☢┃stalker-general

[azure spindle]

anyone else have trouble running the game with a GPU undervolt? I have an undervolt that's super stable in literally everything else, but I have to run my card stock to play S2 or it crashes

[marble onyx]

so i got 2 high capacity AR mags from one stash in Cauldron.. first time when i found it randomly, second time when i found letter about it and went there so i can get rid of icon ... and stash was full again 😄 i mean.. wont protest 😄

[sour linden]

I'm going to take the raffle page not loading as a good sign that you guys are spamming it so hard it's struggling.

[maiden robin]

After gushing about stalker2 on the Xbox so long i finally roped my friend into playing it. His response was "I get it now"

[empty fiber]

Hey folks, happy christmas. Could someone give me a hand with my kharod. I thought it was supposed to have three bars penetration. I only got one and a little from the second. Did i mess up with some upgrade?

[minor fog]

Is anyone getting a 3rd patch so suddenly today? or its just me.......

[civic relic]

man the arena chimera fight was so damn lame how it cant even jump at u. i just stood on a crate and it stood infront of me while i dumped 300 bullets into its head

though this next fight is really annoying me cause i accidently chose the double barrel shotgun to fight this exoskeleton dude with...

[deft coral]

I dont have any problem with my undervolt on this game

[storm monolith]

another patch, and shaders still broken

[novel cargo]

I just did the mission ||assault on duga|| and I killed ||faust|| but now I have to kill him again in the mission ||happiness for everyone|| i am honestly confused, was that not him who I killed at the end of the mission? The story is very hard to follow

[sly sluice]

Вітер віє, вії віє, щурить очі, втома снів пустих сльозами лине, краплі лине, лине, линуть
Було б круто, як колись, на життя тяжке, з вдихом тяжким нити
нити
нити
нити
нити
нити

[sly sluice]

Yeah faust has pretty good PSI emitters

I mean you can tell from how there's multiple faust hallucinations and they look weird and everything, I was never illusion that they were real at that time

[waxen kernel]

where can i find the whole radio playlist?

[sly sluice]

Dunno if its all of it?? https://youtu.be/6xNEPxavG4U?si=CK0ROuG4y2BaKHVu ( @waxen kernel )

[ocean stream]

For some reason my fps slows whenever I move the camera to look down at the floor, is there a fix for this or is it just a hadware issue?

[sly sluice]

But I just wanna listen to Жити on repeat anyway and sometimes Хризантеми

[waxen kernel]

you sent just one song :/

[sly sluice]

uee? si=blahblah should be playlist ID
(You are correct though it doesnt work)

[compact violet]

so uhm... tornados?

[sly sluice]

Yeah I dont know how many songs there is but 414 sounds kinda comprehensive to me https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLtnjmAsxZOSh3dw3AY8yOCjHPP1j0pzet
(Finally a working playlist link right?)

[waxen kernel]

hm ok

[sly sluice]

Some are hella stalkercore

[round coral]

Is anyone able to play since the last 2 patches without crashing?

[quick kernel]

I wonder if there will be more emission level threats to face later on, just different things that can cause severe bodily harm but may not require someone to stay indoors, like acid rain or chunks of magma rocks flying through the air

[pure jasper]

🙏
The great Monolith claims another one
Such is the will of Monolith

[boreal coyote]

do the tours through the exlusion zone still happen? or have they been stopped due to.... you know

[spark badger]

Assault on Duga ends with you || being told to retreat because Faust's psy illusions are too strong, you don't kill him. Then every mission between then and happiness for everyone explains that he had psy illusions and you get a method of blocking the psy from the drunk scientist. The suppressor. ||

[ornate sable]

Chrysantemum goes hard

[frigid hill]

jeruzalemisreal has been warned

Reason: Bad word usage

[stark crescent]

you kill the guy hundreds of times over n over. until you see the real faust, and get told to retreat.

then the psi radiation turns your mind into a giant psychosis, and the hell puppies are a nice representation of how ffed the situation was

[civic relic]

man im at this part of the game with a freaking ak 74 and a spas 12 shotgun barely any ammo... this game is so hard compared to the trilogy games lol

[spark badger]

I ditched the AK very early myself, the armour penetration is too weak I think

[civic relic]

yeah tell me about it... even the shotgun with slug rounds i can dump a whole mag and they still walking around

[stark crescent]

do you try to explore the zone a little bit? not rushing through the story, but going to loot stashes n such? some of them got some sweet guns. also, if you are at the duga part, surely you must have gone through garbage n such and find yourself a nice buket

buket is one of the strongest weapons in hte game, while using the cheapest ammo.

[civic relic]

well....... i did loot alotta stashes and searched many empty buildings on the map but i think where i screwed up is i have been hoarding every artifact ive found because i was hoping that the sceintists bunker would let me sell artifacts for most money so i have tons of artifacts to sell that i shoulda earlier to upgrade my guns and gear

[spark badger]

I found the game overall easier than the OGs (except for COP) but I think it's all about upgrading to better weapons at the right time. I did the Duga mission with the Buket and GP37. They have a chunk better armour penetration

[civic relic]

can someone please just spoil it to me... does scientists bunker trader even buy artifacts for more money than any other regular trader?

[stark crescent]

i did duga with clusterf*ck and buket.

[spark badger]

Nah, sell them to the regular guys. I did the same thing, saved a bunch of artifacts but everyone gives the same money

[civic relic]

ok well i am going to load save right before the duga shootout and sell all my artifacts to upgrade everything and i should be fine then

[spark badger]

You're gonna be rolling in cash

[stark crescent]

if you want, i can point you to the saiga 12k

[glass compass]

I just finished the game. Do not worry I will not spoil anything, but this game was really everything I have been looking for in something for a long time. I went to the zone. Made some friends, learned to respect the zone, did my thing, made my choices and ended things.

I am new to this franchise and I am about to go play the trilogy series.

[spark badger]

Love to hear about people trying the OGs, hopefully you have fun

[glass compass]

This game is really tough to run. I outsourced it to a hosting service and played it like that.

[stark crescent]

i liked the atmosphere mod for call of pripyat. it made the sky look actually realistic

[quartz obsidian]

I’m actually happy and surprised the IWI Carmel (Kharod) made it to the game

[ornate sable]

I wonder if they'll bring out any additional weapons (as DLC's or part of expansions). Would be nice to have the LR300 back

[ebon mesa]

How is a-life. Good?

[glass compass]

You know I have come to understand the the bugs are just anomalies in the game.

A-Life is getting better. The dev team is patching things up with help of the modding community.

[restive storm]

I think I fixed my PC crashing. A cable wasn`t plugged into the motherboard all the way in like 1-2 mms and I pushed it all the way in. After that, it did not give me any crashes

[stark crescent]

a-life 1.0.0.0.0.0.2 is better than 1.0.0.0.0.0.1.

better in hte sense that you now encounter groups of random enemies in front of you, rather than them spawning behind you all the time.

[ebon mesa]

Is it available for the Xbox? Been playing the past days without knowing about the update. Haven't noticed anything new i think

[stark crescent]

personally i dont see much improvement to the system. they still do what tehy did before the "changes". they are dumb. they dont care about fallen people from their group. they are still as heartless and soulless as they were before.

they just aimlessly roam the zone. teh developer talking about "online" and "offline", and, it doesnt make sense. i played both online and offline, and there was literally no difference to a-life. is that a good thing? i dont know. stalker 2 is an offline game. it has no multiplayer. why does it need an "online" mode for anything?

same as how the developer turned off shader preloading right now on a whim, because its bugged. was this thing even neccesary from the beginning? i dont notice any differences with the game after they alledgedly turned it off. graphics still look the same. with or without shader preloading.

i think the dev makes alot of weird choices with the updates. uses alot of technical terms that they probably dont even know what they mean. maybe an error in translation between ukrainian and english?

stalker 2 is better and bigger than any previous stalker. because it has every area from the previous stalkers, on one giant map. and they seriously love doing gun animations. but lets be real here. does this game feel complete? not to me, it doesnt. they promised a-life, and instead we get the mentally disabled brother. its kind of the 3 dragonhead memes, where one of them is stupid.

[weary hedge]

You literally don’t know what you’re talking about you shouldn’t speak on this, you don’t even know what “online” and “offline” mean here, I hope you’re trolling.

[stark crescent]

then can you explain to me what the dev meant with "online" and "offline" for A-life? i think they mentioned something about groups of npc's roaming the zone, both within the visible area, and outside of it. however, when i started this game in offline mode, the game warned me it wasnt online.

[weary hedge]

You don’t know what they mean, you’re literally proving Duning Kruger effect.

Online mode for NPCs is when you see them, they are within your field of view and act according, in offline mode they are out of your field of view but continue A-life regardless.

[proven hollow]

i'm still on the fence on whether it's bait..

[stark crescent]

and every other gamer knows what a-life does? i think not even the devs know what it does right now. especially with the amount of bugs the game has. the amount of crashes. memory leaks. graphical errors. i have never seen a game that was more stable on release, than on hte updates that came after. usually, updates are there to make the game better. not to worsen the experience.

they changed a-life. instead of groups of people spawning right behind you, they now spawn randomly around you. they can move behind you, or in front of you. its not that big of a change.

[floral edge]

clusterfk is good choice, but secondary i use saiga 12

[stark crescent]

i expected alot of loot, so i didnt brought the saiga with me for that mission. appearently, the spark route doesnt see as much action as the ward route does

[floral edge]

ward does have lot of ammo for clusterfck

[ornate sable]

It's got nothing to do with the player being connected to the internet or not.
Basically what it does is it keeps track of enemies even outside of render (offline).
For example, you see a group of NPC stalkers and a group of boars moving towards each other, they are in-render and visible (online). You move back so they are out of render (offline). They still exist, but kind of just like tokens, and aren't rendered graphically. If they fight online (visibly), they will fight it out as usual. If they fight offline (out of render), the game will just decide one group wins and the other group dies.
I hope it made sense.

[floral edge]

but sadly i finaly got working game yesterday

[rough crater]

im encountering new annoying bug, if i walk by some fight involving bloodsuckers, my mouse sensivity will often just remain halved until i restart the game, or meet more bloodsuckers

[floral edge]

and now with 1.1.3 is all the same action, kinda send a fix for a working game to not work again ... again i use game file verify

[stark crescent]

i did change my gear a bit tho. im now using the apsb as a main weapon. its much cheaper to repair than a normal rifle, lighter, its like a hand held zubr honestly. for the pistol slot i use the model competitor, modded to accept shotgun buckshot. together with the saiga and the m701. saiga is modded for slugs. this thing can shoot a bloodsucker with 5 chest shots lol

[honest sandal]

A-life is still kinda moot with out a more distant NPC render distance, more distant audio cues, or some type of way of gathering information on the state of distant stalker squads. It's nice, but mostly an opaque system at the moment.

[floral edge]

m701 not bad just slow reload

[stark crescent]

yea, but its 2kg lighter than the clusterfck, 1.7kg lighter than the mark 1.

[floral edge]

before 1.1 i didnt even got any problems with game and npc spawn, sadly all started only after updates

[floral edge]

ok ill check on it for upgrades, think i had a spare one

[deft lion]

There is an abudance of information online of what ALife online and offline are yet you choose to be ignorant

[livid coral]

So I guess once you beat the game it really is a point of no return. Can't go back to the zone period?

[floral edge]

of course when my game will be working again, tomorrow will not be able to play, after that sure next update gona set me back again

[zenith gazelle]

mf when I talk out my a*ss and just spew nonsense out

[livid coral]

How many endings are there?

[floral edge]

i guess so, finished after prologue ... would be cool to finish up some side missions

[stark crescent]

only with console commands. but normally yea, once you take that leap, you cant go back.

which is why its such a weird descision why the last modification for the saiga is only available after this point of no return. what if you didnt bring a saiga with you to the end mission? the devs kind of expect you to. tehy know its the best gun in the game. but still

[livid coral]

Right? That's why I was confused. There's not even a way to USE the upgrade

[floral edge]

if not mistaken 4 endings, kinda 2 good 2 bad ...

[stark crescent]

hold up, my game had another memory crash. cant hear you over the loud noises of restarting the game

[zenith gazelle]

LMAO

[honest sandal]

Weird how the community manager acted in the GSC answers early on when asked about post game or new game+ content. Kinda implying there was one with "that would be a spoiler."

[stark crescent]

ward ending. strelok ending. scar ending. and...scientist ending? not sure what that last one was called

[livid coral]

I did Streloks ending. I'm assuming the other endings involve following either Scar or Korshunov, right? That just leaves the fourth. No idea how I would get that

[deft lion]

Skif's

[livid coral]

I'll see if I can get that one next. Hopefully it's not one of those game endings where you have to do things in a very specific way

[deft lion]

Well you have to make choices that defy Scar, ward, and Strelok. Im sure you can figure it out

[honest sandal]

The secret 5th ending is Skif shitting his brains out on the side of the road after eating a sausage he found in a crate from 1981. Then dying from dehydration. So realistic of GSC to include, I applaud them.

[stark crescent]

i first went with the ward ending, cause it made sense. the zone more or less ruined everyone's lives. and throughout the story, korshunov was always honest with you. respected you. while scar was just a rambling mad man, who kept you out of the loop most of the time.

[livid coral]

I might've been close to it originally, then. I sided with essentially everyone and betrayed essentially everyone. I had one last option to go against Strelok, but that seemed like I would just be siding with the Ward again

[deft lion]

There ya have it. Basically follow Strelok until that point

Skif's ending is by far the most interesting for the future of the series, if GSC makes it the canon ending

[livid coral]

Yeah I was wondering if that ending would be considered the "true" ending

[zenith gazelle]

I personally liked Sterlok's cause it seemed to be the closest to a Monolith ending, as a Monolith simp I had to do it

[livid coral]

My biggest regret in my first playthrough is not using the SAIGA 12. Got a sick SAIGA when you fight Granite at the end of the game and was like... damn. This would've been nice to use literally anywhere else but here

[stark crescent]

i wonder how the dlc's turn out to be. will they just be a side mission of sorts? since after point of no return, you really cant go back. theres no continuation of the story after the main quest. no post end game content.

[livid coral]

Also you don't get to enjoy the EM-1 outside of X7. @stark crescent I wish there was post end game content so you can actually use the endgame stuff you get for more than like an hour max

[deft lion]

It takes a lot from the book Roadside Picnic

[civic swift]

Be honest with me- should I play 2 or play gamma

[livid coral]

Also there was literally no point in getting the X7 suit

[deft lion]

Make a decision for yourself. All of the info you could ever need on both is out there. Quit asking others to tell you what to do

[civic swift]

…This is the first time I have asked this

[livid coral]

For the sake of a second opinion: GAMMA. Wait until S2 is in a more stable state. Keep in mind in terms of gameplay they're not even remotely comparable, and some consider GAMMA to be extremely tedious

[restive storm]

Gamma has lots of mods from what I read and is more stable. Wait at least 1 year or 6 months let`s say before playing the stalker 2. Because, it is unstable right now with literally everything stemming from performance to A-life to missions

[marble onyx]

im seeing videos where ppl using scanner that looks like a radar, is that a quest reward ? or its obtainable earlier ? im using bear radar or how its called currently

[civic swift]

Thank you. What makes them so extremely different?

[zenith gazelle]

Delete the game, play minecraft stalker

[livid coral]

AFAIK you get it in a scientist bunker on the East side of Zaton. It's on a cargo ship I think? Might have to do a quest for the Sultan to access it

[upbeat berry]

greatttttt

i spent 2 days downloading their 100 GB update and when i was at 90 GB with my slow arse internet they gave another update soo the entire process restarted! thats just awsome

[deft lion]

Are you referring to the Hilka or Veles

[marble onyx]

veles

[livid coral]

GAMMA is much more "hardcore". Lots of inventory management, crafting and repair is somewhat complex, you have to do a lot of tedious things down to replacing the batteries in your lights and NVGs to sharpening your knives, repairing your multitools so you can field strip weapons

[signal eagle]

[deft lion]

Yea you get that completing side quests at Wild Island

[civic swift]

…so in other words entirely unsuited for a beginner like me. Sticking as many optimization/patch mods as possible into 2 then

[stark crescent]

the update isnt really 100gb. its only 7gb. however, the way they made this game, is that all the game files are getting updated. so its basically doing a forced file check on every update. so stalker 2 updates based on the speed of your drive.

[still star]

https://www.youtube.com/shorts/0k4mXeFkYO0

[upbeat berry]

well it made my game bugy had to delete it and redownload it

[livid coral]

GAMMA was my first Stalker experience and I enjoyed it a lot. It really comes down to what kind of gameplay you want. If you want a challenge, GAMMA is the way to go. It's the one Stalker experience I've played where the Zone actually feels dangerous and foreboding

[stark crescent]

memory leaks arnt often fixed with reinstalling the game.

[still star]

crapma nice

[civic swift]

I’m interested in the bits that are more… storytelling-y, about getting immersed into an actual setting and place. I’m interested in the RP side of things basically

[livid coral]

Oh boy another GAMMA hater who just has to let everyone know how much they hate it

[upbeat berry]

yeah but i spent 2 whole days downloading this shi! and i have to do it all over again!!!!!!!! hell nah i'll just remove the game

[marble onyx]

yeah i found theres also one more quest that u can get it from, sadly seems theres no way to get it in a world seems

[turbid cove]

Gamma has no story, play the original trilogy or stalker 2

[livid coral]

Go with S2 then. Or modpacks for the original trilogy. GAMMA is all gameplay practically no story

[still star]

i like gamma but was never able to install it 10 hours wasted because of some install errors the trash crapma launcher always make error when downloading

[signal eagle]

Doesnt a trader sell it?

[marble onyx]

havent found one that does yet

[livid coral]

Obese modpack moment. @civic swift Also if you want to get more out of S2, play the original trilogy first. It gives you a lot of context

[civic swift]

Is the switch version a good port

[livid coral]

The what

[still star]

1fps or 30 seconds per frame

[civic swift]

…have you not heard of legends of the zone

[livid coral]

You're better off playing on a brick tablet from 1200 BC

[signal eagle]

"Northwest of the Great Swamps: Search a small dugout near the railway bridge."
Found this in reference to veles detector for a stash and also Professor Sakharov is supposed to sell it but I cant confirm these currently. I thought Insee it for sale in red forest trader

[civic swift]

Anyways, I think what I also mean is “does GAMMA have decent incidental writing/quests”. is the flavor text good

[halcyon karma]

@warped burrow Would he really? ||After all, Strelok rants and gets agressive with Skif in that rooftop scene. The EN and canceled ru dub performance is just better than what's there for the UA dub in the release. It feels like the actor was just reading the lines of the paper with no emotion put into it regarding the context, and so on. But this is just my opinion.||

[last saddle]

Not really, "go here and bring me back this." But it is probably one of the best experiences there is when it comes to shooters

[civic swift]

Okeydoke, 2 with optimization/patch mods as duct tape and a hope that some future patch/mod will add incidental female stalkers it is then

[stark crescent]

how most of the english voicelines feel like

[marble onyx]

i just got a saiga from that guide guy, does it worth to upgrade and use ? got coupons to spare ... or should i stay with spas ?

[spark badger]

You should try Gamma if you want but Gamma is a hardcore survival sandbox mod. It doesn't play anything like the mainline stalker games or have a real story. I always recommend trying the actual games first instead of a mod

[astral portal]

question are the mutants sigmas or alphas?

[spark badger]

I prefer it to the spas because it has a magazine so reloads much faster

[astral portal]

Good movie, but are mutants sigmas or alphas?

[zenith gazelle]

I really liked in the campaign when Faust said "John Stalker, you are the Monolith of the Zone" and Fausted all over the place

[civic relic]

bro what are coupons even for besides using the guide? i have like 50k coupons and ive only ever used em for a few guide trips

[astral portal]

I like when skif skiffed all over the place

[spark badger]

Higher level guns have some pretty hefty upgrades, some upgrades cost 20k. The final exoskeleton lead container upgrade costs like 37k etc

[astral portal]

sigma nuts?

[civic relic]

wait how have i never seen any guns or upgrades yet that take coupons instead of cash? did i just not notice it somehow

[obtuse veldt]

The costs though against the credits earned kinda wack if you ask me

[thick loom]

If i have a helmet and a suit on do they just stack stats?

[obtuse veldt]

To early more coupons for my weapons and artifacts, I just tweak difficulty to earn the fair amount and not something ridiculously low and criminal

Cause late game coupons seem to not be much valued, I wish I could take on multiple side missions like in the past

[spark badger]

How do you mean? Coupons and cash are the same thing in game. That's the currency

[quick kernel]

I've been wondering that too.

[spark badger]

I don't mind it myself but I've heard a lot of people share your thoughts on it. Might be worth a tweak, or introduce a slider

[dusk grove]

is everyone else having crash issues in rostok around the traders?

[stark fossil]

I am still..

[tepid osprey]

@thick loom @quick kernel nop, they are separate and don’t stack

[oak wigeon]

A while back in #📜┃gsc-answers someone asked a similar q. Body armour protects the body, helmets protect the head and full suits protect both, implying that they don't stack as such. They are separate values for body and head.

[dusk grove]

most places are fine but rostock is a mess rn, in my stash and traders screen for 1 minute and its a hard crash. It made my entire system crash as well had to hard reboot 2 times

im going to have to make the decision to not play for a while until this is all fixed, it might actually cause me hardware issues otherwise.

[plain fiber]

So, I just got to experience the weird buggieness of the Wild Island Burers.

[clever fiber]

Is juice from monolith important I'm in the complex u gota rescue the dude from for the scientist once u enter garbage i decided to skip talking to them do it first to see how it plays out. Well there is this green monolith dude named juice upstairs doing push-ups glitches (not the guy in the chair talking about geneva convention) out so I just killed him just to see what he has and he had a fora 221. Saved before hand just Wana see what's up?

[deft lion]

This was almost a coherent thought

[clever fiber]

Wdm?

Let me break it down then

1-skipped talking to scientist dude right out of garbage
2- went to compound started silently killing the enemies
3-passed the dudes window I gotta rescue sitting in chair
4-making my way through the building 3rd floor is a dude named juice in green monolith suit bugged out doing push-ups

Is he important?

[jaunty locust]

Just bought a 3080 to play this game is it enough

[plain fiber]

In hindsight I'm not sure if the issue is those Burers or the RPGs, because twice I didn't have weird shit happen until I picked those up, and the one crash I got only happened after I had picked up the RPGs.

[deft lion]

Itll run the game

Ive got a 4090 and an i9 12900kf (for now until my 9800x3d comes in) and still drop to 60-70 fps in some more demanding areas, even with DLSS on. 2k resolution and maxxed everything

@jaunty locust

[jaunty locust]

Got a 5800x3d and a 3080 should be ayt i guess

[warped tinsel]

Have you found any interesting mods to make Stalker 2 gameplay even cooler?

[round coral]

vodka

[marble onyx]

i upgrading armors and weapons all the time 😄 and repairs are not cheap also

[peak lichen]

omg the chimera in a minor incident is annoying

[primal forge]

Is anyone else having trouble with the beds? Even though I dont have any status ailments it won't let me sleep.

[peak lichen]

literally love it when the chimeras just stunlock and instakill me 😍

[civic relic]

is there really not a specific trader that will buy artifacts for more than the other traders? the prices are pretty damn bad to sell them

[dry knot]

Hey guys i want to wish you all a merry christmas. Discord is full of copy pasted christmas messages, that people don't even read and just forward to other servers. I don't like that. I like to write what i deeply wish and what comes from my heart. Our friendships, from the most deep ones to the most virtual ones are very important and will never be represented by a simple message copied from elsewhere. This being said I would like to thank all of you. You are the best hockey team i've ever played with. A big hug, Peter.

[marble onyx]

uhm.. whats the point of getting blueprint for saiga at point of no return mission ?

[livid coral]

literally none. No clue why it's there

[marble onyx]

i wanted to fully upgrade it, which i will not for at least next 50 hours 😄 .. finnaly got money and shotgun .. and then found out i cant fully upgrade it 😄

[civic relic]

am i stupid or did i really just realize coupons is the same exact thing as money it literally is the currency. i thought coupons were a completely different thing from money wtf

[marble onyx]

umm.... i mean .. happens ?

[quartz obsidian]

Took one mag from my saiga and one mag from my Kharod and it was gone, just finished that mission 30 minutes ago

[frigid nebula]

uhh, im getting SUPER LAG whenever im poiting at NPCs or their bodies. Read somewhere to reduce hair quality to medium, alrdy did but now its happening again

[civic relic]

should i use the kharod or the dnipro? dnipro has more damage but less accuracy and range

[livid coral]

Dnipro has more pen? I thought the Kharod had more. 5.56 should have better pen than 5.45. Anyway having used both maxxed out for a considerable amount of time I recommend the Kharod considering how important shot placement is in this game. Just feels better

[civic relic]

im kinda broke so ima go with the 5.45 gun since the ammo is cheaper

[digital igloo]

Caliber and IRL weapon stats apparently have 0 relationship with how weapons behave in game

[livid coral]

That was my thought process but if you're doing frequent stash runs you can find a lot of M995. Also 5.56x45 caliber weapons are pretty common to see in the field in this game. Just loot every body you see and unload all the 5.56 guns. Likely looted ammo will only be M855, but still. I didn't buy ammo once my entire playthrough because I was such an ammo goblin

[somber gazelle]

guys im losing my mind over this sound glitch, every time i open my inv or a trader it makes the sound of transferring a weapon and taking off attachments at the same time every 2 seconds.. SOMEONE HELP IT HURTS!

[civic relic]

maybe il keep hoarding all that ammo until i get more late game and switch so i have lots of it

[livid coral]

In my case I would always pick up assault rifle ammo that was AP. Battle rifle/sniper calibers I would pick up regardless. E.g. 7.62x54R, .308, etc. Also any 9x39 I would take, both HP and AP rounds. You can get a hand cannon that takes 9x39, and that running HP absolutely destroys mutants. That's the kind of gun you would use on grizzly bears irl. Also expanding dart shotgun shells are very, very useful. Always carry a shotgun for mutants

I never pick up 7.62x39 because to my knowledge only one gun uses it and it kind of sucks imo

[fading hemlock]

so uh, my "first encounter" with stider happened to be at the same time of an emission, and now there are dead noontiders outside 💀

[livid coral]

Noontide skill issue

[fading hemlock]

like out of all people, shouldn't they know to run inside

[livid coral]

They thought they were still under the protection of the monolith lol

[scenic fox]

I know im late to this, but those bastards cost me my last two hours of gaming before 4 doubles in a row and I havent gone back since. Literally crashed every time I tried to fight them.

[fading hemlock]

yeah probably 😵
blame faust

[livid coral]

"it's okay guys the monolith protects you'll be fine"

• Faust moments before 18 noontiders are killed in an emission

[scenic fox]

Someone needs to make a mod for second phase of the Faust fight… maybe put him in a tank… call him… PanzerFaust?

[livid coral]

harharharhar. Fr though that fight was very underwhelming

[scenic fox]

Thank you for the forced laughs, they gave my soul the energy it needed to go on.

And yeaaaah… i never really enjoy any of the fights where Zone magic comes into play.

[livid coral]

Fighting a certain someone at the end of the game is absurdly easy if you bring a GAUSS rifle

They sure do give you some cool gear at the end of the game, too... that you can't use anywhere else

[scenic fox]

Yeah, this is a bit annoying. Especially since COP gave you the option to remain in the Zone and continue playing, a Point of no Return without the ability to continue playing with the new gear or any sort of NG+ system is disappointing. But im sure the devs will introduce it with time, or modders will. Have faith in the Zone

[frigid hill]

rushadicore_goblin has been warned

Reason: Bad word usage

[fading hemlock]

i got scammed into repairing my gun
"condition too low" ok i will repair it then.
"this technician cannot install this upgrade"

bruh baited me

[livid coral]

I like how they give you the final SAIGA 12 modification even though you can't install or use it at all. Also the EM-1. I was like wow I can't wait to obliterate some chimeras or pseudogiants with this... nope. Screw you.

[scenic fox]

Huh?
All techs can repair all gear, upgrading is a different thing.
Oh ok I see what you mean

[fading hemlock]

I know, but when selecting the mod i wanted, it said my weapon condition was too low, so im like ok then i'll repair it, and then once repaired it said this tech cant install the upgrade lol
baited me into repairing my gun >.<

when you have to edit your message cause 1 minute cooldown

[livid coral]

They should have an option to hold technicians at gunpoint for a discount on repairs

[scenic fox]

I got the EM1 at Army Warehouses, theres one in one of the guard towers near the old Freedom HQ building from SOC
IFNORE ME IM DUMB, thinking of a totally different weapon

[fading hemlock]

i wish technicians showed us our weapon health before repairing, cause right now we gotta check our inventory...

[livid coral]

I was abt to say no way there's an EM-1 there

[scenic fox]

Yeah im a little drunk ignore that 😂😂😂

[livid coral]

I'm assuming you meant the .308 rifle lol

[forest hare]

Good weapon that isnt too crazy on repair costs? Trying to replace the old 74

[livid coral]

AS VAL is decent

[scenic fox]

Thinking of the EMR :))

[harsh jungle]

I somehow managed to get Duty to like me lmao

[livid coral]

Same. Never interacted with them once and when I went to cement factory they were chill with me

[harsh jungle]

I killed some brood bandits for them ONCE and sold some things to them but other than that I’m not sure what else I did

[forest hare]

Appreciated. Was gonna grab clusterfuck and sofmod till i heard of the repair costs

[livid coral]

Also good pen. Good anti human/monolith weapon

[oak basalt]

Mmmm nothing like some good pen

[forest hare]

Wolf is bullying me

[spark badger]

Sofmod looks cool but unfortunately is heavily lacking in armour penetration

[pliant junco]

is there a way to finish on the edge mission?

[harsh jungle]

I’m gonna try to get freedom to like me too lmao

[civic relic]

i sold that thing for the kharod

[spark badger]

Big upgrade there

[livid coral]

Kharod is probably the best rifle in the game imo

[peak lichen]

i just happened to leave my mutant killer saiga at home for that mission since i wasn't expecting to fight a damn chimera i managed to lure it away and get it done anyway, all's well that ends well

[civic relic]

i gotta find a better scope for it with more zoom on it then it will be a very good rifle

[blissful plume]

when are they fixing the bruise merchant?

[quartz obsidian]

Good choice

[livid coral]

You can get an ACOG later on. Trader in Yaniv sells one

[civic relic]

dude i was just in yaniv and i forgot to even look for it when i was there. now im in red forest searching every area and trying to find lots of artifacts

[livid coral]

Swamps and surrounding area is a good way to make big money on artifacts

[civic relic]

i didnt even think of looking there.

[peak lichen]

might have to ditch my fully upgraded ar416 soon enough :( i feel like it's not doing enough anymore,, as soon as i get my hands on a kharod i'll probably make the switch

[livid coral]

If you don't want to memorize all the anomaly field locations you can use the stalker 2 map genie and turn off all the tags except for artifacts. Makes artifact hunting easy. @civic relic

[lone elm]

Do y'all get any mods or reshade for stalker 2

[peak lichen]

aren't the anomalies/artifacts supposed to change locations after emissions?? or is that just not a thing in the game rn

[livid coral]

Artifacts spawn within specific anomaly fields. In Anomaly artifacts would respawn after emissions but it seems like they respawn over time in S2. I could be wrong about that, though. Essentially wherever you find an artifact you can go back there and it will respawn

[peak lichen]

i see. i remember i went to the artifact place near rookie village directly after an emission and there was nothing there. i showed up again like 2 in game days later and it had an artifact once again, so it might go something like that

[glass compass]

If you are far enough in the story go to Prypiat, Trust me, you may be carving through enemies, but the money making potential is real.

[tranquil jewel]

What does the Weird Flower actually do?

[livid coral]

At that point in the game I didn't see the purpose. I had a diamond exo, meta artifacts and maxxed guns and armor. There wasn't really any reason to make more money atp

[harsh jungle]

I beat up some thugs for Barkeep in Rostok and got freedom to like me too

[glass compass]

Yeah, that is true. I was very decked out by the end of the game. Next playthrough I should amp the difficulty more.

[livid coral]

I just finished my first play through. I started on veteran because I'm coming from GAMMA so I wanted a challenge. Next run I'm modding it for more of a challenge and removing the HUD

[glass compass]

I did too actually, but I never modded before.

[deft lion]

The game kinda just throws free good shit at you constantly so itll probably happen again

[livid coral]

If only there was an actually decent flashlight

[glass compass]

If enemies didnt have laser beam accuracy.

[livid coral]

I'm excited to play the game with even more of a challenge but some things just feel like artificial difficulty. For example not being able to see the enemy at all if they're standing 10 feet away in a dark room, even though they can see you perfectly fine

[civic relic]

I dont think im even allowed there yet. Im right at the duga shootout but had to go grind side missions and such to get money for gear and guns. Wasnt able to do the duga shootout with just a ak 74 and spas 12 with barely upgraded armor lmao

[glass compass]

If you want some advice load up on the slugs for that spas with the range upgrade. That thing served me well.

[livid coral]

My advice is take your time with the game if it's your first playthrough. Explore lots, loot stashes, try out the guns, etc before doing more story stuff. There is a point of no return and once you beat the game your save is essentially done. You can't go back to the zone

[deft lion]

Mods

[livid coral]

Is there a flashlight mod? I haven't heard of one other than the one that adds shadows

[civic relic]

Yeah well ima do a 2nd playthru right after anyways but on master difficulty im only on medium difficulty rn

[livid coral]

Master difficulty?

[glass compass]

That is not entirely true.. and hear me out. You need to progress the main story to get the most out of exploring. Sure, you can go anywhere, but it will be a dead world with spread thin side quests and empty buildings that would have NPCs in them in the main story.

[peak lichen]

honestly feels lowkey wrong to play the game with the HUD, especially having gotten used to anomaly and whatnot

[livid coral]

You have to balance the main story and other content. If you rush the main story you'll miss a LOT of stuff. There's a lot of places the story doesn't take you to

[glass compass]

Deep underground caves? Ancient labs? Dangerous Bloodsucker nests?

[livid coral]

Right? First thing I did when I started playing was remove the crosshairs. I tried seeing if there was a "check ammo" bind lol. Would be cool

[harsh jungle]

soon I will get dads corps to like me too

[livid coral]

Yes you'll get to those places in the story but it's a fraction of what the zone has to offer.

[peak lichen]

yeah crosshairs are an absolute no go for me nowadays LOL in the older stalker games they feel fine, but imo it just messes with the stalker 2 type photorealism. i tried playing with the healthbar and compass on but they felt intrusive even with lower opacity and the health bar autohiding. it's weird idk, game just feels the best without any HUD at all

[tight hedge]

So i installed the "no shader compile" mod, had uninstalled the game, cleared out my whole mods folder of everything, but it wont compile shaders on startup, like the mod is still installed. But ive even reinstalled the game as a whole. Anyone know a fix to this

[livid coral]

Only thing I'm concerned about is no health hud. Can I check my health in inventory? I'd need some way to gauge how messed up I am

[civic relic]

Whatever its called now. It was master difficulty in the trilogy games which was hardest difficulty

[peak lichen]

honestly i just bandage up if i feel like i'm low hp 😭 even the bandages heal up a lot relatively, and there's a poopload of them throughout the game so i've never gone wrong with potentially wasting a few to make sure my health is full.

[obtuse veldt]

Probably Master difficulty will be released later on

[livid coral]

Wish crafting, reloading ammo, repairing was a thing

[peak lichen]

crafting and reloading ammo is a little bit too much faux-tarkov for my taste but repair kits would be wonderful. hard to larp a self-sufficient stalker when you have to constantly visit a technician bc all your gear wears out in 1 or 2 trips

[livid coral]

I miss stripping other people's guns for parts

[peak lichen]

honestly i'm reinstalling gamma rn so i'll have something to feed the insane stalker hyperfixation once i'm done with 2's story 😭

[livid coral]

Logistically speaking reloading your own rounds in the zone would save you a lot of money if it were IRL. Most guys I know who build their own guns also reload their own ammo

[obtuse veldt]

Id wish to see that feature on a future version for STALKER 2

Repair kits using parts from other guns, the better the condition, the better the repair % as i played on Lost Alpha (the more guns used the better the repair ratio)

[spark badger]

Gammas very fun but I'm glad that the depth of it's repair system / stripping weapons isn't in base stalker. Definitely gonna be added to 2 with mods though. Just I like the more OG experience being present in the main game. Repair kits would be cool for on the go repairs though.

[livid coral]

I liked needing certain tools to repair different levels of damage, only being able to replace certain parts with certain maintenance kits. It felt legit

[peak lichen]

holy hell gamma has bounced up to 100+ gb since last i played it ☠️

[livid coral]

Ofc. That's not what OG stalker is, just fantasizing lol. If you couldn't tell I came from GAMMA

[obtuse veldt]

regarding repairs and reliability, id wish STALKER 2 had more reliability upgrades

[spark badger]

I love that gamma exists because it really gives you two distinct experiences in the zone. You get the OG then the real in depth stuff and it's so open ended that you can keep exploring and sinking hours

[peak lichen]

once stalker 2 gets mod support and more fleshed out a-life and freeplay, it will literally be over for every single other game 👍 time spent away from stalker will be like dreams while stalker will be life itself LMAO

[obtuse veldt]

Like increased reliability at the cost of more weapon weight/less accuracy/less handling/more recoil.

[livid coral]

I just really like equipment depth. Makes the Zone feel more immersive because you need more than just a gun, food and ammo. Like you're a stalker with a bunch of different tools you need to use to stay afloat. Technical skills would be a huge advantage in the zone for any stalker

[rigid thicket]

There is a mod that adds repair kits in the game which is cool

[livid coral]

Stalker with Tarkov level weapon customization would be insane

[peak lichen]

the weapon customization kinda left a bit to be desired, like why can i not mount the 2x scope on an ar416 even though it's going on a picatinny rail??

[livid coral]

The loot pool would be so insanely bloated though lol @peak lichen also yeah, the actual visual rails don't line up with the optic mounts for some reason

2x optic is racist towards NATO/Western weapons I guess. Russian only.

[flint plover]

I'm annoyed the extended 5.45 mag is only available on the AK74 not the 74U too lol

[livid coral]

Oh that's lame

[peak lichen]

honestly i've been rocking the noob tier holosight on my ar416 all game LOL

[spark badger]

The GP37 and Kharod can take a 2x scope

[livid coral]

It's a pretty gucci sight by zone standards, though

[wooden escarp]

Loving the 4x ACOG sight on the Kahrod

[flint plover]

I use the 416 too the 50rd PMag in the train in Cordon is a must lol

[peak lichen]

oh yeah absolutely. way better than irons, though it will definitely be wrecked by 2x by the time i get around to getting a kharod or something to replace the AR

[livid coral]

Kharod can't take the 2x unless there's another variant idk about

[rigid thicket]

Same, perfect range for most enemies. But now that AI is spawning further might need a scoped gun too

[obtuse veldt]

There is the Spitfire for that case

[spark badger]

There's 2 2x scopes. The Kharod can use the tan coloured one. The other 2x scope fits the Dnipro

[livid coral]

Ohh right the ELCAN or whatever it's called in game

[spark badger]

Some letter abbreviation yeah like RNBW or something

[livid coral]

Honestly I forgot about that one because they didn't have it in black lmao

[spark badger]

Yeah it's ugly as hell ngl

[livid coral]

Wish there were weapon camos. But like actual weapon camos not like CoD camos lol

[flint plover]

Yeah I don't really care for prebuilt weapons, I like making my own. Should put Delta Force weapon customization in Stalker. That would give me a boner.

[obtuse veldt]

Thats not a prebuilt weapon... its a special one

[flint plover]

That's what I meant... It has attachments already on it. I wanna put it together myself and choose what scope to use

[spark badger]

Spitfire is unfortunately necessary if you want to use the 74u in the mid game. It has like double the armour penetration of the normal 74u.

[obtuse veldt]

Special weapons have different traits than regulars and no attachments make up to their stats

[livid coral]

Like the new delta force? I haven't checked that out, yet. Tarkov has insane weapon customization. If it had weapon customization down to the FCG, bolt and springs that would be crazy

[flint plover]

Wait the "special" weapons have different stats like THAT? That is ghey.

[spark badger]

I wish there was a Vintorez with extra armour penetration. It's my favourite gun but past a certain point it becomes insanely weak

[livid coral]

Like the soviet one?

[jade scarab]

has there been any new information regarding upgrading from base (re-buying deluxe/ultimate edition) and it keeping your preorder bonuses attached to steam?

[obtuse veldt]

There is the Grom-S15

[flint plover]

I think Delta Force weapon customization would work better because it's in depth, but easy enough that newcomers could come in and be fine with it. My brother who knows nothing about guns had one hell of a time trying Tarkov lmao

[peak lichen]

the custom vs vintar you get at rostok depot is what i'm using rn, works quite great even with normal ammo

[stray cove]

Loaded an insanely long ago save to try and avoid the second mono wave not spawning at zalissya and locking the quest. I am currently god mode knifing everyone and have extorted gaffer out of 200k to make up for my annoyance

[rigid thicket]

Check out the mod OXA, lets you use your optic of choice on a lot of guns

[spark badger]

The spitfire is the only one I know that has better damage / armour penetration. Some have other special qualities though. Like the drowned AK can fire at 0% durability, and the Grom S-15 is a grom that's chambered in 5.45 instead of 9x39

[flint plover]

I'll eventually use a mod like that. I'm just avoiding mods other than simple reticles, proper ammo caps, and real weapon names until the Updates slow down. I don't wanna break my save I'm on rn

[obtuse veldt]

That uses 5.45 than 9.39 a budget bullet friendly gun

[peak lichen]

the second zalissya monolith defense bugged out for me as well. gaffer straight up just didn't talk to me except about me killing hamster for hoarding, even though everyone was gathered at the town hall after the mono assault. i just gtfo'd but still got the baptism by fire achievement LOL

[livid coral]

I'm constantly stripping guns and building ARs, sometimes AK platforms so I couldn't imagine having to learn that through Tarkov lmao. I never really thought about how much Tarkov can teach you about gunsmithing

[flint plover]

For real dude lol. I just wish Tarkov wasn't as sweaty as it is. Plus I like using guns in games that are close to what I own IRL as possible. So I get way too attached to my equipment. In Tarkov and DayZ that is a very bad way to think XD

[livid coral]

I have a massive SKS bias. Idc how bad it is in a game, I'm using it

[digital igloo]

Like as in be green when you go to them?

[lofty nexus]

anyone else have the issue of having to redownload the game EVERY time there is an update this has happend twice now and im not sure why

[icy drum]

Nope

[flint plover]

Totally random but I'm suprised how cool the S2 discord is. People on GAMMA discord are cancer...

@livid coral yeah I always want an M4 with a quad rail and vertical grip like I have IRL. I am happy S2 has the HK416... but I am ready for modding tools so I can have my actual AR15 lol. And I'm ready for some real weapon balancing mods. I want to die fast, and kill fast.

[obtuse veldt]

Nope, everyone passes through downloads

[digital igloo]

The updates are huge.

They could look like re-downloads

[lofty nexus]

its 120 gb update?????

[livid coral]

Also the thing is Tarkov lets you build your IRL guns fr because they actually have the licensing.

[peak lichen]

idk only one update was monolithic (lol), that being 1.1, the other ones weren't that big? like 10-20gb thereabouts

[obtuse veldt]

last update was 8gb but it was patching 120gb onfiles (thats on disk speed based to)

[digital igloo]

The A life one (1.1 I think); sounds about right

[spark badger]

There was an update last week around 100gb

[flint plover]

The updates are not actually redownloading the whole game. Thank Unreal Engine 5 and Steam for the way the updates work. Nothing GSC can do about that. I learned quick that when uipdating Squad, it's actually faster just to delete the game re-download it.

[livid coral]

I used to have an AR15 with a short KAC handguard and a KAC foregrip. Not something I would use if shit hit the fan, personally but it is a sexy build. Also kac is expensive ash

[icy drum]

It was like 110gb

[lofty nexus]

its going fast as hell oh well

[obtuse veldt]

Its just patching, the downloading part is the annoying one, the rest, not so much if you got a SSD/NVME

[flint plover]

Hell yeah that's sexy. Kinda like I SHOULD by all means put a freefloat on my AR. But I just love how the quad rails look lol.

[astral portal]

hey lads have they fixed any of the stealth features?

[flint plover]

It's a bit janky but I've had plenty of success being stealthy. I just wish the suppressors weren't like John Wick and a dude can't hear you from 50ft away.....

[astral portal]

so Is that a yes they have fixed stealth mechanics or no?

[tranquil jewel]

Is there an autosave point after you exit X-5? My game is bugged and hasn't let me save in half an hour. I do not intend to go through all of that again if I restart the game.

Also nice to see you, Tomosaur, didn't know you were somewhere other than CRCR

[icy drum]

So is the AR416 actually supposed to be bad? I kept the same AK for like half the game. I got it from a random water tower. But is the AR416 actually decent. I have the special dmr one already

[flint plover]

I dunno I've never had an issue lol log in and try it out XD.

@tranquil jewel I'm everywhere Stalker related lol

[livid coral]

Yeah those handguards are just too heavy and heat up too quick imo. I'm not a big fan of super dripped out guns. Only accessory I consider absolutely necessary is a light, don't need it to be super modular. And a good optic ofc

[tranquil jewel]

Everyone says its terrible and worse than the OTs-02. They are smoking crack.

[spark badger]

The AR416 and AK fall off after a certain mission because enemies start wearing better armour after that point and they have low armour penetration

[obtuse veldt]

But i bet things around here gonna get salty on PvP when multiplayer is released

[peak lichen]

trying to use m855 on human enemies/stalkers after SIRCAA is borderline impossible tbh, thankfully i've hoarded a ton of armor piercing and it's not that hard to get

[livid coral]

AR416 should technically have better pen than the Kharod which is what I think is silly. I don't like the game progression of "this gun is better because you get it later" rather than "this gun has its pros and cons because of its caliber and materials". I get it's not supposed to be a "tactical" "realism" shooter but still

[spark badger]

Yeah it's an odd one, cos the kiparis is straight up stronger than the AK and AR416 in every aspect outside of range

[icy drum]

That also didn't make sense to me either when looking at the stats of guns

[weary hedge]

woohooo, ordered the last of the parts i need to finally upgrade my old ass mobo and cpu lol

[icy drum]

Or why skif's pistol is 2nd best pistol in the game if you go off damage. When 9x19 in gambit should be much better than 9x18 from a makarov

[livid coral]

At least the Rhino still slaps

[icy drum]

I just use skif's pistol cause I find 9x18 everywhere

[stray cove]

Update after some godmode testing during zalissya. It seems my specific issue is when the second wave comes and you defend the town, the quest doesn’t actually clear. The gaffer speech occurs and the radio message goes out about the town being saved, but the quest technically never advances past this. I’m not exactly sure how to get past this yet

[astral portal]

so have the fixed the stealth yes or no?

[peak lichen]

skif's pistol is wonderful because you don't have to worry about durability

[spark badger]

The unique bizon chambered in 9x18 might be the best smg because the ammo is so lightweight and cheap. For some reason the normal bizon is 9x19 also

[livid coral]

With 6 rounds of "go to hell" and a plethora of 9x39 meant for high capacity rifles it makes it the best handgun easily imo. I rarely use the AS VAL despite how much I love it so I end up with lots of spare 9x39

[icy drum]

I only used it to get the sledgehammer shotgun

[tranquil jewel]

Ive gone an hour and still, cannot save.

[livid coral]

Also a very good shotgun. Rhino is very good at dropping mutants quickly, especially if you use hollow points

[peak lichen]

sledgehammer shotgun was pretty damn good, the reload speed is kinda poopoo though. massively prefer the saiga, being mag-fed and all

[icy drum]

What's the best ammo type for bloodsuckers and controllers?

[livid coral]

Expansive, HP, etc

[tranquil jewel]

Saiga wipes absolutely everything. 10/10 best panic fire weapon in the entire series right now.

[icy drum]

Alr I kinda just have been shooting them till they die or avoiding them all together

[peak lichen]

ikr :D nothing feels better than drilling a poopload of buckshot into a bloodsucker's cranium in 2-3 seconds

[livid coral]

Can you get a drum mag pre X7? One thing I regret in my first playthrough is not switching to the saiga. Found a kitted out saiga with a drum mag in X7 but the game ended not 15 minutes after that so womp

[rigid thicket]

Yeah I just got it and definitely the best shotgun I've used so far out of like 4 other ones I've tried

[peak lichen]

nimble dropping his saiga for me was the best thing to happen to me in terms of mutant killing

[tranquil jewel]

I had a heart attack earlier, saw a laser show up on the wall right next to me. Spun 180, dumped 20+1 in the general direction of the doorway. Killed a Corundum suit monolith without really aiming, the stagger and damage does all the work for you if you just keep firing lmao

[icy drum]

Also I'm gonna guess the m701 is pretty good at dropping just about anything in armor late game?

[livid coral]

What's the earliest exo available btw. I mean outside of story just sprintable

[peak lichen]

weirdly enough bumrushing exos with a shotgun works magnificently, you love to see it

[spark badger]

Can't get the drum pre endgame, only the extended mag

[tranquil jewel]

There's a monolith exoskeleton on the roof of the old mobile lab in Yaniv. That is, if you can get to the roof by exploiting an anomaly and throwing yourself onto it, or perhaps using climbing mods, or cheat and use UETools_Ghost + XSetNoClipGSC true (speed value) and just fly up there. There's also one in the pripyat kindergarten but you'll have to fight for it.

[spark badger]

The earliest exo outside of story is a Cuirass exo that can be found in the cooling towers, but it's I think the only exo without a sprint upgrade. Every other exo is gated behind story or the Yaniv barrier. Occasionally after Duga, the freedom armourer will sell an exo though. For 100k

[peak lichen]

ngl the assault on the duga was such a weird mission. felt like a denied climax of sorts

[livid coral]

Is adding S2 to vortex supposed to take a while

[civic relic]

Wait u really think theyl release an even harder difficulty?

[obtuse veldt]

If they follow the originals, yeah as they used to have 4 degrees of difficulty, probably when they get the game its shit sorted

[ornate sable]

I just hope that difficulty isn't just "everything gets more bullet sponge-y"

[obtuse veldt]

But imho artifacts need a bit of reworking, they are kinda stale for the different types of artifacts out there

[deft lion]

Yes. Sorry was at the gym 🗿

[livid coral]

You're good. Hit them PRs brother

[rigid thicket]

Oh yeah but it just gets better, its one of the turning points in the story

[peak lichen]

i see 👁️ can't wait to get past running around for richter and ozersky LMAO

[lean geyser]

it was a weird one but ngl the effects that happen are so amazin

[stark fossil]

Holy sheet I just saw a guy pissing in the actual field loo
He was even hitting the mark not spilling over the board😄

[dense sandal]

So once you leave sircaa zalissa gets attacked how long do you got before everyone’s dead?

[ionic crater]

So is it just me or do the zombies actually feel undead? Because I know they're meant to be living flesh and blood humans with a fried brains and thus resistant to shock, but they'll get back up after 4 point blank 12 gauge rounds in a row. They just feel friggin undead.

[ebon blade]

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

[violet shoal]

so um
is monolithians spawning in extreme numbers in Pripyat an intended behavior?
I think I just got done killing maybe... 40 while trying to rendezvous with the spark squad. After clearing an apartment of about 30 of them. I started running out of ammo and had to start using the Monolith's guns

It's the most NPCs I've seen in a stalker game in any one area period. I have a fully upgraded Diamond exosuit, Saiga, and AS VAL along with hypercube and compass, and I still had to use 30+ medkits while holding a chokepoint
I cannot imagine this is on purpose

[tranquil jewel]

There is one especially fortified building there with about 50-100 of them, by the time you clear it the ones at the other end have probably respawned.
Unless youre there though, can't say.

[violet shoal]

Insane lmao
I turned my PC off in annoyance after I got another memory leak or something that keeps happening over and over that locks my FPS to 10 so I can't check which location
I thought ex-monolith were supposed to be rare lol

[livid coral]

And so laggy

[violet shoal]

What weirded me out was the helicopters flying in... despite the airspace still being contested? In the previous Stalker games the Military had hubris and had no idea what the threat they were facing was, but not here. It felt more like spectacle rather than an actual event happening.

[violet shoal]

The effects don't feel varied, although I do like new actual artifacts being introduced. I wish they would have the descriptions stating why they cause the effects they do, like the Mama's Beads saying like "It keeps a constant temperature of 73° in an area around it", but oh well.

[violet shoal]

They're entirely immune to grenades. I dropped 5 on a group of them as an experiment and none of them died. I had to put 3+ rounds of 9x18 into each of their skulls for them to stay down. Makes me miss the older zombie behavior where they'd start seizing if they took too much damage, made me imagine the C-C was doing some funky stuff to them to keep them going.

[ionic crater]

I mean after the 2nd or 3rd point blank 12 gauge round what used to be their heart would be spattered all over the wall or tree behind them and yet they keep getting up, so C-C up to something would make a lot of inherent sense. I've tried to test if they just got a singular save from otherwise fatal damage but they seemingly just keep getting up over and over which kinda implies something closer to a traditional undead zombie

[violet shoal]

Yeahh. Bit of a shame, considering how tanky they are even without the near immortality

[wooden escarp]

Magic cube artifact need it for side mission…

Went looking for it in Rostok accidentally found Compass artifact

Are the magic cube artifacts only randomly found in gravitational anomalies?

[gloomy citrus]

you mean Hypercube?

[ionic crater]

I believe so, I've found a few in gravity anomalies

[gloomy citrus]

Compass is from gravity anomaly yeah

Hypercube is from Thermal

[ionic crater]

There's a magic cube which is just strong physical protection and a hyper cube which is maximal bleeding+thermal but I think the latter might be found in thermal anomalies as you mentioned

[wooden escarp]

Side mission specifically just says “find a magic cube artifact”

[gloomy citrus]

oh ok

[rigid thicket]

Yep from the barkeep in Rostok, yet to find one, just been chilling in my journal for like 6 hours lol

[wooden escarp]

Hmm 🤔

It is an artifact it’s brown but the wiki just said the stats

[gloomy citrus]

Wheres the wiki?

[still carbon]

yo does anyone remember in clear sky the doctor cave
do they have that in stalker 2

[gloomy citrus]

oh nvm

its been updated

[gloomy citrus]

I do remember but I dont think that exist since the small cave is located right below train bridge

[still carbon]

yeah i went to where it is in stalker 2 and even crossing over the water by jumping on train carts all i found was a scanner with an artifact no cave :(

[gloomy citrus]

Thats nice, let me know where that is.

[still carbon]

i cant sent fotos here ermm

[gloomy citrus]

https://discord.com/channels/504587323577729024/524231625039413249 Ping me.

[wintry pumice]

[still carbon]

my game theory is that cuz of climate change in the zone mf cave collapsed with the rest of the road to there :(

[gloomy citrus]

While that make sense, the entire S2 map is made accurately as real life Chernobyl exclusion zone.

I've played a standalone mod once where the Swamps area is on the right side.

I think it was Dead City Epilogue.

[ornate sable]

Go for the heads, they're zombies after all (and also they take twice the headshot damage of normal humans). Headshots are easier too as they're very slow.

[ionic crater]

I always do except when experimenting with them, I just meant they're supposedly not traditional undead zombies but they still behave like it

[lean geyser]

i mean why waste the bullets?
u have knife

[wooden escarp]

Dang it so I tried farming a grav anomaly by chem plant only could pull spring and flytrap from there

Loaded in like 6 diff times kept flip flopping from flytrap and spring artifacts

Have to try a diff spot to get the magic cube

That grav anomaly mine field near chem plant at the gas station is terrible place to farm for it anyways

[cunning hazel]

the ai is so weird I was walking by the ward place in chemical and there was like 10 soldiers and each one somehow saw me from 100m away crouching and they were full autoing me hitting every single shot all 10 of them from behind a bush so I couldn't even see them and I died like 5 times 💀

[wide condor]

I just noticed that there isn't a POG-7 sight to add to the RPG-7.

I'm kinda bummed. I hope they include it in a future update of some sort.

[livid coral]

Why would this be in the game. Why would you expect this of all things to be in the game. This game could have ANYTHING else but you want a PGO-7? GET OUT! /j

[serene barn]

i think the idea with them being called zombies is that it's like they're undead as they don't seem to feel pain and their bodies no longer seem to shut down from multiple gun wounds and only headshots will do it. did see on a sheet or something that they have a 12x headshot multiplier but i refuse to believe that as that would mean you'd never need more than 1 headshot to kill one and i have had so many times where i did need more than 1

[serene barn]

right? lol, like i used my RPG like in 1 fight only, against the Collared Psuedogiant and then put that thing back in my stash.

[ionic crater]

That's the idea, but again by the 4th 12 gauge round their heart AND lungs would be on the wall behind them. Lazy coding perhaps or maybe the noosphere is up to some stuff with em, I dunno

[serene barn]

i mean idk. like there's a whole lot of things that don't make sense like why can a guy not take like 3 buckshots to the tiddies but a controller that's basically a former human, can

like why do mutants have so much more health despite having been humans before?

[ionic crater]

True lmao, I'd rather mutants always 1 or 2 shot me over the tankiness tbh. Because either they're bullet proof and 500 rounds ain't killing them, or first couple rounds to the face is going to put them down. Still I guess I figured something felt deliberate about zombie's immortality to body shots

[wooden escarp]

Yeah I found that out the hard way recently wasted 5 frags on a hoard of them in a room only for them to pop back up and scare the crap out of me

[serene barn]

Psuedogiants has like... 4k health. but seemingly no armor.

Chimera has 2500 and no armor.

[ornate sable]

Regular humans have a 6x headshot modifier, zombies have as you said 12x but twice the health of a human. So anything that will 1-tap a human to the head will do the same to a zombie. Some zombies wear armor though, and like some humans they'll need more than 1 to the head from some guns.

[deft lion]

Are you actually an 0352 or discord larping?

[serene barn]

so the HP ( Hollow Point ) ammos actually have a use case for such mutants. almost all the mutants don't have armor, only ones i think that do is the Polter, Burer and Bloodsucker. at least according to a sheet i have

AP ammo in general is good as it gives you mostly 50% more pentration and you only lose 2% damage.

HP gives you 19% damage but cuts your penetration by 70%
and the Flat type of ammo just makes your round not drop as much. idk why the guy that made that sheet calls them subsonic as they're clearly not lol.

[rough crater]

how much more wear and tear tho

[elfin phoenix]

Stalker with now 243,8 h playing time now - just want to share my feedback on the overall performance of the game since the last patch (1.1.3)... No crashes at all any more but the generation of frames is a lot more messy - while until the last patch the frames where very smooth when moving the view it's now messy as hell - to a point where I would not play it if it was a multiplayer shooter. I personally would prefer the crashing game over the messy frame gernerating one! As someone that played all STALKER games we have been used to crashes with all the mods we used 😉
But anyway I LOVE the game! Only thing I would like to have is the options to name your own savefile and the option to reenter the zone after completing the game. Do we really have to wait for a mod enabling all of that?
Great work and great game GSC!

[ornate sable]

244h play time?!?!? Do you just chug energy drinks instead of sleeping - in real life??

[wooden escarp]

I was an 0352 for 1/7 Marines Weapons Company 29 Palms from 2006-2010

Deployed to Eastern Al Anbar Iraq during OIF/OEF in 2007 and again in 2009

But thanks for asking

[elfin phoenix]

I have the time and possibility - and I have been waiting for that game for soooo long - yes I am a STALKER addict 🤣

[deft lion]

Twentynine Palms my beloved

[wooden escarp]

Hardly

Lake Bandini still exists in my nostrils

[deft lion]

Youll be happy to know that 7th Reg is still one of the best inf Regiments in the Corps. Or atleast it was when i got out 2 and a half years ago. 11B in the Army now cause im a softie

[serene barn]

i didn't finish my first playthrough until i had 7 days+ of playtime on that save.

[wooden escarp]

Semper 🫡

My buddy got out and went reservist in the army too he’s about to retire in 2026

[deft lion]

Old men 👴

[wooden escarp]

I couldn’t convince myself to commit 1 weekend a month to drill

When did you serve for the Corps?

[deft lion]

2018 - 2022. Peak covid time but as a pog. Comm

[wooden escarp]

Covid in the Corps must’ve been rough god bless

Thanks for your service Teufel Hunden

[deft lion]

Semper YUT

[wooden escarp]

Did you go to MCRD? I was platoon 1042 I think they cycle the platoon numbers tho I’m not entirely sure

Was curious what the numbers got up to

[digital igloo]

I'd honestly rather face bloodsucker pairs than rat swarms

[wooden escarp]

Facts

[main cedar]

dude I downloaded the game yesterday and I been up for 5 hours verifying 9gbs what is going on here?

[digital igloo]

Steam shenanigans.

That said, it shouldn't take that long.

HDD?

[wooden escarp]

PC or Xbox?

[main cedar]

pc

[digital igloo]

You may want to restart your PC

[livid coral]

Stalker isn't real. This is all an illusion. Wake up.

[wooden escarp]

Lame

I’ve noticed my Xbox X has crashed a significant amount of times more ever since 1.1.3 update

Mostly happening in Rostok where the FPS drops significantly. Almost always when accessing my stash for too long.

Happened like 3 times earlier but never before the update

[livid coral]

Solution. Don't use an xbox 👍 thank me later kiddo

[marble onyx]

same, i was cleaning my stash, crashed like 5-8 times in about n hour ... (PC tho)

[livid coral]

I'm just lucky ig. My game has crashed once. One time. Total.

[violet shoal]

My game's never ctd but I've had to manually shut it down after a memory leak or a soft lock, both of which happen constantly.
I think the stability is there but the rest of the engine is struggling

[marble onyx]

i mean that 😄 i had to crash it 😄 once it crashed whole rig for some reason, and started eating 26GB of memory for some reason

[violet shoal]

Yeah I have no idea why it decides to freak out randomly. Sometimes it seems like it's constantly refreshing models because hair and stuff just disappears and reappears over and over while the physics engine spazes and doesn't fix unless I do a hard restart
this happens every half hour or so which makes it a chore

Where suddenly I hear the fans on my gpu kick into overdrive and I have to shut it down xD

[main cedar]

hope that gets resolved. My download is just stuck for ages finalizing stuff. Happened last patch as well and I had reinstall the whole game

[dim salmon]

GOG supremacy, never had an issue

[fierce sequoia]

Lmao now I can't even initiate Seek and you shall find quest

[wooden escarp]

Mmm no

PC seemingly has had more issues than Xbox X especially with all the shader cache and loading stuff

Plus I don’t have the time to sit down at a PC to play the game

I have the luxury of playing on the go as well with the Backbone

So I can play Stalker 2 anywhere including downtime at work

With my kiddos I almost exclusively play on the Backbone as I don’t have the ability to enjoy my big screen TV nowadays

[alpine tangle]

Is it normal that I can't play the game since 3 patches? I always get a Unreal Process Crash...

[elfin phoenix]

Have you installed any mods? If so then uninstall the mods and retry

[fierce sequoia]

Has anyone else had problems with "Seek and you shall find" quest?
Since the last update it can't commence at all after "A needle in a haystack"
On my first run it initiated right away, got a message to check my personal stash. Now I'm all the way up at Slag Heap and still nothing...

[alpine tangle]

Yes I have, I'll try it without

[lunar verge]

have the best performance mods changed or still the top rated?

[woven gust]

any news about co op?

[raw juniper]

MERRY CHRISTMAS EVERYONE

[hoary crest]

It tommora innit?

[proven hollow]

there won't be any

[main cedar]

Fresh install, done downloading, trying to play, another 9gb download that took 3 hours, trying to play again, stuck at recompiling shader, restarted the game, stuck at recompiling shader, restarted my pc, started the game, recompiling shader. Can someone explain me what is going on with this game?

[ebon blade]

Apparently, Ward can run right through the Bulba unaffected.

[sharp charm]

is it normal that at some point when i was running to Bar, my regenerator just removed itself?

[weary hedge]

no, its a quest item

[weary hedge]

you need it before Pripyat

[hoary crest]

Speaking of quest items... Is Bubba's PDA still inventory locked? 😂

[sharp charm]

well yeah i still progressed without it, but it kinda sucks. i had it in my inventory when i was on wad's ending, ut when i rolled back to go with other choice, it randomly disappeared while i was running, got me a bit confusedlol

[weary hedge]

it also half depends what youre doing, with ward it stays in your inventory, if youre doing another groups run it'll just up and disappear as there wouldnt be dialogue for it - sounds like for you the game just removed it so i think youll be fine

go back a few more saves, if you have them

[sharp charm]

nah if thats the case then its all good, wasnt sure if that was a bug or it was normal, i didnt want ward's ending so all g

[weary hedge]

im hype for wards ending lol im liking the dialogue now that ive gotten to pripyat

it still sways me, the different influences within the game

like, i did a ward playthrough, ambushed spark with ward, eventually strelok turned me away from Ward basically saying they were being used by monolith, plus c-consciousness itself makes you question everything

got to the point where I was escaping the lab, and run into Ward - new dialogue as I was previously on a Ward run managed to sway me against Strelok as just being another agent of c-consciousness

[wooden escarp]

Good god I got lost

😞

I was just in the crybaby hate this game channel and didn’t even realize it 😆

I have come back to the light

I was like why is there someone in here just constantly hating on this ga…. Ahhhhh that’s why

[marble onyx]

U can start it manually via console if u get mod

[elfin phoenix]

does anybody know if there is a website or a mod that can show me by uploading my savegame which blueprints I already have and which ones are missing? atm I am working through all maps which means killing a zillion of enemies for mostly nothing bcs I have already most of the blueprints...

[hoary crest]

Average non-spoiler chat moment 😄

[weary hedge]

Damn - Ward just had me kill Richter AND Dalin - and if I'm not wrong, Dalin had me ambushed by Monolith with Richter?

If that ain't proof they are all agents of c-consciousness, I don't know what is.

All in with the colonel.

[hoary crest]

Good man, choosing the correct path 🙏

[grand tide]

So zalissya still cant be entered After the Patch ? The door is still closed for me

[marble onyx]

Hey guys, while i was exploring, i killed 3 mutants with collars, is that a problem? Someone said that theres a bug around those quests if u get them in advance

[stark crescent]

lets do. a little experiment. ive just encountered the bug with the springboard. i get teleported out of map bounds. the game is technically locked up. i cant get into the main menu. but. the game is still responding. task manager says so. i can also access the command console ingame. so the game is still working. but it says im -1351233351 meters away from the objective. so, im out of the gaming environment.

with the console still working, im going to try a transport command. maybe it works.

test unsuccessful. the transport command doesnt work. its weird. the game still shows a day and night cycle. i can see my screen become darker as it becomes night lol

even weirder, i restarted the game. it autosaved while i was out of bounds.

[clear wigeon]

Maybe that’s the shining zone. No mutants, no suffering, just pure existence and day night cycles

[grand tide]

Man can the Devs pls start playing Their own Game when they debug it ffs. Why I cant still proceed the zalyissa Defense Mission

[stark crescent]

ohh, i was able to record the bug

linked it at #📸┃screens_and_videos

[grand tide]

Guess i have to Wait Till february in Order to Play Game fully

[stark crescent]

so, springboards are now also bugged, i guess. another reason added to avoid them lol

[urban leaf]

I wish you a Merry Christmas, especially happiness and health, so that you have everything you can think of, good hunting, stalkers

[wispy hare]

I got this bug where I got raido'd by a Doctorant Zhytnychenko in maze, west of Slag Heap, had to fight a poltergeist and he didnt spawn. Anyone knows any fixes?

[stark crescent]

i just caught a "friendly" monolith lol. i tried talking to him. he looked me dead in the eye and said "its very suspicious". and then he jabbed me with his buttstock lol

[wintry pumice]

Not in the Shining Zone

[young shale]

Is a new game required for A-Life to work properly?

[dire tide]

Jeez. Say what you guys want about the Ward but Korshunov is cool as hell.

[dire tide]

Seems to work just fine for me on an old save, unless I'm missing some feature that didn't activate that I don't know about.

[maiden grotto]

What channel is that?

[wintry pumice]

yeah I too got the same bug. I killed the poltergeist but couldn't find him

[wintry pumice]

do we ever meet The Ninth again?

[crystal rapids]

One bug that would be great to see fixed is the way the game doesn't remember axis inversion choices when a controller is used.

[signal eagle]

👋F the ward, never liked them.

[wispy hare]

Heard the Reward is just 900 cupons so doubt we'll be missing anything

[wintry pumice]

[dire tide]

You can hate them but I will stand by my point that Korshunov is a great dude. Cares about his soldiers, hates being f'd over by scientists and genuinely believes in the cause of getting rid of the Zone for the safety of humanity

[silk vapor]

If you let him live when you see him first, yes

[signal eagle]

The character is writen well imo ye cant argue there but still . .
F the ward 🤣

[hoary crest]

Not saying its the case here, but a number of people seem to see a percieved authority and instantly think "oppressive", one guy even said they're nazi's and I was just like "lol, no"

[signal eagle]

Im on a ward playthrough now . . . Then noontide

[dire tide]

Good god... GSC finally adds NPCs strolling around the zone.
I climb up a tower, see bandits walking right beside the tower so I try to snipe them... invisible wall...
Thanks GSC

[wintry pumice]

yeah then he can join Duty or was he part of it?

[dire tide]

I guess in his eyes Duty might not be a good choice because

1. Funding
2. They're still Stalkers and worse, they're former military that went AWOL after being left to die in the Zone - at least according to a Duty guy you meet at the Cage, south of the Cement Factory

[wintry pumice]

Invisible wall or were you too far for the bullet to reach them?

[cunning crystal]

[dire tide]

Literal invisible wall. The guys were maybe 20-30m away, the bullet traveled for half that distance and hit an invisible wall. I've seen literal dust cloud being created mid-air. They didn't even hear me shoot.

[wintry pumice]

[signal eagle]

Glass anomoly?

[dire tide]

Nope, not that either. I'd have noticed it through the scope at that range (it'd have to be maybe 10m away from me)

[signal eagle]

Only other possibility I can think of is psi anomoly (not sure what they are called) but they only slow the bullets not stop them 🤷

[dire tide]

Also nope. Those let you see the tracer fly in slow motion.
Having looked through Steam replay though I've got a theory.
Tree hitbox. It's literally too big compared to the actual model.

Keep in mind I was firing from a tower like I said

[clear wigeon]

That scene in Chemical Factory hospital was also strong af. Did second Ward play through after 1.1 just for that scene.

get the f@@k out to everyone except for Skif who honestly earns a stand down soldier when Korshunov being a colonel is acting broken

[dire tide]

I literally just got past it and that's why I wrote what I wrote.

[clear wigeon]

It’s a great scene IMHO and for some reason, Strelok or Scar don’t get to be portrayed that vulnerably. Kaimanov kinda got that by being incredibly reminiscent about his past actions and desire to do better. It doesn’t matter anyway because Kaimanov isn’t Kaimanov waaaaaat

[dire tide]

Korshunov and Richter are two guys I like.
Strelok is.... ehhh.... I guess...
||Not-||||Scar|| I damn hate for what he's become.
And at least Deggy's back and cool as fk

[clear wigeon]

I thought it was funny how in Streloks ending, someone tells you degtyarev went back to securing Pripyat after the whole Zone went to shit with emissions after The Road To The Foundation. You’d expect him to jump on Skif and Strelok’s bandwagon of finishing the zones fate but instead he is like

pripyat! I must secure Pripyat! like dog whole zone is about to spread or disappear

[heady wind]

I am honestly more intimidated by Strelok than Korshunov. Ukrainian VA for Strelok is great

[dire tide]

Yeah, well apart from that one thing...

[dire tide]

Strelok is intimidating in an "experienced Stalker with god knows what knowledge and artifacts to support his crazy idea" kinda way vs Korshunov's more regular "gritty veteran" kinda way. So I can see that. All I'm saying is that Korshunov's a great character, that's all.

[unreal reef]

Merry Christmas Stalkers

[dire tide]

May you find some good artifacts under the Christmas Tree anomaly brat

[clear wigeon]

[heady wind]

I like Korshunov and Strelok as characters. I hate Richter and Faust tho. Any character that thinks Zone should be free or whatever is mental imo

[dire tide]

Mental maybe but that doesn't exclude them from being well written and interesting characters.
Though Richter just popping up wherever you need him is kinda ass

[heady wind]

Yeah, he pops up everywhere lol

[dire tide]

I literally was asked to talk to him after one quest. No quest marker, he just appears like 20m away. I talk to him and he just despawns right in front of my eyes.
Those anomalies my man... They're getting crazy

[clear wigeon]

I did all 4 endings and I still don’t get Richters motives. Every time you encounter him he’s either drinking or listening to music or vibing. If you don’t side with Strelok - he’ll be seen fighting for monolith. If you do - he’ll partially help you during assault on red fortress. The only ending where he reacts positively all the way through is Kaimanov’s ending which is arguably the most careless choice from all 4. Just let the zone choose for itself

[heady wind]

? He never fights for Monolith

[clear wigeon]

I thought in Ward ending you had to kill Richter before teleporting to generators and the enemies surrounding him were kitted in monolith armor. Even before you kill Strelok and Scar

[heady wind]

In Ward's ending he come there with Spark members/Scar

If you play Spark path, you'll see where he comes from

[clear wigeon]

Yeah I’m a dum dum. It was spark,
Not monolith. Still feels unclear about his goals seeing him join either Strelok or spark or Skif depending on the ending. Everyone else tells you clearly what they expect for you except for Richter who will still complain to you about some of your decisions

[dire tide]

His goal seems to just keep the Zone intact? As in just oppose anyone wanting to destroy it. Beyond that he's just swayed by Skif's own views? That's my guess.

[heady wind]

Just as indecisive as Skif himself, lol

[clear wigeon]

Why does he not like when Skif decides to eliminate Kaimanov when choosing streloks ending then? He doesn’t seem to trust streloks actions but they both want the same thing

[dire tide]

Because Doctor is supposed to be this good guy helping others?
I mean, does he go against you if you side with Strelok? I know he sides with you if you oppose both Scar and Strelok so...

[clear wigeon]

He is noticeably more annoyed if you side with Strelok instead of Kaimanov and expresses his opinion of Strelok being sus if you side with Kaimanov. I don’t think he cared about the doctor being a good guy as much as having a reason to think Strelok was sus. Either way, the entire game richter is indecisive as shit but that all makes sense when you find him hammered in his tower base near Yaniv

[heady wind]

Strelok is sus. He talk about freeing Zone, but then isolates it all to himself

[dire tide]

Well maybe, but he doesn't fight you if I understand correctly which means he must at least trust Skif if he doesn't trust Strelok

[heady wind]

In Strelok's ending the Zone is intact, so I guess Richter is fine with it

[silk vapor]

He does mention at that point that he has self-loathing issues (and tbh you can see it in the dialogue trees, he's very much not confident in himself). To me it feels like he's holding onto the zone, and in the Doctor's ending he's actually less of the opinion that she has her own will and such given what he says to Skif (that he trusts him with what he'll do) (which is a lot considering how Richter was for most of the game). like he has an interesting character arc imo

[heady wind]

The only ending Richter opposes you is in Ward's, where you want to destroy the Zone completely

I guess the guy just doesn't have where to return anymore if Zone is gone, so he defends his home basically

[silk vapor]

Yeah, his backstory literally states that he escaped a foster house and headed directly for the Zone. definitely felt like some sort of safe haven/second chance for him I think

[clear wigeon]

Why do you think it matters a lot that he trusts Skif? I felt like since he’s such an easy going guy and and alcoholic - he doesn’t care who to trust because he doesn’t have strong goals or attitudes compared to other characters

[heady wind]

In his eyes Skif is unbiased

[dire tide]

That's why we need a compendium lol. I missed that part about him

[silk vapor]

working with/talking to skif build his confidence back it seems to me (Richter is the only character Skif takes that much time trying to "comfort"), which also shows when he does guide him multiple times after yaniv. He says it wouldn't have happened if Skif didn't talk him through it sort of. and he makes his existence less all about the Zone as he gains that confidence back, that's how I understood it anyway!

[south hull]

The questId is **EmissionQuest **, but I have the same annoying bug and I have tried all the console command with no luck.
xStart , xEnd , xFinish will create and finish a new **EmissionQuest **, and the bugged marker will persist on the map.
If someone has any hint or suggestion pls le me know

[silk vapor]

Can't post the link but it's on the official stalker 2 website, it was a blog post. "Real family and home are not granted. Richter knows this very well. Just after escaping the foster house, he rushed straight into the Zone, becoming one of the youngest stalkers. Roaming and exploring all over the “safe” parts for years, he earned a place here as a guide and became a guy who is welcome in most bars and camps. Alas, be it an overexaggerated optimism or just levity, one of the runs ended with only Richter surviving to reach the destination. That was the end of his overconfident “feeling the Zone” days, as well as the guiding career — but not the end of his true love for the Zone that keeps him rolling even now. "
"When his homeland teetered on the edge of losing its freedom, Richter pretty rapidly found himself among close-minded stalkers who are not so good with Varta conditions."
(but I agree I would love both an encyclopedia and/or a compendium)

[clear wigeon]

In a way, Skif becomes more important to Richter than the zone itself that Richter is so fond of. At least in 2/4 endings

[dire tide]

Exactly why the game needs a compendium like I said.
Library of mutants, anomalies, NPCs we find, factions, artifacts and maybe even equipment to compare.

[silk vapor]

yeah that's how I felt it was playing out. It's interesting because it makes Richter evolve as a character too. He's definitely less miserable at the end. Skif had the right attitude being a neutral party + talking him through his doubts I think

[clear wigeon]

He could have totally helped during the red fortress assault instead of staying behind tho :((:(:(:(

[waxen kernel]

where do I submit bugs?

[dire tide]

Damn I knew the Zone is rought but wow...
Helped a guy kill some Fleshes that dug up his friend in the graveyard in Burnt Forest. Left for the Perun's Hill, came back 5 minutes later only to see him convulse and get turned into a zombie by a Controller that just stumbled by from the forest

[heady wind]

That's the 100% indicator for his return expansion/next games. Cause he is not a good combatant, he dies in both Ward and Spark paths where he decides to go combat

[clear wigeon]

Yo Richter, do you know the way to CNPP/Limansk

yes but I won’t take you there. I took a guy there once and he stepped into a bubble and I have nightmares ever since

[heady wind]

He said he never was at CNPP and there is nothing to do there. Ward completely robbed that place of anything valuable

[silk vapor]

I hope that if the canon ending is ||the Doctor's, one of the DLCs is just him getting Skif out of that pod like "Hey buddy I wanna go to CNPP / Limansk but I'm scared lol you're the only mf I trust come with me"||

[clear wigeon]

I bet by the time they release the CNPP expansion, richter will find out how to get there by accident and share that with Skif “oh yeah I just went to CNPP the other day, there’s nothing there man

[heady wind]

The caveat is that once your consciousness is merged there is no way back. I think whatever person goes inside pod he is irrecoverably gone

[silk vapor]

Yeah I think so too 😔 I honestly loved Skif I do hope we play as him or see him again

[clear wigeon]

Skif face reveal when. Hopefully they won’t turn this into John-117 kind of thing

[unreal reef]

||I think he dies during the Stelok assault||

[silk vapor]

as an artist I like when characters remain masked. gives us more creative freedom lol, while still having a base in Skif's case :D

[dire tide]

BTW what I find funny is that while both Iron Forest and CNPP are technically regions on the map, they're not modeled particularily well.
Compare that to the Death Valley/Generators which are very detailed down to containing loot in them and the northwestern part of Pripyat which has a huge, gaping hole in the ground that you can walk around (if you get there with Noclip ofc).
Limansk area is even less detailed than the CNPP btw.

[clear wigeon]

This is good and not lore-breaking indeed. Ward or Spark ending don’t really allow for depending on external factor to bring Skif back into plot unless the canon is Streloks ending and Skif is just doing shit around the zone when he finds a reason to go to CNPP/Limansk

[dire tide]

So doing those areas in a DLC would be far easier than making Limansk though I want to see Limansk in S2 so badly...

[heady wind]

CNPP area is there just for looks from on top of Slag Heap 😀

[unreal reef]

We technically saw Chief's face during Halo 4's legendary ending, as well as comics from his early years

[dire tide]

Yeah and like I said, generators and the death valley leading to them is fully modeled and playable. All it needs is a route to be unlocked (there's a doorway that's blocked) to reach it and it's playable. There's some interactive stuff there including a ton of scientist bunkers that have... stuff in them that I don't quite get.

[heady wind]

Because Death Valley is a part of Spark and Wards ending. You run through those bunkers

[dire tide]

Oh
I thought...
Nevermind then, that's good to know.

I genuinely thought it's a leftover from the old story from before Russian invasion in 2022.

[heady wind]

Location is modelled good, but it's linear and has no PoI, you run fast through it covering from multiple emissions, until you reach Generators themselves

Bunkers are Ward's path, trains/villages are Spark's

[halcyon karma]

!wolfcheer2025

[frigid hill]

🚫 spartan_mozi, that command is disabled in this channel.

[halcyon karma]

Nvm, it doesn't work the same as before anymore

[visual anchor]

Imagine a snow update

[haughty sapphire]

please do a winter mod GSC :((

[hazy pond]

Is the 2025 video hinting at snow in DLC?

[raw juniper]

There sno more updates

[lilac sandal]

Hey uh, "In the Search of a Miracle" mission is stuck for me, seems like I need to talk to Dalin after the firefight, but it won't trigger.

[turbid solstice]

There will be snow in zone?????? that could be sick...

[visual anchor]

Bruh, nice pun lol

[paper pine]

Texan is such a fun gun. Need to get me one IRL

[dull horizon]

I hope snow will be in stalker 2

[edgy wren]

Nuclear winter..

[maiden bough]

!wolfcheer2025

[frigid hill]

🚫 wyvern07, that command is disabled in this channel.

[halcyon lantern]

This Xmas post just a celebration post or have they done a Xmas update?

[hoary crest]

Hol' up, did they winter-ise the zone? Because if that sort of dynamic weather is coming, thats fckin HYPE

[idle topaz]

In stalker 2 should I go slow on my first run and go through side quests or go through the main story

What do yall think is the best way to play stalker 2?

[weary hedge]

Just go with the flow, if the story interests you in the moment, keep going. If it doesn't, do some side quests, and come back

[wet solstice]

FREE GIFT !!!!🎁 steamcommunity.com/gift/activation/id=14763

[idle topaz]

Mmh ain’t clicking that

[dry wyvern]

I aint clickin allat

[sturdy verge]

dont click 😄

[edgy wren]

Scammer stalker.

[spark badger]

Snow would look incredible in the zone. I'd love if it was added to the weather system in a future update

[sturdy verge]

i remember seeing snow in one of the teasers 😄

[spark badger]

Ohhh interesting, I avoided most trailers because I wanted to go in blind

[sturdy verge]

Same and even so there is still things I just seen after my 2nd play through 😄

[cold swan]

hello everyone, i'm currently on my second playthrough and am siding with the ward. ||i've received my badge from korshunov ||and have made my way to wild island, instead of continuing the main story i went to zaton and am currently outside of base icarus and i'm curious of this location is locked behind story progression or if my game is bugged, i'm not receiving a prompt to show them my badge and be let in

[sturdy verge]

Finally collected all the artifacts for the achievement! My fav was the mist as it reminded me of the fog movie 😂

[glass dove]

Didnt they oatch lodochkas door not opening?

[marble onyx]

how the hell u avoid those boom anomalies that follows you ? wasted like 40 meds on it

[sturdy verge]

2nd play through here too, I'm where you are at but instead I waited and went to do the side story for quiet plus ran my ass over to get that weird bottle artifact lmao sounds like it's story progression. Once I hop on I'll head over!

[spark badger]

Story progression, same with the chemical plant.

[cold swan]

thanks for the swift responses!

[sturdy verge]

I really hope that unto the breach won't be bugged again because I had to start over as I was soft locked in that building

[storm thicket]

!wolfcheer2025

[frigid hill]

🚫 johnlstewart, that command is disabled in this channel.

[maiden robin]

Should I side with ward or noontide. I'm considering ward but am unsure

[boreal pendant]

is there actually any snow

[sturdy verge]

who knows, shall see where it goes with the dlcs and two story expan later on

[boreal pendant]

ward gives a gameplay advatange, spark/noontide is more fun missions imo

[dense sandal]

yuea i give up trying to get the bubla artifact im just wasting my time

[maiden robin]

I'll probably hard save before the decision and do a ward playthrough then come back for a spark playthrough

[boreal pendant]

i more mean by palace of culture

[sturdy verge]

you can do it! it took me 10 tries.... lolol had to find some yt videos for best place to start off in haha.

[dense sandal]

nope its not worth wasting my time could be getting better loot

ill wait till mods come out n ill get it

[sturdy verge]

i only did it so i can get that steam artifact achievement! my fav was the mist tho 😄 the tornado one (weird bolt i think) was the one that took me quite awhile to get lol probably because i tried it at 4am when i was half awake but i really wanted that bolt 😄

[boreal pendant]

should i go for 60% slowing spread decrease, or 20% flatness (dnipro)

[spark badger]

If you find the bullet drop off is too much go for flatness, if you find the recoil is too much go for the spread decrease (at least I think that's what flatness is )

[sturdy verge]

have no idea tbh

[torn zinc]

are there only 3 Mutant Deer in the game?

[strange otter]

Merry Christmas everyone! God Bless!

[sturdy verge]

Merry Christmas all as well!

[boreal pendant]

ruby or diamond exo :3

[round light]

Was it a good patch last night?

[little laurel]

While it's the Eve where I'm at, I would like to wish everyone else on the other side of the pond, a very Merry Christmas.

[hybrid plume]

its bizzare how many times the game stuck on compiling shader

its 1 out of 3 for me, even after all the recent patches that targeted this issue.... how hard can it be to do a shader compiler.... the game really could have used a release date in Feb maybe 2025.

[hybrid plume]

seems it was supposed to put an end to the issue with compiling shader, yet the first thing i encounter after the patch.... is i got stuck on shader compiling

[round light]

I'm just starting the gaem, would it be better to wait a month or so until all the bugs get worked out?

[sullen pumice]

any cheat so i can test all weapons asap?

[hybrid plume]

I would say Feb might be a good time to start if you already waited so long

[spark badger]

After the recent patch, if my game gets stuck on shaders and I restart, I get a message say that it recognizes that shaders froze and skips it instead, putting me on the main menu

[hybrid plume]

skipping it also kinda stupid since the game will stutter on every new effect, so its annoying in both cases.

[cold swan]

just chiming in on the shaders issue, after the most recent patch i get sent straight to the main menu now, im sorry you're experiencing problems still

[spark badger]

I've not experienced the issue all that much myself, but I may be lucky

[cold swan]

before the patch i was getting stuck on the error loading shaders or my game would randomly freeze then crash and my "resolve" was to redownload the whole game and after about 3 or 4 crashes it would just load like normal, it ended up working after that then they patched it a couple of times and i haven't had an issue since

[boreal pendant]

can't decide, seems like one is better for carrying than the other

[spark badger]

Which one is the one you find || on top of the spark lab? ||. I used that in my first playthrough till the end of the game

[boreal pendant]

diamond

[weary hedge]

Merry Christmas guys! Officially the 25th here 🙂 Hope you all have a great day, when it comes!

[hybrid plume]

fun fact before patch 1.1 i never had isseu with shader compiling, while most people had less after the recent 3 patches xD

[cold swan]

i'm currently using diamond, but the only other one i've only found was a cuirass one which didn't have a sprint mod

[spark badger]

I remember getting really excited when I found the Cuirass then realizing I think it's the only exo without the sprint mod

[tepid osprey]

Hampy Christmas Ward!

[glass dove]

Didn’t they patch lodochkas door not opening?

[strong summit]

Can we skip the video and voice scenes again or is it still broken?

[cold swan]

it was working for me earlier when i needed to speak to him, although during my first playthrough sometimes i would have to go back into the storage area you first talked to ||strider|| and disabled the ||scanner|| in and then walk out again to trigger the door opening when you get closer to the lab

[rough cypress]

If you exit your game on shader loading, it will consider it a crash. Saves lots of time waiting for it to either finish OR crash itself.

[stark crescent]

personally, i think the ward are in the right here. not to spoil too much, but noontide has no future in this game. everyone wants to control the zone. but atleast the government body wants to use the zone in a controlled figure. everyone else wants to use the zone for their own selfish reasons. atleast the government can use the zone as an asset for everyone

think of it as medicine. in europe, medicine is heavily regulated by the government. it has a set price, thats not too high. theres not much profith to it, but also not alot of difficulty to it.
in the US, medicine is controlled by insurance companies. thats why their prices are inhumanly high, because it plays by the rules of insurance brokers.

[polar raven]

Hello ! I need to spawn an NPC that is blocking a door. Do you know how to do it?

[stark crescent]

you WANT an npc that blocks doors? funny. my complaint is that there is a bug that allows npc's to block doors. i rather see it fixed

[harsh jungle]

its just like skyrim

[dim cipher]

not super sure where to ask, but in 'On the Edge' I can't get the quest to progress past the 'fend off the monolith attack' stage. Killed them all, Gaffer calls everyone in, some speech.. then it just ends. Quest never progresses, never completes.

I wager that's a bug but I've got no clues on fixes?

[spark badger]

Noontide don't want to control the zone. || They want to live peacefully in the zone because it's all they know. They have no memories of the outside world or anything other than the zone. It's their home. Their issue with the Ward / SIRCAA is that they know how dangerous tampering with the zone can be (wish granter etc) and want to stop something catastrophic happening, which is what happens ||

[stark crescent]

continue the story, and you will see for yourself why noontide doesnt matter 🙂 i wont spoil all the fun

[spark badger]

I've finished the game, what happens to noontide has no bearing on what I said. I'm pointing out that they don't want to control the zone, and that's true.

[wintry pumice]

They should have listened to

[sturdy verge]

Wish sin was in the game

[harsh jungle]

but is crazy and belongs in a rubber room with rats

[spark badger]

I'm holding out hope that the creepy radio signal from Limansk is connected to them

[wooden escarp]

Merry Christmas Eve 🌲 everyone

[wintry pumice]

Nah he survived 2 emissions, Bro got off lightly

[spark badger]

3 emissions, the guy is a menace

[sturdy verge]

Man! I seen that in a yt clip and I had to go over and listen to it myself! Also visited that mine site where they would hang about in anomaly 😄

[edgy wren]

What surviving three emissions does to someone.

[dense sandal]

was at slag heap emission started n npcs were stuck outside so i got ton of loot

[edgy wren]

Can't say no to free loot.

[noble dew]

Still can't complete a ward playthrouht since the doors in the tunnels in "once more unto the breach " are soft locked for me. I can place the explosives at the duga

[sturdy verge]

Oof if that happens to me again ( as I'm getting close to that mission, Started over) I'm gonna be upset lol 😆 darn features!

[drifting halo]

why the hell is my game running smoother when it skipped the shader comp

[stark fossil]

Performance is kinda either/or for me. Sometimes everything runs smooth even in Rostok bust sometimes stutters even in low populated open areas

[compact violet]

bro wtf this npc keeps oneshotting me with two compass' and an exosuit on

[weary hedge]

How do you skip shaders comp

[drifting halo]

sometimes the game just gives me the shader comp error message when loading in and says that it will do it in real time instead
cant seem to replicate that anymore tho

game even states that it might stutter more than normal but I played for like 3 hours with no issue at all
meanwhile today the game loaded in with shader compilation and it breaks down to 12fps like 5 minutes in

[compact violet]

HOW TF DO THESE MONOLITH KEEP 1TAPPING ME WITH A SVD

[plain jewel]

Because Stalin.

[deft lion]

PI. Plt 1070. They recycle em

[wooden escarp]

I thought they did

Merry Xmas Eve devil

[plain fiber]

From other reports I've read, I think it might be caused by picking up the RPGs, not the Burers themselves. Do you happen to know if you had picked up the RPGs in those instances?

[harsh jungle]

does anyone know how long I have to wait to pick up a repeatably offered side quest from NPCs like barkeeps?

[deft lion]

However long a sleep cycle is

[harsh jungle]

ok thanks I’m trying to get the corps to like me

[stark crescent]

i wish there were more post main mission side missions

like. after sircaa, you get zalissya right? but thats about it. if you go through the entire zone before sircaa, and do all the side missions, thats pretty much it. not much gets added afterwards.

[boreal pendant]

is the texan a good unique

[stark crescent]

i dont even know that one yet 😮 let me guess, a unique revolver?

[boreal pendant]

its a ram-2

[plain fiber]

Ram-2 is that double-barrel pump-action shotgun right?

[boreal pendant]

ye

[sullen seal]

im running this shit on a 1070 ti 😆

[wintry pumice]

You see the shining zone

[wintry pumice]

Sure it's a SVD? It's probably a gauss rifle

[gaunt kayak]

wait, did they add snow to the zone or something?

[stark fossil]

Playing with alternate NPC loadouts I got one tapped from first bandit with a fully modded Mark1😂

[maiden grotto]

Eh?

[gaunt kayak]

i thought the video posted in #📰┃announcement might be implying there was some kind of winter event going on

[maiden grotto]

No way... Im away... That would be amazing, a winter STALKER land.

[gaunt kayak]

im in the game now, and no snow sadly

[stark fossil]

It would be pretty nice if there was dynamic seasons going on as you play

[boreal pendant]

nope :(

[stark fossil]

Long term I wanna see longer day:night cycles and NVGs OG course. With improvements to the AI it’s getting pretty good, time to up the experience

[maiden grotto]

Something about games like STALKER and winter snows...

Elivates it.

[boreal pendant]

is the ram-2 better than the siaga? and should i always be taking range upgrades on shotguns

[stark fossil]

No way Saiga is way better than anything else even in default config

[maiden grotto]

Depends if you like long reloads or not.

[boreal pendant]

ram-2/texan kills exos in 2 hits to the body on vetaran it seems

[stark fossil]

Nevertheless the quick reload with mags is unbeatable

[maiden grotto]

Especially with an extended mag

[stark fossil]

If they made it so you can reload while running it would be different. But as it stands being able to quickly reload is simply better. Mag vs manual loading especially comes it to tight balance when you add actual mag filling like in EFP

Then having a weapon you can load without going in to inventory is quite convenient thing to have as a backup

Hoping for some sort of weapon pack in the future. I wanna see more bolties

Currently I’m in love with M700. With hole maker and a suppressor it’s the best weapon - can be standalone

[wooden escarp]

Is that the slow shooting bolt action sniper?

[stark fossil]

@CSG add: K98, Hunter, VSSK!!!

[compact violet]

Phantom Artifacts have to be the most annoying thing ever lol

[stark fossil]

The one and only yeah. Best gun in game

[icy drum]

So I'm having this issue where some quest icons just aren't there first with the main quest where you bring the collar to richter , and now with the find petal artifact side quest for the bar keep under rostok

[wooden escarp]

Eh packs a punch for sure but I hate how slow it is

[boreal pendant]

aslo any suggestions for upgrades to take on the rhino

[compact violet]

I killed them and they dropped an SVD so yeah I'm sure.

[stark fossil]

It’s faster than the Gaus. And after all it’s a bolt action. Absolute best for me nothing even comes close

[wooden escarp]

I’m glad I did a side quest that involved setting a Psuedo giant free cuz it took like 300 rounds form the Kahrod and I got an electric collar off of it for future use

[icy drum]

I killed a bloodsucker and two dogs and got 3 collars

[stark fossil]

All of them. Personally I prefer it as a cannon, shot upgrade is kinda meh since I already cary a saiga

[wooden escarp]

Just wish I was smart enough to set it free first and let it wreak havoc on the bandits in the camp

[frigid hill]

thatonepfc has been warned

Reason: Bad word usage

[stark fossil]

The later quest that has you go for the emitter for Sherpa - the correct method is to not go through with it but the better method is to go through with it.

[boreal pendant]

oh ye, it can oneshot headshot exos without the buckshot upgrade, sadly its a bunch of choice upgrades, any ones the would make it even more good?

[wooden escarp]

[icy drum]

I guess it censors gun names for uniques didn't know that

[stark fossil]

Obviously the doc is playing with fire. But you should indulge him - better rewards
Only downside is you’ll make the other doc very sad

[hoary crest]

Depends, if you use cover a lot, yes, if you play like its CoD, then Saiga is better (as to if its good or not, replied to wrong thing)

[icy drum]

I figured out I could mount the 203 to the unique dmr 416 and i smacked faust with HEDP and made it easy

[boreal pendant]

quest spoiler involving missable loot or smth||break the emmitter, your locked into a 3 bloodsucker fight later on, but get a gauss rifle||

[stark fossil]

And money

[boreal pendant]

oh hi paydirt

[stark fossil]

I am curious why they didn’t add double shot fire mod for the Ram..

Also unique Groza with a drum mag is almost as good as a Dnipro, and you can get it super early

[twilit glacier]

Hi, in the first cutscene I meet ||Korshunov||, he is invisible and after it he's completely gone, will it lead to a soft lock?

[boreal pendant]

quick question, what upgrades do you feel help the revolver (non buckshot variant)

[hoary crest]

To be fair, you can also get the Dnipro super early

[tranquil jewel]

Ngl I think Zombies are harder to fight than any other human enemy because where others don’t shoot, zombies always do and never miss.

Which results in getting sniped across the map by a TOZ if you use any combat mods

[wooden escarp]

Name of mission?

[hoary crest]

Idk, only used it with buckshot in vanilla outside of using it to dome Tyrant a few times

[boreal pendant]

i forgot, its the one where you gather collars

[stark fossil]

The one where you collect collars for the doc

[wooden escarp]

Side quest? Or main?

[stark fossil]

We need more options for end game but I will eventually add a mod that rebalances all weapons. Based on caliber and barrel lengths. I just can’t right now cause it will conflict with other mods I’m using.

[boreal pendant]

ah np, any ideas then orrr?

[hoary crest]

Im using a mod that does that an it doesnt conflict with NPC's carry attachments, so if thats the one you're using shouldn't be an issue. If you've got stuff that edits the actual performance stats of a weapon you wont be able to run them together, but yeah. Or you know, could just use the merge tool if you're having trouble

[stark fossil]

Kinda both. Side but closely related to main

[stark fossil]

Hmmm… I might try then. Basically all assault rifles are kid of tight with that mod which is what I want. I see absolutely no reason to ever use the HK or G36

[wooden escarp]

Kahrod is OP, 4X ACOG, extended mag

NPC killer

[boreal pendant]

and also, what type of upgrades do well on saiga, i assume stuff like, recoil decrease, and range

[stark fossil]

Absolutely out of competition gun it’s like Scar in EFP

[icy cloud]

def recoil decrease so you can just spam that magazine

[wooden escarp]

Prefer the RAM 2 rn honestly

14 in the tube, better range than Saiga, tighter spread,

[stark fossil]

When using saiga vs BS - just crouch and unload as it charges. No upgrades required

[boreal pendant]

might go grab the texan, any upgrades you suggest? :3

[static leaf]

would anyone here be able to answer a quick question for me?

[stark fossil]

Kinda sad the hole maker can’t use expansive shot. Only regular shot

[boreal pendant]

true lol

[static leaf]

If i buy the ultimate edition after starting the game will i get access to the new content? Or would I have to start a new save

[hoary crest]

With that mod they're a lot closer in line to the Kharod and Dnipro, so its mostly about preference, there are some differences, but not enough to only be able to justify using the absolute best one.

I run the G36 a LOT because of that mod allowing it to be good, because it looks nice af

[stark fossil]

Yeah the balance should be close for same caliber weapons with minor differences.
Like the G36 is an excellent gun on paper but in game it very lacklustre. There also seems to be a double drum mag for it although I’ve never found one..

[boreal pendant]

is the dnipro the only automatic 7.62 weapon?

[hoary crest]

Nah, the PKM is full auto too, but it handles like a pig (as you would expect from an LMG)

[boreal pendant]

oh yeah, the pkm exists lmao

[stark fossil]

Yes and RPD

[icy drum]

It's 5.45

So is another bullpup that should actually be 5.56 cause of the magazine style

[stark fossil]

Yeah but there’s an upgrade to rechamber it to 7.62

[icy drum]

Oh I didn't see that

[simple shard]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t039p6xqutU
skeefa we have to hijack santa's sleigh before he brings presents to the ward

[stark fossil]

What’s the quickest way to get the M700? Malachite?

[icy drum]

I found it on a random dude i killed that or red forest trader

The only reason I even stopped using the dnipro is because I couldn't suppress it. 5.45 was super. Easy to get lots of. And as long as i hit mostly headshots I gained way more ammo than I used

[stark fossil]

But it uses the same sup as the AK. That’s easy to buy early

[icy drum]

I couldn't ever find one

[brazen roost]

This game lit

[stark fossil]

In Rostok or Cement factory (Duty)

Also custom made AK with PSO is better than Valik’s

[real thorn]

I just realized that we never really had snow in a stalker game before. Snow DLC next?

[marble onyx]

maan .. 3 crashes in 10 minutes due to memory leak... its giving my rig rly hard time .. wth is going on? 😄
i doubt we getting fix for it this year since last one was called "last update this year"

[weary hedge]

Weather/seasons should be included in a patch.

[stark fossil]

Project itemisation!!! We need this officially

But ideally every piece of loot should be usable one way or another. I wish they go back to Anomly way of progression - toolkits

[wooden escarp]

Does the Kahrod convert to any other ammunition or is it only 5.45x39?

[stark fossil]

Kharod is only 556

[wooden escarp]

Ya that’s what I meant 5.56x39

But can it convert to 5.56x45 or no

[waxen kernel]

There is one weird bug happening to me rn, and only when in Malachite. Opening up the inventory triggers a repeating gun-unloading sound

[stark fossil]

No Kharod is 5.56x45 only

[wooden escarp]

Oh well I must’ve converted it because mine shoots 5.45x39

That ammo is cheaper anyways

[weary hedge]

Yes, the Kharod can be converted to 5.45X39

[stark fossil]

Fort22 can be 556 or 545

[wooden escarp]

Kahrod can be 556 or 545x39

I didn’t realize I had already converted it until I checked on it

[waxen kernel]

kharod can be converted

[stark fossil]

Oh shit that’s right I forgot. The reason I forgot is clause it seems pointless. I cheat with 50% dura burn anyway🤭

[wooden escarp]

I’m on console no mods for me so the 545 ammo is cheaper to buy if needed

[icy drum]

I just upgraded the special 416 that's simi only and have been using that for the last few story missions

[waxen kernel]

converting has only downsides if you on console. 545 is more abundand since most of the enemies use Ak

[stark fossil]

How are people having ammo issues in this game?? I’m using 545 and have 3 stacks of 900 after Zalisya

[wooden escarp]

I just had to use 400 rounds of 545 on a pseudo giant

[weary hedge]

I converted mine in my first playthrough and regretted it.

[waxen kernel]

I found the reason why. Having Faust item in inventory triggers the sound. But again, only in Malachite

[wooden escarp]

Also got stuck on a car grabbing a stash a pack of psi dogs spawned and I couldn’t find the main culprit who was just spawning 8-15 dogs around me so I burned thru a lot of ammo shooting the dogs

[weary hedge]

But not as much as converting my Dnipro to 7.62, because it’s heavy and too rare

[stark fossil]

If it’s the one in RF - the correct way is unleash on the bandits and let it take care of them while they’ll knock it down in health making it softer for you to finish

[somber gazelle]

wait really? ive been dealing with that for abit now

[vapid shadow]

Anyone else unable to play PDA audio?

[wooden escarp]

Yeah I realized that only after I killed all the bandits

[waxen kernel]

Yeah, progress the main mission until you have to use the item

[stark fossil]

Me too first time, second time I knew how to do it 😄

[somber gazelle]

you have any clue why its only there?

[icy drum]

Got the special SVU from the doctor

[waxen kernel]

Talking with the chick vendor triggered it for me. Forgot her name

[stark fossil]

Whip it out😏

[icy drum]

How about no

[somber gazelle]

snowy zone would be pretty cool

[marble onyx]

so Dnipro is better than Kharod ? havent had a chance to get Dnipro, but Kharod using 5.45 fully upgraded + 2x scope silencer and extended mag feels so good to use .. combined with saiga with extended max and full upgrades (except stock, location of BP makes no sense) and deadeye with ext. mag, is my way to go at current loadout

[wooden escarp]

No

Personally I believe Kahrod is far superior

Can mount M203 grenade launcher and Shotgun Underbarrel attachment to Kahrod

[stark fossil]

Nah even with 7.62 upgrade Kharod still beats it cause of better attachment options

[wooden escarp]

Where’d you get the silencer for it? Wait nvm I think mine is silenced or it comes silenced idk

[icy drum]

So since I have the SEVA-I suit do I actually even need an exo?

[marble onyx]

i mean, i ivested a lot to get that kharod and i have GL for certains missions too, managed to get my hands on 30 grenades for it so ... and i rly like RNBW scope ...
i bought silencer at Yaniv, that was first thing i did as i left lesser zone, got kharod, silencer and scope

[wooden escarp]

I think Exo is far better than Seva I but I’m bias and have dumped a lot of money into the Exo

[stark fossil]

Same silencer as for AK

[wooden escarp]

Ok yeah mine is silenced then

I really enjoy the 4x ACOG scope on the Kahrod haven’t tried it with the 2x scope

[stark fossil]

Exoskelleton are simply superior because of weight buff. Diamond practically weights 0kg with 11kg extra. (7.5kg heavy - gets +27kg extra

[marble onyx]

the AI is annoyin after new update.. how the hell hes sniping me from 100m with double barrel shotgun into head ... wth, not to say i can barely see them

[boreal pendant]

bullet range or bullet velocity

[stark fossil]

To be fair dispersion of pellets helps. Yes they are accurate but at that range shouldn’t hurt much

[icy drum]

Head shots with suppressed guns in this game are very satisfying

[marble onyx]

it might not, but for some reason im today encountering groups of 7-9 bandits, i just finished swamps where u cant see a thing .. died several times cos of that ... they far, i have no idea where they are and 8 guns aiming at me, at that point doesnt matter much how much damage they do ... 😄

[glass compass]

I agree that crunch noise is very nice on the ears.

[boreal pendant]

not sure what the m701 would benifit from better

[weary hedge]

So basically the game is not worth playing now, imo. Swamps was difficult enough, now that huh?

[glass compass]

I personally say velocity. I like to believe it helps the bullet keep its momentum, could give overall better armor pen because its keeping its energy longer after leaving the barrel.

[hoary crest]

Can be converted to 5.45, starts as 5.56. Which like, good conversion in early game, late game tho not much point in swapping the caliber as 5.56 gets more common

[boreal pendant]

it seems the bullet range stat gives a higher increase to the general range stat, i really don't feel like the upgrades actually do much from messing around

[icy drum]

Can i even get into zalyssia after well not siding with the ward?

[stark fossil]

Velocity. Range gets upped by that anyway and if you don’t take any range upgrades the result is maxed range anyways

[deft lion]

Yea. Ward leaves Zalyssia pretty much immediately after you finish at the Sphere

[boreal pendant]

you, would damage drop of decrease or range be better on siiaga, messing around with how upgrades do

[icy drum]

And it's empty wow

[hoary crest]

I take dropoff, because its a shotgun, so even if you're only delivering a generous pelting at a distance, you want some damage out of it

[boreal pendant]

true, i love walking up to a monolith and magdumping a siaga

[stark crescent]

I usually convert the saiga to use only slugs anyway, so i always try to up the range as much as possible. Against an exo ward, 2 headshots and he dead.

[glass compass]

Range with Slugs or Expanding Darts is amazing. I didnt like the choke feature too much until I got the Texan.

[hoary crest]

One for slugs/darts, one for buck if you've got the money, though I would still take the falloff as you're generally not hitting stuff beyond about 20m with it anyway

[stark crescent]

I converted the rhino to use buckshots. Damage is somehow off the charts. It has no accuracy. It has no range. But it can kill an exo ward with 2 close range headshots

[hoary crest]

Yeah the Rhino is pretty silly in vanilla

[boreal pendant]

rhino can 1shot exos witthout buckshot

[stark crescent]

The developer knows how to make weapons, but they got a thing or 2 to learn on balancing lol. The buket is the strongest smg you can get. Even endgame ultimate deluxe edition weapons still fall short against the buket.

The rhino uses the same ammo as the va vintar. Shorter barrel. But somehow its 10x stronger.

[boreal pendant]

is it worth grabbing handle and laser on siaga

[stark crescent]

Or how weapons thst are naturally silenced, have less range, vs a weapon that gets a silencer attachment.

[stark crescent]

Saiga.

[boreal pendant]

:3

[stark fossil]

Handle is a straight up upgrade so yeah. Laser is pointless if you play with crosshairs IMO

[icy drum]

Suppressors don't actually lower velocity, that's the ammo itself 9x39 is subsonic. Suppressors only lower muzzle flash and some sound signature

[hoary crest]

Even kinda pointless if you don't use the crosshair tbh, at least if you're used to not having one anyway

[stark crescent]

Im not talking about reality. Im talking about game mechanics. The va vintar is naturally silenced. You cant put a silencer on it. Its range stays the same. The s-14 uses the same ammo. Throw a silencer on it, and its range practically doubles. Due to game mechanics.

[icy drum]

Ah I haven't even used the S14

[boreal pendant]

they look so uglyyy

[glass compass]

I wish I could put a silencer on the VA

[stark fossil]

IMO there should be a on/off switch

[stark crescent]

Because you dont have to with the buket

[boreal pendant]

i prefer how the gun is hold in first person without the handle, just feels off with it

[hoary crest]

Imagine not using our lord and saviour the Gambit smh, heretics

[icy drum]

By the time they started spawning I already had better options

[stark crescent]

I only tried the S-15 for a bit. Its a special variant thst uses AK ammo. I did not like it.

[marble onyx]

i mean .. all the crashes, unbalanced aimbot for NPC ... but i like imersion too much to stop 😄

[boreal pendant]

gambit is great until exos are everywhere, non buckshot rhino does its thing then (in vannila at least)

[stark crescent]

Buket with ap ammo

[glass compass]

The game is jank, but its honestly that good type of jank when stuff goes hilariously wrong.

[stark fossil]

I’m now using the saiga that I got very early - so no upgrading yet and quite honestly- it doesn’t need any upgrades

[hoary crest]

Yeah maybe in vanilla, though the Rhino is omega nerfed under the balancing Im using lmao

[boreal pendant]

how is the gauss rifle in this balancing?

[stark fossil]

They buffed it😂

[weary hedge]

What?’

[hoary crest]

Its a gauss rifle, so OP as you would expect, but i don't use it in vanilla or this balancing. Not really any need when enemies drop from all weapons

[boreal pendant]

its so expensive to fire

[stark fossil]

I never used the Gaus, well I tried it but nope

[hoary crest]

Sounds nice and looks cool, but eh, I would use the special one with irons, but alas, dont get that till the end of the game so 🤷‍♂️ Would have been nice if we could have taken the scope off the normal one

[weary hedge]

I like it, but the charge up between shots is my biggest gripe. That’s the trade off I guess.

[icy drum]

I sold the one I found. Worth a lot, also just shot a dude in the face that was trying to join monolith, maybe I'm the bad guy

[stark crescent]

I remember seeing the bizon at the ward base. I wanted it. But then i saw what ammo it used. 9x19. I was so glad when i found the rat killer.

[spark badger]

Rat killer is incredible. So cheap to shoot and the ammo weighs nothing compared to others.

[deft lion]

'Trying to join the Monolith' what

[stark crescent]

At the mission progression you are at when you find the zubr 19, no one uses vipers any more. You cant salvage ammo for it any more. It becomes rather expensive. The 9x18 is doig same damage, but is much cheaper

[icy drum]

It was some dude like pleading on the ground

[stark crescent]

At the cordon checkpoint. On the way to rookie village after sircaa. Yea, i saw him 2 days ago lol. I listened in. They did keep him alive long enough to say "praise be the monolith".

[icy drum]

I just shot him myself before he said that. Also maybe next playthrough I'll side with the ward instead of noontide

[stark crescent]

Is it somewhat weird devs didnt add an evil ending? Like, reinstate c conciousness. let monolith win. "Condition : shoot everyone. Become hostile to every faction

[stark fossil]

There’s a big mystery with some stuff in game. Like there are monolith totems that you can destroy - not sure what’s the result.

Also more important- there are lots of locations with radios that you can change frequency but nothing happens. I wonder what’s the story with that…

[icy drum]

I just don't shoot freedom because I like the location of rostok

[stark crescent]

Rostok is transformed into like a trade city. You can literally have no engagements with duty on the main mission. So i suspect duty is given a large role in one of the dlc's

[spark badger]

Zulu will likely appear in the DLC for something related to duty. He's mentioned several times but doesn't show up

[weary hedge]

Meh, Freedom is too free and Duty is too strict.

[icy drum]

I only found duty on my expedition to get the weird nut. And then to kill them for a side quest

[stark crescent]

And stalkers are c conciousness agents set to kill streeeelok. No oneentioning how streelok is said as streelok? I always thought it was strèlok.

[weary hedge]

I do slightly favor Duty though

[deft lion]

Thats just what Monolith does. They pray to CCon

[spark badger]

I like the duty guide, he's very friendly

[marble onyx]

hmm after encountering Lex the Legend first time, i tought i will never encounter him again ... 😄
well happend i do 😄

[junior current]

merry Christmas GSC

[stark crescent]

i am trying out different weapons tho. stuff that dont really show up on stats. today i found out that, even tho the apsb is a good and lightweight alternative to the buket. it breaks down hella fast.

i simply used it as a main weapon for a day. i had to repair it twice from almost 50% damage. buket with AP ammo isnt even wearing down that fast