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 13 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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Fort Builder 2.0 Standalone

Jun 13, 2013 Fort Builder Full Version 0 comments

Fort Builder 2.0 Standalone gives users the power to buy objects (beds, tables, vehicles) and drop them so they can be used as barricades. This version...

Fort Builder 1.0 Fixed
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Fort Builder 1.0 Fixed

May 24, 2013 Fort Builder Full Version 3 comments

This is a fixed version of 1.0 It now includes the string table needed for item names and descriptions which was not present in 1.0 version... ALL Traders...

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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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Paradise Lost Mod v4.3.1 Beta

May 12, 2013 Paradise Lost Modification Demo 13 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 19 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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methy
methy Mar 21 2007, 8:04am says:

OUT!!!

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ShadowFear
ShadowFear Mar 11 2007, 8:56pm says:

I'M PRE-ORDERING TOMMOROW! WOOHOO!!!

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frosty-theaussie
frosty-theaussie Feb 16 2007, 1:02am says:

HEY GUYS ITS COMING SOON

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SkitZaY
SkitZaY May 21 2006, 1:03am says:

Until you make a better game, stop your whining.

I don't mind if its pushed back, as long its done in a decent quality.

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redspartan126
redspartan126 Apr 17 2006, 2:56pm says:

i wanted this when i heard bout this so i upgraded and the kept on pushin it backso i quit watchin this

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ROSS-DA-BOSS
ROSS-DA-BOSS Mar 20 2006, 12:53am says:

I too have been waiting for this game for some time as it looks like it will be a killer game but is it really gonna be worth the wait. I reckon that it is already about 95% done and they keep postponing the release date to increase the hype and we all know that most things dont live up to the hype .......BUT i do hope this one does!!! over and out..

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aegir
aegir Mar 6 2006, 1:46pm says:

im 1 of the lucky ones who has played this game in beta ( olny multiplayer , but still :thumbup: ):p and it rox the gfx are awesome well eer they were but they still going to be good but i hope the sinlge player is going to be like they say coz i like the sound of that :p but err its coming in 2007 not 2008 according to what i last read on the official site

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Frohman91
Frohman91 Jan 8 2006, 1:27pm says:

I heard about this game in '03, and the game company said it would be out in '04. Now it's '06 and still no sign of this game. They said it's coming out in '07 or '08. That sucks, cuz this game would have been awesome to play. :(

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Mantis
Mantis Sep 29 2005, 1:37am says:

i have already talked to you on aim about stalker, thats why we decided to switch, just havent announced anything yet. but thank you for the offer.

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SNIPER-X
SNIPER-X Sep 28 2005, 12:57pm says:

Got any questions in regaurds to modding. Feel free to contact me on MSN or AIM.
Though only when your serious about doing it right now (no joke).

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