🔩┃trilogy_modifications

[wooden ether]

and military model is changed with n**i soldiers

thats what i can remember right now

its a funny mode you really gotta try it

and its for SoC

and makes a "taw taw tatatatattaw" noise instead actual firing sounds

[young fable]

https://youtu.be/ENVWVHCbFe8

[surreal goblet]

Alrighty, thanks

[upbeat coral]

the reload is best

kchr, pum, pum, khrk, pac, pac, baum, baum

[wooden ether]

trusk truk butsk trusk butcheng butcheng

[austere solstice]

Wie Sieht das mit meiner Hardware aus? Habe soooo lange darauf gewartet und möchte das Spiel natürlich mit richtig guten Settings spielen.

Windows 11 Pro
AMD Ryzen 9 5950X 16-Core Processor 3.40 GHz
Ram: 32,0 GB
Graka: Geforce 3080 Ti RTX Suprime X 12Gb DDR6x
Mainboard: Asus Rog Crosshair VIII Dark Hero
Wasserkühlung: On

Was meinst du? Was meint Ihr?

[quaint ingot]

You can run it in high to medium settings. By the way, you posted this in wrong channel. You can post it on #💬┃en_offtop or #⭐┃nospoilers_general

[austere solstice]

Sorry for posting the Question at the wrong Channel Sir. And thank you for your answer

[quaint ingot]

No problem.

[rich knot]

Amk

[upbeat coral]

Trophy AMK

[rich knot]

They don't have a cooldown for this chat

[upbeat coral]

wth
I didnt get the faction war role
@austere girder what the helllllll

[rich knot]

They upped the cooldown for the #⭐┃nospoilers_general and #💬┃en_offtop

[rich knot]

You should play AMK

[upbeat coral]

genuenly joever

cant kotsmaxx

L decision

[rich knot]

I am using the AMK autumn edition and it's great

[upbeat coral]

almost as bad as using UE5 over developing Xray 2.0

[upbeat coral]

doesnt it crash and shit itself more often than Goldsphere does?

[rich knot]

The only thing that's bad about it so far is the strelok's mosin replaced the fast shooting AKM-74/2

And it does add some NPC text that's not banilla

[rich knot]

Like this for example

But maybe that's something autumn Aurora ads

[upbeat coral]

grrrrrrrrr

[austere girder]

click stash emoji

first one

[rich knot]

I kinda want to try the amk version without the merge later

[upbeat coral]

[rich knot]

You have it now

[upbeat coral]

I know§

[rich knot]

Yes

[neon socket]

im dowloading the Exeption

lets see how it its

[raw nexus]

OMG

STLAKER 2 RELEASE in 3 HOURS

HOLY SIDORVICH

IM EXCITED

[pine bridge]

for real

damnnn im hyped

[upbeat coral]

20 hours

[blazing lichen]

3 hours?

[pine bridge]

when is the releas time ?

[supple mountain]

There in GSC locality it will be in 5 PM

[lament jackal]

Hey guys, is there something like a manual for Radiophobia 3? Where I can learn about all the new settings and mechnics?
For example I'd like to know what the difference in the different game and economy difficulties are.

[upbeat coral]

November 20th 5pm CET
And right now its November 19th 9pm CET

[fresh crypt]

Prepare yur NASA,SPACEX PC

[pine bridge]

bro for me its good

i can play it on high graphics

[fresh crypt]

me too ^^

[pine bridge]

yesssir

[fresh crypt]

i have +10.000 hours all stalker and mods

[pine bridge]

im glad that i pre order the ultimate edition

[fresh crypt]

too

[pine bridge]

damn for me its my first stalker game

[supple mountain]

too

[fresh crypt]

wao good luck XD

[upbeat coral]

Yall weird

[pine bridge]

@upbeat coralnaahh you

[upbeat coral]

How could you tell?

[pine bridge]

🫡

love you

[pine bridge]

https://tenor.com/view/freaky-eagle-gif-418167729675118656

[upbeat coral]

Epic embed fail

[pine bridge]

🫡

failed that shit yk

[neon socket]

Starting the exeption

lets hope my pc doesnt turn into reactor 4

[supple mountain]

Your AMD turn into RBMK?

[tawny pivot]

[upbeat coral]

I ran it on i5 650 and RX550

So I think ur good

[tawny pivot]

chymooooooo

[upbeat coral]

Yes?

Hello
Hi
Thats me

[neon socket]

OMG this thing has a map the size of SoC

[tawny pivot]

IS IT YOU IM LOOKING FOR

[upbeat coral]

Umm

[tawny pivot]

you talked about getting exo suit possibly from mono at bridge in red forest

[upbeat coral]

The maps are from In The Spite Of The Death mod which sadly never got finished
Exception is the first mod to do them justice

[upbeat coral]

Yes

[neon socket]

ill add that other mod to the list too

[tawny pivot]

where them mono boys hanging around?

at the road or inside the forst

[warped lagoon]

If i preloaded via gamepass, then moved into a steam folder and got steam to locate already installed game would it patch it with steam files and be playable?

[upbeat coral]

It doesnt exist
Or
First two in the series do
Third one (where the maps are from) was never finished and the assets were later released publically

[upbeat coral]

Dont know
You will definitely be able to transfer the saves tho

[upbeat coral]

At the tower
Near the river

In Clear Sky Red Forest

They may nit be there but Ive seen them pretty often there

[tawny pivot]

yeah the tower with the metal bridge?

[upbeat coral]

Yes

[warped lagoon]

I will test if it failes ill just sleep tomorrow have thursday off work anyway

[upbeat coral]

The one where you fight Renegades in Clear Sky

[neon socket]

the exeption has a working economy

[patent apex]

don't most mods have trading

[neon socket]

this is so beautifull to see in a mod

[neon socket]

but not all have medkits at vanila prices

[patent apex]

ah

yeah they're normally inflated for some reason

[upbeat coral]

Stalker modders hate fun
Thats why

Except the all mighty Jekan
Who made an economy where you buy a vodka for 1000 rublos, exchange it for parts box, sell parts box for 8k

[neon socket]

that sounds pretty cool actually

also i sold the knives that sidorovish gave me and stocked up on medkits

[upbeat coral]

The knives gus tho

[rich knot]

Return to the zona?

[upbeat coral]

Yes

Its based isnt it?

[upbeat coral]

Dooty locked me up and took my shit
They forgot my throwing knife tho

[neon socket]

zaam i think i softlocked me then

ill load a save and just sell 1

[upbeat coral]

Nope

The knifes arent used to escape

Its just oversight

[neon socket]

ah then nvm

[upbeat coral]

Oh also
SMGs, AK-74u, Vikhr and other small weapons go into the secondary gun slot

Once you get the money I recommend getting Vepr-12 from the guys at Agroprom (they sell the only 20 round version afaik) for primary slot and Vikhr for secondary

Both are super OP

[neon socket]

okie dokie

also

sidorovish just game me money

because i asked too

this thing is beautifull

[upbeat coral]

Sid is so based

[chilly kernel]

Hello, this is the modders hub for stalker 2 correct? Just a random question popped up while I was taking a shit. I wonder what kind of mods folks will focus on after the game launches

[upbeat coral]

General all purpose mod channel

For the trilogy
Since we cant know what mods will be made for Stalker 2

But probably just some poopy gunpacks at first

[chilly kernel]

Ahhh you mean expanding the gun arsenal? Makes sense

[upbeat coral]

I mean ruining it

Because thats what modders love to do nowadays

[chilly kernel]

Loads lmg with religious intent

[neon socket]

i woudnt mind most weapon pack mods if they didnt changed the dam balance of the game too much

[upbeat coral]

No sovl unlike OWR, Assembly by Sam and STCoP

[neon socket]

with those "milsim realism bs"

[neon socket]

STCoP was one of the first mods i ever tried

[upbeat coral]

I sure love when a single mag from M4 kills three pseudogiants

[chilly kernel]

Haha. What kind of rigs you guys will run your stalker 2 game on?

[upbeat coral]

I never played it
I mean, I played bunch of story mods that had it integrated
But never just CoP with STCoP

[upbeat coral]

Run?
Ill be happy if my laptop walks Stalker 2

[chilly kernel]

Based

[neon socket]

i used it mostly on CoC but i switched to AO after sometime

[upbeat coral]

I never played CoC

I installed it once because Legend Returns needs it, and made a spare copy just in case

[neon socket]

its just CoP with the other triology maps slaped into it

[patent apex]

legend returns is still gone

[upbeat coral]

Yup

This Legend wont Return anytime soon

[calm thorn]

Will the game support 21:9 aspect ratio

[neon socket]

so far im liking the exeption a lot

[upbeat coral]

Its the only good mod that has anything to do with BaS

Somehow they made that shitpack bearable

[neon socket]

if you didnt told me i would have never guessed it was BaS pack

[upbeat coral]

I only noticed in the near final map
As I got two ugly tactislop guns from stashes

[neon socket]

an anomaly gave me a shotgun

definetly who made this loves fun

[upbeat coral]

Hell yeah

It will also give you other fun stuff

Also the shotgun is decently accurate
You can kill people from 30 meters away without issues

[raw nexus]

im in germany

so

1 and a half hour

[upbeat coral]

The game releases at 5PM

17:00

[raw nexus]

bruh

that sucks

but i didnt buy it im too broke

[upbeat coral]

[raw nexus]

i have to watch youtube

[neon socket]

i got blinded after picking the artifact xd

bandits finally steal something more than bread

[upbeat coral]

Hehe

[neon socket]

https://tenor.com/view/flashbang-gif-22572243

[upbeat coral]

Its not bandoots

Its mercenaris

[neon socket]

zaam

[upbeat coral]

I hate mercenaris

They are bandits but gay

[raw nexus]

true

they are friendly towards bandits

and they hate loners

[neon socket]

my weapon jammed

[rich knot]

Well. That depends on if mutants are women or not.
If they can't be then they both gey.
Or if it depends then it depends.
If they are all women then that's Trve.

[neon socket]

now i have decent gear and money

i love when mods doesnt have 6 hours grinding for a toz

[neon socket]

i have never seen stealth working this well in stalker tbh

[blazing lichen]

Fr

10 random fetch quests for a chance at a toolkit

[austere ravine]

is there anything I should know before I play tomorrow as someone who has never played a stalker game

[fallen thunder]

save the game many times and dont rush it 😄

[neon socket]

fr, i wanted to add a few thingys to my CoC but it oly shows me gama results 🤮

[blazing lichen]

[neon socket]

its not the end of the world i have most of what i wanted anyways

and somehow its stable

[blazing lichen]

How many mods you got?

[neon socket]

like 20-30 but messed a bit the load order, so now if i change some songs of the radio the game crashes

so freedom is stuck with western songs

not the end of the world

since i aint doing this again

also i use coc 1.4.22 since 1.5 never got that popular with addons

adn the doctor X stuff is a must

[blazing lichen]

I do a custom coc modlist tbh rn I'm using cotz 1.2 with rhons repack

Fr it's not worth going 1.5 for the loss of good mods

[neon socket]

im not using cotz because im a bit lazy to do a custom modlist, tho im using the Doctor X questlines in CoC

[patent bear]

Just finished CoP

Pretty sick

only thing I didn't like was the thinness overall of the content and the difficulty was kinda easy but otherwise most fun one of the OG trilogy to play imo

anyone got any good mod recs? Apart from Gunslinger. Mostly just wanna find something that makes the difficulty a bit harder with nicer weapon anims and variety maybe

[blissful sleet]

ABR changes gunplay around and adds more difficulty but nothing near Anomaly or GAMMA

Seemed to be the sweetspot for me in terms of difficulty and fun

Economy isnt completely borked either

Only available for CS and COP tho

[neon socket]

yeah abr seems to be the standar of mods

for cs and cop

i personally for the vanila games i just use FOV mod

[blissful sleet]

Tbh for COP I thought the gunplay was fine enough. It was SOC and CS that needed the most work for me

I used ABR for CS to add a little more modern flair to the game

[neon socket]

happines

[blazing lichen]

aye solid find

[neon socket]

now i gotta fix it

thankfully i have money saved

and a repair kit

so it will be quite cheap

[neon socket]

not so lucky after all

[radiant grove]

glub

[upbeat coral]

OWR

It also upgrades the engine

Also
Please dont use ABR
It poses as "bugfix" mod but all it does is turn the game into sloppy wannabe call of duty

[neon socket]

ayo fr? i never have used abr

is ZRP and SRP ok?

[upbeat coral]

SRP is

ZRP is questionable

Generally of all the "bugfix" mods I can only recommend SRP

[noble basalt]

interestingly in the xml file there was supposed to a random message in PDA follow up that answers that "You just made several enemies by sending that message"

i think CoC gets rid of it

[neon socket]

okie dokie now that you mention it

i realized that Zrp cuts some parts

like waiting for the PSY device

[exotic swan]

Gamma modpack

[untold glen]

i feel like CoC is sooo broken

like, its engine breaks every 2 seconds tbh

like, i love it

not when im just getting thrown at 700 meters persecond (literally), when trying to open the door in adar (safe space)

and getting tped out of map cuz of it pretty much

[young fable]

Play IWP CoTZ

No reason to play normal CoC

[neon socket]

i dont like the iwp economy balance 😭

[neon socket]

its not thaaaat broken

[untold glen]

im new to mods

[untold glen]

for me it bugs every 2 seconds

like, f.e. the anomalous npc's, which stand in engineering tables

or saharov just koming out to shoot mutants, and then tping in the bunker

[neon socket]

that one is a normal one

crashes and other stuff is usually due to a fulty addon

[untold glen]

or door one that i told before

[untold glen]

my game crashes on vanilla CoC 1.4.23

[neon socket]

oof

[untold glen]

or whatever the latest stable version was

[neon socket]

im on 1.4.22

[untold glen]

especially if i try to drop items too fast

[untold glen]

it means i have this

[neon socket]

1.5 isnt worth it

[untold glen]

version

[untold glen]

what is even that

[young fable]

Just CoTZ

[untold glen]

what it changes

[young fable]

Fork for CoC

[untold glen]

whats CoTZ

[young fable]

Call Of The Zone

[untold glen]

wats iwp

[untold glen]

okay...

[young fable]

Made by Doctor X (rip)

[untold glen]

never heard of it

[neon socket]

last version of of CoC

[young fable]

Improved Weapon Pack

[untold glen]

oh

[untold glen]

why rip

[neon socket]

he died some years ago

[young fable]

He passed away in 2021

[untold glen]

OOF

R.I.P

[young fable]

Without him Anomaly wouldnt born because its based on his CoC addon Doctor X questline

[untold glen]

oh wow

i never played it

its weight itself is crazy

[neon socket]

also the dinamic faction relations

[young fable]

https://youtu.be/WXZvZVij7Ok?si=nlF32RwA205a6Vfe
@untold glen

[neon socket]

that was him also

[untold glen]

30 gb for anomaly, and alonther 60 for gamma 💀

[young fable]

Here the IWP

Showcase

[untold glen]

oh wow, i need to find that addon fr

[neon socket]

i think its integrated on CotZ

[untold glen]

ohhh

[untold glen]

ill play CoTZ then

[neon socket]

not sure tho since i use the Doctor X addons on regular CoC tho

[untold glen]

cuz me killing everyone and everyone ignoin git is cringe

[untold glen]

checked it... its meh tbh

[neon socket]

the engine is a bit more stable

since Cry engine

[young fable]

Huh?

[untold glen]

oh wow

[young fable]

Why?

[neon socket]

i dont use IWP because i cant use it on my deck unlike regular CoC

[untold glen]

i didnt liked those animations

[young fable]

And How?

[untold glen]

wdym

i didt really liked the weapons

[neon socket]

IWP does a rework on the engine, its more than just the weapons

[young fable]

What you prefered then?

[untold glen]

ohhh

[untold glen]

idk, closer to vanilla

[young fable]

SWR

Stalker Weapon Reanimated

[untold glen]

WHY DOES VINTAR DOESNT HAVE SCOPE

(vintar is my fav weapon)

[neon socket]

you can atach a PSO scope

[untold glen]

ohhhh

is it rare to obtain?

[neon socket]

its the AK one

way easier to find than the Vintar

[young fable]

You dont know about modding is friend because in Vanilla you can code Vintar scopeless

[untold glen]

idk i usually try to find vintar in first half an hour of gameplay

and scope is usually extremely rare

fo me

[untold glen]

yes, i dont

im new

[noble basalt]

scope_status = 0

[young fable]

Yes

[neon socket]

That lets you atach other scopes? :0

Or it just render it scopeless

[noble basalt]

well in the hand model, the vintorez will look scopeless and the player will use iron sight if pressed to zoom (but it can be misaligned since the weapon is not intended to use iron sights). But in inventory icon, the vintorez still has a scope

As for attaching other scopes, well you need to specify the

scope_name = ......

to other scope name such as susat, etc.
and also set the

scope_status = 2

(Note: scope_status number is 1 / 2 / 0. 0 means the weapon can't attach scope at all, 1 means the scope is integrated and undetachable, 2 means it can attach or detach scope)

[neon socket]

Ic ic, pretty interesting, might apply it later to vanila CoP

[untold glen]

oh wow

[young fable]

And make sure the scope model is attached to wpn_scope vertex bones.

[noble basalt]

i ain't saying it will show a vintorez with susat scope visually kekw

[brave wigeon]

Has any information regarding STALKER 2 modding on PC been released yet? Guides & tools?

[upbeat coral]

no

[rich knot]

The game just released today

[bitter galleon]

Mods are gonna improve a buuunch. Excited.

[ruby citrus]

i doubt 💅💅

[upbeat coral]

unless its new AMK S2 Edition then it wont improve shit

[ebon tusk]

SDK will be released later

[ebon tusk]

AMK offline A-life implementation into S2?

[brave wigeon]

Would that be later today or later this year?

[ebon tusk]

After Release, not day one
GSC will update the game with SDK, tho we dont know when

[brave wigeon]

Gotcha, Thanks!

[red phoenix]

Quality of life mod requests (that would make it easier to disable hud elements and become immersed in the game)

1. free look
2. free zoom
3. handheld compass (so I can turn off the hud compass, and since I can't walk around holding the PDA)
4. handheld PDA (not full screen pda, so I can walk around holding the PDA, to get orientation)
5. PDA icon filter (toggle the different icons on and off to simplify the map view)
6. simple interact menu (text based interact menu like previous stalkers, without needing to wait for dialogue to play out)
7. Lower weapon (instead of put weapon away)

[glad marsh]

Want pip scopes mod

[red phoenix]

the point of free look, as anyone who has done IRL land navigation before would know, is so that you can maintain the same heading, while still being able to look around. If you're doing real land nav, you don't want to be turning your body every which direction because when you turn yourself around you get turned around, have to pull up your compass (PDA in this case) and get your bearings again. It is some low-hanging fruit and shouldn't be all that difficult to decouple camera movement from the viewmodel

For anyone who wants to play 100% without the HUD, free look is a must

[upbeat coral]

Literally move the mouse
Theres no need to complicated it with extra controls that have literally 0 benefit

[hallow hatch]

does anyone know if there'll be an Ultimate or deluxe upgrade?

[ebon tusk]

"as anyone who has done IRL land navigation before would know"
you mean, like everyone who can walk?

[red phoenix]

"land navigation" is the specific formal training for orienteering in the wild for the US Army

so no, not literally everyone who can walk. And loads of dumbasses failed land navigation training and had to repeat it

[red phoenix]

as I just explained, the benefit is that I can look around without changing my orientation, W is still the exact same direction as W when I do free look. At night time, when you can't see far enough to have a landmark, its easy to get turned around, especially in a place like Red Forest

[upbeat coral]

Thats..
Thats why minimap exists
And compass
And PDA map

[red phoenix]

which, in old stalker, I could walk while holding the PDA, in this game, you can't move while holding the PDA so its even more easy to get turned around and walk 5 minutes in the wrong direction

which is why I also requested a handheld compass and old-style handheld PDA

[upbeat coral]

You have big ass compass on top of your screen...

[red phoenix]

so literally you're just listing all the things I said would be necessary if I wanted to play without the hud

thanks for illustrating my point

[upbeat coral]

If you cant navigate without hud then maybe dont turn it off

[ebon tusk]

fancy way of saying, taking a hike

[red phoenix]

or, if I can't do it without the hud, don't add it as a feature, or support alternative ways to acquire the necessary information to disable the hud elements

[red phoenix]

nope, orienteering is a specific activity.
If there are a dozen boxes containing different coordinates all nearby, you'd better be pretty accurate with your orienteering, or you'll open the wrong box, and go to the wrong subsequent objective.

[ebon tusk]

I will make the harduous adventure to travel to the great bazzaar is a lot more interesting than saying Im going to costco
same thing really

[red phoenix]

I highly doubt anyone here has ever done map/compass navigation
Because everyone who has knows how easy it is to mess up
Especially when you don't have a constant reminder of your heading, like a GPS watch or other electronics

[ebon tusk]

you speak as tho using a compass and a map is some, malkavian esoteric thing
I did that when I was a teen

[short pilot]

any modder(s) already on a no weight limit mod of some description? the game is giving me the fomo in form of "I have to loot everything" and I already run around with only my 2 weapons equipped and food, drink, medkits and ammo alone are bringing me over the weight limit, it is ridiculous. I cant stand weight limits in any sort of game, screw "realism" in this context.

also a mod which makes all UI elements permanent instead of disappearing would REALLY be appreciated.

[pale swift]

I've done it before IRL and I play a lot of ArmA. If you're getting lost for 5 minutes in STALKER without a HUD, you might want to reconsider your supposed expertise in orienteering.

[red phoenix]

no, I'm not saying its esoteric
I'm saying that people these days don't know how to do land navigation
Everyone hikes trails
Everyone drives with GPS navigation
But asking people who have never had to do actual orienteering in the wild, at night, with low visibility, and no supporting electronics, there are a lot of ways to blunder your way into life threatening situations.
You keep tripling down on your ignorance out of arrogance and it really stinks

[ebon tusk]

to anyone requesting mods
learn how to mod
sincerely, me

[pale swift]

I mean even I walk in the wrong direction for ~20 seconds, it happens, but jesus you have a PDA that shows your exact orientation and position regardless of HUD settings.

Freelook is such a meaningless mechanic in most games, it's not necessary provided you have enough intellect to just... turn back to where you were facing

[red phoenix]

walking 5 minutes the wrong way absolutely has happened to folks doing land nav IRL, which is what I was equivocating
I'm not saying that happens to me in game, but I do get sick of pulling up the PDA every few seconds with the compass hud element off

BECUASE I can't walk with the PDA in stalker 2

which you used to be able to do

[pale swift]

If you need to pull your PDA up every few seconds then you might want to reconsider your supposed expertise in map and compass navigation

[red phoenix]

if I could walk with the PDA in view, then free look would be less of an issue

[red phoenix]

with stalker 1, I could literally point my cursor toward the objective in question and walk straight at it, I can't do that in stalker 2 because the PDA prevents you from walking

[pale swift]

So you can't stop for 3 seconds to reorient yourself?

[red phoenix]

and at night, you literally can't get a distant land mark to know if you got facing the wrong direction

like have you guys not gotten the game installed yet or something?

[pale swift]

I've played it for ~5 hours so far

[red phoenix]

the constant stop-and-go prevents me from turning off the compass hud element

its actually a limiting factor in finding your way without the HUD

[ebon tusk]

you say this as situating yourself in Stalker is some complex and laborious task, and that you'd only be able to do it with these supporting mechanics, when even if you didn't have a compass youd be able to orient yourself with the mechanics already at hand
plus you use these long winded words and technical terms to try and confuse people when in reality, the crux of what you say is very simple and concise, I don't understand why but, no using a map is not some mystical ability and knowing where north and south is even less
you may want to have freelook, but I fail to see how freelook is related to these 2

lastly

if you request mods
learn how to mod
thank you

[red phoenix]

no, all I said is I want to turn the hud off
as its an option
And I like it

[ebon tusk]

you can already do that

[red phoenix]

yes I can

[ebon tusk]

go to options

[pale swift]

I've not experienced anything like you're saying, you probably just need to brush up on skills surrounding spatial awareness and orienteering

[red phoenix]

but the information I need to actually get anywhere and do anything

[pale swift]

t. Doesn't Get Lost

[red phoenix]

isn't available without stopping every few seconds

for a few seconds

its pretty obnoxious

[ebon tusk]

unless you have the memory permanace of a fish, you should be able to retain the general location of where you are supposed to go for some time before you need to brush up on it

also

[red phoenix]

"brush up on orienteering with map only and no compass"

you're funny

[ebon tusk]

how would, being able to use freelook, help in this?

its not even related

what you want, is a minimap

or a compass

which is what you dont want

[pale swift]

The map shows your location, no?

[red phoenix]

W continues to be the same azimuth
But I can look in different directions
So if its dark
And there's no distant land mark
Like red forest...

[red phoenix]

stop and go, every few seconds
...
Which wouldn't be an issue
with old stalker PDAs where I can walk with the map in view

[pale swift]

Every few seconds?

How short is thine memory retention?

Can you not go 3 seconds without losing a general sense of where you are?

Fascinating.

[ebon tusk]

you can alraeady look in different directions and keep yourself in the same direction you were previously by just, remembering where you were last going

[red phoenix]

1. walk through red forest
2. hear a sound
3. go to check it out
4. where am I
5. need to open map again
   pretty basic shit actually

[red sedge]

Getting lost is skill issue.
Tho i just had to walk from south complex to first village overloaded with guns to sell, backtracking for safety. So it that case it would be nice to be able to read PDA or admire your inventory while holding „w”

[ebon tusk]

this sounds like forcing yourself to have a blatant and easely fixable flaw so you can force the solution to appear

[red phoenix]

nobody is lost, it isn't about not getting lost, its about maintaining orientation

its amazing discord is able to maintain a product

when every single discord is filled with such vitriolic toxic assclowns

[pale swift]

1. walk through red forest
2. hear a sound
3. go check it out
4. just go back the way I was going because I don't have the world's fastest acting case of alzheimers

[red phoenix]

who can't even hold a basic discussion without insulting

[ebon tusk]

you dont need to convince people that freelook is needed because there is some problem that nobody but you has, you jsut want it
and now, its time to learn how to mod so you can make it

[pale swift]

How are we being vitriolic and toxic?

[ebon tusk]

lemme get some primers on coding

get you started

when the SDK drops, youll be ready

[pale swift]

You're getting pressed over such a non-issue and getting shirty over people shooting down your asinine complaints

[red phoenix]

its nice that you've all identified yourselves so I can figure out who isn't worth my time trying to reason with

much obliged

[ebon tusk]

lol

[pale swift]

Haha

[red phoenix]

turn a simple (and low-effort) request into an endless barrage of demonstrating your lack of patience, understanding, and insistence on your own ignorance

this was a learning opportunity

[pale swift]

You're getting a bit deep here

[red phoenix]

I appreciate the lesson

[ebon tusk]

Will SDK will have LUA scripting or it will use the normal UE Editor stuff?
what do you think?

[ebon tusk]

and you could learn more
just ask I have some C++ books

[pale swift]

Perhaps if you spent more time brushing up on basic motor skills you'd be better at not getting lost in a videogame no one else has trouble with getting lost in

[ebon tusk]

thats the basis of UE

[pale swift]

As opposed to whining on Discord

🥴

Though it would be cool if the HUD was done in a Red Orchestra-style, only appearing upon specific events or user keypress

[junior iris]

any else have fps drops when in the research facility during prologue?

[supple nest]

Some nice stuff in the GameLite module. ALife tweaks incoming

[supple nest]

By default UE games will mount any PAKs within the game's PAKs folder

[pseudo rose]

A mod that allows slightly faster running / stamina regen. And slightly longer day time would be nice.

[hearty crow]

I hope modders can introduce a thirst and sleep mechanic to complement hunger

[pseudo rose]

Agreed. It's weird only hunger is there but not sleep and thirst.

[supple nest]

https://github.com/Buckminsterfullerene02/UE-Modding-Tools#asset-editors-parsers--explorers

[neon socket]

Can someone mod out the scary loading screen. I want to casually explore when my toddler is watching TV, but, really don’t want him seeing that by accident.

Hello boys👋. Reshade preset enjoyer here. I will be posting some of my epic ReShade presets I make for every game. Some of these will be resource intensive while others will not be as hard on system.

[noble basalt]

🤙

[neon socket]

Most likely will post to discord or nexus stay tuned

[glad marsh]

I'm not joking around

I literally want PiP scopes

Devs if you see this, you could upload your pip implementation as seen in the first trailers, in nexusmods anonymously.

There's no harm in doing that, does it?

[glad abyss]

Is it possible to try modding with gamepass version of stalker 2?

[sly horizon]

Yep

[wintry token]

are there any mods yet ? searching something to rebind flashlight and ladder climbing but did not even found any config/options file

[sly horizon]

But somes files are named differently with gamepass
Like the .exe for the reshade

[glad abyss]

Thank you

[molten socket]

Isn't sleep there already? Got a tooltip saying I need to sleep (although it went away and I don't see the moon symbol anymore)

[red kite]

A gift from Grok to the STALKER community ❤️

https://www.moddb.com/games/stalker-2/addons/groks-less-tanky-bloodsucker-and-poltergeists

[ebon tusk]

for stuff like this it would be better to just, learn how to use Cheat Engine and make a trainer

[rough furnace]

what tools do i need to make some basic pak changes? havent made UE mods before

[young fable]

Stalker 2 style AKS-74u

[mint vigil]

[inland jacinth]

anyone tried groks bloodsucker, polter and flesh hp nerf? Some said it removes guns from traders and unable to buy or something like that?

[upbeat coral]

Not only that
It also removes ALL fun

And causes hyperinflation to hit the Zone

[idle matrix]

Well any mods right now are probably prone to bugs of their own given the lack of official support

[pseudo rose]

In my 8 hours of playing I've yet to see the symbol pop up but I have slept like 2-3 times.

[noble basalt]

quick as always

[ebon tusk]

THE STALKER 2 SDK IS NOT YET AVAILABLE, HOWEVER, AS STALKER 2 IS A UNREAL ENGINE GAME, YOU CAN USE BOILERPLATE UE MODDING TOOLS AND TUTORIALS

https://github.com/Buckminsterfullerene02/UE-Modding-Tools
https://github.com/Dmgvol/UE_Modding
https://github.com/trumank/repak
PLEASE DO NOTE THAT YOULL HAVE TO ADAPT A LOT OF STUFF AND FIND IT OUT YOURSELF
When the SDK is released a new channel just for stalker 2 will be made
ADDITIONAL RULE: Do not make mod requests, if you want a mod, try and make it yourself, and ask around how to make it, if you make a mod request it will be deleted, if you keep doing it you will be warned and subsequently mutted

[young fable]

ay ay captain

[neon socket]

I got called a gamma player, its so over

[rough furnace]

thank you, i managed to open up the files and now looking at what is available before the SDK

[tender spire]

Not sure if S2 modding is being discussed here, but I wonder if at this time it would be possible or not to allow the player to sleep on all beds hahah.

Day lenght is too short sadly

[proven lantern]

Im trying to look into this...

[woven onyx]

I'm sorry I'm posting this here, I encountered a bug that attracts the rat standard star, I haven't moved the mouse in the video, the front sight is always attracted to the room. The reboot also had no effect.🥹

[proven lantern]

If anyone would be interested to check out the differences between difficulties

[upbeat coral]

[proven lantern]

Found game time cfg. I dont know if modifiying and makign paks of this willl even work tho. First time even looking into UE modding

line 25

probably

itll break the game into shit

BUT i do remember @austere girder mentioning once that 1 ingame day is 1 IRL hour. The setting is currrently set to 24, so lets say i modify this to 12, i assume itd make game days twice as long

where did you hear this?

welp i made my first mod

ez as pie, now time goes 1:1 real time

ill see if the sky box reflects the time passing properly. Cannot imagine all the shit this could break

[ebon tusk]

ho you know, this and that

[proven lantern]

pffft

well i just got into a firefight with the whole of Zalissya

them guns worked well imo... im kidding tho, ill play around and see what i can notice

[icy linden]

Were you able to do this by editing a config file in paks somewhere? I havent gotten into game modding before so im just curious

[proven lantern]

go on the second link and follow the tutorials. You dont need Unreal toh, only Fmodel and AES extracter

i can already tell that the storm weather was going on for way longer. So i imagine emissions might have a similar issue?

[proven lantern]

There a lot more youll have to do, for example when you add a new game profile, make sure to select GAME_UE5_0.

[icy linden]

Ok, Ill poke around and see what's up, havent really done much before besides change values in KCD lol

[proven lantern]

the core game variables are under pakchunk0-Windows.pak then in the stalker2/Content/GameLite/Gamedata folder. I had some what of an easier time since i work with some programming tools at work, so it was a bit more intuitive for me. I think for a layman it might be tougher

[proven lantern]

This is my first time touching UE game for modding as well. as @rugged canopy mentioned, i think this game is easier to mod since everythings dumped in cfgs plain text

[icy linden]

Yeah I mainly deal with python and havent touched cpp or c# for years at this point

[proven lantern]

Im doing C and VHDL/Verilog. Also of course a plethora of other languages for tools and scripts

[ebon tusk]

https://www.jacksondunstan.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/05/CppForCsharpDevelopers.pdf
this might help, maybe

[proven lantern]

Love python, hate c++/c#. Luckily i havent had to use them professionally

[icy linden]

thanks!

[proven lantern]

im dumb when it comes to OOP

[ebon tusk]

OOP is love, OOP is life

[icy linden]

yeah i just use the bare minimum of oop with python for work, most the stuff I do isnt too complicated XD

[glad marsh]

How hard will it be to mod scope optics??

[ebon tusk]

wait for the SDK

[proven lantern]

Thank you so much @ebon tusk for the guide btw. Im excited to see what more talented people will come up with

[supple nest]

Anyone found the item drops cfg file?

It might be possible to make a somewhat survival hardcore mod via cfg file modification. There's a lot of stuff that seem modifiable. Change item drops, change medkit healing speed, tweak the difficulty, etc

[ebon tusk]

yknow what would be real based? make the SDK work tbhru LUA Scripts and force people to learn C lang syntax

[ebon tusk]

I expect for the time of a consumable animation to be tied to the animation itself not a variable

doing it the latter way sounds, weird

[supple nest]

Maybe I expressed myself wrong, not the consumable animation, more the HP regeneration speed, you pop a medkit and boom you are almost fully healed, maybe make it a 30-50 seconds healing? I'll keep digging the variables, hopefully it is one

Just found this, there might be something there, will keep testing

[simple thistle]

Anyone got an idea what the best performance optimization mod out there is so far? There's a bunch of them on Nexus Mods, all claiming to help performance, but can't really find a consensus on which is best so far

[proven lantern]

I used S.T.A.L.K.E.R. 2 - Ultimate Engine Tweaks

https://www.nexusmods.com/stalker2heartofchornobyl/mods/17

Seems alright, just need to do some extra set up yourself

[simple thistle]

I tried that one but I can't bear the shader compiling time, so I'm using 2 different ones that use .pak files instead of modifying the Engine.ini file, Stalker Optimizer, and STK2 - SPF

Probably isn't a great idea to use 2 of them at the same time but hasn't caused any issues as far as I can tell lol

[proven lantern]

They have updated it and it now compiles magnitudes faster

[proven lantern]

They have overlapping functions. It would probably not work well

The changes on the ini are basically the same at the .pak one but the ini gives more control over the mod

[simple thistle]

I mean I've seen performance differences for sure

you won't "see" much of anything at that point

[icy linden]

I can do you one better, stare straight up at the skybox and you'll get a 2x fps boost

[simple thistle]

can't argue with that one

[radiant sun]

hello. does anyone have anything ready to increse weight a little? to 100 or somethink

[proven lantern]

I half a gree they're snake oil

[patent bear]

change DirectX mode to 8

[proven lantern]

I saw much improvement at first. Specially with stuttering

[supple nest]

Can you PAK files without UE5? Currently rocking a 500kb/s download

[simple thistle]

I'm on a 4080 super....but I think my CPU and RAM are probably mostly to blame (other than just game optimization ofc). Have a Ryzen 9 5900X and 32GB of DDR4 at 3200 MHz

I'm gonna try the top 4 on Nexus one by one and see which is best

[upbeat coral]

No stalker game or mod ever had DX8

BIG KOT

[simple thistle]

I feel like the game would just refuse to run on DX8 lol

[upbeat coral]

Yes

[noble basalt]

Static lighting-ers and R1 renderer

[simple thistle]

K well "Optimized Tweaks S.2" is definitely out of the running for being a good mod for optimization, had an average fps of 39 as opposed to another mod which had 55

Is there a built in benchmark instead of me having to attempt to do it somewhat consistently?

[ebon tusk]

Static Lighting is Dx9
Dx8 was only ever used on the very first builds in 2002, they quickly switched to Dx9

[noble basalt]

yeah i know that. also i am gotta sayin those mods with option "Switch to Dx8" is just DX9 without second render R2

[simple thistle]

so from my probably very not accurate testing, but testing none the less, the best optimization mod seems to be: https://www.nexusmods.com/stalker2heartofchornobyl/mods/9?tab=description

[cold pasture]

important to remember that these mods mostly affect the CPU usage and has overall minimal impact on the GPU performance

[upbeat coral]

@blazing lichen wanna see my new epic sticker?

[blazing lichen]

Let's see

[blazing lichen]

PEAK

[noble basalt]

P-p-peak

[upbeat coral]

you know whats also peak?
DOGGO

casting magic

oh look
magic casted successfully

[icy linden]

can confirm it works surprisingly well, thanks for throwing this out there

[little panther]

have you tried https://www.nexusmods.com/stalker2heartofchornobyl/mods/2?tab=posts this is the one i used which worked really wellb ut id be interesting in trying the one you linekd

[proven lantern]

Id like to get a poll started for working on a Master Difficulty mod,... maybe.

[simple thistle]

That was the first one I tried, had lower average and lower 1%

again, my testing is far from scientific but it's something

[proven lantern]

These are my grievances with AI tbh. It feels like STALKER on lower difficulties all over again that just adds or reduces enemy HP pools, lowers damage etc. It would be nice to have the true STALKER experience of one-two bullets against unarmored/early enemies kills them but so can kill you

Also AI is super opresive to the point that you can just cheese them as they will eventually just rush corners to you

[drifting moat]

I haven't had many rush me. Just snipe me with grenade throws

Bandits rush like they idiots though

[proven lantern]

funny enough, i have seen them throw grenades but they are so vocal about it

its so easy to just hear them and move before the nade even makes it to you

also, ive notice on AI file that they can predict the player through sound. I think this is what people are seeing as the enemies "seeing" you through walls

[drifting moat]

I usualyl see the grenade, I havent recongixzed the line for greande yet but Im playing with the voices in Ukrainian not english so Im likely not noticing

[drifting moat]

I have noticed that, even when sneaking they get close to detecting me through walls

[ebon tusk]

prob just find the sound file and search the cfg's for that said name file
I expect them to call the sound on script

[proven lantern]

ive seen the subtitle show up, things like "Catch this" or "Eat this" to the sorts

[ebon tusk]

yet again, notepad++ proves to be, the best tool anyone has ever made

[proven lantern]

is there a way to dump the whole pak data into a folder using FModel?

[keen crag]

decided to play the Global War mod for COC, it’s certainly a mod alright

[little panther]

are you running FSR/DLSS and frame gen? I'm getting like 120fps with this setup but id be interesting in trying other stuff

[keen crag]

my favorite part so far is the massive wall at the cordon bridge

[rough furnace]

I want to make a small mod to get into the process, i found a .uasset file i want to change a value in and repack. but not sure how to actually change the values, the guide tells me to open the extracted file from FModel in UAssetGUI but i only get the raw file and it cant read that.

I suspect it is because most guides and tools are mostly for UE4 so i am missing some step

[keen crag]

main complaints are that the bosses are way too spongy and its a bit laggy and unstable

[keen crag]

thankfully i found the config file for resistances for all NPCs and now it feels much better

[proven lantern]

Cant edit .uasset yet

[simple thistle]

DLSS on quality preset, no frame gen tho

[proven lantern]

no i just want to extract pakchunk0.pak which is only 6.27 gigs

does this work for uassets?

[rough furnace]

oh, too bad. ill wait for the SDK then. is it "only" .cfg files that can be modded now? or can we change other resources like images?

and for your question just right click higher up in the hirerchy to extract everything below, i just extracted all the paks in one go

[proven lantern]

as i understand it, we need a .usmap file which we dont have yet? anyone would like to correct me?

thank you!

[rough furnace]

i just googled and got one, using that i could read the stuff in FModel but not sure it is 100%. it was for a pre-release version so not sure if that would cause issues

[proven lantern]

ah heck yeah. thank you

[ebon tusk]

for now, in my uninformed opinion, without the SDK, you cant change core systems, only change cfg scripts
I assume you can add and remove stuff from said cfg scripts as well so you can have fun there and there is some kind of flexibility, but for mods that change the game in a truly big way, it will be a lot better to wait for the SDK so you can unpack, pack and write directly to paks and such

[proven lantern]

im surprised already how much is modable tbh. All we need is a way to inject scripts into the gameplay and some kind of coding interface with the game's logic

[cold pasture]

its just basic stuff that you can do with every unreal game

[patent bear]

^ most big established game engines are designed with easy modding in mind

mod tools doon

soon*

Tbh I feel like modders need to relax a bit and give GSC a chance to fix things and take on board gameplay feedback before tinkering too hard

The game has been out for a whole one day lmao

I feel like patches are gonna make half the mods redundant

They did say they're gonna monitor players feedback and react accordingly

[proven lantern]

I'm just waiting for a life fix before I play more 😦

[ebon tusk]

Modding is not up to the engine it is up to the game
you can only mod it rn because you are using unpackers and repackers made by the community, this is not Epics doing nor grace

[proven lantern]

For now I have the brain bug of getting into modding early I guess.

[upbeat coral]

well
they are bandits

thats kinda their thing

[patent bear]

oh cool ok

[proven lantern]

One of my favorite features. They will also hide if you go into big open areas outside of their hunting ground. They'll wait until you get closer to jump out of corners

They've been shot too many times

But yeah okay I see what you mean, that mutants are hyper intelligent now

[patent apex]

mutants used to just run away instead

[runic perch]

any estimate when mod support will be out?

[frozen dock]

New veteran difficulty mod Rebalance by Grok is out

He cooking

[proven lantern]

Best me to it and I'm glad

[frozen dock]

Modding support details will be coming out soonish

Exciting times it's like 2011 again modding Skyrim modding Stalker!!!

[gentle wharf]

anyone messing around with what we can currently modify for stalker 2? I am looking for a way to disable all game pad inputs on PC. I have flight sticks that mess with the game and don't want to power them off every time I boot up

[late quarry]

Hello is there a discord server for modders somewhere ? Unofficial I mean, it's a mess to only have access to one channel for there is a lot to talk about.

Is there any access to triggers/event listener yet ?

[rare olive]

Has anyone found the trader inventories yet? I'm making a weapon realism mod and want to do some testing on the guns I don't have

[ebon tusk]

wait for the SDK

we only have eccess to CFG scripts rn

[stray fossil]

Hello,
I have a question regarding making CoP looking beautifull. I saw some call videos of Atmospherics for Gamma/Anomaly but how the hell make CoP looks beautifull?
Is it possible to install AtmosFear, Absolute Nature, and Absolute Structures without install Anomaly or not really?

[ebon tusk]

Anomaly does not run on the same engine as CoP
Anomaly runs on a custom fork of OXR thats using updated renders

use CGIM2 for CoP

[stray fossil]

hmm, thought CGIM2 is just a weather? What about textures, models etc?
I mean I wanted to replay CoP but I never played Anomaly but it looks cool AF 🙂

[upbeat coral]

Anomaly is poopoo

CoP better

use IXR or OXR, very capable engines

if you decide to use OWR (Original Weapons Renewal), it comes with OXR

[pearl lodge]

Hi, I'm new to modding, trying to figure out how to mod Stalker 2.

I'm using fmodel so far, but looks like I need an AES key, anyone know what it is?

[safe scarab]

dm

[runic perch]

I really need my cigarettes man I am sad to not be able to smoke cigarettes in the zone

[frozen dock]

I'm sure that will come, just smoke 🚬 irl while playing

There is already a bunch of mods without tools out yet meaning we going to be feasting when they do come out.

[runic perch]

similar to ready or not

[upbeat coral]

Well config edits arent really proper mods
Like sure, you can mod without tools but it has limits, pretty severe limits

[runic perch]

model replacements and config mods are likely atm

custom animations hopefully becomes a thing with this mod support kit

[dire remnant]

So no tools or documentation yet?

[proven lantern]

nope

The documentation is the code

[proven lantern]

So im playing around with a difficulty mod, seeing that people generally just want less spongy fights

https://www.nexusmods.com/stalker2heartofchornobyl/mods/51

let me know what you think. Ive had some fights with Military in Lesser Zone and its like night and day. Really have to use leaning and peaking more and fish out those head shots

[supple nest]

https://www.nexusmods.com/stalker2heartofchornobyl/mods/49
Made medkits heal in 25-30 seconds instead of 1-2 instaheal... Should make combat harder and more plan based. Feedback appreciated, maybe make it faster or slower

[bronze moth]

Do you guys know if there are nvgs in the game? And if not, is it hard to make a mod to add them?

[solid tartan]

modders going crazy... puts cold tint effect and calls it "ultra realistic" 😄

[inland elm]

What mod is like Autumn Aurora 2 for clear skies?

[silk nimbus]

anyone come across a bug preventing you from pulling out weapons ?

[safe scarab]

oh im stupid i had to remove player at the end

[main kayak]

does GOG version have mod supprt? my stalker2 seems can't apply mod in ~mods folder

[red phoenix]

I don't feel like "plan ahead based" fighting will really matter much until a-life rework comes out. Firefights always just erupt straight in front of my face at the moment.

[steady oar]

im very new to UE modding. Apparently to unpack the game files, i need a key for it. Any ideas on how to obtain it? Is it legal to get that key even?

[rare olive]

You need AESKeyFinder

[steady oar]

yeah, already did it

then encoded with base64

works now

[safe scarab]

Every weapon SID. download Console Enabler on nexus and use command "XSpawnItemNearPlayerBySID ItemPrototypeSID" And change the last with the weapon SID you want. If you know how to look through paks you can add all items through "Stalker2/Content/GameLite/GameData/ItemPrototypes" every item SID is in there and you can spawn it all with that command

[pearl lodge]

When 2 mods using the same file are ran, how does that work? Is it a line-by-line overwrite, or just full file only? e.g. maybe only last loaded file is used?

[supple nest]

Good question, don't have the game right now but it'll need some testing

[rich glen]

.

[edgy gust]

On Artifacts Does the read mean its a Debuff?

[idle matrix]

#🔩┃trilogy_modifications message

[charred beacon]

Is anyone else having a bug with richter for the “minor incident” mission where you can’t progress?

[idle matrix]

I would recommend going to #❔┃seeking-for-advice instead of asking in the trilogy mods channel

[graceful dust]

Bug when selling an object tells me that it is worth 21,000 and sells it to me for 7,000

[idle matrix]

Report through the support site in #s2-support

[tawdry sigil]

like it says its price but when you sell it, its a different price?

[graceful dust]

yes

[graceful dust]

It gives me a higher total but when you sell it gives you less

[tawdry sigil]

thats because the trader is not going to pay full price. lots of games with trade systems do this

some traders will pay more then others

[ivory anchor]

Is there anything to turn down all mutant health other than dogs? Sometimes I seriously can't figure out if mutant health in this game is a bug

Dumping 3 mags into a controller's face is absolutely ridiculous

[tawdry sigil]

i downloaded a mod

[ivory anchor]

I looked into mods but nothing for Chimeras yet

[tawdry sigil]

it brought the mutants down

[ivory anchor]

I'm soft locked on my game between having to fight a borderline invincible chimera, and an emission 3min later

[tawdry sigil]

go to a corner and when it comes towards you jump out of its way and shoot it

it has a lunge attack

[ivory anchor]

I don't think you understand how bad it is

I got it stuck in a doorframe and ran out of grenades and it still didn't die

[tawdry sigil]

oop do you need to kill it?

[ivory anchor]

Well unfortunately it just spawns on my way to a main quest so yes

I'm about to try my luck reloading an old save but don't have any hope

To the devs: holy shit reduce the mutant health by at least 50%

[tawdry sigil]

when in doubt download WeMod and toggle infinite ammo, send it to oblivion

[ivory anchor]

you know what

If I can spawn an RPG maybe that'll work

[tawdry sigil]

you do you lol

[ivory anchor]

wait hold on maybe gauss rifle

Spawn that shit, one shot the stupid thing, and drop it somewhere in the water to forget

[safe scarab]

@ivory anchor i can make you a quick mod but i havent faced a chimera yet so i cant really test it

[ivory anchor]

I'm replaying from an older save but if it doesn't work I'll let you know

[safe scarab]

alr

[graceful dust]

Yes, but why does it tell you a price and automatically change it?

[ivory anchor]

Yep soft locked in my game. Literally can't progress without killing the chimera

Tried going on the border of the map

[runic perch]

Nope not a bug it's a anomaly 🗿

[runic perch]

https://tenor.com/view/king-bluprint-drunk-falling-gif-21429804

I forgot I had no such privilege

[safe scarab]

@ivory anchor im looking in the files and chimera has a max hp of 2500 lmao

[ivory anchor]

What's the controller have

[safe scarab]

it says controller 650

[neat dune]

brrrrrrrrrrrrrrt has been warned

Reason: Bad word usage

[ivory anchor]

https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/332536665338019841/1272061630552739952/no_fucks_left_to_give_2.gif

[safe scarab]

it gotta be a bug or something theres absolutely no way

[ivory anchor]

Dude the difficulty in general has to be bugged. Everything is an absolute bullet sponge

If you don't hit humans in the head, it's like 5-10rd easily

[safe scarab]

yeah i hope they balance this in the next patch along with a-life

also spawns are super weird, sometimes a whole squad spawns right behind me lmao

[ivory anchor]

I'm backing up some files and then installing the console enabler

Actually, how much damage does the gauss rifle do?

[safe scarab]

ArmorDamage = 0.0
ArmorPiercing = 4.0
BaseDamage = 180.0
BaseBleeding = 15.0
ChanceBleedingPerShot = 10%

[ivory anchor]

........what

Have to mag dump a chimera with a gauss rifle too?

[safe scarab]

you might just have to cheat your way out of that one

[ivory anchor]

There's no "might" I literally have to

I pray GSC fixes the difficulty, or that someone does a whole rebalance in a reasonable way

[idle matrix]

Humans taking a good number of shots when not headshot is generally the balance of the series

[ivory anchor]

I don't remember them being this absurd though

XSpawnItemNearPlayerBySID GunGauss_SP

Alright I'll let you guys know how this works lmao

I shot him 4 times and it did nothing

@safe scarabOkay I could use that chimera health mod please lol

[valid umbra]

dude I literally have the same issue, right now

[ivory anchor]

This is genuinely broken

[neat dune]

tazoooooor has been warned

Reason: Bad word usage

[valid umbra]

Swamps having no building you can't escape the emission

and the chimera is a bullet sponge

[ivory anchor]

Nothing on the map as shelter?

[valid umbra]

what am i supposed to do

I don't know ? I don't think so, plus I'm overweight so this is so baaaad

[ivory anchor]

I'm not entirely sure what counts as shelter half of the time. I've died inside houses that would've worked in previous games

[valid umbra]

does pumping station works as a shelter ? have you tried ?

I don't know if the emission is a scriped part for the chimera fight tho

but if it is then where are we supposed to hide

[ivory anchor]

I didn't get an emission at the pumping station. I got it by the chimera spawn point

I found the commands for god mode and stopping emissions so that's literally just what we have to do I guess

[valid umbra]

so it is trigerred by that fight, right ?

[ivory anchor]

no clue

[valid umbra]

it can't be right

[ivory anchor]

XSetGodMode true|false
XStopEmission

[valid umbra]

how do you activate the console

[ivory anchor]

Through a mod

Great news is the god mode command doesn't work

[valid umbra]

If the emission gets trigerred by the fact that we are fighting the chimera there's something we are not catching quite right

[ivory anchor]

Well XKillThemAll worked but I have no idea what else it killed

[valid umbra]

Anything weird to report ? Should I do the same thing you did ?

[safe scarab]

mb only saw now

[ivory anchor]

Nothing weird yet but I'm not out of the area yet

[ivory anchor]

It'll at least help someone else in the meanwhile

[valid umbra]

how did you survive the emission tho

[safe scarab]

just unload it into mods folder

[ivory anchor]

I have no idea if the stopemission command worked, or if it's just the house I had time to run to

[safe scarab]

it has max 400hp instead of 2500 now

[valid umbra]

stop emission works

just tried

[ivory anchor]

The hero not that we deserve, but the hero that we need

(quite literally)

[safe scarab]

loool idek if it works though im not far enough into the game yet to have faced a chimera

[wild grove]

Is anyone working on less human enemies hp? They take a shotgun hit to upper body and survive lol

Or perhaps bigger recoil

That d be cool

[ivory anchor]

There are balancing mods out already but a lot of them seem to come with random stuff I wouldn't want

[wild grove]

Yea

That

I alr downloaded the mod that makes some mutants way less tanky

Especially blood suckers

[ivory anchor]

I'm wondering if it's a bug that I get stuck in water that's knee height. Like literally can't move

[wild grove]

These motherfucksers take 12 shells to kill

And one mp5 mag

Im somewhat fine with the tanky mutants

But humans?

[ivory anchor]

I see someone hasn't met the Chimera yet

[wild grove]

Im not trying to progress

Too much

Without the patches

[ivory anchor]

It's your lucky day then, you'll never progress with the Chimera as it is

[wild grove]

Im just doing side missions and looting

The deluxe stashes

[ivory anchor]

For what it's worth, I've ran into no bugs with the quests and whatnot. The game has been fairly stable

[wild grove]

Yea but performance is shit

And sometimes it doesnt wanna launch

[ivory anchor]

Bugs have been stuff more like getting stuck in water, and I feel like the health might as well be counted as a bug

[wild grove]

I tried to launch it and it worked after 7th try

[wild grove]

Well

[ivory anchor]

No clue then

[wild grove]

Its a matter of a mod

I hope someone makes a recoil mod too

[ivory anchor]

No issues launching on my end so far, and I've had I think only 1 crash

[wild grove]

The guns feel like bb guns

[ivory anchor]

I just hope someone fixes health in general

[wild grove]

But ig its fine to a wider range of players

[wild grove]

Yep

[ivory anchor]

It's not, I watched a friend of mine be confused that a bandit took 2 rounds to the back of the head

[wild grove]

I mean the

Recoil

[ivory anchor]

Oh the recoil feels balanced to me

[wild grove]

Nah not to me

Its too light

But like i said

Depends on ppl

I just hope someone mods it to make it heavier

[ivory anchor]

Real recoil isn't all that heavy so it's whatever to me

[wild grove]

Its not but its still noticable

[neat dune]

luh_bloody has been warned

Reason: Bad word usage

[wild grove]

Lmao

[ivory anchor]

The guns have some weight to them in this game which I like

[wild grove]

Especially on old ah shotguns

They dont feel like have any weight to me

Maybe i play too many realistic games

Im used to stalker anomaly mod

So yk the recoil there

Insurgency sandstorm has a nice recoil

[ivory anchor]

Anomaly guns are put together by people that I don't think have ever shot or touched a gun

[wild grove]

I want something between

[ivory anchor]

Not even trying to be mean, but there are signs that heavily suggest it

[wild grove]

Anomaly and this game

That d be nice

Well aks have a big recoil

Pistols r fine

[wild grove]

Irl

[ivory anchor]

Not really, as someone who owns 3 AKs

They definitely feel different but the recoil isn't that crazy

[wild grove]

But its more noticeable

[ivory anchor]

I think they got it pretty good in game

[wild grove]

If it was

Slightly harder to control

It d be perfect

Or at least some visual recoil

I didnt have the chance to use a sight yet but from the trailers it looks lime theres none at all

Squad has the best gun system so far but i get it how it d be frustrating to others

[wild grove]

https://youtube.com/shorts/tKiINXhuiDI?si=dZsXPaSbw_sh-zqL

Like that

[lime moon]

anyone know of a way to raise hud fov?

not the actual fov but the fov of the arms and weapon

[dark badge]

does anyone have the AES key? cant open any of the paks

can open stuff i've downloaded but everything else is encrypted

trying to remove headshot sounds

[slow cypress]

also would like to know this

[humble perch]

bandits just spawn in front of me

is this okay

[upbeat coral]

Grrrrr

[dark badge]

🙏

ty sir

[glad narwhal]

Other chats are useless 😒 anyone encounter the bug in zallisya where you fail the mission no matter what?

[empty cove]

I'm looking to increase the flashlight power in S2 but can't extract the .pak files, UnrealPak is throwing an error despite having the AES key converted to base64 and added to crypto.json.

Anyone know why?

[ebon tusk]

are you sure the key is correct? seems to be the issue here looking at the stack

[empty cove]

That's what I thought too but I've tried both the base64 and raw versions straight from AESD

I only edited the key in the .json, not sure if I needed to change anything else

I assumed not

[ebon tusk]

I havent unpacked the files yet however, it is complaining due to the size of the key not being congruent

sorry if thas too vague

[empty cove]

Yeah that's what I determined too, it thinks the key isn't right, but I can't see how it can't be as I'm literally just grabbing it from AESD from the S2 .exe, converting to base64 and pasting

I assume the key is the same for all, if anyone has it and could DM me to compare that would be appreciated!

[ebon tusk]

are you using AesKey

[empty cove]

AESDumpster

[ebon tusk]

try using this tool instead
https://github.com/Dmgvol/UE_Modding/blob/main/TheBasics/AesKey.md

[empty cove]

It found loads of possible keys 😬

23 different ones

[ebon tusk]

well one of em must be right

[empty cove]

Tried a couple and hasn't worked, this doesn't seem right 🤔

The second tool on that page says the .exe is protected

[empty cove]

That AES key doesn't work with UnrealPak either so it must be an UP thing not the key, I'll try FModel, thanks for the link!

[proven lantern]

Make sure you picked the right UE game version

It should be GAME_UE5_0

That's a setting for Fmodel

[winged halo]

Hi! How will STALKER 2 behave when modded (for instance - mods that change repair costs and bullet sponginess of mutants), when there's a patch? May this break my saved games?

[empty cove]

Thanks, that works nicely. Sadly the flashlight data doesn't seem exposed to config, it's a curve data file that isn't present in the paks that I can see.

[weary skiff]

Do yall think more console mods will come out?

[upbeat coral]

No way to tell yet

[empty cove]

Oh I didn't realise they were modifiable too! Same process as for .paks? Make the changes and repak them?

Ah

Might have the assets I need but yeah, .uasset files

[patent bear]

Does anyone have a mod suggestion for Shadow of Chernobyl that's basically the Memories of the Zone mod pack but with the artifact mechanics of CS/CoP

that's lit the only tweak I think Memories of the Zone is missing

or if there's another minimal mod pack that updates the artifact mechanic and dodesn't touch anything else gameplay wise (maybe a difficulty balance)

[ebon tusk]

youd need to completely change everything about the maps to do this

[patent bear]

yeah damn I figured

Radiophobia 3 imports the artifact mechanic right? Any other mods that do that for SoC?

[ebon tusk]

AMK is a Total Conversion and has detectors but doesn't change the maps to be like COP (which would SUCK)

AMK also changes a bunch of other stuff

its a total convertion after all

[red sedge]

DMed you AES key and mapping file

[patent bear]

ooo AMK sounds wicked thanks

[wary hornet]

Hi, I have a bug on Series S, every time I restart the game it resets my audio settings (dynamic range, output device etc).

[ebon tusk]

#s2-support

[pliant dirge]

is this an official channel for moders? 😁

[rough furnace]

thank you for this! I followed the guide using the same file just to be safe. It creates the .pak without errors but i dont see any differences when starting the game.

got any suggestion of variables i can change to see it working? i tried some that should be obvious like stamina drain, fov and more but not sure if they just arent used or if i made some error

[rough furnace]

I tried a bunch of stuff like limit camera angles and setting ClimbUpSpeed to 100000.0f. but in game it is all normal

[runic perch]

Guys which mod is better

Grok's balanced difficultues or Feliche's veteran to master difficulty are both compatible?

[feral hare]

Is there a way to spawn all weapons? Any help would be much appreciated thanks.

[upbeat coral]

General purpose channel for modders and people who just want to talk about mods

Be it small gameplay mods like OWR or big total conversions like Goldsphere

[feral hare]

Thank you! Did I use UEtools to spawn these in?

[rich knot]

I couldn't

[tough granite]

I heard there will be official mod support coming for S2

How would that be implemented?

Fortnite style with a dedicated UE editor?

[idle matrix]

Yeah I am guessing in the few months after launch, but they say they plan to share future update plans more in December once they have released some patches for the game's immediate issues

[tough granite]

the official website pledged mod support so I hope it's not some half-arsed "yes you can mod it" and that's it lip service

I've seen other UE4/5 devs do that sort of thing unfortunately

[sage citrus]

Is anyone working on a mod for Stalker 2 to give the guns their real names yet? I'd do it myself but have neither the knowledge or programs to do so.

[tough granite]

What about a CJ mod?

[royal mason]

how do use nexus mods manual

[rough seal]

Does anyone knows where the value for repair cost is? Doesn't seem to be in DifficultyPrototypes.cfg.

[proven lantern]

Just a quicj remidner i wanted to run a poll, there's 4 hours left and would like to get a few more votes

[weary crystal]

@Kellar It's in two places. DifficultyPrototypes.cfg, "Repair_Cost" and in ObjPrototypes.cfg "RepairCostModifier". I believe they're multiplicative. I set the Repair_Cost to 0.1 (from 1.0) and it's actually worth it to upgrade and repair guns now.

In DifficultyPrototypes.cfg you can set it for each difficulty type or set it for the default struct (currently the difficulties don't override the default values)

[cold pasture]

just wondering, what program are people using to get the AES keys.. i'v tried the one on github but i dont think it works with gamepass

[weary crystal]

AESDumpster

[cold pasture]

fug

i guess il have to buy the game to mod it then

[rough seal]

Ah, makes sense. I think I will go for a 50% reduction in repair costs and 30% for upgrades.

[solid tartan]

is there a mod for medkit sound effect? i dont want any sound or very subtle syringe sound, now it feels like cod effect.

also do mods block achievements ? 😄

[royal mason]

how do modify CARRYWEIGHT

[rough seal]

Er, can you expand on that? Does that mean the difficulty individual configs mean nothing?

[idle matrix]

don't think so since I used the simple config mod to disable mouse acceleration and I am getting them

[weary crystal]

So the struct at the top with an SID=Empty is default values. Then you have some values overridden in the different difficulties. For instance if you look at the Easy setting you'll see Weapon_BaseDamage = 1.2. That overrides the default of 1.0. If there isn't an entry under the difficulty setting then it will use the default.

[steel wind]

hey guys, what do you recommend for easy and reliable pak extracting and repacking?

[rough seal]

Ah, got it, yes, it's how I imagined.

[solid tartan]

nice, i have some groks mods and also mouse acceleration mod

and also weapon condition mod

50% more durable

[wide sleet]

Any1 here knows more about Console commands? Want to get a traders UID so I can reset him so he can actually sell stuff.

[royal mason]

how do i moddify carryweight

[ebon tusk]

wasnt that obvious?

[cold pasture]

its on game pass -_-'

[ebon tusk]

Im gonna be srs with you chief, I dont know how it works on Gamepass for PC, but I dont expect it to work diff from steam
do they lock your folder or smth?

[cold pasture]

they lock the exe

[ebon tusk]

you arent gonna touch the exe when installing mods tho

or making mods

[cold pasture]

true but i need to find the AES key

[ebon tusk]

unless they disable your ability interect with the exe at all

which would be insanely idiotic

[cold pasture]

and the tool doesent work with the game pass exe's

[ebon tusk]

ha, shame

[cold pasture]

however someone sent me their extracted AES key which worked

[ebon tusk]

nice, good luck brother, any questions feel free to ask?

[worldly forge]

do you need a special key for the GP version?

[cold pasture]

nope

[worldly forge]

cool

[rough seal]

Thanks going to try -40% upgrade costs and -50% repair costs, also incresed armor durability by 40%

I can understand ammo and supply costs, but those repair costs feel way too overtuned. Especially because missions pay so little.

[flat roost]

Hi! How i Can get ObjPrototypes.cfg from FModel? I can open it like folder, but where I can change player stats?

[rough seal]

Anyone knows what these mean?

[flat roost]

Try this
0x33A604DF49A07FFD4A4C919962161F5C35A134D37EFA98DB37A34F6450D7D386

It works for me

[cold pasture]

i think the config for the player flashlight is in stalker2>content>_stalker_2>blueprints>Lights_ready>BP_L_flashlight_01.uasset

[flat roost]

I thought it was here...
Stalker2/Content/GameLite/GameData/FlashlightPrototypes.cfg

[cold pasture]

hmm

il take a look

[flat roost]

Can you say, where i can find player parametres like run speed

[cold pasture]

no idea.. you probabaly know more than i do as i just started looking at the files