and it has FINALLY arrived (sort of!)
ladies, gentlemen...I give you, STALKER, THE LOST ALPHA!!
http://www.moddb.com/mods/lost-alpha
this, children and ameoba, is Lost Alpha. For those that don't know, STALKER had a very nice history.
Originaly being called OBLIVION LOST, stalker was ment to be QUITE differnt to how we see it now.
Take fo3's world, most ofit can be explored and such and the only load sequences are that of entering a building, or getting
to a sealed off peice of washington. Well STALKER used to be in this vision of a massive mp world, with vehicles, weapon
upgrades and such (unfortunatly GSC world was rushed to much by THQ and was abadoned and turned into the stalker we know
and tbh isn't THAT bad....just stupidly hard at times). This mod brings it back those times. Each map from Stalker is in this mod, with all the bits cut out of the final release put back in (GARBAGE used to be MUCH bigger, and yantar had a power station inside the map and such) there were also what were called "TRANSISSION MAPS". Basicaly inbetween each MAIN map (asin where the player could walk) there was a viehicle map, maps made PURLY to drive round (and or fly round in a helicopter, thats right the old version had a flyable Hind-D).
Not only this, but blow outs were common (the sky would go blood red, radiation fills the zone and people and mutants go mad), rats would swarm in HUGE numbers, cat like enemies, blood suckers would grab you and drink you blood, aswell as drinking the blood of dead stalkers (all these animations were cut in final release HOWEVER they are in call of pripyat...but call of pripyat is FAR to small map wise). over 60 weapons most of which didnt get put into final release (MP7, FN 2000, minigun, silencers and such are but a small amount of things cut), TONES AND TONES of maps were axed, vehicles as i said completely gone although they remain as sceneary in game, about 3 differnt lab missions were cut (EVEN MORE atmosphereic and scary than the ones put in game)
These guys are BEYOND ANYTHING in the HL2 community....and this is why the hl2 community is failing.......I wish you lot would all just say fuck it and make one big mod, everyone doing something.....it is possible you know