What you can modify to create better game. Thread - MISERY mod for S.T.A.L.K.E.R.: Call of Pripyat

This is the thread for these who are relatively experienced with Misery but are still looking for something more, or modify something to suit your own gaming needs. If you have an idea but don't want to wait for the dev team to do all the work (for free). You can try out some of these idea yourself.

Read here Moddb.com for better performance overall. This will be in the next patch (at least I heard) and you can experience it now if you choose.

Read here Moddb.com for even better performance if you choose to have mutants in the game to have less interaction with each other.

For further performance increase. Jasper and I have tried few weather patterns. Find dynamic_weather_graphs in gamedata/config/environment, change the values of foggy or very foggy to 10 depends on which one you want to play with. Change all veryfoggy values under each weather pattern to create permanent heavy fog through out the game. Be warned heavy fog is very scary to play in, and will break the main story line quest. Best to have weather changed after your main quest is completed. The good side is fog will increase your game performance. For heavy fog I suggest to these only with strong heart.

Read here Moddb.com if you are annoyed by the screen blur caused by some weapons in game. They can be removed.

For these who wish to modify weapons to suits their play. under gamedata/config/weapons. You will find all the weapon properties in their individual files, all ammo properties under weapons.ltx. I have personally remove the hipfire camera moving upwards by simply change the following lines values to 0 under the weapon of choice.

cam dispersion = 0.55
cam_dispersi
cam_max_angle = 42.0
cam_max_angle_horz = 42.0
cam_step_angle_horz = 1.58

For these who wish to create more expensive artifacts. Find items_artefacts.ltx under gamedata/config/misc/items. Change the cost of artifact if you wish. Or change the properties to suit your own game style.

Also under the same folder you can find many files properly named under their class. You can choose to modify their values if you wish to. Just remember to create backup and don't whine when your game crashs.

Read here if you just want a good laught Moddb.com

Since nobody really looked at this. I will bump it up so most of ppl can figure out what can be modified by themselves.

I will bump up this thread so ppl can modify some of the file themselves to find new balance.