Stalker Old World Addon: A blast from the past

[@neroaether9078]

Gotta say, I appreciate this mod for returning to the roots, in the age where everyone is pursuing perfection like you said, the fact that this mod is doing something completely different is such a breath of fresh air.

[@BlackWolf9988]

I agree a lot of the mods just changed the game into a pain sim removing any fun of the game and turning it into a quick save/load sim.

[@Peter_739]

I'm glad there are some people with reasonable takes on Anomaly and GAMMA

[@HvalaTiArkane]

I dont know why a lot of people likes gamma, thats not stalker, its eft with stalker things literally, it adds a lot of stuff that make it look like a EFP 2.0

[@xhg7a]

@@HvalaTiArkaneanomaly is awesome bc there’s so many mods for it so you can change the experience in so many ways, its like the gmod of stalker kinda

[@hotch4421]

The gatekeeping is so fucking unnecessary, dudes are so toxic about this shit. You can educate GAMMA/Anomaly players without being an asshole, and everything they have questions of you can answer and be kinder like introducing them to the OG Trilogy and letting them know about the nearly 10 years of modding innovation and make them appreciate the franchise. If people are being an asshole about it and ignorant of the Vanilla OG trilogy, then do not waste your time on them, they are not worth your time. Treat these people like it is your friend being introduced to the series to the first time, let them have their fun. THEN without all the 🤓 shit educate them on the history of the game and its development and how its impact on Ukrainian culture. The whole purpose of modding is the fact that you can turn it into whatever you want, and the spectrum goes from vanilla to something absolutely insane like any of those popular modern mod packs. There is almost no other game franchise that can be modded to the extent of the xray engine, very few can even match it. It should be celebrated so the fandom can grow, like how the Zone grows.

[@cykablyat3680]

@@HvalaTiArkane thats exactly what me and a lot of people love about it , its not necesserelly a stalker game , is more of a sanbox with tarkov like gameplay in the stalker universe

[@АлександрВишняков-т6ф]

​@@HvalaTiArkanewhat's wrong about "EFT with stalker things"? Sounds pretty cool. Besides, gamma is modpack, not a monolithic game, so you can just switch off mods that you don't like.

[@sprypry]

Thanks for linking my modpack, and a little news I heard from the creator of OWA: We will get a 1.5.3 release with some things like CotZ mechanics and quests and SWR SoC ported to OWA and many other changes and fixes And later down the line we may get a standalone OWA which will use new levels and such So great things will come to OWA in the future.

[@CptVityaz]

Only the OWA update could fix me. Seriously tho, I wish the best of luck to the OWA creator.

[@wakba6038]

Once OWA and Cotz are merged my life will be completed. 😭

[@raymo9197]

Omg! Thanks for the info! Will current OWA work on 1.5.3?

[@florin9243]

That's cool as hell.

[@BazinGarrey]

Absolutely based.

[@phrozac]

I'd like Old World Addon + all the visual niceties and animations added to GAMMA. Just a really pretty OG Stalker SOC.

[@CptVityaz]

Old World Redux is pretty much that, it has SSS built into it

[@AngStGonePostal]

@@phrozacYou could do what I did (Did it for other mods from G.A.M.M.A. Basically, you'll have to download GAMMA, install with their excessive amount of mods (444 mods, I think), once it's done, just check MO2's mods folder and there will be all GAMMA mods. Most of them have self-explanatory names, so it won't be hard for you to just take them. Once you chose the mods you want to keep, just copy or move them into another folder and then uninstall GAMMA, then install Old World and add the add-ons you got from GAMMA. One warning though, you'll have to reinstall MO2 and probably Anomaly too, as GAMMA has this bad tendency to just set up your PC for itself only.

[@TheGuyFromWortnite]

Really impressed at your vast knowledge on stalker modding history. Also the thing that i really like about you is at how you stay positive on making your takes and review. Keep up the good work and one day you may get popular! :p

[@CptVityaz]

Thank you! :D You have no idea how happy your comment made me.

[@TheGuyFromWortnite]

​@@CptVityazhaha np, btw you did mention about ranking the old world modpacks so i wonder about ur opinion on what the most enjoyable for you to play :p

[@CptVityaz]

@@TheGuyFromWortnite I want to revisit Old World after I finish the Metro series, so surely expect that video to come out some day.

[@cykablyat3680]

my opinion on gamma and efp is that these mod packs arent necessarelly stalker games themselves , they are sandboxes with tarkov like gameplay set in the stalker universe , and thats exactly what i love about them , because of them i couldnt really get into tarkov because every minute in tarkov i was thinkig " i could play gamma/efp and have a better time in a better location"

[@cakelizard9218]

it feels like i'm always trying to find the perfect sweet spot of a lot of content but an older STALKER feel. With some good a-life on display

[@DjebosheR]

Legend Returns 0.9.2 quite nice too

[@grzybniak5158]

9:41 honestly i really share your opinion on anomaly. I've came back many tines to soc or even clear sky. Yet I've never appreciated anomaly. Since it honestly feels like overglorified mimicry of stalker. It destroys in my opinion the principles of stalker (fair combat, immersion while remaining grounded in the game world, story) and just mashes it into something.. Generic. I'll try old world and give it a chance. I have high hopes honestly. And I've never liked the anomaly modpacks also. They felt.. Without color honestly, something that you'd find on steam as an early access. Play for an hour. And never turn it on again. What I'm trying to say is that stalker is an experience. You play it and you get instantly sucked into the world, it doesn't need over-the-top graphics. Mechanics. Fancy animations. All it needs is to hook you in, and nothing more.

[@CptVityaz]

Preach brother.

[@shakefan1484]

People hype up Anomaly and GAMMA but I feel the same that they're not really STALKER. Yeah they're highly customizable but why go through tweaking a bunch of settings when I can just play the modpacks that actually play like STALKER without the need for extra tweaks.

[@SuperHagrids]

When I play Gamma, I’m not looking to play Stalker, I’m looking to play Gamma. I like the setting and feel of Stalker a lot but the gameplay of Gamma appeals to me more. I get both in Gamma

[@Banadepth]

Never thought I'd hear my country mentioned in a STALKER video lol, greetings from Algeria stalker, love the content

[@CptVityaz]

@Banadepth Greetings from Tunisia brother! 🇹🇳🤝🇩🇿

[@MichaelZettecci-oc8zb]

Thanks for showing this mod, I didn't know about it. I can't enjoy very much Anomaly or Gamma due to my low PC specs, so I'd rather enjoy these kinds of experiences 👽✨

[@Samsara_Jack]

Good video! I’ve played and finished the original trilogy so many times that I can’t get much enjoyment out of it anymore, but that’s not the case with Anomaly. I’ve always liked the idea of sandbox games (akin to kenshi, zomboid or rimworld fr example) because they offer so many options for roleplaying and setting your own objectives and challenges. You can create your own story and keep building on it, giving you an insane replay value that can be expanded even more with mods. That’s why i prefer playing Anomaly over STALKER in my opinion. Hope you can keep doing videos man, is really cool!

[@Valdetiosi]

Primitive gameplay at its finest with Old World Addon. I suppose it varies from people to people, but in my experiences with Anomaly or Gamma, I can stomach for few game sessions before I call it quits. OWA just keeps me going on it. You would think that faster pacing, faster gameplay, and simplified mechanics would bore you faster, but I end up covering more than what I would have with former two. And hot take; I'll take OWA's simple graphics over the realistic approach other mods go for. Visual clarity is of a big importance to me as a gamer. I feel like lighting is what contributes a lot here as well, heck, good lighting can make or break how game looks to the eye.

[@MarcsXA]

I agree 100% on your thoughts about vanilla Anomaly, it's so SO bad I ended up downloading more than 10 fixes and quality of life updates to make it less annoying. Look, I wanted to like it, but I just couldn't, having to grind a lot just to buy a new weapon or repair a heavily damaged one is not my cup of tea. Then I learned about Old World and loved it, I loved the OG games, especially Call of Prypiat, so this was incredible, can't wait for the new update.

[@demkillerus]

Bro got philosophical in the intro

[@firstnamelastname-nc8eg]

4:28 wow thats great, i once found a UNISG exoskeleton in a stash inside Wild Territory, in a little shack...

[@waseem2762]

Resonance in the background? Absolutely gained a Sub and a like But love the content as well keep it up!❤

[@CptVityaz]

@waseem2762 Hell yeah man! Song was so good it was worth getting demonetized.

[@Emjoez]

thanks for showing this!! I love this

[@maboilaurence8227]

You can bring civilization to GAMMA players, but you will never bring GAMMA players to civilization. This and Dark Signal are peak Anomaly modding and I'm gonna fight anyone who says otherwise.

[@bird9188]

I've been playing Old World Custom which is a small-ish pack centered around Old World Addon. It's actually my first time playing Anomaly so I didn't want to jump into all that the other packs are

[@kanarimortem]

Same man, Old World Custom rocks

[@kanarimortem]

Stalker, did you get annihilated by Sultan's bandits around Dark Valley yet?

[@bird9188]

@@kanarimortem Can't say I have, haven't made it there yet since not a lot of time to play

[@firstnamelastname8833]

beautiful words in the intro

[@CptVityaz]

@firstnamelastname8833 Thank you! At least someone likes the intro.

[@kevindominguez2117]

Hell yeah, this is what i was looking for

[@KinerfV4]

Bruv said we go back to the past with this one

[@CptVityaz]

@@KinerfV4 💯💯

[@TheRealNoobleNoob]

might reinstall anomaly and try this since I'm burned out from other mods

[@AngStGonePostal]

I have one defense for Anomaly vanilla. The economy (As far as I know) was so expensive in general mostly because the game is meant to be played for weeks, if not months to finish the storyline. I do understand that part, as it would be kinda weird to play for one single day a game meant for weeks of gameplay and just have the exoskeleton and most of the strongest weapons, so it works fine by me. PD: F off GAMMA.

[@auxometer]

The Forgotten Zone modpack you linked in the description seems really interesting. Would you reccomend giving it a go? I love Call of the Zone (with the community addon), it's my favorite freeplay mod and Forgotten Zone looks like it might be up my alley.

[@CptVityaz]

@@auxometer For sure, go for it. I haven't tried it yet, but I will be giving all of OWA's modpacks a try after a while. I'd like to know about your experience with it.

[@BazinGarrey]

I'm the author of "Forgotten Zone," and apparently, the upcoming Old World Addon update will include CotZ mechanics. I'm really curious to see if it will work well with the mod pack.

[@ClusterSp4rk]

are we expecting to hear again from the people's voice you included in your past videos ? they are really good at what they are doing !

[@CptVityaz]

I'm glad you liked their parts! I will definitely be seeing when they can participate.

[@ClusterSp4rk]

​​@@CptVityaz I thought you have a team not simple volunteers/participants.

[@tomaszjackowski5205]

would be nice to see artefact cooking from op2.2/oblivion lost 3.1 integrated into old world addon

[@alyctro8158]

I must try this!

[@NoSaveData1337]

Are you running all those modpacks in the description at the same time?

[@CptVityaz]

Nope, I'm playing vanilla Old World, I provided the links of those modpacks for those who wanna try them out.

[@xcc2a874]

a little off topic but im gonna miss the way stalker was before STALKER 2 i have a feeling alot of modders and the community in general is gonna move to the new game, ik i can always come back to the og games and old mods but I feel like a little bit of that old stalker feel will be gone for me although im loving stalker 2 itself.

[@linklovezelda]

I think they did a good job retaining the OG feel in stalker 2. It's not exactly the same of course but for me it's close enough. I'm gonna stick to watching old stalker videos but playing the new one lol.

[@BlackWolf9988]

Meh i think it will be a long time until stalker 2 truly replaces the mods. Stalker 2 AI is god awful and a-life 2.0 simply doesn't exist with them literally spawning 30 meters behind you. While it has potential the game should have been in development for at least another year and as a 14 year stalker fan it's pretty disappointing so far in my 30+ hour playthrough.

[@Aanderan]

my biggest issue with old world is it's decision to strip out ammo crafting while keeping some of anomaly's clunkier features like having to pay for workbenches You should try CoC with the ported DoctorX quests & mechanics - I think someone has guides for it with Improved weapon pack

[@In_The_Base]

Do you mean IWP instead because I haven't checked for COC, but there is a Call of The Zone (COTZ) port for IWP (and I'm pretty sure most of those mods were originally made for COC)

[@Aanderan]

@@In_The_Base specifically "Call of the Zone Quests and Mechanics for IWP (Indev 6.2)" There's the standalone CoZ, but this addon for IWP tries to add a lot of the cool features of CoZ to IWP - a lil suggestion after hearing the want for more questing for default CoC/IWP

[@josh_nbd]

Man the gamma hate in the comments is crazy. You can tell who set the difficulty to max, got pissed on and put it down. Solid video tho man

[@CptVityaz]

I hold no grudges for GAMMA, I don't hate it but I don't like it either,, the Stalker community seems like it could shit on GAMMA till it runs out of toilet paper, which after a while, becomes boring and unfunny. Thank you for watching btw :)

[@SeshanTM]

I couldn't agree with you more on the anomaly portiton, even after puting hundreds of mods on top of it the end experience winds up being thin, the only time I actually started enjoying anomaly was with anthology, yet as it continues to be a buggy mess I dont have high hopes for my future with it

[@Raine096]

old world looks like its the mod i've been looking for but there is a slight problem, stalker anomaly is on version 1.5.3 and old world is on 1.5.2, would it still work or do we just wait for an update?

[@CptVityaz]

@Raine096 Old World is in fact compatible with Anomaly 1.5.3

[@fubliciousbobs9011]

what HUD are you using? just installed old world redux

[@CptVityaz]

@@fubliciousbobs9011 I'm using the vanilla HUD that comes with regular OWA

[@insertmemorableusernameher6795]

I wish there was a mod that made anomaly look like soc but kept the new mechanics and balancing. I love how anomaly feels as an imsim, but it visually looks so grey and lacks the surrealism soc had

[@zjarosz]

Yeah i agree GAMMA is PEAK stalker

[@pennyp.1224]

Is the gameplay shown one of the modpacks for old world? if so which one?

[@CptVityaz]

it's of vanilla Old World (albeit using some addons)

[@pennyp.1224]

Thank you, I take it you have an addon for the weapon animations and sway for steps, do you by any chance have a list of the addons you use here somewhere? If not thats alright, no need to go outta your way ​@CptVityaz

[@CartRay-gf2tp]

any mods like efp but without the hardcore tedium , just want good graphics/animation and gunplay (like gunslinger)

[@Mleuf1024]

Try improved weapon pack for call of chernoby

[@CartRay-gf2tp]

@@Mleuf1024 i have that one just havent installed thx

[@gumbywithagun4293]

Radiophobia 3 does this pretty good without forcing in any artificial difficulty, It's a standalone overhaul mod for SOC that makes it look amazing without being system demanding, does a little work on the ai and gunplay, and adds some new systems and quests

[@CartRay-gf2tp]

@@gumbywithagun4293 i wanna try it but the reviews kinda scare me(update while radiophobia is hard the gunplay alone more than makes up for it)

[@CartRay-gf2tp]

​@@gumbywithagun4293kzbin.info/www/bejne/rWa6gJSKd89pr5o

[@axe495]

What mod are you using for weapon animations those arent vanilla?

[@CptVityaz]

@@axe495 I'm using Old World Gunslinger

[@gothiccloverr]

works with anomaly 1.5.3?

[@CptVityaz]

Nope, at least not yet.

[@FOXeye95]

Free play mods aren’t stalker for me. Mods like Radiophobia , Complete, OGSR, those are stalker

[@sesad5035]

Complete is just mid, OGSR is ok, and radiophobia is just misery with SoC storyline

[@TalsetFireSeed]

Me an intellectual, with an install of gamma, efp, old world, dark signal, and several installs of shoc and cop with translated russian mods... God help me I have a several SSD's dedicated to playing stalker and only stalker.

[@CptVityaz]

@TalsetFireSeed So relatable I swear

[@lukasgroot]

Thanks I was wondering about this and also asked myself why not just play COC?

[@cykablyat3680]

coc with iwp is awesome

[@lukasgroot]

@cykablyat3680 yes, seem like good reason to revisit.

[@BazinGarrey]

What Anomaly has over COC is modern engine and better modularity, plus COC is pretty empty compared to Anomaly.

[@baker7647]

How dare you not like GAMMA grrr tushkano horde be upon ye!

[@arkgaharandan5881]

First of al li watched the whole video in 1.25 speed without subs.😎 Second of all, we have indeed gone full circle as the original stalker before it came out was playtested and people thought it was too borring as you walked around and explored and grind and did nothing of interest, it was a survival game and this is exactly what stalker 2 and anomaly are like. We need to go back at how stalker was like half life 2 with more complex mechanics and exploration and quests, we need to start popularizing stalker story mods, better than anomaly if you ask me.

[@LoneWolfFromEast]

I have a question. Is there a reason why you don't play the new game? Don't get me wrong, I will definitely try this mod, it's exactly what I like. I just can't stop searching for artifacts in HOC... For now.

[@CptVityaz]

@LoneWolfFromEast Aside from the suboptimal rig I have, my disk is full of stuff and I don't have space for it,even after removing as many files as I can, I still need 60 more gigs.

[@LoneWolfFromEast]

@@CptVityaz Oh, understandable, I literally bought 500GB SSD just for this game. Latest patch was plus 13 GB, it's crazy.

[@wenzel_alex]

Hey Vityaz, my recomendation for you to play prosectors project 1.7. It is really awesome mod, AI in this project very very smart like real guys. It is not a joke.

[@CptVityaz]

I will definitely be taking a look at it, thank you!

[@scp-redactedredacted9677]

Will run on 1.5.3?

[@CptVityaz]

Current version of OWA is for 1.5.2 only, but OWA Custom is for 1.5.3

[@scp-redactedredacted9677]

​@@CptVityazGot it thanks:)

[@destoryallliberals]

why is desert eagle so op in this mod, it deals more dmg than svd :(

[@CptVityaz]

True, you can literally kill a Chimera with less than a mag of .45 Hydrashok

[@gmodiscool14]

Can i just play shadow of chernobyl with owa?

[@CptVityaz]

What?

[@gmodiscool14]

@@CptVityaz its an anomaly or gamma mod right? is there a version for soc

[@CptVityaz]

@@gmodiscool14 No, there isn't

[@baseddlite7306]

just play SoC bro lol

[@АлександрВишняков-т6ф]

> "- This is True stalker" > *gunslinger weapon pack with degrade textures* ))))

[@Dexovies]

this fire!

[@CptVityaz]

Thank you so much pardner!

[@Dexovies]

@@CptVityaz Keep making more S.T.A.L.K.E.R Content!

[@kalenics123]

Chernobylite was cool

[@ItsGlib]

прикольно

[@teecannon1257]

stalker2 review plz

[@CptVityaz]

That's really a tough one, because as much as I wanted to talk about Stalker 2, I just can't run it on my machine, I'm sorry.

[@CartRay-gf2tp]

@@CptVityaz oof looks like im gonna have to wait

[@Peter_739]

@@CptVityaz Even as a person who can run it, I'm searching for some Stalker experience to fill my time until S2 is fixed, because right now, unfortunately, the experience is underwhelming.

[@Manly_Banana]

How to download for mobile

[@vermillion4971]

are you retard?

[@Maske4]

I personally enjoy hard but rewarding games (Like dark souls) so I thought of giving GAMMA and Anomaly a try. After giving them both a try for a while I slowly realized that I couldn’t be less interested in the experience those 2 mods could offer me that I dropped them both in the end. I would make like 2 pages of how I disliked stuff in both but it all breaks down to making everything from the original games be completely overcomplicated, unrewarding and unsatisfactory, while also making it extremely time consuming, or “””””””REALISTIC”””””” as the description of this mods says, so basically: You want to have a radioactive artifact? You need a container that also degrades. You got wounded by a bite or a bullet? You can’t see jack shit now because of the “Pain” and blood effects and you got to go into a huge process in order to heal and all of that probably in mid battle where the very advanced NPCs of stalker will rush your ass and make you die of lead poisoning from the number of bullets they’re gonna give you to eat. You went into a fight? NPCs aside from bandits are bullets sponges that can take your 12 gauge bullets, eat them and then spit them out like The Terminator in the 3rd movie. You want to loot a dead NPC? Enjoy the broken weapons then :D! Very realistic all of them can use broken weapons like nothing while for me using a broken weapon means seeing the jamming animation all the time and turning an assault rifle into a slide action!!! very realistic!!!! You want to get better gear? Good luck because you may take like 2 to 3 hours to finish the mission you were assigned only to get paid like 8k roubles and a decent weapon costs like 26 thousand roubles, you gotta waste like 15 thousand more in medication, another 10 into food and other gear and good luck trying to repair someone else’s gun because you will need a whole set of things to do it. And a long Et cetera. None of that feels like something fun or realistic, also that don’t feel like stalker (except for the broken weapons and the bullet sponge part), it feels like an overcomplicated masochistic version of what stalker really is and don’t get me wrong, if somebody likes that it’s ok but I really can’t find any point if dealing with all that bullshit while also not having an actual main objective than to do all of that all the time. Personally for me your recommendation felt like a gold bar coming right from the sky, so I will give it a try when I get some free time, thanks!!!

[@adrienmasset5377]

I understand your opinion on Anomaly/Gamma (and I respect it), but just so you know: Gamma, for exemple, is highly customizable. In the settings you can easily boost the rewards for quests, the weapons condition when looted, reduce the ennemies HP, etc... You can even disable Anomaly's economy! Yes, those modpacks are "by default" super grindy and a pain in the a** when it comes to progression, but it all can be easily tweaked. Should you give it a second chance, you might find a certain appeal to it!