╟⚒stalker2™-mods-making-discussion

[fervent stratus]

here is the thing

its all there

there is a thing called:
contextual action

there is an alife spawn called:
human_contextualaction_friendly

there is a debug map filled with nodes called:
contextual_map

there is a debug tab in 1.2 test version called:
contextualactions.
its empty

all this means director can spawn a scenario calles contextaction friend

the target can be a node

the node can trigger something dor ai

onArtefactNode

onAnomalyNode

and they can do it and get a new target

onArtefactNode -> generateArtefact

onArtefactGeneration -> target::Hub

its all there and you can see it for yourself

[void owl]

Guys why are we playing S2 when we could be playing Neopets?

https://venturebeat.com/games/neopets-hits-400000-monthly-active-users-tripling-growth-in-2024/

[hushed elk]

Does AESDumper not grab the AES key anymore?

[fervent stratus]

dont need it anymore

you on 1.2.1?

[hushed elk]

I was asking for a friend, they are not. Got the AES key though. Thanks!

[strong coyote]

Wow, no new mods on nexus since 3 days. Community are getting stagnant?

In the meantime, Anomaly has got around 13 new mods on moddb

The lack of SDK will kill the S2 modding sooner than I expected

[void owl]

it will come in waves, with big patches and modding tools

[strong coyote]

Probably but 1.2 haven't make that people make more mods, imo its even oposite

[void owl]

yeah true, but i think the big mods are just overtaking everything... not much else to do tbh

i mostly meant the games popularity

[strong coyote]

I also think that people has squezeed everything what was currently possible to mod

[void owl]

if they managed to add a freeplay/new game+. I think that would be more important than modding tools for the games longevity

[strong coyote]

And more things need to be made with modding tools

[void owl]

@sharp meteor is probably doing one of the most important mods tbh, with MHM Desolation and ALIFE mods

[strong coyote]

Freeplay is one thing, but there must be something more to do ingame

[void owl]

yeah like dynamic quests, faction wars, etc

[strong coyote]

Cannot imagine playing S2 after endgame since the amount of sidequests is very low

[strong coyote]

Yeah, that's what Im asking about, dynamic quests like in Anomaly

[void owl]

mhm is soo chef kiss, makes the progression is nice and slow, with every expedition outside of safe zones meaning something

We need to add more questing NPCs, with more quest types/generators

[strong coyote]

Playing currently on Desolation and it really make a difference but still game lacks something

I think more side activites to make your gameplay mean something

[void owl]

defo... giving more meaning to make expeditions outside of safe zones

[strong coyote]

Exactly

In Anomaly I liked to do some missions on the way to the "main" quests

Or basicly move into a location, do some quests for the guys there and then travel to the next location etc.

Right now in S2, for example if you go to the Cement Factory everthing you can do here is one sidequest and explore the locations for loot (but how long you can loot medkits and sausages until you get bored?)

S2 have the system of dynamic quests but they are very limited. Like kill a bunch of guys that are staying in the middle of nowhere 200 meters from quest giver

Get 800 coupons for this job, wait 72h and repeat...

[void owl]

yupp :/

[sharp meteor]

Ty! With last version, understanding well how to change and set-up game things just starting is a great step.
For example, now I'm setting up the Spark base in Rostok Depot just like in-game.
But for the moment you can: role-playing with a-life, make blue secondary and repeatable quests.

I want to investigate the repeatable task-givers. My first approach is to add more NPC with the same for factions without, like in COC - at least more to do with "monolith" for example.

But I'm not deep into "create new missions" (Desolation do it!). My first idea is, with the presets, make like an initial "goal-role". Not a chain quest but something simple like a note or NPC talk spawning in Cordon with "ey, your brother is a Corpus in Pripyat, go there and save it" and let the player do the whole thing to up there (main with one or two intermediante steps).

But too far, I'm taking a rest anyway 😅

[median quest]

Ive been doing some work with sidequests lately, specifically making the artifact fetch quest being able to take several variants instead of just 1, and its ALOT of work, it is possible to add new ones but its gonna be way to much effort in its current state without sdk

[fervent stratus]

give sdk papi gsc

i got big plans

mucho grande

[strong coyote]

jas plis

wona meke mods

[fervent stratus]

alife mods will be dead soon

atleast thats what i thought when i released my mod in nov

[fervent stratus]

i had like a text saying "this mod a train on a journey with a destination, we wont be going forever and we will reach an end soon"

little did i know that soon aint soon at all

[strong coyote]

Propably never imo

xD

[fervent stratus]

https://tenor.com/view/pedro-pascal-mandalorian-laugh-cry-gif-21495683

[thick widget]

https://tenor.com/view/exprimir-un-limon-mega-kranus-villanos-dificil-oprimir-gif-23613358

[tidal yew]

Get A-Life... Get it? Cuz... Cuz Stalker has no A-Life... snorts

[sharp meteor]

Anyone knows how to locate or get rid with the "invisible insta kill snipers"? I detected one in Duga zone and in southern Cordon

[fervent stratus]

its 100% in logic levels

or quest stages

[fervent stratus]

jup thats what i was thinking about

[crisp bolt]

there's a bunch of them

[fervent stratus]

yeah each one haha

[sharp meteor]

Thanks, will search for some

[lean oar]

[dense swift]

How so?

[sharp meteor]

Can't find the one in the southern military control, looks more like a box trigger instakill. There is a lair, I disabled it and still keeping shooted.
The ones in questnodes seems to be normal NPC (in towers and so) but these are like instakill zones.
Nothing important for now, but some parts of Duga or here in south cordon could be a starting point (for militaries, in fact, it's only when you approach the "big" zone door)

[olive sleet]

been doing an in depth analysis of the game to try and piece together how I want to put together my first mod, but what is it you'd suggest to change out of curiosity?

i'm really enjoying my time so far but trying to think about ways to help make those expeditions more meaningful without changing up the experience too much

[void owl]

More dynamic quests

like having 3-4 active side/job quests at a time before every expedition would be nice

things to do on the way

[olive sleet]

outside of provided quests, what about more internally driven motives? While I do enjoy the exploration pacing at the moment, i've found the only real incentive i've had to go out and visit old places again was for artifact hunting, what would you need to be pushed to venture out to satisfy something none quest related?

[void owl]

Lets say i have a big objective at B. From A to B could be a straight line, but lets say I have some "jobs" slightly off track to C. Now i at least have incentive to go checkout C on my way to B, instead of there and back.

The early game in lesser zone and garbage feels like this

but then it quickly falls off when you have no side quests but stashes and artefacts

[olive sleet]

Not necessarily for me at this point. I'm there to seek narrative and story, so those empty places are just as fun for the story they tell. What purpose the building served, how it's used now, I find joy in it still. But was mostly curious about what systems could go and get you out into the world seeking something without a direct quest as the 'inciting incident' so to speak

[fervent stratus]

ayo ace

where is the uproject file of shipping

old build it was just there between all the other stuff but cant find it

in other words

https://tenor.com/view/im-blind-cheech-marin-blind-man-gif-14165338

@void owl

[void owl]

the what now? the .uproject?

should be at the very root

[fervent stratus]

it aint here

[void owl]

where you looking?

[fervent stratus]

root folder

and everywhere

waw

spelling error

[spice radish]

is there a mod that allows you to continue the game after you finished it?

[fervent stratus]

already getting headache from this ue editor of release

now its freezing ugh

[fervent stratus]

nah not with same save

there is a freeplay mod on nexus atm tho but not a continuation after story

[spice radish]

https://tenor.com/view/why-oh-god-why-oh-god-dana-carvey-saturday-night-live-gif-11036625

[agile dagger]

hey so im using maklanes zone overhaul mod and i love it so far with shays living zone, but my one gripe is that i feel like npcs arent doing enough damage. like ive tried deadlier npcs but thats like too much of a change on veteran difficulty im like dying to exos in two hits, so does anyone have any idea on like a mod or what i can do to like just make the npcs hit a lil harder?

sorry im new here if this isnt where im supposed to chat this

[fervent stratus]

you play veteran?

are you something of a masochist?

no offence

[agile dagger]

yeah i play veteran

personally i love the economy on veteran its great

[fervent stratus]

yes yes but do you want to experience pain?

[agile dagger]

yeah

like i want the npcs when they shoot me to actually feel like i got shot in game and not a wet noodle hitting me

[fervent stratus]

you could perhaps take some modules from this mod

https://www.nexusmods.com/stalker2heartofchornobyl/mods/88

[agile dagger]

like i get the bulat armor and i can facetank 6 rounds from an m1A

[fervent stratus]

i thought u meant maklane better gunfight

[agile dagger]

no i have his total overhaul

[fervent stratus]

since zone overhaul is an overhaul oopss

[agile dagger]

yeah i use his total overhaul (big fan of his mutant philospphy and medkit stiff and also teh less loot bloat)

[fervent stratus]

maybe the modules from that work, else you can try ballistic mods and load them after maklane? idk the extend of the changes that would cause

[agile dagger]

also i love your a life work, i personally am using teh add on 34 with 2x days and the more human patrols while full mutant unlocks

thats super fun

[fervent stratus]

problem with an overhaul like that is lots of interconnected systems so changing 1 module of the mod like weapon damage might unbalance other stuff

you could try directly asking maklane here

https://discord.com/channels/912320241713958912/1310390727485952102

[agile dagger]

its hilarious to get in huge battles with like 7 monolithinas just for a chimera to just kill them all

i have asked (hasnt gotten back to me yet)

i saw though that modular hard mode only works on a new save

[fervent stratus]

ah yeah thats true

its quite big haha

think 3000 files changed what a madman

said 1 week ago.they would take a break

[agile dagger]

mhm and i tried like mods like better ballistics and merged them and then like also fubar i tried but like he has his own version of maklanes better gunfights and their are so many conflicts with other mods like ur a life fixes and let wool gathers npc combat overhaul

it was like around 880 conflicts in one manual merge

[fervent stratus]

yeah thats the problem

its mostly 1 overhaul ie mhm, desolation or maklane

and then wools mods and mine

[agile dagger]

like i read it and was like this souhnds so cool exactly what i want but he made some decisoons that went beyond just ballistics

and i was like i dont like that

[fervent stratus]

what mod?

[agile dagger]

fubar

one sec

[fervent stratus]

ah yeah could be

[agile dagger]

https://www.nexusmods.com/stalker2heartofchornobyl/mods/658?tab=posts

like his ballistic changes are super cool but he made so many other changes that arent ballistics and its all one pak file so its just liuke

annoying to merge 1000+ conflicts

[fervent stratus]

cant you unpak maklanes mod and change the damage modifier you receive?

[agile dagger]

i mean i can but idk how 💀

and like i wanna look at like tghe better ballistics values and the npc increased damage values and like do an inbetween

but idk how to do that

[fervent stratus]

ah thats where the fun begins

experimenting

[agile dagger]

mkay im listening

[fervent stratus]

oh yeah not much i can help with, in simple details: get an unpak tool from nexus, unpak the file, get notepad++ or something that can do mass search in files, look for keywords like damage or range or something

[agile dagger]

mkay got it

where can i get said unpak too;

[fervent stratus]

i know for a fact if theres a difficultyprototypes config file it will have multipliers for veteran

stull like damage received or something

[agile dagger]

mhm

[fervent stratus]

beware it will be for everything

[median quest]

NPC_Weapon_BaseDamage = 1.28

[fervent stratus]

for individual stuff thats going to require looking thriugh all

[median quest]

this one you want to change

[agile dagger]

ok

[fervent stratus]

is it in difficulty?

or corevar?

[median quest]

ye diff

I use 1.28 and im a masochist too lol

[agile dagger]

okay because also theirs the individual dmage multiplers for each npc gun

[median quest]

but I dont use MHMs normal weapon base dmg

I use player ones

[fervent stratus]

that line that lv said changes it across the board

all gun damage

[agile dagger]

ok then

[median quest]

id suggest you push it to like 1.8 or something

[agile dagger]

okay got it

[fervent stratus]

it ups the base on which gun dmg multipliers apply

[median quest]

if you using default mhm

[fervent stratus]

no

he uses maklane

[agile dagger]

i use maklanes not mhm

[median quest]

oh

[agile dagger]

ya

[fervent stratus]

hahahah

not.that masochistic

[agile dagger]

and like i really dont wanna start a new save

no i would

if i could

[fervent stratus]

yeah we get you

[median quest]

ye no need to start a new one

[fervent stratus]

@grave kite look this one doesnt wanna start a new save

https://tenor.com/view/see-nobody-cares-not-a-big-deal-its-fine-no-big-deal-gif-16076896

all good ❤️

[agile dagger]

lmao

[median quest]

are you using any ballistic mod?

like fubar

[agile dagger]

so that difficulty cfg

ok so im using now i think better ballistics merged with maklanes overhaul (i use bb damage and range dropoff values and maklanes dispersion for his better gunfights)

fubar seems cool but it also conficts with so many mods i love like npc combat overhaul, and shays living zone

and his mod goes beyond just "Ballistics"

which i dont like

[median quest]

Ye so theres two ways, easiest is just change NPC_Weapon_BaseDamage in DifficultyPrototypes. Or you can alter BaseDamage in NPCWeaponSettingsPrototypes, which I do believe better ballistics have. But is a bit more work

[agile dagger]

yeah better ballistics did do that and i love their npc weapon prototypes changes for ddamage, but i want just a lil bit more oomf\

so prob have to edit the npc weapon base damage

[median quest]

ye then first is probably your go to

[agile dagger]

pump it up and expirment

ok now how the hell do i find that shit 💀

and edit it

im new to all this modding stuff i thought it was revolutionary when i created my own file and edited something in the notes app

[median quest]

You have AESdumpster?

[agile dagger]

for like elden ring

[median quest]

or any unpaker?

[agile dagger]

no

i dont

[fervent stratus]

just get an unpaker from nexus

get notepad

unpak

open cfg

with notepad

[agile dagger]

mkay

[fervent stratus]

search in notepad for that line

change the number

save

repak

https://tenor.com/view/guns-up-mafia-thats-how-it-works-the-godfather-gif-4653709131293521964

[agile dagger]

alright imma do that ill look

[fervent stratus]

upload it on nexus

[median quest]

ye, and Hard is veteran in that file

[agile dagger]

yeah i just wanted the npcs tohit me harder because i feel like i got like the psv bulat armor and 5 ak rrounds to the chest should still fucking hurt

[fervent stratus]

call it cheezecakes ballistics

[median quest]

dont ask why its named hard

[fervent stratus]

done your first mod

[agile dagger]

awesome

[fervent stratus]

ikr, now you a mod maker

https://tenor.com/view/thogdad-that-tastes-like-promotion-thogden-promotion-football-gif-27404840

[median quest]

https://tenor.com/view/welcome-the-office-office-michael-scott-welcome-to-the-team-gif-27005352

[agile dagger]

mkay ill let yall knbow if i need anything else

[fervent stratus]

yeah no prob, you got the invoice for the payment right?

service aint fee its 2025

/.s

[agile dagger]

liek my main reason why i felt this because i wanted the vector to be a 45 acp buzzsaw and the the .308 rounds in the m700 actuall feel like im shooting a mfker with .308

mainly i just wanted stealth and sniping to be a viable strategy

and the a life changes by shay were the first step and now this is what i want left

[agile dagger]

i mean with egg prices nowadays understandable

[fervent stratus]

i dont really feel that

https://tenor.com/view/europe-historyofjapan-history-japan-meme-gif-5240024

[median quest]

Egg fine here too, but meat holy hell

[fervent stratus]

nah dont feel that either

https://tenor.com/view/alexvizorek-belgique-drapeau-sourires-flag-gif-12137719

whats a kg ground beef?

where u live lv

[median quest]

Damn germans raising our electric prices

Its like 9$ per kg

[fervent stratus]

that aint expensive wth

[agile dagger]

uh so where do i find these pak files

they are all called

win gdk

[fervent stratus]

cfg

gdk?

https://tenor.com/view/yap-yapper-yapping-what-huh-gif-17267607410251793922

[median quest]

There is a update chunk on nexus for 1.2

[agile dagger]

like this is what i see

[fervent stratus]

no unpak the mod

[agile dagger]

am i in the right area

[median quest]

How much is it at yours?

[agile dagger]

OHHHH

my bad

[fervent stratus]

the maklane or fubar or whatever it is

the one that loads last

start with most z first

[agile dagger]

my merged one i think

[fervent stratus]

8 for regular store

7 if you got a connect at the butcher

[agile dagger]

so this folder

[median quest]

It was like 6$ normal store 1 year ago

[fervent stratus]

merged one yeah

[agile dagger]

ok

[fervent stratus]

oh for us it was always around 8

bread tho

[agile dagger]

now how do i open said mod

[fervent stratus]

bread went up

[agile dagger]

sorry if this is all annoying

[fervent stratus]

habibiiii unpak it

with an unpaked

unpaker

[median quest]

Bread ok here

[agile dagger]

lets say i have a friend that doesnt know how to do that how would i ahem explain to them how to unpak it

[fervent stratus]

https://www.nexusmods.com/stalker2heartofchornobyl/mods/374

get that

[agile dagger]

yeah i downloaded it

[fervent stratus]

drag the pak on that

[agile dagger]

Oh okay

[fervent stratus]

the batch file i guess it is

and a folder appears

go in there look foor difficulty

[agile dagger]

my bad 💀

bit slow my fault

[fervent stratus]

search the line in notepad and change value save and repak

happens

https://tenor.com/view/slowpoke-pokemon-water-psychic-gif-7898037

im in queue anyway

[median quest]

It gets easier i was like that in the beginning too

[fervent stratus]

dw slz was made with windows notepad

not even notepad++

[median quest]

[fervent stratus]

weve all been there

[agile dagger]

found it

said aroujnd 1.8?

i should change it to

ill start there

[median quest]

Probably high

[agile dagger]

like u saying thats too high or higher

[fervent stratus]

do 3

[agile dagger]

DAMN

3

[fervent stratus]

yeah bro the wind can kill you now, you know if they miss? the wind it causes is deadly

better not get suppresed

[median quest]

Depends on how much dmg you take normally and want it to make, its a multiplier

[agile dagger]

ill prob do

1.8 and see where that goes

[fervent stratus]

take current value

[agile dagger]

and then once i do that value what i do

save it and repak

[fervent stratus]

divide by 10

thats 10%

now if you want it to be 30% more health dmg

add 3x10% value on top

save

[agile dagger]

it currently is at 1

[fervent stratus]

drag pak on tool

[agile dagger]

the multipler

i mean

[median quest]

Change the one under hard

Not the template

[agile dagger]

so not this one

the one under hard

[spare lagoon]

Germans brewing beer with all the wheat again? 👀

[median quest]

Ye thats the template, but since it refs it in hard it overwrites with that instead

[agile dagger]

ok then i see so if i want 30% roughly imma do 1.8

because default hard value is 1.45

and 30 percent more is 1.885

[median quest]

Ye so 14.5 is 10% then

[agile dagger]

imma start from 1.8 and see from there

[median quest]

[agile dagger]

now how does one repak this file

idk how to repak do i just drag the file onto the repak application

like im stuck here

ope figured it out

thank you all for your help @median quest @fervent stratus

imma try out the game now

ok why my game taking nine years to load now

what i do

[fervent stratus]

still taking long?

[agile dagger]

yeah

did i corrupt my save 😦

it just stuck on the yellow loading

still nothing

ok loaded it without the edited mod and its fine

so idk whats going on

so i deleted the edited overhaul mod and now its loading in

but if i put it back in it breaks

nvm just a problem with the save

ty for all the help its working now

[fervent stratus]

ah good to hear, yeah sorry man deep immerseed in squad with mates

hows the damage

[median quest]

Thats pretty odd, I dont think just changing diffprototypes would cause save issues, I do it alot

[agile dagger]

tryna merge some stuff then ill see

Tryna remeege the overhaul with better ballistics like how i had it befoew

With base qeapon changes with
Maklanes and the modifier i added it seems good so far

[agile dagger]

damage is perfect now

ty for all your help guys @median quest @fervent stratus

[tidal yew]

damned yellow paint

[agile dagger]

Played the game with a 1.8 multiplierr and yes this is exacyly what i wanted. Bullets hurt now, even with high protection but shit like shotguns hurt only in closer range, but if i see a shotgun guy they are a high priority target as if they get close well night night. Gunplay feels hard and rewarding now, i actually find myself switching ammo types now and going into battle situations thinking about positioning and how to attack them. Vector feels like a busszaw to low armored targets, pistols feel great but not like 1 tap headshot machines to everythinhg. Only complaint is that mutants might be a lil less scary now, but that mightve been just because im using full upgraded guns and 45 acp hollow points. Melted a psuedogiant in one mag. Overall feels fantastic now and rewarding. Makes me actually pick and choose my battles. Also npcs are brutal to eachother as well, they hit hard and elite units (due to maklanes better gunfights dispersion getting less lenient when u play against elite units) actually FEEL like elite units. Gunplay feels fast, rewarding, and brutal. Skif actually plays like hes ex millitary, and the npcs seek cover and supressive fire quite a bit. Game feels fantastic now this is exactly what i wanted. Thank you @fervent stratus and @median quest for all the help

When i finish this playthrough def gonna try out mhm

Also i made snipers a lil more deadly toning down their dispersion a tiny bit. (They feel like halo jackals in a way)

So prioritizing units based on guns and armor is a must now,

Snipers first, shotguns second, smg units, ar users

Also with the added no threat indicator mod i have i really gotta listen for shots and where they come from as well as look for tracers

[shell quartz]

is it possible to make items multiple use?

if not, can you make it give you another item after use?

[fervent stratus]

ahh glad to hear you enjoy it man! have fun with it (as i can see you are already having :D)

[median quest]

Awesome! Now you are also closer to tailor your own configs, its pretty easy to understand what most configs do by checking out other mods if they arent 100% to what you want it to play like.

[south kayak]

Hey guys, might be a weird question, but has anyone found what texture these types of boxes use?
I've looked through FModel and the boxes there have a very weird material applied stated. Like rust or moss.
Want to give them a remake to be a bit less bright and overall fit into the scenery more seamlessly.

I mean there are the right boxes but... y u do dis Evhen

[thick widget]

Probably using the Wood Physical Material

[shell quartz]

?

[tidal rapids]

So i figured out to make a standalone skins for custom weapons. Its incredibly janky though and crashes half the time or cant pull the texture and therefore be a skeletal mesh.

I can say though it does work as intended, but not all the time due to ctds

[thick widget]

Probably when the game does an ensure check

[agile dagger]

hey for different paks how do I see the og values that gsc put in their game. Like for difficulty prototypes i wanna adjust the upgrade cost on veteran, how woulkd I know what the og multiplier was.

[shell quartz]

You can see the og values in the original cfgs of the game

I'm pretty sure they are all in pakchunk0

[agile dagger]

ok thank you

cant find difficulty prototypes in pakchunk0

im on gamepass version

[shell quartz]

Try to check in other pakchunks, if its not there idk

[shell quartz]

is it possible to make items give you another item after use?

[tidal rapids]

its either that, or that the texture parameters cannot be read at times, leading to memory leaks

LowLevelFatalError [File:D:\STALKER2\s2editor\Engine\Source\Runtime\Core\Private\Containers\Array.cpp] [Line: 8] Trying to resize TArray to an invalid size of 2248146944

[fervent stratus]

its neither

that error means the byte size of the array exceeds the allocated byte size

and it tries to allocate enough resources but fails to do so by limits

[sharp meteor]

Anybody made a Lair? I saw lairs are in spawnactors, seems to be started along volumes also in spawnactors.

For next free play mod version all undergrounds are opened, but most of them empty, as are loaded in story (even in story are some kind empty).

I thought to place scary mutants manually, but maybe Lair its a better option.

Also add some "documents" with high selling value, for being logical, at least for the moment (more like Anomaly quests way).

[daring fable]

nice

[nimble kindle]

did you import the new Material as .json?

[shell quartz]

what does weight mean in itemgeneratorprototypes?

[south kayak]

Hey guys, so I just released the tool I developed for troubleshooting Desolation in the last few days. So I present you.

MOD VALIDATOR

Features

• Structure/Delimiter Validation - MV can scan all of your mod's .cfg files for errors such as unclosed/unopened "struct.begin/end", "{}", "[]" with the ability to add extra delimiters in the ini.
• Header/SID Validation - MV can scan through your .cfg and check if all your struct headers are equal to the SID stored inside of them.
• Generator Validation - MV scans through your ItemGeneratorPrototypes directory and can do several things, such as check if the right item Type is nested in the right Category for it to spawn (with the ability to map them in the .ini file), check if a Generator is used as an ItemPrototypeSID or vice versa.
• Localization Validation - MV is able to scan your mod's localization .json files (any amount) and check if all your item/effects and other entries have the text for them. If some of them inherit the vanilla game localization MV will also take it into account.
• Orphan Elements Tracking - MV will scan all of your new content and find out if some of it is not used anywhere, like a missing Generator you forgot to link to somewhere or an item you forgot to add to it.
• Flexible Configuration - MV lets you disable and enable it's specific features via the .ini file as well as add extra things to account for or ignore when checking for errors, tailored to your project.
• Easy-to-Read and Descriptive Report - Once MV finishes all the work, it will generate a "report.txt" next to it, which will contain all the error reports split into categories and files, going as deep as to tell you which line and column is having trouble in some cases.

• Pre-Configured Validators - MV comes with pre-configured .ini that should be enough for most of the mods to have a total checkup. So just set up the Directories and run the app, if you don't want to configure it more in-depth.

Known Issues:

• Mod Validator can sometimes generate false-positive errors for some things, for example an Effect without a localization string that is not meant to be seen by the player. However, for such cases there are properties in the .ini that can be set up for it to ignore such things.

Download Link: https://www.nexusmods.com/stalker2heartofchornobyl/mods/1285

[minor cedar]

Very nice, will have to test this later on BB tyvm

[tidal rapids]

no, i had to the original extracted through zentools, then i edited parameters in uassetgui

then i had to package it back up with iostorepackage

[agile dagger]

@minor cedar wanted to ask a question if you could answer, with ur mod what is the advantage and disadvantages of using the gambit usp vs the regular usp. Like they each have the sam,e recoil and 45 acp vs 9mm is a hotly debated thing so like i wanna know what are the trade offs

[tiny hatch]

Hello everyone! Tell me, is it possible at the moment to somehow remove the price from the description of items in the inventory pop-up window? Leave the price only in the trade window so that the player can find out the price only from the merchant. Thank you in advance for your help!

[thick widget]

Are they not different already? Out in the field it's the items value not what the trader will pay you?

[tiny hatch]

I need to hide the price in the field. In my build I added a lot of new items, but players always choose the items that are more expensive because they see the price right away. I need to fix this.

[hazy ivy]

Not seen anything that would do this via cfg edits

likely possible via BP modding

[tiny hatch]

Where can I read about how to do this?

[hazy ivy]

It's a fairly involved process that I'm only just figuring out; I'm pretty new to it so wouldn't really know where to point you, and I'm not sure there's much info out there

[tiny hatch]

First of all, I would like to understand how to unpack the interface files, what format they should be in and how to pack them back?

[hazy ivy]

there's a few textures but the majority is dynamically generated using Unreal UMG

it's not just a few layered pngs

If you were to edit a texture or widget to simply obscure the price, the generated text layer would be at a higher level and appear on top of it

[tiny hatch]

I understand that, that's why I want to get to the configuration file and not the textures

[hazy ivy]

There's no config file for the UI, it's all blueprints and C++

You'd need to use UE4SS to insert a modactor that can scan the UI widgets, identify the aspects that are responsible for displaying cost, then edit them so as to hide the value

I wish I could be more help, but I'm pretty new to it myself. I've spent several days working on a system that can reliably determine inventory contents so I can use it to trigger blueprint effects. I've got it functional enough for my NVGs but it's still not 100% finished

[minor cedar]

Gambit has less recoil, less damage and a slightly bigger magazine capacity (15 vs 12)

though the last one will likely have to be removed anyways, due to compability issues

[cedar skiff]

Hi everyone! Got a quick question - was someone able to locate in which pakchunk, video for opening/intro is located? I'm asking because polish translation is aparrently only one with missaligned subtitles for opening cutscene (they show up too soon relative to audio in both english and ukrainian voiceover) 😒 I'm making mod which contains translation improvements for polish translation, and I wanted to fix this damn opening if it's even possible 😛

[shell quartz]

the subtitles are not in in pakchunk its in S.T.A.L.K.E.R. 2 Heart of Chornobyl\Stalker2\Content\Movies\TempCutscenes\Cutscenes

[cedar skiff]

🙈 Thanks Timka, seems like I'm blind 😂

I mean... by looking at how even extracting language files is hard sometimes I thought the subtitles are somewhere in pakchunks. And it was just simple as that 😅

[south kayak]

New version of Mod Validator is released.

• Fixed MV picking up on any Byte-Order Mark (U+FEFF) present in the naming of headers or SIDs. Should now ignore BOMs completely, as the game does.

Link: https://www.nexusmods.com/stalker2heartofchornobyl/mods/1285?tab=files

[nocturne narwhal]

what do you guys think about nights in stalker 2?I think they are to bright,and my settings are perfecctly set gamma is 40..

[sharp meteor]

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

[agile dagger]

What about pen

[nocturne narwhal]

thanks im using it ye,but its doeesnt change night time,maybe devs will make it darker.

[tidal rapids]

hmm, is there any way to rectify it? my simpleton mind ran out of solutions

[minor cedar]

pen is the same between these two for now.

[void owl]

Ultra plus might help. My mod just makes the ground less shiny/bright from skylight

[shadow sun]

can someone help me

def not a new comer

[celest dune]

_ _
@void owl, remove your Newcomer role to:

• gain access to the restricted part of the server;
• ask for help/support with custom modlists (enabled/disabled mods in MO2);
• download additional mods for GAMMA;
• talk in the #╓☢stalker-chat (you'll need to be Rookie in order to post in this channel first)

▶️ Go to #⏩start-confirm to remove the role, but ONLY after you have successfully installed AND launched at least once the mod pack.

[void owl]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KHYE-cwgGxk

lol

[lean oar]

What a glorious bug lol

[blissful kayak]

does anyone know how to add items to stash loot pools? trying to add repair items to the stash pools and idk where to find where stash loot pools

[agile dagger]

Hey so im wondering, can anyone explain to me like the differences between each of the 3 “main” ballistics modification mods (FUBAR, Maklanes, and Better Ballistics) because like im split on which one of the three to use. I really want a like semi realistic balanced gunplay system where the guns feel mean in my hands but they also hit in the npcs hands too. Like i love maklanes mods and his overhaul, but his balistics mod imo makes the game to easy (mutants die in like 2 AP shots from an m700) and the npcs while buffed arent buffed enough imo, and with better ballistics the damage values are nice, but it conflicts with maklanes gunfights with the damage fall off of npcs and the mutant problem of them being too easy is even more apparent, like a chimera is dying in one mag dump of a HP vector. And fubar seems really cool but theres so many additives to his mod that arent “ballistics” related that conflict with so many other mods i like to use like NPC combat overhaul and Shays Living zone. Ive merged maklanes overhaul and better ballistics and then upped the np. Damage modifier to 1.8 but the mutants are still like super easy now. Idk what to do. Thinking of starting fresh and just using portions of maklanes mods like his better weights, gun fights, and less loot, and then adding better ballistics on top to not mess with the economy.

Anybody have some advice

[tidal rapids]

i hope we get the sdk asap, gsc said theyre preparing to roll it out, but honestly it might be up to a year for this

[void owl]

Modular hard mode has really good ballistic

But it's very hardcore mode

I think Desolation also has ballistic changes ?

[granite niche]

Would it be possible for someone to make a mod that keeps the main dialogue in English but changes the background chatter and enemy callouts in Ukrainian like the original games? I’ve never made a mod in my life just interested in hearing if it’s possible.

[tidal rapids]

It could be? However youre gonna have to do alot of kajiggering with wwise if im not mistaken

[mellow prawn]

I don't think so, the mod page says ballictic change mods are fully compatible, as he hasn't implemented his changes into the mod yet.

[void owl]

Ah gotcha.

[agile dagger]

hey im having a problem where i cant get drunk in game and bleeding doesnt affect me. It might be because I had a mod previously installled that removed that or something but idk why this is happening. Like i tried to play without mods and got rid of everything and it still was having the issue. Here is my mod list.

[void owl]

Try running without Maklane Overhaul

restart the game a couple of times, make a new save and try to load to it

[agile dagger]

ok but the merged mod has some of the paks from the overhaul ( i merged the overhaul with the better ballistics mod)

idk if it has anything that affects consumables in it though

so should it be fine if i just copy the maklanes mod that i have there, delete it from thge mods folder and if it fixes put it back in

and how should i Load the game and reset it

like step by step

[void owl]

you might need to then remerge without the mods, or delete the merge. Maklane's the only mod there which i feel might touch the Effects prototypes

[agile dagger]

just laod the save, save it reload and close

[void owl]

also have you updated the mods for version 1.2.1 of the game?

[agile dagger]

1.2?

[void owl]

load, save, exit the game, load new save

[void owl]

STALKER 2 version 1.2 yes

[agile dagger]

this was also an issue persisting before the major update to

yeah i have

updated everything that needed to

[void owl]

sounds good just making sure. Very strange bug. Worse case, start a new game and see if you can get the drunk effects there

so you at least know its an issue with your current playthrough

[agile dagger]

removed the maklanes overhaul, still cant get drunk and also bleeding is straight up not draining any health.

[agile dagger]

started a new save, can get drunk seems like an issue with my save. how would i fix that

anybody knwo how to fix that issue

oxa apparently screws with effect prototypes

[thick widget]

These are the steps, but you'd have to use a new game or save without mods to avoid crashing if using mutant loot or anything that brings in assets.

1. Move your' mods folder out or remove it
2. Go here: %localappdata%\Stalker2\Saved\GameSettings ( %localappdata%\Stalker2\Saved\Config\WinGDK (GamePass version) )
3. Edit AppliedSettings.cfg
4. Change these two:
5. TriggerBrokenGameDataEnsures = true
6. IgnoreBrokenGameDataDefaultPrototypes = false
7. Start Game
8. Load Save
9. Run Vanilla for 5 mins to give the game some time to check/clear
10. Exit
11. Switch AppliedSettings.cfg back:
12. TriggerBrokenGameDataEnsures = false
13. IgnoreBrokenGameDataDefaultPrototypes = true
14. Put mods folder back
15. Enjoy the game with no pak cache

[blissful kayak]

still trying to add the repair items from repair kit bundle to the stash loot pools ive been looking at Project Itemization as a reference to help figure out what to do and i have a item generator config now but repacking it into repair kit bundle doesn't seem to do anything is there something im missing?

[agile dagger]

Okay since i have mutant loot and oxa what would i do

[lilac stump]

Are we anywhere near having a Gamma 2?

[agile dagger]

Because those add assets to my knowledge. Do i just leave those mods in?

[thick widget]

"These are the steps, but** you'd have to use a new game or save before mods** to avoid crashing if using mutant loot or anything that brings in assets."

[agile dagger]

Ohhhhh okay so ur saying do those steps in a new game got it

[fierce storm]

@eager parcel should we talk about flashlight being useless here? I fuckin hate it in S2 and it's actually good in Gamma

[dry beacon]

Get a mod to fix it

you guys know what the most realistic ballistics mod is?

[agile dagger]

prob fubar but that mod changes alot of shit beyond "Ballistics" best ur gonna get thats still modular is better ballistics

i dont see appliedSettings

@thick widget \

nvm found it

was in some weird folder name

should i move it back to the og folder in saved wingdk

its in this folder for some reason

[thick widget]

Probably best to just leave it where it is

The game would have been the one to put it there for whatever reason

[agile dagger]

mkay

didnt fix the issue

should i like save and reload

[thick widget]

Well I hung around long enough in a scripited poi in lesser that some ispf actually took it over. So that's interesting

[agile dagger]

mkay imma try it again then add in the mods folder only with the unmerged mods and hang even longer around the new save. Gonna complete the tutorial then imma add the mods and run it and see if it fixes it.

[thick widget]

Hope it works otherwise theres likely some kind of merge conflict would be my best guess

But If I remember correctly you were having problems even mods moved out which can be a cache problem

[agile dagger]

yeah ive seen all merge conflicts and nothing has affected bleeding or drunkeness

yeah

its been an issue even before the major 1.2 update and even after i removed every mod

works fine in a new save, bleeding and drunkeness, just doesnt work in my current save

im in pripyat now so if its an issue that persists well its not so bad game is almost over anyways

and imma start a whole new playthrough on mhm

okay for some reason my 10 vodkas i drank in my other save carried over to my new save?!?!? IM NOW LIKE DRUNK FORSO LONG

WHAT IS HAPPENING

[agile dagger]

yteah no cant seem to fix it

super weird

its whatevs

[thick widget]

Sucky, but sometimes corrupt saves happen

Was worth a shot at least

[glossy blaze]

we need a emmission overhaul

i get that the one is stalker 2 is close to the originals but even the OG stalkers were a little more chaotic, these emissions just feel like a hinderance, or annoying and not something menacing and heavy.

[agile dagger]

I think i miss the birds burning up the most

And the fact everything got like eerily quiet vedore and emission

[eager parcel]

The flashlight? How so? To be clear, I'm talking about the flashlight, not the headlamp.

Oh wait I actually realize now I'm in the STALKER 2 channel. I'm dumb.

[thick widget]

https://tenor.com/view/stop-shoo-spray-gif-22413550

[fervent stratus]

https://tenor.com/view/modern-family-spray-squirt-annoyed-irritated-gif-11864636400230753109

[strong coyote]

For me the worst thing in emissions is how they end. Not just slowly fade but suddenly emission sounds stops and npc instantly going outside. Immersion breaking asf

[dusty fjord]

Can you tell if you know which mod? Grenade search on MCM currently only results in Teamson & Oleh's Bullet and Grenade Impact Sounds, and I doubt its a sound mod.

[hazy ivy]

Probably not gonna find many Stalker 2 mods via MCM

[dusty fjord]

Ah hell, sorry. I was just looking here if they wiped any other behaviour from AI like throwing grenades since 2023. I thought it was about Gamma.. I thought I had to restore frag use from plugins.. Sorry.

[vivid cedar]

Not sure if this is the right place to ask, or if I could be directed where to ask. Am using Shay’s ALife mod, but I can’t tell if it’s working or not?

[crisp igloo]

Next week SDK for KCD2.
Come on GSC pls pls pls do something!

[fervent stratus]

https://tenor.com/view/pepe-the-frog-pepe-the-frog-nervous-shocked-gif-15138438759410822982

version?

playtime before notice?

regions you been and noticed?

[vivid cedar]

I’m playing version B I believe, your most recent patch. Played for about an hour and primarily was in garbage. Felt incredibly empty. Maybe it’s working and I’m just overthinking it

[fervent stratus]

damnit i wanted to turn of phone

u here? if so ill quickly fix it if not will be for tomorrow

[vivid cedar]

Sure I'm available

[mellow prawn]

Is there a guide on how to edit the chance of weapons or armor appearing in stashes ?

[fervent stratus]

i fell asleep mb man, ping me when you are ready for help. was 3am for me

[fervent stratus]

guide? no but there are mods that adjust that so can unpak and take a look

[vivid cedar]

Sure thing man, should be available in an hour

[vivid cedar]

@fervent stratus Ready when you are

[fervent stratus]

just got home

what version of mod

not the A but v1 or 2

version b?

V2?

[vivid cedar]

V2 is what I meant, my bad

[fervent stratus]

and you believe you have no spawns or vanilla alife?

where you at in story

[vivid cedar]

So I’m getting some spawns, played for like an hour last night and noticed about 1. Currently at garbage in the story, need to get into some lab?

[fervent stratus]

detention center?

[vivid cedar]

I think so? It’s occupied by Ward

[fervent stratus]

ah yeah i know where you are, well lmk after that quest

or you want it fixed before?

before or after dont really matter as that quest is closed off from alife

[vivid cedar]

I don’t really mind either way tbh lol

[fervent stratus]

got uetools?

[vivid cedar]

I do not

[vivid cedar]

Teach me o great wise one

[fervent stratus]

oke grab it from nexus

it will also help with the buggyness of the game and if you get softlocked

you can also test out without

but we are going to check for spawns and sometimes you might miss them without uetools

(i am doing a more in depth support, if you rather want straight forward and simple fixes i can do that too)

[vivid cedar]

Nah give me the in depth haha. Downloading it rq

[fervent stratus]

once downloaded, open console and do :
UETools_BindToggle G "UETools_FindActors Pawn" "UETools_FindActors Pawn False"

copy paste that in

[vivid cedar]

Sure thing, will let you know

[fervent stratus]

also there is uetools_god i think it was

to be invincible for testing

[vivid cedar]

Copy and pasting that, not sure if it's doing anything though when I hit enter

[fervent stratus]

press g

and look at your feet

[vivid cedar]

Ah ok now it's working

[fervent stratus]

does it say characterblablabla

well now where you at on the map?

[fervent stratus]

go red circle x

look around the bubble for spawn is blue

click g every few seconds after being there for 1-2min

lmk how many spawns you see in 5-10min of doing that

it should be noticable and that means its working

you can also do god mode and just let the game run and eventually bodies will be around you due to all the spawns that have fought in the time you where afk

depending on duration of afk ofc

[vivid cedar]

Things are spawning for sure

Have had like 3-4 spawns

[fervent stratus]

then you got no worries, it works 🙂

if it didnt there would be nothing spawning or vanilla

and vanilla is so broken you wouldve uninstalled my mod before you reached out haha

[vivid cedar]

Sweet, what's the difference between yours and vanilla?

From like a super high level standpoint?

[fervent stratus]

out with the blatant fake spawns

in with the more believable

theyre all fake ofc but the obvious fakes are out

and replaced with more non obvious ones

[vivid cedar]

Fair enough. In terms of spawning, if I were to sit here for 5 minutes in the same place, what would be different?

[fervent stratus]

you wouldnt die

since vanilla spawns literal death squads

every so often with the only intention to kill you

[vivid cedar]

Ah ok, fair enough lmao

[fervent stratus]

oh and the fact vanilla is set up to let whatever spawns literally touch you

like those spawns you saw now?

i reckon they moved in the distance right?

[thick widget]

https://tenor.com/view/terminator-arnold-im-back-gif-3445410526398754864

[vivid cedar]

Yeah somewhat

[fervent stratus]

vanilla they would all walk past you

like next to you

be like "hey look player, WE EXIST!!"

[vivid cedar]

Ah ok gotcha

Apreciate the support man

[fervent stratus]

thats one of the reasons players might think mod is not working

they are spawning

its just 40m to your left

and you will never notice unless you uetool or turn around at that moment

in comes the more organic feeling

[vivid cedar]

Side question completely unrelated to this: I know they said that in the most recent patch they made bullet spread a little bit better, but I swear these enemies are still fucking snipers

Getting absolutely domed in every encounter haha

[fervent stratus]

get a balancing mod

[vivid cedar]

Anything you recommend?

[fervent stratus]

no that would mean i would pick sides with a mod author since i know multiple that adjust those values

[vivid cedar]

Ah ok

[fervent stratus]

so my best advice is ask another mod author or idk nexus idk hha soryy

wont favor one mod author over anothers

[vivid cedar]

No you're good, being impartial is a good stance

[fervent stratus]

its personal taste anyway

some use mhm that one has its own

[thick widget]

There's a bunch of options for weapon balance. Depends how you want to play

[fervent stratus]

desolation doesnt

maklane is a big one

is more like vanilla

or fubar?

but then you have npc mods

like wools and pikle the new one or perhaps an old one like novichok idk

[vivid cedar]

Awesome, appreciate all the suggestions

[thick widget]

Oh yeah you might want at least the x-ray pak so they can't see through the map..

[vivid cedar]

Thanks for all the help Shay, hopefully next time they patch the game they give you modders more leeway with the 100m radius

[fervent stratus]

hahah np man but dont worry render is dead

https://tenor.com/view/dance-coffin-meme-rip-gif-16909625

wont see that one for months if anything

[thick widget]

I'm hoping they'll at leat get it 150

Performance is still so jank I don't think they'll be able to for awhile like you say

[fervent stratus]

its not even performance i think its their whole system

i legit dont think they made it with longer than 100m in mind

[thick widget]

I also think part of there issue is relational data tracking of "alife"

[fervent stratus]

like i 100% think the reason snipers are so few and late game and only like pripyat side is they literally made it with 100m in mind from day 1 concept

like aint no way you make this and then cap it with 100m

that and for sure xbox

[thick widget]

That experimental version of FaW from last night where I turned their other spawn system back forced me to turn Max agents up to 3000 for steady spawns. I tried 5k and started stuttering. The funny part is there isn't a giant burst of population or anything. So I think it's increasing the data log size....

[tidal rapids]

Iirc cop had like 3 snipers, svd svu and vintorez

So atleast they added uh, 2 more and just gave vintorez AR stats

[fervent stratus]

no we tried that

remember?

we where with jake in vc or werent u there?

he has like nasa pc we tested with while he streamed

it was memory related not log

unless the log gets stored in memory

omg

[thick widget]

Nah this is different the spawn variable takes control of scenario timing/rates

Nothing seems to spawn out of control, quite the opposite

[fervent stratus]

would you think they would be that dense to make logging stored in memory at runtime?

aint no way

[thick widget]

Memory funny enough didn't go up. I think they using file storage.... Which is worse

[fervent stratus]

i/o omg

constant io loops

https://tenor.com/view/skeleton-reaction-information-my-reaction-to-that-information-my-honest-reaction-to-that-information-gif-613275461876515673

[thick widget]

Yeah so at 5k everytime npcs came into render it would stutter slightly and io had a small jump...

That's what I think it's using file storage

[fervent stratus]

but where is it

[thick widget]

I was going to try turning alifelog to false tonight see if it changes game play behavior at all. If not it might just be debugging

[fervent stratus]

after a sesh it must be somewhere

or its not

[thick widget]

Nah temporary

Or it's in the encoded saves

[fervent stratus]

must be save

since reloading loads same stuff

[thick widget]

True

[fervent stratus]

if it was temp the next day the npc in bubble wouldnt be there

which we did have early days no?

like they werent persistent across saves

[thick widget]

Yeah that's with simulation range

[fervent stratus]

do you have defaultdespawnnpc on false?

ive actually never turned it false again after 1.1

[thick widget]

I did actually

[fervent stratus]

so faw is running on false?

[thick widget]

Pretty sure it's that way in the current experiement

[fervent stratus]

im running on true across all versions

[thick widget]

Yeah I don't know how much it actually effects things

You hit a trigger area and the despawn.cfg kills stuff too

[fervent stratus]

would memory leak be due to logging across saves?

if i load in pos x and save with 2 npc around and run off to pos y and save with 5 npc around

[thick widget]

It shouldn't be each save should be it's own thing

[fervent stratus]

the save slot

needs to keep all individual log

[thick widget]

Yes it would need to keep a state log for each save

[fervent stratus]

of each individual save, since offline doesnt extend full map i reckon

thats why individual save slots are capped at 20?

[thick widget]

Most likely yes

[fervent stratus]

they really shot themself in the foot with having all that as an aftertought or something

curious to see what next weeks update does with alife

[thick widget]

Probably another small function like corpse loot

[fervent stratus]

yeah thats their safest bet gradually adding 1 contextual action per update

and rest of fixes in update for bugs and performance

but if they do that they will never satisfy community

since the community will say that all they do is increase variation for spawner

and it still being a spawner

they really gotta go all out on a massive alife update worthy of game journalist articles

and like video

[thick widget]

Haha yeah I mean it is just a spawner no changing that right now.

Thing needs a complete rewrite

[fervent stratus]

like pcgamer going : Stalker 2 finally has received that a-life 2.0 that the players wanted and it's amazing! (video included)

and the video being like ievgen talking with the lead ai about the struggles to get there

but 1 small alife step at a time would be too slow and far in between

[thick widget]

Unless they're hiding a test version of alife 2.0 they would need 1.5 yr of dev just for that feature alone going forward

[fervent stratus]

seeing we are 3 months and 2 weeks in

[fervent stratus]

yeah its insane to see how far behind they seem to be

[thick widget]

Yeah, the more I did between the builds and play with things. The more I see they had trouble picking a solution

[fervent stratus]

i dont think the casual official stalker 2 server user knows just how deep gsc is and it will be a long while to get trilogy/anomaly levels of features

[thick widget]

The lair / alife cfgs are a dumbed down hybrid of an older spawner system they started.

[fervent stratus]

yeah like you got:
ievgen and maria, who are most likely very passionate seeing its their family thing basically
the old guard like iassenev: who are just old timers that get introduced to this new engine called ue5 thats brand new and they need to get it working asap
juniors: who have no idea on ue5 since its new and gaining in house ukrainian developers in that time is hard, outsourcing ue5 during wartime across 2 countries too
the higher ups, maxym krippa, phil spencer, epic: they fund but they want a product, phil wants xbox and pc be uniform in features as xbox most of the time does, epic wants ue5 flagship game, krippa wants profit and minimum viable product and also hires like 400 devs

so its a mix of passion and revival of the old alife systems and what fans like from anomaly but a race against the clock for higher up to gaing a solid profit without too much spending and time

it doesnt help they opened for pre-orders very soon so they forced their hand

cant get money and keep delaying

[thick widget]

Yeah they definitely made their own mess on top of outside circumstances

[fervent stratus]

i honestly think its due to 2018 video

they started a studio with handfull people, ievgen and maria passionate with a goal

but no money

[thick widget]

That set expectations

[fervent stratus]

instead of going kickstarter route

they went to corporate

and get hit with targets

and expectations

[thick widget]

They could have pulled a Star Citizen haha

[fervent stratus]

if they kickstarted it and delayed due to current situation

we would be sooo happy ngl

like to know the small 50 man team working on my kickstarted stalker 2 is safe in prague and posting updates on kickstarter

little heartwarming stuff like a picture of some devs working in an office on ai and ievgen being socially awkward

[thick widget]

Could have been the next Hello Games come back story

[fervent stratus]

yeah, i just dont see it happening now anymore sadly

and that is partly due to ue5 yes

its just hard to work with

[thick widget]

Won't be possible with the corpo overlords they have currently

[fervent stratus]

its capable of great things but in great hands

[thick widget]

Yeah they don't have the expertise

[fervent stratus]

ngl finding senior ue5 programmers atm is hard i reckon

like ue5 is still "new"

[thick widget]

Would have been better to do a remaster first of one of the original games in UE if they wanted to learn it

[fervent stratus]

small in house design concept\

1 map of early games in ue5

with alife

and expand

[thick widget]

Yup

[fervent stratus]

and once you hit a cap just scale back

[thick widget]

That would have been a safer bet

[fervent stratus]

see where you are capping

fix and proceed

also corporate still so much man

if they werent bound by xbox and epic

they couldve delayed indefinetly

literally no oneeee would mind

anyone opposing the delay would be insane

[thick widget]

I mean the utlities might complain 😄

Pay your energy bill!!!

https://tenor.com/view/pithon-taunt-gif-12865791201436561590

[modest nymph]

1. In Stalker 2 there is a mission where you have to help a stalker, you need to bring the corpse of his friend from the gravitational anomaly. In this corpse lies some loot and an artifact, I want to change the loot in the corpse, but I haven't found in which file these parameters are. Does anyone know which file to look for?
2. Another question. On the Noon base, there is a merchant who gives a battery artifact for three antirad. I need to replace the reward he gives. In which file can I do this? If anyone knows, please help, because I'm having problems with this.

[tidal rapids]

questnode ids

most likely

[modest nymph]

I figured out the second question, it was in the dialogues)) I also replaced the artifact in Roosevelt's hiding place, but it's not certain because I haven't checked it yet, because there is no suitable save, I need to start a new game. But I still haven't found the answer to the first question, it's that quest with Yurko Fantomas and the corpse of his friend Bubble. I searched for a long time, but to no avail...

[mellow prawn]

Is it possible to swap a player's armor mesh and skin with that of an NPC's armor mesh and skin ?

[fervent stratus]

https://tenor.com/view/snoop-dogg-what-excuse-me-wtf-umm-gif-15790232245841332039

what you want to do? freeplay as dalin?

[mellow prawn]

Nah, I wanna swap into one of the NPC's PSZV 12 armor lol

[grave kite]

players use different meshes, wont be possible for now. and even then it'll require additional work.

[mellow prawn]

Yeah you answered my post about it in your mod section too lol

[tidal rapids]

Dont give me fucking ideas

When the sdk drops im creating my own expansion

Undercover s.t.a.l.k.e.r: dr dalin puts on the worst 5 o clock shadow, trades his suit for some dirty ass rags and roughs it out in zalyssia (cordon scares him)

[hazy ivy]

GET OUT OF HERE STALKER

you have wandered into the wrong part of the discord stalker

oh no, I just assumed that because you mentioned gamma that this is a gamma addon?

lol we dont mind

we like visitors

well now I look mental

[dusty fjord]

Is the scene doing as well as anomaly modding for stalker 2 yet?

I have not followed progress here this early from launch

[hazy ivy]

its a mixed bag really, there's some very good work coming out

and a lot of potential

but the base game still needs work

and a lot of people are reluctant to get started without an SDK

although there's a lot of stuff happening which was 'not until we have an SDK' material a month ago

[dusty fjord]

I have read that yes, and theres a lot of jank content on youtube clips about glitching bodies akin to Bethesda releases and crashing and AI not functioning at all oftentimes.

[dusty fjord]

Isnt that promised content already in the works from the studio?

They said many times they wanted to support modding from the get-go

[hazy ivy]

it is, but i don't see it happening for 6 months +

[dusty fjord]

Oh for sure, they probably focus on the majority which just want a working base game. It will also help modders to have a less janky base platform.

Not safe to have 218 plugins running on top of freshly released game with many bugs 😄

[hazy ivy]

I think it also takes a bit of work to get it into a user-friendly format

like I just got into blueprint modding, and there's so many little workarounds and weird quirks

if its an in-house tool, you can just tell the 4 people using it "dont use that feature, its broken, use this instead"

but if you release that as an SDK, that's 100 bug reports

and given <1% of people will be actually using the SDK, its gonna be at the bottom of the list

[tidal rapids]

at this point, i feel we've done all we can going by without the sdk, we've been able to do some nigh impossible things but some of that is rather unstable.

that being said, molit said they are preparing for the launch of the sdk, so it could be as soon as next update, or as late as next year.

but if you want to mod, no better time than now, its fun experimenting with things and getting to know how the game runs

waiting for shay to prod molit again until molit prods the devs again and the devs get the sdk out

[thick widget]

I just need to finish the FaW experiments and then it's on to mutant combat overhaul... Which is going to take awhile.

But yeah pretty much reaching the limits without sdk not going to argue that.

[devout pond]

Hey, is there anyone who could extract audio files for me? Specifically, I'm looking for guitar tracks played around the campfire from the game files, in WAV or MP3 format. I'm not a modder and have no idea how to do this myself but really need those files. If it's a lot of work, I'm even willing to pay for your time. Thanks in advance!

[celest crow]

question, I merged all conflicting files and created a merge mod.pak that im running as highest priority. However since Im using vortex I will go into my actual game folder and compare it to the appdata from where vortex mods are stored. In my appdata it shows 1 copy of each mod and if any previous versions that you updated they will be there too. However when I go into my normals mods folder it will show the original folder with the .pak file but it will also have a folder with the same name exepct its the files that are extracted fom the .pak. Im curious why a bunch of extracted copies are left there and should I delete them? are they causing conflicts? If anybody can answer or give me a clue 🙂 thanks

[rotund badge]

So I'm trying to make a RefURL Ammo Count and Stack Size Mod. Just to make sure, this is how it's done, right?

`A918D : struct.begin {refurl=AmmoPrototypes.cfg;refkey=A918D}
AmmoPackCount = 255
MaxStackCount = 38527
struct.end

A918A : struct.begin {refurl=AmmoPrototypes.cfg;refkey=A918A}
AmmoPackCount = 255
MaxStackCount = 38527
struct.end`

[hazy ivy]

A918D : struct.begin {refurl=../AmmoPrototypes.cfg;refkey=A918D} AmmoPackCount = 255 MaxStackCount = 38527 struct.end

Then rename the file to ModName_AmmoPrototypes.cfg

[rotund badge]

So, the ../ is needed prior to AmmoPrototypes?

[hazy ivy]

and place it into GameData/ItemPrototypes/AmmoProtypes

yea it tells it to go up one directory level

[rotund badge]

Meanwhile if I package things following the game's folder structure it works without that

[hazy ivy]

Also generally good practice to rename the ammo to ModName_A918D

Avoids weird behaviour due to duplicate structures

[rotund badge]

In the event other mods touch it

[hazy ivy]

the struct still inherits the SID from the refurl so it still modifies the original item

[hazy ivy]

yea shit like that

[rotund badge]

I'll be sure to fix that before releasing them then.

[hazy ivy]

yea don't forget to place them in a folder that has the name of the .cfg you're refurling

[rotund badge]

So that just forces it to load after the base game files that it's referencing?

Like the ABloodsucker vs ZBloodsucker RefURL Issue that someone mentioned ages ago

[fervent stratus]

AYO QUESTION TIME

i see lots of mentions and upvotes on reddit about : how alife is in the game code but not yet active/properly connected.
do we agree on that statement from what we have seen?

tbh it is spread by us i think due to early days findings .like we found alife stuff in those terms but once we delved deeper, especially now after few months, we realise this is nowhere near what we thought it was. in a negative way

[rotund badge]

Well, I got the Ammo Mod and a Buffed Effects(Artifacts, Armour, and Weapons) working under RefURL

Mainly did it to never have to worry about game updates again

[gentle hinge]

Personally need to figure out how to do RefURL myself.

[languid hollow]

As far as priority goes, do mods at the bottom alphabetically get priority? Or is it the othwr way around?

[minor cedar]

according to Oxide it's controlled by numbers at the filename's end
https://i.ibb.co/9ky38Z2V/8-Install-Info.png

[minor cedar]

Wool got this guide, you can check it out
https://www.nexusmods.com/stalker2heartofchornobyl/articles/138

[thick widget]

Also good to look at mods already using refurl. There are some cfgs that won't work like corevariables/aiglobals. You might also run into issues if you try to refurl override a struct that is already being referenced by other cfgs. For example if I try to override something in ObjPrototypes.cfg the other cfgs like GeneralNPCObjPrototypes.cfg won't even know about those overrides and will just reference the original.

[shell quartz]

does anybody know what could be the cause for values not showing up properly?

[languid hollow]

Intetesting, i would have never guessed that, thanks

[spare lagoon]

You're probably using two mods with localization files and one is overwriting the other.
Or it does not support your language and doesn't have the translations for it defined.

[shell quartz]

im talking about the hunger and healing, the name and description are not working because i didnt make them yet

also how do i package the localization file?

[thick widget]

Wasn't this the tool for that? https://www.nexusmods.com/stalker2heartofchornobyl/mods/540

[hazy ivy]

Loading OXA before Better Ballistics will give a drastically different outcome to loading OXA after Better Ballistics

If you load BB after OXA, you will get Better Ballistics weapon properties, and OXA will be broken

If you load OXA after BB, you will get BB's weapon properties, plus OXA's attachment functionality, conveniently merged into some frankenstein amalgam

[hazy ivy]

Load order is a convenient and intuitive way of understanding the manner in which mods are loaded into the game. It is a system that has been used for years, and many understand it.

Whilst 'load order' may not literally be the order in which assets are loaded, it is reflective of the prioritisation system in a way that is easily understood by people who have prior modding experience.

It remains vital that people install mods with the correct 'load order' to ensure proper functioning of their mods. This is based on assisting literally hundreds of users, and unless I am secretly a wizard who has been manifesting cosmic energy to fix people's issues, 'load order' is far from irrelevant

[thick widget]

https://tenor.com/view/merlin-disney-sword-in-the-stone-gif-5530521

[shell quartz]

cant get it to work, the pack just breaks the game

[thick widget]

Ani, Oxide or Linxz might know.

[median quest]

You managed to merge and pack but the Localization files break game when they in ~mods?

[shell quartz]

Yes, when I launch the game all the localization is broken and the game just freezes when I try to load a save

[rotund badge]

Does anyone know what the comfort upgrade is?

"ComfortUp15Effect" for instance

[thick widget]

https://tenor.com/view/dndpaige-prevent-backstabs-pillow-at-the-back-gif-17259243

[tidal yew]

is it currently possible to add new models to the game without dev kit? wanna hook my mans yevhen up with a switchblade

[void owl]

Not possible yet

[tidal yew]

damn

ima try just sticking a png on the current one lol. can parts of the textures be made to be transparent, or is that also too much for now?

myb, been poking around the cfgs but know nothing of the ucas's etc

[void owl]

You might want to start with a mesh replacement

Can't help there tho

[tidal yew]

currently trying at a mod that makes everyone smoke fucking continuously when idle, tryna see how compatible i can get it to be with other npc behavior//alife mods lol

in the backlog:
pressing f5 (or if possible, whenever attempting to qSave) knocks you on your ass
every loading screen replaced with shader compilation one
a newgame+ kinda save editor or something that lets you retain your settlement stash, blueprints, items, and/or whatever else between playthrus

oh oh oh

pet blind dogs who follow (aggro but nicely) you. every sec they have a near zero% chance to bite tho

[shell quartz]

i have figured out the localization but the values dont show up properly

[hazy ivy]

Could you show the relevant part of the localization file?

[hazy ivy]

Meshes work, as do textures, but the problem is that materials can't be packaged correctly

and since materials are effectively the link between meshes and textures, we're kinda screwed

[shell quartz]

What does that mean?

[hazy ivy]

something like this

oh wait nvm

is it just the values that are screwed up?

[shell quartz]

Yes only the values

[hazy ivy]

So if you want a numeric value, you need to set up the effects like this

If you just want words, use this

BUT if you use EffectLevel, the name of the EffectPrototypeSID needs to end with a single number

1 for weak, 2 for medium, etc

like this

[shell quartz]

That's why it wasn't working

Thank you

[hazy ivy]

no problem

it's a weird setup

[hazy ivy]

I wanna say Quantico

It's not monospace so it's not ideal for code/configs

but I like how it looks

[pliant ermine]

hey, im curious. How much has changed from shortly past launch? I saw when people were able to implement a flashlight for the first time.
I suppose there was not really much help from the devs in terms of modding tools yet? Any other big steps made and is it worth going for another playthrough yet?

[tidal rapids]

I wanna say we done all that we can without the sdk. And we're gonna have to wait on it.

The help we get from the devs is news that there will be an sdk coming out

[dapper vortex]

Кину сюда, больше некуда. Merge pack localization for Modular Hard Mod & Desolation (RU-EN), может кому надо.

[fervent stratus]

@void owl @tidal yew ace, do you got the uproject loaded right?

like you are adjusting weather based on blueprints from the uproject or something? iirc that was it right?

[tidal yew]

tl;dr need to try to remove all mentions of flycorridordebug within blueprints as an attempt to get the debug tools to work

[fervent stratus]

this it billy?

just looked up aces screenshots real quick, i know this is weather related

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[tidal yew]

I have no clue where it is

And I have no clue if it will even work

Most likely not

[fervent stratus]

yeah he def has access

[void owl]

Ayeee @fervent stratus

I'm still wondering what is it you want to achieve

[fervent stratus]

not me, @tidal yew

perhaps dm or here with eachother about it

he posted above

"tl;dr need to try to remove all mentions of flycorridordebug within blueprints as an attempt to get the debug tools to work"

[void owl]

Very hard. Don't think I can help much

Best case is unpacking with ZenTools, editing them with UassetGui or whatever it's called, then repacking

[modest nymph]

Does anyone know in which files the following can be deleted:

1. Weapons in stashes (not the journalist's stashes)
2. Weapons and armor that are just lying in the open air. And ammo, first aid kits and foods (not in boxes)
   Is this impossible without SDK?

[shell quartz]

2. WorldMap_WP in SpawnActorPrototypes inside pakchunk0

[shell quartz]

found new guns in the 1.3 localization files, seems we might be getting new guns in the future patches

[sharp meteor]

Mosin Nagant

[shell quartz]

and colt 1911

[sharp meteor]

Maybe is spawneable 🤔

[thick widget]

These were in old build files so maybe

Or they just oops a merge/copy & paste haha

[shell quartz]

they are not spawnable

[hazy ivy]

Those have been there for a while

Wouldn't look into it too much, they could be restored in the future, could be scrapped from old builds

[thick widget]

So an old merge/copy and paste oops

For when they actually had them for testing

[orchid vale]

Hi Guys, I'm trying to learn modding and what I read is to extract out the AES key first.
I tried using AESDumpster but its not returning any keys.
Can anyone share me the key?

[void owl]

I think this is no longer necessary

[orchid vale]

Thanks, I'll try and debug FModel maybe there's a configuration I'm missing.

[void owl]

You might be missing the usmap file

[orchid vale]

I'll look into it later, thanks for the guidance.

[daring mauve]

Are there any good mod collections out for stalker 2 or is it all just loose mods atm ?

[void owl]

Mostly loose mods, but modular hard mode is somewhat of a collection

[fervent stratus]

try the A-Star alliance (i just made that name up)

• modular hard mode OR maklane as a base
• Letswoolgathers npc mods
• Flics mutant mod
• Oxides and Lynxz weapon mod
• Shays talk and trade to anyone and roaming professions mod
• dynamic weather overhaul
• SLZ or FaW as alife

[daring mauve]

i'll check it out thx

[fervent stratus]

if you read this, go like the comment please to raise more awareness (like they dont already know lol)

[tidal yew]

How to convert the .wem convolver files to .wav?

[sterile vigil]

On it right now brother

[modest nymph]

thanks now found!

[minor cedar]

There's already plenty of comments demanding A-Life under the video fwiw

not too surprising considering the game's current state.

[median quest]

They must have removed that comment, I cant find it

[thick flax]

how do I go about making this double press F instead of single press?

[void owl]

Welcome to the world of debouncing a click. Its not straight forward.

you can add a sleep (dont know if LUA and UE4SS support sleep/wait) and then check for the next click

[thick flax]

[void owl]

You can also make some loops that wait for the next click:

if click:
  while tick < 10000
    if click
      do thing
    else 
      tick = tick + 1

thats very psudo code and simple, you might need to work around stuff

are you making a taunt mod? lol

[thick flax]

Editing a line so it plays on double press rather than single

it's an existing mod I've been using, I like it

Bear 3 EFT one

[void owl]

not gonna be so simple as i wrote, but you can start there

[ember notch]

OMG, the 1.3 patch broke my mods! They changed many weapon file names—why? To avoid copyright issues?

Now I have to spend hours packing them in the engine again.

[fervent stratus]

https://tenor.com/view/simpsons-homer-bart-lisa-join-us-gif-17846376318791889140

[ember notch]

[thick widget]

https://tenor.com/view/big-hero6-baymax-there-there-patting-head-pat-head-gif-17634358873307423130

[ember notch]

3 more to fix

[minor cedar]

well fwiw. next time you can try using that Revert Block function in VSCode/Codium, saves me a fuckton of time in merging mesh changes for 1.3
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[limber rose]

Hello guys, I need some advice about edit localization to add a language.
On MHM (https://www.nexusmods.com/stalker2heartofchornobyl/mods/88?tab=files) there is localisation files :

• LocalizationDB_P.pak
• LocalizationDB_P.utoc
• LocalizationDB_P.uacs

I want to unpack them and add a language.
How can I achieve this?

[fervent stratus]

https://discord.com/channels/912320241713958912/1310297745679978496

[fervent stratus]

ask it again here

[limber rose]

thx bro!

[ember notch]

Sh@t, I wish I had seen it earlier 💩 . Hope this kind of file name change doesn’t happen again.

[daring fable]

of course it will

[tidal yew]

what consequences might arise from a mod that makes you crouch when speaking to literally everyone? the var is already in there, you could argue it's cut content lol

any off the top of anyone's head tho? if nothing immediately glaring im going in. currently planning the BBClife overhaul (working title)

(actually serious inquiry to be clear)

if there's only one way to find out, we will.

[river bolt]

i need help
new patch broke my weapons
i cant use zubr, ar416, vector and saiga

[tidal yew]

lemme peep your mod list

[river bolt]

how?

btw g37

[tidal yew]

like this

[median quest]

Outdated mod

[tidal yew]

ye, anything that affected weapons pre 1.3 could be the culprit

[tidal yew]

any sideweapon

[river bolt]

would it be the attachments?