A collection of mod ideas

[Cotillion]

Good idea with the forum.

As a disclaimer of sorts, i tend to ramble so if i do during the post just bear with me i do normally get to the point. Some of the things below have been implemented by mods (like the sleeping mod) but i felt it could be better implemented, good start though.

1/ Vehicles- i personally dont want them until zone is opened up more, also i think some NPC's should use vehicles as well. It would just seem odd to me if i was the only one in the zone able to use a vehicle while even the military patrols everywhere on foot.

2/ Anomalies- Should be rarer and harder to see (not totally invisible though) they should be more lethal and harder to escape, as part of this artifacts would be rarer also.

3/ Open area- Open up the World map and/or fill it. Doing this would make vehicles practical and allow the A-life AI to show off... i think. If you haven't seen it then theres some interesting things about AI scripts at this link-
forum.v5g.de/showthread.php?t=9391=en

4/ Improved AI or at least more refined. there have been many times where i have travelled or am wandering through a level and seen a bunch of AI walk into an Anomaly, and the whole thing about half of the stalker population deciding to commit suicide on their campfires is a bit much.

5/ Along with my other suggestion about Anomalies i believe they should change location after a certain period of time or at particular points in the game.

6/ If zone is opened up then putting aside need for more spawns, i believe that the creatures should roam a lot lot more. At the present time the Creature AI seems to have their 'base' and move a small distance from it to attack or flee.

7/ Blowouts, probably wishful thinking but i always liked the idea of an occasional blowout to change anomaly locations and force the player and NPC's to seek shelter.

8/ More effectively implement factions, and to have the ability to do quests to regain reputation and change factions from hostile to neutral and so on. Have the ability to increase in rank through the factions, gain access to new weapons and the like.

9/ More factions...... Why are Merc's automatically hostile? why cant we do stuff for em, same goes for bandits.

10/ Allow companions ( along the lines of waht has been done in oblivion, not necessarily romance ones though).

11/ Stalkers regardless of ranking, rookie up to master, should have a random selection of weaponry. The rookies in particular, have a choice of the start pistol, shotty, and at most mp5. Why cant they have AK's, or stronger pistols at least. Not all stalkers would arrive at the zone with 40ru, i have not doubt that their would be some rich people in search of some adventure going there....

12/ Sleep. In the game files, with a bit of digging, it can be seen that sleep was supposed to be as much a need as eating.

13/ Trader. Except for unique weaponry and artifacts the trader should be able to sell all items. Or at least to have the chance of having the item to sell.

14/ Factions. aside from duty and freedom the factions dont have bases ( the others have outposts basically).

One of the more well formed ideas i have is a level located on the edge or just outside the zone, a lot of the idea came from some fanfiction i read cant remember what tho.

Outside Zone/ Safe area
- Town and tent city
- Faction recruiters and quest givers in the neutral/loner area of town.
In each of the bases a mission giver as you increase in faction rank
- Military Base
- Buy a pass into zone, or some kind of bribe
- From here military send expeditions and patrols, on foot mechanized or airborne into the zone.
- Military control a WELL GUARDED checkpoint, need bribe or pass. this would take you through to cordon.

- Science Facility
- science expeditions into zone
- Mercenary
- find out where merc base is and get sent there to do various missions.
- Loners, just in neutral zone, no faction rank just the current skill ranking governing what jobs stalkers would give.
- Criminals, somehow find out how to contact a underworld/mafia contact and do missions for them (raids, assassinations etc.)
- Companions or partners for missions
- Maybe a quest where stalker partner decides all or nothing and tries to 'take you out'.
- Some kind of home or hideout. Nothing fancy just a place to eat, sleep, and stash gear you want to keep. Could be used as a contact point.
- Trader (sorta like first trader) in other words an 'absolute pig' doesn't care about anything but money will give missions catering to any faction.
- Weaponsmith or armorsmith located at either scientist base or military base. They would add a limited amount of upgrades to weapon/armor including upgrades using artifacts as hinted at by certain unique weapons.
- Customiser, maybe someone who can add something that makes your gear specifically yours, (probably a modified texture for gun or outfit). When i play games like this, while npc's aren't likely to notice/care, I thinks its cool when i can think my gun looks cool and unique.

Oh well, i dont think i rambled too much. If i think of anything else ill put em up as well.

[TKMR]

Wow. That sounds amazing. A lot of the things, I was thinking about as well.

I was kind of thinking for a slogan for the community.
"S.T.A.L.K.E.R. modding community.
Expanding the Zone, one radioactive area at a time!"

[Mattressi]

Lol, nice slogan I really hope that the things in this thread do happen. It'd be like a cross between Battlefield and Oblivion ;D

[Cotillion]

not a bad slogan, hope it holds true too.

As for the ideas i posted im gonna do my best to get it going somehow. Heres hoping the SDK comes out and is user friendly.

[obfuscated]

Very ambitious, and exactly what I was hoping for Stalker.

[majorshrapnel]

All that sounds awesome.

One thing i just started thinking about would be cool(dont know how well someone could do it) is to make like an air tight hazard proof ghillie suit, and the ability to go prone. Good for sneaking around.

[obfuscated]

majorshrapnel said:

All that sounds awesome.

One thing i just started thinking about would be cool(dont know how well someone could do it) is to make like an air tight hazard proof ghillie suit, and the ability to go prone. Good for sneaking around.

A green science suit with twigs and leaves

[jeykll]

Im just kinda worrying about the Zone and its utter lack of women haha, the game is rated mature and i wouldnt be surprised to see some kind of brothel area set up ala Fallout 2 has a porn studio in New Reno.

Also putting more species of mutants in, that and making zombie's melee only, being a zombie buff that annoyed the hell out of me being sniped. Would have to be countered somehow by upping health (only can kill them with headshots) and having many many more of them.

I really love the idea of upgrading the faction system, also on one of the forums i believe someone had an idea of adding different countries.
Being as the merc's seem to be Western NATO troops by the weapon and armor selection (Basically says in the merc suit desc that they are US special forces).

Also Enemy transportation maybe? In the form of APC's like in the Chernoyable zone were i got ganked by that APC and forgot to bring my RPG.

Also enemy squads specially military would have different weapons, they would have the medic, engineer, grendier, sniper, support, riflemen, commander etc.

[Cotillion]

majorshrapnel- A ghillie suit would be pretty cool, i like a large number of options for weapons and armor, and the ghillie suit while not hazard proof practical is definately a good idea vs conventional. The going prone idea is good as well that will hopefully happen pretty quick with the sdk.
Jekyll- Women.... well im betting that within 2 weeks of the sdk there will probably be so many mods involving women and brothels that stalker will go up a rating as oblivion did.
More creatures, and converting zombies to melee. I agree that there should be a lot more creatures than the number there is now and their subtypes.
As for zombies i'll admit its annoying when you come around a corner to find a half dozen armed with high powered rifles and shotguns all pointing at you. Thing is i'd like to see a melee abilities for all stalkers/zombies other than my spotlessly clean knife, if i get attacked by dogs and am feverishly reloading then i'd imagine i'd be using my feet at least to fend them off.
I saw the thread about bringing other countries into it and i agree that having them trying to access the zone (at least) is not only plausible but highly likely.
Enemy transportation. yeah thats what i meant by the mechanized patrols for military. For mercs and other factions i'd probably go for some form of armored car. Vehicle types would all depend on what type of faction and possibly how far they go into the zone.
The enemy squads, i would definately try to have the combat classes working together with different weapons dependant on class, as for support classes eg. engineer and medic, i can imagine that i'll involve them in missions and have them in the bases but not so much for patrol. The reason why a medic may not be in combat patrols is the fact that most of the troops have own healing (in game i mean) unfortunately they dont use it. I'm also unsure how the AI could be changed to use a first aid kit on another soldier and the method of medicc actually doing it, though using a weapon that heals may be possible.

In another thread i mentioned that using a downgraded though fast firing gauss rifle can destroy a hind, has anyone tried using the gauss on the APC's? Ammo may be a problem tho i admit.

Lastly i have played Fallout 1/2 and Fallout Tactics. I loved em all. Any ideas that involve implementing certain things from fallout will be deeply thought upon (in between bouts of laughter)

[jeykll]

I also feel there needs to be more of a threat made by the anomalies, i found them more of an annoyance then a threat. I dont know how this would be done without drastically effecting gameplay.

Some modders have gone the route of making them invisible but without some kind of IR goggles to see them correctly i think that wouldnt work or would hamper gameplay. Also i have yet to find a use for bolts in the game, anyway we can make them more game worthy? maybe instead of a week gametime would could have them spawn despawn every couple hours?

[TKMR]

These all sound like excellent ideas.

Women - Maybe not so much IN the zone, but maybe a town, right outside Cordon? (For a brothel I mean.) It would also be very nice to see you be able to purchase a house in STALKER, and maybe have a "girlfriend."

Squads - That would be an awsome feature, though we would have to model support weapons.
Re: Medic Gun, that would be a great idea, except for modding the behaviors of the enemy medics, so they don't shoot at you, and heal you inadvertently.

Vehicles - I would love to see an APC that you can use the turret in, as well as a tank maybe. Fuel would definately have to be implemented at that point though, due to the massive power, these vehicles would have.

Zombies - Eat your brains...

[Cotillion]

from what ive seen the in other mods there is a level of transparency in there actual files that will make them harder/easier to see. i'm pretty sure you can alter it now with good ol' notepad.
Makes it interesting at night when you have them 10% visible and no anomaly detector beeping to warn you, turns fighting a pack of dogs into something nearly stressful.

[jeykll]

Also cant forget that if we have tanks and APC's gunna have to have a way to make them go BOOM!.

[TKMR]

What about the Vortex anomoly (The one that sucks you into the air)
It seems like it could throw around debris at high speed, probably send a branch through a tank?

Okay... maybe not a Tank, but an APC?

What about AT mines. Maybe military could lay AT mines if they see you using a Tank, or APC?

[Cotillion]

lol, mines too. dear god, bugger all that!! im walking.....