Why does Stalker: Call of Pripyat look so dated?

As mods have shown the engine can handle hi-res textures and modern graphics, but half of it's atmosphere and artstyle come from the "dated" looking graphics. If you don't like it when I'm sure you wouldn't like anything other than Crysis, Far Cry 2 and Metro 2033. Your gaming life must be extremely boring.

It's using an old engine, mods help make it look better though.

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Teh_Can

[QUOTE="dangamit"]Dudes, this guy has obviously never played a STALKER game. STALKER games = pure hardcore s****.BluRayHiDef

The game is hideous and lame. I just got into a shoot out. It was the lamest and most non-immersive experience I've had this generation. Absolute rubbish.

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Teh_Can

[QUOTE="dangamit"]

The game is not ment to be played like a COD or a Half Life game. So yes, if you try to playit like a COD game, it will suck.

BluRayHiDef

Who said that I was trying to play it like a COD or Half Life game? Nobody. Just because someone has a bad experience with this game doesn't mean that they're playing it incorrectly (if that's even possible :roll: ). It just means that they don't like the game. Sometimes it seems very difficult for some people to accept that not everyone enjoys a particular game. I'm sorry to burst your bubble, but Stalker isn't all that and a bag of chips. It's not even an empty bag of chips.

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Teh_Can

[QUOTE="dangamit"]Dudes, this guy has obviously never played a STALKER game. STALKER games = pure hardcore s****.BluRayHiDef

The game is hideous and lame. I just got into a shoot out. It was the lamest and most non-immersive experience I've had this generation. Absolute rubbish.

I think I know what happened here. You started playing the game with the thought "I'm not gonna like this", and whoop-dee-doo, you ended up not liking it.

I have a quick question. It's regarding the "pauses" or "stuttering" in the game. I understand that the English version already comes patched on launch compared to its international counterparts. Every 3 seconds or so, the game would pause for a split second. This usually occurs in outside environments and NOT indoors. Apparently, there's no other patches. Is there a "fix" for this? Thanks much.Elann2008

[QUOTE="Elann2008"]I have a quick question. It's regarding the "pauses" or "stuttering" in the game. I understand that the English version already comes patched on launch compared to its international counterparts. Every 3 seconds or so, the game would pause for a split second. This usually occurs in outside environments and NOT indoors. Apparently, there's no other patches. Is there a "fix" for this? Thanks much.Dante2710

I love the look of all the STALKERs, it's one of those games you can vividly remember exactly how it looks in each area because of how atmospheric and immersive it is. I've yet to play a game with better lighting, either. Not to mention you can almost feel how cold it must be in that place thanks to the sound effects and wind animations, and what other game's that dark at night to the point where you can't even see your own gun? Extreme immersion.

Incidently, the gfx of Metro irks me more than CoP does.. It's just frustrating to have such a beatifull game go ahead and be totally inconsistent on you like Metro does.. Remember that mine cart section right near the beginning? Watching you and your comrades pass out due to the mind **** is downright terribnle terrible after you've seen Hunter arrive in all it's smokey and shiney glory.

Don't regard this comments as technical because I don't have to vocabulary to go scientist on anyonw here but Metro is terrible at meshing textures. Everyone with a ski mask looks like they soaked it in glue to make it act like a helmet for example. The aforementioned mine cart section makes you watch the npcs touch their heads to indicate the also mentioned mind **** but everyone seems to have an invisible forcefield sorrounding them. The Metro engine does'nt do people actually touching eachother or themselves. It does'nt do fabrics either.

I'd say that game is like a secret child of Source and Cryengine 2. Some parts are incredible while others are pretty dated.

CoP approaches you from the other side.. It starts you off unimpressed and then goes on to wow you. Metro Shows you a lot of shiney right off the bat and then goes on the show you that it's sort of skin deep.

Edit: Excuse the many spelling errors and bad congruity. I'm slightly intoxicated.

Incidently, the gfx of Metro irks me more than CoP does.. It's just frustrating to have such a beatifull game go ahead and be totally inconsistent on you like Metro does.. Remember that mine cart section right near the beginning? Watching you and your comrades pass out due to the mind **** is downright terribnle terrible after you've seen Hunter arrive in all it's smokey and shiney glory.

Don't regard this comments as technical because I don't have to vocabulary to go scientist on anyonw here but Metro is terrible at meshing textures. Everyone with a ski mask looks like they soaked it in glue to make it act like a helmet for example. The aforementioned mine cart section makes you watch the npcs touch their heads to indicate the also mentioned mind **** but everyone seems to have an invisible forcefield sorrounding them. The Metro engine does'nt do people actually touching eachother or themselves. It does'nt do fabrics either.

I'd say that game is like a secret child of Source and Cryengine 2. Some parts are incredible while others are pretty dated.

CoP approaches you from the other side.. It starts you off unimpressed and then goes on to wow you. Metro Shows you a lot of shiney right off the bat and then goes on the show you that it's sort of skin deep.

Edit: Excuse the many spelling errors and bad congruity. I'm slightly intoxicated.

Filthybastrd

STALKER CoP has the best lighting I have ever seen in a game.SF_KiLLaMaN

... and textures too. Walk right up to a building and look at the detail on individual bricks. It's insane.

I'm really getting into the Stalker games. Never really liked them before but the Complete 2009 mod and Atmosphere mod really helps give the game more immersion. Why does Pripyat run "poor" compared to Shadow of Chernobyl? I was just playing SoC with Complete 2009 mod and it ran beautifully.

Pripyat would stutter a lot especially when you sprint. Something I read that it's "pre-fetching" data? Well, I tried the "no pre-fetch" patch and it seemed to help a little bit but not so much.

The install instructions says to put the patch in the gamedata directory but Pripyat doesn't seem to have a gamedata folder... only SoC does. Btw, I purchased my copy of Pripyat via Amazon Digital Download.

Thanks in advance for your help.

[QUOTE="SF_KiLLaMaN"]STALKER CoP has the best lighting I have ever seen in a game.psn8214

... and textures too. Walk right up to a building and look at the detail on individual bricks. It's insane.

That said! I do love the lighting. It's pitch black at night and when you see flash lights off in the distance, and those storms - especially with the wet surfaces look - are just *makes silly sounds of excitement*

And I do agree. Some textures like for bricks, or metal, especially rust and stuff, look great, unfortunately the ground textures and in the first 2 games the gun textures, are pretty bad. I still love the series though and those "poor" textures really help to add a run-down look to the place.

S.T.A.L.K.E.R. - Shadow of Chernobyl

How can anyone seriously say that this game is "bad-looking" or "sub-par?" It looks amazing. These screenshots do not even do the game any justice.

It's true that some parts of it look pretty dated as it's a very old engine (the first game started development in 2000). But it still looks fantastic in some parts. If they can make it look so good with a decade-old engine, just imagine what Stalker 2 will be like with an all-new engine.