Comments on: Wot I Think: Call Of Pripyat

By: Sidorovich

Sidorovich — Thu, 11 Mar 2010 14:17:35 +0000

Has anyone tried the Advanced Reconstruction Mod for this yet? Adds the ability to hunt for mutant body parts, introduces the need to sleep and drink – but more importantly adds dynamic anomalies that make traversing the Zone as perilous as it should be. Can’t recommend it enough!

By: archonsod

archonsod — Tue, 16 Feb 2010 03:07:46 +0000

Stuttered like hell for me, till I switched the renderer to DX10

By: RawTheory

RawTheory — Tue, 16 Feb 2010 03:00:03 +0000

@ SUIBHNE

Ditto. It stutters way too much for a current gen game. But I love it anyways. :)

By: suibhne

suibhne — Mon, 15 Feb 2010 19:38:51 +0000

I’ve played about 10 hours of this game, wandering around in the Creek map and upgrading my kit. I agree with the other positive assessments. CoP stutters a bit on my brand-spanking-new rig just as Clear Sky did on my old one – something to do with environmental audio requiring frequent disk access, I think – but it’s head and shoulders above Clear Sky. It has a different tone from SoC, of course, since SoC dropped you into the gameworld as a total amnesiac and here you’re supposed to be an experienced former Stalker.
The biggest problem that I’ve encountered is just the graphics. I’m a big STALKER fan, but I’ve been surprised by how just dated the game looks. The larger, more open levels don’t do the X-Ray Engine any favors – trees are chunky, distant textures are pretty bad, and the grass draw-in looks worse than ever. It’s especially frustrating to be reminded that the draw-in is hard-coded in the engine and can’t be edited, since my new rig can otherwise run the game beautiful with everything on High, or Ultra High, or even Colossally Cosmically High.
This isn’t diminishing my enjoyment of the game, but it has been a bit of a disappointment. I really hope GSC can deliver a full STALKER 2 with this quality but an up-to-date engine.

By: EBass

EBass — Fri, 12 Feb 2010 15:07:26 +0000

Completed it now, only one game breaking bug. Trigger didn’t fire on an animation during a cutscene, cutscene got stuck ctrl alt del and reload fixed it.

Shotguns are actually good in this game, superb against most mutants especially bloodsuckers.

By: RawTheory

RawTheory — Fri, 12 Feb 2010 10:19:18 +0000

That was AWESOME! I’ve had similar experiences with this game and reading yours was almost as cool as experiencing it first hand! You really got yourself in a fucked situation there. If you were playing on the toughest difficulty I doubt you would have made it out alive….

By: siliciferous

siliciferous — Fri, 12 Feb 2010 01:05:37 +0000

Stalker: Call of Pripyat is now on Steam as of an hour ago. It is a mere $30 brand new, but if you own either of the previous games on Steam you get a $10 discount.

By: Huggster

Huggster — Wed, 10 Feb 2010 14:18:30 +0000

You should watch Solyaris as well

By: neems

neems — Wed, 10 Feb 2010 10:14:32 +0000

Nice. I hadn’t realised the water thing, I’ll have to remember that. The bloodsuckers are a nightmare in this game, one of them treed me for 10 minutes at one point until I finally worked out it had gone.

By: darthpugwash

darthpugwash — Tue, 09 Feb 2010 20:23:47 +0000

Played through to the second map and thus far am very pleased with it, in alot of ways it’s the game Clear Sky should have been.

By: solipsistnation

solipsistnation — Tue, 09 Feb 2010 17:31:34 +0000

Time to game-breaking mission bug: 6 hours.

Then I reloaded before it and didn’t mess around on the way to where I was going. Still no dice.

Either I’m doing something wrong (and I checked other boards and I don’t think I am), or it’s busted and I need to (SIGH) start over.

I had me a nice upgraded rifle, too. :(

By: Commissar Fuklaw

Commissar Fuklaw — Tue, 09 Feb 2010 16:09:38 +0000

Stories like this are one of the reasons STALKER is so awesome