Ulric Posted May 23, 2017 Author Report Share Posted May 23, 2017 Well, in addition to selling grenades that you can dupe into existence, I found another financial exploit in Lost Alpha. You can talk to other stalkers through your PDA, sometimes to buy things, sometimes to sell things, sometimes to tell a joke, etc. If you hunt around, you can find a stalker that is willing to sell you something that another stalker wants to buy from you. The seller is usually asking for a higher price than the buyer, so at first it seems like you are just going to lose money. Well, it turns out that in addition to the laws of thermodynamics, the zone warps economic laws as well. Both the seller and the buyer are willing to make the deal at over inflated prices, so once you get the item for the stalker, you can immediately buy it back from him for less than what he payed you to get it. The items I was playing with was getting me a 1000ru reward, and cost me 510ru to buy back. Additionally, once you buy the item back from the stalker, he suddenly finds himself in need of one, and you can set up another meeting via your PDA to sell him the same item that you just bought from him for an inflated price. I also discovered that the game will not let NPC stalkers go into debt, so you can just rinse and repeat until you have any amount of money that you need. Also, this description cracks me up. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
EnsignExpendable Posted May 23, 2017 Report Share Posted May 23, 2017 Is sinusoidal rifling actually a thing? Seems like it wouldn't work very well. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Collimatrix Posted May 23, 2017 Report Share Posted May 23, 2017 6 minutes ago, EnsignExpendable said: Is sinusoidal rifling actually a thing? Seems like it wouldn't work very well. It might be a translation-derp of rounded-profile rifling, like this:https://data.epo.org/publication-server/image?imageName=imgaf001&docId=7820461 Presumably the rifling twists the same way all the way down the bore... There's a lot of wank about different rifling profiles, and basically it doesn't matter. According to Julian Hatcher's tests in the 1930s, .30-06 loses about 1% of the cartridge's energy to friction with the rifling, and that figure goes down as you scale up. The highest estimate I've ever seen for energy loss from bore/bullet friction is 3% for 5.56 NATO. So, if you invented some super-duper rifling that caused 1/1000th the drag of regular rifling the improvement on muzzle velocity would be... somewhat above the level of statistical noise. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
EnsignExpendable Posted May 23, 2017 Report Share Posted May 23, 2017 Oh yeah, that makes a lot more sense. Edit: yup, googling "sinusoidal rifling" in Russian brings up STALKER as the top few results, but there are enough actual small arms articles that come up that might mean the term is just uncommon rather than a translation fuckup. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Xlucine Posted May 23, 2017 Report Share Posted May 23, 2017 50 minutes ago, Collimatrix said: It might be a translation-derp of rounded-profile rifling, like this:https://data.epo.org/publication-server/image?imageName=imgaf001&docId=7820461 Presumably the rifling twists the same way all the way down the bore... There's a lot of wank about different rifling profiles, and basically it doesn't matter. According to Julian Hatcher's tests in the 1930s, .30-06 loses about 1% of the cartridge's energy to friction with the rifling, and that figure goes down as you scale up. The highest estimate I've ever seen for energy loss from bore/bullet friction is 3% for 5.56 NATO. So, if you invented some super-duper rifling that caused 1/1000th the drag of regular rifling the improvement on muzzle velocity would be... somewhat above the level of statistical noise. A percent or two of total cartridge energy is still significant - the projectile only gets like a third of that, so if the energy of the projectile goes from 30% to 32% for example then that's a ~7% increase in muzzle energy. That is still assuming an absurd improvement in rifling efficiency, but it's worth looking into at least Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Oedipus Wreckx-n-Effect Posted May 23, 2017 Report Share Posted May 23, 2017 Look what I fooooound. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LoooSeR Posted July 29, 2017 Report Share Posted July 29, 2017 2004 E3 footage of Stalker with mostly old engine. From 6:02 you can see a combat with military patrol. I wish release version had such active AI. At 10:20 you also can see pretty neat thing - when player see a second stalker (left one), that AI shout to player to drop his weapon, waits for a second and then kills player after he did not dropped his gun. 2005 footage, on a new engine Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sturgeon Posted July 29, 2017 Report Share Posted July 29, 2017 I believe a lot of that AI was recreated/resurrected with the OL mod. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LoooSeR Posted July 29, 2017 Report Share Posted July 29, 2017 3 minutes ago, Sturgeon said: I believe a lot of that AI was recreated/resurrected with the OL mod. It is like 10 years late Pretty sad that Dmitriy Yasenev didn't developed it futher. Sturgeon 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sturgeon Posted July 29, 2017 Report Share Posted July 29, 2017 Just now, LoooSeR said: It is like 10 years late Pretty sad that Dmitriy Yasenev didn't developed it futher. Agreed. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LoooSeR Posted July 29, 2017 Report Share Posted July 29, 2017 16 minutes ago, Sturgeon said: Agreed. Also forgot to tell that voice acting in both videos during fights is spot on. Especially in second video from 2005 E3. After many "Western" shooters with "russians" that can't pronounce "granata", everything said in those vids sound realistic. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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LoooSeR Posted March 5, 2018 Report Share Posted March 5, 2018 Looks like a well made weapon mod Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LoooSeR Posted May 16, 2018 Report Share Posted May 16, 2018 Yeah, @Ulric https://www.polygon.com/2018/5/15/17358508/stalker-2-announced-gsc-game-world Quote STALKER 2 announced, scheduled for 2021 release Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ulric Posted May 16, 2018 Author Report Share Posted May 16, 2018 It will be interesting to see what they do with it. The direction that games are moving in does not instill much confidence, but I'll be cautiously optimistic. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Xlucine Posted May 16, 2018 Report Share Posted May 16, 2018 The zone was the original battle royale Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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LoooSeR Posted December 27, 2018 Report Share Posted December 27, 2018 This one is really fucking great. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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