Alright how in the FUCK do I pay this I put it on master difficulty

>>381891123
The mutants are "bullet sponges" for obvious reasons but humans drop dead from 1-2 headshots from basically any gun.

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>in first area outside ship
>suddenly 3 crawling soldiers jump 500m in the air at me and kill me

>>381891123
Use the proper ammo, cover and vodka

What do I do when there's a 'blowout'

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>>381891123
1) Don't start with the LAST game of the trilogy.
2) Learn to aim, mind the bullet physics.
3) Get better guns. The rookie stuff is hobo-tier shit.
4) Git gud, don't rambo.

It's even more embarrassing if you're having with THE easiest and most underwhelming game in the whole series.

Here's the rookie guide for all the beginners out there.

>>381891367
Use binoculars to scan for movement
>>381891436
Check the map for nearest cover

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>>381891123
Don't tell me you picked CoP as your first STALKER game? Get SoC and beat it first.

In case of CS and CoP, you NEED to upgrade your weapons to make any use out of them. Their stock stats are nerfed to hell. In SoC, you just get better guns and aim to the head.

>>381891123
Sounds like someone is having fun but not realizing it yet.

Master doesn't increase your damage/decrease enemy health. It does the exact opposite.

>>381891252
Not the start guns, which seem to fire BBs.

as others have said don't start at the third game of a trilogy
aim for the head and use ap rounds, always carry a shotgun for mutants

>>381891123
>WHY DO I KEEP DYING INSTANTLY OF RADIATION WHEREVER I GO
once the radiation starts go up, you can move away from it, there are also items that combat the radiation
it usually means you don't have good enough armor to explore the area yet
and aim for heads, starting guns are kinda shit but once you actually connect they will drop

>>381891123
don't listen to retards - play on normal stalker difficulty and aim for the head

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>>381892139
you're not hitting them to the head if that's the case. Like said: there are no hitscan guns in STALKER, and in the case of sequel games, there's also a very RPG-y upgrade tree system, that means the starting specs of all weapons and suits are way below their full potential.

You can compensate a lot by playing well and by getting AP rounds.

>>381892290
if i recall corretly, only Shadow of Chernobyl actually had the bullet drop out

Headshots fool.
You can run around with a heavily nodded pistol and do good.

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>suddenly 200 zombies with guns

>>381892654
Fully upgraded Black Kite/Steppe Eagle is a fucking sniper in CoP and the damage is oustanding as well

Why isn't CS as well regarded as SoC and CoP?

>>381892806
Easy loot

>>381892870
>slow start, shit ending
>recycled maps
>action over exploration, with the action part, namely the faction war, being fucking broken
It has its moments though

>>381891686
This image is gold. Though I never quite get to "God of the Zone" phase. By the time I'm kitted out with that shit I'm already facing Monolith and they're hardcore

>>381892806
it's a script, is triggered just after you entering one specific, quest related house

>>381893345
I've literally just went in the first shelter ship place and went west

And there was an invisible monster chasing me in the first 100m from the beginning

>>381892290
landing a perfectly led vintar headshot is one of the best feelings in a game.

>>381893501
jesus christ, it almost sounds that you're not enjoying none of that!

>>381893657
no i am not

>>381893501
>And there was an invisible monster chasing me in the first 100m from the beginning
Rookie stories are the best

>few years ago people said to just skip straight to CoP and definitely ignore CS since it was the best mechanically and the story is standalone
>now people are saying to play in order
Well what is it then?

>>381893501
Knife it.

Seriously, chase it around and knife the cocksucker.

>>381893789
Do both. At the same time.

>>381893789
u wot? I've heard people saying to skip CS, but never have I seen anyone recommend starting with CoP.

gunslinger when REEEE

>>381893789
CS feels a bit like a detour, so you need to try it for yourself. You shouldn't skip SoC

>>381893789
>few years ago people said to just skip straight to CoP and definitely ignore CS since it was the best mechanically and the story is standalone
what
I like CoP the best but I would recommend playing in order, maybe skip CS and only play it if you want more stalkan after CoP

>>381893789
CoP fanboys should be ignored. CoP is a good game, but it's easily the most fucking boring out of the 3.

Is there anything in BIS camp?

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>>381891123
go play shit like fallout 4

>>381891123
>I put it on master difficulty because apparently the enemies are bullet sponges are lower ones
You got memed on: http://www.gsc-game.com/index.php?t=community&s=forums&s_game_type=xr&thm_id=23742&page=2&sec_id=11&offset=420

Basically all guns until you get to second hub (Bar) suck. Enjoy quality Slav ballistics.

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Who else /Call of Chernobyl/ here?

Playing as Monolith is probably the most I've enjoyed stalkan.

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>8 days
>819 stalkers killed

>>381896061
when is update?

>>381896061
I wish there is some quest submod for it, it can be tedious running around that big ass map. My last character was pretty much at peace with everyone aside from the Military and Monoloth.

>>381896173
When you're Monolith everybody who isn't part of your faction is always hostile
>>381896312
No idea my man, sorry.
>>381896356
There is, have you tried DoctorX Questlines mod? It's pretty much essential imo.

"play on master mode" is a meme in the same vein as "boku no pico".
Yall got duped.

>>381896061
I play the story mode as a Merc. Started in Zaton which is fucking overrun by zombies and Monolith. The Merc base was wiped out the moment I left to explore which felt bleak as fuck.

>>381896543
Ehhh, the game is easy enough you might as well play on Master.

>>381896061
>Literally impossible to find tools

Loved the mod but fuck that shit.

>>381896543
>implying

>have potato laptop
>can't stalk
>just lurk stalker threads

>>381897176
I have a 1080 ti and only get like 100 fps

>>381896997
I found Basic, Advanced and Expert tools in a single "outing". They mostly spawn in stash locations you get for completing tasks as best I can tell.

I agree with you though, hunting down stashes just to get a couple of faction patches and an energy drink is a pain in the arse.

>>381891123
americans play stalker.wav

enemies being bullet sponges was the reason I edited the weapon.txt's (every single one) to make the weapons actually do something. i can just recommend anyone to do the same. game just got way more fun.

>>381893789
Played all 3, enjoyed all 3 for slightly different reason, but the core gameplay is pretty much the same.
Suggest you play them in order of their making.
But hey that's just like my opinion maaaan

>>381897176
You telling me you can't run even the first stalker with some performance tweeks?

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>learn to peak
>If you're close enough, aim for head
>If you're not, double tap center mass

The zone giveth, the zone taketh away

>>381897971
I can run vanilla Quake 1 and that's about it

>>381898134
uuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuh Ahmed I do not envy you

>>381891123
install weapon overhaul

>>381891123
Praise the monolith

>>381898102
>>If you're close enough, aim for head
>>If you're not, double tap center mass
it's like the opposite, if you're close you can just spray them, sure the shots after the first one do less damage but it's still viable

if you're far away, you have all the time in the world to hunt their heads

Is CoP supposed to be short as shit? I cleared all the quests from the first area in a couple of hours, there are only 3 areas and the last one is supposedly the shortest?

CoP is shit though

Any CoC + STCoP users here? Anyone know if there's some NPC damage multiplier for 9x39 and 7.62x51 weapons? I consistently get 1-shotted in a fully upgraded exo by anyone with a G3 or VAL while I have to double/triple tap guys in sunrise suits with a SCAR 17.

>>381900075
your taste is shit

>>381901193
you can use my CoC if you know what i mean

also
>playing mods
>whining about imbalanced gameplay

>>381891686
Why was the image for stage 1 changed?

Im playing SoC and I have one question

Can I fix my stuff? I guess if you cant that is the reason why money is so easy to make so you can buy fuckloads of weapons and suits

>>381901857
You can repair suits with the 5 battieres exploit, but you can't repair your weapons in unmodded SoC

>>381901857
Somebody once told me you can fix armour if you stack resistance artefacts in a way that gives you over 100% resistance and walk into an anomaly of that type. I don't think you can fix guns in vanilla, which sucks if you want to use an unique one because it will inevitably degrade and you can't do anything about it.

>>381891367
>crawling soldiers

kek

>>381893168
The Red Forest and Great Swamp maps are quite good. CS Cordon also has a better design.

>>381896061
The Faction War 3 was better.

>>381898762
it is quite short if you power through it without exploring and shit. I literally, no joke, spend two WEEKS just doing "pointless" adventuring and sidequests, in all 3 vanilla games, on my first playthroughs. And again with big mods.

>>381891123
>just started, looking around
>see person with a dope ass shotgun bitching about his idiot friend who's stuck in a super-sauna
>fucking bullet sponge takes a whole fucking ONE BULLET out of my Makarov before he dies.

Bullshit ass bullet sponge game, gotta waste a whole bullet to kill someone.

>>381891123
Same here OP. Everyone around here constantly talks about how great the stalker series is, but I just had to refund it. It's not for me. Maybe if I played it when it first came out id have a different opinion.

>>381897430
Try increasing weapon impulse into the thousands, you can propel bandits into orbit and make crates fucking vanish through the sheer force of your projectiles. It's all kinds of wonderful.

>>381895785
Either your mouse sensitivity is too high, or you're playing with a controller.

>>381892419
I think all of them got it, but CS overdone it.

>>381904403
Go back to CoD summerfriend

>>381891123
Shit series, get a refund while you still can.

>>381893789
CoP is the easiest and most polished, that's why people recommend it I think. I started with CoP, played through it and liked it a lot, but can't get into SoC because everything feels so much more clunky.

>>381902041
>>381902058

Well that sucks. I only have the zone reclamation since doesnt change anything but Im might wanna install a repair mod.

Any good one?

Also I played the game in reverse: after the Bar I went to the Army Warehouse instead of the Dark Valley and got pretty much hundreds of nato weapons, now Im steamrolling everywhere and the game turned so much easy.

Its a shame soviet hardware is such a shitstain weapons

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HCSjMz-YK2M&t=0s
I want em pee stalking.

>>381905294
>Its a shame soviet hardware is such a shitstain weapons

Isn't the Vintar (VSS Vintorez) one of the best weapons in the game?

>>381893789
you won't lose anything by playing CoP first and it is highly recommended to play it first, since it's the most polished experience (and the only game in series that has no game breaking bugs, like ever-lasting radiation poisoning in SoC or NPC refusing to guide you to the next level in CS), but since many people that started STALKER from CoP (and thus recommending to play it) have played previous titles, the same people are now recommending it to play in order of release.
rating for newcomer:
CoP - best experience (well balanced between story, gameplay mechanics, multiple outcomes of your actions, Fallout 1 style)
SoC - best atmosphere (creepy as fuck, feel of loneliness among an alien landscape)
SC - mixed bag

>>381905207
>easiest
CoP has legit the hardest underground encounters in entire series (i've never died as much as in prypyat's lab with multiple burers and that's with nearly maxed loadout and exosuit)

>>381907157
CoP is also far and away the worst at explaining the game, it just nonchalantly plops you into the ass end of nowhere and expects you to figure things out from there. As a bonus it outright spoils parts of the earlier games as well. SoC might be a bit more janky, but it has a better progression to it and it's more immediately captivating than the themepark-esque CoP with its initial confusion.

>>381901483
Did I hurt your feewings?

>>381907358
>shoot RPG into the room
or
>use gauss rifle
Wow that was hard.
Whereas the sarcophagus and control center were far harder and unforgiving, especially on Master.

>>381891123
>the enemies are bullet sponges are lower ones
This is a myth

>>381907502
1) there's nothing worth explaining - stalker is great for its atmosphere and mystery (so less explaining is even better);
2) uh... see the first p.1

STALKER is so fucking easy once you get used to the gun play.

>>381907753
RPG weighs a fucking ton and I didn't have gauss rifle yet, when I visited the place.

also, it was on highest difficulty, but so were the previous titles and i've never died as many times in previous two.

>>381907942
>RPG weighs a fucking ton
not a problem when you use exo suit + drugs
> I didn't have gauss rifle yet
literally why
You have to fetch the documentation in Zaton to enter X8 anyway, so you might as well get a functional gauss gun while you're there
X8 wasn't hard, the two burers were the only part of the level that could be considered as challenging, and even on master I didn't have trouble, especially because medkits grow like weed in this game so you just have to abuse army medkits and blast them with a shotgun to move forward.

>>381897430
The enemies really aren't bullet sponges until you get to the monolith & pseudogiant stage of the game tho?

>>381908281
oh fuck off, retard

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>>381908408
>getting assblasted when proven wrong

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>kill that first bloodsucker in the Agroprom Underground
>immediately get my asshole filled with lead by a rag tag team of soldiers

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>>381908828
>hunting dogs in the cordon
>a spetsnaz patrol arrives

>>381908828
>said rag tag team of soldiers get destroyed by the bloodsucker in the dark.
>you have a dinky viper

Surely its not the best of the three, but why do people hate Clear Sky so much? I liked it

Ok, what is the best CoP mod?

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>>381910987
for rookies: Starter Pack's shit.
for veterans: Misery 2.11

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>>381910241
It was horribly broken during launch, and still has some varying issues that are hard to fix. Most modders also jumped back to SoC because of that, and/or skipped CS completely for CoP when it arrived.

I kinda prefer CS over CoP as well. It's been patched into a-OK state, and Starter Pack helps even more. I dig the game's rough economy, which makes the game's hard to get and notably stronger artifacts also a main source of income.

>Call of Pripyat

REAL MEN PLAY VANILLA CLEAR SKY ONLY

>>381911678
Uhh, anything other than Misery?
Didn't like Memery, it's basically no-fun-allowed: the mod filled with artificial difficulty bullshit.
Although, I might play it again, has it been made at least somewhat tolerable now? Also, give some tips.

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>>381891515
>still posting this ancient garbage
>>381891686
>posting the worse image
>>381911678
>Misery
>any year
Fuck off rookie

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>>381912208
>artificial difficulty
Sorry, didn't know I was talking to a plebeian.

>give some tips
Git gud, and play it like a STALKER game.
Don't tell me you played with Complete mods or something at first?

>>381912213
>Fuck off rookie
You wish, newfag. Played all the games day-1, made tons of these mod packs and guides people post nowadays.

>>381891515
>All suits come with Nightvision
NANI?!

>>381892290
>You can compensate a lot by playing well

No you can't. The bullet spread is completely random.

>>381910987
Misery with Absolute Nature 4 on top to get rid of that retarded shitsmeared brown look

>>381912746
SOME suits, mate. Learn to read.

>>381912905
No, it really is not. And anyone not born after the year 2000 would master the game by figuring out the bullet-spread.

Popping heads in Misery is easier than ever.

>>381912905
Accuracy is almost 100% if you're using a good rifle and not spraying like a retard.

>>381913043
>SOME suits, mate. Learn to read.
Oh. Shit mang, that was some brainfart.

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>>381913043
>>381913070

No, it's random in SoC. Maybe it was changed in the sequels, but I doubt it.

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>>381907753
>Zulu's PKM, modded for maximum firepower
>800 autistically hoarded rounds
It probably wasn't the ideal way to deal with things, but fuck me if it wasn't entertaining.

>>381913806
It's not so random that you could not compensate with low-crouch and AIMING.

>>381911868
Think CS tries to be closer to a traditional WRPG than SoC, but it doesn't push itself.

>>381915295
Yes it is.

>>381914905
I love using fully modded PKMs especially if you max the firing rate and decrease recoil as much as possible

>>381912557
>he likes shittery
>calls others plebs
Loving every laugh

>>381916821
>parroting casuals
>2017
you have no idea how embarrassing you are at the moment.

>>381916889
Misery is garbage and here's why.
First off, its nothing like what Stalker is supposed to be and the Author stated that it was an intentional decision to take away the elements that make Stalker into what Stalker is supposed to be.

Vanilla/patched Stalker is a very fair game.
You can kill most enemies, unless they wear exo skeletons, with pretty much one bullet to the head and they can do the same to you, doesnt matter íf you both have pistols, AKs or RPGs.
Misery doesnt want you to that though.
Misery doesnt want you to explore at your own pace.
Misery knows whats best for you.
So misery devised a devious little plan.
Instead of being able to kill enemies based on your shooting skill, it takes away your ability to kill enemies that, for example, wear helmets, with regular ammo.
Sure you can still kill them, if you put 5 mags into their heads at point blank range, but THEY can still fuck your face with one round.
So what do you do?
You find the zones that you CAN go through with your shitty pistol, farm that area for the rusted garbage and garbage clutter items until you can afford AP ammo.
But be aware that AP ammo doesnt work on Mutants, so fuck you if you want to hunt with AP ammo.
Go get some hollow points instead you fuck.
Its not like any bullet does massive damage against soft tissue you massive casual.
Fuck you this is Misery, you'll play this mod by our rules or you wont play at all.

So now you're wondering how you're actually supposed to MAKE the money for the bullets.
You could just pick up enemy weaponry, sell it and take their bullets.
Oh no you cant because the enemy doesnt have bullets and their weapons are all rusted pieces of shit from the second world war.
Have some more clutter instead you dumb fuck.

No instead of scavenging, you'll suck dick until you can afford hollow points so you can spend 10 hours hunting mutants until you can afford AP ammo.

As you can see, its not Stalker anymore.
Its Stalker: The RPG

>>381917676
Is there a way to disable that bullet sponge shit? Like another mod or something?
I really like the content and how everything works, but enemies being bullet sponges is what makes me want to kill myself.

>>381917676
>First off, its nothing like what Stalker is supposed to be and the Author stated that
And who decides what STALKER is "supposed to be"? Every single mod on this planet is more or less someone's personal interpretation on their view on a "perfect STALKER game".

>Vanilla/patched Stalker is a very fair game.
piss easy you mean?
>You can kill most enemies, unless they wear exo skeletons, with pretty much one bullet to the head and they can do the same to you, doesnt matter íf you both have pistols, AKs or RPGs.
Except it makes default weapons piss weak and inaccurate, to make the upgrades needed
>Misery doesnt want you to that though.
Really?
>Misery doesnt want you to explore at your own pace.
really?
>Misery knows whats best for you.
Uh huh?
>Instead of being able to kill enemies based on your shooting skill, it takes away your ability to kill enemies that, for example, wear helmets, with regular ammo.
Funny how that has worked just fine for me.
Plus hollow points not penetrating a helmet make sense.
>Sure you can still kill them, if you put 5 mags into their heads at point blank range
or one shot, like I did. Because in case you missed it, in MISERY, "head" is divided to individual parts, like face, the skull, even jaw.
>You find the zones that you CAN go through with your shitty pistol, farm that area for the rusted garbage and garbage clutter items until you can afford AP ammo.
Unless you start with Black Road, like I did, you start with fine weapons.
>But be aware that AP ammo doesnt work on Mutants, so fuck you if you want to hunt with AP ammo.
Why WOULD you hunt with AP ammo? Are YOU a moron?
>Go get some hollow points instead you fuck.
Or buckshot, which is everywhere.

tl;dr: ADHD casual kids who never truly mastered the ways of the Zone, are now crying when they jumped on a mod meant for serious veterans like me.
Got it. Knew that already years ago, but it's lovely to hear loud and clear testimonials every once in a while.

>>381892290

Damn if only STALKER had more gibbing of the head.

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>>381918776
People complaining about "bullet sponges" after the first two minutes in vanilla SoC never truly took the training wheels off.

Fucking hell, I keep mowing down Mercs in exo suits down with a fucking machine PISTOL all the time in Misery 2.1! What the hell are YOU people doing?

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>a lively STALKER thread on /v/

Nice to see.

>>381919047
>t wannabe armchair Stalker
AMK did Misery years before.
Except AMK actually did it properly.

>>381919236
Which difficulty you playing?

Download misery, game instantly becoming much more fun.

>>381919456
I love AMK to bits, but MISERY is seriously an all different experience.

AMK = restoring cut content and making the Zone more lively and dangerous.

MISERY = worth its name, and making the most underwhelming game actually challenging for a change, even adds a proper "hobo phase".

>>381919047
>Except it makes default weapons piss weak and inaccurate, to make the upgrades needed
And you're calling me the casual?
>Really?
Yes
>really?
Yes
>Uh huh?
Yes
>Funny how that has worked just fine for me.
Plus hollow points not penetrating a helmet make sense.
So if i shoot someone in the unprotected part of the face, the rest of the helmet should magicaly absorb the blow?
>MISERY, "head" is divided to individual parts, like face, the skull, even jaw.
Sauce me up boi
>Unless you start with Black Road, like I did, you start with fine weapons.
Black Road is how its supposed to be played so thats not an argument.
>Why WOULD you hunt with AP ammo? Are YOU a moron?
Shit i forgot AP ammo doesnt actually go through soft targets.
Oh wait it actually does.

So once again, you wont get hard Stalker cred for playing Misery, you will however be classed together with the rest of the special ed kids that shill Misery in every stalker thread.

>>381919047
>in MISERY, "head" is divided to individual parts, like face, the skull, even jaw.
>realism is blowing chunks off of people's heads but they keep going like nothing happened because you didn't blow the right part off of their head
even if you're wearing a vest a pistol will fuck you up and probably put you on the ground. head shots hitting a helmet will also fuck you up bad.

>>381919594
>AMK = restoring cut content and making the Zone more lively and dangerous.
>MISERY = turns Stalker into an RPG
ftfy

>WHY DO I KEEP DYING INSTANTLY OF RADIATION WHEREVER I GO
Are you kidding me with this shit, OP? Anti-rad meds are so common in the game that you will actually get sick of seeing them after a few hours of playing.
Git gud.

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>>381891123
>game is hard
>WAAAAAAAH
jesus christ i play this game with mods that make master difficulty even harder, learn how to learn

pic is a screenshot of two loners who disarmed a bandit, forced him to his knees, and shot him in the head

>>381916135
- don't autofire, set the gun to single fire and LOW CROUCH

- don't keep shooting when an enemy staggers as they have invincibility frames during that time. instead line up a headshot and shoot after the stagger ends

there, now you won't suck dick in stalker.

>>381920081
amk is nothing compared to misery and call of chernobyl

im still waiting for the combination of misery and call of chernobyl

>>381920398
>don't keep shooting when an enemy staggers as they have invincibility frames during that time
That's just a misconception born from the shitty aiming system and/or people hitting spots that take no damage.

>>381920458
call of chernobyl has nothing to do but power creep, needs a real faction wars system.

>>381919971
>And you're calling me the casual?
I am. The nerfed starting stats of guns are a default vanilla CS and CoP curses. You can still make do with them, but even less so than in SoC.

>Yes x3
I don't think we played the same mod.
Or, like I would have suspected, you spent countless minutes creating a fallacy-filled lies.

>So if i shoot someone in the unprotected part of the face, the rest of the helmet should magicaly absorb the blow?
That's how it works in vanilla games.
Not in MISERY. That mod actually adds brand new hit-detection areas.

And believe me, I've sneaked enough buildings with my suppressed Stetchkin pistol to know that single shots drop people-looking foes instantly if needed. And a burst or two is enough to take down even Exo guys.

>Sauce me up boi
go read the mod's own site and change logs. Been mentioned numerous times on Stalker generals as well, and you bet I won't be able to give you links to those.

>Black Road is how its supposed to be played so thats not an argument.
And I believe every American on this planet should be gassed, yet that's not a widely accepted norm or law.

>Shit i forgot AP ammo doesnt actually go through soft targets.
So now you're trying to push 1:1 simulator tier realism on a game well known to be more of an FPS-RPG? There's tools given to you for different purposes, yet you don't want to use them. Yes, you can kill monsters with AP ammo, it's just not the fastest way.

>you wont get hard Stalker cred for playing Misery, you will however be classed together with the rest of the special ed kids that shill Misery in every stalker thread.
The fact that you even mention some sort of wannabe "street-cred" just proves to me how young and gullible child you are. And that you suck even at the base games so much, that an actual challenge mods make you butt hurt.

>>381920081
STALKER has always been an RPG-lite.
MISERY doesn't even add level-up systems and shit like some other mods.

So is there any reason to play CoP instead of Call of Chernobyl besides the story?

>>381922170
It has more or less good sidequests (imo the best of the series), but otherwise not really.

>>381912557
What I ahted about Misery was not that it was hard, just that it made everything 100% more tedious.

>>381920458
You know Call of Misery is a thing already, right?

Best mod for SoC?

>>381923750
amk

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>play CoC
>hobo-phase lasted a whole 5 minutes before I found the aftermath of a loner vs bandit war and looted all their guns
That was kinda disappointing

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I've heard shit about the devs that sounds pretty bad, so i really want to play the game without supporting them (if any of the shit is even true that is). So, would /v/ like to provide me with a link to SoC or CoP? If the devs didn't do anything wrong though, I have the money for all 3 games on steam.

>>381925389
The devs themselves didn't do anything, but the GSC that exists now has little to do with the actual teams that developed the games and nowadays most of the STALKER revenue goes to Sergei whatshisface and his Ferrari gas fund.

>>381925607
That's what I heard, and it seems kinda dumb. I'll lurk around for a while and see if I can't find a download or something. Thanks.

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>>381925038
>start as loner
>stalker vs army fighting in the vicinity
>loot the dead ones and pick up an abakan and a AS Val

>>381907157
nah bullshit
SoC is the best of the bunch.
CoP can be skipped and CoC can be played instead. You don't lose anything because the story is shit and CoP maps are fcukhueg and empty.

>>381925389
>>381925856
the original devs are long gone, and won't get a single cent from purchases.

tl;dr: STALKER 2 project was well on its way and some > 50% done back in 2012, when Sergei, the team's CEO, kicked everyone else out and kept the IP's rights himself. Afterwards, he's gathered a new GSC team, released Cossacks 3, and assigned his brother as the CEO.

It's not clear why this happened; some say that corrupted officials started circling around GSC after their games got big and started making big bucks, and that Sergei would've sacrificed the team to save their asses.

>>381907157
>CoP - best experience
nah

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>>381896061
Always play with perma-death, makes it so much more intense

Also which faction is the hardest to play as?

Is Call of Chernobyl worth it? I've played over 100 hours on each stalker game, CoP is on 250 I believe but thats thanks to the Misery mod.

For someone who already pretty much knows the entire game, is it worth it?

I also fucking hate how they butchered Freedom and Duty bases in CoP.

CoP>SoC>CS

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>gets to the power plant.
>Had to run across field to get the entrances of the power plant while getting shot at by rockets and several helicopters
>Constantly hearing instant gun battle while running across the field.
>Manage to get to the entrance only to find the fucking military standing there shooting at me.
>Mfw when I used all of my medkits and bandages while running the field to get the entrance

>>381896482
>DoctorX Questlines mod
It really doesn't do a whole lot apart from "go to this guy who tells you to go to this other guy" ad nauseam.

>>381927696
Hm, now I'm a bit conflicted, but it does kinda make sense. Thanks for the info dude!

>>381928843
personally I found CoC very boring. The big appeal of STALKER games to me is that you are NOT just "surviving for the sake of survival", in an open, empty sandbox. Which is exactly what CoC is all about.
In base games, you got clear goals, which allows you to PROGRESS within the game, yet your path is less linear and very wide.

Plus, TFW3 mod for CS did the open sandbox way better, IMO.

>>381892139
Those guns are straight up missing the target because they are shit.

I had the same experience as you anon, I bought this on /v/'s advice (for £3 with a copy of the book included. I highly recommend Roadside Picnic, it's one of my favourite books now). I bounced off that first mission about five times, and every time it happened I ignored the game for a month.

When I started to get into Stalker, it really took hold and it's top 5 forever.

TLDR - savescum the first mission and get a good gun, it's worth it

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>>381930140
np mate.
STALKER 2 is one of the biggest losses of this decade, and greatest mysteries.

>>381930508
Wasn't there some rumor about Stalker 2 getting picked up again? Or was that just internet hysteria again?

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>>381930508
Has been leaked material that shows how the game would have looked environment wise, and how the map would have looked as well. Trying to find the posts on Reddit where a visitor to GSC reported on the proposed storyline.

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>>381930723
Pure wishful thinking, hoping that if Cossacks 3 sells, it would "fund" restarting of STALKER 2 as well.

However, it's a brand new team. It'd be lunacy to expect them to fully capture the OG feel and style, no matter that they're all slavs. It's the same thing as with old ID vs nu-ID, old and new Doom games.

>>381930796
well aware of it

>>381930409

You're right, the progress is something very important in STALKER games, I just want to get that feeling again..

>>381930508
>>381930796

Now you are just breaking my heart...

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>>381930796
Translated Stalker 2 map.

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>>381930947
sorry...

>>381930932
Ah. Well, it likely wouldn't even be that good if there was a new team. Oh well, what can ya do?

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>>381930961
This guy here seems to have had access to design documents that GSC produced for SoC. Just trawling through his comments to see what they had to say about Stalker 2

>>381931136
Forgot link:
https://www.reddit.com/user/WOGN/comments/

>>381930409
>TFW3 mod
What made it better than CoC with the DoctorX stuff?

>>381932514
In short, customizing everything FOR the mod + having tons of new stuff, like squad forming & commanding, level-up and skill system... etc.

Like the name implies, The Faction War 's focus is helping your faction of choice to conquer the Zone. If you want, that is.

>>381930961

One big map, my dream for STALKER never fulfilled.

>>381932856
So if I just enjoy wandering and exploring the Zone and getting into trouble, is CoC fine?

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is CoP the one where near the beginning you come out of a pipe near a road blockade and everyone starts shooting at you? I think I reloaded that thing at least 50 times before I was able to run away.
This thread makes me wanna play STALKER again but all I got is Clear Sky

>>381918776
>Is there a way to disable that bullet sponge shit?
Change the time_to_aim of every weapon to 0

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what went so wrong bros?

>>381919236
>What the hell are YOU people doing?
Not playing a heavily modded version of the game.

>>381933464
No that's clear sky when leaving the swamp for the cordon

>>381933425
I guess so. But it's gonna lack "soul", so to say.

>>381933464
No. That's Clear Sky.
Just pirate the SoC and play the series right.

>>381933582
Do you also like embarrassing yourself by not bothering to read the discussion at all?

>>381933464
buy the bundle on steam or pirate soc and cop then
play soc and install zrp it makes the game way less buggy

>>381933484

Rushed product, Limansk was a waste.

>>381933678
Right, right and CoP is the one with the stranded ship. I never finished that one. Might have to buy or pirate it,

>>381933484
Focus on hamfisted faction wars. Stalker has alway been about wandering about alone, exploring the zone.

>>381928803
After playing through the main story without perma death i gave up on ever beating the game with it on. fucking monolith are playing on a higher plane of existence than any other stalker

>>381933484
>fundamentally broken ballistics
>unnecessary focus on faction wars
>bugs, bugs and more bugs