a fellow ABR enthusiast! there's upcoming ABR SOC too. you might be interested in that. when i'm in a mood to replay clear sky or call of pripyat I usually fire it up with ABR, makes the gameplay more fun! and oh. Clear Sky is literally the best looking in the trilogy no joke. if only a lot of feature is not cut it might be the best. Fun fact! Clear Sky's title is originally Anarchy Cell which features a vastly different storyline and might I say the most beautiful way to expand the lore. It involves doppelgangers which the design documents called "Counterparts" that is copying numerous stalkers in the zone mainly caused by the expanding of the zone, it's been said that the zone is turning to a living entity and one of the cause of the existence of doppelgangers is because of that. Actually you'll find Father Valerian in vanilla Clear Sky dead in Red Forest. I actually tested and tried to backtrack to Cordon from Forest and the Father Valerian you interacted with in the early missions is still there alive and breathing. came back to red forest and the corpse is still there, bet there's more to that than just a glitch. what if the valerian we interacted is in fact the doppelganger. oh what could've been. such mystery and potential. This might be tackled in the upcoming S.T.A.L.K.E.R. 2, coming from the latest trailer "And what do we have a decade later? The Zone, in our image, after our likeness." this will be epic mark my words. GSC going to the Solaris/Silent Hill 2/Dead Space alien entity attempting to understand and manifest humans will be groundbreaking. EDIT: Source of my ramblings about what clear sky originally is kzfaq.info/get/bejne/jpapqsRpqLm8ZY0.html&t y'all should check out and watch the whole iceberg video it's worth it.

I see we are stalkers of one mind. Clear Skywas my favourite stalker game too. Arguably the story is not as mysterious and well written as ShoC but the side-content, the world and the faction stuff was sooo much fun!

You can't call yourself a S.T.A.L.K.E.R. fan without playing Clear Sky. I completed the vanilla twice with both endings and then started the modded ones. ABR is surely a way to go.

This was my first Stalker game back in the day. I loved it. The lighting effects and gameplay were outstanding.

5:49 AM in texas, just finished SOC with xpress remaster recommended by you and absolutely loved it and just installed ABR on clear sky and will play it all day when i wake up today sunday. Thank you Brother you’ve been lots of help, i was a gamma//EFP boy and my heart needed the lore so i decided to go back to the originals and watched your hot chocolate video lmao you’re the best 100% everything i needed to play the OGs

Obscure of all the " skip Clear Sky discussion " I played it at the time with the (infamous) complete 2009, and I loved it! As a Stalker serie fan I don't understand why someone would skip addictional content or content in general when the game is well done. Looking forward to try it again with this other mods

I've spent years with an intense dislike of Clear Sky. It took me four years just to play through it once, then seven more years to play through it again, all the while I did multiple SoC and CoP runs. I just picked it up again with ABR after watching this video, and holy shit is it so much better. I don't think I could ever go back to vanilla.

Clear Sky is my first stalker game since SOC simply doesn't launch on my PC, and this mod looks perfect. Thanks!

I played this when it came out.. and I think I struggled with it, because of the gun play, harsh economy and harder medical system.. i got to a point in the game where I had no health, no money, and couldn't progress. I think I'll have to try this one out. Thank you.

I haven't played with ABR yet but I plan to check it out in the future. I currently am using SRP - it's pretty cool and doesn't alter the vanilla experience much at all (there are some sub mods that alter the ballistics which I highly recommend)

Thanks man. Insta-subbed! I just installed this mod and am about to start it up Kinda not sure how I'll feel about the weight requirement being gone, but I'm sure I can get over that for the other perks. Cheers bro

Since I played the vanilla trilogy on each (western) release I still love playing just vanilla every now and then, including CS.

Clear Sky was already my fav original trilogy stalker game, and now that i found out about this mod, it's going higher for sure!

Hey it's my first time playing stalker games, and i start it with clear sky, yes i agree with your opinion about the gunplay, anything perfect in clear sky except the gunplay I just want to ask, is ABR mod will work with my current save files? Or i have play from the start again? Because i'm not finished the story yet

So I found S.T.A.L.K.E.R. through Anomaly. Specifically Drewski's "A Night In The Zone" video. I was going to play Anomaly first but after seeing a few videos decided to give the original trilogy a shot. Picked up the collection off Steam for $40, and just booted up Shadow of Chornobyl today. And I'm glad I did. But I would be very grateful for a first playthrough mod guide because the gunplay is somewhat frustrating. I spent most of my time using the hip-fire crosshairs (It felt 10x easier to hit shots compared to ADS). Nowhere near as bad as Clear Sky, I'm certain. But certainly less than ideal. Still like the game though. Aaaaaaand it looks like ZRP is going to have to be on that list because Kruglov is stuck inside the Ecologist base and the doors won't open.

Haha now I remember why I didn't complete the game at the time: faction war and guns. 1 .There were no point in attacking or defending bases because 10 min after you repelled the bandits.... well another attack and the NPC couldn't hold the base. 2. Best gun in the game was the Colt 1911, I used it on exosqueleton guys, bloodsuckers...very effective. Maybe I should try this mod...

I'll have to explore mods like this since neither EFP or Gamma are scratching my particular itch. I loved Gammas mechanics I just don't have the time for it's grind. Maybe there's another modpack for Anomaly out there, but till then this and Radiophobia are both nice.

What's your take on ABR vs LFO? I'm weighing up both for actually playing and finishing it this time.

I'll have to try it out again... I never played CS all the way through, I got frustrated with the weapons quickly. I've played SoC many times and CoP twice but now that I know there is a mod to fix that I'll have to go try it again. I've been planning to play all three soon, hopefully just in time for HoC to release - fingers crossed. Even if it is a bit late we should all be okay with that, as long as the delay is to polish and give us a solid game right out the gate.

You convinced me to try this mod for my third playthrough. As i never came close to do a significant amount of side quests in Clear Sky, this'll be quite fun. Quick question, what mod do you use for CoP at 00:43 ?

I tried ABR and I ran into a glitch where I get no new mission after I clear out the swamps and I am losing health for no reason. Any fixes or do I just need to restart?

so i downloaded this it works but i cnt equip anything in my bottom weapon slot anyone know how to fix it or did i do something wrong??? thx in advance awesome mod beside cnt equip in both weapon slots

I'll agree. Clear Sky (Which I played with Clear Skies bugfix project) just has an extremely cozy vibe accosciated with it. Except the first hour or so

Does this work with the "Complete" mod? Also, I'd question how accurate it makes the guns. I've noticed that many (if not most) mods tend to overdo things. So is the game too easy now because your guns are so accurate? Or does this mod just improve things a little?

Couldn't see it on the mods website in fethures so gonna ask here Does ABR fix grenade spam and bleeding wich were insane headaches for me

I've been wanting to play with this mod, I followed the tutorial on how to install it and it did not work its just stuck in the loading screen saying "loading texture". I do believe there is a lot of skipped ways on how to install it on a detailed way and as a guy who doesn't know much of modding I had difficulty. This is the only stalker game that I had difficulties installing a mod, I would highly appreciate it if you make a detailed tutorial on how to install this.

I'm new to stalker and I wanna know how to mod it to get Abr on clear sky

Does the abr mod for clear sky remove combat music?

Hey dude, how it's going? It's been a while since you didn't uploaded any videos. Hope everything is ok and still waiting for your firs play through with mods video.

Im having trouble with this mod. A lot of textures are very bright, how do I fix?

hear me out. I know most people hate the dynamic music of clear sky but it has a nostalgia factor to it for me. It doesn't feel right without it. Is there anyway to add it back after installing ABR?

I understand the mod suggestion but I just want something close to vanilla while still improving upon it with improved weapons, bug fixes, and some stuff that I heard is in the complete mod. I will be using the Starter pack mod for SoC as a reference when comparing it. The only difference is I would want some gameplay improvements.

For some reason this mod doesn’t work for Clear Sky. Is it because I’m on Windows 11? Also keep getting the fsgame.ltx error or whatever it’s called.

When The Gunslinger Adaptation for Clear Sky comes out, it is going to be a game changer.

Yes indeed, I do remember trying to play Clear Sky, and even though I wanted to finish it, the bugs and general clunkiness just killed the game for me. Finished SoC and couldn't wait to get into CS but it was very rough: the constant wrestling with fraction war bugs, broken missions, anemic weapons and numerous other crap, ugh.. Now that enough time has passed and loyal fans fixed it for certain, I can finally go back into the Zone.

Out of the three games clear sky with only sky reclamation project was the most immersive and fun for me lol :D

I have 2 huge problems with this mod 1. Every enemy that I loot always basically has nothing on them. Its frustrating because looting to me is part of the experience. 2. The removal of stashes. I enjoy hunting for these little boogers and the rewards that they bring.

Difficulty settings seem to work differently from SoC. What difficulty would you recommend for CS ABR?

I just finished Clear Sky after exactly 24 hours in it, with ABR mod I had more fun shooting than I ever did before in a Stalker game! I did find the story very lacking but the world more than made up for it. I wish it was implemented as it was in SoC where you cannot clearly see on your map where enemies are, I feel it would give the game a bit more serious feel. But I abosolutely loved it and am really glad I watched this video a week ago when I started downloading it! :) Onto Call of Prypiat now!

I always loved clear sky for it's true embrace of sandbox. Like my suffering with GTA games, where they make main story centric gameplay on a perfect map for sandbox and never release a singleplayer sandbox mode where you can choose what your character will be not tied down by a mostly linear story.

i played stalker clear sky with abr and it was horid. the AI were insane and when i learned that i could run to avoid their shots my sprint glitched out and broke across saves. i once shot an ai 10 times with a shotgun at about 10 feet and it didnt kill him. i constantly die from random health loss. i dont know what you did you get it playable and fun bc it felt like a chore personally. maybe i installed a file wrong?

I just don't know what I'm doing and things are always bung thinking of quitting it

Just got the STALKER trilogy, finaly. I have some questions before I'll start to play (I don't know the story of any of three games) 1. Should I play them with mods? If yes, then which mods? 2. Where should I install mods? Do you know any non ruzzian related resourсes?

Great animation and effects bro

So I decided to replay CS once again, since I got hit with the sudden urge to replay the stalker series. I beat vanilla SoC about a day or two prior to moving onto CS. I never did an entire CS playthrough without at least the SRP mod (which fixes bugs). Upon starting a new game, I remembered that even with SRP, gunplay still sucks. And it sucks in a way that it makes the beginning section of the game a pain in the ass and unenjoyable. You have virtually no cover in swamps, the pretty much useless crouch and lowcrouch don't make it any better. Because I set the difficulty to master (as I usually do when playing stalker) I would drop dead in like 2 bullets from a pistol, but the enemy would tank quite a few before going down. I didn't mind the bullet sponge, what I minded is the inaccuracy, and even more so, the cutoff range of pistols, after like 30/40 meters your pistol bullets basically disappear and are unable to do damage, while enemies are perfectly capable of lasering you from that range. Instead of forcing myself to go through that unfun beginning section to get to the rest of the game which isn't much more fun either, I decided to download ABR, having watched your video long ago. The gunplay feels amazing, even pistols feel potent enough to take on enemies (at least the lightly armored ones, I'm yet to get out of swamps), but I have a few problems with the mod, or should I say, few things that I'm not really a fan of. Firstly, the economy is too easy, clearing 1 renegade (or should I say bandit, because the mod removes renegades) camp nets you roughly enough money to buy an MP-5, clear like 1 - 2 more and you can buy yourself the basic suit. Another thing I dislike is that pretty much all and any loot has been removed from corpses, when you loot corpses you find nothing on them (again, hope this is only the case for the swamps), this makes killing enemies feel less rewarding and removes any incentive to kill enemies outside of quests and faction wars (which are thankfully a big part of clear sky). You don't find ammo on downed enemies (except if it's in their gun), not that it would matter all that much considering ammo is dirt cheap, and you have an infinite weight limit. Which is another thing I'm not really a fan of, the infinite weight limit makes it feel like it's not stalker, combined with the enemies dropping basically no loot, you completely remove the looting aspect from the game, which is a core aspect of stalker, which I'm sure many people would agree with. They also completely butchered the suit system, now you only have 3 types of suit - light, medium and heavy, the upgrades can either specialize the suit for ballistic protection and mobility or anomaly protection and artifact slots. There are still different factions' version of the 3 types of suit, but they are functionally completely the same, they differ only cosmetically. I'm still going to give this mod a shot, just because gunplay feels so good, even though it seems like the only good thing about this mod. I'll have some fun with it, but honestly, this mod turns the game into something other than stalker. I'm not sure how the difficulties work or if the reason for all this is because I picked ultraviolence difficulty mode. Do the different difficulties just make you die more easily or do they change the progression as well?

Wish I could play it but the mod just isn't working. Copied the bin and patch folders as required and instructed, launcher hangs. Glad everyone got to experience it but this is gonna have to be a skip for me.

Best part of Clear Sky? The Freedom vendor Ganja. "Peace out dude! Too bad we didn't roll a joint together" It's too bad that I'm in Duty😏

Clear sky is upgraded "shadow of chornobyl" but that have so much corridors and action for stalker

4:33 I am Twatson. Nice to me you!

Hey, when you doing a mod guide for Heart of Chernobyl, it's my first time playing it, and I want to mod it for modern experiences but also close to vanilla, but I don't know how to mod.

I know this video is old but finishing up SOC and going to play Clear Sky. Whats the difference from ABR and Arsenal Overhaul for Ckear Sky?

Clear Sky is unironically my favorite in the trilogy

I will play and enjoy the vanilla version

I can get behind this sentiment for vanilla CS. I played through that and saw firsthand it was just a grenade dodging simulator with the worst difficulty spike I've ever experienced in a video game.

Im playing clear sky and it's awesome. Why so people hate it? Is it because if the army machine gunners?

why did he remove being capable of joining the bandit faction ? and is it a big deal ?

I remember playing the home of homeless mod more than a decade ago or something

Clear Sky deserve more love it's very buggy but still a great Stalker

At the hospital helicopter mission I don't know why but u can't beat it because of the abr mod therefore I quit it and if u want to enjoy u can use different mods but don't use abr for cs guys

Clear sky is also my favorite. First game I played too

Fine I bought it. Never played CS. Thanks for the vid

on the subject of the upgrades, as someone else with adhd I personally didn't find them to be all that annoying, they seemed so at first until I realized that you can just take a glance at the corner of the icons to know what the upgrades do under the flavor text. as for abr, I agree it's great, but it's a shame they de-emphasized exploring to find stashes and such (by removing a lot of the vanilla stashes). lastly, about the guns, apparently they were going for a more... close range style of combat. that being said, love the vid :D

ABR is better than Complete mods, that's for sure. Good reason to play original trilogy again.

I loved Chernobyl and Pripyat but Clear Sky was a big no from me because of that god awful aiming RNG. Might check it out now, cheers!

my stalker cs game keeps crashing. it crashed when i hipfired an mp5, crashed when i walked with a group of npc, crashed when i killed a mutated dog, how do i fix it?

Clear sky is my favourite in series!!!

the only downside is that you cant join bandits or do their missions but at the same time i hate the bandits anyway,they are scum so its not like we are missing a lot of crap.

Clear Sky, I had two gripes. 1 the guns suck and wear down way too fast. 2, unless you've played the game previously you don't know Limansk is a one way trip so with your gun already worn down and misfiring you gotta do the rest of the game with shit

Pizdaryenko!

install order please?

Clear sky was always my favourite gamplay wise

Just beat SoC downloading ABR as we speak

Clear sky ots 14 is like getting circumsize by a Pitbull or something.

When i first played Stalker as a teenager, i tought Clear Sky was the only Stalker game. LoL. I finished the game twice, uninstalled it. After few years i wanted to play it again and i mistakenly installed Shadow of Chernobyl i finished it twice. It seemed different to me. Uninstalled it. After reading more info about Stalker i see there was a third part. I installed Call of Pripyat and i didnt like it because it seemed like you play in few regions only and the game was boring... Clear sky was always my favourite part of the whole game just because of the Facton warfare and big world. Never realised that the guns suck because i was too happy to play it and after gun upgrades the weapons seemed better then ever. No need even for this ABR when u upgrade the guns... I tottaly agree with you that CLEAR SKY is the BEST STALKER and this is coming from an Eastern European that grew up playing STALKER . ME and my friends HAD A CHALLENGE to pass the MAIN QUEST with TOZ - 34 Shotgun only. That gun simply never brakes and is very reliable. For heavy armored targets use Slugs or Darts and for mutants use Buckshots. Every other open world apocalipse game can be considered a child of Stalker. STALKER is number 1.

Actually i like Clear Sky because: 1. Vanilla shitposts (Yar & Ashot's d-ck measuring contest) 2. First time you can repair your weapons (before Call of Pripyat, except if you play CoP before) 3. The Zone feels more like a party unlike the desolate Shadow of Chernobyl (i guess this because that big chungus emission when the bald merc and Lebedev bois goes after Strelok) or adventurous Call of Pripyat 4. Bandit radio. Yes. Fits to the Zone's party

the stalker game I enjoyed more passing thru the story was definately CS, shame I got stuck in last section in Complete and never tried again CoP was too easy and SHoC its well, SHoC

While nothing beats my first point of contact with the stalker universe - vanilla SoC - , Clear Sky with arsenal overhaul was some of the most fun and one of the wildest rides I had in any videogame. Plus the best atmosphere and combat by a country mile. And although the ending is... (garbage) Is pure kino material. Play it pals.

I ppayed this game 1 hour vanilla and said nope modded it with a gun overhaul mod. Wasnt this one, but Ill try this one as well.

I installed ABR and my game wouldn't start I can only assume can't game right was trying to sabatage my experience smh

Cs was the most atmospheric and hardcore from all 3 games- MY OPINION

Yes I remember. To kill someone in Clear Sky just go for the head😅

Damn, wish i known bout this mod right before i decied to gice Clear Sky the second chance Problem with clear at the end of the day is the gunplay and economy is horrible

Clear sky is my fav

Clear sky has too much war compared to exploration. Still a good game adding a lot to the world

Sorry, but I don't think it's a really good idea to recommend this mod for a first time playthrough. Sure, for a repeat playthrough it's great. But this changes the game too much and a new player won't experience it as how the devs intended. Some tweaks here and there are fine. Heck even weapon overhauls are fine. But this one changes too many things, like limitless inventory, removes the ability to join certain factions, etc.

Heh, just calling out Clear Sky's terrible gunplay is a pretty big undertaking on the miriade of problems this game has. It's pretty fun with mods though that's true.

also bro accidentally leakedhis discord 💀

nah man way too many ppl shit on clear sky, iys actually not bad, especially with visual mods and AO

I honest didnt liked clear sky at all... i not played it alot but im giving it a chance. Its just a little repetitive in the start, go here, go there, kill some renegades, kill some military, help loners, help clear sky, help everyone... also, the guns perfomance is bad AF in vanilla and the games is very unffair because they only give pistol and double barrel shotgun... but i will finish it because im kind bored of playing gamma that almost has no lore and no goals at all.

I had tried to play Clear Sky for about 8 times over the years, and I have never finished it. I don't save scum so I have almost no back up save. Every time a fatal crash happens, it completely demolishes my playthrough and my willing to continue.

A fps just needs battlefield 2 kind of spread

tried abr and its honestly awful.. who actually thought this was balanced? You can literally snipe enemies from extreme distances with the starting shotgun

Clear sky is the best game I do not understand these people

To be honest - Clear Sky is a good game even from get-go, it's just that I would say - Swamps are bad introduction of all 3 games and faction war can be a little annoying, but it's a fun time - has more polish than Shadow of Chornobyl that's fo sho (not a better game overall tho).

Absolutely AWFUL mod, it removes any form of depth from the game. Carrying capacity? Nope you can carry everything that isnt nailed to the ground, weapon jams? Nope, they never jam now, no weapon condition, hunger? Nope now food is stupid +1% health because medkits are rarer than the best items in the game...and they dont heal you fully. Recoil? what recoil weapons have perfect accuracy so enemies can snipe you from a mile away and so could you, if you didnt have the worst crosshair color imaginable that makes it hard to see where you are aiming. Early in the game you got no chance, later you can snipe everyone from a mile away without them knowing wtf is going on. Absolute garbage mod that has no balance whatsoever.

Typical casuals just play it. Its not that bad just off puting in some ways

Clear Sky has bad rep because of two things: bad weapons, and the most important: dreaded intro Swamp section

yeah no, ABR completely changes the gameplay, makes it way too easy, except in the situations where you're aimbotted by multiple enemy grenades at once, a nasty leftover from vanilla.

the worst part of stalker is the shadow of chornobyl

Boring *yawn* only thing interesting to remember about Clear Sky is that it lead developer got killed in Artemivsk. (Ukronazi name: Bakmut) 🤣😁