Best Mods for the STALKER experience?

[MrBlackDarkness666]

What do you guys think? I am running Misery and Atmosfear, and currently Wondering if there was a better choice to go with, such as the new Anomaly mod which is now the #1 most popular mod on ModDB.

[KAPPA]

i use MISERY-dark version + weapons OVERHAUL ..and is real nice !!

[Boardalius]

Pick what you want, just know that Misery is unfairly difficult, and changes everything about the game.
Anomaly turns STALKER into a hyper-realistic open-world survival game with no objective. Neither of these mods should EVER be used in a first playthrough.

[Kittenmemer]

Nah, Misery is the best mod. Period.

[CocoNutter Butterer]

Anomaly sadly has less replay than Misery. Cause there is no goal, no point to explore, no reason to succeed.

The stand alones are basically just sandboxes for casuals to play with their cheats or whatever. There is no actual story. They say doc X adds story and blah blah but all it really does is take you to specific locations in the game and tell you to get random artifacts.

Anomaly is prob more stable than Misery however.

[76561198867420832]

MISERY mod, definitely!

[MrBlackDarkness666]

Thanks for all your answers! Ive had this game for years, just downloaded again after getting escape from tarkov, never realized it was literally stalker with multiplayer and without monsters/anomalies. I wanted to see how much the modding scene has changed, surprisingly it hasn't, from what i've been gathering!

Gonna get the weapons overhaul

[arottweiler]

The SIGEROUS (SGM) mod is very good and the team behind it must have put a lot of effort in to it. I played it a few times until I installed Misery and can't go back to anything else. Misery makes the game world more bleaker by making it grey and rusted. It also makes it very difficult to play but it's not impossible. The traders have an infinite amount of cash to spend so if you're willing to grind it out and spend the time you can earn a lot of money right at the start and then buy the best gear available. Even when you have the best weapons and armour it's still a hostile feeling being out in the zone because it's so unpredictable. I re-installed Manhunt this week and played the first few minutes. Brought back memories and I get the same uneasy feeling playing that game that I do playing Misery. You can go out thinking you're untouchable and then get ambushed.

I've just installed the Misery addon The Armed Zone which adds a lot of new weapons and ammunition but it also overhauls the UI. Since installing it I've noticed a big change in how enemies react to me. They rarely throw grenades now preferring to move towards me with their weapon up to their eye. I can tell how it has changed how the enemy use grenades because they don't throw them in enclosed spaces anymore which could happen sometimes and they would wipe out anyone nearby. Misery also has a built in rule for all human enemies which is they never shoot at you if one of their squad is between you. They have seen you and want to shoot but if someone is in their line of sight they hold fire. You can use this exploit to your advantage especially when trying to infiltrate an area and take out multiple enemies close quarters. If the person in the middle is incapacitated or goes in to the surrender motion their allies will kill them instantly. Has anyone else noticed this behaviour?

Some mods add a debug and spawner menu which can be useful when trying out weapons or just for spawning some mutants in front of you for target practice.

[Shredder]

Hmmm Asking which free mod is better hmm . Anomaly isn't exactly "new" lol. Try whatever you want and decide for yourself. Seems like you already have an opinion so not sure why this thread even exists.!

[Pierpalle_Scroti]

stalker + absolute nature + atmosfear + gunslinger mod. Use this: https://drive.google.com/open?id=13fItIx5R7Iq-JXmCAENulmzVzHkesc1T

About Misery, is the most unbalanced mod I ever seen. Good idea, bad result.

[Kittenmemer]

Publicado originalmente por JMP-Jack:

About Misery, is the most unbalanced mod I ever seen. Good idea, bad result.

Thats the point, dumbo

[Kittenmemer]

If you want an actual good mod, go play NLC 7. It's been on the top spot of ap-pro monthly polls for years now (only being beaten by anomaly for a short while).

If you don't know what ap-pro is, it's basically the best stalker fanbase out there. A lot of talented people there, really passionate about the game and modding. But the downside is that it's all in russian.

[Pierpalle_Scroti]

Publicado originalmente por Billy Catmeme:

Publicado originalmente por JMP-Jack:

About Misery, is the most unbalanced mod I ever seen. Good idea, bad result.

Thats the point, dumbo

So, the point is to make an unbalanced/broken game, bubba?

[Kittenmemer]

Publicado originalmente por JMP-Jack:

Publicado originalmente por Billy Catmeme:

Thats the point, dumbo

So, the point is to make an unbalanced/broken game, bubba?

Correct. It creates a miserable atmosphere.

[Milk]

I'm starting to like Gunslinger. It's like vanilla Stalker with a fresh coat of paint.

[Bass Junkie]

stay way from misery.,....

stalker Anomaly + latest updates patch 8 . thank me later