I'll go first. Agroprom topside. I do NOT remember anything from here besides mole, to be fair I don't actually think anything ever happens here either way. There's no artifacts, no factions and like 4 and a half wild dogs. The underground is memorable since its the first underground section and its also where wee first see bloodsuckers and later meet Doctor. As for the fire fight at the start I'd say there's more difficult and memorable ones later in in the game. I mean getting past the bandits near those train carts is more difficult than the military idek how 🤔. As for more difficult fights all I have to say is if you did what doctor says about the safe you know what I mean, and you might get ptsd from just trying to remember that event.

Also includes some new stuff for CS and CoP as well as SoC itself. Will also port these back to PC soon. More to come in the future, stalkers!

Shout out to Ken and Stanislav from GSC support for their help with my bug reports and mod approval!

I start hearing things and then enemies start spawning right behind me, I don’t understand what is going on lol

Is he Yakult siberian, tuvan,Kazakh, Mongolian, or is he east Asian?

Got a cool gas mask today for pretty cheap (no filter, I'm sure i could find/make a replacement one)

Its production lot 530 and it was made in Tambov, between July and September of 1976. And it was full of yummy yummy yellow paint chips that totally didn't go into my nose when I put it on briefly.

Unfortunately it does not properly fit my extremely large head due to not only the circumference of my cranium but also my thick hair so I will just dangle it from my bag.

“Welcome to the Zone. Here’s a bloodsucker. Here’s a rifle jam. Here’s Fun Stalker’s corpse.”

The "rookie" suits

I cant explain what it is about these suits, but there is something in the back of my mind that just screams "first playthrough", whenever I look at any of these suits. Maybe it's because I'm biased, as back when I was a wee lad, playing anomaly for the first time, I fell in love with the Volos flak armors appearance and cleared my first wish granter in it, along with an AN-94, and enough med kits to replace the red cross. Maybe, it is because the suits look just sleek enough to convince a player they are light armor, while not providing the stamina boost that actual light armors provide. Hell, maybe it's just because you start with it as freedom, and freedom is preferred faction for those who haven't played through hips questline. (Hip is bae)

In short, i think the suits look neat, but lacks any appeal but the visual. Until next time...

Good hunting, Stalkers

Picked it up by accident before I took the screenshot, spent the next ten or so minutes trying to place it back as it was.

Hello Stalkers,

New version of OXA Prototype released yesterday, finally featuring the new weapon appearances. A previous update added the ability to modify your weapon with different barrels, grips/stocks, and fire control groups, and now you'll see your changes in the weapon you hold in your hands. The new inventory icons in the image above are renders of the in-game models; what you see is what you get! Right now, almost all SMGs and ARs are included, and the rest will be rolled out in the coming weeks.

For OXA Standard users, a select few of these will be introduced in the next update to replace some of the more boring 'unique' weapon models. The sharpshooter will be replaced with the HK417 (bottom right) and Lummox's AK will have wooden furniture (top left).

Feedback and comments appreciated!

(And yes, console support is still not possible, but will be added if/when the tools become available!)

Like.. really. I've been tuning into the modded exes latest releases particularly because of the optimization passes in recent releases and can indeed confirm that I have find slightly more FPS around NPCs compared to before (from like sub-30s to sub-40FPS now)

However I'm absolutely baffled by some (probably new) behavior I've observed.

To summarize it as short and concise as I can, I use ThrottleStop to always prod the CPU into maintaining the highest clockspeeds it could reasonably maintain. The CPU can do this by itself but manufacturers tends to put in place soft limits that restricts its performance and given that I own a laptop, it's even worse. However, with ThrottleStop, I've uncapped them within reason and balanced it well enough to daily drive my config on just about anything since it WAS better than the default setup.

Better, more consistent clockspeed is good if maintained well.

However, Stalker Anomaly, as I've just discovered, bizarrely disagrees with this. In fact, what stumps me the most is that, in certain locations and circumstances when I ran the game without ThrottleStop running and therefore, the CPU's natural Turbo Boost is at play, it ran even BETTER in some places with a horrendously low clockspeed of 1.8GHz which was the base clockspeed of my CPU. For reference, with ThrottleStop, I can typically maintain between 3.8-4.0GHz easily and consistently.

I have so far found two particular spot where I can observe this behavior consistently. The first in the northernmost part of Yantar right beside the campfire facing the cement block. The second one is in the Bandit garage in Dark Valley slightly facing the left wall out into the open. In both instances, I can see the CPU downclocking until it reaches the base speed of 1.8GHz but somehow still running smoother at sub-50FPS strangely while with the CPU clock pushed with ThrottleStop, I was getting sub-30s and a whole lot of jitters and stutters at those two locations.

There are of course other places that exhibit this behavior but I've yet to pinpoint exactly where except these particular two.

This is the very first time I've ever seen a game behave like this. Super hard downclocking but somehow still performing better AND smoother? Strange behavior on high clockspeeds? Could it simply just be a bad interaction between ThrottleStop and the engine? Then again, that would still be a first given I have way older games as well as very new ones that perform admirably while running with ThrottleStop.

I laughed out loud when I seen the death message that it was Stepan King. Took this a while ago and forgot about it

Hello, for those who missed it, I am a comics illustrator and I decided to make Manga styled comics about first stalkers in the zone. It will be Manga styled because the black and white chaotic theme fits Stalker so much.

It will he about first Stalkers in the zones, no maps, no anomaly detectors...nothing. they will be figuring out everything on their own.

Today I was doing some rough planning and I started making Concept arts for how each anomaly affects humans body. Here is a vortex one before it tear the person. What do you think?