About to play Stalker for the first time, any mods i should install to make my experience better? Gonna play it on Windows 10
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About to play Stalker for the first time, any mods i should install to make my experience better?
The original troony slop
retn-freee
no you don't need anything
the game is stable these days and bugs were rare for me. I just played it a few months ago on win 10 too
>first time
>mods
No?
the authentic zoomer experience
No mods. Vanilla latest patch for each game for the first time. After you beat them, then look into mods you're interested in. Avoid Anomaly/GAMMA and any of those types of mods.
the frick happened to anomaly to be put along with gamma?
What do you think the last A in GAMMA stands for?
You morons who get excited to post this are some of the dumbest people in the threads. You're not educating anyone or making a point. People recommend master because it's fun, not because of your imaginary "people think it makes enemies die faster" strawman argument.
sorry for looking out for the common man i guess...
oh yeah and OP the game loads npc AI before terrain so saves within sight range of npc's mean you get spotted on loads, save far away from enemies if you die or need to re-try an encounter
Anomaly and Gamma are fine, the one you really want to avoid is Misery
Maybe ZRP at most
Zone Reclamation Project is the only mod you need for a first playthrough. Even that isn't entirely necessary.
Check the general on /vg/, you've got a whole list of recommended mods and settings there
Nah, vanilla version first
"first time always no mods" is a stupid meme. #notallgames. of course soliciting advice from Ganker is pretty fricking stupid too. A reminder tha vanilla Stalker doesn't even have real darkness at nighttime. I still have my SoC box but I have no nostalgia for vanilla and I'll never go back. Even fricking Complete is better than vanilla YES I SAID IT
Wrong
Wrong. This has been debunked for over a decade. The player does more damage on lower difficulties and receives frequent & better quality loot.
Nothing sadder than LARPing as a slavBlack person. have a nice day I suppose.
>Wrong. This has been debunked for over a decade. The player does more damage on lower difficulties and receives frequent & better quality loot.
nta, but thanks for clearing that up. I realize the fanbase likes to say otherwise because it's an easy troll on newer players.
Play using the hardest difficulty, it affects accuracy and damage. If you play medium or easy the enemies become bullet sponges.
Are you repeating this inaccurate "tip" to provoke people like me that know it's false, or because you still believe it?
on the other hand can you even say you've experienced Stalker if you haven't experienced
>COME IN, DON'T STAND THERE
>I SAID COME IN, DON'T STAND THERE
or
>hello, hello. hello, hello. hello, hello.
hello, hello isn't memed up as much as COME IN I SAID
GRANADA
This is true, disregard what the others say. You can easily test it for yourself OP.
On lower difficulties, both you and enemies are bullet sponges. On higher difficulties, both you and enemies are extremely vulnerable. That's why people say "Master mode is easier".
this
ammo scarcity is an important part of the game, and you'll use 100% of your ammo on 1 guy in Easy difficulty
>any mods i should install to make my experience better?
Yeah, it's called Recycle Bin.
You can just say talk about STALKER I don't know why every fricking STALKER threads has to be "I'm about to play should I install mods" bait
Somehow morons still fall for it every time
OP here, i'm not baiting, it is actually my first time playing the game, was asking because older PC games tend to need mods
>https://www.metacognix.com/files/stlkrsoc/index.html
Just get ZRP 1.07 R5 RC
Play it vanilla. Mods make it far better than vanilla is, but they always break balance to some degree and influence game mechanics in jankiest ways (as if base game wasn't janky enough). Once you do that, feel free to try out mods, there's tons of good stuff out there.
It's an old game and it shows, but hopefully you'll enjoy it regardless.
Consult this Starting Guide,
then see the /vg/'s huge Stalker General for more tips and links:
Play in the release order.
Start with no mods - only latest patch, OR get the full "Starter Pack" first;
these contain bug-fixers and light visual mods that can help performance as well.
Leave big overhauls for later playthrougs. Avoid the "Complete", "Anomaly" and "Gamma" mega-mods. Always play on MASTER difficulty for best realism and atmosphere. And disable crosshair. it's just in your way and may enable bad habbits (namely hip firing).
Don't give up in the beginning!
The starting gear sucks ass (on purpose) and first area can be a bit boring to some folks that're used to faster paced games.
Anomaly is fine to play after you've beaten the trilogy
Like said many times, latest patch is all ya NEED, and both GOG and Steam provide that automatically. Many people do recommend the ZRP mod, essentially a fan-patch of sorts, as a good to have secondary, but you really don't need it necessarily, per se.
Just make sure you toggle on the DirectX9 full dynamic lighting mode so it looks like a late-00s game instead of Y2K era title, disable the crosshair to avoid bad gaming habits (ie. shooting full auto from a hip), and play on the highest difficulty.
If you have never ever played a proper PC FPS or CRPG title before (and no, any CoD or BF made after 2004 does not count), you may have a steep learning curve. Just understand that there's bullet physics, you are not a superhuman, hoarding shit like a bag-rat will get you into trouble eventually, and the world keeps spinning even without your input.
Analmeme is absolutely shit, and not even the first nor the second free-roam sandbox mod for STALKER. That shit got tiresome already back in 2011.
have a nice day contrarian Anomaly is a good freeplay experience
Don't link your shitty dying general here, man. You people are the reason no one discusses stalker on Ganker any more.
Incredible that a general for a Ukrainian game has become so contrarian they're rooting for the home country of the devs to be destroyed.
Maybe they shouldnt have ruined Stalker 2, nafo troon
GAMMA of course...
Go back to moronEra, troony homos.
>doesn't like the best Stalker experience
You never played, actual troony. So your troony "opinion" is worthless. You can cope, seethe, dilate even but everyone including you knows that it's true.
Analmeme and Gaymma are LITERALLY anti-STALKER. Absolutely go against every single thing that made STALKER so good in the first place.
All (You) nugays want to play are yet another DayZ clone #5234 with tons of out of place tacticool crap and other bloat thrown on top.
Analmeme is just CoC with better graphics though, assuming you aren't a moron that runs all the tarkov bullshit.
Gaymma is an absolute travesty though.
ZRP has some nice little tweaks without majorly disrupting anything.
Mostly just used it to fully disable headbob and to make the UI a little more clean.
protip: instead of giving anomaly/gamma Black folk attention, just tell them to kill themselves
No need to. They typically off themselves before reaching the age of 30, when they no longer can even pretend to pass as a Body Type B.
No mods, play it blind, don't get discouraged by the first firefight as the weapon that you will have suck, a head shot usually means death for enemy. The game can crash but that's due to the fact that the engine and coding is awful so save regularly on a few slots. Have fun stalker
Why do looney troons get so mad at the mere mention of anomaly and gamma?
anomaly is the brutal doom of stalker and gamma is the discord zoomer mod
>anomaly is the brutal doom of stalker
So a good mod that a handful of homosexual artists dislike and shit themselves over? Of course you're a WAD purist too
i wasnt picking sides i was only stating the facts
Eh. I like Anomaly a lot and play it a lot, although I definitely appreciate the adjustable difficulty. Base settings are much too grindy for my tastes. Also too much of the difficulty comes not from gunplay and progression but for it being really hard to spot enemies. The normal games have fairly visible silhouettes. I would consider Call of Pripyat to be the pinnacle of the art form as far as Stalker is concerned, although I know a lot of people don't like it's gameplay departures from the "traditional formula" established in Shadow of Chernobyl, which Anomaly more closely follows.
gamma is like the complete opposite of a zoomer mod.
you autistic morons just shit out buzzwords. go jerk off to your anime and funko pops
gamma is literally the discord gay mod that was shilled by an eceleb
Analmeme and Gaymma ARE troon mods.
>lemme just slam ALL the 18 years old memes I saw online into a single post!
you are not fooling anyone.
Literally crafted out of the same tree.
>Autumn aurora.
>Upgrades the graphics without touching anything else
Holy shit, this thread is a b8 gold mine!
>Accuses people of posting b8
>gives a (You) to every single piece of b8 he comes across anyways
Based moron , but yeah vanilla stalker has bullet sponge hell after awhile and spamming grenades is crucial on higher difficulties or you're fricked
>vanilla stalker has bullet sponge hell after awhile
lol nope. This motherfricker can't aim for the life of his, and doesn't use AP ammo.
9x39 VSS and VAL absolutely turn ya into a god.
t: contrarian troon.
Nice novice difficulty footage, try that on Master and see where it gets you. I love stalker but on harder difficulties the game has bullet sponge issues
Wrong. I've played the game dozens of times, with and without mods, since 2007. Master is literally the only difficulty to play the game, and unironically makes things easier at best.
>Analmeme is just CoC with better graphics though
And CoC was absolutely boring ass trash already. That's the whole point here.
Black person that clip is older than you.
>freedom has females in their ranks
Might explain why they're so chill given that they have sex all day with women and weed.
fool, that aint a woman.
I think a controller has gotten to you.
>I think a controller has gotten to you.
No, how about you buy some of my happy medicine. Don't worry, the Moonlight glow adds extra punch.
Not him, but I made these webms specifically for morons like you who complain about aiming and damage. Even on master, if you actually aim your fricking guns you can kill enemies with one or two shots from the shittiest pistol you get at the start of the game.
Holy shit wow, I should've kept it on master. I got filtered hard, I started the game on master, raged in the military base and bumped it down to stalker until I beat the game.
Frick me
no you dont need mods, and the difficulty myth is what i just said a myth, you dont need to play master
this shits been debunked but it still gets spread
Master difficulty is just punching yourself in the balls over and over, Stalker difficulty is the best
Master difficulty honestly isn't that hard once you get the hang of the game. Especially if you're willing to save regularly. The only game where I'd say difficulty makes a dramatic difference is Clear Sky, while on Shadow of Chernobyl the difference between difficulties is quite subtle.
>he thinks there is a large difference between the two
Master difficulty is the way stalker (and every game) is meant to be played. you and the npcs/players at 1 to 1 damage. just look at the stats, your gun damage is at normal levels on master, no baby mode innate extra resistance to damage, a normal amount of loot, no kid mode protection from one shot kills.
Master difficulty is clearly the way the games were developed to be played at, the other difficulties were only added later after they were bailed out by a western publisher and the guy they sent over mandated that the game HAD to have difficulty options "just because.".
please stop posting that lion
Why did you quote me?
ZRP is pretty much a requirement. Artifact respawning and random crate items are broken in vanilla, and you also get a good deal of engrish like 'the stash is located in the basement of the house' (it's actually in the attic). The localization leaves much to be desired. It's also got a few good optional quality of life fixes that some people enjoy, such as removing the looping nightvision sound whenever you enable your nightvision (this can get annoying quickly) and removing the radiation white-out effect where the screen gets whiter and whiter as you enter an irradiated area (this makes the final levels of the game quite tedious).
Have fun stalkan
No it's better to play it janky and vanillas and just suffer through the bugs until mid game. The first quarter of SoC is so jank it's insane. Just save up every grenade you find until you go to the first military base. Trust me on that.
After that the game is fine, you just need to make sure you balance your load out for the creeping bullet sponginess of enemies.
Autumn aurora.
Upgrades the graphics without touching anything else.
After your first play trough you can get into mods proper
Starter Pack and FOV changer
https://www.moddb.com/mods/starter-pack
>any mods i should install to make my experience better?
No, stay far away from /vg/. Theyre bethestard slavs that don't even really like stalker. There are certain quirks to the unmodded game that make it a very unique experience.
What the frick are you talking about? Stalker general is like the only good thread on that board and they love the vanilla games.
No. The stalker general is for bad unpopular modders grifting for their shit and underage slavs like the little kid seething about gamma in this thread. Look at how much they have shit up this thread, just completely ruined it. Not a single person in that general really likes stalker.
>tranime
way to oust yourself gammatroon
Why am I better at the unmodded game than you?
You don’t pass.
What in the frick are you talking about? People in the general mostly talk about the biggest most popular mods, shit on analmeme, and talk about vanilla games what Stalker 2 will be like.
Gamma is the only way to play.
Only contrarian troons play vanilla.
Gamma is more like gmod in xray than a full fledged game. Run around an empty map while random shit spawns all around, make your own fun
>About to play Stalker for the first time, any mods i should install to make my experience better?
Yes.
Zone reclamation project.
That is all you need for a fist playthrough. It's just a polished up version of the vanilla game, 99% of changes are purely techical fixes, the one gameplay element that it adds is a sleeping bag, which was supposed to be in the base game anyway, and saves you a lot of tedium.
That is it.
Anyone who tells you to forgo ZRP is an idiot though.
>saves you a lot of tedium.
Tedium from what moron
>Tedium from what moron
Having to wait in-game minutes for day light change? You HAVE played Stalker, right?
>play this horror game when it's light out only
Unironically have a nice day
It's not a horror game, and if you can sit and physically wait for daytime, you can skip that wait. The day and night shift makes sense when you are out in the danger. Which is when you can't use the sleeping bag without having your ass eaten anyway.
I swear to god, like 2/3rds of people in this thread haven't actually played the fricking game. What is it with Stalker attracting so many morons pretending to know the game while espousing complete fricking nonsense and 10 years old memes?
>It's not a horror game
Yes it is moron
Seriously, are you 12?
What is up with the larping? What is the point?
>S.T.A.L.K.E.R.: Shadow of Chernobyl is a survival-horror first person shooter video game by Ukrainian developer GSC Game World, and published by THQ.
So... your experience with the game is literally shitty tag line you read of the store page?
Again? Why do you larp like you have actually played it? To what end?
It's a survival horror game, which I think is a meaningful difference. The scares in Stalker come from the tension of having low supplies, the threat of losing progress, and the atmosphere, rather from the monsters being inherently scary or whatever. At least I haven't found bloodsuckers scary since I was 14. It's more like say, the old Resident Evils in that regard. Sure the zombie mansion in RE1 is spooky, but if you could mow through hordes like Leon in RE4 then it'd be as horrifying as a children's ghost train.
>from the tension of having low supplies
which literally does not exist since the game showers you with far more bullets and food than you'll ever need
>the threat of losing progress,
*quicksaves on your grave*
>rather from the monsters being inherently scary
The only parts of STALKER that even begin to approach "horror game" territory are in the lab sections with all the invisible poltergeists and the sound of pseudogiants lumbering the dark several rooms over
>which literally does not exist since the game showers you with far more bullets and food than you'll ever need
It doesn't, master cuts drop rates which is why you play on master like you're told dumb moron
Just finished a master playthrough and I don’t think I ever struggled with ammo past the Garbage tbh.
You get a boatload of free bullets at the car park and from then on as long as you unload every gun you pick up you should have no trouble progressing to something better than a Viper 5. Also had so much money from selling artifacts, doing jobs, and the arena that I could just freely buy as much ammo as I needed by the halfway point.
>You get a boatload of free bullets at the car park
You don't get good ammo, no. Why would you stock up on buckshot and shitty pistol ammo? Do you even know how the game works?
>he lacks the information
He’s probably thinking of the vehicle graveyard.
…whoops.
Even on master you'll still end up overencumbered with supplies because of all the dumbass shootout sections like Agropom and the Dark Valley. They're full of human enemies that are basically supply pinatas. A lot of people shit talk CoP for some reason but it made most of the enemies mutants, which is fundamentally just much better for making the survival shit matter, and yet EVEN STILL with CoP, the survival shit is still a joke in that game
it doesn't even have an inventory system, just carrying capacity lol
>A lot of people shit talk CoP for some reason
that reason being that the Zone in CoP feels like a theme park and the game is piss easy
>theme park
meaningless statement. It's the same deal in SoC where almost everything you only visit once, only difference is the layout
>game is piss easy
you could make the same complaint of any game with easy quicksaves
you're a moron and I'm not going to waste my time with you. Black person.
Honestly, yeah, I agree. Once you figure the game out, it's not hard, therefore there's no tension, therefore no horror. The last time I played through Shadow of Chernobyl I went into Pripyat with more than 10kg of medkits and bandages. But for a new player this isn't the case.
Eh, any game can have you apprehensive about what's coming up next. But there's just so many bodies to loot even in the early game that I just wasn't ever afraid on my first playthough. The big thing repeat playthroughs taught me was the location of suits you can get for free to trivialize things even more, like the hidden merc suit in the starter village
GAMMA returned a lot of that horror feeling for me. You are completely exposed for a long time.
not really, but it can be scary to some
>its resident evil
>because it has an inventory system
>It's not a horror game
It's literally open world Resident Evil.
See
Holy frick the stalker general is so dumb
unmodded is boring as frick but anomaly gamma is way too bloated with moronic shit, try gunslinger mod for cop, it pretty much keeps the game vanilla but improves the gun anims and models and shit without really changing the vanilla game
Watch this:
It details why or why not to use mods on a first playthrough and what mods to use if you choose to do so, and explains the appeal of the series. This is the best primer you will find, not that you really need it.
Forgot link
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Install vanilla patches, stay away from COMPLETE, have fun stalkan
>took that shot 14 years ago
>made the maymay later that year
>people still posting it around
Right in the kokoro
>stay away from complete
not op but i also reinstalled a few days ago meaning to finally finish the game and slapped on complete
what's the problem with it
>stole shit from other mods
>introduces bugs not present in vanilla
>makes the game easier by reducing NPC activation range to 100 meters, increasing accuracy and damage of all guns, making all kinds of night vision viable, some suits have auto bandage systems
>said gameplay changes aren't mentioned anywhere
it's a mod for morons, made by a moron that seriously thinks he made stalker "popular" and "playable"
just the weapons overhaul
>Master difficulty
>Unofficial v1.0008 Patch (use r__detail_radius to increase grass distance)
>Grass Shadows from v1.0-1.0003 & Extended CVars
>ZRP 1.05 (1.07 might not work with Shaders Max)
>Shaders Max (fixes shadows on widescreen monitors)
>16:9 Scope Fix
>Xetrill's Modified LuaJIT library
Vanilla with out visual glitches and more stable. Enjoy anon.
>fixes shadows on widescreen monitors
doesn't that get fixed by typing r2_sun_near_border 1 on console?
never worked for me no matter how much i messed with the commands.
>very uncomfortable menu music
>shit looks extremely old and dated
>every piece of dialogue is a literal novel
>no english dub option
>UI is extremely unintuitive
>weapons are dogshit, and have the durability meme added on top
>no autosave, lose literal hours of progress unless i spam F5
bravo, what a masterpiece...
sovl
Anon, I hope you walk into a springtrap anomaly and die so that I can rape your deformed corpse.
I miraculously got thru the first one vanilla when it was the only one without any terrible bugs surfacing.
Every Stalker fan that I've seen personally is an alcoholic with an unkempt beard. what's up with that?
hey man my beard isnt unkempt.
ngl lad, I tried getting into it like 3 times but the god awful gameplay always put me off
It took a lot of attempted playthroughs for it to finally click but when it did I was hooked.
Janky as it is there aren’t many other games out there quite like it which is a shame. Doubt the sequel will be able to scratch the same itch either.
>the god awful gameplay
The gameplay is excellent, and pretty standard unless you were born and raised during the Xbox 360 times or something.
I played SoC soon after SS2, and was instantly addicted. Must've put some 10k+ hours to it since 2007, and still getting the itch to do some Stalkan' every once in a while.
The horse shlong mod and BeastSex Framework.
NO MODS FOR YOUR FIRST PLAYTHROUGH. unless you encounter a game breaking bug then download a mod for crashes/bug fixes only AND NOTHING ELSE
Complete 2009 mod or don't play at all. Simple as.
https://www.moddb.com/mods/stalker-memories-of-the-zone
I still remember the fcking controllers fricking up my eardrums