Stalker 2 a while away, but mods are keeping it alive.

The release of Stalker 2 is a long way off, release date is exactly 35 years after the Chernobyl incident? That would be April 25 2021. Though, it feels too soon to have an exact release date. But the game is in doubt, there are trailers on the Internet, but they are fan made, and there are no concrete videos or work in progress images to show, even though it is 2019. I am not holding out any hope of seeing this game until it actually surfaces. But there are many mods like New Arsenal 6.0, OGSE 0693 and Dead Air to tide players over until the game is released, if at all. No other game has the same atmosphere as Stalker does. It is just so scary and has such a post-apocalyptic feel to it. the maps such as Great Swamps are massive and have so many plants and reeds, it is hard to see something hiding in them until you stumble on top of it. Not to forget the Red Forest and Pripyat levels, with snipers on the roofs and plenty of mutants and anomalies. Pripyat is famous for the All Ghillied Up – Call of Duty 4 : Modern Warfare – Campaign Mission 13. That featured the Pripyat city in that game. But the lack of anomalies and mutants would make it boring.

Pripyat in Call of Pripyat had a Controller in the Kindergarten building, and a Psi device somewhere as well.Stalker New Arsenal 6.0 is a good mod with many, many guns, ranging from WW2 to modern weapons, but it is only in російська. There is no translation to English. The file that contains the strings is locked and can not be opened by unpacking tools. That is very annoying, I do not know why they did this, it is a bit of a dick move by Russian modders. But it is playable anyway, and has familiar missions, as well as some very strange ones. Объединенный пак 2.1 is another very good Stalker mod, this one has the famous cave maps and a very long story-line that will take a very long time to complete. Find more information on this mod here: http://stalker-worlds.ru/forum/topic/3176-cumulative-pack-2/. This runs very well too. The player starts next to the death truck with 5% health and no ammo. You must then get to the Stalker camp to talk with Doctor and take his medicine to continue the story. This has quite a few weapons and items, as well as new artifacts.

But the stuff you get in the caves is taken off you when you get back to the Cordon. But this is all good, as long as the player stashes their beginning stuff in the Cordon before entering the caves, then they can get it all back afterwards. OGSE is very annoying, it costs 300 RU to enter Sidorovitch`s bunker and you do not have that at the beginning of the game. New Arsenal 6.0 the player can pay Sidorovitch 60,000 RU to have a truce with the military. Of course that would require a LOT of grinding to amass that much cash. Worth it though. The player can just fight Bandits only in Agroprom and not worry about the military, just buy the documents off them for 20,000 RU. Then easily just walk out of X-18 and Darkscape without fighting any soldiers. That sounds like a very cool thing indeed. Just need to grind excessively to gain that much cash. In OGSE 0693, the player is only required to do a few tasks for Sidorovitch, and it is easy to get started.

There is a guy at the bunker who wants 300 RU every time, as I said before, but he can be rebuffed at the start and he will not bother you again. The latest version of OGSE 0693 is at http://www.ogse.ru.

Game Repacks + Modding Tools
https://mega.nz/#F!u3wEhYCT!nmEt7H1CpzOoEcsl9jyIvA

Downgrade Patches (drag-and-drop, barely ever works)
https://mega.co.nz/#F!M4BmDRCL!vfze70GSJDyv-HzWn7Dwww

Unpacked Gamedata + GSC Backup HDD assets
https://mega.co.nz/#F!V5hBzKab!wF7fgX6m5Tq29B_m5EX69g

Old Builds (dated from June 1st, 2002)
https://mega.co.nz/#F!kFtnBTSb!K-RlA1TVxlJGl86yE1c6fw

OGSE 0692 Anon Edition
https://mega.nz/#F!4AF0CIpa!2eKBLDSOi5J104ZPkTzEcQ

OGSE 0692 & Weapon Addon 3.5 R3
https://mega.nz/#!DEZXmIZT!NUjnfncfzpO-SpIFhM8Nyq2TTkMUbNi22rl9xHo7iZg
Alt http://www.mediafire.com/?9ofkeyesban6t

OGSE 0693 v2.11 + Weapon Addon + HD textures
https://mega.nz/#F!vIxjHCgB!cyRYmKi1aDs0gpqTH6t-YA
Alt http://www.mediafire.com/folder/ozk2k2qm9f7hk/OGSE_0693%2BWeapon_Addon%2BHD_textures

Oblivion Lost Remake
https://pastebin.com/V0MUHgnX

https://mega.nz/#F!RQoBEKaC!uyAfMXpgRdvc1CPBxocr7A
https://www.mediafire.com/?eb3nzh929em51

Call of Chernobyl
https://mega.nz/#F!Z01CVQgZ!kzFOBdGnnehBSk1OUQm6PQ

Xetrill’s Modified LuaJIT for CS/CoP – improves performance, especially in script-heavy mods.
https://mega.co.nz/#F!BIISmQgK!KHZR01ljznUqJlcHUax-aQ
http://www.gsc-game.com/main.php?t=community&s=forums&s_game_type=xr2&thm_id=23321&sec_id=22

Performance Guides, Steam settings
http://pastebin.com/nzXEevG7

Common misconceptions about Shadow of Chernobyl game mechanics
http://www.metacognix.com/stlkrsoc/WhatYouKnowThatAintSo.html

The Zone Manual: Every Mod You’ll Ever Need for the True Ukrainian Experience
http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=121125400