Taking some target practice.

 

To make it interesting, I only did head shots.

 

 

Brujah gone wild?

Brujah having fun or satisfying her homicidal tendicies.

Proof that this game is borderline garbage.

Wait, what? What should I see or what is missing?

What's missing? More like - why is there such a concentrated enemy force constantly rammed up the player's ass?

 

The game would've been no telling how much better if the ratio of anomalies to human foes was slanted in the other direction.

I'm sorry, I do not recognize the HUD off the top of my head, what game is that?

Since he mentioned anomalies Im guesing its Stalker.

Ok, that was my guess but I couldn't remember if that was the right HUD - thanks.

Stalker:Shadow of Chernobyl it is, though I reckon Blodhemn is using some mods.

 

Honestly, the game is pretty unbalanced in its unmodded state and it is advisable to install some mods. However, there's only a couple of spots in the game where the enemy spawn can be annoying, and two of them are in Garbage and can mostly be avoided at least, and I don't think the respawning is enough to call a very decent game "garbage". Well, to each their own. I think there are worse problems as it is, like the high amount of glitches still in play or the fairly idiotic quest design.

Unfortunately for me I got STALKER off of Steam, which apparently means no patches and no mods.

Steam version is patched to final, 1.0007 iirc(give or take a zero, all patches have been inside the same numerals), which means that the game is pretty stable, but you are bummed about mods. Unfortunate really, since the quality of both fanpatches, tweaks, total conversions and regular mods has been consistently high.

You should be able to mod Steam games - unless STALKER is different from the others.

Oh, sure. The problem is that the scene has yet to catch up to 07. There's a ton of finalized fanwork out that was made for 04 or 05(06 being the first pure multiplayer patch - no idea why since multiplayer is quite dead) and is unlikely to be redone for the newest patches in near future. I'm playing with 1.005(again, feck the zeros) myself and won't likely ever upgrade, since the mod community seems to have to made up their mind to build on well-known ground(read: everyone is just combining modifications or releasing personalized versions of them - google 'Oblivion Lost mod' or 'AKM' for instance).

 

I'm not saying that 07 is without mods, but there's waiting to be done, unless te player wants to mod themself.

Yeah, I was going to ask, why arent Steam games patch/modable? Isnt it the same thing you would get on CD only you download it instead? Why cant it be altered?

Stalker:Shadow of Chernobyl it is, though I reckon Blodhemn is using some mods.

 

Honestly, the game is pretty unbalanced in its unmodded state and it is advisable to install some mods. However, there's only a couple of spots in the game where the enemy spawn can be annoying, and two of them are in Garbage and can mostly be avoided at least, and I don't think the respawning is enough to call a very decent game "garbage". Well, to each their own. I think there are worse problems as it is, like the high amount of glitches still in play or the fairly idiotic quest design.

 

Well basically I felt extremely let down. The cool aspects of the game are for the most part, extremely underutilized. Giving how well done the underground sections of the game were which called for anomalies galore, the bulk of it deals with underwhelming and tedious gun battles with boring human AI. The bandits/military should've been left to the surface. It's just an overload of the same crap. The underground should've been strictly left to anomalies with tons of abstactions and confusing corridors.

 

Unfortunately for me I got STALKER off of Steam, which apparently means no patches and no mods.

:sad:

Well after some digging I've found the "mod" file in the Steam directory. Anybody know any good mods to implement?

I haven't used any but here is where they are: http://www.gsc-game.com/index.php?t=commun...=xr&lang=en

Why do pictures when you can have video (sorry, I have yet to get the sound working - I'll look into that tomorrow)!

A couple of screens of The Witcher in chapter 1. (on high settings)

What does the large dog-head mean?

What does the large dog-head mean?

 

 

The large doghead (actually a wolf) is your magical necklace. You can set it to either alert you to the presence of monsters or sources of power. It will glow when either is nearby. It also tracks your xp progress toward the next level in the round circle around the head.

It starts to tremble once you near something magical and will eventually start growling and quaking once you are in the vicinity of monsters for instance.

S.T.A.L.K.E.R.

S.T.A.L.K.E.R.

 

 

Nice.

 

 

You know, someday, someone is going to make a game without %$^#%@^ crates.

You know, someday, someone is going to make a game without %$^#%@^ crates.

 

It'll never happen.

Crates are life!