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Clear Sky, with a bit of work, could easily provide a similar experience. I never gave it much of a chance but OGSM really made me fall in love with it.
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Do you have a link to that OGSM mod? I still really don't like Clear Sky but this mod isn't too bad: http://www.moddb.com/downloads/stalker-clear-sky-mod-pack-2012
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May 13, 2014 02:46
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Reinstalled SHoC, and it looks gorgeous with Autumn Aurora 2. Is the game significantly harder? Edit: Haha, just as I post this I get headshotted by one of the bandits that captured Nimble. At least it wasn't from half a kilometer away like in Misery. 
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May 13, 2014 09:09
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I believe this is the most stable version of OGSM for clear sky http://narod.yandex.ru/disk/65134865001.ad420353706ffb5ee112df2450041a4b/OGSM_CS_1.8CE.exe.html https://disk.yandex.com/public/?hash=BQ4ToALW3s/kCi8v2F%2BYS4WukdG3f2biR/1cvYaoci8%3D The first link is the main mod, the second is the compilation fix patch which should be installed over it. Rush Limbo fucked around with this message at 12:18 on May 13, 2014 |
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May 13, 2014 12:12
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Jesus wept, Lost Alpha, I want to love you, but your mid game is a nightmare. It all falls apart after the mono base above x16. Get to the mines, get lost, then beaten and your stuff nicked. Go back to x16 Go back to the mines. Get lost, again. Go to Rostok Go to a building with a bloodsucker and mist which reduces your fps to 20, get lost in building hunting bloodsucker, kill bloodsucker "Hurrah! I'm going to x14" Get told you have to go all the way back to the bar, to get a key for x14 Go back to Rostok. Go to x14 Then, I think, go back to the loving mines.  Still great, though.
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May 13, 2014 21:23
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The best thing that could happen for Lost Alpha now would be if someone just ripped all the awful story out of it and made it entirely freeplay. The maps are awesome, but that's really all it has going for it.
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Horns posted:The best thing that could happen for Lost Alpha now would be if someone just ripped all the awful story out of it and made it entirely freeplay. The maps are awesome, but that's really all it has going for it. I don't mind the story, I enjoy the sense of accomplishment (even if artificial) that comes with completing pieces of a storyline. I also appreciate the effort put into the entire project, especially reworking and adding maps. That said, I'm one of those who just stopped playing because of all the pointless bullshit backtracking. It's almost literally a 50/50 balance between gameplay advancement and backtracking, and the only way to improve that balance is by exploring everything everywhere, which gets really boring when you've been checking out things for 20 minutes and not found a single bit of loot or Alife.
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I keep getting a crash in the Freedom base when I talk to Max to go assault Skull's Duty squad. OGSE 0692 ENG Fixed FATAL ERROR [error]Expression : fatal error [error]Function : CStringTable::Load [error]File : E:\stalker\sources\trunk\xr_3da\xrGame\string_table.cpp [error]Line : 53 [error]Description : <no expression> [error]Arguments : string table xml file not found ui_st_pda.xml, for language us stack trace: Any ideas?
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May 14, 2014 21:55
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Fellow goons, your musical tastes are requested. I'm finishing a weapon mod for clear sky using complete as a base. I'm replacing the annoying propaganda with music. I need some songs, preferably ones that are very Russian/Ukrainian.
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May 15, 2014 00:18
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E.Nigma posted:Fellow goons, your musical tastes are requested. I'm finishing a weapon mod for clear sky using complete as a base. I'm replacing the annoying propaganda with music. I need some songs, preferably ones that are very Russian/Ukrainian. Lots of Tatu and Red Army Orchestra. Authentic Russian with the side effect of making every person who plays it hate you.
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May 15, 2014 00:35
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E.Nigma posted:Fellow goons, your musical tastes are requested. I'm finishing a weapon mod for clear sky using complete as a base. I'm replacing the annoying propaganda with music. I need some songs, preferably ones that are very Russian/Ukrainian. Aria's good if you can dig thrash metal: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IuxbBZXthg8 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cy60hctKpT0
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May 15, 2014 00:38
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Misery included Get Free by Major Lazer which charted in that area for a while. One of the few decent tracks they included. It was practically made for Freedom. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ytIfSuy_mOA Rush Limbo fucked around with this message at 01:03 on May 15, 2014 |
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May 15, 2014 00:52
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KINO. You can't forget them.
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I was pretty surprised when I heard Brothers in Arms playing in Skadovsk. You really can't forget about https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HK2lNuiD7gM Alternatively, stuff from the Metro 2033/Last Light OST.
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I actually think Red Army Choir would clash pretty badly with the STALKER atmosphere. Remember that stalkers are generally the dregs of society out in the Real World, so having classical Russian music with lush orchestral arrangements doesn't quite jive with the personality of the games. I think more popular bands in more popular genres would blend in better. That said, I'm not familiar enough with the eastern European music scene to comment on what specifically should be included, so I'll leave that much up to the thread. The only suggestion I'm willing to make as far as annoying Russian music is Пей пиво! (Drink beer!) by Diskoteka Avariya: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z_pu-rnwOdI e: and if you want some late-Soviet rock, you can't go wrong with Viktor Tsoi: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1E5ecygbvLg e2: Missing Name posted:KINO. You can't forget them. Dangit, beaten! Well if you want a movie reference, go for Vashe Blagorodie, from the movie White sun of the Desert (note that the video contains spoilers if you've been meaning to see that movie): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tQaxLGRCaRE NEED TOILET PAPER fucked around with this message at 05:59 on May 15, 2014 |
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May 15, 2014 05:53
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All radios should play bandit polka
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I started Lost Alpha, I must say the writing and voice-acting in the intro was pretty jarring and amateurish. Is there much more of this later in the game? It's a bit off-putting. TBH I really want to play a version that's more like the book, but I guess that's not really going to happen since it would mostly do away with gun fights and mutants.
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baromodo posted:I started Lost Alpha, I must say the writing and voice-acting in the intro was pretty jarring and amateurish. Is there much more of this later in the game? It's a bit off-putting. I was hoping LA just had original Russian VA to begin with. English has always been goofy.
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baromodo posted:I started Lost Alpha, I must say the writing and voice-acting in the intro was pretty jarring and amateurish. Is there much more of this later in the game? It's a bit off-putting. TBH I really want to play a version that's more like the book, but I guess that's not really going to happen since it would mostly do away with gun fights and mutants. It gets worse, it gets much worse. 
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Is SGM 2.2 supposed to balls to the wall hard because holy poo poo it's difficult.
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Monolith. posted:Is SGM 2.2 supposed to balls to the wall hard because holy poo poo it's difficult. Yeah, some of the new missions and areas (especially the Dark Valley and Lab X18, gently caress those places hard) are just awful. I recommend you hold off on the mod-added missions and just stick to the vanilla storyline wherever possible until you have the highest tier of everything equipped.
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NEED TOILET PAPER posted:Yeah, some of the new missions and areas (especially the Dark Valley and Lab X18, gently caress those places hard) are just awful. I recommend you hold off on the mod-added missions and just stick to the vanilla storyline wherever possible until you have the highest tier of everything equipped. I think I'm just going to skip this mod as it's way too hard even on Stalker. 1.7, the Blackbyte Edition from here is much more fun. Either that or just pop on Arsenal Overhaul 2.2 which I find is even better.
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NEED TOILET PAPER posted:Yeah, some of the new missions and areas (especially the Dark Valley and Lab X18, gently caress those places hard) are just awful. I recommend you hold off on the mod-added missions and just stick to the vanilla storyline wherever possible until you have the highest tier of everything equipped. I remember at least one area where the highest tier everything is useless. Overall it shouldn't be too difficult with the exception of Alpha Squads, which IIRC are somehow worse than in 2.1. I know that at one point there were roughly 40 Alpha guys spawned around Yanov Station.
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Is Misery 2.1 unplayable or something? I can't run it without it crashing when I look around after starting a new game. Changing class also seems to crash the game. Is there something I'm missing I have to do to make it more stable?
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ThePutty posted:Is Misery 2.1 unplayable or something? I can't run it without it crashing when I look around after starting a new game. Changing class also seems to crash the game. Is there something I'm missing I have to do to make it more stable? Play a different mod. I can tell you with massive confidence that a good 75% of the patch notes for 2.1 are straight up fabricated. Many claims they have made have turned out to be completely wrong and going on their echo chamber of a forum to point out any issues is like trying to point out the elephant in the room full of people who don't even know what an elephant looks like. Someone on their forum likened them to the Jonestown of the modding community and it's spot on. Trojanauch in particular is very terrible and entertaining in how much bullshit he spouts to defend the terrible decisions he has made. I imagine their graphic novel project is going to come with complimentary cyanide laced Flavor Aid as a backer reward.
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Ddraig posted:Play a different mod. I can tell you with massive confidence that a good 75% of the patch notes for 2.1 are straight up fabricated. Many claims they have made have turned out to be completely wrong and going on their echo chamber of a forum to point out any issues is like trying to point out the elephant in the room full of people who don't even know what an elephant looks like. Well, that makes sense considering it's so goddamn unstable. Guess I'll try ZRP out then, since I've never gotten the real ending for SoC.
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So what's the general best method for Lost Alpha lately? Patch + Community mods, or just patch?
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MadBimber posted:So what's the general best method for Lost Alpha lately? Patch + Community mods, or just patch? I would highly recommend at least the latest S3r1ous Bug Fixes community patch with LAMP (Lost Alpha Model Pack, vanilla weapon models replaced with nicer ones ported from Lurk) and the Guider's mod on top of that to cut out some of the tedium of backtracking in the main story. If you don't like the vanilla environment textures, throw in the texture/sound pack. Mods are here: http://freetexthost.com/q134pzdcl5
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Bimber, you emailed me a while ago about LA and I figure I'd reply here since more people might find this useful. You asked how similar LA is to SoC to mod, and having had a look at the file structure and some of the scripts I'd be hard pressed to find huge differences between the two and at a push would say LA is basically a heavily modded version of SoC 1.0 released as a standalone. Obviously the Dezowave team had access to the original source code so could work on the engine more but in terms of file structure and general resources it would be incredibly easy to port a lot of SoC mods to LA and vice versa. In scripting terms I'm not sure as I haven't gone through them extensively but I'm sure there's additional LUA functionality which will be interesting to explore, but for most people it's very similar. Texture mods and the like should need minimal adaption. Obviously I haven't actually played it yet because of not having a working machine but looking at the guts of it I can make a few educated assumptions.
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E.Nigma posted:Fellow goons, your musical tastes are requested. I'm finishing a weapon mod for clear sky using complete as a base. I'm replacing the annoying propaganda with music. I need some songs, preferably ones that are very Russian/Ukrainian. Scientists, they often have computers, and quite oldschool ones. so maybe they emulate 64bit games. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6rZ4teNugq8&t=2969s or perhaps they get lonely https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4sFesCIXtL8 I can provide access to Extreme music from Russia, its both A: Extreme & B, from outside the Ukraine, So, I humbly suggest a track or two for the merc base. specifically "TEA MAN WITH TEA GUM - Music For The Kids Without Any." also "THE PODRYVANIEM BOYS - Kalinka Smerti" featuring kalinka music and a dying russian astronaut. Russian noise at its most visceral. the tracklist (SUSAN LAWLY SLCD026) i5067,70 - Behind This AMBASSADOR 21 - Golod COMFORTER - Unfriendly Absorption THE PODRYVANIEM BOYS - Kalinka Smerti https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UarqKE5WrrE VOLGA - Rose ED.S - Empty Space 7 SAMKA - sschr PICHISMO - Babelo: Sotonok/Nadsat ERROR - My Small Boat In The Great Sea Of God KRYPTOGEN RUNDFUNK - Old Recipe For Modern Society GINTAS K - Trumpas TEA MAN WITH TEA GUM - Music For The Kids Without Any https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CTn5DU3C664&t=43s Not the above, but similar. NEIZVESTNOST - Nekromen VETROPHONIA - Poem Of Orgasm SAMKA - sskrr Also, perhaps something for the bandits thats not the bandit camp music but total bandito. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OkYFmC1pnX4 Think of an eastern european "Goldie Lookin Chain" Or this vanilla ice alike: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CezP3zDIeWk staberind fucked around with this message at 20:50 on May 16, 2014 |
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I hosed up. I was trying to fix the issue with the binoculars in Arsenal Overhaul 2.2, and ended up changing the lightning setting to Full Dynamic Lighting (DirectX 10) and the game now crashes a couple seconds after starting up. I tried manually changing the setting from 2.5 to 1 in the user.ltx file, and nothing. Erasing it did nothing either. Do I have to do a complete reinstall?
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Azran posted:I hosed up. I was trying to fix the issue with the binoculars in Arsenal Overhaul 2.2, and ended up changing the lightning setting to Full Dynamic Lighting (DirectX 10) and the game now crashes a couple seconds after starting up. I tried manually changing the setting from 2.5 to 1 in the user.ltx file, and nothing. Erasing it did nothing either. Do I have to do a complete reinstall? Try deleting the shader cache folder. It's either in the COP folder or my documents. It could be that even though you've changed it manually, the cache is still causing crashes.
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Ddraig posted:Try deleting the shader cache folder. It's either in the COP folder or my documents. It could be that even though you've changed it manually, the cache is still causing crashes. There was actually another user.ltx file inside the shaders folder which had a different shader setup. Changed that and now it's working properly. Thanks 
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Whoever who had the bright idea of splitting up the documents in x16 in OGSE needs to be punched.
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Whoever put that Half-life homage/ parody ("Gordon Streeman") and the mission straight after in LA need to be punched. Unless it was GSC, in which case they need to be punched harder. Seriously, pitch-black room, dizzy/psi effects, a time limit, controllers and those really annoying armed zombies killing you every 2 seconds. What the gently caress were they thinking? Easily the worst STALKER mission, including the "dodge the MG nest" in CS.
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Azran posted:Reinstalled SHoC, and it looks gorgeous with Autumn Aurora 2. Is the game significantly harder? I'm just in the process of reinstalling SoC, and this caught my eye. Is AA2 compatible with SoC Complete, do you happen to know? Also, how variable is the weather in it? All the screenshots are beautiful, but there doesn't seem to be much weather going on in any of them (rain, thunderstorms, or whatever).
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Pipski posted:I'm just in the process of reinstalling SoC, and this caught my eye. Is AA2 compatible with SoC Complete, do you happen to know? Also, how variable is the weather in it? All the screenshots are beautiful, but there doesn't seem to be much weather going on in any of them (rain, thunderstorms, or whatever). The nights are incredibly dark, especially if you use Full Dynamic Lighting. Make sure you get the scope changer as well as the default scopes look terrible and are mostly all washed out. The weather goes from clear and sunny to very rainy to incredibly foggy and when its night it gets extremely dark. http://www.moddb.com/mods/autumn-aurora-compilation-mod/addons/alternative-scopes-for-autumn-aurora-2
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Pipski posted:I'm just in the process of reinstalling SoC, and this caught my eye. Is AA2 compatible with SoC Complete, do you happen to know? Also, how variable is the weather in it? All the screenshots are beautiful, but there doesn't seem to be much weather going on in any of them (rain, thunderstorms, or whatever). I don't know honestly, I stopped using SoC Complete after people told me ZRP was better in every regard.  I've not played that much so far, I'm still toying around with Arsenal Overhaul 2.2 in CoP. Man, what an useless answer on my part.
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Jonathan Yeah! posted:Whoever put that Half-life homage/ parody ("Gordon Streeman") and the mission straight after in LA need to be punched. Unless it was GSC, in which case they need to be punched harder. Yeah, it did suck. Luckily the zombies didn't bother me too much. (Pre-patch so maybe I had a fun glitch causing them to ignore me)
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Monolith. posted:The nights are incredibly dark, especially if you use Full Dynamic Lighting. Make sure you get the scope changer as well as the default scopes look terrible and are mostly all washed out. The weather goes from clear and sunny to very rainy to incredibly foggy and when its night it gets extremely dark. Azran posted:I don't know honestly, I stopped using SoC Complete after people told me ZRP was better in every regard. Nice. I will go the ZRP route too, then. Cheers, guys.
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