35 new STALKER screenshots

Mr. Teatime · Post by **Mr. Teatime** » Fri Jan 07, 2005 8:04 pm

<strong>[Game -> Update]</strong>

It looks like <A href="http://www.worthplaying.com">Worthplaying</a> have beaten <a href="http://wasteland.duckandcover.cx/stalker">STALKER Online</a> to the scoop this time. They have <a href="http://www.worthplaying.com/article.php ... rder=0">35 new STALKER screenshots</a> up, some of which are <a href="http://www.worthplaying.com/press/163/s ... pg">pretty impressive</a>, some that show the <a href="http://www.worthplaying.com/press/163/s ... ">dialogue screen</a>, and some that are <a href="http://www.worthplaying.com/press/163/s ... .jpg">just plain funny</a>.
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Kashluk · Post by **Kashluk** » Fri Jan 07, 2005 8:38 pm

~100 000 polygons per frame at 60 fps on average hardware

Yeah, right.

Aneurysm · Post by **Aneurysm** » Fri Jan 07, 2005 10:09 pm

Looks like they used babelfish to translate the dialogue from russian to english.

Mr. Teatime · Post by **Mr. Teatime** » Fri Jan 07, 2005 10:14 pm

Aneurysm wrote:Looks like they used babelfish to translate the dialogue from russian to english.

I think it's not the proper translation, it looks like the Russian version (note the names of the people) with some English dialogue thrown in. The retail version will most likely be translated by the publisher, and, erm, make sense.

Kashluk · Post by **Kashluk** » Fri Jan 07, 2005 10:47 pm

Don't hold your breath.

S4ur0n27 · Post by **S4ur0n27** » Sat Jan 08, 2005 12:53 am

The guy's face is pretty well done, compared to earlier builds. Or am I crazy?

PsychoSniper · Post by **PsychoSniper** » Sat Jan 08, 2005 1:18 am

Possibly both.

S4ur0n27 · Post by **S4ur0n27** » Sat Jan 08, 2005 2:04 am

I never thought of that.

Paranoid Jack · Post by **Paranoid Jack** » Sat Jan 08, 2005 5:22 am

http://games.tiscali.cz/clanek/screen.asp?id=2458

Some of those shots look amazing... and then others look like ass. I would guess 70% of the screens range between amazing or just nice. But the rest are washed out and textures look like crap. Hopefully those are from an old build of the game or an old video card.

Does anyone remember a developer saying that you would not be able to shoot down helicopters with a rifle? I think they changed their minds... since there are numerous shots of characters firing on helicopters. And several smoking helicopters... several crashed or crashing helicopters.

I for one am glad they went for more realism, as far as that aspect goes anyway. Now I just hope they fixed the physics for thrown objects. Does anyone remember the video with the bouncing grenades?

Redrick Shuhart · Post by **Redrick Shuhart** » Sat Jan 08, 2005 9:56 am

Looks like they used babelfish to translate the dialogue from russian to english.

I'm sure it was translated by "Socrat" (famous Russian-English translator). Our Ukrainian....hmmm....guys like to use it, even if the whole programming team knows English.
The first guy's name (Меченый) means "Marked"
The second guy's name (Сидорович) is Sidorovich (this is not a name, it is a family name).

Kashluk · Post by **Kashluk** » Sat Jan 08, 2005 3:02 pm

Ach, you learn new things every day. So "ч" is yet another s-sound, right?

St. Toxic · Post by **St. Toxic** » Sat Jan 08, 2005 4:38 pm

Sounds more like "tje" with a hard t, pitch j ('ie') and short e. ( tjche ?) Am I even close?

Kashluk · Post by **Kashluk** » Sat Jan 08, 2005 8:51 pm

Well, I hear there are 11 different versions of "s" in Russian.
I know shit, though.

PiP · Post by **PiP** » Sat Jan 08, 2005 9:27 pm

St. Toxic wrote:Sounds more like "tje" with a hard t, pitch j ('ie') and short e. ( tjche ?) Am I even close?

No, if you're talking 'bout the ending of that name (Sidorovich).
The last sound of that name is more or less like the end of English "match" (but maybe softer - I'm not sure) - this spelling (by Redrick Shuhart?) is devised so as to enable the native speakers of English to pronounce it more-or-less correctly.
The endind of that name is also like the ending of Janukowicz (Yanukovitch, or whatever they spell it in English) - the guy that cheated in the recent presidential election in Ukraine, so maybe you get to hear this name in the news.

PS: Redrick, the surname of the roadside-picnic guy spells "Shoehart" as far as I remember.

PiP · Post by **PiP** » Sat Jan 08, 2005 9:28 pm

S4ur0n27 wrote:I never thought of that.

stop bullshitting us, will ye

St. Toxic · Post by **St. Toxic** » Sun Jan 09, 2005 12:59 am

I stand corrected. Drowsy from illness I attempted to solve the riddle of the letter itself, which I think is pronounced 'tChe', only to capture all the sounds of it required me to become mad, and hence I started to throw in all types of letters. Sorry everyone!

Staker : чjernoblivs list

Redrick Shuhart · Post by **Redrick Shuhart** » Sat Jan 15, 2005 10:19 pm

Staker : чjernoblivs list

-------------------------------------
Russian Alphabet with spelling:
А................................."buddy"..........
Б................................."blade"..........
В................................"vision"..........
Г.................................."great"..........
Д.................................."dice"...........
Е...................."energy" or "yesterday".
Ё..................................."yo"............
Ж..............something like "joker".......
З................................."zero"............
И................................"Indigo"..........
Й..................................."yet"............
К............................"comrade"

........
Л................................."lion"..............
М................................."mixer"...........
Н................................."neon"............
О.............................."onion"..............
П.................................."price"............
Р..................................."roller"..........
С................................."stage"...........
Т..................................."tooth"...........
У.................................."abuse"..........
Ф.................................."fake"...........
Х.................................."hurricane"......
Ц.................................."ceremony".......
Ч.................................."chicken"........
Ш..................................."shave".........
Щ.................................."sh" + "ch"......
Ъ.......difficult to explain, like apostrophe.....
Ь.......makes the previous consonant softer.
Э................................."energy"..........
Ю................................"Yushenko".........
Я..........................."Yanukovich"............

Ы...it is very hard to imagine an English or American
could spell this letter. Native Slavic letter.

PS. However, I am Ukrainian, I speak Russian and Ukrainian, voted for Yanukovich.

S4ur0n27 · Post by **S4ur0n27** » Sat Jan 15, 2005 11:40 pm

good job

Kashluk · Post by **Kashluk** » Sun Jan 16, 2005 6:22 pm

Yanukovich

Which one was he again?
The dictator or the fuckface?

PiP · Post by **PiP** » Sun Jan 16, 2005 8:09 pm

Redrick,
since you're Ukrainian, you should stress (for others' information) that Ukrainian is not Russian and hence your people have their own language, and I guess the letters of the alphabet also aren't exactly the same (or maybe I'm wrong?), although I hear (some/most/all) people in eastern Ukraine despise their own language and speak Russian

Redrick Shuhart wrote:
Ж..............something like "joker".......

this one's more like "pleasure", ain't it?