Agroprom Underground 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 >>555011606
First for show the fucking roadmap already.
Do you have a loicense to be in the Zone?
>>556061649Expecting GSC to be competent was your first mistake.
where I post from
>>556064448Dude, filenameBuildo Yantar
>>556065465I think that was a statement not a question
>>556064448*posts*
>>556057025If the screen were a CRT monitor this video would be perfect.
Who are you?
I'm you but stronger.
>>556077646I'm the cook.
>>556078902I'm the Strelook
They call me... Mogged One...
THE GUNSLINGER
>>556081309What are you, deaf? What are you here?
>>556087735I've heard you were looking for people to penetrate deep, dark dungeons
>>556064448I hate buildo yantar lab it's so boring, they should've made a separate level like x-18.
>>556091869Gotta agree, having a large surface and underground in one map would ultimately lead to problems. The concept was cool of course, but the underground, while atmospheric, feels unrefined and chaotic.I like both versions of Yantar, but would prefer build version over the release one still. To be frank I think combining build Yantar with retail version of x-16 (as separate level still) would create one of the most memorable set-pieces in STALKER series.
>>556094549>chimeras forming a line for foodAhh yes, the soviet symbolism and legacy just oozing from that screenshot
[hurrrdurr]
Didn't think I shot him that hard.
>>556095007>buildo YantarBest way to experience this level?
>>556096653OLR 2.5 or Vector of Alienation, if you want actual game with some context which will enhence the experience. Any build with with buildo yantar if exploration and curiosity about how things came to be is enough for you, although I would look for later, more refined versions if you were to choose this path (don't).
>>556097431who?, faggot
Show me your GAMMA bases.Ranger station 1/3
>>556099963
>>556100134
strelok posts here
>>556108786>sitting at an extreme angle from the tv for no reason>fighting the sunlight you are letting injesus that looks painful
>>556108786>>556112030also>windows not authentic watermarkbruh
>>556112115Fuck you niggwr
>>556100319I am the strelok stelok said calmllily.
>>556095007This is my mrmory and a town is fading.Can't ypu just stop saying weird shit?
>>556096023Soviet symbolism and lwgqcy. Sidorovich's warm chicken breath
>>556091869>i hate the game that wasnt released and get upset over nothingKinos for this feel?
>>556094709this is what you do with your time?
>>556077829fuck off tourist
>>556095918gamma was truly the beginning of the end. then the war made things worse, and stalker 2 launching the way it did fucked things forever. there are a lot of really cool posters in here, though. really helpful anons that helped me with modding and learning. I love this general desu
>>556108786who is more powerful?
>>556120327read it again retard>>556120216coward
My optimum load out in stalker is:MP5SD6 - Mutants and CQCStrelok's SIG - Medium and Long distance armored targetsI've tried shotguns, ump-45, high powered scoped rifles etc. and nothing feels as versatile as this combo you just end up with either something more niche for mutants and useless everywhere else or great at long range and harder to use at medium range if you go for more powerful scoped rilfes / VSS. SCAR I guess is also decent, but the ammo is more scarce so would rather stick with 5.56.What's everyone else's favorite loadouts?
>>556120758chimichanga passionate flute reed turnbuckle chuckle knuckle hahaa
>>556128273>What's everyone else's favorite loadouts?
>>556128273SA avalanchejust because it's cool
Love this overpowered meme.
>>556132435i always stick with it until the end once i gather enough ammo. screw upgrades, screw attachments, 7.62x54 rifle is fine.
>>556064448r2_gi 1
>>556122750That recently used napkin gives him the strength to resist any illusions of women being in the zone that a controller might project to lower his guard
I have entered the Clear Sky limbo in GarbageContinually being mugged by perpetually coming (still neutral) bandits and killing them afterwards before I can even loot the bodies and get the fuck out
>>556138253y u no use srp?
>>556139661I have SRP installedSome things in Clear Sky just can't be fixed
>>556138253CS was a mistake
Is the Escape From Pripyat modpack for Anomaly still a thing? I remember a lot of bitching about it in this general years back.
>>556122750The beer cans add a lot of immersion
>>556139927No.
>>556139927Nah
>>556139927
>>556141827>>556142337Yes
>>556095007It just needed tech they didn't bother with, much like how they never had an LOD system until S2. It could have worked as all one level, just unloading the aboveground section entirely while below ground and vice versa.
>>556138253>Clear Sky>Garbagechecks out
Why does 45. ACP have no armor penetration in stalker anomaly?Even more bizzare is that Hydra-shock has armor penetration when it's suppose to be a hollow point round? Is that a bug did they get the penetration values the wrong way round? Sure it won't penetrate as much as 9mm but it should still penetrate.
>>556139927Trvke>>556156349Kek
>most clear sky mods require you to own the original gamei understand the meme now, it comes from stupid poorfags seething
>>556158159I think it's just video game balance logic. Normal ammo and AP ammo.Hydra shok rounds actually have both a penetrator and expanding area by the way.
>>556158920>she thinks its a meme>she doesnt know about the repacksembarassing
>>556159320>repacks in current yeartrans man outs itself as poor and also retarded
I am satisfied with my Clear Sky product.
>>556138253Become one with the grenades, Neo
>>556097538Thanks
>>556162665>last guy gets the drop on you>completely fucks it upPaid actor.
>>556095007Having the underground and surface as one level never works well. Lost Alpha did this in Agroprom and the whole time you can hear the military shouting at you like they're one floor above you.
>>556176172That sounds ridiculous.
We love Clear Sky here. Only redditors hate it.
We love Gamma here. Only redditors hate it.
>>556186083>>556186374This is literally reddi tt incarnate. What have you become?
We love Holden here. Only redditors hate him.
On the shitter rn. Feels like a Whirligig coming out of my ass!
>>556167038Fuck that gave me Limansk PTSD. All these years later I still say CS on master is the hardest fucking ending to a shooter I've ever played.
I haven't played Clear Sky in years.And I'm okay with that.
Get out of here Stalker!
>>556160229>using the available free gog copies makes you pooranon pls, use better b8
>>556145676> much like how they never had an LOD system until S2what
>>556138253>free loot bug
This snork jumped me but I ducked under its jump, then whipped around and shot it dead. I feel like such a chad right now.
Controllers in S2 are wild strong
>>556203193did you teabag it afterwards?
>>556203494Use grenades and shotgun slugs to the head. They're slow and can run away from grenades, that was always a weakness of theirs. You can also get the benefit of staying out of their direct line of sight.
>>556205687>and can run away from grenadesand can't*** run away from grenades. Sorry, typo.
>>556205250Of course.
>>556132092>SA avalancheyou mean the VSS Vintorez.we don't use the scared of being sued so we changed the names to this nonsense here.>>556207524well, you're a chad then
>>556207940that's the AS val, idiot
[SESH]
>>556208738I wouldn't know, I dont use the bullshit fake names
>>556211317>>556096023
Finished the campaign in 2. It honestly pissed me off as much as I loved it. Too many times did it think you were close to the end, just to go "lolno, lots more to go!".I was ready to be done with the game after killing the Warden commander, but it was still like 2 hours left which just made me exhausted. On top of that an absolutely shitty boss fight.
>>556213413nice blogpost
>>556213413It did drag on too long yeah. Even if the game wasn't released in a buggy mess with missing gameplay from the trilogy, the story still wasn't very satisfying.
>>556202673People really don't know this? How long has the OT been out and people still exist that don't realize every OT game renders all objects at the same level of detail regardless of distance?
>>556218773>game renders all objectswhat are these specific "objects" you are talking about?
I finally got to Yanov on Master. Sight for sore eyes, I tell you what. I've still been using the predator and other early gear because it's way cheaper to repair and keep maintained. Hopefully with being able to get the wear and tear upgrades for the kharod and the saiga I can finally use those.
>>556224938That building needs some exterior maintenance.
My first playthrough. I am enjoying it. I am probably mid-late game. I've just made it to Rostok. I think my biggest issue is a-life. It ranges from either devoid of life at all to absolute pandemonium from the amount of shit it spawns in. I was recently near Malachite, and I was exploring this little fenced in refinery area. I had the ward, who I am hostile to, randomly show up. Not sure if they were already there or what, but then a duty patrol rolls in, and what I am assuming was bandits, and snorks. I don't know who was already there, and who spawned in. No idea. But the cherry on top was an emission hit, and everyone stopped what they were doing and ran for the only building in the entire industrial graveyard we were in that the game certified as "safe". I couldn't see shit because I'm too cheap to buy NVGs. All I heard was shooting and screaming. When all was said and done, I was the last man standing. I don't know what happened.
>>556227620>couldn't see shit because I'm too cheap to buy NVGsI got some as a quest reward for helping a guy in Zaton right out of the starting area.
>>556227620>>556228745There're also some gen 3 NVG's in the eastern part of Yantar, iffin' ya know where to look.
>>556227620The Rostok area is chaos reminds me of SOC, it's really what most of the game should feel like
>>556229558At the moment Wild Territory has a bugged spawn that often spawns too many A-Life NPCs. I guess it contributes to the chaos.
>>556229558>>556230995Realistically how many stalkers would be in the Zone? A thousand? I feel like the number of people entering the Zone every day would be less than the folks getting wasted by anomalies and mutants, especially since the games are like two decades into the Zone's creation. The Faction Wars are over, most of them were exhausted in it, Duty is down to dozens of men from the looks of things and Freedom maybe has a hundred left. Ward is the only big one since they're sanctioned and they probably have about two hundred spread around the southern zone. One thing I did like about anomaly was that you could modify the pops of stalkers and mutants alike. I had stalkers to .5 and mutants cranked all the way up. Makes it feel more feral. You see other stalkers fighting for their lives more, too.
>>556207940>>556211692faggot
What do you guys think Anomaly Anthology, is it any good? Are all of the storylines in one playthrough or separate
>>556232032>>556236613>anomaly mentioned
>>556233891>no argument>just ad hominemasspain - checkconcession accepted
>>556242123what argument do you want? the fake names and ejection ports on the left side of the guns are part of the franchise, like it or not. saying that we don't use them is like saying that we don't use the established names of mutants, locations or characters.
>reading is hard>the post
Engagements were way more difficult in the previous games because the weapons were nowhere near as good and limited on purpose it made human NPC engagement way more difficult.Stalker 2, pretty much has a weapon set for every playstyle so the only challenge is really the mutants, anomalies and emissions.My only criticism of the new game is they should have focused more on character building and meaningful missions that affect the zone.
>>556232032I ran all the factions through grok and the fact that everything is happening in about a 25 mile area it basically came up with 500 people in the zone max that's on the high end most likely 380 to 400
>>556138253>Continually being mugged by perpetually coming (still neutral)How? They normally lower your relations when you kill them. It only takes like 2 or 3 squads to become hostile.
>>556232032Oh yeah and it said 50 Stalkers
>>556228954Nice setup but you might want to liquid rock that shit so your gear doesn't wear down as much costing you a fortune
>>556167038>camp in one spot>enemies throw grenades at you>people who complain about "bad AI" will complain about this
>>556211692Gamma tourist
>>556224938ugh every screenshot of this game looks hideous
>>556211692Avalanche gets a pass by virtue of working in both languages>aVALanche>lavina == snezhny VALOtherwise I agree, most of those fake names are pretty unimaginative>>556218773What do you think r1_ssa_lod_b does then?
>>556252921The LOD that is in OT is the various detail sliders. Whatever you set it to, all items in the game tied to that setting are rendered at the same quality no matter the distance. You're telling me people really haven't used the binoculars that get whined about being missing from S2 so often and noticed faraway items are exactly the same quality as what's next to them? There's no LOD pop-in, no change in visual fidelity based on distance to object, it's not there.
>>556224938Why is your saturation cranked so high? That reminds me: I wonder if there's anything unique or interesting in dialog at places like Yanov if you go there pre-SIRCAA. I forgot to check that place and Malachite in this playthrough, but did get a glimpse at Duty's shitty base and Rostok.>Sevchenko just gets abandoned entirely even though a box and a marker for Bobber are still there
>>556252806Kys pidor
>>556257051the OG's have a lod system, what you're describing is the system that has changed over generations of video game engines.
>>556266317>another gpt post
>>556266809the fuck?
The only system I think the OT has is that it will stop rendering smaller items completely at a certain distance based on some setting.Isn't all of the level geometry one model? There's no way for it to have LODs.
>>556248523With an AK instead of the Kharod an excursion usually cost me about 5k in repairs when it was all said and done. Between my mission payouts and loot scrapping I'd still make about 7-10k in profits between excursions with that setup. The spas was almost as much as everything else in repairs so I shelved it, same with the saiga. We'll see how the kharod does.>>556260962Weird bottle makes you drunk and the screen gets super saturated. I was at like 139/140 of my inventory weight.
>>556252806Nah it's alright.
>>556281329>using lower tier weapons in later tier areasYou lose a lot of damage and armor penetration doing that. Ironically, the AKs are largely on the lower end of the durability spectrum in my experience.
>>556282565>Ironically, the AKs are largely on the lower end of the durability spectrum in my experience.They are but they're cheap to maintain repair. Like 1600 tops, a kharod would be over double that. The actual scripted sale value of the weapon directly affects the cost of the repairs.
Getting the weird bolt is going to be a bitch in master, isn't it?
>>556286286it's actually not very dangerous at all but it is very tedious
>>556286778I've done it before on veteran when the game came out and I remember savescumming at the top because sometimes you can miss the bolt. On master I have one chance, otherwise I have to do it all over again.
MOTHER FUCKER.
Got it on the third try, motherfucker is coming from back behind your head over your right shoulder and you have a split fucking second to grab it.
is it a mod or a setting that gives you a chance to recover upgrade kits from upgraded gear you disassemble? i swear i remember that but i can't find it now
>playing anomaly again>hate darkscape>hmmm it's been so long since I've done a quest in darkscape maybe I should take one it can't be as bad as I remember>take assassination quest>takes fucking ages to get to the target and get killed by bloodsucker, and cats as I have weak armor numerous timesYep I remember why I hated it.
>>556292429spawn in a car and drive to the destination and then back. it's not even cheating, darkscape was made for driving
>>556290016What does it do?
>>556298009Basically you get three free hits from an anomaly but then you have to charge the fucker in a blowout.
>>556286286It would be cool if in s2 random anomaly tornadoes would appear sometimes and tear through areas
Weird ball has to be the best very powerful bullet resistance with a increased weight trade-off as long as you're not getting constantly tapped in the head you should be fine, you remove the weight by unequipping it
>>556252806I'm far from glazing STALKER 2, I find myself on the criticizing side of community more often to be honest, but the one thing I that nu-GSC got right are the visuals and style which are pretty close to the originals. From environments to gear, including old and even new armors, they just feel like they belong in this world with the original roster. Few could have done it better imo.
>>556305858For me as a packrat the weird bottle is the single most important one.
>>556305923True I am enjoying it, I will say the criticisms are legitimate the world does feel largely empty with nothing interesting going on very much outside of the main plot but it's visuals are solid and it's Style almost seems identical to soc
>>556306158Yeah I'm largely in the same boat, but it's leaps and bounds better than what it was on launch. If, or when, they get a-life sorted out the game will be 10/10.
Anomaly WP, on Nexus mods for Stalker 2 will give you the SKS and about 320 other items and various weapons it looks like it is still being actively updated for bug fixesI was a little disappointed that the SKS wasn't included in the normal game but the ukrainians are a little but mad at the Russians right now obviously
>>556306841The SKS sucks. There's a reason the AK replaced it. The biggest issue with anomaly and all the misery derivatives are the item bloat.>320 new items Jethuth Cwithe.
>>556290016>>556298009forbidden sounding rod
>>556306158>>556306158>Style almost seems identical to socYep, I had the same impression for most of my playthrough.>world does feel largely emptyWorld is currently the second of my biggest grips, I will spare myself writing another rant about it which I shared with too many of my friends right now. But the first grip is the retarded story with obnoxious "fan service", I was ready for some retcons and corrections, after such a long time they are bound to happen, but holy fuck out of all the people who were on the team the ones which CLEARLY didn't play original games turned out to be writers. They even had me hooked, but after SIRCAA they basically said fuck it and decided to burn their new ideas and old lore altogether. What a bunch of hacks holy shit I will never get over it. I might enjoy S2 after dozens of patches, hell I even enjoyed it on release thanks to all the slavjank mods I played over the years which desensitized me, but until they won't fix the story (hopefully in the upcoming expansions) I will never talk about it in context of real continuation. S2 story currently is not canon for me.
>>556311382>new thing badIvan is mad his toaster can't run it.
>556311382Is someone starving for (you)s? Too bad faggot, I'm all out.
>>556306841Protip: It's not pre-2016 /k/ in here. Pretending the sks and mosin are the ultimate god guns because they used to be cheaper than dirt is no longer a thing people do. The SKS is shit in any mod that has it, too.
>>556318961It didn't even come with a scope in the last mod I played that had it. >:(
Doing well the AR is a little underpowered but it works
>>556318961This. Faggots just live perpetually 10 years in the past on this site when le heckin moist nugget! was the most epic gun and the subject of every spooky /k/ innawoods tale.
>>556324584You act on the thoughts you've been having for years and follow through
>>556324770>>>/lgbt/You're lost.
>>556324378>the AR is a little underpoweredUnless you mod the game that's all of them.They all fire nerf darts that only suddenly turn into real bullets if you're specifically shooting a human in the head.
>>556327050Use AP ammo and it cuts through their body armor.
>>556327189Body armor like leather jackets and shirts?
>>556324378I've noticed the various AR416s in the game, base and uniques, all have this sway to them I don't remember them having on release. That's with close range optics. I don't know how you can stand throwing an ACOG on something like that.>>556329815Learn how to play videogames.
>>556327189>basic bitch tier guides Fuck off back to r/stalker, seriously. What the fuck is this? First time playing an FPS game? Tourist? Fuck off.
>>556331221>be sub-DSP tier at videogames>think you're entitled to post a retarded opinion with no repercussions because it's the new game and OLD GOOD NEW BAD>start crying when someone tells you how to git gud
>>556331402NTA you newfag fucking retard
>>556331496>noooo you can't give useful information on how to beat a game you have to say kys and post barbecue sauceYou're trying far too hard to fit in.
>>556331768>sauce mentioned againThis general is truly cursed.
Entering Agroprom, first day is ending, already killed 73 people.
Shieeeeeet, now we're gaming.
>>556335334>>556336185You playing vanilla?
is there any old world addon equivalent but updated?
>>556307404sometimes I feel like I'm the only one who actually enjoys the crafting and extra items in these mods with how often this is mentioned kek. Also the SKS is a piece of shit but I like seeing the rookie loners with crappy old guns
>>556324421What are you even on about, this site has melted your brain
stop youing random blacks and give me my fucking answer>>556349063
>>556349063check out old world custom, it looked nice but it for some reason every mutant had the psysucker effect and I didn't understand what mod caused it or how to turn it off
>>556349439not very fond of the rancid buildo weapon models but i will try it, thanks
>>556335334You killed 57 people anon, the 'killed stalkers' statistic shows how much total points you have scored by killing them. You have killed 39 'tyro' bandits, and they only give you one point, but you also killed 16 'skilled' bandits, and you get two points for each of them, as you can see on the right.
>>556349097>seeing the rookie loners with crappy old gunsIt doesn't make much sense for them to use WW2-era rifles though, since access to newer weapons is very easy in the Zone and rookies can easily equip themselves with MP5s or AKs instead. And it's not USA, in Eastern Europe there is no passing weapons down from father to son and no one owns service weapons from several decades ago. There is a reason why old soviet guns were never a part of the series' arsenal, they completely miss the intended aesthetics. Though it was then mangled by modders anyway, and now we have a fucking Mosin in S2 but we don't have some of the classic weapons from the trilogy.
>>556350470That's cool and all, but I do enjoy it and im glad modders did even if it doesn't make sense in terms of realism. At this point it's obvious mods in the style of misery have a different vision but that's alright since I like both. Just means more games for me to enjoy
>>556350470have you ever considered the fact that not all stalkers that go to the zone are crazed mania/k/s? they just decided to go there and grabbed the first and cheapest weapon they could find to fulfill their purposes
>>556350792Yeah, and my point is that the first and cheapest weapon would be something like a MP5 or AKS-74U, because they are abundant in the Zone, while WW2-era weapons are not.
>>556351413brother, you get the gun BEFORE going into the zone and what you find in babushka's shed will probably be a mosin, a bm/toz or a makarov/tokarev not a god damn mp5
>>556351413Are old passed down guns really not a thing in the east? My grandmother has an old karabiner98
>>556351880Like I said, it's not fucking USA, there are no Mosins or SKSs hidden in babushkas' sheds. People never owned service weapons, civilians rarely have access to any weapons in the first place. Obtaining a weapon in Ukraine in the 2010s before going into the Zone would be much more difficult than going into the Zone itself. So no, you don't necessary get the gun first.
>>556352143It would be risky. Service weapons go to warehouses, and while someone could take a looted or a makeshift gun and hide it for personal use, it would be a serious offense. So it's definitely not common for some grandfather or grandmother to keep a Mosin in the shed with a crate of ammunition, like some folks seem to believe. That's why I don't get the whole 'rookies would use old weapons' idea. It would be much easier to get into the Zone first and obtain a weapon there than the other way around.
I a bit of a retard and only discovered that energy drinks protect you from psy-effects from mutants recently in S2
>>556361791do they really?
>>556361974In my experience yes when the energy drink tab is filled to Bright White which is Max it protects you from side effects to a certain degree
>>556305454Is there much difference between a tornado and an anomaly tornado besides maybe radiation? They seem to both obliterate anything in their path.
>>556362710I just think an anomaly tornado would be cooler due to the fact you can make it a fire tornado electric tornado a gravitational tornado that pulls you in towards it
>>556341009I'm playing the """enhanced""" edition just for completeness sake.
>>556311382this is the stalker general retard
I want to try gamma but it seems like a giant massive ordeal just to install
Feels great to find a fuckton of artefacts right after an emission>>556367429isn't there an installer version now on gog?
>>556367429What part of "unpack two different archives into two separate folders and launch the installer" sounds complicated for you
>>556370357probably the part where he has to join a discord, apparently that's the worst thing that could happen to a man
>>556370853You don't even have to anymore, all links are on Github now
>>556363876yeah no shit, turd burglar. what's next, are you going to give me braindead gameplay tips like this retard >>556327189 ?
>>556224938>Sight for sore eyesMaybe check WTF is up with that saturation then?
>>556377376does the game still make everything super colorful when you drink?
>>556377513yes
>>556350792And usually it's an old mak or their grandfather's shotgun. SOC cutting out the full-length version of the side-by-side and both versions of the over-under really fucks up the concept, but that's what most of the rookies come in with. It's generally more experienced guys that have been around for a bit that finally get their hands on surplus AKs.If you're really lucky, Marked One with plot armor will take out the southern Cordon checkpoint and gift everyone free AKS-74us.
>>556350470>and now we have a fucking Mosin in S2And it makes sense. Plenty of those were still in old inventory that would not be difficult to leak. Ukraine issued them to millitias some years ago and there are plenty of pictures of russians using them even now. It also makes much more sense than MP fucking 5s, which are anything but cheap and would not be used by rookies.
>>556350470>no one owns service weapons from several decades agoever since the 90s there were (and still are) multiple "weapons manufacturers" that just purchase soviet stockpiles in bulk, convert them to fit civilian regulations and sell them as "hunting weapons". KO-SKS, OP-SKS, SKS-O, SKS-MF, Fort-207, all in mint condition and much more handier than a double-barrel shotgun. add to that is that ukraine is one of the easiest post-soviet countries to get firearm license in, second only to baltic countries
What's the soupiest soup mod that one could slurp?
>>556387062OP 2.2 no diffalso shout out to Convergence, it's not out yet but already shapes up to be the soupiest mod in existence
>>556387062Cumulative pack 2.2https://ap-pro.ru/forums/topic/3201-obaedinyonnyy-pak-22/#commentsOp2 ogsrhttps://ap-pro.ru/forums/topic/2371-op-ogsr/
>>556377376Weird bottle makes you drunk when you're encumbered.
>>556387062>>556387871>>556389137It's funny to me that picrel is almost 1:1 recreation of the real Forgotten Forest experienceDoom soundtrack included
>>556389137how do these compare to ogse693
>>556350042No worry, I made up for that in Agroprom.
>>556392310ogse is soup-lite, about the same amount of content as ns2010op 2.2 is ns2010 that kept getting more and more and more updates for 12 years straight, not counting addons that are made to this day
>>556392310ogse693 doesnt compare
I'm taking these guys to the Duty checkpoint.
>>556394839Are you playing on a TV or just blind? I played enhanced and know it's not the text is not that big at least by default
>>556394839Based shepard
>>556311689UE5 runs like hammered dogshitits not some big secret
>>556400001??? The game does not have options for UI scaling.
>>556392743>bandit, tyro>stalker, lameThe jank ass broken translation of various things in SOC remains SOVLFUL to this day.
>>556401716arc riders is one of the hottest shit right now and proof that the engine can be tard wrangled but i have no hopes in gsc, they cant even update the fucking thing and its even unusually broken with its dogshit reflections and shadows
is hacr any fun
>>556409831not really, might as well play gamma and add your own mods
>>556061304Hey guys. How hard is it to make a story-based STALKER campaign mod, as opposed to a HL2 mod? HL2 is pretty easy for me.
>>556411640apparently it's pretty difficult, but i'm also interested in something like this so i want to hear other people's opinions on it
>>556411275i don't like how they changed the economy and you can't turn it off anymore without crashing
>>556411640doable if you are able to read ancient scriptures that are amkteam forum postsnigh impossible otherwise
Is there a freeplay using Lost Alpha maps in development, or did I misremember something
>>556415459>I brought you that bolt you asked me to get for you
>>556411640>>556411921Modding STALKER isn't exactly difficult but it's very tedious. X-Ray is pretty much just a bunch of text files that link into each other. Once you figure out how the files react, it gets kinda straight forward, just tedious. For example, creating new dialog requires you to edit like three different .xml files that all link into each other.On top of that, most of the modding info out there is in Russian. The only English sources I know of are the mod portal wiki, which is broken and very outdated, and /sg/. If you can't read Russian, expect to do most of the learning through trial and error.>https://sdk.stalker-game.com/en/index.php?title=S.T.A.L.K.E.R._MOD_portalThe SDK also barely works past Windows 7, although the ruskis have apparently patched it. I recommend the ACDC tool to work with the all.spawn and Notepad++ to work with the text files. But, like anon said, it's doable. I've made two mods for SoC myself!
>>556424060Which 3D model program did they use for character models, item models, etc?
>>556431025The levels were created in Maya so I assume GSC used the same program for character models. But Blender does have an .ogf addon.
>>556415459>i live... again
>>556424060>>556431025the engine source code had projects for plugins for lightwave, 3dsmax and maya.So assume those
>>556438064>3dsmaxYes, that's true. I forgot about that one. That software was used as well to create the maps.
>>556431760>>556438064>>556439161Cool, thanks. Do we know which versions? Does that matter?
>>556446636I don't know personally, but old versions. Keep in mind SoC was in development from about 2001 to 2007 and it was messy as hell.
>>556448062Looks like some modders were using Maya 8.5 for some stuff, not sure about 3DS Max. From that time period, probably 8 or 9.
>>556451457idk anon, that post seems really low quality to me
>>556464779nghh
>>556469170>sitting under an open sky for a prolonged time subjecting themselves to beyond lethal doses of radiationare they retarded?>posting metroslop in MUH stalkan generalare you retarded?
>>556470141yes, I'm retarded.kill you are self
>>556470445What's that weapon the guy on the left is holding? The bolt reminds me of an SKS but it has a pistol grip in the pic.
im playing efp, it seems nice but having to decrapify the mod myself is annoying to say the least, should i just give it up? im only looking for freeplay or story with improved vanilla gameplay and good weapon animations, models and sounds
>>556470141>made by OL/SoC devs>was going to be the original Stalker 2 before Anarchy Cell was even conceivedmetro is more on-topic than CS/CoP are>>556470445vz 58
>>556473218No that's either a bubba'd SKS or a Type-63 chinkshit.
The OG Metro 2033 belongs to the same shelf as Stalker. Not sure about Redux, Last Light or Exodus though.
>>556470445>>556470902is the SKShttps://survarium.fandom.com/wiki/SKS>>556473218nyet, bolt is all wrong
how the fuck do i fix scanlined shadows in memelomaly since none of the console commands work such as r2_sun_near, far or border
>>556470141>>sitting under an open sky for a prolonged time subjecting themselves to beyond lethal doses of radiationThat's a shitty gimmick that the game devs came up with BTW.And it doesn't even hold up within their own game because there are numerous cases of people being exposed to "outside air" without masks with no issues.>>556473218Now this guy is a fucking retard.
>>556482304I don't have it installed right now but iirc it's the shadowmap size on the launcher, try increasing that
>>556469421That's terrifying
>>556482304try changing from default ssao or turn it off altogether
should zombies know how to reload their guns
>russian stalker content creators need to mention that gsc is a considered an undesirable organization in their countrykek
any guide or suggestions on how to clean up gamma to get more of a stalker experience than arma-tarkov
>>556497472Play an actual stalker game instead.
>>556498779i already did thats why im trying the last option
>>556482827>That's a shitty gimmick that the game devs came up with BTW.Wasn't there a station where everyone was sick from being located near the outside opening? I don't remember which book of the 3, but there was definitely something like this.>>556472523Why not play ZONA or something? Just remove the toxic air shit, and you're golden. Some of the best animations and optimization I've seen in a modpack. It's the only way I ever play analmeme now.>>556497472It doesn't have that many mods, just go through the MO2 list and deselect everything you don't like. It's hard to tell what you mean anyways, since gamma with all the gimmicky tarkovey shit removed is just anomaly.
>>556495474you ever do something without really thinking about it?I imagine thats what reloading their weapon is like
>>556499438>Why not play ZONA or something?because ive just heard of its existence, god dammit im halfway through gamma's moddb server ddosyou get it from that youtuber drakomt links, right?
>>556500345yeah, from his pisscord. it seems to be the only way, sadly.
>>556483559it's cute ain't it
>>556499438>Wasn't there a station where everyone was sick from being located near the outside opening? I don't remember which book of the 3, but there was definitely something like this.Dunno, but I know that in the book there was no case of "you must wear a gas mask on the surface or you die instantly".And in the first game there are places like the church outpost on the surface, or there's that bit where you carry the kid on your back and go up a vertical shaft that is open at the top.As a gameplay mechanic it works, but at least make it consistent.And then in the second game you can't even buy filters anymore so they fucked that up anyway.
What the FUCK happened?
>>556504478
>>556513237
>>556513237>games made for the xbox 360 take up less space than decade-newer games made for platforms with high capacity bluray drives and/or mutli-terabyte storage devicesIt amazes me how nobody shit their pants over this sort of thing when games went from fitting on 1-15 1.44Mb floppy disks to needing 1-4 700MB CDs, nor when they went up to DVDs and dual-layer DVDs. No, it's only when games go past what a dual-layer DVD can hold that you faggots started showing up and crying about games taking up space.Also metro isn't stalker stop FUCKING posting about it here.
>>556517045there were noticeable leaps in gameplay and graphics in prior hardware cycles. new games look the same if not worse as older but still recent ones. stop carrying water for a shitty industry.metro is very gay and faggot metro posters should fuck off, on that we agree.
>>556517687yep yep here's that same tired copeyep of course there's literally zero graphical fidelity difference between pic related and stalker yepGet past your ego and admit you are simply coping with being unable to afford the hardware that can run modern titles. That's all this bullshit is.
>>556517045yeah it's because DVD games were miles better than floppy disk games but in today a 10x increase in size from 10GB to 100GB means jackshit other than 4k textures and most of the time gameplay has gotten worse
>>556495474Muscle memory.
>>556517045>with high capacity bluray drives Yeah, discs that needed to have their data duplicated multiple times for faster access times.Retard.
>>556518278>20+ year old gameNow compare a game from 2015.You are a retarded mouthbreather.
>>556523309>nah bro this game literally looks exactly the same as a new game bro *shits pants*How strong a glasses prescription do you need to be able to tell the difference, retard? See an optometrist. Or just get a job and stop pretending the 1060 you bought a decade ago is still a valid card.
Trying way too hard.
>>556523562No, I definitely see the issue now.The issue is that you have double digit IQ.
>>556527141>>556525419>get proven wrong again>triple down
Graphics stopped improving years ago, only hardware requirements have increased.Ray tracing is a scam that requires fake frames to even be usable for top end cards and still doesn't eve make the game look noticeably better compared to the lighting tricks you could do without it.If your game is so poorly optimized that it runs poorly on middle of the road cards from two generations ago you're an incompetent dev and/or maliciously greedy.
Imagine being so mentally challenged you think the "leap" in graphics from 2015 to 2025 was even 20% as big as the one from 2005 to 2015.I doubt this retard could even talk in 2005.
graphics barely improved from mario 64 to resident evil 2. ray tracing is a much bigger step.
I think the government made covid on purpose.
Quit your prattling, you fags. I've just released my custom story mod, S.T.A.L.K.E.R. Defiance!>https://www.moddb.com/mods/stalker-defiance>outdated weapon pack>original custom-made storyline>CS and SoC levels>winterized ZoneGood hunting, stalkers. The mod is only available in English.ModDB seems to be taking its time to authorize the upload but /sg/ always gets a sneak peek.>https://we.tl/t-K9u4HKtb0K
>>556538335Very cool. I'll be checking it out.
>>556536463Both those games came out on the N64, what is your point exactly?
>>556542570He doesn't have one, he's retarded.
Don't you die on me.
>>556538335Consider me intrested, gonna give it a go when the itch for stalkan returns
Has anyone played and completed OLR 3.0?
>>556553890Maybe
podhodi
>>556535046>>556532352See an optometrist already.
>>556539785>>556553716Thanks, anons. Let me know what you guys think.
>>556061304can you describe in 100 words or less how the original stalker differs from say anomaly and why they are essentially different games?
>>556576315yea
>>556579983*agenda>to every countrynot every country.Israel surely notand all the countries they came fromafrica, china, korea, india, afghanistan, iraqstrarting to see a demographic pattern?
>>556576315only you can prevent forest fires
>>556538335what weapon pack are you using
>>556538335>custom story mod >in English by default>in 2026Wow, now that's rare. I will check it out for sure.
runnin in the zone
>>556538335in your bin folder you have xrRender_R2_125.dllafter looking at save and protect killer's readme, I see this in the readme"xrRender_R2_125.dll - drawing grass up to 125 meters ( optional installation )"maybe worth mentioning in your readme toothe file needs to be renamed to xrRender_R2.dll otherwise the engine will not load it.
not today!bloodsuckerpunched that guy
Why do people claim stalker2 is worse than 1?Both are janky and buggy. They even share a lot of the same jankiness/bugs.
>>556495474>should zombies know how to walk towards you>should zombies tend to stick together as opposed to shambling around alone>should zombies know to stay close to a fire for warmth when not in a state of aggro>should zombies sprint away at max speed when a grenade lands near themI don't know, should they? You tell me
>>556499438>Wasn't there a station where everyone was sick from being located near the outside opening? I don't remember which book of the 3, but there was definitely something like this.i remember some off-hand comment about the line in the circle, with the bridge connecting it being forcibly shielded off from the radiation by political prisoners, and still everyone being sick from proximity to the surface.I haven't read the book (2033 that is) in 10 years probably, and still have fond memories of when I first read it around 2009 or whatever. It was such an engaging universe at 14-15 lol. that was a better time.2034 and 2035 are dogshit tho
>>556593616zombies should full auto and fumble reloads but such mechanics dont exist
>>556576315Shadow of Chernobyl is a story-driven FPS/RPG with a fixed narrative, handcrafted levels, and deliberate pacing. Its tension comes from atmosphere, scripted encounters, and gradual discovery of the Zone’s lore. Anomaly, by contrast, is a free-play sandbox mod: no required story, dynamic factions, emergent events, and heavy survival mechanics. Where SoC is about experiencing a specific tale in a hostile world, Anomaly is about living in the Zone indefinitely. One is a curated narrative experience; the other is a systemic survival simulation built on the same bones.
>>556499438>>556512391>>556595216Paveletskaya station is described in 2033 as having no separation from the outside world, which is why not only was it frequently attacked by mutants, but its inhabitants also suffered from radiation poisoning, and children were being born with mutations.
can you play stalker 2 on a 2070S?
>>556586116Comfy
>>556538335I'm goona coom to the Zone and find all I've ever wanted
>>556611179>snowballs on the beltfuck are those things?
Is Stalker 2 going to get the multiplayer they promised or did GSC roach out again?
>>556612452Two more weeks.
>>556611575They give +2 against Radiation per ball
>>556612452never ever me thinksI wouldn't care if it was scrapped due to decision to redirect the resources to flesh out the campaign, but I think it's no secret the aforementioned resources were redirected for other reasons... Shame really, I would unironically jump to play some classic modes like team deathmatch or capture the artifact in S2.
The Cordon road makes me go snowblind
>>556606402I found a benchmark that might be helpful. However, keep in mind that it's a CPU hog, and the performance has been improved by around 20% on average recently. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iPBzNz6sP-Q
>>556587323So that's what it is! I didn't know what the bin files did but thought removing them might cause bugs, since they came with the original Save and Protect: Killer mod.I might as well remove it since my mod has winter textures, thus no grass.>>556611575Funny story, the original mod uses an artifact respawn system that spews artifacts everywhere. I couldn't figure out how to successfully remove it, so I created that dummy snowball artifact to be spawned instead as a workaround.>>556582425I think it's the weapon pack from LURK. Not sure, to be honest. Came with the original SvP: Killer mod.>>556620179Are you using a tweaked user.ltx? Your screenshot looks nothing like my game.
>>556620179Wait, are you using static lighting? That could be it, I used full dynamic for my playthroughs.
>>556623887>Are you using a tweaked user.ltx? Your screenshot looks nothing like my game.I did not tweak anything, didn't even open the options yet
>>556623475Thank you, anon.May you find success in the zone.
Jesus fucking Christ, I just booted up the mod with static lighting and my game looks like fucking ass, dog. I never thought of testing that out during my playthroughs. I must add this to the readme.>>556624619If you are playing on static, try switching over to full dynamic lighting.
>>556624296>>556625778Yeah that was it
At what point did you realise that modding stalker is just turd polishing?
When newer games started becoming sloppy diarrhea that couldn't be polished.
>>556626134Glad it's fixed now. I hope you enjoy my mod, anon.
>bandit just glad he survived the blowout>gets domedsuch is life in the zone
>>556620179>>556623887Comfy
>install latest anomaly>put a load of mods on it>computer sounds like its about to take off most times because of the shaders>beefs NVGs don't seem to fucking work anyway because anytime someone with a headlamp looks at me with NVGs in fucking whites outs>play game anyway>clear the scortcher>find no decent loot>run out of ammo while doing it because monolith only drop like 2 or 3 rounds of ammo each>AI is jank as fuck anyway locking onto me through walls and other shitTime to uninstall and re-install, honestly vanilla with only a few mods was better esspecially the one that adds more ammo on dead NPCs fuck me the "immersive" nature of mods like misery and analmeme is a fucking meme it makes no sense.
>>556638397I am still unshakably convinced that the best hypothetical anomeme experience can be achieved by playing on Master Ironman but with some sort of a mod that makes stalkers' inventories fully realistic -- good condition gun, meds, at least a few mags of ammo, food, water, maybe an artifact, field kitchen, whatever. Combine the high (but immersive) loot with the high risk factor of Ironman + Master. Maybe I'll make a mod like that one day.
>>556595641Correct take, I guess the question really is which one do you prefer.
>>556640289Ironically what you describe gammfag does it. If it didnt have that abomination of a crafting and repair system it would be great.
>>556641592Eh, it does give them more loot, but there's still too little of it and it's too destroyed to be actually realistic. If you've ever played SPT-AKI (that one mod that makes tarkov a bit good), I'm talking about something similar to the NPC loot there - inventories genuinely full of shit that look 1:1 as if looted from an actual player.Actually come to think of it, a mod that would continuously record inventories of all its players upon their characters' deaths in a single place and then make all NPCs use those at random would be very interesting to play.
Anyone have the CoC registry fix? I just reinstalled windows for a dead hardrive
>>556649296Stalker drops are not difficult to edit at all. You could do this in one evening.
>>556638397Install AMK 1.4 and set stashes to random. The enemies are more difficult that vanilla, but at least you have a chance of getting decent gear in a random stash early game. I found a gauss rifle when searching a stash in Agropram.https://www.moddb.com/games/stalker/downloads/amk-1-4-eng
>>556416410You're not misremembering exactly. The Lost Alpha map files were released stand-alone for modders to work with. I don't think anyone's done anything with them yet, though.
>enter Dark Valley>six snorks charge me from the level transition
>>556664886It's the true stalkan experience.
bruh
>>556669228Tushkano swarms are underrated and I wish more mods featured them.
>>556669228Literally get up on a box
What was the name of the wrist lock Skif used on Herman in the opening to Stalker 2? Was it some Ukrainian KGB cold war era shit or what? Never seen that before.
Just beat Clear Sky for the first time. Played SHoC yeaaaars ago with AMK AE a ton of times, but finally got around to playing CS. Had some really gud shit, but the last few linear levels were a tad bit aids. Still comfy
>>556638397What is with analmeme and making gpu fans go into overdrive?
>>556670430I can never resist the urge to full auto magdump the horde from the hip to feel like Strelok in that cutscene. I don't care if it wastes ammo, I want to look kewl.
>>556689530It's not analmeme it's the enhanced shaders I installed game looks good, but I'd rather have it look decent and not sound like a plan taking off when it rains or I walk inside 3-rads bar. I don't even know which effects are making it so hot either because it doesn't look that much better.
>>556692282Modern gaming in a nutshell. Doesn't look any better, but consumes 3x the computing.
>>556691959>I can never resist the urge to full auto magdump the horde from the hip to feel like Strelok in that cutscene. I don't care if it wastes ammo, I want to look kewl.If it feels right, it is right
>>556692282anomaly usually runs fine for me until I clear a major base like dark valley, the game crashes after killing a certain amount of dudes and I dunno how to fix it lol
>>556691959>>556699446>full auto magdump the horde from the hip to feel like Strelok in that cutscene>If it feels right, it is rightWhy did Strelok shoot them lil rattos though, they were not coming for him, just fleeing from something ;_;It's with regret I have to say that I killed those tushkanos in the department store in CoP, where I thought their script was just bugging out in not attacking me and instead pushing against the doors; instead I later learned that these lil fellers are actually neutral and even helpful in showing you the way towards the tools or whatever it is that you need to retrieve
>get cornered in a tunnel by monolith>fight my way through them>they get reinforcements right after>barely manage kill those as well>suddenly mercs show and engage monolith and me>hide in tunnel like a rat and kill everyone who entersNever had such a close fight. Nearly didn't make it...
>>556709325>Why did Strelok shoot them lil rattos thoughHe was trying to cure them of radiation
>>556691959correct stalkan mindset
>>556709820I love fights like that>clear the vehicle graveyard of 5 or 6 pseudodogs>tracker starts beeping like crazy 30 seconds later>7 military>oh fuck>barely survive>looting corpses>tracker starts beeping again>5 bandits>fuck me>survive again>looting once again>tracker is beeping yet again>you gotta be fucking kidding me>more military shows up
>>556710326what kind of tracker reacts to humans?
>>556710517Your proximity tracker that beeps and indicates people close by? Have you played the game sir?
>>556684857In every Stalker game the last 10-20% are complete ass, it's tradition at this point.
I'VE MCFUCKING HAD IT WITH THIS ZONE BULLSHIT
>>556710763>checking your pda while out in the open with only 1 npc nearbyRookie
Heading out to Yantar.
>>556719357you could use a better suit at thist point i think
hide and snork
>>556692282No, it's analmeme. My install did the same thing, and I couldn't use enhanced shaders because the incompetent developers of it released a pack of bullshit that don't compile.
>find stash>solve puzzle to find the code>open the door>music plays>prize is just a ward mask on a table I grabbed before opening the door, 7 bullets of 9mm trash, and some food>go to wild island post-sircaa because I've been able to go in there countless times before>infinite monolith spawns
>>556739717>that fovGood bait. Here's your (you).
>>556742416what are you talking about?
https://www.moddb.com/mods/back-to-the-stalker/videos/weapon-bipods-systemBack to the STALKER looks so fucking sick.
>https://youtu.be/i2VjesyosKM?si=5CloBu_uX3AnFnIN&t=1661So comfy.
>>556743806A reminder that things have fallen so far, people will cry "bait" at the mere notion of something as trivial as someone playing with a higher FOV than they do. That's where this site is now. Using different graphics settings than others is now "bait".
apparently using vp9 webms means chrome users can't watch them so enjoy this shitty webm of me raiding bandits at the farm
>military raids rookie village>they kill hipwhy did they do it?
Duty and loners aint shit
>>556748668>mfw when i realize ive been chatting with fishes in sg
Same anon as here >>556684857Doing a CoP playthrough for the first time now. Playing with Gunslinger and the included texture and weather. This game is already incredibly comfy, I kinda love it. Had to do some LUA fuckery to get it to run good though. Went from 30fps on a high end rig to 144fps. Really gud!
>>556748668I like my fov around 100 because I have a 1440 and curved 32 inch monitor.
>>556773157>LUA fuckeryCan you elaborate? Gunslinger is my favorite way to play CoP but the low framerate is annoying.
>>556765474>good AI>can't win 10v1
>>556773157CoP is the most stable out of the three, I'm surprised it didn't work out of the box.
do not die
>STALKER 2 came out in 2024 and there is still no DLC
>>556801483I would guess Summer at the earliest most likely Autumn release. But if they fuck it up and only release next year...oof.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iGCyheenC7U
>>556748668Welcome to current age 4chan. The thread is either infested with schizos who keep fighting ghosts or pretty much dead. I browse, or mostly lurk a few threads across different boards and it's always one of those two.
Do faction relations ACTUALLY change in anomaly/GAMMA or is it a bugged feature? Swear to god i have always played with dynamic factions on but everytime i get major faction alliance shifts is when i play warfare mode and not story mode, wanted to spice up the story mode a bit but feel like organically changing how a faction behaves with one another takes ages/simply does not happen.
>>556806689Also i want to add, factions changing relations used to be such a common thing in COC. Ive played anomaly's story mode like 4 times now and never seen anything different.
>>556804019I don't think they would've teased the DLC if they hadn't been confident in it being released this year. But then again, there's also the engine update.
>>556806689search fluid relations addon
>>556806868>there's also the engine updateThey're talking about even upgrading to 5.6 now in discord. I think this is still a long way off from happening desu. Maybe at the end of the year.
>>556785568Its a videogame little bro, I died like a dozen times and Im not even running hardcore settings. Also it was 38 vs 1.
>>556822804Nice cope.Also remove the vaseline from your screen.
>>556818825>5.6I hope that's a good thing.
>>556822991Oh, you are that kind of retard.Kill yourself, nigger.
Thank god you posted a png screenshot bro so I could appreciate better how dogshit your game looks LMAO
>Thank god you posted a png screenshot bro so I could appreciate better how dogshit your game looks LMAO
>>556750237Based
Back from X-16, I have hoarding problems
>>556823801Reddit loves gamma and its dogshit reshade, retard. You belong there.
>Reddit loves gamma and its dogshit reshade, retard. You belong there.Can we kill these discord transdad tourists already?
>AMK Alife spawns 50 bloodsuckers 24 chimeras and 103 snorks right all over your face>YOOOOOOOOO THIS IS FIRE BROOOOOOOO>Stalker 2 Alife spawns 50 bloodsuckers 24 chimeras and 103 snorks right all over your face>REEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEExplain this behaviour
>>556844643I wouldn't advise posting videos of yourself on here could get doxxed real easy
So is stalker 2 good? I got a pretty powerful rig recently and am looking to test its capabilities but have hated most of the modern games ive played.
>>556850881It's alright. It still has some annoying bugs (introduced with new updates) like polters and burers throwing shit through walls. It also has some balancing decisions that some people dislike (can be fixed with mods). I like it for what it's worth.
>>556852218Would you say the ultimate edition is worth 50 bucks?
>>556852850The perks in it are negligible so only buy it if you want to pre-order the DLCs.
>>556852850Pirate it first then decide for yourself to buy it or not. AFAIK it still has graphical bugs even on max settings with typical UE5 performance.
>>556853025>it still has graphical bugs even on max settingsIt does have noisy godrays when looking far away underground sometimes, but they're more common on lower settings.>with typical UE5 performanceThey did improve performance in recent patches. Actual results obviously vary and my rig is pretty beefy (7800X3D/4070Ti), but the only place that truly chugged was Rostok, and it's fine now.
>>556853497Meant for >>556853141
>>556853025>>556853141Don't got a VPN so I guess it sounds like itd be best to just go for the 30 dollar option for now. Got a radeon rx 6900xt xfx with 32 gb of ram so I should be alright (I think). Another anon on /vr/ recommended this game for a test drive of the pc and usually nobody on /vr/ recommends a modern game so it has me interested.
>>556853920And the 30 buck option is just the base game.
>>556847430old good, new bad behaviorboth games are a janky mess but at least stalker 2 looks pretty (but runs like poo)
>>556855649>at least stalker 2 looks prettyAre you implying that SoC doesn't look pretty?
>>556806689It happens, and it's retarded.>ecologists randomly declare war on freedom>mercs declare ceasefire with loners, renege and start a war again
>>556628381I do. But I am now in the hospital and can't find the backpack you mention in your readme>In the third part of the building, walk straight until you see a floating backpack on your left. It has the item you need.
>>556777785Yes Anon. There is some file on the PCGamingWiki that is a patch of some sort. It's called "S.T.A.L.K.E.R.: SoC/CoP Xetrill's Modified LuaJIT" was a simple install, just make sure you're gamedata folder is enabled in gunslingers fsgame.ltx. Went from 30fps on a 4080 to 144fps
>>556787350Worked pretty well untill I added gunslinger with the included textures and weather, and then it taaaaaaaaanked. But the LUA fix was all it needed.
>>556866991Thank you. How goes your playthrough?
>>556852850Nope. You just get a bunch of pay2win gear.
>>556872000Very gud!!! Really comfy
Soc still looks incredible for its time, stalker 2 also looks very good
>>556879165Yeah, skipping that edition then. Hate pay 2 skip gameplay gear. Gonna pick up the base game tonight
bout to play for the first time. Should I go for the og or enhanced edition? Any must have mods or am I good for unmodded playthrough for my first go?
>>556898804OG version. You can get it from the repacks in the links in the OP.I recommend you get ZRP, the fan-made bugfix patch for SoC. You don't need anything else for a first playthrough.https://metacognix.com/files/stlkrsoc/index.html#ZRP1.07
>>556899704I already own it from years ago thankfully. Downloading the og and grabbing that patch then. Thank you
>>556898804What this guy said >>556899704I'll add that you should skip Clear Sky and go straight to Call of Pripyat after finishing Shadow of Chernobyl. Vanilla CoP is good to go. If you really want more after that, then you can go back and play Clear Sky.
>>556899998Have fun, bro.
>>556900294>skipping CSCS is shit but it should be experienced none the less.
>>556899704>>556900390preciate it. Is there anything I need to do to enable the bugfix or is that automatic when I have ZRP installed and enabled (which I just finished)?>>556900294Funny, looking back I never bought Clear Sky so I imagine people talked me out of it or something.
>>556900294You should kill yourself now.
>>556900504>skipping CS>i shiggy diggy
>>556538335i decided to try this out and just got through to the cordon and i'm loving it so far. feels very hand crafted. can't wait to play more later
Anomaly Custom is getting extended CordonThoughts?
>>556917913>The original Cordon concept seemed too corridor-like for us, not allowing for much room for player exploration. Therefore, the decision was made to radically expand the location.>In the first screenshot, you can see two colored frames: the green one contains a section of the location based on the original concept, while the blue one contains a new area that significantly expands the location.>You can already see a large urban-type settlement in the northern part of the new area with its surrounding infrastructure, and to the south, sketches of a monastery.>Irbis shared some of the developments from the developed modificationLost World
>>556917913basedeven if it's anomaly the idea seems pretty cool
bros can you help me? My game crashes when clearing large bases like dark valley, presumably because of memory, any changes I can make to prevent this?
the Zone sees right through you
we cant just leave /sg/ like thatjust leave the thread there is nothing we can do for it the archive is minutes away and we won't get through with the generalno anon im not leaving it
what's the best way to experience the series as a beginner? i read the OP and it says GOG or Steam. is that still relevant?
>>556946285I played the original games through steam over a decade ago and it was good.
>>556946285>what's the best way to experience the series as a beginnerZone Reclamation Project for Shadow of ChernobylSky Reclamation Project for Clear SkyVanilla for Call of Pripyat>i read the OP and it says GOG or Steam. is that still relevant?Not anymore, both versions are fine
>>556945574we need to fuck off to /vr/ or some shit at this point, I'm tired of bumping the thread at 4-10am>>556945574SoC with ZRP if you're a softlock sorcererCS with SRP, extreme jank without itCoP is fine vanillaGdrive link is fine, GOG fine, but afaik Steam isn't since they delisted the original versions there after meme editions came out. I don't know if you also get the normal versions with them, some other anons would know more
>>556892794>>556879165>believing schizo liesThe gear you get from ultimate edition is hardly any better than the generics you get. The tourist suit being the tourist suit is the only meaningfully different one. The other armors are just special skins for armors you can get easily, and the weapons are just alt skins. Hell, the first one you can get, the monolith ptm, is shittier than your starter pistol by extension of not being the mandatory quest item Skif's Pistol.
>>556948049the second half meant for >>556946285
"Install Stalker GAMMA it's easy">Compared to what becoming a fucking heart surgeon
>>556949049>install anolameymee>install lonchér>click butonare you perchance retarded?
>maybe I should give gamma a try getting kinda bored of vanilla anomaly>please visit the discord for downloadsDude I fucking hate discord trannies so fucking much, why the fuck this shit has infested so much.
How to make dropped weapons not have 1% condition in anomaly?
>>556953549Went through that but luckily you don't need to interact with any of those malformed males. Just follow the stupidly bloated install guide and thats it. At least it wasn't like the EFP tranny forcing you to watch xis dogshit video.
>>556953549Playing vanilla anomaly is an even bigger brainlet move than playing gamma. The whole point of anomaly is how easily you can mod and configure it.
>>556954637I have mods installed, but only a handful to make loot drops better and some QoL stuff, I like it but I'm kinda burned out on it, I thought I'd give gamma a try but I'm not signing up to discord to download it, why the fuck they couldn't have just put it on github or moddb directly I don't know.
Play Clear Sky.Install GAMMA.Buy Stalker 2 Ultimate Edition.
>>556917913But does it remove Darkscape?>>556948229The light merc suit is literally the best light armor.
>>556765474how to make game look like dis? just shaders? which ones?
weird bait
>watch someone playing gamma on youtube>okay I need to loot everything>literally running around everywhere picking up every piece of shit to use in crafting or to break downAyyy lamo. Yeah no thanks, Fallout 4 had that tedious shit, I can accept gun parts, ammo and drugs for loot but I'm not picking up 20 broken flashlights and hammers to make a tool set to swap out a part on my gun fuck off with that shit.
>>556963389>super wimpy suit whose only major benefit is having two expensive 0.5kg weight reduction upgrades>best
>>556971529Yes.
>>556968939yeah, miss me with that shit
>>556968939set your configs for that or just spawn the best kits its an ez fix
>>556900294>I'll add that you should skip Clear Skyhow dare you defecate such heresy from your mouth.in my /sg/ no less
>>556902240Bumping for this question and also of there's a way to get the game up to 120 fps. Seems like its capped at 60.Also, just wanted to share a little story going off >>556853920>bro is a competitive gamer>upgrades all his gear, gives his old gear to me>try numerous new games>they are all visually amazing and it can run the most unoptimized games at over 100fps>get bored in a couple minutes and refund them all, just not having fun>that anon on /vr/ recommends stalker 2>decide I don't want to play it till I play stalker 1>finally do >actually fun>keeping my attention>super immersed in the world even though the graphics don't hold a candle to the spectacles of modern games>just beat the bandit at the junk yard>legit laughed out loud because of said funWild to have all this new power and still having the most fun on games that use a fraction of a fraction of it.
When are we getting the BLACKED.com collaboration with GAMMA?
>>556984082>Seems like its capped at 60iirc the vsync option is counter intuitive. it controls whether the game uses your gpu settings or not. set your preferred vsync (or no vsync) in your gpu control panel then enable the vsync option in game. im going by memory but if theres a 60hz option in soc graphics menu try unchecking that as well.
>>556987065Gotcha, I'll give that a go. It's not like the 60 fps is even bad, but now that I've been spoiled by 100+ fps if I can play it higher I'd like to.
I love this evil place.
>>556988323Wild Territory is a dangerous spot in all mods
>>556987065>>556987458Disabling 60 fps in the advanced menu worked. Thank you!
should I finally get stalker 2. it's been well over a year now and multiple patches, and it's on sale. I want to play a new game
>>556999672I like it. Go to Zaton and get the Predator shotgun when the starting area opens up.
>>556988323Wild territory is when the game gets real.
>>556538335I just installed this. I assume the swamp starting area is to just gather some supplies before heading to Cordon?
I'm glad that autist debunked the stalker difficulty being the easiest, most balanced way to play. Playing on the normal difficulty actually feels fun to me, where as every time I attempted it on the hardest difficulty it felt like dragging my dick through glass.
>>557018068you mean in s2
>>557018953S1.There's a big copy pasta that debunked master mode as the only way to play it. Playing it on Stalker difficulty actually feels really good as compared to every other time I've started it on master and just had a miserable time.
>>557020180all you need to know.
>>557021958Saved, thank ya. Also>just wandering around completing some quests>starts getting cloudy>begins to rain >shifts to night>that beutiful night sky as lightning strikes in the distanceAmazing.
>>557018068>>557018953>>557020180Enemies in the original stalker games on master did not feel bad to me most of the time, they were usually reasonably fragile.Enemies in stalker 2 on master or veteran feel ridiculously tanky.
>>557020180Stalker is literally baby mode, and the only game that is actually hard on Master is CS, even when you have already played it.SoC on Master is a joke.
>>557023967Which mod is this?
>>557026626Just Anomaly with addons and AOEngine. AOEngine is pretty slick, it gave me a considerable frame rate boost. Really enjoyable.
>radiophobia>entering dark valley>watch the usual interrogation skit>spare the bandit, he asks me to kill bullet in exchange of some stash coordinates>tell him to fuck off>fast forward to x18>see someone lying on the road alongside two dead fleshes>it's the same bandit>apparently he managed to kill the mutants but bled out afterwards>give him a medkit, he becomes friendly>heads off to borov's base, unaware of the massacredude dodged a bullet thrice todaysince ogsr makes npc travel more frequently I wonder if I'll bump into him again later
>literally at the bottom of page 10
>>557049134Цe кiнeць...
Is Anomaly Custom good? I want to play some stalker but feel bored with most mods and have already replayed all the 3 games in the past few months, so would like to shake things up a little. Most freeplay mods feel too grindy and repetitive at the moment, and most story mods too amateurish.
>>557049134>can /sg/ prevail?It always does.
>>557015002It's just a little hobo mode fun before Cordon.
>yet another weapon pack where gunshots aren't loudits all so tiresome
>>557022972>>557023219It's the gunfights that I can't stand on harder difficulties. The spread on your shots become even more frustrating when you are getting lasered across the map. The various monsters aren't hard at all to deal with, but the shootouts just aren't enjoyable to me.
>>556999672The only reason for the answer to this question to ever be "no" is if you already own it.
>>556988323>minimapa true stalker would never
>>557023967Which mods lets you see your quick access slot items and count?
>finally enter the abandoned lab I was itching to explore>climb down into its dark, damp intestines>oppressing atmosphere, hair on my neck standing straight up the whole time>enter a large storage room, a foul smell lingers in the stale air>hear a blood-curdling roar coming from its unlit end>a monstrosity, consisting mainly of muscles and fat, stomps towards me>each step makes the room shake, dust falls from the ceiling>panic-fire my whole magazine of 5.45 into it, the thing just eats it unfazed>retreat up some metal stairs into what looks like the deserted supervisor room>beast can't follow, waddles around in circles with mighty steps>catch my breath while heart rate settles slowly>throw a grenade in its general direction>fat angry fuck stomps, RGD-5 comes back in MY general direction>barely avoid the blast and shrapnel>remember the two VOG-25's I picked up in the locker room>shoot one underneath it>flesh thing is crippled, but still limping towards me>blast the second VOG in its repulsive face>it dies with an ear-piercing howl>inspect the ugly, grotesque malformation>it's your mom
>>557064071kek, actually got me
hello fellow stalkers! ive been enjoying IWP+Cotz without rhons bs(and the two visual mods+Zone Next Door weather) for a while now and I was wondering what other mods anons recommend here. I feel its perfectly fine but im curious...
>>557064071>not finding and using the RPG-7 in the room
>>557064071>>557066050>not carrying at least two dozen RGDs and F1s with you at all times
RIP those guys
>>557055754Or you get the opposite (IWP) where gunshots are loud as fuck and gunshots + voices are tied to the same sound option
>>557073369Use a suppressor, dumbo.
Man, the arena in SoC really helps drive home how dogshit the guns in this game are.
>>557066050Wait, there's an rpg in that pseudogiant room?
>>557062681Its a vanilla cop feature.so coc and anomaly does or have the ability to, by default.
>>557064071top kek
>>557055754>use wrong audio configuration>its da mods faultlol
>>556989435>>556988323>wild territory>go inside>it's wild
ah yes, this must be the amazing stalker ai i have heard so much about...
>>557086847I still say Wild Territory is top tier map design.
>>557077467Maybe the beginner ones. Once you get in that sweet 9x39 spot, they feel more satisfying than in most other FPS games. Not more realistic, true, but letting off a burst of subsonic tracers that slice through the enemy with minimal recoil is akin to asmr.
>>557091118>chokepoint>exofag>gets shot in the face at the end>0 damage
>>557091658>meme fov>took forest route>saiga>hoarder>sissy difficulty settings>afked enough to get caught up
>>556331768Kys fucking redditor
>>556352406Delusional. Buying gunz in the Ukraine was easy as hell in the 2010s
>>556352406>there are no Mosins or SKSs hidden in babushkas' shedsNo, instead they had a tank in the barn.
>>557082632If you blow shit up or let the bitch stomp, it'll fly around. It's near the skeleton in the middle.
>>557092450>nooo you have to take the route I want>nooo you can't play on vanilla stalker settings>nooo you can't take itemsWhy do you keep whining about imaginary issues?
>>557098179That's crazy. I knew about the one at the top of the complex, but not about in X-18. Just recently found out about the Stalker suit in bloodsucker village. Wonder how much else I missed.
>>557099619>Stalker suit in bloodsucker villageI didn't know about that but I know about the secret Vintar BC in the Freedom base.
>>557101120>Vintar BC in the Freedom baseI think most ppl know about that one.There's also another Stalker suit and some ammo by the entrance of the X-18 complex in a pipe in the front yard.
So what's the real verdict what's better anomaly vanilla or gamma
>>557102429I'm convinced these are bot posts by now.
>>557101585How many would if it were in the attic where the ammo is instead of glitching through the floor?How about the free SKAT-9 in the CNPP backyard? Not the obvious one, the one down the ladder on the rickety scaffolding.
>>557103350>in the attic where the ammo isThere's an attic?lol
>>557104759Yep, directly above where the Vintar is.
>>557105295Crazy
>>557103350The problem with the armor in the CNPP and on the roof is that you're probably sticking to whatever armor you have at that point, unless you're taking heavy damage. Seems kinda pointless to have so much top tier armor thrown at you so late in the game. That was always my view on it, anyways.
>>557108881Isn't it just because you can't repair gear in vanilla? I always assumed that was why.
>>557112793But it's overkill. I can't even remember how many armor suits are in the CNPP alone.
Just finished Brain Scorcher.ZRP has to fuck with the gear of monolols here because I didn't die a single time now, but with ZRP their guns go through armor like through paper.
>>557113348There are at least two.
>>557115096I just looked it up.2 inside3 more on the rooftops.
>>557116070GSC was probably worried that some players might get their suit ruined before reaching the end. Five might seem like overkill but every player won't find every suit!
No longer problematic
>>557116572That's true
>>557114189dont think zrp changes vanilla ballistics unless you did in the modifier
>>557124336I think it changes their loadouts and gives more of them AP ammo. In this run I found ONE guy that had AP rounds loaded in his GP37.As an aside I realized earlier that not all NPCs get infinite ammo for every weapon, if you give Kruglov an AK he will run out of ammo and go back to his pistol, but if you give him a Viper (he uses a 9x19 pistol) he'll be able to reload it.
>>557125183Based experimenter
OLR 2.5 is still unmatched in atmosphere than any buildo mods, the nightmare section still makes me shiver a bit.
>>557157023Some of those posts are probably just bait desu
>>557158320>everything is heckin baaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaadwhy are you even here?
>>557158320they had twenty years to improve what they already created
>npcs do not get hurt by anomaliesLMAO what a fucking retarded tourist
>he hasn't turned anomalies off
LOL, there are people who play with anomalies on? Why though? There's nothing even close to that in Tarkov's lore. Just disable them along with the monsters and play the game as it was meant to be played. They already changed enough stuff, adding those stupid "fractions" and removing the scav role for no reason.
>>557158320>npcs do not get hurt by anomaliesIn SoC they do
>>557176478
>>557176478NPC opinion, I know, but I really like the Vintar. Its' aesthetics are unmatched.
>>557108881>>557113348You take a lot of damage in that area, and there's no way to go back to a trader to buy more. If you're playing on lower difficulties, the suits wear down way faster. My first SOC playthrough on novice 19 years ago jesus christ and a couple subsequent stalker difficulty runs were the only times I ever saw suits, including the SEVA, drain down to almost zero condition before being replaced.
>>557125183It's bullshit. Back on 1.0005, you could give anyone any gun and they'd only ever stop using it if they died. 1.0006 gets pushed to everyone, probably some shit with zRP too, and suddenly they'll just stop using the gun after one mag and reject your attempts to give them other guns unless they way outclass what they refused to use.
>>557181503irl, yesin mods? should not be that much.saiga usually has the smaller mag and shorter barrel
Can you play GAMMA with a controller?
TBD
>>557189228Stop bullying burers, they just want to chill in a comfy underground lab,
>>557190439Then they shouldn't be practicing their 200 km/h fastballs on me, specially with oil drums.>>557176783VSS/Vintar and AS VAL/VLA/SA are utter pieces of trash IRL apparently but extremely comfy in STALKER so I'll go with those as well. I have a soft spot for the G36/GP37 too.
>>557191920With enough mods, yeah Even better in certain situations
>>557179428Seriously, any reason for the random deletion? Was there some tirade of spam again that was already cleaned up?
>>557192861Literally the only post that was deleted was something along the lines of "I haven't been on this thread for some time, have I missed anything" with a pic from stalker. I have no idea why jannoids would even consider deleting it.
>>557191304>is a fragile piece of shit in S2>unless you get the new one with burst fire and forced 2x scope, then it's slightly less paper tiger
Scope cost me almost as much as my whole inventory but it was worth it
>>557210946Looks very neat. Is there any way to distinguish friend from foe, or do you just look through the binoculars beforehand or something?
>>557212306I can use NPC id next to my health UI that tells me who they are
>>557210946>>557212995s2babbies will seethe about this
>>557212995That doesn't seem very realistic now, does it?
>>557210946>>557212995>copypasting one of the scopes from battlefield 2042Do gammababbies really?
>>557195585Mod?
>>557213415>>557214219go back to your retard daycare
>>557215130how ironic
Jeez how hard can it be to google for the stalker clip where the player clicks "Loot all" and the drawer he is looting from just drives over him and he diespls post
>>557210946My friend has a couple thermal scopes IRL and we use them for coyote hunting. They're cool as shit, and there's a fucking warning in the box when he got them saying it was illegal to take them outside the US was was pretty funny.
>>557227758>was wasWhich was pretty funny* excuse me.
>>557213936realism is overrated
>>557213936Basically the same thing as NPC identification in SoC lol.
>>556623887>LURK mentioned
>3872 autistic tacticool mall ninja overanimated analmeme gunpacks (and counting) >every single one of them gives vss plywood stock instead of birch stock the original games hadit's all so tiresome
>>557260350I don't even bother with model packs they are all shitty and don't understand the original art style
>>556061304>okay marked one, now, according to these documents, the only thing left for you to do is to turn the scorcher off and the path to the center of the zone will be open>travels away from the center of the zone to turn the thing that wasn't even blocking any paths to the center of the zone What the fuck is up with this map layout, I don't understand.
>>557260350>>557262025>x is not fun cuz yyz>vanilla and its art style was perfectkill yourself you delusional retardvanilla was lirerally PHOTOS for textures for the guns. what art?and jank ass animations.dont bother cryplying idgaf about anything you're gonna say.
>>557274116>filtered by the stock colour of one out of hundreds of weaponskek sometimes i think im too autistic for life then one of these massive speds comes to brighten my day
>>557262025Just want to ask, do you think the awful animations are part of the "original art style"?It's crazy how the "enhanced" edition does not even fix the desynced reload animation audio for some guns.
>>557286114They sure as hell took their sweet fucking time changing and erasing russian references.
>>557286114>make statement about X>DO YOU ALSO THINK Y???? HOW ABOUT Z????? Mental illness.
>>557289341yes they have a mental illness, thats very clear. The questions are part of further diagnosis and categorization of said mental illness.
>>557289341>get asked a question>sperg out
>>557286114They have their own charm. If you dislike the actual stalker art style, why are you even here shitting up the stalker general?
pretending low quality early 2000's assets still hold up today is mental illness
>>557307984he sounds like a poorfag coping with buildoslop mods
>new is GOOD and old is BAD, mkay????>you don't like the exact same slop as I do????? must be POOOOOOR!!!holy kek. you are actually hilarious.
>>556061304https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=zDkk1YS0BO0 Jesus fucking Christ, bros Epstein and co were discussing doing the literal same thing CCon did, listen to 1:24 and on, it's mentioned in the document
Report AI spam and mobile users.
Spending Valentine's Day in the zoneShe's my companion, in a way...
Playing stalker 2 pretty cool so far I am now learning about the "alpha artifact" It's clear that these developers were influenced by Fallout and half-life kek
>>557312797Cool finisher animation, anon, is it standalone or tied to a specific pack?
>>557310305 they even talk about the noosphereWtf
>>557324003The entire sircaa section is a nod to half life kek
>>557316525I hate your posts so goddamned much. Please rope.>>557324027https://www.moddb.com/mods/stalker-anomaly/addons/kick-em-allv10Requires first person legs.
>>557324003>it's clear the devs were influenced by half lifeDid you never play the original games either?
>>557326198Thanks I got it working
>see recent postsThe absolute state of this general... bleak......
>>557316525Based
>>557329749Why, because it's slow? /sg/ has always been slow.
>oc poster versus ai faggots, avatarfags, and retarded jannies
>>557326903Yes but they weren't so obviously half life at certain points
>>557335565Went out like a true G.
>>556415459KURWA
>>557335565Where did you get that nuDoom dash mod?
>>557335565mod?
The fuck up scientist at SIRCAA looks exactly like Zelenskyy I wonder if this was a secret message by the devs
>>557329749His rangeban probably expired today. Notice it's all the shit at the same time. It's all one fucking guy.
if anyone is playing this modhttps://www.moddb.com/mods/stalker-defianceaka Kain modand you keep crashing, for the love of christ turn off windows defender.same thing with gunslinger.also anyone know how the fuck do I get through the hospital teleporters maze?ALSOif you are getting pissed about not being able to click the last few rows of items in your inventory(16:9)open config\ui\inventory_new_16.xmlchange <bag_static x="11" y="240" width="400" height="400" stretch="1" complex_mode="1"> <text x="22" y="8" font="graffiti19" r="231" g="153" b="22">ui_inv_bag</text> </bag_static>to <bag_static x="11" y="240" width="400" height="456" stretch="1" complex_mode="1"> <text x="22" y="8" font="graffiti19" r="231" g="153" b="22">ui_inv_bag</text> </bag_static>save the file
>>557362440What the actual fuck are you talking about, you schizo?
>>557362440As soon as I saw holden and sauce posted I knew what was up.
>>557367538I really wish it had been a permaban.
>>557367920We can always hope for a car accident or house fire.
>>557360391No he doesn't. The actor's name is Yaroslav Shynder.
>anomaly>decide to go to generators and warlab since their use in the questline was pretty shit>they didn't bother to do anything with the x-16 prototype lab in the west but have a clump of zombies in the middle>nothing anywhere else but around warlab>enter warlab>code door>none of the codes work>look shit up>analmeme deleted the entire questline associated with it and with it broke the scripting for the doors>it's less functional than build 1935 nowWhat even is the point of including the maps if they don't work?
>>557355150Moddbhttps://www.moddb.com/mods/stalker-anomaly/addons/dodge-system>>557355420Anomaly. Say what you will about the bloated base but the sheer amount and variety of addons available is impressive and fun to explore.>>557377993Never made it all the way to the warlab myself but check this outhttps://www.moddb.com/mods/stalker-anomaly/addons/redone-generatorsIt is included inhttps://www.moddb.com/mods/stalker-anomaly/addons/redone-collection-vol-2>>557368161I would settle for the faggot posting STALKER instead of playing with and posting pictures of random men.
>>557260350Texture artists don't want you to know this but you can change the colours of their textures yourself.
>>557376653Zelenskyy looks somewhat like him if he was fatter
>>557380359texture "artists" hate him because of this 1 genius trick
>>557365278>also anyone know how the fuck do I get through the hospital teleporters maze?Dev anon put a walkthrough description in his readme file, but I also have not been able to find that "floating backpack to your left"
>>557380470>a Ukrainian kinda somewhat looks like another UkrainianShocker
Dalin doesn't look like a jew though.
>>557376653Wtf i want to fuck Dalin now?
Happy Valentine's Day /sg/.
>>557382887I figured it out.when you get to the 3rd part, the last part where you would typically kill the gunner and hit the level changer to go to cnpp, walk straight back to the almost cpmpletely blocked double doors, it teleports you to the top section of that area. thats where the back pack is, then start over by going out the end(cnpp level changee). This time around, the teleporter on the broken bridge will work.
>>557398346Oh yes that was it.Thank you anon
>>557400165no problem man
Another lovely lonely day, wasn't it?
>anomaly>doing first main quest>time to go into outskirts and power up the generator to access the lab>get to building full of monolith>okay here we go>kill all the zombies>can here a snork on the floor above>oh shit, well the monolith will deal with him>no shooting>...>eventually make it to next floor>snork attacks me>kill it>I guess it killed the monolith on this floor>go floor above>all dead>floor above that>all deadMy sides so this one snork wiped out pretty much the whole building as for some reason the monolith just didn't bother shooting at it so it got them all.
>played the shit out of the trilogy years ago>wanna play anomaly but with mods, nice guns and pretty graphics...etc.>don't want a super hardcore experience like gamma with literally scavenging for weapon parts and crafting ammo and all that shit, i played enough of misery to know that's not for me.i just want something in betweenany recommendations?
>>557406992yes but you wont like the answer
>>557407364try me
>>557407858gamma with the right configs plays almost exactly like vanilla and its the first time ive seen a mod letting you make npcs drop actual loot such as their entire set of helmet, suit, weapon with 100 to 300 corresponding ammo at any condition you set it to and even additional useful loot. the con being you have to tune it yourself and figure out where each setting is and what it doesthen there is true stalker which feels like an official game expansion out of the box with no fiddling needed, it has some questionable things but its nothing compared to how good everything else is most of the time
>>557406992>>557408921>true stalkerGod, the questline is retarded and the UI is atrocious. It's shite. Maybe you will like it but I doubt it.To add upon the good part of anon's answer, after gaymma you might also check out ZONA (it's well optimized, bretty gud gun packs, has some retarded shit like toxic air mechanics but those are easily toggleable in the addons menu). There's also Escape From Pripyat which is alright I guess, despite the 'tarded name it doesn't change the stalker core and appeal tremendously, just adds shiny graphics and gun packs.If you want to go towards the "arcade" mods even more, there's IWP which is pretty good - good graphics, cool weapon pack, and so on. It plays differently from Anomaly and similar modpacks in that it's much easier to progress, there's not a lot of grinding, etc. It has some cool submods like CotZ quests.
>>557379485The second (shittier) storyline about SIN takes you all the way to the entrance of the warlab, but you and your followers just shoot monolols at the entrance while strelok offscreen "blows it up". There's hardly a reason to go otherwise because like I said: analmeme devs didn't bother actually doing anything with the maps and nothing happens there. Just like how Meadow doesn't actually work as a map since besides the one-time on-startup spawns, the only things that ever show up there are the radiant quest objectives.They modified a lot of the old SOC and CS maps to add new objects and open up some doors, but failed to do any of that to the empty COP map or any of the ancient buildo maps. Generators is full of holes in the level geometry. And then, you have the "meet major character" questline where you can softlock yourself on Petrenko's part of the quest because the documents he wants in the lab X-10 you've already gone through aren't considered quest items and you can sell them to barkeep or other faction leaders beforehand, never getting them back. Then there's all the complete and utter disrespect to the source material, down to all artifacts being shit, useless, heavy as fuck, and worth little, outmoded by tacticool larperator gear. It's all fucking shit, and it's all the fucking modding scene bothers with!
>playing anomaly>the trains in garbage have had the blue line removed from their paint>take mission from lukash to blow up apcs in the cordon>they all have visibly non-vanilla textures and have the ukraine flag prominently displayedWhat did they mean by this?
What should I do with multiple gunsmithing kits in GAMMA?Should I just keep 1 in my workbench and sell the rest?
>life so pathetic he waits eagerly for weeks for his ban to expire so he can start shitting up a niche mongolian basket weaving forumkekaroo
OLR 2.5 fixx 59 is so good, i'd like it if 3.0 was like that, the community patch isn't that great too.
>>557365278>>557398346Defiance anon here. Sorry you guys had trouble with the hospital section. Other users on ModdB had problems too. I really hate any sort of hand-holding in vidya and that sometimes leads me to be way too cryptic in my mods, lol.I've updated the mod to make the hospital section a bit easier. There's purple light behind the backpack now to make it more visible, plus the game displays a hint about the portal on the bridge being unique somehow.
I'm playing GAMMA now I think it's pretty amazing but if you got used to just playing this it's going to ruin every stalker game from here on out being so crazy millsim
>>557454685It ruins them if your'e a fag.
>>557451428I was still in the Swamp when I played the other day. Really like the atmosphere and ambient sound fx.Good job
gamma isn't anywhere close to milsim wtf
>>557468292I hope he had a good trek in the Zone.
>>557470418He has a decent suit on, but I think he dropped his gun and ran when he saw a bloodsucker.
>>557451428nah, its ok.its a puzzle, its supposed to be a bit of a challenge to sort it out.for me the note in your readme was enough.but thats good for new people.fyi, I ran into a couple crashes in northern yantar while exploring the map.only these 2 repeatedlyFATAL ERROR [error]Expression : !object->used_ai_locations() || ai().level_graph().valid_vertex_id(object->m_tNodeID)[error]Function : CALifeSwitchManager::add_online[error]File : E:\stalker\sources\trunk\xr_3da\xrGame\alife_switch_manager.cpp[error]Line : 64[error]Description : Invalid vertex for object [error]Arguments : af_snow9798also for af_snow9800but I was able to delete these 2 problematic artefacts by id with the AMK-ZoA fixI added this to the function as show in the image if dik == DIK_keys.DIK_F4 then alife():release(alife():object(9798)) endloaded the game, escaped to main menu, pressed f4, went back in game and after a few seconds, I made a save.exited the game, edited script for the other problem id (9800), loaded the game, escaped to main menu, pressed f4, went back in game and after a few seconds I made a save.after that there were no more crashes while roaming around the upper map of yantar.this might be helpful if others encounter issues further on.
Enjoying some Earl Grey infused Vodka and some shitty beer after having a great Valentine's Day. How are my fellow stalkers holding up?
>>557483928its rough, but I'm hanging oncertainly better than this dude
>>557484396>die in a bed without a pillow or blanketDamn
>>557484396It truly could always be worse.
>idly check the stalker wiki>the mechanic of AP/HP/etc. ammo types degrading weapon durability than basic buckshot/fmj rounds has existed since soc and isn't actually a new thing
anyone got a PDF version of pic related?I'm not talking about the digital artbook that came on release, but the newer one released in late 2025
>>557490025>but the newer one released in late 2025which was released or distributed where+how??
>>557490025this one?
>>557491279nah that's the bonus content from back during the release>>557490773it released as a physical book
TOTAL BURER DEATH
>>557458116Please don't expect tarkovkiddies to know what a milsim is. They think war is when there's a bunch of PMC spec ops tactical operatoors running and sliding around and shooting at each other at CQ from their M4A1™ Block 11™ SOPMOD™ AN/PEQ-15™ AN/PEQ-2™ Suppressed™ Trijicon ACOG™.
>>557501250What mod you playing nigga?>>557502348Tarkov and it's consequences have been a disaster for the stalker community.
>>557508472Judging by the dried crusty cum balls on his belt, it's that new Desolation mod.
>>557508472It's the Kain/Defiance Mod by the Dev Anon/ Chernobyl Freeplay Anon here
>>557502348The stalker mod on arma 3 was actually pretty fun. Feels better than a lot of actual stalker mods like anomaly.
>>557483928>Earl Grey infused Vodka Sounds exquisite
>>557368959mod?
GAMMA feels very tedious at times with the progression and repair, combined with not being able to directly buy suits and weapons. But I'm enjoying how it keeps the hobo phase going for longer.
>>557525220>Vodka>Exquisite
>>557531256Yes, very.
>>557525220>Vodka. Earl Grey. Hot.
>he cant afford good vodka>he only drunk hand sanitizer "vodka"Sad!
>>557533447Good vodka is just neutral, and sometimes they add sugar to it. It's good for sipping while getting drunk, but I'd rather drink something with character like whiskey.
This looks like some ritual sacrifice shit. Spooky.
>>557419205Thanks, really enjoying it so far!
>>557525569>>557515862
>>557515862How is it? Seems like its been posted here quite frequently lately.
>>557451428hey man, been enjoying the mod so far.its pretty good here are some vanilla sounds I edited to remove the annoying clipping in the audio files.actor death sound, walking on metal, dropping weapons, opening locker doorsthen re-commented again as the were in vanilla soc.and the adjustment of inventory_new_16.xml for the whole not being able to click or drag items in the last row of your inventory.also adjusted the sig P228 ironsight coordinatesoddly the sig228 seems to have really low accuracy looking at the statshttps://mega.nz/file/BJoSULAb#DOn4yHsZZC_ycNtiUEu5dCdssCgYy-QXPRg4Tp71Zmc
Gamma sometimes does really cool things, there's an artifact that let's you kick mutants in the air. Goofy looking sure but creative.
>>557549306damn, for a russian, this guy looks white as fuck. probably from moscow or something.
GAMMA is difficult as fuck but I'm still trying to learn it
GAMMA
>>557531256retard
GAMMA these nuts on your face.
>>557476938>>557542045Thank you very much, anon. I'll be sure to include this in a future update.I'm glad you're liking the mod.
>>557554759no problem, thank you for making the modsome pretty funny parts too
who's in here ready to get absolutely niggered out tonight?
>>557556621>night before mondaynah sorry man. in like 5 days.
>>557556947it's a holiday for some burgers like muhself
>>557557026damn, that's nice. have a good time then burgerbro.
>>557445248>the community patch isn't that great too.why not? do tell.I've been looking at olr3 recently
>>557558726same, also curious
>>557541896>Seems like its been posted here quite frequently lately.That's cause I made it, lol. It's also because story mods from our side of the fandom are pretty rare. Another win for /sg/!
>>557558726>>557558875My only serious complaint is the retarded economy, you get paid shit for what you bring compared to 2.5. The whole PDA battery shit is still in the game and some stuff, the artifacts still have limited time, don't know if they changed them, and they are inferior to the old ones.
good tidings, /sg/!
>>557578608>Frost on the outsideYeah, I'm thinking this shit is gonna hit
>>557578608Have fun, anon. You drinking alone?
>>557580214best way to enjoy it!>>557581514oh yeah, recovering from a cold currently
>>557582445Godspeed, stalker.
>>557578608>not even earl gray infused
Man, I don't remember the spawns being this fucked up in SoC.
>>557578608I went on a valentine's date tonight. Had to work over the 14th on second shift so I missed the actual holiday but she didn't mind. Had some whiskey because I'm American and bourbon runs like water around these parts. Never was big on vodka, personally. I don't dislike it, but I'd prefer something else if offered. Except gin I guess. I do like Stolichnaya, and we have one called Finlandia at my ABC store that's alright.
anyone know how long it takes for placed items to reset their position if a burer or polt throws them in S2? Fucker just threw a key I needed
>>557566019alright, noted. Ill keep that in mind if I decide to try it out.thanks for the elaboration
>>557589014what mod?
wake up stalker...
>>557557026Like who? School kids? I can't recall any other point where presidents day was actually a day off.
I can't play stalker during daytime/when it's light outside, it feels weird and I can't immerse myself, anyone else?
Man what were the anomaly devs thinking with weapon upgrades, they're suppose to be upgrades but with most of them adding so much fucking weight to your gun it's hardly worth the trade off and it makes no sense for the gun to now suddenly weight 1KG / 2KG more after installing all the upgrades, yeah my standard AR now weights as much as a fucking LMG. Shit's retarded, modding it out is another thing I wished I'd just done sooner. Anomaly is literally so much better when you remove the artificial difficulty and make it more rewarding and fun while still being immersive.
>heavy>so shitty nobody but traders will buy it because it's treated as 0 kupons per round otherwise>every weapon that uses it drains condition at lightspeed, even the modified 1911What is the deal with 9x19mm parabellum in S2?
>>557630424Skill issue.
>>557627995I don't mind playing when it's daytime, hell the memories of times that I've enjoyed stalkan the most was playing it during a snow day or just staying home from school on a dreary cold day in the late fall/early spring.I'm like you with respect to games like Silent Hill & classic Resident Evil though. Played through SH1-3 only a few years back during the summer and was itching to play in the evenings but had to hold it off until 9pm or so to get the max spook factor.
>>557631757Kindly refrain from replying unless you have an actual thought out point made by a human being.
I found a squirrel.
>>557634218>bleeding out>half lifedamn vicious little bastards huh
no ded
>>557591213Sounds very nice man, did you end up getting some pussy at the end of the night?>>557625345>Like who?Many public sector workers, for example.
>>557607851probably kane mod
>>557586058how does one acquire such a concoction?
>>557642373its not.I'm playing kane/defiance modsoc doesnt have quick slots, so I'm guessing some type of OGSR engine mod?
>>557645702doesn't look like OGSR graphics to meperhaps it's SoC remastered? i recall there being some addition of quick slots to that version as an added QOL feature, but I could be mistaken
>>557645919You're not mistaken, I remember hearing that as well.
>>557642236>Sounds very nice man, did you end up getting some pussy at the end of the night?It's still early in the relationship but we did make out pretty hard in my car when I took her home. Thanks for the support man.
>>557589014>>557645919oh right I forgot they added quick slots to SoC and CS for the enhanced editions.so maybe it is just vanilla soc.there were always a bunch of dogs and a few pseudodogs around that area of the entrance to the rostok
>>557653894>there were always a bunch of dogs and a few pseudodogs around that area of the entrance to the rostokplus the useless duty fags about 5 meters away that do jackshit about them
>>557655253There's a reason those pussies lost Rostok to Freedom.
>freedomchads fend off peak monolith>dutysissies get destroyed by some dogs
>>557607851>>557653894It's SoC EE with no mods.I don't remember ever seeing this many pseudodogs at once, they'd be like 2-3 mixed with regular blind dogs usually.I also had groups of 5-6 snorks, 8-10 blind dogs come from level changers on different maps.>>557655253The dogs will not follow you into their range anyway, they won't go past that truck.
>>557658249IIRC the EE versions of these games fucked with NPC spawn rates for some reason, not really sure why.
>>557658249>>557659854Did the enhanced editions add chimeras and the other cut critters?
>>557660383They added the burers if I remember correctly.
>>557633137Gorgeous photo sdalger
So stalker has ANOMALY on GOG. I am playing and having a blast, but it seems wildly unbalanced.9x19 AP seems to be THE best pistol ammo for shredding armour?And 5.45 AP for rifles. Both also being nice and light so you can carry lots?I am running the USP MATCH and the AK 12.Am I doing it wrong?Also, there is so many fucking armours, ai can't even tell what's the best?I ALSO cannot tell what the belt slot equipped items are even doing. Like I can see my electro resist going down, but myGravi's and Wrenched's aren't pumping up the bullet/impact/rupture etc. But gravi's do appear to be bumping my carry weight.Or do I just use carbon steel plates and upgraded titanium frames or some shit? There's so much crap and i can't see what it's actually doing when it is equipped. Is it glitchy and not actually applying the buffs?Exosuits still noisy? What's the heaviest armour I can go without being super noisy?(Currently trying the merc ACE seva suit)My ecologist run seems to be going great though...
>>557674162Gamma is even more imbalanced and clusterfucky.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MjFhsF0vmNE
>>557674162>Am I doing it wrong?up to you to decide, its freeplay>Exosuits still noisy? What's the heaviest armour I can go without being super noisy?doesnt matter in gameyou're not doing stealth, its not really feasible in stalker without edits, even then not really well balanced
Am I managing my inventory wrong or something? I don't feel like I've got a lot but I can barely move. (Also, sorry for the bizarre screencap. The game will absolutely not let me take a screencap via normal means.)Also, for some reason, having a much better time playing on master than I did initially.
>>557678070lots of ammo, I think that case weighs like 10 kg'salso running as admin might allow you to take screenshots with F12, check keybinds too
>>557679095Gotcha, I'll cut back a bit on the ammo. In the early game I was so desperate for it that I think I went a bit overboard. Also, I'll check.Also also, can't get over how well this game has aged. Just stumbled on a weird anomaly that caused the entire areas foliage to blow around wildly causing me to find cover and just gawk at the thing from a distance. Crazy how unique that sort of experience is in vidya even to this day.
Any stalkers ITT currently playing on macOS?
>>557678070Way too much pistol ammo. Are you even using a pistol?
>>557678070screenshot?
>>557683603reading? :^)
>>557685694maybe don't take a picture of your fucking monitor? nigger
>>557682491From time to time I do just cuz it's one of those "green arrow" pistols, but yeah, not terribly often. I'll drop some of that too.>>557686210You are responding to another anon...
>>556061304Why the fuck does Stalker 2 give you so much loot? It doesn't even make sense. Carefully placed medkits and supplies aplenty. I've clocked 5+ days of in-game time and so far I've only purchased some silencer and a detector. Even some high tier fucking suits are just there for you to pick up.
>>557686375i do not read
>>557687468>playing stalker 2Now that's a problem.√
>>557687890I'm assuming it has so much due to it being vast open world. Don't remember OGs having such problem, though they weren't particularly challenging either. It's just kind of stupid for there to be all sorts of shit lying around in such quantities, unless you're at a base or something.
>>557688373it looks really good for the jewtube videos though
I can't get over how immersive this old games is. I think this may be the most immersed into a game I've been since the initial Oblivion release and maybe OoT before that.
>>557690894figured out how to screenshot. Stalker is weird in the sense it doesn't use the steam overlay to do it and puts them in their own folder.But this games wild in the sense that the screenshots don't do it justice at all. The way the foliage sways, the moody lighting, the random crashes of lightning, the level design. I just can't get over it as usually when you go back to games 9/10 times they show a bit of their age and they are hard to get too into, meanwhile newer games just don't have that immersive aspect at all which is bizarre considering where the graphics are at. Not all mind you, but as a mostly retro gamer I don't find myself getting immersed often so this is genuinely somethin.
>>557691609>the random crashes don't forget that too
>>557691660eyup. Had one level I thought I was gonna be hard locked out of the game as it would crash at almost the exact same time each time in the encounter. Eventually, after four or five reloads I got through.
>>557691609Once you start doing X labs the game really picks up.
>>557677589I believe he pulled that post directly from r/stalker
frieren hentai
>>557693206don't even know what that is yet and I'm already having a ton of fun, so I'll look forward to it. Also, speaking of crashes just a couple posts ago, game just crashed after taking out a random bandit encounter so I'll take that as a sign to go to bed.Also also, those anons recommending turning it to master were right. There were several things I didn't factor in when I played it back in the day. 1. I was an impatient teenager not used to my games killing me. 2. I didn't have a good gaming rig so playing it didn't feel the best.3. and the biggest one. My screen had input latency, so it wasn't the shooting mechanics that felt bad, I just naturally thought it had laggy, awful feeling shooting. playing it on master compared to the normal difficulty feels a LOT better.
>>557686210no you fucking tard, read his fucking post.
What if I the English dub of CTANKEP 2 the bandits said "Freaky-Deeky"
>>557696297I would have at least 400 rounds of rifle ammo and 6 grenades before you enter an X lab. A shotgun with 40 rounds too wouldn't hurt. Enough meds too.
