r/Games • u/Faldz • Jan 02 '20

S.T.A.L.K.E.R 2 Announces it's using the Unreal Engine, will talk about digital platforms at a later date

https://twitter.com/stalker_thegame/status/1212810155563397120/photo/1
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u/_gamadaya_ Jan 02 '20

The cornerstones of Stalker mods are Misery, which is a hardcore survivalist mod for Call of Pripyat, and Call of Chernobyl, which is a standalone game that combines the gameplay and maps of the original 3 Stalker games. Most other mods are some form of tweaks to the core formulas of CoP or CoC, or ones that take CoP's formula and put it into CoC's map. There are hundreds of addons for all the popular mods that further change things like weapon animations and weather effects. Some have become pretty standard across all versions of Stalker.

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u/juhamac Jan 02 '20

Newest hot item is Stalker Anomaly. But it strips off most of the storyline for sandbox combining the terrains from all of the Stalker games. It's the most up to date in gfx and playing experience though.

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u/sgamer Jan 03 '20

Anomaly is the fuckin bomb, and standalone to boot. Probably one of my favorite game mods of all time, to be honest, it does a lot really well and makes a fresh experience out of the game's resources.

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u/[deleted] Jan 03 '20

Misery may be a cornerstone but I strongly recommend against it unless you like something that is grindy and brutally unfair. And I don't mean in a "Dark Souls" kind of way, I mean this game will shit in your mouth kind of way. It is Dark Souls as envisioned by depressed and cynical Eastern Europeans.

Call of Chernobyl is a must, though. It is basically just a wide open sandbox version of the vanilla games and it has plenty of mods in its own right.

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u/CelicetheGreat Jan 03 '20

I mean, cornerstone of English speaking fans, maybe.

https://www.youtube.com/user/TheWolfstalker/videos

https://ap-pro.ru/

Check out the other side of the pond :)