Kid, how fucking retarded are you? Anomaly and Gamma are absolutely, 100% purely advertised as extremely hardcore mods for very specific people who already played vanilla Stalker games to death and want something that can still raise the stakes for them.ĪBSOLUTELY FUCKING NOBODY pretends that Anomaly or Gamma are here to replace the vanilla games, absolutely nobody is trying to manipulate people by secretly changing the difficulty while pretending it stayed the same. This isn't the case with anomaly/gamma where people have been doing exactly that for the last few years Also everyone hates Misery as well and Anomaly is just Misery-lite. >problem with complete is that people who only played complete tell other people to play it this way and call it the definitive way to play >somehow this isn't the case with anomaly/gamma where people have been doing exactly that for the last few years

Eventually it stopped getting updated and fade into obscurity. It made you play gimped and declawed version of itself.īut added the at the time really big graphics improvement, and you can see how it became hyper popular among the casual players, and really, really pissed off the more hardcore base. The issue with making Complete a lot easier was that the fucking boredom settled in much earlier too, and the mid to late game became a fucking joke with no sense of threat or even any stakes to raise. In what was pretty thinly veiled attempt to ingratiate itself with comple newcomers, they made the game a hell of a lot easier - weapons were more accurate, even starting ones, playet took less damage across all difficulties, prices were lowered and better gear made available sooner and so on.Īnd they did this silently, that wasn't really disclosed in the mod description.īut unsuprisingly, it ended up becoming super popular as an entry point, with people who only played Complete then telling everyone that it's THE version they should play, how it 'fixes' the game and makes vanilla ZRP obsolete. Aside from introducing a whole bunch of completely uncessary and asine changes like changing fruit punch from green to blue (because chervenkov radiation, get it, it's more realistic!) that just looked silly, it also pretty drastically messed with the ballance. It presented itself as a basically vanilla+ experience that makes the game prettier, polishes up bugs and restores non-game-changing content, but is also faithful to the original.Įxcept it wasn't. >what the fuc k is comlete and why do you hate itĪre you new to this whole keyboard and mouse business?īut if you want some stalker mod history: Stalker Complete 2009 was a Shadow of Chernobyl mod that got really fucking popular back in those days, because it actively and succesfully presented itself as the 'best and most complete way to play SoC, especially for new players'.

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