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Edit: nevermind.
Mystic Stylez fucked around with this message at 17:38 on Nov 3, 2013 |
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A bit more of a plug for my unofficial Misery patch: I've re-enabled some cut-out graphics options that you can find if you dig deep into the user.ltx The most notable of them are DX10.1 and MXAA (Called 'Smooth A-Test Objects' in the game files, or something similar) The MXAA actually works, and makes things look much better. The most notable change is that power lines no longer look like weird broken lines at any distance beyond close range. They now look like actual power lines etc. Compare this: With this: You can also see it on the trees etc. It can have a pretty big performance hit, especially with Misery, as the implementation pretty much uses AA on everything, including the excessive amount of grass. So you can imagine that might be a bit of a strain. Might be worth it if you have a powerful rig, though. Rush Limbo fucked around with this message at 02:43 on Oct 30, 2013 |
# ? Oct 30, 2013 02:39 |
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Ddraig posted:Yes, the radio freak outs during emissions are my idea. What's the difference between a Pysi-Storm and an Emission? E: It would've been a funny side mission to take down the woodpecker. Is it just coincidence that the station was there, or did it have everything to do with the CNPP. frank.club fucked around with this message at 02:43 on Oct 30, 2013 |
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Acquire Currency! posted:What's the difference between a Pysi-Storm and an Emission? Psi-storms are slightly weaker than emissions, I guess. Psi-storms don't have the huge "Hell is going on outside" thing going on. They don't have waves like Emissions do (where you see fire sweeping across everything) Psi-storms are basically random discharges of psi-energy. If you're walking outside during one, you can see blue "discharges" that will fry everything that's caught in them. They're entirely random, so you could presumably walk through a psi-storm with no protection and provided you luck out and don't get hit by a blast you would be fine. Certain suits, in theory, also help you survive but in Misery I'd doubt it. They were included in Atmosfear 3, along with Fallout, but Misery 2.0 base doesn't actually use them. e: This is a psi-storm https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xy32SSErVc4 Misery slightly tweaks the skybox textures, but you get the idea.
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# ? Oct 30, 2013 02:46 |
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Acquire Currency! posted:
Both the Duga 3 transmitter and receiver are near the CNPP and Pripyat, though "near" means several miles, nowhere near as close as in Clear Sky. Hard to say whether or not it had anything to do with the CNPP, though it being Soviet, it seems a little suspicious. Or maybe it's supposed to be suspicious and in fact they are completely unrelated. Nobody knows! (I think...)
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# ? Oct 30, 2013 04:05 |
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Something like the Duga 3 was originally planned for the story of SoC. There's a bunch of "cut documents" that were supposed to be ingame, that are only in Russian, about various experiments made with the different labs. X16 in particular was supposed to be in competition with whoever made the Brain Scorcher in order to create the "ideal" psy-field. X16 went down the route they did with the biological base, and the Brain Scorcher used something like Duga 3 that would send out a specific frequency etc.
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# ? Oct 30, 2013 05:05 |
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I remember you get really really close to something identical to Duga 3 in Clear Sky in the final town just before the hospital, its right next to a construction site so you can get a good look but it feels very badly placed, its meant to be an awesome giant landmark but its just sort of shunted off the side.
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# ? Oct 30, 2013 08:23 |
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I managed to get it really, really cheap so I bought Chernobyl Underground. It looks.. interesting. I haven't mustered up the courage to play it yet, but the gameplay makes it look like something else, man. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZX0Gtn1SK2M e: God, this is terrible. I regret paying £2 for this. New revision of the Unofficial Misery Patch coming up. I've updated the psi-storm radio files to be better quality. I've taken a few recordings of Russian Numbers Stations from the Conet Project. Also updated the UP to 0.3 which includes a few minor fixes (mainly to do with dialog). Two of the "major" changes include being able to sell Sokolov's note to Owl, and the gaping hole in the Ark being boarded up so it doesn't look so ridiculous when you hide in there during an emission. Rush Limbo fucked around with this message at 11:06 on Oct 31, 2013 |
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Ddraig posted:I managed to get it really, really cheap so I bought Chernobyl Underground. Wow that game looks godawful. It looks like there's a slight resurgence of STALKER-esque games. Here's one I just noticed to day on the Steam store, Nether. An apparently urban survival FPS! I don't exactly have cash to try it and it is one of those pre-release games. But I figured someone in here might be interested. Also it doesn't look like HUD vomit like the game Ddraig was playing.
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# ? Oct 31, 2013 17:11 |
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Swartz posted:Just thought I'd post a cool new thing Bangalore did that does the following: This caused CS to crash on me when switching areas. Not every time, but quite often.
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# ? Nov 1, 2013 23:22 |
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ful posted:This caused CS to crash on me when switching areas. Not every time, but quite often. Odd, it should work. Maybe CS uses the dll in a different way. It was assumed that CS would work fine with it even though only COP was tested with it. Looks like it's for COP only. Sorry about that, just went on what the author had said.
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# ? Nov 1, 2013 23:59 |
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Swartz posted:Odd, it should work. Maybe CS uses the dll in a different way. It was assumed that CS would work fine with it even though only COP was tested with it. It does work well with Misery 2.0. It's not a total cure or anything but drat I really noticed things going smoother.
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# ? Nov 2, 2013 00:33 |
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Acquire Currency! posted:It does work well with Misery 2.0. It's not a total cure or anything but drat I really noticed things going smoother. Yeah, I've been playing through Winter of Death and hoooooly poo poo it actually runs somewhat smoothly instead of lagging every five seconds. Quick SoC question: if I do any missions for Duty, will I end up pissing off Freedom? I want to do some Freedom jobs but first I want to do some work for Duty so I don't piss them off to the point that I can't go to the Bar peacefully.
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# ? Nov 2, 2013 05:14 |
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One of the Duty missions is essentially "Destroy the Freedom base". You can play both sides if you're clever. Freedom don't really have any overtly aggressive missions towards Duty, they just mainly focus on the Barrier. One of the things I love about RMA is that the scene with Kruglov is much, much better written. It's now an actual hostage situation. In the pre-release builds, Wolfhound was originally part of a very militant squad of Freedom called "The Dogs". They shoot down Kruglov's helicopter and extort the information out of him. You either have the choice of siding with Wolfhound, siding with Kruglov, or trying to be a negotiator between the two. You can play either Kruglov or Freedom, but if you piss off Freedom by tricking them or just outright attacking them in order to defend Kruglov, they will become openly hostile to you. It's also on a bit of a time limit, as eventually Wolfhound will decide to go in guns blazing. It also slightly expands the "Defend the Barrier" mission, where if you agree to help them, but bail out they'll be pissed off at you. Rush Limbo fucked around with this message at 05:23 on Nov 2, 2013 |
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Ddraig posted:One of the Duty missions is essentially "Destroy the Freedom base". That's a shame. For the most part, I've been doing side missions that don't antagonize any factions to kill time. I've finished off a good part of Barkeep's missions (at least, the ones that aren't "Eliminate X mutant lair") and I figured I'd go see what the Duty guys near the Bar had to offer me. Thing is, they won't let me go through to their base. STALKER Wiki says they let me through after I finish Lab X-16, but I already finished off that section a while ago. Am I missing anything else? This is in SoC Complete, if it makes any difference. edit: Ddraig posted:If I remember rightly, you need to talk to the Barkeep and he'll say that he put in a word with Duty and they'll let you through. Not entirely sure when that happens, though. NEED TOILET PAPER fucked around with this message at 04:10 on Nov 3, 2013 |
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If I remember rightly, you need to talk to the Barkeep and he'll say that he put in a word with Duty and they'll let you through. Not entirely sure when that happens, though.
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# ? Nov 3, 2013 03:23 |
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Ddraig posted:One of the Duty missions is essentially "Destroy the Freedom base". Isn't that the suicide mission that Skull and his posse recruit you for if you don't heed Veronin's warning?
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# ? Nov 3, 2013 05:52 |
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I think Voronin gives you the same mission eventually, but you can do it with Skull aswell.
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# ? Nov 3, 2013 05:53 |
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I'm at my wit's end with crashes. Every time I gave the documents for the tunnel to Pripyat to Nitro, game would crash. So I started all over, completely new install, using all the fixes. I was extremely careful, making sure to run it as an administrator, never used quick saves, and kept the settings low even though my machine can handle more. Got all the way back to the same part, now it crashes when I try to show documents to Hermann at the ecologist's bunker. Here's what my log says:quote:intro_start game_loaded e: Using 2.0.2QF with Ddraig's latest fix Horns fucked around with this message at 03:12 on Nov 4, 2013 |
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[error]Description : No available phrase to say, dialog[jup_b6_scientist_nuclear_physicist_jupiter_docs] You using a mod that affects dialog? I don't really know how the game files are set up, but if you put an empty string where it's looking for this, it should fix it.
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# ? Nov 4, 2013 03:42 |
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Nope, not using anything except the latest version of Misery with the official patches and the latest fix Ddraig posted in the thread. e: the fix before last that Ddraig posted had some dialog changes, but I don't think it involved any quest stuff, just incidental dialog from random NPCs... Horns fucked around with this message at 03:56 on Nov 4, 2013 |
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That's rather weird. I'll check out that particular dialog, as I don't think there should be anything in there that would cause such a crash.
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# ? Nov 4, 2013 04:06 |
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That would be awesome. Misery has hooked me bad, worse than any mod - or even any game now that I think about it - in a really long time, but the crashes are killing it for me. I can upload my save somewhere if you need it.
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# ? Nov 4, 2013 04:13 |
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# ? Nov 4, 2013 04:20 |
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I think my favorite Crab bug is when he levitated through the skadvosk on his back before flying back into bed. He's a weird one.
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# ? Nov 4, 2013 04:23 |
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Where's the misery ammo in Jupiter now? The medic doesn't sell anything violent.
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# ? Nov 4, 2013 06:34 |
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I just picked up SOC and I'm playing through with no mods. I'm only a few hours in but a quick question about artifacts and anomalies. A lot of the stuff makes it sound like the two of them go together. If I find a bunch of anomalies does that mean there's likely an artifact around, or is it just flavor text? I'm assuming artifacts become better once I get in deeper but they don't really seem worth it now. A 2% damage reduction doesn't seem like much gain for all the radiation poisoning it takes to use it.
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# ? Nov 4, 2013 16:04 |
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Anomalies spawn artifacts. For all three STALKER games I believe that each emission that occurs holds with it a chance to spawn an artifact in a given anomaly. I know this behavior holds true with CoP, but I can't recall if it's the case in Vanilla Clear Sky and ShoC.
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# ? Nov 4, 2013 16:19 |
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Dr_Amazing posted:I just picked up SOC and I'm playing through with no mods. I'm only a few hours in but a quick question about artifacts and anomalies. A lot of the stuff makes it sound like the two of them go together. In the first game anomalies and artifacts aren't necessarily together, so search around for artifacts anywhere that looks interesting. Most artifacts aren't worth equipping until you find ones that lower your radiation. In CS and CoP, artifacts spawn only in anomalies.
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# ? Nov 4, 2013 18:15 |
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I know this is a bit passe now, but this pretty much requires a 'DEAL WITH IT' to appear at the end.
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# ? Nov 4, 2013 19:44 |
Every time an animated gif of Crab shows up, I feel compelled to point out that the dude's entire function is to lay in bed and do nothing, yet he seems to be one of the buggiest--if not the buggiest--NPCs in CoP. It is hilarious.
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# ? Nov 4, 2013 19:57 |
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Ddraig posted:New Unofficial Misery Patch: I'm getting a crash whenever I try to talk to Garry about going back to Pripyat. As soon as I choose the pripyat dialog the game crashes with an access violation in the lua dll. I was using the optimized one, but I rolled it back and it makes no difference. Any suggestions?
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# ? Nov 5, 2013 04:40 |
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Did anyone model this gun for COP yet? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UdvuZZOhW2U
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# ? Nov 5, 2013 06:07 |
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gggiiimmmppp posted:I'm getting a crash whenever I try to talk to Garry about going back to Pripyat. As soon as I choose the pripyat dialog the game crashes with an access violation in the lua dll. I was using the optimized one, but I rolled it back and it makes no difference. Any suggestions? I suspect it has something to do with the dialogs_jupiter.script I'm really sorry about these crashes, guys My intent was to make it a smoother experience but the crashes annoy me. Maybe I'm too sensitive. Ok, think I've figured this crash out. Open up dialogs_jupiter.script Search for this section: code:
So it should look something like this: code:
Rush Limbo fucked around with this message at 08:22 on Nov 5, 2013 |
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Nitrox posted:Did anyone model this gun for COP yet? soundtrack for that video is really excellent. Still wish I could dub over any russian video with bandit jig though.
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# ? Nov 5, 2013 08:57 |
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Nitrox posted:Did anyone model this gun for COP yet? Seems like it would be functially identical to a gauss rifle.
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# ? Nov 5, 2013 11:56 |
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I discovered ZRP is only a ~6MB file. I trust the OP when it says that it's the better and more updated mod, but what should I do if I'd still like to have Complete 2009's graphical enhancements (or their equivalent), which apparently didn't make it into ZRP?
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# ? Nov 5, 2013 14:28 |
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bobfather posted:Anomalies spawn artifacts.
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# ? Nov 5, 2013 14:37 |
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NihilCredo posted:I discovered ZRP is only a ~6MB file. I trust the OP when it says that it's the better and more updated mod, but what should I do if I'd still like to have Complete 2009's graphical enhancements (or their equivalent), which apparently didn't make it into ZRP? You can pretty much copy and paste the textures from complete. Or use the photo realistic textures. I wouldn't recommend the absolute texture packs for SoC, they look really odd and ugly. Too sharp.
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# ? Nov 5, 2013 14:57 |
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Ddraig posted:You can pretty much copy and paste the textures from complete. Or use the photo realistic textures. I wouldn't recommend the absolute texture packs for SoC, they look really odd and ugly. Too sharp. Thanks. What about the fancy FX (parallax, depth of field, motion blur, dynamic lighting)?
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