Devs: Free Game Mode please

[Duryjo]

I’ve only messed around with stalker 2 for a little while but I can already tell that anomaly spoiled me.

I’m not saying that the devs need to make anomaly, I’m not even saying that they should make the game easier to mod- it’s their baby, they’ll do what they want.

What would be nice though is a “free game” mode. Just make a rando stalker and live life in the zone. Randomized quests. Join a faction. All that base stuff.

Modders will do it eventually, but god knows I’ve spent enough time in anomaly that I probably ought to pay somebody for it. Since the bones are already there just add free game, give us some randomized quests, charge $20 ish as a dlc and let the modders take it from there.

[Othobrithol]

I've got my fingers crossed that we'll see something like that with a Faction War DLC. Play as either Freedom or Duty (or even just their bandit proxies), fighting it out across Garbage with optional multiplayer. Something where you can grab an NPC squad, lead them overland, take and hold a POI.

[Nite69]

They are still working on fixing the game stuff like that is not a priority right now

[GlowWorm]

I tend to agree with you. The promotional materials said "The Zone is yours." However, we find that some things are gated behind progression of the main quest, for example the Veles Detector requires the main quest to be substantially advanced to become available. And the area north of Yaniv Station is off-limits until you substantially advance the main quest, and one of the exploits for hopping over the train was closed by the dev's which indicates that the dev's would intend to close any exploit which makes north of Yaniv available "too early".

This tells me that the dev's are locked into a fixed mindset of "the right way to play the game", as opposed to having the open attitude of "We put the game out there, and players will do with it what they want, there is no wrong way to play."

[fizzyRock]

good idea, but still we need a lot of diff quests, as now some places are empty…

[Duryjo]

Originally posted by Othobrithol:

I've got my fingers crossed that we'll see something like that with a Faction War DLC. Play as either Freedom or Duty (or even just their bandit proxies), fighting it out across Garbage with optional multiplayer. Something where you can grab an NPC squad, lead them overland, take and hold a POI.

That would be pretty epic.

Originally posted by Nite69:

They are still working on fixing the game stuff like that is not a priority right now

That’s fair, but the two don’t have to be mutually exclusive. I don’t think they should stop bug fixing, and at the same time I think the this would be something easy to implement that they could get revenue from. Again, modders will make this eventually. I’d just like to see the devs catch their piece of the pie before it’s too late.

[Darksurgeon]

+1

[♀⛤WitchyWoman⛤♀]

+1 for faction wars and a very dynamic zone.