Must play SOC before Misery? Thread - MISERY mod for S.T.A.L.K.E.R.: Call of Pripyat

I've spent maybe 15 hours in COP, got to Jupiter but haven't checked out anything yet. Someone had pointed out that I really should play SOC to understand what's going on in COP. Do you guys agree, should I go to SOC then COP? I don't really feel lost, but maybe later on I would be?

I remember someone saying one of the stalker games isn't worth playing? Is that clear skies?

edit - oops i meant before COP of course..

Edited by: rooock

If you want to understand the story, I would highly recommend playing through both Clear Sky and Shadow of Chernobyl. If you're just here for the gameplay, you aren't missing much.

thanks, off to soc i go.

I'd say SoC is the more important of the two. Clear Sky adds a little but you can skip it if you like.

I think that you are going to start loving more stalker series if you play SoC... you're gonna fall in love, i promise you that.

I never bothered with Clear Sky, but Shadows of Chernobyl really adds a lot to the storyline, it has a better story then CoP, which to my feel is a bit bland. I always liked fighting soldiers in SoC, something in CoP I am never able to do, likely cause the main guy is one. The more factions the more fun ^^

The small task/mission of SoC is a very fun thing and you should try playing stalker complete 2009 (2012) or better yet I think it was autumn aurora?, I know one of the guys working on misery was involved in it. Anyway there are some pretty grand mods on SoC on Moddb. There ia an autumn aurora 2

Edited by: Nyayr

clear sky is very huge I think there are around 8 maps which are all bigger then the ones in CoP + a lot of underground stuff. Also faction wars are more "important".

I want to see faction war in COP, if Misery mod can code it would be awesome.

Just yesterday was playing my recon. Following a group of stalker storming the sawmill, then a freedom group and duty group joined the party start taking each other out. Faction war there would be cool to watch.
I got took out few times by friendly fire while trying to rush in for loots too early. God damn grenades.

You shouldn't rush in to loot you greedy bastard Let them play and if you want you can snatch the dropped guns, usually the dead bodies aren't looted so much by stalkers anymore in 2.1.1 I noticed compared to 2.0, stalkers are more careful I reckon.

For story yes. Game play....no. Mainly because if you are here, then you want to try Misery. So that will kinda kill the fun of the first 2 games by default. Like trying to enjoy the kiddy table and talk about pokemon or whatever after you sipped the wine and had the fillet mignon with a world politics conversation a moment prior. lol