S.T.A.L.K.E.R. Series Megathread: "A Typical Day In The Zone" - Games

F.A.O Beacon: [QUOTE] Cap2 Sep 29 2015 says: Hi Dez, and team - I've posted a tread on wormwood, asking beac if he would consider working with you guys, he says he has offered his help, but that he had never heard back from you... would you consider accepting his help? - check it out: Moddb.com Let me know please Dez. [/QUOTE] [QUOTE] dezodor 16hours 42mins ago replied: I searched thru my private messages here on moddb, didn't find any chat with Beac at all, so probably he sent messages to our team email, which is checked many of us in team, and its possible it was ignored by some of us. I will contact him, if he has time, and knowledge to offer, we would like to work with him. [/QUOTE] [url]http://www.moddb.com/mods/lost-alpha[/url]

[QUOTE=Mezzokoko;48798574]There is, but different mechanics do different upgrades. Check out Forrester in Red Forest for pretty much any upgrade you need without having to do the mechanic fetch quests.[/QUOTE] Nope. No upgrades for Monolith suit. Not even Forester can do.

So if want to make a shitload of money in CoC and you have STCSWP installed [sp]take the sights off every gun you find using the removesight thing in your inventory, most sights sell for ~5k each. Fuck doing quests[/sp] :v:

One gun (i forget which) and sight combo (its one of the red dots) is glitched so you can spam removesight and get a million of them to sell

Does the STALKER modding tools allow weather lighting changes? Ambient, directional, sky, fog, bloom, etc?

[video=youtube_share;19d7qsq01ME]http://youtu.be/19d7qsq01ME[/video] I see CoC got rid of the chanting monolith members and added a single fire lord to the game

So does CoC have fast travel?

[QUOTE=Bloodshot12;48798845]Alright as soon as I got to Limansk i noticed this Mercs, engage them with a silenced pistol and they dont even know where I am while i stand out in the open in front of them for 10 seconds, they look toward the sound of my gun firing but dont actually see me. This is pretty bad as it turned what would've been a hard battle into me murdering a whole squad of them and getting crazy good guns. They've (or anyone who's gonna mod it) gotta fix this ASAP[/QUOTE] try setting [B]min_view_distance[/B] in [B]m_stalker.ltx[/B] for [B]stalker_vision_danger[/B] like this: [stalker_vision_danger] min_view_distance = 0.7 ; min range of cone based on eye_range

[QUOTE=HoodedSniper;48799978]So does CoC have fast travel?[/QUOTE] Nope. Not even vehicles.

[IMG]http://www.epicstalker.com/uploads/screenshot%20(1).jpg[/IMG] [IMG]http://www.epicstalker.com/uploads/screenshot%20(2).jpg[/IMG] [IMG]http://www.epicstalker.com/uploads/screenshot%20(3).jpg[/IMG] [IMG]http://www.epicstalker.com/uploads/screenshot%20(4).jpg[/IMG] I'm getting a lot of complaints that CoC looks like shit (Some even going as far as saying SoC or CS looks better), which is kind of blowing my mind. Do these look bad? The only thing I'm doing is forcing AA with my GPU because X-Ray's AA is old tech (basically blur).

[QUOTE=alundaio;48800288] I'm getting a lot of complaints that CoC looks like shit (Some even going as far as saying SoC or CS looks better), which is kind of blowing my mind. Do these look bad? The only thing I'm doing is forcing AA with my GPU because X-Ray's AA is old tech (basically blur).[/QUOTE] Lots of people getting the wash-out look and not realising how to turn it off?

[QUOTE=Etcetera;48800300]Lots of people getting the wash-out look and not realising how to turn it off?[/QUOTE] [IMG]http://i.imgur.com/9eaUNt9.jpg[/IMG] Someone sent me this. They must not have object or texture detail up high or something.

I get the same on some maps during sunny weather in particular, and everything is at max. Setting default colour balance and whatsit from the AF3 menu seemed to fix some of it. I'll have to do a clean install again and do some more thorough before/after testing.

[QUOTE=Sgt Doom;48800587]I get the same on some maps during sunny weather in particular, and everything is at max. Setting default colour balance and whatsit from the AF3 menu seemed to fix some of it. I'll have to do a clean install again and do some more thorough before/after testing.[/QUOTE] Really? Look exactly like above? That looks horrible like texture detail and shadow detail is on minimal. Download this: [url]http://pastebin.com/0fMD02TF[/url] save as [B]external.ltx[/B] and put into [B]gamedata\configs\[/B] Tell me if you see any improvement in texture quality.

Also what's with the supernova light sources? Have to shoot nearly every lamp to save my eyes from melting.

check bloomsettings and sun hemi and amb or turn off r2_allow_r1_lights but that will kill fires and some other lights. EDIT: Instead check r2_tonemap in the console. With the right settings you can have R1 lights on and not burn your eyes out.

So yeah the AI in CoC is retarded. I murdered all the mercs in Dead city with like 80 rounds of 5.56. Also how do I get it workign on Steam? Adding it to steam non-steam games doesnt work as it launches a different exe file after running CoC.exe.

Set the target of the link to \_bin\xrEngine.exe and the working directory in the root of CoC. You will have to rename the fsgame_coc.ltx to fsgame.ltx. This lets you circumvent having to use the stalker-coc.exe and launch xrengine directly. It also fixed prompting UAC for me and having to play as an administrator. [IMG]http://i.imgur.com/u6DrmIB.png[/IMG]

:snip: i'm dumb nvm

[QUOTE=Mezzokoko;48802628]Set the target of the link to \_bin\xrEngine.exe and the working directory in the root of CoC. You will have to rename the fsgame_coc.ltx to fsgame.ltx. This lets you circumvent having to use the stalker-coc.exe and launch xrengine directly. It also fixed prompting UAC for me and having to play as an administrator. [IMG]http://i.imgur.com/u6DrmIB.png[/IMG][/QUOTE] installing things on the c drive just ew

I could use some advice from somebody who knows how the alife works in detail. So I've been trying to cope with the lack of faction war by increasing the companion limit to about a hundred and do large freedom raids on the Dark Valley bandit base. I divided the troop to stay both there and at the small camp in the south, by the Darkscape levelchanger. Over shorter periods they stay there just fine, but after a day or two they just get replaced by bandits. Is this a simulation thing, where they actually get counterattacked and defeated while the map is offline, or do they "expire" and just get replaced? [QUOTE=alundaio;48800288]I'm getting a lot of complaints that CoC looks like shit (Some even going as far as saying SoC or CS looks better), which is kind of blowing my mind. Do these look bad? The only thing I'm doing is forcing AA with my GPU because X-Ray's AA is old tech (basically blur).[/QUOTE] Did you manage to force this on DX11? Because I struggle myself to get AA working atm.

[QUOTE=kimr120;48801919]check bloomsettings and sun hemi and amb or turn off r2_allow_r1_lights but that will kill fires and some other lights. EDIT: Instead check r2_tonemap in the console. With the right settings you can have R1 lights on and not burn your eyes out.[/QUOTE] dx11 renderer uses r1 config settings for campfires and the flashlight, you can fix the campfires not working without having to use r1 lights on top of r2 lights by editing zone_campfire.ltx in gamedata\configs\zones\ and changing all instances of idle_light_r1 = false to idle_light_r1 = true. source: [url]http://www.gsc-game.com/index.php?t=community&s=forums&s_game_type=xr3&thm_page=5&thm_id=5265&sec_id=20&no_transl=3.8[/url] i'm too lazy to unpack coc so if you do this, pls copy paste the text file's contents to pastebin and link it to me. [QUOTE=Mezzokoko;48804537] Did you manage to force this on DX11? Because I struggle myself to get AA working atm.[/QUOTE] cop supports msaa on dx10 or higher not sure why anyone needs to force anything, unless you want transparency antialiasing. edit: also im really not sure why the coc devs didn't just add that fix in, super simple takes 5 seconds and fixes a big problem.

it's amazing how broken the DX11 renderer is.

[QUOTE=Lyokanthrope;48804705]it's amazing how broken the DX11 renderer is.[/QUOTE] Yep, went back to DX10 and it loads faster, is more stable and almost no random freeze/stutters. I would even play on DX9 but can't get antialiasing to work.

I hope the 1.6 github fixs that. COC uses that.

[QUOTE=Hammer7;48804906]Yep, went back to DX10 and it loads faster, is more stable and almost no random freeze/stutters. I would even play on DX9 but can't get antialiasing to work.[/QUOTE] I dropped to DX9 because it loads near instantly for me. DX11 can take 40 seconds to a minute depending on the map which i cannot stand even though it's the initial load

[QUOTE=Hammer7;48804906] I would even play on DX9 but can't get antialiasing to work.[/QUOTE] and you never will.

[QUOTE=Odellus;48804677]cop supports msaa on dx10 or higher not sure why anyone needs to force anything, unless you want transparency antialiasing. edit: also im really not sure why the coc devs didn't just add that fix in, super simple takes 5 seconds and fixes a big problem.[/QUOTE] MSAA worked [del]alright[/del] somtimes in DX10, but unfortunately that renderer is prone to frequent crashing on my end, so I decided to stick with DX11 now, which has visible jaggies.

there's really no benefit to DX11 in CoP other than a SLIGHT performance increase and, uhhh, tessellation I guess? It's bugs outweigh the benefits of actually using it. Though to be fair a few of the visual bugs could be easily fixed just by doing an if statement checking for DX11 in the same areas as DX10. [editline]2nd October 2015[/editline] I used to play on DX11 almost exclusively because of the 'maximum' shadow quality and I recently learned that actually works in DX10.1 so there's no point anymore lol

Figured out a working set of DX11 AA compatibility bits on Nvidia GPUs (you gotta force with [URL="http://www.guru3d.com/files-details/nvidia-inspector-download.html"]nvidiainspector[/URL]): 4xMSAA + 4xSGSSAA - 0x80000213 [URL="http://i.imgur.com/AOuMBnr.png"](pic)[/URL] Ye also gotta disable the AA ingame in order for this to work. 4xMSAA+4xSGSSAA [t]http://i.cubeupload.com/MOpiUh.png[/t] CoP's built-in 4xAA [t]http://i.cubeupload.com/rOLgds.png[/t]