Best Stalker Mods ?

I have not played this game - I wish there was a demo of it. How does it play? Did you have to patch it?

I have not played this game - I wish there was a demo of it. How does it play? Did you have to patch it?

biggest_loser

I run the game without any patches and it runs perfectly with no bugs/problems. STALKER is an amazing game and definately worth playing.

I have not played this game - I wish there was a demo of it. How does it play? Did you have to patch it?

biggest_loser

It's one of my all time favourite PC games. It's not as free roaming as it was initially hyped but its certainly not linear Think Oblivion but sectioned off into zones! The are various side quests for different factions that you can follow or you can follow the main quests. I understand there are various endings, but so far I have only experienced one.

The atmosphere in the game, the part that everyone hypes Stalker up with is certainly lives up to its name. The whole environment is beautifully rendered with realistic eastern Europe foilage dring the winter. It's grim, depressing and all the buildings whether industrial or residential are in ruin.

The lighting works brilliantly with the textures and bump mapping giving a very 3d feel to every surface and the artistic style plays greatly with dark areas broken up with a fire in a burning barrel casting real time shadows all around it!

The majority of the outdoor areas feel very lonely and as if they have been abandoned for a long time. You get the crackle of radiation, corpses, rain and weired packs of dogs and other animals running around. Eventually, you'll come across some dark empty buildings here and there, but you'll be wary of going in and investigating them. The game story will inevitably force you to investigate some of these darker locations along with some very dark and quiet underground locations. You'll hear very strange unerving sounds in the darkness and run into things that will scare the b-jesus out of you....if you're anything like me!! :?

The combat is every bit as free and open ended as the environment you explore. The, weapons, items and equipment all have as much stats as a real rpg and yet the combat is as fluid as the best fps!

Without spoilers, that is as much as I can say! One bit of advice, just have patience with the beginning!

Best mod is Oblivion Lost 2.2. Period. I have played through the majority of all the famous mods including Faikes, Priboi (which was good though), Trader, Sila, etc.RodinaRossija38

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I have not played this game - I wish there was a demo of it. How does it play? Did you have to patch it?

Rattlesnake_8

I run the game without any patches and it runs perfectly with no bugs/problems. STALKER is an amazing game and definately worth playing.

I've not played STALKER - SoC but I have STALKER-CS. I will play it first then will move to SoC. In my case I needed to patch "Clear Sky". But patch 1.5.07 made this game almost perfect. I've not faced any crash/lock-up/freeze while playing the game. Nonetheless, once patch has been done this game will give you immense pleasure.
Don't miss this game guys.

I have used "cs_mechanic_upgrades_everything", "easystartdetectormod", "flashlightrangemod", "healing_bandages_and_medkits_stop_bleedings" - these four mods. It makes the game bit easier but using these mods - I've played in VETERAN difficulty level.

Also I'm bit uncomfortable with FPS games (I prefer RTS/RPG :)), so these mods made me possible to complete the game I liked a lot.

I hope I won't get modded for this... but there's a certain STALKER - Custom Edition floating around the web...

This  CUSTOM EDITION  was built  from the ground up  and conatins an 
     implementation of over  a dozen differnet mods,  all based  upon one 
     large mod referred to as Nuclear Snow. This mod is a complete overhaul 
     of the look of the  game and was referenced by  the movie  "Sin City". 
     After this version was  given its new look, over a dozen  other mods 
     were rescripted to 'jive' with STALKERS new look.

Heres a list of a few of the other mods & fixes 
     used aside from Nuclear Snow:

     Balance Mod, Realisitcs Weapons Mod, Tweaked Blood Mod, several Audio
     Fixes,  Nights Mod,  Real Gun Names Mod,  Carry Mod,  Lighting Mods,
     Weather Mods, Multiple Hi- Resolution Mods,  amongst many others... 
     BIG thanks to the mod community and especially Nuclear Snow's Author. 

If you already have the original game, give this Custom Edition a try, it's quite awesome. 

I recommend Oblivion Lost.

If you don't go with that the nuclearwinter model pack is amazing imo. It adds a depth of creepyness to the game.