STALKER Shadow of Chernobyl Mod Thread

[opium fiend]

fat chance, but I thought I'd ask: I started up Clear Sky again, are there any gameplay enhancing mods a la Misery out there?

 

[zwanzig_zwoelf]

I wish I could love this game. No, really, I wish so.

I really loved:
- Audio. Yep, I could spend, like, hours just standing and listening to the environment sounds.
- Exploration. I never knew what I could encounter in an abandoned building. It could take a lot of time to actually explore and see everything.
- Visuals weren't that bad (apart from some obvious crap like facial animation)
- Combat felt kinda clunky, yet I started to enjoy it later.

But unfortunately:
- Quests tried to be original, but it was mostly 'go there, shoot everyone, find an object, return'.
- Shitty engine with random slowdowns, tons of ingame bugs and crashes.
- Primitive dialogues.
- Shitty AI which detected me even if I played stealthy.
- Can't take the armor off the dead enemies without mods.
- Number of minor issues I don't quite remember.

After almost beating it (and making a rageuninstall), Clear Sky felt like an improvement on one side, on another, it was a huge letdown.

 

[RRRrrr]

Just finished CoP on Stalker, couldn't get enough of it. Started again. Should I get Misery, if I don't want to make game a reloadfest? Game seems difficult enough as it is.

Things I'd change.

1. Make mutants hitting harder, but dying easier
2. Faster reload and weapon swap.
3. Double or triple gear durability
4. Remove radioactivity from artifacts
5. Half medkit drop, make medkit heavier (0.5 kg or so)
6. Randomise "traps" locations inside anomalies after each emission
7. Remove Svarog
8. Add semi-ironman mode, with saving only at bases, or only once per day.

Misery is not that hard, it just needs some getting used to. You might actually have to buy ammunition sometimes. Just like the original game it gets easier as you progress. All you need is a decent armor and a weapon with a scope so you can make headshots. Don't forger that ctr+shift (iirc) makes you crouch even lower and is useful during fights.

 

[baturinsky]

I still can't figure how to hold ctrl-shift without experiencing serious finger shortage.

 

[DramaticPopcorn]

It's not like you need to move at all when you're low ducking. I've only ever used it for sniping and getting past some obstacles every now and then.

 

[zwanzig_zwoelf]

I still can't figure how to hold ctrl-shift without experiencing serious finger shortage.

With the little finger. It may require some getting used to, but it pays off later.

 

[opium fiend]

I still can't figure how to hold ctrl-shift without experiencing serious finger shortage.

Make ctrl sticky. It's in the control settings

 

[opium fiend]

Well, so far, Clear Sky is playing itself. I was told that the faction was too weak to fight bandits, yet they did almost all of the objectives without me, while I wandered around smelling roses and looking for stashes. I had to rush for the last village just so it would seem that I did something. Hope there's more action later on.

 

[DraQ]

Just finished CoP on Stalker, couldn't get enough of it. Started again. Should I get Misery, if I don't want to make game a reloadfest? Game seems difficult enough as it is.

You have clearly never played the prequels.

Barring few tense situations unmodded CoP is too much of a cakewalk.
Especially anomalies are weak as piss.

1. Make mutants hitting harder, but dying easier

Fair enough, I suppose. SoC murtants were the best in terms of durability.

2. Faster reload and weapon swap.
3. Double or triple gear durability

Reload should actually take longer, weapon swap might be a bit faster to make pulling your other gun a better option than reloading your primary one when in a pinch.
Also, separate sidearm slot, make weapon swap faster only when switching to sidearm.

Actually, reload should be vastly prolonged by moving around (depending on speed) and interrupted by sprinting.

4. Remove radioactivity from artifacts

If and only if it gets replaced by diversified side effects like in SoC.

5. Half medkit drop, make medkit heavier (0.5 kg or so)
6. Randomise "traps" locations inside anomalies after each emission
7. Remove Svarog

Yes.

Or maybe tweak Svarog so it's no longer such a cheat, but keep it.

8. Add semi-ironman mode, with saving only at bases, or only once per day.

out of

Again, saving is fucking player's and player's alone. Reloading can be limited in whatever way you see fit, but - I can't stress it enough - if you want to limit *saving*, you need to be pulled out in the street, pinned to the ground and shot repeatedly in the head.

 

[baturinsky]

How do you limit reloading without limiting saving?

I played SoC, but it was long ago, so don't remember details. I think SoP anomalies difficulty is about right - but only at the very early game, before you get all geared up.

 

[DraQ]

How do you limit reloading without limiting saving?

In the usual way.

You can save whenever you fucking please. Even in traditional ironman games you can save whenever you fucking please - sure, the game tends to save on its own as well and manual save equals exit, but you can do it at any moment you want. That's because it's up to the player when they need to get up from the comp - devs have no business deciding that, if they think they do see:

What is restricted is loading - game might disallow reloads when there is game in progress (as in ironman), might disallow reloads when you die (enforced by save deletion/overwriting, again, as in ironman), might disallow both of the former with the exception of special saves made at specific checkpoints, might not actually restrict anything, but make reloading affect game state adversely, etc.

You can make a search for posts by DraQ with keywords being "save", "load" and "ironman" - I've discussed this matter to death.

 

[sickpeople]

Hi, popping my codex cherry here.
I am thinking of replaying SoC because of this thread. Im thinking of what mod shall I use. Complete seems a dumbed down version from what I have heard.
Oblivion Lost seems to be the perfect choice for me. Which version shoud I use? OL 2.2 or 2010. My PC isn't high end, but it ran vanilla STALKER on max with no trouble.

 

[DraQ]

Hi, popping my codex cherry here.
I am thinking of replaying SoC because of this thread. Im thinking of what mod shall I use. Complete seems a dumbed down version from what I have heard.
Oblivion Lost seems to be the perfect choice for me. Which version shoud I use? OL 2.2 or 2010. My PC isn't high end, but it ran vanilla STALKER on max with no trouble.

ZRP.

 

[Strelok]

Just finished CoP on Stalker, couldn't get enough of it. Started again. Should I get Misery, if I don't want to make game a reloadfest? Game seems difficult enough as it is.

Things I'd change.

1. Make mutants hitting harder, but dying easier
2. Faster reload and weapon swap.
3. Double or triple gear durability
4. Remove radioactivity from artifacts
5. Half medkit drop, make medkit heavier (0.5 kg or so)
6. Randomise "traps" locations inside anomalies after each emission
7. Remove Svarog
8. Add semi-ironman mode, with saving only at bases, or only once per day.

1-5 are just a few text files away, 7 would be tricky, prolly better to just make it a quest friendly Veles. 6 & 8 massively difficult, if not impossible.

 

[MasPingon]

Just finished CoP on Stalker, couldn't get enough of it. Started again. Should I get Misery, if I don't want to make game a reloadfest? Game seems difficult enough as it is.

I would say you should play Misery if you liked CoP. Misery doesn't change main storyline nor subquests, but it feels like a completely different game. If CoP seems difficult enought to you though, leave Misery alone. It will rape you hard from the begining, The Zone is not theme park enymore. But that's how it should be, right?

 

[Surf Solar]

As soon as you accumulate a good armor and weapon, Misery becomes just as easy as CoP was, though.

 

[MasPingon]

As soon as you accumulate a good armor and weapon, Misery becomes just as easy as CoP was, though.

Yeah, but the whole fun is to get the right weapon, equipment and artifacts. Misery 2.0 is said to be difficult all the way from the begining to the end, we'll see soon

 

[pakoito]

Bump to this thread. Misery 2.0 coming at the end of the month. Steam Summer Sale starts tomorrow. Which game should I buy and with what mods must it be played?

 

[Strelok]

Steam? Shadow of Chernobyl, First playthrough, None or ZRP. After? LURK (1.05 or 1.1), OGSE, or Redux.
After, Clear Sky.
If ShOC Is the adorable child (new concept), CS is the awkward teenager(experimental features), and COP is the functional adult(finalized features).
This is how you progress through life, this is how you play them order-wise.
As mentioned by others, if you start with COP, you won't enjoy ShOC as much. CS gives you a surreal "past-future" experience AFTER playing ShOC.

 

[pakoito]

That's too many play hours than what I'm probably going to digest. For a single run, one game, one "total overhaul" mod recommendation?

 

[DraQ]

That's too many play hours than what I'm probably going to digest. For a single run, one game, one "total overhaul" mod recommendation?

Two games - you can drop Clear Sky. It just tapers off into an obvious alpha near the end.

 

[skacky]

I never got into Clear Sky to be honest. Too many people on the maps ruin the lonely feeling of the series. Get Shadow of Chernobyl with ZRP (Zone Reclamation Project) if you want a vanilla experience. Once you're done, get AMK for Shadow of Chernobyl if you want real challenge (and if that isn't enough try Zone of Alienation aka woof woof woof).

 

[baturinsky]

That's too many play hours than what I'm probably going to digest. For a single run, one game, one "total overhaul" mod recommendation?

CoP is quite short. About half of SoC at most.

 

[DraQ]

That's too many play hours than what I'm probably going to digest. For a single run, one game, one "total overhaul" mod recommendation?

CoP is quite short. About half of SoC at most.

You need to reply to that other guy, though.

 

[Carrion]

To be honest, hunting artifacts in the swamps at night in CS was about as memorable as anything in SoC for me. Some of the other areas, like the Red Forest, were also very good and vastly improved from SoC. I'd say the game is worth playing for those things alone. It's too bad that every one of the many improvements to the game's atmosphere and general deadliness was balanced out by mostly dull mission design and especially the completely and utterly broken faction mechanics. It's like they didn't know whether to make it more of a survival game or a more straightforward shooter, and they ended up trying to do both with mixed results.

If you're just going to play one of the games, CS would be the last one on the list, no doubt about it. It's very disjointed and far from being a complete game.