S.T.A.L.K.E.R. "Complete" sucks

faetal on 25/6/2021 at 10:31

Went with Autumn Aurora - thanks for the suggestions.

Briareos H on 20/7/2023 at 10:30

I've been feeling the itch to return to the Zone wanting a vanilla story but also an improved game experience: bugfixes, a little less wonkiness in the systems, better graphics and UI.

Autumn Aurora seemed like the best bet but I just can't get past how (https://i.imgur.com/lIjhY4J.jpg) monochromatic everything looks. I understand the zone is a lot of drab landscapes but I need a little bit of contrast.

On the other hand there's Anomaly which, especially with GAMMA, looks great but is completely uninteresting to me since I want to play SoC and not a STALKER-based choose-your own adventure with crafting.

Does anyone know of a modern modpack for the first game tuned towards single player experience that doesn't also completely change the way the game plays?

brebs on 5/8/2023 at 15:14

Quote Posted by Briareos H

monochromatic

This addon for Autumn Aurora apparently adds back in some nice colours: (https://www.moddb.com/addons/realautumn-for-autumn-aurora-21)

Briareos H on 9/8/2023 at 09:09

Thanks, it looks exactly what I wanted! Pity I was too lazy to look into it a bit more earlier.

In the end I played throught the whole thing with AA2, I had a good time but I think will likely play ZRP-only for my next playthrough in a couple years.
I'm amazed at how well SoC holds up in terms of atmosphere, I really haven't seen anything like it since.

Random_Taffer on 9/8/2023 at 14:57

Came to this thread because I was in the mood for some Stalker after playing Chernobylite. It was ok- worth a playthrough, but only made me long for Stalker.
Ended up installing Anomaly and Gamma and am having a really good time. Thanks!

demagogue on 24/9/2024 at 00:51

I got a new gaming laptop so have been look into what's been updated while I'm reinstalling a bunch of games.
I noticed there are two big overhauls of Anomaly, Custom and HayZee.

The team doing Custom though are apparently very toxic rascist types, as in they have a lot of racist & anti-Ukraine rhetoric and there's never ending & exhausting drama surrounding them, etc. Kind of strange for a mod project for a Ukrainian game. =L So I won't even bother linking to them.

HayZee is the main alternative that isn't toxic.
Here's the link to their discord to get it: (https://discord.com/invite/JQ9Z6RMY3s)
I'm going to set some time aside to play it.
The only thing I notice for now is it's already over 120 GB, and there's some discussion about version 2.4 vs. 2.5, as 2.5 introduces some issues.

Well I'll report on it after playing it. I got into Anomaly a few years ago and liked it well enough, though not with the same magic I had with the first Stalker. But maybe I didn't get that deeply into it for it to click. But I want to see what this update has done. For 120 GB I imagine it does something!

Here are two trailers.
[video=youtube;RWlPQoNjUlE]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RWlPQoNjUlE[/video]

[video=youtube;dtbh1_2N5hs]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dtbh1_2N5hs[/video]