This mod is fantastic! True S.T.A.L.K.E.R. Review

[@F1zzzy90]

Biggest disappointment with this mod is the lack of A-Life. AI doesn't roam like they do in Vanilla or Anomaly. They don't fight over areas unless it's scripted

[@BrokenCircle1]

Because it's a story based mod. It isn't meant to be like that.

[@OXY187]

A-Life isn't a thing in Stalker games. It was a feature in the early versions of the game and later cut due to gameplay issues.

[@hotlinemiamifan664]

@@OXY187 it is thats just h ow the game's ai is called

[@OXY187]

@@hotlinemiamifan664 no

[@Kreia.]

@@hotlinemiamifan664 nah, he's right. A-Life is the name of the simulation that controls the NPC, their behavior and their activities. the game spawns random NPCs and generates them a list of actions to perform. that's A-life.

[@neithealebor]

İf anyone like this mod, Try also: Wind of time. Another great mod.

[@BrokenCircle1]

I've heard of that one. Might take a look one of these days.

[@xeno8517]

Whenever I try that mod I always get the broken translation

[@rmcgowa1987]

Wind of time is good but it has pretty frequent crash issues

[@lucaspereirahmj]

@@rmcgowa1987 only if you use the hd models

[@FinUgShiet]

@@rmcgowa1987 Didn't crash with me too much, actually so little that I can barely remember it crashing and it's been just like 2mon from finishing it.

[@selfsabotagingbanana0451]

the positives: high production value, great new UI and weapon animations, great story ideas, great new level, shared player stashes the negatives: unskippable ingame cinematic sequences, limited weapon variety, you get nocked out and or robbed so often that it gets old very quickly, the control is taken off the player way too often, you get thrown into almost unwinnable fights after cinematics way too often, unsatisfying endgame, no quick travel option - you have to run back to cordon every single time you want to upgrade or repair your equipment.

[@D3THD33LR]

I thought it was pretty decent and gave it a 7/10 myself but its missing A life which makes it feel a little repetitive and bland at times but the story doesnt pick up until the later half of the game. I still appreciate the quality and effort that went into creating this entire experience though. It's very well put together, good cutscenes and voice acting was pretty great! My favorite part was finding easter eggs of moments from the first games like finding the pseudogiant in the sewers as you exit the lab in yantar or the new floating village anomaly which was pretty cool!

[@shaunbryndzia3622]

I went crazy last year and re-played all the stalker games again (with some mods this time to update the gameplay a little) and this year have been getting into GAMMA.. but am finding it could be a bit of a time sync but still really cool. I think i might have to try this one out before Stalker 2 comes out. Thanks for making this video. Really well explained and well done :)

[@eidoloneu491]

Great take. Good luck with your channel man, subscribed.

[@BrokenCircle1]

Thanks for watching and subbing.

[@NisekoiARG]

Every new or different stalker experience is always welcome!

[@lowendvibe]

Excellent presentation! I have to try it now :D

[@BrokenCircle1]

@@lowendvibe thank you for watching

[@donkongre9026]

Thank you for showing us this,I didn't know about it!

[@BrokenCircle1]

Thank you for watching! Yeah it's sad how cool mods like this get buried it seems.

[@donkongre9026]

@@BrokenCircle1 Could you do "Wind of Time" in the future? It has an interesting main story.

[@jamesf4423]

I find myself agreeing with your takes on stalker more than anybody else’s videos I’ve seen, appreciate your stuff

[@BrokenCircle1]

Thanks for watching! What sets me apart from the others?

[@jameshybris4017]

This Is an interesting subject for a video series, or at least other cool and unknown mods

[@judsongaiden9878]

2:37 Or "Truck Cemetery." 5:24 Ever used the spawn menu of either of those mods (some versions of Lost Alpha don't have a spawn menu, but older ones typically do) to create insane Zone Sportsmanship Challenges of demented do0m? 5:35 Resident Evil style.

[@YouTroper]

Thanks for this video. It's important to spread info about such mods, as they are in minority, yet being so much worth to play! Everyone and everything are shadowed by Anomaly and Gamma nowadays making little to no space for other productions. Let's change it and make people aware of different way of modding stalker!

[@zlostnypopolnik]

Funny thing, I hate walking simulators, but LostAlpha never seemed like one to me. Of all the STALKER mods, I liked it the most, especially after STALKER Lost Alpha: Revisited was released, but as I see, other updates were also released for it. This is the only game that has given me health problems, headaches and anxiety, and I've played quite a few horror games. STALKER simply has its typical atmosphere.

[@deus_nsf]

Damn, I'm sold! I'll give it a shot at some point then :)

[@IceNinja2007]

My #1 gripe is the questing structure. Way too many "Gets knocked out and has weapons/equipment taken away" moments... Not to mention the endless multi-map fetch quests with no fast travel...

[@BrokenCircle1]

The knock outs were a bit excessive but the way they were done I didn't think they were too intrusive.

[@OXY187]

That, and cutscenes. I know they are necessary for the storytelling part, but there is just too many of them and that results in no desire to replay the mod. Once you complete the game, it'll become exhausting to re-play it.

[@michaelgoodwin593]

Thanks for this, good review, to the point.

[@poolspidey7394]

Thank you for sharing and talking about this great mod！It looks just like THE STALKER in my dream！ still downloading it but I'm already fell in love with it😍

[@BrokenCircle1]

Thanks for watching, hope you enjoy.

[@somedesertdude1308]

it was fun tbh

[@shreksnow1918]

The way this mod is able to faithfully build on the base game’s foundations and make a sequel that’s really well designed/written makes me think of the mods for Classic Fallout that do the same thing. It’s crazy how someone is able to create something like this. It’s too bad that we don’t have something like Daggerfall Unity for Classic Fallout that ports the game into a much better engine with various bug fixes, quality of life improvements, and makes it very easy to modify the game. I’m sure if that existed more people would be able to enjoy the classic games. Then again, isometric rpgs aren’t very popular, and Daggerfall is much closer to modern Elder Scrolls than Classic Fallout is to modern Fallout (in fact, Daggerfall is where the foundation for so many of the things we’ve come to expect from Elder Scrolls in terms of lore, gameplay mechanics, and other things). There isn’t much overlap with the fans of one to another. I should probably get the game next time there’s a Steam sale. Let’s hope that Stalker 2 electric boogaloo is able to do something similar to this mod and doesn’t fall flat (although, I’d be lying if I didn’t mention that a small part of me is hoping for a tremendous dumpster fire. Purely because it would be funny). If Sony ever puts their “Halo Killers” Resistance and Killzone on Steam do you think you’ll ever do videos on them, or probably not? I’ve wanted to play those for a while. They both look interesting and have genuinely interesting lore. My child, you have peanut butter in your mouth. Stop speaking when you have nothing to say. No, I did not pay Quasi and will not Feed Nana. Enjoy prison, stalker! (Fatrick Tomlinson reference. He calls everyone a “stalker child”, so I thought it was fitting😂)

[@BrokenCircle1]

I don't get the reference. Maybe one day I would do Killzone. I haven't played that in like 20 years lol. I played the first one a long time ago.

[@shreksnow1918]

The Patrickverse is this really weird rabbit hole that’s really entertaining. Although, I will admit that lolcow content isn’t for everyone (I remember once I was rambling about Chris Chan and you said he was a sicko and didn’t want to hear about him anymore). That’s a long time. It’s too bad that Sony has abandoned so many of their old IPs. I recently watched playthroughs of the Resistance and Killzone trilogies and it was interesting seeing how both franchises changed overtime. Let’s hope that since Sony is FINALLY realizing that porting their games to pc will ONLY benefit them they’ll start porting their backlog of games in addition to their newer ones (in the future they’ll be day and date and it will be glorious). I saw some people got those working on their Steam Decks. It’s pretty cool what can be done with that system. I got mine last year and it’s been a blast. Although, I haven’t figured out how to emulate yet or how to use games from other launchers.

[@BullMooose]

Definitely gonna try out

[@BrokenCircle1]

Thanks for watching!

[@frostwolfe4982]

😮 Mutant ally? Thats so cuddly and cool.

[@PaperPlane634]

i played that game for a little bit but stopped because i had to travel with basicaly no stamina and anomaly everywhere making every step a gamble for your life if you dont walk around throwing bolt every 10 second to make sure you dont run in an anomaly. It may be different in the latest version of the game because i only played the original release without any patch, plus i really hated the first mission because there is so much radiation that if you dont know where are the artifact you have to find you will die of radiation or use all your med that you may need later.

[@Kreia.]

You should play the Trapped / В западне mod. It's probably one of the best Stalker mods ever made. It's not a deeply and carefully written story mod, the main focus is gameplay.

[@tryptamin249]

Best Stalker mod I've ever played. Especially the first time I entered this new big area was so immersive. It was a long time ago that I felt this level of mystery in a Stalker game/mod. Also I think progression is kinda perfect here, since I found a lot of good loot (and ended up rich at the end), but I think I also for the first time ever ended up regulary buying stuff (and also gear) from the traders.

[@BrokenCircle1]

Yes. I LOVED True Stalker and feel much the same way you do.

[@xIcyStarzz-yz7my]

Is any Addons? For this? I really want to break down extra weapons, like in Misry

[@justsometed950]

You should definitely try out the Goldsphere mod! It is story-driven mod with high references and inspirations with Roadside picnic. The story take place at the begining of THE ZONE, when everybody just starting to exploring the possibilities in it. (Also there are some choices making too) The mod have now a english translation.

[@BrokenCircle1]

@@justsometed950 I've had it downloaded forever just haven't had time to play it.

[@drusik]

I wish more Russian Mods would be translated, most Russian STALKER Mods focus on Lore, finding Stashes, and good Quest Lines while upgrading A-Life. They're all on AP-Pro and on YT on the Wolfstalker Channel if you want to watch previews and use Auto-Translate if you just want to see what's out there (or use Google Camera to translate the text lol, cause some mods are crazy good twists in the story that connect so good to the original Trilogy!). And True STALKER was thankfully translated, as it's made by AP-Pro themselves (basically like STALKER Nexus version like for Skyrim and Fallout).

[@blueorange9067]

Best mod so far, sticking to vanilla aesthetics with beautifull graphics and environments. Awesome take on stalker universe.

[@somewaydays]

Wolfstalker thank your very much for true stalker

[@Masterbeit-hq2mt]

By far this is the story driven mod i've ever played since Wind of Time

[@harshad2777]

any way to lower the graphic mods? I want to play this game but can't because of weak computer. I can run OG stalker games and Anomaly.

[@bobibravov]

The lacking fast travel kills it for me. I hate doing pointless running back and forth for something simple. It's a time waster.

[@nomenium]

honestly mate i dont see why people like TS so much a large majority of the story mods i've played are way better. TS didn't live up to its hype at all. Its a nice change of scenery from the bland, boring freeplay mods that have dominated for years now though. The lack of a-life, and getting knocked out every 10 seconds to progress the plot is what really gets me. atleast its translation is good though unlike most story mods. The inventory kinda sucks I think. I much prefer the inventory tetris we have in vanilla over this modernized sorta witcher 3 inspired inventory.

[@Stribog1337]

Now I remember I own S.T.A.L.K.E.R. I want to install again and try this mod, it looks awesome 😮

[@BrokenCircle1]

I don't know if you need the official games installed for this.

[@23thenicu]

This mod is completely standalone. Just download and play

[@TheWolvesCurse]

as far as i've read, you should install each patch in order, one after the other, not just the latest one. not sure if it makes a difference, but i ran into some problems, and after doing it like that the game worked for me. now running patch 1.5

[@BrokenCircle1]

Weird. It said on the moddb you only needed to install one.

[@chriotmao]

Thanks

[@SouthernRex-1994]

I liked it. But damn if the ending isn't a complete let down.

[@BrokenCircle1]

I actually enjoyed it. Which ending did you get? Did you get the true ending?

[@SouthernRex-1994]

@@BrokenCircle1 The one the military protagonist follows the big bad into a room and gets knocked out and left to die. It just felt cheap, I just finished clearing that base of heavily armed combatants and my *military* protagonist suddenly forgets his training and just rushes into a room to his doom. They could have handled that better.

[@BrokenCircle1]

That isn't the true ending. I do agree that ending could have been better though. Load up your save for when he enters the building with the alarms and go through that first door and turn left. You wont be dissapointed.@@SouthernRex-1994

[@SouthernRex-1994]

@@BrokenCircle1 I see, l'l have to give the mod another run sometime then.

[@davethewave7201]

Is this stand alone or do i need call of pripyat to play??

[@cmoneytheman]

reinstalling openal doesn't workThat's been said for years, even after installing it with the normal, fresh stalker games. I even have the regular cop, and it won't work with certain mods; it will give that sound error,like remake the highest former hd mod doesnt work on win 10 for me with cop/yet realism mod works

[@AJDojutrek]

Never heard of this, I'm gonna download it and give it a try. I hope it's a good story experience overall, more akin to Chernobylite and less like Anomaly/Gamma.

[@BrokenCircle1]

I LOVE Chernobylite. It does have a good story and is 1000 times better than GAMMA.

[@93Beefcake]

i was trying the mod but i was kinda disappointed it felt ike you could never really use the gear you get later on and also the mod is missing something the really scary parts of the zone get cut out and although i like the story just the simple fact you get "knocked out" or caught like 20+ times then having to retrieve your gear is kinda annoying first 5 times were okay but then ...

[@rmcgowa1987]

Decent mod major issue though the being knocked out during a cutscene not many people like this and at times it's really immersion breaking reminding you that you are in a game.

[@BrokenCircle1]

Fair enough, yeah I did find that a bit annoying.

[@simongravel7407]

Not in Program Files indeed! 😅

[@Deshenne]

ONE MAYOR FLAW here: every animated scene the stalker is knocked out...even when wearing the exoesqueleton, wich on the model gaves the player a high heavy kevlar helment but somehow someone punching you on the back on the head of said helmet can knock you out...and its on every animated scene. the game make a couple twists and still great but i hate the scenes.

[@bratanpaul9058]

I didn't finish the mod, but I can confidently say that it's a mixed bag for me. The mod is great, but I don't like the hud/UI, to me it looks like something from a Ubisoft game, I hope that there will be a mod in the future to have a more traditional hud/UI. And the last thing is when the game gets really good it does something very annoying. Without spoiling anything, in Garbage there is a very good story quest that makes you walk from one edge of the map to another several times, and another very VERY good story level after you leave the Dark Valley was very annoying to finish because it keeps teleporting you to a certain spot over and over and over... again, maybe I just kept triggering something idk. But it's good and recommend everyone to play it.

[@BrokenCircle1]

On the UI yeah I can see why some don't like it. I did but I get it's not for everybody.

[@neros398]

my bigges tissue with the mod is a lack of pda

[@arkgaharandan5881]

This is what i want from stalker mods not tarkov grindfest simulators.

[@BrokenCircle1]

@@arkgaharandan5881 don't tell the anomaly fanboys. They get very upset

[@arkgaharandan5881]

@@BrokenCircle1imagine turning stalker into free to play grindfest with mmo radiant quests and you think its better because there is no pay to win.

[@BrokenCircle1]

@@arkgaharandan5881 Yeah I really think the standards for games today has become so low. People defend this stuff so intensely it's kind of sad. Anomaly barely has any actual content in it. It's just grind and repeat.

[@arkgaharandan5881]

@@BrokenCircle1but enough about starfield.

[@HandsomeGamerGuy]

It is annoying when Anomaly and/or Gamma Fans are getting obnoxious about it. But it is a damn great Standalone Game / Mega Mod Pack, and there is plenty to customize. On top of it being so easy to install its nearly braindead.

[@phrozac]

Every STALKER experience is worthwhile no matter how far it strays from the OG intent. It's the vibe. Survival in the Zone. Vanilla or "wannabe mil-sim". This mod is oozing with production value though. Been playing a few hours now and I'm seriously impressed. My only complaint is I wish you could up the grass and flora density by like 400%. Otherwise, it's pretty amazing.

[@BrokenCircle1]

I don't know about the first part there. Not all mods are created equally.

[@phrozac]

@@BrokenCircle1 Every "well made" experience" then.

[@GamingXPOfficial]

Hey man im binge watching some vids but to be honest and no offense but im hating on the video resolution qauilityy could you try and record footage at 1440p its blurry or more like fuzzy its not a huge deal just a small ask thanks for thr content my guy i also understand that footage takes up hundreds of gigs 😂

[@BrokenCircle1]

@GamingXPOfficial I've gotten a few complaints on this one. It was recorded at 1360x768 which is what my monitor is. It looks fine on my PC (directly from the file) but KZbin in the upload process seems to have made things quite blurry at times. No idea why.

[@GamingXPOfficial]

@BrokenCircle1 dude your rockin 768 I was honestly gonna assume you just recorded at 720p but that's pretty close dam well no worries you can't do much maybe have your recorder still record at 1080p? Not sure if your pc is beefy enough to do that props for sticking to 768p for this long I could never get over how blurry 1080p was for me I need atleast 1440p now a days

[@salen-h4yl]

Is it free like anomaly?

[@dededede9257]

yes

[@Boba19423O]

whats wrong with mil sim?

[@23thenicu]

Nothing's wrong with milsim, it's just that your typical vanilla'ish stalker story enjoyers were kinda neglected for a long time

[@BrokenCircle1]

I don't personally like it for alot of reasons but them aside the problem is that Stalker mods have been almost completely taken over by the milsim style. The issue here is that's not what Stalker is. It is being fundamentally changed to the point it seems more of an imitator rather than an innovator which is what it was.

[@gordo5238]

its terrible

[@jasonthemuslim652]

U should play castle miner z

[@BrokenCircle1]

Really random but I actually have I think I made a video about it on the channel ages ago.

[@jasonthemuslim652]

@@BrokenCircle1 Yeah you did thank you. You know were actually working on a dedicated server and we have mods already released? are you curios to see?

[@boredgunner]

No

[@randomtuber9622]

If boredgunner said it, then it’s true

[@georgedimitropoulos7443]

Yes

[@bruhtholemew]

The man himself.

[@Njordin2010]

No chance against gamma. Its almost a different subgenre though so its not a good comparison but since you mentioned it: most of the gamma/efp/anomaly things you mentioned are actually positives. At least for the non casual players.

[@BrokenCircle1]

GAMMA sucks. It is such a departure from what Stalker is.

[@Kreia.]

GAMMA was a good mod when it came out. It was fun to play, and didn't really add anything other than a few mechanics. Then later... All kinds of casual players came out of nowhere and infested the Stalker franchise. Now, you have like all kinds of mods that do not even belong to Stalker anymore. I was okay with Tarkov stuff, but now it is more than Tarkov.

[@rvh1999]

Gamma is the biggest grindfest I've ever played. It sucks

[@liq__7420]

ok but WHY DID AXE KILL HIMSELF 😭

[@BrokenCircle1]

He didn't?

[@liq__7420]

@@BrokenCircle1 didnt he i mean when you played as a solider he was seen hung from the bridge in cordon or was that Yurok

[@BrokenCircle1]

@liq__7420 that was the other guys that killed him. He ran from them and they caught up with them it's implied.

[@liq__7420]

@@BrokenCircle1 then im probably lost then the guy that killed himself was a guy that was hunting axe why would he do that

[@BrokenCircle1]

@@liq__7420 I don't think he did...but then again it's been a bit since I've played the mod so I don't remember. I don't think so though

[@KalimbaTV985]

Nah. Theres a lot of minuses, but anyway, it looks cool tho, even that i like more buildlike mods. I hope someone made some mod on this mod. Like, rly. Locations, music, ui, all of this looks dope.

[@carlitoselcubanito1094]

anomaly hater spopted

[@BrokenCircle1]

Yes. A proud Anomaly hater.

[@snakeoo38]

This is like stalker if it was written by cod fans, not really stalker is it , they should have just made this something else.

[@juansobarzo3741]

creo que la vara de calidad en los mods acaba de subir un monton

[@jayrico638]

Waaaaaah waaaaah that's all I heard

[@BrokenCircle1]

@@jayrico638 You heard crying because I said I enjoyed the mod? Weird. Might wanna see a doctor for that one.

[@cynfaelalek-walker7003]

Bro dissed GAMMA during the entire video for no reason 💀

[@yakivpopavich]

Some people need a linear narrative to follow I suppose, the sandbox isn't for everyone.

[@another3997]

So you've never complained about something that you personally don't like? Clearly you weren't paying attention, he gave his reason for not liking it.

[@another3997]

​@@yakivpopavich It's not a matter of "need", it's just personal preference. There's nothing wrong with wanting a story led game, with defined goals and a fixed narrative, and despite what you seem to be inferring, people who want to play that way aren't somehow inferior. I've enjoyed playing console/computer games since the late 1970s, from childishly simple to mind bendingly complicated. I enjoyed and still highly rate the original Stalker trilogy. It has nice balance of features. For me, any mod that provides similar gameplay, with new locations and missions is a good thing.

[@СмішнийКіпішний]

this mod is garbage that is not worth the attention of fans of the original games. there is no such atmosphere and spirit of a stalker

[@snakeoo38]

this

[@yes-ge4hx]

i dissaggre with you opion about gamma

[@BrokenCircle1]

Congratulations.

[@yes-ge4hx]

@@BrokenCircle1 thanks

[@gordo5238]

gamma is terrible and for larpers

[@yes-ge4hx]

Meh your opinion

[@gordo5238]

@@yes-ge4hx it's a fact