Comments - bacone

Hi there. Just wondering if you are still active, I've been looking around Stalker Moddb for interesting things to try and this caught my eye. I'm wondering exactly what it is? If it is a modpack, what is the biggest changes that it offers? Like what does improved AI mean? And compared to Vanilla Anomaly, what is the biggest difference?

AKA bait

April fools?

people need to wake up. Ray of Hope is an overly ambitious "mod" that is in reality a ploy to garner "donation money" from gullible people.

For starters, a long time ago it was proven that MP and SP stalker is not compatible. xrMPE is an actual functional MP mod that puts Stalker MP to the limit. Which is, one level, with mutants, not enemy npc stalkers, in a wave defense like gameplay.

Ray of Hope has been in "development" for years. Whatever they showed wasn't proof of concept, it was to keep people hungry for a lie.

Mounted weapons in general are going to be less accurate then their more grounded counterparts. Imagine you are riding a horse with a flintlock musket and all the while you have to ride the horse, which is not a stable ordeal, and then fire at the mass of infantry you are trying to attack. Your weapon will be wobbling as you will be. Its one of the many reasons infantry overcame cavalry (men on horse) because they are more static, stable and easier to command.

extract the zip lucium file. put the file named "Lucium Total War" into your mod folder in your Medieval 2 directory. After that, go into the Lucium Folder and click on the launcher. Follow the instructions and choose a campaign. Enjoy

so far the amount of improvement has blown me away. but something is a bother. my prussian line infantry and pistoliers when firing seem to aim at an upward angle rather then directly at the enemy? is this a feature or a mistake?

Modding team? 3.0? I've been reading an old post on TW forums and it says the team behind it isn't developing it anymore and are instead focusing on a different mod named "Dragon Age"

Slightly infuriating that these mod authors hide their projects on discord and google drives instead of uploading them to Moddb and what not. Narrowing the enjoyability of such things to a finite amount of people. Of course, these mods in discord most likely aren't too polished, and for that reason aren't uploaded to moddb.

Install Winrar its 1000x better and then extract the files

You do realize that by trying to remove history you also remove the knowledge of said history, even if bad deeds were done, we must remember and not try to erase it for the reasons that lead to such bad things are key to remembering and preventing from such things happening in the present and future.

May I simply ask, "Why?" do you wish to remove something? Why does it cause you so much trouble, could it, in fact, be, that it is you, that is the cause for such trouble?

Instead of being able to live with such a thing, you instead resort to trying to run away from it? Instead of facing it, and learning from your fears, you allow your weakness to control you, and prevent you from becoming stronger than the past failures and mistakes that build history?

Your "science" is actually only accurate when based on high alcohol content liquors, like whiskey, spirits and vodka, and actual low alcohol content like light wines or beers with 5% or less alcohol have a negligible diuretic effect, meaning that it does, in fact, hydrate you. Maybe not to the same extent as water, but nonetheless beer hydrates. In history people drank fermented wines and beer with at the most 5% alcohol but usually below 3%, and it was hydrating. So your "science" is wrong, unless you are discussing higher alcohol content beverages.

Warfare enabled and decided to check out X-8 for my story mission. To my pleasant surprise I was met with 2 pseudogiants continuously stomping the ground running half way through the locked door. I was unable to kill them with explosives or grenades but the stomping kept damaging me and I couldn't unlock the door and be fast enough to get away without retrying time after time...
Labs with this warfare enabled is a bit ridiculous, so I would say to anyone looking for gameplay with the least amount of issues to still play on story mode. This mod definitely spices it up, and I have to give it to Vintar here as he did a great job revamping Warfare and turning it into something far more pallatable and actually quite enjoyable compared to the broken mess that was original Anomaly and CoC warfare, but nonetheless, quite unfortunate to be unable to play labs properly. This mod is a big boom to the dynamic AI and unscripted encounters in Stalker.

My Anti-Virus (windows defender) detects this file as a virus. Any reason why? Warfare Alife overhaul didn't have such a thing...

Why not install on C drive? Also what is wrong with winrar? Winrar is very old and reliable and I don't see any explanation from you as to why WinRar wouldn't work. WinRar worked for me flawlessly...

Also installed the 5.5g mod manually ontop of my Anomaly folder. Smoking causes it to crash...

having issues with shadows flipping out at the edge of my screen. I remember this also being a problem with SoC. Any fix?

Cool idea. Although I am not convinced to play it over regular anomaly. 3D scopes are neat and the mags and sight system is interesting, although not explained very well and a bit convoluted. Over all I advise you to keep working on this and improving. I feel as though anomalies system is easy and to the point, add a sight on and there it goes, rather then going through a series of keybinds. However it can add a depth to the gameplay that isnt there.

I believe SoC is built entirely on a different build and engine so porting SoCs story, scripts and weapons to anomaly and vice versa would be a strenuous feat and one that would require intense effort. A great example is Gunslinger because although it is built upon CoP its mod is so ingrained and deep that it relies on CoP and would require an entire reworking of how it works to port over to something like anomaly, anomaly being built on its own modified engine. Its that exact reason why Gunslinger works with Misery since Misery is built on CoP, but because Anomaly isn't (and so is CoC) they can't just port over the mod. Its not the same engine so it doesn't work the exact same way. Its not entirely impossible but would require people to rework the whole mod. So if somebody out there is experienced enough with the X-ray engine and has the determination to figure out and go through the hoops to recreate SoCs quests and storylines in Anomalies graphics, weapons and engines, it would be a journey of frustration, regret, shortcuts and loopholes, but also glory and amazement. Its not impossible but is it worth it? Only when someone decides it is worth it it may one day happen.

An option to edit condition of dropped weapons and or outfits would be a fine addition to the loot customization options.

With civil war modifiers and removed traders, alongside many other mods can create an amazing experience where one is never safe and on a constant train ride of tension and intensity. It creates a fascinating alternative to where instead of a stalker relying on traders and jobs to survive he relies on luck and skill and may actually need to eat the zones animals since they cannot buy food. Love the work you did and it really is a great mod. Many thanks !

Hey there. I have just installed your mod and want to say how excited it has gotten me so much so that I've been up quite late installing all these mods for when I play tomorrow. I'd like to add some interesting food for thought; a zombified faction bonus/playthrough. Yes they are simply husks in a roleplay sense but a option to play as a zombified master who controls the zombified stalkers as some sort of lord of the horde in the zone marching upon the north or south after uniting them with some magical psychic powers or something, would make for a very interesting and fun playthrough and rely on sheer numbers and control of the brain scorcher etc. Just my opinion and great work, cheers!

same issue here. havent found a fix

I dont understand. There is a mod called ImprovedVisualAwareness that is so identical to this one in makes my head spin. How is this Visual Improvement of AI any different to that of ImprovedVisualAwareness? There seems to be little differences besides the vague descriptions given like you're "Innovative velocity, distance, awareness." Anomalys AI, already being as good as it is, and you only say that it is innovative, you do not describe what it is that is a problem or anything that you may have fixed or improved upon. My skepticism even goes further with the similarity between these two mods, the ratings and the fact the only addons you have are these "Visual Improvement" ones.

It does work with RC21 right? Im installing it as we speak :D

does this work for rc19?

Looks interesting and I'd love to see how this compares to Dooms Mod merge. I'd ask if you mind putting the read me in a separate file to download as installing 600 mb worth of content just to see what mods are included doesn't make a whole lot of sense. Will be checking out soon though!

Nice!

then i guess itll be broken

I am 100% sure you are supposed to butcher them to add it to your guide so you can read about them in the encyclopedia.

The creator of this mod seems like an incompetent *******. It's also a shame the other mod creator who actually made the map that this guy stole, so he has no right to tell other people not to use his map... The power of ignorance and hypocrisy...