Desolation

Desolation is a Global Hardcore Overhaul mod for S. T. A. L. K. E. R. 2 Heart of Chornobyl. The main focus of the mod is to expand the game via in-depth mechanics, content additions and overall fluid blending of gameplay, world and lore. Though focusing a lot on "realism", the main focus of it is to generate stories for the player, put them into tense situations in a punishing environment, while overall keeping the goal of it feeling like an even playing field for both the player chatacter and other non-playable characters.

Aside from the survival mechanics Desolation will introduce a lot of new features, approaches to usual things as the mod evolves. My goal is to create an overhaul where the Zone will be a unique being that will punish everyone inside of it mercilessly for their mistakes, bend and break them at every chance they give it, yet reward the curious and smart stalkers in moment's of it's grace. And the playing field will become even for both player and other chatacters.

This is an initial release of the mod, it is not in a stable 1. 0 version yet. This bares some responsibilities with it, when downloading it in current state:

• []Keep you normal playthrough saves backed up or better yet, have a separate profile for modded playthroughs in case of possible corruptions.

  []Be ready for bugs, inconsistencies, typos and possible crashes which will be fixed in time.

  []The mod was tested in sterile "developer mode conditions", so it might behave differently in a normal playthrough. Balancing will be done throughout development.

  []I'm playing through the game alongside you, to see the changes that need to be made and addressed personally.

  []The updates might not be frequent at all, or happen in quick succession. Many circumstances outside of my modding hobby can affect the development.

  []At the moment of the release the initial supported languages are English, Ukrainian, Polish, French and Russian. Others have placeholder English version.

  []You won't be able to recover your save after playing with Desolation due to the extensive changes it makes.

  []Any mod's that have multiple localization files need a merged patch, this is not unique to Desolation, just how S2 works right now.

  Desolation at it's core uses many different AI-powered tools to generate foundational material that is later heavily edited by me to produce the final result. That being said, I know not everyone is a fan of this technology and it can be a pretty hot topic of discussion. I myself view is as nothing more than a powerful and useful tool in the right pipeline, but not a replacement for any handmade creative work. For me it has become an important tool, allowing me to achieve many things much quicker than my life schedule would ever let me