S.T.A.L.K.E.R., a franchise that’s well over 10 years old, has survived this long because of mods, but the mods that keep people around today (excluding the Russian community) are casual games, the complete opposite of NLC 7. today generally are not the people playing DayZ, Escape from Tarkov, RUST, State of Decay 2, or any other survival game. Although there is much more to NLC 7 than those since that hardcore nature extends to its quest design. This is a hardcore survival game, and that alone isn’t a huge filter for the general gaming population (see the mainstream popularity of DayZ, Escape from Tarkov, and RUST for reference). NLC 7 breaks people like few other games. No Dark Souls or DOOM Eternal esque difficulty here, this is much more involved. NLC 7 has too much content for most, requires too much thinking for most due to its complex objectives requiring intuition and thinking on your feet with no hand holding, and is too difficult for most – difficult in ways people are unfamiliar with, somewhat similar to Pathologic 2 except it makes that look like a cakewalk on its intended difficulty mode. The inevitable fact of the matter is that even with a perfect translation, most gamers won’t be able to handle NLC 7, similar to how most can’t handle Pathologic 2 or even System Shock 2. There is an interesting plot similarity, and relatable existential themes. And no, NLC 7 didn’t copy it – NLC 7 is older. How times have changed.Īlso, before I get into my review of NLC 7, I’d like to ask: are there any SCP fans reading this? If so, you might be happy to know that NLC 7 should appeal to fans of SCP-5000 and SCP-3125. It’s an impossibility, as NLC 7 has too much depth and complexity for mainstream audiences.Īnd what does “NLC” stand for, you ask? It stands for “New Level Changer” since the original NLC was primarily just that – new level transitions for the AMK mod. 2 being on the horizon, everyone is licking their chops for it… everyone but me it seems, since I know all too well that S.T.A.L.K.E.R. It’s too special, one of gaming’s greatest achievements and it was made on no budget at all. Beware, the machine translation is… trying. I have yet to play it however I played Build 3.0 which isn’t too different than newer versions. That means I had to play it with the machine translation, and at times refer to the official guide which is incredibly detailed and helpful. I believe the Polish community has released their own translation, but that’s all. fans don’t know of NLC 7 is the fact that it only comes with a Russian localization officially.
No doubt that NLC 7, if discovered by the latter community, would be one of their champions. It is best suited to hardcore cRPG players, and the so called “Immersive Sim” crowd most of all. game that’s not really meant for most S.T.A.L.K.E.R. Therefore, in a sense NLC 7 is a S.T.A.L.K.E.R. games and any other mod, that’s how different it is. NLC 7 plays far more like these games and Kingdom Come: Deliverance than it does GSC’s S.T.A.L.K.E.R.
NLC 7’s quest design is what S.T.A.L.K.E.R. the first two Fallout games, Planescape: Torment, Arcanum: Of Steamworks and Magick Obscura) as well as Pathologic in their open endedness and lack of hand holding. NLC 7 however takes more after the greatest RPG quest design of all time (i.e. games let you take side quests essentially in whatever order you choose but almost all quests have only one way to go through them. games are generally nonlinear FPS games with very mild survival gameplay at best, NLC 7 is a hardcore survival game like very few single player games out there.
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mod out there miss more potential than they realize. It is effectively a reboot of the franchise, which is very nice to see considering all three S.T.A.L.K.E.R. Shadow of Chernobyl using its own heavily customized and largely improved but closed source version of the engine, known as Zagolski Hybrid Engine, telling its own story in a very changed version of the same setting (the Chernobyl Zone), and having totally different gameplay mechanics resulting in an almost completely different core gameplay loop. NLC 7 is a total conversion modification built on top of S.T.A.L.K.E.R. universe, the one I predict will never be dethroned. 2 being a hot topic right now, we decided to release our review of what is by far the best product of the S.T.A.L.K.E.R.
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