I'm really disappointed by the gameplay of this game

[CementStairs]

The atmosphere, story, world are great, but I just can't get over the shooting mechanics. It's not like I would suck, it's the right opposite, it's just too easy for me and it's more boring than challenging. The guns don't feel right and all of that. I just can't get over it. The game just feels too clunky, the movement is too fast(it takes like minute to run between important locations), the story is so far uninteresting or non-existant. I really wanna enjoy the game, because the atmosphere and setting is great, but I can't

[God Taint]

What difficulty are you playing on? And are you playing with any mods? How far into the game are you?

I think if you can get over the outdated animations, then the gameplay is actually quite fun on master difficulty. You can't just go in guns blazing, you have to think about cover, not over-exposing yourself when you leave cover to shoot at enemies, and about your surroundings. AI will also work together to make things difficult for you if you don't constantly re-adjust your position. They can even sneak up on you or hard flank you to the point where they are seemingly spawning in behind you at times.

However, I will agree that the beginning of the game is quite easy (even on master), with the only real difficulty being the fact that all your guns suck, but once you get to the military base things start ramping up in difficulty quite nicely.

As for the guns not feeling right... I assume you are talking about the whole accuracy thing. I am curious, have you ever had a chance to shoot any real guns? Firearms irl are only so accurate, even with expensive after market parts and barrels. Plus, as guns start heating up they become even less accurate due to the way heat affects tolerances and whatnot. Then there's the whole human element to consider - typically people are nowhere near as great of a shot as they would like to be. Hell, even some of the most experienced shooters can anticipate recoil and miss an "easy" shot. I think the accuracy mechanic in the game simulates all of this quite well.

[Sarblade]

The classic guy playing at normal and not understanding what is onboarding. You'll see later on.

[「PewJinPing」| TaiwanNo.1]

Autumn Aurora 2.1 is a great overhaul mod that I think you should give a try. It slows down the game and fixes some of clunky gunplay. It also upgrades all of the graphics in the mod as well without any real performance impact.

[「PewJinPing」| TaiwanNo.1]

Escrito originalmente por 「ЗВЕРБ」:

Autumn Aurora 2.1 is a great overhaul mod that I think you should give a try. It slows down the game and fixes some of clunky gunplay. It also upgrades all of the graphics in the mod as well without any real performance impact.

It also changes the outdated animations to better ones and gives many of the weapons better models and sounds.

[「PewJinPing」| TaiwanNo.1]

Here is the download link for the overhaul I've mentioned earlier: https://www.moddb(dot)com/mods/autumn-aurora-compilation-mod/

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[CementStairs]

So firstly, I'm playing on Master, I know how the difficulty works(The harder the easier to kill enemies and get kill yourself). I'm trying to use cover and effectively flank enemies, not just rush into them. By "Weapons don't feel right" I meant that their sound design and kinda the recoil feels weird, but that might be just me. Also the enemies are bullet sponges even on Master(I literally shot like 20shots out of AK into a military guy, and he survived). But I'm still giving this game another chance, because in the past there were games I hated and after few hours I started loving them. Anyways is the sprint speed supposed to be this fast?

[God Taint]

Most of the non-bandit enemies wear pretty decent body armor, especially the military guys. You really need to land headshots if you want to kill them quickly (or use armor piercing ammo). It's much easier to land those headshots if you stun them first with shots to the body (and if you are crouched and not moving obviously). You'll get used to it. If you are just pumping bullets into their chests, then yeah they are going to feel like bullet sponges. That part is admittedly a bit unrealistic, but then again the game would be ridiculously easy even on master difficulty if all enemies died in just a few shots.

As for sprint speed... I dunno the sprinting seemed pretty typical to me. How fast are you going exactly? I assume you are playing vanilla since you didn't mention any mods? Might just be different than whatever other shooters you are used to and it throws you off.

[R.A.T. Army *MST3K*]

I've never heard anyone say that the gunplay is to easy. Usually people complain about their bullet registration mechanic.

[Wolraven]

Autumn Aurora for Shadow of Chernobyl

Arsenal Overhaul for Clear Sky

Misery or CoP ABR for Call of Pripyat. (I recommend ABR mod if you have FPS issues on Misery 2.2, of course ABR are not gonna give same experience with Misery mod but bla bla)

These mods will make the game better.

[Wille Wilse]

Escrito originalmente por pestiferius:

Autumn Aurora for Shadow of Chernobyl

Arsenal Overhaul for Clear Sky

Misery or CoP ABR for Call of Pripyat. (I recommend ABR mod if you have FPS issues on Misery 2.2, of course ABR are not gonna give same experience with Misery mod but bla bla)

These mods will make the game better. :TheMask:

What is better with those mods in your definition?

I play SoC with an old Oblivion mod and also an old Arsenal mod. I like those cause the free gameplay, I am able to go where ever I want on the maps independently of where I am at the story.
Oblivion mod also adds some creatures that isnt in the original game but supposed to be on the devs plans from the beggining but is cut out - they arent that good but I like it.

The old Arsenal mod adds guns (of course) and I like those, especially the Swedish AK5 (Im Swedish) so, "better" what do you mean? :)

[Heresy]

Anomaly has taken over any sandbox experience you could imagine. So try that for your "freeplays" nothing is better.

Autumn Aurora and Misery are basically the main and completed finished overhaul mods for SOC and COP. AA2.1 was completed in 2014 and remains as the best stalker soc mod in terms of performance and graphics. It adds very little to the game other than different colours, sound, music and a few new guns and better textures/ weather.

Misery is just a hardcore overhaul for COP that changes nothing from the story but ramps up the AI to hacker levels. Has lots of items and micromanagement, is a good survival sim. Not for feint of heart.

OP's description or experience sounds like Stalker Complete mod rather than vanilla or anything else. I sure hope you didnt play Complete because its garbage.

[One Stoned Bastard]

Escrito originalmente por Rimanah:

I really wanna enjoy the game, because the atmosphere and setting is great, but I can't

Then don't enjoy the game.

Yet another person that actually believes "video games are supposed to be fun!"

No they're not. Least of all in Soviet Russia.

[Ray tracing is faster]

And that's why one should always use mods.

Escrito originalmente por Heresy:

Autumn Aurora and Misery are basically the main and completed finished overhaul mods for SOC and COP. AA2.1 was completed in 2014 and remains as the best stalker soc mod in terms of performance and graphics. It adds very little to the game other than different colours, sound, music and a few new guns and better textures/ weather.

Still spreading these lies I see. OGSR 1.0007 64-bit engine mods bring objectively better graphics and especially performance. While AA2.1 is safe to use on a first playthrough, anyone is much better off using AMK 1.4.1 Autumn Edition which includes most AA2.1 features (but less of the controversial ones) as well as AMK which is just the OG for Stalker mods.

[nobleberry]

Escrito originalmente por Rimanah:

The atmosphere, story, world are great, but I just can't get over the shooting mechanics. It's not like I would suck, it's the right opposite, it's just too easy for me and it's more boring than challenging. The guns don't feel right and all of that. I just can't get over it. The game just feels too clunky, the movement is too fast(it takes like minute to run between important locations), the story is so far uninteresting or non-existant. I really wanna enjoy the game, because the atmosphere and setting is great, but I can't

ok, what do you want from us?

[Heresy]

Escrito originalmente por GND Jester:

And that's why one should always use mods.

Escrito originalmente por Heresy:

Autumn Aurora and Misery are basically the main and completed finished overhaul mods for SOC and COP. AA2.1 was completed in 2014 and remains as the best stalker soc mod in terms of performance and graphics. It adds very little to the game other than different colours, sound, music and a few new guns and better textures/ weather.

Still spreading these lies I see. OGSR 1.0007 64-bit engine mods bring objectively better graphics and especially performance. While AA2.1 is safe to use on a first playthrough, anyone is much better off using AMK 1.4.1 Autumn Edition which includes most AA2.1 features (but less of the controversial ones) as well as AMK which is just the OG for Stalker mods.

Just because i didnt mention OGSE and you are clearly a salty developer of OGSE, doesnt mean its bad. Relax. Its all gonna be ok im sure people will download your mod some day dude.

AA and Misery are still completed products that are Vanilla games with everything else overhauled. Thats not what OGSE is and it never was. OGSE continues the story and adds new crap and is nowhere near as polished as AA.

YOu claim the textures and graphics and everything is better in OGSE than in AA but i dont see it. I dont know what you are looking at. Maybe you dont like the aggressive ENB of AA but its none existant in OGSE. The building textures, the foliage textures it all looks sharper in AA and muddy in OGSE. So you Sir should stop spreading lies.