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STALKER: Clear Sky

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    #92
    0ubliette
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,643 ✭✭✭0ubliette


    quarryman wrote: »
    What does changing the A-Life effect? That's just the AI right?

    The a life is the supposed 'living' environment, you know the way random stuff just 'happens' in stalker. You get alot mroe of those 'WTF?!' moments! Theres new enemies too which are really cool..its pretty much how stalker shouldve been (tho i dont like the vehicles really)


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    #93
    quarryman
    Registered Users Posts: 7,496 ✭✭✭quarryman


    yeah i grabbed a vehicle, hit an anomaly and spun about 15 times in the air, landed on the wheels and kept driving, totally unrealistic.


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    #94
    Sephiroth_dude
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    quarryman wrote: »
    What does changing the A-Life effect? That's just the AI right?


    Is that setting under video settings is it?I cant see it :s

    also is the latest patch for clear sky 1.5.01 or sumthing is it?


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    #95
    quarryman
    Registered Users Posts: 7,496 ✭✭✭quarryman


    Sephiroth_dude wrote: »
    Is that setting under video settings is it?I cant see it :s

    also is the latest patch for clear sky 1.5.01 or sumthing is it?

    don't get you.


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    #96
    Spear
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    Sephiroth_dude wrote: »
    Is that setting under video settings is it?I cant see it :s

    also is the latest patch for clear sky 1.5.01 or sumthing is it?

    Latest is 1.5.0.5 linked up above there somewhere.


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    #97
    Pyr0
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    quarryman wrote: »
    yeah i grabbed a vehicle, hit an anomaly and spun about 15 times in the air, landed on the wheels and kept driving, totally unrealistic.

    How do you grab a vehicle in stalker ?!


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    #98
    5uspect
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    There was a mod that you had to install which allowed it. Apparently the Oblivion Lost mod also included it in its many fixes.


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    #99
    quarryman
    Registered Users Posts: 7,496 ✭✭✭quarryman


    Yeah i'm playing it with Oblivion Lost.

    Actually the mod is pissing me off a bit:

    The game seems WAY harder. I'm finding myself reloading a LOT, even with skill on novice.

    The enemies will land a grenade on your head, no problem.

    If you lose a certain ammount of health you kind of limp along. You're basically a sitting duck.

    Weapon jamming seems far more common. Very annoying.

    I might go back to the non-modded (vanilla) game.


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    #100
    0ubliette
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    quarryman wrote: »
    Yeah i'm playing it with Oblivion Lost.

    Actually the mod is pissing me off a bit:

    The game seems WAY harder. I'm finding myself reloading a LOT, even with skill on novice.

    The enemies will land a grenade on your head, no problem.

    If you lose a certain ammount of health you kind of limp along. You're basically a sitting duck.

    Weapon jamming seems far more common. Very annoying.

    I might go back to the non-modded (vanilla) game.


    Oblivion lost is alot harder, until you get past the army under the bridge at cordon. Then once you get a decent AK, it really begins to shine. And the difficulty is part of the experience, you cant just runa rond the zone willy nilly shooting at the army or other stalkers unless youre 100% certain you can win..


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    #101
    quarryman
    Registered Users Posts: 7,496 ✭✭✭quarryman


    yep i put about 10 hours into it over the weekend and it is HARD. (Oblivion Lost mod for Shadow of Chernobyl).

    It actually is bordering on the edge of frustrating. I'm finding a lot of quick-loading going on. (I have skill set on novice also).

    I hate the weapon jamming aspect.

    I hate the sway/limping that goes on when you get injured.

    Other that that its ok.

    Between the over-tricky parts it is really satisfying when you manage to take out a bunch of bad guys and escape with mission documents etc. The difficulty adds to the tension. But then you might be limping back to the barkeep and get attacked by a random mutant, agghh.

    Also the addition of vehicles is a mixed bag. They work as a virtual tank in mowing the enemy down and acting as an almost bullet-proof mode of transport. But they are very unstable. Its easy to get stuck in the environment of get thrown into the air.

    Despite the torture it can be playing the game i keep coming back. There's something really addictive about the gameplay.

    I'm really off topic here, haven't discussed Clear Sky once.


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    #102
    quarryman
    Registered Users Posts: 7,496 ✭✭✭quarryman


    and another thing about SOC is that stealth just does not work.

    I've tried sneaking up on ememies but regularly get spotted and shot down.

    The main problem is with the visbility bar. It jumps AFTER you have been spotted. What's the point of that.
    I actually like the way every noise you make effects your visibility, reloading the gun, changign weapon etc.


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    #103
    MOH
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    0ubliette wrote: »
    But if you never palyed the fully patched version, and never sampled any of the excellent mods like oblivion lost, you really cant comment on the overall quality of the game. I was pissed off with it at first too, it barely ran on my old machine. now its fully patched, fully modded and runs like a dream on my new PC, i can safely say its one of the best FPS's of all time

    In fairness, I played the game that was released as a finished product, which sadly it wasn't.

    Still, never got around to selling it, and heard a lot of good things about the mods, so might dig it out and install it again sometime and see if I'm converted.


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    #104
    Sephiroth_dude
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    are 1.5.04 and 1.5.05 the only patches that have been released thus far?is there any point installing 1.5.04?could I just install 1.5.05


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    #105
    0ubliette
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    Sephiroth_dude wrote: »
    are 1.5.04 and 1.5.05 the only patches that have been released thus far?is there any point installing 1.5.04?could I just install 1.5.05

    just go with 1.5.05, it seems quite stable. Havent had any crashes since isntalling it.

    The mod scene is already picking up for CS, if anyones interested. Go to http://stalker.filefront.com

    Best of the bunch are:

    Gnomus' scopes for CS
    Revamped Terrain pack
    SHARPER textures
    FLOAT32 you can get that from thefloatingpoint.org tho
    And some of the accuracy fixes too really improve the gunplay


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    #106
    Sephiroth_dude
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    cool thanks,and where do I save the patch?into what folder does it go?


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    #107
    Sephiroth_dude
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    never mind sorted it :-).


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    #108
    Sephiroth_dude
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    Has there been 3 or 4 patches released for this game?


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    #109
    Spear
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    Sephiroth_dude wrote: »
    Has there been 3 or 4 patches released for this game?

    5 so far, latest is 1.5.0.7

    http://www.patches-scrolls.de/stalker.php


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    #110
    Sephiroth_dude
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    are patches 1.5.06 and 1.5.07 the same?I read somewhere that they were.


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    #111
    Spear
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    Sephiroth_dude wrote: »
    are patches 1.5.06 and 1.5.07 the same?I read somewhere that they were.

    They came in very quick succession, and the notes for 1.5.0.7 mention compatibility with 1.5.0.6, but other than that, there seems to be no difference. However I can't imagine they'd waste their time and bandwidth on 1.5.0.7 if they hadn't changed something, even if it is something minor.


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    #112
    Sephiroth_dude
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    thanks for that spear.


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