Official S.T.A.L.K.E.R Thread
 

Posted here as nobody checks the other gaming board, ever dance:

"At THQ's Gamer Day event on Thursday night in San Francisco, THQ worldwide publishing executive VP Kelly Flock announced that development on GSC Game World's incredibly long awaited S.T.A.L.K.E.R.: Shadow of Chernobyl has wrapped, with discs ready to go into production. The game is now set for release this month."

"We are pleased to announce that the game has gone to print! The project developed by GSC Game World over 5 long years has finally crossed the finish line."

S.T.A.L.K.E.R.: Shadow of Chernobyl will be release March 20th

Trailer:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FYPvQNn3law

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I'll be buying this for sure as I've been following it forever. I feel like getting the shit scared outta me rock:

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cuss:











......beta?

biggrin: Just the multiplayer test fileplanet were doing, fuckers still havn't sent me my key so ive not been able to play it yet. cuss:

prepare to be let down

From all the new previews I've read, nope. I realise all the problems the game's had over the years and may still have but from what testers have been saying, I like what I've heard.

jesus christ...36 years later

From what ive read this game has been drastically scaled down form what it was intended to be, all the elements that made it something that stood out have been seriously nerfed or removed totally.

I remember i posted a screen of this game years back with that funny looking m4 varient in it, ballisticwookie was still posting here so that shows how long ago that was. eek:

Holy shit I forgot this game even existed. It looks terrible now.

PC Gamer UK has reviewed S.T.A.L.K.E.R. and given it the score of 87%

Here is a couple of excerpts:

It's best described as a first-person shooter/roleplaying game/ survival horror hybrid, in that order....the horror is the thing that underlines the whole game. It's what makes it work. It's what makes it different.

It's: Enormous, atmospheric
It's not: The hype, nearly as buggy as you'd expect, monster-stuffed

rock:

is it me or does that bloom lighting effect not look very good

I dont think the game in general looks very good based on screens, those cocks at fileplanet have yet to send me my multiplayer "beta" key despite the fact the games gone gold so how the fucks it a beta? oOo:

In the pic miyagi posted that hand\arm and gun look like something you'd expect the original half life engine to produce.

Yeh, looks like something straight outta counterstrike terrorist hand + day of defeat original gun

whats the premise? there are nuclear mutants still living there that the military is sent to kill?

I'll pass

my pc's hard drive is on its way out and will only last a week or 2.

Looking for a replacement now, anyone know a good hard drive company? it'll only be for about 100-160 gigs in size cry:

this game is out in a couple of days but when I have my pc up and running again, i'll post my thoughts

seagate? western digital?

I think i've use WD hhd's all along and never had a problem.

I don't know if i will be able to run this game too well.

i dl R6 vegas, and i couldn't get past the opening loading screen. thats the first time i couldn't play a game on this rig.

Seagate and WD are both great.

I prefer Seagate because they are bit quieter under full load.

That game used to look so good, now it just looks like shit.

its not all about the graffix you video card whores! nvidia/ati have the wool over yer eyez

btw, i got a seagate barracuda drive, installed it last night, seems fine :)

Im in the middle of selling up mosta my components, motherboards sold, one of my graphics cards is sold, sound cards sold, cpu will be going soon as well.

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IGN - 8.2
Computer & Video Games - 8.0
PC Gamer - 87%
EuroGamer - 8/10

not too shabby. main complaint seems to be a few interface niggles which can surely be fixed in a patch or 2.

[quote="mr.miyagi":a4093]Computer & Video Games - 8.0
PC Gamer - 87%
EuroGamer - 8/10

not too shabby. main complaint seems to be a few interface niggles which can surely be fixed in a patch or 2.[/quote:a4093]

The diehard fans have more than a few complaints, main one being co-op got screwed over and the features that made the game unique got striped out of it. This thing was meant to release around the same time as halflife 2 and in the 2 years since that they did nothing but cut features instwed of add them.

Back then the game was meant to be finished but they were granted mroe time to fix some bugs, in other words they didn't want to get bent over and get fucked by half life 2 sales. May 2005 was the release date and since that the games just been downgraded more and more, anything that made the game special has long since been removed. annoy:

everyone knows its not the game that was initially promised and thats been made public for years now. Some of the die-hard fans need to get a grip on real life for a second and just enjoy what they can from whats now still a decent game.
You can't please everyone...especially die-hard fans who you can NEVER please.
People take games far too seriously sometimes rolleyes:
I just play to have fun, be scared, be entertained....

[quote="mr.miyagi":fcebb]everyone knows its not the game that was initially promised and thats been made public for years now. Some of the die-hard fans need to get a grip on real life for a second and just enjoy what they can from whats now still a decent game.
You can't please everyone...especially die-hard fans who you can NEVER please.
People take games far too seriously sometimes rolleyes:
I just play to have fun, be scared, be entertained....[/quote:fcebb]

Problem is what makes this game ANY different from every other run and gun shooter out there now? Absoloutely nothing. People may still buy it for the name but to me its not worthwhile anymore. It was at one time something unique, now its just a face in a crowd of clones.

Theres far too much of this these days, developers promising this and that and one by one the promised things get removed or changed or moidified in some way, game devs just seem to love fucking people over by sucking them in with hype then delivering nothing.

I suppose thats the way society is though I guess when it comes to selling products. Hype is such a vital tool in sucking people in and building up their hopes...
Thats why I've always rewarded dedication and original approaches to games where the publishers are as honest as possible.

Goin off-topic, stumbled upon this video, not sure if its new but I've not seen the footage elsewhere of Crysis. its named 2007 so it can't be too old.

Initial part of the vid we've seen but the 2nd half has some impressive visuals and physics http://www.gametrailers.com/umwatcher.php?id=48761

This, imo, is going to set the new standard for FPS games, can't wait to play although I realise it will bring my current rig to its knees... annoy:

Take a squint at this:

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Boomtown - 9
Gamespot - 8.5
IGN - 8.2
Computer & Video Games - 8.0
PC Gamer - 87%
EuroGamer - 8/10
bit-tech - 8

Gerv what video card you got? think my ati x850 256mb could run this baby? it should do........can't wait til some of the performance issues are ironed out.

maybe i should sell my ati and buy a better one, know of the best agp card thats cheap. ive been with ati last few years now, maybe a shift back to nvidia is in order...tho ati cards you seem to get more value for money, they last longer imo

x1900 pro agp miyagi. fastest agp out there. make sure you have 450w and 20a or more on the 12v rail

As ninty said fastest agp is the x1950 pro, though saying that ive been reading a lot of problems with certain versions all artifacting at stock clocks.


The "HIS 1950 turbo" apparently had or has a bug where the fan would only rotate at 40% so that left the card to cook hitting over 100c.

My cards an x1900xt crossfire edition, it'll do me till i can afford to get a new system. Ony reason ati cards seem to last longer is they've had manufacturing problems with the new cards, thats behind them now though and theyre meant to be launching them in may.

I had the sapphire version.

i read about problems with the vrm heatsink on the card. i wasn't having gpu cooling problems, but on occasion when i was messing around in ccc the screen would go blank and it would take a second to come back and say that the card stopped responding so the driver reset it or something.

i didn't want to have to deal with that and i didn't want to spend the $300 so i took it back. maybe i'll buy it when it's more stable and the price drops because it would probably give me a bit more gaming time.

I've been playing this for a couple days and it's more or less exactly what I expected. More RPG elements, the ability to go prone, less loading screens, and a much better faction system for some depth would be nice but it's a pretty solid game.

The firefights are enjoyable since the AI is half-intelligent making it difficult even on easy. Groups of mutants or humans can communicate with eachother and attempt to outmaneuver you.

Exploring the large maps for items,whatever can be fun and you usually run into some type of trouble.

Graphic options on medium/high with a lag here and there.

p4 3.0
x800
1gig ram

yo Ferich, how is yours playing? theres a fix out for people havin lag. you able to run Dynamic lighting? I'm only on static lighting but everything is on max in advanced settings. Seems to run great now. I had initially had dynamic on when I first tried the game and could only run 1fps! but now I get about 40-50 with this tweak. If you haven't, use static lighting after pasting this fix into your file, its in Shared Documents:

(don't bother pasting in the initial binded keys, skip past those and try the rest downwards. also you can change the resolution at the bottom if need be)

Go into your User.alx file. It can be found in C:\Documents and Settings\All Users\Documents\STALKER-SHOC

Replace all the text with the following:

_preset Default
ai_use_torch_dynamic_lights on
unbindall
bind jump kSPACE
bind crouch kRCONTROL
bind crouch_toggle kSLASH
bind accel kLSHIFT
bind sprint_toggle kX
bind forward kUP
bind back kDOWN
bind lstrafe kLEFT
bind rstrafe kRIGHT
bind llookout kQ
bind rlookout kE
bind cam_zoom_in kADD
bind cam_zoom_out kSUBTRACT
bind torch kL
bind night_vision kN
bind wpn_1 k1
bind wpn_2 k2
bind wpn_3 k3
bind wpn_4 k4
bind wpn_5 k5
bind wpn_6 k6
bind artefact k7
bind wpn_next kY
bind wpn_fire mouse1
bind wpn_zoom mouse2
bind wpn_reload kR
bind wpn_func kV
bind wpn_firemode_prev k9
bind wpn_firemode_next k0
bind pause kPAUSE
bind drop kG
bind use kF
bind scores kTAB
bind chat kCOMMA
bind chat_team kPERIOD
bind screenshot kF12
bind quit kESCAPE
bind console kGRAVE
bind inventory kI
bind buy_menu kB
bind skin_menu kO
bind team_menu kU
bind active_jobs kP
bind map kM
bind contacts kH
bind vote_begin kF5
bind vote kF6
bind vote_yes kF7
bind vote_no kF8
bind speech_menu_0 kC
bind speech_menu_1 kZ
bind use_bandage kRBRACKET
bind use_medkit kLBRACKET
cam_inert 0.
cam_slide_inert 0.25
cl_cod_pickup_mode 1
cl_dynamiccrosshair on
g_always_run on
g_autopickup on
g_backrun on
g_corpsenum 10
g_eventdelay 0
g_game_difficulty gd_stalker
hud_crosshair on
hud_crosshair_dist off
mm_mm_net_srv_dedicated off
mm_net_con_publicserver off
mm_net_con_spectator 20
mm_net_con_spectator_on off
mm_net_srv_gamemode st_deathmatch
mm_net_srv_maxplayers 32
mm_net_srv_name BLACKBOX
mm_net_srv_reinforcement_type 1
mm_net_weather_rateofchange 1.
mouse_invert off
mouse_sens 0.32
net_cl_icurvesize 0
net_cl_icurvetype 0
net_cl_interpolation 0.
net_cl_log_data off
net_cl_pending_lim 3
net_cl_update_rate 30
net_dedicated_sleep 5
net_sv_log_data off
net_sv_pending_lim 3
net_sv_update_rate 30
ph_frequency 75.00000
ph_iterations 24
r1_dlights on
r1_dlights_clip 10.
r1_glows_per_frame 16
r1_lmodel_lerp 0.1
r1_pps_u -1.
r1_pps_v 0.
r1_ssa_lod_a 64.
r1_ssa_lod_b 48.
r1_tf_mipbias 0.
r2_aa off
r2_aa_break 0.800000,0.500000,0.000000
r2_aa_kernel 0.5
r2_aa_weight 0.250000,0.250000,0.000000
r2_allow_r1_lights off
r2_gi off
r2_gi_clip 0.001
r2_gi_depth 1
r2_gi_photons 16
r2_gi_refl 0.9
r2_gloss_factor 1.4
r2_ls_bloom_fast off
r2_ls_bloom_kernel_b 0.7
r2_ls_bloom_kernel_g 3.
r2_ls_bloom_kernel_scale 0.7
r2_ls_bloom_speed 100.
r2_ls_bloom_threshold 0.001
r2_ls_depth_bias -0.0003
r2_ls_depth_scale 1.00001
r2_ls_dsm_kernel 0.7
r2_ls_psm_kernel 0.7
r2_ls_squality 0.5
r2_ls_ssm_kernel 0.7
r2_mblur 0.
r2_parallax_h 0.04
r2_slight_fade 0.05
r2_ssa_lod_a 96.
r2_ssa_lod_b 64.
r2_sun on
r2_sun_depth_far_bias -0.00001
r2_sun_depth_far_scale 1.
r2_sun_depth_near_bias 0.00001
r2_sun_depth_near_scale 1.
r2_sun_details off
r2_sun_focus on
r2_sun_lumscale 1.
r2_sun_lumscale_amb 0.5
r2_sun_lumscale_hemi 1.
r2_sun_near 12.
r2_sun_near_border 0.75
r2_sun_tsm on
r2_sun_tsm_bias -0.01
r2_sun_tsm_proj 0.3
r2_tf_mipbias -3.
r2_tonemap on
r2_tonemap_adaptation 1.
r2_tonemap_amount 0.7
r2_tonemap_lowlum 0.0001
r2_tonemap_middlegray 0.6
r2_wait_sleep 0
r2_zfill off
r2_zfill_depth 0.5
r2em 2.
r__detail_density 0.44
r__geometry_lod 1.2
r__supersample 4
r__tf_aniso 12
renderer renderer_r2
rs_c_brightness 1.
rs_c_contrast 1.
rs_c_gamma 1.2
rs_fullscreen on
rs_refresh_60hz off
rs_stats off
rs_v_sync off
rs_vis_distance 1.
snd_acceleration on
snd_cache_size 32
snd_efx on
snd_targets 24
snd_volume_eff 0.8
snd_volume_music 1.
sv_anomalies_enabled 1
sv_anomalies_length 3
sv_artefact_respawn_delta 30
sv_artefact_stay_time 3
sv_artefacts_count 10
sv_auto_team_balance 0
sv_auto_team_swap 1
sv_bearercantsprint 1
sv_client_reconnect_time 60
sv_console_update_rate 1
sv_dedicated_server_update_rate 100
sv_dmgblockindicator 1
sv_dmgblocktime 0
sv_forcerespawn 0
sv_fraglimit 10
sv_friendly_indicators 0
sv_friendly_names 0
sv_friendlyfire 1.
sv_hail_to_winner_time 7000
sv_pda_hunt 1
sv_pending_wait_time 10000
sv_reinforcement_time 0
sv_remove_corpse 1
sv_remove_weapon 1
sv_returnplayers 1
sv_rpoint_freeze_time 0
sv_shieldedbases 1
sv_spectr_firsteye 1
sv_spectr_freefly 0
sv_spectr_freelook 1
sv_spectr_lookat 1
sv_spectr_teamcamera 1
sv_statistic_collect 1
sv_statistic_save_auto 0
sv_timelimit 0
sv_vote_enabled 1
sv_vote_participants 0
sv_vote_quota 0.51
sv_vote_time 1.
sv_warm_up 0
texture_lod 2
vid_mode 1280x1024


This game is fantastic, only just installed it an hour ago, where do you find the first weapons in the stalker campsite? I'd like to go exploring but I'm not gonna win any fights with a pair of binoculars....

You have a pistol that you can access after you talk to that wolf guy. Just scroll up or hit 2.

why is this game only $40 cdn? not that i'm complaining...

Not sure, bought mine for £17.99 which is a bargain, depends where you look. Other places are normal price.

shit its 2.30am and I wanna keep playin. Gerv, you running it on max dynamic settings? the lightning looks damn nice and I only have it on static too

Havn't really mesed with it much, so far the performance seems to be pretty jumpy in places.

Since Crysis was mentioned, i just felt like saying... This will be the second time crytech has made me upgrade my PC, and i was not let down the last time. This looks to be 10x's the awesome, and im tempted to jerk off to the screens. Basically im going to pay whatever i need to hardware wise, to play crysis with all the eye candy on.

crysis is the game everyone is waiting for, I think its going to be the next step up in gaming.

As for Stalker, new patches released today, many many fixes (about 60+):

Get the U.S patch here:
http://stalker.filefront.com/file/STALK ... ONLY;77220

or NoN-U.S here:
http://stalker.filefront.com/file/STALK ... Wide;77221

Note: this patch wipes your save games. I've only just started so suits me fine.

Off into the Zone I go dance:


edit: the patch fixed a sound issue I was having, WOOP! rock: