Oblivion Lost. Trippy.

Rogue Keeper on 9/6/2008 at 12:57

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could say the same thg of your post, only not using the word love, ;)

I'm glad you catched the baith tho. ;)

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who has to clear out zombies ? they are ass-slow and are taken care of the other stalkers/enemies/factions....i ignore them IF they are there
no zombie ever got a bullet wasted on him by me (if they are unarmed)

They're still pricks.

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red hunger symbol after waking up ? - NEVER had it, max a green one

Well, YOU.

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turning red dots off and complaining about "hard2distinguish" - sry, you wanted it that way......

I complained their faction is harder to distinguish at distance because of variable armor skins, but since OL has no turn off red dots option, it doesn't matter anyway.

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dynamic hud is an AMK mod feature afaik and it's even described so in the OL - menu having its own AMK Mod Feature section.....

OL's 'dynamic hud' is more different from the original one than AMK's

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so I got from your post that the NEWS system is the one you are missing and the rest seems to be your subjective opinion I won't continue to argue about since you can see we had different experiences, so the "features" you claim that suck just are not there or we would have had the same pitch-black nights and dying from hunger after sleep or getting raped by zombiehords.....

At least AMK creators have provided decent installer where I can actually choose which features I want and which I don't (that applies not to all, but most new features).

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So was I the only one who didn't really care about AMK's dynamic news system? I mean it was nice and all, but ultimately had no impact on gameplay whatseover. The Zone was just as dead as it was without it. I've never seen any bodies caused by fighting, be it Stalkers, Bandits or Mutants. And the enemy reports? There's a boar in the Miltary Warehouses... grand, just grand. I'll remember that when I go there. Oh wait, I'll forget it after a minute. Besides, who gives a damn about a BOAR? You'd think no one would care about them outside Cordon.

If the Zone is dead for you that way or another, and if you never saw dead bodies of stalkers and animals, caused by clashes, there is no help for you.

Maybe not you, but newbie stalkers may be scared of every critter - and the elders may warn noobs about anything. The DNS is not only for you - it's for every other stalker. It is here to enrich depth of the environment, not to twist your gameplay by 180 degrees.

Grand indeed. :thumb:

mothra on 9/6/2008 at 13:28

btw, the AMK-installer is a rather unnecessary thing. if they would have seperated their 1000 different tweak-options into differently NAMED folders instead of doing all with their own configs you could use the SmartModManager to instantly check out EVERY possible combination of settings/features for AMK
in a matter of seconds.

So I had to go and install it 12 times, make a diff of all versions and make my own little AMK-archives for the SMM. but that's pretty unimportant, I dont expect any fancy installer/mod management for mods. What I do like is a take-it-or-leave-it approach for SP mods, not the "do your own mod inside the mod" where you have to choose again. I already don't know which of the 35 stalker mods I have I should stack upon each other.

So I just stopped collecting every little mod and instead concentrate on some "grand" package mod like OL or AMK or FatRaps RNG.

Rogue Keeper on 9/6/2008 at 14:16

Smart Mod Manager has been made to install and manage numerous small mods coming in zip files - AMK is neither small or Zip file. I also better try out a larger mod which conveniently asks me which adjustment I want and which don't I want. Indeed, managing 35 different minimods with SMM would be a nuisance. Handpicking folders and CFG files for this purpose from mod's big extracted gamedata folder isn't really exciting thing to do.

Rogue Keeper on 9/6/2008 at 14:17

ChickenMcOwnage on 9/6/2008 at 17:51

OK, what the hell is AMK?

Rogue Keeper on 10/6/2008 at 08:11

Beats me. I uninstalled it yesterday because of the sick animal ALife in later areas (pack of 15 pseudogiants or pseudodogs, wtf...) killing important NPCs. They were amazed by possibilities of ALife spawning, but they forgot a concept of gradual danger in the zone - is it healthy to have three controllers and a burow in Cordon at the same time? Plus the NPC respawning doesn't seem to work as I hoped it would be , the cleaned areas repopulate way too fast.
Pity, because other features are very good, I can overlook bad English dialogues, even a crash now and then... So unless they fix it in future versions (I doubt so) I will try other big mods or say bye to Stalker until official 1.1 and Clear Sky come out.

mothra on 10/6/2008 at 09:18

1.1 is out. and I doubt it will be updated any more. and for your information: it's harder than OL.

Rogue Keeper on 10/6/2008 at 09:28

It's leaked beta, not.

mothra on 10/6/2008 at 10:01

read the thread on gsc. the moderator confimred gsc is good with it and there won't be any more big updates in the near future. so it's an officialy leaked 1.1 and it's supported by GSC via the board and accessible to all modders. NOT so with the leaked E3 demo of CS that is not allowed to link to or discuss on GSC.

read thread, not headlines.......big problem those times ;)

242 on 10/6/2008 at 10:15

mothra, it's not supported officially, moreover it's FORBIDDEN to discuss or mention it at least in the Russian-speaking half of the official forums.

And it's not a beta, it's an alpha which is dated by summer of 2007.

PS: maybe something changed though during the time I didn't visit the forums...