The stand-alone mod S.T.A.L.K.E.R. Anomaly aims to be the most stable and customizable experience for fans of the S.T.A.L.K.E.R. games. It's powered by the Monolith 64-bit engine, a custom fork of the X-Ray engine.
UPDATED to version 2.3 (Torrent download in description) (Patch updated 07.04.2023)
EXPEDITION is a Software Rendering tweak addon that aims to improve the visual fidelity of Anomaly 1.5.2. It comes pre-packed with a customized Enhanced Shaders Framework, lighting, rendering and surface processing edits, weather tweaks, new effects, and much more. It is also available in a download-and-play state so you can forget about compatibility-induced CTDs, crashes, and conflicts. Simply install and dive into the game, no hassle.
DOWNLOAD MODPACK VERSION (2.3) (Torrent link) (Thanks to Acidpointer for providing it)
Backup GDrive download link: Part 1
Backup GDrive download link: Part 2
Backup GDrive download link: Part 3
Backup GDrive download link: Mandatory patch
WHY OTHER WEBSITES ARE NOT BEING USED:
Google Drive: Download Per Day Limit
Yandex Disk: Download Per Day Limit
Sync: Download Per Day limit
Torrent: Blocked by author's Internet Provider
Zippyshare: Link doesn't work for some users
Dropbox: Link doesn't work for some users
Mediafire: Upload error reason unknown
Mega: Caused the community to put the author on the CIA kill list
Anonfiles: Infected with trojan viruses
Understand that if we're not using the website that you like it's because we most likely tried it and it didn't work. if you know a good file sharing website post it in the comments.
CURRENTLY OPERATIONAL UPDATE: 2.3
CHANGELOG:
1. Moved to Anomaly 1.5.2.
2. Newest updates from Enhanced Shaders and Screenspace shaders included.
4. New weathers and weather cycles, new nights, sunrise, sunset, dusk, environmental particle effects.
5. Reworked all stalker visuals for all factions using a heavily modified by hand Azetrix NPC pack.
6. Added various new weapons from Moddb and Discord. (Kar98k Glowup, SVU PMC, Groza Tactical, etc.)
7. New calibers in the game: .50 BMG, 14.5 mm, .50 AE, .300 BLK
8. Some weapons have COD MW 2 2022 and COD MW 2019 weapon audio. (Still WIP)
9. Touched up particle effects.
CREDITS TO THESE ADDON CREATORS WHOSE WORK WAS UTILIZED HERE:
Enhanced Shaders and Color Grading for 1.5.1 (KennShade)
Boomsticks and Sharpsticks (Mich Cartman)
Gunslinger NPC Pack (Azetrix)
Frozen Zone assets (Frozen Zone team)
SSR for Anomaly 1.5.1. (Lvutner)
Food, drug and drinks animations (Feel_Fried)
JSRS Sound Overhaul (Solarint, JSRS Team)
Cement's Weapon Reposition (Cement)
MP-7 Replacement (PYP)
Bizon & Vityaz Replacements (Strogglet15)
T.H.A.P. REWORK (IENCE, ICHICROW)
Screen Space Shaders (Ascii1457)
ASH-12 Tactical (L4U6H1N6-LUN4T1C)
VSSK Vykhlop Remodel (BarryBogs)
Banjali's Realistic Bodily Needs (Banjali)
Dialog Dynamic UI (Stimey)
Parallax Shaders (Unknown Author, taken from Anomaly Reality Modpack)
Snipex guns (L4U6H1N6-LUN4T1C)
Tactical weapons pack (AndTheHeroIs)
Kar98k (JadeyMoyaison)
Melee weapons (BarryBogs)
Light source placement script (Grok)
Stalker 2 HUD (Mike0422)
If I forgot to credit somebody hit me up. There's too much in this thing to keep track of at this point.
Q: Why are stalkers carrying around up to 90 rounds of ammunition and good durability weapons?
A: Because it makes sense that stalkers would take care of their weapons and bring in actual ammunition to defend themselves. This particular feature has been playtested for a long time and most definitely doesn't hurt gameplay. The traders are still as important as ever as ammunition and weapons are only a fraction of all the equipment that you need to survive in the Zone. You're merely compelled to adopt a more free, action packed combat engagement with bullethell and a particle spectacle during a gunfight, as opposed to strategical placement of lead into your opponents' noggins.
Q: Why are all the artefacts "junk" ones?
A: This addon no longer messes with artefact spawning. If you're getting only junk artefacts then it's either because of a bad detector, or another addon.
Q: Can we have a Torrent?
A: My internet provider does not let me use the P2P connections, so I can't make a torrent download of Expedition.
Q: The sky is too bright aghhhhhh my eyes jdud put supernovaes in the sky ahhhhh
A: Vanilla Anomaly sky shaders are set to 1.8 times overexposure. Expedition shaders fix this, but if something is not installed correctly you will have old shaders in the folder or old shader cache. Delete the shaders folder in Expedition/Gamedata/, delete the shader cache in Expedition/Appdata/, and replace them the ones from the zip. The modpack zip does not contain a shaders folder, it contains shaders.db. So skip deleting shaders folder for modpack, but delete shader cache. Yes it's that complicated.
Q: My screen goes blue when I pick up a B&S gun.
A:
1. Go to Anomaly/Gamedata/Scripts.
2. Find "zzz_bas_laser_control.script", open it with a notepad
3. Find these lines:
exec_console_cmd(string.format("shader_param_5 1, 0, 0, 0", arg))
4. Tweak the numbers after "shader_param_5" as displayed above.
Q: How do I turn off lasers on B&S guns?
A: Nohow, B&S guns don't make the lasers invisible by hiding its mesh or texture, they.... edit the shader parameters. This is completely unacceptable and thus permanently disabled in Expedition.
If you've encountered a crash you can use this form to help make Expedition better. Please note only the crash reports from Vanilla Anomaly and Expedition 2.x are accepted. 1.x reports are no longer looked at since the 2.0. is rebuilt from scratch.
Hot edit: You can also send general bug reports.
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No offense, but upload to ******* google drive, not mega. Mega is garbage, and its no longer 2012. Google drive works well for large file sizes, and has fast speeds for nearly everyone in the entire world without paying a dime.
Google gives you 15 gb of storage, mega gives 20. This addon is 19.4 gb. Fitting username btw
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no offense but mediafire allowed 100 gb with a free account and does not limit downloads
It says 10 GB for basic users. I'm making a mod only version right now anyway.
Anonfiles.com also offers 20GB, and it's a pretty good, no frills file hosting service. Though it might freak some people out for being an oddly named and stylized niche service.
Yeah but Anonfiles takes like 20 years to download.
Use Torrent.
he cant , if you take time to read the whole page you would know that ........
дай ссылку на торрент
jdud you are a legend
Hey there ..where can I find the standalone link ?
Hey there ..i cant find the standalone version ..can you please tell me were the link is ?
Привет а где сама сборка подскажите пожалуйста
to fuckn bad the author cant receive downvotes.
mega = fuckn garbage.
stop bitching Jdude is working hard on the mod
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привет, у меня не открывается описание и я никак не могу добраться до мода, как это можно исправить?
переключи сайт на английский язык
Please make a compability to EFP 4.1 (especially for MP-155 Ultima)
ТЫ ЖИВОЙ.
GDrive has a download limit, so does MEGA. Use a torrent or split it into 500mb parts and upload to Zippyshare.
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No offense but if you can't handle to download 300 mb fast enough it have nothing to do where it's uploaded, it have to do with your ****** piece of trash internet.
file on site is not the mod the mod is in the desc its a couple gigs
Nice way of speaking to people who are actively trying to give us the best experience we can get >_>
MEGA gives people 50 GB of storage. Not only are you a liar, you're also pathetic.
funny, coz it's the exact opposite to me.
couldn't agree with you more. using Mega is just fuckn cheap and lazy. You dont deserve the downvotes.
Bl man how beautiful it is,but the question is this addon weighs 19 gigs itself or it goes along with the game give small details on installation if it is not difficult, and whether it is compatible with FEAR or EFT Edition 2.1 builds
I will post an update of my experience on playing this with DX8.
update: I cannot download from MEGA xd
It would be a miracle if this thing worked on anything less than DX 11 Enhanced tbh.
I'll still post an update after I download this modpack to work with DX8, or DX9.
update: does not work with DX8 (some memory error), but works with DX9
Out of curiosity, why would you even play on such an old DX?
Some people think that game run more stable at dx9. Not sure is it true or not.
It's not true for Anomaly.
its true, i used to play with dx10 at 20-30fps and when i changed it to dx9 i had like a 20 frames boost or something, sometimes up to 60fps
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This **** worked with dx8, it look great but have bug (aftefacts not spawn)
waiting for that fix too
well, i was confused first - i thought it's all engine done. still, nice job man
regarding overexposed sky. unpack/find sky2.vs file in shaders\r3 (or r2 for dx9)
find "1.7", replace it with "1.0" - sky shouldn;t be overexposed anymore
Men my monitor is 16:10 and Boomsticks and Sharpsticks does not support that aspect ratio, does this graphics mod work without Boomsticks and Sharpsticks?
You'd have to just avoid BAS weapons in the game and use default ones. Sorry man, don't have a 16:10 monitor so can't possibly optimize anything for it. Still, even default weapons look presentable now.
thanks friend, I appreciate the answer, I will still download it because it looks great, thx
I have a 16:10 screen too and Boomsticks and Sharpsticks works fine
Mega has ****** download speeds at my place 🥲 its gonna take me a whole day
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Jesus. People's problems these days...
Looks amazing. Thanks for the addon. Great job! :D
Чо вы жалуетесь у меня на меге все нормально за час 50 % скачал спокойно,хз что у вас за проблемы