☢┃stalker-general

[sweet root]

Well, his question is a better fit in the channel right below this, in all ways, just sayin

[sturdy verge]

oh the story discussion ? aye

[sweet root]

Didnt really expect possible end game spoilers going on in the general chat, if thats the case ill leave

[lyric kayak]

Dalin doesnt die in all outcomes btw

[sturdy verge]

have no idea but i guess ill find out here or when i do the last two endings lol tho that little C died before i could shoot him so had to restart that mission lol

[sweet root]

Dalin dying doesnt really spoil anything yet so no worries for my sake heheh, its a classic monkey paw story after all

[maiden grotto]

He does when i'm playing lol!!

[sweet root]

Cant wait for a Ward playthru, although im not gonna enjoy it

Surprised how much branching narrative is in the game, I totally missed/skipped a lot of stuff and it brought me back into the storyline somehow and my game has been on totally different rails than my friend´s

[lyric kayak]

Kill The Strelok

[north jacinth]

i saved the game once before I choose Ward/Noontiders

[sweet root]

is the "The" in the line a clerical mistake as in some office clerc for C-con not knowing if there are more streloks out there? 😄 Sounds about right

[lyric kayak]

Don't kill the Strelok, he saved me from my pachinko addiction

[pearl sable]

Everytime I feel close to finishing, the games like go here get this, now talk to this guy, now go here on otherside of the Map and talk to this person lol

[sweet root]

I dont mind traveling back and forth the scenery so pretty I can drown in it

[lyric kayak]

Strelok means rifleman, so it translates to kill the rifleman

[pearl sable]

If you jump in deep enough water you can instant drown in it lol

[sweet root]

Heard its something shooter or has more meanings in similar fashion

[lyric kayak]

Kill The Sidorovich

[sweet root]

Funny how the game corrects the mission objective though and says "Kill Strelok", as if the players character would know? 😉

[lyric kayak]

Well the wording was that way because of clear sky, it was Scars contract and thats all he had to go off of

[sweet root]

Ah, did they write it before shadow of chernobyl?

[pearl sable]

I like it's previous wording, sounds terminator like

[lyric kayak]

In later games its just revealed that more stalkers get this objective the same way scar did, mysteriously on their pda's, thats why Strelok shows you Darks pda

[sweet root]

No i like it too, it feels like some clerical power somewhere ordering a casual hit not even knowing who or what is the target, as it was said, strelok is a literal bolt that fell off the machine

[lyric kayak]

It 100% started that way, definitely lol

[sweet root]

yup

[river chasm]

Yeah it can be translated a few ways iirc. I think contextually it's often shooter, or if you want to be a little more dramatic then gunslinger

[sweet root]

gunslinger fits, as the wording "klondike of artifacts"

Its literal gold rush of supernatural kind going on, or at least the later stages, and gunslinger brings a mysterious vibe

I think theres some dna shared between this and westerns , would be a cool twist to have a zone in 1800s america or something

[lyric kayak]

Keep cowboy hats off of his glorious widows peak though

[sweet root]

And what would they even do with the artifacts

[sweet root]

A wide poncho though...

[paper trail]

some people say that with the ward ending|| Skiff was also an Agent ect.|| for me it just seems like they were finally able ||to connect to the Noosphere so the pseudoscience actually worked and they are able to see the collective conciousness of all beings|| which is of course bad for the world kinda but I don't think that he was an ||agent ||or something. Or is there other evidence for that?

[sweet root]

Yeah he wears a helmetless SEVA suit so it would fit him having no cowboy hat

[north jacinth]

So whenever I wanna go back through and play it as a Noontider I can

[sweet root]

ehh how am i gonna save Trapper he dies so quick

he takes couple hits from a boar and a deer and hes dead

[signal eagle]

I done the same but for Skif/Strelok's endings

[noble oak]

When will they add the ability to skip cutscenes

[sweet root]

There was a button for it when you dont need it but its not there when you need it

[fallen lion]

Is burers completely immune when shielding, or just a solid damage reduction?

[lyric kayak]

Immune

[sweet root]

Skif pistol a cheat code against them

[weary hedge]

Do AP rounds do more damage to them?

[sweet root]

I heard all mutants have some armor value so yeah, but take with grain of salt

I mean, theres no reason why the regular ammo would be better?

Still deals the same amount of damage just with more penetration and gun wear?

Cant wait to be able to maintain guns in the field, thru mods if nothing else

[jolly oak]

Good morning stalkers

[sweet root]

Evening here, stalker

[signal eagle]

Afternoon stalker

[sweet root]

And yeah plenty of beer 🍺 about to do the swamps

Have to figure out a stash spot though maybe at the church

Man, why does the AK suppressor have to be so low poly???? its the largest round shape in your screen and it has polygons!!!

Stuff like this as a 3D artist just makes me mad it wouldnt take any performance out of the game giving it like 6 more loops

Now my eye gets drawn there just because

[north jacinth]

oh man

[night plaza]

There no way to trade with Bruise? I'm assuming he doesnt have anything good but was curious

[jagged zinc]

That would be amazing if we could maintain our weapons like in metro

You could also tie the jamming and durability to how worn the weapon is if you wanted. It wouldn’t feel disconnected or take away from the mechanic imo

[sweet root]

Yeah the stuff to maintain your guns with could be expensive, heavy or rare enough to balance it out

For most its enough to just remember to pick up some when you go out

[solar warren]

https://www.nexusmods.com/stalker2heartofchornobyl/mods/926 the mod has been made already

adds the repair kits from anomaly

[sweet root]

Hah, ofc

Btw its fun to see some of the old OG assets being reused with just updated textures and all, my playthru for most part has been "hey i know that box!"

[solar warren]

yeah

[sweet root]

tbf most of the old assets are totally usable today when it comes to environments, walls floors ceilings what have you, theyre mostly just a block shape after all

[solar warren]

i cant wait for the first big modpack that just adds all the good stuff in one package, looking through nexus mods there so many things i need but its a hastle to manage all of them, already have close to 20 mods which probably arent even up to date with new patches lol

[sweet root]

I use mostly QOL and stuff to balance ballistics since i cant stand bullet sponges

[solar warren]

https://www.nexusmods.com/stalker2heartofchornobyl/mods/549 stuff like this is just insanely nice, id want all these kinds of mods in one package

[sweet root]

I can run the game only on medium so that mod would break my game :( tried it and without maxed out lighting and rendering settings it looks very pixelated

[brazen ice]

I was under the impression that Artifacts could respawn in a location after a certain amount of time (or after emissio)

[sweet root]

I think they reset after a day, not after emissions

[solar warren]

in 3-5 years when all the expansion packs and anomaly 2 have come out its gonna be so nice to replay this game, gonna be amazing

[brazen ice]

In-game day or RL day?

[sweet root]

Yeah cant wait, UE5 is very modding friendly compared to the X engine

[fallen haven]

Where can you find expansive ammo after SIRCCA? I would go to yaniv, but the merchant there suddenly stopped selling those ammo types. Waited two rests and just can’t seem to get any 😭

[sweet root]

Vendor stores seem to have RNG with what they have for sale, seems like you can save scum it a bit

[azure spindle]

holemaker's pretty damn good

• basically a very mini saiga. a short magazine size of 5 shells but you can fire it nearly as fast as you can M1. easily takes care of any nearby lower health mutants that take more than a handgun bullet to kill

• since its an attachment it has no repair costs, so thats another massive bonus if youre the budget conscious type

two biggest downsides is that:

• you cant upgrade the thing, so i hope youre familliar with recoil control because this thing KICKS

• you deselect it everytime you use an item, so if you burst a mutant, and it hits you when you use the holemaker, you now have to spend an extra few seconds switching from gun to holemaker, a few seconds that can easily get you hit, which makes you medkit, which makes you have to switch, and so on. if youre like me and decide to run exclusively off of a Kharod-Holemaker loadout, youll need to know when to take the loss and simply burst a bloodsucker down with AR rounds instead
  @hexed bane thank you for this very informative rundown! I think I'm at least going to give it a shot. It sounds pretty great other than the switching when using an item

[terse ravine]

are SMGs any good? it seems to be the only class of weapons i never see ppl use

[sweet root]

Zubr-19 or Bizon is a nice one, so is the Vector, Id even argue you could use them as your main weapon when going out

[solar warren]

in late game the only usable weapons are DMR's and anything else with high penetration and damage single shots

[pine coral]

Ok, im asking for my own sanity:

Are there any fixes that don't involve mods or console commands for the wishful thinking quest, for the bug where Darlin spawns in the room and the doors are all locked

[terse ravine]

the strong aim punch makes using scoped weapons kinda annoying

[terse ravine]

I've had to start news saves 3 times bc some bugs hard locked me out of the main missions, even if i went back to saves a few hours old

[weary hedge]

When do you unlock the Three Captains side mission again? I want the clusterfuck for the swamps. But it’s not giving the the option to do the mission. I got Sultan his briefcase. I’m on my 2nd play through btw.

[pine coral]

I genuinely don't want to do this, i'm already 2 days in :C

[terse ravine]

you need to do beards side mission too

[weary hedge]

Ok, thanks.

[pine coral]

Thing is, im on Xbox, so my options for fixes are limited.

[terse ravine]

I was able to complete a ward playthru, ima wait a few months before doing the rest of the endings so they can do more bug/performance/balance fixes

[weary hedge]

I did both missions. I wonder why it’s not showing up.

[terse ravine]

maybe you have to progress the main mission a bit more, some side missions are locked if you're not far enough (or too far ahead) the main missions

[pine coral]

My exact issue is in #📸┃screens_and_videos

[weary hedge]

Meh. Next mission is finding Trapper. Hopefully it’s available after that. It’ll be invaluable for the swamps, at least I think so 😂

[cobalt haven]

Sucks that there's a 140 KG ultimate limit

[cobalt haven]

It will appear after swamp quest, iirc

[signal eagle]

15th main quest. 'Just like the good old days'?

[stark fossil]

I think it opens up after Nimble.

[true void]

finally beat the game but i think i got more of a bad ending qwq

[weary hedge]

I hope. Thanks.

[solar warren]

is there a way to get out of lab X-7 after completeting the main story?

[torn zinc]

Which one? all of them are bad in some way

[terse ravine]

only by going back to a previous saves before the point of no return

[true void]

uh i’m not entirely sure what ending i got

[sweet root]

Getting anything but a bad ending in the zone is naive thinking

[torn zinc]

I think the Strelok ending might actually be the canon one, assuming this game does get a DLC. I think it's the only one where going back to explore some of the inaccessible areas like the Iron Forest, CNPP, and Generators makes sense, maybe in the hopes of finding a way out of the zone.

[sweet root]

3 DLCs confirmed as of now i think, dont think theyre gonna stop soon

[true void]

i was gonna go with strelok but then i decided to spare the doctor cuz i didn’t wanna kill anyone

[torn zinc]

You got the best ending possible lol

[true void]

if almost all the endings are regarding siding with a faction then what’s the one i got

[torn zinc]

sauce?

[pine coral]

Welp I'ma try that wait 20 minutes fix for the wishgranter part. Instead ima wait 40 minutes WITH MY grand invention so I don't get tabbed out.

My wallet on the controler

[solar warren]

same lol

[true void]

holy tho that final mission was so damn hard

[torn zinc]

The last part is garbage honestly it's just those 3 snipers that either get you or don't get you, it's not written rule that a game needs a final boss, but I wish we fought a Project X robot or a big mutant instead as a final boss.

[true void]

i had to move down to rookie difficulty cuz i struggled for a good 30 and couldn’t do it so i gave up

[torn zinc]

I was considering doing that as well but of course I wasn't going to actually tune the difficulty down after 100 hours just because of 1 section.

[true void]

if only i had your patients lol

[stark fossil]

You have to deal with elite monoliths through the cage, go down in to the pit and you’re dead

[true void]

besides the few parts like that the story n stuff were amazing in my opinion

[stark fossil]

Yeah there’s actually a lot to do if you’re being thorough and do the side quests and stuff.

[true void]

i put a good 120ish hours into my playthrough

i started it day one to

[stark fossil]

Also if you’re not running everywhere there is much more random encounters now. I spent a whole night by the camp fire with a Freedom squad, then bandits joined. Then we were ambushed by other bandits - out bandits fought for us…

There is no consistency with bandits and loaners - they can be friendly or hostile..

[true void]

i’ve noticed that

once maybe some of the dlcs come out and the games undergoes some more balancing and fixes i think ill come back to it but im satisfied for now

[steep flower]

Any audiobooks that capture the adventure survival feel of stalker? Already listened to roadside picnic.

[weary hedge]

roadside picnic lmao everytime i see those names, it makes me laugh

[pine coral]

i wish there was a unique of the boomstick.

Like, imagine, a kingpin who carved his way to power and infamy using a simple boomstick, the gun tooled to be more lethal and maybe even having a lil red dot sight, all decorated with trinkets and engravings.

[wintry pumice]

Shining zone is canon

[jade roost]

Do I need to compile shaders only once or everytime I boot up the game

[quick kernel]

Hey fellas I'm at the generators. As far as I'm aware nothing you get from the generators including the x17 suit or whatever it's called stays in your inventory right? Like this is the final stretch ending type stuff right

[hollow hearth]

I just finished the game on Normal (Ward Ending with just under 300 Deaths😆 )! This is my first S.T.A.L.K.E.R. game and I loved it so much I ordered a new graphics card just to replay the game on hard! P.S. - Streaming this on a 2080Ti was a nightmare.

[sage mist]

Guys what's this new wolfcheer thing

[sleek gulch]

@quick kernel you can ditch in your box. It isn't mandatory to wear it for the final mission. Just pick it up, and decide if you want to wear it or not

[quick kernel]

I mean, are the generators where the ending occurs or will I be put back into the game world before the ending?

[brazen ice]

STALKER deaths are 99% fall damage

[sleek gulch]

@hollow hearth My first run and time playing this series was 400 deaths on hard mode. Worth the pain and bugs for the experience. Now I'm too hooked on Stalker

[quick kernel]

The 1% is running into an area you're not supposed to be in and dying from radiation lmao

[silk vapor]

off-topic but just wanted to say I love the render that was posted in the giveaway channel 🥺

[north jacinth]

just got cleared to drink tmr

[hollow hearth]

The real hardmode was barely getting 30FPS haha, I'm so excited for the 3070ti to get here so I can start my Hardmode playthrough

[sleek gulch]

@quick kernel Oh, mb, but yeah. You get reverted before the point of no return after completing the game

[analog orchid]

@waxen marten you should have used discord Timestamp Styles for the time and date https://discord.com/developers/docs/reference#message-formatting

[wintry pumice]

Can someone please help me with this?
#📸┃screens_and_videos message

[signal eagle]

Are you entering from pripyat?

[wintry pumice]

No from Jupiter. Should I try from pripyat?

Thanks, we will meet in the shining zone

[karmic terrace]

I love the fact that the art at #new-year-giveaway is basically a spark ending

[silk vapor]

Star playing guitar is so sweet lol

[wintry pumice]

I have been telling people that the shining zone is the canon ending. They just made it official

Though I don't know why the controller and the burers are joining in.

[silk vapor]

Should've kept one spot for Strider. Dude definitely deserves to chill with friends near a nice little campfire

[weary hedge]

So what are the rules to the giveaway?

[silk vapor]

They wrote in the post they'll be posted a bit later, before the giveaway starts!

[weary hedge]

Gotcha, I didn't know what all was happening was all.

[cobalt haven]

Schizo ending
Big Brother ending
Simp ending
Homeless ending

[sour linden]

I really need to start a second run. I told korshunov(?) that "I'm not your enemy" meaning "you can stop being a dick to me", not "may I lick your boots, sir?" 😕

[cobalt haven]

2nd

[torn zinc]

Tbh it's such a disappointment that there's only 2 new mutants in this game

[ripe falcon]

Reload a save before this point and replay the lab as intended. That's the only way I found to fix this problem.

[wintry pumice]

Shoot him in the d and then in the face and then say F you

[sinful silo]

i just made an edit mixing shots from each ending and now i have to figure out how to structure a video around it haha

[solar warren]

so kaymanov was faust the entire time in stalker 2?

[sinful silo]

no it's just probably something more figurative

[royal garden]

Guys how do I enter the giveaway competition?

[ripe falcon]

As far as I know it remains unclear, more investigation is needed.

[royal garden]

Please stop this convo I know the chat says possible spoilers but please lol 😂

[solar warren]

id be inclined to believe so since it would be weird if kaymanov was just faust the whole time in the original trilogy too

[ripe falcon]

The giveaway hasn't started yet.

[sinful silo]

it's probably something to do with the zone being "free" in that ending and the idea of people manifesting themselves via the powers of the noosphere isn't a new concept. it's more like, a ghost of what the zone was and will become imo.

[royal garden]

Is there not a chat for actual spoilers ? Or when the games completed ? Spoiling stalker actually destroys the whole experience in my opinion

[violet dune]

giveaway is burned rat from the zone

[signal eagle]

Do you know where you are?

[solar warren]

#⭐┃nospoilers_general

so anyhow we can probably assume strelok ending was canon? i dont see how the other endings would allow the DLC's to happen

[sour linden]

Just like Grandma used to make

[ripe falcon]

Expansions can be prequels or with different protagonists, who knows...

[violet dune]

burer is like drunk uncle.. after few shots will start throw shit at you.

[sour linden]

Druncle

[lost scroll]

anyone knows how i can continue the quest "vision of truth", where i have to loot fausts body? i reloaded the save 5 times already, beat him multiple times, tried all dialogue options in the cutscenes, there is like 50 npc bodies but faust is nowhere to be found

[solar warren]

id assume the DLC's go something like witcher 3 DLC's where the limansk/cnpp/iron forest etc regions have their own quest lines, new charachter would also make sense but im not sure how that would work out with player progression, i dont imagine youl just load up a DLC playthrough and spawn in the cnpp with a makarov

[violet dune]

DLC could be in between end mission like cp77 did with DLC

[ripe falcon]

It's all speculation at the moment but it's fun to think about

[solar warren]

the games gonna be massive with all the dlc regions and once a freeplay modpack like anomaly comes out

[stark crescent]

im now mostly active in the burning forest, so zalissya is my most nearby trade point. i really wish they had another guide 🥲

[river galleon]

MONOLIT GLORIOUS MONOLIT

[restive storm]

Guys, I finished the game. Is there a DLC to play it after?

[violet dune]

yes

[solar warren]

not yet, for now its just exploring the map and doing random side quests if you have them left

[sour linden]

My suggestion: Time travel BS lands you in Pripyat on 19 April 1986, and the plot involves killing Gorbachenko before he gets to work on the 25th.

[restive storm]

Side quest are just meh so I guess I`m just gonna delete the game

[lost scroll]

well at least you didnt get softlocked like me in the middle of the game -_- faust body is not there, when i have to loot him after the cutscene in "vision of truth"

[restive storm]

There was nothing to get softlocked tbh for me. What was the issue for you? Maybe it is underground. You can check it with a mod called "UETools" @lost scroll

[solar warren]

i installed a sprint stamina and speed mod to explore the rest of the map areas before uninstalling until dlc's and ANOMALY 2

[restive storm]

Story was all over the place I think. The woman so supposedly high ranked was shown to us just 1 time and never after that. Nobody really gave me a friend or important vibe aside from Ricther. The ending I got which I will not talk about was so unsatisfying after playing for almost 100 hours. Skif just got f*cked in the azz tbh after doing all those errands. All the endings are somehow unsatisfying. I expected a more satisfying ending after 100 hours and the best ending isn`t even good

I expected something more from the devs after all of that lore unfolding and unfolding. They gave us so many things to imagine and think about but just ended it with an unsatisfying lazily written ending

[north jacinth]

At what point in the game should I go out of my way and try to obtain very powerful armor?

Right now, I'm in the "Dark Times" and I've already encountered enemies with very powerful armor, and I'm using the Corundum Suit

[solar warren]

just upgrade the corumdum and use it for the rest of the game

[stark crescent]

i found a spoiled canned food. should i eat it?

it didnt do anything...

[white bough]

gyatttttttttt

[stark crescent]

well. that was anticlimactic...

[silk vapor]

I feel like the endings in STALKER games have always had that "doomed" vibe where you can't for sure say "this one is the 'good' ending", it's inherent to the universe and part of its charm though imo. Skif is very goal-oriented, he only actually takes the time to bond with Richter. But at multiple points he mentions other characters he's crossed the path of (like Strider), he has an interesting character development depending the route you take. at the end of the day he just really wants to get out of this mess but in some paths he does get more involved. felt compelling imo, but it's just my feelings. I really liked how no-bs he is during the story & hope we see him again in DLCs

[frigid hill]

glizzygoblin._ has been warned

Reason: Bad word usage

[royal garden]

I was just wondering .. does my stalker 2 profile carry on to steam from gamepass? I want to own it on steam for future mods but the hassle in starting all over again when I’m already mid-game

[north jacinth]

Right now I'm being harassed by some sort of mutant that is throwing items at me. Its not a Burer its like half invisible

[royal garden]

It’s a Poltergeist, shoot his azz

[restive storm]

Skif did not get what he wanted like in almost all endings. After all the things he went through there should have been a good ending where he gets what he wants and just goes home without anything bad

[stark fossil]

Corundum suit is probably the best heavy suit. Next step - exoskelleton

[stark crescent]

wish the game had a unique boomstick. like. why not?

[pallid thorn]

i kinda wish there were more sidearms than just the 4 y'know? i saw a character owning a m9 beretta in the beginning of the game and im very sad to see it not exist.
i hope someday in the future more sidearms will be added.

[gusty field]

Hey where to play for giveway ?

[silk vapor]

They wrote in the post that the rules and stuff will be posted a bit later, before it starts, stay tuned:)

[hazy sorrel]

After finding X3, can i give the beacon to sidorovich? might piss off certain characters

[gusty field]

OK I misunderstood, I think it's today 23h the limit

[haughty shard]

Just opened my game and all saved files are corrupted. Any Help?

[hazy sorrel]

Do you have a recent windows back up point?

[odd ruin]

the game is making a backup of the saves in other folder

[haughty shard]

Nope

[hazy sorrel]

I dont know if you can access your cloud saves from steam, if you play on that platform. Maybe your local saves are corrupted, cloud saves could work

[haughty shard]

Im using game pass

[solar warren]

what is the red fortress? is it just a controll building for the cooling towers or something

[weary hedge]

Can’t you download your cloud saves?

[plain fiber]

Some industrial building of some sort, maybe a manufacturing plant or something.

You can climb onto the roof btw, even before Strelok calls to meet you there. (Can't reach the very top from what I've seen, but you can get quite high.) There are some stashes and a nice view but not much else.

[hazy sorrel]

Open the Xbox app on your PC.

Click the "Games" tab.

Find the game you want to download the cloud save.

Click the "Options" button.

Select "Manage saved files."

Select the cloud save you want to download.

Click the "Download" button.

Let me know if you need anything else or if your problem continues.

Maybe this works, try to download the save files and then paste them in your stalker save folder, wherever that is on gamepass

[icy drum]

Is it possible to actually get on duga? Didn't try my first play through

[sinful silo]

Only after a certain story point

[wintry pumice]

they need to add a guide and a stash there, I am not exploring that region till they do. Its a pain to run back to Malachite with your fingers crossed, hoping that you won't be one shot by the ward sniper

[icy drum]

So after I turn faust into red mist, also never got shot by the ward sniper. Took a odd route through

[sinful silo]

Real, not much of an incentive to explore the area

[wintry pumice]

yeah he has a bit of an insane range, he detects me from faraway no matter where I try to come through. I am like "Bro there's 3 spark guys camped right outside the facility, why you tryna kill me for?"

[sinful silo]

Has anyone here also 100%Ed the game? Achievements wise.

[wintry pumice]

They aren't even hiding, they're just having a campfire and enjoying stuff

[sinful silo]

If you try and kill the snipers in their nests at duga they lie down then get back up infinitely like the undertaker, its hilarious.

[wintry pumice]

Is it possible to kill the sniper? does he respawn? I am talking about the one in Malachite

[sinful silo]

I imagine if their tactics of keeping players from entering an area normally entails immortal snipers, I imagine that they have them around the map and yeah, probably there too.

[sturdy verge]

I hope the giveaway will be some sid chicken 🥹 lolol

[wooden escarp]

How do you enter it?

[cobalt haven]

Sidorlibee Chickenjoy

[wintry pumice]

The giveaway is the entry to the shining zone

[sinful silo]

Maybe it's leftover preorder stuff hahaha

[shrewd kindle]

Bro I was not prepared for that pseudogiant ambush, ended up using all my ammo I had left during the ||legend of the zone|| quest lol

[haughty shard]

Sorry, I couldn't find this 'Games' tab and the 'Option'. As far as I know, in the last patch they implemented automatic backup for up to 4 days. I found this folder on my PC: C:\Users\Teste\AppData\Local\Packages\GSCGameWorld.S.T.A.L.K.E.R.2HeartofChernobyl_6fr1t1rwfarwt\SystemAppData\xgs\000900000D39C835_0000000000000000000000007782504A\SaveGames, but I don't know where I should paste the file that is in this folder.

[north jacinth]

I just upgraded to the Falcon armor

[wintry pumice]

did you try and bait him into the electric anomalies?

[hazy sorrel]

Well i'd guess the file you have there would be the local save, because it's on your computer. You need to find the Cloud save, it needs to be downloaded

[haughty shard]

Where i find the cloud save?

[north jacinth]

I'm two missions away from that

[wintry pumice]

you need to fly to the cloud

[shrewd kindle]

I did twice but he pushed me into it and I got stuck for a sec on the wall and almost got shocked to death, so I just put 1000 rounds into him instead lol

[stark fossil]

Corundum better imo and more style

[wintry pumice]

I just got a diamond exo suit from a dead monolith soldier after just getting another modded diamond exo suit

[shrewd kindle]

Didn’t bother upgrading the corundum because I found the falcon way before I even started sircca so I had it almost fully upgraded, switched it out for an normal exo finally just for that loner vibe

[haughty shard]

If in the last patch created an automatic backup, wouldn't it be a case of just going to that backup folder and moving the save from there to the game's folder?

[stark fossil]

Check if you can upgrade to 4 LLCs please.

[wintry pumice]

Game's version of when it rains, it pours

[hazy sorrel]

Yeah i think so, you dont have acces to a direct download to your cloud saves. So that file should do it

[pallid thorn]

question, does anyone know where to find the agricultural workshop key? i hear a burer and havent been able to find the wizardly cockass
ooooh i can say cockass

[haughty shard]

Can you tell me where i need to paste the backup file?

[stark fossil]

Should be right next to the door on your left by the corpse. Unless you decided to deal with the burrer with a grenade 😏
Then you’ll have to look for it

[shrewd kindle]

I do hope they update it to where every npc isn’t wearing an exo after duga, variety is the spice of life and I miss seeing my sunrise suit boys

[north jacinth]

Doesn't provide as much physical protection as Falcon

[hazy sorrel]

according to chatGPT:

C:\Users<YourUsername>\AppData\Local\Packages\GSCGameWorld.S2Game_8wekyb3d8bbwe\SystemAppData\wgs\

I'm on steam so i cannot check

[frigid hill]

glizzygoblin._ has been warned

Reason: Bad word usage

[stark fossil]

Aren’t they the exact same or the difference is negligible. Corundum is 2/5, Falcon is 2/4 so one slot less, and a bit better psi
Plus no blueprints needed for Corundum

[haughty shard]

ok, thx for you help.

[north jacinth]

Falcon has a decent amount more physical protection

[wintry pumice]

yes you can

[terse ravine]

how do you get skif ending? by not allying with anyone?

[stark fossil]

Don’t kill the doc

[north iron]

does anyone have a weird bug with scopes? the red dot keeps flickering on sides like it got parkinsons

[wintry pumice]

chatgpt?

[weary hedge]

But I want the Strelok ending, I’m also finding myself agreeing with him, the ward and spark both suck.

[shrewd kindle]

Who can resist that receding hairline?

[weary hedge]

Strelok is just an agent of C-Consciousness. He's a program. So is Strider

[stark fossil]

I just went in my fist save to check…
The difference in balistic is literally 0.1 better for Falcon
Psy is half a bar better, as well as chemical and electric with radiation being half a bar better on the Corundum.
Considering you get the Corundum early ish in game and you can upgrade it fully immediately + have one more arti slot makes it better in my opinion. Not to mention Monolith swag counts as at least a bar of ballistic😌

[hazy sorrel]

Did it work?

[weary hedge]

I already got ward my first play through, and scar is a nut job.

[shrewd kindle]

I’ve been using the whip and it absolutely demolishes those exo dweebs but man it feels like it’s made out of paper. One decent sized fight will take up 10-15% durability lol

[weary hedge]

My first playthrough was the Skif ending - but I felt manipulated. unfortunately, none of the endings are anything other than manipulation regardless of who you side with in my opinion

[solar warren]

how does the rebounder anomaly launch bug work? trying to launch myself into the cnpp

[weary hedge]

What do you mean program? And I thought the brainwashing didn’t work on him. Regardless ward was my last play through, and I’m no fan of scar. I’ll tolerate him, but he’s a nut job that doesn’t shut up.

[weary hedge]

you see it all during the ward ending - Agatha basically breaks it all down, and I've no reason to doubt any of the cutscenes. You see Scars name on a screen referencing him as an agent, showing an information transfer message

Then she details how strelok was also an agent, you get some flashback cutscenes or whatever they were, and so on.

The gist of what she said is that a good deal of stalkers within the zone were apart of the STALKER program

[weary hedge]

Too late now as I’ve already decided. I’m trying to get all the endings anyway,

[sturdy verge]

wolf bot will have that channel open at 2300 CET to enter. most likely the #new-year-giveaway thats my guess

[north jacinth]

I still don't understand how exactly I'm playing at high quality graphics and only getting 85 FPS AVG on a 4080S

[odd ruin]

try with framegen on, now is FSR 3.1 in the settings

[north jacinth]

Yeah not seeing a sustantial boost in FPS after turning that on.

Side note: Nice copy paste fail lol

[weary hedge]

bruh i will never understand why wolf deletes long messages, probably the most annoying bot ive encountered on discord within the last year lol

game company making millions from stalker: lets not hire actual community managers to moderate, lets just set up a bot and put barebones effort into it

so many game developers do that with their discords - or they have volunteers lol side rant over

[north jacinth]

I don't think they're profiting millions. I thought 90% of profits from the game went towards Ukraine

[weary hedge]

Eh maybe - I'm just over big-ass gaming communities, official ones, being so incredibly dense in their management lol $1000 a month for a dedicated mod aint much

Eh, $3000 a month, one in each time zone

GSC isn't that bad in comparison, there are FAR worse offenders. What's that discord that is notorious for it? Was it the ubisoft one? I can't remember. Maybe it was the THQ Nordic discord lol

The guy that ran that had a whole reddit up in arms against him, but that was a different case of mismanagement - he was the only one with power, and the only one that was paid lol

[stone vigil]

Hang on so we don't have any human mods in this joint?

[weary hedge]

There are moderators, but I don't think I've ever seen an orange name talk while I've been present.

my original point was just that they are volunteers, thus they dont dedicate time to doing it - its a, just when im free kinda thing

so they rely on Wolf to control stuff, which ends up in legit messages being cut lol

[north jacinth]

well first off they're red not orange. second, they've definitely been active but i dont think they're paid

[weary hedge]

of course theyve been active at some point, thats how they get the role lol

it was just an overarching point that relying on volunteers isnt the best idea

i find it quite cheap, too

as of november 12th it was reported GSC hadn't made a statement on donating profit from S2 to the ukrainian military - i dont know if thats changed, just reading.

they are also already in the green with Stalker, recouped their budget

I wonder if they'll port over to PS5 eventually

[misty maple]

I didn't like seeing crap like the useless backpack animation to show off the "early bird" patch, being in the game. That kind of crap doesn't belong in this game. All the pandering to the mainstream crowd stinks of publisher poisoning.

[pallid thorn]

I like it. Does anyone else?

[weary hedge]

@frigid hill you suck. Maybe I’ll get banned.

[pallid thorn]

If you get banned then it proves you right lol. Cus imagine being so petty you ban someone just because they said you suck ONLINE

[smoky hawk]

Ive never seen this written anywhere

[misty maple]

Also @Devs PLEASE change the fight with ||Faust||. This is the literal opposite of fun. I am sick of failing this fight. I am so sick of listening to ||Star's|| babbling over and over and over again. I have been at this fight for days non stop. I am ready to just give up on this game all together. Zero fun. Even if and when I get past this fight, I will get zero enjoyment from this. I will just be glad to have the torture end.

[smoky hawk]

Stalker 2 is self published by GSC

[white cairn]

Hi guys, a question, do you know if the developers will put the steamworkshop? Because otherwise it doesn't make sense that they release it on geforce now and then don't put the steamworshop, so geforce now people don't have the possibility to mod it.

[smoky hawk]

Quite sure they won't considering that there is a branch called modio and that someone was able to get into their modio page for s2

Which, isn't any better mind you

[white cairn]

It makes no sense not to make a steamworkshop and then also put the game in ge force now, that way people who play it without a steamworkshop cannot mod it

[pure jasper]

Thars a lot of money wtf

[smoky hawk]

To be completely fair it's not like steam workshop is any better for actual modding as opposed to modio (downloading mods is better tho)

The BEST way would be to NOT have either of these

Consoles?

[white cairn]

but without steamworkshop players from ge force now cannot mod it.

[smoky hawk]

ok

[sturdy verge]

ive seen some games on gfn that had modio implemented on it so who knows, we will find out more about it next year.

[white cairn]

hopefully well 💪🏻

[smoky hawk]

Quite frankly
If you're using GeForce or console
I really don't think mod availability for "you" (service owners in question) should be looked at as the deciding factor for using a kind of tech or not

Also, I'm a volunteer not a GSC employee for anyone thinking I represent GSC, I don't and never did

All I'm saying as my own opinions and thoughts on what I know

[woven knoll]

Play on Xbox... just come back after last update and I continually crash cannot leave rostok ...is this a known bug or is it just me 😂

[shrewd kindle]

Hasn’t been happening to me, or you on the series s or x?

[weary hedge]

The game has crashed countless times on me and I’m also on Xbox. I’m on the Series S, but that shouldn’t matter. Based username btw 😂

[woven knoll]

Series x

[wispy sundial]

How can you be this inept to keep failing for days on end? The fight against ||Faust|| isn't even that hard.

[shrewd kindle]

I’m on series x too, most of my crashes have been from going into my inventory lol

[weary hedge]

It’s a little tedious, but I agree, it’s not that bad.

[shrewd kindle]

2 rpgs to the face solves the problem

[cinder ivy]

Hey guys, i got Q.
Artifacts don't respawn as often in anomalies for me, does the difficulty level affect this? Even after several emission cycles... Its bug or just normal think, thx

[weary hedge]

I do remember some people not realising you needed to shoot the lamps

[weary hedge]

Some respawn, some do not. That might be the issue. They should respawn after emissions though, the ones that do respawn that is.

[shrewd kindle]

I’ve been having a problem with some artifacts spawning under the floor and then they never despawn. Ended up having to write off the wild territory and malachite lab anomalies in my runs because of that

[cinder ivy]

I’ve come across new anomalies for the first time in different areas where artifacts should apparently spawn, but there was nothing there. Could it be due to progress? Or is it just random? I’m pretty frustrated when I trek XY kilometers to the anomalies and there’s nothing there, especially after 3 emissions have passed in the meantime...

[solar warren]

just shoot the lamps, i did it on like 20fps so its possible

that said i hope they fix the near unplayable performance issues with the faust fight

[urban surge]

do you get anything for completing the Lex the Legend side quest? Or is it pure lore. Like did I miss something

[weary hedge]

he has a stash west of the flea market, with a broken gun and a note

then you find him again in Zaton, get the choice to kill or spare
spare gives you nothing, kill you get his gun and another pda note

[urban surge]

huh okay. Just felt kinda anticlimactic I guess - especially cause his weapon is nothing special

[terse ravine]

got 200k just looting and selling everything before even leaving the lesser zone

[honest sandal]

What is the point of answering the GSC asks with non answers like "I'm not a tech guy". Maybe email someone in the studio who is then?

[urban surge]

might just be an outsourced support team there to deal with emails and queries- is a little counter intuative but they got a lot of work on I suppose

[wheat nova]

Guys, does the ammo of any of you change after using the grenade launcher? Because im using the armor piercing bullets and after using the bombs, it changes to the normal ones and its getting annoying

[gleaming ridge]

evening stalkers
got a question, theres a house in the north part of the chemical plant area, north of the central elevator, a house with a teleport i assume, needs a key to enter

is the key anywhere near the location or is it somewhere far? i just wanna know wether or not im just blind or havent visited the right place yet

[stark crescent]

wish more changes would happen to the zone. zalissya has an event that changes the "positions" of the traders, but the area itself doesnt really change.

after the fight of hte duga, maybe that some stalkers would set up shop there. create a new area.

[urban surge]

Damn I'd say there's quite a lot of change to be honest

[stark crescent]

i also want myklukla to shut up for just one goddamn minute whenever im in rostok XD

[urban surge]

Myklukla doesn't really feel like much of a character so far ngl

[stark crescent]

so do none of the factions, really. no interaction with them. after the ward is gone, you dont really see a result of the war between duty and freedom. rostok stays the same. cement factory stays the same. yanov stays the same. its just that zalissya is really undergoing change.

even garbage taken over by the ward doesnt really feel like it changing. just the guards at the gate that change outfits. or after the monolith attack, garbage says how rough they were having, but you literally see zero evidence of any fighting happening there

[solemn juniper]

did they release the roadmap yet?

[stark crescent]

that wont happen until the new year. and even then, probably 2 weeks into the new year at earliest. give the devs some vacation of their own.

[frigid hill]

chost05 has been warned

Reason: Bad word usage

[stark crescent]

chost how dare yee

[solar warren]

https://youtu.be/nX5wvylpX4M?si=lpRYKxBzvSS0k82y SOC menu screen is in stalker 2's open world

[urban surge]

neat

[sturdy verge]

dont forget to read the new info in #new-year-giveaway highly recommended 😄

[gusty field]

Where to click for giveway I don't understand

[urban surge]

I think the giveaway starts in 10 minutes

[honest sandal]

That'd make sense if I was contacting support. But those are answered presumably by the CM. I have no clue why you would advertise that your comunity manager and developers don't speak to each other rather then electing to not answer it.

[north jacinth]

Big tip for anyone who plays with dual monitors, if you wanna immerse yourself in stalker even more, there's this thing you can download called SRWE (I personally use it for Asetto Corsa), and it allows you to expand your FOV to both monitors.

[signal eagle]

Participate button in #new-year-giveaway

[manic ether]

Does anybody know where I can upgrade Seiga? D 12

[weary hedge]

What if instead of Clear Sky they were called (Freaky) Queer Side and instead of studying The Zone they studied toes

[urban surge]

Saiga? Pffft Ram 2 where it at

[slate topaz]

Artifact hunting is great too. You can quickly become “rich,” downside is that the repair costs eat at it very quickly. I became a literal millionaire and it’s been widdled down slowly but surely

[icy drum]

I use the spas 12 so idk.

[acoustic escarp]

i hate this dont say this clear sky is cool

[umbral garnet]

WHAT do u guys dfo after u did story do i load save, is there a way to leave the facility

[manic ether]

Where can I find a technician to upgrade it when I go to a normal one it says I can’t upgrade anything on a Seiga 12

[icy drum]

If you beat the game you must start a new game

[terse ravine]

go to a previous save before the point of no return if you don't wanna restart

[weary hedge]

Freaky Queer Side

[velvet mulch]

is ram 2 or saiga d 12 better for stalker 2?

[umbral garnet]

i hate when games do this

[leaden cradle]

how do we know it we are in #new-year-giveaway ?

[slate topaz]

I usually do too, but in this case it’s hard to see the game just proceeding normally after if something like Strelok lockdown or global multiplication happens lol

[weary hedge]

Saiga with the drum mag

[acoustic escarp]

makes sense a freedomer would feel this way. grass smoker....

[obsidian sedge]

mmmm
gras tasty

[icy drum]

I think why is because every ending alters the zone so drastically the devs didn't have time to make all that content in a game that's already this massive

[velvet mulch]

there's a drum mag for the saiga in stalker 2?

[umbral garnet]

I was about to say (1 minute wait time each message) it makes sense for some endings (like the ward one) but still, for skiff and the scar one, and sterlok bc it didnt really change much then it does not make sense

ill just load back save (tought this would happen)

[slate topaz]

We can’t even get Zaylissa to be saved properly after multiple fix attempts, I can only imagine trying to have the scientists and Ward fleeing from Strelok-controlled Monolith or whatever else 🤣

No offense devs, just bein real

[weary hedge]

its kinda funny how all of the endings involve a worse outcome than if you had just not done anything

[icy drum]

I made a new game after I beat it, and I'm just focusing on taking it slow this play through my first still took about 50 hours to complete. I got zaylissa to work properly so idk what is broken on yours

[slate topaz]

I’m biased since it’s my favorite ending, but feel like at least with ||Strelok you’re stopping SICAA/Ward from launching more absurd experiments with their “ending” (but not really) ending of the zone. The others I agree are worse for everyone than when we started||

[weary hedge]

my zalyssia counted as saved but the first set of quests barely worked and there was a bunch of monolothians hanging around in the ward building and jumping back and forth between combat and idle lol

[icy drum]

Yeah idk mine worked perfectly the entire time

[slate topaz]

I got it completed with the Base “saved” so I’m happy with it, but also have seen tons of people still having countless issues with it (even with the latest patch.) Just messy. I wasn’t being serious anyway on the comparison to ending changes/dynamics.

[devout shore]

for that sweepstakes thing to you just click participate? is anything supposed to happen after you do?

[icy drum]

I mean I bet modders are probably going to find a way to remove the main quest and the locks behind it like they did with anomaly and gamma. That or a way to have a new game + like mode. Other than that for my first Stalker experience other than watching dreski's videos I enjoy the game even with its jank. This coming from someone who pre ordered fallout 76 and still enjoyed that broken as game

[hidden mulch]

giveaway

[weary hedge]

havent played that one but from my understanding wouldnt it make the zone pointless, if it traps you there people like skif wouldnt risk stepping inside and anyone in there would either starve or die of old age, not like anyones gonna raise children there, seems like at that point might as well just go with ward ending

if only they couldve found a mentally stable person to get in the tank lo

[violet abyss]

@frigid hill

[slate topaz]

yeah, maybe too much assumptions on my part but they already try to block people from coming in and out and aren’t very good at it. I assume some will make it with food etc

maybe the Zone will become a utopia

[weary hedge]

speaking of ward ending its kinda rude how they dont fly you around in their helicopters

in retrospect its kinda cool how fallout 4 had that tbh

[weak walrus]

what even are wolfcheers for

[slate topaz]

I didn’t like their attitude when they came into town, and then knocking me out for no reason when I met with the PDA. It was over for them then. Nevermind Agatha’s very obvious bad intentions. I’m surprised they didn’t make Skif walk back to his new apartment on his own.

[ember urchin]

I’m confused why there isn’t final mission where we get to fourth atomic power plant because the games name is heart of Chernobyl and we have to get deep under the power plant

[weary hedge]

yeah its really funny how theyre like comically evil and the game goes through a lot of trouble setting up that whatever they do at the ending wont work for them, i was pretty solidly convinced their ending would be a dramatic failure

[slate topaz]

The entire SIRCAA quest, everyone being like “why would we need all of this security?” “Nothing will go wrong, right?”

😆 a clear sign something is about to go wrong

[weary hedge]

i guess it probably would have ended badly if dalin had gotten into the pod

[marble onyx]

soo after 180hours, and 4th playthru, i made it all the way to the furthest point i got thru all playthrus without any bugs ... cant believe that ... time to go once more unto the breach, is it long one ? do i need to equip with ... RPG n stuff ?

[gaunt ferry]

How long does your gear stick around when you drop it in a random spot?

[jagged zinc]

Good question

[ember urchin]

So frustrating that i just got to the mission with no point of return and now i have to walk 5 kilometres back to sidorovich just to finish all side quest as I don’t get back to explore the zone after the ending of game

[signal eagle]

Use a guide

[jagged zinc]

Hopefully we get a NG+ or something later on

[weak walrus]

whats the wolfcheer for

[ember urchin]

I’m waiting for DLC with Lymansk town and DLC for fourth atomic power plant so we can go inside it and even see the “elephant foot”

[gaunt ferry]

I dunno a ng+ seems like the exact opposite of what they're going for. A new game+ would be like, and sometimes you get struck by lightning when there's no clouds

[marble onyx]

doubt that will happen

[iron wind]

doubt

[cyan hatch]

I pressed enter giveaway it did nothing

[wooden escarp]

Thanks dawg

[ember urchin]

I wonder how many bolts do we have in our backpack

[wooden escarp]

I don’t want the game to end I’m dragging feet on main missions but it’s getting good

I’ve devoted hours into the game 😂 and idk how I feel about starting all over again

[cyan hatch]

How do i know im entered in the giveaway?

[wooden escarp]

If you clicked the “Enter giveaway” you’re in.

But if you accidentally click it twice, you get removed.

Only mods can see names of those entered into the giveaway

[cyan hatch]

I accidentally spammed uh oh i thoufht it was broke what do i do😱

[ember urchin]

How many percentage of the story do i complete as I get to Pripyat?

[weak walrus]

99%

[ember urchin]

Dayum, i thought like 70%

[weak walrus]

i think there was only like. 2 quests for me there. one was the final one that is a point of no return, so it ends the open world part by making it a linear part. so when u finish it, it ends the game.

[ember urchin]

Do i get back to open world after?

[weak walrus]

by reloading the save before you start the final quest parts

[ember urchin]

Okay, I’ll stick to collecting all of the electronic collars in the name of the science

[wooden escarp]

Try to remember how many times you clicked each give away

[ember urchin]

What giveaway?

[lusty veldt]

#new-year-giveaway

[ember urchin]

Can i participate in each of them?

[rugged gulch]

Hey guys im searching hours now to find a horn artefact. Do you know a safe location to get one?

[ember urchin]

There are 3 zones labeled on map where the power plant is located at.

[civic relic]

lol i just cheezed the fk outta that stealth mission for the doctor. i just sprinted past everyone grabbed the device and sprinted back out and only ended up using like 3 kits haha

[wooden escarp]

Ye I did anyways but only one entry per giveaway don’t go clicking it multiple times

One click= entry
Two clicks=removal from giveaway

[silk vapor]

does the confirmation from Wolf disappear if we remove ourselves from the giveaway? I did click it like 3 times (not spamming, I waited each time) so I'm not sure I'm in 😭

[wooden escarp]

You won’t know

Have to remember how many times you clicked the entry button

That’s always been the case when I’ve done giveaways on other servers

One click enters you
Two clicks removes you
Three clicks re-enters you

[silk vapor]

Man, I should have waited tomorrow morning. I'm unsure 😞 thanks for the explanation anyway. Wish at least the button changed to reflect the status!

[wooden escarp]

They probably should’ve spelled that out or maybe they did and people didn’t read

But they should highlight you can only enter each giveaway one time so only click the giveaway once

@waxen marten

Seems like several people are clicking the buttons numerous times thinking they’re getting numerous entries into the giveaways

Might be worth clearing this up that stalkers should only click the button once for each giveaway

[sturdy verge]

people will still double click regardless lol

[silk vapor]

I think for a lot of people it's also just wanting to enter but not knowing if we should click again or just click once and wait. I just thought my click hadn't been registered, but that's on me
(edit: I tested on another giveaway, seems like you do get a message telling you you've removed yourself from the giveaway. So I assume as long as you got the confirmation the first time, it's fine 👍 )

[ember urchin]

Why does the guy in business suit from НДІЧАС reminds me Zelenksy so much?

[river chasm]

Dalin? He seems to have a similar face

[ember urchin]

Feels like dev made Dalin look like Zelenskyy because of the War background in Ukraine

[harsh jungle]

i hope i get to touch the elephants foot in the dlc

[ember urchin]

Same, Because of the games name, i thought i will go inside the nuclear power plant to find the “Heart of Chernobyl”

[harsh jungle]

im tellin you the elephants foot is mine

[slate topaz]

||One thing I’ve learned to do is save when I’m like 100m from an anomaly type that I need, and I keep reloading and going up to it until the one I want appears ||😂

[ember urchin]

Make sure to lick every inch of that elephants foot

[rugged gulch]

Thats a good idea xD. I dont know why but i have the feeling that those artifacts missions do something with the spawn of the specific needed artifact 🤣

[harsh jungle]

im gonna steal the elephants foot now that im thinkin about it

[ember urchin]

Some people talking about the dlc for snow location in game

[slate topaz]

yeah, I like artifact hunting just to see the different types and sell them so I don’t usually do that method — but when I’m going for a quest, it suddenly means the type I need is never populating. 😂 the save method works after reloading probably a handful of times usually.

[eager carbon]

lol they dont allow russians to participate in the giveaway?

[ember urchin]

That’s for the best

[eager carbon]

like a third of stalker fans are probably russian

[slate topaz]

So then none of them should really be surprised given what’s happening in the world that they aren’t shipping giveaways to Russia

[signal eagle]

Why run a giveaway to a country you dont sell the game in?

[river chasm]

Even if they cared to for whatever mysterious reason, it would be pretty hard logistically and probably legally

[ember urchin]

I lost my count on non-stop i drank today just to collect all electronic collars for Shcherba

The map is MASSIVE

[north jacinth]

You know what else is massive? LOWWWWW TAPEEEERRRRR FADEEEE

[stark crescent]

well, maybe russians would have thought of that before they put a former kgb agent as their president, who then keeps changing the rules to stay in power, and then wages war against a country, blaming them for the war, and who keeps threatening with nuclear war like a bald baby.

[ember urchin]

There is no way that i collected those collars for days and all i got is 6000 coupons??

[drowsy gorge]

Been trying to get the hypercube and I'm too lazy to walk across the zone for a thermal anomaly.

[terse ravine]

burnt forest has a lot of thermal anomalies

[soft plover]

Fix the God damm "Back to the Slag heap" mission, GSC

[ripe anvil]

best bet atp is to be reincarnated

[signal eagle]

Finally! I got the Bingo achievement

[analog inlet]

Chimera on stalker2 on hardest difficulty is imposible to do only 50 bulets grom sootgun and 100 from akm

[ripe anvil]

yesssssssss stalker2 yesssss i love going from 120 fps to 4 fps in the middle of a gunfight ive already done 4 times yesssssssssssssss goty

[analog inlet]

I isn't have any lags now on medium

But i was trying 3 hours to run gamę first time and evry try was waiting for shaders kekw

[royal garden]

Game of the year already happened pal

You don’t think the game will be fixed within a year? Have some faith my friend. The game has incredible potential it’s actually ridiculous

[ripe anvil]

there is no deeper meaning to my message

[royal garden]

“goty”

[marble onyx]

so after malachite, if you side with ward, does traders come back after a while or malachite is dead zone for you from now on

[hidden yoke]

yes, ward took over, the base is now belong to the ward

[terse ravine]

how to you slide down ladders on controller?

[marble onyx]

soo no traders and technician no more ?

[hidden yoke]

it's now bug and you can actually get into the base using guide (the icon will be orange so worse price???)

[marble onyx]

ah, you shouldnt be get in after quest in lab where you side with ward ? i see .. hoped the vendors will be back .. seems i cant complete quests i took from them 😄 didnt know i will do this to malachite

[terse ravine]

it's kinda annoying that after sircaa a lot of bases lose their guides

[hidden yoke]

"just kill all the base and start walking like a TRUE GUIDE"

[terse ravine]

can you lock yourself out of progression if you kill friendly npcs

[marble onyx]

yeah thats rly bothering, i dotn rly see point of it.. fast travel is alrdy limited to guides and now you even loose them 😄 so even more walking

[hidden yoke]

they won't let you kill certain npc

[signal eagle]

Click left stick in, same as run

[cedar stag]

imagine not walking through the zone, not taking chances to find more artifacts, more eastereggs, more anomalys and more stashes

[terse ravine]

I've jumping off ladders and leaning back into them right before hitting the floor this whole time

[cobalt fiber]

Coming across the front end of chem plant base is fun post sircca noon/spark heh

[terse ravine]

I thoroughly explore the area of the map I'm in before progressing to the next objective

[cedar stag]

I heard that whoever puts the pregnant man on posts as reaction is an e-girl simp and will be ambushed by Monolith when they close their eyes to sleep

[cobalt fiber]

https://tenor.com/view/wtf-what-the-fuck-the-fuck-is-this-wth-gif-17571836

[weary hedge]

#💬┃en_offtop message

Need answer

[frigid hill]

vendetta543 has been warned

Reason: Bad word usage

[novel quarry]

i always figured kids used that one ngl. if thats the case i don't think they're old enough to simp for anyone yet 😉

[cedar stag]

what do you think the target audience for egirls is? not the happily married family husband. its the unstable kids who get bullied and have no friends.
the same people that add pregnant man emotes to posts.
COINCIDENCE? I think not!

[marble onyx]

Future OF subscribers

[cedar stag]

i dont wanna know jamroasts browser history or what/whom he is subscribed to

there were no GIF mishaps here

[shrewd kindle]

Took me a month but I’m finally in Prypiat, also I guess Garry decided to go on vacation because I can’t find the dude anywhere

[hidden yoke]

he died

[signal eagle]

Someone said they found him just outside doors on pripyat side

[shrewd kindle]

He's guiding people around in the great big zone in the sky now

[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/

[whole crest]

great they patched the trading glitch

[civic relic]

downgrade to previous patch

[frigid hill]

geist0 has been warned

Reason: Bad word usage

[whole crest]

thatll mess up a life wont it

[civic relic]

only one way to find out

i finally met strelok. im gonna team up with him i guess for this 1st playthrough. he said its everyone against me or him against me hmm

[whole crest]

ugh god i hope they fix the trader prices

[civic relic]

whats even wrong with them?

[pine coral]

i hope they fix the softlock bugs

[whole crest]

i sell artefacts for shit the trader prices were better in the trilogy

[pine coral]

well there's that one line: "The artifacts back then were something"

But I mean, just sell guns and do quests. much better income ig

[civic relic]

yeah prices are really bad for some reason. i was really hoping there would be some special trader that would buy artifacts for atleast a bit more then the prices now

[hidden yoke]

some trader give you more money + quest (from rostok and above) give you more money than selling the artfact

[sturdy verge]

ahh finally did all endings for those achievements now time to do the rest of achievement's 😄

[whole crest]

also repairs are a lot

[pine coral]

aka ecologists right

[rich coral]

Wolf's avatar is actual Wolf in S2?

[pine coral]

sadly I have the weird softlock in the wishgranter room

[gloomy citrus]

Aw man my save file got bricked.

[gloomy citrus]

yeah

He's the guide in Cordon.

[turbid cipher]

Recent update seems to have done to that alot of people

[rich coral]

He's looking way to happy to be Wolf.

[gloomy citrus]

No I mean, the save still works. I just got hardlocked because the cutscene wont play when you meet Scar for the first time.

[pine coral]

ok so, you have to go to a save before talking to ric, and then right after speaking to him, you have to run before the next emission

[gloomy citrus]

I think the entire save file is bugged because I got affected by permanent Psi status effect.

Oh well, start a new game it is.

[pine coral]

reset the game ig

[gloomy citrus]

No it doesnt work.

It all started when I was going to get Diamond Exo from yaniv.

[alpine oak]

Hey guys, question, can i enter more than one prize pool or just one?

[gloomy citrus]

I got hit by a psi effect but for some reason it was permanent.

[gloomy citrus]

You can enter every category.

[alpine oak]

Thanks

[blissful surge]

Same happened to me otw to Yaniv, lost about 4 hours of progress going back to get rid of it.

[gloomy citrus]

I got rid of it by using UEtool but it bricked my entire gameplay.

[pine coral]

im stuck at the wish granter, where only dalin spawns. Fr hating it.

[half carbon]

The Faust fight gave me flashbacks to fighting Handsome Jack

[paper trail]

I gotta use uetools and a quest command to.continue. do you use an optimization mod.by chance ?

[pine coral]

No, I'm on Xbox

So it's just the game deciding to do this lol

[paper trail]

If you are on Xbox then you are hardlocked now. If you want to play and roam around you would need to load a save before sircaa. We need to wait until they fix this. Because you are trapped in sircaa now

[pine coral]

oh.. shit

[sturdy verge]

He deffo getting that free chicken hanging out in cordon all the time, guiding and all

[pine coral]

welp, now I have a reason to play other games, ha

[civic relic]

Diamond exo from yaniv? And ur at the part where u first meet scar? Wut

[gloomy citrus]

You can go anywhere once you got access to Garbage except Pripyat.

Theres a Diamond Exo on top of Scientist bunker in Yaniv.

[pine coral]

tbh imo, doesn't feel natural to do so

[civic relic]

Yoooo i tried getting ontop of scientist bunker wtf

Man is scientist bunker even part of the story or what? Im pretty far into story and scientist bunker has nothing there

[paper trail]

Isn't it the old spark bunker ?

[haughty umbra]

as of 1.1.3 is skipping cutscenes broken?

[civic relic]

Yooooo thats crazy. U gotta move a crate and do trick jumps to get that diamond exo

[midnight tulip]

zaton is such a terrible place.... might cry.... its not the same like back in CoP where you can just befriend the bandits and avoid getting shot now you actually have to fight and do something with your life..... 💔

[turbid cipher]

It's broken when I've tried to on xbox not sure what platform your on

[hidden yoke]

yes

So, anyone know how to get the weird bolt artifact?

[turbid cipher]

Go to the tornado in yaniv once you get to the eye a path we'll be laid out

[hidden yoke]

i'd been inside the tornado and i see no bolt

[turbid cipher]

Oop might be glitched for you I know the weird water is still broken to shit so I wouldn't put it past it

[hidden yoke]

look like it doesn't spawn in at all for me

[slate topaz]

I tried rebuilding my relationship with Machalite by secretly following around Ward guards and their security and then jumping in to help when they’d have hostility with others or mutants. It hasn’t worked, just a lot of med kits lost when they turn on me so it’s them AND the mutants attacking me.

[turbid cipher]

Very likely could be the situation I know the arch artifacts are very buggy

[hidden yoke]

i have the weird water, just don't have a used for it since i have 4 lead containers

[hidden yoke]

OH, the weird water only spawn at night, i forgot. The light doesn't spawn until night

[drowsy folio]

Q: did anybody love the day-z mod for arma 2?
(curious if stalker fans did.)

[north jacinth]

Goodnight Stalkers

[north jacinth]

Is it worth it tho?

[bronze stream]

This is my first stalker game and I’m enjoying it

[hidden yoke]

anyone know what the Weird Pot artifact do???

[novel quarry]

i dont use it cause for some reason the drunk effect makes me nauseous after a bit

[slate topaz]

Yes!

[novel quarry]

this is coming from someone who jumped off skyscrapers in VR without issue...so its a bit...confusing )

[gloomy citrus]

Welcome to the zone. Good hunting, Stalker.

[gaunt jungle]

I love how people in the zone don't give a damn about getting hit in the face by multiple bolts

[rocky lava]

Ya it’s pretty funny

[gaunt jungle]

If someone threw a bolt in my face I would blow their head off

[rocky lava]

I love there bolt in face facial pain animations

[barren geyser]

Anyone knows how to fix the bug that makes Korshunov invisible in the first cutsecene he's in?

[novel quarry]

low key blood suckers were scarier in older games. never going to forget first time I ran into them, idk i guess they prob will be memorable for new people on this one too but like, agroprom in the first games is 10/10 horror

[iron belfry]

how is weird water broken? is that why my character is constantly drunk?

[hidden yoke]

oh no no, they just didn't get the weird water to spawn. (only spawn at night)

[iron belfry]

ohh

[bronze stream]

Holy moly

Is a goldfish artifact useful?

[tribal flame]

Korshunov is probably my favorite character

[bronze stream]

Or should i sell it

[tribal flame]

Sell any artifact below rare that doesn't give rad protection, maybe keep a couple uncommons because one weak rad protection artifact will cancel out a medium rad artifact

[bronze stream]

I’m ngl Ukrainian music SLAPS

[novel quarry]

hes cool yeah. i like richter a lot as well.

[hidden yoke]

i hate skif

[novel quarry]

hes fine. hes kind of what you make him. at least hes not an insufferable dick like cyberpunk pc is

[blissful surge]

Ukrainian post punk is peak

[hidden yoke]

have you seen him fight Korshunov

[novel quarry]

nah i think i got bored before i got that far. spent too much time exploring

[hidden yoke]

my man do a melee fight against Korshunov while he has a pistol on him THE WHOLE GOD DAMN TIME.

[weary hedge]

I liked the colonel, he had a limit of the shit he would take - which is why towards the end he lets you kill Dalin if you want, cause he's just over all the crap

[hidden yoke]

||RICHTER DIE BECAUSE OF IT, AND THEN HE PULL OUT THE PISTOL AND SHOT KORSHONUV||

[weary hedge]

The only thing I dislike is the colonel being a lapdog for agatha and the foundation - I wouldn't mind a group with the no-nonsense attitude, that just wants to fight the zone and beat it back

[hidden yoke]

i was pissed seeing that cutscene

[weary hedge]

It kinda felt like that the whole game, you've really only two choices, either the zone expands or it stays the same and you give someone control over it

Which really does reinforce the belief that nearly all the main characters are influenced by C-Consciousness

[hidden yoke]

c-con is the devs, they control the characters

[bronze stream]

I love the gunplay in this game

[weary hedge]

I was reading somewhere, I can't remember where but the jist was that c-consciousness had several plans, and back up plans that all lead or attempt to lead to the same outcome

Strelok and Scar are both pushing outcomes that benefit C-Consciousness. Strelok doesn't even know it, the dudes like a triple agent. They screwed with his mind something chronic.

Faust was obviously plan #1. When that failed, Strelok was plan #2. Scar was #3.

[wintry pumice]

it works sometimes but not others

[weary hedge]

I'm also kind of poised to believe Skif himself was somehow involved, as his ending also benefits C-Consciousness.

It doesn't really make sense that the whole fire happens, Skif touches the artifact, gets visions, then both he AND strelok go to the zone at the same time

Skif is constantly pushed into meeting all these people, and a lot of the time its unexpected

[zinc bluff]

question, if i put my stuff in one the purple marked stalker staches, does it ever despawn? is there a limit to how far away from it i can go?

[indigo warren]

Hi

[indigo warren]

It doesn't despawn, no limit, and that's from personal experience, even if you progress the questline, unless it blocks of the area it's in of course

[zinc bluff]

thank you so much my fellow stalker

[chrome jetty]

C-Con is dead

It doesn't exist anymore

[weary hedge]

The people I mentioned were all turned into agents prior to S2, other than Skif, but thats just a personal theory

[chrome jetty]

Strelok was a STALKER agent during the events of SoC but he's the one that destroyed them

[weary hedge]

This ignores the ward ending where agatha straight up tells you strelok is still an agent

[chrome jetty]

Like if that makes any sense

Because it doesn't

It's either a lie or the writers fucked up once again

[ornate sable]

Or maybe Agatha just doesn't know as much as she thinks she knows

[weary hedge]

I dunno about that - at the end of SoC, Strelok BELIEVES he is free. In reality, I don't think he is. This adds up with what Agatha says, considering the foundation ran the stalker program.

Do you remember the end of SoC and the mirage with Strelok? Imo, they let him believe he destroyed C-Consciousness.

At the end of Clear Sky, you see both Strelok AND Scar being brainwashed, which makes it clear they were apart of the plans C-Consciousness had.

All the agents may seem like they have different goals, but their endings always benefit C-Consciousness.

Faust’s willingness to let Skif kill him in my opinion shows that Faust understands what’s really happening. He knows he, Scar, Strelok, and Skif are all working toward the same endgame, even if they don’t fully realize it. The mission to stop SIRCAA is the priority, and C-Con doesn’t care who gets to the pod first as long as it happens.

At the end of S2 you get all the televisions in the corridoor, showing infected agents. Notice how it leaves out Strelok? That's you being manipulated to see him differently.

He is 100% an agent.

[hidden yoke]

didn't the doctor also said that, C-Con won't be completed until you fill up all 8 pods?

[weary hedge]

And then there’s also the representative. By this game, it can’t directly interact with the Zone anymore, so C-Con needs agents inside the pod to keep their influence alive.

That’s where Scar, Strelok, and Skif all come in. They weren’t random players—they were key to freeing the scientists trapped in the Noosphere, which gave C-Con the access they needed to reconnect with the Zone. This was all part of their preparation for SIRCAA, a plan that’s been in motion since SoC.

C-Con also definitely had an order of preference in regard to who it wanted in the pods, but in 3 out of 4 endings, C-Consciousness wins. The only time it doesn't, Agatha and the foundation win.

[hidden yoke]

who get in the pod will control the zone. Become the C-Consciousness

[weary hedge]

You also get dialogue from the Colonel that talks about this,
He basically says C-Con bred agents like roaches. Dark one, scar, strelok, all of them. and that was before you discover the stalker program notes

Hopefully Wolf doesn't delete this, just pasting some convo logs between the Colonel and Skif;

Col. Korshunov: “I always knew he was trouble. Even back when he showed up at SIRCAA with that C-Consciousness pod piece of glass and the X7 papers.”

“And I was right. Six months later, an explosion at X11 (SIRCAA base). Strelok was barely mentioned in the report. New hires have had to deal with extra background checks ever since.”

“Strelok's got the tattoo below his elbow, and he's fixated on an agenda that no one else can understand.”

“Oh, and I appreciate what you did with Scar. Thanks to you, my men found documents at the Clear Sky base that confirm the group's ties to C-Consciousness.”

Remember, Faust actually lets Skif die if you choose to take his hand when you're stuck on the roof. Why is this?

It's a test. Is Skif strong enough?

I think the point that I was trying to make is just that C-Con is obviously still embedded within the story line, regardless of what Agatha and the Ward want you to believe

It doesn't benefit them to be honest about that. They want you to help them, not believe Strelok.

[chrome jetty]

1. CS is taken BEFORE SoC

2. C-Con attempted and fought off Strelok but in the end they failed and died, the ending cutscene doesn't mean that Strelok was sure that the Zone would vanish and his objective was to remove the Zone

3. We can see confirmation of that as in CoP the Zone is way more unstable through emissions compared to SoC proving Lebedev's points in CS

4. Strelok is somehow not affected by the neuroprogramming TVs as he uses it and watches it himself

5. In S2 it's the Ward/SIRCAA that is actually controlling the neuroprogramming labs

6. (without considering S2) In CS and SoC there is no confirmation that Scar was brainwashed since we don't see him

7. Not all agents end up benefiting C-Con as the representative himself said, most of them die and there often are errors in the programming which is what helped Marked One

8. ||Faust is the one that pushes Skif to be inside the pod in order to spread the Zone all over the world, basically going against what C-Con wanted which was preventing and limiting the spread of the Zone||

9. Last point doesn't make much sense since Strelok is not affected by the neuroprogramming TVs

||Also Subtle Matter theory was proved to be wrong and Dalin himself destroys it once again||

[weary hedge]

Hmmm. Good points indeed, though I would argue C-Con could have easily made it seem like they were fighting against Strelok

There was no reason to let Strelok via the portals reach the generators, unless they orchestrated it. To me it seemed like there were ideas planted in his head that he thought were his own. They tried to brainwash him in CS, which failed, so they moved onto subtle mind games.

Regarding #7 - Agatha herself said the best agents are ones that don't even know they are agents.

So we know they definitely have deeper agents they control without them even being aware

[chrome jetty]

They never let Strelok do that in fact they tried to fight him

Portals are not created by C-Con

[chrome jetty]

Scar and Strelok know that they were

Scar himself says it as well

In S2 obv

[stark crescent]

wait. wasnt hte brain scorcher a place in hte red forest? why is it at malachite in stalker 2...

[tribal flame]

Maybe the real stalker 2 was the brains we scorched along the way

You never know what someone is going through till you've souped their brain

[weary hedge]

Definitely not were in my eyes, Strelok still was lol

Also, Fausts ending is a bit odd and kind of implies Skif was somehow indoctrinated into rushing into the zone after touching the artifact

It doesn't really make much sense to me that Skif would rush into the zone because of his house being burned down - that artifact itself would be worth more than his house

[tribal flame]

I decided to fully upgrade the grom s-15 this playthrough and it performs pretty well. Though i can't find any vog-25

[weary hedge]

And, who gets Skif a new house?

AGATHA. Coincidence? I THINK NOT!

[chrome jetty]

Fact is, they fucked up the writing so bad that people are questioning the endings, I don't even do that because it's so messed up that i cannot take it in consideration nor take it as a sequel of the trilogy...
The game is incoherent with its own endings and questlines too

[tribal flame]

Korshunov my goat, the only character besides richter that will genuinely respect you

[weary hedge]

Lmao I love the leeway it gives for my conspiracies though

[chrome jetty]

It's just bad writing

The S2 2011 build lore docs were a thousand times better

[misty orchid]

So like genuine question here.

But can ai just randomly kill leaders in the main quest?

[weary hedge]

It wouldn't be so incoherent if we look at it like most of it are just lies and manipulation

What Strelok and Scar say they want doesn't really matter, in the grand scheme of things

[tribal flame]

Leaders no

[misty orchid]

So I say that because the shah just randomly and I mean randomly died. And I wasn’t even near him I was in Rostok

[chrome jetty]

It literally is incoherent, especially regarding the link to the trilogy

Why is Strelok not affected by the neuroprogramming monitors?

[tribal flame]

Sorry that was me. The Shah is a punk so i popped his head like a grape

[misty orchid]

LMAO

[tribal flame]

The Shah? More like the Shot. Because i shot him

[misty orchid]

Tbh the fact ai killed him is showing a life is getting better which is making me happy ngl

[tribal flame]

Roosevelt is fine but he better watch his mouth before it gets filled with lead

[misty orchid]

oh and another thing while I think the ward is a very interesting faction I can’t stand them at all imo.

[weary hedge]

It's a glitch in his programming, you mentioned the representative talking about it.

That's basically confirmed as the representative says he went against his programming. You find a list of C-Con agents near the end of the game, and he is on it.

Representative; "We invited him [Strelok] to join us in the eighth pod. A mistake that might otherwise have cost us our lives - because he chose to destroy us instead. "

I don't think they knew at the time of SoC that they can live on just in the form of Subtle Matter. The Representative calls it a mistake not without a reason. The "otherwise" in the quote above also nudges me in this direction.

[tribal flame]

The ward gets better if you actually side with them more during the quests. Korshunov is my favorite character

[misty orchid]

I’ve noticed that I do like that but I just disagree with what they want to do

[tribal flame]

I despise Spark, even when you constantly help them they basically call you a loser and tell you to watch your back

[misty orchid]

like id rather have a free zone or something where the factions actually do better then the ward especially since imo they act like a bunch of assholes.

[tribal flame]

I mean the Scar ending is by far the worst one

[misty orchid]

I would continue the story but everytime I try to continue it crashes :((

[tribal flame]

Also in their defense they are trying to bring some degree of order to a zone full of wind that turns you inside out, failed science experiments that cripple you then drink you blood, and factions of roaming bandits comprised of escaped convicts

[cobalt haven]

How i really feel is like SIRCAA is being held by the regulatory board, with possible a secret Monolith or C-con influence

Strelok definitely sabotaged something in x11 before leaving, probably because he feel something is going wrong.

Agatha is definitely hiding something else from other people like Dalin and Korshunov.

Dalin just want approval from his daddy. Korshunov is a yesman for Agatha.

Scar is still an agent, even if he is self aware, and he has some involvement in the Carribean Experiment. That weird motivation of him is from the other personality.

Skif became an envoy of the Monolith without him knowing it. The laundry incident is destiny.

Faust was just a tool in the grand scheme of things.

[tribal flame]

I don't trust Agatha but also Korshunov my GOAT

[weary hedge]

Lmao I also wanted to kill Agatha, even though I side with Ward.

I guarantee the colonel probably didnt like her either lol

[tribal flame]

I sided with noontide at SIRCAA my first playthrough and i wanted to shoot Scar every single time i interracted with him

[cobalt haven]

It's really questionable how Hermann knew about Skif before the prologue.

My theory is Skif is really intended to be the target.

This is just a delicate Rude Goldberg machine in action.

[weary hedge]

There is one part that confuses me with the Ward ending, and thats at the end you see a camera view from Sidorovich as well as Skif, as if they are watching out of your eyes

And then if you remember, when you first meet Agatha, she plays the conversation you had with Scar, who we learn is an agent

[tribal flame]

Scar is off his damn rocker, he's got more than a few screws loose. He's not just on something he's drowning in it

[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/

[tribal flame]

I think we know we're in green but ty

[cobalt haven]

You know what else is Green?

Freedom

JOIN FREEDOM TODAY!

[ebon blade]

What more do I need to know? I'm already expecting that, so I guess it will upset me less.

[weary hedge]

This confuses me because it isnt obvious if they always had this ability, or if you gave it to them by giving them control of the zone

The part with agatha playing scars convo is interesting because now i dont know if it was just intercepted, or if they always had the ability to monitor their agents that way?

In that case, that would make Sidi and Skif agents - but I'm not happy with that theoretical and I think its wrong

[cobalt haven]

Maybe Doctor cured him somehow offscreen.

Doctor is Kaymanov after all.

Maybe the Heart of Chornobyl has some effect on him.

[chrome jetty]

You get that it influences to a secondary exposure regardless of being an active agent or not? Strelok was brainwashed for good but it was thanks to the Doctor that helped him out, and again Subtle Matter theory doesn't exist

It's just a massive amount of lore mess from the S2 writers

[chrome jetty]

Lmfao

[cobalt haven]

(or maybe he ate the 'bread' from Dark Valley)

[weary hedge]

If it does that regardless of you being an active agent, why didnt it affect Skif? It's a neural programming monitor, by implication shouldnt it affect everyone?

[chrome jetty]

You need to know that Degtyarev became a pussy and is now useless to the plot

[chrome jetty]

Skif was not brainwashed lol

And again

[cobalt haven]

"Muh Prypiat, muh corps, every second counts, don't disturb me or I'll treat you like a Monolithian"

Proceeds to stay inside

[chrome jetty]

S2 writing is incoherent with itself

So if you choose Ward you see X stuff

Spark you see Y

Strelok you see K

And bla bla

Like, there's no way someone could have messed up that bad thinking that no one would replay the game and notice it

Yet it surprised me that it was the case

[tribal flame]

The Ward's actions make more sense if you side with the ward more. Spark's actions make less sense if you side with spark more

[chrome jetty]

Never seen such a mess in other games, breaks my heart to see that much of a mess, even the 2011 S2 docs were better, they could've used these instead

[cobalt haven]

Yeah there are a bunch of plot holes.

What i see in Spark is actually a personal vendetta against Ward.

[weary hedge]

The video is part of the brainwashing process

[chrome jetty]

What are you talking about

[tribal flame]

Strelok just starts schizo posting on twitter the more you side with him

[chrome jetty]

Yeah it's all a mess

It's like, F4 story levels but with the addition of being incoherent with itself

[cobalt haven]

Hmmm. What if agent programming has expiration?

What if Dark is just a recent agent?

[tribal flame]

After doing Strelok's ending i can only assume he wants to bang the zone. Correct me if i'm wrong

[weary hedge]

I'm reading some stalker wikis trying to make sense of things lol I didn't finish the first games cause I was like 12 and my pc was poo lol

"The communal consciousness needed secret agents to act as its limbs and act as its eyes and ears in the zone and the outside world . Of course, there were monoliths made by wish-granters who were just people to use as limbs, but since they were fanatics, it was difficult to use them as 'secret agents'.

Accordingly, the collective consciousness created a stalker program to find a suitable target and create agents who simply act according to the given mission without even knowing that they are agents themselves.

Only the most capable of the stalkers who reached the center of the zone, that is, the Chernobyl nuclear power plant, were selected to create agents . Those who were not selected became Monolith.

Those selected in this way have the STALKER mark stamped on their forearms and are taken to a neurology research center deep underground near the power plant. They are forced to watch a video called 'Neuro-Visual Programmer' and have their existing memories erased, and if necessary, create fake memories or new ones. It also instills character.

After completing brainwashing, the agent candidate was placed unconscious in an appropriate location inside the zone in a truck called the 'Death Truck'. Because the process of going through all of these programs placed a significant strain on the body and mind, a significant number of agent candidates died before they could be deployed. In fact, the agents who were successfully deployed alive quietly lived assimilated with the stalkers, and since what the stalkers generally witnessed was agents who died before deployment being thrown away from the death truck, the STALKER mark was understood as a mark to be placed on dead test subjects. .

[cobalt haven]

The Simp Ending

[weary hedge]

read more here ; they detailed quite a lot of information on the stalker program

https://en.namu.wiki/w/스토커 프로그램

[chrome jetty]

Yes i know all that i have replayed SoC a thousand times, that's just C-Con rep explaining how the process works

[tribal flame]

With all the issues the game has i still think about it constantly

[weary hedge]

Your assumption that they are dead is just taking certain things for granted though, in the same way you said I take Agatha for granted

In my eyes, C-Con would use you and lie to you, just as Agatha would

But in this scenario, Agatha wants to use you against C-Con

[cobalt haven]

Lets all put Lex The Legend on the pod

[chrome jetty]

Strelok case was one of the many mistakes that happen during the brainwashing, including the deaths

If you haven't played SoC you should play it

The wikis usually never give enough info

Especially the English ones

[cobalt haven]

Agatha is certainly the representative of the Regulatory Board. This is a hostile takeover operation.

[weary hedge]

I want to but im a graphics pleb, i cant play much older games anymore lol

Though I guess there is always Anomaly?

[tribal flame]

I shot Lex my second playthrough, as George Bush once said "Fool me once shame on you, fool me - You can't get fooled again"

[simple shard]

Anomaly is for CoP and is very... even entirely different from vanilla at that

[weary hedge]

"The agent's sight and hearing are transmitted to the communal consciousness in real time, and this signal can be received by a facility in the central communication center and played back on the TV screen and speakers. Even if the agent dies, this feature works to some extent. In the heart of Chornobyl, the Surveillance Group took over a central communication center and used this device to track down agents, but since the central communication center could only pick up audio-visual signals from agents within the zone, it could not track agents who had already left the zone."

This is referenced by the Colonel in S2

Col. Korshunov: “The Dark One, Scar, Strelok. C-Consciousness bred them like cockroaches. This installation will help us find every last agent, but only within the Perimeter.”

[chrome jetty]

Lmfao, Anomaly lore is not canon and has no story lol

[weary hedge]

Way to kill my dreams in one quick swoop, you dream killer you 😦

[chrome jetty]

I am just a STALKER loremaster

Too bad that the money went to graphics and gunplay rather than proper writing

[cobalt haven]

Korshunov with his gen4 exo vs that teleporting merc in True Stalker.

Place your bets lads.

[weary hedge]

I always thought Anomaly was just the first three games combined into one huge map with added mods (but I havent looked at Anomaly other than downloading it like years ago and playing for like, 10 minutes)

[chrome jetty]

Lmfao

[simple shard]

Anomaly is literally its own game with its own mods, and is free, and is fun though. Gamma 0.9.3 is out too, good fun as well. Neither is stalker per se, but you could say they're "experiences in the world of stalker, more or less, through the eyes of a rookie"
Especially gamma

[weary hedge]

' one huge map' lmao getting carried away like it was a gta mix and mash 😂

[cobalt haven]

Man, imagine if Goldsphere mod was remade with Stalker 2 map. That black anomaly would cover more of Garbage

[chrome jetty]

Jekan should've been the S2 narrative designer

Approved by @dapper rock

[weary hedge]

Looks like you were right about Strelok, at least, according to that wiki

'In addition, agents have a fatal weakness: when they watch the video of the neural vision programmer used in the brainwashing process again, their nerves go crazy and their entire body twists, and if they are continuously exposed to the video, they will eventually die. Of course, as previously mentioned, the stalker program itself is not well known to the general public, and since the neural vision programmer is a video used only at the Neurological Research Institute, a top-secret facility, there is no way for the general public to know about this method. Strelok used this method as a trap to catch agents whose goal was to kill him.'

Why the hell isn't Strelok affected. Hm. I'm SURE dudes a triple agent

[weary hedge]

Exactly, in every ending we’re a pawn, you just need to decide which ending is best. I’m trying to get all the endings, so multiple play throughs, but at least Ward wants to end the whole pseudoscience cult.

[chrome jetty]

I mean, of course i am right i have been playing STALKER since 2008 and i documented lots of stuff in my language

[cobalt haven]

Because he is the Shadow of Chornobyl

Maybe he is too fried to be affected. He got the brainrot

[weary hedge]

"The list of agents known so far is as follows: This is just a list of known agents, but it is mentioned in the story that the actual number of agents is much larger and many have already advanced outside the zone.

Strelok
He lost his memory and became active under the name Marked One . Perhaps there was some mistake, but the mission given was to kill Strelok , and as he attempted to carry out this task, he eventually found out that he was Strelok and his brainwashing was broken. In the end, the common consciousness of Jeongsa Sang was destroyed.

Scar
In the ending of Stalker Clear Sky, after stopping Strelok and being struck down by an emission, he was overwritten with the memories and personality of 'Marshall', a founding member of the scientific research group 'Spark'. The given mission is to erase humanity's negative emotions, which was the goal of the common body of consciousness, and to create a heaven-like place in the Noosphere where the dead and the living live together, the so-called Shining Zone , through insidious substances.

Dark One
Like the Marked One, he was given the mission to kill Strelok . The Dark One himself was just looking for an oasis somewhere in the zone, but that oasis (X-3 Lab) was none other than the place where Strelok was hiding. In the end, he falls into Strelok's neuro-vision programmer's trap and dies."

[cobalt haven]

But jokes aside, maybe the Heart of Chornobyl artifact really gave him some immunity

[chrome jetty]

Just copium and theories to make up the writers wrongdoings of the S2 narrative

[cobalt haven]

A plot hole as big as Sidorovich

[chrome jetty]

As big as the road plots holes in Italy....

[cobalt haven]

When in Rome...

[chrome jetty]

[cobalt haven]

Seriously though, it is awful that Sidorovich kicked Valerian out of Cordon

[chrome jetty]

Don't expect S2 lore to make much sense

I doubt that I'd consider it as a sequel to the trilogy, too much stuff that is incoherent

Other than the map and plot

[cobalt haven]

The timeskip is too massive, that's why. Lots of unanswered questions. Lots of unbaked bread.

[chrome jetty]

That's not the issue

[cobalt haven]

Eh, I'll just have some faith.

[simple shard]

A few of the retcons didn't make sense to make, why do artifacts decay outside the zone now? Is that ever explained

[plain crag]

not enough zone juice

[simple shard]

I'm certain skifs laundry basket could have been melted and his mission to earn a down payment on a new flat or whatever could have been left unchanged on that front

[hidden yoke]

just got randomly killed by a monolith at the swamp
#📸┃screenshots_and_videos message

[cobalt haven]

Homeless of Chornobyl

[plain crag]

I got the dreaded invisible ||Colonel|| bug and I have to say ||invisible man mid air field stripping an AK|| was so funny I almost died

[cobalt haven]

Thermodynamics

[stark crescent]

strelok : skiff, where have you been? i couldnt contact you for a while!

yea sorry, i was busy getting my ass handed to me, because even tho i have a saiga 12k and i fought my way into a highly secured X lab, killing atleast 20 guys in fully armored exo suits, no, my best idea of escaping was using a freaking pistol, and pulling the pin of a smoke grenade. yea, it wasnt my smartest idea, i have to admit, but hey! it worked.

strelok : ...jesus, if you stayed silent, i would have told you the plan anyway...

[bleak mantle]

hello

[cobalt haven]

Always remember, smuggling weapons to the arena is fine.
Tyrant doesn't follow rules.
Arnie doesn't care.
Action is action, he earns big.

[stark crescent]

ghello, stalker!

wtf....my game just randomly said regenerator (1) lost

[whole pasture]

Hello, good night. Sorry if this isn't the proper channel, but will the player stash be reviewed at some point? After saving a lot of weapons and ammo, the game now lags badly.

[bleak mantle]

just got done talking to Microsoft help chat and they couldn't help me fix stalker 2 not downloading error. so i figured out how to fix it myself. some help they are.

[cobalt haven]

Well, it will happen eventually somewhere after Spirit's part. I'll assume he is dead on your session, so yeah

[iron belfry]

how much harder is veteran difficulty than stalker? I might do veteran after I beat it on stalker

[glad fractal]

gear break faster, you take more damage, enemy health higher
it's not super hard tbh, as everything else stays mostly the same - the abundance of supplies for example

[stark crescent]

what? spirit is dead when you take the spark route instead of the ward route?

[hidden yoke]

anyone know when the enemy start spawning WITH Gauss gun?

[cobalt haven]

Yes.

Not sure about Strelok's route yet, but definitely dead with Spark and alive with Ward

He'll use the regenerator if he is still alive, well it's an option you can chose

[plain crag]

Bloodsuckers are nearly unkillable in the early game, so there's that

[stark crescent]

i guess when you enter pripyat. i did find a gauss gun before entering pripyat, but it was a special side mission quest.

@cobalt haven i know he was alive with ward route. i gave him the regenerator, even tho he spew out crap about me being a ward dog. im more suprised its so forcibly removed from my backpack. i could atleast sell it or something

[iron belfry]

I remember my first one on stalker difficulty . it took at least 2 full mags with an automatic weapon. it was rough

[plain crag]

Or if you cheese the bloodsucker, you are spending about 2,586 coupons worth of ammunition killing a bloodsucker that drops nothing for a quest that gives you 1,200 coupons

[hidden yoke]

i just got a random monolith carrying a gauss gun

[stark crescent]

they are hard to kill at first yea. then they were nerfed a little through a patch.

however, you need to take in mind that the difficulty doesnt necceserily make enemies more squishy. it makes them more armored. the higher you go in difficulty, the more the emphasis is on penetration.

on stalker difficulty, you can get away with using regular ammo, as long as the weapon itself has high penetration. but if hte weapon lacks penetration, yea, enemies do feel squishy.

[cobalt haven]

If only we could put the Weird bolt to the Weird Nut...

[weary hedge]

as of Nov 23 cause thats when the data was scraped from the files, starting from a base value of 1

Easy Difficulty
Player Weapon Damage value of 1.2
Npc Weapon damage value of 0.2
Explosions 0.25, same for bleeding
Mutant damage at 0.5
health regen is at 1
Anomaly damage at 0.55

on medium, player weapon damage value drops to 1, and npc weapon damage value bumps up to 0.85

Hard pushes this further, player base damage of 0.75, npc damage of 1.02, mutant damage up to 1.35, hp regen down to 0.75

Stalker difficulty edits the npc health values up to 1.2

keep in mind, these are pc values - they are different on console

Basically, all raising difficulty does above medium is lower the damage you do, and raise enemies health. No point to stalker difficulty unless you want spongy enemies.

Side affects are it also raises how much items sell for, raises upgrade costs too

[oblique cove]

Did they fix the tornado hitting you from 1km away glitch yet?

[stark crescent]

didnt knew that glitch existed. what exactly happens?

[plain crag]

Yeah, in the early game I was going to Sphere to hide with a sniper rifle and farm military suits for money, later on I realized it would have been more cost effective to just stash all the suits for later use once I started having to repair them for 2/3 of my entire war chest of cash

[weary hedge]

even better, unless this has been fixed you can change difficulty and then sell the items for more cash, then change back after

[oblique cove]

There is a specific line, which u can cross and get knocked over, as if u touched the tornado. It's around 1000m away and it's persistent. I wasted so many medkits because of that

[plain crag]

Cheaper to just swap out suits than have to repair a nice one

[weary hedge]

If youre on a console, from what I see changing difficulty only affects one stat, NPC_HP. 0.9 on easy, 1.0 on medium, 1.1 on hard and 1.2 on stalker

[oblique cove]

Check my message history there is a video link to that one

[plain crag]

granted I only found out about personal stashes in the latter half of garbage

[stark crescent]

video isnt available any more

[dapper rock]

Jekan should have been given all the funds Microsoft gave to GSC

[plain crag]

I got annoyed at the lesser zone mastiff quest because it was taking me to an area with two bloodsuckers and even after figuring out how to juke bloodsucker attacks it was taking like 16 shotgun slugs per bloodsucker to kill them so I reduced difficulty just for that quest then put it back on veteran. I still think bloodsuckers are poorly balanced at the moment

[weary hedge]

Any game where a flesh and bone creature tanks more than three saiga blasts to the face is poorly balanced lol

[glad fractal]

it's early game, it is what it is because of weak weapon + you not using better ammo.
if you nerf mutant any further, by the time of mid game when you get Saiga / Spas, you will one shot them even on vetaran...

[weary hedge]

Bloodsuckers are still tanky late game lol been a few times ive emptied entire clips from a kharod into one, and i always run AP

[steep chasm]

is there any vendor who sells alternate ammo type? like flat or expansive? or do i have to find stashes for them?

[plain crag]

I don't see why they could not simply scale mutant HP/damage with game or zone progression

[weary hedge]

Pseudogiants are the worst though, even with fully upgraded weapons lol faaaaaaaaaaar more health than a bloodsucker

[plain crag]

if you want bloodsuckers to be apex predators but also balanced but ALSO stick about 12 of them in main story quest as unavoidable fights I don't see how you do it any other way

[weary hedge]

Most vendors have a chance to have different ammo types for sale, i want to say all but im not entirely sure, i just know ive seen diff ammo at the ones i can remember lol

You can also reset vendor inventory by sleeping for I think 2 or 3 days ingame

[steep chasm]

weird, it looks to me like they always sell AP ammo for shotgun only, anything else are just regular

[glad fractal]

it's not always a good solution for every game, it diminish the feeling of player getting more powerful overtime.
I think it is better they introduce different variant of mutants rather than a global scaling.
early game skinny starving bloodsucker vs late game ripped bloodsucker

[weary hedge]

shotgun only has three available ammo types, slugs and buckshot OH and expanding darts

ive never seen expanding darts for sale though, now i think about it

[plain crag]

I think the number of players who just quit because they think they have to fight the bloodsucker for Squint in Lesser Zone and give up after the tenth attempt of dumping 16 slugs into a single bloodsucker... either scale them or put a different mutant there lol

[steep chasm]

i hope they sells more ammo types more often

[oblique cove]

It takes only a few shots in late game from upgraded shotguns.. the issue is scaling

[weary hedge]

expanding darts are good for mutants, they do the most damage to them

[steep chasm]

i did it one time that when you headshot a bloodsucker with a shotgun when they charges at you while invisible, they will stop charging and flee again

[plain crag]

indeed it is, I've played enough stalker of all the games to not be put off by the inevitable jank but if I was a new player trying to play even on stalker difficulty the Piece of Cake mission would make me seriously question the devs judgment

[oblique cove]

Yeah, like Asmongold got rekt by the first bloodsucker and uninstalled 😂

[plain crag]

It feels very "we rescaled bloodsuckers in the late game play testing but didn't go back and replay the early game to see how that played out and just shipped it"

[oblique cove]

I like it this way more. Stalker trilogy's bloodsuckers were really weak

[weary hedge]

i watched that stream, the dude was stuck trying to find the first artifact for like 10 minutes.. hes obviously not the smartest gamer lol

[oblique cove]

Once i had to fight chimera and 3 bloodsuckers at once 💀

[glad fractal]

why fight? run to nearby NPC and let them do it free dead NPC loot

[plain crag]

agreed but it feels like a severe overcorrection. Again this is not just "git gud" I killed all these main story bloodsuckers it just feels poorly balanced because you either do the side step 180 degree turn Buckshot Baja Blast cheese or You Die ™️

[oblique cove]

Yeah when ego makes u start playing stalker on veteran and u don't even read tutorials. There's your new gamers who hate the game

[weary hedge]

I'm heavily against NPC scaling

I want to get stronger as I progress and start wrecking things - not have things progress with me, and in 99% of the cases unnaturally.

No, a mutant dog does not get stronger as I level, bethesda

[steep chasm]

when an artifact gives a maximum effect, does it mean it can't be stacked any further? or is it still can?

[oblique cove]

Or just get higher ground where they can't reach u

[plain crag]

Players who didn't grab a shottie and go into that Piece of Cake quest cave with a viper and less than 180 rounds of 9mm ammunition have my sympathy, hope you know how to knife combat a bloodsucker

[oblique cove]

U can take those values and make them numeric. Minimum = 1 , medium = 2, maximum = 3. They can be stacked

[oblique cove]

Sorry I dont track quest names. Was it the first bunker?

[plain crag]

The cave Squint sends you to in exchange for the Ward sensors, very early game

Yes I know you can run past the bloodsucker and they won't follow you, but that's not intuitive to an inexperienced STALKER player

[steep chasm]

or you could just|| side with the Ward and kill Squint||

[plain crag]

Real and true

[oblique cove]

Ohh my playthrough was with the ward. That's why I'm confused 😂

[weary hedge]

lmao tbf half the game isnt intuitive

those stealth objectives, the first time you get one is mid-mission and theres a guard blocking your way, not back to you - but STARING at you

my first intuition due to other games, hey, throw a bolt, he'll walk away and there must be a spot to sneak past

the actual answer? you keep walking towards him and then he turns around

My first playthrough i tried the bolt, he didnt walk towards the direction i threw it, he came towards me, so i killed him and failed the optional objective

And this exact method is repeated soooooo many times, you have to get close to them and then that kicks in their 'patrol routines' and they walk away

you can wait as long as you want, if you dont walk up to them they wont move

very unintuitive

[steep chasm]

also me when i play Assassin Creed, i'm too impatient to wait and learn and remember all their patrol routes

[oblique cove]

That's your classic Sdalger. Kinda DIY game. Find your ways, endure or cheese it, get over anomalies and bugs and be the one to tell the story in the end. Otherwise you're not a real stalker

[steep chasm]

"optional: don't engage in combat", yeah no

[weary hedge]

Another one i didnt notice on first playthrough, the wards ambush on spark when youre speaking to whoever the hell it was, scar or strider or whatever

my first playthrough, i shot the dudes shooting at who i was talking to, just on impulse.

you can actually turn around and kill spark lol - you get diff dialogue after depending on what you do, too. like if you kill the ward, the colonel radios you angry about it

if you kill spark, he congratulates you

[plain crag]

I'm personally comfortable with that myself, I've done all the previous stalker games on hardest, but when I point blank sidestep buckshot the same bloodsucker 11 times in the back of his head before he dies o
in a very early quest in the first zone in the game I am forced to question the devs judgment lmao

[oblique cove]

My first playthrough was siding with ward and keeping the doc that gives u the first scanner alive. I've got a couple of save points where u have to pick a side. I've chosen to side with strelok on my 2nd playthrough. 3rd will be with monoliths

[oblique cove]

For me the only annoying part was that those mfs scream and u lose control. Especially when they gang up on you, one screams and the other attacks u 😂

[plain crag]

like this bloodsuckers head is more lead than flesh at this point and he still coming at me

[oblique cove]

And they made it well in my opinion. You have to be terrified to meet yet another bloodsucker.
Especially when in lore he's pictured by everyone as being a really tough creature

Every stalker brags about killing one

[plain crag]

Terrified, but maybe not *I'm on my fifteenth autosave load of nearly but not quite perfectly sidestepping the charge attack and turning around and buckshotting the back of his head 12 times" terrified.

And maybe not in like ten early game quests if you want to maintain that terrifying mystique and not just annoy players lol

[oblique cove]

I'm sorry u had it like that. I got spas shotgun quite early and it usually takes a quick full mag burst for me to kill him when he first charges

[plain crag]

went for what's his names integrated scope AK74-S and a viper for close quarters myself early, dumped 200 rounds into that bloodsucker before he died, again I'm good enough that I got through it but it just left me wondering whether the devs meant for me to fight it or run

[rough crater]

that scoped AK is weaker than normal versions fyi

[plain crag]

I know, but headshots

[oblique cove]

Oh reminds || of the first chimera. I didn't run and killed it but the damn emission rekt me. I loaded a save and waited, and waited.. there was no emission 😂 only then i realized i had to run past it. And Steam scammed me by not giving the achievement ||

[rugged moss]

Hi all.

Quick question for those who have been through a substantial part of the game. How often would you say you spend fighting mutants vs fighting humans?

When initially watching videos of people playing, I really liked the look of the gameplay when fighting against a bunch of humans, but then saw a bunch of huge mutant... dog things I think come in and finish the rest off.

I thought it maybe wouldn't be for me, but I've just spent the last week playing Last of Us Part 1, and ended up not minding the infected fighting, but really enjoyed fighting against the humans.

So just wondered a ballpark ratio if anyone has any thoughts on that 😄

[paper trail]

how many different cinematics with meeting korshunov are there? I got my third now lmao. I wanted the combatant again and did all the same decisions but got a different outcome haha

and btw what are the conditions? does it depend on how many ward soldiers you kill?

[weary hedge]

Can’t you technically help squint but then give the sensors to the Ward?

[stark crescent]

i really got no idea. however, it does matter that mutants dont give loot. because of this, i actively avoid fighting them. especially stuff like packs of dogs, or rodents. its just wasting bullets and weapon durability. atleast with npc's, you can loot their bodies. sell whatever they carry.

it more depends how generous A-b!tch-life is willing to provide you. you can take out monolith almost as easily as regular bandits, as long as you have the proper ammo for it. a 9x18 AP round can be just as deadly as a .308.

sometimes you get lucky, you will meet a big group of roaming mercenaries, and drag their asses into a pack of mutants. mostly, they die because mutants do more damage than npc bullets do against mutants.

[rugged moss]

Interesting stuff.

I also like the idea that they game lets you use NPCs against NPCs, nice one.

[fresh geode]

can i track my preordered package somewhere?

[stark crescent]

you pre ordered a physical edition from a website? check your email for a link to your order?

[fresh geode]

yea the thing is i dont remember the email like who sent it

[stark crescent]

what do you mean? you have access to your email account right? gmail? hotmail? doesnt matter. use an app that access your emails. use the search bar. search for keyword "stalker" or somethnig. then all emails with stuff related to stalker pops up.

[pearl sable]

|| scar needs to do acting or plays, his moment with that skeleton as a puppet was amazing 👏||

[stark crescent]

you dont remember which website you bought the physical edition from? i mean...thats kind of important information to have. or did you just randomly decide to donate 340 bucks to some random store and hten forgettaboutit

i dont really understand the situation you are creating here. you went to a site. saw they can deliver the physical deluxe edition (assuming you bought that), you enter your information so they can deliver it. they always send a confirmation email. and then you forget every piece of information related to it.

[weary hedge]

Maybe he deleted the email lmao that'd suck
If you're in Australia, you could possibly use the Australia post app. They auto-add any packages they scan with your address, so it pops up on the app with tracking

[fresh geode]

nah it was not random the link was posted on this server in announcements, i just simply forgot the email sender

[stark crescent]

i mean, im also kind of a sucker myself. i bought my ultimate deluxe edition from game legends. of course, i didnt continue reading, appearently, all the way at the bottom in extra small letters, they said it wont be delivered until april. so basically i paid 340 euros for something i gotta wait another 4 freaking months for. and this is my fourth attempt at trying to get the ultimate physical edition. 3 previous attempts got cancelled cause they couldnt deliver. so im kind of anxious if this one can actually deliver or will cancel on me as well.

they are located in germany, so if they cancel on me, im just going to their store and steal 340 euro's worth of games. i will get my money's worth either way 🤭

[fresh geode]

yea just found the post the devs made it was game legends, but i still dont remember their email address

[stark crescent]

the email they send me stuff with is info at game-legends.com

like, i got a seperate map inside my email, where i store my order confirmations, so i can find it pretty easily. i know emails can very quickly get lost in this world of spam, but its your responsibility to make sure that doesnt happen

[chilly pasture]

hey guys, is there any fix for "Back to the Slag Heap" mission other than some mod installation?

[fresh shadow]

im back from the spacial anomaly (i got muted for a week)

did anyone else get a really bad "wolfcheer" message ? i got "can you stop using the same emojis over and over again? Be more creative!"

[weary hedge]

Happy New Year to any kiwis in the crib

Downside is you got there first, so now its ruined for the rest of us 😉

[stark crescent]

what bug? or wait, the bug you got when nearing scar, that you cant enter hte barn?

[pearl sable]

||I flew off in a heli looking at some present that lady gave me, is that a good ending?||

[weary hedge]

Skifs true ending, the best imo lol

got my mfin house back, a helicopter ride - whats not to love

[pearl sable]

True lol

[oblique gate]

happy new year from Australia! (the place where the zone is modelled off)

[stark fossil]

“That stalker gets whatever he wants.”

[weary hedge]

Better be a three story house, biatch
OR IM COMING BACK, AGATHA

[stark crescent]

i mean. why not? that ending is the ending that skiff wants. he went to the zone for a new appartment. the housing market in ukraine is really horrible in that reality. making the zone disappear is the bare minimum you need to do before you get one.

[pearl sable]

She could have given him a blowy also for his troubles lol

[stark fossil]

True stalker get a blow from a bloodsucker…
And he likes it

[sturdy verge]

Also has a job offer to be the new col anytime 😊 lol

[stark crescent]

i mean, knowing hte history of the zone, the ward, being the new overlord, will screw it up anyway. if a shared concousness of 7 people couldnt control the zone, then how can the colonel on his own control the zone? he might have some influence, like we saw at skifs departure, but we dont know what happens afterwards. maybe as soon as skif moves out of the zone, the zone goes haywire. out of control. it expands into a bigger zone.

skif sees out of the heli window how the sky suddenly turns red and will be like "aww shit. here we go again"

[sturdy verge]

I still find it funny that scar/Marshall ending has the same partial dialogue and yet you still need to convince him that the shining zone is real.

[stark crescent]

maybe a relapse of scar's sanity. and then you talk him over to his brainwashed side again

[sturdy verge]

But you also see through his eyes from that programming screen, similar to as when skiff sits in darks chair.. then you see all those tvs... and hear a nice quote about how people want it now and then etc etc

no happy endings in the zone anyway lol 😄

[marble onyx]

is there achievement for not killing any monolith in hospital, during doctors quest ?

[stark crescent]

in clear sky (real act 1) you play as scar, trying to kill strelok. after that emission, you thought it was over for everyone. only clear sky dudes piss off into the afterlife. for some reason, both scar and strelok survive.
in soc (real act 2) you play as strelok, hunting down strelok. you take out the miracle machine, the wish granter, the brain scorcher, c-conciousness, technically, you kill off all the fun stuff for any future episodes.
in cop (act 3), you play as degtyarev, hunting down black boxes. what you did in COP literally makes no difference to anything happening in stalker 2.
in stalker 2, (act 4), you play as skif, destroying the entire freaking zone, just for a new appartment. you kill scar. you kill strelok. degtyarev is hard coded as a faction leader, so you wont directly ever kill him.

[surreal finch]

For anyone new or strrugling to find good loot, artifacts, anything, this map is a lifesaver, has filters so you can filter out whatever you need, made my gameplay a lot easier.

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

[weary hedge]

nope - though there is an achievement for getting 20 covert kills, and getting 5 headshots in 10 seconds

[unborn fjord]

I am on the main quest A Minor Incident and I got to STC Malachite but all the doors are locked and some icons are red. There are IPSF troops there too. WHat do I do? Game is hard locked

[signal eagle]

If you look at the building front on goto the right side there is a small set of stairs leading to a door. Try there

[unborn fjord]

yeah that door is locked too. That's where the main quest marker is. I have done this mission before on another save so I know I'm supposed to get a pass inside. I literally can't do anything. Do I have to noclip?

[signal eagle]

Hmm can you access the tunnel? That or noclip i guess. There isnt a fight going on is there? Making them shut shop

[cobalt haven]

Knowing there are early bypass to Jupiter, Harpy's quest on trespassers makes more sense now

[stark crescent]

you just started out a minor incident? so all you had to do rn is to simply get to malachite?

[unborn fjord]

nah no fighting. Some icons red, some neutral, all doors locked

I will try to fast travel to it from rostok

[stark crescent]

yea, malachite is bugged out a little sometimes. you can easily anger them when shooting random spark or merc members.

but you should still be able to fast travel into malachite which...is a bug in itself. since after the ward attack they should be aligned to ward. but you can still fast travel into malachite afterwards.

[unborn fjord]

btw the floating black orb in the water next to malachite, is that supposed to be interacble or something?

[stark crescent]

you know what i love? im now at hte main mission where we need to defend yanov from a monolith attack. my exoskeleton protects maximum possible. i have the compass artifact. yet, a single monolith boi is able to kill me without issues, due to aimbot aim

[cloud carbon]

2025 is either going to be an absolute doodoo fard year
a forgettable year
or one of the years when gaming is so back
2013-16 years level gaming
its not copium for bf4 i swear

[weary hedge]

ah, the old ai aimbot

funny we've come this far and devs still struggling with it lol

I suppose you'd have to make it somewhat RNG - or add a skill system to NPCs with weapon efficiencies, that way some particular characters are better than others

[cloud carbon]

forgot swearing is bad here
mbmb

[wintry pumice]

its a real Clusterfuck

[harsh jungle]

[sturdy verge]

forgot bunch of knobs here, mbmb

[weary hedge]

i feel personally attacked - how'd you know I was a knob

[sturdy verge]

https://tenor.com/view/punya-gw-gif-21591247

[wintry pumice]

Do the emissions stop once you get into Pripyat? I haven't seen one ever since I got there

[weary hedge]

Nah, just lucky I guess. I got one in the palace of culture or whatever the hell it is

[sturdy verge]

never paid attention tbh because all i seen is rain like its Eng.. always sunny in Pripyat my arse lol

[wintry pumice]

I am running around for hours, but still haven't seen one

[north jacinth]

They happen pretty rarely. I think its based on some sort of PRNG. Because there's been times where I save before an emission begins and it never happens unless the instance it does.

[weary hedge]

It was right after i got there the first time, as I was talking to the mission dude - but I also did not see any while I was free-roaming, same as you. I just remember the radio broadcast for it

[wintry pumice]

Its funny the co ordinates I am searching for was just in a park a short walk away from the Palace. Don't know why I was doing the quest when I happen to find it so near by the palace

[wintry pumice]

Yeah I have seen it happen too. I saved right before an emission but when I loaded it back it didn't happen

[sturdy verge]

tho i do appreciate the rain since i snuck my way into a building full of monoliths just to listen to their conversations lol wanted to be nosey and all 😄

[stark crescent]

will harpy ever become my bae

[wintry pumice]

[sturdy verge]

nah she too concerned over her tea getting cold, nah a few others do as well @quick kernel

[quick kernel]

Speaking of harpy is she the only one that continues to give us quests?

[stark crescent]

warlock in zalissya.
owl in sultansk
sidorovich in newbie village
viktoria at malachite
barkeep in rostok
boozer at slag heap
hera at cement factory
harpy at yanov

i dont know who gives the fetch missions in pripyat. but every major place has someone for fetch missions. i think you can only do one every 2 days per mission giver

[sturdy verge]

just dont go to ros its buggy, took a hot min for it to catch up for me but i finally got hit a few times lol

[hidden yoke]

i think i found the possible way for the monolith to rock a damn gauss gun way too early?

Can anyone confirm to me that, if your world have monolith but not far into the story, move to jupiter = monolith start spawning with gauss gun???

[wintry pumice]

You don't get to jupiter early game though

[stark crescent]

you mean, if you find a bugged way into jupiter and meet with monolithians, they will start spawning with gauss guns before they are supposed to?

[north jacinth]

Bro how does the doctor's mirage not count as Shelter from the emission? Its literally underground!

[hidden yoke]

oh, no need to get into jupiter, there's a small portion of jupiter peaked through yaniv near the train area

[wintry pumice]

Did you get fried?

[stark crescent]

train area, he says confidentally. the entire border between yanov and jupiter is freaking train

[north jacinth]

yes bro and it makes no sense as to why it doesnt count as a shelter

[sturdy verge]

gotta love them boxes lolol

[weary hedge]

monolith ai in the northern half of the map have a small chance to spawn with a gauss rifle as their main weapon, too.

[wintry pumice]

Probably a bug, just reload the previous save the emission will mysteriously disappear

[stark crescent]

stalkers! an emission is coming! take she-.... main menu - save - load - lter before you...uh....stalkers, ignore that. it seems the emission has dissipated...

[wintry pumice]

The shining zone works in mysterious ways

[hidden yoke]

hmmm, where did they usually spawn?

[fluid beacon]

Can I participate in multiple giveaways??

[weary hedge]

Nowhere in particular, any monolith in the northern portion of the map, mid to late game, has a chance to spawn a gauss gun

You can also throw a grenade towards the locked door in the uh, theatre, and get the gauss gun from there in pripyat before the actual mission would allow you to

[north jacinth]

Nah bro I loaded my last save and it still happened. I ended up finding a cemetary nearby

[cobalt turret]

Had a dream about a kid in the zone but the lil shit turned evil on me started running and almost fell out my bed in real life then it dawned on me I just combined stalker and f.e.a.r together
Suffice to say I will not be having that again

[weary hedge]

Man, F.E.A.R was a great game

[cobalt turret]

It really was loved the mode where you can just kill as many enemies as possible

[rancid wind]

hmm game file is 150gb and on steam there is update for 110gb what the hell is going on xD

[north jacinth]

I feel like this game isn't as hard when you have 20+ medkits on you

[wintry pumice]

hmm maybe it was a scripted scene

[north jacinth]

Perhaps, but my go to tactic is if they're all grouped together then throw a grenade and then pick them off

[wintry pumice]

10 is enough for most of the map, in pripyat maybe 15

you will find many on the map and on enemies too

[north jacinth]

or just run in there with my flashlight off and use shotgun close range

[stark crescent]

other than the yanov assault, i never found myself needing more than 5 honestly. you always loot way too many medkits from everywhere

[north jacinth]

Oh trust me if an emission happens you'll be glad you have an excess of 10 on you

[weary hedge]

its just how the update process works, if they update a portion of a file, you have to redownload the whole file - so the actual patch isnt 110gb

not all games on steam do it that way, afaik - Squad does it that way too though lol

[maiden grotto]

It seems the AR416 Unknown Soldier is no longer found on the guy, it has be replaced with a Viper... I bet it it is hidden in the poppy field

[frigid hill]

nikutha has been warned

Reason: Bad word usage

[weary hedge]

Wolf strikes again

[wintry pumice]

[stark crescent]

no, you need to turn in the medallion to the guy. after you have done that, you get the ar416 unknown soldier. then you shoot him, and you can loot the medallion off his corpse, and then turn in the quest properly

the zone rewards stalkers who are absolute scumbags.

[weary hedge]

😂

[north jacinth]

I'm on that quest right now
Should I equip a gun with a rocket launcher?

[crystal radish]

Yoooo when is multiplayer gonna drop...sheeeeeeeeeesh

[quiet igloo]

but according to the community, what voice setting should i use, english or ukrainian

[weary hedge]

Oof. Apparently Ukrainian sounds more authentic, but I haven't tried it with Ukrainian VA

Just see a few people popping up and mentioning it

[shrewd kindle]

Yeah that’d help, if you have an rpg I’d keep it in my backpack too if I was you and whip it out

[weary hedge]

Go-go gadget rpg

also just realising I've been talking a lot today 😂

[wintry pumice]

I don't see any repeating quests from the pripyat base, why?

[stark crescent]

you need to go to bae harpy, stare her deep in the eyes, and ask to murder some bandits

oh wait. read that wrong. pripyat. not yanov. i dont know who at pripyat base gives recurring missions

[glad dune]

have the npc's been buffed? noticed how im just getting shredded by lesserzone tier weapons n they just seem to hit me no matter what lol

[maiden grotto]

Never did it that way before.

I just shot him off the bat... and he had the gun., this time he died of a heart attack.