Hey everyone... It's been a long time. Sorry for that, got caught up in a lot of life events. Hope everyone has been doing well!
Anyhow, since I finally retired I thought I would fire up the old (really old) gaming computer and finish a mod I stopped working on back in 2012.
Here is a download link for it:
http://www.mediafire.com/file/f2gilodlz ... n.rar/fileI hope you all enjoy it... there is a description for it on the old GSC forum.
Here is a quotation from there:
This is the mod I was working on back in 2012 when life events caused me to give up gaming until the beginning of 2020. Now that I am retired, I decided to finish it and have been working on it for the last 3 months. It is somewhat different from my earlier mods and it has a lot of new features. For example, the crazy mutant spawns in my earlier mods will not happen until you get to Pripyat and get the decoder. After that.... well, be prepared! There is an exception to this in the X16 lab that will happen after the Brain Scorcher is turned off. There is a reason for this... because of recurring quests from Sakharov, the mutants that will spawn have a chance of dropping a quest item you will need that is normally a one time item.
As the title implies, several key figures have been resurrected. Ghost is alive and well in the beginning of the Chernobyl level, Loco is alive in the back of the tunnel in the Garbage, Freeman is ready to do business with you in Rostok, and lastly, Doc is back in the game and is in the sniper tower room at the north end of the Red Forest. All of these folks are also traders and most can offer special skills (for a price). Also, you can converse with wounded enemies and give them a Medkit and they will become your friends and switch factions to the Loner faction. Used properly, you can create your own army! There is a "new" weapon to help with this... a VAL chambered for the 9x18 ammo that has a power level close to the pistols. It is designated as a "Training Rifle" and you get it from one of Wolf's 'destroy the mutants' quests.
Many of your favorite NPCs are pretty tough... Wolf, Fox, Petruha, Tolik to name a few... I always hated seeing them dead later in the game! It takes a LOT to kill them off now.
I referred to this before and I will expand on it now... you can buy "insurance" from some of the traders and select NPC's... it is very expensive and it can really boost your health levels and immunities. I derived this from the Skill Trainer mod. Also, you can purchase "Hunter Skills" that give you an additional dropped item on a mutant. The higher the skill level, the more probability of a drop. You will have to work the earlier levels of the game HARD to get the cash to buy these.... Should be able to max them out about the time you first enter Pripyat.
Freeplay is built into this, you make the choice when you decide to see the Wish Granter or to fight the C Consciousness.
There are a couple of "uber" artifacts, weapons, and armors.... you can use them or not depending on how you want to play the game. The choice is yours, Stalker.
There are so many things that I have changed that I simply cannot remember all of them. I will post them along the way! (See the edits at the bottom of this post) The main thing is that the gameplay is the most "vanilla" experience I have ever created. NO... it is not vanilla, just closer!
Anomalies are pretty weak and will not show up on the detector. They will cause a little damage but are more a nuisance than a threat. This is to keep mutants and enemies from being totally destroyed so that you can maximize looting. And electo anomalies can be quite useful one your shock immunity is over 100%.... this is an exploit in the 'vanilla' game.
Mutants will ignore NPC's... but they hate you... and NPC's only hate certain mutants. Again, there is a reason for this... the Hunter Skill will only drop items on mutants YOU kill.
Unlike my previous mods, you can quicksave and reload without being punished... that is until you get the decoder in Pripyat, and I seriously would advise against quicksaves after that.