Wow, that was some fast debugging! I feel pretty confident now to maybe start a Twitch series on Clear Sky with SRP, if I run into something I can report it here :)
For debug logging do I add "-dbg" to the command line arguments? Any reason why not to always have that in my game (in case I run into some other bugs and the log would help)?
Sorry for the late reply, savegame here (expires in 48h):
Expirebox.com
You can also watch me struggle to get past this bug (starting around 59:30 in the video):
Twitch.tv
Thanks!
I've started playing Clear Sky again and went with this mod as it provides tons of fixes and a very good set of optional changes (fantastic work on the alternate gun ballistics, love it!). Using latest version (1.1.1).
However, in the Swamps area I ran into a bug which I don't know if it's from vanilla game or from this mod but either way you guys would probably want to know about it and fix it.
I'm at at the start of the game, in the Swamps area and just took on the quest to help Clear Sky take control of the Swamps from the Renegades. Helped them out with some points and then while I was helping them out in the Southern Farmstead, Clear Sky managed to take Machine Yard on their own. So I get the message from Lebedev that everything is good to go and he's thanking me for the help, but a short time after that the renegades attack Machine Yard and conquer it so now the main quest gets updated that I should help Clear Sky take Machine Yard back and I can't progress to Cordon.
That's fine. Now the weird thing happens. Clear Sky seems to be stuck, they never spawn any squads to send towards Machine Yard, nothing is happening. They just sit tight in all the other strategic locations which they now occupy. I go to the Machine Yard and kill all the Renegades but the task to take over the Machine Yard is not updating. I use the sleeping bag to sleep for 12 hours, nothing. I talk to all the guides (including the Southern Farmstead one) and they don't offer me the option to go to Cordon. I talk to all the squad leaders in the Swamps and when I ask them if they need help nobody is asking for help to take out Machine Yard.
Now I look at the map and I see Renegades camping at the truck north-east of the Machine Yard, just sitting there, and 2 other squads at the houses in the north-east corner of the map. I go and kill the bandits by the truck, then a squad from the north-east corner starts moving towards the truck and settle there. So I kill these too and then kill the renegades in the corner. Still nothing.
I'm going desperate so I start killing Clear Sky squads to try to get them unstuck somehow. Luckily this seems to help, after I kill the guide in Southern Farmstead suddenly Clear Sky starts spawning squads again and finally one is moving towards the Machine Yard. After taking that and Southern Farmstead (because I killed everyone there by now lol) the game is fixed and I can progress to Cordon.
Let me know if you need more information. I can also provide a save game with the game stuck like that. Thanks!
That's why there are cars in the game which are an important element in LA.
Yes, I'm having the same problem. This is the crash report:
[error]Expression : 0
[error]Function : CPhraseDialog::SayPhrase
[error]File : PhraseDialog.cpp
[error]Line : 152
[error]Description : No available phrase to say, dialog[bar_arena_guard_vip]
I think it should work to just add the missing dialogue line if I knew where to look...
It's by design. Those missions are hidden unless you kill the Sin guys in Cordon before starting the quest from Veles, see:
Gsc-game.com
In my case, when I try to talk to that guy about the VIP card (now that I have it) the game crashes with some error about not finding the dialogue line.
Well that's a bit wrong. Some of the initial quests he has you do for him are nice to do anyway and you gain points with their faction and rewards. And they don't result in hurting relationship with other factions.
I think this should be changed. Just because there was a bug in 1.3002 for not being able to report to Voronin to advance the main quest when you already joined Duty doesn't mean that in order to even get the option to do the Duty quests you now have to do something completely unrelated/unknown (shoot some seemingly unrelated guys 2 maps away from Voronin). How are people even supposed to discover this with the provided game information? Or do you expect that any Duty wannabe is also some psycho-maniac that kills neutral NPCs?
Seems broken to me.
Try to get an RPG from somewhere and shoot the helicopter. I'm not a big fan of the forced fast paced action sequences that Lost Alpha does (I play STALKER games like in the Stalker movie, avoid all combat/fights, always scout ahead, never be surprised) but didn't have issues with this sequence, I think it only took me 2-3 saves. I'm not even a FPS gamer, I generally hate shooter games (but STALKER is the exception).
That sounds like those silly "most interesting man on earth" adds for some beer brand. Good skills tho!
1. Each detector is used for separate anomalies. Having only the advanced detector on your belt will only detect advanced detector anomalies (see its description).
2. I've indeed experienced this too even in 1.3002, there are certain locations in the game world where if you wear an advanced detector it makes that radio noise sound, no idea what's up with that.
Every time you do that? It has never crashed for me accessing contacts (on 1.3002 or 1.3003).
One explanation might be that even with those errors and bugs it's still one of the best mods on this site. You can't argue with the numbers.
See the clip on youtube. Same happened to me.
You basically have to immediately run/descend the stairs, and start firing all you got at the controller exiting the room. Once he's dead, turn off the switch in that room, then the psy effects will start decreasing until they disappear. At lest you can then take a minute or so killing all those (>30 or so, x16 has a huge NPC/monster infestation problem, I must have fired over 500 bullets in there) zombies.
Weird level design IMO, I'm not an action game fan and I dislike these forced fast paced moments in LA, I much more prefer to play the STALKER games like in the Stalker movie, very slow pace, always scout ahead, never be surprised.
CoP is much better optimized (is the best optimized game of all STALKER releases). LA is a community effort so polishing usually falls on the side. With my GTX 780 I'm actually playing it full settings at 1440p and works very well.
That's perfectly reasonable. The way I look at it, this is an open developed game. It's not finished. It's possible to play it to the end but be ready to deal with various issues and it gets more stable with each upcoming patch. Dezodor's promise about no restarts required after 1.3002 (I'm surprised he did that) was wrong, I'm expecting a lot more in the future as more of the A-Life will be changed (which is a great thing, one of the biggest problems this game has now that it's reasonably stable is the static NPCs/monsters, ie nothing happening in the Zone to keep your interested other than doing quests).
Just don't apply the patch. The game can be finished just fine with 1.3002. All game breaking issues of 1.3002 should be covered by these workarounds:
Gsc-game.com
Make that r2_tonemap_middlegray (stupid English accepts both spellings but the game wants this latter one).
Those screenshots are showing the blinding white sky that you get with the default settings when playing in DX9 mode. Try lower the r2_tonemap_middlegrey from the default 0.9 to max 0.7 or even lower. Otherwise that sky looks (IMO) as if a nuke is being detonated a km away from you every second.
Seems someone already renamed patch 1.3002 to "outdated" so it's probably being uploaded as we speak. And yes, unfortunately it does require another new game. I'm not complaining because I missed on a lot of side quests in the current playthrough.
Yes that would be great! But it will require a lot more work. Call of Pripyat was made by payed programmers and it had lots of quests on just 3 maps. LA has many times that number of maps and is made by volunteers, this will take years to get to the same number of quest/map density.
dezodor mentioned wanting to release it this Friday, before he leaves for a small vacation so let's pray to the Great Monolith and maybe it'll happen!
Well yes but you have to realize that it's all done for free by the dezowave team in their spare time. For a free game it has great quality cutscenes/voice acting, better than many commercial games :)
Shouldn't that not be an issue with more powerful machines? LA isn't even using more than 700mb of memory most of the time. There's still a lot of room left to the 2G 32bit process limit :)
Or you apply the workaround and continue to play (3rd post):
Gsc-game.com
Yes there are freeplay missions available. Also, Alife becomes more active in freeplay (in the third patch, which might be released tomorrow).
If you can't have a civilized conversion on a public forum I suggest you do something else.
These people spend their spare time on providing us with a free game, instead of just playing one of their "tons of games".
The game is working fine for most people (I only experienced one crash in more than 2 weeks of playing it) so obviously if it's crashing like you're describing there's something with your configuration, setup, etc. In this needs any further explanation, saying that there is something with your setup doesn't mean there's something wrong with you or that you did something wrong so you don't need to get defensive. But since the game is working for us, we require lots of information to try to pin this down. If you don't care/have the time that's fine, but there's no need to act like that.
Holy Monolith, that's a huge a$$ changelog, great work guys!
Yes, devs confirmed it's already fixed for the third patch.
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