Finally finished STALKER (F those periods)

[DangerAardvark]

Good game, but I thought that it got too easy once you finally get an accurate rifle. You can hold off an army by just crouching in a corner and sniping heads. Once I got the Vintar it was a breeze. I know this was done to preserve realism, but the realism is really limited by the AI. The AI is really good, but needs to be a lot more aggressive. Not that I don't like killing the entire Duty camp singlehandedly, but the whole story sorta falls apart when you're already the most powerful person in the Zone. Except it's not because you're actually powerful, it's just because the Zone is entirely populated with retarded people.

I also hated that every ending was complete shit besides the "good" ending. And even the good ending was only like 30 sec long.

By far, my favorite thing about this game was looting the dead. I have an insane love for scavenging in this game. And the greatest annoyance was armor degradation because it deteriorates so damn fast. Practically every time you get shot it goes down 1%. And you can't even repair it so you don't end up wearing your best armor half the time because after a few explosions its barely as good as your last armor.

 

[sandorski]

Haven't played this, but it looks interesting: Priboi Mod

It's a complete new story. However, I heard it is kinda buggy.

 

[Andy22]

I have this sitting unopened and waiting to play. After I finish Witcher I am going to start playing but would like to have the mods ready to go. I am not interested in changing the story at all. Just what everyone considers the "must have" mods.

 

[NicColt]

it's that type of game and it does have future potential if they somehow are able to produce right.

Like I said in another post though. The ending was beyond words, the first %80 very good the last %20 horrible.

-the 5:00 countdown at the NPP was the most ridiculous thing I have ever seen in FPS games. It seems that the ending was botched and rushed to be completed.

 

[ja1484]

Originally posted by: NicColt
-the 5:00 countdown at the NPP was the most ridiculous thing I have ever seen in FPS games. It seems that the ending was botched and rushed to be completed.

You can download any number of mods to disable that, and free explore the area on your way in.

Words of warning: Bring a *lot* of ammo. There are a LOT of guys out there with bigass guns.

I didn't mind the ending - the true ending, fighting through all those portals was a bit overlong, but the rest of it was fine.

 

[duragezic]

I've only played vanilla and with faikes mod. It is an awesome game but flawed in some ways, so the mods are nice when they fix things like that. faikes is just a compilation of a bunch of mods, but that includes stuff like no armor degradation, traders sell everything (and that is a ton of stuff since there are many new weapons, based on actual ones). One of the cool mods it includes is a real silencer one. It makes it so that silencers are actually work, so you can be more stealthy. You can also buy silencers and attach them to pretty much every weapon. It is kind of easy in a way though since with traders selling everything, people like me and the OP who get a lot of loot (you can carry tons more by default, but it has options for your maximum weight) can get powerful rifles and good armor pretty early on, so I'd recommend upping the difficulty one higher than you'd player STALKER on normal.

I need to try another mod, I know Zenoth knows about it... I think it is the new version of ABC Inferno which was released recently and is the size of an expansion pack!

 

[Canai]

I actually just reinstalled it yesterday, and am currently trying to get a host of mods to work with each other. Easier said than done haha.

 

[Chunkee]

i wish i just knew how to play the thing. uugh

 

[Canai]

FUCKING this game is pissing me off. I install 4 mods, the armor degrade, trader mod, nuclear snow, and unique weapon degrade.

Game plays fine. I played for four hours or so earlier.

I went to try to load - crash to desktop, no error. Happens vanilla, happens with all mods, happens with a few mods.

WTF 5 patches and it's still fucked. I'm about two seconds away from uninstalling it again.

 

[DangerAardvark]

Yep, when I first got it off Steam I couldn't play it for days. It just crashed to the desktop when I started it. Eventually it just randomly started working after I messed with it a bunch. Then when I got to Chernobyl it wouldn't save without crashing. Eventually I just had to do the whole zone in one run through without saving and I was able to save in the next zone. So freaking frustrating. And the worst part is that for most of the errors there is no solution except to reinstall everything and cross your fingers.

 

[DangerAardvark]

BTW, you know a game is fucked when the damn bug reporting program that pops up after it crashes also crashes when you try yo report it.

 

[Zenoth]

Get the SIMBION Mod, play it on Master difficulty, and I guarantee you that you will never finish it. That's not to say that SIMBION is bad. In fact right now that mod, in my book, is the actual best for S.T.A.L.K.E.R., but I play it on Novice, or else...

 

[Continuity28]

Originally posted by: duragezic
I need to try another mod, I know Zenoth knows about it... I think it is the new version of ABC Inferno which was released recently and is the size of an expansion pack!

Hold off on that. Version 1.2 of ABC Inferno is scheduled to be out VERY soon, within days supposedly. It adds some things and fixes a very nasty ABC bug that can definately prevent you from finishing the game, depending on the functions you use.

 

[duragezic]

Originally posted by: Continuity28

Originally posted by: duragezic
I need to try another mod, I know Zenoth knows about it... I think it is the new version of ABC Inferno which was released recently and is the size of an expansion pack!

Hold off on that. Version 1.2 of ABC Inferno is scheduled to be out VERY soon, within days supposedly. It adds some things and fixes a very nasty ABC bug that can definately prevent you from finishing the game, depending on the functions you use.

Ahh okay, thanks! I heard it was coming soon a few weeks ago so I thought it was by now, but I will gladly wait another week or two for it.


I was looking around on Steam, and under upcoming games, it says STALKER:Clear Sky in March 2008! Holy crap! No idea it was that close. I was hoping they were gonna fix up STALKER more with patches, but I suppose they've been so busy with Clear Sky. It will be a stand-alone expansion, right? Or full-blown sequel? At least they fixed some bugs, and the mods have generally taken care of gameplay issues.