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

[Araknid]

[QUOTE=DiavelZzZ;44736573]The plain Google translator translation of Stalkersoup makes a lot of its charme to me.[/QUOTE]

horseradish carnage suit

nothing will ever beat that

[Loner]

Beac,

Someone is going to do what you wanted to do in CE3.

[t]https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/96495805/trees2.gif[/t]

Hmmm. Hope he gets the atmosphere right.

[Grenadiac]

[QUOTE=LoNer1;44736045][sp]For the love of ... why is the intro to LA SO corny? damn. A remake of the old trailer, but then drawn? Also the narrating ... you guys were right[/sp] lol[/QUOTE]

I got the impression that they animated the storyboard for the intro.

[Dub!]

Hey everyone,

I'm currently writing a little written in-character journal for my experience through Shadow of Chernobyl. Would you guys/gals enjoy seeing it after I'm finished with my playthrough? It's not really anything special.

[Saturn V]

The leveling in LA is epic but as far as the story and cutscenes go, I don't think they really understood what they were doing.

[Col. Buggernuts]

Yeh, quite a shame. Phenomenal levels, but that which fills them and connects them together by story is very lacking.

[Muukkis]

Fix the A-Life into at least SoC activity levels (in that there are at least few smart_terrains of respawning enemies in every map and they migrate from another level or something), remove the horrible cutscenes, put some fail-safes into the story(if important plot characters die or become hostile, it's gg and game over) and remove silly restrictions from entering levels and Lost Alpha would be actually pretty good.

[Dr.C]

So far I'm liking LA but I've only gone as far as just receiving the mission to go into garbage to get info on Strelok

[bord2tears]

I got to X-18, I rage quit after that "cut-scene" [sp]that the bloodsucker spawns from afterwards.[/sp] They could have done much simpler things and it would have been x1000 better, and EASIER.
Like, no animations - just reuse a drunk / damage shader, use ~spooky~ audio filters on the same dialog, and [sp][I]then[/I] spawn that bloodsucker in the other room behind the player.[/sp] Easier and better.

[croguy]

It'd be nice to collect a big pile of complaints and see if anyone is willing to do a Recut of Lost Alpha, at least in the main storyline department. The whole thing in of itself isn't bad per se, but the presentation was anywhere between fairly decent to downright retarded. But it's probably nothing that cannot be fixed, I'd bet.

[4 AM]

[QUOTE=Saturn V;44737761]The leveling in LA is epic but as far as the story and cutscenes go, I don't think they really understood what they were doing.[/QUOTE]

Not gonna say too much about the endings since I don't want to spoil anyone, but they are hilarious as fuck :v:

[Saturn V]

Honestly I kind of expected this after seeing this like years ago or something :v:

[media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cCF4xuinhD4[/media]

Is this still a part of the game or something?

[editline]6th May 2014[/editline]

[QUOTE=demotech;44738570]Not gonna say too much about the endings since I don't want to spoil anyone, but they are hilarious as fuck :v:[/QUOTE]

Spoiler tag them like this [s p] [/s p]

[Dub!]

[QUOTE=Dub!;44737167]Hey everyone,

I'm currently writing a little wirtten in-character journal for my experience through Shadow of Chernobyl. Would you guys/gals enjoy seeing it after I'm finished with my playthrough? It's not really anything special.[/QUOTE]

Alright, awesome. 5 agrees is enough for me.

I'll convert it to text instead of taking pictures of the journal, as that will be a hassle to look at.

[Ownederd]

[QUOTE=Saturn V;44738586]Honestly I kind of expected this after seeing this like years ago or something :v:

[media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cCF4xuinhD4[/media]

Is this still a part of the game or something?[/QUOTE]

this is a test cutscene used to see how it looks in x-ray.

[Saturn V]

Well it kinda looks like shit.

I don't think the X-ray engine is made for anything even remotely cinematic.

[pr00ch]

[QUOTE=Saturn V;44738686]Well it kinda looks like shit.

I don't think the X-ray engine is made for anything even remotely cinematic.[/QUOTE]

That, for some reason, is true as fuck.

I can't think of a single in-game cut scene that doesn't look like an awkward amateur attempt at a cinematic.

[Saturn V]

Lighting in X-ray is really fucking cool, too bad the shadows are always fucking hard as hell which makes it look like shit some of the time.

And you can't really use x-ray for cinematic stuff because the camera is all floaty and shit and the animations are clunky as hell too.

[4 AM]

Both links lead to Lost Alpha endings, top quality work in both of them :v:
[sp]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kEjUM6fAUEs[/sp]
[sp]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AGV5_QXMfPk[/sp]
Shame you can't spoiler tag videos

[Tureis.]

[QUOTE=demotech;44738759]Both links lead to Lost Alpha endings, top quality work in both of them :v:
[sp]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kEjUM6fAUEs[/sp]
[sp]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AGV5_QXMfPk[/sp]
Shame you can't spoiler tag videos[/QUOTE]

[sp] The bad endings even makes less sense than the one shown in there, that one was probably from the leak, in the new bad ending, yellow eyes and some random stalker show up and the random stalker stabs you (there's no object present so fuck if I know what's really going on.) [/sp]

[Saturn V]

[QUOTE=demotech;44738759]Both links lead to Lost Alpha endings, top quality work in both of them :v:
[sp]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kEjUM6fAUEs[/sp]
[sp]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AGV5_QXMfPk[/sp]
Shame you can't spoiler tag videos[/QUOTE]

That was uh... special.

Inception music though, really?

[Lyokanthrope]

[QUOTE=LoNer1;44736045][sp]For the love of ... why is the intro to LA SO corny? damn. A remake of the old trailer, but then drawn? Also the narrating ... you guys were right[/sp] lol[/QUOTE]

Fun fact: that's the original storyboard for the intro.

[editline]6th May 2014[/editline]

[QUOTE=Saturn V;44738586]Honestly I kind of expected this after seeing this like years ago or something :v:

[media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cCF4xuinhD4[/media]

Is this still a part of the game or something?

[editline]6th May 2014[/editline]

Spoiler tag them like this [s p] [/s p][/QUOTE]
[sp]Sadly, that IS part of the game.[/sp]

[Saturn V]

I'd like to know their reasoning for using a storyboard in a finished product :v:

[editline]6th May 2014[/editline]

[QUOTE=Lyokanthrope;44739043][sp]Sadly, that IS part of the game.[/sp][/QUOTE]

Holy shit, really? Could you elaborate.

[Lyokanthrope]

[QUOTE=Saturn V;44739086]I'd like to know their reasoning for using a storyboard in a finished product :v:

[editline]6th May 2014[/editline]

Holy shit, really? Could you elaborate.[/QUOTE]

The storyboard was in the original design docs.
And yeah, that cutscene [sp]happens after you meet Doctor in the great swamps. Marked One goes mad for a moment and loses consciousness, and that cutscene happens. It's later described after the Marked One wakes up as a "weird dream" caused by Doctor's herbal remedies :v:[/sp]

[editline]6th May 2014[/editline]

If you wanna know more, add me on Steam. :v: I've been reading Koan's Gift/the design docs lately and its some neat shit.

[RazorsharpLT]

Expression : fatal error
Function : CScriptEngine::lua_error
File : script_engine.cpp
Line : 75
Description : <no expression>
Arguments : LUA error: .... - lost alpha\gamedata\scripts\mob_alife_mgr.script:33: attempt to index global 'st' (a nil value)

Any help? Can't really continue lost alpha because of this

[genkaz92]

[QUOTE=LoNer1;44736140][URL]http://www.pcgamer.com/2014/05/06/a-console-gamer-asked-me-what-three-pc-games-he-should-play-heres-what-i-told-him/?mtc=comment-579264#comment-579264[/URL]

[U][I][B]F U C K[/B][/I][/U]

</mad>[/QUOTE]

Complete just isn't all that interesting to me, especially considering that it apparently makes the game easier, while the close quarters Arma difficulty of Stalker Soup just makes things massively more fun. Stalker seems to truly kick in when it can take you out with one shot from a realistic distance.

[Beacon]

[QUOTE=LoNer1;44736760]Beac,

Someone is going to do what you wanted to do in CE3.

[t]https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/96495805/trees2.gif[/t]

Hmmm. Hope he gets the atmosphere right.[/QUOTE]

I swear I saw that screenshots ages and ages ago.

[editline]6th May 2014[/editline]

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

[croguy]

Can somebody mod this to play during [sp]the first part of X-7?[/sp]

[url]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MK6TXMsvgQg[/url]

[Saturn V]

[QUOTE=croguy;44739493]Can somebody mod this to play during [sp]the first part of X-7?[/sp]

[url]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MK6TXMsvgQg[/url][/QUOTE]

What's up with [sp]X-7[/sp]?

[croguy]

[QUOTE=Saturn V;44739547]What's up with [sp]X-7[/sp]?[/QUOTE]

[sp]It's an indefinitely long chase scene[/sp] [sp]through a ridiculous maze of laboratory corridors[/sp] [sp]in which Strelok is being chased by Cyber Strelok [/sp] [sp]because he broke the guy's security levels[/sp] [sp]despite the fact that raising them to such a degree that he had to POINT HIS FINGER IN STRELOK'S FACE was obviously not going to stop Strelok from going on.[/sp]

[Saturn V]

[QUOTE=croguy;44739575][sp]It's an indefinitely long chase through a ridiculous maze of laboratory corridors[/sp] [sp]in which Strelok is being chased by Cyber Strelok [/sp] [sp]because he broke the guy's security levels[/sp] [sp]despite the fact that raising them to such a degree that he had to POINT HIS FINGER IN STRELOK'S FACE was obviously not going to work.[/sp][/QUOTE]

Were they smoking LSD when they made the storyline