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S.T.A.L.K.E.R.: Clear Sky [Gaming]
The skies are clearing and we can just about make out another gritty Russian adventure on the horizon. Will Clear Sky be as beautifully broken as the first game though, or is this a wholly better form of PC shooter? We venture into the zone and find out...

Category: Gaming
Publish Date: Fri, 12 Sep 2008 08:39:09 +0100
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Source: bit-tech.net feed
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They didn't like that so much.

It's getting a pasting in all the reviews I've read so far.

friznit wrote:It's getting a pasting in all the reviews I've read so far.

Yeah, which is a shame, it got patched again yesterday which has fixed a lot of the issues.

and it really seems likely that the BSODs/crashes are nvidia driver related.

Dr. kitteny berk wrote:seems likely that the BSODs/crashes are nvidia driver related.

I fixed mine, hurrah!

It was my audigy 2 drivers.

*plays stalker*

I've left this for now. As much as I enjoyed the first level, I don't want to do it over and over again because of the patching needed. I've been lucky with it in that it's ctd'd once and nothing else has borken, but they really shouldn't have released it in the current state.

HereComesPete wrote:I've been lucky with it in that it's ctd'd once and nothing else has borken, but they really shouldn't have released it in the current state.

it's not broken, but because it's broken you're not playing? :D

OK, so I've secured the swamp, I tell a guide to take me to the next place, and he has a chat, agrees to it, then doesn't take me.

He's russian, go figure. Did you bribe him with enough cigarettes?

STALKER is pissing me off. It seems to do anything to keep me from playing it. Crashes and booms with different errorz each time I reinstall.

I think I'm gonna wait for a couple more patches, then start again. I can't get my game to advance at all, cba to do it all again only for the same to happen.

Endings a bit shit. Bit of run and gun and then a really short cut-scene followed by a credits list longer than the final level was.

did you get a shitty ending? sounds like you might have (I have no idea in this one)

Only one ending I believe, to fit it all in with it being a prequel an all that jazz.

Handily I took your advice on the cheeky dropping of equipment so that didn't slow me down much.

Anyone else find that the bandits spawning in the garbage centre was a bit fucked up? kill them, walk off a few metres, get a message saying 'oh noes, they're in the warehouse again, help!' and suddenly they're all spawning right behind you.

Didn't make friends with duty either, they came to back me up one fight and I didn't realise, thought it was a ninja spawn and capped them all, they had a good go at fucking me up after that.

Also, didn't find most of the flash drives, then randomly found one that no weapon/armour smith seemed to want.

I would just like to say FUCK ALL BANDITS. Fuck them hard, and fuck them long. Fuck them in the ass. Twice. With your dick wrapped in sandpaper. I swear to god I am going to fucking kill all of them. You think you can take my guns and money? FUCK YOUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUU.

Clear Sky doesn't really seem all that much harder than SoC was. There is just never enough money to get what I want but otherwise it's pretty much the same old shitty starting weapons, it gets a lot better when you get good guns.

I like how an entity in a game can provoke such a personal reaction. It's a sign of great AI (or storytelling).

First they tried to take all my gear (which I prevented with a quick reload and stashing my gear) then they have the nerve to take all my money twice? Fuck them all. I will murder every single one of their asses. Straight up Compton style. If their families were in the game I would kill them too.

deject wrote: Straight up Compton style.

Straight outta Chernobyl, crazy mother werder named deject