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."

[Nwah]

It's fun.

[FreshHighVoultageGandalf]

i like how half of the hate against anomaly comes from peeps that did not even play anomaly past the zip extraction. mmimimi has no story - but it does? mimimi cant handle a lot of npc - but it does? mimimi looks like eft - what there to mimimi about? is that bad?
as any thread about stalker mods it is always very entertaining to see at least a few posts about "that is not REAL stalker", "yeeeh, but people nowadays dont know what real stalker is all about", "I do enjoy getting recommended to take 300 shotgun ammo, 500buulets for the only viable wepon in the game and 3 t-34 tanks just to get to pripyat -.- , " i want my random crashes back when i take a step out of sidorovichs bunker" (you can have a mod for anomaly that simply makes the game crash. 10/10 can recommend)
anyways, i always wondereded what makes the people need to say, the original stalker experience lies in playing the originals in original state in original order -
so cop, shoc and uninstall, but maybe i can get the answer here

[n0mad23]

^ yup. The devs WANTED to have sleep included from the beginning, but couldn't make it work until CoP, so why would you reject a mod that allows sleep to happen as was originally intended? Canon? Seriously?

I loved playing these games as much as I could when they originally appears. Still have my orig CD's in fact.

Clear Sky was simply unplayable UNTIL there were mods that fixed it. And boy did I try to complete that game with my CDs. Game breaking unavoidable bug fest.

Anomaly is probably the best freebie I've seen. Sure it's not the original games, but for multiple-multiple play through guys like me, it certainly satisfies the itch.

[Slayer]

You can turn off or cull all the survival stuff you don't like. And it actually has all the missions from the other games, so you can free roam and do missions.

I'm playing it with the Escape from Tarkov mod because I like the graphic overhaul. I actually turned off the Clip/ Mag thing. BUT Anomaly is great because it's just a more stable version of the other free roam mods.

And you don't have to play it. I enjoy it. I also enjoy CoP with Misery or just vanilla CoP too.

[Sigmar's Faithful]

I think some people are just raised poorly to hate sandbox mods

[Nwah]

引用自 Sigmar's Faithful：

I think some people are just raised poorly to hate sandbox mods

It's true, too much freedom can be daunting to many people.

[Pèpè Silvia]

"Modding has gone too far!" lol what a joke.

[IIIIlllIIIII]

It's when people social incompetence and text comprehension is literally below zero, so they can't understand rhetorical device.

Pathetic.

[Broken Circle]

I'm glad somebody agrees with me. I played and beat all the originals vanilla. (God Clear Sky was a pain in the ass), I've played through COCs story mode a few times, I played through Anomaly once. It was hard to like but after a bit I can say I enjoyed it BUT there is a huge but to this...Anomaly dominates the Stalker subreddit and I don't think it should. The story isn't that good at all, I mean they introduce new factions which is cool but in the worst most inconsequential way possible, I mean Sin was basically Monolith+, UNISG was just the military dumbed down. The story ending (no spoilers) was so...lame. It felt like there was this huge buildup just to not have much happen.

Story aside the gameplay annoyed the crap out of me. You have all these cool weapons and gear but you can't get to any of it because of how easily you get killed, when you do eventually get it you're too overpowered. I just feel like overall Anomaly's early game is way too difficult while its late game is a joke.

Graphics. No wonder everyone and their pseudodog uses a graphics mod the base game can look terrible...sometimes it looks amazing, almost modern, especially when the sun lights up the world but when it is cloudy...why is it so damn dark? The ground itself looks like it's grey, in fact the whole game looks grey it's just ugly.

Maybe I'm just burnt out on it I did no life it for a few months but I don't know when I no lifed COC a few years ago I walked away from it feeling satisfied and I can see why I loved it so much but Anomaly just leaves me a bit frustrated.

[PsyWarVeteran]

引用自 halokid003：

Anomaly dominates the Stalker subreddit and I don't think it should.

It dominates it because 95% of the Reddit users are newcomers who started with either Anomaly or different mods. It's rare to find people who played let alone finished all three games there. They are following a fad.

Visit Discord servers and you'll see the exact opposite scenario, people actually know what they're talking about and Anomaly isn't worshipped like it's the holy grail of STALKER modding.

EDIT: To all haters, thank you for free points.

[Vimana Rider]

Fully agree, hardcore for hardcore. Completely lost atmosphere of original stalker for me

[Gunslinger ☢]

While Anomaly does have a story, it contradicts the basic lore of the original games, which it clearly wants to continue on with its 3 story campaigns, it might aswell have none if it cant even get the fact that the wish granter isn't actually magic right, it also shares no missions in common with the original games, don't know where that comes from and that makes it concrete in my mind that nobody who actually HAS played the original games would say that, and as someone who has sunk like hundreds of hours into vanilla and its various mods, theres simply better choices either story mods or freeroams, the only thing Anomaly has is its presentation and artstyle, and its customization, and even then, its style only really appeals to the EFT crowd who want like off-brand Tarkov, among other things, and completely gut the mod anyway to be more like EFT by removing mutants and anomalies, which i have seen been actually made, BaS which just adds weapons with EFT assets which simply don't fit with the STCoP weapons Anomaly has by default (or anything else really), or localized damage, i mean cmon, if you wanna do Tarkov go play Tarkov instead.

I have made addons for the mod that make it have more aspects in common with the vanilla games/cut content from them, some are decently popular but always pale in comparison to those aformentioned addons, i made them because i enjoy the mod, but ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ its not a Stalker i could reccomend purely because it shares so little with the actual games and so many people believe it represents the definitive vision of the games and think that it really is the original games combined, so many "experts" running around spouting that bullcrap, with some youtubers running clickbait thumbnails (This game is free?!?) that just keep on yapping about the mod and make ♥♥♥♥ up because they dont know what they are talking about, literally one dude said Anomaly was on the Source engine.

The longer i think about the modern view on Stalker the more upset i get because of how insulting it is to just delegate the classic games to being outdated and hail whatever new thing comes out as being the definitive experience, Misery, Lost Alpha, Call of Chernobyl, and now Anomaly, which it itself is just a mod of a mod of a mod and so on.

[Gunslinger ☢]

引用自 halokid003：

Graphics. No wonder everyone and their pseudodog uses a graphics mod the base game can look terrible...sometimes it looks amazing, almost modern, especially when the sun lights up the world but when it is cloudy...why is it so damn dark? The ground itself looks like it's grey, in fact the whole game looks grey it's just ugly.

also incase you see this, Anomaly also broke like a crap ton of the vanilla models and textures, some models lack mipmaps and normalmaps, smoothing errors, and a lot of the textures is upscaled bullcrap with/or ♥♥♥♥♥♥ overlays applied, or texturework that is a sin against modding (Clear Sky digital camo, which is ugly anyway, is just a stock photo edited to fit a suit texture) they still havent sorted that out since release, as for the grayness, that stems from every texture having its saturation lowered and i suspect shader ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥.

[EFG.Wenex ヽ(´ー｀)ノ]

引用自 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.

Imagine gatekeeping how someones play and enjoys their games.

[Nwah]

引用自 EFG.Wenex ヽ(´ー｀)ノ：

引用自 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.

Imagine gatekeeping how someones play and enjoys their games.

It's always funny when some people can't grasp the fact that not everyone will like what they like or dislike what they dislike. Narrow minded idiots with a bad case of main character syndrome.

Don't pay attention to those crayon eaters, play whatever you find fun. That is literally the point of video games. That's why genres exist, to cater to people with different taste.

Good luck trying to explain any of that to internet dwellers though.