S.T.A.L.K.E.R

Stalker thread

Is Call of Chernobyl stable now? I remember it being glitchy when first released. Also what are your opinions on it? i heard its the ultimate stalker experience.

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metacognix.com/files/stlkrsoc/.
moddb.com/mods/photo-realistic-zone-2.
moddb.com/mods/srp.
mega.nz/#!FENTRajQ!cGzv8PPVzJ9M2gnHS-ajIdQYHMTunm1LC8MszDL3iQw
moddb.com/mods/call-of-chernobyl/addons/female-ecologists
suptg.thisisnotatrueending.com/archive.html?tags=loli stalker
moddb.com/mods/call-of-chernobyl/addons/prinks-coc-1422-overhaul-exploration-version
github.com/xrOxygen/xray-oxygen
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youtube.com/watch?v=LzB1MY8tpHw
moddb.com/mods/call-of-chernobyl/addons/my-preferred-configuration
ntcore.com/4gb_patch.php
sites.google.com/site/kingo64ssite/Home/s-t-a-l-k-e-r---shadow-of-chernobyl/optimisation-guide
twitter.com/NSFWRedditVideo

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WHERE THE FUCK IS FULL RELEASE OF 1.57 OR WHATEVER FUCKING NUMBER WE'RE ON I DON'T NEED BONERLORD SYNDROME SPREADING TO MY GODDAMN SLAVIC HELLROCK COLLECTOR VIDYA

Good question, well im installing the 1.4 version since i don't feel like playing the beta and have crashes all day

[SIRENS INTENSIFY]

How am I to remembering what I was doing if I am not the drinking?

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I love it when in Misery it plays the chernobyl warning message in the radios during blowouts.

Shame.

How russian can recognize that this guy is not russian:
No.
No
No

True russian would put a bottle in his asshole.

CoC is stable as long as you don't play the "beta" versions. Pretty much the best way to play stalkan

Jesus Christ spoiler that shit

I just finished installing and had to do something else, didn't configure it yet
Difficulty is Master as usual or did they change it in this mod?

Is that fucking cwc?

Just bought all three games, currently installing them. Is there anything I should know before I head in? Should I start with SoC or jump straight into the sequels? Are there any starting pitfalls that could ruin my experience? Bug fixes, mods, etc I should download beforehand? I'd prefer my first playthrough to be completely blind but at the same time I'm not too keen on possibly losing a 30+ hour playthrough to a game-breaking bug that could've been easily avoided.

Start with SoC, you can skip Clear Sky, but with bug fix patches its not so bad, then play CoP
Try vanilla first with the unofficial bug fix patches

Always play on Master Difficulty, it makes both you and the enemies less of damage sponges, so you don't need to spend a ton of ammo to dispatch a bandit squad while you also die fast if you are not careful, making you learn the game the painful, but quicker way.

Что, даже здесь без своих маняреспублик не можешь, пидоран?

Start with SoC, then play Clear Sky but if it starts to get tedious for you just skip it, CS is the weakest game in the series, but some people like it. Finish up with CoP, and when you're done with that install Call of Chernobyl for ultimate stalkan. As for mods, use Zone Reclamation Project or similar bug fix mods, under no fucking circumstance use the Complete mod, its shit, and only redditors play it.

Fuck got greedy with mods and fucked my installation

They still haven't released it yet? God damn it man.

Are there any good vantage points on the roads to sit in with a bottle of vodka and pick off bandits who travel on it.

Chris-chan is pretty obviously not Russian.

I'm gonna break the mold and say you should play Clear Sky first, but only if you haven't been spoiled on the story/care about in the first place. The core gameplay is the same imo.


Which game?

Call of Chernoybl

Shit I haven't played modded Salker yet.

The best I could say would be to look for a place where you have a large area to look over and/or high-traffic area, but also make sure the spot has only a few ways NPCs canget in and out of it. Think the watchtowers in the military warehouses, Or the rooftops of the buildings at Agroprom.

cheeki

Wild territory if you want to piss off mercs. Either use the crane or a platform you can access from the watchtower.

pretty much what iam doing
Shouldn't AO3.1 for Call of Chernobyl work on CoC 1.4.22? this shit always crashes for me

Is this guy jewish?

no, but slavs are absolutely not white.

It's every map from all the games put into one

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Where do you feel at home the most?
I love Zaton, i feel so safe inside that ugly rusty ship

whiter than u :^)

Bloodsucker village.
Makes me feel like I'm surrounded by fellow jews.

A true russian would suck up the vodka with his rectal strength, for the vodka is as much of a part of the slav as the slav is a part of the vodka.

I know, but I have no idea what the NPC spawns are like.

How did they do CoP+SoC Pripyat levels btw? Did they merge them or did they just keep them separate? What about anomaly/radiation placement?

does anybody have those mod flowcharts? I lost them

more slavic yes, but not whiter. Slavs are not white.

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perhaps he is. Polaks and Ukrainians are all jew breed

Oh hi, /po

Everyone is jew except you, right?

1. Shadow of Chernobyl with either patch 1.0005 or 1.0006 and the Zone Reclamation Project (ZRP) metacognix.com/files/stlkrsoc/. Optionally add PhotoRealisicZone 2 if you're a graphics whore but it's 100% unnecessary moddb.com/mods/photo-realistic-zone-2.
2. Clear Sky with whatever the last patch was and Sky Reclamation Project moddb.com/mods/srp. The game isn't as bad as everyone says but if you start hating it towards the end feel free to skip to CoP.
3. Call of Pripyat, vanilla is fine but you might want a native voices pack (though the English VA is so bad you should experience it once).
I actually have this saved in a .txt file.

I've also got this saved:
Shadow of Chernobyl mods
1: AMK 1.4 or AMK Autumn for a /k/ommando that wants to replay SoC. There's a tweak pack for AMK Autumn in the repos that makes it even more /k/ommandoish.
2: Autumn Aurora 2 if you want more polish and a little less hardcore than AMK note: AMK Autumn combines AA2 and AMK.
3: Lurk if you want gunporn to the point of annoyance and more consistent stealth mechanics, 1.1 vs 1.05 is skub but 1.05 is less bloated in my opinion though I never had a problem stealthing in vanilla SoC.
4: Priobi Story if you want SoC with a new story and some other new shit but it's a little dated by modern Stalker mod standards. I think there might be a re-release to deal with its age, check moddb, /sg/ or hope another user ITT will know.
5: Lost Alpha or Oblivion Lost for cut content and crazy shit, less polished than even vanilla though.
6: Doom's Mod Merge for freeplay but Call of Chernobyl does it better nowadays.

Clear Sky mods
1: The Faction War for a sort of freeplay constant war without the story, warfare for CoC is similar but harder to understand.
2: OGSM for cut content, mostly. Plays similarly to vanilla from what I remember but I haven't touched CS in years.
3: Arsenal Overhaul + Sky Reclamation Project (see the repo), adds a bunch more guns and bugfixes but does make the economy a bit easier.

Call of Pripyat mods
1: Call of Chernobyl sticks all three games' maps together and lets you start as any faction. I'd suggest adding the following mods to it for a /k/ommando experience: STCoP (and the tweak I'll link) + DoctorX's questlines + Outfit Overhaul + Chernobyl Relay Chat if it ever gets fixed. Do not worry, it's actually really easy to install everything I just listed. You can add more to these as you want later. Press Z on the new game screen to start as a Zombie if you want.
2: Swartz Mod for vanilla + more guns and the game bitching at you for Radiation.
3: Misery + an unfucker mod + some config file editing to make it bearable if you want an artificially hardcore experience, personally I don't like it and I think Call of Misery (Misery in Call of Chernobyl) does everything better though I'm still not a fan.
4: Redux 1.0 for a slightly harder vanilla-esque experience. Wormwood/Redux 2.0 is on hold but if it's ever finished it'll probably be CoP's AMK. Old versions of Misery are similar. Early Misery and Redux 1.0 are both a bit dated since they predate proper mod tools. I can't remember if Redux comes with Atmosfear 3 but if not install it too.
5: Massive Simulation Overhaul is an older mod that I think improves the AI though I'll admit I don't play much non-CoC CoP and my memory is hazy. You'll also want Atmosfear 3 for improved graphics since MSO doesn't come with it (most of the other mods here do).
6: Sigerous (SGM) adds a bunch more content to the vanilla storyline including maps from the previous two games. Quality of the new content varies heavily.
7: Valley of Whispers is apparently ok if you just want a little bit more content, I haven't tried it yet personally.
8: Shoker or Aresnal Overhaul 3.1 to only add new guns to vanilla CoP. Shoker will need you to download Atmosfear 3, AO3.1 comes with it.
9: Wind of Time for a new story, new guns, better graphics etc.

The tweak I mentioned for STCoP (all credit to the user that made it): mega.nz/#!FENTRajQ!cGzv8PPVzJ9M2gnHS-ajIdQYHMTunm1LC8MszDL3iQw

You leave /po/ alone.

Yes, I'll dump some other useful stuff too.

Yes.

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CoP without MSO is fucking awful and dull. SoC without Doom's mod merge has god awful gunplay. I've never played CS, I don't want to play a game that constantly shits itself. Overall, all STALKER games aren't worth more than 1 playthrough without using mods.

moddb.com/mods/call-of-chernobyl/addons/female-ecologists
Disgusting.

I'd accept picrelated.

For what purpose?

Spoilered out of disgust for what they represent.

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Cute. Too bad that modding in anime girls would just look tacky. Regardless, it's a good combo

Reminder: suptg.thisisnotatrueending.com/archive.html?tags=loli stalker

I did, and yet you are here

this is not what I asked for

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Do people /po/ in the lo?

I want /leftypo/ to leave papercraft to the whites.

Just finished AA2
I don't think I can see that G36 draw animation again, god fucking damn.
Pripyat was fucking hell because enemies see you through the added foliage and helicooters seem to attack you earlier on while the Military on the ground gets completely dezimated in 2 minutes due to the mod meddling stats and equipment so Monolith soldiers mostly focus on you.

It does look pretty though

steloks are ukrainian, negro

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Nice

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Step aside for the real women of the zone.

Freedumb need to leave.

I played Soc fine with no mods

I like this game

I don't like this game, STALKER is extremely overrated and it really isn't anywhere near as good as people say it is.

Vanilla STALKER is pure hot garbage. SoC is an absolute mess of a game, CS even more so, CoP is too empty and short to be enjoyable. The producer, Sergay Gigolovich is ukraine's biggest scamming jew on top of everything, all STALKER games being shit is his fault, never give him money. Mods do fix these games though.

Only true of CoP.

Why do people like Freedom so much?

Freedome can go die in a burner anomaly, but nobody is gonna stop me from getting the succ.


Because they have the laid-back attitude of stoners yet paradoxically have the drive so somehow establish an organized fighting force with better equipment than a majority of Duty's ranks.

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It took nearly a year to release the 1.4 version, yet we still don't have full 1.56. And I can't wait because the Drx Addons guy said he would release the updated versions when full version releases, which means I either have to wait it out or stick with the older inferior version. Please don't add butterlord to my S.T.A.L.K..E.R.

>Not the Zone herself

Wew

>the zone (((her)))self

On an unrelated note, does anyone know if there's a mod that makes Clear Sky equipment upgrades more open-ended? I don't really like having my nice CS armor having to be either a slightly tougher hazmat suit or a purely combat-oriented piece.

Good too know

S.T.A.L.K.E.R. was never cheeki

Take that back!

Hasn't anyone else drawn bloodsuckers?

I wish there was more, but I haven't found anything of equal or better quality. Nice quads btw.

What a shame. I feel like I'd be interested in seeing the ones of less quality. DA-tier art often has some kind of strange appeal.

>DA-tier
Never ever, the lowest I can go is on-par with the pics i already posted, and that's only if it's the only stuff available/it appeals to my specific fetishes

Where the fuck is the gun technician of the Rookie Village?

Is that an actual VN?


Top kek lad.


There is none, assuming you're playing CoC, go to the farmhouse to the north, left of the road. There's a technician there.

Can I play on Linux?

Clear Sky base. It's a shame though that it's not more central since I'm usually north of Rostok.

STALKER runs pretty good in wine. But some mods are a bit more troublesome to get it working right.

DUDE

north of the military outpost?

North of the Bridge and to the left

found him, thanks

Spawns are okay, if a unique npc (most notably the commanders of the rostok checkpoints) dies he doesn't respawn apparently. Also set online exclusion radius to maximum unless you want to be spawnkilled. Might happen anyway if you're unlucky so keep autosaves on, happens very often when entering Agroprom Underground since it's crawling with Bandits.
Both pripyat levels are seperate and anomaly/radiation placement is left vanilla. Map layouts are mostly left vanilla apart from several smaller details. Clear Sky base is now physically connected to the Great Swamp and the minefield in Jupiter has been removed for gameplay reasons (level change is on the other side of it and requires walking though). Also Jupiter Station only populated by Freedom now since Devs couldn't get the ceasefire working Degtyarev sided with them in the CoC timeline.

Any news from the Zone? Haven't played CoC since early summer.

Is the chernobyl relay chat still dead? Is there any projects on recreating the "missing gaps" of the zone, the wilderness areas between the playable zones?

How the fuck do I fix CoP, this shit is more stuttery than fallout 3 and oblivion on max settings, what a garbage.


Shut up hohol.

Go cry somewhere else you fucking baby.

I don't think so.

If you use Wine and it has weird grey spikes mess with sun shadow options.

There was a successor to CRC but it looked like a phone-only thing until you read deeper so nobody used it.

Whenever I try to open CoC it says "MSVCR120.dll was not found." How fucked am I?

I hope you get raped by a pseudogiant.

How accurate or wrong is this list?
Only thing I don't like is Clear Sky faction somehow better than Mercs or Army since they're such a boring faction.

Ecologists are pretty much weenie hut jr. and I don't like /k/ would like their faction holding the shitty stick flag.

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Superior ranking coming through.

Downgrade bandits one notch and maybe bump up Duty, then you're good.


Mercs?


that's pretty fuckin' hot her feet need to have more attention

Shit, forgot to add:

What is the coolest armor and why is it the CS-1?

Good job outing yourself as a gay.

If it's not a rifle and you love it you're homosexual.

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Being a gay makes you a gay.

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what the fuck are you doing stalkers

Nothing more than hired thugs, bandits largely steal to live still not an excuse but understandable but mercs murder for profit.
Research is its own reward.

probably a lonercuck that got mad cause he couldn't join

Kill yourself. Mercs are the second best faction, with Loners being the number 1.
Battle-hardened veterans who are so good at killing, organisations fucking pay them rather than sending average grunts since they know the Mercs are simply superior and get the job done without caring about muh morals.

Shit, not only are they the best and most well-equipped faction, they even wipe-out the niggers of the zone aka the bandits and the Monolithcucks. For fucking free. They just like shooting stuff.
They're /k/: the faction.

I tried starting SoC three times before my savegames get fucked for various unrelated reasons. Is there maybe some anime girl mod or something to make my fourth attempt feel less like a chore?

I'd put ecologists below Duty and have the first 4 be Loners, Bandits, Mercs, Clear Sky
I have the most fun in CoC as Bandits and Mercs, there's something about them that's appealing to me. Freedom are just slightly more organized bandits and retard tier stoners

Try stalkersoup for complete nonsense

I only like hired guns with a lot of loyalty, also I prefer Clear Sky's armor and felt bad for what happened to them in the end.

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/k/ worships the /k/ube. Praise the /k/ube you faggot.

Thanks for proving my point.

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What makes it shit is reduced AI awareness range. Playing against retarded babies is no fun.

What about Clear Sky is appealing to you guys? To me they don't seem well developed atleast in comparison to the other factions, so I'm curious on why people like them.

because they are comfy and their uniforms are aesthetically pleasing with the light blue camo.

They want to contain/destroy the zone similar to Duty but unlike them they also want to understand exactly how it works in the process, like the Ecologists do. Also autism colored uniforms

I'll admit they have good taste in aesthetics, but their goals are a mish mash of other factions as said of Duty and Ecologist. I wish they was more known about their backgrounds and were given a bit more of a distinct identity/goal. On an unrelated to Clear Sky note I wish GSC kinda kept the Strangers faction as they seemed interesting, since apparently they were able to transform into mutants but then again it is kinda too ridiculous for the setting.

CoC is the ultimate stalker mod when you add some new weapons

For me it's largely because they have higher goals that mere survival or profit and their base is indeed comfy. Also they're the good part of the Soviet black-ops researchers who caused the Zone to go crazy trying to fix their fuck-up and remove C-Con.

Western governments and corporations pay them because they won't ask questions, have no principles and nobody will be able to link them to anyone if they die. Skill beyond 'can shoot gun vaguely well' doesn't factor into it.
That would be Loners.

Is there any good poverty weapon mod for CoC that makes high end weapons rare and make most stalkers use shotguns and perhaps some added hunting rifles rather than military equipment?

Not as far as I know, I keep meaning to dig into STCoP and see if I could tweak that but I'd rather wait for 1.5

I bet you faggots use ugly power armor instead of slick and clean suits

play CoC

CHEEKI BREEKI

also, Duty/Monolith best factions

Completely wrong. Anyone knows that the only correct choice is СЛАВА МОНОЛИТУ

Going to Red Forest on CoC for the first time to look for the weapon technician, what should i expect? and where exactly is he?

It's a meat grinder. You have Mercs, Monolith, Duty, Freedom, Bandits and Loners all running around and getting into firefights in an area with horrible visibility and on top of that there seems to be an abnormal amount of mutants - nasty ones, too.

Sounds like FUN, where can i find Forester?

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I see the Army and Clear sky there more often than Duty and Mercs.

I don't believe Forester was so easy to find, chilling in that tower a few steps away from Jupiter
I am so glad i made my "home" in Jupiter station, it was worth staying around those dirty freedom degenerates

That's where he is in Clear Sky nigger.

Finally said fuck it and installed the 1.5r6 Beta and deleted all of my 1.4 stuff, so there's no going back.
Getting addons to work is a bitch since the first round the game didn't even start up.
I just hope we get a full release at the start of February otherwise it's going to be a long time of suffering ahead, for me anyway.

Alright so here's a list of addons I got working atleast for the moment if anyone cares:
Arsenal Overhaul 3.1 for 1.5 R6
Absolute Nature+Structures
Lost to the Zone + Living Legend
Stalker Tweaks
Female Ecologist (seemed interesting to try)
Corpse Loot Money
Warfighter
Scorch the Scorchers

And that's all at the moment. There's apparently a unofficial Doctor X Dynamic Faction Relations for the version but everytime I tried to use it the game would crash on startup. Smurf's Dynamic Hud apparently has a small patch to work with the Beta 1.5 but that too failed for me. Maybe anyone else who lacks the patience for full release can give it a go, but the list I have worked without any major issues.

Welp, should i just go back towards that fucking meatgrinder or enter the Jupiter underground instead? I still have enough shotgun ammo for mutants

Also some Mercenaries suddenly started going aggro on me, im playing as Ecologist, is it because my rank (Master) is high and i "made enemies"? so i have a price on my head or something? My reputation is very good (Excellent i think).


i skipped Clear Sky

If you install Lost to the Zone and Living Legend addon, there will be atleast a medic there. But otherwise still no technician or trader.

And for the aggro Mercs, do you have dynamic faction relations on? If not you might have accidental friendly fired on them during a firefight, but it could also just be the game itself having a spaz.

The faction relations in my PDA still show the values they had at the start and i didn't remember installing any Addon for that
It started happening after most non-hostile stalkers started appearing friendly to me instead of neutral, they seem to be related, the thing is, some mercs are also showing as friendly, so its not a whole-faction problem

What would you do if this was the only female you were ever allowed to be with again?

RPG it into anomaly

Weird never had that happen to me, might be the game. What version is it? If it's 1.5 then there's nothing you can do about it but for 1.4.22 there might be a workaround depending on the addons you have.

When i tried playing vanilla CoC story mode
Or the DoctorX storyline (with Arsenal) the stalkers in jupiter and zaton simply wouldn't spawn, only enemies and important NPCs were there, did it happen because im supposed to progress from the Shadow of Chernobyl maps before going to the CoP ones or what?

Just the 1.4.22 patch and AO3.1
I had the MORESUPPLIES addon on for a while because i like being able to sell broken weapons until i get some actual nice gear

Well that's a headscratcher, since AO3.1 shouldn't have any effect on factions same with moresupplies. Might have to try reinstalling to see if any of the problems remain or go away. Not ideal I know but it's usually the best way to deal with issues.

gonna try to reinstall everything and use doctorx storyline this time, it was getting boring having no objectives anyways

Try Lost to the Zone if you get bored since it adds more missions that stalkers can give you aswelll as it's own story which is pretty decent imo

Yeah i was checking it out, so far my list goes for next playthrough (Full_Simulation_A-Life):

CoC 1.4.22
AO 3.1
DRXCoCQuestlines1.25
Lost_to_the_Zone_v1.24.25
Lost_to_the_Zone_-_Storyline

Im guessing this is also the correct install order for these addons correct? Also is Full_Simulation_A-Life compatible with those?
Any more suggestions?

oops, i fucked up, meant


God damn im going to bed

Yes it does work with those, since I had them in my last 1.4.22 playthrough + the rest of DoctorX's stuff. But install Full-Alife LAST, otherwise shit will get fucked real quick.

Good hunting, stalker.

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Jury-rig it for added authenticity.

It's a soviet era gas mask user, it's filled with all types of asbestos. I'm not going near if it it's broken.

I just did the new installation in order:


And now i get this crash on startup, iam missing something?
Maybe the Compatibility Patch (AO+OA) from Lost to the Zone?
I didn't apply it because its for two mods and i only have AO

Expression : I
Function : CInifile::Load
File : Xr_ini.cpp
Line : 267
Description : Can't find include file:
Arguments : artefacts_expansion.ltx

stack trace:

0023:02BA6502 xrCore.dll, CInifile::Load()
0023:02BA6531 xrCore.dll, CInifile::Load()
0023:02BA5EB8 xrCore.dll, CInifile::CInifile()
0023:00461025 xrEngine.exe, CApplication::load_draw_internal()
0023:0045E71A xrEngine.exe, InitSettings()
0023:0045F143 xrEngine.exe, InitSound2()
0023:0045F466 xrEngine.exe, InitSound2()
0023:0046B1A3 xrEngine.exe, CApplication::load_draw_internal()
0023:76408654 KERNEL32.DLL, BaseThreadInitThunk()
0023:76F24A77 ntdll.dll, RtlGetAppContainerNamedObjectPath()
0023:76F24A47 ntdll.dll, RtlGetAppContainerNamedObjectPath()

Applying the patch should fix it. Backup the folders though

Solved by adding Outfit Addon and then applying the OA+AO patch

If i decide to start at Jupiter i see no stalkers other than the unique ones, why is this happening in story mode? Other stalkers only spawn up in there after i disable the brain scorcher or what?

What's the dumbest way you've died? I was just running around throwing bolts into the sky and triggered a whirligig. Got me while I was farting around with the PDA.

Kiting a Pseudogiant and running straight into an anomaly

The other day I ran into that guard house with the burner and cremated myself pretty much. Those things sure light up the night.

Since anything north of Radar is out until i disable the brain scorcher i will be starting the new game in the south, since i dislike the SoC areas i will see what the Clear Sky zones are all about, anything i should know about the Great Swamp?

It wouldn't work without an in-date filter anyway.

Lovely.

Yes.

You can successfully hide and move slowly through the bushes, useful for ironmeme.

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Bushes in the swamp actually block NPC view? That is awesome, I hate always being the only being in the zone that can't see through them

moddb.com/mods/call-of-chernobyl/addons/prinks-coc-1422-overhaul-exploration-version
Use this or the combat version.
Caution: damage has been encrease.
Don't use dx10 go for 9 full.
Don't use other addon with this.
Carlos

Are unmarked stashes supposed to be empty in the Great Swamp? i found 3 of them, but all were empty, do items only spawn on them if i get the stash info from rewards?

So…I realize this isn't my tech support but…

Been playing Call of Chernobyl for about 6 hours and haven't found ANY artifacts…hell there aren't any detectors either.

Downloaded the patch and arsenal overhaul…and still nothing…not artifacts or detectors. Should I just reinstall the fucking thing or is this a known bug?

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Thank you as always, torfaggot, for your totally not in any way suspicious link to a """png""" that you most certainly could not have posted as a picture.

It's based on CoP, you can't find artefacts without a detector.
I've never heard of it but it might depend whereabouts you are. Try visiting the ecologists and seeing if that helps. If you're on 1.5 remember it's not a finished version so it might well be a bug, if so go tell them about it so they can look into it.

So I just started playing, Master difficulty someone said earlier in this thread? I installed the patches but for some reason the photo realistic textures look very obtuse to set up so I skipped that. I've already died three times trying to rescue Nimble, is this normal for noobs or am I really bad right now?

Yeah, Master or bust.
It's normal, considering you have no good weapons before looting those bandits. Make sure to scout the place and keep track of where every enemy is, paying attention to the sound helps with that immensely. Also, there is a stash with good early game gear hidden in the village, you can try searching for it to give yourself an edge against bandits.
Once you get an SMG or an AK along with some basic armor things will get much easier.

I'm on 1.4…deleted everything and reunzipped and restarted all of it. Arsenal overhaul again.

Started a clear sky char this time…managed to get an echo detector from a trader…found a few other echo detectors…and yeah that's it.

Done about six hours or so and still can't find squat. I've tried a few anomaly fields and all the echo did was beep when near an anomaly…no artifacts yet…no other detectors yet…

Found a night star artifact in a stash…same way I found the echo detectors. This seems abnormal as hell…I've play SOC and CoP and never had this level of rotten luck. Haven't seen anything better than an echo yet either.

Maybe I've just awful luck…but shouldn't I at least find a better detector on a corpse or something? Is the echo even working or does it only locate anomalies when no artifacts are present???

Maybe it's just me but this shit seems broken. Mind you I'm still having some fun but I'm feeling this is not a proper experience…

Does my CoC install seem broken to you guys???

The artifacts will starting spawning after the first emission, at least that worked for me

The swamp is very annoying until you get a jellyfish or something to deal with the radiation, i suggest the anomaly to the north, near the agropom entrance, it can spawn there, but beware the military

Also i got really annoyed with the lack of bear detectors at the start and cheated to get one early, add -dbg to the path on the game shortcut, press S on main menu after loading the game to access the item spawner

Changed my faction from Clear Sky to Ecologist, seems like the Clear Sky quests didn't get cancelled, can i still do them or did they break?

Mods im using:
CoC 1.4.22
AO
OA
DRX questlines
Full Simulation
Lost to the Zone
Lost to the Zone Storylines

Also where is this Living Legend guy from Lost to the Zone? i have a mountain of bandit and bloodsucker corpses from exploring the agropom underground and can't find the guy

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You are only hurting yourself tbh.

My CoP mysery run was ruined by the worst enemy of all in Stalker games… Save corruption, all saves in Pripyat would crash after a few minutes playing. I lost motivation to play the oldest save before Jupiter underground.

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CoC keeps crashing when I aggro a large group of enemies. Halp.

Check the log and see whats fucking it up, and post it here.

its time to use Fray
github.com/xrOxygen/xray-oxygen

CoC engine havent been updated for atleast year

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The text file log is much more reliable, sometimes you get totally not related shit in the crash info you got.

Searching with the info in your pic I found some threads about people crashing and the reason was they had multiple gun mods.
Did you install multiple gun pack mods from the CoC moddb page? Because you can only install one my friend.

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Why are there compatibility patches for AO3 and STCoP?

Well did you install a compatibility patch that was specifically for the mods you installed?
If yes, then do it again and follow the instructions properly so you dont do it in the wrong order or something.
After that if the problem still persists then you're fucked and you propably need to stick with just one. Or try deleting the file fucking up / replacing it with some other similar file tho usually neither work.

Fuck, I'm just gonna do a full re-install. First time I installed 1.4, should I use 1.5? I it in a good state?

The beta version is usually noticably less stable and most/all addons dont even work on it. So no.

Hand over that sauce, stalker.

got pretty tired of seeing /k/ the faction being treated like shit by snowflakes so I made my own crappy mspaint edit. I'm almost tempted to put clear sky lower since they'd still be shitting in the swamp if Scar didn't get them out of there.

FUCKING YO,I JUST READ THAT DOUJIN A FEW DAYS AGO

e-hentai.org/s/1177a6d89a/620184-1

Someone should make a collage with what kind of people play each faction.

Dayum thats good stuff

The eco guy needs to be running fullspeed with a bag filled with artifacts
Or watching everyone else kill each other to grab all gear later which is what i often do

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Because Duty are tryhard faggots. You know those guys who dropped out in boot camp, or were the most hated person in their unit and got discharged early, but now run around with tshirts bragging about how operator they are and buying every tacticool accessory and piece of moto gear that Amazon sends them an ad for? Those guys are the ones that joined Duty.

Meanwhile, deeper in the zone, Freedom are actually doing shit. They're the ones that never bothered to join the military but are simply capable. Some of them might be a little off, but in the end, they always get shit done in ways that a rigid hierarchy where you report to Sgt. Suckadik, who reports to Lt. Tinywang who reports to General Stikinass, who doesn't actually have real credentials or experience except for dropping out of (((officer school))), could never pull off.

But because Freedom will tolerate the occasional stoner or deviant and aren't Holla Forums enough, it's always HURR DURR FREEDUM ARE DRUGGIES AND DEGENERATES AND COMMIES LMAO

Army doesn't deserve all the hate they get, blame the brass instead.

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You can buy converters for old masks that allow you to fit modern filters in. Sadly, can't do that anymore.

It's equivalent to playing low intelligence in Fallout, it's fucking fun playing as the anarchist cartel

Dumbass question but how do I do this cheat?

Right click your desktop shortcut -> properties
uahehauh

Freedumb detected

Just found the motherfucking Gauss Rifle on a random Monolith faggot
And all technicians can repair it normally apparently, time to hog all batteries i can find

Where's the Chernobyl Weapons Pack? I need my FN Scar mk20 SSR raifu.
By the way, are there any news about Ray of Hope or is it still going to be shitty deathmatch arena with microtransactions for screaming autistic russian kids?

That I did not know.


Remove merc.

Ecologists is kind of boring faction to play. You're neutral towards almost everyone. In fact I find that to be true with most factions like Loners etc. The reason why I like playing as bandit and military is because most factions are hostile.

Aren't those fucking black mutant illusions who chase you around supposed to be gone after you get the psi-helmet in Yantar? Also i got an event where i had to defend the bunker against zombies, at the end the doc said he would upgrade the helmet for me, but when i got into the bunker to talk to him there was no option to upgrade it. Is my save glitched?


Freedom are fucking degenerates

Why are all those middle-aged men walking towards me?

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Literally antifa. Nice try Holla Forums

As you can see from that clearly trustworthy loner, they also only accept you if you have a bounty on your head and blindly attack ecologists.

Fake news.

Nihilism checks out especially, as we get it straight from the freedumb loving mouth of Georg King.
Not from a detractor, but from a part of the faction. Dude, lmao, freedom.

was your sausage irradiated user because thats retarded. duty is the only force keeping you fucked from suckstarting an m16. thats right i know you take that NATO shit and love it.

enjoy your tiny bullets like your tiny pecker pothead

'checked

Wow man, /k/'s absurd obsession with slavshit transcends time space and board alike.

They're predominately rogue Ukrainian military and special forces soldiers you retard. Only Freedum recruits large numbers (all the mil tryhards) from the Loners and Bandits.


Remember boys that, even in the Zone, flies spread disease. So keep yours closed.

kill yourself hippie

tbhfamalamamcdillyswingaboppadink

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Confusing headcanon and canon is a sign of mental illness.

why

Ecologists are there though.

This is a Slav thread, no kikes or kike accessories allowed.

Like pottery, funny how those sort just sit about in Dnipro.

Gas yourself

youtube.com/watch?v=LzB1MY8tpHw

This looks like a good mod set up.

Do I need to have CoP installed if I want to play CoC?

whats the deal with Azov? are you sure you arent just a bunch of butthurt ruskies?

No, they're a bunch of butthurt Ukrainians who who really like WW2-era collaborators and got a bunch of foreign volunteers killed.

The CoC installer used to check for it, but since the game is now released in a zip file i don't think you need anymore.

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What the fuck was that, why did they wait around before trying to kill me like usual?

pic unrelated

I bet they all had snipers and/or RPGs. They don't usually shoot you at closer range.

>>>Holla Forums

Controlled opposition. Sucks to be a Ukrainian patriot right now. My main problem is that shitty Tavor though.

Aye, master.

Can't think of anything off the top of my head, but generally somewhere high up, made of/near walls that can resist the blowouts.

After they got their shit kicked in by the rebels in 2014 they went from an actual paramilitary unit to just larpers for propaganda videos. They don't actually do anything nowadays.
Also more or less what said.

To be fair the uploader corrected this in the description after people in the comments pointed it out.

Does anyone know how I turn off autosaving when entering a new area?

i don't care about azov, but that tavor is fucking disgusting. iwi/imi has never made a good weapon. and don't bring up "MUH GALEEL", it's inferior to the RK 62.

What is going to ruin my game this time?

Vodka doesn't work anymore.

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Did you not know the way?

If the crash happens a minute or so after you arrive it's probably caused by a controller, either quickly kill it or look on moddb for ZoA for the solution.

Apparently I don't.

>>>/facebook/

Cripes, imagine a tribe of dwarf ugandans going knuckles fast over that ridge.

I'll post more.

cont
I felt he was going to lose his shit and go out into the storm or turn into a zombie regardless of shelter. Luckily he kept his cool, though I don't expect him to last long beyond Cordon.


I wasn't expecting the game to tell me that. It just happened randomly while I was trying to go to the swamp.

Im cursed, the zone hates me
Fuck here a fun webm

Was this you?

I swear STALKER glitches are the funniest shit.
But for some reason I don't fucking get any. The biggest glitches I get are NPCs not targeting me even if I'm right next to them or observing me for like 5 seconds until they realize I'm an enemy. Even with no mods. Do the pirated re-packs have anything to do with it?

No, i am not that tall

oh found this one in my old folder

I really underestimate how aesthetic/spooky this game can be sometimes. I should take screenshots like these more often and without HUD. My headcanon will be that my character was an avid photographer before moving to the Zone and that he brought his camera with him to take pictures as documentation as a hobby.

Yeah i'll put my two cents in saying i want to see more glitches if anybody has them in gif or webm or whatever form.

Here's a channel that has a few videos like that.

the first one is funnier

To be fair he only has four of these and the rest are playthroughs (haven't watched those so no strong opinions either way)

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It's not the gun itself idiot,
its the fact its a Ukrainian soldier with a kike gun.
how would your Jewess genes react to an Israeli diaper patrol soldier with an stg44?

another channel with more stuff like glitches and general silly shit.

Get out of here retard.

It's not the gun itself idiot,
its the fact its a Ukrainian Azov soldier with a kike gun.
how would your Jewess genes react to an Israeli diaper patrol soldier with an stg44?

Is it this glitchy in the normal game? or is it just because of mods?

Probably asking the wrong person, but I assume its a mixture of the base game's slav code,the even slavic mods added on top and then the smaller mods on top of major mods.

This being said, I rarely get any glitches like this but get plenty of silly nonsense(that either fits the zone or doesn't, take your pick). I guess people just have a skill for getting really stupid glitches, either by looking for them on purpose or just by complete "luck"

How do you deal with gaming completionist/perfectionist ocd?

Play vidya.

It will take weeks to finish the games and be able to start stalking…
Why do I feel like I need some kind of permission to just pkay and install whatever I want the day I feel like it?
Is this the beginning of schizophrenia?

Have some more screenshots.

i just said i don't care about azov you autist. though i shouldn't expect ukrainian larpers to read or anything.

This is Mishka Shaven's amazing tale of revenge

cont

You know, get the tape/cloth or maybe some foam if you can find it and that would actually be a decent stock.

Hmmm, I might be projecting my own experience here so feel free to correct me if I'm painting with a broad brush. I feel like everyone on Holla Forums goes through a phase where they don't play vidya nearly as much as they used too. This may be a combination of depression at the state of the industry, politics, workload increase, and general lack of discipline. Also a slight chance of discovering that everything you knew is a lie which may result in extreme anger, depression, and chronic desire to get /fit/
I got Witcher 3 for free with my Graphics card a little over two years ago and never bothered to finish it. Still have no desire to go back and play it, it was just eye candy for my new pc and something I could say was better than FO4 to my friends. Just play what you want to play my dude.


Nice.

Supposedly shovel handles also make good stocks for some reason. And the blades make good lowers.

More from my adventures in the swamp.

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Cardan keeps drinking himself into a coma everytime i get close to him, how do i wake him up?

I gave in and installed Call of Chernobyl and some add ons.
I play on Master and it feels loke enemies take a lot of bullets. Was it always like this?
Also the jumping has mask xombies were hard and the skinny zombies that follow the fat one with the big head.
Should I go veteran?

I played a few hours and already have stories to remember.

NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO

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After investigating, it turns out that his life was cut short by TWO big, black, radioactive-as-fuck blind dogs

Let's drink to him once more. He was a good stalker.

this modder is quickly becoming the most annoying stalker modder, even more so than the arsenal advance guy.

I've gotten into so many arguments with him about stupid decisions.
he has an obsession with putting unusable bipods on everything
his horse is so high that Morocco(supposedly where he lives) will have to arrest him for air space traffic violations
and now that his computer supposedly "broke", he's gone into "fuck you, pay me" mode.

I want him to release what he has so that I can just finish it without having to deal with his bullshit anymore.
I'm expecting him to pull a phil phish after getting more money to say "too many people dislike my decisions, no more TAZ"

Did you install AO3? It makes enemies bullet sponges if you don't stick to only AP ammo.

Cordon, the Swamp, Army Warehouses and the Bar. I love the early hobo-phase the most.

I have AO3 yes.
Would the Weapon Damage addon help?

I found this that might solve the damage feel of AO3 with CoC.

moddb.com/mods/call-of-chernobyl/addons/my-preferred-configuration

Anyone else noticed that when using AO the SKS is a bit of an OP death machine?

I honestly haven't found an enemy that doesn't drop like a cheap whore after a few rounds of 7.62x39. I picked one up when I first started because I own a few SKS IRL so it seemed like fun…and have found zero reason to use a damned thing else.

Also the unrealistic accuracy… IRL an SKS is not 'shoot a flea off a dog's ass at 200 meters' accurate but in game it fucking is.

All this…and yet no fucking bayonet

Zaton's indeed a great area.

Any tips about the graphics options?
I am lost in the advanced tab.
Looking for balance. Good graphics without going overboard and make the game stutter.

buy an SSD or m.2, stalker always stutters on hard drives. or install the game to ramdisk.

I see. It does those little stutters here and there.
How should I go about it now that I have CoC ?
CoP is on D:/ in the steam folder but CoC is a separate folder that didn't need install, just unzip.

Should I just move CoC to SSD C:/ ?

Just get rid of all the nerd shit like antialiasing and anisoropic filtering and it'll run smoothly.

I was also about to say that one thing that annoys me about stalker is how the grass look like in the distance, but luckily there's the de-eyesore gass addon that fixes that problem. Somehow I forgot to write it in the comment though.

Don't hose make the textures less blurry as the distance increases? I always keep them low x2.

Anisotropic filtering does exactly that.
Any of the various breeds of supersampling anti aliasing also do it but it's not something anti aliasing does in general.
Unless you have an integrated gpu or a dx10 gpu just max out anisotropic filtering, it has been done in separate dedicated hardware within the GPU for a long time so if you disable anisotropic filtering you won't see a fps gain because you weren't losing anything.

If you like the SKS go pick up a G3A3 or a G3 if you like the wooden furniture.

I went through the last section of CS with it fully upgraded and dropped everyone and everything with 1 or 2 rounds. The recoil and accuracy upgrades coupled with an ACOG makes it more or less a G3SG/1 with the recoil of a 5.56 rifle and the ability to go full auto. Plus it's a sexy rifle

I've always heard people bitch about the last section of CS for being hard but the G3 made it ridiculously easy. Now I'm just saving up on cash to switch out my AK74m in CoP worth the G3 from Nimble, or killing someone with a G3 and repairing it, whichever comes first.

I found the biggest performance boost was from turning sun shafts to low, visually it doesn't make much of a difference but performance wise my fps shot back up.

All CoC needs CoP for is just to check a file to make sure it's installed, guess it's there way of handing out what's essentially another game for free without getting into legal issues. So yeah pretty sure you can just have it on a separate drive.

fixing the damage refresh is really easy with notepad++. I do it with almost every weapon mod

Im getting bored of CoC 1.4, also i got a gamebreaking glitch on my saves, so i wanna try something else.

Do i go for 1.5? or get Call of Misery? I actually enjoyed playing Misery in CoP

Or is there a better modpack/overall out there?

Why the hell did CoC 1.5 become NEVER EVER?
Is the beta any good? Is it unstable? It's kind of bothering me they're taking so long.

Something that always bugged me about these games was the guns.

Why is everyone in the earlier areas armed with pistols and shotguns? I'd think that even bandits and newbie stalkers could get a shitty AK. And why are there shitty British assault rifles in the zone?

I was wondering that myself a couple of weeks back, so I bit the bullet and went for 1.5 R6 and I gotta say, it really gave a facelift to what 1.4.22 did, performance and gameplay wise.

However, only downside is that there aren't too many mods for it YET and that R7 is right around the corner and possibly gearing up towards final release (heard that R7 was the last before the full 1.5 release, but don't quote me on that.) It's still fun and all the improvements really give CoC new life. Can't wait for the full 1.5 NEVER EVER

It's actually much more solid than 1.4.22 and for what you'd expect for a beta.
They don't have the manpower for it and they're doing it for free so these things tend to take time. But like I said; R7 soon and maybe a full release soon after that.

The beta works fine, but alot of addons are waiting for full release before updating their mods, meaning alot of the good ones like DoctorX's shit, the gun packs, some huds and other things are only available for 1.4.
There's a few unofficial hacks to get them working, but good luck getting most of them to run well or even at all.
And yes it seems 1.5 has become the butterlord of Stalker.

What could I do? Are the stashes being opened by other stalkers?
There is one in the Bar and a few hidden around. Can I stash the guns there?

Stashes are never touched by other stalkers, but if you're paranoid that someone might find it, start climbing and drop a stash somewhere up high and hidden from plain sight.

I can make a stash of my own?
Also is the fixing and reselling guns a good plan?
I found this monster M60 but the guy wants 90K to repair it from yellow.

What about tool kits? Where could I get one of those?

Yes, with a pack that you can buy off a trader. Just plop it anywhere on the ground, name it and stash your bullshit.
Not if you're taking them to a mechanic, you're better off buying of finding a repair kit and doing all the repairs yourself.
If your lucky you can find one in a stash, especially the ones you get marked after getting the coordinates from dead stalker. Or, if you are luckier, you can buy one off a vendor if they just so happen to stock one.

Thanx stalker. I will go plant a stash in a roof and put the guns.

I just beat SoC on my first Vanilla run, got the money bad ending. There's a really good game here, but it's so fucking empty sometimes, like it's lacking somethings. Didn't encounter a Chimera once either thank god.

Chimeras are only in Call of Pripyat proper.

Weird, swore I saw their heads somewhere.

I knew this mod looked too good to be true..

Maybe I am mistaken. I will travel to Cordon and har a look if something starts there.

CoC spoiled me with its excess, giving me so many Rubles so quickly that I get night vision and an M4 + ACOG almost immediately. I forgot how tense this shit can be.

They were meant to be keptin but were taken out, same with Cats and Burers. They left in the heads and taxidermied cats though.

I may try that out…but really I'd just love a bayonet on my SKS. The zone seems like the kinda place where a bayonet murder would happen on occasion.

Tell me the tale of how S.T.A.L.K.E.R. got kiked again user. Apparently the original devs moved on to Metro right?

Lost my screencap of a post that detailed it nicely, hope someone else posts it otherwise I'll try to recap it as best I can. As for the devs some of them did move on to Metro but can't tell if they are still part of it.

I refuse to let this thread die until either the next 1.5 release comes out or all the addons finally give in and just release their shit already

Does this explain it?

He killed the dream, but maybe the dream can return? Do we want it too?

FUCK FUCK FUCK
WHY EVERY PLAYTHROUGH SOME SHIT HAPPEN WITH MY TECHNICIANS? SPECIALLY AFTER I GAVE HIM THE TOOLS
FUCK THIS

I am waiting for 1.5, i am done with 1.4 bullshit

Ok nevermind he was just handing out with the medic on the first floor

I don't see someone can replicate that feeling of uncertainty even if it came from bugs.
The return of STALKER is going to be some clinical super polished game that will be fun but will have no unique greentext stories and experiences like we have now.

The campfires destroy the fps and stutter the game. Anyone found any remedy to that?

If they achieved balance between surviving/combat and the seamless world with npcs carrying on without your input it would have plenty of story opportunity.

Not sure if it applies to CoC, but:
Setting the "Flip queue size" (AMD) / "Max pre-rendered frames" (NVIDIA) to 1, in either RadeonPro or the Nvidia control panel seemed to solve the issue in SoC; I began using the fix when playing SoC, and applied it since.
Also, you might want to consider patching the executable if you are encountering "Out of Memory" crashes:
ntcore.com/4gb_patch.php
In addition, adding the -noprefetch parameter to the game shortcut helped reduce the stuttering for me.

Where do i get Hydraulic Servo Drive Application System in the Last Day mod? I want to upgrade my exoskelle

What does it do?

that sounds amazing. racing others to the wishmaker

Wish it was an optional gamemode.

I'm playing Clear Sky with AtmosFear, what faction should I ally myself with in my first playthrough. I'm tempted to join Duty.

God, do I love it when a mod makes the Gauss completely gamebreaking. Playing OLR right now, the Gauss is absolutely ridiculous. One time it launched a guy like 200m into the air.

Do Clear Sky first since it's the most pivotal to the game, try other factions in other runs.

Something isn't right here.
Also found a Merc sniper at the roof of that lone house on the plaza shooting the wall, while trying to kill bandits on the ground. Both he and the now dead bandits behind him were completely oblivious of each others existance.

army never gets anything done
ecologists are the reason stalkers are able to exist
the skat-9 are basically the boba-fet of stalker where they look cool but never do anything and shit the bed when it counts

sites.google.com/site/kingo64ssite/Home/s-t-a-l-k-e-r---shadow-of-chernobyl/optimisation-guide

It supposedly disables precaching certain game files to RAM upon loading a saved game, should result in shorter loading times atleast. For me CoP with refused to run at all with this parameter set, CoC works fine.

new thread?

Yes