Anomaly is the most overrated Mod ever

[IIIIlllIIIII]

Really.

Has modding gone too far? I see videos popping up where Anomaly looks like Escape from Tarkov. And where this game has become so much surival that we are not so far away from pissing and ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ in this game. I played so much Misery since it came out and people always hated it. Anomaly is based upon that and its praised like jesus himself. Whats up with all that ? I played it, and i really can't see whats so good on it. I dont say it's bad either. Just another CoCMisery Spinnoff.
Everywhere the circlejerk.

Did i became a zombified stalker after all those years ?

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TL DR why did i made this post few years ago:

"So the motivation of this thread back in the days were several posts on /r/stalker and their circle jerk about anomaly. Some people asked for advice for different mods for vanilla games, like Misery and such, and people just told them go play anomaly instead.

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That led me to the creation of this post here. I personally find Anomaly good, as i do find misery good and all other mods for these wonderful games."

[PsyWarVeteran]

People tend to follow the herd, tried and true fact.

Misery, Anomaly, CoC (and its other countless variants) etc. I can only tolerate those type of mods a couple of days. What's the point of roaming an empty Zone without a goal or doing the same things over and over when there are many great story mods with actual purpose?

The whole "you make your own goals / adventures" arguement is pretty absurd too. Who would prefer make-belive over actually well thought out missions that are tailored by the creator instead of dozens of fetch quests and other similarly "factory made" side missions?

And finally, every single freeroam / ""HARDCORE"" mod is piss easy, every single one. If you know how STALKER works and disregard the pointless variable changes and item bloat many of these mods add, you can get the best equipment after two days at most.

Give me a good story mod, not the same thing over and over with a different coat of paint.

EDIT: Man, I'm still getting free points from angry Anomaly players after all these years? Keep 'em coming I guess.

[Heresy]

Yeah the free roam sandboxes are pretty pointless and lifeless. There is no real reason or excuse to play them at all since there arent really any goals.

Misery is still alot of fun tho and its kinda hard to beat.

[IIIIlllIIIII]

I agree. To this day, AMK AE and Misery with TAZ are my most favorite mods. I can remember 2016(?) Or 2015 when CoC came out i really liked the idea behind that. Also, a "sandbox" experience wasn't bad either. Just another gameplay option out there to spend more time playin my favorite FPS.

But what do we have now? At this point, let me tell THANKS for people like the gunslinger devs. They made me YET again play though CoP once more.

But... We have a ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ of CoC Iterations as well.. everywhere I read: yea go play anomaly, it's so good, its 64 bit blabla, it has 300 difficulty settings and QOL ( lmfao ).

And... Pre anomaly and pre dead air guys we all remember the ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ on Misery here. We all remember it. And people that always liked misery ( me incl. ) Are like: What? Right now. A misery based mod js NOW THE STALKER experience ??? Fcking with me.


It was once stalker now its sth else like escape from tarkov or whatever with massive survival stuff going on and crafting everywhere MMORPG BS.


@PsyWar

Pssshhht. They are not "easy" ... They are the most hardcore mods for the most hardcore stalker players11!1!1!1 remember jts just MISERY WITH "QUALITY OF LIFE" /s



Is that what will happen? Is Anomaly now the ultimate Stalker game?

[Max_Payne]

I didn't like Misery because the difficulty was artificial. It was an easy mod when you learned how to work around the stupidly accurate and sixth-sensed AI and the game economy which was absurd, a loaf of bread costing the same as a gun or some other stuff like that

Anomaly smooths out most of the issues that Misery had and adds lots. Misery still sucks IMO (haven't played the newest version, though 2.0 sucked ass), but Anomaly is a great mod because you can mod and tweak it for the experience you want.

There is no such thing as THE stalker experience, but i think Anomaly is the THE free roam experience. And Anomaly does have a story mode of sorts. Find Strelok or play as a random stalker and make your own story. If you don't have the imagination to to do so, play the originals and don't complain on the forums

[IIIIlllIIIII]

Originally posted by Harald Haggaaja:

I didn't like Misery because the difficulty was artificial. It was an easy mod when you learned how to work around the stupidly accurate and sixth-sensed AI and the game economy which was absurd, a loaf of bread costing the same as a gun or some other stuff like that

Anomaly smooths out most of the issues that Misery had and adds lots. Misery still sucks IMO (haven't played the newest version, though 2.0 sucked ass), but Anomaly is a great mod because you can mod and tweak it for the experience you want.

There is no such thing as THE stalker experience, but i think Anomaly is the THE free roam experience. And Anomaly does have a story mode of sorts. Find Strelok or play as a random stalker and make your own story. If you don't have the imagination to to do so, play the originals and don't complain on the forums

I mostly liked your opinion until the point: Don't complain on forums.

See it's the point on Forums to discuss subjects. If that's Something you don't want to do, go home.

I think, it has nothing to do with imagination. What should i imagine ? I mean it's not some sort of D&D, it's just an FPS in an "open world" with stuff that keeps you busy. It is kind of weird, it has mechanics of an MMORPG some sort withojt the Multiplayer aspect and the RPG aspect. So what's there to Imagine. Because every factions you chose plays exactly the same.

[UmbralPenumbra]

The only mods I've ever played are ZRP, SRP, and CoC. I hear about Anomaly and Misery all the time and at least from reading discussions I would agree that Anomaly is overrated. Not that it's bad (I can't say, because I never played it), but that it's one of the few major mods ever talked about. That being said CoC is pretty overrated as well. The only mod I'm currently interested in trying is Lost Alpha, but haven't got around to it yet

[mr bruh]

Anomaly is just a straight up better version of Call Of Chernobyl , also has better mods made for it CoC

[UmbralPenumbra]

Originally posted by mr bruh:

Anomaly is just a straight up better version of Call Of Chernobyl , also has better mods made for it CoC

I only nabbed CoC so I could freeroam the entirety of the STALKER world, aside from a few add-ons like Arsenal Overhaul and some mod that makes traders buy damaged weapons I haven't played much else

I'm generally not interested in story changes or additions. If I played anything else it would likely be a mod that makes the game even harder and more unfair, but like Lost Alpha it's just something I've yet got around to bothering with

[cyäegha]

being x64, anomaly is very slightly less repulsive than misery

[UmbralPenumbra]

Originally posted by cyäegha:

being x64, anomaly is very slightly less repulsive than misery

What exactly is the difference, other than just being natively 64 bits?

[mr bruh]

Originally posted by Misanthrop:

Originally posted by mr bruh:

Anomaly is just a straight up better version of Call Of Chernobyl , also has better mods made for it CoC

I only nabbed CoC so I could freeroam the entirety of the STALKER world, aside from a few add-ons like Arsenal Overhaul and some mod that makes traders buy damaged weapons I haven't played much else

I'm generally not interested in story changes or additions. If I played anything else it would likely be a mod that makes the game even harder and more unfair, but like Lost Alpha it's just something I've yet got around to bothering with

I also played CoC just to freeroam the map , but Anomaly allows a huge amount of customization , from changing the faction relationships to reducing or increasing spawn levels , you really can customize everything
Aside from that , there are amazing mods like Boomsticks and Sharpstick , or Food animations that make it that much more immersive for free roam

[UmbralPenumbra]

If Anomaly will let me increase spawn levels more than CoC will, then I'll download it

[Heresy]

ANomly effectively makes all the other free roam mods obsolete. COC should be uninstalled and burned lol. It has basically nothing to offer anyone who has played through all 3 of the orig games tho and is rather boring or pointless.

[Max_Payne]

"See it's the point on Forums to discuss subjects. If that's Something you don't want to do, go home."

There is a difference between discussing subjects and just moaning about how something or someones opinion sucks. Because, people like different things and just saying "Yeah the free roam sandboxes are pretty pointless and lifeless. There is no real reason or excuse to play them at all." isn't exactly a post with a fair point, because that might just be something someone is looking for. Instead give a reason WHY a certain thing is pointless or lifeless instead of just saying "it sucks lmao"

But that's the way this forum has always been, moaning about how the mod you play sucks and my opinion is better

[Samz]

Originally posted by PsyWarVeteran:

People tend to follow the herd, tried and true fact.

Misery, Anomaly, CoC (and its other countless variants) etc. I can only tolerate those type of mods a couple of days. What's the point of roaming an empty Zone without a goal or doing the same things over and over when there are many great story mods with actual purpose?

The whole "you make your own goals / adventures" arguement is pretty absurd too. Who would prefer make-belive over actually well thought out missions that are tailored by the creator instead of dozens of fetch quests and other similarly "factory made" side missions?

And finally, every single freeroam / ""HARDCORE"" mod is piss easy, every single one. If you know how STALKER works and disregard the pointless variable changes and item bloat many of these mods add, you can get the best equipment after two days at most.

Give me a good story mod, not the same thing over and over with a different coat of paint.

I do think they have their appeal but admittingly most of it is say, getting to play as Monolith or Military for me.
I do plan to play Story mods, I'm just unaware of any of them. (Aside from Reborn for Clear Sky.....which is Reborn.)

Originally posted by Heresy:

ANomly effectively makes all the other free roam mods obsolete. COC should be uninstalled and burned lol. It has basically nothing to offer anyone who has played through all 3 of the orig games tho and is rather boring or pointless.

How so?