Oh cool Stalker GAMMA is on GOG, let's install this and give it a try>Taking longer than expected to download and install>Look inside>~120GB size on diskHuh
>>729223639STOP BEING POOR
120gb is a relatively small meal for a modern game wouldn't you say
>Chornobyl>Prypiat
>>729224516Now if only it were a modern game instead of a mod for a 15 year old game.Well and if it were actually curated instead of bloating it by containing tons of assets of mods which are unused to circumvent a lack of permission.
>>729224713>Gulf of America
>>729224912Which mods in Gamma were used without permission?
What's the best way to play the story of the first game?
>>729225474by not playing it. russhits can't make games>inb4 they're ukroshitsno difference.
>>729225474https://rentry.co/StalkerTrilogyGuides
>>729225809Spasibo or however it's said
>>729223639play meme modget memed on
>>729225421Technically none but also a ton. Think JSRS, BaS, AWAR etc.Gamma's installer works as a downloader which downloads a ton of mods from moddb to avoid needing permissions.Mod organizer, which it also installs, then uses a load order to put them all into the right order.Big issue with that approach being that if the mod requires a single reskin it needs to download the whole mod which it is part of. Iirc it also sometimes uses the whole mod but overwrites most parts of it, which still leaves unnecessary bloat.
>>729223639Storage is cheap as fuck nowadays.Show a modicum of restraint with the monthly allowance your mommy gives you, and you'll be able to save up for an nvme ssd in no time.
>>729224713They are so fucking cringe
>>729226457>Storage is cheap as fuck nowadays.Yeah about that...>Prices for many popular SSDs are currently rising sharply. While models with one terabyte cost less than 50 euros in the summer, they now cost at least 40 percent more – and the trend is rising. >Those who want more speed with PCI Express 4.0 have to pay even more.>For high-end SSDs, the price increases are not quite as high in relative terms. >However, the same phenomenon as with RAM is evident here: only individual retailers or just eBay or Amazon shops are offering the lowest prices. Some SSDs are still listed quite cheaply by Amazon itself, but with delivery dates several months away.>The reason for the price increases is the AI hype. Hyperscalers are buying storage devices for their data centers in addition to RAM. Also because hard drives are scarce, SSDs are coming into focus more and more.>Market observer Trendforce, which specializes in storage, reports that NAND flash contract prices rose by another 20 to 65 percent in November. 1-Tbit chips with TLC technology (Triple Level Cells, three bits per cell) are said to have increased by 20 percent, and smaller 512-Gbit types by up to 65 percent.t. https://www.heise.de/en/news/SSD-prices-are-rising-rapidly-11098747.html
>>729227028That's still cheap as fuck, underage. Go look up sata ssd prices when the tech was new. Better yet, go look up the prices for 512GB+ hard drives in mid-2000s.
>>729226457I have plenty of storage But I'm still not downloading a 120GB modpack for a 4.5GB game from 2010It's just absurd
>>729227208Are you retarded? Of course tech gets cheaper the moment it gets mass adopted by a market.And it's not like mid 200s games took up something like >10% of a 1TB drive.CoD2 was like 4 GB, even with a 128 HDD that is still a way smaller fraction.
>stalker Anomaly 16 gigs>stalker Gamma 130 gigsthat actually is sort of questionable. what is Gamma padding those files with, 100 gigs of War & Peace (it's a big book.)
Stalker 2 map ported back into Xray when
>>729228064A lot of it is HD or 4k textures
>>729224958Absolutely nobody calls it that outside of official documentation, people don't even remember to shitpost about it when the gulf is mentioned anymore
>>729224912>why didnt gog modify this mod so it would break copyright so it would take less space on my 500gb drive!?!!?>fuck gog im going back to steam!
>>729227028>Prices for many popular SSDs are currently rising sharply. While models with one terabyte cost less than 50 euros in the summer, they now cost at least 40 percent more Still cheap as fuck
