mothra on 30/9/2009 at 11:09
will do laterz. (and I take back bug-free, had a few crashes already) I stopped playing since I pretty much emptied the whole map and like I said (even though I got some bad babelfish translation to english now) I don't wanna change to another map and spoil it for me without proper explanation/voiceovers. This is so much better than CS so far. the animals are hardcore. after a blowout there seem to be much more of them. had a fight with wild boars and snorks and didn't have enough shotgun shells so I had to run away ! the barren landscape actually is more appealing to me, makes it so much more depressing. And it seems (although random) the weather is much worse than in SOC. dusk and dawn are most beautiful, will try to screenshot them.
242 on 1/10/2009 at 10:44
I'm going to buy it tomorrow, actually I'm kind of excited after reading many good opinions from fans of SoC.
mothra on 1/10/2009 at 23:30
i emptied the first map. all on stop until november german release. I went to a friend and his is already in pripyat. he said he played yesterday around 10hours in a row. he says it's glorious, showed me a few of his most beloved quests and all I can say is: we are in for a treat. it's sooooo much better than CS. much more character and unfortunately no good day-screenshots by me because I got constant bad weather (which I like). most of the quests are multi-parted so no "fetch-only" quests, each one progresses nicely over more than one objective and location.
STALKER IS BACK !!!!!
Briareos H on 2/10/2009 at 07:59
<3
Koki on 2/10/2009 at 10:54
"STALKER is finally out!", you mean
Thirith on 2/10/2009 at 11:12
Quote Posted by mothra
i emptied the first map. all on stop until november german release. I went to a friend and his is already in pripyat. he said he played yesterday around 10hours in a row. he says it's glorious, showed me a few of his most beloved quests and all I can say is: we are in for a treat. it's sooooo much better than CS. much more character and unfortunately no good day-screenshots by me because I got constant bad weather (which I like). most of the quests are multi-parted so no "fetch-only" quests, each one progresses nicely over more than one objective and location.
STALKER IS BACK !!!!!Would you say it's more of the same (but in a good way), or that it takes the
Stalker: SoC template and takes it to new places while pushing all the right buttons?
By the way, the game's still got separate areas rather than new areas being streamed in à la
GTA or
Oblivion, right?
242 on 2/10/2009 at 11:39
OK, for now I have only 1 question: what's with textures?
First, they can't be set on maximum anymore in dynamic lighting mode on my system with 2Gb of RAM, 512Mb of video RAM and WinXP (they reset to 75%); second, all look like crap with 75% textures.
I think it has something to do with much bigger maps in CoP, but it's idiotic solution for optimization. It really looks like crap with textures on 75%, and even 100% textures aren't exactly hi-res by today's standards.
*Textures of CoP are exactly of same resolution as textures of SoC and CS. They aren't any more hi-res, however I can't set them on 100% anymore. As the result, the game looks much worse than either SoC or CS.
mothra on 2/10/2009 at 13:19
there is a "high texture option" additional to the sliders....
I don't see what you mean, I don't have the sliders at 100% and the game looks good. and I meant what I said, STALKER is back, meaning it left during ClearSky being a bad COD simulator.
I'd say this game is even more confusing if you didn't play SOC than CS was. it certainly takes SOC and adds bigger maps, more loose AI-life, harder(!!!) animals, blowouts with monsterspawning, hunger, sleep....many of the things the original STALKER omitted. So it's like GSC's re-interpretation of their own game mixed up with old concepts and inspirations from mods. It certainly won't please the most modders/hardcore gamers out there but that's what modding is for, GSC still has to think of "normal" gamers that don't wanna plan for minutes or sneak around for minutes to get the best tactical position before attacking.
clearing on 2/10/2009 at 13:28
242, попробуй для исправления бага с текстурами низкого качества в user.ltx заменить texture_lod 1 на texture_lod 0
