STALKER Shadow of Chernobyl Mod Thread

[MadMaxHellfire]

tried anomaly. too much jank. just too much jank.
story mode, scientist, started at some bunker, pda is a mess since it doesn't open full screen anymore. spent most of the time dressing up. first person invisible animations, truely the next generation of immersion. in retardation, perhaps. walked outside, it was dark, not a compass in sight, walked back, people started shooting, something exploded and i died.
tried again, same settings, somehow i couldn't pick the same starting position. this time it was day and there were people around, so i looted some corpses, shot a couple bandits, found out most of the maps are clear-sky type: you're minding your own business then an anomaly kills you out of the blue.
all i wanted was the modded skyrim experience: walk around, pick some flowers, kill a bandit or two, avoid more than two bandits at once, go back, sell loot. all i found was turboautism.

 

[normie]

tried anomaly. too much jank. just too much jank.
story mode, scientist, started at some bunker, pda is a mess since it doesn't open full screen anymore. spent most of the time dressing up. first person invisible animations, truely the next generation of immersion. in retardation, perhaps. walked outside, it was dark, not a compass in sight, walked back, people started shooting, something exploded and i died.
tried again, same settings, somehow i couldn't pick the same starting position. this time it was day and there were people around, so i looted some corpses, shot a couple bandits, found out most of the maps are clear-sky type: you're minding your own business then an anomaly kills you out of the blue.
all i wanted was the modded skyrim experience: walk around, pick some flowers, kill a bandit or two, avoid more than two bandits at once, go back, sell loot. all i found was turboautism.

play cotz if you want to freefroam, build on that instead of anomaly

 

[MadMaxHellfire]

download url or didn't happen.

 

[None]

all i found was turboautism.

Welcome to the Stalker modding community. The only exception I found was Lost Alpha, give that a try if you'd like something that feels new.

 

[MadMaxHellfire]

i don't need new. i need good.

 

[Gerrard]

tried anomaly. too much jank. just too much jank.
story mode, scientist, started at some bunker, pda is a mess since it doesn't open full screen anymore. spent most of the time dressing up. first person invisible animations, truely the next generation of immersion. in retardation, perhaps. walked outside, it was dark, not a compass in sight, walked back, people started shooting, something exploded and i died.
tried again, same settings, somehow i couldn't pick the same starting position. this time it was day and there were people around, so i looted some corpses, shot a couple bandits, found out most of the maps are clear-sky type: you're minding your own business then an anomaly kills you out of the blue.

Sounds like a skill issue to me.

 

[Mercatroid]

Sounds like a skill issue to me.

Really, Gerrard? You're on the 141st page of a thread that's had like half a dozen discussions about how vanilla Anomaly is broken, autistic jank that isn't worth playing over CoC. I tried playing unmodded Anomaly one time and found that the optimization was utterly abysmal and couldn't run well even on a 5800x3D/3080, the assets looked worse than CoC and honestly even worse than Autumn Aurora, and the game balance felt like it had been designed by a clueless Souls-playing 14-year-old who just thought "the game needs to be harder!!!!11" I walked about 100 yards and ran into a regular Boar that was an insane bullet sponge and one-shotted me in Wind of Freedom armor. Uninstall.

Anomaly is probably decent if you install dozens of addons and mods and custom fixes, but even then it has stupid Misery-style shit like 1000 pointlessly-different inventory items. It has cool shaders and higher-poly models that can legit look better than CoC, but overall as a game it just seems to be much, much worse.

Frankly I'd rather play Vatnik Farming Simulator 2025.



Who else is going to farm the fertile plains of Outer Limansk? Get to work, Stalker.