Summary
- A player-created mod for STALKER 2 adjusts weight limits, making supply items significantly lighter.
- The mod indirectly addresses encumbrance issues by reducing the weight of essential items.
- STALKER 2 players have the option to customize the weight of specific supply categories with the mod.
A new player-created mod for STALKER 2 - Heart of Chornobyl is taking on one of the game's most controversial mechanics by adjusting how it handles weight limits. Since its release in late November 2024 after years of development, STALKER 2 has seen numerous player-made mods released to address issues like bugs or perceived imbalances in the game design.
After a years-long development period, STALKER 2 - Heart of Chornobyl was finally released globally to critical acclaim and intense anticipation from fans. The game was so popular, in fact, that the STALKER 2 launch caused internet outages in its home country of Ukraine. Developer GSC Game World has since thanked fans for their support, and also asked for their patience as it works out the shortcomings that have accompanied STALKER 2's wide release, including bugs, performance issues, and problems with the game's simulation aspects.
Players haven't been waiting passively for fixes, though, and in some spots have stepped up to deliver their own desired changes via STALKER 2 mods. One mod created by a player named truditu and shared via the popular Nexus Mods depository addresses one of the most divisive mechanics in STALKER 2 by adjusting its approach to weight limits. The mod drastically reduces the weight burden of items in STALKER 2's most critical supply categories, including ammunition, grenades, medicine, and food and drinks from the base "vanilla" game. This makes it significantly easier for players to deal with STALKER 2 weight limits and move around the Zone in relative safety.
STALKER 2 Weight Limit Mod Reduces Burden of Ammo and Consumables
The mod, which was uploaded just a day after STALKER 2's November 20 release date, indirectly addresses the issue of weight limits by making most supply items significantly lighter. It's a simple blanket change that reduces the weight of food, medicine, ammunition, and grenades by 50%, 90%, or 100%, depending on the player's preference when they install the STALKER 2 mod. Subsequent updates to the mod add the optional ability to reduce the weight of only specific categories of items (like only ammo or only meds), allowing players to choose which classes of supply items they want to make lighter.
The implementation of weight limits in games is always a divisive one. And even in a deliberately harsh and difficult shooter series like STALKER, some players may find STALKER 2 encumbrance management a little too burdensome. It's good, then, that the game supports modding readily, allowing players to customize those aspects as they wish to get the most out of their experience.
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OpenCritic Reviews
- Top Critic Avg: 75 /100 Critics Rec: 64%
- Released
- November 20, 2024
- ESRB
- Mature 17+ / Blood and Gore, Intense Violence, Strong Language, Use of Alcohol and Tobacco
- Developer(s)
- GSC Game World
- Publisher(s)
- GSC Game World
WHERE TO PLAY
Chornobyl Exclusion Zone has changed dramatically after the second massive explosion in the year 2006. Violent mutants, deadly anomalies, and warring factions have made the Zone a very tough place to survive.
Nevertheless, artifacts of unbelievable value attracted many people called S.T.A.L.K.E.R.s, who entered the Zone for their own risk, striving to make a fortune out of it or even to find the Truth concealed in the Heart of Chornobyl.
EPIC NONLINEAR STORY IN SEAMLESS OPEN WORLD
Take over a role of the lone stalker and explore photorealistic seamless open world in a 64-km² radioactive zone with a variety of environments that reveal post-apocalyptic atmosphere from different angles. Make your way through the Zone to define your destiny as you choose your paths within highly branching epic story.
VARIETY OF ENEMIES AND HUNDREDS OF WEAPON COMBINATIONS
Meet members of different factions deciding who of them worth your friendship and who deserve a bullet. Engage intense gunfights with a variety of enemies that follow different tactics trying to outsmart you. Choose your preferable firearms from 30+ types of weapons with numerous modifications that allow creating hundreds of distinctive lethal combinations.
LEGENDARY MUTANTS WITH DIFFERENT BEHAVIOUR MODELS
Prepare to encounter horrifying mutated creatures that will try to slaughter you following different behaviour model. Each mutant may appear in different subtypes which makes their behaviour less predictible. Truly extreme danger represent regions with lairs with numerous mutants hunting in large groups.
ARTIFACTS OF INCREDIBLE VALUE AND UNFORGIVING ANOMALIES
The most valuable artifacts and secrets of the Zone are hidden in the most dangerous places. Beware of the hazardous anomalies and unique devastating arch-anomalies as you hunt for highly valuable artifacts scattered around the Zone. Will you dare to unveil the mysteries of the Zone that took lives of many others before you?
GOOD HUNTING, STALKER!
- Engine
- Unreal Engine 5
- Franchise
- S.T.A.L.K.E.R.
- Platform(s)
- PlayStation 5, Xbox Series X, Xbox Series S, PC
- Genre(s)
- First-Person Shooter, Open-World, Post-Apocalyptic, Survival
- OpenCritic Rating
- Strong
