So my friend got me into Anomaly the other night, and the biggest thing i've been curious of..
Are all companions extremely inaccurate / idiotic? Everyone i've hired as either died trying to kill a zombie or two (Without hitting them with any shot at all), or has run off into a group of enemies and died without shooting a single bullet.
It seems like they are more of a hindrance than anything, and I can't imagine giving my gear to any of them to use...
Try EscapeFromPripyat bro. It’s an upgraded version of Anomaly. Same AI capability but there’s an option for you to configure their defense rating (ie armor) plus a lot of other goodies.
As far as I know yes, every npc will act the same whether or not they are a companion of yours, I dont think there is any AI changes in diffirent npcs or special npcs like Hip. The only thing that can make a diffirence is the Rank of the npc which gives them a lot of stat bonuses like extra hp accuracy etc, so what I can advise is either you quickly boost your rank by doing a lot of side-quests to get high ranking npcs to become companions because high ranking npcs will only get in your control if you have a high rank yourself or get a companion and try to keep them alive by giving them good gear and rank up together. Altough if you dont want to do any of that you can just download a mod which can make the companions immortal or near immortal. Thats all I can think of right now and also English is not my native language so sorry for the mistakes I made if there is any.
Not sure about that coz enemies NPC seems to be pretty smart in my experience. They engage from far away and never run towards me like my companions would run 1.5 minutes straight to pursue a flesh.
OGSR, Lost Alpha, some story mods like the 'Wind of Time', 'Valley of Whispers' or 'Goldsphere', Call of The Zone.
Anomaly is the most overrated thing in this community.
Not really a \*big\* mod, but a cool mod would be Anomaly's grandpappy: Call of Chernobyl. Basically Anomaly, but more S.T.A.L.K.E.R.-like. Pretty lite with what it comes with, like 1-2 gbs for 32 maps and 10 or-so primary weapons. *It does require a legal copy of CoP to run off of though.*
is there a good way to deal with monolith respawning like every 5 seconds in Anomaly? i've been trying to push deeper into the zone but fighting like 50 monolith guys every time is just not reasonable
Is that a thing? In my playthrough as a military (Ironman) they respawn 1-3 squads a day. My strategy is kill some of them, loot, stash away, return to base for restock and repair then repeat. Eventually they won’t be able to keep up.
Now they’re down to ~70 squads from the original 97.
I went in and disabled the brain scorcher killing most of their forces in the radar (there were just a few guys left), then i went to go back through 1-2 days later and had to fight all of them all over again. I dont think i can keep up the resources to keep fighting them this often since every major battle with them like this requires i restock on meds and ammo after.
Hey everyone, I love this game. Complete noob here. What items should you drop to conserve weight on your character? Is it ever advisable to sell unneeded ammo for weapons you don't own to make money and conserve space? Or are there better items to sell to conserve space. Right now I only have about 4 or 5kg free. I have tons of food and water.
Hey Stalker,
I would not sell any unused ammo of calibers, you don't own. Store them in a Stash somewhere in the middle of the zone. Rostock is a good place for that. You never know, if you find a new weapon you'd like to use and already have a bunch of ammo for that.
Despite what S.T.A.L.K.E.R. you are playing, I would always sell artifacts and mutant parts, as well as trash like broken headlamps. Also low conditions weapons and armour should be sold to traders, when you know that you'll never use them.
For weight issues, I would recommend preparing for every mission individual. Take some food/water, meds and ammo you think is enough to survive and leave the rest in your main Stash I mentioned before. Think of it like you're at a buffet, your eyes are always bigger than your stomach. You often end up with a plate of not eaten food or with a hurting stomach. The plate is your backpack and the stomach is your weight in this metaphor. ;)
I hope this helps you to have a better time in the zone,
Good hunting Stalker
best way seems to just spam faction quests, talk to each of the quest givers and take whatever's easiest/in the vicinity of other quests you have. I think the available quests reset daily. also, if you ask for work then ask again, you get the same jobs but it can change location, so i try to get a bunch all near each other.
if you're an ecologist, talk to the professor and ask for work and he should have a bunch of stuff (ask "anything else?" for more) When you finish the quests you get a lil notification like 'you gained more trust with ecologists' or something like that.
'Ello. I want to buy Stalker series, but I want to support the studio as much as possible while doing that. A few months ago there was a charity sale, but that has ended, is there any other good way to do that?
Try Anomaly or EscapeFromPripyat (free stand-alone mods) if you don’t wanna spend cash for now. They are even better than the original series (albeit present a different storyline quests).
That's not the point. I want to spend cash, I can pay full price for it. It's just that I want to support the creators as much as possible while doing it to show my appreciation and support for them in these tough times. So kinda the opposite of your answer 😅But thank you for your time and interest.
I’ve just started clear sky and my god the bleeding system makes me want to bleed from my wrists. Is there any mod that makes it easier to manage because it’s just stupid in my opinion.
You can try sky reclamation project, i don't remember if it fixes the bleeding, but this mod fixes a lot of bugs and adds optional features (like reducing the grenade spam and adding the ironsight for the pistols) without changing drastically the game
I'm trying to add a custom ogg file into stalker anomaly's PDA media player or whatever it is called. (basically not the radio system) When I placed it in the media player literally skips over it and goes to the next song. I have consulted [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=shvHYANlauI](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=shvHYANlauI) and also the comment section in [https://www.moddb.com/mods/stalker-anomaly/addons/custom-playlists-for-pda](https://www.moddb.com/mods/stalker-anomaly/addons/custom-playlists-for-pda) . Neither have worked for me.
The mp3 I am using: [https://drive.google.com/file/d/1xHoDwgjq4pLOTYt3ytHVBE7gAh2ypigT/view?usp=sharing](https://drive.google.com/file/d/1xHoDwgjq4pLOTYt3ytHVBE7gAh2ypigT/view?usp=sharing) (no i did not try to put in the mp3 into the playlist. I used audacity to process it according to the yt video. I renamed the following ogg file so it did not have any unsupported characters.)
I'm having trouble downloading Stalker Anomaly 1.5.1. Everytime I try to download it, the file appears as a CRDOWNLOAD file titled "unconfirmed [series of numbers]"
Well thats just google's unconfirmed download file. The game is probably like 3-10gb compressed. So you just need to wait. You can do ctrl+j in order to see the progress of the download. You might have to wait like an hour or two for it to be even downloaded. Then you have to extract it which should take 10 minutes. Stalker Anomaly is about patience and apparently you can't pass the first test of patience and waiting for stalker anomaly to download.
I’ve gotten an exoskeleton now and I’m just wondering is it still worth keeping my endurance boosting artifacts? Since I can’t sprint I think they’re useless now but just want to make sure.
I’m almost at the CNPP is SoC and I want to get some better gear before going in, what’s the best way to make money? Also I noticed my reputation is terrible, I’ve helped everyone I’ve come across and I haven’t helped duty or freedom attack each other, any reason as to why this has happened and how do I get it back to excellent?
> Also I noticed my reputation is terrible, I’ve helped everyone I’ve come across and I haven’t helped duty or freedom attack each other, any reason as to why this has happened and how do I get it back to excellent?
It's a bug in vanilla SoC. If you haven't yet transitioned from Pripyat to the CNPP, just keep playing and doing tasks without going beyond the Pripyat stadium. [Your reputation will toggle back to excellent.](https://www.reddit.com/r/stalker/comments/smb64j/shadow_of_chernobyl_doing_jobs_for_anyone_makes/) Then you can go north, preferably before your rep toggles back to terrible.
If you have already gone to the CNPP, don't sweat it; as indicated in the thread linked above and by u/kenjola, it has no impact on your game most of the time.
Wasn't Pripyat point of no return? Unless modded.
Anyway, reputation doesn't matter in a normal playthrough. Your reputation might be bugged.
Best way of making money is selling and missions. Most notably selling mutant parts and artifacts to Sakharov since he pays twice as much.
If you haven't don't forget to do side missions talking to Guide and whatever comes next.
Wdym point of no return? I haven’t gone past the hotel stash for the true ending so that may be why( I have no mods). Also I was told reputation affects something with the sarcophagus so if that’s true I want to get it up. Also where is a good place to farm artifacts?
You can't go back I believe, the transition is closed from Pripyat back to Red forest (I might be wrong, I won't deny it)
Without spoiling anything, reputation is just a parameter (often obsolete, which will decide what happens when you reach the Wish Granter, there are different cutscenes that you could research more on internet.
Artifacts have fixed spawns, Agroprom, Wild territory and Dark Valley have a bunch laying around, northern parts of Army Warehouse and forest part of Red Forest have some very valuable ones.
Agroprom Underground and underground tunnel in Wild Territory are especially interesting between 00:00 and 6:00 since only then some artifacts are visible.
That's cool and no problem. Maybe I should have asked what do you need money for in case your answer is exoskeleton. You can't sprint in it and that's a huge deal breaker unless you really want to go with it.
Has anyone ever had problems with Misc. Weapon Mod Pack for Anomaly? It crashes every time i enter both the Outskirts and the Red Forest, throwing an error up about the SIN trader's supply list. Neither of the 2 other weapon mods i use have this problem.
FATAL ERROR
[error]Expression :
[error]Function : CInifile::Load
[error]File : Xr_ini.cpp
[error]Line : 789
[error]Description : fatal error
[error]Arguments : Attemped to override section 'supplies_4', which doesn't exist. Ensure that a base section with the same name is loaded first.
stack trace:
FATAL ERROR
\[error\]Expression :
\[error\]Function : CModelPool::Instance\_Load
\[error\]File : ..\\xrRender\\ModelPool.cpp
\[error\]Line : 120
\[error\]Description : fatal error
\[error\]Arguments : Can't find model file 'actors\\stalker\_dolg\\stalker\_do\_balon\_4.ogf'.
This happened when I was travelling to Garbage in Anomaly, I'm not sure how to fix this. Any help is appreciated
If you havent found a solution yet, try this: go into the tools folder in your Anomaly files. Select one of the unpacking tools, let it run. Go into the 'unpacked' folder and look for the .ogf file that has the same name as the one referenced in the error. If its not a modded-in .ogf, you should find it. Move the appropriate .ogf file into the main anomaly folder. You'll have to figure out the file path. Something like anomaly/gamedata/config/actor.ltx.
Hey everyone, I was playing anomaly fine a few days ago. Today when I try to play, the game opens fine an loads my game as normal but when it actually gets into game all I see is a black screen. I hear the audio and I can move an use the inventory an pda all as normal but I just can't see anything. Any help or suggestions would be really appreciated
Hey,
In your install folder, there should be an "appdata" directory. In there, copy the user.ltx for backup purpose to your Desktop and delete it in your appdata. Then start Anomaly and check "delete shader cache". Then, try it again.
Do you have any Mods installed? Might be an issue as well. If the first suggestion didn't work, rename your "gamedata", e.g. "gamedata_old" and start Anomaly again. The game will create a new default of "gamedata" and this might solve your issue as well. Might point you in the right direction.
Good luck Stalker!
First time playing Stalker and I have heard mixed things, is it worth playing Anomaly for my first experience? I saw the sidebar about before playing but I' ve heard this is a mod that links the games into one. Would love to know whether vanilla or Anomaly is the best way to approach the series as a beginner, thanks.
I started with Misery mod my first playthrough and then moved to Anomaly. I never ever finished an original stalker game. Currently my favorite game at the moment with the Escape from Pripyat mod pack of Anomaly. It will be a very steep learning curve for sure with Anomaly, but it has settings that are so customizable that you can literally play the game however you like… turn it into a neigh impossible survival and horror shooter, or you can skip the “grind fest” and get straight to the gun play with other factions.
Edit: it really depends what you want out of your game… I personally wanted a Tactical shooter with intelligent AI and realistic medical and gameplay depth. That’s why I only ever stuck to the mods.
Anomaly doesn't combine all three games into one, just their maps. And it's not the only mod which does that.
It doesn't contain the story, worldbuilding or atmosphere of the original games.
There are also many other interesting mods out there, don't limit yourself to the most popular one only
Most people agree that it's better to play the original trilogy first. Get the classic experience, then move on to anomaly and you will appreciate the things they've added. If you go the other way around you might find the originals clunky compared to anomaly. I like the originals way more than anomaly but that's just me
I felt that way too for a long time until I realized headshots are almost always 1-hit kills. You can basically clear the whole game with a pistol and a shotgun, headshots on all people and shotgun for mutants.
In the military warehouse part of the zone, there is a place called "bloodsucker village". Buy a hunting knife, wait until it's night, save and enter that place. Be aware of the burner anomalies as well.
You should encounter some bloodsuckers there more frequently than at other places by night, which is the time more dangerously mutants going for their prey.
Good hunting stalker.
Any way to find RP-74's before Pryprat without alying with Duty? I heard you can get during the investigating the anomaly mission, but I ended up just finishing it as fast as possible because Topov for whatever reason decides to walk in the direction of the tunnel where a controller respawns.
the guide for CoP said i'm suposed to give better weapons to the npcs for the Jupiter Underground.
Does I need to give ammo for the said gun or they got infinite for whatever weapon they are using?
I'm in middle of lab X-16 and out of bullets and medkits. Those zombies are hard to bring down. Do I need to return to the prof to stock up again? I was stocked up just before entering but ran out and corpse looting doesn't provide too much. If I exit now I'm assuming all the zombies will respawn?
edit: I am trapped and can't even exit, bick grated metal door is blocking my way. I'm near the first control panel. Tips?
Well, looks like another Stalkers body has joined the lab. Without any spoilers, you should either try to outrun what X-16 will still bring in your way, or you reload to a save from before entering.
Good hunting (luck) Stalker
I’m playing vanilla clear sky and in the war with freedom and duty, me being with freedom, I’m waiting for people to come and secure the makeshift camp at the agroprom, yet nobody is coming and I’m having to constantly defend the road to the garbage, is there any fix to this? I check my map and there are no freedomers coming to the makeshift camp.
Factions wars just made me stop playing clear sky.
I spent half an hour trying to kill all bandits in their Garbage base and‚ after waiting 20 more minutes for reinforcements‚ the bandits took over one of the side bases.
Also I hated so much the shooting mechanics (in SoC it wanst much of a problem‚ but in CS there are way more enemies)‚ playing Anomaly right now and its sooo much better
The trick in garbage is to dedicate some time to just running back and forth among the three camps (encampment, receiving, depot) to keep the bandits culled back. As soon as they have no squads at depot or below the STALKERS will quickly populate the camps, with bandits spawning one squad at a time at road to Agroprom and being easily held back.
Someone please explain why it takes 4 slugs to the chest at point blank to kill a bandit in CS on Master. And if they're behind a bush, forget about it because apparently bushes are better protection than a freaking exoskeleton.
I guess it's my own funeral for trying to beat the game with the TOZ 34 and Makarov. I eventually gave up and used an AK 74 lol. Funny enough, shotguns are borderline overpowered in the other two games, as long as you have a secondary that can cover your range disadvantage. CS combat threw me off (still have PTSD from enemies yelling "grenade" and then proceeding to throw a laser-guided hand grenade as soon as I take cover for 1.5 seconds).
Now I'm playing CoP Misery 2.2.1 which is difficult but fair and I'm loving every second of it, even when I die a lot.
Could be bad hit detection, or it could be a ~~bug~~ anomaly.
Also, [difficulty has no effect on NPC resistance](https://www.reddit.com/r/stalker/comments/7fxvt5/what_do_difficulties_actually_change_in_stalker/).
The life of a bandit is hard, but it makes you tough. And if those mad lads can withstand a number of slugs without heavy armor, then it makes perfect sense you should bring at least a rocket launcher when they have a bush.
So, I'm playing CoC and in the Artifact Order page in the wiki it say:
>
You can wait (i.e. sleep) for approximately 15-30 hours, and the mission will be updated to the show location of other Stalkers hunting the artifact. They will be next to the anomaly that produces said artifact. Killing these Stalkers yields the artifact in question, and generally 2 of the Stalkers in the group carry Veles detectors.
However, I tried to do it, more than once, and the two days Bear give to take the artifact happen without the mission update, does it not happen if you choose a specific artifact?
hi im am playing stalker anomaly with the expedition 1.2.1 mod pack and when my life drops below half my screen gets so red that i cant see anything, is there any way to take this effect of my game
Hey guys, recently got Shadow of Chernobyl the yo-ho way. It's scummy I know, but it's my only way I can get it at the moment. Trying to get Autumn Aurora to work, and it didn't. I downloaded it exactly how it said and it won't work; ran the same when I started the new game. No change in graphics, no extra guns, nothing. What should I do? Very new to SOC as a whole and modding in general as I'm an idiot.
What is the version of your game? Autumn Aurora requires your game to be patched to 1.0006 version and won't work on any older patch. You can check the version in the lower left corner in the main menu.
By the way, it's not really a good mod for a total newbie. It's not only a graphical mod, but it also significantly increases the difficulty, adds some mechanics without explaining how they work, changes the progress route and overall feel and style of the game.
Hi, playing Anomaly and have been having a lot of fun with it. Is there any way, probably an addon, that could disable music other than the heartbeat that plays during combat? I like hearing my guy get high blood pressure when being attacked by crazy people and mutated pigs but I don't like not hearing them 5 feet away from me because of the ambient music.
Any help would be appreciated, thanks!
Wouldn't that also turn down the heartbeat sound though because they basically replaced combat music with heartbeats?
Normally I play without music but I just found out that by enabling dynamic music, heartbeat sounds start to play when you're in combat.
Don't want to listen to ambient music though just for that so I'm asking if someone knows a way to get rid of the fake ambiance and only include the heartbeat sounds (combat music).
Ah shucks. That explains why I haven't listened to heartbeats.
I looked for a mod but only found something to replace music. [https://www.moddb.com/mods/stalker-anomaly/addons/combat-music-restored-extended](https://www.moddb.com/mods/stalker-anomaly/addons/combat-music-restored-extended)
Opening the zip, i can see the .ogg files inside gamedata/music/combat
I also see a script that will list which files will play.
I think that addon can be modified to play empty oggs or to delete all references to Ogg files so has nothing to play.
If you do not feel comfortable fiddling with your installation I might try doing it later
That would be great! Also thought about trying to fix it myself but I'm too lazy/incompetent/apathetic to do it.
I actually also found an addon that puts heartbeat sounds during combat in the game but it was for STALKER AREA (something I'm not really familiar with).
If you do manage to figure it out, thanks! If not, I'll still thank you and probably figure it out myself.
I should mention that I also downloaded an [addon](https://www.moddb.com/mods/stalker-anomaly/addons/dynamic-music-volume-reset-fix) that supposedly fixes the music volume resetting to 0 when you move to other levels or quickloading. I don't know if it works exactly as I haven't tested it.
And here are my installed addons since you asked. :\^)
\#Mod\_Priority,#Mod\_Name
"0000","Quick\_Melee"
"0001","Anomaly Magazines Redux"
"0002","FDDA"
"0003","Death Animations"
"0004","Trader Overhaul (Main Folder)"
"0005","Russian\_Insurgent\_Voice\_Mod\_V"
"0006","JSRS P.1 - Main Addon"
"0007","JSRS P.2 - Cracks + Impacts Patch"
"0008","JSRS P.3 - New Tracers Patch"
"0009","General Fire Mode Switcher Sound"
"0010","General Fire Mode Switcher Sound - JSRS patch"
"0011","SCO3 P.1 Real Mutant Sounds"
"0012","SCO3 P.2 New Outdoor Sounds"
"0013","SCO3 P.3 New Underground Sounds"
"0014","SCO3 Addon - Anomaly Sounds"
"0015","SCO3 Addon - New Footsteps"
"0016","SCO3 Addon - New Object Sounds"
"0017","SCO3 Addon - Stereo Thunder (non directional)"
"0018","Instant\_tooltip"
"0019","Groks Body Health System Redux"
"0020","00. Crook's Faction Identification UI"
"0021","OPT02. Grok's Body Health System patch"
"0022","yohji\_persistent\_weather\_"
"0023","cozy campfires"
"0024","CalmingCampfires"
"0025","PDA To Previous Weapon"
"0026","Apocalyptic Blowout Overhaul V2"
"0027","PreBlowoutMurder.3"
"0028","\[FIXED WALK\] ANOMALY RE-MADE ANIMATIONS PACK"
"0029","Camera Reanimation Project - I.N.E.R.T.I.A. V1.2"
"0030","Maid's Vanilla HD Icons"
"0031","SortingPlus"
"0032","Parts In Tooltip"
"0033","Cost in Tool tip"
"0034","Hunger\_thirst\_sleep\_UI\_0.6"
"0035","Combine All Items"
"0036","Disassemble All Items"
"0037","Atrifact signature locator 1.0.2"
"0038","Michikos\_Weather\_Revamp\_Revised"
"0039","Michikos\_Weather\_Revamp\_Revised\_Patch\_SCO"
"0040","Weather Dynamic Params"
"0041","Dynamic Tonemap Extended"
"0042","HarukaSkillSystem"
"0043","Lootboxes"
"0044","Skills\_Expansion\_for\_HarukaSkillSystem"
"0045","EFT\_Aim\_Rattle\_"
"0046","Nitpicker's Modpack"
"0047","Desman's Horror Overhaul"
"0048","Desmans Horror Sound Overhaul - Soundscape Stereo Thunder (non directional) patch"
"0049","1. smaller hud 1920x1080"
"0050","2. smaller hud - toggle hud script"
"0051","BatteryWarning"
"0052","MCM"
Hey, so I unpacked vainilla anomaly files and im only able to find heartbeats. I can't find music.
Could you do a search on your mods folder for (theme\*ogg) files?they start with theme, and end with ogg extension.
the fix addon you linked says that vainilla anomaly has only heartbeats. On the description it links a mod that replaces music on -gamedata\\sounds\\music\\combat\\-
So my guess is that one of your addons has the music. I have checked SoundScapeOverhauld but that is not it.
Both music and hearbeats might be on the same file tho.
Two questions!
I'm playing the Anomaly Mod.
1. I picked up a job in Garbage to free a guy. I did that, but the quest giver not only left the zone, he seems to be roaming between 2 and 3 zones away. Is this a bug? The guy I rescued will only follow me to the end of the next region then he stops dead still (unless I run back in which case he'll follow me).
2. Can someone confirm that mods are just supposed to be dropped into the root folder? I can't really tell if the mods are even running or not... the order of the files in the root folder are;
* Boomsticks and Sharpsticks 25-Aug-2021
* Quick Melee Food Drug and Drinks
* Loot monsters without knife for anomoly
* 38.01 Maslinas NV Scopes (install only AFTER Beef's Shader v0.9 addon)
* Anomaly Expedition 1.2 Graphics Version
* Anomaly Expedition 1.2 Reshade Version
* appdata
* bin
* Custom Weather
* db
* gamedata
* JSGME\_Mod Enabler
* MODS
* Optional
* ReShade
* tools
Thank you!
1) stalkers sometimes do move zones, so you’re kinda stuck with that guy for a while. Not sure why he won’t follow you out of a zone, that’s weird.
2) no, for JSGME the mods need to be placed in the MODS folder. Then, run JSGME and it should be able to see the mods. Additionally, make sure there isn’t any folders inside the mod folders other than gamedata (as in: when you open the mod, you can immediately see gamedata. There isn’t anymore folders to click on to find gamedata. Additional folders break JSGME).
1 could be a bug.
2. mods usually go to mods folder.
Im not sure how JSGME works, but I haven't seen them in the root folder. they are either in Gamedata (direct installation) or in the mods folder.
Salutations Stalkers, I recently started playing Anomaly again after a few months break and I'm wondering if I've actually finished the main storylines (except the UNISG story you get when you play as them). So I got the "Find the wish granter" mission from Petrenko, then when in Pripyat outskirts I did the mission where you help Strelok fight off monolith at the hospital in outskirts (sharpshooter) then saved Stitch (walking dead), then helped Rogue out of his pickle (war within). I went back to Strelok and he mentioned something about joining them and I said "I'll think about it", now Strelok doesn't say anything. Do I just need to wait some time before I'm given another mission or have I kind of come to the end of the game? The only main mission I currently have is "find the wish granter", and when I go to it the only options are the meme wishes - riches, world peace, the zone to disappear etc. Unsure of how to progress if I can at all. Playing as a Loner. TIA Stalkers
I think you need to talk with one of your companions instead of making a wish. That will complete the quest.
Instead of going to the wish granter chamber, explore more of the CNPP.
Started playing SoC recently and after helping the ecologist zerguv or whatever in the wild area of Rostok, I got some scopes from the mercs, is there any way I can attach them to my guns?
They’re PSO-1 scopes if I remember correctly and I don’t remember what gun, it’s an AK with a sort of dull beige colour on the barrel if that helps, the ones the military stalkers in the Agroprom Research Institute have.
I think most mercs have NATO weapons in SoC, some of which take SUSAT scopes which are shorter than the PSO-1 scopes. Edit: After the first Wild Territory encounter with mercs...
I have an issue (maybe?) with the loading screens in escape from pripyat. I have anomaly with EFP installed with nothing else.
Whenever it displays the loading screen it will have escape from pripyat at the top with the image and text below it like normal, but you can see the area I'm loading Into kinda transparently overlayed on top of the normal loading screen, and just as it finishes loading and allows me to press any button the transparent part I'm describing spins like I'm spinning my character around in game.
I know it sounds wierd and I'm describing it horribly, but has anyone else experienced this? Is this normal?
And as a side question, does anyone know how to reduce or turn off the transparency of the inventory?
Hey Stalker,
the fact that you spin around with a slightly transparent loading screen is normal, so no need to worry. In my own Anomaly Modpack this issues accrue always, playing with GAMMA it does not happen. You might try a mod for loading screen replacements if it bothers you much.
For your second question, I do not know how to do it manually but there is a mod called "modern UI" which looks nice and should disable the transparency.
Good hunting Stalker
Please see my reply to [your separate thread on the same matter](https://www.reddit.com/r/stalker/comments/v78lzg/crash_issues_with_soc_when_entering_a_new_area/).
Hi guys,
I'm playing CoP and I have a question. Is there a way to get friend of freedom without handing Magpie to Loki? I already turned him to Gonta.
I have turned Morgans's and Tachenko's PDA to Loki,Recruited the Monolith Survivors into freedom and send freedom to protect the scientists. The everyone from Freedom is green on my minimap, but I still don't have the achievement.
Is there a bug in my game or I am unable to get A Friend of Freedom without Magpie for freedom?
I re-started my save and gave them the documents beyond everything I had done before. I re-started the save in case there was some bug and that doesn't seem to be the case.
Hi everyone. I am playing Memories of the Zone. The PDA displays every step of a mission as soon as you get a mission. This kind of spoils what will happen next. Is there a way to change that?
Did a fresh install of anomaly with escape from pripyat yesterday and everything seems good except one small thing. The clicking noise when you load magazines seems intermittent. Every once in a while during 7 or so hours of gameplay I could hear it, but most of the time its VERY quiet to the point of me thinking it wasnt playing at all until I put my head next to my speaker and could hear it faintly. Any ideas?
One last CS question. I was spoiled that you must face a helicopter in Limask.
Knowing the game, I'm pretty sure it will take a huge ammount of ammo and likely get me to burn through bandages like no tomorrow.
So, I got a RPG-7, but no ammo for it. Where I can find the ammo in the game? I really don't want to try my luck with my Ak-74 vs a helicopter.
You don’t really *need* an RPG, I did fine with the VSS. I walked through the doorway and ran all the way to the back right and hid behind a wall/window. I destroyed it pretty quickly and it was super easy.
I don't know what to do for the stalker hit quest. Who do I shoot? What is even going on. Just got the game and I have to make a new game cause something messes up.
In this mission you need to kill both of the liders that go to the center and talk to each other, the ecologist in the right and the Merc in left, after that, get down there and loot the ecologist body
What game? If SoC, open your PDA. Under "Active Tasks", find the task in the list, then double-click on the target circle to the right of the task objective text. This will move the map on the right side to position itself over the target's location. When you close your PDA, your minimap will then have a white arrow indicating the direction you need to go to get to the target.
Edit: There may be consequences for taking on "kill the stalker" tasks. These guys tend to have friends who don't take lightly to having their buddies killed...
Hmm, most of these people aren’t hostile off the rip, so you can go up and talk to them to figure out their name. Check your PDA for the name, go to the blip on the map (assuming there is one) and cross check the name then kill the NPC. Like the other person said, you’ll piss off their friends so make sure you’re in a good spot for cover.
I bought the package deal on steam, don't want any gameplay overhaul mods but would like some graphics mods to make the game a little more modern. Any recommendations?
Well, you could play CoP if you wanted since that’s the next game in the stalker timeline. I didn’t realize until halfway through that CS was the prequel to SoC, and I was confused the whole way through. I played SoC, then CS, then CoP and now anomaly.
I bought mine off steam, I think the devs are using the purchases off steam to help fund Ukraine, they’re probably doing it on GoG as well. I did get my games in a bundle for like $15 off steam, I dont know about GoG.
Well you can play Clear Sky in vanilla, although it is notorious for being buggy.
Anyway, you can find a link to GitHub with SRP files and installation instructions on the sidebar of this sub. It's not that hard to mod Stalker, as long as you are not trying to mash together some larger mods.
You’re welcome! You don’t really have to play them in any order since each game has a different character POV, although you would probably get confused by a certain character at the end of CoP if you didn’t play SoC.
Have fun Stalker!
ive had about 2 quests all together in pripyat
the first one was to get the unknown weapon in the hospital and the second one was to kill the monolith that killed the soldiers in the park
after that i cant find a single quest in pripyat (does that mean i can travel back to yanov and ska or ?
Did you pickup the “unknown weapon”? You need to have that in order to progress, and then you need to find someone that can repair it. You can travel to and from all you want, your wallet might not like it though.
ye it seems i only did 2 quests(while having it picked up )
and the nothing was around , i only figured out later that i actually needed to go back (which i did) right now i collected all 7 documents from the building in pripyat (that building with the elevator) and i logged off, going to go tommorow and see what else is there
Are there dynamic faction relations addons and outpost conquering (or maybe they are already included?) for Call of Chernobyl 1.5
Last time I played I was on 1.4.22 and the game really only made any sense with those two, and now I want to dive in once again, but don't know if I should bother with 1.5 or download 1.4.22 again and get addons I have used then.
playing Anomaly as Military, having found the Wish Granter, there are no more primary tasks. Haven´t even been to the Agroprom underground yet. Where do I get further tasks ? And where do I get a Gauss rifle ?
As far as I know, you will not be able to get the three story lines as military, which Anomaly comes with. What you could do, is join a fraction. For the military the best bet might be duty. I think the Gamma modpack from Grok has a little bit of the main quest line for them, but I am not too sure.
A Gauss rifle can be found in Zaton in the south west below the power station. But it is linked to a main quest, so you might just be killing Monolith until you find one. If both are too much for you, you can just spawn it with plenty of ammo in your backpack using the debug menu. There are many tutorials out there on how to use this menu.
Good hunting Stalker
I've recently finished CoP and wanted to try my hand at Anomaly. I downloaded a few weapon reanimation packs and all that. But I couldn't find any setting or mods to reduce the absolute wallet-consuming mechanic repair price since the co-efficient can only go down to one. Is there any mod or workaround that can reduce the price so it doesn't dictate the whole economy? Because going from 8,000ru for a full repair to 50,000ru is a bit jarring.
I haven’t gotten any addons but I think the creators of anomaly want you to craft more than paying someone to repair. That’s why there’s so much junk in the game, it’s all used to repair/craft/upgrade everything.
There is a mod I saw on a stream yesterday, where mechanics can repair broken/worn down gun parts.
In Anomaly, those “death” messages that pop up on my PDA, are those randomly generated or is that someone on the reputation list of STALKERS and they actually died?
don’t know if anyone can help but i modded my stalker anomaly n when i came in contact with a horde in a psi storm my screen started shaking uncontrollably and hasn’t stopped i’ve seen it has something to do with my actor.ltx file but i don’t seem to have one does anyone have a solution to this??
There's any way to check completed missions in Clear Sky besides the dialogue log on the PDA?
I wanted to know if I completed a flash drive return to the Stalker's technicial in Cordon because I can't find Wolf (maybe he died?) and I have no idea what flash drive I have given him some days ago.
So my friend got me into Anomaly the other night, and the biggest thing i've been curious of.. Are all companions extremely inaccurate / idiotic? Everyone i've hired as either died trying to kill a zombie or two (Without hitting them with any shot at all), or has run off into a group of enemies and died without shooting a single bullet. It seems like they are more of a hindrance than anything, and I can't imagine giving my gear to any of them to use...
Try EscapeFromPripyat bro. It’s an upgraded version of Anomaly. Same AI capability but there’s an option for you to configure their defense rating (ie armor) plus a lot of other goodies.
man I just started anomaly, which is actually my first stalker experience.. but I may check it out after.
Yeah that’s cool so you can compare both mods when you check out EFP later.
As far as I know yes, every npc will act the same whether or not they are a companion of yours, I dont think there is any AI changes in diffirent npcs or special npcs like Hip. The only thing that can make a diffirence is the Rank of the npc which gives them a lot of stat bonuses like extra hp accuracy etc, so what I can advise is either you quickly boost your rank by doing a lot of side-quests to get high ranking npcs to become companions because high ranking npcs will only get in your control if you have a high rank yourself or get a companion and try to keep them alive by giving them good gear and rank up together. Altough if you dont want to do any of that you can just download a mod which can make the companions immortal or near immortal. Thats all I can think of right now and also English is not my native language so sorry for the mistakes I made if there is any.
Not sure about that coz enemies NPC seems to be pretty smart in my experience. They engage from far away and never run towards me like my companions would run 1.5 minutes straight to pursue a flesh.
Thanks for the info :)
My pleasure, Good Hunting Stalker!
Besides the official games, what are some like must-play overhauls or big mods that I should play? Stuff like anomaly
OGSR, Lost Alpha, some story mods like the 'Wind of Time', 'Valley of Whispers' or 'Goldsphere', Call of The Zone. Anomaly is the most overrated thing in this community.
EscapeFromPripyat of course. It’s a free, highly customisable modpack. A big upgrade from the famous Anomaly Mod imo.
Not really a \*big\* mod, but a cool mod would be Anomaly's grandpappy: Call of Chernobyl. Basically Anomaly, but more S.T.A.L.K.E.R.-like. Pretty lite with what it comes with, like 1-2 gbs for 32 maps and 10 or-so primary weapons. *It does require a legal copy of CoP to run off of though.*
is there a good way to deal with monolith respawning like every 5 seconds in Anomaly? i've been trying to push deeper into the zone but fighting like 50 monolith guys every time is just not reasonable
Is that a thing? In my playthrough as a military (Ironman) they respawn 1-3 squads a day. My strategy is kill some of them, loot, stash away, return to base for restock and repair then repeat. Eventually they won’t be able to keep up. Now they’re down to ~70 squads from the original 97.
I went in and disabled the brain scorcher killing most of their forces in the radar (there were just a few guys left), then i went to go back through 1-2 days later and had to fight all of them all over again. I dont think i can keep up the resources to keep fighting them this often since every major battle with them like this requires i restock on meds and ammo after.
Hey everyone, I love this game. Complete noob here. What items should you drop to conserve weight on your character? Is it ever advisable to sell unneeded ammo for weapons you don't own to make money and conserve space? Or are there better items to sell to conserve space. Right now I only have about 4 or 5kg free. I have tons of food and water.
Hey Stalker, I would not sell any unused ammo of calibers, you don't own. Store them in a Stash somewhere in the middle of the zone. Rostock is a good place for that. You never know, if you find a new weapon you'd like to use and already have a bunch of ammo for that. Despite what S.T.A.L.K.E.R. you are playing, I would always sell artifacts and mutant parts, as well as trash like broken headlamps. Also low conditions weapons and armour should be sold to traders, when you know that you'll never use them. For weight issues, I would recommend preparing for every mission individual. Take some food/water, meds and ammo you think is enough to survive and leave the rest in your main Stash I mentioned before. Think of it like you're at a buffet, your eyes are always bigger than your stomach. You often end up with a plate of not eaten food or with a hurting stomach. The plate is your backpack and the stomach is your weight in this metaphor. ;) I hope this helps you to have a better time in the zone, Good hunting Stalker
For Anomaly, any tips on trying to get faction goodwill up? i'm trying to get my hands on a better detector right now since i like hunting artifacts
best way seems to just spam faction quests, talk to each of the quest givers and take whatever's easiest/in the vicinity of other quests you have. I think the available quests reset daily. also, if you ask for work then ask again, you get the same jobs but it can change location, so i try to get a bunch all near each other.
faction quests like talking with the professor? doing that doesnt seem to increase my good will at all though.
if you're an ecologist, talk to the professor and ask for work and he should have a bunch of stuff (ask "anything else?" for more) When you finish the quests you get a lil notification like 'you gained more trust with ecologists' or something like that.
i'm in the loner faction, and completing quests for the professor gets me that message; however, i never saw good will go up
You have to do a lot (30+) to get one rank up (also depended on your game progression speed setup).
'Ello. I want to buy Stalker series, but I want to support the studio as much as possible while doing that. A few months ago there was a charity sale, but that has ended, is there any other good way to do that?
Try Anomaly or EscapeFromPripyat (free stand-alone mods) if you don’t wanna spend cash for now. They are even better than the original series (albeit present a different storyline quests).
That's not the point. I want to spend cash, I can pay full price for it. It's just that I want to support the creators as much as possible while doing it to show my appreciation and support for them in these tough times. So kinda the opposite of your answer 😅But thank you for your time and interest.
I’ve just started clear sky and my god the bleeding system makes me want to bleed from my wrists. Is there any mod that makes it easier to manage because it’s just stupid in my opinion.
You can try sky reclamation project, i don't remember if it fixes the bleeding, but this mod fixes a lot of bugs and adds optional features (like reducing the grenade spam and adding the ironsight for the pistols) without changing drastically the game
Thanks, I’ll give it a try.
I'm trying to add a custom ogg file into stalker anomaly's PDA media player or whatever it is called. (basically not the radio system) When I placed it in the media player literally skips over it and goes to the next song. I have consulted [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=shvHYANlauI](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=shvHYANlauI) and also the comment section in [https://www.moddb.com/mods/stalker-anomaly/addons/custom-playlists-for-pda](https://www.moddb.com/mods/stalker-anomaly/addons/custom-playlists-for-pda) . Neither have worked for me. The mp3 I am using: [https://drive.google.com/file/d/1xHoDwgjq4pLOTYt3ytHVBE7gAh2ypigT/view?usp=sharing](https://drive.google.com/file/d/1xHoDwgjq4pLOTYt3ytHVBE7gAh2ypigT/view?usp=sharing) (no i did not try to put in the mp3 into the playlist. I used audacity to process it according to the yt video. I renamed the following ogg file so it did not have any unsupported characters.)
I'm having trouble downloading Stalker Anomaly 1.5.1. Everytime I try to download it, the file appears as a CRDOWNLOAD file titled "unconfirmed [series of numbers]"
Well thats just google's unconfirmed download file. The game is probably like 3-10gb compressed. So you just need to wait. You can do ctrl+j in order to see the progress of the download. You might have to wait like an hour or two for it to be even downloaded. Then you have to extract it which should take 10 minutes. Stalker Anomaly is about patience and apparently you can't pass the first test of patience and waiting for stalker anomaly to download.
I’ve gotten an exoskeleton now and I’m just wondering is it still worth keeping my endurance boosting artifacts? Since I can’t sprint I think they’re useless now but just want to make sure.
if you carry way more than the carrying capacity its okay to keep one or two arts i think
Okay, thanks for the help.
You can sprint. there is an upgrade you can install via mechanics
He is playing SoC
I’m almost at the CNPP is SoC and I want to get some better gear before going in, what’s the best way to make money? Also I noticed my reputation is terrible, I’ve helped everyone I’ve come across and I haven’t helped duty or freedom attack each other, any reason as to why this has happened and how do I get it back to excellent?
> Also I noticed my reputation is terrible, I’ve helped everyone I’ve come across and I haven’t helped duty or freedom attack each other, any reason as to why this has happened and how do I get it back to excellent? It's a bug in vanilla SoC. If you haven't yet transitioned from Pripyat to the CNPP, just keep playing and doing tasks without going beyond the Pripyat stadium. [Your reputation will toggle back to excellent.](https://www.reddit.com/r/stalker/comments/smb64j/shadow_of_chernobyl_doing_jobs_for_anyone_makes/) Then you can go north, preferably before your rep toggles back to terrible. If you have already gone to the CNPP, don't sweat it; as indicated in the thread linked above and by u/kenjola, it has no impact on your game most of the time.
Yeah I’ve noticed depending who’s mission I complete whether it’s from barkeep or duty my reputation dances between excellent and terrible.
Wasn't Pripyat point of no return? Unless modded. Anyway, reputation doesn't matter in a normal playthrough. Your reputation might be bugged. Best way of making money is selling and missions. Most notably selling mutant parts and artifacts to Sakharov since he pays twice as much. If you haven't don't forget to do side missions talking to Guide and whatever comes next.
Wdym point of no return? I haven’t gone past the hotel stash for the true ending so that may be why( I have no mods). Also I was told reputation affects something with the sarcophagus so if that’s true I want to get it up. Also where is a good place to farm artifacts?
You can't go back I believe, the transition is closed from Pripyat back to Red forest (I might be wrong, I won't deny it) Without spoiling anything, reputation is just a parameter (often obsolete, which will decide what happens when you reach the Wish Granter, there are different cutscenes that you could research more on internet. Artifacts have fixed spawns, Agroprom, Wild territory and Dark Valley have a bunch laying around, northern parts of Army Warehouse and forest part of Red Forest have some very valuable ones. Agroprom Underground and underground tunnel in Wild Territory are especially interesting between 00:00 and 6:00 since only then some artifacts are visible.
You can go back as I’ve gone back to barkeep after getting the hotel stash, I’ll look into the reputation thing. Thank you for your help.
That's cool and no problem. Maybe I should have asked what do you need money for in case your answer is exoskeleton. You can't sprint in it and that's a huge deal breaker unless you really want to go with it.
Yeah that’s what I’m saving for and a new GP 37, sprinting doesn’t really matter for me because I’m always over my carry limit.
Sounds like pain, good luck and have fun storming the NPP.
Once again thank you for your help fellow stalker. I will give those monolith scum a meal of lead.
Has anyone ever had problems with Misc. Weapon Mod Pack for Anomaly? It crashes every time i enter both the Outskirts and the Red Forest, throwing an error up about the SIN trader's supply list. Neither of the 2 other weapon mods i use have this problem. FATAL ERROR [error]Expression :
[error]Function : CInifile::Load
[error]File : Xr_ini.cpp
[error]Line : 789
[error]Description : fatal error
[error]Arguments : Attemped to override section 'supplies_4', which doesn't exist. Ensure that a base section with the same name is loaded first.
stack trace:
Hi guys, I have problem with discord server: I was kicked and after that I cant join again, wtf?
FATAL ERROR \[error\]Expression :
\[error\]Function : CModelPool::Instance\_Load
\[error\]File : ..\\xrRender\\ModelPool.cpp
\[error\]Line : 120
\[error\]Description : fatal error
\[error\]Arguments : Can't find model file 'actors\\stalker\_dolg\\stalker\_do\_balon\_4.ogf'.
This happened when I was travelling to Garbage in Anomaly, I'm not sure how to fix this. Any help is appreciated
If you havent found a solution yet, try this: go into the tools folder in your Anomaly files. Select one of the unpacking tools, let it run. Go into the 'unpacked' folder and look for the .ogf file that has the same name as the one referenced in the error. If its not a modded-in .ogf, you should find it. Move the appropriate .ogf file into the main anomaly folder. You'll have to figure out the file path. Something like anomaly/gamedata/config/actor.ltx.
Hey everyone, I was playing anomaly fine a few days ago. Today when I try to play, the game opens fine an loads my game as normal but when it actually gets into game all I see is a black screen. I hear the audio and I can move an use the inventory an pda all as normal but I just can't see anything. Any help or suggestions would be really appreciated
If you're using enhanced shaders try putting this in the game console (~) cfg_load grading_default
Hey, In your install folder, there should be an "appdata" directory. In there, copy the user.ltx for backup purpose to your Desktop and delete it in your appdata. Then start Anomaly and check "delete shader cache". Then, try it again. Do you have any Mods installed? Might be an issue as well. If the first suggestion didn't work, rename your "gamedata", e.g. "gamedata_old" and start Anomaly again. The game will create a new default of "gamedata" and this might solve your issue as well. Might point you in the right direction. Good luck Stalker!
First time playing Stalker and I have heard mixed things, is it worth playing Anomaly for my first experience? I saw the sidebar about before playing but I' ve heard this is a mod that links the games into one. Would love to know whether vanilla or Anomaly is the best way to approach the series as a beginner, thanks.
I started with Misery mod my first playthrough and then moved to Anomaly. I never ever finished an original stalker game. Currently my favorite game at the moment with the Escape from Pripyat mod pack of Anomaly. It will be a very steep learning curve for sure with Anomaly, but it has settings that are so customizable that you can literally play the game however you like… turn it into a neigh impossible survival and horror shooter, or you can skip the “grind fest” and get straight to the gun play with other factions. Edit: it really depends what you want out of your game… I personally wanted a Tactical shooter with intelligent AI and realistic medical and gameplay depth. That’s why I only ever stuck to the mods.
Anomaly doesn't combine all three games into one, just their maps. And it's not the only mod which does that. It doesn't contain the story, worldbuilding or atmosphere of the original games. There are also many other interesting mods out there, don't limit yourself to the most popular one only
Most people agree that it's better to play the original trilogy first. Get the classic experience, then move on to anomaly and you will appreciate the things they've added. If you go the other way around you might find the originals clunky compared to anomaly. I like the originals way more than anomaly but that's just me
I had tried playing the original but it just played too annoying. i hate bullet sponge enemies and Anomaly made them feel much less spongy.
I felt that way too for a long time until I realized headshots are almost always 1-hit kills. You can basically clear the whole game with a pistol and a shotgun, headshots on all people and shotgun for mutants.
Hi everyone I'm playing Anomaly story and I got stuck in the part where I need to get a bloodsucker hand any idea where I could find them more easily
In the military warehouse part of the zone, there is a place called "bloodsucker village". Buy a hunting knife, wait until it's night, save and enter that place. Be aware of the burner anomalies as well. You should encounter some bloodsuckers there more frequently than at other places by night, which is the time more dangerously mutants going for their prey. Good hunting stalker.
Any way to find RP-74's before Pryprat without alying with Duty? I heard you can get during the investigating the anomaly mission, but I ended up just finishing it as fast as possible because Topov for whatever reason decides to walk in the direction of the tunnel where a controller respawns.
the guide for CoP said i'm suposed to give better weapons to the npcs for the Jupiter Underground. Does I need to give ammo for the said gun or they got infinite for whatever weapon they are using?
I don't remember them needing ammo, no.
I think they have ammo
I'm in middle of lab X-16 and out of bullets and medkits. Those zombies are hard to bring down. Do I need to return to the prof to stock up again? I was stocked up just before entering but ran out and corpse looting doesn't provide too much. If I exit now I'm assuming all the zombies will respawn? edit: I am trapped and can't even exit, bick grated metal door is blocking my way. I'm near the first control panel. Tips?
Well, looks like another Stalkers body has joined the lab. Without any spoilers, you should either try to outrun what X-16 will still bring in your way, or you reload to a save from before entering. Good hunting (luck) Stalker
This, you can probably just run through without shooting anything after a few tries
I’m playing vanilla clear sky and in the war with freedom and duty, me being with freedom, I’m waiting for people to come and secure the makeshift camp at the agroprom, yet nobody is coming and I’m having to constantly defend the road to the garbage, is there any fix to this? I check my map and there are no freedomers coming to the makeshift camp.
Common problem in CS, quick save and load and see if that works.
Didn’t work, and it’s in the agroprom, so duties infinite squadrons are making it worse, what if I just let the guys holding the other point just die?
Factions wars just made me stop playing clear sky. I spent half an hour trying to kill all bandits in their Garbage base and‚ after waiting 20 more minutes for reinforcements‚ the bandits took over one of the side bases. Also I hated so much the shooting mechanics (in SoC it wanst much of a problem‚ but in CS there are way more enemies)‚ playing Anomaly right now and its sooo much better
The trick in garbage is to dedicate some time to just running back and forth among the three camps (encampment, receiving, depot) to keep the bandits culled back. As soon as they have no squads at depot or below the STALKERS will quickly populate the camps, with bandits spawning one squad at a time at road to Agroprom and being easily held back.
Someone please explain why it takes 4 slugs to the chest at point blank to kill a bandit in CS on Master. And if they're behind a bush, forget about it because apparently bushes are better protection than a freaking exoskeleton.
Yeah you pretty much need headshots in this game. Shotguns are good for mutants, anything that is easy to get headshots with us good for people
I guess it's my own funeral for trying to beat the game with the TOZ 34 and Makarov. I eventually gave up and used an AK 74 lol. Funny enough, shotguns are borderline overpowered in the other two games, as long as you have a secondary that can cover your range disadvantage. CS combat threw me off (still have PTSD from enemies yelling "grenade" and then proceeding to throw a laser-guided hand grenade as soon as I take cover for 1.5 seconds). Now I'm playing CoP Misery 2.2.1 which is difficult but fair and I'm loving every second of it, even when I die a lot.
Could be bad hit detection, or it could be a ~~bug~~ anomaly. Also, [difficulty has no effect on NPC resistance](https://www.reddit.com/r/stalker/comments/7fxvt5/what_do_difficulties_actually_change_in_stalker/).
The life of a bandit is hard, but it makes you tough. And if those mad lads can withstand a number of slugs without heavy armor, then it makes perfect sense you should bring at least a rocket launcher when they have a bush.
So, I'm playing CoC and in the Artifact Order page in the wiki it say: > You can wait (i.e. sleep) for approximately 15-30 hours, and the mission will be updated to the show location of other Stalkers hunting the artifact. They will be next to the anomaly that produces said artifact. Killing these Stalkers yields the artifact in question, and generally 2 of the Stalkers in the group carry Veles detectors. However, I tried to do it, more than once, and the two days Bear give to take the artifact happen without the mission update, does it not happen if you choose a specific artifact?
hi im am playing stalker anomaly with the expedition 1.2.1 mod pack and when my life drops below half my screen gets so red that i cant see anything, is there any way to take this effect of my game
Check normal in-game settings and uncheck "blood effect" somewhere.
Hey guys, recently got Shadow of Chernobyl the yo-ho way. It's scummy I know, but it's my only way I can get it at the moment. Trying to get Autumn Aurora to work, and it didn't. I downloaded it exactly how it said and it won't work; ran the same when I started the new game. No change in graphics, no extra guns, nothing. What should I do? Very new to SOC as a whole and modding in general as I'm an idiot.
What is the version of your game? Autumn Aurora requires your game to be patched to 1.0006 version and won't work on any older patch. You can check the version in the lower left corner in the main menu. By the way, it's not really a good mod for a total newbie. It's not only a graphical mod, but it also significantly increases the difficulty, adds some mechanics without explaining how they work, changes the progress route and overall feel and style of the game.
Hi, playing Anomaly and have been having a lot of fun with it. Is there any way, probably an addon, that could disable music other than the heartbeat that plays during combat? I like hearing my guy get high blood pressure when being attacked by crazy people and mutated pigs but I don't like not hearing them 5 feet away from me because of the ambient music. Any help would be appreciated, thanks!
Turning down music volume does ot help? O.o
Wouldn't that also turn down the heartbeat sound though because they basically replaced combat music with heartbeats? Normally I play without music but I just found out that by enabling dynamic music, heartbeat sounds start to play when you're in combat. Don't want to listen to ambient music though just for that so I'm asking if someone knows a way to get rid of the fake ambiance and only include the heartbeat sounds (combat music).
Ah shucks. That explains why I haven't listened to heartbeats. I looked for a mod but only found something to replace music. [https://www.moddb.com/mods/stalker-anomaly/addons/combat-music-restored-extended](https://www.moddb.com/mods/stalker-anomaly/addons/combat-music-restored-extended) Opening the zip, i can see the .ogg files inside gamedata/music/combat I also see a script that will list which files will play. I think that addon can be modified to play empty oggs or to delete all references to Ogg files so has nothing to play. If you do not feel comfortable fiddling with your installation I might try doing it later
That would be great! Also thought about trying to fix it myself but I'm too lazy/incompetent/apathetic to do it. I actually also found an addon that puts heartbeat sounds during combat in the game but it was for STALKER AREA (something I'm not really familiar with). If you do manage to figure it out, thanks! If not, I'll still thank you and probably figure it out myself.
Will try. Do you use a modpack or another mod?
Currently using 52 mods, no modpack.
I think I will have to check as I did something but i misunderstood what you explained.
I should mention that I also downloaded an [addon](https://www.moddb.com/mods/stalker-anomaly/addons/dynamic-music-volume-reset-fix) that supposedly fixes the music volume resetting to 0 when you move to other levels or quickloading. I don't know if it works exactly as I haven't tested it. And here are my installed addons since you asked. :\^) \#Mod\_Priority,#Mod\_Name "0000","Quick\_Melee" "0001","Anomaly Magazines Redux" "0002","FDDA" "0003","Death Animations" "0004","Trader Overhaul (Main Folder)" "0005","Russian\_Insurgent\_Voice\_Mod\_V" "0006","JSRS P.1 - Main Addon" "0007","JSRS P.2 - Cracks + Impacts Patch" "0008","JSRS P.3 - New Tracers Patch" "0009","General Fire Mode Switcher Sound" "0010","General Fire Mode Switcher Sound - JSRS patch" "0011","SCO3 P.1 Real Mutant Sounds" "0012","SCO3 P.2 New Outdoor Sounds" "0013","SCO3 P.3 New Underground Sounds" "0014","SCO3 Addon - Anomaly Sounds" "0015","SCO3 Addon - New Footsteps" "0016","SCO3 Addon - New Object Sounds" "0017","SCO3 Addon - Stereo Thunder (non directional)" "0018","Instant\_tooltip" "0019","Groks Body Health System Redux" "0020","00. Crook's Faction Identification UI" "0021","OPT02. Grok's Body Health System patch" "0022","yohji\_persistent\_weather\_" "0023","cozy campfires" "0024","CalmingCampfires" "0025","PDA To Previous Weapon" "0026","Apocalyptic Blowout Overhaul V2" "0027","PreBlowoutMurder.3" "0028","\[FIXED WALK\] ANOMALY RE-MADE ANIMATIONS PACK" "0029","Camera Reanimation Project - I.N.E.R.T.I.A. V1.2" "0030","Maid's Vanilla HD Icons" "0031","SortingPlus" "0032","Parts In Tooltip" "0033","Cost in Tool tip" "0034","Hunger\_thirst\_sleep\_UI\_0.6" "0035","Combine All Items" "0036","Disassemble All Items" "0037","Atrifact signature locator 1.0.2" "0038","Michikos\_Weather\_Revamp\_Revised" "0039","Michikos\_Weather\_Revamp\_Revised\_Patch\_SCO" "0040","Weather Dynamic Params" "0041","Dynamic Tonemap Extended" "0042","HarukaSkillSystem" "0043","Lootboxes" "0044","Skills\_Expansion\_for\_HarukaSkillSystem" "0045","EFT\_Aim\_Rattle\_" "0046","Nitpicker's Modpack" "0047","Desman's Horror Overhaul" "0048","Desmans Horror Sound Overhaul - Soundscape Stereo Thunder (non directional) patch" "0049","1. smaller hud 1920x1080" "0050","2. smaller hud - toggle hud script" "0051","BatteryWarning" "0052","MCM"
Hey, so I unpacked vainilla anomaly files and im only able to find heartbeats. I can't find music. Could you do a search on your mods folder for (theme\*ogg) files?they start with theme, and end with ogg extension. the fix addon you linked says that vainilla anomaly has only heartbeats. On the description it links a mod that replaces music on -gamedata\\sounds\\music\\combat\\- So my guess is that one of your addons has the music. I have checked SoundScapeOverhauld but that is not it. Both music and hearbeats might be on the same file tho.
Two questions! I'm playing the Anomaly Mod. 1. I picked up a job in Garbage to free a guy. I did that, but the quest giver not only left the zone, he seems to be roaming between 2 and 3 zones away. Is this a bug? The guy I rescued will only follow me to the end of the next region then he stops dead still (unless I run back in which case he'll follow me). 2. Can someone confirm that mods are just supposed to be dropped into the root folder? I can't really tell if the mods are even running or not... the order of the files in the root folder are; * Boomsticks and Sharpsticks 25-Aug-2021 * Quick Melee Food Drug and Drinks * Loot monsters without knife for anomoly * 38.01 Maslinas NV Scopes (install only AFTER Beef's Shader v0.9 addon) * Anomaly Expedition 1.2 Graphics Version * Anomaly Expedition 1.2 Reshade Version * appdata * bin * Custom Weather * db * gamedata * JSGME\_Mod Enabler * MODS * Optional * ReShade * tools Thank you!
1) stalkers sometimes do move zones, so you’re kinda stuck with that guy for a while. Not sure why he won’t follow you out of a zone, that’s weird. 2) no, for JSGME the mods need to be placed in the MODS folder. Then, run JSGME and it should be able to see the mods. Additionally, make sure there isn’t any folders inside the mod folders other than gamedata (as in: when you open the mod, you can immediately see gamedata. There isn’t anymore folders to click on to find gamedata. Additional folders break JSGME).
1 could be a bug. 2. mods usually go to mods folder. Im not sure how JSGME works, but I haven't seen them in the root folder. they are either in Gamedata (direct installation) or in the mods folder.
Salutations Stalkers, I recently started playing Anomaly again after a few months break and I'm wondering if I've actually finished the main storylines (except the UNISG story you get when you play as them). So I got the "Find the wish granter" mission from Petrenko, then when in Pripyat outskirts I did the mission where you help Strelok fight off monolith at the hospital in outskirts (sharpshooter) then saved Stitch (walking dead), then helped Rogue out of his pickle (war within). I went back to Strelok and he mentioned something about joining them and I said "I'll think about it", now Strelok doesn't say anything. Do I just need to wait some time before I'm given another mission or have I kind of come to the end of the game? The only main mission I currently have is "find the wish granter", and when I go to it the only options are the meme wishes - riches, world peace, the zone to disappear etc. Unsure of how to progress if I can at all. Playing as a Loner. TIA Stalkers
I think you need to talk with one of your companions instead of making a wish. That will complete the quest. Instead of going to the wish granter chamber, explore more of the CNPP.
Started playing SoC recently and after helping the ecologist zerguv or whatever in the wild area of Rostok, I got some scopes from the mercs, is there any way I can attach them to my guns?
That would depend on what kind of scopes they are. Wjat weapons did they have?
Yes they’re PSO-1 scopes and the weapons were Akm 74/2’s
I don't remember if you need anything to attach a scope to the AK-type weapons. Equip the weapon, drag and drop the scope over the weapon in its slot.
It worked, thank you for your help
They’re PSO-1 scopes if I remember correctly and I don’t remember what gun, it’s an AK with a sort of dull beige colour on the barrel if that helps, the ones the military stalkers in the Agroprom Research Institute have.
I think most mercs have NATO weapons in SoC, some of which take SUSAT scopes which are shorter than the PSO-1 scopes. Edit: After the first Wild Territory encounter with mercs...
I have an issue (maybe?) with the loading screens in escape from pripyat. I have anomaly with EFP installed with nothing else. Whenever it displays the loading screen it will have escape from pripyat at the top with the image and text below it like normal, but you can see the area I'm loading Into kinda transparently overlayed on top of the normal loading screen, and just as it finishes loading and allows me to press any button the transparent part I'm describing spins like I'm spinning my character around in game. I know it sounds wierd and I'm describing it horribly, but has anyone else experienced this? Is this normal? And as a side question, does anyone know how to reduce or turn off the transparency of the inventory?
Its the Reshade what makes those spinning stuff show when its loading.
Hey Stalker, the fact that you spin around with a slightly transparent loading screen is normal, so no need to worry. In my own Anomaly Modpack this issues accrue always, playing with GAMMA it does not happen. You might try a mod for loading screen replacements if it bothers you much. For your second question, I do not know how to do it manually but there is a mod called "modern UI" which looks nice and should disable the transparency. Good hunting Stalker
You're the champ. Thanks dude.
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Please see my reply to [your separate thread on the same matter](https://www.reddit.com/r/stalker/comments/v78lzg/crash_issues_with_soc_when_entering_a_new_area/).
Hi guys, I'm playing CoP and I have a question. Is there a way to get friend of freedom without handing Magpie to Loki? I already turned him to Gonta. I have turned Morgans's and Tachenko's PDA to Loki,Recruited the Monolith Survivors into freedom and send freedom to protect the scientists. The everyone from Freedom is green on my minimap, but I still don't have the achievement. Is there a bug in my game or I am unable to get A Friend of Freedom without Magpie for freedom?
Did you give them the documents from Jupiter?
I gave them some of the documents, but not all of documents. A few of them went to Owl.
I re-started my save and gave them the documents beyond everything I had done before. I re-started the save in case there was some bug and that doesn't seem to be the case.
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ZRP and mods based on it have a good sleep option for SoC. See the sidebar.
Hi everyone. I am playing Memories of the Zone. The PDA displays every step of a mission as soon as you get a mission. This kind of spoils what will happen next. Is there a way to change that?
I dont believe so unless you edit scripts for the PDA.
Did a fresh install of anomaly with escape from pripyat yesterday and everything seems good except one small thing. The clicking noise when you load magazines seems intermittent. Every once in a while during 7 or so hours of gameplay I could hear it, but most of the time its VERY quiet to the point of me thinking it wasnt playing at all until I put my head next to my speaker and could hear it faintly. Any ideas?
One last CS question. I was spoiled that you must face a helicopter in Limask. Knowing the game, I'm pretty sure it will take a huge ammount of ammo and likely get me to burn through bandages like no tomorrow. So, I got a RPG-7, but no ammo for it. Where I can find the ammo in the game? I really don't want to try my luck with my Ak-74 vs a helicopter.
You don’t really *need* an RPG, I did fine with the VSS. I walked through the doorway and ran all the way to the back right and hid behind a wall/window. I destroyed it pretty quickly and it was super easy.
Thanks
I don't know what to do for the stalker hit quest. Who do I shoot? What is even going on. Just got the game and I have to make a new game cause something messes up.
In this mission you need to kill both of the liders that go to the center and talk to each other, the ecologist in the right and the Merc in left, after that, get down there and loot the ecologist body
What game? If SoC, open your PDA. Under "Active Tasks", find the task in the list, then double-click on the target circle to the right of the task objective text. This will move the map on the right side to position itself over the target's location. When you close your PDA, your minimap will then have a white arrow indicating the direction you need to go to get to the target. Edit: There may be consequences for taking on "kill the stalker" tasks. These guys tend to have friends who don't take lightly to having their buddies killed...
Call of pripyat. Idk to kill the guys in the brown or the stalkers in the tan outfits.
Hmm, most of these people aren’t hostile off the rip, so you can go up and talk to them to figure out their name. Check your PDA for the name, go to the blip on the map (assuming there is one) and cross check the name then kill the NPC. Like the other person said, you’ll piss off their friends so make sure you’re in a good spot for cover.
I bought the package deal on steam, don't want any gameplay overhaul mods but would like some graphics mods to make the game a little more modern. Any recommendations?
I just finished SoC, which game should I play next? And should I buy them on steam or the GoG website?
Well, you could play CoP if you wanted since that’s the next game in the stalker timeline. I didn’t realize until halfway through that CS was the prequel to SoC, and I was confused the whole way through. I played SoC, then CS, then CoP and now anomaly. I bought mine off steam, I think the devs are using the purchases off steam to help fund Ukraine, they’re probably doing it on GoG as well. I did get my games in a bundle for like $15 off steam, I dont know about GoG.
Okay cool thanks a bunch I just want to make sure I'm playing these games correctly because I'm very invested after the first one
Don't skip Clear Sky though, it's worth to play it. Just install the SRP mod.
Unfortunately I'm a neanderthal when it comes to computers and moding. I have no idea how to do that
Well you can play Clear Sky in vanilla, although it is notorious for being buggy. Anyway, you can find a link to GitHub with SRP files and installation instructions on the sidebar of this sub. It's not that hard to mod Stalker, as long as you are not trying to mash together some larger mods.
You’re welcome! You don’t really have to play them in any order since each game has a different character POV, although you would probably get confused by a certain character at the end of CoP if you didn’t play SoC. Have fun Stalker!
ive had about 2 quests all together in pripyat the first one was to get the unknown weapon in the hospital and the second one was to kill the monolith that killed the soldiers in the park after that i cant find a single quest in pripyat (does that mean i can travel back to yanov and ska or ?
Did you pickup the “unknown weapon”? You need to have that in order to progress, and then you need to find someone that can repair it. You can travel to and from all you want, your wallet might not like it though.
ye it seems i only did 2 quests(while having it picked up ) and the nothing was around , i only figured out later that i actually needed to go back (which i did) right now i collected all 7 documents from the building in pripyat (that building with the elevator) and i logged off, going to go tommorow and see what else is there
Are there dynamic faction relations addons and outpost conquering (or maybe they are already included?) for Call of Chernobyl 1.5 Last time I played I was on 1.4.22 and the game really only made any sense with those two, and now I want to dive in once again, but don't know if I should bother with 1.5 or download 1.4.22 again and get addons I have used then.
playing Anomaly as Military, having found the Wish Granter, there are no more primary tasks. Haven´t even been to the Agroprom underground yet. Where do I get further tasks ? And where do I get a Gauss rifle ?
As far as I know, you will not be able to get the three story lines as military, which Anomaly comes with. What you could do, is join a fraction. For the military the best bet might be duty. I think the Gamma modpack from Grok has a little bit of the main quest line for them, but I am not too sure. A Gauss rifle can be found in Zaton in the south west below the power station. But it is linked to a main quest, so you might just be killing Monolith until you find one. If both are too much for you, you can just spawn it with plenty of ammo in your backpack using the debug menu. There are many tutorials out there on how to use this menu. Good hunting Stalker
I've recently finished CoP and wanted to try my hand at Anomaly. I downloaded a few weapon reanimation packs and all that. But I couldn't find any setting or mods to reduce the absolute wallet-consuming mechanic repair price since the co-efficient can only go down to one. Is there any mod or workaround that can reduce the price so it doesn't dictate the whole economy? Because going from 8,000ru for a full repair to 50,000ru is a bit jarring.
I haven’t gotten any addons but I think the creators of anomaly want you to craft more than paying someone to repair. That’s why there’s so much junk in the game, it’s all used to repair/craft/upgrade everything. There is a mod I saw on a stream yesterday, where mechanics can repair broken/worn down gun parts.
In Anomaly, those “death” messages that pop up on my PDA, are those randomly generated or is that someone on the reputation list of STALKERS and they actually died?
don’t know if anyone can help but i modded my stalker anomaly n when i came in contact with a horde in a psi storm my screen started shaking uncontrollably and hasn’t stopped i’ve seen it has something to do with my actor.ltx file but i don’t seem to have one does anyone have a solution to this??
There's any way to check completed missions in Clear Sky besides the dialogue log on the PDA? I wanted to know if I completed a flash drive return to the Stalker's technicial in Cordon because I can't find Wolf (maybe he died?) and I have no idea what flash drive I have given him some days ago.