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  • 28-09-2012 10:31pm
    #1
    Genghiz Cohen
    Registered Users Posts: 7,182 ✭✭✭


    I go the Stalker set in the last Steam sale. Should I just play vanilla or what is the best mod to start with?


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    Sir Digby Chicken Caesar
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 23,556 ✭✭✭✭Sir Digby Chicken Caesar


    complete mod
    http://www.moddb.com/mods/stalker-complete-2009

    boom

    run the vanilla game, it has to create a few files. just run it, exit out. then install that mod

    be patient with it.. it starts slow but it's so unbelievably worth it

    --edit

    also i'm assuming you mean shadow of chernobyl?


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    http://www.moddb.com/mods/stalker-complete-2009/downloads/stalker-complete-2009-14-exe-installer

    this is the file you need.. the rest are all optional. never used the realistic weapons add on myself so dont know how it affects the game balance. probably not best for a first time play through anyway


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    Genghiz Cohen
    Registered Users Posts: 7,182 ✭✭✭Genghiz Cohen


    Sir Digby Chicken Caesar wrote: »

    also i'm assuming you mean shadow of chernobyl?

    I have all the Stalkers. But I supposed the first is the place to start.


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    Sir Digby Chicken Caesar
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 23,556 ✭✭✭✭Sir Digby Chicken Caesar


    yeah

    play chernobyl first

    you can play clear sky second if you like but it's the weakest in the series. they balanced the game around close quarters combat and nerfed the **** out of scoped weapons and... the game kinda suffers for it
    still a good game, but pripyat is *so* much better and since clear skyis a prequel you can jump straight into pripyat after chernobyl and not really miss anything from leaving clear sky until third


    all 3 games have their own version of the complete mod. graphics updates, bug fixes, that kinda thing. by and large it leaves the game as vanilla as possible just a better experience while playing.


    --edit

    i'll put my feelings about clear sky like this

    chernobyl - 228 hours played
    pripyat - 348 hours played
    clear sky - 55 hours played

    :)


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    Genghiz Cohen
    Registered Users Posts: 7,182 ✭✭✭Genghiz Cohen


    So once I'm done, it's on to Misery mod?


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    Sir Digby Chicken Caesar
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 23,556 ✭✭✭✭Sir Digby Chicken Caesar


    misery mod is only for call of pripyat, so that's a ways off yet for you

    plus version 2.0 of the misery mod is coming out soon so hopefully by the time you finish the other 3 it'll be done

    there's also tecnobacons stalkersoup for shadow of chernobyl. it adds the maps from all 3 games into chernobyl as well as maps from unreleased alphas people found, a **** ton of new quests, enemies, artifacts, etc etc etc etc etc

    only problem is it's still in beta so it's a teeeeensy bit buggy from time to time. it's also ****ing *hard* pretty much one shot kill until you're a hundred hours in or so and get some decent armour/artifacts.


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