☢┃stalker-general

[jade kraken]

Wearing an exo really doesn't feel any different than any other armor

[dusky sonnet]

it does to me, it sounds different, and you see your exoskeleton arms

[weary hedge]

Ahh yes, but you see, South Africa is actually one of Ukraine's (& Russia's) major ally, so expect alot of us to be there.

South Africa & anything slavic are like two peas in a pod.

[mellow stag]

make sure to use artis n take cover exo suits are not power armor 😊

[jade kraken]

Sound always bugs out and wow i have arms

[dusky sonnet]

Well, my sound is fine

[jade kraken]

Good for you

[dusky sonnet]

Realistically, i dont think exos would be very good for zone conditions, with all its exposed servos, and it sticking out so far from your body, i can imagine lots of gunk and snagging going through the zone

[weary hedge]

What builds are y'all when it comes to Assault Rifles?

• Sniper - Optimized for accuracy & long range engagements.

• Combat - Optimized for alot of damage & speed, with reduced accuracy. Effective at Short-Medium ranges.

• Balanced - Both accurate, and fast, like 50/50, more or less.

[mellow stag]

sniper it saves money 💰

[digital parcel]

either combat or balanced

[visual anchor]

combat i prefer bolt-action rifles

[dusky sonnet]

I have an actual sniper as my other primary already, so no need to make my rifle into one

[quick compass]

Spend few big bullets killing things vs spamming lots of small bullets

[heady wind]

Clusterfuck with AP ammo holds up to the ending

[weary hedge]

Same! Plus, although the Combat build is friggin effective, the problem is Ammo. 💀

With a sniper build, I rely on headshots & accuracy most of the time. Saves alot of money & racks me up more kills too, all while being a pain in the arse to my enemies.

[digital parcel]

high pen SMGs are also very nice i find, accurate even when dumping the mag

[weary hedge]

does anyone know where you can find a suppressor for snipers or ars?

[floral stag]

SMG's are pretty fun ammo spindy but fun

[boreal coyote]

@mellow stag mate this weird water thing is ret*rded, i dunno wtf i am doing wrong it doesnt spawn

[mellow stag]

like sure you can spend the same amount of money buying 250 rounds for a viper compared to same price getting 10 rounds of 308 but idk 🤷‍♀️ just feels like i use less ammo n save more money with single shot weapons like snipers

[weary hedge]

Some call it an SVD, others call it a Dragunov, but there's one thing we all know; It's damn effective, and scary in your enemy's hands. (Especially on high difficulties)

[mellow stag]

i know its super hard to find make a quick save at 10 pm n if u cant find it by daylight reload n try looking again i found mine near the big rock in the middle thats half in the dark

[granite patio]

Why’s it so hard to find 7.62x39 ? I’ve went to all the vendors and none of whom sell any at all, makes it almost pointless to upgrade the Dnipro

[quick kernel]

Speaking of smgs the Vityaz would be a pretty nifty gun to add

[floral stag]

Yeah, I know it's a waste of ammo, but Man is it fun just a pepper spray a blood sucker with thousands of bullets to death

[mellow stag]

or ppk 🧐

[digital parcel]

or PPSH-41

[quick kernel]

In Rostok if you sleep then go back to the vendors their stock can change I've found so maybe if you reset it that'll change something

[granite patio]

I’ll give it a try thanks for letting me know

[mellow stag]

prypiat sells it for sure yanov vendor maybe also has it

[lost lava]

All u need is saiga with full auto and drum magazine

[mellow stag]

hold tf up there is a drum mag for saiga in game? 😂 fk me where?

[digital parcel]

only one i've found is in the final missions where you're story locked

[quick kernel]

Fortunately 9mil is common as all flip, that shi is everywhere.

[lost lava]

Yes, there is. Problem is that i have no idea where to find it BEFORE point of no return.

[mellow stag]

oh well by then i have texan so 🤔 which u think has more dps?

[weary hedge]

@frigid hill Bro, do you seriously have to spam me, IN DMS?

Dude, I love Wolf because he's so cool! But the robo version is annoying. 😭

[digital parcel]

running into a room and mowing down multiple monolith mooks with a 20 round mag has a certain appeal

[quick kernel]

I wonder if they'll let us use the backup sights on the g36 and the 2x red dot, there's some times where I found myself desiring less of a zoomed in perspective

[weary hedge]

Grenades

[plain jewel]

At least it isn't Hawaiian.

[weary hedge]

Huh? The only people who remind me of Hawaii are Freedom.

[violet abyss]

Any news on updates yet guys?

[plain jewel]

The barman at Yanov station in COP and this one is literally called Hawaiian. 🙂

[mellow stag]

nope not yet but if there is they will be posted in announcements

[violet abyss]

Sad times but thanks

[plain jewel]

And, in COP at least, he'd greet you with "ALOOOOOOOOOOOOHA!!"

[digital parcel]

best greeting for stalker bar is: i said come in, don't just stand there i said come in, don't just stand there

[plain jewel]

No no no. It's "Come on over brooooo. I got all the sh******t you're evveerrr gonnaaa neeeeeeed!" xD

[dusky sonnet]

get out of here stalker. get out of here stalker. get out of here stalker.

[digital parcel]

thats for Rostok, not the bar though

[dusky sonnet]

didnt say it was

[paper crystal]

How much more story do I have…on “legends of the zone”

[boreal coyote]

i think its just broken ive reloaded the save like 20 times lol

10/10 game

[alpine plinth]

Does anyone know why the weapons on the ultimate edition or deluxe edition some of them say that they are transferable to multiplayer I’m on Xbox by the way

[dusky sonnet]

itll be transferrable to multiplayer, whatever year that releases

[alpine plinth]

Ok because I noticed that it said it was transferable to online and I was like what

[signal eagle]

Anyone else's game crashing when getting pulled into a vortex anomoly?

[alpine plinth]

No

[wintry mulch]

#📜┃gsc-answers message

[alpine plinth]

Mine does freeze up a little bit, but then it unfreezes itself so it might depend on were it is

[dusky sonnet]

you got a weird bolt artifact? heard it causes crashing on emissions and i think anomalies like that too

[boreal coyote]

i appreciate that bro but fk me they've known about it for 8 days, wtf ae they doing over there? no patches in forever but we're getting announcements in here for trailers?? YOUR GAME IS OUT LADS we dont need trailers ffs we need it to work

[signal eagle]

I have wierd nut on me, I have a wierd bolt but its in storage. Im at clear sky base

[hearty bough]

It only crashes if you have previously examined it iirc

[boreal coyote]

10/10 game

[frosty sparrow]

Going for weird water artifact soon. Haven’t had much time to game lately

[boreal coyote]

hopefully it isnt broken for you too

[frosty sparrow]

I tried to get a carry weight artifact at a legendary site but it gave me a regular one! I was so angry

[digital parcel]

Nightstars are pretty rare

[frosty sparrow]

I was looking it up on YouTube, so I went there and got a basic booster. Maybe I have to keep reloading before to see if it spawns

[digital parcel]

artefacts are random from the pool what can spawn in what type anomaly

[wintry mulch]

I think my first or second artifact was a legendary. I was quite surprised!

[vague yew]

the weird flower?

[frosty sparrow]

Aren’t some of them at some locations hard spawns though?

[digital parcel]

the altered items are hard spawns, artefacts are pool depending on anomaly type

[wintry mulch]

Liquid Rock. "Max" chemical and rads protection.

[frosty sparrow]

I have to try to find a nice carry weight booster. Already have weird ball and going to get the weird water later!

[digital parcel]

Spring is pretty common, and you only need to offset med radiation

[warm hawk]

Do I need to start a new game after applying the patch for the fixes to take effect? I started the game on release day and have been installing patches regularly. Yesterday, I was rescuing Zalissye from Monolith, and this mission is still bugged. In patch 1.0.3, I see the fix "Fixed an issue where the NPCs Hamster and Ricochet would die after trying to enter a building during the mission On the Edge." However, I still had problems triggering this mission (gaining access to the building), and when I finally managed to, Hamster was already dead. And inside the building, there were Monolith soldiers I couldn’t shoot at (both factions were standing with their weapons drawn).

[frosty sparrow]

Yes I have to get more of them. I have the seva suit

[digital parcel]

you need an artefact with med radiation protection to not need to chug vodka or overdose on antirads

[frosty sparrow]

If I pay for a guide to find an artifact. Do they give you good locations for good artifacts or is it the same as I find them myself?

[wintry mulch]

Or a suit with a lead container

[frosty sparrow]

Can I upgrade my seva d suit for that? Or do I need to find that item first?

And anyone know when a patch is getting released? They have been talking about it for 2 weeks now

[lucid roost]

yeah, Zally defense is still mega bugged even on 1.03. which is why I'm taking my time on a new playthrough.

[warm hawk]

Great that they fixed Hamster’s death, but didn’t fix the mission triggering itself
EDIT: Or actually, they didn’t even fix that, because he still dies anyway 😄

[frosty sparrow]

I always said they should’ve released a beta so that way they can release the updates earlier. But guess what, that didn’t happen.

[warm hawk]

it is a beta but for full price

[dire basin]

Is it me, or does the AR416 (HK416) need a buff? It's just kind of bizarre to me that the only advantages are accuracy, dispersion, and a bit of cyclic rate while the disadvantages are more significant:

• Bullet Drop
• Repair Cost
• Significantly less damage per ammo weight
• An extra 9 shots to kill a blood sucker!?
• Significantly less ammo drop vs 5.45
• Only 1x optics until much later in the game

[frosty sparrow]

For the ppl that preordered, they’re should’ve have been an earlier time so this would be all fixed. But I guess it doesn’t matter anyways cuz ppl will still play regardless

[nocturne hatch]

is the In The Name of Science bugged ?

[paper trail]

Its a promise we bought and we are trusting this promise

[frosty sparrow]

Can’t trust anything

[paper trail]

Thats your pitty World view. Everyone who bought this promise know that they are taking a risk

[warm hawk]

You're right, but if word got out about the game's state, a lot of people would probably have skipped buying it. For example, I would have returned my copy long ago, but unfortunately, I went for a physical edition, so I can’t return it.

[frosty sparrow]

It’s not a pitty view. A lot of ppl are out they’re to get ppl. Thats just the way humans are, generally speaking

[paper trail]

Just because there are people out there doesn't mean everyone is that way. People need to decide on an individual basis what to trust and what not. Not trusting anyone because there are black sheep is a weak mindset. It's actually an unstable and helpless mindset.

[frosty sparrow]

Wouldn’t matter, I think it would actually helped since there would have been improvements before they actually released it

[boreal coyote]

@frosty sparrow you're absolutely right, you cant trust sh*t anymore and for anyone to believe different must have their head so far up their own arse 🤣

[frosty sparrow]

No it’s not, it’s common sense, this is why millions of ppl are ripped off daily.clearly you don’t have any, go ahead and trust everyone and see what happens to you eventually. Compared to what happens to me!

[paper trail]

Nice strawman. I literally said you need to decide on an individual basis and not trust everyone Willy nilly. But hey make your World up as you want. I am old enough to know who to trust and who I give a chance to trust with a calculated chance of failure I am willing to accept.

[frosty sparrow]

You clearly have no common sense 🤣🤣 nice kid. Don’t message me back child

[paper trail]

[frosty sparrow]

Guess he doesn’t know how to listen either. 👍 has to be a young punk kid.

[paper trail]

[lucid roost]

i am devoid of trust except only to the monolith

[zealous goblet]

wens patch 4?

[lucid roost]

i am going to cosplay a monolinthian in a convention soon and i must get a patch for it

😩

[frosty sparrow]

Def a young punk, that doesn’t know how to shut his mouth. 👍 grow up child. You have been blocked, I don’t even know what you’re saying. 🤣🤣

[paper trail]

[hybrid scroll]

Man, are people crying again.

[dusky sonnet]

the game for some reason took 2 hours to realize that I switched my lean button from toggle/hold to hold, and randomly decided to do what I asked it to do

I've never seen a keybind take 2 hours to activate after setting it lmao

[hybrid scroll]

Game decided to surprise you, zone always keeping you on your toes

[frosty sparrow]

Don’t know, just wondering when they’re going to fix stuff

[lucid roost]

i am 50/50 towards the status of bugs in the game

on one hand, its a mess. on the other, it spawned a gp37 dual mag in my inventory. oftentimes, it just spawns weapons.

[ancient storm]

Braindead take, obviously never been in the real world

[hybrid scroll]

I guess they will when they do 🤷🏼‍♂️ until then I'll enjoy the game as it is. If it gets better then that's great. If not, I've beat it twice and have over 100 hours in. So I got my money's worth imo.

[frosty sparrow]

Nice

[storm token]

is nexus down?or is it just me?

[boreal coyote]

yeah its down

[lucid roost]

pretty much my way of playing. when im going to a quest, i make sure to have as many detours as i can possibly get. i paid good money for this game so i am going to experience every pixel it can offer as much as i can

[storm token]

oh i see it rn. is it a big down?

[paper trail]

So Nuance and differenciated thinking is brain dead for you interesting take. I will remember that. @ancient storm

[hybrid scroll]

I like in game procrastinating. Lots of things to see in the game. Lots of little hints and references in the zone.

[dusky sonnet]

every time i go anywhere i tag all the stashes along the way, somehow theres always more of them

[mellow stag]

ur fine its pretty hard to find it doesnt show a white dot u literally have u just click in the dark n yes i know that is verrry dumb design lol

[lucid roost]

yes! if not for procrastinating, i wouldn't have seen this beautiful sight: https://discordapp.com/channels/504587323577729024/524231625039413249/1316755768397004841

i love it when the game bugs out like that

[frosty sparrow]

Do they stash locations disapppear after you gather them? Because I seem to hit some in already got

[hybrid scroll]

That's happened to me before. If I hit a stash then recieve some kind of tip about it I have to go back to it to make it disappear from the map.

[gilded wharf]

They come up as empty after looted. 👍🏻
no disappearance

[frosty sparrow]

Well that’s aggravating

[frosty sparrow]

Does it say it on the map? I haven’t seen that.

[gilded wharf]

They will. Any stash you loot after discovering will be grayed out in icon and marked “Empty”

[steel lance]

What the hell. It's taking them a long time to release this patch. I'm tired of these random spawns ruining my immersion.

[frosty sparrow]

Mine are still white. Weird

[lethal kelp]

what is the anomaly in the bridge of cordon?

[boreal coyote]

just teleports you to the top of the bridge

[mellow stag]

a portal

[gilded wharf]

Spatial, its a callback anomaly.

[dusky sonnet]

that means you missed something, its probably an item in that area, a gun, an armour

[frosty sparrow]

So it’s pointless essentially?

[paper trail]

If you find the loot before you got the "clue" to find it. It will be marked on your map via the clue and you will find it empty when you go there again. The loot will not refill.

[boreal coyote]

theres a couple bags to loot up there but basically pointless, yeah 🤣

[dusky sonnet]

it grays out once youve found everything there is to find, handy indicator to know if i missed anything

[frosty sparrow]

Do you guys think they should add 3rd person view so you can see better while you parkour? I’m not used to first person view whole parkouring around

[boreal coyote]

mine just disappear off the map when looted

[boreal coyote]

doubt they will, older games didnt have 3rd person. someone might make a mod

[frosty sparrow]

Ok just wondering, I’m not used to it anymore since they have 3rd person view in games now as well

[oak sparrow]

Any update on alife?

[mellow stag]

treat stalker as its own experience dont try to relate it to other games or expect it to be like other games and you will enjoy it more

[frosty sparrow]

That’s not my problem or point.
Its for the parkouring around so see how close I am to the edge for jumping and stuff

[maiden cradle]

"long time"... the game hasn't even been out for a "long time", buddy

[mellow stag]

fair enough mods will add 3rd person with time 😊

[frosty sparrow]

I can look down here the edge is at the same time I see where the other side is I’m jumping to lol

[sudden mango]

Yo what happen if i show Usual Pda to Monolithian ?

[bright prism]

I wish we could obtain certain endgame weapons earlier.

[fickle mauve]

any news on when alife is fixed?

[mellow stag]

ur helping em u dont get anything persay but at end of quest line u get unique svd

[sudden mango]

and what if i show usual pda to everyone

[mellow stag]

to ward if u want a ward gun n scar to be pissed at u, show to scar to continue his quest n that just leads u to monolith regardless of ur choice u will have a new gun and end up at wild island all depends who u want to side with the guns dont matter u will get better very soon

[sudden mango]

so that's mean i cannot leave wild island ? but yeah i also want to show this to stinder but if i choose to show them so i end up like this ?

[mellow stag]

u can leave the island anytime u want there is no anomaly or death barrier ur fine if u also wanna show it to strider

[sudden mango]

okay so that's mean show or don't show it nothing happen right ?

[mellow stag]

yes

[rapid matrix]

#alifewhen

[mellow stag]

2033

[stark crescent]

if you think about it, the zone, being all deadly n stuff, your biggest threat are other humans. i sometimes get boring in the game honestly. the zone doesnt change. i think that is the biggest problem right now. the zone remains the same. when you do specific quest it says "yea, this area got anomalies after an emission".

which anomalies? i scouted that area 5 days ago, there were 3 emissions in hte meantime, nothing changed.

quests say that anomalies appeared after an emission. changing stuff up. like that sultan mission. no it hasnt changed at all. theres no programming in this game that spawns in random anomalies. this game isnt set up for multiple play throughs. because the first playthrough, is equal to your last. once you played through the game, it becomes boring. cause you experienced everything. theres no change.

[steel lance]

Dude, first of all, this game shouldn't even be having half of these amateur problems. Any time they take is long.
I don't understand what's wrong with you guys licking a naughty developer's balls.

[stark crescent]

i agree, on some points. the main quest had game breaking bugs. whatever the case may be, the main quest should be the one and only thing that should be experienced bug free. and then it took them 3 patches to fix zalissya. which technically still isnt totally fixed.

any tester running through the game would have noticed the bug with the doctor. it simply means they didnt test it thorougly enough. even with the war going on, they decide when it was ready to be released. it was not yet ready to be released.

[steel lance]

I started having problems there in the Monolith region, then I went to Zaton and stopped. The oversupply and random spawns and sudden crashes in Series X made me quit.
I just think they had the support of the entire community and everyone would understand if they postponed it one more time, but it seems like M$ always likes to shit things.

[sudden mango]

Hell yeah time to eat pop corn

[wintry mulch]

Money sadly don't appear out of thin air. There's only so long you can keep a game in development until you need the income from sales to keep paying the developers.

[mellow stag]

i think u misunderstood the game any time an emission occurs artifacts have a chance to respawn anomalies slightly move locations like from side of the road to middle of the road it does not create new anomalies where there was not one to start. hope this clears things up for you 😌

[rough cypress]

My AK with PS ammo made it thru SIRCAA but I’m quickly seeing it won’t last much longer. what do I move to next?

[static prawn]

I'm still getting media pings 🙂

[mellow stag]

i went to 308 sniper but if u like ak style guns go dipro

[rough cypress]

I appreciate being able to go full auto if I need to. The single shot with the sniper scope is super satisfying to crack heads with.

[boreal coyote]

yeah but thats very short sighted because it hurts rep so much, especially after so many delays and review embargos til the last minute, say what you want they handled this launch in the most deceptive way possible and screwed their customers, whether or not you wanna say its a good game you enjoy it you dont feel screwed whatever, what im saying is still true

[harsh cypress]

kills boars
plays guitar
refuses to elaborate

[frigid hill]

necrochasm4735 has been warned

Reason: Bad word usage

[paper crystal]

Man I thought a new patch was announced

[mellow stag]

how tf i never swore kiss my ass discord get ur fkn word wizard fixed

[stark fossil]

Hope it’s optimisation updates

[paper crystal]

You and me both, when I go to the ||bubble down from the red forest ||my system craps itself

[stark fossil]

Fought Strelok at 20 fps

[mellow stag]

dont hate devs for being short sighted noone is being short sighted all it comes down to is publishers and shareholders corporate greed that pushes games out before they r done cooking to turn a profit and make shareholders who probably dont even game happy and richer mean while the actual devs get shit on and payed pennies while their ceo walks away we must start holding publishers n ceos accountable not devs lets all be like that luigi guy n shoot a ceo then maybe things will change

[paper crystal]

Same.

Also the weapon spawning in inventory glitch is starting to get very annoying late game

[stark fossil]

Fought Strelok at 20 fps, when I’m just exploring about the zone I’m at solid 60🤨

[dense fjord]

Try turning down your shadows. You will barely notice the difference and it gives a pretty decent performance increase

[stark fossil]

The stutters and fps instability is the same for me at all epic or all low

[paper crystal]

Actually I meant Faust. It was very bad

[stark fossil]

That was at 12 fps for me yeah..

[boreal coyote]

i didnt say devs thats an irrelevant point, the games rep is hurt so much by what they did you cant argue with that, no one is going to be saying "stalker 2s publishers had a terrible scummy launch" are they? they're just gonna be saying the game is trash and they have every right to say that, as much as i enjoyed the game it is objectively trash in the state its in

[stark fossil]

In fact pretty much any full auto weapon is unusable for me cause as soon as you start spraying the stutters start

[solemn steeple]

How do I shut up media notifications?

[quick kernel]

Good lord. Faust at 20 fps could not have been fun

[paper crystal]

It was brutal

[plain fiber]

The Zone in S.T.A.L.K.E.R. has never (canonically) been extraterrestrial in origin. That's from Roadside Picnic and the 1979 film only. Doing this would retcon all of the lore set-up by the original trilogy including the Zone being the result of humans experimenting with/on the Noosphere.

[solemn steeple]

Is ur pc bad or is the area?

[sonic pivot]

i was 30fps and its the same sht, i rush that fight to be done, only one other time the game lags so hard

[dense fjord]

unreal engine.txt

[paper crystal]

I’ve got a 4070, 16 GB ram, i7 10700 cpu so probably the area. High settings.

[quick kernel]

I think its the towers falling in the background, after they fell my fps came back

[paper crystal]

Lmao I did notice that . I was like “that’s cool!”

Also “that’s not good!”

It kinda took me outta the story cause it was supposed to be a pretty big moment

[sonic pivot]

any point to keep ||hermann alive||? u guys know a single thing that changes?

[stark fossil]

I’m using a mod for performance and it helps but stutters still plague me especially when AI starts to spawn in

[quick kernel]

Yeah and that boss fight was horrific, like it was just more annoying than difficult

[paper crystal]

Shoot glowy thing

[quick kernel]

Yes. I am indeed aware of how you beat the boss fight. I'm more so talking about the constant influx of soldiers that never seem to end

[mellow stag]

in ur opinion it doesn’t matter but publishers n shareholders are definitely a very relevant point since in relates to why and how games like this drop undercooked so by definition very relevant to the topic. as for the games rep noone who has been playing since shadow of chernobyl are upset we all set expectations low cause the other games launched in much worse states this by their history is a miracle its as finished as it is and no i will not hold them up to the standards of baulders gate 3 these devs just arnt that talented i expected a buggy mess and i got a buggy mess im happy with the buggy mess. I do see your point of view tho and can sympathize for people on the outside comming into the stalker community yes there are many games now adays in much better condition at launch n its unacceptable from that perspective i can agree but you see my side of this right? like how i ate garbage n now im eating food off the floor yknow its still shit but its tastier shit lol 😂

[paper crystal]

Yea I thought you had to shoot the blue power things but it seemed they kept coming

[mellow stag]

lol srry for the novel haha hope i properly expressed my views not trying to argue just have a discussion 😇

[quick kernel]

You do have to shoot the blue thing my issue was how many enemies kept spawning, it felt like every time I peaked my head out I was being peppered by gunfire and bleeding.

[jade kraken]

What in the yap did i just walk into💀

[quartz anvil]

Whats your guys cpu? It sounds like an intel issue

[dense fjord]

I have a Ryzen 5600X, didn't have much of stutter except in a few places in the game

[quick kernel]

Welcome to yappaholics anonymous, population us

[boreal coyote]

you're just wrong you clearly see the same problem i do but you seem to think its ok because the blame is on publishers? i agree its a problem with publishers but whats your point? its still a garbage build we're on and i have played all the trilogy before playing this and i agree with me so you're wrong there... theres such a a thing as toxic positivity bro you dont need to mindless defend something because you like it, i love stalker but my opinion of stalker 2024 vs before stalker 2 is night and day

[wintry mulch]

You're entitled to that opinion. I'd suggest leaving the game for a year and then come back.

[paper crystal]

Would you say stalker is still niche

[mellow stag]

how am i wrong did u even read dude i put it in my perspective i wasnt talking as a fkn fact or anything what has got up ur ass? did someone piss in ur cereal why so angry on discord i never even shit on ur point of view or refuted it. it wasn’t a defense of the game either shit i feel sorry for you was trying to be nice and have a discussion but ur just an asshole.

[sonic pivot]

game feels kinda nicer with crosshair OFF

[boreal coyote]

i think id rather voice my opinion like everyone else, only in here your opinion better be glazing the game eh?...

[maiden cradle]

I'm not licking anyone's balls, I'm just fed up with kids on the internet throwing temper tantrums because of some video game lol

[quick kernel]

It's def immersive but you can't ads with grenade launchers despite the fact there's an actual separate sight for it 💀

[wispy sundial]

The Voice of the Voiceless. ✊🏽 😔 Keep fighting that good fight, queen. 💅🏽

[wintry mulch]

You think the game was released early and should have been postponed to be better polished. So released in a year? You can just wait that year and get the more polished game! Easy win!

[boreal coyote]

i am angry? i didnt curse at you like youre doing to me? i didn't tell you your opinion doesn't matter like you did to me either? dont mistake criticism for anger my friend

[paper crystal]

Please…no fighting…leave it for the zone….

[sonic pivot]

true, i only kept it on so i can tell the friendlies easier but i think ill have it off now

[wintry mulch]

I mean... people are free to complain of course! But it won't change anything. Why not just go play something you enjoy while waiting for the game to get to a state you find acceptable?

[boreal coyote]

everyone loosing their mind because i said the game released unfinished and they were sneaky about it with review embargos i didnt say anything that isnt objectively true and yall are freaking out fkin spergs man

[maiden cradle]

and you came in here like you had something to say anyone here hasn't heard a million times already lol

[boreal coyote]

i actually didnt even bring it up i was replying to someone

[plain fiber]

@bold smelt I don't see why it couldn't be added in officially. CoP had post-campaign freeplay so there is precedent for it existing, and multiple people on the dev teams have mentioned being fans of Anomaly/GAMMA.

Considering ||all but one of the game's endings leaves Skif either dead or no longer in the Zone || I just don't see how freeplay could be done without it being REALLY jarring, and locking freeplay behind a single ending doesn't sit right with me.

[quartz anvil]

All new players should just do that, wait a year then come back, the game is clearly bugged and should of delayed it more but i also think we are very very lucky that it released at all and how big the map is

[boreal coyote]

i mean you say they heard it a million times but they seem to act like its some crushing fact that theyve been hiding from with their head lodged very deep in arse

[plain fiber]

I wouldn't be surprised if GSC released the game when they did and in the state they did because they needed the money.

[wintry mulch]

Chill bro. Just because people don't agree that they released the game in this state specifically to spite you personally.

[boreal coyote]

yeah so lucky to pay money to be a beta tester, this is why games are fked modern fans are cucks

[boreal coyote]

yes i definitely take it as a personal slight from them... get real mate 🤣

[quick kernel]

That's one of my biggest complaints about stalker 2 is the weird inbetween it has. It's part hardcore survival but also part arcadey fps. I hope one day they have an immersion mode that really dials in more realistic aspects

[maiden cradle]

no, it's because the majority of people are on this server to share their enjoyment of the series and the sequel specifically, and people like you are annoying background noise because they reallyyyyyy want to tell everybody what went wrong with the game 😂

[boreal coyote]

you clearly didnt see the conversation, i talk to people in here all the time about the good parts of the game, soon as you say something bad about it they stick their fingers in their ears and cry

[somber gazelle]

anytime i see the binoculars and cigarette model it stare's into my soul. i wanna use it, but no :/ such a sad day

[maiden cradle]

i've read enough of you to know you're an annoying little brat mouthing off on the internet, that's all

[craggy sorrel]

I feel like veteran difficulty would be more fun if they add an option for permadeath

[quick kernel]

Dude it would be so cool if they added things to do around a campfire like smoking a cigarette or drinking vodka, just to give it a lil more character

[steel lance]

So it turns out the balls are still delicious in your mouth, "adult". lol

[boreal coyote]

ok good one 🤣 see you all accuse me of being the toxic one but ive insulted no one but everyone is trying to insult me, its hilarious, i didnt mouth off to a single person, everything bad i said was about a game but yall are trying to be personal, you dont know me

[somber gazelle]

or atleast look in your backpack and eat food\

[quick kernel]

Make it like metro exodus ranger mode and get rid of the yellow paint on interactive things and the ability to see prompts to pick things up or open doors that would be insane

[maiden cradle]

oh yeah, i love balls

[steel lance]

Do you want to suck mine? Are you going to end up falling in love?

[boreal coyote]

no one can have a mature conversation everyone just resorts to childish insults, its pretty sad

[paper crystal]

Have sausage and bread sales gone up since the release of this game

[mellow stag]

id fall in love if u ask like that 😂

[craggy sorrel]

I downloaded a mod that get rid of the yellow paint on the interactive things. I’m also playing without any ui and it feels good

[junior barn]

im aware of that, i loved the original book of roadside picnic and altough i love the stalker series of games i really want to see a more "realistic" aproach based on the book

[wispy sundial]

The way you type, I presume they are filled with cancer and unwashed tbh

[marble lintel]

I think you called them “spergs” and a slew of other things like 5 mins ago, I’m just watching tho.

[maiden cradle]

You don't seem like a person people fall in love with easily tbh, so you better have some great balls

[steel lance]

[strange otter]

patch is coming boyss

[plain fiber]

@chrome jetty Channel is getting...rowdy.

[wintry mulch]

Jesus christ boys...

[paper crystal]

When???

[quick kernel]

Woe, the sad reality of being on console 😞

I gotta get a pc that can run the game well 😫

[somber gazelle]

kinda wish the canned food was catfood or dogfood cause im so use to that in other games, maybe that will be a mod one day.

[steel lance]

Holy crap! Where?!

[junior barn]

the fili personally didnt like the film as much so if it was by me i would use the book as a reference for a game, i thinnk it gives a deep idea of the zone and its consequences allowing for a more "realistic aproach"

[wintry mulch]

Good news: Mods are coming to Xbox too!

[wispy sundial]

Just voicing his voice, ok? Just asking questions and voicing opinions. Jeez..

[plain fiber]

I loved Roadside Picnic as well, but I do love S.T.A.L.K.E.R.'s take on the idea too. At the very least I'm glad they stuck to a hard sci-fi setting.

[boreal coyote]

read what was said before that.. i def didnt start it

[quick kernel]

NO SHOT! Will it be like skyrim console modding or something?

[marble lintel]

uh…k?💀

[steel lance]

Stalker 2 Gamma for Xbox. *Dreaming

[maiden cradle]

"b-but he hit me first!"

[wispy sundial]

#☢┃stalker-general message 🤷🏽‍♂️

[wintry mulch]

Yep, looks like it. There are already mods for the original Trilogy games. I suspect it'll be similar to that?

[quartz anvil]

Given the circumstances, there was indeed a server fire in their new hq, some years back which could of delayed it, a missile almost hit the old gsc hq in Ukraine and 2 devs died they could of canceled it at any point but didint they are very committed to see this game be developed. I personally cant wait to see what they cook up as dlc ^^ but till then ill worry about bugs mostly like zelessya not fixed...

[boreal coyote]

jesus... enough brain rot for me boys, sorry for interrupting the circle jerk

[plain fiber]

I loved the film too, I liked that it was a more philosophical take on things. Story-wise I think S.T.A.L.K.E.R. has always been trying to combine the hard sci-fi elements with the philosophical elements. Sometimes it hits, sometimes it falls short, but I appreciate the effort regardless.

[marble lintel]

“He did a thing I said was bad so I’m gonna do it to make it better!”

[paper crystal]

Please tell me when

[quick kernel]

That's epic. Console always gets screwed on mods, space marine 2 is the most recent example with their modding scene being crazy cool with the ability to play as heretic astartes in coop

[strange otter]

MONDAY

[wispy sundial]

Anyway love reading all the salty crybully posting. Could sustain and power the wish granter with all that whiny psi energy.

[plain fiber]

Let's not forget about COVID. I think I remember reading that they suffered flood damage at one of their studios too but I don't know if that's true.

[paper crystal]

Your source

[strange otter]

TRUST ME BRO

[proven hollow]

his father is the CEO of GSC of course duh

[junior barn]

i honestly loved the book and stalker series, i find some problems with the phylosofical take of the book (in the russian version) but its still an incredible piece of media, of wich i would really like to have a game based on, i dont think stalker and roadside picni can be compared because of their different aproach but it sure gives a hell of an oportunity for mod creators and dev teams to make something new

[somber gazelle]

i agree with this guy, sounds legit

[marble lintel]

Day 4 of saying the stalker series is a global psi anomaly and GSC is the C-Con

[strange otter]

Thanks buddy

[quick kernel]

Guys he's lying I know he's lying because I'm also lying but I'm cooler than them so I win by default

[mellow stag]

the fact so many ppl r playing stalker 2 from outside the stalker community is an anomaly never thought id see stalker be mainstream

[somber gazelle]

just found out the double barrel can jam, thats cool

[paper crystal]

Would any of you consider yourselves legends of the zone yet

[quick kernel]

If by legend you mean stupid asf then yes I am a legend

[wintry mulch]

The Steam depot haven't been updated since 07:43:45 UTC yesterday. So far they have updated it several times daily. Not sure what this means... Big patch waiting to be approved? Devs went on holiday? 😄

[mellow stag]

no i consider myself a rat of zaton

[quick kernel]

"Oh look an anomaly I've dealt with a million times. Surely I won't get trapped in it" - me

They call me the bloodsuckers favorite meal because I can't seem to get a break from random encounters

[plain fiber]

To be fair, they already had to acronymize the title of the game to avoid copyright issues, I don't think they were in a position to adapt elements from the book or movie any further than they did without getting in legal trouble.

Additionally I forgot that the book also has a philosophical bent to it as well, not just the film.

Could you explain what you mean when you talk about the "different approach" between the games and the book/film?

[wintry mulch]

"Bloodsuckers are a rare mutant in the Zone" - Stalker 2 disagreed with that!

[mellow stag]

more common then dogs 🐶

[quartz anvil]

Think that was in their new hq right? Could be, and yeah covid... alot of stuff happened in 2020 that i think ALOT of people will remember it for along time...

[quick kernel]

Honestly they aren't even scary anymore I be walking around with 74 medkits and 105 bandages they couldn't kill me for hours

[mellow stag]

its already in school books xD

[plain fiber]

No idea.

And yeah, mentally I still feel like I'm in 2020.

[paper crystal]

Is anyone playing in Ukrainian

[wintry mulch]

Yep, Ukrainian voices, English subtitles.

[junior barn]

i didnt know about the copyright, its a bit sad but understandable i hope projects based on the book dont get shut down becasue of it

the different aproach i mean is the following

-the character is constantly with other people who help him or who he has to help (although sometimes it doesent end well

-the scientists send robots wich lthough have limited effectiveness help with the research

-anomalies started to be implemented but not to a very large extend like in the games rather a more grounded one where although advanced prototypes exist they are not amazing

-the characters will talk with their families on the book, and sometimes talk abut them

-theres a bit more of cooperation between factions but its a bit unstable wich could be used in a game where the army intervienes thus breaking the "peace in the zone" and forcing people to arm themselves but they would look more like a guerrilla rather than groups with extremely advanced exoeskeletons

[junior barn]

i would treat it somewhat more similar to 1992 russia

[quartz anvil]

For me year of 2021 was the WORSE year of my life so far i live in canada, BC there was a huge wildfire nearby and burnt down alot of land, and threaten to burn our town armstrong and the city of vernon down, the sky was RED you can even feel the heat at night time too, and then COVID hit us really badly dad died due to it and lots of other problems begain that year for us so year 2020 was mostly normal for us...

[frigid hill]

biomaestro911 has been warned

Reason: Bad word usage

[junior barn]

what did just happen, i cant say the word shi**y i was just saying that i have mixed opinions about the last yers and that some months were good others not so

[lethal kelp]

there is a 1/3 chance that the bot doesnt like a bad word. it doesnt care about fuck. but s*it isnt alowed

[junior barn]

dammm

[rough cypress]

Clusterfuck. Should’ve used it earlier.

[stark fossil]

AR and AK is a peashooter in S2. I’ll grab a mod that makes it right

Really hate S2 gamey weapon balance
A 50 round HK is way worse than a named MP5

[sonic pivot]

without crosshair, all these weapon laser sights are actually useful

[quick kernel]

I've also found that making the subtitles large helps with keeping up

[restive storm]

The mod mutant loot was causing the anomaly crash. Removed it and crash is fixed now

[plain fiber]

Oh I'm in Upstate New York and I remember all of the smoke and haze in the air from those fires.

Not fun!

[hot minnow]

Does anyone know if there’s a tech that can install the second lead lined slot for the Guardian of Freedom suit or is it just bugged?

[stark fossil]

Do you have the blueprint,

[wintry mulch]

Are you using an older version? I'm running the Mutant Loot mod as well and haven't noticed any issues.

[hot minnow]

Is there a blueprint? The icon doesn’t seem to indicate there is one as it’s not blue but grey

[plain fiber]

Speaking of bugged armor, I think a bunch of the gas masks are bugged; there are several that have ZERO radiation protection, and installing the upgrades to increase rad protection does nothing.

I'm also confused as to why all but like one or two of the SSP-100 suits have ZERO psi protection. Scientific suits always provided psi-protection, why do most of these newer models not have it?

[stark fossil]

Well it will say you need a blueprint when you hover over it if you do. But afaik tech in Rostok should be able to do it..

[restive storm]

No, the latest 1.1.4 version. My game is fixed when I removed it so idk what else could the issue really be tbh

[stark fossil]

Those suits were always meant for artifact hunting, not very good for firefights. And I agree all should have some psy..

[safe comet]

Hey guys, a question, I'm in The Border mission and I just completed it, but when I finish it I get a grey icon in "repel monolith" and I don't quite understand what that icon means. It's neither the failed icon nor the completed icon. could anyone help me with this?

[hot minnow]

I’ve tried the end game ones including Rostok and no one can. Can’t seem to find a proper conclusion on it online. And the one lead I had which was it being a blueprint at a certain location was wrong.

[rough cypress]

Minus icon?

[plain fiber]

No I know they're anomalous protection suits, not combat suits. (Though the SSP-100s seem to have pretty damn high physical protection despite that.)

It's just that in the trilogy, the scientific suits (SSP-99, SSP-99M, SEVA, Curtain Helm) all had innate psi protection, so to not see any at all is very weird.

[idle oriole]

Anyone else's game crash when they hit a Vortex anomaly?

[quartz anvil]

I just wish we used huge water bombers but no we use little helis to put out the BIG FIRE like what? That makes no sense! Thats the main issue i think has to be addressed

[restive storm]

Do you use any mods? My game was crashing when I run into an anomaly as well. Which mods? Edit your message...

[safe comet]

If something like this, it is a gray circle with a line in the middle.

[idle oriole]

yea i have mods running

[stark fossil]

Yes

[restive storm]

Which mods you using? List them

[restive storm]

?

[safe comet]

I thought maybe it meant some character had died but I have no idea.

[stark fossil]

Head height vaulting
Performance boost
50% weight for consumables
50% repair costs

[idle oriole]

its a list of 23 mods lol

[restive storm]

Is Mutant loot in that list?

[idle oriole]

no https://imgur.com/a/msdTLcw SS of the list from VortexMM

[restive storm]

Can you disable all the mods and then try just to see if the mods are causing the issue?

[rough cypress]

From my experience, those are optional objectives in the missions.

[hot minnow]

Suppose no one else has properly ran into the guardian of freedom lead pocket suit bug, so I submitted a report

[still edge]

yea would stay away from the mutant loot mod its a bit sketchy to add such a mod

[idle oriole]

yea it was a mod, ill have to active them one by one to narrow it down

[dusky sonnet]

put in 60 hours in the last 2 weeks with a full time job damn

[wintry mulch]

Sketchy?

[stark fossil]

I’ll wait for official mutant loot

[restive storm]

Good then. Please write which mod is causing the crash when you find it so people have a fix if they encounter the same thing

[plain fiber]

Yeah, the response seemed kind of...lame.

Also quick segue, I am currently being pounded by lake effect from Erie. That was fun to take the cat litter out in.

[restive storm]

Not sketchy but more like problematic. I had to find what was causing the crash and I lost hours because of that. And, it was some mod

[idle oriole]

Ill drop a comment on the mods page on nexus.

[mellow stag]

so much snow in canada rn only thing i can do is play stalker so no downside 😅

[jade kraken]

Walking to school and home in this weather makes me wish for an emission

[mellow stag]

ok so weird but great bug during ur ward convo with d at garbage a army camo gun dropped mid cutscene on the table 😅 anyone else run into this?

[quartz anvil]

Oh yeah i hear toronto had a big snow storm, did you get effected at all in new york?

[smoky hawk]

theyre using mod organizers for stalker
its so over

millions must crash, billions even

[plain fiber]

We got hit by something a week or so ago, got like a foot of snow, maybe a bit more, not sure if it was the same thing. I'm in the hills too, so we tend to get hit harder than the lowlands, but not as much as the North Country (Adirondacks).

[smoky hawk]

damn must be playinbg a whole diff stalker 2 than me

[idle oriole]

just easier when you get past a few mods lol, that and running the merger.

[plain fiber]

Nah man this is just real life in Upstate New York. Though there are spots up here that you could probably say are from the Zone and have it be believable.

[sonic pivot]

Solder is basically Patches from elden ring and dark souls in general

[smoky hawk]

#💬┃en_offtop

[smoky hawk]

solder is actually useful tho

[plain fiber]

Sorry, didn't realize that's what you meant.

[stoic knot]

losing an hour of gameplay because of a bug that wont let me run is insane

[mellow stag]

i had that bug it fixed itself after a mutant hit me 😅

[stark fossil]

Guys which is a good weapon balance mod? Like something that makes AR and AK actually better than a PM??

[worldly bough]

one of the most infuriating things about this game is when game crashes when you walk into an anomaly

[gilded wharf]

I just found the Grom-S15 and Im in LOVE

[stark fossil]

Groza good?? Imposibruuu

[latent canyon]

Is it bad that I got the hostile factions guest I messed with the ward a little to much and now the scientists don’t like me

[gilded wharf]

5.45 groza kinda smackin

[dusky sonnet]

doubt it wont be coming, hasnt been in since SoC

[stark fossil]

It was clearly an intention to put it in as well as a vendor in Rostok. I think it will be added later..

[sly sluice]

I dont think its coming cause its so so so easy to add but they didnt
Feels like someone decided they dont want it, for some reason. It's a few PNGs and price values. It'd take them like 30 minutes, with pretty much zero risk of bugs. And many of the people clearly played the old games because they are quite faithful in so many ways, there is no way it has been missed

[dusky sonnet]

it clearly was? what makes you say so

[ornate sable]

I don't really miss the "kill fleshes until one drops en eye" quests, to be honest

[sly sluice]

It'd be a much easier task to add mutant loot in the first patch than unravel the quest spaghetti at the commonly bugged parts.

[stark fossil]

Because there is a) a vacant spot with trophies and a vendor seat that’s empty in Rostok
And b) the icons for mutant loot is in the game files

[burnt hollow]

It could have been a hunting questgiver. We get one hunting quest in the Red forest, could have been a more "Alife hunting quest" thing

[dusky sonnet]

Fair enough, that is a pretty good indicator. Probably more of a trophy hunting questline than just straight up mutant loot id reckon. Could be though

[stark fossil]

Yeah, I believe there was a hunter venfor intended for the game but devs didn’t have time to implement

[tidal basalt]

whats the best assault rifle/smg statistically?(ap/normal bullets)

[burnt hollow]

Still i kind of like Mutants just being a drain on your resources. Sure you can run away but not always

[sly sluice]

The late game ones

[dusky sonnet]

dont really care either way. not like mutant loot gave all that much

[stark fossil]

Kharod and Dnipro and their unique versions.

[burnt hollow]

Kharod. It has a bit less dmg than the Dnipro, but same Penetration and better RPM, Range, dmg drop off, dispersion and accuracy. Its a headshot machine, which is what you need late game

[sly sluice]

Yeaaaah I dont think it indicates mutant loot, there's already hunting stuff (Like radiant missions, that hunting guy that leads you to nimble). But of course the game might have had mutant loot at one point but clearly someone in charge doesn't want it in the game (From release to now)

[stark fossil]

Yeah I think Kharod is the overall winner. Dnipro doesn’t even get any UB attachments while with Kharod you can use a shotty or a grenade launcher

[turbid musk]

i can't even play anymore with the crashes not allowing me to progress

[stark fossil]

I am curtly looking at a mod that makes better sense of weapons.. All same caliber shave roughly same stats..

[sly sluice]

I dont see them as competitors, one is for soviet ammo one is for nato ammo (In know you can convert, but you will get tons of each ammo), it's sensible to switch between 5.56 and 5.45 when you have saved up say 400 of one, use it up, then save the other caliber in the meantime..

[stark fossil]

I just don’t want an HK being inferior to the MP5

[hoary crest]

Ye, use that. Vanilla balancing is goddamn terrible and anyone who tells you otherwise is a liar/likes bullet sponges

[sly sluice]

Who do you think made the mp5? It's a pretty well-engineered gun my man.
It's pretty based how this game has HK m416 instead of some american variant, but unfortunately they decided to put them low on the totem pole

[tidal basalt]

the maklane weapon mod?

[burnt hollow]

Akkkshually the MP5 is an HK 🤓

[stark fossil]

It’s one of my favorite SMGs but it’s a pistol caliber vs a intermediate caliber of an AR designed to pierce body armor

[sly sluice]

The damage you get from guns depends on the ammos damage and pen values too, you cant compare the bars shown on guns straight up between calibers

[hoary crest]

Damage values are tied to the gun, AP values modify strike damage resistance, Expansive modifies direct damage.

IE: The lions share of a guns actual damage performance is baked in to them, the different ammo types just modify that number.

[sonic pivot]

gauss is great but SVU with silencer goes quite hard too

[stark fossil]

It’s an arcady gun balance - nothing to do with RL

[sly sluice]

From my testing it seems like it works like stalker1 games, where each ammo has a damage value, for example normal 9mm is .8dmg, .4pen, and normal 5.45 is .9dmg and .6 pen (Purely illustrative values, but each ammo has a different dmg and pen)
Which is then affected by the guns dmg and pen stats to modify the ammos values

[paper sand]

someone posted a damage chart a while back

[hoary crest]

Well thats what I've read on multiple mod pages at this point, so im inclined to believe the guys digging about on the files who have already made rebalance mods 🤷‍♂️

[burnt hollow]

Heres the stats: https://www.reddit.com/r/stalker/comments/1h9o0ni/weapon_stats_ingame_make_no_sense_so_i_pulled/#lightbox
Also an explanation of the penetration in the comments. Some parts are missing though like armor vs pen, but ive seen others that found the Headshot multiplier, its like x6 vs humans

[paper sand]

its missing the unique dnipro though, but still a good comparison

[sly sluice]

Well we have a decent idea of gun stats since it has bars (Still a good chart though), the question is about ammo dmg and pen, if it's like stalker1 or what

[paper sand]

the bars are inaccurate

[burnt hollow]

Look at my link, the bars are not properly telling the whole story

[tidal basalt]

what ammo does the holemaker attachment use?

[paper sand]

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1L6jBHJtw8AZrJZmOiFekiS2YVudHS3rQVGQN-oOaNMk/edit?gid=2000689774#gid=2000689774 updated spreadsheet btw, has ammo types and stuff

[stark fossil]

Gamey gun balance is ok if you do it sensible.
Like ok a 9 mill can have more flesh dmg than 556 but 556 should then have much higher pen value.
But in game the 9 mill is just straight up superior

[sly sluice]

All the 9mm guns, including vector with good pen has been pretty bad when I used them, indicating to me it works like stalker1

[stark fossil]

You know what, for me personally it matters little for future play throughs unless mods can do what anomaly did to the OGs

[hoary crest]

Enemys have a "Strike damage resistance" stat, which is what AP modifies the damage using, whereas Expansive ammo, buffs the direct damage which is then reduced by the Strike damage resistance.

I assume FMJ has a modicum of AP but not very much, though it is isnt mentioned in the thing matey has put on the mod page

[paper sand]

yea it feels similar for sure

@hoary crest FMJ is noted as "Standard" on the sheet i posted

[burnt hollow]

The ammo doesnt carry any dmg, just modifiers based on the type
How to calculate ammo bonus on your weapon stats

Convert 130% AP to a decimal 130 % = 1,30
Multiply 1,30 with 20% gun pen 1,30 x 20 = 26 %
AP 26% + 20% base gun pen 46 % total penetration

[sly sluice]

Yes of course. But in stalker1 say 5.56 and 9mm standard ammo had different dmg and pen.

[hoary crest]

And they do here, but it doesnt seem to corroberate to weapon calibre in Stalker 2, its based on the weapon's stats, not the ammo

[paper sand]

I dont think ammo type effects damage, here as in 9mm vs 5.56, its baked into the guns themselves, where the ammo then tweaks things like individual weapon dmg or armor pen

[hoary crest]

IE: Arbitrary damage/pen' numbers have been thrown at weapons to justify progression, regardless of if it makes sense or not. Which is sad

[stark fossil]

Yep

[sly sluice]

its based on the weapon's stats,
If that is true, then they do not, then the ammo all have the same value.
Which from my subjective experience especially with guns like vector that have good pen values but take a lot of shots against armored enemies, it seems to not be the case

[burnt hollow]

They could use a workover for balance but i sure as hell dont want a "realistic" scenario, i want progression in my game

[stark fossil]

Who would, if not for lols and challenge, do end game with anything other than a Dnipro or a Kharod in their loadout?

[hoary crest]

Well they do, because a 5.56 weapon has different stats baked into it than a 9mm weapon does. That does'nt change it being baked into the guns though, ammo is just a number that lets you shoot gun, it has zero bearing on gun performance outside of having a multiplier to change the damage value, which is based on the stats of the gun. There is an important distinction there. Aside from ammo type modifiers, ammo has no effect on a guns performance

[sly sluice]

Yeah the problem is if it's quite realistic (and by realistic you mean exo armor isn't any better than your RL armor atm) then you have to do progression with other things, and people complained a lot that SoC guns were inaccurate so they made most of them pretty accurate

[paper sand]

try the zubr

[stark fossil]

Early game wonder became an end game laser

But granted I’m spoiled by anomaly mods

[hoary crest]

There is progression in the game outside of guns. Artifacts, armour, access to ammo types... Abritarily nerfing rifles so a "lategame" SMG outperforms it makes a lot of stuff feel ass when an AK is absolutely going to be better than a 9mm in reality.

Though you don't have to worry about it if you like vanilla balancing, and others, myself included, don't have to worry about it because mods exist.

Does'nt change the fact that throwing arbitrary numbers at real-world imitating weaponry is a kinda ass way of balancing them though.

[cloud elm]

does the compass artifact only drop for gravitational anomalies?

[sly sluice]

having a multiplier to change the damage value
Yeah that's what im saying. But I assume you mean they all have the same value like standard 9mm/5.56/7.62 all have 1 dmg and 1 pen and AP 9mm/5.56/7.62 all have 1dmg 1.3pen and so on...
Aside from ammo type modifiers, ammo has no effect on a guns performance
What are you basing this on? Have you found the files? I haven't, I think they're baked into something. (not that I have looked THAT hard)

[burnt hollow]

Dude the link is in the chat. It has all the numbers. https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1L6jBHJtw8AZrJZmOiFekiS2YVudHS3rQVGQN-oOaNMk/edit?gid=2000689774#gid=2000689774

[hoary crest]

All the ammo types have stats that modify the damage, as I said earlier, AP and Expansive modify the base damage of the gun.

And basing it on the explanations on mod pages by people who have looked at the files and changed a lot of values

[sly sluice]

Well if that's right that's a disapointment. Hope someone mods in a better ballistic model like stalker1 then

[hoary crest]

Fully Unlocked Ballistics and Range. Nexus. https://www.nexusmods.com/stalker2heartofchornobyl/mods/658?tab=description (Oldest version is better)

Make sure you use the optional config file for 1:1 player/NPC damage, they die super fast, you die super fast.

Unless ofc you start stacking phys resistence artifacts, and if you do that, no point in using the config file anyway as you'll just become a bullet sponge regardless

[somber gazelle]

there isnt a way to increase render range with any mods yet, has there?

[paper sand]

Better Ballistics is also pretty good.

@somber gazelle by render range do you mean like foliage pop in or ai? Should be mods for both.

[somber gazelle]

foliage

[pulsar crane]

i don't really understand what the point of making gimmicky "cinematic" fights is in a game like stalker. every time there is some kind of hard edge (sudden jank cutscene, bugged enemy, etc) that immediately takes you out of the immersion, and the actual gameplay of the fight itself is incredibly boring. every boss fight just boils down to facetanking them as you mag dump into their head, they do something that causes a sequence break, you wait 2 minutes for them to stop again, rinse and repeat. not a single one of them was enjoyable to me

[paper sand]

https://www.nexusmods.com/stalker2heartofchornobyl/mods/300 havent tried it personally but should work.

[paper sand]

yea the "boss" fights did feel kind of out of place, previously they would just be mutants like a pseudogiant or something so i guess its a change of pace.

[pulsar crane]

it just feels like GSC did not play to their strengths whatsoever when it came to the last parts of the game, particularly in the enemy and level design. take your pick of long hallway, open area with respawning snipers, or cluttered room that somehow manages to be full of stuff but not provide any meaningful cover

[weary hedge]

sadly, the end of almost all games now are rushed. Wouldnt hurt to let them know with some feedback however, otherwise they wont know.

[sly sluice]

Did you get to the enemies with the forefield shied yet?
But yeah its 2024, most previously good games series have failed, we're pretty lucky if we get something playable

[pulsar crane]

recycled burer shield and gauss rifles that instakill you through cover and obstacles, because enemies autoaim to you no matter where you are

[edgy snow]

zalyssia defense completed, after 3 hours and à restart

[sly sluice]

Well no I dont see any burer shield. It's just like double the health and when you get them to half you see it "break"

[pulsar crane]

it reuses the same sounds and particle effects from the burer mutant

[latent canyon]

Nice

[sly sluice]

Oh hmm. Didn't seem like it to me, since there's no constant effect just the popping, but that could be true

[paper sand]

yea the last section sure is something, not to mention you physicallly cant carry enough ammo all these cool toys? shame i cant carry any of them

[oblique vessel]

bros, it feels like today might be the day Gordon Freeman reappears

[sly sluice]

You get TONs of ammo and supplies though. What ammo depends on the box rng though but you get fresh guns too... I were never close to running out, and I could have brought 0 meds and been fine... Actually I think it's a bit disappointing they just give you really good guns so gearing up for it wasn't that much point.

I played through stalker 2 two times now though so I experienced 98% of the content so im pretty done, back to my KCD playthrough

[dense bloom]

Dang, how to have green icon with slag meap ? i did all the quest, including babay one

[mellow stag]

sounds like the ending of every stalker game

[pulsar crane]

it's annoying that they give you all of those free guns but no armor other than the crappy x7 suit, so by the time you get to granite your armor is shredded to like 30% durability

[sly sluice]

It doesn't decrease stats a lot though, and in some lines you have a tech with you

[paper sand]

yea i just spent like 100k fully upgrading my exo then theyre like here wear this

[sly sluice]

The weird thing imo is they say like "you need to wear the x7 suit to survive blah blah...." But its just false

[burnt hollow]

Ah i decided not to take a shotgun from now on, first mission gives me three blodsuckers at the same time...

[paper sand]

yea we can install a psi supressor onto any suit but for some reason x7 needs it own, im guessing its to nerf the player

[sturdy jacinth]

Jus don’t wear it

[plain fiber]

So apparently the player can't actually find and wear the GP-5 gas mask that we see NPCs wearing.

[sly sluice]

And they dont give you a helmet either, they expect you to walk into the zones most dangerous place with a uncovered head
But I never even tried it on so

[versed sage]

hey icant save in the WHOLE agroprom underground stage anyone else having same issue?

[paper sand]

iirc yea i had the same issue, just gotta beat it without dying some said its from the audio log playing during a save but idk

[versed sage]

sheeeeet i just died and lost like 30 mins of gameplay >:c

[plain fiber]

"Created to survive the dangers of the X-Labs. No helmet though."

[sly sluice]

At least it doesnt cost an item to save in stalker

[paper sand]

it seems to only be the underground saves, so save right before going underground at least. or just godmode it

[hardy totem]

||So monoloth is attacking Zallisya, but I can't get into the building Gaffer is hiding in, common issue? any fixes?||

[sly sluice]

Very common (the bug people ask the most about by far), many workarounds, this one has many options https://www.reddit.com/r/stalker/comments/1gz8kia/zalissya_defence_guide_using_uetools/

[versed sage]

i died on FALL DAMAGE in ||strelok stash || cuz the LadDeR iS ToO HigH

[burnt hollow]

The corundum suit is really missplaced. Its completely OP and unless youre having a really bad time with anomalies, theres really no incentive to use anything else before exos.

[plain fiber]

Too bad there aren't any other factions' rad-suits in the game like there are for the exoskeletons. (Spark also apparently has its' own exoskelton but the player can't get it for...reasons.)

[sly sluice]

Well I think they're thinking SoC, thus the high repair costs, it's meant to be optional, you get good armor free

[jagged roost]

Can I post pics in here ? Just seen I can’t

[mild salmon]

#📸┃screens_and_videos #📸┃screenshots_and_videos

[digital igloo]

I feel like one of the big problems with such fights is that firefights in the game need a fair bit of work, especially when it comes to enemies.

Enemies effectively tank shots till they die, with far too little (practically nothing) in the way of reactions to getting hit. Pair this with enemies having preternatural reflexes, detection, and accuracy across the board (with shotguns for example turning into rifles in the hands of the AI) .

Is it any wonder that fights end up feeling unsatisfying?

[jagged roost]

Thanks it was to do with a special gun and an achievement linked to it. It’s a stash not far 400m South West from Slag Heap under a concrete tunnel ( beware though )

[still current]

[plain fiber]

Too many enemies are able to tank mutiple headshots. I think that only happened in the original trilogy with exoskeleton/rad-suit enemies and only if you weren't using AP ammo.

In S2 I see it happen with enemies wearing no helmets at all.

[digital igloo]

That and many, many other things.

The worldbuilding and atmosphere are great; but hot damn do the fights and enemies feel like hot garbage, especially towards the later parts of the game.

[plain fiber]

Oh believe me, I made a whole-ass Reddit thread about the issues I've found. Lots of stuff missing that was in the original trilogy too, and not just NVGs and binoculars.

[north ember]

Is there a list anywhere, of what upgrades can be done by what techs? I'd like to upgrade my SSP-100M and my Riemann (Integral-A), but I'm in Cordon atm, and google results are inconsistent. Some people say the tech in Yanov can do it, others say they can't. I'd hate to spend 2+ hours IRL running all the way across the map, just to find out they can't actually upgrade anything extra for me

[sleek gulch]

Damn, the side mission for defending Zalissya is still bugged. Nobody spawns

[digital igloo]

Put it in the actual feedback on their website.

[somber rose]

What's with the Duty/Freedom conflict starting back up offscreen after SIRCA? Do you ever interact with this? Voronin and the Freedom guy just have generic dialogue. There doesn't seem to be any way to interact with these factions

[plain fiber]

Is there not a guide to/from Yanov?

[north ember]

what do you mean?

[plain fiber]

You mentioned not wanting to run 2+ hours running all the way across the map, can't you use a guide to fast travel and avoid that?

[north ember]

This game has fast travel?!

[quick kernel]

You know it would be kinda sick if the game had legendary creatures akin to rdr2 where you gotta track them but you get a sizable reward

[plain fiber]

Yes, you have to talk to a guide and pay them, and they'll take you places. I think the only S.T.A.L.K.E.R. that didn't have this system was SoC.

[north ember]

I had no clue. Do they tell you this in-game anywhere? I just assumed the guides were like, tutorials, lol. "You can sell artifacts for money", "don't forget to search bodies for loot", that kind of thing. Even my other friends who are playing the game too never mentioned it!

[quick kernel]

Speaking of guides they should have wandering guides so I can stop running 2.2k just to get some medkits and 9mil ammo 😭

[plain fiber]

I do miss the wandering guides from CoP.

@north ember I'm not sure off the top of my head if you're told how guides work.

[still edge]

you have to find 2 guides in order to start use the fast travel?

[plain fiber]

I think so yeah, not 100% sure though.

[north ember]

I've been running literally everywhere since I started the game. As far as I can remember, I got zero indication that any sort of fast travel existed. But I'm an old-school gamer, back before fast travel was mandatory in games. I played Morrowind, back when you had to travel everywhere on foot, unless you paid for the Silt Strider. So it didn't occur to me to go out of my way to look for it, I just assumed it didn't exist unless told otherwise

[serene barn]

how am i supposed to enter the Duga region for a mission if i keep being insta killed when i try to go in...

[somber gazelle]

i wonder how much food and drink our stalker just throws onto the ground, cause we only eat about haft of a piece of food, not to mention the energy drinks, one sip? really?

[quick kernel]

Damn so they had them at one point? That should def be something in the future I've seen people talk about how fast travel wouldn't really work in the game but wandering guides not only fit the game but isn't always a guarantee

[serene barn]

the Guides are how you fast travel, it's really the name, they lead people around.

[still edge]

yea i just found, its something you unlock after you leave the first area "lesser zone". The game is meant to be walk around, thats the point of the stalker game, traveling, immersive , survival.
So its not something you start using it early into the game like skyrim or something

[quick kernel]

This may be a massive nitpick but I wish you could lower your weapon rather than put it away entirely I'd still like to see it for immersion sake

[plain fiber]

S.T.A.L.K.E.R. as a franchise is pretty old, Shadow of Chernobyl came out in '07. The fast-travel system isn't the same as the modern version. I've never played Morrowind (yet) but it's probably not far off from how the silt striders work; you find a guide, you pay them, and they can take you to other settlements i.e. Zalissya to Rostok.

[north ember]

I've left the lesser zone. I've walked all over the place, and I don't mind it. But it would feel bad to spend hours IRL traveling multiple in-game kilometers, only to get to your destination and find out that it was a pointless journey.

[north ember]

Yeah, I played the original one many years ago. I don't remember it having guides either, lol. Just ran everywhere on foot.

[plain fiber]

As far as I remember, guides as a mechanic weren't introduced until Clear Sky.

[boreal pendant]

wear resist or weight reduction for corundrum

[still edge]

low ready stance,yea that could be good, but it has to be balanced otherwise nobody would use the H key to put your weapon away. Maybe low ready stance increases the movement speed but depleeds your stamina a bit faster, so its better to use in combat when you want to change angles or escape without being completely unarmed

[north ember]

ah. The one Stalker game I think I didn't play. I played the original, and I think call to pripyat or something?

[plain fiber]

Call of Pripyat, the most recent S.T.A.L.K.E.R. entry until S.T.A.L.K.E.R. 2. Came out in '09.

[quick kernel]

It could also make approaching people a bit easier too as they can aggro if you've got your gun out. Not to mention how slow some guns are to take out and put away, it could mediate that issue. There should be the option to shoulder it still but low ready would be optimal for exploring

[boreal pendant]

i cannot pick lol

[plain fiber]

Having H put your weapon in low-ready makes more sense than putting it away; press the corresponding number key and you'll holster that equipment, having the H key do the same thing is redundant.

[still edge]

low ready -> L Holster -> H

[north ember]

Yeah, I was about 19ish or so then? Sounds about right. Was a long time ago that I played the Stalker games

[quick kernel]

Either that or you tap to low ready and hold to holster.

[plain fiber]

I've not used the H key to holster my weapon once, I just press the corresponding key.

[quick kernel]

Also stalker devs give us the fal please and thank you

[plain fiber]

Original trilogy had the AN-94, SIG 550, and the F2000 but those are gone now.

[quick kernel]

Tactical Tuna would go crazy

[plain fiber]

Oh yeah, original trilogy also had around 10 pistols the player could use, I don't know where those all went, especially with a dedicated pistol slot now.

[quick kernel]

Another case of the older games having more. I've seen this before with so many games.

Screw it let's add the xm8 and the g11

[boreal pendant]

is the red vector from ultimate edition alr silenced?

[frigid hill]

theogcasper has been warned

Reason: Bad word usage

[plain fiber]

Nah, if we're adding weird, barely used/never left prototype stage weapons, we have to include the Pancor Jackhammer.

And yes, the G-11, good 'ol Kraut Space Magic gun.

[quick kernel]

That gun was actually nuts

[plain fiber]

Shoot, I gotta go. Later all, don't step in any anomalies.

[crisp horizon]

is it normal for a monolith soldier to not shoot me and tell me to stay out of his way while also showing up as a friendly? lmao

[oak swan]

Gotta buy stalker 2 since Xbox app won’t work anymore, I shouldn’t have to download and install right?

[crisp horizon]

I CAN SPEAK TO HIM

[desert panther]

Alife fixed?

[pine haven]

yes A life fixed

[civic relic]

Ez. Weight reduction. Doesnt cost much to repair anyways

[crisp horizon]

monolith soldier started shooting me as soon as i backed out of the conversation lmao

[desert panther]

https://tenor.com/view/liar-star-wars-mad-angry-gif-15937551

[upbeat basin]

Just had the weirdest crash, was in x-5, fighting pseudodogs, all of a sudden i get a flash of white and my game locks up hard

[north ember]

You know what I haven't heard in Stalker 2? "Cheeki Breeki". IIRC, it was so prevalent in the first one, it became a meme

[meager crag]

It's still present in the games

[paper sand]

You know what i really havent heard tho? the og bandit death sound, aiiymmmlyaaaat, would have loved if that made it in

[half torrent]

Wonder how big the next patch is gonna be 😳

[mild salmon]

5 terabytes

[north ember]

Meh, no biggie. My next upgrade to my gaming PC is a 16TB NVMe

[ornate sable]

I miss the LR300. I know the 416 kind of plays the same part (and irl it's a lot more common now than the LR ever was), but the LR300 was just so iconic for me from SOC

[mild salmon]

With how modern gaming is you could install 3 games with 16TB

[north ember]

Exactly! And everyone knows you only need 1 - Stalker 2 😛

[olive rampart]

One thing I love about cross platform release is the console cope that comes with gigantic updates that make the game unplayable on consoles

[somber rose]

How do you get past the duga sniper?

[jagged roost]

Anyone know when they’re releasing the Roadmap this month ? Be interesting to see what’s planned for next few months or year

[jagged roost]

https://youtu.be/uwpT2beLamg?si=4uMCkKFjauBiI3q9 stay away from the walls !

[boreal pendant]

where even is the paired kharod magazine

[paper sand]

you dont, these are out of bounds areas, find another path further down.

Would have much preffered the old megaphone and machine gunner from the cordon over the insta kill snipers tbh

[jagged roost]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1UxpOd7g8t0

[boreal pendant]

no, the paired one, it exists in game but litterally no one knows where it is

[jagged roost]

4 days ago on a post on Reddit and still not found by anyone but the person has seen videos of it though

[boreal pendant]

you can give it to yourself using uetools, but as far i as can see nobody has found it :3

[civic relic]

ight im getting real tired of only being able to sprint for like 5 seconds then have to regen stamina so... what anomalies give u the max endurance artifact? my good guess would be an electrical field anamoly?

[weary hedge]

Is gp37 a good gun?

[paper sand]

yes

[civic relic]

honestly whatever gun is good is just mostly personal preference. if u fully upgrade most guns it will be basically op anyways

[paper sand]

until everyone is wearin exos and its 1 mag per enemy

[weary hedge]

Okay i found one i just need to repair it

[civic relic]

yeah i guess near end game definitely would need a better gun. probly the vintar vs gun would still take them down fast with headshots anyways

[boreal pendant]

compas or hypercube, can't decide

[weary hedge]

also what faction is the zircon suit for?

[paper sand]

vss my beloved

[civic relic]

im 30 hours in still running my AKM-74s with the scope and a pump action shotty the m60 cracker im still not having much trouble getting past any enemies tbh

[paper sand]

yea AK and the m60 will take you to mid game easily, love the m60 with the mag reload

[iron belfry]

so there i was on my way to get this weird water and I heard a bubbling sound. I stumbled upon a hypercube. lucky random find

[sonic pivot]

best of its kind, its one of the ones i have on, the cube

[iron belfry]

I have weird ball, weird flower, hypercube, weird water, liquid rock. looking to upgrade the first 2

[sonic pivot]

I use liquid rock hypercube thunderberry and 2 night star

[iron belfry]

I'll have to look those last 2 up

[sonic pivot]

Basically no negatives with some radiation prot on armor and these together

[indigo meteor]

wen this game not hurt my frames?

[dense moat]

What’s up stalkers I just come across a glitch where none of the audio recordings work. I used to be able to pick up an audio recording and instantly play it without accessing my PDA, but after doing the mission where I restore power to malachite I cannot listen to recordings, even if I manually select them in my PDA does anyone have a fix?

[crisp horizon]

anyone gotten a weird bug where the only movement they can do is looking up and down?

[olive jewel]

Yes, the Riemann comes with a suppressor.

[tepid osprey]

Yeah happened to me during the ||fight with Faust at Duga|| only way to solve it for me was to close and reopen the game

[crisp horizon]

same area, also not a fan of the illusion of choice so far lmao

[pine ibex]

Anyone else having trouble with 'caliber change upgrade' doesnt work? But I've payed for it and it is ticket of, like it is installed?

[tepid osprey]

THIS. I was so annoyed after choosing the other option lol

[tepid osprey]

Yeah it should be. If it is a shotgun, youll now only be able to load slugs

[olive jewel]

The achievement description for choosing that other option is funny, though.

[tepid osprey]

Took me a few attempts due to different bugs then that happens 😠

[carmine marsh]

i think i know of a way to do a story skip and activate something in the generators

[pine ibex]

It is the Riemann I wanted to use .45 😦

[north ember]

it worked for me - I read somewhere that you might need to reload after changing the caliber

[tepid osprey]

Ahh ok nice, the Riemann is awesome. Let me know if it is worth the upgrade

[zenith sedge]

But the maxed out Dnipro literally does 3 times the damage of a maxed out 74u

It's 5 headshots vs 2 against end game exos

[pine ibex]

You just saved me! It totally worked lol

[north ember]

Awesome! Glad I could help :)
I just did the same upgrade on the Riemann like, 10 minutes ago 😛

[minor fog]

is it possible to get rare artifacts or those maximum artifacts from lesser zone or you get more luck getting them out side the Lesser zones like Garbage.

[pine ibex]

Nice! How did you like it?

[zenith sedge]

I got half my legendaries from lesser zone lol I think it's just a flat spawn chance

[north ember]

Haven't used it much, but seems to work well so far :)

[civic relic]

idk would it be that bad tho to use a maxed out ak 74u with armor piericing rounds even in end game. i mean atleast close to end game it shouldnt be too bad to use the ak til

[pine ibex]

Will do 😄

[minor fog]

dam ok well imma keep the grinds then

[zenith sedge]

I mean it's still pretty easy the AI are dumb but 5 headshots to kill would get annoying as shit when the Dnipro can do it in 1-2 with more accuracy

Same ammo too

[minor fog]

we referring to Mathematical genius or...... a weapon's name lol

[civic relic]

yeah i mean im 30h in and my upgraded ak is doing me just fine so far. idek what a dnipro is. when i upgrade next il probly use a upgraded vintar i found somewhere

[zenith sedge]

It's the bullpup AK you can buy them in Jupiter

Called a malyuk in real life lol

[civic relic]

i just got into rostok now im gonna go to jupiter rn to yanov station and check that out

[zenith sedge]

It's Ukraine's new assault rifle so I guess it made sense making it the end game gun in stalker lol

Yea yanov stations got all the best shit

[crisp horizon]

yup same, literally felt like i got dying light 2'd right there

[zenith sedge]

This game really reminds me of DL2 lol especially how it makes you stop for a Cutscene every 5 minutes

[quick kernel]

I gotta replay that game

[jade kraken]

Dying light 2 was over hated

[crisp horizon]

im starting to see what people mean when they complain about stalker being westernized lmao

[zenith sedge]

It's because DL1 was a 9.5/10 amazing game and DL2 was like an Ubisoft game clone

It was an alright game but people were expecting something amazing

[crisp horizon]

not entirely true, the game was in piss poor state for like 3 years before they finally fixed it, and even now its still pretty bad

[zenith sedge]

DL1 or 2? I remember 1 being amazing it was one of me favourite games for ages

I found it difficult to actually finish DL2 tho

[ornate jungle]

Guys i completed the Ad Astra Per Aspera mission and my screen is still kinda moving like i am being dizzy how to stop it?

[crisp horizon]

2, 1 was amazing

[jade kraken]

I really liked dl2, the parkour was really fun once you masterd it

[tepid osprey]

DL1 is still amazing at almost 10 years old

[zenith sedge]

Oh yea DL2 had areas that were straight up incomplete

The whole sunken city looked like it was made out of world boundary assets

[pine ibex]

Just a weapon 😛

[crisp horizon]

dl2 just sucked for the first 3 years and was basically a shell of the first game, enough people complained and they slowly started adding stuff that should have been there to begin with

[undone quail]

cant i get the journal stash in the swamp without playing the mainstory mates ?

[zenith sedge]

And the plot in DL2 reminded me of the new saints row game lol all the characters are like new age millennials ready to take down the evil corporate system despite it being a zombie game

[pine ibex]

It really is a laser! Very good!

[crisp horizon]

pretty much, theres a lot of places that are locked off due to story reasons

[undone quail]

thank you mate 😄

[zenith sedge]

Lol guns

[ornate jungle]

why is my screen shaking non stop like i have drunk vodka after the swamps mission

[tepid osprey]

Ooh I might give it a try

[crisp horizon]

even more people complained when they added them because the quest they put made zero sense to the rest of the story, and i'll agree the way to get them is the dumbest shit i've seen in any game

[zenith sedge]

Lmao yea then all of a sudden you somehow had a stash of every firearm in the world and nobody else on the planet could use them

[crisp horizon]

and then forcing you to do co op missions for them, what a joke for solo players

[zenith sedge]

Rofl as soon as the game gave me a dlc pistol it was like a "I am god" moment seeing the enemies couldn't pathfind up properly and you could just shoot down on them

[crisp horizon]

lmao

[vale sage]

Hello everyone, could you please help? When I launch the game, a window pops up asking me to choose between cloud or local saves. I chose local, and all my saves disappeared—they’re not in the folder. I’m playing through Game Pass. Is there any way to fix this?

[crisp horizon]

choose cloud then and see what happens

[magic sinew]

500k coupons or dinner with strelok

what are you choosing

[jade kraken]

Can i go further with strelok?

[crisp horizon]

strelok 100% what use would 500k coupons do me outside of the zone compared to streloks knowledge?

[boreal pendant]

can't decide

[steel harbor]

guys new here, idk if this is right section but im havign this problem where my game crashes when i interact with the vendor named lyova fan in chemical factory and one in red forest. i was told that its the mutant loot mod. i deleted the mod but still crash. i even deleted the ~mod file and it still crashes. any idea how i can fix it?thx

[crisp horizon]

did you follow the uninstall guide for mutant loot properly?

[steel harbor]

no i didnot, i just deleted the files from at mod

[weary hedge]

if you drop an item in the game can npc’s pick it up?

[maiden grotto]

No unfortunately

[steel harbor]

ill look into the mod again and try to delete it the way it was told.thx for letting me know

[north ember]

Yeah, the modpage has specific uninstall instructions, including sleeping enough time in game that all the loot is gone from trader inventories

[weary hedge]

But nothing despawns when you drop it so what am i supposed to do with broken guns?

[steel harbor]

for example what if i re download the mod again?will that help me not crash?

[north ember]

I would imagine so

[maiden grotto]

Leave them.

Or install a mod that lowers the repair cost, then flog them.

But the best thing to do, is just leave them

[weary hedge]

Its not going to make the game run worse if i leave a bunch of items all over the map?

[maiden grotto]

Nope.... you can always pick em up and dump em into a dead body... But I think that is a bit over kill.

[steel harbor]

yeah cuz i think i remember selling the loot to those vendors

[weary hedge]

Okay just making sure

[quick kernel]

Eh it was missing a lot of what made the first game great, granted it eventually reached peak but it took a long time

[north ember]

I just installed a mod that let me sell broken guns to any trader, because honestly, it's dumb that they won't buy them. Even piles of broken guns can be used for parts or scrapped, and melted into iron and steel ingots for other purposes

[maiden grotto]

I just went for cheaper repairs... then sell em for profit... Economy 101

[north ember]

it's like when games think that selling 3 guns into an economy with thousands of suppliers is really going to affect prices or supply and demand at all, and make traders decrease the price they will buy for, or stop buying them altogether because they have too many. Meanwhile, IRL, such a similar commodity can be bought and sold in bulk by the millions... but your 3 items of whatever really affected it...

[crisp horizon]

send help, im standing in a glass anomaly and being camped by both a pseudo giant and a pack of rats

[tepid osprey]

He was a good stalker

[crisp horizon]

im still here, using the glass anomaly to my advantage

[tepid osprey]

I hope you make it back, it will be a good story to tell at the campfire lol

[crisp horizon]

he refuses to go near the glass anomaly, so im just standing in it and lighting it up

[burnt hollow]

I'm sorry but if I find a Stalker inside a glass anomaly with rats and a pseudo giant, I'm gonna pretend I didn't hear the distress call

[tepid osprey]

Wheres Duty when you need them 😭

[crisp horizon]

the perfect condition RPG was put here for a reason and i dont wanna use it

[tepid osprey]

Do it! I just hope it dies with one RPG

[crisp horizon]

1 is all i have

[burnt hollow]

Fire it from inside the anomaly, just want to test something

[tepid osprey]

[turbid cove]

Still getting memory leaks anyone else?

[civic relic]

I just wish there was a bit more to upgrading then just pay money to do all the upgrades. Should make the player go out and find blueprints and take apart guns or something to get the tools to do upgrades. I know there is blueprints for some upgrades but seems like pretty much every upgrade is just pay money to a technician and thats it

[crisp horizon]

yes, got told its because of mods, removed mods and still got the same thing but much much faster

bro this thing just survived a magdump to the head from the glutton

[zenith sedge]

Imma be real chief I can't stand going out to a specific area and finding a blueprint but if it was like the bartender had a quest for different blueprints or something that'd be cool

[civic relic]

Yeah even that would be cool. Just anything at all really to make it a bit of a challenge and be more rewarding to do the upgrades for ur guns

Idk how many blueprints are out there ive found a few of them just exploring random buildings but would be cooler if they did something more unique than that maybe

[fading willow]

yeah, it's almost like they released an unfinished game

[burnt hollow]

It has 4k health. If it didn't have armor it would take 200 bullets from glutton to kill it. But it has armor, and no headshot multiplier.... So its more, prob closer to 4-500 bullets. The cost to kill a pseudo with anything besides a shotgun is crazy on veteran

[sonic pivot]

Scar has the gauss prototype since clear sky??

[burnt hollow]

The fact that you can't really hunt for them without looking up where that thing you want is online is kinda stupid. Like some blueprints is in the worst place compared to which gun or armor it is for.

[crisp horizon]

you cant really hunt for anything without looking it up in this game, literally feels like all the stalker series knowledge i gained over the years from the other games was just completely tossed out the window with this game

imo would have been better as a reboot

[burnt hollow]

For gear i mostly just went with what i found on my first run. Uniques and stuff was a happy find. It's very playable like that but if you've heard about or seen something, then yeah there's no way of finding out in game. Like even paying for rumours and getting a hint where you could find an unique weapon in the current zone would be cool

[ember wadi]

I'm gonna dive into modmaking when the SDK arrives. I'm already planning on making a unique Mac-10 with a 100-round drum mag. Any other uniques people would like to see? the dumber the better

[serene barn]

What if I just want an RPM that is using 7.62x54? 🥺 with increased damage and range of course

[ember wadi]

it already exists. Isn't that ||the exact gun korshunov uses||?

[carmine marsh]

how long is it usually between emissions? and are there zones that never have an emission start while in?

[serene barn]

I don’t think I have gotten to that. I’m just annoyed they made it weak and take 7.62x39 because they for whatever reason couldn’t make the RPD make it into the game

[ember wadi]

||you can only get it past the point of no return, so maybe give it to yourself with uetools if you're desperate||

[serene barn]

I don’t want to do that

[ember wadi]

Well, you can use it on the last mission, so there's that at least

[scenic widget]

Bro it's gotten to the point any time I hear the line "I Smell Bullshit" I know there's a psychic cat near me

[lethal kelp]

so we thinking kharod or dnipro? assuming no ammo issues.

[serene barn]

I think Kharod seems better.

[icy idol]

hey guys, how i deal with Zalissya bug on console?

[iron raven]

do i need to wear the x7 suit?

[north ember]

Has anyone figured out how to fix the "Deceive the Deceiver" quest if the quest-giver is dead? Or to get rid of the quest items?

[sour socket]

Wow Stalker 2 has sold over 2.6m copies now! So awesome!

[dusty lion]

Pretty unfortunate game is still unplayable for me

[desert sand]

Where can I report bugs please

[keen lotus]

s2-support channel

[still edge]

im seeing alot of movement in steamdb ... an emission... i mean a patch is coming, take cover

[sour socket]

Like the lil' 22GB "patch"

I remember how proud I was when I got my 30GB HHD

[still edge]

GSC: im just gonna drop a small patch of a million gb

[sour socket]

With all the sales they can afford proper support and DLC now!

$100m is a massive influx of capital..

[untold geode]

I was in line at circuit city for the delivery of the ZipDrive. 750MB was cutting edge technology

[sour socket]

OOH I'm not a Stalker-general yet, am I allowed to be in this channel?

[tight bane]

just escaped the swamps - I didn't encountered any chimera or pseudogiant

[grand tide]

Is the Couple kharod mag a mod or does it rly exist ?? Cause I See ppl having it but no one could Show where to find

[shy wadi]

i bet that backpack was heavy all the way kekw

[tight bane]

it was non stop non stop - although I went by side of clear sky base - not through the same entrance as I went in so maybe thats why ?

[shy wadi]

The chimera is there but you need to get close enough for it to trigger. there is a route that prevents the encounter and it just leads you to bloodsuckers

[tight bane]

well i think i was sprinting on hercules and avoided both 😄

went path through bubbles anomaly and rocks with dead scientist and artifact .... Lol but now I'm in Dalin room and see that he eats sasuage, bread and tourist delight xD

[frigid hill]

nighon has been warned

Reason: Bad word usage

[sour socket]

Wut.. Bots gone wild

[unreal reef]

Bots no like anything

[north ember]

I just block the bot, then I don't have to deal with it :)

[primal snow]

fixed AI when? 🙏

that’s only thing preventing me from getting into the game tbh is just the AI

[deft meteor]

new elden ring game for literally no reason at all i guess

[nocturne fiber]

The swamps were so stressful, the chimaera and an incoming emission but we made it 😂

[dense bloom]

https://www.nexusmods.com/stalker2heartofchornobyl/mods/276 i dont understtand this mod, i still have 86 max weight, and not 100..

[shy wadi]

Some mods make other mods disabled

[dense bloom]

Yup, but i think this mod is just not even working.. and when u download it its written 60 80 or 100max in the folder.. dude didnt told us how to use his mods.. i just want basically +15 max KG weight, i wish we had a moduable weight mod

@shy wadi ??

[dense bloom]

i've killed everything except this thing.. sponge and i was max weight and without anything to cover.. even scripted stuff are poorly done sometimes.

[nocturne fiber]

I didn't kill that one, I bolted it. I killed one later in a mission tho

[dense bloom]

did he pop near anomalies with glass smashed into pieces for you too in the swamps?

[nocturne fiber]

Yes sir

[dense bloom]

God.. the timing was so bad, i thought it was random, but they really make it pop middle of nowhere lol. Thx

[nocturne fiber]

I couldn't find where I had to go at first and I had to go fast because of emission and then THIS guy pulls up 😂

[dense bloom]

i literally have shot 30 bullets of m810 shotgun cracker at him, didnt die.. i gave up right away cuz no hiding + max weight anyways.

[dusky sonnet]

90% of my pms from Wolf the bot is "@dusky sonnet, that word is not allowed here! 😡"

[dusky sonnet]

yeah youre not meant to fight it, just run to the quest marker

i did kill it with my earlyish game gear, but then didnt have enough time to get to the bunker

[shy wadi]

The Swamp; it does exist

[civic relic]

why are there no binoculars?

[north ember]

as soon as it started DMing me about stupid levels, I blocked it.

[iron raven]

just finished my first playthrough
69 hours

[dusky sonnet]

damn, breezed through it

[civic relic]

this game must be in the top leaderboards for longest singleplayer triple aaa game

[dusky sonnet]

cause they werent added yet ( i hope its a "yet")

would be nice to have but with current spawning logic placing enemies relatively close to you, they probably dont want to draw attention to that too much

I do miss the easy friend/foe identification, sometimes i shoot a friendly because i didnt see the green dot

[iron raven]

even though it isn't AAA war thunder is insanely long

[paper sand]

i did my first in 45 but didnt do many sidequests, wanted to save those for round 2 so i have more to do

[civic relic]

i remember ppl going crazy over dying light 2 cause its like a 90 hour playthrough

[paper sand]

i think it was a pretty good length, dont want it to drag on too long

[iron raven]

at the very end i had like 700k dollars

i need to go touch grass to make up for the 69 hours i lost

[tough rain]

I like having to defend ||Yaniv while monolith spawn behind me every second||

[dusky sonnet]

hmm, isnt it? Would you consider Gaijin a large high profile publisher? Id say it fits the AAA descriptor of high budget, high profile game

Although idk if freemium live service games like War Thunder count

[dusky sonnet]

Im 80 hours in and just got to pripyat, I didn't go out of my way to drag it out by doing repeatable quests or farming, just looting every stash that is on my way from quest to quest

there arent many non repeatable side quests to begin with unfortunately

[civic relic]

bruh i just found a free rpg in a random cave i was told to hide in during an emission

[iron raven]

isn't that north of noontide

[hollow nymph]

Just found out Beard isn't on Skadovsk; Sultan took it over and they kept that con artist Owl around... wtf, refund

[civic relic]

nahh just beside the quarry in red forest

[hollow nymph]

Beard should be running the ship, Nimble should be running the shop and Sultan should be hanging from the center mast

[civic relic]

dude beard randomly just dissapeared from my game. someone here even said there is a mission at some point where u can choose to kill or save beard and uhhhh i wonder whats gonna happen when that mission comes along if hes already somehow gone lmao

[amber hill]

What’s up with the “sid_items_NPC-HeavyExoskeleton_Mercenaries_Armor_Name” gear? Lol

[fossil kayak]

it's basically useless

[amber hill]

So far it’s been completely useless but it’s still chillin in my stash for whatever reason

[dusky sonnet]

NPC armour that youre not meant to loot, but bugs out and spawns as loot anyways

[fossil kayak]

Tried to upgrade but could not

[amber hill]

Gotcha, thanks you guys

[dusky sonnet]

you can fix that

@amber hill did you get the bread armour too? thats the best one

[amber hill]

Noooo I’m still rocking Operator Exo atm 👀 where do I find the one your talking about?

[hollow nymph]

cool.. when an if the opportunity arises.. I left the story mission behind in Zaliyssa some 30 hours ago.. been wandering waiting for updates before really progressing

[dusky sonnet]

its not a main quest so you should be able to do it

@amber hill its also a bugged armour, its a bandit cloak with a bread png as the image in inv

[amber hill]

Oh hahaha no I haven’t encountered that one yet but I’ll surely be looking out for it now

[hollow nymph]

I had some "bread" armor but 1.02 made it go away lol

[dusky sonnet]

Yeah it might have been patched already, no mythical bandit bread for you

[amber hill]

Guess I have to settle for this bugged merc armor blue balling me

[dusky sonnet]

rip :(

[grand tide]

Thank you Sir

[topaz barn]

guys are monolith immune to emmisions, istg faust and his group walked out while it was on

[hardy sedge]

Is there a way to cheese Faust? What a terrible fight. I’m 50 attempts in. I’ve only died 15 times TOTAL before this fight

[bleak moth]

Idk why. But stalker 2 just keeps crashing on me at the end

[glass hamlet]

Question: what is the minimal price for a guide? Can you get it down to 0?

[bleak moth]

Yeah. I can’t finish the game. It keeps crashing when I enter the portal at the cooling towers.

I guess there’s too many enemies spawning around because A-life is still broken

[bleak mantle]

whats up people

can't wait for the devs to fix a-life

i've never used a guide, what do they do anyway?

[glass hamlet]

fast travel

[bleak mantle]

doesn't seem like slow mode is needed anymore.

[jade kraken]

Yeah its really not

[bleak mantle]

someone ping the mod's and ask them to turn it off. i vote @jade kraken does it.

[gloomy nebula]

They gave up on the game already?

[jade kraken]

Wth why me

[bleak mantle]

haha, just kidding.

[jade kraken]

You do it

[bleak mantle]

it's not going to work if i'm the only one asking

[bleak mantle]

why do you think they gave up on the game already?

[zealous goblet]

surprised they havent had a 4th patch yet. Game is still super rough

[bleak mantle]

could just be a larger patch this time around.

[zealous goblet]

hopin for a big EoY patch^^^^^^^^

[bleak mantle]

definitely still has issues. UI likes to disappear after talking to NPC's a lot.

[heady wind]

Shoot blue emitter which he has hanging on him and not Faust himself

[cerulean socket]

Careful it crashes when you shoot it the a shotgun

[heady wind]

F1 grenades work nice too

[bleak mantle]

i'm already 64.5 hours in and i'm only at the three captains mission.

[turbid tangle]

Is the achievement where you recieve all the lingering status effects still bugged? Or is there a preliminary process and it has to all 6 be the highest levels possible?

[restive storm]

I hope they fix the most important things like stutter and crashes first

[bleak mantle]

yeah, everytime a mutant appears and the game time slows, i stutter hard.

[restive storm]

Performance isnt even bad it is just the stutters and crashes that annoys me. Idk why they didnt gave out a patch exclusively for performance since the game came out. Even people with 4090 can`t play this game

[midnight sluice]

anyone with the deluxe edition or gold edition expansion could i dm some questions i have before buying it?

[bleak mantle]

anyone know what the endurance stat on artifacts like the thunderberry does exactly?

[zenith sedge]

I'm on 4090 I played the whole game above 90fps until dugu where it dropped to 5 fps lol but that was only for one fight

[lone sigil]

I have a 4090 but my cpu isn't really great. Game runs like poop anyways. So I put it away for now until they improved the issues

[zenith sedge]

Idk what's using up all the resources tho seeing the actual art assets are simple as

[restive storm]

It`s been more than 1 week. They should put out a new patch already. Big or small does not matter, just put out a patch so we at least get some fixes and continue to play the game. My interest is slowly getting diminished because of the problems and I am slowly thinking about deleting the game tbh. Since the game came out and it is new I was interested in it but my interest is diminishing

[lone sigil]

Probably map culling or something like that.

[zenith sedge]

You reckon just a bunch of CPU overhead from the open world?

@restive storm what specs

[rigid thicket]

Well I called Astro Bot winning goty last week, easy peasy

[restive storm]

RX 590, i7-4790K, 13 GB of RAM. I am playing with almost all settings high and some epic and I am getting 40-60 FPS depending on the location. I am getting stutters no matter the settings though

[lone sigil]

Yea cause every open world no loading screen kind of game will have this kind of issue and having POIs that have indoors esp places like pripyat with its apartment buildings, specific items spawns and entities spawning in one go it's gonna eat up resources.

I'm not too surprised given the circumstances they face during development. But I'd rather wait than be completely frustrated playing the game. So I've been on Dragons dogma 2 this whole time

Like my PC has 32gb ram DDR5 IMPORTANT NOTE, 4090, just a just ok amd ryzen. And it struggles with the game. Imagine people with lesser specs

[restive storm]

The only problem I face that is frustrating is that little annoying stutters and crashes when I get caught in anomalies

[zenith sedge]

4790k is a decade old and 13GB of ram is an odd one
The game definately runs like shit but I wouldn't imagine it'd ever run good on that

[lone sigil]

I literally got DDR 5 ram chips just to play games like tarkov and stalker 2 and I still struggle. At this point it's not my machine anymore

[zenith sedge]

Yea I'm on 13900ks 4090 64GB ddr5 it runs fine but the whole computer is running near 100% usage lol it's hot as and pulling like 600 watts

I get similar performance rendering in unreal 5 itself rofl

[restive storm]

Type "Stalker 2 - RX 590 - i7-4790K - 1.0.3" without quotation marks into youtube. I posted a video with first release 1.0.0 and the last release

[lone sigil]

Similar issue to mine feels like. But I get random stutters every now and then and the game is on an SSD specifically just for the game itself it's literally the only game in that SSD

[zenith sedge]

I don't get stutters really but the whole Cutscene at duga almost bluescreened me

The CPU overhead in this game is nuts I have a feeling a lot of it is the forced software raytracing

[restive storm]

Game is like an alzheimer patient. It forgets the places I went and just stutters like it is the first time I go into that place

[zenith sedge]

What's your ram setup like where you have 13GB out of curiosity lol

[restive storm]

1+8+4 GB 1333 MHz rams. Yeah I get that most games need more RAM but even with Cyberpunk I was able to play it without stuttering. What is so special about Stalker 2 that it needs more than 16

[lone sigil]

Most games now need at least 16gb ram

[zenith sedge]

Is that DDR3

[restive storm]

Yes it is DDR3. Game stutters less with Shader Cache on btw. For now, just the crashes annoy me. And, yeah I get that most games need more RAM but even with Cyberpunk I was able to play it without stuttering on high settings. What is so special about Stalker 2 that it needs more than 16 GBs of RAM and even with people more than that amount of RAM it still stutters. Game is extremely flawed right now and they still didn`t come out with a patch for a lot of things people want them to come out with, most important being the performance

[slender swan]

Hi, I haven’t played any stalker games before and I’m wondering if this is a good time to start playing. I read about how there is an A-life issue that still hasn’t been fixed, but I also read about how it’s difficult to fix. Should I wait or should I play now?

[restive storm]

Without AI mods, NPCs are like aimbots that can shoot you from 1 kilometers away. You can use AI mods for that. Idk much about A-Life but a lot of people are still complaining so it is not fixed I think. You can still enjoy it since it is really fun though. Just be ready to face some issues like stutters, crashes or other things

[slender swan]

I see. That seems to be a fixable problem though

[loud hedge]

Will there be a physical release of the S.T.A.L.K.E.R Legends Of The Zone Trilogy ?

[mystic egret]

hope we get to see soon

certain caliber buffs (9x39 does nothing extra)
grenade buffs
gun and armor slower degradation

[turbid tangle]

I noticed there’s XDiscoverMarker etc im assuming those pertain to locations etc has anyone figured out if locations have SID bases, points of interest, and locations

[weary hedge]

The

[oak basalt]

Just got a hyper cube and thunder berry back to back

[dusky sonnet]

thats such an odd setup lol

[frigid hill]

goblin6layer has been warned

Reason: Bad word usage

[half torrent]

Going to pripyat for first time, should I keep clusterf*ck or go get trophy?

[cobalt haven]

To those that don't know, since Tab key is now used for the Radial selector screen, Holding the "R" key will do the function of showing your current quests - just like how Tab key used to work in the Trilogy.

Gotta say, some keyboard functions aren't communicated properly in the game. Oh yeah, and underbarrel weapons are toggled by holding Mouse 5 key (if you got a 5 button mouse), and it's not remappable.

[paper trail]

go to pripyat get ptsd and nope out again for a break

[half torrent]

Fair enough lol

[paper trail]

I feel like pripyat feels as dangerous as it needs to be

after being ambushed by 2 teams of each 3 blood suckers and one controller in one building I decided to go stash huntin in garbage to sooth my brain. I went from 100 buckshot to 30 with my saiga. (I am a bad shot) It showed me that I gotta load in way more ammunition

[zenith sedge]

cube 2 hypercube

[paper trail]

my next playthrough will be on stalker difficulty instead of vet hahaha also because of economy reasons

[iron raven]

you can just use a reduced repair cost mod
or a general rebalancing mod

[weary hedge]

i like easy difficulty simply because its the only one where enemies get a hp reduction and the player gets a damage boost

i like realistic damage models, should be able to get at max shot like three / four times before you die, same for enemies

so on top of that i also have some of the enemy hp reductions mods on top as well as damage overhaul for firearms

[paper trail]

I already did. I am actually gonna get rid of it because with the mods the new patch could break something

[tough rain]

Anyone know how to fix the missing Yaniv guide 🤔

[minor fog]

how do you make leshy less hostile?

[digital parcel]

only way i have found is an emergency lead injection to the head

[crisp horizon]

is the collars mission still bugged?

[digital parcel]

Collars worked fine when i did it yesterday

[crisp horizon]

well the brain scorcher one aint spawning for me except a bunch of dead bodies and im pretty sure the one carrying the collar i need is under the map

[fossil drift]

I shot into the air and my mission updates with schebra telling me the location has been updated, it'll be inside the scorcher walls where you have to talk with some guys

[crisp horizon]

you mean the ones that are laying here dead?

[fossil drift]

Try to load an older save and get there sooner, mightve died to another mutant or emission if you took too long which sucks

[crisp horizon]

the amount of bugs this game has is genuinely gonna kill my love for this game

[nocturne fiber]

I mean it's a decent amount but nothing a reload or restart couldn't fix for me
Except artifacts being stuck inside of walls, we needed the debug console for that xd

[fossil drift]

No luck on trying to loot the mutant bodies around the area, right?

[crisp horizon]

i honestly cant be bothered, this shit is too annoying, borderline unplayable game

[digital parcel]

mercs have the collar, had to kill them twice to loot all collars from them

[crisp horizon]

body fell under the map

[nocturne fiber]

I remember the mercs, they gave it for cheap 1.5k coupons, killed them after buying tho because I'm a goblin

[crisp horizon]

i genuinely miss the era of receiving fully finished products and not being used as a unpaid playtester until my love for the series fades

[fossil drift]

That mission itself isn't anything crazy, at the end you get a || 50% durability gauss gun || but that part can't be done until after a certain late story mission

[nocturne fiber]

Don't forget achievement 👀

[crisp horizon]

honestly im about to go download steam achievement manager, shits actually needed with the amount of bugs this game has

[fossil drift]

The scanner achievement bugged for me, the one in wild territory. I had to reload a really old save and then noclipped around the map having to redo every single one.

[crisp horizon]

yeah im not doing that shit, if i pay 80+ for a game it should work out of the box with zero progress blocking bugs whether they be main or sidequests

[oak basalt]

agreed

[solar orchid]

So... Just a quick question here if anyone has had the same issue. I'm attempting to download a collection from Vortex for S2 and whenever I try to launch the game I just get the same crash log over and over before even getting to the main menu? It not only happens with this collection but 99% of the mods I try to install, be it 2, 3 or 5 or an entire collection of mods (30'ish mods).

I got the crash log if anyone could tell me what it means

[crisp horizon]

oh yeah the only mutant there was a snork so if you're telling me a bunch of exo suit mercs died to a single snork theres definitely a balancing issue

[oak basalt]

super snork

[crisp horizon]

not to mention one of the guys was stuck in the roof hanging by his feet, in an unaccessable room like 90% of the buildings in this game

[cobalt haven]

Looks like Zulu really went on being a separatist from the whole Duty, based on more dialogs from NPCs, extending his ways back in Call of Pripyat

[oak basalt]

thats the predator

[lone elm]

Fr?

[oak basalt]

everyone has said that at one time or another, and I keep coming back.

[crisp horizon]

oh yeah dont get me wrong, i'll probably be back on later and complaining about more shit, unless i decide to get on cod or something

[solar orchid]

Anyone got any idea exactly what causes the "Unhandled Exception: EXCEPTION_ACCESS_VIOLATION" crash error?

[oak basalt]

like dont get me wrong its broken, I have been softlocked from the main story like 3 times now and can't progress at all rn, but I keep playing and just exploring.

[crisp horizon]

but it genuinely is really really annoying to run into all these progress blocking bugs, i shouldnt have to do all these fixes and work around just to get shit to work and quest related npcs definitely shouldnt be able to die until after the quest related activity, especially if the game gets to decide to nope those bodies out of existence

[oak basalt]

when you just want to stalk your zone but your zone is is stalking you

[crisp horizon]

i just want a game that works

[oak basalt]

give it time, time will heal the zone, as it heals all else.

[mild salmon]

We just both be stalking each other

[oak basalt]

@mild salmon oh yea I see you out there

[oak basalt]

don't ya just hate when your with your bloodsucker grilfriend and some monolithian starts yelling about fausts feet

[crisp horizon]

i got rushed by 8 of them last night, i'll post the screen

[oak basalt]

YOOO same that shit was A.S.S, they kept stun locking me.

[nocturne fiber]

Fr one screams and another one just whacks you

[oak basalt]

like what are you screaming for, i only shot your leg off.

[nocturne fiber]

They had it coming

[oak basalt]

yea she cheated on me , she said she sucked blood, but she didint want my blood

[nocturne fiber]

The funniest thing is still magdumping a saiga into a mutant

[crisp horizon]

spaz 12, easiest and probably most funny reaction to one

[oak basalt]

yea i changed to the texan, same feel tho

[hoary crest]

Hope if we see a master mode down the line weapon balance is made more realistic. Mutants should be turned into chunks by shotguns and human enemies should be nerfed into the ground by rifles

[nocturne fiber]

Is that a unique saiga or which shotgun is it?

[mild salmon]

spas

[crisp horizon]

im pretty sure thats just fubar isnt it?

[oak basalt]

the ram 12 unique variant has 14 rounds and hits like a truck

[hoary crest]

Basically yup. Though it should still be a thing vanilla gets down the line for the console brethren

[nocturne fiber]

But but sledgehammer :c

[mild salmon]

I luv the ram 12, its basically what i do to every mutant i see

[oak basalt]

yea its just better and more sexy

my whole loadout is just skifs pistol, M1 308 semi rifle, and the texan all fully upgraded and modded out

[nocturne fiber]

A saiga magdump is just a lifestyle. That burer drops like a sack of sh*t before being able to steal my gun

[crisp horizon]

let me turn on the brain scorcher and make some bacon

[oak basalt]

screw those little wizard dude always yoinking my guns

[hoary crest]

Snork best mutant... which feels weird to say given their history in the trilogy..

[crisp horizon]

try watching one use your own shotgun against you

[nocturne fiber]

Sidenote a burer stealing your LMG is not a fun experience

[oak basalt]

got killed like that already.....

[crisp horizon]

im pretty sure seeing a snork for the first time is what made me originally want to buy shadow of chernobyl lmao but i was also obsessed with looking into people who illegally entered and would film it too

[nocturne fiber]

First time I saw them I was like "yo this is not dark souls stop rolling"

[digital parcel]

Imagine Steve Irwin doing episodes on Zone mutants

[oak basalt]

yea i said teach me how to bunny hop

[hoary crest]

I wish we were getting more Darksouls, but its a sad day because of this new ER thing thats gonna be coop only, class based bull...

[crisp horizon]

elden naruto

[nocturne fiber]

Imma be real I never played a souls game

[oak basalt]

im excited but im also a lore buff so maybe thats why, its got sekiro combat so it seems fun

[hoary crest]

Its gonna be so ass man. No invasions, anime dialed up to 9000... they're catering to the average Elden Ring player who only knows L2

[digital parcel]

you can still play the old games for the old feel

[crisp horizon]

hmmm reminds me of a specific game that just came out recently that seems to be baked with console features

[hoary crest]

Looking way more egregious ngl

[crisp horizon]

gonna be until the game is in a playable state unfortunately

[frigid hill]

speedweed has been warned

Reason: Bad word usage

[chrome mantle]

Hopefully we will get a Patch soon

[weary hedge]

How long do we have to wait for a life?

[crisp horizon]

a lifetime (idk when but theres mods)

[weary hedge]

for console?

[crisp horizon]

if you had a modded xbox im sure there'd be a way

[ebon blade]

Does anyone know why identical weapons, with the exception of one being Monolith, have widely different values? Hamster will give me 4,200 for the AR416, but only 1,560 for the Monolith AR416.

[latent socket]

Does anyone know where the blueprint for extra barrel rifling for the Integral-A is located? Can’t seem to find it anywhere and google is not being helpful. The technician in Yaniv shows a blueprint needed to improve penetration

[austere peak]

There's a new patch?

[ebon blade]

If there was a new patch, you would find it on Steam.

[iron raven]

Skif's pistol is great against a burer

[regal notch]

Patch when?????

[mellow knot]

FIX THE GAMEEE GSC

[hoary crest]

Not an uncommon thing to happen with pre-order bonus', they often have lower value in some respect than the in-game versions.

[iron belfry]

I ran into the guy that sells a car. I bought it and reloaded my save since I figured it was a scam. anyway, I saw a short about it and apparently after he scams you, he tries to sell you a helicopter later. lmao

[ebon blade]

I just checked the upgrade costs and they were identical. I was hoping the Monolith weapons with less value would be cheaper to upgrade/repair.

[stark crescent]

I also came across him yesterday. I then went ahead tot est his physical protection. It wasnt very high

[iron belfry]

it's funny so since there are no keys, he says to leave an artifact on the hood for 30 minutes, so if you do and leave and come back. it's gone

[stark crescent]

I am kinda sad theres no vehicle. I mean, you see ward vehicles come and go, but never drive off. While at the end of call of pripyat, you hear about 2 mechanics joining up to make a vehicle that can traverse the zone

[iron belfry]

it makes sense to not risk a vehicle in the zone. too many anomalies. in the stalker movie the dude barely even walks anywhere in the zone without throwing a nut tied to some fabric every so many steps

vehicles would make too much sound as well, considering how many things can attack you based on your stomach growling levels of noise

better to travel light

[carmine marsh]

is it possible to manually trigger an emission

[iron belfry]

I may be wrong here but it is mostly time based it seems. although there is one mission I think that causes it to trigger but that's one really specific instance

I think it's a chance to happen every few days