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« Reply #225 on: August 23, 2010, 05:42:16 am »

OT, but I remember I was playing two games around the same time, and they had a default quicksave/load keymapping that was opposite to each other or thereabouts. That was aggravating. Someone should make a keymapping ISO standard.

Can't remember which games it were, but I think one of them might have been KoTOR.

FakeEdit: Yup, KotOR has quicksave at F4 (and for some reason also F8) by default, and quickload at F5. That's just evil.
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« Reply #226 on: August 23, 2010, 05:44:49 am »

Oh God, I remember that.
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« Reply #227 on: August 23, 2010, 07:02:32 am »

The worst thing about that is that SoC and CoP have different keyes for quickload/save , now imagine if you are playing both and their keyes are so different that you have to play certain parts over because you panicked and hit the right button, but in the wrong game :(
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« Reply #228 on: August 23, 2010, 08:53:48 am »

Yo, I'm gonna buy one of the STALKER games on PC, but don't know which one to buy. Any help?
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« Reply #229 on: August 23, 2010, 08:54:51 am »

Yo, I'm gonna buy one of the STALKER games on PC, but don't know which one to buy. Any help?
You just missed the weekend sale that sold both of the best ones for 75% off total.
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« Reply #230 on: August 23, 2010, 09:03:25 am »

FUUUUUUUUUUU-
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« Reply #231 on: August 23, 2010, 10:06:28 am »

No he did not, the offer is good for today also:
http://store.steampowered.com/sub/5011/

I already had SoC, but bought the package to get CoP for 7,50 instead of 29,99.
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« Reply #232 on: August 23, 2010, 10:40:10 am »

Okay Omega you have about 12 hours to get the pack then.
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« Reply #233 on: August 23, 2010, 12:33:44 pm »

You can bloody well skip Clear Sky and not miss anything. Even the developers are sorry for making it.
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« Reply #234 on: August 23, 2010, 12:35:56 pm »

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« Reply #235 on: August 25, 2010, 04:46:41 am »

Every time I play Stalker I like it more and more.  I like the spontaneous John Woo shoot-outs I get into.  I like the hideously creepy atmosphere of the underground.  I like the feeling of exploring an alien world right in my backyard.  And every once in a while it throws something really spectacular at them.  For one of the first times in my videogaming career, I have encountered a true moral dilemma.

As much as I might complain about having to save their incompetent asses from hordes of retarded Bandits every time I pass through, I have come to feel a true sense of obligation to my fellow Stalkers.  In a way, my compulsive need to kill every enemy and take his stuff has morphed into a kinship with the other Loners.  The guys in the Garbage train depot, the dudes chillin' in the Cordon village, those poor bastards at the farmhouse, I love meeting all of them.  It gives me a good feeling to see them alive one more day.  I still regret stumbling over Fox's chewed up corpse, and watching Mole drop to the dirt to a headshot.  And when I hear gunfire in the distance but keep running to finish a quest, it tears me up to know I could have helped, and I wonder what became of them.  Every time my minimap shows an orange dot, it fills me with hope and apprehension.  Somewhere nearby is a friend, but I might (read: will) have to save his life.  We're all in this living Hell together, even if I could take them all single handed, and even if they just respawn if I leave them to die.

I've all but given up trying to understand the Bandits and military.  I know the soldiers are following orders, and I hate them for it.  But they made their choice when they put on the uniform.  They're expendable military drones and Russian ones at that, corrupt and brutal, and if they think they'll accomplish something putting their life on the line, I'm more than happy to oblige.  But the Bandits, I wonder if they even know what they've stumbled into.  Sometimes I think I could reason with them.  If they want money, there's all the money to be made here.  Without having to look over our shoulders for other men trying to kill us, we could plunder everything the Zone has.  The wilderness preys on fear.  But they chose to take on the Zone and every other man in it, and I oblige, if regretfully.  There's just so much more we could do.

While scouring the Bandit fortress in Dark Valley, I found a Stalker in an outbuilding, curled up on the ground with two dead Bandits.  I patched him up and he thanked me.  He had nothing to show his appreciation with, but clued me into some nearby Stalkers selling high-tech guns for cheap; an easy going lot.  I wondered why he ran off in such a hurry, but I had other leads to follow.

I later went down to the pig farm he tipped me to.  And there in the minimap was his green dot, sitting by the fire.  Sure enough, the Stalker at the door offered me a Gauss rifle for 800 rubles.  I don't even know what a Gauss rifle is, but I can't turn down an offer like that.  He goes in back to get it; when I get curious, his pal levels an SMG at me.  Finally, he shouts back to me, something about Robin Hood and warning me not to come back if I wanted to stay alive.

It's not about the money really, I killed those chump soldiers for less.  It's not about the Gauss rifle that I'm sure they don't have.  But I helped that bastard when he was laying gut-shot, and he lied to my face.  Hell, I would have given them the 800 rubles if they had just asked; they probably need it more than me if they're hitting up random Stalkers for essentially pocket change.  Is this the caliber of men I've been risking my life to save?  Are my fellow Stalkers just bandits who know a good opportunity?  No, they're not all like this.  And under different circumstances, if a Hind landed or the wolves mobbed in, I know we'd all be back to back again.

But therein lies my dilemma.  Do I grit my teeth and walk away, knowing that, however ugly the method, I've helped my fellow men survive another day?  Or do I march back to that shack with my RPG-7, and show everyone that nobody, but nobody, fucks with the Marked One?

Whatever the case, be damned if I haven't turned into the fucking Duty faction.  And I thought those guys were a bunch of cockgobblers.  I wonder if you can actually join them at some point.
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« Reply #236 on: August 25, 2010, 04:53:41 am »

That is a dilemma and a half. I would have said kill the fuckers but the Robin Hood shout makes me think that they're in desperate need.
I dunno. I'd probably just walk away, let the rage build and kill the shit out of them, but that's not a solution that'll leave me feeling like I'm I've done the right thinq. I don't think there is one.

Also, seems like you can't really get hold of a Spas-12 before you hit X-18. Fucking Goddamn it, I am not going in there with a sawn-off and my ass hanging out of my trousers.
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« Reply #237 on: August 25, 2010, 05:06:25 am »

I could go either way.  In the end, the deciding factor is that I'm afraid killing them all would somehow get me kicked out of Stalkertown and the Bar.  That sounds crass at first, but really, if they knew I slaughtered a bunch of brothers for that piddling amount of money, they'd have every right to blacklist me.  Theft is theft, but we are in this together after all.  Fuck.

I'll probably do it, and then quickload, just for the fun of it.  I'll get some catharsis and the world will never know.

Also, seems like you can't really get hold of a Spas-12 before you hit X-18. Fucking Goddamn it, I am not going in there with a sawn-off and my ass hanging out of my trousers.

Spas-12?  I don't even know what that is, but I know I don't need it.  I've got a scoped Fast-AKU with a grenade launcher and Monolith armor, the Zone can kiss my dick now.  I just need to find a way out of this damn underground lab.  If I get walloped with one more telekinesis'd paintcan I'm gonna lose my shit.

Not that I didn't lose my shit on the blobby dude when I found him - took like five minutes for my ears to stop ringing after I grenaded him at two meters.  Nothing in this game has scared me as much as killing that fat bastard after running my cowardly ass though the Halls of Madness, only to find my quest marker was another scientist corpse, and the paintcans are still flying around.  I swear, I think I wasted like 300 rounds of ammo shooting at shadows (and levitating crates) to keep my nerves in check.
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« Reply #238 on: August 25, 2010, 05:09:33 am »

It's the auto-shotgun from Half Life 2. I don't know where you're getting the sweet loot, but underground, in the dark, in close quarters, a scope is about as useful to me as a parrot on my shoulder that screams "BOO" every time I peek through a doorway. Sure, I can dismount it, and I will, but I want me my shotgun.
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« Reply #239 on: August 25, 2010, 05:15:23 am »

Yeah, the scope is useless, but the rest of the rifle it's attached to isn't.  The irony is, I got it after a mess of long-range shootouts I really could have used it for, but it's served me quite well since then.

A proper shotgun would be great for where I am.  Relying on a sawn-off down here would be worse than hoping for divine intervention.  Y'know, considering how many of these things everyone has, you'd think there'd be a shotgun somewhere in the Zone that still has the whole barrel.  There's a lot of lonely, useless barrels laying around somewhere with a well-worn hacksaw.
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