☢┃stalker-general

[weary hedge]

try cover aiming mate then, stealth, they need to fix it

[sonic pivot]

u think the vaulting mechanic is supposed to be more useable? or its super restricted on purpose? i think i went in vault animation 2 times in the whole main quests run, even though there was so many thinks i should be vaulting on i would just jump on if i could reach

[tough rain]

The grenade stun will forever haunt me. The amount of pain and frustration

[lost lava]

All of that already exists in files.
Just there is no point in using with currently broken alife.

[weary hedge]

if you played trilogy, aimbot was always there, needs skills, you figure it out mate, i run from cover to cover

[copper sapphire]

That's crazy.. The only real issue I have is when I jump into gravity amonalies on my first 100 to 130ish hour save.. The little town north east of rostok's anoamlies always get me, the others don't always though, but most of the time they do...

[sonic pivot]

thats super cool i hope they add some stuff like that after they fix the rest

[hexed galleon]

Assault on Duga is broken. I chose ward and cannot progress past taking the check point. I destroy the two PSI emitters, kill the rest of the guards, fight off two small waves of three soldiers each, and then the game just sits there.

[queen summit]

Is there a detailed list of armors somewhere? I want something lightweight so I can carry lots, but also has a lead container.

[proper apex]

Yes it your forget the endless grenades part…

[acoustic lichen]

The grenades aren't really a problem since they scream at you when they're throwing them, telling you to run like 10ft from where you were before

[gleaming mantle]

So, uh, I got to quest of defending Zalissya from Monolith. The problem is that the second attack happened, we killed them and now that NPC named Bob blocks the only door into house where I have to talk to Batya Can I move him without shotgun in face?

[unborn geyser]

whats the name of groza in stalker 2? I got real weapon names mod so idk and im editing cfg file rn and cant find it

[proper apex]

Yeah but them being able to know exact where you are and spot you from a mile away should be addressed a little, as well as them randomly spawning after you just cleared the whole place out…

[boreal pendant]

are there any seva suits that have more than 2 lead lined?

[acoustic lichen]

I've killed like 50 mono at the kindergarten because of random spawns in my neon orange science suit

[quick kernel]

Shid and fard

[pseudo viper]

I need help. I am doing mission legends of zone and I have to bring back parcel from roosevelt. But when I start talking to him, he says "we can talk later". I started mission again, but this problem doesn't dissappear

[copper sapphire]

I agree, you should've been annihilated. Mhm mhm..

[lost lava]

Grom s15

[unborn geyser]

thanks, it not there tho lol, nothing called grom, there's GunGrim_ST_Player maybe that's that

[weary hedge]

bro you should play CS it's every 5 secs from every enemy imagine a band of 8 throwing one every 5-10 secs

[lost lava]

Probably, if it uses 9x39 then yes

[ebon mountain]

the Journalist flash drive and the loot from the stashes is only for perorders?

[boreal pendant]

also where can i get a siaga upgraded

[unborn geyser]

it's not in the file sadly

[pseudo viper]

Help pls

[wary geyser]

Hmm why RPG doesnt have charge attach to it

[unborn geyser]

yes

[ebon mountain]

good thx 🙂

[hexed galleon]

Assault on Duga is broken. I chose ward and cannot progress past taking the check point. I destroy the two PSI emitters, kill the rest of the guards, fight off two small waves of three soldiers each, and then the game just sits there.

[oak basalt]

Gotta wait for the patches pretty much the only way for me too.

[wary geyser]

Bunch of dead bodies kill my fps

[weary hedge]

is the zalissya mission glitched?

[copper sapphire]

always. What's your issue right now?

[acoustic lichen]

I killed the final monolith patrolling the kindergarten whilst overencumbered to the point of not moving, only for 7 mono to spawn in the same room and completely obliterate me. Thank you game.

[weary hedge]

i cant talk to warlock and theres like 10 monolith sitting in the building with gaffer and them 😭

[copper sapphire]

Aaare you on PC?

[weary hedge]

xbox

[pseudo viper]

Thx for the "help"

[copper sapphire]

Oh. PC has a really easy fix with mods. I don't believe you can install the Console mod for stalker 2... My first playthrough I was able to slowly lure them out one by one, the other npcs smack them down and executed them on the spot. Just walk around outside and waste ammo and grenades, it makes the AI tweak out eventually and they'll leave, albeit slowly depending on your luck

[weary hedge]

yeah ig its just glitched for me

[copper sapphire]

If the quest advanced enough to where you can go kill the Uncle, you can go and do that no issue, I was able to do that yesterday, I was stuck dealing with it

[weary hedge]

just wanted to say one last thing, this game is Ukrainian and Ukraine is going through war, imagine PTSD and other mental issues war can pass to people, comrades, I stand with Ukraine and i hope things get better for them, while some sitting in their room eating Doritos and drinking mountain dew, hope to see peace for every individual on this planet, we're all flesh and blood from bugs to homo-sapiens and we deserve to live.

[wary geyser]

Chimera can tank 5 RPG and still running that's kinda wild

[hexed galleon]

.....

[pseudo viper]

Any solutions

[weary hedge]

Adios

[hexed galleon]

well this was a waste of time

[acoustic lichen]

Arguably every single thing you do that isn't maximising your potential productiveness to society could be considered a waste of time

[lost lava]

It has ridiculous strike protection on top of 2400hp

[queen summit]

Does the unique TOZ do a lot more damage or naw? Trying to find a stylish shotgun that hits. I have most of them.

[digital parcel]

Saiga with barrel mag

[indigo meteor]

When is next patch coming

[oak basalt]

When pigs fly, or could be this week

Low-key might start over and see if the game breaks are fixed because some of the breaks that were patched for others are not patched for me.

[proper apex]

See that’s what I mean about the spawns it’s broken…

[trim grotto]

my country was at war, but noone helped. most of civilians doesnt have ptsd. even less the ones that moved out of country during war

[violet ember]

Man, I can't complete the dialogue with Shterev without the game crashing on me

[oak basalt]

New anomaly

[bright linden]

Been spamming my 955 save for over an hour now trying to get weird water
For God sakes improve the spawns

[chilly scroll]

Someone helpe me pls! I have the effects of the psi radiation and I can't take it off even with the medication

[oak basalt]

I will say this game is probably the best broken game I have ever played. When it’s actually in good working order this will be a 11/10 imo.

[bright linden]

Facts

[oak basalt]

Reload last save, it’s a bug

[bright linden]

I feel like after an entire week spamming saves to get weird water artifact I deserve to have it just modded into my inventory
The spawns are broken 💀

[olive rampart]

Very rarely, heavily armored enemies will have a set of their armor within their inventory. Is this intentional?

[oak basalt]

Yea sometimes artifacts have spawned inside rocks for me. I have yet to find armor on an enemy so maybe yes.

[bright linden]

On the verge of using ESP to see if it's actually spawning underground or in a rock it's so bad

[olive rampart]

I'm talking 2x Corundum Suit (monolith heavy armor) and 1x Operator Exoskeleton (each from dead bodies of their respective factions)

[oak basalt]

The spawns for enemies is also really funny, had like 20 zombies spawn on top of each other and I just sprayed into their heads, so many random snipers and shotguns.

[oak basalt]

Wtf I have never seen that, lucky or maybe a bug.

[bright linden]

Cap

[oak basalt]

Imagine having monolith drip

[worldly drift]

Checking in. What's the current status on Alife fix? Any news?

[hoary crest]

You can get a suit just after the end of act 1 if you choose the appropriate story options

[bright linden]

Imagine being overweight 24/7 cuz the artifact that gives you a reasonable amount of weight doesn't spawn

[oak basalt]

I have 2 weight artifacts and then a liquid rock for the rad protection

[hoary crest]

It does, think it just has low drop chance, I have two on my current save (Night Star), but like, you don't need to pick up every little thing also

[bright linden]

Bro i have 2 guns and im encumbered

[oak basalt]

You forget loot goblins exist, it’s like an addiction for them.

[hoary crest]

Do you also have 100 billion bandages and medkits and 1000 rounds of ammo tho?

[bright linden]

No i drop all that in my chest so I can actually run. Barley

[oak basalt]

Night star makes thing bearable

[hoary crest]

Idk why you're overweight then ngl. Loot goblining really do be a disease

[bright linden]

Going to have to do this honestly I've been spamming for weird water for over a week till I pass out

[hoary crest]

Only use them if there is something I actually need to take back with me, most of the time they sit in my inventory doing nothing lol

[oak basalt]

Yea just get some other stuff works just as good till you get weird water

[paper pine]

as an American and a total gun nut, which is a bit redundant to say, I wanna say Kudos to the devs for their work on the guns they are really quite accurate to their real world counterparts for the most part barring a few exceptions

[olive rampart]

canned food takes up a LOT of weight

[paper pine]

I don't have a problem YOU have a problem! I absolutely need 300 rounds of buckshot 40 medkits and 300 rounds of gauss ammo plus all the other stuff you're just unprepared

[oak basalt]

Duhhh just get good at running bro

[paper pine]

now where's my hercules we needs it

[oak basalt]

Low-key has saved my ass so many times

[plain fiber]

Kind of disappointed that Hercules is a pill now. Where's my protein shake man?

[timid aurora]

Next patch must be a huge update. They’re still working on the patch that is on SteamDB right now.

[plain fiber]

I just hope they aren't burning themselves out; it seems like they've been working through the weekend since release.

[paper pine]

yeah same its ok that they are working on stuff but rest is important too you make mistakes when sleep deprived

[hoary crest]

Laughs in running one gun, 150 rounds and 10 medkits 😄

[paper pine]

see you're the one who is travelling light meanwhile my poor exoskeleton creaking under all the stuff i'm carrying

[hoary crest]

In all fairness, I'm used to DayZ, where more weight exponentially increases your chances of losing a fight

[tardy moat]

Is ||SIRCAA|| safe to do yet?

[paper pine]

it's honestly not too far off tbh i've had trouble where there were moments of panic where I was coming back overweighted and had to hoof it when an Emission came calling

[hoary crest]

Yeah its really not, having less stuff encourages you to take things more slowly too as you can't afford to waste resources but when you do need to book it to the nearest bit of cover, you can

[paper pine]

adds a nice level of challenge i think too i'm gonna start carrying less

[hoary crest]

Its a good move long term, only take what you know you're gonna need type of thing, take like 4 cans of food an survive off what you find out there, lighter armour unless doing a really combat heavy mission, that kinda stuff. Also one gun is mostly all you need if its good, though my veiw is slightly skewed on that as im using a mod to rebalance guns to behave like, you know, guns

[paper pine]

My margach saiga is honestly the only gun i need these days but I think i can still carry my Gauss rifle just with much less ammo

[hoary crest]

This might be a hot take, but the gauss rifle is hella overrated. Sure it hits hard, but its sooo heavy and its worth too much to pass up as a sellable

[paper pine]

its a personal love for me i absolutely love magnetic weapons in games and media if theres a railgun or gauss rifle i will always gravitate towards it. I once won 3rd in a regional science fair for building a rudimentary railgun in middle school. You are right its not amazing but its so much fun the sound and animations are peak

[jaunty kite]

getting an EXCEPTION_ACCESS_VIOLATION when the game crashes, any way to fix this? getting all the win codes and a kernal issue too. i've reinstalled the game twice, all mods disabled. stuck on the 2nd to last main story mission 'down below' as soon as the cutscene ends to go fight the ward and korshunov after leaving the security room, boom game crashes every time

[hoary crest]

Oh very cool man, good on you 🙏 Bet that was fun. An yeah thats fair, it is designed very well, both in form and audio

[mental slate]

this may seem silly but have you tried running it all on low, with lowered resolution

[orchid isle]

If anyone is struggling with Scar being hostile in Visions of Truth, go to Rostok, sleep, fast travel to Zaton, fast travel to Slag Heap and go back. Worked for me.

[jaunty kite]

yup. nothing seems to fix it.

[junior jay]

heard someone say that if i choose the ward everyone hates me is that true?

[eager carbon]

anyone else having svds randomly spawn in their inventory?

[mental slate]

no mods or custom configs in, yeah?

[jaunty kite]

I have all my mods disabled and removed. reinstalled the game twice and nothing seems to work

[mental slate]

any ram overclocked? try disabling XMP?

[jaunty kite]

nah nothing is overclocked, idk how to do any of that anyways. where is the xmp located? the only custom configs I have is just changing the keybinds

been like this for about a week now

[mental slate]

The reason I mention RAM is access violation is usually a memory related thing, and most of my problems are something to do with how the game utilizes memory. XMP is a feature that maximizes RAM speed and is a BIOS feature

[magic vigil]

What if Strelok become a Stalker in Paris?

[jaunty kite]

so I haven't ever messed with my bios but everything should be stock. 3060 gpu, 32 ram, R7 7800x cpu. all my settings are on low too

[lucid roost]

this is something inherently in the game itself. i tried playing with a fresh install of windows and it still crashes despite everything being wiped clean

[mental slate]

I'm just thinking of ways that could stabilize your system in any way for the game to rule it out

[jolly geyser]

your game crashes instantly or you manage to play for a little while then getting that crash?

[lucid roost]

the game seems to be very picky with hardware so i decided, begrudgingly, to wait it out until its stable.. maybe 2-3 months of wait. atleast poe 2'll keep me company 😩

[mental slate]

He said his game crashes at a specific spot after a cut scene

[jaunty kite]

i'm able to play, but as soon as I get to the cutscene and it ends, thats when the game crashes

i've tried reloading saves from 2 hours prior, and the same thing happens every time when I reach the same spot. meanwhile, my buddy took the same route and made the same choices and is fine

[jolly geyser]

@mental slate ty did not see that
in that case idk sup, i once had memory related issue in rostok, crash every 20 sec, luckily managed to grab a guide and move out of the zone. This somehow fixed it, will see sup if i return to Rostok

[mental slate]

From my own experience, heavy optimization mods that change a lot of settings like the tweak ones that drop in long config files have destabilized my game, and after you remove the mods saves can become borked

[jaunty kite]

removed all my mods and uninstalled the game, reinstalled it, same thing.

[mental slate]

https://www.nexusmods.com/stalker2heartofchornobyl/mods/60?tab=description this one made my game run worse and unstable and wrecked saves

[sonic pivot]

i kinda thought we would get that scanner back and we would use it to charge our eventually-depleting artifacts occasionally

[vast frost]

I just realised the poppy field is a reference to the 1939 movie wizard of Oz where the witch makes the poppy field have a poison that puts you to sleep when they run through it OMG i just decided to watch the movie and clocked the reference

[mental slate]

Son of a witch. You reported the errors yeah? I hope they fix it for you.

[jaunty kite]

the win 64 error shows up like 10 times

Unhandled Exception: EXCEPTION_ACCESS_VIOLATION reading address 0x0000000000000000
Stalker2_Win64_Shipping
kernel32
ntdll

[vast frost]

crappy PC

[jaunty kite]

yeah like 20 times. it's been like this for a week now

[mental slate]

Try running the game in administrator mode and make an exception for the .exe s in windows defender / antivirus?

[warm basalt]

lol has anyone complained about night vision yet?!?

[mental slate]

Everyone and their dog

[warm basalt]

barkbarkbarkbark give me nods plz gsc i love you

i think they should add night vision goggles to this game 🙂

[hoary crest]

Even if they did, im still sticking to the crap basic flashlight

[harsh jungle]

what if degtyarev became a stalker in rome

[mental slate]

if they add them i hope it blinds you if its too bright or someone flashes a light at you like irl

[jaunty kite]

so I checked and all stalker 2 related stuff is allowed by default through private and public. as far as running as admin, I thought it was all run by admin bc I am the only profile on the pc

[warm basalt]

so jokes aside has there been any confirmation about them being added

[hoary crest]

It was hinted at that they'd like too iirc, some stuff pertaining to them is already in the files, same as binoculars

[mental slate]

right click on the exes and go to properties > compatibility check run as admin. go into virus and threat protection > manage settings > scroll to the bottom and add exclusion. these things have solved some problems for people, others not.

[warm basalt]

i’m lame and want to larp as a bad ass tacticool ukrainian anarchist as Allah intended

[mental slate]

inshallah

[warm basalt]

Ameen brother

[oak basalt]

If I was actually in the zone I would either be a loner or part of freedom, they got that zone anomaly pack ya know.

[jaunty kite]

run the compatibility troubleshooter?

[warm basalt]

smoking on that mammas beads

[mental slate]

there should be a check box below there, "Run this program as administrator"

[oak basalt]

Bro that is the worst name for an artifact hands down, I don’t want to be handling mamas beads.

[quick kernel]

Yay binoculars!!!!

[warm basalt]

i handled your mamas beads

[bleak mantle]

i need night vision

[eager carbon]

whats with the huge radioactive globe in red forest

[oak basalt]

Wait what is everyone’s favorite artifact based on appearance

[warm basalt]

solidarity stalker :3

[eternal garden]

i’m out here stroking my artifact i got witch’s jelly on my artifact, just over here stroking it

[mental slate]

https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/add-an-exclusion-to-windows-security-811816c0-4dfd-af4a-47e4-c301afe13b26#ID0EBF=Windows_10

[quick kernel]

Get off that pda and kiss me on my hot mouth, I'm feeling romantical

[oak basalt]

Bros about to get monolithed

S.T.A.L.K.E.R TUAH: heart of the hawk.

[mental slate]

She gonna stalker on my mono til i lith

[warm basalt]

i’ve been saying stalk tuah all week i wanna blow my head off l

[oak basalt]

Ryan typing out a banger

[mental slate]

Meat Chunk

[eternal garden]

So i went in to the Zone this morning and normally the first thing i say to my stalkers is “Vrag Monolita umeret". Well one of my brothers decides to ask me “hey dude are you into Urchins?"And i was like “yeah i am 100% bleed resistance and -30% rad?" Then he says “Urchin your back for this cock EP EP EP EP EP.” I said “WHY WOULD YOU ASK ME THAT!!!!”

[oak basalt]

Bro

[mental slate]

Bratan

[eternal garden]

i would’ve attached a gif of the original video but alas i cannot find one :/ but im gonna keep stalker-ifying random shit

[oak basalt]

I’m all breekyed up on this stalktuah

[mental slate]

So like, they updated the release candidate and compliance branches 7 hours ago, we might get a patch soon https://steamdb.info/app/1643320/depots/

[jaunty kite]

@mental slate nope still not working. I just uninstalled, then deleted everything from my steam common folder. going to reinstall for a 3rd time and see what happens.

[oak basalt]

So what would Ryan stalkings cannon faction be, I know you have a monolith just gooning your brain but what if that didn’t happen?

[mental slate]

Good luck sir

[dire prawn]

Have you somehow fixed it?

[jaunty kite]

nope. nothing seems to have fixed it

[jaunty kite]

I got the same error codes with the zalyssia bug that everyone was having too so I imagine it's on their end not mine

[mental slate]

@jaunty kite one thing you could try is send your save file to your buddy and see if it does that on his system. that could maybe rule out the save file being ham-slammed

[dire prawn]

Fuuu...I hate those EXCEPTION_ACCESS_VIOLATION and such errors... It is pissing me off :/ I even tried lowering the details... to no avail

[jaunty kite]

your getting the same thing? where are you stuck at?

[eternal garden]

frankly, ryan gosling would be a loner if we’re going off Drive, Lala land, and Bladerunner however if we’re talking greyman, nice guys, and Fall guy, maybe spark? Or duty but not as zealous. and place beyond the pines, Bandit.

[mental slate]

What about Breaker High?

[dire prawn]

currently I am in waste processing station ...
And ye I am getting that EXCEPTION_ACCESS_VIOLATION
when I try to run ... I got it like 7 times in a row now

[open jay]

Im sorry but i cant seem to find anyone who has this bug and i do not know where to find the solution. I thought it would be patched and i played 7 more hours and i do not want to reload back and lose all this progress just because a mainquest has been bugged out. Has anyone gotten to the quest ||"chasing ghosts"|| and it bugs out when you arrive at the|| azimuth station ||the quest marker dissapears and i do not know how to progress the quest, i have ||explored the compound ||and found nothing that could progress it.

[jaunty kite]

the weird part is I've gone all the way back like 2 or 3 hours and the same thing happens when I get to the same spot. if there is a patch tomorrow, and it doesn't fix it then i'll probably just start a fresh game. I really don't want to bc with all these issues going on, it's honestly left a bad taste in my mouth. I can't believe they have the audacity to ask for game of the year award. maybe labor of love award for sure but not game of the year. I would vote them developer of the year though

[eternal garden]

DUHHH WISHGRANTER!!!! DUHHH MONOLITH!!???!!1 WISHGRANTER!!!!! IS THAT ALL YOU STALKPOSTING ZONECELS CAN SAY!!??? DURR ANOMALY ANOMALY WISHGRANTER WISHGRANTER ANOMALY CHEEKI BREEKI I FEEL LIKE IM IN A NOOSPHERE FULL OF DEMENTIA RIDDEN OLD PEOPLE THAT CAN DO NOTHING BUT REPEAT THE SAME WORDS ON LOOP LIKE A BROKEN PDA WISHGRANTER WISHGRANTER ANOMALY CHEEKI WISHGRANTER SAUSAGE SAUSAGE!!! WISHGRANTER!!!1 BANDIT!! LE STALKER!!!! I AM BANDIT!!!! NO STALK STALK STALKER GOING STALKIES AHGHGH WISHGRANTER BREEKI ANOMALY CHEEKI ANOMALY WISHGRANTER STALK WISHGRANTER SAUSAGE ANOMALY!!!!!!
@mental slate probably more in like with a sultan or beard bandit but he’s just there because of the boat

[mental slate]

Yeah it's crazy how varied the errors and crashes are on different systems too, not everyone has the same bugs, or in the same places, and then some people have a lot of the same ones

[jaunty kite]

I've had this issue too where the quest icons disappear and I had to look up the quest to figure it out. everything worked once I got to where I needed though

[open jay]

thanks

[dire prawn]

@jaunty kite btw regarding that error I have exactly this one

Unhandled Exception: EXCEPTION_ACCESS_VIOLATION reading address 0x0000020dd1130000
VCRUNTIME140
Stalker2_Win64_Shipping
kernel32
ntdll

I love stalker but I will probably have to uninstall it for the time being and wait for new patches :/

[mental slate]

I used UETools to force a few things to advance the Zalyssia quest by killing some NPCs with their UID codes

[jaunty kite]

whats crazy is my buddy is running it on a 20 series gpu, and a r5 5700 or 5400 cpu. his pc is a lot lower end than mine and he's only had issues with the zalyssia mission

[mental slate]

Oh shit, sometimes reinstalling the runtimes can fix that shit

[jaunty kite]

does that get reinstalled with a fresh install?

[mental slate]

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/cpp/windows/latest-supported-vc-redist?view=msvc-170

[jaunty kite]

x64 would be the one to reinstall right?

[mental slate]

x86 and x64 just to be safe

[jaunty kite]

sooo when I click the link for any of those options, it takes me to the bing home page lol i'm right clicking it and opening in the new window works though

I 'repaired' them. just waiting for the stalker install to finish

[dire prawn]

same here 😄 Reinstalling Stalker 2 atm... just to be sure 😄

[mental slate]

Good luck Stalkers

[jaunty kite]

@mental slate I appreciate the help man. @dire prawn i'll let you know if this works. I went into my steam folder and just deleted everything so it's a fresh install

[dire prawn]

l.et's keep in touch I hope we are both successful with our reinstal

[fading python]

holy HELL this place is a warzone, this game really goes 0 to 100 after sircaa. absolutely amazing

[jaunty kite]

I do know that I got the same error codes in the 'death cave' in pripyat I think it is, and every time I touched a grav anomaly it would crash the game in that cave. every where else it's okay

[dire prawn]

Imho it is not due to the anomaly or so but work with memory, etc. but someone more skilled than me should confirm it

[jaunty kite]

from what I can tell, this game has tons of memory leaks from what i'm reading everywhere

[dire prawn]

Yeap it does... but they are working on fixing it atm ... but it is a ton of work... so we have to be patient

[tidal canopy]

i need serious help with a quest bug

im on the in the name of science quest and my doctor shcherba is dead... is there a way to ressurect npc's or spawn them using debug? if so what are the ID's haha

[amber hill]

Is anyone familiar with the Dark Times questline? I think I’ve encountered an audio bug, just hoping to maybe get some help

[jaunty kite]

i'm sure you have, but have you reloaded a previous save?

[tidal canopy]

yeah still no luck

[mental slate]

XShowUnitAndSquadUIDs <Radius> shows the UID within the specified radius above their heads

[jaunty kite]

I had that issue with hamster and his bodyguard just dropping dead after convincing him to help zalyssia

[tidal canopy]

yeah he has now vanished not great

[digital geyser]

diamond exo acquired things a beast fully upgraded

[jaunty kite]

whats sad is I already scoured every region of caches and found just about all the unique armor and weapons, I really don't want to have to restart the game, I wouldn't mind it if a-life was working

[digital geyser]

Not worth restarting a playthrough because of Zalyssia, its inconsequential

[amber hill]

The part of the Dark Times questline where you gotta search the scene of grays death, I started hallucinating and hearing a voice saying “Gray” and “please don’t.” I left the area and the hallucinations ended, but that voice has continued yelling from a distance. It stops when I reload a save, but starts again when I hit that point. I follow the voice and it leads me back to the scene of grays death where I then begin hallucinating. I’ve also tried finishing the quest and moving onward to which I can continue hearing it all the way in Yaniv. Assuming it’s a bug but has anyone had this issue?

[jaunty kite]

oh no it's worse than that, I'm at the 2nd to last story mission with like 15-25 minutes of gameplay left but can't progress bc my game crashes after a cutscene every time

[mental slate]

What is the full and correct name of the NPC. Gray someone?

[teal mantle]

there was a workaround for hamster dying though

[river galleon]

im still at The Boundary, the quest is softlocked

[mental slate]

What is the name of the NPC? doctor shcherba?

[tidal canopy]

yeah

[jaunty kite]

I never messed with it. I just left them dead and the quest auto completed for saving zalyssia after the 2nd patch for me

[teal mantle]

without a guide zalissya is a dead town anyway

[mental slate]

https://www.nexusmods.com/stalker2heartofchornobyl/mods/80?tab=files might be useful

[junior lava]

Hey, my mod is already in the v2.1, not 1.3 anymore xD ❤️

https://www.nexusmods.com/stalker2heartofchornobyl/mods/113

[tidal canopy]

ive tried going through that but once itsw downloaded its just a bunch of noncense in the file just a mess of words and symbols think its cause its a lua file

[sudden tusk]

Is stealth broken or what? I’m doing a second playthrough and sneaking through the sphere is impossible

[jaunty kite]

yeah. sometimes it works sometimes it doesn't

[storm pelican]

stealth is pretty bad.... you alert one enemy then ALL the enemies swarm to you

[mental slate]

XSpawnObjBySID <Npc Name> 1 false [PlayerX] [PlayerY] [PlayerZ] 0 [PlayerYaw] 0

[mental slate]

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1Jip25Hgm72ewpSxa70nyPy3zzQAEmOOLxiKEr_Z8z-k/edit?gid=0#gid=0

[oak basalt]

Dude once a life is tweaked right it will massively improve immersion,

[mental slate]

That might work, but I'm not sure what the correct name would be for the Scherba character. Maybe just Scherba, lol

[tidal canopy]

its a start thanks bro

[mental slate]

The real Stalker 2 is learning the UE5 Engine and internal GSC scripts

[oak basalt]

Stalker sees artifact and is like oooo, when imperial citizen see it it’s Heresy.

[hoary crest]

Not a whole lot of crossover between the two universes, but probably a decent bit with the fandoms

[oak basalt]

Can you imagine a space marine getting put into the stalker verse cause of an anomaly, everyone would S.Hitt themselves.

[hoary crest]

Space marine proceeds to cleanse the zone of all life within a couple of days 😂

[oak basalt]

Dude would no problem, then takes artifacts back and the imperium then proceeds to weaponize them, while killing any civilian that comes into contact with it.

[mental slate]

I liked it when Doom Guy was just a space marine and not the Slayer

[hoary crest]

I too, am quickly aging 😄

[oak basalt]

Kharn vs the slayer who wins?

[sonic pivot]

u think its possible they change the map from full screen as is now, to seeing it through the pda with surroundings showing on the sides like older games?

[mental slate]

and while I'm off topic but talking about ID games, *where tf is the Quake 1 reboot/direct sequel!?

[oak basalt]

didnt even know there was one there should be tho if there is not.

[hoary crest]

Kharn, come on now. Doomguy is pretty cracked, but he's not 9ft tall superhuman endowed with strength gifted by the ruinous powers cracked 😄

[mental slate]

There should be. I draw a parallel between Quake 1 and Stalker, in that they both have weird scifi / cosmic horror vibe

[mental slate]

and now that I think about it, the noosphere thing is totally similar to the Solaris planet consciousness

[oak basalt]

but is the dark lord or even one of the demonic titans in doom not like crazy strong? I dont know their scale but the dark lord was strong enough to worry god right?

then again in 40k everything is so broken and overpowered to the point that its funny

[mental slate]

and in HoC, if Earth has a noosphere, do other planets have noospheres?

[hoary crest]

It is the whole M.O of 40K yeah

[hoary crest]

Alright alright, leave the obsession with making it to other planets to Dr. Dalin yeah? 😄

[mental slate]

and if Mars has a noosphere, is that where hell exists, like how the portal to Hell in Doom is first discovered?

[oak basalt]

bro is making lore

stalker 3: The dragon beneath mars.

[mental slate]

it's all connected братан

[mental slate]

Stalker 3 would totally work scavenging artifacts on a desolate Mars or something. Stalker but with EVA like in Prey 2017

[tacit prism]

Is it ok to venture through the whole man before playing most the story?

[oak basalt]

Dragon my Ballz across the zone.

[mental slate]

I did a lot, didnt wreck my game. Some things are locked behind story just fyi

[maiden grotto]

Okay, so reloaded my game to today from save, playing for the first time today.~

I actually saved on the roof of a building, just in case stuff spawned....

So yeah, 2 psuedogiants, 1 party of zombies and emission... Are my first 10 seconds after reloading...

Delightful.... Currently in a stone house getting knocked over, but taking no damage... Fun times.

[tacit prism]

Thank u, I'm just worried I'm close too beating it, and haven't explored as much as I'd like

[oak basalt]

you know there is a very easy way of getting rid of the zone its called exterminatus.

[dense sandal]

I just started running and it didn’t cost stamina ??

[oak basalt]

HERESY. execute him now

[tidal canopy]

@mental slate i think i found his uid but i dont know the command to spawn him uid: 1093__squad_hex: 0x2800088d, is protected 0

[dense sandal]

Is it because I’m in red forest?

[echo coyote]

im looking on some website for help on finding things in Stalker 2, how do they know where everything is already? This game just came out.

[tidal canopy]

`

[cloud elm]

The lack of night vision in this game is killing me, literally

[weary hedge]

Dnipro with 7.62x39 Armor-piercing ammunition is just OP.

[echo coyote]

i have a ReShade that helps with that

[plain star]

yo i need help lol

[night acorn]

Ram-2 or saiga which ones best and which should I upgrade?

[plain star]

Is there any safe place in CNC?
I was exploring the CNC and its surroundings and theres an emission about to happen

[grand tide]

Saiga is the best weapon in the game tho atleast if u face any kind of mutants

[cloud elm]

Saiga carried me in this game thru a lot

[quick kernel]

Saiga is a beast fr. The underbarrel is actually decent too if you ever wanted to have a free slot for another type of weapon

[cloud elm]

Also, should I use Kharod or Dnipro? Let's assume both are going to use 5.45 only

[quick kernel]

Alright guess I'll go screw myself

[magic sinew]

i hate this faust fight hes literally unkillable

i shot his belt thing like 5 times w the spas

[cloud elm]

Why

[hoary crest]

Underbarrel GL, thank me later

[lost lava]

One rpg and fight is over

[maiden grotto]

This is nuts.... I am just playing a standing up simulator 🤣

Psuedogiants taking it turns to knock me over....

grabbed a screen shot for the no believers.... Currently in bloodsucker village...

Zombie squad and 2x psuedo giants spawned on me, when I reloaded... Emission is over, but I am stuck in teh houe taking pot shots....

Whats the best ammo to take Psuedo's down? Currently using slugs

https://ibb.co/t8hf7R8

[hoary crest]

Actually surpises me they nerfed mutants but didn't nerf Faust, aside from explosive weaponry the guy has a stupid amount of health for a dude in a shirt

[night acorn]

I been using the ram-2 so imma upgrade the saiga and switch to that thx

Which tech can upgrade it?

[lost lava]

That chick in yanow, idk her name

[quick kernel]

Not sure about which tech but good choice on the switch semi auto beats pump any day frfr

[hoary crest]

Harpy, best tech before Pripyat

[night acorn]

I've not made it pripyat yet im on the vision of truth main mission where I meet up with scar after ||killing Faust||

[storm pelican]

anyone know how many endings there are? i heard 4?

[indigo lintel]

yeah 4 and they're all very unique actually, difficult to tell which ending is a good one and which one is a bad one

[jaunty kite]

@mental slate hey I hope you don't mind but I sent you a pm

[astral portal]

I love touching the mutants

[dense quartz]

https://tenor.com/view/jail-cell-prison-locked-up-gif-3930381699599784745

[light crag]

my gamg laggt hahaha on my 1500 euro laptops xdd

[dense sandal]

what tech can install every part on armor

[lament warren]

So far I've found it to be either the Tech in Rostok or the Tech in Yaniv

[astral portal]

oh but the controller can go into my mind

[dense sandal]

cheers and what part of armor gives artifacts no rads to you?

[bleak mantle]

whats up people

[mental slate]

I looked in that SIDs NPC lua file from the nexus link and there is no explicit entry for "Scherba" or "Shcherba", so his SID must be something else a bit more obscure. btw to read lua files you need something specific for them like Microsoft's Visual Studio Code app

[fresh flame]

I did it w 5 fps cuz my pc cant handle the game. If i can everyone can

I killed faust and everything up to and so far as I’ve come after on a laptop game not that hard

[mystic egret]

anyone knows if there's already mods for more guns? gun variety in this game sucks

[fresh flame]

Look on nexus mods if there isnt any there then there probably isnt yet

[mystic egret]

thank you

[jaunty kite]

@dire prawn I got my game working. I deleted everything in the steam common file that was in the stalker 2 folder, including the folder itself. I think redownloaded the game

[deft coral]

@sullen meadow iirc you have to be in the basememt for that artifact

[dense quartz]

1500€ laptop = 750€ PC

[heady wind]

maybe in 2010 1500 euro laptop was a good one

[maiden grotto]

Strelok is the good ending... One thing I have notice about the ward ending and what a lot people seem to forget... ||The Ward and with all the TV's? The TV's when you first meet Strelok are used to brainwash people to their bidding, but only once, becase twice kills them. The Ward ending is actually bad, because those are teh same exact TV's and are probably brainwashing world leaders et al to their bidding.||

[forest tapir]

I’d say there is one that’s definitely the lesser of the evils but it’s still not a good ending

[frigid hill]

shnozdrawz has been warned

Reason: Bad word usage

[heady wind]

Goal of OG C-Cons was to remove all bad from Noosphere (so, from people's heads), you can't do that without brainwashing of sorts

[crude shuttle]

hi does anybody have a fix for broken cutscnes that use videos all of my cutscenes in the game so far where just pure white and not displaying anything
for example here is a screenshot of the issue

it should not be white like this?
https://i.imgur.com/0MnWeqJ.jpeg
it should be showing something like this
https://i.imgur.com/k9nUcJ3.png

[hoary crest]

Havent seen any myself, just reskins at this point, however they'll come with time

[indigo lintel]

what turned me away from strelok ending is how obsessed he is with the zone, and how unscientific his approach is - the zone is not a person and there is nothing supernatural about it, it's all science we don't fully understand yet. Although I can see how his ending is the lesser of all evils.

[lunar prawn]

Likewise, Strelok seemed nearly as mad as Scar!

[maiden grotto]

It makes all the sence in the world if you have played and completed the first game. He is not obsessed with it... He actually knows the truth better than anyone else.

[heady wind]

I kinda wanted an ending where Zone is completely erased, with all anomalies, artifacts, labs. So noone can have that

[indigo lintel]

Every single wish he did in the first game was pointless, because as we know the wish granter is nothing but illusion

[maiden grotto]

That's not the real ending. The wish granter ending is an illusion.

The real ending requires a key card from a secret stash, that opens a door to the side of the wish granter...

[lunar prawn]

This may be an unpopular opinion, but I couldn't care less about whatever PvP multiplayer modes that are in the works. If it isn't coop, I don't see why they're bothering? Just focus on more Singleplayer content, honestly. Did anyone buy this game to play some Deathmatch or Capture the Anomaly?

[vital granite]

Question to vet stalkers, if I start getting spooky voices and ghostly enemies appear, should I be looking for something to shoot or just leave the area?

[dense quartz]

I would answer as i have the answer to your question but i am no vet stalker unfortunatly.

[jaunty kite]

nope. I wanted coop

[vital granite]

Understandable, I’m just trying figure out what i keep running into

[heady wind]

If no monsters nearby and no destroyable psy-lamps, then it is psy anomaly. Take psyblock pills or leave

[half torrent]

Why does my stalker have his eyes closed and opens them when I load in? also take psi blockers @vital granite

[indigo lintel]

Yeah exactly, and he's right that the zone has been nothing but a tool for others - but referring to the zone as 'her' throughout the game and wanting to 'protect her' is very self important coming from him. The zone doesn't belong to anyone - even strelok. It just is.

[dense quartz]

Coop was never a thing just pvp they made that clear iirc

[lunar prawn]

They did indeed, which seems pointless to me. PvP modes in these SP focused games always end up being low player count ghost towns anyway

[indigo lintel]

I've got another question for people here, who do you think Agatha is.. like really?

[dense quartz]

Whats a psy lamp ?

[maiden grotto]

No...

The real ending requires a keycard from a secret stash found in Pripyat. You use that card to open a door behind the wish granter...

This then allows you to get the real ending... The wish granter ending is for people who didn't pay attention to things.

[indigo lintel]

Yeah I know the ending, where he kills c-consciousness, but that doesn't change the fact he lost the plot in HoC.

[heady wind]

You'll understand when you see one. Some blue glowing mechanism, looks like emitter or lamp

[maiden grotto]

Yes it does, becaue Strelok knows that the best thing to do, is to leave the zone alone... All it does is bread corruption and greed and the desire to control... Which is why the Ward ending is the way it is... Becaue they want control, and use the zone to get it.

Strelok, has it bang on... Leave the zone the f alone and the world will be a better place.... And he knows this, becaue he understands what he learnt from the the end of the SoC...

[acoustic lichen]

What the actual f­uck is pripyat. A single group of snorks consists of over 12, jfc

[heady wind]

Zone should be destroyed, erased from the world. "Leaving it alone" is bad option.

[mighty pelican]

if uve been to ingame pripyat u can say uve been to the real pripyat^^

[maiden grotto]

Best holiday destination ever.

I had a lovely start to day... Booted, loaded, got an instant emission, 1 squad of zombies and 2 Psuedo giants, all in bloodsucker village XD

I swap for your 12 snorks anyday XD

[round talon]

Anyone think we are going to get an A-life system similar to The original games in The future. Or are we stuck with this bonkers of a system

[dense quartz]

Have you read one single announcement or news article before asking this question

[round talon]

Actually i have

[heady wind]

I honestly doubt we will get persistent NPCs as in og games

[maiden grotto]

But if you understand the Ward ending, it's not the best option.... ||Becaue the TV's are used to brainwash people.... Yes the zone is destroyed, but the rest of the world is subjected to brainwashing.... As the TV's shown in the ending are the same TV,s that kill the guy in X3 labs.... You only get brainwashed once, twice kills you.||

[lunar prawn]

Yeah same, I think if we were going to get that, we'd have had that already at launch.

[round talon]

Yes think some improvements for The current system is The best we could hope for

[acoustic lichen]

The quantum nature of NPC's is definitely something GSC should have explicitly stated tbh

[round talon]

Indeed. Still have good time playing it though

[sonic pivot]

Wouldn't it be nice if they added small caption in subtitle format when you are aiming on a text in the world that is written in local language? 😄

[dense quartz]

Problem is not that the system doesnt exist, it just isnt possible performancewise as 80% of the playberbase doesnt have a new gen pc specs

[acoustic lichen]

Bioshock style 'Art Subtitles'

[round talon]

As a non ukrainian speaker i would like that

[sonic pivot]

yes bsically just captions, visual subtitles cos there are hints we miss out

[fading willow]

so A-life 2.0 was a lie, its radial spawn garbage

[acoustic lichen]

They were onto something with what amounted to 'Hobo marks', something that is a universal language (or more specifically because literacy wasn't guaranteed), and stalkers using that for common parlance because I imagine there are a lot of international stalkers is a really logical way to convey that

[heady wind]

|| 1) The only thing we actually see is that they can see through Skif's eyes. It is not clear whether any brainwashing occured
2) There is completely no evidence any other people outside Zone are "brainwashed", you dont have enough tv screens in that room for that much ppl
3) I personally dont think brainwashing if gonna occur at all, most probably everyone will be under constant surveilance ||

[frigid hill]

lnfinituz has been warned

Reason: Bad word usage

[round talon]

Most calculations could be done offline, and rendered could be a few hundred meters. They could divide The zones on The map aswell (not removing The open world, but restrict events The further away you get from a location

[acoustic lichen]

I'd like an update that just added some scripted patrols

[maiden grotto]

I just found the Siaga D-12 high capacity magazine.... lovely jubbly

[dense quartz]

I think theory is easier than actually implementing it. They are not sitting around lazy, if it was easy we would have it im pretty sure.

[sonic pivot]

One big problem i have is with the ||zalissya base|| after ||monolith attack||, it is 2nd playthrough i made different choices and i still can never access the base after that event even though i get dialogue to go help with being attacked but its empty outside and npcs are locked inside with new side quest even

[indigo lintel]

Even assuming strelok can stop anyone from getting in (doubtful), I believe the Doctor/Faust ending is the truly good one, either humanity succeeds and advances or they die out like they would eventually. I also think it will be the canon one for future storytelling.

[round talon]

That aswell if they script events The right way it could feel like The zone is alive and you are not walking in a bubble

[heady wind]

Offline/online system is not the problem. Offlice calculations are cheap. I think it is memory bottleneck. S2 zone is MUCH bigger than OG one, with MUCH more points of interest. You have to keep like 10 times larger info about everything going on.

And xbox version cannot handle that

[lunar prawn]

That ||room with the monolith charging you, but also shooting you from the walkways with Gauss guns|| is absolutely the single worst section of the game.

[half jetty]

||Basically spreading the god stupid plague and killing innocents who have no idea what the zone is ISNT GOOD..||

[sonic pivot]

That is the 1st ending i went with with no knowledge around it, now ill do strelok only

[indigo lintel]

Everyone in 80 years will be dead, 80 years after that once again, 80 years from that chances are humanity will kill itself because of a world conflict. Spreading the zone gives humanity a chance at long term survival. It's also an ending where access to the science in the zone is truly free, and not hogged by anyone.

[round talon]

Im not saying it is easy. Im not even a programmer it worked for The old games with smaller maps and zones a big open world map with zones should be relativity quite similar to set up. Would need some work of course

[half jetty]

So you want the zone to be natural selection?

[indigo lintel]

Zones are not huge, you either enter it or you dont. Every society should have access to it's technology.

[mystic egret]

thank you

also does anyone see big difference between armors? I have korund ever since I found it in the ''monolit'' old base and now I found upgraded Falcon but its end stats seem pretty much similar, is it worth investing or do i just keep korund?

[half jetty]

The technology is awful no one should have that power, humanity doesn’t need it.

[mighty pelican]

zone should be free ^^ and everywhere

[maiden grotto]

The TV's at the end , all in a central column, looking down... || This part at the end https://ibb.co/r5TnHg3

Those are the same TV's that Strelok points that brainwash people... If they do it twice, your dead as you can't handle a second time. The guy in ward, joins the counsciousness... They control everything, global domination..... It's a really bad ending.||

[heady wind]

Bro, CNPP Zone exists solely because X-Project was there and was the reason it emerged. No such projects in random parts of the world. no mutants, no radiation. This plot doesnt make any sense.

[round talon]

I understand that and it tanks performance but zone closer to you could get higher priority than those far away

[indigo lintel]

Unlimited free energy, no more united states invading for oil? that alone is an innecntive.

[half jetty]

At the cost of wiping out half of humanity if the zone is free?

[rose parcel]

Im new to game, is there an update when A-life will be implemened?

[dense quartz]

Back the. We were playing on 512MB grpahic cards and pentium 4 processors and the games looked like tetris

[thick loom]

Are they gonna add nvg

[heady wind]

Those are not the same brainwashing TVs bro. Those are similar to TVs || through which Strelok contacted you using Dark's eyes||. Nothing with brainwashing

[acoustic lichen]

Time to finally start looking for solder with my diamond exo, gauss gun, 12x rhino, and kharod.

[mighty pelican]

||in the ward ending it looked like every human on earth will have eyes that can be used as cameras lol|| tell me would u like that to be the case for ur eyes^^

[cloud carbon]

When will xbawx mod support come out

[maiden grotto]

I love playing the game, but I really wouldn't want to live in a world were I could potentially wake up in a world were a bloodsucker my take fancy to ma jelly belly....

No thanks... billions would die and the rest of the world would decay like the zone.

[dense quartz]

Do you guys think this mod merging stuff will stay or will we be able to combine mods more conviently in the future ?

[indigo lintel]

We are talking about a stalker 2 ending.

@half jetty half the world? it seems like around 20 zones spawned from the atlas, and if they're the same size as the one around CNPP it unlikely many people would die. If you poke a needle randomly in a globe, you will most likely land in an uncharted terrain without any people. Also a zone coming into being isn't like a rock being dropped on someones head instantly killing them.

[round talon]

Anyone else thinks corpes disapesr to fast, and I hate when you leave an eary and the spawn resets. Feels like you did nothing

[heady wind]

Again. It is not about performance. I think you read wrong what I wrote. It is MEMORY intensive to keep all squads across the whole zone, with all their info all the time in RAM

[mighty pelican]

well most countries know about the zone i would think in that age so unless the zones land in high pop areas it would prob be ok

[acoustic lichen]

Just wait until a zone opens up in L.A and their homeless population become nigh invincible

[indigo lintel]

blood suckers were created in experiments, other zones wouldn't have them

[maiden grotto]

I think you are mistaken....

Why the significance, if they are not.... Just meaningless waffle otherwise...

[half jetty]

Multiple zones were spawned across the globe, we don’t know if all the spiked activity’s across the globe will have their own emissions like in the zone.

[mighty pelican]

more zones = more MONEY we all love money

[maiden grotto]

Yup, but they would soon spread if the world became the zone and emissions happened world wide etc

[dense quartz]

In a post apocalyptic world money wouldnt mean a thing you would just barter

[round talon]

Hope fully The promised modding tool can fix this in The future

[mighty pelican]

well thats if that world is like fallout yes.. aka nuked to hell

[indigo lintel]

The zone is only 64 kilometeres squared that's a tiny amount, even if a 100 zones popped up (that's much more than shown on that atlas), it would still be less than 1% of the worlds surface. I think you guys are imagining half the world being inside the zone which would just not be the case. For comparison our earth's surface is 510.1 million km².

[heady wind]

|| Those are just hanging in that room. There is nobody around, nobody to brainwash. They just showing POVs of some people eyes||

[mighty pelican]

well the zone is centered around the generators isnt it? would other zones have those?

[half jetty]

It’s not worth the risk of humanity.

[indigo lintel]

I think the risk is greater than not spreading it, maybe I'm just looking at our current geopolitcal situation too much. All of this is hypoethical.

[forest tapir]

The ward ending still isn’t good in my opinion, I think the zone should live on but not spread

[mighty pelican]

is a caged beast alive?

[heady wind]

Having multiple Zones doesnt make sense at all. CNPP Zone exists solely because Generators exist.
More realistic version is that CNPP Zone has expanded it's radius to the whole planet, but it's center is still at the Generators.

[fading willow]

roadmap when? Patch when?

[indigo lintel]

the heart of chernobyl artifact is the source of power for all the zones

[round talon]

Well i really like The game and they still have made good job, but we are entitled to bring upp what we currently are aware about. Like a-life 0.5 beta. If this was The clolest thing they could have done, they should be transparent and honest about it. Not giving it hope that it is something improved,

[hoary crest]

Big difference between early/midgame armours and endgame armours, but the jump between early/mid isnt massive. Im still running either SEVA-V or OZK Explo' suit with Mask-1 helmet lol

[heady wind]

I think you didn't read artifact description / PDA notes in-game. It has nothing to do with "Source of Power" of Zone

[maiden grotto]

||But it is what it insinuates.... They have control... They have their man in the C-Consiousnesss.... The fact that the only time the TV's are mention in game, at the point with Strelok, and the only other appearance at the end of the game is very telling...

They have world domination. They have the TV's that brain wash people to do what they want... They don't need the zone.

You don;t have to see people getting brainwashed to understand what it means.||

[indigo lintel]

I think somewhere in the development process, they realised a-life for a game of this scale was just impossible in the time given for their studio. So they decided to stop wasting their time developing it further and work on making the game better without it - hoping to add it on eventually. The only way to solve that would be to delay their game release by WHO KNOWS ( could be 6 months or longer), which is something microsoft wouldn't allow them to do.

[dense sandal]

holy just the rpm weights 20kgs?? gadamm

[hoary crest]

Thats why the guy with the machine gun is the beefiest dude in the squad lol, LMG's tend to be pretty heavy

[dense sandal]

i just wanted to get one just so own one

[mystic egret]

alright ty

yeah early game i felt a big difference but right now I just go around in same armor since like 8h in the game, it feels.. different lmao

[indigo lintel]

I agree with this, and I bet it's Agatha's idea, I wonder who she really is - but I have a feeling she works for the most powerful people in the world, more powerful than the Ukrainian government. Sort of like G-man in half life. A mysterious being.

[oak basalt]

the G SPOT

[heady wind]

||Heart of Chernobyl just multiplicatively amplifies psi-capability of a person, that's why Strelok/Skif put it in the machine - because it allows a single person to operate generators instead of 7-8||

[acoustic lichen]

Is there any reason to use the brummbar exo vs diamond?

[hoary crest]

Ye lol, personally i went back to early game armours after trying the endgame ones because they feel more representative of the capabilities of body armour, like yes, they can tank a couple of rounds, but beyond that, you should just be getting clapped

[digital geyser]

Youll get way better armors that do feel significantly stronger. Like by a lot. Exo suits and pz armor suits are tanky

[dense sandal]

where can you get the rpg?

[oak basalt]

just found some monolith heavy armor so crazy how strong it is

[indigo lintel]

@heady wind It becomes the source of power in that ending spreading the zones around the world

[heady wind]

|| To be brainwashed you have to look at TVs (neuroprogrammators) that was explicitly shown in CS and S2. ||
Any other assumptions are just speculations. The best they can do is to look through other people's eyes with those monitors hanging there

[oak basalt]

holy crap ave dominus nox @indigo lintel

[heady wind]

That was not || Heart of the Zone || bro. || Heart of the zone || is the artifact || Skif puts into the machine with pods ||.
In that ending we see || Alpha-artifact from Skif's kitchen||

[fading willow]

can devs put a game option in for disabling the headshot sound effect?

[maiden grotto]

Yes I know, but the ending shows they have that tech... It doesn't mean it was necessarily done in that room.

If I am wrong, then the TV's at the end make no sense, as there is no other reference in the game to them... It just ultimately ends up being meaningless...

The ward ending is horrific.

[round talon]

Probably happened something like that, and I can except that, what they should have done is to announce i Change in their vision of the game. Not having it as a sale pitch and remove it just before release

[indigo lintel]

Alpha artifact is not important, Dalin thought it was the 'heart' but it wasn't

[indigo lintel]

Yeah I know but at the end of the day it's also a product, you can't be talking people out of buying your games, you'd get fired for that lol.

[heady wind]

Why are you resisting bro. Just go look once again at that ending. And compare the look of the artifact in the ending with the look of Heart of Chernobyl.
And then compare to the Alpha-artefact from intro

[round talon]

Yes corperat greed i understand you they did like this, sadly it Will bit them back People usually appreciate honessty

[indigo lintel]

You're correct actually, my bad alpha artefact is the source of the power for all the zones, not the heart of Chernobyl artefact.

[oak basalt]

So wait is the heart of Chernobyl the friends we made along the way?

[heady wind]

From the game-desing POV, after Skif's ending you cannot continue Skif's story || because he is in the pod ||. So story continuation is either gonna be from someone elses pov (who?) or Skif's ending is just not canon

[steep flower]

They did such a good job with this game.

[acoustic lichen]

Just turn us into a generic stalker who coincidentally happened to find skifs storage

[heady wind]

As if motivation ||my flat is in ruins, I am gonna bring ruins to the whole world|| is not hilarious enough

[indigo lintel]

Every single game we've played a different character, I doubt it will be skif. If the dlc for the game drops and you play as skif, it's probably going to take place before the ending story wise.

[sonic pivot]

So the anomalies actually move around after emissions? That why i keep getting new "?" on the map and i go there and its an anomaly i already uncovered before i thougbt its bugged icons

[acoustic lichen]

The arch anomalies really enjoy undiscovering themselves on your pda map

[quartz anvil]

i had anomilies at the bar transform into electric ones then back to acid again. so maybe?

[heady wind]

DLCs are for sure gonna be side-locations. Don't know about story expansions

[indigo lintel]

This.

@heady wind well there are some regions marked on the map that we can't explore, iron forest, CNPP, and the generators I assume the story will be focused around those areas.

[sonic pivot]

But i cant do the "defend Zalissya from monolith" cos it bugs i think? I go there for the mission and i hear dialogeus and gunfire but everyome is locked inside and i cant get in to interact

[oak basalt]

Where’s my Faust feat anomaly

[true void]

does stalker have a custom ksg?

[lunar prawn]

Anyone found the Drum magazine for the Saiga, outside of ||X7||?

[true void]

where do you find the custom ksg

[eternal garden]

I’m bouttaaaa stalkkkkk.

[sour linden]

I finally got the gravity sling to work and apparently they fixed the no fall damage XD

[oak basalt]

Does not saving zalissya affect the story at all, I kinda want to skip it cause it’s bugged for me.

[indigo lintel]

Just south of pripyat, on the right side of the 'Jupiter' region, it's guarded pseudo giants

[heady wind]

According to leaked desdocs those areas were supposed to be in the base game. I assume they cut them because they were not ready for release.
DLCs were gonna be ||Limansk, Cold Island and Sand Plateu||. There are even some mentions in the game of those.

But since they cut stuff, maybe planned DLCs are pushed for later, and they release cut content first

[true void]

thank ya

[heady wind]

Also, || North Pripyat + Jupiter factory || was also planned DLC content

[indigo lintel]

I feel like Limansk is definitely happening at some point, CNPP just makes the most sense at the moment.

[acoustic lichen]

Do any traders sell 7.62x39?

[eternal garden]

not really, sircaa probably licked it clean when retrieving the monolith. If anything the CNPP probably makes the most sense if they don’t put it in. Otherwise i’m not sure how much there would be to check. I think the first dlc might include limansk, iron forest, and maybe more regions (cut content etc) and i think sandy plateau and cold island could be entirely new locations with their own regions

[paper sand]

yea im thinking iron forest + cnpp + maybe top level generators

[heady wind]

I think Limansk is not happening soon because in desdocs there is only 1 line about it. No map, no concepts, nothing. Other planned DLCs have their area roughly outlined with various POI and related quests. For Limansk it's just "IT IS HERE (DLC)" lol

[indigo lintel]

But everyone wants to go the reactors, it's just cool as fuck, they could also establish more faction play with it

[eternal garden]

not that i don’t want the cnpp but im not sure how engaging it would be at this point in the stalker timeline. Obviously i’d love to have as many places to explore as possible

[lunar prawn]

Tbf how can you have a game called "Heart of Chornobyl" and then not allow the player to enter the CNPP?

[dense sandal]

the vector smg fcking melts enemys dam

[eternal garden]

sounds like a question for the devs since it seems if it is added, it’s dlc

[little owl]

Don't know If y'all saw em yet, but you can see hedgehogs running across the ground every once in a while. Saw one north of rostok.

[indigo lintel]

Do you have a link to those data mines I'm actually curious to read up on it

[dawn veldt]

You can see frogs sometimes and I've seen floating frogs above rivers

[heady wind]

Lol, that's not the question about CNPP but about actual city of Chornobyl. At least CNPP was in SoC. Chornobyl didn't appear at all

[paper sand]

i mean the bridge is there and its referenced in game, also has a rough layout already of detailed houses, more than just placeholder so id say its likely, but yea definitely not soon.

[little owl]

Now imma have to go look for em.

[dawn veldt]

Anyone know if random roaming stalkers that let you trade buy your items for the same price or less as traders in specific locations?

[eternal garden]

frankly i’m just most interested in seeing either cut locations from the OT, or entirely new ones like cold island and sandy plateau

[lunar prawn]

I'd take it as read that whenever Chornobyl is referenced in titles of STALKER games, it's referring to the CNPP, rather than the city

[heady wind]

I have only various leaked game maps, whole leaks are like TBs of data

[indigo lintel]

If the ever did that it would have to be a linear mission lol, they struggled with pripyat as is

@heady wind could you send game maps please

[grand tide]

Dafuq, I rly hope to be able to enter CNPP soon. But insane releasing a game where the map is not even finished lmao

[sour linden]

I haven't been able to get one to buy anything from me at all

[eternal garden]

map not finished=|=content intended for dlcs from the get. Infact id argue if the map was any bigger on launch then the game itself may run rougher than it was since the individual location cells not having loading zones probably plays into that

[dawn veldt]

Oh, maybe they won't lol I never tried cause I thought the sell price would be lower

[heady wind]

DM me for link

[heady wind]

In all honestly, there is nothing of interest on CNPP itself, ||Monolith was take out of there to SIIRCA||, ||S-Cons is at Generators||.
Even Richter mentioned that CNPP is just empty now

But I'd still love to visit it nevertheless, too iconic to skip

[indigo lintel]

This might be too much copium from me but I hope they revamp the faction system and expand up on it, in that way CNPP could be a good headquarters for some faction taking over (russian milliary moving in?? maybe too spicy)

[acoustic lichen]

Freedom/Duty restarting a war over the symbolism of CNPP

[storm token]

In shadows dark, where mutants tread,
Through Zone's wild heart, where few dare tread,
We wait, we watch, for your reply,
When will the modding tools comply?

Will bolts and kits our worlds expand?
Please GSC, lend us your hand!

May this query reach your zone,
A lonely Stalker’s heartfelt tone.

[grand tide]

Is just an interesting location to explore I rly hope they will let us enter the building too and maybe even the reactor 4

[indigo lintel]

Freedom and duty feel so out of place tbh, I think they're just here for the sake of being here, since they played a big part in previous games it would be weird to take them out fully.

[dawn veldt]

My GPU is at 70% when playing but when I press escape it goes to 98% no lag hmm

[crisp star]

Did we all just forget about multiplayer

[indigo lintel]

It will come eventually, although I don't understand how people are so hyped for multiplayer it just doesn't make too much sense in a game like stalker

[grand tide]

Agree

[eternal garden]

i will admit, i’d like a larger interior building that almost acts as a region. Almost like metro, that style of architecture within architecture, idk that would be neat, cqb is my favorite form of combat for how tense it can be checking each room, especially with no hud on vet. Especially if the cnpp is empty now, they could have maybe stalkers who for whatever reason have no where else can go to the cnpp and it could be an ideological neutral zone? Idk i’m trying to come up with whatever reason to do something like that

or have some ambitious stalkers (new faction that’s small or just opportunistic) trying to explore inside the cnpp to get something but for whatever reason the people they sent in never responded despite it supposedly being empty idk

[heady wind]

There was supposed to be one X lab inside CNPP. I think it is the one Strelok visited in SoC at the end

[eternal garden]

yea^^^ that’s what i was leaning towards with the missing stalkers who have gone in. Maybe it’s more expansive than thought or sircaa found something previously while retrieving the monolith but for whatever reason figured it’d be better to leave it alone and just not mention it

[winged linden]

Hey hi.

[eternal garden]

i just wish more combat happened in interiors especially with human enemies but yea idk cnpp would be cool but i wouldn’t say it’s at the top of my locations id be excited to see

[winged linden]

I need help with the franchise. My Laptop has:
Processor: Intel Pentium Dual Core T3200
Graphics Card: Intel GMA 4500M HD
Motherboard: Quanta 3602 (With Socket P (mPGA478/mBGA479))
RAM Memory: 2GB DDR2-SDRAM (332.6 MHz) (Single-Channel)
OS: Microsoft Windows 7 Ultimate Build 7601 (Service Pack 1)
Computer Brand Name: Hewlett-Packard HP Pavilion dv5 Notebook PC.
And I am new in this. and I want mods for bugs and quality time. No graphics, cause I'm short of it. Can anyone help me?????''

The game is STALKER: Shadow of Chernobyl

[grand tide]

[heady wind]

The is other channel for that game. This is for Stalker 2
#⭐┃trilogy-general

[winged linden]

A.

[heady wind]

Combat in an indoors open area with multiple floor is currently a disaster. NPCs shoot you through floors, railing, etc
I've had enough of it when ||going up to turn off the Sphere emitter||

[vocal hull]

After a about 10 deaths... finally got to beat Bulba and get the weird ball...........

[weary hedge]

i goon on bloodsuckers

[heady wind]

NPCs wallhack and aimbot gotta be fixed

[eternal garden]

i haven’t experienced this at all really; I’ve been able to sneak up on monolithians within apartment complexes. The only time I get shot at from any elevated point is whenever they’re on a catwalk or they have a view of me but i haven’t been shot through anything that isn’t penetrable. Not to say it isn’t happening but that’s why i’d like more of it, i haven’t experienced it as much as you seem to have

[grand tide]

It’s not always the case but in some certain buildings they shoot u through walls etc

[trim pendant]

There is definitely a over penetration issue, I get shot through brick buildings, concrete, and sitting behind a armored ward mrap

[grand tide]

In my opinion the game lacks with blood there is no blood beneath the corpses

[eternal garden]

aw man :( that sounds lame, some of my favorite moments in this game have been taking cover with friendlies while raiding a location and watching their bullets ping off the corners of whatever cover i’m in

[high cave]

the steam points shop doenst have nothing yet about stalker 2 right?

[ebon blade]

No Spoilers chat is in red. Spoilers chat is in green. Just a reminder if you do not know. You are in the green zone. Thanks.
BUGS? PLEASE REPORT HERE:
https://support.stalker2.com/

[eternal garden]

especially when it’s you and 3 exos vs 10-20 dudes just suppressing the shit outta you and lobbing grenades all around, makes for some fun moments

[half torrent]

wtf a veles detecter just appeared in my inv out of no where

[oak basalt]

Dude having a thunderberry is so nice, love the max endurance

[ivory sorrel]

Say thx n use it lol

[half torrent]

Fr fr

[oak basalt]

Zone bestowed treasure

[icy mountain]

Pretty sure you get that as a quest reward after some main quests.

[quick kernel]

Jupiter? More like Saturn

[half torrent]

maybe, I just completed in search of past glory and before that the minor incident mission

[oak basalt]

I am trapped in a tower…. How does one kill a chimera?

Never mind killed it

[weary hedge]

i got ambushed in pripyat once by roof snipers, somehow in the right position to have two engage me at the same time lol but yeah nothing like what that dude says hes experiencing lol

[oak basalt]

i had 2 chimeras just spawn at the same time...... did they up the spawns?

[jolly canyon]

whats with the clusterfuk being the best gun in the game tho

[paper trail]

Never had this. The only instances where I felt like they where shooting through walls was when they actually shot through see-through floors ect. Or shooting with a hefty weapon it seems like with wall penetrative on a doorframe but just close to the end of the door frame with an rpm

[weary hedge]

im like, a few hours away from swapping from satellite to 1gbps fiber lol so hype

just waiting for the contractorrrr to turn uppppp

then i can play stalkerrr with geforcenowww at max settings with far less latencyyy than i have with starlink

[rare lichen]

Does anyone know why when I set the game to windowed at 1080p it sets the window size to 1440p? this is extremely annoying

[ancient frost]

Does anyone know which mod doesn't allow me to change Scopes on my guns? Literally took off a scope of a gun and I can't put it back or put on any scope on other railed guns

[tacit jay]

Beat game. Loved it, no notes.

[weary hedge]

WE TAKE NO NOTES WHERE WE'RE GOING

[rare bridge]

anyone know what the monolith totem things do? you can destroy the lanterns but no idea if they have a purpose

[ancient frost]

You can never beat stalker. There's always going to be DLCs and a life

[tacit jay]

I'm probably gonna give stalker 2 a break for a little cause I dumped 113 hours in it, give or take and want to wait for a few more patches before I jump back in for my second playthrough.

[storm pelican]

^same, i finished it last night.... time for Indiana Jones and the Great Circle

[calm quiver]

true that, im softlocked on "the last step" mission cause Korshunov doesnt step out of the portal and I cant talk to him

[half torrent]

Yeah I think it's a good idea to come back once a-life is fully implemented for a second playthrough

[deft meteor]

for any stalker diehard, this is the perfect time to visit Chornobyl

there's literally invisible anomalies that blow up under your feet, and angry bandits that will shoot you on sight.

incredible

[icy ibex]

how do I get the ward role? :3

[deft meteor]

step one: have sex and choose an actual good faction

step two: id:customize ( #👥┃faction-choice for the lowbrained )

[weary hedge]

the colonel personally has sex with you if you join ward, fake news

[icy ibex]

nothing there that let's me get the role 🤷‍♂️

[deft meteor]

this is why i added the second part. you are lowbrained and do not know how to use the discord role editor😔

[lethal kelp]

what do i do with lex the legend?

[eternal garden]

luthor? presumably you take him to superman

[icy ibex]

ward is peak :3

[deft meteor]

peak but like, the mountain is actually gravel on a downhill road

[calm quiver]

fr the rest are clinically insane

[weary hedge]

I think the colonel's attitude is the best match for Skif.

The colonel is over everyones bullshit, Dalin, the monolith, the zone, noontide, spark, EVERYONE

Skif's dialogue reminds me of the colonel, just not as aggressive lol

it makes sense considering Skif was military, too

[haughty nova]

He doesn't have a 'quest' in the PDA, but there is progression to his story

[misty sonnet]

How late in the game do we eventually find the VSS pre ordered bonus gun?

[lethal kelp]

so leave the liar alive?

[haughty nova]

There's not much to him, so you can do what you want. But you'll have a chance to meet him again, after he disappears from Garbage

[deft meteor]

me when i have not beaten the game yet

[weary hedge]

Also, to add to this - if you watch the cutscenes, the colonel pretty much stands over Skif, and Skif at least in the actual cutscenes seems to back down like a soldier would to a superior, seems very natural in a sense for them

[icy ibex]

nah... being ward let's me get places faster :3

[icy ibex]

he was a soldier so it makes sense

[eternal garden]

“me when being a government wage slave who sells out the commoner gets you momentary benefit before they too kick you down to the proper rung you belong”

[deft meteor]

im going to touch you wardboy 🫵😡

[jolly canyon]

Swamp

[tacit jay]

Awesome, hope you enjoy. I might give that a download later.

[icy ibex]

ok :3c

[deft meteor]

😡

[weary hedge]

keep pushing, youll get there LOL

[eternal garden]

@icy ibex may the monolith reveal your own sins to you before it’s too late

[lost prairie]

Everyone in the zone sucks except the wish granter

[deft meteor]

no, i was making fun of you. korshunov is absolutely insane.

[weary hedge]

I know you were, but I completed the game twice now and I didn't really have anything else to say to your opinion lol

[icy ibex]

tbh... monolith seems cool, kinda like the Project at Edens gate dudes from Far Cry 5

[deft meteor]

monolith is cool as a concept but being a monolithian is worse than death.

you cant die.

[haughty nova]

The one insane thing is how they keep giving you second chances, after you slaughtered at least dozens of them

[eternal garden]

except it’s more life if every member of EG was off bliss. Monolith just strips you of your identity and free will. the neat thing is while you handle gun shot wounds without flinching and are immediately bestowed combat knowledge, you get to be fed illusions of whatever makes you happiest!!!

[weary hedge]

Does anyone else, during the Sircaa missions when you get sent by the colonel to the meeting room and meet that weird ass woman thats never seen again

I ALWAYS lie to her - But i've honestly no clue who she is or who she works for, whos side shes on, thus why i always lie, cause she could be some monolith goon for all i know

I mean, they dont even say who she is before or after sending you lmao she just walks out of the shadows with a monologue, asks a question, another monologue, gone forever

not all of us finished the first two stalkers lol i was like a kid when they came out so if they are relying on everyone knowing, its confusing

[dire tide]

Uhh... What is up with the caliber switch from 5.45 to 5.45 on Fora-221?

[icy ibex]

probably too late for me to side with them tho...

[eternal garden]

agatha? she’s present in the endings the art book says “not much is known besides the fact she’s behind the institutes strategic decisions.

[haughty nova]

yeah that interaction is so strange
I found her so unlikeable, that I decided to side with noontide 😄

[weary hedge]

my game crashed on the last ending when i alt tabbed, the first one i didnt remember seeing her

but yeah, its hella out of place with like, no context for what she says or who she is other than her name behind a subtitle

[haughty nova]

When she gives you a gun, I hoped that there would be an option to shoot her instead

[weary hedge]

and i dont remember ever seeing like, an outcome of lying to her either lol

its like she never comes up again - nor do your actions in that cutscene regardless of what you pick

which is why its odd, no context for her before, nothing after

[eternal garden]

can’t side with them, like i said, being monolith strips you of free will, you literally would not be able to play
@weary hedge well to explain what gets learned in the endings she basically ||is like the g-man of stalker, she works with the institute and has a lot of pull but she’s more so a representative for a group called the board who is seeking to somewhat reinstate a new ccon. hence why in the ward ending, it seems like the don’t do any of the space travel they discussed and seem to be brainwashing people into doing what they want||

[weary hedge]

hm, lemme finish ward ending today and see that one (doing it now)

[idle cedar]

Yall talking about the best ending?

[eternal garden]

also if you lie she plays your convo with strider but then says she won’t tell anyone, so she obviously doesn’t care much for sircaa, her goals are for ||the Board|| and nah best ending is the skif/||faust|| ending imo but we had a whole convo about that the other day so i’m not rehashing

[willow canopy]

how does this game run on all low settings

[weary hedge]

thats her playing the convo? i always assumed that was strider actually on the radio right at the worst moment lol

[eternal garden]

nah it’s the same convo you have in the penthouse, showing that she knows things that sircaa members don’t but i think her withholding the info from the col is what establishes her as a third party simply aiding the institute

[hexed bane]

I'd say thats in no small part due to your habit of repeatedly and successfully slaughtering platoons of men while also happening to be the guy who's really good at coincidentally finding what many factions consider the most important artifact in the current Zone

in the middle of the game a large group of merceneries talk to Scar through PDA about their plans to ambush and kill you to get your Ward badge and Scar essentially tells them "lmao you're gonna die". It wouldnt be a surprise to say other factions have deemed it smarter to give you second chances

[weary hedge]

or shes got Dalins room bugged

he does deliberately send you right there, too. hmm

[calm quiver]

is there a reason why richter basically seems to follow you around? dude is always at the right place at the right time, basically made me not trust him.

[hexed bane]

theres definitely a reason but trust me even the devs know that and eventually even Skif questions how in the hell he knows everyone 😭

[lethal kelp]

how many artifacts does a radiation prottection weak or medium or etc cover

[quick kernel]

Yes

[eternal garden]

once again, she obviously knows more than what sircaa themselves know and intends to keep all of them on tight leashes since i imagine to her, her goals take precedent over whatever dalin and the col were planning to do. But because of the implications of ||the board|| i imagine the Col and Ward are probably more so serving sircaa under orders by ||The Board|| since they definitely have people in powerful seats. She also expresses that ||The Board|| knew and had known about all the xlabs, ccon projects and tons of other stuff. They also imply they have some sort of ||manifestation|| tech since skif comments on being unable to smell her cigarette when she is talking to him.

[calm quiver]

I know a maximum rad protect will cover a strong and medium at least

[eternal garden]

i genuinely think dalins offering of his room was a genuine kindness since he himself probably is aware of most conditions in the zone

[weary hedge]

the colonel is definitely a pawn for someone but the story doesnt really go in depth on any of their 'true' motives, so you can't really tell at a glance who to side with.

i always assumed Ward was similiar to a government funded entity, sort of like Black Rock

[lethal kelp]

any more specific details? like does one weak proctection cover one weak rad? does 1 medium cover weak + weak?

[jaunty kite]

anyone had this weird phenomenon where you are slightly overweight but then all of a sudden you are overweight and can't move? really weird

[dire tide]

Check your inventory for guns spawning randomly

[quick kernel]

Yeah pretty sure weak radiation is canceled out by weak radiation protection. I think I'm running a weak and two mediums while having a max radiation protection one too

[jaunty kite]

nope no new guns, just out of nowhere overweight

[lethal kelp]

can i kull huron somehow? the b@57@rd trader in slagheap? always b!7ching about my loot

[dire tide]

SOMETHING must be adding weight to you then. Something must've spawned in your inventory

[eternal garden]

@weary hedge Both ward and sircaa are govt funded but the variable agatha adds makes me think it’s more like ||The Regulatory Board|| hires both sircaa and ward using people they probably have in government in order to retrieve certain things they want. All in return that sircaa can do their own research once ||The Regulatory Board|| gets what it wants. But i’m inclined that with the ward ending and their ||reestablishment of a neo C-consciousness and immediate use to surveil and control people|| implies that the Ward directly serves ||Board|| interests instead of sircaa. Which is also why i think the Col gets sick of dalin and sircaa haggling around instead of doing what they probably promised ||The Board|| and Agatha is there to supervise and ensure that their needs are the precedent. That’s how I feel they connect

[unreal reef]

Holy f*cking crap. The final Stalker 2 mission is went to insane difficulty spikes

[quick kernel]

That happened to me after malachite dude it increased ten fold

[idle cedar]

Whos "the board again"

Are you talking about the c-con

also whats the best wepons in yalls opinion

[hearty tendon]

This broken gun glitch is starting to get a little diabolical, I turned a corner in a graveyard in red forest and 7 broken sniper rifles spawned in my inventory

[jaunty kite]

it's more annoying than anything tbh

[unreal reef]

After SIRCAA it raises the difficulty stupidly, then again after Malachite THEN EVEN FURTHER ON THE FINAL MISSION

[quick kernel]

Yeah it is very nutty, feels unfair too. Like the second malachite happened every single mfer and their mother got exo suits for Christmas apparently

[unreal reef]

Been there. I was trying out a new rifle the other day when the second it was loaded, it was replaced with a piece of crap, then just as I was about to fire my new rifle, it happened again, THEN AGAIN DURING A GODDAMN FIREFIGHT 3 MINUTES LATER

[eternal garden]

||Agatha|| in one of the endings says that she doesn’t ||work for the institute|| and serves a group called the ||Regulatory Board|| and then goes on to say they have had knowledge about the ccon and all their related happenings since the beginning. All the way back in the OT and before the zone even formed. It’s also implied they bankrolled the IPSF and Ward to lock down on the zone and kinda stir trouble with the stalkers so they could operate

[idle cedar]

Are there diffent svu variants? I found a svu mk s-3

[dire tide]

Unless you count unique ones, then no.

[unreal reef]

I wanted to push through the final mission before I go to sleep, but I kept getting my ass kicked then handed to me the second I started encountering the ||Elite squad after killing Scar||
Died 20+ times to them

[idle cedar]

I hate that most the named wepons are dlc locked

Also what pistol is the best besides rihno?

[quick kernel]

Different variants would be sick tho. Like a paratrooper draganov and ak variants. I'd also love to see some more ar types too.

[eternal garden]

this isn’t true btw, there’s plenty of named uniques, you just need to find them

[idle cedar]

Ive found most. I have grom s-15, deadeye, buket s-2, splitter shahs mate,special,predator,clusterfuck,sofmod,glutton

[quick kernel]

I think rhino is just the peak that mfer insta kills with a headshot

[dire tide]

There's unique SVU, SVD, at least 2 unique AK's, unique FORA-221, at least 2 unique UDPs

[unreal reef]

In the last few missions, the goddamn enemies f*cking tank Rhino AP rounds

[idle cedar]

Most the other named wepons are story locked

[half torrent]

Speaking of unique weapons, I think my game is bugged, trying to get clusterfuck and After doing the stash mission the bullseye mission isnt't showing up

[idle cedar]

I passed up drowned to be nice and the uniqe scoped ak from the first base also the strange stalkers ar

Crazy how the ar gets 3 unique variants

[unreal reef]

Do we know if Stalker 2 is getting a NG+ mode?

[lethal kelp]

I am almost 100% sure the game just spawned in a gun into my inventory...

[eternal garden]

probably not anything like traditional new game plus. If anything, it’ll be maybe like a persistent zone mode but that would require a life to have fixes and a couple of other mechanical systems to be implemented in order for it to be compelling. So as it is right now, i’m leaning towards no

[weary hedge]

is veteran difficulty in stalker 2 even possible to beat on console

[idle cedar]

Yeah, unless your soft locked

[lost prairie]

why should you not give the m-scanner to nor? is nor just a massive nerd or something?

[weary hedge]

whats soft locked?

[idle cedar]

Means you cant progress the games story locking yourself out of completion

[eternal garden]

it’s literally just more difficult if you don’t. you get no koupons or a pripyat permit but the choice is there if you’d rather play an anti establishment skif

[lethal kelp]

I just had a m701 rifle slapped into my inventory??? in garbage

[dire tide]

Yeah. The ghost gun glitch.

[lethal kelp]

pls clarify

[dire tide]

Guns randomly spawning in your inventory for no reason at all. Usually broken

[lethal kelp]

so i throw it out?

[eternal garden]

@lethal kelp it’s a zombie gun glitch, zombie inventory pathway sets it to the player inventory on accident, just a glitch, sometimes you get yellow guns and can sell em but usually better to get rid of em

[dire tide]

That or you can sell them to Ragman if you don't mind carrying it all around. Or if they're yellow just sell them like you would any other gun.

[lethal kelp]

any advice on th elocked door in hlynka in garbage? theres a stash inside...

[compact violet]

wth are the green orbs of darkness lol

just ran into whatever that anomaly is

[eternal garden]

wandering lights arch anomaly it’s for weird water

[lost lava]

3rd crash during ending mission
at this point i just pray to monolith that save wont be broken

[lethal kelp]

any advice on the locked door in hlynka in garbage? theres a stash inside... there seems to be something nearby that makes me drowsy?? what is that?

i think there is a sleepy cat inside, but door is locked. anyone know where to get kjey?

[jaunty kite]

just beat the game and got the project y ending. shame we can't keep playing once you beat it

[wet valve]

what is in red fortress?

[night acorn]

What's better dhepro or khorn

[lethal kelp]

imo, its an ammo choice. depends on where you are, which ammo is more common

[ivory sorrel]

« Khorn » n change ur ammo type to 5.45x39

[idle cedar]

I wish they had named variants

[echo coyote]

we need a photo-mode

[idle cedar]

Think ima shoot for a ward ending and replay in a few months

[ivory sorrel]

Best choice by far

[frigid hill]

whendidig0 has been warned

Reason: Bad word usage

[idle cedar]

Ward ending?
Btw So weird you cant curse in the discord of a m rated game

[simple shard]

accidentally shot a spark during the monolith attacking malachite and now I've gone to meet Scar, but he's pissed and keeps shooting me even though he sounded friendly over radio, which normally I'd be fine with some betrayal but the game treats him like an ally and won't let me shoot him back dammit

[idle cedar]

Bug gotta reload unfortunately

[simple shard]

yea not too big a deal, just silly coming face to face with him and he stars blasting me with a gauss gun and all I can do is shoot an outline around him like in looney toons

[ivory sorrel]

Yea ward ending is the best (not for the story telling but for skif its good !)

[warm glade]

anyone know if its better to rock a helmet+suit or a combo suit?

[idle cedar]

True stalker ending is streloks

Probaly gonna be the cannon one for dlc

[ivory sorrel]

True stalker ending is skif, everyone else got big psycho issue (except the colonel)

[honest wind]

Is there a mod that would let me put the RNBW 2x scope on the Dnipro?

[lavish sierra]

But the zone shall never be free : (

[ivory sorrel]

Wym free ? Skif end is like the whole planete is the zone

[marble lintel]

As a duty Stan, I stand with ward watching everyone and dismantling the zone

[ivory sorrel]

Finally someone with a brain, yea dismantling the zone + a free house its a win win

[lavish sierra]

Replied to the wrong one my bad pimp

[marble lintel]

Watching everyone is a bit creepy but I mean ya know if they use it for good (more than likely not) that’s not bad…hopefully 😭

[idle cedar]

No thats skifs(scars) ending skifs(ward) end is the zone is destroyed and he gets a house

[ivory sorrel]

Well who care, its not ur problem any more ! Agatha is scary asf but u got a free house !

[marble lintel]

Scars ending just feels weird to me and idk, maybe out of character for him in clear sky.

Or I could be wrong but scars ending is just awful lol.

[ivory sorrel]

Scar ending is the most sadest shit by far, but anyway i can see dead ppl !

[idle cedar]

Scar turned into a monolithian/ agent of c-con at the end of stalker cs after stoping strelok

Also scar does what madarha was trying to do in naruto

[ivory sorrel]

N when i say skif ending i mean skif get into the capsule

[marble lintel]

Ahhhh thank you, I felt like I forgot but didn’t really know

[frigid hill]

goblin6layer has been warned

Reason: Bad word usage

[ivory sorrel]

Anyway, why we dont see any sign of clear sky in every stalker game except ofc some paper in the swamp :( wheres ma boii lebedev

[eternal garden]

scar was neuroprogrammed and the emissions didn’t help so he’s stuck in his delusions that the shining zone is real (and perhaps it is) but what he considers the shining zone is objectively not real and he refuses to see that

[plucky tinsel]

So I found an artifact in the sewers at the zaton hydrodynamics lab and when I came out both ward and stalkers were hostile. Does this hurt my rep with those factions or is it just scripted

[ivory sorrel]

No just a bug

[plucky tinsel]

I assume killing them though was probably not great for the rep then lol

[half torrent]

Let me try without the f word, how the heck am I supposed to kill faust when all these monilith people are spawning and making me waste all this ammo on the way to kill him

[eternal garden]

you don’t the game ends there. You actually can’t win, it’s a hopeless ending

[ivory sorrel]

Prepare more ammo ! 2k is a good number

[night acorn]

Man I took a fkn m6 and fora to try and kill monolithians when you meet the representative that was fkn stupid of me

[still edge]

i feel so bad for yeeting all the prime energy drink at the poppy field, and then i found the guy who left those , and he was depressed , i made a good stalker sad

[night acorn]

Shoot the lanterns and then aim for the one on his side

[quasi compass]

This is not good hunting stalker

[idle cedar]

It is for him just like the delusions of a madman

[half torrent]

okay thanks guys

[still edge]

i should get out of here

[night acorn]

Np took me a bit to figure out but good luck the fame crashes like forty times when you transfer to his mind frog world

[half torrent]

Oof let's hope not

[ivory sorrel]

Aim for the balls !

[idle cedar]

I like noontide except for scar hes like the dude that gets a pity invite

[radiant obsidian]

Does anyone know the threshold between when everyone in the entire zone gets a EXO suit for Christmas?

Is it the raid on the monolith base or the gear you actually wear

[flat otter]

Skyrim and fallout have entirely destroyed my impulsive control so I just sit there looking at loot wondering if it's worth dropping a clearly more valuable Ak for some more ammo and bread

[idle cedar]

Sad that only half the arch artifacts have any use

[radiant obsidian]

I’m sad we couldn’t ever join them or save them, always thought the glitched mission was preventing me from doing so but I’m not quite sure anymore

[flat otter]

Does weird flower actually even make a difference? Weird pot isn't worth the constant psi radiation, weird nut is very situational

[radiant obsidian]

Weird flower just isn’t worth it tbh

[cerulean socket]

So like, the Ward are objectively the good ones, right? They're attempting to bring law to the zone and the alternative are madmen

[flat otter]

Why take weird bolt when my armor alone negates most anomaly damage, it'd be fine if you got weird bolt first then it'd be a good clutch item but you get it fairly late into the game

[lost prairie]

Uh, ward are a bunch of nerds tho

[idle cedar]

Weird flower increases your stealth which is like useful twice
Aka when saving the spark guy

[red totem]

Just focus on Faust. It took me 2 minutes and like 120 rounds to kill him on veteran difficulty

[radiant obsidian]

Meh they tend to use the zone for their benefits but I think the scientists mean well but the military plan to use it for a weapon of their own

[cerulean socket]

Nuh-uh, they made peace and stuff, and monolith sucks

[idle cedar]

No ward whats to use the monolith a madsive psi installation for there own, noontide are the victims of said device and dont want them to repower it thus try to stop them and unfortunately fail too

[quasi compass]

When does stalker 2 branch off from our timeline (needed to know if skif could know the low taper fade meme?)

[radiant obsidian]

Though I kinda miss the old military faction tbh, dude am I the only one who thinks CORPS is one of the coolest new factions

[idle cedar]

The stalker timeline is just ours with a worse Chernobyl disaster

[cerulean socket]

Yeah but it doesn't matter if you're forced or not

Murder bad

Making any ex monolith incredibly untrustworthy as they could go back monolith and kill you because their stupid ahh rock said so

[radiant obsidian]

And spark… needs to loose them bright ass cammies

[toxic sky]

Dalin and a small handful of others have good intentions, sure. The Ward faction combined with SIRCAA overall is something comparable to MiliTech from cyberpunk however.

[idle cedar]

Its basically like what mk ultra was trying to do the monolith are "bad" against there will. Also the military is actively keeping them trapped within the zone

[queen summit]

Ward Tuah... Skif on that thang...

[radiant obsidian]

Is CORP not a faction???? I can’t find anything about them

[toxic sky]

Ward clearly employs people with the same moral compass as most Mercs, as well as condones such behavior based on just about every single Loner's account

[quasi compass]

My point proven

[radiant obsidian]

Oh and duty got done so dirty in this game unless I somehow missed a side mission I haven’t found a single one for them

[jade kraken]

Theres one where you listen to a guy be sad over his dead friends💀 that's it i think

[toxic sky]

Duty got totally overshadowed by the Ward, yeah.

[queen summit]

Ward took over duty essentially unless Duty becomes a main DLC faction

[radiant obsidian]

They may not be my favorite faction but cmon random scientist in malichite got ten times more missions then duty did 😭

[toxic sky]

Freedom got overshadowed by bandits. They don't do sht other than run Rostok now lmao

[half seal]

where roadmap at ?

[jade kraken]

Dw they wont for long

[frigid hill]

commiemommy17 has been warned

Reason: Bad word usage

[toxic sky]

I'm more of a Palace of Culture guy myself

[radiant obsidian]

Oh yeah so is Chornobyl getting finished in the future?

[idle cedar]

Fredom are bandits they signed a peace treaty with duty then backstabed them and took there base not to mention some of there people kill loners for loot

[radiant obsidian]

Do you know. The faction that runs that place. WHO ARE THEYYG

[serene stirrup]

so im at the point where you have to start choosing a side, and I think you’re supposed to be sympathetic to spark and noon but like. From Skif’s perspective, Dubny literally sent mercenaries to kill him that one time because of that controller. Meanwhile Ward has spared him even after I shot one of their men during the experiment. Spark haven’t actually told me if they have ANY plan for the monolith or the zone at all (just that “we can’t let them do anything with it!!), meanwhile Ward and SIRCAA do, one that in theory? is objectively is more beneficial for all (that said there’s no guarantee thus far they aren’t lying) but like cops are bad and theyre clearly doing human experiments so idk whats best to pick

[toxic sky]

They got that Monolit Drip

[ivory sorrel]

Anyway whats the différent between ward n military ? Because they dont like each other n at this point im a lil bit lost

[misty sonnet]

Just go rogue and kill everyone

[radiant obsidian]

I don’t think there’s much of a difference, the reason military has been removed entirely is because of the war in Ukraine and such

[serene stirrup]

can you...

[toxic sky]

Ward is an entity of the Ukrainian government and corporate interests. The Military (now IPSF) is like.... The UN said they'll put people on the border wall for some reason. That's my perception of it

[ivory sorrel]

Yea that what i thought too

[frigid hill]

lklutzl has been warned

Reason: Bad word usage

[idle cedar]

Ward is i believe a merc group under sircaa made of ex military

[winter roost]

will the n word get me wolfed

[radiant obsidian]

If you want to go against everyone get on streloks good side and do something at the end, but I’ll warn you scar is a little nuts

[toxic sky]

This is my two cents. Buuuuuut I believe the IPSF was originally going to be Russia. Before the devs 86ed that storyline.

[ivory sorrel]

« Streloks good side » hum something wrong in this sentence

[radiant obsidian]

Kinda what happens when you get brain washed, I dont even remember scar being that.. unwell, wait WHERE IS DEGTYAREV

[gloomy citrus]

He's in pripyat

[ivory sorrel]

Deggy went back to prypiat after he carry ur ass… to prypiat after ur fight against the colonel (btw his assault riffle mmmmh its like a god mod lol)

[gloomy citrus]

Cardan and Nitro are missing from Yaniv station even though they're supposed to be there according to good CoP ending.

[radiant obsidian]

Did I miss him?- huh weird he’s my favorite I’m so fake…

[serene stirrup]

does spark have like. any plan at all? it annoys me theyre asking skif to give up all the things ward and sircaa is promising and working on (despise how awful and shady they are) for... literally nothing? the only reasoning i have heard so far is "anything involving the monolith is bad". like what do you propose instead bro

[radiant obsidian]

Is corp an actual faction, because the Ferris wheel faction emblem is so dope

[gloomy citrus]

Whoever managing stalker wiki, they're still busy playing the game cuz I saw tons of characters from the previous games.

[worn dew]

Opinions on the spitfire? I feel it's kinda mid but maybe I'm missing a trick here.

[ivory sorrel]

Its military under coke

[radiant obsidian]

Oo the good kind of coke then, because I can’t find anything trace of them outside of the GAME WHYYY

[thick violet]

Exploring is PEAK, I just found a better suit than the SEVA because I got curious on why a specific anomaly was in a specific spot lmao

[radiant obsidian]

Oh that’s why I didn’t recognize him, deggy didn’t age so well 😔

[calm quiver]

yeah I went with the ward cause they actually explained stuff lol

[radiant obsidian]

I don’t like bald people so I defied ward, and since strelok is basically getting their wirh that widows peak I defied him too

[nova venture]

zalyssia is still bugged for me... :C

[radiant obsidian]

Wait, scars also bald. Huh my choices make sense now

[ivory sorrel]

« Scar i dont believe into ur bs but well i like hair so here we are »

[serene stirrup]

Literally, like yeah I hate the government and military as much as you buddy but your solution is just… continuing to have the zone just be a radioactive anomalous wasteland for people to die in? Kill everyone in the facility and leave the monolith sitting there because touching it is bad? It just seems like a childishly dumb alternative unless I’m missing something

[nova venture]

Skif is bald, 100%, the tradition of every MC having male pattern baldness must not go

[radiant obsidian]

Seriously still?, glad I didn’t play through the game again to check if it was make sure to reload the world by fast traveling or sleeping then check

[nova venture]

they either spawn inside the town hall or just....not at all

[serene stirrup]

I guess i should save and play both routes eventually. i dont like either but it seems like ward is the better choice for skif as a character. He’s ex military anyway, i doubt he has many qualms about that

[calm quiver]

but what about the beauty of the zone!
doesnt elaborate on what that actually means
proceeds to get drunk

[junior pendant]

I know one of the devs for stalker 2 is watching this chat. Can you please add Russian into the game? I’m tired of listening to Ukrainian. Thank you.

[ivory sorrel]

Chill richter

[radiant obsidian]

My solution was reloading to before I got to the town, walking to the front door and then walking all the way to the bar, going inside and start shooting monolith should slowly start seeping out and going to investigate don’t kill them all just try to flush them out

[worn dew]

His pistol specifically says that remembering his time in the army is painful, although that could mean a lot of different things.

[nova venture]

tried the same, like a lot of times

[frigid hill]

lklutzl has been warned

Reason: Bad word usage

[nova venture]

something funny is that the PDA says army but the knife he has is from the Ukranians marines

[worn dew]

There's a lot of contradicting stuff when it comes to Skif and it's annoying.

[radiant obsidian]

Tldr yeah even if you fix the bug you may get the glitch where if you finish saving them and walk ten feet out of the town you’ll get the “we’re all dead don’t come” message like I DID and I was so peeved because I spent hours trying to get the monolith out

[nova venture]

i want a mask overlay mod but like, not a resshade, perhaps in the future

[serene stirrup]

I thought it as more of a “painful wartime experiences” thing (hence why he tried to adopt a peaceful life in the mainland before his house was destroyed) rather than a thing of skif adopting anti military or authority views tbf

[ivory sorrel]

Man all i want is nightvision gen1-2-3 idm but pls

[worn dew]

Tbf you're probably right. But again, Skif's character is so everywhere-at-once that I couldn't tell you what means what.

[radiant obsidian]

My hair would also fall out if I had to deal with 20 dudes in exo suits every 10 seconds that suddenly appear behind my butt

[oak basalt]

all i want is a bloodsucker girlfriend

[thick violet]

you should join freedom

[idle cedar]

Ive been noticing some traders buy stuff for more or less is there like "best seller"?

[radiant obsidian]

Didn’t freedom blow up that bloodsucker hide out in COP?

[serene stirrup]

I honestly have no idea why the thing of Dubny hiring mercenaries to kill us just because we saw the controller was put in the game if we were supposed to consider them a decent choice

[thick violet]

🤷

[oak basalt]

all I know is they have good weed man

[nova venture]

I Have a freedomer oc, with two designs
one in 2012, and the other in 2021 (basically stalker cop and S2)

[cerulean socket]

Fun shark fact

Sharks have zero bones

[idle cedar]

It was optional so depends on the devs cannon ig

[radiant obsidian]

I’m now going to make a corp oc just because

[serene stirrup]

Wrong, it depends on how many fish they eat

[idle cedar]

Why? try to sell me

[nova venture]

Anyone wanna see him?

[thick violet]

weed

[oak basalt]

yea why should i stop being a loner

[cerulean socket]

My shark fact is ruined

Uh

Sharks urinate through their skin

[autumn plume]

dnipro or kharod?

[nova venture]

i remember joking about it using a homebrew race (shark demihuman) in a DND campaign, kind of a blast

[oak basalt]

did you hear about the volcano sharks @cerulean socket

[calm quiver]

I went with the dnipro

[ivory sorrel]

Ganja in Cs>

[cerulean socket]

I have! Very interesting thing

WHO PUT THE DRINKING EMOTE UNDER THAT

[oak basalt]

Kharod feels better to me

[ivory sorrel]

Kharod because x2 nato scope is fire, but switch ur ammo to 5.45

[simple shard]

A 3rd thunderberry lol, still no other legendaries except liquid rock
Bright side, I feel like the flash and 3 km is a breeze

[autumn plume]

i have plenty 5.56, but wouldnt the dnipro have more pen with the 7x62 upgrade?

[oak basalt]

i have ever only found thunderberrys and liquid rocks

[cerulean socket]

Today I mentally prepared myself to farm hours for thunderberry just as I had for liquid rock (7 hours) but ended up getting thunderberry first try

[idle cedar]

What mags does the as av have?

[autumn plume]

i was using clustefock and it is a pretty good all rounder

[oak basalt]

lead containers for max rad artifacts is so nice.

[ivory sorrel]

Well idk about the stat, just ar is more sexy than a bullpup

[serene stirrup]

I got thunder berry as like. The 4th artifact I ever got

[worn dew]

7.62x39 ammo is hard as eff to find. You can't buy it. Swapping the Kharod to 5.45 gives you a basically unlimited supply of ammo in the field. It's also got great recoil, accuracy and range.

[cerulean socket]

I can't wait to get Rat Killer

[quasi compass]

Is that liquid rocks plural?

[oak basalt]

yes I have found 2 of each so far i think

[ivory sorrel]

I just want 4 Mozilla firefox artifact n 1 liquid rock :(

[radiant obsidian]

Oh I’m so pissed off that the bullwark exo suit doesn’t get a sprint upgrade, it’s so cool looking 😔

[hoary crest]

Thats unlucky ngl, though it took me goddamn ages to get the Compass to drop despite getting quite a lot of the other legendary ones

[radiant obsidian]

Not saying the gas mask original design looks bad. But I just look like everyone else

[oak basalt]

Yea its whatever, ive done pretty well over my 50 hours. i usually only sell my artifacts unless it's really usefull or unique in some way.

[autumn plume]

its better the coupled mags or the extended ?

[ivory sorrel]

Extended

[cerulean socket]

I ended getting the Diamond Exo before even going to wild island via Pripyat

[calm quiver]

interesting I feel like the coupled mags are better

[radiant obsidian]

Extended but you get extra swag points for coupled

[idle cedar]

Whats thunderberry do?

[worn dew]

Coupled is a faster reload. Extended is more bullets per mag. It's your choice.

[oak basalt]

max END and MAX RAD

[hoary crest]

Yeah its the best move tbh, a lot of them arent very good, hope they get a total overhaul down the line

[half torrent]

is there a genuine way to tell if there's going to be an emmission soon or no?

[ivory sorrel]

Well 1time its better n the second one is a normal reload so, i dont like quantic magazine, i prefer 10 more round

[autumn plume]

ok im changing the kharod to 5.45 i just realized i have 839 armor piercing in that caliber

[oak basalt]

If it looks like the apocalypse outside there is a emission coming

[radiant obsidian]

From what I seen nope, but isn’t that fun being miles in the woods and there’s zero chance to make it back and your save is from 10 minutes ago

[idle cedar]

So zalinsiya is a lost cause mono spawned inside and i cant get in

They just stand around and do nothing

[oak basalt]

Yea thats the same for me too, apparently there were some new oversights that broke it again.

[radiant obsidian]

You have to bait them out with gun fire or walking around what I did was go into the old bar and shot a couple of rounds, but it’s all luck based tbh

[serene stirrup]

Why does my fully upgraded Deadeye have worse stats than my fully upgraded regular UDP?? It can’t be the suppressor right? Do the stat bars even actually mean anything

[hoary crest]

They were invited in for drinks and like any bad house guest, didnt get the memo its time to leave lol

[autumn plume]

now comes the true question, underbarrel granede launcher or underbarrel shotgun?

[normal void]

Gotta love how there's a bunch of unique items past the point of no return and no ng+
Actually lame as hell

[calm quiver]

wait til you find out about skifs pistol

[worn dew]

If you wanna carry a sniper with you, bring the shotgun. If you don't, just carry a shotgun and run the grenade launcher.

[oak basalt]

grenade launcher on a sniper, I hate the shotgun it feels like shit

[hoary crest]

Grenade launcher is much stronger, but ammo availability is very low. Though the shotgun is hella economical on weight and ease of running the thing

[cerulean socket]

People who don't use the rhino are insane, it destroys mutants

[oak basalt]

i just use a sniper with AP rounds for the mutants

[worn dew]

Same reason a 9x18 gun does more damage than a 5.45 gun. Balancing sucks in this game lol

[radiant obsidian]

Ikr I would’ve loved to use that cool red dot dnipro they could’ve AT LEAST rewarded it after

[autumn plume]

i use the hunter sniper, i dont know if theres a better one

[serene stirrup]

Snipers kinda useless in a lot of situations ngl, for me so far it’s rare to be in a position both far enough away and safe enough to use one. Rifle and fastest shotgun you can find seems to be the easiest way to deal with stuff

[hoary crest]

Revo with buckshot conversion is gnarly against mutants, its true lol, also it weighs like nothing compared to a shotgun

[normal void]

That or the armor you get for exploring the generators

[calm quiver]

yeah once a-life gets implemented snipers will be much more useful

[oak basalt]

I want a 338 sniper but maybe thats over kill

[autumn plume]

hunter

[oak basalt]

I thought that was 308?

[worn dew]

That's 308. .338 is a much more powerful cartridge. Lol.

[radiant obsidian]

Still seething about my monolith daddy dying 😔

[autumn plume]

my bad

[oak basalt]

its all good, but it would be cool, does anyone actually use the RP 74?

[worn dew]

It's not that great. I carried it for a while but the weight-to-effectiveness ratio is trash.

[radiant obsidian]

On a save I use it for fun, but it’s practically making you loose all your money

[autumn plume]

same

[oak basalt]

that what I thought it felt way to heavy to feel worth carrying

[frigid hill]

hades_exodus has been warned

Reason: Bad word usage

[radiant obsidian]

I miss the good ol AN 94, or a lot do the guns tbh

[worn dew]

AN-94 would be siiiiiick

[oak basalt]

I wish there was a better 5.45 weapon like the AK the dnipro is cool and all but another AK variant would be nice

[knotty hatch]

i found this weird anomaly on the far eastern border of Yaniv, it's like a green space anomaly with no interactions. Anyone know what it might be?

[cerulean socket]

Currently I'm running the Fora with the Seiga and Rhino

[radiant obsidian]

Hopefully when they implement mod.io like they did with the other stalker games on console there will be actual mods and not, just fixes

[idle cedar]

Do mods work on the gog release i use it cause i like offline download

[cerulean socket]

I'm gonna switch the Fora for Rat Killer when I get to that point in the main quest

[worn dew]

Not an AK variant but obviously the Kharod is nasty.

[oak basalt]

I think one of the more disturbing anomalies is outside of Malachite base, the orb just floating in the lake is just so ominous.

[radiant obsidian]

The Kharod with iron sights looks so sick but once you put a holo sight on it, it just turns into a block

[worn dew]

The Zubr is the best gun in the game IMO. 🤷🏻‍♂️

[hoary crest]

Can't wait till someone mods in the Mod.1 from Tarkov 😄 You know people gonna go crazy with gun mods over the next few years lmao

[cerulean socket]

I feel like SMGs as a whole are super powerful

[willow canopy]

do yall think someone will make a mod for coop in story or what

[radiant obsidian]

The G3 looks sick once you put the right mod on it but for some reason they made it early game so it’s dog in late game 😔

[worn dew]

I'm actually blown away by the Buket. Waaaaay better than I thought it'd be.

[oak basalt]

The vector feels like im shooting a buzzsaw

[cerulean socket]

My favourite early game weapon is Special, I always merc that fker and sell the second one

[radiant obsidian]

Smgs have really good penetration and honesty that’s all you really need in late game since monolith have thick skulls

[worn dew]

I wanna like the spitfire but the stats are awful.

[oak basalt]

whats everyones fav weapon overall in the game, one and one only, can be unqiue variant as well.

[misty sonnet]

I've always been a sucker for the good ol AK, so I'm running the one with the grenade launcher underneath.

[radiant obsidian]

It’s just a unique ak IM SO PISSED that the akm didn’t get a single actual unique variant that at least gave it a stock

[toxic sky]

Whip

[strong sequoia]

Just a simple Kharod enjoyer. Single or Full auto it gets the job done. Also with a scope it doubles as a poor mans sniper.

[worn dew]

Trophy.

[cerulean socket]

Rhino

[rough cypress]

Found the cube worth 70k, died, went back, found a jellyfish worth 12k. Fml

[radiant obsidian]

Sotnyk but you can’t keep it 😔

[oak basalt]

SOFMOD is pretty fun

[misty sonnet]

No one mentioned the VSS, aren't they any good in S2? I haven't got it yet.

[timid aurora]

I don't know what they're cooking over there at GSC, but this next update is going to be massive. Be prepared for a large update download.

[worn dew]

Awful penetration, great looking gun.

[rough cypress]

What makes you say that? I haven’t been here in a few days

[oak basalt]

yea I feed it AP rounds @worn dew

[worn dew]

10/20 rounds aren't enough for me with how effing slow Skif reloads.

[radiant obsidian]

Dude the dlc guns look so cool but I don’t want to spend another shiny penny for it 😔

[oak basalt]

they are nice the duty vector is nasty

[rough cypress]

Pretty annoyed the ultimate edition comes with different guns than the deluxe edition.

[toxic sky]

Drowned is neat if you like blue tape.

[oak basalt]

Whats everyones fav suit/armor

[radiant obsidian]

I’m annoyed that any cool gun and armor is locked behind a paywall buuuut you need to give incentive to buying it so I understand

[rough cypress]

Which weapons are you referring to being cool? I’ve only seen monolith weapons and armor.

[oak basalt]

the duty skinned vector

[ebon blade]

No Spoilers chat is in red. Spoilers chat is in green. Just a reminder if you do not know. You are in the green zone. Thanks.
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[radiant obsidian]

Bulwark exo suit, but since you can’t run in it the diamond exo

[thin onyx]

where am I suppossed to go when monolith is attacking zallissia I was still hearing gaffers comms as I entered the town and can hear shooting but no matter where I run I cant find anyone like they sound like shots in the town so I run in then they sound outside of it, the emmission shelter door is locked

[oak basalt]

they all in the church drinkin and smokin

[radiant obsidian]

Lullaby, Riemann, margach the HUNTER so cool

https://game8.co/games/STALKER-2-Heart-of-Chornobyl/archives/484338

[oak basalt]

i just cant wait for mutliplayer if it ever happens

[cerulean socket]

Looks = duty exo suit
Performance = Diamond

[mystic egret]

is there lore behind why dogs were without any hair in every stalker game and now they have their hair back?

[robust raft]

Why why why does the game still have story breaking bugs after these patches. W.T.F man. Im still dealing with the zalissya bug

[timid aurora]

I watch their SteamDB. Source: https://steamdb.info/app/1643320/depots/?branch=release_candidate

[radiant obsidian]

They need to add the run mod to every exo it’s so annoying

[mystic egret]

you can't run in exo in this game?

[spice crane]

yeah i've given up playing until it's fixed. why is this game so broken?

[radiant obsidian]

You can but only in the bulky ones (the original one from the old games) but there’s better looking ones that I wish I could run in

[robust raft]

Even the old games werent this bad. I remember SoC and clear sky being clean runs

[mystic egret]

story breaking?

you mean the zalissja side mission?

@radiant obsidian that's a shame tbh, do exos even increase carry capacity further?

[spice crane]

it's completely broken. supposedly you can get a mod and use console commands to kill all the enemies and get past it. im waiting for a legit fix though. and there's a bunch of "methods" on youtube to lure enemies to the town. I've tried it all. It's broken.

[radiant obsidian]

Specific ones do

[mystic egret]

yeah i got the mission done without side quests and when they asked me to go back and help them i just couldnt, there were monolith inside the base, but hey still got the achievement for the first half of the quest

[radiant obsidian]

Pfft if you played day one you’d say otherwise

[cerulean socket]

Thankfully I was able to do defence of Zalissya with minimal bugs today

My headcanon for the passive monolithians is they resisted monolith's call and rushed to the aid of victims

[robust raft]

Yes, all the people im supposed to talk to do not give me dialog besides them still thinking im there to ask whats going on in the zone OR to trade. I cant even talk to stalkers that need help. Last thing i saw before i just got off was all monolith spawned inside the church with all the stalkers and people i need to talk to. Finally too the door is locked AGAIN. @radiant obsidian i was there in ‘07 two weeks after lol

[mystic egret]

i had exact same problems tbh but still managed to complete the first half of it after you just venture off in the hut

shame you cant complete the second part but you will get the achievement

[robust raft]

Yeah. Imma just wait

[mystic egret]

it was frustrating for sure but all i cared about was the achievement that i didnt expect

but it is embarrasing to have this in the game after 3 REALLY REALLY BIG patches

[radiant obsidian]

I did hate the two main bugs I ran into but shiiit I had fun playing though the game anyways

[torpid yarrow]

Use unreal editor and use no clip to get inside no clip into bunker across from church kill hamster then talk to the guy in church

[robust raft]

Over what 30gb patches. Unreal sucks right now. Probably going to avoid future games that use it maybe. Im trying to do the final three runs, but damn im not looking forward to pripyat again

[mystic egret]

i wish devs would also buff certain guns and change the way recoil works, the gunplay is 4/10 due to how many guns are pretty bad, lack of diversity and very strange sensitivity (assuming that's from fps changes)

[cobalt haven]

Great, Korshunov just froze standing

[autumn plume]

is there a way to get a better scope on the gauss?

[storm pelican]

i dont think so, you cant modify it at all from what i see

[robust raft]

Thats always been a problem with the stalker games. Youd think theyd know whats up by now.

[robust raft]

Cant talk to him, no dialog unless i ask whats new in the zone

[mystic egret]

played all 3 base games and honestly they felt much better in terms of gunplay

AKs were hitting and enemies also dropped more ammo, walking from garbage would already let me carry 1.5k bullets

here u have gordon which shoots insanely fast but its pebbles that do no damage with insane recoil, bad accuracy and breaks pretty fast

[cerulean socket]

I'm heading out for the night, good hunting stalkers