STALKER 2’s hardcore gameplay and environment make for an extremely immersive expertise. And, with GSC Recreation World giving the sport full mod help, many locally have already launched some must-have mods that not solely repair the bugs within the sport however additional improve the STALKER expertise, permitting gamers to tailor the sport to their liking. Listed below are the most effective STALKER 2 mods it’s best to set up.
Stalker Optimizer
This straightforward mod drastically improves the sport’s efficiency by optimizing the shader compilation course of, which ought to enhance your FPS depend. Whereas the builders are at present engaged on some patches to repair this, this mod is a must have to get a stabler expertise.
Grok’s Modular Mutant Well being
The mutants in STALKER 2 are huge bullet sponges, requiring you to dump 2 to three magazines value of ammo simply to kill one Bloodsucker. This mod means that you can lower their well being values, from a small 20% discount to a major 80% discount. These make mutant encounters far much less annoying to cope with and may also help you save ammo.
Diminished Restore Prices
Repairing weapons and armor within the vanilla sport is at present extraordinarily costly, costing upwards of 10k coupons to repair physique armor at 60% sturdiness. This mod additional reduces the costs of repairs in an effort to save more cash for extra vital issues like ammo, gear upgrades, and meds.
Jake’s Longer Days (Plus Quest Pay-Carry Weight-Stam)
The dynamic time system is closely weighted towards nighttime whereas daytime solely lasts for a couple of minutes, which may kill your visibility. Not solely does this mod equalize daytime to final so long as the night time, nevertheless it additionally features a mod that will increase your quest reward payouts and a tweak to your base most carry weight and encumbrance.
Maklane’s Higher Gunfights
Enemy AI within the sport might be very correct at lengthy ranges and can even shoot by way of terrain, making sniping very tough. The mod will increase the shot dispersal of NPCs at medium to lengthy vary in order that they miss their photographs extra whereas retaining their close-range accuracy. This makes gunfights out within the open fairer and extra balanced for you and the AI.
Affordable Weapon Degradation
As talked about earlier, restore prices kill the in-game economic system. Nonetheless, this mod cuts the sturdiness lack of all weapons in half, making your restore runs far much less frequent whereas nonetheless maintaining that hardcore weapon upkeep a part of the sport intact.
Axxii’s Stealth Mod
Stealth in STALKER 2 is sort of janky in the meanwhile. Nonetheless, this mod fixes the issue by altering NPC detection values based mostly on climate occasions, foliage, in addition to their habits when recognizing you and breaking line of sight. This makes stealth way more manageable and intuitive for gamers wanting to completely undertake a sneaky playstyle.
Ledge Grabbing
Sure terrain within the sport could appear chest excessive and simply scaleable, but the sport requires crouch leaping to get previous them or utilizing an object to leap over them. This mod provides in a mantle performance for a totally improved QoL expertise when navigating the Zone.
Equalized Goal Sensitivity X-Y
STALKER 2 has a default goal situation the place the X and Y-axis mouse sensitivity is uneven, making aiming really feel janky and peculiar. The mod adjusts the mouse sensitivity to be balanced, which fixes the inconsistencies in aiming.
Extra Versatile Commerce
The mod permits all pleasant NPCs that you could commerce with to have more cash. It additionally removes any commerce restriction on them, letting you promote damaged weapons and armor to all retailers within the sport, bettering the in-game economic system and making it extra immersive.
