MISERY Mod Sucks

[HexeR]

I appreciate the level of dedication the modding team has, and how loyal they are to their fans, and their single-minded approach to getting things done, but....holy hell...wow....

-every single time you clean your weapon, eat food, drink water, fix your gear, or apply radiation medicine it basically pauses the game for 5 to 10 seconds as you lower your weapon to consume it, and if you play Assault, you'll be eating and drinking A LOT
-all food and drink is insanely expensive compared to how much money you are actively able to find and start off with, requiring precise fore-knowledge of the game and how you're going to play, taking away from the immersion factor of being new to the zone
-you have to monitor your hunger levels, your exhaustion levels, your radiation levels, your bleeding levels, the quality levels of your weapons and armor, and your psy levels and constantly screw with a million different medkits
-Every single item has a novel's worth of text to read when I just want to know the basic stats and abilities
-there's a hundred different gear-cleaning kits tied specifically to gear type, and there's a million of them in the store, with different kinds of lubes and parts and other crap

There is so much ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ tedium now, and it's not even overwhelming, it's just time-wasting. The game seems more focused on your character sleeping, drinking, eating, and repairing gear instead of exploring, killing, and looting.

If you enjoy this mod, more power to you, but for everyone else, I recommend Call of the Zone.

Also, just a personal preference, but the weapons are small and look/feel like toys in the mod. Do NOT like the perspective on them at all.

[Redrick]

Classic. I know we're getting way off topic now, but last year I also played FC2 with that mod and loved it. This year I'm hitting FC3 (will be my first playthrough) with a mod called Ziggys mod which removes all the HUD and stuff like that and makes it more stalker-ish.

[Thermal Lance]

Originally posted by Redrick:

Classic. I know we're getting way off topic now, but last year I also played FC2 with that mod and loved it. This year I'm hitting FC3 (will be my first playthrough) with a mod called Ziggys mod which removes all the HUD and stuff like that and makes it more stalker-ish.

I mean, I never was against going offtopic a bit as long as it's friendly and cordial. Well, that's just me.

[peppergomez]

Why would anyone play with any mod other than gamma?

[PsyWarVeteran]

Originally posted by peppergomez:

Why would anyone play with any mod other than gamma?

Common sense?

[Thermal Lance]

Originally posted by peppergomez:

Why would anyone play with any mod other than gamma?

Because Gamma/Anomaly etc... are different experiences than the base game on which Misery is based on? Like, turn on your brain mate. But, yeah Gamma looks fun.

[Redrick]

Translation

Originally posted by peppergomez:

Dont play these games vanilla.

I am narrow minded and I judge games based on their age so my default stance is that Vanilla stalker is horrible.

Lets all play Gamma instead, and tell everyone we know to play Anomaly and Gamma because I heard about it from some youtuber, so I jumped on that bandwagon so fast my head is spinning and I'm mistaking that for wisdom.

I've never played a minute of actual stalker. All my experience is with Anomaly, which in my eyes makes me more knowledgeable than everyone else, and makes me automatically believe it to be superior to all other mods without having tried any of them.

I am coming to the forums to share this revelation tell all the long term fans that I am right and they are wrong.

[Thermal Lance]

Originally posted by Redrick:

Translation

Originally posted by peppergomez:

Dont play these games vanilla.

I am narrow minded and I judge games based on their age so my default stance is that Vanilla stalker is horrible.

Lets all play Gamma instead, and tell everyone we know to play Anomaly and Gamma because I heard about it from some youtuber, so I jumped on that bandwagon so fast my head is spinning and I'm mistaking that for wisdom.

I've never played a minute of actual stalker. All my experience is with Anomaly, which in my eyes makes me more knowledgeable than everyone else, and makes me automatically believe it to be superior to all other mods without having tried any of them.

I am coming to the forums to share this revelation tell all the long term fans that I am right and they are wrong.

Well, tbf, given how much traction these freeplay mods got. It's probably that demographic that will bring in the most money with Stalker 2 at the end of the day.

In business, money talks unfortunately.

[Ashmostly]

I've like the part in the mod where I just get one tapped by someone out of no where

[NOD Flamer]

Originally posted by Thermal Lance:

Originally posted by PsyWarVeteran:

Known fact.

The hilarious part is Misery USED to be good fun. But, then they listened too much to the "hardcore be hardcore because hardcore" crowd and we ended up with the current pinnacle to tedious gameplay. Like, it's not even hard at this point, its just wasting your time.

AS someone who played Misery 2.2 as their first ever Stalker experience, i must say that this has been my best stalker experience yet.

It's not even really that "hardcore" from my personal experience, nor is it really difficult at all. Only the start is kinda rough because you got no monies, but with good enough skill you can get money quite easy.

The only thing that sucks about Misery is how OP the Chimeras are, everything else is fine.

[HexeR]

Originally posted by PsyWarVeteran:

Originally posted by Redrick:

Anomaly was worse, much worse. I must have had over a dozen backpacks in my main base just to keep it grouped.

Agreed, Anomaly is even worse than Misery. So many useless junk.

I've been playing Anomaly, and the options for tailoring the game specifically to your liking makes it infinitely better than Misery. For starters, I turned off sleepiness. Then, I significantly upped the economy for me reselling stuff and the prices on buying stuff so it's relatively fair. A single piece of bread should NOT cost 850 rubles, that's equivalent to 10 USD. I forget what the exact price is, but it's somewhere around 250 rubles. Then, I significantly lowered the degradation of equipment, to virtually zero (and it still degrades very quick), so I nullified/virtually made useless all the cleaning and parts exchanging and what-not, so now it's actually feasible to just let a technician repair all my crap, and improve weaponry and armor, which even still, is insanely expensive. Lastly, I made fast travel available and allowed it while wounded (which, if you're bleeding or irradiated, you'll still suffer a huge automatic health damage penalty for not healing before fast travelling, so it balances out as it should).

The eating and drinking is similar to Misery, but it's a lot faster. It's like 3 seconds to eat a can of beans in Anomaly, while in Misery it's nearly 8.

On top of that, the weapon feel and sounds are a lot better in Anomaly. Guns feel and look large and powerful and deadly.

This is a MUCH better experience. The options Anomaly has built-in for negating a lot of the "h@rdc0r3" gameplay is a lifesaver, because I don't need to waste my life on menial, tedious, crap, instead of playing the actual game now.

If someone can tell me though, I would appreciate it, how do I go into the text files and change faction affiliation? I think my game bugged because my home faction, Ecologists, hate me all of a sudden out of nowhere, and I don't know when or why it happened.