S.T.A.L.K.E.R. Series Megathread - Taste vanilla before you add sprinkles~

[DainBramageStud]

How do I get hold of decent suits in LURK? The ones I have tend to wear out alarmingly quickly.

[Zezibesh]

Don't wear suits

[Muukkis]

[QUOTE=Gorm;31092940]Were any of you really bad at stalker when you first played?[/QUOTE]

After the car park, I picked up pretty quickly the mechanics of survival. Firing from behind cover with the occasional sprint to another cover. I played with Veteran for the first time and it got a bit hard for me at Red Forest because of my hoarding syndrome : I was still carrying my sawn-off and the fast-firing AK-74 with me and 5.45 does fuckall damage to Monolith troopers.

[thumb]http://sfw.chanarchive.org/content/51_v/71247042/1282710298332.jpg[/thumb]

[editline]derp[/editline]

I still did die quite a lot but loved even the deaths because of the post-mortem ragdoll camera you could pan around and observe the A.I battling even after I had died. It also helped to hammer home how the world doesn't revolve around the player and those unwashed bandits just casually walk away whistling like the player was just another notch to their gun unlike most games where all the action freezes the moment you die :v: .

This detail doesn't perhaps mean a lot for some people but for me it's yet another layer of icing on the atmosphere cake and it's removal one of the most important reasons I don't like LURK 1.1.

[Canned Induvidu]

Installing Clear Sky as I type, the first Stalker game I have ever bought or tried.

Any tips for a stalking-virgin?

[DainBramageStud]

[QUOTE=Canned Induvidual;31097133]Any tips for a stalking-virgin?[/QUOTE]

dont play clear sky

[Zezibesh]

[QUOTE=Muukkis;31096997]After the car park, I picked up pretty quickly the mechanics of survival. Firing from behind cover with the occasional sprint to another cover. I played with Veteran for the first time and it got a bit hard for me at Red Forest because of my hoarding syndrome : I was still carrying my sawn-off and the fast-firing AK-74 with me and 5.45 does fuckall damage to Monolith troopers.

[thumb]http://sfw.chanarchive.org/content/51_v/71247042/1282710298332.jpg[/thumb][/QUOTE]

I was gonna draw a picture based on this but then I realized I'd need a picture of someone low crouching as I can't remember what it looks like ;_;

[DainBramageStud]

or if you must, patch it first

zezibesh fuck you

[Zezibesh]

[QUOTE=DainBramageStudios;31097187]dont play clear sky[/QUOTE]

dont give bad advice

[Dr. Awkward]

[QUOTE=Zezibesh;31097188]I was gonna draw a picture based on this but then I realized I'd need a picture of someone low crouching as I can't remember what it looks like ;_;[/QUOTE]

[thumb]http://fc00.deviantart.net/fs42/f/2009/109/a/6/Random_Low_Crouch_by_AnT_Stock.jpg [/thumb]

[Canned Induvidu]

[QUOTE=DainBramageStudios;31097191]or if you must, patch it first

zezibesh fuck you[/QUOTE]
Whats wrong if it is unpatched?

[Nerts]

[QUOTE=Canned Induvidual;31097291]Whats wrong if it is unpatched?[/QUOTE]It's buggy as fuck.

[Canned Induvidu]

[QUOTE=Nerts;31097313]It's buggy as fuck.[/QUOTE]
What about the other Stalker games?

[editline]13th July 2011[/editline]

Also buggY?

[Teh Zip File]

[QUOTE=Canned Induvidual;31097291]Whats wrong if it is unpatched?[/QUOTE]

[IMG]http://i.imgur.com/YXVYU.jpg[/IMG]

That's SoC crashing, but you get the idea.

[DainBramageStud]

[QUOTE=Zezibesh;31097198]dont give bad advice[/QUOTE]

He should play SoC first.

[Fables]

Maybe someday AMK and LURK will combine. Some day.

[DainBramageStud]

[QUOTE=Fables;31097439]Maybe someday AMK and LURK will combine. Some day.[/QUOTE]

just port the weapons into it then add a fuckhuge bloom post-process effect and call it a day

[Muukkis]

[QUOTE=Canned Induvidual;31097291]Whats wrong if it is unpatched?[/QUOTE]

It's not only "buggy as hell" but there are two parts in the story where it crashes the game every time so you have to restart the game.

You know, I bought Clear Sky at launch and have played the first 1.30 hours 6 times only to find out it crashes every time I reach a certain mandatory sequence in the story.

So yeah, patch to the 1.5.10 version.

[editline]hurr[/editline]

The only problem I have with the 1.5.10 is that it gives you an AK-74 right at the start. I believe every stalker worth their salt should grow chest hair by doing the Swamp section armed only with the TOZ-34 and the Makarov [img]http://sae.tweek.us/static/images/emoticons/emot-jihad.gif[/img]

[QUOTE=Gorm;31097534]When I do get better and finish Stalker SoC, what mod should I pick?
AMK, old lurk or the new lurk.[/QUOTE]

I'd say old LURK first and then AMK.
Oh, and when you finally get around to AMK, you'll find exactly why most of the Stalker stories told in certain online communities are from AMK mod.. :v: .

[Gormaoife]

When I do get better and finish Stalker SoC, what mod should I pick?
AMK, old lurk or the new lurk.

[croguy]

I think that GSC should delay the non-Eastern European release again. That way everyone from Vladivostok to Vukovar gets to publicly test out the game so GSC can do some major patches like they did for CoP and then release it on the Western market.

[Zezibesh]

I just remembered I can't draw

[Muukkis]

[QUOTE=croguy;31097580]I think that GSC should delay the non-Eastern European release again. That way everyone from Vladivostok to Vukovar gets to publicly test out the game so GSC can do some major patches like they did for CoP and then release it on the Western market.[/QUOTE]

But we'd miss out on the fun glitches :v: .

The simultaneous release in the west and east is actually the only thing I want them to pander to the western audience with [img]http://sae.tweek.us/static/images/emoticons/emot-colbert.gif[/img]

[QUOTE=croguy;31095271]I'd rather like something like non-PDA quests which appear at random. Like if you're strolling down a road in The Garbage and see a group of rookies getting ambushed by bandits and if you help out any of the two sides (or the neutral-friendly one if one's already hostile) not only their group leader will reward you, but they'll also become your friends and might even call you to join them for a raid or ask if they can go on a raid with you.[/QUOTE]

Yeah, dynamically created random missions! That would be great.

[QUOTE=croguy;31097693]But then it'll get massive flak from Western reviewers. Remember how they buried SoC and CS because they were incredibly glitchy?[/QUOTE]

You have a point. We could always buy the russian version if we wanted to enjoy the glitches which I believe exist anyway.
And Call of Pripyat was thanked for the lack of crashy-crash bugs while still having funny glitches (Crab and some A.I kookiness)

[Doneeh]

Everyone should play Clear Sky first, because it's chronologically first. And because Scar is one mean badass.

[croguy]

[QUOTE=Muukkis;31097673]But we'd miss out on the fun glitches :v: .

The simultaneous release in the west and east is actually the only thing I want them to pander to the western audience with [img]http://sae.tweek.us/static/images/emoticons/emot-colbert.gif[/img][/QUOTE]

But then it'll get massive flak from Western reviewers and gamers. Remember how they buried SoC and CS because they were incredibly glitchy and crashed more than the KSP rockets do?

[dogmachines]

[QUOTE=chutney;31094321]I WIN AGAIN CEILING STASH
[img]http://filesmelt.com/dl/swagadelic.jpg[/img]

ok this is a god damn joke
[img]http://filesmelt.com/dl/fucking_STOP_IT.jpg[/img][/QUOTE]
Couple pages late, but what mod is this?

[BenduOlo]

[QUOTE=Doneeh;31097689]Everyone should play Clear Sky first, because it's chronologically first. And because Scar is one mean badass.[/QUOTE]

But doing that would ruin SHOC, the best game in the series, imo.

[editline]13th July 2011[/editline]

[QUOTE=dogmachines;31097772]Couple pages late, but what mod is this?[/QUOTE]

TFW

[Doneeh]

I just realized something. I never saw one black person in the Zone. Someone make a mod that adds them in.

[Nerts]

[QUOTE=Doneeh;31098022]I just realized something. I never saw one black person in the Zone. Someone make a mod that adds them in.[/QUOTE] Or asians, or women.

[Tinter]

Thorny should put this in way of the wolf, hang it up on a wall somewhere.
[t]http://filesmelt.com/dl/Untitled479.png[/t]

[editline]13th July 2011[/editline]

Forgot to add my watermark.
[t]http://filesmelt.com/dl/watermarked.png[/t]

[Corn]

[media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1Bd4WtIWrtw[/media]

Interview with Sergei Grigorovich. It's in Russian, unfortunately, so if you understand Russian, enjoy.

He talks a lot about S.T.A.L.K.E.R. 2, so if a particular question interests you, I will try to find an answer in the video and translate it for you, if you don't speak Russian.

[MagicBurrito]

general ingame media have not been enlightened to the shittiness of complete