Comment on Weekly Recommendations Thread: What are you playing this week?
Coelacanth@feddit.nu 4 days agoYou’re welcome, always happy to talk STALKER! If you want to try OLR, make sure you grab the 2.5 version as they apparently started inserting more liberal/fanfictiony changes in version 3+. You can download it here (don’t worry, the installer lets you chose English as language).
Essence_of_Meh@lemmy.world 4 days ago
Ohh, that’s some important info. Appreciate the warning.
Coelacanth@feddit.nu 4 days ago
I heard the A-life implementation in 3.0 is very impressive, so there’s that. But yeah it’s kind of unavoidable with projects like this. Same thing goes for the Unofficial Patch of VtM: Bloodlines. Eventually the fan group dev team starts running low on material to restore but want to keep working and so start extrapolating single lines of unimplemented code references into full fledged quests and taking throwaway sentences from design documents and turning them into wholesale mechanics and stuff like that.
Essence_of_Meh@lemmy.world 4 days ago
Eh, I survived retail A-life I can survive an imperfect one in a mod if it means no fanfic additions. They might be interesting for later playthroughs but I’d rather play something closer to the original vision. Actually, did they specify which version they’re basing this on? Oblivion Lost had quite a few changes during development if I recall correctly, I’m curious which was the chosen one.
Anyway, as long as older versions are available it’s fine. At least they aren’t trying to justify those new changes as “lore accurate” and push them on everyone like a certain Skyrim modder who shall not be named, right? Please say yes.
Coelacanth@feddit.nu 3 days ago
I think OLR is based around circa build 1935, but it’s using stuff from all the early builds and also incorporating material from the design documents heavily.
I’m not sure about this honestly as a lot of the community is in russian, but they have the older version up at least so that’s a good sign.