S.T.A.L.K.E.R.: Call of Pripyat Windows game

I read that at one point you had to side with Duty or Freedom. I never had to side with either and they stayed green towards me the whole game. My point is not a one of the event altering choices gave any indication that it was so important. There were missions/events such as with Crow or whatever the guy's name was you do a few missions for at the freighter. At one point he accuses you of having a weapon stolen from him that you bought from Nimble. In the response dialog I threatened to shoot Crow with it and that was that. Only much later when I engaged Nimble in a conversation to buy a protective suit did I see a dialog choice relating to the stolen weapon. Selecting it set off a whole chain of events from a shoot-out to having my stuff stolen from Yanov Station later in the game. This happened more than once. The PDA gives no hint or clue something needs to or can be done. The game can be played through and a whole bunch of stuff missed without ever knowing it! I hope any mod would at least put the font for the choices affecting the storyline in a different color. Adding some kind of clue on the PDA when things aren't fully played out or still open would be nice. With Pripyat the way missions kept coming up one after seemed as if they were urgent and needed immediate attention. I wasn't sure if I was working against a clock so it kept me from exploring as much as I wanted to. The game ended much too quickly. Fortunately the STALKER series conditioned me to frequent saves I finished the game by leaving with the military and then reloaded and stayed discovering that sent me into free play.

When I went into the secret lab in Pripyat by chance I found the main document to complete the mission almost immediately. I learned later there were 6 documents there in al. The other 5 had some use but only the one was the key to completing the mission. I went back later and found I missed a lot besides the documents! Another mission gets a red access card to get into a store room in the lab. It has some goodies, but is not mission essential. I missed that mission and never got the card. I think it's possible to missions out of sequence and other missions never come up as a result. Early on I was supposed to talk to this hermit for information on how to get to a plateau. While exploring the area I hit some sort of anomaly purely by chance, wound up on the plateau and the talk to the hermit mission disappeared. It didn't show up as active, completed, or failed. It was just gone! My main Pripyat gripes- lots of buildings but very few were actually accessible. The ones you could get in had limited places you could explore. The other gripe was bodies started disappearing almost immediately. I would encounter a dozen mixed Mercs and Monolith troops and had a hell of an enjoyable fire fight. When I would go looking for bodies to loot I would be lucky to find two or three. Even the exit is a massive firefight from one end of Pripyat to the other. After the choppers leave, not a body can be found. I still playing in free-play mode. I've seen everything there is to see, explored all there is to explore. The only fun is the far too infrequent massive firefights against Mercs and Monolith or between Bandits, Stalkers, Freedom, and Duty.

Since this is the STALKER:CoP moddb, I thought it would be a good place to let people know about my STALKER:CoP mod, RCOM. It is primarily a ballistics/realism/AI/damage modeling/ect mod, but as that has started to come together other features/content are being added. Feedback is always encouraged! :)

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Regards,
MacBradley

Someone needs to update the icon for this game, since it's not the original icon for it.

This is an amazingly good game, but...

I just hate how linear the storyline is. You get to choose bandit/stalker at the start, but duty and freedom give you f*ck all. And even with 3 huge areas, the game is over incredibly quickly. Pripyat itself is barren and utterly boring. I spent 3 hours camped on the roof of the X lab building with my Dragunov and saw two groups of 3 people. A group of psi dogs then spawned right behind me, on the roof (which is full of electrical anomalies) and tore me to pieces.

The sad fact is that that this game never provides common ground. You're either on a rooftop with a clear view of the enemy and out of the AI's visual range, or you're caught by a sudden crushing onset of snorks that spawn right next to you, often spawning visually on screen.
Bloodsuckers are harder to hit, but nowhere near as scary as they were before. Once you realize the crosshair still changes red when it passes over them, the fear goes out the window.
Once you finish the first mercenary mission (Kill mercs, grab PDAs and laptop), the game is no longer a challenge, and the scenarios are barely fun.
Where's the replay value in these huge areas? Groups of enemies do respawn, but only in some places.

Since that brilliant shootout at the hospital, I haven't gone back. Why? No enemies or neutral stalkers use it. At all. In over 20 runs past it I've seen one chimera and no people. Pointless.

Yes, it's bigger. Yes, it's more stable. Yes, in many ways it can be called better. But it can no longer be called S.T.A.L.K.E.R. in my book.

At the very least they should add a few more missions after Strelok arrives.

Fantastic game but the first thing i did when i begun was to download the real life gun names, i can't stand or ignore all that kora and black kite nonsense ruining the atmosphere.

Yes, i fully agree with previous comments - CoP is the best Stalker game. Im waiting for Stalker 2, it'll be released after ~2 years...

don't say anything Fanboys.
CALL OF PRIPYAT RULEEEEZ!!!!

Best Game ever!

i never played stalk until i bought this game, and u know what i love this game. stalker:call of priyat is brilliant