Just completed STALKER SOC, is Clear Sky any good?

Not sure where to put but this is the most 'Clear Sky' thread I could find.

Just completed it after taking my time playing it (over a year :) ) and am a bit miffed with the ending. For the first thing, the ending was rubbish! And secondly, I thought I had done a decent amount of exploring and was getting some cash together despite not reloading an earlier save when bandits nicked my entire inventory earlier on.

I was expecting to come across some better suits, and I did (except for the exoskeleton) but thought I had time to go back and get them once I was done following most of the story. Before I realised it, I was on the last level, which was over WAY too soon. Also, and this was the annoying part, I only had the sunrise suit at this point. And it was shafted - I looked again today and every stat was as zero except bulletproof at 11.

As you can imagine, the last level fighting respawning monolith enemies throwing grenades the whole time was not fun. At all. I love the STALKER games and have spent ages playing this one, I don't want to have to install the complete mod and reset everything I've done just to continue to play it. I was convinced there must be some alternate endings but I assume not? :)

It caught me by surprise when it ended. It's one of those games that you enjoy picking stuff up, upgrading, becoming godlike. There was so much more for me to do, I was planning on backtracking to complete a few tasks and get tooled up for the finale but never felt like had really needed it as I had been surviving okay on my broken suit. Turns out my oldest save is just before the hospital bit, after Limansk, in a level entry point that prevents changing location.

Rant over.

Installing Complete mod.
 
all the stalker endings are terrible.


I thought I had done a decent amount of exploring and was getting some cash together despite not reloading an earlier save when bandits nicked my entire inventory earlier on.

You know your stuff is in a box in the garbage right?


complete the quest "get your stuff back" ....
 
I didn't think any of the Stalker endings were rubbish, though they were hardly particularly good either. I thought Clear Sky had the weakest, with COP being the middle and SOC being the best (all seven of them).
 
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Oh BTW, the game ran superbly once I was out of that very first area you are in. I did have to lower a few things slightly, but nothing that changed the overall graphics too much.

Awesome game and was well worth the small amount I paid for it. Equally loving COP, which I still need to complete actually. But I think SOC will always be may favourite of the bunch.

Now we just need them to hurry up and release STALKER 2 :D
 
Anyone know if it's possible to teleport/load a different map area and retain my savegame state of the world?

And yes, Mark_A, same here. Running it with 2x4850 @1680*1050 with everything on max apart from no AA. That particular time of day halves the frame rate for me.
 
Putting this here as it has the most replies...

I reformatted and forgot my STALKER saves were on the C: drive. That hurt.

I'm hoping someone here has a save game for Clear Sky: Complete Mod. Ideally someone a bit OCD about exploration, maybe done half of the game. Please! I can't bear to do the first swamp area again. Cheers!
 
I can give you mine if you want. I explored a lot but dont know if I got everything. I'm also not sure how early my saves go back and dont have it installed to check but you're welcome to give them a try.
 
Worth a shot. I've done the first part of the map so many times. As much as I love the game I can't stand to do it again. :) Email in trust, or let me know where I can grab them.

Cheers!
 
If your struggling for FPS then turning it down to Static Lighting gives you a huge boost.

Not as good as Full Dynamic Lighting but still looks nice. I found this the best option to get those fps back up to 60.

Planning to play Pripyat on my new rig so can't wait.
 
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