S.T.A.L.K.E.R. - Sneeki Breeki edition

I'm new to this series and i watched this video youtu.be/LzB1MY8tpHw

Should i get COP or SOC?

Both.
Start with SoC, then play CoP. Clear Sky is okay, but lots of people skip it.

Also that video commentator is retarded. The games are perfectly playable vanilla. For first playthroughs you might want to pick up some bugfix mods, but worry about modding it after you play through it once.

How come? I thought CoP had CoC basically merging all three games together or something like that

It's not a perfect game merger, more of a map merger. They added some things back in from SoC, but content-wise it's rather anemic. The "storymode" it has is really ad-hoc and awkward. It's loosely SoC's story, but with some extra shit from CoP added and no real guidance throughout the whole thing. It's just "Go investigate a bunch of labs" without any real reason to do so. If I hadn't already played through the games vanilla I would have no idea what the hell was going on.

Also the pacing in CoC is fucked. You're not going to get the true STALKAN experience using it. CoC is more like a big stalker sandbox than a game merger.

Well if i DO get SoC over CoP what mods do you recomend?

You could always get both. Pirate them since the developer is effectively dead and nobody cares.

Otherwise as anons said above >>12691566 >>12673700 either play it vanilla or play it with Zone Reclamation Project.

I installed DoctorX's questlines, but the second I turned off the machine in Radar, I lost all interest. I keep doing different challenges to stave off the boredom. My "human pacifist" run was at least interesting though (Can't kill any people and can only use a knife on mutants)

I haven't player Stalker in ages, so effectively noob poasting. Prob going to replay with some mod recommendations from this thread.

Most annoying issue I remember - reload a save, all hostile NPCs in the area now know your location and start moving towards you, even if they had not yet detected you when you saved. What fixes this?

i accidentally mistook the load and safe button once. i advice everyone to reprogram the load and save button before playing the game.

Hey, I'm new to the series. I just installed Call of Pripyat and downloaded the mod Misery. Is this the right way to go, or should I download other mods for my first playthrough? What mods are best in your guys' opinion?