Now, it’s instead a great, free excuse to dig the oldest Stalker out from its bunker. The mod has now been officially released, after an unfortunate leak dashed the creators chances of having their work become an official paid-for expansion to the series.
It started life as a pure restoration of Shadow of Chernobyl’s cut levels, but later expanded into a more expansive project: creating a new parallel story that takes place across these restored and recreated zones.
Usually, to make a STALKER mod, it’s required that you make everything 700% harder, possibly while pouring homebrewed vodka into any available orifice and glueing beard-extending bear fur directly to your face. While it’s better than the leaked version, Dez0wave said we should think about it as “early access,” meaning it will keep patching and updating after release. The silver lining here, maybe, is that Dez0wave decided to release an official version of Lost Alpha on April 26. The mod is clearly product of the team’s passion and some beta testers mucked it up for them. That doesn’t mean it was necessarily going to happen, but it sucks either way. Worse yet, the team said that the leak killed any chance of Lost Alpha being released as an official, paid add-on for Stalker, which Dez0wave claims that original Stalker developer CSG Game World signed off on last year, if the mod was of a high enough quality. It contains render bugs and other issues that they’ve been working on since last year. The team is upset, first of all, because the beta build of the game dates back to November 5, 2013, and does not at all represent the progress the team has made. Yesterday, the Hungarian team behind the mod, Dez0wave announced that some testers leaked a beta build of the mod, and the mod makers are understandably pretty upset about it. Couple of months ago we wrote about Stalker: Lost Alpha, a mod that aimed to revive an early version of the game teased prior to release, which included more, bigger areas, and other features that didn’t make into Stalker: Shadow of Chernobyl.
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