Still there's some things in Stalker 2 that mods just can't fix. Check out my latest video to see what I mean! th-cam.com/video/ISfVRv4d7LI/w-d-xo.html&ab_channel=CritEyeGaming
Thanks for the shoutout for my compass icon mod! I have another mod as well that let's you turn the entire compass on or off using a keybind while playing, avoiding having to turn it off in the menus. I like to play with the compass with just the quest markers, but don't always want it on screen. But, I also don't want to always have to open my PDA to find stuff. So I made this mod to handle that! You can also toggle the entire HUD as well with a different keybind using the same mod. TH-cam won't let me post the link for some reason, but its called SolidShadow's Toggleable HUD on Nexus.
Thanks for this QoL mod list bro. I actually found you from over at Nexus Mods. I seen your comment to the mod creator of A-life. Your presentation and the way you speak is very informative, not sure why you don't have way more recognition than this! You definately should IMO.
The joke is that there is no danger around any corners since the Alife is not working. You can run from cordon to the npp without meeting a single mutant.
Mods fix this a little bit I come across multiple mutants and Factions sometimes feels like I'm in a war zone I have the highest difficulty and also mods to make it harder.
Thanks for the vid. A life extended was an absolute game changer for me when I first came across it and the mod developer seems like a super cool dude and is always taking feedback and answering questions.
Very interested in the Modular Hard Mode. I've been using Maklane's Zone Overhaul so far because most mods make the game easier, rather than harder. Plus it improves gameplay, makes the game a little harder, but also is just an all-in-one. A mod I really like is More Aim Punch (200%). I totally agree about the compass. I like being able to see where I need to go and bodies I can loot, but before I was instinctively just watching the red triangles most of the time and not getting immersed in the gameplay. Now I don't know when I'm in combat even, or where to expect bullets or mutants from. It makes locating the enemies by gunshot, growls, or voice lines even more cool of a feature.
Yeah I was really after a tough experience, though I have found even without the red bar the game music can sometimes still give it away when combat has begun/ended but I like the music too much to turn it off 😆
For the enemies showing on the compass : it's only if they were in your field of vision, and only for a short while if you no longer see them. I guess it simulates the mini map from the OG games that were indeed showing enemies you spotted.
From what I've read and seen, I would NOT use longer days or any other mod that changes length of day. Spawns, quests, emissions, everything in this game is based around the length of day/night being what they are. Changing these values will potentially brick your save, break quests, and so on. Use at your own risk.
I’m still surprised people don’t know the only thing changed from stalker to veteran is that you, the player, do about 25% less damage to creatures. They still hit you for the same damage. Nothing is changed but player damage. Veteran is a bad hard mode atm.
For anyone unfamiliar. In the older games, master difficulty (missing in Stalker 2) was the hardest mode, and made it so that you and enemies did 100% damage to each other. Lower difficulties would increase the damage the player did to enemies, and gave you a damage resistance buff. People believed a rumor that enemies also got this damage resistance, so they started saying that master was actually easier, but this is false. Ironically here we are in Stalker 2, and enemies technically have a 25% resistance on the hardest difficulty. The rumor became a reality in the worst way possible.
@@bruhtholemewthe rumor of lower difficulty lowering damage from the player and enemies is absolutely true in STALKER Clear Sky. Enemies that would normally die from 5 pistol shots now take full magazines to die.
I saw someone working on a concept for a mod that would allow you to switch your artifact detectors (excluding the Veles detector) to an anomaly detector that would detect anomalies like artifacts are. The mod would remove the base kit anomaly detector that you have and integrate a switch in to all of the artifact detectors to switch between artifacts and anomalies. You can't have both activated at the same time, so it adds a trade-off, and it deactivates while running so that way traveling is more dangerous. I personally think that this is a more interesting approach to making anomalies more dangerous while still adding a fun alternative mechanic instead of outright removing one.
In the third game, there was actually an experimental Veles detector that could detect artifacts AND anomalies at the same time called the Svarog. I imagine it will return to this game in a dlc or update, as you help create them, so it makes no sense that more were never made.
I'm playing with A-Life + Bodycam. My God, my God, game of the decade! But these hardcore mods turn stalker into a tense game, with unexpected encounters. A-life will be a revolution once it is fully completed.
To your point of stalker being best enjoyed with stress. I've caught myself clenching my jaw since I started playin this game 😅 it's so good in that regard lol
I started with Veteran and besides the economy being completely fucked, i wish there was a higher difficulty. Also the medkits rebalance would be cool, if not for that one mission where you gotta fight 4-5 bloosuckers in a tight corridor and one of them always spams the scream and the other 4 play tag with your ass.
I haven't though some other A-Life mods warned of reduced fps so I was after one that wouldn't impact performance. Perhaps those kinks have been ironed out now though
@@Crit-Eye-Gaming Haven't experience any performance since I started using it last weekend. The updates they are dropping this weekend are gonna really bring to :A-Live", or closer
If the devs ever manage to bring A-Life 2.0 online this game will be unstoppable. How does this modpack affect boss fights such as Faust? Is it even winnable at all with this hardcore damage and his 50 copies shooting you?
Possibly, probably. Mine is 3070 and it's fine for the most part, with the huge update today I'd say it'll be good now. I'd say get game pass to try it first
@Crit-Eye-Gaming that's good to know. I am currently at 'ad Astra' playing on xbox. Going to play on PC from the beginning because there is just a few QOL mods that would make life easier. Mainly infinite stamina,increased sensitivity and loot quantity appropriation.
@@Crit-Eye-Gaming I modded the original stalker 1 once and had a game breaking bug and could not proceed further at a certain point, so I am careful now...
I'm not playing on steam though I'm still getting Xbox achievements with mods so I imagine it works fine. If not, sure enough there'll be a mod to re-enable them
I'm not too knowledgeable in actual mod creation and the like but could be a conflict with another mod or load order. I noticed some other mods are now including variations of Even Longer Days in their own as well (like A-Life Extended)
Still there's some things in Stalker 2 that mods just can't fix. Check out my latest video to see what I mean!
th-cam.com/video/ISfVRv4d7LI/w-d-xo.html&ab_channel=CritEyeGaming
Novichok's AI Overhaul dev here!
Thanks for the bonus mention ❤ I’m doing my best to keep your combat as interesting and varied as it should be :)
No worries! Would've been in the main video if I'd found it before recording.
Thanks for the shoutout for my compass icon mod! I have another mod as well that let's you turn the entire compass on or off using a keybind while playing, avoiding having to turn it off in the menus. I like to play with the compass with just the quest markers, but don't always want it on screen. But, I also don't want to always have to open my PDA to find stuff. So I made this mod to handle that! You can also toggle the entire HUD as well with a different keybind using the same mod.
TH-cam won't let me post the link for some reason, but its called SolidShadow's Toggleable HUD on Nexus.
No worries! Such a simple mod with a huge impact, I wouldn't play without it now
Thanks for this QoL mod list bro. I actually found you from over at Nexus Mods. I seen your comment to the mod creator of A-life. Your presentation and the way you speak is very informative, not sure why you don't have way more recognition than this! You definately should IMO.
Just started this gig but really putting the effort in to make content worth watching, so thanks!
Doing great so far imo. Keep it up bro @@Crit-Eye-Gaming
The joke is that there is no danger around any corners since the Alife is not working. You can run from cordon to the npp without meeting a single mutant.
This. Thats why i just shelf this game until this is fixed.
Mods fix this a little bit I come across multiple mutants and Factions sometimes feels like I'm in a war zone I have the highest difficulty and also mods to make it harder.
Yeah yeah sure 😅
wrong! with mod is better, not perfect, but better!
Thanks for the vid. A life extended was an absolute game changer for me when I first came across it and the mod developer seems like a super cool dude and is always taking feedback and answering questions.
Thanks for watching! And yeah he's really keeping on top of updated it too!
Very interested in the Modular Hard Mode. I've been using Maklane's Zone Overhaul so far because most mods make the game easier, rather than harder. Plus it improves gameplay, makes the game a little harder, but also is just an all-in-one.
A mod I really like is More Aim Punch (200%).
I totally agree about the compass. I like being able to see where I need to go and bodies I can loot, but before I was instinctively just watching the red triangles most of the time and not getting immersed in the gameplay. Now I don't know when I'm in combat even, or where to expect bullets or mutants from. It makes locating the enemies by gunshot, growls, or voice lines even more cool of a feature.
Yeah I was really after a tough experience, though I have found even without the red bar the game music can sometimes still give it away when combat has begun/ended but I like the music too much to turn it off 😆
For the enemies showing on the compass : it's only if they were in your field of vision, and only for a short while if you no longer see them.
I guess it simulates the mini map from the OG games that were indeed showing enemies you spotted.
great vid, saw your nexus comment
Thanks!
Thank you so much for all the helpful mods and tips. Can't wait to see your next video.
Thank you for watching! A new video will be up in a few hours but it's a bit different from the rest 🤫
Good list, very helpful, well done.
Thanks!
nice video, keep it up pookie!!
Thanks, will do!
From what I've read and seen, I would NOT use longer days or any other mod that changes length of day. Spawns, quests, emissions, everything in this game is based around the length of day/night being what they are. Changing these values will potentially brick your save, break quests, and so on. Use at your own risk.
It never broke anything for me but I did find after this video that day length was messing with spawns so I have since removed it
I’m still surprised people don’t know the only thing changed from stalker to veteran is that you, the player, do about 25% less damage to creatures. They still hit you for the same damage. Nothing is changed but player damage. Veteran is a bad hard mode atm.
For anyone unfamiliar.
In the older games, master difficulty (missing in Stalker 2) was the hardest mode, and made it so that you and enemies did 100% damage to each other.
Lower difficulties would increase the damage the player did to enemies, and gave you a damage resistance buff.
People believed a rumor that enemies also got this damage resistance, so they started saying that master was actually easier, but this is false. Ironically here we are in Stalker 2, and enemies technically have a 25% resistance on the hardest difficulty. The rumor became a reality in the worst way possible.
@@bruhtholemewthe rumor of lower difficulty lowering damage from the player and enemies is absolutely true in STALKER Clear Sky. Enemies that would normally die from 5 pistol shots now take full magazines to die.
The ledge grab mod is the only mod I would say is 100% required. Not being able to mantle a tiny fence is infuriating.
I saw someone working on a concept for a mod that would allow you to switch your artifact detectors (excluding the Veles detector) to an anomaly detector that would detect anomalies like artifacts are.
The mod would remove the base kit anomaly detector that you have and integrate a switch in to all of the artifact detectors to switch between artifacts and anomalies. You can't have both activated at the same time, so it adds a trade-off, and it deactivates while running so that way traveling is more dangerous.
I personally think that this is a more interesting approach to making anomalies more dangerous while still adding a fun alternative mechanic instead of outright removing one.
Sounds interesting!
In the third game, there was actually an experimental Veles detector that could detect artifacts AND anomalies at the same time called the Svarog.
I imagine it will return to this game in a dlc or update, as you help create them, so it makes no sense that more were never made.
6:55 Duuuuude those doors make me lose my mind.
😆 glad someone caught that
great content, thankyou!
Thanks so much!
I'm playing with A-Life + Bodycam. My God, my God, game of the decade! But these hardcore mods turn stalker into a tense game, with unexpected encounters. A-life will be a revolution once it is fully completed.
To your point of stalker being best enjoyed with stress. I've caught myself clenching my jaw since I started playin this game 😅 it's so good in that regard lol
All correct choices. I still haven't played it yet.
I started with Veteran and besides the economy being completely fucked, i wish there was a higher difficulty.
Also the medkits rebalance would be cool, if not for that one mission where you gotta fight 4-5 bloosuckers in a tight corridor and one of them always spams the scream and the other 4 play tag with your ass.
Have you tried Shay's Living Zone (An ALife mod)? It's been great, but was wondering how it differ or better/worse than A-Life Exteded.
I've tried A-life extended and Shays living zone. I prefer Shay's, it seemed to make more of an effect.
I haven't though some other A-Life mods warned of reduced fps so I was after one that wouldn't impact performance. Perhaps those kinks have been ironed out now though
@@Crit-Eye-Gaming Haven't experience any performance since I started using it last weekend. The updates they are dropping this weekend are gonna really bring to :A-Live", or closer
@@zanerogers7119 I just read there goggle doc on what is coming, and ya, this def seems like the best A-Life "temp fix" we have right now.
Hello fellow Aussie :)
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If the devs ever manage to bring A-Life 2.0 online this game will be unstoppable.
How does this modpack affect boss fights such as Faust? Is it even winnable at all with this hardcore damage and his 50 copies shooting you?
I uh, haven't faced him yet, from experience it has meant some more creative and less straight forward approaches to fights. Guess we'll see!
I dont have a mod that scribbles out my death count ;)
Hah, yah me neither! 😅
Currently running a 3060 and 16gb of RAM. Will the performance mods make it playable for me?
Possibly, probably. Mine is 3070 and it's fine for the most part, with the huge update today I'd say it'll be good now. I'd say get game pass to try it first
@Crit-Eye-Gaming that's good to know. I am currently at 'ad Astra' playing on xbox. Going to play on PC from the beginning because there is just a few QOL mods that would make life easier. Mainly infinite stamina,increased sensitivity and loot quantity appropriation.
Question with mods for me is always stability...!? does ist break the game in a futrue moment or not...
I haven't had any issues with stability or anything like that, and the mods are updated by the authors very regularly at the moment!
@@Crit-Eye-Gaming I modded the original stalker 1 once and had a game breaking bug and could not proceed further at a certain point, so I am careful now...
can you add the mods do you need vortex for example
I didn't use vortex though you probably can if you want. All mods are listed in the description
Does the mods stop you from getting achievements on Steam?
I'm not playing on steam though I'm still getting Xbox achievements with mods so I imagine it works fine. If not, sure enough there'll be a mod to re-enable them
"Even Longer Days " How do you get this mod to work?
I've tried other configurations and it doesn't work.
I'm not too knowledgeable in actual mod creation and the like but could be a conflict with another mod or load order. I noticed some other mods are now including variations of Even Longer Days in their own as well (like A-Life Extended)
why you keep the reticule?
I personally prefer Roadside Panic for my A-Life game play
Also turn off the compass and crosshair
I basically did the opposite of what you did, i tried to make the game super easy.
Definitely fair enough, each to their own, Stalker!
Clenched Sphincter is a must. 🤣
Is there a mod that gives me my money back?
💸💸💸
I edited a set of artifacts to turn me into a god, then gimped my godhood with difficulty changes.
I hope a moder changes the artifact effects lol I didint play a bunch of the older ones but the only ones I really look for are carry weight ones
Yall really have unplayable games. I dont get it because i dont have many issues at all with Alife but maybe I'm lucky.
what a broken game. games developed in the 90's were more refined. We need better consumer protection laws for digital content, that's for sure.