☢┃stalker-general

[hoary crest]

He's the only one you interact with for any length of time who isnt totally batsh*t. If Strider had stuck around longer that might have made for two characters, but alas

[weary hedge]

it still blows my mind dudes disabled lmao gets out of his exo skeleton and cant even walk at the end, i was like ohhhhhh shitttttttttt

[dull apex]

I wish we could've used the Regenerator on him instead of that random Spirit.

[hoary crest]

I mean to be fair, he did survive a helicopter crash, so the dude is cast-iron hard. The fact he's still breathing is evidence enough

[weary hedge]

theres a theory i have re faust and strider, the doctor and the regenerator

basically ingame, strider is uncon at the doctors house - which makes no sense with how the game shows it to you, he sends you on a errand mission to get the regenerator from a monolith base, telling you not to harm them (isnt even clear how he knows where it is)

[wintry pumice]

[weary hedge]

then you get back and strider is basically instantly healed, leaps up and tries to kill you (who he knows) and then the doctor saves you

that was all a set up - 100%

[inner hinge]

Faust never lies to you but he also never tells you everything

[weary hedge]

Faust is all smoke and mirrors, he ties into the statement I just made

[weary hedge]

because Faust was the doctor in that scenario, he feigned saving Strider - if he did so, strider wouldnt instantly attack him

its more likely he knocked strider out with some psi crap, didnt even need the regenerator, and then strider leaps up after awaking and sees us with the dude he just fought, and tries to kill you right away

[dull apex]

Faust showed me the Zone was a living and breathing thing. Whether it was real or not was for us to believe. I chose to believe. I chose the Skif ending because it let the Zone choose her own fate. We didn't destroy her, seclude her or use her to destroy minds...we set her free.

[weary hedge]

Faust used that as a set up to make you trust the Doctor. Faust / C-Consciousness

They do it again later with Strelok.

[inner hinge]

The zone becomes the real monolith in skifs ending in a sense as it is let free

[weary hedge]

faust also lets you die if you take his hand - faust was always testing skif. he always had plans in motion, i say faust but it could be either him or c con

[inner hinge]

Nah skifs legit ending is his personal ending as it causes the zone to expand which lines up with roadside picnic which stalker is loosely based off of

[dull apex]

Putting it that way makes more sense. The Monolith isn't just an object but a concept. An idea. "You can't kill god, just as you can't get rid of the sky up above." An idea isn't destroyed even if the person or thing projecting it is.

[inner hinge]

Faust is also shown to be seemingly hearing the voice of the zone/monolith itself instead of running off some old c-con brainwashing like scar is

[dull apex]

I call him Scarshall

[weary hedge]

the only people willingly following the monolith were either monolith slaves with no free will, or agents who thought they were free but really just followed their programming - they of course also attempted to sway others to follow them, too.

so not really a fair statement lol

most everyone in the zone hated monolithians - several factions were literally at war with them

[dull apex]

Cuz they weren't utilized correctly. C-Con wanted to keep people from the north when they should've allowed people to do so. Had they just, let these STALKERS in, they wouldn't have had to worry too much. Get to close to the lab however...

[weary hedge]

the north? you mean the middle of the zone?

from memory that was a test to find stalkers capable of being agents

'Only the most capable of the stalkers who reached the center of the zone, that is, the Chernobyl nuclear power plant, were selected to create agents . Those who were not selected became Monolith.

Those selected in this way have the STALKER mark stamped on their forearms and are taken to a neurology research center deep underground near the power plant. They are forced to watch a video called 'Neuro-Visual Programmer' and have their existing memories erased, and if necessary, create fake memories or new ones. It also instills character.

After brainwashing was completed, the agent candidate was placed unconscious in an appropriate location inside the zone using a ZIL-130 truck. Because the process of going through all of these programs placed a significant strain on the body and mind, a significant number of agent candidates died before they could be deployed.
In addition, this truck is subject to emissions, abnormal phenomena, radiation hazard areas, etc., and is even struck by lightning or attacked by bandits, and all passengers on board are often killed, so the stalkers do not know the purpose of this truck, but they call it the truck of death ( It was called a Death truck . For this reason, when the stalkers found a person alive with the STALKER mark in the truck of death that overturned after being hit by lightning, they were amazed and even called him a person with the mark , and it can be seen that they regarded the STALKER mark as a sign of the death squadron. . Of course, the agents who survived and were deployed to the end quietly assimilated with the stalkers and lived, so the truth about this mark was not well known.'

[dull apex]

People just going missing after reportedly heading north would've been enough of a deterent to keep rational minded Stalkers from the Northern reaches of the Zone.

[weary hedge]

oh holy sh*t, Skif arrived on a truck
how do any of us know it wasnt a death truck and our memories are fake?

[dull apex]

No, you stop that.

[weary hedge]

its been suggested MULTIPLE times here skif is an agent, being sent into the zone by a subconscious thought with the artifact

[inner hinge]

While at first the monolith was merely a brainwashing tool used by c-con. The zone which has shown some levels of consciousness saw it as an opportunity to free itself by becoming the monolith therefore making it real and it is through Faust a man who has the deepest connection to the zone we have ever seen does it make its plans to free itself come to fruition

[weary hedge]

we know a c-con agent was involved in the explosion that caused what happened to skifs house
we know another known c-con agent got to the zone at the same time skif did

no ones ever thought about the truck.

it even mentions they get hit by lightning and crap like skifs truck was

plus he was passed out and woke up - and hes driven in by a sircca doctor

[hoary crest]

There is a distinct possibility thats the case yeah. We get basically nothing regarding information on Skif until we meet Agatha, and given her involvement with uncovering the secrets of the Zone, we don't know if she's trying to see if she can manipulate a C-Con agent, which would align with her goals within the Zone

[weary hedge]

the more im reading into it the more it makes sense

agatha and the ward were dead against c-con, wouldnt even talk about it, shut you down every time you even went 'what if' then ordered Dalin killed

'In addition, this truck is subject to emissions, abnormal phenomena, radiation hazard areas, etc., and is even struck by lightning or attacked by bandits, and all passengers on board are often killed, so the stalkers do not know the purpose of this truck, but they call it the truck of death ( It was called a Death truck . For this reason, when the stalkers found a person alive with the STALKER mark in the truck of death that overturned after being hit by lightning, they were amazed and even called him a person with the mark , and it can be seen that they regarded the STALKER mark as a sign of the death squadron. . Of course, the agents who survived and were deployed to the end quietly assimilated with the stalkers and lived, so the truth about this mark was not well known.''

sound familiar? all the stuff happening to skifs truck at the start, you cant tell me those anomalies werent abnormal

and ive thought about mentioning it before - it makes no sense you face worse anomalies entering the zone, than actually INSIDE the zone

[inner hinge]

In skifs ending it is also suggested that the unique artifact can send information through time and space itself and it is what put the subconscious orders into his head by projecting his journey in the zone back into his past self who makes contact with the artifact

[hoary crest]

There is one thing that sticks out as problematic in that theory though, and thats when you and Dark go into the bunker to find Strelok. Dark breaks his own back having convulsions upon seeing the tele-programmers, but Skif does not, though that being said, Strelok was not effected either, so mayhaps Agatha succeeded in breaking the C-Con programming.

Skif does, after all, have direct contact with the Monolith, same as Strelok did, albeit in a slightly different manner

[weary hedge]

Which means what I said ages ago was right, nearly every path in the game is manipulated by C-Con

@hoary crest with all the manipulation C-Con AND The Foundation (Agatha) is capable of, how do we know that wasnt a set up too?

its noted ingame strelok had a bug in his program

Nearly ALL the endings benefit C-Consciousness / the zone, all are lead by agents, except ward, and if you believe what others say commonly, strelok

but im not so sure strelok was free, at all

[hoary crest]

All the endings benifit them in one way or another no? Like every one of them

[inner hinge]

C-con had nothing to do with it, it was the zone itself pulling the string. C-con was a group who caged the zone and manipulated it to their own ends when the zone should be free from the control of man

[weary hedge]

the one group in game that DOESNT want you to listen to C-Consciousness and would lie to you to sway you is the ward and agatha

[dull apex]

I was just about to mention that funny enough.

[sharp turret]

I like this better than the ultimate arifact randomly crashed into his house

[trim vector]

Random player thoughts: As much as I thoroughly have enjoyed this game, I am not enjoying these end boss fights.

[weary hedge]

agents are based around a 'communal consciousness'

this 'consciousness' needs agents to act as its eyes, ears and limbs

its still around - thus why you learn strelok was using the institute where the brainwashing happened, he used it as a trap to catch agents with the goal to kill him

the colonel ingame refers to this communal consciousness himself

[inner hinge]

Not all c-con agents are created equal some are even genetically modified to withstand emissions like scar and the monolith footsoldiers

[dull apex]

I thought Scar could just...do that.

[sharp turret]

Same. I played on veteran and the strelok fight almost made me give up

[weary hedge]

'The agent's sight and hearing are transmitted to the communal consciousness in real time, and this signal can be received by a facility in the central communication center and played back on the TV screen and speakers. Even if the agent dies, this feature works to some extent. In the heart of Chornobyl, the Surveillance Group took over a central communication center and used this device to track down agents, but since the central communication center could only pick up audio-visual signals from agents within the zone, it could not track agents who had already left the zone.'

Col. Korshunov: “The Dark One, Scar, Strelok. C-Consciousness bred them like cockroaches. This installation will help us find every last agent, but only within the Perimeter.”

[inner hinge]

Heavily implied during a conversation with the representative that he was created to be resistant to the emissions

[sharp turret]

I was lucky to take the spark path cause if i had to fight a gauss rifle boss after that i would have ragequit

[weary hedge]

also during the ward ending, you see the ward using that communal consciousness to spy on everyone using all the monitors

[hoary crest]

That would make sense actually, as you said, the Monolith soldiery share that trait. That does have implications as to how we should interpret the events of Clear Sky tho

[trim vector]

I think part of what's frustrating me, is that most of the game, every enemy has just felt like another human or mutant. These guys are basically super human because what? They managed to get hold of tech you've barely seen anywhere else? I feel totally unprepared for these guys.

[sharp turret]

Artifacts and mutation (in the case of faust)

But looking at the strelok fight and his superpowers i think maybe the devs considered giving stalkers superpowers a la bioshock

[weary hedge]

the only guys ingame who fought for C-Con being alive, other than Dalin was

Surprise surprise

Spark and Scar!

And whos Scar again?

An agent 😛 Following his programming

https://www.youtube.com/watch?t=201&v=lu5Rvd7du_E&feature=youtu.be

^ should start at the right time

[inner hinge]

You are mixing up c-con with the STALKER program which was used to remotely control and monitor all agents of c-con

[hoary crest]

He purposefully omits Skif from that list though, so either he knows already that Skif has been "de-programmed" or he is'nt even aware Skif is an agent at the time, and as it wouldn't allow him to have picked up on it due to Skif not being in the Zone for a long period of time prior to the events of HoC it might well be the case that he's clueless

[dull apex]

Well, we have consider that it's Marshal inside of Scars body. Ergo Scarshal.

[dire breach]

Can anyone tell me if there's a way to get a guide ||available again in Zalyssia|| after a certain major event involving the place and character happens? Just a confirmation if it is possible or not.

[dull apex]

You dont. Just gotta walk to Slag Heap.

[vapid galleon]

[weary hedge]

It would make sense for Agatha to have a recording of Scar and Skifs convo if Skif was an agent and they could watch everything through his eyes.

[dull apex]

You forgot the Uncle Llyona was the Guide.

[trim vector]

It wouldn't make sense that skif keeps catching the ward of guard though. Because they'd be aware of all his movements.

[hoary crest]

Well they'd have it regardless because Scar is a known quantity in such a context. Though it does raise the question, if they could track and witness what agents were getting up to, why weren't they dealt with. If they were privvy to where Dark, Scar, Strelok and Skif were at any given time, they could easily have stamped them out. They certainly have the manpower and resources to commit to such a thing, and as Korshunov refers to them as "cockroaches" you'd think it would be implied thats what he would do

[weary hedge]

The whole point of an agent is not letting them know they are an agent - but who knows, as the other guy said Sircaa wasn't the one creating them, they just got given control of the place that was used to monitor it

[sharp turret]

I think it may be faster to cordon?

[inner hinge]

C-con is the amalgamation of the 7 scientists minds who took control over the zone after their attempts to communicate with the noosphere was sabotaged and lead the birth of the zone

[dull apex]

More than likely.

[sharp turret]

The absolute dickiest move the game pulls is removing the guides from malachite and zalyssia. I also had extra bad luck and the yaniv guide died for me during the monolith attack there (maybe a bug). Traveling became a pain.

[weary hedge]

the clip i posted above https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lu5Rvd7du_E&t=201s

This is a bit of conversation between Dalin and the C-Con rep, where you see a bit of his fathers personality

so to say communal consciousness was dead... iunno, i dont know how to tie in faust and what he showed you

[inner hinge]

Malachite returns after a little while but zalyssia is permanent as you kill the guy and then for yaniv it is a bug

[inner hinge]

You have mistaken what c-con is it is just the 7 scientists whose minds had merged during the incident that created the zone

[trim vector]

It does feel like that regardless of the "ideologies" of the zone available to follow, all them could have some truth to them. You could explain C-Con rep thing, as the machine somehow pulling information from the minds of those around it and using it to form responses. Rather than it actually being an actual consciousness, but it could also be an actual consciousness. Hard to tell. What answer you'll get depends on who you ask and their ideology on the zone.

[weary hedge]

why are you so adamant about repeating that, it doesnt really matter to what im saying lol

it lived on in the noosphere
everyone else is lying

[inner hinge]

From what I gathered subtle matter is a purgatory that keeps an imprint of a person saved there but not the soul in a sense of the person

[weary hedge]

that little tidbit i showed would imply far more than just an imprint however, no?

[inner hinge]

Subtle matter is but another dream of the zone

[trim vector]

There's also nothing to suggest subtle matter is actually real. Just one guys theories, and a fanatics words, and your own induced hallucination.

[weary hedge]

I mean, it obviously 'was' a thing, and it worked, people are just doubting subtle matters existence, but then again youve got a green dude talking to his son like he remembers him and knows him when it never talked like that to anyone else

[hoary crest]

Is it wrong for me to wonder if there is another secret ending? I know dataminers exist, but like has anyone actually looked do we know?

[weary hedge]

yeah the game data was scraped from memory, only four

[hoary crest]

Sadge

[trim vector]

Right but it was talking with the son there. If there wasn't someone there with an expectation on what it should know and how it should behave, would it behave that way with them there. Would you be able to ask them for details, that no-one in the room would know.

[weary hedge]

it didnt at first though - Dalin wanted to destroy it, THEN it said 'dig deeper, son... dig deeper'

[inner hinge]

Depending on routes you take during the story the interactions with c-con suggest either or
But as it has shown that the imprint will only remember what ever the person knew when they died shown by strider who still doesn't know who he was before

[weary hedge]

sounds like a dude fighting through seven personalities to me

[trim vector]

True, Strider did divulge information that we didn't know.

[weary hedge]

also no one can really explain how faust showed us the zone and claimed its what he sees
and then how he is the doctor after

and yet people then say hes just a manifestation of the zone, while others say its just a visual trick

but then those same people say subtle matter is bs

[trim vector]

Unless Scar entering the room, affected the information available.

[sharp turret]

My headcanon is that everything strange in the zone is an illusion. Psi powers cant actually make things levitate/shoot lightning/raise the dead but they can make you see/feel those things. The shining zone is just forcing the zone to show us nice things for a change. A cookout with your buddies instead of deadly anomalies, dangerous mutants etc.

[inner hinge]

He is an incredibly powerful mutant who can create illusion so real that you can't tell what is real and what's not

[trim vector]

I guess it's why these are the mysteries of the zone.

[inner hinge]

Subtle matter is real but is more a purgatory of the mind imprints left in the zone

[weary hedge]

how do we know its purgatory? thats just what we are told
the guys in the pods when we talk to em never suggest that
they had a real control in the real world until strelok went and screwed it up

but they still have active agents, they just couldnt actively communicate, they were pre-programmed before that process got shut down

[inner hinge]

The pods were connected to the generators and the stalker program as well as the wish granter. It is through these they took control of the zone

[weary hedge]

I know that - but it just shows there was definitely something there that people just assumed originally was the zone manipulating things, when it wasnt whatsoever (this is not including the foundations knowledge of course)

'only remember what ever the person knew when they died' < so their entire lifes memories? why is that just discounted

[trim vector]

I think the point in striders case, is he didn't remember his old life.

[weary hedge]

thats basically saying, yeah there is an imprint of 7 dudes in there, oh yeah they remember everything

...so anyway, i started blasting with my AK'

[trim vector]

Though interesting thing I noticied, that in Faust's "show you the subtle zone" bit, he talked about his past pre-monolith.

[worldly thicket]

Can I still get emissions if I haven’t gone to pripyat

[bold girder]

When are the next patches going to drop? Ive explored the whole zone and collected all the things waiting for a bugged door to unlock. Also carying 9 KG of expolosives that I cant drop.

[dry siren]

:(

[trim vector]

I thought emissions are just random through out except for the few scripted ones?

[worldly thicket]

Pripyat breaks them

[inner hinge]

Yes but emission timers can be very wonky as sometimes you will get an emission like 2 days later or a in game month later

[worldly thicket]

Great job might be cooked so should I Jst sleep until I get one to fix my mission or Jst wander

[inner hinge]

Really?

[inner hinge]

Oh the get to cover one nah that one is bugged to sometimes become permanent

[worldly thicket]

Not that one

The colonel will not say anything but nothing new is in the zone when I’m supposed to follow him been told the emission fixes it

[wintry pumice]

no, Agatha takes control of the stalker program, which is why you start seeing through skif

[inner hinge]

Hmm not sure then

[worldly thicket]

So should I Jst sleep till an emission or Jst wander

[inner hinge]

Why no? I was just pointing out they are separate things and not the same thing

[inner hinge]

Don't know perhaps wait for the next patch

[worldly thicket]

https://www.reddit.com/r/stalker/comments/1h3osv9/visions_of_truth_follow_korshunov_completely/?rdt=46880 but yeah I can’t use commands cause I’m on Xbox

[dry siren]

can someone get some photos for me, i have a small reward in store for those who partake

[worldly thicket]

I’m Jst wondering how to get an emission fast

[inner hinge]

Look online if there are any scripted locations that you could trigger but out of that I don't know of any way to force one

[sleek gulch]

@worldly thicket the fastest way is to progress the story after dealing with Solder and exiting the facility. Estorms don't trigger at all until you pass that scripted point

[worldly thicket]

Sir did you even read my messages

[sleek gulch]

Man, I love when a pack of snorks materialize in front of my eyes. Just like launch day S2

@worldly thicket nah, barely did.

[worldly thicket]

Goofy ahhhhh I’m at chem plant right after duga I need an emission to fix follow the col

[sleek gulch]

@worldly thicket the only fix is leaving the game unpaused and patiently wait for another Estorm to activate if you refuse to load an older save, goofy ahhh bro. May rng bless you

[worldly thicket]

Yeah I’ll do that tmw then but I reloaded before duga even and he’s still broken

[hoary crest]

No I will not send you nudes, even if you offer me cash 😂

(Sorry, the opportunity was there and I wasnt going to miss it)

[dry siren]

I need pictures of the Pripyat police and fire stations in STALKER 2 if possible. I offer pre-accident photos of these locations if you can do this.

[maiden grotto]

I still have the guide at malachit.

Go on through the secret entrance and his standing in the main hall up against the wall.

[hoary crest]

I might have a look later, if I do I'll get back to you, but I'm about to commit to the will of the Emperor and smash some Tyranid filth into a fine red and slightly chitinous paste

[dry siren]

Okie dokie :3

I can mark them on a map for you, if it helps.

[sharp turret]

Malachite was the most bugged location in the game for me. The scientists kept going unfriendly/hostile for no reason. At one point I managed to get a poltergeist inside and it was non-hostile and followed me around. All the npcs disappeared and the bed became disabled. Then they all came back, some stopped being unfriendly but all the doors were locked and the only way to get out was through the sewer. Oh and it was filled with Ward soldiers who should have shot me on sight but were non-hostile inside.

https://media.discordapp.net/attachments/462356604352856074/1325520738546880623/2025-01-05_18-44-36.mp4?ex=67889d23&is=67874ba3&hm=4b7fc0b547898189393a6ae73d862bf33815eba8723461afbb5962f817b38b2f&

[maiden grotto]

Hahaha! It c wants some company.

This game is just broken at the moment. You can awesomeness bubbling beneath surface, but still.

Is insane how many issues there, but kudos to the dev's for patches, but there is still a long way to go.

Game keeps spawning blood suckers on me...

Paying yesterday, i had 5 spawns off the trot, 4x 2 abs a loaner, 9 in total.

I think my zone the population is about 90% bloodsuckers.

[dreamy dagger]

Sup sup sup

[wintry pumice]

Bloodsuckers love Skif so much

[wintry pumice]

[dry siren]

blordsocker

[barren cargo]

I couldn't leave at all, I used a guide to get in, then everything n everyone was gone and I was locked inside, guess my rep made em go instant aggro and they locked the doors on me

So they need to make bad rep take locations off guides or make guides just vicinity spawn us in if we've got bad rep

[wintry pumice]

malachite rep is bugged, wait for a patch

[dreamy dagger]

Broodsucker!

[maiden grotto]

Stalking the stalker.

Probably get a woke drive to demand change on bloodsucker, as bloodsuckers have rights and are misunderstood...

#BLM

Bloodsucker Lives Matter

[sharp turret]

Bloodsuckers wouldnt be so bad if they didnt have 2 different stun attacks

[wintry pumice]

is there some artifact that lets me to not be stunned?

[rapid parrot]

I hate them so much, not that they’re hard to kill now but when there’s like 4 of them and they all stun you back to back

[rapid parrot]

HA, no.

[wintry pumice]

does rpg oneshot Korushnov?

[hoary crest]

They're called headshots 😄

[maiden grotto]

Is not A-life is spawn simulator.

I've had 5/6 spawn on me once

And they beeline you to... no matter where they spawn, the know where are....

Then after trying to deal with them, it spawns more stuff on you.

I play covered in lube, as they don't spit and is less painful.

[rapid parrot]

Good question, I have like 7, I’ll try it and get back to you

[wintry pumice]

haha no

[maiden grotto]

Do they even have nadgers?

[hoary crest]

The f...

I don't know mate, not my forte 🤣

[rapid parrot]

Oh not to mention that if there’s two enemies fighting, when they’re spot you from 70 meters away through the back of their skulls they stop fighting each other and fight you (the most noteworthy and annoying is when I got an encounter of 4 bloodsuckers, Monolith, and hostile Ward, all at once, and they all targeted ONLY me as soon as they spotted me.)

[maiden grotto]

Just thinking it's an awkward headshot if they're like Ken, smooth as silk bedding

[wintry pumice]

in my case 2 bloodsuckers helped me to take down a chimera

[hoary crest]

Let me rephrase; Shoot them in the face-vadge

[maiden grotto]

Yup, its proper garbage right now.

It ruins the game and the atmosphere...

It feels more like doom, than stalker.

[hardy spire]

@jagged zinc when i did the faust fight and he had me look at the true zone. instead of it being all eletricy and stuff it was normal. did the whole strider thing in the tube and when he showded me the cutscene it was just him staring at me. its like the games forgetting to play certain clips

[maiden grotto]

I dream of such luxury.

[jagged zinc]

Yeah I would ask or file a report so the devs are aware

[hardy spire]

cool thanks

[jagged zinc]

Go into detail so it'll be easier for them

[wintry pumice]

Though I did lead the chimera into a group of Deggy's men but they were instantly shredded

[hoary crest]

Mutant power scaling is whack, two Bloodsuckers can kill a Chimera, but three Fleshes can kill a Bloodsucker...

If we do the math, that means six Fleshes are equal to a Chimera, which just seems weird

[maiden grotto]

Good man.

See things like that are great

[hardy spire]

just got to a choice. side with steleok or the ward? whats the choice?

[kindred turtle]

hello stalker! is how does defense work? is SUIT = Suit + helmet? does the helmet and armor defense stack?

[maiden grotto]

I actually say a squad outside Rostock, take diwn two blood suckers...

First time a saw a squad win.

[jagged zinc]

I went with Ward

[kindred turtle]

just found a Seva D suit so i was wondering if its worth than my previous set, the Seva D has better everything + Psi def

[hardy spire]

seva suits always great plus you can get special containers that negate any artifact radiation

[maiden grotto]

Wear it. Good armour.

[kindred turtle]

Thanks! See you at the zone!

[wintry pumice]

Faust is the real choice

[hardy spire]

no hes the wrong choice.

[wintry pumice]

get the Seva V in Rostok

[wintry pumice]

all choices are wrong in this game

[maiden grotto]

Where is that?

Probably picked it up, but still.

[wintry pumice]

its on a crate lift near the Scientist's crashed helicopter in the Rostok compound

there's an electric anomaly field around it

[maiden grotto]

Except not going past the point of no return.

Screw all the endings and a be STALKER.

Yeah yeah, got that one, up in the cabin.

[hardy spire]

i think im gonna go with the ward then

[hoary crest]

https://www.nexusmods.com/stalker2heartofchornobyl/mods/1122 Made by some of the guys who worked on Shay's apparently, might solve your woes

[maiden grotto]

Awesome stuff, well check it out.

Sounds much better.

You should be walking into things, not having things spawn on to of you.

[austere pagoda]

they dont in my mod

FaW uses an adjusted aiglobal cfg en corevar to be able to push the spawners outside the 98m render. i dont use those and not the samd logic can be applied as a result keeping my spawning logic more in line with vanilla

[lone elm]

I smell the al gul in your mouth stälker

[rancid lodge]

bruh clear sky got stalker 2 performance on my 3070 rn this is horrible lmfao

[austere pagoda]

yet i changed the scenarios to only contain the 98m ones, and changed the target of spawns to none, therefore not a single spawn knows where you are to beeline

[junior acorn]

The bloke who wants to get close to anomalies told me to go admire the ribs... I did and it cost me several health packs but I snagged a compass

Is that scripted? Does he know where the good artifacts are?

[smoky hawk]

I get stable highs even on the benchmark what did you break

[sturdy verge]

baby bloodsuckers mod when! lol

[shrewd needle]

Who's the 'Dark One'?

[rancid lodge]

idk I just set everything to max on dx 10, its not even using 30% of my gpu or cpu really

[sharp turret]

Also known as Dark. The guy you go into the cordon lab with and find strelok

[shrewd needle]

Ah...that's a while away, I guess.

[maiden meadow]

weird question, would a Monolith Edit using Invisible by Duran-Duran would be appropriate considering Monolith members have forgotten their past identity ?

[smoky hawk]

https://tenor.com/view/spider-man2-spider-man-j-jonah-jameson-tobey-maguire-peter-parker-gif-26416399

[maiden meadow]

hey im just asking

[quick kernel]

Any witcher fans here?

[wintry pumice]

Maybe

[quick kernel]

Idk if this will fit the vibe you're going for but the song Forgotten Days by pallbearer might fit the theme

[quick kernel]

Have you seen the new trailer for the game being developed by the ex witcher 3 team?

[wintry pumice]

Yeah but most of it was cinematic trailer

[hoary crest]

Hopefully yeah, will try it myself if I get on later

[wintry pumice]

Only 10 seconds of actual gameplay. Have to wait till summer to see the extended gameplay, but it's definitely going to be a hit

Hopefully we see a DLC for this game

[quick kernel]

I think what strikes me is despite the fact that the trailer was mostly cinematic it felt exactly like the witcher 3 cinematic felt, specifically a night to remember. I love that the vibe had more of an English aesthetic rather than the polish and Scandinavian we saw in the witcher I think it'll be interesting

[hoary crest]

Whats this now?

[quick kernel]

You want a link?

[hoary crest]

Whats it called? Will slap it in youtube

[quick kernel]

The Blood Of Dawnwalker. Made by ex witcher 3 devs

[hoary crest]

Alright nice, will check it out

[maiden grotto]

Needs stops NPC's X-ray vision too

[pale fossil]

is that another case of someone thinking they will make a great game on sole premise of not being "woke"?

[wintry pumice]

Yeah hopefully CDPR dies after seeing the summer demo

[wintry pumice]

Maybe

Though they haven't revealed much in the trailer just a setting for the game

[quick kernel]

Ugh woke is such a cheeseball reason to dislike a game

[wintry pumice]

Seems like the character can finally jump really high and scale buildings

[maiden grotto]

CD Projext Dead... Witcher 4 will be about mysogny in the middle ages and brave and stunning women, and the complete rewrite of witch lore to push tick boxes.

[pale fossil]

i'm gonna stop myself from going more off topic, because this is a wrong channel, but i'll say the trailer looks incredibly like witcher design and graphics-wise.
Also woke derangement syndrome is real in here as well, I can see.

[quick kernel]

Actual cheeseball

[maiden grotto]

And so is pig ignorance.

[wintry pumice]

My hate for CDPR comes from the Cyberpunk days. About how they released an incredibly buggy product on release. But yeah they will go into the misogyny angle

[maiden grotto]

No it its not, as most of it founded on BS and panders to narcissism. People crying like babies and claims games are rubbish because they can't seem themselves in it...

But it funny how, how the woke brain rotted fool cry for change for years, then when the hit back, they claim it doesn;t matter... If didn't matter then why cry like babies for years to get it changed in the first plave.

Woke is a cancer of free thinking and free creativity. It's basically for babies painting by numbers.

[subtle spindle]

is you complaining about games not having people you like in them somehow different?

[quick kernel]

Least deranged Joe Rogan fan

[pale fossil]

i prefer my games to be sleep

[maiden grotto]

Funny, I don;t watch Joe Rogan, so what's your point?

[quick kernel]

You'd love him then, some games do pander, sure. But the moment a protagonist isn't a buff straight white guy y'all flip out. The things I've heard people like you call woke is just so hilariously outrageous the term holds no value anymore, it's just exhausting

[hoary crest]

I don't seem to have this problem ingame already ngl

[hoary crest]

Will keep an eye on it. It looks a little cheesy but there is potential there.

Generally not a big fan of what amounts to vampire based media, but i'll watch the gameplay reveal later on in the year

[pale fossil]

is STALKER 2 woke? The women in it are fully clothed.

[wintry pumice]

Not necessarily true but you do you

[quick kernel]

I agree, final decision will be the gameplay trailer

[wintry pumice]

So are the men

[pale fossil]

Bloodsuckers are exclusively male and you kill them. Also - all the other characters you kill are male. I think this game might be woke.

[sharp turret]

[hoary crest]

I will say the art direction looks very cool which is a plus, but yeah, its probably gonna boil down to that.

Tbh there is potentially a decent amount of stuff coming this year that could be pretty exciting, Im certainly looking forward to Defect

[pseudo lotus]

huh?

[wintry pumice]

Though Bloodsuckers are basically nudists

[ornate sable]

No, there are just women there and it's not made a big deal of. The only one trying to be girlboss is one you can (and should) betray anyway.

[pale fossil]

Thank you, person with a nazi profile picture.

[midnight aurora]

hence stalker 2 is a woke game 😂

[rapid parrot]

So true

[ornate sable]

You're welcome, Hunter Biden

[wintry pumice]

Oh my god, it is. There's no female bloodsuckers. Where did the equality go?

[weary hedge]

Ayo 😂

[midnight aurora]

next mod in nexusmods: female mutants

[maiden grotto]

But having females, gays, trans, or whatever isn't woke.

It is the messaging and the reason why, and the complete abandonment of common sense and reality. The shallow characters, the poor story telling to push tick boxes.

The same people who have a problem with the "woke" for lack of a better term, are the same people that grew up loving, Ripley, Major, Sarah Connor, Beautrix, Blade, and so many other films with female leads and Diverse characters.

My fav film directors are Akira Kurosawa and Luc Besson. Do I see my self in them? No, becuase like a normal human watch things because I enjoy them, not becuae I want to see myself in them and demand that every created should.

[pseudo lotus]

What exactly do you mean by 'girlboss'? Just because a woman has the same aspirations as the men around her doesn't make a game 'woke', its just realistic. By that logic, Sultan and Varan are girlbossing too.

[rapid parrot]

Where’s the female snork?! OH THE HUMANITY

[pseudo lotus]

I get that this discussion is mostly ironic (hopefully) but the people that cried WOKE at the sight of a woman or a black man in the zone really need to go outside, touch grass, and maybe play in traffic a bit

[quick kernel]

Touching grass is woke because the grass has been touched by gay people before and I'm not gay bro I swear

[weary hedge]

Stop stirring the pot 😂

[subtle spindle]

damn i didnt know you had early insight into witcher 4. what exposed the bad writing in that game for you, when you were given the early preview?

[pseudo lotus]

Internet racists when there's anything besides white ukrainian men in the Zone
👶

[quick kernel]

They saw a woman in a game

[hoary crest]

Noone likes having opinions shoved down their throat, I totally agree with that, however it more often than not gets blown wildly out of proportion by people looking for something to bandwagon on.

Somethingsomething two sides screaming obcenities at each other through the bars of thier own little echo chambers somethingsomething.

Just my two cents anyway

[subtle spindle]

that cant be. he said that woke is bad writing, not women

[sturdy verge]

next thing, bloodsuckers wearing flip flops

[pseudo lotus]

woke is a stupid term that's been co-opted and manipulated by actual paper-skinned snowflakes.

[wintry pumice]

[weary hedge]

I got the popcorn, who’s got the beer?

[hoary crest]

Flip-flops and socks, just to p*ss everyone off all at once 😄

[maiden grotto]

The fact the devs have openly stated they they will explore misogyny in middle ages and shove it down our throats....

The same shallow garbage the DEI and ESG agenda's push.

[subtle spindle]

when the protagonist is a woman its such a no brainer thing to explore misogyny in the middle ages

[wintry pumice]

Bloodsuckers, but with a tank top

[hoary crest]

Sorry, only Gin

[quick kernel]

Imagine exploring an issue that existed in the middle ages that doesn't include men. How dare they explore anything other than what you wanted, but it's them shoving it down our throats isn't it?

[weary hedge]

Absolutely not! That is a crime 😂

[maiden grotto]

says the group that cries for years that demand everything be about them 🤣

[sturdy verge]

and a toupee so one can say how unfair that strelok is still bald. lol

[subtle spindle]

idc what you think of feminism but back then misogyny was real and an actual issue so theres no reason to not explore it

[hoary crest]

What about my boy Korshunov? #JusticeforWard

[weary hedge]

Gin isn’t bad

[subtle spindle]

besides not including it would just be really inaccurate

[pseudo lotus]

what tf are you talking about? wdym "everything be about them"?

white men are some of the most fragile mfers on the face of the planet, the moment you're presented with anything that isnt a straight white male protagonist, you have to make it all about you, pooping your pants about how youre being genocided or some shiz.

Maybe take a look in the mirror before you start projecting so hard.

[wintry pumice]

He can grow a moustache but a short one

[sturdy verge]

nah he's Mr. Cleans cousin lol

[subtle spindle]

class and identity had a lot to do with how you were treated in the middle ages. theres just no avoiding that

[ornate sable]

Snowflake??! What do you mean by that?! Is it because I'm white?!

[weary hedge]

Nothing wrong with being bald. It’s a shame my boy Korshunov doesn’t have a beard though.

[hoary crest]

Gotta be careful being bald and having a beard, makes it look like gravity caught up too quickly 😄

[pseudo lotus]

Oh wow, a nazi rage baiting on the internet?? whoda thunk.

anyway, you dont deserve the time of day

[maiden grotto]

Say the people crying for decades for change in everything.

[wintry pumice]

Not really but you can believe that

[weary hedge]

Ayo, I gotta use that irl. I happen to be bald with a beard lol.

[sturdy verge]

some short handlebar stach

[maiden grotto]

Now we are Nazi's 🤣

[sturdy verge]

oh got damn, we switching it up more than i change my socks

[pseudo lotus]

You- you are not very bright are you? You do realize gay people didnt even have the right to marry until the 2000s right?

Its not 'making things about them'. Queer people literally just want to be able to make content and culture as straight men have for centuries. God forbid they take advantage of a more open-minded society.

[subtle spindle]

crazy how women who play games want games to not openly shit on them lol

[quick kernel]

Names metaldiciple83, bald with a beard, do you also own camo cargo shorts and a master of puppets shirt that's so faded you can barely see what it says 😭

[hoary crest]

Ya know this woke vs anti-woke argument kinda just boils down to "don't be a c*nt" (Which applies to both sides)

[weary hedge]

In all seriousness, can we all calm down now? I’ve seen a few fights on here lately and it’s annoying.

[pseudo lotus]

Look at that guy's profile you fool. Im not calling you a nazi, I'm calling the literal fking nazi a nazi

[weary hedge]

Nah. But I do have Band shirts and Vans, close enough lol.

[ornate sable]

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0086659/characters/nm0549424/?ref_=tt_cst_c_4 your own fault for not recognizing the GOAT

[pseudo lotus]

miserable virgins on the internet are so pedictable and pathetic

[quick kernel]

Is the 83 in your name your birth year?

[weary hedge]

Yes. I’m old.

[pseudo lotus]

I really could not care less what you have to say.

[quick kernel]

Dude that's rad did you skate back then?

[sturdy verge]

Tbh I haven't read anything that is going on, my selective reading read blood suckers life's matter and I wanted to include that they wear flip flops.

[hoary crest]

Yay, I feel young again! It'll only be fleeting until my back pain starts up again, but i'll take it!

[wintry pumice]

Now we are virgins

[pseudo lotus]

pathetic incels are complaining about woke. not much more than that. God forbid women or gay people exist around them

[subtle spindle]

youre saying that as if its a bad thing. someone had a good point here, the key thing in this woke """"debate"""" is to not be an ass as sewing discord is the goal of the chuds that push the """games are turning woke"""" narrative

[weary hedge]

I tried, but gave up. I hate the new school sneakers. Cons too bro.

[sturdy verge]

I think you didn't get the memo from my response above, meaning I'm still not reading anything other then make a few random jokes here then disappear and come back later.

[quick kernel]

While I agree with you bro they're just trolling you dawg

[wintry pumice]

Yeah but we need female bloodsuckers though, for equality

[pseudo lotus]

agree ^

[maiden grotto]

Not very bright?

I spent a year a in Phillippines working on a mangrove forest reforestation project, in order to create alternative jobs, for people in rural area's, especially girls (some as young as 10) who generally end up working in bars as sex workers, in order to provide money for their families.

You on the other had know the square root of feck all about the real world, and real the struggles that people face.

It is you my friend, that isn't very bright.

The so called woke, just really don;t have a clue about anything... And think that winning hearts and minds, is p*ssing on peoples feet and ruining the things that they grew up loving.

[weary hedge]

If it gets people to stop complaining then fine lol

[subtle spindle]

nah bro get a grip lol

[ornate sable]

That's an incredibly hateful thing to say

[hoary crest]

See ya later, I'm off to shag a trans girl and then later I might vote for Trump /s. Enjoy fighting over this non-sensical bullsh*t ya turds 😂 God forbid a difference of opinion leads to an argument on the internet

[wintry pumice]

Let's not waste energy on these fools.

[maiden grotto]

And that is purely disgusting.

[sturdy verge]

But can they be like the ones from total recall if you know what I mean 😉

[pseudo lotus]

shut up, nazi

[wintry pumice]

There he is , the extremist

[quick kernel]

Bro you're just feeding them 😭

[pseudo lotus]

Im a psychic vampire, Im feeding rn

[weary hedge]

I hate to be that guy, but in this doesn’t calm down I’m tagging the moderators. Let’s all shut up and calm down.

[sturdy verge]

Think we need a patch and dlc lol 😂😂

[maiden grotto]

save us from ourselves

[pseudo lotus]

Im a Warden, what did you expect?

[sturdy verge]

Some sid chicken!

[maiden grotto]

Don't insult the Sid Chicken...

[patent heath]

What's the difference between IPSF and Military?

[ornate sable]

Same! You zee, we are not zo different you und I...

[sturdy verge]

A mtv cribs of skifs new home from the ward!

[charred nova]

Jesus Christ this chat is nuclear levels of cringe

[maiden grotto]

No much really, just the name really in game terms.

[weary hedge]

IPSF is made up of soldiers from different nations, whereas the Military was strictly Ukrainian. IPSF mean International Perimeter Security Force.

[wintry pumice]

[charred nova]

@ornate sable gonna need you to change your pfp btw

[patent heath]

The Ward is also looks like military, maybe different authority?

[maiden grotto]

pfp?

[sturdy verge]

Similar to duty as well but not as cool jk lol

[wintry pumice]

Yup backed by government I believe

[charred nova]

His pfp is literally a nazi officer

[inner hinge]

You left us unattended what did you think would happen

[pseudo lotus]

sO mUcH fOr ThE tOlErAnT lEfT
Funny how you generalize, demean, and insult until you feel targeted. Or- did you feel targeted? Crazy self report, then, because I didnt tag or direct anything at you.

Maybe take a minute to self-reflect before saying hateful shit on the internet, if thats how you feel. Being homophobic and racist on the internet just makes you a bad person.

[ornate sable]

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0086659/characters/nm0549424/?ref_=tt_cst_c_4 it's a character from a tv show, relax

[charred nova]

Well I expected slightly better than this but fair point

[charred nova]

Don’t care change it or be banned

[weary hedge]

You’re not wrong. I like both, but if Duty were in the spot of Ward that would be based.

[patent heath]

too many factions that nobody cares about Renegades lol

[maiden grotto]

That guys is from ELLO ELLO, he is actually a brilliant character and well loved 😄

[weary hedge]

Renegades aren’t really that big of a faction in HoC.

[ornate sable]

Perhaps I should have expected zoomers not to recognize a character from an 80's sitcom, so that's on me I guess

[sturdy verge]

At least they still had those announcements, 'join duty' lol as much as I found it annoying before it brought joy for nostalgia

[pseudo lotus]

wah wah wah I cant cospay as a nazi on the internet!!! western society has fallen!!!!!!!

[charred nova]

That’s completely irrelevant

[subtle spindle]

they dont exist

[maiden grotto]

Wow! The complete level ignorance is astonishing.

[inner hinge]

Mod got offended on behalf of everyone so you must listen to him

[wintry pumice]

I wanted to join them but alas

[charred nova]

Last I checked there not even in the game

[sturdy verge]

would be nice to see them along with sin.

[charred nova]

Its the rules

[pseudo lotus]

is that?? not what panzer was literally doing?

[charred nova]

I personally don’t care one bit lol

[frigid hill]

lihacc has been warned

Reason: Bad word usage

[weary hedge]

The group in the Red Forest had their logo/sign on one of the doors to their base so I assumed they were present.

[charred nova]

Oh I didn’t see that

[wintry pumice]

Nope

[inner hinge]

References are scattered throughout the zone of them but they got absorbed into the bandit factions

[serene barn]

where at?

[weary hedge]

That makes sense.

[charred nova]

Ah makes sense

[patent heath]

Just asking

[ornate sable]

Wouldn't have picked a character from Allo Allo if I were, bud

[patent heath]

is there any possible dlc, and how many of it?

[weary hedge]

||Containers in the red forest. It’s a location for one of Scherbas collars and a side mission from the barkeep at the 100 Rads bar in Rostok||

[serene barn]

iirc 2 expansions has been promised to people who got a certain edition

[maiden grotto]

No, the picture was from a UK TV series that was called ELLO ELLO and he wasn't evil, in fact he help the main character get away with a lot stuff against the Germans.

It more nuanced than you think... And just creaming Nazi, just highlight how little you actually know.

"Good moaning, I was p*ssing by your door, when I heard two shats"

[wintry pumice]

Possibly 2 maybe 3

[weary hedge]

tbf its not actually listed in #rules lol, maybe something for them to update

[patent heath]

can't wait to go|| Limansk||

[charred nova]

We can both agree on that

[sturdy verge]

dlc sids hell chicken edition for sure

[serene barn]

lawd i hated that fight, the Bandits weren't an issue but sweet jesus was the mutant.

[river chasm]

Yeah they have committed to 2 story expansions. Other DLC is possible but not guaranteed

[weary hedge]

You gotta jump up on the pipes and stay out of its line of sight, then just unload on it.

[hoary crest]

Ahh line of sight. The seperator for those who think stealth is a cool challenge and those who think its broken

[serene barn]

i direct impacted it with like 5 RPGS and it didn't die that sort of "balance" i totally do not agree with, an RPG SHOULD totally mess anything up.

[wintry pumice]

Does the pseudogiant spawn if you haven't been to Sircaa?

[weary hedge]

One play through, my first think, I had to fight him and two bloodsuckers, that was fun 😂

[serene barn]

yes, i did that way before going to Sircaa.

i did find a liquid rock at that place too, was my first maximum artifact too. had me all excited about getting something really useful.

[wintry pumice]

They didn't fight each other?

[maiden grotto]

Easy, run around the back and you can get to the main area, before the mutant... You can then jump around on teh containers,

[weary hedge]

Meh. I’d argue it’s not broken, just difficult. Pop a headshot off with a silencer or suppressor, sneak attacks, sneaking by people are all possible.

[weary hedge]

Not for me, iirc.

[serene barn]

i think whenever i get around to starting a new playthrough, that i will let it free

[hoary crest]

Yeah no I agree with you. Playing stealthily takes a bit more brainpower than just camping a corner and taking potshots which is wonderful to see in a game for once.

I'm glad they did'nt opt for Bethesda style stealth where enemies appear to be totally blind to thier surroundings

In my experience, enemies are about as capable of picking up on you as you are of picking up on them, which makes it feel properly tense at times

[maiden grotto]

Instead they now have xray eyes 😄

[hoary crest]

Le' skill issue

[weary hedge]

Exactly. I was worried I’d mess up when getting the monolith regenerator for Dr. Kaymonov. That was a little nerve wracking lol.

[maiden grotto]

Nah, broken mechanics.

[serene barn]

i found out later that i missed a gun in there lol.

[ornate sable]

Yeah, I only wish bushes and stuff would hide us from them as well as it hides them from us. Other than that, stealth works well enough I think.

[hoary crest]

As I've said before, I've done the lions share of the game in stealth and can cover large distances without ending up in open gunfights, so nah its skill issue.

Stands out in the open with no cover holding a shotgun "WHY CAN THEY SEE ME!!!"

[weary hedge]

The rat killer? Is it possible to go back after and get it?

[river chasm]

I didn't really have issues with the stealth, but the enemies are quite perceptive and will notice you through cracks and grates that other games might count as solid

[serene barn]

n idea

[hoary crest]

Same as you would them, yeah. Its almost like natural predators are exceptionally perceptive when it comes to movement in thier local environment or something

[serene barn]

only found out it was there after i had like, finished my playthrough, loaded a save and then picked another choice and got a different ending.

[maiden grotto]

I just gave an ran through it... Because it was completely broken... I would be hiding in teh shadows, try using a bolt to get the enemy out the way, and instead of looking where the bolt landed, it would go into instant attack mode and shoot me...

[weary hedge]

Is it possible to enter the monolith hospital or whatever it is in the red forest after completing the mission there and get the rat killer?

[hoary crest]

Yeah you can go back

[weary hedge]

That sucks. I threw a bolt to get a monolithian to move, homeboy got alerted obviously but didn’t attack me. This game does have some broken mechanics, I won’t argue about that.

[wintry pumice]

Yup

[grand gyro]

still no patch

[hoary crest]

Oh boy here we go again..

[wintry pumice]

Yeah, no patch almost started world war 3 here just a few moments ago

[hoary crest]

I swear they could patch this game every hour of every day an there would still be people in here asking where patches are 😂

[grand gyro]

well I cant progress in the game so I stopped playing

[weary hedge]

We need a patch to fix the last patch, do of course lol

[wintry pumice]

Yeah we have no idea when the next patch will be.

[serene barn]

i mean when the game is in such a poor state that they're able to "fix" like 1600 things in one update alone it's like kinda fair

[hoary crest]

Obviously, and a patch to patch the patch proceeding another patch, and then a patch after the last patch to patch that patch...

[maiden grotto]

Patches will come when they are ready.

[grand gyro]

I cant even talk to scar in X17 because its bugged and he isnt there

[weary hedge]

Patches to fix patches, in all seriousness though GSC is doing what they can. They’ve been thorough in my issue. I’d hate to hear from people complaining about my product, so let’s give them a break.

I remember when a game wouldn’t work because the cartridge was dirty, not because of a bug 👴🏻

[serene barn]

i wonder if Steam is gonna make them deliver on the expansions because iirc they changed their Terms of Service on promises like that

[hoary crest]

I've come to learn in recent years that no matter what you do in this industry there will always be a subset of people who just want to b*tch about where patches are an the state of the game regardless of what state its in when it releases. Its bandwagoning at its finest.

Not saying Patriot is guilty of that mind, its just an observation

[grand gyro]

they did

[sturdy verge]

He left to the shining zone, what a impatient man!

[maiden grotto]

But they also need to know where it is wrong.

I hate it, when people hate on the dev's, I don't have a problem with people letting of steam when they get issues... It's when they call the dev c**ts etc etc

And man do I let of some steam.

[hoary crest]

Back then patches werent even a thing. Better get it right the first time or your sh*t bombed lol

I kinda miss physical media in a way, but being able to patch things is more of a blessing than not

[grand gyro]

I am not hating on the devs or anybody working on it, its just I am frustrated and I havent played the game in a month because of a stupid bug

[maiden grotto]

Like the original x-com game was always on hardest mode, regardless of actual setting XD

[sturdy verge]

I remember being soft locked in the duga mission for ages and had to go play indiana jones 😂

[grand gyro]

Should I just wait or restart my whole story

because I tryed reloading other saves and it doesnt fix it

[sturdy verge]

Up to you it was easier for me as it was my 2nd play through.

[weary hedge]

That far along I would wait for a fix and just come back later.

[maiden grotto]

I made level 20, do I get a beane bag

[grand gyro]

I go so far back to where you fight (its been so long since I played I forgot the big religious guy)

[hoary crest]

Keep the save as it is, and start a new file in another slot. That way you aint losing nothin and can always pick it up when the issue is fixed, but you can still enjoy the game aside from that

[wintry pumice]

Faust?

[sturdy verge]

Ah then if it's been awhile then yes wait until it's patched.

[grand gyro]

yes

[ornate sable]

You could start another playthrough on another save path?

[wintry pumice]

Faust the goat

[weary hedge]

Yeah, you get three slots

[grand gyro]

you kill him and you go meet scar and he isnt there for me

[sturdy verge]

Faust my homie with that nice set of hair.

[maiden grotto]

You're kidding me.... ....

[serene barn]

i think whenever i get around to starting a new run i will be exploring some places like Duga and such earlier ideally side with Ward so i have a trader i can use in Chemical

[grand gyro]

is using UE engine command line okay to use

I did have it installed as a mod prior to me fighting faust

[sturdy verge]

Do you now

[serene barn]

i feel like there is guns that i wanna try using more on a second run

[maiden grotto]

hello hello hello

[hoary crest]

You can use it to force-advance quests yeah. Can't guarantee it wont break anything, but you can do it

[grand gyro]

would that work

[weary hedge]

Hello hello

[wintry pumice]

The only guy in the zone with decent hair

[hoary crest]

Its been a popular way of working around quest blockers amongst the community. I dunno where you'd find the relevant commands though they'll probably be around somewhere

[serene barn]

i wanna try using the Buket more early on. actually seems really good for being found already in Garbage.

[wintry pumice]

Or should I say Dr.....

[maiden grotto]

https://tenor.com/view/hello-is-it-me-you-looking-for-gif-10738629746880791730

[grand gyro]

have you used the pp-19 bizon?

[weary hedge]

Anyone else think that Semyonich in STC Malachite sounds like Hank Hill in the English dub?

[maiden grotto]

No idea, only play with Ukrainian audio... Nut understood a single word that has ever been said

[grand gyro]

did yall know there is a drum mag for the saiga that you can only spawn in with command line

[serene barn]

yeah, quite did like it. found a big mag for it long before i bought the gun in STC

[maiden grotto]

Who?

[serene barn]

wrong, it is in the game but it is found in the last mission.

[wintry pumice]

Do you really wanna know?

[grand gyro]

ohh, I was misinformed then

[serene barn]

however there is a drum mag for the GP-37 which is not in the game iirc

[weary hedge]

the only way to find the drum magazine legit, earlier, is looting them off monolith ai in the north half of the map during the latter half of the game, higher chances

[grand gyro]

if I am gonna be real, I think it needs a drum mag, just using 30 rounds of armor piercing aint enough

[serene barn]

i don't like how they made there be a blueprint for a Saiga mod one of the the last missions in the game but you have to pick the choice to go to the place and not the other one.

[wintry pumice]

Yeah a lot of attachments missing or forgotten to add

[grand gyro]

this game feels like its in early access

[serene barn]

i feel like while i did like the gun it is heavily outclassed by the Kharod so it wouldn't be like unfair per say if it did have a drum mag.

[wintry pumice]

Yeah by six months

[maiden grotto]

Nobody knows, that's why he's Dr Who.

Was until teh brain dead BBC ruined it...

[mossy helm]

i love that hello hello 😄 one fella used to say this in similar voice and he never even played any stalker games and ive told him the story who else says this the same way 😄

[sturdy verge]

I went to that bunker turned on all the gennys to go in and just kept saying hello hello lol

[serene barn]

i really want them to get the RPD working in the game and then fix the transgressions they've made to my baby, the RPM-74

they've malnurished my baby with 7.62x39 😭

[wintry pumice]

I sell your baby a lot

Nice price on the market

[maiden grotto]

I don't have one, who did you kidnap? Poliiiiiiiceeeee!!

[serene barn]

can't really blame you, it's impractical as hell. heavy, ammo heavier.

[wintry pumice]

Yeah but the ammo fet he's me really good money

[maiden grotto]

Time for fish and chips, with curry sauce....

Enjoy the sausage stalkers

[serene barn]

they made the RPM kick as if it was shooting 54, too damn much. then they made the 7.62x39 round as heavy as 308 and 54 for no reason either.

and you cannot buy the ammo either and they nerfed the damage, range and penetration so it's only doing like, mid tier levels like shooting a GP-37 or something.

[pale fossil]

whos the boss of garbage bandits? I walked in there and they are just standing around, showing up green. It really feels like they should be hostile.
Also outside in the tunnel there was a sole jacket-bandit and now a squad of exoskeleton freedomers are trying to kill him but it looks like he's immortal

[maiden grotto]

RPM? Revs Per Minute... Sounds more like a vibra...........

Okay okay, I'm going

[serene barn]

i also wish a little that the Grom was a little stronger than it is

so there'd be a gun that wasn't bad that used the vog grenades.

[wintry pumice]

Yeah I wanna give that gun a try, but almost all ARs pale in comparison when it comes to the Dnipro

Screw kharod

[serene barn]

why tho, Kharod good

[patent heath]

Lebedev isn't on sequel

[pale fossil]

i maxed out fora and is as good as any ar tbh

[mossy helm]

does anybody know how to loot the stash in Commissary without alerting and making hostile Roosvelt and his men? is that even possible?

[serene barn]

in fact the Dnipro felt worse in a way, kicked too much lmao.

[wintry pumice]

Not after you upgrade it

[serene barn]

eh i compared the stats to others and it didn't look better than like a GP37.

[patent heath]

Lebedev is dead huh

[wintry pumice]

It's ammo is a bit scarce though it's probably the second most common AR ammo

[serene barn]

i did, it still did but it can 2 tab Exos with AP ammo when using 7.62

[serene barn]

what are you talking about being scarce? it's 556 and then 545 which makes it even better because you're given so much of 545

i do however wanna try actually using a Fora next run because i felt like i skipped over it as by the time i got one i had a GP37 already and there is one from a side quest that i will get as it should iirc be better than a default one as it should do a little more damage.

another thing i wanna do on another run is mayyyybe i don't need to haul literally everything to a trader even if it makes me more money.

[maiden grotto]

Drowned.... but i use ballistoc mods

[hoary crest]

Just install Better Ballistics

Makes basically every gun viable all the way into endgame

[wintry pumice]

Not on xbox

[hoary crest]

Oh eww

[wintry pumice]

GP37 is crap. Why do ARs have damage below 1 point anyway?

[ornate sable]

Increased pen and range (less dropoff) over the AK makes up for that though

[hoary crest]

You do not nah, travelling as light as possible is a huge advantage. Grab only the most valuable stuff to sell, don't bother with junk

[wintry pumice]

I gave it a try but didn't vibe with it

Clusterfuck my beloved. Love 2 tapping monolithians with that

[maiden grotto]

Still prefer the Drowned though.

[wintry pumice]

But god, it has horrible durability damage per shot

[serene barn]

i gave all the unique guns back lol

[wintry pumice]

All guns are unique

[serene barn]

i wish the MK1 wasn't so, bad for being a sniper rifle.

[maiden grotto]

Mods... the wear and tear rates are insne

[weary hedge]

its not bad as a DMR but, higher RoF is the meta

[serene barn]

55 damage for an ammo so rare and then not having the penetration to even make it work is just bad

there is an 8x and a suppressor for the MK1 in the game but what is the point when it's not even strong enough to like, 1 tab

[weary hedge]

112 shots with AP rounds to kill a pseudogiant with a mk1

[wintry pumice]

Where's the 8x scope?

[weary hedge]

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1L6jBHJtw8AZrJZmOiFekiS2YVudHS3rQVGQN-oOaNMk/edit?gid=1058985350#gid=1058985350

[maiden grotto]

I go with the M701, silencer in Prip... Say hello to my shoulder cannon

[serene barn]

thing is the Pseudogiant is one of the mutants that doesn't even have armor stat lmao.

[serene barn]

prypiat i think. found on a gun i think

only like 3 or 4 of the mutants in the game has armor stat like the Burer, Bloodsucker

[wintry pumice]

I think it probably kept healing while it was hiding

[serene barn]

apparently the Psuedogiant or Chimera has none so there is actually use cases for HP ammo but i wish this sort of use case was made more clear to a player in the game rather than needing a sheet someone made from going the files through

the Texan unique Ram-2 shotgun can 1 shot Snorks, it feels really good actually.

[maiden grotto]

In game libraries where you can read up on mutants and artifacts.

AS in, actual places to visit in game, such as camps. Or talking to NPC's around camp fires

[serene barn]

idk if the normal one can too. as idk how much health snorks have as apparently the sheet guy forgot about them

[ornate sable]

According to the sheet, it has 80% armor. Might be wrong though?

[weary hedge]

according to that dudes research the pseudogiant had no health regen, not all mutants do, chimeras dont either

Burer, Controller, Chimera and Pseudogiant all have a value of 80% for armor

hes scraped the data from memory where i found the post - its not all ingame testing, hes even got ammo values noted down

click the changelog button

it notes how he got the info and where from

[ornate sable]

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1L6jBHJtw8AZrJZmOiFekiS2YVudHS3rQVGQN-oOaNMk/edit?gid=1058985350#gid=1058985350 they're on there. 150 health, 60% armor and 2x headshot multiplier

[serene barn]

idk if it's the same sheet but it didn't when i looked at it

[weary hedge]

he lists armor stats as available here ->
Stalker2 \ Content \ GameLite \ GameData \ ItemPrototypes \ ArmorPrototypes.cfg

mutant files here -> Stalker2 \ Content \ GameLite \ GameData \ ObjPrototypes \

could be either, prob the latter

[serene barn]

and the Darts i used on the 2 in fought at the same time at the 3 mobile labs in prypiat sure worked well.

i can't post pics in here ree

[weary hedge]

he doesnt list what difficulty the stats were collected on, either

difficulty changes increase things like hp, damage, regen etc

[serene barn]

well that cannot be right as then darts shouldn't have been able to body shot them when i was using the Texan. it does 180 and the darts lower Pen by a lot and only increase damage by 19% iirc so if it had 60% it shouldn't have died i feel

[weary hedge]

it lists the texan killing a snork with 1 shot***, with normal rounds and ap rounds

lmao

[serene barn]

if all the mutants have armor then that totally and entirely defeats the whole purpose of having HP ammo in the game

[weary hedge]

as ive been saying, HP ammo works on the low tier mutants, and that google sheet shows the low tier mutants, well most cept snork, as having 20% armor values

[ornate sable]

Might be wrong then, but also darts increase damage by 42% and decrease pen by 70%, that might still make them better than buckshot, maybe? Sadly they're not listed in the chart for which guns need how many shots to kill which mutants.

[maiden grotto]

Mods, game broken

[serene barn]

the sheet i have is the same one but when i took pics of it for a guy it listed the mutants differently so idk what it'd all of a sudden be so different.

[weary hedge]

we dont have to debate it

open ammo prototypes.cfg here

Stalker2\Content\GameLite\GameData\ItemPrototypes\

just open with notepad and read the games values

[serene barn]

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this was what he had listed in the sheet back then so i don't get why the numbers are so different.

[maiden grotto]

Regardless, of the sheets, the fact Bloodsuckers have armour, when it is there invisibility that makes the dangerous and hard to hit... If you spot a bloodsucker, you should be able to drop it with easy... But their speed and invisibility should make it really hard... Not some BS AP state to making them bullet sponges.

They are strong, but skinny little runts.

[serene barn]

i also feel like i remember shooting a snork in the back at point blank range with buckshot in the Texan and it didn't kill it

[maiden grotto]

Snorks can be sponges at times

[ornate sable]

They do have that headshot multiplier though

[weary hedge]

i actually went searching for some of his links and they were entirely different paths for me, i still cannot find the armor stats either, they arent listed in the mutant files

he last updated it this month so, iunno

[jagged rapids]

[hoary crest]

Simply shoot the mutant until it is dead

[serene barn]

i just feel like the numbers don't look right with my experiences

[weary hedge]

yo guys, im on ps5, can you recommend me the best version of stalker for ps5 since 2nd isn't available?

oh wrong channel ig

[ornate sable]

I have no idea if the older ones are even on PS, but start with the first one (Shadow of Chernobyl) if they are?

[weary hedge]

i mean, i can only buy one, i have 20 dollars

[serene barn]

another point where i feel like these numbers cannot be true is when i 2 shot a Controller with Darts in i think it was a Saiga. the controller is listed as having 500 health and 80% armor and no headshot multiplier.

[weary hedge]

id wish to like play all the stalker saga but if my father sees me spending money on more games ill not be able to buy nothing anymore 🥲

like, even if the money are mine at 16 y he just prohibits that

[gusty bear]

do I need performance mod or is it stable enough to play on latest patch and I had the gog version when it came out in November. only mod I ran was stalker optimizer

[ornate sable]

I haven't found the performance mods do that much really.

[plain fiber]

Well I'm still alive, so no worries there.

Pretty sure they're quite literally fanfic.

[river chasm]

I guess if any were licensed, they wouldn't be. But I do believe none of them are canon

[plain fiber]

Really? All I remember reading about them on the wiki is that they weren't canon.

[river chasm]

Yeah that's my understanding. I dunno if any were officially sanctioned at any point in the past or not though

[weary hedge]

what's the legend of zone trilogy version of stalker?

[serene barn]

it's a bundle with the 3 original games ported to console.

[weary hedge]

oh ok, in your opinion, what's uhh how do i say it, better to play first? Stalker call of prypiat or SoC?

[serene barn]

SoC

[river chasm]

Release order, so SoC, then CS, then CoP

[serene barn]

SoC has mechanics missing that the 2 games after got like repairing weapons and armor.

[upbeat cargo]

you didn't ask me but I'll answer anyway, I recommend SoC, CS CoP, the original release order. the mechanics evolve more naturally that way and you won't miss features from later games.

[serene barn]

you'll appreciate things a bit more when you didn't have them rather than being annoyed at having had them and then not being able to.

[weary hedge]

id want to buy all of em but yk, i dont have 40 € tho, ig ill buy SoC tomorrow

[river chasm]

CS is a prequel but the story will spoil some elements of SoC if you play it first. It's meant to be played after

[upbeat cargo]

if you're not in a hurry might be worth it to wait for a sale, you can get the whole trilogy under 10€ easily when on sale, atleast historically

[maiden grotto]

You could alway play SoC with mods, whilst introducung some features and mechanics, also prevents bugs and stability issues.

Also better graphics from better tectures etc

[weary hedge]

okk

[weary hedge]

well id need smt to hook up my brain to rn, i really can't wait for a sale, school is really tiring

[upbeat cargo]

fair enough, here its 16€ for soc, IMO it's well worth it, but nostalgia might have a part in that

[weary hedge]

since i dont have a credit card bcs im under 18 i cant buy things online for a good price, so i gotta buy a 20 euros gift card, and here SoC is 20 €

[maiden grotto]

That sucks

[upbeat cargo]

oof

[pale fossil]

whats up with the exoskeleton spam 4 real

[weary hedge]

it is what it is ig, and i gotta tell my father that im playing a free demo of a game bcs he doesn't want to see me spend my money on these things

[maiden grotto]

You could try one of the stand alone mods. Okay they are not SoC, they are still great to play though

[upbeat cargo]

that's the endgame

[weary hedge]

im on ps5 🥲

[maiden grotto]

no helping you then 😄

It's your fault for being a peasant 😄

[upbeat cargo]

I think you can't get the SoC alone in that case i don't think anyway? you'll have to get the trilogy as a whole.. I might be wrong tho, lost my console priviledges ages ago

[weary hedge]

angrly reveals ur ip

[upbeat cargo]

oh nvm they're available individually I guess now that I checked also the steam originals are a bit cheaper, hope you'll get a PC someday

[weary hedge]

soc is available

btw just for curiosity, is there any ambience or place that regards chernobyl's exploded Nuclear reactor?

[upbeat cargo]

I didn't quite understand the question here, ambiance as in a youtube track or...?

[weary hedge]

ambience like references or like a veeeery radioactive place

[pale fossil]

nah. after some point exoskeleton mofos start to pop up everywhere, all of a sudden, it's not gradual at all.

[maiden grotto]

And it is garbage

[pale fossil]

even rookie village haha that's a funny sight at least, seeing rookie loners sitting by the fire geared up a.f.

[upbeat cargo]

well.. there's the actual powerplant in ukraine, it exploded only once tho.

[pale fossil]

and stomping around like pseudogiants

[weary hedge]

U mean Ukraine real life or Ukraine in game place? bro i mean like, inside of stalker, is there somewhat of a place similar to the chernobyl accident? idk its obvious or not but yk, i wanna know

[upbeat cargo]

someone discovered that the player has secret "level" or "ranking" that increases as you progress the main story or something, after certain point, when you'll be able to buy veles detectors from traders you've reached max rank and most of the spawns you'll encounter will be exo dudes

[ornate sable]

That real life place is where Stalker takes place, yes

[upbeat cargo]

irl ukraine in 1986 the actual plant exploded, the stalker series takes place in the exclusion zone that was created by said explosion, so yeah the game has alot of references to real life, with certain artistic liberties ofcourse

[weary hedge]

ohhhhhh, where should it be particularly the exclusion zone in real life?

[weary hedge]

not completely, im asking if i can go to the exploded power plant

[upbeat cargo]

yes, infact you can, SoC and CS endgame is in and around the exploded powerplant

[weary hedge]

oh fr? how much is it detailed? can i go inside or smt?

[pallid thorn]

yo guys
i found smth cool/weird everyone should know

[upbeat cargo]

fairly detailed for the time, in SoC you can enter the plant itself, it's not obviously 1:1 as it is now as for the real life plant you'll be able to find it north of Kyiv by the belarus border, just follow the river

[weary hedge]

Oh damn, i never thought it was there, what places i can see inside the powerplant? like the command room, the exploded part, the roof and how much radioactive is it?

[pallid thorn]

the thing is about sausage btw

[upbeat cargo]

don't get your hopes up too much, I don't think the control room is in there, but you'll get to visit the exploded reactor room, and it's very radioactive, I can't go into too much detail since it would spoil the story

[weary hedge]

Sorry for so much questions but the chernobyl film series really launched me in wasteland and radioactive like games

[weary hedge]

ok ok, that's enough ig, im full, im happy that there is the power plant :'>

[upbeat cargo]

spill the beans already.

[pallid thorn]

when you shoot sausage, it sprays red blood and makes a squelch sound

[upbeat cargo]

how could you do that to a poor sausage-animal you monster

[rapid parrot]

Ngl I’d eat a sausage animal

[pallid thorn]

someone stood a sausage straight up and defied physics. i had a .45 acp teach it a lesson lol
thats how i found out lol

[upbeat cargo]

there are quite many land marks to be explored withing the zone, not just the powerplant, pripyat is pretty well modelled also, with the ferris wheel and everything, palace of culture and so on.

[maiden grotto]

Pepperami... It's a bit of an animal.

"Come back here and finish me off"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4xQztjEywAc

[solar cobalt]

Depending on how you think of things we already have sausage animals... they're just not sausages yet haha

[quartz obsidian]

Just got liquid rock, found it underneath the containers area in the red forest

[pallid thorn]

guys, i just found a hypercube in the beginning of the game, in the detention center.
my luck is insane, my best suit rn is the freedom suit, like, everyone is still a stalker or bandit early, like, i havent even left garbage early
the craziest thing, i only found a hypercube once before and i save scummed for that in my second playthrough, to just find it randomly without save scumming is something else im insanely hyped and wanted to share with all of you

[rapid parrot]

True though!

[pallid thorn]

I've officially found a legendary artifact as my 4th artifact in this playthrough

[quartz obsidian]

Never has much look with them until I got the veles detector

Well, maybe the hilka when I started to find uncommon ones

[pallid thorn]

i found this with the beginning detector

[quartz obsidian]

I found another torch at the symbiont right before this

[civic relic]

uhhhh what the fk

[upbeat cargo]

i found all my high-tier artifacts with the bear detector, when I got the veles it was utterly obsolete.

[solar cobalt]

I found a hypercube early in my playthrough started at launch (that I've still not finished oops) and just now in endgame I've found a second one. It was my maybe fifth or seventh artifact I found but I never used it because of the high radiation, just slapped it on to dive into thermal anomalies LOL

[quartz obsidian]

I’m quite sure that’s why no one has tried anything on armor woman and harpy because they are tough as nails

[upbeat cargo]

and the third one..?

[ornate sable]

If anyone hurts Birch, I'll get really mad at them😡
I imagine most of Freedom would feel the same way.

[weary hedge]

man i cant wait for tomorrow then, just gotta hope school is not gonna be sheet

[inner hinge]

People were complaining about women in STALKER 2 and I just gave a logical reason why there aren't many women in the zone

[civic relic]

there already are woman in the zone though... theres like 5 of them atleast and they seem to all be doing fine

[quartz obsidian]

That’s the thing, I know others were finding them with the lower tier ones

I literally could not whatsoever

[civic relic]

if this game was released 10 years ago then there would be 0 woman in the game lol

[solar cobalt]

5 out of thousands of zone inhabitants isn't a great point

[quartz obsidian]

Oh yeah, forgot about the professor

[upbeat cargo]

then there's a fourth one

[maiden grotto]

Why? It's brutal harsh environment that most women won't go too.

[inner hinge]

Did you read what I said or just saw the word rapist and get offended because all these women have one of the things that would keep them safe in the zone

[pallid thorn]

keep in mind, women are more sensitive to radiation because of their breasts, and uterus. organs men dont have. us guys only gotta worry about our balls

[quartz obsidian]

Agatha?

[civic relic]

??? im not offended dude im just pointing out that there are women in the zone

[upbeat cargo]

the bandit b*tch what ever she's called

also in sircaa there's one more on top

[quartz obsidian]

Harpy? That’s who I was referring to earlier

In her defense, she deals with green horns every day wanting to make a beeline into prypiat

[maiden grotto]

Or the fact that men and women are inherently different, Always were and always will be. And it doesn;t mean that one is better than the other and the whole idea of tow sexes is division of labour and co-operation....

[upbeat cargo]

no no, sultansk, at (former) skadovsk, can't recall her name

[inner hinge]

I wasn't saying there weren't any but I was explaining why you don't see a healthy mix of women and men hanging about

[upbeat cargo]

this is why women live longer

[astral portal]

Im going to somalia to become a pirate argggg

[inner hinge]

Also there is most likely a large population of rapists in the zone

[quartz obsidian]

Oh her, my mind went blank too

I’m mainly referring to the moderately attractive ones, etc, with birch, harpy, and the professor being them imo

[maiden grotto]

Becasue women wont go to those places... Just a natural division between men and women

[ornate sable]

Sonya Kalyna. What Sultan/Beard actually does to her if you take their side rather than going through with her plot, is open to imagination. Probably nothing good though.

[upbeat cargo]

that milf in at sircaa tho whoooeee

[astral portal]

kill some scally wags who wants to come to somalia

[quartz obsidian]

Yeah agatha is attractive

[civic relic]

the one at rostok is cutest

[upbeat cargo]

scar is the prettiest princess and you can't deny.

[quartz obsidian]

Yeah I never liked her

[solar cobalt]

Well to start, Iambored pretty much added nothing in the reply. Not even a point to be fair, just reaffirming what Casual said honestly. Yes the zone is brutal, most people wouldn't even go, and yes even less women.

[maiden grotto]

She reminds me of the Militich lady in Cyberpunk... I right dirty b*tch at heart... Bet she got a shops worth of toys to have fun with.

[upbeat cargo]

she knows what she wants, and that's for you to submit and be a good boi

[quartz obsidian]

Yup!!!! And also president Myers too

[inner hinge]

I feel since beard is involved they made it quick as he is half decent for a resident of the zone

[maiden grotto]

Not a chance in hell.

I want a lady, not a headache

[upbeat cargo]

never say never, you might like the "headache" after all

[ornate sable]

Should have a "Yes mommy" dialogue option in the scene with her at SIRCAA

[maiden grotto]

No, it wont... That is something that will never happen.

[maiden grotto]

Then given the chance to shoot her. I just find people like her repulsive.

[sturdy verge]

let me take that cig from her first tho!

[maiden grotto]

Swap it for a bit of Sid Chicken

[maiden grotto]

Hated her too... Another character that I wasn't given the chance to shoot in the face.

I wish I could have killed her at the crash site... Would have been the best DLC ever...

[upbeat cargo]

ah, so boring

[pale fossil]

eh.. thats a bit meh. at least keep them in endgame areas. They are not that tough but it's just immersion breaking to see random loners in lesser zone equipped as space marines

[quartz obsidian]

I saved songbird despite everything

I could not stand Myers whatsoever

[upbeat cargo]

I think some mod attempts to rebalance the endgame gear to be more varied, haven't tried it tho

[maiden grotto]

A vile unlikable character.

[maiden grotto]

The game needs a rework... They sold over 3 million copies, they have the money, I can wait.

[upbeat cargo]

mommy myers

[pale fossil]

The game is good, it's just these little things that need fixing.

[maiden grotto]

I have put in over 300 hours... That says enough, but the problems are numerous, so so so many issues that need addressing

[upbeat cargo]

agreed, abit of balancing, couple of fixes and alot of polishing would do wonders, I don't think it needs a huge overhaul, maybe some adittional content would be nice, but the basics are alright

[hardy spire]

this streleok boss fight is bs

[drifting forge]

How? Just shoot him until he dies

[upbeat cargo]

how many times on the reload because he teleported out of bounds?

[hardy spire]

he does his silly sprint thing and i have to keep meding because of the orb

[drifting forge]

Yeah, you shoot him until he runs away. You find him and then you shoot some more

[pale fossil]

we kill strelok?

[upbeat cargo]

or not, depends

[pale fossil]

pfhew

[hardy spire]

i didnt want to backed myself into a corner

[upbeat cargo]

I think a mag of gauss gun does the trick, maybe less after the patch that buffed it

[hardy spire]

left mine at home sadly

[upbeat cargo]

ouch

[junior current]

SDK just needs to com e out

[upbeat cargo]

major patches first, sdk then, the mods would just break constantly otherwise

[ancient frost]

any one know a fiscal gass mask i can buy to wear wile playing stalker 2 ?

i want to be fully emerst

[upbeat cargo]

try varusteleka dot com

[ancient frost]

i want field of view dew lol

[upbeat cargo]

nvm all soldout anyway

[ancient frost]

like a metro gass mask

[pallid thorn]

how does the weird flower work? i slept and its still wilted, does it only work at night?

[hardy spire]

idk abt gas maskas but chernobyl shop may be worth a shot

[upbeat cargo]

you should sleep it on your belt, then it returns to normal

[pallid thorn]

thats odd, thats exactly what i did
i did however sleep twice

[ancient frost]

https://www.varusteleka.com/pictures/462045dfb91535db8b.jpg

[upbeat cargo]

maybe the second sleep drained it instead?

[ornate sable]

It only lasts a set ammount of time, then you need to refresh it again by sleeping. I drains too quickly IMO.

[elfin vine]

Does compass stack even on max physical armour?

[upbeat cargo]

yes, and multiple compassess stack, but with diminishing returns

[elfin vine]

Wild stuff
I finally upgraded my Diamond exo. 2 hypercubes, a night star and 1 compass

[quartz obsidian]

He had it coming

I said what I said

[sweet root]

Yea that was to say i havent read any of them and cant know for sure, only what i heard

[pallid thorn]

maybe, i just killed a burer at the same time it killed me, kinda funny

[quartz obsidian]

Currently working on getting the radiation container (funds) for my exoskeleton (regular)

[pseudo lotus]

is that worth it? I mean. what if you want to use a different exo?

[inland sage]

It's not worth it

[upbeat cargo]

you grind some more monopoly money then

[inland sage]

Don't use the regular exo, you can't sprint. It turns your zone life into a living hell otherwise known as 'a jog forever'.

[upbeat cargo]

false, you can upgrade it, the duty exo is only one you cant upgrade

[inland sage]

I did and it still didn't let me sprint.

[pseudo lotus]

Im rocking the Shturm exo right now. It was my reward for handing GSC more money than the average bear

you have to dump a TON of money into it to make it shine, but hooo is it tasty

[inland sage]

I'm running...the operator's exo now though, and I put my hundreds of thousands of coupons I had into upgrading it lol

[upbeat cargo]

you ran into a bug I guess then

[worthy yacht]

on Pc, Cyberpunk was nowhere near as bad as launch for this game

[upbeat cargo]

what dude stalker 2 was waaay more stable and less buggy, don't get me wrong I enjoyed Cyberpunk alot even with the insanity that was 1.0

[pseudo lotus]

historical revisionism.

[worthy yacht]

did you play on PC? bugs were not really an issue for me at all. It was the mediocre immersion, half baked mechanics, and absent AI

[upbeat cargo]

yeah on PC on launch day, it was buggy, on top of the things you mentioned, falling through floors, getting yeeted to the ends of the earth, NPC's getting stuck on things, dialogue not working, the whole shebang

my favourite was when Jackie pulled a pistol out of his neck instead of the chip that he's supposed to

[worthy yacht]

I was definitely enjoying what GSC provided with Stalker 2, immensely, but the AI and blatantly false promises with Alife just destroyed me. Then on top of that the difficulty, loot, and economy balancing just felt so randomly thrown together. No refund, just patiently waiting for roadmap/updates

[upbeat cargo]

oh, new to the stalker series I suppose?

[worthy yacht]

I was totally fine with some Eurojank but it goes beyond that

[sturdy verge]

womp womp

[worthy yacht]

just cant wait till the game is more fine tuned or that modkit drops

[upbeat cargo]

Oh boy, you should've seen the early days of SoC...

TBH, I expected stalker 2 to be alot worse, it wasn't perfect but it far exceeded my expectations, many "old geezers" who grew up with the early games and their bugs and glitches would probably agree

X-ray bugreport tool is burned to by retinas still

[inner hinge]

Alife and performance was certainly a let down but I don't think it is so bad as to feel bad for missing the refund

[worthy yacht]

To clarify, I meant, I am NOT refunding. I think the game is phenomenal, just disappointed by the day 1 experience. Im sticking with them

[inner hinge]

Clear skies is by far the worst running game in the series

That game still doesn't work properly to this day

[upbeat cargo]

but man did it look good when you cranked it all the way to the slideshow settings

the dynamic lightning was superb for the time

[inner hinge]

The x-ray had some of the best looking and running shadows for it's time too bad it was ditched for the unstable version of unreal 5

[pseudo lotus]

the alternative was wasting time and man hours continuing to develop a proprietary in-house engine that already bankrupted the studio once

[pseudo lotus]

If youre on PC, try some of the balance mods that are available on the nexus. Ive been playing with modular hard mode and novichok's AI overhaul, both are huge in improving the feel of the game

[upbeat cargo]

Even the modernized open X-ray engine is hopelessly outdated by todays standards, i think UE4 would've been a better option mainly because I hate UE5 and the forced TAA and performance issues... some guy few days ago mentioned that UE5 is so much faster to make look good enough that it might have been a deciding factor, among pressure from microsoft and maybe other stake holders, and I get that, to get optimization rolling for any other engine it might have taken another year or two of dev time

[inner hinge]

I feel this unreal 5 propaganda as multiple studios especially in the europe region all come up with this narrative of the engine being too costly to develop so they are moving to unreal 5

[pseudo lotus]

Considering how much performance has improved since reviewers got their copies of the game before release, I'm fully confident in GSC's ability to continue to optimize the game.

[wintry pumice]

What if it's just the truth?

[inner hinge]

But can the engine deliver on the promises of a-life which miles from done

[pseudo lotus]

Eh. I think that it has more to do with the fact that engines like UE5 are simply more suited for modern hardware, while old proprietary engines simply dont have the support from companies like Nvidia and AMD. Even bethesda is moving away from gamebryo/creation in favor of UE5

Also yea, I'm sure UE5 can do a-life just fine, considering how they've already laid down the foundation for it. Alife 2 exists, they just didnt have the time to optimize it AND the game AND the engine all at once.

[storm token]

someone heard anything about SDK release??

[upbeat cargo]

nanite and lumen make UE5 more streamline the dev process enough to be befinicial in terms of time, also since performance target is for consoles it's kinda natural to optimize the game just enough to make it playable on the current gen consoles, saving valualbe time, and fix it later

[pseudo lotus]

^ bingo. the big advantage of unreal is the accessibility- its one of those 'it just works' type of things for developers. Spending less time building their tools, and more time making the game itself

[inner hinge]

A-life can't even do basic tasks or run multiple permanent entities in offline mode yet

[upbeat cargo]

tho I did kinda laugh when people expected that the 2060ti would run stalker 2 at 120fps 4k resolution flawlessly on max settings and then recoil in shock that this wasn't the case.

[pseudo lotus]

ok and? GSC just got a truckload of money and are fully committed to implementing it into the game. Again, look at how much performance improved in just a couple of months- they've proven themselves to be competent devs, now they just need to the time to implement it.

[inner hinge]

Consoles are honestly a stagnating market which causes worse and worse optimisation for pcs as developers focus on those smaller markets

[inner hinge]

I'm not saying they won't do it but I got the right as a customer to complain about the flaws in a product I purchased

[pseudo lotus]

Also another thing. Consider how easy it is to mod unreal engine. In just 24 hours, we already saw rebalance and loot mods for stalker 2. Meanwhile it took years for xray to reach that level because it ran of ukranian space magic and no one fully understood it

[upbeat cargo]

I suspect this is one of the reasons why indie games tend to run alot smoother when compared to multiplatform AAA tittles, and manage to deliver similar enough visual fidelity at 4x the framerates

[pallid thorn]

i found a way to change regular ammo into armor piercing using a glitch, although its a pain in the ass, not sure if it'd work on pc though.
grab a gun, grab at least 2 types of ammo
if you want armor piercing, drop all but one regular ammo, empty your gun by unloading it, load the 1 bullet into the chamber than load in an armor piercing mag, rinse lather repeat. its important to have only one bullet of the type youre converting

[pseudo lotus]

oh no, youre entire valid in that too, I dont mean to imply you arent! Typically I'd be complaining too, but considering it a miracle that S2 even exists, im willing to cut the devs some slack. Even they recognize the issues w the game and dont try to hide it.

[ornate sable]

A-life works for its intended purpose; making sure stuff happens in between missions and scripted encounters. That's what it did in the old games, that's what it does now. For practical purposes it feels identical, differences only become apparent once you actively start looking for them "under the hood".
Devs should focus on the shader launch crashes, things that lock people from progressing, and performance in hubs.

[storm token]

What u mean is just modifying text with Notepad++🤡

[inner hinge]

I'm looking forward to kcd 2 as that game looks like they made an effort to optimise on pc

[pseudo lotus]

I did something similar once with dnipro dual mags. Somehow switched my normal and AP ammos

[upbeat cargo]

xray was way more simple to mod, you didn't need tools to create paks, you just dropped an xml and overwrote what ever you wanted

[pseudo lotus]

there are already mods that add assets to the game, thats more than a text file

[inner hinge]

Old a-life NPCs took location as bases, did some artifact hunting and participated in some territory wars

[wintry pumice]

Or just use regular bullet? I have never used Armor penetration or expansive or flat bullets

[pseudo lotus]

maybe the modified version of xray that had been developed by the community for over a decade. vanilla xray from SoC was an unwieldy beast that required you to modify hex values just to increase the FoV

[storm token]

Nope, all image files and assets from the game. The real mods will come when SDK is out

[pallid thorn]

it works the other way around, also found a simpler way to do it although it still takes ALOT of reloading and might not be worth it tbh.

[storm token]

U cant add 3d models

[pseudo lotus]

uh. no. If that were true then I wouldn't see assets from Anomaly getting added thru mods like mutant loot and faction patches.

[wintry pumice]

What about real models?

[inner hinge]

Armour pen can make some weapons feel god tier

[ornate sable]

Only CS had the territory war thing, which frankly didn't work all that well

[pallid thorn]

so what you gotta do is load the the ap ammo, then switch to regular, unload your gun (through your inventory and pressing left trigger), then reload your ap, youll change one ap round to regular doing this

[wintry pumice]

It can but it feels like it breaks the immersion for me

[inner hinge]

Yes for like complete area control but the other 2 games also had territory fights but they weren't able to go take over the other factions base organically

[indigo oriole]

Question when can u go back to Duga after assault safely?

[inner hinge]

Yes

[wintry pumice]

When you kill Faust

[upbeat cargo]

forgot about that for a moment, after the original engines were figured out it became alot simpler overall and most mods were drag and drop, and edit with notepad if you didn't like things., and same is true for unreal engine games, the tools and framework is there but its still more tedious to edit things for S2

[indigo oriole]

Thx

[inner hinge]

Sadly it's pretty empty

[storm token]

Bro, those are just scripts! They aren't full mods yet. Like, they write a script to give an inventory to a mutant or tweak existing assets. It's all based on the game’s current files and scripting, not standalone mods with deep changes. Like this:
-- Mutant Inventory Script
-- Adds an inventory to a mutant in the game

-- Define the mutant type and its inventory
local mutantInventory = {
["mutant_bloodsucker"] = {
items = {
{ name = "medkit", quantity = 2 },
{ name = "ammo_9x18", quantity = 20 },
{ name = "artifact_stoneflower", quantity = 1 },
}
}
}

-- Function to assign inventory to a mutant
function addInventoryToMutant(mutant)
local mutantType = mutant.type
if mutantInventory[mutantType] then
mutant.inventory = mutantInventory[mutantType].items
print("Inventory added to " .. mutantType)
else
print("No inventory defined for " .. mutantType)
end
end

-- Example usage
local mutant = { type = "mutant_bloodsucker" }
addInventoryToMutant(mutant)

-- Check the mutant's inventory
for i, item in ipairs(mutant.inventory or {}) do
print("Item: " .. item.name .. ", Quantity: " .. item.quantity)
end

[indigo oriole]

I’m hoping they fix npc aimbot 🤣

[wintry pumice]

You can also use the other entrance to enter without being sniped even before the assault

[inner hinge]

I think the only proper mod I have seen so far is the ledge grappling and night Vision

[storm token]

Also a tweak. Ledge grabbing is already in the game. The Creators just made it to be able to grab ledges higher

[upbeat cargo]

yeah I'd call that a tweak and the nightvision i've not checked out, I saw one that relied on reshade to work and that's post FX not modding

[inner hinge]

Apparently there is a side mission in duga there if you go before sircaa

[wintry pumice]

Yeah missed it last time

[upbeat cargo]

yes in the town section, but at the duga proper?

[pseudo lotus]

I seriously doubt that, consdiering there's images and assets ripped DIRECTLY from anomaly. Along with pak files that are literally labeled as assets.

[indigo oriole]

Where can I find second night star. Ive got my first near rookie village

[storm token]

do me favor... just unpack .PAK files and tell me what u see...

[upbeat cargo]

try northern railroad that runs through garbage and ends up at cement factory

[storm token]

Long story short, real mods come when the SDK drops. Right now, it's just tweaks and scripts, because we don’t have the full modding tools yet to make bigger changes.

[upbeat cargo]

i bet they have images that they call with scripts to replace item descriptions and the original image

[worldly thicket]

Yo is Jst me or when I loot an anomaly an emission comes like a day or two after

[storm token]

cant wait to upload SIG MCX Spear

[upbeat cargo]

emissions happen regardless of you looting anything

[storm token]

yeah thats right, like replacers

[inland sage]

Is there no ingame setting to up my save limit?

[upbeat cargo]

no.

[pseudo lotus]

how tf am I supposed to do that

[upbeat cargo]

use the magic unpacker tool ofc, wasn't ue 5 supposed to be easy to mod? eh?

[storm token]

nexus mods. There is an unpack tool for those who have to merge mods to work together. A folder will be created. There is everything in from the mod

[wintry pumice]

They're not fixed drops I believe. Some artifacts are but not all

[weary hedge]

yo guys, what if i shoot the elephant's foot? like, will it explode or get a lot radioactive

[wintry pumice]

Elephant?

[upbeat cargo]

no, you can find the foot in the basement, it's just insanly radioactive and behind it there's an exoskeleton

[weary hedge]

Oh thanks ig, idk if thats a spoiler or help

[upbeat cargo]

it's endgame content,

[weary hedge]

so i can go to the power plant only at endgame? :'>

[upbeat cargo]

it's more like hidden loot to reward exploration, there's no actual reason to go there

[wintry pumice]

You mean the generators?

[upbeat cargo]

SoC, not S2 in this case

[worldly thicket]

Jst. Been told it’s faster or smth

[upbeat cargo]

x to doubt

[weary hedge]

uhh idk, i dont have any stalker game rn, o should go buy a gift card tmrw for then buying it at home digitally, honestly i think that i will like as hell Stalker(SoC), idk if the story is long or short but i just want to explore the exclusion zone

[worldly thicket]

I hope I don’t have to leave my console afk for 5 hours

[wintry pumice]

That helps too

[weary hedge]

what's an emission?

[upbeat cargo]

well, time goes by faster if you're doing something so you might as well hunt for artifacts I suppose, the emissions will come sooner or later

[wintry pumice]

[worldly thicket]

Prob gonna grab an anaomly and wait cause it’s quote on quote supposed to fix my mission

[wintry pumice]

What quest?

[wintry pumice]

An outburst of psi radiation by c-consciousness

[worldly thicket]

The follow korshunov on visions of truth he’s Jst sitting in a corner and only has what’s new in the zone

[indigo oriole]

Is there a way to buy from vendor psz9 falcon ? I’ve messed up upgrading it. I need those 5 artifact slots

[upbeat cargo]

mm, you'll learn when you get to play the games properly

[wintry pumice]

Did you try Birch in Rostok?

[worldly thicket]

Yo what’s the best detector ingame

[wintry pumice]

Or get the Seva V suit near Rostok compound

[indigo oriole]

Nothing from her. Only low lvl armors.

[wintry pumice]

Anything except the echo

[elfin vine]

Spark prisoner told me where the Ward took my loot.
I gave him the key, and shot him.

[indigo oriole]

I need Veles but it’s locked till glory mission

[wintry pumice]

Seva V has 4 slots unlocked already and a high radiation protection

[worldly thicket]

I’m on bear what’s next one

[wintry pumice]

[worldly thicket]

I don’t use artifacts in Jst sigma

[indigo oriole]

With those npc aimboting u all the time is impossible to have anything worse than falcon or exo

[indigo oriole]

Hilka

[wintry pumice]

Hilka. You get it from 2 side quests. One in slag heap is probably the easy one, the other one in zaton

[weary hedge]

ig ill learn tomorrow

[worldly thicket]

The Lt side quest

[wintry pumice]

What?

[worldly thicket]

Mb which side quest in zaton

[wintry pumice]

One in sultansk. But don't know if you need the complete the side quest from the other ship first

[weary hedge]

what ab realife situation?

[worldly thicket]

Anyways what artifacts should I try and get for my 5 artifact slots

[weary hedge]

Humnbergar, vodka, Xclinsky and the 5th is toly

[worldly thicket]

The name of the uhh quest giver sonya

[wintry pumice]

Weird water, 2 thunder berries, 1 or 2 hypercubes and 1 compass

[worldly thicket]

Alr wanna give locations guys

[wintry pumice]

Yeah she will redirect you to the sultansk

[worldly thicket]

I have both ships and 1 per

[wintry pumice]

Weird water is in zaton, the rest are random

[lilac sandal]

Honestly, it's the Bear, I always found the clutter on the Veles to be a bit much.

[worldly thicket]

Maybe not weird water don’t like the effect

Now I afk for a emission

[wintry pumice]

The drunk effect is very light and you only see it if you have weight above 50 kg

[worldly thicket]

I always do

[wintry pumice]

Anyway it's not noticeable and it removes any and all radiation, even from other artifacts

[worldly thicket]

Seems op prob will grab it after the emission km waiting on happens do you know if I sleep if it speeds up the time

[wintry pumice]

Emissions are random, except for the ones scripted as part of main quest

[worldly thicket]

Do you know if sleeping causes them to happen or nah

[wintry pumice]

Not necessarily.

[worldly thicket]

I mean like speeds up the time for one like if sleep a lot will one happen

[twilit hound]

Nop

[worldly thicket]

I mean like speeds up the time for one like if sleep a lot will one happen

[wintry pumice]

You can wait in the base and see if it happens but it's random

[wintry pumice]

Nope

[ornate sable]

Seems to happen every 2-3 days, but only if you're near a shelter (or maybe I've just been very lucky?)

[worldly thicket]

Near or in

[wintry pumice]

Again man it's random....

[worldly thicket]

Ik

[wintry pumice]

Just keep exploring it will show up when you're facing 3 bloodsuckers or a chimera or a pseudogiant or all of them at the same time

[worldly thicket]

How the hell is there a dude underneath malachite who I need to talk to

nvm I lost the elevator though door was locked

HES FIXED

Think he got tired of trolling

I went from to

[maiden grotto]

More BS mechanics that need to fix.... 3 times I reload my gun, 3 times zero ammo was added.... Bllight of modern gaming and all the is animation locked BS...

Like when your gun gets jammed.... 6 hours of movies showing you that your gun is jammed.... Nah you don't say, I wondered why my gun was not firing.

[worldly thicket]

Atleast you can play the main story

[hybrid ibex]

Sdalger 2

[maiden grotto]

just one of many problems... and being able to call it out is a good thing.

I especially hate Polti at tops of ladders that kill you befor you can get to the top of the ladder XD

It's like there is no option for cover... you can't dodge, you can;t do anything... No timing involved just pure luck and BS...

Tired of shooting people in the back of the multiple times and they don't die... more BS

[worldly thicket]

What dif u on and what armor

[inland sage]

And what gun/ammo?

[worldly thicket]

Smart polter

[maiden grotto]

And yeah.... In Duga were the two Psuedo giants are....

And it spawns a third XD

[worldly thicket]

What uh artifacts should I use

[maiden grotto]

Unlimited ammo ones 😄

[worldly thicket]

Ahaha which ones I got 5 slots

[inland sage]

Do you have the water that makes you drunk? I use that and just put hypercube/compass in my leaded slots.

This is where I would put my thunderberries. IF I HAD ANY!

[maiden grotto]

Using the fully upgraded falcon and hardest level 😄

Completely unbalanced 😄

Just had to cheese three (3) Psuedo giants 😄

[inland sage]

I like the water that makes you drunk. Skif should be drunk.

[maiden grotto]

I need to be drunk 😄

[inland sage]

https://tenor.com/view/smirnoff-vodka-vodka-gif-21009817

[worldly thicket]

What gun should I go for after the asval

[maiden grotto]

I use balistic mods, so hard to tell, I am using drowned mostly.

[inland sage]

AS Val is the 20 round mag one?

[worldly thicket]

Yeah

[ancient frost]

https://i.imgur.com/sQK7Yxr.png how come wolf dont talk back to me ?

[hoary crest]

@charred nova Sorry for ping mate, can I DM you something? Is important

[fossil stream]

How can I solve the mission "vain illusion" after I go up the stairs, only Dr. Dalin is there, Korshunov is not there

I have restarted several times and it is the same 😐

[inland sage]

I just use whatever I have a good supply of ammo for. If I get low on 9x39mm a good alternative is...if the discord will let me say the gun name, that is. It uses 5.56x45 and has a suppressor and scope.

[maiden grotto]

Wouldn'r be a surprised if it is bugged

[inland sage]

You get the Clusterfuck from ||Sultan's sniper roost spot in that one mission that the bartender in the Skadovsk gives you||

[worldly thicket]

Whatcha use

[inland sage]

I had to stash mine for a while because it degraded fairly quickly and I didn't have the funds to repair it at the time. Currently using it, 5.56x45 AP ammo. It's locked to single fire.

[maiden grotto]

You need liquid rock artifacts if you do not have leaded slots.

Then you need thunder berry, Night Star, Compass and one other, probably another anti rad one.

[inland sage]

The clusterfuck, I mean. The drunk water artifact also has anti-rad so paired with a liquid water that's all the anti radiation you should need, probably.

It is nice to be able to go around the irradiated areas that aren't kill walls and have nothing happen to you except the noise of the Geiger counter.

[worldly thicket]

I’m Jst gonna grab water

[maiden grotto]

Hate kill walls, just a pathetic mechanic

[fossil stream]

No, I'm not used to it either, but I tried to fix it by restarting as usual, but the same thing has happened about 20 times.

my patience is broken

I can't move forward

[worldly thicket]

Alr so I need the 5 other artifacts and what anomaly to find em in

4

[maiden grotto]

Nah feck this games spawns... It's just spawned a 4th Psuedo giant... the game is fecking borked

[worldly thicket]

Just climb on a car

[maiden grotto]

Not got enough ammo to take down a 4th

[worldly thicket]

[worldly thicket]

Ur Jst. Cooked

[worldly thicket]

Jst the first 2 letters of the stick

[inland sage]

?
The gun I'm using is called the Clusterfuck.

[worldly thicket]

LOL

Looks mid

Might take the modern ak as my secondary

[terse ravine]

wish there were artifacts for psi protection

[inland sage]

That would be nice yes, cat pfp person

[worldly thicket]

[inland sage]

Dalin is wearing one of those John Wick suits

Dalin unlocked transmogrification and is actually wearing a diamond exosuit.