🔩┃trilogy_modifications

[neon socket]

last time i played gunslinger there were controllers everywhere

[waxen berry]

Controllers and burers have a special place in hell

[bright wigeon]

also chimera can one hit kill you on master

[waxen berry]

Also no hud on master

[bright wigeon]

gunslinger is really a junky mod

[waxen berry]

IMMERSION LADIES AND GEMTLEMEN

[neat dune]

Lord Trashcan#9358 has been warned

Reason: Capital letters

[bright wigeon]

yeah, but cock also dont have hud so it dosent bother me

indeed i actually like no hud

[lost garden]

why does it looks like gunslinger is masochistic?

[bright wigeon]

only the mutants

[waxen berry]

Because it is

[bright wigeon]

the human enemy are just fine

[waxen berry]

It's not fun or smart difficult

It's dumb difficult

[neon socket]

actually npcs in gunslinger dont use impact nades i belive

never had them throw impacts at me

[bright wigeon]

and it not have that misery bvllsh!t

[neon socket]

i kinda liked misery + taz

[bright wigeon]

GET OUT HERE

[neon socket]

but

[neat dune]

Sylky#5506 has been warned

Reason: Capital letters

[lost garden]

trying to avoid Standalones, apart from Lost alpha. mostly because I can eat bread with animations

[neon socket]

fire anomalies were the absolute worst

[bright wigeon]

try call of chernokyl

[lost garden]

liked the can eating animations

[bright wigeon]

it got sylky npc

[lost garden]

is it a standalone or an overhhaul?

[bright wigeon]

standalone

[neon socket]

actually i should play coc

[bright wigeon]

no

cocK

call of chernokyl

[neon socket]

right

[waxen berry]

No

[neon socket]

my bad

[waxen berry]

What did you play before it?

[bright wigeon]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fg8awEappjc

play cocK

[neon socket]

first time i modded cop was i belive gunslinger

[lost garden]

ill put this off next year

which doesnt say much considering it is tommorow

Does CS and CoP also have Bread eating animation mods?

[bright wigeon]

none of them

[lost garden]

it is important that eating bread is animated

[lost garden]

thats sad

[bright wigeon]

NO

GET OUT HERE

[neat dune]

Sylky#5506 has been warned

Reason: Capital letters

[lost garden]

what are you? Duty?

Oh you are

[bright wigeon]

bc duty will save the world

Duty >>> freedomer

[lost garden]

Freedom has bread

[bright wigeon]

Duty got bread, vodka and barkeep

and a tv

whe even got zoneflix

[lost garden]

If Duty Bread proves to be better, then sure Ill go Duty

But wait... Monolith...

[bright wigeon]

duty breat comes with free butter bc im also a king on bannerlord

free butter from butterlord

[neon socket]

what is the butter made of tho

[lost garden]

Flesh

[bright wigeon]

happynes and rhodock bones

[lost garden]

i mean, its still good

unlesss you put Milk in a vortex

then who knows, might make a Butter Artifact

[bright wigeon]

no milk allowed in the zone, only vodka

[lost garden]

Then VOdka dipped bread

[neon socket]

vodka jam

[bright wigeon]

[waxen berry]

Live bolt reaction

[lost garden]

[merry forge]

was it ass

[waxen berry]

Live bear detector reaction

[bright wigeon]

sup

create quests is really hard

[merry forge]

you replied to my question without an answer

[bright wigeon]

imma go revive doctor x

[bright wigeon]

no longer sup

[merry forge]

sup

[lost garden]

[bright wigeon]

[lost garden]

right time to slog all this mods, thanks again

[bright wigeon]

good

look at my channel

you can see my cs and cop modded

cool adventures and hd models

[merry forge]

i muted the group chat

[lost garden]

HD bread

[bright wigeon]

nooooooooooo

[merry forge]

is there a new CoCk build that i can try

[pale swift]

In my opinion, yes

[merry forge]

i figured it would be. it looks like a modpack and not at all a "remaster"

[ebon tusk]

Why tho,what is soc remaster to begin with?

[bright wigeon]

3.0 is on the pinn messages bro

also i will try our first quest now

kill @neon socket the duty traitor

[neon socket]

Being the objective of a quest is a good way to be immortalized in a game tbh

Even if it's killing me lol

[bright wigeon]

you can get a quest too

like find the weed

or find a item

like the guitar that is on the merc base

i'm using the pre coc scripts witch is more easy to learn

[neon socket]

The merc suit strelok stole lol

And yea you mighthave already noticed but the dialogue about shenn's merc suit was a reference to the one in SoC

[bright wigeon]

ok, shaman got one

the reinforced merc suit

[neon socket]

Yes

[bright wigeon]

my npc doesn't want to cooperate

[merry forge]

okay cool i probably wont play it

[bright wigeon]

💀

[neon socket]

I did and it was so horrible
Almost a whole different game than stalker
Didn't have the vibes even one bit
And it is as hard as escape from pripyat except that now i realized escape from pripyat is way worse than how i imagined it would be

If only i had people to support me to make a modpack

I have a lot of ideas

[mighty granite]

Don't know what's so bad about gamme but I agree with you on efp. We need the og stalker vibes not some idiotic shi like efp gamme on the other hand is way better than efp but that's just my opinion

I just want the standard mods in a mod pack like mags redux aim tilt bas ect.

[neon socket]

Gamma is in fact better than efp
Coming from someone who played both
But the game is just as hard

[mighty granite]

True but gamma has a lot of tweakable settings like weapon condition when it's dropped by enemies ect.

Wich makes the game considerably easier if you invest a bit of time in the menus

[neon socket]

Those damn modders didn't even try to make any realistic modpacks
Just a pseudo (enter a famous survival game here
Make that 10× harder for no reason)

[mighty granite]

So fking true that's why I dislike efp so much and enjoy expedition

[neon socket]

I still get shot by 2 bullets and die while my enemies just eat my bullets at this point

[mighty granite]

I like a hard game but actually torturing me by making me invest 5 hours for a 100% condition Makarov isn't enjoyable

[ebon tusk]

https://www.moddb.com/mods/stalker-anomaly/addons/152-old-world-addon

[mighty granite]

Oh that's groks ballistics it makes bullets behave like in eft for example a shotgun can do nothing against an exo you can shoot him 500 times it won't do anything

[neon socket]

And the problem is I'm legit a very old fps games player
I used to player ever since i was barely 6 until now (about 12 years in my life) and i never seen anything that hard

[mighty granite]

You can turn it of you want to but just having a mod pack with everything pre-made like you want it is obviously better

[neon socket]

Here's the thing
I still die!

[mighty granite]

Undertale sends his regards

[neon socket]

Undertale is was easier than efp or gamma

[mighty granite]

Yeah the most dumb shi about that mod is that it only changes the damege you give out rather than receive so you just do less damage and have to consider the ammo you're shooting while anyone with a shotgun can 1 shot you while you're in an exo

Expedition is more of a casual thing Wich I don't like that much but it's cosiderably more fun than gamma or any other mod pack although I do think it's a bit too easy

A bit too casual

[bright wigeon]

@neon socket too many novices here, help me stoolker

[neon socket]

what u need?

[bright wigeon]

shoot shoot

rostok will overun

[neon socket]

overun by us or is it being overun by something else?

i said us cause i thought u were still in renegades

i just saw u r duty

[bright wigeon]

forget about it you will go be judge by not responding the duty call

[neon socket]

OOH

[bright wigeon]

[neon socket]

Sorry im half asleep

i couldn't understand sorry

[bright wigeon]

your are sentenced to watch futa furry porn

[neon socket]

Please no

[bright wigeon]

you're doomed

[rotund lichen]

Anyone on here playing SOC with Aurora 2 mod? I have an ultra wide screen, and the scopes are oval. Anyone have a recommended fix? Thanks all!

[bright wigeon]

bc the scope textures are set to a screen 16:9, you need a mod for 16:10 or set the game to 1080p

[rotund lichen]

Understood, the latter is what I figured I would ultimately have to do. I rather not mess with the mod just for scopes. Everything else is fine. Still enjoying it!

[neon socket]

Is expedition a standalone mod or a modpack

[ebon tusk]

It's a modpack

If you already are intending to play anomaly you would already have Old World so expedition and EFP would run counter to that hehehe

[neon socket]

I have anomaly

[neon socket]

For anomaly right?

[ebon tusk]

exactly

[ebon tusk]

Mmyes

[neon socket]

Захадыф

Oh manalita my beloved

[neon socket]

Will try it asap

[ebon tusk]

another one walking the dark path

[neon socket]

Have you ever had a monolith walkthrough

[grand gale]

Hi there, I was wondering if anybody knows of a good guide for optimizing the performance in Anomaly?

I have a decent enough PC but I get horrible framerate for some reason even on default graphics settings

[ruby citrus]

What are the specs?

[neon socket]

Same here actually
If someone replied to you please ping me
Also also
For what i know
Switch to dx8 and lower the grass density but dx 8 graphics are unbearably bad ngl :/

[ebon tusk]

Dx11 is quite unoptimized so the Dx9 and lower options that are rasterization heavy,including shadows and AA methods

[neon socket]

I understand the dx9 part but I don't understand what is after that

@grand gale i think he's going to help us so read this

[ebon tusk]

Lower settings related to the type of Antialiasing you use and reflections,lower density an draw distance and shadow distance and quality

[neon socket]

Those are the only things to help
There's no mod or anything like that?

[ebon tusk]

Lowering the graphical settings will of course give you better performance but those are usually the biggest culprits,try and experiment,lowering your games resolution also helps a lot if you want to keep settings like AA and shadows to a certain quality

[neon socket]

Hmmm
Noted

Thank you :)🖤

[neon socket]

hey guys i fixed up my stalker to make the nvgs look more realistic

what do you think

[ebon tusk]

looks p bad

[neon socket]

what can i do to fix it

[ebon tusk]

Wdym fix?

[neon socket]

like what can i do to make it better

[ebon tusk]

Well I'd tell you to stop making it realistic and to take the overalay out and lower yh noise and put the contract higher with green sine it's more of a contrasting colour but,you wanna be realistic

[neon socket]

thanks for the advice

[pale swift]

NVGs are green IRL

[ebon tusk]

there are various types and colours for NVGs tbh but for games we use Green bc it's the most recognizable and easiest to see colour in contrasts

https://nightflightconcepts.com/white-phosphor-night-vision-goggles/

[hidden crescent]

correct me if I'm wrong I believe there are full color spectrum NVGs as well?

or close to full color

[ebon tusk]

if there are they are VERY new,like last or 2 years ago

I dont mean CCTV NV I mean NVG tech

[neon socket]

is there anyway to add the graphic things CS did to CoP, its weird to downgrade. want to to be the vanilla experience just wondering if there's something like this

[bright wigeon]

@ebon tusk sorry bro, i did that joke i coundn't resist

[ebon tusk]

There isn't

[ebon tusk]

silky a patriot?

[bright wigeon]

its about that bad game

hunt down the freeman

[ebon tusk]

I don't know what game you talk about funny mann

[neon socket]

ah too bad, CS looked really good. im tempted to get reshade and use it for the first time

[ebon tusk]

no such thing exists

[bright wigeon]

just keep like that

[merry forge]

amazing

i like that reference

[bright wigeon]

[glossy mason]

Anomaly

heh

[neon socket]

hey do you people know any stalker mod that is just fun to play and not about story?

heh

thx

[ebon tusk]

❓

[neon socket]

is there a mod of stalker where you can play as the military?

[ebon tusk]

Sorry none come to mind

[bright wigeon]

??????

[neon socket]

Bro you can just choose the military faction

Also
@ebon tusk Thank you so so much for the recommendation of expedition
The modpack is the best one ever, better than gamma and efp, no exaggerated pseudo arma/escape from tarkov type of shit
Just pure stalker experience

[ruby citrus]

amomblay

call of call

[bright wigeon]

call of chernokyl combine edition half life footstrps sfx dlc

[ebon tusk]

never recommended expedition
the only mod for anomaly I would recommend is Old World

[neon socket]

Oh sorry i checked and it wasn't you, still thank you for recommending old world

[ebon tusk]

[neon socket]

@mighty granite that was the person that recommended expedition

Thanks a lot dude

[rigid spear]

In Clear Sky, how do I make dead bodies vanish after 4 hours instead of the default?

[opaque breach]

My mod is the best summer option for anomaly

[waxen berry]

Okay but it won't make me install anomaly again

[opaque breach]

:3

[ebon tusk]

nha Im pretty sure Old World is better just by a glance

[opaque breach]

XD

[opaque breach]

This is the most funny ive read in my life

[mellow oxide]

is there a channel here that's best for talking about Anomaly?

[ebon tusk]

there isnt

[neat dune]

Kip#5579 has been warned

Reason: Bad word usage

[ebon tusk]

[mellow oxide]

oh my

sorry

[merry forge]

get out of here stalker

[bright wigeon]

NO, GET OUT HERE STALKER

[neat dune]

Sylky#5506 has been warned

Reason: Capital letters

[ember plover]

oy where mods

looking for graphical mods for shadow of Chernobyl

[opaque breach]

Wait for soc update. Is the best

[ebon tusk]

Use Absolute Structure and Absolute Nature if this is you're first playthru

[ember plover]

Where do i get the dang mods from tho man i been looking far and wide high and low

[ruby citrus]

vasim gave up

so sad

[ebon tusk]

Moddb

I mean a first playthru should be done vanilla if possible but I can't do anything to force a person to do so
https://www.moddb.com/games/stalker/addons/absolute-structures-texture-pack1
https://www.moddb.com/games/stalker/addons/absolute-nature-texture-pack1

[neon socket]

Is there a way to play boomsticks and sharpsticks in non 16:9 screens

[ebon tusk]

Aren't there patches for each screen Res?

Ration this case

[mild terrace]

i downloaded the starter pack for soc and it runs otherwise good with no problem at all but the game crashes when i go to new area everytime

any idea how to fix it?

[mild terrace]

Nvm, i think i got it fixed by myself already

[ebon tusk]

@ionic dune I was thinking of making the monolith a ever so dwindling guerrila group tbh,since not many of them remain but they arent yet stamped out
but if I do go with XboxStalker2,I can draft up a lot of fun ideas

[neon socket]

Link please

[ebon tusk]

there arent

sorry

[neon socket]

The monolith will have a second coming

[ebon tusk]

only if I use my own headcannon

[neon socket]

Those fuckers are not even stalkers at that point they are actual anomalies

I'm not even exaggerating
If you played soc you know exactly how strong monolithians are

I still find it funny how scar survived blowouts

And literally became insane

[ebon tusk]

scar was just,built different

built stupid,built dumb

like a ogryn

[neon socket]

if you talk to one of the main characters

In anomaly

They will literally tell you that scar went insane from the antibiotics he took

[ebon tusk]

anomaly aint cannon so it's fine,its a mod,they shouldnt coform unless they wanna be seen as lore frendly which they arent

[neon socket]

Bro took the role of a merc to heart
To the point he started killing other mercs in the zone just to complete the mission and take his money

[ebon tusk]

he killed mercs from a different squad with different contracts,why shouldnt he?he was contracted by freedom to kill them,like they say,it was just bussiness

[neon socket]

And btw i deleted expedition after i found out they literally retextured every single character in the game

Yes
Every
Single
Character

Even owl turned from a middle aged bald skunk to a 20ish years old russian chad

I'm not even joking check the mod

It's ridiculous af

[ebon tusk]

im not lmao

[neon socket]

Even better
You saved a ton of time

[raven saddle]

Is there a way i can play anomaly or something close to it on my awful pc? By bad i mean GTS 250 and Quad Q6600
It can run gunslinger mod (+ its 3 addons, the food anims, something else and absolute nature 4) on minimal settings for 40-50 fps with stutters
Feel free to dm to suggest me stuff

[ebon tusk]

you should be able if you turn everything to the lowest

[raven saddle]

I seen people recommend playing it with at least an i3 and gtx 1050

But i could try tomorrow

[tawny fox]

Hi. I'm using the Sky Reclamation Project v1.1.1 mod (just now realizing I should be using v1.1.3 😒 ) and when I first installed it I had an rx 480 gpu but after getting an rtx 3060 ti the load times have drastically increased. The game is on my HDD but ive never had load issues with most games on it. Every time I load into a new area or load my save for the first time in my session it takes at least 30 seconds to load. In addition whenever I tab in or out of the game it takes a bit to get to the pause menu then when I click "Return to game" It black screens until the game loads again. I know I should be using the new version of the mod but I don't really want to restart my save because I already had to for the mod in the first place. Anyone else experience something similar?

[neon socket]

anyone ever use https://github.com/OpenXRay/xray-16 ? thinking about trying it out

download a release from the right side of the github page, not source

i may not be able to try it without starting over going to see if i can migrate my save but it seems cool, i think it'll make it look more like CS by enabling the DirectX stuff CS had

[ebon tusk]

why does SRP remove the AK?

[neon socket]

idk im not a dev lol

[ebon tusk]

this isnt a fix its clearly a personal choice wtf

this new SRP is NOT a bug fix mod

wtf

this aint even optional

yhea get 1.1.3

[neon socket]

well i just played it for 80 hours whoops but pretty sure I got the gist

wdym thats the game exe

in the game directory bruh

[ebon tusk]

what,who are you talking to

[neon socket]

im talking to acister who else

jk idk he must have left the server

[ebon tusk]

sad

[neon socket]

well he didn't know how to unzip a file or find a game directory so i think its okay

honestly how many people Ive helped in hl discord install mods as if it's hard to navigate windows file structure, its like helping my boomer dad but these people play games, i don't get it

[bright wigeon]

@ebon tusk I talked about my mod in the Brazilian community through a Brazilian YouTube channel that recently talked about stalker. But now there's a group of Brazilians in my ear asking for a translation of the mod, if only they knew that just by using a word in Russian in the game when in English mode it already makes the xray freaks out and crashes, imagine if I put all the grammar rules of Portuguese language without a new dictionary in the game, the creator of the xray will come to my house to kill me

[ebon tusk]

rip the entire Brazilian community,and you don't get the Portuguese community on your ear for another translation BC there isn't one

[neon socket]

i have installed ZRP and OGSR engine x64 for Stalker SoC 1.06 GOG - game keep crashing when i start new game ----> here the logs: https://justpaste.it/7xsz4

[lunar kettle]

It's out of place.

[ebon tusk]

I don't care about your personal feelings why was a arbitrary personal balancing decision taken on a bugfix mod?

A bugfix mod that is supposed to be as vanilla as possible mind you

[ruby citrus]

it is really not

[waxen berry]

Because the mod has garbage optimization

Either way it should run on low settings and the anomaly server has a tutorial for low end PCs

[raven saddle]

Oh can you dm me the invite for it

[wicked kernel]

... at least?

i have an rtx 3060 ti & an i5 12600 and it still struggles to run the game at a decent framerate, anomaly sucks

[raven saddle]

omw to try to run it with a GTS 250 and the bottlenecker q6600:

[mighty granite]

t think standalone

[neon socket]

How can I run Stalker Shadow of Cernobyl with OGSR-Engine mod on Linux Proton\Steam Deck? it just doesn't start at all

[ebon tusk]

I dont think OGSR has a linux compability,you'd need to run vanilla SoC with Proton,I think the proton layer has SoC compability

the only linux natively supported I think is OpenXray and all forks using it however OpenXray only stabely works with CoP and is barely functional for normal utilization for CS

[neon socket]

ogsr have cheats...

and better graphics

[ebon tusk]

SoC vanilla has cheat tables

[neon socket]

??

console commands?

i need god mode and infinite ammo

[ebon tusk]

https://fearlessrevolution.com/viewtopic.php?t=3694

[ebon tusk]

why tho

[neon socket]

no dude i need in game

[ebon tusk]

am I your mom?heres a trainer then
https://www.wemod.com/cheats/stalker-shadow-of-chernobyl-trainers

[neon socket]

I tried it and it wasn't necessarily that good...

[merry forge]

mommy vasim

[neon socket]

OGSR or ZRP for SoC?

OGSR is more recent, have better visuals and more graphics options and there are build-in cheats commands.

Why i need ZRP? can install togheter to OGSR?

[young fable]

does anyone know how to add more npc variation in stalker soc

[neon socket]

how can i combine ogsr and zrp togheter?

[ebon tusk]

are you still trying to play on the steam deck?

[neon socket]

no i mean on windows

when i put the two folder togheter, the game crashes

i need to modify text file?

[ebon tusk]

then you dont do it
OGSR already has engine fixes included

it should be relatively bug free

[neon socket]

yeah but zrp has some features like toggle head bubbling when walking

[ebon tusk]

you can modify the files and turn that off

[neon socket]

can you tell me the text line?

how it called

[ebon tusk]

https://www.reddit.com/r/stalker/comments/3ierhf/removing_or_lessening_head_bob_in_soc/

[neon socket]

yeah... i don't have \gamedata\config\effectors.ltx i think because of OGSR mod

@ebon tusk

can't find [bobbing_effector] value

[young fable]

SoC bobbing make me nausea

[ebon tusk]

try inside misc

[neon socket]

Stalker SoC: with ZRP 1.07 where i need to go for activate god mode and infinite ammo?

with OGSR i can do this simply editing text file.

[ebon tusk]

didnt I send you a trainer you could use?dont use ZRP and OGSR

[neon socket]

Steam deck doesn't allow trainer

[ebon tusk]

I thought you were going to do this for your PC

[neon socket]

Why OGSR is not recommended?

[ebon tusk]

it improves and updates graphics when it really should only just fix engine issues
anyway is this your first time playing stalker?

[ebon tusk]

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

[fleet nest]

cheers! appreciate your help man

yeah i was looking in mods, not addons, that's why i couldn't find it

[timber minnow]

Hi first playthrough. do i use the suggested addons or only ZRP ?

[ebon tusk]

For first playthroughs it's recommended to play vanilla without mods unless you're unlucky and X-ray dislikes your PC

This when talking about SoC and CoP

[timber minnow]

I am starting with SoC so i was looking and saw that ZRP offers a lot of bugfixes

[ruby citrus]

it changes the game in really unnecessary ways and vanilla SoC doesn't contain any critical bugs

the worst thing you can encounter are save corruptions, which is unlikely

[timber minnow]

Okay. What about those little graphic mods

[ruby citrus]

if you value consistent artstyle and original atomsphere just play vanilla, graphics still hold up today, especially the lightning

[timber minnow]

Yeah then i will go original

[bright wigeon]

no way, put hd models and mess up with the guns

[timber minnow]

I think i will go with vanilla but what do you guys think about changing the viewpoint so you make it a bit higher ? saw that on the subreddit

[fleet nest]

you're gonna find a lot of people here telling you to play vanilla first, but i disagree, if you value enjoyment more than authenticity to the original product get ZRP and some light mods like OWR.

[ebon tusk]

viewpoint?do you mean FOV?I wouldnt recommend changing FOV since weapons are made with the games specific FOV in mind,unless you dont feel comfortable with the current FOV dont change it

[timber minnow]

Not the fov but viewpoint of the player like its a bit lower so when you look at npc its chest level

[ebon tusk]

that is the deafult state of the camera

[timber minnow]

I mean people say ZRP changes a bit and i wont enjoy the game as it was intended. But i would love some clean looking weapons its like eye candy for me

[fleet nest]

i recommend playing modded first then vanilla, playing vanilla first is likely to deter you from playing more.

[fleet nest]

vanilla has a lot of charm but it takes some getting used to, I wouldn't recommend for new players in 2023.

[ebon tusk]

how can you show someone a game you like when you yourself are ashamed of the game itself?is my questions

[ebon tusk]

well you have your answer,I dont see how changing it even on a first playthru would substantially change the game

[fleet nest]

not ashamed, it's just not easy to get into

[ebon tusk]

so you need to purposefully dumb the game down bc you dont trust the person in front of you to know as much?sounds a bit abd to say

the game itself is fine,you dont need to dumb anything down to have a person enjoy it

which is why we recommend playing vanilla first,if ZRP was confined to only bugfixes we would recommend it but alas,it reaches beyond that

[fleet nest]

ZRP and OWR don't dumb the game down, they just update it to be more enjoyable imo

vanilla stalker needs time to grow on you, you need time to "get it" and overlook it's issues and outdated aspects, most newcomers won't have the patience and it's pointless for them to not to play a modded experience that's likely more enjoyable for them just for authenticity's sake.

[timber minnow]

The thing is i am not the kind of person who plays the game multiple times so its probably going to be once in vanilla. Unless there is mods that add new content like quests or something

[ebon tusk]

go vanilla for first time playing,unless you cant play with your pc,dont change the game irreversably

[timber minnow]

Okay thanks for all the opinion guys. I will check it out vanilla

[fleet nest]

stalker games are not games you only play once, they're too dynamic for just 1 playthrough imo

[ebon tusk]

this I dont understand,the game in its original state should be shown so you can get the clearest picture of waht youre getting,yet you yourself are ashamed of it and need to "pretefy it" bc you dont think that ppl nowadays cant stand it?I think you should have more faith in them honestly

running around with mods for repeated playthrus is the fun of it but first you need to understand where it came from
the best way to experience and fall in love with stalker itself is the original games in its original state

[fleet nest]

the only reason to play it completely unmodded is to see the game 100% as it was originally and for nostalgia's sake. Modded delivers a superior experience. Why should people's first experience be weaker just for authenticity's sake?

[ebon tusk]

so the modders version is automatically better than the original?this I find probems with

[fleet nest]

and i'm someone who hates heavily modded stalker like complete edition, but there's no reason not to play with ZRP in 2023.

[fleet nest]

yes because bugs are objectively a bad things even if they have their charm

[ebon tusk]

ZRP makes changes that reach beyond the realm of simple bugfixes and make balancing decisions like adding a repair function,this doesnt seem a lot but the decision to not have a repair function in the game is a deliberate one,its worked into the balancing of the game itself

[fleet nest]

nothing game changing though, just QOL.

[ebon tusk]

and like I said if there was a engine fix we would recommend it but alas,unless youre finding problems with your game,you dont need it

[ebon tusk]

on the contrary,like I said,for SoC its a pretty big change that irreversably changes how you play and how the games economy plays out

its not a "simple QOL" addition,its massive in actuality

[fleet nest]

we're never gonna agree lol but I get your perspective even though i really disagree. Playing vanilla is cool and delivers an worthwile experience on it's own but it's inferior to ZRP with OWR imo... and i've played vanilla for what feels like a million times back in the day.

[ebon tusk]

I don't think we should lie to new players and tell them to play something different only for them to come back and be sourly dissapoined with the games BC it's not like what they expected since it was the mods setting such expectations that the games were never out to make
All things considering,OWR3 and ZRP isn't a bad combination,and altho I wouldn't recommend it 100% to newcomers it would make a great """vanilla+""" playthru for those that already played it

[fleet nest]

I don't think we should deter new players with bugs and shit weapon animations/feel personally... and I really don't get what you mean by mods setting expectations? The mods deliver what they claim to do.

[ebon tusk]

if a person is asking to play a 2007 game I expect them to understand the quality of the animations,and while I do agree on the bugs I have yet to see a good fix all bugs mod that doesnt change something about gameplay unexpectedly
youre a pretty cool guy,at least youre better than the idiots recommending Anomaly as a entrypoint for no reason

[fleet nest]

never bothered with anomaly tbh, isn't that the mod that has no story?

[ebon tusk]

like,SRP the bugfix mod for Clear Sky makes changes such as,"remove the AK from the starting equipment because it didnt feel right" and my answer to that is ????????
WHY????I understand you may not like it but,why are you making a balancing changes in a supposed bug fix mod,its not even optional

[fleet nest]

i agree, it should be optional

[ebon tusk]

Anomaly is the Freeplay mod that is in OpenXray64,its become the new modding focus just like CoC was,Anoamly has a story,its simply one of the worst stories I have you know seen

It's a freeplay mod tho,you arent expecting a story even,but worse yet!the balancing sucks!

you have mods since you need to fix it and the developers cant fix it and balance it themseves

[fleet nest]

the aesthetics are my main gripe with it, it doesn't have the atmosphere and detail you expect from stalker

[ebon tusk]

it's freeplay,do random quests without any meaning or reason,rinse and repeat,its up to you to make the objectives
there are better freeplay mods but this mod makes anomaly actually somewhat enjoyable,it still has the same problem but at least youre having fun in your first hours
https://www.moddb.com/mods/stalker-anomaly/addons/152-old-world-addon

[ruby citrus]

screw new players

it's not dungeon crawlers on dos you can easily pick the games up

[waxen berry]

The games are hilariously easy

[ebon tusk]

I installed Legend Returns and installed the English Translation mod,and it broke up on me when I opened it the next day

explain

[ruby citrus]

tbh never played LR

[ebon tusk]

what now

[ebon tusk]

despair

[fleet nest]

still wouldn't recommend personally, the visual direction is a big part of stalker games (something stalker 2 nails in the trailers btw) and anomaly looks like a generic unity game in comparison

[ruby citrus]

for stalker in particular it doesn't even require installing a buncha fixes like other old games

[fleet nest]

it's buggy and weapon animations are doodoo

[ebon tusk]

true,it also is a big departure of the Originals games gameplay and story and lore
thus,if you want to get into stalker the best way to do so is of course playing the Stalker games

[waxen berry]

SoC is relatively bug-free

[fleet nest]

i remember it being quite buggy

[waxen berry]

Nothing game breaking, at best you'll have a funny bug here and there

[fleet nest]

but i haven't played vanilla in years

[fleet nest]

immersion breaking tho

[waxen berry]

If you care that much about immersion to the point where you won't even play a game if you encounter a 2 second visual bug, you should quit gaming

Immersion is one of the dumbest factors to use when judging a game

It has no logic behind it

[fleet nest]

immersion is very important for atmosphere to be impactful

and stalker is super atmospheric

[ruby citrus]

so subjective that i can't even

[waxen berry]

Me after surviving 20 7.62 shots and healing all the pain using a crappy 5 dollar medkits: how immersive!

Like I said, immersion is a very dumb term and vague

It's extremely subjective and has no logic behind it

[ruby citrus]

is wolf dying in a campfire counts as immersive-breaking? i would not consider so, someone else probably would
too subjective

[fleet nest]

immersive and realistic are 2 very different things

[waxen berry]

Immersion directly ties into realism

[ebon tusk]

Immersion is measured by the ammount of attention you are giving to a certain game
many players get immersed in games that arent even immersion bc immersion simply means youre giving full attention to the game and nothing else
CSGO,LoL,dont look immersive but once you consider that many ppl play them by giving their full unabated attention to them being basically consumed,being immersed,you really lose the "it needs to be realistic to be immersive" bc that doesnt matter

as long as the game is good,you like the game,and it captivates you,you will be immersed

wether or not it is realistic doesnt matter

[ruby citrus]

nice take

[ruby citrus]

not really

[waxen berry]

Facts brother, so true my friend

[ebon tusk]

and stalker,isnt realistic

[waxen berry]

Badass finishing line

[neon socket]

ZRP have some cheats like God mode?

Can i activate God mode without a trainer?

[ruby citrus]

uhhhhhhhh i think there is some launch property you can write to activate cheat console commands

but i could be misremembering

[neon socket]

@ruby citrus really? What command?

Tell me

[ruby citrus]

@cosmic wagon is this thing real or am i just making up stuff

[cosmic wagon]

What?

[neon socket]

Pleaseeere

Tell me how activate God mode with ZRP

Vanilla

Please I know you are typing!!!

[ruby citrus]

@cosmic wagon

[neon socket]

How it's possible that there isn't cheats in ZRP?!?

[ebon tusk]

bc ppl use cheat engine,and trainers

[neon socket]

Nooooo

I can't

[cosmic wagon]

I haven't seen any god modes in any trainers i've tried and there certainly isn't any god mode console command. Judging by what I found online ZRP doesn't have any similar cheats either

[neon socket]

Noooooooooo

[neat dune]

Suckushiru#4427 has been warned

Reason: Bad word usage

[ebon tusk]

god mode literaly is jujst infinite health,infinite stamina,infinite ammo
the trainer I posted has that

[ruby citrus]

i mean, builds had those godmode commands and tp in demo record, for some reason i believed that release still had that functionality and you just have to activate with a launch property command

[ebon tusk]

why do you need cheats?

[neon socket]

I will use ogsr that has integrated cheats

For fun and story

[ebon tusk]

I mean,cheating is the opposite of fun and it doesnt make much sense why you would cheat for the story?

[cosmic wagon]

Post it again. I lost it

[ebon tusk]

lower the difficulty of the game

[neon socket]

Naaaah

Please 🥺

[ebon tusk]

https://www.wemod.com/cheats/stalker-shadow-of-chernobyl-trainers

[bright wigeon]

fov ?

[ebon tusk]

no the camera position,he wanted to bring the camera position of the player to higher up to match the other stalkers,he found how himself

[bright wigeon]

but has she played the other games? otherwise I don't understand what difference it would make

[ebon tusk]

ho,I didnt look at the pfp bc Im in compact mode sorry for that
and its the camera position,it's not a big deal really

[bright wigeon]

if you hadn't told me i would never have noticed that the camera was different

I'm just like to grill and shoot things

[timber minnow]

Do you recommend doing so ?

[ebon tusk]

I neither recommend nor dissaprove of doing so
it's not a big deal
like 🤷‍♂️

[timber minnow]

Idk i am asking because some ppl recommended it on the subreddit. Thanks

[ebon tusk]

it cahnges nothing of the game,its such a miniscule thing that wether or not you do it it wont affect you really

[bright wigeon]

no way, the only thing that i recommended it is call of chernokyl after you done the vanilla games

https://youtu.be/Fg8awEappjc

[timber minnow]

ok thanks. is there any mod that adds achievements ?

[bright wigeon]

achievements? already exist in vanilla cop, but I don't know any such mod for the classics

[timber minnow]

i meant for soc

[bright wigeon]

I don't know any mod that does this in the soc

[bright wigeon]

look those new fellas @ebon tusk 😎

also my portraits and gimp habilits are cursed

[merry forge]

where am i

er

Zap

[bright wigeon]

yeah, WHERE IS ZAP ?

[merry forge]

man removed zap

[bright wigeon]

[merry forge]

you are going to die

[bright wigeon]

😎

[bronze heath]

Has anyone used this site for mostly vanilla play through for SOC https://www.metacognix.com/files/stlkrsoc/index.html would love to here some feedback before committing

[bright wigeon]

zone reclamation project ? i never heard about that

[bronze heath]

It was recommended by a YouTube user that goes by CheekiBreeki

[bright wigeon]

[bright wigeon]

mercs be like: gas masks are cool 😎

[neon socket]

Because they are

At least if you know how to make them look cool

[ruby citrus]

Is this your first playthrough?

[neon socket]

can i continue to explore free the map after the eding of SoC?

[ebon tusk]

you cant

[neon socket]

with ZRP?

[ebon tusk]

you still cant

bc that would be dumb

[neon socket]

there is an option?

[ebon tusk]

there isnt one

[ruby citrus]

vasim don't lie to them they'll find a way anyway

[ebon tusk]

[waxen berry]

Is there a way to hack anomaly to change the download file to NLC HE?

[ebon tusk]

Get the anomaly moddb account and push an "update"

[bright wigeon]

cs portraits :
monolith and freedom portraits :

[merry forge]

alright ill get his password

[bronze heath]

Yes it will be my first play through, I have never experienced the stalker series

[ruby citrus]

play pure vanilla then

[neon socket]

can i install S.T.A.L.K.E.R.: Shadow of Chernobyl unofficial patch 1.08 or keep 1.06?

[ruby citrus]

wdym

[neon socket]

???

[neon socket]

https://community.pcgamingwiki.com/files/file/503-stalker-shadow-of-chernobyl-unofficial-patch-10008/?changelog=414

[ruby citrus]

idk seems like buncha technical fixes dunno why you would want that

[cinder pollen]

Hello, this may be a stupid question (sorry if that's the case). Is jsgme safe? Could it be a virus/malware program?

[waxen berry]

It's obviously safe

Wouldn't have lasted for a long time if it wasn't

It comes with some modpacks and I personally used it in two different mods

[cinder pollen]

Alright, I'm new to modding games and such so that's why I was wondering that, thank you

[waxen berry]

What are you using it for?

[cinder pollen]

Just to install mods, like a mod manager

[waxen berry]

I meant which game?

[cinder pollen]

Stalker Anomaly

[waxen berry]

Not surprised at this point

I may or may not have had too many arguments this day so I'm not starting another one right now

Do whatever you westerners do in Anomaly, use your shiny PDA and shoot people

[cinder pollen]

Well alright

Thanks for letting me know about it being safe despite me being a pesky westerner though, I appreciate it :)

[waxen berry]

So you ARE a westerner!

Anyway

Ever played the vanilla games?

[cinder pollen]

I was looking to buy them since they were on discount but I missed my chance

I may buy them anyway though

I haven't continued my anomaly playthrough bc of that

[waxen berry]

You shouldn't start with anomaly

Too different

Not in a good way, either

[cinder pollen]

I've heard that, I'll take your word since I know very little about the matter

[bronze heath]

Do you have a suggestion on difficulty for a first play through I would like something authentic to the experience but not knuckle clenching and keyboard throwing lol

[ebon tusk]

play on the second or third,if you feel its too difficult pump it down,if you feel its too easy pump it up
you can do so in the option while youre playing the game so it's easy to modulate and find the right one for you

[bronze heath]

Thank you

[waxen berry]

Despite what the journalists and casual gamers say, Stalker is a relatively easy game

[bronze heath]

Thank you for encouraging words. The game still has its way of being challenging and I love it. I left camp and found three Military guys with nice guns and showed up red. Lol after being a murder hobo and selling the loot 20 of there friends showed up and wiped the entire camp. Reloaded and rethought my choices. Can’t wait to see what else these desolate waist lands offer 😁

[waxen berry]

If you're ever low on cash

Walk around the maps to find artifacts

Just like real life, cash fixes the majority of your physical problems in stalker

[bronze heath]

Is there a specific way to locate artifacts?

[steady musk]

mod recommendations?

[waxen berry]

Which game?

SoC is just walking around because they spawn randomly

[waxen berry]

What are you looking for?

Hardcore? Freeplay? Vanilla but enhanced? Overhauls?

[steady musk]

idk

something fun lol

free play or hard core

[waxen berry]

Hardcore, NLC Hard Edition
Freeplay, Legend Returns

[steady musk]

Thansk

[waxen berry]

Wtf goin on in Ukraine

I found three right next to each other, the fourth wasn't far away and the fifth was next to a map transition

I guess that would explain why I found almost no artifacts in the other maps

[steady musk]

what?

[waxen berry]

The artifacts in the container

[waxen berry]

Update

Stone flower, drop and spike

[dusty nacelle]

What a mod?

Nlc?

[ebon tusk]

NLC7

[dusty nacelle]

Oh

Good luck

F to your psychics

I played nlc 7 - that a hell

[waxen berry]

It's not that hard

HE 2.3 fixes a lot of the bullshitty mechanics and actually makes the game easier in some areas

As long as you're trying to do things peacefully and don't rush through the main story without finishing side quests first, you should be fine

[crimson lintel]

brooos

why is my pda aint opening

[eternal grove]

have you tried turning it off and on again?

[oblique hinge]

are you playing anomaly

[bright wigeon]

Change the batteries

[merry forge]

new pda software update bricked mine i had to buy a new one

[bright wigeon]

You need to updated your pda to the xray 12

[bronze heath]

I bought all three but I started with SOC

[lost walrus]

I try to set Anisotropic Filtering to 0 but it keeps changing to its default value (8, in my case) in Anomaly

Anyone knows how to fix this?

[bright wigeon]

Try the anomaly discord bro

[lost walrus]

Ah, ok

[jovial trench]

need someone who develops openxray i have some questions

[waxen berry]

Was it worth it, though?

[hollow totem]

Thats a heavy letter

[waxen berry]

When you kill a grunt soldier there's a small chance for them to have a letter like this

I've read one about the soldier writing a letter to his daughter

[hollow totem]

Yeah im familar with the concept, but usually they weigh 0.00KG cus paper lol

[waxen berry]

It's a good way to humanize the NPCs, especially with how the game functions. Finding peaceful solutions is usually more rewarding than outright killing people.

[waxen berry]

Nah, it weights nothing. There's a visual bug where if an item doesn't have a weight and you hover over something with a weight, the next item (the one without a weight) will take its weight value but won't actually affect it in-game

[hollow totem]

In OP2 these letters are found among Mercs, Military and Loners

[waxen berry]

Loners drop them but you don't really kill them too often, if ever

There are only a handful of mandatory fights here, the rest could be finished without resorting to violence

[hollow totem]

I love indestructible paper but 11KG id a bit too much

[bright wigeon]

No

[waxen berry]

For example, you can finish a quest for a guy in Bar so he can set up a meeting between you and Borov (bandit leader)

I thought you were making a mod?

[bright wigeon]

I do but i will not help

[hollow totem]

Thats cool cus fighting is boring anyways

Unless its mutants since encounters are sometimes interesting

[bright wigeon]

What's the problem stalker?

[hollow totem]

Last time in stason174 i got a quest to kill a loner in the bar as a merc, naturally i could just kill everyone there but i prefered stealth

[waxen berry]

I love how NLC handles mutants, they're stronger here

[hollow totem]

It was extremely difficult but on the way i learned more about the map and NPC behavior

[waxen berry]

Fun fact, there are 4-5 ways to finish the agroprom documents quest in NLC 7

Only one requires violence

[hollow totem]

As in intended?

[waxen berry]

Depends on how you look at it

1, stealth
2, violence
3, purchase the documents using vodka from a corrupt leader
4, purchase the documents but cheaper by giving the corrupt leader another document with it that can be found in agroprom underground

[bright wigeon]

They are marked with waypoints to be in a eternal loop by marked vectors and pre marked activities anim, like guard or sit. They are dumb, really dumb

[hollow totem]

Nah A-Life is trickier than you think

And it wasnt a scripted mission

[waxen berry]

Random?

[hollow totem]

So everything was improvised and unexpected

[waxen berry]

Generated?

Nice

[bright wigeon]

Also, theres a ramdom chance that they will just follow you an die, npcs are dumb bro

[waxen berry]

Pretty hard to find a quest with imsim elements like that in stalker, much less randomly generated

[bright wigeon]

I not think i saw it

[hollow totem]

Stealth works in beautiful ways in stalker, if you can manipulate it

[hollow totem]

Stason174 despite being a freeplay seems to coherently provide random but interesting encounters

[waxen berry]

Freeplay mods are bad by design

But that doesn't mean you can't find one or two good ones

[hollow totem]

For example, i had a scenario where i needed to eliminate a squad at the north of Limansk, the house that traditionally has military in it in CS got replaced by 6 sin stalkers

But heres the interesting part, sin are neutral to mutants, they shared the house with 3 bloodsuckers

[waxen berry]

Look at that BEAUTIFUL shotgun, I had to stick to my TOZ for over 15 hours

[hollow totem]

So stealth was more complicated due to how territorial mutants are

[waxen berry]

They were so strong, the bloodsuckers didn't bother testing the odds

[hollow totem]

But at the same time, mutants and NPCs have different behaviors, alerting mutants doesn't alert stalkers

So i had to make specific moves and time them to not die to the bloodsuckers and also not get spotted by the sinners, one of my proudest stealth moments

[waxen berry]

Just use a grenade

Bottom text

[hollow totem]

or anything lol, combat is too easy and unoriginal

[hollow totem]

Are there improvements to stelth or is it the classical SoC one?

[waxen berry]

Hard to tell

Stealth is difficult but not bullcrap difficult

That's how I stole the documents

[bright wigeon]

Confusing ui, i will copy that

[hollow totem]

You can make it work by going behind the base instead of coming out of the underground

[waxen berry]

That's what I did

NPCs don't spot you immediately with sound anymore, not sure if that was intended in SoC or not but I could've sworn it happened

They just become more alert for a minute or two

[hollow totem]

Yeah thats SoC behaviot

But they become instantly alerte If they hear sound when you load a save

Which is why its necessary to take off your guns and binoculars

This will guarantee you that saving while in stealth won't break

You can re-equip them during the phase but just remove them before saving

[bright wigeon]

The games use the same behavior system, gsc are to lazy with that, they changed how the quests work to doomed my life but the behavior system they just keeped

[hollow totem]

I believe its something about NPCs spawning before the map loads too which allows them to see and hear clearer for a tiny bit

[hollow totem]

How good is the translation

[waxen berry]

Depends on what you define by "good"

Does it lock you out of quests? No

Everything is perfectly clear

Someone told me to find a shotgun and gave me coordinates

Found it exactly where he described

In a house near the bandit camp behind the couch

However, some dialogue options like jokes are not translated properly

[hollow totem]

If its optional stuff its fine

[waxen berry]

Yup, optional

Anything quest related, main and side quests, is good enough

[hollow totem]

Noted

Might download NLC and save it for a rainy day

[waxen berry]

I'd recommend anyone to try the mod, even if you don't like survival horrors or difficult mods, just to see how it handles stuff

That alone is worth it

[hollow totem]

Can't wait to get filtered because i didn't sleep at the start of the game

[waxen berry]

Whether you like it or not depends on your game preference, it's hit or miss. You either praise it or call it absolute garbage

[waxen berry]

Happened to me, wasn't a big deal

Just sleep at the start after Sid's first 1-2 quests then you should be good to go

The first 2-3 hours are the worst but then the game gets easier

[hollow totem]

Yeah i just find it funny and unexpected

[hollow totem]

Im a fan of hobo phase

[waxen berry]

You might love the mod then, the hobo phase is the majority of the game since you're never too rich or too powerful

When you get stronger, you'll start encountering stronger mutants too, sometimes in higher quantity if the game demands it

[hollow totem]

Thats good

Are there any items that most people would consider useless?

ex: smoke grenades/plantable explosives

Those are always my favorite items and i like to do autistic stuff with them

[waxen berry]

The closest thing is illumination grenades

There are a couple of other ones but not many, the game doesn't overuse niche items

[hollow totem]

Thats fine too, i already expect cool artifacts too so maybe i'll have a good time

[waxen berry]

Don't sell all of your artifacts for rubles

Like any soup mod worth its salt, rubles aren't good for everything, or even the majority of the game. Artifacts are, however

If you want to get medkits at the start of the game, you aren't paying with rubles (only bandages), you're paying with artifacts

[hollow totem]

OP2 made me paranoid about collecting every single item so i just use tons of stone blood artifacts to accelerate recovery

[jovial trench]

need Documents that require foreign scripts

[bright wigeon]

I got no idea where to find that

[jovial trench]

[round nova]

Hi!

Is Stalker Call of The Zone good?

[round nova]

yea

Im a big fan of og stalker games

but I didnt liked Anomaly

its too different

its bloated with upgrade kits and many other stuff

[waxen berry]

Ew

[round nova]

what

[ruby citrus]

do you want some freeplay experience?

[bright wigeon]

Sorry bro the game is too bugged out, and the creator has gone so it will never get a updated

[gaunt haven]

Hey do you guys know what PC version the game comes out with ? Microsoft (Xbox) Store, Steam or Epic Games ?

[round nova]

ah

[round nova]

wdym?

[waxen berry]

Never understood the hype behind the original games

[bright wigeon]

You can try call of chernoKyl the mod that all the teenagers are talking about

[waxen berry]

Too much cut content, crappy gameplay from a balance and design perspective, missed opportunities

Not a bad game but still has a lot of cons

[round nova]

ah

[bright wigeon]

Its a great game we got zap the stalker

[round nova]

is Road to The North good?

[bright wigeon]

Ew

Every misery son is bad

[waxen berry]

HOLY MOTHER OF JUSTICE, IT'S THE

THE STALKER ZAP

[neat dune]

Lord Trashcan#9358 has been warned

Reason: Capital letters

[bright wigeon]

YEAH ITS ZAP

[waxen berry]

Any mod based on miesry is automatically bad

[neat dune]

Sylky#5506 has been warned

Reason: Capital letters

[round nova]

ah

I could try COC with some addons

[bright wigeon]

And TRAPPER ON HIS GLORY DAYS

[neat dune]

Sylky#5506 has been warned

Reason: Capital letters

[waxen berry]

If the foundation is bad, the rest of the building won't stand. Unless you break the foundation and fix it, but by that point why are you using that foudnation as a base?

[bright wigeon]

Ew call of chernokyl is better

[waxen berry]

Just try story based mods

[round nova]

like what?

[waxen berry]

Some, only one really, are easily better than the vanilla games

[bright wigeon]

Call of chernokyl is history based we got full sylky ark

[waxen berry]

Oh you know, NLC 7, OP 2.2, any soup mod in general

[bright wigeon]

AND ITS A SOUP

[neat dune]

Sylky#5506 has been warned

Reason: Capital letters

[waxen berry]

SEND THE DOWNLOAD LINK IDIOT

[neat dune]

Lord Trashcan#9358 has been warned

Reason: Capital letters

[bright wigeon]

We got lemonade as a consumable

[bright wigeon]

NO JOIN THE OFFICIAL DISCORD SO I CAN SEND YOU FUNNY MEMES

[neat dune]

Sylky#5506 has been warned

Reason: Capital letters

[round nova]

whats "soup mod"?

[bright wigeon]

A mod with too many unrelated stuff

[waxen berry]

A mod that changes the core gameplay so it won't be like stalker

Basically, if it feels too different to stalker, it's a soup mod

[round nova]

ah

[bright wigeon]

My mod feels like stalker but you can also drink lemonade

[round nova]

so soup mods aren't for me lol

[waxen berry]

Eh, a lot of the time they make the game better while still retaining the original idea

[hollow totem]

Play stuff like OLR or WoT

Then explore

Theres unironically maybe 1000 stalker mods

That aren't addons

[patent maple]

Hey everyone. Is anyone familiar with memories of the zone? I’m wondering because I just started using it and sidirovich has no weapons or armor to trade, and when I traded mine to him they didn’t show up in his inventory. Is this normal? Or is there something wrong with my installation?

[bright wigeon]

No

Lost alpha with misery + 60hz models >>>>>

[bright wigeon]

Some mods took out sid weapons trade for lore reasons i think, also some npcs don't trade some items that you give to them bc they can be with the "retain itens" variable activated

[ruby citrus]

Trashcan do not

[ruby citrus]

Freeplay mods allow you to roam the world freely, like Call of Chernobyl, Anomaly

If you want that kind of experience i recommend Legend Returns

[hollow totem]

CoC by Stason174 latest version incorporates LR's faction stories and tasks and lots of content

However theres some script errors but im unsure if the cause is me being an idiot or the mod

[ruby citrus]

i will not play stason's coc fork even if you point a gun at me

[hollow totem]

why, its literally the best freeplay ever

[ruby citrus]

that would be alpha modmaker's fork

[hollow totem]

Demosfen is in another league

But stason's nice too

Especially zombie mode which is actually fun

[bright wigeon]

Nozar is already a productive member of the call of chernokyl team

[round nova]

Legend Returns? Why just not COC?

[ruby citrus]

because pure coc is boring and empty

[waxen berry]

TRASH DO YES

[neat dune]

Lord Trashcan#9358 has been warned

Reason: Capital letters

[round nova]

ah okay

[patent maple]

Thanks. Yeah, I know that like gamma does that. From what I’ve seen Memories doesn’t, and it isn’t in the mod description so I was worried that the install is bugged or something. But it could just be the way it is

[waxen berry]

Crappy lore reasons

It's gameplay reasons

[onyx belfry]

You look forward to 1.0?

[waxen berry]

You played Legend Returns?

What makes it different from all freeplay mods?

[bright wigeon]

Sin faction is not cursed like in anomaly

[onyx belfry]

Has the old build/OLR look and feel to it, has a story mode for each faction, a cool progression and leveling system.

[ruby citrus]

honestly never played

[waxen berry]

[onyx belfry]

I've never done a complete story playthrough of it, but I can certainly say it's a lot more faithful to the lore of the original series than the other free play mods.

There's also Call of the Zone, too. Which I liked from what I played.

[inner orbit]

Hey

I think this is the right place to ask

It looks like I got ZRP running in the steam deck (ZRP 1.07 showing as the FixVer in the bottom left version of the in game start menu)

Trying to run the modifier.exe using bottles, and it seems to launch, but there are no configurable options

Am I missing a step?

[bright wigeon]

@ebon tusk @merry forge @ruby citrus the contrast of the classic models with the new ones is insane how well they fit together, and thanks to @young fable for providing some of the amazing models.

[merry forge]

i should go to cleveland

[bright wigeon]

😎

[neat dune]

HxE#8662 has been warned

Reason: Bad word usage

[still inlet]

so I typed a long message, spent 5 minutes of my life on that and bot deleted it because of some "bad word"

wow, what a waste

of time and effort

[bright wigeon]

skill issue, try again and change some letters to ramdom stuff

[young fable]

Cool

[ruby citrus]

Anomaly 2

[young fable]

Anomaly Gangsta Edition

[stone osprey]

should i play call of chernobyl?

[merry forge]

yeah

[waxen berry]

YES

Best mod ever

Only beaten by Anomaly

[ruby star]

https://media.discordapp.net/attachments/1011669132875399222/1057874306715095080/ezgif.com-gif-maker_3-1.gif

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[fiery fulcrum]

Here you go

[bright wigeon]

Dm me bro we can't speak here, the walls has eyes

[unkempt zenith]

hey ive got a problem with COC crashing

anybody willing to help??

[bright wigeon]

whats the problem ?

[unkempt zenith]

It keeps crashing everytime i try to quicksave with minimal log info

ive tried finding help online but came up empty

running with a few addons as well

posted on the moddb forums like half an hour ago too

[bright wigeon]

Any mod ?

[bright wigeon]

Also, if you got multiple saves the game can crash too, delete old saves

And it's always good to delete your hold save file

[unkempt zenith]

a few,
Stcop
OA
DRx relations and quests
loot money from corpses
AN and Structures redux
HD Models
Artefacts Expanded
Smurths Hud
Gnomus scopes
Full sim A life
WARFIGHTER

i also installed all the compatibility patches that came with the ZIP files

[bright wigeon]

Oh get

It's a memory overflow

[unkempt zenith]

ooofah

so, maybe get rid of A-Life??

i suspected it might be that, i read abt it somewhere

[bright wigeon]

Hd models or find a 64 bits bin

[unkempt zenith]

64 bit bin??

[bright wigeon]

My game usually crashs a lot, coc is very unstable

[unkempt zenith]

first time ive heard abt that

[bright wigeon]

I got one on my coc mod

[unkempt zenith]

yea i guessed that but it was running alot better like a year ago

i also tried Prink's modpack but same problem, and clean reinstalls

[bright wigeon]

Then try to delet your old saves

[unkempt zenith]

what is it tho???

the 64bit bins

[bright wigeon]

A unique coc version

[bright wigeon]

The anomaly dude made it for coc 1.4

[unkempt zenith]

might it replace the bin folder??

[bright wigeon]

Yep

But i don't remeber where i find it

[unkempt zenith]

oof

was just abt to ask that

[bright wigeon]

Try old reddit pages

[unkempt zenith]

thx man

gonna try it out

[bright wigeon]

Or you can wait to play my mod

Or become one of my laboratory test rats

[unkempt zenith]

Repack for Call Of Chernobyl X64 version 1.4.22 Aims to be the most stable and bloat free ... A 64Bit Engine from BitBucket and Ap.Pro.?

this related??

its on moddb

[bright wigeon]

I use the open xray

[bright wigeon]

My one is not on moddb

It is in a old and unused repository on god knows where

[unkempt zenith]

sad merc noises

time for some internet digging then

[bright wigeon]

Join me bro

[unkempt zenith]

this moddb page has a reddit discussion

some guys said "Haven't tried it, but I assume it's just a new binary (.exe) and maybe some libraries (.dlls). Just replace the ones that are installed (after backing them up first), but I'm guessing it won't work with v1.5xx."

[bright wigeon]

I am the doc x student

[unkempt zenith]

maybe i can just take the bin folder and replace mine with it

[bright wigeon]

Yep

[unkempt zenith]

it has addons different from mine tho, would the bin and .dlls conflict w mine??

[bright wigeon]

It can be, use jsgme to make the overwrite

My entire work is on jsgme

I trust this mod manager

[unkempt zenith]

never learned how to use it lmao

i just do everything manually

[bright wigeon]

Hold on

[unkempt zenith]

since i cant fill my stalker urges im currently substituting with tlou and other tac games like Darkest Hour for Ostfront

[bright wigeon]

Put your mod the folder mod the open the manager e click in the arrow to activate

[unkempt zenith]

but i can hear Dushman calling to me,

lol

[unkempt zenith]

that simple??

[bright wigeon]

Yes

[unkempt zenith]

do i put jsgme into the root COC folder or is it separate?

[bright wigeon]

Also join the testers group of my mod

[unkempt zenith]

got a modpage??

[bright wigeon]

Yep

[bright wigeon]

Yep sylky

Hold on

https://www.moddb.com/members/sylky

[unkempt zenith]

?? lmao yep to which one??

[bright wigeon]

Coc 1.4

[unkempt zenith]

so i put jsgme into the coc root folder? got it

[bright wigeon]

Yep

[unkempt zenith]

looking at the vid

hd models + 3 girls of the zone

sold

[bright wigeon]

It a whole lot of new outfits

[unkempt zenith]

vid and description sounds cool, i just prefer Stcop

[bright wigeon]

New npcs, quests and a huge mod compilation

[unkempt zenith]

but ill try it out

[bright wigeon]

I got him in the warfare version

[unkempt zenith]

just hope COC doesnt get all pissy on me and crash

[bright wigeon]

The mod got two versions, the campaign and the warfare

Also in finishing the new npcs variation mod

And them i will make hd models for the new outfits

[unkempt zenith]

honestly im kinda interested in the normal version, the Warfare pda looks weird to me

Normal version but Stcop instead of AO and im golden, but ill try AO, i dont mind playing w/ it

[bright wigeon]

I got the unofficial version of the warfare, it got fixed icons for the smart terrain like a big duty icon if the duty has occupied the terrain

And with the xray pda the pda looks much more like the classic soc pda

[unkempt zenith]

so its not as cluttered asa regular warfae??

[bright wigeon]

No, much less crash and now got much more squads

Dead city got 14 squads in only one point

[unkempt zenith]

[bright wigeon]

What will probably gonna happen is lag, but crash is very rare now

64 bits xray is too powerful

[unkempt zenith]

where can i get the pack??

[bright wigeon]

I not lauched yet

Only for the private group and even for them i not launched the new beta

[unkempt zenith]

how do i get in lmao

[bright wigeon]

I'm finishing the new models

I literally learn blendr yesterday

[bright wigeon]

I will dm you the link

[unkempt zenith]

W Sylky

[ebon tusk]

we are so ove

[waxen berry]

Mandatory reminder that I got Vasim to play NLC and not hate it

[ebon tusk]

we are so over

[waxen berry]

Any criticism?

[ebon tusk]

Not enuff time put into it

[waxen berry]

Hm, you still don't know how the artifacts work completely or the economy

[ebon tusk]

But right off the bat,if they are going to cut the quest markers,make Smth like a notebook to quickly recall and catch up on quests

Of course that's asking too much from X-ray engine but it's quite cryptic with the machine translated dialogue already

[waxen berry]

The first 3 quests are the worst

Later on its fine

I got a quest to search for a shotgun the guy lost to a bet

I asked the dude who won it, he said he sold it to a guy named Yurik in the northern gut campsite

[ebon tusk]

Yhea well anyway,where is petruka after the nimble quest?

[waxen berry]

ATP

Above

Nimble is sleeping in a house in the rookie village

The hunters trade mutant parts for shotgun shells, great deal

[ebon tusk]

That I know,asked me to bring him an artifact,told him to stick it up his ass

[waxen berry]

4 tushkan heads, 19 shells
3 dog tails, 19 shells
Psydog tail, 33 shells
2 byrer hands, 23 shells but upgraded buckshot ammo, etc etc

[waxen berry]

He pays well for the artifact but understandable

By the way

Don't cancel quests like that

Press ESC

If you say that the quest will be permanently cancelled

At least with ESC you have a chance in the future

[fiery fulcrum]

Did you see Kramers video on it ?

[ebon tusk]

Dunno who Kramer is,don't really wish to know either now that I think about it

[neon socket]

hello, I would like to start playing the first stalker game. I thought I'd ask if there is any list of mods that would enhance the graphics. Anything that stays faithful to vanilla

[ebon tusk]

to do a first playthru of Shadow of Chernobyl there really arent any mods that are necessary,just open the game and start playing
if you find any problems come here and ask us,we'll help you in any way we can

[neon socket]

nothing to make graphics better?

[wicked kernel]

you don't need to, just play it at max settings. the graphics are literally fine lol. go look up 'stalker soc graphics mod' if you really want one

everyone always says 'better' but the base visuals are perfect. i don't get it

[ebon tusk]

just play the game,it doesnt need graphics mod

[waxen berry]

We'ge got 10 times more questions about graphics mods than gameplay mods

This says a lot about our society

[bright wigeon]

Does this guys know anything about reshades? Is literally the main propose of having a pc

[fiery fulcrum]

You can go for gunslinger or ogsr , but it’s better to just play vanilla on your first run

[bright wigeon]

Gunslinger for soc?

[fiery fulcrum]

Been there for half a year already

[bright wigeon]

[ebon tusk]

its his first time playing Stalker not a second or third playthru thus its not recommended to play these mods

[waxen berry]

Based Kuznetsov?

[placid juniper]

I'm trying to get AutumnAurora2 working for SoC on Steam but for some reason the game automatically closes on launch if I have the ENB enabled.
I had the ENB enabled before, but recently I reinstalled Windows 10 and now for some reason it won't work now.
I downloaded directx_June2010_redist and disabled Steam Overlay in game as per the FAQ instructions with no luck.
Any ideas?

[bright wigeon]

Check the game log

And how exactly the enb work?