ZONA 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/Ma6W4BcM Lost to the Zone >>557713872
>>558999305Fuck yeah
>>558957948Okay, now I know you're lying to me.
>>558996250is this zona?
>"In other mod packs, they use a ballistic overhaul mod that tries to make projectiles work a bit better.">"So I took a look at their mod, and all I found was bloat.">"19 scripts that constantly just run from one mod.">"And then you're wondering why you can't get 40 fps with your 3060 in gamma.">"Therefore, I made my own ballistic mod."
If I disable these in the middle of a playthrough, will the active rad zones go away after some time/sleeping or do i have to start a new playthrough for them to disappear?
figured it out. buy mask filter from guys. drag into mask. now i can breathe in garbage.
>fotm is another anomaly modpack
Good evening fellow /sg/gers
>>559006105>good eveningIt's 11:11AM PST here. Where are you from, anon?
>day ??? of anon not posting his IWP editssadge
>>559006210NTA, but literally anywhere in Europe is evening.
>>559006690Is this ZONA?
>>559006690IWP anon is probably too busy playing ZONA.
>>559006210Hailing from Portugal And you?
I get that a lot of mods/modpacks are going for the "dark and gritty" atmosphere, but fuck me. I have to install reshade for eyeadaptation on every single one (except gamma) because the games are so dark I have to fucking strain my eyes trying to spot a bandit in a bush on an overcast day.
>>559000053This zona shit is too easyI guess im used to gamma's faggotry
>>559007629Western US here. Hope you have a comfy evening, anon.
>>559007947bro your r2_sun_lumscale_amb and r2_sun_lumscale_hemi?
>>559008043i'm only playing on medium stalker difficulty atm but it seems like the right level for me..
>>559009129You too friend >>559009524Progression level must be tourist to get expert tool that early
I guess that's one way to get rid of rads lol
>>559012098Turmeric is juicy, why is the hydration levels up to 154 percentLiterally unplayable
>>559012098Cooking with Strelok
>>559013260you are retard
>>558999305>shill threadyou are a massive faggot and you should kill yourself.no cap frfr ong senpai
>>559012098fuck it, we're snorting curry powder
>>559012098>even stalker isn't immune to having "south asian" jeetslop injected into itTruly, nothing is sacred
i think i picked up some kind of an elephant rifle and literally like the bottom part of an AKi hope i can actually put an AK together with this shit
>>559020941It's a good spice, what've you got against it?>>559021015pic?
>>559024270after some investigation it looks like i can put an AK together, as long as i have all the parts like the stock and handguard
ϟϟ
fuck this garbage mod, we're ZONA niggas now
need grass and trees mod and atmospherics for zona, think i will be set to go
>>559030998 in the end, it could not survive its own survival…
>>559031701
>>559031701That's how you know they never faked it
Someone post some screenshots from this ZONA bullshit. I have no idea what it is.
Happy 15 months of STALKER 2 being out and still not having the CNPP in it!Gotta focus on that pointless Unreal Engine version change first!
>>559035087Nevermind, I found some video about it.What the fuck is this UI lmao.
>>559039929but vro... muh heckin optimizationerino!
>>559040192Unironically better than Stalker 2's UI.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E1dKR_Wm7R0Weather showcase from that dude who's porting Misery into SoC. He's using Atmosfear 3. Doesn't look that bad but the HD textures throw me off.
>westslop thread
>>559042742What would constitute eastslop then? OLR or OP? By all means, please post some.
>hot new mod is just another faggot ass free play modpack based on analmeme>strelok was a bad guy all alongShitty, shitty news tonight.
>>559029968this isn't racism.you absolute fucking retard.
Fuck this stupid quest lmao, I made Beard sell a Meat Chunk and a Kolobok for cheap and just bought them off him. Misery also nerfed the quest reward so fuck it.
>>55904335810 hryvnias have been deposited into your account, courtesy of Mr. Grok himself.
call of the zone or old world addon? idc about tactislop like iwp and zona
>>559044826one would say the economy is.... miserable
This faggot got stuck in the table during a psi-storm and now he's glitched the bunker doors, goddamnit.>>559046969( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)
>>559044826If you're the guy who admitted to making his own "minor changes" to the mod then you really can't complain about that. It would be like if I modded in maximum carry weight and complained that I could sprint everywhere and take everything with me.
Can someone redpill me on Anomaly Anthology 2.0 vs ZONA? Trying to find something to play with at least something of a storyline and the thought of being able to play through vanilla storylines in Anthology 2.0 is intriguing to me, but of course with a bunch of new content.The main concern is optimization and overall polish, which both of these mods seem to differ quite significantly from Gamma in that regard (for better or for worse).
>>559049480Making medkits heal more than 1/6th of your health does not equal maxing out carry weight. And I never complained about it.
>>559049480>misery anon mentions modifying medkit healing values and other minor changes to balancing>somehow equate this to him consequently being at fault when other weird balancing changes (like arbitrarily reducing quest reward amounts) or game-breaking bugs appearretard
>>559051093>arbitrarilyjust because you(a pseud) don't understand the balancing changes of The full concept modification, Misery™© for Call of Pripyat, doesn't mean they are done without any meaning or purpose. (ie not arbitrarily)
>my guy is tired>take a kill mutants quest>sleep>wake up, quest autocompleted>monolith attacking rookie village>their guns aren't actually broken garbage and usablesuch is life in the ZONA
It's time.
>>559054101godspeed anon, at least one of those cunts will die and zulu's drunk ass will peg you with his PKM for sure
>>559055213I've died three times, once to a snork and twice to friendly fire.
AND THIS IS HOW WE DO IT.I made it to Pripyat with all four guys alive. Although I can't find Zulu in the laundromat. And no cutscene played when exiting the underground, for some reason.I was excited to see how Pripyat looks with the brown/grey color palette. Looks pretty spooky.
>>559056946ahhh yessss, the true call of pripyat experience
>>559059338I think that is a bug, that marker should be for zulu near the building with the snork packs, just further than the lab x8 H shape building. I could be misremembering though
Still playing my game on master. Nearly have a few things upgraded to the point where I'd feel safe taking them out into the field, shit is so expensive I won't take better gear because maintenance is too high for most of it without the wear and tear upgrades. For reference I have a saiga nearly ready, a kharod, and the Spark SEVA suit nearly upgraded all the way. I tried running them for a while and it was just too much upkeep.
>>559062934Yeah Zulu fucks off and gets surrounded and you need to save him from snorks.
goodnight /sg/
>>559040192don't know if thats an old version or modified but it looks like this now
>>559013556I remember the first time seeing the cooking with scorpion video in deadly alliance. That shit was hilarious as a kid.
>>559059338Don't tell me you're doing your first playthrough with a meme mod installed.
>>559094045>and no cutscene played, [...] for some reasonanon....
>>559067423Are you collecting artifacts for fun?
>>559108325I'm kind of a hoarder. I have one of everything and I don't sell anything unless I have at least another copy. Also I don't sell artifacts I keep them so I can use them as quest items because you get way more fucking money doing that. Why sell a crown for 2k when I can give one to Owl for 10k as an artifact hunt quest?
>>559095935>doesn't know why zulu isn't at the laundromat
>>559110878I got that, but it's possible to forget something important when you've played vanilla say a few years ago. It's impossible to remember a cutscene from a game you've never played before though.
>>559108325>you have to get all the artifacts
>>559112089
>>559114829Noice.
>>559067423>keep at least one copy of every artifact for the otherwise difficult to finish artifact radiant quests>they never want an artifact I already have
>>559114829lol very nice anon
>>559116741Did any mod ever change the artifact missions for the traders in SoC?. I feel like getting the same 4 of 5 artifacts all the time should have some variation.
getting things started slowly
>>559118509How are you liking Zona so far, anon?
>>559114829kek nice one
>>559121625only day 2 for my character but pretty good so far. really need to find some mags for my saiga, and trying to get an AK fixed up so i can go fight the mercs in wild territory. oh, and mutants hit hard as fuck, need to upgrade my armor too
I dunno guys these bins have crypto.dll in it.lmao
>>559114829Holy fuck, I haven't thought about that greentext in years.
>>559143223Damn, that's a nice pic
>>559094045Worry not, this ain't my first rodeo. It's been years since I played CoP, though. I forgot about Zulu getting ambushed.
>>559144425is stalker 2 concept art stuff without stalker watermark
>>559146491>that picRE9 had me thinking how fucking kino it would have been for the Bar to be abandoned and become part of the Wild Territory. They could have even used the adjacent parts that were out of bounds in SoC as recreations of the Rostok factory as it is in buildo and OLR. Even though that mod "The Journey" was fairly half baked I really liked the concept of an even more desolate Zone.
just realized zona npc can have their weapons jam too and i dont just get fucking mag dumped on all the time. saw a guy try to shoot me while standing in the middle of nowhere and he ran off to cover to unjam his gun so i shot him in the head
>>558999305Why do you not recommend the RenoDX mod for S.T.A.L.K.E.R. 2?SDR or HDR, the game's graphics are broken without it and if there is one must-have mod that partially mends it it's this one.In both the black floor is raised because of the incredibly shitty(not an exagerration) UE5 noisy dithering used that will raise pixel values by 1 even in locations so dark the entire screen should be RGB 0,0,0 except the HUD if present, the effective result is that to the human eye pixels that should be turned off on OLEDs will look between RGB 1,1,1 and 0,0,0(full black), on LCDs it will raise the already bad minimum brightness of the screen.Also the fixes/improvements it offers to the game's shader code are nice to have.pic related shows the problem in SDR with analysis tools.
>>559114829
>>559151998i have no idea what this means, but i will install it if the game looks better with it
>>559152440in foolproof terms, the game has griefed visuals that make the image unable to be pitch black, a bummer for a series like S.T.A.L.K.E.R.this degrades dark scenesthe only fix is for Epic to fix their shitty dithering algorithm and GSC to update the UE5 version of the game or for GSC to implement their own dithering that doesn't suck dick(and put a toggle, dithering is arguably unnecessary in HDR).when the game released people already told GSC about it, they just lied saying "it's fixed"... it was not.
>>559151998who the fuck are you talking to
"So, X-Ray, how was your vacation?""Oh, it was terrific! We had an amazing view!"
>>559153180/sg/ - S.T.A.L.K.E.R. General obviously
When you see it, you'll shit bricks.
>>559157118the dead psueogiant?
>>559156620this isn't reddit
You fucking jew, Owl.>>559157234It was very much alive, I later found out.
>>559151998>reshade with extra stepsPass.
>>559151998The OP hasn't been maintained since the invasion and subsequent abandonment of S2 newfags. We should go back to the classic OP next thread.
>>559161452Completely agree; if anyone has it saved, post it here and I'll keep it around for next bake.
>>559162952use thishttps://arch.b4k.dev/vg/thread/504202530/#q504202530updated links seem good too
>>559158373typical merchant shenanigans
Hey bros did they fix the free play stuff from release of stalker 2? The main story was awesome but the freeroam elements were really shitty with terrible ai. Any improvements on that front (mods maybe?)I kinda just liked fucking around in the older stalkers and never even finished the main story so I'd like to try that again with better graphix
>>559169753s2 players are still waiting for that part of the game to be fixedmaybe it’s fixed in 1.9, maybe you have to wait for 2.0
not taking the "set of lockpicks" in starting gear was a mistake, this shit costs 20k to buy
>>559169753A-Life got fixed, AI got improved, artifact hunting is as fun as ever. There still is room for improvement and you might want to install some mods to tailor the game to your liking, but vanilla is fine.
>>559169753A-life is still watered down, AI is broken, artifact hunting is also broken since they still spawn underground and anomalies hitboxes are busted. It could be fixed in the future with mods, but vanilla is fucked.
>>559187215retarded shill
>>559186274no mames wey, homles!
>>559149974It would be much more interesting than 'the Bar is back but it's Freedom now' for sure.
>>559197945>>55919747520 rubles have been deposited to your account.
>>559201078hey you forgot to call us ivan
>>559186274that's like 3-4 easy quests in cordon
>>559186274Only 26k Man how lazy are you?
>>559165275>Anomaly -> modpack modpacksI never thought about it like that, but that's the only logical way to explain it
>>559204118i meant, grabbing something worth 26k from the starting loadout is probably what i should have done, instead of wasting points on the AFAK that doesn't even healanyway, i bought it and have a basic loadout now with a working AK
>>559165275>2023damn
[SESH]
>>559207712>god, that was a tiresome fucking raid. i better drop off my artifacts to sidor and join the guys by the campfire. i wonder who's telling the stories right now. i sure am glad to get home.>oh no, i see the village retard again.>oh no, he's screeching "SESH" at the top of his lungs now while rolling in the mud.>half the village is in hiding>you know, i wish i had gotten into that electra by the bridge half an hour ago.
>>559208062it never fails to amuse me how the simple utterance of SESH provokes such spastic, performatively outraged replies from random anons
>>559207712>Noosphere, if C-Consciousness had a wigga joining it
>samefagging>nigger music>samefagging about nigger music/sg/
>>559204408If this freeslop has lockkpicks, does that mean you can actually get into shit like the Warlab doors and the vault behind Doucheman in Dead City, or is there some other gay retard shit it's used for instead?
>>559209863>schizorambling>a white rapper is "nigger music"/sg/
>>559161452Hard agree.
Oh, my kek!
>>559210540iirc it's used for locked containers that you can find as loot.
>>559197945wow rude
Chase Holden and Judge Holden (from Blood Meridian) linked up! Need it or keep it?
>>559221586Holy shit!! A very intimidating look for Holden for sure...
>>559208227>be retard>get called retardshockerwhat even is this "sesh"?what did they do for staker? make a mod?
today, i got fried in a fire anomaly and died
>>559230758many such cases
>>559230846so..... nothing. like I thought.ok then.
>559231536either baiting or you have an actual intellectual disability or you just can't hang, which probably still is the case either way lol
you guys are really bad at this PDA banter thing
>>559231706nothing for stalker. like I said. retard.
>he doesn't know
SISKI is a comprehensive AI simulation framework for S.T.A.L.K.E.R. Anomaly 1.5.3 that provides autonomous behavior for simulation squads (sim_squad objects). The system manages NPC squad activities across multiple levels, including trading, looting, hunting, patrolling, and faction-based operations.https://www.moddb.com/mods/stalker-anomaly/addons/reznyahttps://deepwiki.com/qkff99/siski
>>559234538Correct me if I'm wrong but isn't this just A-Life?
>>559239043homemade A-Life it seems
>>559234538>aislop vibecoded mod>its description is as obviously aislop generated as it gets>aislop image with gigareddit in itHoly fucking cancer.
>>559239785Its a mod for anomaly the writing was on the wall.
It was then I saw himStriding along in the CordonHis gear all goneHis face all longI brought him a StoliIn an act of follyWe drunk the world awayWoke up in the village todayIt was then I heard himGroaning and hurtingBought meds from SidFor all the good it didAnd a bit of "bread"To wake him from the deadIt was then I felt himDistant but nearHelping him up thenI held him so dearHolden
>>559239785i think you should just get raped
>>559234538OLR 3.0 already does all this alongside a heaping pile of jank.
>>559252793yeah nigga its like OLR for your anomaly
>559230405>he doesn't know SESH
>>559230846>>559253007>l-look I posted it again! The offtopic image!
>>559253715>the offtopic image>offtopicKEK
>>559253007Is this from /sg/? I've seen anon claim that SESH is some ancient /sg/ thing but he way it's capped, it could be from any board.
>>559254145This is from /fa/, nobody ever claimed it was some ancient /sg/ lorehttps://warosu.org/fa/thread/7088173
>>559234017waow>>>/wsg/6103138
>>559254350Ah. Why the fuck is it being posted here, then?
>>559254428Thanks, I love it
nein
God I love black pussy
I wish there was a mod that made all buildings accessible, and NPCs could spawn in/enter/defend/attack there. Would make for kino sieges and CQCs...
>>559254645Just one of many cancers that have latched onto /sg/ because something something probably somehow related to the ongoing war and there being a vested interest in attacking anything gsc related for their country of origin.
>>559265952But GCS does deserve the hate though. Not for any political reason, just because stalker 2 is awful. I just wish blatantly offtopic shitposts were actually dealt with by the moderation. You niggers need to do your part and report the mentally unstable spammer.
>awfulnah
>>559161452>subsequent abandonment of S2 newfagswhat could've caused that I wonder
>>559266746It's shit.
>>559266469stalker 2 is fine it's just more of a metro game and less free roam
>>559273984>metro guys leave to do their own thing after stalker is done>new stalker starts copying metrogsc really lost all of the cool people
>>559273984The entire game is freeroam, what do you mean? Are you shitposters even trying?
>>559266469>reportThey do nothing. Saucefag is still here. Sesh is still here. Holden, for fuck sake, is still here. What is the moderation doing? FUCK. ALL.CLEAR RULEBREAKING DAILY CONTINUOUSLY FOR MONTHS ON END. THEY CLEARLY DO NOT GIVE A SINGLE FUCK
>>559276957Saucefag and seshfag at least respond to actual stalker posts and try to keep shit more-or-less stalker-themed. Holdennigger needs to die in a fire.
>>559276957>What is the moderation doing?the spamif someone doesn't get banned, it's a janny
>>559277965Don't care if it's on topic it's still avatarfagging. Try again
>>559276957who?
>>559277965no.
>>559278906>the "no." poster is holden
>>559275692I meant that it's more of a narrative experience than emergent. The memorable parts of early stalkers were never about the main quest for me but I suppose games have evolved to the point where what was novel then wouldnt be impressive now
>>559234538tried this, it's just absolute chaos. random ass squads walking into places they would never go before. monolith attacking army warehouses, freedomers somehow making it into radar, rookie village gets harassed by military 24/7, ecologists being found in the strangest place
>>559292673bandits in outskirks lmao
This place would be ideal to have some faction wars shenanigans going on.
>SIN in duty outpost in army warehouses>military on rostok checkpointyeah siski is wack
>>559234538>>559303745what a fucking meme name lmao(siski in russian = boobs)
>>559296875The juxtaposition of a modern HD gun model in the foreground with environment textures and models created 20 years ago in the background never ceases to be funny
>>559304991Ok bud, are we done? Ukrainian was obviously what was used.Go back with your shitty invader language.
>>559311679Oh right.>>559276957 you forgot about the fake-flag /pol/-nigger spammer, anon.
>>559276957>>559277965Those are all the same faggot. And I do mean faggot. Notice how each of his fetishes is a man (the sauce nigger, the sesh guy, the fat beardo)? Guy is a fucking homo and he's making it our problem.>>559278198I am inclined to believe this.
>>559292673I suspected as much. AI simulations always end up in a mess.
>>559296875>truck cemetary>some random bandit base and a couple mutants, mostly empty nothingness>meadow>some tiny map with nothing going on, nothing ever spawns or respawns there unless a radiant quest explicitly spawns it in>generators>didn't even try to make it work, just respawning monolols around warlab and mutants near the super early alpha of x-16 to the west>warlab>cut the questline that actually used it, devoid of anything but some monolith soldiers in the c-con podsWhy even include mod and buildo maps if they aren't going to be used in any manner?>
>>559321743forgot to mention the mutants too, i had two chimeras at the gates of rostok, and they killed all the dutiers, meanwhile, on the other side of rostok (facing wild territories) where dutiers are supposed to be guarding, well i guess the dutiers fucked off and hired clear sky to guard it instead
Downloaded Zona and the latest version of Anomaly today. Will have to give them a shot coming soon.
>>559276957>>559278807>>559278198>>559319857>sauce / sesh / holden is all janny collusion to ruin the thread>it's also somehow also just one dude with a gay fetish (lol)>this same fucking schizo narrative againyou people are fucking insane
Off-topic shitters fear the webm poster.
>>559332931silly merc
Let's drink to him once more. He was a good stalker.
>>559333550Literally me
>>559305023juxtapose my balls, gayboi>>559331564nobody fucking carea
>juxtapose my balls, gayboi>nobody fucking carea
>>559319857>>559331564no.>>559334293I suspected as much. AI simulations always end up in a mess.you people are fucking insanenobody fucking carea
Do IWP anons know what's that weird panting noise you can hear at the generators in this area, I don't remember hearing this sound effect anywhere in CoC. Is this a bug? You can hear it at 0:30. Targeting system on binoculars also picks something up but there's nothing there.https://files.catbox.moe/rhp8i8.mp4
Oh no the spammer is back again
>>559338693no.
>>559338474that's pretty fucking creepy, anon
>>559338881Yeah I noticed that noise right after I killed a burer close to that spot. I guess it's an audio glitch but still kinda spoopy
>>559338474RUN
>>559338474That's spooky as fuck, whatever it is. Maybe a custom anomaly? Check the zone ltx files in config/misc.
>>559339323>right after I killed a burerHe isn't dead, he's right behind you
>>559338474Don't look behind you.
>>559338474yeah IWP added a serial killer to some maps... be careful
>>559340169I skimmed through some generators related ltx files but I'm not sure what I was looking at, seemed fine to me idk. That reminds me of that unfinished "Deimos" anomaly/mutant from CoP which was supposed to inflict "fear/dread/horror" status effect on the PC>>559340903It's okay I cut his hands off>>559342273Not only I looked behind but I also used freecam (demo_record 1) to observe every possible angle and clip through textures but found nothing, weirdly enough that noise stopped so I guess it's actually tied to some entity>>559342495Ha-ha...
>>559342495oh shit
dutiers are fuck!
Stalker anomaly goob here. I have recently found a perverse love for the HK 416. As it is the only rifle that the player carries at the high ready as he sprints. It satifies my mall ninja tactical autism. Big time.Even if the 5.56 AP ammo stack is heavier and somehow worse at defeating armour than the (i suspect) utterly bullshit 5.45 AP ammo.
>>559345593damn thought 5.56 AP is better than 5.45 AP
>>559345971In real life it has better terminal ballistics, especially out of 18" + barrel, even BALL 5.56 becomes light armour defeating out of the barrel it was designed for, the full length 21".But in the game, 5.45 ap is magic bullshit level 4 plates defeating, and 5.56 is only level 3
>>559348010whoever made these things in games should just reference real life stuff if they wanna add such details like plate levels
i’m sick of shooting rats
>>559348232Unfortunately the game can't reference ballistics tables, because identical ammo performs differently out of different barrels. Hence the rise of funky shit like 300 blackout for carbine ar's and crap.Stalker sets stats by the bullet and the gun. The bullet therefore is almost /identical out of wildly different barrels w/ twists etc.Hell they can't even model the effects of putting rattlecans on and overgassing from that etxlc.
So yeah, I just love my fucking hk 416. So sexy.
Behold, the Heart of the Oasis in Misery.
>>559352592Seems useless.
>>559354290you're getting raped tonight, they told me
>>559276957Thanks, added to the schizo collection.
>>559352592>+8 radsGrim
>>559354290>>559355380They actually beefed the values up. In vanilla all the values are much lower.
Digging through my Stalker pictures folder on an old external HDD I use for a backup, so many old /sg/ gems in here
>>559356386
>>559355986What about the Compass artifact?
>>559355380Yes. The +8 reads means its pretty much useless.If i use artefacts, I will stick with my 4-5 proper AAM's with 2 goldfish and 2-3 full empty's.Otherwise I will stick with some (superior) titanium frames and (superior) kevlar plates.Artifices are for selling to dumb ecologists.>they're dumb because no matter how many or what kinds you sell them, they never discover or invent anything off of them.
>>559357282Compass did a little bit of everything. Can't remember exactly cause I gave it to Beard.The Heart isn't entirely useless. The Bubble was beefed up too, doing -6 rads instead of -4 like in vanilla. So you just need two Bubbles, which I have! Garry gives you one if you finish his quest and I found another in Pripyat under the department store. Don't know if it was a fixed spawn or not.With the Heart + SEVA upgrade and my two Koloboks I have like +15 health restoration.
>>559359958I honestly wasn't a fan of the artifact changes from SoC. I didn't mind having to use a detector to find them, but the artifacts felt better in the original game. And having to upgrade suits to have more artifact slots felt like I'm getting cheated.I'm also completely spoiled by AMK mod having the ability to transmutate artifacts into really strong ones in anomalies.
X-8 time.
>>559360827Carry a shotgun to deal with mutants.
So much for a fucking sneak attack.>>559360901I carry my trusted AKS-74u with me where ever I go. I fully upgraded the recoil and it turned the gun into a fucking beast. I can magdump into a straight line, the gun barely flinches.
i just need trusty akak, find parts and ammo everywhereshoot bullet reliably, and monolith die reliably
>>559356860
>>559361856sovl
>>559362019It's insane how LA is basically conisdered oldfag content nowAlso, next OP image
>>559361856Oh my...
>>559361856Fucking hell, I never saw that when I played LA.>>559362461It's scary how time flies.
It seems that at some point I put the Unidentified Weapon into my stash in Zaton and somehow still managed to get a Gauss Rifle from Cardan.
>>559074840I understand why, but the ammo icons might be a little too big lol
>>559056946Love this mission. I always recruit everyone just to have the whole squad. Neat fact that if the pilot goes down, only Strider has any words for him. RIP Strider. You were too good for this gay world.
>>559331564As the real Holden I just want to say that I'm sorry for all this. I was only made aware of this weird schizophrenic shitposting recently and I can't even begin to fathom why someone is so obsessed with the author of a shitty and unremarkable stalker mod from over 15 years ago.
>>559367776yeah, huge bullets
What are some mods that increase the number of (human) enemies in the game or add more spawns, patrols and npc infighting in general? I'm playing IWP+CotZ and once I clear out an area it takes forever to repopulate and beyond the random quests that spawn enemies there's not a lot of shooting to do.
>>559369842increase population factor in options
>>559322665I will never understand it either. It's cool to go through them once or twice and thats it. The buildo+vanilla remix some mods sometimes do is much better.
I decided to try to make the small change of allowing all detector tiers to detect all artifact tiers and somehow it has turned out to be impossible to do despite being a seemingly easy thing to changeeither nothing happens despite the modified files being read, or the game blows up if I force itI can't even tell if it's a mo or stalker issue
>>559394104maybe you did it wrong.
>>559396078seems very unlikely, I tried multiple different solutions that work for other items, two of which didn't even change the file structure or pointers at all just order and valuesit's just an extreme spaghetti code situation since I got cyclical dependency errors when I tried re-structuring to remove all dependencies to see if writing the detectors individually worked and I can't say I have ever heard of a cyclical dependency error without any dependencies before
I hope one day it'll be possible for npcs not to have wallhack when looking through foliage. It's absolute fucking bullshit, I'm behind 5 bushes and these niggas shooting at me like I'm in the middle of an open field.
>>559402708which game?
>>559402875Zona
>>559403298try thishttps://www.moddb.com/mods/stalker-anomaly/addons/new-zone-npcs-cant-see-through-foliage
>>559368524Will The Real Chase Holden Please Stand Up?
>take all the hunting tasks>half of them autocomplete before I get to the location because some bloke decided he wants to kill mutants today>free moneysuch is life in the zone
>>559366854What is that sawed-off shotgun in the upper right? Or is the icon just going out of bounds?
how do I unbind unlisted keybinds (i.e. not in mcm all keybinds) in gamma?[ is my years long screen recording toggle and it seems to be taken up an animation mod but I can't tell which onesays item animations enabled/disabled when I press iteven if I bind it to something else, only the new bind bound to [ shows up in keybind conflicts but not the original one
>>559338474The madness and paranoia starts to set in. Sakharov's helmet can only do so much if it is sourced from subpar quality parts..
>>559413746That's a bind from Anomaly. Sorry can't help except to say that it is rebindable without issue there, though it is default of ] rather than [.It is listed in the settings though so I assume it is not in Gamma and you are trying to change it through a config file?
>>559411170Just you wait. Some day, one of these shit freeplay mods will take a page from shitty soup mods, and not a good one: They'll make it so a quest to kill someone or something doesn't actually complete unless it's specifically you who landed the killing blow, so you'll get nothing but a reputation hit every time you take one of those missions and the target fucks off to inaccessible areas.
>>559405928Very good post.
>>559415038I'd be glad if they did that imo, more immersive
>>559416117>spend 40 hours grinding quests to afford a can of beans and three rusty makarov bullets>get mission to kill a guy>he wanders from cordon to generators and gets splattered in an anomaly by the time you enter garbage>reputation drops so low from the failed mission that everyone hates you and traders give you 20% worse prices>xray hitches at the wrong time and you get one shot by some bandit on the other side of the map with a makarov>lose all progress because you were on ironmeme with campfire saves
>>559416384such is life in the zone
>>559414523Yeah and I can't seem to find any kind of config to change it fromalso I just noticed it's [ if I'm skipping the mod organizer and launching gamma directly via shortcut but ] if I launch the mod organizer and then gamma through it which is pretty strange
>>559413746>>559418116So it turns out the bind does exist in the normal settings but I'm presuming because I have an uncommon keyboard layout in the normal settings the key is displayed wrong; in my case it was marked as TREMA (which is two dots ¨ on top of umlauts)which it absolutely isn't, and the game reading the key differently based on launch type kind of makes sense if it's reading it wrong in the first placeshouldn't be european I guess
>>559419542it's a "problem" with the engine, it was programmed using ansi keyboards and whatever locale settings "convert" your input into ansi layout. for example, in zona the keybind for the class/perk system is supposedly "backslash" but for me it's actually #. since i have a uk keyboard and # would be \ when switched to ansi layout.
>>559415038anomaly have addons that do this, and you basically are forced to accept kill quests that are in the same map as you are, or an adjacent map and hope nothing happens as you are sprinting there. it's not very fun
you sure its not just the script
there are things i like about zona, and some things i don't like about zone. well, it's very optimized, toxic air and other unique mechanics are nice, but the extra item bloat (more than gamma), weapons having an overall condition that needs to be fixed, or field stripping and replacement parts takes chunks out of the weapon condition is just annoying.... perhaps i find more new annoyances with zona than the new stuff i enjoy, and i should just install toxic air into my modified gamma.
>>559398378you mean in call of pripyat?
>stuck in an endless emission loop>only saves I have are right before the emission loopOh well, time to start a new game
>>559444827no debug mode or something?
>>559445138I don't know, is this something I do in console?
>>559444827What Would Holden Do?
s2 psydogs annoying
>>559466634Get Psyched!
Are there any mods that overhaul Clear Sky & Call of Pripyat in the same way Radiophobia 3 does for SoC?
>>559478379>Call of Pripyat>the same way Radiophobia 3 doeswell... anomeme
>page 10
>>559483698>1337what the fuck happened to that guys model?
I am still mad the fucking AK 107 is not in. have to use the fugly as sin aek971 for BARS
>>559485336>the fucking AK 107>another ak variantanon pls
>>559488010its a proper service, modern ak with furniture for all the goodies. and it has BARS a better, tougher BARS than the aek-971.i am frankly shocked the west hasn't straight up stolen the BARS for everything we use.
>>559488139what are the BARS anon, pls tell me more about this ak slop rifle
>>559488290>>559488139https://modernfirearms.net/en/assault-rifles/russia-assault-rifles/ak-107108-eng/
>>559488290unlike the earlier an-94's rediculous little pulley wheel and string, the aek 971 and later ak 107 have two rods, joined by a toothed wheel, so that when the recoil sends the first rod back, the second one gets sent forwards, so that when the recoil 'hits' at the ass end of the gun, the forward rod also hits. effectively reducing and or cancelling almost all of the recoil. this makes controllability obscene.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lJs9sBBjLls
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GqJXLDgFy2o
>>559488816>unlike the earlier an-94's rediculous little pulley wheel and stringwhich wasnt designed as such for enhanced recoil control.its like that to fire its 2 shot as fast as possible.>>559488139>i am frankly shocked the west hasn't straight up stolen the BARS for everything we uselook to the east insteadguaranteed
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-5LTiCZwEOo
>>559488139watch the video's, you'll find out
>>559489132as expected, you can’t cheat physics and the mechanism almost does nothing. well, put a giant compensator for a small caliber like 5.45 and wow, the recoil is gone. all those extra parts inside the gun just aint worth it
>>559496916You, like he, are purposefully misunderstanding the entire point.His entire >acshully this sucksBoils down to>drunk russians can't QCWhich isn't anything against the BARS. The engineering principle is sound and cool as fuck. A flat shooting, pathetically easy to control AR is just nuts. It's a particular holy grail they've been trying to fix in firearms since automatic fire was even invented.
>>559496916https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kT9bAeIQWrsthis guy explains the felt recoil of the counter balance system better than Ian does. to some degree, I think Ian tried to make it sound more useless than it is.
>>559497397>>559499212well, to be honest, obviously i have not shot this rifle before so i shouldn't have assumed. it does sound rather interesting but i still doubt it is worth the extra cost and complexity. you can have an (almost) zero recoil experience with a well tuned ar15 + a very effective muzzle break, and it's the kind of thing you'd have for practical competition shooting, but not very well suited for military applications
What are some addons that improve performance for Anomaly? Do they actually work or its just placebo?
>>559504992AOEngine>biggest performance boost because of multithreadingOptimized Vanilla Anomaly Scripts V1.3>good fix for some stuttering
>>559504992The mythical "actually add proper multi threading to the engine" mod (impossible)
>anomaly won>gamma won>iwp won>olr won>true stalker won>zona wongive it up strifer, make the cumslinger standalone already
>>559488816>removing half the fun of shooting gunsGay. I get the contribution to warfare and such, but damn it, next they'll make the AKs use caseless bullets and will invent some gay electronic ignition system. I've been shooting since I was 12, and that harsh feel of the recoil, along with the smell of cordite and the intensity of the sound are all precisely why I like it. It feels industrial, raw in a way, it attacks your senses like few other forms of entertainment. I hope the west decides not to adopt this, actually.
ENGINE UPDATE WHEN?!
>>559514749Why not go full borderlands and make a gun that requires you to pull start a fuel powered engine that powers your gun?
>>559514847>Imagine waiting for GSC to actually do updatesMy bet would be May or June.CNPP dlc gets pushed to next year.
>>559514847Late 2025oh wait
they're trying their best to make 2.0 like cyberpunk 2.0 levels of "saved the game"unfortunately, its almost 1.9 now and the PDA still doesn't have old features from the trilogy, A-Life still doesn't render beyond 100 meters, and they are more concerned about adding things like guns and selling DLCs instead of fixing core issues people have with the game
>>559517615give it time faggot.
>>559517615>hurr durr game doesn't have [feature that hasn't existed since 2007] [feature that every game in the series has]Can you stop fabricating bullshit to whine about just because you're unable to run the game?
>>559482512I guess I should have been more specific. I want to replay the vanilla storylines with improved weapons, new mechanics and whatnot. I read the WhatMod guide on the OP but I just couldn't decide on what to try.
>>559512848aoengine actually works though
>>559527543AOEngine is the only thing saving the fucked up modpack that gamma is
>>559527997i wouldn't know i don't play soup mods
>>559477717I'm gonna say it: the Bayun is a shitty overhyped mutant that doesn't do anything interesting
>>559535889their ability in s2 is pretty neat
>>559537227the ability to play random_dialogue.wav?
Why tf are the Freedom guys at the border hostile to me, when I'm green with their main base and no controller is around? I haven't even been in their vicinity, so no stray bullets from me either.
>>559537986yes. you get used to it but the first time i encountered one it legitimately confused me
>>559488139>i am frankly shocked the west hasn't straight up stolen the BARS for everything we use.They quite literally don't need itOne of the biggest contributors to AK74's unimpressive shot groupings is its heavy asymmetrical bolt moving back and forth and hitting the receiver at high speed, which increases vibrations and throws off the aim up-and-rightThere is no such issue in neither AR-15 nor AR-18 platforms since a) the bolt carrier group is much lighter, b) it is largely symmetrical so it doesn't throw off your aim to the side and c) most of them have recoil buffer which softens the impact. There is nothing to counterbalance because most of AR's recoil impulse comes from cartridge itself (same reason AEK-973 in 7.62x39 never left the prototype stage)
>>559538676>>559537986>>559537227>>559535889Too similar to a psidog imo. Needs to be something else.
Friday, stalker day. Gonna see how far I can get in iron man mode.
>>559545850Why is the resolution so shitty if that pic is just from a few mins ago
>>559513890Don't forget the most important one:>LURK won
no.
>'no.' posting continues unabated
>>559547178Wasn't LURK abandoned a decade ago?
>>559545850You're a big lad.
>>559557485LURK 1.2 is still in active development.
>>559557920Proof or you're just a shill and/or bot.
>>559535889its a mutated cat right? what did you expect? it to have heavy oh shit impression of a chimera? or bloodsucker?>>559557920no.
>>559514749It lets you put the entire fucking magazine in a single magdump into the A zone of the target.
>>559499963The point being, for a marginal increase in cost etc. You get an actual service rifle you can hand to special operators that ISNT a 50 K Gucci race gun ar.
>>559266746>>awfulyah
>steam users
>>559266746>>559562501>hundreds of hours playing slopper 2 Kill yourselves.
>>559564652>slopper 2 kill yourself
Alright, niggers. I did it. I finished Misery 1.2. Here's my review. Gonna be a few posts.There was a definitely some memery here and there, and some other minor stuff which I didn't like. But aside from that, what did I think of the mod?I must say that playing Misery 1.2 was a pleasant surprise. 1.2 is pretty outdated, the newest release of Misery for CoP is 2.2 and I have no idea what that version is like, but I can definitely say that I enjoyed my time playing 1.2.It's no secret that CoP is the most accessible out of the original trilogy. The vanilla game is piss-easy and really lacks that feeling of a threatening, alien Zone that SoC had. Everything feels very safe and secure. The levels are designed around a hub where you can get anything you need. I've seen CoP described as a theme park, which honestly isn't far from the truth.That's where Misery 1.2 comes into play. I understand this style of gameplay is not for everyone but in my honest opinion, this particular version of Misery is an improvement over the base game. With Misery 1.2, the Zone felt threatening again. Leaving the safety of the Skadovsk felt like delving into dangerous territory. Going out unprepared had consequences, while in vanilla you can just kinda sail through most everything. I enjoyed this style of gameplay as, in my opinion, it makes things much more engaging.
>>559567084The mod forces you to adopt a style of gameplay different from vanilla. I want to mention that I once saw a forum post by a Misery dev, where he explained that if something was too difficult, the player was expected to retreat, do something else, get better gear, etc... Then come back and try again. I kept this in mind during my playthrough and I tried not to "strain against" the mod, so to speak.For example, Owl's gas tank for the Bloodsucker Lair quest was pretty heavy. I had found some weapons, which I didn't want to leave, but carrying them and their ammo along with the gas tank just wasn't working. I was too overencumbered and could only walk a few steps at a time. So, I decided to stash most of my ammo and weapons at the bridge. I was able to take only one AK with me, which had a single magazine loaded, which had to last me to the bloodsucker lair and back to the bridge. Once I was done, I went back to the bridge and got my weaponry back. Enemy encounters work differently in situations like these. When I was low on ammo like that, I had to decide whether to risk combat or evade safely, depending on my finances and resources at the time. This pretty much only applied to the hobo phase, though.Once I got into this mindset, I was having a lot of fun with Misery 1.2.So, what did I like and dislike about the mod?
>>559567265>The good:>balanceMisery gets a rep for being horribly balanced against the player. Misery 1.2 is actually balanced very nicely! Misery 1.2 is difficult but not unfair. The hobo phase is brutal, you die a lot and pretty much have to scrounge around just to survive. Beard's mission to get that anomalous wheel was a real pain. Radiation is also a pain cause it doesn't decrease on its own, you must use antirads or an artifact to get rid of radiation poisoning.However, once you get decent gear things become much easier. For example, once you get an artifact that recudes radiation it becomes a non-issue. A Jellyfish spawns by default in Zaton, and with it I could walk around with no worry about radiation.Once you get a better suit you stop dying all the time. You can pretty much use whatever guns you want as they're all pretty lethal. My shitty Skorpion sidearm was powerful enough to kill a boar with one burst.Once I was in the mid-to-late game it was pretty much like SoC. Swimming in cash and artifacts. There is also plenty of good loot to be found in stashes.>economyThe economy isn't bad. It's not that things are expensive, you just don't make a lot of money at first. But once I got a detector (you get one from Beard early in the questline) and could go artifact hunting, saving up money got pretty easy. Some quests also pay very well. Suit and weapon upgrades are pretty cheap, too.One annoying thing is that traders offer a lot of stuff, but not a lot of said stuff. For example, they all only stock one clip of each ammo type they sell. This was obviously done to limit resources but it's kinda pointless, as in CoP you can just save your game and reload to refresh their trader inventories.Some things also didn't make sense, like Hawaiian selling 5.45x39 ammo but not the armor-piercing variant of it. Yet, he sells both types of 5.56x45 ammo. Sometimes it felt like certain things weren't for sale solely for the reason to limit player access to them.
>>559567436>the brownThe brown-grey color palette of Misery gets undeserved hate. I say this as someone who used to hate it. I suspect it's hated on solely for being tied to Misery and being starkly different from what the vanilla games look like. While I prefer a greener Zone, Misery has a specific look that fits the mod well.It's unfair to generalize things by claiming the devs just desaturated everything. If you play the mod, it's clear that they were aiming for a specfic look. It actually looks pretty good at times. Pripyat also looks great with the color palette.
TLDR - Misery is a shit mod
>>559567616>The bad:We all know about Misery and its derivatives pulling some retarded bullshit in the name of (artificial) difficulty, aptly referred to as "memery". So, for the purpose of this review, what can be counted as memery?I consider memery to be any feature that is unfair to the player and/or cannot be logically justified. For example, mutants and guns in Misery do a lot of damage. The player can easily die to a few tushkano if he's not careful. However, tushkano can be killed with a single bullet. Guns will kill both you and NPCs with a few shots. I was dropping Monolith with a single burst of my AKS-74u. This also made firefights very exhilarating.So, while the enemy hits hard, so do you. Which makes things fair.I've played Anomaly and Dead Air before. Knowing these mods have their origins in Misery, I went in expecting some serious memery. To my surprise, I only encountered four instances that I would count as memery.>actor stamina drainThis wasn't as bad as the other stuff but still enough to be annoying. If I was well-fed and at low carrying capacity, the stamina drain was fine. But as soon as I started packing on some loot I was running out of stamina regularly. Very annoying consdering how big the CoP maps are.S.T.A.L.K.E.R. has three movement modes: walking, running and sprinting. And running is what happens with the W button. I suspect the devs intended for the player to hold down X to walk across the fucking maps, which is just straight retarded. I modded my actor.ltx so the stamina drain was more like SoC.
>>559567804>medkitsMedkits in Misery heal about 1/6th of your health. This is just retarded. It is worth noting that I picked the Recon class because it gave bonuses to healing item use and suit condition, and even with that bonus the medkits heal that little.I suspect this might've been done to make the player rely more on the base medics, or making things more difficult by having limited options to heal out in the field. If I wanted to fully heal, that meant having six or more medkits with me when I left base. The Recon class has a base carrying capacity of only 30kg, so that was out of the question.Ultimately, this feature just felt annoying. Getting into a tussle, losing health, and not being able to fully heal until I got back to base was extremely tedious. I ended up modding the medkits to heal about 3/4th of my health bar. The medkits also had negative fettles, like stamina drain and making the player sleepy, so I also removed those fettles. The mod became much more enjoyable after that.>Anomaly Research questThat quest where the scientists have you escort a group of stalkers to take anomaly measurements. At the Ash Heap anomaly, where zombied stalkers come shambling out of the nearby village, the mod suddenly spawned about six or eight zombied stalkers RIGHT next to the stalkers.This was complete memery. Spawning hostile NPCs out of thin air, right next to the stalkers I'm assigned to protect, giving me no chance to work around it. And it wasn't a glitch, it happened at the same time, every time like clockwork.I suspect this was done because the Misery devs found this part of the quest too easy. Which is completely true, this part is pretty easy. You can just pick the zombied off as they approach the hill. Which is fine! It's fun! Not everything has to be a ballbuster.I countered this by modding my AKS to do 500 damage with each hit. After I killed the meme zombied, I changed it back. Fuck that.
>>559567958>sniper weapon swaySniper rifles (and for some retarded reason also the binoculars) have INSANE weapon sway. That shit was like the DVD menu when you left the DVD player idle back in the day. This sway only applied to snipers and the binocs. My AKS-74u had a scope and it was very steady.Now, the Sniper class in Misery gives a bonus to aiming sniper rifles, giving players with that class an ability to steady their scope. This is probably the reason for the insane weapon sway, to make the Sniper class actually matter. This could very well be justified as it makes sense. If you're gonna use sniper rifles, of course you'd pick the Sniper class.HOWEVER, there is a story mission in CoP called One Shot, where the player is forced to use a sniper rifle! If you did not pick the Sniper class, this mission is pretty much impossible. My scope swayed like I was drunk, then the mercs yeeted me from the ground with an RPG. Cool. I was forced to edit effectors.ltx to reduce the weapon sway in order to finish the quest.The devs should have recognized this as a huge issue. Potentially locking the player out of a story mission can never be justified.Not really memery, but the mod is way too dark. Sometimes it would be pitch-black and it wasn't even nighttime. Checking the user.ltx, r2_sun_lumscale_amb was set to a whopping zero. I assume this was done to give the mod a grimdark look but holy fuck, interiors were nearly pitch-black all the time and contrast in general was too much. They went way too far with this one.Setting r2_sun_lumscale_amb to 1 seems to be a nice balance.Pic related is my end-game inventory.
>>559568102Aside from that, nothing really stood out as bad. No real bugs to speak of, the mod is very stable. Owl sometimes gives you less money than he says he'll give you. I'm not sure if that was a bug or a feature. Zulu's drinking dialog crashed at one point cause vodka hits harder in Misery than in vanilla, causing the dialog to break where it shouldn't have.Misery has psi-storms, which feel stupid and unnecessary. Just stick with emissions, why do we need two types of them?The gas tank for the Bloodsucker Lair quest weighs 10kg. Might've been a good idea to lower it a little, especially considering the player's carry weight is usually lower than in vanilla.Zombied stalkers are bullet sponges but headshots drop them pretty easy.Towards the end, as I reached Pripyat, the mod got a little boring. In Pripyat, you can of course get free ammo and meds from the guys in the Laundromat. I felt like there was no real threat anymore. I was kinda hoping that I was going to have to hobomode again for a little bit until Garry got to Pripyat.This isn't really a fault of Misery, however, more just CoP being way too easy.My endings were mostly good. I got the bad ending for Pripyat and Vano. Too many of the military guys died in the Unidentified Weapon mission and I think Vano died on his way back to the Laundromat after the mission in the Book Store.The Evacuation mission was surprisingly not as difficult as I thought. Made it out with everyone except Vano and the guys who died in the Unidentified Weapon mission.Final words? Misery 1.2 comes recommended if you're looking to replay CoP with a twist. Good hunting, stalker.
>>559568253I feel like I need to give it a try just for how much effort you put into your review.Thank you essayanon
>>559568827You're welcome, anon.https://we.tl/t-i3Rvme7h3hThis is a download link for anon's upload of Misery 1.2. I also added my custom changes as an optional file. There's a bit more stuff in them than I listed here, like I changed the flashlight to be more powerful and also imported Lost Alpha's flashlight texture into the mod.
>>559570332Fangtastic
>>559568253I felt a little sad of how dumbed down Pripyat was in CoP. It was one of the best areas in SoC. The Jupiter Underground was the height of the game. Even X-8 was kinda meh.
>>559567061>no actual rebuttal20 hryvnias have been deposited into your account
>>559572728I agree. X-8 doesn't hit as hard as the labs in SoC. It feels messy and it's way too big.
>>559573286The Jupiter Factory itself had more potential too. Just the dogs running around in the yard, the merc hit squad and the psy-dog inside were not enough. Should've been a bit more to it, being such a big complex.
>>559573139all you deserved was a kill yourself
>>559568253you should put all that shit in a reddit post.for real>
>>559577586>>559577836epic samefag, broyou are a spiteful, miserable little faggot fucking nigger
>>559578602yes those are both me.one was telling some faggot that was all he deserved. (true)the other was me telling misery anon guy to write that shit on reddit. not as an insult, but it reads like it should be there too. its a long thought out review of sorts.if you have a problem with my posts, I suggest you go cry somewhere else
>>559579537>the classic telling someone to "cry about it" when they rightfully call you out on being a miserable faggot onlinei remember being 15 years old too
>>559579672I'm a "miserable faggot" because I replied to someone?lolyou know being a retarded faggot isnt trolling right?again, go cry elsewhere
>>559579849>still goingyou must be at least 18 to post here, nigger
>>559579913
>>559579913>no actual rebuttal
>>559579984>>559580075>samefagging again
>crying still
>replying to some underage retard's posts on 4chan dot org is "crying"
no U
>>559564652>waaah you can't play the latest game in the series the thread is aboutGo shit your pants somewhere else.>>559579537Telling effortposts to fuck off to reddit is one of the reasons this site went to shit, retard. 4chan wasn't created to be a dumping ground for shitposts and low effort garbage, and it isn't for that now despite the jannies refusing to enforce the supposed post quality rule anywhere.
>>559580626>latest game in the seriesthis would be a valid argument if slopper 2 was actually canon (it's not)
>>559580732We already know putin would throw you into the gulag if you didn't shit on the game for being made by ukrainians. You don't need to keep coming back here every time your ban wears off to farm your social credit score.
>>559581012>i've allegedly been repeatedly banned for calling out slopper 2 posts for being offtopic and shit gee, this schizo theory you're alluding to almost sounds like something the communists would've done back in the days of the CCCP, comrade.
So how's the S2 mod scene looking? Any cool overhauls?
>>559582268no.
>>559580626>Telling effortposts to fuck off to reddit is one of the reasons this site went to shit, retardyour reading comprehension failure is why you are retarded.here, read this post, it may help>>559579537still think thats what happened, you can fuck off too.
wow
>>559583505>read it again>literally "this is an effortpost with thought put into it so it should be on reddit"So I had it right the firrst time.
>>559595196who are you quoting?
>>558999305Why is there a tutorial on how first person shooters work in a general about an old first person shooter series?>Common misconceptions about Shadow of Chernobyl game mechanics:>www.metacognix.com/stlkrsoc/WhatYouKnowThatAintSo.htmlWho is playing this old game series for the first time and why is it their first fps?
We back?
>>559599356>Who is playing this old game series for the first timeHaven't you noticed that the fanbase generally grew by quite a bit after S2's release? Given how good the trilogy has aged, a lot of those newfags are playing SoC for their first time.
>>559568253thanks for giving something to read in bed
in gamma do emissions also delete old artifacts in addition to spawning new ones?I was caught out in the open by a sudden emission so I had to sprint to cover barely making it, but I saw a shitty artifact on my wayI sprinted back immediately after the emission but it was goneno grav anomalies or anything nearby
>>559394104cut the entire artifact section from the highest tier detector and paste it into the lowest tier detector's section. delete every other detector's artifact section. add the lowest tier detector as a dependency to the others. examples,>[bear]:echo>[veles]:echofollow the naming convention in the files, these are just examples (could be they are named [det_echo] or [detector_echo] or whatever).the cyclical dependency error occurs when you try to make for example veles a dependency of echo, and echo a dependency of veles.
>>559394104>>559611184i just noticed>moi am assuming you are dealing with anomaly. it could be your changes are being overwritten or added onto by another dltx mod. learn how dltx works and make a new mod with the changes i described above and force it to load last.i dont remember offhand the dltx commands but basically you want to delete each detector's entry then add the new modified entry to ensure no other mod is making changes. i will leave it to you to figure the particulars out.
>>559514847soon
I'm quitting anti-rads to continue drinking
>>559514847not in 1.9
getting a bunch of invalid ogg-comment version errors out of nowhere that are causing freezes, 2 seconds to 4 minutes, for multiple sounds from multiple different mods from gammasome of them are for very common sounds but don't always cause an errorthey are the only errors in the log, and if I get a freeze that's long enough to alt-tab and refresh the log the last line is always ogg-comment errorchecking with SAVandT those files indeed have undefined types but they don't always cause freezes when triggered in-agme, or even a log entry to be generated - it seems to be randomis there a fix for this or am I going to spend the next two hours re-installing gamma
>>559621234just gamma things
How do I despawn corpses in SoC?I'm getting 3fps in Yantar because there's literally hundreds of corpses piling up in front of the science bunker and in front of the Production Complex front yard.
10:46 Aw man... just ate some badly cooked Flesh meat. Feels like a Whirligig coming out of my ass!
>PDA>Remove Batteries
>>559622303Ok, so I lowered lighting to static because I kept crashing. Then I realized that none of the corpses had been looted. That's why my fps was single digits. Looted everything and fps back up to normal.X-ray really is shit sometimes.
>>559564652I went in looking for something that wasn't there and I couldn't stop until I was sure.
>>559621234just comment the sounds correctly.>lazy ass modders cause this bullshit like they do with bumps and #bumps
>>559621234Once when I was modding SoC, an audio file for the cat mutant was missing its metadata. When the audio file was played it caused pretty much every stalker on the map to go into alert mode. That could be happening in your game, maybe the freeze is from a whole bunch of NPCs/mutants switching behavior states.Did the freezes happen when you're around NPCs or mutants?
>>559622303config/creatures/monsters.ltx has two functions at the bottom that I think control how long corpses say after death. Don't know if it only affects mutants or stalkers too.
>>559637290>config/creatures/monsters.ltxThat directory structure isn't in my game. You referencing the Steam version or something?
Good afternoon, /sg/
>>559637567if its not in gamedata, you have to unpack the .db files, then put thise files in gamedata so the game loads it
>>559639125Ah ok, that makes sense then. I use the GOG versions for everything.
>>559638584Hello, stalker.
Gentlemen, I propose that we STALKER 2 enthusiasts split off and form /s2g/. Let us leave this crusty, outmoded thread and its unc-ahh inhabitants to their own schizophrenic and clunky devices.
>fullscreen, borderless and windowed all have massive issues on their own and are borderline unplayable>windowed combined with nvidias fast sync runs buttery smooth but ends up with very visible window edges and missing thirty something pixels at the bottom>using any borderless apps to remove the edges and spread the window to full size in combination with fast sync causes the game to permanently freeze if alt-tabbing, opening steam overlay or randomly on load screensI am starting to hate gamma somewhat
>>559644280agreed, fuck off and form your own general. i have no idea why s2 was ever allowed here in the first place
>>559644280Bait used to be believable. Here's your (You).
>>559644418Fullscreen is always the correct option. You're doing something wrong.>gammaAh, I see.
What?
>>559644979>baityes, that's exactly what it is - and it works because people respond to it in earnest. however, i genuinely believe there should be separate generals because clearly there's a divide in which games people favor.
>>559645801He's using an extended mag.
>>559645801>NPC named Lenka StoopedI'm assuming that's a mistranslation of 'hunchback' or something similar.I've had this exact scenario happen to me way back in the day when I was first modding SoC with OL 2.2. I believe I had reloaded an old save that I'd made before installing the mod and killed some Freedom dude in their base. When I looted him, he had between 6 -7k rounds of 5.56 in his inventory. I'm assuming this is the amount assigned to NPC's and when they die, there's some script that's supposed to generate some rng amount of it in their inventory to not completely break the game in terms of balance. Sometimes it breaks...
>>559647448I've run across a few NPCs that had a few hundred, but never anything like this.Crazy
>>559647208Separate generals would be a little messy, I think.
>>559645801Didn't Kruglov have shitloads of ammo in his inventory too? I think it was a bug in SoC.
>>559617479>>559619282Thanks. I guess I'll keep waiting. I'm on a new playthrough I started last year after the NVGs update and right when they droppe the burnt forest quest I figured I'd wait until Engine Update or DLC to finish the playthrough.
>>559654604I'll have to check in a vanilla playthrough then. Kinda curious.
on day 7 and just managed to find the last 100% part for my ak-74mI don't even know if it's good in gamma but I got it day 1 with a suppressor and 1pn93-4 attached so it seemed like a fun side quest to repair itno idea what the fuck I'll do now desu
>>559657298ZONA?
no ded
Medkit
>page 10yeah this general deserves to die.>>559645801This corpse is scripted to spawn with 231 5.56 ammo, but some dev forgot that the ammo number in the scripts does not correspond to the number of individual bullets, but to the number of ammo boxes. So 1 ammo = 30 bullets. 231 ammo = 6930 bullets.
>>559682157gnight stalkah
THE SUCK
>>559660543he wouldve just bought the gun if it was zona
>>559691813Damn, that's sick. It's not an actual mod is it? Might buy the game if it is.
>>559698043nah, just an artwork. but a darkest dungeon like game set in the stalker universe would be amazing.
>>559681729TY based Mathanon
monolith warfare run
idi ko mne
>>559681729>this general deserves to die/sg/ has always been slow. It's also a fact that /sg/ is one of the best generals on /vg/.
i actually don’t know how to play warfare.
>someone uploads another realism overhaul for SoC to ModDB>four comments>two of them are just him getting roastedlmaohttps://www.moddb.com/mods/vicsr-mod
>>559732812why do realism haters go to a page for realism mod
>>559730923Holy "bread"
>>559732927People love to hate.
>>559732395try it, it will annoy you
>>559732812>getting roastedI think you are confused
>>559161138Reshade isn't just for postprocess effects, the version with addon support also provides the facilities required by RenoDX for fixing defective shader code
>>559681729yeah i think doomposters like you should die.
Smartterrain_and_Waypoint_Tools_by_dez0wave.7zamong others added to OP modding tools repo
>>559746347Cheers ModdingAnon
What am I in for?This is honestly the coolest main menu I've ever seen in a STALKER mod.
I think something's wrong.
This isn't going well.
>>559749860>>559751287Grim
>>559751287yup that looks broken
I don't have time to mess around, bugfixing the UI and shit. I'll try this again later.
>>559749860I would agree.
what’s the least scary stalker gamecop?
>>559752745Definitely CS
>>559732812It was uploaded three years ago, faggot. Why bring this up now? Just to generate drama?>russoid uploader>it's a pirate mod (standalone, no need to own a legit copy of the game)
>>559753138If you look at the mods page for SoC on ModDB, you'll see that the mod was recently updated. That's why it popped up in the list.Faggot.
>>559754951NTA but did the update have english added?
>>559751287>>559749860try texture_lod 0 or 1
>>559755891I fixed the weird grain by turning off SSAO. I'll try out that command if I ever pick up NLC later.
>pirate modExquisite bait, will use in future.
>>559753138>it's a pirate mod (standalone, no need to own a legit copy of the game)its not just a GOG copy of the game?
bricks shat
>>559775623The glowing eyes on some mutants are so cool.
>>559785539yeah its coolThese zombies were invisible, except the glowing eyes.
They removed the merc suit. Unforgivable.
>>559757902>everything I disagree with is baitGrow up. It's objectively a pirate mod because it lets you play without owning the game. Even analmeme/gaymma at least have some direction toward how to acquire the original game.
>>559791750Bottles of vodka there?
>>559795857A few grenades.
>>559796205My AMK1.4.1+NLC5+NS3 play a little while ago had bottles of vodka. Which is ok, because the economy favored trading bottles of vodka for some really good items.NGL though, I stopped playing it because it just felt like a boring grind and didn't hold my interest at all.
>>559601036S2 doesn't have the same shooting mechanics?I would have thought the fan base would have peaked Gamma and other youtube bait
>>559730923people are too engrossed playing the game(s) instead of yapping about meaningless shit, shocking
>>559752745Seconding CS>mostly fight stalkers instead of mutants>only lab is agro underground and you just run through it
>>559754951>STALKERSOUP updated 3/6/2026God, what a rotten shit mod. Can't fucking believe Tecnobacon (or whatever he goes by these days, if he's even still on the project) is still shitting out updates for that pile of shit.
>>559767249AAAAAAHHH HELP I LOST THE LOWER HALF OF MY LEGS!!!!!!
>>559819129Why does NS + translation + attempted bugfixes cause so much anal devastation?
>>559819431NTA but I've heard STALKERSOUP is total ass.
>>559823391It's just NS + translation + attempted bugfixes. If any part of it is shit, it's shit in other NS base packs too.
>>559823858ok?
>>559795857>>559796205better than "salo" as a joke
>>559825017>ok?Are all zoomers mouthy women?
>>559828857they rightplay op 2.1 instead
>>559828857Do you have any actual counterargument to make, or did you just come here to shill?
>>559819256Maybe he's standing in quicksand...
>bots are shitting the thread up again
I dont wanna buy stalker 2 but I wanna make stalker anomaly feel and look more like it. I have found some neat stuff like Atmospherics, the S2 hud itself along with the compass and some ledge stuff but what else should I get anons?
>>559832763Proof?
I still can't believe IWP cured that one anon's phimosis...
>hip will never circumcise you with her teethWhy even live?
>>559819129It really is a stinky mod - it made my room smell like actual shit when I first installed it and played it over 10 years ago, that's how bad it was.
>>559834876Are there any mods for Anomaly that make the cats spawn hallucinations of human enemies perhaps? I thought was pretty cool from S2.
What's the best AMK version or derivative nowdays?
>>559842830I don't know about best, but I still play AMK 1.4.0.22 regularly. https://www.moddb.com/games/stalker/downloads/amk-1-4-eng
>>559843685hey nigga, don't go leaking an IP address like that
i'm new at this, finished all 3 triology games and stalker 2what is a good OG mod to get started with?
>>559844738ZONA
>>559844738>>559843685
>>559844738Oblivion lost 2.5,so you can live the closest experience to the original concept of stalker.
>>559847714i will try the oblivion lost 2.5thank you
>>559850508you are most needfully welcome, saar!
>>559832763>>bots are shitting in your mom's pussy againftfy
>forgot my sleeping bag somewherefug
>>559854306I accidentally put it in a random stash spot one time and had to check almost the entire game map to finally find it.
>>559819256that dude was the lone survivor of his squad, survived a chimera attack. legs amputated because of wound infections.show some respect.
>>559619009i know it's not healthy but it's what i need to drown out the voices and psy dogs that won't leave
>>559828857no.
>>559834876Install ZONA
ZONA is free, and doesn't fake survival.
>assasination quest>put on outfit completely out of sight before approaching targets, its fully repaired with patch intact>double-tap targets in the head from a distance they barely see me at>disguise intact, not recognised>still lose reputation as if everyone knew who I wasthis is the first legitimately idiotic thing I have come across in gamma
>>559525337Memeslinger with Misery perhaps? I remember a couple years back i enjoyed replaying the game with a similar modpack. There is the occasional cancer tho. TBD.
>>559525337gunslinger
>>559872889nobody says this
>>559525337>I just couldn't decide on what to tryJust pick one and try it out! Nothing's stopping you.
>>559834876C Consciousness grass & trees (overgrown install option)GFY Anomaly (stalker 2 models https://ap-pro.ru/forums/topic/8731-gfy-anomaly-obnovleno-16072025/)RE:Pack GFY Texture OverhaulS2 realistic eyes addonRotten Life texture pack (https://drive.google.com/file/d/16IKHUjWdE465fdbhrScbD5ONSiGORmly/view)Vehicles textures reduxTerrain textures redoneRe:Pack NitpickerS.T.A.L.K.E.R. 2 HoC - Soundscape OverhaulAudio ExpansionS.T.A.L.K.E.R. 2 - Legacy LUT 2021Anomaly Real Distant Mutants SoundsArtifacts Inspection Redone
Is there any reason to play RMA over Shadow's Addon? RMA looks pretty but don't those two mods do the exact same thing? I've got a feeling that SA does it better.
>>559883621>stalker 2 character modelsyuck
>>559888554SA is built on top of RMA.
>>559888687he said he wanted to make anomaly look like stalker 2..
>>559834876Impossible. Modders are incapable of making a mod that actually feels and plays like stalker.
>>559888687>nooooo you HAVE to use the 2003 assets with sloppy upscaling you can't use new canonical models
>>559894107>s2>canonicalAnon....
>>559890452Makes sense.
The Rookie Village stalkers are glitching out again.
These subtle level redesigns in RMA are pretty neat.
They sure loved their bloom back in the mid 2000's.
>>559897293Nothing glitching out, everything working as intended
Haven't heard from sauceanon in a while... I wonder how he's doing?
>>559899228>>559900363Man i love the look of Xray, no matter of how much time passes.
>>559906450Bes, NO!
>>559908667Moustache man does however moustache man pleases.
Bes is a cool dude.
Oh, jeez! This guy's sending out an SOS signal in the Garbage! I better go and help him out.
>>559911821>>559912809He never survives for too long. Same with Fox and Wolf.
>>559913973I can't see shit
>>559914939That's exactly what they want!
About to finish Stalker 2, have died now 3 times to Korshunov. The boss fights in this game are ass. They managed to hit every single bulletpoint of making a cancerous ass experience of a bossfight.>Respawning fodder enemies that chip you from a mile away>Giving you an "ally" solely for window dressing, Degytarev does nothing the entire fight>Multi-stage boss fight without checkpoints between each phase>"Weak points" on Korshunov are not weak points>Health pinata boss that takes so many rounds you begin to question if you're even hurting him at all>Stun lock boss attack, which is easily dodged but thought I'd throw this in thereThe part that infuriates me the most is, with this being an open world game, you get no feedback on what to bring. I brought a shotgun, and Korshunov melts you so fast good luck getting in range. I'm forced to use my Dnipro with AP rounds (fully upgraded, btw, including the extra AP damage from a blueprint) and it still feels like I'm tickling him. Who would've thought going into an underground tunnel segment would mean they aught to bring a sniper? Not me, and I'd wager not most players. This isn't quite as bad as the Faust fight, which forced me to lower down to STALKER difficulty because by the time I reached Faust (because you have to fight through his entire base first) my weapons were so fucked up they malfunctioned every other shot. Debating lowering the difficulty again, only to be done with this fucking game. 7/10 overall, very disappointed.
>>559914773I find Wolf is usually chill even if I end up aggroing and killing Master & Father Diodor. That's assuming the fire pit doesn't eventually get to him though.
>>559921712Vanilla usually finishes him off by the time you get to the Army Warehouses though. I was pleasantly surprised to find him alive the first time I played AMK.
>>559918806Sounds like a massive skill issue. Faust wasn't hard at all if you prepared properly and didn't intentionally destroy all three of your guns like a retard. Korshunov is a bit tough, but you just need to actually position yourself properly and play smart. High bar for most people these days. I only died to him a couple times because I was either in a bad position or tried to heal while the healing animation got interrupted by something.
Do the ZONA changes actually make it worth playing over GAMMA? I like how the toxicair stuff sounds, but afaik those have been not working in every modpack that has offered it before.
Can you remove female npc from gamma?
>>559922631https://www.moddb.com/mods/stalker-anomaly/addons/remove-hip
>>559922275>Faust wasn't hard at all if you prepared properlyRe-read my post retard. It's an open world game. You have no idea how long a mission will run, what you aught to bring, anything along those lines. At least this Korshunov fight told me there was no going back, so I knew coming in it was end-game territory and end-game=big fight so I came loaded with guns. But again, the game told me it'd be an underground bunker/tunnel. Who hears that and thinks "ah yes, let me bring my long range rifle to this area". Maybe you, because you seem retarded, but not me. But dismissing mechanics that are widely outdated (outdated because they are hated, other games have done these things before and it's a meme at this point) with "skill issue" is exactly why Stalker 2 isn't as good as any of the other games. I'm fine with a bullet sponge boss. I actually expect it. But dropping me in a big area, giving me no feedback on how bad I am hurting the boss, with infinite spawning chaff, and no checkpoints throughout to at least make the pain slightly more tolerable?
>>559922434works well in zona. but i'm playing it mostly because it runs well and doesnt crash as much.
>>559923867Yeah, and? Do you go on freeplay raids with no concern for how you're going to survive to get back too, and intentionally break all three of your equipped guns + anything that you pick up?>le outdated mechanicsOh so sorry, maybe gsc should have added more yellow paint and tutorial prompts for your retarded ass? Figure it out, retard. The entire run up through the Duga assault has you destroying the psi-lanterns. You are shown pretty blatantly that Faust is carrying a psi-lantern with him. Put two and two together. Or do you need someone on the radio shouting "SKIF! SHOOT THE WEAK POINT FOR MASSIVE DAMAGE! IT'S THE GLOWING BLUE LIGHT SKIF!"?I figured out Faust on my first playthrough with no prior knowledge. I figured out the colonel on my second playthrough with no prior knowledge as a result of siding with the Ward the first time. Oh man, I can't wait until you get to Scar, unless you chose Spark's path and start screeching about how the game is shit because you can't figure that one out.
>>559924690holy cope
>>559923792>pic relatedWould
>>559925018Called it. You need modern game handholding because you're too stupid to play games without them.
How does ak 101 sound so wildly different to ak12?
>>559926228It has 89 more AKs
>>559900363and the first thing I did was turn it all the way down or off.motion blur off.dof off.>>559925018>caanned reply#16
>>559883621whoa! thats way better than what i had anon. thank u! anything else like gameplay or animation wise? I know i'm going get FDDA and that one ledge grabbing mod too but I cant think of anythign else gameplay/animation/ui wise atm.
>>559941646wait, you're still on screen space shaders 18? can you PC run screen space shaders 23.5? that + atmospherics is pretty much the best anomaly has at the moment for graphics FDDA is good, covers everything that isn't to do with weapons, if you want better animations for weapons when you'll have to get weapon mods. boomsticks and sharpsticks is still pretty good, but i think the newest weapon pack is frosty's but locked behind discordalso if you don't want to replace your NPCs with stalker 2 models, try these out
>>559941646oh and by the way, ATO is probably better than rotten life for textures. rotten life makes interiors too shiny and new imo
>>559925678>WouldNigga, that's a child.
>>559952473Even better
Have a bump /sg/
>559954102Jannies ban this pedo at once!
>>559924690>>559926015I just finished the game. The Scar fight was even more cancerous. >HEHE I knew this game was too hard for ya, zoomer! *cracks white Monster, sends $100 to Israel for bomb money*Hold it right there, boomer. Not because I couldn't figure out the button pressing (also a horrible design for a boss, but never mind that) but because Scar was one-shotting me THROUGH THE GOD DAMN WALL. Apparently, from what I gathered since an update, it is well known enemies have wallhacks. Something about the devs "fixing" the AI being able to see and shoot through shrubbery/foliage (still not 100% reliably fixed btw, but once again, never you mind that) but it broke the AI and walls. I wish I would've recorded it, but when I was in Pripyat, I saw a Duty guy fucking unloading his LMG into a massive commie block apartment... With no one inside. I ran to the other side, low and behold, Monolithians also doing the same. Blasting into the wall, then at me once alerted. This game is still fucking broken, which was the main reason I held off for so long. Another example I recall, fresh in my head, was storming the Red Fortress. That bit where you scale the scaffolding, I was getting shot by Monolithians several layers above me that miraculously, I myself could not see. This is also a skill issue, I am sure.Nah man, overall, this game was average. They got the atmosphere and visuals pretty close, which funnily enough, I thought would be the hardest thing to achieve. Everything else is a mixed bag, and the boss fights were putrid shit. I don't even think Stalker 2's combat is really meant for boss fights, they should've avoided the idea entirely. Shooting glowy bits, "this boss is unkillable until you press a button", we're going to spam chaff enemies at you, "you have to shoot this boss until he just stands there stunned, then run up and watch a cutscene, then do it again and he dies". It's all not just bad, it is terrible.
>>559970626Kudos for powering through it. I threw the towel in about the time you first meet Scar.>gsc internet defense force in 3...2...
>>559972428Same.
Good day, /sg/.
I'm finally playing Vector of Alienation. Woop woop!
SHITTER 2 KEKS ARE IN SHAMBLES.MAYBE SCALPERS WERE ONTO SOMETHING BROS!THATS RIGHT, WAIT 2 YEARS FOR YOUR PHYSICAL ULT THAT NEVER COMES.FUCK STALKER 2.THE TRILOGY WAS THE ONLY GOOD PART.NEVER SUPPORTING THIS FUCKING COMPANY AGAIN. FUCK MAXIM AND FUCK GRIGA FOR SELLING IT AWAY. FUCK ALL OF YOU FOR TELLING MECTO BUY THE GODDAMN PHYSICAL ULT. YES I LOVE THE COMMUNITY AND THE GAMES BUT THIS LATEST ONE MAN IT HAS BEEN SHIT OVER AND OVER AND OVER. FIRST WE WAIT ACTUAL YEARS FOR THE GAME ITSELF TO BE SOMEWHAT PLAYABLE BECAUSE UKRAINE HAS LOOK IMPORTANT. YEAH, LET US REALEASE OUR GAME OUT OF ALPHA AND MAKE IT LOOK FINISHED. NO WONDER.NEVER COMIMG BACK TO THIS SITE.
>>559984282SIXNE THE CHARGE WAS SO LONG AGO MY CREEIT CARD COMPANY IS NOT GIVING MY THE MONEY BACK. THAT IS HUNDREDS OF DOLLARS YOU FUCKING NIGGWRS. ARE YOU SERIOUS???? ANY OTHER GAME, ANY OTHER COMPANY... HOW CZN YOU EXCUSE THIS? HOW IS IT RIGHT? THEY ARE ALL FUCKING CONS AND SCAMMERS THE LOT OF THEM. MAYBE THEY DO NEED TO BE DENAZIFEID OR WHATEVER THE FUCK, BECAUSE SOMETHING OBVIOUSLY NEEDS TO HAPPEN. FUCK IT DUDE. I CANT BELIEVE I WAITED SO MANY YEARS. AND FOR WHAT....
>>559984397>>559984282Just buy it from Amazon or whatever.
I already got stuck in a hole, this is the premium buildo jank experience.
Caught the exact moment I got fucking obliterated by unimaginable horrors beyond my comprehension.
In VoA, you don't actually need to give Toad this artifact when he gives you the quest for it. You can drop the artifact and the quest dialog will still complete.
>>559984282>>559984809>reddit dramaget teh fuck out
>>559998081Good morning chris
>>559998081Mr. Hanson, I presume?
DAS RITE
>>559970626>it's a horrible design for a boss b-because there's challenge!!!!>REEEEE WHY CAN HIS GAUSS RIFLE KILL ME THROUGH WALLS JUST LIKE MY GAUSS RIFLE CAN DO TO OTHERS!!!!!!!This shit is why every game with stealth mechanics has to make npcs deaf, blind, and retarded, because casuals think they should be invisible just because they're crouching in a shadow while the npcs is staring directly at them. I bet you didn't even know you could shoot through walls too, because there's no handholding message shouting "SKIF, YOU CAN PENETRATE COVER WITH STRONG GUNS!"
https://youtu.be/0x7U0NLehr0?si=MVyyTLzs-8zWyRTP
>>559984163have fun anon, you are in for a buildokino
>>560005976Holy pixels.Post old stalkan vids.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WXKFRcMYvw8
>>558999305so sad modders dont care about the enhanced editionthe controller support is great so is the performancemaybe anomaly will add gamepad support :/
>>560007124It's good shit so far. Visually the mod looks great. The balance seems a bit harder than base OLR.The dialog is also pretty funny here and there.
>>559984282>>559984397I pirated S2 and still feel like I was swindled.
>>560005976bopbip bo pido pop bo muhfugguh bix nood
>>560015219This Nigga Ain't Trill Enough
>>560009076>fps>controller
>>560015269thats big C, put some respec on it bish
>>560009076enhanced editions still broken in one of the worst ways possible from moddershttps://github.com/revolucas/CoC-Xray/commit/4625973f91db2c41144c437d372a965ee29c384c#diff-52a253d983cbc6d35961688dab1cdf278d425246682fec852561939d20c99a91also if you're not going to have any guide as to your particles changes, thats just fucked up, currently GSC, it looks like you don't want modders to mod EE
>>559984163Fuck me that sunrise looks kino, nothing does it like buildo
>>560015357I rike id, its pretty well done :)>>560016267i dont know what any of this means, just make a gamepad mod for anomaly pls
>>559987778What happened?
Is there a way to use freecam in SoC?
>>559923792why do they call it hip addon? Are they afraid of moddb removing it?
just bought some grenade launcher grenades off toad.
>>560035087How do I unsubscribe from your shitty blog?
>>560037661no.
Tried playing that newer version of LFO, last one I tried was years ago.It's not the most stable, and the balance just felt kinda all over the place. The economy is a joke(you'll easily amass items/money), and mutants are absolute pushovers. Most go down in one shotgun blast, and are mostly too passive to do any damage before dying. Fighting enemy stalkers felt alright, damage seemed fine but they aren't particularly smart. Most of the guns I found looked/felt good, upgrade system got expanded a bit.It's a shame, they added new maps and tweaked existing ones, but I'm not gonna keep playing to see most of them. Some parts really did have a lot of effort put in but there's some core stuff that really wasn't doing it for me despite seeming like my kind of mod.
>'no.'-posting retard still hasn't been banned
>>560033874Isn't it Demo record something in console?
>>560040201he's baiting
>>560041682I'm not. Why would I even?>>560040201It's not demo_record 1, I tried that, doesn't work
>>560049148You playing Vanilla or with a mod?
>>560049436Right now there's the Defiance mod on top of it, but I am asking if it is possible in general, so for vanilla it'd be fine too. I want to inspect normally unreachable places (Sakharov/ Sid's bunker etc)
>>560038606That's not a valid answer, nigger.
>>560028338>i dont know what any of this meansskill issue.>just make a gamepad mod for anomaly plsuse open xray, then kill yourself
>>560033874manually add k_cam1, 2, 3 binds to user.ltxor maybe soc doesnt use them
>>560038940go leave that a a review but be sure to elaborate on what that means.otherwise its a bkogpost about your feelings plaing clear sky for the first time.
>blogpost
>>560062253blogpost
>>560058983Fuck off.
>>560064286"No."
so is it “psi” or “psy”
>>560075696>no rebuttal
>>560079475Psi because they're slavic, but it should still be pronounced "sye" not "see." You don't pronounce psychic as "see-kick." Translation errors put on the English voice actors.
how am I supposed to get 100% pelts in gamma?
>>560033874>>560049965demo_record 1 is the correct console command for SoC. Maybe you forgot to add the 1 at the end?
>>560027429Yeah, buildo atmosphere is unmatched. VoA looks really good.
>>560033874>>560058534I typed it wrong earlier but this worksjust added this to user.ltxbind cam_1 kF9bind cam_2 kF10bind cam_3 kF11
>>560005232Your retardation is so profound I have no choice but to believe it's ironic. On the off chance it is not, I'll take the bait.I am not complaining a fucking gauss rifle can shoot through walls. I am complaining the AI is broken, and they can detect my exact location through solid matter. This wouldn't be as bad if you were, say, unloading an LMG into solid cover thinking "I've got a lot of bullets, and I know they are back there, surely ONE of these will get him". Were that the case, I'd even give gsc props for good programming. But a fucking gauss rifle through cover? A precision weapon that requires charging between shots? No. It's amplified x10 in bullshit factor because the difficulty I played at made the gauss a 1 hit kill on me. Getting 1-tapped through walls, in some cases when Scar didn't even have the angle to see me get behind said wall, is indefensible. It isn't fun, it isn't fair, and it is not good design. But what did I expect from the same people thinking having me press a button on a wall to stun him was also a good boss mechanic? Why would Scar even set up to fight me there? That was where he decided to ambush Skif. He could've done it anywhere, and he chose the room with stun buttons. Do you even hear yourself man? Nothing here makes sense. You're standing in a pile of shit trying to convince me it smells like roses.>inb4 "it's just a game, don't overthink it!"Stalker, especially Staller 2's combat, is not built for boss fights.
Are we seeing a new modding renaissance?https://www.moddb.com/mods/stalker-anomaly/addons/alifeplus-v1-0-01
>>560090468Interesting. Anyone tried this yet? Funny that this pops up right after that AI-powered A-life addon.
>>560089495The best ones are F6, F7, and F8, since F9 is quicksave. That way you aren't overriding anything.
>>560090297he's baiting you, anon. he's also retarded but he's baiting you.
>>560091883I ain't afraid to rebind save and load keys
>>560086323is that even possible?
>>560091607The author just posted thishttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2AZdPyVeY5U
>>560108667Wow, it's very customizable. Stalkers even drop stashes? I wonder if those can be picked up by NPCs.
>>560090468>>560108667My biggest gripe with alife mods is that it takes forever to even notice the changes. You're going to have to spend hours upon hours of seeing different groups and interactions before you notice the tiny new things added from regular old anomaly.
>>560108667better than siski>>560112551can't you just sleep in game for a few days to let things happen?
>>560090468siski DIED within 2 MONTHS
>>560112551If you crank some of the settings up things will happen a lot>>560109190>>560113113Yes its surely better, the AI does things as you would expect, like bandits setting up ambushes near areas they control and stalkers filling up stashes that they can actually reach, there is no illogical shit happening from the few tests i've done
>>560113849sounds good. time to try this out with zona.
>>560079475It was always psi in russian. In english translation of soc it was also psi. Then they changed it to psy in the translations of cs and cop. S2 reverted back to psi, but they are pronouncing it in a way that an english speaking person wouldn't naturally.
Buildo anomalies are so fucking insane
>>560121217So another "kyiv not kiev" thing ? Okay, good to know
>>560129358The virgin Anomaly doomer VS the buildo beauty enjoyer.
>>560121217>>560128019It's not political and IMO more of a reddit "muh proper realism in sci-fi" pronunciation of the Greek letter Ψ, which it comes from. I also vaguely recall something in 2 differentiating Ψ-emissions or Ψ-radiation or whatever. It's gay and I far prefer the old catchall term.
How the fuck do you survive emissions in Vector of Alienation? I die even though I make it inside a building before the first surge. What the hell am I supposed to do?
gamma lost...
>>560136647the stalker renaissance ....
>>560089074I can't type the underscore _ in the console, instead it types a questionmark>>560089495I added this to user.ltx via notepad. Do I then just type any of those into the command to enable them? Again, I can't use underscore. At least with the Defiance mod, maybe it would work on vanilla though
jumped the fence in Pripyat in stalker 2, raided the monolith base, is the game basically over??
>>560137898>I can't type the underscore _ in the consoleSame happens to me. The console was always weird with keyboards. The plus button on my keyboard, next to zero, writes an underscore into the console if I hit it while holding shift. I think you can also just copy/paste it into the console with Ctrl + V.
>>560139350>plus button on keyboard, next to zero, writes an underscore into the console if you hit it while holding shift.sadly does not work>copy/paste demo_record 1 into the console with Ctrl + V.sadly doesn't work either
I've started Stalker 2. Seems alright so far. I am only 7 hours in or so. One feeling I cannot shake is the combat feels off. Human to human it is fine. Bleeding feels a bit much, and I do feel the AI is a bit frustrating. Tactically, they don't seem to flank or push. Just sit behind cover and blast from miles away, but I guess it is serviceable. I more so am talking about the mutant combat feels off. That one attack bloodsuckers do that knocks you on your ass. I just feel slow and weighty, and it feels worse against mutants that so far seem very spongey but nimble. I also am annoyed about the dogs attacking like kamikazes. Really seems like dogs should run away after you thin out the pack, or fuck them up enough like in the other games. That's a minor issue, but it adds to the pile of problems I have with all the mutants. They just aren't fun to fight.
>>560143714It gets better (worse).
>>558999305I started playing Stalker again, IWP with folloiwng addons: HiRes textures, Visible legs, All upgrades for weapons and suitsFell like a classic Stalker, new mini patch should come out this month
>>560090297>>560098647Every one of your complaints has been that the game expects you to figure shit out and doesn't hold your hand. All you're doing is crying over the game not being the standard diamond dozen theme park ride every other modern game is. I've played that Scar fight. Yeah he can shoot you through cover that he literally just saw you walk through, then he stops until he gets an idea of where you are. You'd prefer retard AI that forgets where you are the millisecond you're in shadow or crouched.
>>560150125>diamond dozenhehTLDR; WELCOME TO THE GAME - ITS NOT HOLDING YOUR HAND, YOU'RE PLAYING IT
>>560143714>They just aren't fun to fight.This is my main longstanding issue with 2, a game I actually like. I sort it out with mods but >infinite spammed psydogs>blind dogs who hide behind cover forever if you jump up on a box>bloodsucker screams/knockdowns>psy-damage just summons phantom humans out of thin air to shoot you>360 no scope controller claps with much larger area than I always expect>brand new mutant that just... summons phantoms at you>benny hill poltergeistsit's like they tried to make every mutant have some sort of effect or ability in combat but it boils down to "summons ghosts" or "knocks you down" and they start to feel like a chore very early on
>>560156614The mutants are awfully designed and I got bombarded with git guds for thinking the bloodsucker knockdown, on top of their non-patched health regen, was bullshit and unfun unless you like camping on a box for close to ten minutes.Honestly thought the fights against stalkers/humans was pretty fair and close to generous considering how many health items the game throws at you but the mutants went from scary to annoying which just makes them suck dick.
>>560137898no, console has nothing to do with it.you just add it to your user.ltx and now once in game those keys are what controls what cam you're using. F9 is default, F10 is perspective, F11 is cam controlthose keys won't show in the user's controls configuration menuunless you add them to \config\ui\ui_keybinding.xml, which you would probably have to unpack from .db's, edit, then put in your gamedata folder as I have for the video here.>>>/wsg/6108533
so there i was finally to play gamma...>130gbwtf did sony made this? better better be worth it
>>560165642it really is too fucking big
>>560143714my crazy opinion: S2 mutant combat was a bigger miss than the "a-life"
>>560165642>>560172824That's almost as big as Stalker 2..wtf
Loaded my gamma save from months ago, no idea why i had so much 9x19
>>560177534#hoarderlife
>STALKER 2 dev has said the Unreal Engine update is coming before the DLC and the DLC will have to wait for Unreals bugs to be ironed outThe ride never ends.
>>560184064So expect the dlc next year then
holy smokes the alife guy is cooking! https://www.moddb.com/mods/stalker-anomaly/addons/alifeguard-1001
Ugh..I forgot how annoying modding is.Fucking BaS won't even extract to a separate file folder without errors.
4405 errors. The gamedata folder is only 4.86 gb when extracted. Its supposed to be 11+ gb's.
>>560191908Have you tried the different extraction methods available? Drag and drop, extract to location, archive in the target folder and extract here, etc? 7zip?BAS sucks btw. I hope you're just using it as a resource.
no u
where the fuck do I get a kukri in gamma
>>560135801I got through it by spamming medkits, no idea if you are supposed to hide in a specific location through.
holy fuck finally a replacement for the out of date dynamic npc armor visualshttps://www.moddb.com/mods/stalker-anomaly/addons/companion-equipment-extension
>>560212674you need maximum reputation with a faction for their vendor to sell it
>>560135681>differentiating Ψ-emissions or Ψ-radiation or whateverpsi-emissions and psi-radiation were always one and the same in russian, it was a mistake in english translation where they sometimes translated пcи-излyчeниe in two different ways. in english the word radiation is commonly associated with nuclear or ionizing radiation and radioactivity (in russian it's paдиaция), and psi-radiation has nothing to do with it, so they used the term psi-emissions instead so that players wouldn't confuse it with the 'chernobyl' radiation i guess, but sometimes they forgot and translated it as psi-radiation.
Let's scan GAMMA with ALAO!
>>560207056
Anyone knows how to reduce the insane aimpunch or whatever it's called in AMK 1.4? It's a bit funny at first but when a stray pellet from a bandit hits and Strelok does his impression of a windsock (sometimes clipping the camera into walls) for the 13th time it starts growing annoying.
>>560224676People really don't understand that GAMMA is just a modpack a mediocre French coder put together. Grok doesn't actually make anything beyond simple scripts. Everything in GAMMA that was a texture, animation, gun, AI overhaul, weather, all of it, was made by someone else. His jenga code is only good enough to keep it from crashing on boot and that's good enough for him.
>>559900363>kinooooo
>>560124352What mod is this
>>559691813Fuckin rookies always think they're gonna be Rambo, like Skyrim civvies.
>>560243356i love his ballistics mod that constantly loops all the time even when no one is being shot
>>560244589Vector of Alienation. I'm currently getting buttfucked by a scripted emission that kills me instantly where ever I hide. This truly is premium buildo jank.
Zone Symbiosis (Emergent trading Mod) (Dialogue flavor Mod)>npcs remember shared events (combat, injuries, mutants, surges etc)>memories drive contextual dialogue and trade offers>npcs with such dialogue and trade offer will approach player>talk to him to see what he has to say about his recent encounters and what he wants to tradefor example, after an npc kills a flesh and loots it, he might want to offer you the flesh hide for some food. or maybe a stalker recently looted a lot of ammo, but he needs some glue for his gun. https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/1479872221865312276/1479872373493858477/Zone_Symbiosis_v1.0.zip?ex=69b5870c&is=69b4358c&hm=dbe204a051e12d7d98ef729086d839a05985e2fb4f215a8c884e1745ed257107&
>>560254327Is this a part of that A-life addon for Anomaly?
>>560254734nope, this is separate
>>560254839Is it for Anomaly? If so, I might have to pick it up again some day.
>>560255273for anomalyworks with A-life mods like AlifePlus. i tested it only on GAMMA so far but it should work on anything Anomaly 1.5.3
https://www.reddit.com/r/stalker/comments/1rsybjv/the_secret_world_ive_learned/
So, I don't know how the fuck you're supposed to survive that emission, cause I looked up a Youtube video of some dude doing a playthrough and he too could not hide from the emission. Maybe that was a feature of buildo at some point? He could survive by using medkits but I'm playing on master so the fucking emission just nukes me immediately.Whatever the case, I maxed out my radiation and telepathic immunities in the actor.ltx and survived the emission. Even with my radiation immunity maxed out I STILL took a hit.
>>560256254The zone wants everyone dead
>>560133328I love those pda messages so much bros
>>560254195Thanks
Remind me, buildo never had an Agroprom Underground, correct?
>>560260575ahh the memorieshttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xd1LstoEm8U
>>560260575Buildo had agroprom underground as part of the same map.
>>560261097I'd shit myself if I encountered something like that in the underground.
>>560261097Holy fuckin based
>>559547178fuck off holden, i didnt like you in facepunch forums, and i dont like you here either
>>560276572Is this ZONA?
>>560282774unfortunately, this is GAMMA
ran symbiosis and did jupiter underground mission, rogue got shot, but we got through it fine. talked to him and he said he was out of bandages because of the gun fight and will offer me ammo in exchange for some. quite a simple mod but nice to have for adding some depth to talking to npcs without using AI stuff
>>560254195which version of VOA exactly? I recall there being a few different onesI may have it and might be able to edit the script so you don't die.
