S.T.A.L.K.E.R. Series Megathread: Shadow of Blowout Edition

[JerryK]

Any 8 series + card can run DX10, turn on "Enhanced full dynamic lighting" to get your options.

[Xion21]

I am torrenting it. Nothing wrong with it, I paid for it, I should be able to play it! This will let me put it on my D drive, since Steam is unmovable. This way I will have plenty of room for it and mods. Can't wait!

[DFX2]

Bought Clear Sky. Woo!

I played all the way until that fucking MG at the cordon ripped me to shreds.

[BrickInTheHead]

[QUOTE=SomeFaggot;19235212]2 posts above it?[/QUOTE]

no image for me

[editline]12:53AM[/editline]

[QUOTE=DFX;19246237]Bought Clear Sky. Woo!

I played all the way until that fucking MG at the cordon ripped me to shreds.[/QUOTE]

best way to get around it is to turn around, go north in the swamps, there's another route into Cordon. From there, find the guide in the little town by there, and get him to bring you to cordon center

no blood needed

[DFX2]

[QUOTE=roberts91;19244506]Hey can anyone tell me what these Meat Chunks are for? Should I sell them?

[media][IMG]http://i46.tinypic.com/2dm8neg.jpg[/IMG][/media][/QUOTE]

Meat Chunks cause your health to regenerate faster than it normally does. I'd keep one for out-of-combat healing in case you get hurt, otherwise sell other ones you come across.

[Monkeytracks]

i use the ones that raise endurence and raise health.

[PILLS HERE!]

[QUOTE=DFX;19246318]Meat Chunks cause your health to regenerate faster than it normally does. I'd keep one for out-of-combat healing in case you get hurt, otherwise sell other ones you come across.[/QUOTE]

You should keep around 90

Just in case when you get shitstormed

[DFX2]

[QUOTE=BrickInHead;19246286] best way to get around it is to turn around, go north in the swamps, there's another route into Cordon. From there, find the guide in the little town by there, and get him to bring you to cordon center

no blood needed[/QUOTE]

Thanks.

[QUOTE=PILLS HERE!;19246374]You should keep around 90

Just in case when you get shitstormed[/QUOTE]

this too

[seano12]

[media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tCHErHbxRHQ[/media]

[Whitelegs]

[QUOTE=JerryK;19245710]Any 8 series + card can run DX10, turn on "Enhanced full dynamic lighting" to get your options.[/QUOTE]

Yes yes I know this :), I do run it with Enhanced Full dynamic Lighting DX10. But the DX10.1 option (which I believe is ATI only?) was firstly available then shortly after became unclickable thats all

[Gamerkiwi]

You're lucky that's all that became unclickable, my options menu as a whole is unclickable.

Also, is mouse sensitivity ridiculously high for anyone else? Unless I turn it down to the complete minimum, it's way too much.

[Drill Remover]

GSC started siding with ATI since Clear Sky. This is why you need a 64 bit operating system with a Radeon HD 5800 card to play Call of Pripyat at max settings.

[seano12]

[QUOTE=GamerKiwi;19247477]
Also, is mouse sensitivity ridiculously high for anyone else? [/QUOTE]

Odd, because for me it is ridiculously low, and even max sensitivity feels low.

[Whitelegs]

[QUOTE=Drill Remover;19247489]GSC started siding with ATI since Clear Sky. This is why you need a 64 bit operating system with a Radeon HD 5800 card to play Call of Pripyat at max settings.[/QUOTE]

Thats only for the DX11 stuff right, because that from what I've seen from youtube videos doesn't seem to add that much.

Also to gamerkiwi my sensitivity in Clear Sky seemed to be pretty fast at the start but it fixed itself when I lowered it a bit (and the opposite in SoC). I also lost the Foilage AA option too but thats all so far

[Gamerkiwi]

[QUOTE=seano12;19247528]Odd, because for me it is ridiculously low, and even max sensitivity feels low.[/QUOTE]

I think it's made for mouses slower than mine.

[Dr. Jim Dean]

I do not know which faction to choose, Freedom seems a lot cooler, but their base in mis-organized and goals misguided. And yet on the other hand, Duty is doing the right thing and I like the discipline and large numbers. The choice should be obvious but I like the appeal of Freedom much more, yet with Freedom I feel a lot less safe.

[Ronin]

Loner class is the best because the numbers far outweigh that of almost any other faction.

[Agoat]

I just bought this, and I'll be able to play when I get back home (Jan 4th).

How's the stealth in this game? Can you actually be sneaky?

[Dimly]

Vanilla go Loner.
OL go with ecologist since you'll be neutral with loners and friends with duty and freedom.

[lektro]

[QUOTE=Akuma_lektro;19192748]I get this error message every time i try to start stalker.
I've tried reinstalling

[img]http://imgkk.com/i/QT-6Ug.png[/img][/QUOTE]
...:frown:

I got the xray_user.log here if it would make anyone help me.

* Detected CPU: GenuineIntel P4 family, F15/M6/S2, 2992.00 mhz, 99-clk 'rdtsc'
* CPU Features: RDTSC, MMX, SSE, SSE2

Initializing File System...
using fs-ltx fsgame.ltx
--found external arch mp_military_2.xdb0
FS: 30278 files cached, 5713Kb memory used.
Init FileSystem 3.378681 sec
'xrCore' build 3188, Oct 26 2007

Initializing Engine...
Executing config-script "user.ltx"...
! Cannot open script file [user.ltx]
Starting INPUT device...
Loading DLL: xrRender_R1.dll
Loading DLL: xrGame.dll
! Unable to find InstallUserName entry in registry
* [win32]: free[1997400 K], reserved[20948 K], committed[78740 K]
* [ D3D ]: textures[0 K]
* [x-ray]: crt heap[7534 K], process heap[2992 K], game lua[0 K], engine lua[0 K], render[0 K]
* [x-ray]: economy: strings[1032 K], smem[0 K]
Executing config-script "c:\program files\steam\steamapps\common\stalker shadow of chernobyl\gamedata\config\default_controls.ltx"...
[c:\program files\steam\steamapps\common\stalker shadow of chernobyl\gamedata\config\default_controls.ltx] successfully loaded.
Executing config-script "user.ltx"...
! Cannot open script file [user.ltx]
SOUND: OpenAL: enumerate devices...
SOUND: OpenAL: EnumerationExtension Present
devices Generic Hardware
SOUND: OpenAL: system  default SndDevice name is SB X-Fi Audio [BCE0]
stack trace:

It just stops there without saying error.

[JerryK]

Fellow STALKERs, I have decided to venture on with the OL 2.2 mod, as I don't really like LURK that much for some reason.

[editline]02:57AM[/editline]

Should I get STALKER Complete?

[Angua]

Oh just for note guys i'm still here, there just has been nothing to discuss.

[Drill Remover]

We could discuss how short STALKER is,
[media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5rADP5plS54[/media]
[media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=18Ib35qd1fs[/media]
especially considering the fact that it was in development for 9 years.

[Monkeytracks]

I find that everything in the thread ends back at "What mod should I use"

Mod War.

[seano12]

[QUOTE=Drill Remover;19248948]We could discuss how short STALKER is,
[media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5rADP5plS54[/media]
[media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=18Ib35qd1fs[/media]
especially considering the fact that it was in development for 9 years.[/QUOTE]

It's not short if you take your time doing side missions , arena , mainquest, ect.

You must also consider the game was scrapped and rebuilt over and over. In the end the game still lives on past a lot of games.

End of Story.

[Paravin]

I noticed the sprint doesn't run out.

[editline]11:57AM[/editline]

Oh wait, it does run out. I was looking at the wrong area.

[Drill Remover]

[QUOTE=seano12;19248993]It's not short if you take your time doing side missions , arena , mainquest, ect.

You must also consider the game was scrapped and rebuilt over and over. In the end the game still lives on past a lot of games.

End of Story.[/QUOTE]

Of course the side quests add length to the game.

Hell, I've gone through so many playthroughs that I've lost track, and I [i]still[/i] haven't done all of the vanilla quests.

But what pisses me off is the sheer amount of cut content. Prior to THQ's interference, there were [b]18[/b] enemies.

[url=http://img40.imageshack.us/img40/685/birthmarksbig.jpg]Birthmarks,[/url] Blind Dogs, Bloodsuckers, Boars, Burers, Cats, Chernobyl Dogs (Psy dogs), [url=http://img191.imageshack.us/img191/1620/cncptcontroller2.jpg]Controllers,[/url] [url=http://img694.imageshack.us/img694/5025/cncptkarliks.jpg]Dwarfs,[/url] Fleshes, Lullers, Poltergeists, Psuedodogs, [url=http://img191.imageshack.us/img191/9124/albumgfpicphp.png]Rats,[/url] Ratwolves, [url=http://img22.imageshack.us/img22/4826/snorkbig.jpg]Snorks,[/url] Tarks, and Zombies were all slated to appear in the game, and that's not counting the cut "[url=http://img40.imageshack.us/img40/1628/cncptdarkstalkerface.jpg]Sin[/url]" faction.

The majority of those enemies that did appear in the game were also gimped. The bloodsucker had its bloodsucking animation cut, controllers don't climb trees or ambush players, etc.

GSC created so much content that was eventually cut that they were able to recycle it in Call of Pripyat!

They reused the swamps map in CS, and they were going to include the Generators map as well, but they [u]ran out of time.[/u] :Dawkins102:

Modders have managed to port SoC in its entirety to build 2215, which had larger maps, more enemies, and more weapons than the final retail release.

And then there's the whole Metro 2033 thing.

/rant

[seano12]

[url=http://img40.imageshack.us/img40/685/birthmarksbig.jpg]Birthmarks,[/url]

Do Want.

Also want Final Day faction that barman mentions. Why cut bloodsucker feeding animation in the first place?

[Paravin]

What the hell is a birthmark, it looks like a graphic glitch.

[seano12]

I thought of it as a shadowy entity.