Best Graphics and Gameplay Overhaul for STALKER

[VXLLAIN]

Can someone please tell me the best mods for EACH of the STALKER games for best graphics and gameplay thanks!

[bobes sponja]

for gameplay each game has its own version of SRP and arsenal overhaul, as far as i am aware. these fix a bunch of bugs, add some optional quality of life improvements and add more guns
i don't pay much attention to graphics so all i can recommend is the absolute nature/structure mods

[[4.9.0] Xeno]

Dead Aiir mod

[bobes sponja]

Publicado originalmente por 4.9.0 Xeno:

Dead Aiir mod

isnt dead air standalone?

[Apocryphox]

It is.

[tramper]

I use Absolute Nature with Pripyat Reclamation Patch, looks good at 2560x1440.

[Apocryphox]

Well, it's all a matter of personal opinion.

I just wanna tell u my personal, favorite mods for each game, so u get the best experience. But keep in mind that i'm also very new to the Stalker Universe but i got some experience.

Shadow of Chernobyl

Well, i only used Autumn Aurora until now, bc' it changed the game in the whole to the best experience but the main quests are still vanilla. So it's good for every new player, who want to start with SoC but who don't likes the bad aged graphics and animations. This mod changed everything else. Sounds, gameplay. difficulty, textures. The good thing about it, is that you get an installer after download and you can turn off/on things in the installer, you want to have in the game or not. For example u can play with dead vegetations, autumn-like vegetations and more. Then you can change the vision of the scopes.. Stuff like that. In the end it's also a good mod to patch many bugs from the vanilla game.

Could it be, that u want to start the game as vanilla as possible, then just use "Zone Reclamation Project". It keeps the game completely vanilla but fixes most bugs. There are just small graphical changes for a better experience.

Clear Sky

Okay, it's extremely hard for this game because it seems there are no good mods for it. I personally use a combination of the "Yoctosfera", "Mystery" and "Atmosfear 2.0" mod.
For me it was the best for my playthrough. Well, i don't really know what the first mod really does, because i never played any Stalker completely vanilla and i want to wait after my SoC and CoP playthrough with starting my Clear Sky playthrough. But as far as i can read, it is like Autumn Aurora. It is a whole in one pack that brings new features, better graphics and sound.
The "Mystery" mod is like the "Misery" mod, but just for Clear Sky. It brings back the looks and sound of the misery mod to Clear Sky.
AtmosFear brings a better atmosphere through better lookings weather effects and all.

There is also a vanilla mod like before. But this time it's not Zone Reclamation Project, it is called "Sky Reclamation Project". It fixes the most bugs and all.

Call of Pripyat

Well, it is hard to say what mod is the best for this game because CoP brings the best mods as i can see and there are so many of them, which are really good.

For your first playthrough u should play the game completely vanilla but with the "Gunslinger Mod" or with ""The armed Zone" mod. I say "or" because u have to decide what u want to use, because this mods are not compatible with the other one. Gunslinger is extremely good because it brings realistic, natural animations to each weapon and item, u can use. Also jammed weapons have their own animation now. If you want to eat, drink, heal urself, u can see there are also animations for it. It's extremely immersive and for me a must have for every vanilla playthrough.
"The Armed Zone" is also really good but it doesn't changes the animations, it just adds tons of new weapons and scopes and they all look very good. Just click on a video and see what u want to use.

Then, when u got experience, you should use "Misery + Gunslinger". I do that too. It's a merge but needs an english translation what u can download easily. In the end it combines this two mods. Misery is an extremely harsh gameplay mod, that adds many, many survival features and extremely dangerous enemies which can kill u with just 2-3 hits. You should decide, if this is good for you but for me it fits to Stalker. Harsh and rotten world needs harsh and rotten gameplay. It also adds many, many new items u can use to survive. Gunslinger just adds the animations from Gunslinger. So it is more immersive. For me Stalker is with this mods the ULTIMATE survival game and by far the best.

Standalones

If you want a completely new experience, u can play "Anomaly". It is really good, because it merges all the maps from all games to a single, huge map. You can fully customize your playthrough by the start menu. You can decide what faction you are in, what start-inventory u use, what your portrait in inventory and trading is and many, many options like a Permadeath-mode, a zombie-survival mode, a warfare mode for people who want to play with the factions, u can decide to turn on the option that when u die, u play as another character in the game... And much, much more. It also adds many items and most of them are from "Misery". I must say that the mod is extremely inspired by "Misery". It is not that hard but on "Hard" also really difficult. U can also decide the difficulty of the environment. If it is harder for u to survive like traders have bigger prices for their stuff, u get less rubles through jobs and more. For the Anomaly Beta there are also much good addons, but never really tried it because it can CTD quickly. But there are also a few good addons for the U4H8 version, that works fine. I personally use all the 4K/8K texture addons, a winter mod for a new immersion that looks extremely good with snowfall and all and then 2 new magazine mods, that allows u to hide your personal ammo-icon, that u have to press a button to look inside the mag and it tells you how much rounds left. And then another magazine mod that allows you to buy/sell/find mags for your weapon and manually put rounds in it. So it's more like Escape from Tarkov then.
Also Anomaly adds much new features, so u must clean your helmet by pressing T, when it's raining or snowing or something else.

Then i installed Dead Air. Never really played it but as far as i saw it also looked very good. I am not very sure but i think to know that it is a better version of the "Call of Chernobyl" mod.

[UmbralPenumbra]

CoC is nice for connecitng all the areas from the other games and letting me free-roam in it, though I wish I could set a higher population multiplier and that areas would 'restock' after leaving for a while, most of them once you clear them out they stay barren

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For each game

SoC: https://www.moddb.com/games/stalker/addons/s-t-a-l-k-e-r-shadow-of-chernobyl-vanilla-pack-by-king-rediusz

CS: https://www.moddb.com/games/stalker-clear-sky/addons/s-t-a-l-k-e-r-clear-sky-vanilla-pack-by-king-rediusz

CoP: https://www.moddb.com/games/stalker-call-of-pripyat/addons/cop-vanilla-addon-pack-by-king-rediusz