☢┃stalker-general

[hazy gyro]

yep, i basically got the cutscene from the video i sent

[wintry pumice]

Hmm ok

[weary hedge]

stalk tuah bro

[hazy gyro]

maybe next time i wanna start another playthrough, ill stay clear of talking to zotov and side with ricter

[weary hedge]

Am I the only one who didnt have a nightmarish time in the swamps? Ive done two playthroughs and one grenade only, and both times I had next to zero problem in the swamp

my only problem I had was walking back with the sheer amount of loot

[cobalt fiber]

Swamps are fine

[dense bloom]

Except for artifacts with the trader at SLAG HEAP, every GREEN REPUTATION seller buys from you for the same prices right?

[terse ravine]

i don't think radiation or mutants are outside the zone either, just animolies (and artifacts)

[weary hedge]

also i didnt know that the gauss rifle had an extended mag, i dont think i really need anything else in the game now xd

[trail fiber]

I love the music on the radio in S.T.A.L.K.E.R

[dense bloom]

eugene and birch with max rep are the best sellers in the game right? ( except for artifacts, the one in slag heap buys them for more i've been said)

[jagged zinc]

Well, I was going to side with Strelok when he was showing me how to find the X15 lab but I guess he's an agent for the Stalker program so I decided to go with the Ward during Dangerous Liaisons

[cobalt fiber]

Oh man...

[jagged zinc]

Strelok seemed trustworthy but since the Colonel explained to me who he was, I couldn't do it

I can't side with Spark either which was my other choice

[neon folio]

do higher difficulties effect combat? or only drop rates?

[cobalt fiber]

Should have made saves where decisions matter

[weary hedge]

i mean damage you deal and take ya

[jagged zinc]

I have

[neon folio]

gotcha cheers

[cobalt fiber]

Strelok > Skif > Spark through saves for me. Ward I'm doing a whole playthrough siding with them

[jagged zinc]

I’m going to do another PT after my first so I can make different choices

[weary hedge]

ngl, I loved playing as strelok but, his time has come yk

[cobalt fiber]

Killing him felt wrong

[jagged zinc]

I definitely want to see the other endings too

[weary hedge]

it did but the zone has changed

[cobalt fiber]

I felt like Spark was a painful slog going back to orbita save and then running through cos out of all that really did just feel wrong

Even after agreeing to Scar you know it sounds bad. Literally makes Skif sound brainwashed

[trail fiber]

Shit im going to the Red Forest, I have this vibe that says the Red Forest is a bad place

[stray cove]

red forest in hoc is mid compared to trilogy unforch

[trail fiber]

Is there anything I should be aware about before I go there?

[stray cove]

prepare to get lasered through trees by people you cannot see

[stray cove]

and sprint to Yaniv on the other side

[trail fiber]

Where would yaniv possibly be?

[stray cove]

it's honestly not bad though. just take it slow and have your bear scanner out for anomolies and you'll be fine. there aren't mountains of mono to slog through like in soc. Yaniv is directly on the other side of RF. you quite literally cannot miss it

[trail fiber]

So I am guessing the forest has alot of anomalies?

[wintry pumice]

At least you could. I couldn't get him to come out from the wall he dived into

[cobalt fiber]

My Scar fight was pants on both runs. Due to a quick save right before the zombies didn't get up lol

[wintry pumice]

North West

[wintry pumice]

Not necessarily. Many anomaly fields around zalissya and slag heap

[trail fiber]

I think I have someone following me because I keep seeing the detector going off and on many times

[wintry pumice]

Between zalissya, slag heap and Rostok there are some 11 fields

Around cement factory 2

[trail fiber]

Okay I think I lost him

[wintry pumice]

What?

[trail fiber]

Im talking about in game because I had a enemy being a dbag following me like a dog

[hoary crest]

I was genuinely surprised that the bit in Rostock where Scar is evidently going off the rails in regards to dealing with the Ward at Duga didnt give you the option to walk away like "nah f*ck this, you're a lunatic"

[wintry pumice]

He isn't though.

[hoary crest]

🤨

[wintry pumice]

It's Marshall that's crazy

[hoary crest]

Right sure, but Skif doesnt know that at the time.

[wintry pumice]

Yeah but the shining zone is real after all

[hoary crest]

Yeah, like the trees being made of bronze and having fractals for leaves when I eat a handful of mushrooms is real...

[wintry pumice]

I don't know about those but the shining zone is real

[pulsar moat]

Are all weapon attachments for every weapon available in some shape or form in trader's inventory?

or do certain ones can only be found in stashes/dead bodies?

[wintry pumice]

Think so except for the sniper suppressor and the gauss rifle high capacity magazine

And SVD , saiga extended mags too

[hoary crest]

Not sure I've seen any of the extendo-mags in the traders either. Maybe the UDP mag an a couple of pistol related things, but not any of the others

[terse ravine]

wish guass had an upgrade tree

[trail fiber]

Is the first stage of a emission like if the sky turns green and you hear thunder thats the sign of a emission coming?

[quick kernel]

it's a little iffy, there's been times it starts storming and nothing happens. seems pretty random

[edgy wren]

I remembered getting a random feelings of incoming emissions, or like it been past 2 days without emissions.
There was one time where I nearly got baked by the emission.

[trail fiber]

Oh well I had signs where I notice like the light outside becomes orange

[wintry pumice]

not necessarily, its better to hear the guy announce it

there are two announcements that happen with every emission, the first warning just a few minutes before it starts, then at the actual start of the emission

[trail fiber]

I didn't hear the guy give a warning, I was in combat with stupid rats and people and had to haul ass to a tunnel

[wintry pumice]

funny thing is human enemies will stop attacking you when the emission is in progress but not the mutants

[hoary crest]

Ive had multiple instances of running into a shelter only to find it full of totally chill rats that were'nt interested in eating my toes until the emmission ended

[vast mortar]

Mutant mounts when? I want my warrior chimera

[terse ravine]

started the 3 captains side mission and scewed off to explore the map, and the obj updated saying beard and sultan are dead

[trail fiber]

I know that but the rats went away for a while when the emission was happening

[quick kernel]

PRAISE BE THE MONOLITH

[vast mortar]

Oof

When will you learn?

When will you learn that your actions have consequences

[wintry pumice]

so considerate of them

if only the bloodsuckers were like them

[cyan sparrow]

Howdy?

[quick kernel]

SILENCE, BASK IN THE GLORY OF THE MONOLITH

[trail fiber]

All I saw was a green storm turning red and the announcement going "get into shelter, an emission is coming"

[warped stream]

kinda wish they never told the player that so newbies would have to experience it

[hoary crest]

Without giving them a map pointer to shelter too 😄

[warped stream]

thats just swamp bro

dice roll of which building actually works

[hoary crest]

Lmfao. For real

[warped stream]

underground cave? ❌
broken ass shack? ✅

[hoary crest]

Though I swear there are safeguards on emmissions anyway, like they don't trigger if there is no local shelter. Can't wait till there is a mod that takes that out

[ornate sable]

Man, so many memories of the older games of blowouts and me finding out the hard way that the shelter I found wasn't a shelter at all

[warped stream]

i do the gamma technique of run wherever you see other people

happened to run into a warehouse of bandits who were chill during the emission, but as soon as it was over they all started shooting me lmao

[hidden yoke]

there's an outpost outside duga but i can't get in. Anyone know how to get in it?

[crystal granite]

Got caught in an emission while breaking the damn psi emitters in the swamps. Broke the last one, and the only safe place was the cellar with Faust in it

[ornate sable]

Yeah, that's scripted though. It's supposed to happen.

[novel quarry]

its some main quest bs,there's no one there, its not an actual base

[hidden yoke]

ok

[sand ruin]

Is it just me or are repair costs utterly broken right now? I just spent an hour artifact/weapon farming and LOST money after selling and repairing gear

I was trying to farm coupons to upgrade my gear. Guns in real life don't break that fast

[neat sable]

I mean yeah but not like the main character maintains them

[sand ruin]

I guess that's unrealistic too then

[neat sable]

Yeah

It would be nice to maintain out weapons from time to time getting rid of some weapon damage (like 5%) after a gunfight

[warped stream]

i think repair scales like crazy once its below 60% and its good to run a 2nd set of gear you dont care about

[neat sable]

Or being able to do it fallout style and canibalizing weapons to repair

[sand ruin]

I guess I need to find some dumb meta farm to actually earn coupons instead of hemorrhaging them. I just did not anticipate that the main thing I'd be thinking about in a firefight is the subsequent repair costs. I've never played a game like that

[neat sable]

At that point just spawn in money or become a hoarder like me :3

[mossy helm]

all of them? im the most curious about the weird water one, which one is already too op, so if they can be added together oh man how much stuff i would be able to bring with me then

[shell flax]

Yeah I’m pretty sure they all do, someone correct me if I’m wrong

[warped stream]

pick up as many weapons with >40% durability as you can and try to use as little ammo as possible

[mossy helm]

i think they should nerf for all altered items to be spawned only once 👀 they are waaay too op. no need of selling weapons then, just go for artifact hunt

[neat sable]

How many weapons (not for selling) do you guys carry normally

[shell flax]

Truthfully Weird water is really the only outlier, the others are too situational

[sand ruin]

I do that! And I'm always getting artifacts too, but at best I only break even

[warped stream]

with an exo I think i was running the dnipro, bolt action, pkm, and guass

[shell flax]

Like, I’m not gonna stand still like a redwood tree in a massive gunfight for the Ball to be fully effective

[warped stream]

its good for standing behind cover though

that with an exo made me feel too tanky, even on veteran I finished 3 endings with a grand total of 55 deaths, and half of those were because one monolith with a gauss rifle

[mossy helm]

3+1pistol like, but when i go for artifact/loot hunt i go 2+1pistol

[mossy helm]

what do you mean mate?

[shell flax]

Like, the Pot doesn’t seem that useful, less hunger when you’re usually swimming in food (also the permanent Psi bug lmao)

[mossy helm]

weird ball is useful, im actually going to get one right now at the moment. oh and in this #📸┃screens_and_videos message picture look how op the weird water is.. other 2 artifacts which gives 3kg weight bonus each, because of the weird water i instead got 9kg from each.. god damn i dont even need no exo suit lol

[neat sable]

I'm playing kinda early so i have the silenced Skif's pistol Lynx and i think the cracker with a bigger magazine and the Shah's Mate

[warped stream]

headshotting with skifs pistol is so satisfying

i pretty much used just that on human enemies until exos appeared

[neat sable]

Truuu

I mostly use it on zombies and stealth

[mossy helm]

#📸┃screens_and_videos message i think ill use this combination until ill be able to use more than 3 artifacts . i usually prioritize weight hands down but now ive got such a big limit allowed that im okay with 9kg less for now and having max physical protection equipped. now im curious what is the biggest ever possible weight allowed to carry in this game, with all the best artifacts and armor for it.

[lean karma]

Is there deadzones on console yet?

[fickle river]

is this game still broken

[neat sable]

In what way?

[cyan sparrow]

No, it’s absolutely fine to play

[cyan sparrow]

Burer is always jealous, because he cannot play with it

[frigid hill]

ariel_4444 has been warned

Reason: Bad word usage

[neat sable]

I got angy at the shaders not loading when i play the game

I had a 3060 last month and it worked and i got a 4070 and it stopped working correctly

Annoying af

[pale fossil]

did you wipe the driver when updating gpu?

[ornate sable]

Like, crashing when you launch it? Known issue that appeared within that 1 month timeframe. Just try launching again until it works.

[crystal granite]

The emission? I know Faust was scripted

[mossy helm]

this is a sentence that i never ever expected to read in my life lol

[neat sable]

I'll check later

[neat sable]

It does work eventually after two crashes and it says that the shaders aren't loaded so you should expect issues

[neat sable]

Oh wait sorry i ment that the game stopped working correctly (the shaders) not the graphics card

[mossy helm]

its because of the updates of the game, its not your card's fault. trust me.

[neat sable]

Maybe

[mossy helm]

many if not all of us experienced this issue at least once, no matter what gpu we have

[flint quartz]

I have 4060 and it's like 50\50 each game launch, sometimes it loads shaders from the first try, sometimes I might need to reboot the game one or two times

[mossy helm]

for my 3070 its 90 perc chance it will load correctly and 10 perc chance there will be a crash. for my 2070 laptop one its all the way around, the opposite

[pale fossil]

well yeah. but that might happen if you didnt wipe the gpu driver system caches after moving from 3060 to 4070.

[mossy helm]

DDU is definitelly needed for sure.

[neat sable]

I'll try doing that thx

[pale fossil]

on my 4070ti shaders almost never finish loading at startup but I don't see any real difference anyway.

[pale fossil]

but hold on, maybe i misunderstood - did you also mean shaders loading at startup are not working? I thought you have them broken in-game.

[neat sable]

When i startup the game or crashes or it tells me that the shaders will not load

[pale fossil]

because like I said the load up is not working for me either That started happening after one of the latest patches. Probably has really nothing to do with GPU version.

Sorry, someone posted pics of their in-game graphics being actually broken and displaying wrong, for some reason I assumed that's happening to you

monday morning amrite

[mossy helm]

ill add to my older message here, i think there is a way how they could fix this artifact being so op. i tested the drunkness effect after drinking 50 vodkas in a row, and it was sad when i realized that the effect was nearly not close to the epicness of original games when you used to roll on the ground and stuff lol. so maybe weird water side effect which is actually being drunk most of the time, could be worsened by making the effect if prolonged go to even worse state like rolling on the ground just like in old games. and it could be like lets say you can wear it for 5min no problem and then next 5min its kind of weak effect, after another 5min its medium and then in the end you are rolling all around everywhere like in good ol times 😄 maybe instead of 5min it could be 10 or even 20. 5 maybe sounds not enough of time.

[flint quartz]

Anyone knows when next patch should arrive? I just finished the game and ready for second run, but then I remember this issue with bar on rostok where the game stops after one hour of being there, and I really want to wait till this will be fixed

[pale fossil]

give it some time, no eta was announced afaik

[peak valve]

Hello, how can you fix the error in sawmill, the scar does not appear and you cannot interact? I don't want to interfere with the game files and download modifications. Is there a way to fix it?

[weary hedge]

Game needs serious fixing :/ ALife should continue offline every spawn the NPCs are different, games stealth is broken, and NPCs have insane accuracy at range and can see you miles away.

[weary hedge]

Not unless you manage to somehow trigger whatever didn't pop the first time. Things like that either randomly fix themselves, some random user input fixes it or it just never works and you have to go back a few autosaves

[pale fossil]

just mod it

[weary hedge]

Tried multiple, tons just not working and no mod can actually fix ALife without proper modding tools...

[crystal granite]

How bad is the weird water effect when at its max? Is it as bad as when you drink vodka to get rid of the rads? Or a bit less? I already got the weird ball and weird nut, thinking of adding this too

[peak valve]

I have a save before the conversation with Richter

[weary hedge]

ALife is supposed to continue in the background, NPCs carrying on with tasks and getting into fights when they are no where near you, that's how the game was supposed to be, unfortunately I think I will return to Gamma for now.

I wouldnt bother with alife mods

For stealth ive been using Axii's stealth mod which seems to do okay with making NPC's not spot you so easily

then i was running Better Ballistics + Maklane's Better Gunfights

Seems to work well for those issues, not perfect of course but far better than vanilla

[pale fossil]

everything you just described is happening in my playthrough
for laser-aim npc accuracy im using a mod that nerfs it a bit

[weary hedge]

Okay refer me to some mods, thanks, maybe just the ones I have used.

[pale fossil]

Basically I'm only using this https://www.nexusmods.com/stalker2heartofchornobyl/mods/241

[weary hedge]

Thanks man.

that includes maklanes better gunfights too, he does good mods

[pale fossil]

Read the description though, it changes a lot of things but so far it's been great. Unfortunately in latest version there's a bug where NPCs don't throw any grenades anymore but the modder is looking into it.
I agree that the game needs a lot of work but saying A-life doesn't work is just not true. I think it strikes the balance between populated areas and zone not being too overcrowded and wacky (like in some original trilogy mods)

[pale fossil]

that's included in total overhaul

[weary hedge]

thats what i said

[pale fossil]

right, sorry, i'm a bit stupid today

[weary hedge]

'Mutants -> Maklane's Better Mutants - Fear & Fair
Tired of burning gunpowder to kill a piece of meat? Getting bored standing on a box? Pigs still won't fly? Then this mod is for you! (Note, pigs doesn't fly!).

This mod is designed to make your adventure in The Zone fairer and more entertaining. It adjusts the parameters of mutants to reduce their "Time to kill", but also balances in depth the type of damage they inflict and the amount.

Their armour has been reduced to 1 base point of armour, so they will now be really affected by HP (expansive) ammo, as this ammo's only real function is to take out unarmoured targets and it seems that the base game missed to take this more into account.'

This part I don't like personally, lore-wise a lot of mutants are heavily armoured, which is why expansive only works on the weaker mutants - tougher ones require AP rounds

I may download it and give it a shot, though. seems promising

[pale fossil]

i kinda like though mutants

bloodsuckers are hard to fight, thats great
pseudogiants are impossibly tanky - makes sense
burers are tough but you can dispatch em with a couple of nades
poltergeists are ez, just chase the fkr down
chimeras - Might as well just run away. the game needs a monster like this.

[mossy helm]

its like a weak effect , sometimes little bit stronger but for me really not bad at all - definitelly wayyyy much weaker effect than in original games

[weary hedge]

For vanilla, with non-upgraded guns

AKM-74U takes 711 bullets to kill a Pseudo giant with standard bullets, which drops to 592 with AP rounds

AS-Lavina is 353 shots, dropping to 213 with AP rounds

Saiga is 43 shots, 33 with AP rounds

the dnipro does it in 145 AP bullets, sotnyk in 121, ram-2 in 31

takes 10 rpgs, or 8 gauss rifle shots too

though this also varies cause console players have diff values for difficulties than pc players, and then for pc it varies by what difficulty you play to how spongy enemies are

[velvet leaf]

The easiest way to pass the game

During my second playthrough, I found it surprisingly easy to pass the game when you know all the tricks.

1. Get the Budmo side mission during the early section game in the Slag Heap area (but loot the stash with the Hilka detector instead of completing it);
2. Use the Hilka detector to find artifacts and earn coupons fast (use the mapgenie service for artifact locations);
3. As soon as you've collected enough coupons, head to the Yaniv base (takes 15 minutes with energy drinks) to get a diamond exoskeleton from the bunker by pushing a box from a train container;
4. Approach Hapry to get the sprint upgrade and other upgrades to use your exoskeleton;
5. Go to the tornado anomaly to get the weird bolt artifact;
6. Use the artifact to reduce the damage from anomalies while hunting for S-tier artifacts that are located in the red forest and other surrounding areas.
7. As soon as you get a thunderberry and a liquid rock, you are pretty much invincible.
8. Collect more artifacts to get coupons for upgrades.
9. Find powerful weapons in Jupiter, Yaniv and Rostok (the Glutton machine gun, Saiga and so on).
10. Proceed playing the majority of the game with few obstacles.

[hidden yoke]

if that's the case, why not just jump from yaniv to pripyat?

[velvet leaf]

You can get the best armor in Yaniv, no need to go to Pripyat (unless you want the Gauss gun, which is only needed for the final Granite Squad fights) .

[drifting forge]

You can get Gauss rifles outside of Pripyat anyways

Just not ammo

[earnest dirge]

when are they adding chernobyl man i really want to see that : D

[pale fossil]

why would you want to have an easy experience as soon as possible?

[violet zodiac]

Some people like that I guess. It's just a game afterall. Look at some of the most popular downloaded mods. Many of them make the game easier.

[drifting forge]

Imagine how peak it would've been if the Wish Granter came back to the CNPP or smthn and you had to go in to find Strelok's stash and bring something back with you

[earnest dirge]

fr

[maiden prairie]

You can find the Gauss ammo outside of Pripyat, in a stash or two

[drifting forge]

Ehh that doesn't really count. Yeah you can get ammo but there's no good way to get more until Pripyat

[waxen kernel]

anyone has an estimate of the next patches date?

[cyan sparrow]

~ xx.xx.2025

[wintry pumice]

2025

[velvet leaf]

Why wouldn’t I do this if the game allows you do this? You can wear no armor until the end game of the game and fight with a pistol if you want to make it challenging. Moreover, this is my second time.

[wintry pumice]

Embrace the shining zone brother

[weary hedge]

I am a big advocate behind being able to play sandbox singleplayer experiences however the user wants to lol

[wintry pumice]

Actually why do the monolith at the final place attack us? even after being a friendly to the C-Con

[grim dove]

Hows a-life coming along?

[warm stone]

Do you still get storms? Thunderstorms (NOT emmisions!). After 1.1 (or the patch before 1.1) only thing I have is sunny weather, foggy, rain. But at release I had windy thunderstorm weather that wasn't emmision. Im at the point of no return quest, exploring freely.

[pale fossil]

I dunno. Roleplay?

The game also allows you to cheese in a million coupons in 15 minutes. The question is why would you do it. Not why wouldn't you do it.

[crystal granite]

Sounds good thanks, I'll have a look for it then

[crystal granite]

The main problem with Glutton is the scarcity of 7.62.39. And on console, there aren't any dupe glitches that can work (the vendor one with 3 pkm's has been patched afaik)

I decided to go with the Dnipro since I got crazy ammo for it

[cobalt fiber]

I wouldn't say you need gauss for granite

When running through a second and third time I didn't use gauss for them

[mossy helm]

because its too easy and if its too easy its too boring then?

[cobalt fiber]

I'll never understand people who use exploits in a single player adventure story game lol

Which really... isn't that difficult to begin with lol

[mossy helm]

well in worse case scenario you always can use it just temporarily, just in case if you got over the weight limit. bring the artifact with you all the time just in case if you dont want to use it 24/7. im using it in my loot travels. when ill be back to doing missions again ill keep it in my inventory but remove from the belt. it makes the colors looks funny the game doesnt look to good anymore

[mossy helm]

i dont understand cheating / using the shortcuts which makes the game much easier in any game at all - let it be singleplayer or multi

[inner hinge]

To save time or just for fun

[cobalt fiber]

I put it down to the fact that games are watered down garbage where everything is a fairy tale and the sense of a threat is nowhere to be seen or felt because developers are insistent on putting you in the shoes of a John Wick style character. Your main threat is often an FPS drop

So when a game that has some challenges but is by no means just difficult is released exploits are a must find to get the closest experience to that one man army tank they're used to

[mossy helm]

i always like when devs nerfs such exploits or removes them at all, i like how lazy people gets upset 😄

[cobalt fiber]

50% of players will drop to rookie 😅

[violet zodiac]

I think the reason why devs try to fix exploits is because exploits can cause other issues like bugs or quest stoppers. Example vendor exploits could cause memory leaks or other performance issues that people may not realise.

[cobalt fiber]

I have a friend who dropped to rookie during the last mission because he couldn't get past the murder room 😂😂 il never let him live it down

[inner hinge]

Stalker 2 is dirt easy even on hard difficulty but the economy is just broken there

[cobalt fiber]

I never had issues with coupons tbh

[violet zodiac]

Also shaming players for playing on a lower difficulty setting over a videogame is a bit weird to be honest.

[cobalt fiber]

It's a shame I'll still laugh at my friend who shared in the laughter then

[inner hinge]

Also I think they just didn't intend it to work that way and prefer if it were fixed for their own enjoyment as it is their work

[violet zodiac]

True. If a game becomes too easy it can hurt a player's sense of both progression and accomplishment. So there needs to be a good balance.

[cobalt fiber]

The main problem with rookie difficulty is you're not really getting the intended experience at that low a level of damage income

[inner hinge]

If Devs really didn't want you to exploit the game they would remove modding

[violet zodiac]

I don't really care how someone else plays a game TBH.

[cobalt fiber]

That's amazing

[mossy helm]

mods doesnt always mean use the bugs to make the game easier...

[cobalt fiber]

See pregnant sunny smiles mod for reference

[inner hinge]

Honestly stalker 2 could do with a rework to bring it in line with old game
Massive reduction in mutant health
Armour doing pretty much nothing until well into the mid game
Guns that actually do damage
A working economy where mission income means something

[mossy helm]

wtf is pregnant sunny smile xD

[cobalt fiber]

A weird mod that did the rounds for fallout new Vegas 😂

[cobalt fiber]

I get the feeling the changes were for the benefit of the modern age of gamers. I've said it before and I'll say it again, a lot of the new age won't play the OG trilogy purely because they'll find it too difficult. Whereas HOC is extremely "newb friendly"

[dry siren]

pregnant sidorovich

[mossy helm]

i think for people who played old stalker games this one is not hard to play. but for new people who never played any stalker games, or especially who didnt play any shooter at all - oh this game will be a challenge even on medium difficulty. i personally find the game pretty easy but the beginning was little bit challenging more than i expected. well performance issues made it even harder thats for sure, when i fixed (partially) that issue and got little bit better armor and guns its easy walk in the park. all deaths are by falling down from high places while exploring or just having fun lol, died only couple of times from mutants or anomalies (120h gameplay).

[cobalt fiber]

An example of a new release that really missed the mark was Indiana Jones. Albeit a different category of game. Horrible through and through, and I'm an indy fan. Yet reviews were way above what they should have been because it's what we expect from the industry now

[smoky hawk]

its both too hard for newbs and too easy for those that played the old games
interesting balancing

not tyhat the OGs were hard

they were piss easy

[mossy helm]

im scared to check it out lol im good thanks xD

[dry siren]

is pripyat fully replicated in 2?

[neat sable]

I think there's also a high precentage that just won't play the older games because of the graphics

[smoky hawk]

like 1:1? no

[cobalt fiber]

I think it's only hard on the surface because they don't know what they're in for. I can't imagine after a good 10+ hours any of these new players would find it that hard

[smoky hawk]

or so I would think but ive been proven wrong on trusting the common denominators skills

[mossy helm]

some new players are having hard time getting used to stalker mechanics. when i watched asmongold i wanted to shoot myself he was so bad at it.

[dry siren]

damn.

[cobalt fiber]

Which is unfortunate in itself because there's a lot of good older games not just STALKER that are pristine and still play well. But alas people want fancy true to life imagery these days

[dry siren]

asmongold and xqc are the lowest of our species

[inner hinge]

Yeah but if you forgot to save you could easily be screwed out of hours of gameplay due to a punk doming you with a lucky shot

[cobalt fiber]

Stalker OG graphics ain't even that bad either tbh. They still hold up surprisingly well

[smoky hawk]

well I dont have alzheimers

[dry siren]

i want a game that fully replicates pripyat 1:1 so i can check out the militia and fire stations

[smoky hawk]

theres a mod for the OGs that does a 1:1 replica

[inner hinge]

They did have quite revolutionary shadow and lighting systems for their time

[cobalt fiber]

I also replayed the original metal gear solid the other day. Graphics are terrible but man is that a great game that modern gamers will give a hard pass on

[dry siren]

wait holy shit is the militia station in 2????

[pale fossil]

that was my point

[mossy helm]

ah totaly missread your message, my bad

[pale fossil]

i also mistyped it. i think im under psi influence today. this was 3rd time i messed up my message.

[wintry pumice]

[flint quartz]

You don't have enough coupons? Honestly game throws so much resources, upgrades, weapons and armours, the only things I bought were extended mag for usp and handgun that can be set for m701 super or kharod
If you need something, there are places on map where you can obtain it without coupons

[frigid hill]

saleem6969 has been warned

Reason: Bad word usage

[mossy helm]

i guess i didnt missread it the first time then. sh** happens drink some vodka and youll be fine 😄

[velvet leaf]

Skif died more than 1,000 times during my first playthrough. The chimera section in the swamps was very challenging (took me like 50 attempts).

Also, the tornado, the SIRCAA battle (took me a while to figure out that you didn’t actually have to fight them), the first pseudo giant, weeks of artifact hunting.

[wintry pumice]

Wolf the Clusterfuck

[velvet leaf]

Ironically, the last section of the game was very easy for me since I had a fully upgraded diamon exoskeleton and all S-tier artifacts. Skif passed the Korshunov fight, the Strelok fight, and the Granite squad with like 10-15 deaths. The Strelok fight was extremely easy.

I think that the vast majority of Skif’s deaths were due to searching artifacts.

[wintry pumice]

you died to the granite squad?

yeah the grav anomalies are the ones that killed me the most. Infact most o fmy death came from not enemies but fall damage and that f'ing sponge anomaly being weirdly spread out

[velvet leaf]

I wasn’t really careful when searching for artifacts for roughly two weeks. Skif would constantly get electrocuted/gassed/burned/torn into pieces.

I would also take off my exoskeleton not to damage it. Med kits are much cheaper.

[pallid thorn]

benefit of not being able to feel pain.

[pallid thorn]

what difficulty do you play in too btw

[dry siren]

sounds like the average day in the uk

[pallid thorn]

i managed to get the literal best gear, diamond exo, with the compass, thunderberry, hypercube, night star, and liquid rock. and a max upgraded kharod and gauss gun.

[sturdy verge]

exactly to each their own regardless if another 'likes it or not'

[hidden yoke]

is the psydog at the CSC in Pripyat bugged???

[pallid thorn]

wdym, how is it potentially bugged

[hidden yoke]

it killed the chimera in 10 seconds...

[pallid thorn]

did it kill you instantly? if not the chimera must've gotten into a previous fight. its not like you can see battle wounds.

[hidden yoke]

this is a brand new chimera i'm trying to lead back to the base, it somehow lost track of me, run to the psydog near by and got killed

The psydog never touch me so idk

[velvet leaf]

Stalker.

The game wasn’t difficult in general, but there were some challenging moments:

1. the Chimera section in the swamps (this caught me by surprise because I ran out of energy drinks, and I couldn’t drop my ammo). I had to replay this section like 50 times trying different ways to run away from it. I eventually used my anti-rad meds to crawl through a swamp to that hut to move past the chimera. I spent the whole evening trying to pass this segment.

2. the SIRCAA battle was crazy. Skif would get instantly shot, and the room was swarming with enemies. It took me about 30-40 attempts yo figure out that you simply had to wait in a corner.

[pallid thorn]

oh my god those moments were so difficult. i just ran through both of em tryin to survive

how many deaths do ya'll have in your runs?

[velvet leaf]

I think that roughly 100 deaths were due to Skiff just running and falling off a cliff.

[mossy helm]

chatgpt

[pallid thorn]

lmao, in all of my playthroughs i think i got about 200 deaths from just stalker difficulty. and no i wont play veteran, I've gotten older to where i prefer a balance of challenge and story.

[mossy helm]

same. exactly 100 deaths

[maiden grotto]

Chicken baby

[pallid thorn]

sidorivich is a funny guy

[sturdy verge]

Almost all my deaths are from parkour, guess I never learn. 😂😂

[sturdy verge]

Chicken where !

[maiden grotto]

It's not the health that is the problem, it's the weapon damage.

In the vanilla game, on hardest level, bullets it like feather ticklers.

Which is why I use ballistic mods... I hate bullet sponges, but I also hate massive things falling over like wet paper cups

[mossy helm]

aka too old for this sh**

[maiden grotto]

SFC

Sidorovich Fried Chicken - It Chicken, but not quite chicken.

[frigid hill]

kaiburns has been warned

Reason: Bad word usage

[inner hinge]

Nah mutant health is ridiculous compared to the older games

[sweet root]

Great, have a bug where I cant give the|| pendant to Dalin|| after beating ||Korshunov|| orwhatever the name was, any solutions?

[lyric kayak]

I hope the new zone in California spawning out of all those fire anomalies has a wish granter too

[inner hinge]

Like the best example is the blood suckers where it only took 2 shotgun blasts to kill in the older games

[ancient frost]

is any one als running all the mods ?

[maiden grotto]

The game is just massively unbalance, some mutants like Psuedogiants, should have a health pool that makes you cry. Bloodsuckers, should have a small healthpool, but do massive damage.

Then there is the economics, like mission rewards can being lower than the cost of one mag of ammo for some weapons... Why is there a several day wait on getting new missions? It also needs more mission types. like escort jobs for scientists, good, artifacts, injured STALKERS's etc

And damage from weapons shouldn;t change depending on what level you are on. It also shouldn't be just the amount of health either. On harder levels, mutants could use new deadlier attacks that force you to change the way you approach a situation...

Have some nuance about it.

[sweet root]

1Whoops not a bug i just skipped over a trigger by hopping a railing the game didnt expect you to, all works fine

[sturdy verge]

And it always comes with that special sauce made from streloks missing hair, blood suckers feet and much more i will not mention.

[weary hedge]

when i beat the game which save should i go back to for free roam

[cerulean sequoia]

Anyone know if the second part of the save Zalissya mission is still bugged? Deciding whether or not to try playing again

[maiden grotto]

20,000K Sidorovich prices 😄

Once they have finished this game, and got it out of Beta.

Who would like to see an Iron Man Mode, with the entire map opened up and free to explore?

[sturdy verge]

Is that like hardcore pve ? Just a guess as I don't know what iron man mode is.

[weary hedge]

only 1 life i think

[sturdy verge]

Ah okay, definitely down for that.

[velvet leaf]

Has anyone else encountered the game breaking sawmill bug?

[inner hinge]

I feel I would like to see what the DLC got to offer before making a wishlist but I feel once stalker 2 is stable enough we might get anomaly 2 and gamma 2 using stalker 2 as a base

[velvet leaf]

I cannot play the game during my second playthrough. I did not encounter this bug during the first time.

[inner hinge]

What's happening

[velvet leaf]

The bug in question. It seems like it appeared after the latest patch es.

https://youtu.be/4FiwsABMiRk?feature=shared

Except that I cannot use UE Tools since I’m playing it on my Mac with a cloud service

[inner hinge]

Hmm wonder what causes it

Maybe a emission before reaching the location

[velvet leaf]

It seems like I will have to wait until it gets patched (if ever). I’m glad that I didn’t have any game breaking bugs during my first playthrough.

There was no emission before that. I went hunting for artifacts after talking to Richter. Then I went to the sawmill.

[inner hinge]

Strange? The only fix I can suggest is load a save before you speak to Richter then go straight to the location afterwards

[velvet leaf]

After I spoke to Richter, I found a diamond exoskeleton, a weird bolt, the Glutton, a Saiga, two S-tier artifacts, and plenty of loot. I don’t really want to waste hours replying this again. I will probably pause my second playthrough for now.

[inner hinge]

Well maybe that is why the quest broke as Richter does say go there quickly

[velvet leaf]

Nah, I’ve seen plenty of posts with the same problem. It is a bug.

[ancient frost]

Holemaker-L is the M26 Modular Accessory Shotgun System ?

if ya they f up man on that atachment it will fly off 100% 2 shots

[gleaming mantle]

Does "Bread armor" bug still exist? Can i loot ward armor off an npc this way?

[ancient frost]

no

[gleaming mantle]

I have been able to replicate the method to get the military armor but im specifically looking for the ward armor, although when trying this with the ward npcs they just pass by or dont bother looting at all.

[ancient frost]

with a mod ya

i found a red heigh voltage rail gun mag is that from a mod or stock ?

[ornate sable]

I'm jealous you guys got a challenge from the Chimera in the Swamps. When I went there the Chimera hit me once, then got distracted by random A-life dogs and I just casually walked to the shack.

[ancient frost]

https://www.gamerguides.com/stalker-2-heart-of-chornobyl/database/attachments/magazines/high-capacity-gauss-magazine

[torn veldt]

Where is the mutant in the detention center in the mission a minor incident?

Ive gone to the mission marker and it points to nothing

[cobalt fiber]

SIRCCA wasn't bad if you went to the top of the stairs and picked them off as they came up

[blissful briar]

People I ask you a question, I have the most complete version of stalker 2 and I can't find the Artbook

[cobalt fiber]

Same thing in the murder room, run to cover right in front of the door and the gauss rifles can't get an angle on you

[ornate sable]

In your Steam library, set it to show "Games and Soundtracks" (default is just Games?) the Stalker 2 OST and Artbook should be visible for you then

[sweet root]

Gotta love them anomalies that throw you like 2 billion meters away and soft locks you, the ending sequence is filled with them

[cobalt fiber]

I'd imagine more variety in radiant quests is something that will be added. They've already confirmed they'll be adding in cut content in the future

[frozen sand]

Does anyone know who the voice actor for the wish granter in SoC is?

[cobalt fiber]

Same guy as Sid

[frozen sand]

Fr? That's awesome

[cobalt fiber]

Andrey Podubinskiy

Yeah he was in quite a few native films too

Passed in 2018

[frozen sand]

Yeah I was just looking him up.. R.I.P 😦

[pseudo lotus]

Does anyone know why the supposedly "specialized Ward Exoskeleton" (shturm) is in deggy corps blue?

Im doing a ward run rn, and its a little weird that the 'endgame' armor I've been waiting for all game, isn't even in the faction colors I expected....

[cobalt fiber]

Ward run is painful altogether

It's like going to the supermarket just to buy foods you know you don't like as though you'll get some sort of badge of honour that acts as an achievement

Running back through for the Spark ending wasn't as bad as initially expected I do have to admit

Was nice to see Dalin find some peace

Strelok was probably the most painful part about it because no matter how many times I kill him it'll never sit right

[wintry pumice]

Do chimeras also die in one hit when they jump into an anomaly?

[pseudo lotus]

I really hated that there was no way to ||obtain the project fiber docs without killing wardens||

||Especially after what Korshunov did to Ozersky, and his whole opinion on traitors. I really didnt want to be one.||

[flint quartz]

I heard that ward run is generally easier rather than on spark side due to 3 additional bases on the map

[wintry pumice]

Kill those pests without a second thought

[pseudo lotus]

Those are GOOD SOLDIERS with WIVES and FAMILIES, man!!

[pseudo lotus]

oh absolutely. There's also a couple missions that are way easier because you either

1. have warden fire support, or
2. the wardens dont show up to wreck you at the end of the mission (like when you first go to the sphere)

Chemical plant and Malachite are really handy to have later in the game

[wintry pumice]

They killed spark without hesitation. I have no qualms about killing them

[pseudo lotus]

spark is a bunch of pushovers, and they follow a man that very obviously has brain damage, who's only explanation for his insane, stupid actions is 'trust the plan'

[wintry pumice]

Bro has no idea what he's talking about

[pseudo lotus]

Meanwhile Korshunov is the only level head in the entire zone.

Voronin WISHES he was Korshunov.

I kill sparkers on sight, terrorist scum

[flint quartz]

Better that some guys that acts basically like duty on steroids
I trusted scar cause I understood who he is quite fast, while it was clear that he can not be trusted to the end or he is just insane (both turned out to be true)
Idea of controlling or destroying the zone never turned out good so I figure out spark is lesser evil

[sweet root]

He is for sure, but his methods are absolutely brutal and inhumane

Though nothing else would work in the Zone i guess

[pseudo lotus]

Every stalker in the zone is a dangerous criminal, putting them down like the dogs they are is a humane solution

[sweet root]

Who gave the Ward or Agatha the permission to own the Zone though?

Its a literal Klondike gold rush those strongest taking the motherlode

[pseudo lotus]

I never trusted scar from the moment I met him, and when he showed off all those emitters I knew for a fact that I was going to find a way to betray them.

Also those idiots activated the duga, endangering everyone with a super-brain-scorcher just to cripple the ward

[wintry pumice]

Bro supports the wrong faction for all the wrong reasons

[pseudo lotus]

The government

[sweet root]

The Monolith was on their way to also turn on the Duga radar that was their point in going there right? Scar just made it happen when he chose it would

[pseudo lotus]

All I want to do is put more holes in Scar's brain. is that so wrong of me?

[flint quartz]

Yep, C-consciousness knows what they are doing when they manipulate people

[pseudo lotus]

I really, really dislike scar.

[sweet root]

Im going fully with Scar and Spark, am on the very last leg of the run so no spoilers pls, actually ill close this chat and go enjoy it

[wintry pumice]

Again you seem to have a very different idea of what ward and spark are. Either you didn't play the whole game or you didn't pay attention

[pseudo lotus]

good hunting, stalker

[sweet root]

Or just that the game is well written and gives compelling reasons for the player to join whichever side?

[inland sage]

I'm on X5, for the second time since the first time Dvupalov gave me the cold shoulder when I got back

[pseudo lotus]

Ive beat the game ||strelok ending||
I know enough to not trust Scar, thats all.

[wintry pumice]

None of the factions are trustworthy including Strelok

[flint quartz]

I accepted his insanity as it was understandable based on the ending of clear sky, scar couldn't get out of it without some mental shit going on
I think scar is more likely to be chosen by people that played the original trilogy

[sweet root]

Yup gotta pick your poison, how it is in the zone

[drifting forge]

He's based tho. Peak Sky

[wintry pumice]

I pick Faust

[pseudo lotus]

I was with Scar until it became painfully clear that he ||was a brainrotten agent of c-con||

[inland sage]

One of the factions is trustworthy including Sidorovich

[arctic flower]

of the 4 endings i achieved, 2 seems good, 2 seems bad.

[sweet root]

I love his dramatic antics and crazy whackiness but with a truly scary person underneath

[barren geyser]

Someone please update the Stalker wiki with all the new stuff from 2 🙏

[drifting forge]

Yeah he was messed up after the CNPP raid

[wintry pumice]

Yeah his insane resistance to psi radiation is even something c-consciousness couldn't replicate

[pseudo lotus]

I just think Spark is a bunch of idiots to follow a delusional man with obvious brain damage. Dude should be in a nursing home, not the zone.

[sweet root]

Got a double dose of emission to the face too, which also explains why the Zombies didnt attack him, hes basically zombified too, just that he had more brain matter to survive or something and keep a semblance of sanity

[drifting forge]

Shit that could be it. He could be semi brainwashed but due to his resistance to psi waves he ended up keeping some of his humanity

[flint quartz]

Which are good in your opinion and which are bad? I honestly didn't like any of the endings
I got strelok ending and it feels like this is what I want to do with the zone(isolate and protect), but this ending shows so little of consequences of your choice compared to other endings

[inland sage]

No, it's just that his brain matter didn't...matter to his functioning. He doesn't use it anyways.

[wintry pumice]

Yes in opposing c-consciousness you chose Ward whose head is something even c-consciousness were afraid of being too evil

[sweet root]

This is the other theory i had

[pseudo lotus]

Im a Warden. I follow orders. I complete my mission. Simple as

[sweet root]

I can respect that, but just as same ill shoot any Warden on sight

[flint quartz]

At least you got your house back

[wintry pumice]

He can't be affected by psi radiation like others are. The reason for his personality is revealed in spark ending

[inland sage]

Scar was only ever just a puppet for the player anyways, remotely controlled by the real main character. A dude in a tube.

[arctic flower]

I think ward and strelok ending are good for me, followed by skif, and i hated scar ending.

[drifting forge]

That's the one I'm going for in my second playthrough lol

[wintry pumice]

You just become an agent of Agatha instead of C-consciousness is all

[pseudo lotus]

Im OK with this.

[drifting forge]

Rn I have to meet up with Scar and Strider in the Ranger base

[flint quartz]

Ward ending basically shows that stalker program still works and skif is most likely is part of it now, is it good?

[wintry pumice]

Kill those wardens

[drifting forge]

Hate Ward but I really like Korshunov loll

[arctic flower]

as i said, for me it felt good, the zone is under control, skif went home, and apparently he's an agent.

[hidden sigil]

I want my roadmap soon

[pseudo lotus]

im still bothered that the specialized Ward exo (Shturm) is actually in deggy corps colors

[wintry pumice]

Gimme a bike to explore the zone

[flint quartz]

Thanks for your opinion! Just curious what other people think
This game is like fewer dream for me, I still can't believe it exists

[drifting forge]

5 endurance artefacts and roller skates

[wintry pumice]

Nah it's a pain to keep switching artifacts

[flint quartz]

I hope we'll have ability for free play after game ends

[flint quartz]

You can buy a car near the rostok

[drifting forge]

Well it tells you the point of no return

[ornate sable]

Low miles, ran when parked, one owner. No lowballers.

[pseudo lotus]

I use the UA voiceover but when I go to talk about the Car, Skif immediately turns into an american and starts speaking english

[flint quartz]

Yeah, and gives drum mag for saiga after it

[drifting forge]

There's a goddamn drum??

[pseudo lotus]

OP lol

[drifting forge]

Not my style anyways. SEVA>Exo type loadout

[wintry pumice]

Yeah that message being tied to a specific point in the map is rather funny. It should be like a prompt that takes the whole screen. I almost missed it when I ran past the door

[flint quartz]

Same, the guy that sells car talks in english with skif too, I hope they'll fix it
When I first met him I was so excited as I thought that this is the first english speaking stalker in the zone

[flint quartz]

Yeah, you can find it in final lab during granit section, but they give it to you like for half an hour and then game ends

[pseudo lotus]

Im hoping they play around with that more in the future, especially now that they got a huge windfall of money and resources. It'd be cool to show how people from all over the world come to the zone

[pseudo lotus]

Strelokmaxxing

[drifting forge]

Fr

[flint quartz]

This would be super cool

[pseudo lotus]

be sure to receede your hairline too. If dracula isnt jealous of your widows peak, you arent doing it right.

[flint quartz]

I can't just not loot everything I see, the more free weight I have, the more I can take with me

[drifting forge]

I'll just....wear a helmet and pretend its going back. Or wear some type of bald cap

Rn I'm checking some stuff and I'm proud to announce, fully upgraded Sunrise suit with a tactical helm can survive Pripyat

[drifting forge]

Artefacts

[flint quartz]

I faced some really bad luck on arfitacts that increase weight this run, I didn't find anything more that moderate max weight increase

[pseudo lotus]

Im playing with some balance mods, so I need to scrimp all the money I can

[drifting forge]

I swear the Zone has like 10 anti rad artefacts in total

[pseudo lotus]

my gun is worth like 250k and my armor is even higher, maintenance costs are killing me

but, its better than being dead, so-

[drifting forge]

Also, have y'all ever seen a Strong anti rad artefact?

[pseudo lotus]

i think so?

[drifting forge]

I've seen like 3 types of weak, 1 medium and 1 maximum. Honestly my luck with anti rad artefacts is ass

[flint quartz]

I found 5, one legendary with max rad reduction, 2 moderate and 2 low
Lead containers are really good
in previous games you needed to find anti rad artifacts to wear at least something without slowly dying

[pseudo lotus]

Jumping into electro anomalies to fix your armor 🤤

[wintry pumice]

Are there anti psi artifacts in game? One of the game tips says there are. But I haven't seen one

[drifting forge]

Yeah lead containers are awesome but the sunrise suit can only have 1 and 3 other slots

[flint quartz]

If you are drunk your brain is not active enough for psi to affect it

[wintry pumice]

Magic vodka moment

[hybrid ibex]

Sdalger

[pseudo lotus]

They should add galaxy gas into the game. Kill your brain so C-con cant have it!

[flint quartz]

Dvupalov is my beloved scientist in this game
It's really sad there is no info in game what happened with Dr. Sakharov from the previous games

[drifting forge]

Peak. "Ooh a pickle "

[hybrid ibex]

Watch Master

[drifting forge]

[hybrid ibex]

Thoughts on xenos?

[wintry pumice]

Probably saved for a dlc

[wintry pumice]

"Take this 💣 enemy of the Monolith"

[drifting forge]

Fuсk them xenos

[hybrid ibex]

[wintry pumice]

Strelok the f*cker of xenos

[hybrid ibex]

A representative will be in touch

[drifting forge]

I'm gonna pass that on to the other Strelok while I go into hiding

[flint quartz]

I'm coping for Limansk DLC

[drifting forge]

That would be awesome

[wintry pumice]

Probably a bunch of DLCs in the work.

[inland sage]

The ungodly screams radio message, you actually go there finally and they just look at you and say
"Oh, that? That was the morning news."

[drifting forge]

Im hyped asf for April which is when the physical editions will be out iirc

[wintry pumice]

And some areas in the base map are marked with extreme radiation like a small building near Rostok and a pit south of Rostok, probably to keep players out of future DLC areas

[cobalt fiber]

Fear not brothers, our enemy has fled

[inland sage]

Here's hoping Dvupalov is more cooperative this attempt

[flint quartz]

Just drink with him and you'll do fine

[inland sage]

No, I mean to allow me to give him the suppressor blueprint lol

I was at it last night and he just kept sitting down and sulking quietly without any way to interact with him so today I went back a save and did X5 again and yes he's sulking AGAIN.

So I'll throw some bolts at him and watch him grimace in pain every bolt that hits him

[flint quartz]

Oh, he doesn't want to talk with you? I faced this bug, I loaded before I entered their base and it went fine
Also, keep in mind that he need some time after he sit down, it's like dialogue stops on weird spot like it's unfinished, and dvupalov goes to sit and young guy goes to left, try to speak to young guy (there is no dialogue, he`ll just say some phrase) and then talk to dvupalov

[inland sage]

See in screenshots for his stupid face

Young guy has no interaction either. I'm putting a screenshot in screenshots of his stupid face when hit with a bolt too.

[drifting forge]

No way Dvupalov really said "I don wanna" 💀

[inland sage]

Was I supposed to sleep somewhere after drinking with him? I'm still getting the weird closed eyes that open when I load in.

[flint quartz]

I didn't sleep too though, maybe that's the case

[inland sage]

A-life has granted me enemies to fight on this load-in. They don't seem to...know that the floating glass anomaly blocks bullets.

[pseudo lotus]

why are you allowed to swear I got a warning for saying something really tame

[wintry pumice]

Shove some magic vodka down his throat

[drifting forge]

Shit you just gotta know the secrets of the Zone

[pseudo lotus]

Ive been getting that too- honestly I think that may be something they added recently? hide the pop-in on load with the eyes opening animation, idk

[wintry pumice]

It's a real Clusterfuck I say

[flint quartz]

Bandits are allowed to swear

[drifting forge]

Last I checked you could still say retard. Either way you can say shit but not shіtty lol

[pseudo lotus]

I called strelok a dipsh- and got warned by Wolf LMAO

[wintry pumice]

You are a ward boy. Hence why Wolf doesn't like you

[drifting forge]

Mono role tho

[flint quartz]

Don't you dare try to say such things again about this killing machine
Strelok can run entire zone from kordon to wishgranter in 15 minutes

[wintry pumice]

Yeah but he supports ward with all his heart and a very strong admirer of Korushnov

[drifting forge]

Real, give me an artefact, Hercules and some vodka and I'll be able to do it in 5

Korshunov is actually a good character in fairness

[inland sage]

I give Scherba his stuff, Dvupalov talks more, bla bla bla. Bla bla bla.

[wintry pumice]

What if We surgically graft artifacts to our body? Like thunderberry balls

[pseudo lotus]

Im making plays you wouldnt understand. I spoke with the Wish Granter. I understood Him.

or maybe I'm just easilly influenced by authority, who knows

[drifting forge]

You're talking about the wish granter now? Shit I have to pull up an image link to something Rens made when he asked me for ideas

[wintry pumice]

I love Birch's french accent

[flint quartz]

Strelok got only energy drinks and he did it anyway
Honestly character speed in shadow of chornobyl was insane, it felt like in a moment strelok will finally break the gravity laws and go straight into the air

[inland sage]

He sits, Scherba...can be talked to this time

Dvupalov doesn't even have green dot when looking at him, like he isn't even there.

[cyan niche]

when performance patch?

[flint quartz]

He needs some time to process the information, he's an old man, give him some time to think

[drifting forge]

#🔮┃fanart_and_cosplay message me and the boys are built different

[wintry pumice]

You're the reason we need the patch

[flint quartz]

Faust did nothing wrong, he is just silly ass controller

[drifting forge]

Peak. Was used a bunch during the faction war

[cyan niche]

the hell u mean?

[inland sage]

Ahhhh I just want to get on with this so I can go back to farming the zone. That's why there's koupons instead of the money, right? So Skif can't just get enough money to buy a new house and ignore the entire storyline?

[wintry pumice]

When I fight you the fps drops to like 5-10

[pseudo lotus]

BASEDBASEDBASEDBASEDBASEDBASEDBASEDBASED

[drifting forge]

We need an alt ending where Skif dies from a heart attack after drinking idk, 1000 non stops

[wintry pumice]

Ward boy going out of control

[cyan niche]

crazy, u might need a new pc then or turn on frame generation + dlss to generate some fake frames with input lags

[pseudo lotus]

ahem I mean, a bullet for each of those bandits-!

[ancient frost]

i want to play coop with my papa plz devs no pvp

[drifting forge]

Not a chance

[pseudo lotus]

thats Faust directly attacking your computer's hardware. Intentional design

[flint quartz]

Skif could buy a house for each exoskeleton game gives you (about 10 in general)

[wintry pumice]

You can't just have one. You gotta take Strelok with the Scar

[inland sage]

I haven't seen one yet except on other people.

[drifting forge]

I'm actually convinced I'm a C-Con agent now. So much proof....also the fight didn't do anything to my FPS idk

[wintry pumice]

I play on xbox

[inland sage]

So if I go outside and then run back in sometimes I can see Dvupalov sitting back down from having stood up, but he's still not interactable. This is actually just a hard lock, and things were going so well up til now.

[flint quartz]

At some point game will be like "Oh it' seems like you are close to the end, here is exoskeleton, oh, here is another one, maybe you skipped exoskeletons? Here is another one, oh and another one is here"

[drifting forge]

Yall ever so hot that you feel extremely cold?

[inland sage]

I can't really get nearer to the end if I can't talk to Dvupalov.

[drifting forge]

Hopefully I'll be able to sleep today

[velvet leaf]

Does anyone else find the final battles underwhelming?

I enjoyed the game, but the final battles were somehow underwhelming.

In the "Shadow of Chernobyl," you had to explore the top of the Sarcophagus and various factory buildings around the plant while jumping through teleporters. This was a very epic endgame finale.

The Granite Squad fight felt very boring in comparison. You simply had to shoot a few buffed-up Monolithians on your way out.

That's it?

[flint quartz]

I really don't know how to help you, it fixed for me after reload and talking to young guy first, you can try to restart the game and load from the point before you enter dvupalov's shelter

[pseudo lotus]

imo I feel like its kinda implied that ||the monolith is sort of a meta-representation of the actual game itself. The monolith commands the enemies you have to fight. C-con manipulates the people around you to keep the story moving. Hell, Skif being a C-con agent "with a habit of believing everyone" is sort of commentary on how he's simply a slave to the Player.||

||Especially when Faust mentions how the soul endures when the body dies- he knows that Skif repeatedly rises from the dead in the form of save games. Especially given how he says that RIGHT AFTER you get the choice to take his hand or not||

[drifting forge]

There should be more after

[pseudo lotus]

||We are the monolith. The players, the community. We control the Zone. We command it through mods and game development.

And Skif is our Envoy, allowing us to interact with it||

[drifting forge]

Goddamn ecologist. Your ass is not Ward

[inland sage]

I really don't want to have to do the entire X5 facility again.

[flint quartz]

Most likely monolith represents and c-con represents government of certain country, but we can't talk politics here

[pseudo lotus]

Havent you ever spoken with the Wardens at SIRCAA? We understand the zone better than you loners could ever hope to

[pseudo lotus]

mfw an ordinary stalker takes a trophy from a certain veteran mercenary.....

[sweet root]

Finished the game! What a fantastic 10/10 ride thru the zone, writing, narrative, characters and locations wise, as soon as theyve fixed all the glaring issue this is a complete and utter masterpiece at hand, easiy beating its much larger competitors and a permanent fixture of my game rotation from now :P Joined Spark and Scar

[sturdy verge]

So who's gonna make a bread mod for rosk So we can stand in queue some more and chicken at sids trader

[pseudo lotus]

jeez you really were right at the end. Didja enjoy the game?

now play through it again, choose a different playthrough, and gaslight yourself into distrusting your own choices from just a few days ago~!

[drifting forge]

I'm not Loner. Bandits superior faction. We do the smart thing and are not cook like french frog

[pseudo lotus]

Bandits are just loners with less morals

||and less guts||

[sweet root]

Yeah i had a blast, i was saved from majority of technical and bug isses many suffer from, a lot of wrinkles to iron out but theyve got it in the bag given enough time, also used some QOL and A-Life mods just to make the ride smoother, im not above modding singleplayers if its a thing

[pseudo lotus]

the game really makes no sense at first, honestly its not until you get to the very end that things really lock into place. Excellent game

[drifting forge]

Pipe down blue role

[sweet root]

And even then it leaves you guessing, man what great writing overall, i was constantly doubting my decisions and some were really difficult to make

[pseudo lotus]

EXACTLY.
The way all the endings both reinforce AND contradict eachother at the same time is kinda nuts.

[sweet root]

All the factions had a compelling reason for me to join them too

[pseudo lotus]

I want a faust ending "joining monolith" DLC

[flint quartz]

They also explained a lot of things that were left unanswered in original trilogy, so I really recommend to check those games if you didn't

[sweet root]

I kinda feel like the Spark ending is a good ending still, even ||if its a lie||

[pseudo lotus]

hostile to the entire zone but also able to walk around CNPP and Lymansk freely

and also straight up ignoring emissions.

[sweet root]

Yup, great recommendation, i got hooked on the originals when they came out :P been a stalker loverboy ever since

[drifting forge]

I was just talking about that a couple days back lmao. Turning the Brain Scorcher back on 🔥🔥🔥

[sweet root]

Thatd be lit!!

[flint quartz]

DLC playing for a one of monolith troops would be insane

[sweet root]

I was also kinda rushing the end because i wanted to more freely discuss the story and just to get it over with, so many locations in pripyat especially left unexplored for future playthrus when im not in a rush

[flint quartz]

Same here, I still can't believe this game exists, feels like fewer dream

[sweet root]

Saiga drum mag could drop a little bit earlier though... but ill install the mod that allows enemies to drop attachements too next time

[sweet root]

Exactly my feeling it felt so unbelieavably surreal to finally launch the game, after countless hours in as many modpacks for the original games hah

Like, everything was both familiar and completely foreign at the same time, the same kind of feeling the Zone vibes give you

Especially having grown up in northern europe rural area a ton of the locations look exactly like the ones i grew up in, down to the shape of the terrain, the look of the crumbled down sheds and houses and everything

[pseudo lotus]

not only that, but its gotta be the most soulful FPS of the last decade

[sweet root]

That word describes the entire series so well, soul

[pseudo lotus]

Never have I seen a game release actually broken and missing a significant amount of content cough CNPP

and Im NOT cynical about it. I dont remember the last time I felt so positive and hopeful for a game. GSC has made it clear that they want this game to be a vehicle for the community, just as the original trilogy was

The amount of fixes they put out between the review copies and release, and then a month later with 1.1 is actually INSANE and shows that they're some of the most competent and talented devs in the market

[sweet root]

ITs been more and more common recently, CP2077 being the biggest example in mind, its unfortunate, but it kinda tells how the game has soul, like mentioned, since its still an amazing game even with the broken or missing mechanics, or im just a glutton for punishment

[pseudo lotus]

the glowup of CP77 needs to be studied. Im so glad that game got the support it deserved

[flint quartz]

CP2077 launched in a much worse state compared to stalker

[pseudo lotus]

I think that one was more cynical just because CDPR is beholden to stockholders, so people expected the worst

[sweet root]

Yea i still havent been able to completely finish the game its pretty long hahah, and then this game came out, gotta take it as a project thru the summer again if i have time with KCD2 coming out soon..

[sweet root]

This, i wouldnt even compare the two apart from the single fact they should have been delayed

[pseudo lotus]

honestly, I think stalker 2 came out at a perfect time. The surge in sales from the holiday was great. Also it completely clobbered starfield and its boring DLC

[sweet root]

Stalker 2 for all its issues is still very much playable thru, albeit some possible game breaker softlocks you can solve with console commands, you couldnt say that at all with CP2077 on launch

[pseudo lotus]

Now GSC is debt-free and is sitting on a pile of money, with all the resources they need to finish the game at their own pace!

[sweet root]

And imagine the upcoming entries in the series! or maybe a wholly new series in the same theme

[drifting forge]

And Chernobylite 2 is coming out in a few months

[sweet root]

Man, im already comparing this game to Planescape Torment in my mind with the level of writing, its kinda unreal

[pseudo lotus]

I find it insane that people find the story underwhelming. YES, the game starts off with a series of fetch quests, but thats literally by design... They even mention at SIRCAA that Skif was sent on a wild goose chase for no reason

[sweet root]

Story left me well satisfied but still hungry for more revelations

[sweet root]

Yeah there is a good reason they decided to frontload the main missions with fetch quests and such, as it gives the player an immediate freedom to just pick a direction and go explore without much story pressure to force you down a certain path

[pseudo lotus]

||Well. the reason was that certain people hoped that the zone would swallow him up and spit out his corpse||

[flint quartz]

I was kinda happy and sad that the game ended, felt like it wasn't enough stalker for me
So I'm starting second run

[sweet root]

Well, one playthru is technically only one side of the 4 different perspectives :)

[pseudo lotus]

^^

[sweet root]

Think ill go with Ward this time as they feel like the biggest contrasting force to Spark, and i want to watch playthru series from my fav stalker streamers already plenty are playing with Ward

[flint quartz]

Basically every ending is Skif being used by someone for their own motives

[sweet root]

Yea but a lot of stuff leading up to the ending that gives you a totally different viewpoint on things from my understanding, this is technically my second playthru as i got softlocked around midpoint and felt like i made mistakes so started over, second one felt entirely different to the first one

[pseudo lotus]

"You are not the main character."

[sweet root]

Main character is Monolith change my mind

[cobalt fiber]

CNPP was never intended to be in base game HOC

[pseudo lotus]

I hated the Ward in my first playthrough. Working with them changed my mind....

[gleaming bone]

Ward path has a ton of lore that is not shown in any other endings, so I'd say good choice. My first was Skif's (but started as Spark), and now I'm doing Ward, and man that feels wrong haha but also so much more different content even from the beginning

[wintry pumice]

Strelok and Scar are the main characters. Skif can't even survive an emission

[pseudo lotus]

Heart of Chornobyl
look inside
No Chornobyl

🤔 🤔 🤔

[sweet root]

Korhsunov or what his name was is such a compelling and understandable character, feels like a distant father figure to Skif almost, he clearly cares a lot about you and his men

[cobalt fiber]

The heart of chornobyl is an artifact that plays a pivotal role in the ending

[pseudo lotus]

not with THAT attitude!! (one time I had to tough it out while chugging medkits like water)

[flint quartz]

I just wanted to help stirder : (
I still feel so bad for this guy, he didn't deserve any of it

[wintry pumice]

You mean till you ran to a shelter

[sweet root]

Spark ending didnt even mention it, or maybe i missed stuff, but if theres spoilers i dont want to know, save em up for later playthrus

[gleaming bone]

bruh the game is not broken and cnpp is not central to the story, they left it for dlc on purpose

[cobalt fiber]

Can confirm it was pivotal in both Skif & Strelok ending

[pseudo lotus]

Korshunov is (as I said before I think) probably the only level head with any degree of power in the zone. Also the fact that he's honest and respectful to Skif, when LITERALLY NO ONE ELSE IS? I felt bad for killing him in my Strelok playthrough

[wintry pumice]

CNPP will always be central to the story

[sweet root]

Im glad the CNPP isnt the focus this time as it feels like its been their go-to thru the series so its a nice change

[pseudo lotus]

bro the game had 0 a-life and was pretty dang broken on release

[cobalt fiber]

The heart of chernobyl does not directly correlate to CNPP and it was not immediately necessary to have it in base game

[gleaming bone]

Zero arguments as to why. Alright

[sweet root]

Central to the main storyline yes

[cobalt fiber]

But not HOC's storyline

[pseudo lotus]

introducing the wish granter in the first/second act of the game was a bold play, but really worked out.

[sweet root]

Yea that cutscene with Strider and Dalin has to be my favorite cutscene in gaming history, hands down, got such huge shivers and dread flowing down my spine

[cobalt fiber]

Not once was there a reason for Skif to need to visit CNPP. Likely will be seen in DLC for wow factor, but was not necessary for this game's individual storyline

[pseudo lotus]

also OH MY GOD the mocap is so good. I love that this game is literally just a playable version of hardcore henry

[wintry pumice]

And the balloon at zalissya is probably another dlc. Stalker 2 - Adventures of the Hindenburg

[sweet root]

It really hammered home the fact how we understand literally nothing about Noosphere and how insignificant we are in comparison, and how science can be fallible

[flint quartz]

He could check maybe monolith is in the same place as it was before just to make sure

[cobalt fiber]

They will no doubt find a reason for a DLC as it'll sell like hotcakes but for base game I didn't feel like I'd been robbed due to the absence of it

[inland sage]

Well this is weird. It's a stash, it says 'Old stash, just in case'. But it's encased in some concrete thing, and the safe is visible but I can't get into it.

[flint quartz]

Can you specify the location?

[inland sage]

OH

[sweet root]

A winter DLC has been teased already or maybe its still rumors, but with UE5 they could introduce actual seasons mechanics in the game... heres to hoping

[cobalt fiber]

Lymansk, Iron Forest, CNPP all will be introduced no doubt

[pseudo lotus]

Especially how, like- the more you speak with people that are supposedly experts on it, the more you realize no one knows A THING

[sweet root]

I can see the curve of the Darkscape from Cordon leading up to swamps

[inland sage]

That's actually kind of neat. I had to throw a grenade into a nearby hole which caused explosions which opened up the stash. Oh, there's a unique gun in it too. It was nearish to the Duga.

[flint quartz]

If I understand correctly, stalkers don't go to the zone during winter as snow might be rad active
It would look cool but constant rad doesn't sound so good

[pseudo lotus]

iirc they said that they recieved so much money and support from the release, they've gotta brush off stuff that was intentionally cut, too.

[sweet root]

Could be just a huge anomaly causing winter happening somewhere? and cold anomalies

[pseudo lotus]

heres a question, stalkers.

who cleaned up all the burnt fuzz??!??

[sweet root]

Fuzz as in the po-po?

[inland sage]

Fuzz as in the artifact

[fresh stump]

(ponders)

[cobalt fiber]

The question is what was and wasn't intentionally cut vs what was intended for dlc

[pseudo lotus]

I like to think Noontiders combed the zone with a swiffer brush.

also no, burnt fuzz are those acid anomalies that would hang from pipes and stuff

[sweet root]

Ah i thought it was slang for police 😄 Not really, just making fun , dont think i found that artifact

[fresh stump]

alright, the joke won't tell itself...

[cobalt fiber]

Regions were likely not cut but intended for content in the future

[flint quartz]

Oh, this one is cool, there is a tablet written ukrainian that gives you a hint about throwing a grenade in hole

[pseudo lotus]

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

if im not mistaken, these arent in HoC

[inland sage]

Ahhhh. Right, I remembered it wrong. Yeah no, Ward came by with mops and cleaned it all up. Oh, right. I can't read that 😅

[sweet root]

Ohh anomaly right, i dont know the names of many new ones since the game still doesnt have a codex

[fresh stump]

why did a monolithian and a ward crossed the road?

i am craving some baked apple...

[sweet root]

I want apple pie with a good crust and vanilla cream

Oh thats the punchline hah?

[pseudo lotus]

Because now Deggy cant call the shots! ahahaha!

[flint quartz]

I thought it evolved to shattered glass

[sweet root]

whatever the anomalies are that slow you down, i only now realize they stop bullets for a little while, then the momentum continues

[pseudo lotus]

I pinned those as a grav anomaly, not acid

[maiden prairie]

There's a part of the map added to the physical with circled area and "snow?" text

[flint quartz]

Yeah, but if there was a shattered glass and burnt fuzz it could be too much
It felt for me like shattered glass served the same purpose as burnt fuzz, located in some places where you won't notice it, or in places where you need to be careful

[flint quartz]

It was fun when you get on top of red fortress, felt like matrix during monolith fights

[sweet root]

Ahh, i didnt even explore the cooling towers yet! Ill leave it for a playthru where im not in a rush to see the story thru

[pseudo lotus]

a message from the devs to stop sprinting everywhere, yea. Makes sense

[sweet root]

Shattered Glass proved effective against mutants

[pseudo lotus]

Theres a couple of good items there, including a Groza chambered in 5.45, and a Dnipro you can acquire really early on.

Wont tell you any more because I dont wanna spoil it, but if youre planning a 5.45 build, its a great place to go

[sweet root]

Some people say its called Fiberglass though im nto sure i havent googled it

[sweet root]

Cool! thanks for the tip, funny how the 5.45 groza is better than a 9x39 it makes no sense lol

[flint quartz]

There is also archanomaly that looks insane, honestly every archanomaly really impressed me

[sweet root]

The other round has like 4 mm on the little guy, there should be no competition!

But worst ballistics crime is how a 9x19 SMG beats a full length assault rifle

[flint quartz]

more bullets > more damage

[sweet root]

But its better damage and penetration than the AK74 and the HK

[pseudo lotus]

western bullet magic, simple as

[sweet root]

Or they just wanted to keep every gun type somewhat viable to endgame, but they approached it wrong, you can make SMGs more useful lategame without nerfing assault rifles

[pseudo lotus]

realizing that the tornado moved actually scared me more than anything else in the game. Outpacing that thing to get to the tunnel..... ough.

[flint quartz]

But I understand what you mean, integral-a is insane
I needed 2-3 headshots from vss to kill exosuit guy, it took me 3-5 shots in head area to kill guy in exosuit using integral

[sweet root]

If only the game had a system that lets you break pieces of armor on an opponent with more sustained fire like with a high fire rate SMG

Or that just susteained shots on a body part would gradually push more thru the armor value or something, not necessarily break the armor

[pseudo lotus]

Have you used the Reimann 😏 you think the integral a is busted.....

[wintry pumice]

Armor should be available for us to take, I don't know why they don't do it. Is there some lore reason?

[sweet root]

I had to install a ballistics mod i couldnt get past how you can one shot exos in the head with any AP ammo from just about any gun, now only the high caliber sniper rifles lets you do it after the mod

[flint quartz]

Yeah, this is killing machine
I plan to go with sniper rile and smg build, cause those SMGs proved themselves pretty good

[sweet root]

Would break the ingame economy and you could farm exos early game to cheese

[inland sage]

The ingame economy isn't already broken once you reach Rostok or just, get the funny water?

[sweet root]

I have found suits on corpses though but theyre a rare drop and should be a rare drop

[inland sage]

It's too bad the white scientist armor I've got on doesn't have any carry weight boost upgrades

[sweet root]

Once in a single raid on a monolith base in pripyat found like 3-4 diamond and ruby suits from corpses, it feels appropriate for the area and challenge

[wintry pumice]

Why are devs worried about the economy in a single player game? Pretty much in all single player games as keep going towards the end you're gonna have ton of money on your hands

[sweet root]

Because its dumb to allow players to get all the best gear early as possible, sure can do it anyways by skipping over to Yaniv/Pripyat but its still not intended, but now we have the big treshold blcoking us called bank balance

[inland sage]

In Stalker money comes and money goes, I'll spend 40-50k on gear repairs after a long time without visiting a tech. That's probably me being bad at the game, it's mostly armor.

[neon frigate]

Because it'd break the games progression. Why bother exploring when you have everything endgame so early? Half the fun of Stalker is looking around for better gear.

[flint quartz]

The thing is, the game let's us to loot costumes from the bodies
It drops with really low chance, but it happens (I got 2 ruby exosceletons in a row, it was in pripyat in summer kindergarden, I killed about 10 of them and 2 had exoskeletons inside)
It feels quite logical to me, I fill those guys with bullets pretty well, so most of the costumes should be in unfixable condition

[wintry pumice]

It's a mechanic actually. You kill a few guys in the group and let some live and run away till they deaggro. The remaining guys loot the Armor of the dead guys after which you kill them you can get their armor

[pseudo lotus]

one time I got a bandit's 'armor' as a drop.

it was a piece of bread with a dev item name

[sweet root]

Ah so that kinda explains it when sometimes theres more than one armor on a corpse lol

[sweet root]

Ah the legendary anomalous bread armour! Havent seen it myself yet

[inland sage]

Oh. So you follow a friendly group around, kill guys and let them loot them, then once they have done so for a while kill and loot them?

[wintry pumice]

I too got a diamond exo that way

[sweet root]

Or just play normally the game has enough loot to keep you coupon drowned for a long time

By the end I had like 500k not knowing what to use it for, didnt even loot anything but ammo when needed in the end game

[flint quartz]

Also, monolith costumes should stink insanely bad, imagine how much time those guys were in them without wearing them off

[wintry pumice]

You can't kill friendly groups. But hit ward and IPSF guys

[inland sage]

Isn't that what I just said? Ward and IPSF guys. Friendly groups.

[maiden grotto]

Waffle.

It's good, but it is not that good.

It could have been.

[drifting forge]

Maybe the massive radiation burns the smell off

[wintry pumice]

you're playing ward huh

[flint quartz]

I think it burns ability to smell at all

[drifting forge]

Exactly

[sweet root]

They be too busy sniffing Monolith´s crack

[maiden prairie]

yooo

[wintry pumice]

yooo

[flint quartz]

I want DLC where I can save Strider

[wintry pumice]

I think the rain and the emission washes them

[hollow sable]

anybody tried to go to limonsk and check what's there?

[wintry pumice]

A big pile of dirt

[flint quartz]

Skif dies as he can't swim
Most likely they saved limansk for DLC

[hollow sable]

the wierd-ish like antennas like in duga were in clear sky are they still there in limansk?

[hollow sable]

ik but i mean did someone try to cheat their way there and check details up close you know

[flint quartz]

Most likely this was the duga in clear sky, so it's location was moved it seems

[sweet root]

Yea they made the exclusion zone more accurate to real life

Which is why things changed places, first games kinda did whatever hahah

[hollow sable]

especially the cnpp/cooling towers/red fortress they are just like in real life

i think also pripyat

[flint quartz]

They left the rostok in the zone though

[sweet root]

Im just so glad they kept Cordon exactly the same, with all the cliffs surrounding it too even when its a seamless map

I like how they now have cut down all the trees surrounding the Rookie Village to prevent enemies sneaking up close its a nice touch

[hollow sable]

i saw on the internet that they were gonna recreate chernobyl 2 from real life in the game
did they?

[sweet root]

hard to say, you cant enter, probably for DLC

[river chasm]

They left some room for creativity, I guess it's an important location to the series and all

[kind pawn]

Hey guys im new new to stalker, and I wanna give the game a try. I only play multiplayer games and I've seen the coop mod for the first game. Any pointers on stuff before I get further into it¿

[hollow sable]

i don't get what chernobyl 2 is ingame
what is the name of it ingame?

[river chasm]

There is some there around Duga. Not much to do there though. It feels like more was supposed to be there originally

[hollow sable]

oh so its kinda in duga ingame

[river chasm]

Yeah it was the name of the town next to the radar

[flint quartz]

Radar is so small now, but it still looks almost the same

[hollow sable]

is heart of the zone technically cnpp or generators?

[drifting forge]

Both ig, that area. If I had to pick one then generators

[river chasm]

I guess generators. It's the source of the emissions etc

[flint quartz]

It's hard to say as they are quite near each other

[hollow sable]

yeah not that far
the generators is fiction or its also irl too?

[river chasm]

If you get up to a high point when an emission is starting you can see how it forms over the generators

[cobalt fiber]

I'd be inclined to say generators

[flint quartz]

Generators are fiction

[river chasm]

Yeah the generators are pure science fiction

Pretty sure that area IRL is just another machinery yard or storage area or something similar

[cobalt fiber]

You mean emissions don't actually happen in the exclusion zone? Next you'll be telling me there's no chimera

[rose void]

There are plenty of videos out there. Check out some of the lore videos I guess. You can learn about why the zone happened, the factions involved, the mutants, artfact hunting, the anomalies. Plenty of gameplay videos. Lots of stuff about the modding community and such. Stalker is a special game. Nothing else quit like it.

[flint quartz]

cnpp powered generators, so it is arguable what is the "heart" in this case, both are vital for zone existence

[inland sage]

Oof, lol, snorks wiped this full squad of duty guys.

[hollow sable]

it's kind of misleading that the game name is heart of chernobyl but you don't even go to one of them(cnpp)

[flint quartz]

There is no chimera, all chimeras you see is actually faust using psi on you to look like chimera and freak you out

[rose void]

Could have been a time constraint. Maybe in future DLC?

[flint quartz]

I can spoil something about this heart to give better understanding if you want

[hollow sable]

haven't finished the game yet sorry no

[flint quartz]

That's why I asked, you'll find out for yourself then

[rose void]

Me too. Just exploring, farming loot, upgrading everything and trying out mods.

[hollow sable]

probably

[flint quartz]

I finished it cause I wanted to know how the story progress, but I didn't got enough stalker for sure, this second playthrough I plan to explore the zone slowly

[river chasm]

The meaning of the "Heart" in the title is something that is open to interpretation

[hollow sable]

also i noticed that jupiter region also has a missing part from the left

something was in cop but cut in hoc

[rose void]

"SKIFF, YOU ARE THE HEART OF CHORNOBYL"

[flint quartz]

Jupiter felt like unfinished location for me

[inland sage]

"SKIF, YOU ARE THE FART OF CHORNOBYL. SERIOUSLY, TAKE A SHOWER OR A BATH, SOMETHING."

[rose void]

Was thinking that yesterday. Where do these guys bathe? In radiation water?

[inland sage]

They don't.

The first thing a stalker loses is their sense of smell, if they're lucky.

[rose void]

Real men bathe in vodka

[flint quartz]

Just carefully put yourself in acid anomaly for 0.00000001 second to clean the dirt and then get out of it
You'll be fine, don't worry, every stalker showers like this

[drifting forge]

Starion had a video that covered this

Check out his channel it's a part of some larger video

[inland sage]

Time to see how much my repairs cost.

[ember urchin]

I wonder where is the guy from the stalker 2 game play trailer that was dancing to radio like a ballerina. Somewhere in Pripyat

[drifting forge]

Cut

[flint quartz]

Why do you need to bathe when there is an artifact that allows you to pass the game permanently drunk
I had to use it on sircaa as I had a lot of stuff that I thought I drop somewhere in sircaa, so it was hillariusly understandable why any scientist won't talk to skiff, imagine drunk stalker approaches you and start asking questions

[rose void]

Not in the game as far as I know

[ember urchin]

That’s sad

[inland sage]

34,300 for the SSP-100 Discovery. 7106 for the Kharod. 5828 for the Ram-2. 2305 for the Rhino.

[flint quartz]

Most likely saved for DLC

[flint quartz]

After duga repairs cost me about 100,000 coupons, so save some coupons for this moment

[sweet root]

I was looking for him too! but yea seems like cut content for DLC purpose

[crystal granite]

What are you carrying that costs you so much?

[sweet root]

The pripyat disco by the docs was so cool, too bad it vanishes when you enter

[crystal granite]

The one with the chimera inside?

[sweet root]

I want to have a proper disco party with my fellow loners cmon, anomalous disco or not

[rose void]

I keep a bunch of extra crap on hand in my stash for extra money when I need it. I farm the crap out of bandits and such for extra money.

[inland sage]

Ah, I've got about 180k left even after those repairs, I made a ton with my last looting trip.

Lowering my carry weight...15.4 kilograms just of normal medkits, I may be a hoarder.

[crystal granite]

Anyone knows a way to get some 7.62? I really wanna bring the pkm against the monolith lol

[flint quartz]

I was with vss and saiga in monolith armour, most of the cost took the armour
There is journalist stash on duga which is insane challenge, this moment reduced like 10% of my armour

[sweet root]

Im getting pretty good at spotting the ways to open locked doors now, took me 1 second of looking up to realize what to do with it

[drifting forge]

Buy it

[crystal granite]

I carry the Dnipro, Texan, Lynx and Diamond

[sweet root]

The Whip was amazing in the last leg of the run with long corridors and tough enemies, i use a mod that allows you to install a 4x PSO scope on it making it actually usable. But otherwise i used a 7.62 Dnipro

[crystal granite]

Okay but where? Shits nigh unobtainable

[drifting forge]

Idk try Zaton or Yanov

[flint quartz]

I got all my pkm ammo from dead bodies and stashes, wait till you have about 500 of it so you could test it freely without worrying you won't have enough ammo

[inland sage]

Ammo is expensive too

[crystal granite]

I'm finding it hard to get enough 7.62 so I'm keeping dnipro in 5.45

[crystal granite]

Got around 200ish left iirc

[sweet root]

I had like 5k rounds saved up in total, just never spent or sold any and looted carefully, killed a lot of PKM IPSF dudes too

[inland sage]

I've got...843 rounds of 7.62x49mm PS.

[sweet root]

The 500 AP rounds i brought didnt last me long though, for the 7.62 dnipro

[crystal granite]

Nvm just checked my stash, 481 nice

[sweet root]

Shouldve been 1000 but the gun wouldve probs broken, i was so glad i had the Rhino with me as it saved up so much durability on the rifles

[inland sage]

Only 250 of the LAN ammo. 300 of the AP.

[hollow sable]

is diamond exoskeleton the best exo ingame?

[sweet root]

Some say Liberty but theyre pretty equal id say

[crystal granite]

As far as I know yeah

[flint quartz]

Look for IPSF dudes, a lot of them go with PKM and you can scavage the ammo from dead bodies
also a lot of IPSF and military zombies in prypiat have a lot of PKM ammo with them even without pkm itself
Also, if you play for spark you can loot a loot pkm ammo from dead ward after malachite arc ends

[hollow sable]

i hear some say ruby as well

[sweet root]

You wont notice the difference in gameplay with slight stat shifting, youre still gonna be walking tank no matter what

[hollow sable]

except curaiss exo which will be only walking lol

[crystal granite]

I'm with the ward, but I'll keep an eye out thanks

[sweet root]

Artis does more for you not the exo variants

So whatever good exo and good artis you should have 0 problems end game, i was actually surprised how smooth the endgame was, with not too long fight scenes overly loaded with enemies and boss encounters

[flint quartz]

There is also pkm unique pkm with extended mag on rostok (it can load up to 500 rounds), it is half loaded when you find it if I remember correctly

[sweet root]

I had a ton of fun in all the fights, which is usually rare for end game in games, since they get rushed often design wise

[crystal granite]

I have the Glutton, if that's what you mean

[sweet root]

Like OG stalker true ending in SoC was a nightmare of a monolith gauntlet and confusing teleporters

And whatever led up to it thru pripyat was utter madness, this game kept the amount of madness reined in just enough

[flint quartz]

It felt weird that everyone started to wear exoskeletons after my second visit to duga, but turns out it worked fine

[crystal granite]

I used the anomaly jump to hop over the trains in yaniv, so I got the pripyat madness early lol

[sweet root]

Its explainable for the Ward as theyre very well funded and equipped, but suddenly all Loners too? I was half expecting seeing a bandit in looted exoskeleton or something lol

[flint quartz]

Yeah, this is it

[sweet root]

Too bad the accuracy and spread on the Glutton are horrendous, you cant sustain fire on anything thats further than 5 meters away

[inland sage]

...it's pretty funny to run into a psi dog before it makes clones and just dump buckshot into it and kill it

[crystal granite]

Man the accuracy is dog awful lol

[sweet root]

I always upgrade my guns to lose as much spread as possible, recoil next, i hate gun spread it makes no sense, didnt want to mod it out though

[wintry pumice]

No snipers near that area?

[flint quartz]

I had hilariously fun fight in prypiat
I was clearing the monolith and the next second those guys with sawed of shotguns rush out to me in their bandit coats, couldn't do anything to my exoskeleton though, but it was a good try

[sweet root]

Ah i meant Pripyat madness in Shadow of Chernobyl, as that area was just a huge long gauntlet of countless gauss snipers and RPGs and helicopters attacking you from all fronts

[crystal granite]

There's one in a tower, just east of Yaniv near a few overturned rail cars, but you can sneak up and toss a nade into hos tower. Then do the jump and you're set

Off to Pripyat I go, I need myself some pkm ammo

[flint quartz]

I wonder if you can outheal electors in tunnel near yaniv to go to prypiat

[sweet root]

You can disable the snipers for a while but i wasnt able to kill them ever, they just got wounded and rose back up soon enough, gives enough window to pass by though

[crystal granite]

I killed the dude, looted him and moved on. They do respawn however

[sweet root]

Pretty sure you have to have a device to get thru it

[inland sage]

FINALLY. I did a bunch of other stuff, then did a guide trip to Yaniv and slept and went to chemical plant and then went to Dvupalov and that was enough of a nap for him that he became able to speak.

[sweet root]

Huh, the one i tried killing was in Duga, at one of the corner posts, tossed in like 10 F1 nades and made like 50 headshots with SVD, no dice

[wintry pumice]

Deggy is just ok with you being there?

[crystal granite]

Haven't made it to Duga yet, about to raid with with the Ward

[sweet root]

Most he did got wounded and soon rose back up, still oblivious to what was happening

[flint quartz]

There wasn't so much anomalies at sight in this tunnel, you just need to throw bolt and activate as many as possible and run chucking in the medkits

[crystal granite]

Haven't met Deggy yet, just Bolero & Co

[sweet root]

You really dont have to interact with them at all though, just kinda dumb, i do understand the instakill barriers to prevent players going out of bounds, instead of having just a wall there, since you can stack damage and radiation resistance super high with certain gear selection, t hey have to besure you cant sequence break the game just by stat stacking

[wintry pumice]

Can you see if you can get to the palace and see if deggy is there?

[inland sage]

And now I have another question...how can I get one of these 'Veles' detectors I've heard about?

[crystal granite]

Bolero & Bison offer their services like normal, and Telegraph helps me fast travel

[crystal granite]

I am at the Palace, that's where Bolero is. No Deggy, he's scripted appearance

[wintry pumice]

Wait who are these guys?

[flint quartz]

They should be sold on yaniv, also someone gives it to you as reward
I don't remember who exactly though

[crystal granite]

Not sure, said they came from Yaniv

[sweet root]

Part of the Corps in Pripyat, part of Deggies group

[wintry pumice]

Oh yeah I just remembered their names 😄

[sweet root]

Deggie was a dickkie though so i just gave him the finger

[inland sage]

Dvupalov is apparently supposed to give me one but he didn't lol

[sweet root]

All i wanted was to see the zone shine, nothing wrong with that

[flint quartz]

If I understand correctly, both strelok and deggie uses mercs services, during the original trilogy both of them killed quite a lot of mercs, I find it weird

[sweet root]

And im pretty sure the shiniing zone was a good ending, lie or not

[crystal granite]

Can anyone explain why I just killed 4 IPSF dudes assaulting the Palace?

[wintry pumice]

It's the best ending

[drifting forge]

ISPF is so spread out recently lmao. They took over Yanov for me 💀

[wintry pumice]

All endings are sucky either way

[fresh stump]

how accurate is uh..... ukrainan men? in this game? asking because like im not gay but most characters in this game are god damn they are sexy af....

[sweet root]

Its the monkey paw dilemma, only good ending would be to leave it alone

[wintry pumice]

Because the Monolith hasn't awakened yet or has it?

[crystal granite]

I aim for headshots, not much left to look at when I'm done

[drifting forge]

Sparrowhawk 2.0 🙏🏻

[fresh stump]

theres a lot of cutscenes wdym

[crystal granite]

It very much has, just ask Zalissya

[flint quartz]

As a ukrainian man, I can confirm that there are similar faces in game
if I remember correctly, quite few guys from ukrainian army took part in voiceover and shared faces with npcs

[wintry pumice]

Poor Zalissya was hit the hardest

[fresh stump]

god damn..... wtf.... why are you all handsome

[sweet root]

I like aiming for headshots but it feels kinda pointless to do torso shots, without modding the ballistics first, i do a lot of torso damage to enemies now, but they do too on me in turn, so its a nice balance of difficulty

[crystal granite]

It's a shame they haven't added NPCs recognising your armour. Like the Ward reacting positively seeing you wearing their Convoy suit, or ppl being kinda creeped out seeing you in Monolith armour/exo

[hoary crest]

Disguise system would have actually been great ngl. It would also have reigned in the later game, overly OP armour a bit as you would'nt be able to use it all the time

[crystal granite]

I found out semi auto is the way to dispatch enemies quickly while not getting overwhelmed by recoil

[sweet root]

Or just more complex faction dynamics system in place but that wouldnt be reasonable unless you could more freely join factions, budget wise

[flint quartz]

The only explanation for Skif's bad stealth is bad smell, so disguise wouldn't work, everyone knows who's that smell coming from anyway

[hoary crest]

True yeah, though maybe with DLC. Faction wars is a pretty highly requested thing to happen down the line, so its not totally off teh cards I would imagine

[fresh stump]

bro like the colonel is hot af, dalin is hot af, richter is cute af, faust is mysterious babe, strider hot sexy this game is just

[sweet root]

Even Scar has that rizz

[fresh stump]

yeah the mad cool hot

[hoary crest]

Lol. Give it another ten years I'm gonna end up looking like the Colonel. Currently I still posses (some) hair though 😂

[sweet root]

I wouldnt call any of them hot, but they sure are men who fit the zone! manly men, not like in most western productions

[fresh stump]

damn

[crystal granite]

Everyone hates the Ward except Duty, who hates everyone. Freedom would be alone, so would Sparks faction. Then there are bandits and stalkers vs IPSF. And of course toss in the Monolith stomping around

[sweet root]

Id even call Dalin a man, he did such a 360 after i chose the Spark path he kinda grew on me, and he lived

[flint quartz]

Strider
This guy didn't deserve it,
Scene where you can talk with him again broke my heart, I told him everything and he couldn't take it

[fresh stump]

dalin is def 'you can fix him' hottie

[sweet root]

I like how you can actually fix him, and re-realize his true goals

[hoary crest]

I fixed Dalin. By putting a bullet in him 😄

[fresh stump]

yeah.... the zone.... now i understand

[sweet root]

In the Spark ending he looked so worn down and dishevelled, as if not slept in days, Dalin i mean, i felt so bad for him, and he suddenly became one of the best characters in the story

[flint quartz]

Dalin just wanted to see his father again, his reasons are understandable

[fresh stump]

never saw this amount of of condensed hot male cast since RDR2

[sweet root]

I think its admirable, nothing wrong in putting hotties in games, even though im not that way

[fresh stump]

yeah..

i mean dalin could just easily make others do the hard work for him he got the money i guess

[sweet root]

Theyre all charismatic, but you do need some of that to survive in the zone, you need to be able to deal with other stalkers and their motives too

[crystal granite]

Pripyat at night is a whole different vibe...

[wintry pumice]

You mean president zelensky?

[flint quartz]

Girls in zone are pretty too, yeah, they might not look super beautiful, but this is the zone, there is no time for make up

[sweet root]

He gets his hands dirty and isnt afraid of taking risks involving his life too, i really dont have problems at all with this character, he just had terrible motives to begin with, which are fixable

[fresh stump]

huh.....they dont really look similar

[crystal granite]

More like dictator zelensky

[wintry pumice]

There's a mod that changes Dalin to Zelensky

[kind pawn]

Thank you so much bro

[crystal granite]

Instant bullet on sight 😂

[flint quartz]

So it does no actual change?

[fresh stump]

damn lmao

[inland sage]

My only issue with Dalin is he wears a tuxedo suit into the zone

[wintry pumice]

Just changes Dalin's face I think

[sweet root]

It fits the character, hes new there, only knows the zone from scientific reports and such, stands up like a sore thumb

And has an ego about him too, which explains the revelry, but you can crush this ego and mold him into a true believer

[inland sage]

So I've run low on 5.56x45 AP ammo, which means it's time to switch up my primary for a while. What ammo should I use?

[fresh stump]

i like the malachite doctor

[sweet root]

5.45 is great from a Dnipro

[inland sage]

I kind of want to go with the Vintar...

[crystal granite]

Nah, Vicky from Malachite. About the only good looking one in the Zone

[inland sage]

Just because it's the Classic Zone Weapon™️

[sweet root]

Vintar or the SVD? I like the SVU most but i hate the scope it comes with, too bad the VSS and AS VAL drop in usefulness pretty fast

[crystal granite]

Kharod?

[fresh stump]

eh i saw enough hot women in games

[flint quartz]

I like vss and 9x39 ammo, but it won't last for long, once there are exo guys you'll need 2 to 3 headshots to put them down

[neat beacon]

So ypu know how the equipment above your health says Q but how do you use the one next to it I tried double tapping Q didn't work

[wintry pumice]

Lol it's not a mod, guess I got clickbaited

[hoary crest]

Since when was makeup the qualifier for a woman to be super beautiful?

[sweet root]

And they just move about too much for the slow bullet a lot of times, I can guarantee they drop with an SVD/SVU every time, with a VSS/VAL i cant

[inland sage]

I do have a few hundred rounds saved up. Maybe I'll try out Trophy.

[crystal granite]

I know chicks which look better w/o makeup

[hoary crest]

Ditto. Only ever dated women who look better without it out of principle

[fresh stump]

forgot how my gf looked with makeup

[sweet root]

This so much, i prefer natural beauty but i dont hate nice makeup either, its kinda nice, Birch is my waifu, shes perfect as is

[ornate sable]

I think most women are prettier with makeup. It's why it exists.

[inland sage]

When you say VSS you mean Vintar, right?

[hoary crest]

If its very subtle its alright yeah, but its very easy to overdo it an then it goes right back the other way

[crystal granite]

For me, it's simple. If I'm looking for a fun night out, idc makeup or not. If it's something more serous, only light, non excessive stuff

[fresh stump]

i mean yeah, everyone is better with makeup (if properly done)

[sweet root]

Its also for self confidence too, makeup for sure fits women well unless its overdone

[neat beacon]

How do you use the bandages next to the Q medkit

[sweet root]

Hold Q down for long enough, same for the other one, first slot is tap one is hold

[fresh stump]

HOLD

[neat beacon]

Thank you

[hoary crest]

Understandable, though it could be argued in the former case, you're probably too drunk to care 😄

[frigid hill]

yo_bossman has been warned

Reason: Bad word usage

[fresh stump]

wish we could...mark up or put some memo on map locations lmao

[crystal granite]

Ey man, gotta stay sober enough, I won't go crazy with a mutant ahh looking girl 🤣

[sweet root]

Also if you get an armor with an artifact slot that has green glow under the slot, it means you can equip any artifact there without radiation burning you, took me a while to realise this

[cobalt fiber]

"If it's something more serious only light non excessive makeup"

Or just let them do whatever they want?

[crystal granite]

Man the Kindergarten is a Monolith nexus, what did I step into 🤣🤣

[flint quartz]

It is not a qualifier, this is not what I meant
I meant that women often use make up to highlight their beautiful side and hide something
It is not a full make up, but some things like lipstick with not a bright color, our something for eyes
There is no time for such things in the zone, yet girls that we see in the zone manage to look good anyway

[cobalt fiber]

If my Mrs wants to wake up looking like something out of a horror film it's sound, if she wants to doll up like barbie that's sound too. I'll bang her either way

[hoary crest]

Aint noone saying they're gonna force women into not wearing makeup dude, I think you are missing the point 😄 People just have preferences on what they find attractive is all

[cobalt fiber]

So long as they're not munters it's all good either way

[hoary crest]

I bet there is a large subset of women who wouldnt date me because I'm balding, more power to em innit

[sweet root]

Yeah you can always choose, who are we to dictate

[fresh stump]

visit turkey to get hair

[hoary crest]

No lol

[crystal granite]

Date a very long haired one, she'll compensate for that

[flint quartz]

I bet a lot of women will date colonel Korshunov, and he is bald as hell

[hoary crest]

I'll be alright by the end of the next decade then 😂 f*ckin Strelok lookin ass hair at the moment

[sweet root]

Im sure a lot of women dont have trouble with balding, its quite natural for men and that would mean a sudden dip in population growth otherwise

[wintry pumice]

Embrace

[cobalt fiber]

I shave all my hair out of choice anyway and can confirm you can get enough minge with or without

[sweet root]

Thankfully im not balding but instead i have a crazy ball of hair that grows out of control and you cant even slick it down with anything

I have antennaes sticking out most the time, maybe for better reception

[cobalt fiber]

Some women prefer the bald look

[hoary crest]

As soon as the requirement for a combover kicks in, thats whats happening mate 😂 Straight razor that crap right off

[hoary crest]

Was like that as a teenager, can be a nightmare to maintain when you have the curls

[cobalt fiber]

Only thing I can't get rid of is the facial hair. Doesn't look right at all

[crystal granite]

Cue the scene from Home Alone when the dude gets electrified 😂

[sweet root]

Mine is semi curled and more so on the left side than the right so no matter what itll look way out of balance hahahha

[hoary crest]

Hey at least you aint patchy mate

[crystal granite]

My barbers hate me, cause I got thick and dense af hair. I once broke the barbers clipper cause the motor gave out

[sweet root]

I want a full beard but i can only do full goatees, somehow at the age of 35 the cheeks mostly just pale fuzz

[hoary crest]

Heh, fair enough man, thats pretty unique

[hoary crest]

Better en me pal. Can do upper lip, chin, soulpatch an muttons... the bit inbetween is still bald at 30 😂

You do not wanna let yourself get muttons.