☢┃stalker-general

[hoary crest]

Lmao, thats pretty funny 😂 I twigged onto it being a scam and killed him myself, but him trying to sell you a heli' later is hilarious

[iron belfry]

right I killed him as well and reloaded. but yeah I saw someone else go with it and when you run into him again if you get scammed and don't kill him. he'll ask if you want to buy a helicopter

[hoary crest]

I wanna say its somewhat random as I've had what felt like back to back emmisions before, granted i probably just lost track of time an they werent that close together, but felt like they were

[carmine marsh]

darn, im trying to get one to trigger but dont want to wait hours for it

[iron belfry]

I mean if you waited long enough... but yeah I've got about 48 hours in the game and have had maybe 5, 6 emissions

[dapper garnet]

wonder when this next patch is going to hit.......

[iron belfry]

does anyone else go to heal and then they accidentally eat a sausage and die? no not the sausage

[signal eagle]

Yep or 'Tinned meat'

[weary hedge]

does anyone know why my health is like slowly draining, i’m not getting attacked i’m at the place for the dead frequency mission and i killed some dude that like looked like a mirror and he dissapeared

[digital parcel]

Radiation, bleed, psi-damage, touching barbed wires, anomalies

[west hill]

i have like 25 mods and its pretty fun game

[weary hedge]

my characters having a schizo attack?

[west hill]

maybe controller?

[visual anchor]

i remember when i first played stalker 2 i thought psi had to do something with pressure 😭

[weary hedge]

no there’s weird orange ghost things running at me

[hoary crest]

I got a fix for that for you. Take a set number of medits out with you at any given time, count your uses and when you've gotten through your bought with you supply, check your inventory and see how many extra you have picked up, rinse and repeat the cycle.

Same for ammo, bring a set number of mags wit you, and count your reloads.

Both of these things help massively with resource management and will allow you to play with no HUD comfortably

[fresh palm]

Game fun, but im deleting it because i already dumped 120 hours into the game, and got all the endings (except ward's)

[random tiger]

Finally got my first Exoskeleton suit

[wintry mulch]

Psi radiation area. Get out of there Stalker!

[iron belfry]

did you do all the side quests?

[weary hedge]

what is psi???

[fresh palm]

Nope, still alot to do

[west hill]

i failed the vodka stash one

[wintry mulch]

Your brain is being turned into mush

[iron belfry]

same. I think after I beat it I'll have no choice but to try the hardest difficulty. right?

[weary hedge]

how do i get out

[fresh palm]

Psychic Radiation

[west hill]

isnt veteran hardest

[iron belfry]

I think so but I'm playing on stalker rn

[violet dune]

patch soon? some updates on steamdb

[iron belfry]

yeah psionics or psychic energy

[dusky sonnet]

if i gotta heal in an emergency i just press the hotkey, are you digging in your bag when you gotta heal?

[fresh palm]

Would be nice to see psy mutants fight eachother like wizards in a forest

[feral tiger]

Is there any news on controller dead zones ?

[sly sluice]

Anyone else miss the more comical voice lines a bit? Like anu cheeki breeki I damke and granadadada
At first I didn't notice at all but now I realize we don't really have many new memes, all the voice lines in s2 seem pretty serious

[signal eagle]

Vladimir Makarov -
"Remember, no Russian"
CoDMW2

[dusky sonnet]

the bandits arent the silly little guys they used to be, too serious now

[iron belfry]

no I press the hotkey, I just mean instead of left for medkit, sometimes on occasion I'll push the right and eat something. like a panic wrong press

[iron belfry]

wanna buy a car?

[dusky sonnet]

oh right, i forgot i unbound them from the defaults cause i aint having lean on x and c

i dont even have my 3rd and 4th hotkey bound

[dusky sonnet]

saving for a helicopter actually

[iron belfry]

smart

[minor gyro]

Thing that goes……………mhm………..stalker………..zombie…..

[teal sail]

integral-a with the .45 conversion and expanded mag is actually pretty good
with an EM-1 and Rhino with buckshot conversion im pretty much covered

[dusky sonnet]

yeah its solid with the 45 cal conversion, dissapointing in 9mm though

[teal sail]

yeah 9x19 is poop calibre for integral
you spend more time reloading that shooting and you need most of a mag to kill someone
i feel like whoever you are, 15 rounds of anything bigger than .22 should kill you no matter what lmao

[shadow copper]

Has anyone done the arena quest line in done part 4 but he won’t give me my reward

[abstract mulch]

did anyone solve side quest On the edge bug ? Where monoliths spawn inside house ?

[shadow copper]

That happened to me just talk to the graffer or whatever his name is and ask what’s new in the zone it will continue the quest

[abstract mulch]

ohh okey

[shadow copper]

Yea it’s really bugged but after that there will be a attack don’t shoot anything or your guys will get mad at you for some reason so just let them fight everything

[sturdy jacinth]

Stalker 2 out yet?

[shadow copper]

Yeah lol

[sturdy jacinth]

Sick how is it

[wintry mulch]

You run away from the village and back again a couple of times, eventually they'll move out of the house and start fighting.

[abstract mulch]

yeah. I didnt run away I just went to other room and they all started shooting

[teal sail]

https://www.reddit.com/r/stalker/comments/1gz8kia/zalissya_defence_guide_using_uetools/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web3x&utm_name=web3xcss&utm_term=1&utm_content=share_button follow this guide if you're on PC

[west hill]

no way, finally a life improvenets

[stark crescent]

I hate how everyone has a British accent now. I liked the eastern accents stalkers used to have. Metro english sounds like russians speaking broken english. But i know. GSC put their entire budget into making pretty guns. Alife is a freaking mess. The zone is static. This game starts like a no man sky.

[smoky hawk]

in the older games, most of the VA work, was performed by developers themselves

[teal sail]

thats why i play with ukranian dubs and english subs

[stark crescent]

I prefer english voiced so i can watch the scene. Not just text

[smoky hawk]

ez just learn ukrainian

[cloud carbon]

I'm still mad about the game awards
Valve still can't count to three

[smoky hawk]

stalker channel ma man

[stark crescent]

Why i begrudgingly watch anime dub. Even tho its horrible most of the time. I wanna see the anime, and not go down with my eyes all the time to read.

However, seeing russians speak with british accents is kind of game breaking.

[grand tide]

@shy wadi thats just the extended mag but I was Talking About the couple mag for the Kharod

[smoky hawk]

unless youre read speed is so low even a snail is faster, I dont know how youd miss the scene from just keeping up with the subs

[stark crescent]

You spend time reading. Time that could be spend juat watching the scene. Its just better to listen and watch, than watch, read, watch.

[plain jewel]

Bruv.

[wintry mulch]

Can't say I've ever had a problem with subtitles getting in the way of paying attention to the scene. But I suppose if you're not used to it...?

[cloud carbon]

I wanted stalker 2 to win goty

[smoky hawk]

my man cannot read AND watch the scene at the same time, do you just block everything out of the screen and can only see subs when watching smth?
plus its not like reading is some herculean task taht requries you to block out all external things to concentrate on, rather quick too!

[shadow copper]

Aside from certain npcs and quests bugging really hard it’s fun but some times the bugs just really get on my nerves mostly quest bugs

[stark crescent]

I just wanna watch what im looking at. Not at reading some text. Divert attention from the scene.

[grand tide]

It definetly wont

[wintry mulch]

Too niche of a game and too many issues for that.

[smoky hawk]

Stalker 2 was one of the best sellers in its opening week with 100k+ concurrent players at launch *on steam only

and double for twitch viewers

it was played and viewed by A TON of people, like it aint mainstream, but sure as heck no longer niche

feels good

[wintry mulch]

Are you from an English speaking country, or a country that dubs movies rather than using subtitles?

[smoky hawk]

prob american or brittish if I had to guess

[grand tide]

Ye wouldnt say its to niche its just that this Game is once again unfinished af

I mean Bugs at all aint a big deal tho but Game Breaking bugs where you cant Proceed the Main Story Like a door which just don’t Open. Like cmon did the Devs even Play their own Game at this Point ?

[wintry mulch]

They were aware game would ship with bugs. They were at a point where they needed the income from sales, and couldn't ask devs to do more crunch time. Delaying the game any more wasn't seen as an option.

[dusky sonnet]

its good, but idk about it being goty material

[dense sandal]

#📸┃screenshots_and_videos how’s this for armor

[dusky sonnet]

hold on, werent you saying something about doing glitches for money cause you couldnt figure out artifact hunting? you seem to be doing just fine money wise

[dense sandal]

Found something

Idk if i should get other armor just that

[dusky sonnet]

what are you gonna do with another armour

[dense sandal]

Idk

[rare ermine]

has anyone else had this bug?

I'm at the mission Talk to the representative of C-Consciousness

there was some dialog then nothing, judging YouTube something isn't triggering for me

I've loaded old saves, talked to all NCP's, stood there an waited for hours also ran around the building aimlessly

is this a wait for GSC thing ? 50 hours in and now i cant play 😦

[hoary crest]

British and play it with english subs and Ukrainian language, don't think nation has anything to do with it, some people just don't read good

[ebon mountain]

where can I get silencer for AK?

[sonic pivot]

u think coop mod will be possible like in previous games?, this game deserves a lot more than a tiny arena pvp mode

[pastel smelt]

It's been week ago since the patch 1.04 released. Any info for new patch?

who made this question? lmao dude chill, it's been a week, let the team work at their own pace lmao some ppl are really entitled

[sonic pivot]

i thought it was 1.03

[zenith remnant]

Fair question for people who’ve dropped money on an unfinished game, an update on the patch would be welcomed no?

[pastel smelt]

we already had 1.03

[sonic pivot]

december 3 was patch 1.03? i dont think ive gotten new one, on steam

[pastel smelt]

if ppl cant wait more than a week for the next patch they really need to play other games or do other stuff with their lives...

[sonic pivot]

theres testing needed, they might fix some bugs and another rises

[remote hazel]

Interesting, why there's to achievement for completing on master difficulty?

[zenith remnant]

I’m not saying otherwise, but telling people to chill out over a harmless question and calling them entitled just for some info is a reach

[sonic pivot]

we dont know, but there is no difficulty related achievement

[vague yew]

when update?!??!?!

[remote hazel]

Bruh. Why then I pissed on Scar, Strelok and Colonel in hard difficulty?

Btw they was easy to bully lol

[quick kernel]

Two minutes and fifteen seconds from right now

[sonic pivot]

yes u can just swap difficulty lower just for bullet sponge fights and back to veteran after and it doesnt matter. i do that sometimes to not spend all 300bullets i carry for a chimera

[vague yew]

hmmmmmmmmm

[remote hazel]

Well I wanted to make it in hard way

[hoary crest]

Theres like 30 people a day going "when an patch". Its gettin a bit tiresome

[hybrid scroll]

Fortunately, when one does drop we'll all get the ping in the announcements

[hoary crest]

Yep, and then 12 hours later, you'll have people demanding another patch.

[pastel smelt]

somehow ppl still finds a way to miss that ping and keeps asking🤣

[hybrid scroll]

Too many people used to instant gratification these days. No patience anymore.

[remote hazel]

Tbh they have a point, game is good, but we all waited for many thighs

[visual anchor]

why ||do the scientists think i'm the boogey man when i approach malachite base?||

[pine haven]

when's patch?

[hybrid scroll]

Just imagine if they pushed back each patch by 3 minutes per every one ask.

[plucky dirge]

I found a Reddit post that suggested kiting the bloodsuckers from Dire Thicket to the edge of the town, then climb the tower behind the building, hop onto the roof, and drop in front of the front door.

Don't ask me why, but this worked for me.

[sonic pivot]

cheeki breeki

[sonic pivot]

that thing that when u use a comsumable like medkit or energy drink, and the animation goes but the item is not consumed, is a feature or bug?

[hybrid scroll]

Sounds like you did something that canceled the use of the item. Unless there's some bug like that now

[sonic pivot]

theres times im running and i have to drink 3 waters while waiting the animation until 1 time it gets consumed, it happens occasionally not all the time but consistently

[sonic pivot]

no its no cancel, all the animation plays and the item is not consumed neither u get the effect, and u have to do it again

[compact gulch]

The game probably didn’t register that the animation was finished

[sonic pivot]

its a bug surely i just wonder if its known, sometimes doesnt register the comsuming of consumable

[fervent night]

Kinda sad to see the game dying slowly

[sonic pivot]

i think it has a long way till that

[fervent night]

Well I still can't play it after the last patch, FPS went from 50 to 11

[compact gulch]

Wait your playing the game on 50fps? XD

[hybrid scroll]

Mine plays fantastically

[hoary crest]

Yep, im on a pretty locked in 60 with the odd hiccup here an there

[fervent night]

Not anymore

[compact gulch]

It could be worse you could be playing it on a laptop. Any settlement I enter it drops to a solid 15 fps

[hoary crest]

I am playing it on a laptop kek, see above

[fervent night]

I was playing it on a laptop, and managed to squeeze 50 fps on low settings, but then after the two patches i cant push past 15 fps

[compact gulch]

I do know settlements can drop fps drastically also some quest areas.

Exit back to the main menu seemed to help boost my laptop back up to 30fps at the least

[sonic pivot]

i have average anywhere from 50-70 depending on area with worst down to 30

[fervent night]

Been considering a refund for a week now honestly since they patched me out of being able to play

[sonic pivot]

what u mean patched u out, ah nvm i got it

[compact gulch]

Try exiting back to the main menu when your fps drops.

It seemed to for me at least boost my fps back to playable levels.

I’ve also seen some mods that help with fps

[fervent night]

If there was a fix I would have found it trust me, but the game is just a mess right now and I'm hoping they optimize it soon

[compact gulch]

Yeah I hope they do. It sucks to see people leave the game for it running slow on their setups

[hoary crest]

There are a lot of people trying to run this on literal potatoes, just worth factoring that in here

[fervent night]

True, but minimum system requirements are still something that should allow you to play the game

I used to meet recommended before they changed it a week before release.

[sonic pivot]

shouldnt we have a melee system where u can just punch when u have no weapons out? left click punch, and right click zoom as it is now, currently left click is not used there i think

[hoary crest]

Minimum, absolutely. But you'd be shocked at the number of people who simply do not read the minimum or average spec' requirement

[fervent night]

Yeah I know

[hoary crest]

https://www.nexusmods.com/stalker2heartofchornobyl/mods/17?tab=description you might wanna try this though. Just ini changes, you're not installing falsely advertised performance "mods", its just engine tweaks

[fervent night]

Ill try it thanks, but I dont expect much until the devs put in more work.

Probably just gonna reinstall Gamma while I wait and replay it for like the 4th time

[compact gulch]

I’m vaguely new to the Stalker series what exactly is Gamma

[fervent night]

Very big modpack which patches all 3 previous games into a megagame, its not everyones cup of tea tho as it adds a lot of hardcore survival micromanagement stuff.

[compact gulch]

When you say micromanagement do you mean food,water,sleep cycles?

[fervent night]

and much much more

[hoary crest]

Gamma is very divisive, some people love it, other people despise it. It's very in-depth

[compact gulch]

I might have to install this and give it a try.

[stark crescent]

Im from the netherlands. We use alot of subs on english stuff.But i dont really watch tv or something. I stream from online sources alot. So most stuff i watch is english without subs

[fervent night]

Might be a big jump if youre new to stalker, it can be a bit overwhelming

[compact gulch]

Fair enough, however I do love a challenge

[shy wadi]

nah its kinda entitled

[zenith remnant]

If that’s the way you want to project it then go ahead but at the end if the day it’s really not, he wasn’t demanding anything just asking about an update on a patch from a developer that’s known to give updates on patches, 2+2=4

Legit all he asked was “any info”

[shy wadi]

i have way more hours into this game than the people complaining and I have every right to be entitled to complaints and I haven’t done it.

[zenith remnant]

Am I supposed to take that comment seriously? How does your play time come into this discussion? Where was he complaining? You don’t know how many hours he has either, legit asked if there was any info and got attacked for it

“Well I have 80 hours and I haven’t complained” like congrats ig but different people are different, again this being irrelevant to the topic at hand

[jade kraken]

By the monolith the rookies are going at it again😔

[compact gulch]

Fr

[tough frigate]

At the end of the day people have every right to ask questions about when the patches will come out. We paid money for something that’s unfinished. No point in getting defensive over the devs lmao

But when people call them lazy or say they’re doing nothing that’s when their argument looks stupid

[zenith remnant]

My point exactly

[hoary crest]

Sure, you have every right too, but when there is 30 posts daily about it it starts to appear that people don't have much respect for the people doing the work.

We got one a week ago and always get pinged when one drops, waiting aint gonna kill you, no need to pressure the people which are obviously working hard on pushing ones out (right before shitmas)

[zenith remnant]

People are assholes yes but in this certain situation the OP wasn’t and still got called names

[tough frigate]

I think that logic about people asking about the patches daily should only apply if just one person is constantly going on about it. If one dude yaps on about it then by all means tell them to shut up but if you can’t understand why multiple people always bring it up then it’s better to just not say anything at all.

I’ve been waiting for a fix to my problem for 10 days I’ve just been playing other games in the meantime.

[west patrol]

I wish they will fix non stop rain after Pripyat

[zenith remnant]

Mmm water

[hoary crest]

Usually I wouldnt give a toss, but given the amount of effort thats been put into this by a a dev team thats got a war at home and has already put out three patches faster than you'd get even one from most studios it feels a little bit expectant for people to be asking constantly, might just be me, but 🤷‍♂️

[flint plover]

Cool, happy to see A-Life improvements already coming along https://imgur.com/a/rUeNCqP

[tough frigate]

I get what you mean.

[half seal]

So I just found out the reason why Scar survives emissions, pretty sick plot twist

[zenith remnant]

Yes we get it you are so unique and so thoughtful thank you for your sacrifices 🙏 there’s no moral high ground here there’s just not

[hoary crest]

Ahh yes, you don't think like I do so you must be acting all moral for the sake of it. Orginal take there champ

[tough frigate]

I’ve seen some people say the devs are lazy or doing nothing in the meantime. That’s when you’re talking to someone with brain rot

[zenith remnant]

No your thinking is just stupid that’s all

[hoary crest]

So is insulting people when thier veiwpoints don't align with yours. Funny how that works innit.

[zenith remnant]

“Why would anyone criticize or ask questions about my developers don’t they know how hard it is to dev” lmao get over yourself I’m sorry to say but people are gonna ask questions and raise eyebrows when their game they payed for won’t work

[hoary crest]

Yeah.. that isnt what i said at all. This, this right here is the stuff that makes people look entitled. Nice of you to try put words in my mouth though, appreciate it 👍

[zenith remnant]

Expecting them not to because of the circumstances, while not great, is such a dumb take people are gonna do what they want, and again with the “entitled” lmao buzzword of the day memo I miss or something

[hoary crest]

Three patches in the time it takes most studios to even acknowledge a problem is pretty good going. But hey, you do you boo

[zenith remnant]

I’m not complaining, I never was I’ve been on the side of the guy who got attacked for simply asking for info while being called entitled

But there’s a stigma as to when someone asks a question about an update on anything they get called out for being rude or a new favorite “entitled” for a game they payed for

[hoary crest]

Right, and now you're biting my head off for a difference of opinion, when I'm not the one who said that. And yes, you are indeed being quite rude.

[zenith remnant]

It’s not even being rude im just being flat out honest with you

[hoary crest]

Average internet user try to have some basic self-awareness, impossible difficulty

[zenith remnant]

You can’t say that and not be ironic at the same time lmao

Well it’s been fun chatting but I gotta get to work now chow @hoary crest and happy holidays

[hoary crest]

Hey you could have just ended it there by accepting you were being rude, but you wanted to double down the "honesty", act like a helmet I'm gonna treat you like one lol.

Alright, have a good day man

[sonic pivot]

guys the bugs are just anomalies of the zone, we have to wait the c-conciousness to fix them up

[cunning crystal]

[viral bone]

Always someone arguing in here

[opal matrix]

Always, its thensame argument too. The critical gamer says "Game is broke whens next patch" then the simp gamer says "Devs are making the game in a war zone give em a break. Reeeeeeeee"

[sonic pivot]

And its fair

[thorny zealot]

Everyone else doesnt care and are just waiting for the patches in peace.

[cunning crystal]

[opal matrix]

It's all fair, and all true games got potential and life.

[still edge]

if people dont argue about the game, that means nobody cares about the game, behind the arguments there are passionate people who want to see the game succeed

[cunning crystal]

[thorny zealot]

gotta be honest, it did succeed in my eyes. i love it, thank you devs! I will play it again after the patches come, couldnt do everything in 65 hours I played but I will go through everything the second time.

[still edge]

yes it did succeed in many aspect, but the majority of the stalker fans are waiting alife and performance improvement, right now the game is 9/10 or with those two things added , the game is definetely a 10/10

[opal matrix]

@thorny zealot that's fair, i see the game as an alpha and i can see a clear path to success.

[rigid thicket]

Nice to see ALife improvements will be in the next patch, the hype is real now

[dusk grove]

I'm just waiting patiently

[hoary crest]

Looks an Concord.... You sure about that bud?

[still edge]

well... maybe not all of them

[opal matrix]

@hoary crest sorry I'm slow i don't understand whatchu talking about.

[still edge]

its a game that was death before release

[hoary crest]

To the point its a meme yeah

[trail arch]

Do mutants even have armor? Should I not worry about penetration for them?

[thorny zealot]

Did devs ever say if they will add mutant parts as loot?

[hoary crest]

Some of em do yeah, Bloodsucker and Snork i beleive both, though idk how much of an impact AP ammo has on them, Slugs work gud though so maybe AP is worthwhile as Slugs are menna be that option for shotguns

[naive frost]

Is anyone else having problems with settings not being saved between sessions?

[amber hill]

When you log in and the audio bug is finally gone after a few days. Cloud 9 time to clock back in this bi***

[trail arch]

Ok good, I got the rifled barrel upgrade for my shottie and I was questioning if it was worth it. Slugs are so much harder t find and they cost a lot

[still edge]

manual saves?

[hoary crest]

They get easier to grab the later into the game you go. Also Expansive slugs are kinda disgusting from what i remember of vanilla balancing

[naive frost]

i am saving manually, but my issue is that my graphics settings are turned to max every time i boot up the game. crashes sometimes

[still edge]

they are worth it, the difference in damage and acuracy is very noticable

[crisp roost]

Have there been any indications when they're going to fix the AI in the game?

[hoary crest]

SoonTM

[wintry mulch]

Next patch will have the first tweaks.

[crisp roost]

That's confirmed or speculation?

I know there's been chats around the AI only being extended out to a specific radius, but I actually found the AI really 'dumb' too.

[wintry mulch]

#📜┃gsc-answers message

[raven matrix]

The first half of the game for me was pretty flawless, honestly, then i leave SIRCAA and its getting super jank. I wanted to go back to Icarus to rest after SIRCAA, i found like 15 zombies there, so I started running away. Then as i get down the hill a bit, an emission hits and im forced to go back to icarus to take cover, the zombies there 10 seconds previously were completely despawned lol

I will restart the game and do all the sidequests I was missing and explore more though 🙂 Beginning is so good.

[eternal thistle]

Hello.
In the tutorial at the beginning of the game, there is a barge with flying objects that targets me. I think it’s a polteirgeist. A white mist is moving in the barge. I believe it is him.
Is it possible to kill him ?

[wintry mulch]

Yep! Your weapons just suck at the moment 🙂 Just keep shooting.

[ornate sable]

It's possible

[stark fossil]

If you know a place has a poltergeists what you can do is try to sneak upon it. If you start from far enough away you could even knife it before it realises you’re there.

[eternal thistle]

@ornate sable
Ok. If I see blood spilling, that’s good.

[stark fossil]

But that particular one is scripted to know you’re there I’d say.. others you ran across in game are susceptible to sneaking

Just be careful they’re blind, not deaf 🤓

[eternal thistle]

He has a good ear yes

[obtuse tapir]

They have insane armor

[hoary crest]

Wouldnt waste your ammo. Look around before planting the third scanner and you might just be able to keep more of it...

[raven matrix]

I had no idea what a poltergeist was at the time. I spent some time there getting objects chucked at my head before i just decided to run in fear. The beginning was such a shock for someone new to stalker hahaha

[obtuse tapir]

I was disappointed the poltys had no body, but then I killed one

[signal depot]

it is already mid december
when is the roadmap
also
I think this is the longest between updates so far. Would really like some info

[shy wadi]

an anomoly put a RPM-74 into my inventory

[visual anchor]

same here and also 4 svd-m2's

[raven matrix]

they updated us that its a big patch, aiming for some A-life stuff but no date hyet

[wintry mulch]

The Zone giveth, and the Zone takes away!

[signal depot]

I think this should be a burer/controller mechanic, where they just put crappy weapons in your hands so you can't shoot them
@raven matrix I saw the gsc-answers, but "there will be a-life improvements in the next patch" doesn't a roadmap make

also, on the subject of controllers, wtf ever happened to the "self-die" mechanic? Controllers are pushovers because they can't do anything to you anymore

[raven matrix]

Well roadmap = fix game, fix game, fix a-life, dlc, dlc. Game dev typically moves slow these days on big complicated games:P

[signal depot]

brother, its ok to admit if you don't know what a roadmap is.
They said before launch roadmap was coming in December. It's mid December, would be nice to get some confirmation if that's still coming in December or if plans have changed (of course)

[faint spade]

Good morning. Is there a specific channel or pin I should reference to fix access violations? This is with modded and unmodded saves....

[raven matrix]

Im not sure what else you are expecting from it though.

[signal depot]

specific list of known high priority issues
specific list of developer priorities and patch release cadence
specific calendar of promised future content patches
projected window/timeline for future expansion development

This random release cadence and random issues where we don't know what's being worked on or when to expect them is quite the opposite of a "road map"

And before you come at me with "they don't owe you that" or some bunk, yes they do, they said they would have a Roadmap released in December
And that's what a roadmap is

[eternal thistle]

I played the old games [Shadow / Clear Sky / Prypiat] when I was much younger. I’m a former Stalker arthritic but the old reflex is coming back fast.
However I shit in my pants faster than before.

[ornate sable]

If it bleeds, we can kill it

[raven matrix]

They also said A-life would be in the game 😛 If they promised a roadmap then i understand your position, i just dont think it matters personally. Giving dates isn't a good idea imo. It comes when it comes. Setting dates and rushing to meet them arbitrarily is perhaps arguably how we ended up in this situation

[signal depot]

I think it matters. 1. they said it was coming prelaunch. 2. I would sure like to know what is coming and when because if I have issues that are making the game unplayable, or unenjoyable, then knowing when those are coming mean I can safely tune out until the specific time when that should be coming up. It's the same with big content patches in other games that are announced in advance. If a surprise content drop happens, cool, but if there's a promised content patch or bug fix at some indefinite point in the future, then instead of knowing where to look and when I should expect it, I instead have to go looking around and constantly asking if this or that issue has been fixed.

That's what a roadmap is for. And they said it would come in December. So it would be nice to know when that is going to drop since its already mid december

[versed sage]

when exacty can i save after the agroprom underground? Im like 15 minutes after getting out and STILL CANT save

[raven matrix]

Fair enough, i understand where you are coming from. Just offering my 2 cents. Im still working through the game slowly but im sure ill be hungry for more info after the next patch

Im a star citizen person, so roadmaps are meaningless to me. Personal issue hahahhaa

[hoary crest]

Roadmap is risky, if you don't meet something for whatever reason that the community really wants, then people tend to feel justified in stuff like review bombing and what not

[signal depot]

"risky" well they already took responsibility for the risk, by announcing they would release one before launching the game

[eternal thistle]

Tell me.
Do you Bleed ?
You will.
-# Batman

[signal depot]

whether that's what others do or not, I would sure like the ability to just check out until scheduled patches, or at least have a more rhythmic release schedule, like every second Friday, or once per month, or whatever, so I know when to come back and check, and that I'm fine to mentally check out for a bit... which is what a Roadmap is for 😉

Other folks who aren't developers, it makes sense they would get upset because they don't understand what a roadmap or a trello board is/does. I'm a developer, so when people say they're going to release a roadmap, and then don't do it, for me its just deception and trickery. I understand a roadmap is an estimation, and that estimates in software are always wrong, but at least an estimate would be nice.

[raven matrix]

it would be nice, absolutely, but especially when bug fixing its hard to make that work at times. Whats more important is getting stable builds that contain fixes that actually works

[hoary crest]

Yeah, you might well be fine with it an take it as it comes, but not everyone is like that, and review bombs these days can ruin games 🤷‍♂️ I wouldnt mind knowing what they have in the pipeline either, but if they don't wanna show to much, they're quite welcome to keep it under wraps, none of us have a say in the matter or should be overly concerned by not seeing one.

Lets be honest you've only gotta look at the world design to see its a passion project, more stuff is invariably coming even if we dont know what or when

[crisp horizon]

imo roadmaps are really only useful for content updates rather than just bug fixes and shit which this game gonna have to sort out first before they can focus on that

[signal depot]

that's where "list of known issues, list of priorities regarding known issues" is way better than "we will release the bug fix on this date"
That's what roadmaps are for lol. It isn't to have specific dates to hold them down to
It's to know what they know about, what their priorities are, and in what order to expect them. Is it close, or far, is it soon or not

[jolly oak]

Good morning, Stalkers. What are we mad about today?

[hoary crest]

It isnt to have specific dates to hold them down to, absolutely not.. but have you seen the state of the internet in recent years? 😄

[versed sage]

I CANT SAVE AFTER GETTING OUT OF AGROPROM

[crisp horizon]

the game not working still

[signal depot]

Funny, people see text and think "big mad"
I'm just asking when the promised Roadmap to be released in December is coming

@hoary crest I'm not responsible for the state of the internet. But we were promised a roadmap in December

[hoary crest]

I have no smokes and boi am I mad about it

[crisp horizon]

december isnt over yet ¯_(ツ)_/¯

[signal depot]

you're right, that's why I'm asking if there is an anticipated date for its release... because it is December

[violet dune]

they cant push small hotfixes daily because of pak-file sizes. small change can impact 5-10gb pak file. people would get annoyed to download everytime 10gb "updates". so i assume they trying to collect as much as possible fixes at once and deliver it

[crisp horizon]

my money is probably on closer to xmas then

[hoary crest]

Nor I, and sure, but when we do get one, you watch people get mad and start throwing thier toys about if a percieved deadline isnt met 😄

[signal depot]

nobody said daily, but bi-weekly or monthly, whatever schedule they happen to pick, any known schedule is better than having no idea. It would be nice to be able to mentally check out for a bit instead of constantly waiting

[jolly oak]

Sorry boss, wasn't targeting you specifically, in fact I hadn't read what you wrote yet. I was just asking all the Stalkers here in general what's on their minds. Have a warm cup of anomalous coffee and let's chat! ☕

@versed sage Dang bro that's a crappy bug. Is it blocking your ability to save or are your saves being corrupted and unusuable?

@crisp horizon What's keeping you out of the Zone, Stalker?

@hoary crest Ah my fellow firearm accuracy enthusiast. You can bum a smoke off me, here: 🚬

[gaunt kayak]

After how rushed the first few updates felt, I am fine with them taking their time on the next one, as long as it is has a lot when it comes out

[signal depot]

so then don't include deadlines, just a list of priorities.
Trello boards don't have specific dates tied to tickets, but you can still follow prioritized work, and what work has been done, and how much work is left to be done before the ticket is complete.

[crisp horizon]

also dont really see why people get mad over that, its not like the game doesnt delete the old files and frees up that space it just took for the update

@jolly oak the bugs, as soon as i fix one another pops up and this time its a progress blocker

[violet dune]

GSC is not very good at making deadlines so i guess they trying to avoid this and not put pressure on themselves.

[versed sage]

just cant save, my previous saves are allright

[hoary crest]

Seemingly, its gonna have A-Life fixes/improvements, so if they're good, Im quite happy to wait till its ready

[maiden grotto]

No the game is not a 9/10, way to many issue...

But it has the potential to be.

[gaunt kayak]

agreed, nice pfp btw

[crisp horizon]

i just want to play the game start to finish 😩

[violet dune]

they put 3 patches in 1 week and complains started coming from people with bad internet. how is 10-15gb updated but half of bugs still exist (even tho dev maybe changes few values in that pak-file). but i understand what you saying. im also waiting for fixes

[quick kernel]

Thanks!

[gaunt kayak]

can you not?

[signal depot]

This is a combination of

1. management/public demanding specific times
2. developers knowing software estimates are wrong 100% of the time
3. developers trying to make people happy by giving them times
4. everyone getting mad when its not met

That's what roadmaps/trello boards are for. Instead of deadlines and delivery dates, you see

1. all known issues are on the board
2. all known issues are prioritized so we know what is being worked on now, and what comes next
3. we can see what work is being/has been done
4. we can see what work is yet to be started or done

So anyone who would misconstrue that as meaning specific time, that's their own misfortune. But since we were promised this, it would be nice to know when we can expect that.

[bronze ingot]

i dont get it just play the game or wait

[crisp horizon]

i mean if yall got bad internet still then thats kinda on you, games are much bigger now and thats obviously gonna require faster internet to download at a reasonable pace, the company is not responsible for your slow internet you are

@gaunt kayak nah, the in the name of science quest had the collar i need spawn under the map and fall until it despawned and now i have zero way of getting it

[plush lake]

SIRCAA bug fixes when. This places has so many critical bugs related to quests that it's not even funny, dalin doesn't spawning is one, elevator not coming up at all is still there it's frustrating

[jolly oak]

I feel you there. I've started having bugs in rapid succession the last two days. I can understand your frustration, truly. I am certain they will be able to patch them up, given time, but these things move in terms of weeks not days unfortunately. It's hard to program bug fixes when another country is firing rockets and drones at your bunker! Personally, I have dove deep into reading reddits and forum posts about quirky workarounds for known bugs bc I don't want to wait weeks to continue my adventure. For example, I just dealt with the Zalissya Monolith invasion bug where they all hung out in the combat-blocked building. By running laps around Zalissya, I worked the Monolith soldiers out of the building in aggro spirals like pulling shrapnel out of a wound! It worked wonders and less than an hour after I encountered the bug, I had successfully defended Zalissya and moved on with the story! There are a lot of stubborn Stalkers who find creative ways to get past bugs instead of waiting on them. I love finding those quirky solutions and trying them out. Granted some bugs cannot be solved this way, but I have yet to have one like that since the Weird Bolt emission crash bug that kept me out of the Zone for 4 days. It's clearly not game design, but I somewhat enjoy the added challenge and associate it with the anomoalous random nature of the lore.

[hoary crest]

I would'nt get so invested in it if I were you mate. If we get one, great, if we don't 🤷‍♂️ Its not gonna effect my enjoyment of the game, nor should it effect yours

[signal depot]

when do I get to play the game?
I'm stuck, I have issues with the game that I'm waiting to be fixed,
It would be cool to know that I can check out until stuff is coming
And having a bi-weekly or monthly patch release cadence would mean I can safely check out until then
But otherwise I'm in here checking for updates every day
It's exhausting

@hoary crest I'm not "so invested". They literally said Roadmap is coming in December since PRERELEASE. I'm just asking when to expect it

[maiden grotto]

Yup, yup.

Although, I think there is a long way to go though... So any step forward is welcome.

[versed sage]

im giving,up there is an emmision, i got 2 blodsuckers behind my back and i CANT SAVE so ill lose like 30 minutes of gameplay lol

[hoary crest]

I dunno there bud, you've been going on about this for quite a bit now, I'd say you're plenty invested 😄

[crisp horizon]

i've gone as far as to try no clip to get it and even that doesnt work

[jolly oak]

If you cannot manually save, does quicksave work? And if quicksave also fails, can you travel on foot across map lines and trigger an autosave through geo trigger or even an emission spawn? I would then restart everything, including your computer, and run driver updates and file integrity checks before hopping in and trying again. I'm not IT guy, but that would be my first solution if I found myself in your shoes.

[signal depot]

"going on about it"?
Is that what having a conversation is?
You and others have been deflecting that roadmaps are some kind of universal bad, and I've been explaining how they can be used successfully without disappointment, by setting expectations...

And that's "going on about it" and not just having a sensible discussion

[hoary crest]

Not when one party stops replying and you ping them about it again to start over on the same topic 😉

[violet dune]

if it was for me. they could drop 100gb updates everyday. but it is how it is. maybe they want to put major update. i doubt they chilling and not doing anything. also would be nice to know what kind of work is inprogress without deadlines. just to know what is goin on

[jolly oak]

I haven't seen what issue in particular you are struggling with, could you share it with me, please?

[signal depot]

It's text bro.

1. you say a thing
2. I start typing a reply
3. then I hit enter

Like, how am I to know that you stopped when I literally type at 180 WPM and typed it literally directly after your message.
You have a strange impression of how text based communciation works

[crisp horizon]

no one said they were bad? we just said they have the potential to piss everyone off

[bronze ingot]

then load an older safe, hope it fixed himself. If they rush updates then just more bugs or exploits occurs that doesnt make sense. I had buggs aswell thats why i modded the game and most of my bugs just fixed himself by reloading the safe. These days you dont get a fully fixed game at the release if you cant wait to play stalker boot up an older game and wait till january but i can understand the frustration. And why you want new stuff? One Step at the time first fixing all game breaking buggs then new stuff

[versed sage]

sadly neither quicksave nor manual save work,ill take look at your tips, thanks!

[hoary crest]

#☢┃stalker-general message Scroll down from here.

The good thing about text chat is it effectively servers as a ledger

[violet dune]

also on steamdb they updating/compiling patches everyday, but not releasing yet.

[signal depot]

potential, and I explained how to manage those expectations. I wouldn't say that's "going on about it" when I literally only asked if anyone knew when it was coming

@bronze ingot I can't reload an older save. I was getting solid 90 FPS, now I'm getting solid 30-40 FPS. Has nothing to do with a save

[jolly oak]

Try to trigger a game-initiated autosave in those ways I mentioned. It might save your progress so you don't lose any. The restarts and updates are just good first reaction corrections to common issues. I hope they work for you, Stalker!

[bronze ingot]

had the problem aswell if you have an nvida card clear the gpu cache fixed it for me

[hoary crest]

Yeah this, make it to a bed is probably your most guaranteed way of going about it

[crisp horizon]

bit of a spoiler but here you go ||upon getting the quest in the name of science im asked to go to the brain scorcher to talk to a merc and get the collar off him, unfortunately something (i believe it was a snigle snork) managed to wipe them all out and when i got close enough for the bodies to spawn in the one i needed fell under the map and despawned basically locking me out of progressing that part||

[signal depot]

will try that. I had tried all sorts of config and mod patches. I got a bit tired of experimenting, but I'll try that out thanks

[hoary crest]

Honestly? Im kinda impressed a single Snork managed to do in that group of mercs, they were pretty well armed and armoured when I've gotten up there

[vague yew]

guys about the dlc what is it gonna be like i dont like spending like another 40usd for just a region in the game

[bronze ingot]

i prey that fix it for you

[violet dune]

Patch is taking too long maybe for this:

Question:
Could you provide an update on the progress made towards solving the A-life issues?

Answer:
A-life is our highest priority thing. The next patch is going to have A-life improvements

[crisp horizon]

they were all in exo suits

[jolly oak]

I see why you're frustrated, then! I have no meaningful advice for recovering clipped bodies, though I would definitely suggest rolling back to a previous save and retracing your steps with greater haste to beat the Snork to the prize. Is that a viable option for you from your list of backlogged autosaves and such?

[signal depot]

sinister 😛

[hoary crest]

Snork OP, confirmed 😄 Just like days of old

[maiden grotto]

I don't get the fuss over road maps... been playing computer games since the 70's.

Didn't need one then, don't need one now. If they bring out dlc? Great. If they don't, don't care as long as the game works.

All road maps do, is create entitlement from gamers, think they are more important than they are...

Put pressure on developers, and when deadlines are not met, many teddies are hurt when thrown out the pram.

[crisp horizon]

im gonna have to see if i have an auto save from after the ward came but other than that the only one i have is right after the duga mission which is like 2 hours of progress lost

[jolly oak]

If money is tight, I would suggest waiting until the DLC actually comes out and seeing what the folks with the season pass have to say about it before buying in. The price won't likely increase between now and the DLC release and pre-buying it won't grant any meaningful advance access, so there's no need to have FOMO! We'll all find out together, and if you like what you hear, then you can buy in!

[jolly oak]

I read an article about how A-Life fixes are top priority but aren't fast to fix, so it's more of a constantly-working-on-this dev objective rather than an indication that the fix will be rapidly forthcoming.

[hoary crest]

Makes sense, gotta stop it sucking the life out of CPUs and still having it provide a good experience for the users

[maiden grotto]

Eh?

[violet dune]

im sure on new patch is still wont be what we expect, but improvements will come in with time.

[jolly oak]

I understand your sadness at losing that game time. If you'll allow me to hand you a small positive artifact as compensation, perhaps try to view it as being able to replay that stretch of time more efficiently (and likely faster) since you already know what to expect, plus it's additional meaningful play time in a game I'm sure we will miss after it's been finished.

[raven matrix]

If A-life was fast to fix, it would have come out fixed 😛

[crisp horizon]

that 2 hours consisted of me just walking back to malachite because i was so heavy 💀

[hoary crest]

Scroll up, Speed has been progression blocked by a Snork murdering a bunch of Exo Mercs lol

[lucid roost]

hello , stalkers! i got a joke!

sidorovich? more like

smelikabich

[crisp horizon]

thoughts on sidrovich selling you quest items if they happend to get lost and despawned?

[wintry mulch]

That's so funny, I forgot to laugh!

[lucid roost]

thank you, friend!

[hoary crest]

I would say thats a sign from the zone to stop loot-goblining 😄

[maiden grotto]

Been there, done that... The jog. Love it.

[crisp horizon]

it was all ammo and meds 💀 i had like 1 extra gun

[lucid roost]

there's nothing else to do with the portable psi installation other than to give it to sidorovich, yeah?

[jolly oak]

My brother in Monolith, let me preach the song of stashes to you! I have a handicapping Fallout mentality which compels me to gather every last piece of vendorable or collectible loot, so I too often carry barges of junk across the Zone. I have found, despite the impulse to just slowly shlep it all across the map, that if you find the nearest stash bag and deposit half your carry weight (not just enough to get yellow, I'll explain in a sec) and then sprint to the vendor and circle back to pick up the other half and sprint to the vendor again, you actually SAVE time and hassle vs the slow trek. You see bu being in green (bc half burden) on all related trip stretches, you are able to sprint 50%+ of the trip, more if you have endurance artifacts at work. I never leave a yellow weapon or a single spare bullet behind, and this is how I do it fast.

[hoary crest]

100 medkits and 1000 rounds of ammo still counts as goblining my friend

[lucid roost]

oh ya, that makes sense since loot is persistent in the game

[raven matrix]

The people here who gave me advice to travel lighter really improved my gameplay. Much more organized, can actually loot more in the long run. Selective looting

[crisp horizon]

oh i only run the standard 3 mag loadout but its the stuff i come across from killing others

[jolly oak]

Oh Paydirt, my friend, let people have their Fallout fun! You are the light-footed Ranger, let them be the big bag loot goblin they wish to be! It's my headcanon that Paydirt is my favorite Zone guide for my time in the Zone. I'd totally raise your rep to green and bring you to my endgame story quest.

[quick kernel]

Your mother is goblining on my nuts

[crisp horizon]

THE MEDS AND AMMO ARE TOO VALUABLE TO DITCH MAN 😭

that shit costs too much in the zone for me to just let it go to waste

[maiden grotto]

That is not supposed to happen.

I think bugged.

[hoary crest]

'ppreciate it 😄

[vague yew]

for you, are the 3 maps which havent been opened, be free or you need the season pass?

[raven matrix]

The only time i get nervous when traveling lightly, is when im told to go underground for a quest. "Oh no, how long will i be trapped down there" hahaha. But really my only concern is usually ammo for my lynx.

[hoary crest]

Sounds to me like you're a bit too young for her to be interested in mate, sorry to break it to you

[maiden grotto]

I only carry 10 kits, 300 rounds for main gun.

That's insane.

[jolly oak]

That's what I'm talking about, Stalker! Loot, glorious loot! I didn't mean to imply you were carrying your personall stash with you at all times.

[raven matrix]

150 shotgun ammo usually does the trick for me hahaha. got me thru sircaa juuust barely.

[crisp horizon]

playing stalker and actually having to use your gun is something i didnt expect

[hoary crest]

Ye, 300 rounds (ten mags) for an automatic rifle, significantly less for weapons that are better on semi, and I've got to the point Im bringing 10 bandages and 5 medkits (usually Im dead before I use two if im going to die lol)

[crisp horizon]

jesus yall run 300? i just run 150 for AR's 😭

[raven matrix]

It might depend which AR you have, and where you are going

[hoary crest]

I seem to attract mutants like flies on shit, seldom do I ever actually end up using all 300, but its nice to have some reserve just in case. I guess Skif just needs to wash in my game

[crisp horizon]

150 all across the zone, its enough to get me from cordon up to yaniv

[jolly oak]

Sorry, Stalker, having trouble with your accent. If you're asking if the map expansions will be free, I would say that's unlikely if they are tied to any future DLC. You'd likely have to buy the DLC to get access to any DLC content, including opening up the map, as this is not an MMO that needs to grant free access in that way.

[raven matrix]

Depends on how often you are able to restock that particular type of ammo. Sometimes you can take barely anything because you will loot more than you will ever need

[crisp horizon]

i think they're talking about the iron forest maybe? those the only "3 maps" i see that are cloudy which i guess could be seen as locked

[quick kernel]

I dunno man your mom a straight freak

[hoary crest]

Yeah, definately too young. Seemingly too young to be left on discord unsupervised as you can't help yourself but be randomly rude to people

[vague yew]

aight thx hope its not gonna be expensive, I am already pissed at tarkov making me pay 20 bucks for a gamemode

[maiden grotto]

Yup.

I don't even use full automatic...

Single shot, one bullet at a time... pop pop pop

Shot gun for mutants...

[quick kernel]

Bros mad

[hoary crest]

Nope, just mildly amused at how much little d*ck energy you're putting on display 😄

[crisp horizon]

honestly shotguns with slugs make better snipers than snipers

[quick kernel]

The cope is crazy

[jolly oak]

Oh are we talking about loadouts? I bey @hoary crest will clown my heavy travel set, but this is what I leave home with, after vendoring, repairing, and resting:
Clusterfart + 250 rounds
Rhino shotgun revolver + 70 shells
Skif Blaster 9000 + 0 rounds (everyone carries this ammo so I never have to bring any lol)
10 medkits
10 bandages
2 sausages
1 psi block
Artifacts:
Equipped - liquid rock, weird ball, thunderberry, hypercube, compass
Unequipped - weird bolt, springx3 (in case I need help getting to nearest stash)

[hoary crest]

"Look guys, im so cool, im being edgy on the internet, arent i cool guys?" 😂

[crisp horizon]

he's just a silly head lmfao

[quick kernel]

This guy gets it

[jolly oak]

No need to rush into a purchase, Stalker, hold on to your coupons until you see what they will release. There is no known advantage to buying the DLC access prior to the DLC being announced.

[hoary crest]

I'll clown on you for running Compass 😄

[crisp horizon]

yall use anything other than thunderberry? i wanna get close to the giant rad ball but i dont have enough protecc :c

[hoary crest]

Liquid Rock/Thunderberry only, to preserve the fairness of the damage interaction between me and enemies. (Also no lead containers because military vest)

[maiden grotto]

I like a proper sniper...

Slugs are good, though... great for exo suits

[jolly oak]

I don't mind. Still bringing you on my endgame mission squad, Stalker. You'll be our scout. They'll never hear you coming in your Air Force Ones with like 11kg loadout. They will, in fact, hear my headshotting ass coming along. My loot jingles! 🙂

[hoary crest]

I will die immediately 😄

[jolly oak]

Nonsense, who do you think my 10 medkits are for? I'll revive you from downed status, just yell loud so I know where to run. Besides, I always come home from roving around the map with like 60+ medkits. You might experience a lot of pain, but I'll keep you upright! XD

[raven matrix]

"You might feel some pressure" hahaha

[jolly oak]

vigorously stabs @hoary crest with medkit autoinjectors, one after another.
"Hey look! That bullet hole in your head is shrinking!"

[maiden grotto]

Why you playing Tarkov?

Is just one great big giant cheat fest.

[weary hedge]

Man non spoiler chat is edgelord city rn

[wintry mulch]

Just be happy that they (mostly) remain in there..

[weary hedge]

Grateful to find solace here

[maiden grotto]

Edgelord?

Eh?

[jolly oak]

Big reason I hang out here and just ignore spoilers lol

[weary hedge]

A person who says provocative, controversial, or blatantly offensive content with intentions of causing mental anguish to others.

[wintry mulch]

Some of them might have wandered a bit too close to the brain scorcher 😉

[crisp horizon]

i need some zone coffee

[jolly oak]

lol failed Monolith converts become Simps of other things? XD

[weary hedge]

Brain scorcher might help them 😅

[maiden oracle]

Is stalker on Version 1.0.3 close to a finished game, or is it still partially unfinished?

[wintry mulch]

Better than at launch, but still a long way to go.

[maiden oracle]

Thanks

[maiden grotto]

Okay.

[jolly oak]

I saw an ingame conversation where one scientist is mocking another scientist for drinking a nonstop during an emission because "you know caffeine and emissions don't mix" and it was giving the guy a migraine according to his complaining. He continued to do the drink animation though, so clearly he's fine with that.

[quick kernel]

Zone coffee, two creams, two sugars, a bit of caramel and four lethal doses of radiation with an anomaly on top as a treat

[hoary crest]

I beleive the term you'd be familiar with is; tw@t 😄

[crisp horizon]

i saw that too, also managed to have a chat with a monolith soldier myself

[rigid thicket]

That jiggle of the canned meat tho, mm mmmm

[weary hedge]

Makes me shudder everytime

[jolly oak]

They won't talk to me, unless you count "Die, Stalker" as conversation. What did he say to you?

[quick kernel]

yummers

[crisp horizon]

i got a screenshot hold up i'll post it

[hoary crest]

You don't like eating dogfood? 😄

[vague yew]

thats why i bought the pve version

[quick kernel]

You spent that much money 💀

Isn't it like 200 bucks

[hoary crest]

I've heard good things about SPT

[vague yew]

not really, if you buy the cheapest version, the pve is like 20bucks, before its 200 and we hated that so they changed it

[weary hedge]

Gatekeeping your game from general population with a 200$ tag

[jolly oak]

Not sure I'd consider that a conversation, more like overhearing a mantra, but with Monolith I guess that's kind of the same thing.

[crisp horizon]

yeah but i still spoke to him as a non hostile, he attacked me after tho

[quick kernel]

The creator got so much hate for that and the best he could come up with was "Womp womp"

[crisp horizon]

also when i got close enough for the prompt he asked what i seeked

[weary hedge]

dude was probably trying to save money on small servers and high price tag, scum

[peak scroll]

oh MY god lmao, i was not ready for a willheilm scream and a body flinged at me out of a tornado.

[crisp horizon]

actually stopped playing tarkov cuz of that shit, arena was so bad and the moment i saw that bs i jumped ships to like any other game 😂

[quick kernel]

He also ruined any trust or faith the community had, greedy ahh devs are the worst fr

[vague yew]

hope gsc not gonna follow that path

[weary hedge]

they wont, even survarium wasn't like that

[hoary crest]

And thats why we don't engage with cultists 😄 Engage with Bandits instead, we're way more fun

[jolly oak]

You caught him offguard lol. Maybe he thought you were a Monolith, too. Are you wearing Mono armor? There's 1 remaining Monolith NPC in Zalissya after the attack in my playthrough. He's just standing there chilling about 7 feet from Gaffer. He has no conversation prompt or name identifier when I approach him and move around him, yet he persists through saves and travel. He's our pet Monolithian.

[crisp horizon]

oh my god survarium mentioned

[quick kernel]

I mean they kinda did tho I remember the controversy around them trying to add nfts

[vague yew]

Greed is always in us

[crisp horizon]

actually yeah i was, i had the corundum suit on 😂

[jolly oak]

@hoary crest 's arena entry music is the Stalker bandit radio song, confirmed.
ARRRRRRRRRRE YOUUUUUUUU READYYYYYYYY TO CHEEEEEEEEEKI BREEEEEEEEEEEEKI?!?!?!
@paydirt enters the arena with a gun a bottle of vodka as bandit jams 2006 plays on the PA

[crisp horizon]

wasnt that just the name of a test branch? or you still talking about tarkov?

[jolly oak]

Alright Stalker, I'm adding you to my endgame questline squad. @hoary crest will be our Ranger, you will be our diversity hire Monolithian. We're up to 3, now. We'll make it to Pripyat soon!

[maiden grotto]

Awesome.. Get that.

Bunch of drbbling tw@t waffles.

I love using that on people. Makes me giggle.

[crisp horizon]

lmao at this rate it would be easier to get there irl than in game

[quick kernel]

I don't think so they were trying to follow that whole nft trend but got shot down quicker than the United Healthcare ceo. It was a thing in development tho. I have faith in this company but who know, it could go either way.

[weary hedge]

pour one out for my boy Luigi

[jolly oak]

All good things take a while to fully develop. Have patience and a bottle of Cossacks. We'll leave for the underground tunnels, soon.

[crisp horizon]

i need more info on this, the shit i saw all pointed towards it just being a name for a test branch

[wintry mulch]

https://nordic.ign.com/stalker-2-heart-of-chernobyl/52369/news/stalker-2-developers-respond-to-nft-criticism

[crisp horizon]

nah you know what im real cheesed about? they didnt sell the limited edition stalker 2 non stop cans over in NA 😭

[crisp horizon]

its ign so im immediately inclined to not believe any of this, they're known for lying and being paid to write bs

[wintry mulch]

Fair. Just the first link that showed up. There are plenty others out there. Just google Stalker 2 nft

[jolly oak]

Oh I get to share the magic with another Stalker! You can buy them on ebay from enterprising folks overseas. I did this myself, limited edition cans and all. They're pricier than simply popping over to the convenience store but you gotta pay the black market fee!

[crisp horizon]

i have been following stalker 2 since i was a child and i never heard anything about this either, you'd think with everyone getting mad at nfts and games that would have at least made it to youtube

@jolly oak yeah i saw that but the issue is i want to actually drink it 😭

[maiden grotto]

Oh they are not trust worthy at all. Games journalism is joke now.

And IGN is journalistic cancer.

[quick kernel]

Fr bro needs a prison break

[jolly oak]

I see no reason why you cannot drink the ones you order? They are unopened.

[crisp horizon]

people on ebay only selling empty cans and they want like 20$ for just the can 😭

[jolly oak]

🤔 Mine were not empty, and certainly never opened. They were straight off the store shelf and shipped. Of course, I ordered them a while back, but not so far back as to think they aren't still around. I don't know what might be wrong with your search criteria, but I assure you full cans of the drink, even shrink wrapped cardboard packs of them have been very available for sale.

[crisp horizon]

i must find them, i need more stalker merch

[jolly oak]

#💬┃en_offtop message

[hoary crest]

This is turning into a DnD adaptation of Stalker 😄

[hoary crest]

Games Journalism is a joke now. Fixed it for ya 😄

[crisp horizon]

yall remember that doom eternal ign gameplay? 😂

[hoary crest]

Actually no, but I do remember them teaching people how to exploit Elden Ring in their PvP "guide" a few years back lol

[crisp horizon]

it was so bad, it looked like a 3 year old trying to play a video game for the first time, they then complained about it being too hard when they died to one of the starting demons, there was also a part where they just stood there completely confused as to how to move forward when it was super obvious, if i can find it i'll send it

[visual anchor]

what about that cuphead gameplay
couldn't even complete tutorial

[crisp horizon]

💀

[acoustic knot]

I am very interested to buy this game buy 60€ is deep. Worth of my money? Cants wait

[jolly oak]

Haha maybe, I'm just having fun with it though 😛 Not trying to be weird or anything. I'm more or less just humrously referencing the "Pripyat 1" quest from CoP. Though I will admit, I've commissioned artwork for far less sturdy reasons haha. Would be fun to have an artist sketch up an OC squad of Stalkers from here in the discord community like we were some top shelf game NPCs 🙂

[lost prairie]

You can close your eyes and imagine you’re exploring the zone.

[jolly oak]

Stalker 2 is an amazing game, but be forewarned, it JUST released and there are bugs and glitches that affect some people badly and other people not at all. If you are the sort who will be heartbroken when something in game doesn't work right and you have to find a workaround or wait for a patch, then I would highly recommend holding off for a couple months until it's all cleaned up. But without a doubt, make sure you play this game at some time. It's like Fallout meets DayZ, but with a far more interesting story and lore.

[crisp horizon]

fallout meets dayz is a new one and idk if i should get offended over that or not lmao

[hoary crest]

DayZ is good whatchu mean

[crisp horizon]

the mod was good, standalone will never sit right with me

[jolly oak]

HA! I knew it! You've had DayZ vibes this whole time haha

@crisp horizon There is nothing like Stalker, except Stalker itself. These are best moods and themes I can compare Stalker to. Fallout for its open world interactions and happenstance side questing, plus of course the potential for loot goblin go brrr. As for DayZ, Stalker lends itself well to that lightfooted Ranger style gameplay where you are ghost in the Zone just changing fates for everyone you come across and moving on. I would have said Metro, too, but that's low hanging fruit just bc of the Eastern European and urban decay themes. Metro is much more railroad story and confined environments without true exploration.

[hoary crest]

Yeah, guilty as charged. Do love the best torture simulator on the internet 😅

[jolly oak]

I have more hours in DayZ than I've spent at some jobs I've held in the past. I love DayZ, warts and all.

[crisp horizon]

i waited 5 years for the standalone to get into a playable state, i will always be mad about it

[jolly oak]

This is the nature of that particular beast though, constant change that adds good AND bad. For each new feature, they break an old one. It's hilariously reliable, but at all times the game has been playable because there's ample ways to get around the bad stuff, plus wait around long enough and the whole game experience changes due to new weapons or map features. It's like getting new DayZ games over and over each time lol. Plus the wipes keep the hoarders at bay. I find it's enjoyable, even with its shortcomings.

[crisp horizon]

i dont really see the dayz comparison tbh, i'd say the lightfooted ranger style would come more from tactical shooters over dayz but thats just my opinion

[hoary crest]

Laughs in one tin of beans and no plate carrier 😄

[jolly oak]

In that case, just consider it my personal opinion. Are there other games you would suggest are a better comparison or match? I'm open to seeing your viewpoint, too.

[crisp horizon]

no, tbh i think stalker does enough shit in its own way to be a unique thing

[jolly oak]

I feel like if I killed and looted @hoary crest in DayZ his inventory would contain a can of Deez Beans, an NVG headbandstrap without NVG on it, and quite possibly a Mosin.

[jolly oak]

That's fair to say. Like I mentioned, nothing is a direct comparison to Stalker except for Stalker. But for folks who have never played Stalker games, Fallout and DayZ are the closest gameplay similar experiences I can think of from my own game library.

[hoary crest]

Pretty much, maybe a couple of bits of suspect looking meat..

[crisp horizon]

thats fair lol

[maiden grotto]

No... There is some good journalism out there.... Just not the main stream stuff.

I usually watch DW a German news organisation, they are pretty good, not perfect, but pretty good. Especially their documentaries.

But games journalism is dead...

[jolly oak]

Oh! So you're saying I only found your sneaky ass bc of the inability to suppress your terrifying prion disease giggles? XD

Remember folks, 👏 don't 👏 eat 👏 people 👏 meat 👏

[hoary crest]

Its just so convenient 😄 Betray someone and you have food for like half the run, ez pz lol

[jolly oak]

You are definitely the Bandit faction rep for our story squad, bro.

@crisp horizon Still not sure if you should be our token Monolith or the Freedom rep.

I'll take loner or Duty rep slot for myself, or I guess if we're in Stalker 2, Ward aligned Stalker.

Though, while I like Korshunov so far (he's my kind of cruel but loyal jerk), I really want to put a 5.56 hole in Dalin's forhead. He's such a creeper.

Dudes like him are always the guys who open Doom portals to the underworld "in the name of progress" or some such nonsense and have to be forcefully retired with firearms.

[sonic pivot]

tbh the game could have ended when skif finds dalin he could just ask for a check to replace his home and gg

[indigo meteor]

Game broke, wen game fix

[raven matrix]

only reason i sided with ward is because im a noob and i felt they would probably keep me safer hahaha

[tulip sequoia]

DMs for open fun

[crisp horizon]

oh no a bot

[tepid osprey]

Get out of here stalker

[sonic pivot]

make this alternate ending, as a troll, where u can pick to ask him that. he agrees and game ends for 10 sec u see credits and then goes back to the mission u were lol

[crisp horizon]

she looking for a different type of stalker 💀

[tepid osprey]

Lol

[boreal pendant]

so what does the weird ball actually do :3

[crisp horizon]

makes you weird

[tepid osprey]

Is actually a rectangle

[raven matrix]

||oh it was your fault Dalin? ok. shoots him - leaves - doesnt elaborate||

[hoary crest]

Can confirm, owning two of them 😏

[boreal pendant]

how much dmg does it block is more what i mean :3

[crisp horizon]

i would like to get close to these arch anomalies but i cant, i dont have the gear apparently especially for the rad sphere thingie

[jolly oak]

Don't blame your food preferences on artifacts. You brought that preference with you to the Zone XD

[hoary crest]

If only the zone would let me chop up peo.. I mean... ahem mutants

[boreal pendant]

smh imagine (real)

[jolly oak]

I haven't seen any exact math, but I can tell you it's VERY noticeable. If you want to see for yourself save your game and try this:
Take off your artifacts and find an enemy with an AK or AR weapon and let them fire at you, watch your health depletion rate. Load up previous save, equip the ball, then go back to that enemy and watch. If you stand still, it's severely defensive, especially on low difficulty.

[hoary crest]

Hey look, the opportunity to make a bollock joke was presented and I wasn't going to let the side down ok.

[boreal pendant]

fair

yey i finally got night star

would be nice to have a atrifact that reduces the weight of items tbh

[lofty nexus]

I just watched possible endings with strider and I am genuinely displeased and sad

[crisp horizon]

theres one that gives you more carry cap

[boreal pendant]

ye ik :3

more stat boost atrifacts would just be goob imo (for the stuff we don't have yet)

[crisp horizon]

i just found out you can load each shell for a shotgun manually in the inventory by dragging the ammo on top of it lmao

[jolly oak]

Like, to mix ammo types in the magazine order?

[crisp horizon]

yeah, figured dragging ammo would fully load the gun

[jolly oak]

If that lowkey allows you to control buckshot and slug staggering in your shotgun magazine, that's a super valid thing to do iRL with shotguns in combat or law enforcement, it would be a super cool touch if it could be done here.

[crisp horizon]

it does, idk if it works for actual mag fed shotguns tho

[shell thunder]

Just out of curiosity regarding Saiga D-12 Rebalanced Stock Blueprint.

Can anyone explain the sense of adding blueprint after point of no return? You basically go to final mission that finishes the game and find blueprint for Saiga D-12. Hello? Where I supposed to use it? Not even all endings have engineer in last mission. I could understand it in case after game completion you could continue playing, but you can't.

It is more frustrating in context of Flash Royal achievement, you basically can't get it in case you select different story decisions. And that is my case, I made save after I selected Polissya Hotel and then went completing the game. Should I just start new game and collect all blueprints there? lol

Any chance that developers will relocate this blueprint to another place? Is there any info about it? It's not just because I have issue with achievement, but it is really doesn't make sense to put it after point of no return.

[hoary crest]

DLC ready Saiga

[jolly oak]

Trigger spammers wouldn't get it, but that allows you to keep the final shell or two as a slug in your tube so if you're cutting through baddies, you can just reload more buckshot partway through, but if you're up against something hard, just run the tube and know there are rib crushers in the end of the tube.

[hoary crest]

Hmm... Given that trick... Predator might be best shotty. (No the Ram-2 doesn't exist)

[steel lance]

Guys, honest question: how are you managing to have fun with a game with the many problems it presents? I don't know, I arrived on my first play there in Zaton, before I was on Wild Island and I was greeted by all the game's bugs.
It looks a little strange without a-life, I even had to play Clear Sky recently to realize how different a game from 10 years ago is.

[crisp horizon]

man i hate rad barriers, they make zero sense

[jolly oak]

Let me start by saying I don't have any more information than you on the topic, but if I might speculate... I suspect that freeplay after the campaign was originally a design for the game, or potentially will be permitted in the future after all DLC content is released, but at this time letting you do so would ruin the story continuity they intend to progress with in DLC content. Additionally, I don't feel like this game was designed to have all achievements acquired in a single run, as the game has replayability with such variety of weapons, choices, and endings.

[jolly oak]

100% agree with you here. But I'd rather a rad barrier than an inexplicably impassable wall that no one bothers to try blowing up or putting a ladder up to. Radiation can be intense enough that even protective gear is insufficient to prevent your death. A concrete wall goes boom when you throw grenades.

[boreal pendant]

will we be able to use normal saves?

[cobalt haven]

Is freeplay even that necessary?

Might work if there's even way more side quests, the heavier ones, that is.

Freeplay in Call of Pripyat worked because of its open ending design, but Heart of Chornobyl is designed like Clear Sky and Shadow of Chernobyl, they're really absolute.

[jolly oak]

The answer to this question is going to be individual to each player, but as for me, I endure and persevere through the bugs bc I am here in love with the Stalker universe and its unique brand of dangerous exploration and discovery. When you really enjoy something, you can ignore the setbacks and issues bc you enjoy the rest too much to walk away. If you have only casual interest in a game, or are just playing it on a whim with no care for the story or lore, then bugs will chase you away instantly and bring in bad reviews. Knowing that GSC will eventually iron it all out, and the fact that creative players keep coming up with clever ways to get around a lot of the bugs, I choose instead to love the good parts and take the bad parts as challenges to overcome.

[crisp horizon]

very, without freeplay no one will feel the need to play this game after the story basically killing it entirely after the story concludes

[boreal pendant]

also wear resist or weight reduction for corundrum, i cannot decide

[jolly oak]

You may be right here, I can't say for sure what the design choice came from, but until we see the big picture including the DLCs, we won't know for sure unless the release a statement. Maybe ask this in the "ask GSC" channel and see if they answer you in the next answer release.

[hoary crest]

Depends on what mods you have installed. Some are safe to remove mid-playthrough, others will absolutely brick your save.

Best to just wait a couple of days for mods to get updated to the new versions and then not have to worry, or indeed read mod pages for uninstallation instructions

[cobalt haven]

Yep. Endure and have faith. We just need patience. Sure, it's broken in some parts, but it's playable and no need for drama really.

Hell, they went all out on the first patch alone. Who knows how big 1.0.4 will fix and change.

I still wish there's a neutral base camp in Burnt Forest though (complete with fast travel)

[rustic minnow]

Hello guys

[jolly oak]

If you make good money, don't sweat wear resist stuff, go for weight or resistances.

[normal zinc]

How do I fix the issue where Strider does not spawn in the ranger station?

[boreal pendant]

oop, i didn't explain what i meant, when the dlcs come out will we be able to use our saves with our current progress, or what will the dlcs even add?

[cobalt haven]

I hope the DLCs will also catch on Call of Prypiat's canonical ending.

Hell, maybe a kind of trilogy for the 3 legends to fill on what happened to them between the decades after COP-first person perspective of Scar seeing the ISKRA team dying, what did strelok did outside the zone and how he returned, and Deggy's observer role of USS

Or a Nimble story. He is a mad lad, whether we like him or hate him, he is the constant.

Maybe something to cover Zulu, since he had beef with Voronin; Nitro and Cardan, especially Cardan confirmed to be still alive in some capacity, albeit through audio logs; Noah and Vano.

Hell, maybe a Myklukha's own DLC on how he survived and kept his men alive and returned.

[jolly oak]

If he's not spawning and the game is behaving as if he is absent and won't progress, you can try reloading a save that happened when you were 200m away and approach again. If that does not work, reload old save and go sleep somewhere, then come back again. If that fails, wait for an emission then go there and look for him.

If the game is acting like he's there and letting you proceed but he's invisible, that's visual glitch and I recommend restarting your computer, updating graphics card drivers, and verifying game files before loading in and trying again.

[boreal pendant]

has anything been said about the ideas of what the dlcs are supposed to be?

[hoary crest]

No, but from existing content within the game we can at least infer that one of them is going to be Limansk

[jolly oak]

Only info I have seen is a sketchy reference to the DLCs being called "Echoes of the Past" and "Shadow of the Monolith" but I have not seen any GSC confirmation or elaboration of that

[rustic minnow]

How to people have factions by their names?

[hoary crest]

Mayhaps CNPP too at somepoint as a lot of the asset work for that is already done, which would align with "Shadow of the Monolith"

[jolly oak]

I sincerely hope so. Limansk was a favorite location for me. I want to return there! The rad bridge broke my heart, but that creepy radio transmission of chaos and pain was intriguing.

[cobalt haven]

Stalker 2 spinoff game concept: Freedom Fresh Bread Management Simulator

[hoary crest]

Given its a fictional location it allows the developers a lot of creative freedom with the place so it would be sort of prime real-estate for a DLC, an yeah for sure, whatever is going on there is some fcked up shit

[fickle bobcat]

i can't find the Weird Water artifact no matter what i do. i've followed all the guides, it's nowhere to be found!

i'm honestly tempted to see if i can spawn it into my inventory using the console or something, this takes the piss

[cobalt haven]

What i was kinda disappointed in S2 is that it doesn't have the niche stuff found in Clear Sky: Duty shooting range minigame and Bandit Crow shooting minigame

[jolly oak]

If you're asking how to do this in game, maybe a mod can do it, but there's no default game way to know aside from looking at their choice of uniform or arm patch.

If you're asking about on Discord, you can go to the channel and select your faction tag:
#👥┃faction-choice message

[rustic minnow]

I was asking about discord and thanks

[minor fog]

Is there any way to make Leshy from Lesser Zone be less, hostile? Anyone?

[jolly oak]

I have this issue. I've just decided to live without it until they patch the underground artifact spawn issue. Just don't finish your playthrough until the patch comes out and you can go back and get it. It's not really an amazing effect anyway, but you need it for the achievement.

[quick willow]

How to lure out those monolith soldiers out of main building in Zalissya? (bugged quest)

[fickle bobcat]

do you think they're just spawning under the ground?

i see the spawn locations glowing on the floor out of the dark area but when i run to them i don't find anything

[boreal pendant]

uetools or wait for a patch

[steel lance]

Great answer! Thanks.

[frigid hill]

fallout has been warned

Reason: Bad word usage

[steel lance]

Wich final do you guys think is canonical? I bet Strelok or Skif.

[jolly oak]

You asked at the right time! I just overcame this issue two days ago. If they are in the safe building just milling about but no one is shooting anyone else, then this means they are trapped in there and need to be encouraged to come out. The way to accomplish this is to run out of town in the direction of Lens' shop, and sort of linger around there moving back and forth for a couple minutes, like a big T shape, then run back in. This resets their position or triggers them to come out and fight you. Sometimes you get 1, sometimes you get 3+. Kill them before they can kill any friendlies, save, then repeat the process. You can try running away in different directions, but make sure you are over 100m whatever you try. This worked perfectly for me and I was able to progress past the bug in under an hour.

[fickle bobcat]

eff it. i'm going to use uetools and ghost under the floor and grab it

[steel lance]

At what point in the story do you like this quest? Is it after Zaton?

[jolly oak]

You can always use tools and mods to accomplish things getting around the bugs in game. I prefer not to use any mods, loopholes (inf money trick), or other outside advantages on my first playthrough of games like this. Then second time around I can futz around with whatever and not feel like the experience was altered or ruined for me.

I completely understand that my preferences are not everyone's preferences, and I don't judge you for your own preferences, but since they have acknowledged issues with it and will fix them, probably soonishly, I will just wait it out and go back later. Also, be absolutely sure you are following all the rules for it to spawn (location, precise time of day, etc) before doing anything that might alter your save file in a way that could prevent it from being used after a future patch.

[quick willow]

Thanks mate, will try

[boreal pendant]

if you want to unlock the door, it is tied to combat, once you win, the door opens

[minor fog]

I guess nobody knows about Leshy....

[heady gazelle]

Beats dragging a corpse for miles only to find out warlock only needed the pda

[dense bloom]

Nobody still found away to open this locked door ??????? https://www.reddit.com/r/stalker/comments/1gz4si7/anyone_discovered_how_to_open_these_double_white/

[boreal pendant]

i have 7 warlocks

[heady gazelle]

where do you guys keep finding these anomalies

[grave marsh]

Just got 3 emissions back to back, not sure if’s buggy or the game really wants to kill me

[heady gazelle]

i swear imma refund my lack of bugs because somehow they avoid me and while everyone has these funny and random moments all i get is a stuck freedom guy blocking a doorway

[jolly oak]

It is my understanding that he is intended to be hostile, as he is characterized as a Bandit leader or Merc, and his PDA gives a weak explanation for his presence and actions. I don't have more info than that, sorry.

[minor fog]

I can see a blue flag under his player tag so..... a bug I guess?

[jolly oak]

I ran into this and have not found a solution. It is possible it is accessible under certain story conditions, or will be accessible in DLC quests.

[north ember]

Why can illusory dogs open a door?

[jolly oak]

If you are asking when this takes place, it happens after the SIRCAA story sequence, along side Hornet's Nest and that quest to investigate Wild Island.

[dense bloom]

Ok, thx, i wasted 15 mns tryna go inside lol

[jolly oak]

They can't, it's just an illusion. XD I joke, mutants and animals can smash open the weakened doors of the Zone like when you sprint into them and just basically kick them in.

@dense bloom I did the same!

[north ember]

that's the point though - the dog was an illusion... and a dog. Yet, it opened a door. Not smashed it open, just... turned the doorknob and pushed it open

[dense bloom]

i have a mod where i can climb, i went on the roof, there's almost a way to go inside with a hole, but it dont go through.. well probably dlc or a glitch

[hardy totem]

||Who offers missions that improves reputation with freedom in S2?||

[jolly oak]

Realistically? It's just that NPCs can access programmed entry portals. But in the lore? I mean, the pseudodogs can create copies of itself with psi energy which can bite you and kill you, and evolved in the Zone which is full of doors, so opening one is probably something they all learn as puppies lol

[crisp horizon]

why in gods name is there a fly in skifs eyeballs?

[jolly oak]

There are a few side quests that involve helping Freedom members in the wild as well as one from the bartender to investigate bandits who are targeting Freedom supply lines. Also never kill Freedom members in the wild to avoid losing rep.

[weary hedge]

wierd

[heady gazelle]

opposable thumbs probably, but usually opening a door is as simple as turning the doorknob

[jolly oak]

My real life German Shepherd could open knob doors and paddle doors with his mouth and paws. Granted I know we are just seeing NPC dogs mash their face into the panel and the door opens, but I mean it's at least realisitically plausible.

[hardy totem]

so their tradars/mechanic can become green?

[heady gazelle]

to be honest ain't freedom members green already

[crisp horizon]

revive any downed freedomers you see and that will fix it, other than that theres basically no way to repair their rep

[hardy totem]

I dind't damage any rep, I just want my discounts...

[north ember]

I guess if they are actually manifested from some sort of energy, it makes sense. I figured they were more like "psychic energy makes you hallucinate" kind of illusions

[jolly oak]

I believe so. I am not home at present and canot boot up and doublecheck, but I would say yes, but confirm it.

[night acorn]

Doors that say locked on no access are they supposed to be there? Like are we supposed to find a way into the rooms or something else?

[jolly oak]

It's unclear what psi radiation does exactly to your brain, but assuming you can't hallucinate physical injuries onto your own body, combined with the way you can observe the psi copies attack other people and those people can see the same copies doing the same things you see, I would feel comfortable assuming the pseudodogs manifest physical things out of psi energy rather than your mind dreaming the images up.

[crisp horizon]

man i love it when heals dont trigger but still take your meds

[jolly oak]

You missed your flesh and injected your armor padding XD

[crisp horizon]

i found the crazy place anomaly

wandering lights is supposed to have an artifact right?

[jolly oak]

That's where the Weird Water comes from. It's a lot to explain, but you can google detailed guides on it

[crisp horizon]

im aware it spawns at night and stuff but just wondering

[honest fern]

Any idea when the Rickter being dead in 100 rads for the main mission bug will be fixed? They claim they fixed it in 1.0.2 but I did that mission after 1.0.3 and he's still dead and now I'm hardlocked out of the main story. Or does anyone know of the console command to revive him so I can play the game again?

[boreal pendant]

i found how to completley ingore flashbangs, just open your inventory

[maiden grotto]

It's a crime if you didn't

[serene barn]

man i really wanna like the EBR but it's just not strong enough.

[maiden grotto]

EBR?

[serene barn]

meant the EMR, Mark 1 EMR

[maiden grotto]

Ahhhh.... didn't know that either... Never used it.

I go as far as basic AK and I am done

[sonic pivot]

a 1 shot protection should be applied in friendly npcs in case of accidental shot to not mess your whole rep up immediately i think would be nice?

[serene barn]

i used a unique AK for a long time myself. but the thing is that apparently high penetration is good because it apparently helps with mutants too now.

[visual anchor]

i wished there was a bolt-action rifle without a scope

[crisp horizon]

i do not like groups of bloodsuckers at all

[visual anchor]

even when you have a magazine fed shotgun it's still annoying

[gaunt jungle]

wow, the SIRCCA looks fricking lovely compared to the rest of the zone

[maiden grotto]

Nah, I like the ruthless of it... But there is supposed to be a way in game that can reset it for you... I remember seeing something in game about it

[sonic pivot]

then thats fine

[maiden grotto]

Not that I have seen anyone provide that service though

[gaunt jungle]

this place reminds me of the BMRF

also what the hell do i do with the electric collars

[crisp horizon]

i see green things

yay i found weird water

so wait, can i get 2 weird waters? lol

[gaunt jungle]

a breach in Sector C.....really....

[normal zinc]

tried everything but he doesnt spawn,I tried to make a ticket but no one answers 🥲

[hoary crest]

There is, just not one with irons

[crisp horizon]

so is it possible to miss the key to freedom sidequest entirely?

[serene barn]

man i shot some exo Ward guy several times up close with the MK1 and he lived, meanwhile the M701 using the same rounds, puts them down in 2 body shots

[gaunt jungle]

thanks to youtube, i found out you can crouch to avoid getting cut from the floating glass

[crisp horizon]

love it when the game thinks im having too much fun and throws 30 bandits and 15 bloodsuckers at me

[serene barn]

i have heard reports about people saying they still move too fast crouched and that it hurts their gear. you're supposed to walk through like toggle walking on.

[gaunt jungle]

that double crossing son of a......

[boreal pendant]

i wonder, whats the earilest you can get a guass gun

[mellow loom]

Hello all , have the devs addressed low resolution on PC or is there a fix ?

I'm on 1440p max settings except for turning off TAA for obvious reasons ( blurry & poor image quality ) and turned off dlss ...

I have tried changing the resolution in multiple ways but the textures on literally everything on screen seems to just be stuck at extremely pixelated 480p .

SPECS 4090 - Intel Core i9 1400KS - DDR 5 64gb - the game is on its own nvme .

PLEASE HELP !!!

[gaunt jungle]

i let the prof live...despite what he did

[neon sigil]

https://steamusercontent-a.akamaihd.net/ugc/10793147658174707/500C6DD74397B0962352F7C39772FD9EDFD1D151/ (open in chrome)
you can say that I "cancel the animation" but then I stand fully still and let the animation play, yet it's cancelled again

[crisp horizon]

bro the game actually just spawned a bandit 5 feet behind me no more than 2 seconds after passing by

[gaunt jungle]

can this suited prick give me my glowy rock back

[digital parcel]

aye, that is a familiar bug, usually works if you wait a little before trying to use an item again.

[neon sigil]

this is the worst bug in the game by far for me. Literally unplayable, especially in fights when game decides it's not time to heal right now

[gaunt jungle]

wait is monolith a anomaly???, a faction??, a artifact???

[neon sigil]

monolith is a faction (followers) and a big rock that brainwashes you (to which followers pray), men-made

[digital parcel]

no, yes, no. its an illusion created by a sophisticated psi & holo projector that a hivemind of 7-nerds use to bait and brainwash stalkers to worship it and join the faction also called Monolith

[neon sigil]

it was supposed to prevent stalkers reaching center of the zone, creating zombies from most, or schizos from others

[digital parcel]

it basically mindwipes you when you make a wish to it, Skif survives because its used at a safe level in SIRCAA, then you rise either as a tragic zombie or brainwashed cultist super soldier

[sonic pivot]

u get so different perspectives in the game depending if u side with ward or not (i mean earlier missions not ending stuff)

[random tiger]

@digital parcel i loved the Interactions with The Wish Granter at SIRCAA

[gaunt jungle]

i fricking knew this facility was gonna go straight to chaos

made it out of Sircca

[boreal pendant]

currently using the veteran, can't oneshot headshot monolith anymore, what should i be using?

[sonic pivot]

i use margach d12, SVU, or kharod/dnipro for assault rifle

[flat otter]

There a way to lean around corners without aiming on controller?

[boreal pendant]

using veteran and saiga, any better loadouts for mid-end game? oop my wifi did a funny :3

[gaunt jungle]

The entire part SIRCCA felt straight out of Half-Life

[boreal pendant]

oh oki, would it be viable to just run a sniper + shotgun, or just sniper + rifle?, or is that a bad idea?

[sonic pivot]

i started running shotgun/sniper last couple days cos i feel it works better than rifle at late game

[boreal pendant]

fair, should i use svd, svu, or m701 :3

[sonic pivot]

any enemies who would easily die by assault rifle would also die with 1-2 pistol shots anyway

[gaunt jungle]

My 2 main guns have been dnipro, and the unique Int-A from the journalist stash

[sonic pivot]

all are great snipers imo, but SVU is probably the best overall

but M701 has this CoD4 vibe and feels good to shoot

[gilded gale]

Just finished the story mode 7/10 not great but not terrible

[tired orchid]

Hello so I just got to Down Below quest and I still haven t been to 4 locations on the map (for example duty base, and above it, didn t interact with brain scoarcher either). Do I just have it locked or what is happening?

[maiden fog]

Clusterfuck is pretty good, but durability kinda becomes an issue, though you will 1-2 headshot literrally every human enemy

[sonic pivot]

why skif is never affected by psi-stuff in the story? in duga when everyone else gets fried, or with the TVs? et

[boreal pendant]

tysm for the help, for special faction armour vendors sell, do i have to just wait for them to roll it?

[harsh jungle]

I think I’m gonna procrastinate the main quest

[maiden fog]

Anyone know where to find the Kharod paired magazine? not the high cap one

[boreal pendant]

and is there anywhere i can buy a exo orrrr?, and whats the best exos in order if anyone knows :3

[harsh jungle]

you can cheese your way to get a diamond exo right after you get outta the lesser zone at the spark bunker there’s guides online I can’t explain how to do it

[boreal pendant]

meh, id rather get it by progress

[maiden fog]

i've seen birch in rostok sell one 85k

[harsh jungle]

it’s like cheesing into Prypiat

[visual anchor]

did anyone experience crashes with the mission ||Let No One Leave Unsatisfied|| after ||killing scar and running onto an anomaly||?

[harsh jungle]

I think Scar hates me bc ||I made him run straight into an anomaly during the bolt throwing tutorial in Clear Sky||

[boreal pendant]

also where can i get psi-block i have found 3 in 70 hrs

[visual anchor]

buy from medic

[oak basalt]

my computer just shit its pants because a spatial anomaly sucked me too hard

[boreal pendant]

ive searched every medics trades apart from Pripyat :(

[visual anchor]

my game is shitting bricks because a spatial anomaly is sucking me into the black hole

[maiden fog]

i've found mine just loose around the main mission areas got like 20+

[tired orchid]

Hello so I just got to Down Below quest and I still haven t been to 4 locations on the map (for example duty base, and above it). Do I just have it locked or what is happening?

[fallen palm]

There is no light turn on/off animation when you are a ladder

[zenith sedge]

It's the m24 from cod

[old raptor]

Guys

When can I find items from pre ordering? Later into the game or sooner?

[maiden fog]

quest in the game, it'll give you stash locations. Items are in the stashes they are spread around

[old raptor]

does this exclude the one at the start? where the 3 guys r shooting up the house

[tough lichen]

At one point in Zalissya you find a pendrive in your stash, in which a guy tells you about stash locations scattered all over the game area
These stashes contain digital preorder stuff

[maiden fog]

yeah just get to the starting base first should apear there in your personal stash

[old raptor]

so complete the first side quest to save the guy been taken, and go to the bar n it should be in my stash?

[fading willow]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=75ygMCypyAY

[ebon mountain]

the traders have silencers for every single weapon except for AK 😕

[cyan plinth]

Hey. I am in the beginning village and it seems that it got attacked by the Monolith. But the doors are locked and there is nobody around. What am I supposed to do?

[sonic pivot]

this quest specifically has tendency to bug out a lot there is some things u can try look on youtube

[old raptor]

yo whats the fire mode change button again i cant find it

[ebon mountain]

b, or hold tab and it will show you 🙂 LB on controller

[old raptor]

B, awesome nice one, tab wasnt working lol

[ebon mountain]

tab calls the radial menu where it shows you the hotkey

[fading willow]

Now that the release hype has calmed down, bro this game sucks so much, what a disappointment.

[cosmic creek]

Nah it's good, just buggy af

[serene barn]

are any of the AS/VSS guns worth using in Stalker 2? like their stats just don't look good at all.

[restive storm]

For anyone downloading or looking for mods, don`t ever download the mod called "Mutant Loot". It causes PC crashes, deleted it and now causes game crashes when I open the inventory. Will try to sleep and see if it fixes it but it corrupted my save so think before you download it

[crisp horizon]

whats the fastest way to get sleepy in the zone?

@restive storm try reading the install and uninstall instructions

[sonic pivot]

arena or poppy field

[maiden fog]

yeah pretty much it'll be a usb with a recording, pick it up and the stash locations should appear on your PDA, you'll have to go to them to get the items

[opal matrix]

you didn't read the mod page, i know this because he says on the mod page exactly how to avoid your problem when uninstalling.

[crisp horizon]

isnt it in like giant bold letters too? i forgor

[restive storm]

Yeah, it seems like I didnt read it. I didnt thought that deleting a mod would require me to actually do something other than just deleting the files

[crisp horizon]

[sonic pivot]

imagine playing with mods and not thinkin

[cobalt fiber]

Idk I'm still thoroughly enjoying it

[restive storm]

The PC crashes are still part of the mod though. Deleting the mod fixed it. So, at least I`m right about that

[crisp horizon]

just you wait, you're in for a treat

[signal eagle]

So after saving zalissya from the attack the gaffer asked me to take out another monolith guy but I didnt get any side mission marker for it? Anyone know where this is?

[cobalt fiber]

Still avoiding sircca and treading through the far left side of the map with my limited game time lmao

[crisp horizon]

time to go experience every effect at once

[amber hill]

Surprised vet difficulty doesn’t really feel any different from stalker.

[sonic pivot]

it might be bugged that achievement if u get it let me know, i couldnt

[crisp horizon]

i will let you know if i manage to book it up to the psy bubble in the red forest before dying lol

[sonic pivot]

Thats a big run is it 2km?

[crisp horizon]

also this may be a dumb question but are those weird pockets of funky sounding wind psi anomalies?

[cobalt fiber]

I'm right in assuming my method of exploring far left is best because sircca changes a lot and locks you out of some side missions right?

[sonic pivot]

No, psi is the illusions usually from that psi-dog mutant with copies

[crisp horizon]

the hell are those funky wind pockets then?

[signal eagle]

Wandering lights is closer isnt it?

[sonic pivot]

U usually hear a harsh vibrating-grawling like sound and some colors when there is psi, not sure which u mean? Its wind or gravity?

[crisp horizon]

you never been walking and then all of a sudden you get this weird sound and your vision gets disoriented?

[signal eagle]

They make you move slow

[sonic pivot]

Thats psi yes

[crisp horizon]

ok so those are psi anomalies lol, i just been callin them funky wind lmao

[cobalt fiber]

Rostok

[maiden grotto]

Spawning simulator 😄

When they fix A-Life this will be gone

[signal eagle]

There is also one on the floor next to a dead body as you go over to wild island

[crisp horizon]

anyone got a bug where the arch anomaly icons just disappear?

[maiden grotto]

Not found one for snipers either

[signal eagle]

Mark 1 can get one. . .not from traders

[maiden grotto]

Ooooooooooooooo that is interesting, where?

[signal eagle]

https://mapgenie.io/stalker-2-heart-of-chornobyl/maps/the-zone
Pripyat

[crisp horizon]

the poppy field does not make me sleepy, only kills me lol

[restive storm]

Is my save cooked if the game crashes every time I hover over the inventory even with the mod installed? I can`t sell the mutant parts as game instantly crashes. Yes I did

[crisp horizon]

did you update to the latest version of the mod?

[opal matrix]

can you rollback to a save before the game had the mutant assets?

[restive storm]

I installed the mod very early so probably no but I will see if there is one without it

[quick kernel]

I find it so funny to think that skif would be eating a sausage found right next to the elephants foot in chernobyl

[signal eagle]

Dont the psi-cat things make you sleepy

[crisp horizon]

¯_(ツ)_/¯

[boreal pendant]

does richter become less friendly with you if you picked ward over noontide?

[opal matrix]

the problem your game is having is the localization file has a registry of the mutant loot in inventories still and its causing a crash when trying to load assets that are uninstalled.

[rough cypress]

Anyone able to help me with a pc I’m looking at buying?

[boreal pendant]

i feel like the dialogue is less friendly towards skiff

[restive storm]

The game is crashing with the mod installed rn. Will see if the early saves work. If they work I will delete the mutant parts and try it again

[signal eagle]

Called a Bayun

[crisp horizon]

theres none around me and i need the sleep icon to appear

[signal eagle]

There is one in garbage, just as you cross bridge little town to the left

[boreal pendant]

howcome?

[restive storm]

Some stamina mods corrupt the sleeping feature too I think. I installed a stamina mod for both jumping and running and sleep icon didn`t appear for days for me

[crisp horizon]

pretty sure i already killed that one

[signal eagle]

Took me a while to realise energy drinks stop you getting sleepy

[crisp horizon]

im hoping if i edge the poppy field enough i will get the icon

[signal eagle]

Bayun is just over the bridge

[crisp horizon]

i already killed that one

[signal eagle]

Burnt forest?

[twilit hound]

Let's me try it

[crisp horizon]

im almost certain i've hunted every last one

[signal eagle]

Have you done the arena missions? The freedom colosseum

[crisp horizon]

yup

[signal eagle]

I thinks its gonna be stay off the energy drink and dont sleep for a few days

[crisp horizon]

the military sucks, they asked me for coupons and then started shooting me when i approached lmao

but yeah i rarely sleep or use drinks to begin with so idk whats happening

[boreal pendant]

why you trying to get the sleepy thing?

[signal eagle]

Ive had all stats at different times and no achievement

[crisp horizon]

has to be at the same time

[serene barn]

man the SVD seems kinda...weak? i just shot some bandit zombies in the head and they didn't die

[cobalt fiber]

Does the entire map get affected after sircca or is it just select regions? Don't want to miss any side quests, have been focusing on exploration but do want to get some story missions done. Just will tick off everywhere bar pripyat before sircca if pretty much all is affected

[crisp horizon]

do everything before, thats the safest bet

[boreal pendant]

irrc its only lesser zone

[cobalt fiber]

I've pretty much ticked off everywhere on the right but currently going through the left of the map, answers seem to differ about whether left side is affected in the sense of failed/missable side missions etc. Just don't want to miss anything lol

[crisp horizon]

does thunderberry affect sleep btw?

[halcyon karma]

https://x.com/Stalker2News/status/1867712083363868931

[visual anchor]

it's broken (confirmed by devs)

[crisp horizon]

still gonna try lmao

[visual anchor]

same goes for The four winds

[signal eagle]

Run, stalker, run also for me. Twice I have run from that Chimera now 🤣

[visual anchor]

did you take damage?

[signal eagle]

Yeah. So time for another save then lol

[cerulean socket]

I got that achievement by accident

[boreal pendant]

i don't get what people mean by sircaa breaking the game

[cerulean socket]

I hate sircaa
Love the Ward
But hate sircaa

[boreal pendant]

i have had no issues apart from zalisyya :3

[crisp horizon]

is it possible to die of hunger in this game?

[boreal pendant]

down below (one of the end missions) affects the entire map (main point of no return), sircaa just affects zalissya (and possibly rostok but i assume this was a bug), as far as i can see

[crisp horizon]

i have no idea what happened but i just cleared a bandit camp and they all got back up as zombies

[fringe frost]

fighting ward in the late game feels like i'm actively dragging my genetalia across broken glass

[faint spade]

I'm getting an all new access violation now without mutant loot or project itemization.

Unhandled Exception: EXCEPTION_ACCESS_VIOLATION reading address 0x0000000000000038

I have installed: Omega Experience, Optimization, Flexible Trade, A-Life Extended, and the flashlight/modloader stuff

[crisp horizon]

damn why does the clusterfuck do so much damage compared to the reg ar416

[restive storm]

Yeah, me too. All the saves are corrupted with or without the mutant loot. Even the earliest saves. I don`t know what happened but it corrupted all of them

[night acorn]

||so I fked over scar and took strelok side so now I can't go to the malicite? And due to glitch zalissta is gone|| so now I have no close by base because the story fkrd me over

I am overcumbered and 3km away from the nearest fkn base I wish I was on pc so I can wemod to places ffs

[faint spade]

I found an earlier one and deleted mutant loot and itemization after i sold the stuff, cleard my inventory, and cycled the vendors by sleeping 3 or 4 times. but now this new access crash, that has nothing to do with loot, happens when i am going on a little side quest in garbage, to pick up something from or for docent

[crisp horizon]

can anyone at all point out a glass anomaly on the map thats either near the giant sphere thingie in the red forest or near wandering lights?

[faint spade]

its extremely frustrating. the mods i have are either graphical or overall gameplay changes, and prior to today, i havent experienced the ..0038 exception yet, and i cant even trace it. some people say its due to gpu or cpu overclocking (ive done neither) or out of date drivers (they're not) or system instability (it isn't). everything is up to day and i have an extremely high end machine, no overclocking needed or wanted

[crisp horizon]

this is why you always have a test save if you plan on using mods

[restive storm]

Even with Bannerlord I didn`t have this much issue with the amount of mods I had, but somehow Stalker 2 manages to crash

[signal eagle]

Red forest - center path that leads to Yaniv 100m ish from boarder

[crisp horizon]

completely different game, on a different engine using a different modding structure

[crisp horizon]

i tried using grenades in close prox to myself to see if i could force a bleed

[restive storm]

It doesnt matter. Bannerlord is known for its tons of errors with the mods and the amount of work you have to do to get them work but even then I didnt have this much problem.

[crisp horizon]

it does matter tho because thats a completely different game using a different engine and different modding structure, with your logic i should be able to use stalker 2 mods on bannerlord 2 because it "doesnt matter"

[restive storm]

That`s not what I said. I said Bannerlord is hard to get the mods working and is known for the issues and problems that mods have with each other. Stalker 2 has a different engine and and all but it is a new game that came out this year. It should not cause problems for all of the saves just because of one mod. All of my saves are effected even without the mod

[crisp horizon]

have you ever stopped to think that maybe that one mod isnt causing your saves to be bricked?

[restive storm]

Yes, I stopped and thought about it actually and found out it was the Mutant Loot mod. Before, my whole PC was crashing and I had to restart it every time but after deleting the Mutant Loot mod just the game started crashing

[faint spade]

the issue with the first 060 violation was either mutant loot or project itemization. it happened with both, separately, so i removed both.

038 violation is some other issue now that i cant trace because everyone has a different "fix" that isn't a fix at all.

[crisp horizon]

if a single mod made your whole pc crash then i think you might have a bigger issue on your hands

[torpid yarrow]

When A-Life update? i wanna finish the game

[restive storm]

No, I don`t have a bigger issue. You are just being stubborn at this point tbh. Mod was the issue when crashing my PC and still is with all of my saves being corrupted and crashing the game now. Rolled back to a previous save and it is not crashing but if I put a item on a specific slot in the inventory it crashes

[crisp horizon]

hmm, could that be because you didnt follow the uninstall instructions? (spoiler it is, that slot is gonna be perma unusable now for you)

[restive storm]

It could be but as I said previously, I didn`t think that a single mod needed a specific unistalling process. That part is my stupidity I know but a single mod should not be causing all of my saves to be corrupt

I will not put a item on that slot and continue playing the game I guess. Hope they come out with a new patch soon since it has been more than a week

[crisp horizon]

most i can tell you is to readd that mod and try following the uninstall process again other than that idk

[faint spade]

be mindful that both mutant loot and project itemization both have or had specific uninstall processes, and that they each cause the ammo mouseover bug which results in the 060 access violation

[tropic crown]

Guys, in the main mission Dangerous Liaisons I'm heading to the mission spot and I was going to stop at old Malachite base, but now there are new stalkers there but for some reason most of them are aggressive to me (some dont) and they simple wont die. What is that? Are they the Spark (They cammoflage is the basic stalker one)? Because I choose not to follow Scar

[crisp horizon]

oh hell nah i aint gonna make that run

[restive storm]

I will not be installing mods that add items to the games from now on since they always seem to be causing some sort of problems even if you uninstall them

[signal eagle]

You asked for somewhere in red forest. Thats the only marked one i could find

[restive storm]

How do I get the sleepy icon or get sleepy? I wanna sleep to remove the mod items but can`t because I already slept before

[faint spade]

so i ended up having to start all over and i lost 28 hours because of that. i deleted mutant loot but kept project itemization. ended up getting that same ammo mouseover bug last night, so earlier today i found a save (lost an hour) that wasn't corrupted. made it to the nearest vendor, sold everything i had, then went and slept 3 or 4 times to cycle them. then saved again with no items in my inventory, and deleted project itemization. no issues there.

the only issue now is that 038 violation that is graphics, hardware, driver, or some other bullshit. i think its related to UE5 and general piss-poor software development.

[restive storm]

You could try deleting the Stalker 2 file in the %local%. Be sure to backup your saves before that tho. That helped me get less stutters and crashes

[crisp horizon]

MY BLEEDING STOPPED RIGHT OUTSIDE OF THE PSI FIELD

[faint spade]

any specific folder, or just all of it?

[cerulean socket]

I remember dying in red forest
So many times

[restive storm]

All of them. AppData\Local/Stalker2 delete all of the files

[raw juniper]

Hello everyone, quick intro, just joined, avid Stalker fan, 72yrs old, UK based, Xbox series X, hoping by joining you I have access to more info than You Tube

[crisp horizon]

hang on, isnt there a little crazy spire somewhere in the red forest?

[signal eagle]

? The big mining wheel machine?

[crisp horizon]

nah like right outside the hunters place, a crazy spire

[signal eagle]

Hmm not sure cant remember

[crisp horizon]

rip, i need a way to get rads

[signal eagle]

Is the claw of death in this one?
Yeah thats in jupiter. I found it

[somber rose]

Is there any interaction at all or story behind the Freedom/Duty war starting back up?

[crisp horizon]

yeah the achievement definitely doesnt work, i got all the ailments and nothing

[dense bloom]

Im confused, how to get green icons in areas ? i want green icons in Slag meap, i did everything ( i think) including the deceive the deceiver the quest.. 😦

[crisp horizon]

keep doing missions for them

[weary hedge]

hmm no update for almost 2 weeks. they cooking some big patch or they got something very fkd in ue5

[somber gazelle]

clearly mod support is coming... im lying

[pine halo]

Hey I was told to come here for bug support, Is there any work around to the navigation bug in "Decieve The Deciever" where Zahtar just doesn't leave the heap with you? instead he just stands by the exit and only responds to "come back later"

[crisp horizon]

the fall damage is really gonna annoy me

[tropic crown]

See the #📜┃gsc-answers

[restive storm]

They better be coming up with an 100 GB update fixing big problems or else

[crisp horizon]

someone make stalker but on that weird polygon engine all those indie devs are using, i wanna see what can be done lmao

[half torrent]

supposedly the next patch is huge and is gonna fix some aspects of a life

[boreal pendant]

how can i ally with spark after chosing ward in sircaa, i forgot :3

[crisp horizon]

i wanna be able to send messages to other stalkers around the zone from my pda at some point

[flint ocean]

What mods should I use to fix the stuttering and such on PC

[unreal reef]

That's the neat part. You don't

[crisp horizon]

you'll have to test each one yourself, they vary from user to user

[flint ocean]

Any recommendations?

[midnight sluice]

anyone?

[crisp horizon]

you can start with the ones on nexus, theres one on there that helps fix most of the stutters but not all of them, should be one of the first ones if you search for an optimization mod

[untold geode]

The faction itself you can’t, but later Scar will ask you a question you just have to answer the way he wants.

[crisp horizon]

the ward makes themselves very hard to like, except zoltov he chill

[restive storm]

First try "Optimized Tweaks S.2". It fixes stutter a lot. Then, try "Ultimate Engine Tweaks" and see if it reduces stutter. Read the mod page for "Ultimate Engine Tweaks" btw there are a lot of settings you have to tweak or delete in the engine file. Then, turn on shader cache in nvidia settings or if you are using an AMD card turn it on in regedit then reset your shader cache and delete your disk`s shader cache files

[dusky sonnet]

just do the quests, the repeatable quests could probably increase your rep with the faction too

[dense bloom]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3DBZgHneV2E hidden stach like that are random ? or its mods for screwed my game ? cuz i didnt have scope like him?

EDIT; you have different stuff depending on where you open that stach lol.. i openend from far ( glitch) and gave me garbage, but if you go near like in this video u have the same things(kinda)

[maiden grotto]

Not even using the secret entrance?

EDIT: What? This is not who I replied too.... Let me try this again

[maiden grotto]

Not even using the secret entrance? And going in through the backdoor?

[topaz barn]

why does hamster have chad prices and warlock has beta prices

[mystic egret]

just sold 3 kilogrammes of .45 ammo to get 580 roubles.. that's so depressing lol
in every other stalker game ammo had much more value when being sold

[boreal pendant]

does the suppressor upgrade stop psi-dogs from duplicating orrr?

[dusky sonnet]

why would it

[boreal pendant]

its descripsion says so

[dusky sonnet]

it does?

wait, suppressor upgrade for what exactly

likr an attachment or what

[maiden grotto]

It will probably be 100gb for small updates as well.

But then, it is not the size of the update that matters, but the quality. And quality never comes rushed.

[boreal pendant]

armour

[dusky sonnet]

not the size of the boat, but the motion of the ocean

[boreal pendant]

i don't get this reasoning, the person you give the documents to (in search of past glory) doesn't give you the veles if your on ward, the game says that nowhere, and there is 0 reasoning lmao

[dusky sonnet]

oh youre talking about the main story psi protection upgrade? no, it doesnt stop psidogs from multiplying. I dont rember the description saying it does either

[untold geode]

Hamster is a rat

[boreal pendant]

ok good :3

[topaz barn]

how bruh, warlock woulda given me 914 for an artifact. hamster gave me 2k

[dusky sonnet]

hes clearly a hamster, it says so

@topaz barn weapons and armoir traders just give you best prices on selling anything, not unique to hamster

[night acorn]

There's a secret door?where?

[half torrent]

Was just walking and the regenerator quest item just disappeared and it said lost, did I just not need it?

[topaz barn]

i got a hypercube recently, it sells for 70000. where can i sell that for that much. hampter will give 24

[untold geode]

||He catches many bullets he deserves. Gaffer strongly suggested he didn’t deserve to live. ||

[topaz barn]

i dont understand. did you spoil me something?

[boreal pendant]

i mean this is kinda the spoilers chat :3

[untold geode]

If you’re meeting Warlock, you’re not far off anyway. And yes this is a spoiler channel but I still marked it.

[still edge]

i feel ultimate engine tweaks has more optimization and i got better results , gets updated alot , "optimized tweaks 2.0" its been used more because it was realised a day before the other one and got more popular.
Both are amazing optimization mods either way

[dusky sonnet]

nowhere, noone will give you full price of an item. the best price you get from an item is the average weapons/armour vendor prices

however you might get lucky and have a repeatble "find artifact" quest which pays out a lot more for specific artifacts

i never have the right artifact though

[torpid yarrow]

yeah that helped me alot i get 80-100fps on high to medium without frame gen on release i could barely get 60 on medium with frame gen

[austere timber]

i just died in the first ever mission of the game 💀

[faint spade]

i backed up my old saves, deleted the appdata local stalker2 folder, started a new game with a new save to recreate everything

moved my old saves back in, and now i cant even access them

[alpine plinth]

Do they announce the time and date of updates and where would I see that at I’m new to stalker since stalker 2 on Xbox

I’ve been playing since it was put on gamepass

[cobalt fiber]

Good to know, thanks. It did seem to not make sense that the left side would be affected given that there's literally areas locked behind main progression in regions that way

The Zalissya bug post sircca has been fixed in the last (or one before) patch right?

[still edge]

such is life in the Zone

[harsh jungle]

found my third hypercube of the run

[faint spade]

well

[cobalt haven]

Is there a way to enter Jupiter early? Man Harpy gave me a task to subdue trespassers but i can't enter yet (still early in the main story lol)

[faint spade]

second round of saves lost. on 3rd restart. this time i'm down ~7 hours. but fresh restart with no mutant loot or itemization to possibly corrupt things. we'll see what happens now. i'm getting so sick of this shit. UE5 is supposed to be plug and play modding, user friendly, etc etc etc.... we'll see how it goes

[weary hedge]

New stalker here

[cobalt haven]

They should've stayed using UE4, but oh well

[turbid tangle]

How many achieves are bugged. Wardens drool, baptism by fire(sort of), on a leash, bingo and the four winds right? I can only assume the four winds is tied to dev location aswell which is possibly why idk. Minus every single map marker there is.

[austere timber]

haha

[cobalt haven]

Can opener is slightly bugged.

I stabbed a zombie wearing a leather jacket in Red Forest and got that achievement

[still edge]

dying is a normal state for any stalker in the zone, eventually the zone takes us

[austere timber]

and because skill issue

[weary hedge]

<---Alert Alert new stalker skill issue also

[olive rampart]

I'm in pripyat, and holy SHIT
that one apartment building is a NON STOP CQB WARZONE.
I think it's bugged because enemies KEEP SPAWNING

[still edge]

thats the pripyat i remember, vintage pripyat right there

[plucky tinsel]

Kinda wish we could get at least a small amount of credits when looting a downed enemy stalker or bandit, considering we get access to their pda

[olive rampart]

I made it out, but that was like 30 minutes of nonstop room clearing (no saving because in combat)

[plucky tinsel]

Im doing that one now, but Im just taking out 1-2 at a time so I can make some money by having them loot each other for their zircon suits lmao

[olive rampart]

so THATS how that works

[still edge]

i think thats too much , i go for a anomaly run and within 15 minutes i made 15k credits. I dont see the economy problem

[plucky tinsel]

Yep, got a merc exo suit, its a placeholder but it's nice for a basic, very high in every defense but only 2 slots.

One suit run I make about 80k

The economy is an issue when you want to try multiple loadouts sometimes

[crisp horizon]

man i love blasting those copypasta dogs with a spas before they get a chance to hit ctrl v over and over again

[mystic egret]

stashes are so underwhelming, i keep finding food or a bit of ammo in these

also is there any reason to not be hungry? when my dude's hungry it doesnt even change his stamina regen, stamina loss and it doesnt drain my hp slowly due to starvation

[olive rampart]

pretty sure it affects stamina somehow
maybe it affects top speed?

[rigid thicket]

Stamina regen is slower and you can't sleep with an ailment, more weapon sway apparently too

[rigid thicket]

Agreed, wish there was more unique weapons or special ammo

[mystic egret]

it could but ive been doing few experiments and stamina is very randomly regenerating, maybe a bug

some times it regens very fast other times super slow, doesnt matter if I'm hungry or not
@rigid thicket i see, weapon sway thankfully isnt big deal here and I barely sleep in this game it's not very needed and days pass by fast too

[olive rampart]

sleep? who needs that when you've got 500 energy drinks

[rigid thicket]

Sleeping apparently helps reload speed, aiming, and faster backpack animation

[mystic egret]

true

my guy doesnt feel drowsy at all due to him consuming 30 energy drinks a day

thats interesting

[rigid thicket]

Sleeping fixes my random fps stuttering which also felt like a feature 😅

[mystic egret]

also does anyone know who will upgrade my exoskeleton?

[restive storm]

For me, I use an AMD card so I had to turn on Shader Cache in regedit

[plucky tinsel]

Can't be drowsy when the kidney stones cheeki breeki your pain level to 11 all day 😄

[mystic egret]

i even wanted to upgrade my guns but no bros wanna do anything to my dnipra/kharod/saiga

[fossil kayak]

Finished the game but I could not find anyone to upgrade my exoskeletion. I just used the X7 armor

[plucky tinsel]

Lady at Yaniv station

[fossil kayak]

I could not get her to do it.

[restive storm]

I visited all of the bases and no one seems to be able to do any upgrades at that armor except upgrading its sprinting

[cobalt haven]

Holy sausage, Snag is Lex the Legend.

He made it out alive, I guess Deggy spared him after stealing his stuff.

[crisp horizon]

guys i am witnessing a duty member shoot his fellow squadmate, what should i do?

[jade kraken]

Execute him for treason

[crisp horizon]

but then duty will hate me

[jade kraken]

No body cares of as long as it's not settlement npcs

[north ember]

Simple. Execute them too. Hating you is treason. I don't see the problem here

[cobalt haven]

Don't interrupt the Duty foreplay

[crisp horizon]

i require all factions in good standing to carry out my plan for the zone

bruhhhh my game crashed while i was upgrading :C

[north ember]

Anyone else have guns just randomly switch in their hands? One second I'm holding a assult rifle, the next it's in my backpack, and i'm holding a random shotgun I was carrying

[hexed bane]

okay yeah you guys are right, artifact route farming gives insane amounts of coupons and is definitely one of the strats to aid anyone having difficulty with the economy other than farming main missions

[crisp horizon]

we need a customizable auto save timer

[jade kraken]

Game gives the player guns meant for npcs by mistake, if it happens then you find a dude with only a sidearm you know whos gun you have lol

[cobalt haven]

So... tolik died apparently. And Strelok helped him canonically

[half torrent]

IIs having two compass artifacts on diamond exo too much?

[weary hedge]

Duty just screwed me over, the one mission where he tells you to run and hide and if i survive for a minute he will give me information i come back after a minute and this mf is gone

[cobalt haven]

No, that's just a bug

[north ember]

Same thing happened to me.

[fossil drift]

Which ending yall think is canon for the future dlc?

[weary hedge]

I just wasted 150 rounds just to help him too😭

[weary hedge]

Strelok ending would make sense to me

[wanton cloak]

This may seem dumb but how do I get through the red forest with out dieing from rads ?

[fading willow]

Fix the A life system, your game sucks otherwise

[hoary crest]

Given you're in here complaining about something three or so times every day, I'd wager you'll just find something else to whine about when A-Life does get adjusted 😔

[fading willow]

You must be the guy okay with a garbage half baked game, I’m the other guy

[hoary crest]

Mate, you're a helmet thats what you are lmfao, you don't interact with anyone, you just come here to complain. 😄 aint none of us like the fact we don't have A-Life, but most of us will just accept waiting for a patch is all we can do instead of repeating the same thing multiple times a day like an ape

[wanton cloak]

@hoary crest could you explain how or why I can't get through the Red Forrest ? I die to rads every time.

[storm pelican]

rads? or psy?

[hoary crest]

Rads or Psi rads? Because if its the latter, stick to the road, if its the prior, try a different route. The place isnt insanely radioactive

[wanton cloak]

Not sure rads just jump out of now where and I insta die

[hoary crest]

Likely too close to map boundaries then, take a different route

[mystic egret]

the deadliest thing about stalker 2 is definitely the scripted deaths

so many times died to random zones being locked away by insane rad, snipers oneshotting me etc

[wanton cloak]

I used the road in the very mid of the red forest?

[hoary crest]

The one that appears to lead straight to Pripyat? Because uhh, you can't use that road due to stuff that happens later. Use the other one