Dark Signal for me. Sound, atmosphere and A-life are core to the STALKER experience. It will be even better if they meet their goal of porting features over from Call of The Zone.

That genuine fear that STALKER 2 won't compare to mods built up for the past decade and a half

Ngl , there're a lot of moments in gamma, like travelling through Jupiter in the evening and seeing the sun coming down over quarry as the sunlight's hitting the fog that's slowly filling the quarry up, when you think - "I'm cool with Stalker 2 being delayed"

I like being as close to vanilla as possible while improving it. Thank you, you helped me choose Dark Signal, and hoping to do my first Invictus run.

Here's a toast to Soulforged for creating Anomaly, which is an awesome undertaking for which I am very grateful. I'm playing the earlier Expedition modpack right now, which seems very tolerant of added mods. The new version, which uses Anomaly 1.5.2, does not like added mods so still playing the older version.

I remember I got introduced to anomaly through a friend, he recommended expedition so that was the first mod pack I played. I remember playing it for a while, understanding nothing and dropped it, then I picked it up cause I was bored about a month ago and got invested almost as soon as I actually made progress in great swamps and felt like I was really making it places, always a great feeling I wish more people could enjoy.

With EFP's recent 4.0 release, I think it's nudged out Dark Signal as my favorite mod pack. It's been way more stable compared to the other 2 and I really like the balance around economy, trading, and crafting. You can be hyper efficient and grind tasks to purchase a good gun or you can scavenge and clean parts to craft your own shooter for a fraction of the price. Both are viable. And the gunplay is just *chef's kiss*. Feels like it was built for Merc runs.

Baseline Anomaly with a few small mods added for me. Gives the most freedom for adding/testing small new mods, and I know it best so I can fiddle with the AI settings depending on what I want out of each playthrough.

Expedition was my first foray into mod packs. It was fun and visually impressive, but there was a lot of jank and most of the equipment values were off in the inventory screen, so you had no idea how much of a boost you were actually getting. Gamma has been my favorite because I just needed a really new experience. Plus I'm a gun nerd, so I get giddy when I find the exact bolt carrier I needed to fix that FAL variant I never used to use because I could just buy a SCAR with all the money I got from selling whatever I found in Garbage on my way to sell an arsenal to Duty and a bundle of artifacts to Sakarov while I wait for him to finish my helmet. Stalker 2 will finally give us a new story, an updated map, and a hopefully less janky engine so the mod makers can push their insanity further.

Dark signal is the one close enough to a custom mod list I has before it kept crashing after a few hours. So that was my first good reason to like it, second is definitely the sound, thunderstorms, anomalys, mutants and guns have never sounded so good. Tried GAMMA for mabye a 7 hour playthrough before I got sick of the progression and craft system(not for me). But I did try old world and it was definitely a treat, nice to go back to roots in a way.

Gamma is as close to "The perfect FPS" as I've ever seen. I really don't think there's anything besides a few bugs/performance issues that I'd change. Probably x-ray's fault more than gamma. The progression system and depth of mechanics is literally perfect.

I've been playing EXP GAMMA lately and it's a blast! Admittedly I did tweak the difficulty down a bit but the combination of Gamma's mechanics and the visuals from Expedition are amazing. Was a pretty easy install too!

I mod my own with something similar to all these mod packs. I pick and choose from the mods I love and trash the ones I hate. Great video.

at first i really liked gamma but then efp 4.0 released and i fell in love with it , and even if expedition looks incredible its really light on the mods , doesnt change anything in therms of gameplay

I personally run an ever expanding mod pack of my own creation. Currently only got around 50 mods, which I plan to expand as I explore the incredible amount of mods the stalker community has given us.

I still wish there was a mod called "Oink Oink Fleshy Piggy" where you played as an evolved fleshpig and your goal was to go around and rub your bulging eyeball on every other lifeform in the Zone, thereby transforming them into fleshpig versions of their original selves. And you'd be able to smell as well as see with your eyeballs! In gameplay terms, that would basically be similar to Batman's "detective mode," allowing you to spot and identify fried, foe, and food around corners and through walls and whatnot.

i have anomaly with the aggressor mod pack, and i think its the best set of mods ive used as of now, but im def trying EFP

so amazing people still put in so much into this game

Very cozy channel. Cheers!

Recently EFP has kinda felt like a identity crisis with the UI looking like a coloring book and all these rapid changes amongst other things. But that's just my opinion so you can disagree, but I was playing since version 2, Expedition feels too bloomy so GAMMA is kinda where it's at now.

Stalker 2 has some big shoes to fill from the modding scene of it's previous installment

I know a lot of people shit on it, but I really like GAMMA's no guns in the shop feature. I like the sense of progression it gives and I like the feel of pump actions, old smgs, and old rifles as much as I like the modern guns. It forces me to use them a bit more instead of me buying an aek or an94 as soon as I can in Cordon

EFP and Dark signal are my favourite. But nowadays I am just enjoying vanilla anamoly with graphics and QOL and gun mods.

I wish I could play G.A.M.M.A; the installation procedure is one step away from being a black ops zombies easter egg walkthrough.

I gotta go with gamma, it is so “realistic” in the sense that it took 20hrs for me to have a working automatic weapon

I like that even after all this time the biggest complaints I see about GAMMA are just a check box and a few sliders away from not being an issue. These people are why games nowadays have most your screen covered in notifications and a 20 min tutorial on how to Jump and Crouch, and I bet they still mess that up. What I need is a Modpack that makes my eyes not bleed so I can finally stomach through Shadow of Chernobyl. Im looking at Autumn Aurora 2.

Imo i feel like EFP is the best experience for me due to how much i love tarkov and post apocalyptic games

Wavey, I had a question if you manage to see this at all. I installed Dark Signal on your recommendation and I love it. It's just I cannot get past how well... DARK the mod is. It's almost impossible to see anything half the time. I was looking through your invictus playthrough and it looked as though you seemed to fix it, what did you do to up the lighting?

HI, I'm new to Anomaly. My history: I loved Misery 1.2. I though it struck a great balance between scavenging for ammo/resources, but I was turned off once Misery went full on "survival simulator" with the bloat of new items. Would you recommend I start with Anomaly vanilla, or start with Dark Signal? Also, is it ok to try all 3 of these and have independent saves with each?

I would love to see you struggle in Misery mod for Stalker Call of Pripyat. It's where Anomaly had the inspiration to combine the gameplay and the levels of Call of Chernobyl.

How did you get the aug scope to look 3D on efp at the end 5:05

I actually been playing the Ultra Zone modpack by Dario Ajducic. Which is more in line with vanilla gameplay, but makes the game look great.

Just in time I want to play stalker anomaly again

Expedition 2.0 is lit. Never played stalker before but I'm hooked. Started with just anomaly mod and then put expedition ontop of it. Game looks incredible, AI is smart and feels like a living thriving world. Only made is as far as yantar in my 15 or so hours so far but seen some sus shit not gonna lie. 10/10 game

Dose dark signal includes new gun model's?

Right now my pc broke :( but when it is repaired i absolutely will try dark signal, i dont like so much the hardcore experience of gamma and efp Pd: you should do a review of the old world mod pack, it makes anomaly like the older stalker games

i had dumb bugs in gamma where I aim down a scope and it resets my sensitivity and even when i die, gamma is cool and all but is packed with bugs and takes for eer to download for no good reason

MY MAN! nice to see a new video, also sorry for missing out on the last stream now your not the only one dating in the zone, also when is the next stream?

its not possible to play dark signal anymore? i just cant everything crash no matter what

took me a month but i was able to mix EFP 3.0 and gamma the result feel like a new entire stalker game

I need Soc remaster, all of this mods is actually personal preference

I like GAMMA, but I find that the neverending grind can be a problem. Literally every time I try to do something significant, I find something that stops me in my tracks. Gotta repair my armor because the crack in my visor won't go away until it's above 97%. Gotta clean the trigger on my 1911 so it won't jam while a Chimera is removing my liver. Gotta buy some ibuprofen because medkits don't really heal limbs and the AI loves to aim for your legs. Every little thing turns into a rabbit hole and before you know it, two hours have passed and you've done nothing. But it's a ride and a half, and I'm here for it. EFP is next, because I'm a glutton for punishment.

somebody can hel me i dowloda the darks sing mod but the game so dark and i dont no how can solve this problem.

where to find expedition stand alone

Why my Dark Signal looks like vanilla game graphics wise? I have everything according to instalation guide and maxed out :(

how i are ínstall dark signal

Currently i can only play original anomaly for my potato laptop with several addons, just like you said "Why you limit yourself". My potato limiting my self hahah.

Hi, I download the Anomaly and install the gamma but its too slowly. Which the Best mod for meg if I want lot of guns,combat and I like the Explore.

Would wish I could run any of them nicely :C

PC is completely out of commission, and old, but I'm planning on replacing it soon. STALKER is one of my favourite games of all time. I'm looking to get into Anomaly when I get it and am trying to figure stuff out beforehand. Dark Signal looks like the perfect mod pack for me, was just wondering if it was possible to get EFP's weapon variety alongside it? I like the idea of having all that choice for equipment. Sorry if it's a dumb question.

Any game will live forever with good and loyal players

For people curious about gamma. Rant, enjoy: Anomaly is cool because it integrates YOU the player into the world as one of the many stalkers. GAMMA does a lot to make you feel separate like, why can everyone use broken guns but me? I tried to play it but you can barely turn off mods to your liking since it is all interwoven at this point. 1: The skill system don't fit the game and it ruins what was great about vanilla where by having no exp or leveling you actually immerse and make smart decisions. 2: Ballistics suck, some enemies will be damn near immune to bullets just because you don't have AP. there is no such thing as bullet-proof only bullet-resistant this is dumb because the aim was realism. 3: You can't buy weapons because "GAMMA is supposed to be hard", yet MAGS isn't part of GAMMA experience so.. skill issue my ass. 4: It really ruins the immersion when artefacts have very childish effects that would fit better into a sonic fanfic and I think one is even named after modders, called "Arszis belssing" or some shit. (Good modder tho) 5: Some anomalies were changed and new ones added? and some look mediocre and stand out, there is this one green tripple orb thing that just looks like a powerup from (insert generic cartoony 1999-2005 videogame) 6: They also try to reanimate all the weapons and not always for the better, they have added and made overly-animated SFM style animations and I guess it is cool for the erratic tiktok generation where everything need to look and move like fortnite dancing with bright colours. (This started a trend where now every animator is trying to make weapon animations make you feel like you shoot guns but also enjoy dick). 7: Monster energy drink theme, and what kind of ashole names the whole thing after his own name? G in gamma is for grok. As if it is his own thing and not a huge mod effort with many modders modding annother huge modeffort called Anomaly. That's just egocentric imo. 8: Their discord staff, mods are for some reason always rude/snarky even if you do your best to understand. Probably a biproduct from all the idiot kids who came in from genz youtubers videos (not this one since this is targeted for stalker fans) kids who don't know how to install a modpack even though the instructions are very clear and straight foreward. I never thought the community would get people who want to mod away mutants because they wanna play Tarkov, thanks GAMMA. Left that discord pretty quickly tbh. It just bugs me that there is a huge mod effort with all the amazing modders and instead of making the best STALKER experience, all this potential is wasted on trying to make the best Tarkov experience. Play anyother modpack if you love STALKER, seriously.

Do you consider trying out the old word addon? Its pretty cool.

does expedition graphics only works with efp 4.0??? expedition's visuals are simply stunning and impressive... im a sucker for photorealistic visuals..

Are you streaming tonight Wavey? Ohhhh i've sent off my Santa wishlist, ive asked him for a Wavey community Discord

Do I need to get base game stalker first then the modpack or just play the mod pack

GAMMA on ironman with lifegranter everyday and Hardcore ai aim - good times + adding some cool mods ... thats it for me

Honestly these days im playing all of them, played anomaly a few times, going through gamma, gonna do efp next

funny thing when i tried dark signal its just all gray and the inventory is broken lol

SO, which is YOUR favorite then?

EFP for me , its really fun

so I can download escape from pripyat and expedition? Would my 1650 explode? haha

Does Dark Signal still allow for the buying and selling of guns?

try wltr modpack, its quite "Tactical" i think it might be harder than gamma

What about Redux?

Dude great video, I don't think there's anything like it on YT, in English at least. I've only played gamma and efp of the packs, I like elements of both. Also did you just say: Egscape from Pripyat? Do you also 'axe' people questions? lol.

whats the biggest difference between EFP and Gamma? ive seen both and liked both but cant afford both

Love gamma but recently dk why but FPS go from 60 to start to unplayable 20fps. Smh, even tried just playin anomaly and still drop suddenly

0:47 "Quit EFP already"

Me: sees wavey's upload notification. Also me: checks his last vid. 4 weeks ago. Also Also me: totally unacceptable... Missed you fam. Now that EFP version 4 is out we need some gameplay. K thanks killer ❤️

thank you now im know difference.

I wonder if stalker 2 will also have mods. If there will be as much mods for stalker 2 as we have now i will need a new pc lol

Yeah, I'm getting tire of gamma already. I might try EFP and expedition

All these mod-paks ar really fun to play but i really enjoy the vanilla, i try gamma but no it too hard core, i also try out old world it brings back the feeling of the original stalker series that one is a good modpack but for some reason i end up removing and play the vanilla version 😂.

I've been playing G.A.M.M.A. for a few weeks, but somehow it's not the right thing for me.... Survival game mechanics have never been my cup of tea and unfortunately it has been confirmed here. Should I possibly try Escape From Pripyat, I would like to have more gun-play... but I haven't tried the standard Anomaly yet either.

xray engine is magical

You'd forgot Old World Addon.

My advice for my fellow stalkers, If you hear a dozen of overlapped monolith callouts, GET OUT OF THERE IMMEDIATELY.

Sons of chernobyl, a custom modpack in spanish

Me who still cant just download anamoly in the first place cuz u need a torret with modbs page being used to death XD, but if i get a chance id like to try them a eventually.

For me I just want a modpack that is not EFP or Gamma. IMO they're categorise in my eyes as OVERHAUL mod. I just want a simple mod. What the people in gaming call Vanilla+ for the Base game

STALKER GAMMA is easily my game of the year, and it completely blows the competition out of the water simply because its free. The amount of total crap I've spent +$50 on is obscene, and to know there are games as complete and immersive as GAMMA out there that are free is insane. If you like shooters at all and aren't playing Anomaly or GAMMA right now then you're really missing out.

I will admit I find GAMMA overwhelming and hard to get to grips with, but personally I dislike a lot of the ideas that I was able to learn. This is my own personal opinion, but to me, the most important thing with immersion is making everything you do in the game as tangible and tactile as possible (despite it being a video game). I feel like a lot of the new game mechanics (like even something as simple as magazines) are too menu divey and constantly rip me out of the experience. Would be really awesome to see these game mechanics be reworked so it uses a menu as little as possible, even though that is a huge, and probably impossible undertaking.

The best modpack in Anomaly is.. Old World Addon

Tried playing GAMMA and was REALLY not a fan, as a lot of the changes seemed to me to be "I like playing with this setting so now it's mandatory" and I really just didn't like or enjoy that. I enjoyed the freedom of vanilla. Would dark signal be better for me? No economy changes, just want the game/gunplay to feel smoother and look better.

T.h.e. z.o.n.e is also a VERY good modpack

See I would love to play Dark Signal…IFFFFFFFFF it wasn’t so broken. I downloaded it just like the instructions wanted me to and I never was able to get into the game

Wavey since we’re best friends, can I borrow ₽212?

me a OG stalker fan, go to the Anomaly fanbase and ask: i like to make anomaly play like stalker with a new campain anomaly fanbase: link 2014 mod for the SoC.....

I'm not gonna lie, I don't like the milsim/crafting/body health/we made healing 50x more complicated stuff and I'm hoping STALKER2 doesn't run that way. I prefer QOL stuff with the UI/HUD, visual/audio stuff, A-Life/AI improvements, and improvements on maintaining and improving the atmosphere of the Zone.

Personally right now I'm just trying to mix both EFP with some of DS mods, love of both not to try

Gamma is an F- you simulator, so nah. EFP 3 was perfectly balanced but I think EFP 4 has too much fluff and it a pain to configure, if only EFP kept its strengths but kept it simple we'd have a winner... but because it doesn't, well the winner is Dark Signal for me.

LOL! look at the comment section, so many buttthurt on GAMMA lol

Redux

Dark Signal looks most interesting. EFP sounds like a pain in the ass. And GAMMA is THE pain in the ass (installing it that is).

i play vanila