Back in its heyday, the S.T.A.L.Ok.E.R. franchise boasted an lively and vibrant modding neighborhood, due to which every sport within the unique trilogy ended up having fun with far longer shelf lives than they in any other case would have. Unsurprisingly, GSC Recreation World made it a degree to place full and in depth modding assist entrance and heart with S.T.A.L.Ok.E.R. 2: Coronary heart of Chornobyl. Being solely just a little over per week outdated, the sport is clearly going to proceed seeing a gentle stream of spectacular mods of all sizes and styles over the months and years to return, however even its early days, the sport already has a good few player-made mods for the sport’s PC model that tweak and refine the expertise in small however noticeable methods. Right here, we’re going to speak about fifteen such mods you’ll find for S.T.A.L.Ok.E.R. 2 on NexusMods.
OPTIMIZED TWEAKS
NexusMods consumer VynnGfx’s Optimized Tweaks mods is one which’s simply really useful to all PC gamers. It’s no secret that S.T.A.L.Ok.E.R. 2 has launched with greater than its justifiable share of technical tough edges, however this mod addresses quite a few them. Give it a search for enhancements to efficiency, latency, load and boot occasions, and extra.
STEALTH
Stealth in S.T.A.L.Ok.E.R. 2 can usually oscillate between feeling too punishing or too damaged, although this stealth mod by Axii59 brings quite a few enhancements. That features enemies having a tougher time recognizing you primarily based on climate, foliage and timber doing a greater job of hiding you, enemies’ notion being additional lowered if you’re crouched, and extra.
MUTANT HEALTH
Taking over mutants generally is a little bit of a nuisance in S.T.A.L.Ok.E.R. 2, largely thanks to only how tanky and bullet spongy some particularly are usually. The Modular Mutants Well being mod by Grokitach0, nevertheless, provides presets for gamers to decide on between, every reducing the well being swimming pools for all Mutants by various levels, so you can also make it as a lot simpler for your self to take them on in fight as you wish to.
ITEM WEIGHT
Stringent stock capability limits are considered one of a number of methods S.T.A.L.Ok.E.R. 2 makes an attempt to make life within the Zone troublesome, but when stock administration particularly is an space you need the sport to be a bit extra lax, this lowered weight mod by truditu is price wanting into. As its identify suggests, this mod lowers the burden for all bullets, grenades, and drugs and meals objects right down to both 0 p.c, 10 p.c, or 50 p.c of their unique weight, primarily based on what you select.
LONGER SPRINTING
S.T.A.L.Ok.E.R. 2 can be pretty strict with its stamina restrictions, which implies you don’t get to spend too lengthy sprinting earlier than it is advisable to cease and catch your breath. The Longer Sprinting mod by NickMillion helps you to treatment that although, and allows you to enhance your sprinting distances by 25 p.c, 50 p.c, or 75 p.c.
REDUCED REPAIR COSTS
Weapon and armour restore could be fairly pricey in S.T.A.L.Ok.E.R. 2, relying on how broken the merchandise in query is. The Lowered Restore Price mod by hawkidoki is an effective solution to hold prices on verify the place repairs are involved, so you possibly can spend your hard-earned coupons elsewhere (which, understanding this sport, you’ll completely must). The mod provides six presets for restore prices, together with an possibility that makes repairs fully free.
WEAPON DURABILITY
If weapon sturdiness is the one space of the sport (or considered one of a number of) the place you desire a much less demanding expertise, the Cheap Weapon Sturdiness mod by VAXIS does precisely what it says on the tin. Extra particularly, weapon degradation is halved after this mod is utilized, so it’s not fully eradicated, however it’s much less aggressive.
AIM SENSITIVITY
Many gamers have discovered S.T.A.L.Ok.E.R. 2’s aiming to be just a little clunky and sluggish, and that’s at the very least partly right down to the asymmetrical sensitivity throughout the x and y axes. With this mod, made by NexusMods consumer Strangorth, purpose sensitivity stays constant throughout each axes, which makes aiming really feel extra exact on each a controller and a mouse and keyboard.
WEAPON REBALANCING
A lot of S.T.A.L.Ok.E.R. 2’s critics to date have spoken concerning the sport’s want for a rebalancing sweep, and although this isn’t fairly as thorough as that, the Weapons Rebalance mod by Zhukoniy does make some notable modifications. Particularly, this mod modifications the harm and armour penetration values of a number of wepons to make them really feel extra lifelike and simpler at what they’re presupposed to do- so an AK, as an example, is now going to be higher at penetrating armour, whereas a shotgun will do extra HP harm up shut.
REALISTIC DAMAGE
Bullets do loads of harm to each you and your enemies (particularly human enemies) in S.T.A.L.Ok.E.R. 2 as it’s, which is partly why it’s removed from a run-and-gun kind of sport. Nonetheless, for those who’re searching for enemies to go down even quicker to your photographs, the Life like Harm mod by JohnCena1306 will allow you to try this. Pictures to the chest space will do extra harm, whereas photographs to limbs may also hit just a little bit tougher.
READABLE AMMO
Switching between completely different ammo sorts to counter completely different threats is one thing that you just’ll decide up eventually in S.T.A.L.Ok.E.R. 2, however the sport makes it arduous to know in real-time which ammo kind you’re utilizing, due to readability points with the UI. JCaleb’s Readable Ammo mod fixes that by introducing two rather more readable modes- one which color codes completely different ammo sorts, and one which provides descriptive abbreviations as an alternative.
LONGER DAYS
Days can zoom by faster than you anticipate in S.T.A.L.Ok.E.R. 2, however the Even Longer Days mod, additionally by JCaleb, helps you to stretch issues out as a lot as you need. The mod features a preset to make every day twice so long as standard (so an in-game day is 2 hours in real-time), a 24x preset (with which an in-game day is so long as a full actual day), and a number of different choices between the 2.
LEDGE GRABBING
Very annoyingly, S.T.A.L.Ok.E.R. 2 doesn’t allow you to climb, vault over, or seize onto ledges, which implies even platforms which are barely taller than your self can show to be insurmountable obstacles. With the Ledge Grabbing mod by Kennybylenny, nevertheless, you can lastly vault over or climb onto issues that it’s best to be capable of vault over or climb onto.
A-LIFE FIX
S.T.A.L.Ok.E.R. 2 boasts an overhauled model of the sequence’ much-touted A-Life system, although very similar to another facets of the expertise, it’s at present being dragged down by quite a few bugs. ConnerRia’s Roadside Panic mod not solely fixes a lot of these points (which implies you possibly can anticipate higher and extra plausible NPC interactions and reactivity, amongst different issues), it additionally addresses another annoying bugs, like enemies spawning proper behind you. Efficiency does take a success with this mod, nevertheless, so hold that in thoughts.
BETTER REWARDS
Among the most respected quests in S.T.A.L.Ok.E.R. 2, by way of the rewards you get for finishing them, are solely non-obligatory ones, although the sport isn’t all the time constant on this division, which implies rewards are at occasions too meager. Halasas’ Higher Rewards mod helps you to enhance rewards to various levels, nevertheless, ranging between 1.2x higher rewards to as excessive as 8x.
