stalker - clear sky

[Mabs]

not bad overall, and is around for cheapish (£18)

however, if you are interested in getting it, wait a month or 2
it has so many CTD / save corrupting bugs at the moment its not even funny

and as with the previous Stalker, if you patch it, it invalidates your saves.

so wait till its been patched 3 or 4 times

 

[Aada]

not bad overall, and is around for cheapish (£18)

however, if you are interested in getting it, wait a month or 2
it has so many CTD / save corrupting bugs at the moment its not even funny

and as with the previous Stalker, if you patch it, it invalidates your saves.

so wait till its been patched 3 or 4 times

In other words don't buy it.

I bought the first one and returned it the next day it was that bad.

 

[Helme]

Guess I can ask here, is the original STALKER now stable with patches?

I couldn't play it on my older graphic card because the sky totally bugged out unless I was running windowed mode(which I can't stand). I've had a copy for ages but never kinda got into it, but figured I might give it a whirl again now with the new gfx card to prepare for the Clear Sky stable(and cheaper still!) version

 

[taB]

Stalker was buggy as feck, yet still fun

Will deffo be playing clear skies, but it'll be a 2009 title for me to give them time to get it sorted.

 

[Yaka]

i obnly got round to finishing the first one couple of months back, and yes it is way less buggy than the orignal.

defo gonna get this once i get a decent pc.

 

[Mabs]

In other words don't buy it.

I bought the first one and returned it the next day it was that bad.

er. no

in other words, wait a month or 2 before you buy it

i have the original, ive finished it 3 or 4 times, and its NEVER CTD'd on me

its just luck of the draw on hardware really

 

[Raven]

hmm, saw on steam it was out on the 15th

 

[Mabs]

dont get it in steam its 44$, its 18 quid from Game

 

[Raven]

Yeah but th at means either waiting for the postman or braving town with all the scumbags

 

[pikeh]

The last STALKER patch I played was a serious improvement on stability and performance.

 

[Mabs]

script replacement "fix" :


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Drive Letter:\Install Location\S.T.A.L.K.E.R. - Clear Sky\gamedata\scripts

You will need to create the “gamedata” and “scripts” sub-folders then just change the “$game_data$” line to “true| true” in “fsgame.ltx” located as follows:

Drive Letter:\Install Location\S.T.A.L.K.E.R. - Clear Sky


Script files unpack to scripts path as above

~~~


did this earlier, hasnt crashed in 2 hours, worth a try if anyone is struggling with it

 

[Lethul]

Is it STALKER 2 or an expansion?

 

[Mabs]

Is it STALKER 2 or an expansion?

its 1.5
upgraded engine etc

 

[Yaka]

yep its a improved engine, but stroy and gameplay wise its a prequel

 

[Mabs]

yep its a improved engine, but stroy and gameplay wise its a prequel

well its billed as such, but you do spend most of the game chasing your former self which is quite odd
so its more a 2nd angle on same thing

 

[Poag]

Kinda looking forward to this. I played through the original unpatched [no crashed lock up or anything] patched and was quite sad when my savegame was lost.

Ending to the original was...original and highly expected...atleast the ending i got was

Also looking at the new environment engine, looks very good indeed.

 

[Mabs]

most people got the "bad" ending in the original

 

[Dukat]

Oh wow, I didnt realise this was out!

I really enjoyed SoC, I've played it though several times, some of the modifications to the artificial life and AI are really pretty good and put a nice new spin on things - one of them made it so alot nastier stuff roamed about and towards the end of the game the bar haven place had been almost completely overrun! Really atmospheric.

I personally never had any real problems with bugs on stalker.

most people got the "bad" ending in the original

Spoiler

Haha yea, it took me a lot of messing around to finally find out how to get the two "proper" endings, well worth it though just for the last area

 

[Bahumat]

I heard you end up going to the start of the first one?