STALKER Shadow of Chernobyl Mod Thread

[ferratilis]

Have any of you played the ABR mod? It's described as vanilla+ mod that adds some new weapons, rebalances artifacts and improves graphics, but I wonder it the changes are pure autism or provide for a better experience than vanilla?
https://www.moddb.com/mods/abr-mod

 

[Baron Dupek]

It was ok, nothing stupid spotted in my playthrough.

 

[ferratilis]

What is this sorcery?! I get almost locked 120fps, with minimal stutters around Skadovsk. I've never experienced CoP being so smooth. All while pushing really nice draw distance. This guy is either a wizard or all those stashes are hogging the performance so much.

Spoiler

 

[razvedchiki]

anyone tried the GAMMA mod list for anomaly?

 

[Taim]

What's the least toxic community to get into the modding scene?

Motivated by wanting to play NLC, having some free time for a change, and the lack of any ability to get a halfway decent translation, I'm in the process of building a basic command-line translator script.

There are much better machine translators out there than the current one used for NLC 7 (Yandex). Some mild testing shows that DeepL seems like it might actually have a decent shot of getting some of the slang translated correctly.

I've found google translate is better for some small cases (DeepL translates "Nimble" to "Kick-Ass" whereas Google gets it right).

Already wrote up a rudimentary script that processes all the text and replaces it but DeepL's website is a piece of shit and somehow creating an account is broken right now.

I'm not going to write a GUI for this thing but I'm thinking of making the app translate convo by convo and prompt the user for 3 options:

1. Go with DeepL version
2. Go with Google version
3. Type in your own custom version based on the DeepL/Google versions (often you know what its TRYING to say after seeing two different translators make an attempt)


Anyway, I wouldn't mind refining this app a bit if it garners interest from the translation community. Especially if that means I get to play more of the Russian stuff instead of Anomaly Pack #764.

Also perhaps setting up an avenue for getting donations because using DeepL isn't free.

 

[jebsmoker]

the bildo-themed mod pack for RMA got an excellent hand translation a few months ago and i feel like a fool for staying in the dark about it until now. you can procure it here:

https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachme...54093393/SHADOW_ADDON_TRANSLATION_04-05-22.7z

the sons of the builds... they strike.... AGAIN... and they DELIVER

 

[Taim]

All in all C-Con discord has actually been a pretty good haven. Haven't encountered any of the toxicity I had heard about in the past - and have run into a few helpful folks.

Anyway - I've spent the better part of the past month and a half on-and-off working on this STALKER text extraction tool to aid in machine translation. In the future the tentative plan is to work with the community to expand the tool to help with hand translations as well.

Anyway, I have released my own machine translation for NLC 7. While it is stil a machine translation, and very much has awkward phrasing, it is MUCH better than the previous one. And many people on C-Con have been enjoying their playthroughs (they even made an nlc channel).

This is for the latest version: NLC 7 3.8.1

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1_0ZTQ0r6yhpcx__VQCqAk191Xxj0qW_8/view

And here are the translation files:

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1N8ukOqKrzx0RDljyPfZj48_FeTLvf13i/view?usp=sharing
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1LU_CpiMZ8C6K24fHSJftQH2GzvQlRedh/view?usp=sharing
Note: I'll likely be updating this a couple of times over the next bit. Also might put this out on modddb eventually - once I'm sure shit isn't totally fucked and people can actually play through it.

 

[Taim]

I should point out this script I built can effectively give us the same quality machine translation for this for...probably damn near any STALKER mod out there, unless there's some weird edge cases in text formatting I haven't accounted for.

NLC has over 4 million lines of dialogue spread over fucking EVERYTHING - so I feel most other mods should fit into the cases I encountered already.

 

[cretin]

I forgot to update this topic by telling you guys that Taim's translation for NLC7 is fantastically good. I'm playing and everything is understandable, often even enjoyable for its own sake. I'm still in disbelief that this is a machine translation.

 

[jebsmoker]

i'm still working on the goldenball translation after nearly 3 years. it's currently in the revision stage and content-complete, although there were long breaks due to burnout. i've finally figured out an effective workload: small amounts each day, no more than 5-7 xml cells. slow and steady wins the race

in the past i'd do a truckload and then not touch it for months, but doing a tiny amount every single day is far better

 

[jebsmoker]

someone is making an edit of LURK 1.1 that's basically inspired by the aesthetic from Memories of a Broken Dimension and i don't know if i should be amazed or terrified. all i know is that i'm gonna play this if he decides to publish it

 

[toughasnails]

That ENB, Reshade or whatever preset of his looks nice... for making videos or fishing for upvotes and awards on your screenshots on Steam. But imagine actually playing the game that way.

 

[Jack Of Owls]

Been playing around with some of the major megamods for STALKER to see if they run smoother under a new RTX 3070 card I got. They do but there's still some burps, hitches and jank (Anomaly runs best... does AVX really make a difference?). Grass options absolutely slaughter my framerates but everything else can be cranked up. I just have to expect it's not going to be perfectly smooth for such an ancient engine that's been further compromised by so many changes with mods. Will check out NLC now with the new translation.

 

[jebsmoker]

never run any mod with grass shadows on, no matter how tempting that may be. that'll kill your framerate

try to have the grass density slider in the middle as well

 

[jebsmoker]

oh yeah, i should mention that goldsphere is amazing and it completely deserves a hand translation, which is part of why i've been cracking away at that on and off for a long time. the machine translation ranges from acceptable, to awful, to this:

while mistaking 'ochkarika' (four-eyes/bespectacled) for *this* is funny, it completely takes you out of the experience

 

[Jack Of Owls]

never run any mod with grass shadows on, no matter how tempting that may be. that'll kill your framerate

try to have the grass density slider in the middle as well

I noticed NLC is DirectX9 only and no Dx10/11 enhancements. A little disappointing but not a deal breaker, I guess.

 

[jebsmoker]

goldsphere translation soon, sometime this year

considering that i do, on average, 7-12 XML lines per day for the sake of avoiding burnout and remembering what i've actually done the day before - i'll get a lot done before the deadline comes. of course i'm not the only one working on this translation, so the body of work accomplished in a few more months should be significant

 

[Theodora]

Nice! I normally wouldn't check out soup mods but your own involvement is all the endorsement I need to take an interest. :D

 

[Baron Dupek]

Golden Sphere ain't Soup-like, it's different kind of beast.
I remember playing it and breaking the game by going to the wrong map. I was supposed to get into some kind of borderzone where

Spoiler

marauders and military had skirmish and we have to pick our side by helping one of them

Should give it a chance next time, now trying my best with Radiophobia3. Isn't that the mod that always ends in beta version?

 

[jebsmoker]

one month or so until the first version of the goldsphere translation is out. after that, further revisions will be published with patches

exciting! also, i'm quite nervous about the whole deal

 

[Joggerino]

 

[jebsmoker]

i'm looking at gamma's feature list and i'm asking myself 'where's the new quest or story content'

i can get why people like CoC but playing variations of the same exact thing can get old

 

[Tacgnol]

I find Anomaly fun in small doses. The Gamma mod pack takes modder autism a little too far for my tastes.

Doesn't help half the Anomaly community seems obsessed with turning the game into a Tarkov clone.

 

[Joggerino]

I played neither anomaly nor gamma but this video made me want to go back into STALKER. (modded)

 

[Theodora]

Doesn't help half the Anomaly community seems obsessed with turning the game into a Tarkov clone.

It's a bit odd. Would normally tell people to just be patient and wait for BSG's own single player survival game (was always the "real goal", and their plan after EFT), but given Current Events, god only knows how long that'll be... can't see a game developer in St Petersburg having the best of luck with hiring these days. :/ They seem completely off schedule lately, probably all stressed af.

I played neither anomaly nor gamma but this video made me want to go back into STALKER. (modded)

Check out Anomaly, but GAMMA is bloated (as is pretty much every Anomaly-based modpack). They're basically Tarkov for people who are too shit to play Tarkov, which is fine, but it's derivative in a poor way.