Bodies disappear after a while. Due to not knowing that the mission was complete, I spent about 45-60 minutes defending the warehouse in Garbage. Eventually, I tried to fight my way through to get to the next zone. Bodies everywhere! And I'm glad to see other people have witnessed bodies being randomly placed in fire barrels.
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S.T.A.L.K.E.R. Shadow of Chernobyl |OT|
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Giganticus
Member
Patch available. Dunno if it will fix the Vista save-crashing bug as I don't see it mentioned in the notes but I hope so.
Currently I can only find it on fileplanet:
US Link
Everyone else
Currently I can only find it on fileplanet:
US Link
Everyone else
Prime crotch
Banned
Well this is just ****ing great my tin case edition, or the Duke Nukem case as I like to call it, came yesterday and guess what I can't play it! When I get into big open areas my fps rate gets below 10 and since this ain't exactly a very closed envoirment FPS I'm screwed. How I love my ol' PC.
Teknopathetic
Member
"Well this is just ****ing great my tin case edition, or the Duke Nukem case as I like to call it, came yesterday and guess what I can't play it! When I get into big open areas my fps rate gets below 10 and since this ain't exactly a very closed envoirment FPS I'm screwed. How I love my ol' PC."
I dunno what your specs are, but, judging from the posts in this thread: Switch to Static Lighting.
I dunno what your specs are, but, judging from the posts in this thread: Switch to Static Lighting.
the patch seems angled towards fixing multiplayer :/
oh and if you thought the early maps in Stalker were atmospheric, they are nothing compared to the last 2 maps. you can tell the devs spent way more time developing the quests here than on the others.
Chiggs said:
I'm having trouble following the story too, mainly because it occurs entirely in your PDA entries and what's more makes references to things that never happened. the "Marked One" makes frequent references to what NPCs you met said or did and I'm like "no, you didn't. I was there the whole time, he never said any of that".
as far as I can tell there was an incident where this object called the Monolith aka the Wishgiver impacted into Chernobyl and caused the meltdown. this objects actually grants wishes, and every time someone uses it the zone expands by several kilometers. the brain scorcher and everything where experiments by the russian gov in creating psychic weaponry. I don't know if the gov's experiments are related to the Monolith but the brain scorcher was expressly created to form a psychic barrier around Chernobyl to prevent people reaching the Monolith. and just now I got a PDA entry saying something about the Wishgiver being some kind of illusion to hide something.
as far as I can tell there was an incident where this object called the Monolith aka the Wishgiver impacted into Chernobyl and caused the meltdown. this objects actually grants wishes, and every time someone uses it the zone expands by several kilometers. the brain scorcher and everything where experiments by the russian gov in creating psychic weaponry. I don't know if the gov's experiments are related to the Monolith but the brain scorcher was expressly created to form a psychic barrier around Chernobyl to prevent people reaching the Monolith. and just now I got a PDA entry saying something about the Wishgiver being some kind of illusion to hide something.
oh and if you thought the early maps in Stalker were atmospheric, they are nothing compared to the last 2 maps. you can tell the devs spent way more time developing the quests here than on the others.
in Pripyat you meet up with a team of exosuit Stalkers who help lead the charge on Chernobyl. it's the best urban combat level I've ever played, and I've played every Tom Clancy/Delta Force game you can name. your team mates call out enemy positions, exchange battle cries and actually move like a proper squad rather than the standard stalker AI you see in any other missions. probably entirely scripted but totally worth it. and when you break through into Chernobyl you have a squadron of Hinds attacking you and the Monolith worshippers.
Prime crotch
Banned
Teknopathetic said:
I can't even activate dynamic lightning.
VibratingDonkey
Member
Awesome.tegdf said:
Yeah really. Does anyone even remotely care about multiplayer in this game? I tried it once. Standard CS-wannabe boringness. But to be fair it sure does need a whole lot of bugfixing. During my brief time with it the vote box wouldn't go away, even when switching server. Disappeared when the game crashed though.Zenith said:
Nothing wrong. As has been explained 50 times in this thread, it's just an incredibly demanding feature. Oblivion was planned to have it, but they took it out. Be happy that they give you the option of using it in Stalker. I'm sure it could be optimized somewhat, but it will still be out of reach for most current systems.Wollan said:
I think I've run into a bug, but maybe some of you found a way around it?
Spoilers for the location geographically north of The Bar.
I'd prefer to NOT wipe these guys out if I can help it. Anyone found a work around? Maybe increasing faction via the console or something?
Spoilers for the location geographically north of The Bar.
On zoning in I found some Duty guys fighting bandits. Helped them out and they took me to their leader. Leader offers me a job. Wants a sniper in a nearby fort killed. I say OK. Little do I know that this fort is in fact the base of another faction called Freedom. So now I'm not so sure I want to kill this sniper. I talk to a few guards and they let me through to see the leader. After informing him about the Duty guys and their plan of attack, he asks me to help his soldiers wipe them out. Here's the bug: after I agree, they go red to me and start shooting.
MrPing1000
Member
Draft said:
That happened to me, they killed me, and I reloaded my save, then they remained neutral to be but they someone spotted the duty guys, the WHOLE base then went to kill them, they killed them all cept one who was injured. Since I like being neutral, I gave the injured one a first aid pack, he gets up then gets shot in the head :lol
Prime crotch
Banned
Ok this might sound dumb but after spending a while cleaning a lot of space on my hard-drive and defragmenting it the game runs so much smoother. So far amazing imersive game, the graphics are far from wowing me as the old previews did but they have some very nice touches here and there.
I messed around with the options and finally got it to a more respectable speed, but the problem is it is just so radical in change that the game becomes quite painful to play. I start in the room with the guy who sets me my first task and im 17 FPS, i go up the stairs and hit 160 FPS, step outside and flutuate from 15FPS to 35FPS. Looking at the sky gives me 180FPS. Is there any way to lock a maximum.. at say 24FPS? I simply cant go on with such wild frame rate jumps as it hurts my head.
Hi guys,
I finally had time to install and play the game for a few hours last night. I'm here to give my initial impression.
When the game began to install (Vista 32-bit BTW), I started to think of some of the feedback I'd heard from friends, read on messageboards, and heard on podcasts. I'd heard everything from "fantastic" to "ho-hum". I had also heard the terms RPG, FPS, and "we're not sure what genre this one falls in to" as well. People just didnt know what to make of this game. So, I want sure what to expect or what adventure I was about to embark on. One thing for sure--I was excited. I've been waiting for STALKER for years. I'd purposely dodged previews and most reviews because I wanted to know very little about the details of the gameplay. I wanted to experince it for myself for the first time.
Once the installation was complete, I launched the game expecting it to immediately crash to desktop since I had heard of some Vista nightmares. What luck! I experienced nothing of the sort. I immediately jumped into the Video Options and began to tweak away as I have done with so many other PC games. I toggled graphical features, adjusted sliders, and weighed many options plowing through the "advanced features". Once I was done, I created a new game and was off.
After watching the opening movie (both CG and in-game) -- I was already impressed with the atmosphere this game was creating for me. I couldnt wait to be set free! I wanted to step outside and see what this world was like first-hand. As some old guy with broken english informed me of some quest I needed to complete for him in some underground bunker, my mind wandered to the outdoors. What would it look and sound like?
As soon as the conversation finished, I whipped around and my frame rate dropped significantly. Ugh. I jumped back into the options menu and spent the next 30 minutes adjusting settings, rebooting, and turning off graphic features. The two things I absolutely could not change were the resolution (my LCD runs natively @ 1680X1050, and the Dynamic Lighting--I refused to use the old DX8 static lighting) and lighiting. After I found the balance between a rock solid smooth frame rate and great visuals--I was off! I climbed the stairs that lead me outside and it hit me in the face like a brick. It was a beautiful, dusty, post-apocolyptic world. I looked around admiring the dry dead world that was begging me to explore it. I turned slight to the right and a sudden but gentle breeze pressed into my face carrying leaves with it, bouncing off of my chest. I walked into the wind heading for the nearby camp. I was greeted by another man who spoke broken english. He told me a little bit of "The Zone", the camp I was heading into, and where I could find the man I was looking for. His chatter was interupted by distant laugher. Over his shoulder I could see several men sitting around a camp fire, talking (in russian?), and laughing once again. One strummed a guitar that lie under his arm--singing to the tune. Everything else was silent. It was just the wind, the guitar, and some occassional chatter that occupied my immediate world.
I was pulled in. This was it. It was what I wanted, expected, and welcomed. I smiled and knew I was in for a gaming treat. I cannot wait to play this game some more and see what it has to offer. I'm sorry if this comes across as cheesy (I know it probably does), but there are few games for me that are successful in creating the mood it sets out to create.
I finally had time to install and play the game for a few hours last night. I'm here to give my initial impression.
When the game began to install (Vista 32-bit BTW), I started to think of some of the feedback I'd heard from friends, read on messageboards, and heard on podcasts. I'd heard everything from "fantastic" to "ho-hum". I had also heard the terms RPG, FPS, and "we're not sure what genre this one falls in to" as well. People just didnt know what to make of this game. So, I want sure what to expect or what adventure I was about to embark on. One thing for sure--I was excited. I've been waiting for STALKER for years. I'd purposely dodged previews and most reviews because I wanted to know very little about the details of the gameplay. I wanted to experince it for myself for the first time.
Once the installation was complete, I launched the game expecting it to immediately crash to desktop since I had heard of some Vista nightmares. What luck! I experienced nothing of the sort. I immediately jumped into the Video Options and began to tweak away as I have done with so many other PC games. I toggled graphical features, adjusted sliders, and weighed many options plowing through the "advanced features". Once I was done, I created a new game and was off.
After watching the opening movie (both CG and in-game) -- I was already impressed with the atmosphere this game was creating for me. I couldnt wait to be set free! I wanted to step outside and see what this world was like first-hand. As some old guy with broken english informed me of some quest I needed to complete for him in some underground bunker, my mind wandered to the outdoors. What would it look and sound like?
As soon as the conversation finished, I whipped around and my frame rate dropped significantly. Ugh. I jumped back into the options menu and spent the next 30 minutes adjusting settings, rebooting, and turning off graphic features. The two things I absolutely could not change were the resolution (my LCD runs natively @ 1680X1050, and the Dynamic Lighting--I refused to use the old DX8 static lighting) and lighiting. After I found the balance between a rock solid smooth frame rate and great visuals--I was off! I climbed the stairs that lead me outside and it hit me in the face like a brick. It was a beautiful, dusty, post-apocolyptic world. I looked around admiring the dry dead world that was begging me to explore it. I turned slight to the right and a sudden but gentle breeze pressed into my face carrying leaves with it, bouncing off of my chest. I walked into the wind heading for the nearby camp. I was greeted by another man who spoke broken english. He told me a little bit of "The Zone", the camp I was heading into, and where I could find the man I was looking for. His chatter was interupted by distant laugher. Over his shoulder I could see several men sitting around a camp fire, talking (in russian?), and laughing once again. One strummed a guitar that lie under his arm--singing to the tune. Everything else was silent. It was just the wind, the guitar, and some occassional chatter that occupied my immediate world.
I was pulled in. This was it. It was what I wanted, expected, and welcomed. I smiled and knew I was in for a gaming treat. I cannot wait to play this game some more and see what it has to offer. I'm sorry if this comes across as cheesy (I know it probably does), but there are few games for me that are successful in creating the mood it sets out to create.
MrPing1000
Member
So hands up who thought
that you were Strelok as soon as you found ghost and realised the photo was of him? Oh and I just met the doctor, didn't get a chance to tell him I can't remember who the hell I am before he buggered off!
MrPing1000 said:
I realised you were him when you had the flashback of Ghost and Fang standing over you
wtf was up with the ending? all of you who say you got the "worst" ending missed some obvious stuff.
worst endings are when you go to the Wishgiver and make a wish. what wish you make (and ending you get) is dependent on some totally unknown variables. I had obviously done something right because my wish was "I wish the zone would disappear" and everything was happy ever after..........except Strelok lost his eyesight.
but the "real ending" where you go on to the secret lab and Chernobyl exterior was fubared. they come up with that stupid group consciousness thing out of nowhere. and then make you go on the most boring repetitive level since Enter the Matrix's transformer field.
but the "real ending" where you go on to the secret lab and Chernobyl exterior was fubared. they come up with that stupid group consciousness thing out of nowhere. and then make you go on the most boring repetitive level since Enter the Matrix's transformer field.