What's your favorite STALKER mod?

>>387049348
Every mod that lets me join Monolith.

CoC because I love freeplay and it has the most areas

Which stalker game is best to play first?

>>387049818
Release order, CS optional

>>387049818
SoC for a definitive experience. CoP has you play as more of a badass and is a bit easier. CS I have a bitch of a time getting to work so I can't comment.

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>>387049818
SoC, of course.
Consult this Starting Guide,
then see the /vg/'s huge Stalker General for more tips and links: >>>/vg/stalker

Play in the release order. Start with no mods - only latest patch, OR get the full "Starter Pack" first; these contain bug-fixers and light visual mods that can help performance as well.
Leave big overhauls for later playthrougs. Avoid the "Complete" -mods. Always play on MASTER difficulty for best realism and atmosphere, and disable crosshair.

Don't give up in the beginning! The starting gear sucks ass and first area can be a bit boring.

>>387049348
AMK 1.4

>>387050005
I remember trying SoC a couple of years ago, and it had insane head bob. Is there a way to get rid of it, or at least tone it down to bearable levels?

>>387050708
If memory serves there's some values in actor.ltx you have to reduce, 0 for no bobbing obviously

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>>387050708
if you get the starter pack or zrp there is a modifier with the mod that lets you turn it down or off

anyway OP GET START PACKER THAT IS ALL

>>387050708
cam_inert 0.1 to the game's own console.
That's all you need.

Misery. Still doesnt make the game hard, even when you literally start with nothing, but it comes pretty close

>>387049348

OGSE and Doom's mod merge: anon edition

OGSE

Man I want a new Stalker or a Starlker-like game so badly

I'm replaying SoC with Autumn Aurora this time.
It's pretty neat visually and gameplay wise but I wish the encounters would change from vanilla, like in oblivion lost.
I wonder if I can install another mod to add more varied spawns.

Does anyone have that old webm of a Snork walking funny with his head bobbing?

>>387052632
Theres that new Metro game coming out and it will supposedly have large areas to explore.

It might be good if it has an actual inventory system and isn't completely sandbox cancer

AMK 1.4 is still the best, I wish there was a version that used the cut maps.

>>387053860
It was cancelled, buddy.

>>387054003
Why would you lie for no reason on the internet?

>>387049348
MISERY with poo filter removed

>>387049396
You can't "join" Monolith, you'll be forcefully drafted

>>387052632
there's this https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mm0Smkm6-8w
who knows when that's coming out though

>>387054147
Sorry, my bad, turns out it's release was pushed to 2018.

>>387049348
Early LURK was fantastic.

Does anyone else hoard artifacts so you can drop them all and watch them dance around instead of selling them?

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Perhaps AMK with autumn aurora.

>>387054491

No, I do the same

>>387049348
That's a hard question.
AMK:AE was good fun(AA2 is alright too), and i actually did enjoy Zone of Alienation a lot, despite the performance issues that plagued that mod. Played Radiophobia more recently, it's got some nice gunplay.

For CoP, I liked Misery despite the problems it had (Fucked up artifacts and stamina/weight, for example.)
SGM would be great if it had good gunplay.

>>387054248
>forcefully

I'd gladly give myself to the Monolith.

I've played through SoC and have a copy of CoP lying around. Should I go straight into CoP or pick up CS?

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>>387054491
prolly the oldest trick in the book.
got screens of such activity saved from almost a decade ago

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>>387055840
>BRING DEATH TO THOSE WHO SPURN THE HOLY POWER OF THE MONOLITH

>>387056068
Eh, your call.
CS is the weakest Stalker game, but it's still worth playing.

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>>387055613
>>387056083
Glad I'm not alone then.

>>387056262
CS was much better than CoP in my opinion. NPCs could go prone, blindfire, vault over fences and do other shit which was cut in CoP for some reason. Faction system was a nice touch, in CoP for some bullshit reason bandits never attacked you, no matter how many you have killed. Maps in CoP felt very bland and boring compared to SoC and CS.

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>>387049348
Does anyone else dump a fuckton of loot into a permanent corpse and drag it to nearest merchant for maximum profit?

>>387056709
CS had some good stuff but a lot of weird design decisions too. I didn't mind the maps in CoP, but they weren't as varied as the SoC ones.

To me, SoC has a more "nomadic" feel, if that makes sense. The Bar is a hub, but you'll have to go pretty far away from it sometimes. In CoP you're pretty much always close enough to the safe areas to go back and resupply. I like the feeling of gearing up for a mission and heading to an area of the map.

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>>387057001
Never even thought about it

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>playing SoC for the first time
>enjoying the quests and everything
>reach bar
>suddenly stop doing story quests and just doing random ones, getting money, spending it on food, ammo, repair and healing items
>just sitting down with the fireplace stalkers and reading PDA stuff while they play songs
Why is this game so cozy

>>387057001
Did that one time, i didn't even make that much but i couldn't leave those half-broken guns just sitting at the military bridge

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MISERY

inb4 a legion of shitters whine about a simulator/masochism mod being hard and tedious

I installed a mod /v/ recommended once where when you die, the game uninstalls. Called "Such is death in the Zone" or something similar.

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>>387057310

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>>387057390

>>387057310
It's only particularly hard in hobo phase, before you get a decent suit and some guns.

To be honest, i rarely ever spent money on food, you get so much thrown at you through stashes and corpses. Ammo and gear upgrades are where most of my money went.

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>>387057506

>>387056709
CoP was seriously hurt by the lack of high activity areas like Wild Territory. I also don't like how it handled artifact hunting, I liked the spontaneous discoveries in SoC more than detector shit (although SoC's way admittedly made it way too easy to get rich).

>>387057564
Yeah but with all the extra stuff they added in eventually, you always have something to work towards and earn. It's still harder than most STALKER mods given how unforgiving the anomalies and blowouts are. I like all the mask damage and artifact container systems a lot too.

It's got everything. I honestly think it's close to the perfect STALKER mod. If only it had engaging long-term goals and freeplay options.

>>387057775
Personally, i think the artifact container shit ruined artifact usage.

The artifact+container weight makes it rarely worth it to actually wear them, some are like 10 kg alone. I just throw on some camelbaks and steel plates.

>>387057745
I disliked the high density anomalous areas. I much preferred the ranomly scattered small ones in SoC.

>>387057975
But that sort of choice making is interesting! Not to mention it adds value to some of the weight reduction artifacts and those drugs that up your carry weight too.

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>>387058051
This. Also anomalies moved around after emissions are a nice thing added by mods, but it should be in the base game too though.

>>387057310
you can use it with call of chernobyl?

Autumn Aurora
And the CoC

It's the ultimate cozy game

complete

>>387058165
Nah, i just don't like how they handled it, the only reason i've used artifacts in Misery is if i know i'm going into a certain anomaly. They're way too heavy for combat/looting

>>387058296
Nah. Call of Pripyat only. The whole class thing ties into how the player is a military agent in CoP.

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So, /v/: death incarnate or ninja running~

>>387057745

Detectors sounds neat on paper but ingame they are very annoying and boring.

They pretty much cut you from rare artifacts until you buy or get a better detector.

Plus in CS and CoP artifacts are nerfed to fuck

>>387058361
Sounds like you play recon or don't mod your gear for carry weight. Or you just carry too much and don't use stashes right. Or you played an older version than I'm talking about and it was less balanced then.

>>387058426
Ninja running is my forte, I pack like 35kg max when I head out

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How is CoC nowadays? I remember playing it when it first came out, but there was nothing to do other than explore. Are there any mods adding quests to make things more interesting?

>>387057001
I run around a battlefield grabbing every gun, rip out all the ammo, and then leave all the guns stuck in one corpse since no vendor will buy them.

>>387058647
There's an actual faction wars mod now.
http://www.moddb.com/mods/call-of-chernobyl/addons/warfare

>>387058445
There's a barebones story mode that recreates some evens from SoC's story and a faction questline mod that I haven't tried but apparently they're just fetch quests from one end of the zone to the other.

>>387058787
meant for >>387058647

>>387058510
Nah, i played Sniper most of the time, and usually modded for carry weight.

I can't remember how much weight my usual supply setup would be, but i think i carried average ammo, 1-2 medkits/syringes, cigarettes(which weigh nothing) and 2 pieces of food. Adding in the weight for my armor and 2 guns.

Adding on 1-2 artifacts and their containers would leave much less room for loot, and would hurt stamina management a bit.

>>387058426
Ninja run. Exos look gay.
>>387058754
1.5 when

>>387058886
>not ninja running in an exo

>>387058992
>not being death incarnate in a SEVA

>>387049348
Uninstall.exe

>>387049348
Lost Alpha

>>387057310
I got bored with my play through once I got an exo skeleton

Who it's better, a SEVA or an exoskeleton to go to Pripyat?

>>387065069
SSP-99M pleb

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The Complete mod, unironically.

anyone here go on the "stalker-forever.bestgamesforum"?

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Post your raifu

>>387065190
But SEVA is aesthetic.

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I have over 8000 hours across all STALKER games.
My favorite mod is probably Stalkersoup, i've met and played with Tecnobacon himself a lot of times, he's a pretty good fella and his work, despite amateurish, is extremely well done.
I just wish he could drop People's soup and do some shit by himself, he clearly has a lot of talent.

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>>387056346
>>387056083
always wanted to do this, but was worried they'd slip back into the noosphere, that or some cyкa would swipe them

>>387066129
I never gave stalkersoup a chance because people always made it out to be a giant meme mod. What's it really like.

>>387066694
I'm pretty sure some of them do disappear if you do it in CoP, maybe it has to do with the way detectors work. But even in SoC I always find an isolated place and quicksave just in case.

>>387057189
>someone finally posts it with my russian filename
хopoшo!

HOW DO YOU GET WEAPON MODS OR WARFARE WORKING ON COC 1.5 GOD DAMN IT

>>387066835
Stalkersoup is an english soup mod that includes the most popular russian soup mods and some other stuff carefully implemented and balanced by tecnobacon, the sole and only dev behind that mod.
I loved every second of it, but it's not a mod you should start the series with.
Probably the most unoptimized, crash-prone, bugfilled soup mod of them all, but god damn if it ain't fun just to fuck around while doing the collectors mode.
The plot is a tad fucked, expect a lot of google translated russian shit into broken english, but as of now it packs one of the most intensive and interesting freemodes of all mods combines, rivaling CoC and Doom's.
Also, the fact that tecnobacon is still updating and developing that shit after 7 years should tell you how much he loves that stuff, and i enjoy every single small update he shits out every now and then.
LEVEL UP 2 AND 3 FUCKING WHEN

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>>387057278
kinda all you do in STALKER: Corruption of Champions, and it's pretty great.

>>387058296
>>387058408
there's a call of misery mod, I think it's in a beta '1.0' but it's been/being attempted

>>387058426
carry only what you need, so you can bring a good haul back, so ninja mostly for the sanics

>>387065373
Tы бeднaя дyшa

Metro

>>387057745
Not to mention the main story was so boring. SoC had so many great moments.

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>>387067463

>>387049348
the one that doesnt crash

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>>387057310
>tfw you edit the price of 100-coin roubles up so that the economy isn't so fucking stupid.

Really lowers the tedium of the early game.

>>387067850
So no one, not even the base game? :^)

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>>387057310
>misery
daily reminder

CAN I COOP THIS FUCKING GAME?

>>387058445
>They pretty much cut you from rare artifacts until you buy or get a better detector.
In CS it probably mattered. In CoP you can get one right away, I forgot if it was for wiping out the bloodsucker lair or doing the rest of the missing stalker shit.

>>387068254
>all this butthurt casual fucks cook up to justify their lack of git gud in Misery

>>387068291
No. They are SP games through and through.

>>387066930
It's not a correct grammar though, but I guess it's too late now to change it.

OGSE best mod.

Soljanka is good too

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>>387069323
>OGSE
>best mod

How's OLR?

>>387069424
t. Misery shitter

OGSE has the most features and is the most advanced and polished.

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8Lnbf6jnkE4

CoC + AO with graphics mods

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>>387069150

>>387049348
Uninstall wizard.
How anyone can enjoy these games is beyond me.

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>>387070875

>>387066930
Should be Ужe cлишкoм пoзднo or just cлишкoм пoзднo

Is there a players guide for Call of Chernobyl anywhere online?

Game is amazing, but Id kill for a guide.

>>387071557
Yeah there is. Google.

>>387071623
Ive looked bro. Cant find shit.

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>>387071396
I knew something felt off

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Post your favorite artifact from a purely aesthetic standpoint.

>>387067463
Get out of here.

>>387074210
Firefly probably.

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>>387070875

how are you supposed to get artifacts if the anomalies they spawn in kill you?

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>there will never be another S.T.A.L.K.E.R game

>>387078014
Kys

>>387077687
By going around them?!?!? Best detector svarog detector. Or use bolts if you're so backwards and carefully plan your steps.

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>>387057280
lol

How do I get anomaly funtime corporal particle explosions in my CoC?

>>387077687
Have a poltergeist throw them at you.

>>387072107
He means Google shit you don't know.

does doom mod merge anon edition runs in 1.5 or in 1.4?

What do you guys do in CoC? I tried taking over the Zone as Monolith in Warfare but got bored.

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Praise the monolith

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>tfw you're finally able to walk freely atop the garbage piles

>>387078508
but they spawn inside them??!??!?