[Sammelthread] S.T.A.L.K.E.R. / S.T.A.L.K.E.R. 2

Call of Pripyat
exclusive preview from Gameplay magazine (5.2009)

The plot is starting few days after SoC final events - Gunslinger is turning the psy-antennas off, but too, being out of it for few days. In the meantime, all the stalker realized the possibilities and perspectives of the pass opening, rush there. Of course, the way is too thin for all the people, so factional conflicts raise again and all the place began to fill with corpses.

Unexpectedly, the military forces become more active too. News about the psy-emission source liquidation reach military headquarters, and so, the development of "Fairway" operation started. The whole point of it is search for the safe way deep into the Zone for sending heavy-armed troops there and establish full control over the place. But something goes terribly wrong, and all the helicopters sent for reconnaissance vanish.

As said in the old wisdom, probably the one scout can make it where the big group failed. So the HQ send one operative to the place to inquire about facts of the case, while being undercover as a stalker. But, well - why "undercover"? He's actually a stalker, just having an eye on Ministry of Defense pays, so - on the military side. His name is Alexander Degtyarev, and he will be the protagonist.

Our main task will be to find and investigate what happened to those five helicopters. You'll find some info while searching for each of them, and of course in result we'll reveal the inconceivable Mystery. But, of course, the developers won't say anything about it before the release

Alex arrived at the place a bit late - stalkers already settled there, opened the small Bar in the old rusty ship, used some houses around, revealed the nearest anomalies etc.

Only two small groups of Duty and Freedom reached the Backwater, so they concluded a temporal truce and organized a base in the old suiting building. It is divided in two parts - for each faction. Everyone agreed that this will be neutral territory where no one will shoot.

Of course, bandits appeared there too, searching for easy money. One of them, Sultan, smart bastard, started a mess trying to gain control all over the place. But he's not going to kill anyone in sight, so it's possible to work for him.

So, we have 3 factions available for interaction, working etc. It won't be possible to join one of them (because it'll ruin the possibility of visiting lots of places and bring way too much shooting against the aggressive faction stalkers into the game. But you can change the force balance, do various tasks, help faction you sympathize to dominate.

Of course, there won't be any infinite wars for control points! Everything is a lot more interesting. For example: the scientist camp lose mercenary guarding. You can give them an advice like "I know some guys from Freedom, they'll help you, no problem". For faction it'll be the new earning source, and you - will receive respect from faction members, good equipment etc. you need.

Duty members usually prefer the heavy armor assault rifles and machineguns, Freedom - to sniper weapons and light, but protected against the Zone dangers equipment, suiting for those who like to explore the Zone. Developers didn't revealed anything about bandits propensity, but we think it'll be shotguns. And, of course, all the dark side adepts will choose that faction

Weapon assortment will grow a bit. By the way, developers decided to give more attention on smooth-bore weapons, so, for example, you can find and use automatic barreled-magazine shotgun (model prototype is DOA-12). Whole weapon balance will be reworked for higher damage and a lot longer distances.

For players not to suffer while choosing between sniper rifle and machinegun, devs made both two weapon slots universal - for now you can put anything you want into them. Of course, if you want to be armed while using the detector, you'll need one-handed weapon like pistol, but their role on the late stages of the game will probably decrease - everyone will prefer more powerful weapon

Suits will be divided into torso part and helmet part, both with separate stats. There will be 4 quick-use slots for items like bandages, medkits, antirads etc. Also, the new medical item class will appear - boosters. These are the preparations allowing the user to temporary raise some organism functions - for example, some of them will allow to sprint longer, some will speed up the blood coagulability, and so on.

Blowout can happed anytime, so you'd better keep in mind the ways to closest hideouts. You'll have about a minute to hide, and, which is most interesting, the hideout can be already taken by aggressive stalkers. Of, for example, you could the the members of Duty and Freedom in gunfight for the hideout. It's possible to help one of the sides, or just wait and collect the loot later.

Stalkers will act with the correct day/night behavior cycle - at night they're mostly sleeping, in the morning they wake up, prepare the equipment and leave the camp to search for artifacts - individually or as groups. As evening comes, they'll start to return to the camp with loot (or without it). Developers are going to rework the behavior and trade system, so you won't see the 5000 rubles and vodka in the backpacks of stalkers - they'll carry what they actually bought or collected. It allows some interesting schemes for dark side adepts - for example, you can wait for stalker to collect the artifacts and kill him returning to the camp to get your hands over the loot

Monsters will raise their activity at night. By the way, yes - there will be burer and chimera. Those models were already been in SoC recourses, but wasn't used in game due to various reasons. Developers said that they wanted unique enemies, so another dog-like close combat mutant is not needed. So, in sequel, they gave burer and chimera unique abilities and behavior. Chimera will use swift and deadly leaps from the dark while staying unnoticed and stealthed, try to avoid player to see it before the attack. Burer will widely use his telekinetic abilities - for example, for disarming characters. Or at least to make concrete block fall on your head

The stats balance for other monsters will be reworked. For example, bloodsucker will be a bit weaker, but more dangerous, his invisibility won't make him immortal, he will act slightly different.

The attention to details in Call of Pripyat is really surprising. For example, after the blowout anomalies will change their position and the artifacts will appear in completely different places, making almost impossible to memorize the safe route and run without detector like in Shadow of Chernobyl. By the way, it'll be possible to sleep! You won't be able to sleep under the bush within the bag, but on every base you'll find the suiting places to sleep at night. Much better than waiting for the morning in SoC while having time for a tea. Ten cups of tea. Or even more.

But, well, maybe you won't want to sleep at night. There are a lot tactical possibilities and, also - many quests are available only at night

There will be about 70 new unique quests. Small corridor-like locations are in past - prepare to explore three giantic territories:

- Darkwater - marshy territory, heavy affected with anomalies and densely built with various agricultural structures.

- "Jupiter" - industrial territory around and in the huge abandoned factory (by the way, the "Jupiter exists in the real Desolation Zone | translator note).

- Pripyat - 100% precise recreation of east Pripyat part, with central post office, school and other famous places. By the way, the city will be properly placed on the global map - north-west from NPP, not south, as in the previous games. The most important is that this level won't be corridor-like as Limansk in CS or Pripyat in SoC - no, it'll be huge territory with lots of various quests and non-linear exploring possibilities.

To say straight, Call of Pripyat looks like the wise and massive work on mistakes done in previous games. There won't be helicopter bosses, infinite faction wars and other elements that are theoretically interesting, but doesn't fit to S.T.A.L.K.E.R at all. Well-turned features like new detection system or weapon upgrading will be there too, but in overall look the Call of Pripyat is closer to the original S.T.A.L.K.E.R concept with dangerous, desolated and silent Zone where stalkers are rare and gloomy loners, where's no place for huge groups and tons of gunfights. We really hope that the developers will follow this line, because this time they've chosen really proper vector.

We're looking forward for the meeting with the dark and cloudy world of eternal autumn where it's not possible to live, but... where you still want to return. Again and again.

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• die Story startet kurz nach dem Ende von SoC
• der Hirnschmelzer ist abgestellt und alle wollen in Richtung AKW
• das Militär will die Kontrolle über das Gebiet erlangen (Operation Fairway)
• etwas geht gewaltig schief - die Aufklärungstruppen des Militärs (Helikoter) verschwinden spurlos
• der Protagonist heißt Alexander Degtyaref
• Alexander wird vom Militär undercover eingeschleust
• er soll herausfinden, was passiert ist
• er stößt dabei auf ein unfassbares Geheimnis (GSC will vor dem Release nichts weiteres verraten)
• als er in der Zone ankommt haben andere Stalker bereits eine Siedlung gegründet (Bar und weitere (Wohn-) Häuser
• es gibt 3 Fraktionen, aber man kann keiner beitreten
• Freiheit und Wächter sind auf neutralem Gebiet
• es gibt außerdem ein paar wenige Banditen - der Bandit Sultan will die Kontrolle über das Gebiet - man kann auch Aufträge für ihn machen
• durch Anerkennung kann man an Ausrüstung von den Fraktionen kommen
• Ausrüstung und Waffen werden ähnlich wie in CS verteilt sein (Wächter mit Sturmgewehren, Scharfschützengewehre bei der Freiheit und Banditen mit Schrotflinten)
• es gibt 2 universell nutzbare Waffenslots - man kann also auch direkt zwischen 2 größeren Waffen wechseln
• mit Detektor wird man aber nur eine Pistole verwenden können
• die Anzüge wurden in Helm und Körperschutz unterteilt
• es gibt jetzt 4 Slots, die man für Bandagen, Medikits, Strahlenschutz und ähnliches verwenden kann
• es kann jederzeit zu Blowouts in der Zone kommen
• alle Stalker haben einen überarbeiteten Tag- und Nachtrythmus
• das Verhalten der Stalker und das Handelssystem wurden überarbeitet
• Monster sind vor allem nachtaktiv
• diesmal gibt es auch die bereits für Oblivion Lost versprochenen Dwarf (Zwerg) und Chimera
• die Balance der Monster wurde überarbeitet - Blutsauger sind jetzt seltener, aber viel gefährlicher
• Anomalien und Artefakte können durch Blowouts ihre Position ändern - die Zone bverändert sich also immer wieder
• man kann jetzt schlafen, um die Zeit (oder Nächte) zu überbrücken
• es gibt aber auch Quests, die man nur nachts machen kann
• weiterhin gibt es ungefähr 70 neue und einzigartige Quests
• in CoP gibt es 3 Gebiete
• Darkwater:
• sumpfiges Gebiet mit vielen Anomalien
• das Gebiet ist landwirtschaftlich dicht bebaut
• Jupiter:
• ein altes und verlassenen Industriegebiet, dass auch in der Realität existiert
• Pripyat:
• das Gebiet umfasst das Zentrum der Stadt und den östlichen Teil
• es soll so realistisch wie möglich werden
• im Gegensatz zu den anderen Teilen befindet sich Pripyat dieses mal nordwestlich vom AKW, was auch geografisch stimmt
• es ist ei sehr großes Gebiet, in dem es viele Quests gibt
• dieses mal soll es auch nicht so linear, wie in SoC bzw. Limansk in CS werden
• was nicht wirklich zu Stalker passt wird entfernt
• gut gelungene und neue Features, wie z.B. der Detektor und Upgrades, sind wieder dabei
• das Spiel soll mehr an das Original, also Oblivion Lost erinnern
• die Zone ist ein gefährliges, verwüstetes und ruhiges Gebiet mit weniger Stalkern und weniger Kämpfen

• Improved integrated anti-cheating system to take screenshots from the player’s screen.
• Improved integrated anti-cheating system that allows the remote admins to track the modifications in network game parameters.
• Fixed bug with killing the player after respawn.
• Improved player-checking system upon connection.
• Fixed bug with RPG-7.
• Fixed bug in buy menu.
• Added new effect High Definition Ambient Occlusion.
• Increased the game stability.
• Changes of game balance in Multi-player:
• Increased damage dealt by "Tunder Ñ14", "SA Avalanche ".
• Added possibility to attach scope to "SA Avalanche".
• "UDP Compact" pistol now has an increased cartridge (12 bullets)

Oblivion-Lost.net schrieb:

S.T.A.L.K.E.R.: 2 mit CryEngine 3 angekündigt!
Nachdem der Generaldirektor von GSC Game World (Sergey Grigorovich) bereits erste Informationen zum 2. Addon zu S.T.A.L.K.E.R.: Shadow of Chernobyl verlauten ließ, folgte zugleich die überraschende Ankündigung eines direkten Nachfolgers.

S.T.A.L.K.E.R.: 2 befindet sich laut Grigorovich in der Vorproduktion und wird definitiv die CryEngine 3 aus dem Hause Crytek nutzen.

Für GSC Game World ein großer Schritt nach vorne, nun da man eine sehr stabile Engine mit enormer Grafik-Power an Bord hat, kann man sich im ukrainischen Kiev nun vollkommen auf Story und Gameplay fokussieren, ein Schritt welcher der S.T.A.L.K.E.R.-Reihe aus funktioneller Sicht äußerst gut tun könnte. Die Jungs von GSC Game World scheinen tatsächlich aus ihren Fehlern gelernt zu haben, doch solange noch keine Screenshots oder Videos zu S.T.A.L.K.E.R.: 2 existieren, kann man bisher nur über Setting und Gameplay spekulieren.

Bis die ersten Bilder zu S.T.A.L.K.E.R.: 2 erscheinen, dürften noch einige Monate vergehen, vielleicht sogar ein Jahr, schließlich arbeitet GSC Game World zur Zeit unter Hochdruck an S.T.A.L.K.E.R.: Call of Pripyat.

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Shad0w schrieb:

also ich hab es mir in jedem spiel angewöhnt nach ca 2-3schnellspeichern einen festen anzulegen..

@firefox888: du kannst es schon ruhig spielen bis auch ein paar kleine macken ist es sehr gut zu spielen..

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Hötzi schrieb:

jo, und wenn man schon stalker neu anfängt dann doch bitte gleich mit grafik- bzw. gameplaymods.

so machts gleich nochmal soviel spaß!

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Hötzi schrieb:

klaro

eine seite zuvor von TheNamless gepostet,
grafikmods:
http://www.hardwareluxx.de/community/showpost.php?p=11788377&postcount=689

ein gameplay-mod unter vielen (einfach mal googlen,gibt haufenweise mods für stalker):

http://stalker.onlinewelten.com/downloads,id165,invasion_mod_v1_3_2a.html

achtung: die grafikmods brauchen zeitweise ordentlich leistung, also nicht wundern wenn der pc trotz potenter hardware in den fps-werten die luft ausgeht

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