


I've had two crashes over some 20-25 hours. The only technical hurdle I encountered with Anomaly regarding the graphics was that motion blur seemed to be broken - even at the very lowest setting, it applied a really ugly blur when zooming in that almost made me give up on scopes until I figured that was the issue. I just added enhanced shaders and Reshade myself. Installation for this particular pack was literally as simple as downloading and extracting via torrent. No magazines, not entirely sure if any of these packs have them. It has bullet time yes, but I found that to be dumb and unfitting so I've simply not been using it. I am personally using the gun overhaul which is not the most fitting name as it makes a number of other changes too but I have been largely happy with it. I recommend checking out this channel for gameplay videos that cover a few of them: There are a bunch of ready made addon packs for Anomaly for different strokes. Having zombies approach while an incoming blowout warning message appears and being unable to peek out for more than a second almost made me want to cry for mommy, but I somehow survived, only to die to dogs a bit later. I'll double down on my earlier comment in favor of HUDlessness.īefore that, I made a detour through Darkscape which is an area I had never visited before and got a rude surprise in the form of a sneaky controller in the middle of the woods while in a thunderstorm. The whole flow of it was just so organic and immersive. Afterwards, I managed to haul all the loot back to Rostok in the pitch black darkness while blowouts and psi storms somehow always started at the most inopportune of times. What was meant to be a simple document retrieval from bloodsucker village turned into a tense firefight against half a dozen Monolith with my greedy ass being overburdened and using an unreliable 30% condition shotty while dodging fire anomalies.

I just had what may have been my best two hours of STALKER ever, the kind of emergent greatness that makes you fall in love with the game.
