STALKER Shadow of Chernobyl Mod Thread

[Parabalus]

edit: actually no now i remember, it was so much fucking trouble i just binned SoC for good and installed OGSE instead which has its own engine.

I did the same thing, OGSE is great (barring occasional extreme autism) and installs smoothly, would recommend.

 

[Plisken]

edit: actually no now i remember, it was so much fucking trouble i just binned SoC for good and installed OGSE instead which has its own engine.

I did the same thing, OGSE is great (barring occasional extreme autism) and installs smoothly, would recommend.

highly recommend the weapons and HD textures addon: https://mega.nz/#F!vIxjHCgB!cyRYmKi1aDs0gpqTH6t-YA

basically removes the ugly vanilla models, adds a bunch of new weapons and cleans up the gunplay/less sponge

 

[Baron Dupek]

i had plenty of trouble with AA2
Have 1.0006 on legit GOG version

my memory is not that great but isn't that mod for 1.0004 or 1.0005?

also - props for not choosing Complete garbage mod for playthrough, that shit is overrated

 

[unfairlight]

my memory is not that great but isn't that mod for 1.0004 or 1.0005?

The installer says that you should have 1.0006. No.
From FAQ:

Q: What version of the game this mod requires?
A: 1.0006. Works on non-Steam or Steam versions, English or Polish language. Read on if you have problems with Steam or other language versions.

 

[Invictus]

I think other than ZRP with a few tweaks or Autum Aurora are the best ways to play Shadow of Chernobyl
OGSE is the best standalone version along with Anomaly for the Call of Chernobyl style open world experience
(Lost Alpha seems too empty and gimmicky with cheap set up jump scares)
Misery 1.2 is the best way to experience Call of Pripyat
As for Clear Sky... I don’t hate it as much as some other fans, and with the SRP and Arsenal mod it become pretty decent, and honestly a decent Stalker game is miles better than 95% of the shooters out there
A couple of days ago I tried to play Doom and I simply cannot stand that style of gameplay anymore

 

[Anomander Rake]

cut

Mmmmm.

Just to make you optimist that you can do it, I tried to install it, all I needed was two minutes of my time.

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I will help you, though, because this one is pretty easy and I doubt that it is due to any issue on your computer given that vanilla stalker works.

A few questions:
1) Where is your fsgame.ltx located?
2) Can you publish a stamp of your fsgame.ltx?
3) Did you tweak fsgame.ltx before or after the install?
4) Have you got any leftover inside documents of Stalker?

Your take if you wish to get helped or not

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cuck

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just joking

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by the way, it works on windows 10

 

[Invictus]

Just to make sure I installed this last nite on my windows 10 laptop and everything went smoothly, go that got me thinking did Chad run the game at least one time before installing AA2 to generate the setting files?
Because other than that this seems very straightforward, either that or the mod file was placed in a filename too long and that caused errors during installation

 

[Anomander Rake]

I didn't need to run the game before installing AA2 to make it work, though

 

[unfairlight]

1) Where is your fsgame.ltx located?

C:\Games\GOG Games\S.T.A.L.K.E.R. Shadow of Chernobyl, aka my root game directory.

2) Can you publish a stamp of your fsgame.ltx?

No idea how to do that.

3) Did you tweak fsgame.ltx before or after the install?

It's a step that i forgot on my first install, however it's one that I quickly realized and did before installing on all the installs after the first. All installs were also done by deleting the entire game directory and doing a full reinstall.

4) Have you got any leftover inside documents of Stalker?

Maybe, not something I bothered cleaning out but I will delete everything in it, reinstall the game, run it and try another install in a second. Will edit or post once more when done.

go that got me thinking did Chad run the game at least one time before installing AA2 to generate the setting files?

I did on my third and fourth installs. As previously stated it worked flawlessly vanilla.

 

[Anomander Rake]

When "tweaking" the userftx inside the main folder, don't move the paragraph while adding true. Everything must be lined up.

 

[unfairlight]

I have it as such.

 

[Anomander Rake]

okay, one last try: can you not use an altered aspect ratio?

 

[unfairlight]

What do you mean by altered aspect ratio?
Done now. Didn't work, once more.
No ENB, static lighting, 75fov, patched to 4gb, Gnomus style scopes in 16:9, which is my monitor aspect ratio.

 

[Anomander Rake]

okay, I've got another suggestion. AA2 is old.

Try this one: https://www.moddb.com/mods/amk-autumn-edition/downloads/amk-141-autumn-edition-30

that is way better than AA2 solo.

But before do this: on properties\target of your desktop icon add -nointro -noprefetch

 

[unfairlight]

Already tried that as one of many "fixes" for AA2 CTDing. Still applied in GOG Galaxy so no need to do that.

 

[unfairlight]

Stability with AMK Autumn seems garbage too. I CTDed by selecting a dialogue option in the Sidorovich chat, access violation on bugtrap. I have noprefetch and nointro on both the GOG Galaxy client and game shortcut, neither made a difference. Loading a saved game in Sid's bunker also CTDed. I managed to escape Sid's crashbunker of hell by just not selecting that dialogue option, but talking to Wolf about Nimble again CTDed.
I give up. It appears that my one and only way to play Stalker SOC is to play it vanilla.

 

[unfairlight]

Ah christ, it appears that AMK AAE is 1.0004 only. Didn't notice that.

 

[Anomander Rake]

Seems like you are really unlucky

I will be honest, it's not worth it to play with these mods...

The fact that you can't clog up the PDA makes playthroughs a long grinding session because as soon as you take one quest you have to absolutely finish it, so you are bound to have long walking session.

Only mod I miss for now is OGSE and I still didn't play it because even if the 2.10 version and 2.11 work well, they are not the final version and 2.12 crashes at startup every time

 

[unfairlight]

Yeah, I read that on AMK AE comments. "Have no more than 2 tasks at once."
I don't know if potato modders are just shit or what, but it's ridiculous how bad that is. I think I'll just grind through SOC vanilla and mod CoP and CS instead, because modding SOC is really a test of endurance.

 

[Anomander Rake]

same issue happens in Autumn Aurora 2. This post shows how bad things are: https://www.reddit.com/r/stalker/comments/3pbru6/soc_autumn_aurora_save_corruption/cw50pbv/

The problem is that unless something like "open stalker" a la "open morrowind" gets released, the enjoyment that comes from modding is gutted.

Said this, I wish you great playthrough sessions with other games, you are not missing much, trust me.

 

[unfairlight]

The problem is that unless something like "open stalker" a la "open morrowind" gets released, the enjoyment that comes from modding is gutted.

There is OpenXRay. Call of Chernobyl uses that if I recall correctly. SoC is good but man it's just pure hell to mod out of all the Stalkers. CoP is the best Stalker by default since it runs well, is polished and doesn't just die when modded.

 

[Tacgnol]

Anomaly (64 bit OpenXRay) is ridiculously stable even with crazy high alife switch distances and large well-populated areas.

The community is doing impressive things with the engine.

 

[unfairlight]

something that happened a week ago

 

[Invictus]

Guys while playing some Autum Aurora on my laptop (which runs it surprisingly well capped at 30 FPS and without ENB) it dawned on me just freaking good the ENB used in this actually is; especially the color corrections and AA make the game look almost dreamy in some places

Would it be possible to adapt this ENB to Misery 1.2?

Possibly my only complain about that mod (other than the so so performance) is the lack of AA so everything looks so sketchy and “clean” compared to the ENB of AA2

The ENB on the site was never updated by the author apparently so the version from AA2 is something else?

 

[Fenix]

There is Dead Air mod - a cross between Misery and Call of Misery, sadly I think in Russian only, mod from guy that made CoM.