Comments - exxxed

There's always been a Stalker Suit in Strelok's hideout, that's pretty much the best one you can get so early on into the journey (it's on one of the numerous shelves in that room).

In fact you'd be hard-pressed to get any suit besides your rookie one in a reasonable amount of time.

As for being shot dead by the Military (there's a military installation right next to the marked exit, but you can use any exit you want as long as you carry the flash drive)use a lower walking stance (there's crouch and low-crouch) so they don't detect you right away, you can even hide from them if you get far and quiet enough they eventually give up.

These additions certainly do sound great!

Especially the health overhaul, makes sense when it comes to metabolism to have some sort of small regen when you're healthy and fit, especially when it comes to how aggressive the A-Life is (and damned numerous too D: dem' dawgs took away all my bandages like Grinch on Christmas eve by the time I was ''ready'' do venture forth from Cordon).

Also, nice to see a friendly Stalker from the good-old GSC forums, cheers mate!

I have no idea how to put this properly, but after some proper time that I gave this here game, I arrived to a long-time perceived conclusion, outstanding, I freaking love it!

Other than the x86 OS related crash at startup and being unable to remap my keys due to loading crash shenanigans , I really haven't experienced any issues. In fact I was so freaking terrified to try it out so early on by the comments here and there that I almost gave up on trying it out at all even though I had the time to spare, also playing it at first constantly bracing myself for game-breaking bugs and unfinished assets... no such thing so far (on my way to Duty with the flash-drive after 20+ hours of playing... yeap I love exploring and by the Gods you have that here).

Ah right, almost forgot to mention, the BIG problem... :( cannot turn sun shadows on because my PC commits suicide (basically 30-60 FPS dx9 everything maxed out, even added my custom FXAA post-process injector for awesome color, sharpening and AA tricks... but no no sun shadow... 1-5 fps with that on).

Bare in mind, the reason I had little to no issues with this release is because I keep my desktop in tip-top shape (no Windows reinstall for 4 years now), as in I do not install every garbage on it, I constantly check registry integrity after each install-uninstall, defragment and deactivated each and all useless Windows features (UAC and other nonsense) among other things (at least once every two weeks for good measure).

Can't wait to try out the patch, but I feel like a huge CONGRADULATIONS are in order for the team, just bravo fellas, your efforts into the level/plot/quest designs and other quirks and features won't go unnoticed!

This really IS the S.T.A.L.K.E.R. I personally dreamed about ever since the first trailer.

HAHA!

Yea, exactly the reaction I have inside when an ''unexpected'' crash happens.

Thanks for this, with this chance I'd like to thank the team for the awesome calendars and pic updates.

Great job fellas, can't wait for the next batch :D.

Cheers!

Some are ignorant and keen to stay that way, but this fella at least asked, so there's supposedly a new fan around.

Cheers!

Arena you say?

Man I loved it in ShoC, It was a bit of a let down since it was a shallow competition besides the more inspired sawed-off shotgun match and the ''grenades only for you matey'' one.

But a nicely expanded one, like a proper side quest with a background story, in the sense that you may get captured by an enemy faction and forced into an arena-style competition for survival, or something like that, would fit the universe nicely, but that's just me.

I must have missed the part where it was mention that the concept of an arena was scrapped, shame, but I guess it's nice sticking to the lore and not making stuff stand out like a sore thumb, even as fan service.

Cheers for the screen shots and calendar, great job!

P.S.

I agree with the user that said that the lens flare for the sake of it is distracting and I hope it's just for the sake of artistic vision in these shots, because it's very ... intruding to say the least :D.

Take care!

Well if you don't fancy moving your stuff from the chests to one of the corpses, I dunno, I kind of reduced it to a bearable level using the traditional fixes (adding to the desktop shortcut ''Target'' section the -noprefetch command ex.: ''C:\Program Files\Thq\STALKER'' -noprefetch, after the quotes, that either helps or makes it worse...) and from nVidia control panel adjusting the ''Pre-rendered Frames'' value to 4, while turning on Threaded Optimization and Triple Buffering, also using Adaptive Vertical Synchronization (V-Sync).

And I made a mental note not to stack more crap while I still have supplies, so I tend to consume what I already have and only after that doing the restocking :D.

Good luck!

Hehe yea 100 Rads... damn it's been a while since I played ShoC.

I'm talking about, if you store allot of items in chests the game stutters like a motherf***** when you move near that area, it happened in the rookie village too when I stacked loads of ammo in that chest near the fire, but weirdly enough if you move all the things from the chest to one of the corpses that never disappears (like the one near the truck on the road leading to the duty checkpoint in the bar area) the problem goes away, those weird chests are getting on my nerves and storing stuff in a body ruins the immersion :D.

Ah anyway, they upgraded the engine so it probably was fixed in the process, it was a mere reminder as I remember on the GSC forums people were complaining and, if I'm not mistaking, Tejas found out that ''fix'' with the permanent bodies.

Take care!

Been replaying S.T.A.L.K.E.R. Shadow of Chernobyl lately and my habit of stacking up crap in crates made me wonder about something:

Have you guys looked into the issue of loading stutter (aka in the 500 Rads Bar area when you pass the duty checkpoints) caused by crates with things in it which goes away if you move your things from the crates to one of them permanent bodies?

It's a weird bug easily overlooked.

Cheers!

OK this whole ''amalgam'' of comments is hilarious.

Cheers you two!

Been Stalking about these past few months keeping an eye on the evolution, but I can't help myself from thanking you yet again for a fantastic calendar!

Wonderful job everyone involved with the project, it's growing up quite nicely (especially since the introduction of the new lighting) and also the unmissable evidence of the CRAZY beautiful grass draw distance, brings a tear to this Stalker's eye.

Cheers!

@ezeht
Honestly what did you expect?

The real downside would be GSC forcing the team to sell the game on their behalf and in turn letting down everyone who supported them during these years.

But in reality Dez0 might become the new GSC, or as they should have been in the first place, so good luck to them!

I can see where you're coming from, I like certain survival gameplay elements in ''my'' S.T.A.L.K.E.R. also, but still you should, like I am, wait and see how it turns out, how it feels, then hope for more or less :D.

Hmpf... can't even delete or edit the comment...

Cheers!

Happy birthday indeed, cheers to you!

Edit:

Right a reference, well we gonna have a nice big old boar steak waiting for you at Sid's place, be sure to drop in before it's gone and they send me out drunk hunting boars again...

Have fun mate!

I have to disagree with you there KazakHD, they don't spend that much money on graphics (hence the console focus) as they spend on marketing, yep, contrary to rumors, money doesn't go into development of gameplay, story, graphics and such, nope, it goes in to voice acting and marketing.

Lovely!

Wait... what the... how can I even post if I'm not logged in?!

Sorry about that, that's my statement there which I quoted.

Cheers!

Considering you both got downvoted... seems like there actually are people who actually enjoy them linear set piece after set piece cutscene interrupted by gameplay called modern day FPS...

Interesting...

Anyway, can't wait to hear the next piece of news from Lost Alpha team, keep up the good work fellas and please don't let the comments who sound like you owe someone something get you down, you don't owe anything, we all CHOSE TO FOLLOW you and your project.

Cheers!

Remember the Duty faction?

They work with the military, so it's not such a big deal, I'm sure the context is good enough that it makes sense.

Cheers!

Fantastic preview, only complain, that the exploding barrels didn't have shadows casting over them and made them stand out...

By no means, this was a great video, I liked every inch of it, can't wait to see more!

Good job!

Good one, I wonder how the A.I. is, I kinda got used to the aggressive bastards in Oblivion Lost xD.

A very well worded speech and great video to end it.

Stunning work, had goosebumps the whole time, on behalf of the fans and followers I'd like to say that we really appreciate your hard work, even if sometimes some of us get impatient (understandable most of the time since it's a fantastic project).

Have a great time all of you these holidays, have fun and ''for Pete's sake'' take a break sometimes, you are human after all even if your deeds seem godly ;D.

Cheers and Merry Christmas!

P.S. Going for 3000 views today... awesome!

A well deserved first place, congratulations!

Happy Holidays everyone!

Ditto!

Love these guys and their motivation.

The thing we lack knowledge of, is ... soundtrack.

S.T.A.L.K.E.R. series has an amazing soundtrack that goes fantastic with the overall atmosphere, would be interesting to hear what they cropped up with...

Cheers!

Well they look, either like idiots, or like ''saviors''.

But the gaming sites tend to exagerate on a normal basis so there's no need to jump to conclusions.

The thing is, we'll never get a ''true'' S.T.A.L.K.E.R. game as long as Grigorovich has something to say about it and the old GSC team that worked on S.T.A.L.K.E.R. are working on Survarium...

The next best thing is this... well we'll see...

I bet every little corner of the game will be packed with small details like the stacked chairs in the corner there and the little oil lamp, cannot wait to discover everything for the first time and be amazed.

Thank you!

Got a split second to sprint through after you throw the bolt to set off the Electro, you cannot stop me form exploring you Zone :D.

Cheers!

Absolutely stunning!

Can't wait to roam around and sink in the wonderful atmosphere and all the little details.

Loving the details, great work!

There should be a contest about how many times you can get your mind blown by the same project... this tops them all!

Thank you for the little glimpse of what's about to probably be one of the best maps in S.T.A.L.K.E.R., cheers!