The early game of Anomaly is absolutely the toughest.
The crafting and repair systems are overcomplicated and unrealistic, they can be learnt if you put the time and energy into them but on most difficulties the difference between doing it yourself or buying/repairing is marginal at best. Which difficulty settings did you choose at the start? I have hundreds of hours in the mod, and I still use a variant between economical difficulties Tourist and Scavenger, as without that the game is just a grindfest. Game Database Unpacker: extracts all(/most?) vanilla content into a folder, for modding purposes/education also seems to work with Call of Pripyat, despite lack of explicitly stated compatibility
titles to download and play these mods, but Lost Alpha is the only one recommended for beginners):Īnomaly: a realistically overwhelming spiritual successor to the outdated mod Last Day – which is based on the mod Call of Misery – which is a fusion of CoP mods Misery and Call of Chernobyl (adds mutant meat-cooking, ammo quality tiers, DIY maintenance/upgrades, artifact irradiation directly from one's inventory, Azazel posthumous continuation mode, 1-thru-8 inventory filters, and a new plot after CoP) Standalone games (you do not need to own any S.T.A.L.K.E.R. Road to the North (CoP total overhaul of Call of Misery mod, with 37+ original missions).
Misery (CoP adds character classes, cooking, inventory self-maintenance, cigarettes, etc.).Call of Chernobyl (CoP combines all three games' maps into one gigantic map).devs) (see /u/SwogFrog's useful guide to getting started with Autumn Aurora) Autumn Aurora 2.1 (SoC recasts and significantly expands SoC in a Fall-themed environment, officially endorsed by S.T.A.L.K.E.R./r/TheZoneStories: a sister subreddit to discuss amazing, organic player experiences of the games' & mods' procedural events.
If you only want/have time to play one of the three, Shadow of Chernobyl is still the recommended one to play, because (spoiler-free) the other two carry on with a certain game element that assumes past plot knowledge, and feels awkwardly (and possibly annoyingly) unexplained without experience of SoC. Alternatively, check .Īlways start with SoC, and then play either of the other two in any order (usually in the order of release). These are stats from one of the subreddit moderators. games released by the community to try out.Īssuming full story + some side quests completed, with no free-play/replaying: If you cannot/are unwilling to pay for S.T.A.L.K.E.R., please continue to scroll down and find some completely free, standalone S.T.A.L.K.E.R.
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