S.T.A.L.K.E.R. Series Megathread -You shouldn't have come here lurker... Now you will be WORM FOOD! - Games

[QUOTE=MuTAnT;30799289]Freedom, because their leader strolled into Pripyat through the brain scorcher smoking a cigar and punching Monolith in the face. What a fucking bad-ass, shame he died. Probably alcohol poisoning or something, sure as hell weren't those Monolith pussies that killed him there.[/QUOTE] Late but First person to ever overdose on weed :v:

[QUOTE=JerryK;30800205]i walked into the Duty base and shot every single Duty member in the head how does that make you feel Dutiers[/QUOTE] I recently started attacking Duty in my Freedom playthrough.

what has the zone done to this poor tree [IMG]http://i53.tinypic.com/1r99o8.jpg[/IMG]

I walked to the garbage entrance to bar and shot everyone in the head and they panicked and ran in circles around me without firing. How does that make you feel Duty? But... whenever I wanted to test a weapon I would test them on freedom and see how many kills I could get without breaking the glitch (dependant on 1 shot kills. Miss, hit the chest and they get pissed) [editline]30th June 2011[/editline] That is the garbage bag tree, avoid it at all costs or it will asphyxiate you.

[QUOTE=JerryK;30800281]what has the zone done to this poor tree [IMG]http://i53.tinypic.com/1r99o8.jpg[/IMG][/QUOTE] The jpeg anomaly has struck, erasing the alpha layer.

That happens to me in Source games, textures swap. Shit can be really crazy too, like in L4D getting attacked by an invisible tank while running screaming around a world full of bright white crazy colours.

Doesn't beat Metro 2033's land of single color and flashy particles.

Hey guys, with all the healing artifacts in the Zone, we know they replace flesh right? But we also know the Zone can mutate people. Does that mean that healing artifacts turn you into mutants? Going deeper, mutated flesh would have a different structure to normal flesh, so if it knows to replace damage to your body, wouldn't it sense the differences in the cell structure and gradually transform you into a mutant?

we are blloop blop

[QUOTE=proch;30799434]But I gave them what they wanted in CoP at the outpost, and when the emission came they still wouldn't let me in. :argh:[/QUOTE] Yeah but Hatchet is a pretty cool guy Protects Ecologists and doesn't afraid of anything

The kinds of effects from healing artifacts are different to those from other ones. The healing artifacts also only accelerate cell division making your own cells grow back quicker. There is a chance that these affected cells may be cancerous or have some other kind of mutation in them which will cause damage, but they are not retroviruses and will not change every cell in you. At most, they will make a lovely large tumour out of what they healed or break off and spread the mutated cells around you, just like normal cancer does.

[QUOTE=GuyWithTheName;30800818]Hey guys, with all the healing artifacts in the Zone, we know they replace flesh right? But we also know the Zone can mutate people. Does that mean that healing artifacts turn you into mutants? [/QUOTE] Nobody really mutates from The Zone. The regular mutants that you see in it all evolved under the influence of anomalous activity and laboratory experiments. Now, regarding the healing artifacts: The destroyed and missing cells in the body of a stalker are regenerated by artifacts memorizing what cells were lost, and copy-pasting the fitting ones that remained until the body regenerated, pretty much how regular cell regeneration works, except this one is so strong and rapid that it can fix almost anything back to it's normal state. Hence why when somebody with a Firefly and a Soul gets a 7.62 through their head doesn't wake up with a Controller's brain. Of course, there might also be a tumor-like side effect that Devo mentioned, but that's not yet confirmed.

[QUOTE=Devodiere;30800911]The kinds of effects from healing artifacts are different to those from other ones. The healing artifacts also only accelerate cell division making your own cells grow back quicker. There is a chance that these affected cells may be cancerous or have some other kind of mutation in them which will cause damage, but they are not retroviruses and will not change every cell in you. At most, they will make a lovely large tumour out of what they healed or break off and spread the mutated cells around you, just like normal cancer does.[/QUOTE] And here I was in Clear Sky, almost out of bandages in the Red Forest and relying on a healing artifact to survive. [I]Shit.[/I]

[QUOTE=croguy;30800935]Nobody really "mutated" from The Zone. The regular mutants that you see in it all evolved under the influence of anomalous activity and laboratory experiments. The destroyed and missing cells in the body of a stalker are regenerated by artifacts memorizing what cells were lost, and copy-pasting the fitting ones that remained until the body regenerated. Hence why when somebody with a Firefly and a Soul gets a 7.62 through their head doesn't wake up with a Controller's brain. Of course, there might also be a tumor-like side effect that Devo mentioned, but that's not yet confirmed.[/QUOTE] Healing artifacts on the brain would be interesting. It would obviously cause a large amount of brain damage, even when you did heal due to the brain cells not being mapped exactly as they were before. Still, a large amount of neurogenesis and new, volatile cells would have some strange effects on them. Damn that'd be a good experiment, shoot someone in the head, heal them with a Soul and note the effects it has on their behaviour and what progress they have in getting back to normal. It'd be like giving someone a lobotomy but it grew back.

[QUOTE=Devodiere;30801034]Damn that'd be a good experiment, shoot someone in the head, heal them with a Soul and note the effects it has on their behaviour and what progress they have in getting back to normal. It'd be like giving someone a lobotomy but it grew back.[/QUOTE] :science: [editline]30th June 2011[/editline] Fuck Mythbusters, let's research medicine by shooting people.

[QUOTE=jimhowl33t;30801085]Fuck Mythbusters, let's research medicine by shooting people.[/QUOTE] Such is research in The Zone.

[QUOTE=croguy;30800663]Doesn't beat Metro 2033's land of single color and flashy particles.[/QUOTE] STALKER gets it too, it just doesn't look as extravagant [quote][url=http://dl.dropbox.com/u/795329/Pictures/me/screnshot/FRAPS/xrEngine%202010-12-22%2018-30-18-53.png][img]http://dl.dropbox.com/u/795329/Pictures/me/screnshot/FRAPS/xrEngine%202010-12-22%2018-30-18-53.png[/img][/url] [url=http://dl.dropbox.com/u/795329/Pictures/me/screnshot/FRAPS/xrEngine%202010-12-22%2018-30-22-71.png][img]http://dl.dropbox.com/u/795329/Pictures/me/screnshot/FRAPS/xrEngine%202010-12-22%2018-30-22-71.png[/img][/url] [url=http://dl.dropbox.com/u/795329/Pictures/me/screnshot/FRAPS/xrEngine%202011-02-22%2020-15-47-23.png][img]http://dl.dropbox.com/u/795329/Pictures/me/screnshot/FRAPS/xrEngine%202011-02-22%2020-15-47-23.png[/img][/url][/quote] Bonus: [quote][url=http://dl.dropbox.com/u/795329/Pictures/me/screnshot/FRAPS/xrEngine%202011-06-05%2022-36-17-87.png][img]http://dl.dropbox.com/u/795329/Pictures/me/screnshot/FRAPS/xrEngine%202011-06-05%2022-36-17-87.png[/img][/url][/quote]

[QUOTE=JerryK;30800205]i walked into the Duty base and shot every single Duty member in the head how does that make you feel Dutiers[/QUOTE] :smith:

Researching permament influence of artifacts on other stalkers would be an interesting quest line. It kind of sounds like something Doc would be doing in his spare time.

also LURK had some pretty interesting bugs [quote][url=http://dl.dropbox.com/u/795329/Pictures/me/screnshot/FRAPS/XR_3DA%202010-06-23%2021-00-25-51.png][img]http://dl.dropbox.com/u/795329/Pictures/me/screnshot/FRAPS/XR_3DA%202010-06-23%2021-00-25-51.png[/img][/url] [url=http://dl.dropbox.com/u/795329/Pictures/me/screnshot/FRAPS/XR_3DA%202010-06-23%2021-00-28-17.png][img]http://dl.dropbox.com/u/795329/Pictures/me/screnshot/FRAPS/XR_3DA%202010-06-23%2021-00-28-17.png[/img][/url][/quote]

[QUOTE=croguy;30801256]Researching permament influence of artifacts on other stalkers would be an interesting quest line. It kind of sounds like something Doc would be doing in his spare time.[/QUOTE] It would last months, if not years. It would be like replacing the current radiation damage system with a tag saying "you have radiation poisoning and you will die in a few days".

But you regenerate really damn fast with the right artifacts, surely that would easily cause horrible tumors as well? Actually it'd be quite interesting if you couldn't wear all artifacts all the time, as they wouldn't go passive but would keep active all the time so if you wear your Souls for the whole game in the ending you just get pancreatic cancer and die Electricity resistant shit would build up static electricity and eventually would discharge it on you or something

[QUOTE=jimhowl33t;30801473]It would last months, if not years. It would be like replacing the current radiation damage system with a tag saying "you have radiation poisoning and you will die in a few days".[/QUOTE] It could actually work very easily. For example: force a guy to pour acid on his hand, and then give him an artifact like the CoP meat chunk, then see what happens to his hand. More complex types could take a while, but that's why eggheads exist.

Yep, inflict various traumas on a subject and then through the use of healing artifacts, examine how it grows back and the properties of this newly grown tissue. I mainly suggested brain matter because that would be by far the most interesting one, although it would probably have to be surgical removal rather than a bullet due to factors like blood loss, trauma to the surrounding tissue, the speed of the artifact to make sure the subject doesn't die, plus it's a lot more controlled if you are only recovering certain parts of the brain, better experiment. Although all of this is a massive ethics violation, the kind of thing they would do in concentration camps. It's the zone though, maybe you can get away with it and everyone will just be thankful when you publish it that they didn't have to.

To be honest I think there still might be active labs within the Zone And the C-Consciousness might be alive, and doing its own tests.

[QUOTE=Zezibesh;30801849]To be honest I think there still might be active labs within the Zone And the C-Consciousness might be alive, and doing its own tests.[/QUOTE] The generators are still operating, so I wouldn't be suprised if there are still a couple of guys from The Group doing their work in the less known areas of The Zone.

Ok what the fuck was that. I'm just minding my own business in X-18 when all of the sudden a bunch of crates float up in the air and throw themselves at me.

It's revenge for smashing all those crates earlier on. They're evolving.

[QUOTE=Devodiere;30801751]Although all of this is a massive ethics violation, the kind of thing they would do in concentration camps. It's the zone though, maybe you can get away with it and everyone will just be thankful when you publish it that they didn't have to.[/QUOTE] Doing it on captured bandits, zombies and/or stalkers that are willing to volunteer for the tests could probably be justified.

New thread. Smells good. When was the thing in the title said?