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Thanks for the link.
Frankly - I'd put the Pripyat "graffiti makers" behind bars for life. Do their "masterpieces" mean at least something? Do they express the horror of leaving your home for good? Are they filled with misery and pain of those who participated in disaster recovery and never received even the proper treatment? Are those made of pure compassion or of selfish desire to show "hey, I got balls enough to get into the dangerous and contaminated area and put my writing on some wall!"?

In my opinion, Pripyat is BY ITSELF a monument of grief and misery, lost (or stolen) future and lost hopes. Nothing extra can deepen or mitigate the sadness or the desperate memories it brings.

why is that, may I ask?

why do u all say he's annoyed? it's the welcoming/greeting gesture. Is my East European understanding of gestures so different from your West European? :) he's looking at the "photographer" and saying:
- Heeey! It's good you came! I've just finished vanilla L.I.F.E. - look, the final credits and screen are still there. And yeah, Lost Youth will be out in few months only! Cant wait for the release!

:)

I guess LA will be an eye-opener in many ways for many people. And yeah, it already opened my eyes on R1.

I thought it cannot get better. It can.
Thank you, dez0wave

you're right but it's NO SKYBOX!!! IT'S SKYYYY!!!)))

I would say LA skies are the best I've seen in STALKER series.
But I simply cannot tell r1 from r2))

this one is simply perfect! even the dot in the center has its sacred meaning: "It is not a posed photo. It is just a screenshot, a 1/60 (or even less, 1/90)images per second of a PLAYABLE game"

Sidorovich in stalker outfit commanded few scientists in his past, I guess

good doggie! see, I even raised my pistol!...

man I love the curvature and the asphalt texture of your Kordon!

By the way, speaking of foliage! In vanilla you can actually hide well enough in a bush! Even south to Kordon broken railway bridge - the foliage surrounding two tall trees on both sides of the asphalt road is GOOD ENOUGH to hide!

Playground.ru - is this what it's all about???

hey hey hey! Screw tight your vodka bottle caps and calm down (+1 to S.E.V.A.). Talks of "official" with no links are same as Marked one starting sales dialogue with Sidorovich, selling or buying nothing and then annoyed Sid goes:
- Well, why didn't you bring empty cans then, he?!!

I can also go: oh, oh! and yesterday I met Yavorsky in Kiev and he was all in tears and depressed etc. and I asked him "hey dude! how's it goin'?" and he replied "all gone... no stalker... nothing... only darkness..." Then what?

For those not familiar with "Bandit polka"...

It's value for understanding of the whole setting of STALKER is around 10-20% of the value of the "Roadside Picnic". I might exaggerate but a certain percent is definitely there.

When heard for the first time in CS, it gave me the widest smile in my gaming experience - I've really met NOTHING more authentic than that "jail chanson" (in post-soviet area it's called simply chanson but it'd be too much abusive for the original "chanson" term and the music altogether). It only lacks really awful hoarse vocals and it's a perfect example of what bandits and their wannabes listen to here.

Anybody from CIS - please bury this comment if I'm wrong. But please be honest and DO NOT BURY it if I'm right :)

Good hunting, stalkers

I wouldn't say that.
My prediction:

AB.Q3.2012 ("THE DATE in Q3") - new links in the download section become available -> same date: flood of "wow"-s and "8D"-s etc. comments for 5-8 pages

Same and next day - 2-4 pages more from stupid lamers (like myself) saying "oooh, it doesn't run! what do I do???" and probably FAQ will get updated pretty soon)))

But then, once everything settles down, 2-5 pages will spawn DAILY with "OMG, have you met that bloodsucker under the bridge in darkscape??", "Did you see that chopper shooting at mutants' lair???" etc.

I think it'll be something like that

oh man, where do you take these vids??? lucky bast... bunny!))

And hey, will it be (is it already) possible to put hands on the steer wheel while in a car? Minor but curious about it though

Any news? Any updates? Maybe you could "leak" a snippet of gameplay? Just a small one, e.g. Fang doing some quest or any other NPC meeting protagonist or going to a trader to tell he's through his task?

in vanilla it's apparently a glitch or a bug but I'd love THESE kind of bugs instead of NPCs pushing each other from their favorite place around bonfire. Ever seen that?

yeah, this space and gravity distorting anomaly is another great example of what vanilla lacked. Anomalies don't have to be mandatory dangerous - just really weird and unexplainable. This would make me wandering about for hours to find out WHAT it is and how else can it do...

Fang?? niiiiiiiiiice! 8D
Will he be 'a bit weird and his R was burry' as the Bartender says?

is it complete yet? I want it!) I salute you!

And Gorbachov himself???))) that's nice XD
Monolith seemed a bit high (both on voice pitch and pot))

But maaaan, complete voice overs! It's so close!
We're on the edges of our chairs now!

Naaah, come on! There is no 2013!)

This one is true as nothing else before!!! I WANT THIS IN 2000X6000 RES!!!

...which is good but what about actual bug finding? I guess the answer would be "we test new tasks and "doesn't fit" testing AFTER the bugs are none already" ;)

yeah, really ugly comment! bring it down to "buried" stage. It's so abnormal to ask for a beautiful picture in good quality!

Totally agree and support!!! Because PDA is such an advanced device but has no feature to make map marks??...
Or some notebook for yourself to remember where you stashed your 3 suits, 1000+ ammo and scrap-quality guns for sale would be fine the same :) Sorry, if I missed it that you've already had the "notes" feature.

All our thoughts are with the dez0wave team! Keep it up guys!

I'd say: don't hurry but release this! :)
Guys you just make people happy!

please do it end of May - I'LL BE THERE!!!