/v/ - Video Games

>Ranked in terms of difficulty

Call of Chernobyl

Anomaly

Dead Air

All of these are major reworks of the game. If you want an enhanced vanilla experience then install the "Zone Reclamation Project" mod.

>>15307568

Those mods are all for Call of Pripyat, which in my opinion has an acceptable gunplay compared to SoC. It fixed SoC's terrible bullet sponge and weapon inaccuracy. CoP's problem isn't in the gunplay, but shitty performance, excessive amount of mutant battles, and very very very sparse enemies on the zone.

>>15307568

>>15307582

>Zone Reclamation Project

I have it, and it still doesn't fix the problem with the lack of blood splashing and damage response from the enemies, which is the main culprit for the bullet sponge and weapon inaccuracy feelings. CoP fixed this problem, but ruined the rest of the game.

>>15307582

>SoC's terrible bullet sponge and weapon inaccuracy

>>15307601

>CoP fixed this problem, but ruined the rest of the game.

be the change you want to see

>>15307610

How?

>>15307618

Have you looked in the options menu?

>Run on DX9

>reduce mutant spawns

>increase stalker spawns

>?????

>STALKAN

>>15307601

>damage response from the enemies

Oh shit its you again. Like the 100 times before, all of these things you can easily fix yourself if you arent a retarded mexican who barely understands english.

What do you even want? That they fly 50 meters when you hit their most armored part with a shitty pistol? There are stagger animations and their frequency can be increased.

I bet youd enjoy playing the game with enemies being constantly staggerd by any of your shots while you can eat 10 and be fine.

Or alternatively you could just get good and shoot them in the head but thats too difficult just like modding the game instead of coming here to whine somene else to make it like you want it.

I think I'm getting STALKER Complete. I heard the stunt animation got a rework there.

>>15307639

You can do that? Shit, I never noticed.

>>15307749

Don't wanna argue with you today amerimutt.

>>15307555

I'm having fun with Dead Air. The only change I made to it was replacing the low health sound because I hear it a lot. Otherwise I'm loving the grind.

>>15308095

Complete is fucking shit, don't do it anon.

>>15308162

I heard that a lot, but I've never paid attention to why everyone thinks it's shit. Tell me.

>>15308223

It's just a collection of already available graphics mods and some gameplay tweaks that make an already piss-easy game easier.

>>15308485

Can you give me the list of mods STALKER COMPLETE uses?

>>15308103

This shit is cringe.

>>15308485

>>15310629

ANd I mean gameplay mods, not graphics.

>>15310699

Doom's Mod Merge destroyed my STALKER folder. Why is STALKER modding such a mess. Do I need to reinstall?

>>15310726

you're probably illiterate and can't follow instructions

>>15307568

>CoC

Fucking bullet sponge enemies three headshots still going

>>15310735

No, I'm combining a shit load of mods together plus I rewrite some of the config files because I'm still not satisfied. My STALKER folder is a clusterfuck. Also Doom's Mod Merge enemies don't respawn for whatever reason. Echo of chernobyl requires russian version of the game, so I'll never play that shit.

Another thing I'd complain about STALKER modding is in most cases it isn't very clear what each mod does. Most of them contains a shit load of stuff, unlike for example nexus mods where you can seek for individual gameplay mechanic changes instead of changing the whole game. On top of that the cfg files are written by ESL drunk slavs who mix broken english sentences and cryptic ukrainan garbles.

Modding STALER is an extremely high and uncomfortable effort. Everything can go wrong anytime and there will be changes that you're not satisfied with, yet can't easily be removed from the mod.

And fuck every weather changing mods that turn the night time into pitch black. Enemies can see me and shoot at me but I can't. Darkness in a singleplayer game can't ever be balanced.

http://stalkersoup.com/about-what-is-stalkersoup.html#zep

And would you look at this bullshit. What a very detailed and wholesome description for a 15 gb mod, very fucking helpful thank you putin.

>>15307582

Get CoC with Warfare mod, turn mutants off, adjust spawns of every faction as you want them or randomize them, enjoy drowning in boolet.

Call of Pripyat, it feels a lot better than previous entries

what the fuck is gunplay?

is it just reload times and recoil?

sage out of shame

>>15311887

Hi cringetard.

>>15311871

Partly that but also animations, screen effect, etc. It's what makes a gun in a videogame fun to shoot. Take for example killing floor, it has really nice gunplay which is impactful on screen and when the bullets hit the enemy they will react accordingly animation wise or their heads will even blow up. Compared to like metro exodus gameplay where you shoot peashooters with 0 recoil and no weight to the shot.

>>15311906

So essentially the entire experience of firing the gun, what it does itself and also how the target reacts? Okay. Thank you

>>15311859

How much framerate drop would I get?

>>15311867

Been saying this, but I don't like how bad the performance is compared to SoC. The stalker engine isn't very optimized for open world.

>>15311871

>>15311906

>>15311924

Gun sfx, recoil mechanics, damage response animation, ballistic impact visuals and sound effect, and wound visibility and shape.

>>15308103

Does anyone have a source on the movie and on wehter it's good or not?

how can I just remove the shit bullet disappearance in SoC?

>>15311871

You know when you play a shitty shooter and:

>the gun sounds like ballons popping

>no muzzle flash

>no smoke

>no vibration/recoil

>switching out weapons takes a long ass time

>animation for swapping is overly long

>animation shows your weapon ready to fire, but there's a 1-2 second delay before you can even shoot

>reloading is just the PC shoving a mag into the gun

>bullets impact walls and only leave a decal

>no splatter

>no debris

>bullet impact enemies with no effect

>no blood splatter, no sparks

It's 10% gameplay-related (usually, faster and less cinematic is better) and 90% grafix/sound related.

It can turn a lump of metal on screen that generates fast bleeps of steel into an actual gun that dispenses dead to anything on your crosshairs.

>>15311991

From what I remember it's a bit weird. Russian movies from that period tend to be like the kind of imaginary role playing kids do when they make up a game as they go along.

>>15307749

>being so mad at someone who pointed out a factual flaw in your memegame

Shut up kiddo. Everyone's played Stalker before and knows you have to dig pretty deep in the shit to find the good part of the game. And mods are always too small a blanket to fix everything.

>>15312260

>you have to dig pretty deep in the shit to find the good part of the game.

it takes like an hour to get to the military base with an actual gun for the documents mission and it's fantastic from then on

>>15312317

>I will call every turd in the game a shiny diamond to protect it

Go back to gamefaqs, you have to be over 40 to post on 8ch

>>15312260

>kiddo

That all you got redditor? I told the other whiny illiterate subhuman the problems he has can easily be modded out just by changing some numbers. If you're too dumb to do that it isnt my or the games fault.

Time to kill yourself.

>>15312317

>an hour to get to the military base

It takes 1 minute to get into the Bandit camp and get your hands on a sawn-off shotgun, a delicious gun that will sate you for hours.

It takes 1 minute and 30 seconds to find an upgraded revolver that outperforms half the shitty starter weapons.

I takes exactly 2 minutes to load yourself up with enough grenades to blow the military checkpoint sky high.

Speaking from personal experience:

>get friend to try SoC

>he drops it 5 minutes in

>"Well, I wandered a bit, then got shot in the head and booted back to the main menu by some guy in green uniform, dunno why"

>"Well, I took a mission to save some dude, went in there and there were bandits all around me, firing from every location, for some reason, my teammates didn't enter the place."

>visit him

>show him the ropes on the first area

>he does okay-ish in Garbage

>assaults the military base like it's Metal Fucking Gear

>escapes and runs back to Sid, proud

>go back home

>2 hours later, calls me

>"CYKA BLYAT, kamarade, just got to 100 rad bar, these duty faggots are pissing me off, where's the science guys, you said they pay well for jobs"

Like many things in life: it's only worth it if you put in the effort to make it worth it.

>>15312466

since when did SoC have a revolver

>>15312466

>revolver

Have you never played Vanilla/ only patched Stalker?

>>15312477

Propably means the upgraded fort pistol the military guy at the chekpoint has.

Silenced aksu from garbage is also fast and easy to get.

>>15312477

Fuck, meant a pistol.

This one to be precise:

http://stalker.wikia.com/wiki/Fort-15

My usual method:

>find a couple pineapples in the bandit base

>throw them at the soldiers

>cross my fingers

>Major is dead? Run in, dodge bullets, get pistol, get to cover, equip, reload, shoot them all with it

>use the shitty rifles to clear soldiers down south outside the base

>use the Fort 15 to clear everything inside the base

Short range, yeah, but good damage, great accuracy and good mag size.

There's also another a suit that's hidden in a tunnel. You get those two and you breeze through early game (up to 100 radbar) in an hour.

>>15312502

>>15312490

Fair enough. I agreed with your statement anyway.

>>15312487

yes

>>15312490

Spot on.

>Silenced aksu from garbage

That one is a beast when you enter the military base. Pop'em in the head, you can easily down 15 or more of them with it before the alarm sounds as long as you're carefull.

It only stops being usefull when you go up against Exo's too, so you can keep it for a long time. That pistol + That rifle will easily clear 60% of the game (switching to the sawn-off for the occasional mutant).

The real meat in the game, to me, is after the bar. The secret labs are great, but after heading north, Chernobyl is a great setting and place for shoot-outs.

Fun fact: you can clear the theater and live backstage. I did that once, kept the save to clear stress after a day's work.

>boot game

>backstage in the Prypiat Theater

>check the 4 or 5 diferent chests there

>food, ammo, guns, vodka, misc equipement all divided

>take some of each, head to the stage

>Monolith Patrol about to arrive, hide on the side

>they begin praying to the structure in the middle

>take out 3 with a grenade, shoot the rest

>stash extra supplies, neat stuff, will last me 3 more days on these

>walk out, enjoy the morning Ukrainian sun

>duck into alleyways, Mono-snipers always looking for an idiot's head

>climb a building, shoot at their idiot heads

>today was a good day, got 6 of the bastards without relocating, 3 after relocating

>patrol the streets a bit, occasional kerfuffle with Monobitches

>visit some abandoned apartments

>casually listen to some classy music in them, look out the windows

>oh look, 3 Monodorks walking down there

>2 now

>1 and he's running

>can't run with your head all ventilated like that, can ya?

>Visit the school, followed by some dogs

>tails will make good money with scientists

>keep doing this for an hour or two

>bring excess guns and ammo to 100 rad bar (shoot some potheads on the way, they're fun guys, they like bullets)

>pay a visit to the Professor, get my Rubbles

>take 20 bottles of vodka back

>the Russian Phantom of the Opera returns

>get drunk at night, engage NVG

>Get out, climb a roof, shooting wildly at the sky

>some Monodicks heard me two blocks down, there's bullet impacts near my feet

>"GOOD NIGHT TO YOU TOO, YOU FUCKING BASTARDS"

>head to bed

That reminds me, I should install the game again, been years now.

Autumn Aurora 2 and AMK Autumn Edition. Please note that both were incredibly unstable for me. The first even refused to run. The second ran, but refused to load saves after a game restart and eventually crashed mid game and since saves refused to load after a game restart, you can put two together yourself. See if you get better results, both have a interesting feature set. AMK Autumn appears to be better.

>>15324024

I should clarify by saying crashing always at inopportune times. And yes, I know how to patch for vmem, been doing it for every other mod.

I just got the true ending of Divine Cybermancy, and Call of Chernobyl is next on my list of uncompletes.

>>15324024

Quicksave at every possible moment nigga.

>>15307555

>the rest of the gunplay is absolutely fucking dreadful

i smell a casual who can't handle the fact that his gun jams in the middle of a firefight and he attempts to scream CYKA and have a gulp of vodka but realizes he isn't immersed.

kys normalfag scum.

I'm playing CoC and enjoying every second of it. It's clunky, buggy, and poorly optimized, but still better than the main games in the series.

>>15323714

The creators are on vacation since its summer. I can only assume theyre in university

Playing CoC. Why does my framerate drop into single digit territory around the bar and cordon area?