ABR COP MOD is a global (audio\video\gameplay) survival overhaul with vanilla story and quests. More enemies, less freebies, not sellable looted weapons. Most of the used mods were reassambled to create a seamless experience.
ABR is "vanilla+" mod that is possibly even more artifically difficult than Misery, which is impressive.
The developer wants to create a "hardcore" mod and decides the best way to do it is by limiting the player and removing features instead of properly altering them to the mod's advantage and goal:
- You can't sell enemy weapons even though they are spotless because that would make the economy too easy. I guess the traders are mutants to have psychic powers to know they are dropped from enemies.
- Removed 90% of the stashes and left only 30. Instead of editing the items of the stashes to prevent players getting rich too quickly they decided to simply delete them. Instead of the lazy solution why not place them to new and more difficult to find places that would not only make replaying the game more exciting but also stop veterans from making easy money from looting the usual locations?
- Removed "Pioneer" achievement because according to the developer "Anabiotic can be found in Zaton stashes. Deleting them from there would affect the balance". So it's fine to remove nearly every stash but anabiotics is where you draw the line? Okay.
- Altered mutant spawns, not to make things fresh but instead to pump artificial difficulty. Controller on Sawmill, a pack of burers on Iron Forest, a goddamn pseudogiant wandering near the helicopters. You are ruining the wow factor of encountering those special mutants on special events (pseudogiant under Iron Forest, the iconic crying burer in X-8 etc.) and cheapening their appearence.
- You can't leave Zaton until you investigate the three crash sites. Because why let players do their own thing when you can force them to play your way. What's that player? There are five burers protecting a chopper and a pseudogiant near the next? Well, the solution is simple! Simply spend hours grinding on the same boring map to get good equipment to deal with them! Are you having fun yet?
- Removed Beard's artifact quests. You don't want players making too much money too quickly, what do you do? Reduce the reward or something like that right? Nope, simply remove the whole quest, why bother?
The list goes on.
Worst of all, the creator dismisses valid criticisms and is fine making fun of frustrated players by saying things like "git gud" or "don't like the mod, don't play it". And the funny thing is, even though the gimping of gameplay, features and other aspects, the mod is still **** easy. Despite what the creator hoped, everyone who knows well how the game works can still get rich fairly quickly. It's not fun but still doable. With that goal crushed, the only thing this mod has achieved is being a more boring CoP with less content.
Should have stopped while it was a graphics mod instead of becoming Misery clone #325.
boring, tedious and ridiculous mod.
Beautiful mod
You just made it frustrating.
A controller in the sawmill where you are supposed to grab basic tools?
A freaking PSEUDOGIANT guardian one of the first helicopters?
Bloodsuckers basically oneshotting me (>90% dmg and rest is bleed)?
The only reason this doesn't get a 1 or 2 is because the added item variety.
Changes way too many gameplay options and does NOT give you the options to toggle features or aspects you like. Some of these are almost knowingly unaware of the original purpose of the mechanics or values they replace.
This could have been the ultimate go-to mod to use for every time you install Call of Pripyat but instead because of the Dev thinking he knows better, it plays worse than it did stock.
Good mod for Gunslinger mod haters. Must have for modern and casual gamers.
there's abr mod v1.2 files (for call of pripyat)
just know it's a little buggy and out of support
downloaded from nexus (when it was available)
uploaded on telegram
nearly 4.3gigabytes
The mod said its not for vanilla but Idk.. some is mssing but it still feels like vanilla and that's a good thing
A lot of work must have gone into this and it shows. Challenging gameplay but not Misery. Beautiful graphics and i think i had only two CTDs through a whole playthrough.
creativity > old-fashioned