☢┃stalker-general

[boreal coyote]

it would be so good if me examining my artifacts in front of other stalkers caused them to comment on it or ask to buy it or even follow me out of towns to try and take it off me

[stark fossil]

Stalker 2? Do what you wish, probably beat it without mods first. But I was talking about Anomaly - gamma or EFP.. The gameplay depth there makes S2 look like Jazz the jackrabbit game

[wintry mulch]

Anomaly and GAMMA are awesome good fun. They aren't peak stalker experience, but have a different aim. Doesn't mean they aren't great mods.

[true loom]

so when the actual hell is the full fix for deadzones coming? i had to move my Xbox to my PC desk and it cut me off from my PC for a while cause hooking up my xbox and unhooking my PC with my set up is a pain, i just wanna sit on my couch and enjoy STALKER 2 with my gamepad but i cant fkin do that cause its busted ATM... STILL 3 WEEKS AFTER LAUNCH IM SORRY BUT THERES NO EXCUSE???

https://tenor.com/view/ramsay-raw-gif-13771788

[stark fossil]

Sure if you’re after a good story mode - play S2. If you’re more interested in meaningful progression and mechanics - play modded Anomaly. Also alife will be an awesome experience if you haven’t had it yet

[boreal pendant]

is it a bad idea not to carry a shotgun? :3

[stark fossil]

Early game yeah, it helps a lot with economy and ofc bloodsuckers

[boreal pendant]

im late game rn, would dmr and rifle be fine, currently using siaga and dnipro

[jolly oak]

What do you mean saying not carrying a shotgun helps with economy? I don't understand what you mean.

[hard wing]

who are the guys except loners on yaniv? what does the red icon next to traders and stuff mean?

[boreal pendant]

also, would using whip, or normal svu be better?

[stark fossil]

Eg. You have a 50 round AR, needs about a full mag to kill a bloodsucker. A SG could do it in 4-5 shots

[jolly oak]

Yaniv station is full of Deggy's boys.

[still edge]

i dont know what other people do but i like having 2 automatic rifles different calibers, and a shotgun for mutants with slug. Maybe if i can carry more artifacts i would carry 2 automatics 1 shotgun and a sniper

[jolly oak]

I mean, that would imply that carrying a shotgun is the better method, which I agree with. I think I jsut misunderstood what his question and your reply meant. I took it to be a recommendation NOT to carry one, and I would argue everyone should carry atleast a Rhino shotgun

[still edge]

dont shotgun also make extra damage to mutants too?

[boreal pendant]

*her :3

[stark fossil]

Under barrel SG is also available guys. If you wanna rock an M700 and an SMG - you can attach the UBSG on the M700. It’s a 5 shot semi auto shot gun

[boreal pendant]

rhino shotgun seems fun

[hoary crest]

Best shotgun is the revolver in vanilla balancing, fite me (it weighs basically nothing)

[jolly oak]

Sure. No offense, but I mean everyone in the chat is just sterile names and words on the screen for me, I don't really consider what their gender might be because it does not affect how I weigh their words. I would have no way of knowing what anyone's sex is just by their tag.

[boreal pendant]

dw np, i normally just use they or check peoples profiles :3

[hoary crest]

Being sterile is a blessing, no crotch goblins for meeeeee! 😄

[dense bloom]

Tooorrrrjjjnia Papapouille

[jolly oak]

There's too many names for me to do all that, honestly. I don't mean any offense, I just don't really care to know most people's gender in a chat room bc it doesn't impact what they can think and say, from my perspective.

[boreal pendant]

fair

[dense bloom]

u'll prolly regret this, alone, at 50-70

[jolly oak]

Too many walks through the Slag Heap, eh Stalker Bandit?

[hoary crest]

Yeah, I'm sure I'll regret not having a choice in the matter lmfao, fckin christ man 😂

[dense bloom]

well u said ''u happy for it'' so u dont regret it now lol

[jolly oak]

Dang, dude came out swinging lol

@dense bloom Bro he was just using black humor for levity on a serious topic 😅

[hoary crest]

Since when did not being able to have kids disqualify you from a loving relationship anyway? It might be a shock to you, or maybe you have'nt met one yet, but I'll let you in on a little secret.. not every woman wants kids either 😂

[dense bloom]

me too 🙂

@hoary crest And when did i said that ?

[jolly oak]

And some can't, even if they wanted to ☹️

[weary hedge]

Shotgun, rhino, gauss meta

[jolly oak]

It's ok @hoary crest I'll send you insults over the internet when you're 50-70 so you won't feel alone 🤣

[hoary crest]

Breh 😂 Read what you said again, but slowly 😂

[hoary crest]

Awh bless ya, appreciate it, only another 20 years to go 😂 They better be funny ones though or I'ma be dissapointed man

[jolly oak]

Listen, you lonely sh!t, Bandits can't be choosers lol

[dense bloom]

||when im in the facility, for the main mission '' wishful thinking'' in front of the wish greater, after i interact and finish all cutscene, they all shoot me in the facility, and i have a icon poppin up '' you reputation in the zone blablabla..'' can i stop them from shooting me ?? thanks||

[stark fossil]

No

[boreal pendant]

@hoary crest is there any difference between the whip variant of the svu and the normal one? :3 or is it just cosmetic

[jagged trellis]

Hi guys, is there any mod that fixed the random inventory organising when you use a trader? I haven't been able to find anything but it's driving me crazy

[hoary crest]

Uhh, one of them is kinkier than the other (sorry, it was a silver platter, had to, but I think Whip is more accurate)

[dense bloom]

you asnwering to me ? thanks.

[boreal pendant]

oki, will look for it

[jolly oak]

Just posted a picture of a 12 gauge revolver and said "This is what a 12 gauge Rhino would have to look like to be real 😂 " and it got immediately deleted lol. Guess we're not allowed to do that. You can google it though, it's absurdly large. Given there is only 1 size of shotgun shell in S2, I understand why they don't have it this way, but the Rhino would have to use 410 shotgun shells to look even remotely like it does with the shotgun conversion applied.

[stark fossil]

Yes. It has to happen, they’ll apologise after

[dense bloom]

Breh, read yoursel again, and my answer again, i was OBVIOUSLY talking about kids, not love relationship. Of course some women dont want to be mother.

[hoary crest]

No, that we can't, but we can be thieves 😄

[boreal pendant]

also need to decide between kharod or dnipro

[stark fossil]

Kharod is superior Dnipro less ammo drain cause of rof

[hoary crest]

Idk there boss, alone implies both by proxy lmfao

[boreal coyote]

is it the same actor voicing sid in both English and Ukrainian?

[stark fossil]

Kharod >>>> everything else😒

[hoary crest]

If you have lots of 7.62x39, Dnipro with the conversion, if not, Kharod

[stark fossil]

Not if he hasn’t found the blueprint …I have no idea where that one is..

[boreal pendant]

ah alr, do you know if the paired kharod mags are obtainable in game?

[dense bloom]

yeah well i was talking about them kids there.

[hoary crest]

||Opposite Deggy's building on the other side of the square, Pripyat||

[stark fossil]

Yes

[boreal pendant]

whereee

[hoary crest]

Idk no, it might be, but idk, all I know is the extendo-mag, but I use the NPC's carry attachments mod, so 🤷‍♂️

[stark fossil]

Try the cooling towers area - east little checkpoint with glass anomalies but beware of the monolith sniper. Also it could be quest related …

I think it’s Father Valerian stash. Not sure..

[dense bloom]

dang, those aimbots were tuff lol

[boreal pendant]

theres a coupled siaga and kharod mag in the files, useable with uetools, can't find anywhere

[dusk zealot]

7.62 conversion looks like an overkill. Also much harder to loot ammo

[stark fossil]

When you reach point if no return - might as well take all ammo from your stash

[dense bloom]

and i guess the game with the warning '' a faction is now hostile towards you'' is a freaking glitch ? lol..

[stark fossil]

That’s intentional. You have to chose - Ward or else

I dumped a mag in Rostok in to a wall testing recoil and the faction turned enemy lol had to load a save

Shots fired in Rostok!!! Bam! Freedom now hates you

[dense bloom]

and, just to be sure, the choice comes.. after ? cuz im kinda confused now

[stark fossil]

It’s like Matrix - you already made a choice, now you’re trying to understand it

[jolly oak]

Bend the SIRCAA spoon with your mind.

[scenic girder]

stalker 2 is the koolest game ever

[rare mica]

Just beat the game for the first time after about 50 hours got the strelok ending what a game

[boreal pendant]

whats readiness as a upgrade?

[jolly oak]

Bait for haters? XD
"ThIs GaMe SuCkS!1!!1 [Insert game name here] hAs BeTtEr [insert ultraspecific thing here] oMg WhY cAn'T tHeY fIx [known bug to be fixed in next patch].

[rare mica]

You can draw your weapon faster when switching to it

[jolly oak]

I believe that refers to the speed with which you can swap to that weapon. Like the SVD2 has super slow draw speed.

[storm monolith]

"switching to your pistol is always faster than reloading"

[boreal pendant]

ty, also 60% slowing spread increase or 20% flastness

[rare mica]

Flatness ima be honest I’m not sure slowing spread increase just makes it more accurate for longer while firing

[jolly oak]

Depends on what weapon, but if you're firing semiauto, flatness is winner. If you're mag dumping, then slowing spread.

[boreal pendant]

this is for dnipro

[rare mica]

Honestly depending what build either can work I used the dnipro like a DMR so I went for flatness but automatic also works wonders due to low recoils

[jolly oak]

I wouldn't recommend mag dumping anything but maybe a shotgun, so if you're using semi auto or controlled bursts, I personally would choose flatness.

[sonic pivot]

can we get some form of non-pvp only multiplayer at some point for this game

[wintry mulch]

Endgame, against hordes of CQC exo skeletons, just mag-dumping can be a valid tactic.

[jolly oak]

Oh I'm not saying it's never valid, but as a routine strategy I would say it's inefficient, expensive, and wasteful of ammunition. But if you're caught point blank with a big bad guy, a mag dump could save your life. Might not though, and it rapidly damages your weapon and eats ammo 😛

[wintry mulch]

When generally roaming the world, aimed, single headshots are absolutely the optimal strategy!

[jolly oak]

Regrettably GSC mentioned in an interview that they have no plans for implementing a coop mode for Stalker 2. There has been no more recent announcement that would seem to contradict that response. I wish they would, too.

[sonic pivot]

yes i know

[jolly oak]

Then you already know what you request is sadly unavailable 😦

[sonic pivot]

i might ask for it again sometime in the future

[rare mica]

I’ll give my opinion on this in 2 hours

[wintry mulch]

Co-op isn't really something you can add once the game is released. Every single element of the game needs to be designed with co-op in mind for it to work. They'd basically have to recreate the entire game from scratch to add co-op at this point.

[sonic pivot]

it does not have to include the story or any parts of it but it could be something instanced seperately from the single player and just be on the same map with maybe couple other activities to do or such

[wintry mulch]

Everything from quests, to how mutants and npc act, the whole AI and "A-life" thing, how time passes, everything needs to be changed to take more than one player into consideration. It is a HUGE undertaking.

[jolly oak]

lol you guys are nuts. Just direct those suggestions to the dev team is what I would suggest. None of us here can make it happen! 😛

[sonic pivot]

let me dream

[wintry mulch]

Get modding, bro! Make a Co-op mode! 😄

[rare mica]

I lowkey want to get the ward ending but I don’t want to get burnt out so I might play another game then go for another ending

[boreal pendant]

so is the diamond exo the best in the game?

[sonic pivot]

u can hard save before subtle matter and restart from there after an ending

[rare mica]

Either diamond or freedom exo I personally used diamond

[sonic pivot]

its like the last 1-2 hours before end and the 1st mission u make a choice

[violet hornet]

Is malachite bugged??

[jaunty apex]

hey

[signal cloak]

Hello. Does anyone know when the A-Life system will be available?

[hoary crest]

SoonTM

[hot minnow]

Eventually

[warm basalt]

anyone know if this game has night vision 0.o? kinda weird that i can’t shift into green mode when it’s dark

[wintry mulch]

It does not. Flashlight only (for now at least)

[warm basalt]

kinda think night vision would be a good addition, don’t know if gsc ever thought of that

[sonic pivot]

they probably did and also heard it countless times and i like to hope they will add it

[warm basalt]

i’m blaming russia for the lack of night vision.

please don’t take me so seriously, i’ve been sounding off in this chat like every six hours about night vision since the game came out

[sonic pivot]

thats great i do that with coop (they need ppl like us)

[stark fossil]

For what I’ve gathered it’s one of rare suits that doesn’t require any blueprints to fully upgrade

[warm basalt]

i also think they should add coop but after the response i got from the anomoly/gamma community i gave up

[sonic pivot]

i will keep living on this delusion

[signal eagle]

Mods on console when? 😜

[maiden robin]

The best way I see them implementing NV would be to add it as a mask upgrade unlock

[wintry mulch]

As soon as the dev tools are released. At least X-box will get mods!

[warm basalt]

but nvg is a must and one of the things that really makes this game feel unique and felt like a pillar in the progression and leveling up in stalker call of pripyat

[hoary crest]

I would rather see both NV and torches as seperate slot items to stop you needing to be stuck on one armour bit after upgrading it

[sonic pivot]

dont burn the kitchen man cook slower

[signal eagle]

I already see it was things they are trying to do. Was just adding to the "where Nvg's" and "where Co-op" 👍

[stark fossil]

You know the first time I played the game I saw helmets had attachment slots, then I saw a Duty guy with NVGs on his helmet and thought ok, so it’s just a matter of finding them

[shell thunder]

Is there a way to trigger emission faster? idk, sleep a lot for example, will it help? I need to reset artifacts in anomalies

[sonic pivot]

i know and u cooked even harder

and we could easily have hyper-jump on an armor like sire Korshunov

[stark fossil]

I want an armor that allows you to reload while running😏

[weary hedge]

Man, patch is taking a while. I appreciate it and want devs to take their time, but wait is hard and I hope to not fall into that category that can’t beat game because of said blockers. About a mission away from SIRCAA and hear nothing but issues after.

[sonic pivot]

Strelok's blink as well.. not to mention his mage skills to summon lightning anomalies by swoop of his fingers

[jolly oak]

Go outside and reload an assault rifle while running at your top speed sprint and then we can talk 😂

[ionic cliff]

do you think they will patch the stamina? i thought energy drinks would slow the decay like in the older games lol

[signal eagle]

I would make a main save there and carry on. If it goes bad you can always revert to the save after a patch. It may be fine for you

[sonic pivot]

SVU is my fav sniper now with silencer its beautiful

[stark fossil]

I’m ready to talk. What are we talking about? I’m not saying I wanna load bullet by bullet in my mags while running. I want to just put the damn mag in the magazine well. How difficult can this be??

[weary hedge]

Will do and hopefully it will be alright.

[digital igloo]

What's the deal with the northwestern exit out of the Garbage?

There's 2 bloodsuckers and a poltergeist there by the checkpoint, and a stash that I can't seem to reach

[jolly oak]

Please go do this yourself and see! Doing anything with fine motor skills with adrenaline in your bloodstream, let alone while flat out sprinting at top speed, perhaps while bleeding or with injuries, is exceptionally difficult. Ask a combat vet!

[sonic pivot]

they make regen faster, the fastest regen is by not moving or press the walk toggle while moving, so u constantly swap sprint>walk>sprint>walk

[stark fossil]

Working as intended - stash is easy to get from the cliff side

[signal eagle]

You can also run for a bit longer after drinking one

[sonic pivot]

i think only water does that

[digital igloo]

Huh.

Killed off the mutants (and then died thanks to some really poor platforming), and now there's Duty dudes spawning to take up positions.

Were they supposed to be there from the get go, did I miss a quest, or is this something that happens when you kill the mutants?

[stark fossil]

Seeing as how I can easily change an AK mag while I’m running, I see no issue there unless we assume all stalkers have Parkinson’s or something

[signal eagle]

It felt to me that i could run a little longer with one compared to not 🤷

[sonic pivot]

the "Veteran" preorder weapon is a sniper?

[stark fossil]

Go to Rostok south entrance - get on the hill - go back to stash jump down and enjoy the Freedom suit

[arctic walrus]

best way to earn money?

[digital igloo]

Yeah.

I'm more curious about the Duty guys who just showed up.

Were they supposed to be there, or are they a thing after killing the mutants, or is there a qusst around it?

[stark fossil]

Selling meds vodka water and yellow guns

[arctic walrus]

thank you

[stark fossil]

Random squad, no quest afaik

[maiden robin]

Yea but that would be kinda weird cuz essentially you'd have to wear a mask over your mask right?

[digital igloo]

Yellow guns (painful as that gets from a weight PoV).

Artifacts, once you have the ones you want, may also be a decent way.

@stark fossil they're taking up positions awfully well for randos; pretty much manning the checkpoint.

[stark fossil]

You can stash like 20 of said items, keep 5/5 meds/bandages on you when heading out cause you’ll be coming back with 50+ of each. Also fetch artifact quests have decent reward money. So might wanna keep every artifact you find

[arctic walrus]

i appreciate the advice alan and cool lad

[stark fossil]

Bless them, on my side they all died from buckets to the face from that poltergeist

[lethal kelp]

spas vs saiga?

[jolly oak]

Then you must be a more talented rifleman than a lot of professional soldiers, bc this exact topic is a known challenge for deployed military service members. Reloading a long gun while running, especially sprinting, is dangerous for many reasons. It takes your focus away from terrain navigation which can make you an easier target or make you slow down to process two tasks at once, not to mention the fine motor skills compromising that adrenaline causes. It's not parkinsons, it's human physiology. This is readily available and documented science, as adrenaline is a big part of the combat experience. Managing its effects is an integral part of military training.

Which is all just a long way to say that sprinting and reloading is highly impractical and unrealistic.

[rustic minnow]

Hello guys

[stark fossil]

I’m just saying I don’t find it so difficult to slap a new mag in to the gun when I’m running especially if I just dump the old one on the floor

[hoary crest]

No? Just have it on a strap?

[digital igloo]

Oh no.

They showed up after the muties all died.

So the outpost is manned now.

Don't know if your game broke or mine. You seem to have had them as help, while they showed up after for me; so the question becomes, when are they supposed to show up?

[lethal kelp]

is the spas better than the saiga?

[stark fossil]

I dunno, they were there when I first came, died and now I haven’t seen a patrol there for an age

[stark fossil]

Saiga is slightly better cause of mag, to reload the spas in heat you need to height cheese

[lethal kelp]

got it

[jolly oak]

Where were you deployed?

[lethal kelp]

how far can i get thru the game before i have a bugged mission? dont want to hit a bugged mission like whatever the zalyssia defense thing is.

[jolly oak]

It's individual. Some folks don't get the bugged missions. As for the Zalissya defense bug, the stopping point would be the mission that sends you to go inside SIRCAA. Once you do that, it's a straight sequence to that stage of the game, about 1/2 way through.

[maiden robin]

I've been fortunate so far. Haven't had any bugged missions. Or rather not bugged to the point they're incompletable

[sonic pivot]

how far are u?

[lethal kelp]

any idea what that mission is called? or a mission near it? so i can guestimate how much more i can play wo worry of bug

[maiden robin]

Tbh not that far in I don't think. Most of my hour time has been exploring/side quests. I'm a few story missions after chasing ghosts but I can't remember the name rn

[stark fossil]

I wasn’t man my friend has an AK and a hunting rifle so I was playing around with them. But I did try to run and reload and with AK you just flip the old mag with the new one and slide it in. It’s not that difficult really. I suppose it would be for a proper reload - new mag out old mag in the rig..

[sonic pivot]

:3

[lethal kelp]

bruh, you realize doing that casually and doing that underfire are completly different?

[jolly oak]

I believe it's called "A Long Overdue Visit" which is the second part of the "In Search of a Miracle" main story quest.

[stark fossil]

Yeah but Skiff is a former marine and you bet your ass I would try to load a mag while running when being chased by a Bloodsuckers😄

[lethal kelp]

thx much!!!

@stark fossil no. switching to your secondary is always faster than reloading. lmao. am joking

[stark fossil]

I prefer how they do it in Anomaly - you have to walk to initiate the animation but once it’s under way you can run

[jolly oak]

You are continuing to ignore my repeated reference to the effects of adrenaline and potential injuries in combat. You don't understand the challenges facing someone trying to do what you suggest in real life. It's not your fault if you have no experience with combat, but take my word for it. It's not realistic.

[lethal kelp]

reloading while running irl will slow you down, may make you trip or drop mag. reloading requires focus. running on uneven ground requires focus, sprinting requires focus. you cant do all 3.

[stark fossil]

It’s a deliberate decision, if it was my way the game would be too easy vs mutants

[crisp horizon]

ngl i feel like if they added mechanics for fumbling a reload while running that would be a lil cool

[lethal kelp]

yes, but that doesnt mean it isnt also more believeable.

as an experiment, go to an open field. or woods. sprint like someone is trying to kill you while trying to replace batteries in remote, or changing cartridge in ds/gameboy. remember, focusing on your hands means you arent focusing on going as fast as possible or not tripping. this means focusing on your hands increases your chances of messing up without much benefit.

[jolly oak]

He already stated he is proficient in running and reloading his friend's AK above. I don't believe it, of course, but that's what he claims.

[stark fossil]

Personally I would have prefer if you had to run around to evade mutants than hopping on a high box to reload in peace but that’s just me

[lethal kelp]

then he was jogging. he wasnt sprinting like what he wants skif to be able to do.

imo, everything in this game is way too tanky. bloodsuckers and poltergeists should be 1-2 shotabble with shotguns. they are ambush predators, not tanks. same with most other things, by the time you get to your 15th pump shotgunshell, the fight against giant isnt scary, just boring...

[stark fossil]

Yes I was jogging, and you guys are undoubtedly right. After all the game is set up for walk reloading - if it was my way the mutants wouldn’t miss so often

[jolly oak]

That's a common sentiment regarding Bloodsuckers. I agree with you that unarmored things made of flesh should be more vulnerable to bullets and buckshot. I imagine that the math of damage is harder to balance than we might suspect (especially across multiple difficulties) if this is the resulting experience. I could be misremembering, but I believe I saw a GSC question answer in this discord that stated they were going to work on balancing weapon damages. @hoary crest might have more info than me.

[prime sleet]

Am I right in understanding that there is no "canon" ending in the game and all endings are "canon", because "Everyone saw the Zone in their own way"?

[lethal kelp]

👍

i may be weird, but coming at it from an evolutionary perspective, it makes no sense for bloodsuckers or poltergeists to be tanky and stealthy. if evolution lets you avoid damage (invis) why would you also be evolving towards tough skin. once you get one, you stop at the other.

i dont think they should change their damage profiles between difficulties, i think their speed & detection radius should change. like on low difficulties, you can walk near them to get a decent shot and oneshot before they see you. on high difficulties, must stealth really well, but can do same...

[stark fossil]

You can actually sneak up on poltergeists - just like in anomaly (except the first one which is scripted to know you’re there) Others you can walk pass by

[lethal kelp]

you can sneak up to the upstairs window of teh boat on the first poltergeist.

[stark fossil]

Well there you go

[hoary crest]

Regarding GSC's balancing decisions? I do not. Only mods to fix that. Moreover, I don't think the approach I find tolerable for balancing is something the company would even consider as it would probably alienate a good portion of the newer fans

[lethal kelp]

dont we know for a fact some other games endings are cannon? like SOC cannon is decline offer? clear sky is taht strelok is incapacitated cuz otherwise scar dies? and we know some of the cannon endings of call of pripyat like whaty happens to the boat... we will probably find out which endings now are cannon if we ever get a sequel

[crisp horizon]

new suit, time to go to pripyat

[hoary crest]

Bring your raincoat! 😄

[stark fossil]

They should have added an end game vendor that gives blueprint stash locations as mission rewards..

[jolly oak]

You've got it right from the evolutionary perspective, at least by my opinion. To my knowledge it is not expressly explained in the lore where Bloodsuckers (or most mutants) come from, but it is generally theorized that radiation damage and DNA degradation has led to their creation. If that's the case, thicker skin or resilient anatomies can arise as an unintended consequence of the genetic alterations/mutations that led to their rise in the first place, as the Zone is an exceptionally harsh place to survive without technology or human intelligence. Now, if the bloodsuckers were created in a lab, then all bets are off on the logical evolution of the species, of course. Personally I don't think it matters if they evolved from mutations or were lab grown, bc the lore itself states things like Bloodsuckers don't appear to have skulls due to skin flaking off and exposing brain matter, as well as they suffer from necrotizing flesh, so any resilience to bullets and buckshot is purely a game mechanic, not a story point.

[crisp horizon]

i just like to think the bloodsuckers are a failed experiment from someone that played too much halo 😂

[lethal kelp]

we can also compare to older games for other examples of bloodsucker durability... also i thought it was confirmed that they are made in labs as bio weapons or smthing

[jolly oak]

I read that they are influenced by Cthulhu fiction and possibly D&D and Fallout, but I don't have a solid source to confirm that.

[hoary crest]

Its a hard pill to swallow that they can have skin resiliant to buckshot and intermediate rifle rounds, no matter how well engineered they are. They don't have exoskeletons, and even the thickest skinned animals don't tank big rounds, we're also talking about huge creatures that take big-bore rounds to drop, not something with the rough dimensions of a man.

I get that they wanted them to be hard to kill, but I can't help but feel having them be capable of dodging shots instead of being tanky would have been a better approach

[jolly oak]

You could be right, I can't say for sure. I don't have all the lore memorized, of course. If you can remember where you read that they are lab grown, I'd love to read that too, and learn.

[lethal kelp]

agreed. but i also think that headshots should kill controllers and burers and everything else way quicker. a shotgun slug should go thru the skul... i burnt like 60% durability on my pump shotgun because i had to use slugs long range to kill a burer

[hoary crest]

You on PC? Download Fubar if you want guns to feel like guns, is on Nexus. Its not perfect, but its better than vanilla, don't wimp out an make sure you download the 1:1 damage file

[lethal kelp]

do you use many mods? how worth it is the mutant loot mod? the one that gives monsters loot.

[jolly oak]

That is fair to say. Like I mentioned above, it is my opinion unarmored flesh should be more affected by bullets and buckshot. I'm just trying to explore any alternative explanation angles, though its thin. At the end of the day, ALL of it is dev math choices. They set the values for all game variables.

[hoary crest]

I use that yeah, not many, but yeah a few. Mutant Loot is good if you have economy changes to make the game a bit harder, else you'll end up more minted than you ever need to be an it kinda makes the economy a joke

[digital igloo]

It's humans = health and mutants = armour?

Or is it the other way around?

Basically, who do I use the higher pen weapons on?

[stark fossil]

Everything - it’s a straight up damage modifier I think

[hoary crest]

Yeah, I agree, fleshy things shouldn't be tanking shotguns like a champ. There is a damn good reason we use shotguns as hunting weapons in reality

[lethal kelp]

ngl, i give devs lots of slack here, the game is mostly playable and they will figure out the balancing soon enough. as long as they keep their promise and actually finish the game with stuff like a life to make monster encounters less abt them spawning on top of you...

humans = health
humans with armor = armor
mutants = health
mutants with armor = armor

simple as. your choice which is which. its impossible to tell imo. it doesnt even matter tho since headshots are always best choice regardless of ammo, so just use cheaper bullets. and mutants are either grouped (meaning you want more bullets and less durability for buckshot) or solo, so you use slugs to kill asap

[digital igloo]

Personally, I think that the devs should make ammo more abundant, yellow guns pay less, and put a cheapo artifact (or 2) in most stashes and stalkers as the main currency that players actually go looking for and storing.

[jolly oak]

Mutants have armor too. Check this link for a chart of mutant armor modifiers for easy understanding:
https://www.reddit.com/r/stalker/comments/1hbuz3h/armor_hit_points_and_headshot_multipliers_for_all/

[hoary crest]

I would argue the opposite for ammo I wont lie.. Its everywhere and because of that, you have very little need to interact with merchants. It needs toning down some. Agree about artifacts being in stashes tho

[stark fossil]

How are people having problems with ammo? I have over 18k rounds for guns I’m not using, and as for my Groza the 5.45 is so abundant that I never have to refill from stash or buy

[jolly oak]

Same. I deposit ammo, not withdraw it.

[lethal kelp]

can you link me fubar? dm is fiune. cant find

[jolly oak]

@stark fossil It is possible that many players are not adept at headshots or controlled aiming, especially those without KB+M controls, and so they rely more upon body shots with automatic fire to kill enemies. In that case, I could easily see how ammo would burn fast.

[digital igloo]

Honestly, I've found the opposite to be true.

Sure, you accumulate a fair bit eventually; but you're always hoarding it because you're never finding enough in the field.

It's also odd AF that stalkers carry like one bullet on their person.

What this does is push the yellow guns (over everything else) as the main sale item in the economy.

More abundant bullets would encourage selling them, and adding in artifacts would shift the focus of the economy onto selling those as opposed to hoarding and selling yellow guns.

[lethal kelp]

no aim assist? oof that sucks...

[hoary crest]

Not gonna lie, I think they need to make the general loot access way fckin harder. Bullets should be a precious resource, currently there are so many you'd think you were the only guy who ever looted the Zone. Food, water, bullets, meds, they all need to drop in accesibility a LOT. Currently the game drowns you in loot an it hurts the immersion of the game when the core premise is that the area is harsh and pulls no punches. No point in having survival mechanics if they're half-arsed and superflous for the most part

[jolly oak]

I'm just speculating, I can't explain it from my personal experience. I loot more ammo than I use.

[jolly oak]

I can relate to this perspective, due to how frequently I find boxes of ammo and medkits in every room of a building. It's very Fallout-esque, which as a fan of Fallout I don't hate, but your point about overabundance is valid.

[stark fossil]

Guys you can collect like 20 meds/bandages/vodka/anti rads and sell the rest. When heading out take 5/5/1/1 with ya. I left Zalisya with almost 200k while fully upgraded 4 guns!!

[lethal kelp]

thats fair, but would also have large consequences on the fights in this game. killing monsters wwould be basically impossible. group of 3 boars is minimum 6 shotgun shells. 1 bloodsucker (may even spawn in pairs) is 6 shells alone. i lost count against giants after 10 shells. i dont even bother with rifles, cuz its multiple mags...

[hoary crest]

Oh don't get me wrong, mutants need a rebalance to fit in with loot scarcity, for sure. But the concept should be that you don't pick fights with every mutant you see. There needs to be a level where they feel fair in resource expenditure if you absolutely have to fight one, but the game should, and to a degree, already does enforce staying the damn hell away from them.

Same should go for humans too, you should'nt always charge headlong into every fight, that should be a careful weighing up of potential loot vs resources spent

[stark fossil]

If the devs had more time we would have mutant looting now

[jolly oak]

The Pseudogiant you encounter in a village as a side quest for the Musician took me something like 30+ shotgun shells from close range. Mind you a lot of them were body hits bc he was facing away half the time, but it's still a lot. I use shotgun Rhino vs mutants and Clusterfack vs Humans

[lethal kelp]

i wish it could be like that, but thats almost a different game at this point...

[stark fossil]

Remember canned food and water was always a premium resource in Stalker. You rosted mutant meat and dealt with rads from it if you didn’t have imported food

[hoary crest]

Not really, just a harsher version of what we have now. Though it could scale through difficulty for those that don't want thier balls stepped on, but many of us don't play this because we want yet another looter shooter. We want to survive in the Zone, and eventually thrive, not have it all handed to us on a platter by a butler

[lethal kelp]

should be like 3 good slugs to the face man. no bone can protect a skull against shotgun slugs...

@hoary crest also, every fight with a group of 3 bandits would be like quadrupling whatever loot you were carrying. each bandit fight should be way harder for that to work...

[stark fossil]

There is a reason why every giant/chimera encounter has a cheese prop close by

[hoary crest]

Where did you get that from? Thats what it would take for it to feel worth it for you? I just can't agree with that at all personally. Risk vs Reward, not "oh that was mildly difficult, here's all the loot you ever wanted"

[jolly oak]

I am no game developer and I have no education in game design. That said, I think the problem of item economy and plentiful supplies in the wild is made harder by the way you can change difficulties mid run. It would be far more controlled if you could only choose your difficulty when you start the game, and the loot economy and availability of loot in the wild reflected that level of challenge. Like Ranger mode in Metro, I would love for a hardcore experience that isn't just enemies with more HP and DPS, but rather a skill check for ammo conservation, stealth, and clever solo tactics.

[jolly oak]

I think he means that Bandits shouldn't be firing at you on full auto in every encounter and then only have 3 bullets on them when they're dead. Either they conserve ammo and have very little, or they go balls out and have a huge inventory. For realistic expectations, I mean.

[rigid thicket]

Yeah would've been nice to have this option, I'm sure mods will help in that aspect sooner or later if they haven't already

[lethal kelp]

minimum you carry is food, 1 med, one mag of ammo for gun (assuming you have good spray control). if you kill a bandit, each one should have at least that. so every good fight against a small group of bandits should net you 3 guns (that bandits think are reliable enough to stake their lives on in a fight), 3 sets of half used ammo, 3 sets of food, maybe 1 or 2 sets of meds if some were used.

thats basically quadrupling your loot.

assuming you sell this for like half their buy value, (idk abt this bit) you are getting enough money to buy an additional 1.5 your minimum gear.

so you are doubling your value for your first successfull hunt.

im saying that this would be BAD for the risk reward and bandits would havee to be made much harder (should be harder than a blood sucker)

[hoary crest]

It would be fine for them to drop one or two mags, IF 95% of the ammo scattered around the world was absent from the equation. One compounds the other too heavily else and we end up in the same situation were you don't need to interact with merchants or worry about resources

[jolly oak]

I'm really enjoying this conversation, but I have to step away. Thanks for the fun convos, guys. ttyl

[stark fossil]

The only scarce resource in S2 is Hercules

[hoary crest]

Guns are already pretty well balanced in mostly being broken and not very valuable. See above for ammo issue.

Food and meds though? Maybe you get one sausage between the three of them, and meds you basically should'nt get off bandits, at least not more than a bandage every once in a while. Medkits should be reserved for the inventory of enemies that are truly capable of pushing your shit in, and even still, should be rare. Not on what is effectively fodder. You can balance inventory drops very easily under a scarcity system, what you're describing is what we have currently, not what it could be

[hard wing]

how do i catch real artifacts among fake ones?

[lethal kelp]

i dont know if i agree with your analysis of what bandits should have (at least if we want to have a semblance of realism.) there is no way in hell anyone with a sense of selfpreservation is going out to rob someone else (that they know is armed) without out gunning that person. So if the average stalker/loner has an equipment level of 1, there should either be 3 bandits with equipment levels 1 each or one bandit with equipment level 3. otherwise there is no rational sense to risk your life like that. Its like going to threaten your peer with a knife, knowing he has a knife. you wont do that unless you have 2 buddies with you, or a revolver.

so to balance the need for self preservation, the bandits would really have to be a big threat. the player should really consider paying off the bandits for a time. \

@hard wing the one in chemical plant? i just kept running in and getting as many as i could. eventually i got the righ tone...

[stark fossil]

Waaaat?

[hard wing]

no, in pripyat

[lethal kelp]

same story ig, just keep grabbing as many as you can and you wiull eventually get the right one, at least thats how i did it

[hard wing]

ill eventually run out of psi blockades. I have 3

[hoary crest]

Thats the thing about guns, is when balanced properly, they tend to be pretty lethal, when you have three armed guys with even SMG's, they're threatening enough to be able to rob lone stalkers.

Play with Fubar a bit, don't wear an Exo and don't wear phys resist artifacts and see how quickly you get dropped with the 1:1 damage file. Thats how dangerous enemies should feel. That way you can implement these features and have them work properly

[maiden robin]

Hey this is what I do. I collect so much food and heal items I always sell everything but 10-20. Bandages have been my main source of income

[lethal kelp]

can you link me fubar? cant find it. ?

missed that

[hoary crest]

I already sent it to you in DM

[stark fossil]

Of course, I believe that’s fully intended. You never need more than like 5 of each when you’re going out to a new location and there is never a point in game where there’s no resources around

[hoary crest]

Wear something like the PSZ-7 armour, don't go balls to the wall with stupidly OP resistances, and you'll get dropped in one shot sometimes if they hit you in the head @lethal kelp

[hard wing]

i did run into the real one. Yo max physical resist!

[swift mulch]

I hate life sometimes

[peak scroll]

hat do yall think? trophy vs gabion

[lethal kelp]

currently just got the ssp 100m sircaa and i only have flower bud medium physical artifact. too much?

[stark fossil]

If you’re leaving Zalisya with less than 100k in your pocket along with all your guns upgraded - you’re doing it wrong. Sell every orange med, bandage, vodka, beer, water and anti rad you have - keep 5 meds on ya, 1 vodka, 1 anti rad and a few waters or energy drinks just so you can reach the next poi faster

[boreal pendant]

does malachite ever get traders back?

[lethal kelp]

???? i left zalyssia with like 20k. but i also literally dont sell any of my spare food/supplies. lmaop

[hoary crest]

For reference I play with the PSZ-7 armour, which is basically the same as the OZK armour and I use Liquid Rock and Thunderberry artifacts, nothing else, an thats to preserve the balance of being able to drop enemies in 1-3 shots, but allow them to do exactly the same to me if I slip up

[stark fossil]

You will never need them, all resources are plentiful on the spot especially if you haven’t been there yet

[lethal kelp]

yes i will. secret lore, skif dreams of setting up a deli and is saving up the salami and bread to make sandwiches

[maiden robin]

Since I overly explore I stick to 10 or 20 to be safe. But if I'm going through story missions I start with less.

[stark fossil]

Hoarding guns and armors in first play through is ok but next runs just sell all you won’t be using

[boreal pendant]

orr is it just done, would've like to buy one of the underbarrel shotguns

[hoary crest]

This is kinda why the loot system is problematic, there is so much that you never worry about making it back from somewhere and all the risk is basically removed from engaging enemies because you know the next room is gonna give you back more than you used

[stark fossil]

That’s how the game is setup. Anomaly mods are far far superior when it comes to progression. This game is not intended to be that unfortunately

[hoary crest]

Sadly not, but thats what mods are for, and hopefully down the line, Master mode, if we ever get one

[night acorn]

How do I keep getting fkn two shot by monolithians in pripryat and all they fkn guns are broken like bruh

[maiden robin]

I would enjoy a melee viable playthrough

[stark fossil]

The only thing that basically worries me is alife. Everything else can probably be solved by modding. Ngl I am already using a mod which kinda breaks the game intended progression…

[night acorn]

Like how is legit 98% of weapons you loot fkn broken but they can laser your arse with broken sht but you barely make a dent with a fully upgraded vs Latvia and fully maxed ipgraded diamond exo like what???!

[hoary crest]

A-Life will certainly come with time, thats a certainty, prehaps soon as it seems to be pretty high on the priority list. As for intended progression, so am I, but progression means different things to different people

Might even start an Ironman playthrough tommora tbh

[violet dune]

talking about weapons. how is enemy can shoot at you 6 full mags, but if you kill him fast it always 5 bullets or burer pick ups empty gun and start shooting at you

[stark fossil]

And I’m finding that my first play through which was about 95% of the whole map deeply explored I am just now seeing things I haven’t been able to find - and perhaps the reason is that some of those things are not even available for the player in vanilla. (Nobody seems to have found a drum mag for the Groza yet by legit means) I have it tho illegally… Who know maybe I find NVGs too this way😝

[icy idol]

guys, are random weapons appearing in your inventorys for anyone else? because a damn RPM appeared out of no where in my inventory, and it is loaded

[quick kernel]

yeah it's glitch, i've had every single weapon under the sun appear in my inventory with no durability

[violet dune]

weapon appears in your inventory means zombies are near you.

[night acorn]

Yuup I randomly get three sva snipers or a random rifle every few hours or a Randoms shotgun if I don't have a seconsary weapon

[stark fossil]

I am not very sure…Stalker games were instanced - the ai only had to be ran in your current sector and other sectors would have been simulated in the background. Not sure how this is supposed to work on one huge ass map. But I mean, older games figured it out so..

[hoary crest]

I could give you a long answer about world partitions and the like but its long winded, put short and simple, UE5 is more than capable of supporting the system, its just complicated

[icy idol]

it simply toss my secondary into the invetory to take his place as my secondary

[stark fossil]

My game runs at 60 FPS, when 3 dogs appear it can drop to 20 with content stutters that make inputs not register. How is it supposed to work with hundreds of squads across 60 square miles?

[icy idol]

where was only a pack of 3 Bloodsuckers

[night acorn]

Give gsc they've been through a lot but they will get the alife fixed I can't wait for a fully active ecosystem

[stark fossil]

I’m not a dev or savvy in this regard so I pray you’re right

[hoary crest]

Because until they reach render, they're just a marker, their animations and actions arent simulated until the player enters their "bubble", the game just keeps track of what their position is at any given time. The FPS issues are due to optimization, not the AI. Not to say the actors, when in an active and rendered state arent intensive, because they can be, but in terms of them navigating the map when you arent there, not at all

[violet dune]

alife shouldnt be only in fight mode while you running in forest or something. AI should take empty bases, bandits should relocate to different buildings. now if you explore map before main mission. half of the buildings set-up like someone is living in it, but they all empty. but campfire is on. food on tables etc... a bit weird

[stark fossil]

Bless you guys if that’s true. That is the only thing that I am weary of cause most of the other stuff is almost already available through mods.. and I’m hoping that with full modding tools there would be no limit to what they could do with the game

[night acorn]

The thing i love about stalker and it's long lasting community is that no matter what og stalkers stick together and it gsc don't fix it the community and the modders will be the modders have been active for decades I remember playing call of pripryat and driving around in a car running over mutant dogs

[stark fossil]

Sand box along story mode would also be sweet. Imagine choosing your faction/loadout on start😃

[hoary crest]

They'll get it running. More than likely it was just a matter of not having enough time to polish everything off to meet the release date

[violet dune]

yea, i hope its not gonna be +100m distance increase and fixed spawns.

[night acorn]

Downside tho to the moddingg community in stalker is there's edites that will die on a hill that gamma is better or anomaly ia better or Escape from pripryat is better but all of them have their own charm plus they're not really mods they're MOD PACKS

[stark fossil]

One of the things I crave for is a more gradual progression. I mean you can pretty much get a Kharod and a exo in 10 min and upgrade them fully both in like 30 min of gameplay.

[hoary crest]

Ideally you'd be wanting actors to be rendered outside of the player's sight, ofc that does mean they have to "spawn in" in some respect because you can't have all the actors on the map rendered and commiting to actions at the same time, even workstations would'nt be able to run that, but doing it dynamically so the world feels alive is very possible to do and have it feel immersive

[violet dune]

yea, i kinda wish exo skeletons only appear in pripyat

[night acorn]

I hate this I want guns gear food and koupons to be scarce and ammo especially to being scarce so the game is harder

[hoary crest]

Ditto. Surviving harsh resource aquisition is progression

[stark fossil]

Even if there’s a seating in game that lets you render squads closer/further based on your system would be ok if all the rest being simulated didn’t impact that performance

[night acorn]

Give use melee weapon’s and make ammo a rarity so we actually are struggling to survive but getting a diamond exo within a hour is bogus

[hoary crest]

Yeah dunno how they're gonna handle that, I just hope the end result is different for PC/Console. Modern PC's should be more capable of longer render than consoles, though that can ofc change depending on the users hardware age. Hopefully they find a way of doing it that works for everyone

[violet dune]

i mean they dont need to render actual AI outside your visability. they just need to render nodes(some kind of data) which means this partical is moving and than player is near this node they render event

[night acorn]

I have 400k and all my main wrapone siaga vs Latvia and clusterfk all upgraded max ane now I don't need money at all

[violet dune]

this is how OG stalker worked i think. on PDA you could see enemies in the map. i doubt they rendered it, it was small data nodes

[hoary crest]

Yeah, thats what I mean. Though the actor still has to be spawned in place of that marker, it just has to be an appropriate distance away that the player doesn't see them spawning in, or when the player doesn't have LoS at longer distances

[night acorn]

I hope someone brings back artifact stats because this "weak strong medium" sht makes no sense I would like to compare which artifsft is better but using words don't do anything

[stark fossil]

I’m ok with stuff appearing on 250m if the rest was also properly simulated in the background. Entity streaming when player needs to see them, steam out when out of set max range or something..

[violet dune]

yea. it should be like 200-300m. and nodes just holds what kind of event should be generated

[stark fossil]

Everything is super simplified. Mods can fix that even now but in order for it to make sense overall is to change the whole progression

[hoary crest]

We need the SDK before we're gonna see a full artifact overhaul to give them all unique effects, or at least more than likely, but GSC might do it themselves at somepoint, who knows

[violet dune]

this mod already exist and artifact balance too

[stark fossil]

PBA anyone😏

[night acorn]

They made the inventory system to mask the one from the og games I don't understand why change stats for artifacts like they didn't do that for weapons? So why change it for artifacts

[stark fossil]

Like “can reload while sprinting” perk😂

[night acorn]

I'm on Xbox but will definitely be adding that to my mod list come end of month when i get my pc back from shop

[violet dune]

till they release modding on xbox. you will have multiple huge modpacks

[stark fossil]

Think of me as one heavily spoiled by Anomaly. I totally forgot how OG experience felt

[maiden robin]

I need to buy this game again on pc eventually but I heard it's very poorly optimized for pc play. Has that been resolved already?

[violet dune]

i hate we cant see name, faction while looting

this data exist. every npc has faction id and generated name. they just need to add those ID in looting screen

[night acorn]

Same same same I just don't understand why they removed some of the small things from og games for s2 and didn't notice I hate that it's gone now that I need it I like knowing what faction I killed so I don't go after the wrong one

[night acorn]

I am og stalker player lol I played soc in 09 and only recently 5 or so years ago played gamma but I got hundredw if not thoisands of hours in anomaly and all the vanilla games

[stark fossil]

No PDA statistics, no faction patches, some factions have very similar suits/colors (hard to identify longer range) etc.

[violet dune]

also medkit. icon is an old medkit, but we use modern syringe and all those vfx ruin immersion for me

[night acorn]

Yuup some of the loners suits look like monolithians or ward it's confusing

[stark fossil]

Yeah well I don’t think the OGs even had toolkits.. Wasn’t that added in Anomaly?

[cyan plinth]

Is there a known bug of guns randomly appeareing in inventory? I went to Yaniv and suddenly SVD appeared in my second slot. It happened several times typically with M870, PKM and SVD.

[wind reef]

towards the later end of the game I sometimes end up shooting friendlies lmaooo

[night acorn]

Yeah weapon and item wise vanilla soc didn't have much at all

[violet dune]

Corp, Merc, Monolith - they all have very similar style. in yanov ambush is very difficult to identify enemies

[night acorn]

@cyan plinth

[stark fossil]

The fines of progression and complexity of medical system and consumables was added with Anomaly. That style of progression is far more in line with survival aspects of the game and ofc scarcity of loot

[wind reef]

pretty sure the only easily identifiable human enemies are bandits due to casual clothing, and spark

[night acorn]

Spark and mercs especially the mercs wearing those colourful 80s fleece jackets or is that bandits idk

[violet dune]

spark, ward, freedom, bandits are easy. for duty i always have to search red elements

[stark fossil]

It matters little when they spawn 30 m from you and the compass shows a red arrow for enemy😒

[violet dune]

i dont use compass or xhair

[icy idol]

why did you pinged a scientist? it this anomaly too bad?- D:

[wind reef]

not if you have that one mod that spawns the enemies a bit farther away and you're playing on a 15 inch craptop like me ahahahah

[lethal kelp]

how do you know which psi-dog is the real one?

[stark fossil]

Like I for one have little use for a > 4x scope in S2
/
the one that hides while others attack

[night acorn]

To answer its question by showing his exact question

[wind reef]

get on top of something, and look for the farthest most isolated one, it'll be a mess trying to figure it out on the same ground level as them

[stark fossil]

Worse mutant by far

[steel patrol]

the random weapon spawns in your inventory are great if you wanna stock up on ammo, whenever I walked through red forest like 5 snipers spawned in my inventory

[wind reef]

real, i'd honestly rather deal with a chimera and a pseudogiant together

[stark fossil]

I have a mod for AI with modded weapons…that bug gave me a Dnipro with coupled mags😂

[wind reef]

in my case during a firefight vs monolith, the bug decided to give me a dragunov on the other slot when i already had one on the other slot lmao

[stark fossil]

The mod (AI modded guns) is kinda balanced because the drop rate is very small however when it drops it can be a nuke😄

[maiden robin]

The difficulty balancing was weird for me. I am currently playing on the lowest because the one tier above that I had bloodsuckers spawning on me constantly. Like randomly every 30 mins or so. The game was practically unplayable at that difficulty

[stark fossil]

Worst thing: some attachments are available on multiple spots in game, others are either end game only or not in game to be found at all it seems…

[uncut summit]

Has anyone heard about the update yet? I had to stop playing on the Xbox Series X because of all the bugs I encountered while progressing through missions. It’s so severe that it’s not even amusing!

[stark fossil]

The last one solved a lot of missions but still some bugs linger. I’m praying for optimisation update and ofc alife

[lethal kelp]

that sucks 😦

[cloud carbon]

When is the next update?
For mods on Xbox specifically

[oak basalt]

yo when is the next update

[wind reef]

heh yeah, that's why i said i'd rather fight the 2 biggest bullet sponges in the game at the same time, at least the targets are obvious

[stark fossil]

Sux that mutants are bosses instead of source of funds and resources (for me at least, some people seem to preferre it this way)

[true loom]

Why is that happening anyways…?

[wind reef]

personally i'd prefer for mutants to be a balance to both, difficult to fight but high reward upon looting since you'll end up dumping mags on them

[glad locust]

when is a update for Ng+

[orchid narwhal]

who up stalking they zone rn

[oak basalt]

im zoning the stalk

[steel patrol]

strange bug

[true loom]

So it is a glitch, I honestly wasn’t sure lol

[tepid osprey]

It is a gift from the zone

[stark fossil]

Has anyone seen a double drum mag for the G36 in game yet?

[oak basalt]

yo freedom where the gas at?

[eternal thistle]

Good evening. Quick question.
I have just arrived in the first village. Do quests have expiration times when they are accepted? Main/secondary/meeting quest.

[stark fossil]

No

[tepid osprey]

Ganja can hook you up. The password is Frog

[oak basalt]

why is the password frog?

[stark fossil]

But some things are locked behind main story progression (you can have a side quest marker available but no quest yet because it’s locked behind main progression status)

[tepid osprey]

Because frogs are green 🙂 also don’t tell anyone from Duty

[eternal thistle]

Ho. Cool. I heard that the small side quests have a repop timer. Is that true?

[stark fossil]

All I know about is: “ stick / cobra / port hole / infinity😉

[oak basalt]

my mind is puzzled by the statements

[tepid osprey]

You have become bamboozled

[stark fossil]

Side quests are pretty much inexhaustible apeart form special ones. You can do a side quest, take a nap, grab another one, and repeat

[eternal thistle]

Ok just sleep or 72h timer ?

[brazen ice]

Getting a crap ton more crashes and save games are disappearing since last update. Lost about 2 hours worth of progress

[stark fossil]

If you’re referring to my response, that’s literally a puzzle for one of locked doors in game. The cobra was the only one that I had to try/error

Cause you can say 2 is a cobra as well as 7 or 6.. others are pretty easy to guess. I do love the puzzles tho

[oak basalt]

wtf i have not seen that, if yall had to pick a handle for the zone what would your handles be?

[stark fossil]

Try just one, if no quest try one more, if no quest then it could be main story status blocking ya

[brazen ice]

It’s MA’AM!!

[stark fossil]

Jarmin Kel

[eternal thistle]

Ok. When you said special for secondary it is that you do not have to finish completely when there are several stages. [Like the quest where we hunt dog collars]

[hot basin]

Why am I getting random psy attack? I slept and now I woke up to the ghosts running into me and I used 10 psi blocks and it doesn’t go away

[sage vessel]

where are the patches

[stark fossil]

I think there’s only 1 special secondary for each quest giver, others are pretty generic like find x artifact or kill some bandits. The unique ones are like the one the r has you kill Beard and Sultan and so, find Sultan’s stuff... Those are one timers, and then you get the usual generic quests.

[eternal thistle]

It's a bug. Try to start old/other save.

[eternal thistle]

Thank you very much for your answers.

[lethal kelp]

should i kill or spare ihor valter? the arena guy?

what did you guys do?

[jagged trellis]

What graphical setting makes lasers and optics glitch out like crazy whenever you sway from left to right? Does anyone know?

[ancient breach]

GRYGOROVICH, PUT FREE PLAY IN STALKER 2 AND MY LIFE IS YOURS!!!

[lavish swift]

has anyone figured out how the stats work? Are there limits on resistances? Do armor and artifacts stack this limit differently?

[lethal kelp]

i thikn my arena mission 4 is bugged. stuck waiting for arena to be prepared for next event

[tough rain]

Clear Sky is brutal in terms of healing supplies

[simple shard]

I wonder what A-Life "improvements" are "expected to be" included in the next patch (per GSC). I had fully expected them not to even touch A-Life until a full set of bugfixes and optimization passes had been made, so I'm curious what exactly they're trying to cook up

[ancient breach]

What is A-Life

[simple shard]

system from the original stalker trilogy that effectively simulates NPC activity even while the player isn't around such as overland movement/travel, battles between them, etc.

[maiden robin]

I want more warlord weapons. I got shah's and honestly don't even remember where I got the stash location from but I killed shah, the other warlord in that area, and the dude who wanted them dead. Shah's mate has been my go to weapon for the longest now.

Are there any special snipers better than the lynx that I should be looking forward to?

[wind reef]

There's the Whip, though that's a looooong way down the main quest line.

[maiden robin]

So sticking with the lynx then lol. It's just been a bit hard to find ammo for it outside of purchasing

[shell thunder]

Does Flash Royal achievement takes into account blueprints from all saves that you have or you should collect all of the blueprints on one save file?

[gritty snow]

You should look into finding gun called the clusterfuck. Its an AR technically but its a great DMR.

[junior current]

any word on the next patch? any communication from this company at all outside of the gsc-answers channel?

[nocturne hatch]

found bunch of weapons in Pripyat, but its always raining now

[oak basalt]

get used to it

[placid condor]

does anyone know if there is anything in the generators section of the map, above ground/outside of main mission?

doesn't look like theres much info online at all, i'll go there soon and report back 🤪

[nocturne hatch]

Limansk is not there, Lab-X16 neither, Warlab ? Pripyat Undergrounds ? there are many areas that are not present yet in S2 i think they might release another story DLC later or who knows

Meanwhille im waiting for patch 1.0.4

[placid condor]

there is a pripyat underground, thats the last mission lol

[violet dune]

Stalker 2 will have 2 DLC. We missing iron forest and cnpp (these will be added in DLC). also Limansk is missing

[nocturne hatch]

the point of no return ?

[placid condor]

ye

[misty elk]

the prior leak maps have been pointing towards three DLC added zones, one left to the Red forest, Above pripyat and above SIRCAA. But development changes and prior work may not be accurate. But I think its pretty well established that the stuff left of Red forest is gonna be Limansk

[plain fiber]

I'd rather wait for proper A-Life before they added in Freeplay. Also it would probably be best to have it as a separate single-player game mode to avoid story conflicts with the game's endings.

[MAJOR STORY SPOILERS BELOW, REVEAL AT YOUR OWN RISK]

||In all but ONE ending, Skif ends up as either the new "God" of the Zone, trapped in a hallucination, or leaving the Zone for good. Only in Strelok's ending does he stay, and I'd rather not have freeplay locked behind a single ending like that.||

Additionally, if it were made into a separate single-player game mode, I think an Anomaly/GAMMA-esque start would be the best choice. (Choosing faction, starting equipment, location, etc.)

[plain fiber]

I mean, that bridge is literally the road to Limansk from Clear Sky. Plus there's that radio at the top of the building with the creepy-ass you can listen to, along with the PDA stating that the signal is coming from Limansk.

Would be cool if they added in some elements of the original Dead City map to that too.

[nocturne hatch]

Generators too, probably the DLC will have second character, skiff dude is now among the legendary stalkers,

But, until that DLC, all i want is to see game fixed and improved, including A-Life, Stealth, Night vision, binoculars,free play and more quests through the zone itself

[violet dune]

generators already in the game.

[atomic jacinth]

Hey, I’m interested in getting into the Stalker games which one should I start off with on PlayStation?

[misty elk]

I mean the faction system is so vague id honestly wait for a full on flesh out of many of the games ''barescratch'' systems.

Alife is also one of them. The current status quo provides a decent gameplay loop for the game, but multiple places on the map have static spawns for monsters that are supposed to be there taking prio for actual inhabitants of that place (Army Warehouses being the most known offender, but there are many more).

||I wouldnt realy say Skif has anything to do with being a god in his ending, I rather see it as him being manipulated by Faust and letting the Zone decide its next step with it leading to showing that the Zone wishes to expand. As per previous expansions its possible you might play somebody else than Skif. But who knows.||

[tepid osprey]

Shadow of Chernobyl, Clear Sky then Call of Prypiat

[nocturne hatch]

story wise Clear Sky first then Shadow of Chornobyl, then Call of Pripyat, then finally Stalker 2

[violet dune]

start with xbox first

[placid condor]

stalker 2 🙂

[hard wing]

Btw, i am nearing the end of the game, and want to find out. Where are the duty?

[plain fiber]

True, I didn't even think about the current bare-bones faction system.

@hard wing Duty's new HQ is in the Cement Factory.

[misty elk]

Cement

[atomic jacinth]

So what do the games play like? Is it a traditional story mode game or is it something like DayZ but with a story when I die, do I lose it all?

[hard wing]

Lore didn't bring me there. Somehow

[weary hedge]

Sure glad I have some water with this bread num num num num

[placid condor]

original stalker games are classics but are really dated and quite old now, not sure if they're really worth playing in the year of our lord 2024

[plain fiber]

Original S.T.A.L.K.E.R. trilogy is 100% worth playing nowadays, age be damned.

[nocturne hatch]

Clear Sky holds up pretty well, even Shadow of Chornobyl.

[misty elk]

The original games are more of a story experience shooter with very interesting shooting mechanics with a hint of sandbox. At least if I remember correctly the unmodded Shadow of Chernobyl doesnt have many systems the later expansions have.

If I remember damage is set based on the difficulty level, so if you want to deal the most, you need to get hit the most. Also guns are hella inaccurate.

For more of a sandbox experience youd need to mod, like Anomaly and Gamma.

If you are a complete newcommer, S2 would be in my opinion the best.

[placid condor]

hehe playing through some of the earlier ones with no mods is pretty painful 😂

[weary hedge]

Oh ,,a sausage num num num num num

[plain fiber]

Shadow of Chernobyl's only real issues (imo) are the dated and clunky first-person view model and the lack of equipment repairs/upgrades.

Oh yeah, and some of the facial models on a couple of characters look like ass.

[ornate sable]

More like Half Life 2, but with inventory (and no boat/car sections)

[nocturne hatch]

Clear Sky have Sky Reclamation Project and ShoC have ZRP

[plain fiber]

Story-focused semi-open world immersive sim with some light RPG mechanics.

[fossil kayak]

If I remember correctly, the first game was getting to the "wish granter". Once there the ending would depend on choices you make.

[stark fossil]

Wish granter is here at like 30% main story

[fossil kayak]

I was talking about the first Stalker game.

[nocturne hatch]

replica of the original wish granter

[maiden robin]

Oooh I'll have to look it up

[storm monolith]

it is original

[plain fiber]

||Wish Granter lead to false endings. You had to do some additional stuff to get the true ending of SoC.||

[fossil kayak]

Correct

[ancient breach]

True, true.

[plain fiber]

Not a replica, that's the actual Wish Granter/Monolith.

@fossil kayak Apologies, misunderstood you.

[placid condor]

omggg I finally fully upgraded my exosuit 🥳

[plain fiber]

Which model exo are you running?

[placid condor]

diamond ofc! that took so freaking long, feels like it cost like 500k total or smth

[tepid osprey]

[placid condor]

ive just been grinding the monolith hideout in pripyat with my revolver 😂 😭 its so much fun tbf

[dreamy plover]

waiting for the new patch like....

[plain fiber]

I might be in the minority but I'm kind of hoping GSC will swap the Diamond exo suit with the Ruby or something; it feels kind kind of broken to have the most powerful suit in the game be that easy to get.

[vestal kindle]

I just today beat the game after 144 hours it was actually so fun even with all the release bugs I hadn’t had that much fun playing a game in a while

[placid condor]

wdym? you can only get it once you reach yaniv

[west hill]

24000 coupons and repair for 15000 is crazy

[plain fiber]

I was hoping Mol1t would be online, I had something I wanted to ask him regarding the Discord server.

@placid condor Yes but there's literally nothing stopping you from sprinting to get it as soon as you leave the Lesser Zone.

[placid condor]

well no, not for the diamond at least, the diamond exo in yaniv is locked behind a main quest since its on the roof of the science lab near yaniv base

[plain fiber]

No it's not, you can roll a box over and just jump up on the roof and get it as soon as you want.

[placid condor]

oh really, lol i didn't know that 🤣 dont think it needs to be balanced considering that only experienced players would know that, you'd be metagaming pretty hard lol

[astral portal]

burger

[placid condor]

i can't remember if you need a blueprint to get the sprint upgrade too?

[plain fiber]

Fair, though I'm not sure how much it would qualify as meta gaming considering how close GSC put a box for you to roll over to get it.

[placid condor]

i mean its pretty high up, i never though of that at least lol

[plain fiber]

You do, so you could get it right after the Lesser Zone but unless you know where to grab that blueprint you aren't going to be sprinting for a while.

(Plus I think only technicians in and around Pripyat can upgrade the exoskeletons.)

[placid condor]

yeah yaniv tech, exo suit is only worth using with the sprint upgrade after all. you can get the duty exo early on from cooling towers but no sprint makes it not worth using

[weary hedge]

I WANT TO UPGRADE TO THE ULTIMATE EDITION

[ornate sable]

PSZ-12V Bulat worth upgrading and using up until late game when I get a sprintable exo?

[plain fiber]

Yeah you need to roll the box over to one of those protrusions and then you jump up on that, I think one more protrusion, and then you're on the roof.

There are YouTube videos showing it if you're curious.

@weary hedge Mol1t has said repeatedly that being able to upgrade your game edition is planned but there's not set date yet.

[weary hedge]

Yeah I know, i'm just screaming it to the heavens

[boreal pendant]

can i have a muzzle break and a suppressor attachment at the same time?

[plain fiber]

Hell yes, any of the heavy PSZ suits are worth upgrading and using until you get an exo.

@boreal pendant Yes.

[boreal pendant]

thats silly, also bullet velcoity or bullet range for m701 super? :3

[plain fiber]

Is that a shotgun? I'd go for velocity.

[boreal pendant]

is the big sniper

[plain fiber]

Oh my bad.

Uh....well considering NPCs don't spawn in beyond a certain distance, just go with velocity.

[boreal pendant]

alr

[elfin vine]

I just found two artifacts in 1 anomalous area

[elfin vine]

Best armour so far for me. 30h in

But it's got 0 psi defense. So keep that in mind.

[plain fiber]

That's another gripe of mine: why are even the large anomaly fields only spitting out a single artifact? It wasn't like that in the original trilogy, you could get two, sometimes even three artifacts from an anomaly field back in CoP.

(Can't remember if it was the same in CS, and I know SoC absolutely showered you in artifacts and other loot if you knew where to look.)

[placid condor]

@plain fiber talking about balancing, i think some work might be needed on the monolith hideout in Pripyat 😂 im doing probably my final run there and ive found 7 exosuits this run alone LOL, now my main problem is how im gonna be able to carry them 😭

[elfin vine]

I got two at a thermo anomaly down in Zaton
Flaw and another shit one

[placid condor]

the whole apartment block is littered with sellable rifles that ive had to drop 😂 😭 there must be at least 30

[plain fiber]

7 unique exosuits or just the standard model?

[harsh jungle]

Boo called me a thief because I chose to keep his gun lmao

[placid condor]

nonono standard ofc, im doing my best to run away with 5 diamond and 2 ruby exos lmfao

im always able to collect at least 3, takes like 20-30 mins to earn up to 100k

[hidden harness]

Wish the duga or burnt forest had a storage chest somewhere

[feral vale]

Well just finished the game after 78 hours and all I can say is wow what a game! The story, atmosphere, gameplay all top notch only ever let down my a few glitches that were more annoying then game breaking.

My largest criticism would be the last few hours of the game feels like a real slog 😅 even though there are reasons and story beats for it. One of my all time favourite games now.

[cobalt fiber]

50 hours and only just ||found Nimble|| 😅 this limited dad gamer time really blows sometimes

[plain fiber]

Meanwhile I'm either at or over 40 hours (I'll have to double-check) and I only just finished up the Garbage.

[lost prairie]

Strelok kisses you at the end

[warm basalt]

anyone hear of this cool thing called night vision , idk something about stalker 2 seems like it could really benefit from having those

[harsh jungle]

I haven’t even beaten the game yet lmao

[ornate sable]

Same, I'm taking my time with this. You only ever get one first playthrough of a game, after all!

[harsh jungle]

I keep restarting my saves lmao

[dense sandal]

I’m in a massive fight under malacithe will the vendors return after this ?

[fervent estuary]

Let's gooo GSC just posted a video showcasing A-Life 2.0 features that comes with next patch https://youtu.be/xvFZjo5PgG0A

[oak basalt]

you suck

[restive storm]

They will probably wait for the end of the year to post the patch

[flint plover]

Well dudes, hate to be that guy, but anyone hear any leaks on when the patch might drop? Other than "before Christmas" or "Before 2025"?

[fervent estuary]

No one knows

[restive storm]

They are probably struggling to fix the A-life so they will say it is a gift for the new year and make us wait until then

[limber breach]

2035

[oak basalt]

i long for the next patch

[fervent estuary]

I'll die of old age before the patch drops

[limber breach]

best to just play the game and not wait around for it
then when the patches come out you can play it again

[elfin vine]

Someone help me understand
I finally retrieved the scanner from Faust in Clear Sky.
Then all of a sudden Scar is telling me to come to him if I'm heading SIRCA. Was SIRCA mentioned in the cutscene with Faust? Did I miss something?

And it's not really clear why we need the scanner to get into Sirca?

[fervent estuary]

Play the game at its current state is a torture

[tall cloud]

This is my first stalker game. Is there a way to fix my best piece of armor being a piece of bread?

[oak basalt]

it's not great but its not torture

[fervent estuary]

Yeah.... right

[lethal kelp]

dnipro vs kharod?

[oak basalt]

Kharod in 5.45

[elfin vine]

I'm tired of 416

[oak basalt]

dnipro in 762

[jolly oak]

It’s the scanner you started the game with, which contains your specific artifact. The one you’ve been hunting to get so you can sell it to SIRCAA for a new house. The entire premise for Skif being in the Zone.

[lethal kelp]

yes, i know that. which one is more performance per bullet?:

[elfin vine]

Ah thx

[oak basalt]

dnipro i think idk

[random tiger]

i just found Thunderberry artifact

[oak basalt]

dont use it without a lead container

[random tiger]

Welp looks like i gotta find it

[maiden robin]

I found a spring artifact but I don't have the means to carry a medium radiation artifact rn

[random tiger]

Hm i do have liquid rock artifact

[maiden robin]

If I get the clusterfuck weapon which mission choice should I side with or does it really matter?

[restive storm]

I would not call crashing every max 20 minutes a decent experience but whatever you say I guess

I get perfect FPS and all but my PC keeps crashing every 20 minute. I tried every test in the internet and no test crashes my PC, even the OCCT power test. Just this game. Very weird

[marsh breach]

Hello,

[proven pivot]

https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/1251169530923847784/1318249317047210054/ezgif.com-webp-to-gif-converter.gif

[marsh breach]

I have a mission inside Duga " Meet at the rendezvous point" If I try to go in under ground no one there and locked doors. If I try to enter aim bot super sniped. Literally an orange mission indicator inside. Any ideas? Bug?

My POI is a little closer to the southern end.

[sturdy verge]

you answered your own question

[plush grove]

do muzzle supressors affect weapon stats in any way?

[marsh breach]

@sturdy verge Yeah I figured. Guess I'll keep looking but man running out of options.

[sturdy verge]

well hopefully a hotfix tomorrow or sometime this week

[marsh breach]

@sturdy verge Also couldn't get weird water or the red bolt to spawn in after sooo many attempts. Bug as well?

@sturdy verge Anyway thanks man! Seemed bugged to me.

[sturdy verge]

Could be I got that artifact before the latest hotfix but seen others mentioned they can't get it after that hotfix

[marsh breach]

@sturdy verge Just got the others yesterday besides the weird ball. Got that one on 1.0.2.

[sturdy verge]

It did take me a couple of tries ( the water drunk one) then I ended up stuck at duga with locked doors ( some mission called unto the breach)

[marsh breach]

@sturdy verge Had no issues up until this one. Well, except for the occasional memory leak followed by a crash. First buggy mission. IDK Indiana has been calling my name. Might give STALKER2 a rest for a min or two.

[boreal pendant]

is the kharod caliber change worth it?

[sturdy verge]

Ah dang well hopefully a hotfix will come as I mentioned and I've been playing indiana as well lol half way through. Pretty damn good game 👍

[marsh breach]

I don't think so but thats my opinion

[boreal pendant]

any specific kharod upgrades that i should pick? :3

[marsh breach]

Looks it. I didn't want to start it yet. I've got three going at once as is.

[magic sinew]

guys is the x7 suit necessary

i have a diamond exoskeleton and this feels like a downgrade

[marsh breach]

I just upgrade everything and leave the caliber be. I have no trouble keeping the baddies heads down. The occasional emission is really all I worry about.

[fervent estuary]

Patch

[marsh breach]

I haven't come across a situation the Conundrum Suit and some artifacts couldn't handle.

[dense bloom]

i'm amazed to see no mods to let us drink, eat, reload while running.. maybe its hard to do ? and why dont we have a Mod channel 😬

[warm basalt]

anyone think this game should maybe have night vision? 🙂

[dense bloom]

there's mod for it

[dense sandal]

I’m in a fight under malacithe will the vendors return after this ?

[marsh breach]

There is night vision in the games coding so I've heard just not available as far as I know.

[warm basalt]

i’m literally streaming it on an xbox one from 2016 i’m poor

[marsh breach]

im pretty sure, worst case oad an older save game

[dense sandal]

There goes my money maker base

[dense bloom]

ur time will come lil bro 👍🏻 we all been through that. And yes game totally need night vision..

[marsh breach]

Nothing like making hauls back and forth to base to make some Ks. My feet are killing me

[dense sandal]

400k should hold me to repair stuff

[marsh breach]

I would think so. at least for a bit depending on how much you've upgraded gear.

[dense bloom]

can you have a Big magazine for spas 12 just like the 3860 cracker?

[dense sandal]

my armor hover it the ks are almost at 400ks

i hv the diamond exosuit

[marsh breach]

@sturdy verge I checked game file integrity, and my mission rendezvous point changed. Might be good!

[dense sandal]

also what does iv damkee mean?

[restive storm]

Dude, when is this patch gonna come? Are they remaking the game or something? I wanna play the game so damn bad but I keep crashing every 10 minutes while in combat or running. It is really annoying

[maiden robin]

What are you playing on if you don't mind me asking?

[restive storm]

RX 590. I get 45-60 FPS stable. I was getting stutters and I deleted my drivers with DDU plus amd cleanup tool and reinstalled again and solved it but crashes increased to the point that my PC keeps crashing every 10 minutes.

[bleak mantle]

wow that emission is BS stuck out in a swamp with no where to go. cause apparently none of the house can protect you from emission

[maiden robin]

Ah so pc. I'm sorry I play on Xbox X my knowledge of pc is very limited.

[restive storm]

Game runs perfectly rn but the moment I enter combat PC just freezes and I have to restart the PC. I did all the test necesarry for PC and nothing is faulty btw

[eternal thistle]

Question
I had a second detector [ name in French like the one we have at the beginning of the game. the echo detector ]. Can I sell it ?

[restive storm]

If it is beginner detector sell it. You find better ones later in the game

[lone sigil]

Your first mistake is playing the game in French (d i s g u s t)

Yes you can sell it.

[bleak mantle]

there's nothing but water to slow me down, and i cant find a way to get to the way point before the emission comes

[eternal thistle]

Don't care and Irrelevant. i play with original voice and vostfr text.

Thank for info with echo detector

[inland panther]

Imagine a new base appeared in yantar and there was a bartender that had a cook making some pasta with bread And he gave it to a bartender to sell it. How many stalkers would there be going to that base just to eat that kind of food?

[weary hedge]

man, when will the second patch come? havent played all week

[restive storm]

They are taking their sweet time that`s for sure. I keep crashing every 5-10 minutes. Before, it was 30 minutes but now that time keeps reducing and dropping to now which is 5-10 minutes

[weary hedge]

i just wiating for zalissa part 2

anyone know who sells acog scope for kharod?

[placid condor]

pripyat and yaniv, but earlier than that, i think the red forest guy does too?

[weary hedge]

can i get to yaniv without a guide?

[placid condor]

yes

[dense sandal]

why is malcithe red but everyones green on my scope?

[weary hedge]

Were on patch 4 my guy.

[weary hedge]

There's a bunker adjacent to the house

Follow the quest marker

[paper trail]

Might be held by a faction that's enemies with you

[dense sandal]

No one’s shooting me everyone’s fine

[paper trail]

Can you enter and leave the place or did you teleport with a guide there

[dense sandal]

Tp by guide

[paper trail]

Yeh so malachite is most likely overrun by the ward. And the ward is hostile to you. Which makes everyone belonging to the enemies side. When you talk to the trader ect there then their symbol turns white I think. But you cannot leave the building because the doors are shut. You only can leave through the guide again

[dense sandal]

Godam it it was my money maker base

[paper trail]

If you talk to the npcs they are addressing the situation

[dense sandal]

na diff money maker

[quick kernel]

not true you can use the route that scar used from the sewer tunnel or at least that worked for me, i just went back up the ladder and the door was unlocked

[dense sandal]

hopefully mod support is close ish

[weary hedge]

I tried this after the Scar mission and it's sealed. Seems like a bug. Dunno if it's supposed to be open or closed haha

[quick kernel]

god this game is such a mess, i've been soft locked several times throughout both of my playthroughs

[pallid thorn]

even so i think its a great game

[quick kernel]

completely agree i love it, i can't deny that it can be rather frustrating at times. i trust the devs, hopefully they can do good

[lavish swift]

several? I only had 1 single side quest lock me out on my first time beating it

[weary hedge]

I only had 2 minor issues which were fixed. I had basically nothing stopping me from the start to finish. I'm playing a second playthrough and combing through the entire map and I've encountered more issues however.

[pallid thorn]

tbh ive had several side quests get soft locked on me, the only thing about this game i dislike is some items cant be discarded especially from side quests, and even if you abandon them youre stuck with the dead weight

[quick kernel]

the biggest one for me was the Zalissya quest, it just didn't work for me in general. I also couldn't loot one of the mutants with a collar, it wasn't letting me

the most recent one that fortunately got fixed for me was the faust fight, i had won the first time and choose to take his hand like a dope due to last time i pulled myself up, once i respawned i couldn't walk and could only look up and down until i restarted the game

[dense sandal]

yall know varan anyone els kill him?

[fading willow]

Stalker 2 is so booty it drove me back to Tarkov

[dense sandal]

mf told me to show respect so i showed him my m860 cracker

[quick kernel]

that's crazy bro i'm glad you stuck around just to tell us that

reminds me of that one world of tanks and war thunder meme where stalker is unrealistic suffering and tarkov is realistic suffering

[stoic pebble]

is anyone still having problems with the On the Edge mission?

[lime panther]

yes

[stoic pebble]

i just got there after restarting my playthru after the 1.03 patch went thru and i was hoping they hadnt lied when they said they fixed it. i am disappointed to the point of asking for a refund...

[lime panther]

you having problems with defending zelissa? that's where i'm having the issues really, its bugged the hell out and i'd rather not have the starting village be screwed over

[weary hedge]

Don't care didn't ask

[stoic pebble]

Yes, its the same exact bugs i had the first time i tried to do this quest before the patches. everyone is stuck inside the town hall, one or two monolith will wander out if i run around like a dumbass

[lime panther]

yeah, honestly. I'd wait for the next patch before doing anything drastic, this is a known bug and GSC has been alot better than most developers when it comes to fixing their shit

[crisp horizon]

you know i thought i would be excited to get to pripyat but honestly im not, screw that place

[weary hedge]

so are there only 4 legendary artifacts? (not counting altered)

[jolly oak]

This is precisely how you get past this bug. If Monolith are stuck in the town hall, you run out of Zalissya (I went South) and then run east and west for a little while each direction, and retrace your steps back to town hall. A monolith or two will pop out and you kill then before they kill any residents.

[paper trail]

wait a moment I don't know about that way lmao

[jolly oak]

If you have bad luck and no Monolithians run out after a turn or two, run a lap around the outside of Zalissya and begin again. It worked great for me and I was rapidly done with the quest. It’s important that you stay far away from the town hall for about a minute. Sprinting out and back rapidly does not work.

[lime panther]

for me, the entire town has zero NPC's and the first set of doors aren't even open/ are locked, then i've heard of people who were able to defend Zalissya, but once they leave the region they get a message on the radio saying everyone is dead

[jolly oak]

Yes, this is the indication of the bug. Look inside the windows. If you see townsfolk and Monolithians just moving around but no one is shooting then do the method I described to overcome it

[weary hedge]

exactly why im waiting for the patch before continuing

[lime panther]

gotcha, yeah i was hoping just to wait for the patch tbh because like i imagine that they're more bugs waiting for me after this quest, but i'll give it a shot perhaps

[jolly oak]

If you leave the Lesser Zone, it will resolve badly, yes. Do not do this. Instead, try the method I mentioned. The Monolithians will walk through the closed/locked door and come outside where they can be killed, 1-2 at a time

Resolving the quest and getting past the bug took me maybe 10-15 minutes total. Hardly a major ordeal. Very easy. If you would rather wait for a patch, that’s your choice of course. I’m just here to offer you a path forward. What you do with that knowledge is up to you.

Either way, good luck!

[gloomy citrus]

Wheres Duty base?

[jolly oak]

Cement factory, Northeast of Slag Heap.

[cerulean dragon]

guys im stuck inside dvupalov’s bunker, how tf to get out 😭

[paper trail]

can someone explain to me what happens to artifacts when they appear but shortly after disappear and are not findable anymore. they are not gone the detector is picking them up but it appears that they fell through the floor and are not reachable anymore

[tough rain]

Jesus I forgot how bad the trilogy's bullet accuracy was. Clear Sky is making me wanna jump off a bridge

[cerulean dragon]

its realistic, to depict combat stress

[jolly oak]

That is correct, they fall through the floor. Has happened to me in three separate areas. And since the artifacts are persistent and stay still after you uncover them, that means three locations are off limits for artifact hunting for me

[lone sigil]

The only good thing about the trilogy is you can get an abundance of ammo so all you have to do is just spray thorax level and you'll kill them anyways

[wary geyser]

lmao the game just marked my incomplete misson to completed although I haven't done anything

[paper trail]

damn

[jolly oak]

It’ll be patched soon™️

[tough rain]

Meanwhile everyone else beams me 🤔

[paper trail]

but this is where higher tier weapons feel so good and also the upgrades 😄

[inland panther]

What do y’all think is the exact number of stalker that will be going to the base to eat the pasta?

[hexed bane]

you guys think theyll remove the box in yaniv thats letting players hop on the building to nab an exoskeleton within 10 minutes of leaving the lesser zone or do you think they find it funny enough to leave as it

[lone sigil]

They'll probably just leave it be tbh cause there's another box you could push all the way to the bunker. It's just farther away

[hexed bane]

no way theres another box? 😭

[lone sigil]

Yes I found another box you could push all the way there. I was bored okay

[hexed bane]

well technically, they could leave the box but simply change the building hitbox to make climbing impossible

[lone sigil]

They could but that would defeat the purpose of exploration anyway just like one shot sniper thing

[hexed bane]

ehh well im sure they didnt mean exploration as in run and get endgame armor in 5 minutes but tbf you literally can get endgame equipment after lesser zone anyway if you know where the spawns are 😆

[lone sigil]

You can get end game stuff really easily. I just refuse to use them but because of how stalker is with its progression where every fkn enemy is using exosuits I'm very tempted to start using them (I'm still using seva-D with 4 thunderberries)

[hexed bane]

you def should. how far are you in the campaign?

[lone sigil]

I'm already in pripyat so I'm very far ahead

[gloomy citrus]

Whats the most reliable assault rifle that use 5.45x39mm ammo?

[lone sigil]

Dnipro tbh

[gloomy citrus]

Currently using Lullaby

[hexed bane]

Dnipro and the Kharod when converted

conveniently theyre also known to be the current kings of assault rifles so you dont have any bad option

[gloomy citrus]

hmmm

[lone sigil]

Lullaby isn't that bad. Just 1 step lower vs an upgraded dnipro with 7.62 conversion

[lone sigil]

Tbh I prefer the converted dnipro if only you could get the ammo more readily. But maybe it's cause I'm just not that far yet to get them from traders

[hexed bane]

yeah did consider but i always considered the ammo, rather choose availability than overall stats

speaking of which, if youre looking for an exo, use the Brummbar if you want reliability and economy, use the Diamond if you want the highest overall stats

[gloomy citrus]

interesting

[lone sigil]

hiss I refuse to become exoslave I will continue with my SEVA-D and 4 thunderberries

I am the zoom

[gloomy citrus]

Fair enough

though I dont really like the latest exo designs

they look simplified

[hexed bane]

blasphemous! i will not have my beloved exos slandered!

[gloomy citrus]

I'm an exo fan myself but looking at the original designs in the trilogy, they look more bulky and complex.

[paper trail]

and they look all the same. I sometimes have a really hard time to distinguish friend and foe

[lone sigil]

That's why seva suit is superior. At least you can tell who's who unlike stinki exo suits

[still edge]

there is enough food in this game to stop world hunger, now after 70 hours im trully tired of looting bread, sausage and vodka

[paper trail]

dunno why they didn't take the artistic freedom to actually distinguish the designs

[paper trail]

you will have a good time then towards the end of the game you are walking through storage rooms full of crates you could loot for food I never touched any of those boxes again since the last 50% of the campaign. I feel like they should get rid of food on soldiers actually.

[hexed bane]

dont need to tell me i remember reloading the game once cause i was defending zalissya and i excitedly domed the first exo monolith soldier i saw within 0.8 seconds using the Dnipro at 6 rounds of 5.45x39mm ammo

turns out the monolith soldier wasnt a monolith soldier but was the one guy defending zalissya before i ran in and excavated his forehead

[paper trail]

man thats tough luck but yeh. at least the coloring should be more distinctive if not for the overall design

[ionic crater]

I kind've gotta agree, the new exosuits look too crude and simplistic to actually do what they're supposed to do. Doesn't seem like there's actually enough there to meaningfully enhance the user's total strength

[still edge]

they need to put some kind of PDA chip with x amount of credits, so they can replace the 700 stashes around the whole game with 3 breads , 2 sausage, 5 bandaids each . and put instead (20 5.56 bullets + 300 credits + 1 granade).
i would be so happy if they put just a small amount of credit to replace the food

[gloomy citrus]

Definitely the OG Monolith

[jovial rain]

Real

[hexed bane]

doesnt help that one loaf of bread apparently weighs as much as the average fighter jet for whatever goddamn reason

[paper trail]

I think as soon as they add this hunting dude in rostok they need to rebalance economy anyway. now they adjusted the economy for the people as the game is but I feel like there should be more miscellanious quests with no limit and cooldown, what you said and the mutant loot. and then they can go back to a harder economy so you can kinda do side quests and loot money on the go even though you only loot like 200 coupons or something but the whole exploring should give you enough then and would make looting more viable.

[lone sigil]

Idk why but every zombie i kill carries fkn bread or sausage. I was in one building in pripyat that had a controller in it with its hordes of zombies every single one of them had a bread or a sausage.

I think I killed maybe 30 of them, 30 pieces of bread/sausage. Might as well go to the zone and shoot zombies to solve world hunger fr

[paper trail]

food is way too abundant. not that it should be rare but its almost annoying and if they can save on ressources in the game limiting this to like 10% or something all would be good. A-Life here we come

[still edge]

mutant loot is actually fine as it is, i already got used to no mutant loot. its just like an anomaly, sometimes you will take damage, it will cause some resources. Its fine, its the stash thats the main problem, not because you will dry out of credit, i think the economy is fine as it is. But the stash is so underwhelming, that everytime i open one is just "oh wow spent 7 minutes to reach this stash , took damage from anomaly and got more bread, amazing!"

[ionic crater]

New monolith might have a squad of exosuits in every nook and cranny of pripyat. But it's hard to find them as scary when you've left an trail of bodies behind you because of it. So old monolith for sure.

[paper trail]

since there is a hunters area in rostok they will add mutant loot for sure I think. THe economy is too easy on stalker difficulty and its ridiculously bad on veteran difficulty. veteran is better after the patch but I feel like they need to adjust some stuff anyway by adding new means to loot.

[still edge]

im playing on veteran and its quite fine for me, just loot every weapon thats sellable , do artifact run , thats it . i have more than enough

[topaz barn]

how can i make my graphics like this to run better on 1660 ti

[hexed bane]

i feel like they made certain sources of income more lucrative like artifact farming to help compensate for other drains on income like mutants but then what happens is new players who dont know the importance or even know that said income methods are a thing end up just getting resource drained by mutant encounters with much less ways to recoup

[weary hedge]

anyone else doing a grenades only playthrough besides me?

[paper trail]

was way worse before the patch, as I said veteran is ok now but its ridiculous that you loot half broken weapons and artifacts to make money and its not really rewarding. you have a rifle that is worth 14 k and you get around 2k for that. mid game I feel like the economy is the worst on veteran because you aquire more expensive gear but enemies can still drop toz and stuff depending on where you are in the story. in the last 75% I feel like money is no problem anymore. artifact runs are also pure luck. you find an artifact thats 12k worth you get 2k for that, on stalker difficulty you get 3600 for that.

[hexed bane]

like im not gonna lie the game seriously doesnt teach alot about what artifacts are and how theyre made

like they just tell you "oh artifacts have abilities when equipped" and "artifacts appear in areas with alot of anomalies" but then i dont think they even tell you they respawn or that emissions are what cause them to appear except in random tips (?)

[paper trail]

would be nice if mutant loot would exist to just slow down the money drain because of them. doesn't have to fully make up for it but make at least as much money that you can pay 50% of your maintenance with it.

[weary hedge]

just do what I did and grindf up 10mil. Use only skifs pistol and no armor and go explore everything in sight. No repairs aside pistol for maximum profit,

[maiden robin]

Yea it sucks how much ammo goes into mutant/animal kills for no return.

[hexed bane]

players who know the concept of anomaly fields, artifact respawns and artifact routing can easily take advantage of the now numerous farming routes in Stalker 2 to make FAT stacks but the new players are gonna have a bit of a curve even knowing how they work as they get fleeced with every mutant encounter and whatever expenses there is

[ionic crater]

It's less that you NEED income from mutants to manage to fund your repairs but more that it makes them a resource draining annoyance that simply aren't fun or rewarding to fight. There's no incentive to feel anything but "oh not again" whenever you encounter them

[paper trail]

I had a time in my vet playthrough where I only went with a decent armor, one full upgraded toz (without slug upgrade), and the .45 pistol and skif pistol. was great to earn money. but if I would've imagine this with full upgraded armor and full upgraded AR, Saiga what ever I would've had a really hard time mid game

[weary hedge]

wrong, its "how fast can i shred this mutant with my saiga"

[hexed bane]

oh well in my experience (in stalker difficulty at least) proper artifact farming makes ALOT of cash. easily paying for my exo and maxed Kharod maintenance and bullets while netting >40-50k coupons in profit, so you wont need to worry about it if you know what youre doing

[maiden robin]

I find them as a slight annoyance. They're sponges with no reward. I put about 200 rounds in with shah's mate and sometimes that's still not enough. Bullets are plentiful but it's still tedious

[weary hedge]

i mean ur using small caliber...

[paper trail]

stalker difficulty is actually incredibly easy to make money. its I think even 20% too easy. could be 20% less for stalker difficulty and could be 15-20% more income for vet difficulty.

[maiden robin]

I mean yea you're not wrong

[hexed bane]

rule of thumb is to always use shotguns against mutants, all shotguns have maxed damage in point blank and i suspect its cause theyre deliberately designed to counter mutants. pretty sure thats how it was even in the OG games

[ionic crater]

In the case of a chimera or pseudo giant the answer to that tends to be not very fast lmao. I mean I'm kitted to the absolute teeth to the point only a chimera is a true threat to me. But it's also simply annoying to constantly have 4 blood suckers thrown at you and just get nothing, not even the satisfaction of eliminating an extremely dangerous enemy from that area of the map. Because there's just going to be 4 more right around the corner

[maiden robin]

I like to use shah and a sniper so I often don't carry a shotgun cuz it'd just be extra weight and a pain to equip in a hurry

[hexed bane]

you can consider eventually transitioning to a scoped AR and a shotgun

[weary hedge]

rule #1 of mutants: "Tried and true, carry a shotgun with you, mutant and fat, expansive for that, far away, flat to stay"

[maiden robin]

I actually am planning to try out the clusterfuck when I get the mission unlocked

[hexed bane]

i heard its great but be warned, many unique weapons have increased weapon wear, meaning higher maintenance costs

[jovial rain]

Damn I finished the game and I’m like Tf do I do now !? Lmao

[weary hedge]

aggressively stalk your own zone

[maiden robin]

Yea I'm pretty sure the shah has thst for sure cuz it keeps eating my coupons. I use it and the lynx so if they both do the increased damage thing then swapping to one unique and a shotty might be beneficial

[ionic crater]

Some variant of this has been my most effective loadout for most the game. The shotgun for deleting mutants while the scoped AR let's you tap heads on humans with the option to go full auto or spam shots whenever the sudden rodent plague or cluster of enemies demands it. My latest loadout of choice in that style has been the dnipro in 7.62 with AP rounds and the Texan or Sledgehammer/saiga

[jovial rain]

I cosplay as freedom in airsoft so that’s about as good as it gets

[paper trail]

since they lowered mutant health you finally can kill a boar with 2 shots of a shotgun like its suppose to be

[maiden robin]

Which shotgun should I go with for the most optimal mutant removal methods

[random cliff]

Will stalker 2 have mod support in the future

[weary hedge]

will YOU have mod support in the future?

[paper trail]

I feel like the saiga is the best shotgun. fast reload high fire rate.

[hexed bane]

unfortunately the chimera can still tank a nuke though 😭😭😭

[random cliff]

Sadly not

[sharp geyser]

Who actually believes in the crazy BS scar yaks about

[paper trail]

Scar is a lunatic

[weary hedge]

it is the best shotgun.

@hexed baneRPG vs Chimera goes BRR

@random cliff If you dont have mod support for yourself then dont expect anyone else to.

[gloomy citrus]

he's a C-Con agent so yeah

[sharp geyser]

Isn't strelok also a c-con agent if so that would mean bro is crazy right?

[weary hedge]

wrong, its been mentioned hes a saw-con agent

[paper trail]

carrying that rpg with me hurts my loot economy

[hexed bane]

my loyal compass always goes straight to whoever faction can promise me more coupons 😎👍

[ionic crater]

I've actually been using a gauss rifle and Texan shotgun with the APSD pistol as my latest loadout though. 9x18mm AP is stupidly easier to find and lighter vs 7.62x39 AP rounds and I've literally 1 tapped exosuits in the head with that pistol before.

Also yeah poor Scar has completely lost it at this point

[paper trail]

the moment he did his theatrical talk near the rostok base I was like only sideeying him from that point on >,>

[weary hedge]

@paper trail #📸┃screens_and_videos

[paper trail]

and that this spark guy is looking at scar and is like "I will die for your cause you awesome dude"

[hexed bane]

nahhh dont you skull react me i know at least a quarter of the playerbase would instantly fold the moment the Ward came to you and offered a free exoskeleton if you sided with them

[weary hedge]

I Just lost my daaaaaaaaawg

[hexed bane]

i am simply merc-core 😎

[weary hedge]

merc core?

[hexed bane]

Mercenary-Core, or do you mean the Core part

[weary hedge]

no no i get what it means but how do you merc core

[hexed bane]

pfft i basically mean im purely in it for the money 😎

[weary hedge]

S.T.A.L.K.T.U.A.: Clear Thang

[hexed bane]

pain

[gloomy citrus]

What dis?

[cerulean socket]

Get out

[ionic crater]

I've been putting off finishing the game since I got to pripyat since I want to wait at least until the next patch before I do. But I think the only one who still has my trust is the now promoted major D

[weary hedge]

S.T.A.L.K.T.U.A. Shadow of Hawk

[uncut cargo]

why

[cerulean socket]

S.T.A.L.K.T.U.A. Return to Tuah

[weary hedge]

S.T.A.L.K.T.U.A: Call of that thang

[cerulean socket]

S.T.A.L.K.T.U.A.: H.A.W.K.K.A

[fresh ridge]

I have a quick question are there any mods that fix stalker2 economy this is my first stalker game and I find it very annoying how I basically run past every single combat engagement because if my armor takes 10% damage then I have to spend like 20 minutes grinding for money and that's just the armor.

[hexed bane]

i hope both of you end up playing release patch veteran difficulty

[cerulean socket]

Dwurp Tuah

[weary hedge]

she stalk on my zone till i emission

[rough cypress]

When and where

[cerulean socket]

Guns sell for good money, you should engage in fights

[fresh ridge]

See I try to do that but most of the time what ends up happening is the guns are either so low tier that I still get a net loss or all the best guns are in pripyat and the combat super hard there so my armor and stuff just gets even more damaged and then enemies just spawning out of nowhere psidogs are my worst nightmare

[hexed bane]

okay so this will be confusing at first but there actually are very lucrative ways to earn coupons in stalker. (if youre okay with looking at some guides to speed up progress)

1. dont ever buy equipment, no joke, theres endgame level equipment that can be grabbed completely free such as the Falcon suit and the Kharod/Dnipro, a simple youtube video will give all info you need

2. Artifact hunting is by far the best repeatable method of earning coupons in all stages of the game. Another youtuber recently gave what seems to be the most updated list of all areas where artifacts respawn, all you need to do is to choose a spot with alot of spawning areas, go to all of them, head back and sell. you'll make fat stacks in no time

[weary hedge]

@fresh ridge I farmed 11 million cupons just from using skifs pistol and no armor and selling every thing I didnt already have.

[cerulean socket]

I've just been playing the game normally and rn I have 700K

Fully upgraded exo
Ratkiller
Seiga
Rhino

[fresh ridge]

Ok thanks I'll try that

Also where do I report bugs?

[gloomy citrus]

https://discord.com/channels/504587323577729024/1308753015355740181

[hexed bane]

for my personal recommendation, grab the falcon first, im not joking it literally has physical protection that matches or even exceeds Exoskeletons and is easily nabbed with some running, then proceed to youtube "stalker 2 artifact routes" and just follow the route given OR make your own. i also highly recommend buying a better artifact scanner if you have the coupons. trust me the first one you get will eventually drive you insane

OH and save often once you go artifact hunting, you'll quickly see why

[cerulean socket]

The saving tip is so real

[fresh ridge]

I do have basically all the best stuff I just don't have the money to maintain it but also something I was curious about is it better to have more leaded artifacts slots with that armor or should I only get one leaded artifact slot and one extra normal slot

[ionic crater]

Hunt artifacts when you get a chance for both some quick cash and so that you'll accumulate artifacts that'll let you carry more loot to sell and make money

[weary hedge]

Phenomenal thing to read when I join hello

[fresh ridge]

Honestly you guys are great most other discord servers I'm in usually just ignore everybody except for like moderators then they just bend over backwards to be friends with them lol

[cerulean socket]

LMAO welcome

[feral ember]

Hey is anyone still having the bug subtle matter bug?

[cerulean socket]

Out of context that sounds disrespectful towards Canadian, mb it was aimed towards Fox

I'm always happy to give tips where I can, helpful players are the glue that holds any community together!

[fresh ridge]

By the way are there any upcoming mods that might add multiplayer to stalker to I've been wanting to buy a PC for my mom cuz we used to play video games together and I think co-op stalker2 with my mom would be really funny

[weary hedge]

Has stalker 2 fixed the stuttering and low performance issues

[dense sandal]

Yea malathite is now owned by the ward I’ve lost my money base

[hexed bane]

dw about it. this game honestly says way too little about how important artifact farming is. pretty sure its both the intended and the in lore reason people are even in the zone 😭

[fresh ridge]

No its all good bro I thought it was funny

[hexed bane]

gotta ask, whats your current equipment?

[dense sandal]

What happens if you don’t betray the ward ?

[fresh ridge]

I have the falcon armor fully upgraded dinipro a fully upgraded unique siaga and two thunder Berry artifacts one compass artifact and strange water I also have the liberty exosuit

[ionic crater]

It doesn't help that the beginning detectors make artifact hunting feel like a massive pain in the ass for something you don't even know could be worth it. I had artifact hunting down to a routine back in the old games yet it took until I got a bear detector to start hunting for them much

[hexed bane]

ohh okay well youre already familliar with artifact farming so that should be easier to do. just keep doing that whenever you need a cash injection

[hexed bane]

the best way to farm artifacts with the first detector is to head to the anomaly field, save, then completely disregard your health and just run till the artifact appears then memorize the location and load the save 😎

[fresh ridge]

Just out of curiosity do you lose yaniv if you side with spark because I really love yaniv but I decided with spark because I thought scar was a really cool character and I didn't like how the ward basically was super aggressive to everybody who even slightly stood in their way

[ionic crater]

I didn't even know there was a unique saiga. But is the Dnipro the 7.62 conver?

[fresh ridge]

I have a second dinipro which I'm going to upgrade to 762 but the one I have is not 762 also there is a unique saga but you need the ultimate edition I just got the ultimate edition because I thought everybody loved the game so much and it looked really fun so I might as well get the ultimate and support the small developer team

[weary hedge]

bruh 4 bloodsuckers at once isnt fair

[paper trail]

My saiga says otherwise

[fresh ridge]

Indeed

[ionic crater]

I got ambushed by 4 of them at once while out in the middle of an open field that I've never one near before while I was in my map screen. It's like the game literally spawned a sudden ambush specifically because I was in my PDA

[fresh ridge]

I personally hate psi dogs

[digital igloo]

Is there a non masochistic way to get to Rostok?

For people who find the double bloodthirster with Poltergeist support a tad excessive?

[weary hedge]

wdym just walk from scrap heap

[digital igloo]

The north passage has a pair of bloodthirsters guarding it; paired with a poltergeist perched like a sniper on the pipes.

[weary hedge]

where are you lmao, i dont remember any of that

[hexed bane]

what in gods name, did you pass by pripyat on the way there or smth 😭

[digital igloo]

Garbage to Rostok passage.

Weirdly enough, a group of Duty (you'd expect it to be Freedom, since they control Rostok) fighters come in and man the checkpoint once you've killed off the mutants.

[digital igloo]

Nope.

Northwestern passage from Garbage to Rostok; straight north of the Flea Market.

Nasty fight, and the Dutyers only show up after you've killed off the mutants, so they're no help there.

And what's Duty doing guarding the checkpoint to a Freedom base?

[weary hedge]

check #📸┃screenshots_and_videos , also, why not just like, run as fast as you can lmao, polters arent really a problem after like 25 m away

[digital igloo]

Never thought of just cutting west. But if you want to see the passage, take the road north from Flea Market.

Also, didn't run because I had no idea what else was in there, and because 2 Bloodthirsters is 2 bloodthirsters; expected them to catch me if I ran.

Besides; they dead now.

Just weird AF to see them perched on top of what looks like a pretty important passage. And the Dutyers showing up after.

[fresh ridge]

Actually have a quick question so I was thinking about basically giving myself through a mod menu all the stuff I had in my first playthrough into my second so I could basically New game Plus but if I gave myself weapon blueprints and then I picked up that same weapon blueprint later on when I'm actually looting and stuff could that break the game

[weary hedge]

@fresh ridge no idea but prolly not

[torpid yarrow]

When A life update?

[solid locust]

today

[fresh ridge]

I thought it was in a few weeks?

[weary hedge]

nobody knows lmao, if you dont know, check announcements, and if its not listed there than its anyones guess

[torpid yarrow]

so he trolling then

[solid locust]

I work for gringorovich sidorovich company (GSC) and I can assure you that the update will come out today, 21:37 GMT+1.

[fresh ridge]

Don't update for games usually release in the morning and also not with a Time so random like instead of it releasing on I don't know 9:37 wouldn't it be released at like 10:00

[torpid yarrow]

he trolling

[solid locust]

...Are you really taking me seriously?

[fresh ridge]

Sorry I guess?

[torpid yarrow]

well when people ask stuff people expect real answers not some 12 year old troll

[solid locust]

A-Life is not coming out any time soon. Yes, it will be fixed in some time (though that can be questioned too), yet I don't believe it will happen soon. Not this year.

[torpid yarrow]

Then say that dont say today theres no need to troll we all adults here not kidds in school

[solid locust]

You can always check the #📜┃gsc-answers tab. It's being updated often and will update us on the A-Life situation.

For now - The only A-Life fix is the mod that increase the spawning radius. You can always check that out.

[magic sinew]

just finished stalker 2

damn what a game

[solid locust]

The story is great, eh? Probably my favourite aspect of it aside from the beautiful world

[magic sinew]

i went w the ending of the GOAT of the entire stalker series, THE stalker himself

[stark trail]

Has anyone been able to get onto the broken ladder on top of one the buildings at the x17 lab area?🤔

[weary hedge]

yknow, no matter how hard I loot I never find ammo for my current weapon unless its 9mm pistol.

does anybody know if i can play stalker with a keyboard and mouse hooked up to xbox?

[dense sandal]

once you beat s2 are you free to do anything you want?

[weary hedge]

wdym we've always had free will? You wanna go shoot someone in broad daylight? theres nothing physically stopping you, but there will be consequences

[dense sandal]

didnt know if once you beat s2 it locks you to tha bit

[weary hedge]

I dont see how beating s2 unlocks your own free will but it is a good game, huh?

[hoary crest]

Would imagine so mate yeah, consoles do support M&Kb these days if im not mistaken

[weary hedge]

Yea but i was wondering if it would feel the same as if i were playing on a pc?

I mean, not frames wise lmao

[lone sigil]

Beating s2 means you join the monolith

[hoary crest]

I mean.. sort of? Its the same inputs, but you're still withheld to however well/badly the console runs the game

[weary hedge]

The sensitivity is the only thing i’m worried about, it feels way to slow with a controller thats why i want to switch to kb&m

[hoary crest]

I have no idea how consoles handle DPI inputs I'm afraid bud, might have to chase that info up somewhere on the internet

[west solstice]

Been a while since last oatch now. They must be brewing something big i hope 🤩

[weary hedge]

Alright

[vague yew]

same

[gloomy citrus]

Worth it.

[weary hedge]

thats one way, yeah

[gloomy citrus]

The other way, not so reliable...

[long shuttle]

that carry capacity is no brain, you should get it asap

[weary hedge]

man the mac 10 is a room clearing machine against human npcs

[keen lotus]

Today marks the 10th day my S2-support channel request has gone unanswered

[weary hedge]

have you any, ANY idea how many tickets they have to sift through?

[keen lotus]

I can still voice my sadness about it. Especially since I’ve been asking the same question in this discord since… let me check rq

[lone sigil]

Maybe it's cause of your name 👀

[keen lotus]

Either the 24th or earlier of last month. And yes Stalin that’s possible

[weary hedge]

Well, the staff doesn't exactly check the discord given they refer you to the report system

You will likely be addressed, but I'm guessing they have thousands of tickets to sift through, and they have nowhere near the staff that almost every triple A studio has, it'll come just not fast lol.

[tough rain]

Finally beat Clear Sky after 2 days. Bro the story was amazing but the gunplay was extra brutal

[ebon blade]

You're a Spy. You should already know the answer to your question.

[wooden escarp]

This game is perverted

I just fought off a pack of zombies seemingly guarding a really tall concrete silo looking structure, climbed what felt like forever up a ladder just to only find a skeleton. No loot. Nothin. Just a dead dude up there.

[keen lotus]

I mean I’m not gonna deny or argue with you about the fact that I have the right to be at least somewhat annoyed that I’ve been soft locked for over 3 weeks

[weary hedge]

You have the right to be annoyed, but you also need to have some degree of understanding logistics

[keen lotus]

I mean I do… that’s why I am not in here ranting about it until you come and try and be on some high horse when all I did was technically give an update on my situation…

[tough rain]

Time for Call of Prypiat and then to end things off at Shadow of Chernobyl 💪

[wooden escarp]

Can I ask where you got soft locked? Like part of the main story or area of the map? So I can avoid it

[weary hedge]

You're amongst many others that complain every day, trust me, I have my own problems id like addressed, but complaining about it- doesn't really do much, admittedly. Checking back every few days to see if there's a fix is optimal, however.

[hexed bane]

they should really start calling this the GMOD strategy

[keen lotus]

I mean it’s probably fixed for the majority of players. I wouldn’t worry about it for you man. I think I just was the unlucky few that got one of the worse ones. @weary hedge Again, I can barely call what I did complaining. That was some of the most light complaining one can do

[weary hedge]

You can also try emailing them directly at their support email and say "hey my ticket hasn't been addressed in 10+ days, could I possibly get an update?"

worth a try at least. But to be fair, most bugs won't even be fixed until the next update, and nobody even knows what's gonna get fixed or not fixed and the best we have is the #📜┃ask-gsc and the #📰┃announcement channel

[keen lotus]

I’m well aware of all this… trust me. Like you said, check back every couple of days to see if there’s anything. I’ve definitely been doing so. More like every day

[wooden escarp]

I mean I feel that I’d probably be done playing the game if all of my save files had been corrupted

I ran into a nasty bug two weeks ago in the Sircca area where all of my saves seemingly just became corrupted only had 1 good save out of 30 that luckily wasn’t that far back

But had every single file been corrupted I would’ve been done with the game for a while

[keen lotus]

My bug is just after sircaa

[wooden escarp]

Sircca seems cursed I’ve heard of a lot of bugs pop up in that area specifically

[weary hedge]

Also if you're soft locked from the story, why not run around and explore some? I'm 150 hours in and have barely even got like 40% of the map explored properly in the nooks and crannies

[wooden escarp]

If you’re referring to ||Defending Zalyssa side mission|| I experienced a bug myself but got lucky in that ||I killed some monolith soldiers outside|| and the rest are just permanently cohabitating inside of Zalyssa but the vendors are there for me just have like 9 frenemies glitching out in there

[keen lotus]

Because I did just that too. Now there are no side quests left for me to do as far as I can tell. And no it’s not the zalyssa mission

[weary hedge]

There's plenty to see without side quests lol

[wooden escarp]

That’s what I’ve been doing myself I haven’t progressed the main story yet. Just been either exploring the map myself or watching YT videos on zones and best gear in those zones

Makes it a fun mission on its own going out and grabbing sellable gear and weapons/artifacts

[weary hedge]

I'm sitting at 11 million cupons from exploring lmao

[wooden escarp]

Million

[gloomy citrus]

Now I understand why people expecting the next DLC to be Limansk.

[keen lotus]

Ok, well forgive me for not wanting to do that and wait for the story to take me to these places first. I’ve done the loot hunt and random questing I could, I want the story now :/

[restive storm]

The bad side is I can`t even progress because of crashing every damn 10 minutes like hard PC crashing and having to reset my PC every time. I think either my save or the game itself is cooked until the next patch

[weary hedge]

Look at the screenshot I posted in #📸┃screens_and_videos lol

[wooden escarp]

That’s fair but there are some parts of the map the story won’t take you to and you have to explore on your own.

[lone sigil]

The ham radio on the building is a frequency coming from Limansk.

[gloomy citrus]

uh huh

[weary hedge]

I thought there was no dlc yet

[gloomy citrus]

No but its confirmed.

That there will be DLCs and most likely it'll take place in Limansk.

[restive storm]

Yeah there is a dlc trailer in their youtube account I think

[weary hedge]

@gloomy citrus thought it would be the iron Forest cuz you cant go there

[gloomy citrus]

Anyway, remind me that you'll eventually get inside Spark's bunker in Yanov and you can get Diamond Exo without doing the thingy.

[lone sigil]

Limansk was overrun by monolith before. So would be pretty interesting to see what's happening there post monolith control

[gloomy citrus]

Who knows.

[weary hedge]

I got my diamond exo from getting into pryp early

[wooden escarp]

I’m just happy to be floating around 100K but I did just dump like 40K into upgrades on the Zubr 19

[weary hedge]

I've been profitmaxxing

[wooden escarp]

Im still rocking a SEVA V suit haven’t come across an exo suit yet

[hoary crest]

SEVA V can last basically till endgame anyway, good suit

[wooden escarp]

Repairs only avg between 6-9K depending on the gunfights I experience

[wooden escarp]

I have 4 slots will eventually add a 5th when I’m not distracted upgrading guns that’ll just eventually collect dust in my stash.

I enjoy the rad protection and PSI protection it offers along with gas mask built in so it’s less gear needing to repair each time

[signal eagle]

SEVA V SUIT - Best looking out of all the suits imo.

[wooden escarp]

Only took me like 40 hrs in to realize why I kept taking on radiation damage and then once I found a good balance of artifacts I eliminated the annoying constant need of popping anti rads or constantly carrying vodka with me

[hoary crest]

Yeah, its for sure one of the most well-rounded suits before an exo, doesnt take much to get it upgraded either, BPs are easy to get

[weary hedge]

@wooden escarp ive made this much money because ive only been using skifs pistol and no armor to go loot and sell every single weapon ive found.

[gloomy citrus]

I think the first time you come across an exosuit is from ||Lab X-3 in Cordon.||

[hoary crest]

Yeah, its a bad one tho

[wooden escarp]

My nerves wouldn’t be able to handle a pack of dogs or blood suckers with just skifs pistol

Props to you

I am just testing out different weapons I like and builds

I currently go out with a upgraded SVD sniper rifle and the Zubr 19

But had been using clusterfuck for a long while until I burned through the ammo for it.

[hoary crest]

Mind you, imo exos are mostly massively overrated in this game

[signal eagle]

You can get one from cooling towers legit as soon as you cross into garbage . . . But you cant install the sprint mod on it

[wintry mulch]

As a fan of both Stalker and Kingdom Come: Deliverance, it's fun to see the overlap between actors. For instance Trapper is Captain Bernard in KCD, while the Ward Colonel is Sir Robard. And Skif will play several characters in KC:D2!

[wooden escarp]

That’s unfortunate because I’m pretty sure I went through that region already and didn’t find an exo suit I’ll have to look it up later

[weary hedge]

Ive gotten so good at skifs pistol Im able to take down bloodsuckers with headshots lmao. Ive also killed a chimera with it. Yes that was brutally slow and painful, but i did.

[gloomy citrus]

Thats weird. As far as I know only Cuirass Exo cant have Sprint upgrade.

[wooden escarp]

Can you even mount a sight on that or is it iron sights only?

[signal eagle]

Ill go check what one it is.

[weary hedge]

nope

[hoary crest]

It does get an AP upgrade basically right at the start though, which probably contributes to it lasting so long in viability

[signal eagle]

Yeah cuirass from skd assembly

[wooden escarp]

Maybe one day I’ll do that but like I said my nerves can’t handle taking on a bloodsucker with just a pistol

Usually end up spraying and praying as it is with the Zubr 19

[weary hedge]

I also have a playthough going right now thats grenades only.

[wooden escarp]

Grenades lowkey underrated versus those annoying poltergeists

[wintry mulch]

Skif's pistol isn't actually stonger than the basic Makarov, except for being weightless, and having basically endless durabillity.

[wooden escarp]

I had just ran into a group of monolith soldiers myself and instead of peeking and shooting them from a distance with the sniper I just lobbed 5 grenades and took all but 1 out

Effectively violent

[hoary crest]

Download Better Explosives, one grenade to room clear, as it should be

[weary hedge]

@hoary crest @wooden escarp tbh my room clearer 900 is the mac10 with AP rounds, literally anything in my way is dead in a matter of seconds

[wooden escarp]

The blessing and curse of Xbox X; can’t download mods

[wintry mulch]

...yet! They are on their way!

[weary hedge]

how come every enemy you ever come across has poorly maintained weapons? Youd think that SOMEONE would have theirs in decent condition...

[cloud elm]

Day 2 of asking the devs to add night vision to the game

[weary hedge]

they said theyre working on something to improve seeing in the dark later lol'

[wintry mulch]

For loot progression and balance reasons. If you'd get near perfect weapons every time you encounter enemies, the economy would be bust, and there'd be no reason to buy weapons, or search staches.

[weary hedge]

I mean absolutely, but every single person ever doesn't have to have a broken weapon Econ sux anyways cuz of repair costs, hence my grinding of 11 million cupons so i never have to worry about them again.

[wintry mulch]

I have no issues with the current repair costs. You have to have SOMETHING to spend money on, and most, if not all your equipment are found, not bought.

[weary hedge]

yes, the current ones are alright, but still, someones gotta maintain their stuff :p

[sly phoenix]

There isn't any reason to buy weapons, veteran stalkers already know you can find them by just playing the game and even people that are new to the franchise can piece together that weapons are too expensive. One way they could fix this issue was looting bodies gives a small amount of coupons, which would make selling guns less of a thing.

[hoary crest]

Was discussing this last night. Right now there is too much access to everything for free out in the world an its not ideal to have merchants basically only exist to sell stuff too

[wintry mulch]

I know it's a dirty word to some around here, but I like the GAMMA way, that you can be lucky and find awesome gear in random stashes, but still need to invest time into fixing it up before you can actually use it.

[proven hollow]

I must admit I bought that highest tier 5.45 assault rifle from Yaniv when I first got there. Was like 26k while I had 400k-ish. Was easier then eventually running into one and having to fix it up for the same amount...

[weary hedge]

To be fair I only bought weapons and armor when I first arrived at rostock because I went there straight from scrap heap and they were way better

[dense sandal]

geting sick of emissions

[wintry mulch]

I bought the Saiga as soon as I saw it available as well. But for secondary playthroughs with static loot, you'll know exactly where to gonto get the stuff you want.

[proven hollow]

yeah i also went straight for the Bulat in army warehouses even on my first playthrough 😛

[dense sandal]

also can it stop spawning guns in my inv

[weary hedge]

The preorder saiga is gas

[hoary crest]

Nah I agree. Gear should be out in the world, but it should require effort to aquire. Though it would be hard to work into this game without going through stashes one by one and picking and choosing the hardest ones to access to put good loot in.

Currently, between both the static loot and the avaliability of ammo and meds particularly, you can be fully stocked with no effort at all.

Remove 90% of ammo/meds/food from drops and placed out in the world, we instantly have a progression that is based around a players ability to survive. Stashes could do with almost limitless randomization per playthrough too. For instance some having meds, some having ammo, some having guns, others artifacts, etc

[proven hollow]

yeah i'd really like artifacts in stashes

[ebon blade]

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[weary hedge]

Thank you mod stalker

[sly phoenix]

By the endgame, you can do whatever, money is no issue by then. But early to mid game? Yeah, the game throws enough 100% guns and uniques that you can repair so no need to buy armor or guns

[weary hedge]

Idk about y'all but I'm just straight stalkin it. And by it, haha, let's just say my zone

[jolly chasm]

Are there any news of an upcoming patch?

[restive storm]

I`ve been checking the discord for 10 hours straight waiting for a patch but they will probably not put out one until end of the year

[weary hedge]

Yes, you can see new patches everyday that come out on eBay and depop! Hope this helps!

[weary hedge]

Dawg it's not that serious 😭 it'll prolly be a week or so, yes, or January, cuz holidays and staff and such.

[gloomy citrus]

Has anyone found Novikov yet? Feels sad knowing that Nimble is the last surviving Clear Sky member.

[restive storm]

I know but literally everyone suffers some sort of optimization, bug or crash problem in the game. They are killing their own game themselves by not putting out a patch before people refund the game or stop playing and forget about it. If the next patch doesn`t fix the crash problem I will move on to some other game myself

[weary hedge]

Wdym are we forgetting scar exists?

[gloomy citrus]

I dont think Scar canonically a member of Clear Sky imo.