I wish someone would make an Anomaly modpack that would actually make it something like Call of Chernobyl+, not STALKER MISERY: Escape from Tarkov 2.0. Because the latter is what all Anomaly modpacks aim for. Base Anomaly is basically COC+MISERY, and every single larger modpack is just COC+MISERY+Tarkov, with GAMMA being extra gay because the author refuses to distribute by any other means than a fucking Discord server.
The great thing about Anomaly is at it's core it's an insanely capable codebase for STALKER modding. The Monolith engine is the most mature form of the X-Ray Engine and it's probably what it would look like if Grigorovich didn't run his company into the ground a decade ago. There is
so much potential in it, like perhaps remaking the trilogy with extra flare while still staying true to the feel, mechanics and balance of the trilogy, but no, it's all gay ass Tarkov clones in the Zone.
I looked up that Dark Signal modpack and one of the points is this:
>Many balance and gameplay alterations combined with the selected addons. More dangerous radiation, more present anomalies, bigger mutant packs and variances in faction power and groups.
This describes Anomalyfags rather well. To them making shit excessively difficult is "balance". Because to them, the game being difficult to the point of being bullshit is "fun". And then they have the gall to say that this is how GSC intended STALKER to be. Or they'll defend that repeating the myth that the Master difficulty was the intended way to play the game with the lower ones being lazily added because the publisher said so.
I was intrigued at first but when I saw that it's just another "Anomaly but with more bullshit difficulty" modpack my interest instantly dwindled down. I really fucking hate that this is basically all of Anomaly's community. Make it harder, harder, harder and make it as unpleasant to play as possible. And there doesn't seem to be anyone who thought that maybe they should dial the base game down rather than up.
tl;dr Anomaly and most popular modpacks based on it suck dick because they're nowhere close to the OG trilogy and I want a proper vanilla-esque modpack on that codebase. Or even a "vanillizer" so that the balance and economy gets brought to the vanilla levels so then you have a solid base to build your own Vanilla+ experience.
