☢┃stalker-general

[gloomy citrus]

Who?

[serene barn]

i feel like both mags on the Dnipro was working, sometimes it was nice reloading fast but not a full mag and other times i just needed a few more rounds to do the job.

[weary hedge]

i hate spelling his name, the colonel / major of Ward in the game

[serene barn]

Korshunov or something

[weary hedge]

It could just be cause of the chosen english vc and canon colonel is ukrainian, idk

but it also makes sense the foundation is more of a conglomerate type of board / shadow council, they fund sircaa and the ward - so the ultimate question of who they are is probably the more important one. I'd gather they would be international

[velvet mulch]

Soooo when's the new patch

[gloomy citrus]

Korshunov?

[wintry pumice]

When you see the shining zone

[gloomy citrus]

The guy is definitely Ukrainian.

[lethal crest]

Some of the Ukrainians I know speak English with an American accent because they learned it from American pop culture and from Americans (teachers and just talking to people online)

So it’s possible that Korshunov, an ex-Ukrainian military commander (or perhaps current service seconded to the Ward) learned English from Americans he was working with

Sidenote: there’s also a few who have Scottish accents because they moved there in 2022, it’s always funny to hear them talk
There’s a few NPCs who have Scottish-sounding voice actors in English and they always remind me of them

[dense sandal]

have you danced amunst the anomalys

[cobalt haven]

Hamster being British

[quick kernel]

Bri'ish

[cobalt haven]

"my favrite cuh-stomer!'

[lethal crest]

Hamster has a nonspecific Northern accent to my ears, although I haven’t visited him in quite a bit (last time was probably just after Zalyssia fell, since I couldn’t get a Guide there any more)

[wintry pumice]

Yeah they should put a new guide to replace Lyonya

[dense sandal]

cheeki breeki stalkers

[wintry pumice]

Also Garry could be a monolithian

[lethal crest]

I do kind of like the international mishmash of accents with the English language voice acting, it makes me feel like people are coming from all over the world to explore the Zone

[wintry pumice]

Could be why he's missing after the Monolith attack on Yaniv

[lethal crest]

I don’t think he is, since he’s still there after the initial Monolithan activation

I think it’s more likely he was just KIA

[wintry pumice]

Nah, he sometimes says We when referring to himself as per the NPCs around him and when you first meet him he talks about Lyonya pampering stalkers while guiding them

[cobalt haven]

To be fair, Spirit is also a Monolithian, but evaded re-programming when he hided in an anti-psi bunker of Ozersky

[wintry pumice]

Either way if they're removing Garry they should also remove his icon

[cobalt haven]

Garry's Mod

[wintry pumice]

He didn't hide. He was just there when the activation happened, bro was lucky

It's too bad Strider was killed by ||Faust||

[cobalt haven]

kind-of a shame that Spirit wasnt able to use a regenerator on Strelok path.

[wintry pumice]

Yeah, I mean we have it on us but can't use it 😞

[cobalt haven]

he just want to say hi to Strelok

[wintry pumice]

Strelok the wall diver is what I call him

[cobalt haven]

Sidorovich fried chicken

It is also nice to see that Deggy is buddies with Strelok

[still current]

[lethal crest]

I’m more sad we couldn’t save Strider using the regenerator

I wish we could have kept him as a POW or something and let him lead a new Noontide in the Shining Zone, or as a special forces unit of the Ward

[wintry pumice]

The Ward can go to hell

They're just puppets of the regulatory board

[dense sandal]

what has stalker done for yall to keep yu playing actualy asking^

or what has it done to make you so addicted

[hushed umbra]

No embed perm

[dense sandal]

is it poissble to hv a armor with evert stat full or only with mods

[velvet leaf]

Should I spend all my remaining coupons at the end of the “Road to Foundation” mission? I will not be able to buy anything anymore, right?

[wintry pumice]

No you need some to repair your gear after ||Korushnov|| fight

Or the other chars depending on which faction you chose to fight for

[velvet leaf]

Will I still have access to traders after the “Road to Foundation” mission?

[wintry pumice]

You will see a trader and a repair guy after the fight. At least this was the case for me when I fought Korushnov

[dense sandal]

do bloodsuckers heal when they hit you?

[wintry pumice]

Slightly is what I heard.

[dense sandal]

thoght so bc i had one hit me over n over n it wasnt dying i was using saiga to

[wintry pumice]

But not necessarily on hit, just overall regeneration like we have when we are at low health

[velvet leaf]

So, what’s the moment when I will have to spend all my coupons? I have about 100K left. I thought that there was no going back after that mission.

[dense sandal]

went to a place called bloodsucker village htere was a fcking phsudogiant there

[wintry pumice]

You just need coupons to repair stuff, I doubt you will be buying new stuff at that point

[wintry pumice]

The betrayal

[velvet leaf]

So, I will still have access to a repairman throughout the entire game , right?

[dense sandal]

I just ran lmao that’s to much ammo to use

[wintry pumice]

Yeah, it's just the road to foundation can be a bit more brutal than the actual boss fight after that, because of the sheer number of monolithians that spawn from almost every direction

[velvet leaf]

This site says that the “Down Below” mission is a point of no return. But will I still have access to a repairman?

https://game8.co/games/STALKER-2-Heart-of-Chornobyl/archives/484831

[wintry pumice]

Games says so too but I got a repair guy and a trader after Korushnov fight

As I chose Spark, not sure if that's the case for other factions

[velvet leaf]

I’ve collected all S-tier artifacts and fully upgraded the Diamond exosuit, so it was not that difficult for me so far.

I think that I’m approaching the end of the Foundation mission since Scar told me to take care of my business.

[dense sandal]

i remember meeting my first chimra seeing a 3 headed dog thing charge at me scared tf out of i just ran

[wintry pumice]

So did I But the monolithians are truly relentless in this quest

[dense sandal]

know what mutant has scared me the most tho

[wintry pumice]

Faust?

[dense sandal]

flesh

[wintry pumice]

Why? you eat them every day

[dense sandal]

those jumpy pig mfs always scare tf out of me

[wintry pumice]

Yeah the mutants in this game give you a fair warning before they attack you

How nice of them

[shell flax]

I’ll hear a squeal in the distance, stop and start looking around then there’s suddenly a flesh rocketing at my screen at Mach Jesus

[royal warren]

I want to get the "flash-piano" achievement, I have already completed 70% of the game and read that you can't collect all the flash drives for the Ward. What to do in this situation are there flash drives that are repeated?

[dense sandal]

#📸┃screens_and_videos heres a flesh

[gloomy citrus]

Did you just, drink the limited edition energy drink?

I swear I only found one of them in my entire playthrough.

[shell flax]

I have a bad habit of hearing a mutant and immediately start looking around, so if a flesh or rodent sneaks up on me it’s an immediate ‘JESUS’ moment

[weary hedge]

i think theres two ingame

[shell flax]

Multiple actually, I’ve seen like 5

[weary hedge]

hm, i found one in the building south of cement factory, and another just north of the swamps in a ship

[gloomy citrus]

Ok so an energy drink is as rare as an exo skeleton.

[shell flax]

They’re usually around Easter eggs and stuff

[gloomy citrus]

1. Cuirass
2. Brumbar
3. Diamond
4. Ruby
5. Shturm

Ok thats neat

[shell flax]

Few others to add to that list but yeah, I see em as mainly collectibles

[gloomy citrus]

Wonder which exo did I miss.

Shturm is the one from ultimate edition.

[shell flax]

Liberty
Bulwark

Shield of duty too but that thing is just nowhere to be found apparently lmao

I love the operator Exo so much

[wintry pumice]

Operator

[gloomy citrus]

Shield of Duty?

[wintry pumice]

I would like to put on Ruby but it's too damn heavy

[gloomy citrus]

Isnt Ruby worse version of Diamond?

Like its meant to be mass produced for Monolithians.

[shell flax]

An Exo that apparently exists but I don’t think I’ve seen literally anyone find or buy it yet

[gloomy citrus]

Funny, people found mercenary exoskeletons that werent supposed to be found but not that.

Like its dropped from a corpse and has weird naming to it.

[shell flax]

The hilarious part is it’s an actual suit, it just is apparently either stupidly rare or something in its generation broke and it won’t spawn

[gloomy citrus]

Im thinking the latter.

It has to spawn somewhere.

Not dropped by someone too.

[shell flax]

I saw someone claim the duty merchant sell it but I reset his stock like 15 times and only saw the cuirass, maybe it’s only super endgame?

[gloomy citrus]

While there are plenty of variations, I dont like the new overall exo designs. All of them are simplified.

In the OG you can see how bulky and complex they were.

[gloomy citrus]

Assuming you can already go to Pripyat from Yaniv Station, Im thinking thats already super endgame.

Since not much happening after that point.

[shell flax]

Nah, once I get to that point I never really go to cement anymore, I’ll have to do it this run

[wintry pumice]

Ruby is basically the same but an optional upgrade which increases all your weapon accuracy by 20%. But weighs 20 kg

[gloomy citrus]

Thats the point. Why not try it after you got to Pripyat? Just hire a guide.

[gloomy citrus]

Neat.

Its a sidegrade basically.

[boreal coyote]

the "gsc answers" chat is getting to be pointless

they are responding to the dumbest questions 🤣 idgaf about exosuits how about news on what the next patch will aim to have rather than answering questions about stuff they are not even focused on

[gloomy citrus]

How so? Looks like Molit is confirming that the devs are aware of the bugs that are being reported.

[gloomy citrus]

Its just a confirmation.

In terms of game balancing, might not be a big deal but its still something.

[boreal coyote]

but its a given that bugs wull be fixed right? it would be more helpful to tell whats their current focus that way we can give feedback on what they are working on

[gloomy citrus]

Isnt that confirmed on the latest answer? Direct fixes most likely fixing the game breaking bugs first.

Things like balancing and economic changes comes second.

The previous answer also confirms that theyre fixing game breaking bugs first before anything else.

[simple shard]

energy drinks suck, switch to water until youre able to lock in 2 thunderberries, then just sell all stam stuff because it's worthless

[gloomy citrus]

Anyway, would like to stay and chat but its getting late. See y'all tomorrow.

[boreal coyote]

thats all a given though, we know they obviously are going to address game breaking bugs thats the literally the bare minimum of what we should expect considering we paid for a game that we expect to work 🤣 do you understand what im saying? if they are only going to answer 2 questions every few days then those answers should at least tell us more than the bare minimum, tell us what the current patch they are working on plans to do, tell us when to expect a roadmap, dont tell us you're doing something that we all assumed you've been doing since day one anyway

[hidden yoke]

anyone get a bug with Needle (the malachite quest giver)?

I return the quest and it stuck there

[boreal coyote]

yes i have a bug in almost every side quest but the devs are worried about excosuits

[sturdy verge]

i dont really care when tbh so im not included in the us lol

[boreal coyote]

nice to know...

[glad fractal]

hmm, thought I seen a difficulty compilation mod on nexus few days ago called 'master' something, where did that went...

[pseudo lotus]

My game is broken. I cant get the game to re-cache the shaders, the moment I load a game I get crazy memory leaks, AND im recieving constant psi damage.

someone halp.....

[fast beacon]

aye guys whenever i tryna create the ~mods folder i get a crash report on launch, anyone knows why?

im playing it by microsoft gamepass

[boreal coyote]

i had the constant psi damage too its caused by eating while having the weird pot equipped, its impossible to get rif of you need to load a previous save, unequipping the artifact, taking psi block, having a doctor treat you all do nothing so the previous save is the only fix

[glad fractal]

likely obsolete mod version, patch will break mod, make sure the one you using does say work with latest game version

[fast beacon]

aight ill try it

[torn veldt]

Can you get to the shelfter from ther south?

[pseudo lotus]

I dont have/never found weird pot though.

All I did was walk into the red forest for a few minutes

[glad fractal]

the east side of red forest have a lot of psi fields
but if you still have the effect after exit the area after a while, it might be a bug, reload older save

[real tusk]

which guide leads you to zaton?

[pallid thorn]

Any guide can take you anywhere you've already been

[still current]

It's a side effect from an arch artifact

[hazy gyro]

i asked this the other day but i don’t think i got an answer, so ill try again. i’m in the garbage region and im contemplating on whether to trek it to the yaniv region and get the diamond exoskeleton or wait a bit

[still current]

Remove it, and wait

[real tusk]

iive already been to zaton and the rostok guide wont lead me there

[still current]

Well, you can

So, if you really want to get it then go ahead

[glad fractal]

if you can bare the 50k repair after every trip outside, sure...

[still current]

If you want a proper exp just keep farming gear where you are rn

The only time I was interested in exos is when I managed to sustain my income

[real tusk]

frfr I already pay like 25k for repairing the monolith armor

[glad fractal]

seriously at early to mid game there are so many suits been found around, best just use till broke then throw away.
unless you invested into those lead containers

[maiden grotto]

I use a mod, that make the repair cost make sense... As vanilla is just a joke.

[pseudo lotus]

I just explained that I never picked it up. Please read the full reply thread. I have never once encountered a weird pot.

[still current]

Weird

What do you have in your inventory?

[ornate igloo]

hi

[pseudo lotus]

nothing out of the ordinary. Do you know if there's a console command to stop or remove psi radiation?

[still current]

Nope! That, I can not help with

[pseudo lotus]

If its OK to DM you, I can send a screenshot of my current inventory

[still current]

When did it start?

Sure

[pseudo lotus]

Im being punished by the monolith. Constant psy damage because I ||took striders corpse and threw it in a whirligig for an achievement....||

I have angered Him, and now I am serving my sentence.

[neon frigate]

You have incurred the wrath of Our Holy Monolith. You will not hide from His eyes, Infidel.

[pseudo lotus]

Glory to the Monolith!

[heady gazelle]

And here i was slapping his corpse on the operating table and trying to smack the life into him with the healing device.

[boreal coyote]

yeah thats what i said

[wintry pumice]

Just get the seva for now. It should be fine till you get to Sircaa. Once the Monolith reawakens go for the diamond

[pseudo lotus]

Higher tier armors are unsustainable to maintain that early. its not worth it. Get the diamond before the point of no return, upgrade it then

[cobalt haven]

Man, Nimble really deserves his own Story DLC at this point

[wintry pumice]

Uhh you can maintain pretty well after Sircaa, because every one starts having better weapons . Selling them even the red ones keeps you afloat well

Is there no way to get Duty's exoskeleton Armor?

[still edge]

we never seen an adolescent stalker, i guess some small % of crazy kids would infiltrate the zone, would be cool to see a younger stalker killing sheet

[primal snow]

a character like clementine from the walking dead telltale series or some shit would be cool

[civic relic]

that whole meme is just so lame lmao idek why shes so famous rn with her own podcast and all that everytime i hear ppl say that its just c word man

[wintry pumice]

Yeah it's utter bs

[civic relic]

not to mention she ended up pulling a huge scam with that bitcoin trick she did thats what happens when u get internet famous for no reason i guess

[still edge]

maybe a bit older than clementine , because i would make those adolescent stalker killable to not ruin the immersion 👀 , like a small group of 17-19 years old stalker who sneak into the zone as a sort of adventure and you have to help them survive

[primal snow]

last season clem was around 17-19

[still edge]

oh i thought you were speaking about the season 1 haha

[primal snow]

nah i mean the final season where’s she pretty much a adult lol

[gleaming mantle]

Any tips to reduce memory loss around settlements?

[still edge]

do you have nvidia gpu?

[gleaming mantle]

yeah

[weary hedge]

You just gotta S.T.A.L.K.T.U.A. man

[still edge]

@gleaming mantle

1. install dlss swapper to update stalker 2 DLSS from 3.7.1 to 3.8.2, last DLSS version which is not installed in stalker 2 by default, manages memory better. Uses 10% less vram
2. install ultimate engine tweak mod , for better performance.

[gleaming mantle]

I've tried the performance mod but it didn't help. I'll give the swapper a try. Thanks!

[still edge]

@gleaming mantle
3. reduce graphics , some graphics quality are almost unnoticable but has impact in the memory, hair, grass, reflection, shaders

i have everything at low quality because i cant even notice the difference at 1080p, except texture(epic) , sky (epic) , clouds(epic) , shadow (high) , because they actually effect image quality greatly.

[slender swan]

When might the next patch be coming out?

[still edge]

hopefully months away, i dont want a small alife update i want a massive offline mode alife update

[pseudo lotus]

I get really weird lighting artifacts in interiors and caves. Do you know which settings effecct that? I'm curious about turning everything to low just to optimize, but those rendering artifacts really bother me.... its like, everything beyond a certain distance 'pulses' with light

[indigo meteor]

Abandon all hope - embrace despair

[silk harbor]

Hello, quick question, is there a solution when we have Colonel Korshunov who does not appear on the wagon at the very beginning of the game or not? I am French so please ping me for your answer 🙏🏼

[maiden grotto]

So now... The spawn simulator is now constantly spawning 2 blood suckers every few hundred meters... Because F U

[maiden grotto]

I just want A-Life and not this fecking spawn simulator that is hell bent on spawning blood suckers every time I want to walk somewhere

[pale fossil]

What mod is this?

[maiden grotto]

No mod. Just vanilla spawn simulator.

[pseudo lotus]

Theyre working on it bro. The game was vaporware, resurrected, and put through a pandemic and a warzone. Devs have been very transparent in explaining that A-Life is real, but also caused severe performance issues.

The game is already profitable and the devs continue to work on it. The foundations for a-life are already in the game, and they're working. Just have faith.

Real ones remember that SoC was the very same on launch.

[pale fossil]

I'm getting pretty normal spawns tbh, not even spawns, more like encounters most of the time

[pseudo lotus]

As they continue to optimize both a-life and the game itself, we'll get more. The work they completed in just a month was actually insane

[maiden grotto]

I know, they have time, but until then, I will moan and b^tch so they never screw up a place holder again.

[pseudo lotus]

I mean, for a placeholder, its a pretty dang good one

[pale fossil]

Im convinced it was all done and waiting for a QA pass, no chance they just made so many changes after release.

[pseudo lotus]

The current AI director for stalker 2 is rather complex on it's own. Once that's combined with a-life, it's gonna be CRAZY

[pseudo lotus]

Almost certainly. A lot of the word we've heard from the devs is that much of the content we're waiting on is REAL, it just needs to be tuned and refined.

Again, the game is profitable and reception has been rather warm despite the bugs. GSC just got a HUGE windfall of cash and resources. I'm confident in them.

[maiden grotto]

It's not... Not even remotely good. It's annoying and frustrating, and it just does things to screw you over... because if something doesn;t happen ever 3 seconds, the world will implode and all gamers and stalkers will die of boredom.

You never stumble into things... Just things surround you and kick off.

[pseudo lotus]

Just look at the pre-release version of the game that game reviewers had, vs day zero patch. even that ironed out a TON of bugs, and reviewers have gone back and revised those reviews to be more favorable about perfoemance issues.

[smoky hawk]

vaporware?

[pseudo lotus]

Speak for yourself, I've been having a great time. I even reality check myself by going back to CoP just to compare. It's not quite there yet, but its much better than release.

[pale fossil]

Are you still on release version bro? Sounds like you're not describing the game as it is in latest patch.

[pseudo lotus]

yea, Stalker 2 was announced like way back in 2010, then GSC went bankrupt and shut down for 8 years

[smoky hawk]

COP has a completely cut and basterdized AI simulation
not very comparable
you want to see SOC but even that was taken to the axe as opposed to what they had planned

[smoky hawk]

Stalker 2012 and Stalker 2 are 2 completely different entities

[pale fossil]

I've definitely seen a bunch of a-life grade, cheeki breeki lvl type s**t

[pseudo lotus]

That.... doesnt change the fact that the very concept of stalker 2 was vaporware

[maiden grotto]

I live in hope.

@pseudo lotus Kudos for the improvement, for sure and they will continue to make improvements no doubt. But this, whatever it is... Is better off in the bin...

So I come on here to let of steam and moan, before going back to the game and the cycle begins again 🤣

[smoky hawk]

no bc it was being worked on in 2012
we have the build

[pseudo lotus]

-open stalker
-get made at the game
-close the game and complain online
-open stalker......

such is life in the Zone.

[smoky hawk]

it was leaked like 2 years ago

[pseudo lotus]

okay but also like, who cares? That STILL doesnt change the fact that it was vaporware?? That game was dead and cancelled

[pale fossil]

Tbh I never close the game, when the time is up, it just crashes

[smoky hawk]

no it was cancelled?
its still NOT coming back and STILL cancelled and dead

its not vaporware

[pale fossil]

vaporware??

[pseudo lotus]

🙄 that is still literally the definition of vaporware

"Vaporware refers to hardware or software products, like computer systems and video games, that are never released to consumers for purchase."

Fallout 3/Van Buren is another example of vaporware. Just because a build leaked, doesnt change a single thing.

[smoky hawk]

either bc its still being designed or written

[pale fossil]

Doesn't being released automatically revoke the whole vaporware label?

[pseudo lotus]

"In the computer industry, vaporware (or vapourware) is a product, typically computer hardware or software, that is announced to the general public but is late, never actually manufactured, or officially cancelled. Use of the word has broadened to include products such as automobiles."

Its a very flexible term.

[smoky hawk]

"... never actually manufactured or officially cancelled..."
so yhea Stalker 2012 is not vaporwave

[maiden grotto]

Not if teh game is still being made as they were forced to release early, with broken mechanics and place holders that don't function as intended.

[pale fossil]

Oh you mean 2012 version... Sure whatever then

[pseudo lotus]

H O W

[smoky hawk]

Vaporwave is used when a game is in limbo and the team keeps saying its still being worked on
for example, beyond good and evil 2 is vaporware

[smoky hawk]

bc it was officially cancelled wdym

[pale fossil]

That's just called software

[maiden grotto]

Well, it certainly feels like Stalker 2 is still in the design phase 🤣

[pseudo lotus]

that is "but is late, never actually manufactured OR officially cancelled".

You are arguing over semantics at this point dude

[pale fossil]

It's a matter of perspective. I think it's a game more complete than most of the games today.

[smoky hawk]

and you arent?
a discussion of definition is always semantics, and because Stalker 2012 was officially cancelled and abandoned when GSC shut down, and Stalker 2 IS NOT Stalker 2, it isnt vaporware

Old and New GSC are 2 diff things and the developers said so themselves that Stalker 2 was to not be confused with 2012 as they are diff things

[pseudo lotus]

Im just. This aint worth it man. I'm gonna stop now before I end up blocking a mod

[smoky hawk]

HAHA

blocking over a semantics argument is funny ngl

[neon frigate]

What did I miss I'm gone for 2 hours

[smoky hawk]

guy doesnt know what vaporwave is

thats about it

[maiden grotto]

Never read into this, but I assumed this was them getting back on with the project back then. New staff etc, but the project picked up and rolled on. Even if it was not exactly "the projec.t"

[pale fossil]

When I hear Stalker 2012 I just imagine the Complete Mod

[neon frigate]

Like the genre??? Idk what it is if you don't mind telling me

[pseudo lotus]

Its a flexible definition but you seem really intent on digging your heels into the ground and dying on that hill. Arguing with you isn’t worth the mental effort. Better to block than to seethe, yk?

[smoky hawk]

nha they made a new project, even if stuff from the old project was used the new one was projected as a separate thing and not like, a continuation of it

[smoky hawk]

https://tenor.com/view/el-risitas-juan-joya-borja-ratones-coloraos-laugh-meme-laughing-man-gif-24899295

[pseudo lotus]

You really shouldnt be a moderator if youre going to act like this.

[smoky hawk]

sorry, I should block more ppl!

[neon frigate]

I've seen you in like 4 arguments in the past 2 days patterns suggest you're the problem

[pseudo lotus]

AI bros arent people my guy, I dont treat them as such

[pale fossil]

Vaporwave is NOT vaporware kek

[smoky hawk]

mispell from me lol

[pseudo lotus]

also, I'm not a moderator. Its the responsibility of server staff to set a good example. I'm just some guy- its up to the mod to uphold a certain standard.

[maiden grotto]

Probably due to the fact that the engine back then they was using was gone, so had to start from scratch using the UE to make the game. Makes sense, I just think it's semantics between the cancelled project and the one we play now. Like you say, probably included a lot of assets from back then, story etc.

I just call it Stalker 2, that is what it was then, as it is now, even if they started the project from fresh. It was always going to be called stalker 2.

[pale fossil]

bruh

[pseudo lotus]

All I said at the beginning is that it WAS vaporware. At one point, it was. Then it died completely. That doesnt change the facct that it WAS, but again- you wanted to argue semantics because ???

[smoky hawk]

no assets were reused, pretty much just some small concepts on the story, its a completely new project that was concepted

[pale fossil]

blud dying on this hill 💀

[smoky hawk]

Stalker 2 never died, it was announced in 2018

[pale fossil]

who cares

[pseudo lotus]

🤦‍♂️

[smoky hawk]

you are conflating 2012 with 2, which is why the separation must be made

[maiden grotto]

I am just glad they got the game made... Just miffed that this spawning simulator is ruining the experience though. They will get A-life working, but man... It can't come soon enough

[pseudo lotus]

But you agree that concepts and such were reused, its a spiritual successor to the original 2012 stalker 2.

which was named stalker 2

because it was a sequel to stalker

named

stalker 2

the original concept of the game, at one point, WAS vaporware. Was it not? because the thing from 2012 was referred to AS STALKER 2.

[pale fossil]

This might be a stretch, but - did you run into a "circle spawn" even after the patch?

[smoky hawk]

no not really
Stalker 2 is a compeltely different thing from Stalker 2012
its not "a spiritual successor", p much entire story and point of it is completely diff
concepts like locations were reused, example being the sleepy rosebed area, but it wasnt wide areas

Stalker 2012 was about the privatization of the zone as a whole, and Illegal stalkers, not about creating a new C-Con for the zone

[pseudo lotus]

but does that change the fact that a game called stalker 2, from 2012, became vaporware before it was officially cancelled?

[cyan niche]

is there yet a mod which makes NPCs talk slavic , but english when only interacting as a player with them?

[smoky hawk]

your argument is that, even if GSC themselves said that the projects are completely diff and that Stalker 2 is not the continuation of ideas from Stalker 2012, because of the name, they are the same and their development history should be bunched together?
if so, that IS pretty dumb and idiotic

[cobalt fiber]

Fun

[smoky hawk]

thats like saying Stalker Xbox is the lost brother of Stalker Clear Sky

its not

[junior acorn]

Is the over/under shotgun worth its weight to carry around or is it trash even upgraded?

[maiden grotto]

A what? I just get stuff spawning around me... Left to go for a wander, ended up in cordon, went north from Rookie Village and 2 blood suckers spawn on the road, just after the bridge near the warehouse thing on the left...

And in the lessor zone.... Between walking from lesser zone to and rookie village, I have had 7 blood suckers spawn on me, 2 squads of bandits, bouncy rat things, 2 packs of dogs, 4 fleshies, and just a solo friendly and 1 squad of friendlies. Like in 20 mins of game time

[neon frigate]

It's pretty decent, especially if you'd rather a sniper than a shotgun

[junior acorn]

I played one all the way through CoP and love it

[pseudo lotus]

My point is that whether you like it or not, the original 2012 game was and still is a step on the development process of the current game. I'm over here talking about how S2 is a triumph in the face of insane odds, and you just want to argue over semantics. Just give it up dude.

Im not saying they are the same. But one predated the other, some concepts were reused, and both were called stalker 2.

[smoky hawk]

basically, before the patch certain areas in the map spawned weapons in your hands and inventory

[maiden grotto]

I have had that happen... Some weapons go missing too 🤣

[pseudo lotus]

All of this started because -you- wanted to argue over the definition of vaporware. Like WHO CARES.

[neon frigate]

It's generally similar to the boomstick shotgun. It can still one-tap headshot enemies but you need to be close

[smoky hawk]

and, Im correcting the record that it, in fact, isnt
the simple fact that it reused some concepts doesnt make it a inaugural step in development, and like I keep saying, this was corroborated by GSC, I dont really know what youre trying to prove here

[maiden grotto]

Who wants to place money, that after I reload up game again, I get 2 more blood suckers?

[pseudo lotus]

Im not trying to prove anything, I'm just pointing out that youre splitting hairs over pointless nonsense.

I'm trying to remain respectful, while youre over here posting gifs and laughing at me. Do better, you're server staff. Set a better example.

[smoky hawk]

we are both arguing over semantics not just me, youre trying to talk as tho tahts not whawt youre doing
as for my use of gifs, its an internet argument, you srlsy want me to take it seriously? sorry I lost my serious hat, I cant be serious without it

[pale fossil]

Okay I wanted to ask if you're just running into Controllers in the wild (who spawn human enemies in close proximity, kinda all around) but this much stuff doesn't seem like it

[north jacinth]

How far away from anomalies must you save for them to regenerate artifacts

[smoky hawk]

anomalies spawn artifatcts 200m away from you

[maiden grotto]

No, just getting bloodsuckers.

or 90% blood suckers, in pairs.

And guess what... 2 more blood suckers spawned.... so ran back to rookie village

[pseudo lotus]

I do expect a certain level of professionalism from the staff of an official server with this many people in it, yea. I moderate official servers too, I know the job. I know you can do better.

[north jacinth]

crazy that out in the middle of the map im averaging 200FPS

[smoky hawk]

"job", brother, I do it for free

ay ay ay

[pseudo lotus]

never said I didnt

[smoky hawk]

damn, plight of the jannies

[pseudo lotus]

🤝 can we kiss in front of the monolith to make up

[north jacinth]

im tryna get the thunderberry and so far the only electric anomalies it spawns at is the reloading point and electric field

But I've went to both of those and got two completely different artfiacts

[pseudo lotus]

DUDE ACTUALLY the company I moderate for told their mods that they'd compensate us via a merch drop, and that was months ago. No new word on merch at all.

they told us we were gonna get shiny trinkets for being jannies and then never followed through.....

[smoky hawk]

sorry i dont associate with anomaly players

@chrome jetty its over for you, Imma expose you

[pseudo lotus]

thats crazy because you play stalker 2..... smh my head...... basically anomaly with less features.........

[smoky hawk]

https://tenor.com/view/walter-white-walter-crying-walter-dying-gif-20964719

[chrome jetty]

What is it?

[smoky hawk]

I saw your anomaly icon when you streamed

its over for you

[chrome jetty]

? I am not even streaming

I am not even on pc

[smoky hawk]

I bet you didnt even play NLC7
not a GAYMER

[chrome jetty]

You probably confused with someone else

[maiden grotto]

😄

The bugs.

#📸┃screenshots_and_videos message

[chrome jetty]

I would kiss you

[smoky hawk]

youre not syakpilled enuff

[chrome jetty]

[hot minnow]

Bro what is going on

[chrome jetty]

Come here Basim @smoky hawk

[smoky hawk]

!ban @chrome jetty

[frigid hill]

🚫 You can't ban immunized @chrome jetty.

[smoky hawk]

dayum

[chrome jetty]

You cannot ban the ones that have been here longer than you

[smoky hawk]

gotta talk to mol1t, its broken

[plain fiber]

I'll be honest, I'm glad we didn't get the art style of 2012 S2, it felt like too much of a departure from the original trilogy. (Pretty sure the art team for that went to work on Survarium; the art styles for both games looked extremely similar.)

The way exoskeletons looked in 2012 S2 I particularly didn't like; the gas mask looked way too cartoonish.

[smoky hawk]

I mean its one of the things everybody agrees on tho, tbh, UI do want Survarium to leak so we can take those models

[still edge]

that weird lighting artifacts in interior , caves and glass effect is related to the game itself, a bad implementation of lumen

[plain fiber]

I'm not sure if the models leaked, but I was watching GAMMA stuff on YouTube yesterday and saw at least the 2012 S2 exo helmet in a trader's inventory. So...clearly at least some people liked the look of those.

(I'll be honest, there were some designs in Survarium that I did actually like.)

[smoky hawk]

you can very easely take PNGs and put them in the trader TGAs, I do know some ppl use ripped Survarium models so Im sure someone has em

[plain fiber]

Oh yeah, I just assumed someone spent a few hours copying the concept model.

[still edge]

the spawn simulator of the current 1.1.3 is the only way to have a playable game while they are working on the true alife, but the time it will take to implement the correct alife means that in the mean time we need to endure this ai spawn. Once the proper alife is complete that would take away the current bubble spawn. Or at least if GSC wants to be true to the stalker games and not bring an watered down generic system.

[plain fiber]

Well we know from Mol1t that the A-Life team did see that video from Zoneslug comparing original trilogy A-Life to what's currently in S2, so they're definitely aware.

[still edge]

yes, thats good news, also to implement a proper alife in S2 ue5 not only will create a good influence in the community ,that otherwise will jump ship from their beloved franchise, but also the same system could almost be copied paste in future DLCs and future games, not only that, will make S2 such an unique game that it will produce infinite content and popularity in the gaming community through the years, in short alife or death.

[pseudo lotus]

any way to reduce it? I feel like I dont see it as much when I watch other people's gameplay....

[hoary crest]

Well.. Its always gonna be a bubble spawn, you can't keep all the NPC's rendered and active at any given time, thats an unrealistic expectation. It just boils down to the "backstage" stuff and how obvious said bubble is to the player. There will be improvments to the system, but its not going to change in nature because there is simply no other way of going about it and maintaining cost effectiveness when it comes to system resources

[maiden grotto]

I think they will do the right thing, if not hell would get let loose.

It's just annoying at the moment.

The worst things is, when it does finally come out, the whole experience will be dampened, because everyone will have completed the game several times.

[plain fiber]

People forget that the original trilogy had a spawn bubble around the player as well, it was just much larger and seamlessly worked in tandem with the "offline" portion of A-Life.

You could actually see NPCs and mutants spawn in if you paid attention.

[hoary crest]

Yeah, the "offline" part is a good 50% of it alone. Though remains to be seen just how big the bubble is gonna be in S2 as the game is, by default, much more demanding than its predecessors

[still edge]

the player bubble right now has 2 main purpose,

1. spawning NPC inside the bubble,
   2.delimiter for the render/unrender , anything outside the bubble if its already spawned is unrender, anything inside the bubble is rendered.

The proper alife will maintain the bubble, the bubble isnt the problem, the correct alife needs to only delimiter the render / unrender phase , known as online and offline mode. Thats exactly how it worked in stalker 1

[hoary crest]

like 250-300m would be nice, but I don't see that being a thing

[plain fiber]

I've mentioned this before, but the "offline" component of A-Life shouldn't be too system intensive as it was basically just a spreadsheet doing calculations in the background.

As for bubble radius, that video from Zoneslug shows how big the original trilogy's was. Hang on, someone posted a link.

[quartz obsidian]

Had 6 spark soldiers do that right in front of me this morning. Currently doing the last step and one and after another they kept doing that after I took one out

Thank goodness for the saiga 12

[maiden grotto]

500 meters and no spawns within 300 meters.

or allow us players to change it depending on our hardware.

[still edge]

300m would be a proper render max distance, NPC will spawn at long range, no more spawning inside the bubble, thats not a alife system, in stalker og , alife spawned npc 1km away even when the player wasnt in the same location. thats how it must be

[hoary crest]

Afaik thats sort of what we have now. At least since the patch. You can de-render and re-render NPCs and track them across the map through multiple rendering cycles, but its basic in how they behave and so far they're only moving from place to place with the odd scrap taking place.

They're not yet taking bases and fighting over territory, which is where the most obvious effects of the system would be felt

[plain fiber]

Found the video! #⭐┃nospoilers_general message

[ornate sable]

I'd just like to see that bubble expanded to maybe 150 or 200m.
Unless you noclip around to specifically look at how A-life works in 1.1.3, it doesn't really feel different from how it felt in the original trilogy (bar the faction wars from CS, which IMO was over rated anyway).
You move around the map, from quest to quest, and A-life makes sure things happen in between. That's its purpose, and while it could always be improved, it does fill that purpose currently.

[hoary crest]

Depends on overheads doesnt it. At the end of the day, they still have to cater to consoles and for you and I, having a switch we have control over is perfect as we're PC users, but is that gonna be time effective for them to implement? Hard to say. We might just have to deal with whatever the console limits are and then use mods to extend it further, which tbh, im mostly fine with so long as the system feels good ingame

[maiden grotto]

Even despawning is utter garbage, its way less than 50 meters. I have walked past a friendly squad... ran 20 meters, pack of blind dog pounce, I run back to the friendly squad to save some ammo... and they had all despawned somewhere... It's insane.

[hoary crest]

Not had much problem with NPCs despawning, but Im also using the updated version of Shays so that might contribute to the lack of spawning fuckery, as by its design

[still edge]

i would not say this is what we have now, alife now fakes like if NPCs spawn inside offline mode, when it reality it spawns npcs in the edge of the bubble and then the game puts navigational markers to make NPCs fight eachother.
I would say the 1.1 patch made 7% of progress towards a proper alife, we are still missing

• a database of NPCs that starts the moment the tutorial starts.
• npc offline mode fighting outside of the online bubble with a proper tick of actions
• npc actually conquering territory instead of the now scripted conquer system
• npc spawning within their relative area , no more bandits spawning right next to a lake like if they were water creatures. Right now npc dont have a related spawn area.

[pale fossil]

the way the zone is designed, you can barely see more than 300 meters anyway.
Not that I'm advocating for a shorter spawn distance... but sometimes I feel like meters in S2 aren't exactly meters.

[maiden grotto]

Yes, it is worth it.

Set console as fixed, but allow PC players to tweak accordingly. They sold a million copies, they will sell a million DLC if the did. It's a PC game, they wanted it to remain a PC game.

[still edge]

200 meters is nothing, given that we have weapon with a effective range of 400 meters +

[ornate sable]

Yeah but I imagine anything more than 200m would turn our PC's (and consoles) into the chornobyl elephant's foot

[maiden grotto]

Exactly, that is why those numbers are good. You don't see them spawn in, they move into range, thus the feeling the world is alive.

[still edge]

actually a proper alife has better performance then the current alife in 1.1.3, since most npc would live in offline mode and less npc would be in online mode, that means less npc to render, but more meaningful encounters, less gpu less cpu usage overall, a proper alife will increase fps through the whole game given the calculation i did

[hoary crest]

Not under vanilla balancing you dont have lol. Bullet drop in vanilla starts at like 25m on a lot of weapons lmao

[still edge]

no it doesnt, UE5 knows how to manage long distance render, it doesnt cost as much gpu or cpu usage to have a 400 meters npc interacting and moving around since the pixels at that range scale down natively in UE5 LoDs automatic system
@ornate sable with snipers im talking about

[pale fossil]

alright you gotta point there... But after ~90 hours of playing I didn't actually see anything spawn in my view that much. Sure, I got some spawns behind walls or behind me.

[maiden grotto]

Consoles and older CPU's are the problem. Modern CPU's are fine apparently. The optimisation they mentioned was regarding the consoles and older CPU's, IIRC, from what I read.

Although optimisation for all is still a good thing. Just because you have a modern CPU, doesn;t mean you can scrimp on optimising.

[hoary crest]

Unfortunately there is also all the issues with UE5. TAA, overdraw etc etc. Devs can certainly make it run better, but I dont know if they have the time or resources to fix engine level problems

[austere pagoda]

whatup we talking alife?

[still edge]

engine doesnt have a problem , its the implementation of the engine in this game , the engine is a tool, and as a tool it has hundreds of way to implement a good performance into any game, this is a wrong concept of thinking UE5 has some sort of performance problem.

[hoary crest]

The engine has a lot of problems from the recent research I've been doing, sadly.

[austere pagoda]

ue 5.1

[hoary crest]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M00DGjAP-mU Channel is very good, worth looking at

[still edge]

look for threat interactive video : "Challenged To 3X FPS Without Upscaling in UE5" it teaches how games performance is related only to devs not the engine since he optimized himself in a couple of days

[plain fiber]

Alright, I'm re-watching that video now, and currently the spawn-bubble around the player is only 100m. In the original trilogy the bubble seems to be about 150-200m as shown in the video, so the increase wouldn't be too much. The big thing is getting the "offline" component fully functional and interacting seamlessly with that "online" bubble, as well as improvements and additions to NPC behavior.

[austere pagoda]

threat interactive bae

[hoary crest]

That is the channel I linked lmfao

[maiden grotto]

Offline/Online?

Please explain.

[still edge]

well he critiques ue in one video , understandably so, but also does the optimization himself teaching people that a game in UE5 can be optimized if the devs want to

[plain fiber]

Give me a sec, someone made a Reddit thread a while ago breaking it down really well and linking that would be easier than having to explain it to you.

[maiden grotto]

Played loads of UE5 games that have run sweet as.

[plain fiber]

@maiden grotto https://www.reddit.com/r/stalker/s/RaKetLKG6K

[maiden grotto]

thought that was the case, or something similar.

[plain fiber]

Apparently we could also get better performance if GSC upgraded to a newer version of UE5. Problem is that upgrading engines isn't a small or simple task, and has to be done very carefully to avoid breaking the hell out of absolutely everything.

[hoary crest]

It can be yes, but the point isnt about if it can be, its about time and cost to do so, if they have to strip the game to its barebones to fix engine level problems, big game, many files, many tools within the engine being leveraged, all of it adds up in terms of manpower and money

[still edge]

npc in
online mode: rendered, they do actions , take cover, attack , the normal ai system that most games have.
Offline mode: they still exist, they are unrendered, they do their activities but their actions are not calculated frame by frame instead by couple of seconds or half a second ,so they are persistant in the world bu they are not hardware consuming
online and offline state seamlessly change for each NPC based on players distance

[plain fiber]

All of the "offline" A-Life stuff is basically calculations being performed on a spreadsheet.

[still edge]

yes , thats why alife properly implemented would make the game run better than 1.1.3

[plain fiber]

I wonder if they upped the spawn bubble radius in CoP, I swear it seemed bigger than 150-200 meters but I could be wrong.

[still edge]

its less of a performance problem and more of a "GSC didnt have time" problem

[maiden grotto]

They sold a million copies... The will sell many more.

They will sell bucket loads of DLC's.

They just need to do the best they can to make the game as great as possible.

Especially if they ever release STALKER 3

[still edge]

i played with npc at 250 meters render distance in 1.0 using a mod, and the game run fine in 1080p and 3060ti almost the same and i also increase the npc count , still good performance

[maiden grotto]

I was running the game with LOD mod... It was running at 50 FPS'ish... Just look at my settings and FSR was switched off XD

[hoary crest]

🤷‍♂️ Sure, they might well do, but we don't know the investment sunk into making the thing, nor do we know if they borrowed money they now have to pay back, etc etc etc. We all want more FPS and A-Life to work properly, but our wants for the game don't really impact what they have the freedom to do or the timeframe in which they can deliver it. Likely they have an in-house "roadmap" or something they're following and will get to stuff when they get to it.

[still edge]

they have money, the have an investor in the company forgot his name(owns many games too ), and microsoft, and the money they made with 2+ million copies they sold , if they dont implement alife they would save money but they will hurt the trust of million of stalker fans, in the long run that would be suicide for GSC

[pseudo lotus]

Havent the devs stated that stalker 2 has already turned a profit? as in they paid off the debt?

[still edge]

definetely they are in green numbers right now

[plain fiber]

Time and money; I'm of the opinion that S2 was released when it was because they literally couldn't afford to delay it any longer.

@maiden grotto 3 million copies actually last I saw. In fact in some recent interviews GSC has stated that they plan to support S2 for longer and more intensely than the originally planned. (They weren't expecting the game to do so well.) They even mentioned restoration of cut content.

@still edge Oh don't get me wrong, if they can get an even larger spawn bubble than what we had in the original trilogy then I'm all for it. Just as long as it's performing smoothly and interacting properly and seamlessly with the "offline" A-Life component(s).

[hoary crest]

They'll implment A-Life, thats a given. More relating to the optimization thing. I don't see them going through with a fine-tooth comb and optimizing to a T, because that costs a lot of time, and therefore, money. Imo its gonna get to a point where its considered "good enuff" and then performance improvements will probably take a backseat

[plain fiber]

Max Krippa? He owns the company, he's not just an investor.

[still edge]

microsoft force them to release, they have the money to continue, they arent independent, they have investors

[mossy helm]

is it only me or zaton swamps are overspawned with mutants and zombies... especially mutants.... the constant fight against them, its even impossible to properly explore the swamp (southern) part of zaton at this point anymore, wtf....

[plain fiber]

GSC self-published the game, but as far as I know no one knows the exact details of their relationship with Microsoft.

[mossy helm]

you 100 perc sure about that? source?

[pseudo lotus]

I thought microsoft bought them or something?

[plain fiber]

No, GSC is still privately owned.

[still edge]

not 100% sure but we cant have their own confirmation , GSC cannot throw Microsoft under the bus

[pseudo lotus]

YOOOOOOOO I DIDNT KNOW THAT
thats awesome. Like actually amazing.

[maiden grotto]

And get the DLC right, and it will only get bigger.

As @plain fiber has just kindly pointed out.

There is no excuse, just make the game amazing and put the effort in. Just don;t do silly stupid stuff or try to make the game something it isn't or adding fecking loot drop BS and other gimmick mechanics found in other games.

Just keep to the lore and keep STALKER, STALKER.

[mossy helm]

speculations wont help tho 🙂

[plain fiber]

Loot drops and the like wouldn't make sense. Even when multiplayer is added, GSC has said it's just going to be simple DM, TDM and CTF.

LIKE THE GOOD OLD DAYS!

[hoary crest]

I still want DayZ style multiplayer in the long run 😅

[plain fiber]

There are S.T.A.L.K.E.R. mods for DayZ.

[still edge]

self published but with some private investors and people who put money into the company to revive it, if some millionares and microsoft didnt help GSC , we wouldnt not have S2 ever , but that also comes with some liberty cutted, they have to abide to some influence outside the company like microsoft and others.

[pseudo lotus]

So long as nothing happens that makes them beholden to shareholders, I doubt anything like that would happen.

Everything about stalker 2s release so far has given me confidence that GSC is committed to making a game by fans, for fans. The fact that its more successful than they expected is amazing- im sure the higher ups are already drawing up extended roadmaps. because the more they develop, the more people they can keep on payroll.

[mossy helm]

but saying microsoft forced them to release is a bold statement without having a source. just a lot of 🗣️

[cobalt fiber]

Source: Microsoft bad

Around and around we go with the baseless speculation as always

[hoary crest]

I am aware yes. More that the zone and lore is ripe for like 30-40 people large servers. Let people RP as Stalkers/factions and or murder one another indescriminately. If there was both A-Life and other players, thats about as close to a truly living zone as we could ever hope to get

[still edge]

if speculation relates to common knowledge , for example , microsoft forcing other game released because they need to meet some deadlines, than speculation can be the only way , mostly because GSC cannot talk about it, Microsoft cannot talk about it. If moves like a duck, cuacks like a duck and looks like a duck , than its a duck.

[pseudo lotus]

I'm willing to believe it simply on precedent. Microsoft has negotiated release contracts in the past that dictated certain release windows. Remember the original 2022 release date, also coincided with a TON of xbox promotion.

Then something happened in 2022, and they were given an extension to finish the game

[cobalt fiber]

Technically it wouldn't be Microsoft either. Do not confuse Microsoft and XBOX

[mossy helm]

can you give the list of the games which were forced to be released by microsoft please?

[plain fiber]

Well GSC was back and running in 2014 after their dissolution in 2011.

[maiden grotto]

Giiiiiiiiiiiiiiii

A co-op maybe at a push... Certainly not something like Turvok

[ornate sable]

tfw I have an older CPU (5 year old PC, with 3060 as midlife upgrade 1.5 years ago). How boned would I be if they did increase render to 400m?

[still edge]

bru, do i have to teach you gaming history from the start? come on do your own research, i cannot feed you with a spoon like this.

[maiden grotto]

No idea... But a slider would help so you can find the level that works with you.

[hoary crest]

Whole render distance? Pretty boned, just NPCs? Hard to say, but there would probably be some performance loss depending on how many NPCs the game is loading at any given time

[plain fiber]

Makes me think of Mount & Blade and how those games have a slider for battle sizes.

[mossy helm]

i was streaming stalker 2 to one fella of mine on discord, and he said that the weapons and the gunplay reminds call of duty.. i got pissed that he was comparing stalker to cod brain rot but actually later on i accidentally saw one clip from cod where a dude exploded an atom bomb on the beach, i was shocked to see that indeed that fella was right - extremely similar ....

[pseudo lotus]

Phil Spencer (head of Microsoft gaming and Xbox boss) is quoted for saying they have shipped games too early. He doesnt name names, but even the boss admits that they do

[plain fiber]

Like I said, in that video from Zone Slug, he points out how the render distance in the original trilogy was only 150-200 meters. I personally wonder if it might have been a bit larger in CoP, like maybe 250 or even 300m, but I don't know for sure. It just seems like I was able to see and shoot stuff from longer distances than 150-200m but I could be wrong.

[pseudo lotus]

its mostly the constant first-person perspective, I think. and modern tacticool stuff.

I was playing BO6 before I shifted to S2, and they do have similar looks to 'em. especially now that factions like the Ward are fielding modern equipment.

[mossy helm]

oh wow, okay. thanks for info.

[novel quarry]

200m looks pretty far in fps

[plain fiber]

Let's be honest, the gunplay in S.T.A.L.K.E.R. 100% needed updating, especially from what we had back in 09.

[novel quarry]

like it prob feels longer than that if you get what im saying. i think most people play anomaly with 150meter render range, tho i think some people push it to like 300 but not 100%

[maiden grotto]

DAmn.... the draw distance mod... with FSR 3.1 on @ 1440p... 90fps on ma 7900xt....

[novel quarry]

ofc this game has much bigger maps on average than anomaly does, so you'd want the 300

[mossy helm]

the sounds animations and the look of akm was too similar than it should be. i understand that its hard to be original and different with such things like that, but the similarity is scary high. didnt check the rest of the weapons tho.

[pseudo lotus]

My source is an article from 2022, talking about the delays in releasing starfield- so, it doesnt exactly say which games were pushed too early, but I wouldnt exactly take it off the table.

Given how much advertising and such S2 got from microsoft and xbox, it wouldn't surprise me that they have/had some sort of contractual agreement to release the game within a certain window. Just a guess of course, we'll probably learn the hard facts in 5 years or so once NDAs expire 😏

[novel quarry]

npcs might need optimized (render wise) a tad before they push it to 300, which should at least be a changeable option in the menu, let us select what render range we want

[pseudo lotus]

iirc both COD and S2 used real guns to record the sounds for their in-game counterparts. (except the guns in s2 sound way better )

[still edge]

https://www.trueachievements.com/n51888/xbox-delay-starfield-redfall-phil-spencer

[novel quarry]

tho guns also need fixed if they add that option as right now they have artificially slow velocity made for the games default like 90meter or less combat

[plain fiber]

Yeah like I said, it might have just been a matter of perspective.

300m probably would be ideal for S2 just because of the size of the maps as you say, but 200m would probably be pretty decent as well. Most importantly though, we'd need to have the "offline" component of A-Life fully functional and working seamlessly with the "online" bubble for the experience to be at its best. Otherwise there's no point in increasing the spawn radius.

[novel quarry]

oh and they also need to fix gun sound render range, ie, max distance gun sound effect only goes to 100 meter so right now if someone shoots at you from 200 you wouldn't even be able to hear the gunshot

[plain fiber]

There's a decent amount of adjustments that need to be made to weapons. I'd like to know why my barrel just...disappears when I look through my scope.

[still edge]

200 meters render distance for console, 300 meters render distance for pc

[novel quarry]

as you can see if they fix one thing they have to fix another and then another so i don't think we'll see this stuff for another 6 months tbh

[pseudo lotus]

Anything beyond 150m is generally tough to see, even thru a scope. I learned that playing Hunt showdown, lmao. my crowning achievement in that game was one (1) 300m headshot, and even then the guy was barely a pixel on my screen, through a sniper scope

[novel quarry]

this is where 12x, 15x sniper scopes come in yeah. or actual 8x for that matter which we don't have rn

[plain fiber]

I think I once landed a headshot from 200m+ with an iron sights Mosin in Red Orchestra 2.

[novel quarry]

finnish sniper moment lmao

[still edge]

sound distance, max distance gun bullet drop off, all these are minor fixes, they could be fixed in 2 week, the bullet drop off is only a variable within the weapon, they increase the integer, problem fixed.
The sound distance of guns also its a variable in the blueprint of UE5, the change some values around, problem solved

[novel quarry]

the scopes aren't accurate rn, they're tweaked for close combat. 2x is like 1.5x, 4x is like 2 or 3x, 8x is like idk 4x

[plain fiber]

Well Russian, since Red Orchestra didn't have the Finns as a playable faction, but the point still stands.

The Sniper class was full so I decided "Screw it, I want my Mosin damn it.".

[mossy helm]

or maybe it was a tactical release move before all main holidays and stuff. if microsoft helped with man power on this project maybe they could have postponed for 6-12 months for a last time and the game would have been polished really well. ive heard some rumors that microsoft actually helped with the release, helped with fixing with some problems of the game. would have been amazing if they helped them but even more tho.

[pseudo lotus]

iirc the sniper scope in Hunt is 8x(ish), so an online radius of 200m would be pretty reasonable

[novel quarry]

would be a huge improvement at least. ofc they also have to change the ai doing this so they work at a distance depending on what weapons they have

[plain fiber]

You mean online? Offline is the background stuff we can't see.

[novel quarry]

ai that can never see the player at 200m or ai that insta aim bots you always from 200 meter would just make the game worse, and this will likely take time to test and stuff

[pseudo lotus]

It wouldnt surprise me if microsoft handed them QA resources to get the game polished before release. I could definitely see the value in what youre saying- considering how well the game has sold, GSC's ploy quite literally paid off. Taking advantage of the holiday season was smart, now they're sitting on a pile of money and resources.

[plain fiber]

Well I remember seeing a statement from one of the CMs that GSC has 400 (or more) employees now, so they definitely are able to put more people on specific tasks now.

[still edge]

exactly, microsoft forced GSC, game slightly undercooked, and ofcourse there was a possibility of GSC trying to convice microsoft to not release the game in 2022 like it was originally schedule, imagine that! the hard conversation GSC and Microsoft had to have to explain "chicken is still alive and you want me to sell it like if was already cooked"

[pseudo lotus]

As rough as the release was, it doesnt seem like it's effected player sentiment TOO much- reviews are still favorable! And GSC really seems committed to seeing this thing through.

[novel quarry]

we got a taste of this when mods were still able to change the render distance. ai shooting you from 110 meters with a shotgun and you can't even see them or hear the gunshot 😂

[novel quarry]

yeah i think this is mainly cause a lot of people are first time stalker players. i wonder what %

[plain fiber]

While I appreciate buckshot having a realistic distance (you can still kill someone with it from 40-50m away IRL), I'm fairly certain it needs some adjustments in-game, particularly when it's being used by NPCs.

[still edge]

the game has soul , even through alife is a big part of the stalker OG soul and now its missing, the game right now has soul in other areas like artistic, voice acting, world building, dialogues , graphics

[novel quarry]

yeah rn the toz has the aim despersion of an assault rifle for example, likely a bug, even if its more realistic than most games

[plain fiber]

That's odd.

[novel quarry]

prob just a typo

[pseudo lotus]

WAIT YALL I know this isnt on topic, but you know what this game needs?

Environmental subtitles.

Ever play the bioshock series, where you could hover over a poster, or writing on the wall, and read subtitles for it? That kind of thing would be amazing- I feel like I'm missing out on a lot, not being able to read ukranian

[novel quarry]

yeah metro exodus had this but only for a handful of writing, would love to see it fleshed out in this game that'd be awesome

[plain fiber]

Pretty sure Metro had this as well, it was very nice to have.

Yes, we do need this, especially with all of the graffiti.

[still edge]

100% im missing all the jokes, references, little detail and world building of every graffity in the game

[mossy helm]

yeah. but thats a guess as good as others tho. we really will know as someone already said 5 years later or smth like that

[mossy helm]

you can send this suggestion to #📜┃ask-gsc or even #s2-support

[still edge]

im happy for GSC to be profitable , make no mistake they made alot of effing money , steamdb calculates around 2million copies sold , not counting game pass deal not count xbox copies sold. thats a lot of credits

[plain fiber]

Damn you mom and dad for not moving to a European nation where I'd effectively have to learn to speak and read other languages.

(This is a joke, my parents are great.)

[ornate igloo]

what

[still edge]

i only know english and taco burrito, wish i could learn something else, i would love to learn some ukranian just for stalker but i dont think i would use it practically for much else

[hoary crest]

Its very game dependent. 150m is huge in some games, and absolutely tiny in others. DayZ/Arma are good examples of the latter. 150m is nothing, you can consistently hit targets out to like 700m reliably if you're a good shot. Maybe further if you're cracked

[plain fiber]

It's a comedic lament about how I was never in a situation where I had to learn a language other than my mother tongue.

[still edge]

squad has full map render distance, you can see players at 1km away or more insane

[mossy helm]

i know how to read kirilica but understand just part of what i read. less than that even.

[plain fiber]

I was trying to learn Russian just for Metro.

[rocky lava]

I know da means yes thanks to tf2 and idi com mne for monolith

[spark dagger]

Bro my game screen is having a seizure... happens every time I boot up the game after the shaders fail loading in... the game was working just fine, and for some reason its just broken again... please fix asap

[rocky lava]

I’m having the same problem

[mossy helm]

idikamne was my favorite from stalker franchise lol. good hunting stalker was my english favorite one.

[pseudo lotus]

remember when Starfield made a huge announcement when the game had been played by over a million people? Not purchased- just played.

Imagine what the actual numbers for Stalker 2 look like. over 2 million copies sold, not counting gamepass players- which is likely much higher.

[rocky lava]

Ah so that’s how you say it yup I do love it

[plain fiber]

I saw stats that said over 3 million copies sold.

[maiden grotto]

£50 a copy, that is £150 million.

[pseudo lotus]

Ive just headcannoned that my Skif is illiterate, and cannot read.

[plain fiber]

Pretty sure he wouldn't be elligible to join the Ukrainian military then, and most certainly not the marines.

[rocky lava]

Take this enemy of the monolith!

[novel quarry]

could try disabling pso warmup in engine ini and see if it lets you play, perf might be worse tho

i imagine we'll get a patch for shader comp soon

[mossy helm]

idi kamne means come to me, its a calling of the monolith to come to it. not sure if im right about this one tho.

[rocky lava]

Ya I just spelled it wrong but thanks

[mossy helm]

well original is in kirilica, so we both spelled it wrong i guess 😄

[rocky lava]

Hopefully and ya guess we did lol

[plain fiber]

Okay actually that's one gripe I have: why the hell is Skif's service pistol a Makarov? It's 2021 and he's a former Ukrainian serviceman, shouldn't his service pistol have been some model of Fort?

[novel quarry]

i wondered this as well

[pseudo lotus]

Maybe he got shellshocked real bad during his time in the service

thats why all he does is watch TV and take risky jobs.... cant read, cant fill out a normal job application.....

[ornate igloo]

"Marked one, what da hell"

[novel quarry]

maybe its like a decorative award thats not really meant to be used? but hes like nope ima use it ?

[plain fiber]

Y'know what, I'm gonna put that question in #📜┃ask-gsc.

[rocky lava]

Marked one what the hell! (Throws grenade) boom!

[novel quarry]

'ALLLLOOOOO HAAAA'

[rocky lava]

Stay it gets fun around here!

[novel quarry]

english voices in old games are weirdly nostalgic for me, some of them were so bad they were good

[wintry pumice]

Take this 💣 enemy of the Monolith

[pseudo lotus]

Better question- is it just me, or does Skif speak with an accent? I dont know Ukrainian or it's dialects, but I've noticed that Skif will consistently pronounce words differently than other people. Especially names.

||NPCs will refer to Strelok as "Streh-lech" but Skif will say "Stelcha"|| for example

[ornate igloo]

i love how they say it, its awesome

[rocky lava]

Brothers! Cover me!

[pseudo lotus]

I will say. Playing stalker 2 is unironically helping me to understand cyrilic and ukranian

[wintry pumice]

Your brothers are with me in the shining zone

[plain fiber]

You mean in his UA voiceover? I have no idea, could be a regional accent thing or something.

[hushed umbra]

Take 🌿 for the freedom

[mossy helm]

have you ever noticed that metro games haves the same english voice actor who voiced bandits in old stalker games? bandit voice acting was the funniest one in a way you described here

[pseudo lotus]

Thats exactly what I'm wondering. Skif's regional dialect (if he has one) would likely say a lot about the character 🤔

[novel quarry]

not sure, but yeah there aren't many professional slavic english voice actors out there it seems, since i've heard the same one in multiple tv shows

[pseudo lotus]

I miss the goofy new york accents of CoP

[rocky lava]

Ah nu cheeki breeki Iv damke!

[novel quarry]

ukrainians say a lot of the characters speak like they would in a big movie and not like irl

which i've seen people say isnt necessarily a bad thing, but I'm not a ukrainian so thats all I can say about it

[pseudo lotus]

Makes sense, considering stalker 2 is more or less a playable hardcore henry

[plain fiber]

That's true too; apparently the UA voiceover is done in a more theatrical style rather than day-to-day speaking.

I still prefer it to the English VO just for the sake of immersion. (Except for Scar, his Ukrainian VO is terrible, I'm sorry.)

[mossy helm]

part of old gsc crew made metro games 😉

[plain fiber]

You know the director of that film is the mo-cap model and I think VO for Nimble?

[novel quarry]

the guy that plays the english voice of the communist dude you team up with in last light seems to voice everyone everywhere

[pseudo lotus]

bro whaaaaaaaat?? UA scar sounds like your unhinged uncle with multiple felonies. ||which is perfect for him, bro has holes in his brain||

[mossy helm]

ah yes this one is one of my favorites too 😄

[ornate igloo]

i prefer the english vo, its silly and i can understand something

[rocky lava]

One time they did flank and kill me in soc one time

[pseudo lotus]

Like I said. Its a playable hardcore henry

[wintry pumice]

Too many DLC spots

[novel quarry]

imo voice acting is pretty ok in this game, even english, tho sometimes faces don't match up that well

[plain fiber]

At least for me, he comes across as too edgy and over the top; like someone trying to do an impression of Shadow the Hedgehog after smoking an entire carton of cigarettes.

[pseudo lotus]

I mean. Seems on point.

Want some toast?

[ornate igloo]

seems like scar

[pseudo lotus]

Considering he's ||literally a c-con plant|| it makes sense, lol!

[novel quarry]

its in this game apparently but really rare. I've seen someone say its less rare if you use the STFU mod (based mod btw)

[plain fiber]

Scar's English VO (and subsequently his mo-cap) feels a lot closer to an IRL mentally unstable person. Like his facial movements, his way of speaking, all of it is pretty accurate depiction. I even showed his cutscenes to my dad who used to work in psychiatric rehabilitation and he agreed with me.

[ornate igloo]

my mom thinks the game looks cool

[plain fiber]

Actual mentally unstable people don't sound like the caricature Scar's UA voice actor is putting on.

[mossy helm]

100h of gameplay without any mods and didnt hear it yet. oh and english VO is 💩 just my personal opinion.

[rocky lava]

Mine too

[ornate igloo]

moms are based

[plain fiber]

The English VO of most of the main cast is pretty damn good imo, I just prefer Ukrainian for the sake of Immersion; I do the same thing with Metro and play the whole thing with Russian VO.

[pseudo lotus]

fair enough. I just like the UA voiceover in general; I think the delivery is amazing. No shade on the english VO, I think it's at the same level as something like Kingdom Come

I just think there should be less brits in the zone. simple as

[ornate igloo]

[mossy helm]

i wish they did english with a hard ukrainian/slavic accent. would have been the best option. im playing in ukrainian VO and will play till the very end, and at this point already ive read a lot of text (reading subtitles) but when ill finish the game with all the sidequests and etc i think ill feel like reading a full bible 3 times or smth.

[plain fiber]

Like I said, at least for Scar, I find the English VO to be superior.

@pseudo lotus Yeah, they really should have gotten Ukrainian and other Eastern European voice actors for the English VO. I don't mind hearing English and American accents mixed in, but I don't like characters who were previously established as Ukrainian or Eastern European to suddenly have an English or American accent.

[novel quarry]

you'd be hearing lots of characters with the same voice actor which is likely why they didnt do that

[rocky lava]

Bonjeur! Foreigner bob

[mossy helm]

english had the same issue with usual npc bots (saw Dr Disrespect's 8h stream and he sadly played in english the whole time - I wanted to shoot myself in the foot that whole time). im pretty sure they could have found enough of ukrainian actors at least for all the main characters.

[pseudo lotus]

Funny enough, i think my game is currently bugged. I use the UA voiceover for everything, but the 'quest' where skif buys a used car, only the english voicelines play, no matter what version of the VO I'm using.

So, Skif turns american when talking about cars. seems about right, actually

[plain fiber]

Idk, I feel like Eastern European car nerds could give the American ones a run for their money.

[pseudo lotus]

Apparently I just jumped from level 7 to level 10. Thanks @frigid hill !

[heady gazelle]

Still waiting for the sign language VO

[plain fiber]

Oh, two other minor gripes:

* I don't like how big the PDAs are; I can accept them adopting touch-screens but for goodness' sake make just make them a bit smaller.

* I don't like how large they made the forearm plates on the standard/Loner exoskeleton.

[pseudo lotus]

sign language
faust PFP

[heady gazelle]

See what you did there

[pseudo lotus]

tbh I think they just made the PDAs more similar to what you'd see in mods like ||anomaly||

I like the big screens because you can actually see what other stalkers are doing on their PDAs. For example, guys in the wild will often pull out the PDA and check their maps before sprinting to shelter

[pseudo lotus]

Did you?

[heady gazelle]

Last thing i saw was you mother

[pseudo lotus]

AYOOOO

[plain fiber]

What do you mean? PDAs in Anomaly/GAMMA are hand-sized Palm Pilot things, whereas the PDAs in S2 look like a hybrid between a modern tablet and a PDA and are the size of your head.

[pseudo lotus]

I swear they were bigger than the vanilla games. I could be misremembering though. in which case I LOVE SPREDING MISINFORMATION ON THE INTERNET!!!!!!!

[heady gazelle]

But imma do a lore accurate faust cosplay. Mostly because they dont make coloured lenses for people with astigmatism. Be blind to cosplay the blind

[plain fiber]

They weren't. I've played Anomaly and seen enough GAMMA footage on YouTube to know that's not the case. You probably got that impression because the PDA does take up a big portion of the screen in those mods when you bring it out, but you can also see your character's hands pressing the buttons and stuff.

Despite that, it still takes up less screen space than the S2 PDA.

[heady gazelle]

And i need some fast easy and quick cosplan before i finish a god damm chainmaile hood

[pseudo lotus]

Get yourself a handler! make them dress up as a giant blue rock

[plain fiber]

And they have to repeat the voice lines from SoC on a loop.

[ornate sable]

Hello? Hello? Hello?

[plain fiber]

No, the "Idi ko mne" stuff.

[ornate igloo]

Get out of here, Stalker

[heady gazelle]

all my friends are shorter

(Will totally ask a friend to do some dummy stuff like this now)

[plain fiber]

I said come in! Don't stand there!

[heady gazelle]

Main point is to exercise and get at least some muscle so its not twink faust.

Gotta order me some wig and perfect the makeup

[pseudo lotus]

slay. I really want to do a Loner cosplay, but have absolutely 0 clue where to actually get the fit for it.

[heady gazelle]

Raid a thrift store

[pseudo lotus]

I dunno if they're gonna have the jackets n stuff I need.... like, Ive seen people with Sunrise suits before, I just dunno where to get them. the actual zone?

[spark dagger]

No, its how the language works. Skif usually says he's looking for him, so he says ||shukayu strel'tsa (I'm looking for Strelok)|| while NPC usually just refer to him by his name ||blah blah blah Strel'ets (Strelok) did that||

[novel quarry]

true lots of people discard their sunrises once they're a higher rank, there should be a few

[spark dagger]

Which is hillarious, because the Ukrainian and Polish words for "looking for" in my language are slang words for having sex... so...

[pseudo lotus]

Fascinating. I've just never heard Skif actually say ||strel'ets, even after you find him||

[heady gazelle]

Ye like dont bother with regular stores. Secon hand/ thrift store us perfect to get some good stuff

[pseudo lotus]

that hairline does things to a man.......

[spark dagger]

Its usually romanized as "Idi ko mne" and pronounced as "idi ka mne" (come to me), in Ukrainian, it is "idi do mene"

[heady gazelle]

Never look for children in the basement 💀

[spark dagger]

10/10 pfp btw

[heady gazelle]

Thanks made it myself. Can make more

[rocky lava]

Ah ok makes more sense that way

[spark dagger]

The wish granter says "tvoya put' zavershyla, chelovyek, idi ko mne..." (Your journey has come to an end, human, come to me...)

[mossy helm]

which is the most haunting thing ive ever heard in my life

[rocky lava]

Yup creepy

[heady gazelle]

Honestly in this economy if i heard something like that i would come willingly.

no... my noon symbol! I yapped too much

[pseudo lotus]

Same here, brother. The experienced took my monolith rep.....

[spark dagger]

Ngl, I really got accustomed to Ukrainian thanks to Stalker 2. It sounded too funny to me before, almost like someone from my country trying to speak Russian while drunk, but thanks to playing the game in Ukrainian, I now understand the language much more, and I must say... it still sounds like someone from over here trying to speak Russian, but in a good way...

[pseudo lotus]

NOW how am I supposed to show off how brainwashed fanatical I am???

Slava Monolit!

[rocky lava]

Monolit dies

[pseudo lotus]

Speaking of, another odd thing happened yesterday- I encountered monolithian zombies

which is interesting, because I thought they werent supposed to do that.

[heady gazelle]

Isnt there one at the tower? The one the doctor wants you to kill but rest of noon asks you not to as they hope their brother is still somewhere in there?

[honest sandal]

I imagine eventually a monoliths brain gets cooked, you can only have your entire personality subsumed for so long.

[spark dagger]

Yes but its a noontider, not a monolithian, therefore its a cause of normal zombiefication in the zone

[pseudo lotus]

Im talking post-sircaa. A bunch of monolithians were gathered around a 'totem', all of them zombies. full corundum suits and everything

[heady gazelle]

Right. Former monolithian.

I always thought zombies are failed monolith soldiers. One can become before or after

But to be honest there is no brain in me to brainwash.

[pseudo lotus]

brain, full of rock

me when my calcified penial gland starts to spread to the rest of my brain:

[heady gazelle]

More of small vortex anomaly instead of a brain

I will go mourn the loss of the faction badge that was replaced by a damm middle aged man.

[river galleon]

It is the glory of the Monolith, brother

[pseudo lotus]

Glory to the Monolith!

[civic relic]

lol i just booted up the game today and 2 bloodsuckers spawned instantly so i ran to freedom base and they ended up killing 5 of them and then left me alone

[pulsar moat]

is there a chance for enemies to drop artifacts upon death? IK its already rare that they drop armor

[maiden grotto]

game is still spawning Bloodsuckers and everything else 🤣

[civic relic]

would be funny if they would chase u forever and instead of stopping after a certain distance so i could of lured them into the entire base to kill every1 for free loot

[maiden grotto]

These spawned at the pontoon bridge, right in the middle of the checkpoint guarded by ward... they killed 3 of them.

[still edge]

non stop?

[drifting forge]

[maiden grotto]

pretty much... I walk about 100 meters and something spawns... and a lot of them.

From teh abandoned farmstead, I have met, 3x bandits groups, 2x blood suckers, blind dogs... and that is going up the road, through the eastern gate, zalyssia and onto the pontoon...

I am a spawn magnet

[gaunt ferry]

So does helmet and body armor add armor rating together or separately protect your body and your head?

[maiden grotto]

No idea and that is a good question.

[glad fractal]

dev said they are separated.

[maiden grotto]

Now I got an emission lol!!

[quartz obsidian]

Just finished my first play through, did the ward ending

I absolutely do not trust Agatha, but I couldn’t let the col down

[still edge]

sometimes the alife_director bugs out maybe if you sleep it will fix it, usually when you cover your eyes with a pillow problems go away , but in stalker 2 sleeping resets the alife director

[gaunt ferry]

Ok. That makes alot of sence. I was wondering why I got a helmet and body armor combo early on that has more armor than any of these suits I'm finding could have possibly had.

[crystal granite]

Made it into pripyat and acquired the Texan thank the anomaly glitch

[crystal granite]

Sheesh, literally a magnet

[maiden grotto]

I think my one has turned into to skynet and is actively trying to take me out

[maiden grotto]

I have shut down had dinner and come back, it still hates me 😄

Or I used to much Lynx earlier and now I am having that effect in game 😄

[warm schooner]

when is next update

[midnight aurora]

The medic npc in slag heap is just inside a wall and I cannot reach it (he is not in his original place). Any ideas?
Tried verifying game files and restore and old save but nothing changed.

is anyone else with the same bug?

[quick kernel]

Is there any reason to use a medic besides buying Hercules?

[quick kernel]

MrFraG without the second R

[raw jasper]

So funny.
At least I dont give head like silly little man 😉

[quick kernel]

Only when you don't have the second r

[raw jasper]

So we both homo , it is settled

[quick kernel]

Let's kiss

[raw jasper]

Only if we awkwardly remove clothes and stare at each other for 2 seconds beforehand

[quick kernel]

Bet

[raw jasper]

you're a chad

[quick kernel]

your not half bad yourself

[midnight aurora]

just these meds 😂

[weary hedge]

lmao faust in the grenade only run was so fun

[maiden grotto]

You can buy these? I thought they were only found and rare?

[civic relic]

i wonder if this game is too confusing for people who havent ever played stalker because the game doesnt really hold ur hand at all or give u any tutorials other than the first 20 mins of the game. i feel like alot of people would play this a bit and then give up cause they dont know what to do to do actually get gear and resources to be able to do the main story. i dont even remember what my first playthrus were like on the old stalkers tbh. i remember playing a fallout game a long time ago i forget which one and soon as i got out of the main bunker i legit had no idea where i was supposed to go so i wandered around for a few hours exploring random locations and dying to enemies that were way too strong and then i quit and uninstalled the game lol

[edgy bloom]

Hey yalll

[weary hedge]

I mean if you forget to play can always look at the keyboard controls and change the difficulty. also youtube exists for tutorials

[civic relic]

damn i just learned smth new too. hercules are mad useful when u loot a bunch of gear and gotta get back to base

[weary hedge]

I kinda stopped using hercules after weird water was found

[crystal granite]

I'm the type of gamer which follows the main quest for a while, loots a lot and sells it, but then I break off and explore/gather high end loot or gear and farm. Sometimes I figure it out myself, sometimes I use a YT guide. Either way, for a new player I don't find this game too confusing, even without playing the old ones

[crystal granite]

That was me after the Shcherev encounter at that building filled with zombies 😂 hauling half the Zone over to the Icarus

[gaunt ferry]

Does psi block stack when you chug multiple vials?

[lilac sandal]

It is about as confusing as the directions of how to plug a projector to a Laptop.

[maiden grotto]

Oh yeah. Just pop one and you are carry half a map of stuff... Then it runs out and you cant move XD

[maiden grotto]

How comes?

[weary hedge]

weird water caps inven at 140 anyways which is max, i have the exosuit too so

[maiden grotto]

Fair enough. Need to get my hands on that then 😄

[weary hedge]

I dont like the drunk effect it gives though so i use the night star until im at its red weight limit then switch over

[maiden grotto]

I will just stick with a couple of artifacts to raise ma carry weight. I don't like the drunkiness either

[weary hedge]

Night star is the best carry weight regular artifact

[maiden grotto]

I think I had one of those in first game, not bumbed into one yet in this game though.

Had and amazing amounts of blood suckers though. I think they have been breading like rabbits in my game.

[weary hedge]

same

[maiden grotto]

I blame you then 😛

[fervent estuary]

Patch tomorrow yes?

[fresh shadow]

ayyy another competition that i didnt win and slowmode is still on

[silver breach]

update on trying to play on steam deck
first boot: shader warmup fail

[hazy gyro]

which seva suit? Seva-I or seva-D

[silver breach]

update its not possible to play at all as it doesnt register any inputs

[cobalt fiber]

You won't get SEVA I for a while. SEVA D can be found in cement factory

[hazy gyro]

on my way to “the cage” now

[cobalt fiber]

I is considerably better and is in Yantar or Duga. D saw me through a good portion of the game from very early on. 100% dura Diamond exo can be found @ Yaniv, I would just wait till you get there. You'll go there as part of a main mission to the exact spot it's at

[visual elm]

Just got the Diamond Exo suit- stats are great but wherever I walk I feel like I am stomping the ground really hard.

[cobalt fiber]

Upgrade at Yaniv station @visual elm

[visual elm]

Fully upgraded. Rather expensive. Still stomps especially when I sprint!

[cobalt fiber]

I mean it does weigh a tonne so that's to be expected I guess

I just finished the Strelok ending today. Reloading a save way back to go spark, then redoing a mission only Ward playthrough. Haven't been inclined to replay a game this soon in years lol

[visual elm]

Absolutely. Benefits far outweigh that. I just feel like I am broadcasting to all surrounding mutants!

[visual elm]

Where did you find binos????? 😜

[ebon blade]

This dude had a pair of binoculars and later tried to kill me. However when I looted him, they were not available.

[dry siren]

artefact 😋

[hoary crest]

Can also buy a few extra KG by having multiple attachment sets for your primary rather than carrying a secondary. So like an RDS and a scope for different engagement ranges an what not

[halcyon inlet]

anyone else keep crashing while looking in Stache ?

[halcyon inlet]

he is looking at loot, when i looted a body he started shooting.

[ebon blade]

I noticed he was using his binoculars a lot. I looked in the general direction and saw something bright on a small island. When I left him and went to the object, it was an artifact and that's when he started shooting at me once I grabbed it. Luckily there was a tree to take some cover behind, but I had no choice to kill him. The funny thing is I had just met and talked to him in town. When I met him on the bridge, he had the same dialogue. I think someone told me he might give task to retrieve the item and then will get hostile when you return, for a reward. However, I never got that option, or the binoculars he was using.

[thorny drum]

When in Rostok, yes. Elsewhere, no.

[icy ibex]

My friend in Cali just sent me a meme Saying that The fire is just a Stalker 2 Emission 😭

[hidden yoke]

there's a fix on reddit for Rostok crashes/memory leaks

[thorny drum]

I was watching some play the other day that had frame gen off and they still had the issue

I'll try it out though. I actually never changed my settings. Was just waiting for a fix.

[hidden yoke]

the fix was download a bunch of newer frame gen

If you don't have it, Rostok will slowly eat your ram

[hidden yoke]

https://www.reddit.com/r/stalker/comments/1hwqo4s/nvidia_frame_gen_vram_memory_leak_fix_posible/

I just read it and said frame gen memory leak issue but not really know anything, so i edit my comment out

but it work, at least on my end

idk if it will fix AMD issue

i'm now free to roam rostok

[uncut inlet]

any ideas when the physical editions will be shipped out to the US?

[ebon blade]

I'm waiting too. I bought on the second printing.

[uncut inlet]

i got mine from final boss bundle

[ebon blade]

I think they covered all of the US.

[icy drum]

Anyone else ran into random pseudo giants?

[uncut inlet]

idk i still havent recieved mine

[ebon blade]

I got the email from them for a copy of the game to play, but nothing yet on the physical items yet.

[uncut inlet]

same here

[ebon blade]

I would say by February, if I was to guess.

[dry siren]

guess who just joined the bandits in clear sky

[fickle bridge]

thats good, i was always worried about newbie stalkers not understanding things in S2

[still edge]

i hope they dont water down with upcoming stalker game, thats one fear i have for franchise that start to reach mainsteam, althrough stalker it still not as popular as fallout for the casuals gamers

[scenic pine]

Does sb know a smaller subreddit dedicated to stalker lore where i can share my stuff like headcanons, ideas and theories abt the trilogy

[still edge]

why not #👓trilogy-lore-and-story

[scenic pine]

I havent played stalker2 yet, only the main trilogy few years back, dont want to get any spoilers for myself

[scenic pine]

But let me ask you real quick, r there female stalkers in stalker2 that r armed n sht?

[still edge]

only a few , and i dont think you will see female stalker in combat, it still 99.9% all male stalkers

im half way into the game and i havent seen one yet, i heard one is trader and another is quest related maybe

[scenic pine]

Im planning to make a post on reddit about the things i would change in stalker universe and i def have to rewrite this lazy female representation

[still edge]

oh i forgot, yes i saw one , in zaton

[scenic pine]

Im talking about the actual female stalkers who actually walk shoot n survive

[still edge]

nice bait, go on

[scenic pine]

Its not even bait

[still edge]

okey so think about this, the day you see a 10% female working in an oil rig, sewers, footman soldiers, thats the day you will see more female stalker in the game.

[scenic pine]

I didnt know shooting a gun is like working in caves or mines. The best female sniper was actually ukrainian and I doubt it was as physical job like working in an oil rig

[still edge]

yes one ukranian sniper, i saw the video, she is quite courageous but that one exception also shes not in the front line , thats quite a difference, and the reason why shes fighting is because ukrainian need every single human being to fight the tyrant , thats not the case of the zone , the zone are not a life or death situation , peoples family depending on visiting the zone, therefor 0.01% women would represent the stalker population in realistic situations

[scenic pine]

The problem you have with female representation is that when "female representation" comes up you think of a make uped bimbo with botox n bobas out, or some fat ugly blue haired tomboy. Thats pretty limited to twitter and west. A female stalker deserves an existing if she has a great story writing and lore behind her

U seem too brainwashed and fallen to the west though if you think a female stalker cant be

[still edge]

no , the problem i have with women in stalker is that is not a realistic setting for them to be , i dont want politics and representation in a game, game is not to be represented, games are for escapism

in the same way i wouldnt want a game with amazonian women as lore, to have men for inclusion and representation , men dont belong in amazonian lore

[scenic pine]

Its not realistic for female stalkers to be in the zone because of your narrow thinking and no good ideas for a good character 🤔

[neon folio]

Hey, is stalker 2 available on gamepass standard? Or only ultimate? Google gave conflicting answers

[still edge]

because the game presents a setting where conditions of living are the worst of the worst, female seek security not danger, male are more prone to seek adventure. For this reason unless the game want to rewrite human biology , it would not make sense to put female stalker, female dont want to go somewhere were the risk of dying is almost an everyday ocurrence

[river chasm]

Should be on all versions

[neon folio]

It says ultimate gets the day 1 release games, but idk if enough time has passed to where they put it on standard yet

[still edge]

@scenic pine bro are you writing a bible? im not reading all that sheet

[river chasm]

I guess IDK if you are on xbox

[still edge]

1 women stalker thats all , thats all i can give you , and im taking all the risk here.

and only if it makes sense lore wise, not for representation , because nobody play games for representation, people been playing games about an italian plummer eating mushrooms and a electric porcupine , no one in their right mind have ever feel represented by those characters.

[scenic pine]

Giving even 1 woman is still female representation

And to be fr i cant think of any forced female representation in videogams

[still edge]

its not , its just part of the lore, if you think that makes you feel like you are a part of the game, well you do you, because gamers dont want representation , they dont care if the character is female, male or an alien , they want fun games that try to tell a good story, stalker story is of males eating radiated bread and hitting eachother in the head with rocks, thats stalker

[still edge]

you been living under a rock if thats the case

[scenic pine]

Ur perceiving the word representation in a bad way cuz of woke comapnies making bad decisions

[scenic pine]

Well name me few games like that

[still edge]

woke culture brought the "representation" meaning of the word, before woke games gamers never said " oh i hope this game has a woman in it" or "ahh this game doesnt have asian people , such a bad game"

[still edge]

starfield, concord, witcher 4, tomb raider franchise (2016 - today), dishonored 2

[scenic pine]

Males say they dont care about representation but then get mad when the white skin tone in hogwarts legacy aint white enough, then rushing on twitter to write mean comments and proceeding making a whiter skin tone mode

[scenic pine]

Lmfaoooooo dis2, tomb rider n witcher 4 r forced female representations?? Lmfaoooo

[still edge]

nobody complain about that, everyone loved howarts game only woke people hate it

[scenic pine]

U been living under a rock if you sidnt see white males crying about white skin tone not being white enough

[still edge]

the director was forced to put emily as the main protagonist out of preasure becuase of the history dishonored 1 had, witcher 4 director said they are wanting to make lesbian relationship in the game to appeal to the modern audience

[still edge]

i never cry, thats for weak people

[scenic pine]

Dis2 is literally all about emily and putting her on the throne lil bro, the story is all abt her

[still edge]

read the articles, the director said it was forced, he said it himself after he left his own company

[scenic pine]

Ciri has been bi for years in books

[still edge]

they made her the main character and they are trying to push an agenda instead of trying to make a fun game like witcher 3, the art director is very vocal about this ,if you dont know this , again you are under a rock

[scenic pine]

Im a huge Dishonored fan and to be fr with u I've always preferred dis1 100% more than dis2, i hang out in dis communities and notice how majority of peoples are satisfied with emily being the main protagonist cuz the story is literally abt her cuz shes grown n soon to become empress and her title is stolen, and corvo is literally in his 60s bro

[still edge]

so all this discussion is to push an agenda, i talk about devs making fun games regardless of sex and race, but you want them to be rac1st and to push races and gender because for you its important , i play a game where the character is of color i dont care if the game is good, i paly game where protagonist is a women i dont care if its fun, i dont play games where the gender and races are pushed for political reason instead of story, very very different case.

[violet zodiac]

I am all for waifu female stalkers only.

[scenic pine]

Its not the woke ppls fault. A lot of men love lesbians. I bet u do to. And a lot of men wouldnt mind see lesbian relationship in videogames idk why tf ur complaining

Lesbian is like the top searched up words on pron websites n u here acting like its woke ppls fault

[still edge]

what if i play a game about uganda? where the main protagonist is black? should we put white people in the game? what about mongolian? italian? NO! lets put every race into the game, for equality, what am i playing a game based on uganda? or an political agenda game?
you are brainwashed my friend, one day you will understand

[scenic pine]

Tf ur yappin abt lil bro

[still edge]

something that you cant understand because you have a concious bias and trying to understand my point would produce in you cognitive dissonance

[scenic pine]

I never even played games that have forced race representation n ur here yappin like its my fault, btw ur opinion on what i wrote about lesbians?

Anyway what i think is ur woke

Bro said starfield, concord, witcher 4, tomb raider franchise (2016 - today), dishonored 2 have forced female representation is crazy, tomb rider is popular 99% because its a hot female char bro, if it was male none would play that game lmao

I forgot what concord is but i just remembered, it just has bad char design thats it lol it dont have to do anythin with gender

[still edge]

you are asking for representation , i dont feel represented by the game i dont play videogames to feel represented.
I dont feel like im Skif, or Fuast or Strider, i dont speak ukranian in real life, i dont kill people in real life, i dont collect artifacts, thats not the reason why i play stalker.
You are asking to be represented, thats not escapism , thats not gaming. You are asking the devs to break a fundamental rule of gaming.

[scenic pine]

Having no great female char in stalker is lazy and flat lorewise. The made up story i wrote is such a great char opportunity

Ur too sensitive n emotional as for someone who opposes woke AAA companies, ur literally no diff from em

[still edge]

said the thousands of millions of fanficts who tried to rewrite stories.

[scenic pine]

I never wrote fanfics tf ur on abt, i just made a couple headcanons for stalker n thats ut

[glad fractal]

https://tenor.com/view/michael-jackson-comendo-picoca-gif-9669437860846841235

[still edge]

im passionate which is an emotional response but not emotional in the sense that you are talking about, you want to be in the game,"represented" probably u should see a doctor, the game isnt real , you dont need to be in the game, its just fantasy

[heady gazelle]

God forbid women enjoy videogames

[scenic pine]

If the game isnt real then why r u pressed about adding pixels who look female? Bros contradicting himself

[still edge]

female gamers enjoy the game, i dont see anyone complaining about it , even more man are prone to selecting female characters in MMOs , while women are prone to select male characers in mmos, WHERE is the representation in that? im talking about millions of studies.

even more i never saw any men complaining about amazonian lore in DC not having male amazonian. what happend there? so they want representation in one way but no the other way?

[scenic pine]

Me: hey sup heres a cool realistic story for a fem char in stalker
Vanrick: well well well... You made daddy really mad.... Things are about to get really freaky. Why do you need this fem char, huh? For FEMALE REPRESENTATION? did someone say REPRESENTATION? Well well well.... Never make a good guy angry 🙏😈 tomb rider is forced female representation.... By the way, we dont need representation, i dont actually care who to play i will even play as an alien, but....a woman? Well well well.... Daddys really mad

[still edge]

bruh, not trying to be rude, get an appointment with a therapist, im worried about you, peace

[shell flax]

https://tenor.com/view/on-fire-pizza-gif-6074641

[scenic pine]

R u 13?

[dry siren]

all this arguing and im just sitting here on the toilet watching all of you

[scenic pine]

Photoproof

[shell flax]

I’m munching on a bagel laughing, I’m just here to enjoy stalker

[dry siren]

i'll think about it

[scenic pine]

For freedom

Yes

[dry siren]

im just saying if there was a random stalker in a wheelchair that would be awesome

give him a little bell like hector salamanca

[scenic pine]

Omg it's totally so kawaii

[dry siren]

"so what's new in the zone"

"🛎️"

[scenic pine]

Stephen hawking

[heady gazelle]

Guide pseudos for blind people in the zone

[dry siren]

can we build a pizza hut in the bandit camp 🥺

[scenic pine]

when im walking through the zone and hide from bloodsuckers but suddenly my period starts 😳 😳 😳 uh oh, looks like i have to let him do the thing. 😘😘😘

[dry siren]

YOU WHAT

that one sentence is more deranged than every monolith fighter combined

[ebon blade]

Please refrain from any conversation related to sex, body parts or mutant sex, please. Either talk about Stalker 2 or go to Off-topic. However no sex talk there either.

[scenic pine]

🥺

[olive rampart]

disgust

[scenic pine]

Ur jealous

[ebon blade]

I'm about to Mute you if you don't stop this bickering.

[olive rampart]

no, I am insulted by the lack of craftsmanship in that sentence, it's so forward and blunt it takes away the funny
you gotta edge the line, but you can't just sail over it like that

anyways... have they optimized the game yet? I can run it fine enough, but 45 frames with dips down to 25 is a bit rough

[scenic pine]

Fine i will move on but i gotta admit that joke never gets old

[olive rampart]

this monitor was built for more!

[scenic pine]

Its 7:23 am

[dry siren]

i wish there was an anomaly that made you shit yourself uncontrollably

[weary hedge]

Aannnd, I have absolutely noo idea what's going on here.

[pallid thorn]

raikov you highkey unhinged bro

[scenic pine]

[dry siren]

just imagine walking through the cordon with a rookie and all of a sudden you hear this sound-barrier shattering fart crack out and he dies

[pallid thorn]

plus you dont get periods cus youre a friggin dude so shut up lol.

[dry siren]

simply terrifying

[scenic pine]

Im female

[weary hedge]

Oh damn, that's the most unhinged shiznicks I've seen today. Holy macaroni.

[pallid thorn]

x to doubt

[dry siren]

i get exclamation points dude

[scenic pine]

Keep doubting but im female and has always been

[dry siren]

i'm so tired

literally all i had for dinner was half a loaf of bread and a few bites out of a block of sharp cheddar

[weary hedge]

Ey @scenic pine, I'm glad you're being sigma. Finally someone who's actually different around here, even though they spoke the most cringiest statement I've seen today. (No offense, and this isn't sarcasm either)

[scenic pine]

No doubt im sigma female, always has been, too

[weary hedge]

Keep living the sigma dream girl. 👊😎

[scenic pine]

🚬👌

[frigid hill]

raikovv has been muted for 1 day

Reason: Unspecified

Muted until · Jan 11, 2025, 5:28 AM

[dry siren]

sigma, nah im gamma

there is cesium embedded under my skin 😇

[weary hedge]

Aaaaannddd... I'ma just... uh... go. 👽 coughs awkwardly

Aaand, I went the wrong way. Me not happy... -_-💢

[dry siren]

whelp, off to bed i go

goodnight funny little people in my phone

[weary hedge]

Goodnight my furry bandit friend. Cya soon!

[dry siren]

i will die in my sleep to spite you

[weary hedge]

I'll help. 🔪 /jk

Bro, how tf is there a damn controller near Skadovsk, by the road... The thing is just casually walking, minding its own business.

Has this ever happened before?? I've never actually seen a controller this near to Skadovsk before.

[shell flax]

I haven’t seen a controller in the wild yet lmao, just in their normal spots

[hoary crest]

Seen a few wandering, but its not a common occurence

[scenic fox]

Interesting, dont usually see those out and bout

[weary hedge]

This bro is literally just minding his own business. I'm like- 15 feet away from him, and he just casually walks, ignores me & moves on.

Like- Idk if this controller is different or something, but he seems like a chill dude compared to all the others.

[scenic fox]

https://tenor.com/view/chill-guy-my-new-character-gif-13347199963925500317

[weary hedge]

It's so close to Skadovsk. Like, about ~45 Meters away.

[shell flax]

My favorite moment was I was doing an artifact run up in Garbage, leave electric field, turn and see a Chimera mid leap at me and I nearly ruined the wall behind me

[scenic fox]

I run into a lot of NPCs fighting Chimeras for some reason.

[weary hedge]

Chimeras aren't as intimidating as Psuedo Giants in my opinion, even though they're really fast & agile.

[scenic fox]

Idk ive spent a good 40-50 hours at each game stage, pre sircaa, mid resurgence, and endgame and it feels like both NPC gear and mutant variety get tilted towards the more difficult varieties. Almost like a bethesda game with levelled lists :/

[scenic fox]

This is so amazing oh my god thank you, keeping this

[weary hedge]

For a second there, though that was a cross between a horse, a pig & dog. Now it looks like a dog with an oddly flat nose. 👽

[scenic fox]

I enjoy chimeras more because they are the kind of difficulty i like. They present a challenge in combat because of their speed and damage rather than pure resilience (although they are tanky mfs)

[weary hedge]

Psuedo Giants are difficult, but they're also fatasses. Bro literally can't fit through a doorway. Good for shooting at them from the doorways of buildings.

[scenic fox]

Pseudos taking 5 RPGs to the dome just pisses me off to be honest

Like coming from arma and taking out a Viper gunship with an RPG vs STALKER where it takes as many RPGs as a person can carry

[weary hedge]

Better off using a Shotgun tbh-

[scenic fox]

Yeah i know but i just dont think it should be that way. I understand it is. Its just an annoyance lol
My Ram-2 does the job for sure though

[weary hedge]

If it was irl, those things would turn into blood ridden smithereens, but unfortunately, as much realistic as Stalker looks, looks can be deceiving, cuz the mechanics are sometimes arsey.

[scenic fox]

Flashbacks to shadow of chornobyl’s first mission, in the car park, with a Pmm…

[weary hedge]

I love that mission, just wondering why they didn't execute the stalker who carried that data stick for Sidorovich.

I mean, if I was those bandits, I'd atleast make sure they don't get their friend back for invading my base.

[scenic fox]

Bandits + complex decision making = computational error

[weary hedge]

Also, Shadow of Chernobyl's double barrel shotgun is better than the other versions.

[weary hedge]

Ikr 🥲

[scenic fox]

Agreed… except for Clear Sky with the TOZ. I took mine to endgame

[weary hedge]

For me the double barrel shotgun from SoC is the only good one. The rest of the double barrels in other versions suffer with accuracy & damage issues.

[scenic fox]

I beg you to give the Clear Sky long double barrel another try. With the rifling its sooooo good, torso sized spread at like 50 meters

[weary hedge]

Toz still has the longest range of all the shotguns ingame

[cobalt haven]

To get into the pod, it's said that someone must have Class 5 psi protection rating

If Skif's ending is canon, there are things that might be conflicting:

• psi rating requirement is a lie;
• alpha artifact programmed him somehow
• he was an agent before but he got amnesia or whatever
• Faust reprogrammed him right after their fight, through Subtle Matter

[weary hedge]

well to be accurate, its equal to the ram with a value of 1.3 for range, texan is 1.2, the rest are all 1 except the boomstick, which is 0.55

[weary hedge]

I was actually talking about the short double barrel... and I prefer the SPAS-12 shotgun over the others.

In CoP, I prefer the eliminator.

I don't like needing to constantly reload at critical moments, so I like to have a gun with alot of ammo & accuracy to spare. The eliminator & the SPAS-12 do that for me.

Also, I don't like buckshot, slugs, or dart rounds. Better off using an AK.

I always use Shot, that's why it's called a SHOTgun after all.

[cobalt haven]

Or I'm overthinking it, maybe it's the suppressor of Dvupalov

[still edge]

i actually went back to Toz after using the M860 for quite a while, Toz does way more damage at larger range, and also i couldnt stand the effing recoil of the M860 , that weapon is ass

[scenic fox]

I know! Thats the only double barrel in SOC. I just tend to prefer power and accuracy over backup ammo.
Shotguns are usually my backup anyways, especially now since I use the Rhino in S2

[cobalt haven]

Rhino supremacy

[scenic fox]

Rhino in both primary slots and secondary is so fun

[weary hedge]

Yeah- Shotgun ammo is so common & easy to purchase, plus they're light to carry, so Idrc about inaccuracy. Most of my shotgun kills are to the head anyways, as I often always aim for the head with any gun.

I usually carry around only a modded AK (It was remade into a sniper weapon), and a modded shotgun.

I also keep atleast 5 grenades on me at all times.

And since I'm a sniper class, I'm used to long range accuracy. I often kill by shooting at the head of my enemies.

The best ammo type for me, would be the armor piercing rounds, which are good against 1 shotting heavily armored opponents easily to the head.

[weary hedge]

i talked about this before, kinda - scroll up and down around this message

#☢┃stalker-general message

[velvet leaf]

I wasted so many bullets and destroyed my armor by choosing the path with Monolithians. I did not realize that you simply had to fight a controller if you choose the alternative path to the Foundation.

[novel quarry]

main thing is psuedos regen health extremely fast while they are hiding from you. so don't let them hide or its going to take like 10x longer to kill them

[heady gazelle]

I can get behind women in the zone but italians is where i cross the line

[wintry pumice]

Seva V is the easiest to get but not sure if it's better than the 2 you mentioned

[lusty rose]

so hows a-life and how

[ripe anvil]

honestly wouldnt know cause the game runs like 💩

[pale fossil]

on what hw

[lusty rose]

So crazy how bad they fumbled the bag

[ripe anvil]

r9 5900x 12 core with 8 gb gpu and 32gb ram

[pale fossil]

what 8gb gpu

[ripe anvil]

its a 3070

[pale fossil]

well, there you go.

[ripe anvil]

wouldnt matter if it was my buddys 4070 ti super either the game runs like garbage

[ripe anvil]

great big gotcha moment for you bud nicely done

[pale fossil]

i have 4070 ti super and the game runs okay
on ultra with dlaa

sure, it drops frames sometimes but it's far from garbage

[warped stream]

I was running it on the 4070 ti on 1440p and it ran pretty well, only a few times it would tank due to the memory leak

[ripe anvil]

memory leak?

[pale fossil]

Only thing pissing me off are occasional crashes but at least they are not constant.

[warped stream]

when the game first came out there were memory leaks for some people yeah, pretty much the game would randomly cap you at like 15fps

[ripe anvil]

mine will run just fine enough for a while and then if i go to a hub or really random certain places post sircaa and right now some areas of pripyat it turns into a power point presentation like 2 fps

[cobalt haven]

What wasn't explained in HOC is which faction took Strider during the plot of COP.

Can't find any answers yet.

[royal phoenix]

I still get memory leaks. Waiting for next big patch. I guess it works fine if I turn off frame gen but the frametimes are poor.

[ornate sable]

I think one of my sidequests is bugged; Find a Missing Person for Owl. Two of the four blue sidequest flags aren't going away even though I found everything there was to find at those locations, so I can't turn it in. I even looked up a guide for it to make sure I wasn't missing anything. Should I just cancel it so it's not blocking me from getting new sidequests from him? Apparently it's only worth 1500 too.

Basically just wondering if that will sour my relations with Skadovsk

[gloomy citrus]

Most likely Freedom.

I dont know if you can take Strider and his group to Duty since I never do it. Siding with Freedom in Jupiter is the best choice.

As for Skadovsk, its obvious that Degtyarev sided with Sultan.

[noble oak]

I did this quest recently did you take all the notes?

[nocturne hatch]

so, where is the next patch ? :C

Because AI have laser aim bot and can see you through walls and during night

we need increased npc spawn area
decreased respawn time of NPC, don't spawn enemies one after another,give a player some air to breath
better flashlight, or let us attach flashlight to weapons
night vision
improved A Life and stealth

[spark dagger]

Gorbachev found alive and well in the Chernobyl anomalous zone

[spark dagger]

I need the game and the shaders to stop having a seizure.

And aimbotting enemies that make every gunfight worthless and unfun...

[muted sail]

Its so true, the human enemies be having wallhack. And the fact that the the enemy would still choose to shoot you even from 100 m away is crazy

[spark dagger]

Every time I see enemies I just run away, literally waste of bullets and heals

[sturdy verge]

Every time i see enemies I just pull out a couple of Sids chicken from my bag, throw it and run away.

[hollow sable]

whats the best exosuit ingame?

[real tusk]

are you supposed to fail the "talk to wolfhound" mission in the red forest? I get instaspotted by mercs and the mission becomes gray

[gloomy citrus]

Diamond. Highest overall stats and has the most additional weight carried.

From what I heard, Ruby is pretty much the same as Diamond except it has an upgrade that gives you +20% Accuracy for any weapon you're using.

Worst is probably Cuirass just because theres no upgrade for it to allow you to sprint.

I wonder who else appeared in all 4 Stalker games aside from Strelok and Nimble.

[hollow sable]

i literaly got daimond and ruby exos in duga

[sweet root]

The Whip has to be my new favorite gun for sho, for some 6kg rifle it feels like its 2kg and with a mod i can use a 4x PSO-1 on it instead the 8x

[hollow sable]

is this a glitch or what since i heard they only spawn in pripyat

[gloomy citrus]

Where do you found them exactly?

Like, is it dropped by an enemy?

[hollow sable]

for me i found them on a body in duga before that i only knew that they can be found in pripyat only

[gloomy citrus]

Hmmm

[noble oak]

Rare drop

[gloomy citrus]

I guess you're not supposed to get it but good for you either way.

[hollow sable]

2 ruby's and 1 daimond too

[gloomy citrus]

Diamond Exo appeared in 2 spots, above Scientist bunker in Yaniv and somewhere in Pripyat.

If you got it from a corpse then its most likely a bug.

[hollow sable]

i only took daimond and left ruby i didn't have enough space

[gloomy citrus]

Just like people getting Mercenary Exoskeleton that has weird naming to it.

[sweet root]

Brummbar? or something, found 2 already

[gloomy citrus]

Like I said, if you find a suit just standing or laying around somewhere then its supposed to be there. If you got it off from a corpse, its most likely a bug.

[sweet root]

Ive found like 8 corundum suits from mono corpses, and stalker suits on loners, etc

[gloomy citrus]

I really am unlucky huh.

[sweet root]

Dunno but whenever one drops there are usually more corpses around with suits on them also, weird huh

Like, find more than one suit or dont find one at all, been my experience

[serene barn]

i found it a little annoying how they basically give you the chance to find the absolute best Exo before going to Prypiat and some of them you can only get in there too i think

[warped stream]

I got one suit of armor off a enemy in the starting area and that was it for my 77 hours

[violet zodiac]

Anyone know why this game on PC has CPU bottleneck? No flashlight shadows, foliage shadows, limited lighting where light does not bounce much, AI routines are hardly an improvement over some older Stalker games. Why is the CPU being hit so hard? It has been 15 years of CPU technological advancements. Is Unreal Engine 5 that bad for gaming?

[hollow sable]

it is

[violet zodiac]

My specs: RTX 4090, i9 13900k (newest bios), 64GB DDR5 Ram@6400Mhz, 4TB NVMe M.2 Gen4 SSD and Windows 11 version 23H2

[warped stream]

ue5 is meh and yeah, it just hits cpus really hard, even with a 14900kf it was getting up there for me. Best bet is some of the optimization mods on nexus imo

[spare lava]

mods can't handle it, sadly. it's only devs who can actually optimize cpu bottleneck. all mods doing is just flipping switches and adjusting graphical settings

[violet zodiac]

So it must be features inherent to UE5 that are hitting the CPU hard. And thus leaving not enough CPU overhead remaining for AI calculations?

I also saw the developers are only using version 5.1 of UE5.

[warped stream]

doesnt help much with the cpu but keeps the game looking the game with better fps

[sweet root]

Ok im getting sold on the Ram-2 shotgun, over a saiga, its way way better at longer range shots and killing stalkers

or the DP-12

[spare lava]

for the most part yes. I tried few optimization mods,and I can have smooth 60 fps, but the moment I step in to a hub, I get bottlenecked by CPU and fps drops dramatically. It barely hits 35 FPS in rostok, most of the time sitting at 30, while gpu does not run higher than 90%. so mods won't help you here much if at all

[violet zodiac]

I have the same issues in Rostok. I LOSE 25-30 FPS off my framerate. And get memory leak in Rostok. If I go near that Rostok gravity anomaly I get similar FPS drops.

[dry siren]

"WE HAVE POLITICAL INSTABILITY 🗣️"

"we hav piza khut 😇🍕"

[sturdy verge]

i still went there for my piece of bread, worth the queue 😄

[dry siren]

better than fr*nch tho

[heady gazelle]

Easier to catch tho. Usually they surrender pretty fast

[dry siren]

but italians at least shower once a week

[heady gazelle]

They throw hands a lot tho.

[flint wyvern]

So I went to Rostok for the first time last night as I guess I sided with some other faction. Anyway, I just wanted to get a certain gun and stopped there to check my stash. There must be an issue with the game because it crashes whenever I tried to organize. I hope I don’t need to change anything and I can just avoid it until a patch comes out.

[maiden grotto]

Because the game was forced to release early.

Easy as.

[hidden yoke]

rostok is having memory leaks

[dry siren]

these kinda hands 🤌

[violet zodiac]

Correct me if I am wrong. The game got delayed by upwards of 2 years in total?

[still current]

Never had memory leaks am I insanely lucky or what haha

[flint wyvern]

I will avoid the leaky Rostok

And manage my stash elsewhere.

[edgy bloom]

Just got to wild island anybody know if there is some good armor there?

[flint wyvern]

Certainly not off the top of my head, but I would guess yes

[royal warren]

Ребят, почему не заспавнился сейф с флешкой улучшения в лабаратории x5 или он заспавнится потом?

Guys, why didn't the safe with the improvement flash drive in the x5 laboratory get stuck or will it burn later?

[flint wyvern]

I went on a mission for the Kahrod last night and it scope. Awesome set up

[edgy bloom]

Where's that again?

[hidden yoke]

right now most people have it, it will slowly crash people game (or pc)

[royal warren]

Who knows?

[flint wyvern]

I’m sorry I don’t remember off the top of my head. But I found it very easily with a Google search. As far as the scope I purchased it, but I read it can be had at a stash for free.

[flint wyvern]

Is it like a disease once you catch it? It doesn’t go away until a patch?

[flint wyvern]

I remember the video it is two or three cars lined up against a bus and you have to jump down onto one of those things that softens youryour fall

[hidden yoke]

just do whatever you want at rostok as fast and then leave

There's a fix but you have to download some files

[edgy bloom]

Ah thanks for the info

[flint wyvern]

OK, so as long as I just get away, I should be OK until a patch

[flint wyvern]

It’s really worth the trip

[edgy bloom]

What's wrong with rostok?

[hidden yoke]

if you want to be safe?

save and reload the save after you get away from Rostok
@edgy bloom memory leaks

[flint wyvern]

Ok