DO NOT PLAY THIS GAME!

[RandalMcdaniel]

Edit: was not paid to write this as i knew people would say but if someone wants to give me money i accept

If you want to play stalker shadow of chernobyl. YOU MUST play stalker lost alpha instead. There is absolutely no reason not to. It is like the 2017 version of stalker. All the same storyline are covered but much easier to understand. The environment design skills of the lost alpha team make GSC look like amateurs. I played base game then stalker complete 2009.. But lost alpha is on a different level. Definately among one of the best games i have ever played in my life. An amazing 70+hr experience

-Still updated in 2017
-Recently upgraded to DX11, Full ambient occlusion, dynamic lighting, tons of other stuff
-Swaying trees, blowing grass, more vegetation density than most AAA games.
-Multiple map areas from original are merged into larger open world sections
-Fully functioning third person mode (not broken like in stalker complete 2009)
-Vehicles that you have to manually open the door, sit down in, start engine, refuel, repair
-So many monsters and enemy types its like morrowind with guns

Stalker base game is a small map shooter with no balance. You can just sell every enemies guns and have more money than you could possibly spend. It's just depressing to play. You can shoot enemies from afar and watch blood spatter out of them and they wont even become alerted. You ever get that depressed feeling when a game is too easy and the AI are so dumb that you dont even want to play?

Lost alpha is more of a balanced rpg complete experience.

Compared to SOC, lost alpha looks AMAZING. It's looks like dear esther with guns. Seriously i can't believe this uses the same game engine as SOC. The amount of vegetation and trees is nuts

https://i.imgur.com/WC2BALd.jpg?2

https://i.imgur.com/XcOcyBq.jpg?2


**If you want to try lost alpha**

Things i wish i knew before installing. You do not need stalker installed anywhere! It is all included in the lost alpha files

You have to download lost alpha 1.3.000 (4 parts) then the 1.42 huge patch and thats it! Do not download the 1.3.0003 patch (skip the 1.003 patch)

Set a video preset first (high for example) then turn OFF sun shadows as they ruin fps. Then set grass density to 75% and object detail to 50%. Disable the games vertical sync and disable the games "use 60hz" options and instead enable vsync through nvidia control panel with only max frames ahead set to 1 and you will much better performance over the default settings trust me.

I am not a dev or anything i just want the world to see this game lost alpha. It might be the best game i've ever played and my steam library is like 1400+ games or something (most unplayed ofc)

[Sapientia]

引用自 MarkedOne：

I dont recommend it, first play the Regular Series and THEN play LA

Yeah Ill play the regular series first then LA.

[RandalMcdaniel]

There is nobody who has played through both can reccomend the original over lost alpha

[RandalMcdaniel]

引用自 Sapientia：

引用自 MarkedOne：

I dont recommend it, first play the Regular Series and THEN play LA

Yeah Ill play the regular series first then LA.

Your loss

[-L7- themaniacboy]

引用自 RandalMcdaniel：

Lost alpha is an open world rpg. One mission i had to go kill a bloodsucker king and they mentioned the area so i had to go take a long car drive and park outside the area and turn on my headlights so i could see easier walking up to the door. It's fallout without the blandness

Vanilla stalker is a joke. Loading screens every few feet. Hundreds of enemies with aimbot and you just stand there in one spot and just wait for dozens of them to enter the same door as you shoot headshot after headshot watching a pile of dead bodies pile up. Everytime you run past garbage there are more bandits. And every dead body you loot a new stash is unveiled.. It's probably the worst shooter i've ever played.

Not to mention you can shoot an enemy in the body 75 times in vanilla stalker and they do not die.

Anyone who has completed lost alpha. There is no way they can say vanilla stalker is better. Lost alpha is gorgeous. Probably some of the best locations i've ever visited in gaming

Lost alpha makes stalker vanilla look like it was made by dumb little kids

Vanilla Stalker is better.

[Insaniac]

I'd just say that I simply think there are better mods available.

[Nite69]

引用自 RandalMcdaniel：

There is nobody who has played through both can reccomend the original over lost alpha

+1

Lost Alpha is the best standalone stalker game at the moment, it maybe has performance issues but its the most stable and has the best graphics

Stalkersoup and Call of Chernobyl are 2 others and are great in there own ways too but they are still work in progress by the developers

[EliteSpinach]

Lost alpha is fun in its own right, if you use the redux mod, but SOC is just as fun. Ten times as fun with StalkerSoup or Joint Pak 2

[Tyrant (My Vision is Augmented)]

Vanilla Stalker is just fine with a couple of balance mods to smooth out the combat. The only issue with vanilla is, as many mention, AI that headshots you from a mile out with a pistol while they take a dozen AK rounds to kill. Mod that out, and Vanilla becomes everything Far Cry wished it was.

Lost Alpha is, itself misleading. It does not resemble the original build for the game in any way. It is, like Misery, StalkerSoup, etc, just one more fan-reimagining. Is it fantastic? Absolutely! Does it completely change the tone and feel of the game? Absolutely.

Part of Stalker's charm is that is wasn't an RPG in the traditional sense, but in the actual sense. I didn't complete missions or kill enemies and "level up" or have my character develop skills. I completed missions, killed enemies, explored, etc and I, in real life, learned more about this world my character inhabited and got better at surviving. I learned which noises meant what and habitats certain creatures prefered. I learned (and slowly acquired) the best weapons and tools for the job. I learned about artifacts and anomolies, how to identify them and live with them. It was a game where I grew and learned things... not my character. Mods that move it closer to a traditional "open world RPG" really miss the point of what helped make the game special, I think. It was always meant to be a horror-shooter with an environment that required you to learn, adapt and survive. Not an RPG.

[Seraphic/8X]

Ignore this thread. You must experience vanilla STALKER!

[EliteSpinach]

引用自 Claire "Lightning" Farron：

Ignore this thread. You must experience vanilla STALKER!

ehh, vanilla stalker is ok, but i think theres alot to be had with modes and such. Modded really brings out a whole new expirience.

[Kongha]

引用自 Claire "Lightning" Farron：

Ignore this thread. You must experience vanilla STALKER!

Nah, stalker v 1.000 is crap.

[Nite69]

引用自 Kongha：

引用自 Claire "Lightning" Farron：

Ignore this thread. You must experience vanilla STALKER!

Nah, stalker v 1.000 is crap.

indeed it was, I remember playing the very first version of SOC, the worst problem was Pripyat map corrupting your gamesaves, I made several backups at the end of Radar because of it

[EliteSpinach]

引用自 =EGC= _Nite_：

引用自 Kongha：

Nah, stalker v 1.000 is crap.

indeed it was, I remember playing the very first version of SOC, the worst problem was Pripyat map corrupting your gamesaves, I made several backups at the end of Radar because of it

for me the audio wont even work, i need to take the time to fix it tho

[Davis1986]

Or play both. And then some Call of Chernobyl, 'cuz STALKER is awesome :)

[EliteSpinach]

引用自 Davis1986：

Or play both. And then some Call of Chernobyl, 'cuz STALKER is awesome :)

yeah one of the best game series