☢┃stalker-general

[wintry pumice]

Indeed he is one of us, he just doesn't know it

[harsh jungle]

hes an autist just like the rest of us autists

[sly sluice]

The obvious "good ending" is a strelok

[harsh jungle]

i might do strelok's ending and then ward's idk

[wintry pumice]

Its cute you think that

[sly sluice]

I said obvious

If they wanted to make spark and ward viable you're have to add some kind of bad element to strelok

[paper sand]

when you consider the fate of the entire world id say so

[harsh jungle]

maybe i should save streloks for last

[wintry pumice]

The real ending is killing the doctor and living in his home since finding a new home was our quest after all

[sly sluice]

We dont know whats gonna happen in the end but going by what the chars actually say BEFORE the end

[paper sand]

i think the "bad" element was that hes now "controlling" the zone, he's definitely changed since SoC but i wouldnt say hes "bad"

[sly sluice]

Im not so interested in what actually happens in each ending
But strelok is kind of the obvious ending to choose and ward and spark are just flavor, going by every interaction before the end

[wintry pumice]

C-Con wins in all the endings I guess, except for the ward one maybe

[sly sluice]

As for stalker 3 if we ever get any.... I rest assured nothing will go well

[paper sand]

They never do in the zone

[wintry pumice]

Yes brother

Let's go for a walk in the next emission

[velvet mulch]

Holy shit skif is chatting

[elfin vine]

Help!
I hear a high pitched beep in-game, it's a singular beep and it happens infrequently at random intervals, is this a PDA detection beep? I know it's not my anomaly detector
Stalker 2

[rocky lava]

Yo skif I got a FT-200M with your name on it all for the price of….800 ru

[pulsar hearth]

is there some performance bug in the swamp? im randomly getting huge fps drops until i reload a save

[civic relic]

ok wtf are those lightning bang anomaly things how do i stop it

[rocky lava]

Walk backwards or move back and forth so you become umpredictable there predicting where your moving

[velvet mulch]

^

[civic relic]

thats what i been doing but they are annoying af i thought there must be some way to stop it tho. i hate those and the knife anomalys i always run into them cause i never see them and i end up degrading my armor alot and wasting kits

[rocky lava]

Best way is what I said you gotta practice take it slow make sure your alone with it

[midnight aurora]

hello, where is Myklukha in Rostok? any directions?

[rocky lava]

Who is he again?

[midnight aurora]

Freedom leader

[rocky lava]

Also if you hear something shiny of cutting sounds your next to it look carefully

[elfin vine]

Why did a ward sniper in chemical plant just one-shot me. Can I just not go anywhere near there now? Haven't set foot in this area at all lol. Though I'm far into spark progression so it makes sense.

[midnight aurora]

Ive tried break in several times, they just keep one shot you anyway

[rocky lava]

Not yet wait till abit further in endgame

[elfin vine]

Cool cool

@still current it seems they've halved the slowmode. Many thanks, happy hunting stalker.

[rocky lava]

Also do you still want the FT-200M for 800 ru it’s a very great price

[wintry pumice]

in the building with the gun and armor vendor there's a staircase, climb it and he should be there in a shed on the roof

[still current]

[wintry pumice]

yeah they will keep shooting at you on sight, now you are their sworn enemy

[rocky lava]

Ok ok how about I sell you the military’s btr tank instead all ya gotta do is put an artifact on the hood and you’ll be one unstoppable machine

[wintry pumice]

[wintry pumice]

you are talking about the duga sniper

[rocky lava]

No chemical plant place kicked my butt into next Saturday because of snipers and exo ward

[wintry pumice]

yeah if you side with Spark, they will kill you

[rocky lava]

Ya so not there yet I’m tryna get the ar416 ammo drum

[wintry pumice]

that should be available out in the world

[rocky lava]

Where else?

[wintry pumice]

I got it from some loot I think, but not sure where

[wintry pumice]

https://game8.co/games/STALKER-2-Heart-of-Chornobyl/archives/491848

It goes along nicely with Clusterfuck

[rocky lava]

Ah thanks so much appreciate it man thanks

[weak storm]

random question, if i accidentally sold a weapon with attachments still on it, is it gone for good?
In my case, RPM-74 ammo-drum - special mags are not sold if my inuition is right ?

[pallid thorn]

just revert to a save before you sold it
and if im not mistaken i also believe attachments are sold seperately, automatically detached and put into your inventory

[dense sandal]

kinda interesting why the stalkers love the zone like they call it beautifull n home

[pallid thorn]

not me, im destroying it lmao. it be a threat, and the zone be suckin up to me ffs. i picked up 2 rare artifacts, a legendary, and 2 uncommons in just one trip
no save scumming

[dense sandal]

like every hour it turns into hell n it can kill yea

[pallid thorn]

i love the zone, but i want the ward ending lol

[dense sandal]

i got the sterlok ending

[weak storm]

well, not in inventory nor stash, worst case i just dropped it - and it could be hours ago, no intend to save-scrum. Besides, not really that high prio attachment anyways, so i may live without it, worst case - but would prefer to have it - just in case

[pallid thorn]

if it was a few hours, check the vendor, might still have it

[dense sandal]

whats the skiff ending?

[weak storm]

from the first stalker games, stalkers are usually criminals or refugees from society - so, they like the absence of human-made laws / simplicity of its very own nature

[shrewd needle]

Who the hell put this garbage description on the Wiki?

https://stalker.fandom.com/wiki/Saiga

[weak storm]

therefor i would have a list of vendors i have been selling stuff to... and i was basically everywhere but monolith and zylissia

[dense sandal]

does skiff get a house or something in his ending?

[rocky lava]

Ya that’s not needed on there probably a troll

[weak storm]

tried it, could sell a fully attached kharod without issue, and attachments did not land in the inventory

[wintry pumice]

He gets a home in the shining zone

[dense bloom]

the ''help solder'' in The Hornest Nest is bugged right ? i killed the two monolith dude at him, tallked to him, he gave me the key, i posted the emetter, they ask me to leave the sphere, but i still have the ''help solder'' its glitched right??

[dense sandal]

so he never gets another apartment

[stark fossil]

I only once had him move the way he’s supposed to but the monos kill him with just a gaze. So when I finally knew his pathing he never did it again.

[north jacinth]

I entered pyrpriat but I didn't get a heads up and there wasnt a warning and all my side missions didnt randomly end

[dense sandal]

the ppl strider sniped are those inportant ppl or just randoms

[bleak mantle]

whats up

[stark fossil]

I think random, just to show how Monolithians were controlled and directed by the c-con

[brazen ice]

I found a spot that almost infinitely spawns artifacts, but none go into your bag... what's this about? Near Duga

[dense sandal]

near malachte?

[stark fossil]

Psi rouse - a mirage
Get out of there stalker

[brazen ice]

oh them cheeky bastards 😛

[dense sandal]

it use to be a money glitch so i think its a funny joke on it

[stark fossil]

The only money glitch you really need is much reduced durability burn on weapons and armor

[dense sandal]

by the end of of s2 everything i had was red

[maiden grotto]

Anyone else having problems with extended day/night cycle mods?

None of the one's I am trying are working

[maiden grotto]

That's what you think.

[stark fossil]

The thing you always have to check is what game files the mod changes. If you’re using multiple mods that change the same game file - it will conflict
Most mods have a description of this and a list of files it changes

[maiden grotto]

I use 4 mods, one is LOD, one is the cost of repair for friendly techies, the other is fubar realistic ammo... The 4th being a reduce rate of wear and tear...

I hate games that force you to repair weapon after 5 shots... bloody stupid

Never had this problem before

[stark fossil]

Check each mod and see which files it changes. If 2 mods change the same file it will likely be not compatible. Although those mods don’t seem like they should be related..

[maiden grotto]

And how do I do that?

[stark fossil]

In the mod description usually near the end a modder will list the game files the mod changes.

And yeah weapon degradation in S2 is way too steep. Unless you’re really moving from base to base with minimal exploration you’re kinda forced to cary replacement weapons..or deal with malfunctions after like 2 mags

Even with repair kits mod you still have to use them after every engagement

[maiden grotto]

Yup, utterly stupid levels... It's fun, it's not enhancing the game, it's doing anything other than making the game feel cr*p.

I mean, I kind fo get it with armour after a heavy fight... But the guns, nah, just a joke.

[stark fossil]

At least we can help ourselves with mods (unless you’re a peasant)

Ngl I completed disabled it

[maiden grotto]

I wonder what the game would have been like if the peasants didn;t get catered for?

[wintry pumice]

Keep collecting till you find the real one

[wintry pumice]

Yeah it's a real Clusterfuck

[stark fossil]

I modded my game to my preference however there’s still stuff missing for me to replay it more than 2-3 times to see the story differences. What I really want is Anomaly 2

Like how many cool places are there in new zone to make your own hideout? But no mechanics and features for it. It will be brilliant when modding gets to that level

[dense bloom]

😦 😦 😦 crazy that you say that, i was LITERALLY SAYING TWO MINUTES AGO to myself '' anomaly was better, i wish we could have anomaly 2'' while playing the game.
The A LIFE missing is too much of a deal.

[maiden grotto]

That will come eventually, but for now, I would just like the dev's to put on their common sense hats and go... We screwed up here, here, here, here and here, lets fix those, why did we do that... No, lets make it make sense and make the game better alround. In the mean time.

[stark fossil]

We’ll see what updates they come up with. I mean they were pretty fast in those few days they had left

[maiden grotto]

Yup. Even sorting out the mouse setting not being saved. I use my mouse inverted.

[stark fossil]

“Alife” is currently a lot better than when the game launched but personally I can’t get too much excited from random encounters when everyone has a vodka, a sausage and 2 rounds on them🥱

Using a mod that expands AI loadouts and adds attachments is ok but then you have an issue where you don’t ever have to visit those stashes in game

[maiden grotto]

Well, I worked out it was conflicting with the repair costs lol!

Great... Is there a way to merge mods?

[stark fossil]

Most of this comes from being spoiled by complexity of Anomaly mods..

[stark fossil]

Yeah, there actually is, in fact it could be explained in the mod description as well

[stark fossil]

How the F does day/night cycle touch the same files as repair costs😂

[maiden grotto]

coresomthing.cfg file apparently

[stark fossil]

Maybe reapair cost are cheaper or more expensive depending on the hour of the day lol😅

It’s all so unintuitive - repairing an armor can very well cost like 5 new armors

You know when I first came to a trader in game and saw how cheap gear is I knew there had to be a catch

[maiden grotto]

going from selling your ass 4 times a day to selling it 5 times a day. Because cleaning dirt off and cleaning it is an expensive and almost impossible task that requires supreme elite skills...

F-ing stupid choices they have made in this game...

[stark fossil]

It’s a story driven gameplay - very little sand box mechanics

[maiden grotto]

Well, my story is that I have to sell ass in the camps, to earn enough K repair my gun every time I fire the damn thing... I don't need a red light as, my backside is so raw, it glows red enough not to need one.

"STALKER, you looking for a good time?

And then... When your weapon jams, it takes months to clear the thing, because Skif spends his time podering the univese before he decides it might be worth while unjamming lol!

[stark fossil]

That’s why I disabled it fully. Even if I had repair kits I don’t wanna be cleaning the damn thing after literally every mag
Not to mention if you have it out and step in to an anomaly

[loud harness]

Why are you stepping into an anomaly

[stark fossil]

All I can say it’s not intentional 😏

[loud harness]

Accidents happen man

[stark fossil]

I wrote that for an example but I personally usually run around with no drawn weapon

[loud harness]

I think you need to unequip no?

[flint elk]

Does anyone know when they go back into office or whatever to work on the game?

[stark fossil]

I don’t think so, it’s enough to have it holstered

[loud harness]

Aight good to know

[flint elk]

I was just wondering bc of the shader compilation bug

[stark fossil]

In Anomaly you’d sprint faster with no weapon drawn so hence the habit

[loud harness]

Didnt the latest patch disable shader comp temporarily?

[flint elk]

It starts the shader and if the game crashes or whatever it lets u bypass it

[stark fossil]

You can kind of disable it by force killing the warmup and restarting

[flint elk]

Yea but wouldn't that give worse performance?

[stark fossil]

Surprisingly enough it seems to help performance 😄

[flint elk]

Oh dam?

[stark fossil]

At least it feels that way on my end…

It’s very evident that certain parts of the zone are far less optimised than others

In almost all areas of Zaton I have near perfect performance. If I go to Rostok or god forbid Pripyat it all goes to hell

Duga as well. Basically any place that has complex infrastructure

[stark fossil]

I highly recommend using one of the performance mods

[flint elk]

Which one do u recommend

[maiden grotto]

Becasuse they was pushed for realease. In all honesty, they could have spent another year sorting this game out.

[stark fossil]

I’m using the very first one that appears on nexus when you list by most popular of all time - it’s the one with Dwight Schrute pic

[flint elk]

Alr

[stark fossil]

And load up the game, exit - load up again - seems to work best that way for first time

It fully solved my stuttering issues and I can sometimes even get 50ish frames even in Rostok

Zaton runs at solid 60

[flint elk]

Thanks a lot

[maiden grotto]

What do you do, once the paks have been merged?

[oblique gate]

Currently experiencing a game breaking/ruining glitch (it's my own greeds fault but same time just make a limit) bc of my exploration into the cooling tower area above the cement factory every time I went to a mark stashed I ran into at least 20 high price gun toting factions that I "relieved them" of their guns, since I had to go to 7 marked stashed I ended up with over 1.3 million in guns and other stuff, I kept going to my private stash after each collection and eventually my items in the stash started overlapping, after my journey to the cooling towers was through I went to rostok to unload and sell all my guns to ragman and Eugene, after clearing my stash there were a bunch of dead cells that nothing I put in the stash would fill in, I later looked up a fix and tried it but my game would crash after a certain amount and it never really fixed the problem, after accepting that my stash was going to be a chore to sort through since I enjoyed the idea of changing around my long-range guns as I found AP ammo for them. After continuing my journey I recently completed a mission that I won't spoil (it's all an illusion and a loading screen mission) and tried putting away the exoskeleton I "borrowed" and it crashed my game. After replicating the crash 4 times I tried different methods, I went to different private boxes around the zone, I opened the box took everything out super quickly and then opened it again afterwards hoping that maybe that would fix it but nope still crashes, I'm lucky enough to have a save before the crashes started so hopefully that's salvagable otherwise I'll sadly have to backtrack about 12 hours of progress (a good chunk being running 1km 7 times from private box to next stash) but yeah it sucks soooo much

[flint elk]

So u just make a mods folder in "pak" or whatever and drag the mods in it?

[stark fossil]

Don’t forget the “~”

[flint elk]

Ohh ok

[maiden grotto]

I have made the folder and all that... but I had conflicting mods, just merged the conflicting ones with the tool.

What do I do now?

[flint elk]

Before or after mods title

[oblique gate]

Or if anyone could link me mods that relate to private boxes that could possibly fix it, cause while yes I was greedy in dragging back over 15 lmgs and countless high end shotguns and assault rifles, it still sucks bc I've been loving the game

[flint elk]

Like ~mods

[oblique gate]

So TL;DR help my private stash is buggy and crashes my game after what I assume was putting too much in

[flint elk]

Do I put the symbol before or after the title mods?

[stark fossil]

Apparently over hoarding can lead to such issues. There’s actually no need to hoard items, all consumables can be sold ALL. The only thing you could want to save is all gear if it’s your first run so thst you can have a good comparison save. Consecutive runs - you can basically just stash a few guns and maybe an armor or two. You never have to worry about meds or food ever cause you’ll always find tons of it every time you visit a new poi

[stark fossil]

“~mods” - most important thing when looking at a mod is go through the description

[flint elk]

Thank you

[oblique gate]

Oh don't worry I know, I'm over 86 hours in. I'm on mission 27/34, I just couldn't be bothered going from cement factory to rostok to cement factory every time I had over 150k in coupons

[stark fossil]

Most mods are very simple to install - just drag the file in to thst folder. However some mods change other files as well so it’s imperative that you read the instructions

[flint elk]

For my 1660 super ventus xs oc can run high textures and couple things high and maintain a good frame rate with the mods for optimization I'm impressed

[oblique gate]

Since my gear is high level the maintaince is insane bc of how many lmg, shotgun and armour piercing rounds that fly at me as I'm trying to hunt down a private stash that has the average Slavic meal and a medkit

[stark fossil]

That’s what guides are for especially if you’re rich

[oblique gate]

Yeah sadly guides arent able to help, it's more looking like I have to go to stash related mods or just bite the bullet and load an older save

[stark fossil]

I know right? The loot excitement only comes from finding weapon attachments and blueprints

[oblique gate]

But yeah, Im a loot goblin in games and I'd rather suffer 10km of the zone than exploit a coupon glitch, and sadly I'm punished

[stark fossil]

My first PT I hoarded mostly guns and gear and always had 20 of each consumable. Now I don’t even do that, no meds, no food in my stash ever

[fervent socket]

I still don’t have my pre order bonuses 🤦‍♂️ That’s the loot I want 😞

[stark fossil]

After a raid - sell all, leave only 5 medkits and bandages in my inventory

First group you kill will replenish that to like 15 of each

[maiden grotto]

Once you have done a merge, do you delete or keep the original files in the mods folder?

[stark fossil]

I don’t know, my mod selection is all compatible with each other so I didn’t have to use a merging tool…
In other words I know there’s merging tools just haven’t needed them yet

[oblique gate]

Oh I don't hoard, like I only keep 1 type of each gun modifed and then they get replaced by the named version, so like maybe 20 guns, 2 extra armour and then one of each artifact, which has been fine up I put in like 100 guns haha

Bc my idea was clear out the cooling tower area then sell everything at the end, sadly it seems I should of done a half and half job

[maiden grotto]

It's fine, I think it is all working now... and kept the files in the folder

[stark fossil]

I haven’t had stash issue so far. My first PT has like 20 of each consumable and all armors plus a couple of unique guns and that’s it. I kept all armors so I can compare the stats when I upgrade them all

[flint elk]

yea ima probley wait for anotehr big update so i can play the game more bug free

[stark fossil]

Yep, I’m on my 3rd PT now and I got burned out. Gonna wait for updates..

But for me personally the progression needs to evolve by a lot in order to have the same replay-ability as Anomaly and its mods. Even with project itemisation it’s kinda not enough.

More mechanics basically…

[weary hedge]

I found a corpse in Yantar that had a RAM-7, Rhino, and Khorod on him

Thing is. They were in pretty dang good condition too.

[stark fossil]

I wonder what’s the Kharod based off IRL..the ARX160 maybe…

[weary hedge]

Probably

[stark fossil]

Shoot a mag to solve that issue🤣

[terse ravine]

I'm kinda want the L86 LSW added

[stark fossil]

Oh yeah, quite a few guns actually. I wanna see the VSSK, the SR2M, a daddy AK (7.62), Mosin (and hopefully more bolties) etc

[weary hedge]

Na, here's the thing. The Khorod and Rhino were at like 80+% the RAM-7 was like 70 something %

[stark fossil]

Rhino has an advantage of being very durable

[weary hedge]

Well I have one now

[terse ravine]

I prefer the burst pistol, but i do use the rhino since the burst pistol has terrible durability
using Kharod, but thinking of switching to the dnipro w/ the ammo conversion

[stark fossil]

Yeah the 7.62 Dnipro is a beast and you can just switch to semi auto at that point which will reflect on durability

[terse ravine]

there's a difference in durability usage between auto and semi, even when firing the same amount of shots?

[stark fossil]

The only issue is the BP is in Pripyat

[terse ravine]

7.62 is the LMG ammo, right? it's kinda rare, and idk any merchants that sell it

[stark fossil]

I don’t think so, maybe..I was thinking you will be going through your ammo slower

[weary hedge]

There 7.62x54 which is LMG ammo, then there's...7.62x36? Ones for the SVDs tbe other is fkr theLMG

[stark fossil]

7.62x39 is for the PKM yeah and merchants don’t have it. But since I would never use the PKM I normally have loads for end game Dnipro conversion

7.62 x 54R is just for the SVD and SVU

[weary hedge]

Yeah, I knew i had something wrong

[terse ravine]

dnipro with the ammo conversion is 7.62x39?

[stark fossil]

PKM should be the same but they made it 7.62 ak

[terse ravine]

hoping the PKM ammo is added to at least the yaniv and prypiat merchants

[weary hedge]

There has only been one 7.62 AKM in Stalkers games. It was in Clear Sky. Guy requests you find a gun for him in Cordon, at the vehicle... depot?

[stark fossil]

Really it should be yeah. I mean unless you’re hoarding and saving it until end game you can’t really run it in end game

[terse ravine]

is the weird water radiation protection enought for 4 max rad artifacts with no lead containers?

[stark fossil]

Maybe but in Anomaly there’s more guns than in Tarkov

[stark fossil]

I never used it but Diamond exo has 4 LLCs😏

[weary hedge]

Yeah, but that's a mod game. I kinda really want to try it

[terse ravine]

I wonder if camo customizations would be added to techs, there's already some unique weapons with custom camos/designs

[stark fossil]

Oh man if you never tried it you’re probably gonna forget about S2 when you do try it

Gamma or EFP they are awesome

[terse ravine]

honestly wish I didn't know about stalker for another 2-3 years so I could play it with all the DLCs and mod(packs?)

[stark fossil]

Peak stalker experience, and with the right reshade setup it can look almost as good as S2. Some people even prefer it visually

[stark fossil]

Well if this is your first Stalker game you can always check out the Anomaly mods. It’s really a Skyrim with guns kind of experience
Not to mention a real Alife AI

[terse ravine]

honestly a lot of modern games have a problem where stuff past the foreground look blurry/fuzzy

I feel like I'm going blind trying to shoot anything midrange

[stark fossil]

You can make Anomaly look AAA

[terse ravine]

and it doesn't have nearly as many performance issues

idk how games are lookin marginally better over the last decade, but performance is being nuked

[stark fossil]

Gamma and EFP are simply amazing

[terse ravine]

are there any performance mods for stalker 2?

[stark fossil]

The fact that you can just configure it to your preferences super easily is just gold

[stark fossil]

Are there??? I wouldn’t be able to play otherwise. Highly recommend especially if you have performance issues

[paper sand]

If you use fsr you can swap in the new dll from the sdk, gave me a few more frames

[terse ravine]

well I'm running S2 at 960p and 30fps, still a lot of fun, but it becomes a sideshow in the duga and prypiat

[stark fossil]

Fsr just quadruples my lag

[terse ravine]

might have to wait a decade to have technology become affordable enough to run S2 decently well

[stark fossil]

Check out nexus for performance mods. A lot of them are tailored for low end rigs

[brazen ice]

Anyone else get kinda hungry whenever you eat the bread or sausage? ugh...

[stark fossil]

Maybe not…it’s evident in game that some area are very poorly optimised compared to some others. So perhaps the devs will get around optimising the whole thing

[terse ravine]

I don't think anyone is doing the spark playthru besides wanting to see what happens, scar looks visibly insane in every cutscene

[stark fossil]

I know exactly how that sausage tastes and they have it here in shops in small versions. I love it, makes me go back to my pre school days

It’s more of a salami really..

I would buy a pack of those (5 fingers) and a pack of cherry tomatoes and just eat that - don’t even need bread😄
Anyone that loves salt would probably love them too

[brazen ice]

I envision it exactly to be like a stick of salami or some other cured/cooked sausage... like every time i eat the bread or sausage in game it makes me want some and i'm really trying to lose some weight which makes it so much worse.

[stark fossil]

I myself got addicted to beef jerky lately

[oblique gate]

I took the L and just loaded a manual save that I made halfway through the "loot session" and my greed now knows a bound

[stark fossil]

S2 - no need to hoard
Anomaly mods - definitely need to hoard

Cause there’s also crafting which requires a lot of items so it’s kinda like Tarkov where you have to have 50 light bulbs, 70 bolts and stuff…

[oblique gate]

Anomaly mods?

[stark fossil]

Yeah, like Gamma and EFP (escape from Pripyat)

It’s a huge mod for OG trilogy and gamma and EFP basically expands it even more

Gamma is more of a progression hurdle while EFP focuses more on gunplay

Gamma even had a new update recently which I heard is fantastic - it’s a more HC experience with focus on progression complexity

[oblique gate]

oh ill be doing unmodded, i dont usually play modded unless i come back to S2 in a year or 2

[stark fossil]

Check out some YT vids of it if you want. Anomaly is peak Stalker experience with much more complex mechanics and systems than S2

[stark fossil]

Anomaly is a huge mod that covers all 3 OG games

Gamma and EFP are mods for the Anomaly mod🙂

[maiden grotto]

It needs to have a lot of work added to the world. More missions, more mission types, I properly working A-life, a better balanced economy, more consequences with factions... A bigger map, a mechanic that when a emission goes off, the anomolies change as they are supposed too. Seeing that it says stories that emissions seem to change the zone.

[stark fossil]

@oblique gate if you’re interested in a stalker experience with deeply enhanced mechanics, a zone that is actually alive and a much more complex progression system - check out Gamma and EFP at least on YT.

It’s a sand box which you can play along with story mode or even a full out faction war

[oblique gate]

a mod with leveling up and skill points is always fun, fallout NV is the gold star

[stark fossil]

Well to be honest even if EFP didn’t have skill system it would still be amazing. But it has it along with perk system too. However the early game struggles (especially in Gamma) are really awesome

Not to meantion that if you think of a gun, it’s likely those mods have it

There’s like 200 different guns and almost the same amount of suits

Loot pool is like 20x the loot pool of S2

[maiden grotto]

To be honest, that would make it like most other games.

I like the fact that there are no skill tree's etc. Just you and a gun, and your own judgements.

[north jacinth]

I just got to pyrpiat and holy moly im getting anally violated rn

[stark fossil]

Skills are all just buffs of your normal stats. It’s not like “here now you’re invisible to enemies”. Most of them just increase your standard stats. Nothing game braking really.

[oblique gate]

Or even a perk that's like "enemies that havnt taken care of their weapons guns have a chance to explode"

[stark fossil]

Plus you can chose which enhancements you want to enable. So if you don’t want to have skills - you can opt to do that

[stark fossil]

Guns and gear degrades but the rates are reasonable and there are field repair items and cleaning kits so if you take care of your gun it’s always gonna perform well

Once you repair the gun to 100% you only have to clean it from time to time and it will never jam

[maiden grotto]

but it adds in balancing issues. I like ballistic mods, that makes fights deadly. Get shot and you are almost done for...

Using one at the moment. Can get single shotted with like 80% health on the board.

I like it, battles should be rare, but deadly and you always fear them.

Mutants then become horrors. I don;t like bullet sponges, but they should be able to tear you apart with ease, some of them.

[oblique gate]

nah more so like, i get the ward, monolith etc taking care of their guns, but like the zombies and random ass bandits aint taking care of their guns properly yet they are able to empty an entire mag only for me to look at thier guns and it has 20% durability

[stark fossil]

Anomaly mutants can destroy you just as easily as in S2. The difference is basically only how they did chimeras and giants here which are much more manageable yet still very dangerous in Anomaly

[stark fossil]

That’s intentional. AI never had durability mechanics or finite ammo. They can also just walk through anomalies - that’s one thing they did better in S2

Most of the mutants are exactly the same

[weary hedge]

Howdy doodie slayers with no skill

[north jacinth]

After 107 hours in the game, and over 200+ deaths, I finally have obtained the liberty exosuit

[weary hedge]

Haha jk

[stark fossil]

Deaths go exponentially up once you reach Pripyat. Mostly from performance hit it does

[north jacinth]

lmao I have a really good gaming PC I didn't see any decrease in frames

[stark fossil]

Yeah but one does not simply walk in to Pripyat🤌

[north jacinth]

I had a main mission that requested that I go there.

[oblique gate]

How good is really good cuz I'm running a 3070 with 32 GB of RAM and it still tanks my game

[north jacinth]

4080S, second best GPU on the market. I'm averaging 120FPS

[oblique gate]

ah that would do it

[stark fossil]

Your skill goes up with frames I’m not even joking

[north jacinth]

I think it goes up when frames go down.

Cause you have more time to process whats going on.

[stark fossil]

Nope not in my case. Btw if you’re in Pripyat with a mod tier armor - that might be a part of the problem

[north jacinth]

chromosomes might be down but my skill is up

[stark fossil]

Nope - it makes it so thst from the time you click your mouse you witness 2 bullets then a stutter, and next second you’re empty with stutters in between ghosting your shots

[north jacinth]

yeah well tmr I'm probably going to go out of my way to grab all of the blueprints for the liberty exosuit.

[stark fossil]

We can joke an all but in my experience when the game decides to bless me with 60 stable frames it’s almost like the AI gets nerfed by 70%

[north jacinth]

What I heard is that someone got up to like 200kg capacity? Dk how that happens, maybe with artefacts and blueprints. I'm already surprised that its increased up to 101.

[stark fossil]

Man why don’t you just use what the game gives you - the best exo in game with no BP requirements.

[north jacinth]

BP? Whats that acronym?

[stark fossil]

Blue prints are not required to fully upgrade the 💎 the second you get it

[thorn drift]

Is it just me or does the last level seem really long

[maiden grotto]

night all, have fun

[stark fossil]

There is quite a few things to do in Pripyat yep

[north jacinth]

Yeah I'm going to sleep soon

[thorn drift]

No I mean in the generators

Endless hallways and rooms of monolith soldiers, some with gauss guns that instant kill me

[stark fossil]

Ah well..end game can drag with all elites

But seriously diamond exo is the goat. I suppose an argument could be made about arm servos some other exos have but do you really need more accuracy?

[stray cove]

Bout to cheese the diamond exo at yaniv. Wish me luck

[stark fossil]

It’s kinda game braking getting it before Pripyat but sure..good luck

[thorn drift]

Idk why I'm getting instantly killed by a gauss gun at full health

[stark fossil]

Because it’s a gaus gun

They tend to do that

[terse ravine]

is there any reason to use the sniper over the guass?

[stark fossil]

I never use the Gaus. Only in that one instance where you have to deal with the elite monos

No Gaus for me ever and no PKM. It’s just how I roll…

[gloomy citrus]

Is there a sight attachment for AKM aside from the scope?

Like red dot or collimator.

[stark fossil]

Nope, the Krink can use a red dot tho

[gloomy citrus]

Krink?

[stark fossil]

The AKS-U. Baby AK😏

[gloomy citrus]

Oh

[stark fossil]

There’s also 2 or even 3 unique ones

[stark fossil]

Every attachment and ammo lists all guns that can use/mount them

[gloomy citrus]

Hmmm alright thanks. Though I'm still looking for a spreadsheet that contain weapon stats. As in their exact durability numbers.

[stark fossil]

Actually maybe the unique AKMs like the Drowned can use a red dot..not sure

[gloomy citrus]

I vaguely remember saw an excel spreadsheet that states Combatant is the most reliable weapon. As in it has the most durability.

[stark fossil]

I hear it’s the Rhino revolver..

[gloomy citrus]

What about an AR?

Which one that has highest durability? I'm including uniques.

[stark fossil]

I’m not sure, probably a 7.62 Dnipro used in semi auto but I really have no idea. Personally I hate the exaggerated wear and tear so I killed it fully for both weapons and suits☺️

[thorn drift]

Not usually. Usually I can survive a hit at full health

[stark fossil]

It’s highly likely they buffed the damage for that particular squad

In other words it’s intended to OHK no mater what you have on you in that part of the game

[hidden yoke]

if you're talking about the squad at the end, they usually 1 shot you unless your armor is completely intact or having 2 compass artifact

[gloomy citrus]

The Granite squad.

[hidden yoke]

if you send a granite squad to fight a chimera, they'll kill it for sure

[stark fossil]

My armor is 100% but I had just one Compass

[north jacinth]

tmr I will partake in grabbing artifacts and finding the blueprints for the liberty exoskeleton

[stark fossil]

Anything special with the Liberty?

[north jacinth]

im not going into the final battle with sub par armor it will be fully upgraded

[charred nova]

liberty is the best exo suit

[hidden yoke]

it sell more money

[north jacinth]

wdym anything special? I mean without the blueprints it has less physical protection than the falcon fully upgraded

[charred nova]

its not about the defense

its about the carry capacity

7.5kg armor weight 28kg carry weight buff

[hidden yoke]

now we're talking

[north jacinth]

lies lol the whole point of armor is to protect

[charred nova]

bro is playing a different game

🤨

[stark fossil]

That’s why I’m asking cause you get a 💎 which requires no blueprints to fully upgrade, and is a 4/5 suit. (4 LLCs, 5 slots)

[north jacinth]

handsome jack can you please tell GSC to lower the cooldown on this channel to 15 seconds or 10

[charred nova]

HEY GSC PLEASE LOWER THE COOLDOWN TO 15 SECONDS

my work here is done

[stark fossil]

Also it’s 27kg extra with armor itself being like 7.5kg

[charred nova]

which is why its so busted

[stark fossil]

Yeah which is why I’m busting my brains trying to figure out why people wanna use something else over it

[north jacinth]

Is it true that you can increase the carry capacity over 150kg

[charred nova]

with a mod

for some reason it hard caps at 150kg

even though its pretty easy to surpass that

[north jacinth]

whats the max carry capacity with blueprints? 150?

[charred nova]

no

the game hard caps

at 150kg

[stark fossil]

The weird water can get you to what? 140?

[north jacinth]

bruh but with bp's do yk the cap without mods

[charred nova]

then 2 night stars would put you at like 155kg

3 would put you at 160 ish

[hidden yoke]

hercules that shit

[stark fossil]

Sorry to have to say this but 100+ kg cary weight is just..effin gamey as fuuu

[north jacinth]

Hercules has a time limit

[charred nova]

im using the power of exo suits and magic rocks

i think its not that far fetched

[hidden yoke]

i have 20 of it

[north jacinth]

Tbf its more realistic than something like Minecraft where Steve can carry thousands of kilograms worth of weight

[charred nova]

steve can carry all the mass in the entire universe

multiple times over

[north jacinth]

nah hes got a inventory limit

[stark fossil]

That’s fair and all and Stalker has always been that kind of game outside of mods but I just hate that particular aspect of it

[charred nova]

in survival sure

bro has never played clear sky

where 2 gold fish

give you plus 60kg

💀

[north jacinth]

but running with 100kg I mean maybe possible IRL with steroids and an exoskeleton/hydraulics

[stark fossil]

My limit is usually around 140kg in EFP although I never cary more than 80ish when I’m heading out

[charred nova]

is that really a fair comparison though

well

i wouldnt know ive never palyed

[north jacinth]

Idk if its worth it to even mod the game just to carry more weight like I think mods should enhance the game heavily not just make what already exists just expanded

[charred nova]

i mean its fair to use mods to remove the artificial weight limit

[stark fossil]

Instal a mod that makes quest items 0 - I think that’s even fair since you’re stuck with them

[charred nova]

like i can with out cheating get over 150kg and the game just wont let me have that

[north jacinth]

tbf ive never played any stalker games besides stalker 2. i got recommended the game by a friend and i was hooked. 110 hours later and im almost finished with the main story

[north jacinth]

BRO LIKE AT WHAT POINT AM I GOING TO NEED THESE RANDOM ITEMS 😭

[stark fossil]

When I see players touting 7 different guns to change on the fly I get the gawks

[charred nova]

my gun apsb

most cracked gun

[north jacinth]

I only carry two with me unless ik I'm fighting a boss like pseudogiant then maybe a RPG

[stark fossil]

Like chose your load out and go

[charred nova]

i still dont know why they made it 3 round burst though

[maiden robin]

I found an immortal sniper

[charred nova]

like

i think someone got confused

[stark fossil]

He ain’t
But might as well be

[charred nova]

thinking apsb was this

[stark fossil]

Nope

[charred nova]

i mean they look kinda similiar i guess

[north jacinth]

Nah fr I've solo'd entire squads with that gun

[thorn drift]

Yeah that must be them, I’m on the final mission

[stark fossil]

That’s the fresh new Beretta no?

[charred nova]

its a m93r

which is 3 round burst

the apsb in real life is full auto

[north jacinth]

i mean technically any semi auto pistol irl is full auto with a switch

but the ATF be like "gimme that shit boi" and then you're in handcuffs facing felony charges like "whats going on?"

[stark fossil]

Drop in full auto sear for everyone😂

[charred nova]

the real thing even had a stock

[weary hedge]

Oh my god the part where u have to fight thru the sphere is impossible why are there so many armored guys

[charred nova]

use ap rounds sir

[weary hedge]

I don’t have anymore 😭

[charred nova]

do you have dart

[stark fossil]

I know this is gonna sound very unlikely but I haven’t used any AP ammo in game.. I only tried expansive on chimeras and giants…

[charred nova]

buy 9x18mm ap rounds

they are insanely busted

can 2 tap exo dudes

[stark fossil]

Cause Kharod and Dnipro don’t need AP at all.. but granted I play on Stalker

[edgy wren]

What's the most cursed thing you can do with guns in Stalker 2?

[novel quarry]

the armor levels of mutants means hp is of questionable use on like 80% of them. like most are 4-5 armor pen level.

[stark fossil]

Never even bought ammo either😅

[charred nova]

install underbarrel shotgun on the Remington

[charred nova]

me neither

i only bought 9x18mm ap

[novel quarry]

like none of the mutants except psuedo giants really have a lot of health. its just armor

[charred nova]

because its super rare

[edgy wren]

LMAO that's hilarious.

[novel quarry]

lead a .308 to hit someone at like 50 meters (he was like sprinting)

[stark fossil]

It’s necessary

[charred nova]

by the end of the game

my stash had like

20k rounds of ammo in it

[stark fossil]

Yeah I know me too

[edgy wren]

Can you turn Rhino into a sniper like in Metro? Or close to it?

[charred nova]

no idea i never even used it

apsb supremacy

[stark fossil]

Yeah 2x scope tho. But still..it’s nice

[novel quarry]

idk, 2x optics dont let you hold your breath for some awful reason so it seems super unviable

[charred nova]

but you know what needs to be changed

[stark fossil]

Given how low the engagement ranges are a Rhino can be a substitute for a sniper

[edgy wren]

Ahh, make sense. Imagine the mods for more guns, especially cursed options as well.

[charred nova]

they need to make the usp not be literally pointless

45 acp pistol that has worse stats than the starter pistol

[stark fossil]

Only like 8000 things, and another 8000 things added. And on a count of pistols, nothing except the Skiffy, Rhino and APSB matters

[charred nova]

literally this^

apsb trades damage for higher armor penetration than most snipers

how this makes sense

idk

[stark fossil]

Like the unique pistols that you get are totally just visual things - no other point

For the same reason most of ARs are useless too. Like the G36 can get up to 90 capacity but you still need all 90 rounds to get equal with a PM’s single mag

[charred nova]

the clusterfuck

is really good

[stark fossil]

Yeah the only one that is I would say

[charred nova]

its a budget ar

sniper*

but its kinda better

[stark fossil]

Freaking VSS is weaker than a Makarov😂

[charred nova]

cus it has super low recoil

[charred nova]

its also worse across the board compared to the clusterfuck

except in durability

[edgy wren]

I do like the Vector submachine gun I have.
What do you think of that gun?

[stark fossil]

It is what it is. The weapon balance is arbitrary and has no relation to reality

[charred nova]

i mean it kinda just makes no sense at all lol

[stark fossil]

Very good yeah, flat shooting and good damage. It’s not a coincidence they never gave the Vector and Bucket more than 30 rounds capacity

[solar cobalt]

The unique vector chambered in .45 is my baby, that thing shreds

[stark fossil]

Vector toggle action magic

[edgy wren]

Ahh, I feel like keeping it until I might find a better- unique Vector????

[charred nova]

they did the mac10 dirty

has the worst damage stat in the entire game

[edgy wren]

Even the unique variant too?

[stark fossil]

Yeah and it’s literally a spray can

[charred nova]

yup

[charred nova]

the unique variant is actually worse

than the regular version

[stark fossil]

I suppose it’s fine for Bloodsuckers…

[edgy wren]

That's weird... It has a cool description for it.

[charred nova]

because it cant take a suppressor

it looked pretty in my stash though

[stark fossil]

The little unique Bucket is also locked out of supp

[edgy wren]

But yeah, I wonder where I get unique Vector.
Also Spitter look insane with stats.

[stark fossil]

Bucket is good yeah

I love that gun in Anomaly..with SP7 ammo its a beast vs muties

[edgy wren]

I do like MP-153 from Anomaly.

[charred nova]

but its in anomaly

[stark fossil]

The Karabiner - shortened version thst can be suppressed - my fav SG

[edgy wren]

Can't forget the AS Val, my favorite assault rifle.

[stark fossil]

Well in EFP the Scar is OP

[charred nova]

still mad

there is no fal in stalker 2

LIKE COME ON

[solar cobalt]

The unique vector is a version exclusive sadly, locked behind deluxe edition at a minimum. But it feels amazing to use, very little recoil and with the .45 ACP upgrade you drop people even at a medium distance with ease

[stark fossil]

In S2 the unique version is super easy to get

[charred nova]

its a no brainer

[edgy wren]

[stark fossil]

Well…the Bizon is pretty awesome to be honest.

[edgy wren]

Ah I do have one. But can't use that cause I gotten low on ammo and the armor maintenance getting too expensive.

My armor got so badly damaged, it went up to 100k.... Ouchie...

[stark fossil]

Yeah the trick is to hold on using 9x39 for a while until you can get a lot of it

[valid marten]

Hello

[terse ravine]

integral a shoots feathers at exoskeleton, even with the ammo conversion 😢

[valid marten]

I was wondering, in the end what did the Devs say about coop mode? We're not getting anything like that right? No multiplayer?

[edgy wren]

At least I have other assault rifle that is really strong, but still miss my AS Val.. 😔

[charred nova]

the solution

[frigid hill]

sqepticism has been warned

Reason: Bad word usage

[charred nova]

grab the nearest APSB

load in ap

kill mobs of exo suit dudes like there made of paper

[solar cobalt]

So sorry friend.... if I could give my vector to you I would

[novel quarry]

does it require screwing over a random npc like seemingly half the unique weapons (what type of game design is this)

[terse ravine]

is the rhino with the ammo conversion worth it?

[stark fossil]

It’s kind of irrelevant because of gamey balance. I mean I have never used a SOFMOD or AKM past Zalisya

[charred nova]

i never bothered

since most of those guns suck anyways

[novel quarry]

i actually considered trying it as a primary based on how good people have said it is lol

[charred nova]

it is

i walked into the final mission with 400 rounds of 9x18m ap

[stark fossil]

Nope you literally just need one nade to get it and no dungeon hoping

[charred nova]

and killed half the dudes

with just that

[novel quarry]

as a secondary it feels inferior to skifs pistol cause its not good for repair costs or ammo conservation

[edgy wren]

It's so odd to me that the Rhino uses the same ammo for AS Val And Vintorez.

[charred nova]

skifs pistol has terrible pen

so it totally sucks in late game

[stark fossil]

Well so is a 7.62x39 PKM

[charred nova]

penetration matters wayyyyyyyyy more than damage does

[novel quarry]

yeah but i don't need pen for tushankos, boxes of wood etc

[solar cobalt]

Does it? I haven't used it against exo enemies yet so if it does I'm gonna be so sad...... such a fun gun to use

[edgy wren]

Is there a unique Saiga shotgun? I did just bought one and it's has so much convenient than KSG.

[charred nova]

yes

but only if you have the dlc

[novel quarry]

thats wild, surprised I missed it but the map is huge so not too surprising i guess

[stark fossil]

Saiga is good even with nothing

[edgy wren]

[charred nova]

the unique d12 is the best shot gun in the game

its too bad its locked behind the ultimate edition

[novel quarry]

or its at like 1 of 2 places i havent been lmao, that seems possible, its not at the comissary right...you said no dungeons, rip

[stark fossil]

Agroprom - there is a 3 skylight bunkers

[edgy wren]

Still convenient than KSG at least.

[charred nova]

with the 12 round mag

its way better than the ksg

you can mag dump it so fast

[novel quarry]

I assume unique as val is just as bad as the regular as val tho

[charred nova]

idk tbh

most of the unique guns in this game

i just picked up

dumped in a box

[stark fossil]

I think it has one or 2 stats a little higher..

[charred nova]

and forgot about them

[novel quarry]

I think what they did to 9x39 weapons in stalker 2 might be a crime in some jurisdictions

[edgy wren]

KSG is fun cause double barrel but like Saiga rips, but I will not not sell the old one cause it helped me a lot before lol.

[novel quarry]

their velocity is worse than irl and its well, not great obviously irl.

[charred nova]

i mean the suppressors suck irl

there like really bad

[novel quarry]

its like they originally balanced them with high damage and then they got nerfed and their velocity was never adjusted

[charred nova]

i mean i ran around with them

for a while

until i spent all 500 rounds of my 9x39 stock pile

then chucked it back in the box

[edgy wren]

Real life ooor?

[novel quarry]

but it certainly feels kind of lame when you come from Metro and older Stalkers where they were kind of beast regardless of the actual realism there

[stark fossil]

Most of the 9x39 weapons are mid game viable only

[charred nova]

the whip is the best sniper

lynx then whip

[novel quarry]

i wonder if they made the suppressors on the 9x39 better than other weapons or something? I kind of doubt it but that'd be interesting at least

[stark fossil]

Rhino is an exception ofc but that gun is deliberately made so you have a high dmg low maintenance option for end game

[novel quarry]

(esp since most irl are using original, now outdated integrated designs so)

[stark fossil]

Suppressors are evolving rn

[novel quarry]

not the intregrated part as outdated but the actual design is pretty damn old of say the VSS now

[icy drum]

I got as high up on the red fortress as i could. And based on what I could see in the distance there's definitely probably more to come to the game

[stark fossil]

Yet still relevant

[charred nova]

i mean from what ive heard those original integrated suppressors are just terrible

people have diyed way better ones

[novel quarry]

that place dissapointed me. i was kind of shocked there wasn't anything up there (minus the guitar that you can't use but looks neat)

[icy drum]

It's pretty much four bent washers in a tube

[charred nova]

yup lol

an automotive oil filter is probably quitter

[stark fossil]

VSSK - a femur sized suppressor😄

[icy drum]

Modern baffle technology is way better. Brandon Herrera built a VSS and it was way better than a Russian one

[charred nova]

yah

thats the video i was thinking of

[novel quarry]

yeah thats what I mean, but I was hoping maybe the vss/as val are quieter in stalker 2 to not be so useless late game but eh even then they wouldn't be worth it tbh so i guess it doesnt matter

[stark fossil]

New hit is the flow through suppressors
(I think that’s the term..)

[charred nova]

so heres my biggest complaint

[icy drum]

They are good, just expect more flash is all. Great for guns that are already over gassed due to combat gassing

[charred nova]

where is the lynx svd etc suppressor

[edgy wren]

Can we fit the biggest suppressor on a small gun?

[charred nova]

i think i read somewhere

it exists in the game files but

[stark fossil]

In game files😂

[charred nova]

there is no way to obtain it

[icy drum]

I heard it was in prypiat somewhere

[charred nova]

yes

[stark fossil]

Well…

[charred nova]

but its broken

so basically

monolith are suppose to be able to have it

and you can kill them an take it but

it seems to not actually spawn

[novel quarry]

i hear thats where the CNPP is too /s

[icy drum]

Ah so unobtainable till unbroken pretty much. Well that is unfortunate

[stark fossil]

That’s what mods are for

[charred nova]

ive killed 100s of monoliths in Pripyat

and never found it so

if its in the game

you cant actually get it

[paper sand]

maybe they removed it to give the val some purpose but its still not to great later on

[icy drum]

I'm on an Xbox, and only because Stalker 2 isn't kn ps5 yet. And I have NVGs and real pews to buy instead of a pc

[novel quarry]

also donde esta .45 HP? also in files) (not like we need it i vanilla considering how HP works in vanilla but still)

[stark fossil]

I don’t think so. However with the right mod you can get it to drop eventually

[stark fossil]

Only as loot afaik. No special ammos on traders 🤨

[charred nova]

might just install one of those mods that lets you buy all attachments

i spent 120 hours in the zone already

[stark fossil]

I am using the one that has a chance of attachments in stashes

[icy drum]

The devs will probably fix it once they figure out what's causing it to not be in game. I just attempt to enjoy the game as is. Even though it's a we bit broken

[stark fossil]

Eventually you get it, along with 20 Kharod extended mags by the time you get the supp

[charred nova]

oh god truly we have peaked looked what just got put on moddb

this looks ass ngl

[stark fossil]

Still pointless if the stats are the same

[charred nova]

ik lol

just thought it was funny

[icy drum]

Doesn't surprise me at all. Also pistols definitely need a buff. Just saying skifs pistol should not be better than gambit or deadeye or the UPD in general

[charred nova]

i agree

[stark fossil]

But it’s very polarising when you look at how good the gun models were made the animations and sounds

[edgy wren]

Imagine finding that on a random dead bandit.

[icy drum]

The weeb bandits (I watch anime)

[edgy wren]

Dude could've get Adidas pistol.

[icy drum]

[stark fossil]

Here’s a funny story for ya. I initially installed a mod that gives AI a chance of modded weapons. Supposedly very rare. I start a new PT and as soon as I got pass the “Fault” those first 3 bandits you come across…one of them OHKs me with a fully decked out Mark1😄

So I ditched thst mod for a stash chance for attachments and that one is pretty balanced

You really need to open like 100 stashes before you are graced with something

Or you can cheese it with quick load until you get what you want but I don’t do that

[icy drum]

I just wish certain guns were simply just better is all. Like AR416 I love it. But I wouldn't even use it if it wasn't for the special DMR one (which I use all the time). The time its useful 5.56 isn't all that common. And I haven't used the unknown stalkers 416 much. I just want a MK12 ;-;. That or a MK17 sadly no scar in game

[charred nova]

hot take i think that anime sucks

[stark fossil]

There a rebalance mod. I really wanna use it but it would conflict with some others I’m using

[icy drum]

I shall take your opinion and not do anything because I don't care about it

[charred nova]

based

[stark fossil]

Basically all damage and pen values are dependent on barrel lengths and caliber

[icy drum]

Would make G36 actually useful

[stark fossil]

So HK416 is more less the same as AKM and G36

[stark fossil]

It’s very cool with a drum mag🤫

[icy drum]

I still have yet to go and find that

[charred nova]

too bad you cant get a drum mag

till the game is over

[stark fossil]

Good luck. It’s the same as SVD supp - non existent outside of modding

[icy drum]

:/

[stark fossil]

I really think the stash attachments mod is not game braking

[icy drum]

I mean not really, if you think about it. Wasn't stashes in the old games much better? Like they spawned weapons and armor

[stark fossil]

Cause most of them can be found in multiple places anyways so being a small chance in any stash is kinda negligible

[icy drum]

I found random exo, sold it cause I couldn't put servos to be able to run

[stark fossil]

Good choice

[icy drum]

Then fixed my Seva suit with the profit

[stark fossil]

The game literally gives you the best one in late game and that one doesn’t even require blueprints

[icy drum]

Yeah I found that out, I didn't even know it was the best one till I was told

I used it because I knew I'd need one end game. I also kinda like the monolith camo

[lofty fiber]

GSC please make more fingerless gloves for outfits!!!

[weary hedge]

If you want a saiga drum magazine before endgame, download this mod;

https://www.nexusmods.com/stalker2heartofchornobyl/mods/64

Press ~ ingame and type; XCreateItemInInventoryByID GunD12_MagLarge 0 1 1

[stark fossil]

You can’t know until you see all of them but when I saw it’s 27+ kg while being 10kg (goes down to 7), and 4 LLCs, aaand no blueprints. I mean I though what the hell can be better than this

[icy drum]

Well I'm going to sleep now

[stark fossil]

That’s why I said the stash attachment mod is great cause you can get it in a random stash and it’s likely not gonna be too early
Unless you cheese it with F9 until you get it but that’s just lame if you ask me..

[weary hedge]

Damn, there are so many good mods coming out recently

' Sick of useless explosives? Can`t kill anyone with red barrels and other stuff? Selling all your grenades? Then, this mod is for you!'

https://www.nexusmods.com/stalker2heartofchornobyl/mods/737

That mod sells itself lol

[stark fossil]

Considering all these mods are basically just band aids before official support they are doing an amazing job

[haughty pasture]

I need help. I am in the Swamp and there is an Emission who rips me Apart. I try for 3 hours to find a shelter. Even the Church or the little cave cant save me. I tierd af

[weary hedge]

Follow the objective marker, just keep following it - sometimes it wont update until you go a bit further

It will take you to safety, just keep running

[haughty pasture]

Bro is it a Scripted Emission? -.-

[weary hedge]

Yeah it is

[haughty pasture]

Thank you. Wtf

[weary hedge]

It should give you enough time to reach the objective before it starts, too

[haughty pasture]

Yeah xD my Problem was I would like to loot everything before I continue with the main quest. But when its a scripted it is not possible to outrun it. Thank you very much for your fast answer

[stark fossil]

Disregard the huge monster trying to kill ya it’s a trap

Just 🏃‍♂️

[patent heath]

greetings fellow stalkers

I've been playing Stalker trilogy since high school and now I'm playing Stalker2 rn

[glad fractal]

Play SoC back then on potato 20fps
Play Hoc today on potato 20fps

[stark fossil]

Nice, knowing the OGs does make some things simpler in S2

[patent heath]

Oh yeah, before even Stalker 2 released, I did play some Stalker mods such as Call of Chernobyl and Anomaly

nice to know that the devs acknowledge these mods

[stark fossil]

There were S2 mods the next day of launch, devs don’t mind afaik😄

Smart if you ask me, they respect their fans

Although if there’s ever a multiplayer for S2 then some restrictions will probably have to be in place

[gloomy citrus]

Call of Chernobyl was a mod of the year in 2016 iirc

Voted as so in MoDDB

Even to this day I still play standalone mods alongside S2.

[weary hedge]

I have a problem I’m on that mission where u attack duga with the ward and after I kill all the monolith it says to meet up with senkevychs group at that tower thing but if I run to them they say I’m deserting and then shoot me

Random note

If you have the ue mod, hit tilde (~) to open the console

XCreateItemInInventoryByID GunD12_SG 0 1 1 < Saiga
XCreateItemInInventoryByID GunD12_MagLarge 0 1 1 < Drum mag

[wintry pumice]

yeah that seems like a bad idea

[wintry pumice]

Ward betrays you, big surprise there

[ebon geyser]

Damn, today is good day, got me some ultimate physical edition from giveaway ;]

[iron belfry]

good job at being lucky

[potent stone]

Anyone know if there is a suppressor for the mark 1 emr?

[weary hedge]

Yeah I only just put one on like 5 minutes ago, but it was the unique mark 1 from memory, i closed the game since lol

[potent stone]

memory?

[weary hedge]

from my ability to remember lol

[potent stone]

oh

[stark fossil]

Yeah but it’s in Pripyat

[ebon geyser]

https://mapgenie.io/stalker-2-heart-of-chornobyl/guides/attachments

[elfin vine]

In Duga or burnt forest
Also, chat, F for all the xbox players that will never experience modded stalker

[stark fossil]

Can’t sympathise it’s like buying a pocket knife vs a full cutlery set with sharpening stones

[weary hedge]

Some people just get overwhelmed with computers, I think

I think many of us could attest how annoying certain, most of the time, random issues that pop up and how much work they are to fix

now imagine someone with far less of a clue that cant even work a browser - there are a lot of those people

[elfin vine]

It's less of a casual experience, yeah.

[stark fossil]

Whoa it’s Jevhen!

[weary hedge]

check #📸┃screens_and_videos
its name is 'Partner'

[potent stone]

Is it the one in prypiat?

[narrow mesa]

Any talk about stopping inventory from self sorting after every purchase or sale. It’s super annoying.

[weary hedge]

No

"Partner is a marksman rifle fitted with a sight and built for close or medium-range fights. It is unlocked after you defend Zalissya from the Monolith once you have finished the SIRCAA region. You'll be able to assist the remaining stalkers after this quest. Talking to Warlock will let you retrieve this gun from his house as a part of the On The Edge side mission.

During it, simply hold onto the gun and don’t give it back to Warlock to keep it. Unfortunately, this entire quest is bugged right now, so the weapon may not be obtainable for a while."

Old article but yeah, thats how you get it

I spawned it in

[hushed hull]

rostok is full of bugs and crashes , just opening inventry for more than 1min , my game crashed several times

[stark fossil]

I’d prefer if they added attachments to vendors and just made them like 100k or something

[weary hedge]

Also, this is available

https://www.nexusmods.com/stalker2heartofchornobyl/mods/997?tab=description

Just plop it into your save game folder, its basically a new game plus

all weapons, attachments, artifacts, armors etc
starts in Zalissya with only the opening scenes finished, with your stash full

[stark fossil]

I would argue the mod that adds attachments to stashes (0.1% chance) is best way to do it

Cause it makes looting stashes actually exciting and the small drop chance doesn’t break the progression

[weary hedge]

My game kept crashing between alt-tabs, trying to manually spawn in just what i wanted using console commands (I just wanted a modified saiga with a drum mag, plus the Sotnyk) lol

So i ended up just using the game save where hes done it for me, then picking what i want to play with

[stark fossil]

There is also a mod that changes AI loadouts so you have a chance to snag it from a kill

But that one is a little too generous and doesn’t scale well with the progression - you can get a fully modded Saiga from a bandit in Zalisya

[weary hedge]

I did learn the exoskeletons are, in some ways, not the best armor in the game

[stark fossil]

Dunno about that tho…I’d certainly agree if there was a hit to speed or something..

[weary hedge]

Some of the latter game armors, like the scientist next-gen space look alike suit thing, have better stats than the liberty exo, at base without upgrades

they just dont come with psi protection, but they have higher environmental protection stats

[stark fossil]

Psy and ballistic are really the only ones that matter. Then there is weight buff and you just can’t top that with non exos

[weary hedge]

I thought about that too and it got me wondering if exo-suits affect stealth gameplay

[stark fossil]

That’s the thing they don’t seem to

[weary hedge]

So you'd have your fallout style light armor meta and then heavy armor meta

[stark fossil]

In Anomaly that’s how it kinda works, exos make you slower and bulky

You can end game with a medium suit in fact a lot of players prefer it

[weary hedge]

I'm using Axii's stealth mod, but I don't think that addresses it either if its even possible

Someone else mentioned here yesterday that he thought certain mutants were LOD detection and others were sound

I havent paid attention whether the sound meter is high for exo-suit actions

But i also havent noticed mutants responding in any sort of, complicated manner like he suggests

[stark fossil]

Me neither… I’ve even tracked a pack of fleshes for like 500m in an exo and they never knew I was running behind them

[weary hedge]

I've done that too but with human ai lol

[stark fossil]

Like if stalkers spawn looking toward you it’s likely they’ll spot you

And if they are looking away you can practically track them forever

[potent stone]

How do you spawn it in? I sidedd with the ward, so I technically can't get it.

[stark fossil]

Can you install mods?

[potent stone]

I'm on pc, so maybe?

[weary hedge]

2 secs

[potent stone]

ok its been 2 secs

[stark fossil]

I really recommend grabbing that stash mod. It has several versions you can even have guns, arties and armors spawn in stashes

[weary hedge]

enter XCreateItemInInventoryByID Gun_Partner_SR 0 1 1 into the console with the ue tools mod

[stark fossil]

The one I’m using only adds a 0.1% chance for a random attachment

And if you’re impatient you can even F9 by the stash until you get what you want

[unborn fjord]

Anyone else getting crashes in Rostok consistently? If I stay around the traders/stash for more than 5mins and don't do much (e.g. inventory managing or selling) then the game crashes 100% of the time.

[stark fossil]

It still has a memory leak yeah

[unborn fjord]

@stark fossil TY thought I was going crazy. I am being hyperfocused on my quicksaving in that area so I don't have to redo boring inv stuff constantly

[gloomy citrus]

so the "Bandits" I killed in Red Forest were the remnants of Renegades.

[stark fossil]

I never noticed that, cool cool

[stark fossil]

Performance mods seem to help a bit

[zenith sedge]

This was the crackhead faction from clear sky right

[dreamy plover]

question for someone who's been playing non stop since the update - How is a-life now??

[patent heath]

you guys have any trouble on stalker 2 stuttering lag

[unborn fjord]

Already got em

[stark fossil]

Better but still not true Alife

[dreamy plover]

ok thats what i thought. I just started a new playthrough but ill pause and wait for more updates

[stark fossil]

If you’re enjoying the game there’s no need to wait, the AI engagements do feel a lot more organic and stuff doesn’t just spawn on your head. If you join a group you can travel with them for as long as you want etc. it’s certainly loads better than on launch but still not real Alife we all love. Also the vision range is still too low

[dreamy plover]

Yeah but i had a couple of months off work just for the launch and now i need to get to work, no time for playing games soo

[stark fossil]

There’s also an instance where a spider slowly comes down from the ceiling usually happens in tunnels

[patent heath]

my gameplay has been stuttering when going any populated area

doesn't matter if it's low, medium or high, it's stil stuttering

[stark fossil]

Perform mod solved that issue for me for the most part

[glad fractal]

as long as not dropping to 1fps due to vram tanking

[gloomy citrus]

yeah

[true loom]

Are ecologists not in STALKER 2?

I’m 48 hours deep and haven’t seen any sign of them. I’m gonna guess they’re not in the game lol

BRO WHAT IS WRONG WITH THE UI

WHY IS IT MAKING THAT SOUND

[gloomy citrus]

the medic in Cement Factory, Duty Base, is wearing Ecologist lab coat

[true loom]

#❔┃seeking-for-advice

[dense bear]

Does anyone know if we will have the possibility of upgrading the game version? deluxe > ultimate ??

[ebon mountain]

guys where do I find AK silencer? I went everywhere internet said and nowhere found an AK silencer...

I even ran to Yanov station where it should be at the trader...not there and I did LOTS of trader resets

[cobalt haven]

So there is a canon name now for the Savior (that dude in SHOC intro):

Red

You'll find out in the Legends of the Zone questline, when you talk to Whale (medic)

[candid hare]

can any attachments go on the "Hunter" M701 sniper?

[cobalt haven]

Most of Malachite personnel are ecologists

[true loom]

Oh

[terse ravine]

in terms of coupons/items, which ending route gives the most?

[amber egret]

Finished my 1st play through.....and wow...simply wow. Got ending with Strelok...wonder how will the other ending looks like. I know one is with Scar/Spark. Then I guess with Ward is separate to two ending also, right?

[spark dagger]

Uhm guys... you know the Duga space bubble anomaly that send you flying... yeah, well... my PC doesn't load the thing that's supposed to save you, so it just... kills me...

[wintry pumice]

[amber egret]

I giving the game 9/10 so far. Hope there will be more patches in future. A-life still feel really wonky. Some quest are bugged. Personally I wouldn't mind seeing more unique side-quest.

[gloomy citrus]

Skif Ending:

||Skif is the one who enters the Pod and the whole earth turns into the zone as there are generators built around the globe.||

[amber egret]

Next time I will try Ward and of if the ending, then back to Spark and side with Scar and then back to Ward for last ending

[north jacinth]

Today I'm going to be out out of my way to get the liberty exosuit upgrades

[zinc bluff]

https://tenor.com/view/stalker-duty-stalker-dance-gsc-gsc-gameworld-gif-22307630

[oblique gate]

https://tenor.com/view/ragman-stalker-2-my-beloved-ragman-my-beloved-gif-3660779395785507376

[smoky ginkgo]

It’s the same across all endings, there is very little variation in terms of cash flow. Did all 4 starting from the same save “tree”, ended up with very similar amounts

[random onyx]

chat who can upgrade the sircaa suit

[amber egret]

I know that it's either guy in Rostok or gril at Yanov

[random onyx]

where is rostok i forgor.

[amber egret]

Pretty much in the middle. Below Red Forest. "Big" city with a railway heading out of it from left side of the city/base

[still current]

Maybe in the future.

[autumn minnow]

Gotta ask, what’s everyone’s favourite weapon for each stage of the game (or one you just keep throughout.)?

[sage mist]

Guys is stalker 2 gonna get dlcs?

Or is the game complete now? Like other than patches and shi.. I mean like is this the whole game? Or expansions will come out

[flint plover]

yeah they already said there will be DLCs, once they release modding tools we'll have endless content tho

[autumn minnow]

Is this for Console too?

[flint plover]

I'm sure some mods will end up being compatible with console. Mods on console are becoming more and more popular.

[autumn minnow]

Yeah. I know Besthesda of all people started it with Skyrim and fallout 4

[sage mist]

Any idea when the dlcs might release? As I'm thinking to buy it once all the dlcs and stuff has released

[ember urchin]

Are there any mods for Stalker 2 that makes the sky bright blue or cyan and makes the green grass and leaves more bright and contrasted? I hate that in Pripyat it’s always cloudy and rainy

[ember urchin]

Not sure, but if there will be any dlc then they will release after the devs finished patching and fixing up the game

[amber egret]

hmmm....after Doctor asked me to bring regenerator for Strider, my favorigun became a The Rat killer.

[north jacinth]

What would y'all say is the most annoying mutant?

[signal eagle]

Psi dog for me

[novel quarry]

this damn keypad code has me wanting to study cryptology

(nah but i did consider figuring out all possible cominbations but then I realized nah even on the off chance this thing is actually supposed to be this hard theres no way whatever is in there is worth it)

[signal eagle]

What one are you at?

[frigid hill]

tomasaurusrekt has been warned

Reason: Bad word usage

[flint plover]

I can tell you which one I miss scaring the **** out of me, the Fracture lol

[novel quarry]

stupid thing thats like, off the coast of yantar idk how else to describe it lol

[smoky ginkgo]

Pseudo dog definitely, if you don’t catch the real one soon enough you end up swarmed with hallucinations and start chasing your own tail, burning ammo and your armor

Poltergeists are a good second, as they can be pretty well hidden … and these telekinetic attacks hurt quite a lot in this game

[novel quarry]

i dont want to look it up tho cause it ruins it

[signal eagle]

Yantar damn? I wont give it away but ye good luck

[novel quarry]

yeah maybe ill get it next playthrough lolol

[obtuse veldt]

I'd wish I could keep boss weapons for a new game run/freeroam exploration

That Beast and EM-01 surely packs a punch, not only to mention it got laser and uses 5.45 ammo

[smoky ginkgo]

Do you want a hint ? Stalker’s campfire style ?

[novel quarry]

nah ill figure it out, if I don't get it next time, then maybe haha, thanks anyway 🫡

[barren cargo]

So just reaching the mission where I trade in my e-collar from the abandoned car park deal, still salty I stood there like an idiot while they blew up

[civic relic]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uwgOdr9KFOM

[spark dagger]

bro I'm gonna lose it 😭

What the hell am I even supposed to do

[north jacinth]

Yeah I'd say poltergeists are the most annoying for me

[pallid thorn]

Psi-dogs for me

[buoyant light]

did one of the patches change dalin's hair or is it a bug? he has a buzz cut in my game all of a sudden

[maiden robin]

I never did get the call for that psi armor from the "The side hustle" mission. Now that I'm pretty sure icarus has fallen at this point of the story due to my choices. That armors just lost isn't it?

[torn veldt]

First the colonel and now strider, does anyone know how to fix npcs being invisible?

[harsh jungle]

become invisible yourself /s

[pale trout]

only 20,000 players on steam thats a testament to how bad this game is

[trail anchor]

I saw a discussion about mutants previously, and I need to ask one thing

I remember Poltergeist in the previous games didn't see you if you moved, am I remembering wrong or did they change that in Stalker 2?

[pale trout]

the ai in stalker 2 is about 1% of what the original ai is its hilarious

stalker 2 went from top seller on steam to 82nd for player base in less then 2 months

[glad fractal]

didnt remember anything different about their general behavior
they got buffed this time with siblings and new skills however

[pale trout]

be proud GSC be proud

[paper sand]

idk theyre not limited to 1 small zone here so its already better imo

[pale trout]

and they still have not put alife 2.0 back on the steam page after it was apparently taken off by mistake

[gloomy wing]

Hey ! I have a problem, In my option I have set the Ukranian Voice but I have the English voice 😦

[worthy dagger]

Game its available through GamePass and still managed to do that...

[pale trout]

thats xbox game pass and many steam players dont use that so

[civic kernel]

man GSC should really be a bit more clear, i finished Wishful Thinking and now i feel like im locked out of half of the map because of the monoliths attacking all bases xd

[worthy dagger]

The point is, many new players probably are playing it on GamePass, and you don't really know their figures.

[paper sand]

you are talking to a brick wall my friend

[pale trout]

well i know the steam figures and theyre terrible

[paper sand]

1 million sales is terrible? lmnao

[jolly oak]

It's an illusion, don't panic. Only specific places are actually under attack, and the Monolith are moving from one location to the next. It's actually not that big a deal, but you are narratively fooled into thinking it is.

[worthy dagger]

It's a single player game, most people probably finished the game and went on to the next one, or may be also waiting for more updates to begin playing it again. I know I have friends doing it and thanks to the recetn A-life update should be starting again soon.

[civic kernel]

wait so Sirca/cement factory and Icarus become available as base again ?

[pale trout]

what you saying xbox gamepass is retaining more players? its probbaly the other way around you know that right seeing as they probably didnt renew the subscription

[paper sand]

why would players be retained when its a single player story based game and they have finished the game? this isnt live service slop.

[civic kernel]

i have unfinished business there and right now it just felt like i am running from one firefight to the next

[wintry pumice]

Game randomly decided to delete all my saves.... was about to see the shining zone

[worthy dagger]

No, what i'm saying is that you can't define the success of the game through Steam figures being that he's available through GamePass.

[pale trout]

thats another untrue statment i checked only 1% on steam got scar went into the pod achievement

[paper sand]

🤸‍♂️

[pale trout]

keep on making excuses ill keep debunking them

[trail anchor]

Ah okay thanks. Maybe I am remembering something else

[worthy dagger]

The fact that you're here spreading hate about the game rather than being playing something else tells me more about you than the game itself.

[paper sand]

ah yes, the all knowing random discord user with access to things no one else has

[jolly oak]

I'm going to spoiler block this, just as a courtesy, but here's the answer to that:

||SIRCAA base is wrecked forever after the quest event there, but no loss since it wasn't available prior anyway.||

||Icarus is evacuated and/or the residents turn to zombies depending on your choices if you're Ward-friendly, OR stays hostile if you're against the Ward. The Icarus personnel are evacuated to Chemical Plant, it's mentioned in NPC dialogue and PA messages.||

||Cement Factory is never off limits. Duty fends off the Monolith there, just like Slag Heap in Garbage.||

[civic relic]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3azuigLn1Bc

[pale trout]

hate im spreading facts youre the one making up random excuses

[trail anchor]

Didn't they confirm they made back all the development costs?

[paper sand]

your personal opinions are not facts

[worthy dagger]

According to Steam figures, 61.2% got the "Good hunting, stalker" achievement, which means they got out of the Lesser Zone. What excuses m8?

[jolly oak]

Yes. Google says "STALKER 2 has already turned a profit as of December 18, mere weeks since its release. GSC last said the game sold 1 million copies in its first 48 hours on the market, but that sales tally may have doubled by now. The game's budget might have been in the ballpark of $80 million."

That commend is dated Dec 18th, btw

[worthy dagger]

Plus. 85.8% actually made it past the prologue

[wintry pumice]

You know this how?

[pale trout]

82nd for player base on steam from top seller less then 2 months ago is facts check it 20k playing now

[worthy dagger]

He can't know sh*t about GamePass players since Microsoft doesn't share any figure about it.

[civic kernel]

||ohhhh i assumed Sirca can become a base thanks for the info, the cement factory looked like a battlefield thats why i didnt get closer yet. Thanks for the help ||

[wintry pumice]

That's what I was thinking too

[jolly oak]

Happy to help, Stalker! Now go headshot some Monolith bastards 🙂

[pale trout]

hahahaha thats not what you said fool you said they probably finished the game which isnt true

[worthy dagger]

Please keep the discussion civil, I'm not name calling you.

[brazen ice]

Arkhyp Lichen won't give me his side quest. 😦

[civic kernel]

so what would be the best course of action from here ? Explore everything before Good old days/hornest nest or can i do a bit more story to progress stuff

[pale trout]

dont act like a fool

[jolly oak]

Yeah, you foolish fool. Take the troll bait.

[paper sand]

you think 25k players on 1 platform is bad numbers? for a single player rpg?

[worthy dagger]

Most likely this, how did this guy even got the "media" role lol...

[pale trout]

yes it is very bad numbers

[paper sand]

which single player rpgs have more 2 months after release?

[pale trout]

would you like to see the games beating it?

[jolly oak]

I would recommend clearing hornet's nest and ||saving Zalissya|| as fast as possible before exploring all around, but tbh you won't find too much has changed elsewhere.

[paper sand]

veilguard has 8k players , now that is bad

[civic kernel]

good old days laster ? cause i read somewhere its the quest before Hornest nest

[pale trout]

eldenring wukong bg3 theres 3

all still beating this shower of shit after over a year?

[worthy dagger]

Even on game pass, the Good hunting, Stalker" achievement was completed by 20,10% of the gamers, which for a gamepass game it's actually quite good since most times all these achievements are rare because many people install the game, start it once and get over with it...

[brazen ice]

Cyberpunk 2077 has 63,000 in game right now and how old is that game?

[paper sand]

wait you mean COD has more players than stalker 2? who could have possibly guessed

[jolly oak]

If I recall correctly, there are no time sensitive elements of Good Old Days, so you can go there last and do it with no risk to losing any part of it. ||Defending Zalissy|| cannot say the same, as waiting can lead ||to it being wiped out permanently.||

[pale trout]

facts

[brazen ice]

STALKER 2 is a very niche game imo... the audience is going to be smaller than it is for other genres

[worthy dagger]

Is Cyberpunk 2077 available on PC Gamepass?

[paper sand]

and its peak was 1 million, by your standards, a drop that much means its terrible

[civic kernel]

first one i went to Gaffer called and said he needed me so i go there :D

[jolly oak]

Hang on, did someone say Stalker 2 is the best game of all time? I must have missed that.

[pale trout]

who cares really but in the last week it sold more copies then stalker

[worthy dagger]

The fact people are picking on Stalker 2 Steam players when the game it's available for "free" on Gamepass it's kinda ridiculous. Just nipicking.

[paper sand]

cyberpunk has less than 1% of its original players

[jolly oak]

You are a true hero of the Zone, Stalker. That was the correct choice. I would hit Hornet's Nest next if I were you, just for proximity and importance.

[brazen ice]

No i don't think so. @paper sand by my standards? 2077 is also a 5 yar old game that also suffered a horrendous launch. Also I didn't set any of those standards.

[pale trout]

trh majority of sales was on steam tho

[civic kernel]

but about the progress now, no need to explore the burned forest, the red forest and duga yet ? or should i do them as soon as im done with Hornest Nest

[worthy dagger]

Yes because Gamepass it's known to cost sales to games, the fact a game thats available there sold so much it's already surprising af.

[paper sand]

ahh i cant read your name with that dark color, thought it was the other guy mb

[pale trout]

omg this guys stupid.......... the amount of presales becuase of the war was huge

[worthy dagger]

I also didn't purchase it, I'm playing it through Gamepass as well and I'm here.

[brazen ice]

Yeah it's hard to see... bad color choice for names here. I had alot of issues playing STALKER 2 on GamePass.. i ended up having to buy it on Steam. Glad I did. performs so much better.

[worthy dagger]

Where is the hecking mod, this game its just trolling and insulting people. Can't argue in other ways, need to insult people?

[pale trout]

oh i pre purchased it so u dont even own the game interesting

[paper sand]

so how is cyberpunk doing "good" when its only retained less than 1% of its players?

[jolly oak]

So hot take here, guys, but I believe it's fine if something doesn't break categorical sales records, I can still like it more than things that did. I love Stalker 2, and the previous Stalker games as well. I dislike CoD and did not get sucked into the Cyberpunk debacle. Who cares about the rest if you enjoy it? Are you going to avoid ordering a dish at a restaurant bc it's not the top seller for the restaurant? Just like what you like and relax.

[worthy dagger]

Lol, as I'm saying, I have Gamepass and I'm still playing it through it, I imagine many more people are doing like me while you keep whinning about Steam sales and palyer counts.

[pale trout]

no but when i order a steak medium rare and it comes burnt i complain

[paper sand]

stalker 2 is a niche AA game at best, nothing comparable to cyberpunk and CDPR had much more funding

[worthy dagger]

As I said, 20% of the Xbox Gamepass players completed the prologue in the Lesser zone and actually left it, for most games available on gamepass even completeling the prologue gets you a "diamond" achievement since its very rare for people to get that far. If this is bad for a service that gives the game for a small fee of 17 euros a month, it's because you're just here trolling and spreading hate.

[torn veldt]

?

[jolly oak]

Yelling at the steak does not unburn it 🙂 Just go away and don't return to the restaurant and move on.

[glad fractal]

just ignore

[paper sand]

no you see, i must yell so the entire restauraunt knows

[brazen ice]

2077 still has a substantial amount of players on Steam despite being a 5 year old game. One of very few games that, personally, have played through multiple times due to the range of playstyle and choices that can be made. Not a ton of SP games maintain those kinds of numbers

[pale trout]

so again wheres my alife 2.0

[ornate sable]

I've bought Stalker, but not Cyberpunk, BG3, or Eldenring. So my player number is infinitely higher for S2 than any of those other titles.
What games other people on Steam are playing, I don't really care.

[worthy dagger]

Lost the argument, now picking on A-Life lmao

[jolly oak]

Honestly, idc about labels like niche or AAA, I just play what I like and ignore the rest. I have very low stress about gaming lol It's a good approach.

[paper sand]

maybe they fixed that but all the choices were meaningless when i played, it was just an advertisement for RTX

[pale trout]

no im here regular with the same rant

[paper sand]

can a life 1.0 change levels?

[jolly oak]

To what end? What result are you looking to achieve?

[civic kernel]

maybe to throw something into the discussing as a new stalker who started with Stalker 2 xd, i think the one thing that makes the game stressful and a drag is the way i gotta earn coupons is just unsatisfying and Min maxing feels like the only way to play. cant really carry the cool and big guns if i pay more to use them. its not only the ammo but especially repair costs which is insane. also under the realism aspect, i think its kinda BS that i need to spam the Spas Shotgun to kill mutants when maybe 2-3 Headshots should do the trick if we talking realism. Having to waste so much ammo for a bullet sponge, which doesnt even give me a reward feels kinda odd and more like a blockage in my way which i want to avoid at all cost, even if it means cheesing

[worthy dagger]

Nothing better to do with his life rather than being insulting a game for literal no reason.

[paper sand]

old man yells at clouds.gif

[pale trout]

this server has stalker 2 devs so im here for them not for some idiot who didnt even purchase the game

[stiff temple]

How do I check the number of people online in real time for each server,Or the total number of people online on all servers

[paper sand]

you think the devs read chat?

[jolly oak]

How often have you spoken directly with GSC staff?

[worthy dagger]

If they're making it available from Gamepass it's because they make money from it, so what's your point exactly?

[brazen ice]

Choices didn’t have a huge impact sure…. However there were different paths that can be taken that unlock different components of the story. Play all the different paths to really get a feel for everything and it’s kinda neat. Again I can’t say that I’ve had the motivation to play any game through multiple times as I did 2077.

Stalker 2 is a lot of fun! I am essentially playing through it a second time as my game saves were poofed after 77 hours of play.

[paper sand]

See i tried that on release and both paths led to the same thing lol I never touched any of the updates tho so no clue on those

[worthy dagger]

Plus I'm probably be playing it for a while in the future, and I'm also guessing they get money from Microsoft by the time I spend playing it, which until now has been 4 days lol

[brazen ice]

Both? There are three with three different choices to make at the end and other choices in between that can influence those paths. ….

[worthy dagger]

So yeah, cry more and maybe try getting "A-Life". XD

[paper sand]

nah this was like 1/3rd into the game, never finished it, it was too boring

[pale trout]

another load of crap they were paid already to put it on gamepass!"!!

[north jacinth]

I am curious, can a lower end PC from the 1000 series even run this game?

[paper sand]

maybe with the potato mods

[pale trout]

you dont wanna be called stupid dont talk crap

[worthy dagger]

I have a pretty mid end computer and runs it on high perfectly

[north jacinth]

what gpu

[brazen ice]

Well then that’s on you…. Not every game is for everyone but it doesn’t make it boring or unfun. To you sure.. but not to many many others. Objectively there is a lot of content in the game to keep players busy as an open world game and has a very immersive environment that has only gotten better with the release of phantom liberty

[worthy dagger]

It's an RX6600 with a AMD 5600. I play it on PC and on my Xbox tht's why I got it on Gamepass.

[jolly oak]

This is commonly discussed, you are not alone in the way you feel about these topics. Some folks embrace the challenges as a way to slow the player's pace through the game and force them to explore the large maps and conserve resources to meet expenses. Others who may prefer a more streamlined playstyle without stopping to care about scenery or story will find these hurdles much more distracting. GSC has already taken some measures to manage repair costs, and may yet make more. The same goes for mutant damage resistance and health. The game is certainly not designed for a player to have every powerful gun carried around and with max upgrades like a DOOM game, but rather to feel like you're barely getting by in a hostile environment that is not by any means safe or fair.

[pale trout]

hahahahahah

[paper sand]

yeah im sure the patches and updates fixed many of the issues, at the time it was a generic shooter where upgrades and choices did not matter, just a flashy tech demo that did not work

[worthy dagger]

So what, you're gonna be here bullying me all the way now?

[pale trout]

your specs hahahahha

[brazen ice]

Might be worth a second look now…..

[paper sand]

Ehh, i dont think i could bring myself to do the story, i didnt really interest me in the slightest tbh. ohh johnny silverhand im going insane, im sure its much better now tho

[worthy dagger]

I have a Xbox Series X, a PS5 , a gaming desktop and a Macbook M1 Max with 1 TB and 32 GB of ram. I apologize it makes me look poor my PC having mid specs.

[trail anchor]

Granite Squad says hi

[jolly oak]

Did you really react two different laughing faces to your own comment?

[pale trout]

hahahahah you have a load of crap

[brazen ice]

Eh to each their own. I recently suffered through Veilguard…

[worthy dagger]

Plus I own a Galaxy S24 Ultra and an iPhone 16 Pro, my gaming PC its obviously the least of my priorities you loser.

[paper sand]

im sorry for your loss... I dont know how you did that

[jolly oak]

Oh god, please no. I was trying to avoid their notice!

[brazen ice]

NGL it was rough but I am a dragon age fan. It was painful but still kept me more engaged than DAI.

[trail anchor]

Get headshotted idiot

For the Monolith

[sturdy verge]

hi babies ! lol

[paper sand]

Fair, yeah i think origins was the last i was interested in.

[worthy dagger]

I have a life, yet you're the one trolling in a Stalker Discord lol

[jolly oak]

I'm convinced they don't know how to do anything except headshot. They could shoot your foot and it will travel up your leg to your cranium.

[pale trout]

you know youre commenting on my posts right?

[paper sand]

dont fall for the low tier bait, he does not respond to anything substantial, hasnt mentioned that a life 1.0 wont change levels\

[worthy dagger]

Yeah its my bad, let this loser speak, just wondering how he got the "media" role.

[paper sand]

pretty sure its self assigned or something, cause he has no other roles

[brazen ice]

Ugh had to block that rude guy

[civic kernel]

btw anybody having also issues with their stash ? mine looks kinda odd right now with some spaces being blocked eventhough no icon, or 2 big weapons next to each other overlapping

[worthy dagger]

Or they just give it to anyone else? I'm reporting him, hoping the mods ban him lol

[jolly oak]

Trolls gonna troll, haters gonna hate. If you don't reply, they go away pretty fast.

But when you talk to them, they stay. Please don't do that, once you discover it's a boring attempt to illicit anger, not a discussion with any goal.

[torn veldt]

Does anyone know a solution

[pale trout]

what are you talking about?