The "Ray of Hope" modification is the dream of the most in the S.T.A.L.K.E.R.'s community, it's like the name says. This mod gives you the possibility of surviving in the zone with your team-mates, with not only NPC, but also other players.

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We have been quiet for a while, working on the game. Our Dev Diary is coming up late so we wanted to show some progress.

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Good evening, comrades.

It’s been quite a while since our last post, and we’ve made some serious progress since, taking a considerable step towards increasing the quality of our content. All of this is possible thanks to the experience gathered from making the first Developer diary, listening to your feedback as well as new introducing new people to our ever-growing development team. Very soon the world will experience the new installment of Developer Diary, in which we will talk about the latest features and demonstrate the actual gameplay. But why keep you waiting? Enjoy some bits of development media! Also, we would like to thank our Patreon subscribers ans well as everyone who supports Ray of Hope online.

Enjoy the materials and have nice weekend!

We’ve started reworking the Zone’s fauna, and soon some of the mutants will receive completely new models to go with the concept art.

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Drafts of the new "Garbage“. In Ray of Hope you can expect to find a stalker market, one of the few safe havens – the Black Market. There, the player may acquire provisions as well as a couple of truly rare items

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Ismo.gd
Ismo.gd - - 1,652 comments

I am always wondering how modders manage to do so nice works , awesome !!!!! Can't wait to play it : D

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Gladiator14
Gladiator14 - - 287 comments

Cool

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mnemonick
mnemonick - - 208 comments

This all looks great! Can't wait to see the result of all of you guys' hard work!

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mp5lng
mp5lng - - 7,996 comments

Quite an impressive progress, would definitly love to visite these locations one day :)

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KentuckyFriedSpy
KentuckyFriedSpy - - 99 comments

Can't wait! This all looks sooooo amazing, great job!

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1_A
1_A - - 141 comments

Nice

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Yu2673
Yu2673 - - 68 comments

cool

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Guest
Guest - - 689,216 comments

Cant wait for the next developer diary!!!!!!!!

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J00B
J00B - - 1,117 comments

Some great concepts here.

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HeinrichBhaal
HeinrichBhaal - - 125 comments

What about the lighting- and the shadowsystem? Will there be changes?
I do not like the new-fangled filters. This ENB costs a lot of atmosphere. I love Stalker for his photorealistic look. Black is black. I love the shadows in Stalker. Or the feeling that im in the Zone/Pripyat without the Filter ********, because the Texture, light , shadow and colors look real.
Filters ruin the colors and is a cheap way to create atmosphere. Or the image is too light, gray or a blueish.

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Guest
Guest - - 689,216 comments

Since when they use ENB series?
They use a modificated Version of x- Ray 1.6 with new lighting and optimization ,plus 64 bits.
The graphics in the dev diary are way better than call of pripyat.

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HeinrichBhaal
HeinrichBhaal - - 125 comments

I do not mean this mod.
But Autum Aurora uses it.

Moddb.com

And you write it yourself, they have changed the lighting.

But for me Stalker must have this lighting, realistic / gloomy:
Videospielkultur.de
Vignette.wikia.nocookie.net
Cs.stalker-game.com
Hg-go.com
Gamefaqs.akamaized.net
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Stalker-game.com
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Vignette2.wikia.nocookie.net
Media.moddb.com
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Wordwood has captured it well:
Moddb.com

And it is an art to capture the same feeling as back then the days. And I hope the group will try it. Because I want to host a server then.

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Kyle_K_ski
Kyle_K_ski - - 1,011 comments

The latest update looks great.

Terrific work!

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Mr_Hamfi
Mr_Hamfi - - 1,357 comments

Nice ! good job, comrades !!!

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TheRenegadist
TheRenegadist - - 2,087 comments

All of these animations remind me, you guys said you'd have a weapon jam system right with accompanying animations right?

Great article!

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Ray-Of-Hope Author
Ray-Of-Hope - - 726 comments

Yes

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Enrik01SvK
Enrik01SvK - - 30 comments

I know this is probably most overused question for developers of this mod under sun but: Can somebody tell me how much is mod done? In % or atleast how far is it from being released? Thanks

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Ray-Of-Hope Author
Ray-Of-Hope - - 726 comments

People will get to know once we are 100% sure. Things wary a lot time to time. But we are in early alpha phase. After that comes alpha, then closed beta testing (where we start getting in streamers) after this is open beta testing, then full release. So we still have a lot to do.

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Enrik01SvK
Enrik01SvK - - 30 comments

Ok. Thank you

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Menumorut
Menumorut - - 580 comments

I really can't wait to see how this is going to work...Cause it still is a strange idea to me: Stalker Multiplayer, wuhh?
I hope that we can make dedicated servers (who run on a player's PC) and be able to add mods to it.

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unforfozis-22
unforfozis-22 - - 4 comments

Hello
What happened to the Development Diary # 2? A month ago you said that the Diary is on its way, did you have any problems?
Thank you.

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Dxeel
Dxeel - - 1 comments

Amazing work.

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CzechDeath
CzechDeath - - 1,527 comments

amazing work! just tiny detail -> dollar sign ?

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