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

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Name me a single faction that doesn't hate you. Loners and Bandits aren't real factions

NEVER
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The weak should fear the strong.

Mercs and Bandits
That's a hard one. I think I'll just go with Bloodsuckers since they always put me on edge whenever I know one is around.
Which of the games are you playing and which mods are you using?
None of them at the moment. I'm waiting for CoC 1.5

Only got rid of Duty thanks to a spetznaz operative which is probably not canon

Why do I always press reply before proofreading

MERCENARIES
Bloodsuckers are pretty hot but I prefer Chimeras
Call of Pripyat with Call of Chernobyl, along with almost every addon available.

You're from duty, we don't expect you to be smart.

Clear Sky, and I need some mod recommendations. Not a complete game overhaul, just shit to make it look good, modernize the UI and maybe make some game systems deeper.

Monolith for Life

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Duty.

A man can have freedom and be a beast, but a beast will never have duty.

Clear Sky
Snork
CoP-CoC

In Last Day there is a girl in Cordon, but she only speaks russian, so i can't tell what her whole deal is about

Ecologists
Poltergeist
Anyone who says freedom is a faggot and they know it to be true.

It has been statistically proven that all freedom players browse Holla Forums and BLACKED on a daily basis

at least they believe in something instead of looting for personal profits

That's a man isn't it?

Does this mean I'm alone?

m-muh beliefs

Fools

The Cordon is that way. If you don't mind, I'm gonna be making more money than most countries.

I'd just wish anime became real.
There's no way that gets screwed up in a way that the current reality isn't worse than.

Reminder that Mercfags are almost as low-tier as Freedumbers.

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BECAUSE they face this horrors they turn to something unreasonable as some sort of hope. Faith exists in struggle as people turn to non-reason for mental contempt.

Also should probably get these out of the way before somebody asks for them.

And I guess this (anything newer to add to it?):

For a second playthrough:
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 as the basis (add more to taste) for a /k/ommando experience: STCoP (and the tweak I'll link) + DoctorX's questlines + Lost to the Zone + Lost to the Zone Living Legend + 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

>>>Holla Forums
The only better faction than the badass war Veteran death-incarnate Mercenaries, are the comfy Loners.
Duty is a bunch of LARPers stuck in the Zone and unironically have a trouble dealing with the freedumbs.

Mercs are thugs and worse yet thugs who work for NWO-tier (((western governments))), their only ideology is 'money good, man who give me money say witnesses bad'. Even Monolith have something more than that.

And these I guess: to anyone considering it be warned that ZoA is so unstable as to be painful to play a lot of the time.

>Degenerates, failed ex-military and canon hipsters are better than war veterans ex-special ops Mercenaries who just want to kill for fun make some money.
You have no idea why Mercs actually fight. It's not just money user. No one just kills for money. They do it because it is fucking fun. The other factions are just a bunch of subhumans who escaped jail.

How does this not make them the niggers of the zone?

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>Any and every stalker who just happens to witness the shady globalist criminal shit you're up to are criminals and degenerates
Worse than bandits even.

We don't know who pays them user. Remember that they are hostile against the government Ecologist forces. They want to stop all information from getting out. And anyone trying to stop them gets wiped out.
They might be deployed for stopping degenerates from getting their hands on dangerous artifacts. They may have saved the world from such people multiple times and we would never even know.
Your only arguments against the Mercs is muh money muh hired guns and nothing else.

check your soy intake, faggot. everyone murders in the zone.

Clearly the hired guns that have no morals are vastly superior to your average nigger because obtuse reasons.

Clear Sky. That Armor is just damn cool, and not a bad faction either. They are almost completely right about the zone to, with the C-Consciousness in the background manipulating the zone. They kind of sucked at surviving though, so Duty is a close 2nd.
Bloodsuckers for terror instilled at night, Controller for favorite mutant.
Clear Sky + AtmosFear

No one likes you Marxist faggots. Go be degenerates somewhere else. Fucking literal embodiment of dudelmao retards.

Freedumb is not to be taken at face value, they are drug addicts you moron. Duty is also the real thing, because they are ex-military.
Another loner in a Agroprom Loner base in Clear Sky also dissuades notions of Duty being aligned with the military by describing the fierce fire fights had between them. They probable hate them because the Government left them for dead. Meanwhile Freedumb is chummy with bandits and fucking masculine bloodsuckers

Am I missing something here?

Right, the fact that they're running around with western equipment and are actively hostile to Ukrainian forces means nothing. They're a deniable asset that's all.
The Ukrainian government's forces yes, unsurprising when they're Western-controlled as per the Stalker universe remember the Ukrainian government is still by and large Russia-aligned.
Very much not the case, they want the information for their clients who want sole control over any technological advances that come out of the zone. Controlling and if possible suppressing new technology that would upset the status quo is classic tactic of certain groups.
Kruglov threatens to destroy his research when the mercs attack him in SoC: why exactly would he think that was a threat if their goal was to destroy it (or at least contain it) anyway?
Make up whatever story you want it's still bullshit: they're simply putting artefacts and research in the hands of western globalists. How exactly that makes the world safer I do not know.
That's because the Mercs are nothing else but money and guns.

Everyone else kills (as often in self-defence as in cold blood) for an actual reason like base survival, ideology, religion etc. Mercs murder either because the contract they signed with (((Mr Shekelstein))) tells them to or worse yet because they think it's fun. Apparently basic morality flies out of the window the moment you dangle something shiny in front of them.

I'd say they're worse, niggers don't know better while mercs are clearly intelligent enough to weigh up their options and still decide money wins out.

truly patrician taste

Whatever user, I still prefer them over the other factions. They look cool and like to murder

So mercs are the edgy ancaps of STALKER.

Pic related.

Mercs definitely look funner than Bandits that's for sure.

>Mercs murder either because the contract they signed with (((Mr Shekelstein)))
source? last time i checked, loners work for that fat kike sid and he also tells you to kill some people.
either learn how to shoot or get fucked, faggot. the zone isn't for pussies.
kek

I've seen some pretty good artist representations of female mutants

Your penis too I bet, you freedom freak.

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Just imagine how much would the Freedom HQ pay for a captured female bloodsucker

That's nigger-thinking: might as well support the drug dealer down the road just because he has a fancy car and murders people to protect his 'business'.

The first time you meet them in SoC they say something to the effect of 'no witnesses'. I mean it's either a contractual limit or they're just doing it for fun so either way they're cunts.
Picking up a gun doesn't magically put you above basic morals. Again, starting to sound a lot like a dolled-up version of the ideology nigger street gangs have.
Subjective morality is for edgy teens.

Mercs confirmed for Ayn Rand fans.

This might be the insanity talking,but i'd do it.

She does have a nice body.

people only went to the zone cause it has 0 laws and it's /k/ paradise. games shouldn't have any morality at all. it's escapism, i can murder whoever the fuck i want. you take this way too seriously tbh.

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Who says you really have a choice in the matter?

Oh mercs are totally the only faction that has no morals. j-just look at bandits! they definitely don't murder for no reason! m-mugging isn't nigger tier!

Tell me about the bandits why do they wear the mask?

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Lots of loyalty for a hired Merc

Has the blowout started yet?

I mean as long as you escape alive from it you're really no worse for wear besides maybe some mental scarring and a stalker

Loners/Ecologists
Basically anything satisfying to kill like controllers and pseudo giants.
I have CoC modded with Arsenal Overhaul, but it's been a while since I've booted it.

So you agree mercs are just bandits with nicer guns.

Not an argument.

Yes, the emission rises

Mercs are equal to niggers because they think a gun and some money puts them above the rest of humanity.
The facts all point in one direction, do they need to be wearing a badge saying 'western black ops' or speaking Hebrew?
A justified war is one thing, killing people just for fun or for money is another.
Yes, objective morality is a thing.
The actions of Mercs are apparently only justifiable if we assume everyone else in the zone is just as bad as they are.

Also there's not much else left to talk about.

Bandits are almost as shitty, the difference is they're dumb criminals who don't know any better: they still have to be put down but that's the same as having to kill a wild animal.
Mercs on the other hand choose the life of thuggery when they clearly have the skills to do other things.
Crimes (moral or legal) don't stop being crimes just because a rich fuck or questionable government agency starts paying you to do commit them.

not an argument.

not an argument

no, like what said, they're literally mercenaries. they're paid to do all kinds of work and they get it done because they have actual training. bandits don't get hired for anything, they're just niggers who mug.

wew lad
But how can I commit a crime if I'm in a lawless place? :^)

Obviously someone who chooses to be a nigger (albeit a fancy nigger) is worse than someone who doesn't know any better.
Morality applies everywhere user.
Also if there's no morality or any other rules in the Zone there's nothing wrong please explain what makes fucking mutants wrong.

Should be:
Also if there's no morality or any other rules in the Zone please explain what makes fucking mutants wrong.

It doesn't matter if they're hired by another nigger or by some corrupt government its just the same shit. Mercs are bandits with nicer guns.

As long as there's no mutant exclusive STD i'm all game.

>mutant exclusive
So you'd be ok if they gave you the aids?

I mean like if fucking mutants gave you a disease that made your flesh slowly melt off every day and the only way to fix it was to fuck a mutant again i'd be pretty bummed.

Enough of your fetishes dude

I will never be able to eat Bloodsucker Goulash again after this

Such is life in the zone with no women to dick

kek
right, I'm talking legally here. why do you give a shit?
who said it was wrong :^)? certainly not the barman or the people who buy the PDA's to jack off to that shit.

Killing people for no reason is nigger behaviour, yes.
Mutant fuckers get out.

I'm not sure you know how STDs work user.

I wish Misery was fair, i understand why it is so hard, but if it uses `realism` to make just keeping yourself alive cost thousands in supplies it would be fair is enemies dropped realistic loot, also artifacts are much harder to get and can barely buy you food unless you use an addon to increase their value.

Well i was mainly fixated on something that encouraged more mutant fucking,but yeah realistically it'd probably give you ultra aids and you die in a few days.

Fuck it I'll transcribe the whole thing. I'll greentext just because it feels right.

but what if my reason is the same as the person who is paying me? kek
I'm not the one fucking the mutants. But again, no one is saying that its wrong. implying you wouldn't a succulent female bloodsucker

four stalkers, user.

misery has artificial difficulty. if you want actual challenge you should try out Radiophobia, it's a really nice mod.

As long as you got enough liquids to sustain you,you'll be fine,who knows,maybe they'll lead you to a secret stash of loot after you're done.

I like having MREs and Rations instead of just sausages and `bread`

Also fixing your own weapons and armor

Call of Misery is a bit better but with both you'll want to tweak the config files yourself to make the economy less shitty or you know just not play it.
Redux 2.0/Wormwood was going to be better but it died.

Radiophobia has all that except for MREs

But Strelok doesn't wear an exosuit.

Do you also like weed (Imported), soviet cigarettes (imported), russian cigarettes (zone produced), cocaine (zone produced) cancerous autism? Or the fact that enemies are bullet sponges that take several headshots point blank to kill?

Is there a version for CoC?
I am currently playing Last Day (Call of Misery mod)

nope, it's a SoC mod.

I have tasted the ability to travel to all known parts of the zone, i can no longer go back

Wew.

See above. Can someone just put fuck/rape-able women in the game already. I'm surprised that there are no whores either maybe it's too costly to work in a lawless environment.

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Repeating my question from earlier.

Pretty sure Monolith will stay hostile to everyone other than Zombies, it's not difficult to edit that if you want though.
Not sure on the traders.

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What about that says uguu to you

Has anybody tried playing Stalker with DSR upscaling it to 4K? Or is there a better way to get rig of jaggies? I vaguely remember AA never worked well with those games.

Pretty good, but I felt like it needed some changes.

what a retard

>you want to be controlled, you need our rigid hierarchy and orders, don't listen to the bad goyim that reject (((duty))) in favor of their own free will

On the contrary, Mr. Freedom, we expect you to die.

Have you actually played Clear Sky user?

Commit suicide.

They are a literal caricature of Antifa you fucking retard. In behavior and mindset.
Not sure if you're a total newfag taking the name of a faction to it's literal definition, or Holla Forums goon.
If I actually have to explain why they are more Marxist than the IRA then you don't belong on this board. You need to go back to wherever you came from.
That doesn't work Holla Forums, you just look like an even bigger idiot for shitting on the Fascist faction while praising it's antifa-tier rivals.

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Their barkeep is a literal stoner degenerate

Jesus Christ you niggers are insufferable. Nothing is sacred.

I'll save the thread, watch this.
Legion is the best faction and House is a stupid faggot!

user YOU ARE MISTAKEN

Every time, even if it's for shits and giggles. Really baffles me, this board bitches about political shit for years mostly in reference to Feminism and SJWs.

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why do that when you can choose 1 of 2 factions that make the zone unfun?

What?

What indeed.

Are choices of food in a videogame really enough to keep you playing Misery? Besides, cased meats are fucking addictive. You ever dry a piece of sausage until the meat is like jerky and the fat creates little bubbles on the surface? It's delicious. The fat makes it taste so sweet while you chew up the meat. I was eating like a foot long stick of it a day at my peak.

just started it. how the hell do i cross that lightning crap? i keep throwing bolts but it doesn't seem to help. do i just need to get the timing down?

The anomalies are slowly moving in one direction. Keep throwing the bolts till the next few steps are clear.
Or if you're that much of a pleb, just tear through the military.

Man will you love slavland. It would be a since to consume those without beer though. You did drink beer with them right? Right…?

user and his addiction to foot long sausage: a STALKER tale.

sin*

thanks stalker

Anarchists aren't marxists dipshit, and Ancap is retarded, you can't have capitalism without a state.

This is some 1984 shit.

Enough of Duty vs Freedom pissing contest Ecologists are superior than both anyways

What kind of mutant would you add to the Zone as a developer?

I would have added something that lives in high places and falls on the face of stalkers that come close enough, maybe a slime that ignores all damage unless the core is hit. Right now there is no reason for people to look up while indoors, i think this creature would change that.

Also some sort of sentient artifact that moves around the Zone flashing a bright light to lure stalkers into dangerous mutants would be interesting

Mutants that can be pretend stalkers. They usual appear as loners deep in the zone where they attack with your guard down. Do not risk attacking groups. If prematurely attacked they will try to run away and relocate.
You can never sure who to trust in the zone.
Maybe there could a questline where one of these mutants is seriously fucking with a faction The Thing style.

What if it was some sort of mutant that attached itself to a stalker during his sleep and he never noticed it? He would act as he always does, but when he sleeps the mutant takes over, it would eventually mutate the stalker's head to turn the back of his head into a jaw and while the mutant controls the infected stalker it walks backwards on all fours, but extremely fast

It would be a good reason to always sleep with your suit and helmet equipped while on the zone

Just because it says "Freedom" it doesn't mean freedom you idiot. It's a concept coopted by different people and means different things to different people. These people are anarchists with similar views to marx, even the fucking Wiki acknowledges this.
stalker.wikia.com/wiki/Freedom

Communists are literal anarchists on paper you fucking idiot. Anitfa and their ilk carry these kinds of flags and run /r/anarchism
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anarcho-communism
broadleft.org/anarchis.htm
Wew look at all those lolberg anarchist groups. I can't believe I have to educate people on Holla Forums on Marxist bullshit with how much it infests out hobby, lurk for two more fucking years.
>>>/cuckchan/
>>>/reddit/

Shuddup user, Freedom the faction is a collection of proud free individuals (not a collective).

t. gunless faggot.

I want the shitposting zone to disappear

Praise Monolith for these dubs!

Skinwalkers would be an interesting addition to stalker.
Maybe the thing would appear once as a quest and everyone forgets about it, or they start popping up more and more, to the point where the big factions are terrified of them and these things try leaving the zone. Perhaps these new mutants could serve as an important plot point in a later installment?

Unless they're sleeping in a SEVA or Exo I doubt a sunrise suit or standard fatigues would do much to save a stalker from the thing.
More of a reason to not sleep alone, but also more of a reason to not sleep in settlements either.
Forget it, don't sleep at all.

I want to create my own models, anybody know what tools modders these days are using?

I don't think the zone would survive a Skinwalker. Those spoops are a bit much for all but the foolhardy.

Faction: either Duty or Monolith
Mutant: don't really pay attention to them much but I'd garner the human zombies that walk on all fours
Games: mostly just the CoC mod

this is pretty much true

then maybe the new Metro game can have them

yeah but unchecked capitalism often ruins states. and why doesn't STALKER have a Nazbol faction?

STALKER is actually the first FPS that actually sent chills down my spine but as long as I got backup from Duty I'm fine

the only backup Freedom has from their "buds" is purely rectal.

yeah I forget cuck porn is the intellectual man's fetish.

Why is this allowed? Aren't they supposed to be militant scientists?

No but moddb probably has a tutorial lying around.

I don't know which format the Stalker engine uses, but if it is .fbx or .obj you can use blender

Not even ecologists start with a detector

More correct translation is "free will".

I sure as shit don't see any mention of Marx on the wiki. I do see that they're anarchists and daredevils. Given the lack of government in the Zone and that fact that everyone is up against the military (except Duty cucks who slobber their knob secretly every chance they get).

You're a literal moron on paper you fucking idiot.

Black and red color scheme? Gosh, that actually sounds familiar - where have I seen that before in S.T.A.L.K.E.R?

I don't pay attention to reddit politics, because I don't go there. Apparently you do, so might I suggest you go back there and stay?

I don't mod stalker but for making new models for Men of War and Call to Arms mods I use 3dsmax 2013, you can either torrent it or get a trial version for the time being.
Now your biggest thing would be finding the model format to export to and ripping one out of the game to rig your model with. Considering all the models out there I don't think it would be too hard if you ask around on moddb.

Just because they're named Freedom doesn't mean shit all. The DPRK isn't democratic just because they have it in the name they're democratic because Great Leader makes it so.

I'd want more than just mutants. Anomalies need some serious work, they're just "don't walk here" and "don't let this thing move onto you". Most of them are clearly visible.

Roadside Picnic had some really good ones, some of which would be annoying as fuck. Like that spiderweb that's barely visible, but touching it causes a heart attack 8-12 hours later. Having a delayed hit to your health a few minutes after you touch it (with the severity based on how long you were touching it) would be nifty. Bonus if you can barely see it normally but it's clearly visible with NVG.

How about an anomaly that's simply annoying and pushes you backwards every few seconds if you're too close to it?

What about an area that simply has low gravity? You can jump higher, your pack is lighter, and bullet drop is lessened. Have a few floating rocks, or a tangled mass of a building held together by rusted rebar slowly spinning in the air.

A series of ghostly lights scattered across a field. If you follow them without crossing your own path, you'll find a nifty artifact - but there's no hint of this happening.

We've got burners, but what about areas that are unnaturally cold? Why not an anomalous bridge of ice across a river or lake?

There's a ton of room for creativity.

Good ideas. Though the anomalies in STALKER can be pretty deadly, they become a bit mundane after a decade. One thing that the game doesn't catch is just how weird they can be. How about one that overlays a few seconds of gameplay from an hour ago? How about one where you black out and wake up on a different map with some buff or debuff? How about one where bloodsuckers don't attack you anymore? How about one where you start hearing whispers and seeing shadows in the distance from time to time?

Anomalies should make you think "what the fuck is happening?", not just "oh, I'm taking damage".

What are some abandoned areas in the real world where you would want to see a Stalker game? There is Fukushima and the many of the abandoned cities in china. Maybe a remote place in Iceland.

Doesn't have to implicitly mention Marx, it's in their antifa-tier behavior.
Triggered faggots spamming report ITT.
Shit that doesn't happen, Freedumb fake news.
How hard do you have to practice your mental gymnastics in order to get to this point.
You're missing the point, deliberately, to defend a faction purely because their name is "Freedom" even though no one likes them. It was pointing out the anarchist nature of antifa types like Freedumb. The Red and Black color scheme of Duty is a clearly a reference to fascist movements like the Falangists or NSDAP.

Go ahead, ask any communist what they think about strong states led by a strong government. Unless they're Stalinists or Nazbol they will pretend like AnCaps that their ideas wont generate such a structure out of the vacuum.
I don't, I just know it exists, and it's a representation of what anarchists in general are like nowadays, nice try though. Maybe something more than,

Which is what now, exactly? Defending chokepoints from Monolith and mutants while Duty jerks off at the Bar? Definitely antifa material there.

Or maybe you're just a chronic shitposter.

Since we're taking the wiki as gospel: stalker.wikia.com/wiki/Duty
Gosh, what's the one faction that wears black suits?

You tell me - you're the one claiming that Freedom are marxists, even though there's no mention or hint of it in-game.

Apparently plenty of people like them.

Antifa != anarchist != marxist == antifa. I'm not sure where you come up with these ideas.

Rest of the post isn't even worth responding to, you're just talking out your ass and shouting buzzwords for things that you dislike because you take such great offense at the fact that someone like a different faction than you in a video game being discussed on a Taiwanese tapestry BBS.

Some of the S.T.A.L.K.E.R. books were set in Afghanistan. I'd love to see a Zone in the already-abandoned rust belt.

Fully agreed. There should also be more that are completely invisible or require special detection equipment, too. I'd love to have to buy a modifier for my NVG and then leave my NVG on during the day in order to see some otherwise invisible anomaly, or have to walk around with a detector out for more than just collecting artifacts. I mean, shit, the anomaly detector that beeps when you're too close to one in SoC should be either a suit upgrade, an item you have to wear on your belt, or both (freeing up a belt slot if you opt for the built-in one).

user don’t shitpost so hard it’s not healthy

Never ever.

Duty are Banderaists.

Roadside Picnic could give some ideas. Just eliminate the need of radioactive disaster out of the equation, replacing radiation with more exotic AOE anomalies.
And use this as a way bring new artifacts with different balance,no radiation as a excuse, with active abilities(fast travel ability like in AE for CoC, guiding, immunity to some insta-kill anomalies that only the rarest ones can give).

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This is faggotry and I do not approve of it.

Centralia, Pennsylvania.
A town that was abandoned in the 60’s because the coal mine underneath the town caught fire and is still burning to this day.
Imagine walking around innawoods until you come to an abandoned town, then when you go to investigate a chasm opens up into a great flaming abyss.

Was fun newfag. 1st pic related.

Yeah that's perfect, I wasn't aware of that movement, I'm not very savvy on Ukrainian politics.

Definitely Fukushima. But keep the anime faggotry out besides what is appropriate to find in the environment.

neat

and then you fall into it and a police officer has to explain on television that there was an idiot who was larping thought walking over land evacuated due to massive underground fires was a fun idea.

Better cough up those artifacts onii-chan~

in arizona there are some ghost-towns, including a few with abandoned copper mines that are pretty spooky. plus if you go in summertime the inevitable heatstroke will cause you to hallucinate, further enhancing the spookiness.

It's actually really dull there. All the cool buildings got torn down ages ago. Graffiti Highway is apparently pretty cool, but was covered in snow when I visited, although as you can see there are parts where it has completely buckled and twisted. There were no visible fires, the ground was solid, I didn't see a single sinkhole, and the town will probably be completely habitable again in another decade.

But there are no longer any buildings there except, maybe, a post office and a couple of mobile homes with old codgers who refuse to leave.

It's a general municipal building, there's a fire engine parked inside. I don't think it's an active post office, the town doesn't even have a zip code anymore. There is an old church, but that's private property and I wasn't about to break in. I was too busy trying to not slide off the road to take pictures of the houses, but they're ordinary houses - just propped up with massive brick pillars on the side so they won't lean when the ground shifts.

There was a school, but it's gone. The state also removed the town's name from the municipal building and from almost all of the road signs in the area, they're trying to just make the entire place vanish. The few people living there won a court case to be allowed to continue living there, but the houses and property are all owned by the state and when they move the houses will be demolished. You can see where there used to be houses - there are small driveways, starting to crumble, next to concrete pads. That's all that's left of them.

I considered knocking on the door of one of the houses and talking to the residents, but decided against it. Apparently they really hate the tourist attention the town gets, people trespass on their land and do things like take rocks and shit as if they were actual artifacts.

Also cell reception is really spotty, even more so than the normal hilly parts of PA.

МОНОЛИТ

I imagine what Monolith soldiers with lighter brainwashing do to pass time other than praying.. maybe setting fire to zombies, and where do Monolith get supplies from? All other factions could have connections outside the zone, but what about them?

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I wish Monolith was expanded upon more, fleshed out into a full religion of the Zone.

Freedumb leave.

Some drawfag needs to make an edit of that pic

Holy shit a talking mutant !
Then bartender grabs a shotgun and pumps the furry full of holes

Hey, what else are they gonna do besides shaking like weirdos?

Are you rping? Are you baiting?

At least the rock cultists aren't degenerate furfags and mutant fuckers. I'm gonna do a Monolith run next time I play CoC.
Why dear user, he's merely describing what would happen to such a beast.

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If you guys can find a PDF of it, I highly recommend reading the tabletop version of Roadside Picnic. It will make your Stalker boner harder than diamonds

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God they need to add that in Stalker 2 if it ever had a chance to exist

The Stalker devs are turning Metro Exodus into Stalker 2, taking features from Stalker and making it open world. Hopefully its moddable.

That's a shame.

>Dirge for a Planet
Pretty sure that should be 'the'.

Oy vey I'm gettin flashbacks

FUCK
turn on -dbg
Luckily they didn't change much inside the lab, it was pretty easy to disable it, the way out was a pain, but i had enough grenades

"In here, more than anywhere else, you need to act like a human fucking being, not like a greedy animal." -Bes

Hear that, Mercniggers?

Nobody can see the plant anymore in person (if you happen to visit Chernobyl. It's inside this cover while they still clean it inside.

It's Japan I guess but I'm still surprised nobody looted the place.

Yeah right "clean it", not "make psychic experiments" right?

Fun fact, his name actually comes from Bies, a slav version of a demon.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bies

Interdasting.
His name is really close to "mutt" and rabies like rage.

You know slavs are free thinkers when it comes to kabanos/kielbasa. You can eat them while drinking beer, vodka or even as solitary snack. You know, man should be free and eat meat any way he wants.

Last one is not so big a deal, except that it's in the way but god Clear Sky fucking sucks.

Isn't everything radioactive or something?

This is the most accurate of the STALKER alignment charts I've seen

I think the half life of S90 is 29 years, but what would you even take?
Don't Atomic/nuclear blast have an EMP disruption to electronic devices, and everything there is old, and fucked up.

CS trader sells Svarog detectors relatively soon Rank-wise.

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In general I'm not keen on alignment charts but that one is a special case.

As if I needed to like the man any more.

It's widely available at several pdf scam sites. It just so happens that tuxdoc is ridiculously easy to crack.
welp, better grab it while its hot
dropfile.to/OUQxGQF

Only an assblasted irrelevant faction would say something like this. Accept your place, subhuman. You are nothing compared to us. Weak, inexperienced, irrelevant scum. Weaklings who were worthless in normal society and are just as worthless in the Zone.

You a silly nig.

Such infuriating garbage.

No, because that requires a significant nuclear detonation in the atmosphere you idiot.

Yeah useful for doing the bidding of globalist scum, putting money before morals. ISIS and a number of "civil wars" come to mind.

I'll contribute. Here's a S.T.A.L.K.E.R. tabletop based on Savage Worlds, with character sheet.

Neat.

CoC 1.5 stable fucking WHEN? I've been waiting ages for it to come out of beta.

And here's the deluxe edition of the Savage Worlds rules. It's been ages since I went through the S.T.A.L.K.E.R. version so I can't remember if it's structured as a splatbook or a standalone. If it's a splatbook, you'll want this for reference.

And last but not least:

Direct link to the Stalker RPG pdf with no shitty landing page or need to 7zip/rename/whatever: my.mixtape.moe/ksagbx.pdf

The Stalker DOS game that nobody has ever heard of, needs dosbox to run: my.mixtape.moe/triivp.rar

Pic related is screencaps from the DOS game. It's quite terrible, honestly but at least it's not Clear Sky :^)

Duty
A dead one.

(checked)
My dream game is a S.T.A.L.K.E.R./New Vegas mix set in the great lakes area, more specifically Detroit.

Anyone else playing Last Day or Call of Misery?

So, i have arrived at Jupiter, and i noticed that many free stalkers are now friendly to me, Im playing as Ecologist, is this related to my reputation (excellent) or the fact i disabled the brain scorcher and miracle machine?

Also since Cardan is in the station i rushed into Zaton to check the Skadovsk, and the place is now a Monolith base, where are Beard, Owl and Nimble if they aren't in the ship? Is there a way to retake the ship?

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Ok the situation was even more weird than that, what happened was: a fucking monolith squad was chilling inside the ship with everyone else as if they were all best buddies, they didn't kill any of the ship's NPCs, they would only aggro on me.

Maybe code remnants for the Bandit-Loner / Duty-Freedom relationship in CoP bases?

Well i don't care what caused it, they are dead now and i can use the ship normally, as long as they don't keep respawning inside the ship im fine with it

I would actually play Rusty Kitchen Sink without the MMO tier shit, but the weapon animations are abusmal compared to the three main arsenal mods.
Can you actually add said arsenal mods to Call of Misery?

Honestly don't have one, but I guess my regular play is Loner
I despise them all for the sheer number of heart attacks they have given me, but I especially hate the controller. I play with headphones, so it's not enough that they cause damage to my guy, but even when I'm avoiding their attacks my ears are still bleeding.
Playing CoC, master, Clear sky, Ironman mode as always so I don't expect to succeed. Started the story and got into the agroprom underground but had to turn back since I didn't have the helmet. Currently waiting on the completed thing to finish, then i'll tackle it again. Provided I don't die horribly with this guy I'll pop into other stalker threads that pop up as I'm playing with progress reports.

Who drew that?

The world may never know.

Everyone already died at the beginning of clear skies, the game was your brain catching up and accepting your death.

Are there any significant changes? Main thing I'm looking forward to are mods that stop the game being so much of a sandbox. CoM helps a little by making resource management a bit more complex and drawing out the hobo phase a bit but it isn't enough.

I don't quite know how this all works but…
"Damnit I need to shit!"
"But you just went Vladimir!"

I wanted to go there on my trip there but I got told I don't need cancer.

Your link no longer works, could you re-upload it?

Last Day at least includes a mix of stcop ao and vanilla misery weapons. I think you'll need to download a separate addon for Call of Misery.
There are also addons that make the difficultly less autistic. So keep an eye out for those.

Stalker is gay

I don't think CoM is compatible to any other big mods unless they are built on CoM like Last Day is

I use the 10x artifact value to make artifact hunting viable and also adds to the immersion, since a jellyfish artifact would be worth much more than a single fucking MRE
But i made a bit too much money and lowered it to the 5x value now, i like to think my character overloaded the market with artifacts and the prices dropped

I didn't know mutants could shitpost

files.catbox.moe/xsl0y7.rar
Though for all I know the user who made it might have taken it down for a new version.

I think I played the good guy too much.

I am thinking of fucking with 1-2 factions to get some feuds going. Maybe those crybabies at Freedom.
What do you think?

So, i just found out the Monolith has a base in Jupiter on the mod Last Day, right here
I couldn't wish for a better base to raid, there is only one exit, i just simply sit and snipe them all day until they all die, this is now my favorite spot

I would love to hunt freedom down, but they have some of the best fucking bases, specially Yanov
If you want more challenge go poke the mercs, after monolith and military they are probably the strongest

I'd like to increase the amount of uses a repair kit has in CoC but also crank up their weight for balancing. Any idea how I can do that? Didn't see anything in the gamefiles where I could edit it.

Reinstalled COP after a couple years
If I really wanted to like Misery 2.0 but couldn't because of retarded balance (the ammo cost just made it not fun for me) and 10^10 useless items, what should I play now?

what is Last Day on about?

>Dr. Eric (((Berg))), 50 years of age is a chiropractor who specializes in weight loss through nutritional and (((natural))) methods.
>casewatch.org/board/chiro/berg.shtml

I'm interested as well, dropped my CoM run for a while but might have a look at getting back into stalker if Last Day spices it up.

Its CoM with more stuff, basically a modpack all ready to play and shit, its not THAT hard if you use the value booster addon for artifacts, so you can earn money.
I suggest starting in Yantar as Ecologist, go to Agropom and make a fortune with the two anomalies between the military base and yantar's entrance

So this is a mega mod pack? I'm looking at the page right now and it has a bunch of other mods in it. Also there is a pack of 116 more mods for it, is that worth it? Also i'm not getting this, do i have to install it over CoC or can i install in separately like CoC to CoP?

It's Stand-Alone. It came with a folder where you can "touch-up" some things if you want.

I'd take the same, but in Utah. Have you ever played NeoScavenger? That might be fun in the meantime.

Jesus Christ this is some high level ruskies autism.

Just download and play, not even an installation is required, but you might want the english translation (the mod is russian) that is on the mod description page and this
moddb.com/mods/stalker-last-day/addons/expensive-artefacts

I just installed Call of Misery and what the ACTUAL fuck is up with this grass
I can run for 90 seconds in one direction in Zaton and never see more than 6 inches in front of my face. Of course mutants have no such issues.

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Oh, there's literally a "Grass height" slider
How fucking bizarre

Neat, still think the game was shit.

Fuck I'm gonna die of a time anomaly before this shit actually comes out of beta

also new bread?

Yeah, it doesn't validate it after the fact, unfortunately.

Does it make buying stuff even more expensive or something? I don't see why they'd bother as CoM had it set up pretty well already. Is there anything particularly notable that it adds to the game? My data is capped so I'd rather not spend 7GB if the changes compared to CoM aren't very significant. I saw someone mention it adds another area to the game which sounds good I guess.

Anyone knows if it's possible to force your faction relations to overwrite your own player relations in Dynamic Factions mod for CoC?

Would you a bloodsucker?

Duty or Loner
bloodsucker :3
CoC 1.4.22 with AO3.1, Autumnal winds, Outfit Addon 1.4.7 and a lot of small mods

Last Day has a super expensive upgrade system for armor, you need to give expensive equipment parts plus 10~20k for each upgrades to the technician
With x5 expensive artifacts they sell mostly for 15k~30k in average

About extra content it has a ton of other mods that are usually not compatible with CoM, more weapons, more supply types, more quests, story from DrX and stuff

Oh hey I used to have that exact monitor.

What are the downsides

its female

Uninstalled CoM reinstalled CoC
Quality of life significantly improved

Just fetch quests?

Uh, so I installed Last Day and it seems good so far, but after skinning a mutant for the first time I can no longer draw weapons, knife/grenades included, is this a known bug?

AtmosFear made it more bearable.

No.

They actually look like this and will murder you.

I think I'll just ditch this and see if it's had more bugfixes/polish in a few months. I guess I was spoiled by CoM working flawlessly because I can't stand this shit.

Is this intentional?

I mostly want it for the ability to cook and eat mutant foods without having my skin melt.
Here's the full patch notes: pastebin.com/WcZi44T2

Loners all the way.
Chimera to hunt with an over-under shotgun
Call of Chernobyl but I don't know if I should get Original Weapon Revamp or STCoP since I already tried out Arsenal Overhaul and I hated how some variations of the weapons just felt the same. The Beowulf M4 is just unbelievably broken yet, fun to mess around with especially since a good solid 5-6 hits with JSP puts down a Pseudogiant whereas anything smaller just drops dead the moment you pull the trigger once.

I recommend STCoP over OWR personally, probably the best weapon pack out of them all I find

About to try out Call of Misery. Any essential mods/addons I should use? Gonna try the STCoM and Outfit Addon CoM version, but anything else I should add like tweaks, huds etc?

Can anybody upload it to a non-shit site, like mixtape.moe, pretty please?

If you use outfit addon also grab the improved item icons from the CoC outfit addon. The files are included in the CoC addon, but you only need to take the CoM icon files, not the whole thing. Structures Redux is always a good idea as a lot of the default building textures look like shit. I've not played CoM in a while but you might want to check if there are any nature overhauls, the CoC ones aren't really compatible and will look terrible if you try to use them.

As for HUDs I liked using Nano HUD, though IIRC it caused a CTD when used with any outfit with a screen overlay, I remember copying part of a configuration file in the default CoM installation into the Nano HUD version of that file to get it to work. It should be obvious what you need to do if you check the crashlog, as I remember figuring it out pretty quickly.

Thanks, I check those all out. Sucks to go back to 1.4.22 but oh well, only means Controllers are useless to ai and no campfire squats.

Already did. See

Can u go exploring the wilderness in this game or is it usually a death sentence?

there isn't much wilderness to explore, but you re not going to die from straying from the main path if you carry decent equipment since you might run into some strong enemies or packs of them.

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I am sure this has been asked a hundred times, but what is a good unofficial patch to go with for SoC?

How come you can't play as a girl?

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The zone is no place for gay shit like women. Only straight comradeship between stalkers.

Нахуя ты насрал на барабан, гнида?

Jesus christ I should look at the shit i upload before posting

wow rude

This happened before in another save too. Why the fuck does this happen? I have no problem with genociding every last one of them but why does it happen? I didn't kill anyone from their faction and I'm not using any shitty and broken muh active faction relations mod.

А Якубовичу думаешь было приятно?

Ecologist, because they have the potential to end up in the most spooky shit.
Think about the other Stalker factions the Loners, Bandits, Mercenaries and Freedom are mostly in it for the money and Clear Sky and Duty want to purge the Zone/Mutants.
If something in the Zone becomes too dangerous or doesn't advances their goal of money/purging they don't go into it and avoid it.
For the Ecologist on the other hand everything in the Zone is of interest as even the most banal things could hold the secret to a scientific miracle, more knowledge about our natural/physical world and the materials for new inventions.
Considering the awesome stuff the Zone is producing the conflict in the Stalker Universe seems too small, there should be a mad scramble for the Zone.
Snorks, because they are Stalkers and Soldiers twisted by the Zone after coming into a Blowout. Too bad there aren't enough different models in the game or NPCs having the chance to turn into a Snork when they fail to get into safety during a Blowout.
There is also a hint that Snorks have their own communities and culture. Would be cool to have a Mutant Faction in the Game.
Only played CoC vanilla and with the Oblivion Lost Mod, saw the other games and found them wanting. I also haven't seen good mods or ANY mod that makes you do more Ecologist stuff.

n-nobody?

ZRP, it's in the fucking thread

The weapon vise repair system in Last Day is a fucking mess. First, each time you intend to use it, you have to gift the mechanic a full bottle of an specific brand of vodka which at the trader go for around $800 (there's an unattended vise in the train station in Garbage but you can't use that one because fuck you).
If you're lucky you might be able to attach your weapon (half of the things I tried will just say "you don't know how to repair this weapon").
Then you ostensibly can replace parts of the weapon with parts you have salvaged from others, which is no easy feat either. To disassemble handguns, shotguns or rifles you need respectively a swiss army knife, a crowbar or a sledgehammer (around $2000 each), and to actually disassemble weapons, you have to drag the tool over the weapon like a half dozen times until it registers. I still haven't found what you're supposed to use to disassemble outfits.
So you would be set now, except you also need a set of tools of the specific caliber you are replacing (>$7000). And seeing how field repair items are single use, I wouldn't be surprised if the jews expected you to buy another set of tools every time.

Also
Fuck this I'm out. Back to CoC to me.

Almost forgot:

Yeah the economy is a fucking mess. It makes no sense to upgrade a shitty gun you find when you can just get a good quality one that needs repaired from killing the military, save up to repair it and then have something that never needs replaced. I used a rusty SVT-40 I repaired for a while since it didn't cost too much to repair and it could take a scope. Then I just saved up and repaired an AK-74 I found.

You need a multi-tool to disassemble everything, these cost about $4000, most pistols can't be disassembled. The tool-sets for each calibre aren't consumed on use. But the repair system is useless anyway. Not only can you just repair a gun that is already at good quality for around the same price, but it's near impossible to actually upgrade any uncommon weapon as you're unlikely to get good quality parts for them, if any at all. I found two SVT-40 in total after killing at least 100~ bandits. One of which I was using, the other gave me a single damaged part. For the vice thing, you can just kill an enemy mechanic then their vice is free to use. An add-on that lets you disguise yourself just got released so with that you can kill the mechanic at cordon military checkpoint or something then go there with a military disguise. Though I do think it should be changed so once you give a mechanic some vodka you can use their vice any time you like. This fits with the tool giving thing as well, you invest in the mechanic to unlock upgrades, etc.

I haven't noticed this at all, I find old and damaged varieties but my stack of 5.45 is fine.
Uh, must have been on your end as alcohol or other drinks remove radiation from me just fine, if you took a massive whack of radiation you might have to drink multiple though.
As far as I know this is an issue on every CoC derivative, you just have to save and re-take the quest until the pointer appears in an area that can only be a hostile faction. I've not really had an issue with it being set to Monolithians, I guess they're probably the most numerous enemies in the entire game which stacks the deck a bit though.
Same in Vanilla CoC, the issue here being everything else is now expensive. I think pretty much everyone uses the addon that multiplies their value by 2.5 or some other similar thing. The addon that increases item sale prices by 25% is also a good idea.

Overall the economy in every CoC derivative is garbage. In vanilla everything is cheap as fuck and you can be rolling around with a top end gun and outfit way to quickly. In CoM/Last Day a lot of the item repair/upgrade mechanics are poorly thought out or fucking useless since they cost so damn much. A prime example are the heavy duty repair kits, which are really heavy and cost more than buying a new fucking gun. How would you ever need these? Most automatics degrade pretty slowly so you can easily keep them in good condition with gun oil. And if you did need to repair something that was fucked you'd just take it to a mechanic.

The disposable ones are shit, there are military kettles and some other kits which are re-usable.
I'm confused about these too. There's a shitty option you can enable the results in you losing money when you sleep because you got robbed apparently, so I guess you'd stash money to avoid this. But it's a shitty mechanic since nothing actually happens, you just lose a chunk of the money you had when you sleep. There's no confrontation or anything.
I hadn't bothered with these as scopes work fine but that's fucking stupid, you don't need a weapon slot for binoculars in CoM.

found this funny

Simply put 2 bullets in one chamber.

What's the Holla Forums consensus on Clear Sky?
The faction, not the game

Most in favour.

They've got some of the best light armor, in both stats and appearance.

I'm really feeling it.

They're what Freedom and Ecologists should have been. Just roll the fuckers into a single good faction and get rid of the two bad ones.

If it's Zone outskirts and the prime population is corrupt military, treasure-hunter uni dropouts armed with traumatic guns, and local chavs, I see no reason why smalltown slags wouldn't tag along to whore it up. But beyond that, going deeper into the zone proper, I doubt that many of these cadres would survive.

There are no women in the Zone because it makes the Zone jealous.

I want to start stalkan' again but I want 1.5 to come out the beta.
Then I'd have to update my mass of mods and force it to be stable
How much longer Holla Forums? When can I go back to the zone?

You're a fucking idiot. Freedom is the perfect example of Jewish deception that morons always fall for. First the name "Freedom" implying they actually embody the human belief of it when really it's a lie, just like "equality". Then there is the obvious communistic belief of "equal" access to the Zone. The Zone being a degenerate perversion of nature that gets "Freedom" off in the first place. There is a reason most soyboy faggots love Freedom: Because it doesn't hurt their feelings and it's "inclusive". Just what the Jew indoctrination center "school" taught them to parrot in real life. Duty is the NatSoc faction in Stalker. and just like the real life counterpart they are staffed by almost all ex-military with a clear objective and with a good sense of right and wrong. But they say mean things that hurt my feefees! :(

I don't think you understand what a "cuck" is. Typical among low emotional IQ soyboy faggots who gaslight their opponents and try and reverse the meaning of labels. Marxists historically are liars and deceivers, just like the Jews who created the ideology. They never spell out their true agenda while always hiding it under misnomers, language manipulation, and false ideas useful idiots like you get sucked into fighting for. Communists/Marxists love to use anarchism to destroy the target society they seek to topple. Historical examples are plentiful. Ergo: Freedom are Marxist trash and so are the braindead faggots like you who side with them. Now gas yourself, shitstain.

Women wouldn't last in the Zone. They'd either be raped to death by Bandits. Shot. Killed by mutants. Or just killed by the biological lack of physical ability.

I hope i will live to see Stalker 2

No shit, maybe I should have been less vague. It does surprise me that no attempts to set up prostitution rings in the Zone though.

My dude, he implied that Antifa wasn't communist. You're dealing with a total downy here.

*have been made