Have your say for my STALKER: Twilight K.E.T. mod

[Jess Stingray]

Also, I figure you might want to add this Ket....

Blowouts seem to work fine, we just need to get damage sorted. At least, I've had no bugs when testing it. We also need to get NPC's running for cover when a blowout happens. This may take some doing.

Some of the other stuff may not be done for a while... we need the SDK to do some of the stuff we planned.

 

[Ketxxx]

Blowouts were always going to cause a problem. I'm going to finish gametesting beta 4.1A then start looking at blowouts again. Your right about the NPCs tho, it will take a lot of skilled scripting for them.

 

[Jess Stingray]

Or maybe not, if we can get a trigger when a blowout is about to start, we may be able to fool the AI into thinking there's an enemy in the nearest building, so STALKERs run to it, effectively having them take cover.

Then again, we might need the SDK for that.

 

[Ketxxx]

I dont think so, but like the removed levels, it'll just have to be put on the wayside for now as its not easy to do.

 

[Jess Stingray]

OK, I'll look into the code when my system is back up, see whether it's possible at the moment without the SDK...

 

[Ketxxx]

Whats wrong with ur puter?

 

[Jess Stingray]

Nothing now, just installed Vista x64. It wasn't loading, disk read errors. I think it's about had it, I've only been using Vista 10 minutes and I already had to fix BOOTMGR twice.

 

[Jess Stingray]

Oh yeah, just so we don't get people stealing from this mod, I recommend putting something in the readme saying to contact you first before using anything from the mod.

 

[Ketxxx]

Already done that, had that covered for a while

 

[Jess Stingray]

Oh, OK. That realism mod seriously puts how weak my system is into perspective. It lags at minimum settings!

 

[Ketxxx]

No wonder with a 7100

 

[Ketxxx]

Build 4.1B is on its way people, if all goes well it should be available in a few days.

 

[Ketxxx]

Just an FYI gameplay is completely different in beta 4.1B. I have re-enabled community and rank relations. What this basically means is for community relations, the player has FAR more baring on the game as with the exception of Monolith, Mercs, Zombies and arena enemies, all other factions are neautral to the player unless the player does something to cause members of that partcular faction to become enemies with you, eg; killing someone. Various factions are now also tied in with other factions properly as per the storyline, for example mercs becoming a little friendly with bandits. Factions should also properly interact with eachother as well. In the case of the STALKERs their relations with other STALKERs are not a perfect 5000 as their lone wolves, but if they see another STALKER in need, they should go and help them, this also leads to the knock-on effect of much more realistic A-Life. Dont worry if you inadvertantly join Duty or Freedom, Community relations have been adjusted so one rival faction or the other wont instantly hate you, though they still war between the A-Life. The player will also have various kinda of "backup" now from nearby A-Life depending on your rank. For example if your a rookie, if your in a firefight and there are other nearby rookies, they will come to help you. I could go on and on but I think this will do, the rest you will see for yourselves

 

[Jess Stingray]

This. Mod. Rocks.

It rocks

 

[Ketxxx]

Eh, we need a proper site for it now really. Its got way bigger than I originally intended it to be.

 

[Jess Stingray]

Looks like I need to get that website contest going, and I can get people to do it for us. Muhhahaha. Also, how about making it a general STALKER site, e.g. hints, walkthrough, etc.?

 

[Ketxxx]

If theres space why not, depends how much the server can cope with.

 

[Jess Stingray]

About 500GB.

Maybe saves as well for the lazy people. *cough*Need inside X16*cough*

 

[Grings]

i'll have to give this a go soon, i still haven't completed the vanilla game yet though, i started playing it again, and actually made some progress, then crysis came out (but i've nearly finished that now)

 

[Ketxxx]

STALKER is looking even better now, I made a few more tweaks to the user.ltx file, shadows are now even more realistic than before and metal surfaces are more shiny.

 

[Jess Stingray]

Ket, you know how this mod was supposed to make it harder? It doesn't. It makes it easier

Also, bug we might want to fix: Zombified stalkers can run from grenades, but other times they shuffle. I don't think they should be able to run, they're zombies.

 

[Jess Stingray]

Confirmation: Sleeping works, and sometimes dreams too. 2/3 of the time, theres no dream, the ramining third, there are dreams.

 

[Ketxxx]

Your not supposed to dream ALL the time, only sometimes. If you didnt start a new game thats why its not harder.

 

[Jess Stingray]

I did start a new game. Several times, in fact.

 

[Ketxxx]

Then thats weird. In the testing I've done enemies most deffinately have way improved accuracy depending on difficulty. You playing on novice by any chance? If so thats probably why you arent really seeing any difference, hit % is increased to 35% from 20%, but NPCs still cant hit anything for shit at that. From STALKER difficulty onwards it pops a gear, hit % is 60% vs 35%.