╟⚒stalker2™-mods-making-discussion

[fast shore]

I play on DLAA no ghosting everything is very clear

With RR too

[glad palm]

noob question here, i never created nor do i know how to make mods
but i do know how to create animations, was thinking of making my own weapon animations and some other interesting stuff, but is it even possible to replace and add new animations at this stage? or do we need the official modding tools update?

[sage trail]

it was only when i was aiming down the holo scope though, didnt experience it in any other scope or anywhere else

seems weird it would only happen for one

[fast shore]

Weird

[sage trail]

also wasnt running framegen either

[light nebula]

Is there a guide on editing/replacing sound files with new assets?

[sage trail]

someone uploaded a mod with more attachments for M416 you could check what files it change if you want to make one

@hallow sand https://www.nexusmods.com/stalker2heartofchornobyl/mods/502?tab=files

[sage trail]

Im not really qualified to answer with animations and stuff, but i think it would be hard to do without a framework

at least idk how

[slim yew]

any time i zoom. scope or no scope. even zooming without a weapon equipped causes this

[sage trail]

do you use any of the optimizer mods? sounds like stutter

[lusty sail]

Look at this dude…

https://www.nexusmods.com/stalker2heartofchornobyl/mods/515

I didn’t find how to expand gui windows 🗿

[winged hemlock]

I know only one author which edit sound atm https://next.nexusmods.com/profile/ClaytorYurnero?gameId=6944

[slim yew]

yeah i was using the S2 optimizer. even with removing it, nothing has changed

[livid spire]

:( has anyone tried adding models into stalker 2?

[light nebula]

ok ty

[void owl]

Hi Solarint

Have you been enjoying STALKER 2?

[raw crest]

https://youtu.be/AbI6kyrl5Tg

How hard do you guys would it be to make the character perform this "inspect gun" animation outside of the Arena with button? Do we need mod tools for this?

[glad palm]

im wondering this too, i wanna make my own animations but no clue how to implement them in game

[light nebula]

Yeah, loving it despite it being very broken, mostly thanks the mods being made, I would probably have set the game down until patches without them 😄

[raw crest]

I assume this would be easier than importing your own animations since it already exists, but I'm not sure if it is scripted similar to cutscene animations or just exists as general

[void owl]

Im going hard on the mods while i wait for A-life. First time modding tho. Loved everything you did for SPT, I have great respect for you

[light nebula]

no need for anything like my Anomaly jsrs port for stalker 2, the gun sounds are fantastic, I just want to add a bullet crack when bullets are flying by you instead of their quiet "wizz" sound effect

[void owl]

Which btw, here's whats cooking:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5Zmj02J3NW8

Light Rain and Rainy Thunderstorms with smooth transitions is now working. Gtg to bed for now, but should release some kind of beta tomorrow for the new weather patterns

[raw crest]

Storms look unnecessarily green, seeing it like this highlights it even more

[void owl]

yeah i need to work on them. Used the basis of CalmBeforeEmission and Stormy weather for the sky/weather data

I want to make it more blue-ish like normal rain weather

[tidal forge]

Any news on when A Life is coming?

[void owl]

Ill have to also make a guide on how i got DataAssets imported from JSON Fmodel dumps

[raw crest]

If you achieve pls upload it as "less green storms" or something as standalone mod lol

[void owl]

Who knows 😦

Final weather wont have green tint, its ugly af

But i needed something to quickly get, for example, volumetric clouds, cloud speed, etc, that looked good so i just copied pasted values from the weathers already there

[raw crest]

It is how it is the vanilla game, maybe some peeps like me would like vanilla weather effects with less green storms

[void owl]

Yes vanilla weathers i wont touch till i get the new weathers up to standards

Go in the game now with console command and type XForceWeather 4 if you want to see how UGLY the Light Rainy weather looked

`
You can force weather via console, XForceWeather X .
(where X is class of weather)

Clearly = 0,
Cloudy = 1,
Fogy = 2,
Stormy = 3,
LightRainy = 4,
Rainy = 5,
Thundery = 6,
Emission = 7,
CalmBeforeEmission = 8,

`

[spring coral]

• Release a mod where storms actually increase radiation
• ???
• Profit

(indeed let players get inside building to avoid radiation buildup, basically a toned down "emission"). Would be fun!

[sage trail]

looks sick

[light nebula]

I hope someone makes a sleeping bag mod so I dont have to lmao

[raw crest]

I know right, i wanna spam it while walking around

[spring coral]

This, or a "Sleep Anywhere", where you can sleep on any bed you find in zones (there's tons of them)

[raw crest]

I hope someone makes mod out of it quickly ... (Any senior modder here plz 😔)

[void owl]

Final question b4 bed, has anyone here had experience with UE4SS?

https://github.com/UE4SS-RE/RE-UE4SS

[sage trail]

loll yeah idk why its not in the game i mean look how nice the reloading animation is

[void owl]

LUA injection into UE5 games

[light nebula]

I'm mostly waiting until mod tools / procedures mature until I look into what I want to make. I'm used to Bepinex where I can change literally anything in the source code so it feels bad to be so limited 😦

[sage trail]

gotta find out where they keep the assets and after that it shouldnt be too hard

[spring coral]

not the asset tho

Can't wait to get our hands on the scripting system

It's gonna get crazy

[raw crest]

Is it the same kind of animation like drinking eating

Or is it classified as something different

[sage trail]

whats the path for this?

[sage trail]

fr

[spring coral]

\pakchunk0-Windows\Stalker2\Content\GameLite\GameData\QuestNodePrototypes\SQ20_C05.cfg

[sage trail]

thanks

[void owl]

pakchunk20-windows.utoc Stalker2/Content/_STALKER2/Animations/Weapons/smg/aku/AnimSequences/fp/unique

maybe this is the asset? lol

[livid spire]

:0 is there a mod that makes the missions less complicated and annoying?

and completely removes the stash missions.

They are really fucking awful

[spring coral]

TBH there's obviously some bad parts of using UE5 for their Stalker 2. But on the other side, it's nice to have some proper/kinda stable engine too (I never encountered a crash during normal gameplay). You can feel the engine is stable too, when you change settings, etc... everything just refresh instantly

[livid spire]

but it'd be better if they used the engine that it had before

everything looked smooth in that one

[winged hemlock]

4249 matches for master rank...

[livid spire]

the transitions were MWAH

[spring coral]

wait a minute, you mean X-Ray?

[sage trail]

bruh

[livid spire]

I think?

[sage trail]

too bad its 5.1

[spring coral]

I don't know, I never modded X-Ray. But it was a crash fest AFAIR

[livid spire]

but I know that the engine makes it easier for modding.

and you can do some crazy things with unreal engine 5

[spring coral]

Yeah, thus the very early mods

[livid spire]

so I guess the new engine decision isn't all too bad.

but I wish they could implement ENB

ENB fully remakes the graphics if anyone has played fallout 4 with ENB

or skyrim

any other games that support ENB

knows what i'm talking about

[spring coral]

People need to let skyrim go

[livid spire]

skyrim wasn't that bad

it just had to many clones

and it was made by Bethesda.

Bethesda sucks they should only stick to fallout.

so I can do more of this.

[spring coral]

No I mean, it's been 13 years. Just let the poor man take his well-deserved retirement 😂

[livid spire]

but anyway the reshades that people are doing for Stalker2 aren't bad, but they aren't good either

and the ones that make the game really dull don't even try

[spring coral]

Stalker 2 is the first game where reshade seem futile. Game tonemap is lit, and vanilla actually look better than with reshade. They did an amazing job

(at least for me)

[livid spire]

Its unreal engine 5 guys...its meant to be colorful

[sage trail]

might be it, unfortunately its not that many guns that has an animation in arena? ive only found 3 so far

[livid spire]

now imagine fallout in Unreal engine 5.

Crazy.

[spring coral]

Imagine when hardware Ray Tracing update will be out

[livid spire]

MMMM, chefs kiss literally

[spring coral]

Fallout mehhhhhhhhh

It will never be good again. Bethesda is joever

Ubisoft path

[earnest wolf]

Bethesda and Ubisoft are cooked.

[livid spire]

well nah give fallout some slack they just had a show come out

and it was..

GOOD

[wide sonnet]

UE blueprint is fun

It's sad the most of assets cause crash such as mat, skeletal mesh etc

[plain horizon]

Doesnt have to be precise, anyone know what paks were affected by the patch? I went to take a back up of the originals and have discovered all my values were still overwritten by my mods lol

[fast shore]

No it wasnt lol.

[livid spire]

thats what you say but I don't need you messing my vibe up LEAVE

this is not a debate channel.

[fast shore]

As soon as I saw Todd Howard in the credits I knew it would be painfully average

[livid spire]

ok?

[fast shore]

He just needs to retire

[livid spire]

Dude take this somewhere else, are u presenting a mod?, are u making mods for stalker 2 or are you here to make an opinion

[plain horizon]

☝️🤓 Does anyone have a dodgy at best answer to my question? (All good if nah)

[livid spire]

No, its gonna take a while for someone to see what affected the paks if anything did

[frail plover]

For pretty much all of the current types of mods we have now (excluding Mutant Loot which has now been fixed), pak mods will not cause issues with official patches other than balancing tweaks and such. Example, Modular Hard Mode was never broken with the patch, but the new values from the patch made stuff too expensive, so it needed to be updated to fix the balance, but the game was perfectly playable in that state. Any config file mods will NOT brick saves.
The mods themselves are literally "patches" to existing files. That's why you'll see them all end in _P. The _P stands for "patch"
Anything that just edits textures is fine unless GSC changes the names of the textures which is unlikely, but even then, the existing mod files would just be overwriting nothing, so nothing bad would happen

[desert valve]

problems start to arise when you use auto mergers for non-updated mods

so keep that in mind

[plain horizon]

Cheers, I know most of that. Just trying to see what really changed but my mod changes are still present within most of the cfg's in gamedata

working it out, all good fellas

[livid spire]

Has anyone been able to replace models in stalker 2?

[cobalt hamlet]

Not yet i think

[slender coral]

Can I get the UID of a specific door somehow?

[magic geyser]

can someone with the steam version do a test for me?
type XShowStatProgres 1, take some damage, eat a sausage and tell me how much health it restored
XSpawnItemNearPlayerBySID Sausage if you are in need of sausages

[cobalt hamlet]

maybe ?

[magic geyser]

steam 1.0.1?

[cobalt hamlet]

yes

[grand sequoia]

How would one go about increasing the game's Master volume over the current 100%?

Somehow I feel like it isn't as loud as I'd like it to be. As if the 100% in Stalker 2 felt like what 70% would be in other games.

Don't know if that sounds too weird.

[cobalt hamlet]

no problem with sound for my part lol

[hushed glade]

whats the best A-life mods so far?

[magic geyser]

well, shit, downloaded a cfg dump from someone who said it was from 1.0.1 but this value is different somehow, maybe mine's from 1.0?

[icy flume]

Quick question, Simple Mod merger used to unpack pakchunk0, im assuming that because of the patch it’s no longer recognizing the file. Is there any other way of currently accessing the config files without extracting everything through FModel?

[little sluice]

Maybe some of this info from the Ready or Not modding guide might be applicable? https://unofficial-modding-guide.com/

I know it's also used for Payday 3 model swaps

[livid spire]

Maybe:(

[wide sonnet]

Replacing models, anims would be possible when this project is finished but it's still wip
https://github.com/narknon/Stalker2UProj

[little sluice]

I mean isn't it just ripping the mesh, importing it into blender and lining it up with your new mesh, joining your new mesh to your old mesh and transferring weights/vertex groups accordingly, then deleting the old mesh and packing it back up?

[wide sonnet]

Stalker 2's UE is heavily edited, so such as skeletal mesh component and static mesh component, so many other assets are not compatible with vanilla UE5 assets. Then it's resulted in crashing sadly

[little sluice]

Oh I see, dang

[deep ridge]

have any of you wieners seen anything like this yet?

[whole yarrow]

I removed the economy mod but its still affecting sell prices?

[deep ridge]

just got home from work and seeing everyone talkin about how mutant loot has problems with localization for those items.... looks like my game dont gaf

lol

i fixed the bug by....

https://tenor.com/view/i-follow-direction-well-procedure-requirement-durand-next-big-thing-gif-14881280

[alpine cradle]

what does this mean ?

[last oriole]

Did anyone here combine the mutant loot mod and grok hp balance mod by any chance? I would love to have both but I'm to stupid to edit pak files lmao

[west lintel]

Is there a built in command to exit a locked weather state? The opposite of XForceWeather. Or maybe is one of the supported values for that command the one that clears the override?

[rapid bison]

For STALKER 2 - Does anyone have the Global.ucas file from Stalker2\Content\Paks\global.ucas ? It's a 2 Mb file that has to do with modding.
I corrupted my file trying to make a mod.
Preferably the Pre-Patch version, since I got a physical copy of it and don't have a launcher to verify the integrity of the files

[alpine cradle]

Is there any command to add in engine to make plants and trees ahave same fps as game ? also is there any way to increase resolution texture quality etc of anomalies ? for example the distortion spheres look like they are 250x250 if u look at through them, and they clearly also are at 24-30fps max....

[sage trail]

what were you even trying to do with that file?

[atomic jacinth]

FModel can do some fucky things if people aren't careful. ex: it will occasionally dump the modified files from the mods directory even if you had opened the base game pak for export. the only clean way to export the files is to make absolute sure you have no extra paks installed and then do the dumps.

[rapid bison]

To see if it wouldn't cause crashes with the new patch, since .ucas files are actual modding files that add items and features to the game, not just just parameters in a .ini file for "Engine Optimizations".
Plus I mostly modded with X-Ray 1.6, not Unreal 5 - so I made an oopsie.

[sage trail]

fair enough, unfortunately i dont have a pre-patch file sorry:(

[simple trout]

Thanks! But couldn't find Hamster on the list oh well

[rapid bison]

I see. Would you be kind enough to DM me the current patched version then? I have my doubts, but as I'm still learning Unreal Modding, it might still match the checksum MD5 needed to launch the game.

[hallow sand]

getting a black screen all of a sudden but can see my inventory move

shoot etc

[rapid bison]

It's in this file path here: Stalker2\Content\Paks\global.ucas

[sage trail]

ik but im not on pc rn so you will have to wait a few hours unfortunately

but there would surely be someone else who has this file

[atomic jacinth]

after installing UE4SS and enabling developer mode I noticed the game does a ton of phone-home stuff. anyone know how to turn that stuff off? wasn't seeing it get turned off even when using some of the ini tweaks.

[rapid bison]

Ah thanks anyways

[rapid bison]

So yeah, if someone is willing to DM me a 2 Mb file from Stalker2\Content\Paks called global.ucas (Preferably if you didn't patch your game yet, but either version is fine), I'd highly appreciate it.
I corrupted that specific file, which is integral to the game

[umbral linden]

I'll dm you

[livid spire]

So no, you can’t just do that because the way games work with models are they detect the model match it with the proper mesh/skeletal etc and if you mess with that and do it wrong, it could fuck up your game heavily

Resulting in models being invisible and literally just not appearing

Which if your doing a veteran run, LIKE ME, could fuck you over

[umbral linden]

sent, let me know if you have any issues. I backed up the pak folder before 1.01 update on xbox game pass

[livid spire]

:0 REALLY

:O idk how to mess with stuff like that so if anyone wants the M1911 I keep posting lemme know

[carmine surge]

did this update break groks mods?

[livid spire]

No the patch should not affect mods this has been said a lot of times

The patch was more for gameplay fixes

[fast shore]

Anyone here done some testing with this mod?

https://www.nexusmods.com/stalker2heartofchornobyl/mods/446?tab=files

[hard plank]

Im looking at this page's comments and I can't help but think this is too good to be true? Im seeing rarely any issues people are reporting. And the few I have seen the author is talking about fixing it or how he's trying to fix it.

[fast shore]

Curious to try it out after getting back from work

[hard plank]

This is really the only thing sticking out to me imo.

It's just really back and forth.

[gusty olive]

can you skip the intros or make them skippable with console variables?

[snow garnet]

should I take out groks rebalnaced mod after the update?

[slim yew]

asking again since i dont really know what to do anymore. whenever i zoom in with any scope and even without a weapon, the game stutters pretty badly while the scope in animation is playing. this wasnt an issue a few days ago and it just started happening today. might be a bit hard to see in the video but it should be noticeable enough. ive tried multiple ini files and nothing seems to work. i did a clean reinstall last night if thats anything to go by. does anybody know why this is happening and how i could fix it?

[snow garnet]

hmm you have any mods on?

@slim yew

[prime saddle]

damn nexus is struggling again

[slim yew]

i do. tried removing them and still the same result

[snow garnet]

was this before or after the update?

[slim yew]

this started happening after the update today

[prime saddle]

I tested everything the update told they fixed and its still bugged, so the patch just added in more stutter

[snow garnet]

Hhahah have you used the "performance" mod

[slim yew]

which one? theres like 10. ive been using https://www.nexusmods.com/stalker2heartofchornobyl/mods/7 but stopped earlier today

[snow garnet]

okay this is what I use.

Put it back on

[prime saddle]

is nexus opening to you?

[snow garnet]

it is for me

[prime saddle]

damn

[slim yew]

it is for me too yeah

[slim anvil]

did the 1.0.1 update break mods?

I assume it did but just checking

[snow garnet]

not that I can see

[snow garnet]

anything yet?

[sage trail]

not really

[exotic token]

I have definitely seen dumb passive AI with the stealth mod but don't know how update has changed it

[slim yew]

same shit. nothing has worked

[snow garnet]

hmm okay load in an old save

[slim yew]

man fuck this bullshit

it worked when i loaded an older save

thanks you brother lmao

0 stutters whenever i scope in now

[snow garnet]

HAHAH welcome to the club. That shit happend to me!

[slim yew]

yeah that is so unbelievably scuffed dawg

jesus christ

[snow garnet]

for future reference that usually "fixes" most bugs I came across. Ur just gonna have to live with the consequences.

[slim yew]

yeah thats totally fine. the save i used was from only a few hours ago so not much progress was lost

i would rather it be that and no fixes period

[snow garnet]

life with anomalies. Now kill some bitches in the zone for us.

[slim yew]

yessiiiir bratan

appreciate it

[snow garnet]

No problem stalker

[fast shore]

Hmm I noticed it too with a stealth mod

[scarlet blade]

has anyone tried the a-life mod and if so is it good?

[exotic lagoon]

there's like 10 of them

i currently use a life extended, been great

[nimble gull]

how's the frames?

[scarlet blade]

which version if u don't mind me asking

[compact furnace]

Doubt that A-Life mod is doing anything other mods arent doing already, theres only so much you can achieve by changing config files, no?

[cloud lark]

maybe they added a line like "ALifeIsOnNowTrustMeBro true"

[compact furnace]

Why didn't GSC think of that

goddamn

[exotic token]

A-Life is fully coded in game but just has shit defaults
So mods can actually fix it

[compact furnace]

Dont think we have enough access to the games code to do much about it yet

[sinful cypress]

There will be better solutions and tools in a few weeks/months

[torn pivot]

we need the sdk. custom tooling is a nightmare using 3 different apps and methods to unpack and repack things which are not cfg files.

[plain arch]

Any mod for lowered weapons like in gamma yet ?

[exotic token]

Press H

🧠

[plain arch]

nah thats not what i mean

[cloud lark]

he means low ready

[plain arch]

i know about the holster

just would make the game so much more immersive

[cloud lark]

what you don't like your character shadow looking like you're always holding someone up?

[plain arch]

yeah I just always found it annoying in fps's that the gun is always pointed especially when you see everyone else with low ready

especially with survival games

i love that gamma has that mod its something so small but adds alot for me

it will def come with time no doubt

[exotic token]

The character already holds the gun like that

Which is infuriating when you have a laser sight because the sight is not aligned with where bullets actually go and you can't aim from the hip because Skip is a dumbass aiming at the ground in combat

[covert radish]

what are vanilla values for ObjEffectMaxParamsPrototypes?

[fast shore]

Anyone here using STALKER2TWEAKS? The option that allows to change the viewpoint fov is bugged for me, basically the weapon keeps resetting back to default pov and the one that I set in the .ini. It does it randomly too, anyone knows what could be the problem

Or maybe the mod itself is bugged.

This is the mod Im talking about. Other options like skipping shader wamrup and dev console work, but the viewpoint fov option is bugged. Just a heads up

[compact furnace]

It bugs rarely, and when it does all you need to do is open and close inventory and its fixed

[fast shore]

It doesnt bug rarely for me, more like every few minutes it just resets my fov when Im running. Gonna skip this option until its fixed or changed

I play on fov 100 btw but that shouldn’t make a difference

[azure mortar]

anyone figured out how to import materials from stalker 2 yet? i tried a plugin called JsonAsAsset alongside jsons exported by fmodel to no avail

i think its probably because it needs a lot more info than fmodel, asking for guid of AES keys and archive keys as well

[umbral linden]

I wouldn't say alife is fully coded in the game but I would say AI director + faction lair system is implemented but buggy, doesn't seem like there is any system for persistence of randomly generated NPCs once you leave the "online" part of the director.

Any modifications are just messing with the online AI director stuff and attempting to ignore the buggy faction lair system.

[fast shore]

Stalker2 aes key:

0x33A604DF49A07FFD4A4C919962161F5C35A134D37EFA98DB37A34F6450D7D386

[last spire]

sartek, what is your opinion on mutant combat?

[azure mortar]

I mean it's not asking for that, I figured that part out

There's also archive keys

And GUID for Aes keys

No idea what those are

[fast shore]

Cant help you with that, no idea myself

[umbral linden]

The dogs feel pretty good. Bloodsucker ai is pretty junk. flesh and boars are average. I think the mutant ai should be more aggressive and not try to take cover if it can't path to you.

Like have it flee and run or have it hide. But as soon as you get off an object it runs at you is a bit meh feeling.

[fast shore]

Controllers are more or less the same as in previous games

[fast shore]

Agree it gives me fallout 4 vibe with its brain dead deathclaws

[umbral linden]

Half of the mutants can leap there is no reason they shouldn't be able to leap up a car to get you.

[barren timber]

Is there a mod that shows the exact characteristics of artifacts, what and how much they add? In the game this information is given very vaguely and not exactly. For example: I have the artifact ''lyre'', it gives a small blood flow and a small additional weight (weight gives 2 kg additionally), and such is the artifact ''heart of stone'' which gives a small additional weight of 3 kg ( https://ibb.co/bPxvcPB and https://ibb.co/PtXHw6t). Thus, a small additional characteristic in the description of the artifact gives a different amount of increase in the characteristic, which is very confusing.

[umbral linden]

There is good example of ai in games, The feeling of being chased by the night time volatiles in dying light one was pretty cool, all the parkour and verticality certainly helped. even the regular zombies if you got on a car would try climb it to get to you.

imagine something like this with bloodsuckers chasing you

https://youtu.be/PuzBdcpVyHI

[fast shore]

Thats how bloodsuckers felt in og games

[umbral linden]

I remember in one of the games there is like a metal barge boat things and there is a swamp right outside and I had a bloodsucker there and It was terrifying haha

[fast shore]

I think snorks are fun to fight against

Bloodsuckers get old quickly tbh they should spawn less of them

[umbral linden]

Yeah exactly. and the stupid death screen really makes them even more overused

https://www.nexusmods.com/stalker2heartofchornobyl/mods/233

I installed that mod and it made the game feel a lot better

If they played a deathscreen based on what killed you that would be cool.

[umbral linden]

I haven't seen one yet haha just a corpse.

[fast shore]

Bring back the ragdoll. It was always humbling to see stalkers go about their day after dealing with u or seeing dogs eat your corpse

This bloodsucker death screen is goofy af

[umbral linden]

That would be cool.

If you die that death screen does feel a whole lot more fitting.

[fast shore]

Looks good

Ive seen another one with a stalker’s grave instead

Gives me fallout 1 vibes

[umbral linden]

Yeah I saw that one trying to find this one.

[fast shore]

“Not even scavengers are interested in your irradiated corpse” moment

[umbral linden]

https://www.nexusmods.com/stalker2heartofchornobyl/mods/454

[fast shore]

This one fits the game better

But the duga one is cool too

[umbral linden]

Scenery of the game at random would be cool to show off locations, or maybe ones based on the zone you die in. Deathscreen of what killed you could be cool too so you get a close up look at the mutant or bandit or faction. other option would be the 3d death where you see stalkers loot your corpse or mutants eat you.

If its places of interest from the zone your in then it might lead you checking it out cause it looks cool.

[last spire]

yo how hard is it to replace that death pic

i wanna replace is with low tier god lol

https://tenor.com/view/low-tier-god-awesome-mario-twerking-gif-23644561

[umbral linden]

T_Screen_Back.uasset in Content\GameLite\FPS_Game\UIRemaster\UITextures\DeathScreen , I think you have to bake the file as its got a .pak .utoc and .ucas

More examples of what I think is good game design and cool ai

https://youtu.be/0qFm5hzdgIQ

Imagine if we could get a uv flashlight or something that made bloodsuckers more visible or glow. or if we shot them blood covered some of them so they weren't completely invisible.

Maybe paint grenades for the grenade launchers or paint sprayers haha

[last spire]

who wins

sucker of blud or volatile

[umbral linden]

It's a tough choice.

[last spire]

playing with my own diff mod, its actually great, it clicks, cant wait to wrap it up soon

1:1 dmg with npcs, medkit usage skyrockets

[last spire]

is it? i think volatiles win

[compact furnace]

If only they didnt remove their 20 meter jump straight at you

[last spire]

aaaay i found the new suppressor

[umbral linden]

I do think volatiles win ahha

better movement, yeah there a sponge but you are actively meant to run from them early game later on you get stuff like uv flashlights which make them jump back due to uv light damaging the virus.

[zinc heron]

where is it brother, I already got all the stashes and dont know where it is

[last spire]

do you really want to know?

[zinc heron]

yeah maybe its there after all

[umbral linden]

Give him a hint/riddle

[last spire]

walk the steps of the past

[zinc heron]

Point me in the direction

Haha

[last spire]

i thought i was tripping when i saw it just now, cause i know that wasnt there and id know considering i started over 10 new games testing my mod out

also 9 shots to kill a flesh with a pm, very nice very good

well, headshots

[umbral linden]

Oh your doing it wrong, your meant to shoot them in the pig in there little piggy tail its there weakspot.

They squeal when you do it.

back not pig lol

[last spire]

dumbass pig

[umbral linden]

Yum the smell of bacon.

[last spire]

wish there was 556 in the lesser zone

broke ass trader

[sudden summit]

hi, I run conflict script and got this Conflicting File: Stalker2/Config/UserEngine.ini
In Mods: No_Shader_Warmup_p.pak, pakchunk10000(UETools)-Windows_p.pak

but both console and no cache loading working, so I wonder if I need to do anything

[hallow sand]

im getting a black screen ingame when I fresh installed, no mods. I can see rain on my screen, ai can inventory an such and move but can't see

woops mods folder was still there. No ill try

[neat thistle]

Do we have an access to VFX?

[fast shore]

Patch 1.0.2 is out

[neat thistle]

Really?

[fast shore]

Yep check official stalker discord

https://store.steampowered.com/news/app/1643320/view/4455844537830474746

[neat thistle]

Oh fuck...

[fast shore]

Its smaller but should fix some softlocks people been experiencing

[neat thistle]

I hope it won't break mods ONCE AGAIN

[fast shore]

Nah it shouldn’t

[neat thistle]

Oh blyat... is there localization changes?

[fast shore]

It mostly fixes quests

[neat thistle]

Oh. Good sign

[fast shore]

Back to back patches, good work devs

[neat thistle]

I'm not against patches, hehe, but I hope they would provide some tools for modders to mitigate the aftershock it also brings. Like, mods breaking, saves breaking, localization fucks up... And patching localization is so ass!

[uncut elm]

GSC

[fast shore]

Mods that change .ini files wont break your game

[neat thistle]

Yes, but having just .ini mods is not enough 😄

[rustic granite]

nice so i have to wait an erxtra 5hrs or whatever for patch to be released on game pass

nice

[fast shore]

Common xbox L

[rustic granite]

i'm considering just buyign the game on steam aswell tbh

feel like pc game pass is being lazy as fuck

[trail coyote]

hi. can someone using Maklane's Better Zone - Overhaul tell, how many buckshots boars or snorks can handle in your case, please? Im just not sure if the mod is working correctly for me

[trim heron]

@trail coyote after update, I used a SPAS-12 and killing a boar / snorks seems to take 2 bullets

my SPAS12 is a unique item tho and have a high fire rate, probably lower damage from the base version ?

I play in Veteran and here are my mods FYI :

[lofty latch]

hello, does someone know if there are plann for sleeping bag mods ?

[trim heron]

So only Maklane better zone latest version for balancing

[trail coyote]

thanks, Im defenetely have some troubles... which is strange, because slow healing is working.

[trim heron]

With all the updates and mods including other mods it's kind of hard to track

Difficulty seems okay with my modlist, it's kinda hard I have to take cover a lot , but it seems like A life extended is kinda broken

I think i'll finish the game, then shelf it (POE 2 coming soon anyway) waiting for updates to be done and a big modpack to come out

The later part of the game are broken AF tbh, it's not very enjoyable

[neat thistle]

I think it's planned, but need to wait for SDK. Unless there's meshes for sleeping bag in the game

It's gonna be weird to sleep on sausage

[lofty latch]

you will sleep where ever you want, and of course sleeping outside would be a bad idea, but you can find a place where to sleep in a safe zone

well that could be great to imagine that we can be waked up by noises around us etc.....figuring that mutant are coming, or humans bandits, or storm alert (even if you are in a safe zone) could imagine some event that could wake you up :!

[neat thistle]

Would be nice to have that

More unique situations in game, more immersion

[sudden summit]

need help. I removed that warmup mod that disable cache preload. but it wont preload anymore, did they fix it and removed that?

[vital dove]

anyone know how to extract a single cfg from fmodel?

trying to get corevariables from pakchunk0 but cant find a way to extract it

[kindred lotus]

dude there is something hardcoded about the drunkness points

[lusty sail]

Any idea why I can't unpak utoc file with fmodel? Wanna research what files mod edit and it's red 😦

[torn pivot]

wrong tool for the job lol

try zentools

[lusty sail]

Got it, will try

[torn pivot]

you right click export raw asset. now its exported into the fmodel exports folder.

you should be selecting the LOAD ALL option so fmodel loads every pak

[vital dove]

got it, thanks boss

[torn pivot]

that mod came out before the patch, the mod is most likely broken as a result.

[vital dove]

now i can finally get time of day working again on my own

[last spire]

1.0.2 probably doesnt break anything

[sudden summit]

right. can be can be

how about cache preloading does it work for u guys? I removed warmup mod but it wont preload anymore

or did they remove it

[fast shore]

Empty your engine.ini and try to run the game

If you edited it of course

[sudden summit]

I dont have it even

[long sphinx]

Only mutant loot

just need to be updated

[fast shore]

Reboot pc

[clear mountain]

how so

[long sphinx]

On previous it was the same thing with version 1.0 After update to 1.0.1. its fine. But there is a ne patch in steam 1.0.2)) I have black screen with mutant loot

[clear mountain]

weird

[torn pivot]

i dont use that specific mod but i have two of the optimisation mods that make shader cacheing take like 1 minute as opposed to the original 5 minutes

[unreal glacier]

Has anyone figured out which .cfg's got changed in the last update?

[long sphinx]

The have spoilers

[unreal glacier]

Sorry if it's already common knowledge, was just wondering if there was maybe a database or post somewhere

[long sphinx]

And fixed some errors

[wet bison]

this mod corrupted my 50 hours save files

empty slots and crash, when items put in ghost slots

[wintry temple]

So are these updates breaking mods? Or for the most part are we ok, because a lot of mods right now are just config changes?

[torn pivot]

cfg mods are fine

its more complicated mods that might break

anything that isnt a config edit will have the chance to be broken, depending on what was changed by the devs.

anything like loot, damage, health, items that already exist, rewards, difficulty, these things are fine right now.

[wintry temple]

Yea makes sense

[hallow sand]

Unhandled Exception: EXCEPTION_ACCESS_VIOLATION reading address 0x0000000000000000 crashing on launch, no reshade, no mods.

[wet bison]

do you have any mods before patch?

[long sphinx]

Just read description next time

[void owl]

Seems like 1.0.2 patch is not letting me load mods, i cant event extract the AES key anymore

[hallow sand]

Yeah, mods were runnig fine after. Last night just started messing up

[long sphinx]

@wet bison

[hallow sand]

fresh installed, tried new game too.

was agetting black screen but could getinto inventory and see it

now just wont launch period.

[wet bison]

doesn't work for me. i have empty slots anyway

[long sphinx]

Oh ok

[wet bison]

try to load old save

[hallow sand]

putting -dx12 in my launch options has it starting now

[hallow sand]

was still getting black screen on fresh game

and older saves

[wet bison]

Mutant loot mod in your ~mods folder?

[hallow sand]

negative.

I have zero mods in right now on a fresh install

no re shade either

[torn pivot]

@hallow sand verify game files, some of the supported nvidia/intel/amd dlls might be scuffed

[wet bison]

delete cache shaders?

[hallow sand]

Verified and updated gpu drivers last night

[hallow sand]

where can I find that?

[torn pivot]

we had 1.01 yesterday and 1.02 came out today

[wet bison]

in your AppData folder

[sage trail]

@hallow sand try deleting paks/content folder and verify files since steam doesnt always delete mods when its reinstall the game

[wet bison]

1.02 allready drop on steam ver.

[hallow sand]

Roger. Will try.

[torn pivot]

open a windows explorer folder and type in the url bar %appdata% hit enter to go there, go back/up a directory and go into appdata/local/stalker 2

[hallow sand]

Okay deleted those 2

[lusty sail]

Lol this mod encrypted with different AES key or smth xD
AES that I have for stalker2 not working

[torn pivot]

i dont know if you can unpack cooked ucas/etc files, only pak files can be looked into.

[sage trail]

I had the same issue, you have to generate a new .usmap file

[torn pivot]

ive not used zentools but i know of its uses.

[sage trail]

its the same AES key as last time

[buoyant goblet]

%localappdata% is your friend

[lusty sail]

Any instruction how? I'm only downloaded some from google

[torn pivot]

oh legend, i didnt know that shortcut hah. ty

[hallow sand]

Okay so I got a new game started, but STILL black screen but can see inventory.

[hallow sand]

doing this now

[torn pivot]

if all else fails, have you tried rebooting your system?

[hallow sand]

Yup, did it last night, today etc.

[hallow sand]

But if all else fails ill do that again

[floral garden]

are you using a ini file in your appdata folder which disables shader warmup?

[sage trail]

you need to download latest release here: https://github.com/UE4SS-RE/RE-UE4SS

put it in S.T.A.L.K.E.R. 2 Heart of Chornobyl\Stalker2\Binaries\Win64

go ingame press ctrl + numpad 6 and it should generate usmap file

[void owl]

Is any one is actually able to load mods? None of my mods are loading whatsoever....

[hallow sand]

I had that before but no longer. My shaders warmup at start of game

[void owl]

Even Fmod sees my file changes being replaced by vanilla

[torn pivot]

it seems like a problem with the latest patch, some people cant load in at all with no mods, some of us can load in with mods.

[void owl]

I can load in the mods, but seems like they have no effect

[torn pivot]

what mods are you using?

as mods overwrite core game files, so they should work unless your game has reset the custom loading parameter and your mods all exclude the _P suffix.

[void owl]

Yes i know, Im using my own mods

Veteran to Master Rebalance and Dynamic Weathers

When i export my mod paks, and i navigate to the cfg files, i see defaults values there

like even FModel considers that my paks have less prio? something isnt right

[torn pivot]

how are you bundling the pak, what is your method? have you got the internal folder hierarchy correct?

if the hierarchy is wrong, they wont do anything.

[void owl]

Theyre correct

Im just wondering if any other mod authors are noticing a similar issue

[twilit scroll]

guys, can someone make a mod where a quest giver can give 3 quests before going on cooldown pls

[void owl]

https://www.nexusmods.com/stalker2heartofchornobyl/mods/51?tab=description

These are the mods i made

[clear mountain]

my mod seems to work fine

[torn pivot]

i made a custom murderous anomalies mod for a chap named Ian after 1.0.2 dropped, tested it and it works fine. so not to point fingers but it seems like you're doing something wrong mate

[void owl]

yeah there;s something fishy

[torn pivot]

fmodel aes key and mapping correct and loaded?

[void owl]

not saying the patch is the issue, just asking for anyone with similar experiences

[clear mountain]

lemme see your mod

[void owl]

some thing some where is overwritting my mod variables with vanilla ones.

[hallow sand]

This was happening to me before the update too. I think it was an error on when I was repacking/merging

[torn pivot]

do you have another mod that edits the same things?

as mods are loaded alphabetically.

[void owl]

Im only using my mods

[torn pivot]

what is a known variable in your mod that you changed compared to default? as im looking in your cfgs now but as im not editing these files i dont know if your values are vanilla or changed lol

[clear mountain]

is this intended?

[void owl]

Just go to Difficulty prototypes

yes of course

[clear mountain]

yeah I see

[void owl]

but when i view my cfg values in my mods, from FMODEL by loading the /pak/ directory, i see the default values (left diff)

so something, somehow, even on Fmodel, is using the default (pakchunk0) values

[clear mountain]

very weird and too specific

what does this param do tho?

[torn pivot]

Ace, in fmodel have you selected "load all" ?

[void owl]

load multiple

[torn pivot]

thats probably why then pal.

[void owl]

which is default when you click a single pak

huh?

is it?

[hallow sand]

So THAT;S why my mods would default back?

[torn pivot]

from the first tutorial i read on how to use fmodel, it said load all.

you are not doing the one thing i am doing and my mods are fine

try it.

[void owl]

anyways i already found the culprit :p

it wasnt that

[torn pivot]

what was it?

[void owl]

Seems like it has something to do with one of my UE cooked assets

[torn pivot]

your difficulty mod doesnt include any

so you've verified the game and its replacing a corrupt or missing file?

[void owl]

i dont know if it is or it wasnt that but removing it fixed it.... strange.... this only replaces/mods utoc files way off the GameData folder

need to test but at least i can see my changes reflected

might have been my data asset? lets try

very interesting... seems like by forgetting to update my chunk label Data Asset this broke something when loading mods

[torn pivot]

I dont evne know wth that even means but ok, glad you sorted yourself out man.

[void owl]

its for cooking assets in Unreal Editor... i added and replaced one asset for another, but i guess i had to additionally, go to my Label DataAsset, open it, and save for it to apply the chuck ids again

okay its all working now, thanks yall

[torn pivot]

you're using unreal editor to edit paks instead of fmodel to export and notepad++ or similar program to edit cfgs and unrealpak to reassemble?

[void owl]

no im ussing unreal to edit uassets

[torn pivot]

oh right

[void owl]

Unreal Engine Objects, for the cfgs i just use visual studio code lol

my other mod, dynamic weather, im attempting to add new weather events into the game

well not new, but fix the missing weathers that were cut from the base game

https://discord.com/channels/912320241713958912/1311655930907066461

[neat thistle]

Please, someone send me LocalizationDB.ubulk and LocalizationDB.uasset files

postpatch, ofc

[void owl]

not to toot my own horn, but i was one of the first people to actually make cfg mods for the game. Original author of the OG longer days... Not saying i know much of anything, just determined i guess

[storm turtle]

Man can someone make a VID mod
I keep staring at people not able to figure out what faction they are

[void owl]

sorry if i came out rude @torn pivot i know youre trying to help ❤️

[torn pivot]

no you didnt, its all good man.

[storm turtle]

something like the pathces that show up in gamma when you stare at someone for a few seconds

[torn pivot]

you are not the only one. many of us struggle as some wear the same tac gear or colours blend in and look the same. i keep killing the mercs protecting the scientists and have to reload as i go bac kto malachite and they all try murdering me lol

we need alternative skins for gear imho as the patches are too far away to tell in the heat of the moment, not having binos and a useful pda is painful.

[storm turtle]

I mena the ui element that pops up with the person's patch

IDK strictly if it comes from the gamma modpack, maybe its part of anomoly, or even just the original games
but when you stare at someone for a bit, their name and patch appears on screen

[torn pivot]

i was gonna say what ui element, you might be in the wrong section mate as this is talker 2 mod making discussion lol.

[storm turtle]

I... know

Im suggesting to make that a mod in stalker 2

:I

[torn pivot]

ooh my bad lol

[sage trail]

Does anyone know where i can find weapon meshes in the files?

[raw crest]

I have never figured out how to do the mesh deformation shown on this trailer

There were only 2 tutorials and some dev tutorial on ue5s website

Which none explained how to actually apply it to vehicle tires

[mystic lion]

Hi everyone !
Is there any Frenchy Baguette who could help me to understand something about modding
thanks

[raw crest]

Have you guys figured out if it would be possible to manually perform the animation

[hallow sand]

okay attempting launch after uninstalling my content folder and steam verifying /downloading it again

[void owl]

I don't have plans on working on this, but I've noticed that only a few weapons have this animation

Probably just the ones which are using in the Arena

[hallow sand]

Damn, it loaded to the save, then crashed when it said "hit any button to start"

gonna make a new game on save 2, see if it corrupted my stuff

[void owl]

@hallow sand sorry if it was already asked, but did you clear your engine.ini file?

[hallow sand]

I did not actually.

[void owl]

Like made it empty and tried relaunching

I had troubles with mine, I erased everything and only left mouse acceleration settings there

[hallow sand]

will try that next here ty!

[void owl]

gl

[raw crest]

Yeah as i guessed, pity. Even then adding those which have animation would be worth it

[hallow sand]

So i laso might have downlaoded a wrong config

or thing

it was setting my game to 1000 nit or something

or monitor

maybe

[void owl]

I'd love weapon inspection keybind

[hallow sand]

where is engine.ini again?

was taht in the appdata one

or steam?

[void owl]

Here

[raw crest]

Time to ask chatgpt how to mod it without any prior experience whatsoever

[hallow sand]

saved/config/windows?

if so, i don't have an engine.ini, maybe putting one in there might help?

[void owl]

Appdata/local if I remember correctly

[void owl]

I believe so? Check also Game.ini

[void owl]

Can't go wrong there

[hallow sand]

i shall try.

https://www.nexusmods.com/stalker2heartofchornobyl/mods/517

Could this have messed me up?

[void owl]

No idea man. For me it was these optimization values in my engine.ini

[hallow sand]

I don't have one atm, and deleted the game.ini

I mean you've helped me get back into the game at least from immediate craashes

Still balack screen :/

I can see the FIRST part of the game start where he opens the door an grabs the artifact from his basket

then blackscreen in truck

can see inv

esp menus

etc

[void owl]

Damn dude you've cooked your game , I'd reinstall

[hallow sand]

I already did taht :/

Like shit is mad cooked for some reason :/

Could MAYBE the new nvidia driver I installed be the reason?

[void owl]

You verified the files, but did you uninstall and reinstall?

[hallow sand]

yes

full uninstall and reinstall

[void owl]

Could also do a clean reinstall of driver's

[hallow sand]

at least I know my save isn't bricked

the games just bein fucky

[void owl]

Also how can one get the modder role in the discord? Or is that just reserved for GAMMA/Anomaly modders ?

[raw crest]

@void owl do you perhaps know where i can find certain animation logic path for example, of reload animation, similar to this?

[hallow sand]

and i randomly just reload a save

and it's good

wtf lmao

but crashed on loading old save

so maybe borked save

well i loaded an older save and it's good.

I'm not entirely sure but I guess deleting the second pak folder helped

[hidden oar]

I'm looking through versions 1.0.0 and 1.0.2 of pakchunk0-Windows.pak using FModel.exe to see what exactly has changed between patches, but in all my searching I haven't encountered anything different between the paks despite having different time stamps and sizes. Am I doing something wrong?

[raw crest]

seems like we will have mod browser in the menu itself huh

[midnight sinew]

it will most likely be a way to cross mods to console

but a in game browser is really goood for everyone

[vital coyote]

should make em paid mods like Bethesda but i do like the ingame mod browser

[raw crest]

ugh it will use the fucking mod io

noooooo

i hate it so much, laggy piece of shit. I suffered enough with it in Snowrunner

[sage trail]

Has nobody found where weapon meshes are?

[raw crest]

Stalker2/Content/_Stalker_2/weapons/sniper_riffle/sr_svd/AnimMesh im not sure if it is weapon mesh or no

opens up this

[vital coyote]

i think all the meshes are seperated by moving parts

[sage trail]

in which pakchunk?

[raw crest]

i loaded all of them together so im not sure

[sage trail]

yeah ik im trying to put them all together rn

[raw crest]

i guess 42?

[vital coyote]

yeah you can load all the pakchunks at once if you select all with shift click and load

ctrl shift f afterwards to search the whole game

i love how you got a random x on your post with no explanation, like are we wrong where should we look?

[raw crest]

i know right

[sage trail]

so once ive highlighted it all how do i open in 3d wiever? once i click it only opens one at a time

[vital coyote]

click load on the top 🙂

while they are all highlighted

[hallow sand]

Path(file).parent / "temp_repack"

how do i fill this in to send my repakcs there?

[vital coyote]

this is all the things

just compiled into the filestructure together

[torn pivot]

i tried making an attachments armoury mod to give more guns attachments that they can clearly take, the things attach but they arent in the right place and reticles dont work 😦 someone do the needful and fix this shit please lmao

[vital coyote]

even your mods if you have em installed

i hope u find what your looking for, i feel like the atachment system is hella restricted with optics in particualr

picatinny is picatinny let me slap the long range sight i can only put on my vector smg onto my m4 damit

[mortal flame]

if um using vortex do i still need to make a ~mods folder and change the directory for vortex?

[vital coyote]

i think vortex is not that necessary but its this

also there is a plugin for mo2 now

Mo2 for S2
https://github.com/ModOrganizer2/modorganizer-basic_games/pull/167/commits/0ce0d2f636050f7280c60875a13ece0c1502323a

Install a portable instance of Mo2

Download that .py file and place it in \modorganizer2\plugins\basic_games\games

[sinful cypress]

Vortex needs still a staging folder, yes

[keen nimbus]

Does head and body have separate resistances/protection? Like you have armor+helmet vs armor that has built-in helmet?

Asking here since I figured modders already looked into it

[torn pivot]

it isnt so detailed as head armour offers "head protection", its just an armour stat, the all in one suits have the same stat, helmet and suits seperate have armour stat. you're just adding more armour to it and in comparison the all in one suits offer more armour in that regard.

[neat thistle]

Do we have list of meshes names?

Would be very helpful right now

[keen nimbus]

So it's just simple system of helmet + armor = universal resistance?

[torn pivot]

yea

[keen nimbus]

So does it mean our head is protected even if we wear no helmet..

[torn pivot]

you have less armour stat applied as no helmet, and the other resistances too. but yes essentially.

[keen nimbus]

Thanks.

Any idea what the grey upgrade slots are for? https://i.imgur.com/8DnwDOL.jpeg

[torn pivot]

the grey slots are sockets not used by the devs for upgrades at current

lenses on helmets are greyed out and not white/selectable as the socket has not been populated with upgrades for us, but they have been populated with upgrades for AI NPCs

[mint wraith]

so is helmet + body armor more protective vs the all in ones? cuz if purely additive adding up all the bars would be way more protective with the helmet

[hallow sand]

for repacking

is it

[elder aurora]

Will gamepass stalker 2 have mod support

[torn pivot]

the all in one suits offer the most protection, no a combo wont beat them tier wise.

[merry mountain]

what he is saying is not true tho, according to the devs

[torn pivot]

you get shit helmet for +5 armour, chest chest rig for +10 armour. a same tier all in one suit offers you 15+ armour.

[hallow sand]

MOD FOLDER / stalker2/content/GameLite/GameData then sub folders?

[keen nimbus]

I haven't found any non-enclosed armor that would be better than the fully enclosed sets.

[merry mountain]

this is offical GSC answer

[keen nimbus]

hmm

[torn pivot]

im looking at the raw numbers in the cfg files

[elder aurora]

Will pc gamepass have mod support for stalker 2?

Cause if not I’ll probably get the game on steam and look to transfer my save

[torn pivot]

wrong place to ask that question

[elder aurora]

Oh where then?

[torn pivot]

idk, try somewhere gamepass related and not gamma related?

since gamma isnt on gamepass

[vital coyote]

it dose but its limited like you cant install the consol

[merry mountain]

yes it has mod support

[vital coyote]

but most mods work

[elder aurora]

Okay cool thanks guys

[clear mountain]

yeah

[merry mountain]

this channel is for stalker2 not gamma

[clear mountain]

armor and helmet dont stack

but what about anomaly protection

[elder aurora]

Wdym by install the console?

[clear mountain]

or radiation

[merry mountain]

Unreal Engine Console to execute commands

[vital coyote]

kina like in anomaly when you press th ~ and can run commands

yeah

[elder aurora]

Oh well I don’t plan to cheat

So that’s fine

[desert valve]

i dont get their answer, it does not explain how armors using both slots work

[vital coyote]

can be kinda helpfull like for testing preformance fixes and some mods that use blueprints

[compact furnace]

I had no idea this was even in the game still, first found after 30 hours

[merry mountain]

thats true its not a very elaborate answer 😄

[clear mountain]

fun fact

[desert valve]

you need classes my bro 😄

[clear mountain]

it added +14.5 weight in 1.0.0 despite it says +20

[pearl lichen]

I forgot to hit enter, what they found is the fallback lod for nanite

say, if you completely disable nanite, that's the mesh that gets loaded

[vital coyote]

ahhh makes sense, was fucking with stuff in the consol and they game crashes right away when disabling nanite lol

[deep ridge]

has anyone found a value that lets you tweak the base idle stamina regen rate?

might have jsut found it actually

[unreal glacier]

where is combatsynchronization.cfg stored

[desert valve]

GameLite\GameData

[unreal glacier]

in which pak, I can't seem to find it

[desert valve]

i dunno, got my shit from here https://github.com/CnRJay/Stalker-2-Dump-Files

[raw crest]

chatgpt pinky promised me if do these i can inspect the guns in the game

[keen nimbus]

Which file contains info on artifacts' actual stats?

[keen nimbus]

Did you find a solution perhaps?

[desert valve]

yes there is: https://www.nexusmods.com/stalker2heartofchornobyl/mods/545

[compact furnace]

This one is strange though because "weak" effects on artifacts are being displayed as +0.0 / -0.0

[desert valve]

thats rather interesting

maybe weak does acutually do jack shit? 😄

[compact furnace]

It might be 0.05 or something idk but that would be super underwhelming

[keen nimbus]

I will test it in a min, by pairing weak radio protection and weak radio artifact

See if I get any radiation at all

[compact furnace]

This one had weight medium and radiation medium before I installed the mod

[desert valve]

it will, its probably a rounding issue

[compact furnace]

Does radio protection cancel radio? I thought thats just the flat stat for environment radiation

[desert valve]

the artifacts are in \GameLite\GameData\ItemPrototypes\ArtifactPrototypes.cfg and the matching effects in \GameLite\GameData\EffectPrototypes.cfg

[keen nimbus]

Thanks DaPutzy, writing down the info for when I have time to get into modding tomorrow

[merry mountain]

can someone with the 1.0.2 steam version check if they have a new additional exe file in Win64
Stalker2/Binaries/Win64/Stalker2-Win64-Test.exe

and if so, please try starting the game with it

[thorn kiln]

yea I can do that real quick

[keen nimbus]

yeah, got it

[keen nimbus]

https://i.imgur.com/tGmZc81.png

[merry mountain]

not sure if they uploaded that by acccident

[keen nimbus]

That's the error I get after few secs when I try to launch it.

[thorn kiln]

same here

[clear mountain]

same, even with administrator previlege

[merry mountain]

ok thanks

[clear mountain]

that should be the test build

[thorn kiln]

Someone on reddit name dropped this server in regards to a potential A-life fix, is that true?

[clear mountain]

I am 99% sure they uploaded it by accident

[merry mountain]

yeah and that probably should not have been delivered with the udpate 😅

[clear mountain]

but as we see

it wont do anything for us peasants

[compact furnace]

Couldnt they have accidently uploaded an SDK 😦

[merry mountain]

there are mods that affect it, but they mostly make the spawn distances way larger and the render distance for npcs and the despawn distances etc

[craggy heart]

Does anyone know the history of the cfg file format? Is this the first time we've seen it? I'm running my mod manager against the entirety of pakchunk0 as a smoke test and it's shocking how many cfg files are seemingly malformed

[thorn kiln]

thank

[clear mountain]

#1309526198833119303 many modders post their stuff here so...

[merry mountain]

its still not like the alife we know from the old games tho

[clear mountain]

it shouldn't be called as a-life fix

[keen nimbus]

It does cancel each other out.

[clear mountain]

more like uhh

distance and population modifier

[keen nimbus]

Yeah.

[unreal glacier]

I can't figure out where the heck combatsynchronization.cfg is

using Fmodel

[merry mountain]

dude you where already told where it is

Stalker2\Content\GameLite\GameData\CombatSynchronization.cfg

click on GameData and then go to Packages tab
or just extract them all so its easier to work with them

[desert valve]

btw if you guys regularly search in the dumps i recommend ripgrep

[brittle birch]

Guys, can someone share all the original config files along the path "Stalker 2 Heart of Chornobyl\Stalker2\Content\GameLite\GameData" after the new patch 1.02?

[vital coyote]

i think someone made a repository to dump all the things

no mods will work but they will ovewrite any changes gsc made

dependding

[clear mountain]

mutant loot mod is, currently

have the modder patched it?

[merry mountain]

just localization is broken, not the entire mod

[clear mountain]

ah

[merry mountain]

if you dont remove the localization part the game will crash tho, yes

but there was a update for it so it might be fixed

[unreal glacier]

No, I asked which .pak it was in, and received no response to that effect. I unpacked the whole thing outside of FModel and found it. Thanks.

[hallow sand]

I can't merge mods atm though, keep getting errors.

[merry mountain]

all the cfgs are in pakchunk0

[unreal glacier]

Thank you

[vital coyote]

try manualy merging stuff, its not too hard

[hallow sand]

I've not been having tghe best luck doing either :/

[vital coyote]

i wrote a guide, got how i merge in there with pictures https://discord.com/channels/912320241713958912/1312154196383895702

[unreal glacier]

Honestly the best way, and you can personalize everything in the process

[vital coyote]

yess ^^^

the auto merge thing just favors one mod above the other

these cfg's have tones of diffrent values in them no reason not to have changes from one but not the othere

[desert valve]

well usually there are no conflicts between mods

so auto merging works just fine, in rare cases (e.g. deleted lines) it breaks though

[vital coyote]

i have 8 mods 3 of them use the same cfg

[unreal glacier]

I was trying to update a grenade throw probability mod to the latest game version, and decided to change some of the numbers myself to be something less OP than vanilla but harder than the mod would have been

It's like cooking, so rewarding to get that flavor dialed in

[desert valve]

yeah of course, but unlikely they touch the same lines in that file

[unreal glacier]

yeah, and if they do, then you can decide which direction you wanna take things

It's inconvenient and takes effort but is worth it in the end methinks

[desert valve]

i would use auto merging, check the html file it creates for you, if anything looks funky: merge by hand

it will also have a hard time if GSC changed the base files and the mods arent updated yet, but you will see that very easily in the report

[vital coyote]

notepad ++ got my back lol

[livid spire]

:0 Guys I had an idea what if we just replace all the guns with their real counter parts but with full internals:3

[craggy heart]

I'm wokring on a tool that solves this problem: https://github.com/joe-p/unreal-pak-mod-manager. It has a CFG parser (and ini) so it does the merging on a per-value basis rather than merging the entire file

[vital coyote]

fuck yess!!!

[craggy heart]

The smoketest I ran against every single cfg in pakchunk0 just passed, so should have a release ready soon

[vital coyote]

hell yeah man, posting it on nexus?

either way ill follow the github

[desert valve]

whats the plan with all the broken configs? 😄

[vital coyote]

upload the new ones with the new values on update im assuming

[craggy heart]

Yeah will drop the link here on both nexus and GH once the release i tout

[vital coyote]

o7

[craggy heart]

Were their cfgs broken by the update or are you referring to the various cfgs that are potentially malformed?

[desert valve]

2nd one

[vernal plank]

Man I can't find a mod pack I was using that someone made. The last verson I downloaded was ARS_modpack_1.8 but I can't find the original creator for the update

[vital coyote]

may have taken it down due to the update

[desert valve]

there was something fishy with that, he didnt credit other peoples stuff or sth and it got removed

unless it was reuploaded, idk

[vital coyote]

ohh was that the one that just said i made the game better and had everyons mods in it lo

there was one alot of pple where pissed at

[vernal plank]

I don't remember. It did a lot of stuff I wanted though. I think the original poster had a wolf or something as his profile picture

[craggy heart]

For now I'm just assuming no one will actually make a mod with those files lol. These are the file that are seemingly malformed ( added the .bak_because_invalid so my tool didn't try to parse them)

./Stalker2/Content/GameLite/GameData/ArtifactPrototypes/QuestArtifactPrototypes.cfg.bak_because_invalid
./Stalker2/Content/GameLite/GameData/ItemGeneratorPrototypes/GDItemGeneratorPrototype/VortexDudeItemGenerator.cfg.bak_because_invalid
./Stalker2/Content/GameLite/GameData/Scripts/OnGameLaunch/OnGameLaunchScripts_E01_MQ01_NoIntro.cfg.bak_because_invalid
./Stalker2/Content/GameLite/GameData/Scripts/OnGameLaunch/OnGameLaunchScripts_E16_Bossfight_Scar.cfg.bak_because_invalid
./Stalker2/Content/GameLite/GameData/Scripts/OnGameLaunch/OnGameLaunchScripts_EQ152_Spark.cfg.bak_because_invalid
./Stalker2/Content/GameLite/GameData/Scripts/OnGameLaunch/OnGameLaunchScripts_EQ152_Ward.cfg.bak_because_invalid
./Stalker2/Content/GameLite/GameData/Scripts/OnGameLaunch/OnGameLaunchScripts_EQ154.cfg.bak_because_invalid
./Stalker2/Content/GameLite/GameData/Scripts/OnGameLaunch/OnGameLaunchScripts_EQ155.cfg.bak_because_invalid

It's also possible that they are techniaclly valid, but most of them are something along the lines of

[0] : struct.begin
   SID = OnGameLaunchScripts_EQ155
   ScriptsArray : struct.begin
      [*] = XSetGlobalBool DBG_IsDebug 1
      [*] = XStartQuestNodeBySID EQ155_P_Technical_DebugStart
   struct.end

Where there is clearly a missing struct.end. Perhaps I should just parse that as "end of all structs" but idk

[still dew]

I’m curious the progress of you guys for adding weapons and animations to the game

[vernal plank]

it raised the carry weight, made it so you can sell broken stuff made the AI throw less gerandes

[vital coyote]

need tools but pple are doing cool stuf with blueprints rn so we have to see

[desert valve]

lgtm 👍 , i would list them in the README somewhere so no one is suprised

[still dew]

There is literally nothing I could do to help so I am just watching you guys’s progress

[vital coyote]

dobt you can add in full animations, meshes and all that shiz in but the mutant loot has new items

[vital coyote]

learn like i am, one step at a time lol

[desert valve]

these are all available individually

[mystic igloo]

the only mod I need is a sleepingbag mod where I can sleep everywhere lol

nighttime sucks

[vital coyote]

^

i like night time but still

would be nice to skip

[mystic igloo]

trust me if you have a oled monitor fuck no

the only thing that will change my opinion about night time is nvgs

nothing else

[still dew]

You don’t want me learning to make mods, I’d only add dumb stuff

I’d try adding Zach Hazard to the game replacing the technician in Rostok

[vital coyote]

hehe my big project at the end of the tunnel is porting the nvg's from grayzone into stalker. already cracked into grayzone and have access to the files

[open grove]

hello! has anyone had luck adding additional gun upgrade slots? I got them showing up but havent been able to get the ~~trader ~~ tech to be able to sell them yet

[still dew]

https://youtu.be/RFrbv5dHoFo?si=NiElviR9hBPweV5z 9:42 in this video is what I want as a tech in this game

[vital coyote]

broo wee need the goofy as much as we need the cereal

[vital coyote]

i did see someone else trying to mess with that here

ctrl f "upgrade" in here may help you find em

[open grove]

aight thanks

[tacit yarrow]

that would be the logical next step

[open grove]

also, if anyone is working on adding guns I wouldnt mind helping out. I want a sawed off pump in the game that I can equip to the sidearm slot. That would be sweeeeet

[compact furnace]

Am I missing something or are there no longer side quest chains in this game? I kinda thought I could help beard take back over the Skadorvsk but he only had one single quest etc. kinda sad

[compact furnace]

THere is a mod that allows you to equip a lot more guns as side arms including the boomstick

[open grove]

yeah I seen it. I made the boomstick specific one. I want to expand the shotguns with more sidearm options in a way that is reasonbly balanced

My idea is to add upgrade slots to make the boomstick a viable sidearm until midgame then add a sawed off pump for mid-late game

[west steppe]

Is there any mods that gives values to armor/weapons ?

The figure it out bars are not my jam

[desert valve]

https://www.nexusmods.com/stalker2heartofchornobyl/mods/545

[compact furnace]

This is not for armor and weapons

[desert valve]

oh right

sad

i though it was, didnt start my game yet

[west steppe]

Thanks @desert valve , but yeah. I already got that one and it's good. But let me give you an example, how many jelly fishes is a bar of physical armor?

[winged hemlock]

Does anyone know what it is and how to get there? This is under two of my mods.

[sinful cypress]

Not possible

It’s a nexus error

[vital coyote]

anyone know how the pre order dlc is handled? is it on their own pakcunk's?

[torn pivot]

no its in the cfg files and their respective locations with the other items that arent dlc

the gun entries are on the weapons manifest list, one file to control them all so to speak.

[vital coyote]

so its already in the game lol? i started my save on one install and am continuing it on another install im not gunna like share it anywhere but i wanted to unlock it formyself

[livid spire]

Guys should dynamite be in the game as well?

so we have more options of explosives

instead of the normal frag grenade.

[vital coyote]

to you happen to know where to find the ring, erm cfg lol

[torn pivot]

i know where some cfgs are, what are you after?

cus there are multiple to control multiple things

[cold yacht]

Fatal error!

Unhandled Exception: EXCEPTION_ACCESS_VIOLATION reading address 0x0000000000000020

0x00007ff628ad161b Stalker2-Win64-Shipping.exe!UnknownFunction []
0x00007ff628ae75b1 Stalker2-Win64-Shipping.exe!UnknownFunction []
0x00007ff628acfb1a Stalker2-Win64-Shipping.exe!UnknownFunction []
0x00007ff628ad3b96 Stalker2-Win64-Shipping.exe!UnknownFunction []
0x00007ff628d0cb18 Stalker2-Win64-Shipping.exe!UnknownFunction []
0x00007ff628d094cf Stalker2-Win64-Shipping.exe!UnknownFunction []
0x00007ff628ad269d Stalker2-Win64-Shipping.exe!UnknownFunction []
0x00007ff628ae5799 Stalker2-Win64-Shipping.exe!UnknownFunction []
0x00007ff6289b8dca Stalker2-Win64-Shipping.exe!UnknownFunction []
0x00007ff6289aace2 Stalker2-Win64-Shipping.exe!UnknownFunction []
0x00007ff626d5ab1e Stalker2-Win64-Shipping.exe!UnknownFunction []
0x00007ff626d5d583 Stalker2-Win64-Shipping.exe!UnknownFunction []
0x00007ff628c03e75 Stalker2-Win64-Shipping.exe!UnknownFunction []
0x00007ff628bfce53 Stalker2-Win64-Shipping.exe!UnknownFunction []
0x00007ff628c089b2 Stalker2-Win64-Shipping.exe!UnknownFunction []
0x00007ff628c01220 Stalker2-Win64-Shipping.exe!UnknownFunction []
0x00007ff628c46034 Stalker2-Win64-Shipping.exe!UnknownFunction []
0x00007ff628d68547 Stalker2-Win64-Shipping.exe!UnknownFunction []
0x00007ff628d65ce1 Stalker2-Win64-Shipping.exe!UnknownFunction []
0x00007ffa445c259d KERNEL32.DLL!UnknownFunction []
0x00007ffa45d2af38 ntdll.dll!UnknownFunction []

Crash in runnable thread Background Worker #7

Hi. After patch 1.0.2 the game started to give an error about an error in the configuration file. Pressing yes or no leads to a crash with such a log. Mods don't work anymore?

[vital coyote]

well the dlc one but i may have miss read it, thought you were talking about one that can turn it on

[torn pivot]

Stalker2\Content\GameLite\GameData holds the majority of the weapon data in itemprototypes and weapondata

i dont know if you can give yourself the dlc you dont own, the game checks it against your account with some kind of flag.

ive not tried to spawn their items, but ive tried to load a friends ultimate edition save and it blocked me from doing so with a message about the dlc difference.

[vital coyote]

kk yeah i have an install with it and one without it lol thought it may be easy to just moove the files over for just myself

[torn pivot]

why pirate two versions of the game? that just sounds...silly

[vital coyote]

i bougt one after i knew i could run it

xD

[torn pivot]

you can load non dlc or dlc under your edition saves, but loading dlc saves on a non dlc, or under tiered dlc account wont work from just putting the save files in the folder and including the save controller.

[vital coyote]

yup yup

knew it was a posibility was just kinda hoping it just yoinked the items

tbh the tresure hunt thing is op "go here for the good shit"

i stoped doing those missions all together. all the stuff it gave me was far supierior to any of the things non ult gameplay gave me

[torn pivot]

they are easy access to some tiered loot which is nice. after thinking the integral (vector) was dlc only i got a bit sad as i like the vector, then i found one and realised how bad it is lmao

[cold yacht]

Guys, here is the error when starting the game after the patch.

[vital coyote]

do you have mods loaded

[torn pivot]

codeblocks.. like typescript requires little curly squiggly boys everywhere, stalker uses struct.begin and struct.end to finish code blocks. somewhere one or more are missing.

[vital coyote]

spicificly the mutant loot one ive heard you need to update

[cold yacht]

yes, there was no such thing in patch 1.0.1

[torn pivot]

that looks like a broken mod

you using mutant loot?

[vital coyote]

they updated it and fixed it ive heard

just gotta get it

[cold yacht]

no

[vital coyote]

unload all your mods and launch

then use proccess of eliminaton

[cold yacht]

but maybe it's because of the real names of the weapons, there's something about compatibility with mutant loot.

[tacit yarrow]

PM me if you are serious about it - could quickly give you suggestions on IRL content - explosives related

[torn pivot]

mods that dont touch the same files dont cause conflicts. you are using an outdated mod.

recent patch changed some things, one of your mods is affected and has been scuffed

install vortex to manage updates or go delete your mods that are more than just a simple cfg edit and redownload them if they have new updates on the nexus.

anything that adds new shit that is more complex than a texture change is probably what is broken

[cold yacht]

The error refers to a line in the config. Does that mean there is an error in it?

[torn pivot]

yes its missing a codeblock, struct.end.

it tells the game to end this line of code as it prepares to read another or to end the file.

[vital coyote]

have you tried launching with the mods turned off to tell if its a game problem or a mod problem yet -_-

you wont break anything just do it

if your realy worried dont load your save

[cold yacht]

Without mods the game of course launched. Then I will use the method of exclusion, what can I do.

[torn pivot]

anymod that changes damage, health, stamina, mutant, ai, npc, yourself or weapons is most likely a simple cfg mod, those are fine and wont brick a save if removed as they are just numbers being changed.

anything other than that is probably the cause, ie expanded inventory, mutant loot, and a dozen others that i dont know the names of

[vital coyote]

whats your list

[torn pivot]

+1

[vital coyote]

this is my old one for reliese i dont have any mods installed rn but send a screen like this

[cold yacht]

• merged conflicting mods via Stalker2PakCfg MergeTool

[torn pivot]

my immediate guess would be the "lcat" mod

[vital coyote]

yee was gunna say you got alot of coflicts lol

[torn pivot]

when i used the cfgmerger i instead deleted all the conflicting mods and made my own that married their features together.

[cold yacht]

4-5 mods combined via the program

[cold yacht]

deleted, no effect

[vital coyote]

some of these im unfamiler with would also update living zone or check their channel below uf there was

[void owl]

Just another little sneak peak into my Weather Overhaul. Here is the difference between the Thundry prerelease/Cut weather:

[vital coyote]

and conflict woldnt crash

atm

[void owl]

And the new restored Thundery Weather:

[vital coyote]

the mod just wont work

[torn pivot]

I like it!

[vital coyote]

yee very nice

[void owl]

its really hard to tell, even to old weather looks alright. But it had NO dynamic clouds and very poor fog/light difussion

New weather has clouds, proper lighting, proper colors etc etc

[torn pivot]

the current lighting situation ingame makes some weather just look dull

[void owl]

Before

After

[cold yacht]

you're right, from Shay's Living Zone: quick update : the only working mod at the moment is : 1.01 standalone found under optional files! this one is compatible with 1.02 GSC update on nov 30.
this version also has NO other mods as it is a standalone! timescale 4x is still there. working on 1x. ty

[void owl]

Additionally here is the light rainy weather. This one is even harder to spot the improvements but believe me, they are huge

[vital coyote]

that one was super promising was testing a bit deff plan in installing it again myself

[void owl]

Before:

After:

[torn pivot]

current raindrops are hard to see in low light with cloud cover, i cna hear the rain but cant really see splashes of droplets

[vital coyote]

standalone is de way for me game feels easy enugh and alot of the ai changes right now make them deff dumb and blind. like hellen keller of the zone

[torn pivot]

your mod makes them stand out as the yellow overhue appears to be gone

[void owl]

There was only one rainy weather event in game, which imo looks really good. But when i rlease 0.9 in a an hour or so, the game will now have 3 rainy weather events

After that I will have to fix the foggy weather

I want to make Clear weather, really clear like barely any clouds. Cloudy weather a lot less cloudy and then foggy would replace the cloudiest weather

[vital coyote]

i wonder if there is a way to change cfg values live in the game, would make thins super easy to test stuff

there has to be a ue tool for that

they have a tool for everything

[void owl]

There kind of is if you want to give it a shot

[vital coyote]

ooo

whats that

[void owl]

https://github.com/UE4SS-RE/RE-UE4SS

[vital coyote]

ohh the map dump tool?

[void owl]

yeah although i havent used it yet

youll have to figure it out, but it should allow for bigger better mods

Gotta go learn LUA

[vital coyote]

i did see someone talking about it having extra stuff

[void owl]

it can inject LUA code

[icy halo]

Where does stalker 2 store the shader cache files

[vital coyote]

yeah ive been learning alot brain hurt, ue is complicated af, but there are some powerfull tools out there

[vital coyote]

app data i think

hold up

[void owl]

i spent like 8 hours this week already just trying to get my weather mod going

[icy halo]

Know what the folder would be called?

[vital coyote]

not sure thats why im looking for it for ya

[void owl]

Which btw:
https://github.com/JsonAsAsset/JsonAsAsset

This UE plugin has been amazing

I was able to import the JSON dumps of uassets into Unreal Editor and go from there

[vital coyote]

yeah been going through everything step by step even have the ue editor and everything all running for stalker stuff

oooo

[void owl]

dont get your hopes up.... it only accepts certain kind of assets... i was lucky

[vital coyote]

%USERPROFILE%\AppData\LocalLow\NVIDIA\PerDriverVersion\DXCache

[icy halo]

TY king

[vital coyote]

make sure you have the precompile on when you launch again if you turned it off

[icy halo]

oh thanks I wouldve been staring at a blank screen or something

[void owl]

I think there is a manual way to let it accept many more, but i havent tried it

[torn pivot]

I might have to do what you're doing ace, i wonder if i can fix my attachment armoury mod using unreal instead of just barebacking the files with fmodel

[vital coyote]

learning ue will be super usfull for alot ]

tones of tutorials out there

[void owl]

go for it, check that repo and experiement. I really feel like there might be a breakthrough with this tool