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A place to find suggestions for video games! For example, you might create a post looking for recommendations for a game to play with a friend, or a game that is easy to play if you just broke your dominant hand. Or you might post a list of games that let you use a whip as a weapon. A lot of rules for conduct here are pretty obvious (don't be a jerk, stay on-topic) so I'll bold the weird ones.
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That's totally fair. It's definitely a very specific type of gameplay and vibe. Just out of curiosity, did you play vanilla Anomaly or a modpack?
Vanilla Anomaly I think is what both of us played. That's what I remember.
I see. Should you ever want to look into it again the modpacks are where it really shines. Anomaly itself is meant to be a unified stable platform for modders more than anything else, so I can understand if it felt a bit... bare bones.
What modpack would you recommend for beginners into the Stalker games?
Hm. Honestly the place I would try to get people to start is the original games. They will give the foundation for the lore and the story as well as introduce the world building and characters. They still have a large element of exploration and openness, but it's layered on top of actual story instead of being a pure sandbox. You can probably skip Clear Sky (it has a lot of problems) but both Shadow of Chernobyl and Call of Pripyat are great.
I don't recommend playing the recent remasters as they censored a lot of stuff. For SoC there is stuff like Compatibility Modpack or Memories of the Zone for a vanilla+ experience or Radiophobia for a complete overhaul.
For CoP the best modpack was the SGM+Gunslinger merge, but I'm not sure where to download it anymore. This link is still up, but I haven't personally tested that so YMMV. Plain SGM is on Moddb (not clear if it includes Gunslinger) and that's probably good enough.
As far as Anomaly goes, the assortment is huge and I really would be wasting your time trying to summarise it when Cheeki Breeki just recently made two excellent videos for people in your shoes: (Part 1 & Part 2). The best way to get the lay of the land is watch those two videos, honestly. I'll give my two cents but it really is just going to be parroting much of the videos.
G.A.M.M.A. is unparalleled when it comes to both balance and the survival gameplay, as well as rate of updates and tech support (their Discord is huge). It's very complicated to learn though, and while their custom in-game guide is fantastic it's still a lot to take in in terms of how to repair weapons and heal injuries and just in general stay alive. The scavenging and gear progression is very satisfying, but at the same time you'll be spending a lot of time in menus. I also have mixed feelings about the Body Health System and medical items.
If you enjoy human-vs-human gunfights more I think E.F.P. and playing Warfare mode is my recommendation. It's been a year or two since I last played that modpack myself but the vision hasn't changed so I don't imagine it will feel much different.
I used to recommend Dark Signal as a more vanilla+ alternative - and it still is fine - but it hasn't been updated for years now so will be lacking the latest innovations. I'm currently using H.A.C.R. as a platform to mod on myself, and it's been excellent for that. Might be a little barbones though if you're not adding stuff yourself. Or maybe I'm just used to the huge 350-500 mod lists at this point 😅
I haven't played enough of the others to comment (I tend to like making my own modlists). Anthology looks very interesting and I'm definitely going to be trying it out myself at some point.