☢┃stalker-general

[sweet root]

Wrong channel?

[inland sage]

...no, I'm talking about the Dvupalov bug.

[sweet root]

But you didnt reply to anything and it came way late, maybe do a reply

[warm ingot]

Other people with this issue fixed it by charging in and interacting before he sits down

[sweet root]

Wait what? what issue? either im going crazy or everyone else is

[warm ingot]

The one we were just talking about, Dvupalov and the blueprint in the "In Search Of Past Glory" mission

[sweet root]

Seems like some Psi waves going around here ...

[inland sage]

I did this later on after the conversation, I went and did a side quest and slept at a far away base. The issue is that Dvupalov, the quest guy for getting ||the suppressor blueprint||, becomes unable to be interacted with when it comes time to turn in the quest item.

The issue I'm having now is that I must have killed the snork with the collar on but not collected the collar and now I can't find the collar to do the science quest.

[warm ingot]

Essentially softlocking the main story. Fixes I've seen are charging and jumping in, loading a previous save, going off and doing other stuff/traveling, etc. Tried them all and it hasn't worked

[ornate sable]

Dalin is such a nerd lol, I love how the colonel mogs him in almost every cutscene, stopping just shy of giving him a wedgie and locking him in a gym locker.

[inland sage]

Oh, neat. Birch started selling exos. Well, the Liberty one at least.

I'm considering it. I can afford it.

[warm ingot]

I'm gonna attempt the Yaniv/sleep/wait a while thing again and if it doesn't work I'll UETools fix it

[maiden grotto]

3 or 4.... I have had 3 spawn on me, and before the supposedly fixed it.... Had 6.

[inland sage]

I wonder...is there a limit to how much radiation elimination you can get from artifacts?

[warm ingot]

I've had that same question, is there a hard limit to how much benefits can stack

[tame plume]

Has anyone tried a no death run for stalker 2 I lowkey wanna try

[warm ingot]

That is an endeavor, hope you maintain your sanity if you decide to go for it

[sudden crown]

hey I drink whiskey and accidentally started playing indian jones great circle thinking it was stalker. xbox pass and all

was like man, why is the Vatican in Chernobyl.

[smoky ginkgo]

In the Brain Scorcher region ? If so, look for some stalkers around, maybe they know something ..

[sudden crown]

If you killed that snork you would have heard beeping like crazy, even if you didn't do pre-requisite quest. But walking away from it.. I do not know.

[lament needle]

so I emptied my stash, sold everything I did not need to the traders in Rostok, from red weapons money I went from $50 to $330 000, nice haul tbh

[inland sage]

...wait this guy's name IS Major Slutsky

[sweet root]

Ive seen a Slutsky before in a Stalker game

[sudden crown]

so best armor is fully upgraded corrundum ?

[pseudo lotus]

So uh. Am I supposed to be able to reach the generators from above ground?

[sweet root]

Naw either Liberty or Diamond exo skelly

[sudden crown]

Oh okay. I got one exo but it doesn't have sprint? I wear that fully upgraded corrundum though.. and I'm invincible to everything except 12+ armed exos

with phys and bleed resist plus max radiation artifacts. mm

[smoky ginkgo]

Diamond is better in every aspect IIRC
I’ve been farming both of those in a Monolith hideout, in Prypiat, there’s no debate between both

Great spot if you’re into big fights. That’s the north-south oriented building just west of the Department Store, bring some extra ammo that’s gonna be brutal 😋

You’ll get a nice amount of gauss guns along the path

[pseudo lotus]

Ok so apparently you CAN just walk up to the front door ||of the stalker program||

[hidden yoke]

yes

[pseudo lotus]

That’s crazy. This isnt supposed to be accessible, yet there’s like…. A whole path this way? And also I found a stash marked on my map- really weird to have stashes in an inaccessible area? I’m so confused

[sudden crown]

So why the story shift options late game?

I feel like the game wants you to love the zone but at the same time it shows you only tragedy. You never come across a joyous band of people. And yet you're pragmatic for wanting to end it

[vast mortar]

Idk, that sounds like real life

[inland sage]

Eeeegh, limited save slots?

[waxen kernel]

iirc someone made a spreadsheet with items value in coupons/kg, so you won't gather the useless stuff like 50 extra vodka bottles to sell

[smoky ginkgo]

Oh that would be very interesting to find
Bandages are great from my experience

[ornate sable]

Seems we get more when selling healing items to medics too, but I haven't actually run the numbers or anything

[sweet root]

Yea i dont carry any bottles and only take what i need in medicals etc, food and stuff, more valuable stuff i can bring back like actual weapons

[waxen kernel]

And the less proeminent bullets like 308AP

[lament needle]

god damn the memory leak makes Rostok literally unplayable, literally 10 minutes and the game crashes or freezes

[waxen kernel]

I cant wait for the next patches

Rostok memory leak and the fact that I ALWAYS have to start the games twice

[sudden crown]

Real life is like this. I am forever indebt to my father.

[waxen kernel]

First time for shaders load which results in a crash, then a normal start without shaderload

[sudden crown]

We live a life when our father is dead , similar to this game. He is always watching over me

[bleak wadi]

Evidently Ukranian actress Olena Kurta is the face of Agatha in stalker 2.

[sudden crown]

I like.

[ornate sable]

Yeah that's the number one and two things they should work on. Yes, I can still play after launching the second time, but still. I can see a lot of people just giving up after the first crash after the first crash, thinking the game just doesn't work.

[hidden yoke]

guys, i found another softlock...

OH, this is the Back to the Slag heap bug

[hoary crest]

Huh nice, she's quite pretty tbh

[gaunt ferry]

Does weird bolt still crash the game in an emission?

[sweet root]

For me the thing doesnt even spawn so dunno, been there thru the parkour and even went with a noclip to check if it spawns and nope

[gaunt ferry]

Did you start off in the garage next to the picture?

[sweet root]

I followed the guide after i failed and nothing

Then on top of the crane top i turned on noclip to make myself immune to knock down to see if its ever in the spot it should be

[cobalt fiber]

Might be to do with where you're saving and loading. Loading from the wilhelm scream dude works. Parkour needs to be done within tornado

[gloomy citrus]

He getting on the bike? With the whole fridge on him??!

Crackhead strength is real!!!

[violet yew]

so have they added the option to upgrade game licenses?

[boreal coyote]

for those of you telling me that the "gsc answers" page is being used properly......"Question:
is there any way to download shadow of chernobyl without using torrent? because im in US and i cant use torrent
Answered by:
@waxen marten
Answer:
The game is on Steam, for example" do you still hold that opinion?

[open inlet]

I can’t be the only one to notice that lens is a cold ass Mf

[dense sandal]

Did sterlok ever hv a faction or always been just him?

[boreal coyote]

he had a small group, but no faction

[violet yew]

he was operating with his group

[hidden yoke]

yes

[violet yew]

so no news on edition upgrades?

[open inlet]

Also who sides with the guys who where sent to hunt the Monolithian they open fire to start the scene

My brain was like Uga bugga they shoot at me so I walked down and you know the rest

[boreal coyote]

no you dont

[hidden yoke]

"oh no, it's not going MY WAY, so you're wrong"

[boreal coyote]

i killed the monolithian without talking to him 😁

[boreal coyote]

yes

[gloomy citrus]

He has companions, Fang and Ghost. Doctor and Guide are more of close friends.

[gloomy citrus]

The Ninth will give you a blueprint if you sided with him. If you kill him, you won't get it.

[dense sandal]

I hv no idea who they are XD

[gloomy citrus]

That's why you should play the OG Trilogy first. Fang and Ghost are long gone.

Fang was killed by either Leshiy or Nimble. The theory was made by Tejas and Anomalous Dugout made a video about it.

As for Nimble, it was hinted from Lebedev PDA you found in Clear Sky base.

[open inlet]

Well good i sided with them I didn’t even think twice about siding with the guys who are sent to hunt him down I did check if there a peaceful solution

And if you kill them has a AR

[slender swan]

Early in the game there's this boat on the ground. What's up with it? Any notable loot from there?

Some objects fly about and struck me. I can't kill that thing though. Am I asupposed to reveal it somehow?

[gloomy citrus]

There's a stash in there.

[open inlet]

Question does your personal stash have unlimited storage?

[gloomy citrus]

That's Poltergeist

[slender swan]

Ground floor?

[gloomy citrus]

2nd

Oh wait I think 3rd

[slender swan]

How do I get up? I can't climb

[gloomy citrus]

Look around and see if you can jump on the boxes.

Then go through a hole.

[slender swan]

Thanks. Can I fight poltergeist yet?

[open inlet]

Hey would you know if personal stash is unlimited and if not do you know if he personally stash you come across is it’s separate stash

[keen terrace]

Ye

Could be hard at first tho

[gloomy citrus]

Yeah you can. It'll try to defend itself by making a wall.

[gloomy citrus]

I think so yeah.

That personal stash has unlimited space.

[slender swan]

Not sure what you mean

[gloomy citrus]

Eh you'll find out soon.

[open inlet]

Nice then

I know it would be expensive but I think I will take in bad shape AR I got and repair it be pretty nice to have earlier game

[gloomy citrus]

AKM and AR416 has low durability because they're meant to be early game ARs.

[open inlet]

Ya true but I got a AR now 😀 it wasn’t my to start with but I don’t think the guy I killed will need it

[gloomy citrus]

After AKM there's Fora and then Dnipro all of which use the same round.

[open inlet]

Ow not sure how I got a AR then I just found it on the dead bodies

[open inlet]

True but you can repair them even it costs money

[gloomy citrus]

ye is alright I guess

[open inlet]

I also sell surplus so I have the money 💰

[gloomy citrus]

You need to know that certain technicians can only upgrade certain weapons and armors.

[open inlet]

What? Well that good to know

[gloomy citrus]

Like the ones in Slag Heap and Zalissya, they can only upgrade early game stuffs.

[open inlet]

Ow it doesn’t really make sense how I got a AR from a body in the lesser zone but ok

[gloomy citrus]

You probably got AKM or AR416 right?

Those are meant to be early game ARs sir.

[left flume]

anyone else find 2 of the "special" aks74u's on the dead guy at the cordon mill?

[open inlet]

Ya

[gloomy citrus]

I did

Don't know why that happened.

[hidden yoke]

the guy was supposed to be alive, you guys might have miss him and he died, dropping 2 special guns on him

[gloomy citrus]

I saved his ass on my 1st playthrough and I shot him on sight now. Not only Sido give me money, I get to own a special assault rifle as well

How nice.

[gloomy citrus]

No, I killed him.

[left flume]

didnt even know it spawns there, i think he tried to talk to me just before he died because i heard a radio static randomly

[gloomy citrus]

He asked for help when you're near the mill.

[hidden yoke]

yes, either way, he's doing business with IPSF (or whatever the new faction name is), that's why he got good gun (it bugged and spawn the 2nd one)

[open inlet]

Who dies from radiation when I get it I just back off for a second

Unless your in the swamp but that problematic Becouse it slows you

Actually I shouldn’t say that I think I died to reds once I died a totally of like 35 times now

[junior current]

compiling shaders

[maiden grotto]

Does anyone know if the quest "sound of music" in Duga, is questable after ISPAAAFNREIGNT or what the facilities called, after it all goes t*ts up,

As aparently there is a mission in Duga that dissappears after the incedent

[halcyon karma]

What

What facility? The Promin Factory?

[coarse yew]

Why does Skif turn the tab to the right after opening the energy drink?

[weary hedge]

When does the side mission The Sound of Music become available? I fought Faust so the Duga is safe now, but Sledgehammer isn’t anywhere around.

[inner hinge]

Personal preference

[fallen latch]

coz he has a big nose and needs to move the tab out of the way to get a good angle to tip the can up

[potent ember]

Anyone get the united24 stalker 2 dosimeter from the charity? Just wanna know what it looks like

[wintry pumice]

I think it's before Sircaa

[proven dew]

Anyone not able to get the scanner achievement?? I’ve done all of them on multiple saves and can’t get it to register

[weary hedge]

Morning stalkers

[gloomy citrus]

Get out of here stalker.

[weary hedge]

No! I'm going to stalk you and hack your pc

[elfin vine]

Smh

[gloomy citrus]

smh

[weary hedge]

😂

[maiden grotto]

It's started in teh Grocery Store in Duga. By a guy called Sledgehammer

[hoary crest]

Its before SIRCAA i believe. Which is weird because that area is hella dangerous to be wandering into early-game

[maiden grotto]

Awesome, done it last night... And my god, was getting from North to south along that wall frustraighting.

But if that was it, then yay!! I got that quest out the way before SIRCAA went t*ts up

[hoary crest]

Yeah its more optimal to cross over by the pontoon bridge and approach it along the riverside for sure, less risk of getting beamed in the dome by an invisible super-sniper

[maiden grotto]

Yeah, and the funny thing is... That super sniper is only along a small part of the wall, and is utter BS

[hoary crest]

There is one up by the checkpoint the Ward uses to storm Duga aswell lol. Went up there out of curiosity to see if there was a bed there in the early game... instant death 😂

[torn sleet]

what the hell are those rat-snork looking things in Hlynka (south garbage village)? i started hearing things and my character got tired until i killed them

[maiden grotto]

Is that near the drain entrance, with the bed in it that you use to meet up in? During the storming Duga missions?

[hoary crest]

The one at the watchtower just outside of the western checkpoint, I would assume the tunnel with the bed in it you go to with Spork for the first attempt on thier quest path is the same though I've not tried it, that being said, the door might just be closed on that one so maybe not

[maiden grotto]

The drain is open and you can go into the first room, but the door to second room is locked.

But yeah there.

Utter Bs

[hoary crest]

Yeah its a bit of a shame we can't explore the main area till later in the game, but at least there is a lore reason; Its held by the IPSF or whatever the hell the acronym is

[inner hinge]

Not sure what you are talking about but the thing making you hear stuff is the mutant cat locked in the garage that you can open if you find the keys hidden in a TV in the nearby house

[torn sleet]

Yeah thats the one

Thought i was going crazy, hearing voices with no one around

[inner hinge]

The mutant cats are a pain in the bum and there is stupid annoying variant that can dupe like Pysdogs

[maiden grotto]

You can still get in through the south entrance and loads of friendly stalkers about, I haven't found a way in to where the two Psuedogiants are though

[coarse yew]

Did you do the scanner at the Chemical Plant? It confuses some people because you can only open it at night, otherwise it looks like you already used it during the day.

[pale fossil]

Bayun = best mutant

[drifting forge]

So true

[torn sleet]

Not sure why cat didnt come to mind, immediately thought of a naked mole rat mutant

[drifting forge]

Don't diss the kot like that. Peak kot

[inner hinge]

That is fallout

[pale fossil]

Mutants in S2 are awesome. I'm glad they added flaksa jump

[torn sleet]

Yep

[hoary crest]

Ye, you can't get into that bit until doing the Duga runs. I tried because I wanted to do a playthrough using the Cavilier rifle, but alas

[maiden grotto]

Still some interesting stuff down there and it is good you can still go exploring to some extent.

[civic relic]

bruh im on my 2nd playthru and again the red forest trader has a side activity mission on him but i talk to him and there is nothing but whats new in the zone dialoage?

[inner hinge]

Their health is nonsense though

[inner hinge]

Only available after the doctor quest

[pale fossil]

A big pig can take a beating

[civic relic]

ahhh ok yeah i didnt go that way with my 1st playthru anyways

[inner hinge]

Nah play the original trilogy and you will see how much health mutants should have

[pale fossil]

I played it in high school, son.

[hoary crest]

Just install a rebalance mod 🤷‍♂️

[civic relic]

lol i just lured another bloodsucker into a base and it killed 5 guys there

[inner hinge]

Gonna wait 2 more patches before using mods

[pale fossil]

HODL

[hoary crest]

How come? Most of them are'nt gonna break stuff as UE5 is pretty robust when it comes to mods working between versions. If the files they touch arent directly modified within a patch, they will work across versions

[proven dew]

Yeah I’ve reset and done them all a couple times

[inner hinge]

Like to give Devs a chance to fix stuff first and experience the game how they intended before fine tuning it. It's weird I know but it's just how I do things

[pale fossil]

I'm just gonna play it again when they fix it

[sly sluice]

I mean you should probably experience vanilla
Like people ask what mods for their first time playing SoC the answer is none

[inner hinge]

I'm curious are the Devs already back in the office and how long have they been back

[hoary crest]

Most of us have completed at least one playthrough under the vanilla balancing i believe

[sly sluice]

Yeah probably. So now I'm more waiting after my 2 playthroughs where I did everything major to see if we'll get some major mods that change things a lot

[teal shadow]

is it bad that I quit playing soc after agroprom underground because i got scared?

[sly sluice]

hahaha a little but just cause that spookiness is fun

[hoary crest]

Only if you think its bad, though I'd advise going back and getting it done

[teal shadow]

Maybe ill play SoC again after im done with stalker 2s main story

[maiden grotto]

I played it as soon as it came out. Vanilla and all the bugs.

[sly sluice]

Or maybe we can get fun dlc content

[maiden robin]

I went to a red forest side activity and everyone was dead and when I got there the marker went away. I was very confused

[civic relic]

yeah for me theres just no dialogue option for it but someone here said u gotta do doctor missions first but why would the game put the side activity thing there then and not after that

[north bane]

Hi, I produce a bug myself in stalker 2 in the quest A Light in the End of the Tunnel Mission : I write the code of the door and get the device broken before starting the quest and now I go to start the quest but can't start the quest

any idea of how fix it? XD

[ancient frost]

how do i check my over all stats ?

[slender swan]

I'm dying a lot in early game. Are there ways to increase health?

[inner hinge]

Better armour

[hidden yoke]

lower difficulty

[ancient frost]

mods

[drifting forge]

Killing the enemies faster will help. Same with strafing and taking cover

[civic relic]

damn dude i just got a compass on my 4th artifact i searched for on this playthru

was that random artifact north of garbage. i feel like im cheating by using a map to get every artifact location tbh

yo why is there artifact locations on map though that arent an anomaly i searched the areas there and dont find anything

[mossy helm]

#📸┃screenshots_and_videos message does anyone know about this location? need help

[crystal granite]

Honestly that ain't cheating. I've looked up a few locations myself, stumbled upon more, and actually discovered by wanting to clear off as many ? as possible

Although the most I get are artifacts valued at 20k in my inventory, and that sell for like 7-12k at a vendor

[hardy spire]

anyone know where i can find this stets leech guy

[pallid thorn]

its a anomaly where the side quest shows even if it is main quest locked, which main mission i dont know, but it is about two thirds of the way through the game.

[ancient frost]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ECSNCJeEg5A vr stalker 2

[pseudo lotus]

GOOD MORNING stalker 2 spoiler chat

has anyone else tried walking to the generators? There's an entire above-ground path and the generators themselves are almost fully traversible....

not to mention that there's a whole, like. puzzle associated with it, and you can straight up just walk into the front door of X7....

[still edge]

sick!

[ancient frost]

ima get MeganeX 8K just for this

[weary hedge]

You mean I don’t have to run around between bunkers, and flip switches?

[pseudo lotus]

are the bunkers with the switches part of one of the endings or something?? I thought that all of the endings forced you to go thru the underground route

[kindred turtle]

Hi! How do i kill a poltergiest? I cant seem to kill kt with a mag dump on my ak

[pseudo lotus]

hello rookie. first of all you shouldnt be in this chat, you should go to #⭐┃nospoilers_general

Second- git gud. Aim better. Shoot the center of the orb.

[crystal granite]

Shotgun

[kindred turtle]

This is my 3rd poltergiest now i just ran away if i find one instead of killing it, waste resources

[crystal granite]

It's a constantly moving target, with quite a large area to hit, so a spread weapon will work best

[crystal granite]

What shotgun do you use? If you're encountering a poltergeist I assume you're like what, 25%, 30%+ into the game? If you haven't already, do yourself a favour and grab the Saiga 12 shotgun 😉 it'll help you massively

[kindred turtle]

m8 something cracker

im currently exploring slagheap before going to ||sawmil||

[crystal granite]

M870 cracker? Yeah nah grab the Saiga. I'll share a link in a sec

@kindred turtle here https://youtu.be/uwUA_Tp4vs8?si=0Er-mvP68b9amJp6

[kindred turtle]

all good mr boss, thanks for tips, Ill just explore the zone my way,

[pseudo lotus]

grabbing the saiga early is lame and makes the game less fun, save that sorta stufff for a second playthrough

[kindred turtle]

jsut wondering why i couldnt kill that guy lol

[crystal granite]

No probs, if you're sticking to the cracker, try to close the distance to the poltergeist and hip fire. Watch out for his attack where he phases through you and causes damage

[crystal granite]

meanwhile me running around with either a Saiga or the Texan after reaching Pripyat early

[kindred turtle]

it cant kill me anyway and its just a waste of ammo, its guarding somekind of loot and it kinda annoyed me

[crystal granite]

Is it at the Maze in Garbage? I did that yesterday, that one is annoying

[wide plank]

Hey. Did anyone still suffer from "On the Edge" quest? Because, now doors are not blocked, but for some reason once I kill all the monolith troops and I asked to come to listen for the speech right after that quest marked as failed and no any reward, while local "boss" thanked me publicly ...

Maybe there is some workarround/fix?

PC, Patch 1.1.3, Steam Version.

[pseudo lotus]

They're not as tough as they seem, they're just tough to hit. Shotguns are most effective, but short controlled bursts from your AK will do the job too. Early game, expect to dump at least 2 mags in em

[kindred turtle]

its the pipelines above where you locate lex the so called "legend"

[crystal granite]

I haven't been around there enough to see a poltergeist. Also kill that guy

[kindred turtle]

i did, that guy was a danger to ||newbie stalkers and is in cahoots with varan||

[crystal granite]

||Lex the 'Legend' is a conman||

[crystal granite]

||I killed Varan, but I firet did the two optional quests it gives you||

[kindred turtle]

oh well, gotta go back to slagheap to sell stuff thanks @pseudo lotus and @crystal granite Holla at me when you see me at the zone!

[pseudo lotus]

Good hunting, stalker! dont let the snorks bite

[crystal granite]

No probs dude, happy to help! And remember "don't trust everyone who promises you dope loot for free" bonus if you get the quote

[weary hedge]

Yeah ||the ward ending makes you go through the bunkers and flip the switches||

[pseudo lotus]

😟 OH! Uh. Hmmmmmm. Really?
So lets say hypothetically, I got there early, and already flipped them.....

[crystal granite]

Man that's what I'm always afraid of when I'm our exploring outside of the main quest

[crystal granite]

[weary hedge]

You might be ok. I disarmed the boobytraps at Azimuth early and I was ok. I was worried but nope, my game was fine. But those are also not important like the switches.

[pseudo lotus]

maybe korshunov will appreciate my initiative!

[weary hedge]

Maybe, he’s a hard *ss but at least he’s honest and likes Skif.

[ancient frost]

https://en.shiftall.net/products/meganex8k 3 g canadian lol nm

[wintry pumice]

[cyan sparrow]

We meet on other discord?

[wintry pumice]

BG3?

[cyan sparrow]

Naaa, was checking same. XD must be something else where we don’t belong lol or you had real imposter out there

[hazy gyro]

which in your opinion is better: the diamond or the liberty exosuit?

[cyan sparrow]

Both are canon.

[wintry pumice]

Ruby if it had the same weight as diamond

[pseudo lotus]

Shturm (this post made by the Wardens)

[proven dew]

There’s a mission later on that you HAVE to kill one to progress, shotgun into the middle of the bubble

[cobalt fiber]

Shotgun, shoot, run after it, shoot, run after it, repeat

You won't get hit by much if you put constant pressure on them

Poltergeist are only really a pain when they're a fair distance but turn aggro

[north bane]

the trader of quiet camp don't give me the quest A Light at the End of the Tunnel anyone can help me please? - -

[wintry pumice]

Did you see Faust get off the main island?

[north bane]

faust it's in the main story quest?

didn't see any faust I think

[wintry pumice]

Yup you have to complete the main quest where Faust leaves the island. After that Quiet contacts you, after which he gives you the side quest

[north bane]

oooh I see

thanks for the info very apreciate it 😉

[woeful karma]

i am stuck on main quest Dark Times, npc wont talk with me (has weird name)

he is looking over corpse and nothing happens...not even sleeping helps

[wintry pumice]

The one in red forest?

[woeful karma]

yes !

[wintry pumice]

There should be 2 hunters. Did you talk to both?

[woeful karma]

i see on Reddit that many people have problems with that quest 😦

[wintry pumice]

Hmm then it's better to reload a previous save or maybe wait for an emission

[woeful karma]

i tried to talk to hunter with "!" mark on minimap,he wont talk to me

yea it seems emmision is bugged, because i have quest to go to shelter to hide from emission, but there is no emmision

[wintry pumice]

Wow it seems it's even more bugged

[woeful karma]

maybe i should just keep waiting for emission or try to force sleep few days/nights

i am stuck on that quest and cant progress....until developers release a new patch

[wintry pumice]

I doubt even that would fix it

[ornate sable]

Ah, that one. Access to the loot is by jumping down from the cliff on the Rostok-side of the road (access through rostok region). It's easier to kill the poltergeist from there too. A good shotgun does the trick, 3 shots from a Cr*cker or better, with slugs if you can't get into its face with buckshot.

[civic relic]

can enemies run out of ammo

cause im about to find out rn i guess lol there is 1 bandit shooting at me behind one of those knife anomalies and the bullets are just being stopped by it and hes too stupid to move around it lol

yeah i dont think they do... this guy has been shooting at me for 10 mins now and still doesnt understand how to walk around the anomaly to get to me

[maiden grotto]

?

[maiden grotto]

No, but it is nuts how little ammo they give you when you search them

[wintry pumice]

Normal enemies have low ammo. But zombies have whole stacks

[pallid thorn]

not all the time, not even most of the time. they do carry more ammo then normal however.

[wintry pumice]

He's a bandit for a reason

[civic relic]

yeah i was boutta say that lmao

[cobalt fiber]

All this time been saying ill finish CP when I've done the 4th ending and ward playthrough. Yet here I am buying legends of the zone on xbox for a replay now I don't have a pc

[pallid thorn]

WHOA THIS GUY HAS CP

[cobalt fiber]

The obsession that plagued me many moons ago has returned and now I fear I shall lose myself to the zone

[pallid thorn]

bro put an o in the abbreviation for call of prypiat, cus it looks like chld prn lol

[cobalt fiber]

I meant cyberpunk

[pallid thorn]

point still stands. cant use cp as an abbreviation lol, cus people like me are gunna clown the shit out of it

[cobalt fiber]

Says more about you than me bud

[civic relic]

is cyberpunk actually a good game?

[pallid thorn]

brody thinks im attacking him lol
in reality, im jokin around
cus in reality
im f*ck1n stoned

[cobalt fiber]

Very. Launch was obviously horrific but since rehaul it's stellar. DLC is quality too

[civic relic]

maybe il download it then.

[wintry pumice]

It's on sale for most of the time

[cobalt fiber]

I lost a lot of hours doing the scanner side stuff, side gigs. Ended halfway through dlc and at point of no return in base but will be finishing soon. Somehow I finished the base game when it was still horrific

[civic relic]

i dont really buy games tbh... stalker 2 i bought ofcourse but i havent even bought a game in years now lol

[cobalt fiber]

The side gigs they added in 2.0 were miles better than base too. Lot more story orientated

[wintry pumice]

Ah a pirate. I used to be one myself but thinking of going back to it, looking at the prices of the games some studios put out

[cobalt fiber]

I meet my old pirate ways halfway and use Kinguin or CDKeys for 9/10 games now

Never G2A though. Can't support the use of stolen CCs

I use Kinguin for game pass too and save £5 a month which isn't major but savings are savings

[maiden grotto]

Buuuulleeeeetss

[maiden grotto]

Was, then made itself more like GTA, rather than being more like Cyberpunk 2077.

Horrible skill tree and system now... Great idea, awful execution. F-ing loot drops with silly bright purple smoke... Just becaue other games have it...

[cobalt fiber]

Wasn't that only in PL though?

[maiden grotto]

Nope,,, everywhere...

Not mention a stupid ending that didn't make sense.

[cobalt fiber]

I liked the endings tbh. Panam one was the best

[maiden grotto]

No the new one was awful, I liked the Panam ending too...

Completed the game multiple times, with my pistol sir.... the one that slows down time build...

Then they changed it, all the old unique weapons became garbage, the build became garbage... and it was ruined.

[civic relic]

can artifacts bug cause i swear ive tried tracking this artifact thats in electric anaomly so it doesnt move and i can only get 4 steps to it ive searched every single direction now tf

[maiden grotto]

Yup

[civic relic]

damn cause i really need a thunderberry or smth for endurance i hate how fast stamina depletes in this game

[weary hedge]

Couple that with being a loot goblin. I chug energy drinks like they’re water.

[cobalt fiber]

4 energy drinks in and you're starving as though you're living in extreme poverty

[weary hedge]

Absolutely, I had that happen at the old mill or wherever it is you find squint.

[maiden grotto]

I would go over to malakite and get one from the electrofield outside the base... I have got most of mine from there, seems to be a luck spot. Also some good armour near buy and weapons

[civic relic]

idek if i go to malachite and i also dont have a malachite pass yet

[maiden grotto]

as long as you can get over the pontoons or to the Slag heap, you can get there.... just run and take energy drinks with you

You'll be fine as long as you are forest gump and keep on running

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

[civic relic]

i atleast need a endurance artifact first cause fk running all that way without it

[maiden grotto]

try the elctrofield south of the slap heap

[dry siren]

helo funee people in my fone

[civic relic]

well i just checked an electro field but the artifact bugged for me and wouldnt appear so i closed out the game

[maiden grotto]

try the electro field near reloading point, east of the Slag Heap... Good gun around there too. you can also go on towards the Cement Factory and meet up with Duty.

[civic relic]

yeah i finally decided to use that map and just go and search every single artifact location

[maiden grotto]

Well, your better off targetting the electrofield... got more chance to get one.

[ornate sable]

I would save before evrery anomaly field, not for the purposes of savescumming (rerolling which artifact you get), but some times the artifact will glitch through the ground and you won't be able to get it.

[civic relic]

yeah i will try that just for the electric anomaly cause i really need that thunderberry

[maiden grotto]

You are not going to get early in the game... IIRC, artifacts get better the further into the game you get... Although , if you get to an area later in teh game, you get a chance to get one.

That is why I bravely ran away to Malacite and searched their, luckily getting one.

[civic relic]

is that really how it works? they just get better when u progress main story?

well... i did get a compass from a random artifact anomaly so i could re roll that and probly get thunderberry eventually right?

[ornate sable]

I got my Thunderberry at the reloading point, just south of cement factory. Involuntary savescumming; first artifact glitched through ground, reloaded and second was a Thunderberry. Also picked up Liquid Rock from the acid field just west of cement factory, and compass from the grav anomaly just north of slag heap. This was all pre-SIRCAA too

[civic relic]

yeah im pre- wild island rn

[ebon blade]

Yes, it has more to do with getting better detectors than it does time or distance.

[ornate sable]

Was still using the Echo detector when I got the Compass though. Pre wild island too

[civic relic]

ohhhh, i think i heard someone say that u need to use the best detector before u go and pick up an artifact

u cant even get the veleves until when i forget

wait if i sneak into pripyat can i find a velves detector there

[wintry pumice]

It's very annoying when they fall into the ground

[civic relic]

whats the range igotta be at to take my good detector out for the artifact?

[wintry pumice]

You get it for free if you help sherba with his request during the main quest

[civic relic]

yeah i did that 1st playthru but i forget when that even was

[ebon blade]

What do you consider a good detector? it's not the Echo. The Echo sucks.

[wintry pumice]

Else you need to buy it

[civic relic]

well isnt the bear better than hilka then the velves is the best one?

[wintry pumice]

Hilka has insane range but the bear is really good to use early game

Hilka has 100m range but bear only has 50m, Veles has 60 but you need to wait till a certain point in story to get it

[civic relic]

dude i reloaded a save 220m from the electric anomaly and the artifact is still bugging in the ground

[inland sage]

Before Veles I just use Hilka for long range and swap to Bear once I'm within 40 meters like I imagine most stalkers do

[ornate sable]

I just use the Bear and get closer. Didn't even get the Hilka until after I had the Bear, so I just ran with the Echo until Wild Island.

[slender swan]

Why did Stalker 2 spell it as "Chornobyl"?

[wintry pumice]

Yeah it's annoying, but you can wait for it to shift to another anomaly nearby

[ornate sable]

Ukranian spelling

[slender swan]

But the first game doesn't use that spelling

[inland sage]

Because Russia wasn't invading when they made the first game.

[wintry pumice]

Ukrainian pronunciation. Ukrainian spelling would be in cyrillic

[kindred turtle]

do artifacts respawn on the anomaly field? if yes how long does it take to respawn?

[slender swan]

Why does Russia's invasion change the name of a Ukrainian oblast?

[upbeat cargo]

nice bait

[ornate sable]

It was always Chornobyl in Ukranian. The first games used Chernobyl as the more internationally recognized name.

[wispy sundial]

So is the cripple part referring to physical or mental complications?

[upbeat cargo]

z bot lol

[ornate sable]

Like when I visited Kyiv in 2011, it was still internationally recognized as Kiev (airport departure signs and whatnot).

[inland sage]

I think they must but I don't know how long. I've got two weird balls right now so they must respawn at some point.

Maybe it has something to do with emissions?

[slender swan]

I am physically handicapped, but it's up to you to you to decide whether I'm mentally handicapped as well

[ornate sable]

Mine are pretty weird too, but I still only ever have two of them. No matter how many times I emit😏

[wispy sundial]

I see. Yeah, I think I made my decision already.

[upbeat cargo]

Most reliable respawns i had with emissions, but also travelling long distances sometimes seemed to reset them.. hard to say if it's a timer, but emission seem to reset them reliably

except weird ball artifact, that seems to respawn if you go far away enough and return later

[inland sage]

I'm wondering if it's possible for me to get more than one weird water and how drunk that will make Skif.

[ebon blade]

No discussions about the war. No politics. No religion. No sexual discussions including body parts or having sex with mutants.

[upbeat cargo]

weird ball seems to respawn, I never did check for the bottle... highly likely? I don't know if the effects would stack tho

[slender swan]

My original question wasn't referring to the war or politics

[ebon blade]

The link I replied to was.

[maiden grotto]

You lucky man... Both of my games, I got a million low level stuff about useful as blind painter and decorator

[maiden grotto]

I am, join the club 😄

[ornate sable]

I must be insanely lucky then; 5 legendaries so far, pre SIRCAA. 2 compass, 2 liquid rock, 1 thunderberry.
Now trying to get that one supposedly common artifact a trader was asking for - that's a challenge!

[maiden grotto]

Who did you bribe?

[inland sage]

I finally found a petal

Time to give it to the Rostok barkeep I guess

[maiden grotto]

I hate the way those missions work. Just tell us the what you are looking for and i'll think about it.

Not, oh wait until till you tell me, then when I can't do it, I cant cancel and pick another job.

[upbeat cargo]

I got all my god tier artifacts pre circaa because I explored the whole map and did everything before going there..
we are not the same

[maiden grotto]

What does it do?

[civic relic]

im trying to get every artifact rn pre sirccaa too on my 2nd playthru since im on veteran so ima need the extra buffs

[inland sage]

Strong bleeding resistance and strong radiation

[maiden grotto]

Oh sweet, what type of anomaly?

[inland sage]

I've got hypercube so it's not something that I need to keep, plus Barkeep will give me 30k for it for the side mission thing. Oh. Uh. I found it on a corpse. In ||the abandoned mine||.

[ornate sable]

Yeah no kidding. Finally get the Steak artifact for boozer, then game crashes when I run back to slag heap, and I didn't save. Only time I've save scummed artifacts was trying to get that one exact artifact again.

[upbeat cargo]

2x compass + 2x hypercube + the weird ball for combat was my go to setup, that prevented me from getting one shot by some gauss campers. altho I did have enemy damage turned to 1.2x

[wintry pumice]

After every emission or after a few days, but definitely after an emission

[civic relic]

its 150m i gotta be to reroll artifacts right?

[wintry pumice]

My god the mutants are off limits too?

[maiden grotto]

I think my first game, I got 3x thunder, Compass, 2x liquid rock, 2x ball, flower, bolt and nut, and a whole lot more, but mostly after SIRCAA...

[wintry pumice]

[maiden grotto]

Way to late... Already had fun with that... Pseudogiants 😄

[civic relic]

bro i hate this game without a thunderberry its miserable to only be able to sprint for 5 seconds all the time

[ornate sable]

If you have an artifact that you have detected that glitched under ground, it won't respawn or despawn. It will be there permanently, blocking that anomaly field from spawning another one forever. The Electric Field south of Slag Heap is like that for me. So now I save before looking for artifacts, no matter if I intend to savescum or not.

[upbeat cargo]

I got all the special artifacts too, but I also discovered that the weird bolt bricked my save at the same time

[inland sage]

Ehhh, I use a pair of souls for my energy needs

[wintry pumice]

I heard some say that it's no longer the case after some of the recent patches

[maiden grotto]

Also have the nightstar... give loads of extra weight... makes life easier... well carry more

[upbeat cargo]

I had to use 2 of these to not feel despair

[weary hedge]

theres no problem in the zone that cant be solved by a fully loaded saiga

[wintry pumice]

You need thunderberry balls

[maiden grotto]

Artifacts falling through the floor?

[inland sage]

Never seen it :D
For weight I just use weird water, always being a little drunk is I feel good for Skif's morale.

[weary hedge]

saiga - youre just using it on yourself at that point

[maiden grotto]

That why they call me the Jiggaglow 😄

[civic relic]

duuuuuude veteran difficulty prices are rough

[upbeat cargo]

I've seen nightstar only once in the wild... more legendary than the legendary ones

[ornate sable]

I do think they gave us the Saiga a bit early in the game. Completely trivializes things like bloodsuckers.

[civic relic]

a compass sells for 12 thousand on veteran bruh

[wintry pumice]

Have no fear for Ragman is here

[upbeat cargo]

if bloodsuckers weren't more common than bandits I'd agree

[civic relic]

aint that just for fully damaged weapons? i was really hoping there would be some trader to buy artifacts for a bit better price than usual

[maiden grotto]

That why when my Skif bends over, there is a red halo, from all the extra work to afford a box of 19 ammo...

[wintry pumice]

Spas does the same thing just without the reload time

[inland sage]

Is it weird that I always carry around some ammo for Skif's PTM? Just in case?

[wintry pumice]

Supposedly some trader at slag heap pays you the most for artifacts but I haven't tried it out myself

[ornate sable]

Yeah but that leaves you vulnerable for a while after emptying the tube mag, which is a decent drawback.

[wintry pumice]

Burers are a nasty surprise

[maiden grotto]

Good, coz I spary with Lynx every morning and get teh feckers spawning in groups of 2, 3, or 4... And before the update, sometimes 6 bullet sponges that want more than just me morning glore.

[civic relic]

man which one theres only 2 and im pretty damn sure the weapon trader there my things sell for same price as every other weapon trader

[inland sage]

They really are, I was on a main quest that I probably won't name, went into a room without registering all the fallen weapons without bodies on the ground, looked at a lock I could shoot, then turned around to see a Grom floating in the air that immediately magdumped me to death.

I love the subtitles in this game sometimes. I keep seeing on the screen just, "Eugene: (upset)"

He's upset because people keep going to the Ragman to sell their guns.

[upbeat cargo]

this is one of the reasons I modded the veteran damage to 1.2x in and out, I like the idea of ammo being pricey but the ammount you needed to spend just to keep along with insane repair costs was just not fun

[inland sage]

There's a trader stall in Rostok that...appears as though it would have been for mutant hunters. Is that part of cut content?

[civic relic]

35 thousand coupons for 15 freaking artifacts...

[wintry pumice]

Then maybe try malachite those scientists may pay more, if not it's crap

[wintry pumice]

Probably or it's coming at a later point

[maiden grotto]

The game just wasn't balanced at all for veteran... Never played the game in any other mode, so can't comment, but it it;s garbage in veteran

[inland sage]

Oh no I got too close kek
Oh that's a teleport

[civic relic]

and once i repair all of my gear i am back down to where i started with 0 coupons... wtf

[upbeat cargo]

I tried vanilla veteran, for a while anyway, I ended up slowing down weapon and armor degredation aswell, every weapon felt like tarkov's vector with a silencer, that thing just melts in your hands

[maiden grotto]

Yeah, I almost died for this...

Yeah? Well here is half the cost of a mag of ammo... Zeds out back if you want the rest.

[inland sage]

It's weird to me to see groups where half have AS Lavinas or Vintars, and the other half have...Bukets.

[inland sage]

Where did you sell them at, Ragman? Or wait, what difficulty are you on, I think that affects sell prices too.

[upbeat cargo]

it's weird to see that the buket is actually better than most of the assault riffles in terms of damage and penetration..

[civic relic]

im on veteran so prices for everything is just completely unbalanced and pretty much stupid

[inland sage]

Yeah, but what about range?

...maybe the bucket is just overtuned

[wintry pumice]

The real difficulty is the prices

[civic relic]

ima look for a balacning mod. maybe something in between stalker and veteran i could atleast put up with but these prices rn are so dumb

[maiden grotto]

I really honestly think that veteran was just rushed to get teh game out the door, they really need to address this. I can give them time, to get it right, but it needs to get done.

Just like not being able to step over logs or jump onto things just above waste heigh.

You can carry 80kgs of stuff, but a log is far beyond means

[upbeat cargo]

well since it's always night in the game range isn't really a factor now is it? can't see anybody past the flashlight range anyway

[dry siren]

who tf put fent in my tourist delight 😭

[maiden grotto]

I got a nice flashlight mod... Added on about 30% range and shadows, and boom, a working flashlight

[inland sage]

Just turn your flashlight off, all it really does is showcase your location and blind you.

[drifting forge]

Ashot as a joke when he was high asf most likely

[maiden grotto]

When out in the open

[upbeat cargo]

I'd have to agree

[upbeat cargo]

I don't actually know if the npc's can see your flashlight at all, the detection is all kinds of messed up in that department

[ornate sable]

It kind of seems like they can? But that's anectdotal at best. Maybe someone's done some actual testing to see if it's a thing?

[upbeat cargo]

I'm mostly waiting for the nightvision to make an appearance later on

[maiden grotto]

I'm quite happy with flashlight for spook factor

[upbeat cargo]

that's the weird part, I can't tell the difference, sometimes the NPC's let you sneak up right behind them with the flashlight pointing at their bum but the same enemy might sense you with the lamp off from 5m away after a reload, and vice versa

[crystal granite]

Idk about the flashlights, but detection is absolutely broken atm

[upbeat cargo]

it was fun for a while, but since there's no "progression" in that department it felt stale really fast, if the lamps range was dependent on the suit/headgear i'd be fine with it, but as is it was just painful, especially since I cranked up the enemy damage

[weary hedge]

Especially when you can be in their side vision for a split second and they miss you. But have dead eye aim with an LMG at like 60 yards out with full auto.

[wintry pumice]

But you can't see in the dark

[crystal granite]

And even worse when it's a group unloading at ya from that distance, all hitting their shots perfectly, while you have to fight against recoil

[weary hedge]

Turn up gamma.

[inland sage]

You can outside, just not...inside. Rely on the moonlight or whatever, as long as it's not a Twilight: New Moon Sparkling Bloodsuckers.

[wintry pumice]

Not inside buildings

[flint plover]

Goddamn have they announced when next update is yet?

[wintry pumice]

Outside I never turn it on unless I am fighting bloodsuckers but inside is pitch black

[upbeat cargo]

I was running around at malachite, on some pipes, a bandit squad with shotguns spawned about 200m behind me... last time I bled so much was in stalker clear sky. they did absolutely 0 damage but each shot they fired, was a hit, and instant bleeding.

[maiden grotto]

Oh it does, the distance spot you, massively increases.

It's why I sun outside in the dark with the light off.

Still, it makes no difference with monsters. Was walking along the road near CMD factory, and blood suckers spawn in the big collapse round building, right at the top in teh anomaly field...

As soon as they spawned, they ran down that slop, and beeline straight for me. I had lights of, and hiding behind the lorry/van that was on the road...

Not good man, not good.

[wintry pumice]

Sometime in 2025

[civic relic]

whats the best food to use? canned food has a high hunger replenish rate but... does it actually stop ur hunger for a while or is it same as other foods with way less weight and price?

[maiden grotto]

202025 you mean 😄 Warhammer 200k

[crystal granite]

We need to donate $1000 each to the war effort first, then we'd get a few bugs fixed

[maiden grotto]

Thank, I will PM you my bank account details in a mo

[sweet root]

I like to use it as little as possible too for mood and intense firefights in dark, wish there was actual muzzle flashes lighting up the rooms when you fire

[dry siren]

AUUUUUUUHH

[drifting forge]

Ngl I kinda sound like Ashot

[civic relic]

im also getting very annoyed with how often my hunger goes down on veteran difficulty. feels like im eating canned food every couple minutes at this point wtf

[wintry pumice]

Can you wire me that money ? I will be sure to send it to GSC

[drifting forge]

Like, I can do the voice, sometimes I kinda go into it. Normally it's a bit different tho

[crystal granite]

Lmao

[weary hedge]

I had a group of 3 IPSF soldiers with that LMG light me up. I was like “d*mn this hurts!” lol. Looted em for my Dnipro conversion later on though.

[upbeat cargo]

i think it's the same, but given how abundant the food stuffs are I ended up carrrying and picking up only the condenced milk cans that give maximum everything, skif was still a glutton and always hungry

[maiden grotto]

Plenty of small things they need to do, and that would be a great one to add.

I hate the lights in this game. Especially lamps, they like light what they are pointing at, and the rest of the room is dark....

So the need to sort the lighting out fullstop

[sweet root]

Well, realistically a lantern on a bedside table or something doesnt really illuminate far

[civic relic]

idk man i did a playthru on stalker difficulty 1st and now im on veteran and it definitely feels worse

[upbeat cargo]

veteran skif is a hungy boi.

[maiden grotto]

It's enough to light a room in a glow so that you can see everything

[sweet root]

But maybe a bit more range and indirect intensity on those small indoor lights wouldnt hurt

[elfin vine]

I felt that way after early game but the more I got stuck into bigger/complex + darker "dungeons" I appreciated the challenge of the flashlight. That said, NGVs would be appreciated eventually

[maiden grotto]

And weighs 750lbs from eating to much sausage.

gobble gobble gobble

[sweet root]

No i mean, actual oil lanterns or lamps, i have used them a lot of times to light up a sauna my dad owns, they really dont carry the light far, just enough to see your immediate surroundings, and they ahd a pretty nice flame too

[civic relic]

so is it 150m away from anomalies to re roll artifacts when reloading saves? i need to get thunderberry from malachite base really bad

[upbeat cargo]

unless it's one of those insanely powerful tilley lanterns

[quick kernel]

Skif would eat a sausage if it was right next to the elephants foot on a rusted piece of metal shelf

[elfin vine]

Just encounter it naturally. I've found 2 thunderberries and sold them lol.

[sweet root]

Forbidden spicy sausage

[maiden grotto]

Skif walks around with a WRC night light set on his suit.... Can see for 60 miles, but struggles through doors

[quick kernel]

Each bite gives you enough radiation to power the sun for 300 years

[sweet root]

I want an altered item sausage artifact in the game, that you could actually eat if you wanted to, with some fun consequences

[civic relic]

yeah well... i already had an electric anomaly artifact bug into the ground and im still at beginning of game and i cannot stand running in this game without atleast 1 thunderberry so ima just reroll it til i get it

[upbeat cargo]

sounds like a plausible wishgranter ending if the question was " I wish to see better during the night "

[maiden grotto]

The game becomes just one giant gas anomaly.

[inland sage]

The answer to who wins between 3 duty guys with 2 RPM-74s and a Grom S-14, and a few wild dogs is...the wild dogs. Also they had exos on.

[sweet root]

They seem to spawn often enough i found like 4 in about 5 hours of play

[civic relic]

was that at beginning of game too? someone said u need to progress main story to even get better artifacts and i still havent even been to wild island for main story yet

[sweet root]

Do not underestimate them doggies

[inland sage]

I can't seem to find the third guy's RPM but that's the ammo he had.

[upbeat cargo]

then skiff lets out that fart and he's hungry again.

[sweet root]

Dont think thats accurate on my two playthrus (firstone stuck in mid point because of softlock), the very first artifacts I found were a Liquid Rock and a Compass

[inland sage]

Wait, these might be mercs actually. Yeah that's not duty red that's just their blood.

[civic relic]

i mean ive found a compass but it was in a random artifact location and then my other 14 artifacts i searched for were all lowest tier

[maiden grotto]

Game says no.

[sweet root]

Yea something just up with the loot table and drop rates i think, sometimes you get super lucky many times in a row then its a week of playing and nothing but junk artis

[upbeat cargo]

I think after you do the prologue and get to the open world part the good artifacts start spawning, I found just as many good and bad artficats regardless of progression

[hybrid ibex]

Sdalger

[drifting forge]

Indeed. Sdalger General

[sweet root]

Get out of here Sdalgerer

[civic relic]

oh great my computer just got BSOD from playing stalker 2

[inland sage]

It would be nice if we could take some duct tape and two extended mags and make taped together extended mags

[drifting forge]

Too floppy but would be funny

[civic relic]

oh god damn i just got thunderberry from electric anomaly

[upbeat cargo]

rpg crafting logic at its fines, you take 2 regular mags, some tape and a hammer you beat it untill the hammer is gone you'll magically have a box magazine that holds 60 rounds

[sweet root]

They also spawn on those that slow you and bullets down when you walk into them

[civic relic]

sorry whatÉ

[sweet root]

Yea them anomalies that make your vision go whacky and slow you down

[inland sage]

No, like. Two extended magazines and you tape them together. How do you think regular taped magazines were made?

[civic relic]

ohhhh yeah

[sweet root]

They count as electric i guess then

[upbeat cargo]

I love fighting among those anomalies

[wintry pumice]

Nice, it's about time you found one of the thunderberry balls

[sweet root]

Yea ending sequence had a fun part with lots of those and many monolith to kill, was a really cool effect seeing the bullets stop and then continuing with full momentum after a while

[upbeat cargo]

you mean taped end to end like a big banana and magical feeding through both?

[inland sage]

No, you tape them together facing opposite directions so when you want to reload you just rotate magazine like it's a banana and put the other one in.

[upbeat cargo]

naaah, way too conventional

[sweet root]

Me monkey you banana

I prefer having either the quick reload mags or extended ones, depending on your playstyle

(quick reload better imo in most cases)

[inland sage]

The downside of taped extended would be your gun would be fat as hell

[weary hedge]

Why not just a 100 round drum mag?

[sweet root]

Yea affecting aim speed and overall handling

[inland sage]

I'm off to the lair of the most vicious bloodsucker in the entire zone.

[sweet root]

Many such lairs, which one?

[inland sage]

I'm off to see Sidorovich.

[sweet root]

Sounds about right

[inland sage]

When I first ran into him in 2, I thought, damn, he's still working on that same turkey leg.

[sweet root]

I love how they had the guts to make such an iconic and "beloved" character such as Sid an even more of a sleezy scumbaggie

[weary hedge]

Is it possible for all of Yaniv to turn green? Or does Deggys troops really hate me?

[sweet root]

Dunno maybe you need to join Strelok in his goals?

[weary hedge]

And playing the same dang song.

[sweet root]

Hes endlessly living the nostalgia of the first game with that song, maybe he needs help

[weary hedge]

He needs an a*ss beating for being a dickhead lol.

[sweet root]

Yea i totally snitched on him to Quiet, F Sid

[weary hedge]

Is he one of the guys you in the tunnel, that Sid wants you to take out?

[cobalt fiber]

No. But I took them out without hesitating

[sweet root]

Naw hes the one that gives you the mission south of Noontide base, the noontide separatist vendor

[weary hedge]

Duh. The Noontider trader.

[cobalt fiber]

With the tunnel guys it really came down to being paid for a job and seeing it through for me. I didn't even give them chance to talk, tossed a nade and picked a few headshots off

[sweet root]

Yeah didnt talk with them either, wonder if its possible to make moves against Sid or not

[upbeat cargo]

i tossed all my nades in there

[cobalt fiber]

No consequence for not killing them unfortunately.

Few guys will come to finish the job that you need to drop but other than that you just get the old "I'm not angry I'm just disappointed"

[sweet root]

Would be fun if you could actually play a bit politiccing there, maybe if you piss off Sid enough he could even order out a hit on you from some seasoned stalkers that start hunting you, and they have a PDA saying as much or something

[cobalt fiber]

They probably didn't want you to mess relations up with Sid given that he's pivotal later on in finding "the oasis"

[sweet root]

I remember Gamma and Anomaly has a system for when you piss off a faction they start sending out hit squads hunting for you

[crystal granite]

I have the Bear detector, but the bartender at 100 Rads is selling the Hilka. Should I buy it?

[sweet root]

At around max negative reputation you see these super beefy boys coming at you with the appropriate PDA message about "so and so should be careful i hear theyre out to get him"

[inland sage]

Well this is weird. So Sidorovich wants me to get a broken rock for him, and he'll give me 10k. But if I just sell him the broken rock, he'll give me 13502 for it. And yes, I'm playing on easy. Because I wanted my first run of the game to be easy easy.

[sweet root]

Aint nothing wrong with playing a single player as you prefer it

[inland sage]

I mean, I don't care about the extra 3502 since I just...had a broken rock in my stash.

[sweet root]

I play on stalker just to balance out the mutants a bit, but also a mod that makes all guns do more damage so stalkers melt me like crazy even with the best armor in the game, but i melt them also

Last leg of the run had me on my toes when a gauss hit on the head would probably kill me in one shot

[upbeat cargo]

I used 1.2x multiplier on damage in and out, instead of the veteran 0.7 out and 1.02 in

[sweet root]

Mutants too? A chimera still destroys me unless i can do ring around a rosie with him around a box or something

[crystal granite]

I'm on console so got no choice in mods, but I play on stalker cause I didn't want a super easy 'stomp everything' playthrough and I didn't wanna jump into vet just yet

[sweet root]

Imo Stalker is a nice balance but will be adding more difficulty as I play

[upbeat cargo]

yep, mutant base damage set to 1.25 also

[crystal granite]

Yeah that is fair. If I had some sliders for example I might tweak them to make it more difficult in some aspects

Suppression effect would be interesting. Like your screen goes darker around the edges, and your gun shakes more when trying to aim under fire

Same would go for enemies

[sweet root]

This, also should work on enemies, feels like suppressive fire aint really a thing i love it in games where its implemented well

[upbeat cargo]

this is hard to balance both ways, in singleplayer games usually this turns out to be only annoying because the enemies are constantly shooting at you

[sweet root]

And proper bullet crack audio FX and sound travel speed, so you hear the gunshot later depending on the distance

[crystal granite]

Yeah, like suppressive fire from a PKM or from the SVD at a distance. Or just in urban combat, to give yourself enough time to toss a nade in the enemies direction while their heads are down

[upbeat cargo]

when SDK drops I presume jsawyer will drop a sick sound overhaul to fix everything

[sweet root]

I also wnat to remove the annoying audio FX when you get hit by a bullet, sounds like your dude is snorting the bullets thru his nose or something, shouldnt really make much sound unless hitting plate

[crystal granite]

I mean, I get ya, but they could make it so enemies miss more often when under fire. Cause for now they got some aimbot

[sweet root]

Aimbot and nadespam had to be modded out pretty early on, the later game enemies are still snipers with whatever gun they have

[maiden grotto]

Run Forest, Run

[sweet root]

Definitely worth taking the time to grind couple of those early in a playthru

[crystal granite]

When mods come to console, I'm definitely tweaking those values. Less nades, and maybe tier based accuracy system? Some low bandits and leather jacket stalkers wouldn't have much training, therefore they'd have shitter aim. Faction like Freedom would have better aim (they're stoned anyway lol), Ward and Duty would be above them, with Monolith being most dangerous

[maiden grotto]

They are a life send

[lost venture]

If I’m a schizo do I get a buff against psi damage or controllers

[upbeat cargo]

if you have split personality you'll recieve the damage multiplied by the number of personalities

[civic relic]

bruh i just had another artifact fall thru the ground. im gonna try using noclip command to grab it

[lost venture]

Well luckily for me I’m just schizo so I guess yay 😂

[lost venture]

What if you have multiple personalities do you have to take multiple psi block ?

[upbeat cargo]

and its a jellyfish or something equally as bad

[sweet root]

How you know its not a dude in a pod?

[crystal granite]

Suppress one with psi block, let the other schizz out. Party time

[upbeat cargo]

to each his own I suppose

[civic relic]

was a flytrap actually

[lost venture]

Hell yeah 😂

[upbeat cargo]

eh that's actually somewhat useful..

I wish the artifacts had more variety in effects, like psi resistance and the likes. currently the 75 distinct artifacts and all but the 5 legendary uniques feel the same

[sweet root]

I miss perk artifacts

[lost venture]

My favourite is the thunder berry not because it’s legendary but because it looks so edible

[inland sage]

Drink the weird water

[sweet root]

Yea they shouldve went totally out the box with the artifact effects design, some actual gameplay changing stuff instead of just stat bonuses

[lost venture]

I did now I have multiple personalities

[inland sage]

That's just the water taking over your body.

[civic relic]

does burnt forest have good artifacts

[lost venture]

Oh sweet, cyberpunk 2077 vibes, do I get my own Johnny silver hand too?

[sweet root]

I kinda like running around the zone tipsy out my butt, doesnt really affect my aim much, still pretty easy to time headshots

[upbeat cargo]

I'd be happy if they'd even give more variety in the stat bonuses, like passive healing, psi resistance, jump height or what ever

[sweet root]

Yea someone here mentioned there are actual healing artifacts in the game but dunno lol sounds fishy, psi artifacts should be a given

[upbeat cargo]

no, you get the zone equilevant, named vadim woodenleg

[sweet root]

screw you, Vadim

[upbeat cargo]

never seen one either, only bleeding resistance and that just stops the bleeding automatically

[lost venture]

Sweet my own imaginary vodka dispenser

[sweet root]

If you could actually get stuff like how Strelok moves around in his boss battle in artifact powers but only for late game unique ones or something, would really make some fun things happen '

[upbeat cargo]

he constantly shouts "get out of here stalker" to your ear

[sweet root]

Hello hello, hello hello

[lost venture]

Eh not far off what I usually hear in a daily basis, roaming the zone with me skif and vadim wooden leg

[upbeat cargo]

howdy-hoo

[sweet root]

Thats the Sakharov voiceline

I dont think i met him in S2 is he around? no further spoilers pls

[upbeat cargo]

it was freedomers voice

[sweet root]

https://www.youtube.com/shorts/0kBxBc8rp0U?feature=share

[upbeat cargo]

i for got that completely

[inland sage]

It would have been funnier if the duty guy was still there saying get out of here stalker, because of him actually just being stuck in a short time loop of him saying that.

[sweet root]

Its so funny

Man i cannot wait for the remastered OGs to come out ill play all of them in order

[upbeat cargo]

never mind the doorman in the bar shouting "COME IN, DON'T STAND THERE" constantly

[sweet root]

Luckily they wont remaster any graphics or anything just UX and bug fixes

[upbeat cargo]

Also I'm sorry to tell you but santa isnt real in this case, i was dissapointed to learn it too 😦

[sweet root]

Though they should keep all the funny bugs in thats just part of the experience

[sweet root]

Possible DLC appearance coming!

[upbeat cargo]

hm, never thought of that possibility, santa might be real afterall, we'll just need to believe

[sweet root]

Just a hunch byt why not?

[upbeat cargo]

I think it would make sense, unless his head wen't all mushy from being too close to the miracle machine for so long... then again we met so many other iconic characters already from the originals

[sweet root]

Arent all the science bunkers shielded from Psi waves though?

Thats how Spirit survived from turning monolith

If i was a noontider id stay as a hermit on one of those just in case someone steals the shiny rock

[upbeat cargo]

somewhat yes I suppose but can you really listen to sakharov talking and say that his brain is not toast AF

[sweet root]

Nope, i cannot

Also i really dont understand Sakharov´s motives of charging you for the psi protection helmet, isnt it in everyone´s and his best interest i go there disable it?

Dont remember if that is in the OG games where he charges you for it but atleast in Anomaly

[maiden grotto]

I wish, you could actually save people from noontide, when you restart the generators again and get teh air cleaned up.

The mission was to save those inside, but there was no one inside.

Shame, missed something there, and still have a safe spot on wild island.

[sweet root]

Yeah depending on your ending youre really not disabling the monolith at all

Ive only been thru the Spark ending so thats the limit of my knowldege

Dunno maybe they want to keep monolith around for later content

[upbeat cargo]

yeah he does charge you in the originals too I think, i'm not sure if it was explained or canon but I think the scientist had to scavenge resources because govt wasn't giving them unlimited funding so they had to trade with stalkers or some shit, maybe thats why?

[sweet root]

But atleast in that sense the Spark ending is quite selfish one, seeking our own salvation while disregarding everything else going on

[maiden grotto]

I don't get why they don't go back to normal.

You shut everything down, C-consciousness is dead, the wish granter is shut down, Duga is shut down and why when you destroy those immiters dotted around the place, no one returns to normal...

It doesn;t make sense... It feels like the idea got as a far, yeah, be great if monolith come back... And that was it.

[upbeat cargo]

in the strelok/doc ending you don't destroy it either

[sweet root]

Without freeplay option the endings wouldnt really affect anything in the world except what youre getting in the cutscene, but those are entirely personal to Skif, kind of understand it from a budget standpoint too why they didnt do it, would be pretty tall order making a faction turn again and all the consequences of it and all, for a thing that only happens at the end of the game

[faint solstice]

https://imgur.com/a/X1EKmBi

[frigid hill]

frozendefender has been warned

Reason: Bad word usage

[faint solstice]

looks like cop degy tbh

[sweet root]

Skif works so much better without a face, hes a mostly blank canvas with some personality for player affection sake, but not too much

So you feel more free to do whatever in the story when youre literally him, and not some actual face'

[upbeat cargo]

might have something to do with faust and his shenanigans, can't tell if he dies at duga or not, was he alive to begin with, is monolith just a construct

[upbeat cargo]

but i wanted to be a face 😦

[sweet root]

I like him being a mystery! well we know his backstory but there has to be more to him

Maybe we get more revelations further on

[maiden grotto]

yeah, planted all those things around the zone, the little immiters, destroynig them should do something, like save some of the noontide, by breaking the connection

[faint solstice]

I wanted to see Skif smile. He always sounds depressed.

[sweet root]

Being a veteran of a war does that to a person

[upbeat cargo]

sure hope so, really interesting character overall

[sweet root]

Yea hes one of my favorite game protagonists by far

Hes just very coolheaded and a badass in every scene, but with a soft undertone in his voice that just makes him approachable (ukranian voiceacting)

[wintry pumice]

Is he? He's just 25

[sweet root]

Yeah one of the more modern conflicts could be Crimea, he was a helicopter pilot or something?

[upbeat cargo]

that's what his backstory tells us atleast

[maiden grotto]

average age of the troop in vietnam was 19

[sweet root]

Also he looks way older in the ending cutscenes when you get a closeup with a mask on, than 25, seems like hes seen some sh't

[wintry pumice]

Hmm

[faint solstice]

Marine corp. Probably a paratrooper. Also its unkown where and during what conflict.

[upbeat cargo]

what I like the most that the reactions are reasonable, maybe in some cases even a bit too levelheaded but on the otherhand his house was burned down by a magic rock so that'd kinda top everything else so nothing really would bother me after that point

[sweet root]

Could be an invented conflict too but something like Crimea would fit timeline wise

Or the later invasion on ukraine maybe

But the war isnt referenced so i dont think its a thing in the universe, im glad they kept out the politics like that, except the original reference to Monorus (Monolith)

[faint solstice]

I think Stalker 2 timeline is pretty different to ours

[maiden grotto]

Why? Ukraine has been fighting in donbas for a decade alsmost.... No need to invent a war, Ukraine been fighting Russian BS for years

[sweet root]

Maybe to not tie down the timeline and story directly in real life events to avoid politickking a game that isnt about overworld politics

[upbeat cargo]

yeah, I really hope they give us more information about the outside world and the state it's in, there were some tiny crumbs left and I'm craving for more world building outside the zone

[sweet root]

It is a fictional universe after all, dont remember 2 explosions in chernobyl

[maiden grotto]

I am saying that it is perfectly fine being a 25 year old war veteran... It fits

[cobalt fiber]

What doesn't fit is how old Skif looks

[sweet root]

Oh i havent claimed otherwise, 25 is a normal war vet returning from the lines- age

[upbeat cargo]

you'd be suprised how old and worn down a 25 year old can look with enough stress and bad habits

[faint solstice]

I think its more advanced thanks to the zone. Also Reg Board is like a shadow government/illuminati.

[civic relic]

why do some pdas have that yellow glow like they are main mission items but i dont even think they really areÉ

[sweet root]

You can also see this kind of thing happen on children where they grow looking way older than they are from trauma and constant stress

[plain fiber]

I hate it because it's essentially adopting some of the bad (imo) elements of "hardcore" mods like Misery and Anomaly/GAMMA; in an effort to stop the player from steamrolling everything too easily (which is something I support), they made Veteran objectively unfair, (especially when it comes to the economy) and turned player progression into a tedious slog.

Master difficulty didn't nerf your damage or even touch the economy, it just put you on a more even playing field with the rest of the game world.

I'd prefer if Veteran's settings were adjusted a bit and then relegated to a hardcore mode of sorts, something in the style of how New Vegas did it where survival elements are tuned up, etc. (I do think the game's base survival elements need adjusting though; I'd rather not have them feel pointless like they do now.)

[upbeat cargo]

you can usually turn them in for someone or the pda contains information about a puzzle nearby or something, most often related to side quests

[sweet root]

Like those black and white pictures of victorian age factory worker children, they have wrinkles all over their faces

[faint solstice]

I just adjusted veteran difficulty to kill faster & get killed faster

[civic relic]

ah cool. theres quite a lot of content in this game. i wonder how much il find in 4 playthroughs

dude if there is a border across the entire zone how is everyone in the zone even in thereÉ

[upbeat cargo]

there's a lot, but not that much, most major settlements have only a few actual side missions, and after that's kinda it. I was a bit disapointed but on the other hand it was all voice acted and never felt cheap copypaste stuff

[warm basalt]

lol what if stalker 2 night vision xD

[upbeat cargo]

born in it... raised by it.. molded by it..

[maiden grotto]

And even few if you dont pay extra for the fleece additions

[plain fiber]

Hop a fence somewhere like we see in the intro cutscene, bribe someone, etc.

There are probably holes in various places along the perimeter as well.

[sweet root]

I have a feeling they didnt include it because they ran out of time and it wasnt necessary for initial launch, probably not so easy to implement with Lumen system since it all relies on ray calculations

[plain fiber]

I hope they improve the flashlight too. OG trilogy flashlight was great.

[upbeat cargo]

UE5 was a mistake in that regard.

[plain fiber]

Wish they had stuck with UE4 tbh, you can still make jaw-droppingly gorgeous games that don't require top-of-the-line hardware to run smoothly.

[sweet root]

I like the dingy flashlight! headlamps arent these beacons irl theyre used to light up enough to see where you walk and check maps and such, for a proper torch we should have weapon attachements which i think somone mentioned there is a file reference to a weapon attachement flashlight in the game so maybe its coming?

[plain fiber]

Sure, it's just that the head lamps in the original trilogy were actually useful while still maintaining a realistic level of brightness.

[sweet root]

Yeah, maybe increase the range by like 25%

[inland sage]

Does reputation make guide travel cheaper?

[plain fiber]

Range/brightness increase. Or hell, adopt that mod feature and allow us to upgrade it.

[sweet root]

Feels to fall off a bit too fast

[maiden grotto]

UE5 was not the problem. Investors who want a return on their money ASAP, despite the difficulties they had, like developing in a war zone.

The game needed another year easy.

[upbeat cargo]

agreed, what I hate about UE5 the most is the reliance on TAA that everything look smeary and floaty

[sweet root]

UE5 was also the reason the game was made in the first place, systems like Nanite and Lumen take so much workload off from the technical artists its ridiculous (i use it at work too)

[faint solstice]

I wish they'd stuck with their own engine. Like with Metro: Exodus using 4A engine - the modified x-ray.

[sweet root]

The game wouldve been in a more unfinished state otherwise and never launched probably, and even when the systems are so "easy" it still take skill to implement Lumen well especially, since i can see some issues on lower end settings like flickering

[plain fiber]

Not saying it didn't have an affect on the game's development because it absolutely did, but not all of the development happened during wartime.

There were also other difficulties GSC faced during the game's development e.g. server room fire, flood damage, the pandemic, etc.

[maiden grotto]

No it was way to old.

[faint solstice]

but i guess ue5 is faster

[sweet root]

The Pandemic too

[plain fiber]

Gah, yeah that too. (I keep forgetting about it somehow.)

[rocky lava]

I just fought Faust and he escaped great

[sweet root]

Maybe for the best! I am luckily a hermit by nature so i didnt even feel the lockdowns

[upbeat cargo]

i don't want to invalidate your opinion but the the shortcuts are definetly hurting the quality of the products really bad, maybe it's a huge time saver but it really shows in the end result, most UE5 games look about the same as the games released in the past 5 years but don't run well at all

[faint solstice]

X-Ray? Yes. i wish they'd build something upon it though. Like 4A Games.

[civic relic]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zXyUzsbtW8g

[sweet root]

Yeah i get that too, but it was more important for them to have the core systems in place that they can reliably improve later on with patches, they had to prioritize a lot im sure

[upbeat cargo]

open x-ray stalker 2 would've been a sight to behold, gamma would've been converted to it overnight I bet

[sweet root]

X-ray is dinosaur tech built on a jenga tower

[faint solstice]

yeah i dont think open x-ray can do open world

[upbeat cargo]

That's fair and probably true, I just hope they actually do it post release, since it's not really guaranteed to net any profit at this point

[sweet root]

X-ray especially has issues with animations which was a big deal making mods for it, i hear everyone hates making animation mods for it because its such a huge brainache

[rocky lava]

Has anything been said about night vision?

[sweet root]

Naw they got their heart in the project, its a small team in comparison to many but they were able to still achieve a masterclass of narrative and atmosphere here very true to the originals, so they seem to care a lot of both their product and their audience

[inland sage]

Oh neat, a skipjack. Never seen this one before. Strong radio protection.

[pallid thorn]

skipjack? thats an artifact i havent heard of before

[sweet root]

I havent either, theres so many i found but more keep popping up, maybe less artifacts but more interesting effects

[pallid thorn]

so many common artifacts, the most recent new artifact ive discovered for the first time is called a glare, a rare electrical artifact. looks like a glowing orange orb

[inland sage]

...a very tall tower with a wind anomaly at the bottom. I think we all know what it's time to do, stalkers.

[sweet root]

I really like how they all look though, but the hypercube not being an actual 4-dimensional tesseract, is a crime! hahah they wouldve had to break laws of physics on a screen there but i wouldve wanted to see them try simulate it

[upbeat cargo]

to quote a song from the distasnt past "One makes you larger, and one makes you small, the ones that mother gives you don't do anything at all"

[pallid thorn]

what is the best looking artifact do ya'll think? personally i really love the way the petals artifact looks

[sweet root]

Is that to mean that all the important experiences are found outside you mother´s hems?

[faint solstice]

moonlight and soul my love

[sweet root]

I really like the Liquid rock, its kinda lovecraftian

[pallid thorn]

all vallid as f*ck

[rocky lava]

I like the eye and heart

[sweet root]

Also, whats with every stalker corpse in the overworld with artifact next to them always a Moonlight? is that a reference maybe or just a bug?

[pallid thorn]

theres a heart artifact? i found the eye and it creeped me out lol

[rocky lava]

Ya you can hear it pump

[upbeat cargo]

That, or jefferson just sang about dr*gs. Idk.

[sweet root]

Yea the first part is from Lisa in the wonderland right?

[upbeat cargo]

yeap, song is white rabbit tho

[halcyon inlet]

So at some point in the story I noticed 100% of NPC's in exo-suits, 1 this make me shoot alot more 3/4 headshots 556 or 545, 2 it takes the immersion out of the game..
I also notices monolith spawns randomly around me in all areas after i kill faust... anyone else see this?

[rocky lava]

Me? Not yet

[pallid thorn]

yeah i noticed that too in my endgame playthrough lol. although rn im waiting for the assault on duga mission to get fixed

[sweet root]

Everyone having exos only makes sense for the Ward as theyre very well funded and supplied, but suddenly all loners too? I was half expecting looted exoskeletons on bandits too but lucky they kept their tracksuits

[halcyon inlet]

when i choose ward it didnt happen, when i choose scar it did

[maiden grotto]

What's broken abou it?

[faint solstice]

I'm certain that monolith is 3d printing their gear. As for other stalker, i have no idea.

[upbeat cargo]

yep, that's the endgame for you, only non exo characters are the rookie village dudes who are there always, and bandits. everybody else has an exo, even if they have a double barrel shotgun

[pallid thorn]

the door you go into to go in the tunnel is locked and theres no key to open it, because the prompt is greyed out

[halcyon inlet]

YEA i noticed bandits are still poor LOL

[sweet root]

Yeah funny seeing them in pripyat wearing second hand :D

[rocky lava]

Ya I did it today everything seems fine now

[faint solstice]

Well, i'm sure that c-con has some super 3d printers. Considering their tech.

[pallid thorn]

OH HANG ON LEMME DOUBLE CHECK

[maiden grotto]

95% of faction members will be kitted with faction specific medium armour, nebies with entry level stuff, and the the Elite with the goodies

[sweet root]

Monolith also had a lot of time to gather supplies, i would imagine it being one of its directives to arm up whenever you can from looted enemies and ammo depots etc

[civic relic]

damn how do i get the weird pot in burnt foresté i gotta find a key for that door to get itÉ

[halcyon inlet]

didnt the monolith dispand after killijng faust?

[sweet root]

But i have to imagine there is a monolith tailor shop out there deep in the CNPP that makes the camo for them in a comfy mom and pops corner shop, or factory line

[faint solstice]

Corundum suit is specifically made for monolith soldiers

[maiden grotto]

Who knows, a lot of it doesn;t make sense anyway

[civic relic]

nvm i got the key... i dont even know how i unblocked the path to i just kept trying to run outta the mist and got teleported back in 5 times and it let me grab the key lol

[maiden grotto]

that's all you gotta do

[sweet root]

Monolith Camo btw the coolest camo ever, the colors are so cool and fit the theme well, it only suits the Pripyat city, which is theyr main point of defence, nothing else matters and it is reflected in their camo design too, its really clever

[civic relic]

thats really the strat wtfÉ

[upbeat cargo]

it's called urban camo for a reason I suppose

[maiden grotto]

I prefer clear sky, awsome looking uniform

[halcyon inlet]

it is!

[sweet root]

Theyre very nice too, but something about monolith aesthetics do it for me, even the dudes in white long hooded jackets

[maiden grotto]

It makes me want to shoot them in the head.

That is how that uniform makes me feel 😄

[sweet root]

Wait isnt that monolith faction color on your name tag?

[faint solstice]

I wish i could explore dead valley more. I heard you can in Scar/Spark route. In Ward route i couldn't cause of the emissions.

[sweet root]

Or is it the same for all or something, or based on rank? dunno im kinda new here

[maiden grotto]

Who knows... I canny remember what I did... could you choose?

[sweet root]

Yea there is a role selection channel where you can pick one, but my monolith patch turned into the experienced stalker patch as i leveled up i want the mono patch back

I dont like the new mono patch in anomaly btw, the OG design is goated

[plain fiber]

Exoskeletons should only be more frequent for:

* Ward

* IPSF

* Monolith

* Freedom

* Duty

These are the largest factions with the greatest amount of resources and are the only ones who should realistically be able to field exos in decent to large numbers, especially for troops in high-danger areas like Pripyat, CNPP, Generators, etc.

As for Spark, I don't know how large they are as a faction but considering they work closely with the scientists they probably have access to decent funding and can afford to field exoskeletons in decent-ish numbers.

For Loners, Mercs, and Bandits it would need to be a case-by-case basis since they aren't centralized factions like the others. Basically you should only see exos being worn by squad leaders, long-lived, battle-hardened veterans and what have you.

[maiden grotto]

think I picked loners, because who need friends, they only let yu down 😄

[civic relic]

someone pls tell me how to get rid of the schizo vision thing in red forest without a psi block pillÉ

[sweet root]

Less so for duty in this since they are undermanned and underarmed, think even a loading scene info text tells you this but otherwise i agree 100%

[maiden grotto]

I would say loners too, Sidorovich has contacts.

[plain fiber]

Sid isn't the leader of all Loners though.

[sweet root]

Spark having exos doesnt many any sense theyre doing guerilla tactics, not lumbering about like trolls

[plain fiber]

Duty likely still has contacts amongst the military though, and even in their weakened state they still remain one of the stronger factions.

[upbeat cargo]

I'd argue that he's not even the leader of the rookies in the village

[sweet root]

Yea i dont mind duty having them, was just thinking out loud

[maiden grotto]

But then saything that. Since the fall of Monolith, the knowledge to make them should have gone, along with EMP rifle...

And only a few working examples remain.

[plain fiber]

Fair enough, I understood where you were coming from.

[faint solstice]

I think you should be able to put exoskeleton on any compatible suit. But with no power source, like some mods do, cause power source doesn't make sense in the zone. Everything runs on artifacts.

[sweet root]

The duty armor looks cool too so its nice to see it it now in its all glorious detail

[plain fiber]

But exoskeletons were never a Monolith-exclusive thing; they weren't being made only by them.

[sweet root]

Love they kept all the classic suit designs and just made them look soooooo good

[maiden grotto]

I like Duty anyway. Always went with them in SoC

[upbeat cargo]

yeah the design definetly would allow for that, the exoskeleton comes over the suit

[plain fiber]

Only criticism I have with the Loner/"default" exo/rad suit is the huge-ass forearm plates; looks like you're wearing shin guards on your arms.

[sweet root]

Same, central location and buddying with military is always fun times, besides WP weapons have the aesthetics game won

[faint solstice]

Oblivion Lost sunrise exo is peak

[sweet root]

This would be fun if you put exo servos on a tracksuit bandit jacket hahahhh

[maiden grotto]

But it was the C-Conciousness doing the something in the back ground, I remember hearing.

They had the best armour and weapons, so who funded it?

[faint solstice]

also seva exo would be best, i think

[plain fiber]

Really glad they didn't try to readopt the conceptual designs for 2012 S2; the exoskeleton looked way to cartoonish.

[upbeat cargo]

I like how it's atleast attempts to be somewhat realistic depiction of arm protection

[sweet root]

Not sure i remember them, i saw the teasers back in the day but its been long

[maiden grotto]

And they looked cool.

I wanted to side with Clear Sky, but they all got done bar one.

[sweet root]

Total badasses and Voronin/Petrenko vere cool

[upbeat cargo]

well we get discount clear sky in the form of sparkly bois

[plain fiber]

The Monolith's equipment (including their exoskeletons) was provided by C-Con yes, but there were other faction-specific exoskeletons too.

[faint solstice]

they had funding from reg board

[sweet root]

I like the Spark a lot, theyre clearly a more fanatical terrorist twist version of the original Clear Sky, having most their morals gone awry on the way

[plain fiber]

I've seen IRL ballistic arm protection and it doesn't look like that. What you see in S2 looks like it was ripped off of a suit of medieval plate armor.

[maiden grotto]

Nah, the sparkly boi's don't hold a candle to them... but they do sing twinkle twinkle little star, scar just knows what you are.

[plain fiber]

I'm curious if the Regulatory Board is the same thing as The Group that was mentioned in the original trilogy. Either that or they're connected somehow.

[sweet root]

There are quite many materials you can make a bullet proof plate out of, one being steel one being ceramic, or soft place from kevlar and stuff but yall already know this, i think the arm plates look fine

[upbeat cargo]

I was kinda liking them until they tried to assasinate me because I had a ward badge, even tho I was mainly siding with them after that

[maiden grotto]

Oh yeah, of course.

I just hink they have become way to common, and it becomes boring.

[plain fiber]

Oh I'm aware, but ballistic limb protection generally doesn't look like that, that's all.

Yes I know this is nitpicky but it matters to me.

[faint solstice]

I'm gonna say that i like Ward ending the best. Despite how evil it is.

[upbeat cargo]

i like the doc ending most

[plain fiber]

Pretty sure one of their descriptions mentions that exoskeleton tech reached a point of mass-production. Which makes sense, it's been 10 years since CoP.

[sweet root]

Huh, sounds like a bug, i had the badge too on my first playthru and they called me out on it but didnt go hostile , i sided mostly with Spark after the Slag Heap and i showed Korshunov the monolith PDA and Spark still didnt hate me, they had nasty things to say but they didnt hunt me down or shoot on sight

[faint solstice]

Skif really feels like a man who sold the world in ward ending

[maiden grotto]

Nah, my ending is best... just don't go beyond the point of no return and keep playing the game 😄

[faint solstice]

It has the best twist, yep. Also it was my first ending and it left me shocked.

[plain fiber]

Ward ending has a very insidious tone to it, which is definitely intentional.

Spark/Scar ending is just depressing.

[upbeat cargo]

it was after some mission, spark sent a hitsquad after me for the badge, the rest of the faction remained neutral but I still lost my faith in them, or maybe it was sent by spark rather individual decision, but anyway

[sweet root]

Spark ending was nice too, i got all i was expecting from it and a lot more

The late game dialogues and scenes with Scar are amaaaaaazing

And Dalin also turned around for me, i like him now, he found his true purpose again after i crushed his ego, and this is a nice ending for him too

[faint solstice]

I think strelok ending is the weakest. I mean its fine, but the others are just better in terms of value.

[plain fiber]

You watched the whole cutscene right? I'm not sure if I'd call that nice personally.

[sweet root]

Its whatever you make of it, reality is what you think is real, be it a lie or not

Im pretty sure Scar got stuck in a mind prison though i feel bad for him, kinda forced him in the pod at the end

Although im in a mind prison too in that ending so yea h

[cobalt fiber]

Should have been an option of instead of talking Scar around, just give him the "nah let's blow this mf sky high"

[wintry pumice]

Yeah many people don't seem to understand that none of the endings are actually good

[civic relic]

bruh what tf does the weird pot even doÉ i have it in my artifact slot and i am still getting hungry at the exact same rate

[sweet root]

I wouldve loved this, i was almost expecting a last minute turn on things but it makes sense, we did a lot of bad things and many corpses on the path there, too late to back down

[tepid osprey]

Skif got monkey pawed in all endings

[plain fiber]

Ward and Spark/Scar ending is pretty much your standard fascists vs. nutters choice.

Strelok's ending is basically a big middle finger to everyone. "F*ck all of you, I'm taking this ball and throwing it into a well and covering the well in concrete.".

The Skif/Doctor/The Zone ending is the most interesting and has pretty serious implications for the franchise as a whole.

[upbeat cargo]

hmm, makes me wonder, are these the false endings that we had in SHoC, and we're just missing the true ending still?

[wintry pumice]

Like what?

[sweet root]

This is the nature of scifi horror narrative, i love monkey paw stories because they feel so authentic to life

[faint solstice]

Scar ending reminds me of that part in Soma, where people are connected to WAU and are seeing dreams where the they live "perfect" lives. But in reality they are just being kept alive and slowly rotting.

[pallid thorn]

nah mission is still bugged

[plain fiber]

Pretty sure we're not and the Skif/Doctor/The Zone ending is the "True" ending.

[cobalt fiber]

+1 for the soma shout out. Great game

[frigid hill]

kjkallio has been warned

Reason: Bad word usage

[plain fiber]

I still need to play Soma...

[rocky lava]

Very scary keeps the blood pumping

[wintry pumice]

If there's an actual ending it will be by Duty's hand as it seems to be the only faction interested in destroying the zone

[cobalt fiber]

Soma is one of those games that you'll always come to think about many moons after finishing it up

[plain fiber]

I saw someone on Reddit say that Duty wanted to control the Zone.

I'd love to know how they reached that conclusion.

[sweet root]

Soma has the best twist to a story ive seen, its was so harrowing

[maiden grotto]

If I ever get round to completing this game, I have set myself up for the Strelok ending.

Because Ward are the sinister real evil doer's.
Scar is a weak and femble nut job, who has taken one to many mushrooms
Skif's ending is just plain silly, and stinks of STALKER: New York future sucking the franchise dry
Strelok, closed it off, so the zone is left alone... But the writers didn't think very clearly about the long term viability this choice... Because Strelok, so sticking with this one.

There needs to be an option 5

[cobalt fiber]

I'd have loved to see them make more games like soma. Amnesia Rebirth was a pile of dud and Bunker was OK but not great

[sweet root]

I think all the sides and factions do a great job of giving you enough compelling reasons to join whichever side, even the Ward for how great the commander is and how he clearly cares, and how it is a force you would want to be a part of in real life zone if you were there, because duh

[faint solstice]

I'd like to believe he got out ok in ward ending. Unfortunately he's their agent now. So who knows what they'll program him to do.

[upbeat cargo]

who knows, maybe the true ending would be more skif centric with the monolith returning to normal ,as destroying the machinery/generators wouldn't likely erase the zone at all.. I still hope we get dlc that expands the lore and everything, maybe new endings even

[plain fiber]

I mean, there being more than one Zone shouldn't be surprising since the Noosphere covers the entire planet.

Additionally that whole ending pretty much confirms that the Zone is sentient to a degree, I mean the whole point is that Skif is allowing the Zone to make its' own choice about it's future.

[cobalt fiber]

I don't think we'll get new endings tbh

[maiden grotto]

the only faction I rooted for was Noontide...

I want to execute everyone else, apart from Loners

[maiden grotto]

And Duty

[plain fiber]

Destroying the generators would probably have some horrible catastrophic effect given that it's where the Emissions are...emitted from.

[sweet root]

4 endings is enough i dont want too much bloat in that aspect, more endings in SoC made sense when it was all tied to the number of wishes you can make

[tepid osprey]

There should be a Degtyarev ending! Hes a legend of the zone too. I like his faction

[sweet root]

I love Deggie but he was a bit of an a'hole hahah

[tepid osprey]

He is very straightforward lol. A man like him needs to be though

[sweet root]

Probablyu because of my Spark ties but can you blame me? I jsut want things to glow

[faint solstice]

I dont think we need new endings. But if they'll do them in the future, i want them to be just as depressing.

[maiden grotto]

friction burns?

[cobalt fiber]

The single most reason that had me defy Scar first time around is the generic "can't you see I'm busy?!" lines when talking to him

[plain fiber]

Both Duty and Freedom need leadership changes.

Voronin is ineffectual and causing the faction to stagnate, while Mykluha has caused Freedom to fall fully into hedonism and degeneracy.

[upbeat cargo]

yeah It wouldn't, but I still don't think the ending meant that new zones appeared, the whole scene was a bit too flashback style so maybe some anomalies spawned around the world temporarily but mostly it seems that you are now in control of the zone, you are the monolith or something like that

[tepid osprey]

Perhaps the two will unite. Freeduty! Dutydom!

[sweet root]

And theyre still playing at the same conflict than before but thru intermediaries (garbage kingpins)

[cobalt fiber]

Interesting point given that this sequence happens in Duga but Duga was torn apart

[maiden grotto]

I would like to see one of the DLC be faction stuff, allowing you to rise to the top of a faction, maybe even lead one

[cobalt fiber]

I actually didn't think much of that until now. That's a very good point

[plain fiber]

Again though, the whole point of that ending is that you/Skif are allowing the Zone to make its' own choice rather than you making the decisions for it, so I don't know how much control Skif actually has in that ending.

[sweet root]

Leading one would be reaching i think, but joining for sure and doing more missions to hurt other factions that would be sweet

[brazen grotto]

why is every mf I fight literally deadshot 💀 🙏

[plain fiber]

Basically Faction Warfare 2.0, I'd be down for that.

[wintry pumice]

I don't know what he did in the previous games but it just seems they're a bit reduced after the treaty with Ward. I believe they can eradicate the zone with proper funding

[sweet root]

If it was a system that wasnt on the nose too much i could get behind it, full warfare mode like in CS or mods is a bit much for such a story heavy game

[faint solstice]

What was Deggie doing in Pripyat before the signal anyway? What is his Corps purpose. To keep stalkers out of Pripyat? But why?

[plain fiber]

Make it part of a post-campaign freeplay sandbox mode.

[faint solstice]

I understand why after the signal

[sweet root]

To secure the CNPP area from anyone accessing and gaining further project X secrets because im sure there are more new horrors there for someone to find, and why take the risk

[upbeat cargo]

yeah, well given that everybody else seems to have quite alot of control, I'd think skiff would have atleast the same ammount

[maiden grotto]

Depends if the do a free play option, rather than story mode.

I would like reasons to stay in the zone, but I don't want to keep playing the same story, over and over again, just unlock stuff...

[faint solstice]

I thought cnpp was stripped clean by military/ward/sircaa. They even got the monolith psy instalation out of there.

[upbeat cargo]

that wasn't explained very well at all, deggys corps only function seems to be to fight monolith in the end game on surface level

[sweet root]

Freeplay would be sweet as so many endgame gear come in too late to be of any use like the Saiga drum mag, when most enemies you fight are too far for a Saiga there, but depends also on the ending, imo it should be its own game mode, because a Sparker ending for example, doesnt make any sense to continue freeplay narrative wise

[plain fiber]

He didn't seem that effective in SoC either tbh. I think at that time both Duty and Freedom were pretty much at a stalemate. I mean wasn't that Duty squad in the Army Warehouses there because they were disillusioned with his leadership and felt like he wasn't doing enough?

Replace Voronin with Zulu (he keeps being mentioned and the way the Dutyers talk about him, I'm pretty sure this is what they want).

Replace Mykluha was Loki, the CO of Freedom in Yaniv during CoP. Dude ran a tight ship and made Freedom respectable.

[sweet root]

Yea they were in the decline in SoC already just because of the constant stalemates and squabbles between them and nothing really done about the zone

[plain fiber]

I feel like a CoC/Anomaly/GAMMA-esque approach to freeplay would be the most successful and well-received.

[sweet root]

As its own mode yeah, i wouldnt want the story be in anyway hampered by a more sandbox way of play

[worldly thicket]

How the hell do I cause an emission to happen on Xbox I’m stuck on visions of truth and I’ve heard the only way to fix the col is to have an emission

[maiden grotto]

Strelok and Skif ending would work, DLC can be a new character, who was stuck in the zone.

Still like the idea of teh zone expanding in anger, trapping civilians outside the zone and how they react and need looking after.

But who know what they will do, I just hope it's great.

[sweet root]

Or just a new game + option they dont really have to explain much more as it starts from scratch but youd keep the gear

[wintry pumice]

Voronin can't do much because he has no funding, whereas this doesn't seem to be a problem for other factions. Duty is originally from the army but simply gave the finger to them when they were abandoned in the zone and told there would be no backup

[sweet root]

With worse anomalies, radiation, enemy and mutant spawns and such, more snipers on rooftops making it a real stalker hell

[maiden grotto]

That works... But I would like to choose to start clean, or go equipped

[worldly thicket]

How the hell do I cause an emission to happen on Xbox I’m stuck on visions of truth and I’ve heard the only way to fix the col is to have an emission

[plain fiber]

Yeah that's what I'm saying, I'd want it to be a separate single-player game mode. Make it so you have to beat the game to unlock it.

(Granted, they'll have to decide on which ending is canon if they went this route.)

I think it would work better than a NG+ mode, NG+ never felt like it fit S.T.A.L.K.E.R. anyways, at least to me.

[upbeat cargo]

when the next patch drops I'm definetly gonna start from 0 but give my self the x7 suit and veles right away

[plain fiber]

They still hand contacts in the military though, it's where they got the majority of supplies. They were even able to get helicopters this way.

[sweet root]

I like the concept of NG+ but ive never completed one, they feel too grindy and similar once you allready have the best gear, youd have to somehow be able to still upgrade

[wintry pumice]

Yeah there's a bug that prevents emissions from happening or even permanent weather conditions. Hopefully it will be fixed soon

[sweet root]

No one knows more than news and announcements tell ya, these things under NDA till its approved

[plain fiber]

I found that Guardian of Freedom suit in the Garbage and I never found anything better until I looted the old Freedom armory and grabbed the Bulat.

[faint solstice]

ng + all in le head loop theory

[plain fiber]

Oh please don't pull that sh*t GSC for the love of God.

[worldly thicket]

YO NUN UH SO IM JST STUCK AT THE PART IM ON CAUSE THERES NO EMISSIONS

[maiden grotto]

Depends on what they do.

@sweet root That is where new missions, area's, faction progression comes in... Use emission to way more RNG to the world, making it feel more alive.

[sweet root]

I recommend a parkour tour thru Malachite facility, its very rewarding

[upbeat cargo]

many NG+ experiences do feel grindy, in too many cases the early enemies are just replaced with stronger versions or given double health to make it a bit more challenging but the spongines gets old really fast

[sweet root]

Sounds amazing

[plain fiber]

I'm slowly clearing out Burnt Forest (god I wish there was a base here), then I'll head over to Malachite and clear out everything, then loot the Duga, and then head up North and clear everything out below Pripyat.

[worldly thicket]

@wintry pumice

[sweet root]

Dark Souls 1 had a nice take on NG+ not really making the normal enemies too brutal but adding in extra super evil dudes mixed in that really beats your butt unless you got gud

[upbeat cargo]

well unless they overhaul everything, i'm going to give my self the veles, you get it way too late in the game to be of any use, and the X7 suit just seems like something that NG+ would spawn you with

[wintry pumice]

Supplies is one thing but if there's nothing to pay your soldiers, you can't really motivate them other than to pull on their heart strings and since their goal is to destroy the zone which seems to be the exact thing all other factions want to avoid at all costs maybe one of the reasons why they're so underfunded

[maiden grotto]

I got mine super early on a random drop 😄

[sweet root]

I thought you got the Veles around midpoint in the story? i got it as a main story reward i think

[upbeat cargo]

the f......

[sweet root]

For the best detector in the game it makes sense to have it in middle game, but i still use mostly Hilka for its better range and switch to veles when near

[faint solstice]

I don't think ng+ works in stalker. If you want freeplay, don't do main quest. If you want other endings, make a save before major choices. Stalker is all about progression. I'd rather start a fresh playthrough than spawn in prologue with all my maxed gear.

[plain fiber]

Over 1000 hours across the entire Dark Souls trilogy and don't know what you're talking about. Dark Souls 1 NG+ was very basic; enemy health and damage increased and that was it. (I think the Three Kings got more spawns too.)

[maiden grotto]

I was like... Hello, what's this...

Got the auto shooty early too, another random drop

[wintry pumice]

At least you're able to play. The game was crashing whenever I booted the game and loaded a save some time back

[upbeat cargo]

side quest reward for returning the collars. By that point I had already explored the entire map and had every artifact I would possibly want, i used the veles like twice after that, felt cheated.

[sweet root]

I didnt play it long and it was like 10 years ago or something, so might remember it wrong, think it was my first NG+ i attempted too

[tepid osprey]

Dark souls 2 has the extra enemies in ng+

[maiden grotto]

Got mine way earlier than that... Think I was still in Slag Heap

[plain fiber]

There was the Gravelord Covenent where people could "infect" your world and cause it to have suped up red phantom enemies. If you were playing online that might be what happened, but it could happen in any NG cycle.

[sweet root]

When i got it had like more than half the world to explore still, i focused a lot on the story as i like to do it in first playthrus and leave a lot to explore on further playthrus, i didnt even enter Cooling Towers on my first

So now im still very excited about the next playthru as there are a looot of mysteries still, not just the story twists

[plain fiber]

There's a unique 5.45 GROZA and Dnipro in the Cooling Towers. It's a pretty cool region.

[upbeat cargo]

also the lowest tier exoskeleton can be found there

[sweet root]

I think i poked my head around the edge of it and found that Groza on a corpse, funny how an almost 4 mil smaller round deals more damage and penetration than a 9x39

[tepid osprey]

In Prepare to die edition, there was a bug that prevented Gravelording from working in ng 🙂 they fixed it in the remaster

[sweet root]

Sure its a faster round but a 9x39 packs so much more kinetic energy behind it it slaps haaard

[plain fiber]

Oh yeah, the Cuirass (Duty) exo.

Pretty sure the Loner ("Default") exo is technically the lowest tier one, but the Cuirass can never get the sprint upgrade for...reasons.

[plain fiber]

In all of my playtime I actually managed to encounter one of those Vagrant enemies. That was so freaking cool.

[sweet root]

I can see the run not being needed in like indoor situations but yeah prettu useless piece of gear except for selling

[maiden grotto]

Best look though... That Black and Red.... sounds like a dark chocolate bar

[upbeat cargo]

I think it's the only exoskeleton you're ment to be able to get as early as you want without any boxjump tricks

[plain fiber]

Make 9x39 end-game viable again GSC, I beg of you.

[drifting forge]

🙏🏻

[sweet root]

Any of the Diamond, liberty, ruby etc suits look the best, the helmet and mask design is soooo cool