Default STALKER would have let me get a pool party started before I showed symptoms.

You know, that stuff that bandages no longer replenish. I’m within two metres of the anomalous bog when toxins begin nibbling at my health. Unknown quantities get the special “still accurate while panicking” treatment. The scuttling of an unknown quantity echoes across the wretched pools.

I can’t say if they’re connected, but I sure feel drained by the washout.Īfter an arduous trudge, I’m surveying the swamp inhabited by Stingray 5. My stamina recovery drips away with the downpour. MISERY includes an AtmosFear 3 variant to make it bleaker yet. Fingers of cloud reach down to earth and water tumbles in sheets. I decide that the best place to begin my mission is with Stingray 5. Twisted willows bedeck the riverside ahead, and something massive is moving among them, something that I shouldn’t be seeing until much later: a pseudogiant. Gone are the cheery browns of irradiated soil, no more welcoming wave of blasted pines. The start point is ostensibly the same, but STALKER’s default opening is a country garden by comparison. I’m Special Forces, and I’m going to cannonball my mission without hesitation: finding the hell out of five missing Stingray choppers. As in all open-world games I just piss about collecting MacGuffins for miscellaneous MacGuffin lovers and seeing the sites. I’ve never completed Call of Pripyat’s storyline. I’m unscrupulous alright, but not one to derelict duty. MISERY is a mod for STALKER: Call of Pripyat, two all-caps games which combine to form an experience which shouts death and despair at anyone who tries to play it. I’ll pick off monsters from the safety of a nice, cosy bush, although odds-on that’ll eat me too. Accordingly, I choose to play as a Sniper.

Honour is for the people not playing MISERY. Over the course of Survival Week we'll highlight a few of those games and i) write a diary of our experience playing with it ii) explain how to do it yourself. There are lots of survival games, but there are also lots of games which could be survival games with the right mods installed.

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