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S.T.A.L.K.E.R: Faction Wars Rekindled

Premise:
In the late winter of 2018, an emission of incredible magnitude shook the Chornobyl Exclusion Zone. Following the actions of religious fanatics identifying as Sin, the Generators located in the northern reaches of the Zone released an emission rivaling that which originally created the Zone of Alienation in 2006.

The Zone expanded beyond its borders, decimating military checkpoints and bases as well as weakening most of the nine traditional factions considerably. The Military was forced to retaliate, but the initial battles against the strengthened Monolith faction proved fruitless. The new areas the Zone had expanded into became a heated battlefield as new and old factions sought to enforce their rule over them. The Second Faction Wars, echoing the desperate struggles of 2011, had began, larger than ever.

New factions, previously unseen or barely known of, appeared in the chaos, fighting or allying the old factions. People streamed into the Zone due to economic or political instability of the Big Land, and joined various groups in the already fierce fighting. Some fought for power, wealth or ideology, others sought to advance the scientific or philosophical understanding of mankind through the Zone. Yet others spouted radical theories of human evolution, or even, devolution, through the Zone, and religious cults of all kinds sprang in the radioactive grounds of Chornobyl. For some factions, all that mattered was survival, for some, a refuge from persecution. The Zone had changed, and with it, its future was more uncertain than ever.

On the mod itself:

Link to the mod's Discord server for ideas, bugs, update showcases etc. here: https://discord.gg/B6GFmTaC7D

Currently Editor only!

If Workshop doesn't allow you to toggle the mod on for some reason, alternative download of in two parts is available from Google Drive here for the main mod: https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/183aUUnuIyZ47fupNEdm5LU3C45ct7pkf?usp=sharing

And textures here: https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1ekgXhMh5kz0g7rC89LE3AeMcoinknLSE?usp=sharing

Simply put the textures to the resource folder of the mod and you're good to go.

Just download the file, extract it to the MoWAS2 mod folder and you should be good to go. Apologies for the issue, this is a new problem for me but I cannot see a way in the mod itself that is causing it.

Alternatively, you can find the mod by going into your Steam folder, selecting the folder steamapps, then the folder workshop, then folder content, then folder 244450 and from there the folder 2941215265. Copy and paste that to your MoWAS2 mods folder and it should work.

This mod is based on the mysterious and atmospheric world of S.T.A.L.K.E.R created by GSC Game World in early 2000s, where in an alternative reality, Chornobyl Exclusion Zone is a site for highly questionable scientific experiments. These experiments lead to the creation of the Zone, an area that bends the laws of physics, and promises untold wealth, yet also contains incredible dangers. It is a host for multiple factions with various ideologies, fighting or allying each other. This mod is not trying to be a canon take on the world, rather expand the groundwork laid in S.T.A.L.K.E.R Clear Sky on the whole Faction Wars system, now in actual RTS environment. The current version is very much in unfinished, but playable state, with dozens of factions to choose from. These factions are inspired by various mods of the actual games, and the eventual goal of the mod is to have as many fan-fiction or mod factions as possible. If you run into any issues, let me know and we'll fix it up.

The idea of the mod as of now is to be a sort of sandbox for you to set up any types of battles for editor use. I use MoWAS2 for this personally, and as such, it was the most important feature to me. There are currently no real other use for it, in SP or MP, but I may do missions in the future depending on how much time I have. The factions themselves are built with the idea of being as unique from one another as possible, so there are skin variants that may not be most practical, but that look distinct. I've also tried to have them all use different types or themes of guns. Gun selection is not meant to be realistic, it is supposed to serve variety once more.

If you wish to do more map edits, the Easy Mapping map in custom maps has a set of different camp templates etc. I will also add vehicle textures that suit the various factions, as well as vehicles from Red Rising, for example a tachanka style truck for Freedom, BTRs for Duty etc.

Planned updates:
1. Further Stalkerification of maps and creation of new lab maps especially.
2. New factions and remakes of old ones, currently in the works are remakes for canon factions, as well as some extra factions.
3. Removal of excess crap in the files.
4. Possibly more vehicles, fixes to existing ones.

Credits:
First of all, much of the content here was not originally made by me, just modified to fit the setting. If you notice your mod assets and are not credited, let me know.

MoWAS2 Content:
Herbet128 for providing screenshots for the mod.
Slag mod for being the base of this mod, and the biggest contributor of assets.
Stalker: The Zone mod for maps, mutants, some gun models and so on.
Stalker Mod MoW for maps and assets and DungeonMaster for both letting me know of it, link to their page here: https://vk.com/stalkermodmow
Colonel Rooster for helping my dumbass with various modding related questions.
Ruemc for many of the guns found in Slag mod from his AK and AR packs, as well as the Tabuk Sniper rifle.
Some older weapons are from various abandoned mods, for example Tuling's Content Pack and Total Factions for Robz.
Some weapons are from the Red Frog mod.
The Enclave soldier skin is from "Enclave soldier in power armor" mod by NESHV.
Some weapons are from the Awakening of Europe mod.
Some older weaponry is from Justano's Random Weaponry mod.
Crater City for the awesome map.
Free Updated Map Pack R6 for many maps I used as basis for Stalkerified maps.
Resident Evil Skin Pack for the Umbrella soldier models.
Soviet Industry Map for Red Rising 3.2 for the awesome maps.
Modern Russian City for the awesome map
Fallen Fields mod for the awesome map.
Paths to the Zone and Stalker Industrial Map for the great Stalker maps.
Red Rising 3.3 for some of the maps, guns and so on.
Metro 2033 mod for helmets, skin and guns.

Stalker modding content:
Global War mod for humanskins.
Stalker Anomaly and its addons, Dux's Innumerable Character Kit in this case, for humanskins.
Secret Trails 2 for some humanskins.
Ryiverz for the excellent patch as the mod's thumbnail.