☢┃stalker-general

[sweet root]

Muttons would be dope... I tried shaving off my stache the other day and boy was it a mistake, not gonna do it again, took me 25 years to realize a stache is what a man needs

I looked like a shriveled turnip without it

[flint quartz]

You can do fine with or without stache
Just never cut the stache and left a beard

[sweet root]

Aye its either full thing, stache, or nothing, beard alone isnt doing it

[wintry pumice]

Just embrace the Korushnov look, never have to look back

[sweet root]

He looked so cool too, ill definitely feel great joining his forces next time

[wintry pumice]

No hair to worry about, no hairfall too

[flint quartz]

You can even have the same cool scars if you don't want a beard to trim

[crystal granite]

I wonder if he could get a custom fit, memory foam helmet? No hair advantage I guess

[wintry pumice]

Wonder why Scar wears a hoodie throughout the game. Do we ever see him take it off?

[sweet root]

Thats to make it obvious he has more to hide than would appear, concious about it or not

[crystal granite]

I can't wait to put a bullet in him

[ornate sable]

Pretty sure the actor who plays him is bald, so I think Scar is too. He also kind of looks like me, and I'm also bald. I'm claiming Scar for team bald.

[flint quartz]

He'll give you a piece of bread

[wintry pumice]

Leave Scar alone you monster

[crystal granite]

Yeah, the loot on enemies is abysmal. 3 bullets across 2 broken guns, piece of bread and if you're lucky, a sausage

[flint quartz]

He is doing everything right

[ornate sable]

And all the grenades you could ever need

[sweet root]

Character design is always calculated, just about everything in a character has went thru many iterations and design choices and meetups, to tie down the character to the story and a backstory, where he is from and what he is about, all should come clear just by looking at them, and you can clearly see Scar has a lot to hide, clearly crazy and doesnt take care of himself, hence the yellowed teeth and gaunt cheeks, hes utterly devoted in only one thing, and everything else is secondary, this comes true thru the story. this is what i got from first look at the character

[wintry pumice]

Yes indeed

[crystal granite]

Lost the count of how many I got

[flint quartz]

No, you'll literally will loot something that looks like bread from his body

I wonder if that was a strelok with hair on the roof in trailers

[sweet root]

So yeah the characters are all fantastic, i could never write better ones myself

[flint quartz]

Yeah, it seems like strelok had a lot more hair in 2021 gameplay trailer

[sweet root]

The Doctor also has more darker hair and doesnt look as old, im kinda mixed about this, he looks more regular now, which i like, it implies even a regular person could be dealing in something so utterly dangerous as the C-con

Made him more approachable in a way, just a dude in a hut but way more to him

[crystal granite]

Who Scar?

[neat beacon]

I wish there was a mod that would let you spawn a weapon all I find are broken guns

[sweet root]

Protagonist of Clear Sky

[hoary crest]

A different character model was used as to not give away too much of his involvement iirc

[flint quartz]

The fact that swamp doctor turned out to be kaimanov shocked me, I thought he is a good guy
But once I understood that he is the creator of brain scorcher, I felt disgust

[crystal granite]

The moment I met him I was like "Richter ffs why you lead me here"

[sweet root]

UE5 tools mod exists, adds a console to give commands to, i used it to give myself some stuff that didnt spawn where they shouldve, like the SVD silencer in detention center

[cobalt fiber]

I'm gonna be honest, I wasn't a huge fan of Richter

[hoary crest]

Agreed

[flint quartz]

No, you, by killing the Scar, he deserves it

[crystal granite]

I wish there was a consistent indicator before you pick a gun up showing you the state of it. I see some guns on the ground hage a red symbol on em, wish more had it. Would save me tons of time

[cobalt fiber]

They'll probably include this in their QOL changes

[sweet root]

Richter mostly seems to just be a reflection of your actions, as a guide in a way, to tell you if you have steered from a path or not, its kinda confusing, but its how i interpreted him, i liked him a lot and the Spark ending really gave him life

[crystal granite]

Thank you. See @wintry pumice ? This guy gets it

[neat beacon]

Yeah seriously

[cobalt fiber]

He seemed pretty damn happy in the Strelok and Kaymanov ending too

[crystal granite]

After a skirmish or a bigger battle, seeing two dozen guns and checking each none is too time taking

[sweet root]

Yeah, i think hes a narrative tool to just reinforce the player actions, its kinda clever, he does make you accountable for your actions in a lot of scenes and constantly questioning you, its as if hes your morals, but from outside

[cobalt fiber]

Kaymanov ending moreso. But the difference wasn't huge between the two as far as Richter goes

[crystal granite]

I wanna find out how he lost that group he was leading, what happened etc

[neat beacon]

Or a vendor that actually has more then a double barrel shotgun and a viper I have plenty of coupons but I only has the silenced pistol you get at the start a viper and double barrel

[flint quartz]

I think red guns should be indicated, but yellow ones no, it is not so easy to say in which state the weapon is without good checking, if gun is super bad you'll notice it without picking up, but with yellow ones and better I think it is valid that you need to pick up weapon first to check it's state

[cobalt fiber]

During Spark ending even Skif sounds unsure of himself (at Orbita) whereas Strelok and Kaymanov he seems content. Kaymanov especially

[crystal granite]

ADD THE VEPR SHOTGUN

[weary hedge]

Still. It’s nice to to have information for final authority decisions

[ancient frost]

So I have this problem. I'm 40 years old and modded the shit out of soccer to make it as real as possible. But now when I start gaming like 10 hours fly by and by the time I look at the watch it's already 4:00 in the morning and I work at 6 :00 and I'm 40 lol

[cobalt fiber]

In fact everybody seemed happy with the Kaymanov ending. Not counting Scar, Korushonov and Strelok obviously

[crystal granite]

Valid

[sweet root]

Sounds like good times, im 35

[crystal granite]

I'm 23 and the time flies while gaming

[sweet root]

In my experience any time wasted enjoying is not time wasted at all

[cobalt fiber]

You're never too old to sweat a good ole gaming sesh

[weary hedge]

Y’all don’t put on some deodorant?

[cobalt fiber]

For me when the kids and Mrs are asleep and I've got that time it's a release and an escape. No more responsibility, just a blissful escape in whatever world I choose

[sweet root]

naw i aint even showering (i do is a joke, i love showers)

[hoary crest]

Pfft. Throw yourself in the nearest body of water like a real (cave)man

[weary hedge]

Exactly why my sleep schedule is so messed up

[crystal granite]

Lynx Africa?

[frigid hill]

onemadsoul has been warned

Reason: Bad word usage

[sweet root]

But sometimes these seshes grow a bit too long...for such an adult, like last weekend most i did was sit down and play this

[weary hedge]

?

[sweet root]

Id do it again

[cobalt fiber]

Yeah I go to about 2/3am because these are all asleep by 10/11 week nights. The sleep deprivation is worth it though

[ancient frost]

Why does time fly by in stalker so fast? And I started drinking energy drinks again. They work like a thousand times better when you're old lol

[pseudo lotus]

Did you guys know you can get into the dead valley with a vaulting mod? And there's actually a bunch of stuff there.... some sort of above-ground path to X7, and everything.

[ancient frost]

My wife divorced me with two kids because of this game. It's all your fault guys

[weary hedge]

Same. Been grinding stalker and shooting drills irl. I have no free time and I’m ok with it

[pseudo lotus]

There's a pathway to just.... walk into the generators. And its acctually very atmospheric and well put-together. I had no idea the area wasn't supposed to be inaccessible until I beat the game and started to look up spoilers

[flint quartz]

Idk how spreading the zone everywhere is a good thing, we'll have thousands death before everyone knows where these zones are
Kaimanov told that current zone is like this as we only showed it violence, but what makes him think that spreading the zone won't lead to showing only more violence to the zone?

[ancient frost]

I don't regret it one bit 😂

[sweet root]

I used to hate energy drinks but after doing client work for Red Bull games and getting their sponsored free energy drinks i grew into a bit of an addict loool

[pseudo lotus]

Im a black coffee enjoyer

[weary hedge]

Coffee man. It’s saved my tail waaaay too many times flying long haul night flights. And it’s not speedy

[cobalt fiber]

I don't think it's a good direction personally, but everybody else is content in allowing the zone to be free and allowing mankind to shape its own form of path and survival through the/those zones. After analysing the ending a second time I did find some bliss in the previously foreshadowed (throughout the entire game) fate that this particular ending brought

I was and am for Strelok above all, but the Kaymanov ending makes sense, but would undeniably not have the desired effect

[sweet root]

I prefer coffee, but an energy drink is easier...

Especially when your workplace has it stocked 24/7

[weary hedge]

Eh. That stuff isn’t kind whatsoever to your body. Coffee isn’t great but it’s better.

[crystal granite]

I use energy powder

[weary hedge]

[sweet root]

I dont drink a lot of it, maybe few cans a week, not everyday, but i should slow down with it still

[crystal granite]

?

[sweet root]

Anabolic steroids or go home

[weary hedge]

Folks in Miami in the 1980s did the same thing

[flint quartz]

Yeah, I'm with strelok here too, but I felt like strelok ending showed the least of consequences of this ending, it shows you what happens in next 2 hours and that's all
Also, with kaimanov, he turns to faust in the end so it seems faust might tricked you, or faust means that you embraced your role as minolith messenger, I'm not sure with this faust moment

[crystal granite]

Unfortunately, that has gotten too expensive recently

[weary hedge]

[sweet root]

Isnt the Strelok goal for everyone just to leave the zone alone? not much more revelations there

Think he said as much

[cobalt fiber]

I don't think Faust was ever Kaymanov, but this is a vision that Skif had and perhaps may be showing us that Faust's goal was not evil after all, and was actually quite alike Kaymanov's own visions and goals, however Faust went about it all thr wrong way

[flint quartz]

Yes, he wants to contain the zone, but I thought it won't be like that
At least I hoped he'd release monolith guys as Strelok understands that you simply can not brainwash people

[wintry pumice]

Scar is innocent, it's Marshall who you should be blaming

[sweet root]

His goal is dumb as all can be, all it takes is for him to grow old and time will then defeat it all

[cobalt fiber]

I don't think we're supposed to take it literally in the sense of Kaymanov =/ Faust. It's more than that

[sweet root]

Strelok is fighting against such forces of human nature theyre going to eventually win, unless you give him the edge

[wintry pumice]

Bring back Strider

[sweet root]

But what happens then? the zone will still be there, will be in future, whats to stop future forces of doing just what he is trying to stop?

[cobalt fiber]

All of the dialogue and extra documents later game and even very early on in the game indicate the game was foreshadowing Kaymanov's ending throughout though. We may not like it but no ending was meant to be perfect. It's the message that hits the hardest though and is why it will probably be canon

[flint quartz]

C-con kept zone close for quite a lot of time, and only strelok with help of kaimanov could figure out how to sneak past by
So, as there is none left alive to help to stop strelok, I think he has quite a good chance to isolate the zone

[sweet root]

Its a futile fight against eventuality, kinda reflects how us humans have to constantly fight a futile fight against the forces of entropy, to keep order, falter a second and it will crumble down, But its what makes us human

[cobalt fiber]

Skif is Strelok's biggest threat which is interesting in itself

[hoary crest]

It can be easily put forward that no good endings is good writing, and even somewhat realistic writing. Seldom ever are the results of conflict good for all parties involved

[wintry pumice]

C consciousness will stop them

[cobalt fiber]

I don't think the writing was bad tbh. I think they did a good job keeping consistent and foreshadowing throughout the entire game. There is consistency if you look deep enough

[wintry pumice]

Bro can't even survive an emission

[rustic pollen]

It' barky they think tha6 are lemons

[sweet root]

And this is also very much down to interpretation, i took the Spark ending as the best ending i couldve taken in that situation, even if there was a possibility it was all a lie, its still a very nice lie, I also lied to Strider, no way i was going to make him suffer for eternity with the guilt of losing his brothers

[cobalt fiber]

I told Strider the truth at first during my Strelok ending, the truth during Spark. N/A for Kaymanov as my save was reverted to cabin

[sweet root]

But the cutscene with Strider in Noosphere really make me feel like he knew I was lying... man what a powerful scene... oscar worthy'

[hoary crest]

It might be a nice lie to those experiencing it, but its still a lie, and arguably even brainwashing, which sort of fits the whole theme of Spork

[flint quartz]

Strelok closed the zone with big ass deadly anomaly on the zone borders, so I think it doesn't matter if he lives or dies, zone is sealed

[sweet root]

Yeah, but to the extent all kinds of brainwashing, between factions, noosphere, agents, c-con, you just really have to pick your poison, or just leave

[hoary crest]

Or get in the tube 😄

[ancient frost]

i added u lets be kids again 🙂

[sweet root]

Added you back bruv

[flint quartz]

I told him the truth and it visually and emotionally broke him, this moment with Strider is one of the best in game for me

[ancient frost]

https://www.nexusmods.com/stalker2heartofchornobyl/mods/101 any one try this reshade i want to game to have fear

[sweet root]

But the Zone is ever shifting and you cant really ever know, someone might find a way, its what we did after all right?

[wintry pumice]

Awww 🫂

[ancient frost]

u speak Ukrainian ?

[sweet root]

I am from finland, but i know a lot of ukranians, my dad owns a strawberry farm funnily enough, and we employ ukranians every year

[violet dune]

all these reshades makes game for me look so unrealistic.

[sweet root]

They get a whole year´s salary in like 2-3 months there

[violet dune]

feels like someone just dropped tint and put contrast +50%

[sweet root]

because of the difference in economics, and buying power i think

[sweet root]

UE5 Lumen system doesnt need Reshades at all, youre only gonna break it with them

[ancient frost]

i like the amd fidelity fx in reshade

[sweet root]

Its already very vibrant and great looking game

[maiden grotto]

Problem is, he used monolith to form a guards to stop people coming in and out... Whilst Strelok might live for a long time, everyone else will die... Who guards then. Streloks ending is very short sighted.

A bit like the missing to turn on the air vents again at noontide base after the ISPAJGGHT incendent... Whates the point in making the place nice for the people there... if no one is there?

It's stuipd, it makes no sense.

[violet dune]

it is very rare to find a good reshade. 99% of them are crap.

[sweet root]

Yeah, i made the point earlier that Strelok´s goals were dumb and shortsighted, just because times change, you cant really keep it up forever without destroying the entire zone, someone will eventually find a way

You can bury the whole thing under concrete and rebar and someone will dig under

And whos to know if there are other ways and other locations to access Noosphere

[maiden grotto]

It will fall about after 40-50 years, maybe less.

Concrete an rebar need constant maintenance... There is an abandonded concrete island in Japan IIRC. Every left it like 50 years ago and the thing has fallen apart

[sweet root]

Also the new sarcophagus, mostly because the first one was put together too fast for permanence, but also that it just doesnt last that long

Without constant maintenance

I will have to make it a bucket list goal to visit pripyat just once

[maiden grotto]

I always that that ending where the zone expanded would be the one to really make sense... Ties in with DLC, and just makes the playable area so much bigger.

Uses AI on maps to accurately recreate the forests and fields...

But also add the dimension of having civilians stuck in the zone and the dynamics that would bring keeping them alive... Or kill them, and sell them for meat

[maiden grotto]

Creeps AF, apparetly, Top Gear went there and it was well, interesting

[sweet root]

Havent doen that ending but thats what Scar litereally said in Spark ending, that if we dont do the thing the zone will not stop and detroys everything, dont think he was lying, he was doubting himself around the same time too

Because we turned on the big rotating thing to access representative

[maiden grotto]

Who knows, I just found all the endings wanting, so never completed the game as they sucked.

[sweet root]

I was fully satisfied myself, even exceeded some expectations, which is always a plus

Only played thru once so dont know the other endings yet, no spoils pls

I was expecting a much more grindy and monotonous assault on monolith like in SoC but it was pretty cool fight scenes instead, lots of crazy twists and turns

[maiden grotto]

And that is fine, different strokes for different folks, but for me, I wanted more, and the option of continuing to play... Like Streloks ending, why is there not an option to keep playing and trying to survive in this no permantnly closed of area

[crystal granite]

Sooooooo....Duga went to shit. However, since I get attacked whenever I go near it, is that a viable way to farm gear to sell?

[sweet root]

Yea the game should let you play afterwards but i can totally see how that would completely conflict with some of the endings, breaking narrative

[crystal granite]

NG+ is a must

[maiden grotto]

no food supplies, no ammo and weapons getting in, medical supplies... Bloodsukers and all you have is a bow and arrow? Do the safe zones become the places where ammo is made etc, as there is lots of factories and machinery lying around.

[sweet root]

What this game needs more than a freeplay is a more random access to loot drops like weapon attachements, like the 20 round drum mag for a Saiga is too late for being any use, by that point i have an iconic SVU and a gauss gun and a Dnipro in 7.62

[crystal granite]

Whoa easy there. This is stalker not green hell

[maiden grotto]

But those would the consequences of Strelok closing the zone off.

Never played green hell, it looks about as interesting as watching grass grow.

[crystal granite]

Then what? All the guns immediately disappear? The Zone is a miniature Texas. More guns than people + mutants combined

[sweet root]

I like the kind of semi casual approach the Stalker games take to survival, its there but its not an annoyance

[maiden grotto]

Like I said, bases and camps would probably recentre around old factories and race would be on to convert them to make ammo and spare parts...

[sweet root]

Sure a Gamma style simulator has its place, but if you frontload a story heavy game with also such heavy systems as in gamma it can take a lot away from the narrative

[crystal granite]

I don't mind some survival, but too many games take it to the extreme. Want it extreme? Make it a whole new difficulty where you run around butt naked with a stick and a stone. Rust post wipe style. But don't make it default/post game default. Way to push 99% of players away

[sweet root]

This time i just wanted the freedom to explore without taking too much care about taking care of hunger meters and such, felt kinda relaxing

[maiden grotto]

As I have always said, as real as possible, within the realms of common sense and gameplay.

It needs to be a game first, but nothing wrong with making it a realistic as possible.

[ancient frost]

i did that with mods its almoust like dayz now lol

[sweet root]

And this is from someone who had spent thousands of hours on Anomaly, EFP and Gamma before this launch, i think theyre all great but theyre not really STALKER

[ancient frost]

gamma 2 in works ?

[crystal granite]

Also, like I said. For hardcore realistic freaks, make a new difficulty level. I'm happy the way it is now

[sweet root]

S2 was so similar to S1 in all its core mechanics and core loops i love it, why change a formula that works

Its like diving back into Half Life 2 but in a different universe, classic game design

[maiden grotto]

I find the more hardcore it gets, the less realist ic it gets most of the time.... As things are made overly hard fort the sake of being hard.

[sweet root]

Yea i understand that aspect in a free form sandbox game like Anomaly/Gamma, since you gotta keep the player interest for as long as possible and the faster you get all the gear the faster it diminishes

[maiden grotto]

Even know, why do I need to eat 85,000 sausages a day for every 10 feet I walk... It's BS... Yeah, I am hungry, when I wake up, but let me buy a big breakfast in the bar etc

[sweet root]

But in a story heavy game like S2 it would just make the game way too heavy, with too many mechanics

And i felt great breezing thru a lot of the end game content because I could, didnt need to grind, it leaves a lot of stuff to explore for more playthrus

[maiden grotto]

That is fine, but once you have done the game, then allow players to just roam the zone without the story... I don;t want to have to be force to complete the game and do main quests to open things... I just want to chill and explore

[sweet root]

Yeah but it would be dependent on the ending you took, with the Spark ending it would make no sense to freeroam afterwards, its not the same zone for you anymore

[crystal granite]

I believe a New Game+ with an optional choice to crank up the difficulty each time would solve the realism problem for many, and those who want an ever increasing challenge would get it

[maiden grotto]

It's nuts and its silly and unrealistic

[plain fiber]

I really don't think NG+ would gel well with S.T.A.L.K.E.R. tbh, but that's just my opinion.

I'd rather have a separate free roam sandbox mode akin to COC/Anomaly/GAMMA.

[sweet root]

But it really made the point where you can actually have a working gun, way more worth it

[crystal granite]

Either or, I'll be happy

[plain fiber]

More than likely free roam would follow whatever ending GSC decides to make canon.

[sweet root]

I would kinda like NG+, but as an option to start a new game with, with more HC mutant spawns, more enemy encampments, and all around more anomalies and nasty things

But only after they fix the mutant tankiness

[maiden grotto]

They can do it regardless of ending... Congratulations STALKER you completed teh game... Would like to start a new game "story" or "free roam"

[sweet root]

And wouldnt that be immersion breaking if i ever saw one, would immediately remove any and all investment you had for the ending

"you decided to spend an eternity in noosphere, here, you can still go out and play"

That defeats the point of the Shining Zone entirely, its a place without violence and darkness

[plain fiber]

Which is why I think free roam should be a separate game mode.

[fresh ridge]

Yo do you guys think that 3 fans are enough for a 7900xtx or will it over heat or something

[maiden grotto]

What?

[sweet root]

This, i can get behind, why not have a fully accessible freeroam mode of it, might as well? some like it, some like story heavy games

[plain fiber]

||The Shining Zone is a lie.||

[sweet root]

You sure? 100%? 150%? and even if it is, it is a nice lie, and as far as endings goes in the Zone, its as close to good ending i can think of

[fresh ridge]

@maiden grotto I want to play stalker but I don't want my PC to go boom boom

[maiden grotto]

It's not going to go boom

[ancient frost]

all amd stuff needs water cooling 20% more goodness

[plain fiber]

Yes, 1 million percent. Play through to get the Strelok or Skif/The Zone ending and you'll find that out.

[sweet root]

Yea been a bit spoiled already, dont want to know more, but this is the lie i believed in fully and what if the nice paradise is a lie, were still in it

[maiden grotto]

I got an all AMD system, I get all the goodness I need... I undervolt to around 1010/1020...

[plain fiber]

Just...go get the Strelok and/or Skif ending, I think both reveal the truth to you.

[sweet root]

Why insist? Maybe I just want this one ending and feel contended?

[maiden grotto]

Are you on about case fans?

It depends on how you have got them...

[fresh ridge]

Yes 2 intake 1 exhaust

[plain fiber]

Well then watch the cutscenes on YouTube?

[sweet root]

Ofc ill play more endings, but you saying theres only so few right ways to end the game, when you can do so many interpretations

[maiden grotto]

What case do you have?

[sweet root]

Jesus, you really dont understand do you

[fresh ridge]

Monotech xr

[lyric kayak]

I wish I could find a single cutscene in Ukrainian with english subs lol

[plain fiber]

No I don't, I'm having a difficult time understanding what point you're trying to make.

[sweet root]

Ok lemme break it down for ya, I like this ending, because its immersive, it was the path my Skif took from one point to another making a lot of decisions on the way, he ended up at the ending he did, I dont want any meta stuff spoiling my fun of the game thank you very much

Its ok if you want your immersion broken by meta knowledge or not, its not me

[maiden grotto]

Yes it will be perfectly fine, just need to get the fan speeds right... But it looks as though you have 3x 120 fans which is more than enough.

If you are still worried about heat, you can always undervolt the GPU a little to keep the temps down.

Or limit fps to 120, and upscale with FSR 3.1 so your card doesn;t use more than it needs

[fresh ridge]

I personally don't like upscaling so I'll just cap FPS probably

[gleaming ridge]

evening gentlemen, sorry to interrupt but does anyone know how to toggle the grenade launcher on the s15? or in general
on keyboard

[fresh ridge]

I think you hold the fire mode select button

[sweet root]

Upscaling can actually make some games look better, like some foliage heavy games such as Stalker2, that has a lot of aliasing around the edges of said foliage and stuff, DLSS artifacting and dithering can smooth it out to a more consistent look but it also blurs out the image some, pick your poison kind of stuff

[plain fiber]

That's fine, I wasn't trying to force you to do anything it was just a suggestion. Sorry if I came across as forceful or overly insistent.

However, be aware that you're going to be in the dark regarding a lot of the game's lore and story if you never pursue the other endings or watch their cutscenes. (This will matter more if GSC ever decide to make one of the endings canon, especially the Skif one.)

[gleaming ridge]

omg ty

[plain fiber]

"B" key if I remember correctly.

[maiden grotto]

Never fired a grenade in game... Just never figured out how to fire the dame thing... And in protest at the overly joypad optimised game.

Why can't I bind a key to load the nade launcher? Why am I forced to use this BS wheel garbage

[plain fiber]

Hold down the fire select key to switch to the grenade launcher. I haven't had to use the wheel once.

[gleaming ridge]

yeah same, i forget that the wheel exists sometimes

[sweet root]

Ah no, sorry if it felt like i was being forced to, ehh, im not thinking that, i just said my point albeit in a bit blunt way, apologies

[fresh ridge]

It never makes it look better imo but you do get more frames

[maiden grotto]

Thanks, games only been out a couple of months

[plain fiber]

I think the original trilogy did it the same way too actually, but I don't remember for sure.

[sweet root]

It does help with aliasing thats just as simple fact of the dithering effect, it blurs it out

[gleaming ridge]

i think it was "V" or something, its been too long
and back then i didnt have the extra mouse buttons that got auto assigned

[sweet root]

And i hate looking at sharp jagged edges flickering around gives me migraine

[fresh ridge]

Dude have you seen birds and stuff when they do upscaling they look like 3 pixels orbiting each other

[plain fiber]

I'm going for the Skif ending personally just because I think it's the most interesting and I've read that doing it provides the player with the largest lore-dump, which I'd very much like to read.

[plain fiber]

It might have been? I feel like I remember having to hold down the fire-select key back then to switch to the grenade launcher.

[sweet root]

Ill do Ward next time, no idea how to do "Skif ending", i want it to be a mystery i can solve

[maiden grotto]

I remember it being a sperate key... Was easy to use back then as it was optimised for mouse and keyboard.

[sweet root]

There are ofc drawbacks and depends also on the settings

And how well the DLSS is implemented, the best implementation of it was in the game called "Control" by Remedy Games, where it actuall made the game look better

[plain fiber]

You may or may not need to look up a guide as I think it's the more convoluted ending to get. I think ||you need to not overly support Ward, Spark or fully ally with Strelok, but I'll avoid going into too much detail.||

[maiden grotto]

Well, it depends on what you are upscaling from

[fresh ridge]

I have amd

[sweet root]

They have their own systems for upscaling then, wouldnt really compare

Or itd be an NVIDIA lawsuit since its their only direct competition

[fresh ridge]

In my opinion I think AMD upscaling is cooler because it's literally just entirely a software there's no hardware requirements and I think that's really cool and maybe eventually it will get better than old versions of dlss

[maiden grotto]

I use upscaling, looks better for me. Running a 7900xt I get about 100FPS with upsacaling, whilst using the LOD mod, that basically massive increases the draw distance for trees and grass and prevents poppins.

Its a beautiful Mod

[sweet root]

Software based will always fall short on hardware based though, which is why the NVIDIA DLSS is better

[bleak wadi]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VRk_Q_g3Ysc

[maiden grotto]

And it's for everyone, not hidden behind nVidia BS

[fresh ridge]

Yes but also people don't upgrade or at least most people don't upgrade every generation I'm saying that I feel like FSR is already really good and the fact that you can just slap it on like a GTX 1080 I think that's pretty cool

[sweet root]

Yeah i have a 3060 RTX and a 5 year old toaster, i know

Game runs allright on medium but wouldnt mind an upgrade

[fresh ridge]

I feel like lower than 45 FPS it really just gets annoying to play

[maiden grotto]

the 9070 is sounding interesting, but wait for the reviews to come out.

[sweet root]

That gap between it and 60 is a difference if you hit a monolith in the dome or not

Sure you can dome with stutters but is it reliable

[maiden grotto]

I have a 9700xt, I play on epic with a LOD mod, that massive kills FPS and was still getting 60fps native... you have a much better card, you do not have a thing to worry about...

You can play this mod and get 70/80 fps native, if not more.

[plain fiber]

I can comfortably play on 30 FPS as long as it's consistent. I'll take lower FPS over contstant stuttering any day.

[maiden grotto]

and 1440p

[sweet root]

Pretty sure yeah, imma upgrade soon enough for KCD2 although i heard the game is far better optimized than the first one, which is not surprising since theyve only improved on their existing systems

[fresh ridge]

I'll probably get a little bit more than 80 potentially

[fresh ridge]

See I used to do the same thing but once I started playing games that looks decently good at like 100 FPS or whatever you really just can't go back 30 FPS kind of looks like a slideshow to me now

[maiden grotto]

You ain't got schnizzle to worry about... Your GPU, is going to do some home cooking and cleaning at the same time, to keep itself busy

[sweet root]

60FPS minimum, and you want your FPS cap at your monitor refresh rate anyhow or reach it even to get potential

[fresh ridge]

I can send you a picture of the PC once it's done if you want to see that

[maiden grotto]

go for it.

What CPU you got?

[sweet root]

But most above say, 90fps is just placebo

[plain fiber]

Graphical fidelity has never been the highest on my priority list tbh, I'd rather have a good aesthetic over a high pixel count.

[fresh ridge]

Ryzen 7 7800x3d

[sweet root]

There is 0 way a human can notice a difference between 90 frames a second and 140, its on a non linear curve

[fresh ridge]

Yeah but I can notice it between 30 and 100

[maiden grotto]

I got a 7900, which actually runs faster than 7900x, when I switch my PBO on...

[sweet root]

Yeah for sure, like i said, on a curve, but a lot of people keep flexing their 144 refresh rates and FPS counts, when it does basically nothing

Compared to say 90 fps and refresh, youd have to be a human camera to start noticing difference

All the sitcoms and tv shows we watch are in 48fps, do we notice any lag?

[maiden grotto]

Not true, and it doesn't work like that...

and more imporantly the computer can see... I can't remeber the in's and out, but it explains why in CS2 etc, you head shot someone and they run away... LTT, done a great video explaining.

[fresh ridge]

To be fair I said 30 and also a lot of the time it's harder to notice cuz it's not like you're controlling the character you're watching a show like I'm pretty sure cutscenes that are not in super high FPS still look pretty good it's just gameplay that can look a little funky

[sweet root]

So you mean your client side FPS is tied down to server side? no way

[plain fiber]

I've always been able to notice the difference between the FPS used in film, the FPS used in soap operas, 30 FPS, and 60 FPS. I'd need to see a comparison between 90 and 100 FPS to see if I can tell the difference.

[sweet root]

Yea film uses 24 FPS, so its entirely noticable to a say, TV show, which are commonly in 2x ratio to it

[maiden grotto]

no, that is not it... It is something to do with aiming at something that is not there, but looks there on screen... I can;t remember the in's and out, you need to watch the LTT video on 240mhz monitors and are they worth it.

[plain fiber]

Well soap operas use an even higher FPS than your standard TV show, can't remember what it is though.

[sweet root]

They tried to do a movie with 48 FPS with the hobbit films and they flopped in theaters, everyone said it felt like watching a soap opera, action does better in prerendered film or cutscene in lower frame rate as it adds impact to frames and movement '

48 is just too smooth, it fits the more casual setting of say, FRIENDS TV show set

[plain fiber]

Oh yeah, I forgot about that whole stunt!

[sweet root]

The new Puss in Boots movie, does all its action scenes in like 12 FPS or less even, it look almost like a comic book ,and it has so much impact, its stupid how good it works

[maiden grotto]

Nobody liked them, because they was bloated fluff over three movies...

They could have done 3/4 hour movie and just did as was written in the book, but no... Needed another trilogy and BS love story between a dwarf and elf... F Off

[plain fiber]

I didn't hate the Hobbit films. I do still need to read the book though.

[sweet root]

For sure, but im only talking about frames a second here

[sweet root]

I had the original book from the 60s, with Tove Jansson illustrations, the gal who made Moomins, i borrowed it to my sister once and havent seen it since

[maiden grotto]

It's a film and whatever the FPS was for last 100 years, it done us fine, it still does us fine, and anything new is just gammick to sound cool, over something that never really mattered.

Although, the quality of the film 72mm or whatever it was, did make a difference, but expensive though

[sweet root]

yea the conventions are the same still now after all the years of movie making for a reason

[maiden grotto]

I would be happy to take her out, if you want it back...

I am not as expensive as Sidorovich

[plain fiber]

I hope the inevitable weapon rebalance involves some changes/improvements to some weapon upgrades as well as making weapon damage and penetration more tied to their caliber.

At least in Clear Sky and Call of Pripyat, pretty much every weapon was viable all the way to the end game; AKs weren't useless against exoskeletons.

[sweet root]

She married though haha, and kinda crazy

[maiden grotto]

2 for the price of one, and free Sidorovich chicken special.

[violet dune]

did stalker 2 wiki launched? before release there was a promo about it

[plain fiber]

I'm also sad that I can't turn the G36 into a low-recoil, almost-zero spread/laser accurate, bullet hose DMR like I could in CoP.

*insert "Look at how they massacred my boy." GIF here*

[maiden grotto]

I'm sad that haven't included the SA80... Booooooo!!

[plain fiber]

We need more weapons in general tbh. We have the most SMGs we've ever seen in the (vanilla) S.T.A.L.K.E.R. franchise, but the number of assault rifles seems kind of...lame. Like there aren't as many levels of progression as there used to be.

[cobalt fiber]

There's HOC additions in the Stalker wiki but it's definitely a WIP. Coming along though

[violet dune]

yea, i found it they will release on march 20

[lyric kayak]

In the words of Luca Brasi, I hope your first Stalker DLC is a masculine DLC

[cobalt fiber]

He's sleeping with the fishes

[jolly canyon]

my issue with the guns is that a lot of them feel kinda the same when shooting and also using a sniper in most situations seems like kneecapping yourself. i found that the entire game i was just clicking heads with a semi auto rifle or a pistol.

[cobalt fiber]

I think using a sniper in non ideal situations irl is also like kneecaping yourself

[jolly canyon]

yeah but with the encumbrance mechanics i just found no use for the snipers at all tbh. it just seemed like once i got the clusterfuk there was no use for much else

[sweet root]

Btw does this server have a stalker radio or something? for work ambience

[cobalt fiber]

The clusterfuck was my go to as well, other than the degrade rate it is top notch

[jolly canyon]

yeah it just seemed to outclass all my other guns which was a little lame honestly. i wanted to have some variety i suppose but it was so much better and the ammo was everywhere

[sweet root]

Late game the 7.62 upgraded Dnipro and The Whip was just the thing, i think i sold the clusterfuck pretty fast as it fell down in damage

[plain fiber]

Original trilogy assault rifle progression:

Warsaw Pact:

AKS-74U, AK-74, AN-94, OTs-14 GROZA/AS VAL

NATO:

SA80, that M4 stand-in I can't remember the IRL name of, SIG 550, FN F2000/G36

S2 assault rifle progression:

Warsaw Pact:

AKS-74U, AK-74, Fort-221, OTs-14 GROZA, AS VAL, Dnipro

NATO:

HK-416, Fora

So...Warsaw Pact is actually eating really good, it's the NATO weapons that got shafted in terms of assault rifle choice/progression.

[sweet root]

The "ukranian Tavor" is the Fort-221?

[plain fiber]

Couldn't remember the name, I think that's it.

[jolly canyon]

The Dnipro is good too I guess. idk i wish the high caliber guns felt a little more high caliber though i suppose.

[sweet root]

I think its funny how many get the gun wrong, think even Drewski thought it was a different gun

[sweet root]

The 7.62 upgrade and using AP ammo absolutely shreds the end game enemies, its stupid good, i ran out of durability though

[jolly canyon]

also im kinda sad that the vss is dogshit but that's okay it's kinda dogshit irl tbh

[sweet root]

Naw they slap hard, the entire 9x39 series does, theyre slower bullets but they pack a whole lot more kinetic power than your 5.56 or 5.45

[plain fiber]

Too bad 7.62 is such a pain in the ass to find and as far as I know no vendors reliably sell it.

[jolly canyon]

i was using a fully upgraded version of the preorder vss gun and was very unimpressed. compared to dnipro or clusterfuk it just felt like an L

[sweet root]

You can go to certain stashes to get a lot of ammo, by the end i had like over 5k ammo for the Dnipro and ended up only using 500 of it

[plain fiber]

Yeah, all of the 9x39 weapons in the original trilogy were all end-game weapons. Really want to see that brought back.

[sweet root]

Its my fav caliber and seeing them guns being done so dirty is kinda shameful

[plain fiber]

Ah damn, I've been selling all of it.

Honestly, I'm probably going to use the Fora for this playthrough because you can attach a grenade launcher.

[jolly canyon]

i keep all my ammo every run so if i run across a gun i wanna try out i can do it

[plain fiber]

Please GSC, make 9x39 end-game viable like it used to be.

These games made me fall in love with the Vintorez, it's honestly one of my favorite guns.

[sweet root]

I sell all the FMJ ammo for the guns i rarely use and keep the AP ammo only, theres plenty of it around, and it just makes the guns feel a bit more special

[plain fiber]

I never planned on using the PKM or either of the Dragunov variants, so I haven't bothered to keep their ammunition.

I wasn't planning on doing the caliber change for the Dnipro either because I didn't want the durability hit.

[jolly canyon]

i ended up only using AP at the end but couldnt bring myself to sell the FMJ lol

[sweet root]

The PKM is way too clumsy to use in the zone, i never used any LMG in any variant in any variant of Stalker games, they just dont belong in the zone where you have to be nimble and quick in your movements, they do fit Ward/IPSF personnel though as theyre not stalkers

[jolly canyon]

pkm should be stronger imo

[maiden grotto]

The best gun in the game was a .... the funny look gung with built in grenade launcher... and handle on top... But it was converted to use the AK rounds... Just melted everything insight... Only ever found it once on a random stalker.

[plain fiber]

I think I have every variant of the 9x39 ammo. I finally switched over to the Vintorez and so far it absolutely slaps. Hopefully by the time I reach the end-game, some weapon balance will have landed by then.

Probably not though.

[sweet root]

There really isnt a justification to use one now as is

[jolly canyon]

yeah it's lame. with the price of the bullets it should make you into a killing machine

[plain fiber]

The OTs-14 GROZA/S14 Tunder?

[sweet root]

The 5.45 Groza? Yea i had that in my earlier softlocked playthru and it was so good, kinda dumb though hbow it was better than the 9x39 version when the bullet is bigger in the other one, so is the powder load

[maiden grotto]

Looked like the Grom's S14's

[jolly canyon]

i hate the way the groza looks so i never use it 😄

[sweet root]

I like it, it has that stalker jank vibe to its look, and it sounds cool wthout suppressor

[plain fiber]

Couldn't remember the name of the unique 5.45 variant.

[cobalt fiber]

Kaymanov's PKM on the other hand had me feeling like John Wick

[sweet root]

AK74, all the modern AKs use 5.45 except the AK-101 and 103

[maiden grotto]

Yeah, great weapon. Found it on a dead stalker once.

[plain fiber]

That's something I really like about S.T.A.L.K.E.R., it uses so many weird, experimental or never-left-prototype-stage weapons that you would never see in any other game.

[plain fiber]

No we're talking about the GROZA.

[sweet root]

I would love a p90 in the game it would fit the scifi aesthetics too

[jolly canyon]

they shoulda put the VSSK in the game and made it one shot

[sweet root]

Oh right sorry yeah its the same name but with 15 and not 14 in the end, or something

[plain fiber]

Where's my H&K G11 GSC? I want my Kraut space-magic gun.

Might as well throw the Pancor Jackhammer on the list too.

[jolly canyon]

forgotten weapons enjoyer

[sweet root]

Naw a proper 7.62 rifle first, an AKM or the AK-103

[jolly canyon]

walther 2000!

[plain fiber]

Why not all of them?

Also the NATO assault rifle line-up needs new additions more badly than the Warsaw Pact line-up. Like I pointed out, I think we've only got two NATO assault rifles in S2.

[maiden grotto]

Lots of great weapons

FTM 200
SGI 5K - which was my go to weapon
SA80 - Another of my Fav's, becaue British.
VLA Special.

[plain fiber]

Oh, I brought this up the other day; why the hell is Skif's service pistol a Makarov and not a Fort variant? He's a former Ukrainian serviceman, not a former Soviet soldier.

[sweet root]

Sure more weapons the merrier, i was thinking in terms of balancing out the ammo type since now theres only the PKM using it, excepting the Dnipro upgrade

And for most the Dnipro upgrade comes in too late to be of any value, if youre not googling its location

[plain fiber]

Good point.

Also an SKS and a Mosin please. Hell, you could probably even give us the Mosin bayonet since we have weapon melee. They'd have to make up some new animations for it, but that could be fun.

[jolly canyon]

on the topic of sks, an m14/m1a would be cool as well

[sweet root]

Yea SKS pls, even the modernized versions

[plain fiber]

Don't we already have the modernized version of that? (Can't remember the name of it.)

[sweet root]

I enjoy single shot large caliber carbines a lot, too bad you cant really take off or change the scopes on the SVU and the likes

I want my close quarters SVD bruh

[jolly canyon]

i think the most modern version is the m1a? not certain. the old version is the m14/m21

[plain fiber]

We really should be able to remove the scopes on the DMRs and sniper rifles.

Also give us canted sights so I can turn my Vintorez into a proper special forces weapon.

[gloomy nebula]

I love the game but how is there still not an update?

[plain fiber]

Mol1t says it's coming, no specific date though. Hopefully it's a big, juicy one.

[sweet root]

Too bad the gun is kinda misrepresented in the game, i had a 1:1 airsoft replica of the M21 and in no way is the gun that bulky irl, they did something to raise the gun up too close to the face where it looks like its a log of wood, and handles just as clumsily, its only like 4+ kgs, not that heavy really

[inland sage]

...wait. Is the reason these mercs keep having red condition weapons because they buy them from Ragman?

[sweet root]

The Vector in the game weighs just as much if not more and is nimble, makes no sense

[plain fiber]

Seriously, canted sights would work so well on the Vintorez and the Clusterf*ck.

[sweet root]

Naw keep that tacticool bs in Gamma, or Call of Duty

Nothing makes me hate a gun more than canted sights and overloaded with RIS/RAS rails

[plain fiber]

I don't care if it's "tacticool", I think it would help add to the versatility of certain weapons and make combat more engaging.

I'm not asking for a full-on Tarkov-esque attachment system, just one more thing for two specific weapons; the Vintorez and the Clusterf*ck.

[sweet root]

Im sure a modder will help with that

[plain fiber]

Though tbh, it could probably work well on a couple of the assault rifles as well, but the Vintorez and Clusterf*ck are the weapons where I'm like "Man, I wish I had a way to use the long-range scope and a back-up iron sights or red dot.".

[sweet root]

Yeah you should be able to use irons on a dovetail scope mounted on an AK, its how they work, but this game is pretty arcade in its mechancis to gunplay and immersion in that aspect

[jolly canyon]

the smgs in this game feel kinda weak as well. i was hoping the vector or something would be a serious endgame weapon. they need like a p90 or a ump

[plain fiber]

I hope they can improve the bullet ballstics to be as good as they were in the original trilogy.

@jolly canyon Seriously, I've sold every SMG I've found because I've realized that they're effectively pointless.

[sweet root]

A bizon will outclass just about most assault rifles except the two end game ones, so theyre literally overpowered

[gloomy nebula]

I know something is coming. I’m sure it will be juicy. But it almost feels like they’re already slowing down a lot. They always say “it’s coming” basic pr

[plain fiber]

I think it's just the Bizon that's OP and not the rest of the SMGs.

[jolly canyon]

oh really? i didn't really use the bizon that much

[sweet root]

Well, the differenec in stats is still too close to be realistic in anyway

[plain fiber]

The holidays also just happened a week and a half ago too, so that probably slowed things down temporarily as well.

[plain fiber]

Apparenly the Ratkiller (unique Bizon variant) is brokenly OP.

[gloomy nebula]

True

[plain fiber]

We need more pistols too. Like we finally have a dedicated pistol slot and you only give us 4?

We had around 10 in the original trilogy, where'd they all go? (There's also no 9x19 pistol in the game as far as I know.)

[elfin vine]

Sold it cause it looked like a peashooter

[plain fiber]

9x18 weapons are absolutely broken right now.

[elfin vine]

9x19 USP unique I believe
And yes I slept on the aspb, it's devastating with 9x18AP

[plain fiber]

Only one 9x19 pistol and it's a unique; that's lame.

[elfin vine]

I love my acog dnipro

[frigid hill]

graykaffe has been warned

Reason: Bad word usage

[reef iron]

whoops I really enjoyed the 5.45 groza

[elfin vine]

Think my second playthrough will have to be a challenge run. Iron sights ak with just a pistol sidearm. No shotgun or two primaries.
Stalker difficulty is exactly hard, but it can be more exciting when at a handicap
I'm not eager to try a Vet run because the difficulty scaling seems arbitrary. Balances are already off, but manageable, in Stalker mode

[plain fiber]

@reef iron Yeah I used that thing for a while, I just wish you could attach a PSO scope to it like you could in the trilogy. As far as I know it has no longer range option.

[jolly canyon]

veteran difficulty is fine. not hard since the mutant nerf

[reef iron]

You can slap the acog onto it

[elfin vine]

I don't think it has a sidemount

[plain fiber]

...what? That's like, gun sacrilege.

[reef iron]

It’s amazing lol

[elfin vine]

An ACOG on an AK platform is like marmite

[reef iron]

I was sad to pass up my vss but it felt like 9x39 wasn’t cutting it late game, always was running out as well

[plain fiber]

It's a 30 year old Warsaw Pact weapon, putting an ACOG on it is objectively wrong.

[plain fiber]

Disagree there, Veteran does too much to f**ck the player over for it to be enjoyable imo.

[sharp sierra]

So do the 2 dead freedom guys on the old science base have random gear or are they always tooled up with mac 10s remington 700s spas 12 and so on?

[jolly canyon]

i like it 😄

[reef iron]

Im excited to see what DLC weapons they will add tbh and how they bring dlc in

[maiden grotto]

AS long as they are lore friendly and not silly stuff.

[reef iron]

Im just expecting guns from previous games, as they’ve already got the bases covered for west/east guns so

[elfin vine]

Artillery mod is crazy. I just turned rookie village to ash but somehow Sidorovich is still alive.

[elfin vine]

I want it now.
Waiting to get close to end of game before using bugs to get to Reactor 4

[reef iron]

I did some exploring in the fog using uetools

[elfin vine]

I'm xbox

[reef iron]

Feels bad man

[inner crystal]

Finally finished my first run through. Dont know how to feel abt the strelok ending

[reef iron]

There’s no way that they are going to leave that many areas. North of Sircaa seems to be some sort of DLC placeholder. And there is an old map of the entire sec world on Reddit that shows future plans though it can change at any moment. But gives you an idea on where they want to go with the game

[reef iron]

I finished the ward ending, and I actually liked it.

[inner crystal]

Keep hearing ppl mention skifs ending but cant find any info on that, is it called smthg else in guides?

Also @reef iron im excited to play thru the rest; though i think i might watch them first because Im to impatient. Tried to avoid spoilers til now. Streloks is slowly growing on me as I think abt it more. Ive heard there's no clearly good ending n I lowkey appreciate that as frustrating as it is

[sweet root]

If you look closely enough you can also see the connecting Darkscape from Cordon to the Swamps, so that might be also DLC territory, who wouldnt want to visit Darkscape again huh?

[inner crystal]

Overall I loved the game n the story, probs one of my top 5

[sweet root]

For me its in the top3, i was stunned by the level of writing, its is so clever and well thought out, there is only one plot hole i can think of and thats saying a lot

[paper sand]

Some also call it the doctor/Faust ending ||take streloks path then don't kill the doc for this ending||

[inner crystal]

Oh my god thats what i was gonna do initially but I switched at the last minute. Annoyed at myself, wish i got it first ngl. Appreciate the help!

[reef iron]

I think skifs ending is the bad one lol

[inner crystal]

Yeah!! I was really curious how theyd play out some of the character's stories and while Im not happy with Scars in that I wish he got better, storywise it was such a good twist.

Also is it? Ive heard a few ppl say its the "best". Idk anything abt it yet

Also I hope the blind dogs in doctors house as well as tiger (was that his pseudodogs name?) Are ok. Hated leaving them behind.

Salty abt Star (not scars) fate too

[reef iron]

If it’s the project Y ending then I’d say so

Do people kill the doctor?

[inner crystal]

I might watch em all tonight and then playthrough that one first because I think I have a save for it? Also yeah :( i did first bc I have a crush on strelok like a dumbas

[harsh jungle]

unfortunately I have to do Strelok’s ending bc much like Strelok i too have the tism

[reef iron]

Idk about the other endings but the ward one makes sense as it explains why the characters are how they are

[harsh jungle]

I’m not killing Strelok

[reef iron]

The fight with Strelok was so annoying

[sweet root]

The only plot hole i could think of was the ||ward playthru part where they drag Strider there inside the experiment chamber|| for no reason, just to have him ||take over and make monolith ||happen?

[inner crystal]

I bet itd be, I struggled with Scars so I cant imagine how hard his would be

Also yeah, killing any of the big 3 would suck but esp Strelok. The only reason I got through scars so easy was bc its not really him ig.

[sweet root]

You could chuck it up to human hubris from Dalin to prove Strider how wrong he is but thats petty, and petty doesnt really fit Dalin, hes science first

[reef iron]

||Killing Richter hurt the most.||

[fervent estuary]

Patch today?

[inner crystal]

Oh god im not looking forward to doing that i think ill cry. I hope its not needed for the endings but. Ig if it is :(

[sweet root]

No idea what you have to do to make that happen and i want no part in it! dont spoil pls

[reef iron]

||he spawns anomalies, and has super speed so it’s just a pain to hit him at all||

[inner crystal]

||and I thought korshunovs jumping around n his m scars shield were stupid LMAO thays. Funny but also ssounds horrible||

[dense sandal]

so you cant worhship or join monolith without being a zombie or brainwashed?

[inner crystal]

I struggled so hard at the end bc my armor broke n i was not going back so i ended up running thru a lot

[reef iron]

||I didn’t mind scars fight when I figured it out, makes sense since he was an agent of C-con too||

[inner crystal]

Yeah it seems so, ik in one of the other games they mentioned they have a way of telling who's actually part of the monolith n Im sure the brainwashing stuff plays into that so it avoids risk of traitors n spies. Also more control

[dense sandal]

i do like the word monolith

sounds cool to say idk why

when i heard monolith thought they the like big baddies army didnt know they were zombies

[inner crystal]

Yeah, still sad bc i got spoiled by a comment on youtube by accident for that "twist" (i think its hinted at way before) but I thought it was a cool fight. Loved the way they incorporated the ||tvs|| into it. Took me a minute to realize there were multiple things that needed triggered tho LOL

[reef iron]

I hate that the ward ending makes me ||question if it was good or not||

[dense sandal]

imo the best outcome ending is sterloks

worst ending outcome imo is scars

[inner crystal]

Im torn on that stuff. On one hand i like the ambiguity of whether or not smthgs good and how its up to ppl to decide bc the world isnt black and white, but on the other hand I want concrete answers. I wonder if theyll ever release another game/confirm what ending is the "most canon"

Still havent seen the other endings yet so I cant have a good opinion, but I will say if they end up anything like streloks ill be pretty torn on em.

[dense sandal]

wards ending is bad to bc dont you become a c-agent??

[terse ravine]

whole world becomes c-con agents

[dense sandal]

oh! imagine a monolith ending

[terse ravine]

i was hoping there was a monolith ending

[reef iron]

Not sure honestly, it’s a weirdly open end, though I think it has the best end to the OG trilogy, ||scar and strelok are technically c-agents, though less so strelok||

[dense sandal]

hv stalker ever had one?

[reef iron]

Should be a hidden ending where you get brainwashed and zombified tbh.

[inner crystal]

Alright, gotta bounce but I hope ypu guys have fun. Gonna watch the rest asap bc all this talk has me curious as hell. Thanks for listening to my ramblings bc god do I have thoughts now. Great game

[dense sandal]

arent monliths zombies for the c-agents?

[inner crystal]

C consciousness; the agents were undercover stalkers working for the ccon if im understanding correctly

[dense sandal]

and monoliths hv no like as ward does right

[sweet root]

Naw Strider was himself atleast directly controlled by the Monolith, and even if that wasnt the case, it would diminish the power of Monolita in the narrative if it was just some dude in a pod

[inner crystal]

Ig their leader would be the c-con

[dense sandal]

monoliths for me are the most interseting faction tho are they most dangerous no/

[sweet root]

Yeah but their Psi installation, The Monolith, was designed to work without their direct input, that was the idea right? as a permanent casual warding off device that would defend itself?

[reef iron]

You can see that he’s technically an agent in the files from the labs however it seems like it failed on him somehow?

[sweet root]

But in the flashback scenes you can literally hear him gettting directives from The Monolith

[reef iron]

I didn’t see that, did the ward ending and killed strelok

[inner crystal]

True, i completelyspaced that! Ig ccon is more the creator n then they had the monolith do the actual leading

[sweet root]

You see that the first time you meet Strider in Noosphere, he tells you his story

[reef iron]

My bad must have forgotten lmao

[sweet root]

Yea it should be same for all playthrus unless im mistaken

[inner crystal]

A lot goes on in this games, its easy to get all ovet the place LMAO. Ok fr now see yall later and have fun

[sweet root]

And also easy to miss and forget things, but it only adds more value for more playthrus

I hate when im being hamfisted a story, without needing to think at all, this game made me think a bit too much i think

[dense sandal]

wasnt strider just a side charc in old stalkers

[sweet root]

He was in CoP i never played CS for some reason, i will when they do the remasters

[dense sandal]

now his one of my fav charcs in s2

one of the best written charcs in s2

[sweet root]

Him and Richter are my boys, Strider´s story somehow hits home hard and its incredibly sad and harrowing

They did a world class writing on his character, dont know many examples i can think of that made me feel this way for a character

[dense sandal]

the scene where your in the pod talking to him is fcking amazing

[sweet root]

I legit cried the moment i lied to him and saw still in his eyes that he somehow knew i was lying, but wouldnt say it, it was just somehow way too sad and melancholic... loved every bit of it

[dense sandal]

his voice actor did so fcking well

[sweet root]

I saw from a video the other option by accident, if you dont lie to him, he goes ||absolutely mad with laughter and just walks off||

[dense sandal]

my strider was mad at me then i pissed off scar

[sweet root]

Its as if all of it was a big joke, man that was rough to watch

[dense sandal]

ive seen the one that he crys n takes off his shoes it hurts

[frigid hill]

kjkallio has been warned

Reason: Bad word usage

[sweet root]

Oh sorry, expletative, Wolf, will you please forgive me? Now ive already forgotten my point

[dense sandal]

what does wolf do in old stalkers

[sweet root]

He is a tutorial kind of guy in SoC that gives your proper going out mission

Sid tells you to meet him, he then tells you to meet his guys near the car park where bandits and Nimble are

Man, OG nimble and S2 nimble are not the same guy hahahhh

[dense sandal]

oh nimbles in ld stalkers to

[sweet root]

They look soooo different, but i prefer the new look

[dense sandal]

being new to stalker idk sht i can see that the game has a "cult" or fanbase following

[sweet root]

Yea ive been a full time addict since 2007, nearly a yearly thing to play a stalker game in some form or another, be it a modpack or not

[dense sandal]

playing s2 i didnt know sterlok was in it i thought they dead in ol stalkers

[sweet root]

Naw he is in CoP too, Which takes place much later

[dense sandal]

story wise what order are stalkers like is s2 tory ahead of the others?

[sweet root]

SoC - Clear Sky - CoP right? Or you could say CS and SoC are happening concurrently

Kinda confusing, but you understand if you play CS; i never did but watched someone else play it

[dense sandal]

so s2 is ahead of others story wise?

[sweet root]

No way later on, the first games happen in around 2011-2012 or some such, cant remember exactly, while Stalker 2 is in like 2027, or something, cant remember again

[harsh jungle]

i thought s2 was 2021? but im not 100% sure

[sweet root]

Im prett ysure i saw somewhere it was a bit later than our current year, not by much, could be wrong

So take with a lot of salt

[reef iron]

I gotta play the trilogy

[dense sandal]

who do you play as in the old stalkers?

[sweet root]

SoC: Strelok, Clear Sky: Scar, CoP: Deggy

[harsh jungle]

clear sky- scar
shadow of chernobyl- strelok
call of pripyat- deggy

[dense sandal]

i hv no idea who deggy is

[sweet root]

You meet him way late in the game

[dense sandal]

wait wasnt he the guy with richter in pripyat?

[harsh jungle]

yea

[reef iron]

I do think it’s the best game in terms of bringing old characters back

[sweet root]

It kinda makes the game feel surreal having played the originals for most part, seeing my past selfs as my potential antagonists

[harsh jungle]

deggy is not an antagonist

[dense sandal]

richter new right?

[sweet root]

Depending on your choices in the game he can be

[harsh jungle]

but you dont fight him tho

[reef iron]

Strelok and scar were my antagonists so

[sweet root]

But he doesnt really play a part, only gives a warning if you meddle

Atleast in my Spark ending, could be different in others dont know

[unreal reef]

AA-12 or USAS-12? Which looks sexier?

[sweet root]

Saiga-12K

[dense sandal]

i love me the saiga shotgun but ram-2 is the sexiest lookin shoty

[unreal reef]

the ram-2 isn't even a shotty

[shell flax]

Skif’s diary says 2021

[sweet root]

Ram is pretty nice but ill never sacrifice the ability to magdump real quick to a double barrel functionality '

[dense sandal]

recently got the texan n the guide didnyt say what was there lmao

two fcking psudogiants

[inland sage]

"Wow, these guys sure hit hard, I wonder what they had."
Yeah it's just, another group entirely armed with RPM-74s.

[dense sandal]

5 guns using rpms n exosuit walking tanks lol

[reef iron]

Saddest part of the ward ending was ||listening to Richters music ||

[sweet root]

I recommend the ballistics mod, the one most endorsed in Nexus, it really overhauls the entire thing to a nice balance, you take a whole lot more damage but you also deal as much back

It also makes so you cant so easily one shot exos in the head with jsut about any AP ammo, but only larger calibers making them more scary

[dense sandal]

imo saddest ending is scars feel bad for everyone

[reef iron]

That’s the one I’m gonna do on a veteran playthrough

[sweet root]

I seriously think the Spark ending was a good one, even if its a lie, its a nice one

[dense sandal]

scar reminds me of VAAS

[sweet root]

Them wanted just to chill forever in the zone in peace, and so they did, forever around the campfire...

[dense sandal]

tho man did suffer 3 emissions somehow

[sweet root]

Vaas was just crazy, Scar has depth

[reef iron]

We can all agree that Project Y is the bad one right?

[dense sandal]

took me ages to figure out how to kill scar then realized the tvs

[terse ravine]

which arch artifacts are worth using

[reef iron]

Weird water all day long

[terse ravine]

that's in zaton?

[dense sandal]

i wan get the weird pot tho i forgot what it does

[reef iron]

The weird pot is pretty useless imho

[dense sandal]

doesnt it help with weight or am i thinking of something else

[reef iron]

Weird water is for weight, weird pot is for hunger I think?

[dense sandal]

only legndary artfiact i hv hte blue poppy

[reef iron]

I got them all, I spent way too much time getting the most out of the zone lol

Wait, if the marked one is strelok why is his mission to kill strelok

[sweet root]

Weird water when traveling distances, protection artifacts only when inside in tactical situations

I can be as slow i want when i can as slowly creep up corridors as i want, makes it also less resource intensive, i see so many players play too quick too fast and getting shot a lot

And then they complain about being shot a lot

im so glad there are no timer sequences in the game, i hate it with passion

They really did learn from their past mistakes i love it

[cobalt fiber]

Play SOC

[sweet root]

Yeah you just gotta play it my man...

You get all the context, even more if you play the other OGs too

[cobalt fiber]

Ward playthrough tomorrow. Get that 4th ending by next week maybe

[sweet root]

I think ill do Ward next too, but kinda want to wait a while and play KCD2 in between

[cobalt fiber]

Some clean up achievement hunting whilst I'm at it too. Would like to have STALKER sit at 100% which I don't usually bother with

I'm telling myself not to buy KCD2 @ release because my backlog is huge

I really need to get through some of the games especially when many are part way already

[sweet root]

Im a medieval nerd at heart and from all the news and early access reviews its probably going to be my all time best game ever, if its going to mostly improve on the first game´s mechanics

[inland sage]

Maybe for later, I want to do at least one run fully modless.

Which might mean missing out on some things. I'm trying to get the last collar for Schmear Man Science Guy but I don't see the snork at the brood spot.

[sweet root]

Hmmmh, odd, i had an issue of a mutant not spawning at some point in the story, think it was a poltergeist i had to kill in Orbita but it never appeared

[cobalt fiber]

I need to finish CP, BG3, Dead Space remake, the Ward playthrough, and then got a bunch of fairly linear indies on the list to get through too

[serene barn]

weird pot does Psi buildup i think so it's really bad.

[inland sage]

I think I might have killed it before but not taken the collar

[sweet root]

Could be yeah, for me i got the collar beeps for all of them so i collected them

[cobalt fiber]

I got a bug where the snork was dead and couldn't hand in the collars despite having all 4 lol

[sweet root]

Its a fun side mission, unlucky if it bugs out, but wont really affect much

[inland sage]

4?

[cobalt fiber]

GSC replied saying they're on it so can't complain. Will just avoid the areas in Ward playthrough until given the mission

[sweet root]

Depends on how many you have before you meet Dvupalov i guess, you could have more than one and he takes them

[serene barn]

i wonder if they're going to fix the RPM-74.

[inland sage]

Wym 4, there aren't 5? I gave him 3 already and have 1 on me.

[cobalt fiber]

Oh you mean Dvupalov. Technically he only needs 1. There's a side mission later where the collars make a comeback

[inland sage]

I mean schmerber

[cobalt fiber]

There's 4 for him. There's 5 collars in the game but you gave 1 to Dvupalov

[inland sage]

For the in the name of science quest

[cobalt fiber]

Yeah it bugged out hard for me because the final collar (which for me was Snork @ Garbage) had already been killed by NPCs. So it didn't register that I took the collar

I fought the psuedogiant 4 times through reverting saves and trying to self diagnose the issue lol

[sweet root]

I thought i gave more than one to dvupalov but i guess i was wrong hah, but yeah, if the mission is bugged out, the rewards you get, youll soon get similar or better

[inland sage]

It's not about the rewards, it's about completionism

[cobalt fiber]

It was the achievement that bummed me out tbh. But I'll get it during the ward playthrough so no harm done

[harsh jungle]

still haven’t beaten the game tbh

[cobalt fiber]

And at least they responded and said they're gonna fix it. Can't really complain with that

[inland sage]

I'll just slog my way over to slag heap with my pile of RPM-74s and stash this loot

[sweet root]

I can both understand completionism in a game like this and cant, i had to leave a lot of places and areas unexplored so I have new places to discover thru new playthrus also

[serene barn]

i've done like, 1 playthrough but 2 endings.

[sweet root]

Like, i didnt even enter Cooling Towers, therye all unexplored for next time

[serene barn]

had like 7 whole days of playime on my save, almost 8, when i got around to actually finishing the game lmao.

[cobalt fiber]

My second playthrough is what I'm saving for artifacts hunting achievements. The get all artifacts one etc. So then I'm not just doing the same thing or solely doing missions, but at the same time don't need to revisit every single POI

[sweet root]

For me it would be total pain to go thru all the side content and little areas and stashes, so i want to change things up on subsequent playthrus

[inland sage]

I really am slogging right now, hauling 125.2kg of stuff lol

[sweet root]

Think i left also half of burnt forest unexplored

[cobalt fiber]

I managed 3 endings 1 playthrough. Strelok, Kaymanov and Spark. Ward I want to side with from the very beginning though

Because from an RP standpoint it doesn't make sense to wipe out entire squads of Ward to then say "you can trust me I'm not your enemy bro!" simply to side with Ward late game lol

[harsh jungle]

will I beat the game? maybe once the bugs are fixed

[sweet root]

Wait what, Spark and Strelok endings are literally countering eachothers, its not possible

[cobalt fiber]

I had a save from Orbita where you make the decision with or against Scar

[serene barn]

i wanna do a ward run where i try to only stick to them

[sweet root]

Unless you cheat you dirty dog

[harsh jungle]

same fr fr

[maiden grotto]

When it comes to containers, whats the best setup for the Falcon? is it 4 total with 2 lead... or 5 total, with one lead?

[sweet root]

Yeah stuff like that i can never understand, why even attempt any immersion in a story when you can fast pass thru meta systems, boggles the mind

[cobalt fiber]

Considering you side with Spark for a good 75% I didn't see the need to do 3 whole playthrougus so reverted back there. Then had a save at Kaymanov's fate for that one

[inland sage]

Eh, 5 with 2 lead right? The leaded container and extra container aren't mutually exclusive I thought l?

[serene barn]

5 total imo, get the weird water artifact when you can. removes the need for anti rad artifacts.

[maiden grotto]

But arne't you drunk all the time?

[cobalt fiber]

Spark ending was very bleak and it was interesting to see Scar second guessing his own fanaticism

[maiden grotto]

They are... I have always been forced to pick between one of the two

[sweet root]

And its not technically one playthru, its 1.5 playthrus, youre cheating with meta to just get to all the good stuff without much of the effort, i guess each to their own

[serene barn]

it's more like tipsy like there is a wobble but it's a small one like you wobble harder from 1 vodka and it only does it if you're over 50kgs. it also increases carry capacity by 40kgs so it's totally worth it

[cobalt fiber]

How is it?

You side with Spark anyway up until Orbita. From there you make a decision. The following is Strelok or Scar. Then Strelok or Kaymanov. Why make an entire playthrough dependant on a choice made near the endgame when you side with Spark up until then anyway?

[inland sage]

If you have a suit with increased carry weight I think you can get to 140 max carry weight without needing more than maybe one carry weight artifact, possibly none.

[wintry pumice]

I find it very boring to explore regions without bases

[sweet root]

I find them more fun since it then truly becomes a game of resources, what you can bring back and what you can still go and loot

[maiden grotto]

Well, I haven't got that yet.

So I need to have a think about this.

[inland sage]

I don't think I have a falcon in my stash. I've got a Hawk.

[sweet root]

Maybe even find a temp stash to store the stuff you cant bring all back? It was how stalker used to be

[cobalt fiber]

To choose Koroshunov before the cage is right with what you're saying. Reverting to Orbita is not as you'd been with Scsr up until then anyway. You don't cheat out of any path. Before that you did not have a choice to side with Strelok. You had only just met the man

[maiden grotto]

Not sure I like wobbles at all, find them all very annoying

[sweet root]

Yea youre only skipping past the first half the game to see the endings real fast pass like, without more effort

[inland sage]

I've gotten used to the weird water wobbles

[wintry pumice]

It's the jog back that makes me stop exploring those regions. Without vendors or stash it's just annoying to keep carrying stuff around.

[cobalt fiber]

Why would I replay half of the game to yet again side with Spark and repeat all of the same choices only up until Orbita instead of reverting a save?

[sweet root]

Then youre no true stalker, seeking comfort like that in every region as if its a crutch, im being real here

[wintry pumice]

Nothing like a vodka addled play through. Though the world actually looks more colourful when drunk that sober

[sweet root]

I was able to scour thru all of chem plant and Malachite in one or two passes, it was actually quite easy without much back and forth, even when i was hostile to scientists

[inland sage]

I wander around with weird water on and blast enemies with the rhino I have. Wishing I had a unique one.

[wintry pumice]

A subjective view, not universal. I take everything from the people I kill. I am the true stalker

[sweet root]

So a loot goblin then, a real stalker treads lightly, choosing their gear and loot carefully heheheh, but the zone can fit many types of stalkers in it, maybe i havent yet met a stalker like you

[wintry pumice]

I am not making multiple passes to Yantar or Burnt forest or Duga. It's incredibly annoying to keep going back and forth

[wintry pumice]

I need those guns for money. Ragman is my source of income

[sweet root]

How many glass bottles in your inventory at the moment

[wintry pumice]

What's that?

[sweet root]

I find it so hilarious, watching others play, when they complain about the weight system and how unfair it is, then theyre also carrying like 50 glass bottles all of vodka, water and beer

[inland sage]

I think I've gotten at least 1 or 2 hundred thousand coupons from ragman so far

[sweet root]

Curious question, nothing but, i want to know your vodka load

[maiden grotto]

ummmmm undecided XD

[wintry pumice]

Just the one, Weird water

[serene barn]

red gun runs are so good if you're getting mid to high tier guns

[inland sage]

Sometimes when checking my inventory I'll find 15 to 30 to okay 40 or 50 kilograms of just, ammo for guns I'm not using/medkits/bandages/grenades and vodka and beer.

[jagged zinc]

Same

[sweet root]

Based

I find vodka all the time in the environment i drink most all i find, why carry it though

[wintry pumice]

It pretty much removes all radiation but I keep a vodka or beer around in case someone needs it for a quest or something

[jagged zinc]

I don't bother with Vodka and instead use the anti-rad drugs

[sweet root]

I have great memories of playing SoC and assaulting Dark Valley bandit base and raiding their Vodka stores, then go at them so hammered out you see triple

Also trips to Bloodsucker village at night drunk on many vodka bottles with just a Toz to fight suckers, that was the jam

[wintry pumice]

What a boring way to play

Toz snipers are annoying

[sweet root]

Based way is to not carry vodka, but drink every vodka you see

Think i took a couple vodka breaks on my trip to generators

[wintry pumice]

I sell them in bulk in case I need money for upgrades. Gotta start upgrading Diamond exo

[serene barn]

a part of me is considering not being as much of a loot goblin whenever i decide i am ready to commit to a 2nd playhrough of S2. it just took so much time to haul EVERYTHING back between traders.

[sweet root]

But honestly i hate Vodka, irl, tastes like shit, even the high quality ones, rum is far better

[inland sage]

I like that when you open the bottle you can see the import sticker falling away

[wintry pumice]

I hear 100% alcohol is good for health

But so far, the best drink I had was beer mixed with fruit flavours

[sweet root]

My dad has a farm that employs a lot of ukranians, we had a lot of parties there, some with a full banquet of goodies on a table, so i joined in, but what i didnt know about slavic drinking and eating culture is that you have to leave something on your platter or drink to say "i dont need any more thank you", if you drink your glass empty it is going to be filled and you need to drink it, so i did, and more drunk i got the more i forgot not to empty the shot glass, and later found out itwas 60 proof vodka

[maiden grotto]

?

[sweet root]

I got blacked out and had the worst hangover of my life but man i had a blast

[wintry pumice]

The old man who keeps me away from bankruptcy

[sweet root]

Ragman pays a lot actually, for red broken weapons, if youre close to a hub you might as well pick them all up and stash away for a Rostok trip

Even moreso late game when most they drop are Dnipros Kharods and Gauss guns

[maiden grotto]

Who is ragman and where do you find him?

[sweet root]

Rostok Bar, check map there are two weapon vendors

[wintry pumice]

Especially close to the end game you get a lot of high end weapons which sell for thousands a pop

[sweet root]

Youll drown in money once you hit Pripyat or yaniv and get all the best weapons in red condition, they sell for quite a bit for Ragman

[maiden grotto]

wow! didn't know, I use a friendly discounts on repairs, as I think the repair cost and rate of wear is just insane and the sign of poorly designed economy

[wintry pumice]

Kharod, saiga & many more weapons drop a lot from the enemies. Half the monolithians are snipers

[sweet root]

Yea i found about him much later too, and i still dont go out of my way to abuse him buying red condition weapons, only those that are hassle free to get there

Still drowning in coupons not knowing what to spend it on

[maiden grotto]

thanks for the heads up

[wintry pumice]

Maybe buy a life buoy to save yourself from drowning

[sweet root]

Also true about life

[sweet root]

And I did save myself from drowning by reaching the Shining Zone

Doesnt sound such a bad eternity around a campsite with friends

The latter part left a lot to digest though, not really sure what to make of it

But maybe ill be happy as is, oblivion is bliss afterall, knowledge is hell

I kinda wished the game let you have one final choice when Scar steps into the pod, to betray him, after all this, i was kind of expecting it

I wouldnt have, but still

[still current]

shining zone

Illusions

[sweet root]

Shush

[sweet root]

Not another word

Ignorance is bliss, and they seemed so happy too

[still current]

Put the gun down sheesh

It is indeed

[sweet root]

It was super cool seeing all the people you had killed on your way to generators

The game really cares about your decisions and i love it, little things like this

[gloomy citrus]

Such is the will, of the Monolith...

[mild bloom]

hello, maybe a fair yard from my former message,

zalissya town bug after sircca;

||from sircaa, run straight from there and enter the town before an emission strikes. otherwise, monolit will take refuge within the hall and softlock thyself from combat||

good hunting, compatriots

[sweet root]

Yea on my first softlocked playthru this happened and it made me so sad

[mild bloom]

what was your fix ?

[sweet root]

Starting over with new life goals

On a second try it all worked as it should

[mild bloom]

for reference; zalissya bug, zalissya , zalisya
fret not. just enter the town before an emission strikes—it seems to solve the bug. also, luring a bloodsucker from the village south also works a wonder so it seems

[sweet root]

Im sure they have it fixed when i play again, ill take a long break and let it bake, play some upcoming medieval simulator :)

Kingdom come deliverance 2 to be specific

I thought i was hype about stalker 2 but i think this one takes the cake for me ...

[mild bloom]

heh..iv alrdy complet the game =3 it is a wonderful story. i truly commend the developers. ofc iv had my grievances yet here all is forgiven, i trust in their continued development. also i may so try your suggestion ! iv heard a very meny good thing about KCD2 =)

[sweet root]

Im a bigger medieval nerd than i am a soviet scifi post apolacyptic simulator nerd

Though both have their own special places

[maiden grotto]

These snipers around Duga can seriously Feck off with the BS... I have died 10 times now, regardless of how far or close I am to the wall... The snipe you through the wall, or a mile away... And I haven;t even done the CIRCA bit or whatever it is called.

Please devs... FECK OFF WITH THE BS YOU ARE DOING.

[mild bloom]

adore the medieval me....so you reckon the game is worth it ? i sm adore the medieval lol, i might add you as a friend if thats okay ? i sm value a genuine opinion. iam just limited by slowmode and here wish to not besmirch the chat wiv irrelevant discourse

[sweet root]

But why though, you dont have to interact with them at all if you follow mission objectives, afterwards the Duga is freeroam area

[frigid hill]

holycryptangel has been warned

Reason: Bad word usage

[sweet root]

Its mostly doing what the first game did right, but improving on every aspect, which really makes me feel its going be big, why reinvent the wheel, all the pre-reviews so far have been extremely positive

[frigid hill]

holycryptangel has been warned

Reason: Bad word usage

[maiden grotto]

I am free roaming, even running away from the fecking wall you just fall down dead, it's BS... It's just Devs doing d*ck things....

[frigid hill]

holycryptangel has been warned

Reason: Bad word usage

[twin hare]

Morning everyone

[sweet root]

And KCD2 has doen something that doesnt really ever happen, they pushed the release earlier than was planned! That never happens in games industry, its either complete stupidity or a real confidence in the product, i believe the latter

[mild bloom]

LOL git gud brotha, take shelter within the pines [forest] embrace. "im up—he sees me—im down." take shelter for goodness sake. circumvent duga via the mist anomaly. you can do it mate. also to @sweet root — i get you. i think that i may try it ))

[mild bloom]

a blessed morning to you my fren

[maiden grotto]

You can shove that attitude where the sun doesn;t shine... Like I said I am getting one shotted on the other side of the pines away from the wall... If skirt along the lake, I get one shotted

[sweet root]

Youre clearly doing something wrong and trying to push the game boundaries, on my playthru i didnt encounter a single sniper one shotting me

[mild bloom]

share for us a recording ov your tactics ?

feel free to add me. iv complete the story on veteran

[maiden grotto]

No I am not, I am clearly dealing with BS mechanics

[mild bloom]

ngl, iv suffered such sentiment. shot thru 6ft concrete kekw

[frigid hill]

holycryptangel has been warned

Reason: Bad word usage

[sweet root]

Nope the game is just telling you shouldnt be there, any sniper worth their salt could take a careful shot at your dome and kill you, its to prevent meta cheese to access late game areas too early, sure some other accesses exists, but the fact you can stack so much phys and rad resistances thru gear and artifacts and spamming healing items you could literally go about anywhere, without those instakill blockers, so no matter what you are going to meet a boundary.

[mild bloom]

such bulldoo

[sweet root]

@maiden grotto The fact you found the boundary doesnt mean its stupid, it just means its there for a very good reason

Other games would just erect a huge wall there or just do invisible walls instead that just block you from walking further

If youre losing your mind trying to force yourself thru that barrier, all it means is youre... ehhh

Well, leave up to interpretation

[mild bloom]

also my friends, remember, "im up—he sees me—im down" — the developers hav acquired sentiment from genuine soldiers. this is not an arcade shooter imho. take it wiv serious faculty. steady your caution and admire your step most cautious. the zone is a perfidious mistress. exercise extreme cautious. thats just how it is =p

[sweet root]

In the books the stalkers truly had to dodge sniper nests, be glad we dont have it here

Book*

[maiden grotto]

What like shooting through solid walls?

I don't mind boundaries.... There is a solid wall you can't jump over, but just cut out the fecking BS

[sweet root]

Havent seen any walls that i get shot tru at, no idea what youre talking about, i never met any boundaries except in pripyat where theyre somwhat more blurred

[mild bloom]

you too can also shoot thru walls =3

[sweet root]

Youre clearly just trying to push the game where it doesnt want you and you find ways to complain about it

OG games too had areas that required some legwork and even wetwork to do to access, so it is in this

[mild bloom]

youv read the books ? iv not been afforded the opportunity sadly

[sweet root]

Only the Roadside picnic, you can get it off of amazon for few dollarinos, its worth the read,

[mild bloom]

yoss iv read roadside picnic, is among my favourite reads. im also aware of the other books

verb eludes my sudden articulation as of rn [iam durnk] =3

[sweet root]

I love that book, its pretty simple and light read but also very heavy at the same time, I ||hate Red with a passion|| after learning the ending (book spoiler)

It has an amazing ending

[mild bloom]

yea.........prettie fukt./ i fink maybe here it wasnt his fault ? i maybe misremembering it for its astonishing ending lole

such romantic grandeur

[sweet root]

He ||sacrificed the guy he brought with him into the zone, because he knew that he wouldnt pass the certain anomaly without someone else going thru it first or something, its been a while, but yeah hes pretty much murdering a person for the chance of saving his daughter from turning into a monkey, by making a wish by the Golden Sphere|| (more book spoilers)

[maiden grotto]

So your running south from the north part of the Druga walls, litterally up against the wall, and then you suddenly fall over. I am out exploring, I went around the back up the north end and it's all sealed apart from one spot with a polti on top... So I skirted along the solid wall to head south... then all of a sudden I started falling over dead, because the BS snipers in the towers can aim through walls

[cobalt fiber]

Is this pre duga mission?

[sweet root]

Do you really think, a fortified wall, with plenty of sniper nests, would let you just casually stroll by even if it was Monolith? Common sense is a thing and it should be employed more often

[cobalt fiber]

You're going to have a bad time if it is. You're best exploring Duga post mission where it's accessible in its entirety

[maiden grotto]

As long as they can see you... But they can't The wall is like 10 foot high and solid with no gaps until you get firther south

[sweet root]

Roggatron youve been complaining about the most obvious things that arent really problems at all in this game for like days now, do you seriously think this is the game for you?

[cobalt fiber]

And people are being nobs with him for no reason instead of giving easy answersn

[sweet root]

Honest answers only please

[maiden grotto]

Sorry for not accepting BS

[sweet root]

Yeah and keep complaining about the things that run entirely contrary to the game design, or get a new hobby, i dont care, im just tired at seeing the same guy complaining about the game all the time

[cobalt fiber]

Or just stop thinking you're above someone with an abhorrent attitude.

Save Duga for after the mission. No one shot snipers after that Rogg

[sweet root]

If youre not having fun why play it in the first place, seems like you hate the game

Theres a whole cavalcade of games catering to any need why pick this and complain in every breath

[cobalt fiber]

You also don't need to comment on everybody who chats in here so maybe just stop being a nob and let him ask, vent or whatever he pleases. This is a public server

Trying to bully someone into submission is a horrible trait

[sweet root]

Yeah its a public server and im just getting tired of people complaining and whining about how the game sucks but they still keep playing and complaining in the same breath day on day out

[weary hedge]

U can like a game and not like everything about it

[cobalt fiber]

I'm getting tired of your attitude but here we are lol, do your thing @maiden grotto and pay no mind

[sweet root]

And you can also not make every opinion to be in everyone elses face all the time, meaning the ones who complain

[maiden grotto]

Well, I heard there was a mission that you can only do before the SIRCA things, so I is going looking for it and exploreing the game, to see what it is like, before it all go t*ts up.

Seeing as it is an open world map, why the hell not?

[cobalt fiber]

Is it from within Duga you're being sniped or from outside?

[weary hedge]

I mean idek what u guys are talking ab but if ur in a server dedicated to conversation about a specific game then there’s obviously gonna be some complaining. It’s not just gonna be a massive circle jerk 24/7

[sweet root]

Seeing this guy complain the 5th time about instakill barriers and hes stil ltrying to push their limits knowing its not gonna result into anything is just hilarious

But also tiresome when sustained...

[weary hedge]

Let’s be real it’s impossible to know what’s intentional and what’s a glitch in stalk tuah

[maiden grotto]

From within, there is literally nothing outside.... apart from friendlies and snorks here and there

[sweet root]

Naw its pretty clear where the mission objectives are i had no issue navigating around the Duga barrier

[cobalt fiber]

Give me a sec

[weary hedge]

I haven’t touched the game since I got to duga bc I hit a game breaking glitch where the next objective won’t start so if you leave the area u get insta sniped and ur just locked in the area so like

[mild bloom]

THAT IS IT [roadside picnic ending spoilers]

[sweet root]

It was such an amazing twist holy crap

[maiden grotto]

The intenetion is exploring, and to avoid snipers you stay in cover, the best cover is a 10 foot solid wall, and you hug it very tight... I mean, it was a piddly mesh fence with that I could be see a mile off....

Or not have an entire wood to see through....

then yeah, I would be giving a million miles.

But nah, insta-death BS, just because.

[sweet root]

For everyone else who havent read Roadside Picnic, i wholly recommend, light read, done in two evenings easily

[lament needle]

guys, is there any ways to stop the insane memory leak in Rostok?

[maiden grotto]

Wait for an update I am affraid, they are working on teh game, and it will take time, but that is all you can do.

As far as I am aware.

[sweet root]

Not as far as i know, only place my game crashes at, so i try to avoid it

[solar cobalt]

I mean to be fair, (Roadside Picnic spoilers) || Vulture's son isn't just a guy, but a perfect child he wished up. Along with that he BEGGED Red to go into the zone with him on that trip. Not even mentioning that yes Red didn't stop him from running into the anomaly, but Arthur DID strip as he skipped to the orb? Not much like someone who wants to keep their skin in the zone and that's not even mentioning that Red saved him from that fire anomaly without even thinking. Only after he had saved Arthur did he start thinking in his head how he was a key to unlock the path to the golden sphere. ||

[maiden grotto]

Might listen to the audio book, whilst cooking at some point...

[sweet root]

Oh man i need to re-read that thing again, ive forgotten just about all this, except the big twist at the end

[cobalt fiber]

@maiden grotto Are you using the Southmost road and entering via the east entrance/wall?

It's going to be difficult but quicksaves and trial/error + use of interactive map to get to the grocery store are going to be pivotal

It is doable because people on reddit are saying they've managed it, but it will be difficult. It's locked after the assault on duga mission, not sircca

[sweet root]

Lucky i have a copy of it in the shelf right there :)

Im sure if i read it now its going to give me a whole new perspective and context than when i read it in my teens

[visual bison]

Can someone help me out here I’m in the red forest near the bridge to limansk how do I get across the bridge??

[solar cobalt]

It's so good, I've read it maybe three or four times now. Definitely worth the extra reads to pick up on things you missed before, or just to see if you have any new ideas from the same passage you read before!! (I also have it on my shelf next to me :D)

[cobalt fiber]

Lymansk is inaccessible

[visual bison]

Okay I just know on the world map there is the beryl 5m armor suit over there was trying to figure out how to get to it

[sweet root]

When Red was mentioned in the context of the game (the dude who saves you from the death truck in SoC) i thought it was the same guy, but he would have to be in Canada, and its aliens, but its probably just a fun callback to the book

Man, imagine if the game was more like the book, itd be the Goldsphere mod right ?

[maiden grotto]

That was my plan... I originals went do the back of it and ended up at Crystall SCS site with the polti... Had a look around there and you can run up along the wall they don't shoot at you... So I followed the wall round to go south and enter through the southern most point as everything else was blocked off.

Then as I started heading south along the wall, I fell over dead... So the barrier is only along part of the wall....

[sweet root]

Saw someone play it and it was so fascinating

[cobalt fiber]

Best bet I'd say look to see if there's a video on YT where you can follow a specific route. I missed that side mission and need to give it a go during my 2nd playthrough so I'll have the same issue soon lol

[sweet root]

If someone did what the Goldsphere mod does but as a AAA game, man, what potential

[gloomy citrus]

insane

[maiden grotto]

go through the south entrance, it's still the only way in.

You are fine up against the wall until just south the man hole for the later mission with a bed in it... Then after that point, you just start falling over for no reason.

It really makes no sense how it is implemented as for vast chunks of the wall, your fine, then other bits your insta dead

There are friendlies and bandits wandering the place

[mild bloom]

roadside picnic spoiler ||an amazing TWIST forrel brotha||

[simple shard]

my favorite part is when he says "this ain't no roadside picnic"

[icy drum]

So any news on the next update for Stalker 2?

[simple shard]

ya, that there isnt one yet

[sweet root]

What is this, some suicide squad?

[maiden grotto]

None yet, just gonna have to wait for it... Would rather have them take their sweet time and get it right, rather than rushing it and making a mess elsewhere.

[sweet root]

Funny how Wolf doesnt censor the word suicide

[maiden grotto]

And I think I have found that mission. Well I found one, from Sledgehammer about missing people. Is this available after SIRCAA?

[sweet root]

He is very particular about the f'cks and 'sses though

[maiden grotto]

Wolf is a weird one. Think he has been controller blasted one too many times.

[inland sage]

If I killed the snork with a collar on it and didn't loot the collar, will the body have just...despawned?

[sweet root]

I had to block him he dips into my DMs way too often

Maybe something a moderator can look into because the bot is seriously spamming everyone´s DMs unless you block him

With level ups, its effing stupid

[maiden grotto]

He's a stalker XD

[sweet root]

But he also told us hes no shepard to this flock... while hes being the shepard to this flock...

[maiden grotto]

It's an oxymoron alright

[sweet root]

Bluntest of tools cuts the sharpest

I do hobby crafts a lot with WH40k and yeah a blunt tool has cut me more often than a sharp one

Think its because you know the one is blunt and the other is sharp, thats when it gets ya

[maiden grotto]

Grwew up playing 40k... I was on the gravey train back in 1988 when rogue trader came out.

[pulsar moat]

Is the ward always hostile towards you at the factory area?

[sweet root]

I first started collecting the Lotr table top miniatures back when the movies came out, i wish i still had all those miniatures, i found some but not all, ill have to repaint them at some point mostly all has worn off from time

[sweet root]

If you go against them then yeah'

[pulsar moat]

I never shot the ward tho

[sweet root]

But plenty choices in story to join them or not, how far in are you?

[pulsar moat]

however I didn't give them richter info in zalyssa. And at the mission where I need to go to the detention center. Note I have not done anything with the ward just yet

I'm guessing when they are roaming they are not hostiile but if you enter their factory base, they will shoot on sight cuz its their territory regardless if you are "neutral"?

[sweet root]

If youve pissed them off by accident you should get a mission update in journal something like " The Ward thinks im the boogie man", otherwise i dont know

But you should be able to finish the game without being friendly with them at all, but sucks if you miss choices

I think those choices still come at you because theyre scripted

[pulsar moat]

yeah not sure what happened. note I'm talking about htis area https://imgur.com/a/RlTJWYn right to the left of the detention center quest

[sweet root]

OHHHH thats a Ward Base, they dont want anyone in there, youre on a Spark mission right?

Isnt that the entrance to x-18?

[pulsar moat]

oh shoot on sight I see. No was just wandering by and saw a bunch of wards over there and thought I was cool with them since I was nuetral. apparently not. Was just going around exploring areas that had a question mark

[sweet root]

Yea that place is no go

But also can go :) depending on what side you pick

[pulsar moat]

Yeah and I remember the game telling you if you pissed off a neutral faction too. I've done it many times on a test playtrhough as zalyssa when shooting at ward and loners

[maiden grotto]

They are things of beauty. I actually had some of paintings in GW's window a few times that I did for people. I love it, I love the lore, just hope they don't ruin it like everything elese.

[warm radish]

anyone know what aruba is

[trail fiber]

What are those weird big ass bubbles that float? Are they dangerous?

You know what im talking about right?

[sweet root]

I fear its inevitable :( although they did fallback on the female custodians just recently

[maiden grotto]

Yes. If you shoot them, you make things worse. They wont kill you outright, but they will do damage.

[sweet root]

Or was it rumors? im so tired of following media news its mostly trash

[maiden grotto]

Good. The thing is, everyone loved it for what it was, the only people that complained where those that want everything to be about them and most of the time, they don;t even play the damn things.

[sweet root]

Theyre a balancing thing, if they completely block you way, its better to shoot or throw bolt first, the entire bubble deals only a certain amount of damage, if you hit the big bubble you take alll the damage, if you hit small bubbles you take only little damage

[maiden grotto]

you can pop them and take none, but its a waste of ammo though

[sweet root]

It was a nice funny touch seeing the Laundromat being taken over by the soap bubble anomalies, becaus you know, they wash clothes there

And most soap is alkaline, kinda dangerous for your skin if its the laundry type

[gloomy citrus]

What was the name again?

Oh yeah evacuation point B28

[sweet root]

That came out of nowhere

[gloomy citrus]

The ladder that leads to Pripyat underground has collapsed and blocked.

[sweet root]

Yea i understand, the entrance from Jupiter underground to Laundromat

I wanted to see it too, didnt really even think of looking for it hah

[gloomy citrus]

But there's no Jupiter in S2

[sweet root]

X-8 wouldve been nice too, but theres a lot of reasons why the old X installations are blocked off, like Miracle Machine and Brain Scorcher, to prevent any accidental startups

Or just not relevant to story and better invested budget elsewhere

[gloomy citrus]

Feels weird looking at old Stalker maps then compare them to S2. I know S2 maps are made based on real life Chernobyl exclusion zone.

[sweet root]

It kind of gives this dreamlike surreal feeling, where things look familiar but wholly different

[gloomy citrus]

How Cement Factory is part of Jupiter but it's far from Yaniv station now.

They also merged Dark Valley with Garbage.

[sweet root]

And how Jupiter is mostly in Red Forest, think i can also see the curve of Darkscape there under the clouds leading up to the swamps from Cordon , that used to be the dark valley entrance thru there

[gloomy citrus]

I got headache the moment I entered Garbage for the first time. Something feels off but I can't grasp it.

I should really explore the zone now.

[sweet root]

Yeah its all jumbled up but at the same time recognizable

[trail fiber]

Well I became a fool and died to radiation trying to go to the doctor coordinates

[gloomy citrus]

Go through the river.

Path is right beside the bridge.

[trail fiber]

Im at that giant bubble where you get rads

[gloomy citrus]

Go to the bridge, follow the path from there.

[sweet root]

I both love and hate the new red forest, its incredibly beautiful, reminds me of lapland in autumn season, but so spooky, too many casual Psi fields making you go mad

[gloomy citrus]

I see... So it was red forest that bricked my 2nd playthrough. I got hit by psi effect and for some reason it was permanent.

I had to remove it with UEtools but after that, cutscene when meeting Scar for the first time won't run.

[sweet root]

Ohhh, i had a permanent thing happen too but on a reload it went away

[sweet root]

Dear god, i had to use UE5 tools to get the Sawmill scene work out

[lament needle]

Trying to sell 200 hours of collected red gear in rostock, so far 10 crashes in 30 minutes. So many items overlap in the stash, not sure why they are like that.

[sweet root]

Rostok for me crashes constantly when im in inventory screens, so i save often and avoid that place like the plague

[gloomy citrus]

The trader in Rostok accepts red gears?

[sweet root]

Yup. Ragman

[lament needle]

yeah but for all the runtime I avoided Rostock until the main quest took me there and collected red guns everywhere. I was waiting for this moment, I must sell all the red guns. Inventory is glitching all over the place too.

[sweet root]

m... maybe you just collected too much

For me money hasnt been an issue i only take best guns in yellow condition and sell ammo stacks past the one collected

At the end i had like 500k nothing to spend it on

Id love to be able to make your own hideout and buy furniture for it or something dunno, but something else that isnt directly tied down to what yo udo in the open world and something to invest money into

Best moments in Anomaly and Gamma were those when i made my own hideouts in places i shouldnt have, like in the tower over Yaniv, i made a base there , then a controller spanwed nearby and aggroed on me, didint know he aggroed but all i could hear was Psi nonsense that was all the time creeping closer and closer and all i wanted to do was hide and disappear, until the controller came up too close and my guy ate the barrel of his gun

Scariest stuff ive ever been thru in a game

[lament needle]

yeah probabléy a good strategy, i just wanted to see how much i can hoard. Did not know that inventory starts glitching out after a certain number of items. Anyways, another crash

I can do one run to Ragman, next time I open the stash the game crashes to desktop immediately

[sweet root]

Damn, as of now id avoid the place, its not like it has much to offer apart from bread and circuses (literally)

I was expecting a lot more side activity in such a huge hub area but now im glad there next to none, less crashes for me

There really should be some side mission where you play politics with Ragman and Eugene, in some form, they mention it a lot but its not really a thing

[gaunt ferry]

What does the weird pot actually do?

[hidden yoke]

slower your thirst and hunger (basically useless)

if you eat/drink there's a chance you get a psi attack

[gaunt ferry]

I didn't even know you get thirsty

[sweet root]

You dont

Sounds like some dump stat that might well be left there for future mechanics maybe

Those water bottles are 100% useless really

More stamina from energy drinks and enough food to go around to compensate

[lament needle]

yeah, game has surprisingly little side content. Especially if half the bartenders bug out and stop offering you the basic quests

[sweet root]

Energy drinks should be a long lasting buff theyre stupid in their implementation, the amount of time you take to sip one you gain most stamina back anyways

And more rare

[lament needle]

but yeah, i will sell my red gear and leave Rostok for the time being

damn memory leaking into oblivion again

[hidden yoke]

combine stamina regen upgrade from armor + thunderberry + drinking water = when you run, you gain stamina for 5 seconds

[sweet root]

Or 3 Thunderberries

They do stack up but i notice theyre mostly useless past 3 used at the same time

[wooden nacelle]

is there any point in visiting the kindergarten cuz it seemed like every monolith in the zone was there and it seemed strange that there was no reward

[sweet root]

Or that its more worth having stuff like Compass there instead of 4 thunderberries lol

Also what does the Heart of Chernobyl do, it tells you a lot but explains very little

[hidden yoke]

thunderberry max stack is 2... above that, you gain nothing

[sweet root]

Nope, this isnt true, i tried and tested it a lot of times, the third one does a huge amount

[hidden yoke]

well, there are also many other people who tested that (myself included) and it only reach max 2 thunderberries.

I haven't seen people use datamine source code to debunk this

[sweet root]

Even with 4 and 5 thunderberries, they lose usefulness past the third

[sweet root]

What can i say, other than youre wrong, i can ofc go and take video, maybe ill do just that

Although discord doesnt allow for video size, you have to compress it down so much, have to find a way

[hidden yoke]

i tested it before but love to be proven wrong, i have more than 4 thunderberries and it just sitting there doing nothing

[sweet root]

yea dunno, 2 does already a lot, its kinda hard to test without some editing software

To see how the stamina bar actually refreshes

Could be just placebo too and im just wrong

[stray laurel]

a life fixed yet?

[sweet root]

No one here knows more than what announcements, news and patch notes tell you

[stray laurel]

Just waiting for the game to be fixed before buying

[sweet root]

Id give it a couple months, its not going anywhere

You can follow their updates thru the steam page, all their updates will be visible there

Everything else is just rumors

[inland sage]

I love my Ram-2. I hear a sound, I start blasting, a dead bloodsucker appears before me.

[sweet root]

Its great! cool looking gun and fits in the Zone, too bad the Saiga magdump beats it still

[inland sage]

Not much can chew through buckshot like the Ram-2. Yeah, probably, but I just...like the Ram-2 better.

[sweet root]

I want to like the Ram-2 better, its the cool option in my opinion, maybe if shotguns were all over more powerful, so you dont need to magdump enemies

[inland sage]

Eh, the bloodsucker only took like, 3 buckshots to go splat. Then again I'm playing on easy because it's my first run and I wanted it to be...easy, so I could get a laid back run through the story.

[sweet root]

Just that nothing kills a sucker better than a quick side step and emptying the entire magazinge to your very right where they usually hit

Or maybe its because im always side stepping to the left, its a pattern

People blow over how nasty they are all you literally have to do is walk sideways and majority of their attacks will miss

Unless its two

[inland sage]

You try out the underbarrel shotgun? It's got a real kick to it, and by a real kick I mean the recoil is insane.

[sweet root]

Not worth it, the amount of time it takes you to switch you couldve switched over to a Saiga or something else

The underbarrel shotgun´s idea is that you have your supporting arm, ready on the trigger, you can fire it as soon as you want, but the game doesnt work that way

[inland sage]

It would be better if there were a dedicated button to just fire the underbarrel weapon. UGL or UGS.

[sweet root]

So its 100% pointless, all youre doing is adding extra weight unfortunately

[sweet root]

Yea thats what i meant by having your finger ready on the trigger, should be an instant pull

[inland sage]

Say, short of exos, which armor do you tend to wear out and about?

[sweet root]

The Falcon, from Malachite, easy early get

[inland sage]

Huh. People talk about that. I haven't got one.

[sweet root]

Yea you need to do some parkour for it

[inland sage]

I'm wearing the fashionable SSP-100 right now, swapped the Bulat out for it. I'll toss on a compass and hypercube to shore up physical defenses and stop myself from bleeding when shot.

[sweet root]

Its a very nice suit for artifact hunting and psi fields

[inland sage]

...repairs tend to be on the expensive side, but I loot enough to make up for it and then some.

Plus I like how it looks. Hmmm.

[sweet root]

yea i always preferred the Seva suits but some of the exos also speak to me.. monolith ones especially

I just love the monolith Camo, it look so cool

[inland sage]

I'm thinking about swapping my gun out again, maybe. I'm running with Valik Lummox's AKS-74M right now. I got a Corundum suit from you know where, but I'm pretty sure that's not an exo.

I've been hoarding armor variants in my stash. I like to keep a collection, a gun/armor library.

[sweet root]

Corundum suit is great i ran it most of my playthru before i found the falcon

[inland sage]

What's really great though is the examine artifact feature, even if it's a beacon for wild dogs to come poke you.

[sweet root]

Yeah and they all look so unique and cool too, its really rewarding to go see what new pops up, especially how all the anomaly fields are a bit more friendly than in previous games where nearly all of them dealt flat damage to you per second when you were inside no matter what

Theyre now mostly a gimmick game and its nice

[warm ingot]

Softlocked at Dvupalov trying to give him the blueprint, any ideas?

[inland sage]

I had that too, I just ended up going and doing something else for a while, then getting a guide to take me someplace far. Yaniv, in my case, and then I slept and went back and managed to get him to talk.

[warm ingot]

Tried exactly that, Yaniv, sleeping and everything to no success

[sweet root]

Could there be a console command you can do to advance the quest?

That sucks hard btw, i hope you get thru it

[warm ingot]

You can do it with UE tools stuff but I want to try every other option before resorting to that since its not a perfect fix and requires more console commands down the road

[sweet root]

I used UE5 tools to fix the Sawmill bug, it shouldnt really affect more than what you do with it

[warm ingot]

I'm tearing my hair out at this since things have been going great so far and I'm invested but whats the point if the main story is softlocked

[sweet root]

I recommend the UE5 tools, usually these things happen because of missing a trigger to make a thing happen, they shouldnt in anyway affect further missions

Its still better than just saying its softlocked and giving up

[inland sage]

When you went back in, how did you go?

[sweet root]

What you mean?

[inland sage]

I think you might have to really book it into that room. I really do keep forgetting about slowmode.

[sweet root]

Huh?

[warm ingot]

I full sent it and jumped also so I landed right in front of him. Tried the mashing F trick once the dialogue ends but didn't work