╟⚒stalker2™-mods-making-discussion

[vital coyote]

have you tried to find the file post update

[hushed glade]

i go ingame and run around to see if stamina is draining like vanilla or slower as the mod should

the mod works fine if i install the original without repacking it

[vital coyote]

begone bot

lies

dirty lies

i dont talk in discord servers that arent my own so idk what to do lol

wench

we will not fall for your fithy lies

[hushed glade]

lol np, i may give up for now and just enjoy the game

unless someone is willing to make the mod for me, should be really simple

no radiation degen. consumables required to get rid of it

or sleep

i would honestly pay if that makes a difference

[vital coyote]

send me your naked cfg

no packing unpacking

just the original file you want to put in

[hushed glade]

well i was trying to figure out which variable would do it. i think i know which one, ill send in a second

[vital coyote]

also could be setting a variable that isnt suported or something

like persay you set something to 1.5 and the limit is 1

[hushed glade]

yeah i did think of that, so i was trying like .01 to see the difference, then i started this process to see if im just breaking the mods to begin with which brought me here

but in objprototypes.cfg under the section for player. there is a variable DegenRadiation = .05

[sharp oasis]

Mods broke with update?

[hushed glade]

no the mod i was testing works before trying to change it

[vital coyote]

why dont you just take the base mod without any of the extra changes, but lower the stam cost to something like 40% just to see if it works

then use proccess of elimination if it dose

make small changes

[hushed glade]

yeah but the mod breaks when i repack it without making any changes at all

[vital coyote]

well fuck

[fresh yew]

anyone get CTD when trying to get to Rostok?

[vital coyote]

yeah im not sure man may need a bigger brain then mine on this one im stumped

[hushed glade]

haha i appreciate you taking the time to help me figure this out

[vital coyote]

ill try to install it l8ter myself but my game isnt launchable rn

[hushed glade]

if anyone is willing to make a simple mod for a quick fiver hmu

[vital coyote]

and nw, im learning too so its cool to take on challenges like these

[rare ruin]

does anyone here have the deluxe or ultimate edition of Stalker 2

[cobalt hamlet]

Rezen is broken since update or its me ?

[cobalt hamlet]

deluxe yep

[rare ruin]

what exo armor does deluxe come with if you know, or if it even does

[cobalt hamlet]

dont know tbh

toomuch modding xD

i dont even get hands on exo

[rare ruin]

asking because my mod doesn't seem to work, and someone brought up that the exoskeletons for the editions are in an entirely different cfg file

so now... I need to make a version that works with those

[cobalt hamlet]

Okay i see

Do you know if Rezen is broken since the update ?

i'm not able to repack now

[tulip wagon]

Should we remove the Economy/difficulty mod until patch?

[vital coyote]

i dont think that it will break anything persay but it will overwrite any changes gsc made

[void owl]

Hi, sorry if this is considered spam. But i once again would like to ask for guidance on how we could cook and pack these files.
https://github.com/Felicheat/STALKER2_Modding/tree/master/zz_DynamicWeatherAssets_P/Stalker2/Content/light/Curves

It would be so great to restore the removed weather

[frank summit]

Anyone had luck finding the map?

[vital coyote]

havent seen it yet

[crimson laurel]

anybody knows what engine.ini line makes the scope like that?

[balmy dawn]

there any mod that fixes the eye adaptation

or disables it

[short saffron]

do mods need updating if they're just .cfg?

[crimson laurel]

yes

[void owl]

Ive so far figured out that, we need to build a Primary Data Asset as some kind of Blueprint, then from that you can build the DataAsset for each weather which then references each CurveFloat asset. Seems like a lot of work, but, damn would be great to get working....

[mystic lion]

you can try that one but not sure if it work

https://www.nexusmods.com/stalker2heartofchornobyl/mods/137

[balmy dawn]

tyty

[merry mountain]

no

or : to integrate the updates made to the cfgs, yes

if the cfg did not change with the update, no

[unkempt grove]

i also have this issue. im on steam version however, did you happen to find anything that fixed it? engine.ini makes no difference

[rustic granite]

i have an engine.ini currently that works for me, or made it a little bit better, can send if you want

other than that, apparenty someone on reddit said bsg is aware of this and a fix is in the works

but i myself gonna have to wait longer, since i still have not yet gotten the first patch for pc game pass

so

[unkempt grove]

sure, ill give it a try and let you know how it reacts to mine

[rustic granite]

alright

[vital coyote]

kinda bullshit yall dont have it yet

[rustic granite]

yeah

stil on version 1.6.4

or whatever

1.6.420.0

[empty dirge]

Just xbox things

[vital coyote]

^

[rustic granite]

@unkempt grove

just play around with it if you find bushes very closeby losing quality and if you get further they go back to normal, still tryna figure that one out myself

[unkempt grove]

ive got a quicksave in a perfect spot for testing it. ill check it rn

[rustic granite]

aight

this didn't decrease my fps so just letting you know

[rustic granite]

apparently someone said there is still issues with quests

for zalissiya

[vital coyote]

well yeah the game is gunna still be a mess

they did put alot more in then i was expecting tho

im suprized

[buoyant blaze]

hello, did the patch break mods?

[vital coyote]

dosnt look like it

but mods wont have the changes gsc made, will overite anything

[buoyant blaze]

other than now rebalanced t hings are being rebalanced twice by the patch and the mod

oh so its just a substitute

I mean they basically did the same shit as I did with the configs so

Im not gonna rip my entire pack to try and readjust it to the new values

meh

[earnest wolf]

And if you have mods that reduce mutant health already, it makes the game too easy even on Veteran difficulty.

[vital coyote]

^ agree

[junior portal]

guy's, did you check the new game patch? Which mods still recommend to using?

[vital coyote]

game is super easy

[unkempt grove]

fixed the case i was testing against. seems to have an effect but imma keep playing and see how it works overall. thanks for sharing this

[vital coyote]

havent played post patch yet

[short saffron]

just don't want to do extra work if I don't have to. thanks

[gaunt lotus]

Hoping they do a balance pass on the weapons/calibers quickly

Some of these numbers make no goddamn sense

[mystic lion]

Anyone know if some .cfg file have change with the update ?

[gaunt lotus]

iirc they changed the .cfgs that contain mutant health, weapon durabilities and trader repair rates

probably more

I would just compare the patch notes to any .cfg mods you're running

[mystic lion]

yeah but don't got the update at the moment
i'm on gamepass

[mystic lion]

oh yea my bad i see what you mean

[gaunt lotus]

If you have .cfg mods, they will continue to overwrite anything they did with the update

[mystic lion]

okok thanks you

[remote tendon]

Guy legit made a text file download with a nexus link inside it to another mod wtf ahaha
https://www.nexusmods.com/stalker2heartofchornobyl/mods/496?tab=description

It leads to this https://www.nexusmods.com/site/mods/1107

[rare ruin]

guys this mod is gonna take me such a long ass time but what ARs do you think a newbie bandit stormtrooper would have?

"stormtrooper" is the in-file name for a class that has two weapons and a pistol

currently they can have an AR416 and AK74

[merry mountain]

hey at least you can support his great work an become a patreon member

[unkempt grove]

that one ran a little worse than the usual ini i use (found in mod posting somewhere, not my work), so i added over some of the relavent lines. if you or anyone else is interested in this fix. works fine for me so far

[sage trail]

they changed encryption key lol

anybody got the new one?

[summer silo]

Get it yourself, lol

[remote tendon]

Its not hard to get a new one

[desert abyss]

https://github.com/CnRJay/Stalker-2-Dump-Files
here is a repo with gamedata and headers dumps for each patch so far. I will keep it updated

[rare ruin]

did they change the encryption key? I'm in FModel

[sage trail]

no shit bro

[desert abyss]

every update will change the key

[remote tendon]

yes with a new update

[desert abyss]

u have to dump its yourself

[rare ruin]

Ahhhhh I see

[desert abyss]

takes 2 seconds

[unkempt grove]

fixed white vegetation v3

[vital coyote]

for real? lame ill make a new one

[storm tartan]

Hi, I'm very new to this but come from IT background. I got Fmodel running, got the usmap file and got the key. I can now locate for example ArmorPrototypes.cfg inside the pakchunk0-Window.pak but where can I find the CoreVariables.cfg? I want to see how this looks like after the latest update as I have this in one of the mods I am using.

[sage trail]

i believe its in utoc not pak but im not in fmodel rn to see

[storm tartan]

how do I know which .utoc file?
I tried the 0 one but that only has:

[sage trail]

no i mean pakchunk0-Windows.utoc

or something

[tribal wren]

Worst else does this include

[radiant ledge]

and if we take out all the irrelevant bits? What made the change? r.Color.Mid variable didn't work for me at all, btw

[tribal wren]

I’ve noticed with another engine ini I have it makes trees in distance white

[sage trail]

if you give me 10 minutes i can help

[storm tartan]

thats the file I just checked. it only has those 4 .uasset files in the GameData. no GlobalVariables.cfg file in there.

[storm tartan]

sure! I really appreciate it ❤️ will ping in you 10

[sage trail]

👍

[pulsar rock]

Do we know if the patch has broken any of the more popular mods? I dont have a lot, but am worried about the optimization mod I have, as well as A-Life extended and Grok's econ/balance mod

[nimble gull]

seems to work fine

[sage trail]

its changed a lot of balancing issues like economy, mutants, combat and ai etc. so i would imagine they would overwrite the patch

[sand vault]

Does anyone know if the cfg files that edit carry weight were changed with the patch?

[pulsar rock]

Gotcha, I may remove Grok's econ patch then and see how it is

[rare ruin]

god this is gonna take me so long

[sand vault]

Or does anyone have the updated cfg files?

Cause I just got done fixing my corrupted MBR on my drive after repak corrupted it, and really don't want to unpack that big pak again

[sage trail]

@sand vault check this

[sand vault]

Thank you!

[noble moss]

anyone knows if grok's less consumables mod work with the new patch ?

[rustic granite]

dm me

[merry mountain]

repak cannot corrupt the MBR of your harddrive lol , that not how it works

[desert valve]

pretty sure GSC changed something in ObjPrototypes.cfg which breaks a couple of mods

[desert abyss]

is there a mod that can add this to the modding resource?

[desert abyss]

they did

[desert valve]

MBR? what year is it?

[merry mountain]

also that yes

[unkempt grove]

its just an engine ini from mod posting ive had since one of the first couple days + these lines relating to foliage

foliage.MaxOcclusionQueriesPerComponent=32
foliage.SplitFactor=6
foliage.LODDistanceScale=2
foliage.LODDistanceScale=2
fg.CullDistanceScale.Bushes=2

im not familiar with coding/ini stuff, but this kept performance decent and retained the vegetation fix for me

[rustic granite]

what vegetation fix you reffering to ?

[unkempt grove]

the one oyu sent

[rustic granite]

foliage.LODDistanceScale=2
foliage.LODDistanceScale=2

these ones the smae ?

[rustic granite]

the white bushes ?

[unkempt grove]

yea

[vital coyote]

yeah you can drop one

[rustic granite]

and how is the enigine.ini i sent you running ?

[unkempt grove]

it dropped performance a bit

[rustic granite]

mhmm strange, for me it didn't ?

what hardweare ?

[unkempt grove]

but it fixed the vegetation. also introduced a weird LOD bug with the birch trees

so i removed tree edits

[rustic granite]

what lod bug ?

[unkempt grove]

im running 9700xtx w ryzen 5 5600x

[rustic granite]

mhmm

[merry mountain]

GT710 still viiable to play stalker 2 bois?

with intel core 2 duo
which ini do i need

[unkempt grove]

it made birch trees specifically use a really shit LOD up until you were within like 20 feet lol

all other trees were fine tho

idk why

[rustic granite]

can you by any chance point out what tree lines you removed

i pretty sure i have that issues as well

[sage trail]

im having an issue with AESDumpster it keeps giving me the aes key from last patch even though my shipping.exe is updated? anyone else have this issue

[rustic granite]

or do you still have the same problem with the lod bug

[unkempt grove]

yea one sec

no its gone now

[rustic granite]

okay, lmk what you removed please

[storm tartan]

@sage trail you free now?

[rustic granite]

from my engine.ini

that i sent you

[sage trail]

yeah but my AESdumpster is giving me the wrong key for some reason

[summer silo]

Welp. Tried all solutions with ChatGPT but it seems like there is no way to create overrides for specific values instead of replacing entire files.

[storm tartan]

can I dm you mine or is it unique per install?

[sage trail]

yeah

[unkempt grove]

StaticMeshLODBias=-2
r.SkeletalMeshLODBias=-5
fg.CullDistanceScale.Trees=2

i think i left these out of my combined one

[merry mountain]

its the same for everyone

[rustic granite]

sure ?

[unkempt grove]

yea i dont have those in mine

[rustic granite]

alright thanks,

[rustic granite]

and you say these fixxed the bushes

[unkempt grove]

for me yea

[rustic granite]

also did you encounter bushes that has not fully loaded in/good quality if you're very close to them, but if you move further away the render betetr ?

or know what it could be ?

[tidal yew]

what exactly is this engine.ini for and are engine.ini modifications compatible with the s2 optimize mod :o

[rustic granite]

no optimz mods overwrite the enging.ini

afaik

[unkempt grove]

yea ive noticed a lighting bug when youre close on certain ones. ill see if i can find out what the cause is. prob not rn though, boutta dip

[rustic granite]

alright

but you don't have the issue of when you close to some bushes, it has not rendered fully, but if you move further away it goes back to normal with full render etc

[vital coyote]

its like visual settings you cant change in game, s2 optimized dose the same thing but a diffrent way, you can also test these changes but running them in the consol while in game to see what they do without restarting the game

[unkempt grove]

not that no

[rustic granite]

mhmm, know what might cause it

[unkempt grove]

mine just loses shadows for some reason when really close to specific kind

no idea

[rustic granite]

from these lines i have

r.Streaming.LimitPoolSizeToVRAM=1
r.VSync=0
r.GTSyncType=2
r.EyeAdaptationQuality=1
r.StaticMeshLODDistanceScale=3
foliage.LODDistanceScale=2
fg.CullDistanceScale.Bushes=2
r.Nanite.Streaming.MaxPageInstallsPerFrame=16
r.Nanite.Streaming.MaxPendingPages=16
r.InstanceCulling.OcclusionCull=1
r.Refraction.OffsetQuality=1
r.VRS.Enable=1
r.ViewDistanceScale=2
r.Shadow.DistanceScale=1
r.Lumen.Reflections.DownsampleFactor=1
r.MipMapLODBias=-3
r.MaterialQualityLevel=1
r.Color.Mid=0.4
sg.ResolutionQuality=80
r.Shadow.FilterMethod=1
foliage.MaxOcclusionQueriesPerComponent=32
foliage.SplitFactor=6
foliage.LODDistanceScale=2
fg.CullDistanceScale.Bushes=2

[rustic granite]

yeah mine does this thing as when you very close to it, it like loses all the leaves, and just looks like a dried/dead bush, but if you move further away it is a life bush with leaves

if that makes sense

[unkempt grove]

idk, id just remove or change values in anything related to bushes or foliage and see if it changes the issue youre dealing with and keep track of what does and doesnt have an effect

[rustic granite]

yeah

[vital coyote]

run them in the consol without restarting your game

ohh shit game pass cant use the console, my bad

[rustic granite]

yup

[high lintel]

I made a translation rus of the bear detector)

[rustic granite]

been there tried that

so fucking stupid

[vital coyote]

it is

[sage trail]

can someone dm me aes key, aesdumpster gives me last patch key?

or is it bugged for anyone else?

[vital coyote]

key sites suck but you can pick up s2 from cdkeys for 43 bucks rn

[rustic granite]

still wonder what could cause it for the bushes, but guess i'll have to manually fucking remove/edit line the launch game,close game,launch game

stupid

[rustic granite]

mmh

[sage trail]

cdkeys is goated

[tidal yew]

hm my performance in non populated areas is 55-60 fps but the trees and bushes popping in is kinda annoying

idk if thats fixable

[vital coyote]

ehhh its usualy stolen and hurts devs but its good for saving a buck and having a legit copy

its a catch 22

[rustic granite]

use this for pop-ins

[vital coyote]

i bought it because resons lol

[rustic granite]

i don't have as much pop-ins with this engine.ini

[sage trail]

just use it on bad game devs or pirate it

[tidal yew]

oh oki

wheres engine.ini again

[storm tartan]

does anyone know where the CoreVariables.cfg is located? Looking for it in FModel but cant seem to find it in any of the .pak and .utoc archies. I know its under Stalker2\Content\GameLite\GameData but still cant fine the CFG

[sage trail]

like ubi games

[vital coyote]

usualy

but i like gsc

fuck ubi all my homies hate ubi

[rustic granite]

idk for steam but for game pass it is here C:\Users\john\AppData\Local\Stalker2\Saved\Config\WinGDK

[sage trail]

fr

[vital coyote]

i dont even want to pirate them so many better games to play

[sage trail]

I just learned AC shadows will have denuvo lmao

[tidal yew]

ah i dont have an engine.ini there should i just make one

[rustic granite]

steam/gamepass ?

[vital coyote]

deeeeeeennnnuuuvooo

[tidal yew]

steam

[rustic granite]

this adress is for gamepass, dunno where steam is located

[merry mountain]

Best console command
XTestCrashNullptr

[tidal yew]

no i found the steam folder but it just didnt have an engine.ini

[lusty sail]

pakchunk0-Windows.pak

[warped plover]

Are mods broken with the new patch?

[rustic granite]

hang on

[tidal yew]

i made one and put it in there ^-^

[rustic granite]

just drop that in there

whereever all these are located for steam

[vital coyote]

windows plus r key %appdata% then this

[vital coyote]

no

[rustic granite]

remove it, and replace with this

[tidal yew]

whats the point of the core.system etc

[sage trail]

nobody got steam aes key?

[vital coyote]

there is no engine.ini if you dont make one

[storm tartan]

thanks, I checked there but I just have folders there:

[tidal yew]

ya

[vital coyote]

not the new one yet but i will when im done working on shiz

old aes is busted

[sage trail]

nice, for some reason aesdumpster isnt working for me

[rustic granite]

so just remove the engine.ini that you current;y have, and replace it with the file i sent you

[last mirage]

whats your specs and peformance lookingg like?

[rustic granite]

.

[lusty sail]

Select GameData folder and select packages tab in fmodel

[merry mountain]

select folder, click packages
or just unpack using repak

[rustic granite]

rtx 3060, i5 13600k, 32gb 4000mhz. running 80-130

[tidal yew]

yeah but whats the path stuff for etc

[rustic granite]

it auto generates, just leave it

[storm tartan]

OMG! of course! I am stupid 😄 I am just too used to IntelliJ / Visual Studio Code folder representation that I expected all files to be visible in that tab 😄 Thank you so much!

[hallow hound]

We need a mod that lets us walk with the inventory open like the old games

[sage trail]

relatable lol

[merry mountain]

how can you mention IntelliJ and Visual Studio code in the same sentence

pretty sure thats punishable by death

i have intense hate for VSC

[tidal yew]

@rustic granitedoes this affect the shader precompiling or is that bcuz of the new patch cuz i didnt have it when i started

[storm tartan]

there is Corporate coding environement and then there is personal project coding env 🙂

[storm tartan]

I am updating my game now

[merry mountain]

but IntelliJ is better for absolutly everything, so why use VSC for personal projects

[sage trail]

cool lmk if it works for you

[rustic granite]

every time there is a new update it should compile shaders, (if you didn't disable the shader compile warmup), but other than that no it shouldn't

[tidal yew]

well before it did it on every start for people

[storm tartan]

I like the UI and performance more 🙂

[rustic granite]

if you have one now, i'd personally say keep it, it came with the game and it's there for a reason

[rustic granite]

yeah still does for me

[sage trail]

i prefer IntelliJ UI its more modernish

[latent ruin]

can you guys help me with something : ), i am trying to make my own death screen , followed the tutorial injecting them , got the repak that makes the 3 files but it seems that whatever I do the files are all 1 kb

[tidal yew]

tthe trees are still popping around like crazy

[rustic granite]

mhmm, strange. for me it doesn't

[tidal yew]

it wouldnt be that bad if the model wasnt completely different?? like the entire tree model just has different branch positions etc

[storm tartan]

@tidal yew whats you in game setting for rendering distance? do you have it maxed out?

[atomic jacinth]

Intellij is pretty terrible for non-project based setup or for languages it doesn't have any support for.

[rustic granite]

in settings try setting environmental and foliage to epic, the last 2 settings i think

[tidal yew]

same tree

[merry mountain]

yyeah sure, if it does not support the lang, use another proper real IDE instead of vsc

[tidal yew]

hmm oki

You think it's possible to add the inspect animations on the arena as an actual function

trees still popping, different ones but ig slightly better and didnt affect fps

[slim yew]

why is this happening? has this always been a thing?

[storm tartan]

@tidal yew
here's what I am using for LOD. I am not sure if all these are LOD related to be fair.

r.ViewDistanceScale=1.5
r.StaticMeshLODDistanceScale=0.5
foliage.LODDistanceScale=3
r.SkeletalMeshLODBias=-1
r.Shadow.CSM.MaxCascades=2
r.Shadow.DistanceScale=1.5
r.Shadow.CSMDepthBias=1

[tidal yew]

does it save if i enter them on uetools

[rustic granite]

i too have this, yet to find a solution

also makes this little small cubes every time you turn right ?

[merry mountain]

easy, delete cuustom engine ini

[rustic granite]

does that without it for me to hehe

[slim yew]

yeah every single time i turn at high speed

[rustic granite]

yup, same

[storm tartan]

I think its custom Lumen config in Engine.ini

[vital coyote]

ok done adding in how i check for conflicts unpack and repack mods and how i combine config files, ima go play cheekie breekie sim now https://rentry.org/TravesS2moddingBible

[rustic granite]

onyl thing lumen related is these r.Lumen.Reflections.DownsampleFactor=1

r.EyeAdaptation.LuminanceMax=1.2
r.EyeAdaptation.LuminanceMin=0.8

[rustic granite]

this one is for RR reflections being bustewd though

[rustic granite]

if you do find a fix please lmk

[slim yew]

will do for sure

[rustic granite]

i'll look on my end too

personally i think it's something to do with shadows or skybox

[tidal yew]

oke i found an ini that works but -10 fps on average does hurt lols

[storm tartan]

@sage trail got the same key as well now that I updated

[sage trail]

yup

[storm tartan]

were you able to get a different one from anyone?

[sage trail]

maybe aesdumpster is outdated somehow idk

[sage trail]

no

unfortunately not

[vital coyote]

ooo im done let me try it

[storm tartan]

why do you need a different key btw? I just generated new usmap file and Fmodel seems to be working fine as before. Are you getting some errors in Fmodel?

[light saddle]

Which A life mod is everyone using right now?

[vital coyote]

https://discord.com/channels/912320241713958912/1311758650733236335

[light saddle]

Most stable?

[vital coyote]

looks like it

[light saddle]

No one spawning behind me to give me a heart attack? Lol

[vital coyote]

tested a bit didnt noticed any dips

[light saddle]

Cool gonna try that out

[vital coyote]

go check the chanel lots of pple working on it by the looks of it

[fallen umbra]

Do you think it's a good idea to use the Weapones Rebalance mod with the Realistic Damage (Humans Only) mod? Or could it ruin the experience? I want something realistic but not too easy.

[vital coyote]

got it and put it on my site for safe keeping https://discord.com/channels/912320241713958912/1312154196383895702

[desert abyss]

using r.ViewDistanceScale breaks LODs

[storm tartan]

I just noticed one very strange thing in Fmodel. It shows me also my modded PAK file. For example my zzzzMergedMods_P.pak. When I open the CoreVariables.cfg inside the modded archive in Fmodel it has the exact same content as the vanilla CFG inside pakchunk0-Windows.pak but I know for a fact that the contents are different. I can even confirm it by using Repak to unpack the zzzzMergedMods and inspecting the CFG file there it is indeed different than the vanilla one. So how come in Fmodel they look the same? 😮

[desert abyss]

because fmodel is bugged

[storm tartan]

ah of course 😄 So it cannot be used for mods file but only for vanilla files for which the USMAP file was generated?

[sand vault]

Are mutants still super tanky?

[desert abyss]

dont use mod paks when using fmodel

[storm tartan]

as in - dont inspect them in fmodel or completely remove them from the ~mods folder?

[desert abyss]

yea remove. then dump the whole gamedata folder

then add them back

[storm tartan]

do I have to re-generate the USMAP file without mods as well then?!

[tacit yarrow]

Am i an idiot, or is the xbox gamepass update for stalker not out yet? here 6+ hours later

[storm tartan]

omg I never noticed! I justed test it and you are right!
this is with r.ViewDistanceScale=1.5

and this is without

[desert abyss]

just use foliage lod distance

[wide sonnet]

Is there any way to use either Enable Input or Enhanced Input? I've tried both, but neither worked, so I ended up using Is Input Key Down on Tick as a workaround.

[daring notch]

So I still have all the mods for stalker 2 grok posted a bit back. Is this update gonna bork them if anyone knows?

[storm tartan]

Now I have:
r.ViewDistanceScale=1.5
r.StaticMeshLODDistanceScale=0.5
foliage.LODDistanceScale=3
r.SkeletalMeshLODBias=-1

shoud I only keep
foliage.LODDistanceScale=3

?

[desert abyss]

just remove view distance scale

[storm tartan]

thank you

@desert abyss

[rustic granite]

i don't see a diff, personally

or am i blind

[storm tartan]

blind 🙂

[rustic granite]

mhmm what's the diff then

[desert abyss]

maybe

[storm tartan]

here grandpa

[desert abyss]

might as well

[rustic granite]

aaaah

thats wierd though

why would it break it if it just makes the distance to see it further

strange

[storm tartan]

the way they receive light breaks somehow

[dusky agate]

also have this issue at specific weathers or times, sometime reloading the save fixes it

[rustic granite]

it does the opposite

lol

[rustic granite]

same here, but i think personally it's a skybox thing or soemthing to do with shadows

[rustic granite]

wierd

[hallow sand]

if a mod has _P after in it's name, will that load last?

[desert abyss]

no

[cloud rose]

does reshade work for S2?

[hallow sand]

thank you.

[desert abyss]

yes

[dusky agate]

also, sometimes the sky just looks like

like u can see the polygons? idk how to describe it, u can see lines of small squares during high speed camera turning

[rustic granite]

the game is nice and all, but really gsc has their work cut out for them

they should have baked this in the oven a lil more

😄

[dusky agate]

i thought it was artifacting from frame gen/dlss

or smth

[rustic granite]

but not arguin, i love the game as is

[rustic granite]

could be

[desert abyss]

is it with an engine ini

[dusky agate]

they delayed it a LOT of times so it wouldve hurt the mainstream hype to delay again, combined with i assume some publishing pressure

im sure most stalker fans wouldve preffered a polished delayed release but this game got a shit ton of mainstream attention

[rare ruin]

i finally finished one faction

[rustic granite]

yo wanna know something, what happends if you increase this r.StaticMeshLODDistanceScale=0.5, i see most people keep it on 0.5

[rare ruin]

i had to create 952 lines for this

[rustic granite]

yeah, but now gsc has a shit ton of work to do

[dusky agate]

what i dont get is why not specify its early acces

[desert abyss]

default is 1

[rustic granite]

what does it do if you incrase it

[desert abyss]

makes the lod transition earlier

[rustic granite]

current;y mine on 3

[desert abyss]

jesus

lmao

[dusky agate]

dawg

lmfao

[rustic granite]

is that wrong

[desert abyss]

yes

[serene gust]

After Patch my mods not working and Game isnt launching. You guys have the Same issue

[desert abyss]

keep it 1 or 0.5

[rustic granite]

meaning what, takes longer to load ?

[desert abyss]

no

[tepid gulch]

just in case how do i backup my game save file?

[rare ruin]

btw if you're wondering what the mod I posted is, is it's attempting to give more variety to enemies, I am going to be adding/removing weapons for some factions and their ranks, but that was just the Bandit faction's classes and ranks

[rustic granite]

faster to load ?

[desert abyss]

yes

[rustic granite]

so why is 3 bad ?

[desert abyss]

2 is twice as fast / half the distance

[rustic granite]

3 slower then a lower number ?

soo ?, you're saying if it's on 0.5 it's faster to load, but if the number goes higher takes slower/longer to load ?

[desert abyss]

keeping it at 1 allows the game to use the LOD the developers set in the engine

but it could be different since they are using a custom ue5 build

[rustic granite]

so this waht it means then ?

[desert abyss]

setting 3 makes the lod change much much closer to the player than vanilla

u basically did the opposite of what u wanted

[rustic granite]

does 3 explain why bushes trees load in infront of my eyes, like for example a bush if i'm near it, it's not renderd, but if i'm further away it's normal ?

[desert abyss]

default is 1
0.5 makes meshes maintain higher LOD at a longer distance

[rustic granite]

or not

[neat thistle]

What these letters mean?

Game stage?

[desert abyss]

essential quest, side quest?

[neat thistle]

Like, from starting areas on top going to late game areas in the bottom of the list

[neat thistle]

There's also these

[desert abyss]

looks like a sid

[desert abyss]

https://github.com/CnRJay/Stalker-2-Dump-Files/tree/main/SIDs

[neat thistle]

Oh yeah. I see. Thanks

Useful sheet, btw

Damn. Adding new lootables to quest rewards and static dead bodies is gonna be hell of a job!

hehe

[rustic granite]

broo, game pass still hasn't released update for S2

fuckers

honestly

[neat thistle]

Really? lmao

wtf

[rustic granite]

yup

stil on 1.6.420.0

[tough scroll]

Are mutants nerfed on all dificulties in new update or just rookie?

[rustic granite]

and it's already 23:30 my time

steam released the update what, 4hrs ago

[rustic granite]

want the patch notes

[vital coyote]

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

[rustic granite]

beat me to it

[tough scroll]

thanks

[rustic granite]

still said thanks to me @vital coyote 😄

[desert abyss]

idk why but my game looks super good post patch

before it a blurry mess

[rustic granite]

wish i can see CnR

but nah game pass is a bitch

[vital coyote]

still havent launched the thing

[vital coyote]

ik wtf xD

[rustic granite]

hahah, suck it

[vital coyote]

[rustic granite]

xD

you know what

[rustic granite]

thank you so much

[tough scroll]

I got the update on gamepass

[rustic granite]

woow

[vital coyote]

finafuckingly

[rustic granite]

i should have said soemthing earlier

[rare ruin]

hey so, I was told there is supposed to be a new AESKey, why exactly can I still see the files as if they aren't encrypted with the old AESKey?

[rustic granite]

just got it now too lol

[vital coyote]

yeah

[storm tartan]

how can I add comments to Engine.ini just to keep notes for myself without breaking the parsing?

[rare ruin]

wouldn't my files be encrypted still?

[rustic granite]

can't afaik, i just make a text notepad on desktop

[vital coyote]

can find stuff on this link lol being sneaky nudge nudge

[rustic granite]

maybe you can

[vital coyote]

https://discord.com/channels/912320241713958912/1312154196383895702

[rustic granite]

11.7 gbs

cool

[vital coyote]

not sure but if its acessing files that has a new aes it might

[rustic granite]

that's actually big for a first patch tbh

[vital coyote]

ran the aesdump a little bit ago on the new patch

[storm tartan]

gives the same key

[vital coyote]

yeah im pleasently surprised

[rustic granite]

comparing this to CB2077 first patch that was like 30gb's or some shit, and after first patch game still looked and felt like ass, even worse without a first patch 😄

[tepid gulch]

any working stamina mod to increase it?

[rare ruin]

fmodel deadass is just working with the older key still, i think its somehow reading an old install

[rustic granite]

apparently it's okau now, should go play it again sometime, was hyped for that aswell. but then i fucked straight off when i started playing. game was so shit at launch

[vital coyote]

no clue i was told erlier by some pple there was a new key and they couldnt get in

so i just ran the dump tool on a fresh install

[desert abyss]

yea they used the same aes key

[storm tartan]

couldnt that be bcos they used old USMAP file?

[rare ruin]

😩

[vital coyote]

i thouht it would be wierd to change the encryption thing if they are just gunna give tools soon

[atomic jacinth]

for any NPP users I've added a dark mode UDL language support file to my syntax tools: https://discord.com/channels/912320241713958912/1311958737027862648 - but would recommend something like VSC instead.

[vital coyote]

posibly good point

but idk if usmap will see any new files? maybee

fuck if i know

this is all new teritory

[midnight star]

is there a workflow for forcing pak files to load and confirm through the command line?

[rustic granite]

https://www.nexusmods.com/stalker2heartofchornobyl/mods/509

this is new

[vital coyote]

bro your a legond

you said you would and you did

was actualy pretty hype when you said that

[atomic jacinth]

NPP doesn't have very many options. it's pretty garbo for the hilighting honestly.

[desert abyss]

use vscode

[atomic jacinth]

and you have to manually color everything it doesn't have a builtin theming engine cause it doesn't tokenize the input

[vital coyote]

yee i usualy fire up vss if i need to do mass edidits

i will have both

[storm tartan]

you can get the latest USMAP from here if you dont want to dump new one yourself https://github.com/CnRJay/Stalker-2-Dump-Files

[rustic granite]

is there any mod that reduces Armour Degradation ?

[vital coyote]

ohh nice!

yes not sure wich one i just change mine myself hold up

[rustic granite]

would be nice if there is

[desert abyss]

i didnt upload it there. idk the legality of it

[storm tartan]

I prefer this https://www.nexusmods.com/stalker2heartofchornobyl/mods/147

[vital coyote]

same way the aes key found its way onto my guid

[rustic granite]

got a weapon one, but seems their ain't one on nexus for armour

[storm tartan]

ah nevermind. fair.

[atomic jacinth]

putting the raw data files up is certainly less of a gray area than the usmap file.

[rustic granite]

i see but the one i posted, the boxes look more unique and neat

[desert abyss]

just config files.

[atomic jacinth]

and by less of a gray area I mean, it's very clearly source code.

[rustic granite]

was this for me

[storm tartan]

true that. but I care more about being able to identify the ammo type at first glance in a second 🙂

[rustic granite]

fair fair

[lunar axle]

anyone having issue with random weapons spawning in inventory? i only use 3 mods: A-life extended (hostile), Lessgeardurability, XY-Sensitivity.

[desert abyss]

configs are not source code

[vital coyote]

yee

https://www.nexusmods.com/stalker2heartofchornobyl/mods/33

this is weapons

[rustic granite]

have this one

[vital coyote]

you prob will habe to do a mearge anyway so its the same cfg

i think

its been a bit

[tidal dragon]

How is the new update? Breaks any mod?

[vital coyote]

nahh

but new chages gsc made will be overwitten by your mods

[tidal dragon]

I have removed all the mods that tweaked what they changed

[vital coyote]

yeah gunna do the same

[tidal dragon]

Like mutant hp and quest rewards

[clear mountain]

check for latest update

[tidal dragon]

I kept the durability mods tho

[clear mountain]

if modders did the work

[atomic jacinth]

Not really going to argue semantics on what constitutes game source code. but they are assets in a pakfile, and you've posted them wholesale online. mods are at least limited in scope and not full dumps of everything. There's not really anything gray about wholesale dumping of game assets and making it available online.

[tidal dragon]

I removed them

[rustic granite]

for curiosty wich ones did you remove ?

[sinful cypress]

Mutant Health was updated (not the grok one)

[tidal dragon]

Grok mutant hp and an increased quest reward one

[rustic granite]

i kept the grok's one, just re-installed it and swapped out ones for the 20% ones, otherwise with gsc that nerfed mutants and groks mod that i had on 40% and 60% mutants would have been 1 shot

i don't want that 😄

[clear mountain]

I feel they are safe to remove

but yeah check the save if something is broken

[rustic granite]

quick question, what version are you guys on steam for s2 now

[clear mountain]

1.0.1

[rustic granite]

for game pass the game version is 1.7.520.0

[atomic jacinth]

GSC said they increased quest reward money by 2x, I wonder if that means they increased the base amounts on everything, cause the difficulty files still have the same ratios.

[storm tartan]

where can I find WeaponPrototypes.cfg in Fmodel? I have a mod that's editing it but I dumped the whole GameData folder and it's not in there 😮

[atomic jacinth]

it's in the ItemPrototypes folder

[lunar axle]

i think in CFG you see only multipliers. They set 3000 = 1.0

and if you put in cfg 2 it will be 6000

[storm tartan]

thanks! I searched for cfg but forgot its exported as json

[mental tusk]

Anyone know if Grok's less consumables mod is working after the patch?

[shrewd rampart]

Hello, what have I missed since yesterday/early this morning? 🙂

[shrewd rampart]

Good point, I took a few FModel exports I am most likely to use myself and uploaded it to a personal github, maybe I should make my branches private instead 🫣

[lunar jay]

Is there a mod that leaves only dark weather conditions and night

[vital coyote]

nahh

[mint wraith]

and fools seldom differ

[tidal yew]

Does UETools still work

??

[vital coyote]

? you mean the engine?

or like the dump and map stuff

[kindred lotus]

i am losing my mind with the drunkness mechanics

waht teh fuck is this, they have two separate drunkness mechanics, and none of them apparently work properly. also they have a bunch of effects that are never used

also why have two separate mechanics if one already describes the effect? the fuck? you have specific breakpoints like 0-25: drunk, 25-50: very drunk, 50-100: super drunk. then instead of just making 75-100 ultra drunk, noo lets make a separate mechanic

[marble hill]

Greetings.
I have mod for selling junk and would like to know.
Do we have some kind of od to increase the value/price of selling items? Like the full price but not reduced one?
Maybe you could recommend something. Thanks and have a nice play

[raw parcel]

anybody knows where is the backpack texture?

[kindred lotus]

a separate mechanic which by the way has a ton of functions that are never used AND no explanation in the code as to how the fuck it goes up or down lmao

[vital coyote]

i mean i found binoculars

[whole yarrow]

My mod wishlist:
Physical PDA like Gamma
Minimap instead of compass
Proper ammo cartridge textures (shotty shells are blue regardless of ammo)
More weapons

[vital coyote]

there is a tone of unused stuff in there

[kindred lotus]

i am fairly sure that whoever wrote this function was drunk themselves

[vital coyote]

like ALife lmao

[kindred lotus]

DegenDrunknessPoints changing this lil shit does NOTHING

[azure mortar]

W.I.P Material and texture optimization mod for stalker 2

new vs old memory consumtion

[vital coyote]

pda is 3d just super zoomed in
i think someone found files that suport a mini map
tarcov ports are gunna flood in once we have tools
evenualy everything is gunna get retextured by someone

[azure mortar]

trying to make sure that only two texture samples are used for materials, dif, nrm, all other textures are derived so it saves up on memory

[merry mountain]

i miss mercs camping there

[azure mortar]

plane below is original while the one above is modified

[whole yarrow]

Im very excited to see how the modding community changes S2

[vital coyote]

me 2 🙂

[whole yarrow]

I mainly wanna be able to walk and move with the pda

[vital coyote]

yeah would be dope

[crisp wing]

hey I wanna make sure my mods wont cause my game to die, any mods that dont seem to work at all or are not needed after the new patch?

Here is my current mod list:

[vital coyote]

jesus

[crisp wing]

dont shame me for my mod list size

[whole yarrow]

Assume everything is broken, optimized tweaks was updated

The issue is the mods use older files and overwrite the new ones

[vital coyote]

lol all mods work but will overwrite and nullify any changes gsc made

in the update

[crisp wing]

ah

[last spire]

So how's the patch guys

Also good morning

[crisp wing]

ill go ahead and just wipe my list clean besides yknow mutant loot

[polar osprey]

small quality of life fixes, nothing huge

[crisp wing]

and mission bug fixes

[vital coyote]

yeah thats new stuff shouldnt change anything, ima keep stuff in just read the patch and see what you wanna keep\

[last spire]

Bubba pda fixed?

[vital coyote]

my list is like 6-8 mods maybe lol

still need to beat the game

small stuff like the beeping the death screen

[clear mountain]

at least SIRCAA usb was fixed

[dire path]

ok to use this with new patch right?

[clear mountain]

what is 'this' lol

[covert radish]

You mean if its quest item forever?

[clear mountain]

many mods are safe to use rn w/o updates, however it would just revert a few aspect to pre-patch like repair cost

[covert radish]

If so, then no i still cant remove it

[maiden void]

do you think that most of the mods are no longer necessary with the new patch? Like Grok's balanced diff, medkits and consumable rebalance and similar?

[covert radish]

They didnt fix loot so groks diff is still needed imo

There’s still so much shit everywhere

[clear mountain]

I killed bloodsucker with a few 9x18 rounds from my skif pm, in this patch, without any mods

[vital coyote]

alot of my mods became obsolete

which is dope

[maiden void]

yeah I meant the dmg and upgrade/repair parts and quest items weigth, prices of items overall

[covert radish]

It’s still different to vanilla so depends on what do you like more

I’m using grok’s diff still, just tweaked it a bit myself

[maiden void]

well anyways i'll probably wait a bit longer until all qol patches and stuff comes out

i'm on the mision when you leave garage

it looks like gsc plans to change quite a bit the economy and alike because it feels off

[covert radish]

Has anyone had any issues with mutant loot mod? I want to use it but it supposedly breaks saves so u can’t uninstall it, it’d suck if i had to restart again

[maiden void]

yes I had problems with new update

localization messign text up

[covert radish]

This you can just do with mods, bugfixes and optimization is more important imo

And maybe theyll fix alife

[clear mountain]

I found that I can make pen upgrades increase guns' pen a fixed value, not percentage

[covert radish]

English works ok tho?

[clear mountain]

breddy good

[maiden void]

not for me

[covert radish]

And was there anything kike gamevreaking?

[covert radish]

This’d get rid of sponges, right?

[hexed bane]

anyone able to make campfire save mod for stalker 2?

wishgranter (limited lifes) too?

[clear mountain]

I just made a mod to use low-tier guns without instant rebalance https://discord.com/channels/912320241713958912/1311983301573087232

so more money more pen

[covert radish]

Oh nice

I’ll check it oit

Is there a mod that lets you reload while sprinting?

[clear mountain]

I dont think so, that might need more than changing a few cfg files

[covert radish]

Yeah probably

I saw someone say that they’re working on it tho

What’s the command to refresh stashes contents?

[lusty sail]

Someone tried to mimicking the Widgets? Or change them?

[covert radish]

I downloaded misery version of groks difficulty but still find a ton of stuff

[deep ridge]

Hey just checking in to see if anyone has made any progress/ had luck working on the PDA map for mods.

I know some people have messed with the ui but I want to try to remove the undiscovered location tags from the pda if possible.

[vital coyote]

prob some more things to tweek to fully edit all the configs, we all still learning lol

loot is super abuntent

[covert radish]

Yeah its very stupid

[deep ridge]

Specifically medkits... way too many in base game for me

[vital coyote]

like im suprized there arent a bunch of fat stalkers i can turn a corner without tripping over peperoni

[deep ridge]

Lmao

[covert radish]

I hoped theyd fix rhat in the patch but sadly no

[vital coyote]

ehh in time

or one of us will get it

lul

[covert radish]

Hopefully

[agile solstice]

Anyone still using groks damage mods post update ?

[covert radish]

It just doesn’t feel right to be playing on veteran and having 30 medkits and 59 bandages

[earnest wolf]

Zosig

[covert radish]

I’m using difficulty rebalance, pretty sure its included there

And seems to work fine

[ocean cedar]

I wonder how those taste, i mean skifs just chomping down on it like a chocolate bar.

[vital coyote]

https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/692957288159510608/1264298175880106085/hmmm-twitch.gif

[deep ridge]

True I sell so many lol it's how I make money

[maiden void]

i have 30 on me and maybe 60 on the stash xdddd

[covert radish]

Id too but i sold a lot

[maiden void]

since the stash is infinite i'm a hoarder I only sell guns

[covert radish]

I sell what i dont need

[maiden void]

i could have a food shop and bar

[covert radish]

I found SWD but there’s no ammo for it yet, at least not in garbage

[maiden void]

i'm super stacked

[hexed bane]

any place to request mod?

[covert radish]

Here ig

[maiden void]

but vendor doesn't have 5.56x45 xddd

[hexed bane]

how hard would it be to make campfire save mod?

[clear mountain]

very hard

rn

[covert radish]

You can find it everywhere in garbage tho

[hexed bane]

@clear mountainwhy?

[maiden void]

yeah but not in the vendor

[covert radish]

Vendors dont have that much anyway

But maybe in further locations

[maiden void]

maybe in merc place I didn't found one yet

[covert radish]

Idk i had to restart my game so im still not too far into the game

[clear mountain]

without mod support we can only do (1) changing values (2) add 3D model or 2D images (check mutant loot mod)

[covert radish]

They’re basically extinct

[clear mountain]

I believe we can make a new gun (not a new mechanism), but not a new mechanism

[covert radish]

Theres tip on loading screens that says almost all have been killed

[hexed bane]

@clear mountainare they gona give moders that mod support ?

[maiden void]

who's gonna supply my nato stuff :(((

[covert radish]

Yeah eventually

[clear mountain]

yes, no eta however

[covert radish]

Gotta rob corpses for now lol

[quartz aspen]

anyone seen, or think it is easy to make it, a mod for like identyfing enemies with a scope, like it was in GAMMA?

[deep ridge]

We can make 3d models?

[maiden void]

just stare closer xdd

[high lintel]

Hi guys, can you tell me where all the textures of words, tablets and inscriptions mostly lie? I would appreciate everyone's help!

[deep ridge]

That was a cool mod, I've ghosted a few stalkers by mistake so far

[clear mountain]

maybe? mutant mod injected 2D sprites, why not 3D

[deep ridge]

Yeah that's fair I thought he was reusing unused stuff tho but I have no clue lol

[clear mountain]

wait

is he

I have to check out

hmm

it seems the mod did put some sprites

I am unfamiliar with UE so I am not certain

[zenith flower]

A syringe full of mutant goo ? Yum

Gentlemen, is there a mod that remove the HUD fade out at all ? I'm the kind of weird guy who like to see the HUD all time

[covert radish]

Why didn’t they add mutant loot anyway? It was so cool to have that

And someone modded ir back in like 5 days

So it wasn’t too hard to do either

[zenith flower]

Time

[maiden void]

they have lootable collars so they already have some kind of lootable mutants

[clear mountain]

ye

[covert radish]

Oh yeah but its not the same

[clear mountain]

can loot collars from specific quest-only entities

[zenith flower]

(And ffs, stop with the "doesn't seem complicated", game dev is hard af and very different to just "mod stuff")

[clear mountain]

why cant apply that mechanism for every mutants

[covert radish]

I don’t think they’d need that much. But maybe they just said fuck it we’ll add it later or something

[clear mountain]

it would be a just few more lines

[covert radish]

Yes ik, but this is adding new item

It can’t be that hard right?

[zenith flower]

Look how many years it take to have a stable Anomaly version while we had the whole source code of the X-Ray

[covert radish]

And then just making mutants have inventory like humans

[zenith flower]

For a single guy with free time, sure. For a team already overwhelmed with QA prior the release after an excruciating 6 years of development ? Not that much.

[covert radish]

Fair

[clear mountain]

the stuff you wanted

not might be the one of their priorities

[zenith flower]

^ This

[clear mountain]

whether its easy to implement or not

they do what was written on their priority list

[covert radish]

I don’t think im alone with wanting mutant parts though, saw a lot of people suprised it isnt there

[simple trout]

if I get the "Grok's Economy and Difficulty Fix Attempt" I don't need the other Grok mods right?

[covert radish]

Guess we’ll see if they add it if not there’s mod alrwady

[covert radish]

I think granades one is not included

Might be wrong though

[maiden void]

As far as I understand that is a bundle of all grok's stalker2 mods

[maiden void]

on the description of grok's econ. and diff.: "NPCs throw less grenades."

[zenith flower]

I'm used to be software analyst. I've stop counting times where a client send me an email at friday 4:59PM asking for "Just a button". No mate, it's not "just a button". Sure I can add it withing minutes to my codebase BUT what will be the impact in long term ? Do I have to move some UI part for it ? If yes, is my UX guy is not overwhelmed ? Does our unary tests protocol will handle the "Button" correctly ? Will the method write behind that button pass our readability check ? Does the method interact with other parts of the software ? Yada yada yada.

[vital coyote]

started a brand new game on vetrin post patch blood suckers are sooooo much more reasonable

[covert radish]

Oh mb then

[simple trout]

Righty, thanks.

[covert radish]

With grok mod they’re easy now

[vital coyote]

i have no mods on

[covert radish]

Espexially with spas 12

[vital coyote]

just plain jane patch

[covert radish]

Oh thats good

[proper grove]

have the patch fix LODs popin yet?

[covert radish]

I’ll probably remove mine then

[clear mountain]

right? I killed a bloodsucker with nine(9) rounds of pm

[maiden void]

how about the armor durability?

[clear mountain]

in a veteran mod

[vital coyote]

same

[maiden void]

is it good like with grok's

[clear mountain]

dunno havent tested it cus I am playing with new save

[vital coyote]

^

same only fought the starter one

[clear mountain]

but both armor durability and repair cost were balanced

[vital coyote]

may have nerfted this one in particular tho

this thing fucked me up a tone first go round

[zenith flower]

I'm running a new playtrough with Maklane gunplay mod and in Stalker difficulty, the mutant are manageable yet dangerous if I'm not prudent enough

[clear mountain]

saw this while I was updating my mod

[maiden void]

armor durability and weapon durability was awful if that isn't fixed I stay with grok's rebalance

[vital coyote]

it is

[clear mountain]

note that those not 1:1 match so your repair cost wont just 60% cheaper

dk the exact formula

[maiden void]

I prefer expensive repair but more durability tbh

okay I may check out

I also hate enemies pinpointed on the compass

[clear mountain]

@maiden void

armor durability was buffed a bit too

iirc

[vital coyote]

actuly seamed like they are listing close these are all verry wanted changes

[maiden void]

nice, I will try out then. Literally was out 30 min and armor lost 20%

[clear mountain]

dont expect a drastic change tho

like how did they buff artifacts sell value

[vital coyote]

nahh but have alreay nullified alot of the mods i uesed

[clear mountain]

a good thing for me

[vital coyote]

hell yeah

[clear mountain]

was they didnt touch upgrade cost or smth like that

so I had less work to update my mod

[simple trout]

The mods aren't going to conflict with the patch right?

[atomic jacinth]

some may

[vital coyote]

some deff will

[simple trout]

The only ones I got are Groks, carry weight and spring speed

[vital coyote]

mutant helth were changed, carry weight may be good but these configs have alot of shit in em and i thin sprinting may be worth just checking

[maiden void]

some are confliciting

(in my case)

[atomic jacinth]

artifact balance changes will need to be updated with the new sell values.

[uneven river]

Hey does anyone know why the FModel is showing me the lowes LOD instead of high res of all static meshes ?

[atomic jacinth]

ObjPrototypes/Weights weren't updated in the patch

[clear mountain]

will the game crash? less likely
will the mod reverts some stuff to pre-patch? likely

[atomic jacinth]

DifficultyPrototypes had some minor changes for the easy difficulty.

[frozen orchid]

didnt boot the game since i have no time to play it but did the update break the mods?

[clear mountain]

@frozen orchid check for latest mod updates

[frozen orchid]

?

oh

ok

i was gonna do that

but was asking what the vibe is

[stark gull]

not sure if this is the best category, but im having an issue with stalker 2 after update. my localizations all are messed up, displayed sid_misc_xxxx before all the Ui buttons. when i swap it to russian language, it all works fine, but every other language has this sid_misc_xx issue

[maiden void]

check mutant loot

[maiden void]

it's giving problems with localization

[vital coyote]

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

[cloud sorrel]

delet localization files from mutant mood till he updates it

[stark gull]

yeah i deleted the localizations in it and still no help

[vital coyote]

pretty much the vibe

[cloud sorrel]

also conflicts with real weapon names mod from what i heared

[maiden void]

i'm waiting for mod updates basically

[crimson laurel]

am sure someone cam make a mod to use the binoculars from the existent animations already

[maiden void]

that's the vibe

[cloud sorrel]

also can recomand to make a backup of your save file befor you do anythning basicly

[solemn urchin]

You guys have to save this games loot, its boring and pointless now. Open a box, here's a medkit, vodka and some ammo, that's it. Shelves are full too, we are swimming in meaningless loot, it doesn't feel like survival, at all. Literally needs more bloat

[frozen orchid]

this is like 2-3 mods lmao

[clear mountain]

thats not a first person animation tho, which is saddo

[maiden void]

yeah it's like they opened nexus mods and checked most downloaded mods

[cloud sorrel]

they did really good job i think. over 600 fixes alone 200 from quest

[vital coyote]

why not just play and add the mods in as they get updated

[frozen orchid]

whos to say they didnt

[vital coyote]

why fix what you havent tried

[frozen orchid]

has performance improved for you guys?

[maiden void]

i fear crashes but yeah probably i'll do that, but now I really can't play without the mod "no enemies in compas"

[clear mountain]

• Decreased Bloodsucker's strike protection rank
  this is the most bullshit that could ever happen

[vital coyote]

idk why but it dose feel hella solid

[cloud sorrel]

i didnt try but my friend has on everything on epic now over 200 fps befor that he had 120

[vital coyote]

im just in the lesser zone no mods

[frozen orchid]

didnt even know protection rank was a thing in the game

[clear mountain]

its not like gamma br

[vital coyote]

havent gotten to the town yet

[frozen orchid]

thats impressive

you know what gpu?

[cloud sorrel]

4080 i think

[vital coyote]

unless you take out items your fine its just configs

[clear mountain]

you do notice penetration stats on guns

[vital coyote]

if not backup your save

[clear mountain]

that's it

[frozen orchid]

https://tenor.com/view/comedybangbang-come-on-now-really-555-gif-12401012

[frail plover]

No Enemies in Compass works fine with the update

[vital coyote]

if you play with mutant loot keep it in

[maiden void]

hehehhe boi

[frail plover]

Any mod that only modifies textures is working just fine

The only mod I have seen truly break things is Mutant Loot but if you delete the localization files it comes with, it works fine besides the mutant loot items now having any names/descriptions

I've been playing all day with the patch and the same mods I've had since launch just updated

No issues

[clear mountain]

Did you know this

[vocal onyx]

The laser aim module not being toggle able is really getting on my nerves but making something like that is out of my scope, I can only do small changes to values like walk/run speed

[clear mountain]

and it points to the ground when you walk fast

[vocal onyx]

fr wish I never bought it

[cloud cipher]

And I don’t think the laser is accurate to how you shoot

[vocal onyx]

even though it helps with stats

[clear mountain]

it helps you with hipfire right

or just general accuracy

[frozen orchid]

https://youtu.be/2WtqVVGW56o

around 5fps on average

[clear mountain]

not much eh

still better than nothing

[frozen orchid]

4k epic with 4090

[steep moth]

Does this mean groks mutant balancing is no longer needed?

[frozen orchid]

havent done any testing so idk

[vital coyote]

feels like it so far

[frozen orchid]

i will remove my mods folder entierly and then add them back one by one as needed

[void owl]

holy shit guys

[sand niche]

I think a lot of the performance improvements will be much better seen on midrange rigs

[void owl]

ive done it

[vital coyote]

thats what im doing im naked rn lol

[void owl]

IVE ADDED CLOUDS TO THE LIGHT RAINY WEATHER

New weather events incoming soon

[sand niche]

https://tenor.com/view/god-of-war-zeus-gif-27082450

[vital coyote]

thats sick

[clear mountain]

feel like yes

[void owl]

Thundery also looking good

[clear mountain]

but still its yer choice

[steep moth]

Thanks everyone

I guess I will just uninstall everything I’ve added and then reinstall as needed

[clear mountain]

I killed bloodsucker in tutorial with 9 rounds of PM, just telling that to grasp some sense

[frozen skiff]

Has somebody found a way to ADD new tracks to the radios?

[vital coyote]

grocks granade spam feels like a most deff fuck this shit how dose this drunk slav have 29 granades shoved in his prison pocket, whos idea was this god why

out of 10

[clear mountain]

I like grenade spam feels --hardcore--

[vital coyote]

laiter on its not too bad early game its ass

[steep moth]

I was using a-life extended, does anyone know if that is still working?

[frozen skiff]

https://youtu.be/rY5j_IlOfS4

[steep moth]

🐐

[vital coyote]

pretty much everything is still working the problem is if you install older mods they will overwrite any changes gsc made

[steep moth]

I see so I will start by removing everything, update, and then reinstall with new versions

[earnest wolf]

Bandit throws a dozen grenades, checks corpse, has only one grenade.

[clear mountain]

I feel game progression is a lot faster

[vital coyote]

why i said prison pocket

[void owl]

I present to you, Light Rainy weather with actual cloud/SkyLight data

for reference, here is Light Rainy in vanilla, with broken sky and no dynamic clouds

https://youtu.be/q1NnjgTgRFk?t=138

I guess, it might be possible to add more weathers into the game. Light Rainy and Thundery already have their references, so it was easy. For anything else ugh i dont even want to guess

Next will be to tune the weather data for both, then ill release my updated mod. After that, would be to fix Fogy weather which is ugly af, then maybe figure out adding additional weathers

or make Emissions better ffs, they are kinda okayish at best

[simple trout]

Does anyone have the NPCSID? Trying to see if I can teleport Hamster into the townhall and if that kills him

[slender coral]

Is there a +click shortcut for "sell all", "put down all" etc.. when in inventory? for example, holding down shift or something.

Its so tedious when you have many stacks you wanna move.

edit: If not, could such function be modded in atm?

[desert valve]

i made a mod 🥳

[worn merlin]

I wonder how hard it would be to change the Geiger counter sounds. So far in my experience, when you're in a "dangerous" radiation area you just get a lot of clicks. However remember that each click is an individual particle hitting the sensor. Realistically the audio you get for a dangerous level of exposure in the game is equivalent to a "huh this is a bit higher than normal" IRL. A dangerous level would have so many clicks they'd have merged together into a solid tone at that point. Which IMO would be a terrifying sound to hear lol, which has me wishing that was ingame.

[midnight sinew]

has anyone tried their hand at making a sorta 'hideout' mod?

[slender coral]

Sounds like one would need SDK for that.

[desert valve]

i just made one that disables the lasers, since they are absolutly useless

would youd be willing to test it?

[midnight sinew]

yeah thats what i'm thinkin but curious if anyone made any small amounts of progress, like being able to place items down etc

[slender coral]

Since blueprints aren't available yet afaik, i doubt it

I love the idea though, same with camping

[midnight sinew]

still i'm impressed with what everyone has done so far, from mutant loot and itemization then the major balance changes and such

[remote crescent]

Well, when You play without crosshair, lasers come in handy, but sometimes I wish I could just turn them off 😂

[slender coral]

Why? lasers are cool af

[midnight sinew]

yeah thats what i like, i love being able to build when its not normally somethin done, hence why i liked the hideout mod in gamma, i like making a nice location into my base to stash my stuff and pretty it up with decorations

if only i knew modding, i'd prob try to learn how to do it just for that

[slender coral]

If by decorations you mean skulls and chalices of blood, sure

[slender coral]

Now is a good time to learn since we are limited to editing .cfg's and piggybacking on alrdy existing systems

[midnight sinew]

lol no but i'm sure many would love that i just mean general decorating with some items being usable

[midnight sinew]

sadly i wont have the time anymore, working 12 hour shifts going forward, maybe i'll dabble into it

[indigo jolt]

Does A-Life Extended (Alive) work in Zaton/Swamps? Seems almost no encounters are spawning for me.

[slender coral]

I couldnt care less about decorations, but I can imagine productive work stations like alcohol distilling, drug making, simple blacksmith stuff etc

[slender coral]

Yeah i get it. editing .cfgs is very easy and doesnt take much time tho. You can PM me if you want help. or just ask here i reckon.

[midnight sinew]

i'm sorta the opposite, i love building and decorating in games, i do like having fuctional based stuff like that but i take pride in my places i would call home

[desert valve]

they dont match where the weapon actually aims

[midnight sinew]

thanks~ i know the modding community here has been very helpful to each other and supporting each other a lot, if i do take a crack at it i will probably have many questions lol

[slender coral]

Not exactly pin point. but its not far off in my experience. Isnt that how it works irl, depending on where its mounted i supose?

[frank summit]

evening folks 👋 how's the modding life treating you all?

anyone had luck fishing up the game's map?

[slender coral]

Im making a mod so the Buket smg can go in pistol slot like the M10.

Will be done tomorrow.

[umbral linden]

Apparently spawning between points of interest is bugged. theres also a few places that are points of conflict and they seem to be bugged too.

[slender coral]

It works for me in Zaton, but not in the Swamps proper.

[indigo jolt]

The game is the main story speedrun simulator now. Zaton is so big and so boring. I need UAZ mod ASAP

[umbral linden]

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1fazo2ucg8tk5OQfxAxBfY2fOi41UGXS7uI8lax-uKdk/edit?gid=0#gid=0

npc id are to the right side

[slim yew]

not too sure what happened but whenever i scope in my frames drop super hard until i descope. this didnt happen this prior week. anybody having this issue?

[hallow sand]

Need them dogs turned into Resident Evil zombie dogs 😄

[sage trail]

yeah zaton is honestly ultra boring lol

i feel like at that point all ur doing is finishing talking to someone and then you walk 2km and then talk and then walk and repeat

[sage trail]

are you running the scope zoom mod?

[hallow sand]

Yeah needs more side quests in all of em

[sage trail]

just needs A-Life it gets boring fast just walking around when you never see anyone

[hallow sand]

My zone is very populated XD

[sage trail]

in zaton?

[hallow sand]

everywhere yeah

mods*

though

[sage trail]

wild i have met like 1 person in zaton

im not using any A-Life mods either

[slim yew]

im not. this just started happening earlier today. these are the mods im running. whenever the animation of scoping it happens the fps tanks by like 20-30 and it stays that way until i descope

[hallow sand]

I do that's why.

[winged hemlock]

As we know so far, we have rank and reputation in game, but it`s hidden. Anyone want to try to make them visible somewhere in GUI or at least in console?

[sage trail]

what about your engine.ini?

[slim yew]

im using a custom engine.ini yeah but this happens even without it

[sage trail]

Do you know where to find the files?

[winged hemlock]

I can search in unpacked files and find, but I can`t work with GUI.

[sage trail]

Are you using a holo by chance?

holo scope

Ive had a few problems with the holo scope even before this patch, where it had ghosting when i ADS thats why im asking

[hallow sand]

I just wanna put a sight on one of the AK74

[fast shore]

Ghosting = dlss/fsr issue

[hallow sand]

the drwned one

[sage trail]

sure i could try

[hallow sand]

for example