S.T.A.L.K.E.R. - Clear Sky

Aki · Post by **Aki** » Fri Aug 24, 2007 8:46 pm

That's right, it's time for another trip back to The Zone, as GSC is coming up with a prequel to the original Stalker. In it, you play a as-yet un-named mercenary a year prior to Shadow of Chernobyl's story, who is working to stop Strelok from reaching The Zone's center as, apparently, such causes some pretty bad s*** to go down the first time. Also, a faction-war seems to play a major role in the story, with you able to take a side and lead it to glorious victory! GSC has added new areas, revamped old ones, and seems to be planning new anomalies and upgraded AI and an upgraded engine for better graphics and stability.

And is aiming for a Q1 2008 release.

http://www.stalker-game.com/ <-- the Clear Sky portion of the site has some info and pics, but the old SOC portion has more Clear Sky stuff, including some screens. Such as this and this

Oh, and a gameplay video.

Morkulv · Post by **Morkulv** » Sat Aug 25, 2007 3:33 pm

Upgraded engine for bigger system requirements you mean.

Aki · Post by **Aki** » Sun Aug 26, 2007 10:17 am

No worse than anything other games for the PC (Like BioShock) will demand of your system. Hell, GSC didn't hire one guy who's entire job was making water pretty, so it'll probably be less than Bioshock.

Additionally, there's a new vid here. I have yet to finish DLing it (it's big. 130 somethin' MB) but it apparently shows the swamps off.

Morkulv · Post by **Morkulv** » Sun Aug 26, 2007 12:21 pm

Then I would have to downtune the game...

(I had to downtune BioShock as well to 800x600) I don't like to do that.

Anyway, those screenshots you posted look impressive.

John Wolf · Post by **John Wolf** » Tue Sep 04, 2007 9:21 am

Finally getting a better computer in one month, will be playing that game soon.

Morkulv · Post by **Morkulv** » Tue Sep 18, 2007 10:17 am

I bought the first STALKER for PC today, and before installing it complained that my videocard wasn't capable enough and that it only had 64 mb while in fact I have a GeForce 7300 with 256 mb RAM...

I really hope STALKER is just sucky at recognizing new drivers (I have the latest videocard drivers) or else its probably the last PC-game I've ever bought.

Shadow Wulf · Post by **Shadow Wulf** » Tue Sep 18, 2007 1:56 pm

Your OS is probably bad. Sometimes it wont read what you have right.

Morkulv · Post by **Morkulv** » Tue Sep 18, 2007 5:33 pm

Its just Vista Home Basic... Nothing wrong with that.

Shadow Wulf · Post by **Shadow Wulf** » Tue Sep 18, 2007 6:01 pm

I once used my friends XP disc for the first time and it didnt want to detect anything correctly, it thought my videocard supported pixelshader1.0 when its suppose to be 3.0, it thought it was a 128mb when it should be more. It didnt even thought i had less ram.

Aki · Post by **Aki** » Wed Sep 19, 2007 1:09 am

Morkulv wrote:Its just Vista Home Basic... Nothing wrong with that.

Stalker doesn't support Vista, which is probably your problem. Sometimes people manage to run Stalker fine on Vista, others...not so good. It's a rather hit or miss affair, as Vista came out after Stalker.

Morkulv · Post by **Morkulv** » Wed Sep 19, 2007 8:20 am

Uuuh, dude... Where did I say it didn't run? STALKER runs fine on my system. It was just weird that the game figured my specs wrong.

John Wolf · Post by **John Wolf** » Wed Sep 19, 2007 4:18 pm

Stalker soon, really carn't wait.

Aki · Post by **Aki** » Thu Sep 20, 2007 12:21 am

Morkulv wrote:Uuuh, dude... Where did I say it didn't run? STALKER runs fine on my system. It was just weird that the game figured my specs wrong.

Where did I say yours didn't run? I was merely pointing out that some people have had trouble with Vista and Stalker.

Morkulv · Post by **Morkulv** » Thu Sep 20, 2007 9:00 am

The only games that really have a problem with Vista are Doom 3-engine powered games. Every Doom 3-engine game didn't make it to the main-menu for me except for the Enemy Territory: Quake Wars demo.