☢┃stalker-general

[timid aurora]

SDK releases soon so.. mods will fix that.

@forest python Mine are just random. I’ve gotten them by looking at cliffs, finishing a trade with Hamster, unpausing my game, and more lol

[deep sedge]

Why does Scar, literally not have his, well, scar?

[marble lintel]

I licked it off his face 😈

[vernal perch]

i agree on that.

[minor ginkgo]

I want play guys 😦 Can someone send me your savegame after "In Search of Past Glory" Please ? 😄 I did everything what is on reddit - it works but if i do these commands by game start crashing in inventory xD So sad

[dark coral]

i mean currently zone is very close to what we've seen in CoP - if they will fix the optimization and mission bugs i think it's worth a try for first playthrough even without A-Life

btw guys yesterday i got gauss rifle from the random weapon appearance in my bags bug

[timid aurora]

A-Life mods don’t work really. It’s just a band aid for the online portion of a-life. Nothing more. Just increases spawns around you, which can be bad. I stopped using them. Also stopped playing S2 until we get a-life back. No point in playing it right now for me.

[quiet ermine]

I had to make a new save to stop everything from breaking as an FYI to everyone. Since the restart game has been working flawlessly.

[jaunty kite]

I hope I don't have to do that, I'm at the very end of the game

[loud vector]

WHat does A-life do anway?

[dark coral]

people explained it to me that every NPC you meet actually does something in the zone - like move from point A to point B to kill some mutants/bandits, then to point C to restock on ammunition and drink at the bar, then back to the Zone to seach for artifacts - and that it would be generated somewhat randomly (?) meaning it's not set in stone these NPC will move to that exact location etc.

[timid aurora]

A-Life is an AI model developed by GSC that basically brings the Zone to life. Not only will things, such as fire fights and being bum rushed by mutants, spawn around you but there will be diverse instances happening all around the Zone in other locations NOT around you.

For example, let's say that you pick up a mission to kill some bandits who are being doodoo heads. There is a possibility, under A-Life, where friendly, or other NPCs, will kill those bandits for you without you even moving. This can even happen literally upon accepting the mission.

You can also fail missions without even failing it yourself due to NPCs or mutants killing whoever you need to kill or rescue.

[loud vector]

Ah
Hrmm never happend to me in previous stalker
Worst case I had was emision induced zombification
(ie I poped the anti-emission pill...and the NPC I was with did have it XD)
Tbh wish that thing made a comback

[crystal prairie]

||faust mission finna burn my pc||

[quiet ermine]

Id bet money it has and you didnt realize it bc the game doesnt shove it in ur face.

[warm sail]

I think the same about if there is no a-life , there is no point of playing it at the moment but the anxiety for me is to much 🤣 And also could take months to fix it but for sure once we have something at least like clear sky , this game will be a much better game for sure

[quiet ermine]

While I enjoy A-Life, i personally find stalker 2 to still be a fun game and i look forward to when the bugs and A-life stuff gets figured out bc the game will be even more fun.

[timid aurora]

The no A-Life didn’t start bothering me until I got to Zaton and experienced a literal WHOLE HOUR without enemies. This happened more than once too. I eventually gave up until I get what I paid for

[dark coral]

i've got plenty of interactions, but it feels like random encounter in rogue-like game, meaning it spawns close to me, and not like happened because we happened to be in same spot at the same time if you know what i mean

[loud vector]

tbh...it didnt bother me that much XD
Like I am just crusing the zone dealing with Mutant infested ruins
ocasionaly get ambushed by 4 man military patrol
Give them all 3rd eyes

[quiet ermine]

I think im an outlier, ive genuinely not experienced a point in the game as of yet where ive gone more than 5 minutes or so without running into an enemy or encounter. Mostly the annoyance for me comes from the fact that most those encounters spawn like 40 feet behind me.

[steel axle]

Hello, every time I open my inventory the game crash with a error violation access 0x0...60, why ?

[dark marten]

STALKER 2 is a virus trying to read secret parts of your system's memory

[brave flint]

yeah i'm getting a little pissy about the AI detection, it's not even remotely close to enabling a stealth system, as soon as one enemy knows where you are, they all do and can launch a grenade 50m to beneath your feet sigh

literally zero reason to try and stealth the ward-factory mission in garbage

[dark coral]

and i've got to say i love Stalker and Stalker 2 is a great game, but with current state of the game as well as a lot of lazy designs i'd say it's still a bit off to be a GOTY

[digital geyser]

People that want a life want a simulator, right now even with a life bugged ive found a lot of encounters (scripted) that make the world still feel alive. Theres also plenty of enemy encounters, atleast for me. Any more and it becomes tedious to balance coupons and ammo.

[quiet ermine]

@steel axle i dmed you

[steel axle]

Not funny, I can't play the game

[loud vector]

Lazy designs?

[dark marten]

I went and bought a VS Vintar in Rostok and came back. Popped a bunch of heads. I was able to somewhat maintain stealth for the most part by just maintaining distance, and moving when I was spotted.

@steel axle not much of a joke. That's what the error means. Try making sure your drivers and game are up to date, restart your PC, the basics.

[forest python]

More offten than not i encountered bandits, military and mutants get a mexico stand off battle at distance while i cut their heads clean off with a scope m14, might not be real A-life but sure as hell its fun

[warm sail]

I didnt reach that far , I just passed the mission to leave the lesser zone because I wanted to check how the old bastard of sidorovich looked like and the cordon too but that got me to leave it for the moment , cordon feels too empty and I hear some other places feel the same way and in my opinion that is not the way stalker should be played , but thats just a personal opinion of course , coming from the old stalker and playing tons of mods , I feel this game is a goty if the fix the life on the zone

[steel axle]

I restart my PC, every drivers and the game are up to date on botch computers I have, I uninstall reinstall the game but still not working

[digital igloo]

Also.

Are there supposed to be a bunch of dead people (with all their loot intact, including suits) in the one of the rooms in the Zalissiya quest?

[quiet ermine]

Try making a new save and see if the issue still persists, that way we can pinpoint if its a game issue or a save issue.

[weary hedge]

IF YOU SAY SO KEVIN

[burnt gust]

sometimes npcs like to just die and stuff, had it happen to me in the slag heap once. they just died.

[warm sail]

hahaha lol , Im from south america , the kevin name is pretty common here , maybe that is why I said Kevin instead of Revin 🤣

[digital igloo]

Yeah.

But these guys have their inventory intact; including their suits.

First time I'm seeing a lootable suit on a NPC.

It's the room to the left of where Warlock is found; if anyone wants to check.

[weary hedge]

I also had this, it's not a bug they're just guys that were killed by monolith

[steel axle]

I try this too, juste before a main mission I can, but at some point the game don't allow me to access my inventory

[burnt gust]

yeah you can sometimes loot the suits off of npcs
did they ALL have lootable suits?
the guys I found were the same

[quiet ermine]

Have you installed any mods that add custom items? Like the mutant loot mod.

[digital igloo]

All of them.

Mint condition too.

@weary hedge l this quest is so buggy that I really can't tell if stuff is intentional or broken.

Honestly just going to put this save on hold and start a new one till another patch drops.

[burnt gust]

that's odd, I'd say just profit and sell them all 👍

[quiet ermine]

I think starting a new save was the best option for me personally, its been a very smooth experience since I did.

[weary hedge]

Honestly I didn't have any bugs with Zalissya or the Dr so I don't know but I do know those fellas were just murked by monolith - lots of corpses are in zalissya naturally

[forest python]

Oh yeah i have these guys in Zalyssia def mission as well, maybe they got Hamster treatment

[boreal wasp]

I hope stalker 2 doesn't use mod.io on console shit is so unbelievably ass

[barren steeple]

does anyone know if the rain in the game is bugged? out of my 90 hours of playtime ive only seen sunlight for like 10 of those 90 like wtf is going on theres never any sunlight?

[weary hedge]

Sadly is going to be the case, on PC modio.ini is made by the game on startup in the Saved directory, don't see why they'd do it differently for consoles.

[dark coral]

yeah, game practicaly doesn't offer that many new encounters/mechanics, a lot of side-stuff of no consequence, aprox. go there shoot this guy then go there shoot this guy is what you do for the whole time. Don't get me wrong this is what you where always doing in Stalker games, just you know it would be nice to have some more complexity into it. Like for example similar mutants but different behaviour, some will jump you right away, some will run away, some will only defend their nest but will back off quickly if you'll back off - or present some different mutations under same mutant; like u can meet burers and each encounter with burer would be entirely different cause he uses different skills basing for example on which kind of the map you'll meet him. Idk, like new mechanics overall, stalkers factions fighting with each other, catching outposts, radio communication -> you can adjust to different channels to check on different factions communication and what is going on in the zone basing on that communication, idk some more time-based events. Just throwing some ideas at the moment, but mechanically wise i still feel like playing CoP with nice graphics and bigger map + more weapons and armors. Which is very nice! But i don't feel like the 2020+ potential was used

[boreal wasp]

That's so tragic there's only asset replacements

[weary hedge]

Console games never get mods with new assets anyways, because mods could have a malformed file in them that could cause a buffer overflow somewhere and allow unsigned code to be run. Not gonna happen sadly. On PC though I'm sure it'll be a different story.

[frigid hill]

.maxnight has been warned

Reason: Bad word usage

[burnt gust]

I trust that they will add more stuff later on, as the game came out so recently

[boreal wasp]

Xbox has quite a few games with actual mods they just don't allow anything like skse or external type programs sony cuts everyone's dick off with their policies on it

[loud vector]

Welll the no faction wars makese sense as there are no factions at war RN
And nobody is gonna mess with the Ward was they zone police
one of the issues is basicly A-life being A-dead
Plus there are two story expansions coming up for the game so
Lets hope

[meager saddle]

Fingers crossed I'll be playing this again in a few months with working A-life

[final flint]

I just find out that sunrise armour just got inspired by "fort defender armor"

[terse arch]

Do we know anything about 1.0.3?

[charred igloo]

it will be a magical update that will make my life worth living again

[burnt gust]

it'd make sense that ||after ward kinda stops having so much influence|| the factions would start warring with each other

[umbral bison]

is it worth upgrading/using the 'drowned' gun vs valik lumos's AK? or is there just not enough grenade launcher rounds to make it worth keeping the weapon?

[dark coral]

well they will maybe do a DLC that will cover some of that stuff, but the base game is here - only thing we know that is missing is A-life which will refresh the zone a bit but won't change the core.

@loud vector i mean no faction war cause it's peace time is example of a lazy design. Like you know what i mean?

[burnt gust]

I believe they're gonna make a DLC so that we can FINALLY enter the chornobyl sarcophagus and explore more of the map, because there is more map to explore. I believe in the old games you could enter the CNPP but you can't in HOC sadly

[lost lava]

Rather fact that grenades r pathetically weak in s2 including underbarrel ones

[lucid roost]

same. i'm shelving this game for now but goddamn its so good

[loud vector]

I mean...you usualy use those on heavy duty muties like Pseudos or Chimeras
Or as Oh Sh*t brake glass in case of emergency buttons.
@dark coral I wouldnt call it lazy
Tbh its nice that for once
Nobody is being totaly idjit when it comes to that.

@burnt gust I mean a ||war does start between ward and Monolith/Nooners after that happens ||
I thought we could only acces CNPP in the first game
I am just happy that the Undeground areas are such a pain in the arse to navigate

[umbral bison]

@lost lava yeah thats true, thanks 🙂

[meager saddle]

The A-life system WILL be fixed eventually, it's just a question of whether it'l be modders or GSC that does it. Right now the offline sim can't be really tweaked without tools though

[burnt gust]

the ||monolith ward war|| is still kinda boring, as the other factions just sit and are idle

[digital geyser]

Having the offline aspect of a life will be incredibly taxing for most computers. Enabling some of the mods already brings rigs to a crawl unless you got a beefy system. Im thinking its why its borked rn

[dark coral]

well on the other hand maybe i am thinking about some roguelike solutions to a game who was never suppose to be like that

well will see how the a-life affects the game, im super curious of it

[loud vector]

Honestly i ma just happy that for once we dont have to deal with Freedom being totaly nob brained
( I think you can tell I am Duty guy)

[meager saddle]

That's because they're not using the offline A-life portion, they're hijacking the online portion to give the illusion of it. The offline portion is entirely fubared right now

[winter tulip]

Is there a way , that u could run with diamond exo?

[frigid hill]

kelroth.d4 has been warned

Reason: Bad word usage

[bronze scarab]

Upgrade it by a technician who's Icon is green.

There will be a Upgrade that will let you Sprint, also If you have enough Coupons to Spend haha

[burnt gust]

yeah there's an upgrade

[lost lava]

Increased population of bloodsuckers makes them their morale bigger

[stone swift]

Stick drift is fixed ?

[lucid roost]

a youtuber dragged a box to a bunker that had a diamond exo on top of it lmao

[burnt gust]

I just got mine from the monolith in the kindergarten in pripyat

[eternal garden]

the best thing to get loot is frankly play, i’m touching every stash before i finalize my playthrough so ill be limansk/cold island ready when those dlcs drop

[umbral tangle]

where did the meme chat go

[sturdy verge]

||I love the song for skifs ending ❤️‍🔥||

[novel escarp]

guys,i'm really tired. i can't do on the edge mission. those monolith soldiers wouldn't spawn no matter what i do,load from the previous location,load from different angles,load before sphere mission,after,beyond and so far i can't trigger those f....... soldiers to spawn,anybody have ideas what to do?????

[boreal wasp]

Freedom and duty both don't do anything in the story it's extremely unfortunate

[sturdy verge]

tho i walk by and say 'get out of here stalker' in that special spot 😉

[eternal garden]

hoping some other factions get some love for expansions. Still a little disappointed the only joinable ones are Ward and Spark, two new factions with already existing counterparts tbf. Limansk and cold island will be neat (assuming they didn’t name drop those for no reason) and ha e opportunities to reintroduce some new faction representation

[burnt gust]

it'd be cool if duty was like idk in other parts of the zone and trying to destroy the zone

[sturdy verge]

||would be great if you could join factions or hopefully in the future?(dlc or story expansion?)||

[boreal wasp]

Duty should've just been ward they do almost the same thing and look way less cool

[burnt gust]

yeah exactly

[eternal garden]

@sturdy verge it seems most likely expansions will have us visiting (atleast and IN THEORY) 2 of the regions they name dropped. Would be cool to see duty maybe some others get proper rep implemented

[dusky sonnet]

Wouldnt say ward has an existing counterpart, people compare them to duty, but their mission couldnt be more different, one wants the zone to expand OUT of the zone through the ability to create artifacts and one wants to eradicate everything to do with the zone

spark is i guess kinda clear sky ish

[sturdy verge]

||which spark LOL||

[eternal garden]

eh not really. Ward was helping sircaa. Duty hates anything zone related, it would make more sense to have kept it as military but i get why they changed. Spark however could’ve been dialed into old factions or been reformed older factions. @dusky sonnet i was implying they’re duty, very different goals. They’re more Military than anything

[dusky sonnet]

Yeah, id call them militarified mercs, if you smash military and mercenary factions in one

[vestal axle]

i think we should nuke ward

[boreal wasp]

Spark would be cooler if they didn't have that ugly turquoise camo

[dusky sonnet]

I like the camo

ward is much uglier imo

[eternal garden]

ultimately i think the best option would add some “Dynamic Zone Mode”. Unlocked after completion, think it does better than a new game plus mode would. Something where you start at a random southern region and can do work for other factions, akin to the war system for cs but plays like anomaly ig, maybe throw some “main” quests where if you do work for a faction enough you end up just joining and once they have enough location cell values they can attack other bigger locations. dunno if ue can handle that and that relies on a solid base for a life

[boreal wasp]

They even made the flecktarn on freedoms look gross the camos in this game are extremely unfortunate

[dusky sonnet]

Well, stalker 2 is already basically CoC, just remove quest restrictions and you got a solid base for another Anomaly type mod

[eternal garden]

@dusky sonnet assuming ue5 can even handle an anomaly type mod. xray has the lovely ability of hindsight and it being old. I just think a mode like that would be a lot more fun than a new game plus. Randomize loot spawns, maybe up the drop rate for armor, it would be cool if they added modular settings too. @sturdy verge Call of Chernobyl, grouped original trilogies maps all together and added some cut ones too iirc

[sturdy verge]

CoC?

[dusky sonnet]

the og open world stalker mod

[boreal wasp]

Ward is the worst because they have bright orange and like medieval gambesons on

[mighty rivet]

can we please get night vision?

[dusky sonnet]

You personally? No, not allowed.

[sturdy verge]

is it worth giving it a go ? the CoC mod

[dense sandal]

theres a rpg in s2??

[empty wagon]

What is the right channel/other way to report bugs/problems?

[dusky sonnet]

Its barebones, its basically just the open world and thats it. Anomaly and gamma have the open world by default. You can however mod CoC completely to your liking, so make your own anomaly if you wish

@dense sandal theres been an rpg in every stalker so far

[worldly surge]

A-Life will find a way to surprise you
You don't see it yet, feel like you're one with zone and it will answer

[sturdy verge]

oh nice, ty thats awesome 😄

[dense sandal]

also where tf is the power plant? also why tf is there a hour long coolfdown on talking jesus christ

[tough rain]

Ik I'm halfway through the game but ima download a faster reload mod. If Skif is ex military then bro don't gotta worry bout taking 5 years to reload while his booty is getting attacked by a Bloodsucker 💀

[terse ravine]

after the economy rebalance its actually worth it doing side missions now

[dusky sonnet]

people are too used to adhd cod reloads. slow is smooth and smooth is fast

[sturdy verge]

honestly, I still dont know what this A-Life thing is lol.. tho i see it mentioned a lot on here 😄

[eternal garden]

I know alife is a big issue for some but my only gripe is i wish you could see more stalkers traveling between locations. But anyways
I’m in Pripyat which has some large buildings ofc. Well I stumble onto a building being used as a compound almost. Tons of guys on the exterior and a decent amount of exo’s too. They spotted me and i took cover behind a bus stop. The bullets pierced the tiled corners of my cover, but I noticed a group of Heavy Gunners from the Corps moving my way in exos. They began to open fire immediately on the guys down the road. I took this moment to aid them by locking one of the six 40mm grenade shells I had tucked away. I began to hit several grouped up squads directly, knocking most on their ass and killing some. The corpsmen took up at the same wall I did and finished off some with my help. The Corpsmen executed 4 of the guys I had taken out with the grenade launcher. They had been rolling on the ground. The corpsmen moved into the building and began to clear the inside while I looted the spoils from the conflict and made my way inside where they had already killed a good portion of the enemies. Good experience, very fun with the gunplay

[worldly surge]

It's the one system that makes wonders
Mainly I've stumbled across a squad of 6 monolith members in the lesser zone

[native field]

they said the soft lock at meeting scar at x17 was fixed but its not wtf

[dense sandal]

like i havent even seen bigger game server block you from talking this long

[tough rain]

Me personally I don't mind a lil time, but Skif's pace is that of a grandma walking up a flight of stairs. In the zone there's no time to do a whole ritual where bro tucks his magazine to sleep and gives it a forehead kiss 😭
Ima just increase it by 25% so that it's faster but barely noticable cause I will admitt, the animation is kinda satisfying. But ion wanna watch a 5 minute animation while my booty is being touched 🥲

[eternal garden]

@sturdy verge system that offers the illusion of a persistent world. Schedules, traveling, patrolling, etc. It was a big thing for the trilogy, here it’s lacking but i’ve still had really good really memorable experiences with this one

[burnt gust]

I think it'd be cool if skif (after you finish the game) like gives all his stuff to another trustworthy stalker or smth and u can keep playing afterwords, like in RDR2

[sturdy verge]

Ah gotcha Van, Ceo and Beer, thinking about it now i see why its brought up a lot.

[worldly surge]

It makes people read into the stuff you say and acknowlege what said person wanted to explain
Basically way better than yapping without any sense or care for the topic

[kind zephyr]

Was a system in the original trilogy that would have npcs wander the zone on their own and interract with other npcs leading to a more believable world

[dense sandal]

if it takes 2min to read then fck me

[eternal garden]

all the endings are very final tbh, not likely we’ll get any content for this game that is post-ending

[burnt gust]

I mean yeah, but it'd be just cool lol. it kinda sucks that the game just ENDS like that.
I mean, ofc it depends what ending you get

[worldly surge]

Clearly you don't read books young man, I suggest doing so in the future

[limpid imp]

After playing stalker 2 on game pass I bought the original trilogy on steam and plan to buy stalker 2 as well to support the devs!

[tough rain]

Yeahhh but so were the original stalker games. You could always backup a save and go nuts. That's what I did with cyberpunk to experience all of the endings

[dusky sonnet]

its the zones inhabitants basically existing without your presense. Stalkers doing tasks, moving from location to location, hunting, looting, mutants roaming, etc, ane all of it is happening everywhere, even if you arent there to witness it

Thats the idea anyway

[fierce sequoia]

So how's the game working for you guys after the patches?

[eternal garden]

@burnt gust agreed, hence why i do hope there’s a dynamic mode instead of new game plus. As above, i do think this would do a lot for the life span before the drop the expansions

[golden gulch]

I'm so happy that this game doesn't have Denuvo.
If only the game have better optimization then it's golden.

[worldly surge]

There is one single problem to it

• There is a mod that allows A-Life to function at 30%, but it decreases your FPS drastically, we're talking from 50 frames to 10 frames at any time, no matter the card because NPC interactions are CPU based

Same thing was with previous games, so they tuned it down in the development

[sturdy verge]

hmmm, seems a little better as i just started the game again.. so i can do some of the missions/side ones i missed out on due to bugs.. well lets see if i can..lol time will tell

[kind zephyr]

havent done ward yet, but the other 3 I could think of a possible stalker game taking place post that one, with the middest one being the 4th one (appart from maybe spark)

[nocturne compass]

is the sniper in jupiter by the train tracks supposed to die? I've put 10+ headshots into him

[dusky sonnet]

thankfully the horrible stuttering that forced me to restart my game all the time has been absent since patches

i still get stutters but they fix themselves after a few seconds, no need to restart

[marble rapids]

YOOOO EVEN HARPY SHE DISSAPEARED FROM YANIV

[fierce sequoia]

I haven't played the game since the patches, seeing some conflicting reviews
Hopefully they've fixed most of the performance issues
Fingers crossed

[worldly surge]

Pray to Monolith, and he may spare you

You've just seen a ||Previous commander|| of said group
They do not feel pain

[eternal garden]

@kind zephyr i think there will be more games don’t get me wrong but there aren’t a lot of one that wouldn’t just completely alter the way the zone works and thus the mechanics would change
@worldly surge yes i’m just hoping with time they can find a solid middle ground with ue5 that lets it work somewhat like the original or atleast implement a proper rep system. Just something to make it feel a little more changing

[nocturne compass]

lmao he just glances at me and 1 taps me while i'm pumping him with my svd

[sturdy verge]

fingers crossed! i still kept pushing through the bugs and all that and finished the game but i did miss out on a lot of side missions due to bugs; My adhd hyperfocus wouldnt let me stop lol

[fierce sequoia]

Lol I've only just made contact with Strider and his group
Seems like it's gonna be a very long ride ahead of me

[kind zephyr]

the ending would probably be the most similar to what the zone was, as ||everyone inside cant leave so the factions stay||

[haughty sapphire]

hey guys i've been to hundreds of stashes...but i have only 3 limited energy drinks..guess they really are rare? how many do you guys have?

[eternal garden]

seeing the perspective of a monolith (ESPECIALLY THAT MONOLITH) during Operation Monolith was so sick, loved it, and the way his spotter was calling out soldiers to him

[sturdy verge]

ngl there were moments i felt it was a bit draggy and i wanted it to end lol but it was worth finishing it.

[half plover]

Is the red first just one big psi cluster mess? Or am I missing an emitter somewhere or something I gotta kill

[worldly surge]

They said they're focusing on it to release an improved version of it in 2025, mainly to decrease the CPU drag, since they're literally using server hardware to run the base A-Life 2.0

The only real way to test it is to have a key that unlocks said system, but only GSC members know about it now, and from what I've seen you just crash trying to start a game with it on most PC's, or freeze and then crash later

[dusky sonnet]

i found 2 or 3 i think. I drank oje

@half plover lots of psi anomalies around, and psi mutants too
Lorewise the red forest is basically nightmare forest, people going crazy all the time in there

[lyric trench]

1.0.3 when?

[kind zephyr]

Is strider confirmed to be a bigshot in the OG monolith? I remember something along those lines in the 2012 stalker 2 leak

Couldnt really tell with the sniper flashback

[sturdy verge]

i found 4 so far

[weary hedge]

Don't worry guys monolith has white camo, I'm not sure why though

[eternal garden]

do you mean like the commander people thought was scar for a while? (in the og trilogy)

[dire heart]

is there going to be ng+ in the game?

[worldly surge]

2025 January or later
New year is just in 28 days or less
Maybe in December or in 20 days, but I highly reccomend to wait and play other games for that time

[hallow blade]

Is it me, but Stalker 2 is my first real experience with the series. I assumed the Monolith were just bunch of rag tagged losers with DB shotguns and cheap and crap weaponry and gear. Only until I decided to oppose them, they arrive like a full on military spoting best gear I've ever seen with some of best guns the Zone has to offer and just destroying literally everyone around them. I'm regretting on betraying the Monolith. I spent more time running away from them than fighting.

[haughty sapphire]

Nice i'll keep looking

[dusky sonnet]

He was in Call of prypyat, you had a quest to either help him find shelter with Duty, freedom, or kill them, or leave them to their devices. I got them in with freedom personally

he was performing the role of gathering up lost ex monolith and helping them even back then

[lyric trench]

dang, that sucks cuz i literally cant play on console due to the weird bolt thing without starting a new save

[strange otter]

v1

[sturdy verge]

which one did you have him join ? lol

[worldly surge]

I'm talking about a PC version mainly, Xbox is updated by a seperate team and they roll out micropatches way more often

[kind zephyr]

Urban camo, good for pripyat and CNPP where you originally encountered them in SoC is my assumption, also all the colours have been taken by others

@eternal garden I mean one of the guys you can kill in SoC, prophet or something? dont remember the exact name

@dusky sonnet Im talking about pre CConsciousness destruction, Im the biggest CoP fan you will ever find

[eternal garden]

no stalker has had them; likely not but i’m sure something similar will come along for it. @hallow blade yes definitely not pushovers, it’s implied the monolith has had outside members too who bring supplies into the zone for them back at the height of their power. Probably the most well equipped since they don’t really go out to search for supplies, they only go out to kind of cull those who might make their way towards them

[weary hedge]

I've gotta finish stalker 2 before poe 2 comes out on the 6th

[lyric trench]

Oh ok good, hopefully soon then! Thanks!

[gritty rivet]

Do you reckon I should use the diamond exo even though I cant run?

[digital igloo]

Also, a bit of a weird one.

The buttstock textures on the Fora 221 move when you walk with it in a ready position.

[harsh jungle]

I feel like I’ve seen an NPC in game with the name Kesha Astronaut
either that or I’m imagining things

[hallow blade]

I still can't get over the fact they went 0 to 100 from equipment. I thought the Ward was most dominate force in the Zone or the Military.

[worldly surge]

You can if you speedrun the main story, just remember to pick anough cheap ammo and heal
Bothering with expencive stuff is only for later game experience
Most of the time 2 grenades deal with everything

[kind zephyr]

Names are random, I once saw Valera Engine in yantar in the trilogy

@eternal garden none of the books are canon or gsc made/approved

[eternal garden]

@kind zephyr no idea, i know he’s in the spinoff book. Southern Comfort (know they’re not canon but that’s all i can think of besides CoP). @hallow blade ward just sanctioned peace for the factions, but monolith has always been the most supplied with tons of underground surplus and resources

[grand tide]

I know it’s stupid question and I should just play how I think it’s the right way or decision but can someone tell me who is a good faction out of all ? I feel like everyone just want to gain more power or slave the whole zone or whatsoever .

[dusky sonnet]

Not an unusual name

@eternal garden which spinoff book, theres so many

@grand tide noone is good, really, but i find ward more dangerous for the world as a whole

[hallow blade]

Well, I guess I'm finding this out the hard way now while I'm having to play like a Rat now.

[worldly surge]

You should choose based off what you hear in game
You don't need to ask other people as Zone will tell you herself

[kind zephyr]

every ending is a bad ending which is quite interesting, depending on your metaethics some may be better or worse than others

[eternal garden]

@hallow blade yea, it’s also neat because noon could’ve never really been as powerful as monolith. r ayse they never remembered where their underground facilities were or where they had been stockpiling gear other than in pripyat and pripyat is just a no go zone regardless.
@grand tide that’s the thing about the zone, ultimately everyone there is self serving. Some have good intentions but it’s still self interest

[sturdy verge]

I saw one name that was Pvt Tripolsky lol.. after i killed it haha

[grand tide]

I see ok thank u all guess I have to play the game like 3-4 times to see all endings

[worldly surge]

@eternal garden They just sell weed to Freedom for said "underground surplus and resources"

[kind zephyr]

you can access 3 endings within 2-4 hours of each other, its only the last one youll have to replay the game for

@eternal garden thats exactly what I mean by within 2-4 hours of each other

@dusky sonnet or a stalkerillion monolithians to bring down 1 protagonist

[eternal garden]

(or load a save right before the decision) assuming you mean the “skif” ending

[dusky sonnet]

theyre also lorewise insanely cracked fighters, you need like 5 stalkers to 1 monolith soldier to have a chance at killing one

they dont feel pain, they communicate and cooperate very effectively, and they get trained to be killing machines

@eternal garden even if they had the exact same gear theyve had at peak monolith, they wouldnt match up since theyd lack the supernatural teamwork ability and pain tolerance

[hallow blade]

Am I stuck with the Ward now?

[grand tide]

So far I was on scar side for like 70% of playthrough but at the end I don’t like his aim of having a live after the death so I’m against him now and Strelok idk man he could be still be an agent of consciousness so in my point of view the ward seem to be not that bad at all lol

[steel patrol]

I feel like the ward is a parasite on the zone, they are in a place where they don‘t belong in

[eternal garden]

yea exactly, the wonders of no sentience, their brains compute shooting distance almost instantly. Monolith under the control of CC is the most wheel oiled machine

[kind zephyr]

newcomers smh

[dusky sonnet]

you wouldnt have had monolith on your side if you chose spark regardless

my issue with ward is that the project theyre protecting is messing with basically a massive powder keg thats spread all over the globe, if they break the noosphere, then its gonna be the Zone but everywhere. I dont want a burer in my kitchen

[blazing ivy]

Refreshing trader inventories?

[grand tide]

Wym ? Is that something bad that I’m not 100% into the lore yet ?

[bleak wadi]

When will GSC release the official STALKER 2 modding tools?

[eternal garden]

My issue with ward is they want to approach the zone as outsiders, but not only that, but they’ve allowed sircaa to maintain a presence where they do not belong. It’s why their building stands out so much, it’s a parasite. Think streloks ending kinda bangs. The ward don’t even care really, they’re only here because sircaa is there so their peace they brokered was only self interested because they’d rather do whatever they want without multiple factions killing eachother

[dusky sonnet]

as i said earlier, ward are basically military and mercs put together, but somehow less cool than both

[hallow blade]

Only reason I went with Ward is because they're tied to IPSF. Which is the Government/Military I assume. Real discussion is a what if in their case if something went wrong. That If doesn't happen, would they be the best case scenario? I think I'm close to mid game so far.

[kind zephyr]

play the trilogy, youll enjoy it if you like stalker 2 lore so far

[tough rain]

Why do the wardens at the chemical plant got some pinpoint accurate aimbot 😭
A good 100 meters down full autoing an AR with little to no spread 💀

[strange otter]

ward are a bunch of cucks, hail monolith

[grand tide]

Then you should fight against Faust this boss fight was pain

Took me 50 tries on veteran difficulty

[tough rain]

Oh nah I'm scared I should be almost there. I'm at Dawn of a New Day 🥲

[sturdy verge]

||that took me awhile lol i didnt know i had to shoot the lamp on his hip LOL||

[dusky sonnet]

If in an ideal world their experiments with the monolith, alpha artifact and the noosphere went without a hitch (and they already are going 2 for 2 in terms of catastrophic failures) then yes, itd be great for the advancement of humanity.

Its a VERY big if though, and seeing how corporate it is, it will definitely not take considerations such as the safety of the planet into account

[kind zephyr]

Spark ending is the best imo, you just need to believe in it

[tough rain]

The only reason I sided with Noontide is after seeing how the Ward was so willing to subject cruelty to Stalkers that kinda did nun wrong

[sturdy verge]

would be nice to play as the ninth!

[eternal garden]

the cool thing about the factions that have persisted in the zone is that all the ones who are effectively born from the zone are the ones who persist. Freedom inherently represents the zone itself and what it offers, duty is a group of people from the outside who attempted to break the zone but were abandoned and thus remain in it because they view it as disgusting. Bandits, loners, renegades, ecologists have all come to the zone with almost a respect for it or for the opportunity it brings (even if it’s just robbing people). But sircaa and ward are here to study but to almost capture and subjugate the zone, ecologists but instead of doing it naturally, they intend to mass produce the zone’s effects for their own profit and benefit under the guise of helping the world (despite not even understanding fully the zone as it is and still wanting to put it’s effects out into the world

[hallow blade]

What old folk used to say, if the path you taken is too easy. You're on the wrong path.

[trail smelt]

This was my first time trying a stalker game, and are stalker games made mostly to be melee game, cause bullets are so scarce can’t really call this a fps should be fpm

[glad tendon]

Wonder if we will be getting a hotfix today

[dusky sonnet]

Except in this case tripping just once on the "right" path can end the entire world. Risk/reward isnt worth it there

@trail smelt my stash has thousands of random ammo, do you not loot or buy ammo?

[tough rain]

Lol nahhhh. S.T.A.L.K.E.R is a game about being methodical with your approaches. Trust me, the game is super fun when it comes to gunfights.
Tip by the way: Don't overlook Skif's PTM. If you're confident in headshots then that's all you need really when it comes down to humans

[grand tide]

I did but this lamp needs like idk 15 shotgun bullets idk

[dusty lion]

Need optimization patch 😦

[sturdy verge]

I'm just glad I can explore and not be forced to do the missions right away, and @kind zephyr that skiff ending song was 🔥

[prisma anchor]

How the hell are you guys running this laggy mf?

[trail smelt]

I don’t buy it’s too expensive, and most things I kill only drop between 1 to 5 ammo

[eternal garden]

cpu and an optimized pc build should get u stable performance

[frigid hill]

frogski has been warned

Reason: Bad word usage

[slate topaz]

First few patches were a really good start. Even if it’s not for a few days, I’m confident they’re using the time wisely

[kind zephyr]

never really had problems with ammo in that game, you end up with like 400 4.45 after sphere and never run lower than 200 after that

[glad tendon]

I'm just hoping it's soon since I'm hard locked atm

[grand tide]

I5 12600k 3080 and ssd with 32. ram playing it on 40-80 fps

[sturdy verge]

4080 using gfn no laggy

[trail smelt]

It’s most likely your set up

[raven matrix]

Does anyone else think Burers need a slight rebalance in behavior? When fighting more than one I've noticed they just spam disarm you then proceed to spam their PSI shield, which makes the strategy to just hide behind a corner while they're invulnerable then run out with skifs pistol and mag dump ones head because any other gun just immediately gets pulled out of your hand. IMO add a cooldown to the AI disarming the player, the shield is whatever kinda wish sustained fire overwhelmed it but it's whatever just adds a period where you can't do anything to it artificially prolonging the fight

[dusty lion]

AMD RYZEN 9HX GeForce RTX 4070 only get about 20 min of solid game time then lag spikes hit and I’m doing 5-25 fps when normally I’m running anywhere from 88-130+

[dusky sonnet]

i got so much ammo i stop looting some of it, ap and hp ammo for me only now

i freaking hate this swear filter, here we are playing a bloody shooter/horror game and i cant swear

[prisma anchor]

So I need to spend three thousand dollars on pc to play a £50 game lol

[grand tide]

Yes

[sturdy verge]

whatever you want to do with your money is your business

[night plaza]

naw, i got a steam deck running this puppy at solid 40fps with no dips

[bright violet]

I also can't believe I spent $25000 dollars on a car that uses $50 worth of gas in a tank.

[dusty lion]

Don’t forget it’s not going to run perfect either. You’ll still probably crash a lot until the fix the game.

[trail smelt]

You must manage money like you comprehend

[dusky sonnet]

I dont remember encountering multiple burers, but they cant even do anything to you if youre out of their field of view, just dip and shoot from far

[tough rain]

Go for stashes and loot buildings. Also, like I said use your PTM. The ammo is cheap and it's pretty damn effective if you practice headshots, which are also pretty easy to achieve

[raven matrix]

Be glad they don't have a filter that kicks or mutes for using certain reacts

[dense plume]

God somebody help me, i am on the brink of absolutely losing my mind. I can't find this artifact, the bear detector literally shows a full circle. No matter what direction i go in, i get further

[wild tusk]

Thats actually a really good way of explaining it lol

[kind zephyr]

@raven matrix I wish they did them like in CoP where they cant pull the gun out of your hand with full stamina, but do drain the stamina bar.
I was fighting them with gun holstered until they lower the shield, at which point I dump 2-3 shots as quickly as possible

@dusky sonnet keep in mind this is a ukrainian game company, and swears in slavic languages are way more rude and indecent than in english, its likely a carryover from that sort of mentality - to have civilized discussions about the game without being extremely rude

@dense plume its either on the roof where you can get it, one floor lower where you can get it, or inaccessible without noclip because it spawned in an unreachable area

[sturdy verge]

but on the real i get what you meant tho btw, #📜┃gsc-answers message @half plover

[half plover]

Why are random weapons appearing in my inventory and equipping themselves? Is it a bug? Or apart of the game?

[trail smelt]

Ok thx will give it another go today

[dusty lion]

There are no bugs, only anomalies

[bright violet]

Faust wants you to have more money.

[prisma anchor]

Runs like shit my boi 🤷‍♂️

[lost prairie]

Free handouts from the monlita wish granter

[clever fiber]

So there is an alternate ending with lt mateus if u bring the soldier back he says wth and then tells u "I dident expect a stalker to be more loyal then my own men" he then pays u 4k and let's u keep the artifact.

[dusky sonnet]

im a russian speaker, and i dont see a big deal in using swears in that language either. Obviously you can be extremely obscene, but that goes for english as well, you can say some horrible stuff thats way more than a simple fck

@dense plume its under or above you

@half plover npcs spawning nearby, but the game for some reason sometimes gives you their weapons. Happens a TON with zombies

[dense plume]

Turns out it is a story locked artifact, terrible design choice to let me detect something i can't even get to

[scenic widget]

ayyo anyone else run into an issue grabbing an artifact on the island w the ex monolith soldiers i swear im standing right on top of it

[tough rain]

Story locked like I told Dunk <3

[kind zephyr]

having swearwords banned is standard practice in russian speaking game forums/discords ive seen

@clever fiber

keep in mind this is a ukrainian game company, and swears in slavic languages are way more rude and indecent than in english, its likely a carryover from that sort of mentality - to have civilized discussions about the game without being extremely rude

[dense bloom]

https://www.nexusmods.com/stalker2heartofchornobyl/mods/562?tab=files&jump_to_comment=146987802 your daily reminder of one the best Mod out yet, especially for controller users 😎

[sly sluice]

Burers are totally BS

[steel patrol]

Pretty easy to deal with no?

[clever fiber]

Funny caus they curse in game. Just brought lt mateus his bro body back and he drops an f bomb lol

[prisma anchor]

https://tenor.com/view/thank-you-key-and-peele-substitute-teacher-did-i-stutter-school-gif-5417164

[sage vessel]

Is there a sniper suppressor in the game?

[eternal garden]

throwing mateus’s buddy into a whirl because it’s funny

[dusky sonnet]

I'm in a rus tarkov and rus zomboid discord (official for both) and swear words are just fine there havent had an issue with swearing before, only on games E for everyone, like forza

[clever fiber]

Nah to much honor I drug bro all the way back so he can get a proper funeral. To often are u set up in the zone. This guy gave his life to protect his fellow brothers. A rarity in the zone i couldn't let go unnoticed. I have a habit of shooting people he screw me over in the back of the head and that's me lmao 🤣

[lost prairie]

How are people still struggling with the mutants, they just got nerfed into oblivion 😢

[sly sluice]

The new "use dropped guns to shoot" thing is cool I guess but it doesn't make sense that they have infinite ammo and laser aim when they cant see you. The shield is too long. And in the past, we had a counter, dangerous but run up and knife em, that does nothing now.

@steel patrol Sure, not super hard, but still equally bullshit. Only cheese strategies work, pick up random guns, hide somewhere where there is no guns, shoot shots until he shields, then go and wait, shoot again when shield is down... It's very lame

@zenith remnant Oh you brutally notice it after SIRCAA

[eternal garden]

so true but i like when the body swirls and explodes :) also @dusky sonnet i just recognized the spiffo

[zenith remnant]

You can tell where the games polish starts to fade and it’s after leaving the swamp

[dense plume]

The invisible mutant is pretty annoying, his damage got gutted though

[scenic widget]

Bro how do I upload AV1 formatted videos this is such a pain in the a55 my screencap software encodes in AV1

[river grove]

https://www.popularmechanics.com/science/animals/a63033076/chernobyl-dogs-dna-evolving/

[raven matrix]

I know how to fight burers just pointing out that they should rebalance the behavior as it removes player agency without adding a challenge or reward, it's just an eye rolling meme of a fight similar to fighting Chimeras and Pseduogiants right now. There's several points where you will fight two Burers, the first place the player might fight them in a pair is scrap heap which is also they're introduction possibly for the player. Oddly enough at this location they can disarm you without a clear line of sight as well which is likley a bug, but they most definetly can chain their disarm so that you can get one shot off if you're lucky. Honestly, they should go back to how it was done in CoP where your stamina had to be drained first like the other guy pointed out, otherwise a global CD for player would work best. One Burer is whatever, you're unlikely to ever be spam disarmed and a global CD wouldn't even be noticed, two or more is a meme fight if you don't use some sort of tactic to cheese it

[clever fiber]

I thought i wana gona have an endless money glitch when the scientist said throw his body in the whirly and when nothing happened I was so mad I reloaded and did the right thing.

[dusky sonnet]

they drop a fair amount of kurwas too

@clever fiber tbh, an expedited "ash" spreading all over the zone is not nearly one of the worst situations for your corpse to end up in in the zone

[dense plume]

I wish we could become stronger as a character in stalker 2, not just in terms of equipment

[eternal garden]

yes that’s normally how
i play

this is truly what stalker is about. “hey man help me!”
yea okay
“thanks here’s my stash!”
Word
“why are you aiming that gun at me?”
I want your stuff

[lost prairie]

I just unequip after i dump shotgun shells into burers.

[sturdy verge]

its like that pomor guy, sold him the pic got the reward, killed him and took it back to its owner lol

[tough rain]

Attempt number 15 at the Chem Plant

[clever fiber]

I only kill if I get jumped by a mutant and get set up. Out of everyone so far 2 people have yet to not set me up and live

And what's kurwas?

[night plaza]

bruh I cannot believe Lin is still in the server malding every day about how much he hates stalker 2

[dusky sonnet]

nah, this is how its been since the start of the stalker series, its part of the brand. I prefer it this way, and there is plenty of feeling of progression from getting better gear/weapons, and finding better artifacts

@clever fiber polish swearword. Maybe ukranian too? Idk, i have my game audio in ukranian and i hear it sometimes

[sly sluice]

Yes. and the using weapon thing should depend on sight, if he can't see you, he should put them to shoot in a pattern to hit you no matter where you are (Which will hit you so much less than laser aim), Also you should be able to pick up guns while he does his psy thing. That would mitigate the fact that he has inifinite size mags. Or keep it as it is and let the guns just have 1 mag so it's a "oh shit" moment and then he runs out of ammo.

Also buff knife against him and make his push-over only work with low stamina too.

Either is fine, but atm it's just lame and cheese counterplay.

[eternal garden]

cook a grenade in your hand and charge at them like real monolithian @dusky sonnet i think i would’ve died on the spot if they added a skill tree

[clever fiber]

Honestly but I felt like bro deserved a good burial. Rather then be an experiment.

And playing in Ukrainian it feels smoother but English is funny af 🤣

[dense plume]

Eh, we have different visions for the game. I like body horror progression in games like this, I wouldn't mind a third fleshy arm to protect me from bullets 🙏

I think you guys grossly misunderstood what i meant by getting stronger as a character lol

[sly sluice]

Yes indeed. lvling up is super lame. Gear + player skill progression is much more fun. Instead of having some magical dragonborn ability to get super good at everything no matter what you do (and failing at everything when you're lvl1), we have to learn ourselves and also use good gear.

[burnt gust]

there's one for both the .308's but idk abt the x54r's

[kind zephyr]

k.rwa is b.tch in polish, к.рва is b.tch in ukrainian

[raven matrix]

Yeah it's kinda funny watching them go full auto sometimes with double barrel shotguns.

[eternal garden]

bober kurwa!

[frigid hill]

goon_breaker has been warned

Reason: Bad word usage

[dense plume]

That being said why is there a huge 2 minute CD, that seems counter productive

[dusky sonnet]

I suppose i wouldnt hate an extra limb due to too much artifact exposure or slmething lol

[weary hedge]

HAHAHAHAHAHA I just knifed Tyrant to death in the arena

[eternal garden]

makes it so people think about what they’re saying if they really really want to send a message. Frankly most of this community is quick tempered and spews some really stupid stuff. This acts as a great filter to flash typers who are just annoying. although i do think they could lower it a little.

[sly sluice]

They are old rusted out crap weapons and they dont have any ammo in them, neither does their ex-owners, yet he can shoot full auto with great precision. Even enemy stalkers have to burst. It's just BS. And BS isn't that hard but it means we have to employ boring unrealistic strategies to counter, rather than fun realistic ones like in stalker1

[lost prairie]

If you’re having a hard time in stalker 2, you can lower the difficulty (this is legitimate advice recommended by 11/10 scientists)

[kind zephyr]

I think that would very much go against the stalker vibe

@eternal garden most times I want to reply, I have 30 seconds left. I wish they would at least change it to 1:30

[novel axle]

Yeah I feel they should lower it as the discord is slowing down quite a bit now. Anyway I got a craazy plan for my next game. Get out of lesser zone, go get weird water artifact then go get the saiga, khraod and maybe dnipro, then go back and do the first non-lesser zone story mission.

[tough rain]

WHY DO THE WARDENS AT THE CHEM PLANT HAVE SO MUCH HP. IT TOOK 3 POINT BLANK SAIGA MAGS TO KILL A SINGLE GRUNT

[mighty rivet]

its not like u run into that many to be a huge problem tbh, like this isnt a big deal there are bigger bugs and stuff to focus on
they are super easy to kill

LIKE WHERE IS MY NIGHT VISION YO?

[dense plume]

Would it? You are basically making out with radiation every second of the day

[burnt gust]

I believe all the mutants are actually based on what a biologist (or some weird scientist that knows stuff) said in an interview with a dev. so yeah, bodily horror wouldn't work
@dense plume

[sly sluice]

Sure it's not a top priority but it's a thing. Top priority should be fixing zalissya and the other progression bugs, and maybe doing something about the instakill sniper, since that is what I have seen people ask about 100 times.

[kind zephyr]

stalker radiation doesn't do any body horror superpower stuff to you, it gives you cancer. Or in gameplay terms reduces your hp over time

[novel axle]

I honestly feel the placed weapons and armor should be removed for the most part, other than maybe early game ones in lesser zone. To force the player to have to buy or loot them, as just finding them is way to damn easy, as once you know where it is you can literally just run and grab some of the best stuff in the game basically at the start, its stupid. You can get a diamond exoskeleton the second you leave lesser zone as well.

[dense plume]

It is almost like all the mutants seem to be excluded from this, half of them are super drugged up animals when they should instead be a huge bulb of cancerous tumor. Can't see why the same thing wouldn't fly for our boy

[mighty rivet]

the mutant that definetely needs a nerf is chimera, I get its the most OP but its ridiculous the amount of bullets it soaks
i dont think mutants are hard atm except for that

once u realize u can kill them all with one magazine and a shotgun they are ez, u can run up to a controller and shotgun him to death n he staggers wont even attack
u can kill a snork with 2/3 shot gun blast
u can kill blood suckers with 5-8 rounds of shotgun depending on shotgun

ez

[dusky sonnet]

my most hated mutants atm are poltergeists and pseudodogs

[eternal garden]

i do hope with a buffed a life that might have more distant patrols spawn that they bring night vision and binocs back. @dusky sonnet hating on psidogs still the most rn

[lost prairie]

you mean psidogs? Yeh those suck

[loud vector]

Indeeed.
Especialy that fokin Geist that guardian SEVA-I lead container upgrades.
And Psy Dogs...ehh...I am not sure if it needs nerf or not...more like nerf the ammout of clones
Cuz its hard to keep eye on th real dog

[sly sluice]

I think you've played or gotten into the anomaly mindset. This game is like SoC. Everyone complained about repair costs when they got all these free suits and weapons, because they dont know what the classic stalker games are like, you are meant to find and use new gear.

[smoky sedge]

any one else got the bug after reloading a save that the game is acting like im over encumbered when im not. i cant sprint and im moving extremely slowly even though i was perfectly fine before i died and had to reload the save.

[burnt gust]

all the mutants were exposed to different rads along with the anomalous effects of the zone. others were results of neurosphere testing.

@mighty rivet it's supposed to be a sponge, but all mutants really do need a health nerf. especially bc you face bloodsuckers in the tutorial.

@novel axle I think it's ok for some weapons, as they are still a little difficult to get to. also, if you don't look up guides and stuff, you should be rewarded for exploring the map

[kind zephyr]

@sly sluice All mutants with the exception of a controller are non-satient, and created pre 2006. If they were to do something like that in the trilogy it could be within the stalker vibe, but they didnt so it isn't.

And none of the messed up mutants are messed up due to radiation

[ember remnant]

how is one meant to dodge psuedogiant ranged attack? he just screams and takes 80% of my health behind cover, wearing diamond exo + compass too wtf

[eternal garden]

poltergeists are fine because you can just shoot em. psidogs need less clones and a more reliable way to identify the prime. @ember remnant don’t get to a range where they do their ranged attack??

[mighty rivet]

I actually liked the blood sucker in tutorial because it was a anice challenge

i liked that it left me with 5hp and down to almost my last bullet

it felt like an actual feat, but yeah it starts getting dumb when u start facing 2 at once all the time and getting owned

i think that blood sucker so early was bad idea, maybe some pigs or human enemies

[dense plume]

What is the reason they mutated if not the radiation? This is my first stalker game so I don't really know.

@burnt gust Aren't we also exposed to anomalous effects and the radiation? I am confused what your message takes apart from what i said, also neurosphere testing is something i don't know about

[novel axle]

Blood suckers are still way to tanky, I mean they are bascally scrawy like humans are. they should not be able to eat that many rounds. @eternal garden I've not fought a psidog but i seen videos and they look annoying as hell. @sly sluice meh its more just, it felt more rewarding in anomaly and its mods when you finally get a functional gun going, instead of just finding one static in the world thats always there. @mighty rivet the first blood sucker in the intro mission would be fine if it had proper health like in the previous games, as they'd usually drop in 10 ak74 rounds to the body.

[sly sluice]

What? Animals are not sentient but they can still be highly skilled at what they do, use tools or strategies that take a lot of practice. Are you saying burers using guns is not stalker vibe, or?

Eh somewhat true, (some) mutants are a result of lab experiments, but no doubt radiation also played a role especially with the trash ones like dogs and pigs

[kind zephyr]

messing with the noosphere and supersoldier programms in secret laboratories

The radiation mutants are things like blind dogs, boars

[frigid hill]

frogski has been warned

Reason: Bad word usage

[eternal garden]

some come from experiments prior to the creation of the zone. Others a mixture of radiation and the experiments

[burnt gust]

I think maybe replace the bloodsucker with a zombie or smth and lower bloodsucker health by a bit, because I've faced 5 of them all at once and it was a pain. very glad I had an exosuit tho

@dense plume the mutants were born from the creation of the zone. we, the stalkers, weren't there when the zone was created. the mutants are basically anomalies

[mighty rivet]

yeah much easier in previous games but like idk i dont want them that easy either, its a personal preference
i just realized just rush the first pump action shotgun u can find and they melt quick n conserve ur ammo but i get ur point

[dense plume]

Got it, mutants are just stuff like gravity fields. Just mobile, i thought they were mutated animals lol

[novel axle]

first thing I'd go for in any new game, is get the scoped ak74 in lesser zone, as you can get that pretty much second you hit zalyysia, then maybe do a bit of stuff in lesser zone to get some ammo, then I am going to go to get the weird water. +40kg carry weight and it has some rad healing ability. not sure if its weak, med, strong or max as the static artifacts don't list their stats. You can get out of the lesser zone without doing a single mission, if you use the springboard anomalys to yeet you across the map

[kind zephyr]

yall should play the trilogy before suggesting these completely non-stalker things, for real

@burnt gust the mutants were created in X laboratories trying to make a supersoldier

[sly sluice]

Well that's fine but maybe you're more of a anomaly fan than a stalker fan, you shouldn't expect stalker2 to be like anomaly because the games where never that. All the new people brought in with anomaly+gamma probably gave them a ton of sales, but also a lot of complaints and missed expectations for something the game was never meant to be.
The biggest victim though is the other mods that read the way, like oblivion lost, that the people that came in only after anomaly don't know about

ANomaly is somewhat stalker (But open world, no story) but gamma completely ruined the stalker economy

[mighty rivet]

i go for the journalist stash with the pump action shotgun exactly for the mutants and then the scoped AK, and ur set for any enemy

[dusky sonnet]

i dont think any mutants are hard, some are just annoying to deal with atm

@dense plume mutants are a result of the psi influence of the noosphere and experimentation, rather than radiation. Trying to give those "superpowers" to a normal human will either kill them, turn them into a mutant pernamently or just zombify them

||Faust is like the one successful example of a working mutant/human||

@eternal garden poltergeists are easy to kill once you find them

In a lot of locations you need to make a mad dash for them to quickly get rid of them, and they manage to smack me with a box like every time

[sharp stream]

Where roadmap

[dense plume]

Faust my g

[burnt gust]

what abt like snorks and fleshes

@dense plume some of them are, like boars, cats, and fleshes, but they're still anomalous a bit. not so much boars tho

[ember remnant]

ok i figured it out, i wasn't dying to pseudo's ranged scream attacks, i was dying to a psuedogiant with poltergeist powers, makes sense why it drained 80% health in exo

[novel axle]

I only got the pre order edition, so I don't have that sadly. So I only have a toz or boomstick at best. but only real enemt thats athreat to get most of this endgame stuff is a blood sucker. and a controller if your going to get the early 100% condition dnipro free.

[sly sluice]

There's no point in fighting mutants atm if you can run away though. So just do that 90% of the time

[mighty rivet]

||i just got to the faust part in my game and im like *jaw dropped
that was a good twist||

[dusky sonnet]

bloodsuckers are super easy, what you on? They overcorrected too much in the last patch imo, two shots from a shotty and they fold. Theyre meant to be legendarily dangerous creatures

@dense plume check spoiler, i adressed faust. And again, he is literally the one example out of countless tries

@burnt gust boars are just a holes like that

[eternal garden]

I’m not a stalker elitist but man when the gammagooners and anomaly only people start talking about story beats despite neither of those having canon storylines at all… it’s tough out here man
also @dusky sonnet yes the damage value got thrown objects is crazy sometimes, i’ve had cans knock my ass back to a load screen
@burnt gust the boar and other animals do not have proper radiation mutations. Their mutant abilities are their human flesh hunger and their increased intelligence

[raven matrix]

CoP moved away from that for the most part outside of starting gear with many of the guns and armors being sidegrades. The first game you’re meant to toss gear as it breaks for the most part, CS introduced the repair and mod system but it’s still tiered for the most par. This game is closer to CS in how they want you to use gear, which is odd with the exuberant cost of armor upgrades versus gun upgrades.

[inland bluff]

L bozo

[dense plume]

That's why i called him my g, not to rebuke your point. I have no idea who he is lmao

[weary hedge]

I think it's really dumb they give you an RPG and you can't even rocket jump with it like TF2. Like who does that? It's not like it's useful for anything else

[novel axle]

I barely consider human enemies a threat as they are by far the easiest to kill usually. 1-2 shots to the head done. Mutants I mostly just try to outrun, as they aren't worth fighting unless you have to. @dusky sonnet trying playing the older games, blood suckers were 1-2 shotgun blasts with any shotgun, so thats normal. Its a little harder to do it in stalker 2 early game because they gave them armor like humans have. you need a gun with enough penetration to do full dmg to a bloodsucker, so u need a pen 2 shotgun minimum, Which if your lucky you can get a m860 cracker in the lesser zone when you go to get the scoped ak74.

[sly sluice]

iirc, controllers, poltergeists, burers are mostly results of PSI-experimentation (But that doesn't mean being left alone for so long didnt change them)
snorks are humans left in mild psi-energy and radiation
Zombies, real-zombies are humans whose brains where fried by PSI-emissions
Izloms are mutated by radiation AND had their brains fried by PSI-emissions
dogs, flesh,rats, maybe cats are mostly just the result of radiation (+General zone influence) rather than actual experimentations

[eternal garden]

@sly sluice are izloms even a thing? they never were added, right?

[sterile pagoda]

how do i exist the x7 lab after ending game?

[supple walrus]

the game should save after traveling with the guide and after sleeping not before...

[dusky sonnet]

they absolutely were not 1-2 shots what u on

I always ran up on.them and spammed at least 6 shots out of my striker into them, they were pretty damn tanky

Atm id place stalker 2 bloodsuckers at 2nd easiest, easiest being SoC since they just ran at you in a straight line

[raven matrix]

Scoped AK has inferior stats to the standard AK, damage is even lower than the AK74U. IMO it’s better to skip valik’s AK entirely

[weary hedge]

You don't, you rot in there.

[fast temple]

Should I go labyrinth or dig site

[novel axle]

Honestly though, I may just go get the weird water artifact super early and then just follow the main quest line, as going to get the other guns is going to make most of the game a cakewalk. @raven matrix 1-2 headshot on humans for most of the game. scope makes that REAL damn easy to land that hit. Thats why I like it. Plus it has a very common ammo type. Granted I will replace it with the next weapon that uses simmlar ammo and has higher penatration and can also have a scope, can you even remove the scope from valix's ak74? to put it on another one?

[eternal garden]

bandit camp.

[weary hedge]

Brain scorcher.

[frigid hill]

frogski has been warned

Reason: Bad word usage

[sterile pagoda]

yo please somone tell me how to get out of the ward

[sly sluice]

Even in CoP, suits are more rare yes, but you still get them, but you're meant to use what you find until you can order a top-tier gun from nimble or find your favorite one, which you can then repair and upgrade. Repair+upgrade is more like a vanity feature to use what your favorite thing is rather than whatever you got for free, similar to buying ammo rather than using the free ammo you got.

[cobalt fiber]

Attempting mamas beads is such a pain

[eternal garden]

Me after i’ve been cursed with an evil malicious ward of evilness and im begging for a way out!

[novel axle]

I wonder if I can get the weird water artifact right after getting to zalyssia if I use a springboard to yeet me over there

[weary hedge]

Guys I'm getting close 7 million coupons!!! Almost to 10 mil then I can actually play the game lol

[frigid hill]

frogski has been warned

Reason: Bad word usage

[torpid yarrow]

man gotta love these mission bugs in the mission like the good old days im right at the spot where the signal is and it wont progress after that......

[tough rain]

Tearing up the chem plant as payback for all those deaths

[sterile pagoda]

please somone help me im stuck inside the x7 lab after finishing the game

[sly sluice]

@sterile pagoda Big shame they are not in stalker 2 for sure, they would have been actually cool and scary looking unlike other mutants.. real zombies too but I guess we can do without. But imo they are def canon. Cats were not in the release games until they added them back in stalker 2 so I dont see why not izloms.

[sage vessel]

ty

[novel axle]

Apparently you stand close enough to the springboard anomaly then throw a bolt into it and it sucks you into it and flings you across the map, for some reason your also immune to fall damage when you land, I cannot tell if the devs intend you to use these like that or if its a glitch, as there is some weird stuff in the zone at times.

[weary hedge]

Roam around there's prolly a ladder or hole or some boards you need to break somewhere.

[dusky sonnet]

repair and upgrade is far from vanity, its basically essential imo, it made gear op, really worth hunting down all those toolkits

Happy, auto bot? No swearsies? Ahole

[torpid yarrow]

how do i fix this? i cant progress

[normal zinc]

what do i do to make strider spawn next to scar in mission extreme simplicity

[cobalt fiber]

Then there's me patiently waiting for an emission so I can grab the mamas beads artifact

[scenic widget]

@weary hedge broski gave me some free bread and told me to let everyone know how generous Mikluha can be so im letting you know specifically you can go get some free bread at Rostok from the bread man

[weary hedge]

You're not supposed to bypass either moron lol

[worldly raptor]

does anyone know if i can mod on geforce now?

[novel axle]

Thats what was great about CoP, via the tool kit system, most guns in CoP were viable from start of the game to end of the game as they culd be upgraded, its not like the first game or stalker 2 where guns are clearly tiered, and the lower ones have no use once you find the higher. @cobalt fiber heh need to reset a random artifact spot? how do u do that exactly? can you loot the artifact AT the spot then wait for a emission or do you need to leave it there, and not loot it and wait for emission to reset it to be random again?

[eternal garden]

probably not since it’s cloud gaming and you can’t just install the mods to the server you’re playing off

[sly sluice]

, it made gear op
Not in vanilla stalker, it was always mostly minor things like 15% handling and 10% accuracy, with a few exceptions like scope mounts or caliber changes. Plus gear is OK even if you don't repair, especially in stalker 2 where even 25% guns dont jam that much.
I think the idea many people have of it being essential comes from mods, especially the ones like gamma where you have to keep your gun at 90%+ or you will need something completely different rare item to repair it

[strange otter]

patch this week

[dusky sonnet]

" Be nice, polite and stay positive!"

Breaking rule one, bucko 🤓

@sly sluice i havent even played anomaly or gamma, ive played entirely through the og trilogy vanilla. Gear upgrades were op, more artifact slots, exoskeleton sprint, durability increases, sometimes straight up dmg. It was all worth it

[worldly raptor]

i wasnt sure, because you can replace .sav files, for other games on geforce now

[sterile pagoda]

yo anyone know how to get out of x7 lab after finishing strelok ending?? im completely stuck

[warped stream]

youd still need to get the mods into the game folder itself, so probably not
@sterile pagoda once you beat the game thats it, cant go back

[weary hedge]

That is being nice and polite, it's ethical to tell someone not to jump into a pit of lava if you have to be stern about it, no?

(That's what I thought couldn't finish it all)

[eternal garden]

@worldly raptor i’m not super familiar with geforce now seeing as i don’t use it but you could try. I didn’t know you could move sav files

[worldly raptor]

didnt work lol

[cobalt fiber]

Crazy how many have finished the game already. Do these people skip the POIs and not explore the zone to its entirety? This is blasphemy to me

[scenic widget]

How long does it take Arnie to get round 4 ready for the arena i swear its been like 3 days and i still cant enter the arena again

[dusky sonnet]

Progress the main story (nooo my freedom badge dissapeared)

[warped stream]

just playing the game a lot, I explored a fair bit and took me 55h to beat the game

[eternal garden]

also, idk maybe this is mean spirited but I lwk wished one of the endings was similar to the one in SoC, like if you have over 400-500k it’s just the greedy ending. Especially since the money glitch has been a big talking point for a lot of the tiktok stalkers i’ve seen. Idk i feel like you’re missing out on part of the game experience. The zones not supposed to be super immediately profitable, it’s supposed to be for people down on their luck with nothing left

[cobalt fiber]

It took me 12 hours to even get to the detention centre after exploring all the POIs etc in lesser/cordon and a bit of burnt forest

[scenic widget]

"progress the main story" What if the main story progresses me for a change huh?

[sly sluice]

Why's there stalker on tiktok TOPKEK

Tiktok is good for one thing(guess what)

[weary hedge]

I refuse to progress in the main quest until I have 10 million coupons, I'm at 100 hours this far, 6.7mil

[magic vigil]

Egg

[warped stream]

I wish they had actual conditions to get the endings, I really dislike how it holds your hand to get endings, no exploring and managing rep, just here pick 3 major choices with Q or E and that determines your ending.

[sterile pagoda]

brooo this is so stupidd why cant i do anything after finising the game ???

[scenic widget]

why cant the game finish me off? 😩

[zealous goblet]

What NPCs were in past stalker games? Like who should i be excited to see in the zone

[eternal garden]

@sly sluice “NEW OPEN WORLD APOCALYPTIC FIRST PERSON SURVIVAL SHOOTER” says all i think it needs to kek
@warped stream agreed, i would’ve liked finding the parameters and the game giving me multiple options to choose between the faction i sided with, or the other or no one had me a little excited especially since I was hearing about entirely different missions but finding out most of the big choices are literally within hours of eachother was meh. @sterile pagoda literally could not do that in any stalker game

[sly sluice]

At least there's some difference. Picking ward or spark early makes a pretty big change, different missions different paths, their goal was clearly to make different enough that someone could get 2 playthroughs out of it.

[magic vigil]

Cook eggs

[smoky hawk]

story ended, thats it

[strange otter]

I BEGG YOU GSC, GIMME PATCH NOW 🥚

[smoky hawk]

mhe, in CoP you could continue playing after the main story

however

it was dumb

[warped stream]

reload to right before the ending is the best you can do, enjoy the unique weapons you get for just the ending sequence lol

@sly sluice eh didnt feel that big enough, you still run missions at mostly the same places just on the different sides of the factions. Only real difference I felt was the ending missions where you either went to the red fortress or generators

[smoky hawk]

Im glad thats not the case anymore

stories should end

[weary hedge]

Y'all need to learn patience, go outside, touch some grass, read a book, go hang with some friends or watch a movie, it'll come when it comes

[sterile pagoda]

iM downloading mods right now and im gonna noclip out

[smoky hawk]

if they dont they just hang with a very unsatisfying afterthought

[lost prairie]

At some pt, u just stop playing anomaly, leaving the save file to rot

Stories should end

[scenic widget]

Story's over go home

[zealous goblet]

when game ends id just do a fresh start and have that game be the one where i do all my side quests or you can reload a save b4 beating the game or you can wait for more patches and play again at that time. Also has @magic vigil just discovered how to react or somthing?

[eternal garden]

very much so

[sly sluice]

If you listen and look at what happens in the end, there is no way you could just continue. But ig it could be cool to have a box appear with your loot you got from the end or something, even though it makes no sense canonically you could get that saiga drum

[magic vigil]

I just love to egg-react

[strange otter]

Patch Granter

[warped stream]

all your side quests disappear too, and i wonder if thatll break anything else by noclipping. Im just gonna wait on dlc or modpacks myself anyway, felt like ive done about everything in the same so far

[weary hedge]

Seems like @zealous goblet is not in the know. Get real, don't be salty🥚

[scenic widget]

We out here doing a stalker simulation run where every time i drink vodka to reduce rads i take a shot long story short I havent made it that far

[zealous goblet]

Drink beer instead, it lowers rads!

[eternal garden]

The only ending I could see remaining persistent would be the strelok ending but even then it kinda eliminates some factors. I recently just got my streaming stuff set up so I want to stream stalker 2 and do shots everytime i die or something along those lines

[sly sluice]

More choice than previous games, already before SIRCAA. Sure I don't think anythings gonna be super major, but it's still new content, making it worth playing again if you like the game.

@scenic widget Your liveer is in luck, only in the early game do you need to use vodka

@eternal garden IMO strelok ending is probably canon, he's the GOAT after all, and he would never lose. Maybe he can be the villain for stalker 3 though. But no way he would lose against schizos

@scenic widget Do I sound sober to you brother?

[weary hedge]

Average scrapheap villager right here

[scenic widget]

pov you spend like 2 hours trying to run 1km ingame cause you cant even sit straight anymore and keep running to random objectives cause you forgor where youre going

[eager carbon]

is there anything useful at the wandering lights anomaly in zaton?

[zealous goblet]

I thought strelok dies after SIRCAA portal stuff around #15 in game

[eternal garden]

literally my king, but i think they’ll go for maybe even skif’s ending for canon, could set stalker in different zones like the original novel. Could finally get that canadian tundra zone @eager carbon weird water, boosts weight 40kg

[gloomy frost]

The cursor avoidance "head bob" script on thise IPSF guys is EGREGIOUS.

[magic vigil]

Strelok is made of eggs, so he doesn't die

[strange otter]

EGGSTRELOK

[chrome jetty]

https://steamcommunity.com/id/soppo-chan/recommended/1643320

[sly sluice]

Strelok??? Die??? He's the greatest stalker of all time. Also stalker and alcoholism goes hand in hand

[chrome jetty]

I updated my review, final review after the endings

[civic holly]

I need help.

The quest 'Assault on the Duga (Ward)' I am stuck on securing checkpoint issue. No enemies are spawning, the Ai are standing still. Nothing is happening.

Anyone got a solution?

[scenic widget]

bro i keep getting distracted its a promblem lmao

[weary hedge]

Yeah I found your mom's PDA with an address on top of the rock, be there later

[mighty rivet]

You mean slavs and alcoholism

[eternal garden]

stregglok

[zealous goblet]

rn i havent found someone that has skifs best interest at heart but that Ritcher guy. he seems to be skiffs only friend. That said i just discovered Scar for the first time at this boat i never went to cuz i always went to the other boat like an idiot. @civic holly are you using mods? Also did you wait until the 2nd patch came out to venture past saving the science nerd in quiets trade base?

[magic vigil]

Egg one?

[warped stream]

based take

[strange otter]

Nimblegg

[civic holly]

no mods havent saved anyone literally no idea what you're talking about, after SIRRCA you need to speak with the Ward colonel and he tells you to assault the duga, when you get there it's a whole ordeal, and when you get to the point of the quest where you hold the checkpoint, literally nothing happens. No AI spawns, the friendly AI remain standing still, it's very very bugged

[sly sluice]

Strelok literally || got shot by scar (NOOBLORD) , incapacitated, brainwashed to the point he don't know who he is, presumed dead, survives, then goes on to somehow just destroy everyone in gunfights and find the ones that brainwashed him, kill them all, then out of pity help some military guys go home, then have a anomaous super cozy lovely cottage in the middle of the zone||

[mighty rivet]

Nothing like canned food and vodka, true Eastern European simulator, now if only we had black outs, OH WAIT EMISSION

man this game feels like home 🚬

[gloomy frost]

my working hypothesis is that Richter IS SATAN, no spoilers, but will be interesting to see how wrong/right I am when it is all said and done

[eternal garden]

even richter is self serving. Good intentions does not mean not for the benefit of you. Richter is arguably the most morally sound person in the game. But his ultimate goal is to know the zone and depending on what ending you’re doing, he’ll choose your side to help because he does believe in what you’re doing. Love richter, he’s my cutie pie

[weary hedge]

People who come here and do nothing but complain didn't grow up on 98/XP/vista/7 and it really shows, y'all had to wait for any game to install on a hard drive sometimes for hours on end, and you'd go read a book or go bike to hang with your friends while you waited, and then waiting 3+ minutes for zones to load on an old IDE hard drive. Y'all need to get real and be Greatful

[zealous goblet]

how you gunna short center mustache Ritcher like that?

[eager carbon]

richter sounds like an insane guy thats gonna betray me eventually for some bs

[weak walrus]

do we know who the guy who is supposed to kill us in the begining, before we meet richter is?

[sly sluice]

Oh I remember playing stalker the first time very clearly, we were teens, got the game through dubious means, me and my friend playing it on a trash PC with a CRT on the kitchen table, trying to get through the military checkpoint

This friend didnt have great parents, but somehow he managed to borrow get this pentium 4 PC. We played it and tried to get past as much we could, which we finally did, to great celebration with nothing cause we were poor

[pastel pecan]

||Nimble||

[gloomy frost]

didn't it strike you as suspicious that he is RIGHT THERE to wake you up?

[mighty rivet]

oh yeah im so grateful this game doesnt auto crash every 5 mins like clear sky and enemies are throwing nades with extreme accuracy destroying gameplay"

like plz dont bootlick dude

im 34 and ive been gaming since forever, like thats no excuse lmao

[eager carbon]

encountered vova vist?

[zealous goblet]

😲

[eternal garden]

later in story but it’s ||nimble||

[lunar spoke]

I thought of that too, he's generally very weird, appears everywhere you go, somehow knows everyone, plus Journalist said to not trust anyone.

@weak walrus you later meet him in the quest. If you missed that, he's a dude with a Saiga shotgun.

[strange otter]

Faust 🫡

[cobalt fiber]

First paragraph sounds like Victor from New Vegas 😂

[weak walrus]

yea, i remember that now. thx yall
starting 2nd playthru. got the ||skiff ending||

[gloomy frost]

Not to mention || the blurry guy you see who decides not to kill you but whack you in the head bears a pretty strong resemblance to him || I'm sure you've already encountered that part I just spoilered Thor but for others who maybe haven't even finished the prologue . . .

[pastel pecan]

Nimble could be his own DLC / Expansion, dude has main charachter vibes.

@jack.richard.thomson Richter is GSC, they see everything and know everything

[weary hedge]

🤷‍♀️ some people just wanna complain about the current state of the game expecting it to be perfect, when no game has ever been "perfect". And comparing this to every other STALKER game, it's pretty damn good and holds up well, I have very minimal complaints. Then you have people screaming omg fix this now1!1!1!

[sly sluice]

Then later i managed to get stalker on my PoS AMD thurion x2 with I think a ATI 4450 or something, Had to learn the hard way.

Nimble could be a main nemesis

[zealous goblet]

wth nades are ez to avoid just take good cover or listen for falling grenade sounds and run !. Faust is the devil, poor simpleton Khors. @gloomy frost im about to begin my assault on duga and after sirccaa i grew to trust Ritcher more. he didnt seem to know what was going on

[mighty rivet]

thats cause u clearly havent beaten the game cause idk how u not have complains after swamp unless ur baiting the f out of me
and to say its more stable then the piles of poop the older games were on release its nowhere near a flex cause it barely is

in fact same problems

[eternal garden]

richter genuinely is just a guy who wants to help. Great dude, but he is seeking absolution for a mistake he made in his past because of his hubris ||his goal is to help you without you dying so he can atone for the group he got killed back in the day|| but that’s why he’s so obsessed with you, you’re his proof that he can come back and still be what he’s always wanted to be

[weak walrus]

100 hours. game is fine. theres some rough spots but otherwise its literally no different than any other game. often times better

[gloomy frost]

I'm still futzing in Lesser Zone: wanted to try zero deaths, but teh fall damage is just to ridiculous: fall 5m and instant death 🤣

[crystal prairie]

love noosphere concept, as its based on real beliefs

[weary hedge]

Ive literally explored every area so far, and I have 6.7 million cupons. I'm grinding for 10 million so I won't ever have to worry about the repair cost again which is one of my few complaints and they already reduced it. I'm at 106 hours in rn.

[lunar spoke]

That still doesn't explain how he knows literally everyone and appears everywhere you go

[zealous goblet]

i got out of the swamp just fine with no mods. @gloomy frost ah man i hope i was cryptic enough to not give a spoiler

[sly sluice]

True but I wish they had some ||more explanation about how/why he got sober and stopped being a drugged bozo somewhat suddenly, or at least a smoother transistion after you had the heart-toheart||

[weak walrus]

||hes a guide||

[serene barn]

i mean yes i wanna complain about my 110 dollar purchase that has had a mission i couldn't do and now again there's another mission i cannot do the way i want to because characters just die upon entering a building for literally no reason. like let's not act as if it's unreasonable to be annoyed with the game having bugs like that, and i can't even just go do the story as that causes the side mission to fail and i don't want that to happen funnily enough. i feel like i can't play without it causing the mission to fail and i cannot do the mission with the choices i want either.

[mighty rivet]

its not geting out of the swamp breh its all the game breaking bugs and issues u start to expirience after, and flexing u have none when the vast majority community has its just boot licking behavior

oh man i should be grateful the game doesnt take hours to install because they dint have SSD's afforadble before and were still a small indie dev that took years to get a game working right without mods fixing most of their work

its 2024 people expect better and they have that right

if anything their past expeirence should help those problems not be a thing

[eternal garden]

if you dig the noosphere, the dogan tribe and tons of anthropologists have done studies into its connections within satanism and other new age religions, really cool stuff with consciousness
@jack.richard.thomson richter has been there for years, he’s a guide, that means he travels literally everywhere and loiters when he isn’t. He experienced terrible things and he blames himself for it. He has made it his ultimate goal to be the most helpful as possible for you. You are his pet project to show he can recover. ontop of that, there’s several people who know who you are based on what you’ve been doing, it’s fair people are talking about the guy who’s been on a warpath after only being in the zone for about a week.

[cobalt fiber]

"it's 2024 people expect better"

95% of modern released games are brain rot trash. I don't think that's an expert analysis bud

[lunar spoke]

That doesn't explain how he knows literally everyone and knows where you will go next without you telling him that

[strange otter]

:(

[zealous goblet]

i just feel like alot of ppl have used mods and thats why they have a problem. i was able to save Zaly and the only bug i encountered was paying the 6k to the merc so that i could have hamster live and he still died in the street for no reason just dropped dead and the merc to. not the end of the world i can still sell stuff to warlock. Other then that yeah frames drop sometimes to load stuff but i am beginning my assault of duga and just havent had your experience.

[weary hedge]

It's not even bootlicking dude, do you understand this game has a fraction of the staff and the budget of nearly every other triple A studio out there, not to mention during a WAR where they had to move the ENTIRE STUDIO AND DEVS, and yet they still delivered a quality product. Still less buggy than any Bethesda game ever.

[weak walrus]

yes it does. id reckon a solid 60% of people use a guide at least once in the zone.
he also doenst really seem to "know" where you will go most times. you just happen upon him. sometimes he does know since he helps u find out how to get there

[serene barn]

like i like the game and i wanna continue the story and go to places i haven't been yet but i cannot do that without Zalissya falling and i don't want it to fall

[mighty rivet]

here we go the excuse, dude they were living comfortable in central europe they werent in a WAR lmao ur making excuses cause im right, end of story

also someone that flaunts they have 10 million coupons in this game doesnt strike me as a fair source or normal human being for information lmao, thats wild bro i cant even commit that much to anything in my life

[cobalt fiber]

I'll take a rough launch for a game that has atmosphere and heart over the hundreds of games that are released with sub par plot, little atmosphere and a watered down narrative that serves the new generation of gamers who have already had their brains rotted from an overabundance of cancerous social media content.

I'd welcome examples of these oh so marvelous releases in the last few years that comparisons should be drawn to?

[trim grotto]

remasters of the remastered bug fest

[eternal garden]

dog you do this everyday, please go argue with people in dms, there’s like 20 people venting their frustrations in general daily. There are places to do that, and you can vent your frustrations it’s your money so choose to be upset at it or not but stop doing it here, it’s beyond annoying

[zealous goblet]

no mods, and did you do all the side quests to save it including going to uncle lynugas cabin and did you avoid talking to gaffer until ALL side missions were done?

[weary hedge]

They were in Ukraine, then moved to the Czech Republic lol, Lord forbid I explore the whole map and sell things amirite? Also it was 6.7, I'm going to 10, at least read first

[weak walrus]

wasnt any issue for me after the patch.

[mighty rivet]

frankly my dear i dont care what annoys you or doesnt, but thanks for ur 2 cents

[serene barn]

i paid off Hamster's guard and then he and the guard dies in the doorway, an outcome i literally do not want on my run but i cannot prevent that outcome.

[lunar spoke]

||Scar, Strelok, Degtyarev, Nimble, he knows everyone. Him being a guide doesn't explain that. Yes, he should know more people than an average stalker, but not literally everyone, every single legend, every faction leader and such.||

[cobalt fiber]

Given that there's been 0 responses to my properly formed arguments against his drivel I'll go out on a limb and assume he's aiming for rage bait and a false sense of superiority through being a mard arse

[atomic oyster]

watsh back old times with a c16+4, c 64 with a the datasete and then a c 128 .... and what i was happy with an 486 sx 33 with a damn turbo button 😄 😄 😄 😄 And then comes a frend with a 486 DX4/100 OMG 😄 😄 😄

[zealous goblet]

thats only bug i noticed too. Was a shame cuz he sells ammo. Well they died in the street but same difference

[eternal garden]

we literally do not care bro bro walk on if you’re gonna be in the server just to fight people and rage baiting. wtfo

[weak walrus]

skiff also know everyone. and in a fairly short timespan too. especially compared to richter

[marble lintel]

I am the real strelok btw. They call me strokelok

[mighty rivet]

Im just correcting people thaty said things are fine and is better then previous installments, that some koold aid but i have my right to say what I say if u dont like it CEO u can jkust not read it or engage, grow the hell up urself, u be complaining all the time too idc about u bro or engage with u

[plain jewel]

Is it just me, or does the slag heap crash a lot? I've had 3 crashes there in the last half hour, which is more than the rest of the game combined so far.

[weary hedge]

At this point just refund the game, I'm sure steam would rn even do it cuz of the bugs even if you have a decent amount of hours, or y'know, he could just go play something else

[serene barn]

i didn't go after the guy because i felt that would just progress the quest and i hear there is other issues people are having after that. i just wanted to do the optionals in the quest but i cannot with the outcome i want as the guys just sv_kill themselves and flop to the floor

[lunar spoke]

Well, that's because he's a playable character. You wouldn't want to just explore a small portion of The Zone and meet only a small portion of characters.

[zealous goblet]

this is the only installment i have played soo how can it not be the best for me?. @serene barn YOU HAVE to kill Uncle L or the town dies

[atomic oyster]

1 crash in over 70 houers... and that cames from a mod 😄

[eternal garden]

all of these people are zone legends btw besides nimble who was a weapons runner so yea those are normal people to know of. He’s not introducing us to them, most of the time he’s just weaning you towards the right direction of people who do know

[sly sluice]

It's 2024 though. You know 90%of new games suck to not being worth playing, right? They're also all very buggy. It's been like this for 10 years, with many companies and brands that are doing very well economically completely fail, but you are buying from a troubled company in a troubled country

[weary hedge]

Lol where are the mods,.get this clown out of here

[lunar spoke]

I meant how he knows them personally, and they know him. It's very weird, even for a guide

[eternal garden]

yea man frankly it’s goofy, 34 years old and he’s choosing to baby himself in front of complete strangers for some reason
@jack.richard.thomson obviously i think it’s embellished and the real argument would be “mcguffin” but i don’t mind it too much, id like to see him in the expansions since im assuming most if not all will take place prior to climax of the game

[serene barn]

yes for full price, they're asking full price for a product with issues. like it will never be okay for them just because of circumstances lol. like i get things but i spent money on it. the gaming market being terrible for years is not an excuse for studios to hide behind

[spring granite]

Question, is there a lore reason why Seva suits are all over the place now? I see so many stalkers wearing them or is it just my luck with randomly generated NPCs?

[zealous goblet]

SVDM-2 or the .308 what is better for the duga assault for my sniper slot. rocking the d12 for shotty and using skiff pistol with AP bullets

[weary hedge]

You can use other guns that aren't snipers. I used the PKM

[lunar spoke]

wait until you reach the endgame and visit cordon/zalissya... literally everyone's wearing exosuits

[trim grotto]

went in with svd and drowned, easy

[mighty rivet]

lmao careful there are bootlickers around ready to clown against this xD
this game got the same average review then call of pripyat on release and less approval from fans then call of pripyat on release with the same bugs and issues of every previous isntallment

but i love people that enver played the last ones say this is fine, like i guess if ur new, but if ur a vet u expected better
the game needs a year and for now mods are doing most of it, depends how fast they patch it

[serene barn]

I just want to be able to play the damn game lol. i have like 82 hours on my save and i just want to continue playing. i love the damn game ffs, i just want it to work maaan.

[zealous goblet]

dont you feel naked without a sniper? Also guys this is on the xbox game pass so it can be free if you pay like 11? a month for the pass. i play on PC. you can have the Xbox pass for PC it is really nice. This game was such a great surprise on the gaming pass.

[serene tulip]

its been 12 days and memory leak is still not fixed

[cerulean dragon]

i only have like 13 hours of playtime but i have had actually 0 bugs whatsoever except for one where my hud would be like 75% transparent after loading and i just had to reload my save and it was fixed

my biggest gripe with the game is just that its too easy imo, even on max difficulty

[frigid hill]

warpigzz has been banned

Reason: insulting other users and wishing death to other users

[lunar spoke]

I'd suggest taking an assault rifle/SMG for the final boss fight. You'll need something more accurate than a shotgun and something more powerful for close quarters than a sniper rifle

[desert agate]

Yea they really need to get a patch out for this.

[weary hedge]

LMAO YEAH GET OUT OF HERE BRO

[sly sluice]

Well it should be perfect but it's relative, most games are trash and buggy. You could also have played it free first to see since there no drm

[eternal garden]

the way it released shouldn’t be the standard no, but there’s a lot of reasons it’s the way it is, frankly it’s more so the bankruptcy and the building it up from the ground using a new engine they haven’t used. But where this practice is standard for triple a, GSC is not triple an and the only reason it came out (and is optimized on consoles more) is likely because of microsoft’s help. Likely prioritizing the console to make it accessible for new players. It sucks but GCS is one of the companies who will maintain a long post launch life for the game. I don’t think it should be blindly defended but there’s also reasons why people don’t mind this as much seeing as the original trilogy was rough unless you installed machine translated russian mods that could’ve been anything

[zealous goblet]

ive been using the Vintari for the cheap repair and ammo but i think its time to get the SVDM-2 out of my loot chest and use it for this assault. @lunar spoke final boss in duga or whole game? Assuming you meant duga is the AS lavina up to the task?

[trim grotto]

people hapily pay 7 bucks for cod, recycled bug fest for example

[normal sail]

Just watching him talk was enough to irritate me.

[serene barn]

literally before the quests i couldn't turn in for my reward and the one for helping Zalissya, before that the glitches or bugs i had was occationally enemies shooting me through cover they shouldn't have been able to like a whole truck. but it's a difference between that and not being able to continue on with my quests without suffering a bad outcome that i do not want on my first playthrough.

[lone wyvern]

Is there easy way to kill ghost mutant ? I cant even find h im

[weary hedge]

Or I could use an RPG

[lunar spoke]

Yes, Duga. The boss fight there can eat a lot of ammo, though it somewhat possible to use a sniper rifle, but you really gotta know what you're doing and control your space

[pseudo osprey]

Anyone had the same when you kill Faust on the roof afther the cutscene his body is gone when you need to search it

[sly sluice]

Stalker 2 should have had a lot less bugs but at least it's a good game, something we almost never get in 2024

[zealous goblet]

who did he wish death on? lol that dude needs to take a walk or somthing get some fresh air

[normal sail]

People who were reacting with the clown emoji.

[eternal garden]

i feel like there’s no need for me to be civil in my responses about the game if he wouldn’t be civil about his own statements

[simple shard]

the actual burer strat is to run around like a chicken with its head cut off through cover to avoid bullets and thrown garbage after pressing H so you have only your hands out, then as soon as the blue shield drops pull out your shotty and blast his skull out directly from 3 inches away, if he lives long enough to put up forcefield again press H rinse, repeat

[serene barn]

i played the trilogy before this one came out. i did 2 runs of SoC and CS. only ever had like 1 mod for one of the games like ZRP or something and i didn't really have any issues with those games other than a handful of crashes and then when my copy of Clear Sky just stopped working entirely randomly during my second run of it like 60 hours into it.

[lunar spoke]

Don't forget about picking up guns so he wouldn't be able to shoot you with them

[sly sluice]

They could have done the same thing other companies do, made a a totally gimped, story-less CoD cod clone, with only console mechanics, with stalker skins, with most of the mechanics removed, with lootboxes and microtransactions... How would you feel about preorder then? That's what most do.

[eager carbon]

is the bar really that low

[zealous goblet]

@lunar spoke cool if i DM ya,wanted to talk about duga strats?. For burer i take advantage of corners and use my space wisely. i then wait for head to pop out and will shoot in head with shotgun then run to next corner and rinse repeat, should drop dead by the 2nd if not 3rd corner. never fought more then 1 at a time tho

[serene barn]

"it could be worse" is literally not good justification

[desert agate]

Yea I like the game alot. But the "it could be worse" justification is a slippery slope.

[eternal garden]

yea, most of them are fine now, not sure about the issue with cs tho :(, but on launch those games were rough i promise. Still janky in some areas but charmingly so

[zealous goblet]

that one beast i dont know what it is called but it does the scorpion Get over here! thing, i get distance and snipe it dead usually. Also if you unload the gun it wont generate new ammo right for the thing to use? As far as why i like this game; it is a new open world shooter! I havent played a game i have liked in a long time and i really like how shooting feels in this game. its been a long time since i have dumped 60+ hrs into a game

[serene barn]

i had to get a friend to let me download his GOG version and i forgot how but i was able to put my saves into there to pick up where i left off at lol.

[lunar spoke]

There's nothing very hard about Duga lol. The worst thing you need to fight is your framerate since it halves.

The final boss is just a bit annoying if you take the wrong gear/not enough ammo or don't know what to do to progress.

[eternal garden]

What was your opinion on them? just curious to hear your thoughts. Any favorites? Things you wish were different in them?

[sly sluice]

@eager carbon I think it is, so many games I liked this has happened to. Fallout, FEAR, battlefield, star wars battlefront, far cry, any bioware games, and bunch of others that just never got sequels. Most games I liked are dead and will never get another entry.

@serene barn @desert agate While it does not invalidate your complaints and make them false, it changes how relevant they are
I certainly also have many complaints and things I think the could have done better, but im not over all negative to the game

[zealous goblet]

ah man! it must be like trying to run thru Zaly lol. wonder if i crank my specs down if it will help.

[serene barn]

he also had the same issue i did just his never worked again or something.

[shadow sage]

does anyone know if degtryaev makes an appearance in this game?
the CoP protagonist

[normal sail]

||yes, but he is incredibly underused||

[lunar spoke]

He does, although he plays a very minor role, unlike Scar

[clear robin]

I’m disappointed. In the game tbh

[eternal garden]

||indeed with his own new faction too but not used really||

[dusky sonnet]

was wondering why i was so slow all of a sudden, and turns out i got a goddamn pkm deposited into my inventory

[sly sluice]

I think deggy plays a OK role actually.

[tropic crown]

Its the wish granter. It knew you wanted a PKM

[river grove]

https://youtu.be/Et54Cr8gzj4?si=xcXx_1qCZYhcLtxK

[weary forge]

They still gotta fix the Zalyssia questline

[stark crescent]

are there any fetch/repetitive quest givers in zaton? its weird that beard doesnt give them out.

[warped stream]

honestly just wish we could have his rifle for longer

[lunar spoke]

Ah, the zombie bug. In the Cooling Towers region, I got around 7 SVDs and literally couldn't move. A new SVD spawned like every 6th second in my hands

[serene barn]

the gun dealer at Sultansk does

[eternal garden]

I’m sure most characters will get some more screen time with the expansions. I’d love for richter to get a decent amount, my sweet summer man, but deggy would be cool.

[sly sluice]

Its enough to be "oh, that's him" without the ||"wtf, is this the same scar? He became a scizo hippie since he was a calm tacticool dude?||
@warped stream haha yeah, but kinda ruins the progression to get a top tier+ AR

@dark (again) Hmm , I dont think the bolt action is good enough to use by my standards, so that differs. Dinpro is a endgame AR though but red forest is at least late-ish

[warped stream]

the progression is all sorts of messed up already imo. I visited the red forest right away, bought a dnipro and bolt action, and those two served me until the end

[stark crescent]

owl? or you mean that female beard? neither give it 😦 well. female beard is gone. owl is just grumpy

[serene barn]

maybe it's Owl, i am serious though like the vendor gave me missions like that. it's also how i noticed that the pay for doing the missions to give them artifacts is no longer worth doing because since they increased the value of the artifacts you get more just selling it.

[eternal garden]

how much did those two cost you right away

[static lark]

привіт Fellow Stalkers and especially Noontiders

[kind zephyr]

He was kind of a joker in cs and anti military, I suppose nerve system damage takes its tall

[lunar spoke]

Scar did have a dry sense of humor before.

The prologue cutscene was done by a 3rd party who knew nothing about Scar, I believe.

Spending more than a decade in The Zone, surviving 3 direct Emissions and ||getting reprogrammed|| sure did a number on him

[coarse vector]

anyone else think the bloodsuckers look way worse than in that one trailer? they look like . green.

[sly sluice]

I mean lore wise it makes sense he is like this... But it doesn't feel like it's the same guy.
I mean imagine if deggy had a big role but now he's a bandit or monolith acting weird, it would be him but not really the same person

[dusky sonnet]

its defo the gun dealer, i remember that

@stark crescent are you at the right ship? on the sultanks?

[warped stream]

with a bit ammo was like 80k I think

[eternal garden]

i like his shift towards the zone having a positive side, it’s a nice comparison to the noontiders who’d rather be happy serving the monolith. Scar would rather ||believe a lie|| than to live in the truth

[static lark]

I don’t spend a lot of time looking at them tbh I mostly like shoot and run away

[kind zephyr]

Which prologue scene? The cs intro?

@coarse vector look like swamp bloodsuckers from cop

@eternal garden its only a lie if you don't believe it's true

[static lark]

This feels strangely directed to me for some reason

Noon is based fight me you F**king cultist bastards

On a separate note why is the faction called Noon when the people in the faction are called Noontiders? Like just name yourself Noontide it sounds cooler anyway

[wild crypt]

question is the scope upgrade for the AS VAL useless? cuz i cant find any scopes that attach to it

[dusky sonnet]

would be more unusual to NOT be a little crazy after all that really

[coarse vector]

either way though despite some things looking weird im thankful everyday that they didint try to continue stalker 2 2011's story and instead make it a whole new thing cuz that game looked WEIRD

[kind zephyr]

It is called noontide I think? The names are the same in ukrainian

[eternal garden]

it is called noontide but most shorten it to noon, i just think the people who would rather be monolithians and happy are similar to scar who’d rather have a super gorgeous zone without acknowledging the innate evil of the inhabitants will always corrupt it. Just like the monolithians made things worse for noontide,

[steel lichen]

does anyone know what to do with Kvashka's PDA? I first left him alive, spoke to the professor, talked to the technician then for the extra 3.500 coupons and just went to the tower again to kill Kvashka. It's also mission related so there's that.

[serene barn]

anyway, how do people feel about the EBR gun? i kinda want it because i have a thing for the type of gun it is but idk because basically anyone else seems to die from being shot in the head at the moment.

[static lark]

I think the Open Collimator sight works on it, unsure though I don’t use the Lavina, but if the Open Collimator Sight does work you can usually buy one from Hamster iirc

[sly sluice]

But Scar (and thus, the player) was actually the nemesis, working against the protagonist in all of CS... In such a way it makes sense.

mk14, I think not good enough to use, small mag, expensive/rare ammo, and SVU does similar damage

I really want a 7.62 NATO battle rifle, to give the caliber a end-game weapon and a separate use-case from soviet, a g3, FN fal or scar-H (Think people would love that)

[wild crypt]

it does not work with the scope mount

[dusky sonnet]

I end up just not using any nato weapons for some reason. I'll get around to it next playthrough

[serene barn]

i think i tried putting one on yesterday and it didn't work so it seems like they forgot to make other sights fit on there.

this 2 min slowmode sucks.

[static lark]

I don’t use sniper rifles AR and SMG for me (I love my Dnipro and Buket)

@wild crypt the Holo Sight should work for it then and I remember seeing the guy at the Rookie Village have one in his shop, if that doesn’t work I’m certain the PSO sight works but atp just use the Vintar

[lunar spoke]

it's just a portion of noontide who aligned with Faust. ||The rest are with Strider, and they wanted to destroy Monolith once and for all during the SIRCAA quest.||

I really wish we ||could free them from the control of Monolith. They suffered enough||

[sly sluice]

A 20 mag 7.62 battle rifle with all attachments would make it a better end game option than the soviet rifles, making up for the more rare/expensive ammo, and a real premium option, although you would need to be rich to buy and use it

[eager carbon]

nothing like returning to a trader with a ton of artifacts and loot to sell

[wild crypt]

im telling you none of the sights (other than the PSO) work for the scope mount upgrade
im gonna go sumit a bug report

[eternal garden]

I wish there were so more weapons and maybe some more incentive to try other ones but if you get a high end one you kinda just use that for the rest

yeah i know but it was when monolith was monolith that ruined any chance for people to accept noontide. It’s why they had to seclude themselves. It’s because of that that people would rather be happier (mindless) as a monolithian than depressed (free) as a noontider

[golden wren]

Hi. I'd like to know how suit stats work, Especially for Suit + Helmet vs Complete Overall Suits. Anyone can explain?

[static lark]

I think the ACOG works on it but I haven’t even seen an ACOG yet and then again it has the same zoom as the PSO

[lunar spoke]

There is a unique variant of AS Val called Trophy (lol) and it has an open collimator attached to it

[tropic crown]

Where to find it?

[delicate kelp]

i did not use this command but I don't have a mark on the Richter

[wild crypt]

where is that?

[eternal garden]

I also went to imply that Scar would rather have an overall appearance of a “shining zone” but it isn’t real, it’s just like the monolithians illusions they would experience while their consciousness sat on the back burner. Just really like that parallel, the obsession of a perceived happiness more so than a real objective beauty that already exists in the zone. I feel like richter represents the beauty that’s already there. @sly sluice you guys are misunderstanding me. I mean monolith initially. At their peak. They have ruined any chance for any ex monolithians (noontide) of ever living quiet and peaceful lives. Hence why there were faust supporters to begin with

[static lark]

The Open Collimator kinda sucks ngl I mean for like a starter sight it’s ok but like when I have the option to use a Holo Sight why would I choose the Open Collimator? Also makes me wonder why they put a Collimator Sight on the SOFMOD instead of a Holo or ACOG

[sly sluice]

@eternal garden Well, when the new PSI-emitter started they didn't have any choice to obey the monolith or not, just like when it shut down. Also I think we don't really know if it makes them euphorically happy or more just a forced compulsion (Like hunger or OCD), but I think rather the latter

Yes spark is basically freedom while ward is like duty, but here spark believes in this kind of utopia, actually mimicking political extremists that think "If we just ruled the government, everyone would love each other and be happy forever)

@eternal garden 2 well in a round about way, sure, because of what they went through they basically bought into fausts religion (Worshipping the monolith even when it didnt speak), of course its a cause in the same way someone that beats their kid will make their kid beat kids in the future, but strider still did everything they could to give them a good life.

[lunar spoke]

Somewhere on Garbage. You have to throw a grenade in a vent of some sort.

[serene barn]

me casually prefering simple red dot sights over the Holo sight, lol.

[hot basin]

Why do random weapons keep spawning in my gun slot, I just got a random svd and I never picked one up

[burnt gust]

it just happens, glitch
it's being fixed

[zealous goblet]

this bug hasnt happened to me before. are they always broken?

[static lark]

Well you’re just wrong the holo is better in every way or if you’re like me just say screw sights and use Irons

@hot basin it’s a common bug, when the game tries to give the Zombies guns sometimes it’ll give them guns they can’t use and for some reason it’ll plop them in your inventory (this is what I was told if it’s wrong blame someone else)

[eternal garden]

@sly sluice @lunar spoke this is what i mean (added some stuff). I also like this parallel because it’s almost concluding that the (somewhat) ambiguous ending to roadside picnic wasn’t hopeful. Happiness for all but it’s just perceived happiness, it’s a cool way to loop into the source material

[lunar spoke]

https://www.sportskeeda.com/esports/how-find-trophy-assault-rifle-stalker-2

[serene barn]

honestly i wish they would have let us use whatever sights we wanted as long as it makes sense. like they're all the same rails iirc besides the Dovetail mount the PSO and the other one uses.

[wild crypt]

thank
(still stuipd how this game works)

[zealous goblet]

TBH i get alot of decent ranged headshots with ADS on skiff pistol. dunno if it can have a scope or i havent found one. kind of feels satisfying like that guy at the Olympics

[burnt gust]

ik it doesn't make sense that some pic mount optics just don't work on certain guns

[static lark]

Yes all Piccatiny rails are standardized (for the most part Russians might do weird stuff idk I’m not Russian ) so all of the sights should fit

[eager carbon]

is the hilka detector better than bear?

[boreal wasp]

It would be cool if the new factions got backported into anomaly with a mod

[sly sluice]

No ( But can have better range). Also use #❔┃seeking-for-advice, shorter cooldown.

[serene barn]

Like if the RPM-74 didn't recoil so much from when it was supposed to take 54R, i would prolly have thought about putting a 2x on there maybe lol.

[lunar spoke]

Better to have both of them. Use hilka to detect artifacts from a distance and other detectors to find their exact location.

[fervent vortex]

use both, hold hilka when running around, then switch to bear once you enter the anomaly field

[static lark]

Just a casual question here what is the best detector? I’m currently using the bear but just curious

@jack.richard.thomson but that adds extra weight and weight is precious

[zealous goblet]

im using the first one still lol

[serene barn]

no actually. the bear gives direction and range, iirc Hilka only does range. it's likely Hilka has a better detection range but like you'll find things just fine with the Bear.

@static lark Vales or something iirc.

[sly sluice]

Also, ex-monoliths always had the option to go out and live a normal stalker life, or even in the mainland if they could somehow find their SSN or whatever ukraine has.
The ex-monolith in noontide were all just too psychologically traumatized and disturbed from losing their memory to leave, basically a very strong and skilled psych ward community as I interpret it. Or maybe a very dedicated support group

@static lark Veles, with hilka as a long range option if you want (not so useful imo)

[burnt gust]

it's the funny radar lookin one I think, I believe it has the best range
it also is really useful for anomaly fields

[lunar spoke]

GSC, let me carry two artifact detectors in each hand and my life is yours!

[naive spire]

I'm near duga and suddenly overweight, because game decided to spawn 5 svds in my inventory??? what

[plain furnace]

its a anomaly trust

[static lark]

Just drop the SVDs simple

[zealous goblet]

99 problems but a gun isnt one lol

[eternal garden]

not really, most didn’t trust noontiders, this was a huge plot point that people straight up don’t really like them

[serene barn]

how does that even happen...i get the occasional random gun as i've had that happen like 10 times. but it dumping several guns at once? eesh

[dusky sonnet]

just got 4 svus at once deposited on me

[naive spire]

it keeps happening though

[slow laurel]

I had the PKM drop into my inventory before right before I fought a monolith exo suit squad

[plain jewel]

Wish I'd get that bug!

Wish I didn't have this crashing in slag heap. It's calling for a drive that doesn't exist on my pc, weirdly.

[burnt gust]

yall: weapons do just spawn on you. it's just an anomaly they added called "Generous" and it gives you free guns! sometimes our Monolith blesses us with yellow durability and we can sell them!

(I once had 4 SVDs and 3 AR416s spawn on me all at once, luckily enough I was using a kharod and SVU)

[sly sluice]

Yes, but being a noontider is optional, they can get a loner patch and live on like that like any other stalker. Or again, leave the zone. Which many did, which made ||The monolith awakening so devastation, since suddenly most loner groups suddenly have insiders determined to cause as much damage as possible||

This would be physically pretty easy, but of course psychologically not so

[lunar spoke]

detectors barely have any weight. If you're struggling with weight, drop the stuff you don't need in the stash. There are also artifacts that increase your carry weight (try finding Weird Water if you want even more weight).

The best artifact detectors is Veles. It detects both artifacts and anomalies, has a mini-map, but doesn't detect what's behind you.

@naive spire that's a bug with zombies. They cannot use any sniper rifles on PKM machine gun, but the game tries to spawn it on them anyway. Since they can't carry it, the game just gives it to you instead.

[static lark]

Ew Monolith fan, Noontide on top

@jack.richard.thomson where even is Weird Water at?

[eternal garden]

is this directly mentioned in a mission? I don’t recall them directly mentioned stalkers immediately turning, (i also did not go to zaly) @static lark if that were true where is noontide now

[solemn steeple]

omg, how do i turn off the media channel for real 😭 i dont care that someone else can run it at a constant 50 fps instead of 35

[burnt gust]

that's interesting bc I believe I've seen zombies with AR416s and crackers in their hands, but I've had them spawn on me too. I could be just tweakin tho

@static lark I hate monolith, I'm just making stuff up

[sly sluice]

Top of my brain in on the edge, ||the zalissya guide was ex-monolith and turned.||

I dont think detectors spawn, but there is missions that give it as reward that you dont see, which is what happened with 3/4 of my detectors

[serene barn]

most of the times the random gun glitch happened it gave me 680s. probably the first time it did it gave me a spas, not long after entering Garbage lol. got a Groza once and an M701 too.

[stable quail]

have been playing the game at 720p with low settings on all and 0% sharpness and im still getting stutters!! im almost 80% done with the game as well.

[static lark]

Noontide should’ve survived and you know it. GSC Fix Game Make my Favorite Faction the Strongest

[lunar spoke]

Personally, I never had this problem with weapons any other than sniper/marksman rifles and PKM.

[dusky sonnet]

another svu spawned in my inventory, at least its a different colour this time

[modest rivet]

A errands for her i can't turn it in to her

[eternal garden]

ah that would make sense, that’s a neat plot point i missed out on. Was curious why monolith was all the way at the slag heap and zaly. @static lark nawwww they broke apart because they couldn’t agree, all too depressed in either seeking the future or holding onto the past. Could never focus on the present

[burnt gust]

yeah they're fixing it, just deal with it for now lol
or download a mod if ur on pc for optimization

[zealous goblet]

i knew somthing was creepy when i was talking to these noontiders. They kinda freaked me out didnt even want to sleep at their base

[dusky vessel]

I have a question that may seem a bit dumb 🤔 when, if at all, will mods be added to xbox? Also why do I permanently loose Zallisya? Your telling me that NO ONE replaces them? I feel like that should be an element to the a-life... cuz now I have to walk 4km to get to the next outpost that doesn't auto shoot at ya

[stable quail]

after the gaming session and just using my eyes feels like heaven 😂

[sly sluice]

@stable quail Damn, dedicated. specs?

@eternal garden Yes I think so. Many were there because they were ex-monolith, trying to relearn stalker life, at least that how I imagine it. Yeah, it's essentially "stick to our religion or move on", and faust vs. strider could have been a really interesting story arc exploring that if they didnt || get brain-controlled again||

[burnt gust]

lmao

[zealous goblet]

you dont HAVE to loose zaly you just have to follow the rules for it to live

[eternal garden]

what’s funnier is that ||faust is literally the only one to survive the whole conflict and get what he wants|| and
@sly sluice i do wish the turn was longer, i feel like they could’ve made it build a little more

[static lark]

Ah I can’t put 4 Noontide patches but that does mean I can put 3
Yeah nah Faust is the worst F**k him he deserves to be blind
Strider is cool

[stable quail]

rtx 3050ti, 32gb ram, ryzen 7 5800h, also using 2 mods for optimization

[dusky vessel]

@zealous goblet I did. Got the radio that all was well then they all died to nothing 😭 I ensured there were no further hostiles... even waited an hour after completion just in case

[onyx dock]

where can I go to fight monolith squads?

[weary hedge]

PRAISE MONOLITH

[zealous goblet]

i havent been able to find any assassination side missions for work. are they out there?. @dusky vessel did you do all the other side missions and NEVER talk to gaffer until the end never inbetween side quests. also no mods? You have to get resolution with hamster so the town can get supplies

[eternal garden]

real stalker legend quote right there. Vrag Monolita

[static lark]

What sucks even more is Noontide has one of the best Patches. Like I’m sorry Freedom is cool but what even is that patch. Same with Mercs, Duty, and Clear Sky

[weary hedge]

Death to monolith

[sly sluice]

@zealous goblet, no it's bugged even after second patch. in patch 0 couldnt even do the quest, in path 2 the attack never happens so when you leave it dies. You can fix it with cmds though...

@eternal garden Hmm yes, he kind of does. Hope he enjoyed ig

@stable quail Dang, really performance is that bad on a 3050? Wait, its a laptop isnt it so probably like a 3040 if such a thing existed. Maybe like 1650 (Depending a lot on cooling and model ofc)

[stable quail]

@sly sluice its a laptop with rtx 3050ti

[maiden grotto]

what scope fits on the Grom?

[crystal thicket]

Hello guys, main line quests are linear? For example i cant go from small zone to cordon and do main quests when game send me to trash zone ye?

[boreal wasp]

Skif has to be the best protagonist simply because the others don't know how to play guitar

[onyx dock]

more or less, yea

[zealous goblet]

uh so i left the Quiet tradepost where you save the science nerd then went to Zaly. this is when the 2nd patch came out i then did every side quest and never talked to gaffer and finished it with lynuga LAST then came back and fought off the monos and saved the town. have been back several times to sell things.

[eternal garden]

@sly sluice straight up would not mind him being the overarching villain following, if the noosphere becomes corruptible at ||every zone|| then that opens up a world of possibilities literally

[stoic tiger]

So I just played through the a minor incident quest or well partially through it, I killed the chimera, but it still says to get rid of the obstruction blocking the railway even tho I got the next part of the quest, does it matter? Am I gonna be able to progress
Nvm it disappeared lol

[dusky vessel]

Alo when can I modify the Gauss rifle without crashing? Is there nothing I can modify/improve like charge speed, projectile velocity? Nothing? @zealous goblet as far as I'm aware... dealt with Hamster peacefully, lost 1500 🥲, save my tech by getting the surgical tools, was there any i missed?

[warped slate]

A-life fix when?

[clever oak]

this game has the best vibe for sure.. I just love the overall atmosphere and art design

[static lark]

This message was paid for by Strider (he’s incredibly based)

[lyric ruin]

Can someone explain to me what A-life is

[formal moss]

I like Shadow of Chornobyl's atmosphere more, something about it is magical. I'm glad Heart of Chornobyl captured the S.T.A.L.K.E.R. feeling very well.

[misty rain]

does anyone know how to deal with the enemy that just appears and flashbombs you (don't even know if it has a body tbh)

[eternal garden]

no modification.
@warped slate never
@static lark only based because he can snipe people in 2012 like crazy
@lyric ruin NPC schedule and traversal system that gives the illusion of the zone being alive and npcs being real people. Good system here but not as good as older ones. Still good for memorable moments and run ins.
@misty rain survive

[sly sluice]

I used to have to play stalker on a laptop when I was underage. We didn't even have usable internet, so a laptop I could bring it to friends houses or places with wifi (very uncommon back then). Of course no car so needed it to take on bus or bike. It sucked, but it worked.

@zealous goblet I see. I think the death is triggered when you go north to rostok area, or earlier, depending in where you are in the quest

[zealous goblet]

i been to rostok thats where the scar guy is right? i am ready for the assault at druga base

[clever oak]

I will play the rest of the games after this one for sure. Too bad I want to play it all the time, I am afraid that I will finish the game before a-life update comes.

[static lark]

Idk something you need to get
(please laugh)

@eternal garden Strider will always be based and I will always be mad at GSC for ||murdering|| him

[formal moss]

A-Life is a proprietary AI system that is essentially a "background director", it dictates NPCs to do stuff even when the Player isn't around. They can do all sorts. Tasks such as travelling, getting into fights, etc. It's all simulated and random.

That's my uneducated explanation.

[eternal garden]

a-life updates won’t be until 2025, best you play and revisit a life when it increases the longevity significantly with its random encounters.
@formal moss yes that’s pretty much it. It would load physical stalkers when around and would keep tabs on them when they were not loaded in, this allowed for them to still be doing stuff even if they were not in a loaded cell. @weary hedge you know what i meant

[weary hedge]

2025 is basically tomorrow, it's not that far off

[sly sluice]

In patch 1 I got to the final attack that never happens, going away a little bit triggers the attack, going further away triggers everyone to die, I was able to get back so fast with noclip I watched them get killed by the script, no attack happeneing. These are the bugs that happen to 9/10 people I've talked to in #❔┃seeking-for-advice . But congrats @zealous goblet , that means there's some hope to fiddle with it to be un-bugged next playthrough I suppose

[formal moss]

The devs deserve a break after this, I'm just happy it's out and good. The FAUST FIGHT HOWEVER. I think I hexxed the developers accidentally because I cursed it very much.

[static lark]

I’m gonna be playing the hell out of Stalker even into 2026 so this doesn’t matter too much to me
Can’t wait for the Noontide Revival DLC to come out it’s gonna be based (imagine Skif actually brings back Noontide and rehabs Ex-Monolithians)

[keen parrot]

Almost there on ending number 3! Then just need the last one!

[eternal garden]

straight coping rn

[zealous goblet]

i think the key might be to not pass the quiet tradepost before the 2nd patch came out and to play with no mods. Also you have to NEVER talk to gaffer inbetween sidequest at all. you do all the side quests and doing unlce lynugas last. if you do this you shouldnt have a problem in Zaly

[trail fiber]

Oh I am on stalker difficulty

[leaden cradle]

guys any solution #📸┃screens_and_videos message ?

[weary hedge]

Imagine all the beer money they have now. Well over a million copies sold at this point. I bought two.

[formal moss]

My Skif is too much of a profiteering Loner to do such things. All I do is go around the map looking for stashes, hidden items, and artifacts. I just got a Liquid Rock (Max Chemical and Radiological protection.) recently and absolutely adore it.

[static lark]

Please GSC give me a writing position bro I will cook, Call me Chef Boyardee I’ll be cooking so hard. Stalker 3 2030??? (It’d be so based)

[polar vine]

Yo anyone else got a bug where they can only look up and down and just cant move at all stuck in place?

[hollow lichen]

Did you study the first 3 games?

[proven portal]

Anyone know why Reshade window won't open in SOC?

[weary hedge]

GTA 6 before a-life?

[zealous goblet]

are you encumbered

[formal moss]

Did you meticulously watch all of Anomalous Dugout and datamine the trilogy and all of it's expanded media?

[eternal garden]

My skif is played so there’s little narrative dissonance, my skif only cares about his apartment and who the hell wronged him sided with spark up until i went with strelok, which then causes scar to piss himself, then still chose spark over ward because they suck. I’ve shot many people for the love of the game, i do not play. But ultimately my goat is strelok. I shot the piss face that got my scanner stolen, I shot hermann because i dislike him.

[static lark]

I’ll get back to you on that one lemme go watch these 3 hour long Lore videos and play all of the games rq

Also if there isn’t a Metro game that comes out in 2033 imma be pissed that’s just a side note

[sly sluice]

Maybe, but going past quiets place comes quite naturally for the next main quest. (Also, it never triggers the attack messages, nothing indicates to the player the attack on Alisa could possibly happens ATP)

[polar vine]

nope, mouse just locked in up and down movement and just walking in place

[weary hedge]

Duty take over the zone and win?

[formal moss]

I've been siding with Spark because of my hatred of the Ward. The map was right, worse than Duty! (I actually like both Duty and Freedom.)

[eternal garden]

Call me freedom cuz my zaza smell like duty! (i’m smoking those cement huffers)

[frigid hill]

lazarus2466 has been warned

Reason: Bad word usage

[zealous goblet]

@sly sluice i was hearing radio comms that they needed help so i b lined it after quiets house. think it triggers like 200m past the house the first message. @polar vine you might be like stuck on an object try ducking and frantically looking everywhere fast as you spam jump and toggle inbetween crouch

[sly sluice]

Call me simp because I like Chinese girls

@zealous goblet When you hear that you have already gone close enough to trigger the start of the event. Me and many people for which its bugged are playing on saved before that.

[polar vine]

No, restarted game 3 times and its fine now, as i said, I was stuck in the air in place only able to move my mouse UP AND DOWN

[hot basin]

Easiest money I’ve made by not killing monolithians

[formal moss]

I have a question, has anyone ever defended Zalissya only to hear that it still fell? Is this intended? I killed all the Monolithians, every single one, searched the entire area, heard the Gaffer say that it was safe, only to find it desolate.

Going to Wild Island I even heard the Gaffer, just after saying it's clear, say that Zalissya had fallen.

[static lark]

Nah if I was Lead-Writer Ward would be murdered, Duty is no where to be found, Monolith is crippled, Noontide is making an Island Utopia, Freedom is Thriving

[cinder dove]

i have PSI sound bug all the time 🙂

[zealous goblet]

i get that, but even in the air theres stuff you cant see in games and doing what i said can sometimes work if there isnt a rewind key in the game which this doesnt. reloading is always a good to do but i try that first and sometimes it will work, maybe 1/10 times but better then nothing. @sly sluice should just start fresh and by the time you get back i bet 2 more patches comes out

[flat elbow]

aye is anyone else getting a crash when you go to loot a body

[formal moss]

You are now a Monolithian, that's all.

[strong jetty]

when is xbox patch out???? GSC?????

[zealous goblet]

patch 2 is out AFAIK for everything. i use the xbox game pass for PC. downloaded it there

[violet hornet]

it’s been out

[weary hedge]

I could be a monolithian. You're basically just tweaking your way throught he zone with an ak

[formal moss]

No, Freedomers are the ones tweaking. Monolithians are mentally massaged into functional insanity.

[static lark]

Monolith is just project MKUltra but for the Zone

[tough rain]

Welllllll that's only if you're in zones with bad PSI levels

[zealous goblet]

are the zombies like failed SIRCAA experiments?

[weary hedge]

Freedom is too busy eating mushrooms they found and smoking weed to be TWEAKING tweaking. Those monolith cats got the shit that makes you see sounds for five days straight

[formal moss]

My guess is your brain is remotely tethered to a mini-Brain Scorcher.

[coarse vector]

anyone else think theres WAY too much loot???

[next lava]

They have had too much psi exposure I think, so their brains are fried

[indigo meteor]

patch wen

[weary hedge]

Freedom cringe

[static lark]

Leave them alone bruh they just wanna smoke weed eat shrooms and bake bread like cmon

[weary hedge]

At first I thought the game was just being nice to me in the beginning. Now even in zaton I can leave with basiocally nothing and by the time I get where I'm going I have close to 30 faks and a couple dozen bandages

[tough rain]

I really feel bad for the Monolith in this game

[oak sparrow]

what are the chances of Alife at the end of December?

[weary hedge]

I lick the wish granter

[weary hedge]

Sounds like something Faust would say

[weary hedge]

Freedom are the equivalent of Reddit users in the zone

[agile rapids]

Witch faction does Yaniv belong to?

[formal moss]

Mix of Mercs and Loners.

[static lark]

They just get high and chill leave them alone they ain’t hurting no one

Also I find it so funny that the Noontide base is just called “Shelter”

[lavish grotto]

is it only me or everyone is having troubles with getting an artefact from wandering lights?

[tough rain]

HEAR ME OUT. They're kinda forced to be zombies for the monolith. Faust just wants to bring back the monolith lol

[coarse vector]

i hate how freedom is now just "HEH WEED! FANNI!" and not something interesting its so stereotyped now like come onnn

[weary hedge]

Nope freedom need to be taken out, get them out of Rostok

[silver comet]

Man they need to focus on the spawn issue. It really ruins my experience.

[rose void]

Mods help

[weary hedge]

Ohhh you mean you feel bad for the monolith's soldiers, not the monolith itself lol

[agile rapids]

It has it's own faction icon on the map, the same icon the Prypiat base has, and it says "A remote Corps outpost in Prypiat". Maybe Corps is a new faction?

[weary hedge]

here we go

[static lark]

Ofc a Bandit would say this

[warped stream]

freedomers just want to clap mutant cheeks

[half jetty]

#📸┃screenshots_and_videos message Is there a reson why it just turned red after fighting off people?

[formal moss]

I know Colonel Degtayrev operates in the area.

[royal spruce]

Chat what even is the blue faction patch that I see everywhere. They feel like loners but they’re not

[weary hedge]

Bandit best faction and best radio

@weary hedge get involved

[terse arch]

6000 K to repair rpd74 after one chimera encounter. And -250 yellow ammo. My inner sidor hurts

[static lark]

Bro they just wanna get high and eat bread leave them alone they’re chill as hell

@royal spruce you mean Clear Sky???

[weary hedge]

I think thats clear sky maybe?? I'm not sure, I ran into some of them too and I've been wondering. I went looking for the old cs base in the swamps but I havent found it so far

[coarse vector]

can you describe it?

[next lava]

Skif is just a chill guy who lowkey don’t give a f-ck

[supple walrus]

you supposed to run when you see those

[weary hedge]

exactly bandits solo whole zone hippies? dead militaristic assholes? dead loners? dead

on my first playthrough, when you meet strider and the other dude ive forgotten, and the rest of spark, you get ambushed by ward

I remember opening fire on Ward just as a reaction, I didn't realise you could actually help them and kill the Spark people, as they are shooting at the dudes right beside you, very easy to just assume they are shooting at everyone.

the current playthrough I'm doing, I realised I could just shoot the spark guys in the back, and the ward leaves you alone and even thanks you for helping them lol

[boreal wasp]

The zone is far too prosperous when it was all desolate and sorrowful in call of pripyat

[tough rain]

Looking back on it, Im glad I just paid Varan instead of doing bro's dirty work.|| Not just cause he's shady as sht, but cause money I can get back, a life not really lol||

[weary hedge]

My bandit friend gets it, all dead dead dead

[civic relic]

man the swamps are such a miserable place. i cant see anything cause its covered in grass taller than me and i keep getting stuck in deep waters cause theres not really a clear path usually

[royal spruce]

I don’t think it was clear sky besides it doesn’t really make sense for them to be clear sky in this game. I’ve seen the blue patch in like every area but more so in the beginning in lesser zone and garbage everyone with a patch in zylisia had it

[terse arch]

In this mission you supposed to get rid of one

[static lark]

Uh idk then tbh

Mercs maybe

[coarse vector]

everytime i replay the game when i beat it eventually ima try to have a faction oriented playthrough so rn im going spark and basically im just gonna do every ending from worst to best, and use different weapons each playthru :)

[formal moss]

Don't get soft, stalker. Everyone has a stereotype. Loners are filthy capitalists, Dutyers are the no fun police, the Ward are the no fun police but they want Chornobyl Disaster 3: The Reckoning, Monolith are crazy monotone cultists, Clear Sky whines at anyone going near the CNPP, Mercs are fancy Western Bandits, Bandits are Columbine-fashioned gopniks, Renegades are Bandits that are too big of cowards to enter the Zone, Scientists look at glowing beakers and PDAs all day in their bunkers, and Sidorovich.

[supple walrus]

I had that mission I think, the chimera followed me inside a building and I closed the door on it 😂

[weary hedge]

bandits mentioned🔥🔥🔥🔥

[weary hedge]

Where's our fellow bandits

[static lark]

Noontide not being listed is probably a good thing

[next lava]

Bandits are pests

[weary hedge]

I always wondered who tf the renagades actually were. Now it makes sense. Porch bandits

[weary hedge]

im thoroughly enjoying my ward playthrough atm and siding with the colonel, dude takes NO shit and just wants a good soldier, can vibe with that lol

[weary hedge]

bandits are the best*

[coarse vector]

im probably gonna do (yes i kno its a spoilers channel but ill hide it anyway) ||streloks ending last sicne i was looking at the page on how to get the different endings and his being last would be fun since its ma boi strelok||

[trail pike]

Are you guys talking about the Yellow background and blue circle patch? if so it’s not a faction, just a nod to the Chernobyl exclusion zone patch.

[oak laurel]

Whats up with these FPS drops to 1-2 FPS after a while of playing that you need to restart the game? Is it just me?

[weary hedge]

Death to the ward, the zone belongs to the bandits

[static lark]

Says the Warden who’s sole purpose is to exploit the Zone

[civic relic]

wow this game is so much more scary with volume louder or probably headphones. i been playing speakers but not very loud at all so i wasnt really hearing all the sounds properly

[royal spruce]

I think this is what I’m talking about. Just felt weird that it was never addressed. Factions are such a minor part of this game unless you are hostile to them

[maiden grotto]

Another thing that is really p___ing me off now.

Trying to eat or something whilst looking in your backback and it forces you to stand... If I am crouching keep me bl__dy crouch, I don't need to stand up in fire fight to eat a f***king sausage

[coarse vector]

when is it a good time to use the pistol??? im so confused considering on when to use it since the older games only had 2 weapon slots

[oak swan]

What mods are you guys using?

[weary hedge]

personally I find it helps digestion

[supple walrus]

works great on unarmored humans, dogs and rats

[static lark]

Why are you gurgling down a sausage in a firefight anyways? Like kill the guys shooting you first then eat your sausage

[zealous goblet]

pistol is your workhorse. skiff pistol with AP rounds doing head shots will go a long way. got to conserve your prime weapons ammo for the hard stuff

[weary hedge]

Never a wrong time for a sausage

[trail pike]

Yeah it’s not really explained too well so I don’t blame you at all, I went down a rabbit hole trying to find out who they were but apparently it’s just a take off the patch the devs were given on their overalls when they went to the zone for level design etc. or so I’ve heard. Would be a lot better if we had a small menu explaining our faction rep and who each faction are

[weary hedge]

sometimes you just need a little snack break mid gun fight...you'll get that on them big jobs

[oak laurel]

Switching to your secondary is faster than realoading

[maiden grotto]

It's anything... when you crouched and need to get something from your bag, you stand up...

It's insane, I could be trying to sneak somewhere or got something that isn't hot keyed... And you are forced to stand up... Absolutely stupid

[coarse vector]

remembah foap switching to ya pistol is faster dan reloadin

[static lark]

I think I can shoot the bandit in the face then eat

This 2 minute timer is absolutely insane please GSC fix the Timer

[zealous goblet]

thats a good idea having a page that explains things you have encountered. Notable people, factions and maybe a bestiary. could have a weapons and armors page for the ones you discovered

[night acorn]

Man I love going to go do the psi beacons and mommy chimera merks me and makes me fly fourty thousand miles into the sky

[formal moss]

As for the factions forgotten or not in the games, Military are arrogant idiots that'll let you into the Zone for 5 coupons, Noontide do not exist, Slugs are probably rotting knee-deep in bog, Sin are edgy 14-year-olds, ISG are a cooler-looking Ward, Strangers would be cool to see, Interception are what Degtarev kinda turned into, Evil Dead are the Great Value version of the Renegades, and Sidorovich.

[weary hedge]

Stalker slander you're banned

[static lark]

Noontide deserved a better fate. How you gonna make an actually cool and unique faction then kill them off and their leader. It’s honestly one of my biggest gripes about RPGs/ Story-Driven games cause a lot of them do it

[night acorn]

I hate ward more then I hate monolith and that says something about the snork fkers

[zealous goblet]

noontide creeped me out lol.

[formal moss]

Noon were purely there to add tragedy to the story.

[weary hedge]

who was it that asked about playthrough differences when you side with different factions?

This playthrough with ward, x11 you just walk in through the front door, you also evacuate from circaa with the ward in helis lol

Noontide pissed me off. Like how tf you gonna tell me I cant trade with you, but take my money for other shit like repairs and literal medical supplies. Like they didnt trust me to buy weapons from them. Noontide is bitches.

[static lark]

They’re Ex-Monolithians in Rehab what do you expect Dubny p*ssed me off in one of the side missions cause he sent a hit squad on 2 dudes who barely escaped a Controller and their Zombified friends. Like that’s not necessary bro

[formal moss]

I managed to get the Corundum suit early because the door was open.

I didn't even know it wasn't supposed to be lmfao.

[coarse vector]

bloodsuckers invisible effect needs to be more obvious tbh

[static lark]

I mean what do you expect… they were Ex-Monolithians everyone hates Monolith. They’re skeptical about letting you in their facility cause they fr don’t know if you’re gonna go on a rampage and murder them all, most of them are also mentally affected from yk the whole mindcontrol stuff.
When you do help them in the side missions though they thank you over and over and pay you like 10000+ Koupons for the easiest of jobs

[raven matrix]

IDK what setting it is but if you knock it down to medium or low they are quite visible depending on the environment. I know on the highest settings anyone who claims to be able to see them when cloaked is lying

[formal moss]

You can see their steps in most weather conditions. If not, run to water.

[static lark]

All I do when fighting Bloodsuckers is I find a wall and put my back to it then wait for them to uncloak and then spray them down with a Saiga cause usually they just stand beside you

Their roar is just so you don’t run away from them I mean I hate it but I get why they do it

[coarse vector]

also their roar stunning you is soooo annoying

[weary hedge]

just get rid of bloodsuckers alltogether and replace them with something more annoying so the community moans

[formal moss]

I do that with the Sledgehammer SPAS-12. Just vomit buckshot into their stupid tentacle faces.

@coarse vector it's called editing.

[weary hedge]

Thats fair. I do think strider means well, he wants whats best for everybody..but thats just him and thats the problem in itself, to me he's too weak to really help everyone and he'll create more problems than he'll solve eventually. I cant trust noon to not do something stupid..half of them did already, I havent gotten far enough to see the entire outcome yet

[dusky vessel]

Ok serious question everyone in cordons rookie village just disappeared? Is this a bug? Just did the hunting Wisp and his allies side quest

[static lark]

I like Strider and I feel like he coulda done good if Faust wasn’t schizo as hell and had a God Complex. While I don’t really agree with some of the stuff Strider says I get where he’s coming from considering his past and Noon’s Past

@coarse vector yes yes yes. Apparently the upstairs part of Quiet’s shop doesn’t count as shelter and you basically automatically die when you walk up there during and emission and it’s so goofy

[coarse vector]

also anyone dislike how you cant hide from emissions in most places

[fickle osprey]

hi guys. Dumb question. Can you get to the iron forest/cnpp or is it going to be dlc?

[raven matrix]

Wherers the poltergeist at the checkpoint to Rostok?

[formal moss]

There's a lot of places you can hide in, you just need to think like a Stalker. Nestle into any underground places.

@coarse vector editing is great.

[serene tulip]

fix memory leak its been 12 days

[elfin halo]

I hate jump puzzles and the excavator makes me wanna bash my head into a wall

[coarse vector]

WTF bro time traveled? you responded to my messgae before i sent it hahaha

forgot about editing WHOOPSIES!

[static lark]

I edited my message. You have to with this archaic 2 minute timer

GSC…. fix the chat timer please I’m begging you

[formal moss]

Why is the timer here? The Russians trying to raid the place with bots?

[weary hedge]

2 minutes is way too long to have a decent conversation

[worldly drift]

Any word on when A-Life functionality patch?

[weary hedge]

Gonna need to bump that number up to ten, give us time to really digest the words

[sweet thistle]

any fix for the music cutting on/off every second?

[static lark]

Nah I think they have it so there’s not a lot of people talking over eachother but honestly there’s only around 5-10 people in here at once and the topics usually stay game related and civil so I don’t get why they have a timer but I’m also not a mod

@worldly drift sometime in 2025 (maybe early kinda unconfirmed)

[trail fiber]

Yeah also can the emission kill you even if you are in a abandoned building if a emission is happening?

[heavy osprey]

xbox save corrupt fix:

press start on game launcher icon

go to game addon section

go to save data tab

delete reserve space ONLY

re-launch game. you will need to reset your button or KB&M configs but it worked.

Seems to be something strange between local and cloud

lmk if it works for you on xbox

[formal moss]

Most random buildings are not suitable.

[cloud bramble]

You can use most caves though!

[static lark]

Yes and No, it depends sometimes the buildings don’t register as shelter so you’ll die

[royal spruce]

Games going to be even more peak in a year after everything is patched up and modders have had time to cook

[weary hedge]

i blame the game development companies / the owners of the discord, they treat community managers (which i assume have the green GSC role in here, they are either community management or relevant roles like marketing / PR) as a separate blanket role, for example look at them in this discord, they raise the cooldown to two minutes cause of how active it is, if you asked for an explanation of why, its more than likely 'we only have x members, and there are x people talking in x chats, we need to slow things down to make it manageable)

but their actual roles arent mainly chat management, this is why you see in MOST game discords, moderation is outsourced to volunteers that dont even get paid to do it

this is just my observation as someone that does community management but in a different sector, though our jobs include moderating channels (we dont have volunteers)

[trail fiber]

That makes sense since I was stoned and had to think during the mission "ad astra per aspera" mission when I had to think like a stalker and plan it out because I was in a save where I got my ass kicked by a damn chimera and pinned in a cabin during a emission and he was just blocking my exit

[quick kernel]

What's the best way to beat the little midget dudes that use telekinesis

[cosmic pond]

lot of headshots

[heavy osprey]

give them $20

[formal moss]

Just run to Faust's cellar, don't even fight the Chimera.

[elfin halo]

light him up with the 3 round burst pristol after he drops the psi shield

[static lark]

Did Stalker 2 sell in Russia or how’s that whole Fiasco? If so it’d be interesting to see the sales stats

[sterile pagoda]

Am i the only one that thought i could still play the game after finishing it? xD??

[weary hedge]

no they really do not

[sweet thistle]

any fix for the music cutting on/off every second?

[formal moss]

Sanctions.

[half jetty]

Same but knowing how the Choices go for the ending game I felt like it’s gonna be like new Vegas.

[cosmic pond]

any fixes for the lesser zone my gpu is eating him self in that zone its terrible the rest of the zone i have around 100 fps

[weary hedge]

No you're wrong and they really do

[dense fjord]

I think the Rhino pistol is actually a RSh-12, in which case being chambered in 9x39 SP-6 makes sense. It's not a Chiappa Rhino, it's just confusingly named

[autumn plume]

is kahrod better than the clustefck?

[worn oriole]

Anyone having troubles with finding 7.62x39 in Stalker 2?

[formal moss]

Depends on how you use it.

[sterile pagoda]

i took the strelok ending and i killed everyone i gave no mercy to anyone in the zone

[half jetty]

I’m torn between doctor and strelok, I was interested in spark but oh boy did they turn out to be worse.

[sterile pagoda]

i had war with the ward f the ward bro i hate them i killed them too xD plus i had war with monlith

[dreamy plover]

beta testing the best game in the history of the world in the making 🙂

[half jetty]

Ward when I first met them was immediately put off. Spark was nice and decent in the beginning but over time it felt more and more like cultish and expanding of the zone. I miss the duty man…

[glad tendon]

This is translated from the #📜┃gsc-answers

Question: Is there anything known about the problem with the spawning of the "Strange Water" artifact, and if there is a problem at all, maybe you hid the artifact very well)
Spent several hours already, followed the recommendations of other players' searches, visited the place after the ejection, but without success.

answer: There is a problem that can prevent it from spawning, we are currently investigating it and will fix it

So I was right!

[zealous goblet]

i think 90% of the people in the zone prolly suck

[umbral bison]

question, can enemies have the RPM? I just found 200 rounds of ammo for it in my inventory but I don't know where from, but havent seen the gun I dont think, I've only been to lesser, trash heap and chemical plant areas

[lunar sleet]

Yes they can

[crimson dove]

does the pm-10 gas mask have night vision? jk i know it doesnt

[half jetty]

Some suck but not all of them, I tried my best to be a good person but god damn does the game force my hand and not give me much options

[quick kernel]

Most helpful stalker fan

[zealous goblet]

i once paid 6k so that this merchant could live only so that the game just kills him a few seconds later as he is walking to make amends to everyone

[edgy hound]

Anyone else’s game crashing when stepping into the wind anomaly that makes your screen zoom out?

[umbral bison]

@lunar sleet so I should probably go back and search some bodies see if its there lol. I just went to the military warehouse to get the sniper and the body armor maybe a guy there has it that I killed?

[lunar sleet]

nvm me i confused it with the pkp

[half jetty]

I hope dlcs adds more things to the story and such.

[dusky vessel]

I still have the regenerator from the doctor -_- it's locked in my inventory... what should I do? I have several others locked and their weight is adding up... @runic yacht cant

[runic yacht]

Sell

[crimson dove]

i hope devs fix the bug that removes all traces of nvg from the game

[zealous goblet]

i imagine this game is gunna be pretty smooth early jan, they have already done 2 patches

[edgy hound]

Nvg is supposed to be coming to the game in the future but I find it dumb that every other stalker game had it on release and so did all the metros

[weary hedge]

Imagine using nvg's in stalker

[wanton gazelle]

You can eventually use it on a dying guy on his way to Limansk, it's part of the story. If not, eventually it'll lose its locked status anyway.

[void coral]

brings back the SoC/CS gen 2 NVG blue filter

@wanton gazelle wait, i could've used it on that guy? shit i must've sold it by then

[dusky sonnet]

bloodsuckers keep spawning in this gas ravine, and dying to the toxicity lmao

[dusky vessel]

@wanton gazelle ty! Mind helpin me with 3 others? No clue where they go and Google vague 😑

[zealous goblet]

i notice packs of 3 bloodsuckers now that the second patch is out quite often

[edgy hound]

Considering I am wearing the merc exosuit and using end game gear I’d say it’s reasonable especially since half the story missions are in tunnels

[wanton gazelle]

What 3 others?

[eternal garden]

it’s funny when someone comes in here with the intention of being an elitist but then they parade an anomaly or gamma only feature as having been in the originals or upset it isn’t in the sequel

[void coral]

we give them the old reliable

🫃

[dusky vessel]

Old key(not detention), Key(no idea), Decoder

[fallow night]

Where Beard and Stalkers go after i betray Sonya in Zaton? Schevchenko is completly empty minus one stalker guy walking alone

[zealous goblet]

alot of your guys arguments is for sure over my head. I am new to the zone might as well be skiff, figuring stuff out as i go.

[silk prawn]

wtf is that chimera arena fight

[edgy hound]

I mean we are in 2024 where nvg is more abundant than in 2012 where stalker SoC takes place

[eternal garden]

It’s okay for people to be new and not know what’s happening, there’s nothing wrong with that, it’s when the new people spread misinformation and @edgy hound wasn’t talking about u, i want my nvgs and binocs, mostly binocs. I got no issue with NODs because they’re all over npc armor

[wanton gazelle]

I know you use the decoder for the STALKER program center, not sure it has any use beyond that. Things usually lose their locked status once you can't use them anymore.

[void coral]

better that way tbh
don't get me wrong i love coming back but i can only imagine what it must feel like as a newcomer

@silk prawn i got so lucky my first playthrough, killed it with the last bullet out of Skifs pistol. i was willing to whip out my knife had that failed

[zealous goblet]

the game became crazy dark after SIRCCAA. would be nice to have some night vision

[silk prawn]

i legit lost all my ammo and it was still alive like common that s not supposed to happen and its not like i was missing, and yes on veteran dif

[red lodge]

what is the best exosuit in game is it diamond?

[dusky sonnet]

skadovsk/sultanovsk, no? they share it with sultan

[limber mesa]

Without spoiling much, do we get the grenade launcher through any story mission or just randomly searching the west region of the map?

[eternal garden]

no, not that i’m aware of but i imagine you can find it somewhere out in the world

[fallow night]

where is he? both Sultan and Beard is missing. Did they leave to have steamy night after i saved them...?

[pulsar panther]

random or stores

[worldly surge]

Just found out who do I sell broken weapons to

https://www.reddit.com/r/stalker/comments/1h4npdh/just_found_out_there_is_a_vendor_i_can_sell/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web3x&utm_name=web3xcss&utm_term=1&utm_content=share_button

[silk saffron]

Man I still feel like the economy needs to be looked at, gear still cost way to much to repair and it feels like I can barely keep up, which is better then before I guess since it was literally impossible to keep up

[zealous goblet]

i found a broken one i repaired it and got it in my bank. just randomly found it.

[weary hedge]

I bought one at icarus I think, either that or wherever duty's base is almost close to the cooling towers

[dusky vessel]

I get that but I've had them for what feels like since for like the majority of this gameplay and very already take on duga, wrecked Faust, and met Strelock... it's weight I don't want to be carrying that I'm being forced to 😑 maybe this'll come off as bein whiny but I consider myself a loot goblin and not having utilized storage is irritating

[dusky sonnet]

the economy is plenty easy, i currently have half a mil koupons, top tier gear, repair every time and just loot as i go, no dedicated loot runs

[void coral]

the trick seems to be farming radiant quests to kill stalkers then just selling the loot to supplement when not artifact hunting

[astral portal]

it rubs the lotion on the skin or else it gets the hose again

[analog jetty]

I thought this would be fixed after the update, but I'm still not getting these items. Any help is appreciated and thanks in advance.

[eternal garden]

anyways wanted to drop in to say hi! I’m going back to the lab. Glory to monolith, Vrag Monolita, zonecel infidels shall perish al salaam alykum and etc etc.

[fallow night]

if you mean rpg, yes you get it during story mission @dusky vessel get weird water artifact, weight artifacts and exoskeleton

[worldly surge]

I think it's perfectly fine, you shouldn't fire rifle rounds at a rat and expect it not to be expencive.
Use a pistol or a grenade, I'm experienced enough to hunt them with a knife

[limber mesa]

Dude it will be fine. At first yes it's difficult to keep up. But as you start exploring regions u get so many extra weapons suits artifacts bullets you can sell to make your life easier.
I mean I have not even explored like any of the west side of the map and have already got like a different armors and tons of guns in storage so of which I sell from time to time. Also got around 100K currency.

[silk prawn]

AGAIN I LOST AMMO BEFORE THE CHIMERA DIED

[dusky vessel]

@fallow night already have weird water, diamond exo with extra weight mod still losing that 3 kg is rough

[silk saffron]

I’m not even burning through ammo though, I used like one mag worth and it was still 2k in repairs just after 1 combat encounter, and my armor was 6k for repairs…just after one fight

[crimson dove]

i have to imagine because they arent in the GAME

[acoustic escarp]

dedicate a few hours to just artifact hunting its not that bad. just run from encounters and hunt for rares

[fallow night]

the hell are you carrying man, that is like 120kg of stuff you can carry

[dusky vessel]

I'm a loot goblin I find i take EVERYTHING. Plus it's my first time playing so I keep about 120 round of my rifle, 70 to 90 for the whisp, and 60 for the Rhino.

[worldly surge]

Hey man, why did people complain that they can't sell broken weapons when you can totally do it?
Are they brainscorched?

Also @silk saffron there's a reason why they sell cheap armor in the store in mid game and late game locations
It's called being a stalker and not taking your best gear on every hustle

If you really want to do side quests you better stick to that trench coat you arrived in (if you didn't know, you can even take it off)

[trail pike]

I know Zalissya is still bugged, but has anyone ran into hamster being auto hostile for no reason?

[glad tendon]

90% of the time he dies for me even when i try to run away and un render him before he makes it to the kill doorway. I'm just waiting for a patch that hopefully comes this week sooner than later

[worthy dagger]

How can I defend from that anomaly that just shows up on my side and explodes?