UPDATED to version 2.3 (Torrent download in description) (Patch updated 07.04.2023)
EXPEDITION is a Software Rendering tweak addon that aims to improve the visual fidelity of Anomaly 1.5.2. It comes pre-packed with a customized Enhanced Shaders Framework, lighting, rendering and surface processing edits, weather tweaks, new effects, and much more. It is also available in a download-and-play state so you can forget about compatibility-induced CTDs, crashes, and conflicts. Simply install and dive into the game, no hassle.
DX 11 ENHANCED ONLY
1.5.2. ONLY
PLAYTESTER VOLUNTEERS WANTED. TORRENT HOSTS WANTED.
MESSAGE 'jdud' FOR INQUIRIES
DOWNLOAD MODPACK VERSION (2.3) (Torrent link) (Thanks to Acidpointer for providing it)
Drive.google.com
Backup GDrive download link: Part 1
Backup GDrive download link: Part 2
Backup GDrive download link: Part 3
Backup GDrive download link: Mandatory patch
Patch updated: 07.04.2023
WHY OTHER WEBSITES ARE NOT BEING USED:
Google Drive: Download Per Day Limit
Yandex Disk: Download Per Day Limit
Sync: Download Per Day limit
Torrent: Blocked by author's Internet Provider
Zippyshare: Link doesn't work for some users
Dropbox: Link doesn't work for some users
Mediafire: Upload error reason unknown
Mega: Caused the community to put the author on the CIA kill list
Anonfiles: Infected with trojan viruses
Understand that if we're not using the website that you like it's because we most likely tried it and it didn't work. if you know a good file sharing website post it in the comments.
CURRENTLY OPERATIONAL UPDATE: 2.3
CHANGELOG:
1. Moved to Anomaly 1.5.2.
2. Newest updates from Enhanced Shaders and Screenspace shaders included.
4. New weathers and weather cycles, new nights, sunrise, sunset, dusk, environmental particle effects.
5. Reworked all stalker visuals for all factions using a heavily modified by hand Azetrix NPC pack.
6. Added various new weapons from Moddb and Discord. (Kar98k Glowup, SVU PMC, Groza Tactical, etc.)
7. New calibers in the game: .50 BMG, 14.5 mm, .50 AE, .300 BLK
8. Some weapons have COD MW 2 2022 and COD MW 2019 weapon audio. (Still WIP)
9. Touched up particle effects.
CREDITS TO THESE ADDON CREATORS WHOSE WORK WAS UTILIZED HERE:
Enhanced Shaders and Color Grading for 1.5.1 (KennShade)
Boomsticks and Sharpsticks (Mich Cartman)
Gunslinger NPC Pack (Azetrix)
Frozen Zone assets (Frozen Zone team)
SSR for Anomaly 1.5.1. (Lvutner)
Food, drug and drinks animations (Feel_Fried)
JSRS Sound Overhaul (Solarint, JSRS Team)
Cement's Weapon Reposition (Cement)
MP-7 Replacement (PYP)
Bizon & Vityaz Replacements (Strogglet15)
T.H.A.P. REWORK (IENCE, ICHICROW)
Screen Space Shaders (Ascii1457)
ASH-12 Tactical (L4U6H1N6-LUN4T1C)
VSSK Vykhlop Remodel (BarryBogs)
Banjali's Realistic Bodily Needs (Banjali)
Dialog Dynamic UI (Stimey)
Parallax Shaders (Unknown Author, taken from Anomaly Reality Modpack)
Snipex guns (L4U6H1N6-LUN4T1C)
Tactical weapons pack (AndTheHeroIs)
Kar98k (JadeyMoyaison)
Melee weapons (BarryBogs)
Light source placement script (Grok)
Stalker 2 HUD (Mike0422)
If I forgot to credit somebody hit me up. There's too much in this thing to keep track of at this point.
Q: Why are stalkers carrying around up to 90 rounds of ammunition and good durability weapons?
A: Because it makes sense that stalkers would take care of their weapons and bring in actual ammunition to defend themselves. This particular feature has been playtested for a long time and most definitely doesn't hurt gameplay. The traders are still as important as ever as ammunition and weapons are only a fraction of all the equipment that you need to survive in the Zone. You're merely compelled to adopt a more free, action packed combat engagement with bullethell and a particle spectacle during a gunfight, as opposed to strategical placement of lead into your opponents' noggins.
Q: Why are all the artefacts "junk" ones?
A: This addon no longer messes with artefact spawning. If you're getting only junk artefacts then it's either because of a bad detector, or another addon.
Q: Can we have a Torrent?
A: My internet provider does not let me use the P2P connections, so I can't make a torrent download of Expedition.
Q: The sky is too bright aghhhhhh my eyes jdud put supernovaes in the sky ahhhhh
A: Vanilla Anomaly sky shaders are set to 1.8 times overexposure. Expedition shaders fix this, but if something is not installed correctly you will have old shaders in the folder or old shader cache. Delete the shaders folder in Expedition/Gamedata/, delete the shader cache in Expedition/Appdata/, and replace them the ones from the zip. The modpack zip does not contain a shaders folder, it contains shaders.db. So skip deleting shaders folder for modpack, but delete shader cache. Yes it's that complicated.
Q: My screen goes blue when I pick up a B&S gun.
A:
1. Go to Anomaly/Gamedata/Scripts.
2. Find "zzz_bas_laser_control.script", open it with a notepad
3. Find these lines:
exec_console_cmd(string.format("shader_param_5 1, 0, 0, 0", arg))
4. Tweak the numbers after "shader_param_5" as displayed above.
Q: How do I turn off lasers on B&S guns?
A: Nohow, B&S guns don't make the lasers invisible by hiding its mesh or texture, they.... edit the shader parameters. This is completely unacceptable and thus permanently disabled in Expedition.
If you've encountered a crash you can use this form to help make Expedition better. Please note only the crash reports from Vanilla Anomaly and Expedition 2.x are accepted. 1.x reports are no longer looked at since the 2.0. is rebuilt from scratch.
Expedition CTD Report Form
Hot edit: You can also send general bug reports.
PROPER VIDEO SETTINGS REFERENCE:
SCREENSHOT GALLERY
(Jpeg, compressed, appear darker than in-game.)
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Plz just split it in a google drive for the love of christ not everyone wants to spend an ENTIRE DAY downloading from SCAMEGA, downvote until google drive downloads.
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why have you been downvoted into oblivion? the mod author really should split the files into parts, it's not like it's hard to do.
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it looks amazing but Please I'd rather Download Multiple files from Google Drive than wait 15 hours on Mega :(
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google drive please, otherwise no one will even be able to TRY the mod within a reasonable amount of ******** time we gotta waste on waiting the 12 plus hours without paying, No one wants to pay for ******** just to play a free mod within a reasonable time.
okay gud mod now. Thank.
THANK YOU!!!!!!!!!!!!! Will comment once I've tried it!
Is there a way to tone down the shiny metal textures? On guns and maps objects ect.
But it's so pretty and nice... >~<. Try this. Drive.google.com
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ah yes, its completely black and textureless for me
why? who knows.
I've put some stuff in the description to help with that.
enhanced shaders is buggy innit, but thanks for the help!
the pics are great, you could have used a torrent version, can we have a video? Great work!
Is this a reshade or is it included? I want to record my game but my software doesn't allow reshade without a CTD.
Как красиво на бумаге, да забыли про овраги, ведь по ним ходить...Вырвиглазно и долго так не поиграешь, для скринов разве что.
Patched.
Can you make a version of only the graphic mod?
Looks pretty neat from the pictures, a bit too much contrast for my taste, but I can edit that.
EDIT:
Nevermind I've found out. It's just the bin folder I need.
можешь рассказать мне?
Does mags redux work with this?
19 GB!, this thing needs a torrent.
MEGA only let you download 5 GB a day.
Please put Torrent or Goggle Drive (or separate into few part in google drive) Mega is suck *** T_T
The screenshots are beautiful. But everything looks very bad and terrible in the game!
Typical screen-archer stuff to grab attention and downloads. Why people even bother. The bloom is way overboard.
You do know that CYA HUD is dependent on SidHUD, right?
In which case, you should include credits for the original authors, Blackgrowl & RavenAscendant.
EDIT: Author has given credit now, thanks.
is it possible to install beef shader's in top of this?
And not the fate of a torrent file to make, eh?
I'm actually very interested to try it. Thank you.
I see lots of discussion about this in the comments, but many people seem unaware of the data limits in place with either MEGA or GDrive meaning it will not be possible for the vast majority of people to download from those sources in a timely manner. Once the data limit is met for the day with GDrive nobody else can download anything from the link for 24 hours and MEGA limits typical users to only 5GB of data and then makes you wait something like 8 hours to continue downloading the next 5GB and so on, which could mean several days of waiting for large files and at least 24 hours of waiting for this one.
In my opinion, the best options come down to either a torrent OR use 7z (7zip) to split the file into 500mb chunks and then upload those chunks to Zippyshare. Zippyshare has very fast speeds, no download limit, no upload limit and is free to use. The only downside is it only allows files of size 500mb and below to be uploaded, which is why it must be split into chunks.
Mediafire is good option too.
what??? i can download unlimited amounts in mega
Hi, dynamic news is not displayed, the function is enabled in the settings, how to solve the problem?
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Does it compatible with Beef nvgs?
Can't wait to play this
Tested it :
- You did some sorcery with the perfect sky which remain perfectly clear and visible (no overbrightness) even with shader. How did you do that ?
- The volumetric fog is incredible to view. Game changing.
- Everything is well balanced. The contrast is softer than in the screen and everything look absolutely stunning.
- I did not like the reshade (way too much bloom and strange sharpening). I used my own custom one with the featured additional effects and it works well.
- The weapon reposition are a bit too close to the center and weapons with scopes can really affect the visibility. Even when you lower them. Generally the hud fov is too high to my taste and I can't change it without editing the files.
- The small changes and addition are nice. I was surprised by the absence of dynamic new on the screen, but the fact that you have to read them through your PDA is a nice immersion change.
- No more distorsion effect on the corner of the screen when wearing a mask ? How can I revert that ? - Found.
- Would it be possible to add AWAR (Anomaly Weapon Animation Redux) to the mix ? It's the only must have mod I have that I can't mod into the modpack. With that addition, this modpack would be a really good base for my future playthroughs
- I wouldn't mind a version with just the graphical effects, is that possible please ?
Still, overall it's very solid and I fell in love.
Torrent file for the whole modpack, please?
That looks solid. But a version with only graphical changes would be very useful and would solve download issues
Agree, downloading those addons again feels like returning to Sidorovich after putting down some poor Monolith convert at Jupiter and when entering to Garbage just realize you missed the one at Limansk
глючит освещение когда смотришь на горящие лампочки, костры и прочее. Начинают мерцать черные квадраты. Проверял, в том числе, на чистой версии, только Anomaly + mod. RTX 3080 drivers 471.68 SD
Would it be possible to get just the graphical addition? Without any mods or unwanted things like that in the pack, so we can experience your work without having mods we don't wish to have please? Cheers
such an amazing looking mod, i really hope you do a version with the graphical additions only, thanks alot.
Got to say this looks really good. I installed stalker anomaly again with a fresh install. then copied everything from the mod in the stalker anomaly dir. So i cranked up the settings a bit and this is how it looks:
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I think it looks very similar to your images of the mod although i was wondering if you can upload your user.lxt file so we or i can know for sure what settings to use for the best possible results.
Also as a note i didnt use any of the winrar files inside the EXPEDITION-MODONLY -1.0 folder because these files are only for the people with bugs right? or who updating from a modded stalker release if i understand correctly?
As a last note. i see most of the graphic fidelity come from reshade. so got to say this is really a beautiful reshade (well i guess there is also some customs shaders right in this mod. So non reshade filters).
Thanks for this.
seconding, this has been my process and experience as well
The reshade is a bit jarring to me, I might tinker more with it.
Does the spanish translation work for this one?
With this mod I can't see the PDA messages pop up on screen, and can't seem to find a reason or fix? any help?
looks amazing and runs well. Im having some glitches with graphics. The glow is out of control.
Have a look:
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Just disable the reshade stuff.
just uncheck all in the menu?
Glow is caused by NeoBloom
You are correct. There´s Bloom and NeoBloom. Both are very strong on my end.