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

[Loner]

[QUOTE='[Green];43759899']y'know, merging larger mods isn't exactly the easiest thing, especially if you're going to attempt to merge SGM with pretty much anything

that makes you a modder in my book. it's not like gatekeeper is doing anything larger than life, just merging mods but in s.t.a.l.k.e.r. mergers are like...idk...baby wizards[/QUOTE]

Complete is a merge mod.

Really, would anyone like complete if it were to be updated with something? I always thought of this. Using the newest ZRP, Argust textures and some other tweaks and fixes, one could make his own version of "Complete", because that's all there is to the mod. Few new shaders, skins, textures and some tweaks here and there.

[11meister]

[QUOTE=LoNer1;43759991]
Really, would anyone like complete if it were to be updated with something? I always thought of this. Using the newest ZRP, Argust textures and some other tweaks and fixes, one could make his own version of "Complete", because that's all there is to the mod. e.[/QUOTE]

I could learn to love any mod - maybe even the dreaded Complete. If it had a bunch of new weapons with smooth animations on them. No joke.

EDIT: The thing is - even if you did remake Complete with its sucessors - would there really be any point to playing it? I understood Complete was largely bugfixes and gameplay tweaks that most people regretted.

[croguy]

Maybe if Complete would actually rework all the semi-broken bits of vanilla(there's not much bad stuff in CoP to begin with) and updated all visuals to, say, a proper 2013 level design, pushing the limits of modern hardware in a proper way(unlike, say Misery) then it'd be a damn good mod.

Now it's just a really crappy brand.

I mean, I know most people will be all like "But the maps and textures and models are totally fine", yet I still don't really like how most folks focus on getting better textures over often low poly maps and models. Some mods make their own HQ player items but overall there's much to be desired in other aspects.

[jill920]

[QUOTE=croguy;43760118]Now it's just a really crappy brand.[/QUOTE]

Shame, right?

[IMG]http://puu.sh/6Hpvg.png[/IMG]

brb killing self

[[Green]]

patres87, that little shit

then again, he did say he was playing it [U]again[/U] so it's not that big of a deal
still, there are better mods

[Ajaxial]

[QUOTE='[Green];43759227']god damn

this thread is getting a pile of productive people in it
just like 6 months ago we had thorny, panzedraco, rikimaru and very rarely master paravin
i would include myself but i'm not really that productive atm

now we also got loner1, hangman, gatekeeper, 11meister, monolits, jamie (he's getting more active, anyways) and sometimes trojanuch.
basically more than doubled, god damn

and do NOT get me wrong, i am most definitely not complaining; the more modders in one place, the better[/QUOTE]

I'm always around and about. Just don't post all that much to be honest. :v:

[Gatekeeper828]

[QUOTE=rikimaru6811;43760287]Shame, right?

[t]http://puu.sh/6Hpvg.png[/t]

brb killing self[/QUOTE]

Pretty much all Steam gamehubs are full of absolute bullshit. Hell, I'm surprised my review of SoC made it to the top reviews of all time. It even tells people not to use mods on their first playthrough.

[Loner]

Anyone tried googling 'stalker mod' on google. Very first link.

Sigh :v:

[editline]2nd February 2014[/editline]

- after having visited the SCOM2009 page -

There's a broad variety of [I]exceptionally stupid[/I] posting on there. No wonder they recommend it on the first play-through. Geez

[Thomo_UK]

Well after complete 2009 in the results there is misery! :v:

So I suppose it's not all lost.

[Monolits]

I did a small bit of work to update Cold Blood's translation so that it can support the new patch, along with translating a bit more text to make it more than just a simple update. Not much for this week, yeah. It can be downloaded from [URL="https://mega.co.nz/#!EdlkzDBR!W0SpggvBp0yGE5ksyrBPT2Il2LdbdjFh6eAz7PfU9ig"]here[/URL] or [URL="http://www.mediafire.com/download/d619w2m7x5omgmr/Cold%20Blood%20WIP%20Translation%20(02.02).zip"]here[/URL].

Also, is that a Sororita in your avatar, [Green]?

[Beacon]

[QUOTE=LoNer1;43759506]Indeed, the more the merrier. Though I wouldn't want this thread to become 'Fast anime' hahaha :v: Amount of posters there ... damn.

Also, offtopic, Postal and Craptasket are both awesome admins, heh. I really like it here. Didn't think I'd stick around for such a long time either, especially not after the incident on p141. But that's behind us. I think we're a strong community anyway.

Also, where's Beac? He's become pretty quiet as of lately.[/QUOTE]

hello there

[DeeCeeTeeBee]

Oh my. I found a tactical AK47 in a stash in AA2. This thing has surpassed pretty much every weapon I've come across since. It has such a nice balance of damage/accuracy.

one thing that bugs me, though, is how stamina drain seems to be entirely dependant on how much you're carrying. My stamina drains at the same speed regardless of whether my carry weight is 45kg or 60kg (ty tourist's suit.) You'd think that something that was designed to alow you to carry more stuff without reducing your survivability would ensure that you've got a little more mobility.

40kg/45kg draining the same as 40kg/60kg. Even with stacked endurance boosting artifacts I can barely jog for a few seconds.

[Provost]

'Sup guys. Dunno if you remember me or not, but it's been awhile since I've been here.

How's Redux 2.0 coming along?

[Loner]

[QUOTE=Thomo_UK;43760841]Well after complete 2009 in the results there is misery! :v:

So I suppose it's not all lost.[/QUOTE]

Yeah, noticed that as well. But still, there's no doubt there's a difference in the posters from MISERY and SC2009. This, being an observation, really does give me the vibe of CoP being the more 'mature' STALKER, where as SHoC attracts newer players to the STALKER series (being the first of the series)

I might even get out of my way to fix Complete sometime. People are recommending others to use PRZ2 with Complete, not knowing I'm not using the same texture.ltx as Complete does (for obvious reasons). It uses an outdated texture.ltx file with loads of missing stuff in it (incorrectly assigned bumb / spec, too strong values for the glossy effect on everything etc.)

I mean, who would make a dry muddy road as reflective as a mirror anyway?

This brings me to a whole other mod. [URL="http://www.moddb.com/mods/stalker-hd-project1"]STALKER HD Project[/URL].

Allow me to rant about this mod and it's author a bit;

Dante, the owner of the mod, has the tendency to complain when people won't comment on his stuff. It's understandable, but hey, you can't force people to give feedback. I, from time to time, try and help him, or point out stuff that is pretty obvious and he seems to react in a very hostile manner towards me :v: He even went as far to say this;

[QUOTE]Тебе повезло что здесь очень мало русских ато они ебали в жопу тебя пидор.
Такие школьники как ты живут в играх и интернетах как последные уроды .
Первый раз вижу таких наркаманов как ты.
Иди заебись уебок даже перевод от гугла тебе не поможет гандон.
Спасибо за внимание![/QUOTE]

It will surely give someone who can read it a good laugh, because I can, and did. Heh.

So, I told him he was acting childish and immature and he should either accept my critique or remove it;

[QUOTE]i'm chldish?
You always post negative posts(blury textures)in plot rock details just go fuck your self.[/QUOTE]

In which I reacted like so

[QUOTE]I don't. You are over reacting. I complimented a lot of your textures. But, I'll leave you. Seeing as my mods are doing fine I won't bother with you anymore. You know it better? Well, show it.

I believe throwing in massive textures just because they're big won't make the game more pretty. You need to fine-tune them based upon the environment. You are just copy/pasting textures from CGtextures and other sites. That's not texturing, that's just copying[/QUOTE]

And his brilliant response (not talking about his english because it isn't good, it's just what he means which I didn't get)

[QUOTE]1.well i'm retextured textures cuz it's hd project.
2.you to use all ma3d.com textures, you don't create it like a real developers.
3.you just owerlayered all textures with using vanilla bumps.
What you want i'm just create mod not a game.
I retex much more textures when no one don't touch then like a prop folder.if it's so easy why you retex only 40% of textures huh.[/QUOTE]

Now my request. How should I handle this? What should I even do. He keeps PMming me now because he's mad. He PMmed me 16 more times after my last reply, saying stuff like "Fuck all peoples and you stupid fuck my pc is old then i use lower settings you fuckin cock sucker".

I'm sorry I'm wasting your guyses time with this but Moddb doesn't have a block function, lol.

[B]TL;DR[/B] - The author of COP HD Project is a tool who keeps spamming emails because he gets told his work isn't really pretty while he doesn't want to change his way of 'creating textures' (aka [URL="http://www.moddb.com/mods/stalker-hd-project1/images/wood1"]copy pasting them into the game from a source without editing them to make them look appropriate[/URL])

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Hi Beac :3 Sup?

[Monolits]

[QUOTE=LoNer1;43761100]:words:[/QUOTE]
You know, I was partially wondering when that guy would crop up in a post made by you because I saw a comment or two few days ago. A somewhat amusing guy, but not amusing enough to be in my top list of people on the internet to have a laugh about.

[11meister]

[QUOTE=LoNer1;43761100]

[B]TL;DR[/B] - The author of COP HD Project is a tool who keeps spamming emails because he gets told his work isn't really pretty while he doesn't want to change his way of 'creating textures' (aka [URL="http://www.moddb.com/mods/stalker-hd-project1/images/wood1"]copy pasting them into the game from a source without editing them to make them look appropriate[/URL])
[/QUOTE]

In my experience, its generally best to simply ignore nonsense like this. The people doing it are either going through tough times, or seeking attention. Either way they're usually looking for a reaction.

If you don't have the patience / mailbox size to go that route - you can always just regularly send him previews of what the Misery texture artists are working on - just to show him how its done.

I once had a friend who used to go on and on about how awesome she was at drawing, and she constantly bombarded us with links to her Deviant Art page. One of my other friends got so sick and tired of her - he started drawing really crappy MsPaint pictures and sending them back to her instead of actually replying to her IM's.

[jill920]

[QUOTE=Psychokitten;43761022]'Sup guys. Dunno if you remember me or not, but it's been awhile since I've been here.

How's Redux 2.0 coming along?[/QUOTE]

It's a sleeping beast waiting to be awakened by a beacon light.

[editline]2nd February 2014[/editline]

That sounded better in my head

[Col. Buggernuts]

I've been sporadically keeping an eye on this thread, but often miss things. How has that translation for that Russian Lost Alpha facsimile come along? Can't really remember the name of it.
[QUOTE='[Green];43759899']y'know, merging larger mods isn't exactly the easiest thing, especially if you're going to attempt to merge SGM with pretty much anything

that makes you a modder in my book. it's not like gatekeeper is doing anything larger than life, just merging mods but in s.t.a.l.k.e.r. mergers are like...idk...baby wizards[/QUOTE]Anything that isn't a .script file or in any way related to level design is imo fairly simple to merge once you've got the basic principles in your grasp. They are, however, extraordinarily time-consuming and very sensitive to errors. Still worthy of praise if someone's willing to go through all that bullshit for modding, but for different reasons.

[Monolits]

[QUOTE=Sgt Doom;43761584]I've been sporadically keeping an eye on this thread, but often miss things. How has that translation for that Russian Lost Alpha facsimile come along? Can't really remember the name of it.[/QUOTE]
The mod is called Oblivion Lost Remake 2. I was working on translation for it until a week or so back I saw the news that got posted on the mod's ModDB page which said that the dev team is going to assemble team from a bunch of guys and make an English translation themselves. Nothing new has really popped up now and the representative they have over there on ModDB, VincentVega, hasn't responded to the few who have asked about the translation's status, but he did mention something about a new patch that's in the works and that he doesn't have any free time left for OLR 2.

[[Green]]

[QUOTE=Sgt Doom;43761584]I've been sporadically keeping an eye on this thread, but often miss things. How has that translation for that Russian Lost Alpha facsimile come along? Can't really remember the name of it.
Anything that isn't a .script file or in any way related to level design is imo fairly simple to merge once you've got the basic principles in your grasp. They are, however, extraordinarily time-consuming and very sensitive to errors. Still worthy of praise if someone's willing to go through all that bullshit for modding, but for different reasons.[/QUOTE]

so what you're saying is that mod merges are like that special bandit jacket found in the cordon/dark valley tunnel

[Gatekeeper828]

I think I'll wait for OWR with the new weapons to be released before I continue work on my mod merge. It'll also probably help for me to build my new comp before I start working again too because the fact I can barely run CoP when it has AtmosFear and Absolute Textures is kind of a problem.

Speaking of OWR, am I late in showing this list of stuff?

[quote]
Ammo:
7.62x39
7.62x51
.357

Addons:
PU scope

Pistols:
MP-443 Grach
CZ-75
PMM
CZ-52 (9x18mm)
Gsh-18
Glock 17
MP-412

SMGs:
PP-91 Kedr
VZ-61 (9x18mm)
PP-2000
PP-2000 reflex sight
UMP-45

Shotguns:
Saiga
Saiga Kobra
Izh-43
BM-16 full
Toz-34 Sawned-off
MP-133 Baikal
Mossberg 590
Remington 870

Assault rifles:
AKM
AK-47
AEK-971
RPK-74
RPK-74 Kobra
Type 63
FN FAL
HK G3
VSK-94
M16

Sniper rifles:
Mosin
SVT-40
Sako Trg-22
L96
[/quote]

[Loner]

[QUOTE=Gatekeeper828;43762874]I think I'll wait for OWR with the new weapons to be released before I continue work on my mod merge. It'll also probably help for me to build my new comp before I start working again too because the fact I can barely run CoP when it has AtmosFear and Absolute Textures is kind of a problem.[/QUOTE]

It will be released next weekend, hopefully.

About Dante and the above, the thing is, ignoring him isn't enough. The guy keeps on stalking my profile and stuff. "telling" on him to the mods is also a bit childish as he'll be unable to work on his project on moddb again (ban)

[editline]2nd February 2014[/editline]

Damn, OWR really does make CoP that little bit more 'next gen' (In quotes as PC doesn't have a 'generation' because it's constantly evolving).

I feel like merging specific Arsenal mod weapons with OWR to make the perfect weapon pack. I really do love the SR3-m in it. Damn beauty of a gun. Just need to spice the textures up a bit to fit the style of OWR

[NTripleOne]

[thumb]http://i.imgur.com/JG1Rxqz.jpg[/thumb]

[Gatekeeper828]

[QUOTE=LoNer1;43762898]About Dante and the above, the thing is, ignoring him isn't enough. The guy keeps on stalking my profile and stuff. "telling" on him to the mods is also a bit childish as he'll be unable to work on his project on moddb again (ban)[/QUOTE]

I tried translating what he said in Google Translate. It came out as a pretty funny result even though I'm sure it's way off from what he actually said:

[img]http://puu.sh/6HIMm.png[/img]

Feel sorry for the fact that you need to deal with him though. He seems like one of those guys who is flat out unable to accept any criticism and makes up bullshit excuses as to why it looks bad.

[Beacon]

so it seems like there's a new .dll for CoP that gives more detailed error messages when the game crashes, could be very useful!

it's bundled with the new luajit.dll, which also seems to decrease the stuttering caused by on and off-lining the AI

[Loner]

[QUOTE=Beacon;43763281]so it seems like there's a new .dll for CoP that gives more detailed error messages when the game crashes, could be very useful!

it's bundled with the new luajit.dll, which also seems to decrease the stuttering caused by on and off-lining the AI[/QUOTE]

Wait, the one which got posted on GSC? Do you have a sauce?

[Kanohispider]

I think I learned how the Russian credit card companies make their money.

[T]http://cloud-4.steampowered.com/ugc/433771856047646531/2E5F648A2E0E337953E9D0FAC4ADC0EE6FF70690/1024x576.resizedimage[/T]

So I installed an upgrade on my completely destroyed armor, because I could afford the upgrade but not the repair. However, it repairs the armor instead of giving me the upgrade. ALSO however, it lets me install more upgrades. Me being the responsible person I am, I proceed to not take advantage of this.

[T]http://cloud-3.steampowered.com/ugc/433771856047700253/C7211D8D9AD84319815C1E1165B23E5C5360B42F/1024x576.resizedimage[/T]

...Too much. Then, thinking "Okay, I should at least try to get out of debt" I go to the trader to sell some stuff.

[T]http://cloud-3.steampowered.com/ugc/433771856047919966/16F1BE280EEBFBAC273602683646BBB3FAF08F06/1024x576.resizedimage[/T]

Oops :suicide:

(This is in Clear Sky by the way)

[Loner]

Classic Clear sky. Hah.

Also, to anyone who wants to try another russian wizadry mod, [URL="http://ap-pro.ru/forum/75-9886-1"]check this out[/URL]. Looks DAMN impressive, visually speaking. [I]Seems like it even [B]surpasses AA2 at the moment[/B], judging from the screenshots.[/I]

[IMG]http://s6.uploads.ru/iqtbx.png[/IMG]

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[video=youtube;w39cdtI7lR8]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w39cdtI7lR8[/video]

This one was made [I]with care[/I]. Damn. It's not often I see wizadry mods created with such elegance.

[Beacon]

[QUOTE=LoNer1;43763293]Wait, the one which got posted on GSC? Do you have a sauce?[/QUOTE]

yeah, the second last page of bangalore's thread

[Ownederd]

I love how the vehicles in OLR 2.0 actually have a sense of weight now. It doesn't feel like I'm driving on a skating rink anymore.