Seasons in the Zone edition.S.T.A.L.K.E.R. Trilogy guides, tips, information and much more:rentry.co/STALKERTrilogyGuidesS.T.A.L.K.E.R. Trilogy mods, anon's merges and resources:rentry.co/STALKERTrilogyModsCommon misconceptions about Shadow of Chernobyl game mechanics:www.metacognix.com/stlkrsoc/WhatYouKnowThatAintSo.htmlRunning 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 Standalonewww.moddb.com/mods/stalker-improved-weapon-packRecommended addons: CotZ, Absolute Nature, Structures Redux>SoC Update 1.4vk.com/topic-147828435_49497922>SOCGAwww.nexusmods.com/stalkershadowofchernobyl/mods/1089S.T.A.L.K.E.R. 2 mods and tools:>nexuswww.nexusmods.com/games/stalker2heartofchornobyl>Mod recommendations + config (less stutter, more fps, NO compiling + full Mouse fix)pastebin.com/Ma6W4BcMLost to the Zone >>544363865
Looks like someone partially fixed the MOD Portal wiki. Articles have working images now and the search function doesn't crash the website as often. Pretty cool.https://legacy-sdk.stalker-game.com/en/index.php?title=Docs:Creating_a_scene_in_Maya
This is BY FAR the Most Intense Way to Play STALKER GAMMA | Black Road Ep.1
>While you were sucking blood, I studied the blade!
Who was the dark stalker supposed to be in the buildo docs? Did GSC ever flesh out a backstory for him?
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>>545502994I got some of the extra addons to make it more stable, but I'm just having issues taking over points for my faction.
How's everyone on /sg/ doing today?
>>545542654I thought you died sir..
>>545542795Nope! Still around, just busy...
>>545542890>>545542654Not bad, but looking for story mods since nobody could answer me last thread. Any suggestions holden
>>545543704Hmmm... well, story-focused mods have never really been my thing (I'm more of a Soupfag myself). Although technically soup mods also do feature story-heavy questlines and plots, so it just depends on what you're looking for.Off the top of my head, the popular story mods are Secret Trails 2, Fotograf, Wind of Time, Valley of Whispers, Path in the Mist, True Stalker, Priboi Story (for oldheads), etc.You can also just start with browsing AP-PRO and look for story mods, since I believe they have it sorted somehow and just look for translations. The Dollchan series seems popular with slavs, but I don't know what it's about or if there's any type of supported translation. There's also the C-Consciousness mods spreadsheet: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1GgBFCRIbc7TQ5DwWHvWaridX1G64PYoWItkLyr3pBPk/edit?gid=0#gid=0
Robbing the Military sure has it's perks...
>>545544198How is True Stalker?From a visual/environmental design position it looks absolutely fantastic but the whole "Stalker if it was a AAA game from 2018" menu design, heavy scripting, Far-Cry style maps/icons, and lack of A-Life seems....regressive? Not just from general Stalker mods which have gotten stupid advanced in recent years to say the least but from the original vanilla games.
>>545556639It's a story mod that ratchets things down to make the story work without leaving things to open for jank. It might feel restrictive compared to standard stalker play, but it's at least better than something like a soup mod where you can fail a main story quest because a necessary character is killed by random alife actions or you fail a "kill target" quest because you didn't get the credit for the kill. In both cases, you aren't informed you failed, so you could have a bricked playthrough depending on your saves.
>>545556639True Stalker looks great visually but sports one of the worst game design I've ever seen in a mod. Pic very much related.It's also pretty much "What if STALKER was a Playstation exclusive" but I guess it depends on the person whether that's a negative or a positive.
>>545544198Thank you father
>>545533806Anons, new to stalkerwell, I played the first two games for five minutes each when I was like 8How do I get into it? Just vanilla? Is the first game worth playing, or should I skip to the second game?Any mods, or vanilla? Maybe there's a couple mods that fix the bugs and shit?
>>545565870>Is the first game worth playing, or should I skip to the second game?SoC is the best of the series, CS is almost unanimously considered the worst but is still a stalker game so give that a go as well.>Any modsSoC with ZRP, only if you're the kind of retard to somehow softlock/break ever other game you playCS with SRP, pretty much mandatoryCoP is fine on it's own, it's the most polished onegood luck bratishka, always aim for the head.
>>545566741ZRP fixes a good amount of issues though, so it's pretty worthwhile.
>>545597530yeah nice just keep bumping your shitty dead thread
>>545597662kill yourself
>>545541687>buildo docsanon....>>545542890shame
>>545546760yeah lumen and ai sucks assin any ue5 game
>>545597709take your own advice you stupid little nigger
Need some advice anons. It's been really nice going back to basics and playing COTZ again, I swear it feels like the A-Life is better and more consistent. Could anyone recommend a COTZ addon pack that's worthwhile? I wouldn't mind some creature comforts like nicer weapon handling, better lighting etc. Otherwise are there any Anomaly mods that feel more alive? I was thinking of trying ZONA or Forgotten Zone, but my recent plays of things like EFP and IWP feel so far removed from OG Stalker that it can't hold my attention. It's as if the world is semi-static and AI just blinks from place to place, nothing happening until you're there and causing change.
does the cancer dog always spawn in OP2.2 central pripyat?
Unironically, how is silverfish
>>545608187I'm trying the wrenched pack right now but haven't played it too much. Has a lot of quality of life updates like you're asking about.The color palette for the memeshade is somewhat ugly though so I adjusted the RGB values for the tint setting.
>>545614989The demo was fucking great. Demo removed so pirate and try first of course, the asking price is ludicrous. More info if you want it, the combat, classes, leveling up, missions and exploration all felt pretty solid. Hate the look of the engine (Must be cheap/easy, lots of indie devs making games in this blockass engine) but the art style does some heavy lifting. Good Stalker vibes, no idea why furries, better if you can make your own fun but there's direction there. Challenging, occasionally annoying as fuck trying to tell who is and isn't hostile, expect to fuck up your first save unless you're very careful.
>>545614989>>545618761this is the first time i've heard about this game lol. i might actually need to try it out if it's not shit
>>545619976Dev might be a faggot though, releases his game then kills the demo for 'copyright' reasons that he won't fix and wants $45 dollarydoos? Smells sus as fuck.
>>545620835it's just anomaly with furries, dogshit graphics and no modshis last game is the exact same shit btw, it just has more sci-fi assets
>>545542201I'll be honest, warfare was always a cluster fuck.always will be, maybe i will be better when it is rewritten to be just faction wars/warfare.whats with the weird avatar fag these past threads?
>>545614989Furshit. Has pronouns and stuff.
>>545622486>whats with the weird avatar fag these past threads?Autism. He even ban evades.
>>545614989>Unironically, how is silverfishunironically, kill yourself
Has anyone tried out Pioner during this beta test? Seems like an MMO Stalker.
>>545566741vse spasibo bratan
>>545614989It's a shitty extraction shooter for furfags that doesn't even have viewmodel arms. It has no relation to stalker unless you want to claim every post-apocalyptic setting (stalker isn't post-apocalyptic, only the zone is messed up) is a reference to stalker. Even that shitty new Misery extraction survival crafting base builder with roguelite mechanics has a better case for being called similar to stalker, and that's because it's set in eastern europe and has literally stolen guitar songs from stalker.
>>545634535Ah okay, thanks
>>545600539Design docs, then, if you feel so inclined.
I'm doing a no NATO no Exo challenge run of CoP (+PRP), and as I was reading up on a few things, I got curious: can Black's PDA be given to Owl, or just Hermann?
>>545643415Only Hermann
>>545634535Could Misery be sued for those songs? The basic unnamed ones, eh, but it literally has dirge for the planet.
>>545647582>they stole a Firelake songI don't think they could even use "it's a cover bro" as an excuse here. The hilarity of this dipshit noname indie dev getting sued for stealing assets from not only GSC, but the band Firelake is golden.I'm now remembering how there's a section of a Criken stream that twitch "DMCA muted" while playing the guitar. It makes sense now.
>>545647582shut the fuck up
>>545541687according to this leddit post which seems to be the only source of info about him in english for some reason, he wasn't fleshed out that muchhttps://www.reddit.com/r/stalker/comments/11n59pj/legends_of_the_zone_black_stalker_cut_content/
>>545648223>noooo don't point out this game has stolen assets that put it in legal trouble noooo
>>545648590hey settle down, okay?
>>545648428>In July of 2023, a custom 3D model of the Dark Stalker was found on an archived page of some freelancer 3D artist. It dates back to 2003 and is said to be created for GSC.INTERESTING. I never knew this. It's crazy how people are still, even now in the 2020s, digging up new stuff from SoC's development.
>>545648590>series where mods are built on stolen assetsas long as its free its fine?
>>545650731No, as long as they have a link to gsc-gameworld.com it's fine(Anomaly 1.5.3)
>>545650731What are you, 12? First day on the internet? Companies tend to go after those who make money off stolen assets rather than ones who don't.
>Get a mission to duke it out with a bandit group alongside clear sky>A helicopter comes in and wipes everyone outI forgot how aids helis are in CoC. They fucking beeline for you if you're off killing mutants in the middle of nowhere it's annoying as fuck. Tempted to just turn them off but I did find a single shot grenade launcher maybe that's enough to make short work of them.
>>545637752anon....
>>545651383Alright guys, it's over.Gsc ain't fucking round.
>>545654935>devs screeching and pissing themselves in the discord chat over stealing contentit's been a long time since I've seen such hilarious retardation kekw. thanks for showing it here.
>>545654935>those examplesKind of low effort lol, I think there were some sound assets I recognized but a lot of those are actually open source. Also
>>545654935>z>russaboo flagexplains tons tbqhfamalam
>>545655797It doesn't matter, as long as they can get them for something. >al capone for tax evasion
>>545656623I think it's probably fair to assume that's the case. People are pretending to be confused as to why this isn't done with stalcraft or into the radius and the answer has something to do with geography lmao.
>>545657038Indeed. The war is on multiple fronts. This is a Russian game. Stalker is Ukrainian. Guess what?
>>545657438>now my eastern europe depression simulators are becoming casualties of the warSomeone has to stop the madness
>>545654935>we copyrighted slav life and commie blocsgsc pls
>>545655797The guitar songs ripped straight from stalker including Dirge for the Planet aren't open source, though. >retarded russian devs think they can get away with stealing things kekkerino
>>545665090then Dirge for planets label can file the copyrighti claim. not GSC.>retarded ukraininan think they can get away with this nonsensical shit.did they forget they represent microsoft in a way? this false copyright claim doesnt look good
>>545665803>seething russoidAt least one member of Firelake is an employee of GSC, and the songs used in Stalker were clearly licensed, for use in Stalker. Not in Ivan Ivanovich Petrovsky's asset flip.
Tejas is weighing in now, boys!
>/sg/ shits on misery for a week straight, quite deservedly so>suddenly, when gsc tells them to fuck off, misery is actually heckin basedI knew that there was a fair amount of contrarians here, but jesus man
>>545666693>hurr anyone with a point is roosoaboo hurrrrok tard>At least one member of Firelake is an employee of GSCirrelevant
>>545666709>this random guy who has done nothing but play the games has an opinionwow
>>545666709>its cuz the name nisery>a modeven more fucking laughableholy shit>>545666829they were?where?you would be surprised how many people hate copyright faggots
>>545666929>throwing a baby tantrum over a game being DMCA'd for copyright infringement when it contains stolen content>typing the exact same way as the russians on the theft-game's steam forums are>noooo me no russain me amerikan
>>545667489> baby tantrumok Mr. American.you know people can read the previous posts yeah?>copyright infringementof shit they don't own, yeah no shit.>typing the exact same way as the russians on the theft-game's steam forums areMEDSNOWno it is me, Anon from America Ohiio Oblast fellow amerikan ;)
>>545667982GSC 100% owns the campfire guitar songs from their games as well as the songs they licensed from Firelake, Ivan.
>>545668131Actually I think some of them are folk songs, but you mean the recordings themselves? I think the only true real song they've got is dirge for the planet
>>545665090They didn't rip any audio assets it's a cover you can play on a guitar ingame. If the claim was over that it would be fair but they seem to be bit more than that. This is probably something that should have been solved with an email but wasn't for some reason.
Is there anything interesting that I could play as someone that has played virtually every mod?And don't tell me either OP 2.2 or Gaymma, I played both ad nauseam.
>>545668515Zona but crank up the poison air and cold addon and pretend it's Metro
>>545668131>>545668236well which is it? the name or the "IP" or the song?the artist or the record label that owns it can file a copyright claim for that.its ok, we'll have a meeting and this will be sorted.for the record I dont give a shit about some project game, I just hate false copyright claim submiitters.take a guess why
>>545668515spatial anomaly, cs Reborn, any of th estory mods on AP-procheck the c-con spreadsheet too.there are tons out there
>>545668996>we'll have a meetingGSC?
>>545654935refunding this instanteat shit orc faggot
>>545668884Oh this is new, worth a try.>>545669180>check the c-con spreadsheet too.I was there when it was first redacted, infact I made some of the Whatmod diagrams too.There is nothing that isn't machine translated or RU only that I have not played already.Sorry anon.
>>545668258>>545668258>i-it's a coverNot how it works. Go on, do a cover of Adema - Immortal, put it in a game, and try to sell it. Oops, here comes Arista (label that owns the EP and song) with a lawsuit. Idiot.>>545668996>its ok, we'll have a meeting and this will be sorted.Who? Are you the Ivan who made the asset flip with stolen music or what? What are you babbling about?
>>545669409>Not how it works. Go on, do a cover of Adema - Immortal, put it in a game, and try to sell it. Oops, here comes Arista (label that owns the EP and song) with a lawsuit. Idiot.I'm just correcting something you said that was wrong. It's not ripped audio files. I even said it's justified if that was what it was about. The problem is they seem to be claiming ownership of the entire aesthetic as well.
https://web.archive.org/web/20251107024101/https://store.steampowered.com/app/2119830/MISERY/oh, they were trying to sell it?sheeeeeeeeeeeeit
>>545668884>>545669405>bullet timeNever fucking mind, gay ass tarkovniggers need to kyselves.
>>545669405here play thishttps://www.moddb.com/mods/cold-blood-the-factshttps://www.moddb.com/mods/event-horizon1https://www.moddb.com/mods/dangerous-virus
>>545670072There's bullet time? I've played like six hours without seeing it. I did disable the class mod after a few hours though.
>>545533806ok give it straight to me, how do i play gamma______ on the easiest possible settings, literally gaming journo tier?i just want to play it but not for hundreds of hours before i have fun
>>545671329thats the cool thing, you don't.
>>545671075>>545670072Oh it's disabled by default. I think he probably got tired of people asking
>>545671329Turn most of the progression settings all the way to the right.GAMMA is not hard; it's tedious. Tedious and grindy.It's a bit difficult to understand at first, once you understand how all the new mechanics work, all you really need is money.You can't skip the tedium unless you spend a lot of time reading all the PDA tutorials and liking what you see, but you can skip the grind and make your own fun.Bumping the mission rewards and the money found on corpses all to max will make you have at least 100k rubs in the first hour of gameplay.Once you do that, it's really your choice on what to do next.Buy as many meds, repair kits, and weapon parts you can afford and go crazy in the GAMMA sandbox.Some people like to collect as many guns as they want and try to repair them to 100% condition.Others like to start the new storylines and fuck with the Anomaly factions.A very small minority like to engage with the build-your-base mechanic and build their hideout in a random hut\apartment of Prypiat.The entire thing is designed for people that find baseline Stalker a bit too boring, since by default it expands the "hobo phase" for hundreds of hours, but once customized the entire thing becomes one massive "master of the zone" phase where you are constantly managing a million things at once and deleting whatever the game throws at you.If you like micro and you value your time, change the settings to maximum.If you don't and you'd rather do something else rather than re-learn a game you probably played a hundred times already, play something else.My advice is to download the Promzone mod and explore the new areas, the secret long ass questline is unironically well made and quite fun, since it was made for a different modpack which got cancelled, so one of the its modders ported whatever progress they made to Anomaly.Or, you know what? Just play Anomaly and use whatever mods you want, it's the same shite just less Grok.
>>545629649>>545622486they're shitposting in /g/ too
>>545679491Where?
>>545680309just threads in /g/ I see those stupid images randomly
mfw ded
GSC dmc'd MISERY because the mod author made political jokes like 10 years ago? Is that right?
>>545688598Oh nevermind, it's about that stupid multiplayer game that's not affiliated with Misery mod at all. Not interested. Forget I asked.
>>545688598retards in this thread are saying its because they have dirge for planet song in the gameother retards are saying its "muh IPother retards are saying its because of the name "misery"flip a coin, pin the tail on the retard, drink a beer and go home, its last call
Another day, another haul...
>>545691241Why can't any other dev make x ray engine games
>>545691979because the xray engine fucking sucks for anything that's not stalker. also it's easier to churn out a UE5 or unity game or whatever
>>545691979Life just doesn't work out that way sometimes.
>>545693546>>545693990We live in some kind of shadow realm hell.
>>545691979An x ray engine game done well needs a large professional team with plenty of resources, which the original team never was, we merely caught a glimpse of it's potential with the OG trilogy, modern gsc is on windows payroll so they'll never do it.
>>545691979Please understand, x-ray is hard>>545690293Feel bad for the kid. These zigger kids are different than me when I was patriotic and ready for war in the middle east but everyone wants to pretend they would be different.
>>545690293they’re really picking on some 18 year old’s indie project the kid clearly loves stalker too to spend time on making a likeness gamegood job gsc
they changed the inventory UI in 1.7 finally the game is fixed!
>>545700971Is there a slot for my binoculars.
>>545701289lol
>>545700620>they knew they could>didnt stop to think if they shouldmany such cases
>>545701816>q and e are not leanayo hol upthe fuck you use for lean then?
>>545701816Have they still not made it so I can rebind to something other than "press and hold"?
>6kg of ElectronMy carry capacity...
>>545702620i think default in S2 is Z and C for lean>>545703112yeah i dont know why 4 separate buttons for 4 quick use items is so beyond them
>MISERY thread on /v/>russians and discord troons collectively shitposting, claiming pic related comes from Misery (the mod) and not the stalker gamesDear god, I thought you guys were joking.
>>545705551Why do you not change the controls? I change them in every game so all my controls are uniform between them.
>>545713416>people on /v/ are retardedThanks for the update chief have you considered going back?
>>545718313Don't make me suck your dick.
>>545713416here, this is from gog cop 1.6.02 unpackedwhy does it matter at all?
>>545719740>>545713416same image without the alpha
>>545654935>>545666709lollmao even
>>545721597oof
>>545721597ebin
>>545721993LMAOROFL EVEN
>>545721993>didnt even change the texture nameamateur shit
>>545722257>main dev is 19 years oldchecks outFAFO reality check on course 1
>>545722408damn forgot to uncrop the file path on this onegamedata/textures/veh/veh_mi24_fire.dds
>fafo>lamo even>rofl even>oofPlease shut the fuck up. I've heard more about this game now from you than anyone who played it
>>545730859>look at me I 'm a giganewfag and trying to come off as an oldfag with a pitiful attempt at gatekeeping languageCope harder faggoid.
>>545722408Check the steam forums for the game. He's outright lying and claiming these stolen assets you've exposed aren't in the game.
Did they fix A-Life in Stalker 2 yet?
>>545738960i dont think a-life in stalker 2 is fixable
>stalker 2don't care>some misery dmca situationthe what now, misery is a mod for cop, don't care lol>other nu-gsc anticsgsc ceased to exist in 2011, don't careit feels good.
lads I hope you are having a fun time enjoying the zone, no matter what stalker you are playing
>>545742264Based. Good hunting to you, stalker.
>>545742264Heading to Aslan in Dead City for patch lottery, actually. Truck Cemetery and Army Warehouses have been swarming with Monolith patrols though, so traversal is getting much harder now as a Bandit
>>545750045>7,62 mag>later 74 model 90degree gas block>74 model muzzle devicewhat the fuck
Did IWP finally get updated? Or how long until it does?
Is it normal for dlc to take this long? What are they waiting for, the unreal engine update?
>>545751058My guess is that it's actually built off the texture assets of the AKS-74UN, as that has mostly the similar parts and the bakelite mags while the AK-47 variant seems to be some form of horror jury rig between it's AKMS shortened variant and AKS-74 assets. It's likely that modders just took shortcuts in the texture work by doing a little copy pasting and forgot to think through that some parts might not be completely era accurate. It's especially funny when you can actually see the handstamped factory date on the dust cover of the AKS-74, but the AK-47 in-game is only differentiated by the date just having been scrupped from the back of the dust cover.
>>545752828Nothing on Moddb, I figured development was done. You get info on an update?
Of course it's fair game when GSC steals shader code from Anomaly addons, because uhh, they just can okay?
>>545754802It’s legally their IP. Nothing about fair game. It’s a miracle GSC hasn’t DMC’d every stalker mod ever because they share pirated copies of the games.
>>545754802kill yourself
>>545755191>It’s legally their IP. Nothing about fair game.Ukrainians steal from Russians: goodRussians steal from Ukrainians: badThat's the only difference between the shader code and the Russian zigger kid taking a bunch of assets.It all boils down to GSC being cowardly butthurt faggots and having a horde of loyal asslickers to bat for them whenever they go full retard. All I can say is: they should keep going, DMCA'ing mods left and right over perceived political slights and further alienate fans of STALKER from the franchise. Have no one willing to do any mods out of fear that GSC will decide to sue them just because they felt bored. GTA modding is mostly dead due to TakeTwo being aggressive with lawfare and it seems like GSC wants to be the Ukrainian R*, so bombs away.
>>545755773Ok. If that’s your takeaway.
>>545755773>GSC DMCAs one paid game in 18 years that blatantly steals textures and copyrighted songs>'they's literally gunna DMCA every mod left and right!!!'Holy retard.
>>545755773I just think that overall devs should have their games put on a modding cycle after specific amount of years out of inactive development, where most of the assets pop on over to public domain as long as it's non-monetary. Currently the line is ridiculously vague, with Dota generally being the largest example of taking company assets to mold a new game and genre. Nothing wrong with branching off on that specific idea alone, but there also needs to be a larger gap in distinguishing what companies want to make money out of and what falls under copyright. Lifting textures from old games into new mods isn't exactly anything criminal, as even Anomaly has shit like Lurkers lifted straight out of the 4A engine with minimal changes and that flies jus fine, as long as nobody starts charking 9.99 currency for the mod in question. It all circles back to monetary value in that sense, devs are ridiculously protective of asset usage to a fault.
I know gscord shills love raiding this place but cmon, this is embarrassingno worse than their nft flop and the console rerelease (scam) on steam
leave the multibillion hryvnia company alone
Nigga, I just can't understand the accusations against GSC in this case. I hate them for ruining 2 and releasing the cucked editions, but how the fuck are they in the wrong for suing a priced game which was obviously exposed to have multiple stolen textures, levels, even songs from stalker?
>>545763586People have gotten too comfortable with them doing nothing. Simple as.
>>545754698>Nothing on ModdbGreat, I'm not joining any pisscords for news or updates
>>545763731This. I'm no fan of copyright law, but asking for money for a mod/game that includes so many assets you didn't buy, get permission to use, or create yourself is just baiting a lawsuit. Play stupid games, get stupid prizes.
>>545763586>obviously exposed to have multiple stolen textures, levels, even songs from stalker?Probably because you people are being dishonest in an effort to play up what is a pretty cut and dry minor copyright case to wage your fucking war again. There were no levels stolen lmao. The game is a procgen slop
it's divine punishment for enjoying misery
>>545764217>Mod updates moved to discordI despise how popular this practice is getting
How do I install cotz with iwp? First cotz + update and then iwp on top?
>>545771462Install IWP > IWP second patch > cotz (via jsgme included with IWP). That's what I did at least.
>>545771462What the other anon said. CotZ is a specific version called 'Call of the Zone Quests and Mechanics for IWP (Indev 6.9)' on moddb - the standalone cotz mod won't work.
>>545772032>>545772118Thanks bratans, gonna be stalkan again after 10+ years. Do i use this https://www.moddb.com/mods/stalker-improved-weapon-pack/addons/absolute-nature-redux1 version of absolute nature? Also install with this jism thing? Wow things have changed.
>>545763586>I hate them for ruining 2 and releasing the cucked editions>how the fuck are they in the wrong>ruining 2 and releasing the cucked editionsAlready saying it yourself. I don't care if they're right. nuGSC can burn in hell.
>>545752828>Or how long until it does?unknown, though one russki guy asked in their shitcord if they'll release it this year and the dev said smth like probably or that it is their scope though they can't promise anything>>545772724>Do i use this https://www.moddb.com/mods/stalker-improved-weapon-pack/addons/absolute-nature-redux1 version of absolute nature?yes, you can also use autumnal winds>Also install with this jism thing? you can use JSGME, though Mod Organizer 2 is better and it won't fuck up your installation unlike JSGME in certain situations
>>545775301>Mod Organizer 2ty
>>545755191GSC literally released all the devkit tools and source code for the original games when they disbanded and said "do what you want with it", you retarded tourist.
>>545755773>>545762248>>545764935https://imgur.com/a/collection-of-proof-that-indie-game-misery-stole-content-from-gsc-game-world-they-have-also-stolen-guitar-songs-including-dirge-from-planet-audio-cannot-be-posted-on-imgur-2PzjxUN>ignore the stolen assets>pretend it's some political thing against le poor russoids and act like they're the victims in anything
What's your comfiest mod/way to play stalker? For when you don't want any grindy or hard gameplay and whatnot, but just a maximally comfy and atmospheric trip into the Zone.
>>545785516OLR
>>545784171I won't bother with Fmodel to see if this is true, but these are all Mi-24 and the Misery game only uses a grey Mi-6 model.
Kek Platypus arguing over folk songs now. Are there any other videos on this?
>>545789461>GSKIs he dyslexic or something?
>>545783813nta but you're wrong. the source code was leaked without their consent. they only released sdk with the intention for it to be used to create multiplayer maps. they never officially disbanded, griga just fired everyone in 2011, and no one released anything on this occasion apart from the canceled s2 concept arts. the reason why standalone mods are a thing is because after 2011, gsc consisted literally of just griga himself, and he simply didn't give a shit about whatever the fuck people are doing with stalker. one member of nugsc said a few years ago that they aren't happy about the fact that people are playing games that use their assets for free, because it's not that different from piracy. but anomaly became way to popular for them to try and to anything about it, it would result in giant backlash. the fact that they first forced modders to put links for buying the trilogy in menus of standalone mods and now put anomaly on gog with the requirement of owning cop shows that they are trying to do something about it. but it's too late anyway. >you retarded tourist chill it anon, chill it.
>>545789625I saw this on other forums as well, they may be scared about filters, or it might be a language issue
>>545790331GSC = Grygorovych Sergiy ConstantinovichIn Russian, that's Гpигopoвич Cepгeй Кoнcтaнтинoвич = ГCК = GSK.
>>545790745Grigorovich only recently Ukranianised(?) his name though, yet the studio name has always been GSC.
>>545751058yeah its an ak74 and they put a different mag on it
>>545790942? In Ukrainian it's Cepгiй Кocтянтинoвич Гpигopoвич/Serhiy Kostyantynovych Hryhorovych, so it would be HSC/HSK, depening wheter it would be a direct translieration or not. Back when he created the studio he just went with Russian and an English version of his patronym, hence the C and not K.
misery dc is discovering what IPs are for the first time KEKAROOO
>>545793328>russians discover western copyright laws for the first timebleaque
>>545790019maybe I'm misremembering things, but I'm pretty sure they said mods were okay and were happy to see them being made, but that definitely was some time ago if it's even true. >chill it anon, chill it.Sorry anon, I've interacted with too many retards today.
https://imgur.com/a/collection-of-proof-that-indie-game-misery-stole-content-from-gsc-game-world-they-have-also-stolen-guitar-songs-including-dirge-from-planet-audio-cannot-be-posted-on-imgur-2PzjxUNLMAOthis website is really the center of the internet huh
>>545795670imgur is?
>>545795815i was talking about 4chanthe pics posted here and in a /v/ thread last night are already on reddit
>>545796218Oh yeah. Everyone comes here but everyone also denies it.
>>545785516I liked to play og CoC with OWR, Lost to the Zone: Storylines, Autumnal Winds and other smaller addons in the past. The way sin is portrayed in LttZ is ass, but I still admire the effort the author went through to make a quest addon for CoC in the old days
>>545795670Platypus doesn't see this as proof.
>>545793328>>545793692Topkek, it's like something you would have seen back in the greenlight days or such, or even older on youtube with the likes of machinima or a show>some kid or sped just completely rips something off or puts their own "spin" on it>utter shock and surprise ensues when you can't monetize someone else's work jammed into your abomination
>>545798330Yeah that's going to hold up real nice in court. "Your honor, I don't see the evidence as proof"
>>545798330BLYAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAT WHAT YOU OF MEANINGN I CANT STEAL AND LIE? URRAAAAAAAAHHHH IDI NAHUI DEBIL SUKATHAT IS NOT PROOF WHERE ARE THE PROOFS????
>>545799427>Stealing my post to dab on someone stealing stuffI'm going to turn you inside-out, Vasha
>>545799685sorry i just liked it so much it reminded me of the good ol days of 2014it legit made me laugh a lot, thanks and sorry again
>>545800241I'm fucking with you nonny, glad you got a laugh out of it and saw fit to bring it here, my aim was exactly those old posts around that era.(Funnily enough, that proofs file is something I saved around 10 years ago and has made it across a few hard drives)
>>545800763https://files.catbox.moe/45bf50.webmi was there, i rememberthe /pol/ threads were hysterical, and much better than post-2016 /pol/
>>545739663>Open stalker v thread>Nothing stalker or of worth being discussed >Close windowBeen like that for quite some time im afraid.
>>545801041Matches up when I stopped browsing /pol/ too, board took a nosedive around 2016.
>>545801041better times, funnier times. Glad I could remind you of that even if I spooked you for a moment.
Give me the rundown on the Misery thing. Are GSC striking it because they're stealing the stalker "aesthetic"? That would be hilarious seeing as GSC ripped off Roadside Picnic entirely and they rely on the fact that it's a Soviet novel so it has no real copyright protections.If the Misery devs outright ripped assets directly from the STALKER games then these idiots deserved to get fucked though. You're making a pixelshit game, there's no reason you can't create handmade pixelshit copies from scratch.
>>545801041Also>proofs it was a better time?but yeah, not worth a look in anymore, no yucks left
>>545801935Werent soviet things grandfathered to present copyright law there?
>>545798330>discord faggotry>this literal nobody has an opnion about nobody gives a shitwowkill yourself now>>545801041kill yourself
>>545801428/pol/ was and always will be absolute irredeemable shit.
>>545802343I don't actually know but usually when massive reconstructions like that happen, it just creates a giant clusterfuck where no one knows exactly who the rights should be grandfather to, or what aspects should be protected, which allows people to easily cheat the system. If someone is more knowledgeable about this then feel free to correct me but as far as I know, GSC didn't pay a single cent to the Strugatsky brothers or any publishers. They entirely ripped off ideas, aesthetics, themes, and plotpoints from roadside picnic without any punishment, so I don't particularly care if other game devs do the same to STALKER. Stealing assets directly is a different matter, though.
>>545803876anon can you give me the link of that health mod skin you're using again, please?i lost it and forgot to book mark it :(
>>545801935No you stupid faggot, they literally stole assets and plagiarized copyrighted music tracks >>545795670https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6bXRA-oVQQENo one with more than 2 braincells gives a shit about the dev being a zigger, or the fact that his discord is also just full of ziggers and subhumansHe crashed out almost immediately as soon as the game got taken down, started flinging shit everywhere (but mostly in GSC's direction) and is now in panic mode as reddit is doing his thing and witchhunting him for wrongthink> Are GSC striking it because they're stealing the stalker "aesthetic"?That is literally what the dev first accused them of doing so, but then the actual stolen assets got discovered, and he ran away to chat-gtp asking to wrote a full apologyThe fact that this retard is literally purging his discord server as we speak, to make sure people don't figure out how much of an additional dumbass he is after making a fool of himself in fronto everyone, should tell you how embarrassingly immature and stupid he actually is>im gonna steal assets and then pretend im a targeted person, that'll work!Fucking faggot lmoatl;dr retarded 19yo zoomer stole assets to make a game, sold said game on the Steam store, then screeched at the top of his lungs that "le ebiiil ukrops are targeting me because my game is more popular than their game!" when, inevitably, the assets owners came knocking at his doortl;dr of the tl;drfaggot russian gets punk'd, laughter ensues
>>545806226>That is literally what the dev first accused them of doing soIf that's how this started then GSC are whiny bitches lmao. Miss me with your shit, pepsiman.But yes, stolen assets were found, if these Misery guys straight up took the music files from STALKER and shoved them into their own game and then sold it, then these retards deserve to get their shit taken down. I have no sympathy for them.
Imma demo_record_1 directly between your mom's tiddies
>>545805353https://www.moddb.com/mods/stalker-anomaly/addons/bhs-interactive-skinjust search BHS or body health system bro
>>545807062are you fucking retarded?
>>545809385Gurza and Dirge
>>545806226>tl;dr of the tl;dr>faggot russian gets punk'd, laughter ensues*russian kid plays himself, now he has to remove assets and republish game.the peanut gallery is irrelevant as always
>>545809385Are you a GSC ambassador or a Zigger? I can't tell what you're angry about. I don't care if other games are inspired by the stalker aesthetic, nigga. Get over it, GSC owes 80% of its aesthetic to books/movies/games that they will never openly acknowledge. But if they stole assets then they deserve to be struck down.Simple ass.
>>545812508>reddit spacing>retarded arguments>poor syntax>dense intelligence...You're the faggot from the other day.The retard that claimed he made the Stalker starting guide.Aren't you?
>>545813353>evangelioncelJust tell me which part of my post made you angry so I can rape you with my superior arguments. Is molt paying you or is it Putin? I hope you're not doing it for free.
good job guys
>>545814510Yeah you're that faggot alright.May I make a suggestion? kys___________________________________________________________________________________
Just won another debate.
Me too.
>>545813353I told you to take your fucking meds
>>545819116I did, and yet you're still here.
>>545819187Kek
>>545819187says a lot
Haven't played Stalker in a while, managed to save Nimble solo, without dying.Don't like how this game makes my graphics card run hot like I'm playing Helldivers though
>>545826614>12 fps
>>545826782It runs at 100 or more but I think it lowers the fps when I alt tab, like using Snipping Tool
>>545826614>>545826865F12 exists>Enhanced Editionwhy tho
>>545826990Thought I'd give it a try.I got a mod that makes the medkit crosses red again, and a mod that readds all the stuff the censored.Having a windowed mode that actually works is nice.
>>545827139>Having a windowed mode that actually works is nice.huh?
>>545827956In Vanilla version whenever I would set it to windowed it'd be stuck in one corner of the screen.
I think the EH cheevos are broken because when I cleared out all the bandits to save Nimble it gave me the achievement for doming Tolik.Either that or Tolik is so unlucky that I somehow shot him.
>>545828125for me, thats actually preferred is using a single monitor and streaming, however "-center_screen" works to center a windowed mode game
This is an old post, but I'm sure Maewing still holds these beliefs.
>>545830929>and you are allowed to sell stuff that includes someone elses property as long as it falls under parodyThis nigga can't be serious.
>>545827139>a mod that readds all the stuff the censored.link? please
>>545832212https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3485133010
>>545830929hes conflating making something from scratch loosely associated with something else, so either an homage or a parodywith actual asset theft and 1:1 recreation of assets, models and musicgranted hes only 19 so he thinks he can argue semantics with a judge, but i wasn't expecting russians to be so law illiterate
>>545832260oh this is not what you meantthis is jut surface level shit90% of the stuff is still gone, like level proprs (the NPP sign as an example)
Does anyone have the image of Kirby getting destroyed by an anomaly as someone yells, "KIRBY NYET"?
>>545832437>the NPP sign as an exampleIt was restored in one of the patches.
>>545834093Here, bratan
>>545832437Damn really?Oh well. I just looted Strelok's hideout, and I haven't died once.I think they made the game easier.Or it's because I fell for the play on Master meme for my first playthrough.
>>545835029Just as I remember it. Thanks stalker
>>545834430ok how about everything else
>>545835870Master doesn't make the game easier, thoughbeit?
>>545840981I know, I'm playing on Stalker for my second playthrough, but for my first one years ago I played on Master.
>>545841141Oh, fair enoughYeah that's why, as many would you want you to think otherwise, the Stalker trilogy is really hard to replay more than once-twice
>>545841930Honestly out of the three, Clear Sky was my favorite.I didn't even finish Pripyat and dropped it after the fight through the metro tunnel with Zulu and the gang.So now I'm playing with fresh eyes.And also because I know Fallout 4 will just disappoint me again.
>anthology 2.0 is in open betaOh thats sweet, has anyone played it yet?
>>545846756stil horribly buggy, the authors refuse to help anyone in their discord that doesnt speak russianthey've also started to realize that no one wants to replay a poorly remade soc -> cs -> cop full storyline, so they're adding GAYMMAtroon addons and modlets
>>545847623But is it worth a playthrough?
>>545848031play fucking what? it's just anomaly but horribly souped with 70+ dogshit levels and 15 new useless factions
>>545848401>it's just anomaly but OP 2.2I asked for this
>>545848667no it's nothing like op 2.2unironically the joint pak at least has some quality and balance to itthe anthology mod is just one giant massive soup of everything, including GAMMA, EFP, RTTN, every fucking mod ever released in the last 15 years, and moreit's the soup to end all soups.
>>545850651It's also a sea of ridiculous codependencies, so when you're doing something out of turn or otherwise do something esoterically forbidden, Anthology just decides to shit the bed and you'll be spending four hours troubleshooting what you did wron, then to repeat the process again.
Tried booting my old CoC save but it just doesn't hit the same way as when I started playing STALKER brehsIs the spark gone or should I simply try something new?
>>545850651>potato masherbleeding vatniks
>>545852742I guess this depends in large part on where do you see the appeal of stalker. If it's the setting and the atmosphere, try a new mod. If it's the gameplay, well, take a break maybe. Also why not start a new game? I find myself discouraged from playing any game under the sun if I'm continuing an old save which I know nothing about, have forgotten what I was supposed to do, have none of the momentum etc.
>>545854904I like the atmosphere the most, definitely. I don't lean too much on the story aspect of STALKER and that's why I played CoC as a sandbox, but I still grew somewhat bored of the small variety of missions.It's hard to put into words but I liked the atmosphere of Cordon in SoC and the Jupiter from CoP, doing small but meaningful errands here and there that may not change much but still add or change things here and there. No high stakes or feeling pressured into doing XYZ thing, just slav Zone atmosphere in raw.
>>545832437>>545832315They gave up and are removing everything
>>545856226>..t-these were just easter eggs..... on my FAVORITE game...!!!.... how could you.....Gotta love the guilt tripping kekw
>>545856679To be fair it is sad to have to remove your easter eggs of your favorite game but goddamn man enough is enough.
What I'm afraid about is all the fan content for all the other games like DayZ, GMod, Arma etc. People just ripped content directly from the older games (and sometimes even from Stalker 2) and often run it on servers with donations enabled. Will GSC strike them down too for using ripped content from their games? Grigorovich is such a fuckwad, seriously
>>545858280Hryhorovych*
>>545858280You people are worrying about nothing. This is a one off DMCA on a specifically paid game, also made by some people who are very open, very radical supporters of the 'smo'. They aren't going all out copyrighting everyone nintendo way, or they'd also strike down Dead Air (dev is a zigtard I believe) and, as you said, all of those servers. I genuinely believe that the only precedent that may be set by this event is GSC DMCAing actually openly paid games on public stores that rip their assets, which is pretty goddamn fair. I've still no idea as to how people justify a paid game ripping off assets from another paid game.
>>545858337Don't really care, been using his name in that form for last 15 years. It's just hilarious to me that the guy who built his whole company on taking someone else's ideas and making them into games is now striking others for doing the same thing
>>545858708>taking another game's licensed assets and using them in your game = taking some writers' ideas and using them in your game
>>545856226>>545811494
>>545691979>>545695561X-Ray truly is a remarkable engine. It's amazing how GSC managed to create one of the most groundbreaking video games in history on this engine that runs like a Jenga tower.
>>545721597>>545722257I understand that people are pissed at GSC for going after this kid and his tiny passion project but It's hard to defend him when he literally stole full textures from the game. Come on, he HAD to know that would get him into trouble.
>>545556639>>545558076Patch 1.6 is supposed to rewrite the story and add A-life, so you can wait if you want.Idk what you've played already, but True Path is a few years old SoC mod that just got translated. You play as Quartet after Monolith-2 operation goes wrong and travel the Zone in order to link up with your squad. It's very heavy on mutant combat, a bit harsh and janky at times, but it's still very fun and has great moments. Lots of side activities and secrets. Through the Perimeter to the Dreams is a demo for an upcoming mod and it feels novel and original. Few hours long and worth checking out.Voice Episode 1 and 2 are build themed mods. First one is short and poorly made, but the second is one of my favorite mods. They're not connected so you can play 2 right away. It has multiple new locations, well written story with multiple endings and a couple of secrets and side tasks. All the good lesser known mods off the top of my head.
>>545744779Is this Snowy's Restoration? Does it make CoP feel fresh or is it just visuals?
>>545871396>It was not impossible to create S.T.A.L.K.E.R. on the X-Ray Engine. It was impossible to create it on anything else.
Any other anons play with winter mods over the IRL winter season?
I hope nu-GSC's IP team goes full retard and starts going after standalone mods as well as any mods that require the GOG releases that don't fit their personal political views, like keeping too much Soviet imagery in the map assets which violates point 2438796 of their modding EULA.Dumb faggots gave zero fucks about IP law themselves for all the years old GSC existed since mentally Ukrainians and Russians were exactly the same in the 2000's and now that they feel like proud Evropeans they're gonna try and retroactively undo decades worth of fan content, killing off any and all good will of the community as well as killing the modding scene, because NOW they feel like IP laws matter and that they have to protect their IP.The dumbass EULA of the console trilogy re-release telling you what you can and cannot do in terms of modding is just the stepping stone towards nu-GSC eviscerating themselves through their own shortsightedness and stupidity.
>>545882095>like keeping too much Soviet imagery in the map assets which violates point 2438796 of their modding EULA.Proofs? Not saying I don't believe it's possible. Modern developers are such clowns. Still need proofs.
>>545871396The really cool part is that it runs on a truly cursed architecture that is practically about as intuitive as cracking ciphers. Once you do get a hang of it, it's still like a poorly trained dog that shits and pisses everywhere, but god can it really do some amazing tricks once you start training it.
>>545882095>one dmca on a paid game means they will now dmca literally every free modHow were you even able to write that post out? Did you have to spell it out to your assigned tard wrangler?
>>545881360It still looks like autumn here, so I'm largely playing with autumn mods. When snow actually starts to fall (hopefully) I will switch to winter mods too. Not a whole ton of good ones besides project inverno, but oh well.
>>545882363>Proofs?It's a hypothetical. nu-GSC already retroactively removed Soviet imagery in the console trilogy re-releases, basically shitting all over the work of old GSC where they've recreated an abandoned area that was last inhabited during the Soviet Union, because of nu-GSC newly found political beliefs they haven't had since 2008 or 2014 but only since 2021, as well as enforcing a heavily restrictive EULA on modding these console trilogy re-releases.It's all a pattern of behavior that tells me that:>nu-GSC wants to put a stranglehold on STALKER modding to make profit off of fan content>nu-GSC wants to enforce their political views on fan creations restricting creative freedomTo which I can only say: good, go full steam ahead, see where that gets you.>>545883114See above. Pattern of behavior. Old GSC made everyone comfortable with using and abusing STALKER assets, so some Russian kid used it in a game he planned to sell, so nu-GSC went after him as it was an easy target, but it's just another action to add to this pattern. I won't be surprised if nu-GSC starts DMCAing fan mods for using their assets now that they 180'd on the decision of 2011 GSC.
>>545855446maybe take a look at Legend Returns, if you haven't already. If it still bores you then play a story mod or take a break from stalker or create your own mod
>>545883562Alright, I get you. Although, I think any modding restriction is mostly directed towards console users. Microsoft/Snoy aren't going to allow bouncing bloodsucker titty mods on their platform in a million years. Or worse, mods that steal a bunch of Metro assets and whatever legal liabilities that come with it. So Microsoft/Snoy most likely forced GSC to draw up restrictions that would give them justification to take down your mod for any reason. What it will come down to is how it's enforced. If they really do start targeting mods (especially PC exclusive mods) because they're too favorable towards Russia/Soviet Union, then GSC are a bunch of retards and don't deserve to have their modding community. The best you can hope for is that the PC modding scene is left unrestricted. I 100% that if some Zigger pro-russia slopmod will be banned from making its way to consoles though. Microsoft/Sony/GSC will be lockstep in preventing it.
>>545852742>Is the spark goneThe spark always comes back. Have you tried Chernobyl Freeplay?https://www.moddb.com/mods/chernobyl-freeplay
>>545881360I usually wait until the end of November before i turn on Winter because i'm horribly autistic. Reshading or texturing can be a bit of a pain in most cases, so i usually just use autumn/winter skyboxes and ambiance mods so that it won't break any modpack/graphics mod codependencies. A part of me wants to try something like Inverno, but i'll just pretend it's like the winters that usually occur in Central Europe. Muddy and grey.
>>545883562>retroactively removed Soviet imagery in the console trilogy re-releasesYou can't remove something "retroactively" in a new release. The old trilogy is still there, unchanged.>newly found political beliefs they haven't had since 2008 or 2014 but only since 2021Kalancha/Beanpolev hums Ukrainian national anthem in one of his greeting voicelines in CS. In the Ukrainian localisation of the trilogy, Freedom stalkers tell slightly edited nationalist jokes about russians. Griga told in one of his interviews that old GSC took part in 2004 maidan, and there's a bunch of references to it in the files, including an unused radio song and a freedom combat voiceline "Svobodu ne ostanovit", and Griga himself was pro-maidan in 2014 as well. If you think they've always been some apolitical USSR enjoyers and then the new team did a sudden 180 turn, you're retarded.>enforcing a heavily restrictive EULA on modding these console trilogy re-releasesThose restrictions are placed by the mod publishing platforms, namely mod.io, not GSC. You can mod the PC versions any way you like. The only thing they ask for now is to include a link to the originals if your mod is standalone, I think.Amazing, it's like you deliberately tried to get every single point wrong in that sentence.>I won't be surprised if nu-GSC starts DMCAing fan mods for using their assets nowRight after they advertised fucking Anomaly on their website. Take your fucking psy-block.
G.A.M.M.A.
>>545566741guitar is probably one of the worst things to carry in the zone.harmonica is much cooler
>>545892113harmonica music is fucking trash, and (You) should reconsider all your life choices. I'd gladly remove harmonicas out of every mod ever. there's simply no comparison as to just how much better and more atmospheric guitar music is.
>>545891705it doesn't fake base-building
>>545894942you feel ok with yourself after posting that?
>>545872057Right up until i saw he was selking it for $big no no.remember when metro devs told misery mod to remove the saiga? because it was from metro?Thats not even being sold, and they still shit their pants about it.
>>545899840yupi love building bases in gamma
>>545858280>what I'm afraid about isAre those charging money and pretending to be a standalone game giving money to a "dev" team? >all this other faggotryStop playing victim. The guy you're defending tried to sell someone else's work, and you're coping in some bizarre patriotism for the "developer's" country of origin despite potentially not even living there.
>>545883562Point out one (1) example where "old GSC" allowed some other developer to sell a game using assets stolen from GSC titles. You can't.
>>545904067I didnt ask if you were gay.
>>545881360>project I.N.V.E.R.N.O. was made by a shitalian>barely works and the dev, in classic wop style, dipped after the first releases
>>545858280donations are a loopholegrey area of legality because there is no requirement to play the game+content
>>545858280>NOOOOOOOOOO LEAVE THE ZIGGER ALONE!!!!!
>analmeme>dead city merc base>door behind douchemanIs there a key for this, or is the gun trick the only way to open it up?
this whole MISERY bullshit is honestly exhaustingit wasnt enough that every relevant stalker modder suddenly took a break to play this unity dogshit gamebut now the drama is getting mainstream, and you can beat your fucking cockles it will become a diplomatic accident because neither ukrops or orcs can stay in their fucking lanes
>Cheeki Breeki has been an english-speaking french stalker content creator for 7 years>still has an insane french accent 7 years laterI'm mad and I don't know why.
>>545917676>it wasnt enough that every relevant stalker modder suddenly took a break to play this unity dogshit gamedid they now, I sure didn't.a quick look at the gfx in a youtube video was enough to tell me I dont want to play it.I'm not even a dumb gfx whore, I just dont like the minecraft-ish style
>>545918769An accent is something you have to practice intently to remove. It's not something that comes with just talking english regularly.
>this is the map of A.N.T.H.O.L.O.G.Y. 2.0i appreciate the effort that went into porting and populating so many different mapsbut this has the exact same problem the OP-2.2 hasmany of those levels are inaccessible unless you have a specific quest from a specific NPC that is for some stupid reason A-Life'd, which means they can die at any moment without you ever being aware of itwhat we want is, unironically, more freeplay slop.so make a modpack that can be freeplay'd.
>>545927793>An accent is something you have to practice intently to remove. It's not something that comes with just talking english regularly.BULLSHIT, YOU'RE LYING
>>545929453https://files.catbox.moe/p2wi15.jpg if any bratan wants the full 10000x10000 .dds conveniently converted into .jpg because the actual .dds is 300MBs
>>545929453>>545929867>F O U R (4) (NÚMERO CUATRO) fucking CordonsThis is why I hate modders sometimes.It's time to stop, eventually. Y'know.
>>545929453Freeplay would be perfect if faction objectives/quests were heavily more fleshed out and they did some form of functional integration between story mode (faction quest)/warfare mechanics to incentivize the conflict between specific factions. Right now there's the simultaneous version, but it gets ridiculously chaotic when key NPCs just get klepped by Monolith some four to five hours in.
>>545930635yeah thats exactly what im talking aboutmad kudos for tardwrangling 15 years of custom modder mapsbut ffs at least make the game freeplayable
>>545929867>that one forested map bigger than both CNPP levels combinedI... kinda want to play that.
>>545929453I see at least 5 different versions of Yantar, Rostok and Garbage.What the fuck?
>>545929453DEGTYAREV YOU OF STUPIDIT IS BEING SO SIMPLE????
>>545931935It should have Monolith squatting every square inch of concrete with snipers.
first for STALKER 2
>>5459334572nd for activate windows you thirdy muppet
>>545933457is the winter mod for stalker 2 as good as I.N.V.E.R.N.O. is?asking for a fr-AAaacCCCCCCCCKKKKKKKKKK
>>545935028>10:11 Vadya Cheeki, BanditJust now I saw a Loner get sucked into a Whirlwig. Poor bastard, let's drink to him!
>>545929453What's the location left of SoC Pripyat? Never seen that before in any other mod.
How do I go to any underground locations in IWP + CotZ? I tried going to the agropom underground but it gave me a message "you cannot go further" or something. I tried talking to Doc in the swamps but he didn't give any quests either.
>>545801935the only outright stolen asset i know of was a helicopter model from soc thats unused that was left in the files, supposedly an accidentally left in placeholder. Dirge for the planet and gurza dreaming are also apparently in the game, but those are not copyrighted by GSC afaik.
>>545801935>>545830929
>>545871396Imagine Stalker modding if all modders actually worked together instead of making 30 forks of the engine.
>>545949767there are maybe like 12 notable forks and a lot of them do share with each other.
dont care, still playing gamma
>>545942848Nevermind I got a main quest to go to the underground which unlocked it. The fire tunnel is so fucking aids.
>>545935028tf is inferno bruh
dont care, you re still gay
dont care, your mother will still die in her sleep tonight
unc mfs do anything but post stalker 2 baka
>>545963481take it back right meow!!!
>IWP dev got salty that the mod's content was being ported to Anomaly>Yet IWP still has weapon bloat with meme ammo calibersSounds like a hypocritical fag
>>545970620>>Yet IWP still has weapon bloat with meme ammo calibersAnd it doesn't really matter because once you get a 7.62 semi-auto using anything else will eel like gimping yourself.
>>545929453it's... it's beautiful
>>545971302Yea the ttk being low is kind of nice. Might as well ask, do you know where a Veles can be found that isn't crazy expensive? Nimble sells one but it is 120k.
>>545975678No idea, when I played IWP I found a Veles in a stash or got it as a reward from a quest in Cordon in like the 2nd hour of my playthrough which made me question many things about the pack.
>>545976471You got super lucky then I haven't found anything great in any marked stash after looting over a dozen of them, maybe some mid tier helmetless armor but that's it.
>>545929453>problem
I'm having issues with Stalker 2 as in 60% of the time I load a save, the game will crash when I press a key on the 'press key to continue' prompt.It seems completely random as the same save sometimes will load, sometimes will crash which makes the game unplayble because I'm a retard who dies a lot.I already tried validating the game files, when that didn't work I reinstalled the game from scratch and started the new save but that didn't fix the problem.Anyone with the same issue? Any idea on what could cause this?
>>545984379>Any idea on what could cause this?It's called playing a shitty half baked game, try uninstalling.>>545933457>>545961907>>545964545Why are you posting these? Nothing is happening in them + it's S2
>>545929453>>545929867>300mb DDS>both buildo and retail versions of maps included>like three different versions of Rostok/BarI'm getting serious Lost Alpha vibes from this. As in, "We just added it because we could". It even includes the Countryside map from LA near the bottom. It's cool and all but there's no fucking way the devs will cleverly utilize every one of those maps. Hell, I'm surprised they didn't include that life-size version of Pripyat!
Low ttk has no place in stalker, what's the point of getting strong weapons if any shitty gun can do the job well?Enemies being bullet sponges force you to think outside the box and save ammo even if it's plentiful. If you want low ttk in your mod at least make the ai super fast and run everywhere so at least you put more effort in killing them.
>>545992460Agreed anon, that's why I can't stand IWP for all the good it does. Early game headshots should matter, heavy armour and exos should definitely matter and it should take end game weaponry with AP ammo to drop an exo with any meaningful speed.
But why?
>>545992460It works if you balance it correctly. Armour, ammo economy, recoil, and enemy accuracy has to be accordingly tweaked to make higher tiers of enemies actually more difficult. IWP doesn't do this well, higher armour tiers still have woeful resistance to gunfire. I'd ideally make certain cartridges worse at certain things, such as 7,62x51mm being less effective on unarmoured/lightly armoured targets without JHP (blah blah overpenetration, blah blah blah poor terminal ballistics) but make up for that by giving it a sweet spot that's a bit further out so it's still great for sniping. I don't know if that's possible in engine, but I think it would add a bit of depth to weapon choice and some lateral wiggle to otherwise mostly linear weapon progression.
>>545984379idk anon are all your drivers up to date? is your GPU amd or nvidia?>>545988529>too poor to run stalker 2lol
>>545996709nothing will match anya in metro exodus
>>545996709Absolutely pathetic. Can't wait for some retard to develop feelings for a fan-made model.
>ZIGGER>HOHOL>ZIGGER>HOHOL>ZIGGER>HOHOL>ZIGGER>HOHOL>ZIGGER>HOHOLFucking bury the entire STALKER community under five tonnes of rubble at this point.>captcha: NYOKO
misery dev wiping channels now. they cooked fr fr.
>>545984379Did you ever install UE4SS? If so, you're going to need to uninstall the game, nuke any last trace of UE4SS, then reinstall.
>>545996709>some niche 'tardmod I haven't even heard of beforewhy should I care?
>>545996709If i can date a smelly drunk bandit girl my dick's gonna explode.
>>546011005I would not say that Complete is niche.
>w-what will our heckin diverse and multicultural western folx of gaming think of the slavoid chud writings????>we have to replace them with versions for the modern audiences!That mod is so cringe, it's actually barely even believable.
>>546014821It's a mod anon, it won't affect their bottom line.Also, diversity is strenght if done well.
>>546014821That's so fucking lame.
>>546018306>It's a mod anon, it won't affect their bottom line.What does that have to do with them making retarded changes in the mod? I'm not advocating for it to be scrapped off moddb, I'm just pointing out that a lot of the mods' design elements are plainly cringe.>Also, diversity is strenght if done well.Not if those who advocate for it want to reimagine literally everything to fit their new modern and diverse audience, instead of making the audience fit the game.
>>545929453>>545929867>>545992390>5 different dark valleys>3 different rostoks\bars\wild territories>4 different cordons>FIVE different garbages>3 FUCKING radars and brain scorchers>at least 3 different yantars...I mean, quantity doesn't automatically mean quality, y'know?That's horseshit, I wonder how bad the fucking modpack runs with all this shit, which is confirmed by their authors that is 100% a-life ready with stalkers, mutants, anomalies and artifacts in every map.
>>545996709is this the mod with he white washed sheva alomar stalkers? lmao
>>546014821I can't wait for the next SoC mod that completely removes the game's cultural identity personally. Every NPC even bandits speaking in clearly enunciated US/UK Standard English, anglicized names, yellow paint for directionally challenged players, removed the baked-in corpses as seen in X-16, etc. Nobody should get to have an identity if these fucking faggots want to play this game.
>>546021835uuuhhh truestalker is that way, anon
>>545996709>Featuring Jill Valentine from the Resident Evil seriesslop kino
>>545984379>>546008517dont do this bro. just change these in your ue4ss settings file[Hooks]HookProcessInternal = 1HookProcessLocalScriptFunction = 1HookInitGameState = 0HookLoadMap = 0HookCallFunctionByNameWithArguments = 0HookBeginPlay = 0HookLocalPlayerExec = 0HookAActorTick = 0HookEngineTick = 0HookGameViewportClientTick = 0FExecVTableOffsetInLocalPlayer = 0x28if you arent using ue4ss and your game is crashing then idk bro
>>545930126>>545931294>>546021117The devs could spin it as "parallel universes/locations due to zone fuckery" but they won't.
my blood pressure reached 170 todaymodpack for this feeling, bratans?
>>545918769>>545927793>frenchFrench people are NEVER going to make an effort to speak proper English because they think it's beneath them.
>>546028493AMK, lock yourself in a room with an electro-chimera
>>546032240They are right since 50% of the English vocabulary comes from French/Latin.
>>546028493Misery ironman.
I FUCKING HATE THE RED FOREST
>>546040352its not had desu
>>546033112that math aint right
>>546042780https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/English_language#Word_origins
>>546014821stupid shit.if you're playing a game set in slaavland, and you want to know what a sign says, and you cant be fucked to look shit up or learn a bit of the language; you're a faggot and should kill yourself.
>>546042867>jewpediano. retard.
>>545995485>>545992460protip: getting shot with 7.62x51 will make you hurt, a lot.
>>545984379I get the same shit with gunslinger. Turning off windows defender and whitelisting everything for that worked.I was finally able to complete the game.
>>546042596say that to the six billion lurkers trying to rape my bandit ironman ass
>>546033112No they aren't, they're irrelevant faggots who thankfully are committing self extermination.
>>546042867did you even read thst shit?
>>546044781>memeomolyoh...
>>546021835>removed the baked-in corpses as seen in X-16Something I've been thinking about lately is how STALKER 2 lacks so much edge. In the old games (particularly SoC) you would find mangled corpses scattered throughout the place, heads on spikes, weird alien testube babies, giant grotesque brains. STALKER 2 has none of that. It feels so bloodless, (literally. Even when you shoot people they rarely leave behind blood marks behind). The heads on spikes in Pripyat look so stupid because they're perfectly preserved and all use the exact same head model lmao. I'll give them credit for that one scene in the beginner zone where a man is impaled to the wall by metal spikes. The rest of the game needed more stuff like that.Add some more charred stalker bodies to flame anomalies, melted corpses in chemical anomalies, the chimera lair in Zaton should've been filled with rotting chunks of meat instead of those goofy Halloween ass perfectly preserved skeletons. GSC were too afraid of being edgy and it hurts the atmosphere of the game.
>>546045582Seek help.
>>546046652No. I need more creepy grotesque shit in my Zone.
>labyrinth transition point blocked because the zombie spawn right next to it got 1 pixel too close>now I have to clear out a cockroach zombie, a mosquito zombie and a mosquito zombie (aids field)why are OP2.2 devs such fucking sadists?
>>546045582Those details disappeared as early as CS, bratan.
Quiet guard duty...
>>546051509True. That's why SoC is still the best.
>>546050018OP is constant battle between the players and devs on who can fuck each other over more
>>546045582>that one scene in the beginner zone where a man is impaled to the wall by metal spikes. The rest of the game needed more stuff like that.There is more of this stuff in the game, there's plenty of corpses and blood puddles, though if you compare the scale of S2 and SoC, there's clearly less dead bodies per square kilometre. And I do agree that mummified bodies in almost intact clothes in Stalker 2 are not quite on the same level as SoC's bloodied half-eaten stalker bodies in Yantar and severed body parts scattered around X-16.>>546051509There were still corpse props and impaled heads in CS, just less of them. CoP is the one I can't remember seeing any of those things in.
>>546028493AMK 1.4CS rebornyou will still have fun
>>546045210Its not that bad, i finished the whole trilogy before playing it and just wanted more content. without playing stolker 2
>>546069454was just unaware you were referring to a mod, especially one that lets you adjust mutants spawns and such too.I thought vanilla Clear Sky, thats all
i just booted up S2 for no reason at all and lmao you still can't lean with a grenade
im addicted to my pda
>>546075184y tho
>>546083168i dont know i just stare at it all day, sometimes i get caught in anomalies because im not paying attention to the road, it is a serious issue
>>546086756>zoom zoom goes to the zone>pda replaces phone>walks into anomaly while staring at PDA>the endyes it is funny.
>>546092423nice
hahahaaAK74M go BRRRRR
>>545890113>Griga himself was pro-maidan in 2014 as well. was he really?
>>545918769>Cheeki Breeki is french>Anomalous Dugout is french>Gr*k is frenchhuh
>>545890113>You can't remove something "retroactively" in a new release.(You)
>>546112910Stalker being a niche franchise based on a novel sounds just like something the french would like.
>>546028493Lost Alpha for walking around and taking in the atmosphere.
>>546112769He was indeed. Russians were getting assmad over his facebook posts all the way back in 2014, calling him a maidanfag, a nazi and a banderite.https://pikabu.ru/story/vladelets_stalker__uchastnik_pravogo_sektora_na_kartinke_oshibka_survarium_on_ne_delaet_tam_lish_byivshie_uchastniki_ego_studii_2431783#commentshttps://pikabu.ru/story/sozdatel_stalker_otklonil_predlozhenie_priekhat_k_studentam_v_piter_4722511#comments>pic2014 was still a time when many people in Ukraine were only beginning to see russians for what they are and still kept repeating the "we're brothers with the same mentality" narrative by inertia, oftentimes referring to every slav from the former USSR by the collective term "russians" in opposition to "westerners", as seen on your pic, or "нepyccкиe" (non-russians), a somewhat broader term. He obviously didn't mean the people from the Russian Federation specifically, when he said that, rather anyone from the former Soviet Union.
>>546119020>a nazi and a banderiteGiven that's the flag under which the Wołyń massacre was executed, 100% deserved. Unless of course it's now cool and hip to glorify nailing babies to trees, skinning men alive and ripping out fetuses out of pregnant women because you can't say anything bad about Ukraine.
>>546124628
Can I just kill the hostile bandits near the Jupiter Plant in CoP, or are they still attached to some side-quest?
>>546129254The ones not far from the Concrete Bath anomaly? They're not involved in any quests, you can safely kill them.
>>546131849Yeah, these guys in your image. Thanks.
>>546121120>Unless of course it's now cool and hip to glorifyDunno, Poles seem to have no problem with glorifying their Armia Krajowa, who did those same atrocities to Ukrainian civilians, so maybe it is.>100% deservedHe was actually pretty moderate at the time, making a distinction between russians and the russian state, believing that regular ruskies are reasonable people who never supported the invasion, and its only their leadership who's at fault. But they still managed to get offended by that, of course.
>>546121120but enough about russia
>>546119020wow a ukrainian being pro ukrainian??the audacity....
Which upgrades to prioritize on assault rifles? Vanilla CoP.
>>546155672Flatness/accuracy > handling/recoil > reliability/rate of fireAt least that's what I do on the VSS/AS Val.
>>546155672flatness+accuracy, handling, reliability
>>546156042>>546156421I'm upgrading a Strelok's SGI-5k, which has a low rate of fire. I was deciding between flatness and fire rate.
>>546156560Fire rate is better as long as you can balance it by lowering recoil
>>546156560You'll be mainly using it on people so getting headshots is simpler than unloading half a mag into a dude. Flatness affects bullet speed and range.
i find it funny that Stalker spawned Tarkov, yet no stalker fan wants to be associated with that gamelike an abusive father disowning their weird alternative childi dream of a day where /sg/ and the SPT-AKI generals will be united into one
>>546157367reddit.
>>546157730>reddit.
>>545614989Ive been getting into it recently, its great. Basically imagine one of these more autistic stalker modders that want to change it a lot into the stalker of their dreams, except theyre an actual game dev and not a failed creative that will never move beyond mogging>>545634535Ive seen this sperg a lot. I honestly have no idea where he even decided the game is an "extraction shooter"Like hey, please define an extraction shooter.
>>545618761>occasionally annoying as fuck trying to tell who is and isn't hostileI honestly liked that and how the game actually rewards observation, unlike practically anything in stalkerIts really cool feeling to actually take a moment to pull your binoculars and inspect what the fuck is happening and having to worry about some little details, i never find myself having to do that in normal stalker
Really digging that the first real sidequest in True Stalker has you getting ambushed in a tunnel full of anomalies, where the guy directly in front of you will shoot you 9/10 times while coming out of the cutscene before you can actually do anything and the bandits at the other entrance immediately start chucking grenades in.I feel like all the fancy visuals are kind of moot when the actual game design feels like a typical stalker mod where the concept always comes before the execution.
>>546163653somehow modders still havent figured out that that cartoonish scripted contrived sequences of shootouts vs bandits isnt actually what people llike about stalker
>>546163653Because the people who figure shit out properly end up not actually finishing and releasing the mod, the team breaks up, and the main dev guy ends up making mobile racing games for a living.
Moderator Tejas spamming boomer memes
>>546157367>why are there 2 generals to discuss 2 different games
>>546172879>shitcordnobody cares
>>546157367Are you the same retard who kept trying to merge everything including stalker into /&tg/ some time back?
Has anyone tried S2 with the new game start and stalker unlimited mods? Sounds like a good freeplay setup.
how do you find the patience to sit there and listen to the voicelines when they show you the entire dialogue immediately
>>546185662no you fucking moron, people love to make tarkov more like stalker with fucking modsand people love to make stalker more like tarkov with modpacksi dont see why we can merge both since the SINGLEPLAYER audience for both is more or less the same?
>>546194824i tried it back in 1.4 or something... but you're kinda just stuck doing the same 5 types of jobs for traders, or just getting into random fights with the 'a-life'
>>546207717It isn't, though.
>>546211998it isn't what you fucking homosexual
How is S2? Was eying it off for the Chrissie sale, or should I just stick to GAMMA?
>>546213312>Chrissieyeah nah cunt
>>546213461Oi what you got a problem speccy cunt? Gimme more of a yarn or go choke on a durry like the derro you are ay.
>>546214090fuck me dead i think you've spat the dummy you fucken galahi was joking you cunt
>>546213312S2 is alright
>>546207717>no you fucking moron, people love to make tarkov more like stalker with fucking modsnta but no, they dont.you got that backwardsalso what does that have to do with his question?>i dont see why welol
>>546214730>fuck me deadWhat your bird was shrieking last night like a cocky while I gave her my cocky. Ain't here to fuck spiders moight.>>546214843Ta love.
>>546215521yea ricky ticky timbucktoo chim chimeny chim chim cheree and a side of fuck off faggot abbo cunt
I want the Australians to leave.
>>546216209yeah nah cunt>Melbourne exclusion zone, radioactive roosstrewth
>>546216437>vodka replaced by Bundy>shoot up ice instead of taking drugs>beastly wombats and roos>pseudogiant is now some mutated cassowaryFund it, fucken oath
how did skif survive the emission
>>546217667By hopping in a lead lined fridge, duh.
>>5462077172/10
>>546194824new game start is the most important mod to use in 2025. tf is unlimited?
any stalcraft gamers?
>>546014821Yeah complete sucks. Pavel has been taking credit for making the game sell for like 15 years.
>>546044000this, in 2025 too
>>546014821this doesn't sound like necessarily a bad idea but it's probably completely useless here
>>546204551There should only be voicelines when you're on a mission and not when you're in a base chilling, 99% of games today don't get it right, even S2.
>>546230930Why was stalker cursed with such a godawful manbaby modding community? At this point you have to isolate yourself from half the community overall to even have fun playing the games and not have to listen to retards screeching about their mods being literal god's gift.
>>546252038Maybe something about Slavic tribes, given how much Russians and Ukrainians have been whining and shitflinging for the past three or so years, acting like they're the center of the world that cannot be ignored.I mean, just look at the state of this general and tell me I'm wrong. For three years it's the same shit.
>>546258415Nigga, I replied to the post of some modmaker already being an obnoxious shit with a giant ego in 2009. Not that much slavic shitflinging back then. And Grok's ego is of course the unfortunate byproduct of the war, and not just him being the whiny cuck he is? Slavic shitflinging is bad for the community, no shit, but what I'm talking about seems to be a very different issue, rooted in something else.
Astonishing how good this looks.Winterized Stalker really grew on me, bratans.
this is accuratehttps://youtu.be/tPz5RCUjI1s?si=if0lov_zVE2hrsy_
>>546259472I usually turn the grass off when using winter mods.
>>546262795Eh I tried to play like that, but that much "snow" is not that fun in the long run because the contrast is too strong.Frozen grass is a good compromise. especially in levels like the Army Warehouses.
>>546259472i'm trying the dead-everything look because i got tired of stalkers shooting me through trees leaves or bushes
>>546264656How do you deal with Grass Tweaks not replacing the LOD trees in the back?They just turn dead the second you get any closer.
>>546266749those trees just stay that like when i get closei reinstalled grass tweaks and changed it to winter mode, same for "grass tweaks SSS terrain LOD compatibility", to winter mode.but i'm using C con grass (overgrown+winter) on top of it
>>546230394Did they finally add a PvE mode? I got tired of getting pot shotted by faggot campers around Rostok
>>546229489Unlimited is an overhaul mod mod that touches many aspects of the game, it sounded mostly good but it also mentioned having more "hardcore/brutal" combat which is a red flag. Any fucking mod which parades that always has aimbots that one shot you from a mile away regardless of what armor you're wearing.
>SOC>Grind out random bullshit for pretty much every faction for God knows how long to afford an Exosuit.>Even finish the Arena for the last 40,000 I need.>Fuck around for a bit doing more oddjobs>A Bandit with a shitty AK shooting me point blank is enough to do 1% to the suit >By the time I get to Red Forest the Exosuit is already half broken so it's basically a Sunrise Suit that I can't sprint in.BYLAAAAAAAAAAT!
I got the point where Duty and Freedom have their fight at the bottom of the hill to Pripyat.But because both sides were considered friendly, I just left them to kill each other while I took out the Monolith on the hill.I came back to find a single bloodsucker standing in the middle of the road, and everyone except dead except for a single Duty member bleeding on the ground.I hate this place so much, seriously.
>>546304543Have you tried not being so shit?
>>546312719Skill isn't the issue here, the issue is that this suit is too fuckin expensive for how little it does compared to everything else.
>>546312952It is though, I haven't touched SoC in ages but don't recall having any such issues. Only worked with one faction, got me suit pretty easily, wore it all the way to the end of the game. Skill issue.
>>546313562I probably spent God knows how many Exosuits worth of Rubles on just bullets alone, and I have good aim too, I just have to do a lot of killing.
>>546313980I don't really recall buying boolets much at all in SoC... You know you need to headshot, right? Skill issue.
>>546314328Yeah, and I hit my headshots.Like I said, I do a lot of shooting.
The exo suit is shittier than the bulat always.5% more bullet protection for shittier anomaly protection and inablity to sprint.Only in Cop it's a better alternative.
>>546304543I assume this is your first playthrough since SoC's economy is a joke; not a fan but this is why ANOMAGAMISERY make buying shit aids since it's a way you can limit the player from just finding and buying the best stuff instantly (not a very fun way to play IMO). The game spits an absurd amount of artifacts at you and leaves you like pic related in Agroprom.Anyway, the Exosuit is kind of shit in SoC because you can't sprint and you can get similar levels of bulletproof cap with the Skat-9 or even the Duty SEVA suit IIRC. I've never seen the appeal other than style points because not being able to run from fire let alone a rocket doesn't justify the protection you get. If you really really really wanted the extra +10kg it's better to just get endurance artifacts and be overburdened.
>>546315903Second actually.My first time I slogged through it on Master because I fell for the meme, this time it's on Stalker.
>groknigger is giving up and making traders sell weapons by default in the next updateRemember, bullying modders ALWAYS works.
>>546272846nah its still 100% pvp but if you play NA its pretty dead everywhere except the north and the bar, but there's a few ways in and once you're really ready to go to the bar your gear is good enough that the mutants around it are trivial so its relatively safe
>>546321258Great, artificial difficulty is always ass.
>>546321336I'll pass then
>>546321258literally no one plays gamma without purchasable gunsnot even grok himselfdude is a retarded moron and got humbled by the vatniks making antho lmao
>>546321258snork mask, artifact, gunsmithing kit and some mutant meat for an svd?
>>546313980this is the best kind of UI because you can see your guy
>>546313980the fuck is SR ?>>546321258its ok, they will complain about something else.now it will be too easy, yaddayaddaalso fuck gamma
>>546326549stalker rubles
>>546321258>GAYMAWho cares
>>546326549Stalker Rewards.Cash in enough of them and you get a jacket.
Didn't realise people here had such loathing for GAMMA, why?
no.
>>546316026Clear sky is going to be tuff on ya, i still have grenade ptsd.
>>546327383hating on gamma is the cool thing to do
>>546328262I already finished Clear Sky and most of Pripyat before.All on Master.I liked Clear Sky the most the first time around but I might change my opinion.By skipping it this time.
>>546327383they dontits just cool to hate [popular thing]
>>546328456>>546330863Buy an ad Grok
i'm going in
>>546341480what is this
>>546342370a load of stuffhttps://www.nexusmods.com/stalker2heartofchornobyl/mods/939?tab=description
>>546342775Hosting mods on Nexus instead of the eternal ModDB was a silly move.
>>546337991Describe 3 bad things about GAMMA then, if you're not just shitposting.
I got the Disappear ending and then forgot where to go to open the secret door, so fuck it.Really I just wanted to get SoC over with so I can finally play through CoP for real this time.
>>546344449grokno weapon lolgrokthe bloball the retards it churns outkill yourself
>>546345928May as well have not posted then, absolute trash 0/10.
>>546347645you are correct.you shouldn't have even bothered.
>>546327383The dev is one of the most pathetic manbaby narcissists I've ever seen. Redditards love to worship him and suck on his balls, since they're redditors of course. As a small off the top of my head example, I remember there being a post on r/stalker asking for modpacks for anomaly aside for gamma, since op has already played a lot of it and wanted to try something else. Grok was in the comments already, 'Why not GAMMA?', 'You can configure it, you know... people are too lazy for two clicks.' He literally can't comprehend everyone worshipping him and his shite modpack 24/7.The fanbase is cancer too. There's a lot of normal people, but also a lot of screaming tarkovtards who think that stalker is all about running about with western guns with 5 attachments ontop, and the 'magic traps' and 'glowing rocks' are just a distraction.
>>546350716Lotta drivel there about the creator, which I could not care less about. Keep your gay internet drama to yourself.>shite modpackWhat actually makes it so shit?
Anomaly or Gamma?
>>546351007gamma because anomaly doesn't have much going on
>>546350943All the gameplay changes it makes to the original stalker formula makes it incredibly controversial, and all opinions on it very subjective.>IDUNTCAAAAAAAREEEEEEEEEEEThen fuck off, retard. Why even ask at this point.
>>546351243>Why even askBecause I want to know about actual important, mechanical reasons why a huge modpack might be shit before installing? Why should I care about all this eceleb tier bs?
i think i get it nowS2's english dub is supposed to be so bad that you consciously decide to listen to ukrainian insteadit's kind of genius
Ah man that's the part I liked about Clear Sky...Was getting able to see the fruits of my labors, labors of blowing off enough Bandit heads to see my dudes take over.
Can anyone help me with my game not detecting the gamedata folder? I decided to get into modding stalker, but when I unpack all the gamedata.db0-9 + gamedata.dba/.dbb into the gamedata folder and change the contents, the game doesn't read the changes at all. I tried editing actor.ltx, as well as an .xml file, both didn't show up in-game at all. I tried starting new games, I tried doing this both on the steam & the /sg/ repack versions, I tried enabling everything (not just gamedata) in fsgame.ltx, nothing worked. I'm at a loss as of now, honestly. I used STK_Unpacker 1.2 if that matters.
>why isn't the OP2.2 VSSK having any bullet drop>check the file>like the third highest bullet speed among all non gauss gunswhy add the gimmick gun only to remove its gimmick
>>546351453>Why should I care about all this eceleb tier bs?Because you're going to have to join his circlejerk to download the mod. Anyways. It's excruciatingly large for a Stalker mod, something like 80+ gigabytes last I checked, and its entire schtick is painstaking tedium with particular emphasis on extending the hobo phase, including a very steep economy, non purchasable guns that you have to fix from single digit condition, over and over again as you progress. It also heavily dilutes the original aesthetics of the trilogy, which is a no-go for me. At least base Analmeme still has a lot of vanilla flavouring to it. If this sounds like the kind of thing you want, I unironically recommend A.R.E.A over it because it actually has some truly cool and unique things going for it, though you might want to tweak the AI awareness in the config files beforehand.
>>546364135>but when I unpack all the gamedata.db0-9 + gamedata.dba/.dbb into the gamedata folder and change the contents, the game doesn't read the changes at allthere is your first mistakeyou don't unpack all that shit into gamedatayou unpack shit elsewhere and copy over what you need over to gamedatagamedata is basically your override directroy, but it must also have the same dir structureas in actor.ltx goes in gamedata\configs\creatures\>I tried enabling everything (not just gamedata) in fsgame.ltxundo that. editing fsgame.ltx is not needed if you're just trying to edit some configs.hopefully unpacking isnt fucking up the files, or editing isnt either.start fresh, copy over only the files you want to edit, put them in the right directory stucture, and see if that works
>>546364135which game is this anyways?please tell me its not the Enhanced Edition
>>546366907Tried all that, sadly doesn't work either. Just in case, picrel is how I unpacked the gamedata. I assume the directories and such are set correctly? The gamedataSoC is a temporary folder, from which I just copypasted the directory all the way up to actor.ltx into the SoC gamedata folder, and set the money to some arbitrary amount, but nothing happens in-game as before.>>546366997kek no, just classic SoC.
>>546367371well since its soc , its gamedata\config\creaturesbut changing that value in actor.ltx doesnt change the money you initially spawn withif you want money use a spawner and sell shit
https://youtu.be/39_kog0pNkQ?si=-u5z4sEv8_StPh2j
Is Dead Air Revolution any good? I found base Dead Air to be decent but empty and lacking content, does anyone vouch for its quality?
>>546371290Is Dead Air still being worked on? Last I heard the author had everything locked behind a paywall.
>>546368642I didn't want money per se, just wanted to try to get into stalker modding overall, and try my hand at the smallest changes first. Money was one, and I also tried editing the desc .xml files to change the NPCs inventories, but this again seemed not to work. Do you know of any good modding guide(s) for the X-Ray engine?
today I offer you: tacticool obokanhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qYCbyqWxv_Mhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dNKrp9DQxJEtomorrow? who knows...
>>546351453bro the red flags begin before downloading>installer downloads individual mods that make up the "pack">requires discord>modmaker is a frenchcmon bro dont be acting dumb then getting emotional about it
>>546387449
>>546204551Step 1: don't have ADHDStep 2: don't be a zoomer (adhd and intelligence drain debuff from birth)
>>546327383>ask question>get answer>argue against answer and try to discredit it>next thread>ask question again>rinse and repeat
>>546387449Wait you really need to go the discord? Same shit with OGSR gunslinger, miss me with that pedrila shit.
>>546383497Supposedly. Honestly, the oke might have been conscripted or kicked the bucket. I never heard about the paywall thing, is that a different build to 0.98b?
>>546394365If I remember correctly Dead Air 2.0 is locked behind a Patreon or some shit. I don't think the mod is out, just screenshots and general dev diary stuff.
>>546366271>including a very steep economy, non purchasable guns that you have to fix from single digit condition, over and over again as you progressThis is the thing that really fucking gets me. It makes kneecapping something stronger like Monolith or Military feel really fucking pointless with, as instead of there being a chance to find a gun with 25-45% internals and barrel or just one completely fucked up part ridiculously lower which means you have to either buy a replacment for the part or scavenge slightly better conditioned part off another weapon. To me it sounds perfectly reasonable to spend somewhere between 15-25% of a guns price to bring it back up to speed with files and ramrods instead of fucking spending hours upon hours hoping you can klep parts off other guns that might be in just as worse a shape as the one you got before. I've found setting the quality of dropped weapon parts between 0-45% feels the most consistent.
>>546397307You guys don't just buy repair kits?
>>546398115Repair kits work too, but the price efficiency tends to vary depending on your progression (Weapon kit type availability usually tied to vendor rep), so you're usually better off filing and cleaning up the parts. It's more cost efficient in the case you want to fix up weapons for sale, as the price of a few files and ramrods usually leaves you on atleast a somewhat positive surplus depending on weapon in question and once you've got type appropriate repair kits available the net gain is even higher per bought kit.
>>546356313Some characters are pretty decent like Scar, Korshunov, even Sid's new VA but most of the rest is forgettable or worse. Skif kinda sounds bored or irritated but I guess that make sense due to the whole reason hes there.
>>546395889everything hasent been updated for yearsguy hasnt logged into moddb in yearsanyone still giving that dude $ without proof of work of progress is a fucking retard.
>>546384120have you read the links to links in the OP?
>>546384120>I also tried editing the desc .xml files to change the NPCs inventoriescharacter_desc_**.xml file changes on show on new spawns or a new game.
>>546394071you go to ogsr discord to get download links.not the same thing, you fucking retard.
>>546409739The trilogy modding and general guides, yeah. Didn't find anything useful or even related to the topic.>>546409867Yeah, I did start a new game, nothing changed. I tried to change the character_desc_stalker.xml by changing every rookie stalker's profile to look similarly to picrel, equipping everyone with RPGs, which it didn't work at all upon starting a new game. Unless I'm changing the wrong values again, and it's controlled somewhere else?..
>>546313980just my experience but the deagle is worthless (in my current playthrough of gunslinger anyhow). I always rock some ak with a scope (so never run out of ammo, just grab it off corpses) and GL attachment (for burers) and a shotgun with shot rounds
>>546411938It's saved my ass a few times, and that's good enough for me.
>>546410815and your gamedata folder is in the main install directory for soc?and in it is config, not configs?>like so in the pic I'm posting?what are you using to edit these files?notepad can sometimes mess up file encoding too
>>546410815and no, there used to be guides gsc forums and team epic forumsbut they are gone. possibly still available using waybackmachine.but there is ap-pro.ru and amk forumshttps://www.amk-team.ru/forum/forum/45-shkola-moddinga/
>>545680680Holden loves technology.
>>546416146Goddamn right!!!!
>>546416146Very retro vibe you've got going on there, Chase!
>>546414892Yeah, the directory is 100% correct, I've checked it a dozen times already. I'm using Notepad++.>>546415643Thanks, will check those out!
would it be better if freedom and duty was hostile again in a S2 freeplay mod?
>>546417749I just tired it on my endyou want to edit character_desc_escape.xml to seem rookies in cordon(Escape) carrying RPG's>I'm using Notepad++good, then you should be ok, just check that what you are launching the game from is pointing to the bin folder in your install directory.otherwise, I got no idea why it wouldn't work.I've been using installs with mods without editing fsgame.ltx$game_data$ = false| true| $fs_root$| gamedata\to$game_data$ = true| true| $fs_root$| gamedata\but I guess you could try that too if you want
>>546387449>installer downloads individual mods that make up the "pack"This is a good thing though? Means I can turn individual mods on/off and shit.>requires discordIt's 2025, who doesn't have discord?
>>546423994>It's 2025, who doesn't have discord?It's the principle of it.I shouldn't NEED Discord to download a mod.
>>546423994>This is a good thing though? Means I can turn individual mods on/off and shit.Every fucking mod pack that isn't a stand-alone repackage goes through MO2 in some form, what is baffling is that Grok's is the only one that uses a specific installation/update launcher that pretty much siphons the necessary 500+ mods straight from moddb, instead of cultivating proper versions on compressed zip repositories (like any sane person). This is likely because instead of focusing on refining the experience, there is more of a focus on just trying how much shit you can stack on top of each other and in that case an automated updater is a godsend for lazy developers.>It's 2025, who doesn't have discord?You do realize the reason the links are largely cultivated on Discord has mostly to do with cultivating traffic and community clout, right? It's cool to have one place where you find support and documentation, but you can get that with a website too.
>>546430758>>546423994GAMMA has 500,000 members, is one of the bigger Discords, especially when it has 4x the members of the official GSC one - 120,000. And guess what? That means a mod is the biggest representation of our community to people out there, bigger than r/stalker.And not just any mod.GAMMA.
First time playing Stalker 2, you guys think i should wait for 1.7 then go for MASTER gameplay?? 15 hours in still in the lesser zone
>>546430758>use repositoriesyeah moddb essentially. you cant dictate what every mod + addon maker does>and in that case an automated updater is a godsend for lazy developersthere is no automatic updater.>community cloutthats hilarious to me
>>546432891>communitygo ahead and have a disagreement with any of the mods or grok, see how fast you are banned just for that.community my ass
>>546432891Yeah, about that...
>>546433028I'd stick with Stalker difficulty unless Master somehow changes the current difficulty curve. Veteran enemies are too spongey it doesn't feel fun to play just artificial difficulty imo.
>>546434181>it's realhttps://github.com/Grokitach/Stalker_GAMMAOh, and look who it is.https://github.com/github/dmca/blob/master/2025/11/2025-11-12-martysmods.mdPascal Gilcher. The pansy little faggot whose ego size battles that of Grok just because he made a "ray tracing" shader for ReShade which looks like ass anyways because it's ReShade, and lied about it becoming free "once it's done", silently putting it behind a forever paywall.Fucking heartbreaking that I'm siding with the fr*nch fuck more because I despise that g*rman pick even more.btw the Misery kid won the DMCA claim against GSCbtw the DMCA is evil and must be abolished
>>546439882Calm down, Grok. You'll have an aneurysm
>>546440254I hate Grok as well but I hate Pascal way more. Simple as. I wish for Pascal and his parents to go broke and get raped and shanked by rapefugees and have all of his work completely stolen by Nvidia and sold for profit scrubbing his name from it I hate that smarmy smug kraut fuck so much.Grok's punishment of being fr*nch is already enough though.
>>546434181>>546439882fucking GOOOOOD!!!!!!!!!!reshade is fucking postprocess TRASH anyways
>>546434181So, what will happen now?
crazy idea broswhat if we actually used AIto make NPC AI better?wowi find it insane how they're able to use AI upscaling or whatever to make stalker 2 look ultra realistic but the NPCs still have the brains of a Counter Strike 1.6 bot
>>546434181i don't even use GAMMA's reshadedunno how he's allowed to DMCA a free modpack anyway
>>546445104Hey respect 1.6 bots they can surprise you.https://www.youtube.com/shorts/zOPoh1Dw7ho
>>546446826i made a mistakecs1.6 bots are far smarter than stalker 2's
>>546445104AI will only ever be used to cut corners and save money at an acceptable loss to quality and NEVER EVER for making anything better for you, the consumer.
>>546453770OUTFUCKINGSKILLED
unc game
Good night to all my Duty friends. Non Duty posters can go hug a pseudogiant.
>>546466029
Grok is getting raped in his discord server right now LOL
>>546439882lol Pascal's lawyer or whoever he hired to DMCA the GitHub is in the discord and saying shits retarded and if he knew the scope of GAMMA he would've reached out to try and resolve it without DMCA
And it's already over, total nothingburger.
>>546470732he looks like a buff controller
https://www.youtube.com/shorts/4sfyiMCobik?feature=share
>>546463571zoomer tumor post
>>546453770The Great Swamp. Not even once!
>>546439882>btw the Misery kid won the DMCA claim against GSCReally? How'd he manage that? He blatantly stole a full texture from the game. Didn't think he'd get away with that.
>>546493106As far as I know, he removed the stolen assets and copyrighted songs from the game, so GSC lifted the strike and the game returned to Steam. So, yeah, "won" by complying with all their demands.
>Check the reviews for Stalker 2 to see if it's worth buying yet>It's getting review bombed by faggots bitching about Misery
>>546496282Yeah that's uh, how a DMCA works.
>>546496282Well, that makes sense.
>>546473154What a shame.
>>546471397Unsurprising, Pascal is an emotional whiny little bitch, even worse than Grok. Grok only bitches and moans, Pascal is malicious about it. He and his ReShade butt buddies once made a fake RTGI that would fuck up your ReShade configs, so here's the main red flag to never trust Pascal or ReShade devs if they believe malicious code is "DRM". Every single modder that does that shit should be blacklisted from any fields relating to code.Not only that, fucker's so egotistical he would go out of his way to argue with people pirating his shaders instead of working on them when his deflection to keeping them paywalled is "muh parents lost their jerbs cuz COVID so I have to proovide". Then go fucking work on the shaders and don't waste time arguing with people who will only be more encouraged to pirate your shit since they see how much you seethe over that.Fucking Krauts man, Allies should've flattened their entire shitstain of a country just like they flattened Warsaw.
>>546439882>Ivan is still crying that his fuckbuddy wasn't allowed to steal content from GSC
>>546511353>muh ivan>>>/pol/uhgfuck off and never come back
>>546509675>I;m thinking about thos beans
>>546512939>newfag is unawareNo wonder you're stupid enough to think it's ok to steal copyrighted material and resell it.
When is grok going to slip into a fucking coma? I'm so tired of all the damage that this faggot has done and continues to do to the Stalker community.
>>546520752calm down marty
>>546520752>it's 2025>he still cares about the overall "commoonity" of his favorite thingJust enjoy your shit, there's enough normal stalker fans for new mods, artwork, discussion places like this one, etc. Who cares about what most of the million+ people who play stalkan think, if you won't ever even converse with 99.99% of them?
