A small mod but HUGE QoL bonus that I cannot live without is "Sprint Cancel Aim and Lean Toggle." For anyone using lean toggle, you NEED this! It allows you to sprint immediately out of leaning, rather than having to un-lean before the game allows you to sprint. I got blasted in the face by a shotgun around a corner too many times before this, being able to immediately book it is a godsend! It also works fine with GAMMA, if anyone asks!
Seconded! It should be a part of either base game, or Anomaly. There is zero reason to not keep this mod on at all times. Another QoL mod I'd like to add is autocomplete missions. It doesn't work with PDA taskboard, but creates a slightly different game flow, making it much easier to plan trips through certain areas. As you get paid instantly as a task is completed, you can just visit a vendor instantly after a quest, instead of returning to the quest giver first. It's kinda like pda task board, but with the opposite effect.
Total godsend on that API list. I've been wanting to try GAMMA, but I find that I've got to go in to a discord a bit too tedious to bother trying. With this I can just narrow down the mods I want. Thank you for that!
I don’t think you HAVE to go into the discord to install the mod pack. Even if you do, googling “stalker gamma discord”, and clicking a few more buttons is too tedious? Installing gamma is so easy, and there are tutorial videos that lay it out step by step. Installing individual mods is much more tedious lmao.
Thanks for the Godly patience you have in dealing with all of us monkeys trying out your modpack I know we can be nitpicky little bitches at times, but you and your team have made great strides in turning what was a quirky little STALKER sandbox simulator into an even more fun and refreshing STALKER experience Much love for everything you do, Grok
One mod which is INSANELY simplistic Chaotic Blowouts2 for me personally is a niche mod that changes the sirens before a PSY emision with added dog and human excruciating pain screeches. When I played Pookie's modpack the first time I heard that... I had goosebumps at the horror blowouts brough to my experience in the zone
Had no idea Solarint was in Stalker modding scene too. Only know him from Sain of course but apparently I've been using his mod in Stalker with Gamma too. Respect to all modders out there
I just got into modding anomaly as I go, this is gold, thank you!!! Subscribed, I'm trying to make my zone gritty and moody too, if you have any follow-up ideas please make more videos on this, I'm sure there are plenty underrated or niche mods which can be tough to find
I don't play gamma, because: 94% of the mods i don't care about and I don't need, 5% i want and care about 1% i straight up don't want, and going through 400 mods one by one to find out disabling which one will fix my issue is a pain. I love the idea of GAMMA and the immersion it gives, but I'd rather have the 20 mods i want without wasting space and resources. Do i have compatibility issues? Yes. Not all of the mods i want i can have, but it is better than having 300 useless junk mods that the only thing they do is change three pixels of a texture on a tree that i will never see in my life. Anyways, there are about 15 addons i regularly play with, but only one i percieve as a must have. Since I tried the Mag Redux i can't live without it. Many people don't like it, but i love the change in gameplay it gives.
I agree with you ngl I have a gaming laptop I use that can run games fairly well, at least ultra graphics for some games, sometimes high or medium, but the catch is that my space is horrendous because I pay little attention to it, so I'm usually having to backtrack and remove stuff every few months. Gamma would probably wreck the rest of what little space I have left, and tbh with how moddable Anomaly is, I prefer that over gamma. If I wanna have a certain thing in my playthrough, then I can have that without wrecking my space.
@Jazztheartist140I get it lol, I’m in the exact same spot but I just started modding earlier this week Btw since you both have similar mindsets, are there any mods you both recommend? I hope you both have great days and do well!
@@ericlepe7390 I just wrote you a very long and exhaustive comment about this, but for some reason it disappeared, so I'll do one short: First, it's easier to mod with Mod Organizer, so try it out, and get Anomaly mod config, really helpful. Then, if your pc can handle it, try some immersion mods and shaders, like FDDA, JSRS, Camera reanimation project, or yohji persistent weather. Small things, like a better PDA, or the animation of smoking cigs can add a surprising lot to the experience. I don't use shaders myself though, so I can't help you with that. Then, you can try out some QoL mods. Cost in tooltip, HTS bars, PDA to previous weapon, Utjans QoL and Utjans Item UI improvements (though these ones are controversial, because they sometimes break immersion, so check it yourself to see if you want it). Crooks faction identification is also great. Probably my favourite mod is the Anomaly magazines redux. Not everyone likes it, because it adds some micromanaging and drastically changes the gameplay, but if you like that kind of stuff, it is very immersive. For popular mods I don't recommend, I'd say body health systems. They are often annoying (there is more than one such mod), and cause problems in the Mod Organizer. It is difficult and more immersive, but it never worked for me. Other than that, Boomsticks and sharpsticks. Another controversial pick, but on top of not working with Mod organizer, it is not that useful. I am a weapon nerd, so i'd like to have the additional firearms, but IMO a few guns aren't worth the 3GB of memory and all the problems it causes. It's not much, because I like the vanilla experience, but i hope it helps. Have a great day!
@@briappa6670 Thank you so much for all of this! I never thought of the immersion mods, I've just been doing QoL mods so far and some weapon mods. BaS was one of the first mods I got but are there any other gun mods that you would recommend instead? Everything I have looked at so far seems to build off of BaS but I would like to avoid the problems it may cause
@@ericlepe7390 Unfortunately not. I don't even have BaS, because I thought it wasn't worth it. But it's great if you think otherwise. Every other weapon mod I know adds or changes just a single gun, and is often based on BaS anyways, so it would be basically useless unless you REALLY want a one specific weapon. I'd stay with BaS if it works for you, but from what I know, it should work with the Anomaly Magazines Redux, which is a kind of mod that you don't know if you like until you try it out yourself, so if you want some new experiences, I really recommend it.
Truly love your work Monsieur Breeki. One I'd like to suggest is another by Utjan; Dynamic Emission Cover. It makes taking cover from emissions intuitive; any sufficiently hefty structure will work, or even a thick concrete pipe if you really need to. A huge bonus is that you can set up your base in many more places, such as the upper levels of the cement factory in the north of Jupiter. Can't recommend it highly enough and it'd be cool to see you try it out if you try for another Iron Man / Invictus.
The truth is I like gamma in many sections except how it handles the artifacts section, because I don't like the mechanics of the containers in itself but gamma puts even more mechanics on top of it which makes it very tedious and I end up using them to make money, there are more things that I don't like but I can change them or completely remove them. At the moment the only mod pack that I like how it handles the artifacts is Old World because it removes all the tedious mechanics and reduces it to making a good combination of artifacts, but for better or worse Old World feels like it is the same as the original trilogy, so the arsenal of weapons is very limited and the variety of costumes practically does not exist, apart from the fact that you must install a couple of QoL addons
If you dislike how Gamma handles artefacts, you can simply disable everything artefact related in the MO2 list. I did so, and replaced it with Artefact Renovation (reinvention?) instead.
Love the video and the recomendations. 💕 I currently have GAMMA, a custom vanilla Anomaly and OWA installed on my PC. I am a father, designer and professional athlete, throughout the day my head and body suffer considerable levels of stress😵💫. When I'm at home and have a couple of hours to evade in the Zone, I always end up returning to OWA, because it doesn't saturate me while I play and it helps me clear my mind, it's direct, simple and grateful. Right now it's precisely what I'm looking for.👌 My ideal addonpack actually would be the base mechanics of OWA (OT) with the visuals, arsenal and QoL of GAMMA.🤟
Hello Cheeki, I am watching any STALKER video after about a year. I started Misery in August 23 amd stopped in September due to a housemoving. I carried my saved game and intended to start in the new house. Was settling in when a friend offered a job in December and am INTO in (More than I was in Lost Alpha during The Lockdowns) and only take my dog for 2 1-hour long walks and that's it! (Apart from the basic eat-shit routine). He gave me a MacBook so the PC was gathering dust. Recently, thought about installing some STALKER and bought an HDMI switcher to switch conveniently between Mac and PC. Misery was on top of my mind. But, remembering that how intense it was, I decided to go back to Anamoly as I need fun and not a bloddy exercise or life mission that even Narodnaya Solyanka makes it to be! Your video (I have watched 32 seconds, yet) cemented my decision! Love you and your works!
Cheeki i would love to see a True Stalker playtrough from you. I already miss waiting every week for a gameplay video... you dont have to of course, its just a suggestion, and i think people would love it too because its something "newer"
I remember using Dawn's Tweaks for one particular mod- that let you talk with everyone, not just unique NPCs or squad leaders. Used that one for Call of Misery, Road to the North and later Anomaly.
Funnily enough, the ARMA community's finest modders have come over to STALKER. Mods like soundscape and JSRS are the exact names of mods from the ARMA games. Cheers.
So glad I found this video! I just found out about & started playing vanilla anomaly and so far it's great but there's minor QoL things I have issues with. Especially at the very top is the inventory mgmt. I downright despise it but I was dreading sifting thru the whole mess of mods just to get a handful. I'm also playing on a 2nd hand Lenovo ideapad3 w/ ryzen7 cpu but no dedicated GPU so my mod options are next to nonexistent as well as only having Hotspot from my phone as my only access to the internet so I'm severely limited to how much I can download. I rly appreciate you narrowing down to the must-have's! As well as some useful recommendations in the comments!
Gamma is Super big like 60gb's i think. I just installed EFP also a modpack for anomaly, but 3 times smaller than Gamma and just added a couple more mods. It works super good.
EFP is still not as stable as GAMMA though. There are several weird bugs that can affect your playthrough that are not a thing in GAMMA. For example, there is a bug that you can't loot the bodies, you can't fill your mags, you can't move items in your inventory or loot from a box for no reason suddenly. And the only solution is to reload an old save...
Great video! Maybe it would be interesting to have a video on which Gamma mods that are disabled by default you would recommend? I just play "vanilla" Gamma but I always wonder if any of those optional mods are worth enabling
Also controversial - there are 2 things that the gamma mod makes much worse and boring - the A - Life and looting corpses. You can improve looting with the mod manager, but no matter what i disable or change in the files even, i cant seem to change how the Alife behaves in gamma, and the Alife impact looting too much. 1) Alife becomes predictable and boring, and some npc squads just stay lounging in bars forever. I remember the top 10 stalkers hit mission had me kill a Freedom guy in Janov, and at first i thought - ok hes going to eventually leave and then ill find a way to snipe him from afar without witnesses. And he never left. One of my first defining moments many years ago with vanilla anomaly - was when in my first game ever i saw a random merc guy walking alone in cordon. That desperate shootout with him was like a first shot of heroin that sends you down the addiction rabbit hole, because it took me like 15 minutes to be able to kill him with trash stater gear. I never encountered any other faction ever than freedom duty military bandit and loner in cordon when i played gamma. 2) There are so many little addons to nerf looting - and no the problem is not the loot progression mod, even if it does feel stupid when you see items in the inventory POOF and disappear because you don't deserve them yet. I like the loot claim mod, but the default one in gamma is actually the inferior choice - because if the squad doesn't see you and the corpse they somehow telepathically know that someone is touching their favorite corpse, a crime most dire. This can be easily fixed by switching to the other loot claim mod - the one that makes it more like - first come first served. Now npcs run to corpses to claim them, and they only complain if you try to loot corpses near them or the one they are currently looting. But this brings me to the second batch of problems. Because of the a-life the loot does not get wild. Plus there are 2 more mods that make sure that your loot tables stay boring - by default npcs don't loot at all they just claim corpses. The second one just makes sure that every corpse has a limit on how much loot there is there. So the default looting further improves this feeling of the zone being a lived in place where you are not the center of the world , it also has you in this panic mode situation where you have quickly to devise a plan on how to take all of this loot and also survive. - What i described above, lets say for example it's around 10 potential scenarios that could happen to the player in vanilla (in reality it is probably much more than that) - that will never happen to the player in gamma. This is still a wealth of experience that might not seem beneficial at first - but it does improve the game overall and reinforces some themes and ideas anomaly is going for. I think GAMMA offers improved immersion for your role playing - because this mindset can make the most boring and repetitious tasks fulfilling for a long long time - its not just this farming task anymore, its a job like any other and you need jobs to survive and maybe this is something your character himself found out and decided to exploit and then you can imagine how he rises to power and how that influences him as a character and so on and so on. Everything that improves this feeling of immersion is welcome - and GAMMA seems overly bent on the gamification of some systems to make this feeling of progression super linear. While I also love loooooooooooong linear progression - come on, the real world has both pitfalls that set you back a lot (like more surprising Alife from my point 1) or moments where gods smile on you where they decide one day not to piss and shit on you for fun - but give you a little candy (like finding a especially rich corpse in my point 2). Even if you don't roleplay and just play and turn off your mind - these things above still happen in your subconscious and effect the impact of the game on you, so its not just something that might the role-player gamer disappointed.
I like a lot of what GAMMA adds and how it overhauls the visuals but don't like how it makes the game even more complex. Anomaly is already cluttered and hard to enjoy because you spend hours reading item descriptions and your inventory gets hard to manage. In the original games maintaining your health and gear was an obstacle but never a chore the way it is with Anomaly and GAMMA. Some visual stuff also just doesn't jive for me. Gotta have my HD models. I decided to take the GAMMA modlist and pick it apart and kinda did a custom setup using GAMMA as a rough guide. I also found a mod that removes most of the useless junk items added to the game by Anomaly and GAMMA. This simplifies inventory management a little bit. Anomaly is already far more complex than the OG games and I wanted to focus more on the visuals and gunplay and take it back to a more vanilla feeling experience. Complexity is good but too much detracts from the gameplay.
the game looks better withput atmospherics, much more natural. I tried hippo atmos on EFP 4.0, and there was amazing, but not looks so good with lastest efp version
I love GAMMA, but I've played so much EFT I just can't get used to the med system so I go back to my custom modded Anomaly with the EFT med system in it. I should see if i can swap it into GAMMA but might be above my skill. (I love the Aggressor Reshade and his grass)
I'm having problems with GAMMA - later in the game after opening up the barrier the system is choking on transitions, my rig (Ryzen 5-5600x/32g/nvme/gtx1080) is choking badly, it's taking about 4-5 minutes just to load the transition from level to another such as moving from Army Houses to the Red Forest. As far as I've read it's to do with calculation of NPC movements and constrained by the engine's single core use only - I'm not sure if this can be curtailed or even switched off in mod configuration, I've yet to find a solution out there other than someone saying "just wait and be patient". Has anyone seen a fix for this issue? I'd be awfully grateful as I do love most of Gamma.
It was a nightmare trying tweak Gamma to my liking since the game just doesn't start if I turn off the mods I don't want. (Limb damage, whatever makes it so the vendors won't sell guns and armor) Also I wanted whatever mod added axes but that kept messing up.
hey i got a question, i just got the pack of the 3 games, and i do want to download gamma, but apparently you need around 120 g of space, i only got 60 to 70, how do I change Stalker Gamma to take up less space
Can anybody talk about the mod where you can compare a weapon’s full condition details? I have been looking for that everywhere. Does anyone know if it is even a mod?
Probably a bit late to ask, but can you cover Oblivion Lost Remake 3.0 in the future, it blew up on the Russian side of the S.T.A.L.K.E.R community about 4 months ago, and it looks real good as well, unfortunately the mod's github is pretty overwhelmed at the moment considering there's been a relatively recent patch on May 15th. edit: Oh just now I managed to get it! Sorry other people hahaha.
I've played GAMMA a lot but the stutters never went away and I've tried every single fix I could find on youtube, reddit, modDB. I might just play vanilla with these mods, might run better.
The best place for fixes is the discord, hopefully you've tried that. Personally I used tips there, adjusted sound pre-fetch, reduced the anomaly spawn rate, set just the right DirectX setting, substantially lowered the grass density, did all the Core 0 shit, and stutters were finally mostly gone. Unfortunately I think it's really hardware-specific too.
@@hambo6713 Yeah I spent a lot of time on the discord as well and I have tried all those. It must mean I need to upgrade my PC and it's not even that old.
I don't want to play G.A.M.M.A. It's too bloated for me. I have relatively weak machine to play with and G.A.M.M.A seems overkill for my standard playthrough. I just want to install one-by-one by myself and actually learn each mods that I need, like Fallout and Skyrim. Thanks for the video!
never found someone with a problem with gamma? now you found someone, the game literally stay in the loading screen and doesn't load, when i tried EFP it worked but wasn't that optimized, so i want to mod it myself because if i try to find the mod that is causing the infinite loading i would waste 1 year of my life just to find that mod, because gamma has a lot of mods.
Idk what you talkin about I and my friend and lots and lots of people usually have tons and tons of issues with playing and installing Gamma xD updated? broken for a day or two, you added a mod or for Gods sake disabled smth? broken. Gamma is Amazing with capital A I Agree but it is def no as stable as lots of people saying. oh and did I mentioned it eats FPS like kids eat candies? :D I played Gamma for years and then tried EFP, 80% of Gamma in it, you freely can (ofc ALMOST freely) adjust mod list, add/remove mods to your liking. AND EFP got like 160fps~ form e instead of Gammas 50-75avg fps~ soo yeah.
Crazy how tastes differ. th-cam.com/video/t8rJSvaaYjg/w-d-xo.html The before looks so much more natural. That blue tint looks like the stuff from the Xbox 360 era to make games look "gritty".
I hate GAMMA's recoil system and for a modpack that has ''modular'' in it I for the life of me cannot find the file ı need to change to just make it like vanilla Anomaly
IDK. GAMMA always bound a lot of installation/mod manager time for me. Btw I'm happy to meet the ~5th frenchman on the internet (yeah I'm already on the internet since the 90s, that's why I witnessed this many french persons). Still waiting for the other 5 who speak english.
Gamma is to hard, to graphically intense and my internet is so dog crap that 80gb would take like a week with chrome downloads so I just gave up after waiting a day and having it reset twice I need anomaly qol and customisation with the gameplay settings
Highly recommend the add-on “New Levels”. It adds a few new areas and quests! It works in vanilla Anomaly and works in GAMMA. Western Goods is also another one I’d suggest.
@@CheekiBreekiTv so far i don't think they've really been improved. its more or less the same 3 maps, the only improvements would be bug fixes, patches for other mods and a small storyline from the cologists. Apparently the re:done author is going to release a pack for the new levels so we'll see what they do with it. personally i like stuff being half empty because it gives you that down time / breathing room which also makes the random mutant or stalker encounter that much more terrifying. however i totally understand if people want moree a-life in there maps and not just walking simulator lol
@@CheekiBreekiTv Firstly, very humbled you’d reply to my comment lol. Love your content. Keep it up! Secondly, at least in GAMMA, I noticed the areas get more populated with Stalkers as more in-game time passed. Mutants didn’t seem to be as present as they are in other zones, but I just took it as it feeling that way because of the new areas being larger relatively speaking. If you only tried New Levels when they were first released, I’d say to try it with the .53 fix as it what my experience is based on. Also, if you ever want a snowy experience, I’d recommend Project Inverno.
Looks like modders of anomalies don't understand that most of those are traps, and they make them too easy to spot. This is why the vanilla versions are still the best. Less is sometimes more.
Ok dont go apeshit on me this is my opinion but i will say the rason GAMMA is worse to start with than EFP because of the fact that you are not allowed to buy guns wich in my opinion adds a full layer of difficulty in the game that new players just arent ready for
i honestly think that is making the zone atmosphere so much better (and harder, but reasonably). the thing that makes gamma bad is that it's loaded with tons of unnecessary addons and mechanics and there's just too much of them to have a good game. i know gamma is modular but I don't want to spend 3 hours just sitting there and disabling them, too boring. better to mod your anomaly by yourself, it's not that boring at least
big agree, any video that talks positively about gamma always has some people at the bottom of the comments talking about how it's too tedious, when that is the point, it's a hardcore modpack of a supposedly hard game, or at least the atmosphere of the game is one of survival and hardship, you are not supposed to pick it up with 0 prior experience and go shoot at the baddies with a modern AR in your first hour It having 450 mods in there, with a lot of those being small tweaks or fixes is also kind of the point of it, you can mod your game but you can't get to gamma levels of granular modding to where absolutely every detail is curated and worked on, I appreciate that part of it
0:55 are you sure? 95% of the gameplay in gamma is you polishing a gun and running around for a tool kit instead of the Wish Granter i would take any story mod or the soup anytime over Gun Smith simulator
A small mod but HUGE QoL bonus that I cannot live without is "Sprint Cancel Aim and Lean Toggle." For anyone using lean toggle, you NEED this! It allows you to sprint immediately out of leaning, rather than having to un-lean before the game allows you to sprint. I got blasted in the face by a shotgun around a corner too many times before this, being able to immediately book it is a godsend! It also works fine with GAMMA, if anyone asks!
i'm used to it by now, but thats good to know thanks
this was literally the first mod i ever got- i cant understand why it isn’t in the base game
Seconded! It should be a part of either base game, or Anomaly. There is zero reason to not keep this mod on at all times.
Another QoL mod I'd like to add is autocomplete missions. It doesn't work with PDA taskboard, but creates a slightly different game flow, making it much easier to plan trips through certain areas. As you get paid instantly as a task is completed, you can just visit a vendor instantly after a quest, instead of returning to the quest giver first. It's kinda like pda task board, but with the opposite effect.
aim lean toggle - if you forget to lean back it becomes a scoliosis simulator !
Brother I could kiss you
Total godsend on that API list. I've been wanting to try GAMMA, but I find that I've got to go in to a discord a bit too tedious to bother trying. With this I can just narrow down the mods I want. Thank you for that!
I don’t think you HAVE to go into the discord to install the mod pack. Even if you do, googling “stalker gamma discord”, and clicking a few more buttons is too tedious? Installing gamma is so easy, and there are tutorial videos that lay it out step by step. Installing individual mods is much more tedious lmao.
Thanks for the love letter ❤
Thanks for your mod-pack, all the work you have done is amazing.
The gamma team has my thanks, only game I've been playing for months now.
Thank you all for your hardwork!
Thanks for the Godly patience you have in dealing with all of us monkeys trying out your modpack
I know we can be nitpicky little bitches at times, but you and your team have made great strides in turning what was a quirky little STALKER sandbox simulator into an even more fun and refreshing STALKER experience
Much love for everything you do, Grok
I don't use your mod pack but I respect you for the work you've put into it
you're a legend
One mod which is INSANELY simplistic Chaotic Blowouts2 for me personally is a niche mod that changes the sirens before a PSY emision with added dog and human excruciating pain screeches. When I played Pookie's modpack the first time I heard that... I had goosebumps at the horror blowouts brough to my experience in the zone
Oh yea, when I heard the soundfile the first time it made me shiver. The Gunshots in the distant especially.
Had no idea Solarint was in Stalker modding scene too. Only know him from Sain of course but apparently I've been using his mod in Stalker with Gamma too. Respect to all modders out there
I just got into modding anomaly as I go, this is gold, thank you!!! Subscribed, I'm trying to make my zone gritty and moody too, if you have any follow-up ideas please make more videos on this, I'm sure there are plenty underrated or niche mods which can be tough to find
cant wait for stalker 2, looking forward to your compilation of it
man youre doing gods work in the stalker community! love it
10:11 not to be that guy but since you asked, its stay-pole. Love the vid as always!
10:15 "Stahple or Stayple" Its the second one :) Love your vids
Love watching your video! I appreciate every effort you put in the video😊😊
I love your Videos.
Your love for this game always rekindles my passion for stalkers.
GAMMA is just that good. 100% agreed.
I don't play gamma, because:
94% of the mods i don't care about and I don't need,
5% i want and care about
1% i straight up don't want, and going through 400 mods one by one to find out disabling which one will fix my issue is a pain. I love the idea of GAMMA and the immersion it gives, but I'd rather have the 20 mods i want without wasting space and resources.
Do i have compatibility issues? Yes. Not all of the mods i want i can have, but it is better than having 300 useless junk mods that the only thing they do is change three pixels of a texture on a tree that i will never see in my life.
Anyways, there are about 15 addons i regularly play with, but only one i percieve as a must have. Since I tried the Mag Redux i can't live without it. Many people don't like it, but i love the change in gameplay it gives.
I agree with you ngl
I have a gaming laptop I use that can run games fairly well, at least ultra graphics for some games, sometimes high or medium, but the catch is that my space is horrendous because I pay little attention to it, so I'm usually having to backtrack and remove stuff every few months. Gamma would probably wreck the rest of what little space I have left, and tbh with how moddable Anomaly is, I prefer that over gamma. If I wanna have a certain thing in my playthrough, then I can have that without wrecking my space.
@Jazztheartist140I get it lol, I’m in the exact same spot but I just started modding earlier this week
Btw since you both have similar mindsets, are there any mods you both recommend? I hope you both have great days and do well!
@@ericlepe7390 I just wrote you a very long and exhaustive comment about this, but for some reason it disappeared, so I'll do one short:
First, it's easier to mod with Mod Organizer, so try it out, and get Anomaly mod config, really helpful.
Then, if your pc can handle it, try some immersion mods and shaders, like FDDA, JSRS, Camera reanimation project, or yohji persistent weather. Small things, like a better PDA, or the animation of smoking cigs can add a surprising lot to the experience. I don't use shaders myself though, so I can't help you with that.
Then, you can try out some QoL mods. Cost in tooltip, HTS bars, PDA to previous weapon, Utjans QoL and Utjans Item UI improvements (though these ones are controversial, because they sometimes break immersion, so check it yourself to see if you want it). Crooks faction identification is also great.
Probably my favourite mod is the Anomaly magazines redux. Not everyone likes it, because it adds some micromanaging and drastically changes the gameplay, but if you like that kind of stuff, it is very immersive.
For popular mods I don't recommend, I'd say body health systems. They are often annoying (there is more than one such mod), and cause problems in the Mod Organizer. It is difficult and more immersive, but it never worked for me. Other than that, Boomsticks and sharpsticks. Another controversial pick, but on top of not working with Mod organizer, it is not that useful. I am a weapon nerd, so i'd like to have the additional firearms, but IMO a few guns aren't worth the 3GB of memory and all the problems it causes.
It's not much, because I like the vanilla experience, but i hope it helps. Have a great day!
@@briappa6670 Thank you so much for all of this! I never thought of the immersion mods, I've just been doing QoL mods so far and some weapon mods. BaS was one of the first mods I got but are there any other gun mods that you would recommend instead? Everything I have looked at so far seems to build off of BaS but I would like to avoid the problems it may cause
@@ericlepe7390 Unfortunately not. I don't even have BaS, because I thought it wasn't worth it. But it's great if you think otherwise. Every other weapon mod I know adds or changes just a single gun, and is often based on BaS anyways, so it would be basically useless unless you REALLY want a one specific weapon. I'd stay with BaS if it works for you, but from what I know, it should work with the Anomaly Magazines Redux, which is a kind of mod that you don't know if you like until you try it out yourself, so if you want some new experiences, I really recommend it.
Truly love your work Monsieur Breeki. One I'd like to suggest is another by Utjan; Dynamic Emission Cover. It makes taking cover from emissions intuitive; any sufficiently hefty structure will work, or even a thick concrete pipe if you really need to. A huge bonus is that you can set up your base in many more places, such as the upper levels of the cement factory in the north of Jupiter. Can't recommend it highly enough and it'd be cool to see you try it out if you try for another Iron Man / Invictus.
8:25 I'm getting Pennywise dance flashbacks with the running animation on the left
The truth is I like gamma in many sections except how it handles the artifacts section, because I don't like the mechanics of the containers in itself but gamma puts even more mechanics on top of it which makes it very tedious and I end up using them to make money, there are more things that I don't like but I can change them or completely remove them.
At the moment the only mod pack that I like how it handles the artifacts is Old World because it removes all the tedious mechanics and reduces it to making a good combination of artifacts, but for better or worse Old World feels like it is the same as the original trilogy, so the arsenal of weapons is very limited and the variety of costumes practically does not exist, apart from the fact that you must install a couple of QoL addons
Just up the incidence of artefacts a bit and you can build the top tier artefacts without too much trouble.
If you dislike how Gamma handles artefacts, you can simply disable everything artefact related in the MO2 list. I did so, and replaced it with Artefact Renovation (reinvention?) instead.
Thanks for telling me, I'll try it when I play gamma again
Love the video and the recomendations. 💕
I currently have GAMMA, a custom vanilla Anomaly and OWA installed on my PC. I am a father, designer and professional athlete, throughout the day my head and body suffer considerable levels of stress😵💫. When I'm at home and have a couple of hours to evade in the Zone, I always end up returning to OWA, because it doesn't saturate me while I play and it helps me clear my mind, it's direct, simple and grateful. Right now it's precisely what I'm looking for.👌
My ideal addonpack actually would be the base mechanics of OWA (OT) with the visuals, arsenal and QoL of GAMMA.🤟
Hello Cheeki, I am watching any STALKER video after about a year. I started Misery in August 23 amd stopped in September due to a housemoving. I carried my saved game and intended to start in the new house. Was settling in when a friend offered a job in December and am INTO in (More than I was in Lost Alpha during The Lockdowns) and only take my dog for 2 1-hour long walks and that's it! (Apart from the basic eat-shit routine).
He gave me a MacBook so the PC was gathering dust.
Recently, thought about installing some STALKER and bought an HDMI switcher to switch conveniently between Mac and PC. Misery was on top of my mind. But, remembering that how intense it was, I decided to go back to Anamoly as I need fun and not a bloddy exercise or life mission that even Narodnaya Solyanka makes it to be!
Your video (I have watched 32 seconds, yet) cemented my decision!
Love you and your works!
As you were sending your love in the thumbs up, I finished installing. Now, LUA crash by Ledge Grabbing.
Aaaaaaannnnndddddd: Anomaly is gone! Even without MO2.
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Every 2-3 days I go to anomaly-moddb and look through the new mods that come out. I am that type of guy that scrolled through all moddb mods already
List your suggestions? It would be ashame for all your hard work to go to waste
You sir are the biggest chad in the STLAKER Community, Thank you for all the information
Start with Anomaly and i known what i NEED
I really prefer Best artefact mod to perk based artefacts as it gives the artefacts a more vanilla SOC/COP feel
Cheeki i would love to see a True Stalker playtrough from you. I already miss waiting every week for a gameplay video... you dont have to of course, its just a suggestion, and i think people would love it too because its something "newer"
I remember using Dawn's Tweaks for one particular mod- that let you talk with everyone, not just unique NPCs or squad leaders.
Used that one for Call of Misery, Road to the North and later Anomaly.
Gamma? nah, imma do my own thing.
Funnily enough, the ARMA community's finest modders have come over to STALKER. Mods like soundscape and JSRS are the exact names of mods from the ARMA games. Cheers.
Got a few mods for my older 1.51 version and it even started and ran after :) Thanks
Yes, best advice is just play GAMMA, then maybe add a couple of extra mods on top.
After seeing the comparisons, I feel like I like the more subtle original anomalies to be honest.
So glad I found this video! I just found out about & started playing vanilla anomaly and so far it's great but there's minor QoL things I have issues with. Especially at the very top is the inventory mgmt. I downright despise it but I was dreading sifting thru the whole mess of mods just to get a handful. I'm also playing on a 2nd hand Lenovo ideapad3 w/ ryzen7 cpu but no dedicated GPU so my mod options are next to nonexistent as well as only having Hotspot from my phone as my only access to the internet so I'm severely limited to how much I can download.
I rly appreciate you narrowing down to the must-have's! As well as some useful recommendations in the comments!
Exelente video!!
Thanks for this video!
Gamma is Super big like 60gb's i think. I just installed EFP also a modpack for anomaly, but 3 times smaller than Gamma and just added a couple more mods. It works super good.
EFP is still not as stable as GAMMA though. There are several weird bugs that can affect your playthrough that are not a thing in GAMMA. For example, there is a bug that you can't loot the bodies, you can't fill your mags, you can't move items in your inventory or loot from a box for no reason suddenly. And the only solution is to reload an old save...
@@ubilambda i dont play gamma or efp, beacuse my computer go boom
Have you thought of making a “Cheeki Breeki Basic QOL” mod pack available to download that’s ready to use?
I actually love the goofy old animations
He's not wrong at all about just playing GAMMA. EFP is pretty cool too.
Great video! Maybe it would be interesting to have a video on which Gamma mods that are disabled by default you would recommend? I just play "vanilla" Gamma but I always wonder if any of those optional mods are worth enabling
2:13 "the simpliticity of anomaly" :0 im scared now
Cheeki Breeeki is a cool dude.
im more efp type of person but i respect the love for gamma
Also controversial - there are 2 things that the gamma mod makes much worse and boring - the A - Life and looting corpses. You can improve looting with the mod manager, but no matter what i disable or change in the files even, i cant seem to change how the Alife behaves in gamma, and the Alife impact looting too much.
1) Alife becomes predictable and boring, and some npc squads just stay lounging in bars forever. I remember the top 10 stalkers hit mission had me kill a Freedom guy in Janov, and at first i thought - ok hes going to eventually leave and then ill find a way to snipe him from afar without witnesses. And he never left. One of my first defining moments many years ago with vanilla anomaly - was when in my first game ever i saw a random merc guy walking alone in cordon. That desperate shootout with him was like a first shot of heroin that sends you down the addiction rabbit hole, because it took me like 15 minutes to be able to kill him with trash stater gear. I never encountered any other faction ever than freedom duty military bandit and loner in cordon when i played gamma.
2) There are so many little addons to nerf looting - and no the problem is not the loot progression mod, even if it does feel stupid when you see items in the inventory POOF and disappear because you don't deserve them yet. I like the loot claim mod, but the default one in gamma is actually the inferior choice - because if the squad doesn't see you and the corpse they somehow telepathically know that someone is touching their favorite corpse, a crime most dire. This can be easily fixed by switching to the other loot claim mod - the one that makes it more like - first come first served. Now npcs run to corpses to claim them, and they only complain if you try to loot corpses near them or the one they are currently looting. But this brings me to the second batch of problems. Because of the a-life the loot does not get wild. Plus there are 2 more mods that make sure that your loot tables stay boring - by default npcs don't loot at all they just claim corpses. The second one just makes sure that every corpse has a limit on how much loot there is there.
So the default looting further improves this feeling of the zone being a lived in place where you are not the center of the world , it also has you in this panic mode situation where you have quickly to devise a plan on how to take all of this loot and also survive.
- What i described above, lets say for example it's around 10 potential scenarios that could happen to the player in vanilla (in reality it is probably much more than that) - that will never happen to the player in gamma. This is still a wealth of experience that might not seem beneficial at first - but it does improve the game overall and reinforces some themes and ideas anomaly is going for. I think GAMMA offers improved immersion for your role playing - because this mindset can make the most boring and repetitious tasks fulfilling for a long long time - its not just this farming task anymore, its a job like any other and you need jobs to survive and maybe this is something your character himself found out and decided to exploit and then you can imagine how he rises to power and how that influences him as a character and so on and so on. Everything that improves this feeling of immersion is welcome - and GAMMA seems overly bent on the gamification of some systems to make this feeling of progression super linear. While I also love loooooooooooong linear progression - come on, the real world has both pitfalls that set you back a lot (like more surprising Alife from my point 1) or moments where gods smile on you where they decide one day not to piss and shit on you for fun - but give you a little candy (like finding a especially rich corpse in my point 2).
Even if you don't roleplay and just play and turn off your mind - these things above still happen in your subconscious and effect the impact of the game on you, so its not just something that might the role-player gamer disappointed.
Bit late but this is a perfect comparison between how Anomaly is to GAMMA
I just mod gamma the way I like and disable mods I don't like, got it working great. My usual go to
I like a lot of what GAMMA adds and how it overhauls the visuals but don't like how it makes the game even more complex. Anomaly is already cluttered and hard to enjoy because you spend hours reading item descriptions and your inventory gets hard to manage. In the original games maintaining your health and gear was an obstacle but never a chore the way it is with Anomaly and GAMMA. Some visual stuff also just doesn't jive for me. Gotta have my HD models. I decided to take the GAMMA modlist and pick it apart and kinda did a custom setup using GAMMA as a rough guide. I also found a mod that removes most of the useless junk items added to the game by Anomaly and GAMMA. This simplifies inventory management a little bit. Anomaly is already far more complex than the OG games and I wanted to focus more on the visuals and gunplay and take it back to a more vanilla feeling experience. Complexity is good but too much detracts from the gameplay.
Do you know where Can I find "dynamic factions messages" mod ? thanks
Are the mods for anomalies in this video featured in the gamma mod list already? Or would this cause conflicts if I were to add them to it
the game looks better withput atmospherics, much more natural.
I tried hippo atmos on EFP 4.0, and there was amazing, but not looks so good with lastest efp version
how you install the mods that cant be downloaded with modloader, like cinematic vfx?
The. Best in modding anomaly when it is just wont start but it generates no error😂
Hi there, cool video, can you tell me what is the backpack faction skin mod that you are using here 9:12? Thanks in advance.
i really wish i knew how you combined DAO and Arrival. Arrival mod page says you have to remove DAO completely.
I love GAMMA, but I've played so much EFT I just can't get used to the med system so I go back to my custom modded Anomaly with the EFT med system in it.
I should see if i can swap it into GAMMA but might be above my skill.
(I love the Aggressor Reshade and his grass)
thx 4 the info man😊😊
I know it's only been 8 days, but man do I miss your vids. Will you do another playthrough series?
My 3D PDA shows only black screen. Has anyone experienced the same issue as me?
do they work in gamma tho
You gotta be more precise as 90% of these mods are already in gamma
Most of the mods shown here are in Gamma, so yes they work
I'm having problems with GAMMA - later in the game after opening up the barrier the system is choking on transitions, my rig (Ryzen 5-5600x/32g/nvme/gtx1080) is choking badly, it's taking about 4-5 minutes just to load the transition from level to another such as moving from Army Houses to the Red Forest. As far as I've read it's to do with calculation of NPC movements and constrained by the engine's single core use only - I'm not sure if this can be curtailed or even switched off in mod configuration, I've yet to find a solution out there other than someone saying "just wait and be patient".
Has anyone seen a fix for this issue? I'd be awfully grateful as I do love most of Gamma.
It was a nightmare trying tweak Gamma to my liking since the game just doesn't start if I turn off the mods I don't want. (Limb damage, whatever makes it so the vendors won't sell guns and armor)
Also I wanted whatever mod added axes but that kept messing up.
Joke's on you, I'm already playing Gamma and I'm just looking for more mods to add because I always need more
Hi Cheeki,
Are there any add-ons that you would recommend to install on top of GAMMA to improve it?
I'd like to know this as well!
hey i got a question, i just got the pack of the 3 games, and i do want to download gamma, but apparently you need around 120 g of space, i only got 60 to 70, how do I change Stalker Gamma to take up less space
are all of these compatible with eachother?
Hey if it still crashes less often than GAMMA and runs at a higher framerate I should go back to it.
Are these mods already included in GAMMA?
Is thear any series coming?!
what mod pack do you recommend for a semi casual but still immersive experience? gamma, efp, nomad?
Can anybody talk about the mod where you can compare a weapon’s full condition details? I have been looking for that everywhere. Does anyone know if it is even a mod?
Unfortunately Arrival messes with anomalies sounds a lot, and it's not tweakable
but Gama is sooooo god damn hard and I have it on "Easy" ? ... I can't see any options in the mods to make it any easier than it already is?
Probably a bit late to ask, but can you cover Oblivion Lost Remake 3.0 in the future, it blew up on the Russian side of the S.T.A.L.K.E.R community about 4 months ago, and it looks real good as well, unfortunately the mod's github is pretty overwhelmed at the moment considering there's been a relatively recent patch on May 15th.
edit: Oh just now I managed to get it! Sorry other people hahaha.
I want to play again.
Why would i want to fix gun barrels. You dont change gun barrels
I've played GAMMA a lot but the stutters never went away and I've tried every single fix I could find on youtube, reddit, modDB. I might just play vanilla with these mods, might run better.
You probably tried these, but have you tried disabling Core 0 and decreasing grass size and density? Also, cap FPS to 60-80?
@@atlasfontaine yep, I sure have tried it :(
The best place for fixes is the discord, hopefully you've tried that. Personally I used tips there, adjusted sound pre-fetch, reduced the anomaly spawn rate, set just the right DirectX setting, substantially lowered the grass density, did all the Core 0 shit, and stutters were finally mostly gone. Unfortunately I think it's really hardware-specific too.
@@hambo6713 Yeah I spent a lot of time on the discord as well and I have tried all those. It must mean I need to upgrade my PC and it's not even that old.
still like base anomaly more then gamma. Grok is still a legend though
I don't want to play G.A.M.M.A. It's too bloated for me. I have relatively weak machine to play with and G.A.M.M.A seems overkill for my standard playthrough. I just want to install one-by-one by myself and actually learn each mods that I need, like Fallout and Skyrim. Thanks for the video!
Hello Cheeki Breeki, do you know the fallen god mod ? Its looks like a good story mode.
0:53 bro i don't play gamma because my pc die but i play with my modpack that i made.
alpha youtuber
My only complaint about gamma is that its 100 gb and anomaly is 8 so
thanks
I totaly agee with what you say about gamma ... ButI never managed to install it.
never found someone with a problem with gamma? now you found someone, the game literally stay in the loading screen and doesn't load, when i tried EFP it worked but wasn't that optimized, so i want to mod it myself because if i try to find the mod that is causing the infinite loading i would waste 1 year of my life just to find that mod, because gamma has a lot of mods.
Idk what you talkin about I and my friend and lots and lots of people usually have tons and tons of issues with playing and installing Gamma xD updated? broken for a day or two, you added a mod or for Gods sake disabled smth? broken. Gamma is Amazing with capital A I Agree but it is def no as stable as lots of people saying. oh and did I mentioned it eats FPS like kids eat candies? :D
I played Gamma for years and then tried EFP, 80% of Gamma in it, you freely can (ofc ALMOST freely) adjust mod list, add/remove mods to your liking. AND EFP got like 160fps~ form e instead of Gammas 50-75avg fps~ soo yeah.
Crazy how tastes differ. th-cam.com/video/t8rJSvaaYjg/w-d-xo.html The before looks so much more natural. That blue tint looks like the stuff from the Xbox 360 era to make games look "gritty".
yes gamma is great
I hate GAMMA's recoil system and for a modpack that has ''modular'' in it I for the life of me cannot find the file ı need to change to just make it like vanilla Anomaly
IDK. GAMMA always bound a lot of installation/mod manager time for me.
Btw I'm happy to meet the ~5th frenchman on the internet (yeah I'm already on the internet since the 90s, that's why I witnessed this many french persons).
Still waiting for the other 5 who speak english.
Does G.A.M.M.A run on DX9? Thats the only way I can stably run Anomaly!
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Not that I dont wanna play GAMMA but my i5 mx940 laptop cannot handle such game 😞
Gamma is to hard, to graphically intense and my internet is so dog crap that 80gb would take like a week with chrome downloads so I just gave up after waiting a day and having it reset twice I need anomaly qol and customisation with the gameplay settings
Gamma is cool but i dont need that many mods and 100 gigs is a lot for my pc
Highly recommend the add-on “New Levels”. It adds a few new areas and quests! It works in vanilla Anomaly and works in GAMMA.
Western Goods is also another one I’d suggest.
I tired the new levels just after release and they were pretty empty, did they improve since? I need to give them another chance if that's the case!
@@CheekiBreekiTv so far i don't think they've really been improved.
its more or less the same 3 maps, the only improvements would be bug fixes, patches for other mods and a small storyline from the cologists.
Apparently the re:done author is going to release a pack for the new levels so we'll see what they do with it.
personally i like stuff being half empty because it gives you that down time / breathing room which also makes the random mutant or stalker encounter that much more terrifying. however i totally understand if people want moree a-life in there maps and not just walking simulator lol
@@CheekiBreekiTv Firstly, very humbled you’d reply to my comment lol. Love your content. Keep it up!
Secondly, at least in GAMMA, I noticed the areas get more populated with Stalkers as more in-game time passed. Mutants didn’t seem to be as present as they are in other zones, but I just took it as it feeling that way because of the new areas being larger relatively speaking.
If you only tried New Levels when they were first released, I’d say to try it with the .53 fix as it what my experience is based on.
Also, if you ever want a snowy experience, I’d recommend Project Inverno.
Looks like modders of anomalies don't understand that most of those are traps, and they make them too easy to spot. This is why the vanilla versions are still the best. Less is sometimes more.
If someone would do 1 link all mod please (just without dark souls like mod :P)
#1 quick uninstall mod
Ok dont go apeshit on me this is my opinion but i will say the rason GAMMA is worse to start with than EFP because of the fact that you are not allowed to buy guns wich in my opinion adds a full layer of difficulty in the game that new players just arent ready for
i honestly think that is making the zone atmosphere so much better (and harder, but reasonably). the thing that makes gamma bad is that it's loaded with tons of unnecessary addons and mechanics and there's just too much of them to have a good game. i know gamma is modular but I don't want to spend 3 hours just sitting there and disabling them, too boring. better to mod your anomaly by yourself, it's not that boring at least
big agree, any video that talks positively about gamma always has some people at the bottom of the comments talking about how it's too tedious, when that is the point, it's a hardcore modpack of a supposedly hard game, or at least the atmosphere of the game is one of survival and hardship, you are not supposed to pick it up with 0 prior experience and go shoot at the baddies with a modern AR in your first hour
It having 450 mods in there, with a lot of those being small tweaks or fixes is also kind of the point of it, you can mod your game but you can't get to gamma levels of granular modding to where absolutely every detail is curated and worked on, I appreciate that part of it
shilling gamma the blandest thing out there is peak western stalker
> I want a heavily modded anomaly
> GAMMA is bad (I have skill issues)
Choose one
but GAMMA IS TO HEAVY TO MY PC BRO
0:55 are you sure?
95% of the gameplay in gamma is you polishing a gun and running around for a tool kit instead of the Wish Granter
i would take any story mod or the soup anytime over Gun Smith simulator
> I want a heavily modded anomaly
> GAMMA is bad (I have skill issues)
Choose one