S.T.A.L.K.E.R Lost Alpha

Dia on 10/4/2014 at 12:56

Thanks for clarifying, Eva.

EvaUnit02 on 26/4/2014 at 15:09

Well it should be out some time today.
(http://www.moddb.com/mods/lost-alpha/downloads)

Mr. Tibbs on 27/4/2014 at 22:29

It's out! It's worth mentioning that Lost Alpha's completely standalone. MODDB is swamped, but Dezowave's torrent is pretty fast.

(http://www.moddb.com/mods/lost-alpha/news/stalker-lost-alpha-released)

Vicarious on 28/4/2014 at 05:32

Tried playing it but it crashed twice within 20 or 30min so I gave up for now.

Briareos H on 28/4/2014 at 10:05

Man this is such a throwback to early SoC times. And I mean mostly in terms of bugs and crashes :D
That said, the potential is huge and it's already fun times.

PigLick on 28/4/2014 at 12:45

Yeh after reading the comments I think I will wait for a while until it hopefully becomes more stable.

Dia on 29/4/2014 at 12:39

I'm with you, Piggy. I was so looking forward to this, but in view of all the problems/glitches I think I'll put LA on the back burner til things get sorted out. I just hope the devs are on top of it.

PigLick on 29/4/2014 at 13:38

Indeed, cos after reading some of the early impressions, this sounds bloody well awesome. Got a real hankering for some more Zone action. I mean CoP was good, but it didnt reach the same heights as the original, that feeling of being somewhere strange and beautiful.
And dangerous.

zombe on 22/5/2014 at 16:20

Had to try it (even while knowing that my saves will be broken ~soon by patches).

Awesome ... except that is quite buggy, but it was not supposed to be ready so that is understandable.

Some observations:
* the threats (count and variety) of the zone (anomalies and mobs) seems to have gone up considerably :D (highlight: getting nibbled to death by a herd of rats ... instant flashback to one of the videos in original game)
* the threat and abundance of human opponents seems to have gone down :D (feels _significantly_ less ridiculous than the original so far)
* much more crap to explore (even the first area has a tunnel system connecting various places) :D
* visually pretty much completely redone - most places do not have anything in common with the original places :D
* additional game mechanics added - liking all of them so far :)

... just wish it would crash less.

Dia on 23/5/2014 at 12:40

Thanks for the review, zombe! I've been waiting to hear more details about LA and am glad that a patch is being released to fix most (if not all) of the problems. I think I'll wait til all the bugs are ironed out before d/ling this one, though I'm really impatient to start playing it!