STALKER: Call of Pripyat

MookJong · 15 Jul 2019 at 15:08

So it looks like the multiplayer mod Ray of Hope is close to a Beta release:

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCPnbT3Oma6wACdYdwAYV0HA

Anyone else following this?

Admiral Huddy · 15 Jul 2019 at 15:17

I never played CoP.. I always felt I should have done after Shadow.. and it's been in my Steam Wishlist since 1986..

arc@css · 17 Jul 2019 at 03:04

MookJong said:
Anyone else following this?

Yes, it's one the mods I've been following on moddb though I haven't checked out the latest news. Cheers.

arc@css · 28 Aug 2019 at 16:58

Beta 3.0 now out.

https://www.moddb.com/mods/stalker-anomaly

Mark A · 28 Aug 2019 at 17:48

Admiral Huddy said:
I never played CoP.. I always felt I should have done after Shadow.. and it's been in my Steam Wishlist since 1986..

If you enjoyed soc then you should deffo buy cop. I actually also really liked clear sky as well. Still looks great today with a mode like autumn aurora 2.

soulhunter123 · 29 Aug 2019 at 00:41

Perhaps a dumb question but is STALKER anything like the Metro 2033 series? I vaguely remember playing it (STALKER) for half an hour once, but it felt *too* open-world to the point of being kind of aimless.

arc@css · 29 Aug 2019 at 03:50

soulhunter123 said:
Perhaps a dumb question but is STALKER anything like the Metro 2033 series? I vaguely remember playing it (STALKER) for half an hour once, but it felt *too* open-world to the point of being kind of aimless.

It has a similar setting though it's a much more linear driven experience (I haven't played Exodus), and I believe some of the developers that worked on Stalker also contributed with development for the Metro games. If you were to try Stalker again, my advice would be to probably avoid the larger, more grandiose mods available and instead just focus on playing something which aims to polish the original experience e.g. Clear Sky Reclamation project (just an example).

https://www.moddb.com/mods/srp

soulhunter123 · 29 Aug 2019 at 04:17

arc@css said:
It has a similar setting though it's a much more linear driven experience (I haven't played Exodus), and I believe some of the developers that worked on Stalker also contributed with development for the Metro games. If you were to try Stalker again, my advice would be to probably avoid the larger, more grandiose mods available and instead just focus on playing something which aims to polish the original experience e.g. Clear Sky Reclamation project (just an example).

https://www.moddb.com/mods/srp

Interesting that you say it's more linear because that's what I thought it wasn't! I did only play it briefly but I remember being left to wander off myself across the vast wasteland and I wasn't really given a quest or objective. Maybe I'm mis-remembering though.

arc@css · 29 Aug 2019 at 11:33

soulhunter123 said:
Interesting that you say it's more linear because that's what I thought it wasn't! I did only play it briefly but I remember being left to wander off myself across the vast wasteland and I wasn't really given a quest or objective. Maybe I'm mis-remembering though.

Sorry, my brain wasn't working properly, I got my words mixed up and was thinking of Metro. Yes, Stalker is a semi-open world game with a main quest and objective but also plenty of side missions, if you choose to do them.

soulhunter123 · 29 Aug 2019 at 13:06

arc@css said:
Sorry, my brain wasn't working properly, I got my words mixed up and was thinking of Metro. Yes, Stalker is a semi-open world game with a main quest and objective but also plenty of side missions, if you choose to do them.

Got it. My problem in those kind of games is I usually end up wandering off and seeing most of the map before I actually undertake the missions. When I come to actually completing objectives I've seen most of the map already. At least that's how it was in Metro Exodus.

arc@css · 29 Aug 2019 at 13:38

soulhunter123 said:
Got it. My problem in those kind of games is I usually end up wandering off and seeing most of the map before I actually undertake the missions. When I come to actually completing objectives I've seen most of the map already. At least that's how it was in Metro Exodus.

It sounds like Exodus is a little more open world than the previous two, which I think is what they were trying to achieve, IIRC.

soulhunter123 · 29 Aug 2019 at 13:41

It is, for sure. I played it for a short while and that's what turned me off. One redeeming quality, though, was that if you did explore the map before undertaking the missions the characters would "recognise" you when you returned later. That was quite cool.

Mark A · 29 Aug 2019 at 15:56

soulhunter123 said:
It is, for sure. I played it for a short while and that's what turned me off. One redeeming quality, though, was that if you did explore the map before undertaking the missions the characters would "recognise" you when you returned later. That was quite cool.

IMO the Stalker world is far better than Metro Exodus. Exodus looked good graphically, but didn't feel real, it felt like an empty game world to me. Stalker feels gritty and real with tons of detail. I'm the same in that once I have explored an open world game I lose interest a bit, but with Stalker I never get bored of it as the map is so detailed and feels like a living breathing world. You will get wandering bandit groups that could show up anywhere at any time, or might wander into a group of Stalkers fighting with mutants and can wait it out ready to go and loot the bodies after the fight. It has to be played with mods though as the vanilla graphics are very dated now, but they are much improved with some graphical and atmospheric mods.

shamus21 · 30 Aug 2019 at 06:48

yes I prefer the stalker games over the Metros much better gaming experience sooner we get stalker 2 the better.