S.T.A.L.K.E.R.: Clear Sky/S.T.A.L.K.E.R.: Shadow of Chernobyl Leftovers

This is a sub-page of S.T.A.L.K.E.R.: Clear Sky.

The resources have not been cleaned from the original game, resulting in a lot of unused content that is unused just because it's not removed.

Weapons

A configuration file for Akm 74/2U Special, a unique weapon in SoC. Not a single parameter got changed, it uses the old way of referencing name and description, and it's present in Build 3120, back when no new unique weapons were made, so it's surely a leftover that somehow survived the purge.

[wpn_ak74u_m1]:wpn_ak74u	;АК-74у спецназ
$spawn             				= "weapons\uniq\wpn_ak74u_m1"
description						= enc_weapons1_wpn-ak74u_m1
inv_name	        			= wpn-ak74u_m1
inv_name_short					= wpn-ak74u_m1
silencer_status					= 1
condition_shot_dec 				= 0.00003
inv_grid_x						= 5
inv_grid_y						= 20
inv_grid_width					= 5

smoke_particles 				= weapons\generic_shoot_00
flame_particles					=
light_disabled					= true
snd_shoot					= weapons\w_ak74_shot1
snd_shoot1					= weapons\w_ak74_shot1
snd_shoot2					= weapons\w_ak74_shot1
snd_shoot3					= weapons\w_ak74_shot1

Sounds

Ambient

Ambient sounds in S.T.A.L.K.E.R. are sounds that are played in specific areas to a specific range, i.e. transformer hum, PC noise or radio music. Although Clear Sky devs did add a few new ambient sounds, they mostly reused ones from SoC and never made a clean up to remove all the SoC sounds they did not end up using.

crowd_1.ogg, crowd_2.ogg and crowd_3.ogg, as well as crowd_wave_1.ogg, crowd_wave_2.ogg and crowd_wave_3.ogg are all sounds that were used in Bar Arena in SoC. None of them ended up getting used for CS for obvious reasons.

kitchen_1.ogg to kitchen_5.ogg are kitchen sounds. They were used in SoC for 100 Roentgen bar but remained unused in CS.

Cars

To do:

Rearrange sounds in a more logical order, rather than alphabetically.

Though an ability to drive cars has been cut quite a long time ago, during SoC's development, some sounds for them are still leftover in Clear Sky because developers built the prequel ontop of the original game.

Most of the files are just low-quality car sounds, however, trabantnoise.ogg is interesting. Though 'trabant' is engine in German, do you think it's actually engine noise? Jokes on you, it's an easter egg by developers — a sound of 17 year old Swede Daniel Malmedahl attempting to imitate the sound of a two-stroke engine, that eventually became the Crazy Frog sound.

Name	Sound	Comments
apc_run		Sound for an APC going. Should be played on loop.
apc_start		Sound of the player starting APC engine.
apc_stop		Sound of the player stopping APC engine.
car_gearchange		Sound of the player changing gears. This has never been implemented in any of SoC builds.
car_tormoz		Sound of a car stopping. 'Tormoz' is 'brake' pedal in Russian.
car_traktor		Sound of the player riding a tractor. Should be played on loop. This has never been implemented in any of SoC builds.
car1		Sound of a car going. Should be played on loop.
car1_start		Sound of the player starting a car engine.
car2		Alternate sound of a car going. Should be played on loop.
test_car_fail		Sound of the player not being able to launch a car due to lack of fuel.
test_car_start		Sound of the player launching the car successfully.
test_car_stop		Alternate car stopping file.
trabantnoise		The Crazy Frog sound.

Text

ui_st_screen.xml

Various tips and prompts.

Combination lock ($$ACTION_USE$$)

st_codelock is the prompt appearing when you hover on a code lock in SoC. Since there is no evidence code locks were ever planned for CS, it's highly likely it's just a SoC leftover, like the others in that file.