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Man, these guys are heavily-armed enough to ventilate you in seconds. That's terrifying.
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Glazius posted:Man, these guys are heavily-armed enough to ventilate you in seconds. That's terrifying. Only thing similar is later on inside the CNPP, but i feel like that is a smaller area.
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Apr 23, 2018 15:01
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FlamingLiberal posted:Only thing similar is later on inside the CNPP, but i feel like that is a smaller area. Except when you overwrite you only save slot fraction of a second before a bunch of monolith guys start pouring out of the walls while you are totally out ofcover. Then it feels like an eternity.
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Apr 23, 2018 15:11
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One way Clear Sky is superior is the lack of close-quarters fights against multiple heavily armored and armed enemies with no cover. Also, apparently reloading a save lets every enemy in the vicinity know where you are, so whenever you die, you restart with a heavy disadvantage.
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Apr 23, 2018 15:32
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steinrokkan posted:Except when you overwrite you only save slot fraction of a second before a bunch of monolith guys start pouring out of the walls while you are totally out ofcover.
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Apr 23, 2018 15:41
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Xander77 posted:One way Clear Sky is superior is the lack of close-quarters fights against multiple heavily armored and armed enemies with no cover. The village battle in CS was probably the best shooter section in the whole franchise. Xander77 posted:Also, apparently reloading a save lets every enemy in the vicinity know where you are, so whenever you die, you restart with a heavy disadvantage. That explains a whole loving lot.
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Apr 23, 2018 16:38
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steinrokkan posted:The village battle in CS was probably the best shooter section in the whole franchise.
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Xander77 posted:Not sure what you mean by that, exactly. It's called Limansk, I think? The bit right before the ending where you push through an occupied town (not really a village as I mentioned) along with a CS unit.
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Apr 23, 2018 17:25
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Not gonna lie, I kind of screamed a little when I saw the AK back after he picked up the G36. I was like "NOOOO! WHY!" I scared my roommate. it was hilarious.
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    Warning: this part contains information I actually looked up for accuracy. And senseless violence. E: crthemighty turned a favorite moment into a gif: 
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Apr 29, 2018 18:45
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Every weapon (except for the rocket launcher, and shotguns, which have buckshot for mutants and two flavors of nerf balls for humans) has regular and AP rounds. Now I can post this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KeHBw9luUb8 Without spoiling anything.
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Apr 29, 2018 20:41
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iirc STALKER SoC actually does have a soundtrack, but hell if I can remember how to get to it in the game proper.
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I'm starting to get this sinking feeling that you're never going to find a VSS Vintorez a.k.a. the best gun in the game.  The Pripyat map in SoC is pretty interesting to explore; it's surprisingly extensive. It's a shame the game doesn't really require you to do it, or strongly reward you for doing so. (Though I suppose there are some good stashes to get, if you're lucky enough to find the info on them.) Some side-missions there would have been nice. I guess they were a bit rushed when it came to this part. Probably obvious, but Thorn added those subtitles in post, so by default in that part with the Wish Granter talking to you, you'll have no idea what it's saying if you don't speak the language. Kind of an odd thing to not translate for the English localisation. In one of the mods I used to use (can't remember which one - maybe Oblivion Lost), they replaced those lines with a looping set of sound samples from what sounded like an English movie about the Chernobyl disaster. That was kind of an odd choice too. I think this is actually the first time since 2007 that I've seen the Wish Granter/Monolith room... and I've only seen a couple of those bad endings before too, I think; the "I want to be immortal" and "I want to be rich" endings. Re: the third-person camera, I think that's yet another cut content thing. From memory it's only available with mods.
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Despite getting everything I needed to get the real endings for the longest time I never found the way to actually get the them so for the longest time I was that guy who was kind of annoyed at the ending to Stalker. Until I finally remembered to go on the internet for some more info.
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Apr 30, 2018 08:36
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Thank you SO MUCH for subbing in the Wish Granter's voiceover. I've been dying to know what it was saying since I played. ... Kind of disappointed, to be honest.
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May 1, 2018 03:57
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So the control ending, the way I see it, Strelok is given everything that humanity has done that he/wish granted deemed corrupt and more or less put into a void. He is in control, with all this knowledge, in his mind for all he knows he has done it while the world continues on without him.
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May 1, 2018 11:47
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"Mankind must be controlled" followed by explosions, nukes and destruction, followed by a complete void seems to suggest there is no mankind anymore. Nothing left to control. Done. Also if you never walked around without a gun in 3rd person, you've been missing out: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HQ9riuanrBs
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May 1, 2018 16:14
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Wugga posted:"Mankind must be controlled" followed by explosions, nukes and destruction, followed by a complete void seems to suggest there is no mankind anymore. Nothing left to control. Done. Mankind must be controlled PEST CONTROLLED 
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May 1, 2018 17:20
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Wugga posted:Also if you never walked around without a gun in 3rd person, you've been missing out: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HQ9riuanrBs "I wish... you would be my waifu, wish-granter-chan." e: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X793UjC1WFI 90s Cringe Rock fucked around with this message at 18:08 on May 1, 2018 |
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May 1, 2018 18:03
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STALKER: A better Sonic game than Sonic 06 
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May 1, 2018 22:41
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I know it doesn't really pertain to this thread but Thorn do you know if Yoshi is going to upload his God of War stream anywhere? I looked on his Twitch and couldn't find it at all.
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May 2, 2018 01:32
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What gets me is that if nobody else is around, why does the wish granter care about granting the wish in a really spiteful way? Surely it could just explode the heads of everyone asking it for stuff instead of doing needlessly elaborate poo poo.
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May 2, 2018 11:14
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Crazy Achmed posted:What gets me is that if nobody else is around, why does the wish granter care about granting the wish in a really spiteful way? Surely it could just explode the heads of everyone asking it for stuff instead of doing needlessly elaborate poo poo.
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May 2, 2018 11:36
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Crazy Achmed posted:What gets me is that if nobody else is around, why does the wish granter care about granting the wish in a really spiteful way? Surely it could just explode the heads of everyone asking it for stuff instead of doing needlessly elaborate poo poo. Then it wouldn't be a wish granter, would it? No one is going to trek across the zone looking for the fabled Head Exploder
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May 2, 2018 11:44
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Crane Fist posted:Then it wouldn't be a wish granter, would it? No one is going to trek across the zone looking for the fabled Head Exploder
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May 2, 2018 11:55
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Wugga posted:"Mankind must be controlled" followed by explosions, nukes and destruction, followed by a complete void seems to suggest there is no mankind anymore. Nothing left to control. Done. In the original ukranian voiceover/script, Strelok does say "humanity must be destroyed" instead of "controlled". In the process Strelok seems to forget he's also part of humanity. Everyone in the world was plunged into the dark void, maybe. I dunno, it seems like if the wish granter actually had the power to do some of these things, that poo poo in the zone/around the world would've ended a while ago.
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Commander Keene posted:Strelok went to visit the Brain Scorcher, didn't he? Well yeah but that made sense, him going "okay I'm going to find my way past the machine that kills you horribly because on the other side is a machine that grants wishes" as opposed to him going "okay I'm going to find my way past the machine that kills you horribly because on the other side is a machine that also kills you horribly, but in a more interesting way" Actually now that I think about it is there anything more Ukrainian in spirit than going on a terrible dangerous quest where the prize is you get to die in a completely unique way
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May 3, 2018 01:32
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Bluhman posted:In the original ukranian voiceover/script, Strelok does say "humanity must be destroyed" instead of "controlled". That's maybe the only one that doesn't monkey's paw? Strelok gets to the wish granter and goes "DESTROY HUMANITY" and it's like "yeah sure thing boss"
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Bluhman posted:In the original ukranian voiceover/script, Strelok does say "humanity must be destroyed" instead of "controlled". This makes more sense to me now. The Wish Granter's pretty much going 'bro i'm just here to hold your guys beer, you've got this way better than i do, here let me show you' and then Strelok was a holocaust. Crane Fist posted:Then it wouldn't be a wish granter, would it? No one is going to trek across the zone looking for the fabled Head Exploder Everyone wants to get at the Wish Granter because no one knows that it doesn't actually grant any wishes because: a: they get brain scorched into zombies b: they make it to the wish granter and it kills them c: they make it to the wish granter and it brainwashes them into joining Monolith. There were no exceptions before Strelok.
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Bluhman posted:I dunno, it seems like if the wish granter actually had the power to do some of these things, that poo poo in the zone/around the world would've ended a while ago.
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EponymousMrYar posted:This makes more sense to me now. The Wish Granter's pretty much going 'bro i'm just here to hold your guys beer, you've got this way better than i do, here let me show you' and then Strelok was a holocaust. Is Strelok the only one to ever reach it? I may be confusing the STALKER game universe with the original story or maybe one of the movies or who even knows So wait if no one's ever managed to reach it and come back alive, how do they know there's a wish granter in there? Lucky guess?
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May 3, 2018 07:21
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Crane Fist posted:Is Strelok the only one to ever reach it? I may be confusing the STALKER game universe with the original story or maybe one of the movies or who even knows I don’t know if it’s ever explained how others know about the Wish Granter.
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I don't really see the Wish Granter as having influence over much besides the wisher and the Granter's immediate surroundings. Everything the Granter does in those endings is illusory/psychological or simply affecting physical things near it. It's really just a psionic boondoggle with limited range, good PR, and a dangerous location encouraging the myth of its importance. A big ol' booby prize in every way.
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Crane Fist posted:Is Strelok the only one to ever reach it? I may be confusing the STALKER game universe with the original story or maybe one of the movies or who even knows FlamingLiberal posted:I don’t know if it’s ever explained how others know about the Wish Granter. You must ignore the Wish Granter's name, and realize its true nature: a human-scale bug zapper. In Roadside Picnic, the Wish Granter does seem to do what it's supposed to, and its location is known only to Vulture and, eventually, Red.
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Fish Noise posted:In Roadside Picnic, the Wish Granter does seem to do what it's supposed to
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yes Now what?
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Maybe you guys read a lovely translation or something, I read it in the original Russian, that's probably why I understand it better.
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May 3, 2018 21:18
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feelix posted:Maybe you guys read a lovely translation or something, I read it in the original Russian, that's probably why I understand it better. Ну че, попутал рамсы?
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Xander77 posted:I read it in the original Russian. Which is my native language. Same and there is no reason to believe that the Golden Sphere grants wishes If it did, that would mean that the ending is Red killing an innocent kid to get to the Golden Sphere, then asking for happiness for all of humanity because that was the kid's wish, and Red is a hollow shell of a human that has no wishes of his own, and then what? The Golden Sphere creates world peace and everybody in the world is happy? lol no
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Wasn't "happiness" a mistake in translation and the original russian word (Счастье) is more along "satisfaction"?
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