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[Ulfarr]

A couple of animated music videos, heavily inspired by the games. The first one is somewhat simplistic but they both capture the feeling of the games.


https://youtu.be/UYKLGX9-_4Y
https://youtu.be/TIZWlW1YhbU

[Robsoie]

I noticed the anomaly standalone mod is now out of its RC phase and got then an official release, Anomaly 1.5.1 :
https://www.moddb.com/mods/stalker-anomaly/news/stalker-anomaly-version-151-release

[Ulfarr]

I've been meaning to start another run with Call of the Zone and I've been playtesting a couple mods. I am a bit unsure about which weapon mod to use, on one hand Arsenal Overhaul gives a better selection ( I do have a soft spot for the 7.62 Nato guns) on the other hand I *think* it meshes up with the loot table, especially with the pda drops. The CotZ weapon pack is ok, but it's somewhat limited with it's selection of weapons. Any opinions about these add-ons?

Also if you have any suggestion for other mods/add ons, I'll be glad to read it.

[Robsoie]

I usually play with the stock weapons in any mods, i always find there's way too much variant of the same rifles in those weapon mods.
One addon that grew on me for CotZ is this one, though certainly not for everyone :
https://www.moddb.com/mods/doctorx-call-of-the-zone/addons/action-ai-for-call-of-the-zone-v1-cotz-11

Basically it makes the NPC moves a bit faster (as by default NPC are slower than the player in nearly every stalker mods) , and it also make the NPC running instead of walking all the time.
It's also making things more frantic during a firefight due to the NPC not moving that slowly anymore, they will not be as easy to shoot as before. And as they get into position faster meaning that if you're not carefull they can overrun your cover.

Oh and zombified stalkers, you need to see them with that mod (there's an option in the mod to get the zombified stalkers back to how they originally move in case their new behaviour annoys you).
To quickly check, start a character in the mobile science lab in jupiter (not the one in yantar) , then climb on the nearby hill in which there's some kind of base , it's populated with zombified stalker.
Attract attention and run

To me this addon gives some "arcade" feeling that make the gameplay refreshingly different enough from all the other stalker standalone mods i play to keep CotZ on my hard drive.

[Ulfarr]

I’ve tried the action ai add on for awhile but i haven’t met a zombified stalker yet. I might install it again out of curiosity but  I’m afraid it makes the game too unstable  for my pc. Thanks for the suggestion

[Robsoie]

There are also a bunch of zombified stalkers in the Zaton map, at the Sawmill location ( marked 9 in that map )
On Jupiter the location i was mentionning is marked 20 on that map
Best places to be sure to meet zombified stalkers that are guaranteed to spawn here, and have a good laugh at trying to run away from them with the action ai addon

For the action AI addon, i've been using it for several months in CotZ and never noticed it causing the game becoming unstable, it's rather light in ressource as it is editing the already existing game scripts.

I would be more cautious with addons that add too much HQ textures and HQ models, CotZ is working on a 32bits engine and similarly to CoC unfortunately isn't immune to addons getting things over that 32bits engine limitations with your system memory.

[Ulfarr]

I'll give it another go, maybe I just messed some other thing in that install.

edit: Heh, I found two of them at the northern farmstead in the Great Swamp. I was not prepared for that

[Ulfarr]

A bit of an update/warning on the mods for CoTZ

I've been playing with Arsenal Overhaul + Less good weapons for AO3 1.0 (which is admitedly outdated) and I had an issue where some weapons and scopes behaved just wrong. For example, I found both vanilla and AO versions of the PSO scope one of which didn't have the black outer overlay and while AO has a scopeless model for VSS Vintorez it still had a very significant zoom when aiming and it couldn't accept any scope.

Now that could have been due to the outdated submod but there were a few comments regarding scope issues in AO, so I'm not sure where the problems stems from.

[Robsoie]

Can you post on pastebin the content of the ltx file that correspond to your bugged scopeless vintorez so i can check if i see the issue ?
Said ltx file should be somewhere in ...gamedata\configs\weapons\ 

[Ulfarr]

I'm afraid I can't do that.  I did a clean install last night so I don't have the bugged files anymore. Thanks for your offer though Robsoie 

[Robsoie]

No problem, i have edited for personnal use so much of various stalker weapons ltx files that i remember most of the mistakes i did and learned how to fix them

edit : from the moddb comments, it appears that the guy that was making an unofficial 64bits patch (along with fixing lots of bugs for it) for the abandonned Call of Chernobyl 1.5r7 joined force with one of the last remaining Call of Chernobyl dev in order to make a finally complete Call of Chernobyl 1.5 :
https://old.reddit.com/r/stalker/comments/lqwrgh/coc_is_coming_back_baby/

That's amazing, maybe one day i'll be able to ditch my beloved very modded and stable 1.4.22 for a new beloved and very modded stable 1.5

[Robsoie]

Recently discovered an english version of OGSR ( Old Good Stalker Remastered ) in which the uploader didn't add some weapons pack and other tweaks that had just broken the balance of the mod.


OGSR is a standalone "story" mod (so you can play without owning any game) that is a major upgrade on OGSE (Old Good Stalker Evolution) that concept is about remaking the original stalker with much more content and quests (for the difference with Oblivion Lost Remake and Vector of Alienation , those were about remaking the Oblivion Lost game that transformed into the commercial Shadow of Chernobyl, so you can easily play OGSR and OLR and they will not feel like the same game as they go very different way at it)

And it indeed has a lot of stuff to do, way more quests than in Shadow of Chernobyl i've been running around Cordon so far completing several quests, some are really good as there are alternate ways to solve them (while in Shadow of Chernobyl solving a quest was less open).
https://www.moddb.com/mods/ogsr-mod-repack-from-serega-lus-with-english-patch

Something that can help in OGSR about something that had puzzled me regarding a mission involving a vehicle

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

You may obtain a mission in which you must transport a heavy crate of artifacts to the military roadblock at the broken bridge and exchange it for a create of weapons for the rookie village.
The car is parked right one of the house in the village, but it's out of fuel.
I happened to run into a fuel canister in the farm.
But the problem was how to refuel the car.

You must position yourself outside of the car and in its back, click on the trunk to open the back trunk.
Only then, with the fuel in your inventory, press the key you will have bound to refuelling.

Now you can enter in the car (only from the good side, from the other side you'll access the car trunk inventory).

Once you transported the artifact crate , leave the weapon crate in the car trunk and drive it back to the rookie village (as i tried to just run there with the crate in my inventory and it didn't trigger the task completion) until the mission complete and you can report to Wolf.

[Robsoie]

Something that could be usefull for people playing OGSR

in OGSR , i ran into a quest that was puzzling me, finding the code for a locked safe for Digger.
The hint according to the talking stuffed toy i found at some point was in the letters wrote in the safe "OGSE" each letter is supposed to be a number.
That puzzled me for a while as out of randomly trying to assign a number to each letter, it didn't seemed to be based on something else.

After a while i gave up and googled around

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

No wonder i didn't found the solution, because i was focused on the game , its storyline etc... while the solution has nothing to do with anything ingame or story based.
OGSE as mentionned in previous post is an old mod that is the basis for OGSR .
And apparently the last version of OGSE that was released is "OGSE 0693 Final"

So there's the code...

Annoying that what seems to be such a very important quest (the 5 or 6 flashdrives one) is locked behing a puzzle that is about following stalker mods releases and versioning ... wouldn't be that annoying if it was some random sidequest without purpose . I hope there's no more of that kind of stuff in the storyline

[Robsoie]

About the most excellent OGSR , someone uploaded a new repack of OGSR/OGSE but featuring one of the latest version of the OGSR engine, meaning less bugs and better performance, english translation is already included :
https://www.moddb.com/games/stalker/downloads/stalker-ogsr-1010

Very recommended (it's standalone by the way, no need to have other games installed).

edit : some spoiler help in case you're puzzled by the "haunted house" side-quest in the rookie village of Cordon as the locations to loot in order to find each required parts for the side quest are ... invisible , making it rather annoying (you can only find them by being close enough and having your crosshair on them).

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

- there's a tree near the house in which you can jump, move on a branch far enough so you can jump on the derelict roof of the haunted house, check the chimney that contains a location
- same tree, try using the branch to jump on the upper part of the tree instead of jumpint to the roof top , check around with your crosshair there's a location
- right next the wooden wall surrounding the house, there's a truck half crashed into said pallisade , on one of the side of that truck there's another of those location, check with your crosshair
- you'll notice near that truck, at the village entrance there's some kind of electric transformer. you can jump on top of it by first jumping on the wooden wall, on the top of it, there's another of those invisible location to find with your crosshair

Once you're done, talk to Musician to complete the quest.

[Robsoie]

I progressed a lot more in that recent version of OGSR and i'm really having a blast, of all STALKER games i played OGSR is the definitive best game : not only there truckload more quests and side quests than in any of them, but they are a lot more varied, most stalkers have much more personality with more to say and lots more story to tell, and performance is really amazing in comparison to older version of OGSR i played before, the dev really improved the engine a lot more.

And stability is impressive, whil in past OGSR i was not that often but still regularly having crash, i didn't crashed once in all those hours in this new version.

The english translator did a very good job, the updated translation that is now built-in OGSR is really great.

Recently helped a guy in Yantar to try to find his best friend, we had to get Sakharov to create some kind of experimental medicine to help use resist the zombifying effect of the Yantar factory, said medecine that turned us as some kind of zombie imitation so the truckload of zombies roaming and doing other stuff in the factory wouldn't mind us.

Lot of fun when trying to talk to the companion and have the dialogue option in zombie-like language
10/10 hilarious, would zombify temporarly again.
Though damned snorks weren't fooled and were rushing us while we were looking through the several buildings of the factory to find the guy best pal in one of them.

Very recommended to play OGSR , easily the best standalone mod of them all so far. Just download it and enjoy.

Only cons i could think about are the chimeras, they're the easiest chimeras to deal with of all the STALKER games, they slowly run in circle around you at a safe enough distance so you can easily move out of their jump when they decide to attack, they really take it easy, with enough bullets (they're still bullet sponges) you should have no problem.

They did that very likely because i learned from some talk with NPC that in OGSR there's another type of chimera, one that have electrical discharges like an anomaly, hmm not really looking forward to encounter one of those