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Rush Limbo
Sep 5, 2005

its with a full house

NeoSeeker posted:

I understand that CoC is supposed to be the original stalker experience but until someone makes a solid realism mod I really don't like bullet sponges.

Not just a re-balance that makes weapons equally as deadly to you as they are to the enemy, but a weapons overhaul in general with quality models, skins, animations and sounds that actually match up with animations.

Then again a few people are probably working on that right now anyways. Not a kitchen sink mod. Preferably just enhancing what is already there.

http://www.moddb.com/mods/call-of-chernobyl/addons/owr3-for-call-of-chernobyl

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NeoSeeker
Nov 26, 2007

:spergin:ASK ME ABOUT MY TOTALLY REALISTIC ZIPLINE-BASED ZOMBIE SURVIVAL PLAN & HOW THE ZOMBIE SURVIVAL VIDEO GAME GENRE HAS BEEN "RAPED BY THE MAINSTREAM":spergin:


Well there you have it. Who in this thread doesn't like D.

I'm just wondering what you're going to do with Call of Chernobyl.

Elth
Jul 28, 2011

Got the warped scopes bug in DX11. Followed the instructions in the readme to fix it, but now the scopes are still warped but in a different way. Any ideas?

Jalumibnkrayal
Apr 16, 2008

Ramrod XTreme
Do NPCs ever give you more missions after you do the one or two they ask for? I went with Freedom and I don't think anyone else in Army Warehouses has anything for me. Everywhere else I've gone to is pure hostiles.

Rush Limbo
Sep 5, 2005

its with a full house
NPCs have a few random quests and they will give you more eventually. It's random.

Also you can get to the Wish Granter, and it's got a special thing there for you, if you're looking for slightly more direction with the game.

NeoSeeker
Nov 26, 2007

:spergin:ASK ME ABOUT MY TOTALLY REALISTIC ZIPLINE-BASED ZOMBIE SURVIVAL PLAN & HOW THE ZOMBIE SURVIVAL VIDEO GAME GENRE HAS BEEN "RAPED BY THE MAINSTREAM":spergin:
Call of Chernobyl with OWR is loving amazing. Like enough to take me away from metro amazing. I've been able to effectively make use of sneaking and using the knife proficiently.


One thing bothers me. You can see the bullets you shoot appear in the middle of the screen, is there any way to turn off tracers?

NeoSeeker fucked around with this message at 01:07 on Sep 29, 2015

Swartz
Jul 28, 2005

by FactsAreUseless

NeoSeeker posted:

Call of Chernobyl with OWR is loving amazing. Like enough to take me away from metro amazing. I've been able to effectively make use of sneaking and using the knife proficiently.


One thing bothers me. You can see the bullets you shoot appear in the middle of the screen, is there any way to turn off tracers?

Go into weapons.ltx, change tracer = on to tracer = off for each ammo type. Pain in the rear end I know.

NeoSeeker
Nov 26, 2007

:spergin:ASK ME ABOUT MY TOTALLY REALISTIC ZIPLINE-BASED ZOMBIE SURVIVAL PLAN & HOW THE ZOMBIE SURVIVAL VIDEO GAME GENRE HAS BEEN "RAPED BY THE MAINSTREAM":spergin:

Swartz posted:

Go into weapons.ltx, change tracer = on to tracer = off for each ammo type. Pain in the rear end I know.

Thanks dude. Considering the "modding" (more like script fiddling) I've done with this series that is absolutely nothing. And at least there's a solution.

Now syncing sounds up with animations is a god drat bitch. Just I dunno why they don't include something like this in the mod. It makes me feel like I'm in a late 90s shooter. Especially with the high quality of OWR.


Took all of 5 minutes in the gamedata folder. No extracting assets or anything to get to it. Whoever made OWR basically left a general "tracers on/off" in the weapons.ltx. I think I just changed one variable. And even if I had 20-40 variables to change all I need to search for is "tracer " (with the space) and change anything on to off.

It's much better in game this way without tracers. Thanks again dude.


So far playing as freedom. The logical choice I guess. Enough people hate me for constant combat but the right people like me for ease of use. The AI is really good and given better situational awareness than your foes one can use this to their advantage even. Duty are so desperate they're attacking me with sausage.

At least this one duty ran at me with something in his hand I thought was a grenade in a suicide bomb event or something. Shortly after shooting him in the face I made a single errant spray connect with another off in the distance in a hail mary-esque style. I searched the suicide bomber to find nothing but... Sausage.

And then a psi-field rained a bunch of damaged guns.

NeoSeeker fucked around with this message at 10:14 on Sep 29, 2015

Rush Limbo
Sep 5, 2005

its with a full house
COC is awesome, isn't it?

Anyway I posted this on reddit so crossposting here:

quote:

I'm also working on a combined Absolute Structures pack that I will also include in the folder.
Right now it's currently built on the back of the SOC, with the Clear Sky/COP versions applied ontop of it, with COP textures taking precedent.
All redundant files have been removed, and I've checked every single texture to make sure they are actually the texture they are supposed to be. It's quite a time-consuming process, as you can imagine, but it should hopefully mean a straight 100% texture upgrade with minimal errors.
After that I may work on Absolute Nature's build_details.dds for all the levels.

Elth
Jul 28, 2011

I started a game as Military, took a very tense trip through the garbage where I had to defend a tiny barracks from encroaching bandits during an emission, made some friends from Duty and headed to the bar.

The door greeter pointed his gun at me, shouted "I SAID COME IN" and then all hell broke loose. I ended up slaughtering all of the bar's inhabitants in the tiny corridor as they trudged through single-file. After the fight, I walked up to the barman, and he ran around the bar and punched me in the face, prompting my Duty buddy to put him down.

:psyduck:

turn off the TV
Aug 4, 2010

moderately annoying

Elth posted:

I started a game as Military, took a very tense trip through the garbage where I had to defend a tiny barracks from encroaching bandits during an emission, made some friends from Duty and headed to the bar.

The door greeter pointed his gun at me, shouted "I SAID COME IN" and then all hell broke loose. I ended up slaughtering all of the bar's inhabitants in the tiny corridor as they trudged through single-file. After the fight, I walked up to the barman, and he ran around the bar and punched me in the face, prompting my Duty buddy to put him down.

:psyduck:

I had a similarly interesting experience getting punched by Freedom members in the Jupiter train station, followed by an intense firefight while none of the other patrons blinked an eye.

Rush Limbo
Sep 5, 2005

its with a full house
People shooting up the place and punching each other to death? Just a typical day in the Zone, stalker, no need to pay any attention.

frank.club
Jan 15, 2011

by Jeffrey of YOSPOS
I didn't even know AI could punch

Minarchist
Mar 5, 2009

by WE B Bourgeois

frank.club posted:

I didn't even know AI could punch

I helped a wounded stalker up with a medkit and the fucker punched me and jacked my almost-new G36. I had to gun him and his friends down to get it back :saddowns:

Rush Limbo
Sep 5, 2005

its with a full house
I'm uploading Absolute Structures for COC as I type this:

quote:

Absolute Structures pack for Call of Chernobyl

Credits to CrommCruac for Absolute Structures.


This is a straight 1:1 texture replacement for Call of Chernobyl.

The process for creating this was quite laborious:

I started with Absolute Structures for SoC as a base.

On top of this I applied Absolute Structures for Clear Sky, taking care to ensure that the correct texture (SoC and CS have certain textures that are different but named the same, in these cases I referred to the textures in the COC db as a guide to choose the correct one) for each file.

All textures present in CS AS but not SoC AS were copied into the 'merge' folder.

To this I then applied the same process with the COP AS pack: comparing all textures to make sure the correct one is copied, and referring to the COC db textures to resolve conflicts. All textures present in COP AS but not CS AS were copied over.

The combined 'merge' folder was then compared against the COC db textures. Any textures present in the merge but not in COC have been removed, all those identical to COC have also been removed.

In addition to this, I combined the textures of all three stalker games into one folder, compared the relevant AS folders to the COC db textures and found all textures only present in COC. There are a few that are directly tied to SOC texture variants - so these have also been replaced.

What is left is a texture pack that upgrades all textures present in COC that are also present in the combined Absolute Structures to the AS versions (and a slight bonus).

This should provide a straight upgrade to texture quality with no redundancies. Enjoy!


--Ddraig, being OCD so you don't have to.

Will be in the mega folder I linked earlier.

Saint Sputnik
Apr 1, 2007

Tyrannosaurs in P-51 Volkswagens!

Ddraig posted:

I'm uploading Absolute Structures for COC as I type this:


Will be in the mega folder I linked earlier.

I installed the Absolute nature thingie already (lite), but I don't think it contains any of the structures textures they promise on their page, right? I could find a description of structures but no download. Point is, I assume I'll have no issues installing this after what I already got.

e: and just what kind of changes am I supposed to be seeing after installing the Weapon Renewal mod adapted for CoC?

Minarchist
Mar 5, 2009

by WE B Bourgeois
Anyone who hasn't taken a trip through the Dead City yet, it's a drat warzone. The instant I load the area all I hear is automatic gunfire from at least 10 different guns :stare:

Bandits vs. mercs and there's SO MANY OF THEM, I just blasted 20 guys and stumbled across the bodies of 20 more. Hunting these scum in the fog with my silenced SG-550 and room to room with a Protecta :getin:

Why in god's name would they leave this area out of the vanilla games, it's amazing

Rush Limbo
Sep 5, 2005

its with a full house

Saint Sputnik posted:

I installed the Absolute nature thingie already (lite), but I don't think it contains any of the structures textures they promise on their page, right? I could find a description of structures but no download. Point is, I assume I'll have no issues installing this after what I already got.

e: and just what kind of changes am I supposed to be seeing after installing the Weapon Renewal mod adapted for CoC?

I'm not sure what version of absolute nature is floating out around there for COC at the moment, but I'll probably be making my own AN merge along the lines of the Absolute Structures one at some point.

And yeah Dead City is a loving amazing map. It was supposed to be included in SoC and had a huge storyline point where Marked One would be captured by the mercenaries and held prisoner with the Doctor.

The military then rolls in with a helicopter, taking out the entire upper floor of the building you're being held in with their guns and you have to escape from Dead City with all the guns you can scavenge from the dead mercs/bandits.

I literally have no idea why it wasn't included since it was practically 100% complete.

e: Version 1.2 of the COC addon is uploading. Fixes a few bugs I introduced :(

Rush Limbo fucked around with this message at 16:14 on Sep 29, 2015

Carly Gay Dead Son
Aug 27, 2007

Bonus.
It's very lonely being a Monolith. I know we're murderous zealots and all, but it'd be nice for once to make some friends who don't dance around in lit fire barrels or are literally brain dead. :smith:

Rush Limbo
Sep 5, 2005

its with a full house
Why don't you go to the wish granter and make a wish?

Missing Name
Jan 5, 2013


Ddraig posted:

Why don't you go to the wish granter and make a wish?

I think wishing for friends would immediately either mark a stash of porn mags or just flood the CNPP with burers.

Carly Gay Dead Son
Aug 27, 2007

Bonus.

Ddraig posted:

Why don't you go to the wish granter and make a wish?

Ok so I did this, found an exoskeleton on the way which turned my hands and presumably the rest of me invisible, got to the wish granter on my last few bars of life and wished for immortality just so I could make it out of there. Instead I became a zombie and was teleported to the Cordon, where I wrought havoc on the unsuspecting loners as an immortal haunted suit of armor. 5/5

frank.club
Jan 15, 2011

by Jeffrey of YOSPOS

Beyond sane knolls posted:

Ok so I did this, found an exoskeleton on the way which turned my hands and presumably the rest of me invisible, got to the wish granter on my last few bars of life and wished for immortality just so I could make it out of there. Instead I became a zombie and was teleported to the Cordon, where I wrought havoc on the unsuspecting loners as an immortal haunted suit of armor. 5/5

Awesome.
You didn't seriously make a functioning wish granter right

Rush Limbo
Sep 5, 2005

its with a full house
The Wish Granter is entirely functional in COC. Team EPIC did a good job with the wishes.

MariusLecter
Sep 5, 2009

NI MUERTE NI MIEDO
If you install Absolute Nature 3 make sure to delete Allspawn file or you'll get start the game on the Zaton promontory overlooking the Skadovsk no matter what faction you choose.

Or don't and start as a monolith trooper, b line for some weapon stashes and clear out the Skadovsk. For the Monolith. :jihad:

MariusLecter fucked around with this message at 22:02 on Sep 29, 2015

MariusLecter
Sep 5, 2009

NI MUERTE NI MIEDO
And NPCs punching is really great, now if I can figure out how to mod you punching back and maybe even using one of those big iron files to jab into another guys eye socket.

Minarchist
Mar 5, 2009

by WE B Bourgeois

Ddraig posted:

The Wish Granter is entirely functional in COC. Team EPIC did a good job with the wishes.

"I want the zone to disappear"

Game crashed. Hard. I laughed because I'm pretty sure that's exactly what was supposed to happen :v:

Rush Limbo
Sep 5, 2005

its with a full house

Minarchist posted:

"I want the zone to disappear"

Game crashed. Hard. I laughed because I'm pretty sure that's exactly what was supposed to happen :v:

Check the crash log if you didn't already.

e: The Peace one is pretty subtle.

Minarchist
Mar 5, 2009

by WE B Bourgeois

Ddraig posted:

Check the crash log if you didn't already.

e: The Peace one is pretty subtle.

Oh god I didn't think to look at the crash log. Or what's left of it :suicide:

I didn't get try world peace or humanity must be controlled yet but "I want to be rich" reminds me of the gold in the Sierra Madre Vault in Dead Money.

How the hell are you supposed to get out with it all? you don't

e: World peace is kind of obvious since I rolled a Monolith guy and didn't kill everyone near the NPP, but what does humanity must be controlled do?

Minarchist fucked around with this message at 22:41 on Sep 29, 2015

Rush Limbo
Sep 5, 2005

its with a full house

Minarchist posted:

Oh god I didn't think to look at the crash log. Or what's left of it :suicide:

I didn't get try world peace or humanity must be controlled yet but "I want to be rich" reminds me of the gold in the Sierra Madre Vault in Dead Money.

How the hell are you supposed to get out with it all? you don't

e: World peace is kind of obvious since I rolled a Monolith guy and didn't kill everyone near the NPP, but what does humanity must be controlled do?

Big spoiler:

Everytime a squad respawns, it is replaced with a controller

Erwin the German
May 30, 2011

:3
I usually don't go for complete sandbox experiences - except when it comes to Stalker, so Call of Chernobyl is exciting for me!

Since I'm such a faggy roleplayer I kind of want to know if there's a journal / PDA diary mod or something so I can be broody and Russian without having to minimize. Anyone know of a thing like that?

Missing Name
Jan 5, 2013


Do assorted animal chops get cooked somewhere? And who the gently caress needs mutant parts? I have a stash full of rat heads (which I really want to throw like grenades for fun) and snork feet... I haven't gotten to scientist labs yet, though.

Lipton Iced Soup
Sep 4, 2011

Menacing
Anyone know how the stash system in CoC works? I've found some seriously random stuff just from searching containers and the clear sky outpost boxes. Just picked up the prototype detector out of a tool box in a locker which was pretty great, but I'm wondering if you can get stuff like suits or guns out of them.

Rush Limbo
Sep 5, 2005

its with a full house
You can, it's very rare though.

Basically all wooden boxes in the game have a chance to act like stashes, and there are also hundreds of regular stashes, some of which are populated (at random), the others of which spawn when you either hand in PDAs to Owl or get a stalker to spill their guts when they surrender.

You can find most exoskeletons/rare weapons in there, including RPGs and Bulldogs etc.

Tibbeh
Apr 5, 2010
So CoC crashes for me whenever I try to start a new game or load a save file. It gives an error about not being able to load a wave file "none.ogg". I've got the absolute structures, owr and ddraigs HUD addins currently installed

Monolith.
Jan 28, 2011

To save the world from the expanding Zone.
Y'all are making me want to play STALKER again. CoC is for ShoC, right?

Saint Sputnik
Apr 1, 2007

Tyrannosaurs in P-51 Volkswagens!

Monolith. posted:

Y'all are making me want to play STALKER again. CoC is for ShoC, right?

You install it on top of CoP.

Rush Limbo
Sep 5, 2005

its with a full house

Tibbeh posted:

So CoC crashes for me whenever I try to start a new game or load a save file. It gives an error about not being able to load a wave file "none.ogg". I've got the absolute structures, owr and ddraigs HUD addins currently installed

Yeah, I forgot to include that sound file. Stupid omission. If you go to the mega folder you can find the ogg file, just drop it in your gamedata/sounds folder if you don't want to download the entire thing again.

The actual archive has been updated including it.

Dandywalken
Feb 11, 2014

drat, the world is empty as gently caress :(

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Rush Limbo
Sep 5, 2005

its with a full house
Trucks Cemetery is cool as hell. Got into a full fledged war with the military. Plus there's a bunch of cool anomaly effects.

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