Stalker Clear Sky performance

[ShreddedWheat]

Entering the Cordon at night was ridiculous. I actually got through it last night..here is what I did. First turn up gamma, contrast, brightness if it is at night. Use the prone (ie lowest crouch position and stay to the left of the rocks near the left fence. Move once gunfire stops....then run like hell and use trees for covers. Eventually they stop shooting at you even though you are in the open, I guess you end up out of range. You will use alot of medkits.

Be sure you are playing "novice" I tried "stalker level" at the beginning of the game and 2 shots would kill me every time.

Hope this helps

 

[GodlessAstronomer]

But what do you do once you get past the machine gun? You're still up against more military troops than you can hope to beat and the only weapons I have are a shitty hunting rifle and a shitty SMG, both of which take approximately twelve billion rounds to take down one soldier.

Frankly I'm frustrated with this game. I am playing on the easiest difficulty and it's stupidly hard. I just want to play for fun, why did they make it nearly impossible on the easier !@#$ing difficulty? Love the graphics, love the atmosphere, looks like I'll love the story, but hate the difficulty.

 

[Smartazz]

But what do you do once you get past the machine gun? You're still up against more military troops than you can hope to beat and the only weapons I have are a shitty hunting rifle and a shitty SMG, both of which take approximately twelve billion rounds to take down one soldier.

Frankly I'm frustrated with this game. I am playing on the easiest difficulty and it's stupidly hard. I just want to play for fun, why did they make it nearly impossible on the easier !@#$ing difficulty? Love the graphics, love the atmosphere, looks like I'll love the story, but hate the difficulty.

If I remember correctly, you have to keep running to your left. Don't run towards the military checkpoint because you're not supposed to go there yet.

 

[TAandy]

But what do you do once you get past the machine gun? You're still up against more military troops than you can hope to beat and the only weapons I have are a shitty hunting rifle and a shitty SMG, both of which take approximately twelve billion rounds to take down one soldier.

Frankly I'm frustrated with this game. I am playing on the easiest difficulty and it's stupidly hard. I just want to play for fun, why did they make it nearly impossible on the easier !@#$ing difficulty? Love the graphics, love the atmosphere, looks like I'll love the story, but hate the difficulty.

i bought this,
now you're making me wish i hadn't

my greedy fault

 

[rgallant]

one way for the south pass , is to toy with the machine gunner ,never going pass the tree ,at some point they will come after you ,so if you time it right, you shoot the 1 -2 guys by the tree[head shots], in front of the tunnel ,you can grab their guns and ammo using the tree for cover. then I just use the north pass ,running over the tracks on the east side between the bridge and rail car.could be a guy there- just jump over him to the other side and run to the left. it's been awhile but I think he's a skalker so don't kill anyone at the bridge.
-also if you take on the mil base with lots of saves you can get lots of sellable guns and ammo before they respawn ,just take the guns to the ne stash where the tree is over the fence ,thats where you would get into the base using the junk at the back to jump into the base ,kill a few- take their ammo save ,kill afew more ,save until ,they are all dead .loot the base stash the goods ,make many trips to the trader, after that you should be good to go ,money good guns-ammo. buy armor if you can , not sure if any stashs in the roof\attic of mil base-jump on the backhouse to get on the roof.
-just a note for the trader ,try to block the door open, drop a gun ,move a grate ,I am now playing the first one and that door wouldn't open 1\4 of the game,after smashing the edge of the door[after tip] it moved a bit , I did get it open ,and used a air tank to keep it open ,but that door did not open in cs also last year when I played it., so put something in there .well know bug. there is a patch\mod to open it.

here's a guide if you want , lots out there --http://www.supercheats.com/pc/walkthroughs/stalkerclearsky-walkthrough01.txt

 

[DangerAardvark]

Clear Sky has a ridiculous fucking hit probability system. It's like a 50% probability when aiming down the sights, regardless of accuracy. It's just dumb. I think there are some mods that turn it off or reduce it.

 

[rgallant]

once you get better armor\guns you should have more time to aim for the head shots -these guys have body armor too.

 

[marmasatt]

Or you can install the mods we've recommended in like 3 threads. It's quite frankly a better gaming experience....

 

[Mike Gayner]

Stalker was shit and sadly it doesn't sound like they improved it much with Clear Sky IMO.

 

[Molondo]

Stalker was shit and sadly it doesn't sound like they improved it much with Clear Sky IMO.

lol gayner

 

[GodlessAstronomer]

lol gayner

lulz

 

[Replay]

But what do you do once you get past the machine gun? You're still up against more military troops than you can hope to beat....

It is supposed to be tough, and dangerous, and difficult. The game loses some of it's appeal whenever your character becomes too strong. Best to stay away from the military base, until you are more of a badass. Then go back and get revenge on that machine gunner, and make some good money selling military surplus gear to the CS trader.

I liked the Zero Punctuation review from last year:
http://www.escapistmagazine.com/videos/view/zero-punctuation/271-S-T-A-L-K-E-R-Clear-Sky

 

[Krakn3Dfx]

lol gayner

This.