Hi. my name is Alex , and i'm an addict. It started in the 90s with Doom, and here were are today and i'm STILL blowing the crap out of pixels. In late 2004 i joined a mod project for Battlefiend : 1942 which aimed to be a tribute to the film 28 days later. The mod failed, but the name persisted as "Killing Floor" moved to the Unreal Engine 2, and Unreal Tournament 2004, where myself and a small group of talented guys kept the ball rolling through four years of development. As of 2009, "Kiling FLoor" is being developed as a stand alone retail product for sale through steam. I've been working alongside the talented guys at "Tripwire Interactive" (the makers of the successful "Red Orchestra") to turn this into a reality. If you like turning bloodthirsty zombie/freaks into spattered chunks of blood and meat, you might want to check this game out. www.KillingFloorTheGame.com

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I've been trying to get this game to

not suck

for a week now, on and off.
My first major gripe was the weapon damage.  You could shoot a single guy about

four or five times in the torso

and he'd come back for more.  Apparently a single headshot's enough to down them ... you'd never know because the weapons fire so innaccurately

you'd be lucky to hit a target that's on-screen

much less nail the top of your enemies hitbox. This weapon failing doesnt extend to your enemies.  I am regularly

sniped by guys with pistols, a km away

As i lie in bushes of course.  In the dead of night.

I modded this out with a "realistic ballistics mod"  which, as well as altering the damage also makes it so your bullets dont "explode" when they go out of range (yes that's another charming feature of Clear Sky, each gun has a maximum range, and its LOW )

So..
Here i am with my modded guns, back in this

shitty looking swamp,

trying to kill bandits for my

asshole benefactors.

I manage to take out an entire outpost now, by being stealthy.  yay.  The objective says

"hold this position until help arrives"

Well ok, ill do that.
Sit down.  Cross legs.  Light a cigarette.
Tick tock tick tock tick tock.  And about 5 game minutes later,

no indication that "help is on the way"

So i go running off to do other stuff, hoping that when i come back later, my allies will have twigged on to the fact that i just john rambo-ed an entire enemy stronghold for their sake.
not the case...
Although it looks as though all those enemies i spent so long meticulously dispatching

have all just respawned again.

@ this point i gave up and decided it would be more fun to kill the lazy pricks @ the church.
"VAT DO YOU VANT STALKER?" 
KA_BAM!  right in the face with both barrels of my hunting shotgun. 
Then i

murder all of my other allies

Now i notice some allied reinforcements are spilling in to replace the lads i just shot up and with them, is a single group of about

3 emphysemic soldiers bringing up the rear

Their destination :  That fucking enemy base i had destroyed , and would clearly need to destroy a second time.At this point i learned an important lesson in the world of stalker : 

Killing your allies fixes game breaking bugs.

If i had just let them waltz merrily into the now repopulated enemy base, it'd have been the end of them.  So i hammer the sprint key to reach that base before they do , and ONCE AGAIN i take out all the enmies there. When my squad of nooblets arrrives they congraulate themselves on a job well done, and then tell me my mission is complete.

So

now its off to the cordon

i have just beat the FIRST , and EXCITING MISSION of stalker :clear sky.

After a lengthy load , i get a warning from my friend back @ the swamp over the radio.
He says that the army is around here somewhere and they might shoot me.
"ok", i think.  surely ill be able to be clever, and evade them.

I press the forward key and am immediately shot.

On the loudspeaker someone rants "THERE IS A STALKER SHOOT HIM"
er..... who shot me ? 
Oh i see .
a guard tower about a half kilometer away.
It's so far away in fact, and

obscured by the ugly DOF effect

that i couldn't make it out at all. 
typical.

I figure i'll be tactical this time.  Rather than running forward, ill try running to the SIDES to  circumvent this ubertower.
Oh, but hold on
there's

convenient barbed wire fences on either side of me. 

In fact, on closer inspection, the whole area is penned in,
creating a

death funnel

all the way to the tower, with just a

few skinny trees

here or there as potential cover.
So i try to run forward and take cover behind a rock. 

pew pew pew

im down again.
It seems that when you get shot, your "sprint" is interrupted, so taking even one bullet -  and by the way their machine gun tower spits out about

500 a second, with pin point precision

will kill your chances of making it to cover.

At this point i happen to notice that the bullets also

Clip through trees

which is fine, since it gives a reasonable answer for why the trees werent really offering me much cover, anyway.

Quickload again and

GO FOR IT !

  WOOOOO!
This time i make it to a fallen log, with bullets wizzing all around me.
My heart is racing , my

pulse is pounding

this is living!

THIS IS LIVING!

OH MY GOSH!

and now i realize i can't fit under the branch, even when im crouching
yes, my character is too fat to fit under this fucking branch.
which is clearly here for the player to squeeze under.

i'm too fat.

The machine gun

riddles me like cheese

pause.
quiet facepalm.

exit to desktop.

NEXT WEEK ON Alex's stalker clear sky adventures:
Random radiation zones that poison you without warning and force you to store a shitload of vodka that will put you over your tiny carry weight :)

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Mkilbride
Mkilbride Jul 25 2009, 3:12pm says:

I'm a social retard because I don't just accept other peoples opinions and have my own and support it with facts, not blind fanboyism?

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Mr.Kadish
Mr.Kadish Jul 25 2009, 6:04pm replied:

no you're a social retard because you can't interact with other people in a positive and constructive way. And rather than admit its because you have a bad attitude, you pretend that everyone hates you for being brilliant and "different".

Feel free to prove me wrong by posting something positive, or constructive some day.

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Mkilbride
Mkilbride Jul 25 2009, 9:23pm replied:

Lol, brilliant and different? I've never said such words, nor do I think them. It's just that I don't agree with them, I state that, why I don't, and facts supporting why I don't, and I'm a dick. :P

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AlCool
AlCool Jul 26 2009, 4:03pm replied:

Those were facts? Man you might wanna check your sources.

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AlCool
AlCool Jul 14 2009, 8:09am says:

Here's a question, why does the tripwire forums (For KF) not except email verification from the 3 most popular IMs and email programs known to mankind? It's ludicrous i tells ya!

I was just wanting to mention (and have been since release) if the paths that lead into the window of the church on westlondon are supposed to be broken when your inside the church or not. Enemies just get stuck over there for awhile and dance in the windows, but never ever come in. The only other thing is the Patriarch AI, but meh.

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myles
myles Jun 20 2009, 6:21am says:

Wait? What?! I don't know you! :P

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ngs616
ngs616 May 23 2009, 10:55pm says:

Hey i read your blog on stalker clear sky. That is the exact spot i quit at.

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leilei
leilei May 18 2009, 2:26am says:

hey look an industry pro without a pro status (unlike most of the 'pro' on the forums)

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P5ych0
P5ych0 May 14 2009, 2:21am says:

Nice gaming at Stalker, ive tried it. Hell like SHIT

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P5ych0
P5ych0 Aug 12 2009, 5:13pm replied:

Lucky! Same exact spot. Minigun firing 500 rounds a min spitting your healthbar to 0 the miniuit they start firing. youve got 2 seconds to run, and to make it youve gotta sell everything exept a pistol and RUSH FOR IT!!!!. Hopefully youll make it.

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