S.T.A.L.K.E.R. bundle is 75% off on Steam this weekend

by David Hinkle on Aug 21st 2010 1:00AM

Two parts of GSC Game World's eerie FPS series -- set in an alternate-reality Chernobyl following a second nuclear meltdown -- can be yours on the super cheap. Both the original S.T.A.L.K.E.R.: Shadow of Chernobyl and follow-up S.T.A.L.K.E.R.: Call of Pripyat are bundled together for only $10 on Steam through Monday. (The S.T.A.L.K.E.R.: Clear Sky prequel game is not part of the bundle; but it's is available separately for $10 on Steam.)

The full-on S.T.A.L.K.E.R. 2 sequel was recently announced and scheduled for release in 2012. While that gives you plenty of time to get to caught up, this weekend Steam sale might just be the excuse you were looking for to book your first trip to Chernobyl. That whole nuclear meltdown incident made it quite a lovely place for scavenging, trespassing, adventuring, loner-ing, killing, exploring and robbing. See what we did there?

Source: Steam

Tags: GSC-Game-World, pc, Shadow-of-Chernobyl, Stalker, stalker-call-of-pripyat, Stalker-Shadow-of-Chernobyl, steam, THQ, valve

Reader Comments (31)

How does this work if I already have one of the games? Can I pay 5$ for one of them?

Nope, it's a sale on the bundle, not the individual games.

@spacemonkey086 If you buy the bundle, and you already have one of the games, you're basically getting the other game for $10. A friend of mine had Shadow of Chernobyl, and only received Call of Pripyat from the purchase. But hey, he got it for $10.

It's so glitchy though, I'm a little upset that it freezes so much, as well. Like, when I start a new game on CoP, it freezes. On SoC, well it's just slow as hell, and my computer runs Crysis on max settings

@HybridPara

That's kind of strange. I'm running it at High settings currently. HD 5770 is running it fine. Never really cared to turn on fraps while playing it, but it's smooth.

@HybridPara
Not for me. I'm running it on an P4 2.4 GHz proccy (core) 512 MB GeForcde 8400 GTA with 1.75 MB of RAM and it runs fine

Funny, they were kind of talking about this in the latest podcast.

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@Shadowbender By the gods...

Hmm this worth it? I cant find a demo. ><

Specs; AMD Phenom II X4, Vista Home Premium 64 bit, GTS 250

Buy it! The first STALKER, Shadow of Chernobyl, is really good with the STALKER Complete mod and Call of Pripyat is great right out of the box (or right out of the hard drive...?).

@einhanderkiller

Whats this Complete mod do, and where do I get it?

@Faenix

Also this works under vista, right?

The complete mod significantly improves the graphics and it fixes up the gameplay a bit, tweaking the AI and the interface.

Videos here:
http://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=stalker+complete+mod&aq=f

Yes, the STALKER games work under Vista, but you should be on 7!

@einhanderkiller

Thanks greatly.

And eh, Vista hasnt harmed me.. yet. :P

@Faenix
Vista works well with me. I'll also probabally put Vista on my next comp I'm building due to I've got free vista 64 bit copies and not 7.

@Faenix

And bought, 30 minutes of waiting.. what to do. what to do.

@The Aquacharger

Yeah Vista hasnt been bad to me, thats why I upgraded from the basic one to Home Premium 64 bit (That and at the time I was building a PC, and 7 wasnt out for like 6 months.. lol)

@Faenix
I'll have to give that mod a try. I was one of those people who didn't 'get' stalker for a while, but a friend and I had nothing to do for a couple of days so we played through it - I don't think I've ever played a better FPS. Challenging, incredibly immersive and so, so atmospheric. Although we were playing on one down from the highest difficulty and towards the end of the game, each time we got shot led to near fatal bleeding. But that just added to the charm :P

@Haggard

I think im veteran, and first non-mutant I saw I got owned.. hard.

Second time I did better, need to figure out trading.. lol

But ya, its ok so far.. need to try the mod though :P

OH i see what you did there.

Has anyone else experienced the horrible lag issue??

And it's not from lack of hardware.

I'm running an intel xeon six core at 3.6ghz
6gb 1800mhz ddr3 ram
2x5870 crossifre 900/1250

It's kinda frustrating after paying a whole $10.00 for. :(

@zaxis01
I didn't know people used Xeon for gaming, thought it was mostly for servers etc. My PC is, let's say, a lot more modest than that and I had no troubles with running the game.

@zaxis01

I run it fine

AMD Phenom II X4 3 ghz,
Vista Home Premium 64 bit,
4 GB of DDR2 (Will upgrade to DDR3 when it's cheaper),
Nvidia GeForce GTS 250 1Ghz

I experience no lag.. just I suck. XD

@zaxis01

Micro-stuttering and lag are pretty common issues with dual GPU setups; in certain titles, the framerate fluctuates so wildly as to be nigh unplayable (even if the maximum number of frames per second is extremely high). In your case, it's a little strange. The Stalker games have an affinity for ATI hardware and are extremely Crossfire friendly; if you were to have an issue, it shouldn't be in either of these games. Which leaves two things: 1) they need to be patched or 2) there's a driver issue. I've heard the Catalyst 10.7 driver really screwed Crossfire performance, so it might be worthwhile rolling it back to 10.5.