Enhancement Addons Pack (E.A.P.) 1.2 [CoTZ 1.1]

Enhancement Addons Pack (E.A.P.) is an addon pack made for S.T.A.L.K.E.R.: Call of The Zone mod with the objective of enrich the immersion, improving four COTZ features: textures, effects, models and sound.

This pack does not affect Call of The Zone game mechanics and experience designed by DoctorX, one of the most polished Call of Chernobyl experiences. I only selected, compiled and ported (a few) existing addons (most for Call of Chernobyl) into a simple-use pack. Kudos to its authors, a complete and detailed list is in a PDF into in the pack and this description.

  📷Image gallery: ibb.co/album/MycRWF

  🎞️ In-game video (27 min in different maps, weathers...)

Since these images and videos were taken, I made some small changes, but they are representative of E.A.P. result. For example, EAX 3D spatial sound is not present in the videos, but you can watch this feature in this video.

ABOUT 1.2 VERSION, FINALLY STABLE!
You can play totally stable in 1.2 version! Forget crashes or lowering texture quality settings. With "no_staging" launch command option I tested all maps without problems. I included a .bat file for launch the game with this option easely! Tested on all maps and no crashes.

NOTICE
E.A.P. increases the necessary hardware requirements to play. A"top" PC is not needed (mine is 5 years old and runs perfectly). You must launch the game with the .bat included: “Stalker-CoTZ + EAP (ENHANCEMENT ADDONS PACK)” or using your own direct access with “-no_staging” option in the launch commands.
With “no_staging” option we could play at max quality without memory crashes. Tested with DX10 or DX11. It’s explained in the F.A.Q., in next pages.

Here is the list with the main pack contents (full list at “COTZ-EAP-Credits-Detailed-Addons-List” file):

🖼️ TEXTURES
◾ New high quality and resolution textures for a lot of items (materials, grass, wood, floor, objects…). New 2K textures from the famous Stalker Two-K pack and some more from Structures Redux and Absolute Nature Redux.
◾ High quality sky textures from S.W.T.C.
◾ 2D open scopes (you can swith to the normal ones optionally).

💥 EFFECTS
◾ Improved effects and particles, in-game impact effects, flashlights, fires... and others (Particles Remade, Hollywood FX, Stalker Two-K...).
◾ Improvement of general graphic aspect with post-processing using ReShade, with a profile made by me (Illumination, SSDO, MXAO, levels, colors, FXAA…) and more changes trying to make the game more eye-candy.
◾ Improved lighting, shadows and sun effects (Improved Sun Effects, ltx "lumscale", particles, 4096 shadow map...).
◾ Included the HUD Simple Mask for immersion reinforcement (on-screen helmets, breathing sounds...).

⛑️ MODELS
◾ High quality models for almost all NPCs. Ported from Rayto-X-Ray HD Models Addon for Anomaly mod (not the famous COC one, this is a newer pack). You will hardly find a NPC with the “old” style model.
◾ High quality weapons models and textures from COTZ Weapon Pack (STCOP + OWR).
◾ High quality actor's arms/hands models and textures from The Hand/Arms Project addon (T.H.A.P.).

🔊 SOUNDS
◾ Improved ambient, environment and all kinds of sounds with TRX Sounds Revamp addon. Footsteps, impacts, environmental sounds...
◾ Some other sounds of the same style from Stalker Two-K AmbientSounds and Ambient Metro.
◾ EAX 3D spatial sound feature ported from Dead Air, also with echoes and surrounds under certain conditions (very noticeable in underground maps). Watch this clarifying demonstration.
◾ Weapon sounds comes from the COTZ Weapon Pack (STCOP + OWR).
◾ Ukrainian and russian voices, replacing english recorded ones.

🛠️ OTHERS
◾ New background menu, logo (made by xintothefallx) and music.
◾ Integrated ports of inmersive fast travel and NPC using medkits.
◾ Restored death animations from COC and CS (ported from Anomaly mod).

Read the readme file for more detailed and installation instructions (just uncompress, don't worry!).

• Readme & FAQ file pdf:docdro.id/MLIx1cW
• Detailed used addons and credit list pdf: docdro.id/Ng6ZBOy
• Google Drive Mirror: drive.google.com/file/d/1RNAyi2VpFOh7oETR1bsBeDE6R8bOkOW9/view?usp=sharing

CHANGELOG

 1.2 (9 jul 2020)
  - Far way much more stability! Not needed to mess with configs or worry about crashes: Changed the "noprefecth" option to launch the game with the "no_staging" option, that works much better (explained in FAQ). Added a .bat launcher that works for everybody (no need to make anything, just launch) and re-writed “readme” acording this.
  - Enable scope for Groza weapon (in real life it has the possibility).
  - Fixed excesive scope zoom for Gauss gun.
  - Added death animations from CS and COP (made by AyyKyu for Anomaly, config ported by attackzone974).
  - A bit edit of one 2D open scope texture.

 1.1 (3 jul 2020)
  - Updated "Call of The Zone Weapon Pack" from 1.4 to 1.5.
  - Small fixes to user.ltx, i.e. "r_detail_radius" that was causing many crashes with ReShade (lowering from 250 to 230 fixes that for me).
  - Added small addon "Animated Detectors", that show an animation at detectors display.
  - New whizz and buzz sounds for weapon impacts.

 1.0 (28 jun 2020)
 - Inital release.

Full credits list — DoctorX, brainscorcher, CrommCruac, Raito-x-Ray, Ninja_Nub [NOR], Aboba, MrStalkerHacker, Darth_Shepard, Smurth, Sanctuary, FlyingDebris, Mechanic, Shoker, Antnigm, Rulix, Nuor, r_populik, Ga2z, Mortan, lokStre, ICHICROW, Wizard2, attackzone974, ijoyner, Tronex, stason174, MasterBoli, RedNikee, AyyKyu, Ghost-2142, xintothefallx, GragHat, Mr. Audron, Revo Lucas, SashaRed, Dodge_This, tsesari, MegaTomG, Morka, Gnomus, Ceano, spikensbror, melighos, jenek96, Porpeta Voraz, brankovich, attackzone974, Lanforse Rainford (Dead Air), crosire, Ekkaia