Well I feel like a real idiot right now, I’ve played stalker anomaly for a long time now. And because I like a stutter free, high refresh rate experience. I hadn’t used the graphics upgrade mod. Well my dumb ass didn’t fully read through the description, and it turns out it actually increases your performance…

Sure enough I booted up stalker anomaly with the screen space shaders mod, and the game runs a little better than it did. and looks like an AAA game from 2018.

I dunno if any of you play stalker anomaly, but don’t skip over this mod.

  • Coelacanth@feddit.nuEnglish
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    5 days ago

    Even though the best way theoretically of playing Anomaly is putting together your own modpack, there are a ton of custom pre-assembled alternatives out there if you don’t have the time and/or energy to fiddle yourself. Not just G.A.M.M.A. or EFP, although I know those are the most popular ones.

    Vanilla Anomaly is great and all but there is so much more to it than that.

    • randomname@sh.itjust.worksOPEnglish
      1·
      5 days ago

      Im playing with about 20 add-ons currently. do GAMMA and EFP offer quest lines? or maybe a story to progress through?. because thats the one thing I think anomaly is lacking.

      • Coelacanth@feddit.nuEnglish
        1·
        4 days ago

        There are faction quest lines and such, but there are also other STALKER mods that focus more on story content. Have you looked into Goldsphere?

      • SolOrion@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
        2·
        5 days ago

        GAMMA has faction questlines. I’m not sure how good of an experience they are because that is very much not why I play GAMMA, but they definitely exist.

        Also: if you install GAMMA and are initially utterly disgusted by the depth of field, don’t panic you can turn it off lol.

        • randomname@sh.itjust.worksOPEnglish
          3·
          5 days ago

          don’t worry about it, turning off chromatic abberation, depth of field, motion blur, and lens flare is always the first thing I do when I boot up a game

          • SolOrion@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
            1·
            5 days ago

            I too despise the obsession with making videogames look like they were filmed for some inexplicable reason lol.

            • randomname@sh.itjust.worksOPEnglish
              1·
              5 days ago

              I don’t understand it either, when I’m playing a video game (except for certain games that are very stylized) I want it to feel like I’m looking through my character’s eyes rather than a camera lens. Maybe it’s because they think that’s what people want when they watch a trailer?