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

[Doneeh]

[QUOTE=LoNer1;49214322]There hasn't been loads of news in the stalker world on the surface, but below it there's so much good stuff going on that it's seriously hard for me to keep my excitement to myself.[/QUOTE]

Like what? I haven't been keeping up with the times?

[BloodShot12]

Are there any console commands to decrease the draw distance/add fog? I wanna see if i can make the games more laptop friendly

[[Green]]

[QUOTE=Beacon;49221900][B]MOTY 2015[/B]

It's that time of year again! New media abound over the course of the month, but please make sure you click one of the images below to head to the ModDB page, hit the homepage and click to vote!

[URL="http://www.moddb.com/mods/stalker-wormwood/images/sunken#imagebox"][t]http://media.moddb.com/images/mods/1/15/14909/2015-12-01_00007_WM.png[/t][/URL]

[url=http://www.moddb.com/mods/stalker-wormwood/images/damp#imagebox][t]http://media.moddb.com/images/mods/1/15/14909/2015-12-01_00005_WM.png[/t][/url][/QUOTE]

If these screenshots were any darker I'd think they were taken from a bandit's conscience.

[Loner]

[QUOTE=Doneeh;49222275]Like what? I haven't been keeping up with the times?[/QUOTE]

I'm part of the Ray Of Hope team. Loads of cool dudes. Loads of russians, too :v: I'm learning new russian curse words by the day

[Beacon]

[QUOTE='[Green];49222447']If these screenshots were any darker I'd think they were taken from a bandit's conscience.[/QUOTE]

heh, it's dependent on your monitor, they're pretty light on my new one!

[Kimr]

[QUOTE=Beacon;49221900][B]MOTY 2015[/B]

It's that time of year again! New media abound over the course of the month, but please make sure you click one of the images below to head to the ModDB page, hit the homepage and click to vote![/QUOTE]

Doom 3 called. It want it's darkness back

[Ghost101]

[QUOTE=Cone;49220513]now i'm not entirely sure how good this would feel in practice, but it would be cool if you picked guns based more on unique qualities and how they handle instead of arbitrary damage values. like taking a statistically inferior SMG into a cramped bunker so you can easily shoot dudes who all brought super huge machine guns. it would make for more viable end-game guns at least[/QUOTE]

I think that's kind of what handling is for, right? I just never really see it take effect other than huge LMGs, sniper rifles, or launchers. It should probaby be more noticeable across everything, with SMGs and pistols being the easiest to aim and use, and AR's being harder to use indoors because of slower aiming.

[Beacon]

[QUOTE=kimr120;49223631]Doom 3 called. It want it's darkness back[/QUOTE]

~dark like my soul~~~

[BloodShot12]

Are places like skadovsk and yanov gonna have more outdoor lighting? It always kinda bugged me how they are settlements but unless you are inside you can't see jack shit without a light.

also asking again cuz i'd really like to get it running better

[QUOTE=Bloodshot12;49222366]Are there any console commands to decrease the draw distance/add fog? I wanna see if i can make the games more laptop friendly[/QUOTE]

[Beacon]

[QUOTE=Bloodshot12;49224054]Are places like skadovsk and yanov gonna have more outdoor lighting? It always kinda bugged me how they are settlements but unless you are inside you can't see jack shit without a light.

also asking again cuz i'd really like to get it running better[/QUOTE]

yup!

[editline]2nd December 2015[/editline]

usually fires and the like

[Mkoll]

I was playing with the warfare addon for CoC, which is reminiscent of faction wars for Clear Sky, and I started a playthrough as Clear Sky. After an arduous campaign we had driven the military from the swamps. I had just sold the artifacts I had collected when I looked at the map... somehow the loners had taken over all of the smart terrains except our base and a few outposts. Our squads were still there, but somehow the deeds had gone to the loners.
:suicide:

So I changed the faction relations so that Clear Sky and the Loners were at -1000 mutual relations. After another few arduous campaigns (including one where the fishing village became stalingrad vs the army) we became the owners of the swamps and cordon. Having secured our corner of the zone, I edited the file again to normalize relations. Now there are many fewer loners trying to squat on our territory!

Now the faction AI wants to take the Garbage, which is solidly owned by Duty (I set it up so we fight them too. I also set Freedom to neutral vs us and set Freedom and the Mercs to war.)

I plan to take a strong squad into Agroprom and spearhead the way, enouraging the AI to follow. After that I will disable the Miracle Machine and then the Brain Scorcher. Incidentally, I named my character Strelok :v:

Sidenote: I strongly expect the ecologists to steal/squat on smart terrains until the zone is theirs.

[BloodShot12]

Does anybody know how to fix this? A while back I made a SoC trailer music mod for CoC for combat music, but sometimes when I kill people the music just loops forever until i exit the level.

[Araknid]

[QUOTE=Mkoll;49224562]I was playing with the warfare addon for CoC, which is reminiscent of faction wars for Clear Sky, and I started a playthrough as Clear Sky. After an arduous campaign we had driven the military from the swamps. I had just sold the artifacts I had collected when I looked at the map... somehow the loners had taken over all of the smart terrains except our base and a few outposts. Our squads were still there, but somehow the deeds had gone to the loners.
:suicide:

So I changed the faction relations so that Clear Sky and the Loners were at -1000 mutual relations. After another few arduous campaigns (including one where the fishing village became stalingrad vs the army) we became the owners of the swamps and cordon. Having secured our corner of the zone, I edited the file again to normalize relations. Now there are many fewer loners trying to squat on our territory!

Now the faction AI wants to take the Garbage, which is solidly owned by Duty (I set it up so we fight them too. I also set Freedom to neutral vs us and set Freedom and the Mercs to war.)

I plan to take a strong squad into Agroprom and spearhead the way, enouraging the AI to follow. After that I will disable the Miracle Machine and then the Brain Scorcher. Incidentally, I named my character Strelok :v:

Sidenote: I strongly expect the ecologists to steal/squat on smart terrains until the zone is theirs.[/QUOTE]

Sounds pretty cool, would you say its worth bothering to get?

[DoomMarine23]

Oh fuck, there is no way I can finish Mr.Man in the game to be in time for MOTY
LET ME WHIP UP AN AWESOME 3DSMAX RENDER

[Mkoll]

From my experience with the warfare addon I would say it is definitely worth a try!

I am playing with the latest version of CoC. I installed AO3 on top of that, then the AO3 hotfix, then the latest version of the warfare addon (I forget the version number, I am afraid; it is probably going to be rapidly updated in any case)

Edit: I got all these from ModDB

[Kingo64]

[QUOTE=Beacon;49223054]heh, it's dependent on your monitor, they're pretty light on my new one![/QUOTE]
Looks almost black on my IPS.

[Beacon]

[QUOTE=K1ngo64;49226649]Looks almost black on my IPS.[/QUOTE]

yeah it's funny, darker on my IPS and lighter on my new 4K TN that I just got, where I took it (and downscaled to 2.5k)

oh well, dark is good - you always have a flashlight ;)

[Daemon White]

[QUOTE=Beacon;49226934]yeah it's funny, darker on my IPS and lighter on my new 4K TN that I just got, where I took it (and downscaled to 2.5k)

oh well, dark is good - you always have a flashlight ;)[/QUOTE]

Try running your monitor settings with this test

[url]http://www.lagom.nl/lcd-test/[/url]

See what happens after calibrating it.

[BloodShot12]

Finally found out why my textures weren't saving properly for STALKER, so started converting old build vegetation to CoC for that OL/SoC skybox pack i was making

[t]http://images.akamai.steamusercontent.com/ugc/644375927092985223/214A6E09DF488EFF79B9239CF2431F00EC884820/[/t]

[t]http://images.akamai.steamusercontent.com/ugc/644375927092985628/F6AE1298325C0F74AE9C1E1162E26194DB21D0A5/[/t]

[t]http://images.akamai.steamusercontent.com/ugc/644375927093004533/E5D52F78C2821B8693D7B09C53C307E5DF48EF3E/[/t]

[Loner]

Gunslinger lives! ... for now. New PDA model. Hopefully we'll be able to do lots of stuff with these badboys. I wonder how they're going to get rid of the UI element of the PDA.

Maybe like the exo skeleton. Wonder what functionality they'll give it

[IMG]http://media.moddb.com/images/mods/1/27/26832/pda_hp.jpg[/IMG]

[BloodShot12]

Oh god PDA screen on the model plz.

[cdr248]

far cry 2 slav soup edition when

[BloodShot12]

[t]http://media.moddb.com/images/mods/1/12/11987/ss_xray_10-27-15_21-43-45_la08_deadcity.jpg[/t]

Apparently the LA devs ported the weapons and hand system from CoP so now the arm meshes change with your armor

EDIT:

Is there any simple way to change the color of the sunlight for different times of day in CoC (or regular atmosfear even?) I want to make the sunsets more orange

[Lyokanthrope]

[QUOTE=Bloodshot12;49229018]Finally found out why my textures weren't saving properly for STALKER, so started converting old build vegetation to CoC for that OL/SoC skybox pack i was making

-snip-
[/QUOTE]

please share when you're done

[editline]2nd December 2015[/editline]

[QUOTE=Bloodshot12;49229794][t]http://media.moddb.com/images/mods/1/12/11987/ss_xray_10-27-15_21-43-45_la08_deadcity.jpg[/t]

Apparently the LA devs ported the weapons and hand system from CoP so now the arm meshes change with your armor

EDIT:

Is there any simple way to change the color of the sunlight for different times of day in CoC (or regular atmosfear even?) I want to make the sunsets more orange[/QUOTE]

also you can probably just extract CoC's configs.db and modify the weather files in the environment folder

[kiloy]

Dunno what mod this is but it looks great
[video=youtube;jnhZi_RNfmc]https://www.youtube.com/watch?&v=jnhZi_RNfmc[/video]

[editline]2nd December 2015[/editline]

I'm dumb, its for Shoker. Looked like Gunslinger for a minute

[Ghost101]

I think that's one of the first times I've actually seen an animated reload using the shell bandolier. That's pretty cool.

[Beacon]

Exciting looking Chernobyl in VR project!

[url]http://kotaku.com/explore-chernobyl-without-dying-from-radiation-1745850462?utm_campaign=Socialflow_Kotaku_Facebook&utm_source=Kotaku_Facebook&utm_medium=Socialflow[/url]

Sorry for the Kotaku

Would be much cheaper than going back in person that's for sure. The use of photogrammetry looks like it's perfect for this!

[Wulfram]

[video=youtube;dpxf_5xmsL0]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dpxf_5xmsL0[/video]

[Zezibesh]

these sort of small and nonintrusive animations are what really make games immersive imo. long eating animations like misery are dumb, but something that lasts just a few seconds should help with immersion.

[Wulfram]

[QUOTE=Zezibesh;49236939]these sort of small and nonintrusive animations are what really make games immersive imo. long eating animations like misery are dumb, but something that lasts just a few seconds should help with immersion.[/QUOTE]

I LOVE stuff like that in games. Like reaching out to pick stuff up or open a door, animations for using items. I'm so glad that Gunslinger is adding so many things like that.