In 1986, the world's worst nuclear disaster occurred at the Chernobyl power station. Soviet authorities established a 30km 'Exclusion Zone' around this nuclear wasteland, but in 2006 a second explosion rocked the stricken reactor, obliterating all living things and causing the Zone's boundaries to ripple outwards. From this epicenter came waves of mutated creatures, deadly radiation, and a strange, anomalous energy. The Zone was cordoned off by the military, who would shoot on sight anyone foolish enough to brave the horrors within.

It is now 2012 - man has ventured further and further into the heart of the Zone driven by reports of strange 'artifacts' imbued with anomalous energy. Mercenaries and bounty hunters compete to recover these artifacts, which command extortionate prices on the black market. Others seek to find the truth behind the Zone, while some merely revel in the desolate lawlessness of the place. Whatever their motivation, over time these individuals - Scavengers, Trespassers, Adventurers, Loners, Killer, Explorers and Robbers - have become known as S.T.A.L.K.E.R.'s.

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About Old Good STALKER Evolution with 12 comments by K.D. on May 19th, 2013

Good news, everyone! :)

Last post wasn't capable to contain all graphics features. So let it be another one.

- Improved shadow map resolution. Stalker engine uses cascaded shadow map technology, so quality of shadows depends on resolution of corresponding texture with shadow map. Normally you can choose this resolution by using keys for stalker shortcut: -smap1536/smap2048/smap2560/smap3072/smap4096, where number is shadow map texture resolution. Also, this resolution have huge influence on high quality shadow distance (r2_sun_near console parameter). Exceeding some max distance you will see annoying stripes on all of the surfaces. For example, for -smap4096 max r2_sun_near value is only 35-50 meters.
We manage to add new shadow map resolution - 8192x8192 (-smap8192). It works well on any videocards that support DX10 and have 512 Mb of videomemory (minimum GF 8xxx and Radeon HD 2xxx). On these screens you can feel the difference:

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But that's not all :) There will be another  key - -smap16384 which can improve shadows quality even further! But for get it working you should prepare videocard with DX11 support and 1,5 Gb videomemory on-board :)

- Thermal vision. Well, it is not actually infrared vision but some kind of it. We will add some devices with it so you can use new tactical moves in combat. Watch the video.

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PL v4.3.1 Beta Little Eng Translate Fix
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May 12, 2013 Paradise Lost Modification Patch 0 comments

Fixed russian title "Suit parameters" in the inventory. Setup: Copy file pl.xdb5 with replacement in folder "mods". Example: D:\Games\S.T.A.L.K.E.R. ...

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May 12, 2013 Paradise Lost Modification Demo 12 comments

Description and setup instruction in ReadMe.txt into .7z archive. More information under spoiler.

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Realistic Flashlight

May 6, 2013 S.T.A.L.K.E.R. Shadow of Chernobyl Full Version 0 comments

This re-does the flashlight to make it more realistic and similar to a partly broken torch, and dying batteries. There is a video demonstration in the...

Zone of Alienation v1.07
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Zone of Alienation v1.07

May 2, 2013 Zone of Alienation mod Full Version 17 comments

Since I lost my place sometime back in December I've had to work on a new version of the mod to replace the old 1.05 release. 1.07 is intended to replace...

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Apr 29, 2013 Zone of Alienation mod Patch 5 comments

This is a small patch that fixes a number of bugs, most of them being description and rank bugs. In addition to fixing bugs, it corrects a few weapon...

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Hal's Traders Overhauled (Master Edition)

Apr 26, 2013 Hal's Traders Overhauled (H.T.O.) Full Version 0 comments

This is Version 1.5, READ the description, it provides information about what has changed since the LITE and PURE versions of the game and what you should...

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Bearclaw495
Bearclaw495 Apr 12 2013, 8:58am says:

Yo! if someone still have on their HDD mod called <<Fated city>> please share it with 2 fixes (most wanted) and arsenal mod version for FC.also Walkthrough needed. I wait for your messeges! yo!

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Indigo_Twirl
Indigo_Twirl Mar 12 2013, 4:50pm says:

Anyone know some mods that make the flashlight more realistic? Like flickering, ect.

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Guest
Guest Mar 30 2013, 5:57pm replied:

There is one, a separate mod from Particle Paradise.
Its called flickering flashlight, look it up on their moddb page.
:)

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Vuud
Vuud Mar 11 2013, 5:42pm says: Online

Can any stalkers help me find links to the latest version of RMA mod? It's very hard to find links to the entire mod, especially because some downloads won't work outside of Russia. A torrent would be best. thnx

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[TZP]LoNer1
[TZP]LoNer1 Feb 23 2013, 9:02am says:

For everyone wanting to replay STALKER in HD, carefully put together and designed by me: Moddb.com

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The.Reap3r
The.Reap3r Feb 22 2013, 8:24am says:

Hello everybody.

I have played S.T.A.L.K.E.R.: SOC a long time ago without mods, only with Patch 1.005 but gave up because of the poor weapon accuracy. Then I installed Oblivion Lost 2.2 and loved it, all the new features and weapons were amazing. Then I tried L.U.R.K. 1.1 and loved it aswell.

Recently I ordered CS and COP and am planning to play through the whole series.

Can experienced players recomend the best mods for every game to enjoy the story without bugs, but not changing the core gameplay?

After I finish the series, I would like to play one of the 3 games as an open world game, with a high quality mod that adds a lot of content. Which of the 3 games with which mod do you recomend to use as a sandbox? I would I was looking at COP with the Misery mod, but I am also waiting for Lost Alpha and L.U.R.K. for SOC.

Thank you in advance.

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angryreefer
angryreefer Mar 23 2013, 10:28am replied:

personally i believe the stalker complete mod is the best for having no bugs, realistic weapon accuracy and damaage, and improving the graphics and sound while keeping the atmosphere intact

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brolee
brolee Mar 23 2013, 9:45pm replied:

Also its easy to make cash as you can sell weapons to passing stalkers.

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prime79
prime79 Mar 1 2013, 1:53am replied:

try L.E.G.E.N.D.A.R.Y. advanced

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zorro1582
zorro1582 Feb 25 2013, 4:51am replied:

For COP I would definitely play Misery I cannot recommend this mod enough, it's amazing. I would suggest waiting for Misery 2.0 though. Good hunting Stalker!

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