Just picked this up on the halloween sale. what am i in for? what are some essential mods?

just picked this up on the halloween sale. what am i in for? what are some essential mods?

Have you tried playing it?

Pirate the original and play it without mods on highest difficulty.

CoP is a lot less buggy really doesn't need mods at least for your first playthrough. I recommend vanilla playthrough of each game before modding with the exception of bug fix patches for SoC, and CS. The OP in the stalker general has pretty much all the info you would ever want.

Just get the starter pack for a first playthrough

>just fuck men for your first sexual experience

The only mods you "need" are stuff for nicer textures and the like.

>never played STALKER
> welp guess I better start with the third game in the series
CoP is fine without mods. It remains consitently shit no matter how much you pour into it.

Should have gotten SoC and played it first. When you do get to playing CoP though, install AtmosFear and the texture packs made by the same guy.

For SoC just install ZRP and maybe a texture pack if you want.

STALKER's really black nights made me so fond of NVG.

it's like fallout 4 but without power amor.

And with good gunplay and no leveling.

Don't install any mod, do a run or two just like that it's pretty much perfect
When you're done get Misery mod

Some people shit on CoP and I can kinda see where they're coming from, but its not a bad game. It just trades the spoopy jank from the first game for a little more mainstream appeal. CoP never really does anything scary.

absolute texture packs, atmosfear, fov changer

Mods that use the updated X-Ray Engine (like Call of Chernobyl) can change the fov just in the console so there might have been a mod update to put that into SoC and CoP but I'm not sure.

This. Vanilla run then get misery mod.

Nah fuck Misery

If you've never played a Stalker game before, start with SoC.

I've started SoC several times, but I still can't see the appeal to the game. I always give up after six hours or so.

Can someone enlighten me on the good things?

I like the setting and the shooting mechanics (at least with mods).

Ah, what a lovely day.

ZRP

Oh wait a minute.

Nevermind

if you're the kind of subhuman who enjoys shit like Persona, you're already a lost cause and Stalker is too good for you.

...

the x-ray engine was ahead of its time

I got some extra shaders so its either pretty or obnoxious

jesus christ never fucking post with this awful reshade ever again

Arrite senpai.

After you play the regular story get Call of Chernobyl, its a freeplay mod that adds in maps from the other games along with extra ones.

Have you played Shadow of Chernobyl?

CoP has brighter colours. Dusk and dawn are amazing. However, many people prefer the atmosphere of SoC, which was more toned down. CoP is nothing like it. I love both tho.
More interesting, beautiful ground level locations :), but no X-labs :(
More spooky than anything in SoC except X-labs. Bloodsuckers will make you run for your life unlike in SoC where you could fuck them up easily by the time you encounter them. There is one controller encounter that will make you shit your pants.
Interesting side quests, not that garbage SoC had.
You will most probably encounter a bug in late game which will make it impossible to finish. This has been fixed by community I think, but I was fucked when I played and never actually finished.
A few locations are big anomalies themselves with characteristics different than the regular anomalies. I remember one of them being large enough to get lost in it (and there are monsters there too iirc).
Three open hubs, larger than any location than in SoC, maybe except that shitty part where you fought helicopters to go to the plant. Awesome exploration.
NPCs are more interesting, even though it's still no Shakespeare.
A bit easier overall :(, except for a few encounters

Oh, and I forgot: cheeki breeki as fuck

>giving money to a corrupt government for this game
You are aware that the developers suffered a hostile takeover from their own government years ago and scattered to never make games again?

>When you're done get Misery mod
Misery is dogshit. Ideally, play SoC then mod it with AMK.

oh no

you don't even know the history we have with the stalker games, do you

Wat

Not this user, but please tell me

Why do people continue to parrot shit from 5 years ago? GSC is back making games again. They just released Cossacks 3 last year. Yeah, most of the people who worked on Stalker are gone but who cares about a bunch of code monkeys? The people who made SoC are different from the people who made CoP too.

I'm not OP, btw. I more than familiar with the history.

>GSC is back making games again
It's not the same GSC. Hell, CoP GSC isn't even the same as SoC GSC.
GSC is/was one of the most unstable developers in the industry.

A really mediocre game that gets sucked off to fuck on Sup Forums

Oh shit, I should have read the rest of your post.

don't fucking do that shit again
you are actively contributing to the incredibly fast degradation of communication

>It's not the same GSC
It's the same upper management and a lot of the RTS people are still there. The code monkeys that were involved in the Stalker games are gone. And look what garbage they're putting out without being in GSC. Metro, Survarium, a mediocre shmup, Cradle, and probably more.

Not everyone that left is replaceable, like the lead programmer for A-Life, but most are.

Atmosfear is really nice
And you're in for a real gem
Unpolished, but its amazing overall

Too hard for you?