That's why I think crowd funding would work, but what do I know. Perhaps for the anticipated level of profit, they don't think it worth the risk. Regions and maps feature photo realistic scenes of the region it is made to represent. I think market forces and budget forced them to push out games earlier than they would have liked in the past. Call of Pripyat utilizes the X-Ray Engine 1.6, allowing advanced modern graphical features through the use of DirectX 11 to be fully integrated one outstanding feature being the inclusion of real-time GPUtessellation. Crappy games made for the masses with little unmodded replay value seem to be the way most developers go now. Eric Majkut: They still havent figured out that a multiplayer coop version of Stalker would sell like hotcakes, I see.

The series were niche games which obviously found a strong niche following and inspired a lot of good modders to do years of work perfecting each teams own even more niche visions. Developing one or paying to use another would add to costs and require personnel adept in them. A newer engine with less limitations and optimized for muticore/threaded CPU's would be needed. It was a lengthy development process before using the engine they created. TBH when you look at some of the features modders have introduced (Over 8 years admittedly) it would be very difficult for them to produce in 1-2 years of work something comparable without recruiting some of the very modders who developed all the new features. Titled Close Combat, the map is set around the Jupiter factory location and is apparently designed for dynamic play with. I think, properly crowd funded via Kickstarter or the like, they could raise the capital and do it right. New STALKER: Call of Pripyat multiplayer map - mod&map (hx) 06:15 PM CEST - Apr,14 2010 - Post a comment / read (1) A new multiplayer map has been released today for the popular FPS S.T.A.L.K.E.R: Call of Pripyat and there will be two more to come in the next few weeks.

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