S.T.A.L.K.E.R. Series Megathread: Thread lock imminent, get to cover Stalkers! - Games

I knew SGM was going to be good when I died 2 minutes in after stabbing a chicken.

I knew SGM was good when me and my guide to Skadovsk were ambushed by a huge swarm of fleshes.

I knew SGM was good when basic mutants could take full mag dumps to the skull and still be able to bum rush me. I thought I was gonna be reinstalling CoP before I went to bed only to discover it was actually already installed.

I knew SGM was fucking brilliant when I saw the NPC sprints They cover more distance in a shorter time than a chimera can.

I knew SGM was good when I did the Barge mission. It was exactly what I had expected from the mod and it gave it to me full fucking force.

[QUOTE=Schmaaa;40088056]except no one who speaks english actually says that unless they're from the 1940s[/QUOTE] I do!

I knew SGM was good when it crashed the first time I installed it.

Since we're on the topic of SGM, I just wanted to say that Noah's Barge mission was rather easy-modo for me. All I needed was a high capacity assault rifle, a shotgun and a sniper rifle. The mutants had me use up all my assault rifle rounds so I had to get down and dirty with the shotgun after a while and I rarely needed the sniper rifle for anything besides the controllers and for when the more powerful mutants came in. Noah's pals, David and all did a really good job at defending the Barge on their own, taking on chimaeras and other mean muties. By the end of it, I still had about three of Noah's pals standing, counting David.

Pass out after staying up for 29 hours > sleep for 18 hours > wake up at 6 AM, get tea, start working on STALKER shaders again I need a life.

[t]http://puu.sh/2qBPn[/t]

Looks like I'm playing australian version of SGM. [t]http://i.minus.com/iDjgBgNQoDGD4.jpg[/t]

[QUOTE=Hammer7;40092801]Looks like I'm playing australian version of SGM. [t]http://i.minus.com/iDjgBgNQoDGD4.jpg[/t][/QUOTE] Watch out for Drop Boars.

The only thing we need now in SoC are CoP's vastly improved shadow cascades. CoP's sun shadows are beautiful, even in the default R2(DX9) renderer.

[QUOTE=Gum;40092263]Since we're on the topic of SGM, I just wanted to say that Noah's Barge mission was rather easy-modo for me. All I needed was a high capacity assault rifle, a shotgun and a sniper rifle. The mutants had me use up all my assault rifle rounds so I had to get down and dirty with the shotgun after a while and I rarely needed the sniper rifle for anything besides the controllers and for when the more powerful mutants came in. Noah's pals, David and all did a really good job at defending the Barge on their own, taking on chimaeras and other mean muties. By the end of it, I still had about three of Noah's pals standing, counting David.[/QUOTE] The barge in 2.2 had me use up everything I had in my inventory.

[QUOTE=Etcetera;40092839]Watch out for Drop Boars.[/QUOTE] 'throw another flesh in the burner!'

in case anyone here is interested [url]https://dl.dropbox.com/u/8664592/r2.7z[/url] my current r2 foolder float32 2.0, oogse shaders (sunshafts, soft particles, soft water), CoP SSAO, modified xrRenderR2.dll for 1.0006, for controlling SSAO and OGSE shit gonna work on merging in DoF and attempt steep parallax later, I think [editline]30th March 2013[/editline] I was actually trying to get CoP's DX9 steep parallax working but all it did was broke parallax entirely :v: could just use Sky4CE's but it looks awful

How's the performance on it? Are you using my shaders as a base?

[QUOTE=K1ngo64;40093175]How's the performance on it? Are you using my shaders as a base?[/QUOTE] No. I'm using Float32 as a base. Performance is slightly worse than yours when I did a quick check, I need to do an actual benchmark though. And honestly your shaders are awful to work with, removing whitespace makes it fucking hell to work with.

Aw shit the SGM 2.1 translation file is missing! False alarm I found it.

[QUOTE=Lyoko774;40093285]And honestly your shaders are awful to work with, removing whitespace makes it fucking hell to work with.[/QUOTE] Yeah. It is a bitch to read but the game seems to love it.

Looks like we won't be seeing Lost Alpha for a while. [QUOTE] dezodor dezodor 19hours 29mins ago replied: We are in touch with them since 2009, we already removed everything which was 3rd party made, the rest was either created by us, or gsc, and we do not need to remove anything. The deal was, since we use their engine, they are the only one who can release the game, because we did not buy the rights. So if we can make it good enough, they distribute it on Steam. They've received 3 builds already since 2012 summer, we always get a todo list and opinions, and we are constantly fixing bugs, and improving the game. Everything depends on us, so thats why we delay the release, because we keep their constructive critics, and we want to make a normal game. It's not easy to achieve such when you have work in real life, and even a family. Many of us have to deal with this situation, thats why we only ask patience, and support. [/QUOTE] I've seen all the teaser videos and while the maps look amazing the voice work leaves a lot to be desired. If GSC are involved I think they'd want to make sure they do a proper job and it doesn't look like it'll be a free Mod release anymore.

GSC giving criticism about voice work. How ironic.

"Good luck! I'm one hundred percent BLACK!" [img]http://i.snag.gy/Mk5dB.jpg[/img] "Me too." [img]http://i.imgur.com/bB81oOP.jpg?1[/img]

The Dark Ones have arrived in the Zone.

[QUOTE=ManRod;40093780]Looks like we won't be seeing Lost Alpha for a while. I've seen all the teaser videos and while the maps look amazing the voice work leaves a lot to be desired. If GSC are involved I think they'd want to make sure they do a proper job and it doesn't look like it'll be a free Mod release anymore.[/QUOTE] I wonder if they'll actually give the team a cut of the sales, Sergei isn't known for playing nice when it comes to money.

So when exactly is LA going to come out? 2 months? 5 months? 15 years?

[QUOTE=PollytheParrot;40096366]So when exactly is LA going to come out? 2 months? 5 months? 15 years?[/QUOTE] yes

[QUOTE=Lyoko774;40096511]yes[/QUOTE] Good to know, thanks. So what's going to come out first, Lost Alpha or HL3?

[QUOTE] So what's going to come out first, Lost Alpha or HL3? [/QUOTE] L.U.R.K 1.2 [QUOTE] I wonder if they'll actually give the team a cut of the sales, Sergei isn't known for playing nice when it comes to money. [/QUOTE] Highly unlikely. They'll probably do all the work and Sergei/GSC will take credit for it.

If the team don't see any of it that would be tremendously disappointing. I think Tarasov is going to hook them up with a bit of green at least when he wins his libel case against GSC, though. That's something :)