S.T.A.L.K.E.R. thread: 10 year anniversary edition

You just need to git gud faggot.

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i wanted to provoke him so he would post more of it. Its actually hilarious

Still playing the OLR mod. It's starting to get rather interesting, if not less buggy. Alpha build Yantar Lake is so very different from the release version, it's always refreshing.

I haven't played Stalker in 2 months, so it's obviously time to get back to it. But I can't decide between a CoP run(also not sure which mods I would use) or if I wanna properly mod CoC again. How good is last days and is it compatible with the quest mods? Also, do the quest mods(I think doctorx is the one people always recommend) actually contain interesting quests or is it all just fetch quests?

I remember being optimistic about where games would take us next.

what was it?

bump

I want to replay SoC for the first time. Recommended mods? I've looked over Oblivion Lost and Lost Alpha (developers cut?) but I'd be amazed if they aren't shit. Thoughts?

Most are going to autistically screech at you for not playing vanilla first. I'd recommend grabbing ZRP and getting to the Bar. By then, you'll know what you like or dislike about it, and from there either continue, or back out and mod it, ideally with something like AMK and not OL or LA.

Play Vanilla

I remember when you only recommended ZRP, but I knew from the start it was going to be a slippery slope with your goddamn Reddit tier shit.

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Oh. AMK AE, then.

Vanilla

In all seriousness, go for Autumn Aurora 2, its fucking great.

AA2 is good, but it's a little on the artificially difficult side with the changes to the actor's hitbox. Can be fixed, or compensated for without a lot of effort, but out of the box it has some problems.

Holy fuck these are really good, I thought it would have some shitty OC tier characters or a dumb story but it fits really well.
The new artifacts can be a bit OP but what ever, makes getting them feel cooler.
I just got to pripyat with rouge, shame I now need to hike back to Jupiter to stock up on supplies and ammo, and fix my shit.

WEW LADS

lamo, make that 2 giant

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Artefacts are tied to detectors, you need a certain quality of detector to find higher quality artefacts. I preferred SoC's system though I'll grant having artefacts just lying at the side of the road was a bit much.

CoC with Dr X's questlines, Lost to the Zone and Lost to the Zone LL all at once (they're designed to go together) would be the best combination. It's not just fetch quests but they do feature.

You can't go wrong with AMK Autumn Edition if you just want to replay the original story.

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Anyone want to spoon-feed me on the exact steps for installing Call of Misery? I seem to have lost my patience for modding things exactly how I want them lately.

He said "replay" jackass, he has already finished vanilla.

Reminds me of Misery 2.0 where to block off certain parts that should be accessible in the vanilla game they add 3000 mutants.
Fucking MMO tier

Wouldn't the game crash with so many mutants roaming around?

Bloodsuckers, more like dicksuckers amiright fellow freedom brothers?

Is that… It can't be him.

Yes, it is.

fug
the real question is who put him up to it

OK. Stalker crashes when I help Tolik up. Does anyone have a fix?

Sidenote, what changes the "Weapon slot swapping" from faction wars?

Yeah, don't help him up.

Helping Tolik is pretty early in the game, has it occurred again with a quick new game restart? If it does try installing ZRP on a fresh reinstall.

After that I deleted the save to start a new game with the gun mod I had been told was all the rage, probably for the best because I didn’t want to die and I’m pretty sure I expended all my luck.

Nevermind. Seems to be a AMK script bug. There is a fix in the comment section of the moddb page.

Is there a good stalker mod that turns the Zone filled with snow?
I can't seem to find any and I wanted to get into the stalker holiday spirit.

what the fuck who the fuck is this

Theres an addon mod for CoC that does that

Oh shit, I completely missed checking out CoC thanks user, have a merry christmas.

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oh fuck its chris-chan isnt it

But… how?

Chris is just sad now. It's beyond pathetic what he's become.

Not so many specific stories, more like times the ambience/immershun just clicked. Like standing on the boat in the marsh during a foggy night, looking off into the distance and seeing fellow stalker headlamps glowing as they make their way home, occasional gunfire as they shoot boars or whatever.

Another night, going to meet some bros to raid a bandit camp, have to meet at midnight and make it to the rondezvous on my own. Its storming, lightning, torrents of rain, and i'm being hunted by a bloodsucker. Everything is terrifying in the dark. Finally reach the bros waiting for me with a campfire and it was the most relief ever felt in my real life.

Last story is that I was tasked to take down a Freedom (?) camp, so I sneak in at night, and under the cover of darkness make my way to the heart of the camp, and climb up some kind of radio tower with my sniper rifle. Thanks to the day/night system I wait until its dawn, and light enough to see my targets, before starting to shoot. It seems simple but true darkness can add a lot to a game.

Had the same thought, thought a retard was gonna put the bottle up their arse, and got like 5 years of "hadnt checked what the country retard has been doing" snowballing at once. There hadnt been anything fun from him in years, and this somehow makes it way sadder. Once the homeless saga begins it will be his fucking end.

I have only played SoC so far, but I can see the glory of its ways,
what game would guys say is the best in the series, of if any is worth a purchase?

Damn, now i want to play stalker again for the 25th time. What mods you recommend?

good webms, on a side note, everything is being fucking piss in the ass to load up lately
whats up with 8ch? is it the summer swarm?

have you guys seen, at least there appears to be a new Metro for next year

I remember thinking something similar about anime around the millenium.

Should've posted that one video of a family man shoving a glass jar up his ass which then breaks and starts coming out with blood, all the while you can hear his family on the next room.

Thanks for making me realise a decade more of wasted time.
Fucking computers and fuck games.
Fuck stalker too.

So, i'm downloading CoC again, i have missed the zone. I used to play it with Call of Misery but i think that hasn't been updated on quite some time and i wanted to try a new mod list

i wanted to ask something tho' i want to use
but i also saw 2 other addons
Are those good? Compatible? or they overwrite something the other 2 mods change?

Also i saw 2 "lost in the zone" addons, are they different?

Stalker is a shitty series and Im glad the series is dead.

gonna post some of my screenshots

I'm glad you're dead

This meme is a meme of desperation

sorry if they're too dark

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The bar looks real creepy there

thanks, I'm playing on low gamma so that it's harder inside places like lab x18 and other indoor places

CoC

wich addons would these anons recommend?

For 1.4.22:
DrX's Questlines, Lost to the Zone, Lost to the Zone: Living Legend, STCoP, user's STCoP tweak, Outfit Addon.
A hud mod to remove the minimap (pick one), immersive fast travel, unload all weapons with one button mod, Simple Tunes, Artefact Expansion, Classic SoC Flashlight, Original SoC Menu Theme and limited saving in combat (I forget the exact name of that last one).

All of these are available on CoC's moddb page except the STCoP tweak which is here mega.nz/#!FENTRajQ!cGzv8PPVzJ9M2gnHS-ajIdQYHMTunm1LC8MszDL3iQw
This list changes a bit if you want to use 1.5 but that isn't out as the main stable version yet so I'd wait. Some mods have 1.5 and 1.4.22 versions, make sure you get the right one.

Since you also posted note that STCoP won't be compatible with the other two weapons mods so if you're dead set on those use them instead. Also OWR won't be compatible with AO.
Dynamic HUD should be ok with more or less anything else.
LL extends the base Lost to the Zone which extends DrX's questlines. Use all three.

well, first thanks for your answer m8, i'm installing the game right now.

STCoP is better that AO?
no problem about that, i wanted to use them just because

Most of Holla Forums seems to prefer STCoP.

I'd say so, it has less overall guns but a better selection in my opinion. It's mostly lacking in hobo-phase guns and they're fixing that in the next version.
user's tweak turns up the damage of guns and improves NPC accuracy, combining it with ironmeme makes for a tense experience.

well, i just tried both and i will say i like STCoP more

sadly, the anontweak link is not available anymore

Right now my current list is:

do you guys see any problem with that list? i had some crashes in the begining because i was using both, Duckys Militarty Redux and de HD PACK (npc models pack) then i fixed it and i haven't had any crashes since but i only played for a couple of hours

Oh, maybe he took it down. Are you still around tweak user? Either way I could just upload it for you because it's tiny.
Looks fine to me, make sure to check readmes for installation orders.

STCoP tweak: files.catbox.moe/xsl0y7.rar

Is xe a translav now?

Who knows?

is there any multiplayer for CoC?

I fucking wish. Maybe someone will save us one day.

thank you, i have been trying the game some more and it's stable so far. Now i will add this

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Enjoy user.

Where do you find this shit?

why god

It's Christine chan user, he's not exactly obscure.

It's on youtube. His antics are proudly put on display for the world to see. Assuming it didn't get taken down.

Is Chernobyl Weapons Pack ever coming out or is it dead?

It's as dead as Scar is

Yup, see

I've played SoC I liked it, whats user take on the other games? and, should I buy any of them?

Clear Sky was a rushed prequel, it isn't as bad as is memed (also has a few great areas) but it isn't up to the standard SoC set. Play it first and if you start hating any bit of it don't feel too bad about skipping.
Call of Pripyat is a westernised Stalker, it feels somewhat different to SoC with more polish and less soul. Play it after CS.
After you've done CoP either play the them games again modded or move on to Call of Chernobyl with mods.
If you buy them the money goes to the faggot who killed the original developer, better to pirate.

>tfw EFT has the perfect gunplay, artistic direction and autistic weapon customization for a STALKER sequel But everything else about the game is lacking and doesn't seem worth playing

There is only 1 STALKER dev working on EFT, and these are the same devs of pic related, so expect a lot of microtransactions.

I hear a lot of rumors about EFT being F2P on release. Which makes me sad because F2P means no chance for mod support which means no chance for someone to jury rig it to become a STALKER game.

The game is going to be PVP only, so I hardly doubt there's going to be mod support.

Weird choice of music to be honest. Doesn't fit at all with the stalker vibe.

I'll reserve my judgement for when it actually comes out, just because I want all that gunporn.

highly doubt*

I've been playing Wind of Time, pretty fun but with machine translation out the ass that changes when it feels like it.
For example, I killed a group of duty by accident because the game thought it was a good idea to call them "debtors".

Sometimes it will call duty, duty, other times it calls duty "debt".

There's bots. The game could function in a singleplayer capacity if the devs wanted to go that extra few steps. But from what I've seen they're sticking to online only because that want streamfags and streamfags like online only shit for some reason.

why

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My tribute.

Crysis stops being fun after the ayy lmaos appear.

Not only that, but the AI isn't that good, you only deal with bandits as there are no mutants, there are no anomalies or interesting shit you have to deal with while moving across the map and -unless I haven't seen it yet- trade is done outside of gameplay area, so you also lose that comfy feeling of getting back to safety.
The only stalker element the game has is the setting. Gunplay looks good, but the AI is lacking and I personally don't enjoy dealing with human players all that much. I'm also a bit worried about how they will handle the insurance system, If you can buy insurance with real money (or even worse, a premium insurance that gives your shit back with no delay), the game will go to shit as retards will start doing kamikaze attacks without having to worry about their set.

I remember beeing an apprentice in my profession in year 2007 walking through a departement store and looking for a game to buy for my new laptop. I was interested in stalker but never bought it. I rediscovered it around 2014 and I still have to play it.

Same for me. I completely ignored the game for years, even the very frequent threads back on halfchan Holla Forums and /vg/. Started playing about two years ago and now I'm hooked up.

I saw that post before any of the others, and thought it was talking about Ray of Hope.

Played it on Holla Forumss behest. It took me a try or two to get into it but once I did I havent stopped

I´m a Souljaaa
Souljaaa

I mean I did play it already (the first game).
It must have been summer 2016 when I first tried it out. Me beeing a source engine and halflife fag I really disliked the physics of the game at first. Shooting and moving did not feel smooth and sometimes I really wondered if the devs were retarded when programming this game (shooting on enemies and nothing happens to them, takes ages to finally kill anyone). However, my pc crashed and ever since I have been too lazy to play the game again. I did even install the game but I hate how I lost my savegame and starting all over again is tedious ATM.

However, I did very appreciate that this game comes without steam faggotry and you can even install it with a crack so you don't even need a CD to play.
And I tell you this as someone who owns a full library of bought video games for multiple consoles and systems including pc.

How do I stop autistically gathering and selling every item of loot I find?

You forgot Survarium ))))

Drop your weight limit down to either 25kg or 30kg.

or go even lower

I just want to operate, Holla Forums.

what happened?

Guys, can you post some of those pics about mods and give me some mods for CoC?

It's been in development forever. Last I heard the dev had to take a break, but I'm not sure what the status is now.

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This was cool the first time it happened. I don't want to do this shit every time, and I don't want all the named stalkers to die immediately.

Playing SoC vanilla for the first time on Master, game has amazing atmosphere and it's fun as hell. Enemies seemed super bullet spongy until I found Strelok's upgraded AKM and suddenly found myself going from emptying multiple magazines into some Adidas track suit wearing blin to downing them in 3-4 shots.

Are there mods out there that change around the gunplay? I'm planning on finishing it vanilla first but for all the praise this game gets I have to say the shootouts between other stalkers feels kinda eeeeeh.

Is Survarium still a dead meme?

They shouldn't attack the village unless you attack the patrol first, at least that's how it works in vanilla.

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eliminator*

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Daily reminder

Loners > Ecologists > Clear Sky > Freedumb > Monolith > Mercs > Bandits > Renegades > Military > Doody

>inb4 no fun police gets buttblasted and posts the same retarded "DUDE LE FREEDOM ARE LAZY STONERS AND DUTY ARE SAVIORS OF HUMANITY™ XDDD" drawing without knowing who is busy protecting everybody from Monolith and mutants while Duty sits on their asses and larps as military in Rostok

DUDE

been busy for awhile, last I checked there was talk about S.t.a.l.k.e.r. 2 being resumed, has this been confirmed? no can find.

Then the entire class clapped
You make this game sound more interesting than it really is. Also repair your guns more.

user, just because you are a bitter faggot doesn't me others can't still have fun.

Stalker is overall pretty monotonous. I really don't see how some people have 2000+ hours in the game. I return to it occasionally, maybe putting ~20+ hours in a week and having an okay time but once the novelty wears off it's practically Skyrim tier, the only upside being combat is good.

They do it on their own, and the AI really is fucking bullshit.

yeah don't touch the jupiter tunnel in CoC, its full of fuckloads of mutants and there's no good loot down there to speak of
scout out east pripyat, there's a few routes where you can just sprint through without encountering any serious resistance if you need to get to west pripyat quickly and harvest all those sweet anomalies

fucking moron

You don't gotta pretend that a weapon jam is anything but a minor inconvenience and a tap of the r key. Just makes you sound a little too pretentious my hipster

what're yalls opinions on OGSE, i'm a big fan of it - but some of the translation is poor quality, and a lot of the quests lack clarity in terms of objectives. I like the mechanics it introduces over what Lost Alpha does, and it overhauls the weapons, unlike lost alpha.

What is the best mod when it comes to IA?

Tried playing as Clear Sky for the first time in CoC, they really are the most comfy faction. Also Spore started selling me Svarog Detectors 3 hours into the game, unsure if that is intentional. Have 50 hours on my Loner save and never seen anything better than a Bear.

So I just got myself Shadow of Chernobyl, how on earth do I turn off/down the headbob, it is killing me.

open console and type cam_inert 0

That heavenly light coming from behind. It can't be real.

Thanks Strelok!

Mercs are objectively the third best faction. Comfy war veterans who supposedly fight for money but actually they just like to murder. Best faction to play as during a CoC run.
Therefore it's like this:
Loners > Clear Sky > Mercenaries > Bandits > Ecologists > Renegades > Monolith > Freedumb > Military > Duty

Mercs are under-rated, and that pic of the dud busting through the door has inspired me to make a ex-marine shotgun murderfucker, longing for the old days of 2006 Iraq.

Rules,
-Merc suit only
-pump action shotgun and frag grenades only
-must be hyper aggressive, no defensive tactics (e.g. hiding on the other side of a door way)
-Must drink every bottle of alcohol you find
-75% of your money needs to be thrown away (Buying weapons and throwing them on the ground for other stalkers) to simulate alimony and child support
-Every man killed must be followed with you saying git some commie or get fucked Ivan, or any variation of anti-commie sentiment.
-once you have wiped out every faction, kill yourself.

Don't mind me i just like to post Duty propaganda.

Literally nobody cares about stalker other than the neckbeards that play it

anti-sage. Get fucked reddit

WhereDoyouThinkWeAre.webm

Yes, and?

Come to think of it that guy looks kinda like Ed Miliband.

tbh user its better to leave it as a old relic than to let the modern vidya industry ruin it with DLC and micro transactions or other kike tier shekel grabbin tactic

look what happened to deus ex the OG was a redpilled RPG you could notice how much care and love for the game the devs had

now look at the abortions that were its sequels

and dont get me started on (((Mankind Divided)))

agreed, it's so unlikely to get any sort of a good new form that its better to let it stay in its old