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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There we are again, with some fresh news and screenshots.

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We're back with some news, stalkers.

Let's start with the graphics. By having a new loading method, even a big map like ours will load without PhysX so we've decided to start working on concrete visual improvements by implementing the the all-new high-res (optional) textures and graphical enhancements to give a new realistic and more defined look to the environment.

After getting some professional help with the sound effects in the game, we have 320 new sound effects, with many variations for any type of location. Almost any action has a sound, all the stalkers in the background talk and work on different things, the atmosphere of each camp is unique and defined by its history.

After years of searching, we've finally found a professional animator. He's completely reworking the skeleton of the player's model- this will give us many new possibilities for high-quality and realistic animations.

Textures, animations, models and locations mean more content to show. The main work aspect was and still is the engine, and we weren't able to show the progress with some media until now. We're planning to post way more images and videos, soon of the new build as well.

We face new problems everyday, but we've never found something we weren't able to solve. Working in a completely different sector (multiplayer gaming) differs drastically from working on an "offline" game. The scale and perspective are sometimes too big for some of us. We're spending all our free time to work on all the elements of this project, and we really can't do more than this. Publically declaring our work created both scepticism and endless waiting in the most of the stalker community, but we've received some help from experienced people, so now the project can really get going.

Once the build is up, we'll be able to post more than a video each day, showing all the new implementations. As always, for any question, you can contact us on Facebook via PM.

Thank you for the attention, your support and your patience. Now, we'll leave you with some screenshots and a new video. The uploading drastically decreases the quality, the settings weren't on ultras and the original screens were 1280, so the images won't have the good look of the upcoming videos.

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Mr_Hamfi
Mr_Hamfi

AWESOME AWESOME AWESOME !

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2C.LiryC
2C.LiryC

Damn. All of this looks nice!

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Hanys24
Hanys24

MUST HAVE IT NOW!!! O.O
Yes, I'm absolutely impressed :DD

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Chezzlor
Chezzlor

I'm impressed. The pictures look real nice.

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jm6491
jm6491

Looking good fellas! Getting more giddy with every update!

What are we expecting as far as weaponry goes? Will we see a revamped vanilla set? Or can we eventually see something similar to the Arsenal Overhaul mods?

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Ray-Of-Hope Author
Ray-Of-Hope

SHOKER devs are awesome fellows and share their work with us. So you can expect their quality stuff on RoH.

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SeriousToni
SeriousToni

Wow nice animations, but the map screens do look a bit "flat" imho.

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Kark-Jocke
Kark-Jocke

Looks great, love the animations :D

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Synthetic_Snow
Synthetic_Snow

This is an epic work fellow lads! Can answer on one question of mine?
What are PC Specifications for minimum graphics,cause i doubt that my potato can handle this kind of graphics?

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Ray-Of-Hope Author
Ray-Of-Hope

Can your potato play stalker? if yes, expect FPS increase. Of course you won't be able to play with best setting if you can't play stalker on best settings.

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♣♣Ace-A-Spades♣♣
♣♣Ace-A-Spades♣♣

I hope the SVD animation is slowed down, because that look floaty and weird, like hes firing it in space.

Game still looking better than before as always though, thats a big plus.
Please have a western release ready soon.

x.x

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Ray-Of-Hope Author
Ray-Of-Hope

The animation was slowed down for demonstration purposes, the in-game look will be better and more realistic.

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Guest
Guest

You think the requirement for run this game is similiar to call of pripyat or no ? Thanks for reading . (Sorry for my bad english)

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Ray-Of-Hope Author
Ray-Of-Hope

Yes, thanks to the optimization if you were able to run the original CoP your computer will handle this.

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kazumo
kazumo

Wow! You really surpass my expectations. The new name for the mod is nice and now this graphics overhaul in action look incredible.

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SilverfusionLT
SilverfusionLT

I guess game is coming in 2016 ? I hope we'll get Alpha state as christmass gift :3.

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Ray-Of-Hope Author
Ray-Of-Hope

We hope we'll give you a good present near the end of this year.

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Wrona06
Wrona06

Ok lets try luck, I have some questions.

1. Will You remake every single weapon and add more? and if YES will it be simillar to Arsenal Overhoul?

2. Will you add different hands to each armor? (Like in GUNSLINGER mod)

3. Will you add more armors? and helmets? (would be cool to see finally first original bulat helmet seen only on dead military stalkers)

4. About animations, those will be animations of reload different weapons or also walking, sprinting etc?

I know it may be too much questions, and maybe on some of them you cant give precise answer cos there may be much more work to do, but ANY answer to those would be awesome.

Good Luck guys and keep up the great work, everyone are counting on you :)

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Mort_Brain
Mort_Brain

Awesome hand models !!!

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