A love letter to MADNESS: OP 2.2 and the STALKER Soup Mods
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 29 ก.พ. 2024
- This video started as a pure review of Stalker OP 2.2 (aka ОП-2.2, Joint pack, Cumulative pack 2). It slowly morphed during the writing into a full history of the soup mods, from Narodnaya Solyanka, NS2016, all the different versions, OGSR ports, main addons, Stalkersoup and so on... until the first united pack (OP), through the release of OP2, until the latest version today, OP 2.2.
In the end I cut most of the history part to focus more on OP2, the full history of the soup mods actually deserves a standalone video (maybe one day, when I have 6 months of free time to play most of them!).
So this is just a love letter to OP 2.2, an insane, amazing, and very unique experience in the middle of the vast ocean of mods the STALKER community has to offer.
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You will find all the download links, install guide and all the help you need to get started with the mod on the amazing wiki:
op-2.fandom.com/wiki/Cumulati...
Much more info, addons, help, tutorials etc.. will come in the starter guide video, I'm working on it as we speak! - เกม
![the infinite strangeness of OP-2 [STALKER OP-2.2/ОП-2.2]](http://i.ytimg.com/vi/UiUyWsJbyeU/mqdefault.jpg)
Petition to make it series, looks absolutely wild and i love it
I'm low key thinking about it as I'm really enjoying the mod despite the struggles, but I'm not sure I want to start something I will probably never finish ahahh
seconding this, I'd love to see Cheeki commentary on some of the insane stuff in here
@@CheekiBreekiTv start it AND finish it.
@@Zeon081
This is a big ask, a commitment to something like this can actually burn you out and break your gaming spirit. I'm not joking.
Never ask a western youtuber to do a souplike walkthrough, it's an endeavor many have tried in the past and failed. Legends like OCedmyToaster have even vanished off the face of the internet while attempting it, never to return.
This months long commitment can break even the strongest stalkers in their attempt to record it. It is a spirit-breaking undertaking for those without slavjank in their bloodstream.
Wow.. the Toast letsplay.. those were the days…
@@Pistakuntwhat happened to that guy anyway?
@@postalbear3695 I have no clue.. I have checked his YT for years after but have found nothing. I hope he’s okay : )
@@postalbear3695 I have no idea, he just stopped uploading all of a sudden. I hope he is okay.
You just can't get yourself out of stalker it's in your blood as well as your audience 😂
Dudes channel name is cheekie breekie there’s no going back for him💀
After entering the zone, leaving it definitely hard.
Haven't finished the video yet, but still wanna make a "no one asked comment". So the OG Soup Mod (Narodnaya Solyanka) is called that way because solyanka is a name of the russian soup that's famous for including basically whatever meat you've got. Usually it's a little bit of sausages, ham, pork, beef and whatever else (except fish) with vegetables, tomato paste, pickles and olives.
Yeah it sounds weird but I love when my grandma makes it cuz it tastes awesome. Kind of time consuming tho.
Ah, so Kitchen Sink Mod would probably get the same idea across in the West. (From “Everything but the kitchen sink”.)
This comment made me miss solyanka :( There's none in Turkey lol
@@slimpwarrior ну дык сделай, Дим.
@@CantankerousDave well, there's still a general recipe, but most households have something special that they do, like using certain types of meat or olives.
Despite your reservations, 11:29 is a surprisingly apt description of the modpack. No matter how impossible any given situation seems, there's always multiple strategies or tools that will lead you to victory. OP encounters can often feel more like a puzzle where you need to understand all of the moving parts rather than a shooter, so resourceful people who aren't necessarily FPS gods can thrive playing it.
Thanks for the shoutout to the wiki contributors too. It's incredibly rewarding to see more people slowly get into OP over time, but even more rewarding to see the dedicated few who can reach the endings.
Combat encounters that are more than just twitch aiming click-on-the-head Shlock?
As in you actually have to slow down, plan out and execute a strategy to win?
It isn’t just stacking all DPS items and just running that for the entire play-through?
Holy fucking shit, what a breath of fresh air, I’m jumping off of anomaly for this.
@@sebastianpost7237 Of course the vast majority of encounters are simple world spawns and most combat can be won by baiting enemies into your field of view like in most stalker mods, but the most bullshit setpiece encounters will definitely need some kind of strategy unless you're fully kitted out. A good early example is (slight spoilers) the two-pronged ambushes in the Wild Territory burner tunnel, which have many methods to fight out or escape to a better vantage point. Another good example is the large-scale military invasion of Jupiter, where over 80 soldiers start slowly converging on your position and your escape routes are cut off by a certain emplacement.
On the whole OP's weapon and tool variety serves a good purpose since the actual variety of encounters is pretty wide, and you'll probably be updating and upgrading your loadout constantly. The moment when you really become an OP addict is when you come up with a unique cheese method for a hard quest that you've never seen anyone mention or use before.
@@sebastianpost7237 It's all true, there are lots of "unusual" encounters in this mod which just having a really good rifle simply won't cut it. You'll sometimes also need additional equipment, like grenades, embryos, turret or even some specialist weapons like RPG-7 to take down a flock of helicopters, BTRs or some powerful mutants which otherwise would eat your entire ammo reserve. There are no "best in slot" weapons in this mod, there is not a single weapon which you'll use for the entirety of playthrough. There are some really good weapons out there which you'll stash and switch around once the ammo in the one you're currently using runs out.
Fun fact, in most of the mods Gauss rifle is considered end game gun, while in OP 2.2 it's early game, low tier gun, which you obtain in the same amount of hours you would obtain in vanilla Shadow of Chernobyl. There are simply way better guns out there.
this is the peak freeplay experience
it also teaches you to save way too often xd
Last time I tried a soup pack was several years ago before Anomaly even existed. The idea wasn't to turn some random rookie into the savior of the zone but to have some fun with the sheer amount of ridiculousness that modders could dream up. Looks like that still holds.
Very good video to sum up OP, I've been meaning to play it for a while now as I've already played a few soup mods but I think I'll launch it today. Another banger video from Cheeki Breeki
Hooked back on Stalker after a decade, OP was somewhere top of my mods to play list
Put 50 hours in it?
Hah you just barely made it into the mod.
I finished this mod 2 years ago, with around 450-500 hours.
With the Nightmare difficulty, and yes that's gonna give you an Achievement for that too.
It was one of the best mod that I've ever played.
It is junky, unfair, unblanaced as you said, but in the END you will get the upper hand, and you will rule the Zone, and you will become a God.
There are a lot of quests, mission, searching for stashes that if you don't use a Wi-Ki for it or help, you would never guessed it.
Sometimes it was so bad, that I had a 2 week pause from it.
Sometimes it just kept me pushing to finish it.
Very interesting mod, and it is nice to have a Voice actor for Strelok.
But no more spoiler.
Everybody has to try it at least once.
the progression and gear you get along its what really makes it fun for me, even more than gamma progression
There’s a community of English veteran OP-2.2 players on a server called C-Consciousness, you should include the link in the description if people need help ( the same people who made the wiki linked their server under “wiki” )
Thanks for the info! I'm working on the starter / beginners tutorial video right now I'm gonna include them in it!
@@CheekiBreekiTv👍
This looks like insanity, but you've definitely got me interested.
Great to see you back mate, hope you enjoyed your time off
Прошел ОП 2.2, незабываемый мод. Слишком много всякого разного контента, что даже не успеешь заскучаться. Наиграл более 300-400 часов.
Я не думал, что англоязычные люди будут играть в солянку, а тем более в ОП 2.2. Обычно вы любите только пострелять и играете только в моды на базе Anomaly: GAMMA, EFP, BOSSPACK & etc.
А чего ты ожидал, если они не знают язык? Много играл в игры на японском например?
What did you expect when they can't read the text?
@@Cockdonut держи в курсе, у них есть свои сюжетные моды на английском языке, а так же переведенные моды с русского на английский. Не играл в японские игры, ибо мне не нравятся их игры)
Тот же оп 2.2, это обычный мод для СНГ игроков, все его могут пройти. Даже для старой оп 2 есть английский язык. Че уж говорить об более мелких модах, по типу Пространственная аномалия или True Stalker. Либо пусть учат русский язык, если хотят играть в ру моды
@@CockdonutThere is an English hand translation for OP-2.2 and a small community of English OP players who made the OP-2 wiki
Существует перевод OP-2.2 на английский язык и небольшое сообщество англоязычных игроков в OP, которые создали вики OP-2 (DeepL)
Op 2.2 feels like a weird dream and i love it, gamma, efp and other copypasters are just boring, look worse and play worse than op 2 atleast on my pc tbh.
Even the athmosphere is better something old world tried to achieve.
This is honestly something I'll never play, so it's very interesting to see a video about it from you. Nice.
watching only you and balls of pure diamond, you guys are goated
cool to see this mod getting more attention 👍 i've noticed more people are getting into recently and im sure this video will help with that
i think it'd be cool to see an update/part 2 video on your thoughts when you either finish the mod/decide you've had enough of it. its not often you get to hear peoples experiences of the later game stuff, not only are the quests themselves much different but your whole outlook of the gameworld changes in my experience.
I played Stalkersoup as far as they have it finished, I'm glad it doesn't log your hours I'm sure it's in the hundreds. It consumed all of my free time for months on end and I would get pissed off at it and quit for a few weeks and then resume playing. You are right , there is something about these mods that that makes you keep coming back even after you quit in frustration. Soup has a nice forum and a several hundred page pdf guide and a couple of quests are broken (you have to use the console to finish them), but I enjoyed playing it. OP looks like its even better. I have it installed and ready to start if I can tear myself away from Morrowind. Great channel, love your vids. Thanks
There is "mod pack lsc" which makes the op2.2 game much more playable, like no more 9000+ lvl zombies and many qol improvements you can select from game options but it comes at a cost - english translation doesn't work, it works partially and then you get lines and lines of blank dialogue even some game options are blank, you have to know Russian to play it and some quests may be bugged or moded out (very few) also zombie models get tons of freaky updates like tourist zombies with votka bottles... Which actually drop votka bottles as loot. Cumulative insanity!
I am just out of words, I had no idea this mod was that huge
Cheeki breeki OP 2.2 video best day of my life
Being a part of the beginning of the OP2 english speaking community when we were giving ourselves brain damage playing 2.09 and to figure out what the fuck was going on and what to do was a magical experience.
finished op 2.2 3x times and it was a blast.
💀💀💀
Hey, i hope you read this soon, do you know where the portal in the sarcophagus is? The one thats activated by dropping a goldfish near the monolith, i can't find it and otherwise i'm stuck there
@@thundersufferer2977 hey sorry for late reply type this to youtube Активация телепорта "Саркофаг-ЧАЭС1" frist video its old narodnaya solyanka but it does work same in op 2.2
@@thundersufferer2977 hey sorry for late reply type this to youtube Активация телепорта Саркофаг ЧАЭС1 frist video its old narodnaya solyanka but it does work same in op 2 2
@@thundersufferer2977 hey sorry for late reply type this to youtube Активация телепорта Саркофаг ЧАЭС1 frist video its old narodnaya solyanka but it does work same with op 2.2
There was a russian modder, living in Germany, who made a Soljanka for the german version of SoC, and I have to say ... it was a great experience, hard like almost impossible, like, to kill bloodsuckers you had to use your knife, and you started as Monolith in the CNPP, first mission: clear out mutants ... mostly bloodsuckers, second mission: kill some outsiders ... with only your AK-74, some bullets and they got godlike aim. Next mission was to kick out mercenaries out of the Monolith base in Pripyat ... almost impossible too. But once you got over these things, it became a great mod selection. And all those great new maps that were added ... hell.
Oh, and it's a blessing if you speak russian and get along with all these Soup things, some are really great, and yes, extremely mad. But that's just basically the russian mentality, it's crazy, =)
Looking forward to a "getting started" for this mod!
this mod is what you'd get if you prompted a drunk and bipolar fork of chatgpt to make a semi-functional game out of the last 300 pages of the garry's mod workshop.
i owe half of my soul to this mod
This needs to be a series like your invictus run!
This series is gonna last over 100 fucking episodes LOL
OP2.2 best mod ever. like 250 hours minimum of pure insanity. You'd be an absolute permanent legend if you brought a full playthrough to western audiences.
Hello there and friendly greetings!
THIS! This is what I totally love!! The Zone is a madness and I think (I am still downloading it) this standalone is the perfect modpack! Thanks for sharing! Do you think you could make a series out of it?
Tried this abomination of a mod once and even got to the Agroprom I think, but damn it's just unbearably huge, too much content and different quests to really enjoy this shit
Feels almost like some old MMO with decades worth of content
i hope you can make a series out of just some mechanics an how theyre implemented, stuff like mutant armies an insane guns an such niche content
Absolutely MUST try this. Thank you Cheeky Breekie, did you happen to try warfare mode with this mod? Id love to see if that was operational.
This mod is absolutely Stalker`s Santa Barbara.
Thanks for the Video
Very good, I'm finishing the Stalker Alpha game and then I'll go to this game
How do you like Lost Alpha? I played the first version and a couple of later ones I really like the atmosphere. You will recognize a couple of levels from there in OP/Soup. Waiting for English translation of Lost Alpha Gunslinger.
okay this is something i need in my life
Invite the OP Brain Rot into your life 💀💀💀
@@touhoumomo cant get brainrot if brains already rotted
You are AWESOME!
What upsets me about this mod (nitpick I know) is that the truck cemetery is clearly on the map to the west but it doesn't seem like you can go to it. I know it likes to crash on other mods but still would love to go there.
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Sounds like original "Roadside Picnic" and other Strugaccy's brothers stories.
OP adds the main characters of roadside picnic into the game in the form of Fistful and Chemist in the Forgotten Forest
The fastest click in the west
On your list I saw SGM as a soup mod. It was my go to mod for stalker pre gamma, but it’s not that crazy at all.
Basically CoP with a bunch of extra content, but they fit the story rather well.
people have a bad habit of attributing the soup label to anything slightly weird.
should probably mention op 2.2 sibling op ogsr which is just op 2.1 with gunslinger and more easy. The 2.2 ver is coming this year.
OP OGSR is closer to OP-2.09 than 2.1 it’s also remove stupid bullshit like Turrets and Mosquitos
@@touhoumomo thanks for clarifying and i agree the turrets are bad but at least they can easily shot with your weapon. But for Mosquitos they are bullshit
5:10 super music cheekitos AT home
8:43 I need a scientific explanation for this...or maybe not, this is so ridiculous I don't even know what to say.
also that ending what the fuck, subscribed
The madman actually did it! See you in 500 hours lol
Thanks for highlighting this pack, I enjoy STALKER a lot but found GAMMA too hardcore for my tastes. I LOVE the sound of this fun-focused modpack, thankyou.
It's much more hardcore than GAMMA, but in a different way. It's a very special kind of "fun" :D
You gotta lot in your zone beyond this then! Story mods like RTTZ and other such experiences are right up your alley. Op2.2 though definitely gets harder than something like gamma after you get into double digit hours
Narodnaya Solyanka/StalkerSoup/PeopleSoup (ShoC) Reborn (Clear Sky) and Misery (CoP) are best STALKER mods... for the wrong reasons.
If you don't have masochistic tendencies (standard for people born in the former eastern block) - do not touch. They're hard and unfair (just like life IRL) and make the game longer in the worst way. Hope you try NLC - another series of hardcore mods. But it might still not have Eng translation?
Still remember InsurgentDude's videos from them - good times when still going to school...
yeah nlc has a translation
honestly nlc translations are some of the funniest stuff i've seen in stalker up there with krovosos' translation its really bad
"heres the thing marked one... i need your ass"
gg
By the looks of it, the mod gives off some crazy Garry's Mod vibes. But if it's wackier than GoldSphere, then it's not for me. Mind you, I did try to give Stalker Soup a go many years ago but couldn't get it to work.
wayyy wackier than Gold sphere trust me and OP-2.2 is just better than stalker soup in my opinion easier to install xd
when i changed gpu from gtx 550ti to rx6650xt i formated the pc and forgot to backup op2.2 lost a 100hour run😭😭😭😭
anybody can help me? crash on launching new game , can run other mods without problem...
You should ask for help on the C-CON server you can find the invite in the OP-2 wiki under “wiki” then community server
Ахуеть. Я думал это шутка, что люди за рубежом тоже в ОП играют.
It's so cursed to see not russian stalker TH-camr for some reason...
Solianka mods became sup mods)))
And how actually hard it is to play stalker for non russian i can't imagine
Especially op 2.2, it's almost unreal even for russian speaker to complete it 100% because how buged and broken it sometimes is, and not every time there is a solution for the problem you might stumble upon
That's crazy, hope only best for you and your channel
@@KROZIUS666we have the wiki for non Russians and the C-CON server with OP veterans
Those veterans are actual heroes
Op 2.2 is long and hard)
But do not try NLC7 it's can easily be the hardest game in human history
@@KROZIUS666 inventory UI will filter more people than OP-2 caves lmaoo
To be fair, this is so out of pocket that it gives me modded Morrowind vibes somehow.
Yo cheeki wassup
I'm backkkkkkkkkkkkkkk 😝
@@CheekiBreekiTv now I can watch a new video instead of watching the 10 days series again and again 😋😋
Honestly this is a beutiful mess, a love letter to stalker original series (yes i am talking seriusly)
i know i would get a flak for it saying this but the game would be more fun if it had quest markers/circles for it on the map, remembering all the stuff is tiresome after you come back from work or break and dont recall dialogues that were 3 months ago
It does lmao if a certain quest doesn’t look up the name of the quest on the wiki
In my opinion, these mods are pure, undilluted suffering. A tremendous amount of time (and you're gonna regret not checking the wiki because the consumable that you used 100 saves ago was both rare and vital for one questline. YOU'LL REGRET THIS) it requires, difficulty and madness combined make it a very unique experience. HOWEVER:
I think that guns aren't peashooters (even the worst ones at the start), every single location contains more unique characters than entire Anomaly and quests are at least unique and rewarding. If anyone is into more atmosphere and less chaos I'd advise NLC 7. Though very slow movement speed at the beginning stage is a pain in the ass.
How to install ?
You can find the link to the wiki in the description with all the links & guide, and I'll have a video out explaining everything soon!
OP is hard but fair. There are so many ways to solve every situation.
But beware of the "OP curse". Any other mod will look boring after playing OP...
Peoples can you give me some Quest mods for stalker anomaly 1.5.2
No, but i CAN recommend some story mods separate from anomaly!
OLR3.0
Return to the Zone
Dollchan 8
Call of Chernobyl Stason174 (6.05)
Apocalipsis trilogy
The true endgame of Stalker Modding . Still i'm glad stuff lime OP 2.2 and Soup mods never got popular in the west . If you thought Anomaly modpack people were bad I can't even imagine what zoomer brain-rot meme fueled hell would be plaguing the community if SOUP was face of STALKER modding .
Honestly I’d prefer it, no one would be sitting here trying to tell me that op2 is the « true » stalker experience or the « superior » version of the stalker concept
After playing this mod for 3 hours I can safely say once and for all, DO NOT play this mod if you value your time, sanity and happiness. I don't think I could call this "mod" a video game, it feels more like a torture device than anything else. In 3 hours, the game crashed 4 times, I died 50 times and I managed to break the game by making an important NPC attack me for no clear reason, forcing me to kill him, I hadn't even left cordon yet, that's how ridiculous this mod is. I think the only way to enjoy this mod is by drinking yourself numb or smoking crack while playing, and I mean it.
EDIT: Despite all i've said, some unknown force kept me coming to the mod and i've clocked in a couple more hours. I think I already have contracted the brainrot, sanity and happiness are meaningless to me, now there's is only SOUP.
skill issue
This unknown force you're talking about is the OP brain rot.. also skill issue
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I wouldnt really call it Slav Culture to just blow a Game up with Mods. In the early Days of game modding, it was fairly common in pretty much any Game that supported Modding. For Example if you go all the Way back to early Fallout 3 Modding, you will find many western Playtroughs with People that just blazed their Games to the Moon with all Kinds of Shit to a point where they dont even remember most of the Stuff they added.
I would have to disagree with you, many people from all over the world play stalker, which leads to different communities of players from different countries. There is a clear difference between the Western and Russian/Eastern modding community. You probably haven't even heard of OP before watching Cheeki's video and I don't blame you. Try to compare Gamma and OP. They're wildly different in terms mechanics and graphics. What Western modpack have you seen add the same crazy shit OP does? That's the "Slav Culture" OP adds a bunch of crazy unintuitive mods together and builds it on top of Narodnaya Solyanka. Many Russian mods are like this I.E Reborn Doppelgänger, NLC 7, AlternativA, etc.
@@touhoumomo It seems you didnt really read my Comment, i've been on TH-cam for close to 16 years at this Point, and have been watching Gaming Videos since i was a little Kid before Lets Plays even became a Thing, and i remember my earliest Stalker Video that i've seen was around 2010, if not even earlier. I've seen them all because back then we didnt have Mods like Gamma or Anomaly, it was almost exclusively random Stuff or little Gimmicks thrown together.
And i also knew the Stalker Soup Mods from even before i graduated, which was in 2013.
That being said, this Type of Modding, again, is not exclusive to Stalker. It was pretty normal to do this before Modding became more streamlined, because except the small Base of skilled Mod Creators, noone really knew what they were doing and just threw in whatever had a good Title. I know because i did the same in Fallout 3 as a Kid, and also watched youtubers do the same.
I quit op 2.2 about 2 weeks ago now, I really didn't like the mod. I get soup mods aren't made for balance and are just quantity over quality, but come on, I'm getting 1 tapped by PM's while wearing an exoskeleton, there is not even a resemblance of balance in the mod. Lots of cool things are present in the mod which I love, but the deal breaker for me was the amount of accessible maps. When you play the game and open the PDA, you will see a world with like 40 locations, but in reality, only 27 are accessible cuz the rest were implemented by the devs as an after thought but they were never fully added to the game, so now you have a half completed world map. I would complain about the sheer amount of enemy spam this mod throws at you but I get that's the appeal, so it's not a valid point to hate the mod for, still doesn't change the fact it wasn't very enjoyable, good luck with your playthrough!
skill issue, don't get shot, no seriously the beginning parts of OP is really hard but once you get over the initial difficulty its more of a test of your patience but yeah OP isn't for everyone
What's the point of armor except carry weight then? On master difficulty, no matter what armor you wear you get one shot by anything, that's not balanced or fun. The sense of progression is nullified then I can wear a veteran stalker suit through the whole game and have the same experience even if i changed suits. I like difficulty but it has to be fair to be enjoyable