Hardcore Realistic Zone Overhaul
🟠 Updated over a year agoPreview

🔍 Analysis
- 👍 2.7% endorsement rate — high engagement, a strong quality signal
- 🏆 #199 of 448 Gameplay mods in this game by downloads
📋 About This Mod
VValkar Hardcore Realistic Zone Overhaul
v1. 6. 1 Compatible with Stalker 2 v1. 3
Now Editing 3600+ Files
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A Hardcore and realistic Zone Overhaul with many quality of life and gameplay changes making the game more immersive and hard so you can feel the tension of surviving in Zone everyday.it's for people that want more realistic and harder than vanilla experience while keeping it reasonable and not spawning enemies in your face every 30 seconds.
All the changes and features in the mod I do manually by myself.
Big Thanks to all the people featured on the bottom or in permissions for their contribution to stalker 2 modding and making the game better for the commmunity
This Zone Overhaul is meant to be played on Veteran Difficulty
It is strongly advised to only use this mod on new saves
(but if you really want you can add it to existing save on your own risk)
Warning
:
Since there are many items added; removing it mid save can cause many bugs errors or corrupt your save file
What does it do?
It tries to make the game much more hard and realistic
Difficulty and Economy:
[]much higher buy prices from traders
[]higher upgrade cost
[]slightly higher repair cost
[]lower sell prices on all items
[]higher sell prices on artifacts
[]much higher reward from side quests
[]Increased number of side quests available from barman traders to 5
[]Reduced waiting time for side quests refresh to 2 in game hours
[]higher artifacts spawn rate
[]adjusted artifacts prices which make it compatible with LINXZ1 A. R. T which is very much advised to use
[]repair cost is now 0. 5x for friendly bases (green icon) so it's much better to upgrade a weapon and stick to repairing it in friendly bases
[]Now only technicians can buy weapons and armor(only above 90%); The higher tier the technician is the more he will pay
[*]For reference T1 technician will pay 10%; T2 t
📊 Mod Details
- Game
- Stalker 2 Mods
- Author
- VValkar
- Version
- 1.6.1
- Downloads
- 3,817
- Endorsements
- 102
- Category
- Gameplay
- Created
- 12/27/2024
- Updated
- 3/21/2025
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