╟⚒stalker2™-mods-making-discussion

[atomic surge]

And this was the correct:

[honest glade]

that path is wrong

gotta have a Content folder after the Stalker2 folder

[atomic surge]

this one

[past oar]

I like how many mods have done the "Z" at the front of the name to get them to load last lol

It's like people at work making their shared folders have "!" before their name to get to the top of the list. Works until everyone does it

[atomic surge]

then there is the zzzzzz ones

[past oar]

Those guys just fell alseep at the computer

[pearl lichen]

Steam: ...\S.T.A.L.K.E.R. 2 Heart of Chornobyl\Stalker2\Content\Paks\~mods
Gamepass: ...\S.T.A.L.K.E.R. 2 Heart of Chornobyl (Windows)\Content\Stalker2\Content\Paks\~mods

[atomic surge]

got the steam version, my path is like yours, but on gamepass its different

[merry mountain]

oh okay

[pearl lichen]

on gamepass there is an extra content folder, before Stalker2

rest is the same

[atomic surge]

just, why

[low merlin]

are you guys using vortex or just manually installing mods?

[pearl lichen]

¯_(ツ)_/¯

[pearl lichen]

manually

[past oar]

I'm doing it manually

[atomic surge]

manually

[merry mountain]

using vortex does nothing for you anyway, as it cannot see modconflicts or solve them in any way

[past oar]

It's pretty easy, no overwriting so it's easy to take them back out

[low merlin]

ive been doing manually, just thought id ask. Thanks!

[twilit scroll]

you guys need words to determine ammo type?

I just need 1 black bar

[past oar]

should have made the bar higher res

[spark pulsar]

Question for you my fellow stalkers, is there a mod that reduce the crazy jitterness of lasers and holo sights when enabling frame gen?

[terse blade]

Frame gen doesn’t like fast, bright movement so likely not..

Tbh we should be asking can the game run well without frame gen lmao

[digital gulch]

@honest glade @worn temple having a blast with
Super A-Life Maybe and Axxii's Stealth

[past oar]

Does the super a-life work?

[spark pulsar]

It's not, I don't see how people play on 80 fps in open world

[digital gulch]

its not perfect but

[past oar]

I've noticed there's no random bodies laying around from firefights when I'm away

[digital gulch]

does work make sure if you sue both you add a few more ZZZZ to the sealth one

[winged hemlock]

https://www.nexusmods.com/stalker2heartofchornobyl/mods/147

[steep marsh]

Axxii’s stealth seemed jank when I used it yesterday. Sometimes I shot enemies without a suppressor and nobody noticed me inside closed doors. Or AI completely lost track of me after losing line of sight while in search mode despite me shooting at them

[fallen umbra]

Im trying to keep my game as vanilla as possible on veteran just to finish the damn thing but honestly this one might make me crack so I can see what exactly I'm using

[digital gulch]

try the new update

[steep marsh]

I’ll give it a shot

[onyx zinc]

holy shit. the good mods are already starting to show up 😄

[formal bronze]

Anyone managed to create custom loot tables? In ItemGeneratorPrototypes.cfg specifically

[winged hemlock]

I already do 2 mods myself and install 12

[pearl lichen]

I'm on 3 mods with around 10 installed

still at garbage

[winged hemlock]

Same

[formal bronze]

I haven't finished the tutorial yet

[fallen umbra]

Everyone in here doing great work in order to keep the game alive, community happy and wanting to see the game thrive

[digital gulch]

22 mods..... i m asking for problems at this point

[pearl lichen]

it's been really fun to figure out the inner workings of the game and the community has been very welcoming

I came from Arma modding, where you get used to so much bitching

nice change of pace

[fallen umbra]

I spent 10 hours in lesser lmao exploring every inch including going down to Cordon which has great loot and nostalgia

[past oar]

I'm at 20 now but 10 of those are the grok mutant HP mods so that's kinda cheating

[rare ruin]

https://tenor.com/view/spongebob-patrick-star-i-love-you-ily-gif-4247002

my welcoming

[buoyant goblet]

I just wanna blast through at this point and do the exploring once modding and GSC fixes things. My advice after 25 hours is get more carry weight. Quest items become a joke to carry around and I have been encumbered for the last 10 hours or so.

[pearl lichen]

IMO quest items should have been weightless

[ivory geyser]

So I'm guessing all of @rain finch-sama's mods are plug and play right? Just got home and went straight to nexus nyehe

[buoyant goblet]

I kinda agree, but what I personally would prefer is let me put it in my magical stash box at least

I was just at 20KG of quest items

[pearl lichen]

pretty much, its just downloading and extracting

[digital gulch]

Oo i only use the reduced ammo /grenades mod and been doing okay (lots of travel back and forth

[pearl lichen]

thats insane lmao

I wonder if you can patch PDAs weight to 0 and all quest items inherit off of that

[formal bronze]

@honest glade any progress on mod compatibility?

[buoyant goblet]

Yeh, that's the problem the ammo and grenades won't be the issue later in the game.

[pearl lichen]

then do the same for flash drives

[buoyant goblet]

There's way more than flash drives coming.

[ivory geyser]

ight time to get em all bc I don't like spongy enemies xD

[pearl lichen]

ok ty for not spoiling

[past oar]

trying super A life, what could go wrong

[rare ruin]

ごめんなさい ちさいです。

It's funny I promise

[fallen umbra]

What on earth my load out itself is already 25kg is without ammo, with ammo it's 30

[ivory geyser]

wat's small xD

[past oar]

Same, and that's with just the three guns (skif pistol plus two primaries)

[buoyant goblet]

Yeh, this is what I am saying. Get more carry weight as you will be hobbling around the baron zone before you know it.

[digital gulch]

my inventory atm omw down in gordon for the 1st time

[buoyant goblet]

The truly heavy quest items hit in Zaton through swamps btw.

[pearl lichen]

jesus christ

[onyx zinc]

20KG quest items is not something new, stupid sidorovich box quest in anomaly is like 10KG or something like that if I am not wrong

[pearl lichen]

and I was feeling bad when I reached yellow inv

[honest glade]

it crashed again

[finite pelican]

cant you get rid of the quest items?

[buoyant goblet]

Nope

[finite pelican]

by completing them

[digital gulch]

gotta seel the stuff and make money

[past oar]

Well there's your problem lol

[buoyant goblet]

I have some that I don't even know what they are for. Just off random bodies.

[past oar]

guns are the best way to make money in this game and it's so goofy

[onyx zinc]

it's was the same with og stalker, just drop all those meds and food. there is so much you can put in your belly and veins 😄

[formal bronze]

Looking for ideas, what should mutants drop besides food and some meds stuff?

[leaden dagger]

Nah suits are the best money makers, they'll go for 4 to 5k each

[pearl lichen]

or more, if you use the trade bug

[past oar]

Trophy items for selling? Boar tusks, cat claws, dog tails etc

[formal bronze]

Maybe pseudogiant and chimeras can drop armor as in "pelts"

[digital gulch]

i know usualy i have 5 of each ... this has been a run from the Wild to Gordon so far

[leaden dagger]

Carrying broken guns that sell for 200 is silly

[onyx zinc]

furs

[formal bronze]

Can't add things to the game yet and those do not seem to be present. There are some yes but are quest items and modifying them doesn't seem possible as of now?

[onyx zinc]

maybe testicles

[digital gulch]

Stalker difficulty mind you

[prime juniper]

a cool mod would be if guns echoed when you shoot them outside. if thats possible

[onyx zinc]

mutant testicles, I have a recipe here at home

[past oar]

Rocky Zone Oysters?

[leaden dagger]

Big calibers already do this

[prime juniper]

oh ok, cool

[ivory geyser]

oh question before I bugger off, I have Grok's poltergeist and bloodsucker HP nerf. Do I need to delete that when getting the modular mutant health mod?

[opaque osprey]

Yep

[digital gulch]

ye

[past oar]

Make sure there's only one mod per creature

[onyx zinc]

boar testicles kebab, quite famous here

[opaque osprey]

They are the same mod, different versions

[kind flint]

Anyone else think it would be interesting to port the enemies from Metro Exodus? Its on UE as well, so can easily extract the assets, and when the editor tools come out can set them up.

[hazy ivy]

Probably; they'll likely be superceded by modular mutant health if that is below them in the load order, but always good practice to keep the mod folder cleaned up

[rare ruin]

what did i just return to

[pearl lichen]

free mod idea, since we can now change UI textures

[ivory geyser]

so I delete the Blood and polt mod right?

[onyx zinc]

welcome back 😄

[rare ruin]

where even would the xbox buttons be

[hushed spruce]

what flickering?

[pearl lichen]

that is left as an exercise to the reader

[hushed spruce]

framegen is on

and i cant tell it flickering at all

[finite pelican]

I b et it depends on area and fps before framegen

can really notice it in zalissya

[rare ruin]

@pearl lichen i just finished my pecan spinwheel, I'm gonna go looking for it

[opaque osprey]

Ye

[terse quartz]

Anyone figured out if its possible to make a mod that zooms out the PDA? I would like to hold it infront of my character and not taste it every time i want to check the map 🙂

[past oar]

Hmm. Carry weight mod didn't work. Tried taking myarmor off and on again too

[terse quartz]

now i feel bad 😦

[opaque osprey]

That would be darn neat

[naive trout]

@rain finch A wild Grok appears! Thanks for taking part in the disco on my mod page your thoughts are valued a lot more than mine there and I agree that balance as a whole is kind of shite

[rare ruin]

LoversLab Stalker 2 when

lmao

[naive trout]

Never, you freak. I don't care how you feel about Fleshes

[hushed spruce]

NOOO

STIO

I WANNA GET THAT IMAGE OUT OF MY HEAD

FUCK YOU

[rare ruin]

Snorks

[naive trout]

Loners really be out there like "but have you ever seen a Flesh from behind? they're kinda thicc tho"

[past oar]

I thought that was freedom filth

[rare ruin]

it's actually the Ward

[pearl lichen]

if Arma 3 could get a "fun" mod, so can stalker

[cobalt gyro]

"fun based penetration"

[finite pelican]

oh speaking of penetration, can you shoot through walls in this game?

[queen delta]

Apparently AI can shoot through metal sheets (like thin ones)

BUt not really concrete walls

[naive trout]

Absolutely yes certain walls. I've been hit taking cover behind those warehouse doors

[cobalt gyro]

Ive seen them shoot through concrete walls but probably a bug

[pearl lichen]

I've shot with shotgun through fences for instance

[rare ruin]

it got a what now

[naive trout]

There's also the like metal grate windows on the factory type buildings that can be shot through

[queen delta]

I don't fight that much, I also was got hit multiple times through solid wall I think

[rare ruin]

time for Barotrauma to get one

[queen delta]

Speaking of fences, I was unable to shot a thing (dont remember what) through some fence that was laying horizontally, I was above, something was below and game didn't give a fuck about that

[naive trout]

Speaking of penetration and balance though, man I hate that I work retail and Stalker came out on the holidays because balance may be shite but all the parameters to make it good are easily accessible

I just don't have time T.T

we have item spawn configs, armor, weapons, base entity stats all plain English visible

I'm honestly very pleased at the base we have to work off of

[past oar]

Is there a pile of stuff on the other side of that fence behind the patio roof?

[little iron]

Bloodsuckers got that grip doe...

[past oar]

we're going to need a stalker 2 stash channel lol

[atomic surge]

parkour

[dapper barn]

theres a truck close to the roof but cannot get up there

Oops wrong chat

[pearl lichen]

psst #╓☢stalker2™-chat-not-gamma-keep-waiting plx

[buoyant goblet]

jump on the fenxe then building then truck then building

[wicked wind]

Hi there! Do you think it will be possible to mod in-game UI in a future?
God, I hate PDA UI and hope to redraw it to be normal and useful

[hushed spruce]

great mod..

[naive trout]

Absolutely

[hushed spruce]

in the future, yeah

maybe

depends on the modding sdk theyre gonna give us

[naive trout]

A 3D PDA like modded OG has is another matter but just redesigning the one we have shouldn't be too problematic

[hushed spruce]

YES... i need that

[naive trout]

I don't think they're going to give us much of an SDK at most it'll be some plugins for third party software they used and documentation

we already have everything we need to mod much of the game now

[hushed spruce]

middle finger to the devs

if they do that

[naive trout]

nah it's a UE5 game there's not much they need to give us

it's a publicly available free devkit

[hushed spruce]

not really as alot of the assets are encrypted or made in a way that we cant replicate

ie. Data Tables

[pearl lichen]

IMO, it will be like the squad SDK

[naive trout]

what data tables are encrypted that we can't decrypt?

[leaden dagger]

We might be cooking

[wicked wind]

I have a bit of knowledge in Game UI/UX and experience with Unreal, but I've never worked on mods for Unreal before. I'm more of an artist rather than technical guy

[crimson laurel]

exactly

[hushed spruce]

squad sdk has the entire game.. right there with all its assets

...like, ALL of them..

[pearl lichen]

right now you can edit textures

idk if anything more complex is possible

[hushed spruce]

my penis has suddenly increased in size

HOLY FUCK!!!

this is awesome i hope you can bake that shit up!

[crimson laurel]

Fleshlight?

[hushed spruce]

flashlight

hes working on a mod that makes the flashlight ACTUALLY usable

[crimson laurel]

Fleshlight made u increase ur penis in size

[hushed spruce]

🔦 🔦 🔦 🔦 🔦 🔦 🔦 🔦 🔦 🔦 🔦 🔦 🔦 🔦 🔦 🔦 🔦 🔦 🔦 🔦 🔦 🔦

[crimson laurel]

https://tenor.com/view/fish-gif-25395060

[hushed spruce]

this is sex

[formal bronze]

Uninstalling Xbox Game Pass version, installing Steam one. For future reference to others with the same problem, Xbox Game Pass is a Microsoft Store application that has very restrictive permissions, to such a level that would require kernel hacking in order to modify, unpack, and such.
Search terms for future reference: Access Denied, FileOpen failed
Just use the Steam version.

[hushed spruce]

wrong!

wrong!

xbox gamepass is NOT a application

[queen delta]

thats why I have S2 on gog

[hushed spruce]

Xbox is the application, gamepass is a paid membership that grants access to games, stalker included

modding on stalker 2 IS possible, and easily so

ive had 0 issues with extracting, unpacking, etc

[wicked wind]

Yep, but I have problems with core UX of this UI.
Currently, PDA doesn't feels like an actual PDA, but typical AAA game menu
Will be writing ideas on how to improve it a lot

[merry mountain]

yeah just because you are not able to fix directory permissions lol

[north wasp]

You just sure you just don't have ownership ? games downloaded from the xbox app are usually locked off due to permission and ownership

[formal bronze]

Don't jump to conclusions so easily:

[remote tendon]

Hopefully Grok will fix stalker 2 as hes started already 🙂

We need some sort of mod to fix quest bugs or more knowledge or user friendly on how to use the UE console ingame to fix/skip broken quests.

[formal bronze]

Feel free to fix it though, it's been reported as a limiting problem for modding in every major moddable game in Xbox Game Pass

[strong zinc]

is there any sort of category of mod that shouldn't be installed mid-save

[hushed spruce]

that is fucking insane

[pearl lichen]

agreed, its just a regular menu with pretty pics to look at rn, not really immersive

[merry mountain]

Boot linux, copy files, boot windows again

[vital orbit]

new mod ?? pog

[formal bronze]

I seriously considered moving to Linux out of principle

[remote tendon]

Anyone know how i can skip a specific quest using the console commands?

Im trying to get through "In search of past glory" would be much appreciated.

[formal bronze]

Yeah, highly restricted, not even SYSTEM which has even more permissions than Administrator can access it, there is malware that can evade it though but it requires Kernel meddling. Do not fancy that one when I can just download the Steam version

[hushed spruce]

after doing this, i will report

had to remove users and remake it

[wicked wind]

Yep, I try to design proper UI and find UI programmer to implement it one day. Hope, I will be able to find one

[hushed spruce]

holy shit fuck xbox

im so sorry andronidas

you are so right

[formal bronze]

Launching a missile to Microsoft headquarters rn

[frail plover]

3DPda is gonna be a fun undertaking. Gonna need to build a blueprint object for it with view model anims and such and draw the UI onto it. Cause right now it looks like they just play an animation and then transition to a UI widget

[north wasp]

Maybe this could help ? idk https://www.tenforums.com/tutorials/3841-add-take-ownership-context-menu-windows-10-a.html

[hushed spruce]

wont allow on game pass games

look above lol

[merry mountain]

the game even seems to run fine on linux, has platinum status in protondb https://www.protondb.com/app/1643320

[queen delta]

Aren't PDA textures from game reusable?

[north wasp]

it's always been garbage, it's why i now get everything on steam if possible

[desert hollow]

Is this about installing mods on gamepass or something else?

[formal bronze]

ty for info but sadly the only current way to have full control on Xbox games (and microsoft store apps in general) is through Kernel driver execution... And that still requires a lot tinkering and evading Microsoft kernel filters... Or one could just use Steam... lol

[north wasp]

Yeah this app is even more garbage than i thought it was

Well goodluck 🤷

[desert hollow]

Watcha guys trynna do?

[wicked wind]

So, you have ideas how to do this code wise?

[north wasp]

Or just buy games on steam instead

[hushed spruce]

no, to make mods. you can download mods on Gamepass

[desert hollow]

Yeah I'm aware, just wanted clarification

That sucks, was planning on learning how to mod the game aswell

[buoyant goblet]

I reputation system eh.... Yet to really experience this.

[north wasp]

Yeah same lmao, is there even any mention of stuff like this in the files?

[flint flicker]

https://www.nexusmods.com/stalker2heartofchornobyl/mods/44

I've updated this to include carry weight tweaks with correct HUD and some stam tweaks.

[buoyant goblet]

Well that is straight from the game. As I was just reminded by a prompt. But I have not found a way to actually experience this.

[tacit tundra]

does anybody know how i open the console (photomod installed) without a numpad ?

[rare ruin]

halo sanghelli

[north wasp]

Yeah apart from this tutorial text i mean

[thorny yacht]

somebody has to say it. We need dark, like real dark night. Right now i dont feel threatened at night on vet diff. Can this be changed in files or requires something advanced?

[atomic jacinth]

I think peoples main problem is that the flashlight is kinda garbo and game is already really dark at night

[leaden dagger]

Gotta wait for those sdk

[thorny yacht]

Hmmm, i was playing with gamma,brightness etc and nights are not dark at all

[north wasp]

It's also that it seems like the moon is ALWAYS on during night and doesn't have any cycle

[frail plover]

Yes

[thorny yacht]

Ahhh, damn thanks

[north wasp]

so we never get truly dark nights

[frail plover]

But I don’t think we can make new blueprints yet

[vital orbit]

yes but with a better flashlight

[vast sentinel]

Need a mod that renames coupons to roubles

[atomic jacinth]

little harder when all the voiceovers call them coupons.

[frail plover]

The textures aren’t the issue it’s the fact that the PDA is not an object that it exists in the world. It is essentially a menu like the settings menu is

[fresh yew]

Is their a way to look at the pak files to make sure mods are not altering the same settings?

[desert nexus]

Would prefer they be hryvnia with how the game is fully Ukrainian now

[frail plover]

FModel

[vast sentinel]

i get it, but even UI only would be good

[merry mountain]

we need new voiceovers anyway, ill go crazy if i hear another british speaking stalker

[atomic jacinth]

is something bad about there being a zone only currency? 😄

[fresh yew]

@frail plover Thank you

[queen delta]

That what I understood, so only the body is to be constructed and then all heavy work around object stuff?

[desert nexus]

Native + subs seems the best way to play

[merry mountain]

yeah

[frail plover]

We would have to make a whole new game object for the 3DPda, animations for the character hands using it, functionality to walk with it open, and render the UI textures to it

[north wasp]

Ukrainian dub is just fine

[frail plover]

Which is probably impossible with the tools we have now

[queen delta]

Maybe current animations for PDA are reusable?

Just maybe

[desert nexus]

Pretty much. Would need to see how in-depth the SDK allows when it releases

[frail plover]

It’s not about the animations themselves

[honest glade]

there's a file to change some values on rep

[frail plover]

We physically cannot create new stuff yet because we don’t have the SDK

[north wasp]

I mean we don't even have a statistics tab or any rep information at all from the PDA so we got a long way to go lmao

[frail plover]

Yeah. Hoping we can make new blueprints at the minimum cause if not we’re not going to be able to do much

[buoyant goblet]

Anything referencing the PDA and rep. That was quite integral to the user feedback of the older system.

[queen delta]

I understand but if there is a file that correspond to how hands move while action is played (that is PDA opening) maybe it can be extracted and then somewhat adjusted for the object. It would be a lot less work then. But yeah no SDK is not helping rn

[desert nexus]

Hopefully, if @leaden dagger gets cooking working

[formal bronze]

Issues and memory allocation failures, which previously caused the game to exit unexpectedly, particularly around rendering, skeletal meshes, and quest-related cutscenes.

Main Quest Progression Fixes, including:

Several bugs blocking the main quest progression, NPCs getting stuck in objects, incorrect quest markers, and issues with quest cutscenes.
Revision of the main quests (like Visions of Truth or A Minor Incident) to ensure smooth transitions, avoiding rare cases of players not being able to proceed further.

Gameplay & Balance Adjustments, including:

Fixing the price of the weapons with upgrades installed compared to their value without attachments.
NPCs behavior, including the way they act when lacking a shelter during the Emissions.

Cutscenes & Visual Fixes, including:

Rarely missing facial animations, misplaced NPCs, and visual inconsistencies like detached heads and clothes clipping.
Quality and stability improvements of the visual effects.

Softlock Fixes, including:

Issue where players were unable to close the trade screen after putting ammo in a wrong slot while playing on a gamepad.
User Interface Improvements, including:
Quest notifications now showed correctly during dialogues.
Corrected texts and missing interaction prompts.

Noted to be addressed in future updates:

Analogue sticks dead zones bugfixes.
A-Life system bugfixes.```

GSC Announcement just now

[north wasp]

LETSGO

[queen delta]

is that a patch?

[tacit tundra]

patch ?

[formal bronze]

Yes Heart of Chornobyl is getting a new patch during the week to come

[queen delta]

not bad

[tacit tundra]

oh, i thought now

[warm jackal]

patching on a weekend, dedication

[queen delta]

https://tenor.com/view/pusheen-pusheen-cat-pusheen's-best-friend-pusheen-loading-computer-gif-7565637198389470946

[ebon obsidian]

Patch notes are out

Oh nvm haha

[north wasp]

"What does a-life system bugfixes" mean though, hope they'll go in more detail

[fresh yew]

They're saying A-LIfe system bugfixes, seems it's been proven it's not even there though...?

[tacit tundra]

oh, "a-life system bugfixes coming in future updates". so not next week

[frail plover]

Nothing has been proven yet. We can’t see the source code for anything

[desert hollow]

Nobody can really say for sure without looking at a source code imo but i choose to trust the devs

[tacit tundra]

some ppl tried to change values to increase the size around the player where stuff can spawn. didnt rly work so its deeply rooted in something else & not just a fix edit of values.

[fresh yew]

When they reworded the Ai for gameplay features, I wish they would just be honest and say its not implemented yet because its not ready, It's so weird playing a Stalker game with no PDA messages popping up and random gun fights in the distance, it's truly a lonely feeling game.

[atomic jacinth]

Oh got, had so many groups spawn almost right on top of me as I've been leaving a PoI it's hilarious. just expect fights after clearing an area now.

[frail plover]

That being said there’s only a handful of files mentioning ALife in the dumps. But we can’t see any of the code actually in those files right now.

[queen delta]

I bet @honest glade and @willow hornet will make A-life working faster

[atomic jacinth]

I've had random gunfights start up multiple times in Lesser zone.

[sudden summit]

new patch and no info mentioend about optimizations if im nto wrong xD

[fresh yew]

@atomic jacinth I've had groups spawn next to me and fight, but nothing I have stumbled on yet.

[frail plover]

Have you played the original games? All three of them are like this. PDA messages are from Anomaly, and only Call of Pripyat really had decent A-Life. Shadow of Chernobyl is mostly scripted events.

[tacit tundra]

since i left the lesser zone it seems to work better than before for sure. honestly im glad when its not working atm & i only run into scripted stuff.

[queen delta]

You know, "modders will mod it out"

[frail plover]

But would be cool to have that stuff in Stalker 2 eventually

[digital gulch]

ohh patch notes ahead of the patch

[fresh yew]

@frail plover I haven't played the orginals since they came out really, I play radiophobia 3 and anomaly recently, I thought I rembered their being PDA messages from the orignal games, but I guess I remembered wrong.

[tacit tundra]

imo you cant implement the old system into an open world stalker 2. it will always be a radius around the player that spawns stuff. but we will see ...

[frail plover]

The old system can be done in Unreal. A-Life on paper really isn’t that complex

The hardest part would be the nav mesh for the NPCs in such a large map

[tacit tundra]

without tanking the framerate ? ok

[frail plover]

Yeah it can be done

[honest glade]

don't get your hopes up, we are limited

[willow hornet]

Indeed we are (limited)

[fresh yew]

Is their Ambient fire fighting in the background? Was that in the originals or modded in later?

[honest glade]

plus im just changing a cfg file

[frail plover]

When A-Life actors are offline/outside player radius nothing is being rendered for them, it’s just tracking their position and goals etc

[honest glade]

pretty much yeah

[queen delta]

I know, I am just impressed you guys did something

[frail plover]

So performance impact would come down to how many A-Life entities there are in the world at a given time and it would be CPU based

[drifting tapir]

i mean, the naming conventions for the cvars imply it is a whole different system (that is currently broken)

Like the game isnt simulating and keeping track of individual npcs. The new alife system appears to be a complex ai director that dynamically spawns npcs and then schedules their behaviour and cross-npc interactions. probably no offline simulation

[tacit tundra]

in terms of performance i can only see them get the random dips iron out. i suspect it has something to do with npc's & maybe ai but i wont expect large boost in the future.

[frail plover]

Interesting. I haven’t looked at the cvars yet

[queen delta]

I remember that in GAMMA, warframe mode for example there were instances of offline simulated fights between squads

[summer silo]

Posting this here as a disclaimer from Toggle UI/Compass Mod that uses UE4SS

[honest glade]

try this mod see if it changes anything
https://www.nexusmods.com/stalker2heartofchornobyl/mods/62

[summer silo]

UE4SS can cause crashes.

[digital gulch]

there is a online/ofline component from what i have seen /heard

[desert abyss]

im pretty sure the offline component doesnt work at all

[twilit scroll]

@honest glade got a mod suggestion, reducing aimpunch from getting shot

50% less should be ok

[digital gulch]

its way better than not having it . that one + your stealth one made my last 4 hrs of gameplay very mutch enjoyalble

[summer silo]

For reference UE4SS conflicted with Real Weapon Names and Readable Ammo.
Real Weapon Names crashed when I approached Zalissya
Readable Ammo crashed on startup
It also crashed with Shader Cache skip for me

[honest glade]

some ppl say it works some don't, so im still thinking that some squads are kinda fucked and other npc squads are not, which means pretty situational

[drifting tapir]

it actually looks like a very complex and interesting system under the hood. a lot of variables and intended interactions under the hood i think? but it all broken.

[north wasp]

It doesn't, the zone is literally empty, no one at POI, no one at firecamps, except for pre determined locations and or scripted events, it's literally empty

[willow hornet]

Yeah, i'm waiting for the Alife fix to come in before I dive deeper into it. Some stuff might even require SDK

[honest glade]

not sure where to find it, but imma take a look, imma just take a quick rest

[drifting tapir]

obviously it isnt literallly alife in the sense of the old stalker system but clearly there is supposed to be a complex ai director working in the game.

[honest glade]

is this file original or modified?

[fresh yew]

Which UE version is Stalker2?

[honest glade]

5.1 I think

[fresh yew]

Thank you

[twilit scroll]

how hard is it for a game to transition from 5.1 to 5.5

[desert abyss]

in the editor its just one thing. but it can break shit

[drifting tapir]

should be the original ALifePopulationManagerFactionPrototypes.cfg

[finite pelican]

I sneaked into the sphere through main gate at nighttime, there was a lookout on the tower, without your mod I would be getting shot right away for sure

So I think it does work

[tacit tundra]

atm i like it that way

[honest glade]

unreal 5.5 is so new too

[tacit tundra]

better than spawning stuff 10m in your face

[honest glade]

not sure if they would update it that quickly

[tacit tundra]

nah, they should fix the game & when its in a good state they can think to try upgrading it.

[kind flint]

This just made huge groups of NPCs spawn around me cosntantly and fought each other. was really weird and game breaking, I could just look all the corpses after.

[desert hollow]

Their stealth mod defo works, maybe a bit too well at time since i can sneak up infront of someone during the daylight, Super A life on the other hand tho

[twilit scroll]

Cyborgmatt gave an update on the stalker discord

[fresh yew]

5.5 is suppose to help lighting performance right(Lumen)?

[twilit scroll]

lots of performance stuff

but alife is next week

or maybe the patch he mentioned is next week

[honest glade]

I maybe need to tweak it a bit

[desert hollow]

A life is soon, not next week

[twilit scroll]

oh ok

[honest glade]

it has MegaLights

[twilit scroll]

then the performance hotfix is next week

[finite pelican]

Soon how, any timeline on this stuff?

[desert hollow]

Yeah great mod otherwise though, makes stealth a very viable option as opposed to vanilla

[fresh yew]

Ah right, mega lights. Seems like a nice addition.

[robust kayak]

nope

[finite pelican]

Though as a dev I shouldn't be asking that myself lol

[tacit tundra]

there is nothing regarding performance. just crash fixes

[honest glade]

it is

[finite pelican]

Figured as much

[honest glade]

really good

[twilit scroll]

megalights basically means you can add light sources without worrying about resources

[kind flint]

5.5 has a ton of great improvements, sadly Stalker2 is on 5.1

[desert abyss]

i doubt they would upgrade anytime soon

[twilit scroll]

oh 5.5 also makes 1 npc not 1 gig, but 60 mb

which is insane

metahuman*

[teal wing]

Lumen is what is in now. 5.5 is mega lights

[desert abyss]

imma kms if they dont fix a life before christmas. they are gonna fuck off for a few weeks

[kind flint]

yep, and Nanite skeletal meshes, I use UE5 professionally, daily.

[tacit tundra]

damn this sounds amazing, dont get me hyped up it about it nothing coming anytime soon

[honest glade]

Im accepting a small donation of one goth mommy if someone wants to help me!!

[twilit scroll]

5.5 is the great optimization patch

[fresh yew]

Looks like GSC has a LOT on their plates.

[kind flint]

not really accurate, Megalights uses lumen.

[fresh yew]

Priority must be a nightmare for GSC right now... lol

[tacit tundra]

is ukranian christmas the same as the russian one ? so in january ?

[teal wing]

?
The current game version doesn’t have mega lights. 5.5 adds the additional feature mega lights shown in all the demos that is their new tech?

5.1 doesn’t have mega lights

[kind flint]

Megalights is just a new light emitter. it still requires lumen.

[finite pelican]

We in the eastern bloc don't celebrate xmas as much, though I'm from Lithuania

[teal wing]

I didn’t say it didn’t ?

[finite pelican]

New years is the big one

[kind flint]

its also in experimental stage.

[teal wing]

what?

[kind flint]

megalights, its an experimental plugin in 5.5

its a light emitter, like point, rect, or spot. it still uses lumen

[honest glade]

MegaLights just pretty much removes the restriction of Lumen source lights in a scene, so you can pretty much have nearly infinite light sources without fucking performance too much

if im not wrong

[frail raven]

Anyone have an idea of why random guns are spawning in my inventory? is it a bug with a mod or the game in general?

[kind flint]

close, but as with nanite, "unlimited" is not really unlimited.

[twilit scroll]

it happened to me once

[honest glade]

its a vanilla anomaly (bug)

[frail raven]

gotcha thanks

[honest glade]

never said unlimited

if your pc can handle it

[kind flint]

nearly infinite, unlimited whatever.

[honest glade]

explode your pc

[kind flint]

I dont have many vids captured but I have loads of stuff ive tinkered with in UE5 outside of normal work hours. this is some weapon and physics interactions I did last year.

[north wasp]

Nanite has a lot of issues if not used properly and it also performs way worse compared to traditional LOD techniques if not used as intended

[kind flint]

and inventory work.

[kind flint]

yeah you dont want overlaping geo, and you want manifold objects.

[leaden dagger]

No. Mega light enables shadows on most spotlights/point lights via shader accumulation. It doesn't do much for Lumen

[frozen orchid]

any mods that change the ammo graphics in the bottom right?

its hard to tell which type is selected

[kind flint]

one just came out about 30 minutes ago on nexus.

[frozen orchid]

can u link it pls

[kind flint]

I mean I can go there and get it for yout he same as you can...

https://www.nexusmods.com/stalker2heartofchornobyl/mods/147

pretty lazy..

[frozen orchid]

the nexus site confuses me

[kind flint]

😐

[frozen orchid]

i searched for stalker 2 and it didnt find it

[kind flint]

Thisi s all you need, sorted by release date
https://www.nexusmods.com/stalker2heartofchornobyl/mods/

[north wasp]

https://www.nexusmods.com/stalker2heartofchornobyl

117 mods already

[kind flint]

Some are pretty low effort, and a few reshade trash.

[obtuse ice]

Wonder if someone will add companions, additional dialogue options, mutant parts, and 3rd person camera

[frozen orchid]

gonna need a mod manager at this rate

[next aspen]

Would a mod where we can customise the audio of headshots be possible? I'd love to try using the rising storm 2 headshot sound.

[frozen orchid]

imagine if modder dev outpace gsc dev

[drifting tapir]

Can we add new items to the game righr now without overwriting a vanilla cfg?

No right?

[kind flint]

Vortex works great.

[north wasp]

True, and config changes, still, it's active it's what matters to me

[obtuse ice]

For real stalker 2 is great but the missing features really make me love the heck out of gamma even more

[frozen orchid]

so whats the difference between the top performance mods, do they do the same thing or are they different?

[kind flint]

I plan to add this, with high repair cost when its damaged.

[kind flint]

The right one is all you need, and its just an Engine.ini

[frozen orchid]

thats what i have lol

[next aspen]

Mod organiser 2 support possible?

[kind flint]

No clue, I use Vortex.

[next aspen]

OK, I'll have to look into it.

[opaque kiln]

Is it supposed to have a bunch of paths listed at the top of the cfg? I only ask because the description on Nexus doesn't include them

[kind flint]

https://www.nexusmods.com/about/vortex/

[harsh light]

Guys I'm not familiar with Stalker modding, is adding mods require new game or something?

[pearl lichen]

no

[north wasp]

No

[harsh light]

Thank you

[hushed spruce]

TARKOV RIP OFF!!

also why is that EOtech so fuzzy

i know eotechs have a little fuzz, but not THAT much

[kind flint]

Motion blur was still on by default in the editor, it does weird things to emissive transparencies.

I dont have any recent vid from that project, its come a long ways since, but now that 5.5 is out, im probably going to make some major changes. and tarkov was not the first game to have a modular inventory 😛

[warm jackal]

a mod manager that auto merged configs and then turned them into paks to make compatibility more universal would be neat

[hushed spruce]

i think its a mix of motionblur and TAA

hi cyborgmatt where do i know you from

[warm jackal]

shh im hiding

[kind flint]

trying to find some images I took, but I have stuff tarkov doesnt. like modular chest rigs where you choose what kind if pouch goes where.

[hushed spruce]

oh

arma

wcs..

ahem...

[kind flint]

and?

[hushed spruce]

nothing lol

just alot of.. inspiration taken

[kind flint]

thats how the games industry works.

[twilit scroll]

the HoN caster right

[hushed spruce]

no, not exactly

[pearl lichen]

i love nexus, free premium for modders is nice

[hushed spruce]

lmao, the similarities are insane

but im not criticizing, no need to get defensive

you can do whatever you want

[twilit scroll]

wait, so I can upload a picture of my dong and have premium?

[digital gulch]

ye its nice

[kind flint]

well first its placeholder. second that is how the industry works. teams emulate and reuse mechanics and styles all the time. I've been in the industry over ten years now.

[hushed spruce]

if enough people upvote/endorse, and download, yeah!

[hoary temple]

The heck is that fro?!

[pearl lichen]

if enough people download it, yes

[digital gulch]

got mine for Fallout 4 mods

[hushed spruce]

no, the industry does not work by copying mechanics directly from another games!

they adapt them! change them for the better!

[twilit scroll]

nice, time for my sosig mod

[pearl lichen]

then you can also get points from endorsements and downloads (?), can exchange them for game keys or IRL money

[gusty olive]

yo axxi, does the a-life mod actually do something? the comments on nexus kinda dried up

[pearl lichen]

I did some darktide modding in the past and got a few game keys off of that

[kind flint]

@hushed spruce your splitting hairs, you have no clue what the mechancis are like based on the visuals of a temp UI.

[digital gulch]

i can tell you it does

having a nice time actualy with it

[obtuse ice]

Pretty sure some guy made booko donation money from adding dong physics to Skyrim

[twilit scroll]

schlongs of skyrim

[kind flint]

I think if you get 30k total you get free lifetime premium.

[twilit scroll]

I'm quite familiar with loverslab

[gusty olive]

damn, should have uploaded my engine.ini tweaks like everyone else

[pearl lichen]

ayy time to make more mods

[digital gulch]

is it like that? i think mine is permanent

[kind flint]

I bought lifetime years ago, was like $30

[hushed spruce]

doesnt matter, because what will the player see other than a UI which looks exactly like another games?

[pearl lichen]

could be on a higher tier

[gusty olive]

question does anyone here know how to prevent popins or reduce them?

[twilit scroll]

I only buy nexus premium when I need to use jabberwock

[kind flint]

ok bud, im done, come back when you have released a product to market.

[drifting tapir]

nexus donation points pay for quite a couple of coffees btw

[hushed spruce]

now i know its temp, but i really hope youre gonna adjust it to look less like tarkovs

[desert hollow]

Wish i could make mods, Gamepass and its restrictions

[drifting tapir]

(dont spam cfg mods for dp though thats corny)

[hushed spruce]

glad you see youre ignoring feedback! you will do good in the game market as all the other people who dont give a shit to feedback!

[pearl lichen]

funnily enough I got a free month on that same day

[hushed spruce]

what does premium evne do

[drifting tapir]

unlimited bandwith on nexus downloads

[pearl lichen]

ah here you go

[kind flint]

yep, thats it.

[hushed spruce]

valgear is STILL alive guys

[drifting tapir]

do you know if theres a way atm to add new items without having to overwrite an existing cfg?

Like a variant of a drink for example

im looking at how basegame dlc is structured for item variants, but theres no way the game loads a custom cfg right? prolly no conflict-free way to inject new items in?

[kind flint]

I have so much I could add to Stalker2 once the tools are out, and providing I have time. multiple TB worth of stuff.

[queen delta]

A working guns? Like normal mp5 mp7 maybe?

[desert hollow]

I wonder when SDK will get released

[drifting tapir]

idk what im going to do in stalker2 modding scene cus i cant model and i dont know shit about guns.

[drifting tapir]

((probably fixing janky soups))

[hushed spruce]

im gonna SO make a mod that overhauls all particle effects

[kind flint]

I have assets for tons of weapons.

Stuff I either made, or paid for. hard to make everything myself as a solo indie dev.

also, fun times when UE Animations Blueprints break.

[hushed spruce]

looks normal to me :D

[kind flint]

This is what it eventually turned into. 8way movement blend.

[teal wing]

Why? It has a lot of undesirable changes

[kind flint]

like what?

[finite pelican]

Very impressive animation blending

[kind flint]

and since its an ini you can change whatever you like about it.

[kind flint]

Thanks, the weight painting on that model wasnt great, I HATE weight painting.

[finite pelican]

I know nothing about gamedev so I'm just appreciating what I see 😅

I just do easy c# business dev

[kind flint]

ive used C# in the past. now its all C++ with UE5.

[hushed spruce]

this is so SEXY

[finite pelican]

C++ is what they taught us in high school

[drifting tapir]

i modded bethesda game which is like easy mode for modding as a non-programmer lol

[hushed spruce]

dude

[finite pelican]

Still use it to upkeep old apps at our work

[hushed spruce]

am i weird

am i weird for liking how muzzle devices change a muzzleflash

like DAMN

DYAMNN

[kind flint]

C++ in UE isnt bad, you work almost entirely within their API and they have tons of macros, and wrappers to do things efficently,. like you dont need to worry much about reference or variable garbage collection, you just using the approtpriat wrapper. UFUNCTION() UPROPERTY() etc before any declaration.

[finite pelican]

Right so lubed up c++

[kind flint]

I use EmberGen, then convert to UE Niagara.

[hushed spruce]

FUCKING INSANE

[hushed spruce]

oo can i

[finite pelican]

I've totally forgotten all about how pointers

[hushed spruce]

im super like

into embergen

can you show me your workflow

[kind flint]

I dont have anything on hand I can share right now.

[hushed spruce]

like

[finite pelican]

Work

[hushed spruce]

holy fuck

[hushed spruce]

granted this is because the muzzledevice became loose and got "baffle" struck

[finite pelican]

Making tree structures in c++ with pointers for uni

Man

[queen delta]

Wow this game works as intended. I just picked up a wpn from journalist stash and randomly two Tavor guns (fora 221). Why game why

[drifting tapir]

wait can we try to add cigarettes right now with the consumableprototypes.cfg 🤔

[kind flint]

UE structs are pretty easy. this is from my current project.

[drifting tapir]

WHAT IF theres an unused cigarette animation "PhysicsInteractionPrototypeSID" just lying around unused. Surely right

[hushed spruce]

LT, do you know why flashhiders have a flame thats further out of the muzzle? its really kinda confusing me but it looks so cool

this flame infront of the hider happens across most if not all flashhiders so its not this particular hider

im just confused as to why its so far disconnected

[kind flint]

pretty sure its just pressure from the barrel pushing the heat outward, and when it exposes to o2 it ignites.

[hushed spruce]

i thought so

its just so interesting

why do i have to have THIS type of autism

why not. car autism

[drifting tapir]

what thats not the animation, thats the physics template i think

[hushed spruce]

this HAS to be bafflestriking right

these flame patterns are so fucking cool

i wish stalker 2 had better looking gun effects 😭

I NEED THIS

[kind flint]

pretty sure GSC is like 20 people, have to prioritize what to work on, and dev work can go on forever if its allowed to.

[hushed spruce]

PLEASE

[hushed spruce]

I REQUIRE THAT.

[fervent moth]

is there any easy way to merge multiple mods editing the same file in different ways or am I just gonna have to do this by hand

[kind flint]

Easy? not really, have to extract the .pak, merge the .cfg files, then re-pak it.

it will be easier once the mod tools are released.

[fervent moth]

you can merge them?

[west cliff]

@worn temple reporting my test results. Changed line 1680 and similar ones below for other structures in your alife detector scenario prototypes file to SpawnDistanceMax.

Spawns started to work. I know that other people reported that your preset worked without this change, but it seems to be a way to do things, cause in original files there's also SpawnDistanceMax.

No pressure anyways, just some info to help you

[fervent moth]

i know next to nothing about modding btw lol

[kind flint]

If you go through each line and merge the diffrerences yeah. something liek notepad++ has a merge diff view to assist with it, but its not always accurate.

[fervent moth]

okay cool

[teal wing]

Would anyone be able to make a mod or engine tweak of sort to increase the graphics quality? Game runs flawlessly

[kind flint]

I wonder if GSC is using a modified/updated version of the UE4 UGC plugin, if so, its pretty damn powerful and will allow us to do loads of stuff. I think they might be considering how it loads .pak files. https://dev.epicgames.com/community/learning/livestreams/Ybx/adding-mod-support-with-the-simple-ugc-plugin-inside-unreal

the official UGC Plugin didnt get updated for UE5, but some people in the community were updating it, not sure how far they got.

https://forums.unrealengine.com/t/in-unreal-5-whats-the-definitive-way-of-supporting-user-generated-content/1529487

This is the UE5 community fork of the UGC plugin.
https://github.com/TheHellcat/UE5-SimpleUGC

If GSC is using that, it may allow us to start on things earlier.

[slate chasm]

How well does optimized tweaks s.2 work?

[cosmic pond]

anyone recommend an optimizer mod? im using this one rn https://www.nexusmods.com/stalker2heartofchornobyl/mods/2 but im still getting stutters and huge frame drops

[hoary temple]

Hey guys, i tried this mod => https://www.nexusmods.com/stalker2heartofchornobyl/mods/47

With the x4 multiplier but it seems it doesn't make the day last longer :/ Did anyone use it and could confirme if it works please?

[zinc fern]

Does anyone think it would be possible to make a mod where you hold the PDA in your offhand (like detector)? i really would love to play without the compass, but having to open PDA every 2 seconds to find a stash im near is a nuisance

[kind flint]

probably conflicting with another mod that edits CoreVariables.cfg

[hoary temple]

Meh...

[kind flint]

it will be once we have the editor tools.

[zinc fern]

ahh right, i wasnt aware those were not available yet, cheers

[hoary temple]

Don't know which one it could be...

[fervent moth]

unfortunately not accurate at all... throwing a "they are the same file" type error when they actually cant be 😭 its prob cuz they dont change very much in the file to begin with idk

[kind flint]

sprint cost.

[hoary temple]

Damn.. Well, going to remove it then

[kind flint]

Use this, it has a merged version download. https://www.nexusmods.com/stalker2heartofchornobyl/mods/75
MergePhysicsDays4hspeeddialog90FOV

that Alife mod is still spawning huge groups of NPC fighting each other right behind me.

[cosmic pond]

pls someone help the game is unplayable rn

[kind flint]

turn your settings down, UE5 is a pretty demanding engine.

[cosmic pond]

they are

[kind flint]

and this is a channel for mod making, not really mod reccomendations.

[cosmic pond]

its a discussion for mods on s2 you dont need to be a prick abt it

[kind flint]

you can always test that mod to see if it helps you, or others. I found the one that tweaks stuff with Engine.ini to help smooth things out for people.

[hoary temple]

So i should remove sprint cost and better physic to make this one work, yes?

[cosmic pond]

you coulda just said that thank you

[kind flint]

I wasnt, and apparently you cant read.

[cosmic pond]

stfu

[kind flint]

yep

[hoary temple]

Aight, i'll test it out, thanks bud 🙂

[kind flint]

its ok baby, dont be upset. the bad words cant hurt you.

[drifting tapir]

anyoen know which pak has localization info?

[kind flint]

none

[rancid nova]

Has anyone made a mod that increases jump height? Cant jump up things that are clearly intended to be jumped on

[kind flint]

sprint jump.

[rancid nova]

Doesnt work

[kind flint]

sorry, guess I havent had any issues with it.

[hazy ivy]

idk, if you can't jump on it it probably wasn't intended to be jumped on

got an example?

[hazy ivy]

oh yea i couldn't get that one either

[rancid nova]

Cant make the second jump

[north wasp]

Just spam it, it's janky

[rancid nova]

Ive tried for so long

Jumping, sprint jumping, crouch jumping

[pearl lichen]

no clue but you could look at the real weapon names mod

[hazy ivy]

it's likely just gonna be 4 health packs and some bread so I wouldn't lose your mind over it

[rancid nova]

Its about the principle

[kind flint]

Ther eis another way in

[hazy ivy]

hahaha no i get it

[rancid nova]

Its MY bread

[kind flint]

@rancid nova I think you can get over on the right. that is the way out, not in.

[kind flint]

https://www.nexusmods.com/stalker2heartofchornobyl/mods/110 This file is a localization change.

[hazy ivy]

generally speaking I've found if I can't get at something despite trying for a minute, there's a different way you should be trying

[rancid nova]

Wtf youre right

why

[smoky flax]

the high vault that was added into gamma would be nifty in this gmae

[rancid nova]

that jump is way higher why can I do that one ;_;

[kind flint]

There is already a clambering system in S2, I bet someone will modify it to allow for higher climbs once the tools are available. only thing we can tweak right now are cfg variables.

[rancid nova]

And FYI it was a bread AND a sausage

worth 10 minutes of my life

[drifting tapir]

👍 thanks. it is ucas so it must be cooked?

[kind flint]

most likely yes, everything going into and out of UE has to be packaged.

Only exception is raw asset export from the editor like FBX, or PNG.

of course developers can make tools to do different things, but thats custom work and most dont bother.

[drifting tapir]

uh can i even make the game load a new item name string altogether

[eternal sapphire]

I haven't looked to much but I don't think so without using UE itself, which people already are using for other stuff so probably.

[kind flint]

Not sure, thats interfacing with UMG, I doubt you will be able to add a item at all till the tools are out.

the localization is just a data layer that UMG reads from with reference to each actor. you cant create new actors from it.

[fervent moth]

checked it by hand and for some reason all my corevariable cfg file mods are identical??? makes no sense...

they're supposed to do different shit

[bronze monolith]

Are you looking in FModel? I am just noticing the same thing but it is an issue with fmodel afaict

[drifting tapir]

maybe with funny abuse of unused item strings it is possible. (terrible idea)

[fervent moth]

i was checking the extracted files in notepad++

it was a pain in the ass to do it in fmodel for me idk

[desert hollow]

Would modding in NVGs be possible with the current state of modding or is it a long shot

[bronze monolith]

FModel seems to always show me the original file

on the right is the .pak extracted with unrealpak

[fervent moth]

ah i see.... weird...

ill do that then

[low merlin]

Is the proper way to update a mod to overwrite old file with new file or delete old and add the new one?

[fervent moth]

and see wahts up

[kind flint]

even if htere are unused item strings in the localization file there is no way to create a new actor currently.

[kind flint]

if the file names are the same overwrite should be fine.

[bronze monolith]

I would love to know if other people can see modded files properly if they open the .pak in fmodel

it's a bit of a pain to not be able to inspect the files without manually extracting

[kind flint]

do you have the AES key, and the usmap?

[bronze monolith]

yes

[kind flint]

shoudl be fine then.

[fervent moth]

I found my AES key but im unsure about my usmap file

sooooo

[merry mountain]

there is no difference in that

[kind flint]

but I dont mess with that stuff. I'll wait for the editor tools as thats where my experience is at.

[slate chasm]

How well does optimized tweaks s.2 work?

[kind flint]

try it and find out.

[bronze monolith]

I haven't looked at them in detail but some of those ini tweaks are so full of shit

you read through them and they just switch stuff for no reason or set stuff that obviously won't do anything at runtime

[kind flint]

its just a dump of the whole engine.ini and they change stuff. some of its stock.

[bronze monolith]

well the one I saw definitely wasn't based on DefaultEngine.ini at least

doing stuff like disabling r.Tonemapping.GrainQuanitization and you go "ok, why?" and the answer is because they read on PC Gaming Wiki that it disables film grain (it doesn't)

[kind flint]

yeah that is silly.

[dusky lintel]

question it disables achievements on steam version if i install mods?

[smoky flax]

doesnt disable achievements

[kind flint]

The big thing is r.Streaming.PoolSize engine default is like 1 gig, and thats way too small, and I dont think GSC changed that to keep it working for consoles.

[hoary temple]

Actually I managed to reduce input lag with FSR FG, which makes a big improvement in my gameplay, if most is kinda BS, at least it’s disabling things that aren’t that useful and could impact performances (even just a bit)

[drifting tapir]

Whats the lamest mod i can make that doesnt interfere with the same cfg everyone else is editing.

[kind flint]

thats VRAM usage for streaming textures, at 1 gig its gonna run like shit.

[drifting tapir]

Oh pay2win "premium edition" weapon progression tweak i guess

[unique grove]

can someone make an inf carry weight mod until there are mods out that expand upon the stanima system

[kind flint]

I dont think any of the preorder gear is op or antyhing, they are just different. so not really pay2win.. and its a single player game.

[hoary temple]

There already are on nexus

[kind flint]

go looka t nexus mods, there is one. and stamina mods if you dont want to flat cheat.

[drifting tapir]

Wait. Since you cant disable the premium items, maybe mod to delete journalist quest entirely?

Zero effort mod but i think some people might want it.

[dusky lintel]

modded version disables achievements per their website

[rare ruin]

packing right now to test, @pearl lichen is a godsend

[pearl lichen]

I've gotten multiple achievements in modded lmao

[drifting tapir]

I was halfjoking but they fit really weird with the economy of the game since they give you a free flow of full condition quality gear, whereas otherwise you are scraping by on looted aks due to the high cost of repairs and low weapon durability

[hoary temple]

Same here

[remote crescent]

Yo modders, i'll give You a BJ if someone will bring the old inventory UI (like gamma)

[zealous slate]

is there any info present on stalker 2 multiplayer

[rare ruin]

I can only imagine how fucking awful that would be trying to make the inventory different like that

[kind flint]

Ive found several full quality weapons and armor just at stash locations or form quests, so not really. the game is not very hardcore survival sadly.

[rare ruin]

at least as it stands right now

[little iron]

there used to be a carry weight mod that was on its own, seems it was made into ars, anyone have the original?

[kind flint]

with the full editing tools it will be prettye asy.

[rare ruin]

with no official tools, everything is a pain

[kind flint]

UMG is pretty easy to work with.

[fervent moth]

wow that actually worked... one problem is it wont extract reasonable degredation for some reason but everything else worked

thanks

[rotund willow]

Are they releasing official tools?

[remote crescent]

All Im asking for is the visuals not entirely gamma-like and i'd be good

[rare ruin]

TBD, but they did say they will, we just don't know when

[rare ruin]

like, the look of it in general?

[rotund willow]

Gotcha, I was thinking of trying to become a modder for s2

Might wait for tools

[kind flint]

yeah, it will most likely be Unreal Editor with a Stalker 2 plugin. similar to hwo Squad and MechWarrior 5 does it.

[remote crescent]

Ye for the most part. I don't necessary need the tabs, favs, options like gamma etc... just like a visuals of portet of a player, name, kredits, resistances etc... 😄

[kind flint]

I miss the Stalker leader board, and communication feed.

[hoary temple]

Identification would be a goat 😂 always a Russian roulette when you encounter a squad 😂

[rare ruin]

lmao i'm sorry i'm laughing my ass off, i'm reading the files right, and i see something named Xleb

[kind flint]

Not really, they wear different uniforms and have arm paches.

[unique grove]

I literally cant tell who is a bandit or of what faction, its jsut copy paste of the same outfit / raincoat

[hoary temple]

Not all of em

[kind flint]

if no arm patch its either a stalker or a bandit.

if its a bandit they were typical slav thug gear.

[rare ruin]

all that is, is bread, because xleb is bread in uhh... ukrainian? i know it is in Russian

[hoary temple]

Some wardens have no patch or are dressed like bandit with coats

[rare ruin]

I present you, T_xleb.png

[hoary temple]

Anomalous bread

[keen cloak]

hey guys question if yall have a second so I tried implementing a mod that unfucks the horrid repair prices from Groks rebalance pack does it require a new playthrough or what do I need to do to see the prices change the mods implemented followed the install path and all

[hoary temple]

Maybe skill issue from me, it is still possible 😂

[keen cloak]

dont know where else to plug this

[kind flint]

who knows, could also be a bug I guess.

[keen cloak]

like should I wait a few days in game and it works or?

[rare ruin]

i may find what you're looking for but it may need to wait or someone else can pick it up, i'm still working on another mod rn

[hoary temple]

Don’t know, so now I kinda “cheat” by approaching slowly and waiting for that threat bar

[drifting tapir]

I never modded on ue, but how bad do you think patching compatibility between mods would be.

Without like dltx or bethesda creation engine data strctures

[topaz cape]

thanks, that's now an emoji on my own discord

[kind flint]

ah I have every UI element off except the health bar, and set the opacity to 30%.

[hoary temple]

Maybe load order?

[rare ruin]

lmao, you're welcome

[keen cloak]

im kinda just doing raw file

[merry mountain]

for simple pak mods with cfgs inside iits pretty easy to write something to merge stuff based on a modlist and loadorder and do diff merge

[kind flint]

wont work, has to be a pak

[hoary temple]

Since I’m never sure who I encounter, I prefer keeping the threat bar

[keen cloak]

right there paks I manual downloaded and plugged them in their own folder

[kind flint]

there is still a load order, its alphabeticall.

[merry mountain]

put .pak in ~mods folder, not into another folder inside that

[rare ruin]

Хлеб и Молоко

Bread and Milk

[keen cloak]

oh so cant do this?

I like to hyper organize my shit

[kind flint]

sub folders work, folder name determines load order alphabetically, thats how Vortex controls load order.

[merry mountain]

the foldername is also wrong

[lucid kite]

Grok literally tells you how to install mods

[rare ruin]

unfortunately not

[keen cloak]

I did exactly what he said just added another folder

worked for some

not for others it seems

[rare ruin]

that's odd

[keen cloak]

ill just pull em out

[topaz cape]

that's the path

[keen cloak]

right thats where they are

[merry mountain]

it also needs to be ~mods not Mods

[keen cloak]

just gotta yank em out the folders

[topaz cape]

yours is named mods, not ~mods

[hoary temple]

Need the tilde in the name of the folder

[topaz cape]

that's important

[keen cloak]

really fuckin weird

[kind flint]

you guys arent listening, subfolders work fine, and their names determine load order alphabetically.

[keen cloak]

but hey ill do that

[rotund willow]

Has anyone made a mod to change or tone down the radiation effects on screen? its super anoying to see static

[kind flint]

check out nexus there are mods there fo rit.

[pearl lichen]

iirc there is one on nexus

[rare ruin]

???????? how does that work

[merry mountain]

ok cool, but mods that overwrite same files still invalidate each other

[rotund willow]

Ok ok, I look, didnt see any the other day

ty

[topaz cape]

load order won't help with conflicts though, would it

[merry mountain]

maybe gonna make a script later to fix that

[kind flint]

yeah duh, thats why i said load order is determined alphabetically.

[keen cloak]

im no pro with load order I use mod organizers that do that horse shit automatically lol

[pearl lichen]

pretty sure the game checks recursively for files in the paks folder, people have a established convention though for ease of troubleshooting

[topaz ice]

does just putting .paks in the folder work too?

[velvet pewter]

Anyone figure out a run + Reload mod yet? Been looking for it

[rare ruin]

ah, that makes sense

[kind flint]

yeah that will work as well.

[rare ruin]

pretty sure that's not possible for right now

[velvet pewter]

aww, alright

[keen cloak]

so how do you determine load order properly im new to just raw manual doing my load orders

[formal bronze]

Tried modifying only specific files on the mod file, doesn't work. Tried not directly naming the cfg files as the main cfg file, still doesn't work

[pearl lichen]

it looks at it alphabetically

[keen cloak]

ooooh

[formal bronze]

Mod compatibility is gonna be the major issue as of now and Modpacks will be the norm

[velvet pewter]

Fact that early running cancels reload has caused me immense brain damage

[rare ruin]

only because we don't have a tool that can actually help with that to my knowledge, its not just a simple cfg edit or anything, it's part of a lot of other stuff

[loud peak]

Hi, if I wan't to make a mod changing various .cfg from the same folder, can I join them all in the same .pak? For example, the mutants values like HP

[pearl lichen]

yes

[rare ruin]

"design decision" according to GSC

[kind flint]

name of .pak, or its parent folder Alphabetically. Or just use Vortex and it has a load order tab.

[pearl lichen]

even if they are not in the same folder @loud peak, it would work

[rare ruin]

is that fucking vortex

[loud peak]

ok, so it's just the same process to repack 1 than 10 if they're in the same folder

[loud peak]

ohhh okay, thanks

[kind flint]

yes...

[pearl lichen]

yea

[rare ruin]

does that work as of right now? I had no idea if it did or not

[tight pebble]

Can I fire away with a very minor and simple mod request for 2025? It is not possible yet, I guess, but you guys will understand...

[rare ruin]

I would hope MO2 gets an update for it

[kind flint]

yes ive been using for two days now.

[pearl lichen]

does it let you pick which set you want from bundles?

[rare ruin]

interesting

[loud peak]

looking nice

[kind flint]

if the file is setup right yes.

[rare ruin]

for 2025?

[pearl lichen]

define set up right

I'm just zipping them all

[kind flint]

sub folders.

[tight pebble]

We have to be able to smoke cigarettes. Different brands. It is important. Thats it.

[pearl lichen]

ah

unfortunate

[rare ruin]

i heard someone was making whole new items, but I don't know what their progress is

[kind flint]

if there are multiple paks int he same directory, it asks which you want to activate, or all of them automatically.

[rare ruin]

this is funnier than it should be

[pearl lichen]

alright then i dont need to change my workflow

[bronze monolith]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f5xGUCk0HQ0

[pearl lichen]

I'm half bread?

[rare ruin]

Хлеб и Молоко

[kind flint]

I like vortex, its great to know when a mod is updated, and keeps all my mdos organized, MO2 was cool back in the day, but I like Vortex more.

[rare ruin]

i'm half baked

[mystic lion]

Hi everyone !

Someone know if there is a mod for the flickering ?
in dark space i get a lot of it
pretty annoying

[drifting tapir]

Maybe the internet outrage gang will bully gsc into adding smokable cigarettes 🙏

[bronze monolith]

You are probably complaining about Lumen, UE5's global illumination system

Which... yes

[kind flint]

Also Nexus Collections are great. when things get more advanced they will be nice to share mod loadouts.

[bronze monolith]

It would be great if that was fixed, but also... it's very non-trivial

[mystic lion]

yep probably

[kind flint]

@bronze monolith I think it depends on hardware, I have a 3090 and have had zero lumen, lighting, or effects issues.

[severe fulcrum]

WAIT WE CANT SMOKE IN VANILLA?

[keen cloak]

hey if it works

[tidal yew]

Out of curiosity, did the devs say something about providing better mod support? Or is everything available for the modders now?

[bronze monolith]

It really doesn't, I have a 3090, the issues are really obvious and in all UE5 games

[drifting tapir]

It's a relatively simple feature anyways. Can reddit bully gsc into doing it please

[keen cloak]

nah skif HATES smoking

[pearl lichen]

its been mentioned, but post release we have no time line

[kind flint]

very weird, I dont have the issue in any of them. if we have the same GPU it must not be that then id guess.

[bronze monolith]

Here is an example of unstable lumen lighting

There is no light turning off and on here

It is just unstable lighting

[mystic lion]

yeah same for me, i've got a 4080 and alway got issues with UE5

[frail storm]

It's possible to Port Drunk's miserabke Mask's mod overlay to the game somehow?

[kind flint]

ah yeah, thats a geometry issue with the screenspace reflections.

[tidal yew]

Thanks, seems it will be a long wait until i play again.

[frail storm]

Or like- add a mask animation

[bronze monolith]

Well, there are issues with lumen's screenspace traces mismatching the worldspace ones but I don't think that's the issue here

[mystic lion]

but with that i get like little white point on the darker part of the screen

[topaz cape]

you could just use reshade and an overlay if you want the quick and dirty way

[bronze monolith]

It is just shooting random rays all the time and sometimes they hit the light that's entering into the room from elsewhere and sometimes they don't

[mystic lion]

the same one that you get with radiation

[frail storm]

Or Grok's mask mod

[topaz cape]

that a thing already?

[kind flint]

no

[frail storm]

The overlay mod for anomaly? Yeah

But not in S2

[topaz cape]

yea well

[frail storm]

Would be pretty cool to have it I mean, along with the Gask mask animations mod (it would be pretty easy to port to UE5?)

[bronze monolith]

This is one of those issues

From the POV of Lumen, the door doesn't exist when it's not on screen

[kind flint]

pretty minor to me I guess.

[bronze monolith]

so there is light leaking around the edges

[frail storm]

By the time I finish downloading the game a second or third patch will be on the way

Help me

[topaz cape]

just another weird thing in the zone, such is life

[bronze monolith]

I am kind of hypersensitive to these kinds of graphics issues so I see them... a lot...

[kind flint]

Lumen just has a lot of growing to do still. the giggest issue is that S2 is using UE 5.1 so none of the fixes are being used.

[topaz cape]

i'm just glad the game runs as well as it does for me, i've expected the worst after the nvidia slide was released

[earnest gale]

Anyone found a way to reduce HUD size?

[bronze monolith]

Well, IMO it's going to take some pretty drastic reconsidering to make Lumen work properly

(for context, I am a professional graphics programmer working with UE5 so I have dissected this a lot)

[frail storm]

@bronze monolith so can I ask you something?

[kind flint]

It works pretty damn well since 5.4 and 5.5 improved it even more. Im a game deve as well, over 10 years. been in UE since 4.25

[bronze monolith]

ask if you please

[earnest gale]

Help me reduce ui size brother

[frail storm]

How hard/easy would be to port an overlay mod? (Drunk's or Grok's)

[bronze monolith]

Well, all I can say is we're on 5.4 right now and none of our problems are fixed

[kind flint]

that would be UMG canvas scaling, cant do it till tools are relased.

[frail storm]

I hope it comes when they release the roadmap

[kind flint]

well, it will never be perfect.

[bronze monolith]

Do you have an example, I'm not sure what you mean

[keen cloak]

so for the repair costs change I imagine that shit isnt instant?

[frail storm]

A Mask overlay mod, sorry for not specifying

[kind flint]

thats just an image on the UI layer. which cant do yet as we need UMG access.

[cosmic pond]

thnx brah this helped a lot

[frail storm]

I understand, thanks for the clarification
So we need to wait for the developer kit/Mod tools

[kind flint]

yep, anything but unpaking and modifying cfg files is out till we have tools.

[pearl lichen]

you can modify textures*

[keen cloak]

yeah just trying to see if this shit goes into effect instantly with techs I cant tell some mods work funky

[kind flint]

I guess, I bearly consider that a mod I suppose 😄

[pearl lichen]

if changing a line in a config file is a mod, changing a texture is as well

[frail storm]

@keen cloak there's a patch that will fix the Tech repair cost

[kind flint]

kinda? one is purely visual, the other can change the way the game plays.

[keen cloak]

oh like official cause I have groks rebalance mod

[pearl lichen]

it's still a mod(ification)

[north wasp]

I'd love a retexture for the ugly green ammo boxes

[teal wing]

can you please provide the engine and graphics fixes you’ve found? I’d like to work around with them

[pearl lichen]

just because it isn't complex, doesn't mean it isn't a mod

[kind flint]

I didnt say otherwise.

[frail storm]

Yes,already announced in steam and other socials from the official page

[bronze monolith]

For stalker 2 you mean?

[keen cloak]

oh cool any eta when it goes live cause I can just keep artifact huntin

[bronze monolith]

I don't have much to say about stalker 2

There's some cvar tweaking you can do that's useful

[frail storm]

Just a second, will send you SS

[bronze monolith]

But the "big issues" won't be fixed by doing that

[keen cloak]

thanks homie : D

[frail storm]

firstly, help

[north wasp]

[keen cloak]

https://tenor.com/view/ramattra-overwatch-overwatch2-overwatch-ramattra-ram-gif-2047828917409474274

LMAO

[frail storm]

ok i have the screenshot

[kind flint]

Should have gotten it on EGS, I downloaded it at release at 150mbps 😄 and feel warm and toastythat GSC got 18% more of my money.

[keen cloak]

THANK FUCK

[frail storm]

the max internet speed you can get in my country is 5mbp's because we use ASDL still and no copper fiber

[keen cloak]

https://tenor.com/view/fyeah-gif-23356060

[desert hollow]

damn, its out already?

[kind flint]

Ouch, my condolances.

[frail storm]

🇨🇺

[north wasp]

I feel you, I had ADSL myself for years

[kind flint]

the patch is next week.

[desert hollow]

I see, that was cropped out of their post

[frail storm]

A-life seems weird, can work or cant not

[north wasp]

What alife

[limber hull]

alife 2.0 enemies spawning behind you

[kind flint]

[north wasp]

[kind flint]

GCS has already acknowledged that A-life is broken right now.

[keen cloak]

https://tenor.com/view/a23-gif-5165236331565184779

from wallet rape hell

[kind flint]

what?

[keen cloak]

please god crank it down by like 60%