Take this medkit 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 (embed)

>Change viewmodel fov, enable console, remove black bars, skip intro
https://github.com/Lyall/STALKER2Tweak

Lost to the Zone : >>529128024

monolith

S.H.I.T.T.E.R.

Bloodsucker genocide is a question and the answer is YES.

TOTAL BLOODSUCKER DEATH

>>529734632
Why do none of the realism mods add piss and shit? Imagine you're sneaking through the Zone at night and here a weird grunting. Peaking around the corner you see a bandit squatting down and taking a dump while his buddy keeps his distance and averts his eyes.

wow thread died

>>529743905
because people associate excretion with fetishes or "unnecessary realism" like having genitals on animals and monsters imagine first person anims of having a 5 minute squatting break in the bushes with your gun at the ready in one hand and toilet paper in the other
a more neutral addition would be showers and a proper underwear rotation since sweat and chafing are a real fucking problem in the field and people in combat usually just shit and piss under themselves

>>529750183
2's quickslot system makes me weep.

>>529751182
why?

rate my loadout for chimera hunting

>>529756289
too many food items
but then again you have an exo

>>529756289
why do all the icons have a drop shadow on them?

Z O N A

>>529757386
dunno, maybe it looks good

>>529756289
shotguns are the way

>>529757779
does it?

>>529756289
Nice loadout. Make sure you don't fake your chimera hunt.

>>529756289
is there a mod out there that lets me do this to a chimera?

Will CotZ finally be finished in IWP's environment or just ported as is?

>>529761090
you want to fuck a chimera?

>>529761090
I bet there is, but thankfully there's Hip in Anomaly to satisfy the need of the entire zone

>>529768740
that's me

>>529769337
Turns out being brain scorched just leads to posting in /sg/

stalker 2 really needs an upgrade to the PDA

>>529769652
is there any point in marking mutant positions if they migrate with every blowout?

>>529770057
So you know where they are

>>529770215
but they move around? like, a lot?
and you should too, it would help with both of your, ugh, issues

>>529763080
it's already in a pretty good spot and is pretty much feature complete in my opinion, maybe even better than og CotZ with the bugfixes. The only thing that needs attention is the balancing. Also that Rhons shit should have been made optional in that port and not built-in

>>529769652
>>529770215
how would it have that information?
is there ecologists tracking their movements in real time with gps collars?

>>529775002
UN tracks them all by satellite

does anyone know what turned the detector blue? I don't like it

>>529775769

>>529775769
Memory issues
Try plugging it into a PC and running memtest64 and/or prime95
Also replace your batteries. Some models run into issues when the batteries are running low

>>529775769
eiffel 65

>>529775769
missing or replaced texture and/or fucked up shader?

>>529775769
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U_qZtLu52nM

>>529775769
mod author likes it that way

I want to stop killing games

>>529776494
I think it's supposed to be a backlight, because the other devices also got this "effect". love it when one can't tell if it's a bug or a feature

>>529777098
The industry is corrupt. The games must be destroyed.

>>529775769
it was the glowsticks patch in SSS

>>529769652
Is this build 1844?

>>529777098
Your wish is granted
The only games that exist now are shitty tumblr writing Undertale clones that pander to mentally retarded fags

>>529780902
it's aight, since we still have gazillion of games from the past

can I run CotZ with brain scorcher plotline or do they conflict?

>>529780689
1845

I Wished For Infinite Fish, But All I Was Granted Was Small Minnows...

>>529781951
Gang shit.

>>529785574
looking at this wrist never gets old

>>529786726
The map feature was kind of cool too but I can understand why it was scrapped.

>>529731925
No, I've added fakeHDR and sharpening with reshade.

>scientist
>grab some contracts for starter cash
>have to wipe out clear sky in the swamps
>kill a bunch of them in one place
>"reputation decreased" message
>no actual change in pda
>walk over to the next area
>still neutral
>kill them
>same message with no score change
>sleep right there
>some more of them spawn
>they loot their friends and ignore me
I have IWP and call of the zone installed, never touched freeplay before.
Is this normal?

good day /sg/

>>529791915
wassap negr

>>529791474
did ‘good will’ not change?

>>529781062
what is this picture

>>529791474
>he gets into the zone and starts killing fellow men of science just for a quick buck
ngmi

>>529751182
I like it. Hate having to use my entire fucking keyboard like in gamma, it's cool when similar actions are combined into one key. Reloading and jam fixing should not be separate keys like in analmeme, fuck that shit.

High Level GAMMA Gameplay

>>529797458
Ridiculous weapons s.t.a.l.k.e.r. a.n.o.m.a.l.y. g.a.m.m.a. (free game)

I love stalker 2!

>>529798354
I unironically agree, I love UMP45.

>>529799053
no you don't.

>>529795865
I have "terrible" reputation in pda but I can still trade with them and none of them are hostile.
faction to player relationship is still at 0

>>529776484

They missed an opportunity to have the lr300 as a unique variant of the ar in Stalker 2.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ELF-koTSnUM

how it started:
>>529812340
how it's going:
>>529797458

So is anybody going to ever actually make any fucking new weapon mods or what. GSC trolled us with that beretta and didnt even post it, tf is the hold up

>>529791474
>>529804023
Reputation is a different stat from faction relations, but I don't remember what exactly it affects or if it affects anything at all.
And when you attack another faction in CotZ, if I'm not mistaken, it is not the player's relation with it that goes down, but the relations between the two actual factions.
Check if the general Ecologists - Clear Sky relations have changed.

best you gonna get are reskins

>>529819139
Some guy is working on adding an lr300 at least but yeah I assume modding is going to be slow partly because of the 700gb download.

The beretta is on mod.io. It's just called "newweapon" lmao I have no idea what they were thinking. I don't even know if it works properly but here you go: https://mod.io/g/stalker2/m/newweapon2#description

>schizo rambling from last thread finally ceased

>>529826397
Ah shit, well appreciate that. Didn't know it was posted but lmao fucks sake looks like I'm gonna have to buy an SSD and try to learn this shit myself inevitably

>>529796978
they're not similar at all, it's 4 completely actions, heal, stop bleeding, restore stamina and reduce rads

it's just the PC version being crippled for controller support

funny how it's always "we will completely redesign everything for consoles and TV" but never ever "we will completely redesign everything for mouse and keyboard and desktop monitor"

it breeds contempt

seamless zone was the one and only thing I wanted from stalker 2, and they more than delivered

everyone makes it out like it's this massive desert like GTA 5, it's not even that big, it takes only a few minutes of walking in a straight line to get from one side to the other, everything seems to be just the right size

can people not walk 20 seconds while looking at some nice scenery anymore?

>>529827860
pity reply
please try harder next time

What a moody scene from the Army Warehouses.

https://youtu.be/Et0b91rlSUc?feature=shared&t=2778

lol. lmoa, even

what the FUCK is this draconian horseshit?

I see all these people seething in mod comments about shit being out of date. Stop being ignorant lazy faggots, it's super easy to update these mods yourself wtf lmao. You literally just tweak the settings and repack with the updated cfg files retards

>>529836013
Fucking LOL

>>529836989
Fix this mod for me thanx
https://www.nexusmods.com/stalker2heartofchornobyl/mods/88

>>529780689
No, it's 1488

>>529837890
I'll do you one better. I'll you what you can do yourself to go through and set it up. Get a stalker 2 unpack tool and unpack the last version of this mod. Then unpack a file called pakchunk0-Windows.pak in the Stalker 2 directly. See what exactly the mod adjusts; most mods adjust things in pic related. Go through each part and copy/paste the numbers that were adjusted in each cfg file and then repack the adjusted cfg files properly. You can make this even easier with something like notepad++ and an active compare plugin

>>529837890
Fucking hell. Niggas are out here really porting gayma's repair system to S2 huh.

Ogsm or oldstory ?

>>529838548
Ehh, you know what fuck I'll try my hand at it. Got nothing better to do and I guess this would be some good modding practice for me.

>>529841497
https://www.nexusmods.com/stalker2heartofchornobyl/mods/398?tab=description
this is the one I use, gl anon

GAMMA and Grok are pro Z!

>>529780351
might want to report that

N-no goy, we aren't z-Z. It's just for cooking, I swear!

>>529732481 (OP)
Despite there being so many mods for this game, and its community being largely centered around them, there are a surprisingly sparse amount of documentation on how to actually create mods that go beyond modifying some stats.
For a long-term project, that for example, seeks to take the mechanics and gameplay of the STALKER games but mod it into a different setting... where does one even start? I can hardly find any comprehensive guides.

>>529838672
no, gamma just stole it, like everything else.

>>529847278
because it's all largely in russian duh

>>529847345
>>529845736
>>529846161
case and point.

>>529845736
>>529846161
please stop posting discord drama in /sg/. it really is not necessary

stalker ROCKS

Soon.

>>529826397
Looks cool, North Korea is truly great country.

>>529845736
Bullshit. No one in the Western Hemisphere thinks so. The obvious provocation is obvious. It's clear to any fool that the post was written by hrukrainian.

>>529846161
>at least they made it so that it doesn't spawn in game

faggot KEK grok confirmed

>>529845736
why are redditors like this? i wonder what the guy looks like

>>529846161
>>529861040
protip: having a copy of and reading a book, doesn't make you a nazi

>>529864332
>zizzle und jijjle

>>529866146
are we supposed to understand that?

Stalker 'Diana', Diana`s Secret

>>529819139
New engine, and vastly greater fidelity, both meaning you can't get away with slopmodding. It takes much more effort to model, texture, map, and rig a new weapon than it does to pathetically port stolen animations and models from other games.

how do i add PPS43 to stalker 2

>>529868273
i don't even know why i'm typing to your lil pussy ass

>>529871087
calm down lilbro

>>529819139
>GSC trolled us with that beretta
They will add this gun in future updates to keep the game alive. Is this so hard to understand?

>>529871087
we know.

>>529871461
anon....

>>529871461
Man, i love berreta pistols. Who the fuck wants to play with a Soviet piece of junk weapon from WW I era? Like, why do i want to play with this Tree-line shit in a game about modern world?

>>529873553
haha sick nigga

>>529873553

>>529846161
Does this faggot ever go offline, does he even play the mod pack he's created?
How do you get baited into writing a middle school essay by a concern troll this hard?

>>529845736
I will now play your mod pack

>>529873553
>Stalker 2 player is a tranime faggot
Many such cases!

>>529873553
+1,500 karma on r/stalker

Top comment: Cheeki Breeki!!!

>>529874419
That screenshot is from nexus
>>529874646
T-thanks

>>529826397
>>529873553
You are disgust me. Never post again.

>>529869307
This.

https://youtu.be/AEcruuLqBDE
was Morgan park right?

>>529876676
I'm not watching this but based on that pic you posted the guy seems like a gigantic queer.

>>529876424
the IWPchad strikes again!

>>529877089
Iwp is just the new CoC and that really sickens me

>>529628373
>>529628734
>>529629615
>>529630601
I agree with you completely. But what can be done?

>>529877419
Look, if you want to try and drive in the Chernobyl Exclusion Zone, you need to understand which engine you're gonna try driving on. The older builds have different maps and different types of anomalies that may restrict you from driving in a particular way or fashion. If we don't take level changers into account, it's only a few hundred meters from the beginning and end of each level, unless we include Darkscape (which was meant to be driven on).
I totally understand, though. There was that one time Tejas_Stalker (now a fully-made Adminstrator/Moderator at the GSC Game World Discord Staff Team) took us through some old videos of his (which are on his YouTube Channel, StreloksLair). In one such video, Tejas_Stalker shows us some of the boundaries between Rostok and Wild Territory. In one such boundary, you could keep going and going and going! It was crazy! Anyway, Tejas_Stalker eventually got back in another way, but I see what you mean by driving outside the map and taking a long time to get to your original destination.
But the original destination could be blocked by anomalies, stalkers, mutants, or just plainly the level design itself. So, what do we do about that?
It is my suggestion that if you're into modding, perhaps look into the level editor. Or, if you don't like levels, try adding in some cars. If you're on a version that may already have cars, why not just use those?
There's plenty of older car mods you could just "Dezowave" (aptly named for the use of other mods without permission, henceforth known as alfa modding).
And if you want to throw in a Lada or a Kamaz, or a UAZ even, go right ahead! Whatever gets us to our "ORIGINAL DESTINATION", am i right, fellow stalker?

>>529876424
I recognize that from the cop gunslinger mod. That's the sig reload.

>>529876676
>hardcore reputation
he never played the games
another retarded opinion ignored

>>529878291
>>529877419
But my compatriot fellow stalker in arms,

We must consider the alternative possibilities. Call of Chernobyl (Chornobyl for the modern-day S.T.A.L.K.E.R.S.) only really had a few big versions. 1.4.2.2 was the biggest one everyone knew since Alundaio didn't update Call of C.H.O.R.N.O.B.Y.L. for ages, so a bunch of mods and addons were made for it. And then, suddenly, Alundaio updated Call of Chernobyl to 1.5, thus rendering a lot of addons and mods useless. A few did come back and update themselves, but by the time 1.5. Came out, Misery, Call of Misery, Anomaly, etc, were making their debut, and Call of CHORNOBYL was Lost to the Zone.
However, just recently Alundaio released 1.6. In the Call of Chernobyl discord, if you're interested. Anyway, since you want to talk about game engines, there's a quite a handful of X-Ray engine variations!
One big question remains, my fellow compatriot S.T.A.L.K.E.R.: In Arms:

If we are considering OLR (Oblivion Lost Remake) Remake (why are you saying Oblivion Lost Remake2?) the Eastern Zone, how is there an eastern zone? If OLR Remake is Eastern, what is considered West? Another Modpack? What about the story mods that come in with actual new maps, like S.T.A.L.K.E.R.: The Journey, where the player has to find Yulian?
Surely those new maps could be incorporated in some fashion, just like the Meadow!

But, my fellow friend and comrade - in arms -
what if we deigned to consider the possibility that in fact... none of it was east and west, and that it was all merely considered T.H.E. Z.O.N.E.?
Here's a little stumper for those of you! If OLR Remake is Eastern, does this mean to infer that buildo (henceforth referred to as "build") maps are a cardinal Direction?
What if we bring NPCs into this? Is there a lore or story perspective we can spin, or are we just Driving to our Intended DESTINATIONs together?

>>529877419
>replying to your own schizo chat gpt shitposts
>>529878291
>>529879019

>>529877419
>>529878291
>>529879019

To really get into the "nitty gritty" of the Zona, what else is on the table?>>529879110

My son,

We fear what we do not understand.
But what I do not understand is the X-Ray Monolith engine.
What I do not understand, even possibly fathom, nowhere near comprehend, is the mere existence of something announced, which, by the way, is not only not the singular example of this, as there are many other examples tested tried and true by the faithful S.T.A.L.K.E.R. Community (East and West), but in that these new "engines" don't really have any true UTILITY. What is the point in discussing such an engine, developing, posting about it on social media for your 10 followers if nobody will use the monolith engine?
My son, look closer.

When we open our eyes, we begin to see.

When we open our minds, we begin to hear.

What we hear. We do not hear.

What we innately accept - we know.

But I haven't meant to get political, my dearest. This is all quite simply run aground! To get back to the dire crux of the matter, where has S.T.A.L.K.E.R. (henceforth referred to as STALKER) modding gone wrong?
Was it the introduction of stimuli to a diseased environment?
Perhaps, all those moons ago, when S.T.A.L.KE.R.: MISERY released for the 2010 S.T.A.L.K.E.R.:Call of Pripyat (Modern-Day STALKERs know this to be S.T.A.L.K.E.R.:Call of Prypiat) that everything well and truly declined.
For the brown-slop and tedium began, and we never recognized it for what it was - a hideous reduction!
Long-gone were the days of AMK, even Complete had become nostalgia. But now - those days are a distant memory, ever-fading...

>>529878291
>>529879019
>>529879696
I see.

Also never take photos of my house ever again. I have called the authorities.

>>529878592
I don't think there is a single original work in IWP. Not that I'm complaining, it's an excellent compilation.

>>529880134
>>529879696
>>529879019
>>529878291

How utterly delighted I am to see you finally come to terms with the truth!
Well done, child. Now, we must do the natural thing, and move on to the next evolutionary step. Much like OGSE (Old Good Stalker Evolution), we too must experience our own stalker evolution.

And how do we mean to acheive such a feat? Pripyat wasn't built overnight, of course!
Do you have any modding experience? It's quite a different story to say that you would - or had extensively - but if otherwise you were a script kiddie, or knew hardly anything at all...
In that case, public awareness is a powerful tool. I applaud you for bringing it to /sg/'s attention. In a way, we're our own little C-Consciousness, haha.
Modders and other niche figures in the S.T.A.L.K.E.R. Community have been seen making themselves known here from time to time, so it's with no surprise at all that I'd read such an event, although with Discord becoming more and more popular, maybe so.
4Chan (4Channel?) Seems to be growing more and more of a faint phenomenon, struggling and gasping as it dies in the dark corner of the room you refuse to acknowledge.
There's only a few handful of posters in each and every /sg/ thread, and still, we hammer on, for years and years...
But if we take in the math of averages, if there's 7 posters, each would have to post 10 times a day for 7 days in order to hit bump limit. Or 10 7x per 7.
I think... i can't remember...
But the point is that we still have enough users for the bump limit to occur roughly a little under weekly, so it is a steady progress, although it does bump more when actual news happens.
But then it dies again back to the normal flow when those losers leave us to what is ours.
Why does such a phenomenon occur, anyway?
They see some big news and suddenly flock to /sg/? I don't get it...

>>529845936
no, I overlooked the patch and it was activated by default, while I didn't have glowsticks installed

>>529881350
Oh yeah SSS starts with like three patches enabled for some reason in the installer. Even whe you're redoing it and it remembers all your other choices.

>>529846161
Grok is a massive faggot, more at eleven.
>removing Putinka vodka, that makes no sense to be in the Zone in the first place, is rewriting history!!1!
Lel
>I always try to be apolitical
>I hope both nations fucking die
Double lel

Can I disable minimap rotation in IWP?
I generally ignore it but on maps like the swamps with limited line of sight it gets confusing without opening pda every 5 seconds.

>>529882408
I always wondered why so many struggle to grasp that just because someone is not pro Russia, doesn't mean that he's pro Ukraine and vice versa. guess it's just children, getting influenced by current even propaganda

>>529882985
current event*

>>529876424
add PPS43 to IWP

how do i tell IWP to build shaders again i deleted the shader cache but there's still nothing in there??

>>529883751
try starting a new game?

>>529884047
it didn't work, oh well, game seems to be fine anyway

>>529885280
are you sure you cleared the right folder?
you're supposed to delete r4 folder inside %game%\datafiles\shaders_cache\r4
it regens shaders at launch

>>529887028
so for whatever reason, if i launch the game through MO2, it's unable to write into the shaders_cache folder. so i guess i'm just gonna go back to using jsgme

>>529888692
that's weird, I tested it on MO2 specifically

>>529889521
i have no idea what is going on. at first i thought it was this permissions crap, but i've taken full ownership and every group has full control over the directory. and then i thought it was windows defender's ransomware protection that's doing it because it tends to force read only on folders, but that's off for me. i couldn't get MO2 launch to write anything in shader cache no matter what my administrator launch settings were so i just gave up. using jsgme now and game is making shader cache as normal so i'm just gonna forget about using mo2 i guess. very weird because on anomaly it's fine for me.

>>529890149
I think I got what's happening
in some fucked up weirdness when launching MO2 in admin it started writing shader cache into it's own overwrite folder
I think you can move them back to IWP's main directory after one launch

>>529890364
lol what the fuck, so i guess maybe the mo2 plugin has something that needs to be corrected

jsgme and MO@ were a mistake

I remember when there were no mod managers. good times. found some weird bug with 20 mods installed? good luck

>>529890562
so, I tried forcing shader cache into its own empty mod since it's exe output, but the results are borderline retarded
I don't know why it generates directories like this

>>529890562
this might be intended behaviour. MO2 has a feature to manage files that are generated depending on your mods, something like FNIS in Skyrim. no one needs it btw. like who the fuck switches mod configurations so often to need this feature?

>>529864332
well yeah because ukrainian """nazis""" are literaly funded by an isreali oligarch lol

>>529878291
>>529879019
>>529879696
>>529881187

my mods don't load with mo2 for some reason

>>529895415
iwp? did u follow instructions for mo2 plugin

>>529895415
Are you making sure to launch through MO2?

>>529895797
>>529895914
yeah, I have the whole load order set up, click on the mo2 Run button
launcher loads but none of the official mods work, no legs, no compass

>>529883316
SBEY will add it, but with the stick mag

>>529897468
stick mags are cool
vityaz > bizon btw

>>529896068
have you opened MO2 as an admin?

>>529897553
I do find the ppsh cooler with the stick mag, but I disagree with you on the bizon

>>529897580
checked moddb and apparently I somehow missed that
I don't get why it's necessary though

>>529897823
I don't launch MO2 as admin, but maybe the bitcoin miners you installing need it

but i want the pps43 not ppsh41... nobody ever puts the pps in video games...

>>529877419
>>529878291
>>529879696
are you guys well?

>>529900556
>guys
one schizo with chatgpt

>>529898394

>>529901587
what game is this!!!

>>529901635
New Arsenal 7

>>529893784
are you implying there are no jews in Rooosia?
are there no muslims either?

russia has every right to defend itself

Every country has the right to support Ukraine to fuck with Russia.

will you retards shut up about the war

It wasn't me mum, GSC started it!

GSC started the war as a marketing ploy

there's like 3 different wars happening right now and it's always the slavs that make the most noise

monolith has the right to defend itself

meanwhile, at the frontlines...

Why is there still no simple mod to get rid of all the ammo/repair/upgrade item bloat of Anomaly?

>>529917745
OWA

>>529917745
>get rid of all the ammo/repair/upgrade item bloat
and what will remain?

>>529918159
stalker

>>529917818
I've had some fun with it but it's too far and not simple. I want my SKS, my real gun names etc.
>>529918159
Okay I just realised I didn't phrase that well. I'd like to lose old/damaged ammo, all the 1kg+ upgrade kit things and most of the repair items. Anomaly could also stand to lose a couple of ammo types but it's not so bad.

>>529917745
IWP+COTZ is right there bro.

>>529918738
analmeme is more stable thoughbeit

>>529917745
punch yourself in the face

>>529917745
install OWA and realize you could just be playing IWP instead

>>529918159
gameplay

>>529918984
>

>>529918984
>implying I'll install everything correctly

mmm, kukuruza

>install owa
>realize it's too barebones
>install 100 other addons to make up for it
>realize you've just custom built gamma lite

>>529921110
i don't even know what that is but i would like to eat it

>>529921110
eeh, straight out of the can it's kinda dry and sticks together a lot

>>529921629
plain corn

>>529921694
This is sweet corn kernels in water. Not sticky nor dry and can be eaten straight from the can.

>>529922813
>Not sticky nor dry
t. doesn't eat canned food
it depends entirely on your region and how long that can was left unopened
the top layer usually dries out and lumps together while all the water stays at the bottom

>>529918642
IWP is literally all of this. Carbine of Simonov included.

How do you play monolith in freeplay?
Just hold one map and wait for retards to attack?

>>529922994
I do. In fact back home I have a can that is probably even expired. I guarantee you it will not be dry and clumped, because I don't buy trash.

>>529925434
go on a jihad across the zone

>>529925527
>I have a can that is probably even expired. I guarantee you it will not be dry and clumped
eat it and post back

Did someone say carbine of Simonov design?

>>529881187
So where do we go from here? Is there strength enough within /sg/ to produce a new evolution?

Also please stay out of my kitchen.

SKS this simonov that
what about SVT though

>>529925434
Monolith assassin roleplay. Kill every faction leader.

>>529869307
Very esoteric post!

>>529929659
It's pretty cool, I like the iron sights.

>>529877316
be the change that you seek, anon. Stop being only a consoomer and start creating your own quests/maps

Stalker ZONA: MOD PACK Bigger and Better Then Ever 200+ Mods [version 1.25 Preview]

>>529929659
SVT a boring shit
AVT-AVS is where it's at
https://youtu.be/1UMBQPrWXZE?t=212
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y_zt9kD4G4U

>>529937848
>play NA
>find a Pecheneg
>mind blown that it can mount scopes
>spend 200k rubles to repair it
>fire 100 bullets
>it's now at 80% durability
the worst part is that every gun is like this

>>529901587
Damn that looks like a WA2000 on the right side of the screen.... my dream....

>>529938097
iirc NA's gun files arent packaged so you can edit them right away which is what I did to that SVT by making it full auto, there is no AVT in NA kek

>>529940883
When I played NA7 I had to unpack the gamedata to edit it.

>>529941001
huh, you'd think a weapon focused mod would at least leave the weapon .ltx files
it takes like 2 mins so whatever I guess

>>529942143
highly sophisticated modmaker vision, do not edit)))))

>>529937848
are those automated wipers for your visor?

>>529947454
that sounds fucking hilarious

>>529938339
This piece of junk?

>>529952613
>telepathically controlled scope zoom
when will we get this tech irl?

>>529952613
This kills the GAMMAcel

>he doesn't remote view his targets

Goddamn there are just non-stop firefights everywhere in the zone now in 1.5. This shit is nuts

>>529952613
Wait what mod is this? The screenshot looks like NA 7?

Man, STALKER at 180Hz just hits different.

self repairing and crafting from inventory is bad because firstly it breaks the logic of exploration.

if a player wears out his equipment, he must be forced to return to the base and give it to the mechanic.

if player can repair equipment right during the journey, he will not be able to receive a punishment for broken equipment in the form of increased damage from enemies and the game will be more boring and predictable

secondly it is ideologically bad because there should be a division of labor and everyone should do their job.

only mechanics who devote all their free time to repairing should repair equipment
stalker should only stalking

if you want more loneline gameplay, the only compromise is crafting and repairing only near a craft table that cannot be simply moved from inventory. as a result, you are not tied to stalkers, but you still need to return to your shelter to repair equipment

>>529907586
GSC made russian voiceover to the game. Their first trailers are literally in russian. Russian music was used.
Russian hackers decided to hack the GSC website and edited it with insults.

>mum, GSC started it!

Why are russians so delusional?

>>529966778
With DLSS on? What card do you have?

>>529970154
Shadow of Chernobyl on a 3090 so it shits out frames like it's nothing

what is better:

1. realism-maxxing in order to make the existing anomalies, artifacts and mutants more contrasting against its realistic background

2. bioshock/crysis-maxxing with all sorts of abilities from artifacts and scientific developments - telekinesis/hypnosis/teleportation/plasma-laser-guns/artifacts-as-weapons, in order to emphasize the general fantastical nature of the zone?

>>529938339
New Arsenal 7 can make those dreams come true.

>>529960093
NTA but the screenshot is from NA7. The video posted seems to be from Gamma or maybe Anomaly. New Arsenal doesn't have that type of compass.

>>529942143
The name might make you think it's just a weapon modpack like OLR but it's so much more than that. The usual weapon modpacks don't have nazi dream sequences, deployable sabertooth tigers in backpacks or Sidorovich tractor missions.

>>529971964
I was gonna guess maybe IWP (hopefully) since >>529953093 replied with what they did. Definitely looks more like something CoC / Anomaly based to me, but I'm pleasantly surprised multiple modern mods feature that gun.

>>529973345
Definitely freeplay. It could also be IWP. I haven't played these new freeplay mods that much to be able to distinguish between them (and if someone is a smart cunt he can port different stuff from one mod to another and then nobody can tell what the fuck he's playing).

>>529960093
IWP

>>529836882
>We'll fuck up your game and give you no choice. Do you want to continue?

Old World Gunslinger > IWP

>>529966778
you can't see more than 90hz though

Yeah... Home now and absolutely ratted. Gonna start Curved Road mod tomorrow. Still waiting for a mod that has Nautilus Pompilius on the radio. Good night /sg/
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q8sX-iHW3Gw

>>529986641
Good night, pidar.

>>529986641
Siggers Tongue My Anus

>>529756289
not enough vogs, 100x minimum for chimera hunting.

>>529769652
they need to make the PDA an actual item that you can look up like in gunslinger.

I feel the zone, both in the original trilogy and in stalker 2, is too tame when compared to the zone in roadside picnic. While reading the book I've imagined the zone as one endless near invisible maze of extremely dangerous and deadly anomalies at every corner where you need to crawl on your ass for days in order to get across a small grass field because you don't know if that blade of grass a feet away from you is a normal blade of grass or a anomalous that will liquify your kidneys if come near it.
In stalker you just have these small areas of highly anomalous activities and vast open areas of nothing happens and are completely safe, you can just jog for miles without having to crawl or feel the claustrophobic dread of being stuck in one little corner not knowing if you will die if you move the wrong way.
Is there any mod that further adds anomalies and makes the zone a near uninhabitable hostile place where you need to chug bolts around like a paranoid crack head in order to move forward?

>>529971467
I think it's better to show restraint when adding the fantastical elements. I near about laughed out loud when Strelok became the flash.

>>529969214
i agree

>>529969214
>it breaks the logic of exploration.

LMFAO

What's the best game or mod for mutant hunting? I've always been infatuated with the fantasy of being a zone witcher.
GAMMA is the best I've run in to so far, and I'm still waiting a bit for stalker 2 to mature. Is there anything better?

>>530006989
for me it's the vanilla anomaly mechanics on ironman. chimeras will still fuck you, no matter what. you'll think you're prepared and then you find a pack of cats with a black chimera gang leader. cats will hold you while the chimera stretches your behind. also faction leaders give special hunt missions at night. mercs give a double black chimera in red forest, duty gives a truck cemetery quest, freedom got a bloodsucker village quest, trapper got some, the hunter at the garbage (forgot his name) also. even with exos and "empties" you'll still get 2-shot by chimeras (guess it depends on your difficulty settings). doesn't matter what equipment you have, you can never relax. death is always only a few unlucky circumstances away

>>529969214
this is a balance issue. the player should be rewarded for thinking ahead and preparing for broken armor in any circumstance. however if repair items are so plentiful and available as to be trivial, then the standard procedure becomes keeping them on your person at all times.

my solution is to reduce availability of repair items, both at traders and in the field. this way one can prepare for a long journey and invest in supplies, or undertake a journey while underprepared and still have the chance at finding a useful item in a random stash, thus encouraging exploration.

a further possibility is limiting the upper durability one can achieve with self repair, and requiring a skilled technician to fully repair above that. for instance, self repair is possible from 0 - 80 and technical expertise is required to repair from 80 - 100. this keeps your precious technicians employed you filthy communist ape.

>>530013523
>this is a balance issue
with Anomaly it's a matter of knowing what you want and adjusting the difficulty till you find the sweet spot. sounds easy but it actually takes a lot of time

Hey guys, I was modding S.T.A.L.K.E.R. Call of Pripyat, and I decided to delete one mod to install another, and I accidentally deleted a System file which bricked my PC, thankfully my friend fixed in but how is that possible? How did a system file end up in my S.T.A.L.K.E.R. folder?

>>530016091
you're either 12 or trolling

>>530016091
you're about 10 years late to this kind of joke and probably on the wrong website for it

>>530016551
I'm trolling your mom

>>530016879
with your penis?

How do I edit ADS DoF in IWP?
It's like I'm aiming with a fucked up autofocus camera covered in vaseline.

>>530020378
its not tied to in menu options DOF?
maybe IWP poster can help... I don't know
I'm playing on older veiison of IWP I think, because I don't have that.

>>530023005
there's an on/off toggle for blurring and dof, but I can't tweak it any more than that

>>529995594
Not really desu, AMK manages to sort of do this with invisible anomalies and random placements so you cannot just run without checking everywhere with bolts - but at the end of the day you can just savescum and there has to be some concessions because it is a video game

I've mentioned it before in these threads but, my ideal zone would be a Death Stranding-esque game where the focus was on traversal and interaction with the zone itself, to have something akin to modern gta/rdr with the stranger interactions, have hundreds of these scripted events all over the map but randomise which ones are turned on in any given playthrough, it could range from anything to simple spawning of mutants, interactions with characters/mini quests or just weird zone shit that cant be explained e.g unique anomalies aka the oasis from cop, visions or voices playing, they have sort of done this for stalker 2 to an extent but it's not enough and its only at very obvious "poi" locations which kills any sense of mystique because you know when you go to x location something is going to happen.

>>530009737
>around black chimeras
>never relax

>book
>zone is alien bullshit that's slowly going to drain our humanity, but it's also very profitable
>movie
>zone is a spook
>game
>zone is just another result of human activity

>>530024420
open console and type dof and see what you find? but desu it's probably not modifiable

>>529781062
i always kek at the psi helmet

ok so what did gsc mean by the doctor/faust switcheroo in skif's ending? i'm genuinely confused.

>>529984608
But I can feel it, and that's what's important. And when you're feeling it, oh shit you're feeling it.

>>530031519
doctor was faust all along

>>529984608
4/10
pretty good

>>530017437
with yours

Do we have any cool S2 mods now?

>>530037047
not really, most mods are still practically fixes for the faults in the game

>>530037047
only replacers

>>530034593
IT'S ME FAUSTIN

>>530037259
>>530037447
aw dang

Are there any mods or config tweaks for anomaly to reduce how accurate NPCs are? I just died to a fucking bandit with a shotgun. I could see him walking to where my original location was tried to sneak up on him only for him to immediatly shoot me from 20m away through a tiny gap in a container meanwhile I can't even clearly aim at him from that distance yet every NPC can lock on easily to you from a mile away without any scope while moving at the same time, its obnoxious.

>>530039470
there's a slider for that in the settings

>>530039470
git gudder

>>530039470
>I could see him walking to where my original location was tried to sneak up on him only for him to immediatly shoot me from 20m away through a tiny gap in a container
that's how you usually kill people in stalker, yes

>>529995594
isn't the original explanation for why the maps are small with fixed connections, those are the safe paths and everywhere else is nightmare land where nobody can go?

What are the differences between AMK and Oblivion Lost exactly? Other than vehicles.

>>530042176
gameplay vs plot

>>530041786
this. it was never explicitly stated, but it makes perfect sense. it explains why the only way to get to the center was through the brain scorcher, why one can't just walk from jupiter to pripyat, why most if not every stalker enters the zone from the south instead of any other direction, or why guides are paid to take you from one place to another along paths that only they know. a large part of the zone is simply impossible to traversedue to huge anomaly fields/radiation/other kinds of zone's fuckery.
picrel is a map that was included in collector's editions of cop, and there are a few dangerous spots marked outside the playable areas, so i guess that was an actual concept. stalker 2 had the potential to expand on it, but it was completely ignored instead, because no one at nu-gsc had any idea about lore.

>>529995594
AMK did this and everyone hated it. Anomalies everywhere that change constantly means you'll be hitting the quick load button constantly.

>>530045976
but if anomalies change location after every blowout, wouldn't that make those paths shift all the time?

>>530046723
I loved it because it actually made bolts relevant, hell it made anomalies relevant since if there static, you just had to remember where they are in their one position and thus they become a non issue, as do bolts.

>>530046962
>actually made bolts relevant
you still need bolts to discharge anomalies

>>530047078
for the very few times you actually had to do so; you'll be discharging anomalies a whole lot more when they are dynamic.

>>530046723
meh, not so much

>>530047259
>you'll be discharging anomalies a whole lot more when they are dynamic
can't I just wait for those anomalies to shift around so I don't have to bother with them?
there's not time limit, I'll just sleep

>>530045976
How would you expand on it though? Inaccessible areas are inaccessible for a reason, so the only thing you can really do is add lore blurbs about it.

But yeah it seems like they either completely forgot or just didn't care about the concept. Having maps separated by loading screens help sell the idea that you're taking a long, boring detour to avoid the no-go zones without actually having to spend resources designing them. The interconnected zone kinda ruins that little fantasy but people have been begging for a giant zone for years so I'm not surprised they caved in.

>>530047515
sure I suppose but there's no telling where they will reappear though so you'll have to hope they still don't end up in your way after they shift, unlike vanilla

>>530046806
the change in the locations of anomalies after regular blowouts is not on a large scale. in cop, anomalies in a few of the anomalous fields can actually switch their position after an emission, so their arrangement within the field is different than before, but they are still within the general scope of the field. only large emissions like the one in cs intro cause changes in the layout of anomalies on such a scale that new areas may be unblocked and others cut off. this also explains why stalkers make bases in the zone and aren't afraid that anomalies will randomly appear in them after a blowout - the disappearance and appearance of anomalies is limited to the area of their clusters or, in the case of individual ones, the specific spot where they are located. so if there are no anomalies in the area where you want to set up camp, and this does not change after a few emissions, then the area can be considered safe.
therefore, it is possible to mark safe paths that will not change, and also observe that certain areas are definitely not suitable for traversing and this will not change as well. unless a huge emission strikes, that is.

>>530045976
stalker 2 really fucked it all up. i wouldnt even have been mad if the world was just 80% inaccessible because of anomalous death traps. at least they can condense all their content into playable areas and have path ways open up and close with certain story related blowouts

>>530048664
>stalker 2 really fucked it all up
t. malding vatnik

>he doesn't like my game
>what a faggot, must be a %polshit%

>>530048938
Nah hes right, locking off progress with instant death is super gay. At least put something like the deathclaws in fallout new vegas so you can technically get through but its just retardedly impossible but still rewarding if you can do it. Its a fucking anomalous zone not a safari, who gives a fuck what direction you go first

>>530047817
just make anomaly fields much bigger, have them cut off entire sections of the map instead of being a small circle, then randomize them somewhat between blowouts

>>530047817
>so the only thing you can really do is add lore blurbs about it.
even that would be something, but i would like to see, for example, a huge crack in the ground that would separate some territories, or a huge anomaly field on some large meadow that you would have to navigate through like a maze. instead we have rivers and a fucking train blocking off pripyat.

>>530048938
you got me bro, i'm mad and balding and vatniking so hard right now

>>530048406
This is one of those things that isn't explained too well by the game. Throughout the series you'll get side quests where someone says "a blowout passed through and spawned anomalies all over my stash, I need you to go pick up my shit.

There have only been like 3 "gian" emissions so it's kinda crazy that there would be so many of these quest lines.

My head canon is that blowouts happen far, far less frequently than they do in-game and that they all have the ability to shift anomalies around, even into so-called safe zones, but this isn't represented in the games because having Rostok suddenly become invaded by anomalies would be bad for the gameplay progression. Lore wise though I do believe anomaly spawns are like lightning strikes and everyone is just praying that they don't get struck.

>make small anomalies static
>design the map in such a way that important paths can be blocked off by an unpassable or hard to navigate anomaly field
>emission happens
>anomaly blockades are toggled on/off/untouched at random
>now you need to relearn the arranegement of these fields by scouting ahead and choosing a path through the zone
>while navigating the map you will account for a possible blowout and take route that's not going to force you to backtrack later
howzzat

we could also consider that since stalker is more or less in "real-time", zone appeared in 2006, cop takes place in 2012, then over a decade after most of it has cleared up and that is why it is open in stalker 2

>>530049909
>after most of it has cleared up
is that actual S2 lore?
zone didn't simply get nuked by radiation, noosphere is a thing

>>530049278
This could work tbqh. So much of STALKER 2's map is just empty space anyway, having giant anomaly fields that force you to beeline around it instead of simply walking in a straight line to your destination, would be a good idea.

I wonder if any modder can do this. Might be too performance heavy though.

Comfy desu

>>530050352
stalker dialogue in english is unfunny

>>530050294
you would probably need to make bigger versions of the anomalies to save on performance, since hundreds of small ones might be intensive

>>530050539
what makes it funny in other languages

Бaблo или apтeфaкты, ecть?

>>530050625
slav jargon and cussing that is completely lost in translation

>>530041786
I get the restricted pathways from one zone to another, my gripe is the places you can freely move, like Cordon or Rostok. Normal places with a anomaly here and there. After playing the series then reading the book, the games feel a lot empty.
Maybe I'm just retarded and the vision I got from the zone in roadside is too extreme. The trip to the goldpshere what really stuck in my mind.
>>530025557
I will check AMK again in the future, I hate my job.

>>530051204
>I hate my job
???

>>530049519
>Throughout the series you'll get side quests where someone says "a blowout passed through and spawned anomalies all over my stash, I need you to go pick up my shit.
i honestly can't recall a single quest that would have such a premise. cs has the most fetch quests, and not a single one of them is related to anomalies spawning somewhere. don't remember any in soc or cop as well. maybe you're thinking about some quests from mods.

>>530050649
the water is murky, i can't see shit.

>>530051548
there is a fireside dialogue in stalker 2 where someone mentions their stash got hit with an anomaly, don't know about quests though

aй мляяяя, я мacлинy пoймaл...

>>530051439
Factory worker, 10 hour shifts kills me. Barely have time for vydia.

>>530051842
i meant just the trilogy, s2 could be full of such quests and it wouldn't surprise me, it would only confirm how many inconsistencies there are between it and the original lore.

>>530049850
Near perfect, down size the map and cut the useless fat we saw in Stalker 2 and we're golden.

>>530052141
>Factory worker
are you 40 by any chance? you could be a perfect candidate for a modder.

>>530034593
So Doctor never really existed?

>>530052330
I'm 28, I tried my hand at coding when I was back at school. Too retarded for it. I've always liked fiddling with hardware though.

>>530053205
that wouldn't make sense considering what he does in soc, and that you can find his notes from the past in s2.

>>530051548
I distinctly remember at least two, one in Clear Sky and one in CoP. I need to skim through the wiki though see if anyone logged them .

New SSS update.
https://www.moddb.com/mods/stalker-anomaly/addons/screen-space-shaders

>>530053979
strroooder

>>530054345
k

>>530053541
I guess he got killed by Faust then? Is the Doctor Strelok knows the og one?

>>530054345
but gamma just updated for sss23…

>>530054209
well i searched the cs text files with descriptions of tasks for any mentions of anomalies, and there's plenty of tasks in which you have to bring something that someone who died in an anomaly had with him, but not a single one that would be about an anomaly spawning on someone's stash. in cop there's this mission where you have to get a box from the car that fell into the snork caves, but again it's premise doesn't mention anomalies.

>>530055036
i don't know, it's all rather confusing and weird. even the leaked design documents don't help in understanding gsc's intentions in this case, because they were written before this plot point was made.

Why did skif shoot the bread?

>>530055812
ukraine shall no longer be the bread basket of russia

>>530054209
yoga tells you about a stash that was covered with anomalies, but he points out that it happened after the big emission:
>Alright-alright, you're not the punk I thought you were at first, so I'm gonna tell you about a little stash. I hid a special shooter in there before the last emission, the massive one. After the emission that whole area got covered by anomalies, but some guy I came across told me it's not anomalies but monsters you gotta watch out for. Either way, getting there ain't easy, but I'll give you reliable coordinates if you feel like taking a walk. If you manage, the stuff in the stash will be worth the risk.

i will never forgive them for strider

>>530054345
this is one of the worst AO I have ever seen in my life, worse than original crysis version

MW19 GTAO algorithm that is 99% accurate to raytraced reference is public for anyone to use and you put this garbage in your mod instead
yuck

also AO on environment is wrong since environment already has baked AO, so you just double-darken the corners making it look burnt

Even Stalker 2 gets this wrong with like 3 seprarate sources of occlusion on top of baked texture occlusion.

Battlefront 2015 still the only game to do AO correctly holy shit.

>>530059024
upload ur mod then lilbro

Hello anons, hoping someone can help out
Been playing through OP 2.2 and enjoying it, but I've hit a snag with what seems to be a broken quest, where I have to collect soap for a dude called Fima the Charcoal
I accepted that quest a long time ago, it wants you to throw these impulse grenades onto a crane to knock down five bars of soap
Well I'm trying to do it now and there's no task update when I collect the soap, I can knock it down just fine, six bars but you only need five, but the task doesn't update when I collect them and there's no dialogue with Fima to turn them in
Apparently this quest blocks a whole bunch of shit too
Been looking through the files for anything I could modify, but this XML stuff and how the game handles its quests is alien to me
Is there a way to force a task to complete or modify the quest so it wants first aid kits or something instead of this soap
I even reloaded (some 80 hours ago) to when I picked up the quest, ran straight there and got the soap down immediately and it still didn't update the task tracker
Any advice what I can do? Already have like 500 hours into this mod, I'd rather not restart if there's a way to brute force past it or something

>BWEEEH
>ZONE ANOMALIES ARE FOR WUSSIES
>GIVE ME THE REAL ZONE FROM TEH BOOK
do you want every map to look like Garbage from goldsphere?
constant quickload spam?

>>530061246
Okay well nevermind, I figured it out somehow
I don't know why or how, I installed all of the patches the mod installation guide said I should
When I checked the encyclopedia for "soap" there were two versions of soap, "fima_soap" and "fima_soap_quest" and then looking at the scripts, it was spawning and looking for "fima_soap" so I changed that to "fima_soap_quest" and when I rebooted the game, the quest task completed
I'm not going to question it, just grateful the quest actually updated itself
Guess that's the fix for any random anons that show up in the future, not that any of them will be able to read this
The file you want to change is "arhara_dialogue.script" also

>>530052141
>Factory worker
damn... same, but I don't have 10 hour shifts. I got only 8 hours. Night and evening shifts suck ass with the current type of work

lost another ironman life. this time to one exo monolith with a ks-23 in a narrow hallway. back to last life

Do you get to loot your old corpse in azazel mode?

>>530067357
corpses despawn on map loading

Its so over, top mod of the last 2 days is a fucking WOODEN PLANK retexture. Still not a single new gun or armor, nothing besides ini fixes that were already possible before the SDK. RIP

>>530071330
patience, the real modders are still downloading the 700 gb modkit.

>>530052145
>it would only confirm how many inconsistencies there are between it and the original lore.
You would be surprised how many inconsistencies there are between the three original games.

>>530071330
nigga, rome wasn't build in one day

i keep walking into anomalies in stalker 2 but they just very non-dramatically do damage to you

>first time using SSS, ES and Atmosphear for anomaly

So it looks great and all, or better than vanilla atleast, but I've been playing all day / yesterday and it feels like the weather is thunder and rain all the time now, feels like its hardly ever just clear and nice? Is this intentional?

>>530072234
i wouldn't, because i know that very well. but leaving aside issues like artifacts in soc vs artifacts in cs/cop, or a few inconsistent lore elements that require making up theories in order to make sense, the trilogy creates a more or less coherent world. and for people who don't care about lore, it's definitely more than less, because they don't notice these inconsistencies anyway. but i cannot perceive stalker 2 as part of this world, especially since nu-gsc didn't even try to make it fit in.

>>530073584
can't you go into settings visuals weather and change the chances of specific weather cycles?

>ironman
>not died even once yet
>walk through tunnel in Cordon
>nothing
>come out other end
>nothing
>flesh comes from around the side at point blank
>hits me
>np finish this with a shotgun blast to the face
>*drops weapon*
>have to stand there and fucking die because I can't even fight back or move
>die in 3 hits
Why must they add so many fucking shit unecessary mechanics in this game, no-one else in the fucking game drops their fucking weapon when they get hit so why does the fucking player, just like that fucking bullshit weapon grab NPCs do if they ambush you at point blank range, I fucking detest this shit.

>>530074605
Just stop playing shitty mods that add weapon dropping.

they shoulda just added black bloodsuckers and called it a day

>>530073584
whole point of atmosfear is to take clear weathers of clear sky/cop and make them depressing like shoc yes

>>530073620
That's fair. I'm still baffled by their decision to place the Brain Scorcher on the far-western edge of the map, pretty much invalidating a huge plot point from the old games about it blocking the way to the centre.
They could've put it in Red Forest or in the northern part of Garbage, at least, for it to make some sense, it's completely irrelevant in S2 anyway.

>>530063469
>>529995594
looks like goldsphere is the mod you want
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=41uJQyhhItQ

>>530055553
I could've sworn this was a quest gimmick but I guess I was wrong. Maybe I saw it in some mods and it blurred into my memories

Name pros and cons of Stalker 2

Pro:
-Good exploration for most of the time rewarding you with stuff you actually need (blueprints, silencers etc. especially early game its worth a lot

-The ruins of factories and catacombs are very nice

-side quests are a step up from the original (not a high bar though)

-good foundation for modding

-SFX is well done

-Arch-Anomalies are great setpieces, new minor anomalies elevate the game.

Cons:
-The wilderness looks garbage, basically flora is just copypasted/procedually generated. Red forest is red but not a forest at all. Its just the same wilderness except red.

-Each zone on the OG trilogy had a type of them going for it making it feel distinct. Stalker fails really hard in this regard except for Pripyat and SIRCA.

-A-Life still sucks because of the 100m radius and your average viewing distance being 5km. Mutants apparently dont have A-Life and still spawn on top of your ass.

-bullet sponge enemies even with AP rounds, endgame is basically almost everyone running around in Exos

>Should have focused more on vertical gear progression than horizontal. AR416 becomes unusable in midgame+

-no wall of text lore/story dumps from Stalkers when you ask whats going on in the zone. Those stories drove the point home that the zone is some eldritch and mystical place. Now its not even worth talking to Stalkers anymore.

>>530076797
Garbage in Goldsphere filtered me. The atmosphere was great, but those ridiculous pixel perfect jumps that are required of you at times (fuck that stash on the crane) has just killed my motivation.

(the other not being able to figure out how that teleport anomaly with the orb works)

>>530077779
it has terminal consolitis

>>530071330
They're coming

>>530071330
The game has more important issues that require fixing than fucking guns.

I hope somone will sit down and redesign the entire zone vegetation-wise.

uwutech

lol

>>530071330
Don't forget the reshades, never forget the reshades.

>>530074605
>why does the fucking player
as a trade off you don't get the stagger animation that keeps you locked into place for 3 seconds, but all the NPCs do

Mutants are just too goddamned tanky in Stalker 2 man

Just got anomally what the fuck man... i need a file? How does repairing work? I dont wanna watch some fag youtuber is there a game faq qrd style tips kinda thing or do i have to actually read all this shit?
Surprised there isint differnt screwdrivers like robertson and flat head with how ffull of extra crap this shit is. Im liking the guns so far tho i got a kar98k with a scope and im just fucking around in yantar (hate this shithole)

>>530095336
>... i need a file?
You'll be needing a lot more, usually a combination of 3-4 distinct items to repair a part of a gun >:O I actually enjoy autistic item bloat repair in games and even I am annoyed how Anomeme ruins it by making it a complete mess, when you're at a work bench what a player would want is a complete overview of: What can I do, what do I have already, what do I need. But of course, no, you have to go to back and forth between your inventory and the work bench interface to get the full picture. Total pain in the ass. Haven't played it in a long time but still might be able to help. What do you want to repair? Yes, we're going to have to be specific so I can help you, it is that kind of game.

bit immersion breaking that you'll go to a location that's empty, then suddenly when the story requires it, it's the hideout of some mob boss or whatever

in fact, acceleration of technology implementation in modding this year is primarily due to usage of chatgpt and other programming models by modmakers.
without it there would be no sss, ixray and aoe
thanks to it, GI will be implemented soon and the graphics on xray will be no worse than in s2

>>529995594
honestly the floating glass anomalies that get almost entirely eaten from the image by the unreal engine smear give me this feeling
you'll be walking along when suddenly you lose half your health and start bleeding, you look around and see the air full of shit that definitely wasn't there before

fucking paranoia inducing

is it autistic if I reload an earlier save and avoid going to that location before the quest pops just to conserve my immersion more?

>>530109938
Yes if there's loot there that will be despawned because of a story/side quest.

>>530110417
that sucks

wasn't the whole point of a-life to prevent shit like this? so characters don't just appear out of thin air or teleport around

>>530110608
Part of a-life was teleporting people around behind your back and placing them near the entrance of a playable zone to simulate their movement around the Zone.

>have spent hundreds of hours playing anomeme
>just discovered the V button
>was switching scopes like a retard all this time

>>530077779
the whole ‘AAA’ mentality of needing every piece of dialogue to be voiced ruined speaking to random stalkers.

>>530126687
>early games have minimal voice acting to save budget while keeping a functional dialogue system
>S2 has minimal voice acting and barely any text because "lol it's a trend now"
and I thought fallout 4 was bad

>>530126687
>>530130076
I usually just hate when there is no consistency to what is voiced and what isn't
if everything is text that's okay
if everything is voiced that's great
if this guy has a voice and this guy speaks in text with absolutely no rhyme or reason other than that was one of the lines we could fit in the budget that is just awful

OG world of warcraft got it right, all the quips, barks, and emotes had voicelines, everything else was text, it gave it consistency as to what was voiced and what was not

toilet humor

>>530131861
RPGs sometimes have this thing where the first line of text at the start of dialogue is voiced to give a sample of what this character sounds like or what mood they're in
I think that would work for randoms just fine

>>530133596
i remember those from JRPGs, it really works well i think.

>>530132915
zoomie's art

>>530110608
A-life has nothing to do with whether or not quest-related objects are present at a specific time.

>>530130076
Dialog being voiced isn't why the rumors aren't the same 3 paragraphs on repeat.

here we go again

>he doesn't play the games
lmfao

we don't play games here at /vg/

have there been any attempts to miserify S2 yet?

>>530143428
yeah, at least 4 mods i can think of

>>530143519
and how much do they change?

>>530144410
zivaka's modpack is probably the most cooked mod so far so i'll talk about it in particular

it has everything you would expect, like 200+ new items added to the game, loads of medicine with different effects, extra equipment like backpacks, repair tools and just junk for example. freeplay is included but optional i think, but it works almost like CoC except there is no in-game menu for choosing your faction and initial loadout etc. all of it has to be done outside of the game by dragging in specific files from the mod.

crafting has been added, but because it was made before the ue5 modkit was available, the user interface is severely undercooked. basically when you interact with a work bench, it simply opens up an empty 'stash' window, and in that window you chuck in the item recipe, and the ingredients, and after a few seconds the items will disappear and your crafted product will appear. same goes for cooking, you can cook at campfires and even burn your mutant meat if you leave it in the fire for too long. disassembly of junk items is also a thing, and you just have to put the junk in the workbench window along with a tool like swiss army knife. field repair kits are just consumables that repair whatever weapon or armor you have equipped.

as i mentioned before there are backpacks, and again because the UI is undercooked, when you equip a backpack it simply disappears into an invisible slot. but as expected it increases carry capacity, plus there are new mini pouches that you can attach to your belt for added carry weight. you can also attach mutant hides and armor plates to the belt for extra effects.

>>530144410
>>530146087
there are also loads of other changes that basically include things that you can already imagine from playing misery/coc/anomaly... like artifact containers, night vision, faction patches, weapon attachments, more random quests and even restored cut side quests etc

gameplay rebalance and general fixes are also included, so stuff like attempts to make a-life better, rebalancing contents of stashes and world loot, rebalancing effects of artifacts, npcs using wider variety of equipment... you can read more about it in the modpack's document

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1Gr2a3d7tzt5AAG6EM6zthTmdNRe_lsKhAFL6Ez8rVvA/edit?tab=t.0

>>530146087
>>530146243
that sounds very cool but judging by the list of features also kinda buggy

>>530146087
post a screenshot my negr

>>530147765
i uninstalled it a while ago
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZsAiiMXGA_M
>>530147665
kinda buggy is about right
i'm waiting on things to get better with modkit

>>530147665
oh right and there aren't any new 3d models or animations for the added items, they just use placeholders like eating bread.

>>530149293
>they just use placeholders like eating bread
>hungry
>eat bread
>thirsty
>eat bread
>irradiated
>eat bread
>bleeding
>eat bread
>weapon jammed
>feed it bread

hleb

>>530149589
>drop mutant loot
>it's a sausage
>smoke cigarette
>it's bread again

Just bought Stalky 2 Electric Boogaloo

What mods/fixes should I grab for my first playthrough

>>530150057
the uninstall.exe fix

>>530150057
increased melee range because meleeing boxes are still fucked
no auto lean if you're on mouse and keybort because its fucking annoying
planks retexture if wheelchair gamer handholding pisses you off
classic flashlight/real flashlight if you think the game's flashlight is retardedly weak

>>530149589
It's just anomalous bread, it's capabilities are infinite

>>530150417
>no auto lean if you're on mouse and keybort because its fucking annoying
I see that this needs UE4SS to function. Does this still work with 1.5?

>>530155692
i've only tried 'no auto lean' from steam workshop in 1.5, but ue4ss works fine in 1.5

>Latest mod is a blind dog peeing mod

Its so fucking over

>>530170291
wait until they add balls and a raging erection to bloodsuckers
that's when stalker turns into a real "horror" game

>>530170291
This is only the beginning.

>>530170291
Can i drink their pee? This will help with thirst

>>530172498
yes we need a mod for collecting mutant pee now

>still no mod to add outhouse buildings and an AI routine for some npcs to get stuck in them instead of patrolling
>wipe out the whole camp
>this guy crawls out of the shitter and blasts you

>>530172831
My great uncle survived a shelling in WW2 because he was in the crapper, shit happens.

>>530172831
I hope modders will be able to add NPC routines like that to the game.

>Stalkers taking a leak.
>Stalkers making food at a campfire.
>Stalkers cleaning their weapons.
>Traders/Mechanics doing something when they are not trading with you

>the one time a woman is given a chance and not kicked out of the zone she starts plotting and causes a fight between two guys so she can take over

>>530159898
Oh nice, this version say it doesn't need anything else like UE4SS. I'll just use the Steam workshop version

>>530149589
kino food

>>530175938
she is bloodsucker food in some swamp now

>>530146087
This sounds really cool and I appreciate the modder's effort in making it and your posts describing it, but it all feels like it would be pointless without trilogy tier a life. The shitty system s2 uses is such a drag.

I am making a mod for Anomaly what are some new game starting locations you'd like?

>>530191963
generators

>blowout NOW stalker
>oh shit theres nothing around me
>run to a tiny fucking shelter I barely managed to find
>its PACKED but they are not friendly
closest call ever, Pripyat and the surround area gets crazy

>>530194008
is that the same basement in garbage?

>>530191963
the controller cave in zaton

>>530194412
it's just south of Pripyat

>>530194008
Those are all loners though. Why were stalkers hostile to you?

>>530195389
who knows, the zone works in mysterious ways, it might have something to do with the fact that I told spark leader to fuck off

have they fixed all the game breaking bugs yet?
i played for like 20-30 hours or so on release then stopped before risking breaking my game, is it safe to go back innazone?

>>530199395
mostly fixed but sometimes the game freezes at some particular areas and fills up all available ram, happens rarely now but it's still possible, btw I've played the game since 1.0 and my saves never got wrecked even though I've played through all versions

>Physical Protection: Maximum
>no indication of how high your current protection actually is
What the fuck does this even mean? I had two Compass artifacts and maxed out Diamond Exo Suit which also gives a full bar of physical protection yet Monolith/Granit could still drop me towards the the end fairly easy. I only noticed springboards doung barely any damage anymore however this doesnt explain why I still get significant gun damage when I have infinity+3 physical protection.

>>530199395
The only annoying bug I encountered was that the Shevchenko door didnt open. You have to parkour into it by jumping up the hull on its west side to enter from the top.

>>530192549
I was meant to start as a bandit with gear.

>>530191651
that's the whole problem with it. i stopped playing because it just felt wrong without A-Life.

>>530201549
Okay I did it.

>>530203914
bro where's your toz 66

kino

>>530204296
34 is the only toz option right now. I've cut down the base loadouts and then greatly expanded the pool but I don't want to flood it with too many weapons.

>>530205248
That reminds me of my run I did in CoC with STCoP. I kept the TOZ34 all game, then later supplemented it with a sawn-off TOZ34 as a secondary. It was surprisingly powerful.
Too bad all the new weapon mods nerf the TOZ to shit because they make the reload animation glacially slow and don't let you run while reloading.

clear sky was peak

Does stalker 2 have survival that isn't fake yet?

>>530205459
It's a good gun that deserves love.
>>530207453
The swamps are a great level for hunting mutants.

why does strelok become sonic

>>530208563
>survival
Like what? Gaymma?

>normally just use vanilla anomaly icons
>install maids
>jarring at first but get used to it
>except for the ammo
>for the most part have no fucking idea what ammo type something is by looking at the box now as literally every fucking box is different
>they couldn't have just followed a similar pattern to vanilla with a design and a discolored one for old ammo

Honestly this is making me want to remove it because its so annoying having to get used to a whole new set of icons for ammo.

>>530048938
Try slathering some of this on your trannycock, anon!

>>530210196
I use crepis icons, dei backpacks and new mutant icons

>>530209515
no, like Misery

so how's the stalker 2 patch

>>530200352
engame is all about armor pen for both you and enemies

>>530170291
That is unironically more interesting than everything in patch 1.5 honestly

>>530217963
Bloodsucker non-stop pissing while running around invisible when

>>530216290
it's ok, game will be really good in a few years

>>530225232
They missed a great opportunity to have one of these tornadoes spawn randomly across the map. Maybe have it block off entire hubs forcing you to go elsewhere until things settle down.

I hope modders get on this shit.

>>530228867
why the fuck would you want that

>>530229318
Because it's COOL.

>>530229382
it's annoying

>>530229536
Annoyances are fun especially when they look cool. That's why emissions are fun too.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cK9HtUB8Pv8&list=RDcK9HtUB8Pv8&start_radio=1

>>530071487
KEK

>>530071487
couldn't they split it up? the code must be megabytes at most, basic gameplay assets like weapons, items, enemies etc. a few gigabytes, most of it is likely going to be the map

it's utterly retarded to download 700GB of source assets for a giant map to mod a few weapons for example

700 gigs is also a not insignificant portion of your SSD's lifespan

Has anyone encountered any issues with their installation of Radiophobia 3 breaking after updating from patch 1.18 to 1.19? The crash I'm getting references a night vision item (device_nvg_bad) that has a broken name in my current save, but is otherwise functional.

Going off of the ModDB comments on the patch, it looks like many other people have general issues with the mode crashing on this new patch. Are the R3 devs just dogshit in general?

Pripyat is kino and I liked cleaning up city blocks from monolith. Too bad the game feels rushed at the end and only a few quests are there.

>>530235681
It's not the map that's the cause for the bloated download size. It's all the uncompressed 4K textures going for a 100MB plus the .wem sound files

>>530235681
Because that's how UE5 works. You load the entire game and work with it.

>>530228867
Nigga this aint fucking just cause 4

>>530235681
Shit spagetti slavjank coding + Cuckreal Engine 5 = Absolute fucking nightmare of an end result

>>530253075
could've been worse, it could've been made by bethesda

The depot remains nonsensical. This is all it is. The Clear Sky version of it, with friendly bandits standing around doing nothing.
>game crashes a bit later while using 48 GB of RAM

>>530235681
Because you don't know what you're talking about and shouldn't speak.

>>530253075
more meme words/10

>>530253164
At least then the dev kit wouldn't be 700 GB of nothing

>>530255331
what part of modifying the 500kb worth of code requires 700GB of map data?

kill yourself

>>530255331
no, he's right.
I have a 2tb disc next to me right now, its empty, I can pop that bitch in my pc and download the sdk on it, but I'm not going to.
why? its ridiculous, thats why.
I'd sooner not mod shit than deal with this dumb unoptimized brainless slop

you don't need all the level maps and texture resources to edit scripts, configs, weapon models, npc models and animations.
yeah you need some textures and particles for weapons, npcs, but level shit? no.

whats even funnier is you faggots defend that shit when all it would take is lazy ass GSC to put a fucking tic box to download level assets or not.

>>530258189
Exactly. You don't know what you're talking about.
>>530258637
Neither do you.
>you don't nee-
It's a full fledged development tool suite you fucking tool. Stop trying to treat it like all modding is is editing some text files.

>>530260357
a lot of modding is editing some text files
why should 700GB of map files be downloaded for that?

kill yourself shill

>>530260567
>editing some text files
X-Ray spoiled us.

>>530260567
Okay. Nobody needs your "precious" mods with config changes.

good talk lads

>>530261079
all software with data driven design for 35 years "spoiled" us

i am quite enjoying stalker 2
that is all
:)

>>530260357
wow.
I expected you to at least read what I wrote before making your stupid post, but you didn't even do that.

>It's a full fledged development tool suite you fucking tool.

thats cool, its a bloated to fuck seven hundred GIGAGBYE suite, with shit that is not needed for 90-95% of modders.

fucking retard.

uh why can't i skip the intro cutscene in stalker 2 anymore?

>>530266084
oh no...
another one lost to the zone...

>>530266084
Howdy ho!

>>530263052
>it's le bloated because hurr durr
You don't know what you're talking about and make it more and more obvious with every post.

>530268132
buy an ad

>>530265315
if you skip it how will you see the hard animation work they did?

>>530268132
lol sure I don't.
>NUH UH!!!
wow what an amazing counter point.

Im gonna try Stalker 2 again now that its apparentely less shit but im assuming that the economy is still absolutely fucked. First time I played I had so much loot that I just started selling all my medkits and shit.
Are there any good 1.5 mods that fix the broken loot economy yet

>>530266084
Never mind him, he's retarded.

>>530272995
try stalker unlimited or stalker infinity
the loot rebalance and economy rebalance is way better than vanilla
but beware of bleeding, it's severely over tuned those mods; if i remember correctly you can only fix heavy bleeding with torniquets

>>530272995
personally i just adjusted my playstyle to be more aggressive since you get 10000 medkits and i started having more fun

>>530194412
Why are they crawling

>>530274238
>give him an unloaded gun so he can play stalker with the boys

>Stalkypoo 2
On veteran, how do I keep my gats fed
>loot guns in not-red condition: 2-300 goyimcoins
>food, meds, bandages, alcohol: 1-20 funcoins
>armor: 1-2000 gamertokens, but rare to find in stashes

Meanwhile;
>30 rounds of 9mm: that'll be 300 please
>30 rounds of 5.45: 350 ))))
While bloodsuckers take between 40-80 rounds depending on how much of a bitch it is, packs of dogs everywhere, poltergeists that may as well not even take damage and the fucking flesh packs

>>530283712
i'm just playing on regular difficulty, i was hoping veteran would be like in the original where higher difficulty means everything (including you) dies in two shots but nope

>>530283712
it's stalker 2 so you're not really supposed to fight every mutant you come across because it's just a money sink, unless you have those malachite quests that pay out lots for mutant loot...

>he's using rifle rounds on mutants
lol
lmao

>>530283970
The Toz seemed like a trap. Two shots, lengthy reload, and after nailing a bloodsucker ten times I found magdumping my AK into it much more time efficient.

>>530283912
I'm literally just hitting marked caches and doing quests. Overworld mutants I mostly circumvent.

If you wanted to make the Bloodsucker (S2) even less fun to fight how would you change him? I think of a 10 second bloodsucking animation that locks you into place. so he would alternate between roar, knockdown and bloodsucking

>>530285774
i feel like knockdown and bloodsucking should be combined, surely he would press his advantage and suck you off if he has you on a ground
i dont really get why he just scratches you and runs away again

>>530283842
>like in the original where higher difficulty means everything (including you) dies in two shots but nope
Do people still believe this?
Difficulty in the original trilogy has no effect on enemy sponginess.

>>530283712
Armor pen. If you're not using an armor pen gun you're doing it wrong. The best gun in the game is the Rhino.

>>530286123
player weapon damage going down is the same thing as increasing enemy hp anon...

>>530283712
also, never buy ammo ever, just rotate guns to use ammo in your stash.

>>530286238
Yes, though it's only present in SoC.
And the anon I replied to implied the exact opposite, that enemies are less tough on higher difficulties, which isn't true.

my preferred roleplay, shotgun for monsters, rifles for humans

>>530286617
you said two conflicting things in your post so i got confused

>>530286676
I dot an idea for a mod. this soundtrack playing when fighting any mutants
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LDnENTDuAiI
the fights take so long that the song might even finish

>>530288663
what a game that was

Is there a mod to stop enemies from emergency jettisoning them out of the earth's gravity well upon death

>>530293557
they said it's being fixed in 1.5.1 so modders probably wont bother with it

>>530286123
according to this chart master is still the best way to play

So how do I get into the locked house to see that the brood bandits are dead (I mean, the house is full of corpse markers, so)? It's obvious I'm supposed to climb the ladder on the excavator, but it's not interactive

probably the best unique skin

>>530298679
The ladder is not claimable. As far as I remember, there should be a bunch of red containers near the excavator, you're supposed to get on top of them first, then jump onto the roof of the excavator.

>>530300735
>claimable
*climbable
It's not supposed to be interactive is what I meant.

>>530293557
I think it usually happens because the animation pose exceeds the limits of the ragdoll constraints, so when the model is instantly handed over to the physics engine in an "impossible" pose the physics engine freaks out with phantom forces and throws it out of orbit

fix would be to either reduce contraints of ragdoll, likely making them much too floppy, change all animations to respect ragdoll limits which is impractical to say the least, or come up with some sort of transition state which smoothly relaxes the pose from the animation before handing it over, which would add a delay to deaths

I think halo uses the latter approach but where the transition state is itself a reaction animation

>>530299562
>mini-elcan
BRUH

>>530299562
scopes on revolvers is the most retarded shit that simply refuses to die out

How is the dev kit? Are the ruskis doing anything good with it?

>>530303959
why is it retarded? if you wanna shoot a deer with a 44 magnum you kinda need a scope.

>>530304480
at the distance where you need a scope, you'll miss anyway

>>530303959
skill issue

>>530304471
They cannot install it. It's called dev kyit.

>>530303959
bite me

>>530304893
people are actively shooting deers at 100 yards out with 6" revolvers, and anyway, even at 50 yards having a scope is better than having none, especially you're trying to hit the animal in the neck or heart

>>530304893
It's not the 1800 anymore grandpa, Ironsights are obsolete. Every gun is improved by having a scope.

useful or not, it looks silly, that i can agree on

>>530305426
>sensible_chuckle.gif

>>530305664
it's the same vibe as hunting deer with a 10mm Glock with a scope mounted on it. if you hit anything, it's gonna be by pure luck. the sway alone will make any "aiming at the heart" absolute comedy

I love ironsights.

>>530306850
i promise you that you could hit a deer with this

I just like ironsights because I don't think scopes look cool

>Get ambushed by Varan
>12+ Burer spawn making a conga line traveling through the factory
Whats up with that, is it referencing something? That situation felt like something out of OP 2.2.

>>530308056
anyone doing it does it for the memes

>>530308996
new a-life bro, you just got lucky

>>530309408
Its scripted and only happens when I search Nestor and the other Stalker. I imagined it was just a goofy way to take of pressure from you snd giving you a chance to escape without fighting 80 people.

>>530309731
no, the door to your right leads to an underground canal where you can escape without fighting, the burers were random and only happened to you

I am a sniper without a scope.

what's the point of a-life if stalker's aren't shitposting on public PDA channels

>>530310191
Lmao ok.

>>530310221
That shitposting made life in the zone a bit less lonely. I hope it will return.

at this point it's like a museum time capsule, this soviet architecture will never exist anymore

>>530310221
It's crazy that they didn't expand on the PDA at all, it was just a straight downgrade. There is no better time like the present for stalkers to be rambling, creating tier-lists and shit talking each other over Zonebook but they did nothing with it.

>>530310221
stalkers using pda comms as fucking twitter is a retarded concept anyway
>oh damn i just saw a dude shooting at a dog, such an unique and important event, i better inform the entire zone about it!
>holy fuck a bunch of boars! a bunch of boars people, i just saw a bunch of boars in zaton!
>i killed a guy and he had an old ak with him, must let everyone know about that
>i just found this super rare artifact, i'm all alone and out of ammo btw, here are my coordinates:

if there would be a faction war system, then it's a different story.

>>530313789
very true

>>530313789
Only the artifact is a legit point.

Mutants are serious business and can fuck your shit up even if it doesnt translate to how easy to kill they are ingame.

>>530313789
>>i just found this super rare artifact, i'm all alone and out of ammo btw, here are my coordinates:
>go there
>it's a bandit ambush

>>530313789
Bad take people post stuff like that on twitter all the time:
>https://x.com/AMAZlNGNATURE/status/1855145547566338247

>>530313789
I love it. It helps sell the idea that there are people roaming around. People also do post about the most mundane shit on social media, if someone finds a bag filled with cans of beans out in the streets they'll immediately post about it on twitter.

Those PDA comms was a gimmick that turned out to be deathly prophetic. Gimmicks are fun. I swear all the no fun allowed contrarians want to strip these games to their bare minimum of shooting at textureless polygons if they could.

>>530314923
yes, people for whom social media is the basis of interaction with others. i wouldn't expect such behavior from a bunch of armed, drunken slavs in an exclusion zone.

>>530315643
It would be exactly like the content of this thread look at all the mundane shit people post that they've seen in the zone here.

Am I crazy or do stashes give markedly less shit if you find one randomly without the marker beforehand

>>530316259
i'm pretty sure that's how it works

>>530313789
don't gang members irl literally tweet about their cultured activities

>>530313789
criminals have low IQ
what kind of people go to the zone?
desperate people
people who want an excuse to murder
opportunists
people who have given up on life and wish to die, but don't have the courage to kill themselves
people seeking purpose or death

they are not smart, well adjusted people
they are gonna be a bunch of dumb motherfuckers who have nothing better to do than tweet about what happened to them that day

I wish I could tell companions that their gun is trash and that they need to kys

>>530313789
it makes no sense that everyone magically has a PDA to operate in the zone
duty, freedom, loners, sure, they'd need to jury rig their own system and economy so they can function
bandits, why would they have a PDA, same with mercs, military and scientists would have their own channels or some shit
i know there's lore about the zone fucking with things when they enter it, like you bring radios from outside of the zone they fuck up, but radios constructed inside the zone are fine, but i mean, shit
you'd think bandits would turn their PDA off so you couldn't detect them nearby, as part of an ambush thing
in fact it should be written into the lore, reputation wise, someone without a PDA or someone with a PDA switched off would be highly suspicious to everyone, almost shoot on sight to be safe tier
having a message system in place makes sense, but it should only be rookies who use it like fucking twitter
"i just saw a tushanko! my god! what a horrible beast!" - rookie stalker asholov artyom
"fuck you rookie, i've just killed four pseudogiants, come to pripyat and find out" - master stalker blyat swat officer smoker
>>530312683
wish they did some nemesis type system, always thought the ranking system was pretty unique, every single stalker with a name, rank, experience rating, and score within the zone, plus faction
adding a search option and paying some unscrupulous npc a sum of money to hack and track a specific stalkers PDA so you can hunt them down for assassinations or shit like that would have been a really nice, immersive touch
link messages with world events, so when a rookie picks up an artifact, they say
"hey, in [location] i found an [artifact], now i've really made it!"
trader npc "i'll buy it from you for [ru], come here boy"
"on the way!"
and you could actually take note of the name, pay the guy to track them and then possibly intercept and kill / buy their shit

>>530317687
damn is that a baby chimera? how cute.

>>530317680
>they are gonna be a bunch of dumb motherfuckers who have nothing better to do than tweet about what happened to them that day
can you really picture a bunch of stereotypical gopniks, squatting, chewing semechki and all that stuff, tweeting about random shit they see? what cars passed them by, what women they catcalled, that a pigeon almost shat on them? i can't, but i can imagine what the other anon >>530317243 mentioned. because that's a niggeresque behavior. slavs, on the other hand, don't have that mentality. they would prefer to idly chainsmoke for hours instead of letting complete strangers know what adventures they had today, because they don't care about other people's lives, so why would they care about theirs?

>>530319169
I think the S2 chimeras that turn into torpedoes while jumping are cuter

>>530319653
don't slavs post videos online where they go cyka bylat while cars are crashing into each other on the highway

when there is social media, people will use it.
messages like "i hear gun shots in such and such location, advice caution" to "holy crap i found ___ artifact" are not unrealistic at all

the most iconic ferris wheel in the world

>>530323053
50 000 people used to ride this wheel

>>530323053

CYKA FUCKING BLYAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAT
You lead the mercenaries back to your PDA?
By the Wish Granter, you have rubles there!

>>530323053
that's not the london eye

I think it's worth to remember that PDAs in the original games never offered any communication network that could be compared to social media, and I don't mean just gameplay-wise, but lore-wise. PDA comms were used like walkie-talkie radios, stalkers only used them in close proximity when they called for help or wanted someone's attention. Sid even explains in the "treat me like a rookie" tutorial that our PDA model has a radio-wave scanner with 400 m radius. They were never supposed to offer some kind of Zone-twitter where one could shitpost, they were just fancy walkie-talkies.

>>530324990
original game takes place in what 2006 or something, or a few years after?
even in 2012 with cop it's not unthinkable that they would be stuck with outdated tech

but stalker 2 they should have smartphones really, probably heavily modded for opsec but still

>>530324945
no one cares about that boring shit, maybe when they close down London for being an officially unlivable shithole, its status can be elevated

>>530324990
>400 m radius
but that's bullshit because sidorovich communicates with strelok over many kms away during the story
there's no way agroprom is 400m away

>>530315067
Every gun also needs to be accurate according to /k/ standards and the fact that you don't need to shit and piss in Anomaly means it's casual garbage.

>>530325697
millions of tourists visit it every month

>>530319653
>trashy slavs that would be involved in gangs don't have a niggeresque mentality
oh my sweet summer child

>>530325705
sidorovich got the good shit, if you asking what it is he will kill you

>>530326087
this is why i throw a grenade at him every time i go through that portal

>>530325849
and I said iconic, not profitable and normie approved, you are in the zone rookie

>>530326397
london eye iconic because it's interesting
pripyat ferris wheel, tiny and doesn't even have a name, was just some slavs attempt at making a quick buck, is also the only interesting thing in an otherwise bland soviet shithole
iconic and sad
like the weird kid who died and everyone suddenly pretends he was their best friend

>>530324990
https://samsung.fandom.com/wiki/Samsung_SPH-i700
this shit is capable of 2G and got GPS

>>530325223
SoC takes place in 2012 as well. Considering it was in development since 2002, GSC was actually making assumptions about what things would be used in the future, that's why exoskeletons and other fancy suits are a common thing. Stalker is a game that was supposed to take place in the near future, yet some of its in-game features were barely contemporary or even outdated on the day of its release, like the PDAs. But due to that, they have become an established part of its unique aesthetic. So even if smartphones would make more sense from a real-life perspective, they cannot replace PDAs because they have become one of the recognizable features of the in-game world. Come to think of it, Stalker 2 should be far more sci-fi, since 10 years have passed between the events of the trilogy. There should be completely new suits and devices. Instead we have modernized versions of the old ones. That's why I think it was a mistake to set Stalker 2 in contemporary times, it should either take place in the past, like 3-5 years after the trilogy, or in 2030s, and stalkers should look like in the picrel.

>>530326737
>samsung.fandom
lmao

>>530325705
He actually explains that - his radio has a 30 km radius. https://voca.ro/1eei62G3LouY

>>530326607
> just some slavs attempt at making a quick buck
you have no idea what you are talking about

>>530325903
niggeresque mentality that would enter the online zone - no, i don't think they have it.

>>530326992
PDAs are a lot more robust and make more sense than shitty modern smartphones which you can't even use if you get them wet.

>>530326992
In the 2030's we could have grown mutant children of long time stalkers, like Monkey in RP.

>>530327457
what the fuck do you think a fair is, anon
its more merchants setting up some otherwise shitty rides to get money out of kids forcing their parents to take them to the fair
that's all it was
don't try to glorify it because the chernobyl disaster happened shortly after they set it up
the fact it became some "iconic" thing is hilarious

>>530327369
i can't fucking believe i'm listening to a SIDOROVICH VOCARO but here i am

>>530331398
kek, unfortunately i can't use catbox at the moment and vocaroo was the first site that came to my mind to upload a sound file

Hello Scavenger Trespasser Adventurer Loner Killer Explorer Robbers

>>530333335
You almost got insane gets.

>>530336436
Hello Stationary Tactical Annihilator of Liberty with Kaymanov Emitter Rangers

why the fuck is this guy's name "beanpolev' lol

>>530338346
Because he's as thin as a bean pole, you cuck ass nigga

is it worth reinstalling stalker 2 for the mosin? played through it the first mothe when the game was a buggy pos.
is it still a buggy pos?
is the mosin endgame viable or is it powercrept like the ak basically is the shit weapon scaling still all fucked up or did they fix it?

>>530339647
game breaking bugs are gone
mosin can one shot headshot exos
but weapon scaling is still powercreepy in general

>>530340758
>powercreepy
heh

>Verification is not needed

>>530336436
no dubs allowed anymore, technically post counter is wildly inaccurate since every 10th post is skipped for many years

only 0000 gets are possible now

the vibes are pretty good sometimes

>>530347213
Lolwut, when did that happen?

>>530348449
sometime around when half of /v/ was nothing but dubs threads

Don't move

>>530350273
oh no you found a rare mutant
eight legs... two fangs... multiple eyes...
the zone creates such horrid creatures........

the 100m range is a wee bit short
you retreat a bit to take cover and they already despawn

>>530299562
Is there a way to still get those without the editions shit?

finally finished s2, definitely feels rushed and railroaded at the end, the worst part is that you can't just go back to comfy exploration, it just ends

>>530310221
>>530324990
What mod was it that added that stuff?

>>530351852
literally every stalker game except call of pripyat does this

>>530048938
Try some of this for your trannycock problem, anon!

>>530351852
how the fuck would you go back after any of the endings lmao

>>530149589
It's no coincidence the whole of civilization has been built because and for bread, and Christ himself picked bread as the representation of his own body.
Bread is the food of the gods.

>>530356002
interesting, I started baking my own bread and it is oddly satisfying

>It's no coincidence the whole of civilization has been built because and for bread, and Christ himself picked bread as the representation of his own body.
Bread is the food of the gods.

>>530356701
The holy trinity of home making, bread, beer and cheese. Start making these, and you will transcend.

>>530356832
He doesn't look like that.

>>530356832
we get it ur gay

>>530364486
who is that supposed to be anyway?

captcha:
>00PS

>>530356832
bread is the ideal breeding ground for fungus
our entire civilization exists to create food for spores

>>530360706
this is pretty much my main diet, although cheese and beer making is kinda high maintenance

Does Skif have a model? Is there a mod so you can see him ragdoll instead of the first-person death animations? I also wish we could go back to there being a big text box when talking to npcs, having like five different things you can ask them and getting a bunch of flavor or lore text dumps with variations depending on the faction of the npc you're talking to.

>>530375612
anything natural and good for you eventually becomes food for fungi, the trick is to eat it before them

>>530376537
>does Skif have a model
you tell me

>>530356832
>>530375612
>>530376483
Wonder how this would go with some bread?

>>530376884
>verification not needed

>>530376875
I meant is there one used in-game for the player, or is it just a pair of floating arms.

>>530377205
I'm not sure I'm following, anon.

>>530377205
there's something, if I can judge by his shadow

there usually is a separate model for the first person arms and the external character
because seeing the inside of your own face looks bad

I feel like the loot rarity in stalker 2 is about just right except for the stupid half life 2 supply boxes scattered everywhere

>>530376884
Can someone please explain this to me? I don't get what this guy means when he posts this shit.

>>530381273
what is to explain?
meds were not taken

>>530384352
What does this have to do with barbecue sauce?

>>530384830
nothing
do not try to understand damaged minds

>>530381273
some retarded faggot
report and move on

How do I go about modding the trilogy? Any modders mind pointing me in the right direction? I want to add new quests and maps to my game. Much thanks

>>530390154
lol
here
https://igigog.github.io/anomaly-modding-book/

Has anyone suddenly dashed forward at mach speed when holding forward after climbing a ladder?

>>530390154
This might help with the basics.
https://sdk.stalker-game.com/en/index.php?title=S.T.A.L.K.E.R._MOD_portal
Bear in mind, the English version of the site is missing a few articles, so might consider switching to the russian version and use a translator.

>>530376537
>>530376875
in first person view, his model has no head (even though his shadow has)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nv1Nz-T48As

>>530392989
NTA
So is their Monolith engine the best choice as base for a mod?

>>530396582
to make a mod from scratch? probably.
lots of versatility and some engine exports you may or may not want to utilize.

if you want to add on to vanilla's storyline, probably not.
I was under the long past impression that anomaly and coc could not work with the vanilla games anymore due to changes in the engine, marshal library, scripts, etc etc

there are offshoots of open x-ray 16 that swear they can play CoC, but I dont see how that possible without also changing CoC's scripts too
CoC/Anomaly are very heavily edited mods

I consider this a very vague answer because the question is rather complex and intricate.
lots of variables

>>530396582
nta but it really depends what kind of mod you're aiming to make and afaik there's not a single "global" mod in the slav sphere that uses monolith engine as a base for anything other than a bloated anomaly modpack. if you're modding the trilogy it's usually ixray, openxray, advanced xray, or ogsr from what i saw. but anomaly is the most documented in english.

>>530376537
skifbros...

>>530402042
>coc
ha

>>530390154
nice bazoongas

>>530396130
jesus christ how horrifying

>>530376884
you tell us, anon

>>530380754
I disagree. Theres to much healing items.

By the end of the game I had like 200 bandages and like 100 Medkits at which point I stopped looting them. Endgame enemies have like 2-3 Medkits on them on Stalker difficulty. BandGes would be okay if they onpy stopped bleeding but they are basically just shittier Medkits.

>>530406297
in general i agree but i did go through 40 of the high tier heals in the ending sequence because it's so fucking long. and on some one endings you have more fights than others

Slav june mod top

>>530407041
SFZ: Episode Zero is a fun short mod, but why do they fellate it so much?
It's not even as good as SFZ: Lost Story.

>>530407041
OLR bros...

>>530407175
Probably because the presentation is good and it's polished. Compared to whatever soup mods russki factory workers are playing these days it's really impressive.

>>530407650
>Probably because the presentation is good and it's polished.
Did we play the same mod? It's babby's first donut steel fanfic complete with overreliance on shitty songs to build atmosphere like a 2012 AMV.

Great, I can't loot it now

>>530407402
hi_flyer will return inshallah

>>530353176
AMK was the og one.

good day /sg/

>>530407750
>It's babby's first donut steel fanfic
That's about 90% of stalkan story mods tho. The music choices were bizarre, I agree, but overall production value was pretty decent. The cutscenes and set pieces were cool and pretty elaborate, especially for x-ray. Also the fact that it's short helps boost the score too since more people can fully complete it and drop a review, so there's that.

>>530403876

>>530390154
>new quests and maps
I really don't want to demotivate you, since I'd really like to see more people (other than the russkis) make quests and maps, but you have to be a tough guy to do that. I hope that you really mean it. Editing some ltx files and some configs for balance and shit ain't that hard, but creating real story quests and more will require you to do some scripting and map making right now requires you to know how to model shit. The anomaly modding book and the mod portal cover most of the basics. Most of the knowledge is sadly stuck in the russkiverse, so translating AP-Pro forum posts is probably needed. For map making there are some newer tutorials by a guy called Infernis, but it's also only in Russian/Ukrainian.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SpQbhIPNKTM

Consider making a very small quest or a very small map with a quest to get into the workflow

>>530396582
you might get an easier time with it, since it has a lot of (engine) functions exported into scripts, as >>530402042 said, but its quite hacky and vasyan like. Anomaly also doesn't have a real SDK with sources. You have to put it together yourself.
Maybe try modding vanilla CoP with the IX-Ray engine, since it has its own better SDK. Alternatively, try CoC 1.4.22/1.5 or IWP, since the SDK sources are available for those and you could try to work with them in the IX-Ray SDK

>>530409572
>but its quite hacky and vasyan like.

you know its a fork of the CoC fork right?
what exactly is "hacky and vasyan like" about it?

I enjoy Gamma
At least with economy on tourist and with free fast travel. I even like scrounging for armour and weapon parts. Making a comfy base and getting better gear is fun. The 3DSS scopes are cool too.
Does anyone actually enjoy stalker 2?

>>530411458
yeah i play it with economy on tourist too. stalker 2 was fine for main story but as expected there's not much else.

How do I get to Wild Island

>go from Garbage
>it's a dog/bandit infested wood followed by bloodsuckers followed by a minefield followed by a locked door and a very confused Monolithian outside
>go from the south
>Irradiated river/drowning hazard and there were bandits fucking everywhere where are they coming from

If I go from the east will I get hit by a bandit airstrike

>>530414645
Story takes you there after Garbage

>>530415485
Dang.

>talk to Strider
>can either lie to him or tell him the truth
>both options suck
Damn, despite not knowing for that long it was the only kinda emotional moment.

>>530416602
chose to lie to him so it can rest peacefully. but his face kinda showed
>that's bullshit but I'll pretend to believe it
strider got shafted the hardest in S2

>>530407041
Maybe this'll make STRIFER get up off his ass and add the boat gun and G36 to Gunslinger already.

>>530417557
>G36
I hate this gun so god damn much. Ugly piece of shit.

I wish we had gotten something else, the HK416 and MP4 was enough as a german representation.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ygXr8WCZftI
kek, those idiots managed to break clear sky even more with enhanced edition patches. it's impressive in a way.

so in stalker 2 if you get a pseudogiant killed in a vortex anomaly, it blows up the pseudogiant but also spits out a stalker backpack with mutant loot inside

My dad started playing Stalker COP on a previous Windows 7 PC with the complete mod. Now that he's gotten to Pripyat/end of juptier whenever you click on the save file the game crashes
Ideas? I changed the localization file to a russian one, maybe it has something to do with it but I doubt it

>>530386407
but have you tried the sauce yet, anon?

>>530424000
> complete mod
That's your issue, CoP is perfectly playable without any mods. Is there a crash log?

>>530424000
>with the complete mod
the game has rebelled, and rightly so.

can older saves be loaded? i once had a similar situation in modded clear sky where my last few saves got corrupted and the game crashed when i tried to load them, so i loaded an older save, played through to the point where the crashes started occurring, and made a new save - this time it worked. so maybe he will just need to replay a part of the game again.

Literally no one reads these threads.

All "real" stalker players have untreatable cancer, also psychotic episodes that's atrritubed to on sight hostilities.

this
ukraine isn't real
russian empire didn't collapse
usa is still a british colony
germany is still split into multiple states

ugh... what should have been...

chernobyl never disastered..l

noosphere... hvme...

>>530429423
It would be cool to have a mod based on Roadside Picnic where the Zones were caused by aliens and there are like half a dozen around the world.

>>530426239
truthnuke!

>>530406297
there's too much healing items because of the breakable boxes
if you take out those medkits from the equation then it seems about right

>>530414645
cordon is completely bandit infested for some reason, south is probably the easiest way in, but the story takes you through the woods and you probably made it a lot easier by killing those bloodsuckers early lol

>>530407041
>too high
>okay
>shit
>shit
>too low
>should be 1st
>eh
>eh
>it's a weapon pack, why is it even here
>eh
>too low
>shit
>too fucking low
>eh
jesus christ, plotfags literally have no taste

>>530407402
OL > OLR

>>530414645
>Minefield
There are two grenades near the beginning, just hug the water on the right and you wi avoid it.
I guess you can only enter after talking to Scar, after dealing with bandits in the slag heap.