STALKER: Call of Pripyat trailer

>> This might be old news, but the movie on the page above (which scales to
>> full
>> screen very well) is rather impressive. I missed out on the second
>> Stalker game
>> because I failed to get deep enough into the first to be captivated by
>> the gaming
>> world.

I'm replaying the first now, using the Stalker Complete 2009 mod, which
upgrades the graphic quality quite a bit, but doesn't change the original
gameplay appreciably. The skies, weather, and nighttime are very lovely
now, and help player immersion.

If you have a videocard with plenty texture memory (my 4870 has 1GB) and
haven't played the first game yet, try it with this mod. I don't think
there's an all-in-one patch yet, so you'll need these three files:
http://stalker.filefront.com/file/STALKER_Complete_2009;99897
http://stalker.filefront.com/file/STALKER_Complete_2009;99898
http://stalker.filefront.com/file/4th_Incremental_Patch_for_SC09_v132;102369

rms

rms wrote:
>>> This might be old news, but the movie on the page above (which scales to
>>> full
>>> screen very well) is rather impressive. I missed out on the second
>>> Stalker game
>>> because I failed to get deep enough into the first to be captivated by
>>> the gaming
>>> world.
>
> I'm replaying the first now, using the Stalker Complete 2009 mod, which
> upgrades the graphic quality quite a bit, but doesn't change the original
> gameplay appreciably. The skies, weather, and nighttime are very lovely
> now, and help player immersion.
>
> If you have a videocard with plenty texture memory (my 4870 has 1GB) and
> haven't played the first game yet, try it with this mod. I don't think
> there's an all-in-one patch yet, so you'll need these three files:
> http://stalker.filefront.com/file/STALKER_Complete_2009;99897
> http://stalker.filefront.com/file/STALKER_Complete_2009;99898
> http://stalker.filefront.com/file/4th_Incremental_Patch_for_SC09_v132;102369

I heartily recommend this as well, to date there has been no other game
that has been as immersing for me than STALKER with the STALKER Complete
mod. The nights during a thunderstorm are amazing.

--
Ceo-

Andrew MacPherson wrote:
> http://gaming.hexus.net/content/item.php?item=20197
>
> This might be old news, but the movie on the page above (which scales to full
> screen very well) is rather impressive. I missed out on the second Stalker game
> because I failed to get deep enough into the first to be captivated by the gaming
> world.
>
> Given my recent conversion to the Fallout3 cult I'm in no need of another FPS-style
> fix, but I probably ought to revisit Stalker before Pripyat's released.


I'm looking forward to this but I am really hoping for the majority of
the maps to be new areas - the swamps were a welcome change in Clear
Skies but we were quickly back into familiar territory. Don't get me
wrong - I like the familiar territory but I want to see more of the zone.

What really caught my eye though was "Players will also be able to play
STALKER in freeplay mode once its been completed". This has been long
promised and I'm hoping they'll finally deliver

"rms" wrote in message

>>> This might be old news, but the movie on the page above (which scales to
>>> full
>>> screen very well) is rather impressive. I missed out on the second
>>> Stalker game
>>> because I failed to get deep enough into the first to be captivated by
>>> the gaming
>>> world.
>
> I'm replaying the first now, using the Stalker Complete 2009 mod, which
> upgrades the graphic quality quite a bit, but doesn't change the original
> gameplay appreciably. The skies, weather, and nighttime are very lovely
> now, and help player immersion.
>
> If you have a videocard with plenty texture memory (my 4870 has 1GB) and
> haven't played the first game yet, try it with this mod. I don't think
> there's an all-in-one patch yet, so you'll need these three files:
> http://stalker.filefront.com/file/STALKER_Complete_2009;99897
> http://stalker.filefront.com/file/STALKER_Complete_2009;99898
> http://stalker.filefront.com/file/4th_Incremental_Patch_for_SC09_v132;102369
>
> rms

*snap* I'm currently replaying the first game with the COMPLETE 2009 mod and
its pretty good.

I played through Clear Sky with the 1.5.10 patch recently and its more
stable now its patched but they cannot patch the game design
and basically it goes tits up towards the end and isn't worth playing. Even
though I was very annoyed with Clear Sky on its release I
may still give Call of Prypiat a go simply because there has been bugger all
to play on the PC front this year.

Shawk wrote:

> What really caught my eye though was "Players will also be able to play
> STALKER in freeplay mode once its been completed". This has been long
> promised and I'm hoping they'll finally deliver

Modders delivered it long time ago

JLC wrote:
> Shawk wrote:
>
>> I'm looking forward to this but I am really hoping for the majority of
>> the maps to be new areas - the swamps were a welcome change in Clear
>> Skies but we were quickly back into familiar territory. Don't get me
>> wrong - I like the familiar territory but I want to see more of the zone.
>>
>> What really caught my eye though was "Players will also be able to
>> play STALKER in freeplay mode once its been completed". This has been
>> long promised and I'm hoping they'll finally deliver
>
> If anyone cares I'm back after taking a break from reading NG's for the
> last 4 months. So Hi all.


Hiya, hows things?

Its a great game alright. Its the only thing this jaded gamer has
played over and over again since the first HL

You have to check out the mods. The best of which is probably:

http://artistpavel.blogspot.com/2009/04/stalker-complete-2009.html


> Even with all the patches I still had a couple of broken missions. The
> worse was the one where I was suppose to kill the sniper for Duty, but
> when I got back the guy that gave me the quest was shot, so for the rest
> of the game (about 40 hours) I had this mission showing as not finished
> and it was at the top of the list so every time I loaded a save it would
> be the one highlighted. It got to be a real pain having to go in and fix
> that over and over again. The other one was the mission where I was
> suppose to get the special gun from the Freedom guys. I had gone into
> that small town when I did the sniper mission, and I had found it then.
> I couldn't carry it at the time so I dropped it somewhere in that town.
> So when I went back to find it, it was gone. I spent about 3 hours going
> over every inch of that damn little village looking for that thing! So
> that stopped me from going any farther with the Duty missions.


Shame you found bugs - I didn't have any at all. Strange how some games
react with certain systems..

Try the game again with the complete mod. You won't regret it.

Oh... did you get the 'proper' ending?


> Anyway the game was one of the best games I've ever played. I had a
> blast once I finally got a good rifle with a scope so I could get those
> great head shots. The story was great, kinda strange, but still was
> interesting, and I was totally surprised how good it really was.
>
> Now the problem is I really miss the good old days of PC only games. I
> was thinking, was this game the last PC only FPS? I'm thinking it was.
>
> A side note to Shawk. You are the guy that turned me on to GRID and I'm
> still playing the game and still love it, so I'm wondering if you have
> tried NFS Shift yet? I played the demo and bought the game the same day.


Haven't tried it yet but thanks for the recommendation - I'll add it to
the list. My problem is I don't game much now. I work abroad most of
the week leaving much less time at weekends to do all those things you
do in the week (visiting, jobs in the house/garden etc). I do have a
genuine list though and I will try.

Thus spake JLC , Tue, 29 Sep 2009 18:27:30 -0700, Anno
Domini:

>If anyone cares I'm back after taking a break from reading NG's for the
>last 4 months. So Hi all.

You back from therapy & ready for more existential debate dude? ;-p

(I wouldn't have seen this except for Shawk's quote <EG>)

--
Nostromo

Nostromo wrote:
> Thus spake WDS , Wed, 30 Sep 2009 09:14:21 -0500, Anno
> Domini:
>> Where did you install it? Vista and Win 7 don't like programs that
>> modify their own files in X:\Program Files directories and non-AAA and
>> older games often do that. Try installing it in something like a
>> X:\games\ directory.
>
> Cheers - will do. I 1st did a straight copy from XP to my new box into
> C:\Games\Stalker. I've since installed in default dir (C:\Program
> Files(x86)\etc) & this yer tellin me could be the cause??? Unbelievable!

There are a lot of badly behaved programs out there. Since 1995 they've
been told to use the user document directories to store stuff but they
still write into their own install directories.