Back in its heyday, the S.T.A.L.Okay.E.R. franchise boasted an lively and vibrant modding neighborhood, because of 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 intensive modding assist entrance and middle with S.T.A.L.Okay.E.R. 2: Coronary heart of Chornobyl. Being solely somewhat over per week previous, the sport is clearly going to proceed seeing a gradual stream of spectacular mods of all styles and sizes over the months and years to come back, 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 could find for S.T.A.L.Okay.E.R. 2 on NexusMods.
OPTIMIZED TWEAKS
NexusMods person VynnGfx’s Optimized Tweaks mods is one which’s simply beneficial to all PC gamers. It’s no secret that S.T.A.L.Okay.E.R. 2 has launched with greater than its justifiable share of technical tough edges, however this mod addresses various them. Give it a search for enhancements to efficiency, latency, load and boot instances, and extra.
STEALTH
Stealth in S.T.A.L.Okay.E.R. 2 can typically oscillate between feeling too punishing or too damaged, although this stealth mod by Axii59 brings various enhancements. That features enemies having a tougher time recognizing you primarily based on climate, foliage and bushes doing a greater job of hiding you, enemies’ notion being additional lowered once you’re crouched, and extra.
MUTANT HEALTH
Taking up mutants could be a little bit of a nuisance in S.T.A.L.Okay.E.R. 2, largely thanks to simply how tanky and bullet spongy some specifically are usually. The Modular Mutants Well being mod by Grokitach0, nonetheless, provides presets for gamers to decide on between, every decreasing the well being swimming pools for all Mutants by various levels, so you may make it as a lot simpler for your self to take them on in fight as you need to.
ITEM WEIGHT
Stringent stock capability limits are one in all a number of methods S.T.A.L.Okay.E.R. 2 makes an attempt to make life within the Zone tough, but when stock administration specifically 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 title suggests, this mod lowers the burden for all bullets, grenades, and medication and meals gadgets all the way 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.Okay.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’s essential to cease and catch your breath. The Longer Sprinting mod by NickMillion permits 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 will be fairly expensive in S.T.A.L.Okay.E.R. 2, relying on how broken the merchandise in query is. The Diminished Restore Value mod by hawkidoki is an efficient approach to hold prices on examine 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 utterly free.
WEAPON DURABILITY
If weapon sturdiness is the one space of the sport (or one in all a number of) the place you need 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 utterly eradicated, however it’s much less aggressive.
AIM SENSITIVITY
Many gamers have discovered S.T.A.L.Okay.E.R. 2’s aiming to be somewhat clunky and sluggish, and that’s a minimum of partly all the way down to the asymmetrical sensitivity throughout the x and y axes. With this mod, made by NexusMods person Strangorth, goal sensitivity stays constant throughout each axes, which makes aiming really feel extra exact on each a controller and a mouse and keyboard.
WEAPON REBALANCING
Lots of S.T.A.L.Okay.E.R. 2’s critics up to now 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 imagined 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 quite a lot of harm to each you and your enemies (particularly human enemies) in S.T.A.L.Okay.E.R. 2 as it’s, which is partly why it’s removed from a run-and-gun kind of sport. Nevertheless, in case you’re searching for enemies to go down even sooner to your pictures, the Lifelike Harm mod by JohnCena1306 will allow you to try this. Photographs to the chest space will do extra harm, whereas pictures to limbs may also hit somewhat bit tougher.
READABLE AMMO
Switching between totally different ammo sorts to counter totally different threats is one thing that you simply’ll decide up ultimately in S.T.A.L.Okay.E.R. 2, however the sport makes it arduous to know in real-time which ammo kind you’re utilizing, because of readability points with the UI. JCaleb’s Readable Ammo mod fixes that by introducing two far more readable modes- one which color codes totally different ammo sorts, and one which provides descriptive abbreviations as a substitute.
LONGER DAYS
Days can zoom by faster than you anticipate in S.T.A.L.Okay.E.R. 2, however the Even Longer Days mod, additionally by JCaleb, permits you to stretch issues out as a lot as you need. The mod features a preset to make every day twice so long as typical (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.Okay.E.R. 2 doesn’t allow you to climb, vault over, or seize onto ledges, which implies even platforms which can be barely taller than your self can show to be insurmountable obstacles. With the Ledge Grabbing mod by Kennybylenny, nonetheless, you can lastly vault over or climb onto issues that you need to be capable of vault over or climb onto.
A-LIFE FIX
S.T.A.L.Okay.E.R. 2 boasts an overhauled model of the sequence’ much-touted A-Life system, although very like another elements of the expertise, it’s at present being dragged down by quite a few bugs. ConnerRia’s Roadside Panic mod not solely fixes lots 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 successful with this mod, nonetheless, so hold that in thoughts.
BETTER REWARDS
A few of the most beneficial quests in S.T.A.L.Okay.E.R. 2, by way of the rewards you get for finishing them, are fully elective ones, although the sport isn’t at all times constant on this division, which implies rewards are at instances too meager. Halasas’ Higher Rewards mod permits you to enhance rewards to various levels, nonetheless, ranging between 1.2x higher rewards to as excessive as 8x.
