(This information applies mostly to SoC because I just don't give much of a toss about CS)īut with CoP, it seems just fine in vanilla form and doesn't need any mod packs to fix bugs and stuff, unlike those messes that were SoC and CS. Don't let them deprive you of an otherwise enjoyable game. Do not, I repeat do not listen to the small yet incredibly vocal minority of players who insist you are playing the game "wrong" if your character can survive more than a single gunshot and is capable of hitting on the broad side of a barn. So feel free to adjust your carry weight, weapon degradation or whatever else you dislike.
A lot of ingame stuff is handled by plaintext config files that can be edited with ye olde Notepad. Both have their own unique pros and cons but generally make the game more enjoyable without pushing some horribly misguided definition of 'realism' upon you or completely changing the experience.Īlso, the game is very customizable. If it's still not enough, look into Oblivion Lost or OGSE. You are not missing out on anything besides fake difficulty. Give it a try on vanilla if you absolutely feel like it if not, grab the Complete mod. Complete Mod is the closest thing to vanilla you can get without succumbing to the frustration of the occasionally very grating experience that is vanilla. It gets much better with CoP which I think is pretty damn close to perfect right out of the box but the first two are clusterfucks of unpolishedness and code written apparently lab rats doped up on Caesium-137 running across keyboards. Think Bethesda's bad? Think Obsidian's bad? Well, our Ukrainian friends at GSC GameWorld (now Vostok Games) are like Bethesda+Obsidian on Vodka! Sound fun?įact is, Shadow of Chernobyl and Clear Skies are buggy messes. Yes, there's item degradation and no official way of dealing with it. A lot of the difficulty in Vanilla SoC comes from its many flaws, like the complete lack of any way (well, one but don't get me started) of repairing items.
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Newcomer stalkers! Don't ever, EVER let anyone tell you how to play the game "correctly". Just a quick reply for the other type of player: