Via VG247: a GSC fansite is reporting that there’s a “new” expansion (the first presumably being standalone Clear Sky) as well as a full new game from the company in the works.
In an online conference earlier this week, [GSC president, Sergey] Grigorovitch was asked whether the April 2009 calendar featuring the words ‘Call of Pripyat’ in Russian was an April Fools’ joke.
He replied that this was not a joke and would be the name of the second expansion. He added that this new expansion will be released later this year. Furthermore, a full S.T.A.L.K.E.R. title is also in development, although there’s currently no information on when we will hear more about this.
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Well, I’m sold.
Even though Clear Sky was lacking in the underground areas, i still found it as oddly compelling as SoC, bugs and all.
Also, the Red Forrest at night was just as good as anything in SoC (after I was mangled by something i couldn’t identify deep within it, i just never went back in there after hours).
Well, considering that I have found SoC (with Oblivion Lost) to be a monumentally amazing game that I have played through several times already, I’d agree it feels like something is missing from CS. However I am on my first (completely mod-free) walk through so we’ll see once I finish it and stick some nice mods on it. OTOH it is weird being slaughtered by pseudodogs & the like in the Red Forest unlike in SoC where I had enough knowledge of the “tricks of the trade” to know how to dispatch those bastards.
Anyway, if this pack comes out for Clear Sky, I’d probably buy it assuming I don get irritated with the later stages of CS. At which point I’ll just go back to SoC, pick Freedom as a faction (with Oblivion Lost) and drive Duty crazy with random raids. And hunt boars. Mmm, Red Forest ham!
I’ve almost completed SoC with AMK mod. I mean, I didn’t mean to finish it, it was second playthtrough and most fun is from free roaming up to Pripyat and back. Anyway, AMK is surprisingly stable and fun (loved the “stalker chat” feature), though translation is sometimes horrible. Apparently 2.0 version of the mod is in the making, they plan to add alpha maps to the SoC, or something like this.