╟⚒stalker2™-mods-making-discussion

[last spire]

@vital coyote you in the mas discord?

[vital coyote]

maybe

i think

[last spire]

you are yeah

mutual server

check their announcements, they did it again

[topaz cape]

the code for a-life

[vital coyote]

word ill check in a bit

[frank summit]

gone through all the image files and no map, so i will leave you all with wishes for a good day, and a sausage

[last spire]

weasty can u find the crowbar texture

i wonder if its directly named after half life

[quick heart]

Build of stalker 2 from 2011

[last spire]

that build had good lighting ngl

[quick heart]

This sausauge looks sick (literally, like fucking smallpox)

[frank summit]

you should see the artifact textures lol

[last spire]

dont u dare talk about the zone like that

[vital coyote]

its ribbed for your pleasure

[frank summit]

bro has got his tootsies out for the world to see

[quick heart]

💀💀

[last spire]

the fuck is that

a human turned artifact

holopox from drg?

[quick heart]

Kung-fu fire snail

[frank summit]

hey guys can you watch my bolt real quick, i gotta run an errand

[last spire]

cleanest bolt in the zone

[frank summit]

my bolt,, what did you do,,,

[radiant ledge]

I remember seeing the vids and screenshots ages ago, but I don't remember how they look at all 😆 Gotta go look at the ancient history again, see how we evolved backwards (or not)

[last spire]

ngl a bolt artifact would be dope

[frank summit]

have i got news for you

[last spire]

its like an anomaly resistance like the weird ball

or resistance while moving

[frank summit]

https://www.gamerguides.com/stalker-2-heart-of-chornobyl/database/artifacts/chemical/weird-bolt

[last spire]

the fuck

its actually real

[frank summit]

sells for 80k

[crimson laurel]

weirdp ot is a artifact

🤣

[robust yew]

shout out to weird water

[frank summit]

weird nut 😳

[robust yew]

sippin dat zone lean

[quick heart]

It makes your teeth made from aluminium

[last spire]

what did you do.

[frank summit]

jorked it

[last spire]

did u nut on the nut

[vital coyote]

wierd watter sounds like a beverage served at bill cosbies house

[crimson laurel]

yes

[last spire]

https://media.discordapp.net/attachments/385187650333835274/1111589583524733028/attachment-9-1.gif

[frank summit]

back to the zone for real now folks, if anyone does dig up the map, ping me 🦍

[vital coyote]

ohh shit

i think that .mapings gennerator has a live vew

im not sure

think i saw someone talking about that b4

hence why the game is prone to crashing when you leave efess or whatever its called in

[umbral linden]

Is there a chance that the "minimap" is generated from gamecode rather then being an actual asset. They could be doing something different then just a texture for example theres generating map from world partition data

https://youtu.be/RMZpM7ztcxY

[crimson laurel]

who thought of that

[frank summit]

interesting. is there a way for us to find out if they did that?

[compact otter]

There are world map asset tiles for the PDA

[umbral linden]

I'm not too familiar with unreal engine but I would have a look at if there is a way to generate "minimaps" if you really can't find anything in the assets

[quick heart]

But there must be a baked texture of map I guess?

[frank summit]

https://tenor.com/view/chalmers-simpsons-may-i-see-it-talking-gif-11870196

[last spire]

the bricklayer

[umbral linden]

There doesn't "have" to be a texture it's entirely possible when the game is initially loading it does a quick high res render of the map or does it on the fly based on zoom level. Might be possible to check if it does something like this by removing or adding something to the map. I'm still learning unreal engine 5.

[vital coyote]

not a bad idea

i dont have the tools to rn

[umbral linden]

There we go, that looks quite promising.

[vital coyote]

ohh its an uber detailed map

still loading

they wanted one with the icons and towns and stuff

took like 2 min to load

[frank summit]

i'm alright with one that doesn't have the icons tbh

[vital coyote]

but if we edit it and see we could tell if thats what the pda is usingv

[quick heart]

13k x 13k, its quite big 😏

[vital coyote]

huge

[umbral linden]

If your experienced with cheatengine/debugging you might be able to add waypoints and remove waypoints doing memory scans for changes and looking at the memory address and seeing if there a part of a "database"

[delicate jacinth]

that guy sucks in general. such a patsy

[umbral linden]

We have the opposite of that guy, we have commentors mad because someone did a "low effort mod" I forgot what it was but something like set all weight to 0kg.

[frank summit]

damn, people complain about everything

[umbral linden]

yeah haha, that's a lot of peoples default setting.

[vital coyote]

entitled

[last spire]

simple, make ur own mod

[delicate jacinth]

i mean i cant be mad at that, i get heavy fast lmao. its tiring when all you have is sprint/walk

[umbral linden]

Yeah, if its not helpful to you just scroll past it, there are people who don't know how to unpack files or edit plain text files that don't end in .txt stuff like that is useful to them. It's always funny when they take the time just to complain about someone who took the time to make something and share it with everyone.

[vital coyote]

i will say, even tho you are just changing a value, you still have to learn how to crack into the game, with the aes key and mapping, learn how to use fmodle, FIND THE CONFIG wich is the biggest pain in the dick, extract it, learn how to unpack pak files, learn how to pak files

low effort indeed

[last spire]

i mean yeah it kind of is easy, it was confusing as shit yesterday but once i got the hang of it it really simple

like half the steps from groks tutorial are missing tho

[umbral linden]

I got lucky figuring out the aes key stuff. I think you have to remove drm from the file but I just got the .exe from an online source as I couldn't copy it out of the windows store haha.

[last spire]

the key is in this very chat

[vital coyote]

can you do me a favor and find where the config is to turn off headbob >:) been looking for days

lmao

[last spire]

sure lemme just...

turn off eye adaptation

and auto lean

and skif's skill issue

gonna take a while, ill get back to ya

[vital coyote]

aes thing was good to learn was able to crack grayzone the same way

[umbral linden]

My process was pretty much stalker 2 is an unreal engine game, .pak files are standardised then I learn't that they could be encrypted, I then was like well if the game is able to decrypt the .pak files it has to have the key. so I searched if someone made a tool to do it and there was a lot of aes key finder type stuff. I tried one of them and got about 30 keys then just bruteforced them in fmodel.

[last spire]

im a simple man

[umbral linden]

I did google the key once I had it, but didn't realise you needed to set the pak version to unreal engine 5.1 so I wasn't able to do that until I googled and saw if anyone else did haha

[last spire]

i press ctrl f in discord chat

i type key

[umbral linden]

Use brain smarter not harder XD

[short saffron]

i guess this would be where to share this? stalker 2, using flawless widescreen to adjust viewmodel fov (+15%) along with disabling weaponless eye zoom has one issue. Crouching with no weapon shows Skif's hands, and they pop forward when pressing the aiming button/trigger. I don't really mod, I wouldn't know where to start.

[vital coyote]

there was none when i tried now its here x)

[last spire]

i got both the key and the map from this chat lol

[vital coyote]

found the map but wound up doing it anyway because it didnt work the first time

[umbral linden]

I used trusty google, trick is to search for unreal engine how to do it or games that are already out. not ones that have been out for only 2 days haha

[earnest gale]

game patch is out now?

[vital coyote]

just me fucking up but still

[last spire]

no?

[vital coyote]

nahh think they pushed it another week but thats just hearsay

[short saffron]

actually, disabling weaponless fov seems to have nothing to do with it

[earnest gale]

i am reading about 13 gb to download after restarting steam.

[last spire]

tf

lemme try

[earnest gale]

may be troll, i cant chek now, anyone can look into it?

[last spire]

EVERYONE STAY CALM

[vital coyote]

lmk too

[last spire]

DONT PANIC

[vital coyote]

ohh word

[earnest gale]

DAMN TOLD YOU

[vital coyote]

how big

[earnest gale]

13 gb

[last spire]

[vital coyote]

o,o

[quick heart]

BTW how much cut content the game has?

[last spire]

13.7

[vital coyote]

i found binoculars

[last spire]

nvg

damn ill see u guys in 3 hours ig

[quick heart]

I saw mutant parts too

[umbral linden]

might be smart to back up old game files and then compare old files to new ones with what was changed in patch notes

[vital coyote]

ohh and an in game enciclapedia

[last spire]

no patch notes on steam

[north wasp]

PATCH IS OUT WOW

[last spire]

anton they lied to you

[umbral linden]

It's possible they might change the encryption key but I doubt it.

[last spire]

they whispered sweet little lies anton

[vital coyote]

aesdump ftw

but yee dont think they care

grayzone has like 5 keys

[last spire]

and i just wrapped up my mod like an hour ago

[digital gulch]

[last spire]

probably wont break shit

[north wasp]

Patchnotes ? GSC Hello?

[vital coyote]

my wipe your mods tho

back em up

and engine ini

[last spire]

reset cache

[vital coyote]

fuck it saves too while your at it

[last spire]

does the aes key change now with the new exe?

[vital coyote]

we will find out in due time, but i dobt it

[last spire]

wanna place bets on what got fixed?

[umbral linden]

What mods have people come across or done? There is basic config edits. there is texture/model replacements which is a step above and requires baking them which have more then just a .pak file, there is the console enabler which I think might have some code. then lastly I'm aware of the unreal engine vr mod that lets you play stalker 2 in vr haha

[last spire]

you summed it up

[umbral linden]

theres a cheat engine table as well.

[last spire]

not exactly groundbreaking

its just injecting stuff

ce table for everything thats not live service

[umbral linden]

There was something about npc ids or item ids from the cheat engine table.

[wild ridge]

Me too

Looks like they cut it from release version

[last spire]

probably a free update

[vital coyote]

yeah -_-

i love that lore shit

been reading all the notes

[glad abyss]

Until we see a mod where the Guitar can be used as a witches broomstick to fly around the zone, I'm not impressed.

[last spire]

i thought i was the only one

we LOVE random tablets in dark corners

[umbral linden]

Would be hilarious if the patch notes just said "optimised performance" then we got double the fps hahaha

[last spire]

i wish ngl

or just the bog standard "Improved performance" and theres like 0 diff

[kindred lotus]

patch is probably going to be a let down

[vital coyote]

no if all the engine tweeks we use are already on

that would be funy

[last spire]

they copied the engine ini tweaks and s2

its over lads

[crimson laurel]

14gb update 😈

[last spire]

13.7

[umbral linden]

Pack it up modders your obsolete haha

[cloud lark]

uh update

[last spire]

no update here

keep moving

[earnest gale]

PATCH NOTES:

-A-life fixed. thanks to SellTheWorld guy on discord

[crimson laurel]

wheres the damn patchnotes

[topaz cape]

yooo

[last spire]

• Added a stalker to stalk the main stalker character

[desert abyss]

They must be faded to drop it on Friday

[vital coyote]

4x blood sucker spanws

[umbral linden]

I diffed the patch guys in Alife-system.cfg they changed line 83 "system.alife.enabled = True" from "system.alife.enabled = true"

[last spire]

tbh i want more shit to shoot at

walking sim

[vital coyote]

true

[crimson laurel]

???? when do u want them to drop? next year?

[last spire]

basically better fo4

[vital coyote]

been playing with an ai mod for a bit feels nice but havent tested much

[desert abyss]

In software dev you never drop on a Friday

[last spire]

its not 13th

were safe

[crimson laurel]

^

[cloud lark]

i saw a black cat earlier

we are not

[crimson laurel]

i got multiple black cats

stop the racism against black cats

[last spire]

https://tenor.com/view/my-name-is-walter-walter-white-negrea-aroya-lane-wlater-h-artwell-white-my-name-is-gif-24688286

whos we?

[umbral linden]

The benefits of droping on a friday is all the changes you did throughout the week can now be quality tested by your playerbase, its called crowdsourcing 🙂

[last spire]

there is no we

[cloud lark]

you me everyone else

[last spire]

nah

[kindred lotus]

you can quote me on this: they're going to fix some of the most jarring mistakes in the engine.ini, leave one huge mistake unfixed that will perplex people as to why they didn't just study the .ini tweaks modders made and call it a day with some minor fixes to game breaking glitches that a small percentage of people were having

[last spire]

why u speaking french

[umbral linden]

Then monday you get to come back to office and check the emails and reddit comments XD

[crimson laurel]

real

PATHC NOTES ARE OUT

[radiant ledge]

mofos worked last Saturday and Sunday, somebody sent screenshots from either jira or Trello with edits happening on that day 😄

[last spire]

https://store.steampowered.com/news/app/1643320/view/4455844537830474602

what

in DE

hell

[radiant ledge]

Aaaaaaaaand, shiiiiiiiiiiiiit

[crimson laurel]

Weapons and armor repair cost is decreased.

😈 mods obsolote

obsolete

[last spire]

they did it

they fixed sidrovichism

[crimson laurel]

Money reward for most missions is increased from 2 to 3 times.

1500 coupons

to what

2500 😈

[last spire]

post wont load for me ffs

nvm

[crimson laurel]

"Also, we fixed approximately 100 different crashes, including potential memory leaks and EXCEPTION_ACCESS_VIOLATION issues."

[umbral linden]

patchnotes

[last spire]

yeah reading that rn

fucking hell just tell me my fps is up

[crimson laurel]

some modders better start getting to replace the values

🤓

[radiant ledge]

Dog bless! I was getting super tired of playing lottery on launch XD

[crimson laurel]

real

[last spire]

so this IS armor

[cloud lark]

Significantly increased cost of artifacts (more revenue from selling). from 750 to 755

[last spire]

good

[rare fog]

где игру скачать не пойму

[lost sky]

That's gonna be so op now

[olive mantle]

If you don't see update, just re-open steam

[cloud lark]

so basically i can uninstall all difficulty mods now

[last spire]

idobut that

[lost sky]

Probably not, but it's worth giving it a try.

[last spire]

maybe the hp pools sure

[olive mantle]

Maybe... Yes?

[broken wren]

So whole mods break up for a moment?

[last spire]

depends

[weary geyser]

remember, they're never bugs. only anomalies

[crimson laurel]

they wont break up but rebalance update wont really change

until some modders change their values

[umbral linden]

It's funny cause a lot of the changes were things I bundled from other mods haha

Significantly increased weapon melee distance.
Slightly increased knife melee distance.

was considering getting this mod when I read it let you knife boxes on floor without having to crouch

[broken wren]

Mean they listen to community?🙃

[crimson laurel]

they are doing great, gsc should be watching the trending mods and update the game accordingly (if its what they want to the game or not)

[radiant ledge]

Hey guys...sorry for the offtop, just know you LTSC beasts are here: I rushed a bit with the LTSC version and didn't create a local account beforehand. Can I workaround the enterprise account requirement without re-making the installation media now?

[umbral linden]

Fixed issues with performance drops/potential out-of-memory crashes in hubs and locations crowded with NPCs during long play sessions.
Fixed issue when NPCs could not track whether a target in cover was covered from shots, which caused them to shoot into cover.

Also, we fixed approximately 100 different crashes, including potential memory leaks and EXCEPTION_ACCESS_VIOLATION issues.

Fixed issue when combat music was still playing while combat was finished.

Significantly increased weapon melee distance.
Slightly increased knife melee distance.
Increased gamepad dead zones

Corrected radio call effects so NPC voices properly reflect distance during communication.

Fixed NPC behavior during encounters.

Fixed a bug that allows to sell items to the trader for more money that they actually cost.

I think thats the tldr of mods that are decent.

[last spire]

are you in the windows install screen?

[radiant ledge]

XD yup

[last spire]

so go back

and turn off ur router

its gonna force a local acc

[polar osprey]

can't see any updates on gamepass yet

[radiant ledge]

Damn, that's awesome!

[last spire]

gl

[last mirage]

Gamepass usually is slower to push updates out

[umbral linden]

Yeah neither, could be rolled out gradually or have a few more checks done.

[earnest gale]

@last spire have you already tried the patch?

[last spire]

no

[polar osprey]

but I doubt they managed to anything with the optimization this quick

[last spire]

in 3 hours probably

[delicate jacinth]

RIP mods

[young temple]

Gamepass and xbox take longer because Microsoft being microsoft.

[young temple]

They say the did

[polar osprey]

CPU performance is just terrible and I expect it to be like that for a long time ahead (if ever fixed)

[delicate jacinth]

bro read the patch notes lol they did a ton of fixes

[hallow sand]

I'm about to try it out

[polar osprey]

let us know

[young temple]

Its easier for them to complain here instead

[weary geyser]

lol

[hallow sand]

Will doooooooooooooooooo, (Of course I was going to already 🙂 )

[polar osprey]

nothing related to CPU core utilization and balancing in the patch notes

[delicate jacinth]

they didnt list everything they did so hard to say

[polar osprey]

the main point of failure is how hefty are the NPCs resource-wise (even without alife now) + how poorly the game utilizes hardware. my experience in UE5 is somehow limited, but none of these are really a simple fix

just a dev thing - don't expect miracles from one patch 😄

[hallow sand]

If my mods work, then this will be tested by me with all the shit I have going.

There's usually at least 2 or 3 diff gun fights going on near/farish

so I'll be able to give you a good fuckin test run of this patch.

And at least 15 npc's in each fire fight

[polar osprey]

Do you use any mods? I only use some minor tweaks to the U5 engine.ini file as I've tried several "optimization" mods and they did not really do anything significant. + some gameplay rebalances+ x/y axis tweak but those have 0 impact on perf

[maiden oriole]

I updated the game and all my mods are still in and the game runs

[hallow sand]

Yup, been using some mods, I used simple ones but now my playthrough is done (first story playthrough)

[hallow sand]

I have some Alife tweak ones and the only ones that REALLY worked for me were the suicide roadside panic one and one other I forgot.

[umbral linden]

I tried some of the alife stuff but had issues where towns had no npcs

[vital coyote]

most promising https://www.nexusmods.com/stalker2heartofchornobyl/mods/446

only one ive messed with havent tested much

[hallow sand]

That one seemed to not work for me 😦

I was hopeful, sounded great.

[vital coyote]

conflict?

[umbral linden]

This is what's in my modpack that I merged

[hallow sand]

I dunno, I hoped loading it last would make it so that wouldn't matter

[vital coyote]

there is a simple check conflict script

[umbral linden]

all but the ledge grab is very vanilla feelings.

[hallow sand]

I have the one that merges them @vital coyote but not sure if it works for me all the way.

[vital coyote]

https://www.nexusmods.com/stalker2heartofchornobyl/mods/290

[umbral linden]

I got sick of seeing bloodsucker everytime I died so the death splashscreen mod is actually a big game feel change.

[hallow sand]

I just messed around with it today and think i got it

[vital coyote]

yeah auto the mearge may brake things

[hallow sand]

That could be it too. I used it, but my carryweight went back down, so I went into the files and changed that then repacked

edited some game files

[vital coyote]

i do it manualy so i know its keeping the right shit

[clear mountain]

They just made repaircostmodifier 0.5 to 0.2

[hallow sand]

I am not the most savvy with this @vital coyote but I should be getting some help here later today.

[delicate jacinth]

in curiosity what mods do you run

[radiant ledge]

I can't live without the ledge grab height at 250. Game has so many places where it's absolutely obvious they set things up for this mechanic and didn't implement it properly later...

[hallow sand]

how do you change the height to 250?

[vital coyote]

for sure 🙂 well reach out if you need help its not to hard

[maiden oriole]

Part 1

Part 2

@delicate jacinth

[vital coyote]

and once you learn it once you dont need to again lol

[hallow sand]

Thanks, I'd love to learn how to merge them myself.

Is there no program to let you side by side them, and change things as you go?

That's what I'd really like. I know winmerge IS KIND of like that, but dunno how to do all that.

[delicate jacinth]

damn, that many and didnt break? amazing

[maiden oriole]

yep!

It didnt crash at least, idk about gameplay effects yet

[hallow sand]

wanna see my list lmao?

[delicate jacinth]

well no that was enough lmao

[vital coyote]

yess but i havent mesed with that one and you cant edit just look at what it changed

[radiant ledge]

Lemme unpack the file again and show you the var

[delicate jacinth]

my list is teeny in comparison

[radiant ledge]

Just need a minute

[umbral linden]

Yeah, it does feel a little janky some of the ledge grabs and I do have that feeling of maybe I'm not exploring the level in the "intended" way but its a nice change overall.

[hallow sand]

Oh I can unpack it, I thought maybe there was a new upload by him for new height.

[cloud lark]

Guys your game isn'T going to break. Fact is if you play the game with the mods like before chances are everything will play exactly like you are used to. The Mods overwrite the native game settings.

[delicate jacinth]

im gonna run the game vanilla just to see how it feels current state

[last spire]

so whats the news

[umbral linden]

@Rin do you merge the mods by hand?

[hallow sand]

Gotcha. What's the best way in your opinion?

I'm open to learning, an if you can jump in voip I'm eager to listen 😄

[delicate jacinth]

i guess you're right but in experience with previous games, sometimes the changes they make would brick mods.

[hallow sand]

^

[cloud lark]

yeah but never simply cfg edits

[hallow sand]

That makes sense, I dunno what would and wouldn't break when shi tlike this happens.

[radiant ledge]

You just change one variable there 🙂

In that .cfg

[hallow sand]

Thank you 😄

[woeful crane]

How long does it normally take Gamepass to push updates?

PC Gamepass

[radiant ledge]

I reinstalled windows just now so kinda trying to reset everything to how I need and it makes it hard to find and do stuff for now

[maiden oriole]

I dont merge at all, none of them conflict and if they would, I am using a mod version that is merged already

[umbral linden]

Usually when mods break on a patch it's because the game executables functions memory addresses have changed or the expected data/format passed between them has changed, that sorta stuff causes hard crashes or super unusual glitches.

[umbral linden]

Interesting, I had a few conflicts with the mods i'm using and had to do it by hand.

[clear mountain]

anyone know how RepairCostModifier works?

[last spire]

still tho, its probably best to remake the cfg file mods just to be safe and see whats changed

difficultyprototype 100% changed, but we'll see what exactly did besides the rookie params

[delicate jacinth]

good info

[vital coyote]

havent tried them all yet but i use

to check conflicts
https://www.nexusmods.com/stalker2heartofchornobyl/mods/290

this to unpack then repack mods
https://www.nexusmods.com/stalker2heartofchornobyl/mods/398

and note pad ++ with a plugin that lets you compair 2 files, it will hilight everything that is diffrent
its called compare + you can install it right inside of notepad ++

and this looks super cool but i havent messed with it yet
https://www.nexusmods.com/stalker2heartofchornobyl/mods/326

[last spire]

im looking forward to removing my mutant tweaks tho, less 'bloat' in the mod if theyre well balanced

[hallow sand]

I'm using the merge one but it's auto.

[delicate jacinth]

oh i never knew about compare+ thanks for that

[umbral linden]

Yeah, I've already backed up the old pak files in preparation to compare with what the new updates changed.

[earnest gale]

yeah dont bloat game with mods, try the game vanilla after update first. only like that we can see what changed and adjust mods accordingly,

there is litteraly no sense to download update and override all with mods....

[vital coyote]

im working on publishing all the stuff i learn here 🙂 will be updating it as i go https://rentry.org/TravesS2moddingBible#modding-your-game

[delicate jacinth]

the only mod i realistically should need is a-life change since we still have to wait for that to get worked in, everything else is up to testing again

[last spire]

step 1
use LTSC

[vital coyote]

hehe windos not included

and for now is a good place to get a certain key which may not be named

[prime saddle]

anyone can confirm if the new update broke mods?

[clear mountain]

Highly

[vital coyote]

so far no it seams

[tepid gulch]

any one has a mod for unlimited weight?

[prime saddle]

I'm still updating, I'll see

[vital coyote]

i havent tried it yet i have to wait to get my updates

[clear mountain]

it wont be broken but considering that mod overwrites cfg there could be unexpectable stuff

[prime saddle]

yeah, they could've added new lines or so to cfg files who knows

[delicate jacinth]

not unlimited that i use but "increased stack size and no weight" takes away ammo weights and certain consumable weights

its a good ballance imo

[clear mountain]

my mod overwrites upgrade stuff, and before I found it reverted repair cost modifier

[tepid gulch]

yea but i weight about 300kg now and cannot move so im a bit fucked

[delicate jacinth]

lmao. im pretty sure there is a 0kg mod someone was saying. it should help maybe, it took my game a sec to register the weight change before the icon disappeared

[tepid gulch]

https://www.nexusmods.com/stalker2heartofchornobyl/mods/19

[stiff canyon]

your a loot goblin. You got issues maybe you need some help ? 😄

[tepid gulch]

ive used this but it doesnt work no more

[delicate jacinth]

what ive been doing is just collecting all the ammos and selling the half baked guns, dropped red repairs, and just sell everything that isnt consumable

[raw crest]

we need to sticky it somewhere man

[stiff canyon]

i did read nothing about fixing the zippolighter flashlight :/

[delicate jacinth]

yeah i highly doubt they even looked at the flashlight rn

this was mainly for fixes

[stiff canyon]

i guess. But that means thats the one "mod" definetly working fine 🙂

[hallow sand]

You available for voip help atm or?

[maiden oriole]

theres a mod for that if you want

[delicate jacinth]

i was looking at that but i couldnt be bothered to set up the parameters, im just lazy i guess

[stiff canyon]

yeah i have that..... lighting in this game is weird anyways. I dont enjoy it when im inside a house and shits bright af outside and i go outside and its pitchblack and cloudy -.- but thats a minor nitpick i can get over. Im more concerned about the game telling me i have to sometimes sleep but its a mechanic ONLY for the arena.... D=

[delicate jacinth]

do we actually have to sleep at some point? and is there a benefit to it?

[nimble gull]

anyone updated to the new patch, did it break any of your mods?

[delicate jacinth]

some have reported no issues with their mods

[stiff canyon]

nope. Your Skif on steroids running all day long no time for sleep gotta save the ZONE. Its only for the arena where it says something but i dismissed it

[vital coyote]

whatcha mean?

[vital coyote]

nahh not rn unfortunatly

[delicate jacinth]

lol thats weird then

[hallow sand]

no worries ❤️

[nimble gull]

no issues then?

[delicate jacinth]

depends on the values the mod touches specifically. you could be safe to run it

[stiff canyon]

Yes but you get used to drinking water and satisfying your hunger?!

[cloud lark]

we need to make a sticky or something

[nimble gull]

i guess there's only one way to find out

[vital coyote]

on a side note any of yall use the site cdkeys, i usually hate using sites like these but im broke.

[stiff canyon]

most basic mods wont break the game anyways. I dont think Groks balancing stuff would do a lot because thats basically just what gsc did? no?

[nimble gull]

worst part of modding 😄

[delicate jacinth]

worst part of modding for me is waiting on stalker to compile shaders

[nimble gull]

there's a mod for that 🙂

[delicate jacinth]

LMAO

[umbral linden]

Yeah, I think the biggest worry is if they fixed something in the engine code and added a new variable in a config file related to it that a mod edits as it could override the whole config and a value won't be set so it will need to default to one.

[stiff canyon]

i mean i only use renamed weapons, some grok stuff, the flashlight and no beep beep. I DID try out the weather mod today but since it takes a while for me to download the update on gog im testing that out

[nimble gull]

that's what I am worried about

[maiden oriole]

Huh, its not only a mechanic for the arena D:

You do get tired if you don't sleep.

[nimble gull]

Valheim used to break every update pretty much

*with mods

[delicate jacinth]

yeah, same with RoN

[stiff canyon]

really? Im running around and never got tired at all.

[delicate jacinth]

but those are different types of injected mods

[cloud lark]

Hey guys, since the Earth is not 80% carbonated water, does that make the Earth flat?

[indigo jolt]

With listed balance changes I suspect there are quite a few conflicts now. Have to manually merge files with new configs

[weak kiln]

I guess all mods must be removed before updating?

[delicate jacinth]

not really

[eternal sapphire]

I'm not sure about the others but my mod has open permissions. However, they way they tell people to go complain to original authors if there modpack has issues is NOT cool!

[nimble gull]

i haven't, just updated the game i'll let you know if anything breaks.

[indigo jolt]

Are updated cfg's still in the same first pak or a different one?

[stiff canyon]

I also never saw the sleep depr. Symbol on any streamer playing the game except for Arena stuff

[weak kiln]

I hope Jake's Longer Days will work, can't even imagine playing without it

[vital coyote]

dont see why it wouldnt, and if it dosnt wouldnt be hard to make again

[indigo jolt]

It's a very simple one var edit

[cloud lark]

How dare this other dudes mod not work because of you. Do something!

[delicate jacinth]

88% patched

[umbral linden]

unity mods were usually memory injection so it would change whenever the game was recompiled worse case. so far the stalker 2 mods are just .pak files that the game automatically loads so it's a lot less that can go wrong.

[nimble gull]

Awesome, thanks for info 🙂 🙏

need to reboot i guess, game wont boot 😦

[umbral linden]

If your curious how they tend to do memory injection one common way is you replace a dll that the game uses with a patched function that you know the games main executable will call, sometimes people put a new dll file in the games folder and it will work as the game was relying on a dll that was in the windows system folder for example, by putting it in the local folder of the exe it takes prescidence and is the .dll file the game executable will then call.

[delicate jacinth]

anyone running mutant loot in their modpack and ran the game yet?

[merry wedge]

Are all the mods still working with the new patch or nah

[severe flax]

It doesn't work

[inland estuary]

he hadnt when i posted this. He also deleted the comment chain of me and others calling him out on it. He really was trying to pass off most of the stuff in the pack as his own.

[vital coyote]

wish we could pin (mods should work) on the top like on twitch lol

[delicate jacinth]

i figured it wouldnt since they made some mutant changes. just didnt wanna waste time trying

[merry wedge]

Has anyone tested if any specific mod is still working?

[umbral linden]

I got the game on gamepass, I'm going to have to ask if a friend can family share me stalker so I can get the patch when it first comes out haha

[quaint hazel]

i am stuck waiting on mod updates since i used mutant loot and project item XD

[raw crest]

as a resource

[nimble gull]

steam thinks there are custom arguments, game wont boot at all now

[delicate jacinth]

im sure it wont take long for mutant loot to get updated. its pretty vital imo

[nimble gull]

in steam

[vital coyote]

i normaly hate using sites like these but im hella tempted rn

[static sonnet]

that's not 39% off what the freak

that's like 50

make sure u got the specs before buying the game tho

[merry wedge]

What kind of loot drops with mutant loot mod?

[delicate jacinth]

i mean they just buy keys and resell. worst ive had with those kind of buys is it being on a alt account and not one i can add to my steam

[vital coyote]

been playing since launch

buttt..

[quaint hazel]

blood, meat, skin, body parts, and so forth

[merry wedge]

I’m guessing you just sell that

[delicate jacinth]

great mod bc u can sell the parts to replenish ur meds and ammo used

[quaint hazel]

yea its just a way to make mutants not just a money sink

[woeful crane]

Whats teh cheapest site thats got it for sale right now thats actually gonna benefit the devs, I really dont wanna go through a key site

I have it on gamepass right now and wanna actually buy it

[vital coyote]

but like where its not a mod or anything, pluss im never good at cancer coments, ive never published any of my anomaly mods TT-TT

[delicate jacinth]

well the sites that sell keys still purchase the keys from the company

[merry wedge]

I mean the game is easily piratble if your hurting for money that bad although this is the one dev group rn I would say doesn’t deserve for people to do that

[woeful crane]

Nah Im not torrenting it

These guys deserve the support

[merry wedge]

Yea it was like 15 devs that died

[woeful crane]

thats why I dont wanna use a key site either

[vital coyote]

my version dosnt get updates

[woeful crane]

Most of those are obtained with stolen credit cards and resold

[vital coyote]

^^^

[merry wedge]

Pirated versions you have to install each update individually and wait for it to be released

[umbral linden]

I haven't had issues with those kind of sites personally but some developers have had issues with stolen credit cards buying keys and then the developer has to decide between cancelling the key or letting the grey market player keep it. Another issue could be ban for using a different region key then the one you live in. I don't really see that being too much of a problem for a singleplayer game from a large publisher though, especially on steam.

[nimble gull]

is there actually evidence for this? I was under the impression the key sites buy keys in bulk, so they are legitimate keys.

[woeful crane]

I mean, the only evidence I've heard was from devs speaking out about it, whether thats true or not I dont know

[vital coyote]

yeah its deff mostly criminals

more of a moral not wanting to

[pearl lichen]

guys, this is the modding chat, not "should i be a pirate or not" chat lmao

[merry wedge]

Wah wah

[delicate jacinth]

was about to say something but i didnt wanna be that guy

[umbral linden]

Inb4 I pirated the game so I could support the modders so they can fix it XD

[delicate jacinth]

piracy is frowned upon

[merry wedge]

Don’t be that guy

[merry mountain]

if you have not tried, jump into the large anomaly in rostok

[delicate jacinth]

what do i do about the bubble anomaly that sucks you in?

[woeful crane]

jump in...hang on

[merry mountain]

you find blue ones that contain blueprints

[frank summit]

I know, was just memeing 😛

[umbral linden]

you use objects to block line of sight and stop you getting dragged in, you run between pulses. leaving once you get artifact is a bit harder you need to sprint opposite direction while using medkits and grabbing cover when you can.

[delicate jacinth]

crazy tbh, thanks for the info. didnt even think about that. first time i accidentally got too close and couldnt get a way

[umbral linden]

Yeah it's definetly something that requires a few reloads to figure out haha

[delicate jacinth]

like wasting 18 energy drinks before finding the actual flower

definitely did that one a few times

[compact furnace]

Just got here, did the update break mods?

[quaint hazel]

you can shoot the ball

it moves it

[merry mountain]

no

[compact furnace]

Thank you!

[nimble gull]

can confirm most of my mods are still working after the update, haven't checked them all.

[rustic granite]

any idea when update comes out ?

[vital coyote]

its out

[rustic granite]

not for pc game pass it seems

[vital coyote]

ohh wierd

[mystic lion]

in a couple of hours

[rustic granite]

for game pass ?

[mystic lion]

yep

[rustic granite]

valid source

or do you just suspect it's a couple of hours

[rustic granite]

nice english :d

[mystic lion]

in english that mean the Gamepass Updtate is coming after, in the day

give me time dude

[rustic granite]

aah

what ?

[mystic lion]

Game on gamepass are mostly update after the steam one.

for somes games it take a week.

[hallow sand]

So far it feels a bit smoother, got fights going on but too busy fucking with my reshades lmao

[loud peak]

Can someone tell me where can I find the weapons sounds folder?

[sand vault]

Are most of the cfg files we mod in pakchunk0-Windows.pak?

The biggest pak?

[loud peak]

yes

[sand vault]

Thanks

Yeah looks like it. Unpacking now

[sand vault]

Gonna update the stuff I use most so I can start playing now

[compact furnace]

Strange change, but they changed the look of the bar when compiling shaders right???

[hallow sand]

what reshade setting would handle me looking into a room and it being just black as night?

[sand vault]

Big pak.. lol

[stiff canyon]

you gonna make the guns sound PEW PEW ? 😄

[loud peak]

vanilla?

[loud peak]

[sand vault]

You don't want to do that with ReShade. There's a mod that removes it from the game itself.

[hallow sand]

Oh?

[umbral linden]

Yeah, it's to keep the game fun and interesting, they didn't want the player base getting bored of a substantial section of gameplay. They have been looking closely at the data and a substantial amount of players are enjoying the shader compilation menu for a large portion of there ingame time.

[stiff canyon]

we did that back in pre cs 1.0 times... Magazine OUT. Magazin IN. Chack chack. PEW PEW

[umbral linden]

I meant that comment to this haha

[loud peak]

yeah but I can't find the folder

[quaint sage]

Hey guys, are mods working after the patch?

[stiff canyon]

i would definetly download that mod just for the fun of it to play around for a while

[ripe flame]

Why the hell packaging several textures in UE 5 takes an HOUR?

[umbral linden]

Depends on the mod. Some need original config file from game merged with the modded values.

[clear mountain]

They mostly 'work'

[drowsy hamlet]

So with the patch out, what did it break, and has it impacted any of the work modders are working on?

[clear mountain]

I mean, mods are just overwriting cfg so there's not much to break or crash

[ripe flame]

They would work, but also will revert some parts of the game to a pre-patch state.

[clear mountain]

so check nexus

[merry mountain]

there was some issue with text below that bar or something, its on the page with the "changelog" for the patch.
thats probably why they changed that

[ripe flame]

Nothing really. Currently mods are just collections of configs.

[merry mountain]

thats not true

there are also blueprinits mods, texture mods, mods changeing loclization jsons etc
but most mods are cfg mods yes

[ripe flame]

Modders just need to get new version of cfg and replace a value again 🙂

[gusty olive]

yo, did any of the mods break wit hthe patch?

[ripe flame]

Blueprint mods? For example?

[merry mountain]

Flashlight mod

[umbral linden]

yeah any links to blueprint mods would be useful for science.

[ripe flame]

Oh damn, didn't know it is based on a blueprint. Nice.

[merry mountain]

https://www.nexusmods.com/stalker2heartofchornobyl/mods/221

[umbral linden]

https://github.com/UE4SS-RE/RE-UE4SS anyone done anything with this?

[nimble gull]

I don't think any of mine did here's what I am using,

[merry mountain]

You can use it to call game functions yes, there is a mod that enables / disabled HUD on button press for example with it

[potent nymph]

I wonder if we can edit the blueprint to adjust muzzle flash light values

[ripe flame]

Sounds like a lot of lag 🙂

[grand verge]

does the sprint cost 50 seems to not be working for anyone else? *since the patch

[nimble gull]

Actually, it's the only one I noticed any problem with - it works but I don't seem to run out of stamina at all now.

[merry mountain]

why should it introduce lag?
game works totally fine with it
i run it with this on all the time

[polar osprey]

https://youtu.be/Lwgb9u54SsA?si=4XKO5RcZhVxMa-fe

[hallow sand]

I was about to post a clip of me with 30 Tuschka's running around me/into an anomoly and blowing up

while simultaneously 6 humans of some kind where unloading into them/me and dying to them

[delicate jacinth]

what its like patching on a old PC; download- 20 minutes; Patch-40 minutes; verify -25 minutes; install- 30 minutes

[polar osprey]

Ahah with my cpu that would be like 25fps

5700x3d

[hallow sand]

No lag whatsoever from this for me.

I'm gonna max settings

and now try.

[merry mountain]

most important question of them all
does the patch fix glass not have a breaking sound if you destroy it by throwing a bolt at it 😂

[umbral linden]

Look's like we got very minor performance improvements I think main ones will be long game sessions with fixed memory leaks.

[delicate jacinth]

i dont see a difference

[polar osprey]

yea memory leaks are more of an issue on longer play sessions, but I havent really experienced those yet

(Leak, had plenty “long” sessions) hah

[umbral linden]

Yeah it's almost within margin of error. I did have one issue where I was playing for a few hours and my fps just halved in town. I think that might be the biggest performance improvement if any that are noticable.

[earnest wolf]

Can anyone please link the mod for the mutant loot for me? I can't seem to find it on nexus mods.

[delicate jacinth]

hel yea a life extended already updated his. now just need mutant loot update

[merry mountain]

https://www.nexusmods.com/stalker2heartofchornobyl/mods/389
#1310037284954837063 message

[earnest wolf]

cheers

[gusty olive]

👍

[lusty sail]

Lol, without mods for perfomance, after patch I have 70-90 fps instead of 45-60

[delicate jacinth]

i was using engine. ini. once my game finishes the 5 step process to patch itself ill be able to see if it made it better for potatos

[merry mountain]

replace potatoe with onion, much better

[umbral linden]

I love it when people update there mod by changing the version number and a simple tested working if it doesn't even need an update haha

[delicate jacinth]

eventually lmao

[bold apex]

It's not compatible with the new patch btw - breaks localization

[merry mountain]

just remove the localization until they update it, the mutant loot items wiill have weird names but it works

[delicate jacinth]

i never used the localization file

its not necessary

[earnest wolf]

what does it do again?

[bold apex]

Wouldn't the items have no name/description then?

[delicate jacinth]

doesnt matter, theyre getting sold anyways. i never had an issue w it

[merry mountain]

they only have the variable names as names

so its not pretty

but okay

[bold apex]

Ah, good to know there a fallback at least

[hallow sand]

https://www.twitch.tv/epoxtv/clip/DarkCooperativeMetalKappaWealth-nEeIKs2EzimQ9sPj

Performance is better, also they didn't include that you can make your own anomolies now in the patch notes.

[ripe flame]

Is AES key changed with patch?

[hallow sand]

I'm almost postive that has to do with a physics mod I have, but who knows lmao

[stiff canyon]

tentacle anomaly mod* 😄

[merry mountain]

what the fuck is happening wiith the tushkano textures

[hallow sand]

They whip their hair back and forth they whip their hair back and forth

[delicate jacinth]

lmao wtf

[merry mountain]

you obviously need longer hair

[hallow sand]

I think it's my physics mod messing with something, but not sure yet.

[merry mountain]

im also a fellow long hair enjoyer

[balmy dawn]

which pakchunks are relevant

[merry mountain]

relevant for what

[balmy dawn]

cfgs

[merry mountain]

pakchunk0

[delicate jacinth]

wdym?

[balmy dawn]

tyty ❤️

ah well all others are pretty small

[raw crest]

what is the engine.ini line to disable shadows of grass?

[little seal]

yo does this work?

[hallow sand]

so yeah, with all those rag doll physics going on, and 30 dead rats, plus another 60 taht spawned in around myself and bandits it tanked my fps to a noticeable level.

[delicate jacinth]

its a CE injection. if you follow instructions theres no reason it shouldnt

[quiet scroll]

Did the patch break mods?

[hallow sand]

I was using it until this mod

[delicate jacinth]

dont know if update bricked it though

[tepid gulch]

NO

it doesnt work

[hallow sand]

OH

[rustic granite]

hey guys, wanna ask if someone is able to mod this one further to have it on 15% decrease repair, 50% sprint and 2hr days, instead of what it is now ?https://www.nexusmods.com/stalker2heartofchornobyl/mods/270?tab=files

[tepid gulch]

but ive got a different mod which works but it aint unlimited

[hallow sand]

YES THE UPDATE

[delicate jacinth]

usually CE type injections need updates after a game patch

[hallow sand]

^

I FORGOT

[high plaza]

man this is a hude update LETS GO

[hallow sand]

https://www.nexusmods.com/stalker2heartofchornobyl/mods/53

Use this one

[delicate jacinth]

oh finally its done

[hallow sand]

Simple, easy and works

[unreal glacier]

without a precise changelog, figuring out what needs to be updated is gonna suck

I literally just got finished with some homebrew edits of mods too, FML

[hallow sand]

They might still be fine man

[high plaza]

tbf they said in patch notes twice that 90+ bugs were fixed in one section alone

[hallow sand]

Depends how much they change.

[hallow sand]

Another said like 120 or so? it was fucking huge lmao

[high plaza]

yeah that explains why its a 13 gig update

[unreal glacier]

well, the other thing is even if the mods still work, they may reintroduce bugs that had been patched

[high plaza]

i just deleted all my mods

[radiant valve]

New update break mods?

[rustic granite]

i see, but i'm looking spesifically for a mod that has 15% decrease in repair cost, 2hr days/nights and 50% stamina

but yeaseems there isn't

[hallow sand]

I can point you to 3 mods that basically do that, but not one.

[rustic granite]

or if someone can possibly merge 3 seperate mods that does all 3, without comflicting/compatibility issues

[rustic granite]

sure

[hallow sand]

https://www.nexusmods.com/stalker2heartofchornobyl/mods/77

https://www.nexusmods.com/stalker2heartofchornobyl/mods/156

There, those 2 should be what yo uneed for all 3 of your pre-requisites

[rustic granite]

will they not conflict ?

[hallow sand]

Nope. Was using them both before I found different mods that had all of the same things

[rustic granite]

what mod/s you currently using that does all 3 then /

[hallow sand]

it only does the second and third

or the repair and one other

something like that and extra stuff

hang on

[rustic granite]

sorry what now

[hallow sand]

https://www.nexusmods.com/stalker2heartofchornobyl/mods/380?tab=posts

I use that, and reduced repair

Actually I don't even do reduced repair anymore.

[rustic granite]

how come

[hallow sand]

I have one that lets me sell broken guns, albeit at lower cost.

so i have money when I need it. I just run around, kill shit and turn shit in lmao.

[dire edge]

damn screw me sideways, didn't expect such a massive patch, luckily I wasn't finished making armor lead container changes so I'll wait till I can get the new CFGs

[hallow sand]

I have a mod that makes it a literal warzone, so there's a lot of junk laying around.

[rustic granite]

oooh

[hallow sand]

I beat the agme once, now im doing a big modded playthrough and helping test some mods etc.

[dire edge]

I used a mod that makes the weapons roll between 25 to 95% condition, so there's some value to scavenging weapons now

[hallow sand]

also trying my hand at learning to change file stuff, combine mods etc.

[rustic granite]

okay on the Longer days and less stamina cost mod, can you point me to the file that is this one in the descrip 2h IRL = 24h Game
50% less stamina cost

[hallow sand]

I prefer the selling broken guns, I miss being able to break dow nfor parts etc

[rustic granite]

ye idk how to do the merging yet

[dire edge]

well 'Was' till I see if its fine with the update

[hallow sand]

so this is like a basic "im selling a broken gun for parts at a reduced price"

[dire edge]

Yeah me too, although theres an NPC for it

But it didn't felt natural that everyone had broken weapons that worked perfectly fine

[hallow sand]

I gotta try the mutant loot too, but worried about the breaking my save.

[dire edge]

Stalkers and bandits are one thing, Ward and Military are another

[hallow sand]

EXACTLY

[rustic granite]

Epox.

[hallow sand]

I'm hoping someone does that too.

[hallow sand]

sec

[dire edge]

I can see Bandits not giving a damn about caring for weapons or Stalkers with finiancial problems, but Ward and Military shouldn't have any problems keeping theirs at tip top condition

[rustic granite]

the files doesn't do a great job of clearly pointing you to wich one of the files the one in the descrip is

[stiff canyon]

i only used "broken" weapons once and i thought the jamming was WAY to often for it beeing at like 40%ish

[hallow sand]

the first file days_plus_sprint_2_50.pak

2 is for 2hr and 50 is for stamina

❤️

glad to help

[rustic granite]

oooh is see

the thing also is, i wonder if someone can do this 8h IRL = 24h Game
25% less stamina cost

but make it 2 hr

instead of 8

[hallow sand]

ask them on there, he made a few for people asking

Or unpack the mod

change it

and repak

[rustic granite]

ye idk how to do that yet, but will ask

depends when he gonan reply hehe

[hallow sand]

days_plus_sprint_8_25.pak

noi no

this one is what you want

he already does

[rustic granite]

yes but it's 8hrs

for a day ?

[hallow sand]

OH

I see you said BUT make it 2

I misread that

[rustic granite]

ye ye

[hallow sand]

I mean you can just grab the 2 hour solo mod

and then get the 25% sprint from him

you'd just have to run 3 mods

[delicate jacinth]

oh man it feels so smooth now even without the engine.ini, but idk if it saved my settings from it or not maybe it is

[rustic granite]

what do you mean

[hallow sand]

there are mods that do all 3 of those seperate.

[rustic granite]

i see but aren't they going to conflict

and not work

[hallow sand]

nope

They're editing different things

[rustic granite]

mhmhm

i'll see quick

[hallow sand]

brb taking pups outsid

e

[warm dome]

Guys, does anyone know where the original WeaponData files are located to make my mods? Thanks a million!

[rustic granite]

@hallow sand they do conflict

😦

[delicate jacinth]

does the aim still feel wonky to anyone else

[gusty olive]

what is considered the best a-life mod currently? a-life extended still or something else?

[rustic granite]

lot of people use roadside panic

but i also don't know anymore, i'm gonna wiatr for GSC

to patch it

[dawn dawn]

Shay‘s

[delicate jacinth]

nothing really. a life extended has some that work to an extent,none of which are foolproof to the games code

[teal wing]

[rustic granite]

hello yerts

[hallow sand]

Damn 😦

[rustic granite]

wana ask are you able to marge mods ?

[delicate jacinth]

theyre all in beta stage basically they need feedback from users to improve on them

[hallow sand]

Yeah but just started, not really sure if I'm getting it right 100% of the time.

[bleak wedge]

Hello guys is there a way to access to the language files or subtitles files? I want to change some things in my language.

[rustic granite]

yeah ik, asked yerts though. but if you come right lmk

[hallow sand]

oh i thought it was meant for me ❤️

[rustic granite]

https://www.nexusmods.com/stalker2heartofchornobyl/mods/380?tab=description

i want to use this

but i don't want the ledge grabbing/climbing mod that's with it

[teal wing]

hiii

yes

[rustic granite]

can you do a favour for me pretty plz

😄

[teal wing]

yes but I’m going back to sleep first lol

[rustic granite]

fuck

😄

[teal wing]

I got 3 hour of sleep

[rustic granite]

okay, but. you see these 3 mods. they have conflict, but i want to use them

[proper forum]

homie needs da sleep

[rustic granite]

wrong reply, was for @teal wing

[hallow sand]

Out of curiosity, why dont you want the ledge part? It honestly helps with the half ass vault system XD

[rustic granite]

or yerts if it is possible for you to help with this mod, but just take out/remove the integrated mod that comes with it, the ledge climbing/grabbing one

[teal wing]

@rustic granite I saw a GUI mod for merging

[rustic granite]

tbh it feels clunky as fuck

[teal wing]

might be worth looking in to

[rustic granite]

mhmm, actually

alright, will have a look

these @teal wing

[hallow sand]

Fair fair.

[grand sequoia]

Ignorant question:

Do all .pak mods require an update, or only those modifying data the devs have changed on the update do?

[hallow sand]

out of curiosity... So if the there's an AR with a laser on it, could you copy paste that code for the laser onto say the m416?

Or is it not that simple?

I figure the m416 would be the best since it wouldn't look as off on it, would need the most minimal adjustments

[pulsar gate]

do I have to update mods?

[rustic granite]

best to always check your tracked mods for any new update and download and replace your current mod that is updated

[rustic granite]

to make sure it doesn't fuck with game if gsc did something

[cyan stirrup]

In unreal, anyone knows how I would be able to access the properties of a base game actor? I have the actor object but I don't know how to reach the data for said actor.

e.g. SID, ArmorDifferenceCoefProjectiles, etc. that would be in NPCBase : struct.begin {refurl=../ObjPrototypes.cfg;refkey=[0]}
how do I get a reference to the NPCBase struct through the actor?

[rustic granite]

anyone know where the shit stalker2.exe is located for pc game pass

[vital coyote]

check one of the engine mods

[honest mountain]

hello everybody

[vital coyote]

they have the file paths on there

the more popular ones atleast

[honest mountain]

did anybody have problems with importing ui textures? my pak file with new ui icon doesn't work

[raw crest]

Btw the white black foliage bug started happening to me as well

[dull willow]

any chads willing to post/host the post-update 'game data' folder 👀

[rustic granite]

lovely

[mint wraith]

merged mods are the most ridiculous thing when we have merging tools lmao, just endless spamming

[rustic granite]

trying to dinf it here though

[rustic granite]

you already did update aswell ?

so update did fuck all

[raw crest]

Yeah

[merry mountain]

just unpack it yourself, it takes almost no time

[vital coyote]

i cant see your file path

[rustic granite]

nice

[rustic granite]

ye i know, trying to find where the .exe is

[raw crest]

Shouldn't it be in stalker 2

At least in Steam

Previous folder

[rustic granite]

i'll give you an engine.ini, it kinda helped me

[raw crest]

The one with dots

[merry mountain]

Stalker2\Binaries\Win64 has exe in steam
and the main folder

[rustic granite]

that one

[vital coyote]

thought you were talking about something else this should be the same

[rustic granite]

is that stalker2.exe

[raw crest]

What's difference between that exe and other exe

[vital coyote]

the other checks for steam

or gog

or whatever

[raw crest]

I see

[rustic granite]

so this the .exe

[vital coyote]

kinda like a layerd shotcut

[rustic granite]

cuz i need it for the mod merger thing i downloaded, it needs stalker.exe

[vital coyote]

https://tenor.com/view/onions-have-layers-gif-7154017276425979182

[raw crest]

Guys so, Zalissiya bug has not been fixed yet?

[dull willow]

BUT IM SCARED. but alright it looks like fmodel for that, I'll check it out

[rustic granite]

dec you want my engine.ini, pretty sure it helped me with the bushes shit

[merry mountain]

is there no Stalker2.exe in the STALKER2 Folder?

[rustic granite]

not that i see

[mint wraith]

seems like it depends on how far you are, peeps reporting needing to restart game for it to be unbroken (and thats obvi untested still)

[raw crest]

I don't notice them so I don't wanna mess with my own file for now

[merry mountain]

#╟⚒stalker2™-mods-making-discussion message

[rustic granite]

this wha'ts in my stalker 2 folder

[rustic granite]

just make a backup of yours

[mint wraith]

brother in christ just run a search for any exe

[merry mountain]

maybe the modmerger you downloaded is not compatible with gamepass version

[rustic granite]

but alright

[merry mountain]

which would be stupid

[rustic granite]

thanks, should have thought of that

lol

[vital coyote]

gamepass dosnt like you fucking with certain things cause microsoft, but i think the crack stuff works

[raw crest]

Man why the hell did we wait for an update then 😭 literally cant finish the game

I will just loot all the valuable shit till they fix it i guess

[vital coyote]

would be cool to run a new game pluss type script thing, there are consol comands to print your inventory, would be cool to make it so you can spawn it in on a new save

[sand vault]

Ugh, this damn repak tool just corrupted my 8TB drive

[vital coyote]

seams like something you could do with blueprints

[sand vault]

Got hung up, had to force reboot while it was unpacking a big file

[radiant ledge]

Hey @rustic granite , how's the game? Did you reinstall?

[rustic granite]

i did, but using a new engine.ini and it seems to be a bit better, but still waiting for the update for game pass version

[radiant ledge]

Oh...right, Xbox is kinda slow for patches 😦

[sand vault]

Fun..

[wintry pond]

is there a config file i can change to make stamina not drain so it doesnt take 50 energy drinks to travel anywhere?

[vital coyote]

yes, not sure what they are but there are mods that do that on nexus

can just use them or copy their homework and make your own changes

[wintry pond]

they dont seem to work on the xbox game pass version idk why

[vital coyote]

may just be a conflict dont see why they wouldnt work

those tent to conflict with alot

[rustic granite]

yeah, anyways i'm trying to merge 3 mods but i downloaded a mod merger but it's not working for pc game pass version :/

sadge

the 3 mods i'm trying to use have conflicts

[vital coyote]

im writing up that part of my guid now

ill post it here for ya when im done

[rustic granite]

waht's this about ?

[vital coyote]

im putting all of my notes into a guid for pple

[radiant ledge]

what's throwing errors? The scripts doesn't want to accept the game exe location? Most likely it's the microsoft restriction thing, but you can probably try to circumvent it by feeding a path file to the program directly. @vital coyote spot me here if I'm totally wrong, please 🙂

[rustic granite]

no it just have conflicts

[rustic granite]

this

[vital coyote]

i havent used the auto merge tool yet, it can break stuff so i always do it manualy

not sure how that one in particular works

send the link to the tool you are using

https://www.nexusmods.com/stalker2heartofchornobyl/mods/326

is it this one

[rustic granite]

but these are the mods i'm trying to merge https://www.nexusmods.com/stalker2heartofchornobyl/mods/47 2x days https://www.nexusmods.com/stalker2heartofchornobyl/mods/77 20% repair https://www.nexusmods.com/stalker2heartofchornobyl/mods/48 50% sprinting

[vital coyote]

no not the mods the merge tool

there are like 50 of em

im not gunna merge em for ya im worken on stuff lol

[rustic granite]

yeah no i know

just saying want these 3 merged, but they have conflicts and the mod merger mod that i downloaded doesn't work for pc game pass

[vital coyote]

well what is it so i can look lol

lmao

[steel musk]

Just to point it out, but GSC decreased the global cost of Repair by 30% already (from 1.0 to 0.7). I forget what cfg file it was in

[rustic granite]

or doesn't want to use the .exe that i'm giving it, it's says wrong file path, although that is the .exe

[vital coyote]

ok i cant help you

[rustic granite]

i'll check

https://www.nexusmods.com/stalker2heartofchornobyl/mods/369

this

[vital coyote]

stoaked for this

but i also have to undo my mod xD

[rustic granite]

aah well still the longer days mod and sprint mod conflicts

[rustic granite]

ooh

well rip then

[vital coyote]

nahh just need an aes ke

ke

[rustic granite]

where the shit do i get that

[radiant ledge]

Are they the same between versions?

[vital coyote]

key* fuck my dam y keu

[radiant ledge]

Trave, give the man the key XD let him try

[rustic granite]

this is what it currently asks

[vital coyote]

[hidden wedge]

Hey, if I install mods with Vortex, can I still merge mods then?

[rustic granite]

so where does the key come

[vital coyote]

https://rentry.org/TravesS2moddingBible

it be in here

the key you seak

legality is a bit iffy

[rustic granite]

so where do i put this mysterious key

[vital coyote]

the answer you seak are in the tomes of the nexus pages

[rustic granite]

i don'r have a key.txt

yeah no i don't see shit like that

[vital coyote]

try editing the script with note pad ++ may see a place to slot it in there

like i said ive never uesed this tool

[rustic granite]

yeah

well

that's the script on notepad

😄

[vital coyote]

ctrl f and look for AES key

or just AES rather

[rustic granite]

unlucky

[vital coyote]

yee not sure mang

[rustic granite]

mhm, it ok

[vital coyote]

ill check this tool out l8ter tho

https://www.nexusmods.com/stalker2heartofchornobyl/mods/326

try this

havent tried this either

[rustic granite]

surely there's a mod that has 50% stamina and 2x longer days that doesn't conflict

[vital coyote]

but its automatic

[rustic granite]

but i looked and there ain't

oh wlel

[rustic granite]

yeah

[radiant ledge]

@rustic granite dm

let's try to fix it

[rustic granite]

even with these 2 they have conflict so, if only i had the knowledge of most of the guys in this discord :d

[rustic granite]

mhmm

[hushed glade]

so ive tried everything, trying to make a simple mod. ive followed the instructions to the T. it seems no matter how i do it, when i package a mod.pak file, it simply does not work.

can anyone provide guidance on what im doing wrong?

[vital coyote]

small enugh to send through discord?

[hushed glade]

55kb

[vital coyote]

drop it in

[hushed glade]

ok so i was testing with sprintcost_50. the mod works when i install the original. all ive done is extracted with fmodel and repacked with unrealpak. no changes. breaks the mod

[vital coyote]

everything looks ok to me

i unpacked it and repacked it

idk if that will help but it looks fine

[hushed glade]

ill test yours, thanks for taking the time, ill report back in a minute

[vital coyote]

o7

normaly my packer thing will have an error if its borked

and file structure looks fine but im unfamiliar with what your modding

[hushed glade]

mod still broken

[untold osprey]

guys have mod for sleepbag?

[vital coyote]

so how is it broken

[vital coyote]

not yet

like is it not working in game or something

[untold osprey]

sprint reload?

[hushed glade]

the stamina mod breaks when i repacked it. no changes done. not working in game after packing it
all i really want to do is make it so radiation does not degen on its own, i want it to stick around until i use consumables to get rid of radiation

[vital coyote]

dont think so, but maybe. im like 90% no on that

[hushed glade]

if i can figure out how to repack a mod so it still works, then i can edit one of these mods to do the radiation changes

[vital coyote]

but i heard pple talking about how to make it work

[vital coyote]

did you check for conflicts? alot of mods fuck with that one

[ebon swan]

did the update break mods?

[vital coyote]

nahh

[hushed glade]

i can try the conflict merge thing, but the mod works when i install the original

[vital coyote]

run the conflict checker thing

[hushed glade]

it breaks after extracting with fmodel and repacking with unrealpak. with no changes

[vital coyote]

just scans your mod folder for mods that use the same files

https://www.nexusmods.com/stalker2heartofchornobyl/mods/290

[hushed glade]

ill check that, but i dont think its a conflict

cause the mod works when installing the original

[vital coyote]

ohh gotcha

can you send the original

[hushed glade]

sure

its really any mod though, im using this one for testing whether im packing it correctly before trying to make edits

[vital coyote]

yeah for sure hold up

[hushed glade]

take your time <3

[vital coyote]

yeah man they are exactly the same even checked for typos

wierd

[hushed glade]

i think i may be packing incorrectly

[vital coyote]

so you didnt chage the variables at all yet?

[hushed glade]

no changes. simply extracting the files with fmodel, and repacking as per instructions. then the mod doesnt work ingame. so edits would be pointless

[vital coyote]

so how do you know the mod isnt working in game? (also gsc may have changed this )