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[debvon]

As long as the game is still surreal to the point of being creepy I will enjoy it. If they're trying to make it more difficult and "realistic" then I'm sure I'll be easily immersed. Imagination went oh so well with all of the Stalker games that I've played. Though I don't know if getting excited for it is the safest thing to do. I think we're all painfully aware of the (arguably) terrible sequels that have been churned out in the past year or two. Seemed like a much better year for indie developers though which is excellent.

[Vibhor]

**Warning-Excessive swearing imminent**
I just encountered that asshole of a Bloodsucker who set up the trap. The encounter went something like this-

"Damn this bandit camp is big, wonder where are all of them."
*Looks at the minimap*
"Oh a friendly! Maybe he has a quest for me? Maybe he will help me clear out the place!"
*Runs in the building*
"Wow sure does looks empty"
*Sees a pile of bodies*
"Holy smoke did somebody naded them?"
*Runs towards the guy*
*Suddenly panting*
"HOLYFUCKOHMYGODFUCKFUCKHOLYSHIT"
*Pulls out a frag grenade in panic and throws it*
*Lost to the zone*

The asshole was still alive after a grenade to the face. That bastard.

[Jackrabbit]

Oh yes, that place. Fun fact: the building next to it? Basically explodes when you walk into it. The Zone is not a fun place.

Also, that Bandit camp marks one of the most fun and tense firefights in the game if you go in at night with night vision. You're like a vengeful ghost, and to the bandits, in a place like The Zone, you might as well be.

[Vibhor]

Oh yes, that place. Fun fact: the building next to it? Basically explodes when you walk into it. The Zone is not a fun place.

Also, that Bandit camp marks one of the most fun and tense firefights in the game if you go in at night with night vision. You're like a vengeful ghost, and to the bandits, in a place like The Zone, you might as well be.

I did that. With my silenced AK and a silenced pistol. Everybody was confused why the fuck was everybody and their dog was dying.

[Tobel]

Hey folks,

I heard about the Peoples Soup mod from Rock Paper Shotgun, was wondering if anyone was able to get it worked with Steam? Here is the mod forum link:

http://forums.steampowered.com/forums/showthread.php?t=1824863

I'm having a tough time getting it working. I grabbed the torrent which apparently has everything you need to get it going, and I have everything in the gamedata folder. I'm not sure if I'm supposed to drop the gamedata folder in the root dir of Stalker or dump the contents into the root dir, but currently it crashes when I try to launch.

Anyone succeed where I fail?

[dogstile]

So I just got clear sky. That completes the stalker pack for me. I hear this has faction wars or somesuch?

[Catastrophic lolcats]

http://forums.steampowered.com/forums/showthread.php?t=1824863

There seems to be a couple of different versions of it. I think I picked up the DMX version which came translated and had a ton of sub-mods like more weapons and the like.

My experience of the mod was varied. It felt like S.T.A.L.K.E.R. upgraded walts and all.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

The good:
Eating/sleeping have been made mandatory.

Lots of new land to explore.

New factions.

Lots of new weapons and armour.

Lots of new quests in lovely cyrillic  to click on blindly 'till you think you've done the right thing.

Theres a MP3 player that allowes you to collect music in the zone and play things like "What a Wonderful World" or "Be Happy" as you shoot blood suckers in the head.

Theres repearing now, but it's horribly broken .You got to get weapons that are the same but different to the weapon you have (apparently two AK-59s are just TOO much alike), if you get a "Unique" weapon repaired the fat fuck will steal it (yes this was a retarded choice put in by the devs)


The Bad:
That FUCKING CAVE LEVEL!1!1!!one!

The game also seems 1000 times more "clunky" with loading times being almost biblical and the game freezing every few seconds, this is with pretty decent hardware and I believe it's the engine being pushed to the limits rather than the hardware.

Bugged a lot. Expect lots of CtDs and other game breaking bugs once: (spoilers if you haven't play SoC before)

[spoiler]I got to Strelok's stash in the underground.  As I walked into the pipe the game flashed to black and the map changed to Cordon. Not sure what was going on there, if it was a bug or some sort of story change?

The new areas are a bit buggy, the swamp I couldn't enter without CtDs. Some areas are just bland like the "unclaimed territory ".
New factions are more annoying than anything else. "The Hunters" or "The Avengers" (I noticed no difference between them) have camouflaged cloaking suits that look terrible. The cloaking affect looks like the predator's cloaking in AvP 2000. They are also buggy and one followed me into a barn when there was a blow out. He was friendly and sat down and played the guitar for a bit with some Duty members before going postal and shooting up the place making the Duty members hostle with me for some reason.
Horrible translations. Most of the mod isn't translated which is a shame.

Artefacts  are useless since they emit radiation even if they're noy on your belt. It might of been an alright choice by the devs IF the artefacts that gave you negative radiation did the same thing off your belt as well.

Strong weapons and armour comes your way fast. I had an exoskeleton by Garbage with a bolt-action rifle + scope that cleaned house.

So I just got clear sky. That completes the stalker pack for me. I hear this has faction wars or somesuch?

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Clear Sky is a bit of a paradox. You meant to be chasing Strelok through the zone who's making bad shit go down. However you apparently have time to chill with the local gangs and have them run some recuits into each other's AKs for a while.

Now it wouldn't be too bad because it can be quite good. The problem is that's it horribly broken :<
You cannot change sides after you've picked one. So if you allied with the bandits (like me) expect a very long trek through the north fighting that dickhead Duty with no assistance from Freedom.

A better system would have been allowing you to join three factions, one in each of the major areas. Clear Sky/Avengers in the swamps. Bandits/Loners in Cordon/Garbage and Freedom/Duty in the Military Base and Red Forest

Now for storytime. I joined the bandits because they're fucking bandits; who doesn't want to be a bandit when they grow up?
Apparently I joined the zone's equivalent  to the Girl Scouts. They're weak whiny, stupid and can't aim to save their own life. Anyway I stuck with my stupid, stupid choice and went to town killing the Loners who kept attacking the bandits (honestly who launches attacks ON the bandits?).

The faction wars work by taking Outposts like Battlefield 1942. Apparently if you take the right outposts your factions will be given better armour or have more men.
I didn't notice much of that since I was busy try to take back the same outpost every 2 minutes because it kept getting retaken back. I did this retarded dance of taking outposts back and going over to attack some in the Loner's base while having to trudge back because the Loners had taken more of our outposts.

I had enough of this and stocked up on the finest weapons, breaking my balance. Clinking down the road. pockets bursting with ammo and mowing down all those Loner dicks who got in my way; I pushed into the Loner's lands fighting tooth and nail.
Apparently the bandits were scared of my effort and would refuse to take the empty outposts from the Loners (apparently you can't take them yourself, rage).
So after about 4 hours of non-stop fighting and looting and fighting and looting. I amanged to push all the way into the Loner's base (the bandits have now taken 1 out of the 6 or so outposts I had cleared) I slew everyone there which was a task in itself and waited.... and waited... and waited... I then looked up on google why the fuckers weren't taking the base. Apparently you can't completely wipe out a faction.
I rage quit the faction wars. Leaving the bandits to be butchered like the cattle they are.

So I went out to do the main quests. Got rather far in the game and was sent on a mission to help out some guys kill monsters or something. I turned up to this important mission in the story quest and attempted to talk to them and they would just shoot me. Apparently they were still Loners and I was still a Bandit. Did I mention I can't quit my faction?
I gave up not too long after that due to the game breaking bug.

It's a good idea the faction wars and if it was done right could have added a lot of depth in the game. However they were broken and since they were taken out of CoP we can conclude they were a failed concept.

Spoilers due to length.

[Catastrophic lolcats]

http://forums.steampowered.com/forums/showthread.php?t=1824863

There seems to be a couple of different versions of it. I think I picked up the DMX version which came translated and had a ton of sub-mods like more weapons and the like.

My experience of the mod was varied. It felt like S.T.A.L.K.E.R. upgraded walts and all.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

The good:
Eating/sleeping have been made mandatory.

Lots of new land to explore.

New factions.

Lots of new weapons and armour.

Lots of new quests in lovely cyrillic  to click on blindly 'till you think you've done the right thing.

Theres a MP3 player that allowes you to collect music in the zone and play things like "What a Wonderful World" or "Be Happy" as you shoot blood suckers in the head.

Theres repearing now, but it's horribly broken .You got to get weapons that are the same but different to the weapon you have (apparently two AK-59s are just TOO much alike), if you get a "Unique" weapon repaired the fat fuck will steal it (yes this was a retarded choice put in by the devs)


The Bad:
That FUCKING CAVE LEVEL!1!1!!one!

The game also seems 1000 times more "clunky" with loading times being almost biblical and the game freezing every few seconds, this is with pretty decent hardware and I believe it's the engine being pushed to the limits rather than the hardware.

Bugged a lot. Expect lots of CtDs and other game breaking bugs once: (spoilers if you haven't play SoC before)

[spoiler]I got to Strelok's stash in the underground.  As I walked into the pipe the game flashed to black and the map changed to Cordon. Not sure what was going on there, if it was a bug or some sort of story change?

The new areas are a bit buggy, the swamp I couldn't enter without CtDs. Some areas are just bland like the "unclaimed territory ".
New factions are more annoying than anything else. "The Hunters" or "The Avengers" (I noticed no difference between them) have camouflaged cloaking suits that look terrible. The cloaking affect looks like the predator's cloaking in AvP 2000. They are also buggy and one followed me into a barn when there was a blow out. He was friendly and sat down and played the guitar for a bit with some Duty members before going postal and shooting up the place making the Duty members hostle with me for some reason.
Horrible translations. Most of the mod isn't translated which is a shame.

Artefacts  are useless since they emit radiation even if they're noy on your belt. It might of been an alright choice by the devs IF the artefacts that gave you negative radiation did the same thing off your belt as well.

Strong weapons and armour comes your way fast. I had an exoskeleton by Garbage with a bolt-action rifle + scope that cleaned house.

So I just got clear sky. That completes the stalker pack for me. I hear this has faction wars or somesuch?

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Clear Sky is a bit of a paradox. You meant to be chasing Strelok through the zone who's making bad shit go down. However you apparently have time to chill with the local gangs and have them run some recuits into each other's AKs for a while.

Now it wouldn't be too bad because it can be quite good. The problem is that's it horribly broken :<
You cannot change sides after you've picked one. So if you allied with the bandits (like me) expect a very long trek through the north fighting that dickhead Duty with no assistance from Freedom.

A better system would have been allowing you to join three factions, one in each of the major areas. Clear Sky/Avengers in the swamps. Bandits/Loners in Cordon/Garbage and Freedom/Duty in the Military Base and Red Forest

Now for storytime. I joined the bandits because they're fucking bandits; who doesn't want to be a bandit when they grow up?
Apparently I joined the zone's equivalent  to the Girl Scouts. They're weak whiny, stupid and can't aim to save their own life. Anyway I stuck with my stupid, stupid choice and went to town killing the Loners who kept attacking the bandits (honestly who launches attacks ON the bandits?).

The faction wars work by taking Outposts like Battlefield 1942. Apparently if you take the right outposts your factions will be given better armour or have more men.
I didn't notice much of that since I was busy try to take back the same outpost every 2 minutes because it kept getting retaken back. I did this retarded dance of taking outposts back and going over to attack some in the Loner's base while having to trudge back because the Loners had taken more of our outposts.

I had enough of this and stocked up on the finest weapons, breaking my balance. Clinking down the road. pockets bursting with ammo and mowing down all those Loner dicks who got in my way; I pushed into the Loner's lands fighting tooth and nail.
Apparently the bandits were scared of my effort and would refuse to take the empty outposts from the Loners (apparently you can't take them yourself, rage).
So after about 4 hours of non-stop fighting and looting and fighting and looting. I amanged to push all the way into the Loner's base (the bandits have now taken 1 out of the 6 or so outposts I had cleared) I slew everyone there which was a task in itself and waited.... and waited... and waited... I then looked up on google why the fuckers weren't taking the base. Apparently you can't completely wipe out a faction.
I rage quit the faction wars. Leaving the bandits to be butchered like the cattle they are.

So I went out to do the main quests. Got rather far in the game and was sent on a mission to help out some guys kill monsters or something. I turned up to this important mission in the story quest and attempted to talk to them and they would just shoot me. Apparently they were still Loners and I was still a Bandit. Did I mention I can't quit my faction?
I gave up not too long after that due to the game breaking bug.

It's a good idea the faction wars and if it was done right could have added a lot of depth in the game. However they were broken and since they were taken out of CoP we can conclude they were a failed concept.

Spoilers due to length.

[DeKaFu]

Sorry for the slight necro here but I wanted to ask some knowledgeable people:
I just saw Call of Pripyat in Walmart for $9 and I'm wondering if there's any reason it'd be preferable to get it on Steam? DRM or other issues with the retail version, for example. It was in a little CD-case-sized package.

Because if not I'm gonna have to head back there.

[Geen]

I once tried Shadow of Chernobyl. That thing was so effing buggy and unbalanced, it was nigh unplayable.

[Rakonas]

I once tried Shadow of Chernobyl. That thing was so effing buggy and unbalanced, it was nigh unplayable.

Get that one mod that's really popular, whatever it's called.

[Jackrabbit]

Sorry for the slight necro here but I wanted to ask some knowledgeable people:
I just saw Call of Pripyat in Walmart for $9 and I'm wondering if there's any reason it'd be preferable to get it on Steam? DRM or other issues with the retail version, for example. It was in a little CD-case-sized package.

Because if not I'm gonna have to head back there.

Hey, 9 bucks is 9 bucks and I'm pretty sure you'll need Steam to activate it either way. I'd say go for it.

[kerlc]

call of pripyat was the only one i played AND IT WAS AWESOME. sure, some bugs here and there, but it was still AWESOME.

[Cheese]

So, Stalker 2 is going to have permanent-internet-access-DRM. For a mainly single-player game, because, of course, we're all dirty criminals and can't be trusted with our purchased products.

I can't believe they're doing this, but I think they might change their minds when they realise how many fanbases are pissed off at this and thus how much money they'll lose, unless they plan to cash in on the more naive console players.

[Jackrabbit]

That's very dumb and never worked, I wonder when they'll twig to that.