S.T.A.L.K.E.R. Series Megathread: The Zone will stop the Russians - Games

STALKERSOUP feels dirty when I play it. I feel dirty when I play it. I can't wait for LA though. The way dezowave designed everything in Priboi Story makes me glad that they're the devs behind LA.

[QUOTE=Bloodshot12;41884737]So what's the most "polished" SoC mod that adds new locations, features, etc.[/QUOTE] I guess the closest would be the Old Storyline Restoration mod (RMA). It's only restores a few areas but seems focused enough to avoid the craziness that comes with mods that add tons of new stuff. [QUOTE=Amez;41884879]I can't wait for LA though. The way dezowave designed everything in Priboi Story makes me glad that they're the devs behind LA.[/QUOTE] I wish I was half as excited about Lost Alpha as I used to be. The last update they posted on ModDB didn't sit with me very well. [QUOTE] Q: Did GSC affect the development? Vintar : GSC never asked us to change anything except to add more hints for new players to the game because we develop LA from seasoned stalker players’ perspective and so forget to cater for new players. Dez: We have to make the game less hardcore and give more hints to the players, make the story more interesting and fill the unused parts of the maps with interesting things: A-life, or collectibles, anything which makes it interesting to explore. There are many gameplay elements which have to be fixed and finetuned before we can send another test build to GSC.[/QUOTE] Why do you make a mod for fans of the series and then cater it to people who have, at best, very little experience with the series? That's what is wrong with AAA development right now. Just make the mod how you want to make it and stick to your guns. The project feels like it going down the "Let's make it like GSC says we should so that we can sell it, original goals be damned." route.

[QUOTE=mecaguy03;41879876]I got somewhere around 40k off of all the stuff they had.[/QUOTE] Huh, I barely managed to get 10-15K. How did you do that ?

Who here tried NLC6? Edit Why green, why :v:

LA will be a very good time sink, there is just something about ShoC that you never got in CS or CoP maybe it was the tacked together feel of it or the way everything was presented, I knew there were things they took from early development builds and slapped them in.

[QUOTE=Thomo_UK;41885049]LA will be a very good time sink, there is just something about ShoC that you never got in CS or CoP maybe it was the tacked together feel of it or the way everything was presented, I knew there were things they took from early development builds and slapped them in.[/QUOTE] I think LA will top all 3 games as it's finally taking it's own route, looks like shoc, has new DX modes, more levels than all 3 games combined and it's looking very, very promising!

Too bad we will likely all be dead by the time LA is released.

[QUOTE=DeeCeeTeeBee;41885441]Too bad we will likely all be dead by the time LA is released.[/QUOTE] Did they ever hold back the release date? IIRC it should've surfaced around Q2 2013 as well right? or was this just speculation by the comm? Never actually knew. I gave up on tracking LA's every move. I just hope to visit the page one day and be able to finally download it :v:

[QUOTE=DeeCeeTeeBee;41885441]Too bad we will likely all be dead by the time LA is released.[/QUOTE] What will be out first!?! Lost Alpha or Half-Life 3? Place your bets!

[thumb]http://media.moddb.com/images/mods/1/13/12990/saiga12_kobra_withfp.jpg[/thumb] Saiga-12K for LURK by Digital Moose. :D

SoC's feel is a combination of the way the assets look, the lighting and design of the areas, and especially the atmospheric sounds and music IMO. CoP has good atmosphere but IMO the ambient music isn't as memorable/eerie as SoC's. I am so fucking hyped for LA

[QUOTE=Bloodshot12;41885654]SoC's feel is a combination of the way the assets look, the lighting and design of the areas, and especially the atmospheric sounds and music IMO. CoP has good atmosphere but IMO the ambient music isn't as memorable/eerie as SoC's. I am so fucking hyped for LA[/QUOTE] I think that the music for night-time in CoP was so fucking eerie it actually made nighttime seem more scary than it actually was. Pripyat at night was honest to god terrifying, with the silhouettes of those tall buildings around you, and the narrow FoV given by your torch? Enjoy tunnel vision and the glimpse of your destruction. [media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iI0vj983VwU[/media]

[QUOTE=Poulet Breiz;41884952]Huh, I barely managed to get 10-15K. How did you do that ?[/QUOTE] Well I also had a lot of mutant bits. Sell them to owl for better prices, sell ammo to beard for better prices. I also think I grabbed a few artifacts on my way there. Beard will give you somewhere around 400-500 for boar legs, but owl pays double for that stuff. I also repaired and sold my current gun for 7k and my coat for 6k. It went something like roughly 10k for all of the mutant parts, roughly 10k from my gun and outfit, roughly 10k from artifacts, and the same for all of the looted misc stuff and broken guns.

[QUOTE=Thomo_UK;41885532]What will be out first!?! Lost Alpha or Half-Life 3? Place your bets![/QUOTE] S.T.A.L.K.E.R. 2

Was hiking around while on shrooms, and I swear I felt like I was going to be drop-kicked by an Izlom or some shit. That shit was some real shit.

[QUOTE=TheKingofBees;41882852]storage and memory is different, how much is left on your hard drive or external?[/QUOTE] I mean my dads computer only has 4 gb of ram and 2 gb is always in use so COP crashes when it doesn't get enough

[QUOTE=XeroG;41888275]I mean my dads computer only has 4 gb of ram and 2 gb is always in use so COP crashes when it doesn't get enough[/QUOTE] My old build only had 4GB of RAM and I played through all the STALKER games and used mods fine (never tried Soup). Realistically, it'd just be chucking everything into your pagefile and swapping data between HDD and RAM so you'd experience heaps of stuttering. [url=http://sites.google.com/site/kingo64ssite/Home/patched-exes/STALKERCoPPatched.EXEFiles.rar?attredirects=0&d=1]Try giving my patched exe files a go and see if it helps.[/url]

Oh my god. Freedom has fucking taken over the Warehouses, Dark Valley, Garbage, Cordon, Swamps and Red Forest. My poor Duty only has Yantar and Agroprom left. We're holding them back barely but they have like 190 faction strength while Duty only has a meager 98. I can't even go on the offensive because of how much I have to defend the Garbage entrances.

That's the biggest problem with fighting Freedom. Their reinforcements come quick. That being said, if you persevere you can drop their body count far enough they won't be able to field assault squads.

[QUOTE=Lijitsu;41888673]That's the biggest problem with fighting Freedom. Their reinforcements come quick. That being said, if you persevere you can drop their body count far enough they won't be able to field assault squads.[/QUOTE] Now, that said I do have my TRG that deals absolutely brutal amounts of damage. Oh and what's the config line that defines base flatness on guns? I want to fix that fucking LR-300.

[QUOTE=K1ngo64;41888357]My old build only had 4GB of RAM and I played through all the STALKER games and used mods fine (never tried Soup). Realistically, it'd just be chucking everything into your pagefile and swapping data between HDD and RAM so you'd experience heaps of stuttering. [url=http://sites.google.com/site/kingo64ssite/Home/patched-exes/STALKERCoPPatched.EXEFiles.rar?attredirects=0&d=1]Try giving my patched exe files a go and see if it helps.[/url][/QUOTE] So i checked out those patches and found out it doesn't draw more than 1.4gb of ram at max even though i have 16 gigs? Is there any way to make it use more?

[QUOTE='[Green];41888835']Now, that said I do have my TRG that deals absolutely brutal amounts of damage.[/QUOTE] That thing is absolute nastiness. I used it for long range and a Mosin for short to medium in my Freedom game, and that combo destroyed absolutely everything. Except for those fucking bullet sponges Clear Sky calls mutants. True story about my Mosin in that game, I actually had like no weapon whatsoever for some reason, but right as I was about to leave the base for the first time a chopper flew over and killed like 4 guys. I took all their shit and kept one guy's Mosin for myself, used the rest to buy a few rounds of ammo. That was the same game I encountered a chimera just at the bottom of the hill from the Freedom base that stayed there and murdered everyone who came close to it for like two weeks of ingame time. I came and went like a dozen times and every time there were just more bodies.

Wait, what is "LA" ? And don't say a city in the states.

Lost Alpha. The mystical city, said to be made entirely of artifacts, that many a Stalker has died seeking. [editline]19th August 2013[/editline] [url]http://www.moddb.com/mods/lost-alpha[/url]

I wonder if the lost alpha devs could possibly get GSC to help them put Oculus Rift support in stalker.

remember when Lost Alpha was supposed to release last year, what, was it november or september? yeah neither do i

[QUOTE=Bloodshot12;41888957]I wonder if the lost alpha devs could possibly get GSC to help them put Oculus Rift support in stalker.[/QUOTE] Someone has already successfully used oculus rift on SoC, there's a video on youtube. It's not as good as native support but at least it works.

[QUOTE='[Green];41888835']Now, that said I do have my TRG that deals absolutely brutal amounts of damage. Oh and what's the config line that defines base flatness on guns? I want to fix that fucking LR-300.[/QUOTE] Bullet_speed in the weapon's .ltx affects that. (And doesn't actually affect the bullet's speed) Fun fact: most of the ARs have a higher bullet_speed than all of the sniper rifles :v: I guess I should fix that.

[QUOTE=TheDestroyerOfall;41888849]So i checked out those patches and found out it doesn't draw more than 1.4gb of ram at max even though i have 16 gigs? Is there any way to make it use more?[/QUOTE] Then it looks like the game doesn't need more. You can try playing around with -noprefetch and see if it does nothing, otherwise you'd be better off just installing your game on your RAM using a RAM disc since you've got 16GB. [media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WBQsifS1Rl4[/media]

What is the default difficulty for misery? There is something I really want to test, but it requires me to be impervious to bullets. I dont want to risk fucking anything up with some trainer or whatever, and I heard that if you set all of your immunities to zero you are pretty much invincible. So I am editing actor.ltx. If that isnt how you do it, how would I pretty much give myself godmode?