All things considred, Gamma is better. But Stalker 2 is streamlined

[Korben Dallas]

As the title says, The game is good but it seems like they under saturated some things to fit a bigger dumber audience.

I've been playing Stalker Anomaly with every type of mod, and it seems to be more of the Stalker series spirit. Granted stalker 2 is Stalker 2, the OGs.

I was expecting a bit more, specifically with the graphics. it seems like reshade and 4k mods for Stalker anomaly make it look better then Stalker 2. That said i know reshadess and hopefully mods come soon/

But man; i expected more like faction wars more integrated stuff like that.

[Wilihey]

did you play the original stalker games?

[Frosty]

What i dislikes about GAMMA was the amount of junk and expanded weapon maintenance in it. Graphics wise you can get anomaly close to stalker 2 standards with the addition of dynamic anomalies and such.
The original stalker games bug ridden as they were, were masterpieces of design.

[Korben Dallas]

Yes. when it came out. this feels like a filtered down version version for the mass. Have you played Stalker anomaly ?

[Mike]

This is what happens when you play the mods more then the base games lol. Luckily for you you have GAMMA and can play it anytime you want, I will enjoy Stalker 2 ;)

[ItsToofy!]

Anomaly and GAMMA are both fan made and built on the base that was the original STALKER games with added survival elements.

[Cryptic]

gamma is a mess. terrible mod combination and terrible community honestly. my recommendation is mess with the mods to tune it to how you want. that;s what i did. got rid of the stupid over the top ridiculous durability systems, tuned some ai to be better, did some work with graphics, guns, factions, etc. fixed some bugged guns myself by hand and fixed the arena teammates doing nothing to help out too


gamma was a let down

[Korben Dallas]

Yes but gamma alone is focused on survival hardcore. Last play i had with anomaly was with different mods of my choice, it made it feel A LOT more immersive and random( not to say its not already ),

anomaly offers all of the maps combined different mods, warfare and story combined in some cases. The faction have weight i can go on.

im just happy to see stalker 2 out tbh im sure theyl add a lot more features and mod support

[The Wonton Cat]

don't see a lot of hardcore survival these days. makes you appreciate dayz and gamma even more.

[Korben Dallas]

this turned hot quick, to be honest i downloaded anomaly in the lead up to stalker 2 ( i didnt play gamma this last play ) used different mods. It feels like its a more authentic stalker experience. Stalker 2 is good granted im only 2 hours in,

in 2 hours of anomonly i'd be dead and scum saving lol. So i get it that they made it more friendly. But it kinda undermines the whole thing to a degree, and it lacks some mechanics

[sol]

I'm sure those experiences will come to this game in time too. Ofc its not as good as the mods at this point in time. That's not the vision they had for the game. I'm sure that vision will be brought over here at some point. Still, playing with HUD off completely and only relying on PDA on the highest difficulty is a fun experience regardless, in my opinion.

[Wilihey]

Originally posted by Korben Dallas:

Yes. when it came out. this feels like a filtered down version version for the mass. Have you played Stalker anomaly ?

stalker anomaly is okay, a melting pot of all 3 games with some other stuff that changes the game design, GAMMA is just confused in its direction and the progression is entirely artificial, everything is locked through insane amount of grinding and repairing one weapon takes hours and a lot of back and forth to get the materials required to craft a repair kit, and you also have to progress through the story to get tools which is your only access to better tier weapons and armors

the original games actually had game design to them instead of being the work of hundreds of different modders with entirely different visions for what they wanted their anomaly experience to me bunched together into an abomination, and the tourists who started playing gamma before any other stalker game because they watched one operator drewski video completely flooded the stalker community and turn their game into the same gmod realism garbage brainrot that was flooding youtube years ago, overall the worst thing that may have happened to the stalker community like when a really niche song you loved goes mainstream on tiktok

[Jahtzee]

Originally posted by Korben Dallas:

Yes. when it came out. this feels like a filtered down version version for the mass. Have you played Stalker anomaly ?

Not sure where you're taking the 'dumbed down' from? Vanilla SoC and CoP aren't any more complex or demanding than Stalker 2.
Maybe you should reinstall SoC, just to compare and contrast. You might be surprised how basic it was. All the gameplay mechanics people seem to associate nowadays with Stalker came from Misery, Lost Alpha, Anomaly, Gamma, etc. and while good in their own right, they sometimes felt overly bloated with items and mechanics.

[sol]

Originally posted by JSNFARRELL:

Too much bloat and jank in modpacks like GAMMA but they are free. Personally looked forward to being able to play STALKER 2 instead having recently spent many hours on GAMMA.

Have you played yet? Thoughts? I agree with your line of thinking. This is a nice change of pace so far. Especially HUD off.

[Sir Galahad]

Gamma is not just better, it's like comparing vanilla Skyrim to a modded skyrim instance with 1500 mods.

This game might be good in 10-15 years time once modded, but until then you're better off playing games like modded fika tarkov (no not live its trash) you have mods like SAIN, realism, swag donuts, visceral dismemberment, SVM, path of tarkov (basically turns tarkov into an open world where you can't just magically spawn into a map, you have to run to each stash and trader to unlock them, a must have mod).

[iicycube]

from watching the gameplay from steamers, this Stalker 2 doesn't really feel the hardcore survival shooting game like "anomaly/gamma to me, its more like a fast pace cod kind of game.