Anomaly Vanillin Edition (1.5) addon

★★★

★ Title: Anomaly Vanillin Edition (1.5)
★ Platform: Call of Pripyat | Anomaly 1.5.2
★ Author: Kir Masudovskiy (1917)
★ Publication and release date: 09/09/22
★ Global update date: 05/14/24

★★★ Briefly about the main thing

Anomaly Vanillin Edition (A.V.E.) is my own vision of the Anomaly 1.5.2 modification. I collected and redesigned everything that, in my opinion, should be in Stalker, but, for one reason or another, was never implemented. Rather than describing the foundation of the build, or listing the key features of the gameplay, it’s easier to say this: this is Anomaly, Lost Alpha, Dead Air and NLC in one bottle.

I'm still working on balance and new features, but 1.5 is a release and playable version.

★ Main aspects

Concept

There are no cheeki-breeki in azure Adidas, increased loot and the player swearing in the voice of the Bear from Escape From Tarkov. I have collected the best and most interesting addons so as not to disturb the atmosphere of the original Anomaly and in some places even move towards vanilla S.T.A.L.K.E.R. (Shadow of Chernobyl, Legend Returns, Lost Alpha, Oblivion Lost Remake and other soulful developments).

Graphic

I counted on ALL players: the picture is pleasant and authentic even on the most potato graphics settings. Also, emphasis is placed on the variety of the game: models, effects, icons and textures have been updated and expanded, but there are no poisonously contrasting sausages and FHD vests here. A convenient, strict and beautiful interface with minor color edits also creates a pleasant atmosphere of the game. By the way, the main menu is the first thing that catches your eye and reveals the main idea of the assembly: to return and detail the Same S.T.A.L.K.E.R. 🕯️

Audio

Many addons have been introduced to improve the sound component of the game. Mainly, the music and environment have undergone changes. Of course, the sounds of shots, ricochets, steps and other interactions with the game world have been updated, but it is the background that sets the proper immersion in the Zone. Special thanks to the authors of these addons, because a colossal amount of work was done.

Animations

Basically, first-person animations have been developed and polished, that is, camera effects and realistic use of food, drinks, medicine, weapons and other equipment.

Gameplay

The zone has become a dangerous, aggressive and unpredictable place. Frankly, this is the Ironman mode multiplied by three. Monstrous hardcore, meticulous development of your character and starting the game from the bottom are the foundation of the modification. Now death entails the loss of all money and equipment (except for what is equipped, that is, the suit and weapons will remain with the player). When creating a new game, it is NOT recommended to change the already set difficulty, economy and additional settings. modes, since the entire balance of the game is lost. However, this is everyone's business. Any suggestions and comments are welcome!

Additionally

A complete list and detailed description of all gameplay innovations is presented as tips on the game loading screen and mixed together with atmospheric quotes and notes from the world of S.T.A.L.K.E.R. You can also read about the features of the mod on WikiAve in the main character’s PDA.

There are currently 50 tips, and 145 quotes and notes.

★ List of changes (outdated, current information in the update description at the end of the page)

1.0.0 (outdated)

1. Retexture of surfaces has been adapted (addon “GTR”)
2. Reworked background ambient (addon “Soundscape Overhaul”)
3. New music on bases + three new radio channels
4. More than 3500 new variations of stalker visuals / in vanilla style (addon from Dux)
5. Voice acting of the main character in the style of a single stalker
6. New main menu in the style of Shadow of Chernobyl
7. Faction War (addon “Warfare Overhaul”)
8. Expanding dialogues (addon “Dialogue Expanded”)
9. Freedom and mercenaries are enemies again
10. Radioactive Zone (especially during the day, in laboratories and closer to the north)
11. Processing of tobacco and alcohol products
12. Increased number of item uses
13. New weapons (addon “Boomsticks & Sharpsticks”)
14. New and pleasing to the eye reticles
15. Recycled trading (addon “Trader Overhaul”)
16. Quick strike with a knife on the “mV” key
17. Knife and gun fit into binocular slot
18. Improved microparticle effects (explosions, smoke, flashes, blots, etc.)
19. Improvement and detailing of ALL game textures
20. New tips, tricks and quotes on the loading screen (195 pcs.)
21. Reworked starting equipment + the ability to take a partner in it
22. Randomized artifact properties (5 levels + variety of properties)
23. Skins of rare mutants have become more expensive
24. All 4 levels of difficulty and economy redesigned from scratch
25. Editing the “One Life” mode
26. The death of the main character leads to respawn on ch. base + reset equipment (except equipped)
27. New sounds of shots, ricochets, explosions, steps, etc. interaction with the game world
28. Updated and improved camera effects
29. Animated use of objects from 1st person (addon “Food and Drinks Animations”)
30. Improved shadow location maps
31. Expanded and improved weather
32. Reshade (HDR + Bloom) “AVE” (sorted “LUSH”)
33. Reworked and expanded equipment upgrade (engine changes)
34. Food spoils and absorbs radiation
35. New caches in all locations + redesigned cache system from Grok + my developments (in the left caches there is garbage like in Dead Air, in quests and rewards there is good equipment)
36. Bleeding of mutants (when a mutant is wounded, he lies down and can only attack close)
37. Partners no longer get stuck in firefights and can wait for the player at the base (the base is selected with the “Home” key)
38. Updated hand textures and new helmet HUD (addons from Grok)
39. Scales of satiety and thirst in inventory
40. Expanded and improved crafting
41. Stealth system (visibility of the GG depends on lighting, behavior, sounds made, and other factors)
42. Easy changes to the balance of the economy
43. New system for disassembling and repairing weapons (more details in the “Additional” column in the PDA)
44. Plot changes (addon “LTTZ DC”) + compatibility of the plot with the faction war
45. Atmospheric, moderately contrasting and pleasing to the eye object icons
46. Updated and expanded portraits of the main character and NPCs
47. Autumn vegetation and the general atmosphere of the game (sunny and stormy October)
48. Reworked ballistic system from Grok (bullet speed, types of ammunition, penetration of body armor, etc.)
49. Transitions closed from the beginning of the game + restored system for purchasing them
50. A huge number of din. objects at locations (barrels, boxes, cars, boards, cylinders, etc. atmospheric debris)
51. Updated and expanded skyboxes (sky textures)
52. Power system for exoskeletons + several new body armor + improvement and processing of old armor and helmets
53. Minor adjustments to the color scheme of the mod
54. Skill system / stamina, looting, strength and survival (LK button)
55. New starting place for the GG (greetings from NLC)
56. Ability to take trash from partners and put them in different backpacks (carrying weight changes)
57. NPCs change into body armor that is better than their own (hello AMK and the Tamagotchi scheme)
58. The controller has become more dangerous and can lead to suicide
59. Rats are no longer enemies to stalkers
60. Recycled contents of wooden crates and cardboard boxes
61. Stalkers can rob caches
62. Possibility to store things in a cache with key merchants for a fee
63. Selection of faction and portrait at start is disabled (portrait depends on the costume/you can still join factions)
64. Body and limb health system (addon “Body Health System”)
65. Recycled properties of medicines
66. New dynamic tasks (a hodgepodge of different addons from Igi)
67. Now the GG’s body is visible in first person (hello, ShokerMod)
68. Any object can be disassembled/torn/torn (from quest documents and repair kits to Playboy magazine and telescopic mirror)
69. Weak mutants have become more harmless, strong ones - more dangerous
70. Trading coefficients depend on the reputation and location of the merchant (cheaper in the south, more expensive in the north)
71. Possibility of creating your own workshop (purchase and installation of a radio, mobile workbench, lighting sources, piano, hiding places, etc.)
72. Reworked damage from anomalies (in particular, screamer anomalies such as frying)
73. New knives and improvements to some devices
74. Qualitative change in NPC loot
75. Implemented changing the name and faction of a partner (more details in the AVE tips)
76. Auto-guidance has been removed when mutants jump (now YOU CAN dodge the chimera’s jump)
77. The saving system at the campfire has been expanded and fixed (you can ONLY save at campfires and at friendly bases)
78. The army bowler hat has become rarer and more expensive, but it can be used an unlimited number of times
79. Ability to buy prescriptions from technicians and doctors
80. Searching a corpse and finding things on it takes some time
81. An end to free looting: now searching stalkers who were not killed by you (or clanmates at a point controlled by faction members) can greatly anger them
82. The wedge of the weapon has been redesigned (to use the wedge, hold down the “+=” key for a few seconds) and the comments of the GG when wedged have been voiced
83. PDAs on the corpses of stalkers began to be found more often (with information about hiding places - less often)
84. Partners take radioactive artifacts only if they are placed in a container
85. Upgrade of backpacks + integrated hunter’s set in ALL their varieties
86. Prisoners can be lured into your faction + stalkers surrender more often
87. The ability to create bandages from a backpack has been restored (drag a bottle of vodka onto a sheet of cloth)
88. Using a toolbox straight from your backpack (without a workbench)
89. Hip transferred to Merchants
90. Cars can no longer be driven, but you can still hide in them from some mutants
91. Animated death of NPCs
92. Dynamic indicators of properties and characteristics for armor (before/after)
93. Tool sets have become difficult to obtain
94. Artifacts have become more expensive + for balance and ease of searching through quests, the so-called. parent class, denoted by "§"
95. You can communicate and trade with ALL stalkers, and not just with the commanders of their squads (hello, Shadow of Chernobyl)

A complete and UP-TO-DATE list of changes is at the end of the topic.

★ Important

Before starting a new game

Make sure the game is set up correctly. This is especially true for screen resolution (set in the launcher after resetting graphic settings). Please note that the modification was tested on a DX8 render (yes, guys with a bucket of bolts instead of a computer, I'm with you)

Attention! The addon does not support square monitors.

Recommended difficulty/economy settings:

Difficulty: Master

Economy: Hardcore

★ Important note

The assembly has more than enough garbage and unnecessary files. This does not affect performance in any way, but in future releases unused junk will be eliminated.

All S.T.A.L.K.E.R., Anomaly and specifically AVE files are compressed and packaged in .db format. The engine has also undergone changes (differential loading LTX, bypass algorithm for upgrading weapons, etc., that is, most addons are IN PRINCIPLE incompatible with the original game, so installing a mod on top of anything is madness).

AHTUNG! Recent changes include me screwing up Life After Death mode and losing my mind causing my save to fail under mysterious circumstances (incorrect parameter/line 87). I need logs and a detailed description of the situation in which this happens, since I seem to have fixed the crash, but I still haven’t found the reason (???).
I strongly recommend making more saves, if something happens, you can easily return to the previous save and go through this or that place again. I will be glad for any help in the occurrence of bugs, shortcomings and errors during the game, because it is impossible to play and look for this in itself.

Russian-language demonstration of the assembly from 2022 (also a little outdated)

★ Screenshots (from russian version)























★ System requirements

ОС: Windows 7, 8.1, 10
CPU: Intel Core i3 / Intel Core i5
RAM: 4 Gb / 8 Gb
Video memory: 1-2 Gb / 4 Gb
Free space on HDD: 38 Gb

★ Additional download links

µTorrent
Standalone version in one archive (24 Gb)

S.T.A.L.K.E.R. Anomaly Vanillin Edition.torrent

Google Drive
The assembly is divided into 7 archives (approximately 4 Gb each)

[Part 1]

[Part 2]

[Part 3]

[Part 4]

[Part 5]

[Part 6]

[Part 7]

Hotfix #2 (Needed to fix a crash when accepting tasks) Drive.google.com

Installation:

1. [Google Drive] Unpack all 7 parts one by one into one folder | [µTorrent] / [ModDB] Unpack the archive to any convenient location

2. Launch the game through the launcher (AnomalyLauncher.exe)

3. Preset screen resolution + NEVER delete shader cache (if playing on DX8)

4. Good hunting, stalker! =]

★ Patches, updates, fixes and current changes for May 2024

HotFix №2 (required to download, add gamedata to the adapter with the game)
download from google drive: Drive.google.com
* the folder with Igi tasks has been returned to the gamedata, otherwise without it, if you need to take a task, a crash occurs (.json files ............)

Update to 1.5 (built into)
1. PDA addon and other add-ons have been updated to the latest version
2. it became possible to climb onto objects (hold the jump key in front of the object)
3. global changes in the economy
4. random artifacts were cut out + ALL artifacts from the NLC, AMK, etc. branch were added.
5. a huge number of jambs, bugs and crashes have been fixed (but they can still appear, so save more often)
6. loot in caches is again richer, plus loot boxes have been added
7. several new weapons (Luger, IMI Uzi and several more new guns)
8. “Life after death” mode, “One life” cut out
9. armor immunities and properties of booze and cigarettes have been changed + several new items have been added
10. The MCM setup menu has been returned (I don’t recommend using it, but still...)
11. three new locations - Gloomy Forest, Yuzhny Village and Industrial Zone
12. renegades are no longer enemies of stalkers + they have their own representatives in the Swamps and in the Dark Hollow
13. the murder of the military at Cordon angers Sidorovich, therefore the faction’s attitude towards the GG suffers
14. added some arch-anomalies (for example, electras under the railway bridge on Cordon)
15. loot boxes (boxes with equipment) have been introduced; you can hack them with a set of master keys (sold by a technician)
16. PDA hacking has become more arcade and interesting (buy flash drives with software from technicians)
17. a new type of military PDA, with which you can see enemies and corpses on the map
18. flies fly over the bodies of killed stalkers (in the future, maybe I’ll remove the buzzing, because it’s annoying)
19. system for separating limbs (during an explosion, shot) in mutants and stalkers
20. more blood, pools of blood under the corpses of stalkers
21. system for storing meat and food in refrigerators (can be purchased from merchants after level 2 of relationship)
22. more interior objects (ashtrays, hiding places, paintings, posters, sofas, etc., etc.)
23. finally put together an encyclopedia on fashion (in the PDA), I will expand and refine it
24. The plot from the game was cut out, ideas for the plot of the Quartet also remained ideas, because there is not enough time for this. Perhaps someday I will return to this issue, but for now let everything remain as before
25. added Coca-Cola with its own characteristics
26. The psi-aura in the Zone is now dangerous for the GG. booze, cigarettes and grass with fires to help
27. The BHS body health system has been redesigned, and new medications have been added.
28. new system of experience, skills and talents (more details in WikiAve in the PDA)
29. at the start of the game, all equipment is already put on the player
30. bloom cut out from ave-reshade (no more wretched overexposure)
31. A lot of work has been done with optimization and graphics quality on DX8. the picture became really beautiful
32. new guides (Marathon in the Newcomer Village, Pathfinder in the Depot at the Landfill and the mercenary Buffalo near the Scientists' Bunker on Yantar)
33. a huge number of new notes, documents, dialogues, comments from partners, etc. changes in the text
34. added missing translations into Russian
35. all armor, which is of a higher class than jackets and raincoats, has become 2 times more expensive
36. Bar, Yanov and scientists’ bunkers - neutral territory where a ceasefire is in force
37. footstep noise adjusted
38. new music on the radio (hello to Karpov)
39. changes in the engine (technical innovations and our own intro with an icon)
40. new tips and tricks on the loading screen + fixed and removed some old ones
41. NPCs don’t attack rats (I hope.............)
42. auto-completion of tasks
43. remotely taking quests (it’s better to take tasks from technicians this way, because in the dialogue it can throw you out of the game)
44. dynamic shelters from emissions (the blue bar at the bottom of the screen helps)
45. The capabilities of the RF receiver have been expanded (more details in the PDA)
46. when an NPC is wounded, he immediately falls into animation, and does not fall into a stupor, hides the gun and lies down to rest
47. fixed bleeding in mutants
48. dynamic night mutants (at night all kinds of terrible creatures spawn)
49. animations for putting on armor, backpack and helmets
50. You can no longer drink, eat or smoke while wearing a helmet (yes, yes...)
51. improved description of crafting recipes
52. GG’s swearing became quieter when wedged
53. dynamic discounts from merchants (so-called events)
54. The wheel of interaction with partners has been expanded (numEnter key)
55. passive income (salary) from factions. from people like Sidorovich you can take, for example, a work contract
56. gifts and offerings from partners + system of friendship and relationships with companions
57. Weapon swinging can be prevented by holding your breath (cl. rAlt)
58. changes in assortment and text at Bart (renegade merchant in Dark Hollow)
59. added guitar playing animation

Update to 1.0.2 (at 1.5)
1. The PDA addon has been updated to version 0.91 (remote tasks, mini-game “snake”, bug fixes, etc.)
2. text corrections in the PDA addon
3. for the sake of balance, ordering artifacts, trophies of mutants and manuals has become impossible (PDA add-on)
4. The list of orders has been replenished with the missing weapons of the BAS line + installed din. objects such as synthesizer, radio, lamps, mobile. workbench and hiding places (PDA addon)
5. Player visibility indicator restored + annoying opacity corrected (stealth system)
6. hits to the head of NPCs unprotected by a helmet (bandits in jackets, etc.) are fatal (one bullet from a pistol is enough)
7. loot in caches has been rebalanced (now there is only garbage in the left caches, the caches with stalkers’ PDAs have average loot, and unique and reward caches have good loot)
8. tool kits can be found ONLY in reward and unique caches
9. The number of dropped components when disassembling some of the items has been reduced (for example, a new gas mask dropped from a helmet set)
10. The names of the mouths have been corrected. dynamic objects (Portable Synthesizer and other machine translation errors)
11. The PM has become the most powerful pistol in the Zone, now it kills a boar with just its menacing silhouette (as the hardcore haters requested)

Update to 1.0.1 (at 1.5)
1. the speed of the GG in sprint has been increased + the position of the camera from 1st person has been changed (now the view is really from the face, and not from the navel, as before)
2. it is POSSIBLE to survive radiation exposure (if it does not exceed 1000 mSv)
3. text and language corrections in the death message and several dialogues
4. bullet resistance of NPCs has been corrected and rebuilt (now 3-4 rounds are required to kill, and not 15-20, as it was before)
5. added a tooltip when wedging a weapon
6. The informant sells recipes and transitions + buys documents/PDA of stalkers
7. own voice acting of the wheel of partners and the mat during a wedge
8. annoying screams when hit/thrown by a grenade have been removed
9. all oohs, aahs and other replicas of the GG are made in the helmet version (testing on different sound devices is required)
10. added a PDA subsection with notes, ordering items, searching for a squad for a raid, mini-games, SOS signal, etc. ("M" key) + text edits in it
11. Fixed a crash in the weapons room (saiga-12)
12. quest rewards have been adjusted

HotFix №1 (at 1.5)

* fixed crash on line 87 (save failure); unnecessary screams of GG were cut out; stalker voice acting instead of gangster voice acting; Partners can again be taken from the character creation menu; text corrections; rebalance of booze and cigarettes; new starting place; Curiosities in the encyclopedia have been corrected; a couple of fixes in starting equipment; the missing folder with Iga's tasks returned; Fixed a crash due to the condition of the Saiga-12 model; difficulty and economy adjustments; The article number has become higher; tool sets are rare; balancing item parsing; new (parent) document class; restored and remade by AVE Reshade.

MACHINE TRANSLATION (1.5) FROM RUS TO ENG IS OUT FOR ENGLISH PLAYERS
(Needs improvement from those who know language)
Google Disk (move the gamedata folder to the game folder): the archive will be uploaded soon

★★★ Regarding credits ★★★

In A.V.E. there are so many addons, additions and changes involved that it is physically impossible to list their authors. A lot of time has passed; I haven’t kept a development log for a very long time. The authors of the addons can be found in the MCM settings in the main menu of the game. By name it is easy to find the creator of a particular development. The same assembly automatically goes into public use - do with it what you want, it is not at all necessary to follow me as the author.

Many thanks and eternal glory to those guys who created their mini-masterpieces, which formed the basis and created Vanillin Edition in their unity.