Spatial Anomaly — English translation
S.T.A.L.K.E.R. fans, rejoice! The English translation of Spatial Anomaly is now officially complete after months of hard work on our part. The mod author, PROFFESIONAL, has also seen to it that many small fixes and improvements throughout are included with the translation.
Summary
For newcomers: what is Spatial Anomaly?
Spatial Anomaly is a mod that emphasizes the story aspect of the S.T.A.L.K.E.R. series, putting players in the mind of a mercenary by the callsign “Beast,” who stumbles upon a space bubble during a contract—the very same ones encountered in S.T.A.L.K.E.R.: Clear Sky. The mod expands on the idea of being caged in one of these anomalies and working together with whatever human life there is to survive. Faced with both internal and external conflict throughout the Zone, Beast is forced to forge and break bonds with various stalkers, both old and new. Throughout the mod, he’ll have to depend on these new, unlikely allies to have any hope of survival.
Translation
The translation has taken us months to complete—over half a year, in fact—but it is finally here. Thanks to PROFFESIONAL, every voiced line in Spatial Anomaly contains corresponding English subtitles. No English voiceover is included, and all voices remain in Russian—but it would be wise to think that most of the S.T.A.L.K.E.R. community prefers the nuance of native East Slavic voices.
(A future voiceover/retranslation into Ukrainian is also planned, for those interested.)
Preview
Instructions
In order to install the mod along with its translation, a clean, unmodified version of S.T.A.L.K.E.R.: Call of Pripyat (version 1.6.02) is required. (There should be no gamedata or _appdata folder!)
- Download Spatial Anomaly (Update 4.1) — Russian version
- Install on top of a clean version of S.T.A.L.K.E.R.: Call of Pripyat
- Download English patch for Spatial Anomaly (Update 4.1)
- Install on top of Spatial Anomaly, now located in the S.T.A.L.K.E.R.: Call of Pripyat directory
- (Optional) Download Spatial Anomaly (Update 4.1) — 75 FOV
- Install on top of an existing Spatial Anomaly installation (Drag the bin folder in the archive into the mod’s root directory)
Done! Good hunting, stalkers!
Written by Kostov
will you translate mlr 9.0 ? or demosfen ?
Good thing you asked. I have no plans to translate any more S.T.A.L.K.E.R. mods other than the next one from PROFFESIONAL, named “Last Days,” and part of it is because I trust him to make quality mods that I enjoy myself.
I wrote a short article about this in my former translation group here: Moddb.com
The meme of bad translation is dead :(
I think it died even before I started translating.
Good stuff!
Hey, haven’t seen you in forever. :D
Hey! Yeah, have been traveling but stop by to see what's happening in STALKER land.
Well, I can definitely tell you that S.T.A.L.K.E.R.’s going through an interesting phase right now (with development on Call of Chernobyl having slowed down). I thought that would bring this mod some extra popularity after its release, but relatively few people have shown their interest compared to, say, Last Day or Anomaly.
Still, I consider the translation was worth it.
Well let me tell you, it was worth it. If it wasn't for your translation, I would have never stumbled across this mod and I wouldn't have appreciated it as much as I did as an English speaking person without the hard work you provided.
So as a whole, thank you SashaRed
Ps: any news about a potential SA 5.0 or last days ?
Thanks, it was fun working on the translation and even more fun playing through it.
Not much news in the way of development, unfortunately. A trailer was released in 2016 (with English subtitles), but I don't think the sequel has seen much progress:
PROFESSIONAL has also been working on a mod by the name of "Last Days", which you can see here: