S.T.A.L.K.E.R.: Oblivion Lost Sneak-Peak

[Gorgon]

Xbitlabs have thrown up a new article called Yet Another DirectX 9 Game: Lost Oblivion in Chernobyl were the guys at Xbitlabs Benchmark the leaked version of Stalkers with graphics cards from ATi , Nvidia and Volari! Here's a snip.

While hardware makers do not usually give on sneak-peak on their future products, software developers often provide such opportunity to some selected media just in an attempt to heat up the interest and show what they are ready to offer. Moreover, for some unknown reasons, pre-release versions of three games that were among the highly-anticipated titles by our readers were leaked by “unknown hackers”. The games are: Doom III, Half-Life 2 and S.T.A.L.K.E.R.: Oblivion Lost. Were those leaks intentional or just a very negative concatenation of circumstances for game developers? That is something we will hardly ever know.

According to rumours we have heard so far, the Half-Life 2 will go live either in February 2004 or April 2004. Doom III is also slated to come on the 1st of April 2004 and now you can even pre-order it at BestBuy. But what about S.T.A.L.K.E.R.: Oblivion Lost? The boys still have loads of competitions on their web-site among artists and still add new weapons to their gallery. An essential thing is that the GSC Game-World team have not specified any dates for their highly-anticipated game. This is a bit sad, as quite a lot of people want to find themselves in the virtual world made by GSC and they never know when they are able to finally play their desired title…


http://www.xbitlabs.com/articles/editorial/display/stalker.html

 

[The Terminator]

I dont know how to respond...ummm, cool.

 

[mrchimp]

Despite the leak isn't exactly shader intensive ATi still wins... isn't that funny.

 

[PvtRyan]

Funny, the XT and the 9800 Pro whoops FX ass, but the lower end of Ati seems to lack behind a bit.
But yet another obvious victory despite it isn't PS2.0 intensive.

 

[Top Secret]

Stupid, just stupid. Do they even realise that the leak is a direct x 8 version of the game? Those benchmarks are totally useless.

 

[Kadayi]

When was Stalker leaked? Has anyone obtained it? Is it any good?

 

[mrchimp]

it was leaked a few days ago, but it is a version from over a year and a half ago. It looks nice but you can't play it as such.

 

[kelisis]

Wait...they were using the leaked version from March 2002!? BTW, to all that don't know, the recent leak of the Stalker game is dated back from March 2002 or something, but still runs really good surprisingly.

 

[Loshadka]

"X-Ray Engine" build 1114
Compilation date: May 19, 2002

 

[nw909]

Haha, I'm not going to waste my time downloading something leaked from 2 freaking years ago.

 

[Top Secret]

Like I said, it's Direct x 8

 

[nw909]

ОПАСНЯ 30НА

Russian is a cool looking language.

 

[Kadayi]

If it's an Alpha then it is probably pretty basic, still it would be interesting to know some details if anyone has any about how it runs?

 

[nw909]

If it's an Alpha then it is probably pretty basic, still it would be interesting to know some details if anyone has any about how it runs?

I'd imagine that it runs smoothly on even the worst of systems, it is only DX8.

 

[Loshadka]

ОПАСНЯ 30НА

Russian is a cool looking language.

LOL! ОПАСНАЯ ЗОНА

 

[nw909]

LOL! ОПАСНАЯ ЗОНА

http://www.xbitlabs.com/images/editorial/stalker/icon.gif

oh, I see what your talking about, I made a spelling mistake in a language I don't know.

 

[el Chi]

I hate this website. Their little rant about how "developers betray the media" is ludicrous. since when was the media ever in a position where it could justify such a sanctimonious stance. And besides, they just sound like the people who whinge here about what liars Valve are and how their going to protest by not buying the game. The writer really needs to get over themselves. Silly site.

 

[Sashswash]

If it's an Alpha then it is probably pretty basic, still it would be interesting to know some details if anyone has any about how it runs?

haha...actually, its a pre-alpha......
theres not much too it, but it runs smoothly on the settings its preset @ (i don't know all the console commands)...

 

[The Terminator]

damn you sashwash, I was JUST about to say it was even alpha at the time. anyway I was talking to some peeps, best left unsaid, and I got a version that gave me 1024x786 res and got rid of that gay writing in the middle of the screen. Over all it looks pretty cool, but the AI is really weak at the time youll know what I mean if you ever see it first hand.

 

[nw909]

Is it true that the game doesn't include ragdolls yet?

 

[The Terminator]

also, the first thing I noticed was really funny with the pre-alpha build, all the sounds for the guns r ripped right from counter-strike. lmao, I laughed as soon as I heard it. (I know they r placeholders)

 

[Shuzer]

Hah, with 4x fsaa and 4xaf at 1024x768 the pre-alpha ran from 70-140 FPS for me.. hardly a good thing to "benchmark." They did this with HL2 too, right?

Anyhow, the pre-alpha doesn't have proper ai, dynamic lighting, shadows, shaders, ragdoll, physics, etc.. there's no reason it should run poorly, and it doesn't. What a pointless "benchmark"

 

[Shuzer]

also, the first thing I noticed was really funny with the pre-alpha build, all the sounds for the guns r ripped right from counter-strike. lmao, I laughed as soon as I heard it. (I know they r placeholders)

What gets me is the fact that in one of the official STALKER trailers, they use a shotgun to kill some guys atop buildings to demonstrate the ragdoll.. it's STILL the auto-shotgun sound from CS

 

[The Terminator]

Is it true that the game doesn't include ragdolls yet?

true, no ragdolls in it. whenever you kill a zombie/soldier they have 2 collapse patterns. either right over on their stomach, sprawled out or down to their knees then slump over backwards, very awkward looking. dont even think about shooting a rat as it crashes you to desktop.

 

[nw909]

true, no ragdolls in it. whenever you kill a zombie/soldier they have 2 collapse patterns. either right over on their stomach, sprawled out or down to their knees then slump over backwards, very awkward looking. dont even think about shooting a rat as it crashes you to desktop.

Haha, rats are dangerous creatures with mysterious powers after that Chernobyl accident.

 

[The Terminator]

lol @ nw909

 

[NSPIRE]

Haha, I'm not going to waste my time downloading something leaked from 2 freaking years ago.

Indeed.

 

[Sashswash]

terminator...do u know any of the commands 4 it? after i die, idk how to respawn, so i always just restart...

do u know any video settings commands???


rats don't crash mine...i slaughter those things!....heh :cheese:

 

[The Terminator]

pffffffft, I wanted to kill some rats, but nooooooooooooooooooo. and for commands no I dont, u could try shuzer thou.

 

[Shuzer]

I know all the console commands.. not hard to figure them out. PM me if you want them that much lol

 

[mrk]

the leaks an alpha, even though it looks fantastic (screens on my site) from a ti4200 and runs at about 50-80fps at preset settings changed to 32bit and 1024x768 nothing more can be said than "it's an alpha get over it"

lol

 

[Maxi]

JESUS h CHRIST you people are stupid... just because its compiling date is in march last year doesn't mean it's that old... the engine is but i doubt the other stuff is that old.

 

[mrchimp]

terminator...do u know any of the commands 4 it? after i die, idk how to respawn, so i always just restart...

do u know any video settings commands???


rats don't crash mine...i slaughter those things!....heh :cheese:

type help in the command line lol, change what you want then type cfg_save and restart it or if you don't want to do that you can edit user.ltx and if you want to enable birds or the other guns you can piss about with system.ltx or whatever.

BTW if you enable music it sounds alot like something from Red Alert lol. As for ragdoll physics and rigid body physics the code is there but you have to add something to the objects to make it work.

Edit: We'r not stupid you are, the content is blatantly as old as the code.

 

[Loshadka]

JESUS h CHRIST you people are stupid... just because its compiling date is in march last year doesn't mean it's that old... the engine is but i doubt the other stuff is that old.

Not! It was stolen right after E3(if not during E3), but was zipped and password protected. Apparently they picked the password and released it just now.

 

[Kadayi]

Well my curiosity got the better of me (as always) have to say I was impressed by the sheer goddamn size of the levels on show, even if not much was happening (I felt bad making my dude run everywhere ). Envisaging it with all the elements that are missing, it looks to be shaping up to be a real interesting game, if a little spooky (the random sounds creeped me out a bit). Not too keen on the evil system crashing rats mind....liddle ****ers :hmph: