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

[QUOTE=damnatus;43895335]What are the must have mods for CoP? I only completed it once when it was released and kinda want to play it again. I don't want anything that raises difficulty though (or it should at least have options)[/QUOTE] I'd recommend M.S.O. + AtmosFear 3 and Absolute Textures. Doesn't really incorporate that much new mechanics but it increases the A-Life and makes it more interesting like otherwise empty camps get used much more by stalkers and there's a tad much more hostile stalkers patrolling in the levels. The A.I in general is also slightly boosted. This is from the M.S.O though, AtmosFear 3 doesn't really change anything in terms of A.I or A-Life except for the AtmosFear 3 optionals where you can make the blowouts zombify stalker or so on. It's a very solid basic package that's good when you want the base game experienced boosted a tad but the mod also doesn't do things like boost the spawning of hostile stalkers or mutants into retarded numbers and some spawns are 'gated' like they are tied to certain camps dying / disappearing so it feels more logical and respects the original progression of the game somewhat. [editline]herp[/editline] The one thing I don't like about M.S.O. though is how they mixed the outfits of some factions a bit too much like blurred the lines of the factions by making free stalkers, bandits and mercenaries share visual models pretty freely so it ends up making the factions feel a lot less like their actual, intended factions when you got for example professional mercenaries sporting the ragged bandit look. Or when you have both Duty and free stalkers fielding SKAT-9 Bulat armors in large numbers, it's just robbing the regular factions of their identity. Things like bandits incorporating stalker skins doesn't bother me but honestly it feels like a lazy halfway-house solution to a cool concept where you would have the faction visual lines kind of subtly blurred by incorporating outfits that take elements from the armors of other factions like merc-y stalkers having custom models that are much more tuned towards fighting than artifact hunting (mixture of stalker suits and proper load-bearing vests and less gas masks, more balaclavas / tactical helmets) what TFW and a bunch of other mods does and as such kind of peeves me. But it's one of those things that's relatively easy to tweak from the character_descr_general.xml. Though SGM is a nice mod to go for if you want things like more quests, items and features like bankers and bodyguards.

[QUOTE=Beacon;43895271]i have to say, i hate all that sexy gun talk stuff, honestly come on now [editline]13th February 2014[/editline] i mean i love you guys but jeez it's weird[/QUOTE] hahahahaha come on thorny it's not like real girls are better, right right, thorny come on man, laugh with me why aren't you laughing ...thorny?

raifus are for lame nolifer nerds wow but su-47 is my planefu

Alrighty then fellas, back to the topic. I hate being a tease, but there's 2 updates coming soon, for both MISERY as Gunslinger! Can't wait till Wolf uploads the new video. Also, I'll notify you here about the MISERY one, as my guess is that most of you will otherwise miss out on it. Cheers [B]edit[/B] Wow! This is my [B]1000th[/B] post in this thread. To think I've contributed 1/11 of this thread alone .. hah.

[QUOTE=Beacon;43895271]i have to say, i hate all that sexy gun talk stuff, honestly[/QUOTE]At least now we know why stalkers never complains about the absence of women in the zone. They have other [I]interests[/I]. By the way, I was going on creating a new texture for the maps in-game, since the default one was in really poor resolution: [T]http://img11.hostingpics.net/pics/375708ssremnant021114195143marsh.jpg[/T] [T]http://img11.hostingpics.net/pics/651284ssremnant021114195116marsh.jpg[/T] I've still some details to polish but it's near completion. What do you think about it ?

I love it! Better than HD project, that's for sure. These are at least expected to be found in an area like the zone :v:

That looks amazing!

[QUOTE=Clear_Strelok;43898784]At least now we know why stalkers [B]never complains about the absence of women in the zone.[/B][/QUOTE] They do occasionally. [t]http://i.imgur.com/xQ9Td.jpg[/t] [editline]herp[/editline] Curiously I think that's actually supposed to be Bandit dialogue but for some reason NPC chatter in SoC / CS seems to be more related to the level they're spawned in rather than taking into consideration what faction they're belonging to so when you got Freedom / Duty at the Garbage, they seem to get dealt conversation options that make them sound like bandit characters. It wasn't that obvious in Shadow of Chernobyl since you weren't supposed to be able to talk to bandit characters there's obviously no dialogue written for bandits so whatever lines come out of their mouth don't sound so out of place unlike in Clear Sky where it kind of is weird to have a Duty / Freedom guy have lines that are written for Bandit characters. That's just my experience combined with a lot of speculation though, perhaps a person with more modding experience could clear up whether this is just an assumption or actually something resembling of an astute observation that is also based on facts ? [QUOTE=Clear_Strelok;43898784]What do you think about it ?[/QUOTE] Looks pretty good.

[QUOTE=Muukkis;43899081]They do occasionally. [t]http://i.imgur.com/xQ9Td.jpg[/t][/QUOTE] If there is any canon value to anything I've ever written, mankind finds a way.

[QUOTE=Clear_Strelok;43898784]At least now we know why stalkers never complains about the absence of women in the zone. They have other [I]interests[/I]. By the way, I was going on creating a new texture for the maps in-game, since the default one was in really poor resolution: [T]http://img11.hostingpics.net/pics/375708ssremnant021114195143marsh.jpg[/T] [T]http://img11.hostingpics.net/pics/651284ssremnant021114195116marsh.jpg[/T] I've still some details to polish but it's near completion. What do you think about it ?[/QUOTE] that is very, very nice dude, awesome job

Omfg LURK 2.0 and Lost Alpha and Phantoms and Fro... Argggghhh *heart attack*

[QUOTE=Cutthecrap;43900139]Omfg LURK 2.0 and Lost Alpha and Phantoms and Fro... Argggghhh *heart attack*[/QUOTE] [I]SGM 3.0 feels left out[/I]

[QUOTE=Clear_Strelok;43898784]At least now we know why [b]stalkers never complains about the absence of women in the zone.[/b][/QUOTE] Too lazy to get a screen cap but in CoP there's a line where the stalker complains that there are no women, then asks you if you heard of the pack of fleshes that were killed in the area and said he was going to go looking for them. :quagmire:

[QUOTE=Hammer7;43894434]How about something closer to original? [IMG]http://i.minus.com/ibr4bhA2dvoh6C.jpg[/IMG][/QUOTE] Holy shit, this is sexually attractive piece of engineering.

[QUOTE=uint64;43900820]Holy shit, this is sexually attractive piece of engineering.[/QUOTE] as much as i would love to continue this, thorny is going to get mad soon and uh, i don't think i need to repost that little anecdote of what happened when holden and thorny got too frustrated from modding [sp]it involved a massive anal circumference and blood[/sp]

[QUOTE='[Green];43901014']as much as i would love to continue this, thorny is going to get mad soon and uh, i don't think i need to repost that little anecdote of what happened when holden and thorny got too frustrated from modding [sp]it involved a massive anal circumference and blood[/sp][/QUOTE] Just smear the barrel with Gravi artifact and jam it [I]in[/I].

[B]Path to The Zone[/B] updates! [t]http://media.moddb.com/images/mods/1/24/23267/ss_codepoet_02-14-14_00-16-57_l02_garbage_old.jpg[/t][t]http://media.moddb.com/images/mods/1/24/23267/ss_codepoet_02-13-14_23-19-50_l02_garbage_old.jpg[/t] [t]http://media.moddb.com/images/mods/1/24/23267/ss_codepoet_02-13-14_23-15-48_l02_garbage_old.jpg[/t][t]http://media.moddb.com/images/mods/1/24/23267/ss_codepoet_02-13-14_23-11-49_l02_garbage_old.jpg[/t] [t]http://media.moddb.com/images/mods/1/24/23267/ss_codepoet_02-13-14_23-10-47_l02_garbage_old.jpg[/t][t]http://media.moddb.com/images/mods/1/24/23267/ss_codepoet_02-13-14_23-10-04_l02_garbage_old.jpg[/t] [t]http://media.moddb.com/images/mods/1/24/23267/ss_codepoet_02-14-14_00-22-51_l02_garbage_old.jpg[/t][t]http://media.moddb.com/images/mods/1/24/23267/ss_codepoet_02-14-14_00-22-13_l02_garbage_old.jpg[/t] [t]http://media.moddb.com/images/mods/1/24/23267/ss_codepoet_02-14-14_00-19-29_l02_garbage_old.jpg[/t]

that is a LOT of sunglare

[QUOTE='[Green];43901891']that is a LOT of sunglare[/QUOTE] [I]S.T.A.L.K.E.R: Siege of Battlequarters Premium Elite[/I]

Second and fourth rows look the best.

[QUOTE=Clear_Strelok;43898784] By the way, I was going on creating a new texture for the maps in-game, since the default one was in really poor resolution: [T]http://img11.hostingpics.net/pics/375708ssremnant021114195143marsh.jpg[/T] I've still some details to polish but it's near completion. What do you think about it ?[/QUOTE] [IMG]https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/52242457/cheekibreeki.png[/IMG] Must be bandit cartographers.

So I just finished SoC and now I want to go to Clear Sky but fuck this issue is goddamn annoying. Anyone had this problem? Game freezes after like 5-10 minutes of gameplay after I left swamps, and there's no error or log to provide since the game doesn't actually crash.

[QUOTE=ionuttzu;43902824]So I just finished SoC and now I want to go to Clear Sky but fuck this issue is goddamn annoying. Anyone had this problem? Game freezes after like 5-10 minutes of gameplay after I left swamps, and there's no error or log to provide since the game doesn't actually crash.[/QUOTE] I think that's just how Clear Sky is. At a push I get 20 minutes out it but regardless, it always just plain freezes.

[QUOTE=LoNer1;43901656][B]Path to The Zone[/B] updates![/QUOTE]And soon the extended version: [url=http://tof.canardpc.com/view/51755a67-7684-412c-97d4-2d25ffe10dc8.jpg][img]http://tof.canardpc.com/preview2/51755a67-7684-412c-97d4-2d25ffe10dc8.jpg[/img][/url]

[QUOTE=Fuxed;43904038]I think that's just how Clear Sky is. At a push I get 20 minutes out it but regardless, it always just plain freezes.[/QUOTE] The weird thing is that I remember finishing it years ago, but now my PC is completely different from back then. Feels bad man

[QUOTE=Muukkis;43899081] Curiously I think that's actually supposed to be Bandit dialogue but for some reason NPC chatter in SoC / CS seems to be more related to the level they're spawned in rather than taking into consideration what faction they're belonging to so when you got Freedom / Duty at the Garbage, they seem to get dealt conversation options that make them sound like bandit characters. It wasn't that obvious in Shadow of Chernobyl since you weren't supposed to be able to talk to bandit characters there's obviously no dialogue written for bandits so whatever lines come out of their mouth don't sound so out of place unlike in Clear Sky where it kind of is weird to have a Duty / Freedom guy have lines that are written for Bandit characters. That's just my experience combined with a lot of speculation though, perhaps a person with more modding experience could clear up whether this is just an assumption or actually something resembling of an astute observation that is also based on facts ?[/QUOTE] The dialog manager is set up to sort dialog by community, level and category. It's quite possible what you observed is true. Probably seeing something like: [dm_information_11] category = information npc_community = all level = garbage So if they never intended for certain communities to be on the map and those communties show up due to a mod or something they'll all be able to say that line of dialog.

[QUOTE=LoNer1;43896584]Alrighty then fellas, back to the topic. I hate being a tease, but there's 2 updates coming soon, for both MISERY as Gunslinger! Can't wait till Wolf uploads the new video. Also, I'll notify you here about the MISERY one, as my guess is that most of you will otherwise miss out on it. .[/QUOTE] Does said Misery update involve OWR by any chance? o3o

[QUOTE=11meister;43906532]Does said Misery update involve OWR by any chance? o3o[/QUOTE] Nope, not this soon

[QUOTE=LoNer1;43906799]Nope, not this soon[/QUOTE] Awwwwwwwwwww. Why can't there be a mod that combines a weapon overhaul with all the goodness of Atmosphere 3 - AI improvements of MSO - equipment/armor variations and loads of misc items.

Because Gunslinger > OWR2 ;) *hint hint hint* That's not the update, though.