NEWSA+SIMBION_tweaked Support and Gameplay

[busetibi]

god I love looting Yantar
not in the shot is a PNB-4UZ Exo
http://i44.tinypic.com/30n9jcm.jpg

weird going ons inside the Bunker.
http://i39.tinypic.com/2e5ldas.jpg

three god damned Monolith, imagine my surprise when I walked round the corner without any weapon drawn
to see these three turds

[Ultradad]

Hello there

Its been another mad day, this mod is EVVVVILLLL . I like the idea of death shots by helicopter, ran screaming like a little girl outta Yantar and hid behind the APC at top of hill, bad move as helicopter spotted me

http://i476.photobucket.com/albums/rr127/Ultradad2008/h1ouch.jpg

Got another shot of a helicopter coming in REALY LOW, these guys are out to get me anyway they can

http://i476.photobucket.com/albums/rr127/Ultradad2008/nowthatscomminginlowlol.jpg

Extreme mode just got to much for this guy, poor sod

http://i476.photobucket.com/albums/rr127/Ultradad2008/extrememodetohardforhim.jpg

Got a few more screenys of the day as well, i love how the guys more occupied on looting than saving there M8 who is getting his ass kicked by a pack of firebites behind them

http://i476.photobucket.com/albums/rr127/Ultradad2008/extremelootingskills.jpg
http://i476.photobucket.com/albums/rr127/Ultradad2008/theresalwaysone.jpg
http://i476.photobucket.com/albums/rr127/Ultradad2008/nothingnewheremovealong.jpg

Strangest thing happened today, when horror time finishes you get those ghost after images that run at you then dissappear, well one decided to keep following me and i had to shoot it for it to go

http://i476.photobucket.com/albums/rr127/Ultradad2008/shotittomakeitgoaway.jpg

Signing out for a bit, still laying the foundations for later stages of the game

[Ultradad]

god I love looting Yantar
not in the shot is a PNB-4UZ Exo
http://i44.tinypic.com/30n9jcm.jpg

weird going ons inside the Bunker.
http://i39.tinypic.com/2e5ldas.jpg

three god damned Monolith, imagine my surprise when I walked round the corner without any weapon drawn
to see these three turds

Hello there

I had a good laugh when that happened to me, when Nightwatch said he sorted out the guy in bunker so he wouldnt block the door he wasnt joking

[MeanderingBeing]

HAHA! I love this man! Great you guys! By the way, I randomly got sniped on my way to the bandit camp in cordon. Then I reload and try again, get smoked by helicopters. Reload again, get ambushed by dogs. F-ing awesome man...

[audioave10]

Its been fun reading all of the posts about the new Mod. I haven't started it yet. My problem? -
I found that my new system plays Oblivion with Quarls Texture pack, OOO,MMM and about 25
other mods at the same time. Newsa 3.0 is on the back burner for now. I also have about 40
mods on Fallout 3 with many new weapons and these have kept me busy. When I get a chance,
Newsa 3.0 will be the "cherry" on top. Nice pics (and many deaths!).

[DARK TEMPLAR]

Hey Nightwatch, did you enable the option to turn the brain scorcher in RF and the psy emmiter in yantar back on in freeplay.

Also I hope you have not forgotten my idea about the drank gun ( yea i know i'm a persistant bastard but hey)

[Nightwatch]

So you've got pleasantly surprised in Yantar, busetibi, eh? heh he Great

(According to what I read, if i'm not mistaken, I'm assuming Kruglov/Semenov couldn't make it back to Bunker. have you also tried it when they got came back alive? )

I'll start posting new picture -yours, too- on Tuesday onto the Players Corner. (no weekend for me this weekend)
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Great shot there, Grump642 And a great revenge! You've proved the saying once again: best revenge is a dish served cold.

--Also on the Cobblestones crash which disappeared after selling them the Barman, have you installed the Mid_Res Support mini-patch? If a problem had developed with a trader list, you wouldn't be able to chose and sell it, I'm assuming a resolution/mipmap based issue. I'll keep my eyes on it, I'll check them, thanks.
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Good idea Balious, I'll post your "death screens" too, as well as if any others that may come from.
APC in acrobatics, ha? Would like to see that picture!

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Great pictures Ultradad What was the Freedom Armory Guard doing like that, lol? And a pet snork? LOL.

You've passed the Yantar Bunker as well, as it seems.
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Thanks MeanderingBeing It's great seeing that the mod has seemed to meet your expectations and you're enjoying.

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Hi, DARK TEMPLAR, no I haven't forgotten your ideas, hopefully I'll implement them in the future development. On this version I haven't put the BS yantar ps emitter reactivation. (I've left a mixture of things (these as well) for a later version.)

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Thanks audioave10 , don't worry, the mod will still be waiting for you when you're ready to play it

[EggChen]

NW - Shall I come up with say 10 awards, and the criteria and create a new thread, or post here? I'd propose that people submit a screenie to claim the title, and they get it until someone else beats them (you could still post 1st, 2nd, 3rd).

Rather than update everytime one of the awards changes, you could then update every week?

[Nightwatch]

That's a great idea EggChen Of course proceed as you feel suitable for the matter. So you're in charge of it. I'll update the Players Corner accordingly, in line with your awards thread.

[EggChen]

OK, will do, I'll have a proper think about it later. If anyone wants to recommend any awards, please do so!

Got my game working again
Not sure what it was, but the crashes have stopped. I just sprinted for the garbage. Changing levels seems to have sorted the problem, I have been back to cordon without any problems.

So, I'm in Garbage, helped Bes, saves Seriy, Seriy gives me a nice gun just as a heli cuts him down. He was wounded on the floor, and his own nice gun was next to him

... but I'm a good guy, I healed him, picked up his gun, and threw it back to him (dumb shit didn't notice it at his feet).

[Balious]

Ultradad
That ghost Snork thing happened to me too back on 2.4. But mine wouldn't dissappear at all. And my game crashed after that and haven't seen it since. But thats 2.4 and this is 3.0 so different story.

Nightwatch
Well here is the APC on its back:
http://i42.tinypic.com/t6ytsy.jpg

I have no idea how it suddenly appeared like that unless an anmoly spawned under it. But seems like a perfect chance to take them out

On the awards idea I like Eggchen's alot. Be interesting to see who wins what. Quite easily I get the most frustrated by helicopters award

Edit: on what awards to have right now I can only think of the obvious ones that already have been mentioned like most money and certain kills.

[Wombat_70]

Finally got out from lab x16 , spent all day in Yantar looting , sold all my stuff and purchased a repair kit
730000ru, now I'm broke but I can repair my armor and some weapons , I hope to get more experience
pretty soon so I could repair all my stuff, also got a dark gauss gun from a dead dark stalker.

I wish I new how to load pictures into the forum I know how to upload them to tinypic.com but I don't
know how to transfer them to this forum, I must be the only stupid Stalker in the Zone.

[Ultradad]

I wish I new how to load pictures into the forum I know how to upload them to tinypic.com but I don't
know how to transfer them to this forum, I must be the only stupid Stalker in the Zone.

Hello there

I dont use tinypic.com but you should be able to direct link (copy and paste) in between the URL that will pop up when you click on it when posting a message, to use the img you need the picture to be a certain size (which you should be able to resize to) then they will appear in your post but i just use the URL as it wont slow down loading up the form pages

[Ultradad]

Hello there

Before i get stuck back into stalker for a bit i got a few more pictures, i got to get my fix daily . Chopper went kamakazi on my ass, he was gonna kill me no matter what He came in low across the floor, shot me point blank with missiles and blew himself up at the same time

http://i476.photobucket.com/albums/rr127/Ultradad2008/bugger.jpg

Being the rock hard mod that it is i thought i round up a couple of zombies and try out a few new tactics

http://i476.photobucket.com/albums/rr127/Ultradad2008/Roundedupsomezombies.jpg

Ok i think thats enought, let the carnage begin . After a few goes i went old school and used the shotgun on them, if its not broke dont fix it i say

http://i476.photobucket.com/albums/rr127/Ultradad2008/Thatdidntworklol.jpg
http://i476.photobucket.com/albums/rr127/Ultradad2008/EpicFail.jpg

Though i get some practice in with the bigger Nightwatch manufactured rocket launcher and was quite pleased with the results. Gonna order one online

http://i476.photobucket.com/albums/rr127/Ultradad2008/before.jpg
http://i476.photobucket.com/albums/rr127/Ultradad2008/afterlol.jpg
http://i476.photobucket.com/albums/rr127/Ultradad2008/BOOOOOOOmmmmm.jpg

A few more screenys then off i go

http://i476.photobucket.com/albums/rr127/Ultradad2008/Getthemboys.jpg
http://i476.photobucket.com/albums/rr127/Ultradad2008/sitandsmilefornightwatch.jpg
http://i476.photobucket.com/albums/rr127/Ultradad2008/Theyareofftospankthestartervillage.jpg

I had a nice supprise off the bandits, one of them was carrying a Exoskeleton suite and loads of artifacts

[EggChen]

God damn chopper in the Garbage pissed me off so much I could not wait to buy an RPG like Grump....

I spent half an hour playing cat and mouse in the main hangar, problem is there are so many windows and holes in the roof it is only a matter of time

Then I noticed the 10 Vog-25s I had (not sure where I got them, must have been a reward for something). I hit him with one, and he shrugged it off!! The next one hit right by the pilot, eat this mofo



Edit: I was on a roll after that, took down the APC with a couple of hand grenades and my remaining two Vogs.

[Grump642]

I hit him 3 times with Vog25! Well maybe not one after the other. Bottom line is we both got the sucker!!

[EggChen]

I hit him 3 times with Vog25! Well maybe not one after the other. Bottom line is we both got the sucker!!

Amen brother, he had really pissed me off!

By the way, choppers are much weaker on the tail rotor and the cockpit, I think I had already put about 300 rounds of 5.45 into the cockpit before I went for the vog technigue, I was gutted when I found an RPG lying around about 5 minutes later!!

Edit: My main problem now is quad core lag. I'm kicking ass and chewing bubble gum, but nothing "completes". I can hear Mole continually saying "guys, I'm gonna get crushed real soon" but the area is clear and has been for ten minutes. The mission to help Bes is still in my tasks, even though I completed it.

Edit2: Anyone else noticed the weird shiny grass? NW - There are two strange "flat" bumpmaps included for the grass, check the screenie below for the difference when I deleted them.

[Kaidonni]

I had a peculiar, shall we say, "CTD," tonight. Well, I didn't actually catch the error log, but I'm not sure if there would have been much of one. You see, I quicksaved, the game froze, I realised something was happening, something bad. Then, like when you normally exit the game, the console drops down, saying something about 'destroying level' and all that, as it does...and my save file is corrupt thereafter. What might be the possible reason something like this would happen in the first place? I've *never* had the console drop down like that for a CTD, it is as though it was just closing down the game normally...

I fortunately have an earlier hard-save at a convenient place, not going with the auto-save. Attacking the military outpost. Going to have to take them all out again, those soldiers. From behind! Nightwatch...damn you! Those APCs are less vulnerable to grenades now! Aaaah!

[Nightwatch]

EggChen

You got the garbage Chopper as well ha? With a nice picture for your Corner as well.

Yes, this Quad_core is a hell to deal with. I've noticed how drastically affect the STALKER in a negative way. After upgrading from Pentium D to Quad-Core, I've immmediately noticed how STALKER function poorly under (or over?) Quad-Core. Affinity thingy does not respond well, I haven't seen any real improvement with it, even if there was any.

One simple trick though, is to quick save and reload in those situations, when you're infront of a mission/mission-giver, etc NPC or before you expect an important event to take place. Also, again this save-reload operation works after you've broke stash boxes, then sthe stuff suddenly appear in front you.

Microsoft is about to release two hot-fixes for "problem associated with Multi-Core CPUs" sort of title. I was offered to download them but also said that they were not fully tested yet, so I back downed. KB953186 and KB953186. Don't know actually if they will provide any help at all.
Vista SP2 is about to be released around 28-ish this month. They and some other stuff are supposed to come to help, but need to be seen in reality. Game companies actually need to support their own products which they sell to customers against hard cash.

About the grass textures. I've used a bundle of textures from Nuclear Spring and some works, the rest are from AMK, ABC, etc, in the folders. The one on the left looks better. Is it before the deletion of bump file or after? If you can post the name of the bump file that you deleted, I can check to see which one is it.


Ultradad
You seem to have got a very good fix from the game indeed. Another set of great pictures, quite moody ones as well.


Wombat_70

Yes, the ABC Kit is very expensive, but I see your point in using it as an investment to repair and sell stuff. Don't forget to look around, find and note the door-code numbers that are written in some places in mildly disguise. So you can enter the Sniper Bunker in RF -halfway along the road- and the Ammo bunker in BS underground level. Both has now much richer offerings to those who manage to get in.


That's one funny picture of an APC there, Balious.
APCs are now passing through the anomalies without sustaining damage and being thrown up into the air, (provided that the anomaly is well over-powerful one, but they should still manage well) It must've run and hit something, then toppled around.


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Kaidonni
I just saw your post after posting this one, posts coming fast and crossing each other.

That crash, shutting down suddely during saving operation with destroying level message and the subesquent save corruption points to an engine problem, it had a glitch during the saving process. Fortunately you've got an earlier hard save.

Also, yeah, you're right. You've noticed good. APCs are now (in XTR mode) thougher, with hardened shield, and they don't go with one handgrenade. They even require two NEWSA NW310SP missiles. Sorry causing war-distress.