╟⚒stalker2™-mods-making-discussion

[covert radish]

player

oh actually both

i forgot i wanted to change npcs too

[covert radish]

their dmg is a bit underwhelming sometimes

[sinful cypress]

it depends ^^

[cerulean talon]

hello. If i want to make a blueprint mod, should i use UE 5.1? Or the latest is fine

[covert radish]

ok thanks

[spring idol]

5.1

usually you want to stick to the same editor version for the game you're working on

[barren timber]

is there a mod that shows what exact characteristics unique artifacts like the stun ball have? in the description it is not clear how much it protects from bullets and I don’t understand whether it is better than an artifact that weakly protects from bullets

[covert radish]

https://www.nexusmods.com/stalker2heartofchornobyl/mods/273 does anyone know what exactly does this change in corevariables.cfg?

I want to merge it with my other merge of corevariables mods and i dont want to miss anything

[still dew]

has anyone made a thing to rebind quick melee yet?

[merry cradle]

someone make a mod to sort items in inventory like in Anomaly

[still dew]

click S?

Or sort better?

[vague knoll]

anyone know of any mod that reduce the loot significantly

[humble cove]

Is there any photomode mod?

[covert radish]

Grok difficulty has that

Also I merged it with: https://www.nexusmods.com/stalker2heartofchornobyl/mods/705

[bright wasp]

Do we know if npc’s only wear the NPC labeled armors or do they pull from the player and npc ones?

Also does item gen effect their equipped load out or just that bodies ‘loot box’ after death?

[vague knoll]

grok mod is out dated, you think it will work in the new patch? also can i have the file that you merge? thx in advance

[ocean stump]

anyone have remove crosshair mod ? i got a crosshair bug and i tried to remove it but doesnt seems to work

[oblique crater]

is there an NPC SID list?

[worthy sparrow]

is anyone working on anything that keeps track of what's in each pak or utoc so when modders wanna edit files they dont have to look through all the different ones?

[merry mountain]

fmodel does that

[worthy sparrow]

hmm, ok, let me see if i can explain this better.

i made a reference sheet for foliage. so if you want to edit a specific grass texture, instead of extracting them all in fmodel and opening them in your img editor to see what they look like, to determine the name of the foliage you want to change, you look at the sheet, look for the picture, and then see the name immediately. you dont have to extract anything. thats the point of my sheet. to eliminate that step.

that's what i mean for the vanilla game pak and utoc files, is there a ref sheet to view what's inside those, so if you're looking for a specific thing, you can look at the ref sheet, without having to look in all the different archives in fmodel. does that make more sense?

[merry mountain]

you dont need to extract to find stuff, not sure i get what you mean

[worthy sparrow]

ok, so, if someone wants to edit certain attachments of a weapon, how would they find those files in fmodel?

[merry mountain]

by looking at the appropirate folders you see in fmodel, for example

Stalker2/Content/GameLite/FPS_Game/UIRemaster/UITextures/Inventory/WeaponAndAttachments/
Stalker2/Content/_Stalker_2/weapons/attachments/

[eternal sapphire]

1. Someone tells you where to look.
2. Have experience with games file structures and search for it blindly.

[worthy sparrow]

thats my point. you either have to have someone tell you or you have to search for it.

[merry mountain]

You type in attachments and immidiatly see the folders

[covert radish]

Works for me

I’m on 1.02 tho

Not 1.03

And yeah I’ll send it to u when I get gome

[merry mountain]

it works, just overrides all changes the devs done to those files in the patches

[covert radish]

Yea cuz they don’t change file structure

Tho I saw that latest patch broke ledge garbbing and some other stuff

[worthy sparrow]

my mistake. i didn't realize you could load all the .pak and utoc files and then search with keywords and stuff to find it.

i wish i had known that earlier 🥲

[covert radish]

I wish that someone made a mod that’d reduce loot to like TLOU1 hard difficulty levels

[covert radish]

here

i tweaked some things myself too, like antirads cuz there was so many of em

also those wooden boxes that used to have food and drinks are always or almost always empty

and medkits only have bandages, if anything

you can still find stuff on ground tho

and there's still too much of it there imo, I'll probably try to change that if it's possible when I'll be bored

and repairs are cheaper

[lusty sail]

I hate that shit, how is the fuk it must work? My code for iterating through cfg file is cry and crash my program because of this strange type of array struct, that have inside another struct... In other artifacts ViewOffset and EffectOnPickupPrototypeSIDs is separated...

[covert radish]

what's the name of groza (grom) in WeaponGeneralSetupPrototypes.cfg?

is itGunGrim_ST_Player?

[vague knoll]

thx man

[flint flicker]

Does anyone know how to make durability icons on weapons match the trader value? IE if you can sell at 25%, how to make the yellow shield come up at 25%

[void owl]

Hi I just saw that Mutant loot managed to make custom CFGs for his mod, so it now it doesnt have compatibility issues. Is there a guide or something on how this was achieved?

[magic shuttle]

any mods fix arena round 4 bug?

[hallow sand]

progress story.

It's not a bug.

[magic shuttle]

oh

k thank

[hallow sand]

np 😄

[desert valve]

alltough it could be a bit more obvious

[magic shuttle]

should prob mention it in game..lol

[desert valve]

just create a new config and have fun

the magic is in the correct references and if you manipulate existing keys load order gets important

[void owl]

Ah very interesting.

Is there some kind of user made guide on how to ref stuff? for example, id like to get the **RealToGameTimeCoef ** variable from CoreVariables, then using this i could calculate a number that i could use as an additive variable for my weather mod to determine how long weathers min/max duration values should be

Oh wow im looking into his .pak and custom cfg. What a genius

[desert valve]

none that i know of and what you describe is sadly not possible AFAIK

[crimson laurel]

u can also unpack everything and use grek to search a keyword in the cfgs

[ripe flame]

Project Itemization 0.20 + Faction Patches 0.3 compatibility patch: #1313285567009656842 message

[void owl]

It maybe could be possible.
I make a zzWeatherModAdd.cfg

• Reference DefaultConfig struct, make a copy of RealToGameTimeCoef value, create some math algorithm to calculate some gain/offset values.
• apply gain/offset to each min/max? ->** (Maybe the not possible part)**

Wont know till i try... Unfortunately, i have just had not enough time anymore for my mod :/

[desert valve]

oh oh

nvidia dont do this to me

[void owl]

Must be that new weather type

[lusty sail]

refkey=[0] is reference of the first structure at the top of the file?

Because I don't see [0] : struct.begin ... in QuestItemPrototypes

[oak mesa]

I wonder if there's someone out there working on a winter stalker 2 weather ... So it can snow in the zone ..

[foggy hinge]

Yes, I believe so.

[lusty sail]

Damn, there's sometime strange references and my parser that nice work with consumables - die at QuestItems file xD

Yee, some condition works, now I can preview quest items

[tidal yew]

where are the prices for ammo located? im changing the dynamicitemgen to make npcs sell all types of ammo, but some of them are too expensive to buy in bulk so i want to change the price as well

[lusty sail]

I guess in ItemPrototypes/AmmoPrototypes.cfg

[tidal yew]

will take a look, thank you !

[plain horizon]

You're bloody joking. I knew it was doing a fair bit but bloddy hell

[real forge]

?

[plain horizon]

Modio using as much CPU as it is when it actually isnt doing anything atm

[real forge]

well idk if that is really a lot, that was just what got into the sample while entering a town

[real forge]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IIBh0d9LzZU bcs im trying to fight this and so far no success((

idk if i can force ue to smooth out loading of this funny village somehow

[plain horizon]

That is insane

Never seen it do that

Even without mods?

[real forge]

even if i build top pc tommorow it will still drop to like 60 probably

[real forge]

it will be exactly the same w/o mods and with latest drivers

[plain horizon]

Nah if you're on a hot fresh build, you'll A: see a fuck load of good difference and B: have new different problems lol

but yeh, I getcha

[real forge]

5500x? and 5700x3d latest drivers no mods benchmark. you can clearly see when bro enters the village)

[plain horizon]

At the very least run perf mods as a base. Vanilla is fully plonked on most systems, even mine and it is barely a notch below top spec

[hazy ivy]

Anyone have a copy of IOStorePackagev2? The download link in the Useful Tools has expired

[plain horizon]

Oh? Theres another way to pack .uasset's? I was having trouble getting my single file to run in game yesterday, immediate crash

[hazy ivy]

It might just be another dead end, but won't know until I can find it 🙂

[plain horizon]

Farkin sign me up for the news letter, I dont know what I could possibly be doing wrong at this point lol

[verbal yoke]

Wondering if there's going to be a program for Stalker 2 like the creation kit for fallout 4? Does anyone have any insight on this?

I am wanting to implement new guns into the game.

Or is it a matter of just creating the weapon (handgun for example) in unreal engine and importing it into Stalker 2?

[plain horizon]

We are a while off an official SDK. BUT there are some characters working in the background to bootleg one from what i've heard

[verbal yoke]

Guess I'll wait for the SDK or bootleg version to release. Thanks for the reply.

[teal wing]

creating an official sdk is an incredibly time consuming task

i would be surprised if it was out in 2025

2026 at the earliest

[tidal yew]

any idea why the vendors are selling the wrong amount of ammo? i set it to 210-300 but they are selling upwards to 500

[cobalt hamlet]

what is this tool ?

[plain horizon]

I am trying to make an environment with UE and everything we have on hand atm. It doesnt feel too far out of reach. but it'll be missing the essential 'behind the curtain' stuff that GSC will need to do

[lusty sail]

mine, trying to code parser to read/write cfg items configs with some cool features

[cobalt hamlet]

Nice 🙂 good luck on this

[plain horizon]

Oh thats wicked I didnt see the screenshot

@cobalt hamlet How do you pack .uassets? I've managed to do a pack with rezen but game crashes immediately. Have had a good search around here but im stumped. Why do your packs work and not my single file I was trying to test?

I'm SO close its killing me haha

[frozen anvil]

maybe stupid question, how do I extract .uexp files with Fmodel? it only does .uasset

[gusty moss]

I was picking through DynamicItemGenerator.cfg in hopes of making npcs drop armor more frequently when they die. What does weight do? Weight is used for WeaponPrimary and BodyArmor categories. Obviously weapon drop & secondary weapon is often found on the body, but armor do not drop for some reason. Other categories such as Head & SubItemGenerator are using chance.
I added chance 1.0 (it means 100%) to bunch of armors and killed newly spawned npcs, I was able to loot 1-2 pieces of different armors per dead npcs body. Does it mean some NPCs can spawn with double armor equipped? Is there a better way to make NPCs drop their equipped armor? How does weight & chance interact with one another?

[vital coyote]

is there anyway you copy your save onto the other save slot at all? wanted to try Alife extended on save slot 3 but on my current playthrough on save slot 2, so i can easily swap between them.

i have a hunch it has to do with a mix between the CampaignsSave.sav and whats in the data folder but im unsure

[plain horizon]

My guess would be make the new save and dump whatever from the other until it works as intended

[vital coyote]

there is no real refrence to 1,2,3 slots im asuming the stuff in the data follder is your save file in cronlogical order and is linked in some way to the campaignssave.sav

but no clue how to interact with a .sav file to look in there

opening it in notepad gives me the crafting table lenguage like a file it cant read lol

[plain horizon]

Good shout, that is a weird one. I've always found game saves to be a fuck around. See if someones made a tool for UE that can do these

[vital coyote]

for sure, all this ue stuff needs some sort of tool to do anything -_-

[plain horizon]

Thankfully theres already a good deal floatin about

Still alot missing

[vital coyote]

absolutly! prety amazing what we can do day 1

was ripping into all the files poking around and stuff since it came out but its one hell of a learning curve. 7z needs a pak plugin lmao

[plain horizon]

your modding guide put me onto packing .uassets

it all works but theres just bits and pieces missing from all these tools for stalker specifically. Can make a Utoc,ucas pack but my ones crash immediately lol. Ah well, we'll get there

[vital coyote]

ayy thats dope glad it helped 🙂 i still need to fuck with .uassets and expand on alot, pluss more tools keep popping up.

[plain horizon]

Fucken aye soldier, keep it up 🫡 . If you find out how to proper do .uasset packs I'd drop that in there too. because theres alot to muck around with there. The installs are straight forward but the bits and pieces are a mystery to me

I'm trying to build a knowledge base myself for everyone to dig into as well. nowhere near complete but slowly we're getting to grips with it

[vital coyote]

still wierd why they would encrypt your saves in some wierd filetype, i get the game assets and configs but the saves sould be accessible

got this tool that may convert it https://pspp.benpfaff.org/

havent tried yet

and for sure man! got a link to your stuff? 🙂

[plain horizon]

Oh ahah, its not up anywhere and 99% of it is all the speculation we have. total mess that needs organising, most is still in my head and needs to be written down lol

When I can do that and make a somewhat legible library for it and what cfg's and respective values do I'll push it public, but I'm way off atm

The A-life fellas are doing insanely good work with all the online behaviour vars and all that. + Shay and Wool are doing a great job documenting stuff as is within their cfgs

[vital coyote]

so this tool doesn't seam to work :/

and hell yeah man! there is a directory with "alll major cfg's" may give ya a head start https://www.nexusmods.com/stalker2heartofchornobyl/mods/557?tab=description

and yeah i want to mess with an alife mod but want it on its own save but dont want to start again lol

i have been puting links to inportant looken stuff like that up here if i find em

ohh and some at the bottem

[plain horizon]

A-Life extended feels nice atm. just the standard version, gives you enough craziness. that and wools npc overhaul are nice

I havent tried shays in a bit tho, im sure they've made leaps and bounds over there

[vital coyote]

yeah a-life extended was the one i was looking into, i played with shays a bit but then patch broke it and the mod changed a tone with a bunch of diffrent versions and other mods packed with it that got a bit confusing

trying to keep the game as vanella as posible for my first playthrough but if im not plowing through quests the zone feels dead

[plain horizon]

I only run a single personal pak with all the changes from other mods. It's the one thing that keeps me in the loop with whats happening in them files. I might drop the whole thing on nexus once I'm happy with it, but it'll be a big overhaul

[vital coyote]

yeah mine is mostly just qol stuff atm but there are a tone of mods i want to try on another playthrough

[plain horizon]

same + a bit more. The one thing I'd recommend doing is going into difficultyprototypes if you're playing on veteran and equalising player and NPC damage. so whack doing only 75% damage and they do 2% more than base

[vital coyote]

Yeah I feel like a tank man shits too easy

[lusty sail]

Need file with description of what some parameters do in configs for items, for what Icon1x1 needed in consumables if Icon works properly? 😄

[plain horizon]

Theres some other janked values elsewhere that make them do way less damage than you. Take a look at this for reference https://discord.com/channels/912320241713958912/1314012739173093490. Some of the values changed in there make them hit harder

[lusty sail]

Also started listing some shit, because everything is a mess

[vital coyote]

For sure that’s what sensi was talking about would be hella useful

[plain horizon]

Yeah this is what I mean, if we had ALL this written down and how a value translates in the world like distance/time for example it'd help everyone big time

[vital coyote]

Why don’t you make an open doc y’all can both add too?

[lusty sail]

But it need to restart game 999+ times for checking how every parameter is affect on gameplay... Damn

[plain horizon]

I was thinking of starting a thread and having everyone dump what they have in there. then we can start building a whole doc

[vital coyote]

Set trusted people to read and write and then links for read only for others to get the info

[lusty sail]

Hmm, would be nice

[vital coyote]

Only so trolls can’t wipe the page

[nova delta]

Does anyone know if there is a mod to be able to walk with your gun out but at a lower or passive position?

[plain horizon]

Owner can accept write changes on a shared doc

[vital coyote]

Ohh word

[vital coyote]

Don’t think so yet no real animation stuff yet

[nova delta]

dang..... I love using the Clusterfuck gun but it takes so much of the screen up lmao..... Guess the name fits

[winged hemlock]

Hello guys
I tried to do Artefact variatizer for Stalker 2, but have this problem happened.
How can I do random effects permanent for each artefact?

[plain horizon]

LOL. its obviously not saving values, I wonder if its changing CONSTANTLY during use too

Thats so funky. How'd you get it to do that in the first place?

[stuck token]

try this:
make a new save in slot 3.
copy that save out of the save folder (you can tell wich it is with the file time etc.)
copy your save from slot 2 (you can tell wich it is with the file time etc.) out of the save folder
rename it with the name from new save from slot 3 you copied earlier
put the renamed save from slot 2 in your save folder
it should be now in slot 3
load it, make a new save and the date and time should now be right also

[winged hemlock]

Changed min/max to different values

[plain horizon]

were min/max the same values before?

Its probably a class function and making them anything but the same will make them do that

[vital coyote]

not a bad idea

hell yeah

[stuck token]

it works in the same slot

so it should work in between slots too

[winged hemlock]

yes

[vital coyote]

so like this is for sure my last save from last night they have the date modified new save should be on top ima try it

wait no

[plain horizon]

Yeah defs a class function then, unless theres something in an item/artifact generator cfg that you can change to stop that. Might be out of our hands at the moment. Which is a shame because I like the idea

[stuck token]

to be sure

[vital coyote]

at the bottem

[stuck token]

just make a new save in slot 2 so it has the actual time and date. so you can tell its the right one

[winged hemlock]

Sad

[plain horizon]

Best you could do is set values to default and just have it randomise between them. Thats weird ass behaviour though, surprised it didnt kill your performance

[vital coyote]

it worked!! ty ty

[stuck token]

thx for confirmation 😄 and i am happy that it worked

[vital coyote]

was wierd still had the photo of the starter aria when i saw the save file

but after loading i was where i was on slot 2

[stuck token]

yeah it takes the values (image, date, time) from the original
when you save again with that save then all is fixed

[stuck token]

now i can go to sleep.
needed that itch be scratched first

[vital coyote]

haha dude ty ty now i can use this as my test save and not run the start

rest easy mr big brain chad

[stuck token]

nothing big brain but i take the credit of course
i had a problem myself and just tried this
only in the same Slot and not switching from one to the other

[vital coyote]

yeah made sense that the campaign files would track by file name

i knew these were my saves but i was more focused on trying to get into the .sav file to see how it worked

would prob still be benificial to get in there one day to mess with stuff like skiping the intro or rogelike mods

best way to play anomaly is with the ironman rogelike mod and i need it in this for sure x)

[vital coyote]

found this on reedit from someone who pulled the weapon stats
https://www.reddit.com/r/stalker/comments/1h9o0ni/weapon_stats_ingame_make_no_sense_so_i_pulled/

[green sundial]

Which mod to use for better stalker/human models for gamma?

saw a youtube video and it said it was listed which mod to use based off if you play gamme or anomaly

[torn haven]

this isn’t gamma nor anomaly

[green sundial]

shit wrong tab

thanks homie

[exotic token]

PLEASE GOD SOMEONE MAKE A 7.62x54 PKM MOD

PLEASE

I WILL LITERALLY DIE IF I HAVE TO USE A 7.62x39 OR 5.45x39 PKM

AAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH

[spark plinth]

I will be doing so when I get to them.

[bright wasp]

Not by a computer that I can do this but if someone wants to do this real quick:

1. Go to: Stalker2 > Content > GameLite > GameData > ItemPrototypes > AmmoPrototype
2. Delete line 470
3. Add a new line at 347. Add: [2] = GunPKP_MG

[charred grove]

ah yes, a loudener

[warm sky]

Hello, juste a little question, can i rename the pak from mods or this will break it ?

[little sluice]

As long as it ends with a "_P" and has no spaces

[warm sky]

Perfect thank. whats the fonction of _P ? Some mods have other don't

[half willow]

Heard you loud and clear, changing the caliber to 7.62x51

[little sluice]

It designates it as a patch so it's guaranteed to overwrite the base paks

[warm sky]

Thank!

[cobalt hamlet]

It depend on what you want to do , but i use Unreal Engine to pack uasset, you need to have the correct architecture for directories. What are you trying to do ?

[plain horizon]

That seems a fair bit more sensible. All I was trying to do was see if a curve being set to 0 on both sides would have the intended (If any) effect

But more or less, I want to fuck around and see whats what. I'm taking a smack at UE now to see what I can actually do as of right now (for modding)

[last spire]

Why

[hallow sand]

Cause the game doesn't have much for variation and it should probably be that caliber lol

[last spire]

Game chambered it wrong?

[hallow sand]

Like there's no 7.62x39 ak variants

[hallow sand]

The 7.62x54 PKP is a light machine gun that uses the 7.62x54mmR cartridge and is part of the PKM machine gun series:
Details
Ammunition
7.62x54mmR

yes

[exotic token]

It's a crime against humanity

[last spire]

no shade but the irony of a brony pfp saying that

https://tenor.com/view/sonic-sez-officer-gif-25405719

[half willow]

https://tenor.com/view/1984-gif-19260546

[stoic portal]

would it be possible to recreate the weapon crafting system from gamma in stalker 2?

[hallow sand]

It's being worked on slowly, SDK is slowing things down 😄

[last spire]

Who is this SDK and why is he slowing things down

[hallow sand]

Tell em they need to fucking release the noodles

[last spire]

https://tenor.com/view/andrew-hussie-insane-crazy-knife-bartys-brew-ha-ha-gif-24652525

ill do better than tell em

[coarse jacinth]

I'll help

[coarse jacinth]

London

[last spire]

thats a gun gun

[coarse jacinth]

Please do ignore it's from a femboy server

[last spire]

where

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

ill believe it when i see it

[coarse jacinth]

You can click on the emoji to view where it's from

[hallow sand]

I wear cat ears an maid outfits, does that qualify?

[coarse jacinth]

You're a femboy if you want to be one and I won't settle for a different requirement

[hallow sand]

https://tenor.com/view/miau-golden-tiger-golden-tiger-meow-gif-938667685281764883

[crimson laurel]

joining rn

[sharp turtle]

just pooped a little when this guy came howling over

[restive hornet]

Are there some caps for stats(as example you can increase max weight beyond 140kg)? If yes where I can find them?

[hallow sand]

download the mod herehttps://www.nexusmods.com/stalker2heartofchornobyl/mods/53?tab=posts

Then use fmodel to see wehre those are

I can't think of it right meow.

[last spire]

https://www.nexusmods.com/stalker2heartofchornobyl/mods/790

they did it

they ended ammo racism

gj trixmajster

now what do we do with 7.62x39

[hallow sand]

moth has it set up on the drowned

ak

[last spire]

now tell me which is better, 5.56 or 7.62

[hallow sand]

depends what you want to do, they both have adv/disadv

[last spire]

pen

[hallow sand]

7.62 hits harder

[last spire]

which 762

39 or 54

[hallow sand]

39, well 54 hits harder than 39

but both should hit harder than 556

[last spire]

so more damage but lesser pen or its also better for pen

?

[hallow sand]

well 7.62 has more pen than 556 IRL, I dunno how they did it all ingame

[last spire]

good enough

thanks

[hallow sand]

❤️ sorry yeah I have modded my gun stuff ingame so it's not nearly vanilla

or id help more

[spark plinth]

I mentioned I’ll change it on my mod to 7.62x54 on the next update.

[last spire]

https://tenor.com/view/bait-thats-bait-tom-hardy-mad-max-gif-5055384

[spark plinth]

What you mean!?

[last spire]

https://tenor.com/view/crying-emoji-gif-21670374

[spark plinth]

Proof

[last spire]

thats fake news

100% forged

[spark plinth]

[last spire]

photoshoped

u cant hoodwink me

[spark plinth]

Gaslighting is real.

[last spire]

https://tenor.com/view/hanni-pham-hanni-hanni-cat-hanni-kitty-newjeans-gif-12881456871786533265

[spark plinth]

Uncanny!

[last spire]

i play overwatch, i gaslight my own tank

its a skill

[spark plinth]

Unrelated, I know, but was hitting yesterday Marvel Rivals yesterday. Pretty good stuff.

Anyway, STALKER 2 modding

[last spire]

HOW DID I KNOW

MARVEL RIVALS WAS GONNA BE IN YOUR NEXT SENTENCE

everywhere i go i see it

get out of my head

[spark plinth]

Wanna play?

[last spire]

no fuck no

[spark plinth]

[last spire]

big brother china harvesting my data twice as hard with that

also the dev is uber shady

some mobile game scam type beat

or killing off their games

[spark plinth]

[zenith solstice]

https://www.flawlesswidescreen.org/ if u want more weapon fov

[last spire]

i want you

https://tenor.com/view/hanni-pham-hanni-hanni-cat-hanni-kitty-newjeans-gif-12881456871786533265

[eternal sapphire]

Has anyone found the Wwise soundbank file or an effective way to decode the audio files?

[warm sky]

Hey Stalker, do you generally prefer a lot of little mods that do 1 thing or a big overhaul? Because first I modded with Grok little mods and this morning I found the overhaul of Maklane that do the "same" all in one. So modlist will be 6 mods against 21...

[clear mountain]

unless it's anomaly tier overhaul I prefer lots of small mods

[sinful cypress]

I dont like Modlists IF the just include non-selfmade modcontent and just use other modfiles without providing the downloads to the Authors.
Therefore Collections are made!
Modlists "steal" the Modauthors downloads, cause they just use merged .pak files insted provide a Collection where every Mod gets downloaded individually

[clear mountain]

I don't blame merged modes as modlists tho, some people want quick plug and play with combined mods, if not they had to spend their time to put and evaluate the mod

there is a demand so there's a supply imo

[loud peak]

Excuse me, but what modlist did I make? If you mean Maklane's Better Zone Overhaul, it's all my work. I've been putting all my mods together into one and adding more and more changes as I've come across Vanilla mechanics I didn't like.
In fact, I even share nexusmods points with other authors because we have good synergy between mods.

[sinful cypress]

Sorry, was no offense!
I didnt have a closer look and just mentioned your name, cause another one did before
I apologize!

[sinful cypress]

Well, a Collection provides the same (merged file in the collection) IF it is well hosted.
So the Modauthors get their downloads and the Collection-Hoster makes a merge-file if needed => no conflicts for the users

[loud peak]

that's ok, but it may hurt someone xD

[sinful cypress]

cant find a "sorry" smiley ^^

[loud peak]

@sinful cypress to finish this, today someone wrote to me in nexus, this is the conversation:

[loud peak]

np, all good ❤️

[remote crescent]

,Yo lads

Anyone has plans to specifically mod the "Clusterfuck" ? I mean like change the stats/ammo caliber/add canted sight

[warm sky]

I agree, after I speak here of my own list of mod downloaded individually. Sorry if I expressed myself badly.

[merry mountain]

thats not how collections on nexus work tho, it will not automatically merge mods

[clear mountain]

It won't merge mods for you, and this is the very specific problem of current S2 modding

[merry mountain]

You can make mods that dont need the merging most do atm, but i dont think most mod authors changed to that way of handling the files

[twilit pike]

Do anyone have GameData configs unpacked? Can't you drop me FastTravelLocationPrototypes.cfg and FastTravelPrototypes.cfg? Don't have the game installed but interested in whats in these configs, since game lacks of fast travel points and guides.
Or maybe i can find them somewhere?

[spark plinth]

I prefer to give credit where it’s due and have 40 separate mods than one person conglomerating others ideas and claiming them as their own. I also understand the whole “copied homework” argument. Yet the contents aren’t really original and lacks effort. Not to say that there isn’t a person out there doing a whole pack of mods by themselves like Maklane.

[sinful cypress]

Therefore I wrote "the Collection-Hoster makes a merge-file if needed" .... as I did at my Collection

[nimble heron]

do you guys know why is FactionPrototypes.cfg completely empty, is it a placeholder or incomplete dev?

[ripe flame]

Try Omega. Maybe it’s your cup of tea, also, big update incoming.
Also, it’s a manual overhaul, not a modpack. Though it includes one mod from Maklane

[undone turret]

Hi friends, I'm trying to make a rebalance for myself and possibly for publishing. I have experience in game design, but not in UE5. While editing the UE files I encountered a number of oddities. It feels like a number of variables are not working. For example
DifficultyPrototypes.cfg - as far as I understand it is a basic file defining parameters affecting the complexity.
In it NPC_HP, it seems that does not work at all.
Weapon_BaseDamage also do not feel the effect.

At the moment the settings are as follows:

SID = Hard
NPC_HP = 8.0
Weapon_BaseDamage = 0.5
NPC_Weapon_BaseDamage = 1
Mutant_BaseDamage = 1.35
BuyCondition = 0.5
Weapon_Durability = 2.0
Weapon_DurabilityDamage = 0.25
Explosion_BaseDamage = 1.50
SellCondition = 1.25
Armor_Durability = 3.0
Effect_Satiety = 2
Regen_HP = 0.75
Reward_MainLine_Money = 3.0
Reward_SideLine_Money = 2.0
Radiation_AccumulationSpeed = 1.5
Anomaly_Damage = 1
Upgrade_Cost = 0.70
Repair_Cost = 1
Effect_Bleeding = 1
Consumable_Cost = 1.75
TitleSID = sid_misc_newGame_difficultyyVeteran_STI
DescriptionSID = sid_misc_newGame_difficultyVeteran_SDE

In this case, the exoskeleton NPC falls with one two bullets to the head from the assault rifle and a short line in the stomach.
Please advise me, perhaps I am not taking into account some nuances.

[warm sky]

I will look after the patch, too much risk of loosing time today

Somebody have a method to see witch customisation the mods Optimized Tweak do ? I have my Engine.ini for motion blur and tonemap and I don't want to overlap the moda

[ripe flame]

Try get help here https://discord.com/channels/912320241713958912/1314012739173093490

[bitter saffron]

hi, this has probably been asked multiple times, but is it even possible to see and export models at LOD0 from fmodel ? i have put the AES and mapping file already
(couldn't find anything using searchbar)

[thin marsh]

Hey ! I was wondering if anyone knew how to make it so i constantly have this view distance :

It happens randomly when lagging during a conversation and such and i like it much better than the normal one (you can see much more of the gun and arms / hands

[little sluice]

I solved this by looking at the cutscene version of the model (search for "poligon", not polygon). But I believe there's a setting for models to export all LODs of the model, not just LOD0

[bitter saffron]

but i can't even see lod0 models

is it because of nanite ?

[little sluice]

Have you tried ticking on that option and exporting all LODs, then opening them in Blender? Fmodel's model viewer is kinda limited

[thin marsh]

Thanks, i'll have a look !

[bitter saffron]

i did :/

[little sluice]

Dang

[raw zealot]

Still no working a life officially?

[little sluice]

Does ninjaripper work with S2?

[spark plinth]

The cutscene version crab refers to.

[spark plinth]

Yesnt

[elder pike]

Someone has got to make the SRM 1216
Curious how much it would cost to pay someone to make it

[elder pike]

Correct

[spark plinth]

You can extract but if you try to import to UE. UE crashes, hence the need of waiting for the SDK. or else I would have already added new weapons and attachments.

[bitter saffron]

was looking for building models

[spark plinth]

@bitter saffron I explained here

[spark plinth]

Same issue

[bitter saffron]

trying to import on blender or maya, not UE 👀

[thin marsh]

KS23

[spark plinth]

Ah, to remodel and such?

It won’t work either way. The devs making their unique build of UE5.1 is really the kicker on why we can’t decrypt their cooked .uasset

[bitter saffron]

long story short: i think devs used the same floorplans that i used for my models, especially Energetik 👀 i have done a full pripyat as it was in 1986, and i want to port it to S2 when SDK releases
so i want to see if its the same size ect

[spark plinth]

I was able to decrypt the attachment .uasset reference file.

[spark plinth]

But the meshes per se are a no go for now.

Also, that is awesome, hope to see it.

[lean condor]

Hi everyone, I'm trying to put more mods together trying to do as little damage as possible. Could someone tell me/explain which mods should have priority over others in case of conflict?

[lusty sail]

Someone who coded before any type of parser for cfg files or somehow understands recursive iterating though dictionaries, help, i'm stuck with that type of nested structures:

 property_6_nested_mixed : struct.begin
      test_array_prop = 1
      array_prop_nest : struct.begin
         [0] = Bois
         [1] = 10
         nested_dict : struct.begin
            X = 1
            Y = 2
            Z = 3
        struct.end
      struct.end
   struct.end

[spark plinth]

I feel like it should be the new Merc base.

[summer tartan]

Can we add sounds to the game?

Can we edit the visual effects directly without having to use ReShade?

[summer tartan]

What kind of stuff is currently impossible to change? maps? etc

[spark plinth]

Meshes

I personally haven’t messed with audio to know if we can or can’t.

[summer tartan]

I was told we can't change the aiming sway while moving because it's hard-coded somehow

I want to make a mod to allow reloading during sprint and in mid-air

[drifting tapir]

@half willow do you still have a savegame with the psi-radiation bug?

[half willow]

no

[drifting tapir]

I want to see if my mod can theoretically fix it.
Cause im adding an item that reduces 100 psy points

[half willow]

nah i nuked that entire save slot

[drifting tapir]

But i dont think so in theory, because it seems the psy bug is cause by scripted "permanent PSY".

Which is different from regular PSY. (Pernanent psy is like a change to max hp, while regular psy is like current psy hp)

[half willow]

thats a thing?

[lunar tapir]

Zwei who made the Stalker2PakCfgMergeTool ironed out all those issues I believe

[half willow]

oh

[drifting tapir]

No i didnt explain well.

The scripted psy is basically like changing your max psy hp.

[half willow]

yeah yeah got it

[amber halo]

Hy there, guys is any way to update CoreVariables.cfg without rewrite whole CFG file?!

[lusty sail]

Dang, c# and Linq will be hard to convert to gdscript

[half willow]

not for now

[amber halo]

What about EffectPrototypes.cfg ?

[half willow]

that you can do

[drifting tapir]

I tested effects that changed "max psy", i.e. effects with bPermanent=true .

And yeah it caused infinite psy lol

[half willow]

[amber halo]

You know how?

[half willow]

oh brother

did you ever ask the right person

[amber halo]

I am kidding 😄 😄 😄

[half willow]

https://www.nexusmods.com/stalker2heartofchornobyl/mods/664
and here's a guide:
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1dlH18CWkIuBjdzZJbeuH0pFcji3JNdv336uHq1KsDR0/edit?tab=t.0

[lunar tapir]

Not too sure, can ask him if he has any tips for you and go from there if you can't directly convert I suppose

[amber halo]

I know how, but the CoreVariables no chance. Also seems like CoreVariablesCustom too have no chance.

[half willow]

#1313619012386689124 message

[amber halo]

Thanks, userfull links. So there are no actual way to update RealToGameTimeCoef in CoreVariables.cfg without "Destroy compatibility" , true?

[half willow]

Yep

[amber halo]

Did you try CoreVariablesCustom?

[half willow]

yes

no dice

[amber halo]

Any other files that can't not be "Compatible" ? 😄 Or maybe some other tuts for new mod maker? 😄

[lunar tapir]

What happens when you try to reference it? Game just takes the value from original CoreVariables only?

[half willow]

It just doesn't care about the reference

[amber halo]

Yes.

[drifting tapir]

Well wait hold on i guess i can add a console-only item to reset max psy bar

[lunar tapir]

So basically we need to have an on the fly merger for edits to it anyway, so might as well make a tool that does that with any cfg if we want fully universally compatible mods?

wonder why they limited the referencing of some cfg, so odd

[half willow]

You can't really achieve full compatibility, for example if I make a mod that edits stats on the AK, and you make a mod that edits stats on the AK, then how is that tool gonna help?

[lunar tapir]

load order dictates whos edit holds and whos doesn't, no?

[half willow]

That's not compatibility

[amber halo]

select latest or merge to one? example your mod make ak damage 1, my mod make ak damage 10, so merger set ak damage to 5.5 😄 😄 😄 😄

[lunar tapir]

well thats what a load order is for, if I take a massive overhaul mod but don't like part, I get another mod that tweaks the part I don't like, my load order is me expressly trying to change that

[amber halo]

but this will not work with 1 file 😄 😄 😄

[half willow]

thats literally what the dlc method already does

[drifting tapir]

I think the modding meta should be (and likely will be?) modders using refurl method, with patches between the custom cfgs.

Instead of replacing and merging basegame cfgs.

[lunar tapir]

perfect, except its not universal because of the random cfg limitations 😦

[amber halo]

DLC method is just the way where files are placed, so no need to place it into dlc folder, it can be near other files, is that true?

[amber halo]

?

[half willow]

then it gets more complicated, when I tried that with EffectsPrototypes it just wouldnt work

unless I was doing something wrong

[amber halo]

Because Effects must be in inner folder =\

[half willow]

so thats what Im saying

[amber halo]

In case of inner folder, it's works fine.

[half willow]

just gets more complicated

[amber halo]

But CoreVariables, not 😦

[half willow]

With the dlc method if you want to change load order, you just change the one folder name

and here you have to go in and change every single file

[amber halo]

z zz zzz zzzz 😄
Order is based on loadin *.pak file

So no need to change every file

[half willow]

yeah but what you're doing here doesn't have to be in a .pak file

you can load loose files like that

[amber halo]

What? 😄

[half willow]

yeah

[amber halo]

rly?

just place in ~mods folder?

[half willow]

no

[amber halo]

how?

[half willow]

place them according to the folder structure

Stalker2\Content\GameLite\GameData

[drifting tapir]

Loose is bad though. Theres no reason to not pak if you are using this method

[amber halo]

OMG! You f*** genius! 😄

But for development!

[half willow]

it's good for development

[drifting tapir]

Yeah for sure

[cobalt hamlet]

Same with some others CFG , like DynamicItemsGenerator

[amber halo]

DIG can be overrided.

Already did it

[amber halo]

GeneralNPC_Mercenaries_Sniper_ItemGenerator : struct.begin {refurl=DynamicItemGenerator.cfg;refkey=GeneralNPC_Mercenaries_Sniper_ItemGenerator}

[drifting tapir]

Probably dangerous to release loose files as mods though.

Im getting ptsd imagining trying to troubleshoot users breaking their games in the most incomprehensible way because of improperly uninstalled or overwritten loose cfgs in their game directory.

[cobalt hamlet]

Did you keep the original name of DIG ? or you put a custom name ?

[amber halo]

Custom

[cobalt hamlet]

i tried and it dont work for me

[amber halo]

Bad try 😄

[cobalt hamlet]

even with ItemGenerator placed

it depend and what you try to add i think

i dont want to overwrite everything, just add new things

[amber halo]

You make wrong constuction.

[cobalt hamlet]

yea one struct.end is missed on the screenshot

but last time i tried it was not missing

[amber halo]

No

This is not the issue.

go PM

@cobalt hamlet You are welcome 😉

[drifting tapir]

Whats the issue?

[amber halo]

Wrong structure. 🙂

Of overriding cfg.

[drifting tapir]

The asterisk means it is pointer?

Im not sure

[drifting tapir]

Oh i guess theres a missing itemgenerator struct right? So everything here has to be inside a itemgenerator struct

[drifting tapir]

What does the asterisk mean in syntax though? I dont understand it

[amber halo]

Idk, to be honest.

One more question. Is it way to pack textures and localizationdb in one pak file? Or if you change config, localization, textures you will have 7 files in mod? Like 1 for cfg, 3 for localization, 3 for textures?

@half willow CoreVariables cannot be placed into dlc game data also?

[undone turret]

Friends, in a neighboring chat I asked about the calculation of ammo value ArmorPiercingMod = -0.8.
Since I am zero in understanding floating points, perhaps it is more reasonable to use a specific example. I have fairly accurate values for the penetration of the 919 cal. Let's take it as 1. And the penetration values of the 918, which is 0.8 of the 919.
How do I reflect that in this system?

[half willow]

no that wont work

[amber halo]

shit 😄

So, do i need to use your tool to pack DLC or unrealpack will be good if the correct folder and path's ?

@half willow ?

[half willow]

you need the tool if you want to use a folder in the DLCGameData path

otherwise do whatever you want

[sinful cypress]

If you do it like this example down there and only edit the stuff you want to change (mostly a few lines/values) you dont need to override the whole original cfg.
And then you can place it in "Stalker2/Content/Gamelite/Gamedata/.."
Just a .zip needed, no pak => IF you want to upload it to Nexus

Example:

[amber halo]

what do you mean zip needed?

[sand vault]

Man, game started crashing after reaching STC Malachite and hovering over the personal stash inventory. Never used Mutant Loot, so it's not that. It only happens after reaching Malachite. And only when I hover over ammo. So weird.

Haven't had any major issues up until now.

Maybe I'll try removing all the ammo from my inventories and then go there, then buy more ammo afterward. Or drop it on the ground outside or something. Not sure..

I wonder if any of these descriptive ammo box mods could cause that

[loud peak]

Not sure if people will find this usefull, but I've made a script to adjust values, like loot for example. The process is simple, run the code in Google Colab, upload the original file (.cfg), adjust the pattern_multipliers and patterns and once it has finished recompiling, you will have the option to download the new .cfg with the new values

left vanilla, right the recompiled file, ready to repack

I am not sure how to proceed from here. Do I make a new post as if this is a mod? I upload it to Nexus... somehow?

[sand vault]

You could upload it to Nexus and just put the "How-to" in the download section as a txt file, and also in the description, and put a link to it.

[loud peak]

like, sharing the access to the colab?

like if it were a Google Sheet?

[sand vault]

I did that for my "compacting Form-IDs" how-to for Skyrim.

Right

[loud peak]

thanks ❤️

[sand vault]

You can put the script in the download section too I'm sure

[loud peak]

like a .txt you mean

[sand vault]

Yeah, then just tell people to rename it.

Or just rar it up

[loud peak]

yeah, this would need a bit of documentation so people can use it

[winged hemlock]

https://www.nexusmods.com/stalker2heartofchornobyl/mods/790

[raw crest]

I think my first for course of action would be removing mods that changes ammo UI or something for some bug like that

[winged hemlock]

This is real weapons damage list? It`s a joke?

Or this file is better?

[raw crest]

I cant believe some developer wrote this

It has to be wrong lol

[winged hemlock]

They did

But they made a separete files for players weapons damage and NPC weapons damage

[raw crest]

So what's the purpose of the first file

[winged hemlock]

Base damage

There is many base things, which are just needed because of the engine

You can check that easily by example of my mod for explosions rebalance: https://www.nexusmods.com/stalker2heartofchornobyl/mods/737

[exotic token]

I LOVE YOU

[winged hemlock]

Oh 737 such a great number

[winged hemlock]

I`m not the author, but I helped him to add uniques (check comments)

[exotic token]

@willow warren @signal mango @sullen shard @sinful cypress
I LOVE YOU

[raw crest]

We don't have two different warhead for rpg right, i wish we had heat and he 😔

@winged hemlock since you made the mod, is there value for armor piercing effectiveness of explosives

[winged hemlock]

yes

[raw crest]

Is it area of effect value? Do you perhaps now?

[raw crest]

I don't see armor piercing effectiveness i guess it can be added

[winged hemlock]

I`m not sure does outfit has that protection

Btw, weapon damage changed successfully!

[raw crest]

I imagine two warheads for RPG would be good for non armored enemies with bigger explosion radius and armored enemies with slighly smaller concentrated radious with bigger damage

[raw crest]

Nice!

[winged hemlock]

No one survive RPG shot with my mod

No human

Maybe giant and himera, didn`t tested yet

[gusty moss]

So I was poking in DynamicItemGenerator.cfg and noticed that some NPCs has two SubItemGenerator. One referencing consumable items, always and sometimes one referencing armors. I think the intended way for NPCs to have armor in their inventory is through SubItemGenerator method. The BodyArmor category is purely for armor that they themselves "wear". This is potentially why we are seeing NPCs sometimes drop double armor. But this is just a theory without any confirmation, require some testing first.
Just thought I share it here.

[sand vault]

That crash I was getting at STC Malachite's personal stash was because of the 9 Malachite Permits I had in my inventory. Something about how their quest status changed when entering Malachite bugged my inventory.

I used CheatEngine to remove them before going in, and simply used the badge instead.

Boom, no more crash

[plain arch]

Such an old message but ive also noticed that he puts the gun down in a low state when you go up against a wall with the gun out

[bright echo]

I've been testing the A-Life mods available currently, it seems none works with my game, maybe only A-Life Extended, any ideas onwhat i should do, and wich one of the A-Life Mods is the better at this moment?

did i post this on the right channel? if not i am sorry, just let me know and i will delete

[winged hemlock]

Addon from moddb didn`t work, handled it myself

@exotic token

Also autofire upgrade for Saiga

[storm turtle]

I'm begging at this point. Big gunfights like the one involving ||Monolith in Pripyat|| are a god damn nightmare to figure out who's who unless I get close enough to let them start shooting at me first, especially at night.

They're all wearing vaguly dark lookign camo and similar masks, it's almost impossible

[merry mountain]

you mean this

https://www.nexusmods.com/stalker2heartofchornobyl/mods/665

?

[winged hemlock]

this is bad

because of

[merry mountain]

so its bad because you dont know how to do blueprint mods or what is your case

[winged hemlock]

becuse it has requierments

Which are trash

I use UE4SS

and that modloader brakes it

[merry mountain]

thats a you problem tho

i have not suggested it to you

most normal players dont have ue4ss running

[winged hemlock]

)))))

for sure)

[still dew]

Ok so I did the commands 'XDKFinishQuest RSQ08 true' and 'XDKFinishQuest RSQ09 true' to get rid of the 'ghost' quests on the repeatable quest givers, and while that cleared the objectives, they still don't seem to be giving new quests after an emission. Is there another step to this? Like should I set it back to false?

[kindred lotus]

man this game is so fucking weird. going from 1080p to 1440p doesnt change the FPS

[drifting tapir]

ok based on my tests with my own mod effects i think i did "fix" infinite psy bug.

[ripe flame]

I believe cooldown is 72 game hours

[drifting tapir]

applying an effect with -100 permanent psy points basically breaks all my modded psy effects. Prevents psy from building up at all - i took enough drugs to apply 100k psy points after i applied the "fix" and i saw no psy effects applied on player.

I havent got someone to test on a busted savegame yet, but theoretically this "fix" should completely break the psy mechanic but stop the infinite psy-radiation bug.

The infinite psy bug is likely the opposite of what my "fix" does, where a permanent psy effect (used for quests, or for kill borders) is applied on player but not removed, which means you have permanent psy stuck on you that cannot be removed by psyblock

[ripe flame]

Maybe a Psibiotic then? 🙂

[finite pumice]

Hey so I came from stalker 2 official discord someone said gamma modders might be able to guide me using the dev console I’m trying to mess with effect IDs temporary/permanent. along with that I know you can kind of check your characters status effect using a command debug or something
Like the positive effect of an artifact I know the command for adding affects to player/npc etc problem is I don’t know if I’m executing it correctly

For example XApplyeffectOnplayer ProtectRadiation9 is there anything that should follow that is that only applicable to armor/artifacts in terms of if I created an item?

[twilit pike]

Can anyone send me FastTravelPrototypes.cfg and FastTravelLocationPrototypes.cfg cfgs please? They should be in GameData

[tall marten]

has anyone tried misery mod on the nexus, is it gooD?

[twilit pike]

Unlucky it has no info about how to actually make new guide somewhere. I guess some other file spawns stalkers and gives them some 'roles'. However seems like its possible to make fasttravel point to Duga here, thats something.

[summer silo]

fyi I just tested something last night.
If you have two cfg's that edit the same entry, the later file will take over.
One cfg turned text stats into numbers, the other reduced item weights.

Reduced Sausage weight was 0.2kg, after loading the numerical stats mod afterwards the weight went back to 0.4
But, making the stat mod reference the cfg with the reduced item weights first made the game use both 0.2kg an tell me how much satiety the sausage exactly gave.

[foggy hinge]

Can you test this with Herbatas mod loader?

[summer silo]

Not at the moment, no

[foggy hinge]

That is alright, I am curious if loading things as a DLC completely mitigates these types of conflicts entirely.

This was the same case I had when applying my mutant changes with Sombers Mutant Loot.

The mod would apply my stat changes and still load Mutant Loot

But some people reported different experiences with different mods.

[summer silo]

I am using loose file format so that might have something to do with it?

[sinful cypress]

Tested it with Ammo changes and not all changes will be used (no matter of DLC approach or „normal“ Loose approach).
Weight changes worked, both cfg get loaded and both work.
Ammo-Type change via Loose does not apply then, no matter where it gets loaded, dunno if the game handles them somehow different.
If I load ammo-type change alone, it works. 🤷‍♂️

[sterile falcon]

📋 Your current level

You're placed at 14325th in the leaderboard.

[summer silo]

Bruh..
Learning more and more about Unreal Engine 5 and it's "revolutionary" tech is making me seethe

Fuck Lumen and Nanite

stalker 2 honestly didn't need those. It just needed good LOD's and lighting.
Apparently the entire reason why Lumen was even invented was because of Fortnite

Big open world with destructible environment that needed dynamic lighting that looks good.
Meanwhile s2 doesn't need that shit because the world is static.

The game runs like shite because the lighting engine is trying to figure out whether that static wall that will never be broken or moved away still exists.

And then there's the cancer that is Nanite which rears its ugly head the most during the crane cutscene at the Slag Heap.
If you look at the distant terrain you'll see Nanite popin loading in chunks of the cooling towers and CNPP. Something we wouldn't be even talking about if they used regular LOD's

[woeful crane]

Unreal Engine is the biggest joke to be released on the game industry since Denuvo anti-tamper.
Epic doesn't give a fuck how badly that engine is as long as they can post videos showing off "OHH look SHINY THINGS" every few months. Unreal Engine back in the day and Im talking 10-15+ years ago, used to mean you were gonna get a game that looked good, and could also run on a literal potato, now it means nothing but hitching, frame drops, and unoptimized bullshit.

and it sucks that the one company I wholeheartedly believe made a game engine that could go toe to toe with Unreal wand whoop its ass in optimization was CDPR with their RedEngine and sadly they've even went to the darkside, shelving the RedEngine over UE5...Fucking sad man.

[summer silo]

RedEngine's flaws surfaced with Cyberpunk 2077 tbf

[woeful crane]

Not with Phantom Liberty, They turned that game into something amazing.. granted it should have never left the shop in that state

[summer silo]

If there is one dev team that could do something good with UE5 it would probably be CDPR

[woeful crane]

True, its just ever since UE4 Its like we've watched games developed on it start to devolve over time

[summer silo]

I'm not holding my breath here for it but I think they could drop something good on the engine.

[woeful crane]

Now, is alot of this the fault of developers, Most definitely.

[summer silo]

As for STALKER 2, I doubt we'll see much improvements graphics wise.
Nanite can't really be improved rn and Software Lumen is literal slop.
The one mod I expect someone to try and make is a mod that removes Lumen entirely and replaces it with normal lighting engine to see if it improves performance

[woeful crane]

but at the same time devs turn to UE5 BECUASE its an established engine.

[woeful crane]

Nah I believe you're 100% right, I mean if Bethaseda can release something as graphically good and smooth as the Indiana Jones game, than I have faith in CDPR as long as they dont pull some bullshit like before.

I didnt mean to quote myself lmao

[summer silo]

1. Bethesda is just the publisher. The actual devs are Machine Games
2. It's done on IdTech engine Doom Eternal was developed on

STALKER 2 on IdTech.. Now that would be something.

[woeful crane]

Wait

[summer silo]

But personally I think they should have stuck with Unreal Engine 4 instead of updating to 5 for the lazy slop like Lumen or Nanite

[woeful crane]

I thought it was on UE5

[half willow]

na give me gSrc

[woeful crane]

Well that explains alot lmao

[summer silo]

It is not :D

Indiana Jones is the most impressive game I seen this year. It's not only fun but also runs flawlessly for me.
120FPS at 1440p, and the base game uses Ray Tracing at all times.

And we are talking

Native 1440p

No DLSS or FG

[woeful crane]

I know man, it looks good as fuck, my card dont support raytracing so I didnt even try when I learned it was always RT,

[real forge]

🤔

[woeful crane]

you should check out Threat Interactive on youtube, that dude goes into alot of detail on UE5's problems.

[summer silo]

All my info comes from that channel lmao

[woeful crane]

XD

[summer silo]

The fact you can't even disable TAA without getting major artifacting

Explains why STALKER 2 looks so fucking bad with it off

[woeful crane]

I'm glad dudes getting the recongniion he deserves. I

[woeful crane]

I was sittting here like wtf is Modio, and its Mod IO

[real forge]

Shadow popping and some of general popping, shadow quality sucks and is barely fixed with full pt, textures ass in a lot of places and smaller world scale etc if compared to stalker.

I think crew motorfest is a better example with snowdrop engine(probably only game that i enjoyed playing at 60 fps, usually i would stick to potato quality but play at 180-240). Avatar game seems to look impressive in terms of graphics/fps with a lot more scaling

[summer silo]

Did we play the same game?

[real forge]

https://www.nexusmods.com/site/mods/1119 maybe that could help, didn’t test yet

[real forge]

https://youtu.be/xbvxohT032E?t=12m22s unfortunately ig?

[summer silo]

The issue isn't with AA looking shite.
The issue is with the game requiring AA to not look shite.
Lumen, Nanite and all the other "fancy" little features UE5 has, have a jitter that is visible only if you disable TAA.
Someone quite literally went and decided to abuse temporal solutions for every single unoptimized and unfinished effect

Even Nanite requires it.

[real forge]

Ye i know, but fxaa tweaks probably can make it usable. When I’ve removed the skybox/clouds i saw ghosting world never witnessed before(5 models of ak on 1 frame). While fxaa still isn’t doing best job, I will still see what I can do. Regarding “jitter” idk, I mostly see terrible noise, quite likely it’s the same thing (ye i saw threat interactive video/s)

[wide cypress]

ty, checked out a few of his video and his work is great

especially since a lot of the more obscure techniques he talks about aren't always discussed and I wasn't even aware of them, despite me working on a graphics engine at the moment, having the keywords is amazing

[summer silo]

That was made before day 1 patch came out (early access)

That being said Indiana Jones came out in a much better state than most of the recent big AAA games.

[real forge]

Still same, just more option unlocked for less fps(15% less no pt, 100% less pt medium). Regarding state I don’t find it that impressive since the scale is not great and type is different if you are suggesting stalker comparison.

[summer silo]

I'm talking recent games in general.

[foggy hinge]

I'm working on overhauling consumables, ofc messing with the localization bc I am adding new effects and whatnot, but some of the effects in-game keep showing up with this localization SID for the values

If anyone's got an idea, please let me know.

This is what my energetic drink changes look like.

   Weight = 0.15
   Cost = 140.0

   EffectPrototypeSIDs : struct.begin
      [0] = EnegeticSatiety1
      [1] = EnergeticStamina
      [2] = EnergeticStaminaInstant3
      [3] = EnergeticsPoppyFieldSleepiness
      [4] = EnergeticSleepiness
      [5] = EnergyDrinkPostProcess
      [6] = EnergeticStaminaPerAction1
   struct.end
   ShouldShowEffects : struct.begin
      [0] = true
      [1] = true
      [2] = true
      [3] = false
      [4] = false
      [5] = false
      [6] = false
   struct.end
struct.end

[ripe flame]

I don’t see a struct for value type

It’s in original Energetic

[foggy hinge]

You mean EffectsDisplayTypes?

[ripe flame]

Yes, I believe so. It determines how value is displayed - as a “tier” or a plain number value

[foggy hinge]

Mkay, lemme try

[ripe flame]

Also, you do not have to include all existing array entries. Just type in ‘[6] = …’ right away, all existing previous entries from original should still work

[foggy hinge]

Mm, I was kind of thinking that

I will try after this

[ripe flame]

Side question: why did you choose to replace coupons icon with “RU”, while Zone is located in Ukraine?

[foggy hinge]

Original games have always been in Roubles.

https://stalker.fandom.com/wiki/Ruble#:~:text=The ruble (Russian%3A%20%D1%80%D1%83%D0%B1%D0%BB%D1%8C%2C,for%20mission%20rewards%20or%20trading.

[ripe flame]

Before the invasion this logic could work

[foggy hinge]

It's not logic, it's facts. The lore tied to currency in the games has always been Roubles and there's no real explained reason why they changed it.
https://steamcommunity.com/app/20510/discussions/0/1698294337777278622/

I'm not arguing about a change to currency bc that's how I want to use it.

[crimson laurel]

i dont think u need a explanation to think why it was changed

just think for a second

[ripe flame]

The fact is that now official currency is Coupons, and it’s canon.

[crimson laurel]

for me it makes sense, it's a zone currency, only exists inside the zone

[foggy hinge]

No, I don't but why does it matter to you? Is it affecting you? It's a modification I want to make to my game. End of story.

[raw crest]

last time i got recommendation from their server for modifying TAA for stalker 2, modified version looked so awful

[crimson laurel]

then make it? theres mods for it already

crying about some damn icon

[foggy hinge]

But I'm not?

I'm literally defending my point to my change bc I'm being questioned to why I changed it.

If there's so much of a problem with this then you better go report the mod that does it.
https://www.nexusmods.com/stalker2heartofchornobyl/mods/196

[raw crest]

new lore explains why it is not roubles anymore, saying old games uses ruble as defense sounds like excuse

[foggy hinge]

Yeah, by the lady at the boat and that's it afaik

[raw crest]

tho it is not my game so do you whatever you feel like

[foggy hinge]

"Changed to coupons for whatever reason"

She says something like that or so

[raw crest]

there is more to it, you just missed it

[crimson laurel]

imagine that whole european union changed to euro in 2000

[foggy hinge]

I probably haven't gotten to it yet

[crimson laurel]

must be revolutionary

[ripe flame]

“Whatever reason” 🙄

[crimson laurel]

they literally trying to make russia as far as possible from the game and the developers, why would they keep rubles

[foggy hinge]

LMFAO you really can't just let someone enjoy a game the way they want to huh?

[raw crest]

you all lets not fight about how people want to mod their own game

[crimson laurel]

i don't care about what you do with the game? go on and make all npcs naked with anime style

[foggy hinge]

Sorry, I don't want to tie in real world issues to my gaming experience.

[foggy hinge]

Then why are you belittling me for changing the currency?

[ripe flame]

You can enjoy it as you want. We are just curious why.

[foggy hinge]

No, no. Don't weasel yourself out of this.

[crimson laurel]

am not belittling you for changing the currency, it was for the fact that you said "there's no real explained reason why they changed it"

[foggy hinge]

You knew the intentions and pressured me into why I changed it and wanted to explain to me why it was that way.

[ripe flame]

Sure. Who do you support then, Ukraine or Russia?

[foggy hinge]

Neither.

I support my own country bc that's what I need to worry about right now.

[crimson laurel]

[ripe flame]

👏

[crimson laurel]

honestly that was laughable and i don't even need to know what country u in

end of discussion

[foggy hinge]

Proving my point exactly.

You don't care what I do, but you're obviously berating me for my opinion

[crimson laurel]

you're altruistic

[foggy hinge]

I'm realistic, my current needs to not need me to prioritize my focus on a third world country.

I need to survive as much as they do.

[ripe flame]

There’s war in your country?

[crimson laurel]

am sure you have no idea how much that third world country is impacting your economy

[foggy hinge]

I'm done, y'all are so stubborn to understand that other people outside of Ukraine are also important. There's war in many other countries but Ukraine clearly needs the attention.

[crimson laurel]

[ripe flame]

Sounds like white lives matter

[crimson laurel]

long live syria

[foggy hinge]

Y'all literally just don't get it.

[raw crest]

stop baiting him

[crimson laurel]

what are we supposed to get?

that man is from the us, completely understandable now

[raw crest]

im sure politics of any kind is not allowed in this server, so please just drop it

[gaunt radish]

I will slap the entire band if war talk or discrimination for anything, even liking russian stuff in a game, will occur

go read the #📄rules regarding war talk

I hope it is clear now

[merry mountain]

this mod literally does not change it to rouble

and mods that have done so where previously removed from nexus by request from GSC as far as i know

[spring idol]

cookers

[foggy hinge]

I have an older version of it.

It did change it to Roubles

[merry mountain]

yes and it was removed because of that

now its back because it removed that

[foggy hinge]

I was unaware they had

Which is fair, so I'll need to update it then.

But like Jesus holy shit y'all didn't need to tear me apart for it

[merry mountain]

i dont , i just wanted to tell that they do remove mods for that

[kindred lotus]

anyone here good on .ini tweaks? i want to make this game run well on my laptop

[merry mountain]

so you dont end up having your mod removed

[foggy hinge]

Yee, I know you didn't

[merry mountain]

512MB Nvidia NVS? 😛

[kindred lotus]

Nahh lol, it's decent. rtx 4070 laptop version

[foggy hinge]

I don't plan on making changes like those though, so it's fine

[merry mountain]

okay , that should work decent enough 😄

[raw crest]

thats why we need better modding platform

[merry mountain]

Any mod platform run by any company in a state with normal laws will remove stuff if the rights holder requests it

so as long as you dont want to run an "underground" mod platform that tries to not be held accountable, this will happen

[crimson laurel]

^

[merry mountain]

and its not like they are running around and removing mods left and right

most stuff usually stays up

the only mods that are not on the normal mod platforms i know, are mods that add hardcore s*x related stuff for example

or mods that add "substance" consumption to games where "it does not belong"

like games mainly targeted at an underage userbase or those that should be family friendly etc

[raw crest]

btw we dont have npc guides mod yet right

[merry mountain]

you mean additional guides?

for fast travel

[raw crest]

in og games you could pay stalkers to bring you somewhere as fast travel option

[foggy hinge]

There's a mod to do that

But there is a caveat

https://www.nexusmods.com/stalker2heartofchornobyl/mods/642?tab=posts

You lose the "What's new in the zone" dialogue option but honestly never use it myself

[half willow]

I use it on every npc i see

and 90% of the time its the same dialogue

so you're not missing much

[foggy hinge]

Yee, I noticed that to

It's very repetitive

[half willow]

the lines seem to be faction based

and each faction has like 5 lines

so yeah

[foggy hinge]

Though just be careful with that mod since it seems to break some things

[raw crest]

yeah seems very unreliable reading posts

[foggy hinge]

Yee, I would wait till the SDK honestly

[kindred lotus]

ok but for real, can anyone recommend good tweaks to make?

i cant seem to troubleshoot performance properly. going from Epic preset 1440p quality DLSS to Low 1080p ultra performance DLSS makes the FPS go from 40 to 70

makes no sense

[foggy hinge]

Meanwhile, this just dropped

https://www.nexusmods.com/stalker2heartofchornobyl/mods/807?tab=images

Really useful looking program

[foggy hinge]

https://www.nexusmods.com/stalker2heartofchornobyl/mods/17?tab=files

[kindred lotus]

its like theres a dynamic renderer that adjusts the resolution to keep the average fps at 60

[foggy hinge]

Take a look at that.

It has quite a few really useful tweaks.

[finite pumice]

Has anyone figured out the SID for lead protected containers either the upgrade SID/armor specific container SID or a general one

Because container1 and radiation absorption SIDs respectively one just adds a container and the other for some reason does what it means in a different way you just absorb radiation which it insta kills you lol

[summer tartan]

Can I allow ADS in midair?

[sand vault]

Okay, this is a first. Wth is this thing moving around on the side of this building?

Looks like ferrofluid

[half willow]

souls of the damned

[lavish lichen]

Deadly anomaly

[raw crest]

What is GPU usage

[half willow]

At least 3

[raw crest]

[sinful cypress]

Anyone has an Idea, why edited weight values for Consumables seems not to work for most/all? people....
Some say it works, most people posted "wont work" at ALL consumable weight mods, no matter which Modauthor
The original cfg is ConsumablePrototypes.cfg
I tried now the .pak approch, the loose-file and the DLCGameData approch, none works for me

[foggy prairie]

So has anybody checked out the SDK generator released on UC ?

Got tired of bumping on official discord to release the SDK. Just noticed that reversal, structs & offsets + SDK were on UC

They're already developing cheats for the not present multiplayer LOL

[foggy hinge]

WDYM by UC?

[foggy prairie]

Unknowncheats. @foggy hinge

[sinful cypress]

No, and I wont

[foggy hinge]

No, then.

Likely won't be an SDK bc it's not something you can just make from reverse engineering the game.

[foggy prairie]

Ok I'm reading into it. From what I can tell is OP of the structs + Offsets used the UE SDK generator.

Which in turn

[fading cedar]

those SDKs are just for making C++ mods and don't support the editor

[foggy prairie]

https://github.com/Encryqed/Dumper-7/blob/main/UsingTheSDK.md

[foggy prairie]

Gotcha

[fading cedar]

they leverage the class size metadata each UObject and any blueprint exported fields to generate c++ headers

and use pattern scanning to bind to function pointers

[foggy prairie]

I see

In the end we get cheats before getting to mod the game to Anomaly levels. Lol glad I stumbled upon this.

[fading cedar]

it could be used to make gameplay mods

best to wait for the real sdk though so you dont have to distribute a dll and deal with conflicts in native code

[foggy prairie]

Hmm

I'm going to continue digging to see what I can find. Rather get the show going for everyone to speed run getting S2 to our fruition.

[fading cedar]

a lot of the classes the dumper will export will be missing fields due to many being native only classes that don't export to Blueprints

if you have the ability you can inspect their memory to figure out the missing fields

also there would be many missing functions or functions that don't have the right prototype

[half willow]

hey, anyone here owns the game on epic?

need someone for testing

[summer tartan]

is the best site right now NexusMods?

[foggy prairie]

Gotcha

[sinful cypress]

For Mods, imho yes

[summer tartan]

thanks

I'm looking for a place to learn more about this, I have a list of about 55 mods I want to make

small tweaks

[foggy prairie]

Discussing this on my discord, there was a program that essentially updated the structs and offsets/knew what to use when the game updated so it wouldn't absolutely break the game/mod/cheats. Whether that program (Which I think was created for CSGO cheats) could be adapted to S2, I don't know, as cheating in Stalker never really had a following. Whilst It would be a major pain in the ass to essentially hard code/"cheating" mods/gameplay mods into the game this way. It could be a way to start making bigger mods in preparation for the official SDK to be released. In Theory I could be wrong as I'm not a master coder and haven't coded since Arma 2 dayz mod days and Xray days. Yet I have an relentless drive to unf*ck the UI in this game.

[summer tartan]

i made this as a trainer, all it does is type in console commands

[hearty hamlet]

I'm curious how easy is to change sounds in Stalker 2. Like I want to change/enhance PDA sounds, so when you turn PDA on, you can hear the mixture of Anomaly's beep and the button press from Stalker 2.

[summer tartan]

I mainly want to change gun sounds

[fading cedar]

If you have experience programming, you can definitely mess with the UI using the SDK generator, but I'll say that without a lot of experience with the engine it's going to be a while before you get the results you want.

[hearty hamlet]

Like, with some mods you get the idea that it's possible - I'm using the first aid sound effects without that stuff.

[foggy prairie]

Without the official SDK I don't know if that's possible.

[hearty hamlet]

Like I already saw the meme mods with drinking/eating sfx.

[fading cedar]

I think the modding community for this game might end up using C++ based mods anyway because Blueprints has horrible CPU performance.

[hearty hamlet]

And changing sound effects and music is possible, as proven by some vids and mods. Like there's already a mod that replaces all the ambience with Mooze's.

[bright wasp]

Does anyone know if there is a way currently to removed placed items in the world? Ie, the fixed spawns for armors and named items, etc

[foggy prairie]

Gotcha. Yeah I'm intrigued and thinking about getting into it. Not sure if I really want to sink my time into it as I'm typically busy with the oilfield/oil refineries. Least I can do is start getting people into it.

[summer tartan]

what would make it impossible? are some of the files encrypted or what?

[hearty hamlet]

I'm just curious how the sound files work and if simple replacements are possible.

Like what files should I unpack to find all the sound effects, does it require specific sample rate.

And file extentions.

[summer tartan]

yes, me too, i want to replace gun sounds

if it's as simple as swapping assets then it should be easy

what prevents us from changing gun sounds?

[hearty hamlet]

Like there's no problem for me mixing sound effects and perhaps make the mod where when you use PDA you can hear the beep from Anomaly.

[foggy prairie]

I'd say that similar to what @fading cedar was saying and what we're talking about right now. Is without the official SDK you're essentially hard coding changes into the game files. With every update the game provides , while you wouldn't have to change the logic you would have to find why and what broke your changes. The structs/offsets would change. Correct me if I'm wrong , been awhile since I really coded or modded my own game.

[summer tartan]

that's not that big of a deal, if it works

so what can we do without doing that? just add config files?

[foggy prairie]

From my understanding yes

That is pretty much all you can do.

[hearty hamlet]

I say that confings and codes could really break things when patching the game, but sound files? Unless they state in patch notes that they replaced the sound effect... I wouldn't say it's too bad if you just re-replace the sound effect.

[summer tartan]

gotcha...

[summer tartan]

well how bad could it be? just remove the mods

[fading cedar]

in most unreal engine games they're stored in an engine specific format once they've been loaded into the editor

thats what gets written to the pak files

[hearty hamlet]

Like, how else lads fixed the obnoxious healing effect sound and headshot sounds - is it a mixture of code and file replacement?

[foggy prairie]

Which is what you we're talking about with C++ being available to use but we cannot use the editor without the official SDK

[hearty hamlet]

So Unreal really just format whatever changes into the game, rather than doing it like in good ol' days?

When the rootfiles were stored and you could easily replace sounds.

[fading cedar]

stalker 2 uses a modified verison of ue5.1 but if they haven't changed the sound file structure then you could try to use that version of the engine to export a pak or uasset with your sounds

[summer tartan]

if they released the official SDK for this, people would go crazy and make a whole new game out of it like palworld lol, i don't think they want that

[hearty hamlet]

At the same time... modding greately enhances franchises' life, as Stalker proved.

[fading cedar]

they said they are going to release it, but they probably want to fix bugs otherwise it'll break mods

[hearty hamlet]

Alot of mods kept that niche until we got Stalker 2.

[fading cedar]

the SDK is just the unreal engine editor with their changes applied

by license they have to distribute it on epic games store

[foggy prairie]

In theory We could crack it no?

[hearty hamlet]

So that's why I agree, they wouldn't really pass down the ability.

[fading cedar]

yeah you can sometimes make your own build of the engine

depends on what types of assets you want to change

anything that heavily depends on their own classes would be a lot of effort

basic things like sounds, models, textures its possible

[foggy prairie]

I see

[hearty hamlet]

I just want to make simple mode, akin to one that replaces the sound effect for first aids, that just goes "stab" rather than "stab - EPIC SOUND EFFECT"

For me, it's just two sound effects - PDA on, and PDA off.

[foggy prairie]

I think that stuff may come in the form of an update.

Take in for an example , the missing statistics menu in the PDA/Reputation menu.

That was presented in earlier gameplay footage showcases.

[fading cedar]

ah stalker is using wwise audio

[foggy prairie]

NVG and Bino code is there but is disabled/removed as well.

[half willow]

Does anyone here own the game on Epic or GOG?
Looking for beta testers to help with getting the DLC Mod Loader tool working on those platforms.

[fading cedar]

anyway if there are already sound mods its likely someone has already done this

similar to how that SDK generator works

you'd need to build unreal engine which is... something

takes me an hour and thirty minutes on a 7950x for a full build

[foggy prairie]

Very possible

[summer tartan]

so we can't change animations or anything either I guess

[hearty hamlet]

So wait

In order to just replace two sound files.

Do I really have to rebuild an entire Unreal Engine?

[fading cedar]

they have to be cooked into the package files and the layout of the data structures varies by engine version and game

so without going into too much technical detail the answer is sadly yes

[amber halo]

BandageBleeding4 : struct.begin Duration = 2 Charges = 4 ValueMin = -100 ValueMax = -100 struct.end

Is here someone who can explain to me what means Charges, Duration, ValueMax, ValueMin? And how it's calculated?
As i understand that:
If we will set:
Duration = 10 Charges = 4 ValueMin = -10 ValueMax = -100
Then if we will use 2x bandages in one time, we will have -20 bleeding during 10 seconds? Or we will have -2 of bleeding point each second?
If we will use 6 bandages, we will have -60 (or -6) or it will be limited by Charges? So -40 (or -4 each sec).

Maybe @loud peak ?

[summer tartan]

I measured 160ms of (audio) mouselag, using my microphone. from clicking the mouse, to hearing the weapon fire

That is unplayable

I also measured it in SoC and it seems instantaneous

[ripe flame]

Small change, but so much better now

[foggy hinge]

Frame Gen has a seriously huge impact on latency, top that with lumen, nanite, DLSS, etc. etc. and yeah it makes sense.

The games latency is insanely bad

The frame times and optimization for CPU usage is one of the bigger factors

[summer tartan]

Stalker 2: 100-120ms without any TAA/DLSS/frame gen enabled
Stalker SoC: 84ms, which for some reason feels 100% instantaneous... possibly also due to the sharper gun sound

[foggy hinge]

The values for Min/Max actually update just by hovering your mouse over the item in-game. So if you have something like this, the healing for the bandage literally changes by just doing this.

[summer tartan]

SoC sounds to me, like the click and gunshot are 1 sound, it's very close. i'll have to test again but it's quite a bit of lag, +36ms doesn't seem that much

[foggy hinge]

You could basically maximize your healing just by rolling a new value by hovering your mouse over it

[summer tartan]

the saturation effect appears before drinking the vodka, lol

[amber halo]

Not fully undersand...

[foggy hinge]

If you set the min to something like 20 and max 30, and change the value to show value and time then look at it in-game it changes the value Everytime you hover your mouse over it.

[summer tartan]

why

[foggy hinge]

Idk

That's just the way they decided to determine RNG values

That's why so many consumables have the same min/max

It's so stupid.

[summer tartan]

by hovering time? does anyone even do that

[foggy hinge]

By literally just mousing over the item in your inventory, yeah

[summer tartan]

well you said "over the time" did you mean over the item?

[foggy hinge]

Oh, yeah that's a typo

Autocorrect on mobile 😂

[summer tartan]

o_o

we were trying to figure it out..

bandages created by in-game time..

[foggy hinge]

Hah! Sorry I didn't even realize

I think charges basically does nothing

My guess is that it would determine how many times an item can be used before it's gone completely

Duration is self explanatory

[summer tartan]

this is not playable for me. on top of the 120ms mouselag, the very long ADS time/crouch time, and the aimsway while moving/crouchwalking... if you crouchwalk backwards diagonally, the aimer moves like crazy. i just finished playing the original trilogy and it didnt have this stuff

crouch time might be able to change in config, not sure

i really want to stop cancelling reload with sprint, also

[foggy hinge]

Yeah, no I agree

They seriously need to get the optimization under control

[summer tartan]

those results were done with the r.OneFrameThreadLag=0

[foggy hinge]

This is probably by far one of the worst optimized games I've played

Worse than Bethesda

[summer tartan]

they just need to fix the performance and tree popping... and mouselag, and all movement/shooting mechanics... and create an AI system essentially from scratch, redesign areas with more interesting things to do/explore, rebalance guns, change loot variety, give NPCs more dialogue, redo the english voice acting and then it'll be a pretty good game

🙂

NPCs right now, consistently don't react when I shoot them in the face. Or their friends. This is reproducible (so far in Cordon, Zalyssia and Bar)

2 guys will be talking, I'll shoot one, and the second guy will just smile and walk away

I've headshotted a guy twice and he DID NOT REACT

NPCs continuously spawning right next to me in Cordon - I don't even think this is a bug, I think they just left this unfinished... they just spawn outside

[merry mountain]

thats a "feature" not a bug

the spawn radius is very tiny

[summer tartan]

spawn radius of what?

[merry mountain]

of npcs

[summer tartan]

they're neutral NPCs in Cordon, why should they need to spawn anywhere?

they live there

[merry mountain]

i obviosuly mean normal npcs you encounter in the wild

[summer tartan]

well i should have been more clear, i mean the guys who live in the actual Cordon town itself

when i assault them, they just start insta-spawning clones right next to the building across from the trader

it's not like a random occurrence, it's very easy to make this stuff happen

[merry mountain]

yeah i know what you mean

happens at all the settled locations i think

at least at most

[summer tartan]

i mean i know you're not supposed to attack your friendly NPCs but come on, this is ridiculous

[summer tartan]

i mean this is outrageous

im going to make a video of just that

[desert valve]

yeah

some respawn endlessly and some are immortal

[loud peak]

For example, taking the values of your second example, the values you've there states that the bandage, in that case (BandageBleeding4) will heal between 10 and 100 bleeding points (RNG between those two values). The bleeding points that it will heal, will heal during 10 seconds. Charges means (if I'm not wrong), how many bandages you can add at the same tame, so you can apply 4 bandages but the fifth won't take effect till the duration of one of them reach 0. Sorry for my english, hope it helps

[amber halo]

Ok, so as i understand if i will set:

Duration = 10 Charges = 4 ValueMin = -10 ValueMax = -100
This mean that for 10 seconds, it will heal for 90 points? So it's like 9 points per second. And i can multiple it with charges like 4 using will make like next:
(-100--10) = -100+10 = -90
Then
-90/10 = -9 per 1 second.
Correct?

Then if i will set ValueMin and ValueMax to -100, it will not heal?

Because this is default:

Duration = 2 Charges = 4 ValueMin = -100 ValueMax = -100

[loud peak]

no, -100 in both means that it will heal 100 points every time

ValueMin makes it heal a minimun of points
ValueMax makes it heal a maximun of points

so if you make
ValueMin = -30
ValueMax = -60

Every time you use a bandage it will heal between 30 to 60 points

it can be 30, it can be 35, 37, 50, 59... whatever between those values

matching values in both variables will make the bandage to always heal the same points, taking the RNG

[little sluice]

mod.io
Ah shit

[real forge]

What’s better though. Steam workshop is steam only

[ripe flame]

Good news. Yet it's for inner testing for now

[little sluice]

True but that doesn't change the fact mod.io breaks way more often than workshop

[ripe flame]

Yet it is much better for mod makers: monetization and more platforms

[little sluice]

Does mod.io have monetization options? I've never seen it in the games that have it

[ripe flame]

Looks like it's just a referral

[real forge]

Xd

[half willow]

Yo chief, does that work? And if so, how?

[winged hemlock]

Yes it work, new upgrade from one mod

[half willow]

What mod, can you link it?

[winged hemlock]

https://www.nexusmods.com/stalker2heartofchornobyl/mods/379?tab=files

[half willow]

Thanks! ❤️

[vocal jetty]

how important is the load order IF the mods dont intefere with another?

is there like a global rule when setting the order?

[half willow]

if the mods don't interfere with each other, the load order doesn't matter

but that's a perfect world you'd be living in

unless you plan on using like 2-3 mods in total

[vocal jetty]

yeah ofc... lets say I got 2 mods interfere and I use the \Stalker2PakCfgMergeTool to merge those two? which one shoudll go first in order then?

[half willow]

If you merged them then you would end up having only 1 mod in the end, no?

that's what merging means

or am I missing something

[vocal jetty]

thats what I thought too. but Shays Alife and NPCCombatoverhaul is interfering as it seems.... when I use the tool I still have both folders in my ~mods and an additional _merged_cfg_modpack_loadPriority_100_P.pak

[hallow sand]

cause you need the originals to stay

[vocal jetty]

sorry for those "stupid" questions... im just starting to build my own

[hallow sand]

it doesn't merge them in the literal sense

[vocal jetty]

AH YEAH RIGHT. IVE READ THAT 😲

[half willow]

Not stupid at all, I haven't messed around with merging at all

I just thought that merging actually meant merging

[hallow sand]

^i find it easier to take the twi files side by side in note++