🔩┃trilogy_modifications

[patent bear]

didn't work doing that either

[gaunt sonnet]

Nope, it should be standalone, weird as hell

[patent bear]

I'm tryna download it again

[gaunt sonnet]

Maybe I'm an idiot and I didnt compress it right?

Or could you post the crash log?

[patent bear]

I use a download manager that was handling the GDrive file weird, trying again without it

like I clicked 'download' once. Then saw nothing on my end, only for the DL manager to show several pop ups, I cancel them except for one, when I DL it's only got the modpack folder with a few big data files and nothing else. My manager may have messed up the download

[gaunt sonnet]

Maybe?

I'll try later if I can just download it and click play

[foggy steppe]

Anyone know if there is a good way of finding out what changes a mod like R.E.A.L - Rebalanced & Enhanced Armament Lethality has made so I can make it work with the other games in the remastered trilogy and make it work with other mods like More weapon upgrades + a useful second slot

I am not sure if there are ways of reverse engineering a steam workshop mod 🙁 and mod auth for the REAL mod hasnt responded relating to the mod in a month and a half or sog

REAL mod: https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3557727099
More weapon upgrades mod: https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3485989019&searchtext=second

[patent bear]

trying again in firefox

[gaunt sonnet]

Btw, did you run the one that says "xrEngine.exe" and has the logo of Shadow of Chernobyl?

I just opened that one and Im able to play

[patent bear]

yeah

just crashed

[gaunt sonnet]

Might've been your manager then

What its weird is that drive downloaded me 4 zip files

But I unzipped them all in the same folder and worked fine

Btw, winrar or 7zip? I use 7zip

[patent bear]

Windows 11 zipper lol

I have WinRAR, but I try to use the built in one

[gaunt sonnet]

Maybe try winrar, or even 7zip for that matter. Its very good and I heard that it has less problems with file corruption

[patent bear]

its taking forever to zip, stuck on 'preparing download'

[gaunt sonnet]

Yeah it takes a while

Mine downloaded in like 15 minutes or so, but I got a good internet

Mind you its like 7-8gb

[patent bear]

lol made my laptop freeze rip

we try again not in firefox this time

[gaunt sonnet]

Bruh

Im sorry if Im occasioning this lol. I promise you it is working for me

You do have decent specs right? Cause well, its ogsr, its a bit demanding

[patent bear]

working now! seems like my download manager did indeed mess it up

[patent bear]

ya i have a new laptop with a geforce 3050 that handles modded anomaly with 2025 texture packs no problem so it's not my laptop lol

[gaunt sonnet]

Awesome. Hope you enjoy it

[patent bear]

played it before, will be nice to play it again as an experienced stalker. May try master even

[foggy steppe]

Anyone know if there is a good way of finding out what changes a mod like R.E.A.L - Rebalanced & Enhanced Armament Lethality has made so I can make it work with the other games in the remastered trilogy and make it work with other mods like More weapon upgrades + a useful second slot

I am not sure if there are ways of reverse engineering a steam workshop mod 🙁 and mod auth for the REAL mod hasnt responded relating to the mod in a month and a half or sog

REAL mod: https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3557727099
More weapon upgrades mod: https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3485989019&searchtext=second

[balmy latch]

Guys. I want to replay SoC but EE this time bc I'm afraid of the original could be abandoned sooner or later.
Huge problem is, all old popular mods, including ZPR, can't be compatible with EE.
Is there any guide how to apply those old mods to EE?

[gaunt sonnet]

You can't afaik.
But dont worry, I dont think the originals would be abandoned. They could'be done that with EE, but didnt

[balmy latch]

So if for a "not bad" potato craptop like mine, playing original SoC or SoC EE will be better?

Though I tried EE and run "not badly" but weird intro lagging is only issue atm

[gaunt sonnet]

SoC, the original. Its just better overall imo.
EE has a few enhancements, but many errors with it too

[balmy latch]

Tks for your advice, and yes, I really need ZPR works too

That's why when I knew EE releasing, I was so confusing about modding

[gaunt sonnet]

Btw, there is a discord called "C-Conciousness" that you could find on google. It is filled with, generally, people that has a lot of knowledge. You could ask there about how this things work

[gaunt sonnet]

Why do you really need it tho?

Cause if it is for the bugs, I promise you that there arent that many, game breaking ones at least

[balmy latch]

I watched some reviews that the game known issue still didn't fix yet in EE

[gaunt sonnet]

Which know issue?

[balmy latch]

For sure, Idk if I was being gaslighting or not, just many YouTube videos talking about EE version, but at the first play with SoC, I always play with ZPR already.
And about EE's issues, many videos mentioning the "worthy" of EE, so I just throw all those Transcripts for my ChatGPT to summarize.
That's why I can't specify those issues

Only 1 thing of EE, intro lagging

[gaunt sonnet]

Well what I can say is that EE issues are varied: AI upscaled textures that make the game look muddy as hell (imagine using those upscale/frame gen features, it looked like that) which also destroyes part of the UI, which looks worse.
It introduced new bugs with it.
The performance is much worse I'd say, but ig its expected, considering its new graphical features.
And it removed some pictures and stuff representing soviet stuff. I get the reason behind, but its just a bit of a letdown considering huge part of the game is criticising those goverments and their decisions.

As I told you, ZRP is not needed, it even introduces some new features by force. But well, if you want, just play the original with ZR)

[balmy latch]

We're not soothsayer to tell if original version will be gone for goods, but if EE can be good "at least" as Original + ZPR + Absolute Texture/Weather/Building Pack by Cromm Cruac, I will be happy with it, even without "heavily" modding

I usually mod a little bit related to gameplay like 0 Weight or sth like that, bc Imma like a Looter

[gaunt sonnet]

I dont think it'll be gone for good tbh. It would be a very rare play from theirs, and it will meet a lot of backlash

[balmy latch]

But for that state of EE, many reviews said the graphics is improved, but maybe on High Settings. In my case, Minimum Settings, EE graphics is exactly like Original for sure lmao

[balmy latch]

I hope they're not like Rockstars doing with GTA

[gaunt sonnet]

I wouldnt call it exactly the same. They are upscaled, so they have improved, although low quality improvement at that. And theres new graphical features too.
But even then, I like to go for the original. That upscaling I mentioned make it look muddy and bad for my eyes

[gaunt sonnet]

Eh, I dont think so

[balmy latch]

Yeah, I see. But I thought this is where I can talk about modding, but seems no one talking much about it?

[gaunt sonnet]

Modding in EE is a bit rare anyways. It is done, but mostly through Steam Workshop or maybe mod.io for consoles

And im not an expert either hehe.
But if you want to talk about modding per se

[gaunt sonnet]

Just check this

Maybe someone in that server can help, maybe

[balmy latch]

I will head to C-Consciousness to ask them. Tks for recommendation.
Btw, you have to good selection of mods up above, they're great.
If I gave up modding EE, I will be back here to ask more about your modding. Those screenshots look beatiful

However, I want some advices about what's the best "modern" mod (for Original SoC) which is still maintain story atm. Tks!

[gaunt sonnet]

Thank you!

[gaunt sonnet]

Well, theres this one I recommended hours earlier: #🔩┃trilogy_modifications message
It includes ZRP, so it wont be 100% vanilla, but hey, its close. The downside its that its in the ogsr engine and only allows DX11, so you either need a decent pc, or to lower the settings (although still looks good with medium settings)

You also have VSO which is more performance friendly

[balmy latch]

Hey, tksm. I will definitely check it out!

[tawny tide]

Hey, someone's knows where I can find the file for relationships? I want to put neutral with a faction, I can't do it in a normal way so, if someone knows and can help I would really appreciate it. Oh, and I'm using the memories of the zone mod if that matters

[warm veldt]

how do i install the gamma and anomaly mods for the triulogy, nowhave a pc so i can finally try them out

[gaunt sonnet]

They dont require the trilogy, and they are very different from the trilogy (different maps, story, mechanics, different purposes and goal, etc)
Anomaly can be found on moddb, and for gamma you need anomaly and to enter Gamma's discord, although I think gamma downloads are currently on hold, but I might be wrong

Although if you havent play the trilogy, do it.
Its not required to play them to play anomaly, but its like watching a fan made spin off of better caul saul, without having watched neither breaking bad and better caul saul

[patent bear]

I think it's pretty essential to play the OG trilogies before Anomaly and S2 because it makes you see how S2 takes some ideas from both the OG trilogy and Anomaly

Anomaly is great, but it is a super hardcore mod of the OG games and doesn't really resemble the original gameplay much

[gaunt sonnet]

Idk if S2 take ideas from anomaly tho. But I can say that Anomaly its harder because its grindy, and you first need a grasp of the trilogy to even know how to and what

[patent bear]

I think so in terms of open world Zone

maybe next year if we ask enough we'll get a "Free Play" mode in S2 similar to Anomaly. And if not thats ok, Anomaly 2 will be eventually made lol

[fallow sedge]

The performance is much worse I'd say, but ig its expected, considering its new graphical features.
Slight clarification: the performance issues are not from the graphical features. You can disable all the new fancy stuff and make the game look just like originals, and will be getting a lot less frames.

[gaunt sonnet]

💀

How to mess up 101

Like seriously how do you manage to do that lol

You even have multithreading and x64 I think? in the engine, it should perform better, or at least my tiny super ignorant brain says so

[fallow sedge]

Yes, multithreading x64 and DX12

A lot of engine code is apparently parallelised and asynced as well

[smoky ridge]

New D&D placement 😊

[quartz dock]

Did anyone play autumn Aurora at all I’m in so much need of help pls

[sick sand]

I've played it 10 years ago or so

[quartz dock]

Ah so now I will bother you

[warm veldt]

ive already played the trilogy but on xbox, recently got a pc and was thinking of rebuing them and modding them, didnt know anomaly/gamma were seperate from the main game, need to learn how to mod my games

are there any mods i can use for og trilogy as mods on xbox were very limited

[gaunt sonnet]

Go to moddb or ap-pro, many many mods for the whole og trilogy

[silent forge]

Why do you consider Anomaly bad but it is the best known mod?

[idle matrix]

Best is very subjective. It's the most popular, perhaps. But if you like to play mods for new stories it is quite bad.

[ebon tusk]

anomaly is outdated for when it was released and it its mechanics dont mesh well, what it wants to do many more do better

[idle matrix]

I don't hate it but I definitely exhausted the fun in it a while back and have found a lot of other mods that are deserving of attention too. Including others in the freeplay/sandbox space

[potent marlin]

Examples?

[idle matrix]

Every now and again I'll fire up global war and see what nonsense awaits me. Last time I did the great siege of the scientific station

[ebon tusk]

Anomaly is beaten by its predecessor, CoC, in terms of balancing, even 1.5 despite its beta state is better at this, CoC has a million other forks for survival so you can pick and choose, this isnt a original genre, CoTZ is a evolution when it comes to dynaminity and AI and IWP has newer engine and features

Global War for stupid warfare fun as well

[idle matrix]

And if you wanted a more tightly crafted story focused mod I'd recommend things like dreamcatcher or the exception

[silent forge]

What is CoTZ?

[ebon tusk]

call of the zone

[silent forge]

Ia a mod standalone?

hardcore?

[ebon tusk]

its standalone, it is not hardcore

[silent forge]

What is its characteristic?

[ebon tusk]

it makes AI a lot more free and features wider variation on radiant quests with dynamic quests and such for a better freeplay experience

[silent forge]

Is IWP like COTZ? Is another mod?

[ebon tusk]

IWP uses a heavely modified Gunslinger weapon system and a new OXR version if I recall, with better modding tools and capabilities
someone ported COTZ AI and quest features to it

[silent forge]

They also reported Misery mod to me, is it good?

[gaunt sonnet]

It is good from what I can see

[ebon tusk]

Misery is a CoP mod

and it aint very good

[gaunt sonnet]

You suck, thats why

[idle matrix]

Misery is a pretty old one at this point but it's for CoP specifically

[gaunt sonnet]

Of course every mod can be good, if you like it

Only way to find out is to try it yourself

[ebon tusk]

its the large originator of the survivalist trend from where most nu mods draw from, Anomaly for example is derived from one of these

[idle matrix]

I don't dislike Misery either but it's one of those things that a lot of modders took the wrong lessons from

[gaunt sonnet]

Almost like no one actually played misery!

[ebon tusk]

i have played misery, too much in fact

its very easy

[gaunt sonnet]

I mean those modders that took inspirations from it

[ebon tusk]

you cant limit yourself to mechanics and expect CoP to become hard, CoP is easy by its very design

[gaunt sonnet]

But if you still look for hardcore, just play nlc

Personally, NLC is perfectly examplified with this quote: "There are many things about NLC that I absolutely, totally adore, like, enjoy, and maybe even love. Playing it is not one of those things"

[wide current]

Because "best known " and "best " are not the same thing. And I have played a few hours of Anomaly, and more than a few of NLC, and I know which I prefer. But it's all about personal preference so play what you enjoy, just don't tell other people they're
wrong cos it's different. And I'm not telling you you're wrong...🙂

[silent forge]

but after 400 hours on Stalker 2 I can no longer play with the old graphics of the trilogy

[silent forge]

Link for NLC MOD? Is standalone? Thanks

[ebon tusk]

https://www.moddb.com/mods/nlc7-he23

[neat dune]

juventini1988 has been warned

Reason: Bad word usage

[silent forge]

I just read the announcement about Gamma's downloadable GSC from GoG, but is Anomaly included? Is Gamma a mod pack for Anomaly?

[gaunt sonnet]

Gamma is a modpack for anomaly

[idle matrix]

I would presume so since its part of GOGs one click mods thing

But you need to own CoP on GOG for it to work

[silent forge]

so there is also Anomaly on Gog?

[gaunt sonnet]

Yes

[silent forge]

So you have to buy Call of Pripyat on GoG and then download Anomaly and then Gamma?

[gaunt sonnet]

Maybe, yeah

Probably you can just downlaod the gamma version and thats it

[idle matrix]

I assume on GOG it comes bundled but the page would hopefully tell you

[silent forge]

I'm downloading Gamma from GoG. What should I expect?

[ebon tusk]

shit

[silent forge]

Too hate for this mod?

[hot willow]

can any veteran modder tell me what would happen if i install 'PRZ(Photorealistic Zone Texture)' and 'Absolute Nature' together for STAKER: SOC
there are a lot of common files in both, would it cause a crash?

UPDATE: Apparently, it is running, I am on the first level but i am afraid that it might crash in the future

[gaunt sonnet]

Its a big overhaul

Lots of crafting, inventory management, repairing, looting, grinding

Anomaly is a big sandbox, gamma made changes to it

[dusky inlet]

get 4gb patcher so it can push past the 2gb ram default

less performances issues

[dusky inlet]

its an older version of it personally i say its the better version of it

[hot willow]

Any idea on how to install it on linux? 😭
I used a 4gb patch for witcher 1 but it had a guide

[dusky inlet]

dont know anything about linux lol im a windows player #

[hot willow]

It hasn't lagged yet but I sometimes get weird flickers on the bottom left of my screen, its not that annoying so I ignore it usually.
I will check it out tomorrow in the morning. Thanks a lot

[dusky inlet]

SoC has alot of shadow problems around the the players FOV also looking through walls with lean is a thing lol

and bodies disapearing but can be looted

its just SoC lol dw it does that best game in the series tho

[hot willow]

I used zrp to increase body disappear time to 36 hours so that shouldn't be an issue

I thought that my modded game looked like shit until I compared it to vanilla

It looks like heaven now

[dusky inlet]

they just randomly vanish even with ZRP lol but the body is still there and lootable

they just go invisible nothing mojor#

[hot willow]

Didnt use any gameplay tweaks apart from the silent knife thing from zrp(decreases knife kill sound to 1/5th of original sound)

[hot willow]

Ahh interesting, i didnt know that

[dusky inlet]

is it ur first playthrough

[hot willow]

Yeah, i completed 40 percent of the game in 2023 Jan but gave up after that cause of exams

So i am starting from the very beginning

[dusky inlet]

fair enough make sure to look everywhere in the rookie village u may find a merc suit in a hole in the roof

hehe

play like a psycho u will be rewarded very well

[hot willow]

My modlist is:
ZRP
Weather overhaul 3.1
Absolute Nature
Photorealistic zone texture
HD models
Energy regeneration while walking
Increase grass render(200m) mod

[dusky inlet]

remove hd models yuck

[hot willow]

The village in front of the fat trader's bunker?

[dusky inlet]

yes

[hot willow]

It goes well with the rest in my opinion, it doesn't stand out

HD models is just for bodies

[dusky inlet]

also get a sleeping bag mod

[hot willow]

Yeah, zrp has it

[hot willow]

Like clothes and shit

NPCs basically

[hot willow]

I didn't know that, ill try it out tomorrow morning

I wanna install OWR too but it crashes my game☹️

[dusky inlet]

if u sleep until 12am and run to the railroad embankment tunnel and safely get through the anomalies there are 2 endurance artifacts that will mean u wont need energy regen while walking as u will have infinite sprint

[hot willow]

Its crazy how changing just grass render distance makes the game look 10x better

[dusky inlet]

I am stalker master undercover as experienced heh

[hot willow]

Is there a clock in game?

[dusky inlet]

PDA clock

[hot willow]

Ohh

[hot willow]

Where is this by the way? Is this the one with electric anomalies?

[dusky inlet]

its set to 2012 to make it realistic for its time but u will see it corresponds to the actual date in game

[hot willow]

Ah gotcha, do the endurance artifacts work forever? Damn, i guess i should remove the sprint mod since it ruins gameplay

[dusky inlet]

OWR is very challenging

[dusky inlet]

yes

[hot willow]

The gun mod? Isnt it a simple retexture with better sound

[dusky inlet]

if u have 5 flashes u will never have to worry about how much u carry

[dusky inlet]

oh

[hot willow]

Are flashes artifacts or grenades

[dusky inlet]

artifacts

[hot willow]

Damn i feel dumb

[dusky inlet]

me teachy the rookie stalkers to be more efficent no worries stalker we will train to become the master of the zone ]

[hot willow]

XD, its very addicting so I am kinda avoiding it for now cause I have an important exam in 50 days but modding it was very rewarding

Thanks for the help by the way

[dusky inlet]

u can beat the game in 8 hours if u just do main mission

but 80+ if u play like a chad

hehe u will have good time

cheeki breeki iv damke

[hot willow]

I'd rather take my time with it

[dusky inlet]

https://tenor.com/view/ekoi-ekoi-dancekid-dancekid-gif-10799637110820905144

[hot willow]

Cheeki breeki vi damke XD

[dusky inlet]

"Anu cheeki breeki iv damke" is a Russian phrase popular from the S.T.A.L.K.E.R. video game series, which means "And one, two, king me!". It combines a nonsense counting rhyme with a term from the game of checkers, signifying an advantage.

hehe

[hot willow]

The bandit song is funny, i learnt about it from there

[dusky inlet]

i have on my soundboard lol

[hot willow]

Its catchy, thats what makes it stand out. When I started stalker, I didnt expect the community to be that active because I assumed that most of the fans would be eastern european

I was so wrong, this discord community is huge and pretty much every reddit thread on stalker gets some engagement

Anyways i should catch some sleep, its really late here. Have a good day everyone.

[dense karma]

How well does Gamma run compared to Anomaly 1.5.1? Did xray performance improve any?

[gaunt sonnet]

It has like 500 addons, including graphical mods

Unless you disable them all, I would still think it runs worse

[idle matrix]

It is fairly performance heavy yeah

[dense karma]

I noticed in jupiter, since it's such a large zone, 10-20+ drops in fps were pretty common; I think i read once that this was just a fact of life for xray with large open levels like that

[idle matrix]

On modern hardware most x-ray games should run fine generally, but you will get some big lag spikes if it has to load a bunch of NPCs at once

[gaunt sonnet]

Yeah, 10-20 fps drop is actually a very low drop lol

I've experienced far worse

Not even related because 2 different mods and engines, but in New Arsenal 7, every time you get close to the range of "activating an NPC", you just stutter for a second

Imagine how was it to get into rostok

About 10 seconds (or more) of constant massive stutters

[idle matrix]

X-ray moment

[sour latch]

please don't kill me, but I'm going to see if this is less scuffed than installing it via hacked link which may or may not contain nsfw

[silent forge]

I have Anomly+Gamma on Gog. I have downloaded it yesterday. Is there a way to have subtitles and menu in Italian? Italians also like Stalker!!!

[gaunt sonnet]

You should ask in the gamma discord. I think there is a mod that translates anomaly to italian, but I doubt its compatible fully with gamma

Maybe just pull your phone out and translate through image every time, or learn english xdxdxd

[silent forge]

Long live the Italian language in games!

[fallow sedge]

Original trilogy had Italian

Another OG win

[gaunt sonnet]

LETS GOOOOOOOOOOOO

[silent forge]

Stalker's Italian fan base is bigger than you think...

[ebon tusk]

i dont see how this matters

[gaunt sonnet]

I'm not against it, dont worry 😂

Its cool that its big

[neat dune]

venomboa has been warned

Reason: Bad word usage

[cinder oxide]

Gamma 😠😠😠😠😠😠😠😠

Perhaps one day the guy will add a good story and make it enjoyable

[gaunt sonnet]

He plans to add a story

Just doubt that it will be good

[sour latch]

I've found it pretty enjoyable to go through
That's just me though

In terms out story, we only have base anomaly storyline, otherwise if you know how to modify the Modpack you can probably add a couple quests in there

[cinder oxide]

I think the crazy load times make it less enjoyable

It's the same with stalker 2

But stalker 2 is kinda easy and gamma is ridiculously difficult

[gaunt sonnet]

And more tedious
And more boring
And its not much like stalker

Oh, and iirc barely anyone has added actual decent quests in anomaly, other than more stupid fetch quests

[sour latch]

I haven't gotten crazy load times from what I played

Gamma is more optimised now (still performance heavy), and tutorials were added to make it less of a shitshow to get into

[cinder oxide]

Maybe

I still have to budget my time though

[sour latch]

In terms of difficulty well, avoid encounters if you know you can't win, otherwise find another way around, hence the new entrances to certain areas

[cinder oxide]

At least nowadays when I'm super busy I don't have the time to commit to a hardcore game like that

[sour latch]

It's not for you then

And that's fine

[cinder oxide]

Right

I think I get more enjoyment out of a story game in principle

[gaunt sonnet]

I can recommend some if you want

[cinder oxide]

In practice of course stories can be trash, but so far I haven't exhausted the stalker mod goats

[sour latch]

Otherwise for gamma the load times are relatively short for me

It's just the first startup takes a long while but that's normal

[civic pewter]

AP-PRO Showcase started

[fading prism]

I don't think you should post that here

[civic pewter]

I was thinking on these thingis, is a shame that AP-PRO it's on that thingi, too, by these problems some modders cancelled their presentation on the showcase and others did their last presentation on this showcase.
Also, AMK Forum suffers the same problems, shamefully, i don't get the why behind the behaviours of some users.

[civic pewter]

ok, the showcase finished

Imo the worth mods was:
New Project
Lost World Mod
The Eternal Suffering
Advanced X-Ray
Semi Official Patch
Horizon's Dawn
Gran New Life

besides of that the showcase was mid imo, i expected more mods

and had a duration of +3 hours

[gaunt sonnet]

Miiiiiiiiiiiiiid

[idle matrix]

any release date for new project?

[civic pewter]

2026 for beta test

[civic pewter]

yes

I mean, these mods that i mentioned was cool and that

but i expected more

Sucks that several mods that would had the possibility to enter to AP-PRO Showcase don't appeared

The showcase could have been much cooler if AP-PRO "had a better behaviour"

[gaunt sonnet]

By better behaviour, I can guess what you mean, right?

[civic pewter]

This year AP-PRO had problems with the behavior of some users

[gaunt sonnet]

💀

[civic pewter]

I understand that now AP-PRO administration and AMK Team administration are "extreme right" or smth, i've reading comments against that from the author of OP OGSR and by the author of Phamtons Zone/RMA for example, that's why these mods don't had a place on the showcase, the authors don't wanted have em there

and these two wasn't the only ones that avoided AP-PRO Showcase, are several more (possibly Spatial Anomaly 2 for example)

[gaunt sonnet]

💀 💀 💀 💀 💀 💀 💀 💀 💀 💀

[idle matrix]

[gaunt sonnet]

Gotta love it when people become so stupid

Duty members frfr

[civic pewter]

Maybe some of em aren't exactly stupid, perhaps just are bad

[gaunt sonnet]

Maybe

Still, idk why they gotta be this dumb

If only we could all love each other in a gay relationship

Like real stalkers do

[dusky inlet]

is it worth trying gunslinger + misery for my 4th playthrough of stalker cop

ive beat the game on master multiple times

and once in xrmpe on veteran

[cloud jacinth]

gunslinger in any difficulty is hell

[lunar trail]

Does anyone have a download link to the "Dollchan 8: Infinity" mod, seems to be gone on the ap-pro forum

[gaunt sonnet]

Here's cheeki breeki archive: https://www.cheeki.zone/

And heres a link that has many many others, in case you dont find them elsewhere: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1GgBFCRIbc7TQ5DwWHvWaridX1G64PYoWItkLyr3pBPk/edit?usp=drivesdk

[dusky inlet]

i played it for 4 hours last night and i must say its really in the name lol not even gamma can compete closest thing is area but thats also ass

the problem is the mutants its almost like playing stalker 2 on day release lol maybe i can get a mod to make them less tanky

or if there was better stealth so i can avoid enemies better

[gaunt sonnet]

For burers, there is

Thats what I saw once in moddb at least

[idle matrix]

yeah because gunslinger burers have traumatized a generation of mod players

[dusky inlet]

i cant even afford to leave zaton im constantly buying meds and supplies i wanna get that mission done about the vampire guy

[civic pewter]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4hAmM2ZWnlM&feature=youtu.be

The Eternal Suffering - Atmosphere Reveal

[dusky inlet]

what game is it for

also the lighting slightly annoys me reminds me of true stalker another mod i didnt enjoy

[civic pewter]

is standalone

Will be released the next year, made by Mikhail Rasta, director of Lost Alpha DC and author of LADC Extended

[dusky inlet]

is he also releasing his rasta pasta recipe

[cinder oxide]

Feels a bit like True Stalker imo

A slight vibrant haze over everything

[dusky inlet]

it does i dont like that lighting/graphic style

i'll give it a go and support them tho

[sinful elk]

Been having a fun time with CotZ. I can see why people love this particular one.

[dusky inlet]

its the thing that changed stalker modding forever rip docX we wouldnt have anomaly without him

or should i say anomaly wouldnt be what it is today without him

[idle matrix]

global war 0.5 dropped it seems

[civic pewter]

Yeah

is great

and better than the 0.4 in anything that don't be the maps

BUT

still needs be polished, is playable but the technical aspect isn't soo good

[idle matrix]

well, sure, but that was also true of 0.4

it seems like it has been downloaded too many times today so the drive link is not working rn

but i will check it out soon

[civic pewter]

I installed the mod through Y word

[idle matrix]

i waited for this morning and it was able to be downloaded thru drive again so its all good

idk when i will have time to play it much though

[dense swift]

Can someone help me get my hands on one or two CoP 3d models?

[sinful elk]

CotZ keeps crashing on me in the agroprom underground when I go up the spiral staircase and by crash I mean my entire computer gets obliterated and I have to physically restart the whole thing. I can't even exit via task manager or anything. idk what to do at this point and feel like giving up.

[gaunt sonnet]

1. show your crash log maybe
2. did you setup your task manager to be always up front? Its not by default, you must manually set it up, works wonders for shit like this

[sinful elk]

call me a noob but I don't know where the crash log would be. I've been going through the folders but I can't seem to find it. As far as task manager being upfront, well I just clicked on that option so I'll see if it works the next time it happens.

[gaunt sonnet]

First, have the crash, otherwise it will show other logs
Second, go to the CoTZ folder, appdata, logs, xray_name.log

Paste that file here. If anyone knows about this stuff, they will tell you

[sinful elk]

oooh I didn't know it was the xray log, ok

ok sick, the task manager being on top actually worked out so I was able to exit without restarting my pc. now i'll have to check the log

[gaunt sonnet]

Whoever didnt code that to be always on top deserves to be fired tbh

[sinful elk]

??? the xray_name.log is blank

[gaunt sonnet]

Is it only that file in that folder?

[sinful elk]

there is another file with the same name but it's a .bkp

and admittedly idk what that is, but it's also blank when i open it

[gaunt sonnet]

Truly, a wonder

Do you must go through agroprom?

[sinful elk]

uhhh lemme check what the mission is, it was one of the story missions with the yellow marks on the map

maybe I can even hoodwink the game by quick saving as I go until I exit lmao

[gaunt sonnet]

Maybe

Or try another path or a way to play or smth, idk

[sinful elk]

it's to get the military documents

[gaunt sonnet]

At what point does it crash

[sinful elk]

it's on the upper floor, like in SoC it's where the underground section actually starts, but in CotZ the map directs me to another entrance that actually takes you to what would be the end of that part in SoC

[neat dune]

therealmasterraven has been warned

Reason: Bad word usage

[sinful elk]

I don't think I even cussed LOL, but anyway I'll just... explore elsewhere because it's just that one part of the underground that crashes on me, everywhere else it seems to play fine

[sinful elk]

Alright, I found the docs, so I don't gotta deal with... whatever's going on causing the crash in that one specific spot anymore. alright moving on

[unborn ledge]

global war 0.5 beta

cant even play lmao

[civic pewter]

Maps of Lost World:

[upbeat vapor]

Any folks round town to help me with SoC mod troubleshooting?

I kinda decided to get back to my SoC translation and finish it this one time, however I haven't touched it for about 2 years, decided to install SoC again, did the fsgame.ltx trick, pasted my gamedata folder in the root game folder but once I start it, it crashes before the intro. How do I troubleshoot this? I'm hella sure EEs fked up everything for modding, but game menu says "1.0006" so I dont know.

Is there a damn way to see which file is breaking the game? Cant even reach the damn console, man... IM GETTING KRAZZY OVER HERE!

There are almost 150 files, I have to delete every single one and start the game 150 times to see which one is the culprit

[upbeat vapor]

Maaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaannnnnnnnnnn...

Why did you have to do this to me, GSC...

[pseudo tendon]

hi, i have the zrp installed, and decided to turn on a mod that allows captain ivantsov to repair my gears, but I can't seem to find him in the Bar

any idea where is he ? i look up stalker related wiki and his location is vague at best

nvm i need to get the document at lab x16

[wheat oriole]

Hello, I have a few questions about the new modding guidelines.

As I understand it, these apply to the original trilogy, correct?

Regarding standalone mods: If I understand correctly, there was a period towards the end of 2024 when it was mandatory to include links to the original games and a disclaimer.

Unfortunately, I don't understand the exact regulation and haven't received a response from the legal team yet.

If I create a standalone mod for, say, Shadow of Chernobyl or Clear Sky, am I required to include this disclaimer in the game?

Am I no longer allowed to create standalone mods at all, and must all mods now require the base game?

Would it be sufficient to create an installer that checks the registry for one of the original titles, or a similar verification method?

Or is it still okay to create standalone mods as long as they include a disclaimer and links to the original games?

I am not a native english speaker, so the new rules seem a little vague and hard to understand to me.

[idle matrix]

https://youtu.be/KSSQyRsa2hQ

new cheeki video about new update to his mod site

[civic pewter]

I know that there formal GSC employees here and that

but, the thingi isn't sooooo bad as it sounds on the part of the modder

[civic pewter]

The consequence of make a standalone mod and don't put these links to official stalkergames are pretty much "u are excluded of the possibility of receive any promo from GSC on his pages", if they really wanted "takedown" a mod released after of that date by don't include it, they already would have several examples of that now.
And yes, anyone can make his mods standalone, this isn't a ban to these new mods in form of standalone, GSC just require that u apply that section on the menu with the links to be totally OK with the existence of ur mod.

[wheat oriole]

So making a standalone mod, that does not require the base game is still okay as long as I put in the disclaimers and links?
But I would like to have an official answer on that, I find the information on that a bit misleading on the gsc website...

[civic pewter]

Yes, GSC would be OK with the existence of ur mod

[wheat oriole]

What I didn't understand is that on the website in the modding guidelines it said that you have to put in the disclaimer + links, but only in that time period in 2024 - so I was questioning on how to do it now, after that time period.
I hope you are right

[ebon tusk]

2024 and forwards

its a clause that exonorates old mods that arent updated anymore

[wheat oriole]

I see

so from 2024 onward:
Standalone is okay as long as I put in the disclaimer + links?
No Base Game ownership required?

[civic pewter]

yes

[ebon tusk]

many more standalone mods have been released with no issue with GSC

[wheat oriole]

ok, thank you
what about assets? I have seen several asset packs for the SDK from games like survarium or so and also mods that use them - how about that?
I think these assets have been around for a long time now

[ebon tusk]

as a rule of thumb, you can use ripped models of other games in stalker mods as long as they remain free and non paid, you however cannot make stalker mods outside of Xray or Xray forks

meaning projects like remaking SoC on UE isnt permissable but making mods on Advanced Xray is encouraged

[wheat oriole]

good to know, thank you so much 🙏

[civic pewter]

GSC don't has nothing to do with that?, that is a theme more like for VG Entertainment.
Tho, several mods have Survarium assets and none of these suffered a "DMCA", Vostok Games has better thingis to do than check if x stalkermod has their assets or not.

[wheat oriole]

yes, might be true
I just wanted to make sure, since I lurked around the stalker modding scene for several years now and now that these new rules are in place, I wanted to double check. as before no one ever cared

[civic pewter]

https://www.moddb.com/mods/stranger-translated
I finished this mod, Melya did a great work in this one, fun, interesting and with good writting

[civic pewter]

@coral sequoia #⭐┃trilogy-general message

https://ixray-team.github.io/ixray-1.6-stcop/en/main/download.html#installation (tutorial for installation)
https://github.com/orgs/ixray-community/repositories?type=all (addons)
https://www.moddb.com/mods/pripyat-renewal-mod

[cold galleon]

Hello everyone.
What's the best mod for adding weapons to Shadow of Chernobyl.
Used Lurk the last time I played.
Need something that only adds guns.
I don't want texture packs that change everything with the graphics.
Just a couple extra guns is all.

[lunar haven]

anyone got good graphics mods?

[lunar haven]

Late ahh addition but ig bug fixes aswell. Smth for a first playthru

[gaunt sonnet]

For which game

[lunar haven]

soc

[gaunt sonnet]

Well bug fixes mods are not needed tbh, but if you want one, you have the famous ZRP.

For graphics you can use absolute nature/structure packs addons, to keep it almost pure vanilla.

There's also memories of the zone that is on the ogsr engine, but it brings quite a few changes

I can also recommend this modpack: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1hlTI1LSwJ2zcNm1n0WAZqaKq18QZw29P/view
Also brings quite a few changes (mostly graphical, weapon animations and more that are kinda vanilla friendly), and it's also on ogsr

[lunar haven]

is there smth on nexusmods? dont usually like downloading from drive

[gaunt sonnet]

All on Moddb

The drive one is only for the modpack I sent

The rest are on moddb

Absolute nature and structure are on the addons section of shadow of chernobyl

[lunar haven]

are mods rlly needed for the game?

[gaunt sonnet]

Not at all

I finished the game vanilla 3 times, no issues

[lunar haven]

aigh. i might lowk js not use it cus lazy

[gaunt sonnet]

VANILLA ENJOYER

[gaunt sonnet]

People just like to use mods because "outdated graphics, bad gunplay, etc", when the graphics (including artstyle) it's amazing because it maintains a solid idea throughout the whole game. The gunplay is kinda meh (mostly through the lack of feedback of it you get at times), but just remember to not move while shooting, and crouch. Afaik, putting guns on single fire mode makes them more accurate than hip firing in auto.
Just be aware of pistols, don't use them at long distance, mistake many have made and complained

Think of it as an positioning arcade shooter more than a tactical one

[lunar haven]

lowk its graphics that i need

but ill mkae do

[gaunt sonnet]

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

In case you really really want them, they enhance them while keeping vanilla

[cold galleon]

Autumn Aurora

[fallow sedge]

That’s not a graphics mod

[tight summit]

Does GAMMA also have different ammo types degrade the weapon at faster/slower rates? I'm writiting up a feeback report and just want to verify that first.

[gaunt sonnet]

I think it does, but better ask that in the gamma discord tbh

[little plover]

IIRC attaching a suppressor to your firearm in GAMMA also increases degradation rate to durability.

[civic pewter]

https://www.moddb.com/mods/pripyat-renewal-mod

[gaunt sonnet]

[civic pewter]

rammaken makes cool mods

🇻🇪 industry is big and cool🇻🇪

[gaunt sonnet]

I need to try sky renewal tho, the hd models were eeeeeeeeeeeeeeh

[civic pewter]

The HD models are a mix of:
Own thingis made by Rammaken
GFY/Models by Nestandart

I wonder if Sky and Pripyat Renewal Mod would get head.greib models someday

[rustic ledge]

I was playing SOC no mods and i ended up getting softlocked b/c the game is still telling me i need to enter lab x-16 even though ive finished turning off the psy emitter and brain scorcher so i installed ZRP to try and fix the issue but nothing has changed. I'm trying to use the "info portion set" in the support utilities for ZRP but i can't find what to enter into it to fix the issue so if anyone knows how to fix this that would be awesome

[gaunt sonnet]

Could you show a picture in #📸┃trilogy-screenshots of what it shows and what its limiting you to do?

[rustic ledge]

yes

[fallow sedge]

That’s really far from keeping vanilla CoP look and feel like description suggests

[chilly cairn]

Hey guys, i just cant find any info about this anomaly, is it part of cut anomaly or just mod addon because i cant find name of it even ingame, its like green leaf web laying on ground and louring player with small fire particles flying in middle of it.
Ive now seen in mod narodnaya solyanka and oblivion mod.

[idle matrix]

It's a mod one

[chilly cairn]

And name? The mod DOES have all other modded anomalies

[idle matrix]

Flytrap maybe I think? I forget.

[chilly cairn]

It closes like a flytrap but it burns, it isnt gravitational

[idle matrix]

I mean, these modded anomalies are often kinda jank

[chilly cairn]

Yes but its weird that NO INFO about this one, every other ive seen it was on internet

[fallow sedge]

Cut anomaly iirc

It was chemical in bildos tho

[chilly cairn]

Iirc is name?

Scariest shi ever

And even another type that you cannot see, and in oblivion it even had heartbeat sounds if u were near and it came from ground to air , goosebumps

[earnest nexus]

[chilly cairn]

Strange, that in cut list it isnt mentioned

Found it, strange. Its grabber and ameba

Look at this nasty room

[fallow sedge]

Name would be grabber I think

Iirc is “if I recall correctly”

[civic pewter]

Comparison of Pripyat Living Zone with the three main levels of Call of Pripyat:

[neat dune]

laivex has been warned

Reason: Bad word usage

[potent marlin]

I totally forgot this mod even existed

[civic pewter]

The dev still it's working on the mod

i hope that after of the release of the next version Irbis update Pripyat from Lost World

[neat dune]

theoriginalf has been warned

Reason: Bad word usage

[civic pewter]

https://www.moddb.com/mods/back-to-the-stalker/news/back-to-the-stalker-still-alive

News of Back To The Stalker

[neat dune]

qvorm has been warned

Reason: Bad word usage

[smoky ridge]

Shipment vibe. Try to guess what map is it

[neat dune]

bober_gey has been warned

Reason: Bad word usage

[proven shoal]

Yes, it's a huge map.

[neat dune]

berserk1993 has been warned

Reason: Bad word usage

[neat dune]

attackgod has been warned

Reason: Bad word usage

[young tundra]

any idea how to get the perfected pistol without killing the guy who has it? and starting a fight with all the loners in the area..
posting here since apparently it's a scrapped mission restored via mod

[gaunt sonnet]

Which area is that guy on?
Because if they are a loner or smth and they have enemies close to them, you could attract the enemies to kill him

[young tundra]

some guy in garbage, about 5 or 6 other loners in the area too, there was only 1 guy in the bandit camp and he doesn't bother to follow me after i aggro

it's whatever, i canceled the mission

[neat dune]

blur3301 has been warned

Reason: Bad word usage

[neat dune]

_lmndk_ has been warned

Reason: Bad word usage

[errant dirge]

https://www.moddb.com/mods/stalker-knockdown

[young tundra]

so um, i got curious and tried Radiophobia 3
i think it's good, but indoors isn't safe from emissions apparently, any ideas?

[ebon tusk]

play a better mod

[gaunt sonnet]

Try other indoors, should be marked in the pda

Or play a better mod

[fallow sedge]

play a better mod

[civic pewter]

Yeah, play a better mod

[young tundra]

i'm liking it so far, are you sure you guys aren't just hating for the sake of it?

[gaunt sonnet]

Yes

But if you like it, your emotions on it aren't invalid. You are technically having a better invested time than us, which is great, so continue doing so

[neat dune]

tecate.i. has been warned

Reason: Bad word usage

[neat dune]

darkdragon10100 has been warned

Reason: Bad word usage

[sick sand]

Yeah, I'd definitely throw a bolt at her

[neat dune]

iyrarjin has been warned

Reason: Bad word usage

[neat dune]

sirob99 has been warned

Reason: Bad word usage

[neat dune]

kismias. has been warned

Reason: Bad word usage

[foggy mantle]

curious ask but how would an a-life even work on these maps?

[potent marlin]

There aren't any mutants/NPCs

[civic pewter]

works ok

The A-Life is the same of CoP

[warm veldt]

are there any mods for stalker that would make it worth re buying on pc

[neat dune]

kismias. has been warned

Reason: Bad word usage

[fallow sedge]

Zero investment

[gaunt sonnet]

9/10 mod and I'm not joking

[ebon tusk]

he is not joking, he is just insane and delusional

his incoherent speech comes from deep mental illness not jest

[gaunt sonnet]

Says the nlc player

[sick sand]

I liked NLC

It was pretty unique

[idle matrix]

ZI is insane but it's the kind of insanity that inspires brilliance

It gives you the immediate impression of being a shitpost, because it kind of is, but it's also really good and actually funny

[gaunt sonnet]

And its very much well designed

Like, it doesnt waste your time, it gives you resources for everything, it treats you like it should

Theres been many mods where I have genuinely suffered the amateurism of the developer and lost either time or effort

Its not the case here

[void matrix]

anomaly or gamma, chat

[sick sand]

IWP + CotZ quests

(If we are talking about freeplay mods)

[void matrix]

k

i got 150 mods installed on anomaly

[dim rain]

What is this editor?

[smoky ridge]

that's my own editor for Call of Pripyat with tons of fixes and total UI conversion

[dim rain]

Looks awesome.

A mix of Unity and 4A I would say

[smoky ridge]

Thanks. Actually it based on Unrean Enginge.

[dim rain]

Well, it's modern. Not the Windows XP look of the official SDK

Great job.

[smoky ridge]

Thank you once again. It's also works like modern editor, for example you can control camera movement with WASD or more options, no more Shift movement. All textures and models are visible now when you looking for them in the list and many more

Only thing I don't like it's how game it self looking in editor, but that's a problem of old DirectX and etc I guess. My goal was to remove ugly interface and make it comfortable for using by my self.

[boreal marsh]

Does anyone know what is this mod’s name? Weapon animations are different

https://youtu.be/gRWb9oXaT2w?si=CNA4RIye-OB9MuS_”

[gaunt sonnet]

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3490655449&searchtext=

most likely this

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3497954626&searchtext=
Or this

[honest needle]

Are there any mods for soc that make the hands in the viewmodel match your current suit? I've been looking forever for one that doesn't change the guns entirely

[fallow sedge]

It’s an engine change so it’s kinda hard to implement which is why it’s usually included in bigger mods rather than just on its own.

[honest needle]

Rightt

[gaunt sonnet]

I think IX-Ray is implementing it

Although release for cs and soc is far away still

[honest needle]

I did manage to find this but whenever I try to use it my game doesn't launch
https://www.playground.ru/stalker_shadow_of_chernobyl/file/s_t_a_l_k_e_r_rukhud_mod_tch-885157

[fallow sedge]

IXray is a large overhaul still

[gaunt sonnet]

Ye

[civic pewter]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jkHPmKDcSc4

[boreal marsh]

Thanks so much

When I finally have hands on my pc how do I find it?

[gaunt sonnet]

Find what

[boreal marsh]

I think I will save it in chrome as a bookmark

[boreal marsh]

The mod link

[gaunt sonnet]

Oh, yeah, just bookmark it

[boreal marsh]

Add me as friend if you want

[gaunt sonnet]

Or use the discord search function, you can find who pinged you and all that

[gaunt sonnet]

Sure

[boreal marsh]

Tysm

[hollow urchin]

Hi all is there a discord for Stalker 2 modding or can I ask here???

[gaunt sonnet]

#en-mods-general
#1389175453297803354
#1387351701702574150
#mods-help-center

[hollow urchin]

Thx dont had this channels before 😉

[exotic eagle]

is chernobyl chronicles standalone or no? if yes then does anyone know how to install it?

[exotic eagle]

thanks

[reef pasture]

Is there something like SRP for CS EE?

[fallow sedge]

No

[heavy cloud]

Hey guys, does anyone knows if there is a discord server for the mod Spatial Anomaly? Thx!

[gaunt sonnet]

There isnt. Are you having problems or what

[compact wolf]

Hello, trying to play Goldsphere OGSR, ran into this error, would be thankful for help

[gaunt sonnet]

You've installed it from here? https://www.moddb.com/mods/goldsphere-completion/addons
Did you just unpack and hit start?
Also, did you use the patch 1.4.5 that is in that moddb page?

[compact wolf]

did use the patch, but downloaded it from somewhere else

am gonna download it again

[compact wolf]

@gaunt sonnet Hello, so I just did the same process again. Had a missing system32.dll file missing, put that into the bin, then the opening screen shows up for a second and get the same notepad error again

[gaunt sonnet]

Yeah, honestly, no idea. Maybe try asking in the OGSR discord if you can, they may know more

[compact wolf]

okey, still thank you!

[compact wolf]

Downloaded the old goldsphere mod, starts fine, wonder how long my playthrough will last until I give up because of the save bugs

[compact wolf]

Ok used dxwebsetup, not knowing it would help with this because I used it to get the old version of Goldsphere running, but the OGSR version runs now too

[gaunt sonnet]

Yeah, you need to use a guide for that, I have one if you want own, but you are on ogsr now I guess. I case you go to ogse again, ping me, it's a 3% no-failure guide

Mind you, just because its in ogsr, doesnt mean you wont have bugs/crashes/corruptions, even with the patch

But there are certainly oess save corruption

[heavy cloud]

Hello, yes, a small one, sometimes there are soem dedicated discord servers where it's possible to do a search and solve most problems hehe

[gaunt sonnet]

Maybe join the C-Conciousness discord, plenty knowledgeable people about plenty of mods

[compact wolf]

I might actually stick to the old ogse version, it feels less modern and polished, which I guess is what I'm looking for right now.
Is the no-failure guide about avoiding potential bugs?

[gaunt sonnet]

OGSE pieces of advice:

GET THE DOLL FROM THE HOUSE, IS IMPORTANT

1. To avoid save corruption, have these 3 things in mind (images attached):
   You don't need to quit to desktop btw, just quit game and load a game

2. to fix shadows: type on console "r2_sun_near_border" and change that value to "1.0"
   As for "shadow distance", try playing with "r2_sun_near", I got mine set to "30" but idk what is good tbh. So far I got no problems.

3. when you find an artifact that looks like a watch, just keep it. You'll know when to use it

4. to reduce headbob, type on console "cam_inert" command, I like to use 0.2 (or somewhere around that) to have some degree of headbob.

5. Little spoiler, only see it when you go to the little farm at the bottom left part of Dark Valley: ||when you reach the second house and you want to open the box, do it BEFORE you kill the mercs. Otherwise, it won't open||

6. Wild territory spoiler, only see when you've entered the house in the centered filled with radiation: ||the officer's key can only open the door OR the stash, as the key gets consumed when used. If you want to continue with the quest, open the door||

7. Pripyat stadium spoiler: ||first, go to the helicopter and get the rocket launcher. Then, do the quests stuff||

Dark valley and wild territory have those 2 little things that are kinda messed up. When you reach those sections, just read the spoilers

But follow the images religiously basically, and you shouldn"t get save corruption (rememebr that quit game doesnt meant quit to desktop, just quits save)

Also, it is less modern and polish, but 1) the ogsr version changed some stuff unnecessarily, as well as adding some other pointless stuff
2) the atmosphere in the ogse version is immaculate

Idk if you can get these shots on ogsr, seem unique to ogse (I may be wrong)

[compact wolf]

Thank you very much
I played this version a couple years ago, but got stuck because of these reasons in the dark valley, I'll keep these in mind

[thick plank]

Xray engine and quicksaves are not very friendly to each other XD.

[gaunt sonnet]

yeah, old mods, especially those based on SoC, seem to have the most save corruption out of all

this tips will help you with all mods tbh, not only for corruptions, but also for bugs

maybe backup your saves too, I have mines backed in google drive even

[fallow sedge]

Haven’t had a single quick save corrupt in 15 years of playing this game

[gaunt sonnet]

The game, or mods of it?

I didnt have a single one in the game, but in mods, I honestly had like 2/3, but thats because I did quicksaving too much until I knew that hardsaving was the way

[thick plank]

It is mostly because of mods. But in the original games, clear sky had the worst quicksave bugs in scripted scenes (Loading the save will not crash the game, but will cause story progression glitch and more)

[ionic anchor]

Hello guys,
I'm having trouble with GOG Galaxy and S.T.A.L.K.E.R.: Shadow of Chernobyl Enhanced Edition, which connects to mod.io.
It’s not working for me. I’m using the same email address and I’ve tried several different things, but it still won't recognize my account/connection.

[fallow sedge]

Never had a single scene break from quick saves (there might be things broken from any save load in general, quick or not). Which scripted scenes are you talking about?

[boreal marsh]

Uhh does anyone know why is complete mod of clear sky so bad???

[fallow sedge]

it forces its own artistic and gameplay view on the game, unnecessarily simplifying it in the process, and used to be often recommended for first time playthrough, which resulted in people getting the wrong impression

doesn't help that the mod author is a snob and believed that his mod forced the game to get more sales XD

[boreal marsh]

That’s actually interesting

What if then I set master difficulty when having that mod installed? Would it still be oversimplified???

Vanilla cs is perfect except weapon sound effects

[gaunt sonnet]

Its the same

Only difficulty changes

[boreal marsh]

Isn’t diff and simplicity same?

What’s different

[gaunt sonnet]

"forces its own artistic and gameplay view while unnecessarily simplifying it in the process"

By uping the difficulty you wont change the rest

[boreal marsh]

Where can I see this happening?

[gaunt sonnet]

Idk, play it

[boreal marsh]

In soc complete wpn animation is changed

And I love it

But in cs it isn’t

[fallow sedge]

I mean master difficulty is how you should play this anyway

Complete master is still a joke

[boreal marsh]

Yes

But not for me

Since I have issues keeping my pc running long enough to grind money

Sometimes electricity sometimes others need my pc for their work

Is there difference in terms of hardware requirements?

[civic pewter]

https://youtu.be/Q_CLcejKATw
Back To The Stalker it's being cooked

[sick sand]

That looks very strange (at least the trade at the beginning). Isn't it easier to pay for the gun directly instead of buying 5 medkits and then exchanging these same medkits for a gun?

[gaunt sonnet]

It is harder and more expensive surely, from what it seems

[civic pewter]

Could be, but seems that is a alternative if u don't have enough money

[keen fog]

tried lost alpha, it is rather interesting I should say

the locations are more interesting in comparison with soc imo

[gilded thistle]

Hey guys idk if i can find it but i am looking for a mod that basically makes the arm fit the clothing in SOC like COP . Do you guys know something like that?

[opal night]

does anyone know of a mod that lets you repair your equipment in shadow of chornobyl? ive tried a few but none of them work

[gaunt sonnet]

Im pretty sure that ZRP has ome that you van activate. After installing it, go to gamedata and search for the repair option

[craggy zealot]

(stalker cop vannila)This started happening after I formatted my computer in 2024, and I bought a new one, but it's still the same. The scope on the right side of the screen doesn't completely fill the screen. My old computer was 1920x1080, now it's 2K, and it's definitely not related to the resolution. Do you have any idea why this happened? (I've played with mods before, like the Complete mod and Misery, and it worked without any problems.)

The strange thing is, when I install the Misery or Gunslinger mod, this 1-millimeter screen issue doesn't occur in the game. Maybe it's because the mods have their own scopes, I don't know. Is there a solution?

Note: This problem does not exist in Clear Sky and Shadow of Chernobyl.

The first photo is a screenshot, and the second one was taken with my phone for better clarity.

Can the most professional cop technician help me?

Its stalker cop (not remastered)

[craggy zealot]

I solve it!! If anyone experiences the same problem, setting the render type to Enhanced dynamic light DX10 should solve it.

[craggy zealot]

I tried playing Stalker Cop at 1000 fps with maximum settings, but this caused my GPU to be used at 100%, resulting in excessive lag in the long run. The in-game vertical sync didn't work, so I set it to 150 fps in the control panel, and GPU usage dropped significantly. However, there's a problem: whenever the screen moves, even behind the smallest objects, I see colored things that quickly disappear. This happens in almost every game when I set the FPS from high to low, stable low, but it's excessively noticeable in Stalker Cop. What do you suggest I do about this?

[craggy zealot]

@fallow sedge Is DX10 such a powerful setting that it could burn out a computer?

[fallow sedge]

I do not think it has to do with Dx10, any game with unlimited FPS will go towards 100% GPU usage.

[craggy zealot]

But first can you solve my problem?

LCD response pixel artifact problem

When I limit the game to 150fps, colorful things pop up behind objects for half a second every time the screen moves. How can I fix this?

[fallow sedge]

Try disabling AO

[craggy zealot]

what is this?

I mean which one setting?

oh I found

thanks

[wraith gorge]

I downloaded this mod: https://www.moddb.com/games/stalker/addons/in-game-cc-and-subtitles-1-00

I just copied everything into the root folder (bc idk what I’m doing) and now the game stutters. Is this a common issue with a fix?

[dark geyser]

im new to stalker and especially to the stalker trilogy, and heard theres quite a few game breaking bugs in the vanilla version. is there a list of patches i can install that i'm missing in the pins list of this channel?

i don't think i can use installer scripts or a mod manager because i'm running this on linux but i'm willing to do gymnastics to patch the game regardless

[gaunt sonnet]

Tbh, even tho SoC and CS have a couple, its kinda rare that they happen, and they also change a couple of stuff more than just bug fixes (not anything super major, but still)
If you really want them tho, for SoC its called ZRP, and for CS its called SRP

[dark geyser]

what someone explained to me was pretty bad (the game crashing more and more frequently as you add more hours to a playthrough, until its unplayable) but he did also play the game when it was released

thank you, i'll check these out

[gaunt sonnet]

Nah, yeah, when the games were release (maybe an exception is CoP) it was kind of a mess, really.
But right now its in a decent state. Not perfect of course, but decent

[fickle anchor]

Does Anomaly mod keep this OST? https://youtu.be/SCIdZAh2KOg?si=fQWNsw5Mh-qgDoPk

[fallow sedge]

This is not true lol

[gaunt sonnet]

weren't SoC and CS quite buggy on release? Or you mean the crashes?

[fallow sedge]

I mean that’s not true as of now, they are a bit buggy but jank buggy not unplayable buggy

[gaunt sonnet]

oh yeah yeah, 100% agree

[civic pewter]

https://youtu.be/ZQX2S2SzYCM

[compact wolf]

Hey, Im in the second building of the farm in Dark Valley, ||but after picking up the box with goodies, it wont let me open it and if I give it to the mercs, the quest doesnt update. Is this likely due to save corruption?||

[gaunt sonnet]

There is a safe with a code close to that box, did you open it?

[gaunt sonnet]

https://youtu.be/CBknqzi4NLE?t=649&si=wlZUcqg-ZzcSPdqW
I timestamped the video, check it out if you can't see the box

And if you haven't picked the 4 (I think it was 4) Vorpal's notes before this, please do, they should be on the ground or places like that, otherwise I dont think you can properly continue with the quest

[compact wolf]

Okey I will try this tomorrow, thank youuu

[gaunt sonnet]

<@&1429819918492368916>

[mint vigil]

[round badge]

Hey Stalkers, I have a question, I am replaying CoP with Misery and The Armed Zone mods. I really want to get the PTRS antitank-rifle from the mod but I never see traders selling the rifle just the ammo. From those who played it is there any guaranteed way to get it or is it possible to spawn the damn thing through comands?

[hoary lintel]

I'm having issues with Road to the north. I have disabled the brain scorcher and since then I am experiencing the game freezing randomly but often. I can't even go to task manager, I need to sign out of windows or restart. any ideas? I have switched to static lighting, no help. it's not just in brain scorcher area, for example I'm in Zaton right now

[gaunt sonnet]

I have no idea of that mod, but you can open task manager now, go to setting and enable "always on top"

It will always go on top of whatever there is on your pc

[hoary lintel]

thanks man, that'll make crashing bearable

[hoary lintel]

wtf, it's crashing every min, it's unplayable. worked well so far 🙁

[ebon tusk]

check the log folder to see if you can find the crash log

[hoary lintel]

it's empty

[ebon tusk]

how does it crash, is the consistency in how much time is passed before it crashes or on a action?

and when it does does it open a crash help window

[hoary lintel]

it's random, I can't figure it out. but often. and no, it doesn't open a crash help window it just freezes

[ebon tusk]

when did it start happening and is it replicable if you reload a save from before it started happening

[gaunt sonnet]

You opened the crash log file right after a crash, right?

[hoary lintel]

I don't have a save before the brain scorcher sadly

[hoary lintel]

yeah, it's empty. just tried it

[ebon tusk]

@mint vigil help?

[mint vigil]

I don't think I can help without a crashlog. Brain scorcher is basically untouched CoC element, so it can either be a corrupt file or anything.

It's not supposed to have no log tbh. The game should log process even without crashing

It shouldn't be empty

[mint vigil]

Idk, if it's a logless crash, it can only be a task termination

Could be related to anything tbh

Make sure that the game is running as administrator and it's not in the OS drive

[hoary lintel]

just to be clear the file is xray_myname.log?

now it's not empty, it's been empty half an hour ago

[mint vigil]

Check if there is another?

This one doesn't have any crash registered

Send the whole appdata folder if possible

[hoary lintel]

in appdata there's only log.bkp. even zipped the appdata folder exceeds discord's file limit

[hoary lintel]

is there a way to force the game to run on dx9? or is static lighting the same

i read somewhere dx9 fixes the crashes

[gaunt sonnet]

Depends on the mod, I think CoC added dx8 as static lightning. Or maybe it was anomaly, I dont remember

What does the setting show

[hoary lintel]

just static lighting, object dynamic lighting, full dynamic lighting

[gaunt sonnet]

it's probably dx9 then

maybe try object dynamic?

I'm honestly just shooting at the dark here

[hoary lintel]

i played so far on object dynamic

[gaunt sonnet]

ah

[hoary lintel]

then the crashes started happening

[gaunt sonnet]

well, just try a different one ig

[hoary lintel]

i tried static, no luck

my rig is potato and with object I was under 30 fps in rostok for example

I hate the road from rostok to garbage

[mint vigil]

User ltx

Well, maybe it's the issue

Your rig is not strong enough to deal with zaton

Try to leave the area before it freses and see if the game stops freezing

Lol

It might be impossible, but I'm pretty sure your pc is not strong enough considering wbag you said

[noble basalt]

Is this the "Freezes" you are having? Well, from my experience playing CoC based mods, they are inevitable in a weak PC, even crashes that freezes the entire PC itself is often when playing this. They are most horrendous in large maps, and thunderstorm weathers

I am using this to make it AT LEAST not crashing. At the very least it crashed with "Unhandled exception occured, please see logs for details" message.

https://www.moddb.com/addons/stalker-call-of-chernobyl-for-weak-pc

I used this through CoC, Call of Misery, Call of the Zone to make them tolerable

[civic pewter]

in the other order

DX-9 Static Ligthing it's called DX-8 in CoCk

I remember reading one guy or two here asking for mods specifically about dynamic arms for SoC, well, i found one:
https://ap-pro.ru/forums/topic/14137-hud-tch-smena-ruk-pri-smene-kostyuma/?tab=comments#comment-516849

[gaunt sonnet]

@honest needle might want to check it out, although it doesnt really feel complete

[honest needle]

Thank you!! I'll check it out

[hoary lintel]

thing is my potato rig dealt okay with rostok, zaton, swamps, everything with no issue until I shut down the scorcher. many hours of play, including random side quests. no idea what's changed

I might be switching to anomaly, sad as road to the north has a nice story. where can I get the newest war nymph mod?

[hoary lintel]

crap and now .net 3.5 won't install and anomaly won't run even though I have .net 4. the zone hates me and I'm out of cigarettes

[noble basalt]

Step dowm a bit and try Call of the Zone

if it can't even run, the most potato compatible free play mod out there would be DMM

https://www.moddb.com/mods/stalker-shadow-of-chernobyl-zone-revolution/addons/dooms-mod-merge-fixes

[acoustic zenith]

Hello. Does anyone know of a mod for Stalker: Shadow of Chernobyl that makes pseudogiants bigger?

[flat bane]

hello, anyone had this bug too ? In Stalker Anomaly the mission "Escort the Ecologist" as Clear sky, it wont give me the location where I should escort the scientist and still give the position of the clear sky base. I talked to the scientist he said that he give me the position where I should escort him...but the position in the PDA is still the clear sky base.

I try to sleep, save and retry and return to the base, but nothing. Now I'm just stuck with a scientist that follow me.

[gaunt sonnet]

Didnt the quest giver give you the location? As in "farm" or smth like that

[flat bane]

Nop, he just said "I will indicate you on your PDA the location where you should escort him"

and once I talked to the Ecologist, same thing

[gaunt sonnet]

And when you click the "mark" thing right next to "escort the ecologist", it just, does nothing?

[flat bane]

You d'ont see but it's mark here

the icon hide the mark

[gaunt sonnet]

Well, maybe do ask in the anomaly discord, they may know the reason why

[flat bane]

I just checked reddit, and this bug exist since a while https://www.reddit.com/r/stalker/comments/j8ri68/anomaly_escort_the_ecologists_bug/

and I will check out the discord as well

[flat bane]

well I found a fix, it's this mod who fix the bug : https://www.moddb.com/mods/stalker-anomaly/addons/warfare-alife-overhaul

I found it on this post : https://www.moddb.com/mods/stalker-anomaly/forum/thread/help-ecologist-escort-task-bug-clear-sky-warfare

[hoary lintel]

is it possible that my crash issue in RTTN comes from unlooted shit that Monolith drop in Radar? or bad ammo and similar crap that I don't bother to pick up? Is there a way to force despawn?

I read somewhere that all the games have certain amount of items it can handle, I don't know if this includes all the items my stalker bought and consumed (ammo, drugs), bought and sold, or just items lying around

also is there a shortcut suffix to force the game to run in dx9 or even 8

[hoary lintel]

is this log helpful for my crashes? this time it said unidentified error, see log for details

[honest needle]

Have you tired this out? I keep trying to install and I’m doing it correctly but I crash in the middle of loading into a save. I’m using the steam version

[fallow sedge]

There is no DX8 in stalker

Static is still DX9

[gaunt sonnet]

Well, no I just saw it and thought of you. Maybe you have to make a new game instead of reload a save

[honest needle]

I've been trying to actually use it for a bit and im draggining in the bin and gamedata files linked to it, but they make the game not even launch

[proven shoal]

Stalker never had DX8. It was abandoned back in 2004-2005.

[honest needle]

Could someone try this out so I can make sure it’s not just my game being weird?

[noble basalt]

DX8 in stalker mods is just literally DX9 But with toned down disabled stuff. Don't believe anyone saying you can change to DX8 in settings

[proven shoal]

it's just static lighting.

[weary skiff]

Hey yall im new to the stand-alone mod stuff uh what are some that have good narratives? I saw one called Spatial anomaly that looked good

[gaunt sonnet]

Spatial anomaly is awesome, yeah.
If you want more standalone, theres mods like Goldsphere, Oblivion Lost Remake 2.5, OLR: Vector of Alienation, SFZ Project, True Path, Incubator/Dreamcatcher/Attribut trilogy (pretty sure it's standalone), True Stalker, Alone in Windstorm (I think it is standalone) and Wind of Time.
There's also NLC: Hard Edition (it's actually the easiest edition of the mod), but it's looooong and considered pretty hardcore

[weary skiff]

Neat!!

[civic pewter]

Play Spatial Anomaly, SFZ Project and Vector of Alienation if u want great stories

Directly Vector of Alienation has better writting than the entire trilogy🙏

In general quality this is the best one of these three:
https://www.moddb.com/mods/sfz-project/downloads

[weary skiff]

I keep seeing conflicting details on if Spatial anomaly is stand-alone or not. Are there different versions that are and aren't?

[civic pewter]

There some repacks that are standalone (i played it with the ESP translation repack).
But the official links of the latest provided by proffesional in moddb aren't standalone, i understand that the next update of the mod will be standalone

[weary skiff]

Oh neat! Guess I must wait then.

[civic pewter]

Well, the DLC/Expansion/next update according to Proffesional it's practically finished and he just it's polishing it (that doens't means that it will be released very soon) but most likely the next update and the original mod are practically differents mods, soooo u would play the latest version and then after u would notice differences between the Expansion and the OG mod

[weary skiff]

Gotya gotya

I wanna try road to the north aswell I think.

[gaunt sonnet]

It's also pretty good, yeah

[weary skiff]

Its pretty insane how there are basically a crap ton of fan games made with xray tho

[idle matrix]

It's not standalone but The Exception is a good CoP mod with an all new story and maps

Worth having on the radar

[weary skiff]

Neat!

[civic pewter]

even there a mod in development that try to recreate the old stalker 2

[gaunt sonnet]

<@&1429819918492368916> scammer doing the scamming

[ancient wind]

Gordon can i scam you

[gaunt sonnet]

[mint vigil]

[flat oyster]

Hey guys, question; I'm looking at modded S.T.A.L.K.E.R stuff once I 100% the entire series (not even the Wish Granter can help me with this (reference?)) and apart from the standalone mods which I will need to delve into, all I know is S.T.A.L.K.E.R Anomaly and GAMMA and I have no idea what the difference is between those two.

All I remember is that I played one of them and enjoyed it until I realized I knew literally nothing about the lore and combat and alla that.

[dreamy fern]

Anomaly is a standalone sandbox mod, based originally on call of chernobyl, which is a sandbox mod as well and the first mod to merge all the og trilogy maps plus additions into one world. From call of chernobyl originated a vast variety of mods (which I won't mention to not confuse you), and Anomaly is one of them.

Now the 2nd level. Vanilla anomaly is kinda boring and empty by itself. So mods for it exist. Gamma is a modpack for anomaly. so is escape from pripyat. these are the two main ones, there are several others big modpacks for anomaly but not worth mentioning imo cause they're either unstable af or run by horrible people.

[flat oyster]

So Gamma is a modpack for Anomaly, alongside Escape from Pripyat which I will take a peek at sometime.

Good. Good good. Thanks.

[dreamy fern]

Yea. By the way, I know the calling of sandbox survival experience is tempting, but there are also a lot of incredibly well done short and medium length story-oriented mods for the og trilogy that are worth playing also. I suggest you the youtube channel "Cheeki Breeki", he provides reviews for a lot of these mods.

[flat oyster]

[gaunt sonnet]

He also has a page with repacks of mods, very useful

[weary skiff]

Huh so does anomaly just not have alot of content? Like does gamma add the missions and stuff? Also what specs do you need to run gamma?

[gaunt sonnet]

1. it doesnt have much tbh, its just a veey basic storyline close to soc (but much worse narratively) and then a bit of cop (also worse).
2. it adds "missions", yeah. It adds more fetch quest missions, which are 90% of quests already.
3. depends how mamy graphical mods you want to put in it, but a budget pc (for todays standards) should be able to run it

Imo, its just boring and it doesnt have much, apart from the novelty of "omg look at all this content and maps and npcs"

You'll end up with a ton of repetition, inventory management, hub stuff and the like. As it was said, it's just a sandbox

Story mods are far more likely to give you an interesting time and with more similarities with the original stalker games (or with SoC and CoP at least)

[weary skiff]

Ive got a decent list of those built up. Can you just install the standalone ones then run them or do you have to do specific things to run them? Im very knew to all this

[gaunt sonnet]

For the standalone, most of the time, you just install them and you are ready to go. Maybe check if they have hotfixes/bugfixes patches and the like before running it

You may also need some specific things that I will link now, one sec

Well, I dont have the links now, but it is this

Its so you are able to run it without crashes or problems. Some mods dont need it, some do

[dreamy fern]

Some require cop or soc as a base (you'll rarely find mods for cs) but most of the ones that are worth playing come fully standalone.

[weary skiff]

Gotya. Im looking at trying Incubator first i think.

[hoary lintel]

are there any addons for Anomaly that add more variety of quests?

[gaunt sonnet]

Barely, if any.
Just write "quest" on the moddb addon search

But no, there is barely any variety. If you want actual quest variety, play a story mod hehe

[hoary lintel]

thanks. I played spatial anomaly (enjoyed it), secrets of the cordon, nice, I think, Incubator

[gaunt sonnet]

@hoary lintel here you have more if you want

[hoary lintel]

thanks!

[weary skiff]

Is secrets of cordon standalone?

[hoary lintel]

not sure, it's been a while, sorry

[weary skiff]

All good.

[gaunt sonnet]

I dont think it is

Just checked, it's not

[weary skiff]

Dang.

[civic pewter]

Variety of fetch quests, right?

[neat dune]

malfunctionsmf has been warned

Reason: Bad word usage

[hoary lintel]

bad word?

[gaunt sonnet]

probably an insult, nsfw or smth

[hoary lintel]

Anyway, I have played anomaly mostly as a merc or bandit, so I know there's subcontractor, fetch the docs, assassination, remove the mutants, help Sultan with squatters. Remove Duty or Army holdings. I wish someone would come up with something else. Not sure if things are different for loners

[gaunt sonnet]

they are probably the same or even more boring

[hoary lintel]

I really enjoyed Spatial Anomaly, it was incredibly atmospheric especially when you actually leave the anomaly. Quests top notch for a merc. Secrets of the cordon, I forgot honestly. Something about Sidorovich. Haven't tried goldsphere

[gaunt sonnet]

If one day you decide to try it, ping me, there are some necessary knowledge you need beforehand (to prevent errors and the like)

[civic pewter]

U already played SFZ Project or not?

[hoary lintel]

no?

[civic pewter]

SFZ Project is a great mod, u should try it.
One of the best modern stalkermods until now, the past year a remake of the OG mod was released:
https://www.moddb.com/mods/sfz-project/downloads
The remake enhances any aspect of the original mod

[weary skiff]

Hey yall question is valley of whispers standalone?

[gaunt sonnet]

No

[weary skiff]

So I also found a Google doc with a bunch mods listed but some are labeled as standalone when they aren't like spatial anomaly

[ebon tusk]

depends on the archive I would assume

I assume you are looking at C-Cons mod list

[weary skiff]

Correct

Like some things on it say they're standalone when other sites like cheeki breeki says their not. Its interesting

[ebon tusk]

the list is somewhat unupdated as people got busy, but it should start getting updated this year
its mainly good as a archive of old and unknown mods tho

[weary skiff]

Neat!

[gaunt sonnet]

UPDATES TO THE SHEET???

[weary skiff]

Oh and uh if yall can give me some more recommendations on which standalone mods to try that'd be awesome. Im giving vectors of alienation a try first

[gaunt sonnet]

https://www.moddb.com/mods/adventures-the-series
https://www.moddb.com/mods/bad-company-2-mason-eng-translation
https://www.moddb.com/mods/the-city-of-lost-tears-eng

[weary skiff]

Do you have links for liaison and bad company 1?

[gaunt sonnet]

idk which mod is liaison
Here's BC1: https://www.moddb.com/mods/bad-company-translated

[weary skiff]

Sick

[gaunt sonnet]

well, should've pointed it out, but its not standalone

[weary skiff]

Ah gotya

Is it required to play bad company 1 to play 2?

[gaunt sonnet]

probably not. of course it would help tho

[gaunt sonnet]

oh, and seems like messenger is also connected to it. Also not standalone: https://www.moddb.com/mods/the-messenger-translated

[weary skiff]

Ah neat!

[hoary lintel]

nice, @gaunt sonnet , thanks. which ones have you played and recommend? City of lost tears sounds pretty grim.

[neat dune]

malfunctionsmf has been warned

Reason: Bad word usage

[hoary lintel]

whoops

I was just ranting how sick I am of the road to the north crashes. the mod supposedly has a great story and I have sunk hours and hours into it, now it's freezing on me often after I disabled both miracle machine and brain scorcher.

[gaunt sonnet]

yeah, that sucks ngl, and I couldn't see any proper fixes to it sadly

[hoary lintel]

is road to the north based on CoC? I'm trying to google it up, but no luck. I have no idea why it's happening when previously I played on dynamic lighting and it was able to handle rostok, zaton etc fine.

[gaunt sonnet]

Goldsphere: Completion is one of my all time favourites, made by the recognized Jekan. It's a bit janky and has amateur mistakes, but the feeling of the zone pre-2012 is magical. If you want to play that one, ask me for the warnings, cause you'll need them.
I'm playing Return to the Zone right now, made by Jekan too, and it's also awesome, much more polished than Goldsphere but still crazy at times.
OLR: Vector of Alienation, although I haven't completed it, has one of the best stories you can find in a mod, with some lack in the gameplay part.
Zero Investment is also incredible, but more of a looter-shooter with many "post-ironic" elements, not for everyone ig but really polished
And thats all I can remember for now, I've tried many but didn't finish much, and some that I've finished left a bad taste in my mouth

[gaunt sonnet]

it's based on Call of Misery, which is a combination of Call of Chernobyl and Misery

[hoary lintel]

will do. I stayed away from Goldsphere despite the overwhelmingly positive reviews because I feared it was a joke mod with talking dolls

[hoary lintel]

how do I force dx 9 on rttn? I'm already playing on static lighting is that it?

[gaunt sonnet]

nah, not at all. it takes itself seriously but it doesnt shy away of some ridiculousness. the doll thing is more of a magical thing the zone creates than anything else, and its useful. Although you have the option to not pick it up, but I dont recommend it

[gaunt sonnet]

static lightning should be dx9, if its not, then idk what else you could do

maybe check the user.ltx file for the r1 render, which is the one that handles static, and check if its on or smth, I never really knew how to set it up from there

[hoary lintel]

I'm trying some tips for CoM, like disabling SSAO, reducing MSAA, not sure what is A life switch distance

[gaunt sonnet]

I think is the distance where the alife goes between online and offline, starting point being you, the player

[hoary lintel]

ok, I changed it from 350 to 200, hopefully it'll help...

[weary skiff]

What's CoM? Call of misery?

[gaunt sonnet]

Yes

[stark gust]

anyone ever experience that their SEVA suit in pripyat underpass just didnt protect you from the gas underground in XrMPE? im playing w 2 friends and one of them just keeps dying to the gas eventhough he does have a SEVA

[gaunt sonnet]

Xrmpe has a discord server, you should probably ask there for troubleshooting: https://www.xrmpe.online/

[stark gust]

ok thanks

[fallow sedge]

Had this bug, had to dc for entire Prypiat-1 playthrough while the rest of them played, i rcd when they were near the exit

[quick glen]

does anyone know where i can get help for the memory leaks

ive tired everything including optimization mods

and its still happeneing

game was running fine for 4 days straight and now its having these leaks every 20-15 min

[gaunt sonnet]

which mod

[quick glen]

optimized tweaks BOOST v 3.11

all settings are on low

game was running fine on medium till this

[gaunt sonnet]

I mean like, which mod/game are you originally playing

or are you talking about stalker 2

[quick glen]

stalker 2

[gaunt sonnet]

#☢┃stalker-general
#❔┃seeking-for-advice
#s2-support

[quick glen]

thank you

[civic pewter]

<@&1429819918492368916>

[proper sigil]

i am late

[idle matrix]

<@&1429819918492368916> fools don't know when to quit

[unborn cargo]

yo guys. anyone know how to properly make a world model for weapons from the gunslinger mod? at first glance it just looks like the hud model with the mesh and skel origin offset, so i'm curious what the differences are.

[gaunt sonnet]

Maybe join the ogsr discord. They have a channel for gunslinger (ogsr gunslinger), might help

[unborn cargo]

hehe, yeah i know, thanks. overall i'm just curious if i could get an answer here, and also wanted to support the activity with some curiosity 😆

[stark gust]

anyone here played shadows addon? how are you supposed to escape dead city after they take all your stuff? are you supposed to just hope the helicopters kills all the mercs that are in the room outside your jail cell so you can grab a pistol and savescum while sprinting and zig zagging to escape? i can't think of any other option, even with crazy amount of save scumming it was stupidly difficult compared to anything before this segment

[gaunt sonnet]

Might want to check a playthrough: https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLT2ba8PvcHjj6Pt6JKOfW_ApxxoLNaTj6&si=0Am9u6peh4Ofxuro

[stark gust]

haha i watched this exact playthrough when i was doing that quest today

and the guy did pretty much the exact same thing as me

except i think he didnt escape right away but actually took his stuff back, i escaped to gear up and im about to take my stuff back now

[compact wolf]

@gaunt sonnet
after completing X18 in the dark valley, I continued in Agroprom, pretty much did all of the quests, came back to the Garbage with the tools to Vasily, but he wont give me a dialogue option. Went back through most of my saves which I made at the beginning of Agroprom, brought the tools to him but he never worked. Kinda feel hopeless with this mod at this point

[gaunt sonnet]

Honestly, dont know what to tell you. Its either talking to abdul, to vasiliy or smth

Or maybe a quest you havent done properly? Idk

[compact wolf]

do I need this quest to progress in the main story? its the one where you need tools from Agroprom to open a safe you find

[gaunt sonnet]

You mean the quest to find all the tools? Yeah, its so you get them to vasiliy and repairs the btr

Maybe check toastman's video if he has one on this quest?

But you seem to have done it all

[compact wolf]

figured it out, I realised I dont have one of the items in my inventory, even though its checked out in the tasks tab, I left the wrenches in a box in Agroprom

[gaunt sonnet]

😭

Well, at least Im glad this wasn't the mods fault but your fault

Glad you figured it out

Hows the mod so far btw?

[compact wolf]

its just the right combination of janky, absurd and interesting

[gaunt sonnet]

Exactly my thoughts hehe

It does have a lot of jvnk, I can't deny, but the setting and story is so interesting and well developed that I can't deny its greatness either, even after much amateurity

I did get quite a few problems with it, but the story was so interesting that I couldnt stop going forward

[compact wolf]

yeah, I was quite bummed when I thought I got locked out of progressing without backtracking

quick question

i got the gearbox for the BTR

how do I repair it?

[gaunt sonnet]

You dont, vasiliy does it

Or should do

And then you get to talk to abdul and then you can decide if you want to go or not

Little advice, you can't go back for now afaik, so take what you need and make a save before going to rostok

[compact wolf]

oh okay

good to know

thanks!

[gaunt sonnet]

You are making lots of hardsaves so I know it wasnt a problem

But would be cool to let you know still

[compact wolf]

think I have some unfinished business in the Dark Valley, not sure, dont get to play this as regularly as Id want to

[gaunt sonnet]

Little correction, you can go back only in the ogsr version

[compact wolf]

daaamn

[gaunt sonnet]

Check the whole map maybe, theres a couple with a werewolf and at the farm at the bottom left of dark valley

[gaunt sonnet]

Its not great imo cause its against the authors original vision, but I do think it sucks that the author doesnt really warn you for it

Im not mad that I cant go back, Im mad that a proper warning is not given

It kinda is in a way? But no

[compact wolf]

i presume the BTR gets wrecked and theres no way back

[gaunt sonnet]

You may pressume well

[compact wolf]

definitely taking the SKS, its so sweet

oh no

I just realised

I havent gone to the Outskirts yet

i have no idea how

[gaunt sonnet]

Just go back

If the iron curtain doesnt let you, just go to the left side, there is a broken down fence

Just as tip, marauder's side is more interesting, but military side is good too

You can even do both if you lesve a save right after entering outskirts, but I doubt you'll want unless you really like the mod and want all perspectives

[compact wolf]

okay

im just surprised the story hasnt led me there

[gaunt sonnet]

Agroprom, outskirts and yantar (iirc) are optional maps

You go if you like

Maybe there is a reference to them in some quests or a dialogue with someone, but its not necessary, you can just go straight to the main story

Although I personally loved them all

[compact wolf]

yeah no I had to see Red

especially right after reading the book, the reason I started this mod

[gaunt sonnet]

I need to read the book still...

[compact wolf]

highly recommended, not very long either

[gaunt sonnet]

Will definitively do, yeah

[gaunt sonnet]

<@&1429819918492368916>

[gaunt sonnet]

<@&1429819918492368916> bro

thanks bro/sis

[weary skiff]

Ok so. Im very new to this how do I install Incubator? It says something about xrlauncher?

[gaunt sonnet]

Should be on the game folder, right there

Or in tbe bin folder

[weary skiff]

So when I go to the game folder it says open it with an app that I don't have

[gaunt sonnet]

It requires an app or what

Which app

[weary skiff]

It isn't stating what I need to open it

Its just saying I need to get an app to install it

[gaunt sonnet]

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/cpp/windows/latest-supported-vc-redist?view=msvc-170
https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/topic/microsoft-net-framework-4-8-offline-installer-for-windows-9d23f658-3b97-68ab-d013-aa3c3e7495e0
https://www.microsoft.com/en-in/download/details.aspx?id=35

Check these 3

You should have them

[weary skiff]

Then when I go to the moddb page the download link just. Doesn't work

Like I was able to install the files with cheekis site. But then not on the moddb site

Would it be zp opener

[gaunt sonnet]

Zp would be the zip openet? Do you have 7zip?

If not, do so

[weary skiff]

Gotya

[gaunt sonnet]

https://drive.google.com/drive/u/0/mobile/folders/1-sKj0PS490VplKiW2i-vbG55vubSopcI
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1k7MbbxJlNu1rmdzs6kYt7ykhG9tuWGmL

Just in case

First is the game files, second is the translation

[weary skiff]

Gotya

Ok so I made a folder and am currently extracting the game files. Do I keep everything in this one folder?

[gaunt sonnet]

Should be, yeah

[weary skiff]

This what im getting when I try to launch it

[gaunt sonnet]

Have you downloaded all of this?

Mostly the opengl one

I think its there

If not, just google opengl, download latest version and restart pc

[weary skiff]

What does open gl do?

[gaunt sonnet]

Something with audio iirc

Oh, nvm, its graphics lmao

[weary skiff]

Ohh

Hm. What could be causing that audio thing then?

[gaunt sonnet]

Openal

Which is why I confused them

https://www.openal.org/

[weary skiff]

Oh ok. So I need to install that

[gaunt sonnet]

Yep, my b on that one, read it fast

[weary skiff]

So why do I need openal? Like why can't it just run?

[gaunt sonnet]

Cause it needs openal

Some mods dont, maybe incubator does

I know the team behind it is considered high quality so they might have used all the tools at their disposal to make it technically better

[weary skiff]

So ive got windows installer and core sdk

Which one should I try?

[gaunt sonnet]

Uh, what

What do you mean

[gaunt sonnet]

Ooooooh, yeah yeah

Installer

Sdk is the source development kit iirc

[weary skiff]

IT WORKS HOLY CRAP

[gaunt sonnet]

There we go

[weary skiff]

Oh. But its not Translated

[gaunt sonnet]

Yeah, forgot the translation

[gaunt sonnet]

Second link

[weary skiff]

But I did everything right I thought. It even said the English translation was installed

[gaunt sonnet]

Maybe check if you have to switch languages ingame? Idk

If not, just install the translation again ig