Modding the Post-Apocalypse | S.T.A.L.K.E.R. Call of Chernobyl
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- Опубліковано 14 січ 2017
- Written, Voiced, and Edited by Lucas Raycevick
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AO - www.moddb.com/mods/call-of-che...
DXF - www.moddb.com/mods/call-of-che...
DXQ - www.moddb.com/mods/call-of-che...
OA - www.moddb.com/mods/call-of-che...
AW - www.moddb.com/mods/call-of-che...
HUD - www.moddb.com/mods/call-of-che... - Ігри
"The first battle I encountered may not have been much in scale"
>shows chimera
its only the strongest mutant in the game.
nothing to see here folks...
@@uteriel282 Honesly, if you have a rank 2 upgraded akm.
You are in the clear.
@@whyudoit4009
any shotgun with a full mag is better for killing mutants than ar´s.
the saiga and vepr are the best mutant killers you can have.
@@uteriel282 True, but I had more fruitful endevors with an upgraded AN-94. Ill try using 'Tide' hunting down controllers.
Controllers are harder to deal with in the open for me, because I have a helmet with a very low psi protection + there was this one time where I died due to: 1 bloodsucker
4 dogs and because a controller was there I couldn't anything.
Ignore the fact I am playing right now Gunslinger Mof where Controllers are way too op.
Sseth summed up the series pretty well in his review.
*"For westerners, S.T.A.L.K.E.R. is a game about surviving a harsh, unforgiving place, where there's no one to help or rescue you, human contact is limited, and you're left isolated from the outside world."*
*"For Slavs, S.T.A.L.K.E.R. is a simulation of everyday life."*
da, stalker is life
@@n0rie9a daa...takaja zhizn' shto zhit' nezahotchetsa....razve shto v 'zone' ;)
Stalker: where crashes are part of the gameplay experience
moments of rage because of this is an important part of the gameplay my friend XD
I wish the Zone to disappear!
Funnily enough, I played through all of SoC with zero crashes. My first crash in the series was halfway through Clear Sky, and it was halfway my fault for alt tabbing
lol i did not experience any crashes while playing vanilla SoC
@@anon6861 me too, but install CoC or any other stalker mod and you will see the crashes...
6:07 "The first battle may have not have been much in scale"
*Fights one of the zone's most feared and powerful creatures only using a fucking 9*
M9 vs Chimera yes.😀😀😀
>regular difficulty
>stalker
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"glitches occur" *SUCH IS LIFE IN THE ZONE*
If there is no glitch how can you be sure you are playing stalker rather than just living the life of a slav?
The devs were right in leaving in the glitches.
That are just "anomalies"
Did Raycevick have the audacity of calling Cheeki Breeki a negative?
*_CYKA BLYAT, IDI NAHUI_*
Byeah #427 CYKA
Maybe he is Western spy
OHHH CHEEKI BREEKI IV DAMKE
HE DID!
I love the fact that you had the most intense emotions playing as the literally braindead Monolith.
Regarding the damage of weapons, it works differently to other games.
In STALKER, higher difficulty means both you and the enemy will take less bullets to kill. Same as with the harder difficulties in the Metro series of games.
So really, rather than the easier/regular difficulties being easier, they're actually more of a pain in the ass.
insurgentdude to me difficulty should have no effect on time to kill, that should stay the same, but what should change is the intelligence of the AI, the accuracy of the AI, how good they are at flanking you, and so on.
HampStamp No, the devs of CoC have even stated that difficulty only effects the hit points of weapons. The AI is already improved from vanilla and it's the same across the board.
+Big Suds That's changed from the vanilla trilogy then, cause that's how it's always been in the STALKER series. Higher difficulty meant easier to die, easier to kill, and smarter Offline and Online AI. Maybe CoC devs changed this, I don't know.
insurgentdaddy
LuKazu
That's a great idea. I always hated how some (usually WW2 games) had a "realistic" difficulty but it only applies to yourself. like what shit, if I want to subject myself to getting one shot by a sneeze so does the enemy!
Definitely getting a Stalker game now just from this difficulty thing. I like my games realistic and fair in the gameplay aspect. I always put it off though because of it *looking* dated and generally something as buggy as DayZ. Maybe not.
This and Escape from Tarkov only proves to me that the Metro series should release a game set in an open world that happens mostly on the surface with all the mutants and other monsters with you left with barely any resources and you're gonna have to make it through.
I hope you do a video on the Metro 2033 and Last Light games because I've never really played any other game like them. Sure, they're not perfect, but in my opinion they had so much potential to be so great and you can see glimpses of perfection throughout the game.
The game at its core is a very survival type FPS but with an amazing atmosphere. If done right, it could easily be a better game than STALKER and Escape From Tarkov.
And yes I know that both Metro and EFT have ex-STALKER devs in their team and took some inspiration from the game.
I love 2033 Redux and Last Light, so I'll probably revisit them in the future. I've heard rumors that the next Metro title is going with an open-world structure. If that's true, and it takes some notes from Stalker's sandbox, that's a concept ripe with potential.
I saw an article on that about 2-3 years back, really hope that does pan out. Haven't heard anything from the studio since however (hopefully hard at work). I'd love to see your thoughts on the 2 existing titles however (despite there linear structure they remain some of the most atmospheric games I've ever experienced).
Loved this video focused on mods though, really hoping to see similar stuff again.
As usual, fantastic video, you are criminally under subscribed.
The Dead Immortal It would be really cool to see Metro get an open world, but that kind of defeats the purpose in my opinion. The game is about exploring a world made in a Metro. The claustrophobic atmosphere is always supposed to make you feel weird. That would be lost, but Dmitry said that he would like to span the world of Metro outside the Metro. I feel like S.t.a.l.k.e.r. allows us to live that out without the consequence of backlash.
+Raycevick
Oh thank god you like the games. I tried to underplay my love for the game so I don't come out as a fanboy but I really love the games lol
Like Metro 2033 is an amazing game even with the limited funding it had with the cringy voice acting and animation. And the (original) game is now 6 years old but god damn does the game still look beautiful.
+Sparkies DEB Generation
I respectfully disagree. When I read the book and also played the game I was the most fascinated with the surface. But being the pussy I am I actually preferred the metro and accompanied by my comrades but to me the Metro series were always trying to reach that point where they would eventually explore the surface in its entirety. Like to me that's what the book/game's end goal is. And it would be perfect if in their next installment the surface is slowly becoming more habitable and thus you'll be tasked with exploring it and preparing the place for human habitation.
It would fit perfectly in the lore and would make the game even better. But I also still love the Metro. I don't think they should get rid of the Metro it's the complete opposite. I hope they also expand on the Metros. Make the stations bigger and more explorable. How weirdly it sounds, the Metro quickly felt like home to me. I fucking loved that, and I wish they made every station explorable with side quests and like. I really wish they made the Metro games more in the vain of a survival RPG
Stalker:Anomaly takes everything good of CoC, and one ups it by a mile, that is truly one of the best Stalker experiences
yeah i love coc too
Unfortunately it also adds a lot of bullshit from Misery. Your enjoyment of Anomaly will mainly depend on whether you can put up with that stuff. I still enjoy killing time with it though
Ozren Dabic What’s bs about Anomoly? Haven’t checked it out yet.
@@zopheir5019 nothing, really. you can disable or enable pretty much everything in the game.
really the only thing is there's a lot of junk items, like for example soaked underwear, jars of rubles filled with sand, old textiles, wooden bits and Bob's. that stuff.
@@ozozozozozozozozozozozozozozoz not really. The mod allows you to tweak the difficulty until you like it.
“I decided to align with doodie”
Freedumb more like useless hippies
JOIN DUTY ON THEIR TRIUMPHANT MARCH!!!
@Ivan The evil Shut up hippie, DUTY will save the planet
@Ivan The evil Sorry i dont beat up unarmed lazy hippie losers
DUTY? MORE LIKE MONOLIT WITH EXOSUITS
@@sickley2 Join the legion of the holy R O C C
Why have i only just found your channel, and why do you only have 28k subscribers
This guy deserves fame XD
Just earned yourself a sub man, amazing video.
Drewski how come you've first found this channel now?
Haha I'm a sub of your sub... Subception! Hi Drewski nice Ghost recon wildland guides! :D
Drewski?!
The numbers of subscribers is now more acceptable right?
@@Lucas_Fidalgo always fun seeing these types of comments
Holy shit dude your channel is QUALITY
Also I take every opportunity I can to tell people that I preordered Shadow of Chernobyl.
Do you expect people to commend you for preordering :D? (Just pointing out that there is a lot of hate around preordering)
How can you preorder a game that's 10 years old?
LightTrack My guess is that he is older than 10 years and preordered it back then
PJ
Wait. You could preorder games 10 years ago? I thought that was like since 2010 or something.
(Btw, people hate preordering now, they didn't mind it back then when developers were actually competent.)
LightTrack
Of course you could preorder back then! Retailer get's your money early, developers get a nearly guarrenteed sale & people don't have to wait in lines just to see that the game they wanted was out of stock - Win-Win-Win right? But then the developers became lazy, as people became hyped for their games and preordered.
(Also they had no reason to hate preordering back then as developers weren't nearly as lazy as today due to guarrenteed money and false advertising wasn't really something you'd see often back then)
You didnt shout "NO!"
You shouted "AH BLYAT!"
"the amount of shots it takes"
play on master my friend
play on master? pathetic
master + damage addon
That damage thing is only true for soc. Only Enemy hit probability changes with difficulty in cs and cop.
True, I like damage addon because I like stalker mods to be as realistic as it can but everybody will play the game with their own preferences, there is nothing wrong with that.
@@cibo889 because difficulty just changes the damage of EVERYONE'S guns, making it actually kind of easier to kill people while also being easier to die
@@cibo889 it doesn't increase the amount of enemies, there's just a shitload of them anyway
First Rule of STALKER. Always play on hardest.
and buy replacement f5 and f8 buttons for your poor keyboard , cause you are going to smash these !
And cross hairs always off.
Joshua Corney People don't seem to know that on hardest the damage increase goes both ways. Sure you can be obliterated in one shot, but so can your target 100m away.
And, never run in a middle of a gun fight. Cause, then say hello to death.
Is that how the English version works? Cuz in the Ru version, at least from my 7+ years of experiencing it, harder difficulties make the enemies bullet sponges and you can get killed in an instant, while on easy you kill in a few bullets anywhere, and in one with a headshot. I advise playing the Russian version anyway, with subtitles on, since the voice acting in the Enlish version are horrendous.
I'm glad you like my CoC (Increased weapon damage) mod. Can I use your video to present my mod on moddb web site ?
Absolutely.
OK. I'll put a link on your video into my mod decription.
Dude, your mod is awesome and really made the game for me.
CoCk
sux my CoC
4:25 you forgot to say the magic word. "Get out of here, stalker!"
Man, stalker had such an amazing, creepy and unnerving atmosphere. Also it really felt like im not the player, but just a guy in the zone, as random things happened. If i remember correctly even quest npc-s could die randomly, or get killed. Also i miss games which doesnt hold your hands all the time with quest markers and hints all around.
It wasn't LIKE you were just a guy in the Zone. you WERE just a guy in the Zone. The first game famously had an overarching objective of getting to the center of the Zone. If you spent too much time doing fuck all, some random NPC would eventually manage to do it before you. The game didn't need you to complete itself.
This just makes me wish 4A Games made an open world Metro Game. Now THAT would cheeki my breeki.
Argelis Planchart That would be awesome
Argelis Planchart Dear god no
What are you talking about? That would be amazing.
It would be awesome but would also make it less 'scripted', there wont be those conviniently placed events that results in a action-packed scene, these moments would feel more Fallout-esque, thus removing some of the charm about Metro
That's what Metro 3 is going to be. They did the Last Light DLCs as trial runs for different gameplay mechanics and the feedback they got from the semi-open Kshatriya level was overwhelmingly positive. They've since said that their upcoming title will be open world.
Actually Artificial Intelligence is exactly STALKER's strongpoint. The problems really are these frustrations where the AI pushes you or falters, but apart from that no other game has its simulation or combat AI. Some come close in one OR the other, true, but not both.
Like any complex system it fucks itself up though. Such is life really.
Alexander Yordanov Agreed. STALKER AI, at least for enemies that aren't mutants or bandits, is friggin amazing. So many stories of great fights in the vanilla game. Again, as long as they aren't against bandits or mutants. Then the problems arise.
sgtpieman If you look at the arena fights in the first game....
Those FUCKERS had a sence of teamwork. They were hiding and sneaking like the player. They tried to flank aswell. Those guys weren't you generic Bioshock junkies running at you with a gun without any sence of their environment. Or your idiotic COD cannonflesh running in a line to their next cover. Peaking out like Idiots and dieing the same stupid way...
Bobistdeinemuda I dunno, Bandits seem to just run straight at me and mutants either stand in one spot soaking up bullets or run like a headless chicken and hope to bump into me. I've had the cloaking cthulu ones (shit I can't remember what they are called) actually unable to attack me because I was standing in a different room. I could clearly see them trying to get to me through the doorway, but their nodes or something didn't extend beyond that door, so they were stuck.
Once you start fighting the factions outside of random bandits however, their AI really shines. The way they work together is unprecedented. Even games with "smart ai" tend to fight like people playing paintball or having a water gun fight. It can still be effective, but they don't act like people and they don't act like soldiers. STALKER on the other hand, their more organized enemies do, and it shows you just why these tactics work in real life: They're really friggin effective and real people can't keep loading saves when they die. And then when they AI starts setting up traps? Turning off their PDA so you no longer know how many are really there, and when you make to leave thinking the area is clear, turns out at least one was hiding just outside where you would look on your way out, and pops you in the back of the head... brutal. Heck, that tends to be a trend. Climb a ladder, the guy moved to where your back is turned and waits on you to pop your head up, ending you in a moment.
sgtpieman Very impressive.... seriously...
AI in Stalker is Random in one word. Despite it functions on pure scripts you can experience hundreds of patterns with it. One time you can witness some party on drugs, next time you see perfect team storming enemy base as if they were some spec-ops. Mods often break or enhance it if you tweak it right.
Try the Anomaly Standalone mod, its basically Call of Chernobyl but with everything you felt was lacking: Realism, graphics, tons more quests, dynamic faction relations, all mutants are actually dangerous and scary, new main storyline, more artefacts and new, dynamic deadly anomiles and mutants, awesome well balanced weapons and gun play, extra autistic additions like disguises, advance gun and outfit repairs and disassembly, backpacks, thirst, first aid and medication aren't just an instant +15HP when you feel you're gonna die etc. etc.
Oh yeah it uses a x64 engine as well so its almost 100% stable and way less stuttering, I havent even had a single crash after dozens of hours of playthrough ,which as any stalker modder knows is a miracle. Just be ready too give up lots of hours.
...basically Last Day actually
@@n0rie9a but less shitty
Heard so much about anomaly mod , planning to give it a shot hope it's not hard as misery
Yeah, i played like 50 hours before the first, and untill now the only, crash.
Anomaly is absolute dogshig
Plus it never fucking works
You dont play STALKER on "normal" difficulty
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Easy = everyone ks a bullet sponge
Hard= you and every enemy dies in maybe 2-5 shots
@@ceoofsocialanxiety6658 i would love this game, I usually don't let 2-5 shots kill me in any game...except dark souls.
@@thetau4866 yeah this game on high difficulty is, as IGN would say, "The Dark Souls of First Person Shooters"
Stalker needs more content, not mods
@@MrSp0iler stalker 2 is coming so
Thanks for all the views, comments, and shares everybody! And by popular demand, a mod-list is now available in the description!
Raycevick you make some pretty good vids i love it subbed
Raycevick You make great content! Glad these vids popped up on the recommended list!
This video is hilarious its a little bit of a change of pace from your last few but its still great!
I think this one is my favorite. Hilarious as fuck.. very unexpected XD
Thanks a bunch for this awesome video!
I've come back to this video several times, constantly debating whether I should try COC or not. This time I've been convinced that I need to. Thank you Raycevick, for being so amazing and nice to link directly to the mods so we don't have to go hunting!
Get all 3 of them there like 5 bucks each I got them on steam and the CD-ROM ones try them out as they are it will take you 0ne weekend then mod them so much fun
anthonyjohnadlington only 5 bucks if you are in russia
@Puppu Jinks how is it shitty
If u do, DON'T PLAY ON REGULAR, the Game gets easier on higher difficulties, dis dood dontknoe sshite
4 years later, I'm still waiting for raycevick to review more S.T.A.L.K.E.R mods like anomaly, misery, lost alpha, etc.
Same
GAMMA and EFP. I want him to make a video about them.
It's been 6years now
"even on regular difficulty"
play on master, nerd
There is no 'regular' there is only 'master' difficulty.
I honestly love the fact that the game gets easier on master difficulty
@@robbierootbeer8056 Debatable, you can find full 3 clips of AK ammo in 1 stash on 'Novice', but on 'Master' difficulty you find up to 3-4 bullets, lol.
The bullshitery of 'Master' difficulty really shows it's colors on CS ending mission. If you can beat that mission without dying 50 times and not use cheats with such a difficulty, you are a master stalker.
I don't know why so many youtubers play it on master difficulty. Like, they think that they are too good to play on easier difficulties.
And yet, many of them save-load *a lot*. Which breaks immersion, imo.
Better to play on easiest difficulty, but on "ironman" mode or something. Save-loading after each successful kill is not fun.
@@Afterburn7 I never have ammo issues in stalker because I always make a point of selling looted weapons that I don't need or want, so I have money to buy ammo. The reason I find master difficulty easier is because it doesn't take every single bullet I have to kill one guy, it takes like four.
I like games like this. Instead of following a characters story you are following YOUR story. Great video Raycevick!
Exactly. More games need to follow this concept.
Try Kenshi (Higher end pc) or Mount and Blade (lower end pc). Chances are you know of Mount and blade but Kenshi is a bit more obscure. Kenshi is literally the definition of your own story. It starts with an extremely in depth character creator, you literally start as a nobody. That's the premise of the game. You start as a wandering nobody who has to up the ranks of a giant 800+ km map. You can be a farmer, a soldier, or a fucking king and much much more, my first play through I got caught stealing from a general goods store and was knocked out, imprisoned, and given to slaves and enslaved, on the long journey in the desert I managed to run away when a group of wild dogs attacked the slavers and the slaves. I made it to a desolate town in the desert where I would end up dying of thirst. It's an amazing game!
Holy shit I'm puttin' Kenshi on the wishlist, that game looks fuckin' incredible.
Nesano I'm glad I could be of assistance! A game just like kenshi but zombie survival (but not overdone zombie survival) is project zomboid, you've probably heard of that one, but it's very much like kenshi, it's isometric top down, you start with nothing and must survive. What's your steam profile man? I can add you.
Oh, I didn't realize it was isometric. Might be a dealbreaker.
I found your channel a few days ago and I have to say you deserve more subscribers than you currently have.
A lot more. This is FrankieonPC level of content, but just where it's reviewing instead of DayZ
A couple weeks ago he had like 7k. It's growing quickly.
Sadly, people who pour thought and work into their videos having middling subscriber counts while shallow, pandering tripe rakes in millions of hits is the order of the day on UA-cam.
GzG92 Well I guess it helps to see if he can keep it up and if he actually deserves it (I know a couple of channels who couldn't but still got a more than adequate amount of subs)
*+PJ* A fair point, but let's be honest: Even with less than two dozen videos under its belt, this channel has done more to earn its subscribers than the likes of Markiplier ever did across thousands and thousands of uploads.
if you are new into stalker series, i recommend you try shadow of chernobyl, and then clear sky, and finally call of pripyat, why?, because this video gets ALOT of new people into the stalker series, and the bad thing the mayority starts with call of chernobyl, and thats really, really bad.
Aleksa Petrovic I imagine you might get different answers depending on who you ask, but Stalker has quite a bit of story, and I'd say to play the others for understanding the world/its factions, its mechanics/story, and to appreciate the improvements made with each iteration. There is a bit to unpack with Stalker, and like watching the Star Wars movies in a particular order, many people agree there is just a certain way to play through the games for the best experience.
Not to mention, CoC can really be overwhelming, broken, or downright boring to someone who has no idea whats going on. Obviously, it is 100% possible to stick with CoC and do it first and play any of the games you want in any order with any mods, but some things are just easier done in a specific way.
There is a really great story in the Shadow of Chernobyl that is worth going through. There are things that happen in sequence that make the game a beatiful experience that you won't have if it is unstructured like COC. Play SOC with the stalker complete mod.
@Aleksa Petrovic NEVER, IN ANY GAME, PLAY THE MODS BEFORE THE VANILLA, NEVER, NO MATTER WHAT ANYONE SAYS, DON'T.
Unless the mod fixes compatibility, game breaking glitches or crashing.
There is no story, but there is Lore, the zone is both morbid and desolate but alive and vivid,if you just jump into CoC you will just end up wondering why are you wandering in radioactive ukrainian swamps with no answer.
@@PaizuruInsanal I disagree with you on that. I played with the complete mod for soc because i couldn't handle the vanilla version, i thought it was a good rep of the stalker experience to be honest it was tough fights on high difficulty. MAYBE too much action for some. clear sky is tough but complete was the easiest and most stable mod i found for that game as clear sky is a mess to run to be honest. COP complete was actually really fun for me, misery was alright but seemed too brutal for the sake of being brutal which is fun but not for me. All of the games are great and it really seems like the big fixes are in gun play and weapons.
@@PaizuruInsanal but you are right about playin call of Chernobyl first is a bad idea lol, need some back story just to figure out what to do. But hey maybe being thrown into the open stalker world with no direction or back story is the experience they should get:))
This S.T.A.L.K.E.R. needs help...
So I decided to mod Stalker this time using JSGME (before I always did it manually) and from what I read my current load order of the mods Raycevick is using including a few others is...
-Arsenal Overhaul 3.1
-Outfit Add-on 1.4.7
-Outfit Add-on AO3 patch
(Smurths Dynamic HUD. Within Smurths mod I used 3 separate folders in JSGME so it loads in order)
-Folder A "Install files"
-Folder B "AO+OA Compatibility patch"
-Folder C within "optional HUD and npc" folder, I merged "HUD full lite" then "minimap on" then "npc spot friends, hostiles, & dead bodies" in to one folder
-Autumn Winds 1.9
-Dr X questlines 1.25
-Dr X Dynamic Faction Relations 1.8
-Dr X Faction Relations 1.6
-Dr X More Mutants 1.1
-Increased Weapon Damage 1.6
Load order goes top to bottom, however I manually installed CoC patch up to 1.4.22 so load order is on top of CoC 1.4.22.
Is this load order right? Because I'm getting graphics errors. First thing I noticed is the icons are out of wack in the inventory.
Update:
Nevermind. I must have rushed because in the OA AO3 patch folder I had nothing, after adding the patch everything was in order and the graphical glitches are gone.
Well, I since I run a laptop not meant for gaming I run the video settings very low, that being said I can't really see any changes that Autumn Winds have made. I pretty much run the same setup but without OA, Smurths, and IWD (and Autumn Winds) before using trying this combination of mods.
Even though I always play on master difficulty after installing IWD I absolutely *DO* notice a difference in weapons damage (and this is from someone who already has about 1000 hours of Stalker already). It's nice to use the weaker guns effectively and not have them be worthless POS. Weapons damage has been worked so larger cal weapons are still the cream of the crop but the small cal weapons are still effective in combat against people using armor. (There are 4 variations of IWD going from lightest, light, heavy, heaviest damage. I'm using light.)
Smurths mod is AMAZING for immersion!
I knew about before but didn't give it a chance because the helmet hud seemed like it was too obstructive... not in the slightest. There is a helmet overlay but you can still see pretty clearly, and the mask breathing sound I thought was going to be annoying after a while... wrong on that as well. As I said, it's amazing for immersion.
(There's animations for using items that are pretty cool and add to immersion and there's options for having helmet hud and mask breathing sounds, all can be turned on or off if you so wish.)
Other than that, DrX Questlines will cause a few CTDs when accepting certain missions so it's a good idea to save BEFORE saying "yes" to any missions, from anyone (merch or Stalker). From what I gather it's because certain missions (after installing DXQuestlines) conflict with the missions that were in place for CoC or something.
Enjoy.
Did the load order for your mods work? Cuz im planning to use the same mods as you
@@ehsanghazavi470 Yup. I recommend using JSGME to run the mods. It'll help pin point a problem if you run into one by keeping things neat and in order.
If you run into any problems I'd be happy to help.
Also, if you use decide to use Warfare mod let me know because the moddb page for that mod is dead but I have a link to my own copies you can use if you decide to go that route.
D Sandoval thanks for the help!
Dude I think you were born to make gaming videos
he was, also my name...
Haha nice
cat intensifying intensifies
You just described why I always loved Arma 2.
All the imperfections in STALKER is what makes the game so good in my opinion. Nitpickers can go walk into an anomaly.
"Gives us a glimpse, not of what games are, but of what they can be."
Best conclusion, period. Solid gold.
Can we get links for the mods mentioned in the video?
They are in the description
They weren't when I watched it hahaha.
cat Oh cool. They weren't there when first uploaded. lol
2:31 "Doody.
A paramilitary faction at odds with everyone seeking to exploit the zone"
Sure
Bastiaan Schaar hilarious comment
Bastiaan Schaar NOTHING WILL STOP DUTY FROM REACHING ITS GOAL. NOT MUTANTS, BANDITS, OR ANOMALIES
@@gavinclark6891 Their main goals include wearing kinky boots and holding hands while on night patrol.
@@fuzzydunlop7928 is that a IRA refrence
Gauss Rifle and an Eliminator is all you need son.
I rather go for Predator instead of the Eliminator
Gauss Rifle: Coward Stalker
Eliminator has the damage equivalent of a hypersonic pebble tosser
saiga 12k/vepr 12 and a g36 or g3/sg1 in a radiation suit (all upgraded of course) if you want to be unbeatable.
no need for all this fancy sci-fi bs.
Little did I know watching this video 5 years ago when it dropped that it would set me down the STALKER modding path which would eventually lead me to Anomaly, and later Escape from Pripyat. This video is directly responsible for untold hours of intense, stressful, frustrating, and amazing gaming for me, so I figured I should come back and thank you.
I never modded any STALKER but loved it nonetheless. It made it hard for me to play something like Fallout 3. I enjoyed actually learning the lay of the land, finding my way through a field full of anomalies and actually getting an arsenal up after starting off with a garbage pistol. I played each game in the series on Master and have done at least two plays of each game in the series. It was memorable to say the least, glitches included.
Donald James the games have such powerful vision that their ground stood is so unique!
So many hours of STALKER and I've never once considered modding it lol.
Also: Escape from Tarkov
I hope it doesnt suck, the gameplay looks very promising!
i've been in the alpha, its brutal and addicting. unforgiving.
One thing gun porn: the game... I mean, Tarkov lacks is "player vs environment". Sure radiation seems to be the thing at some point and there is food and water management, but actual threat is always from human. Anomalies, wild beasts, anomalies, sci-fi experimentation gone wrong... Makes more exciting to explore you know.
B'ars NI I do believe they want to introduce some wildlife, but other players and ai are already such a pain in the ass
I'm pretty sure I heard they intend to make it open world after more development.
Hope you do a 'sequel' for this video on the Anomaly mod. Curious to know what you think of it.
since it's been a while since Ray has played Stalker for the channel i'd like to recommend he play Anomaly, one of the best Stalker mods out there. and it did in fact win Mod of the Year award in 2020 and it also recently entered it's 1.5.1 version which updates the UI, A-Life system, and squashes a few bugs. it'd be a nice way to be reintroduced to the series.
Was that a troll face? In the current year?
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"May not have been much in scale" he says, while being jumped at by a bloody chimera.
The OST of S.T.A.L.K.E.R. is SOOO creepy! I love it!!
This is such an incredible video, and a near-flawless mini-documentary on the various elements that make S.T.A.L.K.E.R. what it is. Very well done, man! :D
Two Words: Warfare Mod.
I had to spend about 30 minutes trying to defend Rostok and Rad 100 Bars from the invading monoliths coming from the north of that area map.
I was part of the Loner group and currently had a healthy relationship with the local Duty. From the South, Bandits were invading and Freedom was coming from the east (I never had a problem with Freedom due to neutrality). I've spent 30 min at the north guard post fending off monoliths with RPG 7s and big guns with my favorite weapon, the AKM with all upgrades on bullet velocity and accuracy. I had a makarov as my secondary. MAN, the monolith wrecked the Duty at the north post as one unbelievable shot with the RPG killed 5 guys. I didn't want to die because I had ironman on, so I retreated to the south and had to deal with the bandits (which were easy to fight off but kept coming every 30 seconds). After a while I headed back north. The monolith pushed through the north guard post as no one was there and the Duty had to fight the invading monoliths coming into their base. the remaining loners in the Rad 100 fend off the monoliths like hell while duty got overrun by the monoliths. Eventually, the loners fell at the bar. Then the monolith took control of rostok who sent men to the southern and eastern guard posts who annihilated the crap outta Freedom and the Bandits simultaneously because of their friggin' RPGs. I just left the area and headed to the Truck cemetery and died on my way to Cordon at Dark Valley where AI just insta killed me (I did put the difficulty on master but I thought that was too fast to die from a 9x18 Bizon...)
If you're lucky, you will have a good time.
This was CoC 1.3.2
EliteDeltaTeam true stalker. I love warfare. I was playing Ironman and was a Military grunt. I had a M416(fully upgraded with 40mm) and actually made friends with the Loners(Dynamic faction relations) and we held off the military base in Aprogrom. The Clear sky faction overran the swamps and headed to our base, they came in through the gate but the BTR wrecked them. The loners rushes to help but had many dead because of the overwhelming amount of CS. Me and the Garrison pushed them out of the compound and put up a defense. A soldier radioed in and called a MI-24 to come and support, we pushed them out of aprogrom and took back some of the upper outposts of the great swamps. We were gonna go on a rampage through the swamps and kill every last CS. I was then shot by a sniper up in a guard tower. Life in the zone is a damn lie, it makes you think you are Rambo and then *PUFF* a .338 tears through your body armor and hits your heart while your squad looks at you shock while a MG suppress the sniper.
nobody cares
I come back to this every now and then to see how quaint this video is compared to Drewski's videos on STALKER Anomaly and STALKER GAMMA
Still, this exposure by Raycevick of Call of Chernobyl was what got me into the whole STALKER Sandbox experience for the most part, and even though I'm knee deep in GAMMA now, it's always fun to look back on the classics
This is truly an amazing video, it offers solutions to severe problems in a game as well as entertaining commentary on the game itself. Very entertaining
I liked your scriptwriting and narrative in this video! Good work man!
Yay you uploaded! Really enjoying your channel
You are so eloquent with it such a high quality 👍
First video of yours I've come across. This was great! You got me to download this game and I'm hooked.
I literally have this video on loop, it is weirdly entertaining... great narration Raycevick !
Did the man just say "Bad hit detection"? Judging by the shooting skills, I don't think that was the issue there.
fucking clown couldnt hit a psuedodog sitting right in front of him.....fucking blyat guy shoots over everyone and everything...the hit detection is bad
Dude, I love your videos! Keep em up!
Man, u have a talent to tell a story ! Awesome work, Iland I hope you will do more story like this :)
"Outdated engine" errr.. The engine is dated, but I wouldn't call it OUTdated, just old, the single thread nature of it is frustrating, but the scope of the game and the visuals still impresses me even today, few games managed to present such an ambitious and dynamic semi-open world (except games like Witcher 3 for example but they are very few)
Nah, the x-ray engine was dated even by 2007 standards from a technical standpoint. Not to mention it's basically held together with duct tape and slavic praying. The real magic of it is how much GSC managed to achieve in spite of x-ray engine.
@@joaogomes9405 no it wasn't, I have a clear memory of SoC when it came out, textures where incredibly high res with parallax mapping, dynamic lights where very present with real time shadows for almost all of them, skyboxes where incredible, the game was the first to feature cascade shadow maps from the sun, etc etc.. the game had no equivalent graphically at it's time, sorry but I am completely entitled to my own opinion in this case ^^
@@deus_nsf Nah, I remember being disappointed after launching SoC: models and textures were outdated as most were created years before the release. You can see most of them in builds from year 2003. But lighting and shadows were amazing and still are. This happens with games that take too much time to develop: it is relatively easy to update the engine and add few effects to keep graphics updated, but very hard to rework every assert in the game.
@@joaogomes9405 1. the 3 lead programmers/director behind metro exodus are the same 3 people responsible for x-ray engine
2. SoC was supposed to come out in 2004/2005 so for an engine developed in the early 2000;s id say it was miles ahead of its time
3. assets/engine quality were way better before dean sharpe/thq had to step in to make the game playable/more accessible by reducing quality and cutting down on features/content; it is a fact that alpha builds had more quality of the assets/content/etc than the public release
I had the exact same problem with that damn escort quest. Many frustrations were had.
I cannot put to words just how much your videos, your work means to me. I have many experiences, gaming and otherwise which I'm unable to articulate, but your thoughts, especially on this title align with some of mine and give me a feeling of mutual understanding that I'd otherwise be without. Thank you for my humanity.
tobsmonster2 I feel that same
Excellent video. Glad to have found your channel.
Glad I discovered this amazing channel. Keep up the good work!
"American made death machine powerful enough to make any merc pause"
Lol it's a little babby 5.56mm ar
traditionalist man 5.56 turns sideways when it hits the body ripping a large hole,small round? Sure,little damage?,no
andre de haan Fired from an ar. Maybe if the gun he was calling a powerful death machine was a belt fed machine gun chambered in 5.56 it wouldn't be as funny.
i wonder if you would be laughing about "babby 5.56mm ar" if you took 3 in the chest from one.
He's obviously speaking in comparison to the rest of the guns this game offers, dumbass.
American death machine has no power on glorious communist soil, suka!!
7:19 wow thats sounds amazing! Its like a audio book
Thanks mate you've made me buy Stalker, I enjoyed SOC and now I am playing COC and I have sunk like 40 hours into it already.
THANKS SO MUCH !!!
Thank you man that was super simple with the mod list.
Great Channel Mate. I met the same Tower just from the other side, i came from the Tunnels and found a Compass Anomalie worth 10 000!!! However after i pass the Tower i met some thugs and basicly lost all ammo and was nowhere and died. xD
S.T.A.L.K.E.R. is one of my favourite games of all time. Been playing it since it launched. I will play it, take a break for a year or 6 month, then come back and play it again, iv'e been playing MISERY alot, great mod. S.T.A.L.K.E.R. gives an experience like no other shooter rpg, which is sad, i wish we had more games like this (with a better engine and a bit more polished ). Good vid.
What a great Video about one of my favourite games if all time, great job Ray
That was awesome never have seen something like this video!Subbed!
your videos have such top notch production its astounding! i can't wait to see more from you.
EDIT: have you played "The Long Dark" yet? that game has very good atmosphere.
"STALKER is one of the titles that's not advice to be played in vanilla" lol
-Rookie
I just love the close quarters combat. My first time playing, I just about ran into two bandits in a building. I got startled and took cover. To my surprise, it seemed they also got startled and took cover. One even peaked around the corner before both advanced on my corner.
This is one of if not my favorite on this site great job I wish that you could do a new checkup and see what other mods you can add as well
there's always such tension in the game, even if you're decked on in gear. never feel safe when walking the game at night
First rule of stalker: never feel safe.
This video was absolutely brilliant! You just earned a sub
this video has been most useful to get my stalker game modded the way i wanted and working without any crashes (there is a crash very seldom here and there but nothing major). So thank you so much! This game is just amazing and after i do all my days duties, I sit here and exist only in THE ZONE!!
You do know that on Master you deal more damage, statistically? It's more complicated than just lower health pools and increased damage, but the higher difficulty is the easier for you to kill people (and die).
Wrong. That's a myth.
@@Johnspartan296 Somebody says its actually difference in difficulty on EN and RU versions of the game. I cant say about it because i always played on RU.
If you interested in depth how its works:
www.reddit.com/r/stalker/comments/7fxvt5/what_do_difficulties_actually_change_in_stalker/
In terms of things like "every step having a level of tension" I feel Metro Redux does this pretty well, and given the new one looks open world I feel the tension will be amplified
This video feels so nostalgic to watch even tho I watched it for the first time almost 4 years ago. Thank you.
This and the video made by the UA-cam channel called GVMERS introduce me to stalker
great job dude! i enjoyed this video, it's almost a movie.
4:15 I fucking love you
Oh boy you're gonna love Metro.
Oh more people already commented about this... anyway, I have to Say that Metro was intense, unforgiving and It's story got me hooked SO hard I almost cried at the end of Last Light.
Yet to play last light, but I completely agree with "Metro was intense, unforgiving" and it was amazing to play.
For example I remember playing this one level for hours, a railway with the Reds and Nazis, pushing myself to preserve as much ammo and medkits as possible for the next big battle coming up. Restarting from a checkpoint over and over to achieve my goal.
It was fun, despite how boring it seems in words.
Brutal Demon I remember that during a long railroad trip I forgot to pick one filter and in the next part I was unable to do anything, and since I advanced to the next checkpoint where I had to get out of the car and explore a little room, there were no filters inside, I just kept dying and dying.
I was running, scouting the place looking for a filter, knowing I would die if I didn't find it... and I didn't.
The game punished me for making a mistake, to the point I had to restart the whole chapter.
Few games will do something like that, and the atmosphere, the feel of the game was so good, so immersive, I felt like I was going to die irl.
Solruc [CarlosColombia10] I love Meteo
I thought metro was super linear and once you had finished one fight you had finished them all, honestly one of the most boring games I've ever played
great narration, Im sold to this mod and will try it!
5 years later and this is the video that got me back into the stalker series.
The Stalker franchise is like the gift that keeps on giving try Anomaly another awsome stand alone right out of the box has a lot of the same features as Coc but more content.
I agree, anomaly is like the best thing you can play right now, with lost alpha DC, and those are free standalone games ! If only the engine was multithreaded though... :(
Yep, Anomaly is super cool
Amazing dissection of a fantastic game and mod!
Near the end of the video when you mentioned boring predictable sequences in games, such as turret sequences you get board and doze of. I have had experiences with such games and falling asleep because it was late(around 10-11). But there is this one stalker experience I will never forget. It was 4 in the morning.I was underground hiding from an emission while tracking down the Pearson I needed to kill. When I came across a dark room with a mutant I had never seen, with powers I have never experienced. I froze, I was terrified(also didn't help that there was these ghost like things chasing me). I was tired and never once felt like dozing off. The atmosphere is so immersive, it felt like I was there. With stalker there can never be a dull moment, and sure it has it's problems, but it will always hold a place in my heart. If a game this old cane make me feel more immersed at 4 am, and not make me want to sleep. Then games today don't have much of an excuse.
Ray, for some reason, your video poped in my home, and im from brazil, all things here in the home is dudes cutting things with a hot knife and this type of thing, and shit, your video was amazing! thanks! i love this game but the old engine, graphics, and much more of the problems are solved now with these mods, and im happy playing this game again, with the pain of the bugs and glitches less painfull
I LOVED YOUR WORK BRO!
wow um br aq
Opa ola :D
I don't think Shadow of Chernobyl's first mission is "awful". It's a simple mission where you and a few guys assault a house full of bandits. Which quickly gets you into the action and lets you familiarize yourself with the guns and the AI.
The only real "awful" aspect of it is how you have to assault the house with very poor weapons and you don't get a good weapon until later unless you assault the military to the north or the military checkpoint to the south.
DeadYorick I thought the first mission was getting those artefacts from the anomaly field? That was gay.
@@apropercuppa8612 That was a side mission i think.
@@lukkkasz323 Are you sure? I thought the Trader wanted whatever that artifact was?
@@apropercuppa8612 There was a mission like this in Alpha.
Im 100% that is the first mission in "Oblivion Lost Remake".
But yeah, in the vanilla game the first mission is to meet Wolf (i think that was his name) and he gives you basic equipment (Knife, Pistol+Ammo) and then gives you a quest to kill bandits and free a stalker.
The next quest is in Aprogrom i think.
All artifact related quests are side quests.
@@lukkkasz323 Aha! Yes, you are correct. Man, that came flooding back. I used to love inciting conflict between the Stalkers at Cordon(?) and the Military personnel at the Army Checkpoint down the road by firing on them and retreating. I used to love the small engagements.
4th time I've watched this video, and I keep coming back for more. Your storytelling is so good!
your voice and the choice of words make this sound like a audio book. great job!
See people, this is what happens when you tell people that S.T.A.L.K.E.R. is best played modded.
They immediately grab the first huge, impressive-looking mod they can find and then play the game expecting it to be some action-hero shooter, which the original would have punished harshly, but the mod allows or even encourages.
And now there's one more person in the world who almost had the opportunity to enjoy the unique atmosphere of the Zone, but instead will never quite get why S.T.A.L.K.E.R. is such a cult classic.
Also, Loner pride.
How would you say that vanilla Pripyat or Chernobyl do things better (or different) than CoC then?
ua-cam.com/video/xTq4ibgVof8/v-deo.html watch this video and see his comparisons with the action hero schtick. Makes some good points to support vanilla Chernobyl, I think.
stalker needs mods to keep it alive. The game has not aged well. It’s like Elder scrolls Morrowind. You have to mod it to enjoy the seemingly tiny things that are wrong with it.
A E O N I A N sure, but some people don’t think you have to change the core gameplay formula as much as raycevick does in this video
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This sounds like everything I hope the upcoming open world Metro game will be.
Exactly what i was thinking
I am really hoping that Exodus will be the ultimate Metro + Stalker experience. But tbh I really have high doubts, I even think it will be bad.
MC Kobra me too :(
I would love to see a sequel to this video, you could make it a direct continuation of this video where you continue to mod the game and document how it affected the game and how it affected you as you played it. Thank you for giving us even just one of these videos, I can't wait to see what you do in the future. Keep it up!
The first video I watched and the one that sold me on your channel!