S.T.A.L.K.E.R. Series Megathread: Maybe someday mods releasing edition - Games

A bit overkill, but good work nonetheless. I'm looking for a texturer/modeller/animation though, you should definitely add me if you're interested in doing some (free, sadly) texture work on some weapon models. I've been trying my luck with paint.net but I'm just not that artistic. Should add me if youre interested ;) (though it is basically charity work, Id understand if you're not) You'd of course get credits when I release the mod, tho

Yeah its overkill, and big one But its funny that Stalker dont mind it and it dont butcher details so everything is crisp-looking. As for helping you, I would love to. But there is always "but..." For most of time I barely get any real money from side projects that im doing so Im used to help for free. But I have problem with one thing: Time. I had to even release recent update for Stalker Two-K faster than I wanted because I would just dont have time to pack it, test it and send it. Most of recent stuff that i upload, including articles was already made. Rest I literally made/upload using phone or in work. This month I have lots of traveling and paper work, and that small free time that I have I split to my own personal project of mobile game(probably another failure like last one but still...) and Im helping Balathruin from moddb with small fixes for hand models textures, if not that he dont have any release date and its just side project I would not do that even if its just checking/replacing/resizing default textures. And because of that I cant really help with any real work, like creating new textures or doing UV texturing. I can help you with eg. making new bumps or modifying existing ones, but anything bigger need time that I dont have.

No problem. We're all doing this for fun (atleast I am). So I understand. What I mostly need is some re-texturing of weapon models, so if you ever have some free time feel free to add me http://steamcommunity.com/id/wepl /

I dont use steam for "social purposes" I didnt even added my own brother to steam. Im not fan of knowing who is playing what and when. I want 0 of that there. Steam is shop, and I treat it like that. I want milk, I go get milk, and drink it. The end :P I know its pain in the ass for people but I just prefer emails and PMs. Here, moddb or any other forum :] Also to stick to Stalker topic: https://i.imgur.com/DSQwe6P.jpg

Does anybody reckon Shadow of Chernobyl will be on sale anytime soon? I want to get into this series.

Shadow of Chernobyl and other S.T.A.L.K.E.R games usually go on sale whenever there is a large Steam sale (Spring, Summer, Winter...). Although the current dates for future sales are rumours, as nothing has been confirmed.

you might also check gog

Keep an eye on gog.com, too

Or if you have luck you can sometimes find cheap as hell collector's edition of Stalker in good condition. I had that luck that I bought it at the premier of SoC back in 2007. But Im not talking about that crappy Steel Case edition, but version in "Radiation Can" that had map, radioprotectant pills, Book(Roadside Picnic) and bunch of stickers and few postcards. Or premium one with faction badges, all maps, bonus DVD with game materials and random goodies like branded zippo lighter or bandana with stalker name. Im not sure if they where sold in US/GB and other "non-slavic countries" but In Poland, Germany, Czech Republic and of course Russia you could get them in bigger shops or online. And damn, how I miss those times where when you paid 70 bucks for game you get all those extras with game. I still have those big boxes of games like Fallout 1/2, Baldur's Gate, Planescape Torment, Giant: Citizen Kabuto or even Resident Evil 2 where those game had boxes size of small car and it had t-shirts, mouse pads, HUGE maps, small badges/stickers and even books. Now people pay 60-120$ just to play beta games on steam that are in "beta" for years just so devs can milk more money pretending to do anything...

things aint been the same since crysis drawings...

why are there so many got dam dogs in redux

Because reDOGs

These subforum changes are death for threads like this :/ Don't know what garry is thinking.

I actually blame stupid trend of putting look of sites and forums before usability of it. Today sites have less texts and big fancy thumbnails images and site it self is cropped to use just 80% of screen width. For example if anyone is interested in smartphones will know site gsmarena.com. Last year they butcher it with that crappy phone-styled site where after loading it 50% of space is taken by just 3-4 thumb images, 30% is taken by empty side bars and actual useful content is squeezed in 20%. If you want to read anything you need to scroll down for so long that your finger look like strongman's biceps. Im not gonna say anything about quality of their site(that hit the bottom compared to what it had) but its perfect example that today sites dont give a flying pig about content, what matter is fancy look, big images and twitter-like sized text. Just look at current forum theme. Yeah its nice and clean and have fancy profile images but just about 70% of screen is used by it. Those empty sides HUGE empty space at bottom and useless big fonts and spaces on top are just annoying. Im not saying that this space need to be filled with 1000 buttons and texts but for god sake, typical screen today is 1280/1920px and all that space is wasted by empty side bars that show nothing but some background image... If forum would put content in the first place, we would have pinned topics on the side instead of "Latest Threads". For example Megathreads. There is about 12-14 active megathreads in this section that are big because they have content that normally would be stretched to few separate topics. So those threads should be pinned on top of the topic list or on the side of site. If someone want to see "Latest Threads"... Just read the damn fist page of forum list or just put them at the bottom where you have space that would fit whole texas in it...or set them in separate button/section "unread threads / New posts". If someone already fallow threads, they will not use that features anyway, so its useful just for one time by new users.

I've been getting back into CoC recently and am currently running Ninja_nubs HD models pack, Arsenal Overhaul, and a couple Doctor X packs. Any recommended mods? The emptiness of CoC is already starting to get to me.

That's some nice ideas there mate and they kinda seem obvious (because they are, they've been floating around for years), but garry hates General threads with burning passion, so that's not happening. Wanna ask why not to use Complete and use NS instead? Make a thread.

Hey everyone, it's been years since I visited the thread and I'm really itching to play ShoC again. Can anyone recommend me a good mod? I'm not sure which mods have been released over the years now. I usually like stuff that refine the gameplay and add some stuff here and there, nothing to fancy.

If you want ShoC. Wait for Radiobhobia 2. It still not released but it should be worth it if you want original game with new content, few new missions and bumped graphic. If you want ShoC just for playing and not sticking to original game, you could try NS2016 but its heavy mod and Im not sure if english translation is complete(its really lots of reading and missions). There is also Autumn Aurora 2 its nothing special but playable. And there is Legend Returns based on CoC that "try" to get old ShoC feel... but that mod is just retarded as hell. Balance is messed and fleshes/rats can kill you with two hits, there MASSIVE amount of old sounds that are so annoying that sometimes you just run away from monsters because they sound like cat that was recorded with old nokia 3310 microphone, and there is MASSIVE amount of scripted spawns when doing missions so almost every time when you pick something 3m from you enemy spawn...

Thanks for the suggestions, I always stuck around with AMK Sidorovich Edition, it was by far my favorite mod.

I always thought it felt like a watered down version of regular AMK, but I had to use it when I couldn't find links to AMK Arsenal anymore.

If you guys are interested, you can install CoC R7 right now: Do a clean install of R6 Delete the database, gamedata, and bin folder Replace those deleted folders with the folders from here You can get a general idea of changes from the bitbucket repo.

One of the few noteworthy features is the enhanced recoil. Definitely worth checking out. I'm currently developing on r6 but using whatever I can to make it as future proof as possible, I'd like to release my soup for 1.5 but who even knows when 1.5 will be official.

I am not sure. I had generally a great time with it. How is the ZRP mod?

ZRP as I recall it is just fixes. A good base for any mod, but you probably won't notice it.

So after realizing that my other projects dont moved a inch, and I dont have mood to make them I put that free time to start working on extension for ambient sound addon that I have in Stalker Two-K... and God damn its annoying. Every mod use those sound in different time/place and even if you keep them in the same format/quality/ogg comments, Stalker like to cut sounds in the middle even if sound it self is just 1-2sec longer than original... -_-

Speaking of sounds, I might try and tinker with CoP soon, and see if I can port the ShoC weapon sounds to it

That because every mod alter the min, max distance and the frequencies through the configs. How comes that sounds stop right in the middle? CoC doesn't suffer from this issue. CoP?

Been doing sounds for my weapons. Heres a few tips: -Make sure the OGG is mono channel. OGG's with multiple channels can cause weird behavior. -Use SAVandT ( http://www.metacognix.com/files/stlkrsoc/index.html ) to 'comment' on the OGG files. Making them compatible with Stalker -I had a weird problem where if I left any "blank space" (not just silence - but blank space as in no audio track whatsoever, which would normally just act as silence) it would cause weird artifacts. Hope this helps.

@Tronex @wepl123 I use mono sound. Long time ago I found out that stalker dont like stereo ambient... Also, as I said I use the same comments as original sounds(using SAVandT) But about that silent blank spaces I will need to check that... I think few of my sounds have silent moment or tad to long silent end... As for cutting sound in the middle, its not that it cut it all the time, its just random moments, but its look like there is some limit for sounds and if there is too much of them it cut random one. I found out that it cut them mostly in Jantar and Zaton where you walk for longer time. I think this is one of reason becase often when it cut it it immediately start playing other sound(for most of time wind noise) I found out that it cut them also for default sounds, but default sounds are short or quiet or just crappy quality so you dont hear that so much, but when you want to put something better and tad longer it sometimes cut it...