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."

[n0mad23]

Death by Easter Egg (Roadside Picnic - Death Lamp artifact).

That in itself is a nice synopsis of Anomaly imo.

[󠀡󠀡󠀡󠀡󠀡󠀡]

Never played Misery. Never jumped on any stalker fanboy bandwagons either. I tried Anomaly after CoC because some guy suggested it to me on this forum... and i enjoyed it a lot. While basic CoC was fun it got old real fast. Anomaly gives me what i want from stalker (except the ♥♥♥♥ like unnecessary inventory convolution and time wasting animations for every action, these things are annoying): freeplaying as my own stalker and enjoying the atmosphere + more story stuff than CoC had, and it has lots of addons. Its also pretty stable. All i wish for that it had even more generic quest variety and unique story quests with some choices, preferably for other factions like ukrainian army or bandits, mods not nearly cover that enough and focus more on graphics, guns and gameplay.

I really don't care why you people hate on it, because one reason seems dumber than the other.

[Tazor]

󠀡󠀡󠀡󠀡󠀡󠀡 の投稿を引用：

Never played Misery. Never jumped on any stalker fanboy bandwagons either. I tried Anomaly after CoC because some guy suggested it to me on this forum... and i enjoyed it a lot. While basic CoC was fun it got old real fast. Anomaly gives me what i want from stalker (except the ♥♥♥♥ like unnecessary inventory convolution and time wasting animations for every action, these things are annoying): freeplaying as my own stalker and enjoying the atmosphere + more story stuff than CoC had, and it has lots of addons. Its also pretty stable. All i wish for that it had even more generic quest variety and unique story quests with some choices, preferably for other factions like ukrainian army or bandits, mods not nearly cover that enough and focus more on graphics, guns and gameplay.

I really don't care why you people hate on it, because one reason seems dumber than the other.

You can disable the animations. And increase your inventory size. Anomaly overall is highly customizable.

[2ugly]

Probably as simple as it being one file to download, then click to play. Free.... no need for any previous version.

[2ugly]

Over rated? Just started playing it. Seems to be highly underrated. Best Stalker experience I've had since playing all 3 versions prior. Some of the mods were ok, but Anomaly seems to take the game the correct direction toward what many of the original PC gamers expected it to become before the entire industry starting catering to the consoles.

[IIIIlllIIIII]

2ugly の投稿を引用：

but Anomaly seems to take the game the correct direction toward what many of the original PC gamers expected it to become

I'm not getting this point. What do you mean that Anomaly takes the game in the correct direction? Anomaly has literally nothing to do with the trilogy besides the obvious. It's literally a different game at this point with seperate .exe and whatnot.

[Heresy]

2ugly の投稿を引用：

Over rated? Just started playing it. Seems to be highly underrated. Best Stalker experience I've had since playing all 3 versions prior. Some of the mods were ok, but Anomaly seems to take the game the correct direction toward what many of the original PC gamers expected it to become before the entire industry starting catering to the consoles.

Consoles? What? It is a stand alone game sure. A large world with lots of data but little else than that. It has no meat between the slices and is rather boring because there is nothing to actually do unlike the 3 games from the series. Its good for experimenting i guess or free roam but that gets boring fast.

Oh and Stalker games never made it to consoles lol it had absolutely nothing to do with consoles.

[PsyWarVeteran]

2ugly の投稿を引用：

Over rated? Just started playing it. Seems to be highly underrated. Best Stalker experience I've had since playing all 3 versions prior. Some of the mods were ok, but Anomaly seems to take the game the correct direction toward what many of the original PC gamers expected it to become before the entire industry starting catering to the consoles.

Nonsensical comment.

[MS-14A Gelgoog]

Nihil の投稿を引用：

mr bruh の投稿を引用：

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

There isn't much in the ways of "Story changes" either to CoC's Doctor X story mod or Anomaly's "story" (which is the doc X story plus a new chapter or two). for the sake of the two, both mods stories take place after the events of CoP. That being said Anomaly is a good is talked about highly because of what it is, the 3 games (somewhat) meshed together in one big full connected zone (complete with things like darkscape re-implimented plus the custom "meadow" map) with the ability to play as any faction you choose, PLUS 3 unlockable factions that are lore friendly (one being a faction cut from SoC's development). CoC is, by it's author's own words: a modders resource. Its a stepping stone for people to make whatever they like.

[Stunted Raccoon]

PsyWarVeteran の投稿を引用：

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.

Brah, Anomaly has 3 mod-specific story campaigns made by the mod devs. Speak to Strelok, he starts the quest chain. You're ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ and moaning about things when you don't even know how they work lmao. Like you said, you probably only put like 3-4 hours in it, if that, then left without doing any research. Your PDA constantly brings up Strelok and tells you where he's at over and over, you just disregarded it and complained on a steam thread.

[PsyWarVeteran]

Skizerz の投稿を引用：

Brah, Anomaly has 3 mod-specific story campaigns made by the mod devs. Speak to Strelok, he starts the quest chain. You're ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ and moaning about things when you don't even know how they work lmao. Like you said, you probably only put like 3-4 hours in it, if that, then left without doing any research. Your PDA constantly brings up Strelok and tells you where he's at over and over, you just disregarded it and complained on a steam thread.

Wow! Really!? I never knew that!!!
Read my comment again, you missed the "good story" part.

Those "story campaigns" are nothing special (also not made by Anomaly devs originally, but of course you didn't know that) and so clearly an afterthought. Running around speaking to people in different maps 75% of the time and doing uninspired busywork the other times is exactly the same as fetch quests, boring, takes too long with zero payoff and not original in the slightest. So yeah "brah", story-campaigns are worthless. Let me also add I have way over 100 hours on Anomaly, hours not always enjoyed but spent nevertheless.

If only I took the words of every fanboy with cringy anime avatars and god awful profiles seriously.

[2ugly]

Your

PsyWarVeteran の投稿を引用：

2ugly の投稿を引用：

Over rated? Just started playing it. Seems to be highly underrated. Best Stalker experience I've had since playing all 3 versions prior. Some of the mods were ok, but Anomaly seems to take the game the correct direction toward what many of the original PC gamers expected it to become before the entire industry starting catering to the consoles.

Nonsensical comment.

And the troll has spoken.

[Nonebit]

1. It's free
2. Modding it is pretty easy
3. I don't have a third reason since it would be weird to only have 2

Edit: People praise it for it's gun porn and the slightly better AI.

[Nonebit]

Really kinda sad that 40% of the stalker players are just Anomaly F2Ps

[VladiMatt]

Anomaly is absolute trash.