Arsenal Overhaul or Misery?

[Sassy Patches]

Heya, experienced S.T.A.L.K.E.R here. picking up CoP and was wondering if I'm to go Arsenal Overhaul or Misery. Will Misery add the same kind of realism to firefights? Will they work together for mooar weaponry? Any other mods I should consider?

[Skyte100]

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Anyone know any subtitle mods etc? Got AO, MSO, AtmosFear & Absolute Nature.. Now everyone's speaking Russian but there's no sub..

Found that you can remove Russian voices by going into Gamedata/sounds and deleting characters_voice folder. In an FAQ.

[Sassy Patches]

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Escrito originalmente por Shathanas:

Anyone know any subtitle mods etc? Got AO, MSO, AtmosFear & Absolute Nature.. Now everyone's speaking Russian but there's no sub..

Found that you can remove Russian voices by going into Gamedata/sounds and deleting characters_voice folder. In an FAQ.

Yeah, read that too! Problem is I like the Russian voice-acting.. I just want some subs so I know what they're talking about.

[Skyte100]

Escrito originalmente por Shathanas:

Escrito originalmente por skyte100:

Found that you can remove Russian voices by going into Gamedata/sounds and deleting characters_voice folder. In an FAQ.

Yeah, read that too! Problem is I like the Russian voice-acting.. I just want some subs so I know what they're talking about.

I like them too, just not when its directed at me. Like you, I liked to understand whats being said.

[Sassy Patches]

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Yeah, read that too! Problem is I like the Russian voice-acting.. I just want some subs so I know what they're talking about.

I like them too, just not when its directed at me. Like you, I liked to understand whats being said.

I love how he's talking to himself about the choppers.. No PDA text or anything, I have no idea what happened to them.

[Sander]

DEFINATELY get the Misery mod, CoP is my first stalker game ever and i only played it for 1 hour at first, the first 3 weeks i had it... i understood what to do and everything its just that it was pretty dull for me... but then i got the Misery mod! and i was hooked and i played it for 28hours straigth... If you have player SoC and CS and you get Misery for CoP you will be out of breath, the change the misery mod adds to the game is ♥♥♥♥♥♥ holy, it makes it tougher but at the same time way more enjoyable! you can change your FOV so that it looks wayyyy better, you get alot of new guns that are all Lore friendly, every texture in the game gets upgraded so it looks like one of the most beautiful landscapes and cities you have ever been in in a game, it also "upgrades" some of the audio.

Get the misery mod. you will not regret it my friend

[Skyte100]

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I like them too, just not when its directed at me. Like you, I liked to understand whats being said.

I love how he's talking to himself about the choppers.. No PDA text or anything, I have no idea what happened to them.

http://www.gsc-game.com/index.php?t=community&s=forums&s_game_type=xr3&thm_page=32&thm_id=3879&page=5&sort=ASC&sec_id=18 found that in a search. Looks like theres something there.

[KillWonder]

How is the spawn rates of these 2 mods? Cause I really dont like that.

[Sassy Patches]

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I love how he's talking to himself about the choppers.. No PDA text or anything, I have no idea what happened to them.

http://www.gsc-game.com/index.php?t=community&s=forums&s_game_type=xr3&thm_page=32&thm_id=3879&page=5&sort=ASC&sec_id=18 found that in a search. Looks like theres something there.

This really helped! Found this:
http://www.gsc-game.com/index.php?t=community&s=forums&s_game_type=xr3&thm_page=1&thm_id=4088&sec_id=19

I haven't read up much or tested it yet but going to keep looking this evening and try that mod tomorrow. Sadly, that seems to be a beta version from 2010 so not sure if it works nor if it'll be compatible with the other mods. Might find a more recent version if I could contact the creator. He has a Steam profile but idk how to contact people without adding them.

[Skyte100]

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Escrito originalmente por skyte100:

http://www.gsc-game.com/index.php?t=community&s=forums&s_game_type=xr3&thm_page=32&thm_id=3879&page=5&sort=ASC&sec_id=18 found that in a search. Looks like theres something there.

This really helped! Found this:
http://www.gsc-game.com/index.php?t=community&s=forums&s_game_type=xr3&thm_page=1&thm_id=4088&sec_id=19

I haven't read up much or tested it yet but going to keep looking this evening and try that mod tomorrow. Sadly, that seems to be a beta version from 2010 so not sure if it works nor if it'll be compatible with the other mods. Might find a more recent version if I could contact the creator. He has a Steam profile but idk how to contact people without adding them.

If their profile is open you can just leave a comment on it. If not, you can't really.

[Elsky]

If you like immersion go Misery. It is difficult if you don't know how to play survival properly, else it is a fantastic experience. One of the best survival game.

Good aspects of the mod:
- you have to think about food, sleep and health. Food is a very important resource in the Zone, so it costs a lot. Sleep is important too, if you don't sleep you can't fight properly. Health is realistic and thus unforgiving: you will have to stop the bleedings and check your health level.
- finding good weapons is difficult. You are in the Zone. You will have to find good position to ambush enemies to try to get good weapons and even if enemies drop weapons, the probability that they are good quality is low (sadly this is done with a dirty hack that transform perfect weapons into ♥♥♥♥ when they are dropped by enemies. This means that the enemy doesn't have problem with that weapons, watch out!). Also, try to find unique weapon and buy better weapons
- bullets are more difficult to find and cost more at shops. Don't waste them and use the right type for the right enemy, e.g. armor piercing for enemies with armors (duh). When you have too many bullets for a weapon that you use (or want to), stash them instead of selling them!
- money is also a problem and you will need it. Micromanagement can be important. Try to find the person that is willing to pay most for your goods and remember that for next time
- weapons and armors need constant cleaning and fixing. Do it regularly because the more damaged something is, the more fixing it will cost
- you can carry a limited amout of stuff, choose it wisely, e.g. don't bring too many bullets if you don't need them. Remember that finding good stuff is useless if you can't carry them wih you
- artifacts are difficult to handle
- the difficulty of the game increases drammatically with each new part of the zones unblocked. Monolith are the hard crazy bastards they are supposed to be, but also other factions can be hard. In particular, mercs are hard, very hard and you can find them everywhere
- Be ready. Always think about what you are going to do next and what you need to achieve that. Keep reloading is not successfully survivalism, it's successfully reloading (tm gopher). Try to minimize the deaths (you will die, Misery is unforging and a single mistake is usually fatal).
- AI in general seems more smart and organized. Don't play it like call of duty because you are going to die. A lot. No health regen here
- when you have the possibility, try to hurt an enemy without killing him and interrogate him to find stashes. This is a very nice new mechanic!
- Be smart and exploit the skills of your class, e.g. scout is fast and quiet, use it at you advantage and take enemies from behind
- the atmosfere is nice and dark, with good graphic and sound. It is far better than the original. Some visuals are outstanding
- for an even more crazy but satisfactory experience, go black road
- a lot more here...many things have been changed to have a better experience for the player

Problems of the mod:
- artifacts are underpowered because reasons. This can be very disappointing.
- classes are not balanced, basically assault is easy (more or less, Misery is not easy), sniper is medium and scout is hard
- ...we...need....more...it's still CoP while I would expect more missions and maps. But this is more a dream, I guess :)

[Wilkespre]

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- ...we...need....more...it's still CoP while I would expect more missions and maps. But this is more a dream, I guess :)

SGM can fix that problem. Sadly it does not have stuff fro misery or AO.

[Peace is the way]

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Anyone know any subtitle mods etc? Got AO, MSO, AtmosFear & Absolute Nature.. Now everyone's speaking Russian but there's no sub..

Yeah thats one of the reasons it annoys me. The list of grievances with AO so far are the fact it changes your starting equipment, the fact everyone speaks in russian to you, and the fact the Petruha gave me a pistol(I dont use pistols) instead of the Bear Detector(Surprise I do use detectors). And the fact you dont even START with a detector to begin with.

I asked him if its possible to change any of that. I'll let you know if it is possible to get english back. At least I was able to change it to give me a detector at start.

Just playing c.o.p. for the first time (with AO installed)...and I started the game with 12000RU....uuhhh is that normal? At least I had plenty of cash to buy a detector...lol

[Wilkespre]

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Yeah thats one of the reasons it annoys me. The list of grievances with AO so far are the fact it changes your starting equipment, the fact everyone speaks in russian to you, and the fact the Petruha gave me a pistol(I dont use pistols) instead of the Bear Detector(Surprise I do use detectors). And the fact you dont even START with a detector to begin with.

I asked him if its possible to change any of that. I'll let you know if it is possible to get english back. At least I was able to change it to give me a detector at start.

Just playing c.o.p. for the first time (with AO installed)...and I started the game with 12000RU....uuhhh is that normal? At least I had plenty of cash to buy a detector...lol

"loverofAll 6mins 46secs ago says:
Playing CoP for the first time with this installed and I have 12206 RU right off the bat...that can't be normal, right? Seems like wayy too much"

I woulden't be surprised if this is you.

[Peace is the way]

Sooo for first playthrough AO is a bit too much for me....If I could get the english voice acting back(maybe I can), and only have an updated Pripyat Reborn, I'd be a lot happier. Having so many weapons and ammo added is too much for me....but the fixes that pripyat reborn makes sound great...too bad I can't split the two

[Wilkespre]

That can be removed by deleting the characters_voice folder inside gamedata/sounds.