S.T.A.L.K.E.R. prequel gets date News
PC News by Robert Purchese
Deep Silver and GSC World Publishing will be releasing S.T.A.L.K.E.R: Clear Sky around the world on 29th August.
The game been expected towards the beginning of the year, but a slight delay is unsurprising given the legacy of the first title.
Clear Sky is a prequel that offers an alternative view of the events in the 2007 PC original, granting you the opportunity live your life as a mercenary and fight for numerous factions.
Alongside all this will be smarter enemies and technological improvements to the open-ended world of S.T.A.L.K.E.R.
S.T.A.L.K.E.R. is based around the nuclear disaster at Chernobyl in a fictional world where everything went even more pear-shaped than we remember it. And we loved it; it was gigantic and scary, if a little rough around the edges.
Pop over to our S.T.A.L.K.E.R. Review or Clear Sky first impressions to find out more.
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kangarootoo
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STALKER was ace. I shall play it again at some point I think, probably with a few mods to sort some of the issues.
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"Did they ever get the first game working properly?"
It's had a fair few patches and the buggy, system-killing dynamic lighting code was fixed by a third party in the end: http://www.thefloatingpoint.org |
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I think the full dynamic lighting code was stuck on at the last minute and really unoptimized, so it's basically a bit of a system killer on non-beastly rigs.
The float32 mode is just a re-write of the dynamic lighting code that not only looks better but can give you around 20% better framerates! I've only got an cheapo 8600GT, but I'm playing the game at the moment with the float mod installed and the graphics maxed out at 1440X900, it's running really nicely and looks fantastic. I wonder if they've optimized the engine any for the prequel. |
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I've got a 8600GTm DDR3 and my screen is 1440res... I'll have to put this on and see what happens because I can set all the sliders to max which aren't quite hitting that yet! I think I'm playing on 1280res at the moment too.
I must check to see if I'm fully patched too. I think I just read the game is patched up to v1.6, so will do some digging. |
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I wish they'd just work on the promised 1.1 patch instead. It was supposed to be released last year and add some good stuff to the SP mode - most notably, a Freeplay option which removes the limits from the ALife system and lets you play independent of the storyline.
It's a great game all in all, but GSC really need to get their act together. I mean, look at companies like Deep Silver or CD Project. The Fall was flawed as hell at release, but it got speedy and thorough support through patches. The Witcher gets a huge content patch soon as well. And a lot sooner than a year after release! |
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