Posts by Jetsetlemming

  • STALKER: Clear Sky

    Quote from JohnC

    I got the STEAM version so it's patched to 1.5.04 too. I know I won't see it around for a while, and I also read it's so damaged it costs 9600 just to repair it, but I was hoping to use it to clear the

    It's supposedly your personal rifle you had in the intro movie.

  • Serious thread: Is 0 a number?

    Quote from barrakid

    2- The symbols that represent the Arabic numbers (the ones that we use) where created by making geometric figures with the corresponding number of angles (1 has one angle, 2 has two angles, etc) in which "0" represents the absence of angles that being the reason why it is represented by a circle. It's easier to see this in the following image (count the dots on each figure):

    http://%7boption%7d

    Mind = blown.

  • Crysis Warhead

    Quote from Erratic

    Also, what the fuck is with this Gamespy shit? I though their relevancy had long since expired. Creating login accounts is goddamn annoying, PC games have to quit this shit.

    Seriously? That's still an active service? I haven't heard a thing about Gamespy since before HL2's release, seriously. Ages.

  • Valve to be bought out by... Google?!

    http://www.rockpapershotgun.com/2007/11 ... interview/

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    Well we do have freedom. I think lots of games reach a stage where people say, “Okay, let’s ship it,” when there’s really twenty or thirty percent of the work left to be done on a project. There’s enormous pressure on publicly owned companies to meet quarterly objectives, and people who are not gamers just don’t understand: they can’t see the difference between a done game and “almost-done” game. They don’t understand why the people building it keep pushing them back. They say, “Are there show-stopper bugs?” and if they answer is no then they ship it. Their bonus will be based on the targets for that quarter, and they’ll be off working somewhere else the next year anyway.Here the company is not owned externally, we do not receive our funding externally, everybody who works here owns a part of the company and they have a long-term interest in the company. They are all concerned with the long-term success of how we do. That freedom to get it right allows us to recognise that just because you can run through the game and it won’t end up crashing, well, that doesn’t mean anything. It’s just a stable platform to go and fix the things you got wrong, it’s not something that’s ready to ship. It just means that now you’ve got to the serious work of getting it right

    Interview from 7 months ago.

  • STALKER: Clear Sky

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    In probably two weeks I'll have my new hardware and can finish STALKER and get Clear Sky. I'm excited and apprehensive at the same time.

    Edit: Apparently this is common because I've seen different versions of the same thing reposted like a million times

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    The guide in the southern farmstead thingy won't take me to the cordon, we go through the entire conversation, he tells me to get ready to go, and then we just stand there staring at each other. I tried shooting him in the face to get a new guide, he had an AK and a nice gun, but the second guide still wouldn't give take me there. I assume this is a bug, is there any way to fix this?

  • Let pupils abondon spelling rules

    Quote from Ginger Lord

    This borders on becoming far too American.

    Fun fact: We don't do this in America. It's been suggested a few times and it's always laughed away. We have a ton of problems with our public schools but reading and writing isn't one of 'em. Disobedience, teachers having to act like babysitters, and drop-outs are a far bigger issue, and that's for inner-city schools.

  • STALKER: Clear Sky

    http://forums.steampowered.com/forums/s ... p?t=725684

    L33t programming

    Edit, also, from tweakguides:

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    After spending a couple more days in the Clear Sky game world, I can now confirm that the issue we discussed earlier in this thread about FPS at certain times of day (e.g. here) is definitely related to Sun Rays.For some reason, every morning at around 6.00am to around 8-9.00am, the game seems to suddenly switch on the sun ray effect - note that it's only available in the two new 'Enhanced Full Dynamic Lighting' modes (DX9 and DX10). While this gives the morning a very beautiful look, it absolutely saps performance on most machines. Then, as the sun rises beyond a certain point, all of a sudden the effect is turned off and FPS once again goes back to normal. Visually it's hard to tell when this occurs because there's no visible change, the 'switch' for sun rays seems to turn off a few minutes after the actual rays are no longer visible. More importantly, even if you can't see any sun rays (e.g. you're inside a building and there are no windows) the rays still sap your performance regardless, so it doesn't matter if you can see them or not.

    The bottom line is that every day, around early morning, performance will be severely reduced. The reason this is of even greater concern is because the game starts on an early morning scene, and so everyone will be misled as to what their actual performance in the game is, if they use the two new Enhanced modes. Since sun rays can drop FPS by almost half, most people will start adjusting every setting downwards to get playable FPS in the morning scene, when in reality it's not representative of how the rest of the game plays.

    So my advice is firstly to wait around 15 minutes of real time (or when the sun is around 30 degrees or higher in the sky) before seeing what your FPS is in the game after starting it, as that is what your 'real' FPS is going to be. Secondly, as I've noted earlier, there is a simple workaround to this issue, and that is to set the 'Sun Rays' setting to Medium or Low, and that instantly raises your FPS in the morning without greatly reducing/removing the visual quality of sun rays.

    I'll have the guide out in a few days, but this was an important thing to note as we head towards the North American release, because otherwise everyone will complain of poor performance when they first fire up Clear Sky due to the Sun Rays.

  • STALKER: Clear Sky

    Quote from dux

    How does someone that hasn't played it tell

    The hud's really different. The CS hud has a geiger counter meter on the bottom right, and little markers for the things that popped up out of nowhere in SHOC like the bleeding and radiated icons on the right side above the health and armor bars.

    Quote from Buddy

    Yes, and stop even bringing up that OL mod too. Its piece of junk.Ah and its obviously not CS screenshot lol

    The only thing about OL that sounds good is reintroducing the cut mutants. I saw a screenshot of the dwarf mutant a few months ago and I was all like :monocle:

    Luckily someone linked me to this:

    http://www.metacognix.com/stlkrsoc/

    Bugfix mod for SHOC.

    Unluckily, my video card exploded today. Most advanced game my computer can play now is Xcom.

  • STALKER: Clear Sky

    Oblivion Lost claims to fix it in its features but I'm not willing to install that on my first playthrough and get the other features like "bandages don't heal" and "breaking the endgame" and "a different weather setup incompatible with SWO" with it. I've been looking to see if there's just a lone bugfix mod that does nothing else but fix shit like this, but so far nothing.

  • STALKER: Clear Sky

    http://www.oblivion-lost.de/download/pa ... -any-4.exe