Hail the Monolith edition.

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

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

Common misconceptions about Shadow of Chernobyl game mechanics:
https://www.metacognix.com/stlkrsoc/WhatYouKnowThatAintSo.html

Running S.T.A.L.K.E.R. on Linux:
docs.google.com/document/d/11HcSFSyb0DX3ymModXZ9tNdpTuktTioC

>BugTrap, crash to desktop, freeze/lockup? Find your crash log, stalker.
Check your Documents or game install directories for the xray_[your name].log file. If you can't find it, look in the location specified at the top of fsgame.ltx. Copy the last few lines from the log and paste them here if you want any help.

S.T.A.L.K.E.R Trilogy new & popular mods:
>IWP Standalone
https://www.moddb.com/mods/stalker-improved-weapon-pack
Recommended addons: CotZ, Absolute Nature, Structures Redux

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

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

S.T.A.L.K.E.R. 2 mods and tools:
>nexus
https://www.nexusmods.com/games/stalker2heartofchornobyl

>Mod recommendations + config (less stutter, more fps, NO compiling + full Mouse fix)
https://pastebin.com/Ma6W4BcM

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

Lost to the Zone >>532207185

fuck monolith and fuck niggers

>>533035059
Sorry, I can't hear you over the glory of the Monolith.

Are you fucking kidding?

Strifer you better get your ass into modding STALKER 2 instead of slopslingger. Time to give it a rest, it's been a decade. There are literally no animators working on S2 right now, this is your chance to make it big.

>download gamma
>bunch of guns
>90% are fucked
impressive

good day /sg/

>>533036868
Should have gone through Darkscape)))))))))))))))))))))))

I'm so fucking tired of seeing garbage and cordon for the millionth time

>>533040053
Best I can do is seeing Zaton for the 6 millionth time.

>>533040053
Have you played Wind of Tiem?

>>533040151
Is it really that hard to make custom levels in xray?

>>533040328
Judging by how many of them have been made? No.
Judging by how many of them were good? Yes.

>>533040316
It has many good custom levels?

>>533041218
No, but you start off in Red Forest.

free play for shitalker 2 when

Gamma is actually fun

>>533037251
you should see what those IX-Ray niggas are cooking. X-Ray modding will stay strong

>>533046506
what are they cooking

>>533048126
Chimera meat stewed in vodka.

>>532968770 #
>A.S.G.E.I.W.F.I.W.P.E.P.
funny.
will it work wirh IWP stamdalone with no other addons? Or are other addons required?

>>533036868
top kek

>>533038540
fucked how?

>>533038540
Impressive how much you somehow managed to fuck up a 95% automatic install and setup process.

>Storm the Front task in Gamma
>Points me to someplace in army warehouse
>There's nothing there to kill or talk to

what am i missing

>>533046236
After years of hating Memery and Analmeme I'm finally understanding the appeal playing Gamma a little bit. the less shit UI that actually explain what bloat item does fucking what helps a lot. It was still a pain to get it going through, the amount of mod options is fucking retarded and holy shit the keybinding for every little thing is autistic af.

>>533038540
I only found a few fucked scopes

>>533061670
Faked survival.

>>533061857
Anomaly with the Old World Gunslinger mod was my favorite iteration of it.

>>533062462
I heard about it but I went with IWP instead. That was good

>>533058385
I'm building it on IWP with COTZ. I haven't fully checked if there are any hard requirements for COTZ, though. Off the top of my head I know that stalker loadout profiles are added by COTZ (and these have been changed to include the new guns), but as I said, still need to check that they are a hard requirement. Once I get the texture work wrapped up I'm going to double check all the configs and figure it out. If needs be I'll include a vanilla only set of configs, though why anyone would play without COTZ is beyond me.

In short, COTZ will be recommended but not necessary. No other requirements.

>>533063889
its cool if there are, i was just curious. Thanks anon

why is my iwp in russian

>>533067553
eng translation is enabled thru jsgme

>>533067553
You have to enable english in game as well.

>>533067843
>>533068178
alright. so to install extra addons do I just copy/paste into jsgme_mods folder? I can't seem to install some through mo2. maybe it is because the format is .7z

>>533068956
I didn't use MO2 so can't really help there. I just placed every addon as a folder in the jsgme folder then use the JSGME program to "add" every mod. Use the arrow to the right to install a folder on your left from the list.

I really dislike how having a single shitty anti-rad artefact like a jellyfish makes alcohol completely pointless in IWP

>>533073261
its like that in every stalker game, even vanilla
still comes in handy if you dont have the art or no anti-rad and just want to lower the rads faster than the art can alone

I'm tired of stalker. I want something new

>>532547595
Now that the dust has settled, what was this anon so assblasted about anyway?

>>533086525
try stalker 2

>>533087301
his computer sucks

>>533087301
who cares why that jeet is shilling, its a fuckin jeet

>>533061453
>Impressive how much you somehow managed to fuck up a 95% automatic install and setup process.
the frog himself admitted that the downloader doesn't properly download files sometimes back when the modpack was new
>>533068956
you have to create a folder titled [MOD NAME] and copy the gamedata folder inside

>>533088196
I want a "life in the zone" type of game. no attachment to the story.

>>533034805 (OP)
What are the best Vanilla++ mods for Shadow of Chernobyl? Are OSGE and OSGR good?

>>533105389
*OGSE and OGSR

im getting filtered really hard by lost alpha desu theres like this bullshit unfair element to the whole mod, your guns are like fucking useless lmao i just want to finish it but its taking forever because of all this stupid ass unbalanced bullshit with the guns, running slower than all the mutants and shit. I think I'm just going to go back to OLR for a while, it feels so balanced and pleasant to play through. am I just retarded?

>>533104739
isn't that what freeplay is for

>>533104739
Chernobylite has some base-building and is also set in Chernobyl, but the gameplay is sorra meh.

GSH-18

>>533105519
OGSR is pretty good

>>533105389
OGSR, Shadows Addon, Radiophobia 3

Anyone else played the board game?

Played a Zone Survival game solo in preparation for starting a campaign with some friends. Feels like they managed to capture the feel of the games pretty well.

>>533108003
which version of lost alpha are you playing? i'm playing dc right now and don't have any issues with weapons, they work rather well.

strelok is such an anxious sad boi all the time

>>533129090
hes been brain damaged ok

the trilogy crawled so that gamma could run

>>533109827
sorta. freeplay simply gives a glimpse on what a game focused on it could be.

>>533137660
you've piqued my interest, what exactly are you looking for from the "life in the zone" premise? freeplay already covers all the basics except for scripted quests maybe, how would you even elaborate on it?

What's the deal with anonmeme/gamma's rf radio thing? I got a very ominous message from none other than Anonymous himself who told me I should use it or else. Pretty spooky

>>533139380
Sorta like that little game Zero Sievert, in a way.

Core Gameplay Loop:
Start as a Newbie with limited access to the zone.

Gear Up & Rank Up – Complete missions, gather artifacts, trade, and improve reputation with factions.

Unlock Helicopter Drop Pick Up and Drop Off – Higher rank grants access to fast travel into deeper zones (but not out).

Push Deeper – Explore more dangerous areas with rarer artifacts and stronger mutants (bounty hunt) but harsher survival mechanics.

Struggle to Return – The deeper you go, the harder it is to come back, must trek back to an intermediate heli zone. Longer stay in the zone, stats and gear management.

Key Mechanics & Features:
1. Zone-Based Progression (Gated by Equipment & Reputation)
-Outer Zones (Safe-ish)
-Mid-Zones (Moderate Danger)
Helicopter access into these zones but return only from certain points like outposts.
-Inner Zones (Deadly)
No helicopter access—must trek back to mid-zone.

The deeper you go, harder it is to find shelter from emissions;
Different tasks like anomaly studies, artifact gathering and bounty hunt (human and mutant).
Not open world.

Just a basic story to tie things together. Game is focused on how long you can survive in the zone.

>>533093583
>being so desperate to blame everyone but yourself that you claim people with computers that aren't shit are indian
Amazing how reddit-racists always wind up making statements that paint their targets as superior to themselves. Sorry the imaginary pajeet shitting in your head rent free has a higher income and better computer than you. Maybe get a job? I'm sure even pushing a mop will eventually net you a machine that won't shit itself on games released after 2013.

Bought stalker 2 on relas, but it ran like absolute dogshit so I had to refund it. Is it any better now?

>>533149556
no

wow nice shit fucking thread, this is great

Are there any winter mods that aren't just a retexture?

>>533155523
sfz lost story
it even has a janky warmth mechanic

>>533152473
Blame jobless schizophrenics who refuse to admit they're just on poor hardware.

>>533156252
Literally what the fuck are you even talking about?

>>533155897
>sfz lost story
I'll check it out. Thanks anon.

Hello /sg/

>>533161986
Hello anon.

>>533149556
A little bit but if you're waiting for the game to give you 20+ extra fps, it's not gonna happen.

>>533141495
i only used it for missing squad quests and it was bugged to shit, so i didn't bother after. apparently there are some secret meme frequencies that let you locate specific things.

>>533161986
g'day

Been playing SOCGA, and I just reached army warehouses. Is there any benefit to siding with one faction over the other, considering it will lock me out of modding either the NATO or Warsaw Pact weapons?

>Amazing how reddit-racists always wind up making statements that paint their targets as superior to themselves. Sorry the imaginary pajeet shitting in your head rent free has a higher income and better computer than you.

>>533161986
Hello anon, please do keep on posting these environmental art pieces, they bring me great joy whenever i see one.

>>533147403
here's a worthless (you), what a coincidence hahaa.
dont spend it all in one place kiddo.

>>533147403
>jannies ban the Indiachan post replies to this
>But not the original post

guys i dont think zone is real

Finished making tasks for all factions in Chernobyl Freeplay.

>>533190781
Cool. Bandits should have a permanent recurring quest to kick up a percentage to the boss. Your reputation plummets if you don't pay up. If you're a good earner you can kill rookie bandits without issue and do other crazy shit.

>>533190781
awesome, keep it up

>>533191860
Too much scripting that I don't know how to do. The bandits do have drug runs, though.

the duga map in black ops cold war was kinda cool

Hey, chernobyl freeplay anon, how did you learned how to make quest mods? i would like to try to make a little story mod someday but i never figured it out where to start, is there a website to learn?

>>533193192
After typing that up and hitting submit I then wondered how it could be done. I hit a dead end just after "increase or decrease the reputation".

>>533193526
Why did pepsi use a truck when they had a navy on standby?

did stalker 2 fail because it focused on graphics instead of gameplay and performance?

>>533193526
Oh boy, do I have a treat for you.
>https://files.catbox.moe/1qarsb.rar
These are four guides I wrote for myself. They cover creating static tasks, repeatable tasks like kill this guy/get a mutant part, a guide on how info_portions work in dialog, and how static dialog works.

There is also the STALKER mod portal wiki but it's extremely outdated and the search feature is broken.
>https://sdk.stalker-game.com/en/index.php?title=S.T.A.L.K.E.R._MOD_portal

I also recommend keeping the vanilla SoC unpacked game files in a winrar archive. Winrar has a very useful "search for string" feature (the looking glass icon) where you can search the archive for a specific bit of code and see in which files it pops up. It helps a lot in figuring out which files work together. That's how I learned.

>>533195323
They didn't focus on graphics at all if anything it's soc that focused on graphics.

>>533190781
>kill bes

>>533146772
can't you mod anomaly to be like that?

>>533195518
Thank you my bratan, I know some really basic game edits but I always wanted to make a story / quest mod of some sorts but never figured out how, I will try out making one these days

>>533198456
Hell yeah, man. Good luck with your mod.

>>533196797
you're right clear sky graphics fucking SUCKS

Neat little detail I added to Chernobyl Freeplay. If an emission hits in the first power plant level, the Monolith will run to the Sarcophagus entrance and go into prayer mode. This is the only place in the Zone where they will do this.

Look at him go.

>>533209439
noice

>>533218472
no idea why its so slow but ok
hes in a deep trance

>>533218625
Must be the will of the Monolith.

>>533218297

should i play gamma

>>533228038
He runs like a welshman.

medkit

>>533228051
play lsd mod or rainbow butt

goodnight /sg/

People's patch for OLR 3.0 has been released
>This project is a hodgepodge of various add-ons that improve Oblivion Lost Remake 3.0. Our goal is to refine the modification without fundamental changes in the gameplay. All edits were tested on version 3.0.19, as a result of which it was decided to number the version as 3.0.20.
>The modification will be updated, so we encourage everyone to propose ideas, send their edits and provide all possible assistance in finalizing the original modification. We hope that together with the community, OLR 3.0 will be able to integrate all the useful developments.
https://ap-pro.ru/forums/topic/12399-narodnyy-patch-3020-oblivion-lost-remake-30/

>>533248537
>editing the author's work
DON'T do this

>>533249273
too late, nigga. hi_flyer shouldn't have been a bitch

>>533248537
Are these the same guys that ousted hi-flyer of whatever?(I still have no idea wtf happened)

>>533250269
Apparently not, Hrust is the main guy behind the "Semi-Official Patch" and he's not mentioned anywhere here. Looks like a different group of people, though I’m not entirely sure.

>>533248537
Nice. OLR 3.0 seems promising, just needs a lot of work. Very ambitious mod.

>>533196825
I prefer this one.

fecking zone xDD

All intended changes to Chernobyl Freeplay have been completed. Playtesting has begun.

I found Father Diodor dead in the Cordon. Looks like he walked into an anomaly. Such is life in the Zone.

>>533264258
I dream of the day the NPCs in Stalker get a proper AI to navigate anomalies.
Masters that have managed to survive in the Zone for years shouldn't die by just walking into a lone Springboard in the middle of the field five metres away from the Rookie Village.

Almost got taken out by a zombied Clear Sky member. I turn the corner and he just immediately unloads on me. That was uncomfortable.

>>533265092
Sometimes I wonder if that was intentionally done, since mutants can avoid anomalies to some degree. But the builds included an attempt at that if I'm not mistaken.

>>533265092
>>533268553
In build 2205, from 2005, NPCs could throw bolts when encountering anomalies. The script is still in the final version of SoC, but it's commented out. It's very glitchy and janky and doesn't always work, but an attempt was made.

>>533228038
OGSE?

>>533276261
looks more like Goldenballs to me

>>533228038

>>533277774
I need to finish Goldsphere one of these days.

I was stalkan through the Wild Territory and started thinking, why is it that most mods remove the electro anomalies from the tunnel in the Cordon but none of them remove the burner anomalies from the tunnel in the Wild Territory?

>>533282359
because in most mods in which the cordon appears that are not made on the basis of shadow of chernobyl, the clear sky version of the location is used. and in clear sky, the tunnel is anomaly-free. and since there is only one version of the wild territory, the anomalies always remain.

>>533265092
I wonder if this is why they decided to cut the arena last-minute and make the main entrance teleport you to the level changer. An entire interesting scenario set up, but the gauss snipers don't do anything but miss shots, the mutant ambushes don't spawn half the time, and the duty/freedom/military stalkers/whoever survives this long going through just get shredded by anomalies.

>>533282782
Makes sense. Damn CS.

>brooo they cut out this area near duga because the dev was russian bratan you should be outraged on behalf of russia right n-ACK!
https://x.com/stalker_thegame/status/1950587480505209087

>>533288528
>asshurt hoh*ls still shilling ITT

>>533288528
? What that anon was talking about is Korogod, an area that Andrey Khokhlov, a Russian developer, worked on when he was employed. Then the invasion happened, he left GSC, Korogod was cut from the game. They didn't cut it just because it was made by a Russian, but because that Russian left the studio. And he left because, in his words from an interview, he was "no longer invited".

>>533282359
>>533284926
>none of them remove the burner anomalies from the tunnel in the Wild Territory
Why is that important? I've found that the path that I always use, hugging the pillars, keeps me in a safe distance to all fire in all the mods I played yet. It's easy except for maybe Anomaly I think where they use the wandering burner anomaly, and even then it is easily doable

>>533293113
It's incredibly easy to navigate and is complete muscle memory if you've been playing SoC for a long time, just tedious.

>>533293113
Navigating the burner tunnel is no biggie, I just found it strange that not many mods remove them while so many remove the elecros in the Cordon. But it makes sense after what anon mentioned about CS.

>>533293113
>>533293372
this. Its stupid easy.
the only one that should be moved is the infamous one at the end of the tunnel kruglov keeps running into.

>>533228038
>>533277774
You playing the 64bit version?

>>533249273
>t. beta modmaker

>>533250575
Looking into it more, the patch was posted by the same dude who wrote the initial article about hi_flyer's harassment. He confirmed on the forum he's not part of the SOP team. So the discord niggers are not involved here. He also just released an update with an option to disable all illnesses, 3.0 is actually playable now.

>>533300310
first pic is mine, it's Completion, definitely not the OGSR engine version
second pic is some anonnys old as shit completion screenshot with old translation

completion is prone to corruptions because of how script heavy the mod is, have to save frequently and "play according to developers vision"
ogsr afaik is buggy but haven't tried it myself

>>533302467
>all illnesses
How many different illnesses / ailments are in this mod? I thought there was just a single "plague" you'd get from rats biting you.

>>533305838
>Radiation sickness - A disease in which your radiation levels rise over time.
>Rabies - Infection that creates unbearable effects on the screen and gradually takes away health.
>Rat Madness - A kind of "Plague" creates unpleasant effects on the screen.
>Zombified Infection or Parasite - A disease that infests a mutated parasite into your body.
>Anthrax - Infection that shows frequent shocks to the screen and changes in its color.
NPCs can get sick and die too, so at least it's somewhat fair in that regard.

I love this picture so much

>>533303096
I know, my save got corrupted and l stopped playing. Was hoping that maybe 64bit would be more stable

>>533302467
those SOPniggers at least actually fix shit, though at the cost of disabling or deleting some stuff at the beginning until they have a solid base to recreate those things on

First playtest of Chernobyl Freeplay ended in a crash about two in-game days in when I tried going into X-18. Also crashed every time I tried to load my saves after that. The log reads:
>[error][ 87] : The parameter is incorrect.
In my experience this error is somehow related to the optional tasks. In the old CF I got this error when I added too many tasks. I didn't add so many tasks this time around but I did have more than one task active when I entered X-18. Maybe I accepted one too many and corrupted my saves by saving with more than one task active.

Could also be a memory issue. The Zone was pretty hectic during the first playtest. There were gunfights and mutants running wild in pretty much every level. I'm making changes to lessen the load on the game for my next playtest. Gonna try not having more than one task active at a time as well.

>>533312460
good luck, anon

>>533323430
>we could have had an ARG with academic papers from Kruglov and Sakharov showing up detailing Zone phenomenon like how the Empty (Battery) is described in the book
Would have been absolute ludo.

>>533126498
lost alpha directors cut 1.40007. these bloodsuckers are like super tanky and wont fucking die even when i shoot them with like 5 vogs. idk what im doing wrong its only really a problem with certain mutants i guess

story mods where you play as a mercenary?

are you run out of mid-kit? pissed off mid-kit high price. low in health, hiding behind tree wish bandits can't shoot you? Behold the add-on that gives me pain in ASS.

>>533248537
Anyone try this yet? Does it play nicely with the English patch?

medkit!

>>533338630
Spatial Anomaly

Anyone have godawful performance with that new version of GAMMA?? I'm literally getting 30 fps or lower on a 4080 and 5800x3D in zaton/jupiter. I remember the last version ran at 90+ FPS constantly.

>>533358297
its getting really obvious

>>533282359
A better question is why do so many mods remove the wandering fireball from that tunnel. Do fags really get filtered by it hard enough to remove it?

what the FUCK...

>>533373692
Yeah, GSC is retarded. fortunately we have this https://www.nexusmods.com/stalker2heartofchornobyl/mods/1493

>>533338630
spatial anomaly, contract for a good life, contract for a new life, and, most importantly, return of scar and the reborn series.

>>533373692
not unusual

>>533368637
there is no wandering fireball in this tunnel.

>>533373692
>>533375406
>>533377083
Why the FUCK do you care about cheevos?

>>533377349
Because I need them, okay??

>>533377349
to show all my friends that i'm a real gamer

>>533377349
Getting video game achievements is better than sex

Second Chernobyl Freeplay test has begun.

Bandit life is rough.

>>533386323
I wish you stable stalking anon.

>>533392247
>Good hunting, stalker.
That doesn't fit as a death message at all. Even "You can't change the current reality and The Zone KICK YOU OUT!" is better.

>>533393229
Why not? It's a classic.

>>533395228
Because it's a wish of good luck when said by Pidorovich, yet here we have it post factum. We also have a guy lying dead, which means it wasn't, by definition, good hunting. The hunting went so terribly you died. It literally couldn't have gone worse than that.
The only way it'd fit is if it was ironic, as in: "yeah, good hunting, fag. great job", but a man's death is no laughing matter, especially if you literally just walked a mile in the man's shoes. There's enough irony in the world these days, I don't want it in Stalker.

>>533395228
NTA, but I don't really see the need to change the default "game over" message to some in-universe phrase, like that one or "lost to the Zone" or whatever. It doesn't add to the immersion or anything, because it's already ruined - you're dead and are about to reload a save. The default text at least is laconic and gets the point across.
Even worse when modders get even more creative and start changing the load screen messages, like "Loading textures" or "Client:Synchronisation...", to shit like "Packing things", "Crossing the checkpoint" and other bullshit as well.

>>533395786
>>533398089
Interesting takes. I'll keep this in mind.
In vanilla, was it just "Game over"? I can't remember.

>>533398661
>In vanilla, was it just "Game over"?
Yeah.

>>533360634
Bitcoin mining?

ecological disaster zone

>>533407124
in my pants

freedomfags will defend this

>>533409387
brother. we are defending the zone, and the whole world by extension.

>>533409387
so duty soldiers can peacefully get their penises inspected by general voronin in rostok

>>533409387
noooooo Duty are le defenders of the zone stop breaking the conditioning!!!!

>>533409627
at least dolgfags are uncut, unlike freedomcucks

dutiers sitting in rostok playing drop the SOAP with loners.... hahahahaha freedom we defend the zone we attack the monolith we SHITT on the duty. protect the most dangerous of the zone. DUTIER drop their magazine from sight on MONOLIT and run hahahahh run from the fight to butt sex the mutant dog. fight blind dog and shagg the blind dog duty LOL army deserter become army larper the surplus AK74 using as dildo in voronin ass hole all day, all day staring at mercinary and doing nothing hahahah staring contest from rostok only fighting flesh for pig fuck and pig sex... FREEDOM will end you after FREEDOM end the monolit.

>>533403490
I love that it's capitalized and has a period at the end. It somehow feels unnatural in such a context, as an inscription in the middle of the screen "GAME OVER" would be more suitable, but it adds to the game's slavjank charm.

>>533398661
dunno 'bout other anons, but "You are Dead" would also be fine by me

>>533036071
FUCK YOUR GLOWING ROCK YOU GAY ASS GOONERS

monolith really do be gooning to their rock at their goon towers fr

>>533417749
the infidel mind cannot comprehend this

>>533419020
how to join monolit?!?!

>>533407124
WHAT A SHIT DAY

>>533421364
Damn, what a bad raid!

battlefield 6 just KILLED stalker...

>>533422278
nah, it's NATO stuff vs NATO stuff with some russki shit sprinkled in, which is kinda meh and the UI and music stuff is lacking in my opinion, though some of the things shown were cool

>>533422669
yeah i'm not playing a battlefield without chyna.

>>533422278
Buttholefield 6 can't even kill BF4, let alone Stalker.

>>533422803
I miss Battlefield having faction locked guns (no AKs for amerimutts and no ARs for russhits)

>>533422278
kill yourself

[MIND BLOWN] I Found the Perfect Free Game That Surpasses ALL FPS

>>533422984
yeah running around as a german with a lee enfield in bf1 felt wrong

>>533423529
>he played as a sniper
Literal dead weight to your team.
Anyways BF1 was bad, even if the gun balance was great.

When is all this going to end?

>>533423270
it was lame the first time

>>533423817
Right now!

>>533423780
>BF1 was bad
My close personal friend Nick begs to differ.

>>533421364
Holy moly, just think how many commanders have popped up so far, eh? Three? Six? Or was it ten already? Is anybody even counting?

Nick revived the thread

Black raven... black raven... circling above the grave.....

wake up stalker
we have a nuclear power plant to burn

In the tv show "Millennium" there is an episode where a Russian gangster (who was actually the anti-christ) caused the Chernobyl meltdown on purpose.

>>533358297
Just shove more and more effects, scripts, and things to process into an engine that despite every attempt to make it do otherwise, still prioritizes 99% of the workload onto a single cpu core/thread. What's the worst that could happen?

>>533419020
Getting beamed goonfuel straight to the dome fries everyone's brain that why most people just become zombies. Monolith is the gooner faction and you cant convince me otherwise

>>533429183
>replying to gammafags

>>533436024

>>533448062
>It's zover....

Shit! Everywhere you look is shit! Shit and idiots!!

what are these workshop stashes in G*mma? I tried making a stash near a workshop and it doesn't look like it's working. Are they specific stashes?

>>533453693
dunno if it got changed in the last year or so but iirc you get a toolkit and craft a portable workbench that looks like a vice with a box under it and dump all your repair and craft shit in it including the toolkits

>>533453693
>>533360634

>>533455593
thanks

why i gotta compile shaders every single time i load the game now

>>533360634
What did he mean by this?

Someone PLEASE mod the Krešimir into the game, with all of its "features" of course

>>533469759
>Krešimir
make the animations for it bruv

>>533470803
but I can only PLAY game not MAKE

>>533428870
is this real

i guess i am a retarded faggot because now lost alpha dc 1.4007 has a game breaking bug in the expedition quest in yantar. once you get to the hangar in the second research area the scientists just bug out and won't move to the next checkpoint. i tried reloading from the start of the quest and it just keeps happening.

>>533422278
No Cold War-gone-hot setting no buy.

>>533474026
Yes. It's a great show by the same guy as X-Files but done very differently.
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0648243/

>>533470920
then learn it

>>533476110
Maybe this will help. It mentions doing stuff in a particular order or the scientists freeze up.
https://lost-alpha.fandom.com/wiki/The_expedition

>>533480669
we have '83 for that

what's the best way to play clear sky? the enhanced edition crashes are pissing me off.

>>533495151
original with SRP

>>533476110
>i guess i am a retarded faggot
unfortunately you are, every single LA discussion here recommends LBs comp(old Revisited), Revisited or 1.3(for schizo illuminati shitkino) so you either managed to miss them all, ignored them or just downloaded without checking here

>>533495151
Clear Sky is not canon. Do not play it. You will be brain damaged. Avoid! Skip straight to Anomaly.

>>533499251
shut
up

>>533499251
Man, Zombies are such a fascinating Stalker concept. I have never seen them chilling like that at a (non burning) fireplace before though. Is that unique to, I guess that's IWP?

>>533500580
I've seen three zombies hang out at that big Jupiter parking lot with several Electros in Call of Pripyat. Can't remember if there was a campfire there, but they do sit around passively.

stop making gun mods for anomaly
enough

>>533491141
I'm excited for that game, hope it turns out to be decent.

>>533500580
In SoC they used to gather around fireplaces and stare into the flames, sometimes reaching out their hands to the fire only to recoil in surprise after getting burned. Not sure if they still do it in CS and CoP.
Always thought it was a pretty cool animation.

>>533506504
make gun mods for IWP instead

>>533506504
>>533511110
The true plan is to basically take over development of Gunslinger so I can have my boat gun already.

shooting mutants or shooting stalkers

>>533512304
Both at the same time. Threeway fights are kino.

>>533512304
shooting anomalies.

PsyWarVeteran released another translation on ModDB. Anyone tried this one yet?

https://www.moddb.com/mods/radioactive-earth-apt

>>533515603
Bro, I haven't touched the other 4 or 5 translated mods from him yet that I have bookmarked. He just freshly released that one. How about (You) try it and report back after some time?

>>533516060
I would but I'm busy working on Chernobyl Freeplay.

>>533516942
Bandit supremacy.

>>533517753
Chilling at the campfire with the boys during a storm is pretty kino.

Well, shit.

>>533524061
Can you get on the trailer up there? Neat feature.

>>533524547
I tried but I couldn't get on the roof. Damn artifact got stuck in a gravi anomaly.

>>533524693
can't you shoot it

>>533524061
Where is this, Dark Valley?

>>533525056
I tried.

>>533525128
Indeed it is, nice eye.

I'm psi-damaged as fuck down in X-18, send help.

>>533534440
There was no remedy against psi-damage in Vanilla SoC, do I remember that correctly? Only thing was to wait it out until it subsides?

>>533535534
There was no remedy in against psi damage in any of the vanilla games, just protection against its sources.
Anti-telepathy artifacts really didn't seem to reduce the wobbly screen effect.

my limit....

>>533535534
>>533535971
I think that telepathic damage isn't really encountered anywhere in SoC except when around a Controller. The psi-zones in Yantar and Radar only check if you have the psi-helmet and they don't even deal psi-damage if I remember correctly.

>>533536476
What about the Army Warehouses whirlybird?

>>533536654
The what now?

Are there any guides or something to get into modding? I'd like to start either making or porting Anomaly mods to IWP but im not sure where to even begin

>>533536476
that's true. psi-damage is only dealt by controller's psi-aura, and it's only noticeable on master difficulty, and his ranged psi-blasts, but they deal far more physical damage, so it's barely noticeable anyway. no wonder they removed the psi-health bar from cs and cop.

>>533536476
I think brain scorcher zones do affect psi health, but it's miniscule compared to the treatable physical health loss you're hit by.

>>533538081
>https://sdk.stalker-game.com/en/index.php?title=S.T.A.L.K.E.R._MOD_portal
Be advised that the search feature is broken and this wiki is extremely outdated. You can click "Articles" on the left side to see a list of them. Mostly covers SoC.

Also see my previous post here, the files I linked may help.
>>533195518

>>533537080
NTA but I guess he's talking about the downed helicopter in north AW.

>>533540281
Wasn't that area only psi-active in Clear Sky?

>>533540671
Maybe so it's been awhile since I've played

>>533540671
yantar...

>>533540671
Swamps had a psi-field

>>533538081
Use this to unpack Anomaly databases, IWP comes unpacked iirc. https://github.com/revolucas/AXRToolset
There is also this which should partly apply to IWP, https://igigog.github.io/anomaly-modding-book/

>>533545403
>IWP comes unpacked
it's only the stuff that they have changed, iirc. There are still things packed in the db files, which aren't in the gamedata folder

>>533543079
>>533543948
I don't mean that was the ONLY psi-field in Clear Sky, just that the are was not a psi-field in SoC.

>>533548891
I cant read lol

>>533536476
You also get a little bit of psi-health damage every time you collide with the "phantoms" in Yantar and Radar.

>>533551445
It sucks that psi-damage wasn't a bigger thing in SoC. It's a really cool concept.

>assault on the NPP
>reach the sarcophagus
>tell Strelok, Stitch and the other guy to ignore combat and stay put
>clear the whole level
>tell the retards to follow me again
>Stitch dies from walking into a box
I hate those babysitter quests so much

>>533499251
kek

Gave this guy a medkit and first thing he does it stand up and run into an anomaly.

>>533561763
What are those two new artifacts on your belt CFAnon?

>>533562187
The green thing is what I named a Stalk, looks like a bunch of straws clamped together. Gives you a small boost to radiation protection while negatively affecting electric protection.
The other thing is a Karlik's ear. I wanted to make the Karlik unique somehow, so I remade its mutant part. It's not actually a mutant part, in the game files it's an artifact that's just set up to look like a mutant part. So now the Karlik's ear is wearable and gives a small bulletproof boost as a form of good luck charm.

>>533561763
>>533562187
>enhance

looks like grass or weeds? and a zombie? ear?

>>533563840
>small bulletproof boost
>double the largest bulletproof artifact in vanilla

Playing Return To The Zone... Stalker fucking blows. There are so many better games I should be playing instead but I can't stop listening to music... ughhhhhhhhhhh fuck my life I should just kill myself now.

>>533564020
The artifacts in vanilla are very underpowered, to the point of some of them being more or less useless.

>>533419020
would

>>533565190
Bullet resistance artifacts are already very good in vanilla. You can easily clear the final gauntlet without a suit if you stack bulletproofing artifacts.

u jelly?

Ko. Pe. No.

>>533563840
Oh nice, you added Karliks, Burers, Civilian Zombies and Izloms? What is the mutant part that looks like shark teeth?

>>533564863
Calm down man.
How is Return To The Zone?

>>533564863
reasonable crashout

How does one have fun in freeplay again?

>>533572826
mate, just play non-freeplay mods or take a break from stalker

>>533566713
Are they really? The best you can get is 20% from five Mama's Beads, which is hardly enough armour to get you through the final fight. Why would you do it without a suit in the first place?
And with a suit, due to how resistance calculation works in SoC, your max armour value will be 68% in a perfect condition exoskeleton, or if you wear a SKAT suit, 64%, where the artefacts only contribute 8% and 9% of those values respectively.
Compare that to the elemental artefacts that can get you to over 150% resistance. Are those 8-9% extra armour really worth occupying all five belt slots?
They're really only useful in the early game, when you have shitty armour or none at all; the better your suit gets, the less effective they become.

>>533570135
That's a Bear tooth from a huge bear I imported from a mod called Road to the North.
Nice eye, the icon is actually a megalodon tooth.

>>533576890
That fits because the bear is ridiculously large.

>>533572826
by hunting and killing the top stalker in the zone

>>533573439
this.

LET'S GO YOU WRINKLY LITTLE FUCK

>>533588236
Did you make it? I wish more mods had a focus or real use for melee.

FELLAS.

GREAT NEWS.

I made it to the fourth in-game day in Chernobyl Freeplay without a game-breaking crash! I think that accepting more than one task at at time somehow causes the game to shit itself down the line. I never accepted more than one, and even though I ran into a repeating bug which forced me to load earlier saves, I never encountered anything that was game-breaking. Also reducing the event spawn rate seems to have helped, the Zone was way less hectic and the game ran much more smoothly.
Good news. Means the mod is stable enough to not completely fuck the player over, at least. Now I just need to tweak some stuff, attempt to fix some bugs and we may be seeing release soon.

Awesome news!

>>533593845
hell yeah anon
good jerb

Awesome news!
We're dead.

>>533608957
busy stalkerin

Bros... would you get one?

What a shit day! If I hear just one sound from you, I'll GUN YOU DOWN, you hear me?!

>IWP still hasn't received the update
>IWPchad hasn't released A.S.G.E.I.W.F.I.W.P.E.P.
>mfw vacation is ending and I have to attend the nightshift on sunday and will be too drained to make my own stuff on top (in a short amount of time)

>>533620591
unless you graduate to a higher plane of existence, there will be time bratan.Nimble told me so

Waiting for the Gunslinger update is more painful than childbirth, studies show

>>533576890
I really liked the RttN bear. There was this mission in Cordon to kill one and I only ever saw it in Red Forest again. Fuckhuge thing with red eyes

>>533588236
Leave him alone. Burer Lives Matter.

>>533615568
absolutely, it would go great with my sin patch tattoo.

so strider killed the doctor?

i really hate the amount of fanservice and nostalgia bait in stalker 2.

>>533641030

>>533641030
that hud is something else

>>533645895

>>533641030
>>533645895
wtf is going on

>>533646238
It looks atrociously big and rugged

>>533646768

fecking zone xDD

stalker 2
it is not free
and it fakes survival

>>533658010
is it, at the very least, mind-blowing by any chance?

>>533658582
A masterpiece of trash

>>533658582
it is not even a Must-Play in 2025

>>533658992
Maybe not but we have to admit that STALKER 2 is just the beginning...

MODKIT RELEASED! A New Stalker 2 Is Emerging in 2025...

While playtesting Chernobyl Freeplay I ran into a very strange bug. Bandit NPCs would change meshes at completely random and seemingly stay that way.
In pic related on the left side is the bandit trader in the Garbage. On the right side is the same NPC but he just randomly changed to using a Duty mesh. This happened to other bandits as well, with some changing to using loner and Freedom models. The Duty NPC in the background on the right side is actually a bandit too.
I did not see this happen with other factions. Maybe it's just because since I was playing as a bandit I was around my own faction the most? Still, never ran into this problem while playing as a loner. I've never seen this before in any mod I've played. What the fuck could be causing this? I'm not sure if it's a bug or some retarded feature I didn't notice until now.

>>533662135
>bandits use disguises in order to fool gullible stalkers
it's canon, that one bandit in sunrise suit in soc done that. now it's dynamic, chernobyl freeplay has a-life 2.5.

when you have an AK, everything is OK ))))

Gunslinger is still the only mod with good running animations.

>>533664698
I guess it is canon but it does not work very well in gameplay lol. I ran into this guy in the car park in the Cordon and damn near shot him. Again, a bandit using a Duty mesh.

Gunslinger is still the only mod with comically floaty gun animations.

>>533668762
Of course I forgot the pic.

Gunslinger is still the only mod with gunslinging.

Gunslinger is the only mod

Gunslinger

>>533662135
Older mods had a script/feature where npc could equip armour they found. I almost shot Mole when I came out of the underground because he had equipped some suit I traded him before going in.

>>533669881
>>533670128
lol

>>533670128
https://youtu.be/VckzwiqHuiI

why did they bother making sky clear & pripyiat

>>533673791
The voices didn't stop when SoC released.

>>533635092
K

>>533635092
stalker in general is nostalgia bait.

>>533670128
What norwood level is he at?

>>533683175
it's a unique, anomalous form of norwood

>>533683175

>>533635092
I mean, i like that some of the returning characters are back and they stick with the original deisgn of the weapons and armors, because *it is* a part of stalker identity i think, but yeah i havent played stalker 2 so i dont know how bad the fanservice and nostalgibait can be

>>533687481
Thinking about it, it feels strange to see STALKERs with proper proportions, some people dislike it, but i like how in the original trilogy stalkers are tall and quite stronk, it reminds me of CS 1.6 models in some way

>>533687763
what chinese mobile game are they playing?

>>533687857
Alpaca Evolution

>>533687857
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UTjctOAm6mA

>>533061670
Use a magazine or playing cards to pass time, they might've went for a jog, happened to me in a similar "Cleanse the bandits from a camp" mission. The marker was there but no one was around, I used the pass time function with cards and they came strolling into the same base from a distance.

>>533573451
Artifact bullet resistance is calculated separately from suit resistance and scales up exponentially as you continue to stack it (i.e the difference between 60-70% is far greater than 0-10%). Play OP-2.2 lil bro.

>>533620591
>IWP still hasn't received the update
There isn't going to be one, the mod is finished because all they wanted to do is add weapons to CoC

>>533687763
Absolutely. I hate how everyone looks like a doughy soft boy in 2. They all have punchable faces, too. Disgusting.