A Cosmetic Overhaul for the Mercenaries in COC. This remakes them as a mysterious, Commando styled soldiers, with plain black and gray colours for the plain, clean professional look.
1.0: A finalized start on the faction, features about 10 different models. There are some glitches and bugs I will get around to fixing.
A COSMETIC OVERHAUL ONLY! This redux features the faction of mercenaries. The intention behind the design is to remake them as a mysterious, Commando styled soldiers, with plain black and gray colours for the plain, clean professional look, but still maintaining some variety in gear. Sticking to the story and origins of the faction to influence the look, the mercenaries are the second most mysterious faction next to the Monolith. No one knows who these soldiers are, all that is known that they are paid by those with wealth and power to conduct operations and mission into the zone. With Western looking guns, Armour and accents, these men could be former soldiers or as part of one or more disorganized PMC's. The Mercs are designed to look like more of a dark/mysterious, elite professional force, taking ideas and concepts from Last Man Battalion from the division, S.T.A.L.K.E.R Lore and whatever models and materials I could get my hands on.
1.2 update: Removed all broken models and replaced with new ones: source of bad optimization by original creators or use of shared files caused missing textures and other problems.
This has been fixed to ensure a much better, coherent and working model pack which will not cause any problems. Further model variety and texture overhaul coming soon!
Credits to:
Azetrix: Stalker-mods.su
DanteZ: Stalker-mods.su
One_Shot: Stalker-mods.su
DanteZ: Stalker-mods.su
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That asian boi on the left.
I mean it makes sense. Factions like Duty, Freedom (sort of, considering they're the Zone's resident anarchists), of course the Military would all be Ukrainian/Russian. But Loners, some Ecologists and Mercs would have a more international make-up. Realistically people from all over the world would be clamoring to get into the Zone, despite some probably heavy sanctions against illegal immigrants in response to the attention.
I think a cool add-on would create some custom models and voice overs for stalkers around the planet, to give the Zone a real sense that everyone wants a slice of that sweet, sweet artefact pie.
there are no russians in the ukrainian army. it's impossible.
Never heard of Tatars, Uzbeks, Kyrgyz or the Kazakhs? Russia itself has over 190 ethnic groups, and many of them are mongoloid (so are many former Soviet states too).
So it only makes sense that asian-looking people from the further slavic East would show up in the Zone. Especially amongst Loners, (Russian) Military or the Mercs. I actually find their absence a bit strange tbh, especially in such a Russian/Ukrainian centric game.
I'm not saying it's a bad thing. Quite the opposite.
Oh, I didn't mean to imply you meant that as a bad thing. Sorry if I made it sound like that.
Ooh I love a good Race Debate....
A short video overview of some models
Tatars are mostly Europeoids, I'm a Tatar.
ASIAN GANG, ASIAN GANG, ASIAN GANG
What about the Black Man!?! Where's your diversity? How about seeing some Brotha's up in herr?
BLACK LIVES MATTER! BLACK LIVES MATTER! BLACK LIVES MATTER!...
JK. You know he'd be the first one to die anyway...
...JK.
Will there be a version with their blue colors like you did clear sky? I love the blue colors of the mercs. Makes them very distinct
Hey again buddy, sorry for the late reply I wanted to only announce when I was in a position to do so, short answer no, long answer yes, only issue is the models and textures weren't as easily color transferable as the clear sky ones so will take some time, but eventually I will get around to it, once I am happy with how the mercs look.
hello, excuse the ignorance but, the folder "models" that is next to the gamedata, what do I do with it? Is it an ornament or do I install it somewhere?
Models are only for editiors, game data is the complete pack
I understand, thank you very much for taking the time to respond and good work :)
Holy jesus this is good! What's the Exo look like?
the exo it's the asian guy on the left xDD
Yeah, I am working on models and attachments for the faction, however bare in mind that it does take some work, the mercs are an annoying faction to try and model since they have less variations and models to work with. 1.1 is close since I have designed three more models from the materials I could acquire for the group however exo soldiers may have to be later.
The process goes, release a starter pack. Get feedback, then improve and develop from there to get a sense of what direction I am wanting to take the faction visually.
exo has a new temporary model for now in 1.1.
Sorry to ask but does this work with Outfit Addon?
as far as I am aware
Damn my guy you're just dropping bombs left and right
yeah haha, I'm enjoying bringing life to these groups dude. Finally after tormenting with the mercs for over a month I have a direction to take them in. Hope things go well for your stuff man!
where are this models originally from? and will you do the rest of the factions? im gonna wait till the current version of coc comes out of the beta to play with these
Hey, the models should have sources and links to their pages or sites of which they are obtained from, majority of the base came from Ninja_nubs and stalkermods.su which has mods and independent models. Some models (using the very basic skills) have texture overhauls and some editing by yours truly making them ‘modified variants’.
Sweet work dude! Thanks for overhauling my favorite faction! :D
Models of npc is more detailed than models of weapons they hold x)
Awesome work bro, u planning to release a complete pack of all factions in the future?
Defiantducky what faction are you doing next???, plz be DUTY!!!!
I have an small idea for duty, thinking maybe Russian gear with red autumn camo, similar gear to the Russian paratroopers from MW2
Great mod,
but scientist outfit have headlight in nose ;-)
Regards
hey everyone, apologies for the absence lately. As well as starting university again, I now have a legal battle to deal with so therefore I have been busy and focused on more things. Once hopefully everything settles down again I will try and focus more on the redux projects. Heres the main goals:
1> Redo the Mercs, scientist models have issues as pointed out by batou_1337
2> Fix the clear sky issue for 1.4.22 stalker_nebo4.itx issues and crashes
3> Once that and everything else is fixed and sorted then maybe I will think about other groups to model.
can you please do duty next, i dont like the vanilla version of the General
Looking into it now!
I have noticed the "Exo" model seems to get shiny legs when I use a Reshade. Thought that was interesting (and distracting).
hmm, I'll have a look at it
Yep, I also have this "shiny legs" texture bug.
what instruments you use to make this mod?
GIMP(.OGF ADDON)
OGF VIEWER
A LITTLE OF 3D MAX (not used this for majority of the models)
There is a visual problem with 2 Models of the Merc's, Hog and the Standart Merc model/uniform are for some reason complete Blue.
Merc uniform/Model is unter Gasmask on hands and shoes blue, Hog's Facemask,glasses and also Shoes and Hands are also Blue what looks pretty unintended. No crashes has happend and everythings work fine and every other model of the Faction looks normal. (Already tested without any other Mods to see if they change the Models for some reason but no luck there.)
any idea how to get that outfit with the green/brown helmet?
is this mod compatible with OA?
second question is, if i'm install this mod, when you wear one of the faction armor, is it going only to effect when your on third person view, or you also get like first person hand?
if your not understand yet, usually when i equipped one of the mercs armor, in first person view, i get hand with some kind like blue coat, but this mod make all mercenary become black, so if i'm equipped one of the mercs armor, should my hand in first person view, my hand become like precisely he wearing, or still using vanilla hand?
sorry if my english a little broken :v
I love this mod, well done.
Have an issue with the mercenary mod, everyone is silver. I have your other 2 mods, clear sky and military, and they work beautifully. just wondering if you know of any conflicts with the mercs?
I'm getting that 'nebo_4.ltx' error and crash. Has any work progressed since?
Yep everything is fixed with 1.2
1.2 update: Removed all broken models and replaced with new ones: source of bad optimisation by original creators or use of shared files caused missing textures and other problems.
This has been fixed to ensure a much better, coherent and working model pack which will not cause any problems. Further model variety and texture overhaul coming soon!
Some models in the video review - Youtu.be
the skins are great, do not misunderstand me, I can not imagine what it costs to make one ... but honestly the second mercenary suit (the one that is black, with a gas mask and hood) personally I loved it more, by the way, Do you plan to make skins of all factions?