What is better? STALKER 2 or G.A.M.M.A. mod

[HunterIII]

in terms of gun play and immersion?

[Feuver]

Origineel geplaatst door Franzosisch:

Strange priorities you've got there.

Not that outlandish though. Many people won't playa game with a female protagonist or with a voiced protagonist for the same reason, it shatters or break their immersion.

That being said your character in Gamma does say a few lines of dialogue during combat/looting, so heh.

[Kai]

Origineel geplaatst door Father Lamb:

Origineel geplaatst door Rich:

100% agree on this. I predicted 2 things when this game released was that it would be severely miss understood by the "Plebs of Pripyat" who expected the game to be GAMMA 2.0 and the morons who didn't even know what stalker was until they saw the trailer for STALKER 2 on IGN expecting it to be like Call of Duty.

Anomaly and its subsequent cluster ♥♥♥♥ of mod packs is not STALKER. Iv lost track of the sheer amount of moron Youtubers and streams telling people not to play the originals and its not worth it while not having even playing them themselves . While I do play the anomaly modpacks and enjoy them from time to time ( mainly for JSRS ) nothing will ever beat the originals. I remember upgrading my PC to play SOC when it launched back in the day and remember getting clear sky for Christmas of my GF at the time. So many great memories playing those games. The devs have done an amazing job at Stalker 2 and cant wait until the game reaches its full potential with later patches. Stalker has always been a niche and it sucks to see this going mainstream for the reasons stated above.

Yep

I play Anomaly and Gamma too, but since put them down over the last year. Why? Its just a boring atmosphere after a while. Some times too real with the gun mods and chore like upkeep of things that are worse than default game, leads into a dull loop. There isn't much to do in the mods but survive and repeat side missions taking out bandits over and over.

Now, thats basically stalker2 in a nutshell at the moment just better atmosphere and design without mods so far. But people hate it? What? lol

But I knew the mods would ruin the outlook from so many people.

With S2 we got an ACTUAL STORY which I'm sure a lot of people probably rush through and skip every cutscene known to man and ignore dialogue choices.. lmao

Play Anomaly Together, not boring if its not single player.
They are apparently getting Gamma to work with it.

CoP co-op standalone mod is released a while back, and the SoC co-op mod had been out a long while now.

[Masoterian]

ofc gamma is "better", you can't top 10 years of work done by countless modders with a new release, no matter how good it is. But, I enjoy S2 a lot, it has tremendous potential and it'll only get better with time.

[Franzosisch]

Origineel geplaatst door Feuver:

Origineel geplaatst door Franzosisch:

Strange priorities you've got there.

Not that outlandish though. Many people won't playa game with a female protagonist or with a voiced protagonist for the same reason, it shatters or break their immersion.

That being said your character in Gamma does say a few lines of dialogue during combat/looting, so heh.

I meant the "STALKER 2 is better because it's shinier" part.

[Kai]

Game devs should always be humbled by their modding communities.
It's people who spread word on a game making it more marketable than ads or trailers. People will give you a realistic take on something while ads can outright lie to your face.

[Kröte]

Origineel geplaatst door Masoterian:

ofc gamma is "better", you can't top 10 years of work done by countless modders with a new release, no matter how good it is. But, I enjoy S2 a lot, it has tremendous potential and it'll only get better with time.

You cant top it, but you can take inspiration. Which didnt happen in the slightest. Instead they even removed features and the biggest one isnt working. At least the graphics look good ha.
Actually its really sad when a brand new game has even less features than the 10 year old games with such a big modding community.
But with such a community, which is so afraid of even the smallest new feature(because it automatically turns the game into another), its not suprising.
Even bethesda uses mods to expand Skyrim, and somehow it didnt automatically turn into Fifa.

[steri]

EFP -> GAMMA -> Anomaly -> original trilogy with mods -> original trilogy unmodded and then stalker 2 is WAY at the bottom of the list, unfortunately.

[Will u remember me?]

Stalker anomaly is the answer

[Dregora]

Origineel geplaatst door Kai:

Game devs should always be humbled by their modding communities.
It's people who spread word on a game making it more marketable than ads or trailers. People will give you a realistic take on something while ads can outright lie to your face.

Uh what? While I don't disagree you should give respect to modders, I very much agree, but saying it makes it more marketable than ads or trailers is just outright nonsense. For it to become even big with mods, the base game, AKA ads and trailers, should sell well, otherwise nobody cares you're modding a game nobody knows.

I also disagree that people give you a realistic take on something. The proof is on these forums, the amount of people expecting stalker 2 to build upon mods rather than how the OG games were is... wild.

[StealthHUNTER]

GAMMA....I like the loot variety, let me rather say "GAMMA spoiled me with Traders and world Loot/Items variety, playing Stalker 2 is awesome visual and story but darn am I bored of looting because it is going to be "Vodka, bread, bandage & 3 ammunition rounds.

[FullAutoWitch]

Just play Escape from Tarkov. Most GAMMA/Anomaly fans aren't even Stalker fans in the first place. Half never played original games but expected Stalker 2 to be like GAMMA and won't accept it without mechanic and item bloat and tacticool stuff they thought Stalker is supposed to have.

[Kröte]

Origineel geplaatst door FullAutoWitch:

Just play Escape from Tarkov. Most GAMMA/Anomaly fans aren't even Stalker fans in the first place. Half never played original games but expected Stalker 2 to be like GAMMA and won't accept it without mechanic and item bloat and tacticool stuff they thought Stalker is supposed to have.

People probably expected Stalker 2 not to be a 2009 game with less content, halfcooked and broken mechanics and zero innovation.
But hey, new and actually working features and deeper mechanics would turn the game into Fall out right?
And a release without million bugs and performance issues wouldnt be stalker am I right guys haha

[Feuver]

Origineel geplaatst door FullAutoWitch:

Just play Escape from Tarkov. Most GAMMA/Anomaly fans aren't even Stalker fans in the first place. Half never played original games but expected Stalker 2 to be like GAMMA and won't accept it without mechanic and item bloat and tacticool stuff they thought Stalker is supposed to have.

Unless you play Single-player Tarkov, there's a reason most people don't wanna play Escape from Tarkov, lol. Cheaters and PVP.

[A TIN OF JAR]

Current state I would have to say Anomaly/G.A.M.M.A, Stalker 2's graphic are incredible but Anomaly/G.A.M.M.A is better in almost every other way.

[Kain]

GAMMA hands down for immersion, but they are fundamentally different experiences. So I think someone can enjoy both without direct comparison.