About to play Stalker for the first time, any mods i should install to make my experience better? (2024)

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    Anonymous

    The original troony slop

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      Anonymous

      retn-freee

  2. 1 week ago

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    Anonymous

    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

  3. 1 week ago

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    Anonymous

    >first time
    >mods
    No?

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      Anonymous

      the authentic zoomer experience

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    Anonymous

    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.

    • 1 week ago

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      Anonymous

      the frick happened to anomaly to be put along with gamma?

      • 1 week ago

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        Anonymous

        What do you think the last A in GAMMA stands for?

        About to play Stalker for the first time, any mods i should install to make my experience better? (6)

        no you dont need mods, and the difficulty myth is what i just said a myth, you dont need to play master

        this sh*ts been debunked but it still gets spread

        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.

        • 1 week ago

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          About to play Stalker for the first time, any mods i should install to make my experience better? (7)

          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

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      Anonymous

      Anomaly and Gamma are fine, the one you really want to avoid is Misery

  5. 1 week ago

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    Anonymous

    Maybe ZRP at most

  6. 1 week ago

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    Anonymous

    Zone Reclamation Project is the only mod you need for a first playthrough. Even that isn't entirely necessary.

  7. 1 week ago

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    Anonymous

    Check the general on /vg/, you've got a whole list of recommended mods and settings there

  8. 1 week ago

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    Anonymous

    Nah, vanilla version first

  9. 1 week ago

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    Anonymous

    "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

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      Anonymous

      Wrong

      Play using the hardest difficulty, it affects accuracy and damage. If you play medium or easy the enemies become bullet sponges.

      Wrong. This has been debunked for over a decade. The player does more damage on lower difficulties and receives frequent & better quality loot.

      About to play Stalker for the first time, any mods i should install to make my experience better? (8)

      >any mods i should install to make my experience better?
      Yeah, it's called Recycle Bin.

      Nothing sadder than LARPing as a slavBlack person. have a nice day I suppose.

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        >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.

  10. 1 week ago

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    Play using the hardest difficulty, it affects accuracy and damage. If you play medium or easy the enemies become bullet sponges.

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      Are you repeating this inaccurate "tip" to provoke people like me that know it's false, or because you still believe it?

      "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

      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.

      • 1 week ago

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        Anonymous

        hello, hello isn't memed up as much as COME IN I SAID
        GRANADA

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      Anonymous

      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".

    • 1 week ago

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      Anonymous

      this
      ammo scarcity is an important part of the game, and you'll use 100% of your ammo on 1 guy in Easy difficulty

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    About to play Stalker for the first time, any mods i should install to make my experience better? (9)

    >any mods i should install to make my experience better?
    Yeah, it's called Recycle Bin.

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    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

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      About to play Stalker for the first time, any mods i should install to make my experience better? (10)

      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

      • 1 week ago

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        Anonymous

        >https://www.metacognix.com/files/stlkrsoc/index.html
        Just get ZRP 1.07 R5 RC

  13. 1 week ago

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    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.

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    About to play Stalker for the first time, any mods i should install to make my experience better? (11)

    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.

    • 1 week ago

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      Anonymous

      Anomaly is fine to play after you've beaten the trilogy

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        About to play Stalker for the first time, any mods i should install to make my experience better? (12)

        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 sh*t like a bag-rat will get you into trouble eventually, and the world keeps spinning even without your input.

        Analmeme is absolutely sh*t, and not even the first nor the second free-roam sandbox mod for STALKER. That sh*t got tiresome already back in 2011.

        • 1 week ago

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          Anonymous

          have a nice day contrarian Anomaly is a good freeplay experience

    • 1 week ago

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      Anonymous

      Don't link your sh*tty dying general here, man. You people are the reason no one discusses stalker on Ganker any more.

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        Anonymous

        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.

        • 1 week ago

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          Anonymous

          Maybe they shouldnt have ruined Stalker 2, nafo troon

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    Anonymous

    GAMMA of course...

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      About to play Stalker for the first time, any mods i should install to make my experience better? (13)

      have a nice day contrarian Anomaly is a good freeplay experience

      Go back to moronEra, troony hom*os.

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        About to play Stalker for the first time, any mods i should install to make my experience better? (14)

        >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.

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          About to play Stalker for the first time, any mods i should install to make my experience better? (15)

          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.

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            Analmeme is just CoC with better graphics though, assuming you aren't a moron that runs all the tarkov bullsh*t.
            Gaymma is an absolute travesty though.

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    Anonymous

    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.

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    protip: instead of giving anomaly/gamma Black folk attention, just tell them to kill themselves

    • 1 week ago

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      Anonymous

      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.

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    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

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    Anonymous

    Why do looney troons get so mad at the mere mention of anomaly and gamma?

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      anomaly is the brutal doom of stalker and gamma is the discord zoomer mod

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        >anomaly is the brutal doom of stalker
        So a good mod that a handful of hom*osexual artists dislike and sh*t themselves over? Of course you're a WAD purist too

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          i wasnt picking sides i was only stating the facts

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        About to play Stalker for the first time, any mods i should install to make my experience better? (16)

        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.

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        Anonymous

        gamma is like the complete opposite of a zoomer mod.
        you autistic morons just sh*t out buzzwords. go jerk off to your anime and funko pops

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          Anonymous

          gamma is literally the discord gay mod that was shilled by an eceleb

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      Anonymous

      Analmeme and Gaymma ARE troon mods.

      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.

      >lemme just slam ALL the 18 years old memes I saw online into a single post!
      you are not fooling anyone.

      the frick happened to anomaly to be put along with gamma?

      Literally crafted out of the same tree.

      Autumn aurora.
      Upgrades the graphics without touching anything else.

      After your first play trough you can get into mods proper

      >Autumn aurora.
      >Upgrades the graphics without touching anything else
      Holy sh*t, this thread is a b8 gold mine!

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        >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

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          About to play Stalker for the first time, any mods i should install to make my experience better? (17)

          >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.

          Gamma is the only way to play.
          Only contrarian troons play vanilla.

          t: contrarian troon.

          • 1 week ago

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            Anonymous

            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

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              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, assuming you aren't a moron that runs all the tarkov bullsh*t.
              Gaymma is an absolute travesty though.

              >Analmeme is just CoC with better graphics though
              And CoC was absolutely boring ass trash already. That's the whole point here.

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              About to play Stalker for the first time, any mods i should install to make my experience better? (18)

              Black person that clip is older than you.

              • 1 week ago

                Anonymous

                >freedom has females in their ranks
                Might explain why they're so chill given that they have sex all day with women and weed.

              • 1 week ago

                Anonymous

                fool, that aint a woman.
                I think a controller has gotten to you.

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                Anonymous

                About to play Stalker for the first time, any mods i should install to make my experience better? (19)

                >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.

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              About to play Stalker for the first time, any mods i should install to make my experience better? (20)

              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 sh*ttiest pistol you get at the start of the game.

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                Anonymous

                Holy sh*t 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

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    About to play Stalker for the first time, any mods i should install to make my experience better? (21)

    no you dont need mods, and the difficulty myth is what i just said a myth, you dont need to play master

    this sh*ts been debunked but it still gets spread

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      Anonymous

      Master difficulty is just punching yourself in the balls over and over, Stalker difficulty is the best

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        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.

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        >he thinks there is a large difference between the two

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        About to play Stalker for the first time, any mods i should install to make my experience better? (22)

        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.

        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.".

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          Anonymous

          please stop posting that lion

        • 1 week ago

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          Anonymous

          Why did you quote me?

  21. 1 week ago

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    Anonymous

    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 basem*nt 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

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    Anonymous

    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.

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    Anonymous

    Autumn aurora.
    Upgrades the graphics without touching anything else.

    After your first play trough you can get into mods proper

  24. 1 week ago

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    Anonymous

    Starter Pack and FOV changer

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    Anonymous

    https://www.moddb.com/mods/starter-pack

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    Anonymous

    About to play Stalker for the first time, any mods i should install to make my experience better? (23)

    >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.

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      What the frick are you talking about? Stalker general is like the only good thread on that board and they love the vanilla games.

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        About to play Stalker for the first time, any mods i should install to make my experience better? (24)

        No. The stalker general is for bad unpopular modders grifting for their sh*t and underage slavs like the little kid seething about gamma in this thread. Look at how much they have sh*t up this thread, just completely ruined it. Not a single person in that general really likes stalker.

        • 1 week ago

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          Anonymous

          >tranime
          way to oust yourself gammatroon

          • 1 week ago

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            Anonymous

            Why am I better at the unmodded game than you?

            • 1 week ago

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              Anonymous

              You don’t pass.

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          What in the frick are you talking about? People in the general mostly talk about the biggest most popular mods, sh*t on analmeme, and talk about vanilla games what Stalker 2 will be like.

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    Anonymous

    Gamma is the only way to play.
    Only contrarian troons play vanilla.

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      Anonymous

      Gamma is more like gmod in xray than a full fledged game. Run around an empty map while random sh*t spawns all around, make your own fun

  28. 1 week ago

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    >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.

    • 1 week ago

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      >saves you a lot of tedium.
      Tedium from what moron

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        >Tedium from what moron
        Having to wait in-game minutes for day light change? You HAVE played Stalker, right?

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          Anonymous

          >play this horror game when it's light out only
          Unironically have a nice day

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            Anonymous

            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?

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              >It's not a horror game
              Yes it is moron

              • 1 week ago

                Anonymous

                Seriously, are you 12?
                What is up with the larping? What is the point?

              • 1 week ago

                Anonymous

                >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.

              • 1 week ago

                Anonymous

                So... your experience with the game is literally sh*tty tag line you read of the store page?
                Again? Why do you larp like you have actually played it? To what end?

              • 1 week ago

                Anonymous

                About to play Stalker for the first time, any mods i should install to make my experience better? (25)

                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.

              • 1 week ago

                Anonymous

                >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

              • 1 week ago

                Anonymous

                >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

              • 1 week ago

                Anonymous

                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.

              • 1 week ago

                Anonymous

                >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 sh*tty pistol ammo? Do you even know how the game works?

              • 1 week ago

                Anonymous

                >he lacks the information

              • 1 week ago

                Anonymous

                He’s probably thinking of the vehicle graveyard.

              • 1 week ago

                Anonymous

                …whoops.

              • 1 week ago

                Anonymous

                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 sh*t talk CoP for some reason but it made most of the enemies mutants, which is fundamentally just much better for making the survival sh*t matter, and yet EVEN STILL with CoP, the survival sh*t is still a joke in that game

                [...]
                not really, but it can be scary to some
                >its resident evil
                >because it has an inventory system

                it doesn't even have an inventory system, just carrying capacity lol

              • 1 week ago

                Anonymous

                >A lot of people sh*t talk CoP for some reason
                that reason being that the Zone in CoP feels like a theme park and the game is piss easy

              • 1 week ago

                Anonymous

                >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

              • 1 week ago

                Anonymous

                you're a moron and I'm not going to waste my time with you. Black person.

              • 1 week ago

                Anonymous

                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.

              • 1 week ago

                Anonymous

                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

              • 1 week ago

                Anonymous

                GAMMA returned a lot of that horror feeling for me. You are completely exposed for a long time.

              • 1 week ago

                Anonymous

                >It's not a horror game
                It's literally open world Resident Evil.

                not really, but it can be scary to some
                >its resident evil
                >because it has an inventory system

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              Anonymous

              >It's not a horror game
              It's literally open world Resident Evil.

              • 1 week ago

                Anonymous

                See

                Seriously, are you 12?
                What is up with the larping? What is the point?

            • 1 week ago

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              Anonymous

              Holy frick the stalker general is so dumb

  29. 1 week ago

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    Anonymous

    About to play Stalker for the first time, any mods i should install to make my experience better? (26)

    unmodded is boring as frick but anomaly gamma is way too bloated with moronic sh*t, try gunslinger mod for cop, it pretty much keeps the game vanilla but improves the gun anims and models and sh*t without really changing the vanilla game

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    About to play Stalker for the first time, any mods i should install to make my experience better? (27)

    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.

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      Anonymous

      Forgot link

      ?si=kAWusCJ16kNt2cHC

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    Anonymous

    About to play Stalker for the first time, any mods i should install to make my experience better? (28)

    Install vanilla patches, stay away from COMPLETE, have fun stalkan

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      About to play Stalker for the first time, any mods i should install to make my experience better? (29)

      >took that shot 14 years ago
      >made the maymay later that year
      >people still posting it around
      Right in the kokoro

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      >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

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        >stole sh*t 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"

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    just the weapons overhaul

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    >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.

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      >fixes shadows on widescreen monitors
      doesn't that get fixed by typing r2_sun_near_border 1 on console?

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        never worked for me no matter how much i messed with the commands.

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    >very uncomfortable menu music
    >sh*t looks extremely old and dated
    >every piece of dialogue is a literal novel
    >no english dub option
    >UI is extremely unintuitive
    >weapons are dogsh*t, and have the durability meme added on top
    >no autosave, lose literal hours of progress unless i spam F5
    bravo, what a masterpiece...

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      sovl

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      About to play Stalker for the first time, any mods i should install to make my experience better? (30)

      Anon, I hope you walk into a springtrap anomaly and die so that I can rape your deformed corpse.

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    Anonymous

    About to play Stalker for the first time, any mods i should install to make my experience better? (31)

    I miraculously got thru the first one vanilla when it was the only one without any terrible bugs surfacing.

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    About to play Stalker for the first time, any mods i should install to make my experience better? (32)

    Every Stalker fan that I've seen personally is an alcoholic with an unkempt beard. what's up with that?

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    About to play Stalker for the first time, any mods i should install to make my experience better? (33)

    hey man my beard isnt unkempt.

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    ngl lad, I tried getting into it like 3 times but the god awful gameplay always put me off

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      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.

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      About to play Stalker for the first time, any mods i should install to make my experience better? (34)

      >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.

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    About to play Stalker for the first time, any mods i should install to make my experience better? (35)

    The horse shlong mod and BeastSex Framework.

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    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

  41. 1 week ago

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    Complete 2009 mod or don't play at all. Simple as.

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    https://www.moddb.com/mods/stalker-memories-of-the-zone

  43. 1 week ago

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    I still remember the fcking controllers fricking up my eardrums

About to play Stalker for the first time, any mods i should install to make my experience better? (2024)

FAQs

Do I need any mods for STALKER? ›

You can play it the first time without mods without any issues. The first game (Shadow of Chernobyl) is overall a much more interesting game and worth playing, but without mods it's also really janky and has some sections that are basically broken.

What should I play first STALKER? ›

STALKER games: Recommended play order

Speaking as someone who's completed all of them several times now, my recommendation is to play through the STALKER games in release order. That means starting with 2007's Shadow of Chernobyl, going through 2008's Clear Sky next, and then ending with 2010's Call of Pripyat.

What is STALKER gamma a mod for? ›

GAMMA is collection of specifically picked mods for Anomaly creating a whole different experiences. ( because STALKER community is insane and basically built a new game to be modded) Long story short, Anomaly is Call of Prip and Misery combined to make basically a new game.

What difficulty should I play STALKER at? ›

You want to play on Master. The lower difficulties actually make things slightly more frustrating because weapons do less damage across the board. That means you'll take less damage, but it also makes enemies bullet-sponges no matter what kind of ammunition you use. Stalker difficulty is the best to start on.

Is there a God mode in STALKER? ›

On the HUD there will be a small green symbol of the top-right corner. Looks like a skull in a circle, this will appear when "God Mode" is on. This mode makes the player "almost" invulnerable. There are two instances which can still kill.

What does STALKER stand for? ›

S.T.A.L.K.E.R stands for Scavengers, Trespassers, Adventurers, Loners, Killers, Explorers and Robbers. S.T.A.L.K.E.R. "Shadow of Chernobyl" is the first game realised from S.T.A.L.K.E.R. franchise. Stalker's build engine is known as The X-Ray engine.

Which STALKER game is best for new player? ›

Play Shadow of Chernobyl first for a great intro to the series. First released in 2007, Shadow of Chernobyl was the first game in the S.T.A.L.K.E.R. series. Naturally it's a good place to start, since you're getting the same introduction to the series as players in 2007.

What is the best sidearm in stalker? ›

The best ones are Black Kite, UDP Compact and SIP-t M200, but i recommend you to order a pistol from nimble, he got the best pistols in the game and he will give you one of these but in a unique (better) version. If you upgrade it, you will have the best pistol for the whole game.

How many endings does Stalker have? ›

Like a number of modern games, S.T.A.L.K.E.R.: Shadow of Chernobyl features multiple endings. These are 7 in total, both "true" and "false".

What is stalker misery mod? ›

MISERY is a mod for S.T.A.L.K.E.R.: Call of Pripyat that aims to enhance the game in various aspects, most importantly texture quality, difficulty, new items, and in-game mechanics.

Is STALKER Anomaly mod free? ›

You can play anomaly mod and its FREE and comes in russian language))) :: S.T.A.L.K.E.R.: Call of Pripyat General Discussions.

What is a true STALKER? ›

True Stalker is a long mod with 9 chapters of varying lengths. It is far longer than the original three games. One of the reasons this mod was so anticipated was that it was made by the team that runs AP-Pro, which is THE website for S.T.A.L.K.E.R.

Is STALKER gamma or anomaly? ›

S.T.A.L.K.E.R.: Shadow of Chernobyl

Gamma is a modlist for Anomaly that changes Anomaly in certain ways, listed on the mod page.

Do I need to buy STALKER anomaly? ›

S.T.A.L.K.E.R.: Anomaly Mod is a free-to-usemod created by the team at Anomaly Developers.

What does STALKER complete mod do? ›

Stalker Complete 2009 combines several modifications that improve Stalker: Shadow of Chernobyl in matters of graphics, gameplay and atmosphere.

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