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It's been a while since I played S.T.A.L.K.E.R. of any flavour and I've just been replaying here and there the last week or so. Man, I have missed it, other FPS games just aren't the same. I noticed this thread doesn't have as many tales from the Zone as it used to  so...I'm playing Clear Sky complete - probably a very old version at this point - and trying to just catch up to that Fang guy, let him know that maybe, just maybe, the Zone doesn't want him and his friends at it's heart. I mean, some guy told me a faction up and disappeared, just like that. They thought some Monolith at the nuclear plant was worth protecting or would make their dreams come true or some drat thing so they left past the barrier and no-one's heard anything since. I'm far from home and working this gig to stop this Fang guy, maybe talk to his boss Strelok, see if he's convinced it's all a big conspiracy like the recordings indicate. Honestly, I've found people aren't so bad - everybody's just too busy trying to stay alive, trying to enjoy a camp fire, play some music, drink some vodka, keep the cold - keep the Zone - at bay. Even the bandits aren't so bad, I keep outta their way, they mostly keep outta mine. I talked to their boss, some guy called Yoga. I don't think he really has anything to do with yoga, man is he angry. The others at the base were cool, just don't flash your weapon around like a novice. They play fun music over the loudspeaker and most just want some weed, some booze, a little coin and somewhere to stay in when the emissions hit. That said, I left the bandit base, took a left (always go left) and tried to take a short-cut back to Cordon. The bandits at the check point held me up, took all my roubles - nearly 20k!  - and made out like they were doing me a favour by not killing me and taking my poo poo. I got them back, though, hosed their plans with some guy called Stringov, even managed to get paid by them to kill him.So now I'm in some place called Agroprom, after some old college used to be. Duty took it over. As much as all the non-Dutyers give out about Duty, they've been good to me, money in my pocket and nothing too hard. They even have a weapon smith who'll upgrade LMGs! Can you believe it? I've never even seen an LMG in the Zone. Holy poo poo, if I got one of those and an exo-skeleton, man... Anyway, I went by the Freedom base, the sworn enemy of Duty - just over a hill! Like thirty seconds sprinting! Unbelievable! The Zone man, the loving Zone! They're cool, too. I just try to get on, in all the ways, y'know. So I figured, they have all these dogs over one side of the Freedom base, furthest away from Duty. Them dogs get in a big enough pack, they'll go for anything food. Maybe I take them out, the guys at Freedom base give me a better price for things, maybe let me sit down at one of their fires, swap some vodka and tales. So I get up early, thinking I wake the base up with my Toz. I love that Toz, had it upgraded since forever. Duty gave me a free - FREE! - SPAS to do some poo poo for them but it's heavy and my Toz has much better range and I like the sound, beautiful weapon. So, yeah, I go out with my Toz, gonna destroy the pack. I gunned two down, the rest started running around. Man, I didn't know there was so many! Out of all the shrubs, behind trees and rocks they started running around, snarling, yelping, barking. I missed the next couple and they ran off a bit so I ran up into their den, climbed a rock so they couldn't get me and started picking them off. Then there's this guy, didn't see him until he was like ten feet away. Poor bastard was walking through to, I suppose, the Freedom base, then he's hip deep in angry dog pack. He got two and then they had him. I didn't have a good shot but I had a good view. Poor bastard didn't even have time to draw his side arm and blow his brains out, just got chewed to death. Right after, his friends - didn't even see his friends - gunned down most of the rest. The last dog kept trying to fight but it's legs weren't working anymore. Still wouldn't die but couldn't fight, couldn't really move. I walked over and finished it off with my Beretta. His friends, they didn't say anything to me. Ignored me. All "Hold on men, it isn't over" then it was and they just straightened up and walked off. Left their friend, left his stuff. I don't see why the Zone gets to be the only one that takes so I waited a minute and then searched him. He had some stuff, nothing fantastic. Problem was, according to his PDA, his name was Timor Dogman. Watch what you name yourself, stalker, the Zone doesn't give notice but it surely takes it.
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TRS + Scope on burst fire is pretty loving excellent. Aim for the chest, second shot walks up to the neck, third to the head.
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I downloaded ZRP a while back. It is a tiny file so I am unsure when people extol the flexibility. Is this some console poo poo or did I download the Wrong Thing?
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I grabbed The Faction War because of all the great press it's getting in this thread and I've barely started but Holy poo poo. Went to the train yard with some dudes, got some money, bought a knife a radio and a sleeping bag and gently caress I can't afford a gun. gently caress. So I agree to find a Wrenched then remember I don't have a detector. gently caress. So I heard over the radio that some guy would be at the abandoned farmstead in the warehouses district flogging a cheap MP5. Turns out his idea of cheap is over three grand more than I have. gently caress. Then I went to the Merc bivouac figuring they might front me a weapon as all I have is a knife so I run the gently caress away from all the wildlife. Nobody was there. gently caress. It's getting kinda late now so I jogged over the hill back towards the farmstead. I stopped at the crest as somebody was firing at something. I start hoping there's a corpse I can loot. It turns out there's a bloodsucker on the prowl. All I have is a knife. gently caress gently caress gently caress. Then I noticed there's a couple of corpses at the bottom of the hill so I sprinted down to them and looty looty loot loot loot. A couple of MP5s - one upgraded a bit  - a couple of Marthas - one upgraded a bit - some bullets and a couple of medkits. loving rolling in it, me. Oh look, there's another bloodsucker. My pistol is in rag order and jams near every shot. The bloodsucker got pissed at me for plinking him so I swap out to the MP5 and burn up most of my ammo. These fuckers are tough. I grabbed tentacles off his corpse and then went back to the initial fight location. Some bastard tries to jack me for stuff that ain't his, I give no fucks what he claims. I told him to get hosed so he dropped me. Such is life in the Zone. I loving love this mod. 
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Who the gently caress do you turn patches in to? Which faction trader where?
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The traders - well, one - started accepting my patches, I suppose it's a standings thing. I'm a loner these days, traversing the zone on behalf of factions who want poo poo transported or picked up. I rock a Toz for the range, handy as mutants will gently caress you up quick. At one point, I was headed from the train yard to Dark Valley and heard what I thought was a bloodsucker over on my left. I sprinted my rear end over to a camp and hopped up on some crates - can't kill me if you can't reach me, motherfucker. I turn around to draw a bead on it and see a Chimera 30 feet away and 20 feet up, mid-leap. As it drops to my doom on my head it lets out a Death From Above roar. I just scooped a G37 in a stash in the Swamps. poo poo all bullets but it has a scope. I'm looking forward to addressing Controller problems now. Them fuckers are lethal. God I love this game.
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Jan 15, 2015 21:21
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Sparkyhodgo posted:Would love to try this. When I type "Stalker faction wars" into google I get a billion results. Which mod is Faction Wars exactly? This one? http://www.moddb.com/mods/clear-sky-faction-mod I downloaded these - https://www.mediafire.com/?k7fk9i32dcc14el http://www.mediafire.com/download/6jvv4pspbj1hi3p/The_Faction_War_patch1.7z http://www.mediafire.com/download/r1waircw7t1p2zn/Radio_station.7z NB: Due to all manner of installed mods I had to uninstall and patch Clear Sky and then apply those. Obviously, YMMV.
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Erm, I was transporting a 20kg box to Duty from Yantar and Defiance stormed the Duty base in a pro as gently caress fashion (scoped mosin nagants in the towers while a mix of shottys and ARs put motherfucking boots on the motherfucking ground) and now I am stuck with a 20kg box I cannot drop. I have no save that will avoid Defiance storming the gently caress out of Duty. Am I boned? Bonus hilarity section: After a few attempts to unfuck that situation I noticed I kept passing the shooting range so I stopped in and had a go while Duty got curbstomped. Major Whatsit gravely informed me that I had to use his guns but he'd give me back my stuff after a round of shooting. After the round of shooting, I discover Major Whatsit had absconded with my SEVA suit, my Veles detector, everything except for the PMm I was using and my G37. At least I got the cool black bandit coat.
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Clear Sky forest scariest/poxiest forest.  - from the guy who cleared out the snorks by the tank in the blackest of night with a shotgun, NV/lamp shenanigans and loving welded to saves.
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I'll get around to farting around with ini files at some point but I started a new game and joined Clear Sky because I love the swamp level and well the game is a variant of Clear Sky... gently caress me, talk about a schizoid mess of  and  . I took an early mission to clear out some mutants - 800r - so it can't be too hard, even coming to nightfall. I use my binoculars to lay eyes on prize and approach. A pack of dogs, no worries, there's a high spot nearish if I get swarmed. I plan my retreat to avoid irradiated puddles and such. Everything prepped, I jog in and drop a dog. The other four run at me and IS THAT TWO loving BLOODSUCKERS AS WELL?? loving gently caress. My retreat features a lot less covering fire than I planned and I blew past my high spot due to bloodsucker nearness. Instead, I lead them to the tower just past the fishing hamlet. I sprint up the stairs to the top and pick away at any available targets as the other three dudes at the tower shoot every mutant they can. By some miracle, no-one dies. On the other hand, some random shots appear to have plinked and pissed off a pseudogiant who comes stomping in, sponging a shitload of bullets and shot. It manages to drop a dude and by drop a dude it stomps him into the rickety wooden bridge and pins him there, stomping the poor bastard to goo. Better you than me. Got a crappy kaban out of it, mind. I celebrate by not being able to afford much beyond repairing my toz and armour.Eventually, I found a crappy but usable scoped mosin-nagant. Oh baby. This thing is ranged death with a wonderful and glorious accuracy lending itself to head shots. On the other hand, I can't find an artifact. Not one. I'm also not bothering with hiring a squad for myself as friendlies, in my experience, get in the way of assaulting enemy positions. I take over Cordon, I clear Dark Valley. I mix and match between a few different sniper rifles depending on what I am shooting and bullet availability. Why? Funny story. I looted a corpse with an SGI sniper rifle. It's got a longer range scope than my mosin and the bullets are easily available. Fixing it cost way more than I had but I wanted to increase my magazine size so I upgraded. Which cost me the price of fixing as well. I thought that was weird but I could still upgrade my poo poo. So, for the laugh, I upgraded all my poo poo. That put me around 120k in the hole. As it turns out, that means I can't sell or buy or trade anything as I do not have the money for that, just a big rear end debt. That's right, I can't buy bandages or health packs or ammo, I can just upgrade poo poo, making my debt larger. Fair's fair, I can work with the ammo I have, swapping out guns as needed and I've got health packs out the wazoo. loving bandages, though, I have a paucity of. Currently 8. A good bleeding shot takes a couple if not more. I'm using my extreme range weapons a lot as you can imagine. I'm slowly, oh so slowly, managing to pare my debt down. Around 55k as it stands. I have stashed a shitload of weaponry that I can sell at the depot the moment my cash flow turns positive. I'll take monster clear-outs and kill missions for steady roubles to reduce the debt and run like a mad gently caress towards any defense of a base on the map as every rouble helps. The first thing I loot is money. And I still have no artifacts, just vodka and drugs. Such is my life in the Zone. rejutka fucked around with this message at 21:01 on Jan 23, 2015 |
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Dvsilverwing posted:What kind of APR did you get on that 120,000 Ruble loan? No APR just saddled with goddamn morons who can't defend poo poo. loving Northern Outpost. Ddraig posted:"If you don't pay we're going to break your knees" When I have positive cash flow and Garbage secured properly, I am going to buy a shitload of bullets for my TRG and genocide snipe the Depot, gently caress them all. Also, down to around 43k and looted a kolobok.
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Jan 24, 2015 18:17
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Skin cream, for the Fruity Rudy in every S.T.A.L.K.E.R.
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Apr 7, 2015 00:34
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Uh, forget updating the OP, whut the gently caress are all this alphanumerics?
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Jul 31, 2015 01:16
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So, if was to extol S.T.A.L.K.E.R. to people, I'd point to this poo poo as S.T.A.L.K.E.R. as gently caress. I really, really want the option of co-op.
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Also, I've ended up playing STALKER COMPLETE 2009 for not interesting reasons, and I just went through your first underground moment what with the bloodsuckers and the military and the controller at the end and this is the first time, ever that I have sprinted down against the controller and gotten behind him and he was a big bitch. Seriously, I fluked our situation and he did not do poo poo. Mind opened, looks like  all personal like because I love that this game continues to surprise me.
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Oct 1, 2015 00:32
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Reposition, wait a beat, fire a burst.
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Oberleutnant posted:It just occurred to me that I really wish the sawn off shotgun was a one handed weapon. Yes. Is this part of a mod? It should be, a basic and simple change that would be both useful and realistic. (You can sprint around with a bunch of weight at ludicrous speeds, it's really not a controversial change.)
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frank.club posted:Friendly squad AI is loving useless. I get constantly shot by them Friendly squad AI? Jesus, why don't you just go training wheels? Dunno what you pick but I am a loner in a hostile environment, always. The most friendly I get is some poor bastards I walk into in range I sprint over and it's like two dudes left, one ARing and the other scrublording about with his sidearm. Plinky motherfuckers better acknowledge my Strelok rear end.
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Actually, is it possible to do a ballistic knife? Seems like it would have a lot of comedy value.
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Erwin the German posted:Anyone have plans to add more missions? All those empty laboratories are just begging for secret document fetch quests... or, y'know, something more original, I guess. Well you could have a proto faction take one over and you can clear them out or do some mission to bolster them. Or a dude who co-exists peacefully with poltergeists and they gang up on you because you will not gently caress Off. A Monolith shrine. A secret merc base. A place that resembles that heavy hitter room in John Wick - you need to be This Badass to get in. A creature hunter faction with specialized weapons. Bill the S.T.A.L.K.E.R.'s anomaly/artifact collection. A military S.T.A.L.K.E.R. branch. Some other bunch of heavy hitters that think maybe Strelok and his gang are hogging the limelight. Rich dickheads with equipment and zero smarts. A fabled weaponsmith/armourer who gussies up your weapons or armour with artifacts (Could also custom electronics with artifacts, Iunno). A guy who shows movies from around the world made about the Zone. A religious zealot who hires people to drag corpses back to his so he can bury them properly. A non-zombied version of Monolith. Some crazy bastard who eats artifacts. Some crazy bastard who can adjust the Zone (spawn anomalies). A dude married to a burer. A pseudogiant who wants to escape the Zone and become the world's greatest Sumo wrestler. A bloodsucker eye-balling a career in porn. Bandits who are not fundamentally idiots. Some mad gently caress who thinks projectile gunpowder weapons are for pussies. Secretly Russian-funded ex-Spetnaz who line the pockets of oligarchs with their line in rare artifacts. Documentarians turned feral. The guy who makes the sausages. An artifact cook/breeder. An outpost of DeBeers (Or however you spell it) who use gravity anomalies to make cheap but desired Zone gems. A company trying to cachet up their energy drink/booze. Kanye West insists on making a music video beside the Wish Granter. Not gonna lie, I'd love if any or all of these were implementable.
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Motley posted:Saw this thread and finally decided to pick up this game. I started playing and feel like I can't hit anything with my bullets. Should I not have started playing on Master difficulty, even though it's recommended for the experience? I've died a lot in the opening mission. Yeah that happens a lot. Stop thinking you're a bullet sponge, accept the help from Wolf's team and realise that The Zone hates you. It's a glorious day when you get a scope for your rifle.
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Oct 4, 2015 19:52
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You want to take over from Siderovich as the go-to fixer guy.
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Oct 5, 2015 03:39
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What about a Punisher gun, that shoots knives? Actually, Punisher armour. Don't tell me someone wouldn't rock that in the Zone.
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Oct 14, 2015 23:45
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A giant winged skull is not the same. It's just not.
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Oct 15, 2015 00:25
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If possible, you could maybe mod a +10 to all anomalies across the board for Monolith characters, representing being in tune with the Zone. Or maybe an artifact sense so they know what artifacts are in range.
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Ddraig posted:One thing I always wondered after the C-Consciousness was destroyed is how much of the Monolith is actually aware of what is going on. You get people like Strider and his group who suddenly awake and find themselves in a strange situation, so you've got to imagine there's more of those kinds out there, who may not be as lucky as Strider. They might still be in the heart of madness and suddenly realize that they're aware they're surrounded by a bunch of maniacs, having no idea if they're the same as them, and making an assumption and trying to find out could result in you being killed. Now I'm imagining a Preacher - sort of like the character from Children of Dune, walking the Zone, with his zealot corps, preaching/converting/killing people who will not submit to the will of the Great Monolith. The Preacher guy has a hunk of the Wish Granter he claims was bestowed unto him and they lug around the thing itself on a flatbed dragged by chimeras. It'd certainly spice up certain gigantic areas with not a lot in them.
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Oct 15, 2015 04:42
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Pfft, lookit this scrub*. We're talking about the true Monolith.  *Smite the unbeliever.
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Oct 15, 2015 05:32
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Can you get Bovril in the Zone?
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Oct 15, 2015 22:29
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Are there other under barrel mounts than grenade launchers? I'd quite like a shotty one for those wish I had a shotgun out moments.
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Oct 21, 2015 23:20
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Klaus88 posted:I like the gunz mod, but I feel it places a little too much emphasis on modern flashy gunz, when the Zone would probably be full of ex-Pact AK varients and leftovers from WWII, instead of what feels like brand new, fresh off the factory floor M4s and SCARS. Your average stalker feels like a guy who was feed up of being screwed in their home country, so they grab grandpas ancient rifle and head off to make their fortune. How much helical do you think the X-Ray engine can do?
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Oct 25, 2015 01:04
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Morter posted:I just hope the real AO3 will make guns a lot cheaper. You were the female stalker, weren't you?
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Nov 2, 2015 01:03
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Azran posted:Something something prostitution. Yeah, basically.
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Nov 2, 2015 02:07
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Why would you remove guns from the game? At all?
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NO gently caress YOU DAD posted:Holy poo poo, the Swamps are crawling with Military in CoC. I just had to fight my way through multiple outposts, a helicopter and a machine gun nest just to rescue the buddy of some dude in the rookie village. Then, coming back through the Cordon, we got pinned down in the Mill by a million bandits who'd somehow gotten hold of Abakans, and I had to burn through nearly all my bandages and medkits to keep us both alive. Then I had to use up the last of them when we got attacked by a pack of pseudodogs coming over the bridge. Y'know, it's long past due for having some sort of bragging rights system at the bar.
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Well, I just had a STALKER moment: I'm playing The Faction War - joined Defiance - and have wiped everyone bar the Merc faction. Just moved into Agroprom map and hit, er, the one on the right, the not-Duty base. Things are going very well indeed. I sprinted up behind a tree and drop around ten Mercs with my trusty and tricked out Mosin-Nagant. I wait a few moments, only the one guy in the gatehouse so I sprint up, switching to my SIG 550 (Good enough for Strelok, etc.), pop a grenade in the window and move behind cover. Op success. There's a build-up of Mercs beside the trains a bit away so I call for back-up, wait a bit and then start again with the Mosin. Between me and the back-up, we drop all who do not run. Fine and dandy. They move forward and I loot the bodies of patches and some ammo and grenades. Hang on, what's that sound? I press F and poo poo, I'm dead, a Chimera landed on my head while looting. Such is life in the Zone.
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Nov 25, 2015 00:34
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More good STALKER is always more good STALKER.
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Nov 26, 2015 21:07
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The maps of Lost Alpha are fantastic (and loving huge) but it needs more to do and/or more people/factions. The bit where you are chased by a chopper while in a car can gently caress itself, though.
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Maybe have an exo-skeleton with permasprint (you can't not sprint or something) called "Cruise Control". 
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