Should i join duty in SoC general stalker tread

>>386359223
Join duty if you want a lot of weapons
Join freedom if you want a lot of territory

Also they said the game is best experienced if you play on master difficulty, is that true ?

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>>386359435
always, always play on master, no other difficulty should exist

disregard complete, get starter pack for first run

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>>386360359
that's your general run down of mods to play after a vanilla run of SOC and COP, the list is a bit dated, but it's the range of fun stuff, OGSE was buggy in it's day, dunno about it now. Stalkersoup is probably the most fleshed experience aside from call of chernobyl, but it's by far the messiest and crash prone mod. Save call of chernobyl (CoC) for last because it's practically endgame of modding, as it's freeroam faction roleplaying.

what do people around here generally think about lost alpha?

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>>386359223

>Piss off Duty
>They become hostile to me
>Oh well guess I'll just slaughter 'em, tired of fighting my way through their base
>It repopulates
CYKA

>>386359435
>Also they said the game is best experienced if you play on master difficulty, is that true ?
Not necessarily. A lot of fun in Staker does come from it's oppressive atmosphere, and of course playing the game on lower difficulty than necessary is going to not benefit that tone - the player should never really feel completely in power and safe in Stalker.

That said, the "only play on Master" meme comes from several annoying MYTHS about the game and about how it plays.
I'd recommend starting with Master, but adjusting it to whatever feels challenging, but does not feel frustrating enough to make you feel like not pushing on. There is no inherent reason to play on Master other than the fact that you should never feel entirely safe in this game.

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>>386361093
>hippies thinking they can beat the power of duty

>>386360973
Oh boy... Well, I could on for HOURS about how I feel about that damn thing. Unlike most people who will just say "it's shit" because they never played it but heard other people claiming it's shit and simple negative opinions are always the coolest and most worth parroting:
I played the damn thing, and I don't think I've ever felt so torn, dissappointed, frustrated and conflicted with any other mod in my life.

It's... fuck I don't even know where to start.
So the environments - outdoor areas in particular - are the absolute best the damn series has ever seen. There is a few locations, particularly later on, that are clearly unfinished, but then again so was the original, so you can hardly hold that against the developer. Most of them are absolutely amazing and several times better than the original versions.
The visuals and ambience, together with a handful of adjusted mechanics are also amazing.
At times, Lost Alpha can be the most immersive, most beautiful, most haunting the series has ever been.

But then, the shit starts to surface. The fucking story... Oh the fucking story. It's not even that much that they altered the main story line (it's just as fucking dumb as the original was), but it's the INSANELY POOR NARRATIVE that just rapes the game. Hours of unskippable, poorly animated, poorly voiceacted cutscenes smashing the dumbest plot elements in your face. The fucking rape of the atmosphere of the labs. The fucking 20 minute spoof of HL1's opening! Jesus FUCK what were they thinking?!

And then you start running in just profound weird bugs, lacks of balance, changes that are utterly unecessary and out of place... Why is the hunger and thirst balanced so that you can go to bed with full health, full thirst and full hunger meters and DIE IN YOUR SLEEP OF HUNGER if you oversleep?!
Why do controlers have unlimited range and don't need any line of sight what-so-ever to constantly introduce the head-sway effect?

(should I keep going?)

>>386359223
No.
Why the fuck would you wanna hang out with incompetent nazi jarheads with shitty gear to boot?

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>>386362024
yeah lost alpha is a really mixed bag, it's some of the best and worst of STALKER next to clear sky

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>SoC
>Playing as Duty
>Start taking out the Freedom base
>Go to the bloodsucker village first to deal with some Mercs
>Find a m60
I am become Ivan, destroyer of Slavs

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>>386362483

What's the deal with Agroprom undergrounds in CoC?
There's the standard (SoC) part, but there's also some bullshit part with fire anomolies and snorks out the ass and that one chamber with controllers filled with gas or whatever? Where is it from, CS? I reckon all the "old" (SoC) maps are taken from CS too? They look different to what I'm used to.

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>>386362886
>be Dooty
>get constanty eaten by Snorks & 'Suckers
>can't deal with a pack of wild dogs in front of our base
>using artifacts is no-no, just because
>stuck with using outdated Ruskie shit
>have to wear black & red leather and latex
>morning wakeup drills
Being with Duty is suffering.

Anons, I haven't played Stalker or looked at Stalker threads since a good 5 years ago. I played through SoC vanilla and with AMK1.4 (I think I also tried out ZOA briefly), and I also played most of CoP vanilla. Never got far into CS. Out of them all, my favorite game was SoC with AMK. Lately I've been thinking of getting back into Stalkan, what are the hip new mods? Looks like Gunslinger still isn't out.

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>cousin always talking about wanting to play STALKER after hearing my praise and watching me play through it
>not autistic enough as I am to get heavy in the CoC and itemsoup as I am
>tell him to just play on my rig, make a save with his initials prefacing his save
>first fucking stash he hits he gets a fucking veles/svarog detector
>300 hours later I still have a bear detector
cyka bylat

>>386363254
don't you have a joint to blowing?

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>>386363254
>tfw the Duty guards behind the sandbags dont actually work

>>386359223
Hello Friend, I see you're new here! I'd like to direct you to >>/vg/ for all video game generals.

I know autism is quite a tricky subject but you'd fit in very well there!

>>386363473
Also, I liked mods that let you wield artifacts and toss them on the ground to create anomalies. Do any of the good new mods let you do that? Did AMK even let you do that? I can hardly remember.

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>>386363601
Dooteh are just bunch of all-bark, no bite bitches.

>>386363657
STALKER is the opposite of autism man. I think you have insecurities you need to solve.

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>>386363473
CoC is the eternal hotness because it's the only thing updated anymore, but seeing autumn is coming, it's about the best time of the year to play autumn aurora it's got built in grayfix mods and is probably the best looking mod out of the box.

>>386363601
maybe

MAYBE IF YOU HIPPY FUCKS STOP FEEDING THEM WE WOULDN'T HAVE A MUTANT PROBLEM

>>386363657
>>386363750
Oтвaли

>>386363681
fuck what was that mod again, I completely forgot the name of that

>>386363905
haha cyka breeki am i right?x D

>Joining a bunch of stoners whos offical stance on the zone is "lol who cares"
>Not joining the guys who want to protect the world from mutants and anomalies

That being said, I really want to reinstaill it now, thanks OP

>>386359435
Throw it on master, but edit damage .ini so enemies take around the same amount of damage. Vanilla damages suck ass.

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>>386364190

>>386364162
CoC looks sexy, thanks. But it occurs to me that I never completed CoP vanilla, and I prefer to do that before modding a game. Is there anything like ZRP for CoP or is vanilla stable?

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>>386364301
basically every mod does that out of the box I think even the starter pack mods do that

>>386359223
How do I get into CoC? I fucking loved SoC but I get kinda bored with CoC. Feels like too much walking.

>>386364918
I think corruption of champions is pretty different than SoC anon

>>386365019
I meant Call of Chernobyl

>>386364190
Stay mad

>>386365082
I was joking silly goose

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>>386364771
the starter pack works fine enough for that, it's in the stalker gen repo. still theres a lot of other mods to play before that, it's best to check their updated flowchart of modding, because all of mine are old as shit, and I've played every stalker mod in existence, english and cyka blyat flavors.

>>386365019
kek, I name my steam launcher S.T.A.L.K.E.R.: Corruption of Champions just for that reason, if they ask I'll play the fool and say things like
>not having 3 bloodsucker tentacles
>not having at least 1 chimera head
>no snork masks are you even trying

>we can destroy and stop the Zone

And this is where Duty is wrong. Savior complex does nothing for the rest.

Clear Sky was the best faction but they are dead

>>386364771
COP is the most stable game in the series. There's the Pripyat Reclamation Project that fixes a couple of small bugs, such as a trio of fast healing burers in an underground lab.

>>386365417
Is Clear Sky actually good?
I remember back when Stalker became popular on /v/ and it was sorta the black sheep

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>>386364918
I always recruit a squad from my faction and try to finish missions while keeping them alive, redistributing weapons, etc. Babysitting them can be frustrating at times but it makes long journeys interesting.

>>386365843
It's still pretty divisive. I think it's the worst of the 3 but I don't think it's a bad game

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>>386365843
it's a fun game somewhat, it's just not a great stalker game. it's worth at least one play through if you don't want to do any mod runs of it, no one's going to judge you for it - as anyone would tell you it's easily the weakest stalker game.

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>general thread
>in a non-general board
MOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOODS

>>386365843
The game takes a while to get going; the swamp is basically a longer version of SoC's garage mission where you're stuck with really shitty gear. And towards the end it becomes too linear with a crappy ending.
Also, some of the new main features, such as the faction war and emissions are really unpolished.
It has it's moments though. The new areas are pretty interesting and it's also the only game that lets you properly join a faction.

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I got a pretty well versed stalker macros folder, not as good as my old folder in my HDD that failed RIP motor, only a lab will save it but it can help your weak stalker memes

>>386366441
>worm_food.swf

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>>386366441
wait here, this is perfect for you, marked one

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for dumb frogposters

fucking normies ruining memes

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frogposter vol.2

>>386359223

Join Bandits, friend.

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>>386359223
Duty is best faction in SoC.
Sniper VLA is your best friend.
Vanilla with ZRP/SRP is best STALKER.

>>386367036
> sanyok alexandr

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>>386365273
> I name my steam launcher S.T.A.L.K.E.R.: Corruption of Champions
My nigga

Are anomalies and artifacts in CoC like they are in CoP, where they're confined to certain areas, or like SoC where they're all over?

"bread"

>>386372305
>Are anomalies and artifacts in CoC like they are in CoP,
It adopts the CoP model to a point. Artifacts spawn in anomaly fields that are marked on your map from the start of the game (personally I preferred to filter them off, because seeing where the artifact-spawning fields are by just checking them map removes ANY sense of exploration what so ever.

During Blowouts, artifacts have a chance of spawning in a marked predetermined anomaly field, and if you have the right detector, you can "summon" them.

It's honestly not a good system, in fact arguably the weakest element of CoC, because it turns artifact hunting into somewhat of a chore "do regular rounds to check map-marked locations for lumps of cash".
I really think it's the ONE element that needs to be overhauled.

There are some instances where artifacts can spawn outside of the designed artifact-spawning fields. I have NEVER FIGURED OUT the logic though. I had found three or four artifacts just completely randomly (like on the roof of Rostok factory, or in the middle of Dark Valley Bandit hub) by completely randomly checking surroundings through a detector. I don't know if these are some easter eggs, if they respawn, if they are randomized or what is the logic there. But it's extremely uncommon.

>>386373146
That's sort of a shame. Is that to say anomalies are also restricted to these fields?

>>386372709
TEK A CHEEL PEEL MAN

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>>386361075
https://p.fuwafuwa.moe/ittqaz.webm

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Duty is the only correct choice

>>386365843
better than Call of Pripyat

>>386373863
>Is that to say anomalies are also restricted to these fields?
No, you can run into anomalies outside of those fields, but the anomalies outside of these fields don't generate artifacts.
The anomaly fields that generate them are just these really dense clusters of anomalies that you have to navigate to get to close to their center to "summon" the artifact, which can be tedious. Especially since it can bug out and the artifact refuses to make itself visible. I suspect that is related to how even when invisible, the artifact is still a physical object and it can get stuck or caught in an endless loop...

You also NEED detectors to summon the artifact. You can actually see the artifacts in the cluster sometimes by naked eye, but without the detector, it won't appear and become collectable, no matter how close you get to it. It's a bit weird system, especially because it's kind of a pain in the ass to get a detector. You can buy them from scientists in Yantar and Jupiter, or hope for a random drop or spawn.

But really, my issue is that once you know where the artifact-birthing clusters are, it boils down to checking them regularly, and there is virtually no actual joy in finding them accidentally or unexpectedly. It makes artifact collection rather dull and mechanical.
Really: it's the ONE thing that I don't like about the mod.

Last small note, if you intend to play it any time soon: even if you get an artifact early in game, don't expect to find much. At the begining of the game, all fields are empty, and it takes at least the first blowout for the very first ones to even spawn. It can take four or five blowouts for them to be relatively common-place in the world

>>386374325
Nah, that'd be Loner

>>386374212
>that distant allahu akbar at the end

>>386362208
I laughed

>>386374212
What mods?

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I don't really see how anyone would want to support Duty if they're playing STALKER. Duty want to get rid of the Zone. Aren't you in the Zone because you enjoy it? Join Freedom and have fun.

>>386374983
Thanks. One last thing: would you say the overall feel of CoC is more like SoC or CoP. By which I mean, in SoC it always seemed like there were a lot more hostile NPCs roaming about, while in CoP much of the game felt like a safe zone aside from the occasional pack of dogs. I prefer SoC in this sense, and I feel like this gigantic map would be pretty boring if nearly everyone greets me with howdy ho.

Do I want/need any of the addons for CoC?

>>386377452
Ecologists 4 lyfe

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>>386359223
How the fuck do I get into STALKER?

Should I go to /vg/?

I need to know what mods I need to make it not shit.

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>>386384021
Read this, play them in order, you might wanna mod clear sky more after a while, since endgame is boring and linear

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>>386384021
You play SoC and then CoP vanilla, if you like them mod them. I like AMK for SoC and Misery for CoP. Misery is pretty miserable, though.

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>>386384021
you need to run naked and wild through vanilla first, THEN you can get cheeki breeki

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>He doesn't roll with the eggheads

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>>386386912
>running ez mode
>least amount of enemies of any faction
do you offer free blowies for artifacts too?

>>386387841
>free
>trade
You sound dumb, duty. I'd rather suck a dick than hang around with idiots.