors who do everything by the book say you that "you should not take them for too long". F them. There is lots of doctors, I spend months trying to find good one, and I had luck to find guy who also have anxiety and we spend more time laughing from it than doing some depressing crap as others do. Also tip for anyone who have it: Dont listen to doctors who say that you should see psychiatrist... this is a joke solution, because 90% of anxiety is about chemical reaction in your brain, its not damn depression and thinking about fluffy cats will not help you, and at the end of session... they will write you pills anyway... dont waste your money on that crap, its just better to find someone who also have it and just go to bar and laugh about it. Yes you are screwed for rest of your life, deal with it as fast as possible, get medication and act like its asthma or migraine, and treat taking pills like morning coffee... And to keep it on the topic here is picture of Sidor after taking too many xanax http://nextdaymmo.com/forum/img/avatars/4343.png
The new Left to Die is apparently 10/10 according by the only big stalker site left AP-PRO, any translations coming soon maybe? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jA5-X_IRZMk
Saying that anxiety is 90% chemical reactions in your brain is about as useful as saying that pain is 90% neurotransmitters getting stimulated. Anxiety, panic and stress, variations to our primal 'flight or fight' response; release adrenaline and histamine. One chemical to increase blood flow to the muscles, increase pupil dilation reactions and increase blood-sugar levels and another to stimulate the immune system. A very handy chemical cocktail to help one out when running away from a hippo, a pack of wolves or a tentacle faced blood sucking humanoid. But it is a rather extreme reaction, one that isn't supposed to be maintained for long periods of time, the body can't keep up with the demand. Now the brain is in essence a highly advanced learning computer. We learn what to fear and what not to fear. Learning what to fear can be easily skewed by an unstable childhood or a long withstanding chain of unfortunate events (often both). Since the top priority of our natural existence is "do not fucking die prematurely"; we're very finely tuned to avoid things that hurt us, especially since the things that hurt naturally tend to be things that kill (especially without modern medicine). A brain that has been learned to fear surprise attacks is one that'll very easily trigger the fight or flight response, calling the body to produce adrenaline and histamine. Various animal models have shown that chronic stress causes low serotonin levels in the brain. I can personally attest that the dysthymia I suffered from escalated to major depression after an incident that left me so stressed out that that I could barely sleep or eat for a week. What happened after a week of running on 100% levels of stress is what I can most accurately describe as my body totally burning out its ability to synthesize neurotransmitters like adrenaline, dopamine and serotonin. It took weeks for my body to start recovering and even then I was severely mired with depression. Mire, is an accurate description for depression. The gimped synthetization of important neurotransmitters plays a role in its perpetual cycle, like dopamine which is important for rewarding the brain, the lack of which decreases motivation, making it harder to take actions that would help bring oneself out of depression. In essence; curing depression is all about breaking cycles. Learning where your old anxieties stem from to nullify them from affecting your current life and finding the agency in life to dissolve your current anxieties and in pursuing bonds that'll give you friendships to lean on in the hardest of times, to catch your breath for the next battle. Not to say that it's easy. I found the essence of the cure when under an anti-depressant that made an emotional zombie and I was lucky enough to bump into a dog so fluffy and cuddly that I felt joy through that medical haze. Medication will help but it isn't the end all cure all, unless you're looking for a band-aid solution. It might hide the pain, but it won't go away until it's cause is handled. @wepl I suggest disregarding Paranoia's advice of disregarding psychiatrists, with the caveat that if you do decide to try finding a psychiatrist; prioritize finding one that is focused on disassembling and fixing problems, instead of one that just cares about checking you off a list. While your mod is amazing; your well-being takes priority any day over the mod's progress. If you need to talk, me and others here are open to listen to our comrade. Sorry&NotSorry to ya'll about going on a rambling since S.T.A.L.K.E.R. is pretty fucking depressing at times, so it all suits well.
Thanks for all the kind words and support - I really do appreciate it - and I figured that if I bothered to post again, I should post some content, so here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XKKB1-qHT-k&feature=youtu.be I know I've already shown off these features before ( the hit effects, hit sounds, and bullet chambering ) but I thought it'd be cool if I showed off what they looked like with some CoP death animations that I hand picked mixed in for some extra player feed back. I think it makes for some really satisying gun play, let me know what you guys think.
So I'm trying to play Radiophobia 2 on the Steam version, but it keeps crashing on new game start. Is there any fix?
Did you install the sweetfx/reshade? That can cause crashes with steam depending on what version of sweetfx/reshade it is.
I live with it for 6 years, many times I had feeling that Im dying and no one care about it, and thought that Im just making this up. I meet many people like you who in really annoying way try to explain it technical way or in "philosophical" way. No one care about that, because you not helping anyone here with that technical explanation This is bigger bullshit than talking to a guy with broken leg how his bone structure will fix it and spend 10 pages to explain it. Just be quiet, seriously. I meet dozen of doctors and specialist in Germany, Poland and Spain. And you know what? I rather listen to them and tell others the same thing instead of listening some random guy who try to explain me how brain work. You totally didnt get a point I was making and you focused on ONE single, useless sentence that have nothing to do with overall post. Because most of anxiety problems cant be curred in any other way than medication for rest of your life. That 10% that I was mentioning are mosty related to some personal situation or accidents that can be curred with just changing some thing in life, calming down and talking. Rest is pure chemical work that can be fixed ONLY by medication. This seriously remind me talk with my first doctor when he seriously spend 30 minutes explaining me how brain work and that I should go to a beach with my dog and calm down... Yeah, why the hell I didnt though about that! I should be just "happier" and I should calm down! Im curred! oh my god thank you doctor! My current doctor is in the same situation as I am, and he also started to have that problem in the same age as I. Im not a doctor and Im not gonna copy/paste some wikipedia-like explanations text here. Im explaining it in simple way, and you seriously just stick to one of such sentence from whole post and you wrote book about it... Like seriously? Now lest stop this offtop.
One word: causality. Medicine, like many other fields is based on finding the link of causality between different reactions, to be able to deduce the possible causes and be able to treat them. This is also how your anti-depressants were developed. Instead you go to dismiss my theory, explanation and even my own personal experience as a wikipedia-copypaste and tell me to "just be quiet". You do realize that traumatic events and shitty lives are far more in common than some unexplained hormone mis-synthetization disorder? With your dismissive and hot-headed attitude, it makes me wonder if you've been dismissive and not too co-operative with your previous doctors. Therapy works by the therapist guiding you to possibly find the way in which you can finally fix yourself. Not by finding some doctor who has an unresolved burnout from medical school to find comfort with in the confirmation bias of "yup, it's fucked for good". I believed for a long time that I just had my brain chemistry wrong (which it technically was), but realizing that it stemmed from riding the trauma-express most of my life, was when I finally started understanding it. Just because I went off on a tangent from one sentence from your post; doesn't mean that I didn't address the rest of it indirectly. And your broken bone allegory kinda proves my point: Since if you treat a broken bone by treating it only with pain killers it's going to regenerate incorrectly and become a source of severe chronic pain that'd need extensive surgery to correct. But as you said; this is indeed off topic. And there's a specific thread for it.
Don't want to fuel this off topic discussion, but I think anxiety is a serious issue and I'm of course sympathetic towards both of you. However keep in mind that different things work for different people. So it's hard to argue one is better than the other. I will say though that I doubt the claim that 90% of the cases are just chemical reactions that need to be medicated. If you keep trying to get a last word in, this discussin will just continue, so it'd be best to agree to disagree or something.
This is a S.T.A.L.K.E.R thread. Stop derailing it.
I don't think so I'm pretty sure I installed the ENB Verizon.
That too, enb also can cause issues.
Gotcha I'll post back when I get home from work thanks.
Nope still crashing, I didn't install any of the shaders.
Try verifying your steam install of SoC and reinstalling the mod?
Im literally at a lost, I tried everything I can imagine to play this damn mod and nothing works. Would it be because I'm on version 1.006? Anyone else Playing Radiophobia 2 on the steam version?
I didn't even know this was a thing https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UhxWNv7a0tM
Lemme try installing it on my Steam copy and see if I have any issues I'll let ya know if I run into anything and if I can fix it.
i actually played radiophobia 2 steam version with shaders, worked completely fine
That is extremely strange. Yesterday I reinstall ShoC and it still crashed I'll try again since I really want to play this mod. Lol
So just to be sure, you're installing it with no shader selections (though the brighter/darker shaders should work since they're just an ancient version of Dynamic Shaders) and selecting the Steam version in the binaries selection? That's really odd that it's not working.
Any "speedrunner" who doesn't know how electro anomaly in the tunnel works is a total fake
I know right, just discharge it with right-clicked bolts Amateurs
Why even go through the electro anomaly in a speedrun? There's a hole in the fence on the other side of the road.
I've only been through the tunnel like once ever lol, i usually just throw myself at the checkpoint until i win for easy early-game guns and loot. Helping Bes is MUCH easier when you have something better than the spudguns from the Cordon car park.
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