S.T.A.L.K.E.R. - Sneeki Breeki edition

holy shit stalker fags are also cuck bookers, it makes so much sense

Social media is large platform to show of the project itself. If we did stay on Holla Forums alone, we would have only you guys to play with. That would be a disaster. I personally do not like cuck book one bit, VK has 30.000 people following RoH, ModDB 1500 and FB little under 3000. Holla Forums Holla Forums stalker threads like, what…. 20? But you guys are fine bunch, as I have been on stalker threads for 10 years I want to play RoH with you. That's why I pop up here when something new is going on. It's kinda funny how in my personal FB page 80% of my friends list are stalker dudes around the world.

Scratch that 3000, its around 2300 only.
If our damn website would just work perfectly with its Forums, people could gather there.

GUNSLINGER FUCKING WHEN

Because bandits don't hunt for artifacts and same goes for nearly every every other non-loner.
And grenade launchers are extremely costly to smuggle into a shithole like Zone.

Is it possible in Call of Chernobyl to crack the PDA somehow instead of giving them away?

yeah loners wouldn't have them but it makes no sense for freedom, duty and the military to have almost no 'nade launchers for their troops
granted, I don't think the AI is actually capable of using grenade launchers (though they have no problem using RPGs and hand grenades)

loners, ecologists and freedom actively hunt for artifacts so you'd think they'd have more detectors
bandits also regularly kill said factions and steal their shit

Installed Call of Chernobyl again yesterday with a shitload of addons. Warfare+dynamic factions relation is fun especially with ironmeme and azazel enabled if you don't mind changing faction and losing your stuff.
What are your favorite factions and why ?
mine is mercenary for now but it's the one I played the most, I need to try other factions

When I first started playing again, I was really digging Duty. Having a nice base and lots of bros with "discipline" was nice for a while. I've been playing a lot of iron/azazel lately though, and doing one-offs as a bandit is actually very entertaining. I've also gotten a soft spot for Monolith, since starting as them in azazel turns the brain scorcher off. I have the longest and comfiest lives as a merc, still, somehow.

Ecologists, I love the outfits, the base, and the high income from mutant parts. I'm cooling off on them recently after my last ironman character was shotgunned to death by a fellow ecologist blasting away at a chimera who leaped on me.

Such is life, eh?

I wish you didn't start right off the bat with an Eco Guard suit though, since it's decent equipment that lets you skip past some points of the hobo stage. There should be beginner equipment for them like an "Undergrad's Labcoat", that you as an intern from some science university wear while in the bunker, or maybe a "Guard Vest" for bodyguards sent in from outside the zone to accompany the expedition that are obviously cheap, poor quality fatigues and a vest purchased from the lowest bidder, so as to save more budget for the actual scientists (better protection than leather jacket, worse than military starting suit or sunrise suit). Then you can work your way up to the Eco Guard suit, Scientist suits, and SEVAs.

The suit is definitely an advantage, but it definitely hasn't saved my previous several characters. Maybe the biggest perk is friendly relations with all factions except bandits and monolith, being on good terms with the military in particular widens the areas you can safely visit, although it's uncomfortable for me to see them shooting loners and freedomers.

Short and brutal seems to be the way it goes

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I actually don't mind that Ecologists have the most positive/neutral starting relationships, since it makes sense in context; aside from being an officially-sponsored presence in the Zone (eliminates hostility from Military and Duty), they're known for having a high number of medical specialists (nobody except assholes and Zone fanatics, like Bandits and Monolith, are going to exterminate the people that can actually render life-saving medical aid), paying top dollar for artifacts without having to go through illegal channels (Great for Loners and anybody who isn't trying to explicitly smuggle them into the black market), and hiring bodyguards for expeditions into the deeper parts of the Zone (Loners, Mercs, actually pretty much any faction except Bandits and Monolith). Gameplay wise, it makes them the easiest start for people who are just coming in to CoC/STALKER. I just want to have that same experience of freaking the fuck out over every combat encounter in the beginning that I get with other factions' starting suits due to lack of rad, anomalous, and wound protection without having to go naked, which the Eco Guard suit goes some ways to negating (not by much, but still enough to provide a notably different new game experience)

Jesse, stop being a fucking faggot

Any news ROHfag? I know it hasnt been that long.

Are you guys using your knifes? Flesh, boar and most humans in CQB can easily be dispatched with just a knife without injury.

Will Ray of Hope have semi-only ARs as low-tier guns? Loved those in AO.

Clear Sky
All the good points of Duty and Freedom without any of the retard logic attached to it.

Honestly unless I'm starting in rookie village (where the carpark is easy enough to clear, especially if you grab the AKS-74U), I just play a vulture to clear the hobo stage. Wait till you find people killing eachother and loot the dead before the survivors can. You can sell ammo, optics, grenades and medical supplies (though I'd keep the last one) without worrying about durability.

Clear Sky faction is great. I like their base, map, and suits. I actually ended up making some minor mods to the Battle Helmet they use for headgear, so it's a viable alternative to the Merc and NBC masks. I added rad protection increases to the breathing mask and plexiglass coating upgrades, as well as increased their costs. The end result is that fully upgraded, you can get decent rad protection comparable to that of a base merc mask and more impact + chemical protection, at the cost of more weight and still being outpaced by either alternate mask fully upgraded, and you have to find the tool kits to do so. I also ended up adding G1 nightvision to both the Merc and NBC masks, as well as to the full slot NBC suit in place of its G2 vision, for balance and consistency purposes.

I don't think I've ever gotten close enough to a human without gunning him down to even try

Shit nigger, are you carrying around 60 kg of gear all the time?

STALKER's AI, for its faults, sucks at hitting moving targets and doesn't instantly aim at point blank targets. Their shove move also makes them easy to kill with a knife as it doesn't actually do anything but shift your aim a bit if you have a knife out.

Even in the open it's often possible to run in an L pattern (run diagonally toward them then make a right angle shift and go staight at them when you are close) at solo enemies.

Naaahhh dude I usually gun people down from like 30m or more, or utilize choke points for CQB so I can funnel people into my guns. I've never tried to get that close to hostile Stalkers is all. I outmaneuvre and outgun them from a medium range erry time.

Knives are good for stealth if you're that sort of fag.

Heard you can kill bloodsuckers with only a knife without taking any damage

Sounds like a dare to me

you can actually but only in water so you can see when they are coming for you
you basically try to evade their swipe then sprint after them keeping on their back and stabbing them repeatedly until they go down
their AI seems to not let them attempt another attack until they get a certain distance away from you after swiping you once so if you stay on them theyll just keep trying to run from you

It's doable if you have very low weight or if you have a ton of stamina artifacts. I'd kill lone bloodsuckers during hobo phase by sprinting after them and staying up their ass and using the knife's secondary attack. As long as you're super close they can't cloak away and if they managa eo pull away just zig zag all over the general area and they won't be able to effectively attack you.

Bear in mind, however, that because of the larger area of combat that results from this you can drag other enemies into it who can gang up on you, and that it probably looks stupid as fuck from an outside perspective. Although this doesn't matter much given it's single player anyways, and the idea of a (probably drunk) lone rookie screaming incoherently and waving around a hunting knife while sprinting after a very confused bloodsucker is pretty entertaining.

Yeah mate that's fuckin amusing as fuck actually hahahaha

I chugged a energy drink and just chased the shitters around. shit I still remember I posted aobut it on one of these threads. Had to fucking kill a chimera with a knife too.

I often wonder this too mate. Out of the many games ive played i cant seem to resist this game. It just seems to be the most comfy game i think there ever was

You remind me of an encounter.

I upgraded the gun as much as I could to celebrate.

No news regarding RoH itself, but team has gotten new members and everyone is in high spirit.

We gonna have so much guns, you gonna swim in them. So we shall see.

Also old news, Klean_Uppguy got sudden stuff to do for Battlestate Games so we are moving the stream up to Sunday.

If everyone had artifacts, then they wouldn't really be artifacts, they'd just be tech upgrades that you could buy at any fucking store. Artifacts are supposed to be anywhere from uncommon to rare.

Artifact isn't just a term used to describe rare and old things you know.

So, guys, I've been playing COC+AO 3.1 ironman for a week now.
One time I died due to pseudogiant kicking my grenade back into my face.
One time I died because of a landmine.
EVERY SINGLE OTHER TIME I DIED TO CHEEKI FUCKING BREEKI.
Seriously, even as a monolith.
I usually play as duty and when I leave Rostok and come to Garbage, I have to fight through like 7 bandits in an open area just to enter the location. I usually try to hide behind train cart and snipe them off, but they either surround me or just headshot me from a distance. Any tips on what to do with that specific place?

I am curious, why hasn't there been a Medieval S.T.A.L.K.E.R. game?

git gud

Bunch of slack jawed faggots around here, the only way to remove mutants is with knife. I bet you cyka blyats magdump on chimeras.

I had some russian co-worker friends many years ago, I wish I had started learning russian when I worked with them. So much easier to learn a language when you have people to practice with.

Yeah, why?

What is this from?

This is my first encounter with one of these. After reloading I ran to him before he could start attacking, but what should I have done here?

WEW

Fun fact, they can only hurt you if they have LoS on you for a few seconds.

Nigga just knife him

I didn't even know what it is, man. So I guess I just shoot at it from behind cover like with everything else.

Haha appropriate pic is appropriate. Good job, Stalker

or do what says a controller's main method of attack requires several seconds of you being in it's line of sight you've no doubt noticed, break it even for a second and he has to refocus again when you pop out

Anyone know where to alter the ALife switch distance on Call of Chernobyl? I can't find an alife.ltx in the main directory for it

_g.script, line 28.

I don't have a _g.script file either, as far as I can tell…

You need to extract your databases.

Ah ok. Thanks for the help!

Do I just drop the modified alife.ltx into the gamedata/cofigs/ folder where it would normally be, afterward?

Yep its need to be in the same place as it was on the gamedata, else the file will be ignored.

It's usually in that folder, but what was throwing me off was the fact that it's usually not visible so I had no way to tell if it would overwrite the other or the path would point to it.

I tested a bit though and I think it's working??

I REALLY WANTED TO LIKE THIS GAME.
i downloaded it. CoS. I do REALLY like the comfy music. .. Start playing the missions, get a decent gun and some armor. – Sadness creeps in.. Everything is fucking linear A to B, pocket zones that don't even really connect, AI is just weird, allies are stupid and suicidal, quests are stupid and so much walking…

I feel for the STALKER is better than FALLOUT meme, but it's bullshit. To be fair, it's AAA vs "B+" but whatever. Would rather play Fo3 (again..)

*bye*

some of the walking is skipped by talking to npcs, for example when you're with the scientists and you go to the anomaly with the squad outside and then you encounter a controller, you can talk to the leader and warp straight back. if you hate walking talk to npcs to haul your ass to locations

Why do fags like this even bother?

Go to bed, Todd

I pity people like this, although such a bad post doesn't deserve it.

I know its bait, but what is CoS?

No game has that title.

I think that is the point

Can someone please post a noob-friendly guide to using the DB extractor? The readme has no info.

Also, I want to start with a simple mod where one task (automatically assigned at the start) is to make 500,000 rubles. How would I go about this?

Idk I'm a super noob with dealing with the db extraction and the only one I've been able to make work for me is CoC_CoP_Db_Converter

Grenades, or really anything that hits really hard.

After being so overpowered from my gear for so long, it felt really damn good to have to battle my way through an entrenched Monolith battalion in Subsistence Mode, creeping from body to body using the first dead man's gun to kill the second, the second's gun to kill the third, and so on.

Drop what the fuck you're doing and go do it.

I'm taking 300 rounds of 5.56 for my HK M416, 100 rounds of buckshot for whatever shotgun I wind up picking up, and another 150 rounds of .45 for my P220. Load for bear, my man.

I like to travel light, so I can take everything remotely interesting or useful that I find back with my at the end of a given hike or mission. I just can't stand the idea of some fucking Freedom commie strolling in and finding something useful because it couldn't fit in my rucksack.
I typically bring 100 rifle bullets - enough for 100 kills assuming nothing but headshots, and as much pistol ammo as I can carry that doesn't bring me above 30% capacity. I also only fight mutants with knives, because only humans are worth bullets.
My mistake was less that I don't prepare properly, and more that I neglected to do my standard preparation before impulsively strolling into the brain scorcher simply because I happened to be nearby.
I used about 13 first aids and ate a few dozen bandages, but I made it out. About 2/3 of the way, I popped a fucker with a revolving grenade launcher. He had 12 grenades on him, so I just stopped sneaking and checked every room by filling it with dying before entering. It worked out great, actually.

I just wish the rest of the game was like this. I wish that when I wandered into the commieblock buildings around Jupiter, 30-40 Monolith would just line up in the windows and pour out of the doorways to come hunt me. I wish large platoons of troops would sweep the zone hunting me in general. One-on-one battles, or even one-vs-squad, has become so easy that it's humdrum and routine. I remember a great mod for CoP called SMRTR STALKER or something like that, and it added some absolutely absurd monolith spawns and patrols and was really fun.
I may try that faction warfare CoC mod and see if that does the trick, though I don't care for the idea of commanding troops or capturing points or any of that micromanagement nonsense. I just want to take out an entire army single-handed and then pick through the carcases on the ankle-deep bloodmarsh of victory.

Every time I try, I just get bored and stop again. I don't know why.
I love the beginning, and I love that first lab in agroprom that ends with the controller ambushing you at the end, but the gameplay mechanics in that game are so archaic compared to CoP. I guess I could mod it up and all that, but with CoC, I have all three games basically put together, so it's probably fine this way.

I played through SoC a couple years ago and really liked it, but then I went to play the other two and even with patches they ran like absolute dogshit and I couldn't stomach it. I have a better rig now, so what patches/mods do you stalkers suggest?

CoP runs fine vanilla. if you're fine with ~88 fov, otherwise you have to get a fov switcher, I hear scopes break if you change fov but I haven't bothered using it

Assuming both are on the latest official patch Clear Sky needs SRP. CoP will be fine vanilla but you might want a mini-mod to get back the Russian VA then again the English voice acting should be experienced at least once. If you're picky maybe also through on a grapics mod but that's up to you.

What did I do to piss the zone off?

Piston gets me every fucking time.

Pic related.

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But that's a burer

I am wondering is there even a mod for any of those S.T.A.L.K.E.R. series which lets you go to the main land of Ukraine? As in outside of the zone, this is something I have never seen before in a mod.

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For what purpose?
There's no mutants out there. No anomalies. No mercenaries or monolith or bandits.
Do you want a mod that lets you go home and fuck your wife, or what?

By spreading the zone influence further with artifacts of course. No really I am just curios how they are doing it that is if there is such mod. Like maybe some sort of a arms smuggling mission where the player has to bring in weapons only available outside in the blackmarket or trading for artifacts for some special items I guess.
But user a black man has already my wife since cuckoldry is the new intellectual fetish :^)

I do like this idea, since the arms trade is the backbone of the zone

So we are gonna have our little streaming session tomorrow, if you wan't to talk with us devs and have some questions you can ask them live. Sadly we are not gonna show of RoH at this time, yeah I know "what is the point then?" pretty much just to talk with mod followers about RoH itself and have some good time together. Don't worry, coders are coding and people are working while we do this.

"Sunday 28.5 is our new Stream day, time the stream starts is 9am PST/ 12am EST,
UTC/Moscow 20:00 CET 18:00"
twitch.tv/klean_uppguy

Why is that shit so deadly?

That's actually the post nerf version. The SoC knife could one shot anything, including a solid brick wall and an APC.

When you put it like that, it could actually be a pretty neat idea

You might want to make a new thread for this closer to the actual time the stream starts (1-2 hours before).

What's the source on the movie?

No idea

I think it enhances the experience really.

Streaming some CoC Iron/azazel if anyone is interested

twitch.tv/dustinthedestroyer

What do you mean by meme vodka? Like Ciroc and Skyy, shit that's more branding then heritage?

Also what fucking bodunk back water berg place do you live you can't get Stoli or Finlandia?

Is Cold fucking with me?
I still haven't found a fucking basic tool kit either, but I have 2 of the second tier and 3 of the last.

Yes.

Missouri.

To be fair I could have driven an extra ~15 miles to an actually liquor store and not the redneck gas station / beer stop I went to, but I was tired and wanted to be drunk.

Welp, that was fun

Ya the shit keeps crashing on load screens an shit. Sorry mate. Trying to iron it out

Just now:

I didn't think it'd go down like this

Heh, no problem. Though I don't why you won't use ad block.

ow

Lel ya the beretta did better

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Alright boys. Looks like the Chicago ingest server for twitch is just a piece of garbo. Stream is stable now if anyone is still intereested.

twitch.tv/dustinthedestroyer

Disregard. It works for twenty minutes and then stops. Fuck. I'll stop shitposting about it tonight.

Sounds good, we could hold a little bit Q&A there too.

here's an unfunny meem i made recently because i absolutely HAVE to carry 6 AKs, 15 medkits and 1600 rounds of pistol ammo.

Good mod but anyone that says its hard is a fucking scrub. Hell vanilla STALKER is more difficult based solely on how enemies are all sponges and most of the guns suck.

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That's Bespredel, a soviet movie about prison. It became a meme on russian imageboards a few years ago.

This must be a monolith trick.

>the same thing happens two more times

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Is this motherfucker worth buying? I haven't checked the steam price yet (yes, I'm still among the motherfuckers who pays for games). Really fuck desperate for a good, complicated game I can get lost in. Is S.T.A.L.K.E.R. it or not who I'm looking for?

Don't do that. The money doesn't go to the original devs, but rather to the jewing cunt that fucked it all up. Just pirate the GoG version, it should have all the patches.
But it's certainly a game worth playing, just remember to stick to vanilla SoC for the first playthrough.

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thanks, will look into it….also, is there a central website to keep track fall this shit? emulators, which Devs. have been fucking over by the hebes and should be getting shekels, etc..

I'm sure there must be, I'm sure I fucking knew it at one time and used it. Fucking you get a job and get married and 2o3 years go by and the entire net is a different fucking place..

AMK + AA was harder because the mutant spawns were batshit, I entered the agroprom area for the first time to find a pseudogiant stomping a military patrol. Multiple firefights ended due to a pack of wild dogs mauling my opponent. Burers and controllers wandered the open plains freely until they were inevitably eaten by dogs. It was quite an experience and very pretty.

Duty and Bandits have formed an alliance in mine, as well as Duty turning against Loners.

RIP in piece barman

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Rostok is total insanity in warfare mode.
I've also found that I can't get companions to fuck off with the mod active. When I tell them that it's time to part ways, they just keep following me forever. The only recourse is to leave them "guarding this area" forever, so now there's random guards posted up all over the zone.

If Duty and Freedom form an alliance, I'm out.

I know this is an unusual request does anyone have full resolution pic of pic related

In related posting what is best mod for faction wars, vanilla gets boring sometimes

There is a cease-fire between them at the moment. Bandit's started out that way too, then it became an alliance. So we'll see.

largest one I have

Wonder if he's already joined up with Freedom now

kek'd and check'd

Anyone have a good quality rip of Live to Forget?

You are good user, you know this?

Monolith tells good jokes.

Hey guys, Doko here from RoH.
We did our stream today, and some information changed on old info regarding Co-Op and server hosting.

No, no coop And you wont be able to host servers…

Im going to bed, read full stuff on ModDB and FB if in need.

fuck.

Dropped.
Thanks for the notice anyways.

Who gives a fuck then?

game is doa

What's the point then?

Alright boys. Streaming CoC Iron/Azazel again tonight. Turns out I had to lower my bitrate so that hiccups wouldn't disconnect me from twitch. If someone could let me know if it's watchable or not at this quality, that would be great.

twitch.tv/dustinthedestroyer

cant see shit captain

Everytime.
Every goddamn time, and if I'm friendly/neutral with freedom then I'm sent to Rostok which is actually easier, because there are a lot more places to take cover. It's like the merchants/leaders just see a rookie looking for a job and decide they'd rather have him band his head against a wall in hopes that it'll leave a dent before he gets himself killed, just so they don't have to pay the reward.

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That's no good, I don't like the implications of this. The servers aren't gonna be enough for the people who want to play and I shudder to think of the monetisation.

Thanks for the update either way.

Hopefully will have the brightness issue fixed for the next one. I have the brightness and gamma ingame cranked, but I think downres-ing the stream makes it dark.

ROH
TAZ 2.0
Misery 2.2

Honestly RoH is starting to sound like DayZ STALKER Edition, which is just the world's slowest deathmatch, which doesn't make sense considering there's already a faster dm mode built into the base games.

Yeah, the only multiplayer stalker needs is co-op, everything else is a wasted effort.

>install coc what the fuck it's a standalone
what the hell

Really descriptive bug report there bud. Did you patch to 1.4.22?

oh wait nvm i found the fix
i have to patch it to 1.4.22

This. And this

Is the no-coop/no hosting because of technical reasons or jewish reasons?

So which adress do I mail 30 liters of liquid cow shit?
Fucking hell might as well play shit like dayZ in that case.

Cant play this game without shitting a nugget.
how do I un-pussy myself and fight the eldritch monsters.
also.
What mods/patches should I install for a better or intense experience?
also
pirate link?

check share thread

oh yeah I forgot about those.

There's no conceivable technical justification for that sort of decision, it is entirely Judaism

pls gib movie

Oh boy I hope the fucking controller doesn't respawn

Still no custom servers in ROH? I am not holding my breath - if I can't stalk in limited coop with a couple of close buddies, then I won't even bother.

Escape from dumpster 2.0

Found some weird shit on youtube while browsing stalker videos. Anyone have any info on this?

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so the guy on /games/ suggested a run where I don't swap out of my leather jacket nor do I sawp out my starting gun (in this case a AK74U) untill I do two objectives, one of them I've done (Wipe out the bandit base in the dark valley) and the other to get to the wish granter. The only problem is I know the area around the wish granter is highly irradiated so I dunno if I can do this in just a leather jacket even with upgrades and a gas mask.

It's a fan mod using Cryengine 3, which probably definitely means never ever status confirmed.
moddb.com/mods/noises-of-the-zone

Streaming CoC Iron/Azazel again tonight! Got the brightness issue fixed as well!! Got a new webcam today so I'm trying out the ol facecam, but let me know if it's a dealbreaker in a stream. Idk what people prefer.

twitch.tv/dustinthedestroyer

My mom doesn't understand what it's like in the zone.
What do, bros?

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Just shoot the thing it'll take just a couple of mags if you hit it

If your lucky the AI will shoot at it too, itll go down in a sec if they do.

There went the economy of this run. Fucking hell.

Oh, so it's the LURK run?
I wish I could find the old LURK comic about this bug.

Need an answer to this because I think I may legitimately be unable to proceed

In CoC or in SoC? In CoC you could just stock up on anti-rads and radioprotectant and tank your way through it. Upgrade the gas mask and leather jacket to max also. If you can get some artefact slots fill them with anti-radiation artefacts.

Oh well, here I go.

If you never played it how can you give it another chance?

Sorry, I meant never played it for real. Maybe played for an hour or so.

That being said - what should I start with? Any essential bug fix mods? SoC or CoP?

CoC been recording the entire thing so far and when it's done, fail or pass I'll edit it all together, splice out the crashes and load zones and put it on jewtube as one big "movie"

I have the Sphere M12 helmet. but I can't find expert tools to save my ass.

SoC with Zone Reclamation Project for bugfixes. Maybe get some kind of weapon model/animations overhaul mod (avoid anything that alters weapon balance) and Absolute Texture mods for SoC. Also STALKER Shaders MAX can be a good addition. Basically, focus on bugfixes and graphics, not gameplay alterations.

Fair enough.
Start with SoC, ensure it's at patch 1.0005/1.0006 and then grab ZRP. Optionally stick a graphics mod on too but I don't think that's necessary.

Sounds like fun.
Do quests and you'll get one eventually. I also find the Swamps reliably give me tools. You can also spam quickload at traders to reset their inventories, sometimes they carry tools.

yeah I lucked out with the duty trader at rostok and got beginner and advanced tools in his inventory in one go. I've found expert tools in the past but this time not really.

When it's don I'll post it on /games/ and link that thread here. The guy who gave me the challenge wasn't clear on side arms so I've been straight using the AK74U only

When I increase my FoV past the default, it causes major first person clipping with the gun models. (The hollow shoulders/arms of the character become visible and it looks niggerish)

Is there any way to do any fix or adjustment for this?

FOV slider affects your vision cone.
HUD FOV slider affects the scale of your HUD elements including your gun and arm models.
Set HUD FOV to about 20-25.

I'm using Misery with a few personal tweaks. There is no "fov_hud" or "hud_fov" console command. Is there any other method?

moddb.com/mods/ray-of-hope-multiplayer/news/streaming-session-finished-changes-in-coop-statement

Why can't we have nice things?

Also get more-anti rad drugs. I do this all the time because why the hell does the premier trader in the zone only have 2 pills? If they were rarer he'd charge more.

I will absolutely watch this, please link when you're finished.

Because some faggots like money more than they like videogames.

Because jews.

Also, I am still looking for some suggestions on this.

Even without reading any kind of excuses, I know what they will be:

>best for all the goyim our valuable customers

And other such excuses. Nothing that actually matters, of course, which is microtranscations.

Monolith. I like the flavor of cultist that entrench themselves in the nastiest, most hostile pit in the zone, waving their magic rock around to draw people in, and fuck anyone that tries to get close.

I just wish they weren't so boring and easy. Barely anyone has anything to say or do, and all you have to do is wait for a comrade to get mulched by a psuedogiant or something else ridiculous and suddenly you have ludicrously powerful equipment. They pretty much skip the hobo phase entirely which kinda sucks the fun out of it. Also having to travel back to pripyat every time you want to sell something becomes a royal pain in the ass. At least the everyday monolith members carry around huge wads of cash, especially compared to your average cheeki breeki or loner who tend to be broke as a joke.

The only one I have despised so far with that mod setup has been Banditos. It was funny for the first couple of hours, but the novelty wore off quickly when I tried to return to bandit territory with a truckload of shit to sell. Every single fucking time I got close to a group of them they'd get smeared by whatever other faction was nearby. This must have happened five or six times as I made my way from one side of the zone to the other. The niggers are totally incapable of holding their own for more than a few minutes at a time. It's not like it's even a real challenge faction, it's more like a faction of alcoholic babies and you're their babysitter.

Well, you don't become a criminal because you're highly skilled and possess valuable skills, so it's pretty realistic that they're the most laughably useless faction.

But even loners and ecologists even wipe the floor with them. Nothing's worse than getting beaten up by the class nerd or that weird kid that sits by himself at lunch.

What a faggot. Deserved to die with the rest of the reds.

To be fair I like this to an extent only because this prevents what happened with dayz when it was an Arma II mod where people would host servers, keep them locked long enough so they could get the best gear unopposed as well as vehicles. Make a camp off map and then once they were set up open the server.

My only main concern here is also inventory synching which Dayz still has an issue with.

I'm of the opinion that you should be able to do whatever you want with your own server and that if the host does shit you don't like just go to a different one.
No Co-op or server tools just means I've lost all interest in the game. Maybe a few years from now someone will make a Co-op mod for CoC or some dedicated STALKER makes some unofficial server tools for RoH.

This tbh.
I guess he deserves respect for being courageous enough to be a soldier but he's still a faggot.

Do you have anything to say about the fact that nobody is interested in Ray of Nope anymore?

Right so started editing the footage. Issue I found was I never properly split my discord audio from the game so it gets picked up. Though so far out of pure chance there's a segment where the discord audio preludes a situation unintentionally. The good news is my voice never surfaces because I keep the mic recording off in OBS.

In other news the footage I have even editing out all the loading, the crashes (I had several in X-16 due to the zombified stalkers by that one propane cylinder) is about 2 hours plus. I dunno if jewtube will take it and if push comes to shove I'll edit it further into halves or quarters

What will happen at the end? find out when it gets posted on the /games/ STALKER thread

moddb.com/mods/ray-of-hope-multiplayer/news/new-statement-and-information-package

Bit of an update on Co-op and server hosting:
So it's a maybe now? I'm starting to lose hope in this dev team if they can't just make up their minds on things and give us an answer, this should be a simple yes or no question but it's almost like they are trying to dance around it so they don't have to give a definitive answer yet.

In other words, never ever.

They are realizing that their last statement killed interest in Ray of Hope and now they are throwing out a "maybe" to try to salvage their image.

How would Co-op mode in RoH work out anyway? All players are joining the same faction and can't change it at all?

Трудно быть богом ("hard to be a god", I think. Movie adaptation of another book from the same authors as "roadside picknick" better known as Stalker)

The trader's of the Zone really put a lot of faith into a guy that was barely alive and only woke up a few days ago.

I've always wondered how it is Sirodovich didn't recognise who Strelok was immediately. Perhaps he did and just didn't tell you which might explain why he gives you such difficult jobs.

You would host a server and play with your buddies. Are you coming to terms with RoH being shit and you're at stage 3, bargaining of dealing with grief?

I am personally very worried about them hosting these large servers and selling skins and shit without giving the players the possibility to host their own servers. It is going to turn into the next shoot on sight Dayz clone in no time.

I can only hope it is not going to be shit when it is released and when those guys are settling that their server will be central only as in only they have the servers then it is shit, since I don't have much interest with such games playing with random players I prefer playing with friends only. With that being said I am not having any high hopes with the overall development of RoH.

Sweet, thanks for the heads-up.

Is the capture the monolith soldier in Call of Chernobyl DoctorX quest mod a ruse? I wounded that nigger several times with a silenced pistol at his leg all the time yet he never surrendered but instead gets up and I have to shoot him in the leg again, I have done that for about 5-6 ingame hours I am getting tired of this shit.

I tried searching for some hints at Jewtube and at the moddb forum; moddb.com/mods/call-of-chernobyl/forum/thread/how-do-you-make-npcs-surrender I couldn't find any relevant answer to this at all.

They could still run an official server and release the tools to make your own, there's no conflict there.

Loners are Nietzschean as fuck and get swole on self-reliance and zero fucks.
Ecologists hire muscle because they're all scrawny Egon-looking motherfuckers hiding in their bunkers.

i would use the console to turn off the head bob. That alone inkproves the game immensely.

footage is compiled and edited and uploading now.

whose ready for 5 and a half hours of stalkan

Damn, I am ready.

You might need to get some achievement before people start surrendering. I never noticed anyone surrender until I got the achievement, I just don't know how I got that achievement either. I think it was just a "kill dudes" until you get it

well fuck looks like it's time for MORE WAITING

The "Silver or Lead" achievement? I have that but the description only says that there is a increased chance for a 2nd stash upon interrogation, it doesn't mention increased surrendering chance at all, and I hardly see the NPC surrendering when they got wounded several times instead they feign it and thus stand up and fight again after a short while or so.

>>>/games/963
Not the movie I promised, which I had to cut into 1 hour chunks. But an earlier attempt

Post mods for CoC.
Currently I'm running AO and Outfit Addon. Last time I played I used DocX's Dynamic Faction Relations but everyone ended up being buddies with each other so I dumped it.

Luksusowa is of potato
my personal favorite

Shit I forgot I was posting in this thread.

Anyway. After I strained the junk out of the vodka I thought that the Chopin was pretty fine. It had kind of a complex taste, like ethanol but with something else just on the edge of perception. Not bad in any way.

Do you dare?

I don't think he deserves respect for it at all, he just seemed to want to kill people after experiencing it in videogames.

The reason "no coop" statement was posted in the first place, because in stream one of our Russian dev said "it will not happen". When I asked about that. After some hours I shared the news with community, just to find out that old statement "coop and server hosting after release" was "maybe" all along instead 100% certain thing to happen. Got it straight from the founder of RoH instead of middleman.
It's just clusterfuck sometimes with the language barrier. with 25 Russians on the team where only 2 speak English can be a pain. I also noticed the habit of people misunderstanding what RoH actually is so I made a little information dump with the new "maybe, not our priority"

Please feel free to share your thought about all of this, I will always share what western community thinks for Russian devs.

Of course the first server will be stationed on Russia, second EU, Then we move out to the rest of the world. You can imagine that this won't be cheap. But if suddenly we get a spike of hundreds of thousands stalkers wanting to play you can be sure GSC takes notice and is gonna have another nice cup of vodka with us.

Join same server, meet up in safe zone. Squad up.

Just posting this as reference from ModDB

Madhut: So still no proper explanation why giving server tools to the community is too complex? What licensing issues? How would creating/releasing server tools ruin your chances of becoming game developers? You guys wouldn't need money for a server machine if you allowed people to host their own servers. I understand its your mod, and you're doing it for free (although you're asking for money), but just be honest and stop making bull shit excuses.

0ktober:
They have no rights for STALKER franchise, so there is only so much they can do. Modding, on the other hand, is free. Besides the online code is probably on it's first stages, so there is no point (yet) to release anything to give players / fans / modders to work with, since the code can change. If and when the code and the game are taking the final steps with the release, I'm pretty sure they'll have a better chance to give the tools to the modders. You can't foresee things like these. GSC Game Studios would kill them, if these guys begged dev money from the fans.

Besides, they'll need the server nonetheless if they are planning to do region server hosting. Playing with your own dedicaded / Hamachi co-op servers isn't the top priority here. Since this whole "We thought this was SoC singleplayer co-op" false rumor drama got out of hand, people need to focus on what's relevant here. Ditching the server funding thing would destroy the ultimate goal the main developer had in mind.

D R O P P E D
when will i learn…

All intrest is gone now. Thanks for ruining this too russians, enjoy selling those skins fuckers.

This is going to end up being the next DayZ deathmatch where russians and brazilians shoot everyone on sight and you know it too.

I did.

The dev team or founder or whoever seems to not understand what people mean when asking for co-op, we just want the option to play with some buddies and only them, doesn't need a story or major objective, the game would be pretty much the same. but maybe using "co-op" is the wrong word.
How does this effects whether or not we can host our own servers? Do you need to ask GSC if players can do so or something? That doesn't make a whole lot of sense since CS and CoP had multiplayer with the option to host your own server and GSC has always been ok with players doing almost whatever with the STALKER games as long as you don't try to make a profit of of them.
What better way to stress and bug test the code then to allow people to host their own servers, giving people more freedom to break things will always be better then a controlled environment, sure maybe in the beta and alpha versions there is no point but once the game is officially "released" it should come with server hosting and modding tools, give the server tools the ability to auto download server updates and have a little disclaimer with each new update that mods will most likely be broken and you'd be set.
Why do people seem to think that player made and official servers can't coexist? the Project Reality devs seem to have this same problem. Some people enjoy playing with randoms and others would rather play with buddies, just because player made servers exist doesn't mean nobody will use the official ones if it's a problem of quality control or whaterver then just make it so that player made serves don't show up in the masterlist at first, average players with just use official servers and smaller groups who want a private server can just share the ip.
I grantee most thought this was going to be Call of Chernobyl with multiplayer or at least something similar. Nobody really wants SoC or CoP with multiplayer we want the Zone with multiplayer, an open world version of stalker where you can explore the zone with a group of buddies hunting mutants and getting into fraction wars, but with news of server tools going from "yes" to "no" and now a "maybe" some of us are a little more then disappointed.
Whats relevant is that the biggest deciding factor on whether or not I'm gonna give a single shit about this game when from a "yes" to a "maybe, it's not a top priority" There is more then enough Survival FPS MMOs with some PvE, I'm not going to waste my time on another one that is grantee to turn into a kill on sight deathmatch that happens to have some NPCs you can shoot but nobody gives a shit about because PvP is the only thing normalfags and shitters seem to care about in multiplayer games.
They don't have to "ditch" anything, the game doesn't suddenly become a completely different game and official servers became impossible because people can host their own servers.
This is even a bigger reason why server tools should be released, how long you think it'll be for the US or hell ever the EU server up and running? That's not going to be done in a few months and I'd be surprised to see it done a few years after the Russian one, most people are going to ether try and play on the Russian server or just not ever bother and lose interest.
Get attacked by every other player, eventually die since you'll have more players trying to kill you then monsters or NPCs, rinse and repeat.

I played DayZ back when it had about 5-10 servers in total. This is way, way before there were any privately hosted servers. Guess what happened, they were almost always completely filled with players. Of course, there were other issues, like the fact that player data was stored on a common hive, which meant people would server hop all the time to avoid ambushes or do looting runs at the airport.

My point being, this was a bad way to handle servers for that mod, and it will be bad for this one. For many many months, the demand for server slots will be far higher than the supply, so everything will be full. Plus, no ability to control player population (outside of manual moderation by the RoH staff) will mean griefers, cheaters and other wonders of a popular online game with low security features (I refuse to believe they will be able to patch up security holes).

Everyone pretend you didn't see this.

Don't remind me, I remember my gear not loading and having to start over a few times among other problems. I've been thinking of starting my own DayZ server with some addons that add stuff like AI fractions and less retarded zombies but Real Virtuality 3 makes X-Ray look like a elegant young lady.
remember that bug that made you lose anything on your back if you entered water

Anyways I agree, a single server per region isn't going to be enough and I'm skeptical about any kind of "anti-cheat" they add to the game doing anything. Until they release server tools I'm not going to give a shit.

I've experienced pretty much every bug early DayZ had - humanity reset, swim backpack bug, untreatable bleeding, all that other shit.

Was part of the group that hunted down Criken when he streamed DayZ.

I like that explanation. Very merchant.

This.
Especially this. This is just what I assumed when I heard STALKER MP. Why would it be anything else? The possibility that it would be a DayZ clone or MMOFPS didn't occur to me. Why would it?

STALKER is all about atmosphere. Being forced to deal with griefers, mic-spammers, kids etc is going to kill that atmosphere dead.

I just want to face the Zone I know and have modded to my personal tastes with 1-3 IRL buddies. I am certain that 99% of STALKER players want exactly the same thing. That is why everyone assumed RoH would be STALKER coop. This is why people are so disappointed.

Well there's goes my last ray of hope

That was my impression. Why should it be anything else? Who the fuck wants DayZ: Zone Edition?

This so much. I just wanted to get comfy and remove bandits with bros.

>>>/games/1082
So first part of the story of Anatoly Fadeev is up.

Check the post linked.

So it's just a Dayz with the zone as the setting?

good luck, devs. Your game is going to be dead just like DayZ in a few months after release. A lot of effort gone to waste, I think.

never played stalger. is it worth downloading? i may give it a try

fuck off faggot. Also yes it is, play the original with no mods.

Update about the stalker vid:
Silly me for assuming sony vegas would render things it was told to. Went to upload 2 and 3. 2 uploaded, we lost power over here while 3 was going up. Put in all the info for part 2, didn't pay any mind about the fact all preview thumbnails were black screen. figured bad luck with generation. Go to watch it and turns out both part 2 and 3 were rendered wrong and are just 2 1/2 hours of nothing.

Gotta rerender 2 and 3, thankfully saved their project files. but it'll take longer to up Anatoly's story

vanilla cop is fine, although i heard soc is better vanilla

leagues better in terms of atmosphere. CoP has a bit more polish to it. But SoC feels more alive

Short answer: yes, give it a try. A slightly longer answer: start with SoC, with ZRP and some graphical mods. Do not give up in the early game despite the shitty gunplay, at least get to Agroprom and get an AK74.

Post cheeki music.

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>Call of Chernobyl
>Get rid of a few monolith niggers for good.
>Go to the wish granter
>Choose for zone disappearance
>game crashes
I wonder if this is actually a bug or just a ebin ruse.

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>>>/games/1115

Finally and part 3 will be up later today

It's almost as though that commenter were suggesting that user-hosted servers being present would mean that there'd be no need for "official" servers whatsoever.

Just like I predicted here

Does any of these fix the bullet sponge enemies? I just ambushed a military thug from behind and gave him a shotgun blast to the back of the head at point blank range and he didn't even flinch before he turned around and filled my guts with lead. I'd like to know if there's a fix for stealth too.

I am still looking for a way to adjust hud_fov in Misery mod. Please, fellow stalkers, I cannot take all of this camera clipping…

What difficulty are you playing on?
If it's anything less than Master, you're wasting your time. For any anons that don't already know, the difficulty levels increase damage across the board so dudes die quickly, but you die quickly too.

Also military tend to wear oddly beefy armor so he may have just eaten it.

A common misconception. Having dug around game files, it has been determined that player damage drops with higher difficulty, making enemies tankier.

Master.

Oh, I see now. What do you recommend then?

I'm pretty sure the system you describe is only in SoC. They changed it in later installments.
One thing I've noticed is that rank seems to give bonuses to enemies. Higher ranked military take a lot more damage than the grunts, and often times master stalkers are incredibly beefy even when they're not in an exosuit. I haven't checked the game files though so maybe it's just me.

Not this shit again. What a shitstorm of claims and implications this whole ordeal has been.

aim for the head

Nope, I'm playing SoC. And nope, it was just a grunt.

It's weapon damage that matters and that changes with difficulty.
pastebin.com/08yNF3PH
Right around line 120

Irrelevant. The damage scales across the board.

Fun fact: in SoC, the weapon hit_power stat is inverted in the weapon .ltx files. In all other cases, configs for different difficulties go "Novice, Stalker, Veteran, Master", but in weapon configs, it is "Master, Veteran, Stalker, Novice". This is very, very easy to test - either use any mod weapon files and edit those, or extract vanilla weapon files with a data unpacker. Set the first value in a hit_power line to like 20, and the last to 0. Then try using the weapon ingame and switching difficulties on the fly. The 20 will apply to Master, the 0 will apply to Novice.

On second pass things are looking weirder.
I think the answer has moved to "kinda."
The guy that made Zone Reclamation project tested it a bunch and that was his conclusion anyways.

The finale to Fadeev's story is processing. For those who took a peek at it Glad you liked it, again I'll be linking the STALKER thread on /games/

>>>/games/1130

The finale is here.

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Scaling damage across difficulties is nice, but I want a real solution to my problem. No matter how good your armor is, a shotgun blast to the back of the head at point blank range should kill you stone cold dead.

Ah, should've specified that I've only seen the rank bonuses on CoC. It's been ages since I last played SoC.

Couldn't you go into the game files and change the damage values yourself? As I remember it was fairly easy to edit shit, notepad was all you needed.
Also, you said you were using a shotgun. Shotguns are pretty bad against stalkers in my experience unless you're using slugs. They do tend to stagger them a lot more often than rifles. If you're up against military I suggest switching to a rifle with AP ammo.

Weapon balance mods are the only solution. Depending on what mod/modpack you play with, there are probably different mods you can install, but I am not sure which.

will do

What are the language options? I want the full gopnik experience but I also want to read the UI.

Just take English

the torrent version i use has russian and english

Everyone speaks in snownigger regardless of what language option you select. The only exceptions are some advertisements running over the intercom in Rostok for Duty recruitment and the bar, and a couple of lines scattered here and there from various NPCs, usually merchants beckoning you.

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is there a mod or configuration that edits the mouse sensitivity to not be fucked around by what weapon you're using?

That's the "handling" stat on weapons. It's annoying but it's by design, so upgrade handling on whatever weapon you're thinking about. Otherwise you'll have to edit their file yourself, which will be easier if you have a weapon mod since it overwrite the defaults.

where the hell is the exoskeleton in coc?

Faction specific traders should sell those, I don't really know about loner traders but Nimble should always have some exo skeleton for buying, though I always played with the Outfit addon so it might be a bit different for vanilla CoC.

There's a Ukrainian mod on modDB.

Nimble will have one regardless of mod (note he sells them in CoP), but he'll charge much more than other traders.

i cant find that damn docs hideout

Im told that CoM comes with faction relation pluggins installed but im seeing any of the stuff happening that people say the plug in does. Is this because Im playing as Ecologists and not pissing people off or because it just doesnt come with it?

Nimble dont have shit in CoM mane. Why?

Because the whole mod is based around eternal scarcity AKA no fun allowed.

Thought I'd share a story from my Call of Misery playthrough:

there is a team working on an online version
twitter.com/roh_multiplayer

If this post is a joke, it's not fucking funny. If it's not, have you read the thread?

yes! look at this we have detectors now

It's based around eternal scarcity for the player. Enemies still have infinite ammo and no need for food.

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After it was all over Rostok had more carcasses littering the ground than empty space. It made Jonestown look smalltime.

I don't know what it is when I play Stalker. Every time I do no matter how many times I've played either one of the games, I lose the track of time while doing even the most mundane stuff in it. When I look at my clock, six hours have somehow gone by without any notice.

I'm going to try it but inevitably it's going to go to shit, be it through dev's greed or children flooding it because shitty sites like slowtaku shilling it or some equally shitty youtuber doing so.

you look sad.. here friend, have a tasty sausage to lighten up your gloomy mood.

I'm new to this series and i watched this video youtu.be/LzB1MY8tpHw

Should i get COP or SOC?

Both.
Start with SoC, then play CoP. Clear Sky is okay, but lots of people skip it.

Also that video commentator is retarded. The games are perfectly playable vanilla. For first playthroughs you might want to pick up some bugfix mods, but worry about modding it after you play through it once.

How come? I thought CoP had CoC basically merging all three games together or something like that

It's not a perfect game merger, more of a map merger. They added some things back in from SoC, but content-wise it's rather anemic. The "storymode" it has is really ad-hoc and awkward. It's loosely SoC's story, but with some extra shit from CoP added and no real guidance throughout the whole thing. It's just "Go investigate a bunch of labs" without any real reason to do so. If I hadn't already played through the games vanilla I would have no idea what the hell was going on.

Also the pacing in CoC is fucked. You're not going to get the true STALKAN experience using it. CoC is more like a big stalker sandbox than a game merger.

Well if i DO get SoC over CoP what mods do you recomend?

You could always get both. Pirate them since the developer is effectively dead and nobody cares.

Otherwise as anons said above >>12691566 >>12673700 either play it vanilla or play it with Zone Reclamation Project.

I installed DoctorX's questlines, but the second I turned off the machine in Radar, I lost all interest. I keep doing different challenges to stave off the boredom. My "human pacifist" run was at least interesting though (Can't kill any people and can only use a knife on mutants)

I haven't player Stalker in ages, so effectively noob poasting. Prob going to replay with some mod recommendations from this thread.

Most annoying issue I remember - reload a save, all hostile NPCs in the area now know your location and start moving towards you, even if they had not yet detected you when you saved. What fixes this?

i accidentally mistook the load and safe button once. i advice everyone to reprogram the load and save button before playing the game.

Hey, I'm new to the series. I just installed Call of Pripyat and downloaded the mod Misery. Is this the right way to go, or should I download other mods for my first playthrough? What mods are best in your guys' opinion?