☢┃stalker-general

[novel axle]

You can usually tell a reddit or twitter freak pretty easly by how they talk, they basically can't help themselves and wear it on their sleeve for everyone to see.

[charred nova]

i said it in the other chat but ill say it here too you can hate on the game all you want till your blue in the face go crazy brother just don't harass the ohter chatters

[weary hedge]

I mean in server, like basically a way to talk about your game in character

[sour depot]

UNISG Canon Confirmed fr fr

[keen sinew]

why did i just see a group of bandits take a emission like its nothing LOL

[zinc dagger]

you can literally smell them no wonder enemies are detecting people so easily

[coarse vector]

would be cool 😭

[finite beacon]

What’s with the electric anomaly beneath the factory? Seems like a bad design decision that all it does is charge straight at you

[carmine jackal]

this is the pda chat

[vernal crescent]

THAT MEANS HE DIED, HE'S DEAD AND HE'S NEVER COMING BACK. YOUR CHARACTER, THE PERSON YOU PLAYED AS IS FRICKING DEAD DUDE AND HE'S NEVER, EVER,EVERT,EVER COMING BACK. YOU NEED TO CALL GSC RIGHT NOW AND TELL THEM THAT THIS HAS PERSONALLY EFFECTED YOU AND GET THE GAME PULLED FROM STEAM, GAMEPASS, FRICKING TARGET MAN

[heady vale]

I saw this in the gsc-answers chat "I might just be blind, but I don't see a keybind for the headlamp? I'd like to bind it to a side button on my mouse but I only see the option for the radial menu keybind, not the direct headlamp one (set to L by default)"

For anyone that didn't know, pressing down on your scroll button (M3) is also a headlamp toggle. You don't need to hit L

[hexed blaze]

cheeki breeki iv damke

[sour depot]

We can only dream ;-;

[long relic]

Thats what i said to him in the anomaly server funnily enough

[weary hedge]

#☢┃stalker-general message

#☢┃stalker-general message

I mean, kinda but also not quite because not immersive

[zinc dagger]

you see ivan when you have leather jacket you do not need to seek shelter

[humble vapor]

[cedar stag]

me too, and I do see flaws in S2 that might be Unreal related. but honestly?

game is out now.
it will get patches
it will get more content
Modders will eventually find a way to crack open the zone and enhance it.
that will include potato-mods to improve performance and probably misery like mods to make u suffer even more.

ive seen the weird spawn behavior and "missing" alife. fair. but i assume its a limitation atm due to performance as keeping so many entities loaded for a long time might cause instability on unreal i guess. the big issue for many performance issues is vegetation usually. a way to reduce vegetation without reducing rest of graphical fidelity would be a nice option.

[coarse vector]

wtf you talked to him there 😭

[hallow ermine]

I just want to have more keybinds/edits for the game really

[charred nova]

insanely based

[vernal crescent]

ahem I mean, uh that's neat. Sorry, the goblin got me for a sec.

[carmine jackal]

i'm immersed

[novel axle]

I also question how they didn't see the huge tutorial tip literally at the start of the game the first time you go into a dark area that sits there for a minute telling you the Lamp/torch hotkey. What it doesn't tell you is that middle mouse click also works to turn it on on/off.

[smoky geode]

Anybody excited for multiplayer?

[long relic]

Im gonna keep trolling him there until he gets banned

[weary hedge]

Can we have a PDA chat

[zinc dagger]

any clue what the mp is gonna be like?

[charred nova]

can't make chats im afraid sorry

[coarse vector]

HOLY SHIT HES ACTUALLY THERE NO WAYYYY

[grizzled monolith]

I’m excited for the game to run good

[carmine jackal]

nope

[hoary hazel]

Hopefully a mod lets loot respawn as i like to travel round collecting and selling and getting little trade routes setup

[heady vale]

Right, I was just testing my mouse buttons to see if they worked (I do this in every shooter so I can see if they're bound or if I can move binding to them) and I accidentally discovered it. I really like it on M3

[storm token]

wait till the weapons mods are here, u will drown in guns 😄

[novel axle]

Not really, i'd rather it be more like anomaly with a fairly randomized zone each playthru. Game feels kinda static atm.

[wicked shell]

That never popped up on my screen

[vernal crescent]

ehhhh, nah. Not my jam

[weary hedge]

Who could I talk to about that

[coarse vector]

depends , tdm would be . ok i guess? but idk dont see the point of it cuz i dont think many people would play it. if they invented other modes for mp i would be interested like maybe a small version of the game where you can play coop but only in a certain section of the map idk

[sour depot]

Gonna be honest for a sec and might catch some strays for this but, i kinda lowkey hope Multiplayer is sorta like survarium in terms of gamemodes

[heady vale]

Yeah, don't know if it'll be PvP or coop, either is good with me. I'd really like a way to explore the zone with friends, but I still will play solo. Sometimes coop can ruin the anxiety the zone gives

[gentle widget]

Yeah... but when will modkit come? 2028?

[charred nova]

can put it in ask gsc if you want

[grizzled monolith]

Game run bad

[hoary hazel]

I tried going really far north to pripyat it didnt end well radiation guarding that area

[charred nova]

maybe mol1t will like the idea

[fervent estuary]

Is the Leshy with SVD sniper rifle in Northern Checkpoint is the same dude from Clear sky and SOC?

[dusk notch]

AMD ryzen 7 3799X, 48 gb ram, 2070 Super
Hook me up with some settings

[glad tendon]

Loving the game so far my only gripe is head torch being hard bound to middle mouse which is where i like quick melee but whatever

[novel axle]

Getting hip for example in anomaly, can be very random as sometimes you find the gun she wants on the first bandit you kill and sometimes you can play the save for a week and somehow not get one.

[zinc dagger]

I think

[hoary hazel]

Could simply run a webhook from discord to ingame and chats appear ingame

[robust zinc]

Hello everyone!

[frail stump]

Does anyone know anything about the glitch where you're stuck walking? I can't run for some odd reason.

[charred nova]

but alright lads im gonna try and go back to playing the game if anyone elses feels to need to start sperging out let know

[novel axle]

Stalker 2 seems to have way to much static loot so far. I've seen guides there is apparelty one of the best snipers in the game literally in the lesser zoneyou can also find the 13k mask and a really good set of armor at a static spawn point in the lesser zone

[hollow ridge]

whats that sniper name?

[storm token]

Nah, I don’t think it will take that much time. Even if it does, the modders in the STALKER community are frighteningly talented.

[carmine jackal]

have fun with no A-Life

[hoary hazel]

My grudge is not enough weapons varities from the get go. But i know mods will fix that. UE5 easier to mod too

[charred nova]

ill try

[zinc dagger]

v1 is secretly two magpies in a trenchcoat

[novel axle]

SVD2 I think? or something simmlar. all I know is it has maxxed damage and nearly maxxed accuarcy as well, gimme a min i'll get the exact name

[charred nova]

probably is tbh

[humble vapor]

Me browsing #🤨┃stalker_memes on my PDA while getting shot at by bandits

[honest crow]

its so canon, this game is timeskipped anyway right? I simply died during a ironman run, rip SILENCER

[azure willow]

Me in a factory finding some stairs going down... And the door at the end is fake....

confused unga bunga

[vernal crescent]

ye

[nocturne blaze]

anyone happen to know the best trader to sell artifacts to?

[sour depot]

now you need to do another run called supressor

ill see myself out

[charred nova]

its been one day so yet to be seen how fast devs can patch stuff so for all we know a life will be fixed in a few days could be weeks who knows

[novel axle]

Its a SVDM-2 Sniper rifle u can find in the lesser zone.

[gentle widget]

They truely are... Just wish i didnt have bethesda as reference point for modding related things. So hard not to be a negative andy ^^

[smoky geode]

Which anomaly are we enjoying hunting?

[frigid hill]

1800plzhlp has been warned

Reason: Bad word usage

[cedar stag]

LowLevelFatalError [File:D:\STALKER2\s2editor\Engine\Source\Runtime\D3D12RHI\Private\D3D12Util.cpp] [Line: 880] CurrentQueue.Device->GetDevice()->GetDeviceRemovedReason() failed at D:\STALKER2\s2editor\Engine\Source\Runtime\D3D12RHI\Private\D3D12Submission.cpp:910 with error DXGI_ERROR_DEVICE_REMOVED

Gahh - got my first crash bc dx12 driver shit itself.... dangit

[zinc dagger]

im sorry wolf i didnt know f*llout 4 was a bad word..

[fervent estuary]

I'm in detention center with tons of loot i need to stash is there any close by, or I have to crawl back to Zalissya

[cedar stag]

if DX12 was more stable id be happy - no idea why ppl love dx12 but in my experience dx11 was more stable and had better performance usually

[carmine jackal]

A-Life deniers

[raven halo]

Where the hell is A Life

[silver pawn]

Mr. “Doesn’t spawn for non-YouTubers” 🤣

[long relic]

Its right in front of you

[azure willow]

Ok so uh, where's the basement in the Factory? I can't find it

[storm token]

Totally get that, Bethesda can really skew expectations. But hey, the STALKER modding community feels like a different league altogether. It’s hard not to stay optimistic with their track record! I also don’t think GSC will take too long with the modding kit—it’ll probably come out pretty soon.

[novel axle]

Thats the issue with dx12 today is its still not really stable. @hollow ridge Its the SVDM-2 Sniper. and its in a hidden stash so its a static spawn pretty much

[rich bridge]

nah its over, you are getting the hammer

[coarse vector]

anyone know how to get past burner anomalies

[charred nova]

a life is bugged

[frigid hill]

vaporwolf93 has been warned

Reason: Bad word usage

[weary hedge]

Bethesda modding scene is very good

[hollow ridge]

hm Economy is broken tbh, everything sells for too low, and repairing is so expensive,
Theres a fix to sell things more expensive, but its a bit overpowered

[carmine jackal]

just noticed?

[zinc dagger]

every time someone asks about A life just send them a bunch of bug emojis

[charred nova]

im just stating a fact

[scarlet prairie]

Go around them

[raven halo]

If a life is not fixed by January 1 2025 i will be purchasing atomic heart

[charred nova]

idk why your so mad bro

[smoky geode]

v1 is seething

[buoyant basin]

anyone know how to kill those magic elfs?

[storm token]

true!!

[cedar stag]

im pretty sure if A-Life was working as intended or expected by so many it would cause even more performance degradation. might honestly not be a bug but a softpatch to keep performance somewhat stable

[nocturne blaze]

anyone happen to know the best trader to sell artifacts to? cant find a good trader to sell to

[novel axle]

repairs need to to be lowered to about 33% of their current costs, and missions need to give more money as the amount they give now is often not worth the supply cost to do.

[silver pawn]

Low key mad the SVD guy has chosen to take a vacation in my game 🤣

[weary hedge]

Weird but okay, I’ll just go back to playing Anomaly, Fallout 2 and Daggerfall as I tend to do, also New Vegas.

[gentle widget]

The scene is good, but the devkits release time is terrible. Always at least one year post launch.

[charred nova]

like im sorry your super butt hurt about the a life being bugged but winging and complaining isn't gonna magically fix it so

[zinc dagger]

v1 cant wait a week and a half for a bug fix

cyberpunk fans must be seething rn it took months for their game to be even play it

[charred nova]

i mean hell im bummed its bugged too

so im with you but

[raven halo]

Hobo stage of stalker is actually the best part of the game

[charred nova]

[hexed blaze]

truuuuuuu

[cedar stag]

you.. never played Misery or Dead Air?

[sour depot]

welp, now im reinstalling dead air, thanks for reminding me

[coarse vector]

im at the cave behind the place near gloomy and i cant the burners are so tightly apcked i cant get around theme

[carmine jackal]

the community demands answers

[weary hedge]

Yes, getting too powerful gets dull once the power trip is diminished.

[novel axle]

Same, but I trust GSC to fix it, they came thru with the older games that had massive issues. @cedar stag i've never heard of them. wait i think I tried misery once? or was that another mod...

[zinc dagger]

Honestly i love stalker for that whole hobo asethetic

[charred nova]

yah the answer is

its bugged

thats the official statement

[tepid seal]

And they're fixing it

[charred nova]

idk what else you want bro

[raven halo]

I'm gonna keep complaining because i want the devs to know that people care about this. They could ignore all the performance issues but if A Life isnt fixed it is over. The A Life issue is an existential crisis in my opinion, the most important thing

[weary hedge]

Hobo

[coarse vector]

i got a lyre artifact :D

[charred nova]

https://www.reddit.com/r/stalker/s/7FdnwqwKrE

[thick violet]

ambient music just suddenly stops when I enter a town

[charred nova]

here is the official statement

read for your self

[zinc dagger]

I have faith in the stalker devs, unlike most modern game developers they seem to actually want to make a game, unlike activision holding their devs hostage lmao

[raven halo]

Every person who complains about A Life, past, present, and future is a hero. Keep up the pressure! Save the zone!

[tulip blade]

guys is there some kind of scientist I can sell artifacts to for for coupons? Or should i just sell to the arms dealers

[charred nova]

they stateed it is there number one first fix

[carmine jackal]

it's entertaining. the community is so toxic.

[smoky geode]

I could tell you how to exploit the traders and make a ton of cash, I could tell you how to ruin your experience day zero and get no fulfillment out of the game whatsoever, ultimately it's up to you the player to decide how and what you enjoy. If A-Life being bugged/not implemented correctly is what rustles your jimmies, put in a ticket. Be part of the solution.

[hollow ridge]

Everything sells for too low (10% vendor price), and the "fix" sells for too much, like 80% vendor price
-- Works only in PC, just try to sell a stackable item, the price will rise and press confirm
https://streamable.com/ylhg1e

[novel axle]

I mean the hobo part i skinda pointless when dealing with humans, as even skifs pistol unupgraded on veteran 1-2 shots any human on a headshot. Virtually any gun does this, making the point of higher powered ones pointless just about. Give me a AK47/S with a scope (you can get one at 80% condition free from a side quest in zaelsia or however its spelt) and thats really all you need for humans the entire game. The other guns really serve no purpose.

[obsidian kayak]

Will the developers improve the graphics in Series S? the game is very blurry, you could disable ray tracing and other effects and increase the resolution

[zinc dagger]

honestly the only toxicity ive experienced in this community so far is from the russian side and the anomaly and gamma fans

[humble vapor]

I love the hobo phase of stalker as well, but killing a bunch of bandits for 800 smackaroos when repairing 30% of my suit costs 15k is rough. Plus, repeatable missions are on a cooldown too

[raven halo]

I'm gonna be annoying about A Life i bought the deluxe edition, which came packaged with the right to complain

[cedar stag]

hell i bought a friend a ultimate preorder key and im waiting for him to wanna try it. he said that hes gonna wait a few months until game is patched and might have some mod support and i cant blame him.
Hell SoC was a mess in 1.0 version too and ppl had wayy worse hardware.

[gentle widget]

https://www.youtube.com/shorts/8n_LpPDI6zk?feature=share

[tulip blade]

guys is there some kind of scientist I can sell artifacts to for more coupons? Or should i just sell to the normal dealers

[carmine jackal]

I agree but the responses to your complaints are what I'm here for

[novel axle]

I mean even if they weren't on a cooldown it'd still cost you more to do them than you'd get back. Like I am surprized vendors don'rt buy guns below 30% con, they could buy those dirt cheap, fix them up and resell them for a massive profit, but instead they just refuse them entirely, it makes no sense.

[hollow ridge]

😅 😅 😅 whats the issue with russians or anomaly/gamma fans?
I just see ppl wanting to have the game fixed

[zinc dagger]

what do you mean that you dont want 20 different colt pattern ARs with mlock handguards with 4000000 attachments isnt this FUN????

[random crane]

do the original factions ever do anything other than just sit at their base?

[weary hedge]

You need to eat the artifacts to gain their secret knowledge. Money is temporary, but knowledge is eternal...also Idk I just sell them to the guy with all the guns

[hexed blaze]

i love that shit

[fervent estuary]

I saw a duty patrol near Zalissya

[coarse vector]

where is yantar at in s2?

[gentle widget]

I just want a HK417 battle rifle with full gucchi and M60E6 LMG.... Sue me ^^

[azure willow]

So ah, where the heck is the basement in the factory in the garbage?

[summer hollow]

Hey where do I go to report bugs.

[tulip blade]

I was thinking of doing that but I kn ow from the original games, traders like beard or the scientist bunker offer more money for artifacts and I have like hundreds of thousands of coupons worth of artifacts. Tryna get rich 😂

[zinc dagger]

for the russians, idk they just seem particularly aggressive towards any new people, feels like online xenophobia lmfao

as for the anomaly guys, i really just dont think the game should be tarkov like the want it to be

[thorny ice]

How long did y’all stay in Lesser Zone before deciding your gear was good enough?

[random crane]

i mean do they have any goals in the game or are they just background characters now, from what ive heard in rostok freedom turned into a a smuggler group and made peace with the fact that theres even more people trying to control the zone than ever

[novel latch]

so there is no dynamic ai and what they call current A life 2.0 is literally spawning enemies on top of you randomly. So its not bugged thats literally scam

[novel axle]

I mean if thats the only difference, why bother? its one issue i have with stalker base games, any gun can 1 tap a human, for gameplay reasons I'd prefer it be like gamma, if the enemy has a helm you need a WAY higher caliber bullet to kill them in 1 shot, otherwise you can sometimes head shot them 4-5 times to destroy their helm before you can do a kill shot, while not realistic, its far better from a gameplay standpoint, and actually gives the higher caliber guns a reason to actually exist

[charred nova]

it does this cus its bugged my bro

[fierce nexus]

Gotta love that Sid is still jamming out to Dirge for the Planet on repeat lol

[charred nova]

[weary hedge]

Yea I'm really not sure I havent even ran into any actual scientists, or ecologists, not yet anyway..I think the best place to sell them for me atm is the gun dealer at the slag pit, I havent checked anywhere else really though

[random crane]

and duty is just some small time fanboys of ward which is INSANE???

[echo wagon]

You guys wanna see the funniest glitch I have ran in to so far in stalker 2?

[carmine jackal]

to many spoilers here. bye

[novel axle]

In Gamma, the Ak47 line of guns are basically useless on humans above a bandit, unless u wanna 4-5 headshot them because the bulet caliber is to low to go thru most armored helms. Pull out a real sniper thoughj and you'll 1 tap that same enemy as you should.

[glad dune]

i also have funny glitch

[fierce nexus]

You met Hermann tho

[zinc dagger]

gun is gun imo whatever gets the job done is what im bringing with me

[tulip blade]

i got out of there asap, I found that u dont really need good gear if you play smart. Got thazt ak with the scope on it from the beginning of the game and I just get ehadshots from a distance

[echo wagon]

I have no image perms but it's armor that's bread. Literally has the icon of a loaf of bread and the name is just numbers

[smoky onyx]

5.45 ap can kill in the north idk what u talking about

[random crane]

if you want good gear you have to go to a place where they actually use good gear

[weary hedge]

Hey guys. Ryzen gang. Hopefully it will run now that I downgraded to a lesser monitor

[undone ore]

Yeah, they deleted point about A-Life in Steam description after realizing that ue5 can't handle it

[glad dune]

i had an army of rats follow me into a bar and did 0 damage to anyone but it was funny hearing them during the cutscenes

[tulip blade]

has anyone noticed how OP the stashes in garbage are btw? It straight up is too much good gear

[novel axle]

I never said it could not kill, I said it takes more than 1 shot if they have a helm.

[primal summit]

Wait, you were chased by Skaven?

[charred nova]

do you know that for a fact though

[zinc dagger]

well yeah, thats how armor works..

[lament smelt]

Proof ? Speculation again and again

[novel latch]

no it does this because its literally what they do instead of dynamic spawns. its not bugged the "FIX" that they are probably gonna put in is just increase AI spaw radius of your character to higher limit so you dont get enemy spawns in front of you. They are not saying a life 2.0 is not in the game because of the bugs they are saying this is the a life 2.0

[hexed blaze]

bro i really think you need glasses

[scarlet prairie]

Make sure your at full health and run thru them, or load a save

[smoky onyx]

u said its useless and the rd-47 is one of the best guns in the game at that caliber

[undone ore]

I've got picture but can't send it here :p

[charred nova]

well if they lied then

ill take the L

[acoustic escarp]

comparing GSC stalker to gamma is comparing apples to oranges. completely different experiences and not that comparable

[charred nova]

but i have it on good authority that its being worked on

[long relic]

We’re ALL taking an L if they lied about A life

[lament smelt]

Ah yes some line on one file of the game, what a proof @undone ore

[summer hollow]

Okay well since I can’t find where to report bugs I’ll just say. STAY TF AWAY FROM THE POPPY FIELD. My character is permanently asleep and when I load saves from hours before I ever even saw the poppy field my character is still asleep. AND MAKING A NEW GAME DOSE NOT FIX IT. You have been warned

[novel axle]

Are they though? both is have gun shoot target, just one does it better and more intersting gameplay wise than the other. by making armor and weapon caliber actually matter.

[tulip blade]

I just hope i can play the dang game without waiting LITERALLY 20 minutes for shader compiling every time I open the game

[zinc dagger]

if they lied about a life, Magpie, MY LIFE IS YOURS!

[weary hedge]

My PC runs all triple AAA games fine. Idk why this one is struggling to play on high settings. If I have to drop the settings anywhere below Epic I’m playing on GeForce Now, which doesn’t support 1440p for some reason to begin with. Even on my 3440x1440 but I’m switching down to 1920x1080. You guys think that will help performance?

[undone ore]

No.

[glad dune]

ill send u the screenshot lol

[long relic]

Us 3440x1440 folks are pounding sand, need that good good ultrawide support

[novel axle]

Don't you have a 3060? 3060 is basically a 1080p gpu, its going to struggle on anything higher

[echo wagon]

I put a screen shot in #📸┃screens_and_videos

[zinc dagger]

just compress your monitor with a hydraulic thing.. so easy...

[lament smelt]

@undone ore what ? Gonna show me they lied by showing before and after on steam ? Wow

[median laurel]

first crash?!?! been getting that message since release hour xD

[undone ore]

I was so excited about this game that I really often was checking the site, and one day the all points including alife disappeared
I wish they will make it work

[long relic]

My 2080 works flawlessly on most games with ultrawide, so no not really

[thick violet]

havent had a crash in my 10 hours of gameplay

[weary hedge]

Need that good good ultrawi- dies from overheat explosion

[glad dune]

mans got some buns

[echo wagon]

I'm 3 hours in with no crashes

[lament smelt]

Bahaha what a proof you have here

[zinc dagger]

honestly crashing into the issue although my game did crash once while compiling shaders

[median laurel]

i get that same exact low level one every 2-45 min lmaooo

[novel axle]

a 2080 is more poweful than a rtx 3060. the xx60 and below lines are budget models. I have a 3060 Ti which I don't think is even equal to a 2070/2080.

[long relic]

Youre right my bad!

[smoky onyx]

30% faster

[charred nova]

i was having mad issues till i just updated my gpu driver lol

[hexed blaze]

is there a recent one?

[undone ore]

My game crashes too often, but my pc also aren't very good

[charred nova]

my game would crash constantly till i updated gpu driver

once i did that

no more crashes

[long relic]

My CPU is like 5 years old though 🤣

[zinc dagger]

the game can be framey even on a 4080 i think its just the coding itself

[charred nova]

no more frame drops

[weary hedge]

Processor AMD Ryzen 7 7700 8-Core Processor, 3801 Mhz, 8 Core(s), 16 Logical Processor(s)
all i know man

[novel axle]

I got the same crash 3 times something about a virtual call or something. each time it was while loading a save, save was fine as usually if I tried again it'd load into it fine.

[winter cobalt]

I’m running the game on a Nvidia 3080, with a 12th 12 core gen i7, and 32gbs of ram at 1440p - and I’m getting solid and consistent 110fps. All on epic settings.

My advice is to turn on frame generation that gave me a huge boost. Turn hair quality to medium to boos town fps and lower things like sky quality to medium

[raven tulip]

We need better sections in this discord, it's a mess.

[naive summit]

i agree, the layout is weird

[hexed blaze]

agreed

[weary hedge]

needs more cowbell

[undone ore]

I'm skeptical about new games because each new game is getting worse. Forgotten art of making good shadows

[primal summit]

Will Stalker 2 run well with a NVIDIA GTX 1650 Super graphics card?

[weary hedge]

please somebody help with my specs. are they even worthy to even attempt epic settings? i lagged so hard in the prologue that i had to switch monitors at first. next step is to drop settings, next step is GeForce Now. that's been my troubleshoot so far

[charred nova]

1650 super is slower than 1060 6 gig

sorry friend

[naive summit]

what about my RTX 2060 OC 6GB Dual? 2x16GB DDR4 2666mhz Dual Channel

[undone ore]

I bet 16 fps like on my 1660

[primal summit]

So I gotta upgrade my hardware on Christmas?

[charred nova]

faster than 1060 6 gig so probably

[high gazelle]

not xmas, nao!

[charred nova]

would be a good idea

[hexed blaze]

I have 1660 ti and i only have dookie frames in high NPC pop

[weary hedge]

Bro i'm struggling even with my new Ryzen 7 7700. Your best bet is a GeForce Now Ultimate subscription and some good bandwith for the best settings.

[long relic]

What a beast

[charred nova]

will be a better time to jump in tbh

[lament smelt]

Im pretty sure the big patch of 140go broke some stuff in the game and it was too late

[charred nova]

game will have a few patches

[cedar stag]

id say its not that toxic.
Sure some complain. but then again, we will have a whole bunch of new stalkers that aint familiar with how the trilogy played out.
They expect some polished perfect AAA title. and just by judging the pricetag - id agree. but i know the history of GSC, ive followed the newsletters, hell i worked with another studio in Kiev when the war broke out. shit hit the fan really hard and GSC had much like back in 2004 a big publisher on their ass pushing for release.

I dont mean to justify bugs or crashes. its just that there is a whole lot of factors, including 2024 social-media behavior where those who scream the loudest are the ones claiming to be the right ones and thats why it looks like a horrible mess.
S2 isnt more bugged than any other game at release. It has the same issues that Cyberpunk had, StarField had, Arma Reforger, Ready or Not, Halo Infinite etc.
Hell it couldve been worse, it couldve been like Test Drive Unlimited: Solar Crown.

ive tested S2 on Gamescom 2022 and what we got to test was the rescue mission where u fight the 5-6 Bandits at Boilerroom and let me tell you - that area not only improved vastly in graphics but a lot of weird issues like very very rough DLSS noise on every texture, extreme ghosting when moving, and similar. hell in that demo there was no anomaly as far as i remember.
So just wait a few weeks when the tourists have moved onto the next title and the actual community is visible again

[glad dune]

has anyone figured out what to do with Bubb's pda

[primal summit]

So what graphics card would you recommend for games like Stalker 2?

[weary hedge]

The percentile

[undone ore]

I think that in my case the problem is not only with the graphic card

[charred nova]

depends how much money do you want to spend

[mild sluice]

How the hell do i get down from the pile of garbage next to Richter? There's rads everywhere

[novel axle]

There is a really good site for comparing gpus out there let me get the link. https://gpu.userbenchmark.com/ can compared 2 cards and see which is faster with benchmark results. apparently 3060 Ti IS slightly faster than a 2080. By slightly I mean 5% or so.

[weary hedge]

anything will do unless its brand new tech since its not optimized yet. cpu is the key since game is cpu bound

[lament smelt]

There is a sign and a hole after @mild sluice

[long relic]

I never figured this out, i saw a few people talk about it lol

[hexed blaze]

maybe i had an RMA issue so everything is current gen exept GPU

[smoky onyx]

the game was already like this pre patch

[charred nova]

from what i heard it was worse

[mild sluice]

I can't get up the way I came. Can't jump up the red container. I've got to descend the mountain

[charred nova]

pre patch

[primal summit]

My CPU is Intel(R) Core(TM) i5-9400F CPU @ 2.90GHz 2.90 GHz with 16 gigs of RAM

[weary hedge]

and thats where the problem resides....

[long relic]

Bro.. even with overclocking youre gonna be in pain

[lament smelt]

@mild sluice there is litterally a path to go back but im not rhere anymore

[hexed blaze]

🍼 👔

[novel axle]

https://gpu.userbenchmark.com/Compare/Nvidia-RTX-3060-Ti-vs-Nvidia-RTX-2080/4090vs4026

[zealous gate]

so... i barely started the game and got past first the few dudes you kill, the invis dude, and now im getting attacked by invisible (anomalies?) throwing barrels and being EXTREMELY loud. is this normal or is it a bug or is it because of the optimisation mod i have

[mild sluice]

I've got it now

[primal summit]

So anything else I can do besides having to upgrade hardware to play Stalker 2?

[weary hedge]

cant rly overclock an intel. this is the point you spend 200€ for new cpu and recommend to get 16 gigs more ram

[storm token]

its a poltergeist, so its normal, yes

[charred nova]

it cant even be overclocked

😂

[long relic]

Poltergeists, they are the bane of my existence

[weary hedge]

Have you played a Stalker game before?? You’re fighting a poltergeist.

[hexed blaze]

stream it i guess?

[zealous gate]

wait its an actual thing? thats so stupid lmaooo okay whatever guess its unkillable or something. i barely played stalker i cant even see the thing and i just magdump in the direction and nothing happens. idk

[charred nova]

cast the add 4 cpu cores spell on your computer

[mild sluice]

Its killable.

[humble vapor]

Just run past the poltergeist, it can be killed but its just tanky.

[novel axle]

Good to know my card is bascially as good as a 2080 Super., but 3070-Ti slaughters it I think. yeah 23% faster than 3060 ti.

[polar shell]

any fix to being aimlocked on a house toward the beginning when heading to the first outpost..? i have yet to be able to play since and it's unfortunate

[smoky onyx]

streaming service to play the game ive heard the input delay is not so bad these days idk

[weary hedge]

new cpu and preferably 32gb of ram (not sure if required) and ssd is a must if that isnt the case

[long relic]

God bless AMD and nvidia (my stock portfolio has hit the roof)

[weary hedge]

It’s a giant ball of lightning, find it and shoot at it until it explodes then the noises and domestic abuse will be ended, nothing stupid about it.

[long bane]

i honestly hope that there will be a mod that replaces coupons with rubles

[oak basalt]

Anyone done the hot on the trail quest yet? I need help please.

[lament smelt]

Well i dont really care about a life all i want is to see ennemy from far and that they dont spawn behind me

[charred nova]

bro gotta share i need funds for my car smh

[weary hedge]

Yo still haven’t rated my Ryzen 7 7700

[hexed blaze]

shoot it it will die.....eventually and then you get a surprise

[zealous gate]

its invisible. completely and utterly invisible. thats the problem. i assume bc of the mod idk how much this matters but i think its helping my fps so idk

[cedar stag]

something with at least 8gb VRAM, a 1080ti could be okay if u are okay with avg settings.
2080 for slightly better settings, 3000 series for great settings and 4000 for epic and potentially RTX.
Tho in my defense i rarely see that much difference between Rtx on and off, even on a 39" QHD screen

just make sure u aint bottlenecked by ur cpu or lack of ram either and it should be good to go.
i play on a 1080 in QHD and on avg and im fine

[charred nova]

thats fine

[weary hedge]

take all your shillings and enter local casino. bet on black: profit

[long relic]

Too late i spent it all on my supra and guns

[charred nova]

damn it no rx7 for me today

[novel axle]

try that on veteran and see how well you do when it does 75% to you in 1 hit if it chucks a barrel at you or at least 45% with the smallest item it'll pick up lol

[charred nova]

tomorrow is another day

[weary hedge]

No it’s not, you just haven’t found it, it’s inside the building with the radio, there is no bug.

[weary hedge]

then why was it having major performance issues on my ultrawide???

[hexed blaze]

its not you have to look around its a glowing blue orb

[undone ore]

Do you guys think they will improve optimization? I dont want to play Pripat again

[charred nova]

gpu

and also game optimization is just kinda not there

[cedar stag]

which version? MK 2, mk3, (overrated)mk4 or the BMW?

[long relic]

An rx7 was my second option hahaa

[weary hedge]

i have 1080ti and amd 5600 (clocked to run at 4,6ghz constant) 32gb 3400 ram and i play mostly on high graph except i lowered shadows to medium, terrain to med and render dist to med. i get 80-90 fps

[charred nova]

very jealous

[zealous gate]

also ive been trying to take out a bolt but it.. doesnt work. do i need to progress?

[charred nova]

but back to stalker

[silver pawn]

I’m on console, and I have to restart every few hours

[weary hedge]

So my smaller monitor will run better? Noticed this in IL-2.

[charred nova]

yes

less resolution

[smoky onyx]

this right here might be the best budget kit if u can find a decent second hand 1080ti for a good price

[nimble dirge]

oh my lord in heaven I've been poking around the files and all the people complaining about Bloodsuckers being too tanky are going to meltdown when they run into some of the later muties

[weary hedge]

I only play this game on veteran, it took me a while but it wasn’t hard, poltergeist abuse is easy just run away from the floating objects, go behind a wall, it throws at you and misses then the stuff in that room starts floating and you move again, no need man it’s real simple, it also won’t follow you upstairs so going there is best bet, I died to it like ten times though.

[long relic]

Mk5 sorry man, all i wanted was a reliable beemer with carplay so i could convince my wife otherwise id be getting a project car 😔

[undone ore]

Yeah, I felt that 😂

[bright prism]

Constant 4,6ghz? What's your idle wattage?

[hexed blaze]

less pixels = less thinky thinky for gpu

[fresh bear]

Y'all which factions are playable?

[charred nova]

its not a real issue for me but

[silver pawn]

Music and voices cut out, NPCs not spawning, sometimes items just don’t work (will do the animation for medkit but no health and the kit is used).

[charred nova]

im not gonna sit here and tell people

[primal summit]

Speaking of Stalker, I've been watching a couple vids on it and I'm wondering what would happen if more Zones popped up across the world.

[weary hedge]

Thanks chad answer I was looking for

[charred nova]

the optimization is fine

[novel axle]

intersing apparently the player hits for 25% less damage on veteran difficulty https://www.nexusmods.com/stalker2heartofchornobyl/mods/51

[zealous gate]

wow i killed it only took 90 bullets straight to the head/body...

[charred nova]

having 20 fps and getting 60 with frame gen

does not fix anything

[weary hedge]

That was mentioned a while ago

[weary hedge]

that is the number i dont remember but whole setup is runnning at around 400 +- depending i have gpu overclocking on or off

[hexed blaze]

I gotchu

[cedar stag]

yeah as expected. im stuck on my 1080 for now bc if i upgrade i have to also upgrade my PSU and that opens the bag of upgrading my storage vault of 18tb HDDs in raid5

[zinc dagger]

if your on pc, submit your soul to grok and download his mod

[lament smelt]

For framegen you need at least 60 fps without it

[smoky onyx]

the fps would drop even more

[zealous gate]

?

[hexed blaze]

your mama murphy at that point

[undone ore]

My pc isnt the newest one, but with most games it works fine (I dont mean Cyberpunk 2077..), and cos optimization isnt really existing, I was messing with crashes every 20 minutes

[zinc dagger]

it fixes the mutant tankiness if thats your problem

[weary hedge]

Grok. Made GAMMA.

[stray dragon]

Man i thought the mutation health thing wasn't so bad until i spent 700 bullets into a pseudogiant and its still alive...

[sour depot]

Grok's released a mod that lowers bloodsucker and poltergeist health

[weary hedge]

peronally i got corsais 650w power supply since anything more than that is unnecesary

[weary hedge]

me when i don’t have even close to that and it somehow works

[long relic]

I remember before gamma, grok would hang out in the anomaly server and just help people fix their mods

[charred nova]

hahahaha

[zealous gate]

also no clue why a higher difficulty means you do less damage. doesn't actually make sense and is just annoying and doesn't make it more difficult but makes it insanely more unrealistic and tedious. i did see a mod that increases damage and stuff but didnt know how terrible it was but ill look for it

[smoky onyx]

wtf is this a bethesda game?

[charred nova]

honest opinion game needed another 2 months in the oven

[lament smelt]

I mean if you want less input lag and latency

[undone ore]

Grok's also fixed veteran difficulty

[coarse vector]

same this feels like fallout 4 idk what im even playing

[charred nova]

but i can understand why they opted to release

[zinc dagger]

its not nearly as bad as a bethesda game, or else it'd take 2000 rounds

[hexed blaze]

its a bit of a doughy pizza

[charred nova]

they had delayed again and again and again

[nimble dirge]

I don't think its a good solution, tbh. I've been poking through the files tonight and the later mutants are faaaaaar tankier. Bloodsuckers are on the easier end.

[charred nova]

peoples were not gonna wait anymore

[weary hedge]

additional opinion: game needed bunch of game testers to give feedback before the actual release

[cedar stag]

but cp2077 is actually not that demanding, i can play that one on my system in max details QHD with 1067 mods packed ontop at stable 110-120FPS

[stray dragon]

The fact i can send 200 45 acp, 400 5.556, and 100 7.62 rounds into something and it lives is insane.

[charred nova]

oh i agree

[smoky onyx]

i mean on bethesda games at least u get op to the point of one shoting dragons

[charred nova]

i wont claim they did not have a large scale play test but

[sour depot]

....
youre joking right ???

RIGHT ????

[undone ore]

One thing I dont really understand why they decided to made it on ue5

[long relic]

What the hell are you fighting? Nothing takes more than dumping 2-3 mags for me

[weary hedge]

Gamma was my go to for stalker before release. I bet this server doubled in members count due to it

[charred nova]

no

not really

[weary hedge]

btw why do i have snail mode enabled. is it becouse i used f-word twice in random sentences?

[charred nova]

very few people joined here because of gamma

[zinc dagger]

tell that to the ebony warrior, like todd howards freakin self insert

[novel axle]

on veetran the player does only 75% of normal damage, but that still doesn't explain the mutants as even on Easy (aka rookie in game) they are super tanky, its either a deliberate design choice, r there is some bug thats massivly upping their health or resists

[charred nova]

in fact gamma server has 4x as many people at this server lol

[zealous gate]

i had two gamebreaking bugs not even an actual minute after the intro cutscene finally finished. i still cannot use right click properly especially to aim. it just wont work. but rebinding it with razer synapse to something else works just fine. also terrible graphic tearing but in hindsight that might've been driver related or something because i think nvidia seemingly uninstalled itself almost but then again seeing how little quality control went into the game...

[stray dragon]

A pseudogiant, it just facetanked my entire inventory lol. Its hilarious how tanky these things are.

[latent cloak]

@dapper rock sovl or no sovl?

[undone ore]

Yea, they fixed it, but it was terrible at the beginning

[cedar stag]

5090 entering chat, taking the PSU all for itself

[nimble dirge]

I am not. There's a couple mutants I won't spoil that have multiple times more HP than a bloodsucker and have higher phys resist

[smoky onyx]

im remembering the tell me lies video and getting similiar vibes

[long relic]

Ohhh yeah those are definitely broken

[sleek basin]

why is it always raining 👺

[tacit turtle]

So.... Was a-life 2.0 just snake oil?

[topaz marten]

hey i was wondering if anyone else just randomly gets massive frame drops after a cutscene or dying for example my game will go from steady 70-80fps down to 10-15

[weary hedge]

that gpu is just a joke. never ever going to buy gpu which needs its own power cord. electric bill going to be on crack after that

[weary hedge]

I mean stalker 2 not gamma bruh

[sour depot]

Lemme Guess, its ||Pseudogigant|| correct ??

[novel axle]

yeah the mutants are a big reason why I am just not playing right now, they give no loot, and just cost a fortune to deal with.

[charred nova]

oh lol

[zinc dagger]

bugged

[charred nova]

well since launch

10k people have joined

ish

[lament smelt]

... im out

[stray dragon]

I bet if i finished the quest it would of only gave me like 1000 coupons as well xD
Very worth my tens of thousands in ammo cost.

[undone ore]

I joined cos #🤨┃stalker_memes

[nimble dirge]

I'm not spoilin but I can DM

[storm token]

like in a certain direction?

[long relic]

I had to chuck like 8 direct grenades onto it, grok said it was the armor values that are scuffed on the giant and bloodsucker

[charred nova]

i have it on very good authority its bugged currently

[weary hedge]

See what I mean. Even penguinz0 played this game

[sour depot]

sure

[topaz marten]

it just randomly happens idk

[charred nova]

yes i saw

[weary hedge]

any clue what is causing the code to not work ?

[novel axle]

try more like 600-750 which is even worse. @long relic what about the flesh then? as they tank like 4 shotgun blasts to the face, boars too.

[frigid hill]

.simulacra has been warned

Reason: Bad word usage

[zinc dagger]

he plays every large game that comes out thats not exactly an achievement

i think he even played zoochosis

[deep sedge]

Bro, burers slap hard

[coarse vector]

aint this the spoilers section of the s2 discussion 😭

[charred nova]

i do not no

[cedar stag]

bro u dont know how devasted i was when I mauled the first flesh and pulled out my knife only to find out that u cant loot them no matter how much u stab that fat fuck

[nimble dirge]

I don't think the armor values are "scuffed" in a way that means broken or unintentional, I think the devs wanted them to be stupid tanky

[charred nova]

im not a dev

im just a random guy

lol

[stray dragon]

Funny thing is, using AP bullets isnt much better either.

[smoky onyx]

u gave us a lecture on silicon and processors the other day, was meant to repply to handsome jack

[glacial sentinel]

Not me thinking you’ll get something cool if you climb the cooling tower

[charred nova]

thats my job bro

come on

[long relic]

So i discovered that if you take time between firing the shotgun, it does more damage? No idea why but its like my second round doesnt hit

[zinc dagger]

literally so disappointing

[novel axle]

yeah mutants need to give loot, skin em for meat+leather to sell or cook with, I mean people in the zone need to self source food and such, makes no sense that this is not in stalker 2.

[coarse vector]

honestly i hate the crosshair it turns green for every person you look at regardless of relation

[cedar stag]

btw is S2 still banned on cis territory?

[silver pawn]

Yeah, I’m 7 hours in and right now I can’t get to The Garbage because enemies keep spawning and attacking me. Boars, bandits, and the military looking stalkers just seem to endlessly spawn.

[weary hedge]

Remember to rub your processors in silicone snake oil

[charred nova]

this i 100000000 percent agree

[tacit turtle]

Oh I did? Must've been in a fugue state

[pulsar crane]

the burers have got to be one of the least fun enemy designs i've seen in a video game

[stray dragon]

Also am i the only one who finds human npcs too easy to kill?
Playing on veteran and i have never died to a human npc.

[charred nova]

the only way it could be justified to waste more than half your ammo killing mutants

is if they actually dropped something

but they dont so

[smoky onyx]

sorry wrong repply

[charred nova]

it servers literally zero purpose for them to be such massive bullet sponges

[novel axle]

Even then its not justified as I doubt they would drop enough to be worth what you just spent to kill it.

[charred nova]

doesnt make the game harder

[cedar stag]

almost as fun as bure-ocracy ahahahaha

[charred nova]

doesn't make the game more fun

[coarse vector]

the combat feels so like... slow why do you walk so slooww

[charred nova]

its just annoying

[hexed blaze]

i want psuedo giant skin in my belt slot

[charred nova]

thats all

[zinc dagger]

wheres my flesh flesh...

[tacit turtle]

Actually most things feel like a waste of ammo and weapon condition

[charred nova]

i mean

if i kill a bandit with a gun

[royal wharf]

I was being an asshole on this server earlier today and I wana apologize. The game is really good I was just really frustrated over a few bugs

[weary hedge]

headshot them: they always die to 1-2. but oh boy if you decided to shoot middle mass instead

[long relic]

Cmon stalker, all you need is a knife, bread, and 30 grenades. Guns are for suckers

[charred nova]

he might drop the some bullets

to make it worth killing him

they also dont take 100 rounds to kill

[stray dragon]

I know, i said they're too EASY not too hard.

[pulsar crane]

against a burer i just had my shotgun pulled out of my hands, levitated over my head and then headshot me in the span of half a second before i could even pull out my second gun. it felt like a looney toons skit man

[charred nova]

if you get a head shot they die instantly

[novel axle]

I mean humans are fine, 1 shot to the head usually does the job. if your full autoing the body your doing it wrong as they are tanky as HELL to body shots. I've NEVER killed a human with body shots, it almost feels like they are immune

[zinc dagger]

the humans really dont feel that tanky its really JUST the mutants

[weary hedge]

So guys yesterday the intro cutscene lagged on my ultrawide and it was unplayable. Is this an issue that has been resolved or will be?

[coarse vector]

it feels like the only way you can walk without getting killed is just forward against enemies

[blissful ember]

You can pick it back up when he yoinks it btw

[fierce nexus]

I love that SoC's menu theme is mixed in with the new theme

[bronze lagoon]

yeah one and two shot bursts at most, do the best results for hoomans

[charred nova]

yah i got no problem with the human enemies balance that feels fine to me

[deep sedge]

How the f do you kill burers, my lord

[charred nova]

its just the mutants

like in the original games bro mutants on the highest difficulty could totally mess you up

[weary hedge]

Now everything is running great and I even am going to start packing my epic reshade

[fair drum]

i literally found a bug idk if alr have videos about it, but if u try to trade any stackable item on some merchant and press sell with M1 instead F key, u can get like infinite money

[pulsar crane]

i couldn't, because he shot me with it too fast. before i could even walk up and grab it

[charred nova]

many could kill you in a single hit

[novel axle]

yeah its because humans can pretty much be 1 tapped with any gun to the head, I do feel they are way to tanky in the body, like a bandit shouldn't be able to take a mag of fire from a AK47 to the body even on veteran. Someone in a exosuit sure, but some bandit in a leather coat? umm no.

[stray dragon]

The fact i can kill human enemies in 1-3 shots and get loot, But take 30-200 shots to kill a mutant and get nothing is so damn annoying lol

[charred nova]

or do 80 percent of your health

thats fine

[zinc dagger]

tbh if a dude is wearing a military grade ballistic vest and i shoot him in the chest, yeah, its gonna take a couple shots with my rifle

[bronze lagoon]

if it's fleshers or boars, if you can, try to lure them into an enclosed space and hit em with frag grenades. if possible, run them thru a whirligig anomaly...\

[fierce nexus]

Carefully, that one by Duga did a number on me

[charred nova]

because at the end of day you could still kill them and it felt fair

[weary hedge]

tbh i eagerly wait for them to change difficutly to work like in originals. on hard everything is a glasscannon. and on easy everythign is a bullet sponge

[blissful ember]

odd, i always had time

[smoky onyx]

sure lets cheat on a single player game

[severe wedge]

prolly a dumb question but was there a patch today? got an update and just curious bout finding the patch notes

[fair drum]

well, actually the game will have a multiplayer so, u use if u want

[charred nova]

doesn't really fix the issue if you ask me

[deep sedge]

There are two at the dog cite in garbage. They shoot flying guns, fling tea kettles, and take my gun, nades seem to fly right back at me

[zealous gate]

which health adjustment mod is better? grok's or the 'creature health adjustment' one? seems like the latter might have more downloads and stuff

[hexed blaze]

yeah i have always been in camp easy to kill AI easy to kill me. leave the bullet sponges for the MMO nerbs

[novel axle]

The problem is it seems like all humans are the same on chest shots, seems to take the same amount of chest shots whether its a bandit or a military dude, as if they use the same damage resist values for each when it should in reality vary based on their armor.

[fierce nexus]

Welcome to the Zone, stalker

[charred nova]

making everything have tons of health doesn't make the game harder

[cedar stag]

well most NPC stalkers in early territory dont wear composit helmets if any helmets at all - maybe a gasmask but the only game where rubber is stronger than metal or composite material is Warthunder, so its not inherently wrong that most NPCs drop after getting a 5.56x39 "brainsurgery"

[charred nova]

thats not difficulty

[frigid hill]

l04dupndrollout99 has been warned

Reason: Bad word usage

[charred nova]

thats just annoying

[zinc dagger]

people seem to have a weird concept that the MP is gonna be like, uh gta online. its probably more just gonna be some kinda TDM mode

[smoky onyx]

if u run away 20m they despawn and u save ammo 😂

[charred nova]

thats stupid though

why should i have to run away from every bunch of mutants to avoid wasting every single round i got to kill them

[hexed blaze]

i was thinking more Left 4 dead joint playable mutants and shiz

[mild sluice]

Anyone who speaks Ukrainian know if the English subtitles are accurate?

[fierce nexus]

Classic burer

[novel axle]

till they get fixed its the best play sadly.

[slender fern]

Anyone soft lock on the poppy quest? Can't hand in weapons to bro

[stray dragon]

Oh that reminds me, i was in the swamp and i had an emission, which is literally guaranteed death with no survival since the swamp has no safe locations.

[charred nova]

well there is a mod

[fallen tundra]

i prefer a kill fast die fast type of difficulty

[charred nova]

that fixes mutant balance

[undone ore]

and reducing the damage of the player's weapons...

[charred nova]

i agree

thats way better

and way more fun

[zinc dagger]

yes emissions do that unless you take cover, that is in fact, how blowouts work

[charred nova]

if im fighting something that can kill me in a single hit but if im just able to hit a few well placed shots i can kill it

thats fun

[carmine jackal]

never apologize. never.

[hollow ridge]

in Stalker 1 they were like that

[cedar stag]

technically there is also WeMod with options to give u one-hit killing or godmode but that takes away from the misery fun

[novel axle]

it helps with it a bit, but it doesn't fix the base issue thats there. I assume u mean the one by Grok or is there another one?

[charred nova]

spraying mag after mag into the same mutant is not

[stray dragon]

Yeah but theres no safe areas in the south swamp lol

[lament smelt]

Who is menacing you ?

[fierce nexus]

People who complain about bloodsuckers being hard to kill never fought zombies in Clear Sky

[coarse vector]

anyone else thinks the graphics on max kinda are underwhelming compared to the trailers?

[fallen tundra]

making mutans have less health but apply more fear tactics to them, like trying to actually avoid bullets like the dogs do

[hexed blaze]

it breaks immersion 3 mags in and im outa the matrix and sadge

[zinc dagger]

SO TRUE

[charred nova]

there is another one that rebalances all the mutants

but ive not tried them out

[weary hedge]

Anyone german and can help me ?

[crisp horizon]

anyone else feel like fall damage is way higher than it needs to be?

[charred nova]

i mean fr

[novel axle]

I mean zombies by lore are basically unkillable without headshots they are already dead, bloodsuckers and mutants however are living creatures and should not be able to take anywhere near that amount of rounds to drop.

[gaunt talon]

there needs to be more gimmicks to mutants than straight health

[stray dragon]

Only issue is using mods may brick your game when it updates lol

[lament smelt]

Just underwhelming ? Its a goddam insane downgrade

[carmine jackal]

hallo

[charred nova]

even a fricken grizzly bear isn't just gonan walk off 15 ak rounds

[slender fern]

yeah its rough

[coarse vector]

look at this https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UDuHOpFmkyQ&t=495s compared to like this https://cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net/Enjmt82HWW4WtdKfcZZEsJ.jpg

[median nymph]

does changing into certain suits cause factions to show different aggression to you?

[hexed blaze]

i used to hunt bears it only takes one 20 gage

[weary hedge]

Kannst du mir eventuell helfen?😅 Kann ich dir nh dm auf Discord schicken?

[crisp horizon]

i am trying absolutely everything to bypass the cave dweller in that one sidequest that involves that one dude from the game

[charred nova]

[novel axle]

mutants in stalker 2 don't even react to being shot period. pretty sure they reacted in the older games sometimes even on the first shot it';d interupt a charge easly

[charred nova]

likr

should it take multiple head shots with 9mm

to kill like a flesh

sure

[gleaming moss]

First time launching the game rn letsgoooooooo💯💯

[charred nova]

but it should not take like 15

[carmine jackal]

emmm, ze game ist good? Ya?

[hollow ridge]

now wait for shaders to load 😂 like 15 mins

[gleaming moss]

Yeah i just saw that now 😭😭 bruh

[hexed blaze]

i figured it out! you have to shoot through all the plot armor i get it now

[charred nova]

i mean even back then we all knew that was not real gameplay

hahaha

[coarse vector]

i guess but idk any other examples

[novel axle]

i'd say 2-3 yeah is fine, but 15+ is not. 1 rifle shot or a shotgun blast should be killing fleshs instantly regardless of difficulty. Blood suckers too usually droped in a few ak47 shots or 1-2 shotgun shots in the older games. Still were dangerious as hell as they hurt, were fast and hit and run, but defense wise they were actually about as fragile as humans are

[undone ore]

Why ue5

[deep sedge]

Also, where is Scar's SCAR?

[charred nova]

id say its like slightly better looking overall than metro exodus

[wanton zinc]

Anyone knows if the devs are going to look into this fps drop issue ?

[charred nova]

like a 30 to 40 percent visual quality up lift

[charred nova]

first thing there working on is a life

[junior oyster]

just had my superpower origin story. I accidentally got exposed to an emmission and now my hud is glitched to not show my health/stamina and I can run forever. I am stalker man

[stray dragon]

I wonder how many people just starting the game got spawnkilled by that one bloodsucker in the prologue.
I had a friend messaging me today how to get past it since it kept kicking his ass lol

[tacit turtle]

Ue5 is actually doodoo I'm sos sad cdprojekt red is moving away from the red engine for this

[smoky onyx]

tought it was performance but im glad its alife

[charred nova]

nope

is a life

[zinc dagger]

The weak die. the strong live.
as is the way of the zone.

[charred nova]

to the best of my knowledge

let me add that

[wanton zinc]

wdym

[novel axle]

I am guessing alot LOL. on rookie it doesn';t hit that hard, but it still takes a massive amount of ammo to kill. I killed it on veteran, and on veteran a leap attack did 95% of your health, and a simple swipe would do over 40% on veteran to the player in that fight

[charred nova]

the a life 2.0 system in the game

is bugged

[hexed blaze]

honestly i played alot of gamma and its pretty similar looking not the NPCs but gamma with a good home cooked reshade is not far off lol but im also upscaled to oblivion

[smoky onyx]

the game feels dead without, it im even waiting so i dont ruin my game playing like this

[carmine jackal]

some call them bloodsuckers, I call them bitches

[stray dragon]

For some reason the bloodsucker just straight up 1 shot me with every attack on vet, no clue why.
Ended up just walking past it since it ate all my bullets.

[meager shard]

Does anyone know if the devs have confirmed they are working on the vram/memory leak issue??

[charred nova]

after mate said he went to the poppy field area and he said it bricked his save i just closed the game

[coarse vector]

honestly tho i just kind of feel scammed. i mean all the bugs and then the graphical downgrade, i understand they could pull a cyberpunk 2.0 but right now it just feels worse than what people said it was

[undone ore]

I still wonder if unreal can handle it

[charred nova]

im not ruining this for my self

[crisp horizon]

im going to take on a bloodsucker with a pump action shottie i found, wish me luck

[vast frost]

ANYONE HAVING THAT WEIRD BUG WITH THE HOLOGRQAPHIC SIGHT#

[novel axle]

their jumping attack is pretty much a 1 shot cuz of the knockdown, or it would be if they weren';t coded to run and hide right after using it, if there is anything else around and u get hit by that jump attack your deff screwed before you even get up from it. you can usually get up and medkit before it comes back at you, but if it does it a 2nd time in a row a single med kit is not going to heal u enough to tank a 2nd one

[zinc dagger]

bloodsucker jumpscare

[charred nova]

i can build a computer with my eyes closed but i know nothing about software or game development so i got no idea

[tacit turtle]

I wonder too lmao game already isn't easy on CPUs

[candid timber]

Damn I just went from 1440p to 1080p and its so much more enjoyable its like im not even playing the same game

[coarse vector]

still a good game i just wish it wasnt so bad on launch :( hopefully it will get better

[zealous shell]

hi. is there possible to increase number of ammo in vintorez and veteran mag ? i mean is there some mag modification to find ?

[carmine jackal]

no mention of ammo? Lost to the zone.

[wanton zinc]

New technology new problems

[zinc dagger]

you know, back in the day when elden ring released, there was this neat problem where everyone had terribly bad frames because everyone collectively forgot to update their drivers.

perhaps gsc should put out a uh, PSA, update your stuff

[molten cliff]

where do I submit bugs? I been having issue where I keep getting this sniper spawned on my inv and I already got like 3 of them and my inv is now full...

[smoky onyx]

xray handled it very well and when ppl started using new 64bit moded versions of the engine it got even better, so i guess its possible here

[latent lake]

how long does rain last because its killing my frames

[crisp horizon]

i died immediately

[undone ore]

You know, Unreal Engine is better for games that are more... static. Not that dynamic as A LIFE system. Unity, for example is better for that kind of crap. Maybe its the issue why a life isnt already in

[novel axle]

The solution to many performance issues for stalker 2 for now is just to lower your res until they optimize it properly then you can up it again, the problem is many people are HURR DURR MUST RUN AT 4K! and refuse to go any lower.

[severe wedge]

frame generation something good to have enabled? any downsides for stalker anyones found?

[candid timber]

I understand, lowering the res was my last resort, and I wish I did it sooner

[tacit turtle]

Alhamdulillah we got good upscalers

[smoky onyx]

im already at 1080p and its unstable asf goes from 170fps to 80 in seconds then back up again

[crisp horizon]

1440p gets me like 100 to 120 fps which is pretty doable to me

[lament smelt]

Two crash in 5 min because of emission what the hell

[undone ore]

yeah, yeah, but its completly different engine, with completly different specifications

[zinc dagger]

it gave me nauesa along with other people so, if you get headaches/ feel sick turn it off

[magic gulch]

my stealth meter keeps getting edged by a guy that is a whole building away from me bro..

[latent lake]

clearly its the players fault for expecting to be able to play the game at their monitors native resolution.

[charred nova]

well idk anything about that

[proud nacelle]

I unpaused the game and a Military Squad spawned behind me.

[mild sluice]

Is Roosevelt Duty or Freedom? I forget

[charred nova]

i can only tell you lads what i do know

i do know that the a life system should be top priority

[severe wedge]

thank you. ill just avoid it

[charred nova]

for the devs

thats what i know

[azure shard]

Anyone else get random stuff added to their inventory? Earlier today it was a broken SVD. a few minutes ago the gun I was holding was replaced with a broken spas12

[novel axle]

On veteran, i died 9 times to that damn blood sucker in the tutorial zone before I managed to kill it by hiding like a lil chicken on a crate and shooting it as it tried to hit me (it couldn't reach me from where it was). @zinc dagger yeah frame gen causes me to have headaches but i also need it to get a playable fps at 1080p. so Sucks to be me. @latent lake I get what your saying but I mean its a solution that can use for NOW that works, just suck it up and do it so you can play

[tender jasper]

I hope so im putting off my playthrough after almost finsihing the lesser zone so i dont ruin the game by playing with no Alife.

[lost wolf]

Whats the best endgame armor??

[carmine jackal]

https://tenor.com/view/total-recall-arnold-schwarzenegger-nose-stuck-gif-3577041

[hexed blaze]

nah bull shit tell us everything you dont know or else...something

[lucid mica]

I'm surprised how well the game runs on my computer. Really it's a bit comical how people with RTX 3050s and similar GPUs are complaining about the performance while over here I'm joyous to see it hit 40 (~60 with FSR) on my RX 580

[charred nova]

shit bruh im sorry ill try harder next time

[undone ore]

I'm programming myself, crating game with my friends so I must know how it works. I wish them luck and succes, they will have hard time trying to make alife working on that imitation of engine. But they done it already on xray, so there is hope

[coarse vector]

TELL US. WHERE IS THE TOP SECRET ONLY SEEN ON ONE MINIMAL MAP THAT HAS THE WORDS "snow??" WHERE IS THE SNOW BIOME.....

[charred nova]

doing the same also a few too many people have reported having there saves brick so

just gonna wait

[hexed blaze]

same

[charred nova]

not trying to deal with that

[bold shore]

Bro got turned into scar from clear sky

[lament smelt]

Oh right there should be a snow event too

[silver pawn]

I wish 🤣

[carmine jackal]

boys. I'm making anomally 2. release in next hour.

[molten cliff]

yeah I mean I tuned my settings for my rtx 4070 with my 1440p monitor and I get average frame at 58-60 because my monitor only supports up to 60 but yeah. I have everything on high with dlss on.

[charred nova]

uhhhhhhhh

your mom

[undone ore]

[charred nova]

[coarse vector]

oh im not joking btw :0 https://esportseclipse.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/11/Stalker-2-Map-Size-Stalker-2-Regions-Stalker-2-Locations.png.webp top right

[novel axle]

No one is going to think any less of you because you had to lower the resolution of a game to get acceptable performance. My next game will be on stalker difficulty, mostly due to the mutants. they hit like trucks on Vet (bloodsucker swipe did 40% of my health on Vet, jump attack does 95%) I am sure those numbers are prob halfed on stalker difficulty

[keen edge]

Is it bad that im killing every single person I come across in the open world? Are some friendly?

[smoky onyx]

thats probably a dlc area

[charred nova]

yes

[lament smelt]

Im not either

[charred nova]

the loners should be friendly

[mild sluice]

Yes.

Adorable pfp btw

[coarse vector]

do hostile npcs show up as friendly on the crosshair for anyone? idk why mines green when im pointing at bandits

[lucid mica]

Ah yes, the wider audience has arrived

[charred nova]

https://www.nexusmods.com/stalker2heartofchornobyl/mods/62

[weary hedge]

Most of the known factions are friendly, it’s only bandits and some others that aren’t.

[subtle birch]

wtf 30 minutes in the game AND the fps dropped to like 5, any Solution?

[hexed blaze]

yeah loners are typically friendly as long as your not at a school

[charred nova]

a life patch just dropped boys

[novel axle]

bloodsucker leap attack on rookie does like 15% health or 20% tops at the start of the game, they hit like a fly on rookie.

[keen edge]

So groups bad? loners good? Does the green indicator mean friendly then?

[wanton zinc]

Welcome to the zone

[plush rain]

Where is the swamp

[undone ore]

Imported game save from Pripyat

[pulsar crane]

i think the worst part about the burers is that even after it mag dumps the guns it levitates and drops them, they magically refill their ammo. two of them can juggle the same exact gun and keep it shooting at you almost indefinitely

[smoky onyx]

if this shit works lol

[charred nova]

yes

[lament smelt]

Lmao, random modif let him cook

[charred nova]

the description says he has no idea if it even does anything

lmao

[jagged umbra]

Any other mod websites? I choose not to support nexus

[tender jasper]

Lmao

[coarse vector]

any1?

[mossy egret]

??? where patch

[charred nova]

it was a joke

[subtle birch]

so no Solution?

[lucid mica]

Memory leak probably, exiting the game should resolve it

[charred nova]

someone made a mod that tweaks the a life values

[novel axle]

Green means not openly hostile, but you need to get closer to find out. some early quests have bandits that start green, you talk to em piss em off then they just spray u down, in those situations I just reload my quick save and just instagank them instead the 2nd time. lol

[carmine jackal]

A-LIFE CONFIRMED

[wanton zinc]

Not yet sadly

[keen edge]

well only a few innocent lifes are gone I learned my lesson tyty

[frigid hill]

taidumartyom has been warned

Reason: Bad word usage

[smoky onyx]

he said more events but thats not a life

[plush rain]

Ex dpi mod to stalker mod is crazy

[mild sluice]

Imperium esque

[hexed blaze]

hell yeah cant wait for the AI to nuke my gpu like dragons dogma

[molten cliff]

bad boi

[tender jasper]

Gonna try and report back boys see if it atleast is a good bandaid

[quiet grove]

It will take prob 5 months or more, cuz its not even coded in first place it will release like a starfield DLC

🎮 A-Life 3.0 + Zone car for just 20$

[charred nova]

i still hate that game

lmao

[keen edge]

❤️ The few that died were heretics bound to burn anyway.

[weary hedge]

@coarse vector they have no reason to be hostile yet, they can if you mess with them. Some bandits will show up as red others will not, I’ve come across friendly bandit convoys in garbage recently, it was like that in Call of Pripyat too.
Knowing enemies and friends is complicated in the zone.
This is normal.

[coarse vector]

ohhh

[mild sluice]

Better have hoped they weren't Guardsmen lol

[fresh bear]

Is it possible to join ward?

[novel axle]

like duty i'd rather kill em all.

[nimble dirge]

Yeah ok I'm 500% making a difficulty overhaul mod because the difference between Veteran and Novice is massive and if Veteran is just slightly a bit much and you want to turn it down to Novice, Novice will absolutely be waaaaay too easy

[hexed blaze]

yeah

[charred nova]

i mean bullet sponge mutants is just not what im looking for in my stalker

[weary hedge]

I love how duty is just a bunch of old drunk men reminiscing about the old days, it also sucks because I like them a lot.
Mercs and duty were always my favorite.

@weary hedge any fallout fan will agree with you been playing fallout for two decades and I have more hours on one of the fallouts individually than most have on the whole series, most fallout fans don’t like fallout 4 or only like it casually.

[mild sluice]

What are the goddamn flashing nuke anomalies that flashbang you and take all your health?

[weary hedge]

stalker 2 > fallout 4

[charred nova]

i want mutants to be very capable of murdering me

[coarse vector]

i hate that they kinda made them a lesser faction

[charred nova]

but i also would like to be able to kill them

[novel axle]

u mean rookie. Rookie is actually Easy mode, Stalker is Normal and veteran is Hard. Rookie is the default as GSC knows most casual games and journalists suck at videogames and will get their arse handed to them even if it is on easy.

[royal urchin]

I love men

[fresh bear]

Is Freedom similar to duty in the sense they are more useless?

[quiet grove]

There is no "hard", its just enemies have more health

[halcyon fog]

oh

[mild sluice]

The colonel you meet through Voron is a shithead. Duty is a bygone faction whereas Freedom has only evolved

[undone ore]

I bet Grok already have some ideas

[carmine jackal]

it's cause they respect the balls

[hexed blaze]

i hope so youre attatched to us

[wild crypt]

HEY GUYS I FOUND A COMPASS, anyone else find one for themselves yet?

[coarse vector]

has anyone ran into a "pseudo deer" yet i saw it on the art book

[charred nova]

it does not make fights harder it just makes fights longer

[fresh bear]

Like, aren't Freedom and Duty pretty non threatening now?

[novel axle]

wrong, vet increases dmg player takes, as well as reduces dmg player does. vet default npc gun dmg to player is 1.02, which means its lower than that on stalker and rookie. Mutants are 1.35x on vet.

[tacit turtle]

Oh shoot just remembered, I was wondering but aren't binoculars in the game anymore?

[unreal reef]

Howdy

[charred nova]

thats so dumb

[placid pebble]

Is radiation bugged? Sometimes I am just falling down and dying outta absolutely nowhere.

[nimble dirge]

the bullet spongey mutants isn't something a difficulty options overhaul could fix but I could definitely fix that with a blanket mutant defense overhaul. The weaker ones have a base 1.0 phys resist but then most of the rest have 3 or 4 which is why people are thinking they're too tanky. They don't have that much health, they just have a ton of defense so you need to use more penetration. The "fix" isn't to reduce HP like Grok did, imo. Its to reduce their defense. If there's a lot of demand for that ig I could do it and release it tomorrow?

I'm personally more concerned with the huge gaps in difficulty because like going from Veteran to Rookie reduces NPC gun damage from 85 to 20%, reduces explosions to 25%, and pretty much just halves mutant, anomaly, bleeding damage

[carmine jackal]

welcome to the fallout new vegas discord server

[coarse vector]

is there any way to turn down grass btw theres so fukin much

[zinc dagger]

THis here is goodsprings

[weary hedge]

Not entirely, but they are now sellouts. @mild sluice they are really fast and scary, throw a bolt into the crowd of anomalies and Bob and weave while running through them, in this game many anomalies you can run through if you do it right. Unlike the past games.

[charred nova]

i mean what ever makes it not take all the ammo in my inventory to kill a single pack of mutants

[unreal reef]

As much as I love FNV, I've sadly been banned from all the big Fallout servers

[hexed blaze]

you have an artifact on your belt that is injecting you with rads probably

[charred nova]

im all for

[halcyon fog]

Good hunting poster

[mild sluice]

They aren't sellouts, they got whipped by Freedom then they turned themselves over to Ward lol

[carmine jackal]

keep an eye on this one stalkers

[tacit turtle]

How???

[wooden vale]

This is what I've come to notice recently, bullet penetration seems to make a massive different to the "bullet sponge" factor on mutants.

[undone ore]

Im going to sleep, hope you guys will enjoy game, over and out

[charred nova]

new vegas 2 just dropped

[zinc dagger]

are you an enclave apologist

[placid pebble]

I dont. Never used anomalies as wearables. Not even sure how

[charred nova]

shits insane

[grand light]

do we know when the game is getting patched? about the memory leak issue (from playing with 60fps stable to 5fps which requires a restart)

[novel axle]

Its why I said the mutant problem is more deep than that, as even if the player did 25% less damage it doesn't account for how many rounds it takes to kill them even so. there is something ele going on in the code thats making it much worse, armor value could be bugged, or there is some super health multiplier thats applied mainly to mutants and human torso's as killing a human with torso shots on vet basically doesn't happen, you'll have to mag dump on even a bandit, so there is some other issue going on.

[weary hedge]

No I meant freedom is, also I answered your flash bang anomaly question.

[unreal reef]

Fallout Network i was banned for yelling at people and bullying a child who joined, the others I can't remember

[hexed blaze]

i meant artifact sorry

[carmine jackal]

no A-Life tho

[charred nova]

yet to be seen

[nimble dirge]

Yeah def because they dont really have that much difference in HP. People talk about Flesh being just a bit tanky, they have 360 HP vs 500HP for a bloodsucker. The difference comes from a Flesh only having 1 phys resist and a sucker having 3

[mild sluice]

Who is Freedom selling out to lol

[charred nova]

till i hear from a credible source

[placid pebble]

Same thing, I dont use them, I dont have something on me causing radiation, just seems the devs put radiation insta killzones in to make you go the right way

[zinc dagger]

you telling me the legion (duty) patrols mugging me arent alive?

[charred nova]

a life is being fixed

[weary hedge]

Yes

[halcyon fog]

I think GSC need a week to done a hotfix. idk

[tacit turtle]

Is it in garbage?

[charred nova]

that is whats gonna happen

[warm summit]

Man bloodusckers can suck on a chode

[swift ore]

im done with the game for tonight, I went into the aptly named "Death Cave" and I think im going to have nightmares tonight :c

[unreal reef]

And no. I kill every enemy / everyone I don't like in every game I play

[novel axle]

So the problem is not their health but something is massivly multiplying their resists then. as 3% dmg resist is basically naked.

[charred nova]

based

[tender jasper]

That is the least concern. Fixing Alife should be number 1 priority unless they want a dead game.

[stuck marlin]

Weird way to play animal crossing but here we are

[mild sluice]

Any fix to this? I want the guy's VS #📸┃screenshots_and_videos

[placid pebble]

no some factory warehouse with a guy named strider in it

[grand light]

making it playable is most important
then add a-life

[hexed blaze]

do you have a rock on your char window below your armor? there are four slots where you can put these special rocks you find.

[charred nova]

no eta other than its currently in the works

[zinc dagger]

i cant believe the zone is run on crypto now what a world

[weary hedge]

Freedomers already put bloodsuckers through that, poor bloodsuckers.

[charred nova]

as for memory leak

[tacit turtle]

Chodesuckers

[charred nova]

idk about that

but probably the devs know i would hope

[tender jasper]

No you can turn down settings for playability. If the game has no core functions then it is useless

[nimble dirge]

its not 3% damage resist. It's "3.0" "Strike" protection. Bloodsuckers dont have 2% more damage resist. They have 300% more

[warm summit]

in the OG games bloodsuckers always felt hard to kill due to how they attack but didnt take THIS many rounds

[placid pebble]

No, I already said... im not wearing a dam artifact

[crisp horizon]

oh yeah so do we just sell the pdas we find or is there someone we can give them to?

[charred nova]

only thing i will stand on concretely is fixing a life is currently top priority

[unreal reef]

As you could prolly guess, I massacre the Legion on every single run I do

[hexed blaze]

my b i didnt see the other mssg

[weary hedge]

They go at least 3 rounds with your average freedomer

[zinc dagger]

god bless

[grand light]

if you type "stalker 2 memory leak" into google everyone on reddit/steam discussions are talking about it, and in most performance related discussions or threads ppl only talk about how their game works alrite until it suddenly turns into 5fps hell and requires a restart

[charred nova]

insanely based

[errant ocean]

Ahhh yes, I love being in the swamp, completely out of ammo, and then you get attacked by an absolute TANK of a mutant, trying to Dodge but you’re SOMEHOW carrying too much and it’s impossible to dodge. You barely scrap by having completely run out of shotgun shells because nothing dies. And then a fricking emission occurs in a place with literally zero cover, everything goes red and then you hit a swamp patch and can’t fricking move! And you’re literally just losing health so you’re mashing a heal syringe constantly but the damage just keeps going up before the heal animation can finish, and you’re literally soft locked 15 hours into the game because it flat out won’t even give you a chance

[charred nova]

yes yes ive heard

mates been yappin about it all day

[novel axle]

ok, but whats the base then? as there has to be a number that 300% applies to. or IS that the problem? that it basically CAPS damage resist for flesh and bloodsuckers period, as I assume the dmg resist cap is prob 90-95%?

[carmine jackal]

when engine back in car. We drive

[dusk heron]

the amount of obvious glavset shills i have seen on online discussion for stalker 2 is staggering lmao they're so butthurt about the game being a success

[stuck marlin]

Beep beep

[echo nimbus]

After a life fix can we expect a optimization patch of some kind?

[weary hedge]

I love making freedom fornicates with bloodsuckers jokes.

[charred nova]

https://tenor.com/view/shift-iggydr-manual-stick-shift-clutch-gif-18847449

[zinc dagger]

I can go at least 6 before the bleeding gets me and i tap out

[sour depot]

ArmA 3 Multiplayer flashbacks

[nimble dirge]

physical resistance in STALKER games isn't just a % damage reduction its basically a threshold that weapons have to surpass or they dont do full damage

[charred nova]

i mean to there credit

[mild galleon]

Can anybody here tell me how elaborate/important the faction system is for gameplay and the narrative? I know it hasn’t been long at all, but I feel like the faction dynamics don’t take too long to make their mark in the other games. Thoughts?

[tacit turtle]

Uuuuh skill issue? I don't know

[charred nova]

there are some pretty glaring issues

[stuck marlin]

They've said they're going to work on it all. We don't have time-frames which is normal because we don't want them putting stuff out without testing

[errant ocean]

I genuinely don’t know what to do. I’m at a section in the game where I literally have no choices.

[unreal reef]

FPS issues, random drift while looking right, motion blue being unbearable, etc

[zinc dagger]

OH MY GOD ITS FALLOUT NEW VEGAS!!! DT!!!!!11!!

[echo nimbus]

Oh damn alot of work on their plate. I hope everything works out

[charred nova]

if you pan the camera near a corpse reeally fast

[novel axle]

well, I mean shotguns DO some damage, so there has to be some wrong value, like maybe its not supposed to be 3 but its meant to be 0.30? As even a high powered rifle still takes a massive amount of rounds.

[charred nova]

some times the corpse will briefly stand back up again

[rich terrace]

HOW TF DO YOU PUT ON A BANDAGE ON PC?!

[charred nova]

i could do that as a bit right now but

[unreal reef]

You grab your frame and wrap the bandage around the unit then tie it off

[errant ocean]

Very gently apply pressure to the side of the case and give it an all better kiss

[nimble dirge]

Yep its a lot like that. basically if I cranked phys resist on a creature up to 50000 even it would still take damage from things it would just be taking that lower "chip" damage

[wind lily]

Do you know when the day 1 patch comes out?

[cursive bobcat]

the trader money glitch goes crazy

[tacit turtle]

The day 1

[charred nova]

already happened

[crisp horizon]

the what?

[hexed blaze]

hold q

[stuck marlin]

I don't have img perms so insert Frankenstein gif here

[charred nova]

yes

[zinc dagger]

the average flesh has more health and resistance than legate lanius..

[charred nova]

we need a bug report channel badly

[echo nimbus]

What are the biggest known issues with stalker 2? I'm guessing a life and the optimization? Also is the memory leak thing real or over exaggerated

[nimble dirge]

nah flesh have the regular 1 phys resist they just have a decent amount of health

[errant ocean]

What’s the name of the mutant who’s the big ass dog but has like two heads both of which remind me of shreks aunt? Because whatever it is, F that guy seriously

Oh And he leaps

[jagged rapids]

economy needs fixing

[novel axle]

Well if it is DT based this makes alot of sense, but if it was that makes shotguns useless, as I remember in NV shotguns were basically pointless on anything with actual armor. Which means that maybe the weapons penetration values are not set high enough, as a shotgun should wreck a bloodsucker in 1-2 shots, same for most mutants save for controller and maybe dwarfs and giants in the older games.

[hexed blaze]

too real

[inland surge]

anyone know the code for tyhe code lock in the underground of the WPS?(area where u kill controller for jumper)

[humble vapor]

Chimera, very spooki bois

[polar shell]

THIS. i have a bug making the game unplayable and havent found a fix since. i doubt the devs even are aware of it

[charred nova]

so far thats really it as far as widely reported stuff

[solid hedge]

Why can’t I give the pdas to varan for roosevelt and shah

[zinc dagger]

what are you talking about the riot shotgun with surgeon and stay back are some of the best builds in the game..

[tacit turtle]

You wanna know one thing though which is surprising as hell, this game probably has one of the best kb&m support on console, a bit of input lag but otherwise it's great

[charred nova]

but people have reported bricking there saves

in a variety of ways

[errant ocean]

That’s right!

I went through 100 shells to finally kill it. I despise it

[cursive bobcat]

i think it is me and my friend both notice the performance slowly tanks over time, sometimes i gotta restart after touchin my stash becasue my game suddenly locks at 8 frames but thats just complelty seperate

[dusk heron]

it's the first ever AAA release by GSC, their biggest game by far and their first ever game on the unreal engine, plus it's made by slavs
no shit the release is pure jank

[mild sluice]

Has anyone encountered a unique GP37?

[charred nova]

i mean to be fair

the amount of stuff that does work

is very impressive

[nimble dirge]

Nah I'm pretty sure it was the same in past games that bloodsuckers had decent phys resist they just didn't usually have this much HP from what I remember. I need to test slugs and 7.62 ammo to see if they kill them faster or I could poke around for weapon pen values but honestly its outside the scope of what I care about changing. I mostly just want to rebalance difficulty paramters like economy/damage ratios

[quiet ermine]

whats everyones favorite guns?

[charred nova]

a ton of the game simply just works fine

with no issues what so ever

[zinc dagger]

Ak is good..

[tacit turtle]

I don't think most people who played the og trilogy are surprised

[novel axle]

someone tested slugs vs buckshot on a flesh already, both took 4 shots to kill. which according to the DT theory shouldn't be the case.

[cursive bobcat]

if i can finish the game right now, the games works and the bugs are just negligable/ a minor inconvinence

[frigid hill]

theodopolopodous has been warned

Reason: Bad word usage

[charred nova]

i mean...

[snow cargo]

Overall game is amazing, hopefully people chill and wait for upcoming patches. Im sure devs are doing everything they can, game is so hit like literally best game for a long time anyone made. Dont remember last ”major” big game which didnt have bugs and issues in begining, most of them does lul

[inland surge]

not really tripple A tho, gsc is still considered an indie dev team

[errant ocean]

UE5 is notoriously finicky to work with, as it stands the game has a fantastic base, and yeah all things considered I can definitely give them a pass on some things being “wonky” it’d a solid game and I don’t love it any less, it just needs to be put back in the oven for a bit

[charred nova]

the lack of properly working a life is a pretty huge deal

[zinc dagger]

GSC is pioneering Unreal 5 okay theres gonna be some bumps

[charred nova]

i agree

[echo nimbus]

Same here. The longer you play it tanks, don't know why. Sometimes same thing happens where frames just dip into low 5-6 even 1 of 2 fps and then I cant exit out normally. Reminds me of cyberpunk lmao

[tacit turtle]

Takes away from the immersive sim feel

[empty lion]

First thing they need to fix is A-life 2.0 if its even in the game... I'm sure its due to the garbagebox that its not even in the game. Should have only done a pc release...

[dusk heron]

i'd compare them to the guys behind metro - they're a big game dev studio

[charred nova]

for what the game is RIGHT now im extremely impressed

[novel axle]

Yeah I give them a pass with a "it'll get better later" vibe. usually i don't give a dev that pass, but GSC deserves it, both due to their countries circumstances and the fact they are basically pioneering unreal engine 5 as others have said.

[charred nova]

like

[errant ocean]

Isn’t this basically the most high profile UE5 game as of yet?
They deserve a lot of credit for what they’ve done

[charred nova]

this was not the day before 2

[quiet ermine]

game is still fun af ngl

[nimble dirge]

Yes it would, Flesh don't have a lot of resist so they'd be taking full damage from both types

[charred nova]

this game is a fully featured game

does it work perfectly right now no

[wind lily]

Do you know when another performance patch comes out?

[zinc dagger]

games can be fixed this is our modern reality, cyberpunk went from literally unplayable to a hailed masterpiece after like a year and an anime

[charred nova]

but id bet given a little time things will get better

[unreal reef]

Have we been able to visit the destroyed reactor in any STALKER game?

[hoary wave]

Is anyone else having a bug with richter for the “minor incident” mission where you can’t progress?

[charred nova]

currently unknown but likely soon

[tacit turtle]

Gamma 2 out right now

[long bane]

is scar in stalker 2 the same one as in clear sky

[charred nova]

there is a lot of the game ui which does not really translate over from console well

[novel axle]

Thats what I mean, unreal 5 is still very new engine wise, and very unoptimized. @zinc dagger No mans skys is another examplke, I actually cancelled my preorder a day or 2 before launch as I seen the early playstation stream as someone got the game 2 weeks early, eventually picked it up a year and half later and it was a totally different far better game by then

[charred nova]

but is clearly the way it is because of console

like the fact you can not bind 4 different keys for each quick use item

[errant ocean]

The comparison to 2077 is just flat out laughable. Yes the game has issues.
Quite a few, but you can actually play the damn thing, and GSC didn’t pull off a lie by selling it on a console that inherently physically cannot play it. This is uncharted territory. I can swallow the launch week

[charred nova]

i agree

[mild sluice]

Is there any idea when the slow mode will be reduced

[charred nova]

from what ive played so far

i liked it

[viral marsh]

Has anyone had a bug where they sprint like 3-4 times the speed

[long bane]

the quickuse system is so awful

[cursive bobcat]

how i see it
stalkers just unoptimized
cyberpunk was litterally unfinished, i remember seeing the day one clips it was a shitshow

[polar shell]

atleast you guys are dealing with minor stability issues, i'm stuck staring at a house making the game completely UNPLAYABLE. now that is laughable.

[zinc dagger]

Definitely, completely different game and now it has a healthy community because its devs never gave up through it all because the community that did stay were supportive

[charred nova]

no idea how it works on console but works great on pc

[tacit turtle]

No man's sky is the best live service game that isn't a live service game

[empty lion]

I can really taste the consel first then port to pc 2nd in the game, it's kinda gross since the stalker community is on pc.

[quiet ermine]

I also think it works well on pc

[charred nova]

it does but

[dusk heron]

cyberpunk is barely comparable because they promised literally everything and delivered on none of it, messed up a console release entirely and didn't even finish the game to begin with

[rancid thunder]

Should I wait until they fix a life to continue( just passed the garbage quests) or is the story good enough that I won’t have to mind not seeing any enemies in the wild

[cobalt fiber]

|| yes and so is Strelok ||

[long bane]

i really dont like holding for bandages

[novel axle]

as for non bugged things I wish the game had, I wish the game had effects of items as actual NUMBERS instead of a artbatary bar that could mean anything. artifacts especially like how much "radio protection" is "weak" in actuality and is it resistance? or is it rad healing like in the old games, as in it can offset rad increases from other artifacts.

[charred nova]

i hate that so much

[random oyster]

Hi, is stalker 2 using true fps mesh or separate mesh for the arms and lower body? I was trying to find a head camera setting to reduce head bob, which if it were a true fps then it will be tied to the animation. thanks

[charred nova]

the fact you can not change it is just so painful

[empty lion]

if they can idk if xbox can handle it

[charred nova]

i hope someone mods in a fix for that soon

[rancid thunder]

I dont care if I have to play on all low if I can see active spawning again Ngl

[vast tartan]

the devs are gonna fix Alife and you dont have to hold to use bandages, just switch its slot...

[gaunt talon]

when is player modding coming online?

[long bane]

i honestly hope that someone will add a mod to change coupons to rubles

[novel axle]

As the whole bar system is just super vague, i'd like to know damage per round of a weapon not see some bar that means nothing other than bigger=more.

[charred nova]

you can not disable the secondary hold button to use slots

YOU CAN NOT right now bind 4 unique keys

[empty lion]

agreed, a-life is what made stalker, stalker.

[charred nova]

for the quick use items

[cobalt fiber]

It's literally referenced as to why coupons are used so this would make 0 sense

[dusk heron]

true patricians bind their quick use items to f1, f2, f3 and f4

[quiet ermine]

i have my bandages as quick press Q and my food is holding Q

[silk slate]

Is it weird that when compiling shaders it’s been at a full bar this entire time? Should there be empty space or?

[zinc dagger]

honestly i might be a little weird but i like going into my inventory to use items
quick use is good in a pinch but i LOVE the backpack anims

[placid pebble]

omfg... the english voice acting reading "psy-radiation" as "sea radiation"

[vast tartan]

switch the bandage to the tap instead of the hold slot, nitwit 😭

[rancid thunder]

I love sniping and slower play, but this is ruined if they spawn 20m away at all times

[long bane]

i still prefer using rubles

[charred nova]

i hate the hold to use

[errant ocean]

And that’s all I want out of a game. Am I entertained? Yes. Do I feel like I got ripped off? Hell no. You can tell it’s a labor of love, and it has those moments of “wow” hell my CE isn’t supposed to arrive until god knows when but I double dipped to get it digital so I could play day 1. I don’t regret even THAT. GSC will do right by the community, I do believe that.

There’ll be patches, overhauls, mods, economy’s will be fixed, weights changed and balenced. Yes it’s frustrating, but ya know? I waited 15 years. We have the game XD

A life I’m sure will drop over the coming weekend, that strikes me as a scramble fix

[charred nova]

in my opinion thats super jank

[dense flame]

is A-Life 2.0 a myth? I mean they did remove it from Steam page just before release so they are 100% aware \

[charred nova]

and its so easy to use the wrong item

[empty lion]

yeah snipers are kinda useless

[tacit turtle]

Amen I have the same mindset

[charred nova]

can neither confirm nor deny that it exists

[lament smelt]

Im so slow in that game what rhe hell is that

[vast tartan]

its broken and it will be fixed dont start screaming a bunch of mumbo jumbo like everyone else

[charred nova]

all i know is fixing a life is currently top priority

[quiet ermine]

the english voice acting is terrible, i switched it to ukrainian and its been a billion times better

[zinc dagger]

psi radiation makes you go insane in the membrane (insane in the brain)

[empty lion]

they need to come out and be honest with us. I would be alot more happy if they were just honest.

[placid pebble]

It's sea radiation!

[vast tartan]

they have come out, a lot, they have addressed so many issues

[charred nova]

they claim its bugged and i have it on very good authority its currently the number one fix thats being worked on

[quiet ermine]

I genuinely do think that A life is in the game to some extent, i havent really dealt with a massive amount of enemies directly spawning in within my view, and ive had quite a few random encounters that lead into other encounters

[charred nova]

nothing to me right now says thats not true

that can very well change but as of right this moment that is where i stand

[zinc dagger]

all im saying is theres people in the community that are exaggerating reports of A lifes demise, cause its back from the dead

[solid hedge]

have I ended my story by killing shah roosevelt and varan?

[vast tartan]

A Life is the core feature of the STALKER games, it is top priority to fix because it quite literally makes stalker, stalker

[charred nova]

i agree

[silk slate]

Is it weird that when compiling shaders it’s been at a full bar this entire time? Should there be empty space or?

[fresh shadow]

apart from a-life 2.0 and no dynamic shadows and the low amount of weapons in the game and the unreal engine jank, its actually a pretty good game, i havent had a single crash so far and im feeling hella nostalgic over the old locations

[placid pebble]

I sure hope not. I killed varan accidentally. He told me to go look in "the garage" to find a guy. I apparently went the wrong way and they just turned hostile for no reason.

[dusk heron]

it's got the same amount of weapons as COP