Anomaly Dev says this about A-life

[St4hl]

Mo3Killin, the A-Life Anomaly Dev writes this in a thread on Nexus regarding A-life in Stalker 2:

"Hey! Alife Anomaly Dev here, I've rewrote the alife for Anomaly completely for my Anomaly MilsimRTS Conversion... what you're most likely dealing with here is purely spawn rates. IF alife works the same, we need to increase the online combat distance and auto switch distance, as well as add(or edit) functions for target priority so NPCs will actively travel to new locations. PM me if you need anything bossman. I'm waiting on the SDK before doing anything tbh. "

"That would seem to be the case Mr. Provak (the legend himself?). Alife seems to be replaced with a "random encounter" prefab. Most likely realized it was super broken, or causing worse issues than we are currently having.. but no, alife doesn't seem to be active.. This experience is equivalent to most UE prefabs for "random encounters"..

"Not active or so severely broken that they've replaced it with a generic "random encounter" UE prefab"

Someone asks him this:

-Mo3killin, i personally have no faith in the developers being able to fix this, however Anomaly is one of the best mods that i have ever played period.

Therefore i want to ask you this, realistically, what are the chances of having A-life 1.0 or 2.0 ported/modded into the game later on, on a map of this scale and size ?

Any feedback you can give us is gold right now.

Mo3killin answers:

"In theory, almost every script can be ported/converted to blueprints.. It just depends on how much they stripped from UE5.1 on how difficult the process is. If we can use the blueprint system like we normally can with UE5, then we'll be golden. My two big concerns for modding are
1. Can we take full advantage of the blueprint system?
2. Will we be able to use prefabs as frameworks.

I'm not to concerned with getting alife working, one way or another, it will work.. Just depends on if its us, or them.. and how much effort its going to take if it is left up to us. "

I wont link the thread to avoid it being swarmed...

[St4hl]

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[Cosmophase]

Originally posted by St4hl:

Bump

I am guessing you got this from the post on the A-life mod. All we can do is wait for them to figure it out at this point.

[Draescan]

Ta very much. Interesting to see. Maybe I'll throw my hat in the ring finally.

[Sgt. Flaw]

They probably tried putting it in and out didn't work...

You all ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ about performance anyway. If you can't you can't

[CyberReLoad]

bumb

[UgaBuga]

ngl lie some butt lichking questions :D "we know anomaly best mod , is it possible you mek us a life, ser"

[Frosty]

Well even the anomaly a-life is better than what we have right now.

[Skorne]

Only problem with that is I wouldn't hold your breath for them to release the SDK, it's gonna be months of bug and optimisation fixes first if anything. I guess I will check back in around a year to see if this game has been salvaged by modders yet.

[St4hl]

Originally posted by Skorne:

Only problem with that is I wouldn't hold your breath for them to release the SDK, it's gonna be months of bug and optimisation fixes first if anything. I guess I will check back in around a year to see if this game has been salvaged by modders yet.

Yeah, keep your faith in the official modding tools to a minimum, this is a company we're talking about, stalker 2 is a product. If the share holders/sponsors decide modding is bad for business then we will have to rely on the skilled modders out there

[Cheyenesku]

Originally posted by Sgt. Flaw:

They probably tried putting it in and out didn't work...

You all ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ about performance anyway. If you can't you can't

The problem is the creator of A-life, that is also responsible for it in S2 is fighting in war. This doesnt help the team that the main guy is absent.

[Searge]

Mo3killin introduce themselves as "Alife Anomaly Dev" but they are not a member of the Anomaly team. So it's a bit misleading.
They may be a developer of a-life improvements on their mod for Anomaly, but definitely did not write any of the a-life systems in the Anomaly mod.