Stalker : Clear Sky

Unixlord · September 24th, 2008, 03:50 PM

I just finished Stalker: Clear Sky. I won't spoil anything but the ending is just sad.Aside from one or two glitches that did not affect the gameplay I only encountered a single bug once which was easily fixed by loading again.

I suggest GSC learn a thing or two from the oblivion lost team. Their mod for SoC is absolutely amazing. Here's to hoping that there will be a OLCS project.

I think there just might be a third stalker game that would either run parallel to one of the previous titles or be a prequel to clear sky.

At any rate I thoroughly enjoyed the game and I'll wait for the next patch + mods before giving it another run.

omagic · September 24th, 2008, 04:57 PM

Well its quite good when You look on gameplay, world etc but technicaly the game code isnt optimalized enough...expecialy when You turn lights to max... Besides that physics are a bit better than in Stalker:SoC so are the models.

Unixlord · September 24th, 2008, 05:39 PM

It's actually better optimized than SoC. I get far less loading pauses and shorter loading times with CS. Ran fine with enhanced full dynamic lights, there's a fps drop when the sun rises and throws sun shafts everywhere but even that remained smooth. There is however a problem with campfires (even when they're not lit).

omagic · September 24th, 2008, 08:20 PM

Yes campfires kill gpu

with my SLI i get around 35-55 FPS(1280 maxed) but 35 is... when i have any campfire in my sight :-P But anyway this one option drops fps from around 75-100+ to 35-55 so optimalization of this effect isnt good...

IModIntel · September 24th, 2008, 08:21 PM

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Originally Posted by Unixlord

There is however a problem with campfires (even when they're not lit).

And I hereby create the ''Kill the KampFyrez'' clan

Unixlord · September 25th, 2008, 03:23 AM

All the textures are more detailed, the enemies are more challenging and finding artifacts is fun and rewarding.
Omagic you should tweak the sun quality and sun rays settings, the fps drop you mentioned only happens during early morning (sunrise throwing sun shafts) and evening. In my opinion the drop isn't that hard to justify turning it off. The interesting thing is that the drop occurs even if you're not seeing any rays (a hill blocking the sun). Overall we're going to have to wait for a patch/mod to fine tune this effect.

omagic · September 25th, 2008, 09:19 AM

Sure hope so, but I think that the game it self is big suprise for me, better than 1st one , nicer and more playable. As for this effect this is only cute bonus , the game would be pretty without it. It is new thing and maybe theyll get some extra speed after optimalization

Unixlord · September 25th, 2008, 05:39 PM

Just finished crysis warhead. Had it's moments but was generally short and boring and overall not as good as the original. Besides that it crashed to desktop twice for me and that puts me among the lucky ones. My only experience with stalker: clear sky was on patch 1.5.04 but that never crashed to desktop. It's funny how people (not on this forum btw) who don't have warhead automatically assume that it's bug free and that clear sky is rolling in bugs crashing.

omagic · September 25th, 2008, 09:46 PM

Warhead has few cons right on the start for me... 1st performance suposed to be better than on original...it aint! Secondly it suposed to be more dynamic...it aint!! It suposed to have better dstory..not realy...etc It crashed for me once also...

IModIntel · September 29th, 2008, 01:33 AM

The new adventures of Psycho: Crysis : DickHead