STALKER Shadow of Chernobyl Mod Thread

[Sodafish]

lmao modders gonna mod.

 

[Tweed]

Bro, do you even no mutant auto aim? Gotta mod the mod.

EDIT: Right now my problem is striking the right balance between grind, suffering, and fun. I screwed up my run again by giving myself too much reward money for quests while slowing down goodwill. In the end I can scavenge great armor and guns off of dead bodies and pay to have them fixed or fix them myself and I haven't even made it past yantar yet.

But on the hardest preset everything just takes too fucking long to be fun. I can't seem to find a happy medium.

 

[Sodafish]

Bro, do you even no mutant auto aim? Gotta mod the mod.

EDIT: Right now my problem is striking the right balance between grind, suffering, and fun. I screwed up my run again by giving myself too much reward money for quests while slowing down goodwill. In the end I can scavenge great armor and guns off of dead bodies and pay to have them fixed or fix them myself and I haven't even made it past yantar yet.

But on the hardest preset everything just takes too fucking long to be fun. I can't seem to find a happy medium.

 

[Curratum]

Regrettably, even after all this time and all this (pointless and wasted) effort, Anomaly is still the heap of shit it was back in 2018.

I also forgot to mention that this Anomaly episode described above took place on the lowest possible difficulty...

I have no options left but to fall back to playing my own modpack. Maybe I should check and see if people made any new cool mods that are compatible with CoC 1.5 and see if I can plug them in in the pack, because I have been playing that same package since 2018.

*sigh*

 

[Billy Cockmeme]

I'm disappointed, puke. All these newbies playing CoC mods... Back in the good days, DMM was the shit and it still is a good modpack!

 

[Billy Cockmeme]

I'm disappointed, puke. All these newbies playing CoC mods... Back in the good days, DMM was the shit and it still is a good modpack!

DMM -> "The mod contains absolutely no graphical enhancements"

hopw roewur ne

How the fuck can you "improve" graphics from a janky 2007 game? No way, puke. First off, it's already perfect. Secondly, it can't handle any modern improvements. DX11 already isn't fully utilized.

 

[Billy Cockmeme]

How the fuck can you "improve" graphics from a janky 2007 game? No way, puke.

It's called Atmosfear 3 and Absolute Nature Redux.

Ah yes, puke, go ahead and swap out a few textures for some 4K ones sure, sure. Too bad the level geometry is 17 years old and the textures are barely noticable. Even with new models for the trees, NPCs and items, the game still looks old because the levels themselves are older than half of the new fanbase.

 

[Puukko]

Join Arx Fatalis modding discord:

"Be polite, no sensitive topics, no piracy"

Very reasonable, I can agree to that.

Join Stalker modding discord:

Big paragraph with very heavy handed rules including a whole section on gender and how you need to play nice with trannies and why it doesn't matter (as made evident by the fact you needed to dedicate so much room to it). The vibe I got from it was that they likely had a huge tranny infestation, people rightly noticed as that marks the bell toll for any community, and that probably lead to tons of drama. Obviously, the reasonable thing to do would be to just grab what you need and leave, but I made a sharp U turn before even considering accepting the rules.

Discord's been a real double edged sword for modders. On one hand it allows for easy centralized discussion and file sharing, on the other it allows the loonies to double down on their faggotry and egoism. This particular server had 5000 members which easily makes it one of the bigger Stalker servers. So there's a glimpse into the future.

 

[Curratum]

Join Arx Fatalis modding discord:

"Be polite, no sensitive topics, no piracy"

Very reasonable, I can agree to that.

Join Stalker modding discord:

Big paragraph with very heavy handed rules including a whole section on gender and how you need to play nice with trannies and why it doesn't matter (as made evident by the fact you needed to dedicate so much room to it). The vibe I got from it was that they likely had a huge tranny infestation, people rightly noticed as that marks the bell toll for any community, and that probably lead to tons of drama. Obviously, the reasonable thing to do would be to just grab what you need and leave, but I made a sharp U turn before even considering accepting the rules.

Discord's been a real double edged sword for modders. On one hand it allows for easy centralized discussion and file sharing, on the other it allows the loonies to double down on their faggotry and egoism. This particular server had 5000 members which easily makes it one of the bigger Stalker servers. So there's a glimpse into the future.

The server was full of the worst kind of braindeads and annoying fucks long before any sort of infestation it might have had, so no big loss there, honestly.

 

[Curratum]

But honestly, though, in all seriousness...

All those old, good, deep and / or moddable games attract trans people like a magnet. I've already gone on about how the Doom community is so full of trans people, you can't even imagine. Not too surprised if they're catching up with Stalker now.

At the end of the day, those are usually young, impressionable, above-average-intelligence guys who are super sexually frustrated and lonely, so all of this confusion and sexual and emotional frustration ends up as their sudden need to go trans. Codex loves to go on about how insane and degenerate they are, but really, they're guys who couldn't deal well with inceldom emotionally and decided to look for attention and a partner this way. And on the whole, being lonely usually means you love to spend a lot of time with obscure games like Doom and Stalker.

I mean, it's a bit confusing when you first figure out that the fanbase of your favorite games is suddenly flooding with trans people, but it is what it is, I suppose. And the effect is more pronounced because those communities aren't as big as those of super-massive AAA free to play flavor of the month games.

 

[Billy Cockmeme]

Join Stalker modding discord:

Big paragraph with very heavy handed rules including a whole section on gender and how you need to play nice with trannies and why it doesn't matter (as made evident by the fact you needed to dedicate so much room to it). The vibe I got from it was that they likely had a huge tranny infestation, people rightly noticed as that marks the bell toll for any community, and that probably lead to tons of drama. Obviously, the reasonable thing to do would be to just grab what you need and leave, but I made a sharp U turn before even considering accepting the rules.

I don't know which modding server you joined with such a long paragraph and needed to accept, but I guess it's Anomaly. No other modding server I know has super long rules (except C-Con).

Generally no one cares about the rules and do whatever the fuck they want. Only those who go completely apeshit get tossed. The rules are more of a formality to keep the furry T&S discord police happy. There were some incidents with them...

Anyways, don't judge a book by its cover, puke. Go in and see for yourself. You'll like it. Just don't expect no-no-words being tossed around. The discord furry police would swoop in.

 

[Tacgnol]

They mock trannies all the time on the Anomaly discord. So I doubt it's that one.

 

[CthuluIsSpy]

It might be the Complete Series, because is that is pretty casual and mainstream as stalker mods go.

 

[Curratum]

They mock trannies all the time on the Anomaly discord. So I doubt it's that one.

Honestly, knowing the kind of human scum that inhabits the Anomaly discord, I'd rather hang out with the trans bunch than with those things.

 

[Billy Cockmeme]

They mock trannies all the time on the Anomaly discord. So I doubt it's that one.

Hm, might be C-Con then, puke. Haven't been there in a while though. Heard ownership changed, but I still don't like it, since they still harbor the shithead who stole the WIP NLC7 translation and tried to start a new project (instead of just leaving like a proper gentleman). Didn't even say they don't support his actions. Fuck that guy and fuck the management for still being on his side.

 

[Billy Cockmeme]

They mock trannies all the time on the Anomaly discord. So I doubt it's that one.

Honestly, knowing the kind of human scum that inhabits the Anomaly discord, I'd rather hang out with the trans bunch than with those things.

Don't know, puke.. I've actively sat there for the past few months and the situation is much better than the past few years. They really only punish for furry and child content or going apeshit and doing drama. Community is whacky but not as bad as some other places coughdocbscough.

 

[Puukko]

It's MrMinotaur's, Anomaly modlist creator.

 

[Billy Cockmeme]

It's MrMinotaur's, Anomaly modlist creator.

Literally who?

 

[Tweed]

After about a month's worth of going through mods, merging them, and then personally tweaking them I finally managed to get an enjoyable playthrough of Anomaly done and did the story mode (I forgot how bad it was). Numerous restarts were involved when I felt the game was still progressing too quickly, there's no way in hell I should be a master stalker after 2 days game time. I would have liked to use Provak's mod for a base since I'm all about gun porn, but his mod is a gigantic janky kludge and I have higher standards than he or his fans do, although I respect him for the tedium of having to port over every weapon from other mods even if they are messed up. I also really hate the allegedly HD models everyone seems to adore, they look horrid to me and I much preferred and used MAO.

A lot of the mods everyone claims are the best I wound up hating. I hated Trader Overhaul because it just adds tedium and fucks over most faction traders for dumb reasons and I disliked weapon and armor parts overhaul for the same reasons, it makes the game tedious. One of the very best mods that just came out is keep crafting window open, this one, single mod improves the QoL in Anomalmeme so fucking much it's insane and makes you actually want to craft or repair stuff to save money instead of blowing billions of rubles out of laziness. I like Grok's crafting overhaul quite a bit, but I didn't bother with his ballistic mods or body damage. The jokey lootbox mod is actually way better than it sounds, it's really just like a chance to find a mini-stash within a stash and provides helpful stuff, everything from a chance to find a tool kit to harder to find junk like steel wool or spare parts. In the end I ran about 145 mods for my final run if I include my personal merges and patches.

I'd kind of like to try my hand at making some actual mods, but I haven't found any helpful resources to explain what most of the functions in the ltx files do or how to make scripts or really anything else except the most barebones stuff.

They mock trannies all the time on the Anomaly discord. So I doubt it's that one.

Wow Anomaly bros are based.

 

[Tacgnol]

I like Grok's crafting overhaul quite a bit, but I didn't bother with his ballistic mods or body damage.

Grok (and many other Anomaly modders), are completely obsessed with Escape from Tarkov. They seem to think every mechanic from the game should be copied over to STALKER.

His ballistic overhaul is an odd one as it basically makes any enemy in heavy armour almost completely immune to non AP rounds. He seems to forget that even if bullets don't penetrate the armour they are still going to be hitting the target like a sledgehammer.

It also causes lag in big firefights as it runs a script whenever a player bullet hits an enemy to determine damage.

 

[Tweed]

Grok (and many other Anomaly modders), are completely obsessed with Escape from Tarkov. They seem to think every mechanic from the game should be copied over to STALKER.

His ballistic overhaul is an odd one as it basically makes any enemy in heavy armour almost completely immune to non AP rounds. He seems to forget that even if bullets don't penetrate the armour they are still going to be hitting the target like a sledgehammer.

It also causes lag in big firefights as it runs a script whenever a player bullet hits an enemy to determine damage.

Glad I didn't bother with it then and yeah I've noticed this cult-like obsession with Tarkov, I've never played it, but even I couldn't escape from some of the EFT assets and mods. I like the weapon reposition mod and B&S.

 

[Tacgnol]

Grok (and many other Anomaly modders), are completely obsessed with Escape from Tarkov. They seem to think every mechanic from the game should be copied over to STALKER.

His ballistic overhaul is an odd one as it basically makes any enemy in heavy armour almost completely immune to non AP rounds. He seems to forget that even if bullets don't penetrate the armour they are still going to be hitting the target like a sledgehammer.

It also causes lag in big firefights as it runs a script whenever a player bullet hits an enemy to determine damage.

Glad I didn't bother with it then and yeah I've noticed this cult-like obsession with Tarkov, I've never played it, but even I couldn't escape from some of the EFT assets and mods. I like the weapon reposition mod and B&S.

Tarkov has some decent ideas I think, and it does have some very nice weapon art.

It's just more I get frustrated with the, "tarkov does it so it must be good!", attitude from a lot of the Anomaly modding community.

Sometimes they remove STALKER systems that already work well. Other than tweaking values, there is no real reason to rip out the existing ballistic system for instance.

 

[Baron Dupek]

This one?

 

[CthuluIsSpy]

This one?

Balance in all things.

 

[cretin]

I like Grok's crafting overhaul quite a bit, but I didn't bother with his ballistic mods or body damage.

Grok (and many other Anomaly modders), are completely obsessed with Escape from Tarkov. They seem to think every mechanic from the game should be copied over to STALKER.

His ballistic overhaul is an odd one as it basically makes any enemy in heavy armour almost completely immune to non AP rounds. He seems to forget that even if bullets don't penetrate the armour they are still going to be hitting the target like a sledgehammer.

It also causes lag in big firefights as it runs a script whenever a player bullet hits an enemy to determine damage.

I actually like grok's mods despite despising the EFT in Stalker waaaowwww bing bazoo! trend in general.

Balance is a real problem in these mods especially with a lot of gunporn mods. I find grok's autismo approach better than the typical approach to "realism" which is where you shoot a guy in the foot with 9x18 and he drops dead instantly. I'm happy to concede theres a middle ground, but guys running around in level IV armor plates all over should absolutely be walking tanks to everything but large caliber AP rounds. To me it just feels dumb when a master stalker in exo poses roughly the same challenge as a bandit in a leather jacket.

At the end of the day, if any of these faggots had any taste at all anomaly would look more like Oblivion Lost than it would EFT, yes including ejection ports on the wrong side and PSO1s mounting on a LR300 pure fucken SOuL