Grok`s ReBalance mods

[Beast King]

Grok (developer of STALKER:GAMMA MOD) has made 2 mods for STALKER 2

1st mod lowers the health of Flesh, Bloodsuckers and Poltergeists as they are incredibly spoungy in vanilla STALKER 2

2nd mod rebalances the difficulty, lowering repair costs based on difficulty and increasing the damage you do to enemys on Veteran difficulty (as it was sett to 25% less damage done to enemys by default, again, making mutants super bullet spounges)

The install is super easy, just unzip a super small file then cut and paste it into a custom folder you create yourself. Join the official STALKER GAMMA discord server and look in the Announcment channel to find all info you need

Happy hunting Stalkers!

[Bozz 💀]

that"s not the way to play STALKER xD

[Feuver]

Originally posted by Bozz 💀:

that"s not the way to play STALKER xD

I've been playing on Veteran and dude it is PAINFUL. Dumping 70+ rounds on a blood suckers or 2-buckshot shotgun shots in a dog to kill them is stupid.

[♂eat CHICKEN♂]

new baby mode difficulty just dropped

[Apocryphox]

Originally posted by Feuver:

Originally posted by Bozz 💀:

that"s not the way to play STALKER xD

I've been playing on Veteran and dude it is PAINFUL. Dumping 70+ rounds on a blood suckers or 2-buckshot shotgun shots in a dog to kill them is stupid.

Veteran is meant to be painful... Otherwise it wouldn't be veteran. People set Dark Souls difficulty but want Mutants with thick skins to get nerfed. I really don't understand you.

Play Radiophobia 3 and you will know what real pain through mutants is.

[Deximer]

Fantastic to see that the mods are already coming in, from Grok no less. Excited to see what comes down the line.

[Bozz 💀]

Originally posted by Feuver:

Originally posted by Bozz 💀:

that"s not the way to play STALKER xD

I've been playing on Veteran and dude it is PAINFUL. Dumping 70+ rounds on a blood suckers or 2-buckshot shotgun shots in a dog to kill them is stupid.

Don't know what you playing but I'm playing on veteran and it is not that hard and it will get easier as you progress gear.

[Feuver]

Originally posted by Apocryphox:

Originally posted by Feuver:

I've been playing on Veteran and dude it is PAINFUL. Dumping 70+ rounds on a blood suckers or 2-buckshot shotgun shots in a dog to kill them is stupid.

Veteran is meant to be painful... Otherwise it wouldn't be veteran. People set Dark Souls difficulty but want Mutants with thick skins to get nerfed. I really don't understand you.

>Play an immersive game where threats are dangerous and you can get killed extremely easy by everything
>Mag-dump 3 times over a mutant rushing at you point blank and they are not even impeded or bleeding.

There's a difference between "painful" and ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ boring. Sitting on a truck shooting at a bloodsucker for 5 minutes because it LITERALLY takes hundreds of rounds to kill is not, by my definition, challenging OR painful.

I played the original series AND modded at master difficulty 3 times overs. Bloodsuckers were never this tanky. They were stealthy, which is what made them dangerous.

[Pain]

From what I got from this, is that mutants have passive armored skin so AP rounds actually are important agains them. (Lol, wut)

[damart]

Originally posted by Bozz 💀:

that"s not the way to play STALKER xD

This actually is. I've just beat STALKER COP on highest diffuculty, flesh is dying in 4-8 shots of AK or NATO rifle. You can reliably put down a bloodsucker with half a clip.

In STALKER 2 I'm cheesing blood suckers to make them chase me to nearest stalker camp, where it gets hammered by about two minutes before it finally dies.

[RetroTekGuy]

Excellent stuff. I'll wait for him to release a few more mods before I play again.

[Mordegar]

Originally posted by Apocryphox:

Originally posted by Feuver:

I've been playing on Veteran and dude it is PAINFUL. Dumping 70+ rounds on a blood suckers or 2-buckshot shotgun shots in a dog to kill them is stupid.

Veteran is meant to be painful... Otherwise it wouldn't be veteran. People set Dark Souls difficulty but want Mutants with thick skins to get nerfed. I really don't understand you.

Play Radiophobia 3 and you will know what real pain through mutants is.

I'd rather have dogs and bloodsuckers to 2-hit kill me without a meaningful armor than having those bullet sponges right now.
You can still balance Veteran around scarcity of ammo and rarity of bills instead of making you deal less damage and everything else just tankier. That's not immersive, that's the old pre Survival mode Fallout 4 on highest difficulty!

[Cvxbio]

Originally posted by Apocryphox:

Originally posted by Feuver:

I've been playing on Veteran and dude it is PAINFUL. Dumping 70+ rounds on a blood suckers or 2-buckshot shotgun shots in a dog to kill them is stupid.

Veteran is meant to be painful... Otherwise it wouldn't be veteran. People set Dark Souls difficulty but want Mutants with thick skins to get nerfed. I really don't understand you.

Increasing enemy health doesn't make the game harder, it just makes it more of a slug. Medkits make you invincible aslong as you have them. The easiest and quickest way to currently kill bloodsuckers Is to LITERALLY not move and just outheal their damage to point blank them, that's how bad It Is.

Difficulty should make the game harder not turn It In the division 2,0. Increase bloodsuckers damage or even add a grab attack but reduce their health, as It Is atm the only thing I can say everytime I encounter a bloodsucker is "sigh". The game feeds you millions of medkits so you're never really In danger, the hardest thing about this game Is your Inventory management.

Apparently people think that "HP GO UP = GAME HARD NOW" how I have absolutely no clue.

[Feuver]

Originally posted by Pain:

From what I got from this, is that mutants have passive armored skin so AP rounds actually are important agains them. (Lol, wut)

That's the weirdest part to me. Mutants were the reason you would ALWAYS carry Hollow point/ Flesh-tearing rounds in original games. A shotgun would tear them apart. But they'd be useless against humans, so you'd carry a main rifle or even a sniper with AP.

Now it's just, AP kills everything super fast, but it wears your weapon more and cost more. OK.

[Kashra Fall]

Originally posted by Feuver:

Originally posted by Bozz 💀:

that"s not the way to play STALKER xD

I've been playing on Veteran and dude it is PAINFUL. Dumping 70+ rounds on a blood suckers or 2-buckshot shotgun shots in a dog to kill them is stupid.

Side step while meleeing them. Thank me later.

[Apocryphox]

Originally posted by Feuver:

Originally posted by Apocryphox:

Veteran is meant to be painful... Otherwise it wouldn't be veteran. People set Dark Souls difficulty but want Mutants with thick skins to get nerfed. I really don't understand you.

>Play an immersive game where threats are dangerous and you can get killed extremely easy by everything
>Mag-dump 3 times over a mutant rushing at you point blank and they are not even impeded or bleeding.

There's a difference between "painful" and ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ boring. Sitting on a truck shooting at a bloodsucker for 5 minutes because it LITERALLY takes hundreds of rounds to kill is not, by my definition, challenging OR painful.

I played the original series AND modded at master difficulty 3 times overs. Bloodsuckers were never this tanky. They were stealthy, which is what made them dangerous.

As i said, mutant skins are thick. What is immersive to you? Sucking 3 shots on veteran and be happy about big money?