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

[ECS]

I only recommend Misery if you know well the location of vanilla stashes and know the maps well by looking at landmarks. If you have played Misery before then you know what to expect, otherwise prepare for a life of misery.

[Muukkis]

[QUOTE=Mango;48313942]Misery or Redux for COP?[/QUOTE]

Misery has content and a thematic change, Redux is mostly a rebalance mod, though it has some graphical upgrades and gameplay changes as well. Redux is good if you want a slightly harsher experience than Vanilla, but want the experience to be closer to the Vanilla game.

[Ghost101]

[QUOTE=Muukkis;48314388]Misery has content and a thematic change, Redux is mostly a rebalance mod, though it has some graphical upgrades and gameplay changes as well. Redux is good if you want a slightly harsher experience than Vanilla, but want the experience to be closer to the Vanilla game.[/QUOTE]

Yeah, that's probably the best way to describe it. Misery is completely different, Redux is like a more hardcore vanilla.

[Goberfish]

[QUOTE=Daemon White;48310267]What about the twisted tree in Zaton that had an artifact at the top?[/QUOTE]

Also that weird as growth between those two buildings in Call of Pripyat's Pripyat

[Heigou]

Well, SGM 2.2 sure was disappointing. I figured the addition of new maps would be fun but it's actually implemented so badly.

Cordon's trader wont buy your shit and sells nothing so you're stuck fighting with the 0 condition weapons you find that jams every 5 bullets and never have any money to repair. On top of that, they pit you against ENTIRE MAPS of bandits, I mean like literally all of Cordon except for the original village and the cordon itself was just bandits after bandits.

I had to attack a camp of something like 20 bandits with my no accuracy gun that jammed every other seconds and I had to actually fight a fucking bandit in an exoskeleton. Best of all, I had to repeat that TWICE after because there was two other camps that I was required to kill everyone in to advance the story.

Finally done with the Cordon, I arrive in the Swamp hoping it will be better but nah, literally the entire map is nothing but bandits, every single camp is a bandit camp with anywhere from 10 to 30 bandits with a quest that gives you no direction whatsoever. I encountered an invincible bandit just now and that was it, I just had to quit because my fun was being sucked away. I literally emptied a good 10 clips in him from point blank just to figure out if he was just really tough but I had to give up.

What the fuck happened with SGM 2.2?

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[Ghost101]

Which is the right SGM to play anyway? There's way too many versions of it.

[Hammer7]

[QUOTE=Ghost101;48317566]Which is the right SGM to play anyway? There's way too many versions of it.[/QUOTE]

Vanilla SGM 2.2. No Enot Edition, no Zaton start.
The only thing you do is disable mines. But not the ones at Swamps, these are a part of quest.

[NikolaT]

So whats the deal with the compass artifacts in STALKER? I want to get the One of Ours acheivement, and I have two compass artifacts from killing noa, but I cant give them to beard. I have done the ambush and transaction quests and both times I sided with the stalkers, I should be able to give these to beard now, right?

[ECS]

Noah has two Compass in his inventory. You can give the Compass to Beard when he asks you to do so. Also you don't need to kill Noah to get the Compass.

[Heigou]

[QUOTE=Hammer7;48317977]Vanilla SGM 2.2. No Enot Edition, no Zaton start.
The only thing you do is disable mines. But not the ones at Swamps, these are a part of quest.[/QUOTE]

But the no Zaton start is shit, just look at my post up a few posts.

[Pops]

[QUOTE=E.C.S;48318255]Noah has two Compass in his inventory. You can give the Compass to Beard when he asks you to do so. Also you don't need to kill Noah to get the Compass.[/QUOTE]

heh, when i went to find noah, and that fuckface shot through the door, i knew he had to die no matter what.

[Daemon White]

Imagine if someone made Noah shoot a delayed 3rd blast in a mod. That would mess up so many people :v:

[Rebi]

[QUOTE=Pops;48318568]heh, when i went to find noah, and that fuckface shot through the door, i knew he had to die no matter what.[/QUOTE]

On my first playthrough of COP, I was so confused so I just wandered around for a bit. Found Noah's Ark, when he shot through the door I thought he was hostile so I blasted him in the head and was confused why he took so many shots to die. I thought that was how every NPC in the game would be so I quit.

It was months later when I discovered I wasn't supposed to do that.

[Lyokanthrope]

[QUOTE=Daemon White;48318581]Imagine if someone made Noah shoot a delayed 3rd blast in a mod. That would mess up so many people :v:[/QUOTE]

brb making a minimod

[editline]28th July 2015[/editline]

nevermind i don't know x-ray's scripting well enough

[editline]28th July 2015[/editline]

logic scripting
whatever

[BloodShot12]

So this sexy fuckin weapons mod for vanilla just came out

[url]http://www.moddb.com/mods/original-weapons-renewal-3-for-soc/videos/l85#imagebox[/url]

[t]http://media.moddb.com/images/mods/1/28/27622/XR_3DA_2015-07-09_20-34-27-40.jpg[/t]

Also for LA (lol)

It's all vanilla replacers so it's easy to merge with shit

[Lyokanthrope]

-twitch-
m209 on a g36 why
why doesn't anyone use the ag36 :c

[editline]29th July 2015[/editline]

Also I discovered something fun
Anomalies in CoP (maybe CS too) can have the property idle_light_volumetric set to true on them
you get a nice little globe of volumetric light coming from the entity's origin
fun for campfires
I'm gonna see if I can't add extra variables in the engine source so you can tweak the volumetric distance and intensity
I'll add it to the torch too because I think that'd look badass :v:

[editline]29th July 2015[/editline]

it also might absolutely destroy performance but who cares

[editline]29th July 2015[/editline]

here's an idea
make EVERY r2 light source volumetric
that's a GREAT idea right guys
[sp]I need to lay off that freedom herb guys[/sp]

[BloodShot12]

[vid]http://webm.host/226e9/vid.webm[/vid]

I have now become semi-breeki

Made my first mod merge with OWR and xiani's freeplay with OL textures.

Here's the hell I had to navigate to do it

[t]http://i.imgur.com/p3GFgqq.png[/t]

4 pt font, still doesn't fit all the crashes i had to go through and individually modify files

[Ghost101]

So there is a freeroam mod for LA then? How is it?

[donutbigpoland]

Anyone tried playing ZRP with the newly released OWR3 for SOC

[mezzokoko]

[QUOTE=Bloodshot12;48320790]Made my first mod merge with OWR and xiani's freeplay with OL textures.[/QUOTE]

Care to share? :happy:

[Lyokanthrope]

bashing my head against the wall trying to build openxray, blah

[BloodShot12]

[QUOTE=Mezzokoko;48322304]Care to share? :happy:[/QUOTE]

Uploading now, will update the post when it's done.

EDIT:

Here it is, let me know if you have any issues

[url]https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B0JtTjU3ezz4MndjTFhUQkk3M2s/view?usp=sharing[/url]

[mezzokoko]

Suffering from plenty of random crashes, but it might be the freeplay mod itself instead of your merge. The current version of freeplay in DMMAE is alot more stable, but also has its own arsenal of weapons, so it'll probably harder to merge.

[BloodShot12]

I wish I could find a download of the 1.2 version of xiani's freeplay to merge it with, I hear that's what DMM is based off of and it doesn't add any extras so it might be more stable

Can you paste any of the ctd logs in here? I'm curious what the errors are.

[mezzokoko]

Shot ya a pm.

[LtBubbles]

So a long time ago i tried installing stalker soup.
And since i'm not a wizard i failed horribly in my attempts to make it work and promptly gave up.
Now that there's apparently an easier way to install it i decided to try again.
Everything went smoothly, downloaded everything, installed and updated to the latest version.
Then when i hit launch, i get this error:
[IMG]http://i.imgur.com/fowezrW.png[/IMG]

I tried looking it up on the internet but i too failed at that. I found a lot of shit related to the xrCore.dll thing but couldn't find one that was specifically my error.
Is anyone willing to give me some help?

[Lyokanthrope]

my head bashing amounted to something!
[t]http://i.imgur.com/sIrTJ0z.png[/t]

[editline]29th July 2015[/editline]

good god does xrGame take a century to build :v:

[Lyokanthrope]

[t]http://i.imgur.com/TlzvHtA.png[/t]
I'm a lazy man.

[BloodShot12]

[video=youtube;W-bYW8ES_kk]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W-bYW8ES_kk&list=PLSQ2hBWpeO2jzuFO-AsdTg4iI22kBC1-1&index=5[/video]

What