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

[QUOTE=exostalker;44815680]That's why teenagers shouldn't be movie critics Anyways, drama intensifies: [IMG]http://i.imgur.com/f4K95qI.png[/IMG] :rolleyes:[/QUOTE] What thread is this?

'I am stumped at the swamp' apparently, I'm guessing LA section of GSC

[QUOTE=Beacon;44816115]'I am stumped at the swamp' apparently, I'm guessing LA section of GSC[/QUOTE] Just saw. God, I don't know what's gotten into Vintar :v:

Well his head appears to be in somewhere, I'd have to say.

Vintar shouldn't have tried to reach the Scorcher without psi-protection.

[QUOTE=Lijitsu;44816199]Well his head appears to be in somewhere, I'd have to say.[/QUOTE] It looks like the guy just wants to move on but also doesn't want to leave everything behind and thus channels his frustration towards everyone around him. Just an observation of the last few weeks I've seen him reply everywhere and stuff :v: Poor chap

Uh, apparently Doctor Sakharov isn't immune to Blowouts in Lost Alpha. Had a Blowout at Yantar and I took shelter in the building where Professor Kruglov and the other professor are and when the blowout ended, Kruglov was in his bunker, dead. I can understand some of the controversial design choices in Lost Alpha, but making sure that plot-critical characters don't die to events that happen really often and can't be avoided.

On a whole other topic ... [t]http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/81i8wNFtbUL._SL1500_.jpg[/t] [t]http://www.crydev.net/project_db/uploads/7524/5330738266987_Rails%203.jpg[/t] [t]http://www.crydev.net/project_db/uploads/7524/533b169fd961d_Yanov%20Tower.jpg[/t] [I]Someone is doing it, and [B]right.[/B][/I] Creating your own models > import assets from ye' olde Xray Sauce: [url]http://www.crydev.net/viewtopic.php?f=316&p=1213646#p1213646[/url]

[QUOTE=LoNer1;44816323]It looks like the guy just wants to move on but also doesn't want to leave everything behind and thus channels his frustration towards everyone around him. Just an observation of the last few weeks I've seen him reply everywhere and stuff :v: Poor chap[/QUOTE] Not sure if he wants to move on, but I do agree that some of those replies aren't too nice. Although I couldn't say a single bad word from my own personal interactions with both vintar and dez, they all seem nice and helped me out by sending quick-fixes so I could finish up LA unpatched. I've been testing patch 2 as well, which should be fixing most of hardcoded engine bugs (for example, npp/x2/generators render crashes regarding particles, took a while for them to figure out what was causing that), so I think LA will be getting better and better, as I'm pretty sure they are willing to move forward, not just by fixing it, but also by adding all that extra missing content. Personally I'm feeling quite optimistic about LA's future :smile:

So, uh, would anyone have a save for Lost Alpha past the cutscene in the Swamp ? [del]My adventures in the Lost Alpha beta have apparently come to an end because the terrible Illuminati in-game cutscene crashes for me and there's no way to get around that. Yes, I tested multiple times and it still crashes.[/del][B] Oh, silly me, I have apparently forgot to install the Xvid codecs during the LA installation.[/B] [del]How nice, the latest patch increased my loading times by a good third and broke the lighting in the game entirely.[/del] I should've read the readmes and installed on a clean install. Yeah, I'm almost done with this mod/game too, until they can fix it to at least a somewhat presentable shape. It's absolutely frustrating to see how Lost Alpha would be really great, but the absolute heaps of issues keep bringing the entire experience down and making it so frustrating.

[QUOTE=LoNer1;44816367] [I]Someone is doing it, and [B]right.[/B][/I] Creating your own models > import assets from ye' olde Xray [/QUOTE] The difficulty being the sheer amount of assets you have to create before you can get into the meat and potatoes of level design. Might be viable to use imported Stalker assets as placeholders and swap them out over time, but that brings with it its own problems.

[QUOTE=Etcetera;44817218]The difficulty being the sheer amount of assets you have to create before you can get into the meat and potatoes of level design. Might be viable to use imported Stalker assets as placeholders and swap them out over time, but that brings with it its own problems.[/QUOTE] Doing it from scratch is imho the most satisfying and you'll also learn a lot by that. A friend of mine actually did this already in CE2 but had to stop at one moment in time. It looked terrific, he created all assets by himself and did the level design / particles / effects as well. It had the gloomy atmosphere SoC has with the visuals of CoP times 3. Sadly had to stop because of his health. :v:

Anyone have an working .rar for item mini-mod 0.025 by Alundaio? The link from here [url]http://www.epicstalker.com/downloads.html(Direct[/url] Link: [url]http://www.epicstalker.com/secdown/download.php?dc=x1y4w0g0v1f7q7q5v6w6[/url] ) has an damaged rar.

[QUOTE=LoNer1;44816108]What thread is this?[/QUOTE] Oh man I missed this! Would have been perfect time for me to jump in and piss on them both, ah well. :dance: [editline]15th May 2014[/editline] [QUOTE=Cpt.MEEM;44817309]Anyone have an working .rar for item mini-mod 0.025 by Alundaio? The link from here [url]http://www.epicstalker.com/downloads.html(Direct[/url] Link: [url]http://www.epicstalker.com/secdown/download.php?dc=x1y4w0g0v1f7q7q5v6w6[/url] ) has an damaged rar.[/QUOTE] [url]http://www.epicstalker.com/kjdhadshfadsfklsdfljsd/item_mini_mod%200.025.zip[/url]

[QUOTE=alundaio;44817706]Oh man I missed this! Would have been perfect time for me to jump in and piss on them both, ah well. :dance: [editline]15th May 2014[/editline] [url]http://www.epicstalker.com/kjdhadshfadsfklsdfljsd/item_mini_mod%200.025.zip[/url][/QUOTE] Thanks, this one worked.

Vintar's starting to piss me off. He really needs to quit being such an asshole to the players. Seriously.

He is from South Africa and he owns a sweat shop. He is evil. I'm not sure what context he says these things in. I never figured out if he means to intentionally be a dick or he just has an abusive sense of humor.

The rest of the dezowave team seems to be alright, I haven't noticed much from anyone except TS or Vintar as far as hostility. But Tejas isn't even that bad. Vintar is just purely toxic to every thread he comes into, and it drives me up the wall.

Fuck Vintar. He's a manchild.

This is all awkward. Such hate. I think I'm starting to like Vintar. haha

[QUOTE=Lyokanthrope;44817954]The rest of the dezowave team seems to be alright, I haven't noticed much from anyone except TS or Vintar as far as hostility. But Tejas isn't even that bad. Vintar is just purely toxic to every thread he comes into, and it drives me up the wall.[/QUOTE] to be honest, i enjoyed LA but i'm more optimistic about OLR 2.5 now. it's going to have an official english localization, and the OLR dev team seems chill.

Well I don't think it's exactly fair to compare LA and OLR. LA is more of... I guess it's an original product, honestly. It strays a lot from the original design docs, while it does have some of the original features it's not very...Oblivion Lost-ish. It's closer to SoC with vehicles. (So basically SoC circa build 2205, eg 2005) OLR is 2003-2004 all the way through, and it sticks to the design docs quite closely.

Jesus christ lol So im playing stalker on dooms merge for the first time in a long time and i decide to use the exploit that lets you break into the armory without killing off any freedom guys. I manage to push the guard away with a barrel but he ends up walking back to position, trapping me behind him. Suddenly a miracle happens and the barrel fucking kills him without even moving. Woo free guns!

[QUOTE=Limpid;44818722]Jesus christ lol So im playing stalker on dooms merge for the first time in a long time and i decide to use the exploit that lets you break into the armory without killing off any freedom guys. I manage to push the guard away with a barrel but he ends up walking back to position, trapping me behind him. Suddenly a miracle happens and the barrel fucking kills him without even moving. Woo free guns![/QUOTE] The zone wanted you to have those guns.

I don't know what mod it was, but there was one where you could talk to him and have some sort of dialogue option like:"Move the fuck out of the way or ill make you". Funny thing is ... if you chose that they'd all become hostile to you and blast yer pretty face off :v: [editline]15th May 2014[/editline] Now I come to think of it .... there's so much dialogue in the game, but almost no dialog can make you piss off stalkers ... I think it's odd. Why not have some funny dialog options in there, like NPC:"Hey, stalker" Player:[I]"Fuck off"[/I] [B]NPC hostile[/B] or like NPC:"Hey, stalker" Player:"You look like someone I can rob some stuff off" reaction 1;"No, please take my money instead -> randomized money transfer" reaction 2; Hostile or something along those lines. Huge potential there

[QUOTE=LoNer1;44819314] Now I come to think of it .... there's so much dialogue in the game, but almost no dialog can make you piss off stalkers ... I think it's odd. Why not have some funny dialog options in there, like NPC:"Hey, stalker" Player:[I]"Fuck off"[/I] [B]NPC hostile[/B] or like NPC:"Hey, stalker" Player:"You look like someone I can rob some stuff off" reaction 1;"No, please take my money instead -> randomized money transfer" reaction 2; Hostile or something along those lines. Huge potential there[/QUOTE] If that was in LA, it would be another reason for everyone to bash it. Everyone is so disappointed in funny pda messages, that hostile turning npc's by misclicked dialogue line would make them ragequit forever :v:

[QUOTE=exostalker;44819358]If that was in LA, it would be another reason for everyone to bash it. Everyone is so disappointed in funny pda messages, that hostile turning npc's by misclicked dialogue line would make them ragequit forever :v:[/QUOTE] Heh, I guess first impressions do last forever. It's true, though. I never touched BF4 after trying it once and I was hyped AF for it. 2bad. Also ... on the topic of LA ... [t]https://scontent-a-ams.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-frc3/t1.0-9/10277760_749895031699861_6420549625924868492_n.jpg[/t] I take this is a normal phenomena?

[QUOTE=exostalker;44819358]If that was in LA, it would be another reason for everyone to bash it. Everyone is so disappointed in funny pda messages, that hostile turning npc's by misclicked dialogue line would make them ragequit forever :v:[/QUOTE] They could have something where you can back out of you did it by accident like if you tried to rob somebody there would be a choice like "Just joking with you!" or something like that

Turns out we were mistaken about the cap on smart terrains. This can be fixed by altering the smart terrain mask. So we can add as many smarts as we want now. :)

[QUOTE=LoNer1;44819393] Also ... on the topic of LA ... [t]https://scontent-a-ams.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-frc3/t1.0-9/10277760_749895031699861_6420549625924868492_n.jpg[/t] I take this is a normal phenomena?[/QUOTE] Maybe if they get into the anomalies, only then vehicles tend to float away. I actually think it's pretty cool