Cruel Winter Beta 1 0 [CoTZ 1.1] addon - DoctorX Call of The Zone mod for S.T.A.L.K.E.R.: Call of Pripyat

Cruel Winter: A CoTZ modpack

Cruel Winter is a conversion modpack that tries to resemble hardcore mods, but on a Frozen Zone, major changes on the gameplay and the core have been changed. Recommended for experienced Stalkers, maybe the not so experienced ones too.

This requires a new game and a new CoTZ folder!

This is a beta! expect errors, crashes, or exploits, if you find some of these, you can send me a message or comment about it and i might change it in the next builds! f.e: the energy drinks are too op!

Don't read the breakthroughs if you want to keep the experience fresh!

Changes:

1.- The Zone

Now the Zone is froze in time, and temperature, venture into a Zone where the conditions are harsher, the resources are scarce, and the blowouts seem to slip down of the normal military radars.

Breakthrough:

The zone is full of snow now, also, the blowouts now don't appear as tasks an there are no siren warnings for them, make sure to carry some anabiotics with you

2.- Traders

After the 2006 incident, traders seem to have loss a lot of their contacts, now, prices exploded, the exported food seems to be almost extinct, only the renowned bars or traders have them, but the local cuisine is still there. Also, the traders seem to still have contacts to guide you to places, for a fee of course. And they pay better for their dirty work. And the monolith and Mercenaries seem to have a contact for those rare guns on the zone.

Breakthrough:

Traders have been changed a lot, the economy has been degraded, now Dushman and Cleric rarely sell the guns of the Nimble arsenal, food has been made more expensive and every trader sells mutant food, the immersive fast travel addon was added and the tasks rewards from the traders have been increased.

3.- Stalkers

After the second incident, stalkers seemed to lost interest on the exclusion Zone, mainly for the harsher weather, now the stalkers that are in the Zone seem to think more on their expeditions, therefore, they travel lighter and with less things, but, maybe you can find some information of their stashes on one of their pockets, maybe even some coins. The prices of the Zone aren't as cheap as the old days, now the only Stalkers with good guns usually are mercenaries, monoliths, or experienced stalkers, also, they will pay you more for their dirty work, or even some basic tasks. Don't forget about the patches! traders pay good for them.

Breakthrough:

Item values on the stalkers inventories has been degraded a lot, also, the guns they use have been degraded too, nonetheless, they now have stash locations and money when you loot them. Tasks rewards have been greatly increased too. Patches price has been increased by four.

4.- Consumables

You will value every medkit you'll find or buy, also, the traders seem to sell stronger drugs, and in bigger packages, for a bigger price of course, and with more side effects. The food that the traders sell usually is local cuisine, so you will have to adapt to it, also, at least something good happened in the Zone, Vodka bottles are bigger, and stronger, so save a bread for after.

Breakthrough:

Consumables have been heavily modified, now the food has been changed to make the player to eat more of the local cuisine, and the drugs values have been changed to what the photos specify, for example: a vinca includes ten tablets. The hercules and energy drinks effects have been buffed. The medkits now have two uses, normal ones cure slower, and some drugs give side effects like dizziness or hunger.

5.- Artefacts:

Now artefacts are something of the past, they are cheaper and some of them even worse or better than before, nonetheless, the good ones still have a nice price, and it seems that the eggheads are running low on their detectors, therefore, the prices of these have increased.

Breakthrough:

Artefact prices have been cut on half or 2/3, also, the radiation artifacts have been nerfed, and the carry weight ones buffed, their weight has been changed from .5kg to 1kg, and the detectors prices have been increased.

And more!

Gameplay photos (Zaton):

Minor Changes:

• Revamped the falling damage system, now falling damage should be smarter
• Changed max. weight from 50 to 45, but made it less impactful for the energy
• Eliminated all the loading screen, for now
• Drawn all the 32 maps of CoC to make it look like snow.
• HUD and GUI modified to make the game look more dynamic and "cooler" (pun intended)
• Lootmoney values have been modified to give you more money
• Added two new fast travel characters, Hermann on Jupiter and Crab on the Skadovsk

Known issues:

• Stalkers seem to give exaggerated things for quests sometimes
• Yantar and Truck cemetery loading maps are still on the game
• Red forest seems to lag sometimes
• there seems to be a missing texture in the west side of the swamps
• Grenades seem to crash the game half of the time they're used.

Addons used or modified

1.- Winter mod
2.- CoC Winter Mod fixes & enhancements v3
3.- Snowfall for Winter Mod
4.- Better snow footsteps sounds
5.- Immersive fast travel for CoTZ
6.- HideWpn + DebugMapHud 1.0
7.- Lighter quest items for CoTZ
8.- ID's Last Day Misery footsteps
9.- Call of The Zone Weapon Pack 1.4
10.-ID's New Logo and background menu v1 (modified logo)
11.-ID's New Outfit Icons "MISERY" Style and retouched item colors V1 (only artefacts, meds & mutant food used)
12.-Stronger Headlamps
13.-The hands/arms project for CoTZ
14.-Simple Mask HUD For CoTZ
15.-EatMedkitScheme1.0
16.-Deadly Mutants v6 (only some boar values added)
17.-Ambient Music Pack v2.5
18.-Trade and repair tweaks (minor values added)
19.-Ukrainian voices 1.6.3
20.-Enemy gun jam
21.-Muffled PDA/Geiger Counter 1.2
22.-Expensive Detectors v1.1 (some values used as base)
23.-Expensive consumables and faction patches (some values used as base)
24.-Rare Item Drops (some values used as base)
25.-Menu Music Mod (CoP song)
26.-LootMoney

Extra info:

If you want, you can send me screenshots of your game, i might put them on the loading screens in the future, the photos have to not have HUD

Also, if i made any typo, sorry, English is not my first language.

Credits:

Mirokv, Milos Vucicevich , xintothefallx, Wojach, Melighos, Misery team, TGP, ICHICROW, r_populik, Ga2z, Mortan, lokStre, Sanctuary, Cromm Cruac, FlyingDebris, Mechanic, Shoker, Antnigm, Rulix, Smurth, Nuor, Revo Lucas, GSC, KorpseKing, strelocc, Klangsegler, Lustmord, Robert Rich, MoozE, Alexey Omelchuk, Dead Melodies, Desiderii Marginis, Edward Artemiev, Enmarta, Kammarheit, Kave, Koolhoosi 13, Northaunt, Symphocat, Alphaxone, Atrium Carceri, How to Dissapear Completely, Cities Last Broadcast, God Body Disconnect, Apocryphos, Mount Shrine, Northumbria, Wordclock, SpikensbroR, Ekkaia!, SashaRed. NavaroBL, Маньяк, Bast3, enixgamer, BazinGarrey, Fohom, קคยภ, Nekousagi and DoctorX for Call of The Zone!