NEWSA+SIMBION_tweaked Support and Gameplay

[Nightwatch]

Hey Vizze, welcome to the forum.


fiznerpin1962
You and everybody all will tell me if this "Garbage Heli" episode before Agro Changer is the most difficult part of the game or not, but I believe it is certainly, at least, one of the most demanding, difficult and treacherous.

And the door code, no they are not on top of a water tower or something. All I can say is that to see them should not require great deal of effort, but I have to admit that they are a bit tricky to notice.


Grump642
You still have problem in your inventory after the reinstall? That's quite unexpected. Though you are dealing with it like all clever minds, great, nevertheless, it'd be good to pinpoint the thing that's causing this problem there. I wonder if you could give full system details, graphics card driver as well. I'll read your relevant posts once again to see if I have missed anything that could give a clue on this.

Also, on the zombies, yeah, in Extreme mode, zombies are significantly stronger and they have higher numbers, just a few more, but it all makes the difference, particularly so when their hits are more stronger now, and they die harder, the re-born more times after you drop them on to the ground. Simply, they are some full piece of work to deal with.

PS: Great picture, rather apocalyptic, like a horror movie poster.

For the real funfare, you need to save Kruglov/semenov during the "get the reading mission" and they need to get back to the bunker safely. We have different episodes for each case.



You killed them all, Ultradad? That's a lot! It's only when I look at the pictures, the real terror that is lived there in Horror-Times becomes more obvious. While playing it's not always easy to see the scale of the attacks, because of being busy with fighting for my life there, lol.

[Vizze]

He, when I say a while I mean some months He I just think that the tone in this forum is very nice, and people here seem to be a breath of fresh air, in the otherwise negativ world of forums I remember the forums in Age of Conan to be one of the worst, where you nearly got shot if you said anything. He, I normaly never write anything, I just read them for kicks when there are no new fresh news in the paper ..

I have played stalker before in vanilla and with OL, but I must say that this mod really puts the game on a new level .. He, the screenshots from you guys says it all . But I do have some problems in the game.

1. I have in the light of killing some loners once in a while for their fine loot, by accident ofcourse , gotten to the point where they shoot me on sight. And I really hate putting them down, and the worst part is that Sid won't even talk with me, so I can't really make my peace with the stubbon buggers.. So what can I do ? Remain a criminal ?

2. I have in my own way fought my way to Chernobyl, by using the things I find on the way, a bit of CS skill and a lot of luck and running, but I keep dieing inside the place, suddenly!... I only use, I guess the best, Exo-suit and not the nano one.. I guess I need to come back when I have it, am I right ?

3. I have no idea where to find the nightwatch shotgun, and I really miss it when it got 50 brain-eaters on my tail ..

My gramma sucks

[Kaidonni]

Okay, I, er, I have some news. Not good news, either. I had that CTD tonight, the one where when I search a dead body, I get that earlier CTD I had with 2.4, back when I also patched with all the patches, not just 1.0004.

No problems up until tonight, it's how it hits. Reload after reload on Saturday and Sunday, checked so many bodies, no problem. The first body I check tonight, and BAM! I know Jamie has had the same issue, and it's purely random, but it is still disheartening because I'm worried it'll happen more and more often where it didn't happen at all before. Heck, I've restarted the game enough the past week and even played some of Full Horror Time and had no issues, but tonight...

Maybe I should go with an earlier save just in case, but what if I'm being paranoid and that might even make no difference? I really refuse to stop playing the mod, because this is the only game I like at the moment, and I'm not about to let this computer dictate to me what I can and can't play. No problems Saturday and Sunday at all...it doesn't make sense unless, once again, it really is that random, and you can get hours upon hours without it, then all of a sudden it attacks... I even checked 2.4 the other week with the new patch set-up, and after going through heaps of bodies, nothing... It might even be limited to the military and bandits (although no issues with bandits yet *touch wood*).

Now, to clarify further, I think that I may have already killed the one soldier BEFORE my quicksave, so when I had the CTD, and reloaded, he was already dead, which might help some. This means that the second time around, there was no CTD, and that could point out the issue. Also...what about alt-tabbing from the game? While it's in the main menu?

This did make me sad. What if it's connected to the helicopters somehow? Maybe I quicksaved when one was on approach or leaving, and that causes the issue to surface? Or is it something in my inventory? Or, again, for the billionth time no doubt, is it just that random and will I be silly to fuss over it? I also quicksaved at the start of a blowout yesterday, when the red flashing was going on, before the blackout and change in the sky, maybe that did it?

Just trying to cover it from many angles, got no more time to type though, so...night...

[fiznerpin1962]

FINALLY! Got the bandits lured to the train tunnel as I sprinted in, took care of the buggers as they came to "get" me, then waited for the sounds of the chopper overhead to my left. Came whipping out of the tunnel ready to 'nade the APC - but it was shooting towards the machine yard. Made it by the skin of my.... whatever.
(then I got mole to go to the underground entrance without firing a shot. waited for the part where I can talk to him, and I got drilled by an incoming chopper! wasn't expecting that - or I would have been on guard...)

[audioave10]

Many deaths in this mod with the next question being...

[audioave10]

I forgot..congrats on the driving test...Kaidonni...and don't worry.
you won't be driving this...

[Ultradad]

hey mates I'm new in this forum, but I have been stalking it a bit for a while . He, but now I'm joining in

Hello there

Welcome to the forum Vizze, glad to have you on board stalker . Yeh that zombie fest was insane, i got another screenshot angle, i even impressed myself

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

I had another long day of getting my ass kicked bigtime, if there was a away to see how many times i have died then i think i am way out in front now

http://i476.photobucket.com/albums/rr127/Ultradad2008/dammitall.jpg
http://i476.photobucket.com/albums/rr127/Ultradad2008/seenthisbefore.jpg

At the moment i am just back tracking around picking up stashes on map and double checking for any well hidden door codes . Not sure whats going on with the dam zombies i saw a group of 3-4 zombies wipe out most of bar area, duty and everyone else could'nt drop them and i got to loot them all

[Ultradad]

1. I have in the light of killing some loners once in a while for their fine loot, by accident ofcourse , gotten to the point where they shoot me on sight. And I really hate putting them down, and the worst part is that Sid won't even talk with me, so I can't really make my peace with the stubbon buggers.. So what can I do ? Remain a criminal ?

2. I have in my own way fought my way to Chernobyl, by using the things I find on the way, a bit of CS skill and a lot of luck and running, but I keep dieing inside the place, suddenly!... I only use, I guess the best, Exo-suit and not the nano one.. I guess I need to come back when I have it, am I right ?

3. I have no idea where to find the nightwatch shotgun, and I really miss it when it got 50 brain-eaters on my tail ..

My gramma sucks

Hello there

You can still talk to sid when he is red, i am always upsetting some faction or another, hunters usualy get in the way of my shotgun and i am a bit trigger happy , cost about 8 grand to sort loners and upto 25 grand for duty.

Do as many side quests as possible, if you take kill stalker quests you will lose faction sometimes so you have to be careful, a good trick is ask them to help you out in a fight then take them somewhere quite and do the dirty deed . Monster parts and artifacts pay well and are not heavy, when starting out pick up everything you can get your hands on and search every body and sell it back to sid or other stalkers and buy good quality ammo and grenades

As for the newsa+simbion weapons nightwatch has moved them to later in the game so you realy got to work for them now, try and keep important characters alive which wont be long in extreme mode Hardest part is trying to keep all important characters in freedom base alive, but its welll worth it trust me

[Grump642]

Nightwatch, I found an anomaly detector in my inventory while it was doing it the last time. I was at Sid's in Cordon. I tried to put it in the blue stash box by his window, and when I double clicked on it, it dissapeared. No longer in my inventory or the stash. I can only guess, but it seems like this item was not removed when sold. Thereby causing the problem. Hasn't happened since, but I am now in the habit of quick-saving before checking inventory. Will update if needed. I don't believe it's my sys fault.
Almost ready for Scorcher, and I have no codes!! Going back to the hard parts to look. Crap!

[busetibi]

@Ultradad I found the exo in a stash in Yantar,you know where you walk through the gates and are met with zombies,the stash is on the left side of the gates among some rubble, theres about four dead bodies (Military) but unless you have the stash info I guess you can't get it.go kill more zombies in Yantar you might get the info as I'm sure I got it off one I killed, I'm only using it now because of the amount of gear it lets me carry, I've got a PSZ-9Md which I'll use once I hit NPP as it has 90% rad protection, and as a back up I'll use a SSP-99M
nice screen of the undead

@fiznerpin1962 & Grump642 one of the codes is easy to find, I've now found the same one in five locations, once you find one and notice where it's at you'll know where to look the next time, having said that the second code is being a bit of a bugger to find, I think I know where it will be, but it's going to take me a few hours game time to get to the area and check it out.

@Vizze hello glad to see you on the board, remember you can carry red barrels in this mod, placed next to someone you've been sent to hit makes a nice BANG it also kills your target and the best part is........... you dont get blamed for it

[Ultradad]

Hello there

Been another hard painful day on stalker . No pain no gain, bar area getting raided again so i decide to help out. I do all the hard work while those dam hunters just stand around looting the corpses

http://i476.photobucket.com/albums/rr127/Ultradad2008/myhandywork.jpg
http://i476.photobucket.com/albums/rr127/Ultradad2008/extremelootersmorein.jpg

I been spanked pretty hard to day so i thought it was time to head to yantar and get a better suite, on the way i met kungfu pig and took out a helicopter

http://i476.photobucket.com/albums/rr127/Ultradad2008/pigdoeskungfukicklol.jpg
http://i476.photobucket.com/albums/rr127/Ultradad2008/yehbaby.jpg

These dam helicopters just keep rubbing salt into the wounds i tell yah, its not safe to shop and no where to hide

http://i476.photobucket.com/albums/rr127/Ultradad2008/saynomore.jpg
http://i476.photobucket.com/albums/rr127/Ultradad2008/guesswhatkilledmeagain.jpg

I bought the best dam suite he had, takes 2 antirad artifacts to keep radiation under control but nice stats and hudge weight limit . Nice work nightwatch, trying to wear that suite in 2.4 always crashed the game

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

Well back to work, still working on finding door codes and my nano suite

[Wombat_70]

just finished the army warehouses long and exhausting battle ,
the excitement in the battle was so great that I've forgotten to take pictures
Max gave me a very nice reward for the flash drive, I've been looking every were for the door code,
no idea were it could be, I've also looked in yantar for hidden numbers no luck so far, I guess that
I have to keep looking much harder or perish at the bunker's door

just love this mod

[Kaidonni]

I'd just like to update on my CTD. It was concerning a military raid on the rookie camp in Cordon - likely a squad spawned. I have random stashes on if that makes any difference. Problem is, as I said before, I checked the whole of 2.4 for the CTD, mainly on Loners, and nothing at all. I played Full Horror on 3.0 on Easter Monday and dealt with bandit squads spawning and going for the car park, and nothing at all (where before, when I stuck with the 1.0001+1.0003+1.0004 patching, bandits were another culprit of the CTD as well as soldiers). I'd dealt with enough bandits on Easter Monday, in fact, and nothing. Back when I started 2.4 before I knew about my CTD woes, I had dealt with a fair few bandits before it all started. There has to be some reason this is all happening, some silly little reason, because one moment I'm fine, then it just...starts. Like that. It makes me nervous because I don't want it to end up a constant, it could ruin long runs on the game. I don't want it every five minutes (okay, that might not happen, but when only Jamie and I are getting it...it just should not be happening at all, it's not fair... ). Like I said before, doesn't make sense, and I am sort of desperate to get it resolved (it hasn't been game breaking, but you can understand it is off-putting, and this is the best mod I have ever played for Stalker, far more balanced than any of the others I've played - no offense intended, of course).


Now, what with some of the scripts in the mod dealing with nil items, etc, it can't be to do with the inventory. Whatever item would be causing it...er...it can't be THAT rare that, well, it does this, right? I mean, how many items are there that won't have occurred and there not have been a CTD? I mean, the amount of items in Cordon on bodies would be so limited before Freeplay that I would just have to be getting it multiple times and it not causing a CTD. Which would beg the question as to why such items might cause a CTD on occasion, which doesn't make much sense. So, maybe it's stashes...I mean, when I played on Easter Monday, I had unique stashes on if I remember correctly. Okay, so no Seva from the cross in Cordon like on Sunday (=))), but still, the CTD this guy was having is just too similar.

I did have OL 2.2 installed prior to all of this, back two weeks, but checking that, there is only a gamedata folder for it, so I don't think it was the version that modified a binary file. I might just have to take Dark Prophet's advice from the Newsa+Simbion thread on GSC Game and reinstall the mod itself every now and then. He said it won't hurt the saves (it is in relation to an older version, but Nightwatch said the same about another CTD issue anyway, so monkey see monkey do).

[Wombat_70]

Damn!! my savegame for some reason got corrupted (CTD) blank log file, I'm restarting
the military warehouses level from scratch, I'm not looking forward to fight those choppers
again and not to mention those horrible horror time

[Ultradad]

Hello there

Ouch ouch ouch, cannot sit down, ass is realy sore from the spanking i got from this mod today The APC's been busy on the prowl today, found one driving around in agorprom shooting fire bites

http://i476.photobucket.com/albums/rr127/Ultradad2008/apcchasingfirebites.jpg
http://i476.photobucket.com/albums/rr127/Ultradad2008/bigboom.jpg
http://i476.photobucket.com/albums/rr127/Ultradad2008/eatnukebaby.jpg
http://i476.photobucket.com/albums/rr127/Ultradad2008/jobdone.jpg

Dam helicopters had a right egg up there ass today and took it out on me every chance they could

http://i476.photobucket.com/albums/rr127/Ultradad2008/iamdeadokyoucanstopnow.jpg
http://i476.photobucket.com/albums/rr127/Ultradad2008/ouch.jpg
http://i476.photobucket.com/albums/rr127/Ultradad2008/payback.jpg

I have searched high and low for the door codes, i got loads of numbers wrote down from different items but no luck, its hard being welsh as i get easily distracted . So i have got myself loaded up with all the best stuff i can find and gonna start my raid on pripyat

http://i476.photobucket.com/albums/rr127/Ultradad2008/loadedupandgoingin.jpg
http://i476.photobucket.com/albums/rr127/Ultradad2008/rank.jpg
http://i476.photobucket.com/albums/rr127/Ultradad2008/stats.jpg

Stand back i am going in

[Nightwatch]

Vizze

Thank you for your nice words about this forum, and also for this mod as well.

For the NEWSA Shotgun, you need to complete a mission from in AW. All characters are important to save there and complete the missions that they give. You'll be pleasantly surprised. Also, don't forget to save often, because there may be other surprises along the missions that will probably surprise you not-so-pleasantly.
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Wombat_70
Ah, corrupt save? Too bad, doing AW battles? Even worse! but at least this time you may take some pictures. Or, make a hard save before starting the scenes, finish things successfully, then make another hardsave. Then load the fist save and take some pictures without worrying about dying in the game, as you'll come back to the "successful end of events" save any time. Just a thought.

Oh, the codes, you'll find them of course. They may be even nearer than you may be thinking. This goes for busetibi as well.
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Kaidonni
You're getting too much working-out yourself, buddy. This, pos_word thingy is an extremely rare issue, only known to happen a few people. You are currently the only one, (you say jamie is having as well, ok) but STALKER is a mysterious game in some ways You say you had OL before, one version of OL as I know changes at least one DLL, there may be other mods that might have done similar things in your directory before. So, I'd recommend that you uninstall the whole STALKER and install the mod again. And if you change the "mode" of the mod, (though not a strict requirement) it's always better to delete the gamedata and install the version of mode clean.

(All the questions that you arise on it are unfortunately are not relevant. Approaching helicopters cannot affect one's inventory, or, any others as the same, etc. Do you know any scripting at all?)
There is no faulty items; if it had been it would always cause cdt, and for everybody else, too. You say that it crashed when checking the inventory, but after you've reloaded it didn't ctd on the second time checking the same body.
It's the damn engine that's playing around, possibly coupled with whatever there may be in your PC (which you may, or in fact, may not know its existence.)
PCs are not Game Stations, not each one is the same; we all habits of putting all sorts of tuff on our PCs.

Also, keep on hitting the quicksave button as often as possible, it wouldn't hurt the game or the PC. If you have a crash then you can reload just a few minutes back.

This is just a game, I'm feeling sorry that you make this a significant problem for yourself; although I fully understand the unlucky situation -however it may be rare- that you are in, but still such a thing shouldn't be worth getting upset; if it's upsetting you, you'd maybe better take a break or something for some time. Happiness is more important than continuing playing a game. Oh, btw, I've edited your previous post, as the thread from which you've painstakingly collected info not apply to this mod, (I know what was written on that particular crash in old Simbion two years ago, you don't need to dig around for quotes for me, buddy; I had read them all, in fact wrote quite few of them then) and it could be confusing to all those who read, as not all visitors of this forum and the thread are members and they may get confused and start checking unrelated references and guides which will be incompatible with their game.
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Thanks Ultradad. Yeah, I've made a lot of new calculations for the suits. That blue suit is very good, but gives a lot of radiation. But again, it won't be fatal once one or two artifacts put on belt. However, once you've obtained the Nano suit, you'll find that the radiation emission on it is much lower and its healing powers are higher.
Another bundle of great pictures.
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audioave10

help!
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Grump642
I think you may be right there, as the cause. Good catch. And the codes, "they may be nearer than one would expect"
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Congrats fiznerpin1962
You've beaten that damn garbage chopper in style. But, damn again, there are other choppers around along the way.

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OK Guys, maybe I need to be fairer and say that (considering there are so many numbers in the game) one of the two numbers that your looking for is a "6 digit number," while the other one is a "7 digit number." So you can discount all the other numbers in between and/or out.

[Ultradad]

Hello there

Having a few proplems of sorts with the first part of pripyat. When the group of loners do there run down the road no NPC's are appearing in windows and on roof, the APC is working ok. When they turn right nothing appears and same with school. They go through there dialog ok and stay there for a moment then move on to next area, they get to the under ground carpark ok but kind of spoils the fun of shooting the guys on the roof

http://i476.photobucket.com/albums/rr127/Ultradad2008/pic4.jpg
http://i476.photobucket.com/albums/rr127/Ultradad2008/pic5.jpg
http://i476.photobucket.com/albums/rr127/Ultradad2008/pic6.jpg

To try and see what the problem is on first part i checked a few areas around middle and crashed helicopter and they are spawning monsters, monolith, controllers etc so everything seems ok from there onwards. I deleted the gamedata folder and reinstalled the mod but it was the same thing happening. I have even deleted stalker, repatched it like you guys do from retail to 1, then 3 and finaly 4 then installed mod but it was the same. I will upload my stalker save folder for you to have a check

http://rapidshare.com/files/224252052/STALKER-SHOC_V3.7z

Getting late so will check out rest of pripyat later

[Nightwatch]

Hey Ultradad, if I'm not mistaken when reading your log, I think you have Quad-Core 3GHz? As this is a typical Quad-Core problem, so it makes sense. If the APC is working, from the game point of view, everything is OK, but one or two of the cores are delaying the spawn. Entry to Pripyat is very CPU-heavy process, (it has always been, in vanilla as well. In fact in this mod, it's even a bit lighter). I have seen the symptom after chancing to Quad-Core from pentium D, too. After you've entered the level, make a quick-save and load, repeat it a few times along the way. Your OS is also 64 bit, as it seems, which needs to be seen if it affects further in any way, make it worse or not together with Quad-Core.
Try save-load a few times, you may need to try entering the level a few times, too, while waiting to get lucky with the CPU.
I had tried affinity on my Quad, but couldn't notice any real effect of it.
My game had been flowing like a fast river with Pentium D, then I changed to Quad, now I can go get a cup of coffee sometimes while waiting some spawns to arrive.
MS is supposed to be releasing a range patches in a week (SP2 for Vista, I guess there'll be something along the way for XP as well) but it is yet to be seen if those hotfixes will be of any help for multi-core gaming problems.

[fiznerpin1962]

@ Ultradad. This crazy game has a mind of it's own... and different on everybody's machine. I myself did a quick save in strelock's underground, when I load it there are two zombies that have beaten 75% of my life away that weren't there when I saved (I think they are the reincarnated two zombies that pop up after you nail the bloodsucker down there.)
Anyhow - with the way sniper's row performed before (CTDs), I wouldn't look a gift horse in the mouth too hard.

- or maybe it's the MB in your machine.
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Addendum: again, Nightwatch is a split second ahead of me...