🔩┃trilogy_modifications

[upbeat coral]

no

stalker has data in .DB files

OGSR has it in folders
folders overwrite DBs on technical level but not on practical level

what I mean is that the datain .DB will stay intact, but the game will use data from the folders

[young fable]

@upbeat coral Jekan

[idle matrix]

Yeah. It still takes in the original game data, just using an updated engine to handle it

[young fable]

[soft hinge]

The key to Stalker is to appreciate how barebones it looks. It kinda loses its substance as some triple-A looking kind of game.

If we want to get real here, I honestly feel like the graphics make the atmosphere a lot. For some reason, higher graphics means I have less immersion in the game.

[young fable]

I dont care about graphics at much

Is just dumb way to compare a games

[cunning lagoon]

It looks aaa tho
Old aaa

[cunning lagoon]

I liked metro exodus over redux lol
Even tho redux was a better game
Cos the graphics add a layer of immersion for me

When i look at grass and i see it looking off, it robs the immersion for me

[young fable]

SoC graphics already perfect that is

Just set it to Full Dynamic Lighting

Even more perfect is Clear Sky and Call Of Pripyat Enhanced Full Dynamic Lightning

[young fable]

Goldsphere Kot Edition

For $29.99

[young fable]

Buy Now!

Including Zoey from L4D

[upbeat coral]

[young fable]

Plus Grok handmade

[young fable]

And Crypto currency inside of it.

[crisp fog]

just finished all 3 original games

[young fable]

Good

You are True Stalker now

[upbeat coral]

now play Goldsphere

[crisp fog]

wut dis

[young fable]

A mod

Story mod

[crisp fog]

I was thinking of headding straight into gamma

[young fable]

Ok

But its okay if you complete the game

[crisp fog]

or EFP?

[young fable]

Maybe

I dont sure EFP change the gameplay a lot

Try Old World Addon

Classic stalker for Anomaly

Or maybe others story based mod like Spatial Anomaly,RTTZ and Wind Of Time.

[cunning lagoon]

mad promises from complete new update

😔 graphics does look great

[young fable]

Just play with OGSR Engine

With Enhanced Dynamic Lighting on

[cunning lagoon]

i am looking for texture packs for it, saw this while doing that

[young fable]

And Sun flate set to Volumetric

[cunning lagoon]

😔 do you know any texture packs?

mainly for the grass

[young fable]

Absoulte Nature

[cunning lagoon]

i love grass

[young fable]

Or Wooden Addon

Tell me you want green grass in radioactive wasteland?

[cunning lagoon]

😔 i want a lot of grass, i don't mind them withering

but i don't want stalks of grass here and there, fill it up

[young fable]

Like i said

Absolute Nature

And increase Grass intensity to higher.

But prepared some framedrops though

[cunning lagoon]

ok

[young fable]

I recommend use OGSR Engine

[cunning lagoon]

my laptop is decently beefy for a 2007 game
a 3060 should handle it

[cunning lagoon]

already put it

[young fable]

Gud

[cunning lagoon]

absolute nature
absolute structures
wooden addon

i am seeing mixed reviews for photo realistic zone

[young fable]

Hmm.. I dont sure wooden addon would compatible with it

For weapons uhh..

SWR SoC

Stalker Weapon Reanimation

[cunning lagoon]

👀 ok

[cunning lagoon]

soo uhh wooden or absolute
wooden seems to be newer

[young fable]

But uhmm.. If you want try play old OGSR engine you can try my mod 👉👈

[young fable]

Up to you

[cunning lagoon]

i want new ogsr engine

i heard it has dlss

should fix the trees

[young fable]

It feels weird

Kinda ruined SoC aesthetic

[cunning lagoon]

wait....how is it using dlss when there is no temporal data

[cunning lagoon]

new ogsr?

[young fable]

Yeah

It feels saturated

[cunning lagoon]

😔

[young fable]

And feels like Anomaly in SoC engine

[cunning lagoon]

i just want a good looking game man

[young fable]

Its already perfect

Just the lighting Full Dynamic

[cunning lagoon]

anomaly may be a bad game, but its the most beautiful stalker looked before stalker 2

[young fable]

Have you tried it?

[cunning lagoon]

nope, i just installed ogsr

[young fable]

No i mean use Full Dynamic Ligthing in original SoC?

Because i bet the game automatically set your game to Static Lighting

[upbeat coral]

lmao nah

Anomaly looks like shit

[young fable]

Too grey

[upbeat coral]

ugly gray AI upscaled textures slapped ontto low poly models

[young fable]

Lost itd charm

[cunning lagoon]

idk why it looks so good in those youtube videos

[young fable]

From CoC

[cunning lagoon]

😭

[upbeat coral]

it looks like minecraft with 512x512 textture pack and gray filter

[young fable]

Its heavy modified Anomaly

[cunning lagoon]

oh

😭 anyway wooden addon seems to have good reputition, lemme try that with absolute structures

[young fable]

Wooden Addon change some of structures

Because its all stored in levels folder

[cunning lagoon]

man i wanna wait for this texture pack to be completed

[cunning lagoon]

😔 that looks soo good

[upbeat coral]

no

[cunning lagoon]

😭 why

that looks like a 2024 aaa release

[upbeat coral]

it looks like bunch of assets from unity store glued together

[cunning lagoon]

😔 gotta appreciate those good assets they sell man

[young fable]

Just go outside for realism

[upbeat coral]

point is Anomaly looks like shit and so do its texture packs because none of them bother to update the models

[upbeat coral]

Omg
Cat

[cunning lagoon]

that ss was for soc

😔 people started modding soc again in 2024

[upbeat coral]

you realize they use same maps and models right

[young fable]

Bro

[cunning lagoon]

😔 so its all stolen from anamoly?

[young fable]

People still modding it wdym

[upbeat coral]

every "modern" looking mod except for few that MAKE their own models share their own issues

with Anomaly its just most clearly visible

[cunning lagoon]

what do you think about wooden addon

[upbeat coral]

peak

for second playthrough

[cunning lagoon]

why not first, its just textures

[upbeat coral]

no

[cunning lagoon]

😔 what does it change?

[young fable]

Textures

[upbeat coral]

and maps

by adding WOOD

[cunning lagoon]

idk how radiophobia manages to look that good

[young fable]

Because it follow Anomaly

[cunning lagoon]

wood is peak

i shall install it

😔

[upbeat coral]

it doesnt

[cunning lagoon]

😔

i wanna use this for second playthrough, tell me that doesn't look good

[upbeat coral]

thats literally OGSR

[cunning lagoon]

😭

oh

[upbeat coral]

you said OGSR engine looks bad

also modern OGSR is poopoo

[cunning lagoon]

😔 the videos they show on youtube for it are god awful

[upbeat coral]

locked at DX11 and uses Goonslinger

[neat dune]

hotelulazuriu has been warned

Reason: Bad word usage

[burnt vector]

Eeee blin

[cunning lagoon]

😭 is the link you sent me old or new

[upbeat coral]

thats just the engine

[burnt vector]

Speaking of radiophobia 3, where is the friggin radioactive blood stone

I can't hecking find it.

[cunning lagoon]

😔 go northeast

turn left

[young fable]

https://youtu.be/9cmjWjO0FV4?si=NNCjx83Cggue9WWO

[cunning lagoon]

enter the gap in fence

[young fable]

@cunning lagoon try this

[cunning lagoon]

you'll be chased by cyclones, run

[young fable]

[burnt vector]

Mmmmm there's only whirlgigs here and the pda says the stone is here

So i sneak past them but no stone

[cunning lagoon]

i couldn't get the stones cos 3 mini cyclones ganged on me
but the detector said its there

[burnt vector]

I've searched this whole ass crater dawg if there's a stone here i am a donetsk rocket

[cunning lagoon]

wait so ogsr engine and ogsr mod are different

💀

[upbeat coral]

OGSR is mod, running on OGSR engine

all the visuals are achieved thanks to the engine

[cunning lagoon]

oh ok, as long as the game looks good idc lol

[upbeat coral]

you said OGSR engine looks bad

[cunning lagoon]

💀 idk why it looks bad for one person and looks that good for the other person

someone showed ogsr on youtube

and i wanted to throw up

[upbeat coral]

Im done

see ya

[cunning lagoon]

suggest a vanilla weapon mod before leaving

😭

[upbeat coral]

weapon packs are bane of the community

so have this cat instead

[burnt vector]

Because he's something of a stalker expert, the graphics that look good to you aren't up to his...tastes

Cant you tell by the usage of the cat stare emoji

Doesnt it make you wanna grab his throat trough the screen

[cunning lagoon]

💀

[cunning lagoon]

no i mean that screenshot of ogsr looks great

but the youtube videos of ogsr looks awful

💀

[young fable]

You kinda confused me

[young fable]

SWR SoC

[cunning lagoon]

this looks great

this doesn't

💀

they are both ogsr apparently

[young fable]

Bro

Its lighting thing

And probably he tweak some setting

Why the heck you cared about graphics so much bruh?

You gave me headache

[cunning lagoon]

💀 cos i like graphics

anyway

[young fable]

I mean,they probably do something in the setting

[cunning lagoon]

lemme see how to install wooden addon and play the game

[burnt vector]

Uck you

[young fable]

Why?

[cunning lagoon]

hopefully it runs in english 😔

[burnt vector]

You told the man his desires give you a headache

Shame on you

[cunning lagoon]

i mean modding does give headache, so i don't blame im

[young fable]

Idk what he want

[burnt vector]

Pe ma-ta

[young fable]

laugh at 500 crash log just to make simple modpack.

[cunning lagoon]

me looking at 2024 ubisoft game looking chars after modding skyrim

💀

they were supposed to look better not worse lmao

[young fable]

Ubisoft are just funny when comes to games

[cunning lagoon]

anyone knows how to install wooden addon
the readme came in russian

💀

[young fable]

Just drag the gamedata in soc folder

[cunning lagoon]

so its like a standalone folder? no overwrite?

how does the game know it has to load these

[young fable]

Because its seperated from .db files

Only overwrite in "gamedata" folder

Do you know how "custom" folder works in source engine games?

[cunning lagoon]

Noope

💀

[young fable]

Basically

If you had custom models and dont want to replace original files

You can put it inside the folder i mentioned

With correct name

[cunning lagoon]

Nice
Wait there is no gamedata folder
So i just drag and drop and game knows right

👀

[young fable]

Yep

Basically replacing but not replacing original files inside encrypted packs

Its just overwritten outside encrypted files

[cunning lagoon]

Thats what i was told yes
Its worse than vanilla

Is gunslinger mod good

[cunning lagoon]

i copy pasted ogsr engine and this happened

[tiny nexus]

Dropping here my mod. Any questions or suggestion or “I would like to see X y and z” drop it in here or go to the thread in the GAMMA discord. Good luck in the Zone!

https://www.nexusmods.com/stalker2heartofchornobyl/mods/709

[civic pewter]

OGSR Engine is... A ENGINE
OGSR Legacy Edition and OGSR + Gunslinger Addon (Legacy/6.9.4 is better than version with Gunslinger Addon) are Remastered of the reinvention mod of Shadow of Chernobyl; Old Good S.T.A.L.K.E.R Evolution 6.9.3 (2016)

OGSR Legacy Edition:

[cunning lagoon]

thx!
also do you know any weapon mods for first run

i tried vanilla

and....i sometimes doubt if i shot
💀

[pure sphinx]

hello, i have seen knife skins on the stalker 2 nexus, anyone can tell me how to do the texture and then make the game understand it ?

[sweet heart]

no image preview on this armor looted by npc

[young fable]

Did you just drag all bin_x64 folder into bin?

[rancid python]

hi is there any option for increasing max weight limit in call of pripyat on abr mod? (I know about exoskeleton and upgrades to armor but I don't like carrying small amount of stuff and guns, I know its how stalker games work but for me it doesn't change climate and atmosphere) Since there is no system.ltx and actor.ltx files I don't know where to change it or what mod/addon to install

[young fable]

it should be in outfit.ltx

From what i remembered

Theres section weight_max (idk what its name because i'm not on pc right now) shows the number of the limits for weight of the suit you use

Or go to actor.ltx and try use "find" section in notepad++

And search weight

Oh yeah

[rancid python]

There are no outfit.ltx and actor.ltx. Everything is in this folder

[young fable]

Try extract ot

It*

Using Rammaken DB Unpacker

https://github.com/Rammaken/STK_Unpacker

Or you can use AXRToolset

Once its done repacking

Try search outfit or actor.ltx

[young fable]

So?

How was it?

[cunning lagoon]

I think it was too many mods
4gb patch fixed the crash

Tho....

This game is hard to get through
Maybe i should do radiophobia or autumn aurora

[cunning lagoon]

Which one tho

[ebon tusk]

is this your first time playing the game?

[cunning lagoon]

Yeah

I tried vanilla

[ebon tusk]

then none of these

[cunning lagoon]

Vanilla was.....offputting
Like i love survival shooters
But I've been spoiled by modern games

[ebon tusk]

SoC is a action fast paced fps

[cunning lagoon]

Ik but the shooting has 0 feedback
I have to check my health to know if I've been shot
And i have no way of knowing if bullets are reaching the enemy

💀

Ig thats how the olg games are?

[ebon tusk]

you can see the bullet impact the enemy and blood splatter if the bullet connects

[cunning lagoon]

💀ig pistol isn't doing enuf damage for blood to splatter?
Is there any way to add like a feedback tho? Like a enemy reaction?

Any mod?

[ebon tusk]

progressing thru the game will give you better weapons, the PMm is a purposefully underpowered pistol, use it a close ranges and go for headshots
If you still find yourself in a pickle change your difficulty to rookie in the settings and grab a shotgun off a body

[cunning lagoon]

No shotgun ammo lol
Also the graphics....i wonder how radiophobia and autumn aurora looks that good

They are just mod packs

[ebon tusk]

they arent

Radiophobia uses the OGSR engine which uses modern DX versions, Autumn Aurora modifies the exes and adds back in many features that were gone in later patches when it comes to visuals
they are mods, not modpacks

[cunning lagoon]

I use the ogsr too tho
I wonder what i am missing

💀

[ebon tusk]

it is always recommended you play vanilla your first playthru

[cunning lagoon]

I mean i could never bring myself to finish this game vanilla lol

Need some mods

[ebon tusk]

some people like them and others dont, just the way it is

[cunning lagoon]

Ye people love it cos nostalgia
I don't have it
I am a new gamer

😔need dem mods

[cunning lagoon]

What do you think of the complete mod?

[ebon tusk]

not good, trivializes the game and changes too much, bad choice for first timers and no reason to play for those returning to the series

[cunning lagoon]

💀ig autumn aurora is my last option now

I can't play vanilla i need some heavy mods

[ebon tusk]

autmun aurora is a total conversion that changes large swathes of the game, rebalncing it and changing dialogue, loot etc etc

[cunning lagoon]

Story is changed too?

[ebon tusk]

as it changes the text of many things and the lore of the game, as well as representation of various factions

[cunning lagoon]

Not like i understand much of the yap anyway 💀

Maybe i need to progress the game lol

[ebon tusk]

yes, as people have said before, early weapons are trash, the more you progress the better weapons you get, these include harder hitting weapons and more accurate ones

also when being hit you will see a little indication of the direction where the hit was from, as well as indication in your radar

[lilac bane]

how do you install mods to clear sky?

[charred vale]

Question, im highly dissapointed by the fact that you are unable to get any mutant "parts" after killing them in stalker 2.

I was thinking about downloading a mod to solve that little problem, but im unsure if its safe, like, is a patch or something like that gona kill my save game or something like that? Does anyone have any experience with that kind of stuff?

[proper nimbus]

There is a mod for this, you can find it on nexus

[young fable]

just drag and drop the "gamedata"

if its installer well

install the mod where your Clear Sky directories is

but keep it mind that some mods are standalone

[cunning lagoon]

is autumn aurora harder than vanilla too?

[lilac bane]

Doesnt change gameplay i think, only graphics

[cunning lagoon]

i heard it changes gunplay and ai a bit, idk lol

[lilac bane]

nah, doesnt

its only for graphics

i read the desc

[cunning lagoon]

😔 i'll play with autumn aurora then
vanilla game is hard to get through

even though i love survival shooters

[lilac bane]

hard?

why?

Stalker games arent that hard ngl

[lilac bane]

besides,

Theres a new overhaul mod coming for COP

Dead sky

idk have you played radiophobia 3?

[cunning lagoon]

not that hard....i don't have motivation to get through it

[cunning lagoon]

💀 it skipped the entire tutorial lmao

[lilac bane]

its pretty easy, id reccomend starting on rookie tho

[cunning lagoon]

sent me to find a artifact with nothing

[lilac bane]

Its basically like tarkov

[lilac bane]

yeah, use your bolt

[cunning lagoon]

radiophobia doesn't have difficulty setting

💀

[lilac bane]

oh

then its pretty easy

its incredibly good tho

[cunning lagoon]

yeah it was great

[lilac bane]

once you get to the first lab

[cunning lagoon]

i just died a lot lmao

[lilac bane]

fr?

im stuck at the end rn

[cunning lagoon]

the mini cyclones was chasing me across the map

[cunning lagoon]

bug?

[lilac bane]

nah, just hard

C-Conciousness thingy

Radiation + dark + shotgun monoliths

• small spaces

= hell

[lilac bane]

Im just gonna mod every single game now lol

If its available why not use?

[cunning lagoon]

real

why game like a console user when superior platform

[rancid python]

sorry for not answering yea its all good now thank you so much

[young fable]

good then

[cunning lagoon]

though choosing between radiophobia and autumn aurora is hard

👀 autumn is more.....vanilla i think

[lilac bane]

I mean yeah and no

The normal story pretty much stays

With only a few added missions

[cunning lagoon]

i think autumn has the best graphics

not sure

[cunning lagoon]

which do you think has the better graphics

[young fable]

graphics dosent matter

[cunning lagoon]

this is cope

[young fable]

play doom idk

[cunning lagoon]

probably ram issue
both xray and ogsr engine runs on 2 gb ram

use the 4gb patch

[lilac bane]

Honestly for me, If its possible to get better graphics then i want to use it

[cunning lagoon]

i mean this is a open world survival horror, graphics matters for this genre

[lilac bane]

COmpared to half life where modding is scarce, and there arent many graphic overhauls its fine with me

[patent apex]

I prefer style

like hollow knight

[cunning lagoon]

😔 metro exodus was peak cos of graphics

[young fable]

it wasnt

take a look Signalis

[patent apex]

A pretty game with no style is always less it interesting than a simple but extremely stylistic game

like resident evil 7

[lilac bane]

your comparing 2d to 3d

[patent apex]

sure it looks good on a technical level but it's lacking style

[cunning lagoon]

resident evil 7 looks peak

[patent apex]

it's boring

[cunning lagoon]

but when you explore it
you forget its a game and feel the horror

when i run in soc

see some dogs chasing me

my brain is like "its just pixels bro"

[young fable]

all horor game dosent need good graphics

[cunning lagoon]

doesn't need it but graphics does make it 10x better

[young fable]

screw with your high poly

[cunning lagoon]

for modern gamers, bad graphics is non digestable

[young fable]

all homies return PS1-style

[cunning lagoon]

don't even need it
better vegetation and lighting makes it great

[young fable]

2024 brain moment

[lilac bane]

I played half life 1, enjoyed it alot

terrible graphics

still enjoyed it

[cunning lagoon]

💀 i like san andreas but....idk why its so noticable in stalker

[lilac bane]

But stalker compared to half life 1 has mods

Mods that can make the games graphics way better

[cunning lagoon]

expectations maybe?

[young fable]

man yall tripping

[lilac bane]

and when those mods are available for me

i use them

[cunning lagoon]

yall have nostalgia lol

[young fable]

how many mushrooms you guys use

[cunning lagoon]

we don't have nostalgia

oldest game i've played is hitman absolution
and that looks better than most 2016 releases

[neat dune]

b33rm4n has been warned

Reason: Bad word usage

[young fable]

good games dosent need good graphics

[lilac bane]

Like half life 1

[young fable]

i just hate someone who always compared graphics

[lilac bane]

Stalker is like a nice piece of steak

[young fable]

graphics are waaaaaaaaaaaay below of game that need to be good

[lilac bane]

its great, but when theres sauce to make it better you put it ot the side

[cunning lagoon]

i mean stalker is nice but like....the way the game plays wants me to have graphics

thats why stalker was made to look realistic for its time

the devs intended for the game to be photorealistic

the trees still look aaa

[lilac bane]

Every games looks good at that kind of lighting.

[cunning lagoon]

don't get me wrong show me stalker in some 2010 and i'd die in a hill that says "stalker is photorealisitc"

[lilac bane]

Stalker is like a good steak, Its amazing witouth sauce, but when the waiter offers you sauce to add to your steak to make it even better, ofcourse your gonna say yes

[cunning lagoon]

💀 idk why i can't bring myself to enjoy vanilla stalker lol

man radiophobia is soo intensive

it lags when i increase the grass density

[lilac bane]

Its if tarkov and ready or not had a baby

[lilac bane]

dont increase grass density

[cunning lagoon]

😔 but grass looks good

[young fable]

want realistic grass?

go outside

[cunning lagoon]

no like the density

it looks sooo good when you fill the gaps

the game uses patches of grass by default

radiophobia can fill up the place

[young fable]

clean grass in radioactive wasteland are not fit

it lost is real life Chornobyl charm

[cunning lagoon]

😭 uniform patches of grass that looks like japenese rice plantation fits?

[young fable]

bruh

its like outside the zone

take a look at this

[lilac bane]

can someone help me withh this

[lilac bane]

thats not real

[cunning lagoon]

i want you to move your mouse down and show us the ground

[cunning lagoon]

did you use 4gb patch?

[lilac bane]

wha?

[cunning lagoon]

the 4gb patch, you shouldn't mod old games without it

[lilac bane]

send me link pls

[young fable]

just use this

to launch OGSR

[lilac bane]

where do i put this

[cunning lagoon]

my ogsr didn't come with these lmao

[lilac bane]

im trying to install the ABR mod

[cunning lagoon]

it came with normal bin

not x64

[young fable]

BRUH

how?

[cunning lagoon]

and no xrengine.exe

it was smth 3d

[young fable]

tell me

you just drag and drop it to bin

[cunning lagoon]

💀 .....i'll stick with modpacks

modpacks don't launch through xrengine either i think

[lilac bane]

still does it

[lilac bane]

Hey it doesnt work

[young fable]

its SoC bruh

[lilac bane]

Clear sky

Im trying to install ABR on clear sky

[lilac bane]

how do you do this

[young fable]

sorry idk how to install clear sky mods

[lilac bane]

it ok

[young fable]

its different method and different game

sigh

[cunning lagoon]

download 4gb patch
run it
select the executable of the game

it'll patch it

[lilac bane]

the 4gb patch

?

[cunning lagoon]

4gb patch made ogsr stable for me

[young fable]

aight yall make me confused

[lilac bane]

what site

Download where

[ruby citrus]

no, they wanted for it to look game-y

[young fable]

can you help me to deal with them :3?

[lilac bane]

I said nothing

I just want help with crash error 😔

[young fable]

hmm.. maybe ask someone in C-Con server

[young fable]

let him try some mods my dude because he probably complete the game

[cunning lagoon]

i don't think he did lmao

[young fable]

then its worse way to play vanilla

[upbeat coral]

Silence you!

[cunning lagoon]

💀 idk what abr is but is it that bad

[cunning lagoon]

💀 is you......i tried the game vanilla yesturday, then with ogsr

[young fable]

want had better graphics?

Turn on the goddamn Full Dynamic Lighting

[upbeat coral]

Clear Sky has a whopping total of three mods
And ABR is by far the WORST

[cunning lagoon]

😭 crazy, soc has like 3 digits of mods

[upbeat coral]

[young fable]

theres a lot of mod out there

[cunning lagoon]

textures are the issue lmao
ogsr can't help that

i saw some texture mods....but incomplete

[young fable]

Ratio :3

"texture bad"

yeah sure :3

[cunning lagoon]

💀 wait....my game doesn't look as good as that

i maxed the ogsr settings

[young fable]

setting my guy

and its old ogsr

build Jun 10 2022

[cunning lagoon]

where can i download that

[young fable]

my mod or let me send you the link for the engine only

[cunning lagoon]

gib

[young fable]

my mod or you just want the engine?

[cunning lagoon]

what does your mod do?

[young fable]

weapon re animation

[cunning lagoon]

i'll take that

👀 package is nice

[young fable]

@cunning lagoon https://www.moddb.com/games/stalker/addons/beermans-marked-one-weapon-reanimations

just drag and drop it to your soc folder

make sure is..CLEAN from anything

[cunning lagoon]

this comes with old ogsr right

[young fable]

yes

it bundle with it

[cunning lagoon]

nice

i wanna play anomaly after this

[young fable]

play the trilogy first

[cunning lagoon]

i heard cop is trash tho

[young fable]

its mid but good sidequest

[cunning lagoon]

hey modified anolmaly looks excellent

[young fable]

want better anomaly?

[cunning lagoon]

not as good as stalker 2 but stalker 2 is too demanding for my laptop

[upbeat coral]

Thats the issue
Its all looks, no gameplay

Its dogshit

Literally sucks at everything except visuals

[cunning lagoon]

aren't there gameplay mods too?

[young fable]

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

[patent apex]

COTZ+IWP is better overall besides the durability being annoying

[young fable]

my beloved

[cunning lagoon]

i was wondering why autumn aurora looks odd
its a enb

[upbeat coral]

Not ones that would fix the actual issues

All they do is add more useless crap

[cunning lagoon]

💀 we'll get there stalker modding has become intense again

[upbeat coral]

No we wont

Western side of modding is going in completely different direction
That is adding random crap and making stalker into not stalker

[young fable]

[upbeat coral]

Cant think of single western mod other than CotZ that understood the shortcommings of CoC and its forks

[young fable]

We make goldsphere peak again

[young fable]

we love Jekan posting

[upbeat coral]

It never stopped being peak

🟡

[cunning lagoon]

wait....if gamma isn't peak why is everyone playing it

[young fable]

western dude

tarkov wanna be player

[young fable]

we need bring Jekan into STALKER 2

[upbeat coral]

Because gammoids are retards who know jackshit about stalker and all they see is "muh uh free apocalypse game its just like tarkov" (it isnt)

[lilac bane]

? i did

[upbeat coral]

Please use SRP

[lilac bane]

ok

[upbeat coral]

ABR is laughably bad

[lilac bane]

hard?

like in what way

[upbeat coral]

No

Just dogshit

[lilac bane]

Ive only seen praise so far on youtube

whats up with yall tho

why yall hating on people who mod

what is this madness

[upbeat coral]

I love mods
But it just so happens that the well known mods are shit

[lilac bane]

Ok

but like

[upbeat coral]

[lilac bane]

what is this

[upbeat coral]

As Xray Crash expert
I can almost certainly tell that this is a crash

[lilac bane]

Ok how fix

it happens everytime i start game

[upbeat coral]

Reinstall

[lilac bane]

ok

[lilac bane]

i wonder,

While half life 2 wwas free

why you not buy>

??

[upbeat coral]

I did get it when it was free

[lilac bane]

o

[young fable]

i already buy it when Half-Life complete pack is cheap

[lilac bane]

Its funny with mods now

you can make breen mrbeast and make him talk russian

[lilac bane]

now it doesnt want to start

[upbeat coral]

Send crashlog

[lilac bane]

wait

how do i

[upbeat coral]

Gamefiles/appdata/logs/xray(your windows username).txt

[young fable]

not that

.log

[lilac bane]

i just installed uninstalled

files should be fine

[young fable]

moon_halo_full huh?

interesting

[lilac bane]

?

[lilac bane]

Villian ahh

Whats wrong

[rich knot]

Dead sky is for CS

[lilac bane]

yeah misspell

COS COP CS

Why did he say intresting and just leave

[rich knot]

Extract the files and then copy all the given files to the root folder of clear sky. It is the same for all 3 games.

[lilac bane]

yeah i know but this happens

It crashes

And its still crashing

[lilac bane]

.

[upbeat coral]

Because moon phases arent vanilla

[lilac bane]

what

[upbeat coral]

You sure you dont use Atmosfear?

[lilac bane]

I uninstalled and installed

it turns everything back to normal right?

[upbeat coral]

It should

Wait
Did you have steam cloud on?

[lilac bane]

yep

[upbeat coral]

Sometimes it can do a mess when reinstalling

[lilac bane]

up to date

it still doesnt work

[upbeat coral]

Joever

Lemme check the log

did you delete the game manually or using steam?

because steam sometime leaves some files behind

[shy tinsel]

Hy there.

BandageBleeding4 : struct.begin Duration = 2 Charges = 4 ValueMin = -100 ValueMax = -100 struct.end

Is here someone who can explain to me what means Charges, Duration, ValueMax, ValueMin? And how it's calculated?
As i understand that:
If we will set:

Duration = 10 Charges = 4 ValueMin = -10 ValueMax = -100
Then if we will use 2x bandages in one time, we will have -20 bleeding during 10 seconds? Or we will have -2 of bleeding point each second?
If we will use 6 bandages, we will have -60 (or -6) or it will be limited by Charges? So -40 (or -4 each sec)

[keen crag]

STALKER Global War playthrough has been halted by an immortal General Voronin, any tips ?

i have no idea how he hasn’t died ive killed a faction boss before

[upbeat coral]

Voronin is a plague that just wont go away

[hasty lintel]

Best gun nerd mod for trilogy freeplay?

[upbeat coral]

OWR

[ebon tusk]

are you high?
https://www.moddb.com/mods/autumn-aurora-compilation-mod/features/mod-features12

[lilac bane]

Oh

[modest portal]

So when do we actually care about load order? Only when a mod explicitly lists a position in the mod order it must be in? Or is there some kind of general rule of thumb for that kinda thing

[cunning lagoon]

Idk about x ray engine
But generally when 2 mods modify the same thing
The one loaded second overwrites the first

If no conflict, it doesn't matter

[modest portal]

So it sounds like unless the creator states it should be in a specific position, no need to really worry

I dont mod games often this is still kinda new to me. Ill usually slap a texture pack or something a game and call it a day lol

[cunning lagoon]

Well if mod list yeah

If your installing multiple mods from multiple authors they won't account for that

I think x ray engine straight up crashes lol

[modest portal]

And is there a tool to see if your mods are actually running in game? Some of them its hard to immediately test if its working or not lol

Ive tried googling and i dont know the right words to give me the result i need lmfao

[maiden nova]

Join global war discord server

but leaders always have high hp so kill him with grenades or explosive

or go in some file and change leaders hp

[upbeat coral]

Hugely depends on the files the mod changes
You can use JSGME but its best to keep the mod count low and prefferably from one author

For example Atmosfear and Absolute Nature will work together just fine but you will have to tinker with them a bit to get them running on modified engine

[young fable]

becareful though

JSGME can sometimes delete all of you files

[upbeat coral]

Hehe

[young fable]

my recommendation is just

drag and drop

[modest portal]

Yall are refrring to just simply running the mods right? Im not building them or tweaking them or anything. I download mod, i play it

[ebon tusk]

when downloading and playing almost all stalker mods you will see the text in the bottom right part of the menu change to reflect this
most mods do this

[modest portal]

I’ll try to keep an eye out for what you’re looking for. I’ve played around with gamma and anomaly so I know there can be some….interesting results when running certain mods. Like running increased damage human only mod+realistic ballistics. I’ve gotten killed by Tarkov scavs in less BS ways than I was dying before I realized the two mods were double dipping the damage lol

[ebon tusk]

what Im talking about applies to general stalker mods, which are all self contained full experiences
if you are asking for help with anomaly style centralised smaller modular mods, its out of my scope

[long isle]

OK, so in game files, looking at the artifacts, it says the Medusa (I assume the Jellyfish) is said to reduce radiation by -0.002...is that percentage, or what else is the scale?

[lilac bane]

it still doesnt start

i restarted withouth the cloud

[upbeat coral]

Did you reinstall after turning it off?

[upbeat coral]

Since its -2/1000
Then Im pretty sure its supposed to be milisieverts per second

That is removal of 2 mSv from users body per second

[long isle]

No, I'm not talking about what scale it's supposed to mean, since all artifacts and other things are also listed as parts of thousand, so -0.002 is supposed to be, what, -0.2% per second? Or is there some other scale that I don't get yet?

[upbeat coral]

I guess they did the scale for radiation first and then just reuaed the numbers for everything else

[long isle]

Fair. I guess scale's a bit too fine, but I'll try to modify appropriately. Thanks a lot.

[lilac bane]

yeah

[restive sinew]

@reef ridge wanna play gamma in co-op?))) I can give you access to it))) We can play together and stream it)

[reef ridge]

Hi MonoKit, as I said to your friend already, this post was something we had laying around in the server as a bot command, it was too long to be posted inside channels since people kept asking about multiplayer and we decided to turn it into a full post in a channel, that's literally it
Whatever you're doing is not even written in it but I can understand why you feel you're being called out on it

Since you and your friend pinged me directly (again obvious reason) I'll tell you both again that I don't really care about this and I am not the person directly concerned, the post is merely a PSA from the Anomaly devs

[raven karma]

Hey guys, i would like to start CoP Misery playthrough. I would like to install a few other mods on top of it though. Would this be a proper installation order?

1. Misery 2.2
2. Armed zone 3.0
3. Absolute Structures 1.0
4. Absolute Nature 4.04
5. Atmosfear 3

I'm aware that Misery already includes some special version of Atmosfear but i assume i can overwrite it with the standard one?

[ebon tusk]

You cant do this without knowing how to manipulate files, which I assume you don't

[raven karma]

That would depend on what you mean by "manipulating files". If you mean editing some config files, than that would be no problem.

[ebon tusk]

If a mod is not said by it's creator to be compatible with the other mod you want, then it's not, and you're going to have to adapt it yourself to be
Also by armed zone I assume you're talking about taz2.0?

[raven karma]

Yeah i mean TAZ 2.0. It should be compatible with Misery 2.2. Absolute Nature is compatible with TAZ, Misery and Atmosfear. Absolute textures is compatible with all of them.

The only thing i'm not 100% sure is Atmosfear 3 + Misery 2.2

[ebon tusk]

like you have said before, Misery already has a custom version of Atmosfear inside it, so dont bother, for the others its the usual process

[raven karma]

So this one would be alright?

1. Misery 2.2
2. Armed zone 3.0
3. Absolute Structures 1.0
4. Absolute Nature 4.04

[ebon tusk]

yes, make sure to overwrite all files in the process

[raven karma]

Alright, thank you 👍

[crude rock]

What mods would make Clear sky a more vanilla experience with just nice graphics, animations and fixes

And on the other hand, is it worth just going through LFO or ABR instead?

[ebon tusk]

is it your first playthru?

[crude rock]

I've technically played about halfway when i was in my teens, but i've forgotten everything

[ebon tusk]

for first playthrus it is recommended to play SRP base install

[crude rock]

Just on its own then

[ebon tusk]

ye

[crude rock]

sweeeeeeeeet

I actually loved CoP on Misery a long time ago as well

[austere bison]

Maybe record a video from both the client and the server so that everyone can see the beautiful desynchs that your code will never be able to fix

[ebon tusk]

this is a conversation you could have in DMs to be completely fair

[austere bison]

Imagine having a conversation about modding in a modding channel though

[ebon tusk]

if its drama beetween modders keep it out of the server

[austere bison]

Ok

[restive sinew]

Lmao, saying dude that moved from 1.5.2 to 1.5.3 without scripts made for 1.5.3.

About two screens, why we needed this? Download 1.0 and play now.

At the moment we're working on gamma adaptation and we will stream it on Twitch in this winter for a bunch of times.

Also about net-code that made from the scratch without C++ and now supports to play gamma and anomaly. We're collecting money to hire C++ dev, so why we have no future with that?

You can continue to keep truth behind your back from people who wanna play gamma or anomaly in co-op, saying it's scam, but mostly your people coming to us and staying/playing/supporting us. Thanks for advertising us pal.

[upbeat coral]

When multiplayer for good mods

[neat dune]

grokitach has been warned

Reason: Bad word usage

[abstract matrix]

Is that THE @austere bison - Modder extraordinaire.

[austere bison]

1. implying 1.5.3 changed everything: it didn't. You can play GAMMA with both 1.5.2 and 1.5.3, it doesn't change anything, what needed to be updated was updated. I'm not sure you know what's the difference between the two versions (aka almost nothing, it was mainly few minor bugfixes that were mostly already taken care of in GAMMA, and the main menu button to reach GSC store page). Also you most probably looked at files that are overwritten within MO2 priority system.

2. it's important because a multiplayer experience is lived on two sides: the client and the host. From I saw you always uploaded host videos, which will be clean anyway because what you see has nothing to do with pipping tons of information to the client. And my wild guess is that the experience on client is simply horrendous. What's your tickrate? How can a client full auto an NPC and all bullets actually count when your netcode is based off LUA scripts most probably running on host side actor_on_update but without sending the same information to the client in real time? That's exactly what's leading to desynchronization.

3. Most Anomaly players are GAMMA players currently, and some of them arrive on your server, shocker. This doesn't mean that I'm adversiting your project.

[ebon tusk]

What I said to grok is the same for you
If you intend to start drama here you're getting the boot
I don't care, take it somewhere else

[restive sinew]

к

sry

i've been drunk

due the project's birthday

[lilac bane]

I want to mod clear sky, so far ive downloaded AOR (arsenal overhaul redux)

What graphics mod is compatible with AOR

[lilac bane]

hey are you good with PC's?

Im putting the mod files into the CS roots, 2,6gb

System says its gonna take 1 hour and 55 minutes

[slender dove]

hi i want to do vanilla mods for the stalker games, where can i learn more about it because im really confused

i want to buy the trilogy but i want to know what im doing

[lilac bane]

Radiopohobia is good

unleess you truly weant everything vanilla

[near escarp]

any possible way i can add subtitles in autumn aurora 2? steam version

[slender dove]

I just want to play the campaign with nice graphics and no bugs crashes etc

And as comfortable as possible with lots of QOL

[lilac bane]

Radiophobia 3 in that case

[ebon tusk]

do you want to make or play?

[ebon tusk]

ok?

[lilac bane]

how do i fix it

now it says its gonna take a day

[ebon tusk]

@orchid berry call this SOVL

[ebon tusk]

what do you want me to do

[lilac bane]

can u maybe explain why it takes so long to extract 2,6gb worth of files into the clear sky roots

[ebon tusk]

I dont know your computer man, how could I

[lilac bane]

oh

normally it goes faster

[orchid berry]

Wat dat B

[ebon tusk]

Shadows Addon with more guns

[orchid berry]

Never heard of, tbh

[ebon tusk]

Shadows Addon is old man

[slender dove]

What does make mean and play mean im sorry i know theres alot of context , i wana play the campaign and i dont want to struggle too much with things that dont imerse me in the game, i wana enjoy the story and be immersed in the world i guess

[ebon tusk]

so you dont want to make a mod, just installation
is this your first playthru?

[slender dove]

Yes sir

[ebon tusk]

youre trynna play SOC I assume?

[slender dove]

I want to play all of them

[ebon tusk]

alright so youre gonna start with SoC
play it vanilla first playthru, if youre having problems with your machine install ZRP
after that, for Clear Sky install SRP
for CoP play it vanilla

[slender dove]

Ok

[restive sinew]

Zrp?

Srp?

Tf is that

[pallid ridge]

Hello
Your game crashing? (Clear sky)
Then delete all mods!
That's the only way to make the game playable.
I hope it's not off topic of the channel.

[upbeat coral]

Bugfix mods
Well
Modular bugfix mod (SRP) and poopoo wanna be bugfix mod that lies about its modularity and introduces worse bugs than those it fixes (ZRP)

:3

[quartz mica]

what are we complaining about today?

[restive sinew]

Well never heared about it

Im playing vanilla parts

Without mods

[upbeat coral]

Zased

[upbeat coral]

ZRP

It sucks ass

[quartz mica]

I just want a mod where they give the bloodsuckers hogs

[restive sinew]

Im not Z person tho

[upbeat coral]

Based

Zased is like "more based"

Same way as better means more good

[long isle]

Where do I find the configuration file for this? It's not available in the weapons folder.

https://stalker.fandom.com/wiki/Trophy_AKM-47/2

[upbeat coral]

Pretty sure it only has a subcategory in standard AKs file

[ebon tusk]

ZRP short for Zone Reclamation Project
SRP is Sky Reclamation Project

[lilac bane]

Here we go again

[ebon tusk]

click preview and show us the log

[lilac bane]

I was trying to install the AOR mod.

Dragged the gamedata and BIn folder into the roots

[long isle]

Why can't I post my message?

[lilac bane]

started the game,

Made a new save game

And then when i loaded in it crashed while i the game was loading

[ebon tusk]

are you sure you installed it correctly?

[lilac bane]

Yeah, dragged the game data folder and bin folder and replaced them with the old ones

[long isle]

It isn't, only 3 other variants available:

[lilac bane]

Should i screen share and repeat what i did?

[ebon tusk]

I wouldnt see your stream even if you did

[lilac bane]

why

[ebon tusk]

I assume youre using AOR 2.3.6

[lilac bane]

yep

[ebon tusk]

make a clean install, delete all saves, reinstall everything, make sure you have all preliminary software
if it still doesnt work, post a comment in the mod and he'll most likely message you back

[lilac bane]

step 6?

[ebon tusk]

yes

[cunning grotto]

76 hours into the game and now I get a crash after the compiling shaders screen

[neat dune]

semko231 has been warned

Reason: Bad word usage

[lilac bane]

Ive never, Ever, Ever had such a terrible time modding.

This is truly infuriating

[cunning grotto]

anyone had this?

[upbeat coral]

damn
no idea then, sorry

[rustic moss]

optimization wen 😭

[upbeat coral]

wdym
Clear Sky (the best game) runs fine

[fallow sedge]

quest_items.ltx and make sure you have the patched archives applied

[shy tinsel]

Stalker EVO
https://www.nexusmods.com/stalker2heartofchornobyl/mods/839

[craggy comet]

Hmmn, on my first playthrough I am wondering if it is fine to mod or will it affect achievements? These repair costs vs. K received is crazy..

[crisp fog]

been playing gamma last two days, after completing the triliogy and have to say it's scratching that itch, pretty addictive so far

[hoary lintel]

weird thing about anomaly and "capture enemy documents" missions. Last time I played there were enemies but no documents (had to use console to spawn them), this time, there are documents but no enemies... fifth such mission in a row

[blazing lichen]

Deff sounds like something is broken

[hoary lintel]

how can i fix it?

[long isle]

You mean game patches or any third-party ones IDK about?

[upbeat coral]

You dont

[hoary lintel]

why not 😦

[neat dune]

malfunctionsmf has been warned

Reason: Bad word usage

[hoary lintel]

didn't know the f word is banned. I was complaining about lurkers. you creep and crawl and try to set a perfect ambush when suddendly a creature you don't see nor hear jumps out of nowhere and murders you. and they're more common than dogs in this pt for some reason

[upbeat coral]

its result of porting bunch of crap and not bothering to fix it (essentially how Anomaly was made)

you would need to manually edit the code of the quest or delete it from the task manager

[ruby citrus]

the grok is upon us

billions must play slop

[crisp fog]

You don’t like it?

[idle matrix]

I enjoyed them but I do think they are overrated compared to other mods

[hoary lintel]

how would I manually edit the code for the quest?

[upbeat coral]

I cast Jekan: Protector of Traditional Modding Values!

[ruby citrus]

i wouldn't call them "mods for original games"

[upbeat coral]

by unpacking the DB files and findiing MLR quests

[ruby citrus]

it's just that any total conversion will always be better than any modpack

[upbeat coral]

Total Peakversion >>>> Sloppack

[ruby citrus]

this is true

[upbeat coral]

anyways
Cordon

best modded Cordon I have seen yet

Spatial Anomaly and Secrets of Cordon come close after

not sure about RTTZ yet

try disabling a single mod in Gamma and not only will the modpack shit its pants twice but the community will eat you alive as well

[crisp fog]

I disable a few things and it worked fine. I agree it’s more finicky than most mods but I personally think it’s good.

[patent apex]

the true stalker one was pretty good

shame it's in true stalker

[idle matrix]

Can say the same about the lost alpha one

[upbeat coral]

forgot about those

TS Cordon was definitely great

as for LA I wouldnt count it since its based on build Cordon, not release one

but its pretty damn good

[upbeat coral]

I would love to fly around the map, too bad demo_record is disabled

[wintry token]

Hi there, anyone knows if it's possible to limitate the size of the player's inventory ItemGrid ? Currently browsing the game files but I don't know anything about modding and don't know where to search.
I'm running a nice modpack that rebalances the whole game and it's pretty nice except for the inventory management that feels too permissive to me.

[patent apex]

which game

[quick star]

does anyone know how can i mod my viewmodel for clear sky, specifically abr

[upbeat coral]

ABR

[quick star]

whats wrong with abr?

[upbeat coral]

what isnt wrong with ABR?

[civic pewter]

The Cordon of Lost Alpha its based in the version build 1935 (SoC 2004)

[upbeat coral]

Crazy

[wintry token]

the 2 one

[young fable]

does anyone how to fix this error?

i try using IX-Xray for Clear Sky

OXRay crash for me when transition on first outpost

[patent apex]

clear sky does not have the ability to alter the grid system

[young fable]

nvm i figure it out now

time to start development i guess

[neon socket]

how can i increase the render res % on FSR3? quality only has 66%

[sharp stream]

Hi everybody. Does somebody have the download link of Extended Weather mod? The latest one. I can´t find it anywhere...

It´s a mod for Lost Alpha modification.

[upbeat coral]

Does IX-Ray even support Clear Sky?
Im pretty sure only AXR does

[young fable]

yes

[spare vector]

Hey guys, am I right in assuming that if I for example, have the unfortunate experience of using vortex to mod stalker 2, and I use SMM to merge mods / fix whatever conflicts I had, then when launching through vortex still, then in there I should probably disable whichever mods got merged into a pak of their own / were conflicting, as the merged pak is going to launch them all, but in a fixed form anyway?

[tribal ravine]

do anyone know how to edit LFO files or use their DEBUG?

[long isle]

In Clear Sky, the trader files have amounts, ranging from 0.1 to 5 or so...what are those values? Are they percentage chance of items appearing in the trader's inventory, or something else?

[next minnow]

FYI UE4SS breaks current stalker 2- results in system RAM fill/crash. do not install UE4SS (a certain flashlight mod requires UE4SS)

[upbeat coral]

theres CoP SDK and bunch of newer ones like Hybrid-Xray
I suggest talking to MFB about map making

[next minnow]

once more for visibility:
FYI UE4SS breaks current stalker 2- results in system RAM fill/crash. do not install UE4SS (a certain flashlight mod requires UE4SS).

[upbeat coral]

crazy

[quick star]

is soc abr still in dev?

[upbeat coral]

I hope not

[loud breach]

@fallow sedge free play from SRP post credits has 0 impact on someone's way of perceiving the game

[fallow sedge]

It does. People think something is a part of base game later on and unironically talk about level changers from Limansk, etc.

Same with people claiming 7N11 is in the game while it’s not

[loud breach]

one ammo type is such a game changer?

[loud breach]

but free play starts once the main story is over, who cares?

I played SoC with ZRP for the first time, how did it DESTROY my experience?

[fallow sedge]

It’s not about game changers, it’s about having consistent experience with base game. When you discuss the game with someone else you expect them to go through the same game, not a slightly altered version of it. I have had plenty of discussions with people who played CS with mods before and they are unaware of what is a part of base game and what isn’t. It’s just better to have your first playthrough playing the game purely the way it was designed by devs and the way it’s meant to be experienced. Additional changes may come later if you decide to go back to it.

[loud breach]

yeah but I'm not planning a second playthrough and I don't want my game to crash

[fallow sedge]

Ohh that one’s even worse with many lore changes and everything lol. It completely removes mentions of illusionists from the game, alters the lore about mobile laboratories insisting there are multiple of them in the Zone during the events of SoC, adds lots of changes to dialogs from Wolf saying Bes is his friend to and just many weird changes such as dialog hints to 9x19 crate in Garbage.

[fallow sedge]

The games are fine vanilla as is, I’ve been playing them with no mods for years. It is just a trade off that’s not worth it really, sure you protect yourself from few potential crashes but there is a good chance reclamation projects introduce new issues even if you ignore all of those changes.

[loud breach]

Wolf died like 5 minutes into my playthrough so we can at least get that one off the list

[loud breach]

where do you live that you meet people who play Stalker and can talk to about it with them? I had to go out of my way to find this Discord and it seems pretty dead

[fallow sedge]

Either way people having their first experience with mods is the reason so many are confused about stalker lore as they mix up what fans added with base game content.

[fallow sedge]

I live in the UK but I mean discord channels mostly yeah, also English is not my first language so I participate in a few non-English communities as well, they tend to have more people knowledgeable about base games, dev history and lore.

[loud breach]

tbh dialogs and character development aren't the strongest points of SoC, there are only two memorable characters: Sidorovich and Barkeep and that's because you trade with them often

I can't remember any other characters

[fallow sedge]

SRP-Lite is closer but IIRC you need to compile all.spawn yourself

[loud breach]

so why is ZRP recommended by everyone?

turns out my playthrough has been ruined

by ZRP zealots

[upbeat coral]

because people are dumb

gamma is also widely recommended

[loud breach]

/r/stalker recommends ZRP but not Gamma

[upbeat coral]

reddit can suck my ass
theres nothing but dogshit takes there

well enough ranting

thoughts?

[loud breach]

sure, too bad all other communities are dead

[upbeat coral]

eh

not really

and even if they are, dead just means the annoying/dumb are gone

[loud breach]

what other English speaking communities are there?

[upbeat coral]

theres bazillion discord servers, some old forum sites that are still managed to this day, Ap-Pro, Stalkerclan, heck even moddb has some decent forums

[loud breach]

Discord is trash for storing information

also the most accessible one so the probability of retard takes is the highest

[loud breach]

ap-pro is russian

[loud breach]

I tried looking for Stalkerclan but only found this lol

[upbeat coral]

depends on server
if you go to gamma server then yes, amount of shit takes will be high, if you go to C-Con Network then it will be rather low

[upbeat coral]

that doesnt change the fact its biggest modding database out there

[upbeat coral]

https://stalker-mods.clan.su/index/0-2

[loud breach]

brb gonna learn russian

[upbeat coral]

your browser doesnt automatically translate using DeepL?

[loud breach]

[upbeat coral]

no, I mean, like for real
your browser cant translate pages?

[loud breach]

it can, so what? I wanted a community that I can take part in, not a mod download site

[upbeat coral]

you can
Ap-Pro is not just download site but also database, forum and review site
it also comes with news about stalker, both HoC and mods

[loud breach]

I just told you I don't know russian

[cursive marsh]

@upbeat coral

so

you were right

but not completely

call of the zone crashes

But after I installed arsenal overhaul

[noble basalt]

🤣

Arsenal overhaul for Call of the zone is so complicated

why? because it adds a 'Multitool' item. (An item that allows many scopes to be dismounted via a button press). it conflicts with so many other addons files

so unless you know what you are doing when adding individual addons by yourself, i recommend playing the unmodded call of the zone first. and then replay using a modpack

[young fable]

just play IWP

[idle matrix]

is IWP just a weapon pack or does it continue the proud tradition of changing way more things than are advertised

[patent apex]

it changes a lot

[young fable]

could be

[idle matrix]

Well I guess I'll just go see if there is a feature list

[young fable]

https://youtu.be/Es0aZYcFg3k?si=RTltws6Xg52jgoY5

[idle matrix]

Well I guess I can just add it to the pile to try later

[idle matrix]

After first playthrough of S2 I plan to return to The Exception

[upbeat coral]

Return now

Exception is better anyways

[idle matrix]

Meh, I would rather finish one thing then the other. I have a lot of holiday time coming up anyway

[cursive marsh]

what is that

[upbeat coral]

A total conversion mod built around gunpack

People shill it a lot, no idea why
Personally the main positive I see is having CotZ quests (as addon, not in the mod itself) on stable engine

[eager bridge]

Hey guys! Anyone know of some blood mods like the ones in fallout? Stalker 2s gore in general leaves some to be desired

[modest portal]

Yea lemme grab the link rq

[modest portal]

https://www.nexusmods.com/stalker2heartofchornobyl/mods/99 this is the one ive been using. I think its really the only one for it tbh

Theres some thatll add like bullet wounds to enemies and stuff

There other ones ive read conflict with A-life sometimes if you use it. Only a few people saying that so i dont know how widespread it id

[little plover]

For me it’s what you mentioned about CotZ with a working port on a stable engine but also the consistency IWP brings to its weapon pack, decent animations, working PiP scopes and the difficulty modifiers. It’s a pretty solid mod tbh, standalone now too.

[ebon tusk]

its gunslinger in COC
its why its popular

[little shale]

Does anyone know how to solve this? My quest log still says "search Kaimanov's office" but when I take the card and the palp it doesn't update the next step of the quest

[upbeat coral]

What mod?

[ruby citrus]

what mod

[eager bridge]

Thank you!!

[upbeat coral]

So true bestie

[pale wagon]

Hello everyone, I'm looking for a mod, unfortunately i don't remember if its for SoC or CoP to my dismay.. (but defintely not for CS as I never played it)
I do remember that it made the stalkers from the Stalker Ranking (top ranking) have special unique weapons and of course said enemies were tougher, my favorite from the mod was a GP37 powered with an electro artifact (yea like it sounds, it had blue supersonic bullets upon firing, this is how it looked and the description of said unique weap also mentioned something like that)
I'm sorry that I don't have more details, I really don't remember more but after playing stalker 2 i felt like going back to those times and getting that unique GP37 If anyone knows please do let me know!
Any help will be appreciated

[upbeat coral]

Shun the Peak Sky skipper!

Shuuuuuuuunnnnnn

[blazing lichen]

play peak sky

[blazing lichen]

https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/561153801114091521/1308607393609023508/MY2hkEDW.gif

[viral night]

So I'm done with Stalker 2 and I wanted to try Stalker Gamma, should I hop right on Gamma or try Anomaly first?

[idle matrix]

I'd say play the original games first but if you are going to play gamma I don't see a reason to play anomaly first. It's the same experience fundamentally, for all the gameplay tweaks and visual enhancements

[viral night]

I did play the OGs

I set myself the rule that I won't play S2 until I finish the OGs

[idle matrix]

Then yeah if you want to play gamma I would just go straight to that. I'd also recommend some more story focused mods like Incubator and Spatial Anomaly (there's a lot but I won't list them all)

[upbeat coral]

I will ||(not really)||

Some good ones I can recommend are:
Goldsphere
Path in the Mist
Valley of Whispers
Spatial Anomaly
Return to the Zone
Road to the North (for more rough open world experience)
Incubator
Dreamcatcher
Game of Souls: Beginning
Game of Souls: Excelsior
The Exception
Oblivion Lost Remake OR Vector of Alienation
Wind of Time

I feel like I forgot something

Oh right
Mason Trilogy (Messenger, Bad Company, Bad Company Freemason)