Thread 725157793

Worth getting? I want slav feels and to run around with an ak47

>>725157793 (OP)
That's the third and last game in the series.
Start with SoC, the first one.

Here's the rookie guide pic.

Don't use any major overhaul mods first. Patched vanilla + high difficulty is all you need.
Avoid the god-awful, censored and fuglified "Enhanced Editions" that the nu-GSC released recently. If you're still skeptic, look up the "Starter Pack" mods for fan-made patches (namely the ZRP for SoC, SRP for CS).

Rest is pretty straight forward if you've played a PC FPS / CRPG game the past 20 years.
The beginning is rough, and you will soon learn that both ramboing and pack-ratting will get you killed.

>run around with an AK47
Believe it or not, there's not a single AK47 in the Zone. Plenty of AK74s though.

All that said and done, it's kinda sad that nu-/v/ dwellers even need to ask if the fucking STALKER is worth getting into. This used to be our biggest PC exclusive series, and there was 24/7 Stalkan' threads going on on /v/ just 15 years ago.

>>725157793 (OP)
Play Project Silverfish instead. It's a modernized Stalker that doesn't crash and pretty much has just as much content in beta as vanilla SoC

>>725157793 (OP)
play gamma and ignore this zoomer retard >>725158536

>>725158536
>high difficulty
Retarded faggot.

>>725158536
>This used to be our biggest PC exclusive series, and there was 24/7 Stalkan' threads going on on /v/ just 15 years ago.
You weren't even born 15 years ago
Ask me how I know, faggot election tourist.

>>725159357
>play gamma
Kill yourself, troon.

>>725159682
I was actually born in the 1980s, and I've been here since 2005.
The big Stalkan' boom of summer 2008, all the way to the initial cancellation of Stalker 2 back in 2012, was easily the best days of this sorry site.

>>725159907
>I was actually born in the 1980s, and I've been here since 2005.
Then you wouldn't be posting an outdated guide with dead links, you stupid fucking faggot.
Kill yourself, 2016 tourist.

>>725159357
I played Misery as a kid and realized it fucking sucked ass like 20 hrs in. Is gamma actually good compared to that?

>>725159907
>I've been here since 2005.
My condolences, Dudulya

>>725158536
this is the way, ignore the other niggers
>there's not a single AK47 in the Zone
wrong tho, https://stalker.fandom.com/wiki/Trophy_AKM-47/2

>>725157793 (OP)
get anomaly or gamma

>>725159907
>stalker boom one year after its release
lol
lmao even
back to pleddit/life of boris\cheeki breeki\nikolai you go, faggot

>>725160045
misery was designed to be a grind, gamma is eyecandy for anomaly which was designed to be customizable until you remove the misery autism away

>>725159962
There's nothing outdated about the guide.
I made it myself.

>muh links
Then google the latest versions yourself, you iPhone toddler.

>>725160045
No.
Gaymma and Analmeme are literally nothing more than yet another batch of free-roam sandbox mods, that remove the story and make your life miserable by having every weapon you loot be in a shitty state and everything costing 100 times more than usual.

>>725160089
>literal AK74M reskin unique weapon
>fires 54R
shiggy diggy, niggy.

>>725160098
That's right. The big mods such as OL2 played a huge part in that.

>>725158536
I heard Clear Sky sucks ass compared to the other two

>>725160218
>I made it myself.
lol.
lmao even.

>>725160224
It's an acquired taste.
It was fucking broken for many years (as if the rest of them weren't), and the more action-oriented, faction warfare centric design was a big turn-off.

That being said, with the lastest patch + SRP, I actually quite like it. I especially dig its harsh economy that makes Artifacts ACTUALLY valuable, all while presenting the dilemma of choosing between easy cash or big stat boosts.
Obviously CS was the first game with the artifact detectors and shit.

>>725160218
>remove the story and make your life miserable by having every weapon you loot be in a shitty state and everything costing 100 times more than usual.
You didn't play neither GAMMA or Anomaly, and you are larping as a veteran with images you can easily find on Google or in r/stalker.
Please kill yourself.

>>725160410
No u.

>>725160218
>that remove the story
nigga what
>make your life miserable by having every weapon you loot be in a shitty state
can be disabled
>everything costing 100 times more than usual
can be disabled
>im a faggot and i am going to kill myself!!!
cant be disabled unfortunately

>>725160824
>nigga what
You read that right.
You kids spread lies such as "OMG they merge all three gaems into 1!!", which is bullshit. They only take maps from the three titles + some from the Beta, and then let you loose to do what ever the hell you want.

And neither Gaymma nor Analmeme were first sandbox mods of the sort to do so. Both are derivatives of the CoC mod, which was based on the IWA mod for CoP. And even before that, we had mods like TFW3 for CS.

>can be disabled x2
Because modding a mega mod is totally going to provide you the authentic STALKER experience!

>muh ad hominem assaults
Cope and seethe, nufag,
You never beat a single STALKER game.

>>725157793 (OP)
When I play soc the first time the game was broken everywhere
>broken sidequests
>important item not spawning
>enemies spawning dead
>factions hating you for no reason and the back to friendly
>getting stuck randomly
>dying randomly
>enemies circling around you but no attacking
>last part sucks and is intended

Somehow I really liked it, despise all the broken shit no other game has the same feeling.

>>725161027
>You kids spread lies such as "OMG they merge all three gaems into 1!!", which is bullshit.
>They only take maps from the three titles + some from the Beta, and then let you loose to do what ever the hell you want.
...you're talking about cock out of nowhere?
how are you a veteran but your knowledge of stalker is all over the place, you fucking faggot?
>modding a mega mod
literally sliders in the options
you are literally no older than 15
possibly even 12
you must be 18+ to post on this website
idi svoyey dorogoy, pizdara.

>>725160171
ill prob try it then. I remember having to travel over encumbered, slowly af to that derelict ship more than once to make like 100 rubles and barely any progress. actual slop experience

IWP is miles better than Anomaly and GAMMA could ever hope to be

>>725161212
>literally no arguments
Typical nu-suka.

>>725161275
MISERY is worth its name. It's definitely NOT a first- nor a second-timer mod.
It was a masochistic challenge mod, meant for long-time veteran Stalker-fags like myself, who could walk in and out of the CNPP with just a Mak and bottle of vodka.

I actually liked 2.11 for a while. Played as a Sniper. But by the time I hit Yanov, I was already packing an exoskeleton + shittons of ammo and guns.

>>725161027
No one spreads any lies, CoC merges the maps from the trilogy plus the few maps playable from buildos, the story of CoC is barebones and a fetchquest, while the Mysteries of the Zone questline both Anomaly and GAMMA have is DoctorX's own remake of the entire SoC storyline.
You shouldn't play Ano\GAMMA for that anyway, they have their own storylines that are pretty good.
No one cared about The Faction Wars because it wasn't fwhat we consider freeplay nowadays.
You don't need to mod Anomaly or GAMMA at all, you can turn the knobs and sliders in the settings to disable basically anything you dont like.
You'd know this if you played either.
CoC precedes IWP by almost a decade, you stupid retard.
IWA was never a freeplay mod.
Shut the fuck up, you are embarrassing yourself with every post.

>>725161510
>It was a masochistic challenge mod, meant for long-time veteran Stalker-fags like myself, who could walk in and out of the CNPP with just a Mak and bottle of vodka.
you discovered stalker during covid quarantine at best, and it's so fucking obvious
please stop posting, you're killing us with cringe

>retarded faggot keeps posting the same r/stalker pics from the past 2 weeks while reddit spacing and pretending to be a 20yo veteran of the franchise with surface youtube essay knowledge of the modding scene
>gammatroons fall for it

>>725161062
This idea of the first game being worse then it was is a recent thing invented by ukranian faggots to pretend stalker 2 isnt dogshit for retards.

It could be glitchy but many things about it were really advanced like the ballistics system and the AI.

>>725157793 (OP)
Definitely worth getting. Starting from the 3rd game is a pretty good spot too.

I'd avoid anomaly/gamma. It's a very different experience.

>>725161514
>You don't need to mod Anomaly or GAMMA at all, you can turn the knobs and sliders in the settings to disable basically anything you dont like.
So how do you turn off the 3 million different healing items from the settings menu?

>>725161514
>story of CoC is barebones and a fetchquest, while the Mysteries of the Zone questline both Anomaly and GAMMA have is DoctorX's own remake of the entire SoC storyline.
Yeah, literal fanfic tier shit that plays like a typical fetch quest.
Seen that millions of times. Nobody plays Anal-Gammas for "muh plot", and they do not provide the story experience of the actual STALKER trilogy.

>IWA was never a freeplay mod.
Never claimed it to be, but the roots are there.
And no first timer should consider any of these mods ya listed. Not for the first ten or so years.

>>725161571
Nah, I discovered 4chan during Desu shitposting, and I'd followed Stalker's development through gaming mags since the early 2000s. I started playing SoC with the notorious 1.000 version, but luckily the first patch dropped like a week later, and made it tolerable.

(You) on the other hand have provided zero helpful advises ITT, and only cement the fact that nu-/v/ is a kindergarten of lazyass bitches and whores.

>>725161765
Actually, the release versions of both SoC and CS WERE fucking terrible, but like said: patches and mods dropped very quickly.
Unless you got retail discs or pirated copies of the 1.0 versions, you literally should not have any trouble running the games and having a good time nowadays.

>>725161803
You don't, because you only need medkits, bandages and the new "white heart" items.
Everything else is itemsoup filler.
Maybe if you weren't an illiterate retard, and actually spent a minimum of time reading the tooltips and understanding how they work, you'd see firsthand how they just added 10 billion different types of vinca, steroids and psy-blockers.
Why? Because itemsoups are like that.

>>725161902
>Nobody plays Anal-Gammas for "muh plot", and they do not provide the story experience of the actual STALKER trilogy.
because there are new storylines and factions?
are you fucking retarded by any chance?

>>725161712
It's not my fault that my guides and mods are still widely popular and spread around the net, 10+ years later, kiddo.

As usual, PIebbit steals everything 4chan creates, and (You) should go back.

>>725161964
No, but (You) keep proving the point, and clearly haven't lurked enough to be even commenting ITT.

>>725161904
>You don't
Exactly, so shut the fuck up then, Mr. "You can just turn off everything in the settings"

>>725161983
>thinks i will fall for it

I miss when STALKER threads were comfy

>>725162048
You can't turn off what you can easily ignore, you stupendous cretin.
You're seething at nothing, I already told you how the bullshit GROKSLOP health system works.

>>725162150
>You don't need to mod Anomaly or GAMMA at all, you can turn the knobs and sliders in the settings to disable basically anything you dont like.

>>725162123
they always were
it wasnt until the russian ukraine war that they became very difficult to follow, between tourists larping as veterans and soft-namefagging and the orcs not getting rangebanned until much later

>>725162231
Ok well if chugging one (1) additional item whenever you just got almost zero'd by a bandit with a pkm is too much for you, disable Grok's Body Health System in the MO2 launcher and call it a day.
Because you can do that, right? You wouldn't consider turning something the game comes with "modding", right anon?

>>725162264
>it wasnt until the russian ukraine war
Discord has been more of a disaster than the war

>>725161902
yeah I'm p sure I remember playing LURK 1.1 too. that was fun until that area where every enemy has gauss rifles and RPGs and the game becomes a clusterfuck.

>>725162093
There's nothing to "fall for", kiddo.
You should just go back.

>>725162264
Nah, this place became borderline intolerable after /vt/ was made, and iPhone posters stormed the site. Now anyone even remotely acting NORMAL, as in using a computer and continuing the old local culture, are shat on by some literal Facebook refugees.

>>725162381
yes yes, of course
is discord in the room with us right now?
is grok also in the room with us?

Thoughts on the demo for road to vostok?

>>725162443
>still going at it

>>725162368
Oh so you can't just turn the knobs and sliders in the settings menu to disable basically anything you don't like then? Good to know you're just full of shit then, nigger

>>725162264
They haven't been comfy since the fucking Misery days, some autistic minges get really butthurt over free fucking mods, even after they didn't even influence the second game, AAA trash did, which is even worse
>Muh orks
Mooze alone shits all over every other composer in the series.
Russians had a big influence over STALKER and while Vatniggers are pretty shit, the west is somehow even worse, GSC westernizing is not a good thing.
Look at fucking Metro

>>725162517
>

>>725162436
Holden, the guy behind LURK, was a literal /v/irgin, and he kept posting here and on /k/ while working on 1.1. Shit was hype as fuck, but in the end me and most oldfags hated it. Imagine coating the game with fucking bloom, blur and BLOODY SCREENS jelly, in the middle of the worst Call Of Battlefields meme era.

>>725162471
It's alright, but too barebones to be judged.

>>725162579
>You don't need to mod Anomaly or GAMMA at all, you can turn the knobs and sliders in the settings to disable basically anything you dont like.

>>725162587
>talks about holden when hes being posted nonstop in this thread AND in the general for a good year
lmao
lol
faggot LOMAO UR PRAISING A GAMMA CLONE

>>725162471
Needs monsters, for enemy variety alone.

>>725162640
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Semantic_argument

>>725162737
Moar liek Semetic Argument, lmao

>>725162784
Yeah, the one you're making.
Dumbass kike.

>>725161510
I remember playing the precursor to Misery, "I Work Alone," quite a bit but can't remember what it even changed other than minimal UI and resource scarcity. This was probably like a dozen years ago. I remember when Misery came out I thought it was overwrought and looked like shit

>>725162720
dev man said they're planning to add wildlife soon, so there that

>>725162587
>Holden, the guy behind LURK, was a literal /v/irgin, and he kept posting here and on /k/ while working on 1.1.

>>725162848
and it was never a freeplay mod, pseud

>>725162737
Not bothering when you couldn't even reply without devolving into
>n-no that doesn't count

>>725162813
I'm not that faggot I enjoy Analmeme and I'm waiting for Grok to make Gamma 1.0 true before playing it.
I'll be enjoying IWP until then, and until STALKER 2 is actually fucking finished.

Imagine being butthurt by literal fucking mods, lmao

>>725162971
here, have some

>>725163019
nigger

>>725162949
I didn't say it was, pseudogiantfaggot

>>725162861
I doubt he'll make wolfs and bears, probably just fauna for atmosphere like birds, squirrels and a dear.
He also confirmed there's no paranormal stuff so It's really not my cup of tea.

Half the appeal of STALKER is Military mixed with the Paranormal.

>>725158536
Opinion on Legends of the Zone Trilogy Enhanced Edition? This or the originals (PC)?

>>725163076
yES YOU DID OYU FAGGOT >>725161027

Is stolker 2 good yet?

>>725162848
>I remember playing the precursor to Misery, "I Work Alone," quite a bit but can't remember what it even changed other than minimal UI and resource scarcity
Yeah, IWA was still pretty basic.
Misery 1 wasn't too far off from IWA's vibes, but 2 took things to extreme.

>when Misery came out I thought it was overwrought and looked like shit
It is technically an overhaul, yes. It changes every detail, sans the story.

>>725162471
The only way I can really describe it is that you can tell it was made by one guy

>>725163103
>Opinion on Legends of the Zone Trilogy Enhanced Edition?
Like I said: avoid that trash. Censored, worse looking, worse running, AND way more restricted when it comes to modding.

Play the originals. There's zero reasons not to.

>>725163114
THAT WASN'T ME HOMO >>725162848 was my first post itt

>>725163123
No.

>>725163158
That makes it damn impressive.
Killing Floor started off as a 1 man project as well.

You're all fucking faggots and your mothers, fathers, and pets will die in their sleep tonight. No immunities.

>>725163103
The originals, the "Enhanced" Editions are somehow even more broken than the originals, censor dystopian Soviet imagery because "muh russia" and use AI.

>>725163123
No, wait 2 more years
Maybe then

>>725163114
You're not only an illiterate, but also a nufag schizo.

>>725163267
No u!

>>725163252
>That makes it damn impressive.
Yeah, I'm not saying otherwise, just that it's still very, very barebones

Never played before, but does the book matter at all? I wasn't into Witcher at first, but the book did a better job at introducing the world than the devs did.

>>725163449
No, but it's a good read and along with the movie gives context to the influences of the game.
Movie is also worth a watch but it's really slow paced and way less about the setting and more about human nature and the loss of spirituality in a post industrial world.

>>725163405
Well yeah. Isn't it technically in some early alpha stage or something? I though he releases a "demo" every couple months or so?

>>725163268
are there any teams working on consequential shit for 2? when it's outperformed by 15-year-old soc mods it's hard to even care enough to pirate

>>725163629
faGGOOOOOOOT FAGGOOOOOT "STALKERS" COME FROM THE BOOK YOU FAGGOOOOTTTT

>>725163449
The STALKER games are only loosely based on the Roadside picnic books. As are the Metro books (and thus the games).

It's honestly a quite fascinating read. Pretty slow-pace, not action packed at all. You can get it for free from the Wikipedia page, because no copyrights and licensing in the old Soviet Union.

The movie adaptation, literally called STALKER, is a fascinating artsy adaptation of its own kind too.

>>725163648
Who knows. I've been playing STALKER stuff for 18 years now, and I honestly don't give a fuck about the nu-S2.
I hope that some late development version of the OG STALKER 2 and X-Ray 2 leak online.

>>725163845
>been playing STALKER stuff for 18 years now
yes anon, you already said that

>>725163646
It was also first revealed around 2022-2023, and it is still very early, so we won't really see much in a few more years at the very least

>>725163648
Updates and DLC yeah
1.7 is going to add conteng along with the PS5 release.

>>725163728
I never stated otherwise, are you ok anon?

>>725163950
Wasn't there also that big engine switcharoo like a year ago? Unity went full retard and the author switched to Godot AFAIK.
But yes, making vidya from scratch takes time. I followed this big UT2k4 mod, Out Of Hell, for nearly a decade. That too was a 1-man project, and started on the original UT99 originally.

What are the thoughts on Stalker-likes and mods? For me, a stalker-like is a combat game with a heavy focus on treasure hunting in a hostile environment.
>Fallout 4: Fallout Anomaly
>Chernobylite
>Into the Radius
>Stalcraft
>STyLKyR 2y
>whatever else is out there

>>725164313
kys

>>725164185
Talk about dedication
Imagine if Tamriel Rebuilt was just one dude, shit would take half a century at the very least

>>725164185
>Out of Hell
The gook madman is making a standalone game on Unreal 4.
https://outofhell.net/

Still nothing like it

>>725164358
you're black

>>725164313
Into the Radius and STALKER 2 are ok rest is shit.

>>725164510
ywnbaw

>>725159357
>>725159907
Gamma got me into stalker. On a lark I decided to follow the /v/ Stalker guide and I finished SoC and CS a bit ago. I'm playing Pripyat now.

>>725164531
Post hand

>>725164573
post vagina

>>725157793 (OP)
>Worth getting?
Yes, but I would recomend starting with SoC because it's most bare bones in terms of mechanics and you will miss some stuff from later tittles. Clear Skies is skippable if you don't want to, it's also most bugged.
>I want slav feels and to run around with an ak47
Plenty slav feel but no AK-47, game operates on 5,45x39 AKS-74.
Also wouldn't recomend any mods like anomaly or gamma, untill you beat normal trillogy, it changes well everything about game and was made for tryhards who love dying and being miserable for being miserable sake.

>>725163103
The best way to play them

>>725164516
Yo bruv. My name's Sven, from Sweden. Das why I got dis thick British accent, bruv.

>>725164313
pacific drive
MISERY
szone, i miss it.

Stalker is really boring so I don't get why it gets wanked by anons here so often

>>725164605
>Clear Sky is skippable
Honestly I had the same opinion until I replayed it recently.
It's way more fun on the 2nd playtrough when you actually know what you're doing.
>It's broken
Oh yeah absolutely, faction wars barely work, hiding max upgrade SEVA behind the bandit engineer, that terrible early emission mechanic that starts only when you load a level, that STALKER you save that bugs out and won't let you buy the location of an upgrade drive and not being able to recover your money after the Bandits rob you.
And that's besides the mess it becomes when you try to play both sides of a faction.
1st playtrough just getting out of the swamps alone is a pain in the ass.

Still worth playing though, upgrading is still fun and after you do the Freedom missions it's pretty much smooth sailing.
Getting a CS-3 suit (mistranslated as CS-1 in the english translation) and a Chasee 13 early makes the swamps tolerable as well.

Best thing to do is just do the main missions until you reach the Red Forest and then do all the side missions and faction wars.
Game is much less broken that way and you get many more options.

>>725164661
>>725165054
Your shitposting sucks harder than you suck nigger dicks.

>>725164447
>The gook madman is making a standalone game on Unreal 4.
Holy shit, he's STILL at it??

>>725165054
It's one of those unique games that do something that no other does.
Stalker give you world that is living without players input mixed with post apo slav vibe.
It's simlar thing as Mount & Blade, game looks ugly, have a lot of jank but also have decent combat and have world that live by itself and allow you to do everything. Compare it to another another call of slop wanabee and you have answer why games like this have cult following.

>>725165361
again, the a-life in the original trilogy was not that advanced

>>725165054
poor man fallout.

>>725165376
>the a-life in the original trilogy was not that advanced
But unlike in other games stalker had a-life at all.
It's same thing with FEAR ai, it wasn't that advanced but still better than in any other shooter.

>>725165179
Yep, shouldn't take more than a year for him to finish too.
He's adding big open levels and levels in hell as well, plus an inventory system.
It's going to be janky as shit at release though, solo dev and all that.
https://store.steampowered.com/app/2082530/Out_Of_Hell/
https://m.youtube.com/@chickenribscombo

>>725165417
apples to oranges

>>725165376
No other game has enemies dragging ragdolls to a better position to loot them/eat them.
The persistent A-Life wasn't very advanced in SoC, but it's still miles ahead of modern games, enemies actually taking cover in a non scripted manner (that CS and CoP also added later and from which NPCs seamlessly transition from) is a big reason why human encounters are so fun.

That an a ballistic system and every enemy being a bag of (non useless) rewards.

>>725165675
>No other game has enemies dragging ragdolls to a better position to loot them/eat them.
scripted bullshit, you're a retard

>>725165417
Fallout 3 was poor mans STALKER

>>725157793 (OP)
>Worth getting?
Yes. SoC and CoP are phenomenal games. Once you've beaten them (vanilla, of course) then you can get into mods. Stick to vanilla+ style mods, stuff like IWP+CotZ, and do some story mods. Avoid miseryshit.

>>725165730
zoomer bait b&

>>725159357
>play gamma and ignore this zoomer
gamma is the most zoomer mod there is for STALKER

>>725165504
Well fuck me sideways! I played the 1.0 release of the OG mod day 1, stuttery ~30fps most of the time, so I can definitely deal with some more recent yank as well.

Still got some of those old screencaps I took for the competition. I recognize some of these places from the new screenshots on that site.

clear sky has the best maps of the series by far, its only a shame they didnt remake rostok

>>725165707
So is F.E.A.R A.I and it's way better than anything done since.
And what the fuck are you still doing here? I already told you to go suck a dick!

>>725165707
NTA, but nope. You are wrong.

>>725165089
>Oh yeah absolutely, faction wars barely work,
You don't have to tell me, I finished faction war on both duty and freedom side, it was pain. Best way to play is to not join any faction and stay neutral, duty due to combat oriented gear will mog bandits and freedom anyway.

I'm not saying it isn't fun, but it have a lot of unfun situations and it's most bugged out of entire trilogy and swamp most likely filtered good ammount of players. Out of trilogy SoC have best atmosphere, CoP is best in terms of game mechanics and CS is most bugged.
On other note while I appreciate equipment repair and upgrade system, SoC "replace it with new one whe it breaks" had it's own charm.

>>725157793 (OP)
did they fix the sequel? the original looks to janky.

>>725165789
Replay the mod
The framerate issue was due to the console that pops up after you start the game.
You close that window and the game runs almost perfectly smooth.
There's also a HUD option to remove those terrible fucking black borders.
https://www.moddb.com/mods/out-of-hell

>>725165845
The updated SoC levels are great, all the new maps but Red Forest suck balls.
Swamps, Limansk, the Abandoned Hospital, absolutely terrible in different ways.

Limanks could have been good but it's just a goddamnes COD scripted sequence.

>>725166014
https://www.moddb.com/games/stalker/addons/stalker-weapon-reanimation-soc-ogsr
https://www.moddb.com/games/stalker-clear-sky/addons/swr-stalker-weapon-reanimation-cs
https://www.moddb.com/games/stalker-call-of-pripyat/addons/swr-stalker-weapon-reanimation-cop

There, fixed the janky animations for each game with a single mod by that doesn't fuck with anything else.
Now go play them.

>>725166068
>The framerate issue was due to the console that pops up after you start the game.
>You close that window and the game runs almost perfectly smooth.
The hell, seriously? I actually might!

>>725166496
DO IT FAGGOT!

>>725166538
Fine, geez!

>>725159286
Silverfish doesn't come close to replicating STALKER. That's some contrarianism right there. Who is coming up with this shit? it's not modernised at all. OG's STALKERs gunplay is still more polished than it and the AI is actually more stupid. I think there's only one potentially good upcoming stalker clone but I can't say anything till the demo is out.

gunslinger equivalent or better weapon pack but with GOOD weapon sounds? bonus points if it has dynamic gunshot reverb

>>725167597
IWP

And updates on SoC Update 2.0? It's the last thing I'm really looking forward to until we get good Stalker 2 mods in 10 years. The 600 hour soup stuff doesn't really appeal to me, I've played a lot of vanilla+ stuff and the only original story mods I have left that I care to try are Winds of Time and Valley of Whispers. Is there anything that actually feels like Stalker the way IWP/CotZ do and focus on faction wars or an interesting original story?

>>725167728
>**AS THE MAIN DEVELOPER OF I.W.P., I NO LONGER WANT TO SEE ANY PORTING OF CONTENT FROM I.W.P. TO ANOMALY IN ANY FORM**
damn, you didnt need to convince me further

>>725168085
Play Radiophobia 3 and True Stalker

>>725165707
>scripted bullshit
It's GOAP, you dumb fuck.

>>725159962
I started using this site in 2023 and I always phone post and there's nothing you can do about it.
GAMMA BTFOs old faggot Stalker

Based Opinion Status: Checked

>>725167389
>I think there's only one potentially good upcoming stalker clone
Name? Please don't say Misery because I tried that demo and it was shit.

>>725167389
Silverfish is objectively better than STALKER 2, and close to being better than OG Stalker. We'll have to wait for the full release to do proper comparison, but there's no need to claim that the gunplay is vastly inferior just because you're biased against it being a "furry game".

>>725168357
Tried them both already. Radiophobia was okay at first but got boring after a while because it's just SoC but the enemies can spot you from insane distances and shoot you with sniper accuracy with just a regular rifle. By the time I got to Army Warehouses, the pacing felt like shit because of how carefully you had to handle firefights. True Stalker I liked for a while, but I got annoyed around the 15th time I got knocked out in a cutscene. I stopped playing shortly after the character switch.

>>725168558
Not him, but I was kind of exited for it until I downloaded the demo and saw it was a faggot game.

>>725168661
Faggots and trannies made every good game in 2025. Honestly I'm thinking maybe breeders are kinda weird af nowadays.

>>725168558
Yiff in hell furfag

>>725168602
Nigger Radiophobia 3 is nothing like that, and why are you asking for similar stuff to IWP if you can't handle harder NPCs?

IWP firefights are exactly how you described unlike Radiophobia.

>>725168739
The only really good games I played this year were Abiotic Factor, Shinobi, arguably Dispatch depending on the ending, and Ash and Steel looks good. None of them are made by trannies and faggots.

>>725168852
>Nigger Radiophobia 3 is nothing like that, and why are you asking for similar stuff to IWP if you can't handle harder NPCs?
It is absolutely fucking like that. The enemy detection range and vision is retarded.
>IWP firefights are exactly how you described unlike Radiophobia.
Not even close. I played IWP for a while when it came out and then with the CotZ quest pack and it felt like actual Stalker. Are you the guy who's been arguing with a bunch of people in the thread talking about what a Stalker oldfag you are and pretending to be knowledgeable? I sure hope not, because you sound like you don't even play the mods you talk about.

>>725168859
The only good games I played this year were Concord, Dustborn and Arc Raiders and those were all made by People of Color and Transgender people.
BTFOd another CIScoid

>>725168963
Your files are fucked then, Radiophobia 3 has higher lethality than vanilla, but nothing like IWP, in IWP NPCs are laser accurate and you did in 2 shots.

>>725168859
Dispatch got homo niggas on the dev team... I dunno the other 2 tho.

>>725168528
>Name?
The Path into the Abyss. The reason is because the AI component of the game looks promising. Among other mechanics looking pretty deep.
>Please don't say Misery
No, because that's a janky STALKER themed Lethal Company game.
>>725168558
>it's actually good
Just no, no. It's simply an okay barbones clone.

>>725169414
Once the game is released, I think you'll find it to be the new gold standard for STALKER-like experiences, which will then be called 'Silverfish-clones'.

>>725169610
Your shitposting is as terrible as your work ethic

>>725169610
I'm expecting more from The Path Into the Abyss, but I'm not expecting much from Silverfish. Road to Vostok could also be potentially promising for different reasons. I just don't see its potential as much. Shooting a gun is the most obvious way determine why it's not going to live up to it.

>>725157793 (OP)
Yes, but start with Shadow of Chernobyl. I would recommend you check out the mods the anons in this thread are arguing about, but SoC is where you should start with the series since its a good baseline.

I'd also recommend the book and the movie.

>>725169256
>in IWP NPCs are laser accurate
Not even remotely close. Try actually playing both and seeing how far away enemies can see and shoot you from.

>>725169375
Well then they kept it in check because the game is about a straight white guy who can date two hot girls and makes friends with a group of people that aren't faggy.

I still don't know how they managed to blur the Enhanced Editions out the ass. The original games looked fucking pristine.

>>725170338
>Try actually playing both
I've played Radiophobia 3 for 30 hours and WIP for 2000 hours.
You're the one with the broken game buddy, are you playing on Master?

>>725170580
I LOVE POST PROCESSING!!! MOTION BLUR, DEPTH OF FIELD, CHROMATIC ABERRATION, BLOOM AND TAA ARE JUST THE BEST!!!

>>725163845
This + the camo log mutant needed to be in the game sorely. It needed SOME handful of actual new mutants, a lot of the ones they added suck ass in comparison.

>>725159682
>>725159962
perdak cTaTyc: porvan

>>725170580
>I still don't know how they managed to blur the Enhanced Editions out the ass
Upscalers + TAA, because FUCK YOU.

>>725171132
You can make OG look better too by forcing anti-aliasing on alpha'd textures, at least if you're an nVidia card owner.

>>725159357
THIS is how you falseflag.

Gamma is fine for people who want a more hardcore survival experience with their stalger.
It's not for everyone.
Fuck GAMMA tourists who think they have an opinion on the franchise over people who actually played the trilogy though.
They're tourists and deserved to get gatekept from the community.
My friend watched me play gamma and he was like "omg this is so cool what is it." and I tried to hammer into his head that he's going to get hard filtered and he should at least try the OG trilogy (he already had the games from humble bundle or steam sale) but he didn't listen.
Spent a few hours downloading the game only to die 300 times as a merc and drop it in 30 minutes lmao

>>725171586
I still don't understand why by default you can't buy armor, it's such a retarded change that merely stricts your options in a game with an already stingy economy.

I was only able to finish SoC with AMK. It was an amazing experience.
Then I tried CoP and it felt too gamey, specially the map.
Thanks for listening to my blog.

>>725172096
Biggest issue with CoP is that it's too easy and your starting gear is too good with the Pripyat map being empty as fuck since they had to rush oyt the game out the door.
Zaton and Yanov are really fun to explore though.

>>725172198
I see. This explains a lot.

>>725172296
Honestly Clear Sky would be the better game if it was actually fixed and working as intended.
Not the case unfortunately.