**The Official S.T.A.L.K.E.R Shadow Of Chernobyl Thread**

greeny_fastcar said:
What’s with all the negativity? The game isn’t even out yet and people are bashing it to hell. :|
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Because people have played it, and the general consensus so far is that it's crap.

drunkenmaster said:
my beta testing m8 says that yes the AI seems terrible. things like enemies not moving really, like one will be in a building and he'll just step to the door, shoot a couple times and step back but not really hide, or do anything new.
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"From what I've heard" the AI does do a good job of running, hiding, seeking cover and ambushing but it also does a fantastic job of spinning around in circles and aiming at enemies they've not seen yet through walls.
 
greeny_fastcar said:
I do know that the game isnt for everybody, its not just a go in and shoot kinda game you have to actually think in-game, god forbid :eek: , you have to go through your backpack looking for the best tool for the job or watch to see how things turn out.

In one of the reviews the reviewer said he was trying to get into a cave to get some equipment and a horde of dogs were outside and he waited a few minutes to see if there was any pattern, there was not any pattern to see, but thankfully one of the boars annoyed a dog and the whole thing kicked off allowing him to sneak past unnoticed. I mean this game has some huge potential, if your into this kinda of game. :)
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i like indepth games, because mainly i've been so bored of games and their lack of depth recently. but the AI is dumb as hell, the gfx are weak, the stability in vista at least is absymal and the damage system is terrible. those are things you just can't easily get past. but its hard to tell, maybe just the very start of this game is poor and it gets better, i can't tell because i can't save without it crashing and if i don't save it, crashes. the thing is, no other game i've tried so far has not worked in vista.
 
Ulfhedjinn said:
Because people have played it, and the general consensus so far is that it's crap.

"From what I've heard" the AI does do a good job of running, hiding, seeking cover and ambushing but it also does a fantastic job of spinning around in circles and aiming at enemies they've not seen yet through walls.
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i dunno, so far the first attack that "my m8" saw ( ¬_¬ ) the group you're with don't really do anything inteligent, the split up, run into doorways they have seen an enemy pop out and back into with a shotgun(who runs into a room with a guy with a sawn off when you havea grenade or you can sneak up to a window? then the enemys just ran back and forth and didn't do anything smart at all. meh, like i said, its only the very beginning, but i can't get any further due to crashes. what to do, what to do.............
 
Surfer said:
wow - a ton of ppl playing a cracked copy of this?? (thought discussion about cracked/illegal software was banned)

yay for piracy......:rolleyes:
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I don't see anyone saying they're playing it, never mind a pirate copy. Most people here just seem to have friends who have pirated it or have read these things online. :)

drunkenmaster said:
i dunno, so far the first attack that "my m8" saw ( ¬_¬ ) the group you're with don't really do anything inteligent, the split up, run into doorways they have seen an enemy pop out and back into with a shotgun(who runs into a room with a guy with a sawn off when you havea grenade or you can sneak up to a window? then the enemys just ran back and forth and didn't do anything smart at all. meh, like i said, its only the very beginning, but i can't get any further due to crashes. what to do, what to do.............
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I've heard the AI does some nice hiding in bushes and behind trucks/walls but not a lot, mostly they just seem to chase eachother through walls with their psychic aiming.

Apparently it also sucks to shoot since headshots don't seem to do a damn thing? Hitboxes suck in this game.
 
Ulfhedjinn said:
I don't see anyone saying they're playing it, never mind a pirate copy. Most people here just seem to have friends who have pirated it or have read these things online. :)

I've heard the AI does some nice hiding in bushes and behind trucks/walls but not a lot, mostly they just seem to chase eachother through walls with their psychic aiming.
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Too true I personally don't know anyone that has the game. Except for the people making comments on the game in this very thread and even then they are only friends of the commenters. :)
 
greeny_fastcar said:
I do know that the game isnt for everybody, its not just a go in and shoot kinda game you have to actually think in-game, god forbid :eek: , you have to go through your backpack looking for the best tool for the job or watch to see how things turn out.

In one of the reviews the reviewer said he was trying to get into a cave to get some equipment and a horde of dogs were outside and he waited a few minutes to see if there was any pattern, there was not any pattern to see, but thankfully one of the boars annoyed a dog and the whole thing kicked off allowing him to sneak past unnoticed. I mean this game has some huge potential, if your into this kinda of game. :)
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yes its exactly like that, you talk to people and you have a choice of how you want to advance. you can rush in or wait and see what develops. i only played 20 mins of it and its very good so far, dont walk on the grass either and i mean it lol. these strange anomalies pop up kill you but you can see them and avoid them if your lucky, thats if the dogs dont get you.

some screenies, i'll update them as i progress.

http://www.spookywillow.pwp.blueyonder.co.uk/
 
greeny_fastcar said:
Too true I personally don't know anyone that has the game. Except for the people making comments on the game in this very thread and even then they are only friends of the commenters. :)
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I'm just glad I have a friend who has pirated this and is telling me all about it, and he has no intention of keeping his pirate copy as if it's not worth buying then it's not worth playing. Honest philosophy to piracy, try before you buy.

But yeah so we don't go off topic talking about our friends who have pirated the game (dirty pirates) we should stick to talking about just the game, or what we have heard about it so far.
 
Surfer said:
wow - a ton of ppl playing a cracked copy of this?? (thought discussion about cracked/illegal software was banned)

yay for piracy......:rolleyes:
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Discussion about breaking copyrights is banned. If you don't want to know what the game is like don't come in here. Most people are being quite mature about this, if you don't want to contribute then don't post. It's practically trolling.
 
z0mbi3 said:
Discussion about breaking copyrights is banned. If you don't want to know what the game is like don't come in here. Most people are being quite mature about this, if you don't want to contribute then don't post. It's practically trolling.
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Well said, nobody has mentioned where to get a pirate copy or how to break the copy protection. As far as I know that means there's been no breaking of the rules, as as far as anyone know nobody has even pirated it.

We should just keep it civil and talk about just the game, not about how anyone's friends have played it.

That said... From what I've heard the game gets better when you progress a bit.
 
Surfer said:
wow - a ton of ppl playing a cracked copy of this?? (thought discussion about cracked/illegal software was banned)

yay for piracy......:rolleyes:
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firstly i pre-ordered it, secondly, a lot of people i know might be playing the game and have also already paid for it. why can't these idiot companys that make us wait 5 years for a game not release it somehow in some possible way for everyone worldwide at the same time without giving out disc's to companies for printing that can get stolen and cracked then released. if only there was a simple, already established way that has maybe already sold millions of copies of other games.

steam, ea link, errm, plaync are just a few places you can buy and download games online. if they'd simply released encrypted copies like hl2 was on disc, let everyone pre-order and preload the games, then on release day they release the unencrypt code and boom, you have a very unlikely to be cracked method of releasing a game fairly to everyone whose been waiting.

hell, if they made games use serial codes(you'd be surprised at how many don't, like, for instance, S.T.A.L.K.E.R doesn't, )have a service like steam let you buy the game, have steam tell the game producer its sold a copy, have the game producer and an authentication server CREATE a SINGLE serial and e-mail the buyer. buyer can only unencrypt game by logging in once to that server the game maker runs to unlock the game. the one thing that helps piracy more than anything else is a ludicrous, insane amount of actual working keys they produce. often these long serial are letting keygens use upwards of 100's of millions of possible keys. surely the easiest way to stop that is to only have the same amount of keys as copies sold. stupid stupid stupid companies.
if they could implement that, it would mean keys can't be guessed, as they are only generated once bought, that key can be coupled up with the e-mail, steam user and name of who bought it so if someone did guess the key they couldn't give the other info tied to that working key. seems to me there must be shedloads of very good ways to almost kill off piracy or at least make it hard. using a security program like securecom which has clearly already been cracked and all the other things that have been cracked is just idiotic.
 
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doesnt look amazing so far, what kind of fps do you have spooky and can you give us some screenies with all settings maxed?

Visually it doesnt look impressive, hearing the AI is bad is another downer. Lets hope the gameplay is all that and they release some patches after its released.
 
Ulfhedjinn said:
I don't see anyone saying they're playing it, never mind a pirate copy. Most people here just seem to have friends who have pirated it or have read these things online. :)

I've heard the AI does some nice hiding in bushes and behind trucks/walls but not a lot, mostly they just seem to chase eachother through walls with their psychic aiming.

Apparently it also sucks to shoot since headshots don't seem to do a damn thing? Hitboxes suck in this game.
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2 ppl in this thread said they are playing it (1 of them said they were playing it later today)

The other folks all talk about how their "m8" is playing it LOL

yeah right..... :p

still at least we get to hear if its any good as i dont think theres a legal SP demo out for this yet.
 
its a bit hard to max everything out as it just turns into a slide show, i agree the images dont look that spectacular but when your in motion it does look nice.

because i only have 1gb of ram it stutters far to much to get an average fps, i've been playing with the settings for the last hour and its just not having it.
 
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