STALKER Shadow of Chernobyl Mod Thread

[Lazing Dirk]

I assume that should be either 15mm wide/diameter (fairly chunky but not infeasible if it fires ball bearings) or 15 centimeters long, since 15mm is about half an inch.

Haven't heard of this mod before but maybe I'll give it a look and play through Stalker for the 64th time or whatever.

 

[jebsmoker]

small hotfix:

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1hvD-wR0KuH0_JLEpWt45X5OmCbplNc7Y/view

 

[jebsmoker]

put this in gamedata/config/gameplay; if you don't have this file you'll crash if you try to sleep and experience the dreaded stack trace anomaly

https://www.file.io/hNF5/download/ljAxq7h9gCv4

 

[jebsmoker]

put this in gamedata/config/gameplay; if you don't have this file you'll crash if you try to sleep and experience the dreaded stack trace anomaly

https://www.file.io/hNF5/download/ljAxq7h9gCv4

"error retrieving your file"?

https://www.moddb.com/mods/goldsphere-completion/downloads/goldsphere-completion-hotfix-1

this was recently updated to include the specific sleeping fix

 

[jebsmoker]

just so you guys know, there's actual gore jumpscares in goldsphere that use doctored up photos from stuff like rotten or the forum that blaine moderates; jekan_limon probably googled 'zhest'' (a russian-specific colloquialism that means anything that's fucked up and is normally to used to refer to shock pics), found some pics and touched them up in a photo-editing program so they can be used by x-ray

goldsphere is a great mod but what the fuck lmao

oh and one of the files that sits with the gore jumpscare pics is a picture of lenin that's meant to spook you because of course there is

 

[pavis]

When we meet the Bum in Cordon some text lines of the doll are not translated, so we don't know if we can trust him or not.

 

[Gerrard]

Misery has caused irreparable damage to the franchise and the modding scene.

I have replayed all the vanilla games recently and it has given me a fresh look and newfound hatred for retard modders who put random anomalies all over every map.
The actual GSC devs realized this was a "feature" that introduced nothing but extra tedium into the gameplay, and it's only really a thing in SoC (most notoriously the Garbage-Rostok transition), and as a result CS has very few of those random anomalies, and CoP has almost none. Of course the "freeplay" mods, that have no actual content in them, love slowing down the player with tedious bullshit as they already do with nearly every other feature they boast, so they embrace this shit. Even better when they make NPCs immune/unaffected by anomalies because they can't make them avoid them. In the immortal words of that fag, Phil Fish: "Suck my dick. Choke on it."

In other news, I am very impressed by the extent the graphical modding of the games has progressed. Only thing left is for someone to make a raytracing GI lighting model to realize that dream.

 

[jebsmoker]

When we meet the Bum in Cordon some text lines of the doll are not translated, so we don't know if we can trust him or not.

take pics pls

 

[jebsmoker]

Misery has caused irreparable damage to the franchise and the modding scene.

I have replayed all the vanilla games recently and it has given me a fresh look and newfound hatred for retard modders who put random anomalies all over every map.
The actual GSC devs realized this was a "feature" that introduced nothing but extra tedium into the gameplay, and it's only really a thing in SoC (most notoriously the Garbage-Rostok transition), and as a result CS has very few of those random anomalies, and CoP has almost none. Of course the "freeplay" mods, that have no actual content in them, love slowing down the player with tedious bullshit as they already do with nearly every other feature they boast, so they embrace this shit. Even better when they make NPCs immune/unaffected by anomalies because they can't make them avoid them. In the immortal words of that fag, Phil Fish: "Suck my dick. Choke on it."

In other news, I am very impressed by the extent the graphical modding of the games has progressed. Only thing left is for someone to make a raytracing GI lighting model to realize that dream.

the western modding scene has been mostly trash; the only exceptions to this i know of are LURK and DoctorX's (rip to a real one) stuff for CoC, otherwise the majority of the western modding is infinite flavors of CoC; i don't care how many new mechanics or guns your fork of CoC has if it has no new meaningful story content

truth be told, my efforts to do a little bit of translation or translation revision every day is largely animated by great annoyance

 

[cretin]

guys, goldsphere completion with the english hand translation has been released for a few days now and basically you're fucking gay and retarded if you aren't at least trying it.

 

[Gerrard]

Goldsphere feels even less like Stalker than all the Tarkovfaggotry mods. Russian story mods seem to be made by very "eccentric" people.

 

[Jack Of Owls]

Well, I, for one, appreciate the hard work and ungodly time sink a fellow sperg put into an actually complete hand translation. The only reason I don't play something like this (or NLC) is because it's probably not a good idea for someone that only did a single play-through of vanilla SoC years ago and a little dabbling in a handful of mods over the years to tackle something as hardcore as this. So... thank you.

 

[jebsmoker]

Well, I, for one, appreciate the hard work and ungodly time sink a fellow sperg put into an actually complete hand translation. The only reason I don't play something like this (or NLC) is because it's probably not a good idea for someone that only did a single play-through of vanilla SoC years ago and a little dabbling in a handful of mods over the years to tackle something as hardcore as this. So... thank you.

there's another hotfix out due soon, so hang on for a bit more if you plan on trying goldsphere - because it'll probably invalidate your saves

 

[cretin]

Goldsphere feels even less like Stalker than all the Tarkovfaggotry mods. Russian story mods seem to be made by very "eccentric" people.

I fail to see how. Tarkov mods are obsessively focused on guns and mechanics with almost no care towards the lore of STALKER or its key characteristics like anomalies and artifacts, Goldsphere leans completely into the inspiration for STALKER - roadside picnic - and focuses on the zone, artifacts, characters and mysteries of the zone.

I accept that goldsphere might not be everyone's cup of tea, but to call it less stalker that tarkovfag mods, lol, no. It is at the very least, a mod everyone should try, because it has excellent writing and quest design and a lot of content, and story mods with competent English hand translations are few and far between in the western community.

 

[jebsmoker]

i love goldsphere to death and i'm glad i committed a lot of effort to helping with the translation, but the OGSE 0692-based version has very... moody stability. i can put up with it, but some people can't. if you can't, then wait for the translation to be adapted for the OGSR port; the OGSR ports does a few things differently, so someone needs to help adapt it for that

 

[jebsmoker]

this is not related to goldsphere - this is more for the bildo-lovers and fellow game archeologists: https://mega.nz/file/tlpTjRTD#BKGgn8XbdMOP66NUpUG7rTS34pPPsK-5xdOwr9gueiE

if you've played the numerous prototypes leaked throughout the years, you'll recognize a lot of the reference photos in these right away

 

[jebsmoker]

LEON!

 

[gerey]

Vatnik autism is something else entirely.

 

[Gerrard]

Tarkovfags need to hang.
Also, I expect the gun model to be as "optimized" as the Gunslinger ones, that have more polygons than character models.

 

[jebsmoker]

one of my acquaintances does AI-done translations for mods. these aren't as good as hand-written translations, but they are far better than machine translations in terms of quality.

he's put all of his work here: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1QDvkDa5u2pxREzlykCrleEGfkLRzbQay_9HxZxU8bds/edit

 

[Baron Dupek]

No translation for New Arsenal (ShoC)? I've tried old TKGP's translation and it was decent mod but couldn't progress in new quests, most likely bad translation or too vague tips...
Also there was some ShoC mod with "Alien" in the name (not vector of Alienation) but also forgot what it was about.

what you know - there's mod for Metro 2033


AP-PRO showcase might look cool but way too much fiddling. Like you don't have enough of this crap already in the western games with garbage management (no Italians involved) and crafting. It's the 2nd horseman of the garbagocalypse along with the RPG elements. Because pure gameplay is boring or something.
People say it's because Tarkov but it was there before - Men of War(like) games or Apeiron games like 762mm management for example.

 

[vibehunter]

Anyone here played Road to the North? I booted it up, talked to Sid, then got gunned down by the loners in Rookie Village for some reason.

 

[jebsmoker]

in a few months or so i'm gonna be finished with fully revising the goldsphere translation - after that, i plan on moving to revising the translations ss and grunterhunter did for secret trails 2 and fotograf years ago. why? because the machine translations for the items and weapons in those mods upset my autism, that's why. the dialogue translations for those mods is mostly fine, just a few minor typos i'll fix, but the majority of my work for those will go into fixing stuff like the as val in secret trails 2 being simply called 'supplies' for some insane reason

edit:

god bless

 

[Tacgnol]

the as val in secret trails 2 being simply called 'supplies' for some insane reason

It supplies death.

 

[ferratilis]

A question for experienced Stalkers: does AMK Autumn Edition have the same problem as AA where saves get corrupted if you have more than four quests active?