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

[QUOTE=junker154;44180013]Thanks for the suggestion, currently downloading people soup. Can't wait for the weird stuff, hope it's worth it I heard there are tons of issues with crashes. Also it's nearly 5 gb. [editline]9th March 2014[/editline] That sounds pretty good actually, never heard of the mod before but I took a major break from the games because I played them like hell. Legendary does sound neat.[/QUOTE] Tecnobacon's version of soup worked pretty well for me even on my old potato computer. In terms of SHOC mods I'd say Legendary is on-par with Doom's freeplay mod in terms of quality and just how fun it is in general. Kinda wish Legendary could get some extra areas and quests in it like in SGM 2.2, would probably be the best SHOC mod ever then.

spekter's summed it up pretty well, it's a big fun merge with combat at the forefront. Some of the AI stuff included is neat and makes for some good random encounters. [URL="http://pastebin.com/PXzdj3Ps"]Here's[/URL] a copy of the full readme for a list of what's merged.

I'll have a look at it, sounds to good to be true. Thanks for clearing everything up. [editline]9th March 2014[/editline] Actually where can I get the legendary mod, I haven't found it on google.

[QUOTE=junker154;44180287] Actually where can I get the legendary mod, I haven't found it on google.[/QUOTE] [URL="https://mega.co.nz/#F!zEtSxC4J!eRsovn-n098UpRtLDmr5_w"]Here [/URL] is probably your best shot.

Wait Legendary contains Faction Wars? Interesting. I thought my mod had been long buried. :v:

I think my ZoA broke. I can't load any bullets into magazines, I can't put artifacts into anomalies to transmute them even though I have the recipe, and I can drag bodies which the mod didn't let you do before. Is there a way to fix this preferably without loading from a previous save?

I feel so bad whenever I play Doom's Free Lurk and I murder the Rookie Village as a soldier. The only thing that had the chance at stopping me was Wolf who got blown up by my grenade at the start of the raid.

[QUOTE=spekter;44180165]Tecnobacon's version of soup worked pretty well for me even on my old potato computer. In terms of SHOC mods I'd say Legendary is on-par with Doom's freeplay mod in terms of quality and just how fun it is in general. Kinda wish Legendary could get some extra areas and quests in it like in SGM 2.2, would probably be the best SHOC mod ever then.[/QUOTE] Yo, what's up with Tecnobacon's version of soup? I mean, I keep hearing there's a lot of "narodnaya solyanka" versions like that one. In what aspects do they change? And jesus, can you believe it? I downloaded ZoA like one month and I'm still struggling to get past agroprom...It took me 2 days to clear Cordon. The magazine system not telling you how many bullets the current magazine has plus the super duper AI who knows how to camp, run and shoot blindly is making my ass hurt.

[QUOTE=Cutthecrap;44182173]Yo, what's up with Tecnobacon's version of soup? I mean, I keep hearing there's a lot of "narodnaya solyanka" versions like that one. In what aspects do they change? And jesus, can you believe it? I downloaded ZoA like one month and I'm still struggling to get past agroprom...It took me 2 days to clear Cordon. The magazine system not telling you how many bullets the current magazine has plus the super duper AI who knows how to camp, run and shoot blindly is making my ass hurt.[/QUOTE] The 'durability' of the magazines show about how many bullets are in them but you can't see how many you have in your gun.

So is that MISERY mod as good as it looks? The ModDB page looks incredible. I asked my friend whose practically a cultist of STALKER but he told me it was horseshit and refused to answer me when I asked him why.

[QUOTE=roman117;44182422]So is that MISERY mod as good as it looks? The ModDB page looks incredible. I asked my friend whose practically a cultist of STALKER but he told me it was horseshit and refused to answer me when I asked him why.[/QUOTE] iirc, everything that you need to kill is made of solid bricks, while all of your guns are peashooters, and if you don't eat a granola bar every time you blink you starve to death.

[QUOTE=Zillamaster55;44182443]iirc, everything that you need to kill is made of solid bricks, while all of your guns are peashooters, and if you don't eat a granola bar every time you blink you starve to death.[/QUOTE] Objectively the best summary of Misery I've read. There's some tweaks that got tossed together from some people over at /vg/ for the 2.x version that actually make it as realistic as it (appears) to try and be when it comes to the gunplay. You shoot a normal merc in the face with a Mosin and he actually dies, instead of the ass backwards 2/3 it takes in the untweaked game. Don't really know where they wanted to go with balance if it takes three mosin rounds to the face to take down a normal merc, or two to take down a trenchcoat wearing bandit. Don't know if the recent updates the creators made fixed it, either.

[QUOTE=spekter;44179953]If you've played virtually every mod possible sans the super breeki russian mods like me it's kind of just a good balance of existing mods combined into one. Personally, I find the combat is a bit more satisfying than usual and bulletsponge is practically non-existant both for you and the enemies. There seems to be a decent amount of weird shit that occurs and I haven't really crashed much. I will say there's been some parts where it freezes more than any other mod I've played but I think that might be something on my end. It brings back decent memories of 08/09 when OL was like the biggest mod around. Heck, Legendary still has the letter from Kanyhalos in that blue box at the bar.[/QUOTE] OL Ultimate? I hate it when I can't find a list of features. I'm just going to assume it's very similar to OL 2.2 after watching a few videos. Haha Kanyhalos: I wish I still had the screenshots of him acting like a tard on the GSC forums. I think I'll be trying ZoA before this, I don't know yet. The only thing I really liked with OL was the crazy mutant spawns after blowouts.

[QUOTE=kiloy;44182275]The 'durability' of the magazines show about how many bullets are in them but you can't see how many you have in your gun.[/QUOTE] Yeah I figured it out. But thing is when I pick a gun I don't know if it has only 1 bullet...if it's AP or HP...etc etc

[QUOTE=Cutthecrap;44176250]So, what's the status on Call of Chernobyl? Is the guy doing it able to port all the maps and stuff? Wow, what a crack. And Beacon, what happened to Redux? I'm still waiting for those awesome suit upgrades...[/QUOTE] Of course. Bangalore is one of the most knowledgeable on Level Editor and SDK around. The maps are already done except things Borovos is working on. Bangalore spent the last 2 years working on this map pack alone.

[QUOTE=alundaio;44183100]Of course. Bangalore is one of the most knowledgeable on Level Editor and SDK around. The maps are already done except things Borovos is working on. Bangalore spent the last 2 years working on this map pack alone.[/QUOTE] Would you guys need some cool particle effects? if yes, let me know. I'd be glad to be of help 'spicing' the levels up a bit (seeing as most Clear Sky levels made it in, yet their respective particle effects etc. haven't been ported over from CS > CoP)

So is there a way to fix my ZoA?

[QUOTE=Fuxed;44180360][URL="https://mega.co.nz/#F!zEtSxC4J!eRsovn-n098UpRtLDmr5_w"]Here [/URL] is probably your best shot.[/QUOTE] Holy shit...so many mods. I have a reason to reinstall the games now.

[QUOTE=JDER14;44184132]Holy shit...so many mods. I have a reason to reinstall the games now.[/QUOTE] Yeah finally a reason to play Clear Sky again.

Ehh...maybe not Clear Sky.

[QUOTE=JDER14;44184292]Ehh...maybe not Clear Sky.[/QUOTE] Well the faction war mod is pretty cool, and I believe the last time I played it was when it was in the 2.xx version range. I found it pretty fun at the time, maybe not as challenging as it could have been with the opposing faction's ai, but I enjoyed it. [editline]9th March 2014[/editline] Has anyone played AMK devolution for cop? If so what did you think of it?

If so I might get into Clear Sky. I played it once a few years ago on my friend's PC but it just felt weird.

So I decided to play some Stalker Shadow of Chernobyl and it ran fine the first time no problem. Installed peoplesoup because I hate myself and it had no problems, ran into a game breaking bug after about 3 days of playing and was forced to start a new game, but it would crash while starting a new game. I've deleted everything and re-installed the entire game. I decided to relaunch vanilla stalker before installing peoplesoup again, but now it just instantly crashes right after the small splash disappears. I've tried redownloading it, verifying, removing old .ltxs from previous saves but I still crash. This is the error I get FATAL ERROR [error]Expression : fatal error [error]Function : CInifile::r_section [error]File : E:\stalker\sources\trunk\xrCore\Xr_ini.cpp [error]Line : 342 [error]Description : <no expression> [error]Arguments : Can't open section 'bandit_master_outfit' stack trace: Any ideas?

I've played it vanilla and with the CS Enhanced 1.2 mod, which made the game pretty enjoyable. It adds some stuff and balances everything out. Nothing major but it's pretty cool. I recommend that.

[QUOTE=Araknid;44178447][t]http://media.moddb.com/images/mods/1/13/12990/Untitled-1.jpg[/t] LURK TOZ-34 TOZ-34 confirmed for the only gun I will ever use[/QUOTE] Come again? [t]http://media.moddb.com/images/mods/1/13/12990/Untitled-5.jpg[/t]

i saw that, one sexy fuckin' AUG

[QUOTE=Cookie;44184870]So I decided to play some Stalker Shadow of Chernobyl and it ran fine the first time no problem. Installed peoplesoup because I hate myself and it had no problems, ran into a game breaking bug after about 3 days of playing and was forced to start a new game, but it would crash while starting a new game. I've deleted everything and re-installed the entire game. I decided to relaunch vanilla stalker before installing peoplesoup again, but now it just instantly crashes right after the small splash disappears. I've tried redownloading it, verifying, removing old .ltxs from previous saves but I still crash. This is the error I get FATAL ERROR [error]Expression : fatal error [error]Function : CInifile::r_section [error]File : E:\stalker\sources\trunk\xrCore\Xr_ini.cpp [error]Line : 342 [error]Description : <no expression> [error]Arguments : Can't open section 'bandit_master_outfit' stack trace: Any ideas?[/QUOTE] In my experience this thread isn't too big on helping with crashing/problems

That's a nice model, but I've never been one for bullpups sadly. I do however, like the Groza.

[QUOTE=kiloy;44185023]In my experience this thread isn't too big on helping with crashing/problems[/QUOTE] I am, yet I wouldn't know [B]your[/B] problem. It's probably a few pages back, but PM me, we'll figure it out. Also, [B]Cookie[/B], you're missing a piece of config for a suit that's called 'bandit_master_outfit'. Try going into [I]gamedata\config\misc\outfit.ltx[/I] and search multiple times for the keyword "[I]bandit[/I]". If nothing comes up other than bandit_outfit or what it's called, it means you're either using an older version of the script or if you merged something into the mod, screwed it up :v:

LEGENDARY has a lot of shader options, which generally looks best? I'm partial to picking Float32.