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

[rylasasin]

[QUOTE=Muukkis;46511372]The main problem with Lost Alpha for me is the utter lack of replay value because the game world feels static and a lot of the quests are mainly composed of pointless walking back and forth where they make you walk the same distance twice/thrice even if it could've been resolved with only one trip(X-14 quest might be a good example of this).

The scenario design after the earlygame just completely loses it. The Dead City segment should be proof enough for most players that Dez0wave team just absolutely [I]hates[/I] replay value in a game, and Army Warehouses continues to shit on player choice and freedom by restricting the player out of all mission solving solutions besides the developer intended one. There are definitely great moments in Lost Alpha, but the missions around mid-game just suck all the fun out of it, because they barely contain any shooting and are just fetch quests in a world that doesn't seem to have any illusion of being dynamic in terms of how NPC movements go.

-You can't sequence break in Lost Alpha like you can in SoC/CoP
-You'll have to watch all the dumb in-game cutscenes that only serve to increase tedium and even break the gameplay in some places so it's not a good game to permadeath run in
-Player strategy is irrelevant : you'll get handed all the relevant guns without having to contribute yourself even slightly, not that you'd even need them a lot of the time seeing as many quests are just simple fetchquests without any shooting anyway.
-Little-to-no human A-Life activity in many areas, making backtracking ultra boring when you don't have any intelligent opponents to shoot at. There are a lot of mutants, though.
[/QUOTE]

Well if nothing else, it's a testament as to why the vanilla game turned out the way it did.

I can't wait for OGSE's 6.9.3 take on dead city, though. Haven't gotten around to seeing stalkersoup's take on it.

Honestly, the same human A-Life seems to be a problem for Stalkersoup too, or at least for me. I thought I read somewhere that a-life isn't really supposed to kick in until either you complete the main questline (and get the good ending) and start the collector, or at least until you shut off the brain scorcher. Is that right?

That, and I'm still trying to figure out who offers the best prices for what in stalkersoup, and how to make a lot of money. I know in OGSE you make the most cash by artifact and animal hunting while gunrunning really isn't that profitable (unless you're dealing with monolith weapons), though in Stalkersoup it seems to be the reverse: Animal parts are near worthless, and artifacts are not much better. Meanwhile guns sell for a lot more (plus unlike OGSE I don't need to carry around a huge honking mg42 just to have any sort of chance against the mutants. In fact, I find that in most cases a Saigia sniper with some buck/tungston is all that's ever really needed. I don't even really have much use for Darts/Slugs.)

[QUOTE=Muukkis;46511372]
The level hub and the remade levels in Lost Alpha are great, if there was a Xiani's LA that did nothing else, but rip out the main storyline and replace it with Freeplay and had some even decent A-Life, it'd be one of the best S.T.A.L.K.E.R. experiences, no doubt.[/QUOTE]

Doom's Mod Merge AE for LA? [B][U]SOMEONE MAKE THAT SHIT HAPPEN!![/U][/B]

[ERForman]

Seems logical to me that modders would take LA as a base and use Dez's SDK to take things to new heights. Unfortunately it seems it would take years. Everyone is more interested in expressing their own opinions as to what would be "perfect" rather than trying to achieve a consensus in order to move forward.

[Zackin5]

[QUOTE=bisousbisous;46511387]I recorded a blowout BUT forgot that I was playing Young Jeezy on youtube.
[video=youtube;UcW0G30vmFo]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UcW0G30vmFo[/video][/QUOTE]

Is that Misery or some other mod?

[BloodShot12]

[QUOTE=Sunday_Roast;46509101]Wouldn't mind seeing Call of Chernobyl merged with Gunslinger some beautiful day ;_;
At least it comes with OWR.[/QUOTE]

I think other mods have spoiled me, like STCoP weapons pack or Arsenal Overhaul

I shudder at the thought of getting rid of those mods for CoC and having to go back to sausage fingers :suicide:

[bisousbisous]

[QUOTE=Zackin5;46514822]Is that Misery or some other mod?[/QUOTE]

MISERY with Les Miserables and the armed zone

[Ghost101]

[QUOTE=bisousbisous;46516244]MISERY with Les Miserables and the armed zone[/QUOTE]

How well did you get those working together? I managed to get them playing nice for the most part, though I'm never sure how much Les Miserables is working.

[Intenso]

[t]http://media.moddb.com/images/mods/1/26/25727/a5a0164092.jpg[/t]

Is that... Uncle Yar? With a very Half-Life looking crowbar, too

[SupaBastad]

[QUOTE=Furioso;46516853][t]http://media.moddb.com/images/mods/1/26/25727/a5a0164092.jpg[/t]

Is that... Uncle Yar? With a very Half-Life looking crowbar, too[/QUOTE]

That silencer looks way too big.

[Tasowy]

Had the weirdest stalker dream. I was a bloodsucker, so was everyone else. It was a zone full of bloodsuckers, every npc was one. Hence there were no fights or killing, everyone was chilling around. But something was strange, noone was making any sounds. Only bloodsucker making some noise was me, and so everyone was always looking at me and listening to me (with their bloodsucker faces). So i wandered around the zone a little, collected some weapons and ammo, while everyone else was looking directly at me. Then i found a bloodsucker driving a truck, and then Sidorovich started talking to me in my head, he said "You have to go to Pripyat, you know it is your mission". So i hopped in the truck and we drove for a while and a loading screen appeared, then i woke up.

I mean wtf...

[Beacon]

[QUOTE=Furioso;46516853][t]http://media.moddb.com/images/mods/1/26/25727/a5a0164092.jpg[/t]

Is that... Uncle Yar? With a very Half-Life looking crowbar, too[/QUOTE]

apparently, yes

[Araknid]

[vid]https://zippy.gfycat.com/FortunateAfraidAmericanwirehair.webm[/vid]
monolith are sneeki breeki enough to get behind me but not peeki breeki enough to see me
nice

also dumping other shit
[media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yv-K2SQ9hJo[/media]
[media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=talqGnH9Xfs[/media]
[media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nNcjHsa-HRM[/media]

[BloodShot12]

[video=youtube;3nF2nlyyPX8]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3nF2nlyyPX8[/video]

that time again

[comet1337]

what exactly is gunslingers main idea?
one handed/small weapons with kickass animations and lots of features?

[etcetera]

[QUOTE=comet1337;46519103]what exactly is gunslingers main idea?
one handed/small weapons with kickass animations and lots of features?[/QUOTE]

From what I can tell, a lore friendly update of Stalker's weapons/consumables/devices with a consistent high quality.

[Ownederd]

shoker mod is pretty close, but not nearly as good as gunslinger's attention to detail

[Loner]

[QUOTE=Etcetera;46519126]From what I can tell, a lore friendly update of Stalker's weapons/consumables/devices with a consistent high quality.[/QUOTE]

It's more than that.

Ill ask Wolf for the full idea, he's on Skype anyway. Ill quote it in here. He once explained it in a post on ap-pro.ru but I don't want to bother searching for it.

[editline]18th November 2014[/editline]

Guess who is in the thread ...

[url]http://facepunch.com/member.php?u=532465[/url]

[t]http://www.facepunch.com/fp/ratings/heart.png[/t]

[Ghost101]

[QUOTE=Bloodshot12;46517465][video=youtube;3nF2nlyyPX8]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3nF2nlyyPX8[/video]

that time again[/QUOTE]

I hope he does more videos like these. Just seeing the animations is alright, but it looks better in motion in actual firefights.

[Cutthecrap]

Ok

I know I asked this before, but didn't get an answer.

Can somebody point me to, or make a reference/guide list of those crazy russian mods? Like, those that are released and what they do (or what do they break) etc etc. I need my russian daily fix and after AMK and OGSE I need more

[BloodShot12]

[QUOTE=LoNer1;46519363]
[editline]18th November 2014[/editline]

Guess who is in the thread ...

[url]http://facepunch.com/member.php?u=532465[/url]

[t]http://www.facepunch.com/fp/ratings/heart.png[/t][/QUOTE]

fuck it's like when you see a celebrity walking around in your town

I'm excited

[Hammer7]

[QUOTE=Cutthecrap;46522073]Ok

I know I asked this before, but didn't get an answer.

Can somebody point me to, or make a reference/guide list of those crazy russian mods? Like, those that are released and what they do (or what do they break) etc etc. I need my russian daily fix and after AMK and OGSE I need more[/QUOTE]

SoC - SOUP / Joint Pak
CS - R.E.B.O.R.N.
CoP - SGM

But I warn you - there is no way back once you go full Russian.

[rylasasin]

Just curious, but is Doom's Mod Merge (or DMM:AE) still being worked on, or is it pretty much finalized by now?

[TicTac]

Best mod(s) for Clear Sky? Preferably ones that make the game pretty and adds weapons.

[Kimr]

[QUOTE=rylasasin;46523189]Just curious, but is Doom's Mod Merge (or DMM:AE) still being worked on, or is it pretty much finalized by now?[/QUOTE]

Anon edition is still being worked on. He got more things planned the guy working on it.

[NikolaT]

Im going to sell my sunrise and sphere-08 for a SP-99M and some additional armor modules. The way I see it, it is a much better multipurpose suit. Its durability isnt much less than the sunrise suit, and the sunrise and sphere together are about 13kg, wheras the SP-99M with two aluminum rigs is under 10kg with comparable durability and anomaly protection that is miles ahead. Add on some steel plates which fixes the armor problem mostly and I still have two slots for whatever I want. The only downside is probably the head armor which isnt as much as the sphere, but its still level III which is good enough for the most common guns.

It also looks p. cool and will fit in when I set up my base of operations in the ecologists bunker.

[Gyroburner]

Anyone know what the hell this means?

[IMG]http://i.imgur.com/jzD7NsQ.png[/IMG]

Trying to play Autumn Aurora 2.1 and I get this at about "Loading Shaders".

[DeeCeeTeeBee]

[QUOTE=GyroburnerV2;46524807]Anyone know what the hell this means?

[IMG]http://i.imgur.com/jzD7NsQ.png[/IMG]

Trying to play Autumn Aurora 2.1 and I get this at about "Loading Shaders".[/QUOTE]

ctrl+v in to notepad after the crash

that'll actually paste the useful and usable information regarding the crash, then post that for the wizards

[Col. Buggernuts]

[QUOTE=rylasasin;46523189]Just curious, but is Doom's Mod Merge (or DMM:AE) still being worked on, or is it pretty much finalized by now?[/QUOTE]I've entirely lost interest in STALKER modding, but the one doing the AE is still going strong afaik

[Ajaxial]

[QUOTE=Sgt Doom;46525056]I've entirely lost interest in STALKER modding, but the one doing the AE is still going strong afaik[/QUOTE]

Wait. There is a currently worked on version of your mod merge? How did I miss that.

[Col. Buggernuts]

[QUOTE=Jamie1992GSC;46525065]Wait. There is a currently worked on version of your mod merge? How did I miss that.[/QUOTE]I didn't know about it until fairly recently, either.

[NikolaT]

Wow the new suit proved itself as a p. damn good multipurpose suit right away. I decided to go through the space anomaly at the burnt farmstead, got the helicopter, then went to grab a few artifacts at the circus anomaly after killing the poltergeist. While I was in the middle of the anomaly apparently a bandit squad crested the hill and saw me, so I ended up fighting off a bandit squad while surrounded by fire anomalies. The suit lost like 1 bar of condition which was p. good, and it handled the bandits weapons well.