What happen to stalker online, the original version?

[ProVegaGamer]

I tried this steam version, its not the same. In fact, at the very beginning the main theme is completely different now and its awful. Why did change the main theme music, geez.

also this version is buggy as hell, had to restart the game 4 times to create a name, i can't see my character model when making a character, etc.

What happen to the original version , does it still exist so i can download that version instead?

[Technizzy]

im on my 3rd restart cause of bugs an i only get 3 characters hope i can make it out of the starting area this time lol no joke this tutorial is the worst by far

[krusty]

graphically identical?

szone is still on the old models and physics and everything lol
szone barely has functioning ads
szone is more inbalanced and more rpg based, less skill based
szone you have 0 chance to kill a high level player as a new player, in so you can mosin people in the face no matter what level/gear they have, bullets hurt
szone has around 5% the population stalker online has on the msk server alone, not including these servers and ekb/spb

[Prince Vegeta]

Yes, even after playing it a good bit, I still think it's graphically identical. I read that this was originally the same base client so that makes sense that they would share assets. I also read the story about the lawsuits and how some of the devs took a copy of the client and went off to do their own thing (This game).

Thanks for the list of differences.

[BIGDOG4]

Szone online is alternative project that stole from develeopers of Stalker online they have the old client . Stalker online is still stalker online but im shure that there was an issue with steam since brand Stalker is owned by CSG game world so in order to reelease it on steam they had to change the name !

[Баннерщик]

stuck at the Lesnaya station? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TMwokpKgVZE - you can exit in 30 minutes without problems - the video language is Russian - but there are subtitles that can be translated into YouTube in English