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I spent months playing stalker without graphics mods. (sh.itjust.works)
submitted 6 days ago by randomname@sh.itjust.works to c/games@sh.itjust.works
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Well I feel like a real idiot right now, I've played stalker anomaly for a long time now. And because I like a stutter free, high refresh rate experience. I hadn't used the graphics upgrade mod. Well my dumb ass didn't fully read through the description, and it turns out it actually increases your performance..

Sure enough I booted up stalker anomaly with the screen space shaders mod, and the game runs a little better than it did. and looks like an AAA game from 2018.

I dunno if any of you play stalker anomaly, but don't skip over this mod.

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[–] BreadOven@lemmy.world 6 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Where does one find this mod?

[–] randomname@sh.itjust.works 2 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago) (1 children)

its the most popular addon for stalker anomaly, just sort by most downloaded of all time. oh and maybe install the other mods it recommends to go with it. they add finishing touches to the game that make it really immersive

[–] biscuitswalrus@aussie.zone 2 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Do you mean from steam?

[–] Madbrad200@sh.itjust.works 3 points 6 days ago (2 children)
[–] BreadOven@lemmy.world 1 points 3 days ago

Awesome. Thanks to everyone for answering. I haven't actually started it, but have wanted to for the last few weeks (I got it from steam a while ago on a sale).

[–] biscuitswalrus@aussie.zone 1 points 6 days ago

Ah okay thanks now I know what you're taking about.

[–] kugmo@sh.itjust.works 4 points 6 days ago

The only shader mod you'd want for a vanilla playthrough is Shaders Max since it looks like vanilla and makes the shadows work properly on widescreen resolutions without messing around with console commands.

[–] Coelacanth@feddit.nu 2 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Even though the best way theoretically of playing Anomaly is putting together your own modpack, there are a ton of custom pre-assembled alternatives out there if you don't have the time and/or energy to fiddle yourself. Not just G.A.M.M.A. or EFP, although I know those are the most popular ones.

Vanilla Anomaly is great and all but there is so much more to it than that.

[–] randomname@sh.itjust.works 1 points 6 days ago (2 children)

Im playing with about 20 add-ons currently. do GAMMA and EFP offer quest lines? or maybe a story to progress through?. because thats the one thing I think anomaly is lacking.

[–] Coelacanth@feddit.nu 1 points 5 days ago

There are faction quest lines and such, but there are also other STALKER mods that focus more on story content. Have you looked into Goldsphere?

[–] SolOrion@sh.itjust.works 2 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago) (1 children)

GAMMA has faction questlines. I'm not sure how good of an experience they are because that is very much not why I play GAMMA, but they definitely exist.

Also: if you install GAMMA and are initially utterly disgusted by the depth of field, don't panic you can turn it off lol.

[–] randomname@sh.itjust.works 3 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago) (1 children)

don't worry about it, turning off chromatic abberation, depth of field, motion blur, and lens flare is always the first thing I do when I boot up a game

[–] SolOrion@sh.itjust.works 1 points 6 days ago (1 children)

I too despise the obsession with making videogames look like they were filmed for some inexplicable reason lol.

[–] randomname@sh.itjust.works 1 points 6 days ago

I don't understand it either, when I'm playing a video game (except for certain games that are very stylized) I want it to feel like I'm looking through my character's eyes rather than a camera lens. Maybe it's because they think that's what people want when they watch a trailer?