⭐┃trilogy-general

[indigo ore]

Man, translating this game is a b/tch

Every time something breaks you have to delete file by file and run the game hundreds of times to troubleshoot stuff...

[indigo ore]

Whatever GSC did with vanilla after releasing the EE's, they kinda broke translations - or at least thats what I can figure....

Ol backups of my shit I have which worked before, now crash the game, exact same error as above

Thank you, GSC....................................

[torpid rapids]

wtf is this mission in CS, I have to go to some old factory in yantar to fix 2 valves with a squad, but in this stupid factory there are zombies and I just keep dying idk why

its not even telling why, I just get chunks of damage till im dead, no madness, radiation, shots, or open wounds

critical psi-emission maybe, but 5 seconds ago it didnt just instantly killed me

[verbal tartan]

1. do you have smth to protect you from the psi emission? I dont remember well but I think you need a device from sakharov
2. you need to just go into the factory with everyonez and when you jump out the wall, you go straight into the stairs from the building in front of you to go to the roof and snipe from there. Are you doing that?

[torpid rapids]

1. No I dont, he didnt give me anything to get protection from psi

2. my current task is to give them cover

[verbal tartan]

1. sorry, maybe you didnt need it, I think because there is a period where the emission isn't so dangerous
2. but where are you rn? In which place

[torpid rapids]

almost at the entry of the factory, I was on a roof to give them cover, and now have to move to next roof to give cover, when I try going up the roof I take chunks of damage until I die

[verbal tartan]

At which roof are you trying to go

Well, if someone could help this person, appreciated hehe, more info in #📸┃trilogy-screenshots

[karmic horizon]

This is the oldest recorded Winter Mod from 2007:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ssrQzQvCe0U

[sterile sedge]

Should I buy the enhanced edition trilogy on xbox series X or just play the games i own on ps4(its on sale and I didn't play much on ps4)

[verbal tartan]

By "play the games I own", you mean the original trilogy? Or just games in general

[sterile sedge]

Original trilogy yea

[verbal tartan]

Continue playing those

The upgrade is very much not worth it

[sterile sedge]

Ive heard mixed things about it lol

[verbal tartan]

Very mixed things, yeah. Its just isnt in that good state of being "enhanced" and paying extra for it

[sterile sedge]

Hmmm

[verbal tartan]

Imo just play the original games

[sterile sedge]

Im playing through 2 now but def wanna go back and play the first 3

[verbal tartan]

You arent missing out anything anyway

[sterile sedge]

Is it still censored on the ps4 edition?

[verbal tartan]

That I cant say (cause I dont know), maybe ask in #legends-of-the-zone

[sterile sedge]

OK will do thanks

[late condor]

He’s playing console edition which isn’t og

[frosty radish]

Play the og ones

[sterile sedge]

ps4 still is. its censored or was i read they were gonna patch thst stuff back in? it doesnt have the visual upgrade

i noticed everything looks super bright like it kinda changes the tone

[late condor]

the visual upgrade is pretty minor, best seen if you start comapring screenshots side by side, though in cop its more noticeable

PS4 edition was already censored, EE just stayed the same

they added back one most noticeable censored thing but the rest is as on release

[cold musk]

seem like the dev nerf'd the artifact availability in clear sky, usually i see them scatter across the land. Currently only have one that was a reward from loner faction and i have yet taking the effort to find them, maybe until i meet the duty faction

[verbal tartan]

Well I meant to say the non enhanced editions, which are just better than the enhanced right?

Or well, at least I thought they were

[sterile sedge]

a lot of people seem to agree. i wonder if its just nostalgia or what. i dont care about the censorship i just want the best experience.

[verbal tartan]

Well, at least on pc, the EE are worse in terms of adding new bugs that weren't even there. They are also much heavier in terms of performance and many textures, if not all, are AI upscaled, some with horrible quality

So the visual upgrade only really comes with new graphical features, which aren't even that important in the first place

[late condor]

Most of this discussion doesn’t apply to you as a good half of EE downgrades are on PS4 console version too.

OG which is uncensored and less buggy is the PC version, console port is already a severe downgrade

[late condor]

Sure you don’t get the terrible hud and AI crap, but every other issue plagues both

[grizzled rock]

gordonsf has been warned

Reason: Bad word usage

[verbal tartan]

Ah, shit

Ok so, now that I think about it, its even a worse excuse for EE

They released the console versions, they knew it had many more bugs and yet instead of trying to fix them, they just went graphical

Which was obvious since the release on pc, but I didnt know that these problems were from LotZ

[indigo ore]

@karmic horizon Do you know anyone who's done translation for SoC that I can ask for help?

P.S. Nevermind, found out whats hap'nin. One of the files had wrong encoding... Had to run the game at least 120 times in the span of 2 days to find out its bad encoding.

[late condor]

Most bugs were reported day 1 of console release lol

And then stayed unfixed for EE

[verbal tartan]

Gotta love it, right?

[grizzled rock]

krezzin has been warned

Reason: Bad word usage

[indigo ore]

Can you like burn in hell, @grizzled rock... SCRAM!

https://tenor.com/view/dave-chappelle-haters-club-bad-things-gif-8241805

[cold musk]

anyone know which path on CS-1 body armor should i go for upgrade wise ?

[graceful horizon]

Depends on your preference

[karmic horizon]

Always 60 BP in Clear Sky.

[karmic horizon]

Why are you not playing Stalker 2 after getting the PC upgrade?

[verbal tartan]

Krezzin, are you tweaking?

[cold musk]

desperate for money to upgrade my cs-1 body armour, i decided to do the military outpost raid, nett alot of money from selling the ak and an-94

and decided to use one for myself

not sure what artifact i should use in early game, as radiation stop me from looing for them

[late condor]

Until you find a anti radiation artifact to counter balance it you won’t be able to use them effectively

So do yourself a favour and sell it to Sid for some cash :))

[cold musk]

aye will do

[indigo ore]

I have been planning to finish this project for the past 10 years...

[karmic horizon]

Giving the medkit to Tolik?

[indigo ore]

Tolik can save himself, I am not giving him my crackkit

[karmic horizon]

That's a good plan. Just stay in the Rookie Village for another 10 years.

[indigo ore]

No I'm finishing this bad boy in 26

[graceful horizon]

Cmon, last minute 25 speedrun

[cold musk]

PoV: you are Call of Duty World At War (veteran difficulty) and you are competing for "worst grenade spam competition" and your opponent is Stalker Clear Sky

[restive bluff]

yo,wheres the stalker 2 specific channel?im not seein it.

[verbal tartan]

#☢┃stalker-general #⭐┃nospoilers_general #s2-lore-discussions #❔┃seeking-for-advice

[dull snow]

hey if i wanna jump into stalker with the trilogy, should i use mods or try them raw

[verbal tartan]

Imo, try them raw

If you think they have something too egregious, then try a mod

[cold musk]

so far from what i observe, are you playing in console ? EE. On PC, mods

[verbal tartan]

I have played them in 2021, no real issues

[dull snow]

how's the modding process look like?

[verbal tartan]

Pc or console?

[dull snow]

pc

[cold musk]

the steps may look scary, but there are plenty of 2025 guide will guide you through it

[verbal tartan]

Most of the time is a drag and drop, if you are playing the og versions

If not, they specify

[light shuttle]

depends on which sense and what type of mod

[cold musk]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7cnFwXMYK-0
Follow this if you want them to be as close as the vanilla

[verbal tartan]

Those mods still change some stuff for no reason

But yeah, its mostly vanilla

[dull snow]

well i guess i'll have to try them raw first to see what i wanna change
i'm just conflicted because first impressions are the most impactful to me so if i don't like vanilla i'd lose out on the first-time experience after modding it

[verbal tartan]

Do you hate bugs that much?

[dull snow]

i sure hope not, i'm pretty sure i'd feel them

[verbal tartan]

Use these then

I havent had big bugs in my vanilla playthroughs, but

I've seen egregious shit happening. Barely, but they did

[dull snow]

i was making a joke about how i hope there aren't any bugs on me since you made a typo xd

[cold musk]

so far, on my desktop at least, SoC, even with ZRP, still CTD, though mostly happen at cordon, especially when exchange inventory between me and dead body

[verbal tartan]

Yeah my b lol

[cold musk]

haven't experience any ctd yet in clear sky

[dull snow]

do these apply to the enhanced version?

[verbal tartan]

Yeah thats kind of common, but avoidable

[verbal tartan]

Only og versions, which are the best

EE is far from enhanced

[dull snow]

is that the opinion of the majority? 😅

[verbal tartan]

Yes

[dull snow]

i'll get the og ones then

[verbal tartan]

Look steam reviews, even the good ones are mixed, or say that mods are better

[dull snow]

and it looks like the og versions aren't on steam since they were replaced by EE

[verbal tartan]

You get them with EE, its included

[dull snow]

oh interesting

[verbal tartan]

Yeah for some reason its not mentioned on the store page, but its mentioned on steam forums

Confusing as hell for no reason

[cold musk]

damn, wouldn't that make people mad at them as they assume they took away the og ?

[verbal tartan]

Thats exactly what happened

But they've said many times that you get the originals, on every forum or page.
Except on the store page, where people buy the game and look at it for the first time, its frankly really silly

[cold musk]

https://steamcommunity.com/app/2427420/discussions/0/838345984787359836/

[dull snow]

so what should i do for a vanilla+ experience? aside from bug fixing and graphic mods is there anything i can add to enhance the gameplay a bit

[verbal tartan]

Maybe animations or smth?
I would go vanilla and judge on your own (for how good or bad you think it is)

But you have stuff like FWR if you like.
For graphics, absolute nature and structure

[dull snow]

so ZRP is recommended and anything else is preference?

[verbal tartan]

Basically

ZRP is still preference, but some people really hate bugs, so ZRP may fix those

[dull snow]

alright i'll try that out then

[dull snow]

i would assume so

[verbal tartan]

Hope you enjoy your journey
For any question, feel free to ask

[dull snow]

i'll try to go all the way up to gamma and stalker 2 before i'm forced to find empl*yment

[cold musk]

remember to configure your hotkeys, and your medkit and bandage by default is "[" and "]" respectively, so don't waste time open inventory and double click in panic 😛

[verbal tartan]

Just remember that gamma is a mod and not really stalker (changes the gameplay a ton) and you'll be fine

[verbal tartan]

Very pretty good and important info

[cold musk]

hell infact, i initially started with stalker zona (another mod) but i switched to the trilogy cause i get the vibe that famous mods like anomaly, gamma and zona are for people who have played the game and knew what to do

[verbal tartan]

Yeah, imo, all those mods are meant to be played after stalker. It's like watching a different version of El Camino without having watched Breaking Bad

It's just not the same experience and you'll barely understand anything

Although if you really love those mods and just want to play them, do for sure, don't handicap your enjoyment

[dull snow]

i almost forgot, what graphic/texture mod should i get

oh i'm blind it's already been said

i found the modpack called memories of the zone is it peak or nah

[verbal tartan]

I've only heard positive things about it, yeah.
I personally still like to go vanilla, but if you really just want those graphical and sound changes, its a nice way to go

Just remember, theres nothing really like it for CS and CoP, there will be more than just different graphics/artstyle

[dull snow]

well the audio language defaults to russian and i can't find an option to change it, or have subtitles, and my russian is pretty rusty, what should i do?

[verbal tartan]

Is it only audio? Text is still english?

[dull snow]

all text in english but characters speak in russian, and there are no subtitles

[verbal tartan]

https://youtu.be/vFiaC-Cams8?si=qkIVJOc7WIERbAbZ

6:46, this might help

If this doesnt work, don't really worry, theres not super hyper mega important audio (except in cutscenes, but you have yt videos for that). The most important thing to keep you progressing is on the pda

Maybe Mole's dialogue before you go to certain underground place, you can also google that

[dull snow]

well, i'm sure the dialogue that does have text will help me get some of my russian back

[cold musk]

i entered garbage, while bandits extorted all my money from me (luckily only over 1k) they allowed me to walk to do my main quest. After finished the main quest at freedom, I returned to garbage to get trapped as usual. With me haven't aggro every bandit yet, i managed to find my stuff, while killed those 2 clowns. Now I am ready to clean the garbage, that will be tomorrow

[near steppe]

just finished stalker clear sky and bruh strelok got stuck in the air https://streamable.com/a3ebwc

[verbal tartan]

[fair estuary]

the cover art for cop goes so hard, especially with the statue of prometheus at the center

[grizzled rock]

laivex has been warned

Reason: Bad word usage

[rocky hawk]

I finally completed Stalker Shadow Of Chernobyl, next game is clear sky right?

[terse vortex]

Any have faction selecter mod for soc?

[cold musk]

yup

[dim condor]

Does the gunslinger mod have modified damage?

[verbal tartan]

I think it does

[dim condor]

Like, more damage, and rebalanced damage?

[verbal tartan]

Actually, from what I understand, rebalanced damage, not exactly just more damage

Burers and controllers are a good example of this

[dim condor]

So it's not really realistic?

And i can repair my items right in the gunslinger mod?

[verbal tartan]

https://youtu.be/ZBQvIYbFDTA?si=IJ9MNDHbyi17E9U5

Maybe just check this

If it convinces you, go for it

[dim condor]

But this is not for stalker call of pripyat?

[cold musk]

after i joined the loner and wiped off those bandits, i was again given a seva suit for free, but I haven't swap it out yet as i am planning to get the bulat armour from the duty guys, when will I ready to switch out my clear sky armour ?

[dim condor]

https://youtu.be/oeuAVwXWIjs?si=WrtVod7W6OQftizo
And i'm watching this video to how to download the gunslinger mod.

[graceful horizon]

Clear sky armour(the good one) is a good contender for best all round suit in the game, so if you like you can keep it

I'm a big fan of the SEVA, because 5 artifact slots is supremely broken. But statwise I can't argue with the heavy CS armour

[verbal tartan]

That is for CoP

[frosty radish]

I actually don’t like the seva in CS, it was good in SoC (stalker suit -> seva -> bulat) but in CS it’s just bad, I can’t remember which armour I eventually settled for, it might have been the bulat because only a couple of artefacts are actually good in CS, I’d need to load the game again

[verbal tartan]

I went to endgame with seva, so I think its great

The artifact slots carries it a ton

[rocky hawk]

Just started playing it
Damn this is a weird ass game

[cold musk]

heh it kinda is, think of it as the dev started to experiemnt more

[rocky hawk]

yeah it seems, bleeding hurts like a bitch, knife is viable but at the same time has a bad hitbox, finally it seems that the backpack isnt a pain

friendly grenades seems that are gonna be annoying tho

[cold musk]

imo their bullet spread is questionable at best, thank god for that alternative ballistic in srp

[rocky hawk]

It feels like they gave us some things but took others

[cold musk]

i am kinda understand the decision the dev rework their artifacts, infact in SoC, the artifacts can be found in middle of the road lmao

at least with the game makes me look for them in anomaly, i cna prepare myself for call of pripyat once i am done with CS

[rocky hawk]

Yeah in SOC you could find like 6 different artifacts if you walked a bit

it was nice if you wanted to sell things

[cold musk]

especially in garbage, hillarious come to think about it

[rocky hawk]

Also how good/bad its the english dub?

[cold musk]

can't comment on this, as I just take the dub as it is, got used to russian accent english on other game like men of war

[frosty radish]

I liked the effects of artefacts in SoC, they just made sense, moonlights being electrical and giving endurance, thorn causing bleeding but reducing rads etc

[cold musk]

Come to think of it, yeah. In clear sky they kinda got nerf'd, along with the armour stats

[cold musk]

i am ready to head to the red forest, and i still haven't make up my mind on joining duty
however i can now buy that bulat suit from that prof at yantar, yet i can get duty's variant for free but i need to attack freedom's base at dark valley, else i have to buy it

[graceful horizon]

Clear sky artifacts are in at least some cases more powerful than their SoC counterparts

[dawn tide]

Was that one bugged gun quest near the start of SOC fixed for the console ports?

[late condor]

doesnt ring a bell

[verbal tartan]

What gun quest?

[sterile sedge]

do you think theyll ever release gamma on console?

[verbal tartan]

No

[light shuttle]

No, but judging by their actions GSC is the type of company that would bring gamba to Switch 2 just because is popular

[verbal tartan]

Come on, not that much

They've added it only on GoG, not even steam, and I doubt they'll do it

[near steppe]

Gonna start playing CoP for the first time what mods should I download other than PRP

[verbal tartan]

Maybe just grab the IX-Ray engine. I dont think it changes many things (other than graphics of course)

And it looks beautiful of course. And I dont think you need PRP for it (CoP its pretty bug free tbh)

[near steppe]

https://www.moddb.com/mods/ix-ray-platform/downloads/ix-ray-platform-131-player-game-build
this is it right?

[verbal tartan]

Yep

[near steppe]

will it conflict with PRP since I already installed it

[verbal tartan]

Try it ig, maybe it does. If you have trouble, just delete everything (or just the folders you've changed) and verify game files

[near steppe]

ok thanks

[rocky hawk]

Whats yall favorite stalker in the trilogy?

[verbal tartan]

Game or npc?
By game is SoC no doubt
By npc, maybe nimble, bro has gone through it all, its to be studied

[rocky hawk]

Game, I just finished SOC and im playing CS

Im really liking both

[verbal tartan]

I like SoC and CS a lot, but SoC is just the all rounder. It stands out to me. Maybe it doesnt have the best of 1 area, but its consistent and solid in all areas

CS stands out because of A-Life and the progression (maybe graphics too), CoP because of the side quests, but SoC has almsot everything right

Maybe not gunplay, but even then, its ok

I've seen much worse in the same genre

[rocky hawk]

the only complains I had with Shadow Of Chernobyl is that going through the map was slow

and that most guns sucked (specially pistols) and the knife sucked too

[verbal tartan]

Thats kind of the point of stalker: its a journey. Both the book and the movie make that clear, and the game embraces that. It even lets you go fast with artifacts if you want, although later in the game but still

[verbal tartan]

The knife is actually op iirc.
But yeah, pistols suck

But since the mp5 and onwards, it ranges from "ok" to "really good"

[rocky hawk]

The weight of the inventory also becomes very annoying for most of the game (Im still sad that not even the Exo-skeleton could help on that)

[verbal tartan]

Well, yeah, its an inventory-limited game. Its part of the design and I think it fits

In fact, you can go less than 50kg in the whole game and you wouldnt be handicapped, I think its pretty balanced

[rocky hawk]

I used it a lot and even if it was the last option (the only one if theres an enemy in your face and you are reloading or the weapon got stuck)

[verbal tartan]

And even then, you have artifacts.
Although CS and CoP have some that tackle that

[rocky hawk]

It was a cool gamble but it was weak and not really good to use

[rocky hawk]

I like that I can use the knife more on Clear Sky (sad that its hitbox its a bit janky

[verbal tartan]

Maybe Im priviliged
Although I didnt use the knife much

Well, dont expect anything for the knife in CoP, sucks ass

[rocky hawk]

Funny enough Ive killed more combat capable enemies with it than in SOC 😭

[verbal tartan]

Huh

[rocky hawk]

Movement in Clear Sky its less of a problem (from what I played) and it has more damage

[verbal tartan]

Yeah its gameplay loop feels much nicer

[rocky hawk]

yep

[verbal tartan]

And its got more feedback in enemy's damage

[rocky hawk]

I didnt used the bolts that much but heck some how it feels worse trying to use them in CS tho

[verbal tartan]

And the bullet tracers

[rocky hawk]

I dont like the revamped bleed and radiation tho

most menus and UIs are a hit or a miss

[verbal tartan]

Bleed is ok, you actually get a lot of bandages, specially in stashes and boxes that you can break

But its a bit of a turn off coming from soc, yeah

[rocky hawk]

I see

[rocky hawk]

I still dont like the menus tho

they are less intuitive and some changes are just weird

[verbal tartan]

Happens

[rocky hawk]

Switching sides of the NPC and the protagonist when you're selling something is genuinely evil 😭

[verbal tartan]

Yeah that was kinda stupid lol

[torpid rapids]

Is there anyway to turn on third person in SoC

[late condor]

In console bind cam_3 kF3

Then press F3

[light shuttle]

Clear Sky 4ever

[cold musk]

speaking of clear sky, i finished it just now

now, onward to call of duty pripyat

[verbal tartan]

Call of Pee

[cold musk]

so...CoP is what the anomaly mod based on ?

[verbal tartan]

No, Anomaly is based on Last Day, which is based on Call of Misery, which is based on Call of Chernobyl and Misery, both being CoP mods

[cold musk]

i see

[verbal tartan]

Anomaly was pretty late to the mod party

[cold musk]

interesting

Shame can't finish CoP before clock strike 12 tomorrow, but at least I finished 2 stalkers in this month

[broken lotus]

https://youtube.com/shorts/50lrzTsPa5Y?si=0J5vC9RyU8ruCSLX

[verbal tartan]

You've at least finished peak, so be happy for it

[cold musk]

Ayy thanks

[verbal tartan]

[cold musk]

So i can finally wield more than just pistol+primary in CoP?

[late condor]

Yeah

[cold musk]

Cool, about time as well

[ancient lion]

Guys is the rpg useful in COP? I found it in jupiter in that weapon room and its kinda heavy idk if i wanna keep it

[worldly torrent]

in SoC im in the X16 just got the docs, HOW THE HELL DO I LEAVE

wait no, im in the lab in the dark valley

[granite jungle]

The way you came in once you have everything

[worldly torrent]

i had to kill fireball thing

[verbal tartan]

Epic

[cold musk]

Now kill your way out

[torpid rapids]

Thx u sir

[cold musk]

Booted up CoP to test the performance, maybe i didn't pay attention to previous 2, i just notice hotkeys for switching to 3rd person

[late condor]

There aren’t any by default as you have to enable them through console, but they could be provided by a mod you played

[cold musk]

Oh yeah, could be the stability mod i used

[late condor]

What stability mod lmao CoP is as stable as they come

[tender oak]

i wanted to ask why are the cutscenes so laggy in the enhanced edition but i guess ill just play the og trilogy, wanted to play the enhanced ones for the achievements

[verbal tartan]

I think the game just told you to play the better version

[tender oak]

maybe

[late condor]

It’s a bug that only happens with some people

For me the cutscenes are fine but I’ve heard dozens saying they are laggy and/or have no sound

[cold musk]

the cutscene in the og being so pixelated that you can count the squares, otherwise it's fine

[verbal tartan]

It adds to the immersion

[late condor]

2024 console releases (LOTZ) had cutscenes that look better than both OG and EE

[copper ore]

Heyy, Im playing CoP, I got taken to the army base and I have to do an ambush, can I leave My stuff in the personal box and come back later for it?

[leaden zodiac]

epic glitch; in a room where only two burers are meant to exist - the game spawned 3

after glitching to make them all invincible

[leaden zodiac]

i gave up, 5-6 tries and they literally would not die

[light shuttle]

Yeah, somehow mataboo managed to make the LoTZ cinematics to look worse in 4K

[verbal tartan]

In pripyat? Yeah, you can

[worldly torrent]

I think ima be able to beat SoC today

[late condor]

Are you playing with mods? Eg gunslinger

[leaden zodiac]

nope, completley raw

[leaden zodiac]

any tips for killing burers...

[verbal tartan]

Have an under barrel granade launcher and many granades for it

And just stay behind a corner and lean and shoot little by little

[leaden zodiac]

nah bro i am deep inside of x8 and i have 3 grenades.

and i have.. three burers to kill, in one room

[verbal tartan]

Which weapons do you have

[leaden zodiac]

vs vintar, ak

akm*

[verbal tartan]

Yeah, just stay behind a corner, lean, shoot a bit, go back

And just repeat

[leaden zodiac]

i have tried.

it really does not work for some reason, i run out of bullets even as i wait for them to put down their sheilds

[verbal tartan]

How many bullets in total

Unless they are bugged, which I heavily doubt, they are killablez just tough

[leaden zodiac]

im lowering the difficulty i cannot do this hah..

[verbal tartan]

I remember having more than 200 bullets and killed them

[verbal tartan]

In which difficulty were you on?

[leaden zodiac]

mastuh

[verbal tartan]

Why 💀 💀 💀

[leaden zodiac]

doing a master run of the triology

[verbal tartan]

Ah

[leaden zodiac]

and uh,,, over 100 bullets from the akm shoved in and like 50 from the vs, vs most headshots, not dead.

i had a burere earlier and it died way easier

these MUST be glitched, and i need to get that document they are gaurding.

[verbal tartan]

Maybe just spawn a granade launcher and call it over

But I do think you have very few bullets

I always try to have 300 minimum overall

[leaden zodiac]

?

[verbal tartan]

Yeah, just say f*ck it and spawn a granade launcher

[leaden zodiac]

idk how ehheh, no mods, no cheats, just raw pain

[verbal tartan]

Well maybe do try to best it vanilla, but just google it, Im sure console commands have a way to spawn them (or I think so)

[leaden zodiac]

three grenades in. still standing on rookie... i genuinely think these are glithced.

[verbal tartan]

Granades like, throwables?

Or from the granade launcher on your weapon?

[leaden zodiac]

ill search on how to hack in grenade launchers,,, or do you know

[verbal tartan]

No idea

But just in case, if you mean granades as in throwable ones, those dont work, they'll just push them away

[leaden zodiac]

i almost want to try chargig through three burers to grab the papers but i die every try

cant

[verbal tartan]

What if you spam medikits and speed cans

[leaden zodiac]

if i read the wiki correctly i can go back into the lab and get the files

but idk if i have any grenade launchers in storage... BUT I DO HAVE A GAUSS

[verbal tartan]

Then use it

[leaden zodiac]

WAIT THIS MIGHT WORK

I DID IT

OH MY MONOLITH..

[grizzled rock]

Onward warriors of the Monolith, avenge your fallen brothers, blessed as they are in their eternal union with the Monolith.
Bring death to those who spurned the holy power of the Monolith.

[leaden zodiac]

wait i still have papers left in the lab... and i dont know where else there is to explore

uh oh... snorks

wait i think i got all the documents, is not a controller meant to spawn

[verbal tartan]

You'll see

[leaden zodiac]

ONE LEFT

gulp

i got it...i hate fighting controllers especially when i dont know where they are

a burer knocked away my vs and i dont know wehere or when

[verbal tartan]

You'll have to go back to the room to get it

[leaden zodiac]

i got it back just as the clock struck

2026, playinng stalker in my least favourite part

[grizzled rock]

preacher_degtyarev has been warned

Reason: Bad word usage

[leaden zodiac]

wait i forgot a document how the

[verbal tartan]

Happens. X8 is a bit confusing

[leaden zodiac]

i didnt forget a document... i think the game forgot to spawn the controller

wait what one is missing from my inventory

... i was missing it before and it spawned the controller, i miss it now and it dont spawn

i think i have played so much i forgot how to function

almost done...

YES YES YES I LEFT

[verbal tartan]

[bronze orchid]

guys, what was the name of the anomaly shown on the cover of clear sky?

[light shuttle]

which cover?

[bronze orchid]

the game cover

the big one in the distance theres an anomaly

[light shuttle]

That is Generators

Generators appear on two promotional images of Clear Sky, because was planned to appear on a non-canon sequence for graphical test of the engine

[bronze orchid]

ahhh crap i forgot, thank you
i remember now

yeah the expedition

[late condor]

What

This was an early intro bud what graphical test

[cold musk]

Started CoP today, i remember why i stopped a few hours into the game, i felt lost wandering around after arriving at the broken ship quarter.
Feels weird as bandits outside remain neutral as i pass them by.
Also, the side missions given by vendors and those star logo repeatable?

[verbal tartan]

I hope my memory isn't butchering things, but I think most (if not all) side missions are unique and non-repeateable

It's the main thing that characterizes call of pripyat apart from the rest

[cold musk]

That's nice, maybe it's not for everyone as i like to clear almost everyone's personal quest before moving on

[frosty radish]

I played CoP the same way, I arrive at an area, do every single side quest and move onto the main story bit in that part

[balmy spade]

Got CoP as my first ever Stalker game today

[verbal tartan]

Do you have soc and cs too or only cop?

[balmy spade]

Only cop

[verbal tartan]

Fair.
Hope you enjoy it

[balmy spade]

I have been!

[ornate rain]

Didn't Lebedev hire nimble to try and stop them

[karmic horizon]

Not exactly. Lebedev told Scar that Clear Sky would then go take care of Fang and Ghost.
That means ALL of Clear Sky got the message from Lebedev, throughout the Zone to get them.
Since Nimble was one of the few left behind at the Clear Sky base, and not involved with the bulk
of Clear Sky going to Limasnk/CNPP and dying, Nimble was merely a survivor of that mass message.

[ornate rain]

ah, ok i was trying to refresh my memory about the lore

i just remember the PDA in stalker 2 at clear sky base regarding nimble having to take someone out

[karmic horizon]

Just because Nimble left behind his PDA doesn't mean he was the only single person asked to go after Fang and Ghost.
That would be ridiculous to ask only one person, who was the farthest away at the Clear Sky base, to try to stop Fang and Ghost.
He wasn't even known to be a great fighter, let alone an adept sniper or assassin. Nimble was too far south to even be able to stop them.

[ornate rain]

Thats true

[brisk minnow]

Guys when I reached dr Hermann last developments mission and after I give him the docs and black's pda there is no update on my screen and even no update on my pda map. Plus after collecting a stash inside Jupiter plant it still remains on the map plus helicopter 4 is still on the pda main quest after checking it out. I don't want to uninstall the game or doing a new game again because I have 2.7 millions. I really need help

[cold musk]

solved the bloodsucker issue, ||TREMOR WHY ?!?!?!?!!||

[late condor]

That’s S2 lore which has little to do with CS

[late condor]

And yet S2 did that. It’s a personal message, not a broadcast. And this may be lost in translation, but original texts use singular “you” further proving it’s referring to nimble only.

[late condor]

Send a save file pls

[upper river]

I just started CoP enhanced a few days ago and the map feels so small. But I only played stalker 2 prior to this so. But yeah is this the entire map in CoP that I can see on my PDA from the very start?? It is so tiny..

[frosty radish]

stalker soc definitely feels the largest, but heads up you should play SoC first as some story stuff from there comes up in CoP

[upper river]

I already am liking CoP more than s2 tbh. But yeah the map really bugs me honestly. I can run across the entire thing in such little time. A blessing & a curse i guess. I like games to last me 100+ hours or 500+ really

But yeah I am too broke currently to buy all three games I could only afford CoP enhanced for now. I plan to get the rest at some point, but i also plan to try GOG one click mods for Anamoly & GAMMA too which is why I got CoP

[light shuttle]

Clear Sky has the best global map.

[light shuttle]

GSC planned add more levels to "CoP" initially, like Red Forest, Dead City and Army Warehouses but the thingi don't happened.
The map "feels tiny" because everything it's around pripyat, yes, is a shame that CoP don't had more maps

[upper river]

I never even made it to Pripyat in S2 before they removed it from game pass. So this map is mostly new to me at least i think lol

[late condor]

Cop wouldn’t have more maps because secrets of the zone would

[light shuttle]

Also, other poor thingi about CoP maps is that most of it just are swampy areas, don't has the variety of CS.

[frosty radish]

Don’t play enhances my man

Do yourself a favour and play the original version if you have it, the enhancement is a downgrade

[cold musk]

collect rewards from Bread after siding with them and ambush sultan's posse. Given 2 secret stashes to collect.
one of the stashes i sought got vintar BC
let's go.

[upper river]

How? Visually it looks very good imo

And i love the binoculars mechanic how it pings enemies. But yeah I have standard edition original & enhanced edition both. I just feel like original will look a lot worse. Idk maybe not

Like stalker 2 map, visuals with CoP mechanics

I am going to try the one click mods on gog when I get home from work. I think i will try gamma, also have Anamoly

[verbal tartan]

Im pretty experienced with the original, and I can 100% tell you, they look almost the same, albeit even a bit worse because of the AI upscaling of the textures. Maybe the grass render distance is higher, and thats about it. The game looks old because it is old, this was just an AI coat of paint

[grizzled rock]

Touch the grass yourself.

[verbal tartan]

Either way, the "enhancements" that EE bring are very few, and it comes with many bugs too. So, judge for yourself

Even if you think they look outdated, you can kind of throw the "absolute nature" and "absolute structures" addons to SoC, use IX-Ray with CoP and use CS vanilla (it's graphically the best out of the 3 so it doesn't really need anything) and it's basically the graphical enhancement you are looking for

CoP will look pretty different of course as IX-Ray is very modern, but I'm sure you can find addons that just increase grass rendering distance, which is the game's biggest problem in terms of graphics

[grizzled rock]

Touch the grass yourself.

[verbal tartan]

Also, the binocular mechanic where it "pings" other people it's there since the original SoC, unless you are talking about another mechanic I'm not aware of

[upper river]

Yeah, I'm probably never, ever gonna play The Originals unless it's the enhanced version

[verbal tartan]

[frosty radish]

Well it introduces new bugs and censors the game. Plus the change in appearance between standard and enhanced isn’t that much

[ripe spire]

Guys

[plush adder]

Hey guys, I have a question about STALKER Gamma, when you are dissassembling things there is a way to prioritize a certain part, does anyone know which key you press to do that?

[verbal tartan]

Better ask in the Gamma discord, barely anyone plays it here

[plush adder]

Ah alright, I couldn't find a gamma discord

[verbal tartan]

Google "stalker gamma discord"

It was my first result

[late condor]

cringe

[upper river]

[brisk minnow]

thank you so much for help bro
my file was corrupted so i had to load an early saved game

[brisk minnow]

i had to give hermann the docs as soon as possible

[sterile sedge]

Have almost finished 2 but I'm jumping into SoC

Was stalker the first game to have a lean mechanic?

[verbal tartan]

No, I remember games like Deus Ex having it

And I'm convinced it wasn't the first one either

[sterile sedge]

Hmm never played that

[verbal tartan]

Play it one day if you want, I really like it

[cold musk]

the very first call of duty have it

and i am not sure about medal of honor

[sterile sedge]

Ps4 version of soc keeps freezing for a second when I shoot people is that normal on that version? Its really annoying

[sterile sedge]

Im redownloading now hope it fixes it. It was an old download from before the "upgrade"

Should've bought on series X when I had money but here we are

[mint sandal]

hey guys, i just started playing stalker soc with zrp (having the time of my life with aimbot zombies) should i get any more mods? Ofc i want to keep it vannila

[cold musk]

i think zrp is overall enough

https://www.moddb.com/games/stalker/addons/absolute-nature-texture-pack1

use this if you want an improved texture but personally I can't see the difference

[late condor]

if you want to keep it vanilla i'd recommend against running zrp

[mint sandal]

i mean i heard it just fixes bugs and crashes but if you know more i would like to know

[late condor]

It is very liberal in its definition of a bug and does a lot of changes that it thinks are QoL improvements but are actually very controversial.

[verbal tartan]

Surdno has called out zrp for making many changes that are unnecessary (and it's true, idk why it was made that way). Same happens with srp. Imo, playing fully fully vanilla is enough, I beated the game 3 times that way and no issue. I would only recommend using zrp and srp if you really truly absolutely hate bugs

Game isn't a bug fest but I wont lie and say its bugless. However, the few gamebreaking bugs that it has aren't common

[torpid rapids]

Heyy

[verbal tartan]

Now, tbh, you wont miss anything super mega important if you run zrp, so dont feel like missing a main story plot or anything

[torpid rapids]

Couldn't you just say hello instead of reacting 🙂

[verbal tartan]

True haha

Hi, hows it going

[torpid rapids]

It's going....nvm what about yo🙄u

[verbal tartan]

Its ok hehe
Feeling good, playing a soc mod rn, it's really fun. It's called Zero Investment

[torpid rapids]

Heinn?

Is it a game?

[verbal tartan]

No, its a Shadow of Chernobyl mod. Completely changes the game to make it a meme mod, but its really fun

[mint sandal]

got it thanks!! Btw i could never finnish this game 3 times, the mutants scare the sh## out of me

[verbal tartan]

Its spooky sometimes 👻
Just remember they arent real

[mint sandal]

:)))

[granite jungle]

They are nothing some well placed buckshot cannot solve

[frosty radish]

What does SRP change?

I thought SRP was solely bugs

[verbal tartan]

I dont have every single change in my memory, maybe later.
But I do remember some balance changes that were unnecessarily made

Like, the creators took some liberties, more than just "bug fixing"

[frosty radish]

I’m just wondering if my experience was altered that’s all

[verbal tartan]

The bleeding system I remember it was changed a bit, or the ability to bandage the bleeding

[verbal tartan]

Not by a long shot, but its modified

[frosty radish]

I mean, I was bleeding out constantly in CS

But I hear that’s normal

[verbal tartan]

Zrp for example changes a dialogue iirc, I think the boxes of 1000 ammo is off in garbage (I think)

[verbal tartan]

Yeah, you do with srp too, but I think they made it easier. Its cool? Sure, but its a change that makes the game not the exact same

[frosty radish]

I suppose so, well. Thank you for helping

[late condor]

Restores some cut content and changes FW logic

[dull snow]

i ditched memories of the zone in favor of SoC Complete modern and i'm having a great time

i do however, have a severe hoarding problem
i want to sell everything remotely valuable and sidorovitch being the only guy with infinite money is making it difficult

[frosty radish]

What cut content came back?

[late condor]

7.62 7N11 ammo type which was meant to be removed is brought back in SRP

And limansk electrocution cutscene

[frosty radish]

Oh that’s not change changing I guess

[rare flint]

Anyone down to play some Call of Pripyat co-op later?

[cold musk]

Need help in call of pripyat, doing a fetch for a guy at the science bunker in Jupiter. Which anomalies at zaton do they spawn meat chunk and kolobok?

[verbal tartan]

Meat Chunk can be found in chemical anomaly fields; and the Swamp and the Caves under the burnt farmstead, both in Zaton

Kolobok may be found in chemical anomaly fields; the Oakpine anomaly in Zaton, you can found one at the top of the tree (as outlined in Joker's PDA); and its also sold by Beard after completing the Compass mission

This is according to the wiki and what I can remember

[cold musk]

Ah cool, thanks

[cold musk]

strange it refuses to spawn after every emission, is it because i have an existing kolobok ?

[verbal tartan]

Might be?

[cold musk]

yeah i might as well give it away to him

also checking off my list, the only side quest left in zaton is to get one more tool at pripyat, now i can focus on jupiter

[frosty radish]

I think artefact respawning is only a chance, so sleep for like a week to have plenty of emissions to roll the dice and respawn them

[cold musk]

Hmm maybe, oh well, i decided to give away my existing one

[noble flax]

is there a way to change factions on clear sky without mods?

[frosty radish]

Once you join a faction you can’t leave them

[noble flax]

Alr thanks bro🙌

[frosty radish]

You can live without joining any faction tbh, I personally joined the stalkers, but it might be a good idea to not join any faction

[noble flax]

i was thinking about freedom tho

[frosty radish]

I do think though that if you’re a part of the stalkers you can leave and join freedom or duty, as that’s a separate conflict, not sure though. I think the option was there for me

[noble flax]

ye cuz i was thinking about joining freedom just for the exoskeleton then just join loners

[verbal tartan]

You can't switch factions? Thought you could

SRP feature maybe?

[noble flax]

whats that tho

[verbal tartan]

A CS mod

[noble flax]

cant do mods mate,console

[verbal tartan]

Nvm, you can switch, I read the messages wrong

[late condor]

Yes you can go Bandits<->Freedom<->Loners<->Duty

You can never leave a faction though, only switch to a different one

[late condor]

You can do all 4 faction wars in one play through if you want lol

[frosty radish]

Really? I thought it would be impossible because the bandits are hostile once you join the stalkers

[late condor]

So you join freedom and banding are no longer hostile

Just need to be smart about losing relationship points

[frosty radish]

A lot of management is needed then

[late condor]

Not a lot, if you start off at max rep, you can kill about 200 npcs before you irreparably make them hostile

For bandits it’s considerably less, iirc 40 is enough

So best start with bandit faction war if you are going that path

[noble flax]

ye man thats what i was reffering to

thanks tho

[graceful horizon]

You can win faction wars and gain their rewards by only making 1 kill

[frosty radish]

The ai is actually pretty good at winning on their own. Too bad you don’t permanently win, I had completely destroyed the bandits but somehow they returned all the time to retake places

[graceful horizon]

You can have the depot occupied by stalkers to prevent the bandits from respawning

It just takes some knowhow and a bit of luck

[late condor]

Just standing near enemy respawn point until your faction does all the work? lol

[graceful horizon]

Yes^^

[cold musk]

so like a primach standing there menacingly to aura farm

[graceful horizon]

Generous description of being in coma/sulking in the warp, but yes

[worldly torrent]

I didn’t even join a faction in CS 😔

[verbal tartan]

Its honestly better that way. You dont get the constant call for help

You only lost the discounts, which can be worked around by grinding a bit

[worldly torrent]

exactly. I just did a bit of artifact hunting to work up to a good suit of armor and a relatively good gun then went and beat the game

[graceful horizon]

There's some stuff you'll lose out in if you don't engage in faction wars

Early GP37 and bulldog, freedom exo

And getting normal exoskeleton without joining a faction is somewhere in a range between more difficult and impossible, don't quite recall which

[cold musk]

i did it, i finished call of pripyat............now what

[verbal tartan]

Nice
Now, you can either replay the games with a mod that paints them, or play mods that completely changes stuff

I can recommend mods like AMK, Spatial Anomaly, Vector of Alienation (then OLR 2.5), Return to the Zone (then Goldsphere (although Goldsphere goes first but its more rough than RttZ))

[cold musk]

i have stalker anomaly+zona setup, i wonder what quest does the mod follow

[verbal tartan]

Its a very watered down version of SoC story, with CS and CoP plot points put into it

[cold musk]

i see

[verbal tartan]

Its mostly focused on gameplay rather than story, you don't play anomaly for the plot tbh

[cold musk]

hmmm i think i will be fooling around with anomaly+zona before trying out others, and next nons talker game i am focusing on is metro exodus

[verbal tartan]

Good luck!

[late condor]

Stalker mobile of course

The best entry of the franchise

[verbal tartan]

https://alex1197.itch.io/pito

Picnic in the Oblivion.........

[cold musk]

are these some sort of single story campaign ?

[verbal tartan]

All of those are, except for AMK, which is mostly gameplay changes to SoC

Vector of Alienation is OLR with amazing writing but much less gameplay elements, thats why I recommend it before OLR, personally

[cold musk]

i need to screenshot your post, so i can try them one by one

and thanks for recommendation

[verbal tartan]

No problem, I have much more to recommend even, stalker modding scene is varied

[cold musk]

nice

[verbal tartan]

Theres even a mod where you fight furries and cruelty squad military, amogus burers, drink femboy milk and your fast travel guide is ryan gosling

Contrary to what it may seem, its actually a great mod

[cold musk]

cruelty squad
damn that game really have divisive opinions, i am ashame to say I find the graphic nauseating and not touching it

[verbal tartan]

Happens. Its a very weird and specific taste

[cold musk]

very niche

can't believe civvie11 able to stomach it and finished it, he finds it overall positive

[verbal tartan]

Sometimes, a game just clicks

Happened to me with stalker, but with my 2nd attempt, I first thought it was kinda trash

[cold musk]

i made a mistake of playing call of pripyat first, after i reached the steel ship and i was lost, and quited the game since

[novel musk]

Is this from zi?

[verbal tartan]

Yep

[novel musk]

Nice

Got to play it soon

And the first 3 parts of the adventure series

[verbal tartan]

I heavily recommend it, its just fun memes that dont really get old, every map has something kinda unique and its gunplay is like borderlands (guns got tier, and you get a lot of unique artifacts and armor amd hats with abilities)

Even has New Game+

I feel like only 2 maps disapoint, and they are not even bad (haven't finished it yet)

[novel musk]

I'm playing ogsr and I'll probably play it after I finish this mod

[dull snow]

how simple is the gun hierarchy in SoC? like should i just stop using 9mm primary weapons when i get 5.45mm? (like the MP5 vs AKS)

[dull snow]

i'm going to need the name of that mod good sir

[late condor]

Zero Investment

It’s like a trash mod but with ridiculously a lot of effort put into it

[dull snow]

high effort jokes are always great

[late condor]

There is a general progression but sometimes it comes down to personal preference, I usually use my Viper-5 through entire Agroprom Underground thanks to the 9x19 cache on Garbage

[dull snow]

i'm playing the SoC complete mod, idk if the balance is any different but i struggled with taking down the military in agroprom until i switched from my MP5 to my AKS and then to my AK47

[late condor]

The balance is different, idk about complete much but it changes a ton of stuff

Terrible choice for a first playthrough ngl

[dull snow]

idk memories of the zone didn't feel right

[late condor]

Vanilla is good dude

MotZ at least tries to keep the gameplay even though I don’t like where it takes the game stylistically

[dull snow]

i'm not old enough to appreciate the graphics and animations of those days 😭

[late condor]

Complete is just ass I thought the community unanimously agreed it’s a terrible choice

[dull snow]

damn i messed up gotta go bald

[verbal tartan]

I was 18 when I played soc my first time, 2021, didnt look bad tbh

In fact, the game still looks pretty. At most, you can use a mod like absolute structures/nature to improve it a bit without being super drastic

At least I remember it not being drastic

I also know a modpack that makes the game more vanilla friendly, stylistically, if you want

[dull snow]

well i'm the kinda person who prefers his first experience to be as good as possible
even if pure vanilla is good i'd rather go with something that's considered better

[verbal tartan]

Its like MotZ, but imo better

[dull snow]

i'm hearing good things about the weapon reanimation modpack, thoughts?

[verbal tartan]

FWR?

[dull snow]

SWR i think

[verbal tartan]

It's a good one yeah

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1hlTI1LSwJ2zcNm1n0WAZqaKq18QZw29P/view
This is the modpack I was talking about, includes SWR

[dull snow]

https://www.moddb.com/mods/stalker-weapon-reanimation-modpack
this is what i just watched a video of (i hope i'm allowed to post links)

[verbal tartan]

You are allowed, yeah

Also, that changes much more than just weapon animations. Has the Garbage location from CS instead of SoC, AI modifications, sounds, prefilled stashes

Just so you know

[dull snow]

if it makes the game better while keeping the same story i'm down

[verbal tartan]

I liked it, idk

Idk if it makes it better, but I liked it

[dull snow]

i shall heed the words of the veteran

[dull snow]

what does this have besides SWR btw?

[verbal tartan]

There should be a readme.txt within it, has the whole mod list

If it doesnt, ping me and I'll post it

[dull snow]

ok i'll check it out ^-^

do the military guys in Agroprom 2 tap you in vanilla too? i struggled with getting the documents there

[verbal tartan]

Depends your difficulty setting and armor

If you are on master/veteran, maybe, but idk why would you play on master your first playthrough

Also, depends if they headshot you

[dull snow]

it would seem they have incredible accuracy
i was on stalker difficulty

[verbal tartan]

If you played a mod, maybe they indeed gave them more accuracy

You would have to look at the mod changelog or files to know

In vanilla, its hit or miss, sometimes they feel like stormtroopers, sometimes they are John Wick

Just like you, the player

[dull snow]

the readme got me pretty interested, so i'll try it

[light shuttle]

has much changes to the text?

[verbal tartan]

Sorry what?

[light shuttle]

I mean, if has much changes and addition to the text of the game or not?, i know that has additions.
There other maps replaced by the CS ones?

[verbal tartan]

Of SWR? That I wouldnt know, I havent played that specific version.
I know Shen's modpack (the one I sent) does retranslate most of the text in the game to match the later games and sound more natural in English.

For the CS thing, it has:
"MapFix - adds clouded levels from Clear Sky to the world map for immersion and reference - fixed textures for certain levels like Dark Valley, Radar, and Pripyat"

[dull snow]

btw does shen's modpack work with the GOG version?

[verbal tartan]

The modpack is standalone btw

[dull snow]

oh my bad

[verbal tartan]

Actually, check the readme, maybe he made it not standalone

But I dont think so

[dull snow]

yea no it very much is

[verbal tartan]

Nice

Surdno is probably having a stroke of this mod talk in trilogy general

Tbh, it is called "general"

Maybe lets move it to #🔩┃trilogy_modifications next time

[dull snow]

speaking of which i heard "legends of the zone" is kind of the name for the entire trilogy?
what's the legends-of-the-zone channel for then?

[verbal tartan]

#legends-of-the-zone

Its uh, for the console version

Theres the original trilogy, "OG", legends of the zone, the console port, and Enhanced Edition or "EE", which is based on LotZ, made for both consoles and pc

[dull snow]

ah i see

@verbal tartan this modpack already looks better, what's that number in the minimap tho?

[verbal tartan]

Glad you like it, I thought it looked awesome.
The number is not there, at the bottom right?

[dull snow]

no it's in the top left with the minimap, its blinking sometimes and i'm not sure if it's something bad or good

[verbal tartan]

Could you send pic in #📸┃trilogy-screenshots

[dull snow]

wow i feel silly for picking soc complete, Shen's modpack is leagues better

[verbal tartan]

Thats what I was saying!1!1!1!1!1!

Glad you are enjoying it

I will forever prefer people play vanilla over mods so they get a good vision about the game. But well, I understand some people just won't do that and prefer mods

[dull snow]

my logic is that i don't wanna play vanilla first and then have modded not interest me that much because i've already played the game

[verbal tartan]

I think you'll have the opposite tho. Modding, in general, is to expand the game in every way. By playing modded first, you'll probably not play vanilla ever. Even if you do, you'll dislike it (probably)

Of course do what you want, its your time, enjoyment and decision. At least you are playing a decent pack in your first playthrough and not Complete

[fierce quartz]

Mod corrects ballistic data: 7.62x39 -> 5.45x39 -> 9x19. Vanilla balance has MP5 stronger than AK, which is more like gaming fantasy. Using higher caliber weapons against armored enemies is intended behavior, might pickup AP rounds as well

[late condor]

But is it better though

[lilac blaze]

So question. I just left zaton are their any good traders in jupiter or is it best to head back to the skadovsk to trade?

Mainly trying to get a better suit

[thorn jay]

As there is no channel for stalker clear sky, what is the fix for the known bug that crashes the game after being robbed in the basement for fang.

Please @ me if someone replies

[late condor]

https://github.com/Decane/SRP-Lite/commit/44c0df34a3cb708fa19f99e0c069bdc8ebc169a1

all.spawn edit not required really

And you need to load a save before entering the flea market

[pale nebula]

Hawaiian.

Also Bonesetter for medkits and other chemical stuff.

[grizzled rock]

attackgod has been warned

Reason: Bad word usage

[thorn jay]

Aight thanks

[dull snow]

@verbal tartan hey Gordon sorry for the ping, just need something cleared up for me..
does the damage stat on a weapon account for the ammo type? i'm trying to figure out what's the more powerful pistol between the HPSS-1m (9mm) or the Kora-919 (.45 ACP)
.45 ACP seems like a higher end ammo type compared to 9mm (just from the price and the fact that get 9x19mm way before 45 acp) but the HPSS has a higher damage stat than the Kora, which confuses me

in hindsight the ping probably wasn't necessary, i'm sure there's plenty who know the answer to this 😅

[verbal tartan]

The damage stat and the ammo type are 2 different stuff, even more considering that most ammor has a "heavier" version that does more damage

Now, which one does more damage in practice? That I can't say. I'm just guessing the higher caliber does more damage because, well, higher caliber, so it will end up doing more damage because of the damage multiplier

[verbal tartan]

The answer might be the same, but the HPSS is actually a cut weapon
Probably the ZRP addon restores it

[dull snow]

so the damage stat is more useful when comparing weapons of the same caliber, with the HPSS being the strongest in the 9mm group, but not actually doing more damage than a 45 ACP

that.. makes a lot of sense, i'm not sure why i couldn't figure that out myself lmao

[verbal tartan]

You said it perfectly

[verbal tartan]

Well, it is a bit confusing considering it how other games handle it. But this method makes sense, just requires you to think

[dull snow]

well thanks for helping me out yet again ^-^

[twilit lake]

So a chimera spawned and just messed with me before saying "okay thnx bye", this just happened on CoP lol

All it did was make me bleed severely and it was like bye

[verbal tartan]

Such is life in the zone

[twilit lake]

Indeed

I ran into two stalkers chilling next to a poltergeist

Since when did zombies wear exo armor

[verbal tartan]

Since exo people got brainwashed

[twilit lake]

[graceful horizon]

Since SoC

Or since CS if you want to go with chronological order

[raven umbra]

Unreleased episodes of Jackass feature Monolithians strapping these to zombies as part of a dare.

[frosty radish]

At the iron forest anomaly? I found they always do that too

[cold musk]

4 pair of of steel balls, it puzzle me that they dare to sit there for R&R

[noble flax]

is there an lockout zone where i cant go back and like freeroam in Clear sky

[graceful horizon]

Once you enter limansk you're past the point of no return

[late condor]

In OG you can use bugs to return after that though

[graceful horizon]

oh?

like

jumping though the roof at the tunnel and finding a portal or something?

[noble flax]

ye thats what i was thinking at first i wasnt sure tho

[late condor]

No, using load command while a level changer ui window is open

[cold musk]

@verbal tartan tbh, i dunno where to start on experience the story mod campaign, so i am planning to try out some well known mods for SoC, then move on to CS and CoP respectively what do you think of autumn aurora 2 ? Also I am planning to "downgrade" from Stalker Zona to WIP, cause imo, when zona dev recently introduced not only new wild life update but able to farm their meat for food, I feel like it lost that stalker charm and veer more towards survival like gamma and such, i quickly lost interest then.

[light shuttle]

Prosectors Project is a great reinvention of SoC

[verbal tartan]

Prosectors as mentioned seems great and it has hands down the best AI you could find in a mod. Although be aware, it's difficult.

I honestly don't know much about autumn aurora 2, although most of the criticism I heard is positive.

Are you looking for more vanilla centered mods (keep the story but adds some stuff) or different stories?

If you want it more vanilla focused, you could try AMK, or even Autumn Aurora + AMK (theres a mod that merges them both)

There's also Assembly by Sam, heard very good things about that

For CS, I could probably recommend Sky Renewal Mod (there aren't many vanilla+ mods for CS) and probably Clear Sky Revision, which isn't super vanilla as it restores cut content, but hey, it's a good CS mod from what I heard, which is rare

I would, unironically, try SRP but mostly for one of the addons it contains: no enemies nor allies dots on the PDA.
Tbh, it was a bit bs considering the spawn system of CS and how the game was develop (at least it was for me), but if you want to experience something harder that "rewards" cautious play, that could be for you

For story mods, I'd recommend all the mods I sent you before.
Maybe even check at this list, it's big and has good info: (the ones in yellow are pretty good, but that doesn't mean you shouldn't check out the rest) https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/u/2/d/1GgBFCRIbc7TQ5DwWHvWaridX1G64PYoWItkLyr3pBPk/edit#gid=0

[cold musk]

Come to think of it, i wonder by vanilla they means the story never change under new mod ? During my first playthrough those better weapon like svd, as val and vintorez are kinda locked behind near end game or point of no return, which i feel sad cause i can only use them for a while compare to other at the early of middle of the game.

I think I want to explore other or new stories beside replaying the trilogy story again, after some thought

[verbal tartan]

In general, the story never changes, yeah. Some may add some dialogues, some may adds whole new quests, some may only add sidequests. It varies from mod to mod

[verbal tartan]

Maybe try the ones I sent then!
I recommend Spatial Anomaly as a first try, very well made and it reminded me of my vanilla playthrough.
Its for CoP tho

If you want more lenient to SoC, theres Old Restoration which beings back the story of the concepts. Or OLR 2.5 which is more about being buildo (old concepts, story and gameplay wise). Or OLR: VoA which centers heavily on story, not much on gameplay

[cold musk]

very well, gonna give spatial anomaly a go this weekend, as my metro exodus playthrough is almost at the end

[heady spindle]

I forgot where is the spoiler channel

[verbal tartan]

Spoiler or no spoiler?

[heady spindle]

Spoiler

[verbal tartan]

#☢┃stalker-general technically is

[heady spindle]

All series

:scarsmile

[cold musk]

so far i only see a no spoiler channel for stalker 2, maybe the og trilogy is considered as "luke i am your father" level of spoiler at this point, but then, better be cautious

[heady spindle]

Well there is #s2-lore-discussions

[heady spindle]

Not a spoiler but probably but just a lore question

Cause it might have something special and spooky

[cold musk]

ah cool

@verbal tartan i bookmarked that c-con excel list, thanks for the recommendation. What do you think of that IWP mod that based on call of chernobyl ?

[verbal tartan]

I never tried it but I only heard good things of it, has a nice following. Maybe try the CotZ version, as CotZ is considered to have better/more enjoyable quests than CoC (which is pretty old at this point)

[cold musk]

noted

[verbal tartan]

Oh, be aware tho, afaik CotZ is a bit more unstable than CoC (crashes). But well, it is what it is

[cold musk]

yeah it's kinda unfinished due to the creator's tragic fate

[dull snow]

damn SoC is fed up with me i think
for some reason the road right past the garbage is blocked by the mysterious wall that makes your game crash

[verbal tartan]

Could you send the crash log? Its on the game files, appdata, oogs, xray_name.log

[dull snow]

yea i've read the crash log.. i can never decipher these things
send it here?

[verbal tartan]

Yeah

[dull snow]

oh i can't upload files oops

[verbal tartan]

Maybe in #📸┃trilogy-screenshots

Or just send the last part of the log, its where the crash report is

[dull snow]

as long as the mods are asleep

[verbal tartan]

Not like you'll send 4 malwares and 6 crypto minera

[dull snow]

if all you need is the part where the crash happens that's easy

[error]Expression : assertion failed
[error]Function : xrServer::Process_event_ownership
[error]File : D:\a\OGSR_Engine_private\OGSR_Engine_private\ogsr_engine\xrGame\xrServer_process_event_ownership.cpp
[error]Line : 27
[error]Description : e_parent

something tells me that a file that has something to do with a process event ownership is the culprit

oh, you probably need the actual meat of the crash that goes after this right?

[verbal tartan]

Not really

[verbal tartan]

From what I could find on reddit: "That says the problem is the Rulix AI weapon manager. The solution for now is to turn it off for now (Modifier > Experimental_AI.cfg > Rulix - NPC Weapon Manager, select "Disable ..." and click Apply)."

Go to gamedata folder, the modifies should be there

[dull snow]

hm, i have a slight suspicion that this has something to do with the sniper obokan i got from killing the neutral loner sidorovitch told me to

[dull snow]

what effect will this have?

[verbal tartan]

Click the 'npc weapon manager' or hover the mouse over it

It should say what it enables

If you dont understand, send pic in #📸┃trilogy-screenshots

[dull snow]

i don't think what i'm looking for is in the gamedata folder

[verbal tartan]

Send me a pic

Even on dms if you want

[dull snow]

i did this 👍

[frosty radish]

I’m done with exodus for now, ranger hardcore sucked the life out of me

[stone spear]

Playing shadow of chernobyl for the first time
That whole section going from the brain scorcher and to pripyat is extremely cool

[verbal tartan]

The atmosphere there is amazing yeah

[cold musk]

The only advice i can give is prepare to turn down the volume when you enter the nuclear plant

[slow flame]

LOUD WHOOSH IDI KA MNE

[cold musk]

@verbal tartan i think i am stuck due to the the bug in spatial anomaly story mod. I was in a mission to infiltrate monolith, and i have my monolith uniform on, but they attack me when i enter their area.

[verbal tartan]

Honestly no idea, its been a while since I played it. Maybe search yt guides, forums, smth like that. Or reload a previous save just in case

[cold musk]

I think it's a bug, I have to reload from an auto save, sigh there goes my progress

[verbal tartan]

Happens...

But hey, I think you got one of the least buggy mods out there hehehe

[verbal tartan]

Maybe the best advice I can give you is to always try to hard save, so things like this don't happen or are less impactful

Maybe just save as in numbers: 1, 2, 3, all that, so you don't waste that much time hardsaving. Some mods have it as a shortcut

I know goldpshere for example, where if you press esc to go to main menu and then f8, it doesnt a quick hard save. Mainly because the ogse version has save corruption

[cold musk]

Oof, gold sphere is one of the few mods i am going to play

[verbal tartan]

Check dms for that

[rain rain]

anyone wanna play call of pripyat co op? Ive played and beaten soc, clear sky and hoc just not cop, and was looking for somebody to play with.

[late condor]

Why have your first experience ruined by xrmpe?

[rain rain]

why would it ruin my first experience?

[verbal tartan]

because it's a singleplayer game, intended and balanced as such

[late condor]

And xrmpe is not just “cop but coop”, moreso “our mod that already handles multiplayer and has its own visuals but with cop story”

[rain rain]

fair but i have played some of it before a while ago, i made it to yaniv I beleive. I know some of the major plot lines as well. I dont really mind play cop like this since its actually my least favorite stalker game from the original trilogy

[verbal tartan]

I'd say fair

[rain rain]

thank you. my favorite is actually clear sky

unmodded lol

[lilac blaze]

Hey yall is it possible to do uncle yars mission in cop without a scope?

[verbal tartan]

You probably can but it's just 20 times harder

You can try to push through buy if you can go back to a previous save and get a scope, great

[lilac blaze]

Would Hawaiian sell scopes?

[verbal tartan]

I dont remember honestly, but I think he has?

[main nimbus]

Does anyone know when the medic in Skadovsk will return in Stalker CoP? It's been 2 in-game days now and he has still not returned

If not, anyone know where I can find another Medic NPC for meds?

[verbal tartan]

He doesn't return

You'll see why. For now, your best bet is the doctor at yaniv on jupiter

[main nimbus]

Is this related to a certain mission on missing stalkers?

[verbal tartan]

Might be

Just continue the quest

[main nimbus]

If you say so

I just really need chem protection for the swamp crashed helicopter

Main quest

[verbal tartan]

I'd say either check for other stalkers/traders, or go to yaniv when possible and then come back

[main nimbus]

Just finished the quest.

Now I see

Thought my game was glitched until I explored a bit and to my shock.... The surprise happened

[main nimbus]

Got another question for Stalker Call of Pripyat:

Do anomaly fields respawn artifacts after an emission? Planning to money farm.

[light shuttle]

yes

[torpid rapids]

How to do kill the duty squad for freedom in SoC without anything terrible happen

[graceful horizon]

You can just accept the mission from freedom without consequences from duty, thay squad is considered rogue

[frosty radish]

In CoP, I believe that artefacts respawning is a percentage chance, so your best bet is to sleep for a week or so to have multiple emissions, thus respawning most of them

[faint wasp]

does the enhanced versions feel any different?

[late condor]

Yes, worse.

Tbf it’s 95% the same game so not really unless you are paying attention

Some old bugs fixed some new bugs added

Some textures upscaled to look better, some look worse

Graphics better in some areas (further LOD, higher FOV), worse in others (broken model smoothing, no MSAA)

Some new features (gamepad support) at the cost of others missing (numbered dialog choices in CoP and MP)

A few gameplay improvements at the cost of a few complete bullcrap changes

[torpid kraken]

all russian and soviet elements removed, even the cnpp sign at some point

some other gameplay things too

even some jokes

i dont like EE graphics n such

its weird

[late condor]

Not all, it’s pretty inconsistent. There is eg a huge hammer and sickle in front of Flea Market, left untouched. Or Lenin face on CoP money icon (but removed from SoC).

5.45/7.62 have red stars on inventory icons but not textures

Lots of stars in levels like on Garbage Depot gates have been left intact as well, even though they’re clearly commie stars. At the same time stuff like a star on Anarchy newspaper decal was removed

[torpid kraken]

oh well when i played it was pretty much all

[late condor]

It didn’t change since release apart from CNPP sign reversal

You were just being

[torpid kraken]

maybe

i am quite a dumb dumb

[split island]

Hello folks, I'm just trying to get into the franchise because it seems interesting, but I'm confused on how to start with Shadow of Chernobyl.
I want to have a good experience with it so I looked online on what people would recommend and boy it's a mess lol

I see a lot of people say that Radiophobia is the best SoC Mod, but the same people say that a new player shouldn't start with it. But I heavily doubt i'll play the first game more than once , unless if it's really that addicting

So should I play with it nevertheless or should I get into something simpler ?

[verbal tartan]

don't use radiophobia at all, changes way too many things, not new player friendly (and imo it's just bad)

best I can recommend you is absolute structure and absolute nature. At most, VSO

[ocean field]

dont play mods directly play the vanilla versions first

then get into mods

[split island]

I would love to, but as I said, I'd rather have my first experience be a good one, as I heavily doubt I would replay the game after beating it (I'd rather move to the next game ). I fear that if I do play pure vanilla, the bugs and performance issues would make me just want to stop the game completely instead of starting over with mods. See what I mean ?

@verbal tartan thanks for the recommendations, I'll check them out, are there any guides or resources to see how to install those mods ? I come from Skyrim modding so i'm not sure if it's the same

[ocean field]

the older games, from personal experience, encountered very little bugs

[verbal tartan]

bugs aren't that bad, theres barely any tbh. I played the game vanilla 3 times, 0 bugs. And as for performance issues, you wont get any, it's an old game.

[split island]

Oh okay

[verbal tartan]

Im sure they are just drag and drop, but read their description on moddb

[split island]

It's just that I've seen a lot of fearmongering on sites like reddit and that kind of stuff

[verbal tartan]

I mean, I won't say they are free of bugs, but you won't see gamebreaking bugs 99% of the time

[split island]

This is reassuring

[verbal tartan]

at most, you can use bug fix mods, but they are not needed either way

[late condor]

If you would like your first experience to be a good one than avoid any and all mods

[rich turtle]

Chat I need y'all's help

Y'know how in call of pripyat when you're tryna find guys to help you run around in the underground tunnels?

I asked around with the NPC's and they mention a group of monolith fighters I can get to help me

I've looked around the place they mentioned where they were at and all I could find were Zombified stalkers and a burer

Did I get trolled chat

[valid jasper]

Monolith survivors are north of container storage

[rich turtle]

Can I get all of them to help me or will they only lend 1 man

[valid jasper]

Only 1 goes with you

There’s other NPCs that can go

Tied to other side stuff

[rich turtle]

Damn

[valid jasper]

The pilot at the scientists bunker

And the guy with the debt side quest at the station

[rich turtle]

Yeah ik about the rest

I was hoping for an entire squad of monolith but ah well

[valid jasper]

Strider is the only monolithian who goes

Be prepared to save scum during the journey btw

Ideally you want to keep Strider especially alive

[rich turtle]

Nah dw I have the God of the Zone mod installed, I'll js spawn a shitload of random guys and save my teammates the trouble

[split island]

Hello again ! I'm sorry for troubling you but would it be possible to show me how to use the absolute nature/structure mods ? I've been searching a lot and couldn't find anything on how to install them, (I mainly find guides for CoP and not SoC )

(or anyone else that might know how and can help me )

[verbal tartan]

I'm pretty sure its just drag and drop on the main stalker folder

It should be only a gamedata folder, I think

[split island]

When I visit the mod creator's website, he has 4 versions of the mod, and all of them are tagged for "CoP" and not for SoC, So I was wondering if that's just a typo or if the SoC ones are not available anymore ?

[verbal tartan]

https://www.moddb.com/games/stalker/addons/absolute-nature-texture-pack1
https://www.moddb.com/games/stalker/addons/absolute-structures-texture-pack1

[split island]

Thanks a lot of your help !

[verbal tartan]

Any more inquires, feel free to ask!

[inland matrix]

Good evening, please advise if there is any possibility to change the relationship with bandits when they are fully hostile in Clear Sky? Trying to get the quests for finding weapons from bandits to complete achievement “weapons baron”

[graceful horizon]

Join freedom. Sometimes bandits will call for help when attacked by duty, despite being hostile. I can't confirm helping them will actually inprove reputation, but it's the only hypothetical way I can think of. It's also fairly rare

(If you manage to increase your reputation this way, please let me know)

If it works it should take around 6 rescue missions to have them turn back to neutral

[frosty radish]

I save scummed my way throughout so that I could keep everyone alive, if they didn’t want you do they wouldn’t give you a quick save button at the hardest difficulty option

[valid jasper]

Yeah it’s trilogy things, they do die a lot

[split island]

Hey people ! I'm having quite a bit of fun with the game so far, I do have a question , I found an artifact called a "Stone Blood" and it says +200% Health, does that means it doubles my health ?? Is there any way to see my health value as a number or not ?

[verbal tartan]

It regenerates your health

[split island]

ooooh okay, I thought it was max hp
Health Regen work in combat no ?

[verbal tartan]

It does, but 200+ is very little afair

You could get away by binding your hotkeys to medikit and bandage and regen faster, at the cost of those items of course

[split island]

I got 2 Stone Bloods and 1 Meath chunk, for a total of +800% Is that still not worth the investement ? I'm still in the early game so I haven't found any artifacts that's worth it so far

[verbal tartan]

It could if you decide to hide, swap artifacts, regen, and swap again

Just remember that you have less bullet resistance, and some others too

I remember using them a lot for my master playthrough to not waste medikits, even tho they are relatively cheap and easy to find in bodies/stashes

[late condor]

It means 0.2/sec

So you get full healthbar regenned in a little over 8 minutes

With 800% it’s a little over 2m for full health bar

But you can find artifacts that give you +600%

[torpid rapids]

Erm after i did it the quest shown unfinished eventhough i killed all the duty

And everyone in freedom dissapear

[late condor]

If you reload a save the counter will reset, you need to kill all dutiers in one go without saving and loading

[fast salmon]

so guys I wanna play CoP again (OG) Any suggestions of what mods should Use

I've played a bit of misery but I want something thats more stalker and not a simulator

idealy using AO3.1 Atmosfear 3 and absolute nature and structures

but I want a bit of extra spicy stuff

like gas mask stuff so its more immersive

[verbal tartan]

IX-Ray engine

I don't think theres "more immersive" mods tbh, which is kind of a shame. But IX-Ray is just CoP in a different engine with different graphical tweaks

if you want an even bigger graphical jump, theres "Pripyat Renewal", which is also on IX-Ray

[fast salmon]

i just started playing that before i saw this reply hahahaha

its pretty cool actually

[raw summit]

can anyone who knows anything about stalker patches help clear something up for me regarding SoC?

So around 2008, apparently a patch for SoC called v1.0006 was released, but I'm having a hard time trying to deduce what exactly is true about this patch and what isn't. Websites like TechPowerUp and other sites list the patch as seeming official, even with a changelog, but places on the internet, even PCGamingWiki for the last decade (up until recently) claim this patch to have been "recalled" by GSC due to bugs, but I cannot find literally anything on this online other than some posts on specific forum sites about this, in addition to people proclaiming that the patch itself is unofficial and not endorsed by GSC at all either.

what makes this even more confusing though, is that when you go to old archives of the GSC site that listed the patches around 2023, you can find that there was actually one more patch that was made around 2014, called the Multi-Patch that was officially endorsed by GSC, but claims to be an update for version 1.0006... but this same site has never contained a download link for version 1.0006?
at least according to archive.org, even from 2008 onwards for when this patch was supposedly released, and on top of this, even thought it claims to be a direct update to 1.0006, it still uses the same version number for the digital releases

What's going on here? Was there an unofficial 1.0006 that eventually was superseded by a legitimate one by GSC in 2014 and this was just a typo, or did GSC for some reason base this patch on this supposed unofficial/recalled patch for the mega-patch?

[languid goblet]

Patch 1.0006 was released only for the Russian version (2947ru). If you try to install it on the worldwide version, it won’t work.
Multi-patches are patches by Manowar that are aimed at small fixes, such as multiplayer tweaks or switching servers to gsc-game.com.

[languid goblet]

maybe I was wrong.
@late condor

[late condor]

1.0006 was not released as a patch during disk days but was available on steam WW

[languid goblet]

Yes, it's on Steam.
but you won't put it on the English version (disc)

well, at least I didn't succeed.

I hope the translator is normal)

[late condor]

One thing you have to understand about SoC is that it had two distinct versions - RU and WW, with different game archives encryption, different publishers and different DRM. So the patches for both editions were compiled separately, you couldn't download a worldwide patch if you had a RU edition of the game. Up until recently, even Steam had those as different region-locked releases:

https://steamdb.info/app/4830/
https://steamdb.info/app/4500/

1.0006 came out only for one of those editions, and it was this way up until 2013 when WW version finally received 1.0006: https://steamdb.info/patchnotes/109848/

is that when you go to old archives of the GSC site that listed the patches around 2023
You do not need archive.org for that, the page is still available officially, you just need to prefix it with "legacy" subdomain: https://legacy.stalker-game.com/en/?page=patches.

1.0006 was released officially on that website but for some reason not for the English speaking community. You can still see it if you switch to RU version at the bottom of the website (again, the direct link is broken, you need to add "legacy") : https://legacy.stalker-game.com/ru/?page=patches

Hilariously, the ru version of THIS PAGE doesn't list the multi patch... But if you go to SoC's website, you will see it, this time only on RU version:

https://soc.stalker-game.ru/?page=patches (lists internet cafe patch, 1.0006 and multi-patches)
https://soc.stalker-game.com/?page=patches (stops at 1.0005)

one more patch that was made around 2014, called the Multi-Patch
There have actually been two multi-patches, one released in 2014, and another released in 2017 (the latter being called Multi-Patch v2).

The first one switched the MP from GameSpy master server to GSC's one, and the latter fixed a crash when entering MP when there was a server with an invalid name in the list. The first one also claimed to have fixed VSync, but this is a lie.

it still uses the same version number for the digital releases
Because it's not a full patch, it's a quick hotfix of a security vulnerability. If I recall correctly, there was no engine recompilation for that one, it was literally a hex edit of the compiled binaries. There have actually been quite a few patches to the game that just didnt get a separate number: https://steamdb.info/app/4500/patchnotes/

[languid goblet]

👍

[raw summit]

This was exactly what I was looking for! Thank you so much 🙏 I'm going to have to do a lot of updates for PCGW to accomodate this information, never knew there was a second multipatch either

Is there anything that you've heard about 1.0006 supposedly being "recalled"? I've seen talk about it on various forums dating back to 2008 saying that it was supposedly relinquished by GSC for "being buggy", and even PCGW has listed this for around a decade

[raw summit]

1.0006 was released officially on that website but for some reason not for the English speaking community.

Was it only released on steam for WW users?

[late condor]

First time I am hearing about this. There have been other patches that have actually been recalled, such as CS’s 1.5.06. But I don’t remember anyone saying 1.0006 was recalled.

[late condor]

I have never gotten the game on GOG so I’m unaware when/if it got it. The retail versions never had it available because disks have long stopped being produced.

[raw summit]

I think GOG actually does have that patch, albeit the V-sync was patched by GOG themselves in a similar vein to how they apply some very basic fix for ports (Saints Row 2 is capped at 30fps on GOG due to framerate bugs)

I updated the PCGW page for SoC to include that the pre-1.0007 beta branch does fix the V-sync on steam though, just for users wanting to use the game's V-sync

[daring remnant]

Hi

My question is who is most powerful character In clear sky game?

[tawdry cargo]

Scar

I guess from a lore perspective it could be a tie between Scar and Strelok

[daring remnant]

Yeah but aside from main characters we play?

[tawdry cargo]

Debatable i guess

Most powerful man in the Zone is something you dont really settle easily. All the unnamed Monolithians are contenders, so would Streloks group, higher rank Clear Sky members. For named characters , there aint too many off the top of my head that i could think of as up there

Theres also many versions of power in the Zone. Stalkers are survivors first, not soldiers. Meaning the title would probably go to a more so militarised faction member

[light shuttle]

hermit

[daring remnant]

Vasilenko?

What do you think of him?

[woven lance]

Playing Call of Pripyat with mods for the first time and using STCOP 3.7 and Gunslinger. Using exoskeleton fully upgraded and still dies to Bandit with AK74u in one shot. What's the point of armors in mods? It is better to go naked because they are useless against bullets and it changes the gameplay to a no damage speedrun.

[cold musk]

@verbal tartan after having too much fun with IWP i finally ready to dive into a second story mod: Incubator, Dreamcatcher will be next but they recently announced a remaster for Dreamcatcher. Sadly, Goldsphere have to wait.

[verbal tartan]

Thats why its better to play without mods for the first time
Not all mods are improvements

[verbal tartan]

Hey, you'll play a cool mod, thats all that matters. Btw, 2 things:

1. its a trilogy: Incubator, Dreamcatcher and Attribut
2. the remaster is out already, tell me if you want the link

[granite jungle]

incubator and dreamcatcher are pretty based

[verbal tartan]

Attribut, I heard, is Vivient's best mod. Sadly, its also their most unfinished/broken too

So that might be a problem

Ok, and the remaster removes the blue-ish/gree-ish filter that were so iconic in the original mod, but it still looks beautiful and runs like a light.
You decide which one to choose

[woven lance]

I have finished every three games in gd_master multiple times. It is just that this is the first time i played with mods.

I wanted to play the original three games with a newgame+ type of contents.

All of my friends recommended radiophobia for SHOC and Clear sky. Or in Call of Pripyat using Gunslinger or Misery.

[verbal tartan]

Aaaaaah, nvm then, must've read badly

[woven lance]

They all have the same problem, every bullet is a one-shot kill. I concluded it is useless.

[verbal tartan]

I can recommend some if you want

[woven lance]

Excellent! spill it, i will try and check yours.

[verbal tartan]

I wouldn't go with Radiophobia, but with Memories of the Zone, AMK (isn't exactly newgame+ but its cool), Assembly by Sam (heard its amazing) and a similar pack to MotZ that I really like called SoC Revisited (I only have the drive link, tell me if you want it)

For CS I'd recommend either Sky Renewal (graphics and I think weapons), Mystery (is only graphics and sounds changes), or maybe yoctosfera but idk the quality of that one.

For CoP, I'd go with Pripyat Renewal (graphics and sounds probably), with IX-Ray (graphics), Misery (makes it more difficult but seems pretty good, gameplay and graphics overhaul)

Idk if your definition of new game + is adding a ton of shit to the original or just fancy cool new stuff that gives them a new coat of paint

Also, radiophobia isnt for clear sky, if that is what you meant

[woven lance]

Ohhh, my definition is the first one you mentioned. Adding features to the Game without changing how the mission or story goes.

[verbal tartan]

Then yeah, most mods I mentioned go by that criteria

Theres also Shadows addon and SoC recession, but those do change some stuff and are more buildo-like

But they seem to have great quality. Both for SoC of course

Theres also Clesr Sky Revision/Revisited, but that one definitively changes a lot, its cut content for CS basically

[woven lance]

Assembly by SAM i instantly fell in love with! I have seen the picture of marked one's hand remade to be HD model exactly. Also it only sizes 5.6GB overall.

I will try this one first.

[cold musk]

huh, didn't know there's a third one, very well

[light shuttle]

is not the most unfinished

holy noob, Contract For a Good Life 2 is the most unfinished

[verbal tartan]

Well, their most unfinished of the trilogy, forgot to clarify that

Vivientslop have too many mods..........

[kind gulch]

question: i cant put any attachments on guns like lr-300 or the udp on call of pripyat enhanced edition
is this a bug?

[late condor]

Sounds weird. TRs-301 support SUSAT, M203 and a silencer. UDP Compact supports a silencer. Neither require upgrades.

Are you doing this when you already have a weapon in your slot? You can’t do it in backpack.

Also boooooo ee player laugh at this person boooooo

[kind gulch]

ohh gotcha

[kind gulch]

it runs well and im on a laptop ok 😭

[late condor]

OG would run even better

[kind gulch]

in my experience running stalker cop on any kind of office laptop is atrocious

i tried it years ago and it barely ran 15 fps

[late condor]

If you actually have a device on which EE runs better than OG I would be surprised, EE is well known for atrocious performance. On my high-end gaming rig I get almost 150 less FPS with same settings on EE.

Do test if you get the chance and post your results, I'm genuinely interested if that's true.

[verbal tartan]

Also, Im pretty sure you can't even downgrade to static lightning in EE, so that by itself just makes it more demanding than the OG game. Maybe your dGPU was not being used or smth

[kind gulch]

it was back in like.. 2018?

lemme check my fps

[kind gulch]

~75 average ee
no real difference on og

[late condor]

There might be specific hardware where the game gets CPU bound and not GPU bound, I wonder if EE might perform better then.

[verbal tartan]

Well thats true, but its weird still 🤔

[frosty radish]

I would hope that an enhanced version of a game is more demanding than the original tbh

[late condor]

Not when they’re running on the same settings

[frosty radish]

I think technically you might have a slight performance dip because of the new textures, but then again that would be negligible, and an enhanced version should come with optimisation so idk

[late condor]

I tested with un-upscaled textures (not that it would matter too much in a situation where there is enough VRAM but anyway).

[rough umbra]

Should I buy SoC?

[verbal tartan]

Yes

But play the original edition, not the enhanced one

[rough umbra]

Tis was the plan.
My favorite game is still Half Life 2.

Old games are better games.

[verbal tartan]

You can find some resenblance of HL2 in Stalker, I guess because of the setting and of course they took inspiration of it (which game after hl2 didnt)

||and theres Gordon Freeman npc in one map||

[rough umbra]

Theres a what now

[verbal tartan]

||theres an NPC called "Gordon Freeman" and he has a bit of backstory referencing to HL2||

[rough umbra]

Thats awesome

[verbal tartan]

Nothing important tbh, just an easter egg

[rough umbra]

Does SoC play similar to the newest Stalker 2 HoC?

[verbal tartan]

Not quite tbh

[rough umbra]

Is it still a mysterious adventure going in blind?
I started Stalker 2 with minimal knowledge of the games and it was a beautiful experience

[verbal tartan]

I mean, yes, there are similarities, but the gunplay is toned down. But you do progress a story and have a few side missions

[verbal tartan]

Oh yeah, of course. Its amazing

Tbh you lost a biiiiiit of that blind playthrough surprise because you played S2 first.
But, both games are different that its not like it matters that much

[rough umbra]

Do any of the games have you actually ||entering the CNPP||?

[verbal tartan]

The repressive but liveley atmosphere is there

[verbal tartan]

In SoC you do, yeah

Literally inside and outside of it

[rough umbra]

HELL YEAH
I was upset with Stalker 2 for that

[verbal tartan]

SoC is also my favourite, so I'd say start from that

If you want more, go to CS snd then CoP