STALKER: Call of Pripyat

yeah same, there's no where near as much exploration to find anomalies and artefacts as they're all just big marked things on the map.
 
What is it with the white circles on the map - just points of interest worth checking out?

Is there more than just this map?

First thing I did was find some screw like artifact and had a little gun fight. Went to the first derelict ship and had a look around. Killed a bunch of zombies for no apparent gain. Went with some stalkers to beat up other stalkers and then did something a bit vague with anomalies and came out next to some fireballs going round in circles.

Apart from the choppers to find which isn't very satisfying there doesn't seem that much to do. I'll crack on for sure but its a bit boring - and I'm coming off the back of Fallout 3 which takes hours and hours just to get interesting!
 
After completing COP I went back installed SOC with the 2009 complete edition upgrade. In retrospect COP is WAAAY too short. Seems like an add-on. If only they released a version with COP's artifacts and clearsky's upgrading along with the size and it'd be perfect. Anyway, here's some screenies from the SOC 2009 edition.

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Interesting, CoP lasted me 35 hours, I would say it is about the same lenght as SoC, and since it is the best of three, it is not a letdown at all, on a contrary.
 
Very mixed feeling with CoP. I've cracked on with it and going to make the effort to find artifacts and do all the side missions. I do agree with Vipernet. If there was some way of combining all three with SoC being the last phase of the game it would be awesome.
 
Managed to get the two mods working together with atmosfear - I've DL'd the hi-res pack and 4GB RAM but not sure about installing in case it kills the game.

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Looks great. Weapons pack would be good.
 
CoP hasn't coughed once. It loaded once in a little window for some reason but I just closed as re-opened it.

Clear Sky kept crashing at a certain point in the game so I went back a save and did it differently and it never crashed again.

CoS I don't remember any serious issues with it. I faired quite well compared to others.


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As an aside, I'm not finding CoP a short game? There seems to be quite a few jobs/missions to do around Yantov. I've killed the bandits matey boy owed money too and kept the dosh. Just pondering whether to deal with the other bandits holding the hostage or just blast them all. I also had a go at killing the two controller mutants in the train tunnel but the give me a royal pasting.
 
Yeah, I spent ages on COP exploring things. The fact that the areas are much bigger & less linear made me play it more like an RPG, I must admit, I played Soc more like a straight shooter.
 
So I finished the game and have the choice of leaving or staying in the Zone.

If I stay in the Zone do I just wander about "doin stuff" ?

What about the gauze gun? I haven't got it going so can I find the info to make it work?

What gives?
 
If you leave, the game finishes, if you stay you have to fight off the remaining bad guys - of which there are a few including a couple of long range snipers.

You can then go around and wander anywhere, suppliers are still there and some non story quests are still active.

Prypiat will take some exploring I suspect as there's a lot of buildings you don't need to enter to finish.

The Gauss gun needs batteries, some originals should be around - the munitions guy in the base has them I think. Plus some of the repair guys sell home made batteries.

HTH.

Andi.
 
Thought I'd ask in here instead of making a new thread.

I've just started playing this and I'm installing some mods, mostly to improve the graphics.

Currently I have:

Absolute Scopes Texture Pack for SCoP (1.2) - http://stalker.filefront.com/file/Absolute_Scopes_Texture_Pack_for_SCoP;113035

Absolute Structures Texture Pack for SCoP (1.0) - http://stalker.filefront.com/file/Absolute_Structures_Texture_Pack_for_SCoP;112625

Absolute Nature Texture Pack for SCoP (1.1) - http://stalker.filefront.com/file/Absolute_Nature_Texture_Pack_for_SCoP;113043

FOV Switcher 1.7 - http://www.widescreengamingforum.com/forum/viewtopic.php?p=183381#p183381

AtmosFear for Call of Pripyat High Resolution Texture Pack - http://stalker.filefront.com/file/AtmosFear_for_Call_of_Pripyat_High_Resolution_Texture_Pack;111371

Any other good mods I can get? One with hi res weapons textures would be nice.

Also what about this mod?

S.M.R.T.E.R. Pripyat (v0.41) - http://stalker.filefront.com/file/SMRTER_Pripyat;108615x#1926577

It seems to make a lot of changes and additions, anyone played through the game with this?
 
any way of stopping the stutter/pause's in this game , crossfired 5770's with a phenom II 955 and 4gb of ram running under win7 x64 . trying to replay this game and it keeps pausing and it is getting worse , would a faster harddrive help ?
 
oL said:
Thought I'd ask in here instead of making a new thread.

I've just started playing this and I'm installing some mods, mostly to improve the graphics.

Currently I have:

Absolute Scopes Texture Pack for SCoP (1.2) - http://stalker.filefront.com/file/Absolute_Scopes_Texture_Pack_for_SCoP;113035

Absolute Structures Texture Pack for SCoP (1.0) - http://stalker.filefront.com/file/Absolute_Structures_Texture_Pack_for_SCoP;112625

Absolute Nature Texture Pack for SCoP (1.1) - http://stalker.filefront.com/file/Absolute_Nature_Texture_Pack_for_SCoP;113043

FOV Switcher 1.7 - http://www.widescreengamingforum.com/forum/viewtopic.php?p=183381#p183381

AtmosFear for Call of Pripyat High Resolution Texture Pack - http://stalker.filefront.com/file/AtmosFear_for_Call_of_Pripyat_High_Resolution_Texture_Pack;111371

Any other good mods I can get? One with hi res weapons textures would be nice.

Also what about this mod?

S.M.R.T.E.R. Pripyat (v0.41) - http://stalker.filefront.com/file/SMRTER_Pripyat;108615x#1926577

It seems to make a lot of changes and additions, anyone played through the game with this?
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Anyone?
 
I know I'm late to the table on this but I was looking for a game to tide me over until something new appears so picked this up today at a bargain price. I'm absolutely loving COP to bits. :D

I loved SoC and although CS was a bug ridden crashfest I stuck it out and slogged on with it to be rewarded with a superb game. So far, COP has all of the old STALKER magic in it, and it feels like an "old friend" having not played either SoC or CS for ages. And it's running smooth as hell with all settings maxed out to high on my system, no issues so far.

Brilliant game, well worth grabbing if you haven't played it. ;)
 
Just a quick question I bought the last two stalker games clear sky and call of pryipat and have held off playing them due to not having the first game.

My question is does it matter that I haven played the first? As I want to start playing these and don't really want to buy the first(have sooooo many games from the sales to play) if I don have to and doesn't have a big effect on me understanding the game(story,controls)

Also what mods are recommended I have installed the complete mod on clear skies
Cheers Chris
 
chris-82 said:
Just a quick question I bought the last two stalker games clear sky and call of pryipat and have held off playing them due to not having the first game.

My question is does it matter that I haven played the first? As I want to start playing these and don't really want to buy the first(have sooooo many games from the sales to play) if I don have to and doesn't have a big effect on me understanding the game(story,controls)

Also what mods are recommended I have installed the complete mod on clear skies
Cheers Chris
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It's not essential to play SOC first; Clear Sky is actually the prequel to SOC. Starting off with the complete mods is a good move. Enjoy. :)
 
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