Recommend Patches and Fixes

[sektor_mk2]

To my knowledge this game has many technical problems. Please recommendation the best fan made patches and fixes. I assume most of that would be in the form of mods, but just to be clear - not looking for changes in gameplay. Instead I am looking for vanilla experience, buth with less technical issues

So far I have been recommended:
- SoC - The Zone Reclamation Project
- CS - Stalker Complete

[Morder07]

CS has it's own ZRP - Sky Reclamation Project

[Дегтярьов]

Have u actually played the games or are you just assuming stuff because you read something on the internet?

[kallipsoul]

Your knowlege is wrong, unless you have this experience yourself.
Try to play original game initially, if you want to play STALKER
If you really have problems with starting the game - try beta, available via Steam
If you still encounter critical bugs - use ZRP with basic settins

BTW: CS is for Clear Sky. Complete is just "Complete" (nobody calls id SC imo)

[Moschka]

The bugs are part of the lore

[sektor_mk2]

I have played SoC a couple of years after launch and I had multiple crashes. Amazing atmosphere, but the game was NOT stable.

I lot of time has passed since then, so I just assume that the vanilla games are even more problematic on Windows 11.

[kallipsoul]

Originally posted by sektor_mk2:

I have played SoC a couple of years after launch and I had multiple crashes. Amazing atmosphere, but the game was NOT stable.

I lot of time has passed since then, so I just assume that the vanilla games are even more problematic on Windows 11.

Give it a try as is. Most of critical bugs were fixed since that time.

[Crypto Gamer]

Vanilla CS has many random bugs at least 1 flash drive is usually not available(in Cordon) if you join the bandits too early you soft-lock your game.

Factions war usually bug out and reinforcements can get stuck.
So they are much less fun.

So SRP is very highly recommended.
Makes faction wars much better.....

Stalker SOC is more stable but it is still kinda buggy.
You can get an infinite radiation bug and that likely will force a load back.

ZRP is IMO better than vanilla.

SRP and ZRP also have optional changes which slightly affect gameplay.
But you can use none of those options and play vanilla with less bugs.

Eg. SRP has an optional mode for iron sights for pistols but CS some reasons do not have it.


Should be noted that the complete edition already included SRP(but afaik not the most recent version)and has better GFX but it makes the game easier.

So Imo it has too many non-optional gameplay changes.


Stalker COP is very stable and likely doable on vanilla.


Should be noted that my first playthrough was on vanilla and the second with ZRP, and SRP.

For Later playthrough there are also more hardcore mods like Misery, and Anomaly.