🔩┃trilogy_modifications

[ebon tusk]

is this a joke?

[pine bobcat]

[ebon tusk]

and yes CGIM2 changes the skies only,its for CS and CoP only tho

and other mods that are not relevant here

[pine bobcat]

They recently released one for SoC I think aswell

unlesse everyone just use SoC and CoP tags on moddb

[ebon tusk]

neither is this official or reportedly stable
in short,I dont recommend

[pine bobcat]

Unofficial

[ebon tusk]

you mean these

[pine bobcat]

Yeah

#📸┃screens_and_videos message Check this article out I found trying to find mods

[astral widget]

@remote pike i forgot what i need to ask

Who blew up the nord stream pipeline ? I guess 🤣

[pine bobcat]

Found out why I never followed through with autumn aurua

[ebon tusk]

you installed it wrong?wdym

[pine bobcat]

Well i reinstalled SoC thinking it was vanilla and it reinstalled with zrp and autumn

deleted files now verifying hopefully that helps

[ebon tusk]

dont install ZRP with Autumn

[pine bobcat]

It was a pack with them them together I suppose, but note taken

[pine bobcat]

is there a difference in ogsr and motz?

Other than motz doesnt run off steam

[ebon tusk]

OGSR is a new game with a changed story line and new side quests and all
MoTZ is an outdated modpack from what I know,and a bad one

[pine bobcat]

Ogsr is so far on my radar if it can run on steam

[ebon tusk]

OGSR is the creator of OGSRE btw

OGSR was the mod that created the OGSRE and runs on it

It's an evolution of OGSE,an update that changed so much engine level stuff a new engine was required

[pine bobcat]

So in hindsight motz and ogsr run on their own engine

and are standalone?

[ebon tusk]

OGSR is, I remember a myriad of reports saying MOTZ is broken

MOTZ is standalone

But I mean

MOTZ is basically a new game unrecognizable to stalker soc

So

[pine bobcat]

Holy fing fecal matter man these games are driving me crazy

My incompatence is my toxic trait

[pine bobcat]

What about XTR

[ebon tusk]

What now

[pine bobcat]

Xpress remaster tuning edition

https://youtu.be/vFiaC-Cams8?si=PaG3zRAFxGJyPIVu yt guy said it was pretty balanced story and gp wise

[ebon tusk]

Any mod using HD models is down the drain automatically
Why don't you make it yourself
Just do ZRP with PhotoRealistic Zone 2 and FWR Lite

HD Models are,really shit

[pine bobcat]

Oh yeah zrp has mods I can enable already

[ebon tusk]

Not in a subjective way,they are just badly put together collection of kit ashes

[ebon tusk]

Leave ZRP options as they are

It changes the game too much as it is

Changes lines of dialogue and adds Freeplay

Those are the not optional changes

[pine bobcat]

So zrp has an installer that i can shoose what I want presetted so to speak? like miseries installer?

[ebon tusk]

There is a configurator inside the files that lets you pick and choose what stuff you want and change some other parameters

ZRP install like most mods

For SoC anyways

Follow it's installation instructions

[pine bobcat]

Yeah that’s what I was talking about lol, but I didn’t mess with it before cause the autumn mod messed something up

[indigo ledge]

autumn aurora is p good for a 2nd playthrough but it changes the games atmosphere and graphics so drastically i wouldnt recommend it for a 1st timer. its also much more difficult

[indigo ledge]

if it looks good to you get it

i wouldnt recommend it tho

[pine bobcat]

Yeah I think I settled on zrp but haven’t installed it yet, is it that game breaking though?

[indigo ledge]

is what game breaking

[pine bobcat]

Zrp

[indigo ledge]

no its just a bug fix mod and it adds like sleeping bags too

you arent installing it alongside any other mods, correct? @pine bobcat

[pine bobcat]

Not unless I need an fov mod that’s if it doesn’t already have a pretty decent fov

[indigo ledge]

right

[ebon tusk]

Sleeping bags are optional and turned off by default

[pine bobcat]

actually what about weapons renewal on top of zrp?

[indigo ledge]

i think that would work

[pine bobcat]

ouuu

[cunning moss]

is absolute texture packs compatible with ZRP?

[cunning moss]

and does it need new game?

[pine bobcat]

So I’ve settled on the stalker SoC “complete” mod pack and switched my game to dynamic full and I noticed my pc started to start making a scratching noise assuming my gpu was doing something, whenever I clicked on anything on the screen with SoC open it would either get louder or quieter, and when in game or out of settings menu it would get louder and sound even worse scratching, I’ve never noticed this while fooling around in vanilla either

[ruby star]

probably uncapped fps in the main menu

[pine bobcat]

I mean it’s pretty faint scratching, it isn’t particularly bad is it?

[pine bobcat]

Holy fing fecal matter yeah the complete mod pack has an fps booster or whatever tf and its over clocking my game like crazy even with vs

Yeah theres no fing way im getting 2000+ frames on this game by myself

[pine bobcat]

Would this perhaps work with radiophobia aswell? A friend keeps convincing me that I shouldnt play vanilla in his words "Its a hive minded thing to think your mising out on anything, its the same game."

[blissful sphinx]

anyone knows where npc_icon_scientific_outfit is located in SoC database? Or is it literally just here

cuz i want to add custom actor inventory icon for my armor

but instead of coordinates it uses a (i assume) file name

[blissful sphinx]

dont pplay radiophobia

it changes thhe game in significant ways

play vanilla with ZRP

[pine bobcat]

Im honestly good bro, I respect your guys opinion on the trilogy but if I was asking what your guys best play through was maybe I would suggest but im not

[blissful sphinx]

zrp fixes vast majority of bugs and adds some stuff, but nothing too game chhanging like radiophoobia

[blissful sphinx]

yeah but still, radiophobia is horrible for your first playthrough

[pine bobcat]

To put in lamens terms, i dont see what im missing out on in vanilla

[pine bobcat]

I might think other wise cause ive walked around for a accumulated 70 mins and I cant stand to look at its in vanilla any longer

Havent even helped the dude up from the ground yet

[blissful sphinx]

in that case just slap autumn aurora or absolute nature/absolute structures on

[pine bobcat]

Even with that theres still to much dust on the game

[blissful sphinx]

well then, you do you, im just saying thhat radiophobia 3 is waaay to hard for your first ever playthrough

[pine bobcat]

CoP is polished but I feel like people saying SoC is better is a bit far to biased for me to instantly hop on the band wagon

[blissful sphinx]

well, maybbe im biased too

but fr, radiophobia as your 2nd or 3rd playthru, sure, but PLEASE atleast playtyhru the vanilla (with some addons) once

[pine bobcat]

The stubbornness in you guys istg

Why is everyone telling me to play vanilla ina modifications channel anyways thats whats pressing my button

The game shows it age way to much for some people what cant you guys live with

[neat dune]

pogodemonthe3rd has been warned

Reason: Bad word usage

[blissful sphinx]

waow

[pine bobcat]

uh ohhhh

[blissful sphinx]

i wouldnt be saying thaty if u didnt want to play a f u simulator

[ruby star]

[pine bobcat]

Anomaly ironman mode wasnt even hard

[blissful sphinx]

thats anomaly

it isnt hard at all

wait

u played anomaly before vanilla games

[pine bobcat]

Why should I care how hard a game is, have you played any souls like?

[blissful sphinx]

its over for you

[pine bobcat]

Difficult=accomplishments

[blissful sphinx]

ok then i think u should play OP 2.2 actually

[pine bobcat]

Cant find it

Other than wiki

Wait is it a CoP mod or standalone

[blissful sphinx]

standalone for SoC

[blissful sphinx]

you WILL need that

its not a suggestion its an actual requirement

[pine bobcat]

Yeah found the links, wdym

One other suggestion for SoC, L.U.R.K.?

[blissful sphinx]

this game is quasi unplayable without the wiki because of the sheer amount of content it adds

[blissful sphinx]

lurk is shit and unfair

played it once

disliked a lot

[pine bobcat]

So, what makes these mods so difficult?

[blissful sphinx]

in lurk enemies that are turned back to you can hear you sneak up on them from like 50 meters and artefacts are removed for some reason

[pine bobcat]

Noway

[blissful sphinx]

OP 2.2 has just high difficulty overall and around 8 months of content (completing the entire mod in 300 hours is considered a speedrun)

[pine bobcat]

I really dont know how some people played vanilla long ago, even as a kid I hated whenever games had tight fov and huge zoom radius for no apparent reason

The animations I can deal with to and extent just sprinting with your gun out in SoC makes me wanna cringe vomit

[blissful sphinx]

😔

the stalker community has truly fallen

[pine bobcat]

The just a different culture now a days man, im a 23 year old gen z

YOU THINK I WANTED TO BE GEN Z

The world unfair

like the zone, which is why I should suck it up

[dapper halo]

Vanilla is perfect and has no flaws

[blissful sphinx]

im a 17 year old gen z and you dont see me complain about graphics

[pine bobcat]

Ive heard enough biasism tonight

[pine bobcat]

Cause we arent made in a factory built to feel the same way about the same things

[dapper halo]

No seriously, Vanilla is good af. I'd play Vanilla over mods anytime

[blissful sphinx]

same

[pine bobcat]

Why tf is everyone still on about vanilla in a modifications channel

[dapper halo]

Graphics aren't the main indicator whether the game is good or bad

[blissful sphinx]

BECAUSE YOU WANT TO PLAY A CBT SIM!!!

we're just trying to help you not go insane

[pine bobcat]

i would tell my therapy group

Now please enough about vanilla before it makes me CTB

[dapper halo]

Its simple, before any mods you should complete the vanilla trilogy at least once

so misconceptions such as story of mods being canon wouldn't occur

[blissful sphinx]

idk man if we're so hard on the play vanilla first thing we might be onto something..

[pine bobcat]

Nah its a bit to bias and obsesive iyam

[blissful sphinx]

😭

[dapper halo]

[blissful sphinx]

im so happy i started playing before the anomaly boom

[pine bobcat]

This is the only community that has ever told me to go against modding especially in a modded channel

[pine bobcat]

Im not cause i have tio deal with hive minds

[dapper halo]

you're the one saying things such as "I don't know how some people played vanilla"

when Vanilla is still perfectly playable

sure there may be some bugs but most of those bugs aren't significant anyways

[blissful sphinx]

we're not telling you to go against modding, we're telling yyou to not play a hard overhaul mod

just yet

[pine bobcat]

Again im in a modable cvhannel for a reason

this is getting pretty annoying

and feels like harrassment atp

[blissful sphinx]

https://www.metacognix.com/files/stlkrsoc/index.html here's ZRP
https://www.moddb.com/games/stalker/addons/absolute-nature-texture-pack1 absolute nature
https://www.moddb.com/games/stalker/addons/absolute-structures-texture-pack1 absolute structures
https://www.moddb.com/games/stalker/addons/realautumn-for-autumn-aurora-21 autumn aurora

https://www.moddb.com/mods/autumn-aurora-compilation-mod/downloads/autumn-aurora-21-by-autumnal-wanderers actually heres autumn aurora sry

but sure, go ahead and play radiophobia, just dont get filtered

[blissful sphinx]

yeah and zrp fixes most of not all of them

[pine bobcat]

Ill be honest, I tried the first patch of rp 3 just to see if id even like it and I see exactly what you meant

So im thinking about doing the mod list you sent

Those all include, update textures, slight visuals, and sounds? thats all I really need on top of Fov but I already found one from before, just gonna have to deal with high zoom radius whicg I dont mind atp

[blissful sphinx]

yup

u might want to check mods descriptions if theyre compatible with each other

just read autumn auroras description and its honestly all you need

it has ZRP and absolute nature

and atmosfear

also it is NOT standalone so u need SoC copy

[pine bobcat]

Check, id assume their compatible

[blissful sphinx]

but autumn aurora from here might still make the game look better

[blissful sphinx]

with autumn aurora (the actual one) u dont need zrp and absolute nature cuz theyre already included

[pine bobcat]

2.1 is the actual autumn mod?

not wanderer?

[blissful sphinx]

the longer link is the actual one

the short one is to make it look better i think

[pine bobcat]

I dont get the difference

is this the actual mods page? (Entire Moddb pages disappear for no reason for me)

[blissful sphinx]

https://www.moddb.com/mods/autumn-aurora-compilation-mod/downloads/autumn-aurora-21-by-autumnal-wanderers use this link

[pine bobcat]

Okay yea thats the one I downlaoded

[blissful sphinx]

@pine bobcat here are the features

[pine bobcat]

So i really only need absolute structures after this

[blissful sphinx]

probably, if it doesnt crash

[pine bobcat]

Autumn ran for me before with zrp it was just polish or wahtever tf

[blissful sphinx]

what

i think it looks good enough

[pine bobcat]

Duty < Dooty

[blissful sphinx]

its not duty 😭

[pine bobcat]

Quick reference just incase i load the game and its has fing polski selected

Cause I stg I wouldve selected english and it installed in polski

I still have ss

Static or dynamic lighting?

[blissful sphinx]

dynamic is the best obviously

[pine bobcat]

true was wondering preformance wise

[blissful sphinx]

if you have a good pc it shouldnt be a prooblem

but if u have a potato then i'd recommend static

[pine bobcat]

is this style kinda like pip/2d render image scopes?

[blissful sphinx]

yeah something like that

but it isnt PIP

and im not sure if its 2d shader

[pine bobcat]

2 image render whatever tf

Thanatos touch?

[blissful sphinx]

gnomus styyle are just textures iirc

[blissful sphinx]

what

[pine bobcat]

Ehhhh im kinda feeling the autumn

Whats this

[blissful sphinx]

it means that it will have access to more RAM iirc, and what it does is noted below

[pine bobcat]

So thatd be a no if I hypothetically had 64 gigs of ram

[blissful sphinx]

no

that would be a yes

[pine bobcat]

It says its recommended for pc with lower than 4?

[blissful sphinx]

if u have ovver 4 gigs of ram thats always a yes

[pine bobcat]

I have 60 above 4

[blissful sphinx]

well then its a yes

[pine bobcat]

Why does it say recommend for shyt pcs

[blissful sphinx]

"buut only on the computers with at least 4GB of ram"

[pine bobcat]

ahhh

[blissful sphinx]

it is recommended option if u hhave over 4 gb of ram

like 8, 16 etc.

if u hadd only 4 then you'd have to chose the 2gb option

also sorry for some letters repeating but my keyboard is reallyy goddamn sensitive for some reason

[pine bobcat]

Thats why I got rid of my mechanical, to nosey with roomates aswell

So setups done, is that it for autumn?, is structures highly recommended, like will I drip and ooze from the mouth at the sight of dry wall and wood?

[blissful sphinx]

you might want to check it yourself

just make a backup of all the files in installation folder

so when u dont like it uu dont have to reinstall AA

[pine bobcat]

Opened SoC and not a shyt thing changed

Same van menu

[blissful sphinx]

did u choose the correct installation path?

[pine bobcat]

I SURE HOPE SO other wise im gonna have a hard time search through my steam libraries folders

[blissful sphinx]

in steam right click on game > manage > browse local files

[pine bobcat]

I dont see a differnce there either

[blissful sphinx]

show me youur game root folder, and fsgame file too if u can

[pine bobcat]

where tf did I downlaod that i stg the path was right

idk where game root is unless your talking root to the game folder

[neat dune]

phub.exe has been warned

Reason: Bad word usage

[pine bobcat]

Awe crap

[blissful sphinx]

First of all, change the 'false' next to gamedata to 'true'

So it can actually read gamedata folders

[pine bobcat]

I didnt do true true

[blissful sphinx]

Which containt most of the mod files

[pine bobcat]

yeaaaaaaa

[blissful sphinx]

Root is where fsgame is

[pine bobcat]

So change them to true then try setuo again?

[blissful sphinx]

Ye

And this time copy the installation path

And paste it when the installers asks you where to install the mod

[pine bobcat]

well actually for some reason there was a folder that said SoC outside of steams directory, me not looking at the path didnt realize until now

[blissful sphinx]

lmao

[pine bobcat]

Dont worry I routed it to steams folders

[blissful sphinx]

good good

[pine bobcat]

Alr Alr Alr i think we got the show on the road, theres a brand new shiny unins000 application button waiting for right in the SoC direct incase I do go insane, alr alr alr

[blissful sphinx]

Lets see if my texture shenanigans worked

It did not.

[blissful sphinx]

Yippeee

[pine bobcat]

We love embed fails

[blissful sphinx]

So true

[pine bobcat]

For some reason it set it to static and keeps changing it back everytime I reaload the game

[blissful sphinx]

Hmmm

Can u make and load save files?

[pine bobcat]

I think lemme make new game

[blissful sphinx]

Because if u cant it means the whole game is installed in uneditable ditectory

[pine bobcat]

Yup uhmmm there’s one slight problem

Remember the scratching I mentioned earlier that was happening with zrp

And zrp is in this mod

Yeaahhhhh I’m not to happy rn

[blissful sphinx]

Wdym

[pine bobcat]

And my pc is making loud scratching noises

It’s zrp

[blissful sphinx]

I think u can limit the FPS somehwrre

[pine bobcat]

yeah ive tried lowering it to hell with static lighting, vs and 60 hz, it doesnt help with zrp

i tried that with zrp alone, im telling you that thing is out to kill my fuggin gpu

unless

I remember activating a few things threw zrp modifier

[blissful sphinx]

Maybe check there

[pine bobcat]

They didnt add the file with the set up

unless its behind other folders but thats just to many folders and files to look through

Could I unzip zrp then unadd the mods from the modifier there or does it have to be in games direct?

[pine bobcat]

Just so you know aswell this was just sitting at the main menu, I didn’t even start a new game or touch the settings

[blissful sphinx]

I think its in gamedata folder

Atleast for me it is

[ruby citrus]

are you using steam version?

[pine bobcat]

Yes

I’m getting 92 frames with vs and 60 hz

That’s pretty unusual

[ruby citrus]

download stalker's steam beta version, this should make v-sync and 60hz work

or you could just limit game's fps in you driver panel

[pine bobcat]

All seems good here so far other than loud screeching when paused for whatever tf reason my pc thinks is necessary

[ruby citrus]

the card can't handle high fps numbers

[pine bobcat]

Dang right it can’t, I can’t see any card running 2k frames atleast in my lifetime

Yup this mod pack can go straight to the bin all thanks to some idiot who thinks over clocking a 2 decade old engine was a good idea

Down right Fong brain rot

What a good concept of a franchise just with a shyt delivery

[ruby citrus]

wdym?

[pine bobcat]

Idk man I just dont see how all these modpack are just so ds all in there own way

[ruby citrus]

why would you install graphical mods anyway

[pine bobcat]

Same reason ive been in a stalker modding channel for the past 8 so hours

If i wanted vanill I wouldnt of wasted so much time in this channel being told the complete opposite of what the channel is for

How hive minded is this community holy fecal matter

Seriosuly wtf is the point in this channel then

[ruby citrus]

to discuss and get help with mods

not all mods are made to enshittify the vanilla game y'know

[pine bobcat]

I havent gotten a lick of help the only "help" ive gotten is hive brain rotted opinions on people stuck on nostalgia

[pine bobcat]

Its what they need though

[pine bobcat]

So you admittingly said the vanilla games shyt

[ruby citrus]

?

[ruby citrus]

there haven't been a single worthy "graphical update" since 2007, mostly because SoC doesn't need one, and those that do exist are made by vasyans who got no idea how art design and visuals work

it's not morrowind, the game was top of the line graphics-wise and it preserved well

[pine bobcat]

So I uninstalled the AA pack and went for a vanilla run around to encourage myself to play the only playable version of the game and to my surprise im still running 2k frames

Idk wtf stalker is smoking but its got my frames high asffffffffff

[ruby citrus]

again, limit fps in your driver panel or install the 1.0007 beta version

[pine bobcat]

This shouldn’t be necessary, I never got these frames before, it’s zrp I explained it to the 1 other many other guys before you trying to help me

[ruby citrus]

well duh uninstall zrp then

it's not necessary anyway

[pine bobcat]

I dont have the shortcut, I installed AA with zrp

Yeah theres no executable for uninst

[ruby citrus]

ehhh try verifying game's integrity? maybe it'll uninstall zrp files

[blissful sphinx]

just limited my fps to 60

with zrp

actually 20 seconds of work

[blissful sphinx]

in nvidia control panel

[pine bobcat]

Reportedly it isn’t zrp it’s actually the games fault for vs not working

[blissful sphinx]

normally i havve around 4000 fps in menu and 600-800 in game

now its 60

[pine bobcat]

I just changed to beta anyways

[blissful sphinx]

that works too (i think)

[ebon tusk]

yes

[ebon tusk]

what?
I dont know,I dont do this stuff and I cant personally attest to them

and on the hive mind thing
they arent

[cunning moss]

do i need to start new game for absolute texture or it will work fine?

[ebon tusk]

its just textures you dont need to start a new game

[pine bobcat]

Yeah think I’m gonna go uh AA with zrp cause I’ve heard that other people were also getting the 1k+ frames aswell so I switch my game to 1.0007 beta

[pine bobcat]

So AA Keep crashing 🙂

And I can’t press more to see anymore info cause it locked my stupid screen and have to open new desktop to close the game

So clearly SoC is unmoddable to shyt

[ebon tusk]

I can still play 2012 mods for SoC
what did you do?click more I need to see the receipt

and grab the log in the appdata folder

[pine bobcat]

And cant anyone ecplain why in tf I cant delete this fuggin folder

[pine bobcat]

Cant locks my whole screen anything I tab too cut back to the shyt game screen

[pine bobcat]

Gunslingers not even open let alone fuggin installed

[ebon tusk]

make sure Gunslinger installer inst open elsewhere or being used by some other file

[ebon tusk]

give me the crash log in appdata

[pine bobcat]

Thats the only thing I have in my games folder currently, verifying integrity, Ill reinstall the shyt mod to see if you can see whats wrong tho

[ebon tusk]

base ZRP wouldve been easier

[pine bobcat]

It shouldnt be, it said this before, I restarted my pc and it was gone, its the next morning and its still there

[ebon tusk]

open your task manager and search to see if any process under gunslinger is open

[pine bobcat]

I just did the unis000 whatever tf and it still says its open somewhere

[ebon tusk]

?

[pine bobcat]

Cant find anything in task manager, I ran the uninstall exe, It go rid of the Run gun slinger exe and all that and left the folder with the setup guide but whem deleted the folder it still says its open

Sorry for broken english

Fresh game installed though, settingup AA and ill lyk the crash logs

[ebon tusk]

wait

are you trying to install Autumn Aurora with Gunslinger?

[pine bobcat]

No not insalling gs at all

Its jjst been stuck on my dt

Alr so its back up

Didnt even hesitate to crash on starting a new game

So go to appdata?

Which one

[ebon tusk]

appdata should have it

[pine bobcat]

First one?

Btw thats not my name, no idea why but it uses that name for some games aswell and not my steam user for some reason

[ebon tusk]

that is the PC Name
send the mdmp and the txt file

[pine bobcat]

2 text files 1 mdmp which text file top or bottom?

[ebon tusk]

just send me all the txt files

[pine bobcat]

Alright if I know how to do this cprrectly i just copy paste here?

Sure do

I see the top one says arguments not enough textures?

same as bottom, meaning I possibly might need the absolute structures?

I mean i had my game settings on high preset with vs and finally running 60 fps, how much textures are they asking for

Uninstaling AA for now, gonna see if I can warm up to vanilla

[ebon tusk]

ok
tell me each option you chose in the installer

[pine bobcat]

Im kinda digging vanilla, but I chose the path to my game which obviously worked, then 90-100 fov which ever was the highest, autumn, not thanatos, gnormus scopes or wahtever with 16:10 ratio. thats all I can remember

I installed a Fov vhange to SoC and I think im going to play the whole stalker franchise vanilla with fov vhangers

that is if I dont fall in love with one of the three games and decide to dump hundreds of hours into that specific game leading me down another mod rabbit hole possibly

But ive been looking for a "outdated" or retro game to dump hours into anyways 2007 should be a good start

All my rambling made me forget, is this aretefact always here?

[ebon tusk]

that was my first recommendation
but for AA2 make sure you install the 4gb patcher at the end of the installer

[dapper halo]

Its always there, yeah, but its kinda hard to get

[ebon tusk]

if you dont,you will most likely experience many crashes due to not enough memory

[pine bobcat]

Yeah, I pressed yes lastnight had it installed with english finally and went to bed

[dapper halo]

There will be plenty of other artifacts throught the Zone

You can ignore that particular Stone Flower if its too hard for you to get

[pine bobcat]

I was like, "thats why theres a trampoline anim in front of the door", oh its not the only one that spawns?

[dapper halo]

Its not the only Stone Flower artifact. There are plenty of those

Agroprom alone has lots of Stone Flowers

[pine bobcat]

Since this channel seems to be more or less a support channel do anyone know where to find the dead stalkers stash in the mill before the bridge?

[dapper halo]

Stash system in Clear Sky and SoC is kinda weird

For example, let's say that you found a stash, right? BUT items in that stash will not appear IF you don't have the coordinates of that very stash

Only AFTER getting coordinates of that very stash items will appear there

And in order to get coordinates of stashes you gotta loot dead bodies

[pine bobcat]

Ohhh, okay so I went to the old mill afer the prison break cause it was a purple circle around it, I find a dead bandit in the barn and the purple cirle moved to the mill

Now i cant find anything top or bottom

[dapper halo]

You can get random coordinates of different stashes

There isn't any guarantee that you'll get a coordinate of 1 particular stash

[pine bobcat]

So the purple circle is a possibility stash green stash dots are actually stashes?

[dapper halo]

In SoC and CS stashes are displayed with purple color

In Call of Pripyay they'll have the same icon as stashes in previous games but instead of purple their color will be green

[pine bobcat]

Ohhhh

Check it out tho

[dapper halo]

Aye. Purple icon = stash location

Lpot as many dead bodies as possible in order to get more stash coordinates

Loot*

[pine bobcat]

Oh so the circle at the mill disappeared?

Weird

[dapper halo]

Stash icon will remain forever as long as you won't loot that stash

Only after looting stashes do icons of these stashes dissapear

[pine bobcat]

But I didnt loot anything at the mill it was a dead bandit in the bard, then guided me to the mill

Then picked up artefact and the circle is gone now

Im just gonna say it was the rock, to save myself from further mental illness

[dapper halo]

Hmm dunno then. This shouldn't happen to other stashes

[pine bobcat]

I never even went to the other stash the one at the mill was just a radius kinda circle not the stash icon circle

[dapper halo]

Oh wait

[pine bobcat]

I remember being confused to hell with anomalies stashes aswell

[dapper halo]

I'm so dumb lol

[pine bobcat]

?

This was guy I looted then it told me to go to mill right next to it

[dapper halo]

Try to loot this one as well

Stash icon should just dissapear from the map entirely

[pine bobcat]

Yeah but that wasnt the icon at the mill

[dapper halo]

Noticed but bit too late

[dapper halo]

It does say Dead stalker's stash but no icon. Weird stuff

[dapper halo]

Loot the gasmask

[pine bobcat]

This one seems to be quest related

[dapper halo]

Oh don't worry XD. All stashes have descriptions

[pine bobcat]

I got a jellyfish

[dapper halo]

You can feel free to loot all stashes that are available for you

[dapper halo]

[pine bobcat]

Tbh im running with my sawed off and i notice the god aweful animation again and remember. "I played cruelty squad and got nothing but enjoyment out of that polygon cest fest."

And you cant even sprint in CS you tou save up 80k to get grappling appendix lul

[dapper halo]

You'll get better weapons don't worry

Another thing is that money, in SoC isn't really an issue

[pine bobcat]

Yeah waiting for someone t drop me an AN

[dapper halo]

Its not too hard to get large amount of money in Call of Pripyat either

However Clear Sky's economy is way harder

[pine bobcat]

Debating on one man armying the 2 jarheads under the bridge

[dapper halo]

I usually kill Kuznetsov and the rest of the army boys

[pine bobcat]

Yeah with the og series letting you sell guns probably opens up alot more oppurtunities to make money in the eco

[dapper halo]

Also, Major Kuznetsov has unique pistol: Fort-15

[pine bobcat]

ouuu made by ukraine themselves

[dapper halo]

There are plenty of unique weapons in the game

[pine bobcat]

Ive been looking for a fort in the og series too

[dapper halo]

https://www.reddit.com/r/stalker/s/KsmCEzW0cd

Hard to obtain all unique weapons tho

[pine bobcat]

Is the green arrow a mod kid or does it come upgraded?

[dapper halo]

Green arrow means that item is upgraded and that its unique

[pine bobcat]

Is there mod kits to use or just individual parts

Ive never modded a gun even in anoamly

Only repaired

Seem way to complicated

[dapper halo]

You mean if you can upgrade weapons in SoC?

Weapons cannot be upgraded and repaired in SoC

However you can both upgrade and repair your weapons in CS and in CoP

[pine bobcat]

Dude wolf gave me another jf

lesgo

[dapper halo]

@pine bobcat another thing

[pine bobcat]

So when a gun breaks thast it

[dapper halo]

Weapons with green arrow are not only unique and upgraded weapons, but also have more durability than ordinary guns

[pine bobcat]

Every gun being a one time use is such a turn off

[dapper halo]

Pretty much. If a gun breaks you gotta get a new one

[pine bobcat]

Thats actually

dude you had to spill the beans

I was loving this

[dapper halo]

Dw, its not too hard to obtain weapons

Its easy to get rich in SoC anyways

Just do sidequests often

[pine bobcat]

Theres no way to get the upgraded gun back unless maybe found on high ranking npc?

[dapper halo]

I genuinely don't mean to promote my Reddit post, but it'll explain everything in more details

Better to save upgraded guns for later

[pine bobcat]

I love reddit dude, i dont use it but we need more people like this in the world

[dapper halo]

Although unique guns have more durability than ordinary ones, if they break then RIP

[pine bobcat]

What a turnnnn off

Is there mods for repairing?

[dapper halo]

I honestly don't also like the fact that you cannot repair weapons in Vanilla SoC

At least you can in other parts

[pine bobcat]

You can disemble them?

For why tho

[dapper halo]

Dunno anything about mods, sorry. Can't tell

[pine bobcat]

Not an issue

I assume you find guns in pretty decent condition all the time tho then right?

[dapper halo]

You cannot dissamble weapons but you can for example put things such as scope, silencer in some weapons

[dapper halo]

Its pretty much random

[pine bobcat]

Oh yeah, those are always cool, their reusable right?

[dapper halo]

NPCs might have weapons with good quality or bad one

Its rather 50/50

[pine bobcat]

True I forgot theres an arms trade in the zone lul

[dapper halo]

You can remove silencers and scopes from your weapons and put them on other weapons

Its pretty cool thing actually

Different scopes can be attached to different weapons tho, be aware

[pine bobcat]

Okay that restored pretty much all my faith "Who cares if my g36 breaks ill take off attachtments and buy a new one. Such is life in The Zone."

[dapper halo]

For example, theres a scope called "PSO-1 scope", that can be attached to weapons such as AKM 74/2U, Obokan and Tunder

While a scope called SUSAT scope can be attached to weapons such as TRs 301 and SGI-5K

Also, silencer cannot be attached to literally every weapon

[pine bobcat]

Yeah assuming the VSS Val an the tunder and another soviet sniper dont know the name by heart

SVU

[dapper halo]

Silencer in SoC can be attached to pistols such as Fort (both Fort 12 and 15), TRs 301, Viper 5 and some other pistols

There are some unique weapons that already have silencer attached to them

[pine bobcat]

Damn this games got more variety than I tohught

[dapper halo]

Though you cannot remove silencer from these unique guns

[pine bobcat]

Are the mercs present in soc?

[dapper halo]

Mercs appear in all 3 games

[pine bobcat]

Well if i can I plan on siding with them, aslong as they dont have any unique guns tied to them?

[dapper halo]

Mercs in SoC are your enemies by default

[pine bobcat]

True they dont like locals at all

[dapper halo]

In Clear Sky some mercs can be neutral with you but I don't wanna reveal too much and accidentally spoil something for you

[pine bobcat]

So sid told me to go to garbage does this mean I can get the viper 5 9x18?

[pine bobcat]

Yes please stop spoiling

[dapper halo]

Some bandits carry Viper 5

[pine bobcat]

Story/atmospheric wise

[dapper halo]

Generally, Viper 5 is heavily employed by rookie and experienced bandits and Loners

You can also buy 1 from Sidorovich

[pine bobcat]

That reminds me, any advice before going to garbage? anything i should stock up on? or new suit maybe?

Sid made it sound more scarier

Im not use to actual voice acting

[dapper halo]

Advice: Always restock on your supplies. Especially before important missions

Explore the map slowly

[pine bobcat]

So I have a noiseless pistol ps1 whatever tf is that one of the guns I ant take the supressor off?

[dapper halo]

Pretty much

Silencer cannot be taken off from that gun

[pine bobcat]

See if you wouldnt of told me that I wouldve went on a tangen pobably

[dapper halo]

I kinda like that pistol tho, I think its actually pretty good

[pine bobcat]

Mine missing a quarter of cond, will make the most out of it

[dapper halo]

Oh yeah, I guess you already know that food can restore your HP?

[pine bobcat]

Noooo i thought just meds did

Do I even nessecarily need to buy anything

[dapper halo]

Medkits, bandages and food resrore your HP

Restore*

[dapper halo]

Its gonna be bit hard with Sawed-off. Better to get Viper 5 as soon as you'll have enough money for it

[pine bobcat]

I can get that one in garbage cant i

[dapper halo]

Getting it from bandits is also possibility but NPCs might have guns that are bit damaged

[dapper halo]

Aye

Once you enter Garbage help Yurik (Rookie stalker that's getting robbed by bandits)

After he's saved help Bes to repel bandit attack. Squad leader of bandits called Vasya Boar carries Viper

[dapper halo]

You'll also receive some money from Bes in case you help him

[pine bobcat]

Ill probably try that method after dipping my toes in an anomaly field tunnel

[dapper halo]

Speaking of Vasya Boar, theres quest related to him

Quest called "Kill the bandit leader", automatically given to you by Sidorovich after entering Garbage for the first time

Once he and the rest of the bandits are dead, go back to Sidorovich for a reward

[pine bobcat]

I thought sultan was the leader

[dapper halo]

You'll be pleasantly surprised

[dapper halo]

Bandits have different leaders in all 3 games

[neat dune]

phub.exe has been warned

Reason: Bad word usage

[dapper halo]

Sultan is their leader, correct, but thats in Call of Pripyat

Leader of bandits in Clear Sky is Yoga

[pine bobcat]

Fug I watched people slaughter the dark valley base in anomaly before, never looked fun

[dapper halo]

And Borov is their leader in SoC

Vasya Boar is more of a Borovs sidekick really

Not the leader of the entire bandit faction, but rather a leader of bandit squad thats attacking Bes

[pine bobcat]

I was half way to garbage then a blowout started

[dapper halo]

You mean emission? How?

There are just 2 scripted emissions in the game

[pine bobcat]

Yeah I thought it was an emission, it just started raining really hard, I had a laugh at myself running back to the old mill xD

[dapper halo]

Aha

No worries

[pine bobcat]

The zone really gave me ptsd

I’m not taking the og series light heartedly either, I’ve seen clips of controllers/polyergiest ripping guns out of your hands and bashing you to death with them, I had the games in my library already but that’s what made we want to start putting in some hours and experiencing what GSC made not modders yk I was just so blinded by the outdated look I really only needed a fov mod to feel at home

Y’all was right the atmosphere is peak

If rains got me shitting bricks hands down giving this game a 10/10 before I even get to see how a bloodsucker fight goes

[dapper halo]

Wait until you'll reach X Labs

Man you better be mentally prepared for those lol

[pine bobcat]

Why does the noisless pistol have so much sway

Wtf i reloaded and its gone

Is there also a reason I dont get anything from looting animals

[dapper halo]

In SoC you actually can get mutant parts

My advice: take mutant parts and save them

Those you'll need for sidequests

Characters like Sid have sidequests about mutant parts so ye, keep mutant parts stored in blue boxes

And another thing: you may not always get mutant parts. Those can appear randomly

You can kill some mutants and their body parts may not appear. You can kill 1 mutant and its body part might appear in its body/inventory

[pine bobcat]

I cant find a single body part for any mutant

[dapper halo]

Ye its bit random

You can get bloodsuckers jaw, flesh eye, boars hoof, tail of pseudodog and tail of blind dog

Snorks foot can also be obtained

English wiki says that theres only 20% of chance of mutant parts spawning @pine bobcat

[pine bobcat]

Sheeesshhhhh

[ancient wind]

yeah thats why i dont take those tasks

its super inconsistent

[dapper halo]

Better to already have mutant parts while taking those quests ngl

[pine bobcat]

Made it to the village after the bridge and I was very surprised to see flesh and not a actual village

[ancient wind]

yeah

[dapper halo]

Makes everything way easier

[ancient wind]

just stock up on artifacts and parts and cash out with tasks

because the task pays more than the value

which makes me wonder how the trader is making money but whatever

[dapper halo]

[pine bobcat]

I knew some mods changed some maps but im actually glad im getting to experience the og map, compared to anomalies

[dapper halo]

I reacted with that emoji because

Well I can say but also don't wanna spoil lmfao

There are reasons for that

[pine bobcat]

Btw am I playing as strelok or? Who is the marked one? wheres dudes S.T.A.L.K.E.R. tat

[dapper halo]

Jacket is covering the tattoo

[pine bobcat]

Ahhh

[dapper halo]

As for your other question I won't spoil it

[pine bobcat]

So i was talking to fox and I asked about strelok but some fuggin dogs interupted and when I went to talk to him again he said here you go 15 hundred rubles

Was it important?

[dapper halo]

SoC moment

Helping Fox for the second time is profitable

Fox will give you money for saving him again

[pine bobcat]

But was his info on strelok important?

[dapper halo]

Well Fox will give you info about another stalker called Seriy so yeah

Continuation of the main quest will be achieved

That part of SoC is basically "I know a guy who knows a guy who knows a guy who knows about Streloks group stash"

[pine bobcat]

And that’s in labs?

[dapper halo]

Streloks groups stash? Not really. Its in Agroprom Underground

[pine bobcat]

Same difference

[dapper halo]

Another tip @pine bobcat save artifacts. Better to store them in blue boxes as well

Some artifacts you'll need for sidequests and some you might want to use

[pine bobcat]

Why blue boxes are the green ones prone to make things disappear?

[dapper halo]

Well I always store my items in blue boxes

Putting items in blue boxes gives you 100% guarantee that they won't dissapear

[pine bobcat]

Same thing with anomaly I think

[pine bobcat]

Lesgooooo

[dapper halo]

Noice

[pine bobcat]

Was this the guy who I was suppose to help getting robbed ny bandits?

They murdered him the instant I loaded

[dapper halo]

Yes and also RIP Yurik

[pine bobcat]

He only wouldve gave me a viper tho?

He likw not that imprtant?

[dapper halo]

Yurik? Nah, he only carries a pistol

The trick is to kill those 3 bandits who are robbing him fast

Well, as fast as you can

[dapper halo]

Hes just a side character but still, if you save him from bandits he'll become friendly instead of remaining neutral

[pine bobcat]

Well hes deceased now

[dapper halo]

Besides, helping him makes sense as Marked One is also a stalker

[dapper halo]

[tidal sun]

Guys what can be the problem with this:
I tried downloading and running a standalone mod but I keep getting a 0xc000007b error code

[pine bobcat]

@dapper halo Think I see what you were talking about earlier, I keep getting random stashs from searching bodies and what not but this one outside agroprom underground doesnt have anything in it

[dapper halo]

Oh yeah, that also happens. Forgot to tell you

Theres some chance that items in a stash won't appear even if you have the coordinates. Usually items do appear in MOST of the stashes, though

[remote pike]

There's like maybe 2% chance to have this happen to you more then once in a playthrough

But usually it's some bad stashes so it doesn't really matter

[dapper halo]

What Addeicy said^

[ruby citrus]

You have some Visual C++ Redistributables missing, download them
(BOTH X86 AND X64 VERSIONS)

[tidal sun]

Alright thank you

[cinder oxide]

ZRP only fixes bugs right

Like it's 100% first playthrough friendly?

I kinda stopped playing SOC because it kept crashing on me

If ZRP fixes that I'll give it a whirl

[ebon tusk]

ZRP changes dialogues and adds a freeplay mode as well as some other changes
these are the not optional changes
more optional changes are turned off by defualt and can be turned on in the configurator

[cinder oxide]

Dang

How significantly does the dialogue change

[ebon tusk]

a few lines of dialogue were changed for some reason and never changed back

[cinder oxide]

Ok so nothing life ruining

[ionic fable]

Guys, it's very important! Long time ago i played in the mod "Boris Moiseev story" i cannot find it now! There is no in internet anymore
Please help me 😭🙏

[rain gate]

what are good mods to play soc on? decided to try and speed run the game but i definetly need mods for bug fixes any recommendations?

17 hours is my record hoping to chop it down to atleast 10 hours with less bugs

[neon socket]

GAMMA

[rain gate]

for soc

play a real stalker game

Does autumn aurora change anything besides qol and graphics?

[neon socket]

Yeah

[rain gate]

how much

[ebon tusk]

Autumn Aurora changes everything about the game,from gameplay to graphics,rebalancing and adding content as well as adding mechanics and recontextualizing old ones

[rain gate]

Is it a good mod for a second play through?

Screw speed running i want to do the side quest I didnt get to

[ebon tusk]

yhea its a good survival overhaul

[rain gate]

Does it ad emissions? or weapon managment?

[pine bobcat]

I plan on starting my second SoC play through today as well, that is if I can get the monolith to spawn did you ever found out a solution to that?

I plan on using the zrp and owr packs for my second play through no need for autumn aurora

It makes the game harder anyways, some important characters will die often leaving %30 of gameplay reloading saves

Is zrp not compatible with owr? Wouldn’t make sense cause owr has patches for zrp gun sounds, but starting new save or loading save the game crashes

[rain gate]

What in the fug

I hate bots

[ebon tusk]

https://www.moddb.com/mods/autumn-aurora-compilation-mod/features/mod-features12

[rain gate]

DId you ever figure this out?

Other mod packs are too hard and zrp seems to be a good balance but that weapon overhaul looks cool too

My game is crashing same

[ebon tusk]

@rain gate@pine bobcathttps://www.moddb.com/mods/original-weapons-renewal-3-for-soc/downloads/zrp-compatibility-patch-for-owr

[rain gate]

Thanks

[rain gate]

Autumn aurora is broke, keep crashing

[rain gate]

Also i dont see anything about emmissions in the desc of this mod

[ebon tusk]

bc there arent aside from the one scripted

[rain gate]

Oh i thought you linked me the mod cause it added more emissions

[ebon tusk]

I linked you the list of features of the mod that you asked about

[rain gate]

Ohh, do you know if owr is compat with Autumn?

[ebon tusk]

no

[rain gate]

Does zrp or autumn overhaul weapons at all?

[ebon tusk]

I linked you a ZRP and OWR3 compability patch
AA2.1 comes with ZRP integrated and isnt compatible with OWR3

[rain gate]

Sheessshhh muzik

Yip uhh Autumn Aurora is broke

Wont load a single save or start new game

10/10 mod

[ebon tusk]

works for me

[rain gate]

👏

Either i dont need enb or the patch at the end for more ram usage, other than that i cant think of any other settings im picking that coul break my game

[ebon tusk]

the option for more ram may just be what is bricking the instalation
what is the error that it gives you in the log

[rain gate]

Keep forgetting to look im installing Autumn again ill check if it crashes

Enb is the only thing I said no to this time tho

[rain gate]

?

[ebon tusk]

yhea its prob the ram thing

[rain gate]

is enb a nessecity?

[rain gate]

Will it still run full fynamic then?

ohhh

so I have to change it to full in game settings

Thanks man sorry for being tech illiterate

[remote pike]

You're as bad as gunslinger fans

ZRP = heresy

[pine bobcat]

Hershey?

[rain gate]

im thinking about making a copy of soc and installing animation folder from autumn auroras files and maybe a few other like gyno scopes

Qol things to make the game feel more up2date

[neon socket]

ZRP changes gameplay by default, everyone denies this.

ZRP is not vanilla friendly

[ebon tusk]

the good far outweights the good since,I wouldnt want the enw guy's game to crash every time he uses something in thje loot menu

It hjappens far too often to me

I did think of extracting some of the most important fixes in ZRP and making a patch that adresses purely the most critical bugs but

reverse engeniering ZRP isnt worth it

[remote pike]

it has freeplay at the end, the cons outweights the pros

[ebon tusk]

fixing a plethora of crashes and egregious bugs like the permanent radiation bug is what tips the scales

[remote pike]

stalker isn't meant to be playable

[ebon tusk]

lol
lmao

but yhea
bottomline,trying to extract the fixes from the changes in ZRP is too hard at this point,like finding a needle in a haystack,I cant make heads or tails of all that

if I could,I would run into the woods for 6 months and solve it tho

[remote pike]

you have enough till stalker 2 release

[neon socket]

More like learn to love the game and it won't crash

I haven't crashed ONCE in my last few SoC/CoP playthroughs

If CS doesn't crash, you're not playing properly

[rain gate]

im trying out the clear sky mystery mod (not as first play through just wanted to try all "misery" like mods for og series) but wtf if going on with the ui?

[pine bobcat]

Does anyone happen to know any mods for a second SoC play through that make up for no emissions?

Preferably difficulty/gunplay mods that preserve vanilla story minus the bugs, preferably : )

[dapper halo]

Make up for no emissions? What do you mean?

You mean mods that will disable emissions completely?

If you mean that then SoC only has 2 scripted emissions. Emissions in SoC don't occur randomly during the gameplay. Unlike Clear Sky and Call of Pripyat. Only 2 emissions that do occur in SoC are scripted to happen

[pine bobcat]

No I’m asking for mod that make up for the game NOT having emissions

Random emissions are present in all other stalker games/mods but SoC and it’s just feels like a far cry/fallout sim in Ukraine, emissions are what make stalker really stand out besides atrefacts but who wants to stare at fuggin rocks their whole time in the zone. Surely roaches aren’t egg heads.

[dapper halo]

Ohh wait, you want mod that adds random emissions in SoC?

[pine bobcat]

Not exactly

Just mods that make up for no emissions

Like difficulty or other gameplay elements

[pine bobcat]

CS misery looked fun but I kept getting that same ui conflict

[dapper halo]

No idea then, sorry

[pine bobcat]

I mean is there a mod that adds emission

[rain gate]

Its playable just wont be able to tell whats what on th ui

Think im gonna go back to anomaly for the day though ive strained my eyes enough with the outdated xray engine

[pine bobcat]

I feel like autumn aurora is the obvious answer

Adds so much more to the atomopshere that vanilla SoC is missing

[dapper halo]

You better ask someone else

[rain gate]

How do you ask somebody about there mod question but not know sht about mods yourself?

[dapper halo]

I misunderstood Roachs original question

[pine bobcat]

I wasn’t asking anyone in particular, im hoping someone does come along and know what I’m talking about though

I did hear that they removed emissions from some mod pack in SoC due to bugs and crashes I think

[dapper halo]

At first I thought he was asking for a mod that disables emissions in SoC, although there are only 2 scripted emissions in the entire game. Thats why I got confused

But looks like hes asking for something else

[rain gate]

Language barries are a biotch

[dapper halo]

It do be like that

[rain gate]

Is there a way too turn off the exessively annoying radios in clear sky?

I just had my ear blasted by a 3 min guitar riff while talking to someone

[ruby citrus]

emissions are what make stalker really stand out
what kind of a hot take is that

[ruby citrus]

we need to do a purge on this server oh my god

[dapper halo]

Real

[ruby star]

Real x2

[pine bobcat]

Stay offended

[rain gate]

[ruby star]

[rain gate]

Whats so wrong about me having bad eye sight? @ruby citrus

that give me migraines, whats so offensive about that literally

[ruby citrus]

libtards owned successfully

[ruby citrus]

my condolences

[rain gate]

Bros got brain rot

[pine bobcat]

Libtard because I like emissions?

Dude needs counseling

I don’t think I need purged for that.

[rain gate]

Is there by chance a mod for CS like AOH 2 but doesnt over haul the graphics?

[delicate knot]

[remote pike]

Either by lowering music in settings or deleting the files

Prob a mod out there for it

[pliant quartz]

Hey question i am playing Dreamcatcher anyone know how to do the Door To Reality dunno if right chat too

[blissful sphinx]

we love misaligned graphics

someone entereed thhe wrong coords

[ruby citrus]

wrong you don't

[heady garnet]

hey guys i wanna start stalker so ima start with shadow of chernobyl should i only use like the SRP mod i saw its for fixes n stuff or do u recommend other good mods for vanilla playthrough

oh its zrp

for soc

[ruby citrus]

no mods are necessary

[heady garnet]

but i heard it was recommended at least to use zrp cause its just for some fixes n stuff ?

i mean idk anyway

[pine bobcat]

Gas light much

How ar you gonna tell me I don’t like emissions 😂 talk about narcissism

[rain gate]

I cant freaking stand that guitar riff

[rain gate]

I do appreciate how good the games looks without mods, just the fps animation throws it off for me

[remote pike]

Like actual npcs playing or the radio

[rain gate]

radio

[rain gate]

I would just leave them alone atp, seems like their entertainment

[late flower]

Anyone know why when i try equip the knife in OLR Vector Alienation, the Game crashes?

[rain gate]

How comes my pistols dont aim down sights, fov_swticher 1.7 is the only mod I have installed

Idk i might just have to fall into the category of players who dont like cs and only play SoC and CoP

[indigo ledge]

its just a design choice. i like the change it makes sense for you to use your sidearm as a sidearm. every single weapon mod available brings back pistol ironsights

[rain gate]

Oh so its vanilla, yeah makes sense but cs just doesnt feel damn near as good as the other games

[late flower]

True

[indigo ledge]

with fixed/better ballistics/weapons its better than the other 2 because it has the AI cover system not in the other games

[rain gate]

So this mod is radiophobia for soc but i also found this mod for cs, can anyone confirm this is

[indigo ledge]

its a standalone mod. its basically just soc with new quests and completely overhauled graphics & gameplay

[rain gate]

Sweet

[remote pike]

If you want to aim down the sights in clear sky, install clear sky complete, but it also patches bugs and removes grenade spam which is the best feature of clear sky

[ruby star]

SRP has an optional folder that restore ADS for pistol, install that instead.

[rain gate]

Does anyone know if owr adds recoil effects to SoC?

[iron zodiac]

im not sure if im dumb or something but im new to all stalker games and i already have a few things installed like zrp but i cant figure out how to lower the view bobbing

ive looked at multipul reddit comments and they all say the same thing

but when i do what they say it still lookes the same

do i need to make a new save or something?

[remote pike]

type "cam_inert 0.0" in the console, if it doesnt work try "cam_inert 0.1"

[iron zodiac]

dosent this make the game all weird with your mouse?

im play SoC

i forgot to add that

[remote pike]

it lowers the head bob

[iron zodiac]

alright

ill try it

ok it seems like it works

thank you for the help

[wind scaffold]

Hallo, i have question. Is there any mod for hd icons for weapons and armor in inventory (Durability bar especially) or just hd inventory for Call of Pripyat ?

[remote pike]

https://www.moddb.com/games/stalker-call-of-pripyat/addons?filter=t&kw=Icons&category=&licence=&timeframe=

Here's a few

[wind scaffold]

Thanks

[rain gate]

So does the call of chernobyl mod have all 3 of the games stories? Or can you just play as the mc's?

[ruby star]

Nah it only has all 3 games MAPS

[remote pike]

just a sandbox experience with all the maps

[wind scaffold]

Which mods i should play after finishing Call of Pripyat ?

[austere garnet]

Heya, first time playing Shadow of Chernobyl, wanted to get the Starter Pack 2019 but I can't seem to get it to work. It seems anytime I change FOV the game just won't launch, anyone knows a workaround?

[wind scaffold]

Maybe its conflicts with something like zrp.

[austere garnet]

Does ZRP change fov on it's own?

[wind scaffold]

You have file modifier or something with zrp, look there for this feature. I played with original fov.

[austere garnet]

hmm, I'll take a look

Unfortunately it doesn't have an fov switcher

[wind scaffold]

Well, then i cant help with that. I never installed fov switcher.

[austere garnet]

All good, thanks for trying

[wind scaffold]

Is there any retexture or recolor for svarog detector ? Searching green little dot on green background with green radiation effect is pain in my heart.

[upbeat coral]

Spatial Anomaly, Goldsphere, Wind of Time

If you want a full list just tell me

[ebon tusk]

RTTZ,Spatial Anomaly,OGSR (not OGSR GA, OGSR),Winds of Time and Valley of Whispers are good starts

[upbeat coral]

Play rttz only after goldsphere

Its a law

Vector of Alienation is also good

And if you want something modern then True Stalker is pretty good if you overlook some stuff. Like Axe being unable to not get knocked out for 5 minutes

[ebon tusk]

True Stalker is mid

if you want high brow TS can be considered even a bad mod

[upbeat coral]

Depends at what you count as mid

Id say its solid 7/10

[ebon tusk]

its a very boring CoP mod

for sure

[upbeat coral]

I enjyoed it

Except for chapter 7

[ebon tusk]

a very impressive sequence of cutscenes

but novelty is everything it has

[upbeat coral]

If you think so

[sand knot]

hi, I'm trying to install ABR on clear sky but I got this error. Can someone explain me how to solve it?

[wind scaffold]

What about freeplay mods ? Id prefer that than some story mods.

[indigo ledge]

Anomaly obviously if you want something totally new but if you want a more familiar experience Call of The Zone or Call of Chernobyl. There's also Road To The North which has a new map layout and is more story-oriented

[upbeat coral]

Dont play anomaly, its shit. I can recommend Dead Air, it bas much better quest variety

Or Legend Returns, its story mod but it has fair share of freeplay

[indigo ledge]

dead air baddd

[ebon tusk]

CoTZ, Legends Return,StasonsCoC and Global War

Anomaly is pretty bad

[remote pike]

How is anomaly anything new

[lunar kettle]

It's new to tourists

[lunar kettle]

Global War is only warfare and it's still very much a WIP mod so definitely not that

[ebon tusk]

Global War is still the most fun you can possibly have on a Freeplay mod tho so def that

[lunar kettle]

[indigo ledge]

What isnt new about it?

[lunar kettle]

Anything? Every aspect of it was just taken from previous CoC/M forks lol

[indigo ledge]

no xD

[lunar kettle]

ok

[lunar kettle]

Im curious, when did you get into stalker

[indigo ledge]

why is he interogating me xD

[lunar kettle]

Yea so anyways to answer your question: Anomaly doesn't do anything new yet it's also not a good modding platform due to crap they threw into it from Misery, the mod has an identity crisis and really shouldn't be praised as some second coming of christ to stalker modding.

[indigo ledge]

No its new in about every way

I rly dont know why ur pretending its not 😂

[lunar kettle]

Oh i get it, you're slow

[indigo ledge]

why is he mad..? xD

https://tenor.com/view/only-game-heff-be-mad-gif-5038541

[ebon tusk]

I mean,Dead Air is p new

and Anomaly has addons that are new

but Anomaly itself isnt new

so youre both right and wrong

[neat dune]

chymo_ has been warned

Reason: Bad word usage

[upbeat coral]

Damn

Anonaly is new cuz it combines old poopoo into new big poopoo

Haha screw you Wolf!

[upbeat coral]

Its not a good modding platform because devs dont have acces to half of the stuff or they are lazy to release it. What bothers me the most is inacessibility of AI paths making map editing pretty much impossible

[proud bane]

😂

[wind scaffold]

Thanks.

[wind scaffold]

Thanks.

[wind scaffold]

Thanks.

[wind scaffold]

Call of The Zone is that good ?

[crude quail]

does any1 know how to progress in OLR 2.5? cuz i was doing the quest for the clear sky guy in agroprom, took the artifact from suitcase and suddenly, alife has an epylepsy, a frickin mutant raid happens in factory and everyone is dead. now i dont know what to do.

[gentle salmon]

Call of the Zone probably has the best repeatable quests system for a freeplay mod. It probably is also the easiest freeplay mod too.

[ruby citrus]

olr can be extremely janky, iirc (don't trust me) guys at medpribor aren't neccessary to complete the game, but you could reload

[somber raptor]

anyone know how I'm supposed to grab the experimental ecolog suit in Lost Alpha? I already got the measurements, killed everything in the vicinity and updated quest. Everytime I try to go into the suit's room I get instakilled

I'm playing on 1.4007

[wind scaffold]

Thanks for answer.

[cunning moss]

Installing Alternate Ballastics will get me Feasible Stealth automatically ( SRP)?

[tidal sun]

this happens with any mod I try to start

literally any mod

i tried installing the newest Visual C++ redistributaries

didn't help

anyone got any advice?

[crude quail]

So where can i find the second psyweapon for scientists?

[crude quail]

Yeah reloading didnt work

[ebon tusk]

https://www.moddb.com/games/stalker/addons/marirobert-watson-weapon-replacers
@indigo ledge NLC7 weapon pack in SoC

[indigo ledge]

yay u gyess

https://youtu.be/dgOEZO_yw_Y is this the mod? it looks good

[ebon tusk]

yhea those are the anims

[indigo ledge]

Cool

[stray turtle]

Yo! Anyone has an addot that increases the usefulness of Artifacts for Anomaly 1.5.2?

making them closer to vanilla

[sick coyote]

where do I download global war

btw their entire server is russian so idk if they left a link or something

is alpha 4 just an update or the full game itself?

[ruby citrus]

don't remember that quest, but it's not main-story

[vague belfry]

guys i already played the og games with no mods, now im looking for a mod to play, what should i play? (i like good graphics and story mode)

[ebon tusk]

Return to the Zone

[vague belfry]

ty

[cinder oxide]

Which game has the most / best mods?

[tidal sun]

Call of Pripyat probably

[sick coyote]

correct

then it would be SoC and then CS

[wind scaffold]

Skyrim. But dont know if it have best mods.

[cinder oxide]

this guy

[cinder oxide]

aight

Is lost alpha worth playing at all

ive heard mixed opinions

[wind scaffold]

Lost Alpha DC Extended

Try this.

[cinder oxide]

thanks

[indigo ledge]

Yes

[ebon tusk]

SOC

Most CoP mods are mid at best

[upbeat coral]

Which arent mid?

Ive only played 3 story mods based on CoP and all were good

[ebon tusk]

Most of the well known ones in the eng community
CoP has an overabundance of "Merc Stories" that reuse the maps
Winds of Time,Valley of Whispers,Return to the Zone and Spatial Anomaly could be said to be some of the best

[upbeat coral]

Ive played all except for Valley of Whispers

[blissful sphinx]

Good idea?

[upbeat coral]

Why not just stick to normal artifact effects and unique suits such as the healing berill

[ebon tusk]

Pogo
Ma man
Make a new tier of upgrades that require ultra rare artifacts and change the texture of the suit and massively upgrade it to a niche

Make them excurbitantly exensive and hard go get

[blissful sphinx]

Its for SoC tho

[ebon tusk]

Even more reason to make it tbh
You can either make a new UI or do it thru dialogue with an NPC,but allow for a few upgrades that can only be achieved with artifacts and a lot of mones

ready to learn Scripting?

[blissful sphinx]

Im not that advanced yet hold your horses

[sick coyote]

great idea

[blissful sphinx]

Thanks

[sick coyote]

what happened to dad's beads

[blissful sphinx]

Went for the milk

[sick coyote]

😬

[novel anvil]

Can someone please give me the link for stalker CS arsenal overhaul mod? For some reason im unable to access moddb and its frustrating

Says "this site can't be reached"

[novel anvil]

nvm

i just installed CS

reinstalled

clean install

nothing else

[hearty acorn]

Ok, look, in the mod you downloaded, inside the main folder there is a folder named "gamedata" yes>

?

[novel anvil]

ye

[hearty acorn]

Open it.

[novel anvil]

i did

[hearty acorn]

I assume now you see some meshes or whatever its inside, in short a whole load of folders

[novel anvil]

ye

[hearty acorn]

Drag and drop THOSE in the CS game folder

[novel anvil]

without a gamedata folder?

[hearty acorn]

Yes, just the things inside it.

Did you do it? if so give me a screenshot of the root folder

[hearty acorn]

Oh, the gamedata folder does seem to be missing lol, im used to it working that way in anomaly lmao, anyways, try to run the game i suppose

[novel anvil]

it only has patches

should i download the weapons overhaul mod to see if it works?

Thats whats when in the overhaul mod

[hearty acorn]

Ok, extract it in some folder, and drag and drop those

[novel anvil]

even the shaders and particles thing

?

[hearty acorn]

Yes

[novel anvil]

ok done

let me see

okay its not even starting

ill go to sleep

thanks

[hearty acorn]

Lmao