Call of The Zone


Call of The Zone is a standalone modification for S.T.A.L.K.E.R. – Call of Pripyat that allows you to explore the Chernobyl Exclusion Zone – a desolate and highly contaminated region of Ukraine that has been abandoned and closed off for decades ever since the 1986 Chernobyl disaster. What has been going on in this irradiated wasteland since then? There are no shortage of rumors and conspiracy theories, each more fantastic than the last. Rumors of mutated wildlife, brainwashed cults, secret experiments, and unexplainable paranormal events abound, as do promises of great riches and wildest dreams coming true for those who are daring or desperate enough to try to break through the cordon. You are about to find out for yourself what is true and what is yet undiscovered, and experience for yourself all the Zone has to offer... or to take from you.

Built upon Team Epic’s revolutionary Call of Chernobyl mod that incorporated the maps from all three original Stalker games into a vast and freely explorable Exclusion Zone as well as adding countless features and improvements, Call of The Zone delivers numerous gameplay and immersion enhancements for your adventure into the Chernobyl Exclusion Zone.

Featuring a dynamic storyline that will lead you all throughout the Zone, Call of the Zone features hundreds of unique, dynamic, repeatable tasks and dozens of brand new task types. Task targets, areas, rewards are determined in real time whenever a task is offered. Infinite replayability is possible as your game will never be the same no matter how many adventures you take into the Zone!

In addition to the dynamic tasking system, the Zone itself is now completely dynamic. Factions will create alliances and go to war with each other. Anomalies can appear anywhere and shift position with every blowout. Mutants and stalkers are spawned dynamically and with far more variety. A-life is free to wander the Zone and is no longer tied to limited areas. The Zone is alive and continually transforming as you make your way through it.

Call of The Zone features numerous gameplay enhancements, custom and restored dialogs, graphical improvements, a-life enhancements, performance tweaks, and bugfixes. Gameplay and immersion were the overarching priorities, to deliver you a fun and thrilling adventure into the Chernobyl Exclusion Zone whether you are a seasoned veteran stalker or brand new to the Zone!


Features:

- Dynamic, repeatable storyline and hundreds of custom tasks.

- Dynamic population and a-life, the Zone is far more alive and unpredictable.

- Dynamic faction relations; the politics of the Zone are constantly in flux.

- Dynamic anomalies that spawn in random locations and change position with every blowout.

- Dozens of new task types including: big-ass brawls, area searches, hidden target manhunt tasks, sniper tasks, guide tasks, big mutant hunt tasks, interceptor tasks, designated target tasks, dynamic brawls, prisoner snatch tasks, as well as “reverse” tasks where the player helps NPC’s complete their tasks or where the player is the assassination target being hunted by bounty collectors!

- Added modified storyline tasks from the original Stalker series and Call of Chernobyl story mode.

- New Blackout feature: a player on very low health in a firefight might pass out from blood loss and get mugged by the attackers, or your companion may get kidnapped and you will have to rescue them!

- Enhanced npc dialogs; local stalkers will give real-time info and warnings about threats in the area, give information to help you in your current task, and offer to come along and help you with certain tasks.

- Enhanced companion system; your companions now give warnings, advice, and chat with you while you travel with them. No longer are they just silent followers, they may even save your life if you get knocked out!

- Restored dialogs from the original Stalker series and cleaned up existing dialogs

- Additional keybinds; you can now remotely detonate the landmines you placed or spawn a crate at your feet!

- Ability to change factions at any time throughout the game

- Blowouts now come with less warning and are more intense the closer you get to the source

- Modified PDA statistics tab, adding several new player stats and removing frivolous statistics

- Location names are now shown on the PDA map

- Modified actor, npc, and weapon damage values, making combat more realistic while keeping gameplay challenging and enjoyable

- Weapons have improved textures and sounds and no longer have fake names

- Restored helicopter aggressiveness and defined safe zones where they will not engage

- Additional radio locations and radio tracks

- Numerous texture upgrades and graphical enhancements

- Numerous bugfixes and system performance enhancements

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DoctorX Call of The Zone is a standalone modification based upon the original S.T.A.L.K.E.R. trilogy. Featuring a dynamic storyline that will take you to every part of the Chernobyl Exclusion Zone, and hundreds of dynamic, repeatable tasks with targets and rewards that are determined in real-time, CoTZ offers an infinitely replayable adventure into the Chernobyl Exclusion Zone that will never be the same no matter how many times you dare venture into the Zone!

In addition to the dynamic tasking system, the Zone itself is more alive and unpredictable. Alife population is no longer tied to predictable areas and are free to wander the Zone. Faction relations are in constant flux as alliances are forged and former allies go to war. Anomaly fields appear and disappear in different areas with each blowout.

CoTZ also brings a slew of improvements and bug fixes, sound and texture enhancements, thousands of lines of new and restored dialogs, as well as countless other improvements. If you haven't checked it out yet, stop on by! And if you've already been enjoying CoTZ, I hope you will enjoy the 1.2 update even more!

Call of The Zone 1.2 update: Moddb.com

Call of The Zone 1.0 download: Moddb.com

DoctorX Call of The Zone ModDB page: Moddb.com

CoTZ forums: Moddb.com

CoTZ playthrough videos: Youtube.com

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Call of The Zone in the Top 100!

Call of The Zone in the Top 100!

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Call of The Zone has been voted by you as one of the top 100 mods on ModDB this year! Be sure to cast your vote for Mod of The Year for 2020!

Call of The Zone 1.0 Released!

Call of The Zone 1.0 Released!

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Call of The Zone is now released and available for download!

Call of The Zone Status Update - April 17, 2020

Call of The Zone Status Update - April 17, 2020

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Status update for Call of The Zone and new videos released!

Call of The Zone Status Update - March 18, 2020

Call of The Zone Status Update - March 18, 2020

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Update on the status of Call of The Zone and new videos released!

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DoctorX Call of The Zone 1.2 Update

DoctorX Call of The Zone 1.2 Update

Patch 72 comments

Updates Call of The Zone to version 1.2. The files included are to be installed on top of your Call of The Zone 1.0 or 1.1 installation.

DoctorX Call of The Zone 1.0

DoctorX Call of The Zone 1.0

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DoctorX Call of The Zone 1.0 official release files

Good Old Vegetation by Nima

Good Old Vegetation by Nima

Texture 1 comment

Old but Gold textures for CotZ foliage (trees, bushes, grass). Low res, DX8.

SoC Faction Relations for CotZ

SoC Faction Relations for CotZ

Weapon Model

I made this for personal use like forever ago but i figured i might as well upload it since SoC relations make the most sense. Be sure to use it with...

Ammo revised by Nima for AO3 (CotZ)

Ammo revised by Nima for AO3 (CotZ)

Prefab 7 comments

realistic ammo weight, 20% less AP, cost/price & damage and impulse tweaked, bullet holes and MORE...

Classic Weapons and Hands for Call of the Zone

Classic Weapons and Hands for Call of the Zone

Skin Pack 2 comments

Replaces hand models, weapon inventory icons and weapon textures with their original trilogy and build counterparts

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agmatrix911
agmatrix911

I really hope this mod gets a proper 64 bit engine port. This is an epic repack to play.

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Mahzra
Mahzra

Every day I wake up hoping someone has quietly ported all the DRX stuff from CoTZ into Old World so I can port my stuff there.

Today is not that day. Maybe tomorrow!

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Guest
Guest

Hey Mahzra, are you still working on the new version of Package mod? Really appreciate your work done so far!

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Mahzra
Mahzra

I am still working on it, yeah. The next update will mostly be balance tweaks and fixes and such though, not many new things.

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agmatrix911
agmatrix911

Pure call of the zone on the monolith engine would be a dream come true...may be some quest improvements and a more dynamic zone with the vanilla setting.

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Guest
Guest

Early 2024, still having a very good time with this mod. And Rhon's repack just made this thing even more perfect. It pains me hearing that such a masterpiece has to be onhold forever... R.I.P Doctor.
Btw is something akin to "Warfare mod" be added to this game? I thought there was one for COC, could there be one for this mod?

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Mahzra
Mahzra

There is sort of a light version of Warfare built into the mod. Factions can conquer certain areas, which makes that faction more likely to spawn there. I'm not 100% sure that the feature works as intended though, but that's what it's supposed to do.

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Guest
Guest

RIP DoctorX

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DUCATISLO
DUCATISLO

hes dead huh?

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Guest
Guest

How do I extract the alife.ltx file from this mod please, as I would like to change the time factor setting or can I use the one from from a Misery install that I changed a while back & have kept for future use :).

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Mahzra
Mahzra

Use the AXR Toolkit to unpack the configs.db file:

Moddb.com

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Guest
Guest

Hello Mahzra

I ended up using the one from my misery install with a couple of changes & it seems to have worked fine.

Thank you though as well for your reply :)

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