A-Life Bandaid Fix - (Increase AI Spawn-Despawn Distance - AI Physics - Max AI Spawns - AI View - Se

The goal of this mod is to be a quick bandaid fix for the crazy close AI spawns. Multiple versions are available that will also tweak/increase spawns, AI physics(Far spawn AI will no longer stand still) AI Search/View distance, and maximum amount of AI spawned.

Fully compatible with Stalker 2 v1. 0. 2/1. 0. 3 patch as no files related to mod were touched in the update.

UPDATED FOR STALKER 2 V1. 0. 1 PATCH(This includes all newly modified weights and values made by GSC in the patch).

I RECOMMEND TRYING "ALife_Bandaid_3x_Spawn_limits_2x_Physics_limit" first (OR "ALife_Bandaid_3xSL_2xPhy_MoreEncounters" if you want more action/liveliness) - These revisions aim to solve much more than just gimped AI spawn distances and if you are NOT being CPU bottlenecked, you should experience little-to-no performance impact.

If you only want to solve egregious AI waves spawning before your eyes, the most basic version(ALife_Bandaid_3x_Spawn_limits) should solve this with no additional tweaks and no noticeable performance loss.

Read below to see difference between files. In its most basic version(ALife_Bandaid_3x_Spawn_limits), this should effectively allow both enemies and friendly AI to spawn at 3x/5x distances, in the hopes that it will mask some of the current issues of ALife, allowing you to scope out areas instead of experiencing enemies spawning before your eyes.

Place .pak file in STALKER2\Stalker2\Content\Paks\~mods

Create ~mods folder for easier mod management if it doesn't exist. Otherwise you can also put directly in STALKER2\Stalker2\Content\Paks folder.

Files edited:

• []Stalker2\Content\GameLite\GameData\ALifePrototypes\ALifeDirectorScenarioPrototypes.cfg

  []Stalker2\Content\GameLite\GameData\AIGlobals.cfg

  []Stalker2\Content\GameLite\GameData\CoreVariables.cfg

  A good chunk of useful mods edit CoreVariables.cfg, to avoid conflicts it is recommended to merge these. This wonderful open source tool created by Zweite93 will do this automatically for you.

  Three different presets are available, choose ONLY one!

  ALife_Bandaid_3x_Spawn_limits - not as noticeable but should fix jarring spawns in front of you:

  • [] Increases spawn(min and max) distance by 3x for friendly and enemy AI

    []Increases MinALifeDespawnDistance by 20x.

    ALife_Bandaid_3x_Spawn_limits_2x_Physics_limit - Recommended at cost of some performance(Not as noticeable with newer CPUs):

    []Increases spawn(min and max) distance by 3x for friendly and enemy AI

    []Increases MinALifeDespawnDistance by 20x

    []Increases physics di