dont worry about people saying you're cheesing the game, thats the beauty of single player tittles and mods, you can make your own experience however you like it, YOU will be the one playing it not other people
yeah there’s a cringe vein of stalker fans that instead of enjoying their lives, they patrol other peoples video trying to police how they play because playing stalker in their soiled chairs is the only thrill life has to offer them as otherwise totally unappealing people
For me, mutants turned that pink/purple color when shining the flashlight on them from the flashlight shadows mod. The pink color goes away if you turn the shader quality to epic!
The headlamp is notorious for Stalker. Back in the day in maybe 2009/10 I had a better light that would illuminate up to 180m on a narrow beam, kind of like a search light. And would last 18h straight on a low setting (3 or 4 AAA batteries, ca't quite remember), which has about the same brightness as the light in game, but 5 times the range on a 140° beam setting. It's crazy how bad these lights are in Stalker.
@@Orodreth888 It must be something they are having problems with empementing in UE5. There’s no way they wanted to lunch the game with that piece of crap as the only headlamp you can get in this “massive open world”
You def slept on the weapon customization expanded mod. Not only lets you change attachments on unique weapons but also...let s you loot attachments from weapons (like the scopes on the vintorez). Goes pretty well with the mod that let npcs have weapons with attachments too. Is a nice boost to the economy also.
There are couple of things that really bother me: -Cost of repairs -Lack of actual A-Life -Ballistics (And other gun stuff) -Mutants are just not fun to fight at all (Huge HP pools and no loot from them)
The game is amazing despite all the shortcomings, but really, it lacks so much that could have been done without much difficulty and investment initially before the game was released, that it causes great-great bewilderment, especially what was already in the previous games of the series 17! years ago, but for unknown reasons is absent in Stalker 2. And I'm not talking about the missing A-Life, but about much simpler things, like limping mutants, dragging and eating corpses, etc. P.S. Sorry for my English, this is Google translation.
I have been modding the game extensively, if you guys are interested in following my project I am working on 5-6 mods right now, some are complete, some are work in progress, but it is a huge progress and also even bigger effort to get everything right
Reduced Repair Costs, Reasonable Weapon Degradation, Increased Rewards, Ledge Grabbing. This isn't 'fixing' the game, it's simply modding it down to Rookie difficulty. I think GSC deserves more credit. The economy on Veteran difficulty is hard because it should be.
@@pinkcilantro4758 IMO I think that’s the only thing difficult about veteran mode, the combat is too easy and you find healing items in every corner. They’ve already lowered it themselves on a patch, they will probably adjust it in a future patch as well.
It’s one thing to make something hard, but it’s another to make it near impossible. The AI in this game aren’t hard to fight. You’re fighting your damn wallet more than you are your enemies in the zone. I’ve played old stalker games and even anomaly and gamma. None of these were as ridiculous in economy as this game. A simple firefight will cost me like 5~15k. Don’t even get me started on a real firefight or expedition (which I typically run) which will cost me double or triple that. Then to add insult to injury, missions don’t give enough and neither do side missions. It helped that we can sell red durability items, but then you can only carry so many and they sell for so little. I like a challenge, but if a game mechanic that is necessary for me to actually play the game is working against me, then that’s not fun. That’s just annoying. I remember in gamma how difficult it was just to go on simple missions, or even hunt for stashes. But at least there was actual profit in those.
I think the weird mutant color change thing happens when you turn off DLSS. At least that’s what happened with me. Especially when I shined a flashlight on them they became a weird pink/purple. Turned it back on issue solved.
a great mod to check out if you want the game to break your balls like gamma does try out heart of misery, it slows healing from medkits and enhances gameplay by a mile it also randomizes what gear AI will have so you wont be against all exo mono at the end of the game its such a worth while mod. it also makes controllers actually deadly
I have been thinking about that one! Does it make combat harder? I would actually like that, I miss getting destroyed in gamma lol veteran is still a little too easy for me
@@tarxtv because of the reduced healing it makes combat way harder cos you cant just insta medkit full hp after being melted, you really gotta play this game like its intended. tactically. also vodka and anti rad doesnt just sap away your rads instantly you lose a bit of health for gradual radiation reduction
Ledge grabbing is in the game by default. However, its range for being engaged is pitiful. And you can usually only vault over shit that’s like waist high
I believe the coloured monsters is due to the flash light mod. Changing shadows and shading to epic should fix the problem, otherwise consult the readme
Please make an installation guide, perhaps please as a pdf, or similar.. What may be very helpful would the itemscneeded to achieve all the mods in their hierarchy please again if possible in a pdf or similar, please. Thanks for this wonderful video. Regards JBA
@tarxtv oh, I thought it was obtainable in the game. They'll probably unlock it in a future content. Thank you so much for that, as soon as I get my hands on an SVU, I'll use that command, SVU is one of my favorite guns in the franchise.
i dont know how much better zone by maklanes covers ... but i really have never had any trouble with repair cost .. the closest i got was when i cheesed myself to the diamond exo - and had to repair it for like 36k ... but thats like the money you get for a normal run into the zone - also the guns like jammed maybe 2 -3 times in my 180hours..... but i always repair in cities .. and visit one approximately every hour - so maybe that helps with it you can chuck energiedrinks or water and animation cancel it - after the third you normaly would have infinite stamina
@@ManiX207 yeah, I’m just bad at remembering until the last minute then it is 20k to repair my weapons/armor. I also don’t go anywhere without energy drinks, I only boosted my stamina by 25% it’s barely noticeable. Good hunting stalker!
No way....I just went and spent 1500$ building a new computer JUST to play this...I have the exact same build as you, and you're telling me I'm still going to stutter?!?! Looks like I'm giving it more time in the oven then...DANG IT!!! Back to GAMMA and EFP for me, I guess...
Ahh dang, thanks for letting me know. I would have been saying it in future videos and would have never known. Thanks for watching, good hunting stalker!
1. where is stashes loot randomisation? vanilla rewards for platforming is absolutely garbage, 1 vodka and 5 12x7 buckets is main reason why loot hunting is broken in vanilla game. 2. one of loading screen advices say: there is artifacts for any taste, mean it can help with any player actions or parameters. and what we see in default artifacts settings? 65 of 75 is completely garbage and few can give something usefull. BUT. game have much more stats can be affected by artifacts, and didnt. so artifacts rebalance is also great. not for cheating, but because artifacts collecting and exploring is pretty great thing when it works fully. and last - why there is no artifacts can help with psy-radiation, huh? 3. just cut off that bloodsucker invisibility on/off sounds and snoring sounds too. IT SHOULD ATTACK UNEXPECTED, BUT NOT BEWARE PLAYER LOT OF TIMES BEFORE. 4. lore accurate controlers - in vanilla this monster is completely dummy. cant do anything except zooming from distance. it should bring doom for player. somehow. this is attempt to give him more skills. 5. remove biggest part of random consumables in every fking building. just because zone it is not a storage. this problem doesnt solved yet even with this mod, but this is an part of solution. say no to infinite medkits everywhere for free. 6. the weather. why vanilla game give so small expirience with different weather scenarios? release version is just infinity stormy everyday. so weather overhaul. 7. not only gunfights is problem mean bullets. grenades throwing is also must become more advanced. first - just STFU mod for NPC bewaring player about grenade, just because its stupid. secondary - changing NPC chance to succesfully throw a grenade with perfectly accuracy to target. 8. about A-life: my suggest is - zone spawns to much humans with guns. after half of game i just tired to hear call of duty around. then i choose a-life tweak to much more monsters and much lesser stalkers in spawns. it also teach player to evade and keep your ammo for something realy important, but no be a just typical serious sam can exterminate everyting everywhere everytime. this my additions to list in video. cheers. and good hunting stalkers. also. nightvision is already released on nexus. but we still need a binocular too.
dont worry about people saying you're cheesing the game, thats the beauty of single player tittles and mods, you can make your own experience however you like it, YOU will be the one playing it not other people
Bruh, GSC are allowing and encouraging this, so no problems at all
yeah there’s a cringe vein of stalker fans that instead of enjoying their lives, they patrol other peoples video trying to police how they play because playing stalker in their soiled chairs is the only thrill life has to offer them as otherwise totally unappealing people
@@wightclaudia this is very true, that’s why I made sure and explained myself a little lol
@@SoyToni06 TRUE, thanks for having my back with this. Stalker purists may not haha
@@Stedera 🫡
For me, mutants turned that pink/purple color when shining the flashlight on them from the flashlight shadows mod. The pink color goes away if you turn the shader quality to epic!
The headlamp is notorious for Stalker. Back in the day in maybe 2009/10 I had a better light that would illuminate up to 180m on a narrow beam, kind of like a search light. And would last 18h straight on a low setting (3 or 4 AAA batteries, ca't quite remember), which has about the same brightness as the light in game, but 5 times the range on a 140° beam setting. It's crazy how bad these lights are in Stalker.
@@Orodreth888 It must be something they are having problems with empementing in UE5. There’s no way they wanted to lunch the game with that piece of crap as the only headlamp you can get in this “massive open world”
You def slept on the weapon customization expanded mod. Not only lets you change attachments on unique weapons but also...let s you loot attachments from weapons (like the scopes on the vintorez). Goes pretty well with the mod that let npcs have weapons with attachments too. Is a nice boost to the economy also.
That is a great suggestion, I will definitely have to check it out. Thanks for watching!
i dont think ledge grabbing will come. they clearly created jumping puzzles and ledge grabbing would break most of them
@@plusixty8992That is a good point, just wish they would have empemented climbing mechanics in the game
Ledge climbing mod is an absolute game changer. It feels weird playing an open world fps in 2025 without the ability to climb up ledges.
There's already a ledge grabbing mod out called Ledge Grabbing By Kenny Mylenny on Nexus Mods.
The longer days mode doesn't work for me,.
I think maybe it's because some missions are tied to a certain time of day.
@@russouribeiro7178 that is possible, maybe try a different mod. There’s at least 2 or 3 other ones that extend the days. Hope you figure it out!
There are couple of things that really bother me:
-Cost of repairs
-Lack of actual A-Life
-Ballistics (And other gun stuff)
-Mutants are just not fun to fight at all (Huge HP pools and no loot from them)
@@ReprobiCrucesignati I’m feeling that, I can’t wait for full on modpacks so the game can be a bit more realistic like gamma lol
try mods for that. Grok's Modular Mutants Health, Reduced Repair Cost, Better Ballistics don't now if works with new patch
The game is amazing despite all the shortcomings, but really, it lacks so much that could have been done without much difficulty and investment initially before the game was released, that it causes great-great bewilderment, especially what was already in the previous games of the series 17! years ago, but for unknown reasons is absent in Stalker 2. And I'm not talking about the missing A-Life, but about much simpler things, like limping mutants, dragging and eating corpses, etc. P.S. Sorry for my English, this is Google translation.
I feel the same way, there is so much missing that hopefully will be added to the game in future updates. Happy hunting stalker!
Your mutant colors are bugged because of the flashlight rework
Yes, disable shadows and it goes away.
@@mwRafee wow, that actually makes sense. I didn’t think of that at all. Thanks, good hunting stalker!
I have been modding the game extensively, if you guys are interested in following my project
I am working on 5-6 mods right now, some are complete, some are work in progress, but it is a huge progress and also even bigger effort to get everything right
That’s awesome, I’d love to check them out. Drop some links! Happy hunting stalker
imo, you don't need most of the mods mentioned in the video
Never said that you did, thanks for watching though!
Reduced Repair Costs, Reasonable Weapon Degradation, Increased Rewards, Ledge Grabbing. This isn't 'fixing' the game, it's simply modding it down to Rookie difficulty. I think GSC deserves more credit. The economy on Veteran difficulty is hard because it should be.
@@pinkcilantro4758 IMO I think that’s the only thing difficult about veteran mode, the combat is too easy and you find healing items in every corner. They’ve already lowered it themselves on a patch, they will probably adjust it in a future patch as well.
It’s one thing to make something hard, but it’s another to make it near impossible. The AI in this game aren’t hard to fight. You’re fighting your damn wallet more than you are your enemies in the zone. I’ve played old stalker games and even anomaly and gamma. None of these were as ridiculous in economy as this game. A simple firefight will cost me like 5~15k. Don’t even get me started on a real firefight or expedition (which I typically run) which will cost me double or triple that. Then to add insult to injury, missions don’t give enough and neither do side missions. It helped that we can sell red durability items, but then you can only carry so many and they sell for so little. I like a challenge, but if a game mechanic that is necessary for me to actually play the game is working against me, then that’s not fun. That’s just annoying. I remember in gamma how difficult it was just to go on simple missions, or even hunt for stashes. But at least there was actual profit in those.
I think the weird mutant color change thing happens when you turn off DLSS. At least that’s what happened with me. Especially when I shined a flashlight on them they became a weird pink/purple. Turned it back on issue solved.
@@socialanimalmedia I always have dlss on usually, but a couple people commented below that it was from the flashlight customizer mod as well
@@tarxtv It is from the flashlight mod. Try turning shader quality to epic and it should go away.
a great mod to check out if you want the game to break your balls like gamma does try out heart of misery, it slows healing from medkits and enhances gameplay by a mile it also randomizes what gear AI will have so you wont be against all exo mono at the end of the game its such a worth while mod. it also makes controllers actually deadly
I have been thinking about that one! Does it make combat harder? I would actually like that, I miss getting destroyed in gamma lol veteran is still a little too easy for me
@@tarxtv because of the reduced healing it makes combat way harder cos you cant just insta medkit full hp after being melted, you really gotta play this game like its intended. tactically. also vodka and anti rad doesnt just sap away your rads instantly you lose a bit of health for gradual radiation reduction
@@8000web that’s awesome, I’ll have to give it a try! Also wish radiation was a little more dangerous in the game as well.
Ledge grabbing is in the game by default. However, its range for being engaged is pitiful. And you can usually only vault over shit that’s like waist high
Yeah, and it just feels buggy as well haha
Ask, is there any campfire mode mod for this game ?
Not that I know of, but I’m sure eventually someone will make one. Hope you’re enjoying the game!
I believe the coloured monsters is due to the flash light mod. Changing shadows and shading to epic should fix the problem, otherwise consult the readme
@@tanuki2k thanks for the help, that fixed it. I would have never figured that out haha
Please make an installation guide, perhaps please as a pdf, or similar.. What may be very helpful would the itemscneeded to achieve all the mods in their hierarchy please again if possible in a pdf or similar, please. Thanks for this wonderful video. Regards JBA
I will be making an install guide soon and releasing it on the channel. Happy hunting stalker
Please tell me where did you find that silencer for the SVU please 😭🙏
You have to have the console enabler installed and type this into it exactly
XCreateItemInInventoryByID RU_Silen_3 0 1 1
@tarxtv oh, I thought it was obtainable in the game. They'll probably unlock it in a future content. Thank you so much for that, as soon as I get my hands on an SVU, I'll use that command, SVU is one of my favorite guns in the franchise.
@ it actually isn’t in the game at least yet, putting in the console command is the only way to get it sadly
@ the SVD-U is one of my favs too! Good hunting stalker
i dont know how much better zone by maklanes covers ... but i really have never had any trouble with repair cost .. the closest i got was when i cheesed myself to the diamond exo - and had to repair it for like 36k ... but thats like the money you get for a normal run into the zone - also the guns like jammed maybe 2 -3 times in my 180hours..... but i always repair in cities .. and visit one approximately every hour - so maybe that helps with it
you can chuck energiedrinks or water and animation cancel it - after the third you normaly would have infinite stamina
@@ManiX207 yeah, I’m just bad at remembering until the last minute then it is 20k to repair my weapons/armor. I also don’t go anywhere without energy drinks, I only boosted my stamina by 25% it’s barely noticeable. Good hunting stalker!
No way....I just went and spent 1500$ building a new computer JUST to play this...I have the exact same build as you, and you're telling me I'm still going to stutter?!?! Looks like I'm giving it more time in the oven then...DANG IT!!! Back to GAMMA and EFP for me, I guess...
It was mostly when I was recording, but your situation could be different
The Stalker modding community is only comparable to the Arma community
The arma community is definitely strong as well, reforger is kicking ass right now
@tarxtv yeah but that's in its infancy compared to the Arma 3 community which has more players 10 years after release
Probably a lot of overlap in the playerbase. I love both Stalker and Arma series
@ oh for sure! Most of my stalker friends also play arma as well
Now wait for the devs to fix the performance isuess so we can enjoy these mods.
@@jarek94cze I’m hoping this comes sooner than later, their biggest mistake is creating the game one UE5
I'd love a video on how to mod the game in windows
@@regularrick7873 Coming soon! Have it mostly recorded already, probably will drop it Saturday at 12pm central
Cool video, but fyi "immendously" is not a word. i think you've combined "immensely" and "tremendously".
Ahh dang, thanks for letting me know. I would have been saying it in future videos and would have never known. Thanks for watching, good hunting stalker!
Is there a mod where you don't die from falling 3 feet?
You don't?
@@justicedemocrat9357 I haven’t seen one myself, but I’m sure there is one lol
1. where is stashes loot randomisation? vanilla rewards for platforming is absolutely garbage, 1 vodka and 5 12x7 buckets is main reason why loot hunting is broken in vanilla game.
2. one of loading screen advices say: there is artifacts for any taste, mean it can help with any player actions or parameters. and what we see in default artifacts settings? 65 of 75 is completely garbage and few can give something usefull. BUT. game have much more stats can be affected by artifacts, and didnt. so artifacts rebalance is also great. not for cheating, but because artifacts collecting and exploring is pretty great thing when it works fully. and last - why there is no artifacts can help with psy-radiation, huh?
3. just cut off that bloodsucker invisibility on/off sounds and snoring sounds too. IT SHOULD ATTACK UNEXPECTED, BUT NOT BEWARE PLAYER LOT OF TIMES BEFORE.
4. lore accurate controlers - in vanilla this monster is completely dummy. cant do anything except zooming from distance. it should bring doom for player. somehow. this is attempt to give him more skills.
5. remove biggest part of random consumables in every fking building. just because zone it is not a storage. this problem doesnt solved yet even with this mod, but this is an part of solution. say no to infinite medkits everywhere for free.
6. the weather. why vanilla game give so small expirience with different weather scenarios? release version is just infinity stormy everyday. so weather overhaul.
7. not only gunfights is problem mean bullets. grenades throwing is also must become more advanced. first - just STFU mod for NPC bewaring player about grenade, just because its stupid. secondary - changing NPC chance to succesfully throw a grenade with perfectly accuracy to target.
8. about A-life: my suggest is - zone spawns to much humans with guns. after half of game i just tired to hear call of duty around. then i choose a-life tweak to much more monsters and much lesser stalkers in spawns. it also teach player to evade and keep your ammo for something realy important, but no be a just typical serious sam can exterminate everyting everywhere everytime.
this my additions to list in video. cheers. and good hunting stalkers.
also. nightvision is already released on nexus. but we still need a binocular too.
Thanks for the feedback, those are some great suggestions for mods I would like to check out in the future. Good hunting stalker!