🔩┃trilogy_modifications

[ruby citrus]

can you still build your base like in anomaly?

[upbeat coral]

imagine SoC but its a retarded vasyan fanfic posted on wattpad

[upbeat coral]

thats not even a feature in Anomaly to begin with

[ruby citrus]

huh?

[upbeat coral]

Omg
Cat

[ruby citrus]

i think i saw people like

building shit in dead city

[upbeat coral]

its addon

[ruby citrus]

aahhhh

god bless the vasyans

[upbeat coral]

you didnt expect Anomaly to have good features out of the box, did you?

[ruby citrus]

with their virtue we may recreate fallout 4

on x-ray

fuсkkkk im realizing now

if i can't stealth kill and can't sell guns

[narrow hound]

I was able to build a house the last time I played gamma

[ruby citrus]

still i'll probably attempt to raid military's outpost at cordon

for some guns at least

I HOPE THEY DO HAVE GUNS

[upbeat coral]

their rusty AK-74Us will drop at like -36% condition

and no, techhnicians cant repair them
at least not for a reasonable price

[ruby citrus]

okay but shouldn't there be like a box with some guns

somewhere

because yknow its an outpost

of the military

[narrow hound]

Gamma moment

[upbeat coral]

you expect actual loot in stashes?

lmao

lmfao

[upbeat coral]

let me repeat

lmao

lmfao

[upbeat coral]

Omg
Cat

[ruby citrus]

wait is gamma like a hundred hour commitment

[upbeat coral]

hundered hours for first working gun

[idle matrix]

Not quite but it is grindy

[upbeat coral]

[idle matrix]

It will feel like a hundred hours

[upbeat coral]

I should stop Alt Tabbing
or Dreamcatcher will crash

see ya guys (and NozAr) later

[ruby citrus]

fuсkkkk i should've gone with CotZ

[ruby citrus]

nini <333

honestly i kinda expected gamma to be

a idk 40 hour for a normal playthrough

maybe 60

[narrow hound]

Gamma is no grass commitment if you play the game as is without modifying the settings the way you want it to make sense.

[ruby citrus]

wait no it's not an extensive story, so 40

basically enough to have fun with the mechanics and not get bored

[narrow hound]

Yes, I'm having a good time in cotz right now

[idle matrix]

Well the first storyline that is just reheated SoC isn't too long even with the grind in the mod economy. By the time you can finish that you are endgame anyway so doing the other two is pointless, especially when the quality is just downhill

[ruby citrus]

tbh i'm not really seeking a freeplay right now, i just wanted to experience gamma specifically, yet i did want to have some fun......

[idle matrix]

There's a very bad sin storyline that just turns into a long shooting gallery, and then there's some more reheated trilogy in the last one

[upbeat coral]

if the "story" didnt have you run across 4 empty maps between every mission it would have been like 10 hours

[upbeat coral]

Omg
Cat

[ruby citrus]

i heard uhhh an opinion let's say that anomaly's storyline quality is the same as the trilogy

and i REALLY

[ruby citrus]

wanted to know if that's just the brain of the opinionhaver malfunctioning

(which it is)

or maybe i'm just not giving anomaly a chance

[ruby citrus]

can't you fasttravel?

[narrow hound]

That's fair. I had fun with gamma but only because I wasn't playing it the way frows up gamma is intended to be played cough. But then I got bored and deleted it, also the fact that it takes up so much space on your pc.

[upbeat coral]

Ive seen people praise it while calling Lost Alpha cheap fanfiction
which it absolutely is but Anomaly is worse and more fanficy in every way

[upbeat coral]

you cant but whats the point of "34 FULLY EXPLORABLE MAPS" if you just teleport through them

guides are useless
they cover like 10 maps of the 34

[ruby citrus]

wow this modpack really sounds poorly thought-out

[upbeat coral]

only other option is the overpowered teleport fast travel using PDA

that suggest it was thought-out to certain degree

which it wasnt

[ruby citrus]

btw chymo what's the mod with best driving

[upbeat coral]

Lost Alpha Definitive Car Pack

[ruby citrus]

hmmmm

is it for ladc or la

[rich knot]

LA DC iirc

[ruby citrus]

guh

sad

[rich knot]

Yeah LA DC

[upbeat coral]

check their spot in Ap-Pro showcase 2024

its cool

[rich knot]

I remember them having a Silva and a stang in that vid

Story of Cat intro cutscene is 🔥🔥

[neat dune]

rambunktious has been warned

Reason: Bad word usage

[somber tendon]

Hey friends,what do you think of radiophobia 3? I was playing it these days and for me,its the mod that brings shadows of Chernobyl close to stalker 2.

I played the last version of complete for shoc and i found it hit or miss. I guess it removed the essence of shoc

[upbeat coral]

Complete is garbage
Radiophobia is meh, it removes all the atmosphere in favour of flashy visuals
Doesnt feel like SoC at all

[ruby citrus]

yes, you should play gamma instead

[upbeat coral]

Grok yourself

[viscid viper]

It's really good, it gives you new visuals while keeping the gameplay similar but not different enough from the original

lots of new weapons and quests as well

(now if only it had 3dss)

[ruby citrus]

3dss is the most boring shit ever

they should actually start implementing PiP scopes

[viscid viper]

We're never gonna get decent pip

(Except A.R.E.A.)

even the OGSR gunslinger got rid of their pips

[ruby citrus]

thats because all stalker modders fuсking suck

especially western

you're telling me they did good PiP on gamebryo but we can't do it on x-ray

shameful

[upbeat coral]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XLZAJgLKyX8

3DSS my beloved

[somber tendon]

Yep,i loved it too. I wish stalker 2 had radiophobia 3 s ragdoll. Woud be perfect! I already asked GSC a couple of times if they will improve stalker 2 s ragdolls,but my question wasnt selected! Haha

[viscid viper]

Its also a shame how they didnt answer my question

||when sdk comes out, can strelok get a low taper fade?||

[blazing lichen]

PiP in IWP is good

with PiP max graphics im still 100-200 fps

[ruby citrus]

there's pip in iwp??

[blazing lichen]

there is yes

@ruby citrus quick test of it

[upbeat coral]

Pretty sure IWP uses 3DSS

[ruby citrus]

doesn't load....

oh nevermind

also YOOOO ACTUAL PiP SCOPES

the scope is a bit too close to the face tho

[ruby citrus]

what is this writing 😭😭😭

[little plover]

It doesn’t, it uses actual dual rendering tech, proper PiP implementation, it’s one of the main reasons why I love IWP so much. By far best PiP I’ve ever seen in Stalker.

[upbeat coral]

Peak

(not really, IWP still kinda mid 💅)

[upbeat coral]

Lukash so based he says that Status Quo is restored

Hes just like me frfr

[ruby citrus]

shit i kinda wanna download cotz with iwp now

[upbeat coral]

Also I find it funny how Lukash just sits on ground in the barracks despite literally having an office in the main building

Imagine Voronin just stood in the bar instead of hiding in his bunker like a rat

[little plover]

If you haven’t already tried it you should definitely give it a go, IWP has its own version of CotZ ported too.
And don’t listen to @upbeat coral about it being mid, he just prefers story mods to freeplay ones so everything is mid or crap unless it’s goldsphere.

[upbeat coral]

Literally wrong

[ruby citrus]

i mean freeplays are objectively ass, but PiP scopes,,,,,,,, wah,,,,,

[upbeat coral]

Also I played IWP with CotZ port and it was straight up worse than standalone CotZ 💅

[little plover]

I like both tbh but IWP has been my standard for freeplay for a while now over Anomaly and GAMMA, only thing they do better is visuals and item bloat.

[little plover]

How long ago did you try? It’s on indev 6.7 now so might have been a lot of stuff changed. I just don’t like that Dynamic Faction Relations, always gotta turn that off.

[upbeat coral]

Few months
Probably during Fall

[ruby citrus]

makes sense, im starting gamma rn and... well, it doesnt feel good

[waxen tinsel]

why cant i alt tab from stalker ?

[upbeat coral]

Heh

Xray Engine defeats puny Windows once again

[waxen tinsel]

yep xD

its annoying having to quit the game everytime i want to check dms or whatever

[little plover]

As with any stalker mod, it’s an acquired taste bro.

[upbeat coral]

Yeah you have to learn to not alt+tab while playing stalker

[little plover]

Can alt+tab IWP no problem.

[upbeat coral]

64 bit engines tend to do this a lot less tho

[little plover]

[upbeat coral]

[ruby citrus]

i doubt that

also *sis 💅

[upbeat coral]

Sis?
More like niS

[ruby citrus]

it did not take much convincing to like something as niche as OLR 3

or like, any other stalker mod or stalker game

but with gamma im already concerned with some uhhh
design decisions

i shouldnt expect much from a modpack but holy shit did they hype it

[little plover]

My bad sis but I just meant it’s not for everyone, if we all liked the same things it’d be a pretty boring place.

[ruby citrus]

I WILL ASSURE THAT THE THIRD IMPACT HAPPENS

[waxen tinsel]

also

[ruby citrus]

AND THEN WE WILL ALL LIKE THE SAME THINGS

[ruby citrus]

fuuuuсk, im a fake nerd

third impact isn't the same as human instrumentality project

[waxen tinsel]

between these mods which u guys think i should try first?
incubator
radiophobia 3
true stalker

[ruby citrus]

incubator

[upbeat coral]

Incubator

Skip radioslopia

[waxen tinsel]

why?

[upbeat coral]

Cuz its poopy

Replace with Dreamcatcher

After that True Stalker Letdown

[waxen tinsel]

i think i read somewhere that incubator and dreamcatcher are part of a trilogy?

[ruby citrus]

yes

[waxen tinsel]

whats the other besides those 2?

[upbeat coral]

There isnt one

They arent really connected either

They are part of long series of mods

But the previous ones arent that good

[cinder oxide]

They are almost completely disconnected

Incubator is kinda incomprehensible if you take long breaks between sessions

[upbeat coral]

Its incomprehensible even if you dont

Its made to do that
Since ||Kramer is going crazy||

[cinder oxide]

Right

[ebon tusk]

to be fair, things are allowed to be bad

[steel relic]

What's the best QoL mod for Call of Pripyat?

[upbeat coral]

Clear Sky

probably some upgraded engine honestly

like IX-Ray, Open Xray or Advanced Xray

[idle matrix]

Yeah

It's already got the best qol in the trilogy tbh

[upbeat coral]

stability improvements are the best QOL you can get in Stalker

[idle matrix]

Most mods focus on removing QoL

[upbeat coral]

as it should be

[shut veldt]

damn, gamma is kinda boring ngl

[ruby citrus]

it's literally a survival game built ontop of a game that's not really designed around survival

that's not that bad tbh, but it literally has nothing else going on

[shut veldt]

I dont like how I cant buy guns or armour

Having to craft every equipment sounds tedious

[ruby citrus]

yuuup

[blazing lichen]

Op2 is peak

[upbeat coral]

GOLDSPHERE

[blazing lichen]

Peaksphere

[steel relic]

What's the best mod for Call of Pripyat tho

[upbeat coral]

Mods are extremely wide category
You have to be more specific

And even if we divide them into sub categories its hard because everyone values different stuff

If you want the highest production value then it absolutely is True Stalker
But then... its story is rather weak
Best gunpack is probably STCOP but that highly depends on the version and the amount of guns you want in your game

Best for QOL are the already mentioned community made forks of X-Ray

[steel relic]

I beat SoC in vanilla but should I play Call of Pripyat the same way

or are there any mods that'll make it better

[upbeat coral]

Absolutely

The game is by far in the most polished state of the three

Also
Dont skip Clear Sky

Its pretty good

Personally my favourite stalker game

[ebon tusk]

first complete vanila

[steel relic]

I played it for around 10 hours

My save corrupted actually

[upbeat coral]

Complete 2009

[upbeat coral]

You want my save?

[steel relic]

I modded it with ABR CS and then I uninstalled it forgetting it was ever modded

[steel relic]

How's that work

[ebon tusk]

HAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAA

[upbeat coral]

ABR 💀

[steel relic]

I wasn't having much fun

[ebon tusk]

ABR

lmao

[steel relic]

Hey I heard it was good

[upbeat coral]

Thats cuz you used ABR

[upbeat coral]

No

[ebon tusk]

its one of the worst mods I have seen

[upbeat coral]

Poopy

[steel relic]

Whenever I used the sleeping bag a random bloodsucker spawned when I woke up

[upbeat coral]

They change stuff (for worse) for sake of changing stuff and then call people names if they disagree with their changes

ABR is dogshit mod made by toxic assholes

Ruins the game

[ebon tusk]

they do one based thing
call people names

[steel relic]

I had no idea bro

I was watching a video about how modded CS is the best

[upbeat coral]

They removed ability to join one of the factions
Cutting them down from 4 to 3

[upbeat coral]

Dont trust stalker youtubers

[steel relic]

Any of them who I can trust?

[upbeat coral]

Only one of the more prominent content creators I would trust with any recommendations is Anomalous Dugout

He makes great lore videos

And his old mod recommendation video is decent too

[steel relic]

So Vanilla CoP is okay?

[upbeat coral]

Yes

[steel relic]

Thanks for letting me know

Heard a lot of people talking about Gunslinger

[upbeat coral]

There may be some stability issues on specific systems but thats only towards the end usually

[upbeat coral]

Ehhh

Its cool on paper

But just anti fun if you play it

And changes the game in many unecessary ways

They basically removed all ability to multi task
You cant check the map when reloading, you cant sprint when reloading, you cant do any 2 things at once really

You may like it tho
But please
Only try it once youre done with the vanilla game

[ebon tusk]

no comment

[steel relic]

I'll keep this in mind

[upbeat coral]

Also
Clear Sky very please

[steel relic]

Wdym?

[upbeat coral]

play it

[steel relic]

I will

[shut veldt]

faction wars sounds fun

[upbeat coral]

it is fun

[whole quiver]

anyone know how to install the OXA mod for stalker 2?

I looked at the install guide and this is what it looks like.

I understand that I have to put in the ~mod folder but theres like six different files of the same mod

Idk which one to install

I can put the god damn acog on the M870 when it says it cant be on there

how is this even possible

@upbeat coral help pls

[orchid berry]

Literally not Trilogy

[whole quiver]

I was told to come here

[whole quiver]

@narrow hound You told me to come here why is this man saying not to come here

[orchid berry]

If that's the case, it's fine

We don't really have a HoC dedicated mod channel either at the moment

Although I do wonder if Chymo even knows anything about HoC modding

[whole quiver]

https://tenor.com/view/ashton-hall-ashton-hall-gta-5-rage-gif-1364330757071934468

[narrow hound]

Maybe like, ask in servers like gamma idk

[orchid berry]

I mean, it is regarding to a HoC mod, right?

[narrow hound]

I told the guy to come here though because this the only modding channel we have.

[orchid berry]

Yeah

[whole quiver]

I just want a dovetail on my AK74 tbh

[sick sand]

Choosing factions in CS is like choosing endings in Mass Effect 3 anyways, who cares

[shut veldt]

I hope its very different than the one in Anomaly, that one can be janky AF at times

[upbeat coral]

I havent played Stinker 2

[upbeat coral]

I want to bully Duty with my buddies and get an exo for it
So I do care

[fickle anchor]

Gentlemen, i have a question. I did write to Twitter dm of Stalker (got no answer. Email same, no answer)

Am i allowed to download / play Stalker Anomaly after owning / buying Stalker Call of Pripyat and first game on Steam or GOG. I saw Anomaly being standalone, would it count as piracy? Am i allowed to stream it? (I know lots of people stream it or make videos about. But i wanna ask just in case)

Extra question. Does Shadow of Chernobyl and Call of Pripyat has StarForce drm in them , for Steam versions?

[shut veldt]

you say that like theres not a thousand or so players of anomaly

its a fan made mod, go have fun doing what you want :)

[ruby citrus]

holy shit dude, kill the cop in you

[shut veldt]

as long as youre not straight up pirating the official games, its ok

[ruby citrus]

it doesn't, you can check pcgamingwiki

[shut veldt]

brainfart

[fickle anchor]

PCGamingWiki says this for both first and Call for Pripyat? I need cd key for Steam version?

[ruby citrus]

no you do not
why do you care anyway

[quaint ingot]

Anomaly Standalone is bases on Open X-Ray Engine and it's open source, only older versions wanted Call of Pripyat as base. No, it's not piracy, Anomaly is just being Open Source Game. About older stalker games, DRM is long gone, it was on CD versions. Steam and GOG verisions has no DRM on it.

[fickle anchor]

Just in case + i heard few times old drms causing issues. Thanks for answers

[quaint ingot]

Ah yes... Old Cancerous DRMs

I never forget that one who limits game install for 4 pcs, like it's software.

but it's a GAME

[upbeat coral]

Shit mod

[wind bone]

Gunslinger is so peak

[idle matrix]

It's okay with GSC as long as they comply with GSCs mod policy (Anomaly does afaik)

Practically speaking this doesn't make much of a difference but that's the official stance

[viscid viper]

for whatever reason, you're gonna get flamed here

but yeah it is

[sick sand]

You can't play as freedom in that mod? Kinda cringe. I thought they'd disable bandits or something

[upbeat coral]

you can

only bandits are gone

I was reffering to you saying that theres no reason to play faction wars
not to ABR being shit (which it is)

[upbeat coral]

on paper

its really cool to look at

really ass to play

[blazing lichen]

Midslinger

[upbeat coral]

it was cool in True Stalker to be fair

[blazing lichen]

Trueslinger

[upbeat coral]

improved engine and removal of most of the bad features really made it cool

[ebon tusk]

inverted peak of the marianna trench?

[wind bone]

not you again

sigh

fucktard

[ebon tusk]

Who are you?

[quaint ingot]

Looks like someone's alt since he knows you.

[upbeat coral]

nah
Vasim is a celebrity across stalker discord servers

[narrow hound]

That is not a nice thing to say to someone

[wind bone]

ok

[blazing lichen]

Relax white role

[wind bone]

rolecism in 2025😔

[ruby citrus]

gamma is kinda fun...... (im losing it)

[blazing lichen]

It's honestly not that bad tbh

[upbeat coral]

it crabsolutely is

if you take it as stalker

if you ignore the entire stalker element (just like Grok did) its just mid

[blazing lichen]

I like to take it as it's own kinda game just set in the zone tbh

[ruby citrus]

i think i have progression difficulty set at mid instead of hard but so far its like kinda even easier than olr 3

apparently i can buy ammo from mercs

i rlly dont like that they're all voiced with corny american voices

[upbeat coral]

cuz OLR is actually difficult
while gamma is just tedious and annoying

[ruby citrus]

like i dont understand why dushman speaks perfect californian

[ruby citrus]

i mean no olr 3 is tedious and annoying
i just love engaging with that, esp when there are other things going on (like story n quests)

gamma is like a survival game, which is ok, but i wonder how fast i'll get bored

[blazing lichen]

I think there's an option to get rid of the goofy American voices

I wouldn't mind English but no one talks like gamma English mercs haha it's cringe as fuck

[upbeat coral]

best part of the english VA is the fact that the guy who uploaded it called it immersive as "mercenaries are american"

you can see these people know jackshit about what they do

[ruby citrus]

dushman (american)

[upbeat coral]

totally american name

[ruby citrus]

volkodav (american)

[upbeat coral]

Joe Dushman Smith

[ruby citrus]

i mean georgia is an american state right

[upbeat coral]

real

inst Duhman a balkan word tho?

I could swear it meant "enemy" in one of the balkan languages

[ruby citrus]

its an arabic word i think?

something that bothers me so far

is like

i barely engage with anomalies at all

[blazing lichen]

Americans aren't the smartest to be fair lol

[ruby citrus]

im in super early game to be fair but still i dont feel like i need to go searching for artifacts

theres also like a leveling system now???

[upbeat coral]

they are utterly useless to be fair

heres comparision of artifact stats between Anomaly and CoP

the +2 heal in Anomaly is slower than passive regen in vanilla

[ebon tusk]

kind of useless considering the scale is completely different, beetween anomaly and vanilla

[upbeat coral]

the artifacts are useless too so its thematic

[ruby citrus]

r they not rebalanced in gamma?

[ebon tusk]

lol

[upbeat coral]

lmao

you expect Grok to fix a pivotal element of Stalker series that was butchered in Anomaly?

keep dreaming

[ruby citrus]

wait isnt like the whole point of the modpack

to rebalance things to make it

HARDCORE

[upbeat coral]

to rebalance guns and survival

the stuff that Stalker was never too centered about

like sure
guns were always there but they existed to shoot people

not to be 90% of the content

[idle matrix]

I think the artifacts have been rebalanced somewhat but you more or less need a full setup of the best artifacts for it to have a substantial effect

[ruby citrus]

thats stupid

[ebon tusk]

artifacts have been bad since CS tbf

and most mods dont balance em right

[ruby citrus]

since SoC tbh

you basically never need anything thats not stamina/carry weight

[upbeat coral]

I only ever used stamina artis in SoC

its always carry and antirad in CS and CoP

also healing in SoC

[ruby citrus]

guh now that i think about it wouldnt HARDCORE SURVIVAL be a perfect place to give bleed/health artifacts a use

[upbeat coral]

no

cuz then you couldnt force a dumb tarkov style health system

[ebon tusk]

the best way to balance artifacts is to make them actually hard to obtain but give often overpowered and diverse effects like one that makes dogs peaceful

thats a nlc artifact btw

[upbeat coral]

so no trinkets

but actual artifacts of legends?

[ruby citrus]

so basically wearable perks?

[ebon tusk]

if you do wish to call it that, Im calling you a malign normie

[ruby citrus]

vasim mean as always

[idle matrix]

OP-2 has some fun artifacts. Some ridiculous stamina regen ones since your life will be suffering without being able to sprint indefinitely at max carry weight

Not interesting in terms of creative effects just more like they're blatantly overpowered to compensate for the nonsense you have to deal with

[sick sand]

Why? I enjoyed it when I played it. I mean... The biggest issue of that mod is that it's a mod for CoP but other than that I really liked how all the guns feel. Visible upgrades are also cool... Exo and pda too...

[upbeat coral]

From technical standpoint its really cool
But the removal of ability to multitask is so annoying

[sick sand]

I think the animations are implemented much better than in HoC or IWP (Where they just feel weird). And let's be real, CoP is super easy game so it kinda makes it a little bit more challenging or something... Like, I dunno, I see nothing wrong in it so far

[orchid berry]

Mr. Kotmaxxer

Make underground mods for me

Thx

[upbeat coral]

Uhh
Just play OLR 3.0

[orchid berry]

I will

[upbeat coral]

Ratacombs alone are worth like 10 hours of playtime

[orchid berry]

But not what I meant

You have to do it, Mr. Kotmaxxer

[orchid berry]

Only you can do this

[upbeat coral]

Cordon for scale

I will make Metro on Xray just for you

[orchid berry]

Yikes bro

[upbeat coral]

Jk

I will make proper dungeon crawler RPG

[orchid berry]

Based except for the RPG part

So just the "dungeon crawler" part, really

[upbeat coral]

Anyways
Back to goonslinger
When fighting I just like to hide, reload add pop a medkit after getting hit
I hate how in gunslinger you have to wait for these animations to finish

I would like it better if there were no item anims

Because lets be honest, gun anims are top notch

[upbeat coral]

You dont want skill systems?

[orchid berry]

In a STALKER game? No

CoP balance, my beloved

[upbeat coral]

Shroomer perk
Lets you replenish your HP by eating mushrooms that grow on walls underground (no items, just nom it off the wall)

Anyways
I want to make a mod one day but thats still far away
I have to learn ton of stuff first
SDK (painful), Blender all the various configs, task scripting and all that

[orchid berry]

To be fair, not all of the Zone's undergrounds are just labs and what not. As CS tells us and partly shows us, mutants also dig their own tunnels. Just imagine the tunnels Duty blew up. Underneath them? That's where their actual lair home was

How massive must those have been

[upbeat coral]

Yeah
I have seen many modded labs that had tunnels and stuff like that
Its cool

The Exception (or rather ISOTD3) massively expands the CS Agroprom tunnels
Not only the underground itself but the entrance also recieved a great rework, featuring a cave system

You really should play it

Tons of small underground areas integrated into surface maps

[orchid berry]

Very based

[upbeat coral]

Also dollchan
The maps and labs in that are really cool

And they expand the tunnel aspect too
Its not just labs but railways too

[ebon tusk]

IWP is the one that resolves Gunslingers biggest and worst bug

[sick sand]

Which one?

Now I kinda want to install both IWP and Gunslinger to compare them

[ebon tusk]

Gunslinger implements empty animations before and after an animation is trigered, IWP implements generative animations that allow full actions in beetween animations, gunslinger doesnt, which makes it feel sluggish and like youre losing inputs

also, the changes that Gunslinger makes to the balancing make the game a slog, not harder, but certainly a lot more annoying bc you will find yourself doing the same things youd do in the vanilla game, namely, abusing ranged builds

[sick sand]

I'll just install them both and check how they react to inputs

All I remember is that gunslinger (The original one for CoP) felt good to play and IWP didn't

[sick sand]

I didn't do that, tbh

But it's because I don't really like to exploit games in general, yeah

[sick sand]

But not today... And not tomorrow... Maybe never...

[blazing lichen]

Now..

[sick sand]

I'm not feeling like stalking lately... Playing other vidyas rn. Played like 30 minutes of escape from the zone a few days ago (The second Jekan mod), looks interesting and reminds me of darkwood somehow (Because of saving in the safe place only and because you need to make "raids" outside) but yeah, need a pause I guess

Freeplay mods kill motivation... Don't play freeplay mods, guys, not even cotz...

[blazing lichen]

I gotta play that mod soon and no I get that 100% I've been on like a month or so break from stalker

[sick sand]

Also, it was unexpected to hear burzum in the intro of that mod, lol

[ruby citrus]

idk gamma is pretty fun so far

[upbeat coral]

thats only cuz you havent played any good mods in ages

just play Valley of Whispers and burnout disappears in minutes

[blazing lichen]

I will after fallout 4

[sick sand]

Enjoy it then. Me personally I was never a fan of Anomaly and packs based on Anomaly. Mostly because they don't make the game itself more interesting, they just add more micromanagement in the inventory which I don't really like in games in general

[upbeat coral]

real

hater finally hating on something thats actually shit

[ruby citrus]

that's true

[upbeat coral]

half the items are just clutter because they made the mod easier than Last Day effectively making the crafting system useless

womp womp

[sick sand]

Although I like limited inventories like in Resident Evil games or Deus Ex...

[ruby citrus]

well, that's because they are good

inv management can be fun

[idle matrix]

RE4 inventory Tetris my beloved

[oblique flicker]

reading my logs after a persistent CTD and it refers to "E:\stalker\sources\trunk\xrCore\Xr_ini.cpp" but thats not a real folder location on my computer...where is Xr_ini.cpp?

i have seen similar errors posted before from the same line 342 and the answer was usually to delete the related .ltx file

mine was "Can't open section 'hunters_toz_34'"

so i deleted "w_toz34.ltx" from "gamedata\config\weapons" but it didnt have any effect

[upbeat coral]

what mod?

[oblique flicker]

zrp

[upbeat coral]

it may be better to not use ZRP then

[oblique flicker]

i honestly just want an unlocked fast travel

[upbeat coral]

with stamina artifacts you can run across the entire Zone in like 8 minutes

[oblique flicker]

due to save errors and issues and bugs and glitches and bs i have had to restart the game over and over again. i have 200 hours of gameplay but have never made it past X18 because ive played the beginning section nearly 100 times

[upbeat coral]

save errors in vanilla?

[oblique flicker]

yes

[upbeat coral]

hmm

[oblique flicker]

im modding it for the first time now as a last attempt to play it

[upbeat coral]

Ive never had that happen in my several playthroughs

[oblique flicker]

lucky

[upbeat coral]

Im not lucky really

youre just super unlucky

do you by chacne have the game installed in program files?

[oblique flicker]

no

if i cant mod in a way to skip ahead to recover past lost progress, and future lost progress that hasnt happened yet, then i have no interest

but i heard ZRP had a way to teleport to map locations

[upbeat coral]

honestly half the time ZRP borks the game even more

I would recommend deleting all saves
I can lend you my save from either X-18 or right after it

but its from my first playthrough, so my equipment is gonna be ass

also try reinstalling the game
delete cloud saves too for good measure

[oblique flicker]

maybe i just buy a different stalker game

[upbeat coral]

the other 3 are very different from SoC

[oblique flicker]

that sounds like a good thing to me

[upbeat coral]

first try reinstalling and using my save, if that doesnt help try the other games
as they require knowledge of entire SoC story, not just the first half

[oblique flicker]

from what i know, the CoP modding scene is most popular

[upbeat coral]

yeah cuz CP is the most boring and dull of the games

as such it spawns more mods

also because its engine is the best

[oblique flicker]

its $2 so i think ill do that and throw some mods on there and watch a youtube story video

or wait for HoC to be $10

[upbeat coral]

have you tried OGSR engine?

[oblique flicker]

no

[upbeat coral]

it improves stability greatly, may help

https://github.com/OGSR/OGSR-Engine

[upbeat coral]

HoC is in worse state than your copy of SoC

[oblique flicker]

might have to just go back to metro and tarkov then

survarium shut down killed me

[upbeat coral]

well not really
I think the game should be fixable by reinstalling

[oblique flicker]

every time i make a change to the files, i do it on a fresh install from steam so ive downloaded it about 15 times today

[upbeat coral]

honestly I have only seen save corruption in very few large CoP total converssions and few SoC mods
but SoC mods tend to be brutal mess soo..

[upbeat coral]

did you delete cloud saves?

theres no point in reinstalling if you dont do that

[oblique flicker]

i dont have cloud saves i do everything locally

[upbeat coral]

on steam

the steamcloud backup

turn it off when reinstalling

otherwise the game will get borked the same way every time

[oblique flicker]

yep i have steam cloud disabled becuase of that

[upbeat coral]

hmm

thats really weird

try OGSR engine
if that doesnt work skip to Clear Sky I guess

[ruby citrus]

have you uhh

[still plank]

anyone got a m1 carbine mod for all three games?

[upbeat coral]

New Arsenal 7 probably has it

[still plank]

thanks

[upbeat coral]

Np

Be aware tho
New Arsenal is esoteric schizophrenic mishmush with like 4000 guns

And it doesnt use default SoC story

[ruby citrus]

why is gamma so grey

its insane

[upbeat coral]

cuz thats how all of former communist territory look

didnt you know slavs still havent invented colour?

this how my discord looks
obviously

[ruby citrus]

thats true...

[quaint ingot]

[ruby citrus]

prolly my biggest complaint bout the thing so far

[rich knot]

Slavs can't eat Red crayons 💔

[upbeat coral]

flags are the only things with colour around here

[blazing lichen]

like did you know all of latin america has the breaking color bad filter @upbeat coral

[upbeat coral]

yes

Mexican filter

you can even buy Mexican filter glasses

[blazing lichen]

they look like they live in NV ong

[quaint ingot]

Piss Colored Screen, my beloved

[blazing lichen]

shit is INTENSE

[viscid viper]

dear god

[blazing lichen]

peak..

[quaint ingot]

hey bro are you gonna add this into game, as bump map

[upbeat coral]

yes

[upbeat coral]

Cool me think
https://youtu.be/qX5owUpkgCk

Also some IX-Ray (peak) BAS (ewwww) stuff to show off PBR

[blazing lichen]

holy

[upbeat coral]

Cant wait for the RGO grenades

Only thing Im excited for when it comes to BAS

[cursive walrus]

I'm doing my recurrent replay of SoC(The only mod/mod-pack I have is Assembly).
Anyways I was going to pick up the Vintar BC at the freedom base but it's just not there. I know it's not supposed to be on the floor and it clips from the attic but I also went to the attic as you can see in the pic the ammo box was there but no Vintar to be found.
I tried reloading an older save and also exiting the area but it didn't change anything

[young fable]

Thx for the bumpmap

[upbeat coral]

What assembly?

[cursive walrus]

Assembly by Sam https://www.moddb.com/mods/assembly-by-sam/downloads/assembly-by-sam-repack

last version

[cursive walrus]

I should have clarified that assembly is the name of the modpack

mb

[upbeat coral]

Well I knew that but many mors have Assembly in their name

Also
Sams changes a lot of stuff so it probably removes some loot too

[cursive walrus]

I did hyperlink it to the modb page

[upbeat coral]

I aint clicking hyperlinks on discord

[cursive walrus]

Fair

[upbeat coral]

Especially in channels with no embed

[cursive walrus]

Ig that makes sense tho, what is kinda weird is that they left the ammo but not the weapon

like why do that

I also tried nocliping around but it really is nowhere to be found

[upbeat coral]

Well the ammo can be used for kamy guns and has no major impact on balance

[cursive walrus]

do you know if they have a discord or something?

[upbeat coral]

Vintar on the other hand is very strong rifle and just giving it away van ruin the progression

[upbeat coral]

Nope
Russian modders rarely have accounts, let alone servers

[cursive walrus]

I'm cooked then💀

[upbeat coral]

C-Conciousness server has a channel dedicated to it tho

[cursive walrus]

Imma run all the way to the power plant ig

insert speedruners running to the final boss naked meme(no embeds)

[upbeat coral]

https://discord.com/channels/550866347995824138/1261401388274028615

[young fable]

Assault Rifle

[rancid swallow]

Can anyone help me with a basic tip. Should I buy a better jacket first or try to gather repair materials to use on a workbench (Anomaly)?

[ebon tusk]

lol lmao

[rancid swallow]

I've got some bad condition body armor but haven't done any repairs. Wasn't sure if repairing was worth the cost or if should just occasionally buy new jacket/armor.

[upbeat coral]

workbench is useless redundant underutilized feature

my suggestion is to play a mod that actually utilizes features it has

[rancid swallow]

Oh lol, thanks dude

[upbeat coral]

like
by the point you find the tools and materials you need to repair basic jacket you have probably looted an exoskeleton from some corpse and have enough money to repair it at technician

[rancid swallow]

You the man. I wanted to utilize the repair system but oh well. I'm gonna assume guns work the same way. Such a good mod though. Cheers

[upbeat coral]

such a poopy mod

its built on Last Day which was signifficantly harder actually forcing you to use the repair system and all that

[rancid swallow]

Gamma better you say?

[narrow hound]

https://tenor.com/view/cat-meme-face-cat-meme-cat-puke-cat-vomit-cat-coughing-meme-gif-22332765

Embedded fail

[upbeat coral]

hell no

its the same exact garbage just made more unfair and tedious

[rancid swallow]

Which version of stalker do you recommend after trilogy if there is any

Haven't tried any mods with S2

[upbeat coral]

Depends
Stalker modding has extremely wide range

Theres no such thing as best mod because each mod sets out to do something different

If you want good vanilla esque story mod then Valley of Whispers is a great start

If you want decent freeplay then DoctorX's Call of the Zone

For weapon packs it depends on which if the games you want them for but generally speaking Gaz1k's ST series (such as STCoP 3.7) offer good variety of decent quality guns

Maybe you want something more punishing
In such case Dragomirs Assembly of Dead Air should do for freeplay
Road to the North for story

And maybe... juuust maybe you want straight-up surivival mod with resource management, crafting and down to earth atmosphere
In such case Alone in Windstorm is really good

If you want more mods, I have a spreadsheet in my bio
It contains all the mods I finished

[ruby citrus]

uhhh i'd suggest looting it

but i doubt economy in anomaly exists or matters

though i have only played gamma you can buy anything you want without much effort

[rancid swallow]

Holy cow thats a great help @upbeat coral thank you!

[upbeat coral]

Np

Im based like that all the time

[rancid swallow]

you're a regular badass, and it shows.

[upbeat coral]

I know right

Anyways
If you need something
Maybe you cant find download link for a mod and stuff like that
Feel free to ping me

[ruby citrus]

all stalker mods should be deleted ithink

[rancid swallow]

Why do you think that

[upbeat coral]

Real

[narrow hound]

Well first mod pack to go should be gamma

[upbeat coral]

The only modpacks
Cuz most other creations are mods

Since people usually care enough to actually merge files to save filesize cough cough

[narrow hound]

Removed gamma a while ago from my pc and my diskspace could breathe again

[upbeat coral]

I have like 40 mods installed
Around half a terrabyte of data
Thats maybe 2 copies of gamma

[narrow hound]

damn lol

I just had a lot of large games download at once, I wasn't going to keep gamma around, wanted to download other games in my library I wanted to play.

[upbeat coral]

Largest game I have installed is probably war thunder
Which is around 60GB
Thousands of detailed HQ models of military hardware and its still somehow smaller than gamma...

[narrow hound]

I thought that game had a larger gb

Looks small to me

[upbeat coral]

Depends on which client you download
Standard is 60GB
Full HQ is like 120
But then the minimal is around 20 so..

Minimal doesnt include interiors and stuff like that
No first person view in planes

[ruby citrus]

surprisingly it only takes 100gb

without counting anomaly itself

i though it'd be like
180

[upbeat coral]

Thats still 70GB more than True Stalker which had new assets for literally everything...

[ruby citrus]

lmfao

daaamn theres a sledgehammer in gamma

where's my deus ex 2000 cybersword...

[upbeat coral]

Check the third person model
Its gonna by laughably out of proportion

[ruby citrus]

oh i don't have it binded i think

i kinda regret choosing medium progression difficulty

too much money

[upbeat coral]

Joever

[ruby citrus]

and i'm not sure how to change it to hard, there's no like option in the settings

just sliders

[upbeat coral]

Yeah cuz the difficulty is just bunch of presets

[ruby citrus]

oh, i can just start a new one and copy the sliders

[ruby citrus]

that's how it works ithink

[upbeat coral]

It doesnt work to be specific

[ruby citrus]

i love how in the corner it says DO NOT USE instead of just.... disabling it

truly a game that doesn't fake survival

now i'm having doubts about changing it

guh whatever

thank god it doesn't affect the disassemble loot or whatever

[cinder oxide]

Oh I haven't heard of that one, that sounds cool

[ruby citrus]

finally got C type repair kits and now not sure what to do with them

a B type sniper rifle + B type shotgun carry me so far, guh

i might have actually got rid of all the fun since a sniper rifle is objectively the most efficient weapon

and mutants die like... from pistols

[shut veldt]

most of the things I do in gamma is just contract killer stuff
I get better loot just raiding enemy bases anyway

(I also used console commands to unlock all the recipes because screw that)

[ruby citrus]

lame 💅

[shut veldt]

Well excuuse me for not wanting to gather all of these crafting recipes, when my Stalker can just look it up on the internet

[ruby citrus]

defeats the progression and there's not much to do in gamma besides that

[shut veldt]

🤔

nah

imma do my own thing

[neat dune]

glembus has been warned

Reason: Bad word usage

[sour latch]

that factory is the reason why I never reply this mod 😓 this is what happens when developers put almost no thought into encounters

lets give the player bad guns and send them against bandits with god like aim, bizons and better guns

[ruby citrus]

whats the mod

[sour latch]

lost alpha enhanced edition lol

[ruby citrus]

ohhhh

doesn't look very buildo...

[sour latch]

I don't know what that means

[ruby citrus]

LA is somewhat based on SoC's builds, they have a certain aesthetic to them

[sour latch]

no gif perms 💔

but I can do this

[sour latch]

I'm brain damage incarnate

[ruby citrus]

yayyy same

[ruby citrus]

The grok is coming.

[upbeat coral]

Thats cuz its Lost Alpha...

[upbeat coral]

Omg
Cat

Also the factory exists in many other mods

Such as Dollchan, RTTZ, OLR, any mod with Predbannik

[ruby citrus]

i love cordon factory :D

[upbeat coral]

Who doesnt?

[shut veldt]

yall know any mods that adds new map/massive map changes?

[ruby citrus]

uhh, every mod, still?

almost

[nova dove]

S.T.A.L.K.E.R Global War, S.T.A.L.K.E.R The Great War

[normal heath]

where can I find ammo for the Anomaly starter carbine in or near the rookie village?

[upbeat coral]

Nowhere

Everything is random

[ruby citrus]

okay from the top of my head
OLR 2.5/3 - replaces all maps with their build variants, adds some new
OP 2.2 - i'm not sure if it has the most locations, but it's a soup mod, so there are a lot
Lost Alpha - modified buildo locations and some original
Spatial Anomaly - it's a short story mod, there are 3 completely original CoP-size locations
Valley of Whispers - a shorter story mod, adds 1 CoP-size locations
aaand i don't feel like going further, cause again, literally every total conversion with a story either changes the maps or adds their own, or both

[shut veldt]

cool story bro

[ruby citrus]

traders, stashes

[ruby citrus]

1. sis
2. what

[shut veldt]

1. ok
2. words of acknowledgement

[upbeat coral]

Wind of Time
Goldsphere
True Stalker
Spatial Anomaly
Return to the Zone
Vector of Alienation
Secrets of Cordon
Valley of Whispers
Dreamcatcher
God is with Us
Sins of the Legend
Lost Alpha
Messenger
Bad Company 2
OGSE
Path in the Mist
Trapped
The Exception
Calm after the Storm
Chernobyl Chronicles
Sins of the Scholar
Game of Souls: Excelsior
Creature in the Mist
Dollchan 8
Escape from the Zone
The Voice Episode 1
The Voice Episode 2
Doomed to Eternal Torment
The Journey

And thats just from the mods I finished

[shut veldt]

cool

thats a lot of commitment

an awful lot

[ruby citrus]

should i play dollchan

why is it named like that

[upbeat coral]

An awful kot (send a cat picture)

[upbeat coral]

Yes

[upbeat coral]

Cuz the creator is stinky weeb

[neat dune]

zara_l12 has been warned

Reason: Bad word usage

[ruby citrus]

oh GOSH DARN IT wait it's a coc based mod right

[upbeat coral]

It doesnt play anything like CoC tho

[upbeat coral]

It plays a lot more like classic story mod

[upbeat coral]

Omg
Cat

[upbeat coral]

Omg
Cat

[upbeat coral]

Omg
Cat

[ruby citrus]

yay kittie

[upbeat coral]

Dollchan does a lot of cool stuff
Its worth to play even if just for the maps

[ruby citrus]

is the name related to the contents somehow though

cause i do want to play a stalker mod about dolls

[nova dove]

OGSR

[upbeat coral]

Unfinished side quest line

You do get an anime version of Goldsphere doll tho

So thats cool I guess

[ruby citrus]

amazing

[ruby citrus]

aren't there like 3 versions of dollchan

and still unfinished

[ruby citrus]

how

[upbeat coral]

Theres 7 and 8

Havent played 7
Its pretty much just a prologue
And not even about the protagonist of 8

[nova dove]

a freaking speaking doll, in the begging of the game

[shut veldt]

the one that wants cheese?

[nova dove]

the one that wants find the owner

[shut veldt]

no wait, that was goldsphere im pretty sure

[upbeat coral]

Thats just prototype version of Goldsphere doll to be fair

[nova dove]

in OGSR, u got a doll too, but she looks more like plush toy of Cheburashka

[nova dove]

mb

[upbeat coral]

Its okay
Not everyone knows Jekan worked on OGSE

[nova dove]

He works on so many mods

i cant count

[upbeat coral]

3 mods of his own

2 he helped with

His mods contained total of 7 main stories

[nova dove]

ik

But still, OGSR version of doll kinds cute

[ruby citrus]

cheburashka :3

[ruby citrus]

holyyy shit i hate gamma's voice acting

where did they find a 30yo russian with the most disgusting voice

possible

[idle matrix]

they should have gotten the guy who voices strelok in op2

[ruby citrus]

unironically a much softer and better voice

what the fuсk is this detector btw, it has ГРИЗЗЛЫ (wrong transliteration of grizzly) in russian written on it and everything else is ukrainian??

[shut veldt]

bear

but upgrade

oooooo~

[blazing lichen]

Cursed af lol

[ruby citrus]

x16 is surprisingly too hard

mainly because of the ghosts that drain all the psy health immediately

[ruby citrus]

i wonder if i should invest in an exo, the prices are exorbitant and i'm not sure if the benefits outweigh them

[rich gate]

Why is that a thing 😭

[narrow hound]

Bro sounding like he lost his marbles with that much paranoia.

[rich gate]

Too much weed

[narrow hound]

https://tenor.com/view/it-gute-nacht-not-gluten-nacht-gluten-nacht-gute-nacht-gif-11419817225655515471

Keep forgetting I will always get embedded fail here

[quaint ingot]

https://tenor.com/view/it-gute-nacht-not-gluten-nacht-gluten-nacht-gute-nacht-gif-11419817225655515471

wait a minute...

Even I cannot do it

[narrow hound]

Strange

[rich gate]

Among us

[narrow hound]

Amogus

[upbeat coral]

exo is just straight up better than everything else

[ruby citrus]

yehhhh but like, i dont use fasttravel and the batteries seem to drain too fast

[upbeat coral]

like
its not even funny
its not like full upgaraded seva + artifacts VS exo debate

exo is jusst better

[upbeat coral]

batteries

lmao

[ruby citrus]

wha

i am talking about gamma after all

[upbeat coral]

imagine your "batteries" in your high tech army suit just die and youre stuck standing there like a dumbass

[ruby citrus]

fallout show

[upbeat coral]

whoever came up with that shit should never be allowed to use their brain again

in Fallout its nuclear fusion cells or some other scifi garbage

in gamma its just 6 D type batteries or some shit

[ruby citrus]

chymo gamma arc when

[quaint ingot]

never

[upbeat coral]

I value my storage space too much

[narrow hound]

Gamma stalker mercury pollution from batteries moment

[upbeat coral]

if I decide to download unfair bloated game it will be GTA online

Lost Alpha Yantar jumpscare

were you spooked

?

everyones gone

means you were spooked

[shut veldt]

wheres the yantar part

[upbeat coral]

Poor foolish Nectro...
So unfamiliar with Stalker map development...

[shut veldt]

:(

[hidden marten]

Anyone play Last Fallout Overhaul for clear sky and can tell me optimal graphics settings? I'm particularly confused about the shader settings. I'm running an AMD 7800 XT

Things just seem dark

[upbeat coral]

The map is derived from Oblivion Lost yantar
OL would later become SoC and most of the maps would end up being changed (often for worse)

[shut veldt]

Ive been spending the last 4 hour trying to find a solution on how to enable fast travel in zrp because theres a zip folder missing

[ruby citrus]

imagine wanting fasttravel

[shut veldt]

Man

[upbeat coral]

imagine using ZRP

also
stamina artifacts exist

you can run from Cordon to Pripyat in like 8 minutes

[shut veldt]

I know those exist, its just my low attention span brain cant handle a 3 minute walk from rostok to yantar

[upbeat coral]

sentenced to 200 hours of Fotograf

[blazing lichen]

200 hours of stalcraft..

[upbeat coral]

nah

Fotograf is pure walking simulator

that will teach him

[shut veldt]

I left for 9 minutes, what happened😭

[blazing lichen]

lol

[upbeat coral]

rapid unscheduled impregnation

[shut veldt]

Im sorry😭

[shut veldt]

This made me laugh more than I should've

[upbeat coral]

Game of Souls translation is borked

watch me LYLE to Hunter

[shut veldt]

I promise I wont watch subway surfers brainrot again, just dont impregnate me

[rich knot]

Watch some family guy clips and some subway surfer while walking across the map

[shut veldt]

Ran onto an anomaly

[sour latch]

bro why am I playing this trash 💔 @upbeat coral

I can't even get past the factory bro, I am not gonna win

who tf decided to give the bandits bizons bro 💔

[wind scaffold]

Imagine that in fotograf, instead of basic stalker story, you should just go and take picture of beautiful people for 200 hours. No monsters, no anomalies.

[upbeat coral]

peak

[upbeat coral]

the hell even is that?

[sour latch]

lost alpha enhanced edition

aka the mod developer is incompetent and made the new player experience extremely horrid for no reason :>

[upbeat coral]

well Enhanced Edition is shit update of a shit update (Directors Cut) of a shit mod

soo...

just play OLR or some shit
or Vector rather

[sour latch]

yep
and usually when I see enhanced edition

I assume good

[upbeat coral]

ehhh

[sour latch]

what a mistake I made

[upbeat coral]

if a mod needs enhancing its likely shit to begin with

[sour latch]

I know what OLR is, but whats Vector?

[upbeat coral]

usually

[upbeat coral]

Vector of Alienation

fork of OLR very story and atmosphere focused

think it was made by actual book writer too

[sour latch]

I think I'm gonna take a break from mods for a while

sad to see something so hyped up turn out to be so terrible

[sour latch]

sounds cool

but I like idk

better gunplay?

realistic gunplay? if thats the term for it

I want shit like this essentially

[upbeat coral]

nah

its bildo

[sour latch]

but I know that no mod will ever satisfy my desires

[upbeat coral]

no flashy gunplay garbage

pure bildo

[sour latch]

idk what bildo is

[sour latch]

but thats what I want though :<

[upbeat coral]

like
THAP with modern gunpacks would be so out of place

[upbeat coral]

True Stalker then..

[upbeat coral]

build spelled funny

basically stalker before it became SoC

[sour latch]

ew no
its just gunslinger but worse

[upbeat coral]

no

its Gunslinger but good

they fixed most of the issues

[sour latch]

eh

[upbeat coral]

like inability to multitask

[sour latch]

no mod will ever make me happy

[upbeat coral]

too bad

[sour latch]

I'm happy playing the stalker games by themselves but mods?

they simply cannot satisfy what I want

do I just have unrealistic expectations or something?

[upbeat coral]

nah

you just want your stalker mods to not be stalker

[sour latch]

wdym?

[upbeat coral]

but at the same time be stalker

[sour latch]

ye

at the same time though I don't know what stalker is

don't forget I still have no idea why I keep coming back to the games even though I have no reason to like them

like at all

[upbeat coral]

its very clamplicated 🐚 (no clam emoji ._.)

[sour latch]

death for your sins

but yeah

I genuinely don't know why I'm into the stalker games

nor what I want from them or their mods

It feels alien

[upbeat coral]

Vector of Alienation refference

[sour latch]

I hate you 😭

[upbeat coral]

have you tried Dreamcatcher?

[upbeat coral]

real

[sour latch]

imma be fr, I kinda forgot about it

[upbeat coral]

wdym?

[sour latch]

I mean I was recommended it

then forgot

I think what I want is stalker 2 but good and well written without the jank and with good optimization

[upbeat coral]

Dreamcatcher good

looks good, plays good

[sour latch]

Isn't it a sequel though?

[upbeat coral]

has interesting story

[sour latch]

what if I miss out :<

[upbeat coral]

indirect one

like
its better to play Incubator first to catch some context

but not certainly necessary

both are very well made mods with high production value tho

[sour latch]

apologies but I am currently being a nervous wreck so I'm gonna brb

oh yeah that reminds me

how do I get my server nickname changed because its not my main profile name

[upbeat coral]

ask moderators

[idle matrix]

I'd recommend playing incubator first simply because it's good more than because dreamcatcher is technically a sequel if that makes sense

There are returning characters and references to the events of incubator in dreamcatcher but they aren't directly related

[upbeat coral]

Kramer is refferenced a lot

also the main plot twist is also refferenced

[fickle anchor]

fast question . Can i install new mods on top of Stalker Gamma mod? Weapon reload animations and such

[upbeat coral]

better ask in their server

the modpack is horrid mess so knowing what can and cant be installed on top is difficult

[idle matrix]

Yeah they would better know. Theoretically possible yeah but it may have conflict issues

[upbeat coral]

Gamma has conflic issues even with.. well Gamma

[cinder oxide]

Supposed ingenious creator cannot disable certain boxes in settings and thus must add a text box saying "DONT TOUCH THESE RIGHT NOW ITS BROKEN"

[upbeat coral]

[cinder oxide]

"why couldn't you have just disabled them grok?"
"Where's YOUR 80,000 download mod pack?"

[upbeat coral]

I love how Grok says "gamma even has some addons made specifically for it"

like
thats not shit to boast about
thats the bare minimum

[cinder oxide]

It's for functionality lmao

Go write a good story and come back to me

[cinder oxide]

He has used this line before on me

I talked to him about some balance/game feel stuff

I feel like I'm more qualified to talk about it than he is

I'm pretty far into developing a game

Far enough that it's almost certainly going to make it to steam

[upbeat coral]

[ruby citrus]

anyone is more qualified than a vasyan pretending to be a modder

[upbeat coral]

thats insult to Vasyanss

after all even they produced some great shit

like Secrets of Cordon

[neon socket]

I want to mod my NUC, but it's an art that's beyond me. so, i'd privately consult with a professional before modding my NUC. It's the responsible path.

[upbeat coral]

Like download mods onto it or?
Im confused

[viscid viper]

do you just, hate everything misery-based?

[upbeat coral]

no

I like RTTN

RTTN was cool

Alone in Windstorm is also cool

I just hate shit mods
which most of Misery derived projects are :3333

[viscid viper]

huh

the creator is the same guy behind anomaly modded exes

[upbeat coral]

no

he is the one who "translated" it

I put that in quotation marks because its a poopy machine translation

[viscid viper]

oh

[upbeat coral]

half assed one too
notes werent translated at all

[viscid viper]

so just uploader...

[upbeat coral]

[viscid viper]

that one seems interesting

for having pripyat above CNPP

[upbeat coral]

yeah the map layout was cool

actually made travelling interesting for once

[still plank]

can someone help me find a m1 carbine mod for soc?

or even any of the three out of the trilogy?

[upbeat coral]

so...
you know how S2 didnt have flashlight casted shadows for a long time?
well IX-Ray has flashlight casted grass shadows

[blazing lichen]

how are modders doing better then a damn official company lol

[upbeat coral]

they also have 3D rain impacts on water now

and first person legs