bandit edition))))
S.T.A.L.K.E.R. Trilogy guides, tips, information and much more:
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S.T.A.L.K.E.R. Trilogy mods, anon's merges and resources:
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Common misconceptions about Shadow of Chernobyl game mechanics:
https://www.metacognix.com/stlkrsoc/WhatYouKnowThatAintSo.html
Running S.T.A.L.K.E.R. on Linux:
docs.google.com/document/d/11HcSFSyb0DX3ymModXZ9tNdpTuktTioC
>BugTrap, crash to desktop, freeze/lockup? Find your crash log, stalker.Check your Documents or game install directories for the xray_[your name].log file. If you can't find it, look in the location specified at the top of fsgame.ltx. Copy the last few lines from the log and paste them here if you want any help.
S.T.A.L.K.E.R Trilogy new & popular mods:
>IWP Standalonehttps://www.moddb.com/mods/stalker-improved-weapon-pack
Recommended addons: CotZ, Absolute Nature, Structures Redux
>SoC Update 1.4https://vk.com/topic-147828435_49497922
>SOCGAhttps://www.nexusmods.com/stalkershadowofchernobyl/mods/1089
S.T.A.L.K.E.R. 2 mods and tools:
>nexushttps://www.nexusmods.com/games/stalker2heartofchornobyl
>Mod recommendations + config (less stutter, more fps, NO compiling + full Mouse fix)https://pastebin.com/Ma6W4BcM
>Change viewmodel fov, enable console, remove black bars, skip introhttps://github.com/Lyall/STALKER2Tweak
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>>525638546
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XyiUpEFJYn8
Disregard filtered crybabies and play GAMMA
https://files.catbox.moe/gfwy5p.mp4
misery 2 did irreparable damage to the stalker modding scene
>>526310593>HD modelsVery, very gay. "True" stalker was shit.
>>526312842Nice. What mod?
>>526313694>Nice. What mod?GAMMA
>>526312842no. gamma is shit.
>>526313694>original models but higher resolution and polycount BAD>wymyn in hazmat suits copied from some other game GOODS2 adding women and attracting cumbrains was the real disaster.
>>526316626That happened before S2 to be fair.
>>526314892Where can I acquire the baldo mask? There are some big boobie bitches that could use it.
>>526316626>S2Heh, it seems you've been had. That's I.W.P. for C.O.C., not S2. I don't blame you for the rookie mistake. The modification truly looks new-gen.
>>526317019Not sexy enough and probably a man in a wig anyways. 2/10.
>>526316626mate, don't get mad at obvious bait
>>526317954>Where can I acquire the baldo mask? There are some big boobie bitches that could use it.either unpack True Stalker or wait until SamArt officially releases those npcs in "All Vanilla Stalker Variations" as its own mod
O the stalker man,
How gracefully doth he glide.
A wind god!
benis
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>>526318016wtf anon this is a blue board
Has there been any noticabale mod release besides True Stalker/Incubator recently?
>>526321747>Sidorovich enforcing Penis Inspection Day, colorized
>>526318776>True StalkerAh thanks for the reply but I don't want to go through the hassle of installing that again. Guess I'll wait for samart.
>>526318836>hud crosshairYou deserve to fall into the chasm.
>>526322308True Stalker was released in late 2023, so notable ones from the top of my head: OLR 3.0 OBT, IWP, New Project demo, Dead City Epilogue, Forgotten Squad Remastered, SFZ Project Episode 0 Deluxe Remake. Many other cool projects that quietly received updates like xrMPE or Definitive Car Pack.
>>526323449Have you tried the original games? Theyre pretty fun too.
>>526324159Yes, I am an oldfag (played the original stories in A.N.O.M.A.L.Y. in 2016, before G.A.M.M.A. ruined them).
>want to get achievements for EE on Steam but don't want that blurry shit
>remember Steam Achievement Manager exists
>read a guide on how to unlock achievements in EE
>play the originals instead of EE
>accumulate playtime and unlock achievements with SAM in EE as I progress through the originals
yep it's gaming time
Speaking of True Stalker, have they added a NATO gun that isn't the L85 yet?
It was weird seeing 3 different upgrade versions of the L85 standing in for the LR300, G36 and F2000 just because Gunslinger didn't have those guns yet.
anomaly/gamma is dogshit because you cant have sex with hip
>>526328229modern games could never replicate physics of a man flying through the windshield and getting stuck to the back of the cab
where can i find incubator and dreamcatcher downloads?
>>526323449>morrowind compass
>>526325761I don't think there has been an TS update since early 2024, but I just checked their vk and TODAY they announced a big patch. So here's hoping.
>>526330472Search through C-Con spreadsheet, mod and translation are linked separately.
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1GgBFCRIbc7TQ5DwWHvWaridX1G64PYoWItkLyr3pBPk/edit?usp=sharing
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good night /sg/
>>526334939RIP in Peace anon
>>526318836>5>7>3Last line shoulda been "A god of the wind!". Maybe "No more man, but god" and switch the first line to "O the stalker [brave|free|proud|some other positive adjective]"
>>526339084Thats kinda, just like, your opinion man
>>526348167>Freedom has formed an alliance with Bloodsuckers.
>>526348167I NEED a slutty Freedom gf...
>>526349079are they still keeping up the charade?
>>526299150>>526300386Will this shit ever be updated to a final 1.0 version? Why do so many mods just hit some random point during development where they hit a wall and get stuck at 0.1.3.5.0.2v and never get updated? Shadows addon has been on this version for like 7 years
If shit sucks, hit da bricks. Real winners quit.
>>526351195Maybe its like the curse of the ninth
The Official Objective NATO Rankings of S2. Irrefutable, undeniable, and backed by many hours of field testing in the only firld that matters, The Zoneโข:
*disclaimer* all rankings are based on my subjective opinion about how well the weapon performed for its roll vs durability, ammo expenditure, and repair costs. All things important to S2 gameplay, but its all just bro science. All weapons are graded with "max" upgrades(how I felt was the most optimal way to upgrade the weapon) and all the attachments you have to find. Weapons that arent NATO by default ha e been converted, and the SMGs stay the same relative to eachother with .45 swaps. Some DLC weapons arent mentioned because the only difference between them and the base version is a 0.1% difference in repair costs at full upgrades.
>Assault Rifles
GP37=Kharod>Decider(5.56)>>Clusterfuck>Fora-221>>>>>>>>>>SOFMOD=UKN Salkers 416>416=Lullaby
>SMGs
Shah's Mate>Integral-A>Reinnmann(or whatever the fuck its called, the red vector)>Viper-5
>Snipers
M701 Super>>>>>Mark 1 EMR>Partner>Cavalier
>Shotguns
M860 Cracker=RAM-2>Sledgehammer>SPSA-14>Predator
>pistols
UPD=Gambit>Deadeye>>>M10 Gordon
I didn't know you could save the scientist stalkers *after* being possessed by the controller. I was left with one guy and this makes the measurement defense mission way longer, spawning more enemies.
This also makes the dead squad leader possess the remaining guy with his voice acting during the mission. These slavs think of everything and still manage to half ass it. I love it.
>>526362054I like the Kora 919 because it looks like a 1911
>>526362267I like the UDP because it makes me feel like Solid Snake.
WHERE THE FUCK IS MY MARTHA, GSC(IF THAT EVEN IS YOUR REAL NAME)
>>526362054You forgot one category:
>RPG'sRPG
there.
>>526317019That's fatalfunnel
>>526323449>wait for SamArtI donโt think that heโll release it soon. He said that he finished all the models quite some time ago, but he still needed to do over 1000 npc portraits according to his post in late 2024
>>526366516what did you die to
huh? how I am supposed to get out of here? I can't get to the ladder, I'm trying to use the barrels around here but I still can't reach it. I'm right under the compass artifact btw.
Playing through S2 again, I hate the swamps, I hate psydogs, luv me rhino
>>526380613oh wait never mind there is an exit just ahead, fucking kek.
>>526380613>>526380738Did you check the toilets for any loot?
>>526379875RPG go boom
big bada boom
>>526380734i wish the game would run at least 60 fps on my system
>>526383436just enable fake frames bro, its not that big of a deal, we all do it
>>526351195Shadows Addon dev admitted that he fucked up the version numbering, the release version from 2010 should have been 1.0 etc. There are no major updates planned. These are just enthusiast niggas modding for the love of it, so the versioning can be all over the place.
Is OLR 3.0 abandoned at this point?
No more fixes?
>>526389698A few weeks ago the dev returned after a year of radio silence, so hopefully patches will continue once he sorts his shit out. He's been working on this for 10+ years, no way he'll just drop it that easily.
>>526384849i can't i only have a 3080
>>526391274you still have DLSS, big hoss
>>526389698I hope that the Semi Official Patch will release soon
>>526391581DLSS does nothing i can move it down to performance and i still only get like 40fps inside of slag heap or rostok
the Relay Chat is surprisingly dead for how popular Anomaly seems to be
>>526391993Is that the mod that connects you to in-game IRC stalker network? The idea behind it is very cool, wish it wasn't just limited to analmeme.
>>526392342yup. works for CoC too, i think.
>>526312065 (OP)I just finished Stalker 2. It was my first stalker game. What should I do now? I guess I could play the Stalker remaster trilogy that just released.
>>526391274I have a 3070 and I'm getting 90+ frames easy. I had to lock the FPS to 30 a few times for those puzzles that require using an anomaly to jump gaps. You gotta turn off the fucking god rays. It's all ray tracing bullshit.
Also don't have a million chrome tabs open while playing if you only have 16gb of RAM. That helped me a lot with the microstutters.
Ward ending seems like the best ending for Stalker 2. Every other faction is bizarrely infatuated with the zone, as if it's not a massive shithole or something. Richter is literally a zone simp, Scar is a looney and I don't get Strelok's "the zone owes nothing to anyone" line.
>>526394992If you don't care about achievements and gamepad support I recommend downloading the original repacks and ZRP/SRP, see
>>525685779
>>526395761best ending for stalker 2, or best ending for the in-game world? i would say best ending is the secret one
>>526397315Thanks for the advice. I had a feeling that the remasters would have no mod support and be poor ports.
>>526397567Faust is just another zone infatuation ending, IMO. It sucks for Skif and would probably kill a billion people instantly, just from anomalies suddenly forming inside cities or on highways.
>>526398576yeah, it definitely sucks for everyone, but it's my best ending in terms of the story writing or whatever. realistically i would choose ward ending too even though it means the zone would cease to exist.
>>526394992play triolgy and then play gamma
>>526400052I think there's still directions they can go with the ward ending. The noosphere being controlled and exploited means that new Zones could be made in other parts of the world without the whole world having to be fucked like in the Faust ending. I think it's important that there always be a "mainland" outside of the Zone. And WTF is Agatha and how is she digitally teleporting everywhere? Is she real or what?
BTW, if the "center" of the Zone is the north of the game map, doesn't that mean there's a whole other half of the Zone that's never been seen?
>>526400557>Exosuits are supposed to make you strong>They don't increase your melee damage at allFucking hell. I wanted to wrestle with bloodsuckers.
>>526401050Agatha is using some SIRCCA + Artifacts tech to create hologram projections i guess, or maybe like Faust, they have control of the noosphere and Agatha can just project a hologram of her self anywhere?
also the center of the zone was always north for some reason, i always thought it was just referring to the power plant being the center of the disaster instead of geographically central. but with the stalker 2 map redesign and this pre release leaked map it's a little more 'center' now?
>>526401189My cope is that Exos give you just enough strength to wear the heavy armor that it comes with.
>>526401189Well they don't come equipped with fallout power fists, it's just armor and servos to carry more shit.
>>526402670That wouldn't explain the arms, though. You don't have any armor there. Also Stalker 2 has an exo-suited guy doing some strongman shit with his suit. Stuff like kicking through metal railings, throwing a 30kg object like a basketball, etc.
>>526366516I thought was was a Soviet product? 99.9% sure its a Soviet platform
Any Anomaly mod out there to have sex with Hip?
exosuits are stupid with their cables out in the open but I prefer them over even sillier power armor.
>>526380813nta but is the grenade launcher in the toilets always bugged and stuck underground, or am i just unlucky?
>>526411645Someone post the gif.
Based Sillov announced a new book.
>>526414208>DIMITRI SILLYOV!
Grenades are easily the most underrated weapon in S2. IDK how often you use them, but its not enough. Saw a lot of stuff online in dumb tips and tricks shit about how you SHOULDNT use grenades because it damages enemy equipment which means it sells for less. Well, I say... killing 6 dude with 1 grenade as to avoid the firefight, and the repairs the firefight would necessitate, is just good business. I never used them in the STALKER Classic, but the guns were also great in those. A great gun in 2 is one that doesnt feel like a constant uphill battle to use or maintain, so swapping to a grenades is a lot more worth it than in the originals. Even better for mutants, especially when those cunts try to hide behind some corner.
>>526415073MORE LIKE GAYNADES!
>>526395761Strelok had one of the bigger character assassinations I've seen in a while
in CoP he seemed calm and well-tempered. Had a nice ending where his story seemed done, joining a research institute
Only for him to come back in stalker 2 and be just as insane as scar
forced to kill him if you're not doing his ending, and his ending is him being crazy with power
it's like prototype 2 all over again for me
>>526415667No, no, no... hear me out... You have a grenade. You take a mission from some bartender to go kill some bandits. Those 10 bandits spawn around a campfire. You toss your grenade in the fire. You now have 5 grenades+other loot+quest reward, all without 20k in repairs. Theyre just good bussiness.
>>526415885privyet brat...
>>526415798The famous black stalker
>>526415073Swapping to grenades takes long enough that it's usually faster to just shoot someone. I mostly used grenades when someone was on a railing above me and I couldn't get a good shot, but could easily bounce a nade off the ceiling. In open areas, it's really hard to catch people in the blast radius.
S2 needs a throw back grenades feature, and a grenade throw hotkey for PC. Also I want to be able to turn my grenades into 40mm grenades. Grenade launcher ammo is so rare, I barely had 16 rounds after 4 days of play. There needs to be a faster way to accumulate those things.
Also I hate putting away long weapons when I heal. It makes the gauss rifle and bolt action so annoying to skirmish with.
>>526414208hell yeah, finally some good literature
>>526415892They really should have done a reboot since the new team retconned and changed elements of the worldbuilding anyway, such as how artifacts function and the map layout etc. Similar to how GTA has 3D era and HD era. Dragging old established characters through the narrative mud again was eh.
I got roasted on the gamma discord for saying coc = anomaly = gamma
Thought neither anomaly nor gamma would exist wo CoC
>>526417265>that hairlinemale power fantasies are disgusting
>>526415892Strelok seemed pretty sane to me. it's just that his reasoning for his ending is dumb. He could easily sell it as a "don't poke the bear" thing. That the safest way to treat the zone is by not fucking with it at all. Instead he's just saying the zone should be respected for it's own sake.
>>526417489you deserve it for being there and posting shit
>>526417826>He could easily sell it as a "don't poke the bear" thing. That the safest way to treat the zone is by not fucking with it at all.It's kind of that too, which is why I sided with Strelok. But they went with him having some kind of spiritual connection or "love" for the zone instead.
>>526417848Nigga I'm playing gamma for the first time and there's 1000 niche mechanics, need help with it, the noob chat channel is friendly, but the grok glazing is crazy, people act like he developed the "game" himself instead of slapping together stuff from moddb, they should chill
>>526417265This was always meant to be Strelok though, they just added the hair and recolored his outfit to hide the fact that it was Strelok and that he'd be returning in this game.
>>526395761It is, if you join them. I have yet to do the other playthroughs because I generally need a good cooldown lag time between playthroughs of any game to not get bored and annoyed and stricken with "I've already done this" a really bad live resin trip caused some serious mental scarring as regards repetitive actions, but I imagine they put a lot of effort into making it so whatever side you choose feels like it's the right choice as you do it.
>>526415892You really think nothing could have happened between COP and S2? In-universe, I mean. It's pretty blatantly spelled out in just the note left in his old hideout alone that the research institute that became SIRCAA started doing shit he didn't like, and something clearly affected him with psi causing him to have some memory gaps.
And don't forget, amnesia aside, he was literally brainwashed by c-con to kill Ghost under the assumption Ghost was actually Strelok. Shaking it off or not, he's a brainwashed c-con agent.
>>526416675>In open areas, it's really hard to catch people in the blast radius.Getting a feel for how to aim them and the difference between toss and throw bounces take a bit. They bounce a lot more than you would think.
>There needs to be a faster way to accumulate those(m203/vog) things.I end up relying on vedors for a lot of them once they start becoming a mainstay in my loadout. Same with .308/7.62x54R ammo, but if Im buying ammo, I always have tons of ammo of other types Im not using for that run that I can sell so its really not that bad economy wise.
>It makes the gauss rifle and bolt action so annoying to skirmish with.The trick is to engage with those weapons from spots that you can easily duck behind cover and heal without someone rushing you. Might be common sense, but long range weapons should be used at longer ranges. Once you get close enough to be rushed while healing, you need to swap to a weapon with higher readiness if you dont want to deal with the disadvantages of using a sniper for CQB.
>S2 needs a throw back grenades feature, and a grenade throw hotkey for PCI dont mind having to switch to them because thats easy enough to do behind cover and stuff. It encourages more tactical gameplay, as opposed to more over the top CoD action gameplay. Its something you have to decide on, get ready for, expose yourself, aim, and throw, then duck back behind cover to ready your weapon again. It is a lot more deliberate of an action with how it is. I also dont think a throwback would be good for the game. The enemies grenades are also to encourage a more tactical approach to gameplay. After 3-5 seconds, you should be breaking contact, retreating backwards to break LoS, then moving around to flank from a differwnt position, get 1 or 2 more kills, then repeat. Enemies throw a lot of grenades, but Im never around when they go off. If AI grenades are a problem, youre not changing cover ofter enough and probably getting shot in the face a lot.
>>526420059>brainwashed c-con agentThis has literally become an excuse for every character inconsistency now, bravo nu-gsc.
>>526420059In CoP he wanted to help the military control and destroy the zone though, having him completely flip ideologies in between games is a bit of a stretch
I'd be more open to it if GSC wasn't just another 'skinwalker-studio' where the original game's team has been more or less replaced
at the least, I'd rather play a sequel or mod with his ending over the others, a setting where the zone's even more desolate as a result of being cut off from the world could make for a fun little offshoot
>>526416908No wonder there are so few non-schizo story mods, slavs read shit like this for 20 years and then go on to make OP 2.
Gotta say tho Gamma does look rly nice out of the box (almost, had to reinstall the foliage mod to have summer foliage, the fall one feels like I'm playing Fallout 3 with how drab it is)
>>526423352I prefer the spring foliage
I said come in! Don't stand there!
Hey Grok... Yeah talkin 2 u FAGGOT...! I downloaded Gamma just 2 DELETE IT! SUCKED IN ... IM PLAYING GOLDSPHERE AHAHAHAHAHA U Ghey FROG CUNT :
- by Maxwell
Does anyone know why Japan was the only place this was released physically?
>>526424453It's nice but the grass is too lush
Bros... I dont want to fight this chimera...
>>526416675>Grenade launcher ammo is so rare, I barely had 16 rounds after 4 days of playWhich would be fine, if underbarrel grenades were worth a damn. Unless one of the recent patches fixed things, they aren't - IIRC they're only comparable to hand grenades at best and nowhere near worth the carry weight regardless.
>>526428204may I suggest a rocket propelled grenade
>>526428204Be thankful it's not an electro chimera
>>526331804If you think about it, S.T.AL.K.E.R. and Morrow-wind share a lot of similarities.
>The Zone : The Prison Colony>Brian Scorcher : The Barrier>Rookie Villa : Old Camp>Army Warehouse, Dead City : New Camp>Sidorovich : Xardasetc etc
>>526356816>hud crosshairI hope your boots filled with scummy swamp water.
>>526420432>bro of course he can't run anymore, he got hit by a car and his spine was broken>DURR WHAT A FUCKIN EXCUSE FOR INCONSISTENCY NICE JOB YOU HACK FRAUD WRITERS
>>526431405it's actually a pyัะฝoะน ะฟpoัะธะฒoัaะฝะบoะฒัะน ะณpaะฝaัoะผัั
>>526379862>over 1000 npc portraitsHoly shit.
Do you plan on releasing your ports? I assume you edited and ported some of them to IWP.
Flashbang anomalies are a huge fucking cancer.
>>526425962Japan asked for things, we obliged.
>>526432067>Morrow-windgothic you mean
>>526391274>i only have a 3080That's a pretty good GPU though.
These fags were getting 57 fps on epic settings no framegen, no DLSS. And that was on an unpatched 1.0 version. If you turn down settings to high/med, you should be getting silky smooth 60+ fps absolutely everywhere.
You need to go through serious troubleshooting. Maybe something wrong with your driver version, maybe you have some shit disabled in bios.
Just got back to a trader after the expedition to clear sky base in the swamps. Made 66,182, with 12,462 in repairs for a profit of 53,720 coupons. Easy money. My Shah's Mate chambered in .45 put in a lot of work against all those mutants. GP37 handled to zombies and the 203 took care of the controller ezpz. Got every stash I had marked while I was down ther, but didnt do too much exploring. Good shit.
>>526439191anon has a dogshit cpu or is retarded and maxxxing meme settings
>>526415892>>526417826You forget that Strelok is the same person who
>wished to be immortal>wished to rule the word>wished for detroy humanity>joined c-con to become a wannabe godHe is definitely not some cool, stoic and sane guy. Even if an ending is not considering canon because of a sequel, it still shows a possibility based on the character's personality.
>>526443796He also used to be a dentist before going to the zone.
Strelok always had crazy vibes
https://youtu.be/4j7WlR6bRWQ?si=7-u9kfsT2EOrX41B&t=237
>>526444990>we will never get a game exploring strelok's adventures with ghost and fang
I want another Deggy game
>finally reach the sarcophagus in VoA
>decide "ah fuck it, might as well see the monolith ending before going to c-con"
>get to the monolith, Messer wishes for the extinction of humanity
>cutscene ends
>"whew that was cool, time to load the sav-"
>the game doesn't end
>new task: Apocalypse
>>526450926Everyone is gone, or what?
>>526433638>over 1000 npc portraits>Holy shit.well, every outfit has like 100 or even 200 when there is an alternative texture variant NPC variants times two, because there are also zombie variants for EVERY model.
The NPC model folder itself is over 10 GB in size
>Do you plan on releasing your ports?yes, although it won't be a full port. Generic NPCs will only have masked models and some head variants will stay faction specific, like the bandit heads. I also made some optional things like additional SoC heads for greater NPC variety or the option to have opaque visors. I had this port in a playable state for quite some time, but there are still some missing npc variants like the ecolog guard or the heavy SEVA, since they need their own models, but I can't model, and there are only placeholder faction emblem portraits for NPCs. I'm currently holding out for SamArt to officially release it, but I also might release it, if he will take too long, which he already does honestly. Its not there are already ports for SoC
>>526451929*its not like there are already ports for SoC
>>526451373Messer is transported in a death truck back to cordon again, becoming a thrice-born. Controllers, chimeras, and pseudogiants are attacking the military checkpoint, and every faction has a hit out on Messer. Toad sends a message saying he wants to meet, and you have to fuck around and run to his bunker in silent hills/army warehouses while being hunted by everyone. He explains that several massive blowouts happened leading to a civil war outside, former soviet union countries are trying to unite into a slavic union, there's a threat of a third world war and rumors of mass zombification. Slavic union has sent jets and military to fuck up the entire zone, and he tells you to fuck off and do something about it. That's about as far as I've gotten.
>>526451929Fuck that guy just release it. Give him credit of course, but fuck him. I'm sure many players will enjoy your work.
>missing variantsJust hack something together. I believe in you.
is the IWP guy still being retarded?
he's gonna hate me pretty soon lol
>>526451929The models are really cool and props to the author for creating them, but delaying the release because you need to make a 1000 fucking screenshots seems backwards. I appreciate portraits in mods with new models, they're neat, but they're not essential for anything. He could have released a portrait update separately as a pack if it took that long. Oh well.
>>526425369such power from an /sg/ user...
Ok, hear me out.... Kharod with a 203 on the sling, a M701 Super with a Holemaker on your back, and the Gangster in the pistol holster.
>>526469849bro just rediscovered everyone's endgame loadout
>>526470190But none of those have wood furniture
>duty defends Rostok from blind dogs and MAYBE 1 or 2 pseudodogs
>freedom defends the entire lower section of the zone from heavily armed Monolith raids on the regular
Holy fuck its legit pathetic, stoners and bloodsuckerfuckers have 10x the military experience than the group that talks about "protecting" the zone.
What would be a good mod to run through SoC again? I'd like to revisit the trilogy considering I'll probably never play S2 after spending 10 hours in it and finding it unbearably unoptimized. Fucking hell I'm still upset.
>>526472202Thanks. I played S2 at launch for twelve hours or so, but the majority of that was waiting for the game to load or compile shaders. My system is fairly beefy and it felt like the sonofabitch was going to light on fire during loads. I have no idea if they ever fixed that, but hell I'm upset.
>>526471892AMK AE 1.4.1 or just AMK 1.4.1
>>526471892SoC Update 1.4 if you want graphics/guns, it has shit from AMK in it too. Shadows Addon if you want cut buildo content restored. OGSR if you want some wacky slav shit and more variety. Radiophobia 3 if you want something closer to anomeme.
>>526470945Common freedumb propaganda, monolith isn't actively attacking the barrier, it's just probing to get em to back off
Why is my wish granter speaking english?
>>526475867You hate em cuz you aint em
You can make fun of Monolith for being a bunch of rock worshipers, but they see their God all the time. But funnily enough, meeting a Monolithian is also a surefire way to see your God if its not The Monolith. Atheists and Christcucks btfo'd.
>>526475763Why are YOU speaking english?
>>526477417ะoะถะธะน yะบaะท
>Have had STALKER 2 installed since February
>Been meaning to play it but never got around to it
>Heard there's a big patch coming this month
Should I wait until this patch to play the game? Also I've never played Call of Pripyat.
>>526362054Clusterfuck with a drum mag and an autoclicker to simulate full-auto is the best. You only get like 100 shots before it starts jamming, though.
>M10 GordonThat's not NATO, you fool. Also all 45acp pistols are shit compared to the 9mms. Why is there no 9x19mm pistol like the berreta or glock?
>Not mentioning Texas (the unique RAM-2)It does more damage per shot than any other shotgun and it's more accurate. This leads to it having surprising range and also being decent at miniboss killing, where the extra damage becomes apparent.
>>526478069GSC discord says patch 1.5 will be released closer to end of june
play CoP and by the time you beat it the patch will be out (it wont fix STALKER 2 tho, maybe in another 1-2 years it will be)
>>526477881Baby shower? Okay...
>>526478359I hope against hope that when they said they're increasing stash window size, they meant that the inventory window would be 1 block wider. I hate how the assault rifles don't fit side by side in rows. I need a mod that makes all weapons 4x4 in size.
>>526476134>generic sassy bitch faggot reply #17
>>526478359Should I play the original or Enhancedโข edition of CoP?
>>526478307>M10 not NATO, you foolI thought the Mac-10 was a US made weapon, but I also used NATO loosly.
>Not mentioning TexasYou right. I completely forgot. Id put it on par with the M860 and regular Ram-2, desu. The slight improvement in combat effectiveness only matters so much when it costs 3x to repair. Its good, but its bougie.
>hurr durr muh clusterfuckI stand by that ranking. The Kharod has endgame stats and fair endgame repair pricing with no real downsides other than aesthetic, so I think it deserves its top slot. The GP37 needs about 1-2 extra shots per head compaired to the Kharod, but its such a repair efficient weapon you can afford to send 10 extra rounds over the Kharod. Its cheap, and still very effective. You can run it at full auto for CBQ and not even care. The Decider when swapped to 5.56 is basically the same as the GP37, but more geared towards close-quaters. It has slightly worse range, but slightly better handling and rof. It deserves its lower rank due to higher repair costs and no underbarrel option.
I can go into the sub-CF ranking if you want but the 416 being dogshit pretty much sums it up. The Lullaby, after 5.56 swap, just become a retardely expense bullpup 416 so it deserves its shame spot.
The CF earns its spot because it is still a somewhat effective weapon for short outings if you can afford it, unlike the ones beneath it. The problem with the CF is that it has the durability of a sniper, and the repair costs of a unique weapon, with both an integrated supressor and scope(that add to its repair costs, unlike detatchables on basic weapons). Its reduced durability means it cant compete with assault rifle that are actually effective at being an AR in the field. It also would be way below the M1 in the sniper category because it is worse per-shot, and way more expensive. It is servicable, but theres so many better options that are just as easy to get for any role the CF could perform.
Are there any mods for stalker clear sky that let you spawn squads? The faction war quests r so retarded when it bugs out.
Cleaning the neighbourhood.
Not sure if loner sneaked upon me or spawned upon me.
>>526482919>gloved skeletonslol
>>526482919get that noobtube off of that beautiful G36. What's the matter with you?
>clear room
>Sadistic A-Life Director 2.1.3 decides that a loner was actually hiding under a rug
>get spooked
>run out to my death
I'll get these fuckers next time.
>>526484302>>526485038I found some random autists collection of pics model guns that he takes with lil skelly bros and absolutely adore them for some reason.
>>526485732Onward warriors of the Monolith, avenge your fallen brothers, blessed as they are in their eternal union with the Monolith.
>>526483447Faction Commander lets you do that and also adds a menu that gives you a more direct control over your faction, but at the cost of adding some vasyan shit, like a new confrontation between Monolith and the Military.
Alternatively, there's ะoะฒeะปะธัeะปั ะoะฝั, that lets you spawn NPCs among other things, but I'm not sure whether it's got an English translation. There must be some other spawner mods too.
>The faction war quests r so retarded when it bugs out.If factions not sending out squads is your only issue, you can also just try editing the game files for your faction in gamedata/configs/misc (faction_duty.ltx, faction_bandit.ltx etc.) to make them more aggressive, this thread explains how it works: https://github.com/Decane/SRP/issues/108
That's what I did on my last playthrough and I managed to completely wipe out Duty and conquer the entire Zone as Freedom.
How are all my Mercbros holding up? Right now I'm at Cooling Towers pulling the trigger on every Monolith nigger I see.
>>526485268Nice night vision. You got it to work without blowing out your eyes or making indoors areas too dark.
>>526490260It's weird how no missions take you to the Cooling Towers, or even Cement Factory. Duty got ghosted by the writers.
>>526500761Why did they even make two large areas but no quests that drag you to them? FNV figured this out a decade ago.
And what is the point of Duty and Freedom still existing when their roles were pretty much replaced by Ward and Spark respectively?
>>526503869>And what is the point of Duty and Freedom still existing when their roles were pretty much replaced by Ward and Spark respectively?I think they knew freedom and duty had to make an appearance in some fashion, just a shame that they feel so shafted (dooty especially). At least freedom gets rostok which is still a useful hub.
But Duty vs freedom is much more interesting than ward vs spark. It's mostly because spark kinda sucks, it's just a bunch of zone schizos. Ward at least has some stuff going on with their connection to SIRCAA and the friction that goes on between the two groups.
what's the point of all the repair and upgrade tool autism in Anomaly? I'm playing on survivalist setting and technicians charge the same price as me upgrading my own stuff with my own tools, shit doesn't make any sense. Shouldn't shit be free when I'm doing the work since I have the tools and everything? is it really just bloat?
>>526505841Base anomaly is really shit and unbalanced, you never need to engage with any of that weapon bullshit or mutant cooking, it really is just bloat that was never properly thought through - there are addons however which make the systems more engaging, but i never bother with them personally.
People give it a lot of shit rightfully so, but any problem you might have with Anomaly can be fixed with mods in most cases
i'd like GAMMA a lot more without the incredibly autistic repair system
>petrenko starts equipping and selling SVDs before radar???
>>526503869FNV didn't figure out dick. They couldn't even make the areas they didn't invisible wall off functional for more than one encounter.
>>526505841You don't understand. It's anomaly, with all the miseryslop included. Everything has to be as obnoxious and tedious as possible. You the player have to jump through as many flaming, irradiated, and poisonous hoops as possible to do a fraction of what every single NPC in the zone can do for free. It's why you're expected, even if you're playing monolols and starting in the heavily irradiated CNPP, to start with a pistol and a leather jacket and no radiation protection because nobody knows how to fucking balance anything and they all decided to just treat every single playthrough scenario as if you were starting in SOC's Cordon.
Say what you will about Gamma but at least Grok has a vision for his game
>>526509385what would you change about it? or would you just straight up remove it.
right now i have mine setup so that vendors can sell guns and gear, but like 2 hours in they start selling medium to heavy armor + pretty decent weapons. feels like progression immediately jumps to the point where i dont have to loot enemies anymore after doing a few quests.
>>526515121NTA but I think vendors should have very basic equipment and weapons with slightly better offerings in the mid and late game, mostly through ammo and other equipment rather than just weapons and armour, and reserve the really high end guns for rewards from quests or exploration of the less well trodden areas of the zone
the biggest issue with all freeplay mods is the lack of reason to explore, it just isnt rewarding, which should be the biggest strength of freeplay in general
perhaps you could occasionally meet a stalker who has something top tier to trade with that he's found on his travels, but generally you should have to go out of your way to find the good stuff hidden away
>>526515121straight up remove it honestly but then again i'm actually really retarded so maybe it's my fault and not the actual system's fault
Why didn't the Ward just bomb the Duga with artillery from outside the Zone?
>>526391631yeah bases fps always tank
>>526518041it would be nice to have a gamma mod that makes the game more about progressive loot rewards from exploration and quests rather than the crazy scavenger/crafter gameplay
every gamma run ive had is just oh i gotta rng roll these stashes for basic tools, and then advanced tools, and gunsmithing tools, cool now i have to check if i have enough scraps to hot glue this pair of used underwear to a helmet i looted off a dead body to make it usable, wow i can go brain scorcher now
The lack of FPV drones in Stalker 2 is unrealistic.
>>526523196you seem to have a weird obsession with used underwear, is this you by any chance? how's jail?
>>526519502>Politely requested the shelling of Dugadoesnt sound as good on Col. Kush's campaign record.
>>526503869>Why did they even make two large areas but no quests that drag you to them?many quests were cut before the release, see the leaked build and design documents
>>526503869Duty, yeah kinda sorta. It would have been nice if Duty joined on with another faction like the Scientists that way they still could have had some sort of purpose. Scientists need meatshields, and Duty needs people who can come up with a better plan than shooting at emission with RPKs to destory the zone. Or if Duty became the meatshields of the Ward and forced to do all the job Col. Kush wouldnt risk sendinghis own men to do.
Freedom is a joke, because anarchy is a joke, but Spark are absolute clowns. Pant on head retarded. Their entire purpose is to chase Strelok's Wish Granter fever dream. Not even Freedumb is that retarded.
>>526503869>>526500761Do you really need quests handholding players through all locations? How about free exploration and discovery? The main quest does not visit those locations, but they still have side quests and unique loot there. It's an optional area, like Ash Lake in DS1 or Grave of Saints in DS2.
>>526490260I hit turning point 1 at SIRCAA last night and now Im back in the Lesser Zone making sure that shit gets handled before I forget and lose a hub.
Thinking about finally upgrading from the Merc Suit+M20 Sphere to the PSZ-9N Wolfhound. Ive had the armor for a while now and all the upgrades I want for it, but just been running merc suit because repairs are cheap. Might start running a .308 permanently now with a M860 or smg as a budget friendly gun for mutants and shit. I really like Shah's Mate in .45, but the Integral-A is honestly worth the extra repairs.
is cumslinger still the only weapon pack with visible weapon upgrades?
Is there a lighting option or some shit for s2 that removes that dumb inside/outside effect a supposed to mimic your eyes adjusting or something? I makes it impossible to see anything if youre standing near a doorway, and insides always look pitch black, and outsides always like staring into the sun. It makes it impossible to see whos shooting at you if theyre inside a building and youre not, or vice versa. I literally dont know what to do other than go full quake and run out diagnally trying to no-scope everyone before they kill me because I had to leave the nice cover provided by the building to see whos shooting me and you only get 5sec before they kill you for breaking cover. I mean, woodland fights are already bull shit because youre fighting a bunch of aimbots with wallhax, but this lighting bullshit between inside/outside is terrible. At least in the woods you can just run backwards and flank, but when your only exit from a vuilding is the one 5 guys you cant see are watching, you kinda gotta go full pro gamer and no-scope headshot while bunny hopping and drop shotting, wall running, and rocket jumping to get out of there alive. Its not a fun way to play a game thats not meant to be played like that.
>>526534837Yes and that's a good thing.
Weapon upgrades are bad game design, especially those weapon upgrades locked for 80% of the game behind tool kits.
>>526535176you either go with the soc system or gunslinger, invisible meme upgrades is just lazy retardation
>>526535394For me it's the CS system. Where each technician specializes in different weapons and upgrades are tradoffs, not straight up upgrades.
>>526535118Check nexus mods thread for different configs that changes it
https://www.nexusmods.com/stalker2heartofchornobyl/mods/137?tab=posts
These configs seem to work nice for people:
>r.EyeAdaptationQuality=2>r.EyeAdaptation.ExponentialTransitionDistance=2>r.EyeAdaptation.LensAttenuation=0.5
>>526537073Ill check it out once I finish power-walking back to a trader. Right now its kinda just like... if you cant see the 5 Monolithians, you are already dead
>>526535513>CS system>upgrades are tradoffs, not straight up upgrades.Huh? Tradeoff implies you sacrifice one stat for another (like for example +fire rate and -accuracy). In CS you have mutually exclusive choices, but every upgrade always makes stats better. That's the definition of straight up upgrade.
Also, upgrades in CS were OP.
>>526539656The accuracy upgrade reduced RPM.
Why do so many mod devs decide to make psy storms and blowouts happen on a regular basis? The spectacle quickly becomes just an annoyance. "Oh blowout, I either have to reload my save and then wait around doing nothing or run into an empty building and then wait around doing nothing"
Sure every now and again it will happen at like a cool moment when you are in the middle of a gunfight or you will have enemies rushing to your hiding place you now gotta defend, but 99/100 times its just a boring waste of time.
Having them be scripted events is much more fun
>>526530681The Ward not turning to Duty for extra men after the Duga disaster was some bullshit. The Ward sergeants were saying that they're basically spent and their mainland reserves are too green to dump into the Zone all at once. And from Duty's perspective, once they learn that Ward is planning to actually eliminate the Zone, they would be all in with the Ward.
>>526540828Yeah, Duty could having had a much cooler role than just drunken sobbing at the cement factory.
>>526539656>In CS you have mutually exclusive choices, but every upgrade always makes stats better.There are some upgrades that are actually tradeoffs. Like a sawn-off/hunting rifle upgrade that cranks up accuracy but disallows using buckshot, or any assault rifle upgrade that lowers recoil, but halfs the rate of fire.
>>526540632My most memorable moments in S2 are unscripted emissions. One time I was going from Garbage to Cement Factory and an emission hit. I ducked into a green wagon, but little did I know that a poltergeist was outside. I spent the whole emission playing whackamole with the objects in the wagon. Every time the poltergeist picked something up, I'd slash it down with the knife.
Another time I snuck into a bandit filled building in Cordon during an emission. I decided to hide in a corner instead of fighting them. Then a bloodsucker decided to come in and start a 3 way with us.
The last memorable time was when I was sheltering in a building full of friendly stalkers and a bloodsucker came in. I didn't even have to fight it because 8 stalkers were pumping it full of lead.
>>526541653Knowing how the scripting works in S2 can you even call those unscripted? Sounds like when the blowout started the game spawned enemies near you to fuck with you during it.
>>526540828>>526530681It's unfortunate, because that would make perfect sense, according to how Duty is portrayed in dialogues. Some characters actually describe Duty as "Ward's lapdogs", yet they are hardly ever seen cooperating.
>>526542051Maybe for the bloodsucker ones, but it was only 2 out of like 12. I know the poltergeist was a hard spawn, though. After the emission I went out to kill it and saw that it was zooming around on a pipe above the canyon my wagon was in. It wouldn't be there randomly.
>>526540632I like that system.
But psy storms shouldn't even exist. They are not canon. And gameplay wise they are exactly the same shit as emissions, there's no reason for them to exist. It's especially annoying when you get an emission immediately followed by a psy-storm.
Why does S2 insist on these segments where you spend 5 hours straight in firefights with no tech or trader and then have to walk 2 miles after its done to get to one? That doesnt really work with the game they've designed and unless youre following a guide and know when they happen, youre fucked because you only brought enough supplies for the usual excursion thats lasts for 2hrs tops and constantly carrying 80lbs of ammo and food just in case you run into one of these segments means you wont be able to loot a single god damn thing so whats the point?
>>526425369Least schizo goldsphere player
>>526540828theyve already siphoned anyone from duty that was willing to go, duty is now a skeleton crew with only loyalists remaining, thats why they lost to dogfuckers
Completed VoA. What a fucking mod. Initial thoughts:
>the good
Buildo desolation atmosphere is amazing. No quest markers, gotta pay attention to figure things out, which works well enough. The economy is decent, never had more than 7k. The only reliable money comes from selling artifacts or suits. The story and worldbuilding are solid, VoA rewrite does much of the heavy lifting, more mystic cryptic shit than in SoC. Lots of setup pays off later. Also has some fucked up elements like the missing children plot. You learn more about the worldbuilding and the outside world (Slavic Union, which labs did what, origins of Duty/Freedom/Monolith etc.), and get bits of info through PDAs and docs. Almost everything gets explained by the end. All of it is coherent, no extreme vasyanism. Messer feels less like a blank slate than Marked One and has lots of sarcastic/threatening dialogue. Wishgranter ending bait and switch was cool. C-Con's motivation makes much more sense (they're literally the specter of communism), tying everything together narratively. The final boss fight was actually terrifying.
>the bad
Feels like a solid stable base without much meat, which is expected since it's built on an older OLR version. A-Life is dead as fuck. Levels feel excessively empty, little reason to explore off the main path. No crates or stashes, 1-2 unique loot spots per level. Very few side quests, though those that exist are well written. Some mutants are unreasonably annoying. Cars are neat and necessary due to level size, but trivialize travel too much.
Decent OLR-lite without excessive buildo autism. The story is the strong suit. Worth a playthrough to experience "polished" buildo stalker, at least until 3.0 unfucks itself. Enjoyed it very much.
>>526540828Would've been more interesting to have Duty work under Ward in an official capacity. You'd get some faction politics since obviously not everyone in Duty would agree with being secondary to ward, or just not liking their connection to SIRCAA. Might lead to a faction split.
And it could have the theme of old factions no longer being top dog, but they'd actually have some presence in the zone.
It also just makes sense for Ward, beyond just getting more soldiers from Duty, we know Ward is pretty good at controlling other stalkers but they suck at dealing with anomalies, enough that they'd need to hire stalker guides to train their men. Having duty members in their ranks would fill that role.
Some of this is probably in the game, and I think it's mentioned that Ward absorbed some duty guys, but any connections are pretty light.
>>526550284I never found buildo gameplay very enticing but the maps and story interest me. If VoA is a more polished version then maybe I'll try it out.
An emission hit in the middle of the night and I had to take shelter near a Merc camp. I think they were transporting bloodsuckers somewhere but I didn't have much time to look around. Majority of the crew had no problem with me being there but these two assholes recognized me and wanted to start something. I could hear them searching around the camp for me with their guns out while I was still trying to get my bearings.
I had to knock one of them out. There was a stash in here I wasn't planning on grabbing but these guys are going to be pissed at me once the find the body anyway,so I just looted it before slipping out. It was mostly junk in there anyway.
I wonder if this is what the Bandit life is like.
>>526552765To be fair by "polished" I mean "less janky" since we're still talking about buildo stuff. If you're looking for essential OLR experience and decently faithful/streamlined adaptation of design docs story, without illuminati or talking dogs, then it's definitely worth it. Otherwise 3.0 or even LA blow it away gameplay-wise I think (LA has amazing versions of buildo maps too).
>grab the last cigar
>pack is full
my immersion...
>>526529902>see the leaked build and design documentslol
>>526535176read it again retard
>haven't really played stalker in the last couple years
>EE editions released. Initially not very impressed with it, but still wanted to check them out
>haven't played vanilla versions of the games in more than a decade
>autism makes me go for 100% completion
>rediscovering the games and the reasons I love the Zone
Feels good, bratans. I know the EE's are shit and I'd never recommend them to other people, but they did rekindle the reason I love these games.
>>526563483I can't bring myself to install them. I already have all three OG's installed.
>>526556953Looks awesome. What mod for the overlay? Is it for nods only or is it a gasmask overlay?
how do I repair my weapon in gamma? did grok change it? the parts are repaired but the gun itself is busted
>>526570385If all parts are repaired, then make a single shot. The weapon should become all green and with 0% jam probability.
Grok redid Anomaly's repairing system, so sometimes it glitches.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MGSTRJmN2VQ
>>526568431Yeah, the overlays only show up when you activate night vision. I'm playing MHM but I believe the night visions are part of OXA.
Top is tier 1, bottom is tier 2. I assume the overlay field of view gets expanded further with Tier 3 but I haven't found any yet so I don't know what that looks like.
>>526563483The feel is known comrade, I just started playing for the first time in 10 years.
Last time I played it I finished Misery and couldn't face it again after. But I'm back and realise how little games have progressed since then
I hate having to leave a bunch of yellow groms just cuz I aint carrying them 3km to the nearest trader.
>>526525416Shit that's actually an amazing idea for a mod
Somebody who's not me and actually able code and shit needs to do this
Assault on Duga as Ward is kinda filtering me. I keep getting 1 shot trying to retreat after the psyblast and psyblock does absolutely nothing so trying to shoot your way out carfully sucks balls because you cant see past 5m from all the psy effect bullshit turning the screen into a massive glare.
>>526583979>he complains about that mission in ward routeNothing can be worse than running in spark route all the way from Rostok and then back
Tbh Gamma isn't that bad, its a slow as fuck slog but its more STALKER than I thought, not bad at all for openslop
Bandages are completely pointless in stalker 2 when you can just spam medkits
>>526601784Deggy is so dreamy :3
>>526601784>called Scar>immaculate faceWhat did they mean by this?
>>526601784We need a female protag for stalker 3
Hips adventure
TOTAL MONONIGGER DEATH
https://www.reddit.com/r/stalker/comments/1l1i0om/finally_got_to_meet_the_monolith/
>>526601784This is what happens when you skip Clear Sky. Two time emission survivor, stomped Monolith out of Limansk, and dabbed on Strelok at the NPP.
>>526602723Monolith need to get a W, they're the punching bag way too much
>>526602723well deserved, what a bunch of dorks they all dress the same.
>>526601784Who the fuck chose skif?
>>526610249people who put ukrainian flags on their twitter profiles
I dont get that Strelok guy In CS he's all evil scientist twirling his mustache, then in SoC hes all Dude, where's my 'tar?
and in CoP hes had enough and is just like fuck this zone and fuck these emissions Ill tell you everything I know for a ticket the fuck out if here, and then in 2 hes the fucking lorax with an army of mercs.
Now Major Degtyarev? He makes sense. He's USS, and he's there to investigate the failure of Operation Fairway. Simple as.
Scar I dont really get either. At first he was like hipster Strelok and surviving emissions bare-chested and being a marked one trying to figure out how Strelok got through the brain scorcher before it was cool. Then in S2 you ask him about Strelok and hes all like "ok, listen, Im not gay, buuuut...."
Skif? Lol.
Major D wins by D-fault by virtue of not being a constant shenanigan.
>>526611510strelok and scar are brainwashed
>>526612853Aren't we all?
>>526611510Chudtyarev is a glownigger, there is nothing impressive about him, no character develpment at all. He's got nothing on Strelok the schizomaxxer.
have you seen a little stingray chopper around here? crashed, green camo?
>>526613120Yeah, but you gotta go talk to the dog-fucker to reach it.
Anyone know if you have to use the repoanon patch with the amk arsenal repo edition from the OP?
I keep hearing all these discorders/redditors saying that Anomaly looks better than STALKER 2. Am I out of touch or are these niggas insane? Anomaly with all those mismatched, slapped together modded textures look grotesque. Then there are the reshades everyone uses which either oversaturate the fuck out of everything or desaturate it, with some bloom and vaseline filters to top it off.
Anomaly looks so fucking ugly.
>>526626121Anomaly + screen space shaders looks fairly good honestly. I'd take that over the generic shitty look of UE5 games.
>>526626121>wah let me use the worst example of people installing different textures and having garbage reshadeLol?
>>526626267 is correct. Especially with a good weather mod and proper color grading. Stalker 2 looks like generic UE slop on top of having garbage ass lumen and dogshit shadows that break performance unless you are running a 9800x3d + 5090
>you know remember Ray of Hope
kek I wonder how many retards he scammed for donations.
>>526328229What mod is this? Looks like OLR VoA but with a different hud
>>526450926Man I fucking love VoA, I'm replaying it rn since I got frustrated with OLR 3.0. How are you finding it so far?
>>526631302iKit?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cAJ37Dhva0A
>>526631982not downplaying monokits scumfuckery but
>2022>the source code of B&Swhich is just anomaly engine which has been on bitbucket since forever.
>>526631714Yep that's VoA. I tweaked the HUD for myself a bit since I found the original a bit clunky.
>>526631970Just beat it recently. I really love buildo shit and this is definitely my favorite interpretation of it, if 3.0 ever gets VoA'd it would be fantastic
>>526550284
>>526631982after watching the whole thing, lol what a dickhead
Ii remember rad online too
>>526631982kek love how the guy gets progressively more mad as he tells the shit monotard has done, passionate lad.
>>526602191he has a scar on his forehead
>>526634670yeah scammer shitbirds are the lowest of the low.
I have no mercy for them unless
I hope he winds up with his ankles broken somewhere in russia
>>526636370>I have no mercy for them unless**unless really specific circumstances
typically its not, its just shitheads trying to scam some $ for nothing, fucking grifter jews
>>526328229>bruce jenners day out.webm
Humanity is corrupt, mankind must be destroyed.
>>526640754This but unironically. This is why I brutally slaughter every single bandit on sight.
>>526640754>S.H.A.R.T.E.R. - Shadow of Colonoscopy
>>526626121Anomaly mods/modpacks are only good for landscape screenshots because the visuals are incredibly inconsistent. You'll have a Dutyer with a model from S2 holding a gun from the latest CoD MW next to a trader from 2007 in a level made in 2005 where potholes and other shit have visible polygons.
However imo some mods do look prettier than Stalker 2. Such as SoC Gunslinger on OGSR engine, Radiophobia with summer vegetation, SFZ Ep. Zero remake, Dreamcatcher, SoC Update 2.0 to name a few. They might not have models with a million polygons and ray tracing, but they have a good visual composition, a tasteful color palette, and simply put nice atmosphere.
Anyone played the EE on controller after the OGs on kbm? I kinda want to check it out and see how much not being able to 1-tap entire platoons with my mouse before they can react changes my playstyle.
>>526601784Scar got played dirty by being cast in the worst game.
I want to like IWP, but CoC is such an unstable piece of shit, the game sucks without CotZ, but the CotZ addon is full of other people's shit and not just Doctor X's stuff which ends up breaking the game and making it a ballache to play, and there is basically no good CoC addons compared to analmeme. Why didn't he just put IWP on analmeme and remove all the bloatshit or Old World Addon?
>>526644753Is your pic an example of what looks good to you? My god in jesus almighty
What are some vanilla++ mods to play these days?
I played plenty of Reclamation Project + Absolute Nature + Original Weapon Renewal combos already
>>526647798>CotZ addon is full of other people's shit and not just Doctor X's stuff which ends up breaking the game and making it a ballache to playstart making you own edits. It ain't hard. If you want to delete Rhons quests (just as an example), then you just have to delete a few lines of code, other edits just require value changes. Most of the additional stuff is also either already disabled or can be configured.
Other than that I agree with your notion that there should be a CotZ port that is closer to the original mod, although the port might be in a better state than the og one in my opinion
>Why didn't he just put IWP on analmeme and remove all the bloatshit or Old World Addon?cuz analmeme is vasyanshit and is a technical mess
I remember anons mentioning Rhons stuff negatively before, why is it so infamous? I played CotZ quite a bit and didn't notice anything that stood out quest-wise.
>>526648556>>526473415Depends what you mean by vanilla++.
>>526650038some of the added quests are quite nifty and DO fit in quite nicely, like the quests to kill a zombie that was someones friend or something like that. The stuff that I dislike are the freedom quests with that shitty, cringy and crude "dude weed" and "get it? PORN!" characterization
>>526648393It's not always that saturated, t'was just the weather. Dreamcatcher has a specific flair, takes an hour or two to get used to, but it radiates atmosphere.
I like the stalker gun.
Also, should bullet velocity upgrades also increase flatness since gravity is constant?
I've officially left the hobo phase in my first ever gamma run
Also it makes much more sense if you up ammo drop rates a bit, by default stalkers carry like 7-8 rounds per body, legitimately "immersion breaking"
Forbidden rendezvous.
>>526650693Assmad freedumber detected.
>>526648784>>526656121>editing the author's workDon't do this. The author carefully considered every scenario and balanced the Modificate around this. In short, you didn't left shit because you cheated. Do better. Reinstall and try again.
>>526656121>legitimately "immersion breaking"just as immersion breaking as every stalker having broken to shit gear and no one in the zone willing to sell you a gun
>>526658445This is an impressively ironic post. Well memed
>>526658497That's why I used the black market mod too, like okay guns being restricted officially n harder to get I understand, but no one being willing to buy a gun in a place where literally every single person is armed is just ridiculous
>>526658445I only upped the drop rate recently but its a great change to have desu, fuck doing 2 tasks just to buy 90 ammo (ik I can craft but rifle bullets for crafting are rare as well)
The way I figured out crafting is dump every single thing into 1 box next to the work bench and work from there, grab everything and if u have smth u have it in the crafting menu, not that hard to grasp, I commend grok for at least not caving to the tarkov autists asking for removal of radiation/mutants tho
>>526654778bro your y(x)โ(g/(2*k^2))*[ln(1+(k*x/v0))]^2 ?
I've been playing modded Stalker for so long I dont even remember how the unmodded game was like. Is A-Life in Stalker 2 really that bad compared to Stalker SoC or are people comparing it with modded Stalker?
>>526660761soc didn't spawn npcs near the player in order to fake a-life shenanigans and didn't despawn them when the player moved away, and that's what stalker 2 does.
>>526660761People aren't even compaing it with modded STALKER. They're comparing it to half-missing rose-tinted memories of their experiences from ten years ago.
>>526660761Yes it's that bad. And yes you should compare it to mods considering they consulted with mod devs while making Stalker 2 and stole ideas from mods they liked. A life should have been improved for their original vision, which modders have been trying to do, it should not have stayed the same as vanilla SoC and it should not have done whatever the fuck they did with it in Stalker 2 which is all just scripts and spawning bullshit with no dynamic life.
>>526660761Its absolute dogshit, but if you pretend to not care about how little effort went into the smoke and mirrors of try to recreate it in S2, then its alright I guess. I leads to a lot of intense moments. Super artifical, yeah definitely, but 20 dogs spontaneously spawning while your stabbing crates is still intense. Its absolute dogshit but its still fun if you can appreciate the simplistic video-gameyness of it, I guess. Its kinda like an old nes game where things just didnt exist offscreen. You can just run far enough and a pack of boars gets lost to the void.
>>526663395>considering they consulted with mod devs while making Stalker 2 and stole ideas from mods they likedThis isn't just false, it's hilariously and woefully false.
99.99999% of STALKER mods and modders are Russian. GSC explicitly wanted all so-called Russian influences removed from the sequel. They even fired a guy and banned several Discord devs for simply having distant Russian relatives they hadn't seen in years.
The last thing they were going to do was ask for advice from people Ukrainians view as literally subhuman.
>>526660761stalker 2 is so bad i can literally visualize the 100m spawn bubble as iโm walking around.
>>526422490He wanted to control the zone because of how associated it with c-con and all the mind control stuff, at somepoint he learns about the ward/SIIRCA's agenda and turns on them over that and starts to see the zone as a victim just like himself. [Spoiler]at somepoint he even finds out about the generators outside the zone and the regulatory board/spoiler
>>526663571>Its kinda like an old nes game where things just didnt exist offscreenALL video games don't spawn anything outside of the render distance. A-Life has always been a scam from the very beginning. Monster and loners are not wandering around having their own adventures, encountering each other, and getting into fights. The game just randomly decides to spawn either living mobs or random dead NPCs on the ground when you enter the map.
A-Life isn't real.
>>526664539Why not increase the spawn radius to something like 500-1000m? It would at least keep up sone of the illusion making shit spawn out of your range.
>>526665454xbox would probably explode if the game had more than 20 characters spawned in
>>526665454iirc render distance is hardcoded or at least not readily configurable lol
>>526661395>soc didn't spawn npcs near the playerIt actually did in 1.0. NPCs were infinitely spawning right in front of you. It took GSC several patches to change it.
>>526415892They fumbled Scar even harder, IMO. They missed a pretty good opportunity for a good plot that also referenced the original trilogy.
>Make Skif a mook owned by SIRCAA from the beginning, start the game in the facility (now located outside the Zone)>Hey, you're a PTSD-ridden ex-soldier who tried the STALKER life once, do us a favor. Bring us this one very specific artifact in the possession of someone you know, and we'll wipe away all your gambling debts and give you a new life>Opportunity to show players what it's like to enter the Zone the "legal" way, via a checkpoint>Tie Richter and some other NPCs into being former associates and drinking buddies that Skif has to track down to find the artifact>Artifact is essentially a remote that the C-Con used to control the Wish Granter>After Strelok offed the C-Con, Wish Granter went dormant, awaiting orders from its leaders that are now dead This offers two narrative choices based on what we want the canon of the Wish Granter to be:
>Either an artificial constructy built by C-Con with it's own AI, or an entirely alien crystal that was formed by the Noosphere that is the brain and CPU of the entire Zone, but only semi-sentient.>Whether alien crystal or AI, Wish Granter spends 12 years slowly half-asleep gaining sentience, eventually "wakes up" as a thinking organism thanks to the combined thoughts of every stalker ever brain-nuked by the Brain Scorcher.>Like actual game, have Wish Granter "wake up" at same time Skif is about to hand Artifact over to SIRCAA agents, re-enslaving the Monolith Cont'd
>>526667021>Strelok re-enters Zone to defeat the Wish Granter, mirroring his original trilogy quest, possibly gets a psionic echo from the Granter itself as he's a former brainwashed agent>Scar, who has been sitting in stasis for the last deacade+ in the CNPP, is woken up by Wish Granter as a cold-blooded, Terminator-like new agent and given a specific quest: Kill the Strelok, the one person the Wish Granter fears, as it has the memories of the C-Con and their final moments dying at Strelok's hands>Scar is now once again chasing Strelok like in Clear Sky, but with an ironic twist>Through various quests Skif is introduced to Strelok and Scar and their backstories>Skif is now faced with choices:>Help Strelok defeat the Wish Granter>Help Scar defeat Strelok>Do Sircaa's bidding to try and dominate the Wish Granter under their control>Go full anarchist retard and go after the Wish Granter himself to seize all the power>If Skif tries to seize control himself, the ending of the game will be determined by things like his reputation rating, faction scores, and etc just like original build SHoC>Siding with Strelok or Scar, or SIRCAA will have their own unique endings>SIRCAA ending will be the unequivocal Bad Ending>Other endings wouyd be bittersweet mix of pros and cons
>>526664402They literally confirmed that they worked with Lost Alpha devs
>>526668105That explains a lot actually.
man, I hate how weapons with scope takes half of the screen. do people really enjoy this shit?
What if the real Wish Granter was the friends we made along the way?
>>526664886tell me you don't know shit about the innerworkings of a-life without telling me kek. in clear sky, all faction war related fights are calculated in offline mode, it's not a dice roll deciding which unit will die. in soc it's also far more complex than it might seem
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FOVlO3vTf2U
>neoGSC changed the names of the original games
I didnt have a dog in this fight, but I hope Russia wins and more of the devs die.
>>526665454The game already runs like pure unadulterated dogshit even after being made shit tier for consoles. Imagine if the spawn radius was 10x. Not even SpaceX has computers powerful enough. The power of Unreal...
>>526660761I'm reading the replies to your post, and I want to say GSC are the best liers ever because 18 years later and people still believe in the lies they made about A-Life in SoC.
S2 random event system is not real A-Life, but neither is the system SoC. The whole premise of A-Life is a dynamic world where NPCs can live without the player, and that doesn't happen in SoC. The world never changes, and NPCs never move unless the player kills someone or triggers some story event.
In fact S2 might be better because at least you get random events. In SoC you will always get the exactly same encounters in the exactly same locations.
>>526671609what would happen if you asked the wish granter for friends in the zone?
>>526672543Slava Monolita
>>526671743I ain't watching that shit since I don't speak russian and he's showing clips of GSC devs seemingly talking about the AI which they're obviously incentivized to play up.
People like alundaio who actually worked on the engine instead of simply taking GSC at their words have already said that there's a lot of smoke and mirrors going on with Alife.
nu-gsc BOWS to a-life 3.0
>I didnt have a dog in this fight, but I hope Russia wins and more of the devs die.
Is there a way to always show hud in stalker 2? This auto hide annoys me.
>>526672773Still shows you know nothing about offline a-life. And clearly if the GSC devs had this as their vision, then why would they deviate hard from that and make simple spawning scripts for Stalker 2 and call it A-life 2.0? Modded A-life like in OLR 3 where NPCs have objectives, move around maps, leave the zone, pick up quest items, etc should have been implemented in Stalker 2 as that's what GSC wanted to do in SoC, but couldn't due to limitations and time. Hell even Analmeme has good A-life, where you can get a quest to kill someone and they can just dip out and go to different areas of the game and will follow an actual route (go from truck cemetary to dark valley to dark scape to cordon for example) or will walk through anomaly fields and pick up artifacts. None of this is possible in Stalker 2. The NPCs don't move or even exist until you reach their spawn point or trigger a scripted event. And they don't move or have objectives if you unload them by walking away from their spawn points. They are completely static garbage and nothing like the dynamic A-life we were promised back in 2007 nor what we got in SoC/CS/CoP nor what we had thanks to modders. And again, Stalker 2 implemented many mod features from mods they liked. Even adding stupid shit like eating animations.
Stalker 2 A-life is dogshit plain and simple. It pales in comparison even to the A-life from a 2007 game that was rushed and pushed out early due to THQ pressure. They had 14 fucking years.
do you think ill be able to run stalker 2 with my gtx 970?
>>526674573I cant even run MHWorld on max details without dipping below 30 fps due the Vram.
>>526674251My only hope is modders fixing it.
BUILDOKINO PART 2 JUST DROPPED, I REPEAT BUILDOKINO 2 JUST RELEASED
https://youtu.be/LmLEarPcyqE
Fucking monolith bushnigs
>>526677807>nigga just playing builds for 4 hoursno thanks
>>526678101Tasteless
>Verification >not >required.
Did I always have 20 artifacts leaving cordon or is this an EE thing?
I'm getting my ass kicked in S2 because I just can't see those fucking enemies. And they just spot me and down in a second.
>>526682837Yeah it sucks. You can play around it but its still annoying as hell.
>>526672543*They* would be friends. *You*, however...
Am I supposed to get attacked near norther checkpoint military camp or is this shit bugged too? They are suddenly turning hostile.
>>526563483They're entirely worth playing, whiners be damned. With SOC at least, there's definitely some fuckery going on, changes made in a patch that affects some crazy shit. I have NEVER, EVER seen Petrenko equipping and selling SVDs, the bandits hanging out with Poker and Friar all wearing trench coats and sporting TRS-301s, NPC movements like Sparrow at the WT helo instead of the duty camp, or the obscene rarity of Chasers and SPSA-14s before. Of course, it still has bugs added by 1.0006 like NPCs not spawning their special NPC infinite ammo for weapons they pick up in the field and reverting to their shitty pistols
>>526629020>>526626267Dumbest posts in the thread.
>>526664402Imagine posting this and daring to pretend it's truthful.
>>526671743>https://youtu.be/FOVlO3vTf2U?si=NKzwbLsDvdKhaktP&t=1013>Stalkers travel around the zone and when they collide, what happens is rolling dice to calculate the situation, noticed, did not notice, who killed whom, and so on, but when the player comes to the place where it was calculated, he will see the consequences of these collisions.That's a lie. Shadow of Chernobyl had no offline combat. You won't ever find bodies, not because of some garbage collector, but because NPC fights never happen outside player's 150m bubble.
Here's how A-life worked:
>each map had specific locations dedicated to NPCs (so called smart terrains), and those locations had maximum NPC capacity>for example Rookie Village had 13 stalkers, train bridge had 5 soldiers, etc>now imagine a player kills a stalker in Rookie Village, now there're only 12 out of 13 stalkers>so the game spawns a new stalker and sends him to Rookie Village>there's no offline combat, so that stalker will eventually reach Rookie Village unless he gets killed in player's 150m bubble>once NPC reaches its location he stays there until he is killed by the playerWhat happens when all locations reach their maximum NPC capacity? Well, that's it. New NPCs will not spawn, and existing NPCs will never leave. You can leave the game open for 1000 hours, come back, and every single NPC will be still alive and in their original location.
>>526677853>gaymma>sprint speed is slower than the walk speed in most gamesHow fat is your character?
>>526611510I hate zoomers so much its unreal
>>526686513Only the bare essentials
But yeah by the end of scorcher I had 130kg worth of shit
>>526687374>only 22% bullet resistancenot gonna make it
>>526647798>but CoC is such an unstable piece of shitno. ur dumb
>>526687853I already did using our most powerful stalker wep the f5 button, I'm not using groks campfire save bs
>>526685653>I have NEVER, EVER seen Petrenko equipping and selling SVDsIt happened all the time for me in the original. He starts selling SVDs after you complete the Bulldog quest for Voronin.
>NPC movements like Sparrow at the WT helo instead of the duty campThe point near the downed heli was a popular place for named loners in the original as well, I often met Scarecrow and Master there, the wiki also says Sparrow can stop there on his way to Yantar.
>it still has bugs added by 1.0006They've at least fixed the crash caused by using items from a corpse's inventory, introduced in 1.0006. Can't say for other bugs.
>>526688845Is this Enhanced Edition? I've been meaning to play the originals but they are too clunky. This looks like a good option.
>>526688845>>526687374But why is the sprint so SLOW? You can move faster in Morrowind fresh off the boat, while walking.
>iwpfag
Yeah, that tracks.
>>526690074Because they're two entirely different games that use two different engines where in-game distance is measured in compltely different units of measurement?
>>526661395>>526666537gotta love the retards about posting shit they dont know about.
>>526690326Wtf how did you found my nametag?
>>526690725Nta but Marrowind and S.T.A.L.K.E.R. are actually very similar (at least, that is what JankGamez4309 has said).
>>526690725>autism intensifiesRetard. Your gaymma install has your SPRINT speed slower than the WALK speed of other games, including vanilla stalker. Your character flails around like he's aiming to move from Cordon to Red Forest in five real world minutes, but he's moving at a speed where he might get from the bar to the arena in that time frame.
>>526685653>>526689745I also never saw Smartass at the firepit in Army Warehouses with Father Diodor and Master and never got the task to kill him from Baldy for some reason.
Anarchists this far south? And so close to the Sidorovicha...something isn't right.
>>526677853>>526687374>>526688845>>526689745Wait, this is G.A.M.M.A.?
>>526691006>https://www.moddb.com/games/stalker/downloads/patch-1-0003-us>This patch updates the US version of STALKER: Shadow Of Chernobyl from v1.0001 to v1.0003. It fixes several crash bugs and more.>* Fixed the bug with NPCs spawning in front of the player.There's no way you never saw it if you played the game on release. It was a very common complaint.
>>526674251>And clearly if the GSC devs had this as their vision, then why would they deviate hard from that and make simple spawning scripts for Stalker 2 and call it A-life 2.0?because ue5 runs like absolute crusty assholes so the cut everything back, they even cut pip scopes.
duh.
>>526671743>in clear sky, all faction war related fights are calculated in offline mode, it's not a dice roll deciding which unit will dieYeah where does that happen? Engine, scripts?
seems like complete bullshit especially when the player shows up and kills half or more of the bad guys
are you just trying so seem like a retarded douche or is it natural?
>>526692534i was talking about the other guy
Whoever came up with giving most mutants undodgeable knockdown stun attacks should have a Geran sent to his house.
>>526695395>gamma>radioactive piss10/10
I have been playing Stalker 2 for few hours and I have serious ammo issues. It seems like I shouldn't fight anyone in this game? Especially not mutants? The mutant killing quests seems like a joke too since the cash won't even cover ammo. And the human enemies have like 2 bullets on them and a piece of bread.
>>526700626Use shotgun against monsters. The game is specifically designed around that.
>>526700626Mod it. Both enemy health and drops. The game was designed around cinematic and story elements, gameplay obviously took the backseat.
>>526695474There's a mod to remove this shit, too.
>>526700626Always unload all guns you come accross and explore for stashes. Theyre prefilled. Half of them are just a vodka, bread, and 30 rounds of ammo. It adds up over time though.
Use shotguns for mutants and a pistol for random bandits. Theres an ungodly amount of fuckshot and pistol ammo scattered around the environment. You should be fine if youre always unloading all guns you come across and are exploring. I think sniper and 45 are the only ammos I ever have to buy. 45s burn through a lot and theres not as much laying around.
>>526700626up your scavenging/looting
>>526695474probably the same retard who thought a headshot sound would be a good idea
Is clear sky gay or naw? They seem kinda homo.
>>526705918everyone is gay in the zone, there are no women.
I liked EFP for Anomaly, it's been a year since I played STALKER. what do you guys recommend that is stimilar to EFP?
>>526706514I wanted to fuck a women, i compromised
>>526689850>>526692472Yes it's gamma, EE is just vanilla lad, before someone accuses me of being a tarkov-kid I was just defending the originals against zoomers on the gamma discord, I played soc EE a week ago or so, after that forgotten zone, now gamma, I love stalker but gamma isn't so bad either, the gameplay loop is so addictive, always tryinna craft one more upgrade etc
>>526702107>cheatJust play on journalist mode then, pussy.
>>526709307Fucking Sin and their bullet shields in gamma tho, glad these annoying gremlins didn't make it to the trilogy, they're just stinky monolith
>>526666537>>526691006>>526694329but what does the release version have to do with the topic? patched soc doesn't do that, the old devs managed to fix that after a month. s2 was released over half a year ago and it still wasn't fixed.
I'm kinda not enjoying S2. It feels somehow too big and empty. There seems to be no point exploring too because there is nothing to find.
How do I play clear sky? If I dont move I get shot, but if I move I cant shoot because my gun is swaying all the fuck over the place. IDK what Im supposed to do...
>>526711140bro, your bloodsuckers, vodka, and 9x18??
>>526711612You forgot about the dogs.
>>526711140I don't wanna be that guy but since playing Gamma and then back to 2, the stashes in 2 are a depressing joke, the gamma stash system every marked stash will have at least one very useful thing, maybe nu gsc can learn a thing or two from grok after all
>>526695474>>526703685I hated this shit.
While we're ragging on 2, I also want to mention that they captured perfectly the cringe writing style of misery et al loading screen tips.
After defending the fishing hamlet my CS decided to just give me the entire swamps besides the renegades main base. Neat.
Oh and you can't sneak out of these nigger NPCs sight like in the old games. They always know where you are. I've seen their guns clipping through the wall and even if you're crouched and walking slowly to try to flank them, their guns are pointing directly at you, following your every move.
Absolutely repulsive nigger behavior. I could not care fucking about Alife shit where some retard you're supposed to kill dies in an anomaly or whatever, why are so few people talking about how much WORSE the combat AI is than the first three games?
>>526557185is LA worth playing? i played both VoA and OLR 2.5 but i heard that lso alpha has illuminati for no reason and empty levels that arenot woth exploring. The way it has 3 versions is pretty confusing too: heard that revisited was the way to go but then saw that it adds new mechanics that don't fit or something, i'm very confused.
still think that OLR and VoA have the most schizokino moments in stalker, those being the minigun dream sequence and the final boss of VoA. Both are only beaten by the "i'm waiting for you outside" from goldsphere
>>526691860isn't snitch that gives you the task to kill master?
>>526718038>I've seen their guns clipping through the wall and even if you're crouched and walking slowly to try to flank them, their guns are pointing directly at you, following your every move.So just like in the originasl? Stupid fucking zoomer lmao.
I love this dinky little pistol.
>>526717317>>526718038There is no weight to the combat in 2.
HOW DO I KILL THESE WARD FUCKS HIDING BEHIND LOCKED DOORS
Taking a moment by the fire to heal and prepare my freshly looted shotgun.
>>526721874>LET ME IN REEEEEElol
>>526722168IWP. It's just CoC with sexy guns and some light graphics upgrades. Recommend CoTZ to spice it up a bit. Links are in the OP.
>>526712359>>526711140Play the originals. Count how often a stash gives you guns and armor vs just ammo and consumables.
>gammatroons bitching because s2 doesn't have enough soiled underwear and porno mags in its stashes
>>526720113He does but that's a different but similar task, I wanted the one from Baldy (next to snitch in the Bar) to kill another guy who is usually at that camp for a Night Star. Get them both stoned at once is a pretty good way to get +10% bulletproof cap quick
>>526723260Different games, originals had very small maps, soc has like 5 or 6 small maps that's it, you can sprint from cnpp to rookie village with endurance artis within minutes lmao, cop larger but even less, cs similar, stalker 2 is huge, massively more than any of the trilogy, and npcs and towns are more spread out, so obviously you need extra incentive for exploration and travel, nice try tho
Anyone happen to know where this fucking stash is in the train depot in Garbage? This is in anomaly. Its not the stash right outside Butcher's little alcove, nor is the one back in the little cement bunker in the direction Butcher is facing. Ive checked high and low, even got up on the fucking roof. I get the feeling this stash doesn't exist.
F.U.C.K. bandits.
>>526731948There's a space underneath the wooden planks leading to the bunker. Have you checked there?
>In Anomaly
>Gotta talk to Beard
>Nearest unlocked fast travel camp is outside Forester's hut
>Map loads
>Surrounded by Monolith
>Oh shit oh shit
>They all aggro and start getting up while I'm sprinting
>Since they're all so close together they bump into each other's hitboxes and get stuck on things
>Get shot in the ass a few times but survive
>MFW
Air force anti rads protocol is vodka?
IWP is great, but wish it had more graphical addons. I like all the weathers I can fuck around with on analmeme and all the different textures and grass options. IWP feels lacking in comparison with only really 1 texture and weather option.
>>526731948>>526732420Welp, doesn't matter now. I was on ironman, and I just got into a really sticky situation. I was in wild territory sneaking up on some mercs in the construction site when a blowout started. They all started charging in the direction of the only nearby shelter, which also happened to be in the direction of...me.
>on my way to visit Sakharova my beloved business ecologist>looks clear, just an egghead outside the lab perimeter>he's probably headed towards the camp by the tunnel>might as well check the box at that camp>mfw duty>>526740740True that there is a lack of addons. You could check out the discord for a few more options. I use the CGIM weather port that was posted there. You don't need to verify anything to join just make a burner and browse the addons.
The smaller selection is kind of nice, though. Once the game is set it's easier to just jump in and play. I feel like I spent more time modding anomaly than actually playing it.
>>526741039Haha R.I.P.
https://files.catbox.moe/5oswyx.png
so uh.. .
>>526747008do stalkers eat the animals in the zone?
>>526747134yeah, you can find them roasting the body of a flesh over a fire.
>>526747008Why are you autistically naming all of your videos?
Check in, Mercbros. How are we doing?
I'm running some errands at the bar. Finally managed to get my hands on a Wolfhound suit and almost immediately afterwards found a kitted up G36 with a suppressor, coupled mags, and laser on some poor sap who got killed by a blood sucker. I had to fix it up.
Sorry M14, you carried me through most of the game but now G36 is my best friend.
>>526753335Each title is a carefully considered acronym ala G.S.C.'s cult hit S.T.A.L.K.E.R.
Boars Assault City On Night
I thought this was obvious.
>>526700626what the fuck are you on about? S2 is FULL of ammo if you actually look around
>>526743490is this stalker 2?
>>526745296what am i supposed to do with this
>>526747008is the MP5SD ported from gunslinger?
>>526758996nta, but itโs IWP
>>526763748nta but it looks very similar, so possibly the ported ones
How do I be better at stalker? I started playing clear skies and I feel like everything kills me in 1 hit and it takes me like 3 mags to kill everything.
>>526766414> I feel like everything kills me in 1 hitcuz it does if it does enough damage.
they were aware of shit shit in cs, they introduced 2 hit death parameters in CoP to give you a bit of a fighting chance without being too cheesy.
best thing you can do is the obvious, try to use cover when available, upgrade your weapons asap, their accuracy will become tolerable. take headshots if possible. and shotguns for mutants seem to do more damage.
>>526678917Just install the mod that lowers your weapons.
>>526682837Use the compass pips to get a bead on them.
for IWP, does anyone know where to find the tools for Cleric, the Monolith mechanic? there doesn't seem to be any indication of where to look
Is money really that hard to get in s2? It feels like ammo and repairs cost a lot.
>>526711140The S2 map is full of things to find. The good shit is hidden well. I used an interactive online map and had fun.
>>526771732you need to loot like mad and try not to shoot at every mutant you see because they dont drop money
>>526739065Wow, they actually had moving, interactive vehicles in the early games? I thought it would be like S2 and not have vehicles.
>>526771603Are you playing with CotZ? I'm pretty sure a spot with the tools should be marked on your map iirc.
>>526771732It depends on what you use money for. Repair costs are manageable if you sell some extra weapons and ammo. Upgrading gear costs hundreds of thousands and doing it also increases your repair bill proportionately. I used a trainer and was giving myself absurd amounts of cash to upgrade every weapon I found.
>>526775310FUck up cunt ...
The lack of brothels in the Zone is immersion breaking.
Type a shit a life spawns in my way while going to the scorcher with few medkits
>>526766414>everything kills me in 1 hit and it takes me like 3 mags to kill everythingthat's the standard clear sky experience, unless you mod it. You can buy the CS1-A armor from the clear sky vendor, available after you take the swamp area. Upgrade it and you should tank distant shots a lot better.
>>526777810They give you the armor for free after you take the swamps for them
>>526766414Just stick with it till u get an AK and hit headshots, it's not so bad, as with soc the early guns just suck, for mutants shotguns always, for humans AK headshots, I got a ok AK within 2 hrs of playing CS
>>526771732It really is not, at least as long as you're not playing on Veteran. I never had any issue with money in my entire playthrough on Stalker difficulty, and I didn't loot every rusted weapon to sell for pocket change, as many here claimed was the only real way to play. By the late game I had over 350,000 coupons I didn't know what to spend on.
Just use your ammo sparingly, use the caliber you're likely to loot on bodies or in stashes, hunt for artefacts and sell them to cover repair costs.
>>526777956the one you get for free is the lighter version, CS3. The heavy version CS1 must be purchased after you earn some extra reputation.
>>526777956>They give you the armor for free after you take the swamps for themThey give you a shitty CS-3a (CS1 in original), but you can also buy a heavy CS-1 (CS-3a in original) armour, which is a great early to mid game suit. For some reason their names are swapped in the English version.
>>526766414Im playing CS again right now and just got to sid. The long over/under shotgun carried me all the way through the swamps. The mp5 is also great once swapped to 9x18.
Grab the long shotgun though. You can use slugs in it for guys too far to hit with buckshot and youll have way more ammo than enemies to shoot with it. As far as not dying goes, what helped me was stopping trying to pie corners. Cozy up to the edge of the cover's corner, aim, lean, shoot, unlean, reload, repeat. If you try to ajust yourself by strafing at all youll get a horrible gun sway, which is the last thing you want right as youre exposing yourself to the enemy and trying to accurately shoot them before they shoot you. The makarov is really only good if you get a bunch of guys on a bridge and can just start plinking the squad's head-height arean and get 3 or kills before they can react. The long shotgun is the bee's knees though
i remember playing SoC or CS and that whenever you shoot someone and they go into the "stagger" animation they become invulnerable until it ends
was that a real thing or am i misremembering again?
>>526779962I just finished SoC and am on Clear Sky and I couldnt tell you. Sometimes it feels like they are, and sometimes Im sure I killed them while staggered, but their iframes could run out before the animation if they do get them. It feels weird.
>>526780134I'm in the same boat as u except clear sky is killing my will to continue playing it, I was loner, I spent a long ass time securing cordon for loners, but it simply never stops getting attacked no matter what, so engaging with warfare is pointless, the enemies never end, your faction never grows, you never truly secure a region, it's obnoxious cancer, soc is so good in comparison
>>526779962That was CS, but it's not exactly how you describe.
Once you empty their health pool, there is a chance they'll start doing a few seconds long "death animation", during which they don't react to damage, but not because they're invulnerable, but because they're already dead, you're just wasting ammo on a corpse. That was a bad idea, which is why they mostly got rid of it in CoP.
As for the stagger, they still take damage in that state and it's a viable strategy to send an enemy into a stagger animation and finish him off with a headshot.
>>526780379if you aren't using SRP you shouldn't be engaging in faction wars
not that you should engage in faction wars at all, because the rewards for them are barely worth the effort
>>526780557If they worked, I like the idea of taking over the zone for loners, but it simply doesn't work, and ignoring it feels like ignoring half the game
>>526779962I remember something about enemies getting staggered and covering up with their arms, and the arms take a lot less damage.
>>526780543>That was a bad idea, which is why they mostly got rid of it in CoP.Nah, CoP had even more retarded death animations where enemies would spastically move hands and shoot in all directions. If you were shooting from a long distance, you would see them still shooting, so you will continue sending bullets into their dead corpse.
>>526780769you aren't missing much, I feel like it's one of those things they wanted to capitalize on before the game went through dev hell once more so they had to trim it a lot to make the deadline
in practice their only purpose is for you to make unlimited rubles by grinding capture/defend territory missions
>>526719884I'd say LA DC with Revisited is the version worth checking out. I don't think it adds any major mechanics, you might be confusing it with LA Extended or LA Enhanced, which add unnecessary hardcore slop. The illuminati dogshit ending was cut by the devs in this version, iirc previously to achieve it you needed to find all the hidden documents (some of which were impossible without looking at the guide). Aside from graphics, great recreations of buildo levels or some cool mods like the definitive car pack it won't offer you much new, the story is mostly a retread of SoC. If you go in with 0 expectations and treat it as another fanfic story mod that has little to do with the builds there's some fun to be had.
why is auto lean a thing on mouse and keyboard man...
>>526772103You literally see a helicopter like 3 mins into SoC. Play the trilogy anon.
>>526710046>glad these annoying gremlins didn't make it to the trilogy, they're just stinky monolithThe consequences of An*maly
Im about to lose my god damn mind from these """friendly""" NPCs pushing me out of cover and then instantly dying to 5 full auto AKs.
>>526782071I'm trying out that "enhanced" version right now. On the standard difficulties it's not bad but playing on master would probably be a painful experience. Guess I'll find out if it turns to bullshit in later maps.
I never managed to finish LA last time I tried it because of how big and empty some of the maps felt.
>>526758996Yes.
>>526763748>>526764572The front end is. I hacked the handguard and suppressor onto the IWP mp5.
>start game
>renegades instantly quit the field
>can immediately advance to cordon
>restart
>happens again
>still do all the swamps stuff, just no rewards
>go to cordon
>50 reloads and Im past the MG
>get to rokkie village
>get a quest from Wolf to help a rookie hunt dogs
>rookie jobs before I can get close enough to see them
>retry 10 times before leaving the rookie to his fate
>go meet the military guy in the tunnel
>decide to help him and give him a pistol
>he shoots me in the arm and starts doing laps around cordon
>reload save
>let the rookie die again and go shoot military guy in the face
>new task
>defend bus stop
>5 loners with makarovs pissing and shitting their leather armors vs 5 military with AKs and Berill
>try a few times
>not happening
>let them all die so I can shoot at the military guys without them pushing me from cover
Clear Sky is a lot easier when you are okay with just failing every task.
>>526771603I'm not sure about vanilla IWP behavior but with CoTZ there should be a quest marker either on a stash or a general location, and the mechanic's dialogue should mention the area as well. The tools can be spawned in a stash or directly onto the gameworld. The former is straightforward but the latter can be a bit tricky. I think you can hire a friendly stalker to help you sweep the target area with you and mark the tools on your map.
hey, is this call of chernobyl 1.6 version legit? is it really from 2022 and why the author didn't reupload new ver. to moddb..
https://mega.nz/file/lZkFHC6T#2r6oURNDwn4MhzYfZjjwikSwppSLmhOqmYhJv_DLbBI
>>526792434Is this the link from the last thread? You can check the openxray gaycord where it was leaked to see if it's legit I guess.
>he had it on his drive unused and wanted to share
>>526793034so have you tried it? any new stuff in this 1.6 ver. compared to the old one from modbb.
>>526792434it is legit. Havent tried it right now and not really interested in it right now.
which mod do people for those cool hands that I see every now and then in stalker videos? some even have watch on the left wrist that shows the exact time.
>>526799650>some even have watch on the left wrist that shows the exact time.probably some anomaly bullshit, the only other mod I can think of that had a "look at watch" button was SFZ remake
>>526723260I just found this in a white stash and remembered this comment made me laugh
there's something about killing mercs and monolith that never gets old
bros, i love the zone so much
i just got a new pc and its been a while since i came home, what should i play?
>>526802285Don't know about you, but it does get old when 60% of the NPCs in the map are monolith
Biggest flaw of CoC and it's offshoots is monolith owning half the map, you look in the top 100 stalkers and 95 of them are the monolith sitting in the brain scorcher bunker
I went to the garbage and monolith owned the rostok checkpoint, flea market and factory, only non-monolith I saw was a death report of monolith killing a mercenary
>>526804498stalker 2 with modular hard mode, hardest difficulty and no bitching about it
>>526804696what is modular hard mode?
i dont really feel like playing this game again so soon desu
>>526804843its a mod, probably the best for S2 for now, much better experience for me than vanilla, but it still has the tism like any anomaly-esque mods
https://www.nexusmods.com/stalker2heartofchornobyl/mods/88?tab=description
>>526805468I'm getting misery flashbacks.
>>526806081>rusted plasticliterally MISERY
Is there any new soc mods worth playing
>>526312842Why I already own tarkov
>>526317019Yeah but S2 attracted the normie and reddit tourists, usual cumbrain shills
>>526710046I love Sin boys desu, wish there were more mods that took them in a more unique direction beyond Monolith lil bros, like OLR or Legend Returns. I want more schizokino.
modular hard mode
more like
modular homo
xDDD
>>526802124How can underwear have repair bonus?
>>526809847Basically when using glue or sewing kits to fix armor you can add them as a bonus resource to get +2% more on that repair that's what that means
It seems I just skipped Squint quest by just exploring a bit. Googled it and people say you can easily miss or skip more quests like that? Kinda sucks.
>>526808332What are they in olr? I'm curious about sin but I lack the patience and autism to play olr
>>526809847zone lifehack: tape dirty underwear over your gas mask to protect against radiation
>>526811435isn't he a main quest thing?
>>526812274Yeah. I mean I found him before I "should" and skipped some quests before.
I miss when the thread was mostly people posting cool or funny shit from a whole bunch of different mods and now I swear half the shit I see is fags posting the most unspectacular GAMMA gameplay or their inventories
>>526804843Don't listen to him he's trying to ruin it for you, go play OLR 3 or some story replacer
>>526779962Sort of - the finger bones take no or almost no damage, which often block headshots if you're just spamming
>>526812786I've never played OLR, is it best to go for 3.0 or 2.5 first?
Arguing in the gayma discord couz this retarded gay furry nigger thinks that sin and monolith being allies makes sense
In the origin sin concept at least, they would literally be mortal enemies of monolith, zone worshippers vs the glowies working for the entity controlling the zone, come tf on, altho I hear in anomaly they're way different, I haven't played the mortal sin quest yet and met their leader so idk
S2 should have been the game Clear Sky was meant to be.
>>526814214I don't see the point in arguing over a cut content faction and anomaly's fanfic zone. Especially with gammafags
>>526814214>Arguing in the gayma discord
>>526814881What are sin like in olr tho genuinely curious
Schizo factions are kino
>>526812786>olr 3Are you trolling or just actually want him to suffer?
>actually suggesting the shit mod where you get memed on with horrible mechanics like disease
>>526815769>diseaseLmaoo and I thought gamma was autistic
>>526811851>>526815154just play OLR, 2.5 if you want something closer to vanilla and 3.0 if you want autism.
Or read the zone chronicles wiki with a translator
>>5268141523.0 if you want the best a-life in any mod to date, faithful buildokino with even the most retarded ideas from design docs restored, survival mechanics slop and some bugs since it's still in open beta. Vector of Alienation if you want a streamlined accessible buildo with fewer features but a good story rewrite, based on an older OLR version.
>>526766414>>526779475>not using the sway removal .an files from srp>not using srphttps://github.com/Decane/SRP/tree/master/Optional%20Features/%232.%20(Choose%20From%20This%20Folder%20Last)/No%20Weapon%20Sway%20On%20Strafe/gamedata/anims/camera_effects/actor_move
being forced to use this furniture crap is the most retarded thing grok has ever done
>>526818521Wdym forced? I just use the boxes put next to magnum and his crafting bench and use that as my crafting spot
Nothing makes you want to kill yourself more than losing an hours worth of looting because you ran into an anomaly and play with campfire saves.
>>526790087how are you so bad at cs?
are you using a controller on console?
Is there a mod that disables the stupid blood sucker knockdown effect? I'm so fucking done with this shitty fucking game AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA FUCK YOU GSC WHY DID YOU THINK THIS WAS GOOD GAME DESIGN.
The worst sin in gaming is taking control away from the players. You knew this when making the first few stalker games but decided to add this slop anyway.
>>526819984Just don't run into anomalies.
>>526821137Yes, there is.
>You knew thisThe old GSC is dead. This is just Microsoft wearing a skin mask. I don't even think Griga got any ferraris out of this debacle.
>>526821137It's called gitting gud
Hand crafted tactical freeplay>soups=vanilla trilogy>"story" mods>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>builds=stalker2
Post you're rankings.
>>526826071stfu, you havent wven played the originals
>>526821137>You knew this when making the first few stalker games but decided to add thisDid they really? Bloodsuckers had a stun attack back in CoP, just instead of an overhead strike it was actual bloodsucking, which was much more annoying and took a lot more time to regain control, even if that attack did suit them better lore-wise.
>>526826395Yes I did. Granted, it was in vanilla Anomaly but it's just the trilogy repacked into one game. I didn't even use mods for that playthrough.
Retarded or trolling, call it.
>>526806081this looks horrible. why can't they just add new weapons? is it hard to mod?
>>526819984Meme play mod, get played on. Or something.
Dont mind me, just patiently waiting 15mins for dawn so I can see where Im going and dont get 1 shot by the MG nest in cordon
>>526826646I'm not lying when I say I have played CoP for over 400 hours and never in my life have I seen that animation play. From vanilla to mods, when a bloodsucker hits me they just go in for a slash.
The knockdown animation for bloodsuckers in STALKER 2 happens every single encounter, the only way to avoid it is by standing on something.
I finally grinded gayma enough to get a late game gun feels good
>>526829748>have I seen that animation play.Just yesterday bloodsucker was fighting some freedumbs and almost wiped them out. They were down to one guy when the bloodsucker grabbed me and while he was sucking me off... the remaining freedom guy sniped him in the ass, saving me in the process.
I thought that was pretty cool.
>>526789007the animations look really similar to gunslingers.
>>526814214tards gonna tard anon, better use your energy on shit that actually matters, not some fucktards dumb opinion about shit that doesn't even really exist.
>be google
>2025
>add a phone number to your email
>no
>ok then how about your FUCKING HOME ADDRESS
> eat shit and die google
> 2 0 2 5
>>526832427It's been a while since I last played GunsLingerAddon, but I'm pretty sure IWP uses some of the animations from it. Pistol animation, for example, I am 99% certain is GLA.
>>526826071Literal shit > you posts
>>526830985why is everyone just standing there without reacting to murdering.
>>526836420I think the silencer is working
ROUNDHOUSE KICK STRELOK INTO THE CONCRETE
Imgaine if instead of the gayass Spark faction, Scar lead Strelok's Mercs and was actually cool.
>>526836420Bystander effect
I liked Spark at first. I like their schizoid theories about the light/dark zone they believed in. That vision Faust showed you intitially sold me on the idea that there is an 'alternative' side to the zone. Yet, at the same time, talking to Strelok also reveals to you that what Spark/Faust show you isn't all it's cracked up to be. Throughout the game there was enough ambiguity that I was at least willing to hear them out.
But then the actual Spark ending ruins all that by showing that everyone turned into a zombie. It's objectively a bad ending lmao so all the sympathy I had for their movement completely evaporated. I guess that was the point? They wanted to have at least one bad ending. But I really wish they would've kept it more ambiguous desu. It's just straight up a false Wish Granter ending.
>>526846498On the final stretch for the Spark ending you get constantly bombarded about how nu-Spark isn't the real Spark, how Scar is a CCon agent, about how his memories are fake implants by his brainwashing, it's utterly disappointing. I initially got fooled by all the ghosts of people you killed and the ghost campfires that protected you against emissions, what the hell was up with that?
I picked the Spark ending first because I felt excited that it was about some form of transcendental mystique to the zone instead of it just being a materialist shithole people extract loot from. I never liked that the past games killed off any magic or mystery to the zone by dropping answers about how it's all an illusion or made by evil scientists, I always wanted the zone to have a character of its own apart from just being an inanimate place. Spark felt like a rugpull.
>>526846498>It's just straight up a false Wish Granter ending.The "Shining Zone" was literally Strelok's Wish Granter fever dream. A wish granter ending was what they were always chasing. It makes sense that they would be what they are goven the setting and the context, but it doesnt make it very interesting. Even if ypu haven't played the originals, theres enough there in 2 to get it from viewing Strelok's wishes at SIRCAA.
What's sad is that spark would be really interesting if Ive never played a stalker game. Its kinda like when you side with ward and they describe duga as being a brain scorcher x9999, and then theyre all like
>so we can just assault it like a machine gun nest, right?
and anyone with a surface-level knowledge of the lore already knows EXACTLY how thats gonna turn out. But the Ward are a bunch of outlanders, and Colm Korshunov's first insinct is to kick down the front door, so it still makes sense in the setting and context.
Either way, its a fucking shitshow.
>>526846498What annoys me about spark is how little insight you're given for them if you initially side with ward. I went ward and switched to strelok for my playthrough, and you talk to Scar like 2 times before the end if you never take his side. Also they didn't do a very good job at recruiting me, essentially saying I could just be another Ward lapdog. And sure, it's obvious from the start of the game that ward has skeletons in their closet, but a bunch of zone schizos don't seem particularly trustworthy either.
Playing through Shadow of Chernobyl feel ridiculous. Ive got 300 artifacts. I dont even know what half of them do. Theyre everywhere. I cant not pick them up though. I sprint 50m and look around and see 3 artifacts. I shoot random loner in face, boom: artifat. I break crate, and theres an artifact inside. Wutchu want, sid? Wretched? I got 8, just lmk.
>>526849909Still more immersive than artifacts not existing until you pull out a detector
I've finished CoP like 4 times now. What should I play next if I want something that is exactly like CoP but more of it.
>>526851895Valley of Whispers is the most CoP-like I think, play that.
>>526851895Literally sgm 2.2 fits what u want perfectly
>>526819450mutant meat rots now, you have to have a refrigerator.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s0vP6QCbNUg
I wish Shoker 3 had released. I can't believe it's been 10 years. I used to shill Shoker 2.1 on here all the time back then.
I was so fucking hype for this mod but I guess at this point it's a bit outdated in what it was trying to do. Sad.
>>526836420this is what they meant by "good" A-Life in anomaly?
>>526844409stalker 2 story SUCKS
>>526853551a lot of the thigns from shoker ended up in anomaly and other weapon packs anyways
I'd still play the shit out of it if it dropped today.
IDK bros, zombie ending sounds pretty comfy.
There's a hidden ending in 2 that can only be reached by using the secret ยซะa-ะดaยป detector, I can't tell you where the detector is though so you'll have to find it yourself.
alright guys finna do it fr
I want to download stalker 2 (for free of course). Should I even bother with it? is there actually anything worth in the game to give it a try? like what should I expect? I just want to find artifacts, shoot shit, laugh at stupid xray engine stuff (yes I know it's SLOPENGINE 5) random fetch quest, funny quotes, faction missions, die from random anomalies in my way. Does Stalker 2 delivers in any of this?
>>526869195Yeah, pretty much.
>>526869195Use the freeplay/faction select mod to avoid the retarded story and unskippable cutscenes.
Seriously, every story element is worse than awful. Do not engage in any part of it.
>>526870079good to know there is a freeplay mod, makes it much easier to jump into the game and just fuck around.
>There are people who genuinely didn't sniff out the Spark ending as being bad from a mile away
If you had even read a plot summary of the first game, you'd know that there's no fairytale version of the Zone. Optimists always get fucked in Stalker.
>>526872385Joke's on me for believing that there's a silver lining to the zone and it wasn't just a soulless shithole with magic rocks.
>>526872385Like another anon said, I yearn for some sort of transcendental edge to the zone. There's only so many times GSC can pull the "it's fake it's fake it's an illusion it's evil mind control technology" before I say fuck it, just nuke this stupid shithole off the face of the planet already and be done with it.
>>526876019>>526876863S2, like CS, is not canon. Don't take it too seriously. Slava Monalita.
>>526877314crazy how they used UE5 and still couldnt produce in-game visuals like this while rockstar did it 7 years ago with rdr2
>>526869195no, you will immediately become a HATO globohomo CIA tranny and stop considering russia to be a based and trad saving the white race society
>>526877609>with rdr2lmfao
>>526877769fuck he's so deluded
>>526881498love that site
https://zsg.dk/Map_Interactive.php
>>526850390This. The best thing they should do is combine the two systems. You can see the artifacts while wandering around but you can also whip out a detector to help you out.
>>526851895Valley of Whispers if you want CoP gameplay but a new map and quests.
SGM 2.2 if you want old CoP questlines and maps + extra missions, joinable factions with their own quests (bandits, mercs and even monolith), maps from older games, game mechanics and other stuff.
>>526881498>>526882124Looks like gamebanshee but for stalker instead of rpgs.
>>526877769westoids want to kill White people tho so libtard putin is still in the right
>>526891060yeah those damn westoids keep attacking european countries, bombing and killing them
luckily we have pynya to bring peace instead
>>526891060none of tjose people he listed are "white"
kind of that posters point
chernobyl is NATO territory :)
>>526892123Sounds like Punya is just trying to toughen up the westoid softies to get em to stay on their toes and not fall to decadence and mass migration, honestly based n thankless work
>>526782071alright thanks for the answer, there's so many fucking versions, will play after i finish fotograph i guess.
is there a mod for anomaly that rebalances weapon durability into something reasonable?
I think it's retarded that everyone is not only using broken guns but also they never suffer from problems that player does when using them.
IWP is boring as shit man
>start game
>immediately uber geared, but even if you aren't you can 1 tap exo stalkers with 9mm fmj from a mile away and steal their shit
>grenade spam that doesn't get any better even with both the grenade spam remover mod + the reduced grenade damage mod
>ballistics are retardedly balanced
>bad visuals
>unstable cry ray engine
>annoying fps deleting pip scopes
>typical everyday CoC crashes
>cotz doesn't help at all, in fact arguably makes it worse depending on all the extra shit that was added in
>even with mahzra's less is more addon you still get showered with loot effectively meaning you have 0 hobo phase (aka the best part, since stalker AI isn't good enough to handle someone sniping them from 10 miles away with insanely accurate modded guns)
>stalkers see you from so far away you can barely even make them out with max binoculars and will 1 shot kill you
>ugly night vision
>still added the stupid ass animations that mean you are effectively blind and unable to protect yourself any time you eat or drink or skin a mutant or put on a helmet or anything else
Like other than the guns being cool and the game not requiring a x3d cpu to run at 100+ fps I see no reason to play this jank shit.
>>526901198you fell for the meme
>>526876863>I yearn for some sort of transcendental edge to the zoneI think anything gained from the zone would need some serious tradeoff, it's not going to give you something for free.
Surely the zone can't be all lies and illusions, right? It's not like the noosphere and the root of all this zone bullshit is man-made, the C-con fucked with something that was above them. I think a lot of our exposure to the noosphere and deeper layers of the zone was tainted by their meddling, which is why it always felt like "it's fake it's just mind control!" Almost like C-con was the middleman and we never got a clear picture
>install OLR 3 > patch > translation
>this happens on a new game
did i screw up
>>526901198The main reason I like GAMMA more than other freeplay stuff is that NPCs aren't easy kills. IWP not only gives you plentiful loot, but like you said Exo stalkers just fall over in the same amount of shots as leather jacket no helmet/mask wearing Loners. Feels like NPCs are nothing more than loot pinatas. GAMMA could do with some better loot on Stalkers, but never once in that game do I feel like I enter an area and become the richest man in the zone after like 5 kills, which is nice. I really don't understand the complaint where "why doesn't the AI suffer like me D:" as if these people have never once played a video game before. NPCs shouldn't be pushovers in a game where you are a literal 1 man army, in a game where you can kill them before they even spot you, in a game where with the right gun and ammunition you can 1 shot most of them. GAMMA does that right. Higher tier stalkers are actual threats, 1 sided gimping the player isn't bad considering you can just reload a save and you also have a functioning brain and eyeballs that AI doesn't have. I like the slow burn of GAMMA, where you really feel like you are building up a character through various experiences, rather than just popping onto the game to slaughter 100 dumb as bricks NPCs and then turn it off after 20 minutes of boredom like CoC/IWP.
>>526904507crisis averted, mismatched my files
Strider aint too smart, huh? You'd figure with all his
>Noontide is NOT Monolith
stuff, he'd cosider dressing his troops so they dont look exactly like Monolithians through my rifle scope.
Clear Sky is so good when u aint got a bitch in ya ear telling you its dogshit
>games live through modding scene for years
>modding scene is reason GSC still exists to this day
>modding scene was what made stalker 2 possible
>gsc doesn't decide to release modding tools for stalker 2 nor did they give tools/sdks for the enhance editions
Starting to hope Russia wins. Fucking ukro jews. We could be playing all our favorite mods with multicore functionality and a better x-ray engine through the enhanced editions right now. This timeline is the worst.
>>526910770In the alpha world line we'd be playing Ray of Hope on Stalker 2 (2012 edition) with perfected buildo maps and neurolink a-life that puts even OLR 3.0 a-life to shame.
>>526910770Why not just make your own Stalker 2 instead of bitching about not being able to make mods for this Stalker 2?
>>526910982To be fair, the most talented stalker modders is known for just a glorified load order.
So this is the power of gamma alife (I think it's because the npcs don't know how to react to killings within settlements or couz I have 3000 loner rep)
>>526901198>noooooo you HAVE to be stuck in hobo mode for 40 hours before you're allowed to have mid-tier gear
>>526910770>russoid war faggots lie about things because the opposition is ukrainianS2's dev tools are literally out in closed testing with some modders.
>>526827198>it's just the trilogy repacked into one gameand it's FREE and better than tarkov, remember to always mention that as well.
>>526912872i dont think vendor NPCs ever do anything
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vb9Ys_Q2ypY&
>>526915570>PvPvE extraction shooter
>>526914316nta, but it doesn't matter because UE5 can't be modded anywhere close to how xray is and who cares if only a handful of selected modders got them (none of which would be russian, aka the ones who made all the mods to begin with). It should have been made public, just like the originals. Besides I'd rather the enhanced editions have gotten better modding instead, so we could have mods like CoC, but with multicore and an engine that doesn't shit itself with crashes every 2 seconds like original x-ray. Even IX-ray isn't multicore. The way forward should have been porting mods to and modding the enhanced editions, but we got cucked.
>>526901198>>526906853Completely agreed.
>>526830985>>526912872>no pip scopesYou didn't beat the modificate.
>>526914481>FREEUhhh, no? My version was paid-for-deluxe...
>>526806081>>526806451>misery is back againNot even unreal engine is safe from Misery autism
gamma confirmed dogshit
iwp confirmed dogshit
what should i even play?
>>526919437Goldsphere calls you friend... idi ko mne....
>>526797352Fuck this quest, not worth it unless you have a RPG or cheese it with AI pathing
>>526920043Why is your run speed so slow?
>>526920912Using heavy armor to not get raped by monolith snipers
>>526921045For me, it's the Wind of Freedom with inbuilt F9 module.
Hows the IL86 in CS? I accidentally bricked my AKM 74/2 by getting the wrong upgrade and need a new plinker.
>>526816484>>526816524Think i'll start with 2.5, ty boys
>>526917687What do you mean no pip scopes? How do I change that, scopes look p good to me
>>526921045monolith pierces your armor anyway bro
>>526923710Tanking 3 hits instead of being 1 tapped makes a big difference.
>>526922074shitty by default, fine when upgraded for accuracy, like all rifles in cs
>>526923336nta but picture-in-picture scopes are like this, instead of the entire screen being 'zoomed' in, only the picture in the sight is zoomed.
currently very buggy when paired with a large modpack like gamma and cuts fps in half when scoping in.
What's the modding scene like for S2, have they been cooking or is it still just low effort cheat mods? I haven't played since release but I'm feeling the urge to styalk
>>526926805pseudo-anomaly exists now
>>526927301Why do we need a psuedo-anomaly when S2 is already a sandbox? I always played it by disabling as much of the miseryshit settings as possible already.
Has anyone improved the AI yet or are we just gonna give on that as a pipe dream and accept the game is Far Cry: Slav Edition?
>>526916826>ntaBullshit. You're clearly the same faggot with the same talking points and the same attempts at rewriting history.
The SDKs for OT were literally private - hoarded by OL and AMK devs and kept away from the public. They were not public. They were meant to be, but those shitheads kept them for themselves for fame. The SDK for 2 is private RIGHT NOW because it is a BETA TEST, for select modders to test and verify the tools are documented and working, with public releasei n the future.
Why do you insist on lying and simping for russian modders who wouldn't even give you the time of day?
>>526927661there are AI mods that improve its behavior slightly but overall the system just fucking sucks in stalker 2
modkit isn't out yet and i have no clue if it will help modders do a full a-life overhaul
>>526924272Oh right sounds nice to have but desu I didn't even notice the whole screen is zoomed in until it was pointed out
>>526930297I wonder if english speakers even get this long running meme with sidor and cans
>>526882124there is also https://stalker-map.online/
it even shows how upgrades affect weapons stats in a graph
>>526789007I know that you already once said to someone, that you won't release your edits, but I and probably some other anons would appreciate you releasing somewhere your stuff in a repository or something
I have a rly weird issue in Gamma, asked in their discord 10 times but no one answers maybe someone here would know, the pda radio has a tendency of not working most of the time, sometimes it does, other time doesn't, on every load it's a coin flip and usually it doesn't work, no songs play, anyone have any ideas? Disabled the no copyright music bs long ago, tried using different pda radio mods, nothing works, shame cause I rly love pda radio ik it's not a popular feature but...
>>526901198>immediately uber geared, but even if you aren't you can 1 tap exo stalkers with 9mm fmj from a mile away and steal their shit>grenade spam that doesn't get any better even with both the grenade spam remover mod + the reduced grenade damage mod>ballistics are retardedly balancedyeah I'll probably make a vanilla CoP balance mod for myself. The current balance is ok, if you like just some shooty shoot action, but not that interesting in the long term
>bad visualsinstall any of the graphic and weather mods available
>unstable cry ray engine>typical everyday CoC crashesI'm sadly one of those people, who rarely or never had any problems with crashes
>annoying fps deleting pip scopesyou can turn them off
>ugly night visionit ain't that bad honestly
>still added the stupid ass animations that mean you are effectively blind and unable to protect yourself any time you eat or drink or skin a mutant or put on a helmet or anything elsehelmet shit can be turned off. Someone should make an addon that disables the utility animations or makes them even faster
>>526919437what do you expect from freeplay? Play SFZ Project: Episode Zero, Valley of Whispers or any other story mod.
Or use the Ap-Pro mod randomizer to get a random recommendation https://ap-pro.ru/random/
>>526927823SDK for XRay was released by GSC, there was even an official site for it which no longer works, but you can see it linked here:
https://sdk.stalker-game.com/en/index.php?title=Category:Mod_SDK_official_help
The only thing that was hoarded by modders was an English localization for it, to which dez0wave were given acces to but refused to share it afterwards. Unless there's something I don't know about the OL and AMK devs. NTA btw.
>>526916826>The way forward should have been porting mods to and modding the enhanced editions, but we got cucked.nah, Xray Luch and IX-Ray are already solid
>>526933813>SDK for XRay was released by GSCit was leaked
>>526934348>it was leakedGSC released it officially, but it was MP only. Modders made SP SDK for SoC later.
>>526916826>UE5 can't be modded anywhere close to how xray isHuh, 15 years ago people were bitching about how hard it's to make mods for that janky ass engine and now somebody on 4chan favors X-Ray over UE. Could never imagine something like this back then.
>>526933702>vanilla CoPwhy do you spoiler this, what's so bad about vanilla cOp
>>526938638some niggas dislike the way CoP or any of the vanilla games are balanced. I personally like the way they are
>>526942090Rookie village cucks when they see me taking Hip as my companion
>>526938598Show me the iron sights on both.
>>526938598Only the guards on the outer ring use the AN-94. You'll have to find an AKS-74u if you want your disguise to work in the core structure of Shell 1.
>>526931172Is it because he buys food at a better price than weapons/armor/artifacts?
>>526950041One of the things Sidorovich ironically says when he's dissatisfied with the trade is "Might as well have brought some tin cans" in the original, which became a meme in the russian community. In the English version he says "man, dog food is more valuable that this" instead, so the line loses that meaning.
>>526892123what a piece of propaganda that is.
holy shit
>>526951568I see! Thanks for clearing that up.
>>526958037why is he so smug?
>>526958669rookies dont know any better
reminder of this useful script edit for vacuuming items such as artefacts stuck under map
I keep using it when playing soc
https://pastebin.com/QXeanXha
>>526933813>the only thing hoarded for it was the version that would let anyone other than Ivan Vodkavich Poopeaterivich use ityeah ok retard
What are some good stalker mods that are not GAMMA or Anomaly? Prefferably story mods, no mindless freeplay garbage.
Already played Gunslinger years ago, and am burned out on Stalker 2 since they haven't fixed any significant issues since release.
>>526916826>so we could have mods like CoCCoC is not an ordinary mod, it's built using leaked game code. It's basically a completely new game developed using stolen code + modifications. The original game doesn't support this level of modability. No engine does.
>>526312065 (OP)There is no link to the Gamma mod in op? Am i blind? I've been hearing about this mod for a long time and how it's difficult to install like Skyrim mods, but i want to try it out. Guide me, loners.
>>526909617>Clear SkySame here, I like it more than the third part of the trilogy
>>526965382>There is no link to the Gamma mod in op?never will be, fuck off.
>>526965382go join the discord and find out, you'll need to go there to download it anyway
>>526966264much appreciated
>>526965382Google how to install gamma for an idiot proof guide, it's very easy, it's the most popular mod there's a hundred install guides I just went with the first one (altho it was piss ez)
>spent 40 minutes playing non-stop
>get one-shot for being careless.
>forgot to save my game
why are these games so good.
>playing lost alpha DC, things are looking good
>get to the agroprom underground... it's some kind of megastructure located 1km below the surface with nothing but empty tunnels and a buried radome that houses sewage pools and mutants for some reason
>follow tunnel after tunnel which leads nowhere except for a break in the wall
>follow dirt tunnel in break in the wall and suddenly emerge onto the surface somehow after descending 20 stories previously
>exit is littered with boars and a dwarf and I have nothing for weapons
>kill them and check my map, I'm about 50ft closer to the agroprom from when I started the underground section
Seriously, just because anyone can be a level designer doesn't mean they should. Levels should have a natural flow, progression and reason behind them. There was no reason for this section to be there. I don't think I'm going to bother playing the rest of this trash.
>>526972332>game autosaves on level change>it's impossible to spend 40 minutes on a single level unless you play CoP Miserywhy do people lie to make a shitty greentext post.
>>526974718I can easily clock 2 hours before a level change just exploring and grinding out mission and stashes. I also quicksave refularly tho.
Which mod has the best faction war experience? Something where theyre semi aggressive would be nice. Default clear sky is crazy. Everytime I turn around all the loners are dead and mutants are running cordon with sid.
>>526876019Haven't you seen the movie that Stalker is based on? The wish granter is nothing but bait for selfish people.
>>526876863Welcome to the Ward ending. The Zone is uncontrolled fire, and humanity is the caveman. The only way to make the fire work for us is to understand it with logic and control it with caution.
>>526974718>impossible to blah blah blahsource? i want to believe you but do you have any reputable sources to back your claim?
Was Dalin gay? There's a lot of cutscenes where he gets uncomfortably close to Skif's face. When he tell Skif to go to his room, the way he says "there's a surprise waiting for you" was super suggestive.
>>526978172He's gay for his dad
>>526978172of course he'd go to the zone, where it's filled with MEN!
>>526978765I refuse to believe there's all these Zone lifers who stay in the Zone for decades. Unless they're gay, there's no way they could stand the lack of ladies.
>>526978172everyone is gay in the zone.
>>526978172he did have a little sugar in his tank
>>526981390And the further in you go the gayer it becomes.
skif sounds like a pocket of air trapped inside a pussy.
>>526989786He sounds cool, imo. You can tell he smokes.
>>526963391spatial anomaly
>anomalies instantly kill npcs and mutants
>Skif just takes chip damage
Hmm, are all the games this inconsistent in the ludonarrative department?
I was so confused by the wish granter section in S2. Strelok says he wants to become the ruler of humanity. Scar says he wants the Zone to end. This isn't what they want in the game.
>>526965382our elderly residents hate gamma and refuse to add it to the op
>>526998876You do seem confused, because Scar has nothing to do with the Wish Granter section. When you interact with the rock you just see visions of the bad endings of SoC (you can see all five if you keep interacting with the "phantoms"), all of them from Strelok's perspective.
Which still doesn't make much sense, though, considering canonically Strelok never made a wish at the Monolith, so it's unclear where all those visions are coming from.
>>526975271coc variant with warfare?
analmeme probably has more mods for it
>>526975271global war mod based on coc, it's nuts. it has a shitload of levels and factions too. it can be janky because the devs are vasyans but still fun.
>>527001047you are 50 posts early, relax, man.
>>526931736I might do, anon. Give me a week or so as I'd have to clean a few things up for release. What's a good site to upload to?
early bakers need to be lined up and shot. gacha general subhuman behavior it is to bake early.
>>527005079moddb
any hosting site
if you have a goodle email account you already have 15gb's of storage on your google drive
>>527005845poo p
poopedin the zone
>>527006094oh he hails from india, it all makes sense now.
>>527005871What's a good hosting site? I want this to be exclusive for my /sg/ brothers.
>>527006397how do you intend to keep out outsiders?
>>527006460Very carefully.
the prognosis is not looking good.
>>527006397jesus
just use ur google drive
>>527006397catbox, if it ain't over 200mb
google drive, mega or mediafire with burner accounts
>>527006397>>527007736 maybe filebin, but I have never tried it
litterbox if anon wants to be chaotic
>>527007661Don't have one, don't want one.
>>527007736>>527007898>>527008002Thanks, I will look into these.
Any russians here? Trying to find some russians to talk to or befriend. I know S.T.A.L.K.E.R is a big thing there and I play this shit often so might as well find those who has a similar love for the game.
>>526922074Fucking terrible, it jams like shit even when upgraded into accuracy.
>>526972867>Lost Alpha is shitGee who could've known, thank you for sharing this revelation.
>>527010695they might be dead, bro
I want a 9x39 Deagle in real life.
Thinking about my boat gun...
>>526965382>>526967506>gaymmafag>aislopPottery. Get the fuck out.
>playing SOC EE
>get to yantar
>remember the good ol days of gsc forums
>try to skirt around the level changer to get in the back of the truck like the old tejas stalker story
>the old radiation barriers are now instakill machines like in s2
>it's no longer possible to get into the truck
Grok I know you sometimes browse these threads, fix the pda radio in Gamma I beg you, I love having pda radio
>>526980381there's three possible reasons, they're gay, or they're volcels like monks, they may like women, but they're not overwhelmed by desire for them, or the third option, they're incels.
>>526980381does the zone have wifi?
>>527056861It does have a phone signal, therefore radio internet. Just buy an unlimited data package.
>>527010695dvach has a sladger general
>>527037871>grok>can do anything pick one
>>527073938I'm not sure about grok, but the npcs in the support channel for gamma all they do is copy paste the same 3 solutions every single day all day, I made a bug report type thing for the pda radio issue, hopefully grok sees it and mby fixes it if he's rly a xray wizard, no one cares about it couz no one uses pda radio but I rly love the feature so meh
>>527077212good luck anon
>>527070518I don't speak Russian, and If I post in English there I feel like I would be a bother.
>>527009525>Don't have one, don't want one.wow so cool and off the grid
question for VoA. I've played OLR before and heading into x18 I remembered looking for computer parts, I know this is different but I feel like I'm missing something. I have the barkeeps documents and the scientists pda, including the one in the control room, But I feel like I'm missing something. Are one of the 7 major docs here and I just missed it? I hear stomping but can't find the source, is there a hidden room?
