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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.

How to play with Russian dialogue audio and English subtitles (SoC) for full immersion.

The Low Spec Bible: How to play S.T.A.L.K.E.R.Please note that installing Sky Reclamation Project and AtmosFear will render existing saved-game files unusable until they are uninstalled. If you have any questions or problems, please comment on AutoModerator's latest help post and other fans may help you. Reduce the crosshair to an immersion-maintaining dot by placing this 'gamedata' folder in CoP's root directory.Increase field of view to 54 or 55 (Arsenal Overhaul not needed).Note: ZRP and SRP above will provide a free-play mode after the ending cinematic, if you reach the best ending to each game. Follow these steps to increase Actor.ltx's camera_height_factor from 0.85 to 0.94 via Notepad, so that you are at proper head height with NPCs, though you may need to crouch to pick up some items and this might make combat easierįor CS: Apply community bug fix Sky Reclamation Project (SRP report bugs here), and be sure to apply some of its included optional add-ons, like Alternative Ballistics and decreased AI grenade spam.Apply community bug fix Zone Reclamation Project (ZRP, maintained by /u/NatVak) not convinced? Read Metacognix arguments for ZRP.Optional: Why you should play without musicįor all games: apply both the latest AtmosFear and Absolute Nature content as are available, after applying the tweaks below first.

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. Always use IsThereAnyDeal to assess the best game prices (ignore the erroneous Microsoft Store entry, which is for a different game)!

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