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  • blindiblindi Registered User regular
    edited September 2008
    I'm in the caves but cant find the detector you mentioned. You said it was under the mattress? How do you get to it?
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    You have to low crouch and peek around the corner, just fiddle around and you will get it.

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  • Dr.ObliviousDr.Oblivious Registered User regular
    edited September 2008
    blindi wrote: »
    I'm in the caves but cant find the detector you mentioned. You said it was under the mattress? How do you get to it?
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    You have to low crouch and peek around the corner, just fiddle around and you will get it.

    He's already found it.
    :P

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  • randombattlerandombattle Registered User regular
    edited September 2008
    Here's a map to the cave entrance, please note I've haven't really explored it yet.
    There is a break in the barb-wire fence that you can run through at X. Take that route all the way to where the arrow is pointing, you can't miss it.

    Warning, that area is heavily radiated, so be careful.

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    Why would you lie about something like this. You made me waste all my anti-rad you big homo.

    Lied about what?
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    There's another cave like that in that big building by the freedom base.

    Do tell.
    Umm thats pretty much all I know. It's a pipe near the back but I didn't go in.

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  • Tim JamesTim James Registered User regular
    edited September 2008
    I actually found the caves after I made that post. The break in the fence is unbelievably difficult to find, and the map is uhh... pretty innacurate... the break is just to the left of your mouse in the screen cap.
    The maps in the game are comically inaccurate. I frequently noticed myself walking down a road and looking at the radar to see my icon 20 feet away from its graphical representation.

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  • Tim JamesTim James Registered User regular
    edited September 2008
    I've read elsewhere that if you kill all the individual and independent squads (on every map) from the faction you are fighting, and then wipe out their base, they will no longer respawn and get listed as defeated. Kind of had an inkling that's what had to be done.

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  • OlivawOlivaw good name, isn't it? the foot of mt fujiRegistered User regular
    edited September 2008
    So I gave this game another chance

    After taking a few minutes to actually learn what the hell buttons did, I started to understand the appeal

    The atmosphere is very nice. I particularly like those giant pigwolves in the swamp. Weird glowing eyes and no sound when they move so when one darts across your path into tall grass you're like "oh shit fuck god damn"

    The pace takes a bit of getting used to especially if you've been playing other first person shooters recently, but I can certainly see myself playing this for a while

    The only problems I really have are the accuracy (need to apply that mod) and the quickload. Should be called longload. Because it takes forever

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  • PharezonPharezon Struggle is an illusion. Victory is in the Qun.Registered User regular
    edited September 2008
    Olivaw wrote: »
    So I gave this game another chance

    After taking a few minutes to actually learn what the hell buttons did, I started to understand the appeal

    The atmosphere is very nice. I particularly like those giant pigwolves in the swamp. Weird glowing eyes and no sound when they move so when one darts across your path into tall grass you're like "oh shit fuck god damn"

    The pace takes a bit of getting used to especially if you've been playing other first person shooters recently, but I can certainly see myself playing this for a while

    The only problems I really have are the accuracy (need to apply that mod) and the quickload. Should be called longload. Because it takes forever

    Are you talking about loading a quick save or are you talking about weapons?

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  • CanisAquilusCanisAquilus Registered User regular
    edited September 2008
    Tim James wrote: »
    I actually found the caves after I made that post. The break in the fence is unbelievably difficult to find, and the map is uhh... pretty innacurate... the break is just to the left of your mouse in the screen cap.
    The maps in the game are comically inaccurate. I frequently noticed myself walking down a road and looking at the radar to see my icon 20 feet away from its graphical representation.

    I meant his red line on the map but yeah.

    The maps are pretty crazy off too. Shitty russian gps... Realism!

    The good doctor was very helpful over steam though.
    Olivaw wrote: »
    The atmosphere is very nice. I particularly like those giant pigwolves in the swamp. Weird glowing eyes and no sound when they move so when one darts across your path into tall grass you're like "oh shit fuck god damn"


    Man you just wait. Wait till you run into bloodsuckers, or if you play the first one, when you go into lab x16. There will be poop in your pants.

    Actual poop!

    I needed to take breaks in x16 so I could have some calming tea before getting back at it.

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  • OlivawOlivaw good name, isn't it? the foot of mt fujiRegistered User regular
    edited September 2008
    Pharezon wrote: »
    Olivaw wrote: »
    So I gave this game another chance

    After taking a few minutes to actually learn what the hell buttons did, I started to understand the appeal

    The atmosphere is very nice. I particularly like those giant pigwolves in the swamp. Weird glowing eyes and no sound when they move so when one darts across your path into tall grass you're like "oh shit fuck god damn"

    The pace takes a bit of getting used to especially if you've been playing other first person shooters recently, but I can certainly see myself playing this for a while

    The only problems I really have are the accuracy (need to apply that mod) and the quickload. Should be called longload. Because it takes forever

    Are you talking about loading a quick save or are you talking about weapons?

    Loading a quicksave

    It saves quick at least

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  • DaemonionDaemonion Mountain Man USARegistered User regular
    edited September 2008
    Alright, so I installed some guy's mod and although it's great, he's kind of a douche because now the menu music is different and I can carry 999kgs.

    The menu music sucks my nuts, and although 50kgs was pretty tough, 999kgs is way too lame.


    Anyone know how to change these? Please? I'll share my last loaf of bread with you ...:P

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  • CanisAquilusCanisAquilus Registered User regular
    edited September 2008
    Just tough it out with 50kgs...

    Shotgun ammo weighs a lot FYI. Its easy to keep it down if you go through your inventory carefully.

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  • DaemonionDaemonion Mountain Man USARegistered User regular
    edited September 2008
    I know, I already beat the game with everything vanilla.

    I installed an accuracy and AP/bullet velocity realism mod that tones it down from the OL accuracy mod (in my opinion, OL accuracy mod is just waaaaay too easy). The guns shoot great, but damn this menu music and 999kgs - I didn't ask for that shit.

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  • Ninja Snarl PNinja Snarl P My helmet is my burden. Ninja Snarl: Gone, but not forgotten.Registered User regular
    edited September 2008
    Just tough it out with 50kgs...

    Shotgun ammo weighs a lot FYI. Its easy to keep it down if you go through your inventory carefully.

    This is just my experience from playing SoC, but 50 kg can be enough if you plan ahead. Either bring a ton of ammo for your main weapon (which is probably an assault rifle) or bring a weapon that the enemies usually have ammo for. I had a tough time with a couple of the later sections in the game because I simply dove into them without adequately resupplying. If Clear Sky is anything like SoC, then having to plan enough to either bring a ton of the right ammo or the right gun for the ammo available makes for a much more intense and harrowing experience.

    As far as removing the mod, if Clear Sky works the same way as SoC when it comes to mods then you should be able to simply delete the gamedata folder in the Clear Sky directory. However, make sure this is what you should do before you do it! I don't want to get blamed for your game getting ruined. I don't even know if Clear Sky uses gamedata folders for mods, but maybe that'll get you going down the right track.

    If that OL accuracy mod increases only accuracy, I could see how that would make the game way too easy. The additional damage boost for OL gets me killed all the time by weapons that would hardly make me bleed in vanilla SoC. And 999 kg weight limit? That's just retarded. 50 kgs is already a lot of weight for a single person to carry around on their own, but it's enough to force you to make hard decisions and play smart. Take extra grenades or a lightweight sniper rifle? More artifacts or more health items? Two rifles with ammo or one rifle with ammo and an extra suit? The whole aspect of choosing the right tools for the job is part of what makes the survivor aspect of this game so immersive.

    Wish I could trust my system to play Clear Sky, but it already has a really tough time keeping SoC playable. Every time I look in the same direction that wind blows I end up playing a slideshow. :(

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  • CarbonFireCarbonFire See you in the countryRegistered User regular
    edited September 2008
    ...Wish I could trust my system to play Clear Sky, but it already has a really tough time keeping SoC playable. Every time I look in the same direction that wind blows I end up playing a slideshow. :(

    Even on the static lighting DX8 renderer? With everything turned down? o_O

    If so, you're sporting some impressively ancient hardware there.

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  • StrikorStrikor Calibrations? Calibrations! Registered User regular
    edited September 2008
    Deleting gamedata\configs\system.ltx and gamedata\configs\creatures\actor.ltx will get rid of the weight mod.
    Alternatively you can just edit your own values in if you want a certain value. max_weight in system.ltx is the value you start losing stamina rapidly when you move, and max_walk_weight in actor.ltx is your absolute maximum movement weight.

    Intro music is gamedata\sounds\music\wasteland2.ogg

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  • Tim JamesTim James Registered User regular
    edited September 2008
    Olivaw wrote: »
    The only problems I really have are the accuracy (need to apply that mod) and the quickload. Should be called longload. Because it takes forever
    Takes about 10-20 seconds for me on the same map. It's not super quick, but shouldn't be too long.

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  • skaceskace Registered User regular
    edited September 2008
    CarbonFire wrote: »
    Even on the static lighting DX8 renderer? With everything turned down? o_O

    If so, you're sporting some impressively ancient hardware there.

    I don't think I'd want to play STALKER without the lightning.
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    Wtffff :(

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  • Giga GopherGiga Gopher Registered User regular
    edited September 2008
    So I could run Stalker at a perfectly playable framerate throughout at 1280x800 with static lighting, max settings, etc.

    Has Clear Sky been optimised at all? Would I be able to run it fine if I could run the first game okay?

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  • Ninja Snarl PNinja Snarl P My helmet is my burden. Ninja Snarl: Gone, but not forgotten.Registered User regular
    edited September 2008
    CarbonFire wrote: »
    ...Wish I could trust my system to play Clear Sky, but it already has a really tough time keeping SoC playable. Every time I look in the same direction that wind blows I end up playing a slideshow. :(

    Even on the static lighting DX8 renderer? With everything turned down? o_O

    If so, you're sporting some impressively ancient hardware there.

    Actually, it's not so much "ancient" as it is "a laptop sporting a fancy (lousy) integrated video card". It was never intended to run anything from the last couple of years, so I was extremely surprised to get this to run at all. As buggy as this game is, it's actually the only game in recent memory that reeeally makes me want to put together a new gaming rig, but I simply do not have the cash to spare right now.

    I don't even want to know what sort of horrible digital karma I am accruing for getting SoC to work okay. I'll probably end up walking out of my front door someday and step on a temporal mine from World War XI.

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  • StormwatcherStormwatcher Blegh BlughRegistered User regular
    edited September 2008
    Man, my game has broken again.
    The screen goes black and the game stops working after
    lebedev's speech (triggered by picking up fang's pda in that place where they rob you).

    I'm gonna try disabling mods again.

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  • Dr.ObliviousDr.Oblivious Registered User regular
    edited September 2008
    Man, my game has broken again.
    The screen goes black and the game stops working after
    lebedev's speech (triggered by picking up fang's pda in that place where they rob you).

    I'm gonna try disabling mods again.

    Sounds like your character has been spontaneous struck blind and deaf, believe it or not it’s actual a common aliment in the zone, it's usually caused by extreme psychological stress or watching two controllers mate…sometimes the combination of the two.

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  • ErandusErandus Registered User regular
    edited September 2008
    So, I was playing SoC... I got to the Bar area for the first time ever. I stumbled across the Arena before I made it to the Bar itself, and just did the first fight to see what it was all about. Then I went to the bar and accepted all the missions I could find. At this point, I notice I don't have any equipment anymore. Just the STALKER suit I was given by the barkeep. All my guns and supplies are gone.

    I assume this is related to the arena fight somehow? Can I get my stuff back?

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  • krylon666krylon666 Registered User regular
    edited September 2008
    its in a box in the room where you get the arena fights, if my memory serves

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  • YorkerYorker Registered User regular
    edited September 2008
    Your stuff is stored in a box next to the arena guy.

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  • ErandusErandus Registered User regular
    edited September 2008
    After I'd freaked out and logged off and googled and posted here, that sort of thought did indeed occur to me but I haven't gone back to look. Thanks for confirming.

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  • ErgandarErgandar Registered User regular
    edited September 2008
    I find it increasingly irritating how no one answers my questions D:

    Sidorovich's door won't open for me in Clear Sky, and I'm milling about in the Dark Valley with no clues to the plot.

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  • skaceskace Registered User regular
    edited September 2008
    Ergandar wrote: »
    I find it increasingly irritating how no one answers my questions D:

    Sidorovich's door won't open for me in Clear Sky, and I'm milling about in the Dark Valley with no clues to the plot.

    Dunno.... Try throwing a grenade at his door from the top of the staircase. I think thats what people used to do in vanilla STALKER although I haven't heard of that problem in Clear Sky.

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  • StollsStolls Brave Corporate Logo Chicago, ILRegistered User regular
    edited September 2008
    There's something to be said for collecting a few hundred rounds of sniper rifle ammo throughout the game, battling your way into the military base, and taking a rifle from a soldier's cold, dead hands. And that something is, "In the land of the short-sighted NPCs, the man who can compensate for bullet drop at a quarter-mile is king."

    In a related story, Clear Sky slowly lets faction wars go by the wayside the further in you get, but the atmosphere just spikes right around Yantar. I stopped after Agroprom, started the next day and played straight on through to the Army Warehouses in one sitting. Even unmodded and broken, this game is compelling. :^:

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  • ErgandarErgandar Registered User regular
    edited September 2008
    skace wrote: »
    Ergandar wrote: »
    I find it increasingly irritating how no one answers my questions D:

    Sidorovich's door won't open for me in Clear Sky, and I'm milling about in the Dark Valley with no clues to the plot.

    Dunno.... Try throwing a grenade at his door from the top of the staircase. I think thats what people used to do in vanilla STALKER although I haven't heard of that problem in Clear Sky.

    I managed to shoot it open after switching areas.

    Another question: the soldier commander in the Cordon finally said where his stash was, but the coordinates aren't uploaded onto my PDA. Sidorovich is demanding the stash, but I have no clue where it is.

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  • skaceskace Registered User regular
    edited September 2008
    Ergandar wrote: »
    Another question: the soldier commander in the Cordon finally said where his stash was, but the coordinates aren't uploaded onto my PDA. Sidorovich is demanding the stash, but I have no clue where it is.
    I think it's in the house across the street?

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  • Shorn Scrotum ManShorn Scrotum Man Registered User regular
    edited September 2008
    skace wrote: »
    Ergandar wrote: »
    Another question: the soldier commander in the Cordon finally said where his stash was, but the coordinates aren't uploaded onto my PDA. Sidorovich is demanding the stash, but I have no clue where it is.
    I think it's in the house across the street?

    No, it's
    In one of the tunnels that goes beneath the train tracks. There should be an unarmed (I think) military dude watching it. He asks you not to shoot and is sitting down, I went ahead and shot so he may actually be packing heat.

    At least that's where it was for me.

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  • Dark_SideDark_Side Registered User regular
    edited September 2008
    So I've been playing Clear Sky off and on between bouts of Warhammer Online, let me just take a moment to say, fuck that machine gun as you come into Cordon, took forever to get past that fucker.

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  • Shorn Scrotum ManShorn Scrotum Man Registered User regular
    edited September 2008
    Dark_Side wrote: »
    So I've been playing Clear Sky off and on between bouts of Warhammer Online, let me just take a moment to say, fuck that machine gun as you come into Cordon, took forever to get past that fucker.

    That's how I've been playing the game.

    I eventually said fuck it and went back into the Swamps and went through the farther north Cordon-Swamp pass. Fighting through a couple of Loners blockading a tunnel was alot easier than that machine gun shit.

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  • randombattlerandombattle Registered User regular
    edited September 2008
    Dark_Side wrote: »
    So I've been playing Clear Sky off and on between bouts of Warhammer Online, let me just take a moment to say, fuck that machine gun as you come into Cordon, took forever to get past that fucker.

    That's how I've been playing the game.

    I eventually said fuck it and went back into the Swamps and went through the farther north Cordon-Swamp pass. Fighting through a couple of Loners blockading a tunnel was alot easier than that machine gun shit.
    Man I thought that otherway was far too long of a walk and said fuck it and ate that machine gun sandwich.

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  • Shorn Scrotum ManShorn Scrotum Man Registered User regular
    edited September 2008
    Dark_Side wrote: »
    So I've been playing Clear Sky off and on between bouts of Warhammer Online, let me just take a moment to say, fuck that machine gun as you come into Cordon, took forever to get past that fucker.

    That's how I've been playing the game.

    I eventually said fuck it and went back into the Swamps and went through the farther north Cordon-Swamp pass. Fighting through a couple of Loners blockading a tunnel was alot easier than that machine gun shit.
    Man I thought that otherway was far too long of a walk and said fuck it and ate that machine gun sandwich.

    After about the 30th reload I gave up.

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  • StollsStolls Brave Corporate Logo Chicago, ILRegistered User regular
    edited September 2008
    I... I just found a rocket launcher. :shock:

    I've been carrying two spare rockets around for... I don't even remember how long. I was beginning to lose hope one would ever appear. And then, poof. Stash near the tank in the army warehouses. Primed with a fresh rocket and ready to put a hole in something big.

    I don't even care that I just had to chew through fifteen or so Spetsnaz to get it, or that the primary quest tracker has been locked on Meet Lefty for a while, or that I had to double-back into the warehouses at the onset of a blowout because it consistently caused a crash in Red Forest. With just the right placement of one big weapon, Clear Sky has made me the happiest guy in the world <3

    And now to find a nice, big group of uncooperative stalkers to try it on.

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  • Demitri OmniDemitri Omni Registered User regular
    edited September 2008
    Stolls wrote: »
    I... I just found a rocket launcher. :shock:

    I've been carrying two spare rockets around for... I don't even remember how long. I was beginning to lose hope one would ever appear. And then, poof. Stash near the tank in the army warehouses. Primed with a fresh rocket and ready to put a hole in something big.

    I don't even care that I just had to chew through fifteen or so Spetsnaz to get it, or that the primary quest tracker has been locked on Meet Lefty for a while, or that I had to double-back into the warehouses at the onset of a blowout because it consistently caused a crash in Red Forest. With just the right placement of one big weapon, Clear Sky has made me the happiest guy in the world <3

    And now to find a nice, big group of uncooperative stalkers to try it on.

    From what I hear, you want to save it for some helicopter.

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  • StollsStolls Brave Corporate Logo Chicago, ILRegistered User regular
    edited September 2008
    oh god oh god oh god

    I'm in Lemansk now and I have a heavy machine gun and a grenade launcher and a rocket launcher and a sniper rifle and I have to drop something sweet jesus what am I supposed to do with all this firepower

    I can't possibly carry all this stuff around with me

    or can I

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  • ErgandarErgandar Registered User regular
    edited September 2008
    skace wrote: »
    Ergandar wrote: »
    Another question: the soldier commander in the Cordon finally said where his stash was, but the coordinates aren't uploaded onto my PDA. Sidorovich is demanding the stash, but I have no clue where it is.
    I think it's in the house across the street?

    No, it's
    In one of the tunnels that goes beneath the train tracks. There should be an unarmed (I think) military dude watching it. He asks you not to shoot and is sitting down, I went ahead and shot so he may actually be packing heat.

    At least that's where it was for me.

    Where?

    Was it in that box which you can cut open with a knife?

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  • Professor PhobosProfessor Phobos Registered User regular
    edited September 2008
    Note to self: Don't go into X-18 with insufficient ammunition, because in Oblivion Lost there's some crazy red giant thing in a trenchcoat that will kick your ass.

    I basically hid upstairs and threw grenades until it died. Running out of ammo is just not a good idea. What the hell was that thing?

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