Stalker thread

How do you know they won't try another stab at it? I think the reason the first thing they released after shutting was Cossacks is because it was their firstborn IP.

What is this retarded bullshit? It is already bad enough that the scientist only purpose is to sell them mutant/artifact shit. They don't offer for shit they don't even sell army/scientist medikits because of some unknown drunktard shit.

it wasn't going to use it

It's more "We're out of money. Maybe if we sell a re-skin and make a nice profit we could give it another try."
Cossacks won't sell and Sergei will sell stalker to Lyin' Todd to make some final money.
D E D

pls no

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Cossacks 3 actually sold pretty decently though
Could have sold more if it wasnt a goddamned lazy remake of the first one but whatever.
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Get over here, stalker.

trying to get mods to work with eachother is horrible

anuu cheeki breeki iv GAY

What's the pass code into the Monolith War Labs in CoC?
I'm all the way out here, I have all the documents, psi helm, Strelok's Decoder however it tells me the secret to the code is in all the documents I've found but I don't see any and the decoder does nothing on the door. I really don't understand what I'm supposed to do.

Don't even joke about something like that, you might meme it into reality.

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What about burers?

That won't work on me.

Slip an SVD into the door hinges and crank that shit open.

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But what how do I do that?

If you put a long rifle in a door hinge then drop the rifle it glitches the door and forces it to open, might take a couple of tries to get it working though.

Which part of the door do I shove my long hard, cold gun into?

New stalker when streloks?

Spoiler because it's sort of the end of CoC but this is total bullshit, this whole area has been and now this added on top of it.

It wouldn't be STALKER if the ending wasn't a total fuckfest.

is this modded? the sarcophagus area was totally deserted every time i've beaten CoC
the lower tunnels are full of monolith but you can just cornerbang them with shotgun/grenades
hardest part is that long dash along the outside of the plant with an impending blowout, helicopters, apcs and railgun snipers everywhere

WHEN

I had no impending blowout and it's CoC I turned down joining the C-Consciousness and got placed right in front of the Wish granter to do battle with five to seven monolith high ranks as projections I was slowly running out of ammo, grenades hardly made their mark as it's large enough they can flee and I kept getting headshot everywhere. I managed to survive my armor is toast, I looted several gauss rifles on top of more ammo for my Vikr which I ran out of and that weapon is trashed, so is my SVD only gun to last me is the 7.62x39mm AKMS I guess Kalash is reliable if you're battling dozens of mongoloid fucks at once hellbent on destroying you. Now I'm unsure what to do because I'm told I have to shut off the C-Consciousness and there certainly isn't around me, I have to go back into the War Lab from the initial again.

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Is the mod released yet?

See

They abandoned it ages ago. For the same reason all modders abandon ambitious projects; "its hurd D:"

Did they atleast made a partial release so that other modders can scavenge it?

why would they do that? Why would anything good ever happen?

So that all their efforts are not in vain when making a complete release is too hard for them?

Nope. fuck you, asshole.
-the devs

Citation needed

Hes lying you retard
Its a joke because development of it is slow

The animation guy still releases videos semi regularly. The one user posted is barely a month old.

fuck you leatherman

Wrong place muscle head.

Oh yeah?

Ha! yeah right man let's go. Why dont you get out of that leather stuff? I'll strip down out of this and we'll settle it right here on the ring. What do you say?

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STOP IT. It's too early.

How the fuck do I turn off the C-Consciousness generators in Stalker:CoC?
I can't seem to interact with the lever in the lab despite it saying I can. I don't know what gives.

I can't interact with it at all despite saying otherwise.

I used up all my explosives that I can control and nothing has happened.

i still can't do it

I see multiple artifacts user. Go forward and get them. You'll be fine.

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Open wide.

I figured out the code quite a while ago it's the code from CoP for some reason. I'm unsure what to do in that save now so I just began a survival mode ecologist to dick around with. Trying to find an anti-rad artifact but no no avail.

The Zone is a magical place.

what kind of gas mask is first pic wearing? it looks cool as shit.

Has the M246 LMG gun any purpose in CoC 1.4, STCoP? It looks like to me a meme gun. I only know the purpose of LMG is for suppressive fire but it doesn't look like the AI is getting pinned by that.

why did he think he could fix it?
I'm sure stalker 2 would've been about recreating the c-con. and stopping the zone. Or strelok causes the zone to take over all of Eurasia and starts stalker 3 where the noosphere resets itself when the whole world becomes the zone. basically horseshoe theory it where the only way to reset it is for it to finish 100%

I wonder where the story was going to go. I mean the C-Consciousness was gone but the Zone wasn't.

In Call of Pripyat the story was really just another Military attempt at controlling the Zone and failing miserably again.

Find them yourself
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hmm
12x76 zhekan appears to be shotgun slugs.
I can't think of why it can't find them. everything is where they should be

'kay

nope nevermind I figured it out. one of the creators of the mods I'm using made a typo where its 23x75 instead of 12x76.

'kay

Don't know why you're talking to me like I could've fixed it, I've done nothing but post memes and porn since I got into this thread. But I'm happy you're happy I guess.

oh I didn't realize I replied to you. I usually click reply to bring up the text box and then delete the
I figured you were just saying 'kay cause 'kay

It's time to stop.

It's been a while since I last played one of the games, but I got a chance to visit the Zone recently and now I want to replay them.
What were the recommended mods for additional content again?

How many Artifacts did you manage to snatch in your trip to the Zone?

None, but it probably wouldn't have been too difficult.
They were pretty strict when we were entering the zone, but going out the security was really lax and we were mostly just waved through.

Take any pictures? See any bandits?

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noice dubs.

Anyone got any idea what's going on here?
I'm the same guy I mean and I still can't interact with the lever.

No bandits, but a few wild dogs.

суки

I just noticed my pictures were too big to post together, so I'll just post a few single ones.

The Woodpecker. This thing is huge as fuck, I was baffled when I saw it up close.

I assume you're talking about the dogs, otherwise, very rude.

This was inside a kindergarten a bit outside of the city of Chernobyl.

Reactor 4 with the old sarcophagus.

Is a trip to the zone costly? I assume you're forced to take a guide with you and those probably charge you a fuckton, I would think. I seriously want to go there at some point, but I'm not exactly rich.

Since the old sarcophagus is starting to crack, they're constructing a new one which is supposed to sustain a hundred years.

It's built right besides the old one, and will be moved over the whole reactor building once it's finished. It's hard to imagine that huge thing is mobile.

They're doing pretty good work on this one. Last time I saw, it was still half-finished.

Yeah, you're only allowed with a guide, but they'll pick you up at Kiev and get all the paperwork done to let you enter the zone.
Our guide was very good and entertaining, officially you're not allowed to enter the buildings.
I didn't find it expensive at all, the tour cost around 120€ per person, but the trip lasted the whole day and included a meal.

I think it's supposed to be finished any day now.

At least this building I remembered from the game, it's a restaurant with a small port at the river.

This is from the inside, they had really nice windows here.

Inside the musical school.

The Palace of Culture, from the outside.

And from the inside

The stage, they were celebrating some soviet guy but I don't remember.

Some more posters and junk backstage.

The famous ferry wheel.
The amusement park is actually pretty small and empty, but there was probably a lot more that got looted.

That's Gorbachev.

The stadium, the picture taken from the play field.
We only realized we were walking on the field when we reached the building, it's a forest nowadays.

Shit, you're right, I should have recognized him by the spot on his head.

This is when my camera ran out of power, so I had to make pictures with my shitty phone.
This was the pool, you can see that there are quite a few tourists here.

How is the radiation level there nowadays? Did you had to take some pills or something against that or is it pretty low now?

The school, unfortunately we didn't have much time here.

I was expecting worse, definitely gonna look into setting up a trip with some friends now.

It's pretty low as long as you don't stray from the paths, we were just required to wear long clothes.
But for example, the inner court of the school wasn't cleaned very thoroughly and our guide warned us not to step in there for the risk of having our shoes taken from decontamination at the checkpoint.

I can really recommend it, it was a great experience. Take one or two days for Kiev too, if you've got the chance, it's a beautiful and surprisingly orderly and clean city.

Some more from the school and the famous gasmask room.

semechki? buderbrot? side course of squatting? kompot?

A thick soup, bread, some meat and apples. Nothing too fancy but it was decent.

This was the fire department, pretty much empty inside since all the vehicles were used during the catastrophe and the remaining stuff probably got stolen.
By this point is was too late and dark to go any further, but we were all really content with the tour.

stuff of nightmares

I just remembered this statue, it's a bit outside the city and shows an angel blowing the third trumpet of the apocalypse.
Apparently some people believe the whole disaster was the third sign of the apocalypse, poisoning water and people dying from drinking it.

S-spooky.

Wouldn't that mean more nuclear reactors have to be blown up for that or something? There was like 20 more of these types what Chernobyl used, and none apart from the Chernobyl one had reactor meltdown.

This was pretty much all from me, I can only recommend you to visit the place yourself if you've got the chance. It's a great experience.

I think it's mostly from the name.
Chernobyl is the Ukrainian name for the plant mugwort or wormwood.
Incidentally the star that is said to fall to earth and poison the water is also called wormwood in the bible.

If only the friend that introduced me to stalker wasnt a neet, we'd go do some cheeky larp this summer

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Oh I think the guides know about Stalker.
Even our taxi driver talked about it when we were mentioning visiting Pripyat.

I think our guide even mentioned a similarity to the game somewhere, but I was too far away to properly understand it and didn't want to look like a sperg asking about a video game.

That and it doesn't have to be from the videogame. You could get a Tarkovsky-loving sherpa who could get the referance or something, or even somebody who's heard of Roadside Picnic.

I mean, we can do it. If we want to, what's stopping us from getting a guide online and meeting there? I know I am going to push my friend to get the money somehow, if I get more anons to go ther ewith us, all the better
Eating diet sausages with stale bread, with some energy drink and good company would be really nice picnic in the zone

Yes, after the 100th tourist scream ANUUUUUUUUUU they must have figured out why all the weird teenagers go visit the nuclear zone zero. It might be the stalker kino too
So how did you find a guide? They have tourism agencies like it is a caribbean trip?

I just searched for Chernobyl tours and picked one with a good rating. The company I picked apparently have been doing this for a few years.

Good, it's not a random slav trying to scam tourists. Thanks

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I could probably do it. Take a cheap ryanair flight into the country, pack up a bunch of clothes and a good camera, spend the night in a motel and be in and out on a weekend if that, especially with my passport.

I need the best Hard Bass for stalkan.

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thanks user that was really interesting

You take iodine pills to protect your thyroid from radiation. It absorbs the non-radioactive iodine from the pills instead of the radioactive iodine from your surroundings which could cause thyroid damage/cancer.

fuck thats really nice and comfy
Thanks alot for those photos stalker i hope someone will save these other than me

Bah. Fine I'll do it

Yeah do that i'm on limited plan

I'm on an unlimited plan mr.trips so it's fine for me.

>Currently deciding or not to re-download STALKER: CoP just to get CoC but too afraid to do it since it will eat up muh data plan

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The dubs call upon you to download it again alongside some mods for CoC.

I can trust an user who has faith in dubs, and dubs never lie

All checked, looks like you have to do eet. Maybe the Zone will grant you special wishes or something like that for being so lucky.

You don't need to download CoP, CoC is a standalone kind of thing

I'm getting jewed for my unlimited plan an extra thirty dollars but I get throttled on occasion.

CoC wont start up unless you have an installed CoP somewhere a cracked edition works fine by the way. You'll get an error message asking you to purchase or install CoP but whatever pirated works fine.

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I used to play CoC for a short period when its still before 1.4 but back then it had this annoying bug where enemies only drop damaged weapons and nothing else, it made my hobo phase insufferable so i dropped it.
Also it crashed everytime i try to bump the res, shaders and AA, so i always kept playing at potato grafix and that ruins my first impression of the mod (yes i had a decent rig and i could run vanilla CoP at max settings without shooting down the fps). I know that i'm the only one getting this but i can't find the fix, hope 1.4 fixed all of that
my hard-drive borked itself so i pretty much stuck with some games in physical disks, lesson learned though, i'm starting to backup everything on my external hard-drive or my laptop

I was thinking of replaying Clear Sky recently. Last time I played it was I think in 2010 or 2011, and I didn't keep up with mods for that game. No, I don't want to play Faction Wars (also it crashed like fuck for me), I want a decent mod that keeps the main storyline.

Well CoC for me I had 1.4 and it was a mess I had to take a patch to lower resolution of textures for performance. My pc ain't amazing but my friend with a higher end rig and 8 GB vram had the same problems I just turned off AA and anisotropic filtering entirely as I felt AA wasn't doing anything. Anyways the bug with wrecked weapons if it was isn't new most weapons are 40-80% if you're lucky 90% was in SoC to CoP. I'd get 1.4.14 for CoC and you should be fine. I have no money for another HDD so if one crashes I'm fucked

Do you not start with a Geiger counter in CoC? Because I'm playing with the HUD off and am not getting any indication of radiation unless I keep my inventory screen permanently open.

No you start with a geiger counter and you'll hear it crackling if you're in a irradiated spot which signifies radiation unless the mod turns that off as well but I'm unsure.

Nope, I walk into heavily irradiated areas and get no sound, the only indication is the radioactive icon lighting up when my inventory screen is opened.

It's CoC with AO, no additional mods.

You're saying you play with the HUD off I assumed that was a mod to do that You can do that? anyways I'm unsure try turning the HUD back on and see what gives?

It's an option in every STALKER game except SoC, I always turn it off because the minimap (and to a lesser extent knowing how much ammo is left in the mag) completely breaks immersion for me and feels like cheating. I'll try with the HUD back on and report back.

I only dislike the minimap but don't mind my ammo count nor my hp/stamina left just so I don't lose energy in a firefight and screw myself.

You don't need CoP installed.
All you need is the registry key that makes it seem like it's installed.

mega.nz/#!uoYinJ7I!Lqj2DNIAkaVkcFUa1PLZzj80cVhAFK5D-9zbU2Iy5KI
There you go.
Directly stolen from the faggots at 4cucks.

Nope, no geiger counter sound with HUD enabled either. I'm going to try reinstalling without AO.

Reinstalled, tried both with and without the .14 patch. No Geiger counter sound.

I had no idea I needed to reinstall it anyways due to some issues with an old save.

Well that's weird I have no idea what happened but that certainly ain't normal.

What do I need to make clear sky playable, I refuse to go through another playthrough bleeding like a emo teen

The reclamation patch should be fine CS didn't get much in the way of conversions like SoC or CoP did.

Vodka, the stronger the better.

Just finished downloading Arsenal Overhaul 1.2, I'll see how it works out.

Did you make a wish?

if you want graphical mods, install them first, then install AO or you will get issues

I thought no one was allowed that close to the NPP, hence why they're currently building a new shell for it.

Interesting, I just checked my CoP installation and that has no geiger counter sound either. It's my first time installing STALKER games on this laptop since my desktop is disassembled while building work is being done. In the sound menu in CoP I only have software sound, in CoC I have a choice between software sound or OpenAL. None of the options make the geiger counter make noise. It's bizarre because all the other sounds/music works fine. I might just have to give up for now.

you can still go inside the plant fam
its not v radioactive

Nah, I know what happens when you have more than 50000 rubles.

I don't think so, the picture was taken from a parking space just outside the power plant area. I'd say the distance was between 300-500m. Anyway, the radiation isn't that high out there, and there were workers a lot closer than us tourist groups.

Well shit, I installed Atmosfear on top of AO already. What are the consequences?

According to an article I've read somewhere, a worker could technically fill their yearly exposure dose in 12 minutes by standing on roof of the sarcophagus, or in a few hours by being around the chimney.

Do you know what would've been funny?
If in Stalker 2 at the end, there's word of a big anomaly about to happen only for it to just be another reactor meltdown.

depends, but install order in cs matters for some reason
you will get insane graphical artifacts that fill up your screen I am p sure i installed all my graphical stuff before AO to fix

Call of Chernobyl is fucking fun. That repacked version really made the game fucking smooth.

Yes, the people living in pripyat were given iodine pills so that the radioactive iodine released from the reactor wouldn't accumulate in their thyroid glands.
But there still isn't such a thing as a pill against radiation

I still can't figure out why I can't complete the thing.

I think I half fixed the problem, I turned "snd_acceleration on" to "snd_acceleration off" in user.ltx and now I get the geiger counter for radiation on land, I still don't get any for radiation in water bizarrely, nor do I get any kind on screen fuzzyness, so unfortunately it looks like I'll have to play with the HUD on and being very careful around water.

I'm reinstalling AO now, quick question; I've seen a lot of people saying AO makes the game pretty bullet spongy, there's a mod to increase damage in AO on the addons page of CoC's moddb page, should I get it?

do you get radiation from just going there?

You're getting irradiated RIGHT NOW user. PANIC!
The dose is higher there though.

Aslong as you don't eat shrooms, moss or drink water from the wild you'd be perfectly fine.
Digging into the ground is also ill-advised.

Fuck it still has those problems? Damn, better hope those patches will do the trick though
What irks me most is that they don't drop anything at all other than the (broken and almost worthless) weapons, Nothing! just those broken weapons, not even a spare mag was present at the dead guys body. So back then i have to scavenge even fucking harder and just unloading rounds after rounds from dead stalker's guns just to keep my ammo count barely above 60 bullets and since they never drop anything beyond broken weapons i can't sell anything to traders as well.

Thanks but no thanks, there are alot of mods for CoP worth playing but i haven't played the recommended ones at all so far only managed to play The Way to Pripyat and Atmosfear mod

No wonder why the stalker's main water supply are vodka and energy drinks. Also where did the bread came from

Hey, they have put it at the start of Wild Territory.

WTF with her fingers?

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It's 2D son, ain't gotta explain shit.

I played AO in SoC and I have to say no one and nothing are bullet spongey I'm not sure how it would work in CoC but in SoC I had no issues dropping exoskeletons in a couple good shots.

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I may e-mail the mod team behind CoC to ask what gives about why I can't fucking interact with the lever in Monolith Warlabs. It tells me to turn it off and yet I can't do shit.

Shit I forgot about this
If anyone else is considering it, I'll post in a stalker thread when I convince my friend to go with me to chernovil. If you want to visit the zone with some anons, it might happen. I cant talk with him in person until christmas, so we'll see. Keep 200€ saved

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Yeah the CoC version's just fucked. I've been using the STCoP weapons mod instead, it's pretty comfy.

Are there mods that make the gunplay actually good for this game? I want to see gore, I want to see enemies flailing around in pain after being shot, I want more meaty weapon sounds, that sort of shit. I finished it on vanilla and most of the time I wasn't really enjoying the gunfights.

Which game? There's more than one STALKER. Also I really hope you played on Master difficulty.

Shadow of Chernobyl. And yeah I played on Master.

Yeah, just like you get a lot of radiation whenever you fly. If you're not retarded it won't be enough to do any real damage.
Never been there, but from what I read the roads are usually safe and you shouldn't enter some buildings since they're too rad for you and may fall down. If you go with a stalker it's ok since they know the anomalies, if not a radiometer can tell you when to stop.
Also, a few people still live in the area (not in Pripyat though).

When you spend a couple days trying to get 20 different CoC mods to work together all the while taking bits and pieces of weapons and oufits mods from outdated mods or from CoP mods replacing textures and meshes and praying to murderkube that Everything ends up working in the end

and it does

fuck me, I accidentally replied again, why the fuck do I keep doing that.

That is funny user!

Didn't the main dev get a job at R*? I remember reading somewhere that's why he stopped.

I thought everything worked out. but now my squad won't stop looting bodies no matter what I tell them

Until you try to enter vehicle graveyard and then decide to never do any extensive modding on a 32-bit engine ever again.

Tell me your stories about it, fellow stalker. Here I have some vodka too.

whats the fucking point?

The fuck is that map?

It's a Doll

what kind of CoP mod is it? ZOGTube shows me a UGHN mod which seems to be polish and I couldn't find the site for it.

What is the best stalker game to start with?

SoC with ZRP. Always play on Master difficulty, it's what the game was designed around.

This user is correct, ZRP is all you need. If you're desperate for prettier graphics get PRZ but that's not necessary in my opinion.

My PC is too much of a toaster for better graphics so i think ill be fine

Go for it then user. metacognix.com/stlkrsoc/ for ZRP. Any difficulty below Master is actually broken (playing in Master isn't for 'hardcore' reasons slavs just can't do difficulty settings). I'd also turn off the crosshair for immersion purposes but that's up to you.

Thanks, ive always wanted to play this game series because i heard it was good but i never got around to it until now

Im trying to play clear sky but goddamit this game is bullshit

Will I miss something important if I skip this? They improved some parts, but this shit is unplayable. Im done. It's just the prologue to SoC I already know what's gonna happen right?

Enjoy.

Nope. Just some little references (mostly a few minor characters and off-hand comments showing up in SoC and CoP).
Pretty much. If anyone is desperate to play CS it's recommended to use SRP, by the way, but if you aren't feeling CS skip on to CoP. Frankly I'd recommend going SoC -> CoP -> CS.

Oh and CoP is fine vanilla as long as you've got the latest patch. Some people like to install a native voice pack instead of the slightly dodgy English language the game comes with by default but that's optional.

Good, good. The last few hours have been a torture

I'll probably install misery, my friend said it improves everything
That too. On cs they started mixing the orignal russian voice lines with new english ones, it gets awkward

I played through CS vanilla on release and it was a pain in the ass, and the last third of the game is like fighting through hell but it was like fighting through hell with your brothers. Now I always buy the rare CS armor in CoP, like I have virtual survivors guilt or something.

Short story shorter; I don't regret playing it even though it sucked. CS best faction.

Misery is great but it plays very differently from vanilla.

I would probably not do this for the first time, particularly given your complaints about CS as it's artificial difficulty: the mod.

From what I remember seeing on his game, enemies die as easily as you right? If the damage is 'realistic' for every character and npc behavior is the same (npcs flanking, and stealth in moving from the last place they saw you) then it's perfect for me

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There's a lot more to misery than just weapon damage.

DAILY REMINDER IF YOU HAVN'T BEAT THE GAME WITHOUT MODS YOU SHOULD DO SO NOW

Also misery changes the way you play totally, you have to play the game like ArmA and also utilize the extra camera angles you get.

(although i edited some of my files because there are places where misery makes non playable *JUPITER PLANT*)

Yes, on paper. Misery toys with both that and the economy among other things. Feel free to try Misery if you want but if you hate it try vanilla instead of giving up on the game.

if you haven't beat all 3(or 2) games vanilla you are NOT ready for misery

Alright I'll try vanila first, but for me it's a waste of time to play the same game twice if I can play once with improved gameplay. If damage is ok I wont need it

Honestly user if you want to play Misery first time go ahead and do it. I'm just warning you it might not be enjoyable and not to judge CoP because of it. Ultimately play the game how you want to play.

I feel like you're only playing the series because someone told you to.

Im playing becaue soc was really good. Im not gonna play the other 2 games if they're not like soc, that's the problem. Like soc means

But enough of that, I have all the weekend to try all games with and without mods. Have you read any novels, are they good?

I've read Roadside Picnic, would recommend.

Play vanilla first
Your friend is fucking retarded

When this user called it "Artificial Difficulty: The Mod" he's not lying, it's every problem you had in CS and then some, the economy is fucked and not in a good way, artifacts are worthless, enemies are bullet sponges and when they die drop almost no loot, and everything is fucking brown and colorless for some reason. (apparently the mod creators have never been to the real zone)
It's a smorgasbord of "good idea" done terribly wrong on top of the fact it makes the game looks like literal shit.

How many times did you play SoC? you are making it seem like you are just playing these games to get through them and say you've played them, not to truly enjoy them
I bet you don't sit around campfires with your fellow STALKERs sharing vodka while listening to tunes and telling stories
"improved gameplay" is subjective, as someone who has played all three STALKERs more times then I can count misery makes what I consider an almost perfect game shit and unfun to play

To me CoP is a polished SoC, (gameplay wise) it just lacks the same quality of story and doesn't feel as big, CS is a mess of a game with some good ideas, like faction warfare.

Nothing even relatively STALKER related so I'll keep it out of the thread.

Roadside picnic isnt, but I remember seeing monolith novels somewhere

Thanks for posting these user, I always wanted to go there and now I know it's actually within my means.

Companion AI seems to be completly fucked with the latest patch in CoC, they just refuse to do anything. Is anyone else having this problem? Also getting a lot of CTDs.

I played SoC, got halfway trough but couldn't continue due to a bug. I want to go back now and replay it from the beginning. Should try to finish the vanilla game or I install some mods? If so which one should I install?

the 1.4.15 one?
so they have nuffin much improved then, in their change log there is no mention of those things getting fixed. Also recently for me I cannot do the escort the scientist task at all because they won't move their ass even when reloading a save, giving them commands and so on.

first off, cordon is in there, just not labeled. second that map is super off. what is jupiter and zaton doing all the way down there?

I think ZRP fixes some of the bugs that are present, so maybe try that?

Recommendations on CoC addons?

AO3 + AO3 inc weapon damage + Outfit addon + Smurth's HUD + DocX questlines + DocX dynamic factions

This is my dream setup. Gives more shit to do and adds some realism without going full Misery autism.
I'll have to keep using STCoP though until AO3 stops stuttering every time it has to load an NPC…

some stalking songs
youtube.com/watch?v=GHVl4kn1nes
youtube.com/watch?v=MvYfY0iSYGk
youtube.com/watch?v=SYJ4ijbvpEI

Or nerfing every gun into a fucking peashooter. I should never have to shoot some barely armored Military grunt in the head 5 times with an AK-74 in a Stalker game. Gimme my /k/-innawoods realism back dammit!

…a simple texture and mesh swap they said…
…it'll be easy they said…

leave it to stalker to make a model and texture swap of an existing item somehow difficult.
just look at pic related,
where did the blue come from?

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I tried to play STALKER SoC several times but I never could get into it because of the gunplay, is there any mods that fix the gunplay to make it more realistic? Any mods that add the AK74m/101/103 versions?

How new are you?

You didn't answer my question.

play on master difficulty, no seriously
on lower difficulties there's some retarded "hit chance" mechanic that makes your bullets pass right through them even though it technically hit
that being said, SoC is pretty janky in general (but has the best story), CoP is the best game by far for gameplay

why are gondola webms always so melancholic?

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Because they exist in our reality.

master difficulty
AO3 addon
AO3 damage increase mod
change suppressors in AO3 addon so that they don't make your gun useless in damage and handling

Here is the thing, I can only find it for Call of Pripyat, not Shadow of Chern.

bump

bump

just go onto modders database if you can't wait

There is only this but it doesn't have as high rating as AO3, and it looks like it was way less features which irritates me.

moddb.com/mods/arsenal-advance-mod

WHY THE FUCK DOES SOC HAVE WAY LESS MODS AND NO QUALITY MODS WHATSOEVER YET COP IS JUST AN EXPANSION PACK? SOC IS THE MAIN GAME? THIS MAKES NO FUCKING SENSE AND IS JUST PISSING ME THE FUCK OFF

just looked at that mod and it looks dope as fuck, it's got a bunch of weapons I've never used in a game before. downloading it now.
you could just try the shit out instead of whining all day.
What do you think we could possibly know different than you using google?

Well, what kind of mods do you have in mind? I am just being curios.

This one?

moddb.com/mods/call-of-chernobyl/addons/ao3-increased-weapon-damage

Or this one?

moddb.com/mods/call-of-chernobyl/addons/pavolpi

I used the second one.
That one has 4 options that lets you choose how strong you want the weapons to be.

Both mods are probably really similar though.
There's no wrong answer. Just pick what you think feels good m8.

moddb.com/mods/call-of-chernobyl-hd-models-addon

This was a bit disappointing. Bandits are the only faction that has an exoskeleton model, Clear Sky and sunrise loners are barely covered. Monolith suits look cool though, they even have a Seva model.

It's alright, I think I had an older version, I ended up deleting the bandit models because they were sticking out like a sore thumb.

Yeah, they are far too goofy. The rest seems fitting. I do like the exo and mercenary outfit bandits though.

I hope this gets finished

So I need to refrain what I said earlier about the A.I.

the A.I is very decent when its only against the player, and I think shadow of Chernobyl appears to have the best A.I in combat in terms of how fun they are to fight and how well they react to situations.
I've also noticed in shadow of Chernobyl that certain factions will have better A.I, like its very noticeable when you go from fighting bandits to military, they hid more of their body behind cover while bandits will sometimes stand out in the open walking towards you.

my problem with CoC and CoP a.i. is that A.I vs A.I is horrible.
try spawning two factions that are enemies and watch them take forever to kill each other. They do such odd things, especially when indoors like walking into random rooms with the gun pointed towards the wall. the player vs A.i. is decent but they basically all rush to die and don't know how to deal with long range combat unlike SoC.

Shame Freedom gets the best gas mask in this.

This game sometimes

I always expect someone sneaking behind in this game, they also won't fire on you if you don't clearly focus toward them, so if they're blending with the scenery they get the drop on you.

Looks amazing, what mod?

Do I need to have SoC or CoP to play Call of Chernobyl?

See

Awesome, thank you

okay so here me out.
I really like the military spec-ops outfit because it looks kinda sci-fi.
it has this appearance of being really protective while begin easy to move in.
I really hope the hd models keep it looking like a spec-ops main character outfit since it appears the guy is changing them to look more realistic.
Or he might be awesome and add something new like the NCR ranger outfit.
I really like looking like a main character
also full face helmets

Some of the Duty replacers have that full face breaching helmet the Russians use, but the M12 helmet you posted in the second pic isn't replaced. The Duty and Military versions of that suit are still there, hopefully the future updates of that pack will retain that style of helmet. I hope they replace the default soldier model because I always hated that silly walnut helmet the military and heavy freedom suits have. The Guardian of Freedom suit now uses the PASGT helmet.

I downloaded all of those and some more, is there an order I should intall them? I don't wanna break anything

Thanks bro. What are you running with? Strongest?

Generally start with the biggest mod and then work your way down.
Every time you have to overwrite files make sure the mod you're trying to add is compatible with the ones you've already added.
Well, the mod whose files is getting replaced atleast.

I used stronger.
Felt like it about halved TTK.

Also had Yar run clean through several walls in a row but I didn't get it recorded

That zombie thing happened to me a few times. I saw zombies doing some sort of weird squat walk too. Here is a glitch I encountered. I was fighting those 6 bandits, I threw a grenade killing 3 of them and knocking one of the spectators from the viewing boxes in the arena. The spectator prop makes the same sounds as every other wooden prop in the game.

Is there any way to get rid of the annoying breathing sounds?

imagine a world where the stalker games were actually good.

Stop running out of stamina.

Imagine a world where you got gud.

I mean in general. With that Smurth's HUD mod whenever you're wearing a mask you constantly hear breathing even when standing still.

Did you get hit by those fucking dudes with RPGs?

stalker isn't a hard game, just iron sight and dump ammo in bullet sponges. kinda like call of duty but you just wait a bit longer to waste ammo. none of the games have been difficult

I just don't fucking understand this argument. I've played hundreds of hours of SoC and CoP and the (human) enemies are everything but bulletsponges. One shot to the head or a couple to the body.

I didn't say it was hard, good job outing yourself though.

He's either not playing on Master because he's new or he's just an incredibly shit shot.

human enemies vary depending on if they're wearing top tier armor (exo, military) or not. If not, they are essentially the same as every other enemy, 2-3 shots to the head and you win. You can often find them bizarrely staring 90 degrees upwards or -90 downwards, down their weapon sights and shouting some sort of ukranian mumbles. Occasionally breathily jogging back and forth during these shouts, seemingly in a state of aggro despite you may have never been to the area, and all signs of anything they may be hostile to – absent. Enemies will often pre-fire directly at your position, rarely shooting through the walls despite the game having no bullet penetration, this both gives away their position (as if the model clipping through the wall didn't) - it's a good indicator to hide because their barrels mind of its own is trained directly onto you. Must be anomalies in the zone or something. Either way, the human enemies are largely a joke.

Then again, only a dunce would interpret issues with bullet sponge enemies as discussion regarding the humans, which as previously stated, are largely a joke to deal with. Mutants being the other half of the enemy dichotomy in stalker, it's reasonable to assume that they are indeed the bullet sponge enemies being discussed here.

where else would an argument where I "got gud" apply? Are you retarded?

Just mod the game, user.

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Most mutants drop really easy with shotguns. Dogs die in three rifle shots if they are heading straight towards you or one shotgun shell. Bloodsuckers and snorks are piss easy when you have a shotgun as well. I'd say pseudogiants are a pain if you don't have any AP rounds. On master in CoC, it takes only a magazine and a half of AP 5.45 to drop a pseudogiant.

That's where you're wrong. The game does have bullet penetration and bullets even go through exit wounds. You sometimes see AP tracers fly out of the target you just hit. It all depends on the caliber, distance and the type of material you are trying to shoot through. I got absolutely destroyed by soldiers while trying to take cover behind a wooden fence.

I'm running strongest right now. Wolf asked me to run some novice stalkers through the cordon and we've just entered the swamps. Picked up a Clear Sky buddy on the way in, so there's a team of five of us and our route takes us right through the military's outposts. Currently struggling to make much headway but we'll break through.

yeah I saw that they haven't replaced it yet.
I'm just worried like you that when they replace it, it won't look as cool

if i were to pick a game from the stalker series, which one should get?
And would this lay out be possible?

I'm not a big fan of it personally. I prefer the helmet and gas mask combo like the default M12 and Sphere helmets. Clear Sky looks cool, I hope they stay close to their default style.

Which damage setting would you recommend for the AO3 increased damage addon?

So I finished vanilla SoC, what mod should I get first? I remember there was an infographic at one point but I didn't save it. In any case do any large mods even work on a toaster from 2010?

I really like clear sky. but simply for guys to shoot at.
I don't really know how to explain it
I wouldn't wear clear sky stuff cause it looks too bulky.
but I really like fighting clear sky or visiting their base.

The CS3B suit with the M12 helmet is pretty much the best combat oriented suit with artifact containers that isn't an exo in my opinion. At least in CoC. The Duty and Military stuff sucks because they don't have artifact containers.

So, when is a /nodev/ gonna make us a new atmospheric post-apocalyptic russian/ukrainian survival game? Just finished both Metro games and I'm still waiting for the new game next year.

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son, we need to talk

Open up the file "hud_mask.script" in the script folder.
Replace everything in it with this pastebin.com/vj5t47P9
I believe I added every mask but if I didn't you should add it in the helmet_no_respi brackets.

You won't get a nice breath sound when putting on and taking off masks this way but that you just gotta live with.
I might look into it more when I have the time but right now I gotta get to school.

anybody notice these sights are available in AO3 through debug but don't equip to anything?
I really want to see what they look like

Am I getting meme'd?

seriously? it works for you?
I must have a mod conflicting with it.

who made this map?

Yup.
I just noticed my Barska has a different description than yours so you're probably right.

CoC + Stcop + Autumnal winds with Absolute nature grass/tree textures and Smurths dynamic hud.

Can someone post a guide on how to get started with Call of Chernobyl? I have a huge STALKER craving, but I'd like the experience to be as extensive as possible, you know? More guns and stuff to do, add-ons, et cetera.

I looked up the AO3 addon for CoC, but apparently it was deleted?

Remember that STALKER 2 was delayed/rebooted due to its not meeting quality expectations. Read: The magical jew Sergei got sick of hiring interns who wanted to turn STALKER into a US-style 'AAA' game for consoles.

Just get Vanilla + ZRP patch, that is the best SoC experience

Run with the newest version of CoC that just came out. Mods for CoC are listed under the "addons" page for CoC itself instead of CoP like they used to be ages ago. AO3 is a must, but there's some other performance and immersion mods you'll want to check out.

oh i misread that as SoC instead of CoC

… what are Jupiter and Zaton doing south of the cordon? Did a blowout fuck the Zone's geography harder than in Clear Sky?

I already have 150 hours Shadow of Chernobyl, that's why I wanna mod the FUCK out of CoC and have a brand new experience.

I'll give it a go. I'm not so good with computers so I'm kinda terrified I'll somehow destroy my game. Any hard recommendations from anyone in this thread?

It's pretty simple. CoC now installs in any directory, so just give it a folder. Mods are as simple as dropping and overwriting your gamedata folder. Just don't go too crazy with them if your computer can't handle it, and run the game a little bit after each mod to make sure it works so you'll know what you fucked up if it you try starting it up and it crashes.

Have some genuine stalkering.

some of the sounds feel recycled and/or not that great.

anything that makes the gunplay feel more realistic, rather than bullet sponges.

no you got /k/ pilled son.
:^)

i've seen closer
inside it's perfectly fine at reactors 1 and 2, reactors 3 and 4 are irradiated

are these exercises or something?
why'd they shoot something?

Ofcourse they are exercises. And why wouldn't they shoot something? Trooper has to know how to handle the weapons he can be expected to come into contact with even in NBC-gear.

Nowadays it's not the radiation that's the dangerous part in Pripyat, but all the fucking buildings that haven't had any maintenance done to them for what, over 30 years now?

ray of hope couldn't be further away

I WANT TO BE A STALKER
GIMME BOOLETS AND VODKA I CAN DO IT

There is a part of me that wishes the zone was real. It'd be like a workation vacation. I'd just want to shoot mutants and monolith though, I wouldn't want to kill people over political ideologies in the zone, or basically anything I'd lose sleep over, even if a bandit deserved it, I just wouldn't want the human vs human confrontation.

I want to play CoP again. What are some good mods? Not looking for anything in specific, it only has to be fun.

Why is the whole map brown? It looks shit tier tbh.