Thread 529128024

Winter wonderland edition.

S.T.A.L.K.E.R. Trilogy guides, tips, information and much more:
https://rentry.co/STALKERTrilogyGuides

S.T.A.L.K.E.R. Trilogy mods, anon's merges and resources:
https://rentry.co/STALKERTrilogyMods

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 Standalone
https://www.moddb.com/mods/stalker-improved-weapon-pack
Recommended addons: CotZ, Absolute Nature, Structures Redux

>SoC Update 1.4
https://vk.com/topic-147828435_49497922

>SOCGA
https://www.nexusmods.com/stalkershadowofchernobyl/mods/1089

S.T.A.L.K.E.R. 2 mods and tools:
>nexus
https://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 intro
https://github.com/Lyall/STALKER2Tweak

Previous bread: >>528684853

Any 1.5 mods yet?

>>529128515
there's a mod on the workshop called better ballistics if you're interested in a weapon rebalance
I think it's pretty decent, mostly because I can use the HK416 in endgame

>>529128859
Does it make the .45 pistols actually useful?

>>529129327
I just dumped HP into a burer's face and I had 4 rounds left in an extended magazine of a USP

>>529127968
iirc it's based on a electronics manufacturing plant in Kiev, where Griga rented an office back when he founded GSC
a lot of the OG trilogy Zone locations aren't based on actual Zone places but locations from Eastern Europe in general that the devs reworked to fit into the Zone

>>529128515
Muzzleflash on guns is really nice and someone changed the fireplaces to be more cozy as well
Muzzleflash: https://www.nexusmods.com/stalker2heartofchornobyl/mods/1428
Fireplace change: https://www.nexusmods.com/stalker2heartofchornobyl/mods/1429

>>529130025
>iirc it's based on a electronics manufacturing plant in Kiev
that was the original buildo rostok. the in-game rostok/bar was originally created as a multiplayer map and was connected with the wild territory. it was made up from elements of other buildo locations.

and it's *kyiv* sweetie :)

>>529132227
>nexus mods
fucking WHY

>>529132302
>and it's *kyiv* sweetie
not in my country :)

>>529132386
People hate nexus mods now? I guess you can get them from mod.io or whatever the website is as well

none of these "A-Life 2.0" mods do anything for S2
if anything it just feels like they jacked up the spawn rate and it makes the fake spawning system even more apparent

>>529132872
Now? It's always been a shit fucking website with 69 step download process that removes good mods and shills their premium that shortens the download process to a just clicking download.
At least previously it was only used by Bethesda retards so you could ignore it.

i just remembered this was a thing
i wonder if they can take the map from stalker 2 and do something with it

>>529132386
fuck is ur problem

>>529146384
if only someone could make tesselation work with snow...

>>529133826
You are exaggerating quite a bit. You only need to make an account and the non-premium download speed is fine.

>>529149190
>non-premium download speed is fine
if you're downloading scripts for morrowind maybe
anything larger than 1gb is a crawl
at least they don't limit simultaneous downloads per connection

who funds moddb anyway? zero download limit, non speed limits, no monetization and no woke moderation?? how is this possible

>>529150426
Not defending Nexus because they're shite, but christ, can't you just turn on a video or something while the mods download in the background? You don't need to spend your entire time staring at that download meter.

Isn't one of the dlcs expected to take place in a winter area?

>>529151203
Me, I do.

>>529152924
>one of the dlcs
anon, those won't happen until 2.0 in 2027
you'll have to wait a little

good morning good sir have you played the gamma yet? It's very good

Does anyone know if the weather cycles in CGIM 2 are randomized?

>>529155196
it's also FREE and truly doesn't fake survival.

when we win, grok is getting publicly executed

>Varan betrays you
>game spawns like 20 Burers out of nowhere
>reload savefile because I died
>spawns like 6 or 7 only
Is the amount of Burers that can spawn variable or was it just a weird bug that I witnessed a 20 Burer conga line.

I remember reading somewhere that the next Old World Addon version will include Call of the Zone story and features, along with LA levels. Is that true? It would instantly btfo any other freeplay mod if that's real. Any news from the devs?

>>529157352
>horns
is the joke that she's estONIan?

>>529128024 (OP)
Just beat this interminable jank fest of a game. Fucking hell. I died 512 times.

>>529159615
>I died 512 times
it shouldn't even get to 100
you suck

>>529157352
>pic
Here's your reddit gold kind stranger!
Slave Urine!

>>529161146
Yeah, I do. So does the game. Not mutually exclusive.

>>529163960
maybe you feel like sucking something else?
not mutually exclusive, right

>>529161276
>least butthurt indian

Can you fucking stop with the /pol/shit spam

anon started it!

>>529164105
Certainly not. Ur mum's coy little love button is ripe for the sucking. Her aromatic nethers might be just the thing to distract me from how terrible this "game" was. Think i'll head that way now

>>529169009
>he likes grannies
LOOOOOOOOOOOL

>>529169673
Indeed I do, yours specifically. Her flaps and folds just do it for me. Unlike this bug riddled running simulator.

Why is original shadow of Chernobyl so comfy? Despite there being more features and overall immersion in other projects and mods, something about the pixelated og jank is so atmospheric. It lights up my imagination and is so perfect for autistic retard role plays. Especially with the lord of the zone mod so I can spawn in stalkers into the labs with me so I’m not alone.

>>529170664
because they spent 6 years on it
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w0ImdCEZZTk

Hey, /sg/. Would you recommend Stalker 2 is worth getting after the 1.5 patch? I've played the original trilogy but never got the sequel because of how janky it was at launch and because the A-Life didn't seem to be working.

>>529175442
Yeah, it's solid now. However, they intend to improve on A-Life and other things even more, so you might want to wait if you want a "complete" package.

>>529175442
If you waited this long, you should honestly just wait until the end of the year at least. They made a lot of improvements since launch but there are still many things that need to be cleaned up.

I HEART MISERYSLOP

Pigkraine lost

>>529177781
bro, where is your mein kampf?

Pigposting is so fucking funny. I understand why Russian propaganda is so effective, Russians in generally really are funnier than Ukrainians and far more in-tune with online meme culture.

Still want that Russia to lose though.

Tbdesu I think your perception of those people might be pretty skewed by the unbearably cringe nafoposters many of whom aren't even ukies

>>529177781
That icon and player name combo gave me a hearty chuckle.

>>529170664
Blessed. I love chilling by the campfire.

>>529175442
I'll be honest even with the A-Life "fix" the zone feels empty because the online bubble is so small. I cant believe its so difficult to increse the size from 100m to 500m. That would already make it much lore lively by virtue of being able to see NPCs far away doing their things.


You'd think it would be as easy as changing a single variable but apparently it isnt.

>>529185143
Nigger are you stupid? Increasing the bubble to 500 would make the game unplayable, you would have a 10fps slideshow if multiple squads would be fighting at once all around while being a-live and not hidden. A change like that would require proper optimization with proper culling which GSC is too lazy to do. Locations like Rostok still have fps drops and they used to crash your game because you have dozen of stalkers rendered with their own logic, now imagine hundreds like tha all around you, and mutans too.
Yes, increasing the bubble would fix a lot.
No, it's not possible in the current game state.

>>529187587
proof that 500m = 10fps?

>>529177781
>woman photo
So I wasn't alone in this.

>>529177781
whats the point of the sleeping bag anyway

>>529183419
why is it so dark? You're next to a fire ffs

>>529187757
retard

>>529190885
Because it's nighttime.

>>529191087
are you a bot?

>>529183419
>>529190885
its a mod so the fire is different, and surely tonemapping etc is different too

GODDAMN SoC looks good.

>>529183419
>>529194574
maybe its not soc

anyone happen to have the old fp32 mod lying around anywhere? it disappeared off the internet some decade or so ago, but it's still the best graphics mod for shoc

>>529194645
it amazes me that stalker is still one of the only games to have shadows on every light, that alone does so much

>>529197653
>fp32
isnt that just a thing in shaders max now?

you might like this better
https://www.moddb.com/mods/dynamic-shaders

>>529199297
well, the reason I think it is best is because it really doesn't add too much, it's just the same graphics with a few fancier effects added, graphic overhauls change the feel too much

>>529187587
increasing past effective rifle range would be pointless wouldn't it?
old 150 meters was fine

I can see you...

>>529132227
wait so they STILL haven't fixed campfires in 1.5, the fuck are they doing???

my biggest gripe with call of pripyat is the weather doesn't save between loads, saved during a dramatic thunderstorm at night? too bad it's clear in the middle of the day now.

any mod that fixes this shit?

doing little blow offs in my seva suit!

>>529200726
the thing is the map has been stretched out, i feel like the distance from bridge to farm has increased for example, while the render distance has decreased

>>529207323
>fart in seva suit all day
>blood sucker bites you
>fart gas is released
>instant KO

>>529207402
I wonder why they did that
perhaps they georeferenced actual locations of stuff and realized the old scale was too small maybe?
well, the stalker zone is not the real exclusion zone so it's kinda pointless to make it 100% accurate

>>529209140
Vidya game devs, for some reason, have a tendency to pad out gameplay time. Why do they do it? I don't know.
But it is crazy how long Stalker 2 is compared to ShoC.

>>529208850
perks of eating sausage all day...

Snork died like a bitch. Face down ass up.

>>529177781
YES
I LOVE STARING AT MENUS

>>529209746
I've been living on a diet of sausages, bread and coffee for a month straight since I got my own place. I've been liquid shitting non-stop. That bloodsucker would die a horrific infectious death if he managed to rupture my suit.

How is the OGSR port of Goldsphere? I played the old version a while back but my save got corrupted

Should i buy Stalker 2? I have a 5090 and a 9800X3D so it shouldn't be an issue running

Are the GoG preserved versions just never going to be on sale again?

>>529219154
see my earlier post about how pc doesnt matter with performance

>>529219264
see the op for the free versions

>>529155196
I will as soon as its uploaded somewhere l don't need an account for

>>529223162
Never gonna happen. There's too many mods that you have to be in the server for, otherwise you'd have to update 1000 at once or some shit. That's their reasoning, anyway.
There's a few outdated versions out there, I've heard.

>>529224018
gruck is coping. His installer literally just fetches mods from moddb lmao. All the mods in the discord are just tweaks that could've easily been uploaded to moddb and aren't necessary to play the game.

He just wanted to have a little insular community for his shitty load order. That's it.

>>529209764
How come blood decals look the best in SoC?

>>529224360
And it worked. The Gamma discord is the biggest stalker discord, 5x bigger than the official GSC Stalker discord.

>>529224360
What is it with frogs being absolute cancer?

My playercount?
SINGLE
My genre?
HORROR SHOOTER
My survival?
UNFAKED
My price?
FREE

why do people like survival slop anyway

>>529187587
Shut the fuck up you retarded GSC shill. Incorporate a slider that allows people to adjust it themselves to see what their hardware is capable of. Theres no reason any console nigger and people with potatos for a PC should be accounted for.

Can't run the game with a bubble larger than 100m? Dont make it everyone elses problem when its a (you) problem. I have 70 FPS in Rostok native, and 130FPS with Meme Generation.

I feel like sharty posters should be banned on sight since those faggots are why this site went down a while back. Doesn't help that the art itself and their general post qualities are complete dogshit. It's somehow even worse than generic wojack posting.

>>529232870
Menu game brain

>>529232870
remnants of when open world survival crafting zombie survival games were the hot new thing

New STALKER clone just dropped on Steam. It's a gay furry game but hear me out, it's actually pretty kino.

https://store.steampowered.com/app/2941710/Project_Silverfish/

>>529238347
fuck off shill :^]

>>529238347
>literal furfaggotry

>>529229491
>crocks on the wrong feet
nigga u STUPID
go back to basedjack

>>529238347
might be cool/ok, but it ain't it. I feel like it's not its own thing enough to some extent. Stolkr is not just the gameplay, it's an amalgamation of everything it has, story/setting, art style and etc., which makes it so captivating (at least for me) and no copycat can replace it

>>529238347
>fur fag early access fantasy guns
I’m good

>>529238347
yeah maybe don't shit up the thread again, mkay thnx

>1.5 patch comes out
>minor improvements to some things
>introduces new bugs
>breaks all mods
>makes already bad performance slightly worse
>A-Life still half baked

Will there ever be a point where this game is actually good

>>529240724
according to shills (including some ITT), it's already good

henlo, i revisit with the new update and my save, which was on older version (1.2 or something) with a bunch of mods, now have all the weapons invisible. is this expected behavior? if so ill just downgrade

>>529240452
This question goes out to the thread: do you prefer Sid with hair from SoC or bald Sid from CS?

>>529240789
It's almost certainly a weapon mod causing that bug. I used the "realistic weapon stats" mod and had this exact bug with the previous update. Sadly the mod was never updated and I don't wanna play with the vanilla weapon stats so I sort of stopped playing then

>>529241241
mine is probably unrestricted upgrades or something, because after i removed all the mods they are all still missing, including weapons freshly bought from the shop. its quite a big redownload but its how it is. maybe its my save that got fucked

>>529238347
The movement and viewmodel animations are so bad, I really can't imagine there being a compelling vision behind this game if the dev considers this to be acceptable even for early access.

>>529241329
In my case, the save was actually fine and just disabling the mod fixed the weapon model rendering. So it just becomes a question of if you wanna play without that specific mod.

I forgot how ridiculous the damage is in the vanilla game. 8 headshots from a Fora to kill an exo enemy? The whole weapon progression thing is fucked. This game wants to be an RPG while not being an RPG at all.

>>529241571
on release i really just download the mod to decrease the mutants healths because they are so unreasonable but yeah. ill just download 1.2

>>529240724
give it another 6 months for 2.0 and a better modkit

>>529241648
I used a similar mod initially but it makes the mutants too easy later on when you get "late game" weapons. IMO the whole problem is this whole split into "early", "mid" and "late" game weapons where some of them are inexplicably 3x as effective despite using the same caliber, having similar barrel lengths etc.

So the mod I used upped the damage for some of the weapons you can get early on, and nerfed some of the late game weapons. The same changes apply to NPC weapons as well so you also die a lot more easily to weapons that were previously pretty weak, but it fixes the issue of having to headshot exo enemies nearly a dozen times to kill them

>>529219154
If it's on a decent discount yes. Otherwise wait for them to add binocs, NVGs, a larger player bubble, PDA features, more SDK features.

>>529240724
My FPS is far more stable now. Still has room to improve but it's definitely not worse than it was.

>>529219154
Get gamepass for your first playthrough (1 dollar for 7 or 14 days, I dont remember as a "Welcoming Discount")

By the time the game is in a complete state or modders fixed GSCs incompetency the game will probably cost like 20-30$ on key sites.

>>529238347
finally, the TRUE stalker experience.

did the zone consume skif or nah

>>529238347
These system requirements? For those graphics?????
I hate modern devs.

>>529238347
>synty

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>>529252529
based IWP turkroach poster

>>529151203
I think they just run on ads
But it makes you think that if they can do that, why does Nexus charge some faggot subscription just to download faster than half a fucking megabyte per second

>>529247683
nah

Are there any mods for anomal (not gamma) that replace the vanilla weapons with higher quality models? It honestly drives me mad how ugly the M203 GL looks on so many NATO rifles, I really want to use the SIG Arrow because its great, but it looks so stupid with the M203 on it, I assume there must be someone that's done custom models for the right GL attachements for each of the weapons.

Also I tried BAS but I seem to remember you couldn't increase the HUD FoV on BAS weapons I also don't like how tacticool all the BAS stuff is, I like the weapon selection I just want higher quality models and attachements.

>>529260521
>>529059434

>>529260521
>I assume there must be someone that's done custom models for the right GL attachements for each of the weapons.
there is no mod that is THAT autistic. Also there are no mods that have the gl5040 as an example. Your best bet for better gun models for anomaly is playing with various weapon model replacers from Blackgrowl and the like, but you probably won't be able to replace all weapons and have them at the same standard.
Your best bet is IWP (even though it also won't calm the grenade launcher autism down), if you want better models, although I would wait, since it will receive an update with 3 new weapons and IWPanon will release his weapon edits/kitbashes.

>>529261575
>that replace the vanilla weapons with higher quality models
>check out this reanimation

anon, go have some coffee.

>>529262287
Im going to steal the Declarationthe Staller 2 © source codeof Independence

>>529269945
Im going to steal the Declaration the Staller 2 © source code of Independence

>SDK drops
>all the "new" mods on the workshop are just reuploads of nexus mods
>modders dragging their feet when it comes to updating old mods that are broken
It's genuinely over.

>>529224424
Everything looks the best in SoC.

>>529238347
>the graphics
>the requirements
>the art style
>the characters
>early access

What's with old mods and the fucking bloom, goddamn.

>>529280351
It was the style at the time

>>529280595
The mid to late 2000s sure loved their shitty HDR and post processing.

>>529280595
>>529283704
Simpler times.

>>529283842
Wow, it's like I'm really there!

>ghosting
>forced motion blur
lmao, new GAMMA will bring true AAA graphics experience

>>529285362
and it runs just as badly as stalker 2
until AOEngine is finished

>>529285702
>AOEngine
hope it stays closed source out of spite for all the retards and grok the french cock

Alright, I'm just gonna say it. I like Stalker 2

>>529285362
>we introduced [SHIT] but this will be sorted out with [SHIT]
The absolute state of GAMMAtards

>>529241180
ShoC is canon. Nobody played CS.

>>529286339
no, you don't

>>529286339
no, you don't
you think it's mid

i hate stalker 2 because they made degyatrev look like british strider

>>529132302
Funny thing is, buildo rostok is still there on the SOC world map, in the southwest corner.

>>529286339
you didn't play stalker 2
you played far cry 3

>>529132872
/vpol/ hates it because some irrelevant /pol/slop reasons. Everyone with an IQ above legal mental retardation levels just knows it's the most popular modding site with an integrated mod manager for most games.

>>529253712
Moddb's downloads are also incredibly slow on the free tier. inb4 you're one of the kitboga redditors who claims only indians get slow downloads from there

>>529295512
What's wrong with this? He's obviously hauling all this to a nearby merchant.

>>529170664
It was the most visibly ambitious entry of the OT. Which is also why most of it was cut out and done so in such a haste that the game is full of references to things that are no longer present, like the factory in Cordon (buildo cordon only), talking to the crazy stalker in the 100 rads bar's back room that is still there and furnished in S2, but you still can't go into it!, lab entrances, agroprom underground entrances being marked on the map despite being closed off, the military stalker faction and its intent to be more than decoration corpses and a handful of guys in pripyat and cnpp, etc.

>>529286339
you didn't play stalker 2
you played with your cock for and entire day non stop and blue balled yourself out of masochistic pleasure only to regret immediately when you went to take a show and your balls began to hurt like someone just took a foot to them, then you immediately went and masturbated and managed to jizz in thirty seconds, only to figure it out that not only your balls hurt, but now your dick too, and the half a minute jizz left your unsatisfied and deeply disappointed. both feelings reinforced when you realized you caught a glimpse of yourself, naked, dick in hand (going limp and bright red of irritation) and sweaty. only then you began questioning your life choices, yet you are weak and know you will do it again and again until your minds gives way and dementia settles in (in your case, much sooner than most since you isolate yourself from everyone and that isolation has degraded your mental health over time). some times you also cry just before falling asleep because you are just so lonely, but nothing that a wank won't solve, the thought always come to you everynight as well. so it's a endless cycle.

>>529209403
S2 isn't linear with the option to do a few radiant quests off to the side.

>>529238347
Someone posted this here when the demo was new. It's as "stalker" as that into the radius vr game was, aka not at all, just copying some aesthetics. More of a tarkov clone.
>too lazy/incompetent to make actual viewmodels so first person is just floating guns
kek

do bloodsuckers suck blood now?

>>529249259
Why are you crying about system requirements that low? Literal ewaste can play that game. Are you shitting here with a 2nd gen i5 and a 750ti or some shit?

>>529296908
so I can't play it with my 5050?

>>529296908
That "game" looks worse than ShoC, retard. There is zero reason for it to run worse.

sidorovich is a controller
think about it
controllers have bald
sidorovich have bald clear sky
advanced evolution grow hair SoC

Im going to steal the Declaration the Staller 2 © source code of Independence

I dont quite like how the wilderness in between areas basically looks the same. The biggest offender is Swamp which is basically just the same bushes and trees as everywhere else just that there is water everywhere that slows you down if you dont go via land routes. I think Stalker 2 will have a good modding foundation once the A-Life debacle and other stuff is completely fixed. The actual buildings and underground caves are very nicely done and arent just decoration anymore unlike ShoC. I hope somone will work on redesigning the Zone to make it a bit less boring to traverse in terms of looks.

>source code
and it's all asset flipped

here's your source code bro
https://www.unrealengine.com/en-US/ue-on-github

Is there even an UE5 game dwith half decent npcs?

>>529295745
I'm getting 30mb/s on moddb (which is about the max my """isp""" gives me anyway) and I dont even have an account for that website
Meanwhile Nexus tops out at MAYBE like 2 or 3
So basically, you're full of shit bud

>>529299154
stalker 2 is the only UE5 game that requires this kind of open world NPC
everything else is soulslop, but their npcs behave as expected
there's barely even 50 UE5 games right now i think

>>529299298
yeah i was about to say the same. it takes me no time to download a 8gb texture pack off moddb but nexus is throttled to shit if you don’t pay

Cordon..... home

>>529306878
Nooooooooooooooooooooo, I need to resist. I don't need to replay Autumn Aurora for the 15th time! I have other games to play, nooooooooo.

Where can you find the Ward badge aside from getting it from Khorshunov? I thought I remembered finding them on corpses somewhere.

>>529128515
This picture is painfully accurate.

>>529146384
Comfy

thoughts on fargone?

>>529314767
>unturned +1 graphics
>horrid ui
>mixed reviews
>early access for 3 years already
im thinking... shit?

I still have a soft spot for unturned...

>>529298310
Forgive, got too high on controler's smegma for a moment.

>>529322530
nigga what the fuck?

S2 is the Fallout4 of the stalker series

Any stalkans ITT currently playing DSH?

Here's your STALKER 2 SDK mods bro

>>529280351
I always do r2_ls_bloom_threshold 1.0
and bloom fast off
https://tweakguides.dmegaming.com/STALKER_7.html

>>529238347
fucking ebin mang

>>529326458
giving it a download rn

>>529238347
I like it

>>529326458
Does it have the NLC7 story?

>>529329162
Sexooo

>>529326458
>anal sea 7

>>529326458
Where can I get it? APRO?

>>529331442
https://www.moddb.com/mods/dsh-mod-english-translation/downloads/dsh-repack-includes-translation-and-addons

>>529326458
>>529332348
>https://ap-pro.ru/forums/topic/1270-dsh-mod/
>Artifacts discharge
>Cant disable mask overlays
>Less artifacts spawn the longer you play
>Mutant parts spoil over time
Are these the actual changes from OP2.2?
What the fuck, who enjoys this?
OP was already bad enough

>>529241376
what are you talking about it's easily the best feeling movement in an fps I've seen in a long time

>>529330090
:)

any other mods that have dynamic moonlight mechanics like complete? almost sneaking past a patrol in complete darkness wnen the moon suddenly comes out revealing me, turning it into a tense firefight is still one of my best gaming memories.

>>529326458
I'm having an wank, does it count?

why do furfags like every single thing I like?
>video games
>tabletop games
>anime
>guns
>camping
>musical instruments
I couldn't even escape these freaks in the military

>>529336712
they're just normal people who happen to think animal people are cute

>>529336827
>they're just zoophiles
ftfy
>inb4 not all of them
I do not believe there is a single furry in existence that has never yiffed before

>>529333108
it plays like dogshit too

already in agroprom and it's legit impossible to do anything with the npc aggro range cranked up to oblivion. the soldiers literally snipe you through bushes and instantly kill everything. i've noticed that npcs don't seem to drop loot either and im pretty sure that happens when an npc kills them... also npcs will instantly loot bodies, including mutants.

>>529326458
>>529336972
>>529333108
sounds like awful vasyan shit

vanilla clear sky looks better than every graphics mod put together
it looks better than stalker 2 even, and 99% of ue5 games

>>529344080
not CoP?

>>529345102
CoP is strangely downgraded from CS.

between the cramped default fov, massive weapon models, and reduced draw distance it gives me serious "failed console port" vibes. I'll bet you they were planning an xbox 360 version at some point but never made it for whatever reason, probably memory limits or certification troubles.

and the DX11 renderer is bugged and missing basically 99% of the post-processing effects, so it just looks super flat, actually worse in dx11 mode than vanilla ShoC.
incidentally openxray is based on dx11, and anomaly is based on openxray, so basically all modern stalker mods looks like shit, so people add fugly reshade crap on top of it, making it look even more like shit.

but CS feels like they really went all out on the new DX10 gpu's at the time, without any console limits to consider.

>>529345102
CoP was downgraded to run better. CS was a huge tech demo, I remember in high school when they were showing off full global dynamic lighting and volumetric fog and wet surfaces and stuff and it was blowing my mind. CoP doesn't have the volumetric fog, for instance.

>>529344080
>>529345102
>>529345882
>>529349941
Here it is. It looked better but the issue was the global lighting made it brighter which people complained about because it made the game less moody than SoC.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5QvIhQTkqKw

Why aren't you modding STALKER 2?

>americans asleep
>thread dies
why do mutts like to larp as warring slavs?

>>529360376
As a southerner I find myself drawn it. The sadness inherent in their their culture reflects our own down here. I grew up in the 90's where towns were closing down from NAFTA and everyone's parents were losing their jobs, entire towns were dying, 30 years later things really haven't recovered, it's just that yankees are moving down here exploiting how shitty they made it with the trade agreements. They even bring in their own outside employees when they set up shop down here. It fucking sucks, they drive up the prices, change the laws to make it more liberal, and tell us how great it was up north despite hating it enough to leave in the first place. I grew up among empty towns and abandoned factories and plants to go explore. Having monsters and anomalies to interact with are just the sugar on top in the STALKER games. I've been fascinated with these games since I was a teenager watching the development of the first one on filefront back when those websites existed. Stalkerfiles hosted a bunch of old mods back in the day. I bought the game on release from a Target when I was 16. You've gone and made me nostalgic.

>>529360939
I was talking specifically about the ukraine/russia posting
the game I completely understand why anyone wouldn’t like

>>529361368
>wouldn’t
would*

>play True Stalker
>weak plot hook and MC
>endless backtracking from the quest giver(up to 4 round trips to the same exact location with no other stops)
>nerfed stamina/weight limit
>broken economy
>insanely "immersive" plot device used every chapter, sometimes twice
>cutscene/teleport/cutscene
>no A-Life, only fixed spawns
>fake blowouts
Is this supposed to be satire? You know, the "True" stalker experience that lies in shitty fanfiction mods made by first-time modders?
I almost liked where they were going with psi-fields and mutant stuff, yet all you do throughout the game is fetch, drink yourself into oblivion or get bitchslapped so hard the plot has to move forward.
No wonder people vastly prefer freeplay.

>>529360376
>implying its not 3am and I'm still awake again

fug I can't play STALKER 2 without MHM. It's over for me if it doesn't get updated.

>>529363763
Be advised, the last update made it to where mods disable achievements.

>>529364424
Who the FUCK plays games for steam cheevos?

>>529364424
Meh. I've been playing pirated games for too long. Achievements don't mean much to me anymore so I'll be fine.

>>529364424
>mods disable achievements
oh mah gawd, how will I ever get muh platinum trowfee

Go to location, kill bandits, loot their bodies. Go to location, kill soldiers, loot their bodies. Go to dungeon, pretend that you're still scared by it after the 100th time. Repeat.

Seemingly artefacts in S2 respawn on a timer and not on emissions. I checked an anomaly I looted again before an emission and it had one floating around.

>>529366884
is this what stalker is all about?

>>529362660
story mods > vanilla = soups > freeplay(hud model <300 polys) > vanilla total conversion > freeplay (hud model >300 polys) > builds

ShoC was very much HL2 with rpg elements - just run through maps and have fun dealing with shit the game throws at you.
Then CS and CoP introduced this more "complete" gameplay loop of circling the same areas doing quests for faction progress and loot.
Modders can't do shadow of chernobyl because they'd need new maps and setpieces, and we've been reusing the same concepts from 20 year old design documents.
There is no surprise or thrill here anymore, it's banal stagnation.

What mod would you guys recommend to someone who only played AMK and vanilla SoC and CoP for like a decade and a little bit of Dooms mod merge and recently **GAMMA**
I don't mind gun repair autism but I wanna try something else.
Is there an AMK equivalent for CoP?

>>529344080
yeee

>>529374434
these light rays must have been mind blowing in 2009

>>529349941
CoP has volumetric lighting in DX10 mode, but noticably lower res than CS

>>529376450
they're mind blowing today
name one modern game that doesn't use that piss ass looking screen space effect from crysis, or drop 500 frames from volumetrics

So what's the best way to play the OG STALKER trilogy with a gamepad?
I know the new enhanced editions have gamepad support, but is there really no way to play the OG ones with gamepad support via mods or something?
I'm using steam input, it's not awful, but it's not good either..

>>529372242
stalker 2 with the open world is a much better platform for modding new systems and gameplay, but it's encrypted ue5 and the SDK is unironically 600GB so good luck with that

>>529377910
came out just at the beginning of GFW when only a few games had standardized xinput support

you can try and roll an .ini config for directinput but I don't know if the engine even supports that honestly

>playing classic PC fps with gamepad
why are you gay?

sovl......

>>529378006
>a much better platform for modding new systems and gameplay
UE5 isn't generally that good for pushing engine limits when you're working from the outside,
have there been any games released for it with a breakthrough modding scene?

I hate Call of Chernobyl and derivatives because the design of the Call of Pripyat maps is different from the ShoC and Clear Sky maps. The latter two fit together as smaller sandboxes strung together with transition zones, the Pripyat maps are made to be large sandboxes in and of themselves, with the only transition being story events or asking a guide at the base.

You can't just put them together like that and pretend it's going to fit.

Am I autistic for thinking this? Maybe, but I can't stand it. Either expand the old maps to fit the Pripyat style or cut the Pripyat maps up to fit the old style but don't just mix them.

>>529380356
I meant more that it was open world, like bethesda games. But the engine is a barrier to it, yes.

>>529377910
>play the OG STALKER trilogy with a gamepad
no one who plays stalker on PC has any reason to invest into circle huds for various inputs
I'm not even sure how you'd use inventory with no fixed cursor

>>529380483
>You can't just put them together like that and pretend it's going to fit
One of the things S2 did somewhat right was the map layout and it still bugs me that even with x64 we're still stuck with loading screen transitions and uneven cramped maps

>>529378262
Convenience, portability and comfort. Wanna play it on my TV via Steam Deck, I have played STALKER since ShoCs release, but never on my living room or portably.

>Why are you gay
I play STALKER

>>529380627
>Cursor thing
Yeah, I mean, Destiny 1 and 2 uses a cursor for menu navigation even on consoles. The way they do it is the cursor has a set speed (usually pretty fast) and when it reaches an interact-able UI element, it slows down considerably for a more precision selection.

>>529381789
might be better off with an HTPC keyboard

is A-Life back?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=34G9ixxpck0

>spend 2 days clearing Radar
>finally start looting the corpse mountain
>suddenly, Wasap Negr, the last Monolithian this side of the Berlin Wall decides to run a triathlon all the way across the map
>sneeki breeki's behind me
>bitch slaps my glorious Kalashnikov out of my hands then tears me in half with a fucking fish gun
This shit is so annoying, I'm close to not even looting Monolith anymore.

>>529384715
translation for the slav-disabled?

>>529385259
>clapped by a MonoCHAD wielding an F2000
The weak should fear the strong.

>>529380483
>Am I autistic for thinking this?
yes.
>Either expand the old maps to fit the Pripyat style or cut the Pripyat maps up to fit the old style but don't just mix them

you go ahead and start working on that, I'm sure they'll use your updated maps whenever you finish them.

>>529384715
>shills
>shills everywhere

>>529386770
or just mix shoc + cs + lost alpha + whatever other custom maps you want. coc with the cop maps cut out would be just fine.

>>529387319
its just that easy

show us your coc (map)

>>529385259
>radar
>glorious kalashnikov
I switch to SVD/SPAS and grenade spam at that point, it's easier to just pick them off 1 by 1

what prevents someone from stitching together a giant continuous level from every map in existence?

>>529390930
x-ray wouldn't be able to handle that.

Does Anomaly Together work? Have any of you faggots played with each other?

>>529391998
we have multiple flavours of x-ray with more memory
what's the issue

>>529391998
I think ix-ray can

Is there a list of shit I can safely remove from gamma to leave only the graphicswhore stuff?

>>529390930
Every game with large open world relies on streaming. When you move, the game loads new parts of the map, and at the same time unloads parts of the map you left behind. XRay engine can't do it. It renders only part of the level around the player, but it loads and keeps in memory the who level. Now imagine if you tried to load every map with every asset in the game at the same time.

>>529390930
lol
lmao

>>529396667
>Now imagine if you tried to load every map with every asset in the game at the same time.
How do CoP maps work then? What's the limit here exactly in terms of stuff you can place in it and how far you can stretch it?

Freedom stoner girl sex

>>529397347
>What's the limit
About CoP maps. It's really apparent under heavier mod loads, CoP maps run noticably worse than the others. Trying to seam two of those maps together will bring the engine to its knees, and you're suggesting for like, ten times that.

>Freedomers
>"girls"

>>529398519
Imagine the smell.

>>529392084
apparently it's a scam/bitcoin miner
best we got is the cop coop mod

>>529387754
cutting out maps is easier than modifying them yes

there are custom maps that fit with the style, but the cop maps don't

Okay but which mods DO fake survival?

Anomaly and GAMMA fake it
real survival is misery

Real survival?
Now show me a stalker mod where you can get botulism by faling to identify gas expansion on a food can and needing to shit every 5 minutes while chugging antibiotics.

>>529390930
didn't early build of Ray of Hope do that?

>>529401590
i don't get it

>>529398690
People have managed to create empty maps several times larger than anything in CoP. The limitation seems to be not the area size, but the number of objects on the map.

>>529401921
Well, in the context of the discussion, there's not really a difference between the two.

What if instead of streaming assets we simply loaded a thousand of very small maps

which one has the most active multiplayer?

Anomaly is so fun when you get the itch, I wish there were more missions like disabling the brain scorcher, it's so much fun planning a route in and out dunno if anyone watched geo wizard, on youtube, but setting up checkpoints and stashed along your path with extra ammo, food meds and even camping gear incase of a blowout or night time adds a whole other level of fun to doing a mission.

>>529385259
In what mod does Radar take 2 days to clear out, OP-2.2? Be more attentive next time.

>>529401590
Coal.

>>529401590
'em

>>529404426
SoC

>>529404426
CS

>>529404426
Tarkov

>>529404426
CS (Counter Strike)

>>529401590
black Osaka is still cute

>>529407128
she's jungle brown, not a nigger

>>529404552
Anomaly. It was an exaggeration, I just wanted to talk about some of the quirks of the AI in it, namely how some of them will fucking corner camp forever, and how they'll ambush you while looting.

You can even exploit their ambush AI, if I see a fucker hide behind a wall and he won't come back out, I'll start looting a body, and sure as shit he'll try and walk right up next to me.

>>529412993
opening the inventory is enough to make them try to sneak up on you

>>529404548
Not clicking, geo wizard.

>>529384715
Doesnt matter when you see nothing past 100m even if it was fixed.

Its Schroedingers A-Life.

>>529419040
unironically true.

>>529419040
that's why ShoC had the stalker BBS

>>529419040
it does matter because there's a huge difference in running into an NPC who came from a specific place, is going to a specific destination, with a specific goal in mind, compared to a white noise of ambient enemies

>>529421348
Everytime you reload a save, none of that shit persists. The 15 year old game did it better.
>no verification necessary

>>529421348
The large swathes of absolutely nothing inbetween points of interests ruin it though. You barely notice roaming Stalkers while you are dashing to another spot.

It worked in classic Stalker because the areas were small so whenever a group of Stalkers was moving around you'd take notice of them. I could run from Point A to Point B in Stalker 2 and miss a couple of groups because of the foliage and due the size of the map.

Deadly anomalies, dangerous mutants, anarchists and bandits... None of them will stop Duty on its triumphant march towards saving the planet!

>>529419040
>>529419958
Originals had it at 150 meters, it's not a massive difference.
The whole point is persistence. When I played S2 on release, it felt like an old Final Fantasy game with random encounters.

Freedom won.

>>529422772
150m was fine because your average play-area was like 300m^2.

>>529422772
150m is almost the entirety of Army Warehouse.

I really love the food mechanic in the scalie game.
When you take damage it lowers your maximum health and maybe applies bleed and other status effects. You need meds to unfuck your health bar but your actual regen is determined by food.

There's various ingredients you can gather around the place, and some campfires you can light to cook them up to increase their food value.
Really immersive and comfy.

kill yourself

dont think i will

>>529423262
0.334km^2 is not 334m^2, it's 33400m^2

>>529425635
cordon is 33400 meters squared?!

>>529424680
>>529424985
Both of you kys yourselves. Little bitches can't even respond directly to a post.

>>529424418
This shit is gay and retarded and very much not STALKER. Fuck off to /lgbt/ if you want to talk about fag shit, you fag.

In KCD2 NPC render distance depends on your graphic settings, ranging from 50 meters on low to 100 meters on ultra. But the setting also depends on the number of NPCs in the vicinity of the player. If there are too many NPCs nearby (for example in big hubs) the game will cut the furthest NPCs, so your rendering distance might drop to like 20 meters even on ultra.
KCD2 runs on CryEngine version from 2018, and has relatively low system requirements. And it still can't draw NPCs from far away.

>>529425635
>>529426135
no, it's 334000 m2

>>529426986
KCD2 has much less need for long distance NPC rendering since there weren't precision rifles in the middle ages

>>529427163
>sidorovich has 334000 BMW M2s

AOEngine and IXRay developers are seethe only because they are jealous of the popularity of the Grok and they do not have a Visa/Mastercard to receive donations directly through PayPal/Ko-Fi/Patreon due to sanctions on Russia.

Although they could have agreed with a modmaker from a country where PayPal works so that he would send them the profit and then ultimately trust the Grok.

Everything would be good for everyone and the grok would help them as well as the SSS developer
Proofs:
https://discord.com/channels/912320241713958912/912827116427554877/1214639309186007131
https://ko-fi.com/ascii1457

In the end, in fact, it was not the Grok who ruined the reputation, but only AOE and IXRay, having received a reputation of toxic and envious people.

Greed and envy are sin in Christianity.

>>529429572
Hey dumbass, post a picture. None of us have access.

are there any not shit stalker tubers ?

>>529432506
give example of a non shit youtuber

>>529429572
ok Grok

>>529429572
the fuck are you babbling about?

>>529433143
fallenshadow

>>529429572
take your psyblock

>>529429572
fuck you man
we hate grok
grok should be publicly shamed

>>529433143
wendigoon

>>529433143
Redlettermedia is the best thing on youtube but they aren't really traditional youtubers.

>>529424418
Kill yourself.

>>529429572
kek, those IX-Ray guys CAN be asses, for sure. But they at least contribute real advancements, unlike grok

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DrTa0aVcYnk
will this save stalker 2?!

>>529446675
Not clicking your shitty channel.

>>529447452
Go back to /vt/.

Just like in Anomaly.
Do you guys wish Alunadio never made CoC yet?
https://x.com/ZunaSW/status/1939778153737490614

>>529449784
See?
People think that Stalker was supposed to be a crafting survival game.

>>529447452
We like pink Glocks here.

>>529450009
>>529449784
How long until S2 is a free survival horror shooter?

>>529385259
lmao

>>529450590
Will it FAKE the survival, though? This will be the true test.

fallout FAKES survival.... GAMMA does not

what is this fake survival shit? I've never played anomaly, does it have survival elements? why is it fake?

>>529429572
Why should an experienced programmers who understands multithreading adapt to a fr*nch monkey editing configs? Who does he even think he is? Let he dump all the information about received donations to PayPal and distribute all funds fairly between all people who contributed to the Anomaly and Gamma - 50% will go to AoE, 25% to Gunslinger, 24% to the rest, 1% to Grok. If not, then AoE introduces Denuvo ban on gaymma. No one will be able to sit it out on version 0.3, because then there will be even more multithreading, PBR, DLSS and Path Tracing support in next updates.

>>529444531
This.

>>529461225
Judging by the Grok's posts it becomes obvious that he is simply afraid and is trying to put pressure with "the cause for the good of modding, safety, community unity" manipulation. something just tells me that he probably gets too much in the form of donations for his work, he doesnt have patreon and have only paypal for big reason. AoE will easily screw up its popularity by simply adding a Gamma block and it will disappear into oblivion like old russian equivalen - Stason modpack for CoC. this is a historical moment in stalker modding. as we know, COC 1.5, Ded Air 1.0 and Anomaly 1.6 did not come out because of the heirs parasitizing on their work. finally, Gamma most likely will not come out because of AoE, or Grok will be forced to share donations in large quantities

>>529458409
Survival? Not fake.

Price? Free.

Welcome to Stalker GAMMA.

>>529462657
every time I try to watch a drewski video I have to click away in a few seconds because he radiates so much faggot energy

and all these illegals need to get the fuck out of my country

>>529462860
I think you are just projecting your own homo lust onto the object of your affection

>>529458409
>>529462657
can you please stop with this dumb faggotry, thanks.

Were you able to use early or mid game weapons for the end game in the og trilogy with no mods? It feels like you can't even use a basic ak for very long in stalker 2 before you have to get something better, even with AP rounds.

>>529475596
>SoC
scoped AK is your best friend until labs, then you get a choice of nato weapons as alternatives, and by the endgame you have to switch to expensive AR rounds or sniper/dmr
>CS
every gun is inaccurate so everything sucks, need high ap at end
>CoP
upgrades make progression more linear and you don't have to swap your money sink weapons that much, maybe shotguns because mutants are a bitch

>>529480768
you swapped SoC and CS
cs you can upgrade your weapons to be less, shit

>>529480945
all CS weapons are bugged, they literally don't hit where you aim

>>529461225
>>529462582
>Gamma block
would be funny to see. Just imagine all the salt and chimpouts

>>529481072
have you played soc?
did you read my post?

>>529483430
SoC doesn't have sight misalignment
CS does

>>529483508
wrong. also wrong.

Is stalker 2 any good? Kind of in the mood for an FPS and I played the shit out of Gamma already

Goddamn this stupid fucking question over and over.

>>529485462
yes. buy it, download it, play it, make up your own opinion as well.

It's a ritualpost, not a genuine question.
You retards just keep replying to it.

>>529486723
>its a retard post
>you retards keep replying to it
uh huh

Ah, yes, room temperature IQ.
Just the way I like it.

What's the engine I should replay Call of Pripyat with these days?
Open XRay didn't get new release in almost 5 years

Been hearing a lot about it but haven't gotten it.
Is Shadows of Chornobyl good to play? I just finished my last Anomaly playthrough and I kinda got bored. Never really liked Gamma but maybe it's time for a change

>>529489097
Call of Pripyat Together, it's in alpha

>>529488963
That dude on the bottom is right, they ruin what once was good.

You weren't gatekeeping hard enough.

>>529489340
is that different from xrmpe

can you imagine playing stalker in multi where 99% of voip is slavs?

>>529490480
Stalcraft was like this for me

Is there like a changing seasons mod where env textures get swapped over time?

Linux guide is out of date.

Linux is out of date.

>>529490543
Stalcraft is the only game I ever played where fighting NPC's was harder than players

>>529488963
I know a few people like 3529 there
they're insufferable douche canoes

>>529449784
this shit started from misery, and i would sacrifice my left nut to prevent it from ever being made.

Certain conditions of gaming culture contributed to the appearance of misery

>>529433143
Mrbeast.
Dantdm.
Cocomelon.
Ishowspeed.

>>529497692
lol

>>529432506
anomalous dugout if you are into le lore

>>529498287
hello staulkers

>>529496607
>Certain conditions of gaming culture
you mean dayz?

This is the first good thing that came out of Analmeme fags. No jaggy foliage.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dr0SIaw9YR4

>>529499943
cbt

>>529501609
yeah but what am i supposed to do with this

>>529501792
Nothing. But it's more impressive on the technical aspect than everything GSG did with S2.

>>529501983
>TAA
>motion blur
>more impressive on the technical aspect than everything GSG did with S2.
Absolute retard.

>>529502215
>fucked up lod and mipmaps
>pop-in
>in a 2024 UE5 game
yes, GSC sucks dick

>>529502371
*UE5 sucks dick
ftfy

>>529502581
>broken fingers are a hammer's fault

>>529489097
IX-Ray

>clearing radar
>disable the scorcher
>okay time to head back out
>clear the first part no problem
>get to the point before the room with the bloodsucker where there's three cubicles where a monolith hides in one
>poke my head around the corner to shoot him
>take an RPG to the face that also kills the monolith

They seriously need to remove the RPG from the pool of items monolith can spawn with, wouldn't mind if it was on a scripted NPC at a particular point but when any of them can spawn with it and yeet you at point blank its stupid.

So IWP is just coc with a weapon pack rolled over it?

i’m playing clear sky before shadow of chernobyl

>>529504036
Don't, you'll find out that you play as Strelok in SOC

>>529504218
major spoiler...

>>529503181
Yeah, pretty much.

>>529504036
>playing the game no side-quests and a shitty faction war mode first
maybe it's for the better

>>529502682
>stupid oversimplification analogy #5

>>529504804
did you miss the part where GSC hired people who've never touched UE5 in their life to work on the game?

>>529489097
>Open XRay didn't get new release in almost 5 years

>what are the nightly builds
https://github.com/OpenXRay/xray-16/releases

>>529504927
did you miss the part where I don't give a shit what you're crying about because we weren't talking about that? cool
ue sucks ass, deal with it faggot

>>529504958
>over 2 year old nightly
do you really want to gamble like this?

>>529505046
>blaming an engine developed by top industry professionals
>completely dismissing the fact that it was used by amateurs from slavistan who've barely interacted with technology older than 2008
I see

>>529505065
this is the part where the phrase "absolute retard" truely applies

>>529505201
>top industry professionals
>Every game that is released using UE5 is a stuttering,crashing mess with cookie-cutter gameplay

>>529504927
how the hell were they supposed to hire people with UE5 experience in 2018

>>529502371
What do LOD and fucking mipmaps have to do anything with screen space shaders version 23? Absolute retard.

>>529505493
I totally forgot about Stalker 2, so what was the verdict in the end its shit right? I'm still playing modded anomaly instead.

>>529505602
you hire people with UE4 experience and train them

>>529505709
it's half-decent as a cutscene story game
as a video game though it is dogshit

>>529501609
He also fixed the far distance shadow issues and did a lot of other really cool stuff. This dude is actually a wizard

>>529501609
>TAA
>good
It could already be done with reshade and TAA is shit

>>529507543
if not TAA then what? shader scopes don't work with fxaa or msaa

>>529503043
play meme mods...

>>529507639
Shader scopes work with FXAA. Absolutely everything works with FXAA because it's literally a simple blur.

>>529501609
>>529507543
>>529507639
>No jaggy foliage
do zoomshits know what alpha to coverage and transparency supersampling is?
actually I think alpha to coverage is one of the effects missing from DX11 renderer and by extension openxray and all forks, but you can still enable it via your control panel, AMD calls it adaptive msaa instead

>>529507961
what's with them?

>>529508652
If you could force it in Anomaly via control panel everyone would just be doing that instead of waiting 10 years for someone to implement TAA.
No, it doesn't work.

>>529508652
driver AA doesnt work on dx11 anomaly exe

>>529508986
>>529509360
found old post from 2010 saying r3_msaa_alphatest has settings:
st_opt_off
st_opt_atest_msaa_dx10_0
st_opt_atest_msaa_dx10_1

so looks like never implemented in DX11 renderer in the first place, yikes!

>>529508652
>>529509703
Can't you just run Analmeme in DX10?

>>529509982
yes but msaa breaks 3d shader scopes

>>529489097
original engine, DX10.1
there is nothing wrong with vanilla COP

>>529508652
Alpha MSAA is more expensive than downscaling without MSAA

>>529510872
that is just not true

>>529511025
JPG compression but whatever

4xMSAA with alpha, 48 fps

>>529511253
and now show what performance you get in 8K, it will be less

>>529511025
>>529511253
8K no MSAA, 57 fps

>>529505201
holy shit lol
its shit bro, just accept it

>>529511753
>12% gpu usage
lol

>>529511253
>>529511753
you clownshoes play in 4k and 8k?

>>529512620
My old 2070S could already downsample from 4K in COP and SOC. Just finished replaying CS at 4K on my 9070XT.

>>529511253
>>529511753
CS looks so good, it's a shame it's the worst of out of the three original games.

>>529505201
It cannot be denied that those "amateurs from slavistan" did something pretty fucking amazing with X-Ray. The fact that they cobbled together their own engine and created one of the most groundbreaking games of the 2000s on it demands respect.

>>529505493
>with cookie-cutter gameplay
The engine is unrelated to the gameplay. The engine is like a building tool, you can create any game from it, be it RTS or hentai dating sim. The fact that you somehow connect gameplay to the engine is just pure mental development deficiency.

>>529513303
>did something pretty fucking amazing with X-Ray
90% of people who worked on it are gone, UE5 team has no relation to them

>>529513303
>>529513403
didn't the tech wizards leave GSC to make 4A games and the metro engine?

Hey who sells the Loner Exoskeleton in IWP ?

just finished downloading stalker 2
what am I in for?

>>529514929
Stalker 2

AN94 mod for stalker 2 when?

>>529513526
people who hated Grigorovich did, yes

I'm starting to believe in the future of stalker 2

The Survival Game That Refuses to Die 18 Years Later

>>529518605
I want to fuck STALKER Shadow of Chernobyl

>>529519059
Strelok Forgot His Psi-Helmet And This Happened...

>>529519301
Yes... they actually put this in S.T.A.L.K.E.R.: Shadow of Chernobyl

>>529519568
The Massive Survival Shooter You've Never Played - S.T.A.L.K.E.R. : GAMMA (it's free btw)

>>529514024
the loner trader(s)?

>>529520068
and who are the loner traders ? Sid and barman and yanov and owl don't and i'm over 1900 rep

>>529521794
woop never mind found it. It was hidden nimble at the bar and i didn't see it first time around.

The Game That Doesn't Lie About Difficulty (+ it's free)

If only someone made an STD mod for stulker.

>>529519568
Yes - you can actually find this in S.T.A.L.K.E.R.: Shadow of Chernobyl...

>>529525102
what's the lore implication of this?
one of the village stalkers is a merc spy?

>>529530160
That's Nimble's secret stash.

[xrCore] (Info) [17:58:07:935] FATAL ERROR
[xrCore] (Info) [17:58:07:935] [error]Expression : I
[xrCore] (Info) [17:58:07:935] [error]Function : CInifile::LoadDefault::::operator ()
[xrCore] (Info) [17:58:07:935] [error]File : E:\EngineCryRayx64New\src\xrCore\Xr_ini.cpp
[xrCore] (Info) [17:58:07:935] [error]Line : 269
[xrCore] (Info) [17:58:07:935] [error]Description : Can't find include file:
[xrCore] (Info) [17:58:07:935] [error]Arguments : models\capture\stalker_soldier_berill_m10.ltx
[xrCore] (Info) [17:58:07:935] stack trace:

Where do I get this stupid suit model? IWP + CotZ

>>529447452
BOCC GLOCC

>>529530160
none, in the unpatched release version there was a stalker suit there instead, but it was too op for the early stage of the game so it was replaced with a worse merc suit.

>>529535554
Interesting, never knew this.

>>529532478
I made a copy of stalker_soldier_berill and renamed that one so atleast it doesn't crash anymore
If you're also playing this pls respond ;_;

>>529532478
when did this crash happen
I can't find any assets by that name in my install

>>529537127
Presumably everytime it tries to load in that model
In the arena when you fight some military guys and when going to dark valley so far

is there a stalker 2 mod that fixes the spelling error in the title?

>>529547442
nexus will outright ban any attempts to rename it to chudnobyl

>>529548063
not even on basedmods or one of the other alt sites?

>>529548181
no one cares enough

>>529532478
what do you have installed besides CotZ?

>>529547442
>vatniks still salty about the name change more than half a year after the release
lol
lmao

>>529552175
that's like saying "piggies still mad about the invasion after 3 years"

>>529552175
unironically in my native languge we still say chernobyl (im not op)

A mod I really want from Anomaly into Stalker 2 is pressing H to lower your weapon actually lowers the gun instead of putting it away completely.

>>529552460
every language got its own spelling. they're injecting Ukrainian into English because they are the victim of [current event]. imagine if every culture started to force their spelling into English. it would be retarded, but Ukraine is allowed to proceed with this retardation out of solidarity. go all the way faggots and write Chernobyl in Ukrainian

>>529553035
who's going to create animations for all the guns?

>>529553176
cope, when you say it with the local accent it perfectly sounds like "chernobyl", even the wikipedia article says "officially chornobyl"

https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tchernobyl

>>529553481
You would only really need to create one animation and do some scripting mumbojumbo. Doesn't the game put you in a "lowered gun" position when you try to shoot important NPCs? Modders can just leverage that animation.

бляяя, я мacлинy пoймaл

>>529551202
Ballistics rebalance addon

This hardcore survival shooter REFUSES to die!

>>529553961
what cope? you're making an argument against the change. or are you saying the Ukrainians are coping? that they do

https://www.nexusmods.com/stalker2heartofchornobyl/mods/1445?tab=description
IT'S HERE

>>529555043
That shit sucks ass. The other flashlight mod that was released day one is still better.

you can literally see the headlamp on other stalkers, it's extremely weak and puny, if it was that bright it would blind you

>>529554519
Minecraft That Doesn't Fake Survival!

>>529555652
YOU suck ass

It's Heart of チェルノブイリ (Cherunobuiru).

>>529552449
are you seriously comparing the invasion to changing a game's title to one that is consistent with their spelling?

Best game/mod for bandit roleplaying?

>>529556089
Is that your mod or something? At least create an optional where you bump up the brightness, nigga. I don't know why GSC fucked flashlights up, it's like everyone is using incandescent bulbs that have been burning since the 1800s.

>>529556587
no it's not mine but I can tell you're one insufferable cunt

>>529556476
stalker anomaly. select bandit faction

>Grandma, why are you complaining? (Wire EDM)

Synchrophonic, in any case. What that's there for is to have a good time and enjoy it to. Also the fact you've got things to do that are not post here about the fact you're an elderly geriatric. You'll notice, 99% of these experiences revolve around these concepts. Not that I give a single fuck especially all things considered, just, the fact is there's a clear indication of high quality top notch inclusions which none of those things are. You don't even have the faintest idea of how to decipher which is worthy and who did what, where. It requires a curated hand that's not currently crushing your own dick you crackhead.

>>529556476
MHM
When it gets updated.

>>529556256
No, it's Heart of ᓵᓄᐱᐅᓪ (Saanupiul)

>>529555973
Okay, maybe this "fake survival" fucker, is onto something with these copycats...

THE SHINING ZONE IS REAL

They really should have call it "Heart of the Zone" instead, it would make more sense and the whole Cherno/Chorno thing wouldn't matter.

>>529556476
IWP

>>529557578
why

Does Zalissya ever go back to normal after you save it from Monolith? I got the SEVA Suit but the merchant inventory is still just vodka and salami.

>>529556476
Clear Sky, let them rob your bitch ass in the Garbage and kick you directly in the teeth until you're allowed to enter their encampment without sneaking in the side. Always suck their cock when they ask you for payment to pass, or for any reason. Then they'll let you roll with them. Then you can shoot at all the other factions and take over everything. Once you're in you're in. Try not to fuck it up since you're public enemy #1 everyone shoots at.

Your only other option is Old World Addon Gunslinger, since that's the closest to an actual S.T.A.L.K.E.R. experience.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7lsa4eCmdSw
for the anon who complained about the lack of testing videos

Not clicking, chud.

I'm not watching that either!

>>529558056
bandits are truly the lowest form of life holy shit

>Go read the books!

What are they even?

>>529558338
јeбeницa. хвaлa ти бpe зa тpyд.

>>529558884
What you do at that point, is up to you.

>>529553176
>they're injecting Ukrainian into English
Chernobyl is not a native English word, it's a name of the city. Namely, a Ukrainian city, that is currently controlled by Ukraine, which is why it's expected to have Ukrainian spelling, as opposed to russian. It's simple.
The same way Wroclaw in Poland is called "Wroclaw" in modern English, despite being known by the German name "Breslau" for hundreds of years, and the city of Instanbul is called by its Turkish name, despite Greeks still calling it Constantinople.
Why does this name change in particular upset you so much?

>>529557390
It's just pajeets

>>529559739
the ukrainian spelling is Чepнóбыль
the english spelling is Chernobyl
"Chornobyl" is nothing

>>529555973
this game is in its own category
pre-redesign it was worse than dark souls

i still call it burma

>>529559739
>it's as simple as using the native word
Explain Roma, Milano, Firenze, Munchen, Koln, Sevilla, Wien, Lisboa, Moskva...

>>529560354
>ukrainian spelling
>ы
тoп хїх

>>529558338
it's like they pretend not to know where the player is, like wallhackers

>Reading versus interactive storytelling, with context sensitive information.

I need some eyedrops at this point. My eyes

I only ever read when it's done properly. Situationally. Alright all thelements are intact so I'll figure out what this guys saying. Point is we have much nicer of doing that than shit from the 1950's or whenever that was written. If you can't fit the artwork it's a lost cause. Got nothing to do with frontside perspective

REMOVE ROCK remove rock you are worst cult. you are the cult idiot you are the cult smell. return
to powerplant. to our powerplant cousins you may. come our Zone. you may live in the
garbage....ahahahaha ,monolith we will never forgeve you. cetnik rascal FUck but fuck asshole cult
stink monolith sqhipere shqipare..monolith genocide best day of my life. take a bath of dead
monolith..ahahahahahMONOLlTH WE WILL GET YOU'! do not forget first emission. monolith we kill
the C-consciousness , monolith return to your precious rock....hahahahaha idiot cult and monolith
smell so bad wow I can smell it. REMOVE CULT FROM THE PREMISES. you will get caught.
loner+bandit+duty+freedom=kill monolith...you will blowout/ strelok alive in zone, strelok making
quest of zone. fast hunt strelok zone. we are rich and have artefacts now hahahaha ha because of
strelok... you are ppoor stink monolith... you live in a powerplant hahahaha, you live in a
sarcophagus strelok alive numbr one #1 in zone....fuck the monolith ,..FUCKk ashol cult no good I
spit in the mouth eye of ur patch and faction. strelok aliv and real strong wizard kill all the
monolith farm aminal with 9x39 magic now we the loner rule. ape of the pripyat presidant c-con
fukc the great cherno and lay egg this egg hatch and monolith was born. stupid baby form the
eggn give bak our clay we will crush u lik a skull of flesh. loner greattst faction

>>529560497
Because none of those cities officially asked to change their name in English? Same as Ukraine tolerated it until it got invaded by a country that denies their existence as a separate ethnicity?
Now you explain how the English name for Львiв being first Lemberg, then Lwow, then Lvov is fine, but further changing it to Lviv would somehow the end of the World?

I'm tired of thinking so critically. My head. I need a solid 20 hours of sleep after staying away for 72

>>529561123
It's Monolit not Monolith.

uh oh looks like millennia is snooping around in the STALKER 2 SDK. Might be getting some tranny approved retextures in the future.

>>529560354
It's "Чopнoбиль" in Ukrainian, you illiterate retard

>>529561903
psst other slavs still use their very russian sounding names like Lavov, Kijev, Harkov....

>>529557578
I have no idea why people are so obsessed with cooking. It is so fucking useless in all Stalker mods. Within 10 minutes of playing you get enough money to start buying regular food, and it turns cooking into a completely useless feature. You need either the original Misery levels of grind and difficulty for it to be viable. Or use the same approach GAMMA used for weapons, i.e. say that UN prohibited food trading in the Zone, and leave cooking as the only option. Both options are stupid. Cooking will always be stupid and pointless.

>>529563913
what if advanced recipes gave you timed buffs

>>529563421
What the fuck can that idiot do?

>>529563913
Yeah, it only really works in games like Monster Hunter where recipes give you buffs for specific builds/hunts. But it would be impossible to implement well in an open world shooter like STALKER. Gunfights already end within 3 minutes as is, any perks you get from your deep fried fermented snork balls will just get wasted on your way to the next shootout.

>>529564738
>any perks you get from your deep fried fermented snork balls will just get wasted on your way to the next shootout
Made me kek, good one, also true

what about assassination quests
you make your poison laced snork balls and sell it to the guy
he eats it and dies
nobody suspects a thing and reputation doesn't drop

>>529561123
Do you think there's AI that writes like this?

Is there any AMK equivalent for CS?

ogsm or oldstory ?

>>529566364
CS is "AMK" already, it's where they officially added back in some of the cut features that AMK restores.

>>529558338
heh

I love videos where you can instantly understand why things happen the way they do. Devs programmed NPCs to take cover using player's position and it makes sense. But devs didn't consider that NPCs do not always know player's position. It's probably easy to fix, but will take 3-4 months to be included into a patch.

So Metro Exodus ended up being a better STALKER 2 than STALKER 2 was?

>>529555973
stalcraft is such a piece of shit

>>529572773
nether was the biggest piece of shit

is there a main quest to IWP ? I'm a loner

>most mods are still broken
>SDK didn't improve anything, people are just using it to upload their old mods into the steam workshop
Is it over?

>>529532478
>Can't find include file:
[xrCore] (Info) [17:58:07:935] [error]Arguments : models\capture\stalker_soldier_berill_m10.ltx

search stalker_soldier_berill_m10
delete the # include, or make a blank if you cant find it

>>529570856
wow thanks

>>529578516
>Is it over?
Yes, Stalker 2 is done.

>>529577254
Nope, the maker doesn't believe in adding actual content
You can install the cotz quest/mechanics mod to add a little bit to the experience though

>>529556476
>detector
>artifacts
WRONG

Does any one else has a problem with the mosin and its upgrade slots being greyed out? Can't upgraded it anywhere.

>>529587943
Try technician from Yaniv station.

>>529559314
>read the books
no.

>>529586741
read it again retard

>>529591338
Not the tech is too retarded to upgraded, is that there is no option, the dots are grey and I can hover the mouse pointer over it and it won't show anything, like the armor slots that are not used (obvious DLC trash that should be shipped during released just waiting to be actiavated)

https://www.nexusmods.com/stalker2heartofchornobyl/mods/1441

KINO

>>529594195
Holy shit. I knew there was something missing about bloodsuckers but I couldn't remember what it was exactly. It's the fucking eyes, they used to glow in the older games. You could see the glowing eyes while they were invisible in the older games too, right?

What the fucking is wrong with GSC? Why did they remove this? It was a really smart way of counterbalancing the bloodsucker's invisibility on top of being creepy.

How do you fellow zoneoids like ASHES 2063?

>>529595038
GSC шis more incompetent than they were before. Seriously, has there been a more glitched franchise than Stalker?

>>529597725
Yandare simulator, though that is by design.

>>529595789
The only WAD I've ever bothered downloading. I'd honestly pay for more.

>>529572773
way better than stalker 2

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3512077814&searchtext=lean

Modders do what GSC don't...

>>529602103
is there one that completely redesigns the entire UI and controls to not be a 10-foot consolized mess?

>random stalker stands still shooting at a wall for 15 minutes straight, expending probably 1500 bullets or more

great AI babs

Trying to post on retard/stalker and every single thing I'm writing is getting removed, regardless of anything. Since it's the worst site in existance. We knew this already. Essentially only the numbheads blank slides can thrive in that environment. Thankfully we don't need to take any of that here.

>>529563913
If you remove the drops to non-existant levels S.T.A.R.V.A.T.I.O.N. is a constant threat. Honestly none of those survival esk things add anything to the experience since S.T.A.L.K.E.R. is a survival horror shooter with faction wars and the rest of that shit is tacked on garbage out of the Day-Z era the worst in history.

>>529585365
The community will fix it over the period of five to ten years and sooner or later we'll have an open world freeplay or the trilogy storyline in Unreal with actual gameplay. The addons are the nicest thing to come out of this whole ordeal.

To my knowledge, this spawning shit we've got in 2 is pure procedurally generated laziness relying heavily on always online interactivity and 0% offline registration which is the reason AI genuinely pops in and out of existance in accordance with the players poisiton. For them, there is no reason to simulate further than 150M they'll just use the excuse "that's how it happened" which is l perfect for low level thinking console scum.

For us, however, we'd prefer a 1to1 recreation of the levels and characters and respects to their presence in the world at all times regardless of the amount of frames we'd get. The alife distance can get put high as 1600M meaning the entire level is always active, then remove the offline cleanup and that's sufficient to accurately portray the quests. Then it would just fall down to how many AI are getting spawned in the first place to keep it moderately playable

>at 150M the AI sprints at top speed out of the zone forever into underground tunnels so you can't see them dissapear standing on a hilltop or whatever

Lmao seems hilarious to think they thought people wouldn't immediately notice this

>>529571868
honestly disappointing how poorly thought out the logic is, if any of this is not due to bugs

>>529602103
holy fucking shit it only took 7 months

Now who's going to make IWP2 with CotZ and Absolute nature already built in?
Can we get a proper competitor to Anomaly?

>>529620269
what's wrong with IWP1

>>529620269
Your idea of what that engine is can't even compete with itself

>Also what the fuck does that even mean?

>>529620308
devs settled for a weapon pack instead of making bigger and better CoC

A-Life changes

Life in the Zone is now simulated for all characters, not just those in the player's view.

Characters continue to live their lives and pursue their goals in the Zone until they meet their end.

The player can meet the same stalkers after some time.

Players may encounter more A-Life characters resting or interacting in various locations, adding to the world’s immersion.

Characters will no longer respawn directly in front of the player. When the player clears the mutants' lair, for example, those mutants won't simply reappear moments later.

A-Life Director will no longer respawn characters at the edge of visualization. Instead, respawn moved further away from the player, while maintaining the Zone's population.

Visualization range is slightly increased. Characters now appear in visualization range with relevant animations and equipped weapons. This reduces the "pop-in" effect and contributes to a more seamless character visualization.

A-Life changes

Life in the Zone is now simulated for all characters, not just those in the player's view.

Characters continue to live their lives and pursue their goals in the Zone until they meet their end.

The player can meet the same stalkers after some time.

Players may encounter more A-Life characters resting or interacting in various locations, adding to the world’s immersion.

Characters will no longer respawn directly in front of the player. When the player clears the mutants' lair, for example, those mutants won't simply reappear moments later.

A-Life Director will no longer respawn characters at the edge of visualization. Instead, respawn moved further away from the player, while maintaining the Zone's population.

Visualization range is slightly increased. Characters now appear in visualization range with relevant animations and equipped weapons. This reduces the "pop-in" effect and contributes to a more seamless character visualization.

>>529621930
eat shit

>>529620368
who are you quoting?

>>529620487
yeah they made what they made, not what you decided they should have made.

>>529623757
>yeah they made what they made
yeah, and that's why I want someone else to build on top of what they left?
what's wrong with that?

>>529620487
there are many essential mods already included with iwp, and the cummunity has the power to adapt shit for it freely. i'd prefer a clean optimized base with the og coc modularity preserved rather than seeing unwanted features shoehorned in by the devs and risking analmeme repeat. the devs are still working on the next patch (someone mentioned lttz storyline might be added?) and there's ix-ray port in the works too. if this isn't a bigger and better coc i don't know what is.

Is there any way to make azazel work with the story? Does it fuck with CotZ?

Can anyone explain what the difference between Hayzees Anomaly Custom vs Anomaly Custom?
All I see with Anomaly Custom is politicsfags and I really don't give a shit what modders do in their freetime

>>529623914
have fun

Which version of S.T.A.L.K.E.R. Chornobyl?

>There's no such thing as the Call of

What do you want specifically? I'll tell you right now the Monolith version of all the levels is downright the worst design ever. We can gut all of that except the Meadow, since I don't know where that came from or if there's an actual version of this level lying around wherever the fuck.

Are we starting with 1.4.22 or the 1.5? I know nothing about this, except that 1.4.22 is considered the right choice.

What additional levels do you want? They need to fix in the world. I'd argue the Olr remake ones are the only suitable candidate for including more. Since that's supposedly the Eastern Zone.

The most frustrating thing is the geographical layout of the zone is all fucked up so you end up in Chernobyl North when those locations should get placed sporadically north of Chornobyl. It wouldn't even be difficult to do this, so that's just lazyness.

>All of that storyline shit doesn't exist.

>>529285362
I was actually stoked to try anomeme again with SSS after the teaser materialized on my YT homepage, but...
>>forced motion blur
Forced? In a mod? Surely you can adjust some configs to turn off motion blur and adjust/disable TAA, right?

>>529623757
I'm asking numbhead here what is a proper competitor? Since no one will work on Chornobyl they abandoned that and anything less than GAMMA gets you an instant rifle in the face from a large section of individuals

The trouble is they've strayed so far from the actual vision those additional things are considered required in all cases

>>529628734
wat

>>529628373
>>529628734

This is how it goes nowhere though. Right here is the Eastern Cordon. Where you drive five minutes outside the outskirts of the unfinished level twice to get to your intended "destination" two times to get to the entrance of the actual level. To me, I'm not even going to attempt that. I've had literal nightmares trying to design this level with satellite dishes it just screams this is pointless. What reason are we doing that? Since it's about forested areas in fictional Territories

>Eastern Escape, since the Cordon is different

Since you're driving two times the amount of levels in individualized sections

>>529626795
I haven't played those in sometime now and I don't have them installed anymore, but they're both pretty much just graphics packs for base anomaly, and the difference is Anomaly Custom is mostly graphics only, but Hayzee's has graphics + stuff added on top like rpg class system and more crafting i think

why IWP not OWA?

Cancer has 589,000 people in their shitcord. We're not even going to go there, since, they're a lost cause. If you're fighting against that, good luck.

>Let's drive through Lost Alpha's escape, then the Olr Escape renditioned, then the cordon since that's the actual entrance, you start on the outskirts of where you can go any direction you want since there's no boundaries except lethal kill zones, as that's how they justify the existance of other areas. There's no other way to travel there except around due to high radiation

>>529628378
TAA looks better in the trailer, but it doesn't include scenes with fast movements, like characters running
You can see in the next section of the video (screen space shadows) that the trees seem to have close to no smearing, in stark contrast to the character moving across the screen
https://youtu.be/Dr0SIaw9YR4?si=AvBZdguNE-kTMDQ5&t=22

>>529630160
owa is good in its own right but it feels a bit more barebones i guess? iwp got sweet guns and i like the features cotz port adds. once owa 2.0 drops it can be a more direct competition.

>>529629187
kek

>>529630694
right i forgot, owa literally has those old ass guns

Since they're inherently different? Which is nicer? In this instance? I'm leaning Monolith for this one, and not for the other ones.

More levels, what are you doing to those? Are you going ruin those with folliage all over the plains of existence tanking FPS to single digits? There's nicer engines for that sort of thing. That should have never existed there.

>>529630908
>>529630787
>>529630601
>>529629615
>>529628373

Whatever you say. I'm not the one who's driving five minutes on foot to get to the outskirts of the entrance.

>>529631424
>driving five minutes on foot

GOOD MORNING SAAR

>>529630049
Should have known the youtbers are just glazing shit.
I haven't really follwed stalker since 2015 or so, so IDK what's what these days.

>>529631835
youtubers are either glazing or hating, but there are good stalker mods out there, all depending if you're into story, or sandbox, or 'survival/crafting' type games

I don't need 12 years in the system to realize I'm doing this without a car

what the fuck is bro yapping about?

And this is why you get nothing. Have fun

>>529632007
I like all of them, I'm probably going to try IWP and then Radiophobia 3.
I'm in the middle of a GAMMA playthrough but I've been getting bored, despite all of the gun autism it's not very challenging it's just inventory management the game. It's like they wanted to make something hard but then bitched out and gave you a gorillion dollars for each task so really you're just navigating menus and there's more fucking ferns than hl2 cinematic mod

zonE-SAMA

>>529632492
Radiophobia 3 kino
and yeah, gamma gets boring after a bit for me too

>>529628373
>>529628734
>>529629615
>>529630601
>>529630787
>>529630908
>>529632302
meds

>>529635196
>Have a good good one

>>529636681
>dis mah gawk fourdee yaermeh

>>529630694
What more can they do with OWA?

Since it's all screwed up anyways.

That is worse than what modders do for sure

Excuse me for distracting you from the thread schizo, but how do you go about enjoying Lost Alpha?
I've tried several times by now and my brain completely shuts off at agroprom.
Not sure what it is but it feels like I'm playing a very bland stalker knock-off that's neither olr or release soc.

>>529642906
Which version are you playing? I played DC 1.4007 with an addon called LBs Comp. I had a blast, despite LA's faults.
>that's neither olr or release soc.
It's funny that LA was toted as this grand build-restoration mod back in the day only for it to devolve into insane fanfiction.

>>529620269
someone should just fix the base maps and replace the broken SoC maps from CoC with the multiplayer ones or the CoP ports that use CoP textures and objects from a guy named Pirat. It would be also nice to see, if someone would edit the maps to use AN4, since the SDK objects released for it. Other stuff like proper storylines should be created by the community.
Although in all honesty IWP would benefit from the inclusion of new or refreshed maps (maybe some type of buildo/retail hybrid map) and a proper storyline. The creators themselves are a bit dissapointed that no one made a storyline

>>529623991
>someone mentioned lttz storyline might be added?
I feel like I might have been wrong about that, but we'll see what the new patch will bring.


>>529628373
don't know, if I understood you correctly, but I don't like the idea of retail and build maps coexisting in one game. Add the one or the other or create retail/buildo hybrid map. This is the way in my opinion

>>529646497
>or create retail/buildo hybrid map
personally I'd prefer if buildo maps were cannibalized for structures with the overall map layout completely scrapped/redone
90% of buildostuff looks pretty but sucks to actually play on

>>529646497
>someone should just fix the base maps
does anomaly improve in any way on coc maps? i think there's a port of anomaly levels on iwp moddb somewhere. also there's expanded/fixed maps mod for anomaly that improves the geometry and opens up some closed off areas. i tried running it with iwp and it worked fine except for fucked up foliage textures. probably wouldn't be too hard to adapt.

>>529648662
yes

>>529630160
>>529630694
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>>529637176
owa sucks purely because of the yellow psi-health bar in the hud
in theory, if someone made COMPLETE modularity, then neither owa nor soc inc would be needed.
full modularity - its when the modpack for anomaly out of the box looks almost like vanilla soc. a good example is snowy restoration addon for cop