S.T.A.L.K.E.R PATCH, But it erases all your saved games...

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http://www.fileplanet.com/175763/17....K.E.R.:-Shadow-of-Chernobyl-Patch-%5BUS]

Didn't see it posted...

Fix anything really? I just found it.

Edit: Ahh seeing as how FP has only 100 downloads, I'll say they just released it.... I'm gonna find some direct links. (none yet, will post when one comes about) .. seeing as how it took too long for other sites to get it, I'll just give you the places I look for files without having to wait in line....

www.3dgamers.com
http://videogames.yahoo.com
www.gamershell.com

NOTE: THIS PATCH WILL ERASE ALL YOUR CURRENT SAVED GAMES!, ALSO IF YOU DIGITALLY DOWNLOADED THE GAME, THIS PATCH WILL PROBABLY NOT WORK!!! CHECK 3 POSTS BELOW FOR THE README IF YOU WANT MORE INFO!
 
Hmm, any changelog to accompany it? Downloading anyhow, I can deal with losing my saved game.
 
Says it fixes 68 different things. I got a 14 minute wait so whenever I get it i'll list them if nobody else does.
 
Miller said:
Hmm, any changelog to accompany it? Downloading anyhow, I can deal with losing my saved game.
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Its on the same page, click more details:

NOTE: THIS WILL ERASE ALL YOUR CURRENT SAVED GAMES!

-= v1.0001 March 26, 2007 =-
S.T.A.L.K.E.R. Patch Release Notes


-*Important Installation information*-

There are different versions of the patch for the different SKU's released worldwide and for the Digital Distribution version.
After installing the patch, you will still be able to play multiplayer games across the different SKUs, but it is very important that you install the correct patch for your SKU.

If you live in the USA please download and install

stk-US-10001.exe

If you live in the rest of the world please download and install

stk-WW-10001.exe

If you purchased your copy through the Direct Download service, please download and install

stk-DD-10001.exe



Saved Games

Please note that Saved games from previous versions will NOT work with the patch.
After installing this patch, please go to "C:\Documents and Settings\All Users\Documents\STALKER-SHOC\savedgames" and make sure any saves that were created prior to installing the patch are deleted.
You will need to make sure that hidden folders are visible on the view tab of the folder options menu.



Connectivity

After installing the patch, please note the version number that has been added to the bottom left corner of the Main Menu screen.
You will only be able to connect to servers hosted on that same version.



The patch fixes the following bugs:

1. Buttons remain "pressed" and value changes on its own in Options
2. Players can kill teammates with the knife when friendly fire is set to 0
3. Game crashed when client player types a server command in console
4. Game crashes when entering a MP game after dying in SP
5. Multiplayer map names will appear in debug text format when voting to change a multiplayer map during gameplay.
6. The game crashes while attempting to purchase an item, after pressing Buy button multiple times from the Buy Menu.
7. The game crashes when the user triggers an anomaly after the anomaly time is set to 0.
8. Purchased affordable weapons fail to be in the inventory when one item purchased exceeds the user's monetary amount.
9. The player will lose the weapon he has stored in his inventory as well as the equipped weapon when the equipped weapon is dropped in MP.
10. The host is able to pause the game during an MP game.
11. Players are able to duplicate other player names by using the "name" command in the console.
12. The user is unable to view a fly-by cutscene if their PDA is open while triggering the cutscene.
13. The user can speed up time with the * key on the numpad in SP
14. Players can damage and kill other teammates while friendly fire is set to 0.0
15. The starting weather in-game does not accurately reflect the starting weather set by the server host in multiplayer match
16. The corpse created by a user switching teams remains in the game when playing multiplayer team deathmatch or artifact hunt.
17. Options "show weapon" and "NPC identification" fail to function
18. The up and down function for the look feature are inverted through out the game.
19. The server will crash when the players vote to change maps, but don't select a map to change to.
20. Players will take no fall damage when friendly fire is set to 0 on the server
21. The player dies when trying to exit out of the skin menu back into gameplay
22. Death by an anomaly is not recorded as a negative frag when playing Team Deathmatch.
23. Game Crash when opening buy menu from certain spot in Artifact Hunt mode
24. The prompt for the buy menu and entry via pressing the spacebar appears when in spectator mode during any network game.
25. Professor Kruglov sometimes can't open the door to the mobile science lab
26. When player stands close to a wall and shoots grenade launcher, the grenade falls out of the map without damaging anyone.
27. Possibility of killing enemies through the roofs and walls
28. When killing Wolf before completing any of additional quests given from him, these quests doesn't change status from "Active Tasks" to "Failed Tasks" in PDA.
29. Problem with quest: "Kill gang leader" when piece of text in PDA is directing user to kill leader in Dark Valley. Quest is completed after kill this bandit on Garbage level.
30. Disappearing piece of scroll belt in Main Menu when the player changes resolution to 800x600
31. Anomalies were not appearing when turned on in server options menu.
32. Game crashed when creating a Team Deathmatch server with spectator on.
33. Problems with ‘Slug’ artifact.
34. Possibility to take the decoder through the Wall
35. Issue with cash in inventory on MP build
36. NPC called Seriy has 3 different names: Seriy, Gray and Grey.
37. Problem with price of weapon in inventory
38. Game crashed when vote for kicking a player ended
39. Rare game crash during multiplayer match, after players choose a team.
40. Exploit with update rate command
41. Wood in barrels is flickering, although there's no fire there.
42. Player can jump between 2 stalkers and table inside the bar and become stuck.
43. Two side quests from Sakharov have wrong description.
44. After playing in multiplayer mode and then starting single player game, Sidorovich has one of multiplayer nicks instead of his name.
45. Game crashed when player fight with pseudodogs on red forest.
46. The game crashes to a non-responsive state (task manager) when attempting to host multiplayer game a second time with an invalid CD-key.
47. On Win 2000 PCs, the Windows Desktop cursor has no functionality when minimizing the game (Alt+Tab).
48. The game will result in a soft crash when a player dies from radioactive poisoning, then immediately falls into the tunnel well that leads out of the Agroprom Underground level.
49. The arrow buttons remain depressed when clicked and dragged off the boxes, thus making the value increase or decrease indefinitely in the options menu of network games.
50. Game crashed during map rotation. This issue occurs several times while playing with maps (Vehicle station, Desolated Village and Deserted Factory)
51. Game crashes when entering an MP game after dying in SP
52. The Host will crash and all Clients will either return to the main menu, crash to the desktop, or the program will shut itself down and return the user to the desktop, when attempting to drop a player while users are In-Game
53. Users are able to pick up an opponent's grenade after it has been thrown and then use it themselves.
54. The players name switches to a random player's name with a _1 after it in multiplayer if no name is entered in the network games menu.
55. Players fail to be kicked, after unanimously voting to remove them, during network gameplay.
56. Player is unable to ban other player, everybody vote for, line "voting succeed" appears and nothing happens. Player that was supposed to be banned still can play and do whatever he wants on the server.
57. The starting weather in-game does not accurately reflect the starting weather set by the server host in multiplayer match
58. Saved game are over written when attempting a second save uses the first saved game's name followed by a "space" and any other word or number during single player campaign.
59. The artifact is unaffected by gravity when dropped during an artifact hunt game.
60. Players take no explosion damage when the friendly fire damage option is set to 0 in the server options of a team deathmatch game.
61. The game will crash, halting progression when transferring from Station to the Sarcophagus.
62. When player wants to reload a weapon, and start fast shooting, he can't do that because weapon continues reloading.
63. The game crashes when a player is killed immediately after they are re-spawned into the game.
64. The weapons fail to scroll when using the mouse wheel after all the grenades have been used during single player gameplay.
65. Minor text bugs.
66. Various balance issues in Singleplayer and Multiplayer.
67. Various known exploits/cheats.
68. Various other issues.
 
boo @ erasing saved games

not that it really matters one of my quests was bugged so i was going to start over any way :eek:
 
Very weak that it erases saved games. Most of the fixes appear to be for multiplayer...don't play...don't care about patch.
 
No luck on the links... only FP has it right now (out of the US english sites anyways)

I'll post a good direct link when I find one in a few minutes I presume....
 
Seems to be mostly for MP. I'm half way through the game and don't want to start over with lost saved games. Guess I'm going to hold off as I'm not having any problems so far.
 
2 minutes until I can download it...here's hoping "various other issues" refers to Vista.

[EDIT] Nope, didn't fix any of the glaring performance bugs in single player, for me, anyway.
 
lol, just as I finish posting a small review and bug complaint in the other thread, I see this thread. It looks like it hasn't fixed my problems in singleplayer, so I'll wait for feedback so I don't have to start over.
 
I wish they'd seperate the MP and SP fixes, this looks to be mostly a MP patch. You'd think they'd ad a no head bob option with all the screaming in the forums about it, and fix the vista crash issues first.
 
Bah, just a crash/multiplayer patch, nothing to improve performance or compatability
 
I thought the point of delaying a game release is to fix the bugs :rolleyes:

But looks like this patch will only make more problems, so i am not getting it.
 
I just looked in the Patch-0-1.txt and found this interesting.. -= v1.0001 March 23, 2007 =- March23 yet were only seeing it today (well yesterday) :p
 
cant you jsut backup your saved games and then copy them back into the saved game folder after patching?
 
There are some VERY VERY major changes not listed in the log there.

1. The trader/s now sell some nice things. THe first trader has a Merc and Stalker suit, he also sells guns like the Viper, plus more ammo (for shotguns, etc). Plus when you trade him something it shows up in his stock. Also the prices for things have went up, so overall the "abudance" of money issue is going down.

This means you actually have a reason/use for your money now.

2. The AI has been changed quite a bit. They no longer see you easily and you can hide a LOT better, so stealth is now a vital choice you can make, this leads to you not having to fight every person you come across.

3. The damage model has been tweaked, in the factory the bandits there take like 2-3 bullets to drop now, instead of 8+ (non headshots).

4. Your suits degrade now, which in turn also reduces their +stats.

This is a patch that even if it isn't comptabible with your saves, is worth restarting for imo, at least if you wnat to play in a stealth/more realistic damage along with money having a use now.

As well as some performance tweaks that help performance issues (not sure how well though).
 
Tylerdurdened said:
Bah, just a crash/multiplayer patch, nothing to improve performance or compatability
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Not true, it has performance/ai tweaks and many very nice single player changes, I have no earthly idea why these things weren't listed in the patch notes, as they are a lot more noticeable/important imo since the game is mainly single player for many people.
 
Tetrahedron said:
cant you jsut backup your saved games and then copy them back into the saved game folder after patching?
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"Please note that Saved games from previous versions will NOT work with the patch."

They changed some code so no it's not possible.
 
Why is FP the only crap site with this patch? Neither the developer nor publisher has the patch for download. Like hell I'm joining FP to download patches. And does Canada use the world wide patch or the US patch?
 
Well for me, I noticed a pretty nice improvement for the 5 minutes that I've played after installing the patch. I used to hover around the 20s to 30s fps on medium settings with dynamic object lighting at 1280x1024. Now with the same settings I am around the 30s and 40s fps!

I too also noticed that bandits are easier to kill (more realistically) as opposed to the pre-patch where it too 1 whole clip at close range to kill someone.

All in all, I feel this is state that the game should've been released as. From the way I see it though, it can only get better now. :cool:
 
I just ordered my 8800GTS 640 tonight so maybe when it gets here, I will install this patch along with it and start over again. :) glad to see this prompt patch for gameplay issues.



 
Gatticus said:
No reg needed from this server.

http://www.fileshack.com/file.x/10335/S.T.A.L.K.E.R.+1.0001+Patch+-+US

Oh, and this is for the Canadian version too and not just the US version as the patch name implies. My box and manual has french and enlgish languages which clearly is not the fucking U-S-A so I at first downloaded the freaking worldwide patch but it turns out I need the goddamn USA version. PITA. :mad:
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QFT same as the registration for the game. I tried to register and Canada is not a country you can choose.
 
Uh...how big is this file supposed to be?

edit: ahahaha...attempted to get file from filefront...started downloading a 106meg file...decided to see what 106meg file was...turned out to be a COH update. God i hate filefront.
 
As a programmer myself I just wanted to LOL at that list, it is completely ridiculous that that many things got by both the development team and the testers.

"Options "show weapon" and "NPC identification" fail to function"

Someone must have forgotten to implement them, oops!

"Players fail to be kicked, after unanimously voting to remove them, during network gameplay"

Are you kidding me?

These aren't glitches and oversights, these are completely unimplemented features... I wish publishers wouldn't put such tight time constraints on developers.
 
I guess it's the old "release now, patch later" mentality. My guess is that they got the game in a mostly playable state and then decided to release it rather than delaying it yet again. At the very least, they should have released the patch on release day like FEAR and others.
 
Are those single player fixes verified, if so I'll restart even though I'm a good ways into it.


"There are some VERY VERY major changes not listed in the log there.

1. The trader/s now sell some nice things. THe first trader has a Merc and Stalker suit, he also sells guns like the Viper, plus more ammo (for shotguns, etc). Plus when you trade him something it shows up in his stock. Also the prices for things have went up, so overall the "abudance" of money issue is going down.

This means you actually have a reason/use for your money now.

2. The AI has been changed quite a bit. They no longer see you easily and you can hide a LOT better, so stealth is now a vital choice you can make, this leads to you not having to fight every person you come across.

3. The damage model has been tweaked, in the factory the bandits there take like 2-3 bullets to drop now, instead of 8+ (non headshots).

4. Your suits degrade now, which in turn also reduces their +stats.

This is a patch that even if it isn't comptabible with your saves, is worth restarting for imo, at least if you wnat to play in a stealth/more realistic damage along with money having a use now.

As well as some performance tweaks that help performance issues (not sure how well though).
 
Stiler said:
There are some VERY VERY major changes not listed in the log there.

1. The trader/s now sell some nice things. THe first trader has a Merc and Stalker suit, he also sells guns like the Viper, plus more ammo (for shotguns, etc). Plus when you trade him something it shows up in his stock. Also the prices for things have went up, so overall the "abudance" of money issue is going down.

This means you actually have a reason/use for your money now.

2. The AI has been changed quite a bit. They no longer see you easily and you can hide a LOT better, so stealth is now a vital choice you can make, this leads to you not having to fight every person you come across.

3. The damage model has been tweaked, in the factory the bandits there take like 2-3 bullets to drop now, instead of 8+ (non headshots).

4. Your suits degrade now, which in turn also reduces their +stats.

This is a patch that even if it isn't comptabible with your saves, is worth restarting for imo, at least if you wnat to play in a stealth/more realistic damage along with money having a use now.

As well as some performance tweaks that help performance issues (not sure how well though).
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I hope this is all true. I'm tired of the AI seeing me and shooting me from a mile away, through brush and foliage or in pitch black darkness.
 
Is there any other information for single player optimization or changes?

The release notes imply this patch carries an emphasis on multiplayer.

I purchased this game for the single player portion so any information is helpful.

Thanks.
 
Meh, im over having to start again. Somehow I got Duty so pissed at me, they attack me on site, even in town. I think it had to do with an assasination mission I took. Oh well this time I will be more careful and not take every mission.
 
beanman101283 said:
I guess it's the old "release now, patch later" mentality. My guess is that they got the game in a mostly playable state and then decided to release it rather than delaying it yet again. At the very least, they should have released the patch on release day like FEAR and others.
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Yep.

In any case, I decided to patch the game and restart from scratch because I didn't get real far into the game. I can confirm that killing bandits is much easier after the patch. I haven't noticed any improvement in performance, but I'm not having much trouble with it anyway.
 
dark_reign said:
Yep.

In any case, I decided to patch the game and restart from scratch because I didn't get real far into the game. I can confirm that killing bandits is much easier after the patch. I haven't noticed any improvement in performance, but I'm not having much trouble with it anyway.
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QFT....I also see quicksave/quickload F6/F7 now works which is a big plus for me as I hated having to stop the game and save/load from the menu..
 
GOD FUCKING DAMMIT. I just got through the zombie part of the game (which scared the shit out of me, i have a thing with zombies..), and just when I come out of the damn mission, I have to start OVER???
 
dingobiatch said:
GOD FUCKING DAMMIT. I just got through the zombie part of the game (which scared the shit out of me, i have a thing with zombies..), and just when I come out of the damn mission, I have to start OVER???
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Uh, why do you have to start over? I'm doing the zombie mission too.......
 
My performance was helped a TON!

amd 64 3400
6800 ultra
1gb ram.

I was only able to run it before this patch at medium settings (full dynamic lighting on) with the texture slider to about 2/5, grass at 4/5, objects at 3/5.

Sun shadows on
Grass shadows off

like 70% shadow quality.

Now I'm able to run it on high, with 4/5 texture/objects, 5/5 grass, grass shadows on, a higher view distance + full shadow quality.

I think the reason is that before the patch the game wasn't using memory correctly. With anything higher then medium I got a lot of hard drive swaping, literally just turning around brought the game to it's knee's , now I can run it at high with smooth gameplay, no more hard drive swapping.
 
HatefluX said:
Are those single player fixes verified, if so I'll restart even though I'm a good ways into it.


"There are some VERY VERY major changes not listed in the log there.

1. The trader/s now sell some nice things. THe first trader has a Merc and Stalker suit, he also sells guns like the Viper, plus more ammo (for shotguns, etc). Plus when you trade him something it shows up in his stock. Also the prices for things have went up, so overall the "abudance" of money issue is going down.

This means you actually have a reason/use for your money now.

2. The AI has been changed quite a bit. They no longer see you easily and you can hide a LOT better, so stealth is now a vital choice you can make, this leads to you not having to fight every person you come across.

3. The damage model has been tweaked, in the factory the bandits there take like 2-3 bullets to drop now, instead of 8+ (non headshots).

4. Your suits degrade now, which in turn also reduces their +stats.

This is a patch that even if it isn't comptabible with your saves, is worth restarting for imo, at least if you wnat to play in a stealth/more realistic damage along with money having a use now.

As well as some performance tweaks that help performance issues (not sure how well though).
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I dunno about verified, but I had just reformatted so went ahead and installed the patch - the Traders one is definitely true, as I was asking about it on another forum last night. The suits degrading is true, I noticed that and thought I just had missed it before (it's the blue bar).

AI/performance is harder to quantify, but were I a betting man, I'd put down money that it's also true. I had my ATT fps counter shut off, so I don't know if it really ran more smoothly or not.
 
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