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Is there a shorter way out of the mines and back to the Dark Valley or do they really expect me to walk all the way back after having just driven there in an awkward daring escape? I'd drive there but the car decided to vanish, leaving only a floating cloud of orange gas and sparks where it once stood.
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staberind posted:I reinstalled & restarted shortly after finally managing to get into x18, on a whim I installed http://www.mediafire.com/download/sjjwd0405j9a3cq/S3r1ous+Textures+Effects+and+Audio+v2+by+ThaOneDon.rar and its really nice so far, also the updated S.L.A.M Pack (S3r1ous S.T.A.L.K.E.R.: LOST ALPHA MODS by ThaOneDon) page : http://freetexthost.com/q134pzdcl5 Does the SLAM pack affect performance? I'm on a knife edge between LA being playable and too stuttery.
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Perfect World posted:Is there a shorter way out of the mines and back to the Dark Valley or do they really expect me to walk all the way back after having just driven there in an awkward daring escape? I'd drive there but the car decided to vanish, leaving only a floating cloud of orange gas and sparks where it once stood. There should be another car by the road where you exit.
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Maybe it's a really stupid question, but where's the st_characters.xml file in the Steam version of CoP? Can't find it anywhere, and supposedly it's on gamedata/configs/text/eng. There's only two AtmosFEAR related files there.
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May 6, 2014 19:20
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nexus6 posted:Does the SLAM pack affect performance? I'm on a knife edge between LA being playable and too stuttery. Its usually very smooth, I turned everything including grass up to max and it was still silky. there will Always be some stutter with the engine, setting entities online as the player approaches, CS & CoP suffer from the same thing, in fact, it happens so rarely in my game that when it does freeze for a tenth of a second, its jarring. However, I'm running it from a dedicated ssd with a GTX 760, so your mileage may vary. From what I gather, turning down grass a bit and tuning the sun & shadow settings can make a reasonable improvement. (not to mention making artifacts a bit easier to spot).
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May 6, 2014 20:42
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Azran posted:Maybe it's a really stupid question, but where's the st_characters.xml file in the Steam version of CoP? Can't find it anywhere, and supposedly it's on gamedata/configs/text/eng. There's only two AtmosFEAR related files there. Unless you have extracted it from the archives or it's not included in a mod it won't be in the gamedata folder. I'm sure some kindly goon would be able to upload it somewhere if you don't feel like messing around with the database extractor.
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Ddraig posted:Unless you have extracted it from the archives or it's not included in a mod it won't be in the gamedata folder. I'm sure some kindly goon would be able to upload it somewhere if you don't feel like messing around with the database extractor. Whoops. There we go, forgot that extracting it was A Thing.  Extracted the file; do I have to put it in the place where it should be normally for the changes to take place, right?
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May 6, 2014 23:37
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I'm at the level "Radar" during the Monolith-given mission "Meet the Patriarch" but it seems that the character you're supposed to meet was killed in a scripted blowout just before? and now when you arrive at where he was standing when he was alive a cutscene of you standing next to him goes on and on and on forever then nothing happens. The game simply stops progressing and the guy who escorted you stands there lifelessly. Has anyone else encountered this? Patch 1.30013 here for LA. Very frustrating but I don't know if it's game breaking- you can still go to X10 for the main storyline I think.
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CoP weapon modding question: I'm trying to add a couple of weapons from Road to Pripyat to Shoker and make it so Owl and Hawaiian sell them. The only files I need to copy over are the weapon file in gamedata\configs\weapons, the models, and the textures, and modify the trader files so that they sell the weapons, right? Is there any way to make traders always sell certain items, so I can check to make sure I've implemented everything properly?
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BillyJoeBob posted:His status said depressed after. Only vaguely related, shoot Arnie and kill his replacements repeatedly. Barkeep incredibly mad each time. Is there a Weapon port guide? There are some weapons packs that were only for COP, and I want to put them in CS and SHOC.
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May 7, 2014 05:18
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Stanman posted:I'm at the level "Radar" during the Monolith-given mission "Meet the Patriarch" but it seems that the character you're supposed to meet was killed in a scripted blowout just before? and now when you arrive at where he was standing when he was alive a cutscene of you standing next to him goes on and on and on forever then nothing happens. The game simply stops progressing and the guy who escorted you stands there lifelessly. Has anyone else encountered this? The first time I went into the radars, all monolith were hostile so they got lead poisoning in the face, managed to finished the game yesterday with out many problems. Some of the story DOES NOT MAKE SENSE, not sure if its because of buggy cut scenes or if I missed a few things but it was still an awesome experience though.
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They actually made the cars semi drivable, shame the boot lid is held on with a 15 year olds belief in Santa clause, barkeep seems to be the best guy to sell weapons to, so I have my whole scavenged collection in there, as I veered off the quest a bit to get roubletastic, I hope this heap makes it back to dv in one peice.
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NEED TOILET PAPER posted:CoP weapon modding question: I'm trying to add a couple of weapons from Road to Pripyat to Shoker and make it so Owl and Hawaiian sell them. The only files I need to copy over are the weapon file in gamedata\configs\weapons, the models, and the textures, and modify the trader files so that they sell the weapons, right? Is there any way to make traders always sell certain items, so I can check to make sure I've implemented everything properly? That will make it so the trader always has that weapon in stock.
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E.Nigma posted:Under [supplies_generic] set wpn_whatever = 1, 1 OK, so here's what I have now: the only change in Hawaiian's trader file is that wpn_whatever = 1, 1 under [supplies_generic]. That's the only mention of this weapon. The weapon file itself, the textures, and the models are all there already. The only other files I can think of that would be missing are sound and what the weapon looks like on inventory and trade screens. Anyways, when Hawaiian spawns (either from my moving close to Yanov or me loading up a save in Yanov) the game makes a beep and crashes. Any pointers? e: worth mentioning that I also tried giving values to wpn_whatever in [trade_generic_buy] as well, to the same effect. NEED TOILET PAPER fucked around with this message at 22:18 on May 7, 2014 |
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In Lost Alpha, where do you guys put your stuff for safe keeping? In complete 2009, which was th elast time I played Stalker, there was a good box in the Bar, but now it's been replace by one marked stash - does it still delete all the stuff in there if it gets activated?
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Obnoxious Brit posted:In Lost Alpha, where do you guys put your stuff for safe keeping? That blue box is fine, or at least, thwe area where the blue box is the first time you enter the bar, my blue box in bar decided to go on an adventure, but the area where it was is equally accommodating. also, cars boots, and some dead bodies that are set to permanently exist, for instance; a few loners and soldiers where you meet mole. With thanks to someone earlier : http://www.gsc-game.com/index.php?t=community&s=forums&s_game_type=xr&thm_page=3&thm_id=22465&sec_id=19&offset=-60 Cordon: Sid's Bunker chest of drawers and cabinet outside his door. cabinet does weird stuff Garbage: Stash in attic of green house ( where Bes moves to ) and in room where Seriy and Yurik relocate to from Hanger. Also on roof of Duty Checkpoint at exit to Rostok ( Bar ) Agroprom: Roof of main building where you rescued Mole and inside the train tunnel where Mole relocates to. Dark Valley: Pig Farm stash where you meet Oleg. Monolith Base underneath main double stairs. Rostok: ( Bar ) Inside Bar, stash under metal pipework by stairs directly north of entrance to 100 Rads Bar. Chest inside western hanger on top of other containers near vehicle. Rostok Factory: Locker in northern section in barn building where you meet Duty Leader. Top floor backpack of highest point of Duty structure that is incomplete. Under sink in theater Duty main building. Inside Military building if you kill them all and loot all the supplies. Darkscape: Bus Stop backpack near soldiers. Bus Stop backpack near exit to Cordon. Backpack in Sin Tunnels near T-intersection. Forest: At northern entrance inside building. In Mine compound in the attic of a building near the Mine entrance. Construction Inside building where Loners hang out. Go to the last room where 2 Loners sit and walk up to the east wall and reach up in the air about 3/4 of the way. Also can be accessed from the outside. Mercenary Base inside Bar and outside a building near a roof vent that you get to by using a rear ladder to a small area behind one of them. Yantar: In fireplace of most southern house in cement village. Yantar Underground chest in room with many empty shelves. Dead City: Blue chest on stacked stuff in the middle of road just outside the main Mercenary compound to the south-east. Marshes: Doc's place chest of drawers. Army Warehouses: Loner Bar. Strelok's Lair at Bloodsucker Village. Countryside: Church attic. Lost Factory: Mobile Lab. Outskirts: Bar. staberind fucked around with this message at 21:25 on May 7, 2014 |
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I took a break for a few days because of what I'm about to describe: After patching, I was suddenly able to talk to Veles without getting shot in the face. I made it back to the Dark Valley (and I was very tempted to go check out the beached ships but will hold off for now). I approach the bandit camp, start trying to stealth-kill the base. This is actually quite difficult as despite the lack of AI intelligence, a sawed-off shotgun dart/slug is literally more accurate at 50 meters than silenced pistol round is at 5. Absolutely no exaggeration. Several quickloads immediately tell me "Whoops, Duty guy is dead, good job scrub". I finally manage to get a QL that does not do this, grab the documents, and make my way to the underground cell, killing all but one or two bandits who I simply cannot find. It is empty. Checking my PDA, I find that the Duty prisoner is hiding in some bushes to the northwest of the bandit base. Overloaded with sweet, sweet AP ammo and such, I s-l-o-w-l-y make my way to him. He tells me I need the key to the gate...as he crouches in a lovely bunch of bushes. I dutifully retrace my path to the place where the key is before returning to the Dutyer (to be fair I should have been catching on a little more thoroughly at this point). He kindly requests that I open the gate to the cell in the basement of the bandit base which he is 50 meters outside of. Halfway back to the base I get a 30 second blowout warning. I burn all my energy drinks to reach safety next to the cell. Within a few seconds, my minimap shows the Dutyer approaching the entrance. His dot stops moving, and I begin to worry he's dying of radiation poisoning. Moments later, there's a bandit shout, a burst of gunfire, and a prompt informing me that the Dutyer has been killed. Only in a Stalker game could this poo poo be nearly as amusing as it is frustrating.
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That mission was pretty strange in the first place, as you need to already be disguised as a bandit to get to that point, I do hope you wandered around mopping up surviving military/monolitha goons before meeting mr sin detector, I got a nice haul from there, also, the bandit tradesman is the cheapest seller of a couple of nice types of ammo so far, so farm all guns, sell to barkeep at the bar, (these original names!) then buy as much ammo from them while he will still sell to you, also picking up the key. stash phat lewt in the box next to feind, and go and dupe the mono's, i think is what i did, might redo it as I want much moar ammo. my fave gun? mp5 (viper) re-chambered to use cheapest pistol bullets, with ok aim you can trounce most things with a face. Now dreading X-18, haaaaaa. bonus comedy, getting your car to the bar is quite an adventure. especially the array of anomalies at the garbage. staberind fucked around with this message at 01:17 on May 8, 2014 |
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staberind posted:Comprehensive list Wow, that's very useful. Cheers!
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One more question about AA2.2: I have the Wealthy client achievement, shot the dudes who were assaulting the Stalkers at night in the very beginning of the game, but Owl won't sell me the .50? Granted I got a .338 AWM from Nimble but did I miss a step somewhere?
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If you have played SoC previously, a lot of things have changed, I think leaving dark valley is where the biggest difference is so far though, as the game straight up gives you two very useful things within a short space of time, also, could someone give me some advice on creating/adding the "tourist suit" from some other mods, also a portable stash bag. plus confirm/deny if its possible to have suits occasionally be looted from corpses as in some other, perhaps cop, mods? if so, could they give some rudimentary instructions on how to achieve this in lost alpha. or at least point in the direction of where to get the info?
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Vorenus posted:Only in a Stalker game could this poo poo be nearly as amusing as it is frustrating. I got the bandit documents before meeting Veles and when all of the bandits were friendly to me I carefully went around the base knifing them all in the back while they all stared off through the wall at a mutant miles away. I then sold the previous guys stuff to the next guy before I knifed him and so on. My reputation went all the way down to very bad but so what? I made 60,000ru!
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If you still get a long escape menu/quicksave/loading in Lost Alpha, try going to the bin folder, sending a shortcut right to your desktop and not doing any compatibility options besides admin level privilege. It probably doesn't hurt to add -external (not sure what this does) and -noprefetch to your target line.
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Perfect World posted:I got the bandit documents before meeting Veles and when all of the bandits were friendly to me I carefully went around the base knifing them all in the back while they all stared off through the wall at a mutant miles away. I then sold the previous guys stuff to the next guy before I knifed him and so on. My reputation went all the way down to very bad but so what? I made 60,000ru! well, they ripped me off every chance they got so some payback is always nice, I snagged a battery artifact in Agroprom, a little n.e. of ratcatcher, it sells to them for exactly R5000, Gravy.
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Monolith. posted:One more question about AA2.2: I have the Wealthy client achievement, shot the dudes who were assaulting the Stalkers at night in the very beginning of the game, but Owl won't sell me the .50? Granted I got a .338 AWM from Nimble but did I miss a step somewhere? Hold up, what's AA2.2? I thought you meant Autumn Aurora but thats SoC.
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Perfect World posted:I got the bandit documents before meeting Veles and when all of the bandits were friendly to me I carefully went around the base knifing them all in the back while they all stared off through the wall at a mutant miles away. I then sold the previous guys stuff to the next guy before I knifed him and so on. My reputation went all the way down to very bad but so what? I made 60,000ru! This is deliciously devious and goony and I'm ashamed I did not think of it.
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Endymion FRS MK1 posted:Hold up, what's AA2.2? I thought you meant Autumn Aurora but thats SoC. Arsenal Overhaul 2.2, sorry. And to answer my question, Owl just randomly started selling it.
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Monolith. posted:If you still get a long escape menu/quicksave/loading in Lost Alpha, try going to the bin folder, sending a shortcut right to your desktop and not doing any compatibility options besides admin level privilege. It probably doesn't hurt to add -external (not sure what this does) and -noprefetch to your target line. The shortcut created by the installer already does that.
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The pacing in Lost Alpha is pretty terrible. You go from using scraps in the first map to having more ammo than you could ever use and more than a dozen artifacts in the second. I haven't had a blowout yet but from what I've seen from videos of other people its just random insta-kill thunder for about 10 minutes instead of something cool like the rolling red clouds from CoP Sigerous mod.
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May 8, 2014 14:40
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Man, I'm way too much of a packrat for CoP it seems. Rolling around with a 2000 rounds of different sizes is kind of frowned upon by the weight system!  I'm enjoying myself a lot though.
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floor is lava posted:The pacing in Lost Alpha is pretty terrible. You go from using scraps in the first map to having more ammo than you could ever use and more than a dozen artifacts in the second. I haven't had a blowout yet but from what I've seen from videos of other people its just random insta-kill thunder for about 10 minutes instead of something cool like the rolling red clouds from CoP Sigerous mod. The single blowout I've seen looked pretty much like a SGM blowout. Did anyone else jump down through the vortex in the mono base trying to find the X18 entrance?
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Vorenus posted:The single blowout I've seen looked pretty much like a SGM blowout. I fell through it a couple of times, not too much there, sadly. Monolith. posted:If you still get a long escape menu/quicksave/loading in Lost Alpha, try going to the bin folder, sending a shortcut right to your desktop and not doing any compatibility options besides admin level privilege. It probably doesn't hurt to add -external (not sure what this does) and -noprefetch to your target line. Might I suggest -nointro as well, also, I discovered that mucking about with the actual xr.exe in the bin folder, setting run as admin and in the xp 3 enviroment slowed my loading times dramatically, unwise, so use the shortcut for everything.
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floor is lava posted:The pacing in Lost Alpha is pretty terrible. You go from using scraps in the first map to having more ammo than you could ever use and more than a dozen artifacts in the second. To be fair this is pretty much how Stalker games have always worked. If I'm remembering right it took about five minutes in CoP to get an end game weapon just by running to a stash, and SoC lets you buy pretty high end weapons in Cordon if you care enough. My biggest problems with LA are the really bad scripted sections and the lack of any traveling stalkers. The pacing has seemed about par for the course so far.
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NEED TOILET PAPER posted:OK, so here's what I have now: the only change in Hawaiian's trader file is that wpn_whatever = 1, 1 under [supplies_generic]. That's the only mention of this weapon. The weapon file itself, the textures, and the models are all there already. The only other files I can think of that would be missing are sound and what the weapon looks like on inventory and trade screens. Anyways, when Hawaiian spawns (either from my moving close to Yanov or me loading up a save in Yanov) the game makes a beep and crashes. Any pointers? Fish Fry Andy posted:To be fair this is pretty much how Stalker games have always worked. If I'm remembering right it took about five minutes in CoP to get an end game weapon just by running to a stash, and SoC lets you buy pretty high end weapons in Cordon if you care enough
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floor is lava posted:The pacing in Lost Alpha is pretty terrible. You go from using scraps in the first map to having more ammo than you could ever use and more than a dozen artifacts in the second. I haven't had a blowout yet but from what I've seen from videos of other people its just random insta-kill thunder for about 10 minutes instead of something cool like the rolling red clouds from CoP Sigerous mod. I was really happy that LA let me have an SVD in Cordon. And by let me have, I mean "shot a military guy who was wandering about by himself". Came in real handy for the cordon itself. Also in LA, how do you operate the safe dials in the bandit camp? I know the combination, I just can't change the dials.
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Anyone know where to find gen2 night vision in Lost Alpha? Gen1 is terrible when you don't do the lighting maps right. I ended up having to do X18 twice because I ran out of headlamp batteries.
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I updated Lost Alpha and now my screen flickers white. I know the fix but it was working fine last night damnit
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Where can I find a jerry can to refuel my car? I brought a 25L fuel drum to a car that ran out of gas and apparently those don't work. I don't really want to hoof it in Darkscape. E: I found a jeep, that's a lot nicer than my busted Lada. 
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I've been playing a lot of Clear Sky lately. I wish I didn't fight so many human enemies, but the game looks amazing and is way more challenging and fun than SoC. It still gets pretty scary, too; I'm in red forest at the moment and I'm just besieged by psi dogs (which are a really cool addition to the game). I think a lot of people got put off by this game because of the buggy release, but with complete this is probably tied with Pripyat for the best game. I almost think, though, that if you took the faction blips off the map and just made the territory wars a little background thing, like campfire guitars or roaming stalkers, people would like it more. Is there any way to turn the FOV up? That FOV switch thing seems to only work with cracked versions of the game.
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nexus6 posted:The shortcut created by the installer already does that. Well, it sure didn't work for me until I made one. staberind posted:
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