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The first version of this comprehensive Stalker: Call of Pripyat mod was released back in 2015, but it’s been expanded massively since, culminating in an update that ensured its place as Moddb’s 2016 Mod of the Year. Skyrim’s enormous total conversion mod Enderal placed at number two, which should give you some sense of Call’s ambition and scale.
The first thing it does is take the discrete chunks of wilderness found in the three Stalker games and shove them together, giving you a complete version of its radioactive Zone to explore in search of freaky enemies and loot. That would be enough for some modders, but it also ditches the default story, replacing it with the option to create your own character and align with one of the Zone’s many squabbling factions. There’s a new, optional campaign, along with a revised artifact system, and even a leaderboard so you can compare your scavenging antics with the other (NPC) stalkers.
Speaking of which, Stalker’s artificial intelligence has long impressed over the years, but Call of Chernobyl v1.4 makes a few tweaks to its “A-Life” system that should make enemies more realistic (and, sorry, more of a threat). In the overland, nocturnal mutants will now only come out at night, but will range farther from their nests during their active hours. Chernobyl takes Stalker and makes it bigger, more freeform and more dangerous; there’s no better excuse to return to this landmark series.
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