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lowenz

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Can't get enough of the Zone.

 

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Images taken in the new release for Autumn Aurora ( http://www.moddb.com/mods/autumn-aurora-compilation-mod/downloads), Garbage level.

It's like Misery for Shadows of Chernobyl (Misery is a Call of Pripyat mod).

Maybe the lens flare is too strong/invasive :D

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:wub:

 

Loving those clouds. Reminds me, need to check if lost alpha has any updates

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If you drag them up to where the tabs go, they should open. Worked for me on firefox.

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I tried out Lost Alpha a few months ago and deleted it again. The AI was so purely random and stupid. Now I play original CoP just with a few HD mods. I LOVE the stalker games! There was also an awesome movie with a great atmosphere too, with the title Stalker.

"Einen giftigen Trank aus Kräutern und Wurzeln für die närrischen Städter wollen wir brauen." - Text aus einem verlassenen Heidenlager

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I love them too, and these screenshots are some of the reason why. Even with the enclosed levels, it still felt like a really huge & open world, the atmosphere walking around was fantastic, and the fact that it's a special zone where weird things happen adds to it.

 

I just read the original novel (Roadside Picnic), which has a separate story from the movie. I think it's funny that there's at least 3 totally different adaptations of the zone ... the novel, the movie, and the game ... and all 3 of them are great in their own independent way. That's a good indication that the underlying idea is really evocative and versatile. Although there are lots of connections between them too, the anomalies, the artifacts, the stalkers, etc.

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I just read the original novel (Roadside Picnic)

That's what the film is called in Germany :) I never read the book though - might try it out, thanks for the tip!

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"Picknick am Wegesrand". Not exactly the same story as Stalker but it's a good book.

stalker is based on it, but the book is not about clans, populated zone and shooting, it's actually the opposite.

 

About athmo. Misery for Call of Pripyat, has imo best athmosphere so far, geting close to metro games in some way..

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Roadside Picnic was the original story.

REALLY baffling that the Strugatski brothers behind it kind of anticipated Chernobyl as did the writer and director of the motion picture "Stalker".

 

But it's not for everyone I guess. Not everyone appreciates science fiction the way it's done for example with "Solaris" I mean the book and the 1972 movie.

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- 2 July 1844 letter to James Russell Lowell from Edgar Allan Poe.

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