NEWSA+SIMBION_tweaked Support and Gameplay

[Ultradad]

The Zone made me quite wealthy
http://i39.tinypic.com/27yaexk.jpg

now I have to find a way to spend that money

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Damn Sakharov doesn't want my hard earned cash
http://i43.tinypic.com/11s37dw.jpg

So I've lost my Yantar dealer , my save game from Yantar is way to far back , I've
installed a new gamedata folder but still no go, don't know how to fix that

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I've tried to buy a smaller amount like a sausage same result, of course selling stuff Sakharov
also won't sell me any.

Hello there

Dear god, no wonder he wont buy anything off you, you have all the money in the zone on you

[Nightwatch]

Grump642

A small update on your Groza-NT silencer sound: When I asked if you could provide a burst sound of it last night (it was well into morning here) it was an unusual request, I know, sorry; because I hadn't have access to my Stalker at that time. I was visiting relatives for this funeral matter, etc, so that I couldn't try it myself. (I had IrfanView on the laptop, which plays OGG files, just the sound of single shot, of course) But, it's OK now. I've come back home and tested it. Perfect. With the small patch that I'll offer a week or two, we can add this as the Groza-NT silencer sound. Thanks.


fiznerpin1962
Very good pictures. Why are you complaining about your pictures? They're super.
AW may become choppy time to time, it's a vanilla matter. Though I have not quite felt so this time, maybe my Quad helped there, while it didn't go well with spawns, or it was the extra fast RAMs. Area is a high power-drain area, DV is so, too. Level designs are said to suffer at some extent in STALKER. But as it seems it still hasn't hindered your killing spree.


Wow, Wombat_70, 5 million RU?! :mozilla_surprised: Is there a bank in Zone that I have missed and you robbed it? If so, look buddy, I want my share.

On that Yantar trader's "not enough money" response: Well, it may happen so when the player tries to sell stuff in one go that's more than the set limit of that trader. It's always better to sell stuff with parties, each of which is not higher than 100 000 RU. I'll raise the levels quite high, though.
You can now still trade with him in a "barter" way, you know, you can buy stuff which is either equal or a bit lower than what you sell.

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Due to the dead of a relative, I've been a bit late in updating the Players Corner pictures. But, they are already resized and web-optimised, so I'll start uploading them tonight. Tomorrow, it'll be completed.

[Grump642]

Wombat I want that Vintorez!! Ah, PLEASE tell me where you got it. I had it in 2.4 and I love it.

Nightwatch, glad you like the sound. I am already using it.

[fiznerpin1962]

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Due to the dead of a relative, I've been a bit late in updating the Players Corner pictures. But, they are already resized and web-optimised, so I'll start uploading them tonight. Tomorrow, it'll be completed.

Family comes first, buddy. My condolences

[Nightwatch]

She was a distant relative by blood-ties but we loved her like our aunty, thanks fiznerpin1962. Anyway, I've updated our website, Players Corner, thanks to you all guys for keeping this Players Corner alive and thanks to EggChen who is sifting through the data and preparing the lists.

[Wombat_70]

nightwachdoesn't matter what amount I want to buy or sell ,
I tried to buy the cheapest item from him, he has no money, tried sell a box of buck shots
still no money , I thing he went broke and he ashamed to show it .and he won't
trade with me anymore, life is a bitch!!

Grump642 Got that beauty in Rostock from a freshly expired Dark One ,
they seems to carry the best weapons, I would sell her to you for a meager 150000ru if I could
but I think she'll bring me more money if I keep her, I sort of become attached to her.

Ultradad

Hello there

Dear god, no wonder he wont buy anything off you, you have all the money in the zone on you

I am very careful with money you can trust me with yours

[audioave10]

Time for some questions. I scanned this thread alot but can't find
the answers. Playing on "Master" do I still need codes? Also, I'm
not really sure just where the sniper-bunker is.

[fiznerpin1962]

Sniper bunker: When heading to Brain Scorcher from Army Warehouses, you meet a Monolith with an RPG crouched on some concrete pipe - right behind him is a sniper in a tower. As you head down the "long walk" from there, there will be a Bus stop on your right - right before an intersection with a jeep in the middle. You should have been shot at by the sniper by now. Anyway, if you stand @ that right turn intersection, looking farther on (towards Scorcher), the bunker will be @ your 11 o'clock (@ the end of the fenceline). Have to through the break in the fence & up the ladder, jump to the catwalk.
As for codes: extreme is different than the "other" modes.....didn't pay attention 'cause all I was interested in was xtreme. Player's corner should have the info.

[audioave10]

Thanks Fiz...great description! I guess I'll sure as hell find out when I get there.

[Grump642]

I believe only xtreme has the new codes. The others have the same old ones. By Master, do you mean difficulty level? Like Novice, Veteran, Expert, and Master? Because they do not apply in this Mod. EVERYTHING is on Master difficulty level.

[audioave10]

Yes, I think there is only Master or Extreme mode. That's the
difficulty level I'm playing.
Are there still codes to get? Wait...I think Nightwatch posted some codes a long time ago...do I need those or were they only
for 2.4? I'm all screwy about this - my fault since I never got to
the end of 2.4

[busetibi]

anyone playing the Extreme mode version will need the new codes to open the sniper bunker door,and the ammo store room inside BS complex.
none Extreme mode, the old (vanilla) codes will open said doors.
you really, really want to find the code for the sniper bunker door, mega goodies inside

[Wombat_70]

Went for short visit to Garbage and met someone he looks familiar tho, looks like a dealer .
http://i42.tinypic.com/vxyj2g.jpg

Decided to push over Agroprom and what a lucky shot .
2 birds with one stone
http://i44.tinypic.com/11tsyv4.jpg

Here goes an other one
http://i41.tinypic.com/15gs7du.jpg

Familiar site in Agroprom
http://i42.tinypic.com/2cgopc5.jpg

An other familiar face in Cordon, he travel a bit
http://i44.tinypic.com/huj68y.jpg

any body recognize those feet embedded in concrete
http://i42.tinypic.com/5vxjpd.jpg

[NatVac]

Bummer about Extreme's codes; I'm pretty sure I know how to find the codes based on the spoilers you guys put in the posts, but I can't even get the basic no-nothing version to run without getting motion sickness*, so I'll have to take it in small doses. Very good graphics even on DX8. Nice approach to giving out the codes, Nightwatch!

The uncommented Ogg files are a bit frustrating; with no drop-off in sound distance, Petruha hears something to the south (the boars?) and before you know it, the military is attacking the rookies. This does explain the myriad posts about this event in the big mods, versus vanilla.

I like the military NPCs searching me out, though. And that's a cool BTR/APC bullet impact effect. Was the heli supposed to buy it in an anomaly in the Cordon?

I'm also a bit disconcerted about all the possible choices in dialogs, some with machine-translated text, some with placeholder ID tags, some disappearing as I try to read. It intrigues me that choices matter more (e.g., the very first artifact task for Sid nets different loadouts from him AND Wolf -- including a detector!).

After the install, I found that there are a couple of knives with "visua" instead of "visual" in the section definitions in config\weapons\w_knife.ltx. They might not be used, but they might still be parsed. I wonder if I can get the LTX checker to run on these files...

Finally, my first car experience in this mod was not good -- the rookie camp's relic (SW corner lot) lets you in, but not out. The BTR worked, so something's funky about that "Christine"!

BTW- Do we have mutant gophers in the game now?!? These holes were moving. I counted 2 holes.????
http://i697.photobucket.com/albums/vv340/Grump642/Soc/ss_grumpy_05-10-09_16-11-31_l11_pri.jpg

Those are bullet holes on invisible walls. They "move" relative to the background, but you will find that you cannot pass through them. Pripyat is not a very polished level.

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*STALKER is pretty good at matching frame rate to motion; if there is what is called "mouse lag", I have a problem even when the frame rate is high. Monolith games are bad for me; I loved NOLF2 but it made me really sick even at 45-60 FPS.

STALKER works for me down to 30 FPS, and even lower. But the mouse lag present in the bigger mods is not good.

[fiznerpin1962]

Was the heli supposed to buy it in an anomaly in the Cordon?



Finally, my first car experience in this mod was not good -- the rookie camp's relic (SW corner lot) lets you in, but not out. The BTR worked, so something's funky about that "Christine"!

No, the chopper is supposed to spend most of it's time trying to fly right up your ass. If you are running extreme, there is an endless supply of choppers wanting to be a suppository...

I drove Christine all over Cordon - then found out the evil "Chrysler" had trapped me inside as well after I had rolled through 20 min. in game. (WTF? let me out!!! ) The APCs work though - think I drove a car @ Agro that wasn't possessed too....

[Nightwatch]

Great hit Wombat_70 Two APCs next to each other. At that corner of Agroghom, it may even come 3 APCs (one from over the hill, if you're lucky... or unlucky depends what you want)

Yes, audioave10, I can only repeat what the guys said, there's only Master level difficulty accross the board, in all modes of the mod (non-horror, horror-lite, full-horror and Extreme) all play as Master level.
And, yes, the new codes for those two bunkers are only in Extreme mode. When playing any one of the non-Extreme modes, the codes in 2.4 still are still valid and they are also given on the Tips section of the Mod's website. But, in Extreme, it needs to be found.
While on the subject of hiding codes, thanks NatVac.
(PS: I wouldn't -and I don't- trust any automated program that is said to find/shuffle/merge things, nor I trust even WinMerge. Good for comparing, that's all it's needed for. Well, that's me; very old fashioned, maybe. I also listen to old school heavy rock )

No, the chopper is supposed to spend most of it's time trying to fly right up your ass. If you are running extreme, there is an endless supply of choppers wanting to be a suppository...

OMG, need top clean the coffee spill off the desk. Fiznerpin, you need to warn before saying things like that. Health hazard, lol.

[audioave10]

Yes...either Master or "Extreme" difficulty as you have said many times. I was replying to another question. I didn't scroll
all the way down on your tips page-my bad. I had a code from
2.0 not 2.4...silly me. Thanks.

[Grump642]

Humm, I use Winmerge a lot. Mostly for checking, but for changing also. You just have to be careful what you tell it to change. Sometimes it works, sometimes Notepad ++ works, and sometimes you have to do it the hard way. With my fingers( all been broken), I do as little typing as possible.

[Balious]

Now that my firefox will let me login stalkermod I can finally concentrate better (deleted cookies and it fixed it). Time to catch up on a few pages of posts.

@Nightwatch
About the helicopter issue. It was just a one off for my game wanting to crash and give a random reason it may seem to me. Wouldn't surprise me as you said yourself my computer can't really play stalker properly.

I haven't changed anything in NEWSA since my mistake on the first time I downloaded (I sort of learnt from that mistake but I did it on 2.4 before 3.0 came out and that was perfect fine, the very last one was anyway).

What I find strange about my specs and Stalker is. I only get lag when a load of contacts appear on screen (bar for example). Apart from that my game runs smoothly apart from random issues I get such as the error of walking pass the guard post and into the first building which crashes it but going over the fence solves this (just like that bug on 2.4).

And now about that Garbage helicopter. It now belongs in a graveyard after the following four pictures:
http://i39.tinypic.com/2hmpybq.jpg
http://i39.tinypic.com/biw6pz.jpg
http://i44.tinypic.com/106d8a1.jpg
http://i41.tinypic.com/677cdd.jpg

I feel so happy now I got my revenge on that damn pilot after the many deaths I suffered.

I do however have a bug on one quest. The one where you have to go to Bes and help him. This is mainly my fault and not a big deal as I don't pay much attention to my tasks apart from when I see where they are (Hunting stalker quests mainly). Reason for my fault is because I didn't talk to him first thing and just headed straight for Bar for that rocket launcher. Of course in doing so and the bandits were killed by just them and me going off seemed to of bugged it after speaking to Bes later on. First time speaking with him he asks me for help (when it is no longer required as the Bandits are dead) and I say I kill them all. After that it doesn't update and if I remenber correctly I get the see you around or something like that. But again this isn't serious and I am not worrying about it. But still I could of tried doing the quest before the helicopter arrived

And as I don't want to end it on that I like to say I finally met a Controller (haven't gone underground in Agro yet). Well actually two but I only have screenshots of the one at the moment and here is what I think of it:
http://i43.tinypic.com/55kysp.jpg
http://i43.tinypic.com/504avs.jpg
http://i40.tinypic.com/dqpu2c.jpg
http://i44.tinypic.com/2q9hnyt.jpg

Controllers should now fear me but of course I am not as feared as some other Controller hunters around here