S.T.A.L.K.E.R.: Been to the Zone Lately?

vintar said:
I'm interested to know how many people have heard of the mod "lost alpha" for shadow of chernobyl.
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I guess in our case, in South Africa it's not that well known. When I stumbled upon Priboi story about 2 years ago I found the mod and I've been following it ever since.
 
Well here is a short bio of it :

Have you ever dreamt about playing the old, forgotten S.T.A.L.K.E.R. ?

We were amazed by GSC's work when they released the first S.T.A.L.K.E.R. screenshots in 2002. The old design, and atmosphere was stunning and we couldn't believe in our eyes. Later in 2005 things has changed. They redesigned almost all old levels. Some of them became smaller, simpler (still nice, but different), and some levels were removed. After the release in 2007 we played the game a lot, and quickly noticed that some areas are missing. We opened forums, and talked countless nights about those for almost a year. Nowdays we could say, we have a full vision about GSC's old levels, due to the collected materials, videos and forgotten screenshots. We decided to remake those stunning areas, maybe they won't be the same, but we will try everything to make them look really nice, as we always wanted to see them. In early 2009, GSC released a build from 2004, which contained many old materials. We used some of the sdk objects for the level remakes, but adjusted (and bugfixed) them for our liking, also we didn't throw out our own levels. So expect to see our own Darkscape, Dead City, Rostok Factory and some more in Lost Alpha :)

Also need to say, Lost Alpha addon is not just about levels and levels. We will try to make a somewhat, but not fully restricted alife, and deliver a lot of new, never seen features, among with some old ones, which many people wanted to see for a long time.

26 levels in total, and bear in mind that agroprom and agro underground are now one level as is stancia 1 and 2, so its huge! Epxpect big things to happen with this mod. In Eastern Europe and russia, the kids would kill to get a copy of this build :)

This is not a mod anymore but essentially a new game so watch this space....
 
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Man, I've been hearing great things about Stalker for ages, and I managed to pick up Shadow of Chernobyl and Call of Pripyat off a Steam special yesterday (both games for $9! It's still on! GOGOGO!) and I'm almost wetting myself with excitement \:D/

Are there any bugfixes/mods you guys would consider 'essential'?
 
TydVirTaal try googling this, it depends on how you want to play the game though.

First if you just want to play vanilla game, then download the ZRP mod. After instaaling all the patches up to 1.0004. (If it's on steam you'll have up to version 1.0006 I believe. It's not a problem though.

Or you can try playing with the S.t.a.l.k.e.r COMPLETE 2012 mod. It's one of the best, which updates the graphics but still keeps the game's original storyline.

If you're looking for a change after that then try out Priboi story, it's a new story with new guns and other features and it'll keep you busy till Lost Alpha comes out which is the biggest mod ever. I'm sure Vintar would love to share more info on it with you. For now here are links to the articles mentioned above:

1. ZRP: http://www.metacognix.com/files/stlkrsoc/index.html
2. S.t.a.l.k.e.r COMPLETE: http://www.moddb.com/mods/stalker-complete-2009
3. Priboi story: http://www.moddb.com/mods/priboi-story

And then there's Lost Alpha that's still in development: http://www.moddb.com/mods/lost-alpha
 
Holy crap i want that stalker jersey from the top image, the one made from ribbed wool/nylon with the hood and thumb holes. It looks so cooooool!
 
Didnt want to start a new thread so i just thought i would post here again and say that progress on Lost Alpha is going well and we expect to release in hopefully a maximum of six months.
Some might think WTF its been so long and now another six months, but this is a complete new game with a huge amount of custom levels and new models and entire new config and scripts content with a different storyline and all done in SDK.
Would be nice to release around my birthday in june but i hope it is sooner :)
 
vintar said:
Didnt want to start a new thread so i just thought i would post here again and say that progress on Lost Alpha is going well and we expect to release in hopefully a maximum of six months.
Some might think WTF its been so long and now another six months, but this is a complete new game with a huge amount of custom levels and new models and entire new config and scripts content with a different storyline and all done in SDK.
Would be nice to release around my birthday in june but i hope it is sooner :)
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So for someone like poor me, who doesn't have internet at home... would you post me a dvd with the mod on it or something? :P

Also great news about progress, I'm glad you guys haven't given up. And excited to know it's not that long a wait anymore.
 
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Giving up?! Never, this mod/game has never come near to that and with me in the team now (and for another factor too), it never will.
Getting this game without internet connection....eish.
 
Provided S.T.A.L.K.E.R. 2 doesn't follow the same delay-ridden path as Shadow of Chernobyl, we might get to experience two S.T.A.L.K.E.R. games in 2012. Joy.

BTW when's your birthday, vintar?
 
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