Recon/Sniper maximum stamina degrade Thread - MISERY mod for S.T.A.L.K.E.R.: Call of Pripyat

A recon and to a lesser degree a sniper over time lose (especially when over the weight) stamina maximum. This maximum never recovers never back not from becoming underweight, sleeping or any form of medicine. It is restored after saving and then loading, which makes it only annoying that you have to save/load cause else it goes as low to nil the maximum. I succeeded in bringing it down to like 20% when playing and not dying for like 1.5 hours. As a recon I like carrying 3-4 artefacts and they can heavy... and only speed things up. I'm always overweight unless I only go out with a pistol due to this.

It takes a lot of fun out of the game, when you notice after 40 minutes playing you only have half your maximum stamina.
Others share your views about this topic?

Edited by: Nyayr

I only noticed a 90% or so reduction at best, but then again, I load a lot.

I see this glitch as well. It really annoys the hell out of me because the only way to fix this is to save and reload. That then removes every corpse in the game and then what....?? I cannot retrieve any more items until play through again....then I get it so low I cannot move. Anyone know hot to fix this in the ltx or whatever files?

No new info? No one else has this bug?

I am also seeing this bug and also find it VEEEERRRRY frustrating. A save and reload does indeed seem to be the only way I've found to reset it, and this is horrible because not only do bodies disapear (as mentioned above), but all of the A-Life resets and stalkers who were heading to places (often who I'm trying to follow there), suddenly choose a new destination after the reload and all my carefully laid plans are screwed.
I can't express how grateful and happy I will be if someone can find a solution to this!

Has anyone found it happening for an Assaulter?

nunuvyor wrote: I am also seeing this bug and also find it VEEEERRRRY frustrating. A save and reload does indeed seem to be the only way I've found to reset it, and this is horrible because not only do bodies disapear (as mentioned above), but all of the A-Life resets and stalkers who were heading to places (often who I'm trying to follow there), suddenly choose a new destination after the reload and all my carefully laid plans are screwed.
I can't express how grateful and happy I will be if someone can find a solution to this!

how can be frustrating? its just a a little, stop carrying broken down 30% guns and you'll be fine hahahaha
i bet you even carry the zombies guns, you little scavenger

This crap bug is annoying the hell out of me as well. I manage to not die in 2 hours and buy a helmet or an armour and voila, -30 percent stamina. I also had the AUG-A1 in my inventory when I saved and after that I couldn't even load the save (its in Zaton). It got corrupted and all my saves in which I had the aug didn't load.
Anyone have that bug apart from the stamina drain ?

The Aug crashes when you modify it but for the rest it works normal. Besides like many newer guns like the stg-58, camo fn fal, it can be fixed with any kit. Honestly though I am a tester so I get later tweaked versions of the mod.

Might be fixed in those not sure, I'd have to see the error log.

Edited by: Nyayr

I haven't modified it, nor upgraded it in any way, only fixed it with rifle fixing kit. But I use the Armed zone mod, that may be a problem perhaps. I'll get back to you after work with the error log if I ever receive it again. Those saves are overwritten now.

Lomlom wrote: Has anyone found it happening for an Assaulter?

I have my assaulter over weighted few times and this bug didn't happen. It happened to my sniper quite often, didn't really bother me because I usually die before I ran out of stamina, reload solves the problem. I don't remember my recon since I don't play recon as much. Same bug would happen to sniper health as well, when over weighted carrying radiated artifacts I get health bug and radiation bug that won't go away unless restart the game.

What do you call overweighted ? As soon as you get the overweight symbol (140kg for Recon if not mistaken) or before that ? I never had such bug with Recon (nor Sniper but I don't play it).

When you can carry for example 70kg and you hold 70.1 that's when the max stamina degrades and the more the quicker it gets.

Never happens to an assaulter cause he has that perk I reckon.

Just rechecked my recon.
The stamina bug happens way before I got over weighted. I was using heavy overcoat and has almost nothing in my bag. The bug appeared. Then I switched to SSP eco orange suit, only carrying a SMG. My carrying weight is only half of the max weight, the bug appeared again. It seems quite random, but it will appear sometime during game play regardless of weight.

I tested the max weight thing on my sniper. Just over time it degrades and when eating and sleeping it will not recover the lost stamina...so over weight does it quick, but not always =/

Yeah same thing happens here.

I personally believe it is class specific. Both recon and sniper has the same bug, I have not yet seen it happen to assaulter. It could be one of the perks for recon and sniper costing this problem, or missing perk which assaulter has.

The constant effect of degeneration of max health and excess radiation bug happens to all 3 classes, though they are less common than stamina bug. It appears game skipped a few lines from the class files from time to time.

As I said the asssaulter has a perk that fixes his stamina degrade when he is overweight. Not sure what does it but you best off using epinefrine or cocaine all the time as a recon.

So my recon is now a drug mule

Try out the corrected artifacts (on my page) and see if it doesn't largely compensate for stamina loss. They are now 30-50% more effective. Recon was effected the most.

All stalkers end up as epinefrine junkies, cause you just end up overweight all the time, except the assaulter in an exo he usually evens out. Unless you don't want to use artefacts and go for crappy plates or shit. The recon just has 3-4 slots possible easily so he is just screwed, I haven't seen negative use of drugs myself and often start leaving the base with a hercules (recon) or energy drink (as an assaulter).

I am playing recon now and I normally don't get over weight. Only travel with well armed duty/stalker team, and rush in for the loots after they killed something, sell all the heavy pieces right away. These guys will do the shooting and I didn't have to bring more than 100 rounds of ammo at time.

The same bug still appears thought, all I did was chilling out with Beard and after 10 mins my stamina starts draining.

As I am in real life, I avoid all drug use in my games too.

...well, unless a blowout hits when I have a pack full of gear and I need to haul ass on eppy. lol

My recon has 3 flames and 1 snowflake, with the containers I easily kick up a weight of like 30+kg. I'm a epinefrine guy in Stalker, else you cant manage atrefacts, cannot enter anomalies of flame well and you get easier killed, especially in freeplay.

Edited by: Nyayr

I found a solution to this bug, and didn't know where else to post it.
go to actor.ltx and change this value
max_power_leak_speed = 0.000001
to this
max_power_leak_speed = 0.0

I haven't had time to fully test this (ie. play for a while with it changed)
but overloaded myself as sniper by spawning about a 1500kg worth of jerrycans in my inventory and it didn't drain at all in 30min. so I think this fixes it.

I also think this gives recon and sniper one of the assaulter traits but the stamina drain is super annoying so i'll leave it to ya'll to decide whether immersion breaking is worth the annoyance

edit: I have been playing for a couple of hours now without any stamina drain after changing that value. Hope this helps someone

Edited by: zhoffman030809

But he still could not move with 1500 kg, right ? The max a sniper can carry without any armour is around 150kg(fck reality, yeah I know). I jsut want the bug gone, so if this doesn't change anything else, only add the assaulter trait to the class, then thank you very much !

By the actor ltx is the sniper subfolder of the classes or in the general gamedata cfg or whatever folder ?

I ve never noticed this bug. Rather than eliminate an entire feature, if you just want to carry substantially more, edit the following: R:\SteamLibrary\SteamApps\common\Stalker Call of Pripyat\gamedata\configs\misc\items (substitute your install drive/directory) change the items_outfit file for your particular armor line from additi to equals 100 (for extra 100 Kilo Carry). There is also a weight2 line I would change it too. If you are further from maxing out your carry weight, all the effects of stamina drain are reduced. Also, I've fixed the artifacts and fixes will be included in next release. They are also available with the change log on my page. The artifacts were changed to reflect the intended values some of which were substantially minimized due to typos. You can be realistic or not; an extra 60 Kilos or 1000. IF you want your changes to stick in your next playthrough, copy the edited Items_outfit over the copies in the class diversity folders.