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

[QUOTE=Araknid;48354379]All I can understand from the whole CoC shitfest going on is that the devs got paranoid and booted everyone on the testing people, including people who obviously didn't do it. I mean for what fucking purpose did you kick Darryl out from the dev team after the shitloads of work that he's done for you, you really think he would just leak it like that? Especially since he was the one that reported the fucking thing. It just reminds me of a situation where someone reports a crime and then get's thrown in jail for reporting it. [editline]2nd August 2015[/editline] It's just stupid. I understand that for a developer this shit would be very frustrating but fucking hell instead of even trying to investigate who did it you just instantly assume it was the person that reported the leak. [editline]2nd August 2015[/editline] And banning ALL /sg/ users? Even Beacon? What sort of fucked up childish kneejerk reaction is that Seriously with this sort of attitude coming one of the lead devs, it'll be hard fucking trying to enjoy the mod when I know that people who act like that made it.[/QUOTE] I'm sorry but there is a lot of evidence for it. The leaked build contains a file that was given exclusively to Koma by Bangalore through a PM. During the stream the TWO leakers talked a lot like Koma and Darryl. Felinix, during a stream where the 2 leakers showed how to install the mod, called one of them WishDisher. Darryl is also known as Washdisher. But I'm sure you don't care. Always the guy who has to make the hard decisions is the bad guy.

-del

I guess it's the quickest way to deal with it. Out with the old testing team, in with the new, then you can just go right back to work instead of spending time trying to figure it out and worrying about anyone left over. It's good to rotate in new testers too, since it's a fresh perspective.

Guys, just leave me alone. I've told you a hundred times I have nothing to do with any of the leaks, fake or genuine. I know you two hate my guts and always have for whatever reason but I didn't leak or share so much as a single file in the whole eight months I was with you. I haven't even used that persona in almost half a year (5 months, since March) and I completely purged all of my accounts because I wanted nothing to do with the people I'd associated with on it. I certainly wouldn't go back to using it now. Please for the love of God, believe me - [B][I]I never have and never will leak anything[/I][/B]. I don't know why whoever it is is pretending to be me, or Koma, but I haven't done a single thing wrong since day one. All I ever did was play, test, and report bugs. Why do you refuse to believe me? I'm being framed, and as crazy as that sounds it's true. Just leave me alone, I never wanted or asked for any of this to happen.

Can we just stop talking about all this leak stuff?

Deja Vu, man. I swear this exact conversation happened a few days ago. Including that "Leave me alone" post 2 above.

So, anyone else think it's hilarious when something goes flying from an explosion? [media]https://youtu.be/7F5m2Owu_Ro[/media]

[QUOTE=Shirky;48356929]Can we just stop talking about all this leak stuff?[/QUOTE] Yes, it was already taken to a private discussion before he even posted that. I'm sorry, we will only talk about it if something needs cleared up, like with what InsurgentDude said.

[QUOTE=Shirky;48356929]Can we just stop talking about all this leak stuff?[/QUOTE] Ok let's stop talking about STALKER stuff and return to waiting for: (Check any and all that apply) [ ]OGSE 0.6.9.3 translation [ ]OLR translation [ ]Vanilla+ [ ]Reliable STALKER SOUP/DMX release [ ]Reliable ZoA release [ ]Lost Alpha with working AI [ ]LURK 1.2 fork [ ]Road to Limansk [ ]TFW:AE [ ]Hybrid [ ]Zone Of Homeless [ ]Misery 2.2(lol) [ ]Wormwood [ ]Ray Of Hope [ ]Gunslinger [ ]AO 3 [ ]SGM 3 [ ]Other: [ ]Other: [ ]Other: Please fill out this form and submit it to your local thread gold member by 2015/08/11 17:00 to avoid consequences. Glory to S.T.A.L.K.E.R. Series Megathread.

It seems the one known as Alundaio keeps on trying to pin the blame on others. We're the people who leaked this, the Men Who Sold the World. As far as we're concerned it seems we truly don't exist because certain individuals do everything in their power to pin our achievements on others. There's some things we can tell you about ourselves, there's two of us, no more, no less and both of us are responsible for this entire leak. We're Americans and regulars on metal gear general on /vg/ board of 4chan. You may remember how Ground Zeroes for PS3 leaked 3 weeks ahead of release date and how few hours later certain someone ripped the files from it, includnig the infamous Chico/Paz rape tape audio. That was done by us as well. We're not and never have been at any point in time member of CoC's development or testing team. For us it started a few days ago when we grew impatient and decided to grab CoC for ourselves. We started poking at TeamEPIC's forum to see if there's any possible way to exploit holes in their security. Funny enough, we found one. It allowed us to grab an account of a tester, we won't name him however we can say that he didn't seem like an active person based on his post history. It allowed us access to testing build and as such we grabbed what was at that time latest - 1.083 RC We played around with it, sadly we were disappointed since it was far from stable (and included a very simple registry "DRM" check too), it also had some very critical bugs left which were ironically were easy to fix - some took quite literally mere seconds to do so. And so we played and watched, over the course of the week two patches rolled in as well as a version of OWR3 tailored specifically for build 1.0.83 however it's unfinished from what we've seen of it. This is where things get interesting, few days ago a tester named Koma announced on the TeamEPIC forums he was going to create a fake CoC installer with some friends which would contain aquatic mammal pornography - namely dolphins. Said installer was released in stalker general on /vg/ board of 4chan and a lot of people fell for it. Merely 30 minutes or so after people found out that they were duped something peculiar happened. Somebody made a post, that for all intents and purposes, looked like complete and utter gibberish. Even we assumed that it was probably an encrypted message. Minutes later it turns out Alundaio supposedly got rid of the entire team due to a leak. What everyone took as gibberish were actually key hashes to CoC's MEGA repository, however the hashes were... INCOMPLETE. That's right, they were quite literally useless, they were missing a few characters (and no we aren't talking about the standard mega.co.nz part of the link). Even if somebody were to figure out what they were, that person would also need to guess about 4-6 characters that were missing, either that or bruteforce it, but that's still a lot of combinations and basically makes no sense to put so much effort (and processing power AND TIME) to get to the bottom of it. All that essentially means there was no leak, at least at that point in time. We kept observing all the drama that unfolded and what happened next was someone apparently reporting this so called leak to the CoC dev team. But something was clearly not right, all the blame from ground zero was being pinned on specific testers, Koma and Darryl show up the most, there were also other people under consideration like someone named Bamah. Then we saw more inconsistencies in what Alundaio did. He claimed to get rid of all the testers while in reality a small number of them were left intact since their accounts still have beta tester group status for some reason. There was also another troubling aspect, Alundaio making a public topic detailing how supposedly the game is almost finished and very stable and relatively bug free which is a blatant lie. We've been playing it the past few days and we can safely say that CoC in the current form is neither stable nor relatively bug free. We couldn't bear to sit back any longer and watch more injustice be dealt upon the testers. Some of them were among the only testers who essentially gave a fuck and reported issues. There was quite a lot of testers from what we could see but vast majority of them were actually inactive. Another thing that Alundaio is lying about is how Koma was the only one capable of sharing the .reg file. Anyone with even an ounce of a brain can make a simple .reg file so saying it could only have been made by one specific person is laughable at best. Not to mention instructions on how to make one were provided long before the leak itself. Saying that the mod development won't be affected by getting rid of the most active members of the QA team and internal drama is just... well we won't even bother commenting on that. Now that CoC is out in the open everyone can see how truly (NOT) stable and bugfree it is and hopefully people will be able to draw their own conclusions from all of this. Listen to what Alundaio has to say, listen to what we did, consider the facts, test CoC and then feel free to decide. We will keep on roaming around and chime in from time to time should we feel the need for that.

[QUOTE=T.M.W.S.T.W.;48357617]-wall of text-[/QUOTE] Still kinda dick move from your side. And please, do not continue the drama here. What happened - happened.

[QUOTE=T.M.W.S.T.W.;48357617]It seems the one known as Alundaio keeps on trying to pin the blame on others. We're the people who leaked this, the Men Who Sold the World. As far as we're concerned it seems we truly don't exist because certain individuals do everything in their power to pin our achievements on others. There's some things we can tell you about ourselves, there's two of us, no more, no less and both of us are responsible for this entire leak. We're Americans and regulars on metal gear general on /vg/ board of 4chan. You may remember how Ground Zeroes for PS3 leaked 3 weeks ahead of release date and how few hours later certain someone ripped the files from it, includnig the infamous Chico/Paz rape tape audio. That was done by us as well. We're not and never have been at any point in time member of CoC's development or testing team. For us it started a few days ago when we grew impatient and decided to grab CoC for ourselves. We started poking at TeamEPIC's forum to see if there's any possible way to exploit holes in their security. Funny enough, we found one. It allowed us to grab an account of a tester, we won't name him however we can say that he didn't seem like an active person based on his post history. It allowed us access to testing build and as such we grabbed what was at that time latest - 1.083 RC We played around with it, sadly we were disappointed since it was far from stable (and included a very simple registry "DRM" check too), it also had some very critical bugs left which were ironically were easy to fix - some took quite literally mere seconds to do so. And so we played and watched, over the course of the week two patches rolled in as well as a version of OWR3 tailored specifically for build 1.0.83 however it's unfinished from what we've seen of it. This is where things get interesting, few days ago a tester named Koma announced on the TeamEPIC forums he was going to create a fake CoC installer with some friends which would contain aquatic mammal pornography - namely dolphins. Said installer was released in stalker general on /vg/ board of 4chan and a lot of people fell for it. Merely 30 minutes or so after people found out that they were duped something peculiar happened. Somebody made a post, that for all intents and purposes, looked like complete and utter gibberish. Even we assumed that it was probably an encrypted message. Minutes later it turns out Alundaio supposedly got rid of the entire team due to a leak. What everyone took as gibberish were actually key hashes to CoC's MEGA repository, however the hashes were... INCOMPLETE. That's right, they were quite literally useless, they were missing a few characters (and no we aren't talking about the standard mega.co.nz part of the link). Even if somebody were to figure out what they were, that person would also need to guess about 4-6 characters that were missing, either that or bruteforce it, but that's still a lot of combinations and basically makes no sense to put so much effort (and processing power AND TIME) to get to the bottom of it. All that essentially means there was no leak, at least at that point in time. We kept observing all the drama that unfolded and what happened next was someone apparently reporting this so called leak to the CoC dev team. But something was clearly not right, all the blame from ground zero was being pinned on specific testers, Koma and Darryl show up the most, there were also other people under consideration like someone named Bamah. Then we saw more inconsistencies in what Alundaio did. He claimed to get rid of all the testers while in reality a small number of them were left intact since their accounts still have beta tester group status for some reason. There was also another troubling aspect, Alundaio making a public topic detailing how supposedly the game is almost finished and very stable and relatively bug free which is a blatant lie. We've been playing it the past few days and we can safely say that CoC in the current form is neither stable nor relatively bug free. We couldn't bear to sit back any longer and watch more injustice be dealt upon the testers. Some of them were among the only testers who essentially gave a fuck and reported issues. There was quite a lot of testers from what we could see but vast majority of them were actually inactive. Another thing that Alundaio is lying about is how Koma was the only one capable of sharing the .reg file. Anyone with even an ounce of a brain can make a simple .reg file so saying it could only have been made by one specific person is laughable at best. Not to mention instructions on how to make one were provided long before the leak itself. Saying that the mod development won't be affected by getting rid of the most active members of the QA team and internal drama is just... well we won't even bother commenting on that. Now that CoC is out in the open everyone can see how truly (NOT) stable and bugfree it is and hopefully people will be able to draw their own conclusions from all of this. Listen to what Alundaio has to say, listen to what we did, consider the facts, test CoC and then feel free to decide. We will keep on roaming around and chime in from time to time should we feel the need for that.[/QUOTE] you need to find something productive to spend your obviously excessive free time on bro in other news [B]'Downtime'[/B] [URL="http://www.moddb.com/mods/stalker-wormwood/images/downtime"][t]http://media.moddb.com/images/mods/1/15/14909/xrengine_2015-08-02_23-02-51-88.png[/t][/URL] [I]The fine men of the Freedom faction need a bit of rest and relaxation back at camp, just like everyone else! Will you help Freedom establish a foothold in Zaton? Your actions will tip the balance of power between the factions of the game more than ever in Wormwood. What side will you choose?[/I]

coc is fun, that's all i say

I'm not a game dev so my opinion means jack shit - but it must suck to have something you worked on with no pay for so long get leaked before you can finish it. Regardless of HOW it leaked is irrelevant. But enough of that - Did Frozen Zone not make that list a page back? Frozen Zone and Phantoms Zone are the two I'm really pumped for. Forzen zone since it seems to add a LOT of new assets, sounds, areas etc. It almost looks like a new game from the ground up. Phantoms Zone looks sick because....well....just look at the videos so far! Good luck to all the devs who work under a labor of love! I hope to play all of your creations soon!

-snip-

More leaks than a sieve in here.

[QUOTE=T.M.W.S.T.W.;48357617] We're the people who leaked this, the Men Who Sold the World.[/QUOTE] lol you ain't no Big Boss, son

[QUOTE=Beacon;48357893]you need to find something productive to spend your obviously excessive free time on bro in other news [B]'Downtime'[/B] [URL="http://www.moddb.com/mods/stalker-wormwood/images/downtime"][t]http://media.moddb.com/images/mods/1/15/14909/xrengine_2015-08-02_23-02-51-88.png[/t][/URL] [I]The fine men of the Freedom faction need a bit of rest and relaxation back at camp, just like everyone else! Will you help Freedom establish a foothold in Zaton? Your actions will tip the balance of power between the factions of the game more than ever in Wormwood. What side will you choose?[/I][/QUOTE] What if I don't like Freedom or Duty? What if I like Ecologists, or Monolith, or Mercs, or [I]military?[/I]

ecologist best faction

not so fun when playing as freedom you take the hostage rescue mission because after a little while it crashes no matter what

Imagine if factions sometimes left behind traps when they surrender a territory to the enemy. Oman, booby traps and mines would be pretty spooky.

Clear sky is best faction If only they didnt get rekt so hard

[QUOTE=Araknid;48359465]Clear sky is best faction If only they didnt get rekt so hard[/QUOTE] started as clear sky, went to cordon, died to military helicopter load game, go walk around swamps, get ambushed by dogs and fleshes along with boars, die a couple of times, then get killed by some hostile guys load game, went up the swamps, got killed by military helicopter again best mod 2015 10/10

Is there any way to disable the mines in SGM?

I'm wondering why nobody ever merged all the usual go-to mods and fixes into one basic package for other people to play with, without un-vanillaing the game. It's not like there wouldn't be any demand for a prettier and more bug-free CoP vanilla experience with the usual extra visual variety and improved AI. I'm slowly working through fully integrating the latest PRP with MSO + AF3. It is boring and tedious work and I'd have an easier time if I had each and every single one of PRP's fixes available separately, but I'll make do. Once that's done I'll do Russian voices with English subtitles, then I'll work on integrating the Variation Mod. I did spend some more time fooling around with OWR 3 as well but I'm going to leave that one out until there's a more complete version of it. For the time being I'm leaving weapons for last. During a test-run however I ran over to the sawmill, met a lot of zombies, kept running around. Then a single Loner in an Exoskeleton appeared out of nowhere and nearly got me killed by accident. Fifteen minutes later I'm still there and said Loner keeps murdering and murdering and he won't stop no matter what. At this point there's dead zombies everywhere and he's merrily blasting away with his shotgun, not a single care in the world, as if it was simply meant to be. Beautiful sight.

It's that elusive Vanilla+ mod that doesn't exist yet. I think Loner was working on one for SoC though.

Is there any other "big" and "known" mods for CoP? I feel like SGM and Misery are the two big ones but I'm getting a bit tired of SGM's weird balance and the artifical difficulty of Misery has never really interested me, I played it a bit and I guess it wasn't for me. I'm thinking of going back to Clear Sky's Faction Wars which I had lots of fun with long ago and maybe even SoC since it's been so long and I really love some of the maps like The Bar, Garbage and stuff but I'll be missing the weapon upgrading.

"Big" and "known"? Not really, none that are out yet. There's a ton of well-made Russian mods out there. I've heard good things about SPECTRUM. [url]http://www.gsc-game.com/main.php?t=community&s=forums&s_game_type=xr3&thm_page=1&thm_id=5781&page=12&sort=ASC&sec_id=18#119786[/url] [editline]3rd August 2015[/editline] There's also Valley of Whispers [url]http://www.moddb.com/mods/shoker-weapon-mod/downloads/swm-v21-vowce-story-mod[/url] (merged with Shoker 2)

[QUOTE=Ghost101;48359932]It's that elusive Vanilla+ mod that doesn't exist yet. I think Loner was working on one for SoC though.[/QUOTE] Creepy stuff man. I was about to ask why no one mentioned V+. I've been working my ass off, that's why I've been this inactive. Well, time for some screenies then!!!! DX8 In Agroprom [T]http://media.moddb.com/images/mods/1/26/25752/XR_3DA_2015-07-09_18-05-30-13.png[/T] Enjoying some Garbage [t]http://media.moddb.com/images/mods/1/26/25752/XR_3DA_2015-07-30_14-00-00-57.png[/t] Back In Black [t]http://media.moddb.com/images/mods/1/26/25752/XR_3DA_2015-07-30_23-59-29-88.png[/t] Enjoying the starry skies [t]http://media.moddb.com/images/mods/1/26/25752/XR_3DA_2015-07-31_00-05-25-08.png[/t] And ofcourse, weapon diversity! [t]http://media.moddb.com/images/mods/1/26/25752/XR_3DA_2015-08-03_00-50-27-95.png[/t]

[QUOTE=The Spartan;48359390]What if I don't like Freedom or Duty? What if I like Ecologists, or Monolith, or Mercs, or [I]military?[/I][/QUOTE] Well you'll be pleased because they're all getting fleshed out more as well. There may even be more Clear Sky shenanigans.