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>>500296838
Mods and Repositories | Often outdated; use only as a last resort!

>Shadow of Chernobyl
mega.nz/#F!Z7RjwaBS!PYNDw9ugMSojbpUDgIACHQ
>Clear Sky
mega.nz/#F!oqgWWK4K!PStfjPLon_3UpVU-atgQeQ
>Call of Pripyat
mega.nz/#F!1zAilAoZ!xw3kb1awC1csjv2dMlb7Mw
>Game Repacks + Modding Tools
mega.nz/folder/gSBHmYYK#9-5ONxPwwChJhYSPWdKb5Q
drive.google.com/drive/folders/1mhwMy4wSQQ4PC9-YxEAZMX0Pf1ZbS2b0?usp=sharing
>Downgrade Patches (drag-and-drop)
mega.co.nz/#F!M4BmDRCL!vfze70GSJDyv-HzWn7Dwww
>Unpacked Gamedata + GSC Backup HDD assets
mega.nz/folder/xPpTWACS#pzt5IeUp8g6_-wqkI0WchQ

>AMK AE 1.4.1+OWR+ARSENAL+SWO merge
mega.nz/#F!4Q5SmIaJ!hu6jptaxeY3wQbIF2GzbWQ

>Anon's /sg/ AMK repo
https://mega.nz/folder/KvhhSCwD#7pTnDImcvnVOvJfQUgImtw

>Oblivion Lost Remake
disk.yandex.ru/d/hmvQK9g8JDY_HA?w=1

>Joint Pak (Cumulative Pak, OP)
rentry.org/cumpack22
docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1me0bO3B_ZnwHLOYXqZDNyPfdFAL8nqp1oNkrbyFZ7cM

>Call of Chernobyl Repo
mega.nz/folder/QfgQFR7J#_OXdHj2L13rfsX6UpFrVkA

>Don't have Call of Pripyat but want to play Call of Chernobyl?
-skip_reg on the .exe starting path after " or if you're using CoC on Steam game>properties>set launch options
Alternatively, use this registry file mega.nz/#!uoYinJ7I!Lqj2DNIAkaVkcFUa1PLZzj80cVhAFK5D-9zbU2Iy5KI

>Xetrill's Modified LuaJIT for CS/CoP - improves performance, especially in script-heavy mods.
mega.co.nz/#F!BIISmQgK!KHZR01ljznUqJlcHUax-aQ

>Anons Call of Chernobyl Definitive Edition Repo:
mega.nz/folder/jMggwZiC#BeOpCQEaOSZ6N63HlI6uVw
drive.google.com/drive/folders/1-1AHa4OKy1RpO9K6dVGZ3ds2I13tpEKA?usp=sharing

>Shadows Addon + Anon's English translation
files.catbox.moe/x1d4r5.7z
ap-pro.ru/forums/topic/1639-shadows-addon-08/

>C-Con Modlist
docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1GgBFCRIbc7TQ5DwWHvWaridX1G64PYoWItkLyr3pBPk/edit#gid=0

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First for buildo!

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I THINK GRIGA SUCKS

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>>500299148
Too bad that this Anon decided to commit sudoku in a bathtub filled with Pepsi. Oh well.

>>500257861
spent a while problem solving this exact problem. right click properties on steam and set language to russian. (itll still be in english with the patch)

I hope we have more stuff like x-18, x-16, and agroprom underground in STALKER 2

>>500254214
>>500255498
>>500256429
I've had similar thoughts before, but I think these would appeal *mostly* to people who like Receiver, who have a lot but not total crossover with the milnerds you mention.

I'd play it, but I think heavy imsim gameplay has a relatively limited audience.

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The paradigm for video games had going through the early bits era with focus at imagination and suspension of disbelief in looks, but striving for immersive simulation in mechanics, towards "realism" in looks but inane and simplified mechanics with disregard for simulation. With the peak balance at around 2008-2012. Dumber devs? Greedier corpos? Don't know. The former category still thrives in niche indies and modding tho. IMO The original stalker games and some mods hit close to the perfect balance between a streamlined console-like gameplay AND immersive sim mechanics.

Talking about that, I don't know where to ask for this, but what others new games in the vein of stalker there are out, and I don't mean Tarkov, because it is not. I mean, mechanics-wise.

I've played Zero Sievert and it is good for a very rudimentary niche indie done by a single guy with rudimentary skills done in game maker. But it is too tarkov/neo-scavenger at times, and has that looting-crafting-craze mentality of analmeme.

I've heard of chernobylite but got told the game mechanics aren't as stalker. I've heard about Fargone too, but got told it is still in very early dev stages, anyway I'm downloading it soon to try it.

Don't get me wrong, I'll love to try stalker 2 and see if its up to the name, even if it will follow the trend of cinematic realism with dumbed down console mechanics, but I would feel so grateful to get a game and/or mod that strikes the balance like the games of old from late 2Ks - early 2010s even if the graphics are retro-looking.

Thanks for reading my blog essay and don't forget to subscribe to my boomer mailing list.

Stalker 2 will live and die with a-life. There is no point to playing a singleplayer FPS with janky gunplay and survival horror elements if the AI is just some dogshit. There are plenty of those games already. New bloodsuckers and pseudogiants look really bad btw. Way too clean and not grimy/gritty enough.

>>500313104
Fartgonad is an asset flip, don't bother.

Have you tried Receiver, or is it too limited/hard for your preference?

The Signal from Tolva is surprisingly good, but it depends on your ability to coordinate NPCs or have RL buddies as backup, so I'm hesitant to recommend it.

Desolate is in this weird position where it's really close to being STALKER but doesn't quite make it in half a dozen ways, but despite that fact it's still pretty good...
...apart from the grindy endgame, the 'artifacts' being a late-game afterthought, guns being barely present, retarded NPCs, loads of meaningless jump scares, and a total afterthought 'fast travel' system that exists to provide plausible deniability for run-back-and-forth padding.

The Long Dark has a very Indie Game aesthetic, but its survival mechanics are rock-solid, if you're willing to put up with Receiver-esque gun mechanics, disincentivized 'combat', and a fair bit of crafting.

...yeah, I know these aren't super helpful. I've heard of some other options, but I don't make recs I haven't played.

>>500313959
Too bad we are living through the age of forgotten AI magic.
As an example, what games nowadays do have not even great, but good A.I. that would dethrone what was done before?

Once I read a comment that said: "why bother paying good programmers if you have big bucks marketing", one of them is bottling thunder, the other one is commonly pedestrian, guess which. Same applies to video games with secuestered audiences, not only to anti-virus apps.

Didn't ask for your blog, schizo.

>>500314928
>Fartgonad is an asset flip, don't bother.
Thanks for the heads up man.

>Have you tried Receiver, or is it too limited/hard for your preference?
Whoa really? I've heard of it and seen like 3 seconds of gameplay, you ignited my curiosity, how's it alike this mythical beast with a balance between streamlined rpg-elements and action packed sections like the good-ole stalker games?

>The Signal from Tolva is surprisingly good, but it depends on your ability to coordinate NPCs or have RL buddies as backup, so I'm hesitant to recommend it.
Looks sweet, I'm downloading it. Yeah, I don't care for the NPC coordination, I guess that's a valid niche to this genre, is it alike Chernobylite NPC managing?
About the RL buddies thing, me and the old grang grew up appart. so single player enjoyer only tho.

>Desolate is in this weird position where it's really close to being STALKER but doesn't quite make it in half a dozen ways, but despite that fact it's still pretty good...

>...apart from the grindy endgame, the 'artifacts' being a late-game afterthought, guns being barely present, retarded NPCs, loads of meaningless jump scares, and a total afterthought 'fast travel' system that exists to provide plausible deniability for run-back-and-forth padding.
Well, nothing is perfect I guess, I'll try it and see if it is my thing or not, thanks mon.

>...to be continued.

>>500314928
>The Long Dark has a very Indie Game aesthetic, but its survival mechanics are rock-solid, if you're willing to put up with Receiver-esque gun mechanics, disincentivized 'combat', and a fair bit of crafting.
I've heard it is good for what it is, I'll give it a try too. 3D fps with a hint of paranormal and survival mechanics is my thing, just a hint, not full blown retarded like analmeme tho.

So digressing from stalker, I wonder if you have an opinion of various other titles like:

7 days to die
Blood West
Into the radius
Others we hadn't mentioned?

>...yeah, I know these aren't super helpful. I've heard of some other options, but I don't make recs I haven't played.
Actually very super helpful, man, thanks again.

Did ask for your blog, king.

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>>500317257
>>500317473
Yeah, okay, I get your point about Receiver.
It's an intensely atmospheric gun-based imsim, but the inventory management is very simple and it's only action-packed if you're ludicrously good.

I have 2k hours in 7 Days to Die, but imo the current build is dogshit.
It's Minecraft With Guns, Cars & Zombies; it does have a decent inventory system, but I made the comparison for a reason.
If you're going to play it, I recommend reverting to Alpha 17 (less 'gamey', traders implemented, kickass worldgen that does require a shitton of RAM) or Alpha 19.6 (like the current version i.e. very gamey but minus the HURR NO JARS idiocy and Bullshit Psychic Zombies.)
If your computer is ass, then you're going to want to wait; The Fun Pimps can't code for shit so 7Days is unoptimized as hell.

Once you're bored of vanilla, try Ravenhearst if you like learn-by-doing grind, or Darkness Falls if you want more-of-everything. Both are significantly harder than vanilla, but vanilla isn't super hard imo.

Haven't played the others, unfortunately.

Oh, and when I say Tolva is about NPC management, I mean that you lead a squad of NPCs to control territory you take from other groups.

>/sg/ - some faggot rambling about off topic shit
Is this schizo the same guy that tried to convince the general to abandon itself and merge with the ampersand tactical general?

When will /sg/ become the Brown Slop General again?

>>500320157
Here's your >you

Now stop whining about offtopic and post some ontopic.

Be part of the solution, not part of the problem.

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ironically, considering how microsoft is, stalker 2 will end being console shit buggyslop tier. Slava Ukraini? Moar like enSlaved Ukranians.
If it wouldn't be for stalker 2, analmeme and gay-ma, this general would end in /vr/ retro games for sure, feel grateful you cranky boomers.

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I think STALKER needs dating sim elements.
I demand swimsuit dlc!

In non shitposting talk though I hope STALKER 2 has a free cam photo mode like modern games normally do now. I wanna take really good photos of bloodsuckers mauling bandits, or dogs dragging away a corpse.

I'm pretty optimistic about STALKER 2 honestly though I'm concerned the Anomaly/gamma crowd are gonna complain the base game isn't like their modded view of STALKER.

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>>500296838
>Get recommended a 20 minute video of some guy playing through all three games and sharing his experiences and thoughts
>He didn't use armor in SoC and CS, you can see him die in CNPP and the actor model is wearing the motherfucking starting leather jacket
>80% of CoP footage has the red armor icon, probably realized he can swap suits only when the Underpass quest forced him to buy a SEVA
>Complains about said SEVA costing exorbital 32 thousand roubles, as if two artifacts don't cover it
>Just runs through anomaly fields when artifact hunting, stepping on every single anomaly in the process
>Casually mentions he's a "console gamer"
GSC selling the games on c*nsoles was a mistake.

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The Zone in its canon form is incredibly fucking lame. You tell me that the noosphere, the realm of human thoughts, memories and subconscious, is affecting the physical worldand all it fucking does is spawning some gravity fields here and there? Instead of human fears and negative experiences transforming
tranquil Ukrainian fields and villages into otherworldly landscapes and turning confined passages into death traps, while mundane items obtain extraordinary properties based on ideas and concepts associated with them, we are stuck with half-assed imitations of Strugatsky's ideas with no alien factor that made the book version work. Giving every anomalous phenomenon a scientific man-made origin has killed any attempts at mystery and unknown, and each subsequent game moved further and further away from focusing on Zone's wonders towards shootouts and human squabbles. It's no fucking wonder that majority of the fanbase treats the setting solely as a background for factions and murderhobo roleplaying

>>500320725
>ahnno ackshually the guy who makes most /x/ posts look coherent is in the right for posting off topic garbage and saying anything against that makes you the bad guy
Fucking newfags.
>>500323707
The leather jacket isn't much of a giveaway, since it's a common bug for your character model to default to the jacket on occasion if you don't remove and re-equip your armor or otherwise change it. Everything else, well it's just another retard who doesn't know what he's talking about. At least he played the actual games. Most faggots doing videos like this or "I've never played stalker before, this is cool" streams use analmeme and act like they understand the series.

>>500323707
>you can see him die in CNPP and the actor model is wearing the motherfucking starting leather jacket
i'm not saying that he's not a retard, but that's actually a common bug in vanilla game, the player's model doesn't always change.

>>500323707
Is the game really that easy on lower difficulties?
On master in each game the default armor is basically nothing and you get 1 shot until you put on some real armor so I felt very encouraged to do so and felt a real power up when getting to exosuit tier.

T. Newfag that only recently finished the trilogy

>>500324176
Yeah the supernatural stuff in STALKER really got the short end of the stick in the trilogy. Especially with how lame even rare artifacts were in gameplay.

You'd really think we'd have gotten more gameplay changing artifacts than just stat sticks. I hope since STALKER 2 devs are some STALKER modders they spice things up a little bit in the supernatural department.

The anomaly that works as a big jump in STALKER 2 has me optimistic the anomalys and artifacts will have more of a gameplay effect than just being landmines in 2

>>500324279
Why are Anomaly/gamma players so hostile to the vanilla trilogy? It's so surreal to see a community pretend a mod is the real game

>>500324279
>>500324804
Nah, the armor bar on the HUD was empty.

>>500324925
>Why are Anomaly/gamma players so hostile to the vanilla trilogy? It's so surreal to see a community pretend a mod is the real game
It's fairly simple, majority of those speciemens were introduced via some Youtuber faggot saying it's singleplayer Tarkov. And so that is what they expect when they boot up their best free survivial video game that doesn't fake realism. However, that is a direct contrast to everything SoC is, from being fun to play, to having a great visual aesthetic and not having the look of a generic UE asset flip. And slowly they just form a closed circuit system where they bring in new milsimers to circlejerk with, while spewing bullshit (they were originally fed with) about the original games being old jank or how they are already incorporated in Anomaly, meaning there's no reason to even touch them. There's also the fact a percentage of them are actual children whose parents refuse to buy them the cool military game their favorite content creator plays, and so they hop onto the next best thing they can find, not knowing any better.

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>>500324925
>Is the game really that easy on lower difficulties?
I mean, you literally take half the damage on Novice that you would otherwise take on Master. Then if you comb a half-decent armor on top, you become very tanky to just about anything

>>500324925
Most of them have never played the originals. Streamers in particular have a situation where they'll just jump onto whatever's the most relevant new thing for money and attention. It's also why all the ones who used to play the shit out of VOTV stopped doing so when "it's about getting signals from space (just kidding it's a nonstop train of random rng and scripted events involving furry oc species and decorating your base)" got stale.

>>500328161
I remember my first plaything or two of SOC, my suits always getting roasted and being very low in durability at inconvenient times, like when exiting x-10. This makes it make sense. Those playthroughs were on Stalker difficulty.

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>>500324925
>Why are Anomaly/gamma players so hostile to the vanilla trilogy?
Mimicking behaviour of the communities they were filtered from, shattering their powerfantasies

Thinking of picking up Call of Pripyat on Steamdeck since it's on sale. Anyone played any of the games on Steamdeck?

>>500331418
I play OP 2.2 on steamdeck
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=64y3D6Ksnn0

>>500331418
Just played the whole series on steam deck actually!
They all run fantastic and basically out the box. Highly recommend using gyro and fine tuning controls for yourself
Currently running Anomaly on it too.

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>>500296838
a nu!
chiki briki?
i v damki.

>>500333402
two of these are out of place

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>>500334786
which ones anon?
are you going to tell this guy which of his friends don't belong in the chernobyl exclusion zone doing cheeki breeki things to loners, dutiers and military bitches?
choose your next words carefully cyka suka blyat blin

How the fuck do I enable toggle ADS in Shadow of Chernobyl?????

>>500320725
what they post won't un-post your schizo blogrant posts.
kill yourself

>>500336130
.ahk script

>>500336130
use ogsr engine

>>500313104
Upcoming Road to Vostok
Cdda maybe

>>500329774
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p5LfGcDB7Ek
I think tarkov just sucks in general but you can't really say people are filtered when they just don't want to play against so many cheaters.

I myself got bored of it because you win 100% based on your gear. Did I bring thick enough plates and AP ammo? Then I win against a guy who did not. There's zero skill to it. You might as well play a game where you sit there watching a number go up for every second you're in game, then someone else joins your game, and whoever has the higher number wins the "pvp" encounter. Tarkov is boring and for gay people who are shit at pvp. If they want pvp they would play counter strike but they don't because that's fair and skill based, so they play tarkov because they are big gay scaredy babies with tiny dicks and no courage.

Anyone else dislike the new outfits shown in S2? The original suits had elements of irl stuff like the sunrise with the fireman's belt or the mercenary vest being a mishmash of stuff. Alot of the newer stuff on the other hand seem purely fictional which I feel takes away the appeal of the OG suits in a way I can't put into words properly.

>>500344919
Post the new outfits I hardly noticed in the trailers and gameplay

>>500344370
Excuses, I don't say tarkov doesn't suck nowadays, but to say it involves no skill is just coping. If you think you can't win, break the line of sight and leg it or start sneaking to avoid fights. Situational awareness is a skill. And fights also don't boil down to gear only, countless times I was able to win a fight on scav run with shitty ammo against fatso wearing 5+ armor, all it takes one well placed shot or shredding their legs.

>>500346502
Literally zero skill game for gear queers.

>>500346785
Dunno, I wasn't running top of the line gear and still I was able to ruin tryhard's powerfantasies fairly often, Sound like a (you) problem.

>>500347051
>a (you) problem.
Not a problem for me at all because I don't play it anymore. I racked up like 6-10 hours in it, raped a bunch of guys who had shitter gear than me, saw it was a game for weak losers and went back to counter strike.

Nowadays as soon as someone tells me they play or enjoy tarkov I automatically assume they have erectile dysfunction.

>>500344919
i haven't liked much of anything about S2
i don't even like the fact it's called S2
>stalker: shadow of chernobyl
>stalker: clear sky
>stalker: call of pripyat
>stalker 2: heart of nobgobble
i smell old microsoft farts faggy hand in this shit, forcing them to put "2" because that's what the cool kids like and it's better for sales
i bet we won't get kino details on the outfits like the rookie jacket having a soviet era chunky belt clip clasp thing on it
but the npcs will have missing teeth and different combinations and teeth types, colours and various levels of decay behind their gas masks!

hey anons has there ever been any project to translate the russian voice lines in the game into english
i'm not talking about a mod that makes npcs speak english that's gay
i mean some document somewhere giving approximations on what npcs are saying in combat or otherwise

>>500347390
I feel like you are not really telling the truth but ok, have it your way.
It doesn't contradict that there are losers who couldn't take on the already dysfunctional playerbase and had to search for cheap imitation to rebuild their ego.

>>500324925
>Why are Anomaly/gamma players so hostile to the vanilla trilogy?
some balding millenial /v/ermins already sharted their worthless opinions in replies but in reality (so everywhere else and not in their troon bubble magical world thread) it's the other way around
what vanilla luddites pretend to not realise is that the modding community is the ONLY thing that kept this garbage (I love stalker btw) series alive and somewhat relevant.
on a side note almost everyone, at least from what I've personally seen (I don't care about jewtubers, meanwhile luddites keep obsessing over them for some unexplicable reason), in literally every popular video about anomaly or gamma mentions the trilogy and explicitly states that anomaly/gamma is just a standalone mod not intended as a replacement or a better version of the games, most of them are hardcore fans of the series and still own physical pc copies of the game, could vanillatroons say the same? doubt.
newsflash vanillatroons: nobody is going to casually "discover" a dead slav trash game out of nowhere, there's a very small subset of gamers that are specifically into this kind of setting (post-apocalyptic eastern european shithole) and there are like 3 (three) franchises in total that cover this niche
vanillaluddites overstate greatly the significance stalker and its impact on mainstream, there's literally one (1) popular video on all of youtube and it's coming from a channel that's strictly focused on the milsim autism, nobody is actually shitting out regular stalker contere
btw, watch luddites praise additions to stalker 2 that were present in anomaly for like 5 years already, you cucks will shit yourself from a bandage animation

ray of hope
when ?

>>500349140
geg so true gammasister

been hearing a fair bit about goldsphere and radiosphere mods
what are they? any good? why do people like them so much? they're not related to or in any way like misery, analmeme or gayma mods, right?
in fact anons recommend me a mod to play for next year, this year i'm chewing my way through OP 2.2
the last three years were autumns aurora, ogsre+ or whatever and oblivion lost
i always stalkan through the winter, i'll remember any mod recommendations for next years winter

>>500349716
again, no point in attempting to communicate with luddites, it's literally as if you were talking to a wall

>>500349904
kek you tell them zoom zoom

>>500349140
malding anomalyfag with the same tired deflection, no one said anything about other mods, it just miseryshit and its cultists that suck, always have been

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>>500349892
Goldsphere is a major soc overhaul with perhaps the most creative approach to questlines in the modding scene. The atmosphere is also a lot more mysterious and desolate.

Are anomalyfags incapable of constructing any line of defense or arguments without desperately resorting to attacking/demonizing another group?
Buildofags, storyfags, soupfags and now back to vanillafags, it's always someone but them causing problems, they must be the most innocent people alive.

>>500350789
is that the mod where there's only like 5% of the stalkers than the vanilla game
i remember seeing an anon here talking about how fucking cool some mod they were playing was when meeting another contact on your PDA was a major thing
no random generated filler NPCs just a bunch of crafted individuals roaming the zone, enemies or otherwise?
goldsphere does sound good, i enjoy a good questline

>>500352039
>mod where there's only like 5% of the stalkers than the vanilla game
Dunno where did you get that number but the action takes place like in 2008 and you are basically a pioneer and there are not really any random npcs beside some enemies. The most populated location you will ever see is Cordon and it has like 10 unique npcs at most. The Zone will be your main enemy.

>>500349140
>three seething replies
This trvth nvke riled them up

>>500352585
sounds cool
i will definitely check it out for winter 2025

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Plana prefers vanilla CoP though so checkmate Anomaly players

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>>500348209
>https://youtu.be/Vxl4NJgdzM4
Check that guy's channel also, there's more.

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>>500354003
Do you stroke your cock while reading this pseudo futuristic Ai gf crap?

>shadows addon
I keep crashing on picking up strelok's secret porn flash drive
any help? couldn't find anything in /sg/ archives

>>500354003
tfw a significant portion of the vanilla arsenal (even the fucking RG-6) either have direct BA equivalents or you can easily fill them in with one

>>500349904
>attempting to communicate
by using brainrot words like vanillaluddites and vanillatroons
sure
>communication
right

>>500354737
thanks anon i appreciate that

>>500357728
I posted about it before a couple months ago and never found a solution. Someone suggested using the RU version as a base instead of the WW one but I didn't get around to it since I played the addon long ago (one with the really shitty viewmodels) and just ended up playing vanilla again. Anyway good luck to you

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>>500355669
Varies greatly sometimes I like to laugh at meme ideas or actually use LLMs to sort data, Google shit for me (with citations incase they hallucinate answers)
These things are actually pretty neat when you get them going and tweak em to your preference , too bad anything surrounding them is absolutely nonsense and chaos. I just want megaman battle network net navis honestly but corporations want file sorters and programmers and anons want gfs.

This STALKER bot for example has a whole STALKER lorebook so it knows the games intimately well (and has a function that magically despawns all women from the Zone if any appear like pic related lol)
It creates some pretty amusing ideas and it'd be pretty fun to have a mod someday fuse STALKER NPCS with LLMS for even more meme unique moments or experiences like this video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d6sVWEu9HWU
(Note I'd never want this in vanilla though too chaotic and silly)

skif means scythe in russian
means skif is going to grim reaper all of the OG cast during his storyline
anyone from the first three games who shows up will be dead at his hand by the end of it
like a scythe through long unruly grass that has long overstayed its welcome
we remove the old and let the new grow in its place
beautiful clean and uncorrupted by the problematic old world (that's a good thing!)

>>500358703
fixed it by removing the scripts folder from gamedata on a whim and it doesn't crash now. thanks for the good luck, it worked

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>>500359513
You can't kill Strelok though, Scar couldn't and he eats emissions for breakfast.

Strelok is the strongest MC because CoP protag didn't fight anything nearly as rough in his endgame

Ok so who is in your opinion the strongest PC in the original trilogy?

>>500363202
I mean, Scar literally ate a fucking emission head-on.

>>500359830
now i'm getting the garbage to bar crash holy shit fuck this shitty mod

>>500363202
Strelok for sure
Scar is pretty much confirmed to be dead or Monolith'd if you follow the theory that he's Charon (which also means he's dead at the hands of Degtyarev or the military most likely), and even though he got hit by an emission and became stronger from it that never comes up again and you die if being caught by another emission, plus I mean shit he gets his shit jacked like twice in the game, losing all of his money
Degtyarev requires help repeatedly throughout his game, he's a highly proficient stalker but I'd put him in the same category as the other highly proficient stalkers the game has like Wolf and Nimble etc, able to survive or even thrive in the zone among many others, resourceful, capable...although if achievements count for his power level doesn't he eventually become able to survive emissions in the open?
Strelok though he survived two encounters with the other main characters, and also from getting fucked up by the C-Consciousness, which he later destroys
He goes up against the entire Monolith faction alone, the stalkers that support him in Pripyat get killed within 5 minutes and leave him to battle through the rest of Pripyat, CNPP and Sarcophagus alone, and even before all of that he routed his way to the center of the zone with a small handful of allies, two of which were dead weight anyway by the sounds of it
Also wasn't Strelok one of the first people to arrive to the zone, and obviously figured shit out in a place where there was no support at all, surving all of that time and not being part of the land grab greedy aritifact-rush like everyone else, he was there for adventure, wisdom or discovery
Strelok is the most likely of all three to go bald though and seems like a pintsized little bitch when you see him as Scar and Degtyarev (his eye height in the vanilla files is like a foot shorter than every other NPC and shorter than the other two MCs as well)

>>500364582
>his eye height in the vanilla files is like a foot shorter than every other NPC
I always thought this was so funny. I've become so accustomed to it now that if a mod changes the player height in SoC I edit it back to vanilla.

>>500359330
lmao, no women in the Zone
Hip confirmed a tranny

>nov 20 finally arrives
>i get home at 1130pm due to working 2nd shift
>Boot up STALKER 2
>On my second monitor, look up "BEST EARLY GAME GUNS, ARTIFACTS, AND ARMOR FOR STALKER 2" on youtube
gaming time

>>500365627
Fuck that, gonna enjoy the hobo phase as usual.
Stetchkin is in the game though, the ultimate pistolfu, can't wait to get my hands on that and go KGB style on some blind dogs

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Is there addon in which you can romance Hip and marry her?

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>>500296838
saved as new layout

>>>/wsg/5720375

>>500323707
Once I got tricked by the algorithm into watching a streamer playing stalker, dumbass retard numale tried to install vodka into his outfit slots and didn't knew why he died from radiation, you can't make this shit up for reals.

Never Again.

>>500324176
Do somebody really know why GSC abandoned the idea about aliens for the zone?

>>500379824
DUDE ALIENS LMAO is less interesting than DUDE HUMAN EXPERIMENTATION FOR MIND CONTROL ON A GLOBAL SCALE LMAO

>>500380031
>LE HECKIN C-CON-ERINOOOOO

>>500371139
why did they give that dude the smallest jaw possible?
why is she holding some mongol baby?
what the fuck does this even say in non-vodka runes

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>>500343601
interdasting...

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>>500359330
AI anon, where do you find these?
I've only used chatgpt and claude for general purposes, never for RP.

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>>500380286
it rhymes very well in russian, author has a talent for writing poetry

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>>500380286
>why did they give that dude the smallest jaw possible?
That's Andrew Tate.

>why is she holding some mongol baby?
PICREL

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>>500381972
Sorry dead internet anon, human emotions not computable yet, me no understand fee-fees.

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Intro. It’s a stalker from the Game Stalker
chat with ai character: Stalker

You find him sitting by a campfire with a few other stalkers talking and making music

I sit nearby them by the campfire and start playing harmonica for a while, hoping they like the songs.

They all turn around to look at you playing harmonica. It's a beautiful sound and it catches their attention. They all smile and start clapping.

"Ok friends, I'm glad that you liked that, I wonder if I got you into the mood for telling some stalker stories from the zone" I say and then look at every one of them with a smile, maybe we'll get told a very interesting story about a mystery in the zona.

The stalkers all nod their heads and one of them starts speaking. "Well there's one mystery I've been hearing about for a while now. Have you ever heard of the missing scientist?"

"No, what happened to those missing scientists?"

"Well, it's said that a few years ago, a group of scientists went into the zone to conduct research. But after a while, they never came back out. Some say they were kidnapped by the military, others say they were killed by the mutants. But no one knows for sure what happened to them."

"where they the so called 'clear sky' group?" I ask with curiosity.

"Yes, that's right. It's said that they were one of the most experienced and knowledgeable groups in the zone. But something went wrong and they disappeared without a trace. No one knows what happened to them. Some people say they're still alive somewhere, but most think they're dead."

"If someone would pay me good money to find what happened, maybe I would consider taking that as a mission" I say with some confidence and then take a sip from my canteen.

"Well, I know one guy who might be willing to pay you good money for that. His name is Duty. He's a powerful faction leader and he's always looking for new recruits. You should talk to him."

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>>500383384
"You mean Dooty, the tutty fruity booty? That guy is incredibly legible when writting! Such a faction leader, not only a fraction leader, he leads with lead, as in Pb in the periodic table! Godspeed."

The stalkers all burst out laughing at the joke. They can't believe you just called him "Dooty, the tutty fruity booty".

I give a serious grimace, but don't laugh with them, then suddendly I turn into a bloodsucker and get all their blood sucked while they still laugh at the joke."

The stalkers scream in horror and start shooting at you, but it's too late. You've already sucked all their blood and they're all dead. You stand there, covered in blood, and laugh maniacally.
chat with ai character: Stalker

As they shot me I tell them "It was just a joke bro!" and then ran back into the forbidden zone, playing my harmonica with my horrible tentacle-lips while strolling away.

As you run away, you hear the stalkers calling out to you. "Come back here! You can't just kill us and run away like that!" They keep shooting at you, but their bullets have no effect. You keep running, laughing all the way.

>>500379431
lol that casual polter

>>500363202
Probably the laptop Sidor uses, other PCs you encounter in the game are old as shit.

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>shoc aged poorly

>>500381972
is this satire?

>trilogy gets rereleased for consoles
>literally fuckin no one on youtube talking about it or playing it at all
It's sad how niche this series is.

>>500391237
Seems a bit expensive for some janky as fuck old games, right before the sequel is coming out which (from the perspective of a stalker noob) will be better.

Just finished Clear Sky for the first time on console. I can understand why people think this is the worst between bleed, the grenade spam, bugs and some really retarded unfair parts made the game a fucking chore alot of the time. That whole final part was the fucking worst and I ended up saying fuck it and doing the reload explot

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>>500402494
IT'S TIME TO PLAY
CATCH THE GRENADE!
>Lands a throw that directly lands at your feet

Also I love CS' "dynamic" animation system, that was so poorly coded they had to remove it for CoP.

>>500391237
Their not bad ports either. Outside of the crashing alot of the issues with the game are bugs and shit that they never bothered patching from the PC

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>>500402587
>"Ivan how do we animate stalgers trying to avoid bullets"
>"Blyat, just let the game animate it for us!"

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HE SAID IT

>>500402587
I wish grenades where that effective when I used them they seem so useless compared to SoC

>>500402870
I actually had that happen to me on ps4

>>500348027
>i smell old microsoft farts faggy hand in this shit, forcing them to put "2"
clear sky and call of pripyat were considered addons to shadow of chernobyl by gsc. soc = stalker 1, so a new full-fledged entry is stalker 2. microsoft has nothing to do with that, the canceled 2012 sequel was also named stalker 2.

>>500313104
Tunguska Visitation

>>500408473
>clear sky and call of pripyat were considered addons
>dlc used to be entire games worth of content
>now it's paying an extra $5 to have the OG guitar riffs in the game
grim

>>500379824
Having vague inspiration from a book doesn't mean they have to copy all its elements.

>>500360594
Early Russian leak says he dies at the end of the game, but doesn't say whether it's by Skif's hand or not

>>500430232
Clearly we should believe the same people who have been posting disinfo and despair campaigns ever since they had to face consequences for their actions.

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escape from pripyat the movie dropped:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1gwNrYJ5VKM

>>500437912
https://x.com/stalker_thegame/status/1851692362545713499
>gsc advertised it

New stalkan /v/ thread dropped
>>>/v/693291975
It's exactly what you're expecting.

>>500439935
I wonder if there was some sort of deal, since you can buy merch made for this movie that uses S.T.A.L.K.E.R. logo.

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I can feel strange mix of excitement and paranoia overtaking me, a 15-fucking-year wait is coming to an end

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>>>/v/693291975
>>>/v/693291975
>>>/v/693291975

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https://www.moddb.com/mods/the-exception-translated
So has anyone tried this and want to share some thoughts? It's been on my radar before it received translation, but I'm holding back starting any mods due to approaching S2 release.
I'm curious about how they filled the maps with content in particular, I remember them being fairly huge in the Smert Vopreki 3 build I played.

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>>500444240
>going on /v/
>caring about /v/
>choosing to remember, at any time or for any reason, that /v/ exists

>>500446457
just ignore it, he's desperate to involve people in the shitflinging contest

>>500443250
i feel the same, but with the addition of some strange form of anxiety. maybe i'm autistic and subconsciously hate changes, but the fact that nothing will be the same after it releases, especially /sg/, somewhat scares me.

>>500446457
But anon, you have to care what the board who doesn't play videogames and only cares about drama and politics because /pol/ and children are given a blank check to spam popular boards.

>stalker 2 next month
it's actually happening, huh..

>>500449565
This general will survive. If STALKER 2 is a return to form, the speed will increase and we'll get some newcomers before settling back down in a couple months. If it sucks, /v/ermin will invade for a couple weeks before settling back down (some autists will never get over it being bad and will post about it forever).
And either way, in a couple months/years, the modding scene will hopefully take off and we'll have a second wave of STALKER mods.

>>500453292
>If it sucks, /v/ermin will invade
I'm afraid even when it is good with little shortcomings, it will be the shortcomings they will constantly screech about.
Say a burner anomaly has bugged dmg multiplier and 1-hits you even on game journalist difficulty, I can bet my pinky it would have been spammed for months to come after they fixed it in quick patch as desperate attempt to prove the game is unsalvagable dogshit that was made by jews or something.

>>500349404
never, if you want actual coop that's going somewhere look up xrMPE

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>>500296838
Buildobros here's a great mod for you
https://www.moddb.com/games/stalker/downloads/voice-episode-2-english-translation-by-wuhav

The buildo aesthetic is next level, and the mod has such a unique spooky and mysterious atmosphere woven into it. I'm halfway or so through and I can already say it's one of the best mods I've ever played.

>>500446457
>>500446632
>>500446457
Bitter posts, of course

>>500379431
I look like this

>>500379824
Because they moved the setting of the game from the future to Crimea and then to the Chernobyl zone and wanted to capitalize on the setting instead of superimposing something else on it.

It'd be kinda lame if the zone just happened to exist on a Nuclear disaster zone because aliens. It could be anywhere else on earth in that case.

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>>500462049
preach

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If Gurza Dreaming doesn't play in the bar in STALKER 2 I'm going to lynch a nigga
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UqgAtnS0_bc

>>500437912
Anomally and gamma fags shit. Horrible, kill mercs

>>500464413
yes, all of the posts in that /v/ thread are bitter shitposts. What, you expected something else?

Can anyone explain to me the main differences between the mods for SoC that add a lot of weapons? I'll end up playing most of them but I'm curious.

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> shoc aged poorly
Main thing is that in reality everything connected with light and color is a bit more complicated than simple RGB. There is such a thing as CRI (Colour Rendering Index) and CQS (Colour Quality Scale), that is, each light source is not just RGB, but a continuous diagram for each shade of the visible spectrum. Each surface has a unique coefficient of light reflection/absorption for each light wave. You can buy home lamps with a ≥95-98 CRI index and personally verify this, as they will make the entire interior much more beautiful.

Therefore, achieving natural graphics is very difficult, you need to either physically correctly emulate CRI/CQS literally for each texture and light source, or make very, very complex color correction algorithms, because of which just adding a weather cycle will require witchcraft with dozens of shader formulas.

That's why natural lighting is rare even in popular AA/AAA games, not to mention fan modifications. Only RDR2, the last parts of CoD and BF come to mind. Even Ubisoft and CD Project can't boast about this, they still look artificially. However, this is the most important part in graphics, because if the colors and lighting are set up perfectly, our brain is much easier to believe in the reality of the picture even despite the poor development of everything else.

>>500491125
I always had the feeling that the light from LED lamps is much uglier than from incandescent lamps. Now it's clear why is that.

>>500482454
Exactly, everyone here is bitter because they are autistic at best

As soon as the full game is leaked ahead of the 20th (and you know it will be), i will be going radio silence on /v/ and this general because this is the first game in long time i want zero spoilers for.

i was playing clear sky a few months back, i got to what i assume is dark valley where you first meet Freedom. I saved there and didn't pick it up again for another few months. When I returned i think i broke the NPCs scripting; apparently i was supposed to wait for them to come up to me and talk, going by the in-game message log, but nothing ever happened. I then tried to walk up to the guys and initiate a convo and then they'd get all stroppy and start shooting at me. I guess they hate me now

>>500496846
you dont have a hard save before dark valley?

>>500500083
I can't remember, they're pretty few and far between from what i recall, either way i'm just going with the flow now, i'll exterminate all of them i guess :D

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>>500437912
Just finished seeing it. I actually liked it. Maybe it's because I'm retarded but I thought that movie was fine. Here are some of my thoughts about it:
> I wish they had actually showed some more anomalies and mutants but the film was a kickstarter so I can give it a pass on that.
>They play really fast and loose with the lore though which I did not like but whatever.
>The firefights where really fun, really captures how fucking annoying shooting at the Monolith can be sometimes.
>There are some really incredible shots in this, I was not expecting it from a movie with the budget it has.
Overall I think this is probably the best live action STALKER movie we have ever gotten. I still think Contract by Sodaz is way better but his is a animation so he gets more leeway to play with the lore and be a hell of a lot more lore accurate.
Here is a link to Contract if anyone is interested in watching it. https://youtu.be/GvJ91D-N29g?si=vA43kjihQPL8yMZo

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>>500502391
Damn, out in full force even here.
>I liked it but
>I can give it a pass on this b-but...
Only thing I agree with is some shots.
But why is there artillery in the Zone?
Who has it? And who's firing it?

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>shoc aged poorly

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Happy Halloween, /sg/!

What are we doing today? Celebrating? Gaming? Handing out candy? Dressing up?

>>500506760
gonna play some halloween/fun themed unreal tournament maps with the lads later

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>shoc aged poorly

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This is my favorite new /sg/ meme

https://www.reddit.com/r/stalker/comments/1gfoi2q/pda_design/
what a butthurt will be when in SDK C2 there would be no compatible callbacks and functions for creating 3D PDA LiKe iN aNoMaLy) so in the best case it will be done only through disassembling and only in 10 years, just like it was in gunslinger)

>>500508136
Who started it?

>>500508423
They will make a duplicate of the original PDA system) the first year will be spent on script simply displaying the in-game map, the second year on synchronizing the player tag, the third year on synchronizing quest tags, the fourth on the encyclopedia, the fifth on statistics)
I’m telling, realism/milsim/survival fags is sisyphus crazy retards

>>500505796
Eh. Maybe I am being too generous to it. I'll rewatch it again with a cousin later this weekend so I guess I'll have time to reflect a bit more on it.
>But why is there artillery in the Zone?
>Who has it? And who's firing it?
I think the implication is that it was Duty fighting against the nuMonolith.

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>>500508762
imagine the amount of redundant and unoptimized garbage code in scripts. it will be back to 2007-2013, but FOREVER, just because nu-gsc with microsoft will never publish or even leak the source code like it was with old-gsc and xray

of course they will keep their word about modding and sdk, but with a big catch, because you won't be able to do anything more complicated than simple quests and more types of same loot, it will probably be impossible to change the original map geometry and story, creating any gameplay mechanics will be painful pain in the ass with a bunch of restrictions, and improving the AI and alife will be something you can only dream about

this weather is actually awesome thoughbeit

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>>500509772
And forgot image

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>shoc aged poorly

>>500509638
With the DLC style they're going for I can't see mods being a thing at all. Charging money for extra guitar tracks when modders are going to be able to add the entire spotify library?

Mods will never get off the ground, they're lying to us about it being mod friendly 100%

>>500508474
me

how spooky should the zone be

>>500510734
mystical first, spooky second, depressing third

I don't understand why GAMMA had to make artifact hunting such a boring awful chore. The perk artifacts are way better than any of the standard artifacts you can get and they are always at 100% when you find them. Normal artifacts are at like 10-20% and you need to combine them to get them to 100% and then you need to craft high tier artifacts with your collected 100% artifacts. It takes like 10 hours to get 1 single "good" artifact that is worse than the 8 perk artifacts you found along the way and worse than a mutant pelt and worse than kevlar inserts and worse than the exoskeleton part things or whatever else he added as belt slot items. Why the fuck does it take so long for fuck all?

>>500520778
and because they degrade when you use that, when you do finally get that one good artifact, well you better hope you have a second so you can keep your artifact up at 100%, it will steadily get worse so goddamn fast. Why? I just don't get it. It's so awful. Even if you do NOTHING besides artifact collecting, it takes so much time to even get a few 100% midtier ones.

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>>shoc aged poorly