STALKER Clear Sky

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The Online Deal section of the forum recently had a thread for the CD version of Clear Sky for 5$.

Here: http://www.overclock.net/online-deal...m-s-t-l-k.html

The game was a bit buggy, but recent patches fixed most problems. I played CS first, then SoC since it came with my 4870. I prefer CS over SoC. Was more polished. Faction Wars are a bit broken still, some times you have to hold a spot while a squad gets to you but you're stuck waiting because the AI hasn't told them to move.

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You've played Call of Pripyat? How is it? I am looking forward to it big time! Spill the beans!

Amazing. Best I can say.

Play them all and in a row. You wont regret it.

Call of Pripyat is awesome, like it better than Clear Sky, but then again I can max everything except AA and get 50FPS max on it, when Clear Sky I get around 30 with semi-moderate graphics settings
Multiplayer on CoP is awesome as well.

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Yes, the guys who can upgrade your weapons can also repair your armor. Not sure if they can repair it if the condition drops to zero though.

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They can with weapons, not sure on armour that's completely worn. I had a Vintorez that I picked up, condition was right at the bottom of the bar but I could still repair it. Just cost quite a lot.

CS is worth getting, grab a few mods aswell and it looks fantastic. Faction wars can be fun but they can get annoying when the AI wants your help every few mins. Fortunately that doesn't happen too often. There was also a bug that whenever you changed area or got a guide to take you somewhere you got a blowout - I just went back to an earlier save and that seemed to fix the problem. FPS Banana has some nice gun skins and filefront will have a lot of other good ones. Good new scopes on there too.

It's very good. If you love SoC, you should at least like CS.

I think it's critical that you plac SoC first, for a whole host of reasons. Most importantly, SoC will be considerably more frightening if you haven't played CS first. The way that SoC introduces all the scarier critters in the game is just done a whole lot better, they're a lot more tension-filled environments. And they're the same scary critters as CS has, but CS totally squanders their introductions by having them show up very randomly (except the controller, which is fairly well-done). So if you've already played CS you'll not find SoC nearly as freaky/scary in those parts.

Also if you do CS first you're likely to find the lack of certain features (like repairs) to be frustrating, which you'd not care so much about if you didn't play CS first. This being said, there's a lot more good armor to be stumbled across in SoC, so in reality it offsets this potential downside pretty well. In fact, the Complete 2009 mod adds repairs to SoC, and personally I think it actually detracts from the experience overall by sort-of removing a key strategic element.

Anyways, like I say CS is a cool game ... it lacks a certain magic and mystery that SoC had, mainly because it's pretty much all outdoors and the one 'lab' like level is really short. It just doesn't quite have the same scary atmosphere. But this is offset somewhat by some other improvements to gameplay. It's also a little disappointing how long it takes before you get to an actual 'new area' in the game that's at all interesting, this being the Red Forest (same Red Forest as SoC, but a totally different part of it). The Swamps are at the beginning, and they're new, and huge, but ... not really all that cool. Easily half the SC map is the same area as you play in SoC (Cordon, Garbage, Agroprom, Dark Valley, Yantar, and Army Warehouses) with a few minor changes like some areas are slightly expanded and of course the anomalies are all different.

These things being said, the fact that's it's just fun to be back in the Zone on a different adventure, one that's totally decent afa content/story goes.

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Agreed. SHoC with the Oblivion Lost mod is the best (which I modded with shaders from Complete 2009 to make lighting more awesome, and physics from Complete 2009 so you can shoot out lights)

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I think it has less, but I may have not seen them all.