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

[Judqment8]

So if the Areal is real and the West Games actually is a fully capable company then why can't they ******* post anything related to the Areal itself? If they have already worked on it and plan to release it on so many console before the end of this year then boy they should have a lot to show us.

Their PR really can't be that bad. Also the latest update was all about "we are good, Misery has deleted the badmouthing" and another cringe inducing video of their artist.

These "STALKER" projects will have a huge scar after all this crap. Were it real or not. But whatever time will tell...

[Ownederd]

i think we should stop having melodramatic posts about areal. they're getting real old

[SgtCr4zyGunz]

had an encounter with [I][B]the blob[/B][/I] at the sawmill

[t]http://cloud-4.steampowered.com/ugc/577899631289911959/818E367AE3C25CD1CECEF82A7991C05190C37885/[/t]

[t]http://cloud-3.steampowered.com/ugc/577899631289908806/88D48229FA298DE266DA5F5FD45A08ADBA616EAC/[/t]

[Amez]

We are the blob. You will be assimilated.

[exostalker]

[QUOTE=Hybrid 4F;45244647]So let me get this straight. This guy, Tejas Stalker (from the Lost Alpha team), he's friends with everyone from the West Games team since the first day. He runs the Official Stalker page on Facebook. He posts messages like "Areal is legit, please support them" on this page, which is linked on the Kickstarter page. He bans everyone from the group and remove their messages.[/QUOTE]

And there are thousands of teenagers on that group, posting 2-3 year old memes redone in stalker style, shouting "cheeky breeky" and discussing Complete and Lost Alpha. Of course they will listen to the """""Official stalker page""""", won't they? So it will get overfunded in no time.

[greeds]

Get out of here, A.r.e.a.l.

[🦇Pachira🦇]

[QUOTE=Amez;45249471]I said come in, don't stand there.[/QUOTE]

Fixed that for ya.

Also, anyone know any good realistic (but not misery type realism, more like lurk I guess) mods (also with more features like graphics n stuff) for all three games? And does any one know of any mods like tfw for CS?

For soc, is zone of alienation good? Sounds interesting.

[millenia3d]

M16A2 for LURK:

[t]http://media.moddb.com/images/mods/1/13/12990/m16a2.jpg[/t]

[alundaio]

[IMG]http://media.moddb.com/cache/images/mods/1/23/22598/thumb_620x2000/full_global_map.jpg[/IMG]

[PollytheParrot]

when is this a thing

[alundaio]

[QUOTE=PollytheParrot;45251088]when is this a thing[/QUOTE]

What?

[PollytheParrot]

sorry that was poorly phrased

I wish I had that a long time ago

[Daemon White]

Is that Lost Alpha's Map?

[🦇Pachira🦇]

Fuck, I wish mega.co.nz would work with my kindle fire. Having no internet on my pc sucks.

[PollytheParrot]

[QUOTE=Daemon White;45251196]Is that Lost Alpha's Map?[/QUOTE]

soup

[etcetera]

Looks like Call of Chernobyl to me.

[ThaOneDon]

Banning people for opinions is not productive and destroys reputation.
Rather try to reason with them no matter how counter-productive it seems.
Maybe they actually have point, don't approach problems with prejudice.

This is what West Games doesn't understand.

I don't care about meaningless trivia about project,
most important thing is to know if the game is actually playable and if we have been lied to. Promises don't count. Kickstarter shouldn't be some
marketplace where you randomly throw money to anything thats nostalgic, instead developers should show exactly either in screenshots or gameplay to donators what they are working on.

This is exactly what companies do when they try to pitch games to publishers, NOBODY cares about your pitch/documents/resume actually, they want to know if you actually are capable of making anything.

[alundaio]

It's Call of Chernobyl's map. There are 21 levels there.

[quote]NOBODY cares about your pitch/documents/resume actually, they want to know if you actually are capable of making anything. [/quote]

True.

If any of those knowledgeable in lua want to know the quality of work of their Lead Game Designer just look for 'Distemper' in the scripts for all three games.

EDIT:

Hmm...look at how use of language changed for Areal on KS. Why do I get the feeling they gave TS that duty?

[Veniathan]

So here I am enjoying Clear Sky, and I decide I'll just try shooting Sakharov for shits and giggles to see what will happen. To my suprise, Sakharov panics, becomes hostile and suddenly gains a personality disorder where he talks in 2 different voices. Who knew?

[video=youtube;8Mb5f5YaUtM]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8Mb5f5YaUtM[/video]

[alundaio]

Areal screenshot from May of their supposed pre-alpha.

[url]http://imgur.com/a/hFRCq[/url]
[url]https://www.facebook.com/WestGames/photos/pb.210692392427612.-2207520000.1403627797./288312207998963/?type=3&theater[/url]

Translation: "Early screenshot of game"

EDIT:

By the way the first link is possible plagiarism.

[BloodShot12]

The first one looks like those STALKER mods that people claimed had "enhanced graphics" when all they did was crank up the bloom

[TheKingofBees]

[IMG]https://s3.amazonaws.com/ksr/assets/002/209/475/ad282fb3d581e6ab5fd5c109bec33cbe_large.jpg?1404085524[/IMG]

honestly that tank they posted looks like they took a T-90 wallpaper from battlefield off the net added a filter and painted over it in photoshop just saying that cause of the orange "digital" looking smudges on it

[Judqment8]

Does anyone know how can I edit the suit textures? I want these hands into my SGM 2.2:
[IMG]https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/8512731/Stalker/arms.png[/IMG]

These are from Geonezis and I want them into 2.2.

[ThaOneDon]

[QUOTE=Judqment8;45251603]Does anyone know how can I edit the suit textures? I want these hands into my SGM 2.2:
[IMG]https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/8512731/Stalker/arms.png[/IMG]

These are from Geonezis and I want them into 2.2.[/QUOTE]

look for textures that have "arm", "perchatka", "perchatko" in their name in textures/act folder, if its in gamedata.db*
file you might have to unpack it with socpup

[ThaOneDon]

What i don't get about AREAL is why won't they just post a short clip of current build of the game to show some game mechanic like a quest working to stop all the hate. It ain't that hard and it has no downsides.

[TheVoidDragon]

[QUOTE=alundaio;45251492]Areal screenshot from May of their supposed pre-alpha.

[url]http://imgur.com/a/hFRCq[/url]
[url]https://www.facebook.com/WestGames/photos/pb.210692392427612.-2207520000.1403627797./288312207998963/?type=3&theater[/url]

Translation: "Early screenshot of game"[/QUOTE]

Is that definitely their official Facebook page? If it is, things just keep getting worse.

[Beacon]

[QUOTE=alundaio;45251049][IMG]http://media.moddb.com/cache/images/mods/1/23/22598/thumb_620x2000/full_global_map.jpg[/IMG][/QUOTE]

nice work! interesting choice to use the CoP levels in those locations, but to each their own! loving the amount of smart terrains, nice job

[Judqment8]

[QUOTE=ThaOneDon;45251634]look for textures that have "arm", "perchatka", "perchatko" in their name in textures/act folder, if its in gamedata.db*
file you might have to unpack it with socpup[/QUOTE]

Thanks a lot. Got it working. Now I just need to adjust the stats and the descriptions.

EDIT: Also does anyone know where the suit inventory icons are located?

[TheKingofBees]

[QUOTE=nightlord;45252259]Is that definitely their official Facebook page? If it is, things just keep getting worse.[/QUOTE]

it is, they also have it on their VK and gave it to a russian games website too. i remember seeing them while looking up on areal.

[etcetera]

[QUOTE=Judqment8;45252407]Thanks a lot. Got it working. Now I just need to adjust the stats and the descriptions.

EDIT: Also does anyone know where the suit inventory icons are located?[/QUOTE]

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