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Weekly Recommendations Thread: What are you playing this week? (sh.itjust.works)
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[–] 2 points 5 months ago (4 children)

Man, the rise of Discord had such a tremendous negative effect on online communities it's not even funny. I hate it.

I'm not against replacing vanilla weather, I simply want to familiarise myself with the original before doing so - just like with gameplay additions. I get your pain though, when I start modding I tend to go pretty hard myself so going back to vanilla experience can be difficulty.

I don't have anything specific in mind, I usually just play something, take note of what bothers me or should be expanded on and then start looking. That or just browse at random until something catches my eye. I'll probably just start with checking out the mods you linked alongside your personal list and go from there. I haven't really modded Stalker since CoC so I don't have a specific vision in mind like I do with other games I play, I'll just figure things out as I go.

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  • [–] 2 points 5 months ago (3 children)

    Yeah, Discord replacing forums and places like ModDB is definitely terrible. I hate it too.

    For me I kind of approach modding in reverse, almost. I tend to first canvas as much as I can and put together a collection that I like, and then I will playtest and if I run into specific issues I'll look for further mods that solve them as I go. For me it saves me time because I know right off the bat there's going to be things I want to change, and I don't need to play vanilla first to know that.

    Also a note about that document I linked: it's very very far from being comprehensive. It was made to save me time on the Discord because users kept asking about mods to add onto the baseline HACR pack. So I have omitted a ton of essential mods (as you could tell) simply because they were already in HACR base. But it's something at least.

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  • [–] 2 points 5 months ago (2 children)

    While I prefer the "classic" approach I actually do the same for some specific titles (mostly Bethesda games). As long as it works for you, that's what matters. Modding is suppose to be about fun after all.

    No worries about the doc, I want to use it as a starting point, nothing else. You helped me plenty enough with figuring out the basics of Anomaly modding, time for me to do some legwork on my own.

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  • [–] 2 points 5 months ago (1 child)

    No problem at all, I love Anomaly and modding it (as you can tell) so I will happily talk your ear off about it if you give me half a chance to. And I'll be happy to give further help or tips in the future if you want to, too.

    Enjoy diving into the rabbit hole, I'll keep an eye out for future weekly threads to see what you end up with!

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