Comments - DerellLicht

Fortunately, V1.4 still works, so restored to that and am proceeding onward... hopefully, a working V1.5.1 will eventually be released.

Well, sadly, after installing 1.5 patch, and deleting the two cache directories, then loading current save game, I now crash on startup.

Oh!! Okay, thanks!! So 2 was *yes* ... good...

I had tried out the previous version of AOR a couple of months ago, but had dropped it for some reason, I don't recall why; the 3 items are most common reasons, but I don't know... oh well, costs nothing to try !!

Okay, 1 and 3 are cool... I remember the guide from Radiophobia 3 (I *think* that's where he was)...

and 2 is fine, the sleeping bag is in inventory, which is what I require.
Now, if I can just resolve the ammo issue, with no spawn menu...
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later note... well, maybe 1 isn't cool either... I don't need spawned weapons; what I most commonly require is more ammo, because many Stalker variants... *ESPECIALLY* Anomaly/Misery-based mods, require infinite ammo for infinite enemies...
Maybe it has g_infiniteammo in the console options?? But even then, I would rather just add a reasonable amount of ammo when I run out in the middle of a wasteland somewhere...

So, my standard questions:

1. any debug/spawn menu?
2. any sleeping bag?
3. any fast travel?

The medkits definitely take a while to heal - about 20 or 30 seconds; not of use when in battle. I had a battle early on, that I definitely was not prepared to survive; bloodsucker plus 2 or 3 pseudodogs... the only way I was able to survive, was cheating by turning on God mode temporarily during that battle. I hate using cheats, but there was no other way I was going to get through that battle!

Well, I got it to extract using 7-Zip, on second try... I first had 7-Zip 'test' the file, which reported everything fine, then had it extract to my target folder, but this time instead of using drag-and-drop as I usually do, I used the program's Extract function, and that succeeded...

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Wow... is anyone else having trouble extracting the main zip file
Radiophobia-3-Version-1.1.2.zip
???

I'm using Windows 10 Pro, I have 19GB out of 32GB RAM free, and *tons* of free disk space on my two Gen4 SSD drives, but *none* of my archiving programs can handle it...
IZArc 4.5 gives error messages on about half of the files, "unsupported compression method", and only extracted 880MB out of the 14GB file...
7-Zip was working away, but after 10 minutes it had only extracted about 500MB, and it estimated it had another 17 *hours* to go!!!
The Windows zip handler in Explorer, just failed with an error about a .GRAPH file, and would not proceed further...

I've never had this issue before... but then, I've never tried to handle a 14GB archive file, either...

Goldsphere: how to obtain the music files??

I walked into Skidan's office for the first time, and there is a really cool tune playing on the radio... but when I looked through all the game files, I can't find the music; I see lots of .ogg files, but they are all sound effects. Where are the radio-music files for this game?? Is there any chance of getting my hands on a copy??

Is there any Spawn-menu mod for this game? I've used Helios Spawn Menu with vanilla Clear Sky, but it does not work with Arsenal Overhaul

I have this question as well, but apparently there is no answer, at least not here...

I tried Helios Spawn Menu, which I've used for vanilla Clear Sky, but it does not work with AOR...

Well... something is definitely wrong, *NONE* of the full download links above, are valid... is this game *actually* available anywhere??

Extracting part2, fails with:
Bad block: "Arsenal Overhaul REDUX 1.0\gamedata\textures\act\act_arm_d.dds"
File fails CRC check: "C:\Users\dan7m\AppData\Local\Temp\Arsenal Overhaul REDUX 1.0\gamedata\textures\act\act_arm_d.dds"

YES!! Thank you so much, that worked beautifully!! Now I can start getting killed... errr, I mean exploring...

So where can I get the complete, actual, runnable version of
GoldSphere OGSR English ??
I installed 'Goldsphere: Completion - Full Repack' and 'Goldsphere: Completion - Patch 4.1', the game ran, but was only partially in English, half of the menus were still in Russian...
I then installed 'Goldsphere OGSR - English Translation, Ver. 1.2' over this installation, and the game now crashes during boot, with error dialog in Russian...
Is the complete English package actually available anywhere?

Could someone clarify what "mod installer" refers to?? I installed the game via ts_setup.exe, but that did *not* offer any mod-install options...

EXCELLENT!!! Thank you so much!!

So, there are no debug/spawn_menu options for this game??

Well, presumably there's a setting in a config file somewhere, for language... perhaps someone could give us a clue on this?? Poking around on menus that I cannot read, is not a very efficient use of my effort.

Okay, how do I get English translation?? It's coming up in some other language, not even Cyrillic...

Well, unfortunately, in 2023 I cannot create a save file for this game, at all...
When trying to save, I get an error message saying there is not enough disk space available to save the game, at least 100MB is required...

I have 3 m.2 NVMe SSD drives available on my Windows 10 Pro system:

c: 1530 GB free
d: 3535 GB free
f: 2460 GB free

I don't know what interfaces this program is using, but it clearly cannot handle modern storage drives... inability to save a game, sadly, will be a show-stopper for me...

Here are my two biggest complaints about SGM 2.2 :

1. No way to just *wait* for a few hours... so in that point where we are forced to "wait until nightfall", there is no way to do that except just leave the computer sitting there for 20 minutes of *real time* for that threshold to arrive... *very* irritating!! Also, I'd *really* like to be able to just pass time quickly when it gets dark, but it's dark at about 1830 or so, and I can't use the sleeping bag until 2100.

2. No way to Fast Travel; even the jump_to_location console option has been removed... that is particularly tiring in that one quest sequence in Cordon/Swamps, where we have to traipse back and forth between regions again and again... I was about ready to just delete the game!!!

Can anyone give me a clue on what the new status icons are?? There are at least three that I've seen, that I can't figure out; it doesn't help that there isn't any Status display to tell me what conditions I am currently experiencing. These are the status icons that appear on the right edge of the screen...

New icons:

1. icon looks like a mandelbrot pattern; I figured out that I can clear this by taking Psychodelin, but I don't actually understand what it means. It shouldn't be about Psi exposure, because there is already a different icon for that??

2. House icon - literally looks like a house. I got this when I was in Pripyat, interacting with the friendly Monolith folks. I asked the vendor there to create some new armor for me, and was waiting 24 hours for it to be done, when this House icon appeared... nothing seemed to make it go away; I tried taking every drug that I have in inventory, nothing affected it... resting did not make it go away... no idea what it was. When it turned yellow after a day, I got nervous, reloaded a save from before I dealt with the vendor, and never spoke to him again... that solved the problem, but I would *still* like to know what it is...

3. broken weapon icon - I got this a couple of times, but all of my armor and weapons were completely intact... generally it goes away after awhile. I also got that icon when I got cornered by a controller; every time it struck me, my stamina drained to 0, so I couldn't draw my weapon, and I was just stuck there. He didn't seem to be able to penetrate my armor (this was late in the game) so I didn't take any damage, but I couldn't get away from him!!

Any insights on these would be *greatly* welcomed!!!

Wow, this is interesting!! The game does not come with ui_options.script, but if I add the file from this mod, it works fine!! Thank you for mentioning this, w80wl !!

Nae, I'm not retarded at all... and obviously I know that I can set max carry weight in the game settings - up to the "max" level on that screen... I'm talking about where *that* max level is set, which as I commented clearly in my post, used to be set in scripts\ui_options.script (in Anomaly), but that file does not exist in this compilation, and the setting does not appear to be found anywhere else either, sadly...

Wow... released pm 03/22/22, and a week later it's already abandoned !!! That might just set a record, even for Stalker mods...

So where is 'max carry weight' set now?? It used to be in scripts\ui_options.script, but that file no longer exists...

Sadly, not compatible with Clear Sky 1.5.10, which is the game that *really* needs this!!!

Is there some way to get at least one of the old debug options to work with this mod? None of them work now. I'm using GOG version 1.2.0 on Win 10 Pro 21H2.

There are three debug techniques that I am aware of for this game:
1. The debug console, enabled by editing an ini file and setting either T=Talk or Tilde=Talk, then hitting that key in-game opens a one-line debug console where commands can be typed in.
2. DebugMenu - edit different ini files to create a partially-transparent menu in lower-right corner.
3. Use the trainer from CheatHappens.com

Sadly, *none* of these options work with Visible Upgrade installed.

1. is unusable because the console line simply does not appear when hitting the Talk key
2. DebugMenu partially works; the menu is visible, and I can click on it to descend into the menu, but I cannnot back out of the menu, nor reset it to default; backspace does not work (though it used to, when I previously played the game)
3. The CheatHappens trainer simply cannot detect that the game is running, so it is not usable.

Does the author of this mod, or anyone else, know any way to get at least one of these debug options working again?

Hokay, I'll stick with 1.03/1.04 until a fixed version is released... that 60deg limit is really unpleasant on my large screen!!

Sadly, English is only partially implemented in 1.04; many options-menu and other displays are still in the original language...