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grue wrote:After buying this last night for 2 euros I've been having a blast.

I installed the No Headbobbing and Subtitles mods so I won't get a headache from the terrible headbobbing.

It oozes atmosphere and I totally love the hard as nails realistic feel so far. :)
I need to get the headbobbing mod. I had forgotten how wobbly it was without it.

Protip: If Clear Sky runs like crap for you, then try forcing DX9 and reduce shadow quality a bit. It helped immensely here. :)
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I am also late to the STALKER party but happy to be so! I downloaded the following mod:
http://www.moddb.com/mods/stalker-complete-2009

This mod fixes allot of issues as well as brings the graphics upto date. I would highly recomend!
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WheetabixUK wrote:I am also late to the STALKER party but happy to be so! I downloaded the following mod:
http://www.moddb.com/mods/stalker-complete-2009

This mod fixes allot of issues as well as brings the graphics upto date. I would highly recomend!
That looks great, thanks! :)

On a different tone, I got to Duty and I don't seem to be able to find a mechanic to mount a scope to a weapon. The army guys there won't let me pass to meet their leader. Any tips please?
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grue wrote:
WheetabixUK wrote:I am also late to the STALKER party but happy to be so! I downloaded the following mod:
http://www.moddb.com/mods/stalker-complete-2009

This mod fixes allot of issues as well as brings the graphics upto date. I would highly recomend!
That looks great, thanks! :)

On a different tone, I got to Duty and I don't seem to be able to find a mechanic to mount a scope to a weapon. The army guys there won't let me pass to meet their leader. Any tips please?
I've not tried the mod, so don't know if that makes any difference. So far as the original game goes:
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You fit sights etc. yourself, but the weapon has to be in the active slot, you can't do it when it's in your backpack. Which seems silly to me. :?

Duty and Freedom (factions) are at war, if you get too friendly with Duty you may have a problem with Freedom. I never did get any friendlier with Duty than I needed to, so I don't know there's a problem for sure, but there is an invitation to help Duty raid Freedom, so I suspect it might be possible to have to shoot your way though Freedom's lines.
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zip accident wrote: I've not tried the mod, so don't know if that makes any difference. So far as the original game goes:
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You fit sights etc. yourself, but the weapon has to be in the active slot, you can't do it when it's in your backpack. Which seems silly to me. :?

Duty and Freedom (factions) are at war, if you get too friendly with Duty you may have a problem with Freedom. I never did get any friendlier with Duty than I needed to, so I don't know there's a problem for sure, but there is an invitation to help Duty raid Freedom, so I suspect it might be possible to have to shoot your way though Freedom's lines.
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You can't do that by yourself. It says that you need someone to attach the mount. The FAQs say a mechanic but I can't find any.
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grue wrote:
zip accident wrote: I've not tried the mod, so don't know if that makes any difference. So far as the original game goes:
Spoiler: show
You fit sights etc. yourself, but the weapon has to be in the active slot, you can't do it when it's in your backpack. Which seems silly to me. :?
Spoiler: show
You can't do that by yourself. It says that you need someone to attach the mount. The FAQs say a mechanic but I can't find any.
In Stalker SoC (I intend to play Stalker CS one day, but I haven't yet):
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The guns come with mounts, or not (you can't fit any scope to the viper machine pistol for instance, or to any pistol so far as I am aware). The mounts on Nato guns won't take soviet built scopes, and vice versa, but I have definitively fitted scopes myself. Some guns come with built in scopes, you can't remove those.
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I'm a bit annoyed with SSoC at the moment, I don't know if it's a bug or whether it's supposed to be this way, but on my current play through I went suited up appropriately through a bunch of radio-active hotspots which with the suits are survivable, looking for goodies (and finding them, so presumably you are supposed to go there), but now my character gets radiation problems everywhere he goes. I mean, if the relevant goodies clear radiation out of you, and the right suits keep it from getting into you, then you should be clear of any lasting effects afterwards? Which isn't what happened to me. So, if my character has the radiation in him, why isn't he dead, it's not as if in real life you can get radiation in you and flush it out and not flush it out (I mean, you can fail to flush all of it, then you've got some left, but that means you have a problem, not you can deal with it but it comes back to bite you later)?

So, do I need to replay through, avoiding some known goodies, or is this a bug that either people know about and can fix without replaying, or nobodies heard of it before and it's probably down to some feature of may particular machine, in which case I can try playing through on a laptop though the performance will be inferior (I think I remember terrible being right on the laptop, maybe I can turn some of the graphics down)?
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