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

[Araknid]

god damn I want call of chernobyl
shit looks baller

[Drk]

Gunslinger when

[Judqment8]

AREAL wastes all their time trying to look innocent and badmouthing the trolls. Why the fuck can't they just ignore the people and at least try to act as officially as possible and actually promote the game.

Like 70% of their updates involve claiming that they are real, how people are badmouthing them, trolls flooding their comments and how they want your support. How about actually concentrating on things that actually matter.

It's just so disgusting and weak.

[Tinter]

[QUOTE=Judqment8;45454644]AREAL wastes all their time trying to look innocent and badmouthing the trolls. Why the fuck can't they just ignore the people and at least try to act as officially as possible and actually promote the game.

Like 70% of their updates involve claiming that they are real, how people are badmouthing them, trolls flooding their comments and how they want your support. How about actually concentrating on things that actually matter.

It's just so disgusting and weak.[/QUOTE]

Because they're trying to scam people and the evidence piles against them.

[StickyWicket]

Just so I don't forget: You can find the full 28 track OST from SoC [URL="http://www.game-ost.com/albums/828/s.t.a.l.k.e.r._shadow_of_chernobyl_the_complete_original_game_soundtrack_%28g-ost_exclusive%29/"]here[/URL].

[editline]21st July 2014[/editline]

The formatting and stuff is kinda fucked up, but with a few edits you can get it all labeled.

[Doneeh]

Was digging through my old screenshots and thought I'd post em:

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Massive fight between a shit ton of dogs and a pseudogiant.
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Bandits don't give a fuck.
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[StickyWicket]

IN FACT... I tell you guys what, I'm going to format the soundtrack and put it up for download to save y'all the trouble.

[Cyteless]

Not sure if this has been posted before:

[video=youtube;JC2egrdAVYs]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JC2egrdAVYs[/video]

[StickyWicket]

Alright, [URL="https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/20907409/shit/S.T.A.L.K.E.R.%20Shadow%20of%20Chernobyl%20The%20Complete%20Original%20Game%20Soundtrack.zip"]here's[/URL] the SoC soundtrack, ready to go!

[editline]21st July 2014[/editline]

Uploading to Dropbox so it might take a few to go up.

[Teh Zip File]

[QUOTE=Doneeh;45456742]Was digging through my old screenshots and thought I'd post em:[/QUOTE]

Old screenshots?

[t]http://i.imgur.com/UxT3mZV.jpg[/t][t]http://i.imgur.com/o1JajhN.jpg[/t]
[t]http://i.imgur.com/IRj449r.jpg[/t][t]http://i.imgur.com/hugogH5.jpg[/t]
[t]http://i.imgur.com/4dEZOVs.jpg[/t][t]http://i.imgur.com/mOOtK5I.jpg[/t]
[t]http://i.imgur.com/LdGhTXh.jpg[/t]
[img]http://i.imgur.com/6sbnM0e.jpg[/img]
[img]http://i.imgur.com/iAwaq2H.jpg[/img]

Old screenshots.

[Daemonion]

[QUOTE=CMB Unit 01;45456841]Not sure if this has been posted before[/QUOTE]
I was not expecting to laugh so hard at something so stupid. That video was gold, thanks.

[H.Drescher]

Does anyone know how to edit a quicksave file so you can get full hp?

I quicksaved when a bloodsucker was right behind me and he keeps killing me everytime my quicksave loads and it's rather frusterating since I don't want to lose several hours of progress.

Nevermind, I fixed it by messing around in the config files for a while. Now I just gotta fix what I messed up.

[ThaOneDon]

Power of Lost Alpha DX10 + SLAM Project

Check the graphics (DX10 + S3r1ous SweetFX v5 + S3r1ous Shaders v5):
FUUUUUUUUUUUU

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I'm so full of myself njahahahaha :zoid:

SLAM Project:
[url]http://freetexthost.com/q134pzdcl5[/url]

[nater]

[QUOTE=ThaOneDon;45461811]
I'm so full of myself njahahahaha :zoid:
[/QUOTE]

I agree, especially because some of those screenshots look like shit...

[alpha100f]

No pack of screenshots, my page is loading slowly already... Umm, why there is no spoiler tag here?

[ThaOneDon]

[QUOTE=nater;45462453]I agree, especially because some of those screenshots look like shit...[/QUOTE]

Oh i'm sorry that i didn't study photography

:words:

[Pops]

any more news on areal commando? that gameplay was lovingly horrible.

[nater]

[QUOTE=ThaOneDon;45463005]Oh i'm sorry that i didn't study photography
[/QUOTE]

Me neither, but I can tell from the range indicator alone that it is filter raped.

[Loner]

[QUOTE=nater;45463604]Me neither, but I can tell from the range indicator alone that it is filter raped.[/QUOTE]

I also see some stuff that puts me off from it;

- Noise, everywhere. You obviously used new textures and didn't correctly mipmap them for LA,
- Lighting looks awful. Especially on the very last screenshot. Looks like you applied a +20 sharpen filter on it as well, because the edges of most trees and leaves look pitchblack (side effect of too much sharpening)
- No bloom, no apparent DX10 features that were in CoP / CS. Vanilla CS looks better than your modpack while vanilla LA > CS. You didn't make the game more pretty, you made it sharper. That's all.
- The authors arrogance and lack of reacting on provided feedback, blunt and to the point or not.

[Drk]

People needs to stop making the association that sharpen = details.

Saw this shit too many times. The only thing a strong sharp filter will make is making the jaggies stand out even more.

I rather play with something a bit blurry than that.

[ThaOneDon]

This is hilarious i dont even have sharpening on.

And you are wrong every. texture. is. mipmapped. properly.

[Daemon White]

Is it just me, or is anyone else stuck in infinite cloudy weather in Lost Alpha?

I haven't seen sunshine or the sky in almost 3 in-game days.

[ThaOneDon]

[QUOTE=Daemon White;45466013]Is it just me, or is anyone else stuck in infinite cloudy weather in Lost Alpha?

I haven't seen sunshine or the sky in almost 3 in-game days.[/QUOTE]

Its stuck in alpha_r2, its a bug widely known on Lost Alpha forums. Perhaps you should take a look.

Workaround is to temperoarily switch to Static and back.

[Loner]

[QUOTE=ThaOneDon;45465437]This is hilarious i dont even have sharpening on.

And you are wrong every. texture. is. mipmapped. properly.[/QUOTE]

Still doesn't change the fact that it doesn't look very good. Like I said, bloom makes up for a lot, even when it's added in tiny amounts.

Also that 2nd to last picture, there's no shadows in the trees and the shadows themselves are really bland. Try to work on the balance between light and dark and add some bloom. Doesn't look like DX10 at all in some screens, looks like DX9 at the most.

Also, acting arrogant wont help you any further, that I can tell you.

[Kirovich]

Lmao, they do look pretty bad though.

[ThaOneDon]

Shadows have been mitigated for a reason. I want it to look like vanilla Lost Alpha shadows because some parts of the game and night becomes pitch black otherwise.

Bloom is on, its just more visible against light sources like lamps and candles. I tried to keep it minimum because every SweetFX preset usually tries to over-do it with Bloom, same problems excist with ENB presets.

Yeah right .... bad ... *boohoo* ... hey i like to express my feelings. Unfortunately writing it down as text they have to be little amplified.

I appreciate any feedback.

[Loner]

SweetFX? More visible with light sources? ENB presets?

What the hell are you talking about? All I was talking about were mod-related things, not 3rd party plugins. Adding SweetFX to your game isn't considered [I]modding[/I] in my book.

Bloom can be configured with use of the weather files and user.ltx,
Lighting ditto,
Sharpness is due to wrong texture compression / wrong use of mipmaps. Adding mipmaps =/= having the right algorithm.

I'm getting the vibe that you actually don't know what you're talking about. I've also read that recently, how you denied putting something game-breaking in your modpack, while it indeed was there and blamed it on someone else? IIRC the author of that minimod? You know once you implant something into your own creation, you're the one responsible, right?

And while I'm at it now, I'm starting to ask myself a question. [I]What did you actually do with LA[/I], except of adding in other people their content with a few of your own 'tweaks', then calling it your own? Do you even have the slightest of modding knowledge or ... ?

Sorry, but you're making a very bad impression on me. I'm just astounded by your reactions. You're getting feedback from people who know what they're talking about (not only me here on this forum, but GSC as well), yet you blow everything out of the way and tell them "yeah it's already present [I][B]you[/B] just dont see it[/I]".

You're acting like Vintar and I don't like him either. Also, there's no need to 'amplify your emotions'. What emotions? If you're clear, things should be quite easy for anyone. Putting emotion in your posts wont make the content any better.

Cheers

[Kirovich]

So Areal's KS got suspended.

Praise be the mighty monolith!

[Daemonion]

[QUOTE=Kirovich;45467115]So Areal's KS got suspended.[/QUOTE]
What an interesting ride this has been.

[Wulfram]

Boy is Putin going to be upset by this!