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My bio.. never been good at talking about myself so lets keep it simple. I am a highly skilled IT Technician, with experience in just about every field of computing there is. As a result, it allows me to do really cool stuff like this SoC overhaul / mega mod! People often question why I have put the last 3 years into this SoC mod, the answer to that is simple - because I care. I feel SoC was done a huge injustice by GSC/THQ, and intend to bring everything that was promised back into the game. My own envisionment of STALKER is radically different to anything you have seen and played before, down to the smallest detail TK will bring a perfectly balanced, tense, beautiful, immensely impressive overhaul to SoC. Oh, and there is no mod team here, the "team" is me. Just because nobody else wanted to help apart from play the betas I release. So I soldier on, relying on the SoC mod community whenever theres a barrier I'm not quite sure on how to smash down.
Reviews
Decided I'd try this out over the PSX emulation I use for all my old games, its good, but there are issues. Which I'll list below in hopes they get fixed but FYI theres a lot of artwork that still needs converting to 16:9 (Ice Caverns for example) so those of you expecting 16:9 throughout, you won't get it.
1. In some cases artwork that is still 4:3 leads to some hilarious results like seeing characters that are meant to be off-screen just standing there, floating in black nothingness. When Zidane goes to visit Dagger in the castle when shes prepping to be queen for instance.
2. When searching for teasure on the world map with the chocobo mini game the hint screenshots are a blurry, pastile-like mess.
3. Possibly just a result of the vanilla PC port, but PS4 controller support is horrible, D-Pad doesn't work for one thing and in games like this the D-Pad is still useful.
4. World map and battle textures could really do with replacing, again I don't know if this is the result of the mod or vanilla PC port but to a texturer like me it sticks out like a sore thumb where the textures aren't true HD someone has just slapped two original textures together and flipped one so the matching face meets with the other.
5. I would have liked to see this mod address a few universal dislikes about FF9 such as not being able to control when a character uses their Trance "limit break" and having spells such as Water, level 3 elemental spells, Curaga, etc, target all allies or enemies.
Aside from these things, good work, 7/10 :)
