There's something called "Oblivion Lost" that the GameFAQers seem to love.

I love awkward translations. "What awaits you, s.t.a.l.k.e.r.? In the zone that changed?"

I remember what seemed to be bugs in a few quests, but nothing major. Aside from those headaches, the only big issue to me was that you needed to frequently replace your gun but couldn't always find or buy the ammunition for a replacement. So I'd end up with 3 different guns, picking up every bit of ammo I saw to keep from running out. Even then, in one mission I was down to a pistol with a single clip.

Do you happen to know the name of this mod?

Cool, a new Stalker thread! I just started playing it last night, and I have a bug question, too. Should I pay any attention to the descriptions of places on my map? They seem to refer to quests which I haven't received. I've picked up a few info things from dead bodies, and taken quests from living people ("Got any work for me?") but the descriptions don't match the quests at all. Bug, or feature?

I'll have to try some of the mods out. The thing that stopped my was the horrible weapons accuracy + never-ending enemy spawns. That and fact I'm such a little wussy I have to play with the lights on.

Speak of the devil, I just reinstalled this a few days ago and loaded up the Oblivion Lost mod. I love that the game runs like a champ now, and some of the changes seem good. However, Oblivion Lost makes the game much more difficult, with extra roving packs of dogs and mutants. I got absolutely crushed by a rampaging mutant within about 10 minutes of entering the game. I've uninstalled the mod, I'm going to go for something a little less invasive to tweak the annoyances out rather than overhaul everything.

Float32 is by far the best mod you can get for Stalker. It makes the game look and run so much better. You do not want to do without it.

I am actually surprised because I also just recently re-installing this game and it seems many other people are doing the same. This game has the best atmosphere. The only other games made me feel like I was really there were Deus Ex and Bioshock.

I did pick this one up when it first came out and Modd'ed the hell out of it with all sorts of fancy skins and weapons mods and got real bored real quick. I did start from scratch about a month back and run all the way to the end with no mods and LOVED it. It makes the game more challenging and gives you the added "WOW" effect of finding that harder to find weapon/armor not bought with mods fro any-Ol' trader. The one aspect of the game I truly hated was the armor durability decrease with damage and no way to repair. Many many very nice sets had to be trashed as time went on because of the decrease in stats and protection with loss in durability.

I personally played it vanilla, and loved it. Granted, I played a couple months after initial release, so it wasn't buggy, but I'll probably do the same with Clear Sky (but sooner).

Here's the Clear Sky thread.

Does anyone have any experience with the mods and the latest 1.0006 patch? I've had this installed for months and haven't gotten around to playing it but was going to start with a couple of weather mods and the OLmod to take out the quest timers. From what I've been reading, almost every time they release a patch, most of the mods break and have to be updated which not all of them are. Anyone know if that's a big issue with the latest patch?

The version of OLmod that i use (1.3) is compatible with ver. 1.0004 - the last patch i installed.

Use the scroll wheel on the mouse or the number keys (1-3 I think) to change between bolts, sidearm and main weapon. And maybe don't sit so close to your computer monitor? I don't know, I just sort of got used to it after a while. But yeah, early on I couldn't play for more than 20 minutes at a time before I would get sick.

I'll have to try one or two of the mods, but w/ STALKER, some of the so-called "annoyances" end up being game play advances. The weapon accuracy and deterioration issues and the inventory capacity, for example, made it hard for me to learn how to play the game. I tried playing like I was an FPS action hero and was rewarded with a bullet ridden corpse. I had to learn how to be sneaky. I had to learn how to make hard choices about weapons. I had to learn how to manage my caches of goods.

Once I un-learned some of the video game standard behaviors and let STALKER teach me how to survive in the Zone, the game really blossomed. It is, sadly, flawed with a bunch of bugs. Still, I'd caution against neutering the power of the game by "fixing" things that aren't broken. Well, you should play the way that is most rewarding for you but after playing the COD 4 Chernobyl and Pripyat levels, I realized even more strongly what a triumph STALKER's gameplay was. It was just so much more fun to play STALKER in those levels, while COD felt so gamey and arcade simlated.

I am having a hell of a time figuring out which mods works with which patch and which ones interfere with other ones. Ye gads. All I really want is a higher weight limit, a smaller reticle, some weapon accuracy tweaks and a slightly more realistic damage model.