S.T.A.L.K.E.R.: Clear Sky - PC

by Nick Haywood on 1 August 2007, 17:21

Tags: STALKER: Clear Sky, Koch Media, PC, FPS

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So there you have it... a whole new set of levels designed to bring a bit of clarity and answer some of the questions raised in the original S.T.A.L.K.E.R.. But what are you going to see in the expansion, set for release in early 2008? <

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For a start you’ll be able to research and explore new areas of the Zone – Red Forest, Limansk, Pripyat Undergrounds and more. The A-Life-driven Factions War has been enhanced and now it’s possibleto play and lead any faction to victory. In fact, the whole A-Life system has had an overhaul to give much more varied behaviour of NPC stalkers in the A-Life world with improved AI of computer-controlled characters.

This is a key point of the S.T.A.L.K.E.R.: Clear Sky pack with AI now skirting around dynamic obstacles by NPCs and able to do far more such as use grenades. Travel, a big bugbear of the original S.T.A.L.K.E.R. has been improved to be much faster and the concept of detectors, artifacts and anomalies have all been given a revamp.

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There’s a new system of upgrades for weapons and armour and also of weapons and armour repair. The interface has had some work done too to give you a better HUD and PDA.

And if that little lot weren’t enough, the entire game is running on the new X-Ray 1.5 game engine which adds in a DirectX 10 renderer, improved DirectX 9 renderer with parallax bump, soft particles, depth of field, motion blur, eye adaptation effect. And even then you’ve still got inverse kinematics (whatever the hell they are) and a new animation engine to look forward to.

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S.T.A.L.K.E.R.: Clear Sky will be out on PC sometime in early 2008.



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What can I say, loving S.T.A.L.K.E.R, so as with F.E.A.R. the expansion seems an essential purchase, however flawed the game is. It's all about the winning combination of immersive story line and playability.
But thats like 4 years away :(
Lol, 2011!!! They haven't even finished the original yet:)
What's four years away? The game is out in early 2008, which is 6 months or so… the 2011 referred to in the article is GAME time…
I just read the top of the thread and kopites post.

Surely they need to iron out the original game bugs before they release an expansion. Hopefully the expansion release will be coupled with a significant patch.