New Stalker game:S.T.A.L.K.E.R.: Call of Pripyat

Sephiroth_dude

Did'nt see this posted,sounds interesting.


http://cs.stalker-game.com/en/?page=news&item=123

redshoulder

Good news, hopefully this one has less bugs.

Sarky

Sleep function? Sweet! I loved the occasional foray into the Zone at night for the sense of danger and claustrophobia, but it would have been nice to be able to do it in the morning instead...

I hope they add a lot more new locations in, I enjoyed revisiting some locations in Clear Sky to see what they used to be like, but a third time probably won't do much for me.

Tyrant^

I still have the original stalker sittin in my drawer ! Haven tried it in over 6 months now. Just too many bugs. Will prob give it ago now see if any new patches out!:eek:

Lemming

Got Clear sky. Installed. Failed. With the absolute abyssmal lack of support coming from the studio except for their russian customers, I just deinstalled it and haven't looked since. I am in no hurry to look again judging by past performance.

magick

looking foward to this as i was a big fan of the first game, havent played the second one due to bugs and if history is anything to go by then i suspect when u start the game ur character will fly up in the air and be killed instantly while a million saved game files are on your computer.

ríomhaire

I was most of the way through the story in Oblivion Lost mod, before my laptop broke. I really want to get it again, finish it and get Clear Sky, then this.

Dyr

Played the first until I got fed up..awesome atmosphere and environment, crappy stability plus the story and missions were totally obtuse.

Shame, its a great idea

PogMoThoin

Be great it they fixed the bugs in the last one first

Spunge

Loved the first one, and loved exploring pripiyat level especially.
Love to explore it again.

Sephiroth_dude

The sleep function sounds very interesting and a nice feature to add.Hopefully the A.I will be even more ramdom .

0ubliette

Cant wait for this. Tho the new features sound pretty much like the best additions from oblivion lost just incorporated into an official game from GSC. And having been to Pripyat & Kopachi village, i cant wait to see what they look like in this game

Cuddlesworth

What Lemming said, not going to buy a game from a Developer with a clear lack of support for their customers.

briany

I got the first game in the series back in 2007 when it first came out and I played it, didn't like/understand it, so I uninstalled it and thought maybe I'd play it later. Fast foward a year and a half, still having not played the first game, I got clear sky and loved it, it just seemed easier to get into for whatever reason and I liked the supply management system. I went back afterward and played the original stalker too and finished that as well and I've been waiting for more ever since. Hope it doesn't stray too much from the original formula even though they're doing away with the play area of the first two games.

Is it just me or do other first person shooters never feel quite the same after you've played this series???

PogMoThoin

Its mad cos STALKER was nearly considered vapourware, it was nearly in the Duke Nukem Forever category of never gonna happen when it was suddenly released. Now its defining the next generation graphics api with Clear Sky being released in directX10, its directX10.1 patch also for Clear Sky benefiting Ati users and now using directX11 in the Call of Pripyat. Unlike Crytek and other developers, they've not got consolitis, keep up the good work guys.

SeantheMan

Link is dead for that site


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5uspect

Apparently a console version of SOC is coming after the new game.

I really enjoyed SOC it was a deeply flawed but great game. I've recently bought CS but haven't really gone back to it. I got fed up with the game constantly trying to mug me.

briany

5uspect wrote: »

Apparently a console version of SOC is coming after the new game.

I really enjoyed SOC it was a deeply flawed but great game. I've recently bought CS but haven't really gone back to it. I got fed up with the game constantly trying to mug me.

Well I've no problem with a console port of the game coming out although it might be a bit too involved for the average Halo/Gears of War playing gamer but then again, not as involved as most RPGs so whatever. I just hope they don't make console their top priority and then we're treated to the same old dumbed down PC ports with horrific control schemes. Remember Dead Space on the PC? Argh!!!!

briany

GAH HELL!! The release date for the English language version has been pushed back to first quarter 2010. Oh well there's nothing for it, I'm just going to have to download the russian version with an English patch when it comes out in a week or two. Damn and I was really looking forward to this game as well:(

Sephiroth_dude

Ya just saw that,****ty,but hopefully there wont be any game breaking bugs this time around.

briany

Well I heard it was more to do with them working on English translations and such so I don't know about the bugs, however I'd bet there'd be more than a few bugs come time for the English language release. One thing's for sure, when this game comes out in Russia and the game is patched to English by crackers, it is going to be pirated to buggery! (Bad pun not intended.)

Nodin

The (patched) Clear Sky was good craic, it has to be said. I love games where theres a sense of place and good atmo though, so I'm forgiving...

briany

The game looks to be pretty good. There's a lot of guesswork to be done because of the dodgy translations that are floating about at the minute but it's still an enjoyable play. There appears to be no game breaking bugs either! BONUS! Here's hoping for a better English translation to come out soon.

5uspect

briany wrote: »

The game looks to be pretty good. There's a lot of guesswork to be done because of the dodgy translations that are floating about at the minute but it's still an enjoyable play. There appears to be no game breaking bugs either! BONUS! Here's hoping for a better English translation to come out soon.

Wha?

Are you from the future or the past?

L31mr0d

5uspect wrote: »

Wha?

Are you from the future or the past?

The betas been leaked

PogMoThoin

Its supposedly not a beta, its the Russian version going to print thats been leaked.

Then again neither of the first 2 were playable before at least 3 patches

5uspect

Oh right. When was it supposed to be released, I thought it was just announced.
I think I'll try and blunder through CS first tho.

briany

Oh yeah, it's nearly time for the next installment in the stalker series!:D I have been very good and actually waited for the English version to come out and now that time is right around the corner (I tried the Russian version but it spoiled my enjoyment too much:rolleyes:). It's a pity that the release seems to be getting painfully little fanfare. In my opinion it is one of the best FPS franchises of recent years way way better than Halo or Call of Duty. It's deep and it's atmospheric and it's challenging gameplay. Will anyone else here be getting this game? It's just about the only game on the PC that I'm looking forward to right now, certainly the only FPS anyway. I suppose because of the piracy situation, it prob won't be getting to much better on that front which is a pity but there you go.:o

5uspect

I'm considering jumping ship to Metro 2033 as an alternative.

It looks like a STALKER clone but hopefully it'll be a less painful.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LB_ICAvOmrg

pixelburp

5uspect wrote: »

I'm considering jumping ship to Metro 2033 as an alternative.

It looks like a STALKER clone but hopefully it'll be a less painful.

Aye, I got those vibes from the trailer, but face it. Most games coming from these ex-Soviet countries are such bug-ridden messes it's incredible how they get past QA at all. Mind you, I'm assuming these dev-houses have a QA to begin with.

briany

Yeah woah I've heard of that game before. I'm not suprised if it were a S.T.A.L.K.E.R clone because of the team who made and the software they may be using to make the game. Looks like it could be an enjoyable romp in any case maybe even more bleak than the S.T.A.L.K.E.R. games. If that were possible. The thing that I like about the S.T.A.L.K.E.R. games is that because you're in the zone, it's implied that the world goes on as normal outside of that so the bleak edge is blunted somewhat. It's not really a "The world is f**ked" work so much...

ShadowHearth

i see alot of people still bi*ching about buggs of first one...

i played it about 2 years ago and with all those patches it was playable, and havent noticed bugs at all. now it should be buggless...

And judging game, withouth even playing it, becouse you were not able to sort out instalation is just sad...

have huge hopes for this one, while i wait for it, ill get clear sky tommorow in town, as i had no chance to play it yet

Sarky

briany wrote: »

It's not really a "The world is f**ked" work so much...

This is what I loved most about the games. The world wasn't any more f*cked than usual, but you, the player, certainly were. There's no rubbish about the world hanging in the balance, countless innocent lives at stake in STALKER. The only important life is the players, and the game is designed to make it tough for nobody else. With STALKER, it's personal.

You're stuck in a horrible wasteland where you'll die of starvation if you don't go looking for food, and looking for food will kill you even faster with carnivorous mutants, space-time anomalies and jerkface bandits. And the food is probably killing you with radiation poisoning, so you have to drink a truckload of vodka. Nobody will care if you die, and pretty much nobody will care if you survive and beat the game either.

Eastern European games seem have this intoxicating sense of nihilism and grim futility running through them. Not nearly enough games do it.

briany

Sarky wrote: »

This is what I loved most about the games. The world wasn't any more f*cked than usual, but you, the player, certainly were. There's no rubbish about the world hanging in the balance, countless innocent lives at stake in STALKER. The only important life is the players, and the game is designed to make it tough for nobody else. With STALKER, it's personal.

Yes it's nice to have that pressure off lol. I haven't played enough Eastern European made games to feel the nihilism in them but I should hope they do it tastefully and don't go overboard with it unlike a certain film-based-on-a-book that came out recently. I think the STALKER series is one of the best implimentations of an open world shooter yet and the world that you are in really does feel hostile. Stalking through the marsh in the pitch black of night does feel quite scary and you really make an effort to head to your destination as soon as possible. It also integrates some RPG elements quite nicely and you are really forced to think about what you bring etc. I think it is the thinking person's shooter.

ShadowHearth

Sarky wrote: »

This is what I loved most about the games. The world wasn't any more f*cked than usual, but you, the player, certainly were. There's no rubbish about the world hanging in the balance, countless innocent lives at stake in STALKER. The only important life is the players, and the game is designed to make it tough for nobody else. With STALKER, it's personal.

You're stuck in a horrible wasteland where you'll die of starvation if you don't go looking for food, and looking for food will kill you even faster with carnivorous mutants, space-time anomalies and jerkface bandits. And the food is probably killing you with radiation poisoning, so you have to drink a truckload of vodka. Nobody will care if you die, and pretty much nobody will care if you survive and beat the game either.

Eastern European games seem have this intoxicating sense of nihilism and grim futility running through them. Not nearly enough games do it.

acutally fair play to you bud to point that out.

I am from lithuania ( 5 years in ireland now hihi) and for stalkers enviroment is familiar to death... Lithuania is post soviet country, so we had all same biuldings, schools, shops, trains, train stations,cars, massive farms etc. but in stalker you see it after it was abondoned, destroyed...

Its sooo creepy.. for me personaly stalker was a great horror survival game, with memories of mine old country... Alot of western people might not understand the spirit of stalker, but for estern europe people it just undiscribable...

Stalker enviroment atmosthere is just moust amazing i ever seen.

And yes the wolrd in stalker does not wait for player, it lives on its own. It makes you feel even smaller bug in all this damn " hole".

alot of people need to give this game a chance. Original had a bad release, but alot of buggs are fixed. just give original a try, it costs feck all now anyway...

p.s. cant wait to play new one, while its night, storm,rain ( in game). It will be epic!

Chairman Meow

Stalker is possibly one of my favourite games of all time. Bugs bedamned. Patch 1.5 sorted out 99% of bugs int he game. Clear Sky was a bit of a let down, and sadly COP seems to have a metacritic average of about %70, but im still getting it.

L31mr0d

pixelburp wrote: »

Mind you, I'm assuming these dev-houses have a QA to begin with.

In America, foolish humans test the quality of the games
In Soviet Russia, the game tests the quality of the human.

Creature

I love the STALKER games and think ShadowHearth summed it up pretty well it makes you feel like a small bug in a world that lives on it's own. The first one was great but made even better with the Oblivion Lost mod. I shall definitely be chicking out Call of Pripyat after it hits Steam, and several patches have ben released of course :pac:

briany

Creature wrote: »

I love the STALKER games and think ShadowHearth summed it up pretty well it makes you feel like a small bug in a world that lives on it's own. The first one was great but made even better with the Oblivion Lost mod. I shall definitely be chicking out Call of Pripyat after it hits Steam, and several patches have ben released of course :pac:

I don't think that bugs should be a problem this time though. I've played a little bit of the russian release and it ran amazingly smoothly to what I expected it to run like so it should stand to reason (famous last words) that they've had 4 months or so to tweak the worldwide release given that it has been ready since the russian release (they've been waiting for a post christmas window to maximise publicity for it's release or something) so any game breakers should not be there. I would've played the Russian version maybe but I just couldn't enjoy it with the Russian dialogue and the garbled machine translated text so I just said I'd wait until the English release. Glad I did now too .

wayne040576

I must've started stalker on 3 or 4 different occasions but never got very far into it. The last time I played it I had an open mission waiting for me to an item to the guy in the bunker that I'd already given him.
Is it worth playing with the Oblivion lost mod first time round or would it be too hard?

briany

Yeah I've been there. I started it twice before I started playing it on the third time through. I got Clear Sky on a whim and really enjoyed that so I went back to the first one and got really into it. I'd say if you're willing to persevere with it you should go back. Never used Oblivion Lost but I've heard mostly good about it.

PogMoThoin

Absolutely loved the first, one of my all time favorites, cleared it twice, second time running the Oblivion Lost mod. Clear Sky wasn't near as good, all too samey, I got bored of the same story as the first and gave up half way through. The atmospehere the game creates is amazing, especially running around at night with a flashlight during a thunderstorm. I'll definitely be giving the next one a go

Sephiroth_dude

I'll definitely be getting it,love the stalker games.

ShadowHearth

guys i decided to install stalker again and put OL 2.2 mod when i try to unzip it with winrar it just drops 1600 errors!!!!

can you help me out with install of this mod?

so far i iinstalled freshly game and updated to 1.005v , weird is it says i have US version.....

Chairman Meow

redownlaod it from here

http://stalker.filefront.com/file/Oblivion_Lost_22_for_1005;93039

if it fails to extract try using 7zip instead of winrar

Sephiroth_dude

Anyone getting this?

wayne040576

Sephiroth_dude wrote: »

Anyone getting this?

I had it ordered from Amazon. They sent me a mail during the night saying it was delayed due to supplier issues.

Chairman Meow

ill be getting it next week

Sephiroth_dude

I got the special edition today,liking it so far anyway.

Spear

Got it today, and only played a short bit. Only a few small changes from the earlier editions so far. Thankfully you start with an assault rifle now, rather than suffer the irritation of making do with a pistol.

One annoying bit is an early mission to collect a container from a car for Snag. Seems there no way out once you're done where the container is.

ShadowHearth

Spear wrote: »

Got it today, and only played a short bit. Only a few small changes from the earlier editions so far. Thankfully you start with an assault rifle now, rather than suffer the irritation of making do with a pistol.

One annoying bit is an early mission to collect a container from a car for Snag. Seems there no way out once you're done where the container is.

there is bud, cave tunnel.

Got it yesterday aswell. Amazing! Good old stalker with great interface, hot keys and ather bits which really makes experience great.

I really dont whant to see poeple bi*ching about buggs... I played for awile and havent seen any yet... and if there are a few - get over it!

Love the new stalker jokes! You have to know russian languadge to undestand them...

Weapon customization is great, was really surprised how deep it is!

If you are a little girl that is afraid a bug or two in your game experience, and newer tried stalker, then this is the stalker to get.