☢┃stalker-general

[lilac sandal]

I like the dog but I keep accidentally hitting the poor bugger!

[boreal coyote]

in a perfect world i agree but this world is far from perfect, it is what it is so its up to people to sink or swim

[maiden grotto]

Apart from the Pseudo giants... 2 they said, 4 I met...

[inner hinge]

Duga is actually free to explore before sircaa

[forest fulcrum]

not looking for any spoilers here but what are my options with factions to side with for story?

[pseudo lotus]

But dont you agree that people ought to advocate for improving things, instead of just throwing up your hands and going "thats the way it is!"

[maiden grotto]

Not all of it... there is a massive section that is still blocked off

[inner hinge]

He is immortal so it is alright if not a little heart breaking every time he yelps

[pseudo lotus]

isnt it full if ipsf tho? not exactly free

[forest fulcrum]

I sided with noontide in Sircaa but story is going weird

[maiden grotto]

Nope... stalker and bandits roam the place

[lilac sandal]

Ward, Spark, Hairline, and that one dude.

[pseudo lotus]

huh. I would have figured there'd be a bigger military presence

[lilac sandal]

Agreed, my heart can't bear the pain yelps!

[inner hinge]

There are ultimately 3 factions in the end plus a loner route but be warned the one faction is locked off from joining somewhere in the late mid game depending on choices

[maiden grotto]

Nope... There is also a quest that you can only do before SIRCAA... The Sound of Music I believe

[pseudo lotus]

The WARD is the only option. Side with the WARD.

[boreal coyote]

we started out by talking about rocksr employees right? what did they do to change things? have their spouses write a letter... brilliant if there was an actual movement to change things i would support it but until then i will look after ME and MINE just like everyone else

[forest fulcrum]

aint no FED

[lilac sandal]

Handsome bald man will not persuade me.

[hoary crest]

Well thats good because Ward aren't the Feds, they're a PMC

[pseudo lotus]

Dude are you for real? You have to be trolling now, you literally made the bootstraps argument AND the 'I got mine' thing too.

spiritual boomer.

[warped stream]

ward, noontide, two options youll see later

[maiden grotto]

And that is where it all goes wrong...

But that is for another debate, that hsa nothing to do with STALKER

[lilac sandal]

Actually it does, it's just subtle text

[forest fulcrum]

So monolith is off the table or is that noontide?

[warped stream]

theres pretty much just three major choices that determine your ending

[pseudo lotus]

subtle matter? life after death/????

[warped stream]

pretty much the same

[pseudo lotus]

bro you for real should stay out of this chat until you beat the game. Its better for you that way

[hoary crest]

I mean... I'm only gonna give a toss about what happens to others as much as I can afford to, if I can't afford to, then I'm looking after myself.

Such is life when you're fighting against the cost of living growing ever larger and wages not going up to compensate, but hey ho

[lilac sandal]

I'm going to send you to the orb at Malachite.

[boreal coyote]

say spirtual boomer whatever its called being awake, do i like it how it is? no but i was born into the system i had no part in making it so dont blame me

[lilac sandal]

Oh no! My Clear Sky color got replaced by the Experienced one! A tragedy has befallen upon me...

[hoary crest]

Its alright man, I lost my Bandit colours too smh

[pseudo lotus]

thats what happened to my monolith colors......

[lilac sandal]

I blame Wenceslaus IV.

[boreal coyote]

@pseudo lotus whos coping? i do very well for myself i know how to play the system, the people coping are the ones like you who think it'll change

[warped stream]

please keep it to the game

argue in dms or block each other if you want

[pseudo lotus]

hey dark, who's cuter? Strelok or Korshunov?

[lilac sandal]

They're neglecting state affairs, for more... frivolous pursuits.

[warped stream]

def strelok

[boreal coyote]

im out the bucket baby 😎 stay mad

[warped stream]

have you seen that hairline? 🥰

[pseudo lotus]

bro gives dracula gender envy

[warped stream]

ong

[lilac sandal]

What does that mean?

[inner hinge]

Oh course it is Sidorovich as he is the cutest in the zone

[lilac sandal]

I wonder if someone made a TTS mod for Stalker 2 already.

[hoary crest]

Well I for one can't wait for MP modes so I can bully the denizens of this chat in-game rather than in pointless arguments 😄

[lilac sandal]

Remember to say Arabic insults to them for maximum damage

[hoary crest]

Nah, I'll just ferociously teabag, as is tradition

[lilac sandal]

Dip dip
Potato chip!

[vast mortar]

That reference... here?

[crystal granite]

@drifting forge #🤨┃stalker_memes message looks like 5 stars for me. I think they're greyed out to match the Monolith colours

[lilac sandal]

Do I get promoted for it?

[vast mortar]

If only

[pseudo lotus]

I hope they add a stalker 2 version of the chat relay from gamma and anomaly. Skif communicating with other skifs in the multiverse

[crystal granite]

@west marsh have to reply here cause I'm still on the 2h timer. #🤨┃stalker_memes message nah sorry I didn't make it

[lilac sandal]

Oh well, I guess I'll just dance with my little birdie legs, birdie legs~

[lilac sandal]

Can I tell Skif#68292 that they smell like Elderberries?

[pseudo lotus]

hopefully.
my favorite part of the chat relay in anomaly was mimicking the NPC lines that would pop up in the PDA normally.

"A Stone Blood! I will keep it."

[lilac sandal]

Ohhh, that. I thought you meant actually communicating with other player Skifs. Apologies.

[crystal granite]

I'd like stalker 2 to have public and friends only servers like Fallout 76

[exotic viper]

hello, I'm new. Is the right channel to ask question?

[pseudo lotus]

No no that's what it does in anomaly! Its a chat relay that allows you to communicate with other players

[crystal granite]

Hello new, this is a channel with spoilers, there's also a spoiler free one

[lilac sandal]

... really? Damn, I should play Anomaly again then

[pseudo lotus]

Given the success of the game, I wouldnt be surprised if they added a full multiplayer co-op or something

[forest fulcrum]

kharod or dnipor?

[pseudo lotus]

https://www.moddb.com/mods/call-of-chernobyl/addons/call-of-chernobyl-relay-chat

I believe it works with both anomaly and GAMMA

[crystal granite]

I'd love that. Just hopefully not a full/forced pvp. I don't want GTA: The Zone before GTA VI. More like Fo76

[west marsh]

who tf pinged me

[crystal granite]

I have both and I prefer the Dnipro

[pseudo lotus]

Dnipro is cool because its ukrainian made

[lilac sandal]

Holy Skif on a buttered biscuit! I need that!

[crystal granite]

I'm not a fan of the Malyuk irl, but I'll play it in game

[pseudo lotus]

I like it 'cause it looks like a halo battle rifle, especially with the 4x scope

[lilac sandal]

The Elcan?

[pseudo lotus]

Dnipro/Malyuk

[crystal granite]

Hmm, wouldn't FN2000 look more like a Halo rifle? Saw some pics from Ukraine and some madlads actually carry em

[exotic viper]

@crystal granite my question is about using the console command. I think I might run into a bug. Is this the right channel to ask or is there another channel for those questions.

[lilac sandal]

I meant the 4x.

[forest fulcrum]

they make the halo rifle irl

[crystal granite]

You can ask either here or if you want in #❔┃seeking-for-advice

Prolly better here, more active ppl at once

[weary hedge]

THE MODS FREAKING WORK ON PS5 YAYYYY

[crystal granite]

Speak more of this 👀

[ornate sable]

Elcan in game is only 2x, ACOG is 4x

[drifting forge]

Ik lol

[weary hedge]

tho there are like 16 for ps5 so not much lol

[crystal granite]

I run the 2x on the Dnipro, as I don't carry an smg so it works as all rounder for me outside of the shottie

[pseudo lotus]

I use the 4x for the range, if I'm close enough I just hipfire because the spread on the dnipro is SO good

[crystal granite]

Need to check Xbox Series when I get back. Is it like official in the menu?

[crystal granite]

I've started using it in semi auto and I can't stop lol

[weary hedge]

yes

[pseudo lotus]

combining it with AP rounds, and its absolutely NASTY

[crystal granite]

I'll wait till I progress the story and get the SVU (or I'll find one at the vendor) for reference I'm at the 'Enter the X5 lab' mission. But I'll try this out too

[hoary crest]

Just install Better Ballistics and use the gun you like rather than the one that got the best set of arbitrary damage numbers yeeted at it

[pseudo lotus]

Ive been running 5.45 this entire playthrough. kept the first AK you find, then upgraded to vlad lummox's AK, then went and found myself a Dnipro at the cooling towers.

now I'm at the Point of no return.

[crystal granite]

That's the thing, I WANT the SVU lol 😆

[hoary crest]

Well it still f*cks with the mod, just everything else also does. Theres very little in the way of endgame falloff, a gun is a gun

[crystal granite]

I ditched the ak74 for the Krink, then switched to GP27, Glutton, Kharod, and now I run the Dnipro

[exotic viper]

okay, does anyone know how to use the console command to remove those locked electronic collars? I ended up exploring the zone just before starting the SIRCAA mission and ended up with 4 collars. Right now I'm at the mission called 'A Minor Incident'. Richter was supposed to give coordinates to hunt down a mutant with a collar, but because I already have collars, it skipped and gave me the next main mission 'in search of glory'. I read online this could bug a later side mission called "in the name of science"?

[lilac sandal]

My apologies! I haven't used either of those yet!

[crystal granite]

Go to the dude it points you to. He'll buy the collars from you

[pseudo lotus]

I think I swapped out lummox's ak for the dnipro right before SIRCAA, and Ive been using it since. Im playing with an enhanced difficulty and scarcity mod, so the 5.45 build was a bid to take advantage of what I find in the field

[hoary crest]

I've yet to get any of the scarcity mods to work as advertised :/ to the point I just gave up with it and started using personal restraint on what I pick up instead.

"removes 90% of the loot in the open world" > Actually just lowers the drop rates of items out of boxes and medkits

[crystal granite]

@exotic viper the game essentially skipped the hunting part since you already have it, and it guides you to the Professor

[crystal granite]

I had to restrain myself anyway lol 😆 .1 away from red weight most time I go out

[pseudo lotus]

🤷 I found that I was finding a lot less stuff, works on my machine. Sorry to hear that tho

[exotic viper]

@crystal granite Right, but I read online though, that those 4 collars I picked up early are meant for another side quest called "In the name of science". There's a character called Dr. Shcherba that asked you to do him a favor and pick up collars.

I want to avoid bugging that mission

[crystal granite]

I'm not aware of that. I sold my collars to the professor in exchange for info about an X5 card in Ahroprom

[lilac sandal]

That mission is a side quest after giving the first collar.

When you get that mission, you're tasked with killing four other evil zone thingies for their collars. If i recall correctly.

[pseudo lotus]

^

[crystal granite]

I actually didn't know that, thx

[lilac sandal]

NO PROBLEM, HABIBI!

[hoary crest]

Which one you using?

[exotic viper]

@lilac sandal yeah I think I already killed those during my exploring without realizing it was tied to something later. I remember picking one up from a pseudogiant that breaks out from cargo containers as part of another side quest.

This where I read it could bug:
https://gamerant.com/stalker-2-in-name-of-science-side-quest-guide/
Scroll a bit down in the 'tip' box

[pseudo lotus]

modular hard mode. Idk if it takes stuff out of the world, but drops from enemies are much reduced

[exotic viper]

I read here that you can use these commands to uncheck locked quest items like Bubba's PDA, but I don't know the format for the electronic collars.
https://www.nexusmods.com/stalker2heartofchornobyl/mods/363?tab=posts&BH=1

[hoary crest]

Ah gotcha, I have a number of things already patched that effect loot enemies drop an they work fine, but the ones I've been trying to get to work are supposed to apply to the worldspace, not enemies

[exotic viper]

I figure I could unlock the collars, drop into my stash box, then trigger the hunt from Rickter, it would keep the side mission from bugging

[crystal granite]

I hate how we can't stash certain items cough skiff's pistol cough

[vast mortar]

Yo... Stashes improvement patch coming around the corner?

[civic relic]

atleast it doesnt weigh anything. though alotta the main mission items weigh quite a bit and u cant stash those in the personal box which actually gets annoying when u just wanna explore and do side things but u got a few kilograms of random main story items u cant stash anywhere

[crystal granite]

I was so happy when I got that scanner off my hands. Watching Dalin struggle with it was well worth it

[forest fulcrum]

why are bandits wearing exosuits

[civic relic]

bruh what since when do bandits have exosuits

[drifting forge]

The hell do you think we do with all the money we make?

[warped stream]

think its bugged that at a certain point like everyone is wearing exos

[kindred turtle]

is the special ak any good? i jsut got it and I am already rocking a fully upgraded decider

[crystal granite]

Bandits? Exoskeleton? Bruh...exo per npc in mid to late game is crazy

[forest fulcrum]

I havent run into a patrol not wearing em

[civic relic]

what special ak? i took that drowned ak from the slag heap guy and repaired it it has the taped fast mags and grenade launcher on it its decent

[kindred turtle]

a customized ak you get from|| stets leech in cordon it has a silencer on it||

[forest fulcrum]

Just wish the weapons werent so nerfed they focus less on caliber and more on the weapon which makes no sense

[drifting forge]

You have to kill him for it normally

[civic relic]

ah dont think ive gotten that one yet but i think u can find a silencer from traders anyways

[kindred turtle]

yeah i got it, you get 2 normally

[drifting forge]

Sometimes he ends up dying naturally tho

[kindred turtle]

I just like using AK for immersion but i guess its not working as good in midgame not sure if I am midgame or not just found my first exo suit enemy in a mission(scripted)

[drifting forge]

It's an AKS-74UB. You can't mount a PBS-1 on an AKS-74U so they made the AKS-74UB a unique weapon

[civic relic]

oh that mini ak is ugly and weak compared to the full ak

[kindred turtle]

better to kill him ||he's a butt and probably killed moose when he got to nosey||

[warped stream]

dnipro carries, its so good

[forest fulcrum]

is there extended mag for trophy?

[drifting forge]

AKS-74U isn't weak and has very similar statistics to the AK-74M

[wintry pumice]

He kills himself if you let him be

[drifting forge]

Ofc, you're letting him bleed out

[forest fulcrum]

feel like AK platform is very lackluster late game

[kindred turtle]

didnt kill him at first but found him wandering around in the nearby area

[drifting forge]

It is yeah. At least GSC acknowledges the exo bug and plan to fix it

[wintry pumice]

His gun isn't that special, just let him live

[kindred turtle]

nah, ||he a snitch and killed his "friend"||

[wintry pumice]

He is not the snitch is

[forest fulcrum]

would love to see a weapon overhaul mod that corrects the weapons calliber and damage/pen similar to tarkov

[kindred turtle]

how about the lynx? is that any good? im not a sniper rifle guy

[ornate sable]

Better pen than regular SVDM, holds up better late game

[drifting forge]

PKM correct calibre conversion at a technician would be cool

[forest fulcrum]

M701 is best no?

[drifting forge]

Personal preference

[forest fulcrum]

it doesnt exist in 762 x 39 lol

are any of the special pistols worth using like the deadeye or gambit?

[drifting forge]

Ik

[pseudo lotus]

is there a unique APSB?

[maiden grotto]

It would certainly have to be PVE, as any PvP and it will become all about combat, everything else would be pointless.

[pallid thorn]

Yes but you don't get it until endgame and spoiler here don't click it if you don't want it ||you kill korshunov||

[crystal granite]

That's precisely what I want to avoid. Online pve would be fun. Teaming up with friends

[drifting forge]

Me now

[warm stone]

They stated that coop is not something that will happen. Whether cooperation means "SP campaign in multiplayer" or "PvE where you cooperate with other players"......is something i dont know

[crystal granite]

||even if you side with the Ward?||

[pseudo lotus]

dang. Well im DEFINITELY not getting it, then

[crystal granite]

Same

[pallid thorn]

||you have to side against the ward||

[pallid thorn]

HOWEVER there is an extended magazine for it. You gotta do a certain main quest than a side quest to get in

[crystal granite]

That's a relief. Thankfully I'm not planning on doing that, least not on this playthrough. Thanks

[pseudo lotus]

which side quest? is it the code-locked stash in the ||chemical plant?||

[pallid thorn]

I don't remember exactly but it's one that takes you to chemical plant and it's a scientist side quest

[crystal granite]

||that one got me the Zubr||

[drifting forge]

There's an extended mag for the bizon somewhere lmao

[pseudo lotus]

||where do you find the code? I dont want to know the code. I just want to know how to find it....||

[wintry pumice]

what is bizon?

[crystal granite]

I'm just waiting till I progress far enough and get the rat killer

[wintry pumice]

or get the zubr

[woeful karma]

any hints from devs about upcoming patch release date ?

[crystal granite]

||there's meant to be a PDA on some roof/tower in chem plant. I googled it cause I heard the pda can be bugged||

[drifting forge]

Only 3 ways to really make one. Smaller calibre + more rounds, longer (then maybe make the barrel longer and make it less like the 74U and more like 74) or make it more chonk

[pseudo lotus]

ty stalker

[crystal granite]

Nah, I want that Monolith camo

[drifting forge]

PP-19 Bizon

[crystal granite]

Good hunting, stalker

[wintry pumice]

mod it

or paint it with blood

[toxic sigil]

What’s up people!! Hope you are all having a great day so far!!

[wintry pumice]

no patch, so no

[toxic sigil]

I just started Stalker Anomaly, does anyone have any tips??

[drifting forge]

Go back to playing the trilogy
Really nothing to say, Anomaly is very easy especially once you get good armours

[pseudo lotus]

Try ISG run 😏

[cobalt fiber]

Good evening stalkers

[drifting forge]

Evenin

[cobalt fiber]

Started the dreaded ward playthrough yesterday and already hating myself for siding with zotov

[knotty epoch]

Can someone help me?

[cobalt fiber]

Partly because that stealth sequence into the sphere is a 🤬 nightmare

[cobalt fiber]

https://dontasktoask.com/

What's up?

[toxic sigil]

Ahhh… so og stalker games are more difficult??

[cobalt fiber]

Debatable

[drifting forge]

More difficult....idk theyre pretty even

[cobalt fiber]

There's pros and cons. One example being the tanked up mutants in 2 vs OGs

[toxic sigil]

I’ve been playing Anomaly for a bit, keep getting my ass kicked and when I run into radiation my stalker tweaks tf out😂😂

[cobalt fiber]

I'm planning vanilla replays of the OGs because I no longer have a PC. Gave it to the kid, so rebought on xbox as part of LOTZ

[toxic sigil]

Or maybe it’s just a skill issue🤧

[hoary crest]

Where'd you get that from?

[vast mortar]

Wishful thinking, consumer desire

[cobalt fiber]

What improvements are we saying

[hoary crest]

Fair and valid yeah lmao

[cobalt fiber]

More vodka only stashes yes? Yes??

[hoary crest]

Anyway, I have a date with the boys to kick some space-bugs off the Emperor's turf, later yall

[weary hedge]

fightin space bugs with the boiiiis

would you like to know more?

[sharp sierra]

Well wasn't expecting this, got a mission for harpy to kill some stalkers who attacked her men and its only a large squad of heavily armed freedomers!

[cosmic wigeon]

is the Grom drum mag actually available anywhere in-game or is it console commands only

[neat beacon]

are the lasers i see on peoples gun a mod or are they actually in game

[drifting forge]

They're in the game

[pseudo lotus]

^

[inner hinge]

I wonder when we will see the first patch of the year

[weary hedge]

my birthday is in four days
so imma say in four days 🤞

[inner hinge]

Go to a tech

[neat beacon]

hmmm wonder why i havent seen any yet

[weary hedge]

they are technician upgrades, not an attachment

[neat beacon]

thank you

[ornate sable]

It will be in 13 days, because that will be my birthday.

[weary hedge]

iunno about that, i'd classify the extended mag as a mod, as well as scopes lol

[warped stream]

my least favorite ending

[inner hinge]

Mine is in 7 months so maybe it will only be then

[neat beacon]

Is putting a scope or a sight on the mark 1 emr a tech upgrade cause it wouldn't let me put the 8x scope that's specifically for the mark 1

[weary hedge]

no - but you need to do a tech upgrade to unlock the ability to attach a scope

[inner hinge]

Check scope description it will say the compatibility weapons

[weary hedge]

the PSO 8x was only for the uh, vintar

the mark 1 can use the RNBW 2x, or an ACOG 4x

[supple pier]

there's an 8x too

[ornate sable]

Yeah, falcon-somthing

Same that's on the M700 and Clusterheck, I think?

[supple pier]

yup, but it's in prypiat

enemies get tougher by that point so mark I really starts losing it's shine by that time

[inner hinge]

If you are in prypiat the number 1 weapon to be using is the gauss rifle

[neat beacon]

That's what I was saying the scope is ONLY compatible with the mark 1 but it won't let me attach it

[ornate sable]

Mk1 is cool though, and the game isn't so punishing that you can't get away with using cool guns instead of the optimal.

[violet dune]

khorad with 4x scope + silincer would way different

[ornate sable]

Do you have your Mk1 upgraded with a scope mount? I don't remember off the top of my head if it's a required upgrade to mount anything, but it might be.

[neat beacon]

No upgrades I just found the gun on someone and went and bought the scope

[maiden grotto]

Why?

[inner hinge]

I like overkill and the gauss rifle is the biggest damage in the game

[inland sage]

When I go to pripyat I will be using 3 different rhinos

18 rounds. Enough to kill anything that moves.

[hoary crest]

M o d s. Making all the guns feel like guns instead of 80% of them being waterpistols is an absolute gamechanger when it comes to player agency

[maiden grotto]

Meh... I hate the gauss rifle... Even in the original, I hated it...

I prefer a good AK with a silencer and a M701 with a silencer, and a shotty...

[neat beacon]

It's the storm falcon 8x scope and it IS compatible with mark 1 emr but doesn't let me attach

[hoary crest]

You need to go get the rail upgrade. (Yes I know it already has a rail but for some reason you need a bigger, second rail)

[shrewd needle]

Imagine needing extra rails to fit a regular-type scope with extra zoom...

[maiden grotto]

This is stalker has got himself a big fat bowl of Morello Cherry Pie, and massive dollop of Devonshire Clotted Cream Ice cream... Nom nom nom

[inland sage]

Hm. Need to find a scope that fits the rhino.

[cosmic wigeon]

Damn looks like the Groza’s drum mag is basically not in the game

[inland sage]

Ah, the RNBW 2x scope fits.

[shrewd needle]

Just like the PSO-1 somehow can't attach to the Groza anymore, for some reason...

[inland sage]

Oh that's actually a little disappointing...the expanding darts and slugs are 12x76 and not 12x70 so they don't fit in a rhino modified to use 12 gauge ammo.

[shrewd needle]

Consider it a pistol shotgun; you don't shoot regular bullets from it. CQB damage, not long-range sniping.

Regular 9 * 39 better for anything longer than CQB.

[snow sequoia]

Hello , i Lost all my Save Data- 62 Hours Worth on PC because of XBOX !!!! ... does anyone have a save file i could have to get me back or closer to where i was i just got back to Zalissya or go go to Uncle lyonyas house , after surviving the Institue Mission , Please if anyone can help me !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[civic relic]

so maybe not weak but still pretty damn ugly for some reason to me. the mini ak in call of duty games were my favourite guns mostly

[maiden grotto]

It's wonderful when scoped, silenced, taped mags and full up graded... pop pop pop with the head shots

[maiden grotto]

You could try looking for some file restore programs, and see if you can pull the file back

[inland sage]

Well, the...12 gauge feels worse for CQB, maybe it can handle mutants better?

[snow sequoia]

no they are all gone , replaced with new ones from the XBOX

[cobalt fiber]

How does that happen? Saves are synced between both PC and XBOX if played through game pass, not replaced

[maiden grotto]

SSD? If you are using the HDD, when you delete a file it doesn;t get deleted, so the file is there, just can't be read, or saved when written over.

I thinks SSD can too as long as they have not been something or another...

So your files, could still be hidden on your drive

[cobalt fiber]

Game pass saves are all as one for both platforms

[supple pier]

it's great for both endgame and the big bad mutants

[snow sequoia]

because i played 62 hours on PC version , my Brother downloaded to XBOX and started a new game on slot one and it eased all the files so now all 62 hours gone

[mental bronze]

Is xbox on the current patch?

[cobalt fiber]

I think you need to give your brother a slap mate

[snow sequoia]

no doubt , im pretty bitter about it haha

[maiden grotto]

If it's over written the file, then you are fecked.

[supple pier]

also use ratkiller/zubr-19 as a backup because it slaps and the ammo is everywhere

[cobalt fiber]

When I was about 14/15 I replaced my dad's GTA 4 save by accidentally enabling auto save on my game 😂

[snow sequoia]

if a person on pc gives me a save file i could replace the saves an go from ther e

[maiden grotto]

Just start it again, armed with new knowledge and the game just will not be the same

[cobalt fiber]

Its the exploration that's a slog. If he wants to explore every POI, assuming that's what he did the first time it's time consuming. In terms of missions it isn't too bad

[supple pier]

you can surely get one from the internet I'm sure if not I have one just after the intro

[plain fiber]

As far as I know they're all in Russian and have never been translated, so I also have never read them.

[snow sequoia]

all the loot and hours wasted , man , im so sad hahaha

[supple pier]

well now you know where to find the best loost first

[cobalt fiber]

It's daft that game pass saves to cloud only instead of also locally

[maiden grotto]

Whens ya bother funeral?

[snow sequoia]

i guess i will have to cheat this time round hahah

[supple pier]

yeah that sucks, not only that game pass updates are slower and larger

[snow sequoia]

might just buy it on steam instead stupid xbox cloud

ok peace-out cheers

[shrewd needle]

GOG better.

[maiden grotto]

It's so you have to keep paying them bucks to get access to your hours played. It's a sinister method to force people to keep paying and when those big increases in charges keep happening...

Never pay for subscriptions, it's a mugs method.

[cobalt fiber]

I miss local saves man

[snow sequoia]

its not my gamepass its my brothers so im not paying for it haha

[cobalt fiber]

They catch you out now especially if on xbox as game pass is the new xbox live

[plain fiber]

PC still has local saves in addition to cloud saves.

[snow sequoia]

ill figure it out all good

[shrewd needle]

People still do, so...meh.

[plain fiber]

So...I once again accidentally triggered someone on r/stalker.

The cause?

I shared my opinion.

[hoary crest]

Average Reddit experience

[plain fiber]

It's happened twice now.

[maiden grotto]

I was told to go kill myself the other day on teh SoC channel. Coz I advised a new player to down load a mod, as it does better graphics, fixes plenty of bugs, but keeps the game vanilla, apart from some minor tweaks...

[neat beacon]

I noticed some of the guns have this little gear symbol what does that mean

[plain fiber]

The Complete mod I'm assuming? There are some stick-up-the-ass purists who insist that it adding in repair kits "ruins" the game.

Completely ignoring the fact that equipment repairs were added in Clear Sky and persisted into Call of Pripyat and now Heart of Chornobyl.

[maiden grotto]

Utter snobbery, not to mention Prip bugs that can litterally end someones game

[ornate sable]

TBH SoC really should have had an option for equipment repair if it has equipment degradation.

[plain fiber]

I've seen the claim that the Complete mods also dumb down the AI but I've played the trilogy in both vanilla and with the Complete mods and didn't notice a difference. It was on Master difficulty too.

[maiden grotto]

Never noticed the difference myself...

[mental bronze]

How are people feeling about the enemy spawning and ai fixes? I last played a bit over a month ago and it looks like they've been patching at a sprinters pace

[shrewd needle]

Anyone?

[ornate sable]

Some people have too high of an opinion of the vanilla trilogy AI.

[mental bronze]

And for that matter is there any update on weapon damage? Last I knew the UI indicated that an early small caliber weapon had the highest damage but that seemed insane

[maiden grotto]

I had 4 Psuedo giants spawn on me... x2 in duga near where the unique M701 is... killed them... Went to get to south building, then another Psuedo spawned... killed that... went to west building and another one spawned...

Had 9 bloodsucker spawns one after another....

The games Spawning simulator can simple go F itself

[shrewd needle]

Skif's Pistol is still as strong as it was...like all other Makarovs.

And enemies still spawn on me all the time, especially Bloodsuckers. And now Bandits and Mercenaries.

[plain fiber]

Anyways, in regards to the "Average Reddit moment", the topic of conversation was about the weapon line-up in the games and what additions/adjustments we'd like to see.

I said that I think the "standard loadout" stuff, specifically assault rifles should take higher priority over the "fun toy" weapons like the RPG, Bulldog, and (arguably) the gauss rifle when it comes to weapon additions/adjustments.

Someone else said "Why not both?" and I agreed that that both would be nice, but if GSC can only do one "branch" of weapons for now, then I feel that the aforementioned "standard loadout" weapons should take priority.

Apparently I'm arrogant and a coward for having that stance.

[maiden grotto]

Reddit is for bottom feeders.

[plain fiber]

I've been on that site for 10-ish years now and much like pre-Musk Twitter, it really depended on the sub you were on.

Reddit used to closer to 4chan back in the day.

[ornate sable]

I miss real forums. We didn't know how good we had it before they mostly died out, replaced by the scourge of social media

[mental bronze]

It feels like video game communities in particular have a problem with social graces regardless of location

[cobalt fiber]

GTAForums was my favourite for a long time. Still a member of the OGA there

[plain fiber]

I mean, the Internet in general seems to have a really hard time recognizing nuance in...anything.

[shrewd needle]

Echo chambers and all that.

[maiden grotto]

"You don't know what you've got till it's gone. Pave paradise and put up a parking lot."

[shrewd needle]

Unfortunately, to some people, a parking lot is paradise. 😔

[plain fiber]

That's something I do appreciate about Reddit is that it still feels like old-school forum.

It's not an exact analog mind you, but still.

[plain fiber]

I mean, sitting in my car with a coffee and listening to NPR is a pretty enjoyable experience.

[maiden grotto]

I know... It's so sad...

Depressing really...

[mental bronze]

For sure. But in addition to that as a baseline video game communities can be gnarly. I know they aren't alone in that regard but I have less experience with other communities with similar reputations 🤷

Positive mention for some of the roguelike communities though, DCSS has a pretty good bunch of people on reddit

[shrewd needle]

I've only seen extreme toxicity in NFS communities. And a couple other random ones, but otherwise, at least on Discord, servers are generally stable that way...with the occasional idiots around here and there.

[maiden grotto]

Because of the insane extremes on both the left and right... The insanity of the woke agenda, and the insanity of the likes of trump...

When the people in the middle who understand nuance, have to put up with utter shyte from both sides.

[mental bronze]

What is NFS?

[cobalt fiber]

Forums were more easily moderated and often had a better moderation team vs reddit

[shrewd needle]

Need For Speed.

[plain fiber]

You're not wrong, though it does depend on the video game. The community for Stardew Valley is (generally) pretty nice.

[maiden grotto]

I can't imagine it ever being toxic... "That fecking sh*t sucking B^tch flap, told me to grow my turnips a day earlier"....

I just can't see it...

[plain fiber]

I'm left-wing, but talking with other left-wing people on the Internet can be incredibly frustrating because so many of them have fallen into the same sort of political fundamentalism that you see from far-righters.

But, we should drop the politics now before a mod gets angry.

[maiden grotto]

Yup yup...

[shrewd needle]

Someone know about this?

[plain fiber]

The only time it ever gets remotely toxic is when discussions of how you run your farm come up.

Are you going for peak efficiency or taking your time? Are you maximizing your profits? Etc. The arguments about that stuff cna get pretty heated.

[maiden grotto]

No way!!

[plain fiber]

There's an artifact at the Krug Antenna Complex? I just cleared that place out and didn't see anything.

[mental bronze]

Hahahaha for real though

[shrewd needle]

So did I; MapGenie says it's in the small building in the south-east and can be gotten through the wall.

But I couldn't even get a prompt or anything.

[plain fiber]

Trying to remember, I think there might have been an artifact next to a dead body on a roof?

[cobalt fiber]

The new generations have entitlement bred into them, you have to expect toxicity

[plain fiber]

Little outbuilding you have to do some parkour to get on top of.

[shrewd needle]

I was there; got the stash but nothing near.

[plain fiber]

Huh, no idea then.

[maiden grotto]

I had an artifact appear in one of the underground bases... The one with the doctor trapped at the bottom... Had an artifact that even when standing on it, would pop.

So maybe it is that one and it is still bugged

[worldly thicket]

Yo where do I get weird water

[shrewd needle]

Shows on this:

https://mapgenie.io/stalker-2-heart-of-chornobyl/maps/the-zone

But I went around the roof and the walls and nothing.

[plain fiber]

Zaton, Northeast-ish of the Skadovsk/Sultansk. Anomaly field is only active at night.

Make a save before you try to get it, and don't be afraid to look up a guide on Reddit. I did that and was able to grab it really quickly.

[mental bronze]

Oh I've had a bugged artifact spawn underground in such a way that I couldn't reach it.

[shrewd needle]

Yea, I've had that in the Lesser Zone, under the windmill Chemical Anomaly...it's underground; tried going far to despawn the area and all, but...it's stuck under terrain.

[cobalt fiber]

https://letmegooglethat.com/?q=where+to+find+weird+water+stalker+2%3F

[worldly thicket]

I’ll Jst wait at uhh cordon for nighttime then

[plain fiber]

Why Cordon? You can sleep and wait at the Sultansk.

[mental bronze]

Yeah that sounds like the same one

Is there fast travel to swamp?

[inland sage]

I think the problem is getting the sprint upgrade on the exo...too quickly after the pockets one?

[plain fiber]

I'm at the very end of the Millennial generation ('96) and that one year is enough for me to notice a major difference between myself and Zoomers.

[shrewd needle]

Yea, that one's a pain. And you should be able to fast-travel to the Sultansk for closer to Swamp thing.

[ornate sable]

No

[worldly thicket]

Mixed the areas up lol

[maiden grotto]

Because people like me, prefer asking others as... Because I enjoy asking other people... And it can start a conversation, maybe friendship... who know....

[cobalt fiber]

You and me both. November 96 here

[inland sage]

OH OKAY THAT'S A BIT UNCOOL. Apparently I was too eager for the upgrade so in my haste to get the sprint upgrade on the exo, I uninstalled it right after getting it.

[plain fiber]

Great Swamps? No.

Zaton? Yes.

[shrewd needle]

Friendship? In 2025? 😏

[pseudo lotus]

I’m a ‘97 zoomer, and the difference between me and younger zoomers is pretty staggering. I think the difference is people too young to remember a time before iPhones/social media

[cobalt fiber]

But there exists such a thing as a sense of humour and lighthearted humour for which this was created in the first place...

Chill dude

[plain fiber]

December for me, Christmas and birthday gets are usually given around the same time, but my family is a least nice enough to get separate gifts for both.

[mental bronze]

I remember the treck into the swamps as being harrowing lol, but I want to go check it out again

[maiden grotto]

Got some pretty good ones... I spoke to one guy from malaysia, he know a guy that literally lived around the corner from me, going to to his B'day drink in a week or so...

[cobalt fiber]

30th Nov for me and thankfully I'd get the same treatment, although I suspect a lot of pre planning and early bird purchases were to thank for that

[shrewd needle]

FT to Zaton and it's just closer that way, though a bit of a distance to the Swamps from the Sultansk (and a ton of Zombies and a large Psi field in Zaton too).

[plain fiber]

Eh, it's not really harrowing, it's just a bit of a pain in the ass. I cleared the whole thing (barring the Clear Sky base) out before the story took me there.

I'm holding off on finishing the story stuff there until I grab a suit with good psi protection. (Truth be told it's just an excuse for me to grab a SEVA suit and clear out the Western and Northern parts of the map.)

[shrewd needle]

Oh, I totally understand. I was just making a jab at how, like the above conversation said, most people are more interested in conflict and mud-flinging than at genuine connections.

Which is sad, TBH, but if you find a worthwhile person, it's truly worth it.

[inland sage]

So why is it that you can uninstall the exosuit upgrades for more storage and sprint?

[pseudo lotus]

the swamps scare me.

turning the starter region of clear sky into an actual no-man's land is, I think, a great metaphor for how it feels to play clear sky

[shrewd needle]

There's the SSP-100 SIRCAA in the Burnt Forest. Journalist's...pretty high Psionic Protection (compared to the crap till Rostok).

[mental bronze]

Im sorta bad at the game as it turns out, I have a much harder time taking down bloodsuckers than it sounds like other people do for example, so it might be more difficult for me haha. Gonna go find out

[pseudo lotus]

I think they effect the weight of the suit, like gun attachments?

[inland sage]

I think that's why the base exo I had before, I couldn't sprint in. I accidentally un-installed the upgrades after getting them and didn't realize it.

[plain fiber]

I'm probably about to find that soon, I've only got a couple more POIs in Burnt Forest to clear before I head up to Malachite, clear that out, then move to clear out Duga, and then Rostok and beyond.

[hoary crest]

Means they have upgrades applied to them

[shrewd needle]

There aren't any (unless they spawn on you, like it happens with me, which is not part of the regular spawning in areas).

[pseudo lotus]

They become much more manageable once you know how they telegraph their attacks- very easy to sidestep.

also, you can shoot them while theyre still invisible. typically doing that will scare them and force a brief retreat

[shrewd needle]

I'm going through Burnt Forest right now, but struggling thanks t Bandits/Mercenaries/Bloodsuckers just randomly spawning and the burners (the Journalist's Stash gave me a painful Poltergeist at night that I could barely find)...

[cobalt fiber]

The sleeping bloodsuckers are creepier than the aggro ones

[plain fiber]

Quick reminder that bloodsuckers in Clear Sky are invulnerable while they're cloaked.

Yeah I don't know why GSC did that either.

[pseudo lotus]

😟 clear sky really is a hot mess

no wonder scar went crazy

[cobalt fiber]

But we lobe it anyway

[mental bronze]

Sidestepping them is fine but god damn do I have a hard time putting them down, I try to shotgun them in the head but it seems to take 10-20 shots

[pseudo lotus]

Youre just missing a lot, unfortunately

[worldly thicket]

Guys is 365 buckshot and 800 rounds of 939 too much ammo

[pseudo lotus]

no. need more.

[cobalt fiber]

Rookie numbers

[shrewd needle]

It takes around 10 rounds of 9 * 39 from a VSS Vintorez, so can confirm. Unfortunately, I've always got 2 on me that spawn whenever I stop for anything and I'm always down by 2 magazines and a few medkits thanks to that.

[maiden grotto]

Never seen one sleeping, just spawning beeliners... 100 meters away... Appear in the distance... then just start running right at you... Even though you are hidden...and behind a fecking lorry...

[mental bronze]

Yep, total skill issue

[plain fiber]

Real quick segue but I recently learned that the final Millennial birth year varies depending on the country.

In the UK and Australia I read that they consider the final birth year as 1995.

(No idea about the rest of the world, the Wikipedia article didn't say.)

[worldly thicket]

Guys is 365 buckshot and 800 rounds of 939 too much ammo it’s taking up like half of my space

[cobalt fiber]

The further you get into the story there's a few sleeping ones

[shrewd needle]

Did you seriously repeat a question that was just answered like a robot? 😆

[mental bronze]

I say we be done with named generations. Its a relatively recent fad and christ its annoying

[plain fiber]

What's your weight at with all of that ammo?

[pseudo lotus]

Youre likely just hitting a few pellets of buckshot. What gun are you using?

my strat for suckers is to aim sorta towards the lower torso, then dump as many rounds as I can as they charge me. Recoil brings the barrel of the shotty to the head (for spas and saiga, at least)

[cobalt fiber]

I believe I woke them up and had 5 on me at once

[plain fiber]

I just wait for them to uncloak in front of me and then I mag dump them with a shotgun.

[maiden grotto]

I got to the point of no return in the last mission to complete the game... still not seen any sleeping..

[mental bronze]

Saida d12, I'll try that

[shrewd needle]

Same, but with VSS.

[cobalt fiber]

Did you not see the ones that are just stood there doing nothing uncloaked? @maiden grotto

[pseudo lotus]

I happened upon a nest of 4 sleeping ones. Tossed a grenade underhand, then another overhand. they exploded at the same time, killing 3 instantly.

[worldly thicket]

It’s like 50

[pseudo lotus]

good hunting, stalker!

[maiden grotto]

I don;t consider that sleeping XD... I consider that... Trolling you...

[cobalt fiber]

That's their sleeping state haha

[plain fiber]

Oh speaking of exploding grenades, how do you get the achievement for shooting a grenade while it's flying through the air? I saw someone suggest using those time-warp anomalies but that didn't work because my bullets wouldn't hit the grenade before it went off.

[worldly thicket]

Shotgun

[plain fiber]

Buckshot or slug?

[maiden grotto]

Is this the one where you drop down the hole... And there is like 6 of them in that area... Because yeah, bullet sponges too when I did it.

[worldly thicket]

Buckshot it’s Jst like trap shooting

[cobalt fiber]

Got to time it right. When they shout they're tossing a grenade be ready to blast

[plain fiber]

I'll try that, thanks.

(Also thank you for reminding me that I need to get back into trap shooting.)

[worldly thicket]

Also aim below it

[cobalt fiber]

I think so. And there's one of them wandering around a corridor

[pseudo lotus]

thats where I killed 3 at one with 2 grenades, lmao
the last one went down with half a mag of 5.45

[shrewd needle]

Where is this, BTW?

[maiden grotto]

Yeah... I had to lower that to easy... just couldnt kill them... Twas impossible

[worldly thicket]

How am I supposed to find weird water

[cobalt fiber]

Also the one where there's however many with a drop down at the hangar with the stash you can't even get due to radiation death?

[maiden grotto]

At 10 pm in the spot, over in zaton

[worldly thicket]

I’m here

[cobalt fiber]

As soon as you open the safe radiation hits. That was funny if not a little irritating

[pseudo lotus]

trapped stashes are funny

[maiden grotto]

is it 10 pm?

[worldly thicket]

As in how do I find where ur ya in the anomaly and does it have to 10 on the dot

[shrewd needle]

Wait for 22:00. Run around in the dark with the dancing radioactive lights. Hopefully, you'll find it...press the Use Key all over if you need.

[worldly thicket]

Oh oh no so detector no work

[maiden grotto]

just 10pm hour I believe the the weird things appears...

[shrewd needle]

Yea, neither the detector, nor your torch, not even ambient light.

[worldly thicket]

I see the star light I can’t find the wata

It spawns below them

[maiden grotto]

Apparently is mostly around the bas of the mound in the area

[maiden grotto]

Is that the one on the lorry?

[shrewd needle]

Also, careful with the Psi-emission and the radioactivity from the lights.

[cobalt fiber]

Yeah lol in the hangar

[maiden grotto]

Go round the back of the lorry, and open it from there... No rads 😄

[cobalt fiber]

🤯

[worldly thicket]

I’m Jst gonna wait till ten get 150 m away and reload till it’s in a certain spot

[shrewd needle]

Does the SPAS-12 get a magazine upgrade...or stuck with tube?

[maiden grotto]

The cracker gets a mag upgrade, but it's rate of fire is appalling

Not sure about the SPAS though...

[worldly thicket]

Just use the sagia or dp-12

[shrewd needle]

Yea, that I know...got the upgrade recently in the Chemical Plant, but since it's pump-action...the SPAS-12 actually gets to be semi-automatic, for once, so that's more useful.

[pseudo lotus]

chat how do we feel about the ram 2

[maiden grotto]

Why I use it

[shrewd needle]

I don't have either the Saiga or the DP-12, so not an option. I'm stuck with the SPAS-12 for now.

[worldly thicket]

Ah uh

[pseudo lotus]

Did you know that you can use the ram-2 to convert regular buckshot into slugs or expanding darts?

[maiden grotto]

Never used it.... Reload speeds equal death

[shrewd needle]

Right, but the reloading is just atrocious for both that and the Remington...it's ridiculous. Like...we need Counter-Strike reloads...

[pseudo lotus]

tactical reload, my friend. I use that thing to take on pseudogiants and chimeras. its awesome.

[worldly thicket]

Yeah nah no mag upgrade I used the cracker then straight to sagia

[worldly thicket]

Texans pretty good for late game

[maiden grotto]

You don;t get tactical reloads when 4 bloodsuckers spawn on you...

[shrewd needle]

IDK where the Saiga is, else I'd have gotten it. I've been in the Lesser Zone, Cordon, Zaton, Garbage, Wild Territory, Rostok and Chemical Plant...didn't find it at all.

[shrewd needle]

That's why I don't use the shotgun on them any more...VSS wins. Hands-down...only problem is cloak.

[worldly thicket]

Well u can go to yaniv so you can use yaniv as a main place cause it’s close to late game things

[maiden grotto]

on a train, to the west of the helicopter place, west of rostock

[pseudo lotus]

Ive never really had issues finding the time to top myself off in the middle of a fight. Especially with the ram-2, because the damage of that thing is GNARLY

[worldly thicket]

I bought mine

[shrewd needle]

I scoured the entirety of Rostok...didn't find shit there, except for the guns I already had...

[shrewd needle]

Isn't Yaniv, like...beyond a massive tornado?

[worldly thicket]

THE only good version of it is the Texan because maxed out damage and fire rate lol the others just aren’t worth it

[wintry pumice]

[worldly thicket]

Past red forest next to it yes

[maiden grotto]

It's in Yantar on teh west side of the helicoptor grave yeard

[wintry pumice]

Why do people buy guns in this game?

[pseudo lotus]

theres a unique ram2??? Ive just been using one I found early on the corpse of a zombie....

[worldly thicket]

Some of them I couldn’t find and tons smod extra cash and had an exo at yaniv early game

[shrewd needle]

Oh, Yantar...yea, not been there, so soon. Well, as soon as collecting loot can be; areas do be massive in the game.

[maiden grotto]

Becaue sometimes RNG is an unberable tw4t waffle.

[worldly thicket]

It’s the only good one it’s

[wintry pumice]

But there are many fixed places where a particular weapon is always there

[pseudo lotus]

I mean, ram 2 has been carrying me thru the endgame of my custom master difficulty playthrough....

[worldly thicket]

It has the best Detector and bear one

[shrewd needle]

Problem is the journey of 69 KM on foot for 420 hours.

[worldly thicket]

Ballaistic mods or nah cause when I fight a pusdogiwnt the only thing that saves me is my reload speed

[wintry pumice]

Which one?

[shrewd needle]

Uh...I already have the Bear and isn't the Veles locked behind story? Like, I've barely even sorted out the Noontide yet.

[maiden grotto]

As long as you know where those places are... I know where some stuff is, but most of my stuff I found randomly, going off for a wander... Not everone will stumble across these things

Not everyone cheats by using online maps telling you where everything is

[worldly thicket]

I don’t think so I bought mine in yaniv

[shrewd needle]

Any weapon...you start in the Lesser Zone, so getting to any weapon that's not one of the lower/mid-end ones requires a long damn trek. Like the first Rhino I've seen is in Burnt Forest, and the entirety of Garbage, Zaton, Swamps...all the areas don't have it at all. So a long damn trek for me.

[pseudo lotus]

uh I cant remember. I do know the mod I have does lower mutant hp slightly, but only about 10%, while making them much more aggressive.

with expanding darts in the ram-2, thats a difference of just 1 or 2 shots

[worldly thicket]

Rhino is good against pigs but j only use skiftol against mutants

[wintry pumice]

I always leave the lesser zone to get to cordon to get a special rifle, a spas and an as lavina

[shrewd needle]

Yea, I've stuck with the pistol, but I'm just using an example.

[worldly thicket]

Have you fought a pusedogiant yet

[wintry pumice]

Cordon is very good to set you up for early to mid game

[maiden grotto]

To bhonest, I use ballistic mods, so I pretty much stick with AK's, and I am not progressing the story as I hate everyone having exo armour.... It's just BS mechanics

[shrewd needle]

That's fair.

[wintry pumice]

Some here have done unspeakable things to it

[worldly thicket]

Ah I have the veteran and saiga and diamond for late gonna have Texan soon

[shrewd needle]

Eh, I've had exactly one exo-skeleton user I met so far (I don't remember where, I haven't even done Azimuth Station yet) and he was relatively easy to shoot down with the upgraded VSS.

Bloody Mercenaries.

[worldly thicket]

I sent it to the ceiling and it went to the back rooms I feel bad for the stalkers stuck there

[tall falcon]

Yoooo sup guys

[wintry pumice]

And the moment I got the spas in a bandits nest, 3 bloodsuckers spawn near me Early game

[maiden grotto]

I went straight there, need to get some sid chicken, and as I have played SoC so much, I wanted to see what the place was like.

Then I noticed the impassable hills to stop you from going wandering... And no, that is not right.

First thing they need to do is flatten them hills and let people walk where ever the hell they want

[worldly thicket]

I’ll prob pick it up for for Pripyat

[pseudo lotus]

three. and two chimeras

[wintry pumice]

Ceiling

[shrewd needle]

You got them after the SPAS. I get 2 Bloodsuckers on me every time I stop. They just randomly spawn, not part of the game director, so...guess what? 😆

[worldly thicket]

You should switch to the saiga the fire speed and mag make a giant ahhh difference

[maiden grotto]

3? I had 4 spawn on me one after another in one location... Had to do a brave Sir Robin on the 4th, ran out of ammo 😄

[wintry pumice]

[shrewd needle]

You already have the Veteran, you don't need anything except 9 * 39 rounds for those...AP and hollow-point.

[pseudo lotus]

saiga was my endgame gun last playthrough, ram-2 has a different feel to it, I dont wanna repeat myself yk?

also the ram-2 + slugs is my go to for exos. god its so satisfying.

[wintry pumice]

Yeah it's weird they have to lock you in the lesser zone till the sensors are found and returned.

[shrewd needle]

How to deal with the Chimeras in this game? They're spongy as hell...

[worldly thicket]

Ah yeah I’ll hit them with my ar I am not missing the snipers

[pseudo lotus]

consider how clueless the average gamer is. they need to lock them into the playground so they can learn the ropes. Lesser zone is a big tutorial

[shrewd needle]

I just use the VSS as an AR...anything else doesn't have the damage for longer ranges.

[worldly thicket]

Jst grab the Texan in Pripyat also I have used 1 artifact so far and it was anti rad

[shrewd needle]

Emphasis on the big, 'cause the individual regions are massive...like, the entire map of all 3 games might fit in one or 2 regions of S2...

[worldly thicket]

It’s the snipers that are the issue

[pseudo lotus]

I didnt know it existed until a few minutes ago, lmao!

im finishing up all my sidequests rn, because my next main quest is the point of no return

[maiden grotto]

It's a non open, open world... I just dont understand why they block so much of the map off with those damn hills...

Why can't we get back into SIRCAA after it goes t*ts up?

Would love to wander through the wreckage

[shrewd needle]

Because it looks less gaudy than fences or invisible map borders.

[worldly thicket]

Where is it

[wintry pumice]

3 bloodsuckers spawning in cordon during early game right after leaving the lesser zone must also be fun for the average gamer

[mental bronze]

Sometimes you just gotta run away

[shrewd needle]

It's a lesson to turn them from average gamers to real stalkers. 😏

[maiden grotto]

If only it was three XD

[pseudo lotus]

Seriously. Pretty nuts when you consider that stalker 2 is basically 2 skyrims

[worldly thicket]

I took out 5 with a short db

[pseudo lotus]

meanwhile, I found stalker and veteran difficulties too forgiving, I needed mods to bring it in line with the old games....

[wintry pumice]

Veles is locked behind story progression

[shrewd needle]

I haven't played Skyrim, but that feels like huge for its time. Even Horizon: Zero Dawn/Forbidden West might feel a bit smaller compared to S2...even if they're actually larger.

They did a great work on the geography and weather. Now only if they did as good work on ballistics...and non-spongy enemies.

[wintry pumice]

db?

[worldly thicket]

The broomstick

[pseudo lotus]

have you seen the comparisons to the actual exclusion zone? its SHOCKINGLY close to real life

[shrewd needle]

Double-barrel.

[maiden grotto]

Nope, I got a random drop on an NPC... I got very early in the game

[shrewd needle]

Yea, I think I saw a map on Reddit, but I don't remember. If you got a link, do post it and I'll be glad to check, NGL.

The foggy areas make comparison a pain, though...

[shrewd needle]

Gib me that NPC...I need a Veles too!

[maiden grotto]

The bear is good enough

[shrewd needle]

Not for the amount of times I've run into Springboards... 😔

[pseudo lotus]

https://www.reddit.com/r/stalker/comments/yv2qr6/what_a_64_km_exclusion_zone_map_size_of_hoc_would/

Apparently this is from TWO YEARS ago. Insane to see that GSC actually followed through

[wintry pumice]

Yeah me too

[worldly thicket]

What the hell it isd

[wintry pumice]

But NPCs don't drop detectors though

[shrewd needle]

Damn, the power plant looks massive (or rather, the zone itself looks tiny in comparison)...the real thing, that is.

I think the lowest 2 horizontal red pins are where the Lesser Zone is in-game? Starting, that is.

Garbage to the left of the 'monument', then the transformer systems, then the power plant.

[maiden grotto]

It's only 5x5 miles or so... So when people say 25 square miles, it's smaller then you think

Assetto Corsa II, is set in 1600km Squared.... sounds massive right? It's only 40x40 km... which for sports cars can cross in 15 mins or less

[shrewd needle]

I haven't played, but I guess it's the perception thing...area automatically feels large till you realize length and breadth are too small.

[trail fiber]

Do you have to do a mission if you want to get inside pripyat in S.T.A.L.K.E.R 2?

[maiden grotto]

I would love the Dev's to keep bringing out expansions, and makes the game 4x bigger, so you can just really go off and and explorer... And the amount of Bloodsuckers is insane, for me, it's breaking immersion, because where is the space for these things to breed with with 1000's of stalkers and military wandering around...

[maiden grotto]

Just get a better jump mod, so Skif isn't impeded by twigs. It doesn;t makes sense

[wintry pumice]

Yeah you go there as part of the main quest

[shell flax]

Or you could just jump to the over turned oil car by the train in the acid pool

[maiden grotto]

Nah, he dead now... the cost of receiving 😄

[shrewd needle]

Well, considering they keep spawning on me in pairs all the time...I'm guessing the number of BS are actually bugged out and they were supposed to actually have large groups of weaker, but deadly-in-numbers mutants, but they couldn't do that, so added BS instead (since they're equally, if not more, lethal).

Also, 4X larger? 150 GB not enough for you? 😆

[maiden grotto]

Nope.... Stalker world is never big enough...

And think of it as job creation...

[wintry pumice]

Yup that's why we should go to the shining zone

[maiden grotto]

It's a lie, just like the cake 😄

[worldly thicket]

Anyone got a anomaly loadout with weird water and what anomaly’s the artifacts spawn in

[inland sage]

Well I died. Two burers walked out at once lol.

[sand tiger]

Ball I’m am ball we are ball!

[maiden grotto]

Whre is this ?

[inland sage]

||I'm just getting into Pripyat||

[worldly thicket]

Anyone got a anomaly loadout with weird water and what anomaly’s the artifacts spawn in

[wintry pumice]

It exists , we just need to die is all

[worldly thicket]

You don’t have to spoiler it

[inland sage]

Weird water is in the uhhhh, the ||moving lights anomaly, at night only. If you use google you can see which spot it spawns in, if you don't want to search blindly.||

[mental bronze]

I cant tell if Im blessed or cursed but I keep finding hypercubes

[worldly thicket]

I have it need a loadout with weird water

[wintry pumice]

Searching it blindly is incredibly frustrating

[shrewd needle]

I'd rather take separate games. 😆

[wintry pumice]

2 of them together stop bleeds real fast

[worldly thicket]

I need a loadout for artifacts

[shrewd needle]

Even 1 is enough...

[mental bronze]

Oh! I read a reddit post that claimed you couldn't effectively go over max protection, did that not end up being the case?

[wintry pumice]

1 ww, 2 hypercubes, 2 thunderberries and 1 max resistance artifact for each element in case you need to wade through anomalies. If you find a compass definitely put it on

[shrewd needle]

I'm using 1 Liquid Rock, 1 Hyper Cube, 1 Compass and 1 Magic Cube generally.

[shrewd needle]

Nice post-edit... 😆

[plain crag]

i have to go back to my save before the "point of no return" and collect artifacts, im like 15 away from achievement for all of them

[wintry pumice]

Thunderberries and Hypercubes stack. Not sure about others

[maiden grotto]

I use a weight one too something star, gives about another 9kg to max carry... And a thunderberry... If I am not wearing exo

[rocky lava]

I found a harp artifact

[worldly thicket]

Where do. I find these

[plain crag]

but shortly before that mission i entered *every single gravitational anomaly in the zone and collected a Spring at every single one and was like "screw this im just gonna finish this playthrough"

[wintry pumice]

I forgot about the compass because I got it late in my first play through

[shrewd needle]

Night Star.

[maiden grotto]

That would be the one

[shrewd needle]

I regenerated it in Wild Territory, near the scientist's bunker...reloaded and it was a pain, but just had to. And got it by accident; was expecting some other, but...good is good.

[worldly thicket]

What type of anomaly do I find each in

[wintry pumice]

Apart from weird water, the rest are all random spawns. Hypercube in fire anomalies, thunderberry in electrical anomalies

[shrewd needle]

Save 105 metres from the anomaly. Then head in...if you don't find the artifact, reload save and try again.

Good way to game the system, even if it takes more work than the regular RNG due to constant save-load.

[worldly thicket]

Wt about the compass

[wintry pumice]

Compass from gravity anomalies

[maiden grotto]

gravitational

[shrewd needle]

More like gravicrushers.

[wintry pumice]

There's an easy farm route to anomaly fields around slag heap and Rostok, pretty much all elements are covered in that route

[maiden grotto]

I really wish the anomalies were far more deadlier... some of them you can run through and they do naff all

[shrewd needle]

There's a route for anomalies now?

[worldly thicket]

Fire sucks

[wintry pumice]

I mean they are close by. You can probably hoof it within 15 mins to all these locations

[shrewd needle]

I mean...technically, that's the point? You don't know if the anomaly will hurt you a little or a lot. And the right moves can avoid them entirely, so...

Though yea, deadlier would be nice, but considering the cluster-groupings of some...frustrating gameplay.

[wintry pumice]

They all hurt pretty bad if you don't have good armour

[mental bronze]

Agreed, they don't really feel threatening in the way I expect

[worldly thicket]

I’m gonna follow a route in a minute

[shrewd needle]

Fair. I'll check MapGenie for going through it. 👍

[mental bronze]

I think the light and electro ones are the only ones I find consistently threatening

[maiden grotto]

But should be insta kill regardless.. They need to be fearful and they are not

[shrewd needle]

fearsome*

[halcyon inlet]

where can i get a Mark I EMR ?? or rare?

[maiden grotto]

Point being, people should fear them and they don't....

About as scary as star dew valley

[wintry pumice]

Yaniv vendor

[halcyon inlet]

i havnt seen one. wonder if my game is broken lol

[shrewd needle]

I know, was just a little 'I had to' moment. And because what you said made it funny...imagine if anomalies were fearful...random stalkers come around and the anomaly shivers in fear. 😆

[maiden grotto]

No, you read about them and you think, you get caught up in one.... your gonna be in a billion bits.... But nah, just a little love cuddle

[shrewd needle]

Military Warehouses, Chemical Plant. Or was it Burnt Forest?

[mental bronze]

I want to see my corpse get pulled into the sky, spun and then gibbed

[wintry pumice]

It's not a guaranteed stock, it changes after a certain time but the sniper rifles do spawn in certain locations . Try google

[neat beacon]

Anyone know if you can put a suppressor on APSB pistol

[shrewd needle]

Play Doom 2016/Eternal for that. 😏

[wintry pumice]

Isn't it already suppressed?

[mental bronze]

Or one of the earlier games lol

[woeful karma]

patch, when ?

[shrewd needle]

When HL3.

[neat beacon]

No

[maiden grotto]

Never, there is secret order that if people ask, it is delayed another month 😐

[wintry pumice]

Oh ok, then the one you use for skif 's pistol should work

[shrewd needle]

Yea...it's called Order 66 and it deletes all the patch files every time someone asks. 😏

Then they have to make the patch again.

[indigo oriole]

Any one knows how the ranking system works

[maiden grotto]

There is a ranking system?

[wintry pumice]

When the Bloodsuckers start wearing tank tops

[indigo oriole]

When u become veteran stalker

[shrewd needle]

And when Controllers stop wearing pants.

[maiden grotto]

The turrets?

[wintry pumice]

What?

[shrewd needle]

Oh, you mean on the server? Then just talk.

[maiden grotto]

"you will make me happy, on your your knees", controllers know what they want 😄

[wintry pumice]

Like in the voice channel

[mental bronze]

Ok I take it all back I just got my ass beat in the boiler with a seva suit and a hypercube

[shrewd needle]

SEVA is worse than SSP-100. Just get that...like...SEVA is now mid-tier suit.

[maiden grotto]

Tank tops.... The top of tanks is a turret 😄

[wintry pumice]

Yeah that place has too many fire anomalies

[wintry pumice]

Tank top, it's clothing more like under garment

[mental bronze]

Impossible! It is you who are the mid tier suit! But also interesting

[shrewd needle]

I mean...they're probably angry all the time due to being constantly wrapped up in those bandages and pants. And if they can control people using just the hand...wonder what they could do with the pants down!

[worldly thicket]

Guys

[maiden grotto]

Yes I know... I was being silly... Imaging bloodsuckers running around holding turrets on their heads 😄

[mental bronze]

I mean yeah but im also grateful, I was just talking about wanting to feel the fear

[shrewd needle]

Freedom SEVA has the highest protection, I think...but yea, the SSP-100 is the high-end version of that, since SEVA is mid-tier since CoP, I think?

[worldly thicket]

There’s An artifact and I can’t get it cause it’s in an anomaly

[mental bronze]

But I have put so much money into it :0 big yikes on me

[maiden grotto]

Bolts and good timing

[shrewd needle]

Who needs a turret? Just graft a cannon into their turret-like mouths!

[wintry pumice]

The bulba?

[pseudo lotus]

I hear they have potential uses in space navigation.

[worldly thicket]

It’s Jst fazed through the floor

[shrewd needle]

And here I thought all artifacts are in anomalies? Oh, wait...

[gloomy nebula]

Still no update huh,..

[worldly thicket]

ITS STUCK

[shrewd needle]

Update when HL3. So no.

Also, Dachs...that's a problematic bug, we've all been there...

[wintry pumice]

Because someone is not doing their Duty

[indigo oriole]

Nah I mean in game cuz it’s related to artifact spawn rates. More experienced u are the better chances for less common artifacts

[maiden grotto]

What's that big black ball over the lake near Malachite?

[shrewd needle]

They love their Freedom too much. It just Sparked in their heads. 😏

I'm getting banned for that, ain't I?

[wintry pumice]

The one near zalissya

[worldly thicket]

No

[indigo oriole]

I was wondering the same thing yesterday to be precise

[maiden grotto]

No, the one of the lake near Malachite

[mental bronze]

Where did you hear that?

[wintry pumice]

Send pics in #📸┃screens_and_videos

[shrewd needle]

Uh...I didn't know S2 had a ranking system at all?

Also, this slow-mode can die.

[worldly thicket]

It cost me 50k

[indigo oriole]

Game files ?

[pseudo lotus]

whats the point of Duty anyway? They're supposed to be killing mutants, and yet it was FREEDOM that finally put down those blind dogs outside rostok....

[maiden grotto]

It just floats there with loads of bodies around the lake edge

[wintry pumice]

I have seen it but you can't reach it

[shrewd needle]

Just find another anomaly field?

[worldly thicket]

Don’t do anything anyways

[mental bronze]

Can you expound or link? Havent heard of that mechanic, sounds interesting

[indigo oriole]

Instead of an answer I only get more questions following my question. It’s hilarious

[maiden grotto]

but whats it's purpose ?

[worldly thicket]

I spent so much time looking my suit went red

[shrewd needle]

Duty's point is to show off how shooting mutants doesn't work, as the player and the inhabitants of the Zone are finding out the difficult way and people like Hermit are just chilling.

[wintry pumice]

Can't you see it's taking a leak...

[indigo oriole]

Experience: Common, Uncommon, Rare, Epic chances
Newbie: 80%, 20%, 0%, 0% Experience: 50%, 48%, 1.9%, 0.1% Veteran: 30%, 59%, 10%, 1% Master: 10%, 65%, 20%, 5%
This is the data I see in v1.0.3. You can still get a Common artifact, but your chances are really low.

[pseudo lotus]

woaaahhh.....

[mental bronze]

Is that difficulty setting? If no then.. how do you raise your experience level?

[wintry pumice]

There's a master difficulty?

[indigo oriole]

Visual purpose I think

[shrewd needle]

They're like those poor military boys in the Military Warehouses in Clear Sky...just waiting to be wiped out.

[mental bronze]

Oh good point, no only the three I think

[maiden grotto]

Abandoned anomaly, due to development constraints

[worldly thicket]

Maybe I should Jst go to veteran when hunting

[indigo oriole]

It’s not master difficulty. It’s about experience. Deeper u are into main story the better stalker u are I think how this works but I don’t know when it happens

[shrewd needle]

Experience in gameplay terms tied to story is first I've heard, NGL.

[mental bronze]

You already try ctrl+f for master or the other terms in the code?

[indigo oriole]

I can tell that only I know the answer on my own question 🤣🤣🤣🤣.

[indigo oriole]

Alt+f4 try that

[mental bronze]

Classic

Im playing on xbox so I dont know the level of access you're playing with. I take it just plaintext config files based on the response?

[shrewd needle]

I mean, there's a reputation system, but all it does is turn friendly factions green on the crosshair and everyone else keeps the crosshair white.

Never seen any ranking in the PDA or elsewhere.

[maiden grotto]

There was another anomaly I found in the red forest, like I weird growth out the ground surrounded by flies

[indigo oriole]

Look I found that info on Reddit. I’m too poor to own PC like some of u. So don’t judge me. I’ve just asked the question that none of u can answer

[worldly thicket]

I may or may not have Jst killed the entire rookie village by leading a pusdo giant in

[shrewd needle]

u wot m8?

[wintry pumice]

You will also see a whirling mass of red leaves from time to time but no idea if it's just for tourist attraction

[worldly thicket]

Killed rookie village

[indigo oriole]

Tourist breakfast

[shrewd needle]

You're asking a question based on Reddit?

Pretty sure only SoC had ranking systems.

[wintry pumice]

There's no pseudogiant nearby.... I think

[mental bronze]

First time huh?

[worldly thicket]

I lead it from halfway across the map or I spawned it in

[indigo oriole]

Is it forbidden like going to Prypiat early ?

[shrewd needle]

I think any essential NPCs will just respawn or are unkillable?

[wintry pumice]

Pseudogiants are random encounters?

[mental bronze]

Oh dude that thing I've been wondering wtf is with it

[worldly thicket]

Flat 939 is ap correct

[shrewd needle]

No idea; I've never been to Pripyat.

[ornate sable]

Flat is extended range, AP is AP

[worldly thicket]

Where do I buy ap rounds

[wintry pumice]

Flat rounds are subsonic rounds, I think they have more range

[vernal monolith]

is there a way to force granite squad to spawn in

[shrewd needle]

All 9 * 39 rounds are sub-sonic, flat is just flatter trajectory than regular.

[wintry pumice]

Vendors.....

[worldly thicket]

WHERE

[indigo oriole]

It’s also story locked. More u progress then vendors have better loot but only the good ones like in Rostok or Yaniv

[shrewd needle]

Any, but Rostok good place, since that's like the bazaar of the Zone now.

[worldly thicket]

I’ll check Rostock

[wintry pumice]

Try them all... If you're near rookie village, then give some chicken to sidorovich in exchange for the ammo

[indigo oriole]

What ammo type do u need again ?

[shrewd needle]

Rostok should be named 'Restock', since that's what all the traders keep doing. 😏

[vernal monolith]

havin a stroke lol, 90% of the way done with the last step mission and im soft locked by enemies not spawning

[wintry pumice]

It's not you having a stroke, it's them

[shrewd needle]

Greasy chicken...dripping.

[vernal monolith]

soon to be both

[indigo oriole]

Good we got doctor here

[worldly thicket]

939 ap

[shrewd needle]

Any trader...but Rostok and maybe Sidorovich.

[vernal monolith]

have 700 rounds of 7.62x39 bz in a pk ready for that room and nobody spawning smh

[mental bronze]

What are yalls favorite weapons?

[wintry pumice]

Dnipro

[worldly thicket]

Should I even use the rpk

[shrewd needle]

VSS Vintorez.

[vernal monolith]

most fun i had was spawning in some gl shots and nuking some bloodsuckers shrug

[indigo oriole]

Awwww so u mean rhino or AS lavina ammo. I’m looking for that ammo too. I can only get subsonic, flat. No vendor is selling AP for me and I’m after 23rd mission so quite far upon the story

[vernal monolith]

playing normally? kharod is nice for sure

[wintry pumice]

Maybe in end game, but not worth the weight of it and its ammo take

[worldly thicket]

Darn

[vernal monolith]

dnipro is a beast w 7.62 conversion but ammo economy is very good if you dont swap it

lmg not worth it tbh, issa AR/shotgun game imo

[worldly thicket]

I’m at 28 nothing

[shrewd needle]

Get sniper. Problem solved.

[mental bronze]

Ill have to check those out, ive been using the grom because i thought the grenades would be nice, and its fine, but it sometimes leaves me wanting more

[wintry pumice]

You have a whole life ahead of you

[worldly thicket]

Woah I didn’t know I could make dinpro 7.62 probably carry that now

[indigo oriole]

Don’t know why but vendors don’t sell it but it lays everywhere. If u find green crates just brake every one of them. Just by doing so I got 60. It’s not much but something. For rhino
Is enough for 2-3 missions

[shrewd needle]

You become old at 22. 😏

Just ask Scar, the 'old man'.

[indigo oriole]

Dnipro look odd to me

[worldly thicket]

Should I go for dinprov 7.62

[vernal monolith]

if you plan on using dnipro long term the conversion isnt very comfy on the ammo ngl, id swap it once you start doing endgame in pripyat

[shrewd needle]

Again, VSS Vintorez.

[wintry pumice]

Stick with 556 , change to 762 in pripyat

[vernal monolith]

vss and val feel too weak on stalker difficulty

[indigo oriole]

Kharod, Saiga and m701 super. That’s my inventory

[mental bronze]

Is it good close up? I never seem to notice humans until we're almost touching tips

[worldly thicket]

Almost to Pripyat I got 939 as my primary

[shrewd needle]

You serious? I'm using the VSS Vintorez to mow down anyone and everyone. The AS Val is garbage in S2, but the Vintorez is heavy-duty.

[worldly thicket]

Veteran saiga till Texan and vss

[shrewd needle]

I take BS down at point-blank range from hip-fire without issues. Just go fully automatic for CQB and single-fire for long-range.

[indigo oriole]

U can mod kharod to use ammo like AKM’s and that ammo is sold by most vendors. I mean AP of course

[worldly thicket]

Oh Kharod can take 7.62

[wintry pumice]

Yeah because with 556 ammo you can just not worry about running out of it as you mostly will find it on enemies but 7.62 can be hard to find

[shrewd needle]

Pretty sure you'd use as much ammunition as well...having to dump magazines is not funny.

[worldly thicket]

I’ll do that one then

[vernal monolith]

you mean 5.45? 5.56 isnt nearly as common, at least the 995

[worldly thicket]

I won’t. I have a shotgun and other more

[indigo oriole]

Texan is good but fire rate on that one is worse than saiga. U can mag dump it to anything and kill immediately. I’m furious that biggest magazine attachment is only available after point of no return

[worldly thicket]

It’s the same and has more accuracy

[wintry pumice]

Yup, that's what I meant to say

[worldly thicket]

Who u siding with

[vernal monolith]

and the reload is killer slow idk, i used saiga the entire time on my run

probably gonna use mostly saiga on every run

[indigo oriole]

But u can buy plenty of AP 7.62 from vendors in malachite, Rostock and Yaniv or Rookie Village

[indigo oriole]

Smart stalker

[wintry pumice]

Why buy ammo when you can just loot it? I mean it's just a preference is all

[mental bronze]

Saiga is bae

[worldly thicket]

I buy my ammo

[indigo oriole]

Spark. My first playthrough

[shrewd needle]

Man, I jump down a watch-tower and get jumped on by 4 Bandits firing fully automatic into me...

HOW do enemies just spawn rather than dynamically originate? WTF?

[vernal monolith]

i loot ammo for my shotgun and have to buy most of the 995 and b-32

[wintry pumice]

How do you afford repairs?

[indigo oriole]

U know we talk about AP. ? 7.62 is harder to get from green crates than 9x39 AP

[indigo oriole]

I’ve got 900K without cheats and exploits z I’m on Xbox my friend

[flint wyvern]

Greetings STALKERS

[wintry pumice]

Yeah that's why I let them pile up in my inventory and dump them when it's time to go rambo

[vernal monolith]

that makes one of us shrug aint got time for all the artefact hunting

[worldly thicket]

Anomalies hunting on my way back and picking up guns

[flint wyvern]

Need a little advice if possible

What if anything should I make sure I do before entering SIRRCA

[vernal monolith]

bring a good amount of ammo bc there arent vendors there lol

[indigo oriole]

I’m using one armor and 3 guns. Rest I sell. The economy is very good in this game.

[wintry pumice]

Even with that won't make much especially with weapon upgrade and exo maintenance

[worldly thicket]

Explore it too

[storm token]

Any news on SDK?

[indigo oriole]

Don’t bring too much stuff. Be 40kg tops

[worldly thicket]

I make it bye with like 40k in the bank from doing main quests dunno how you can’t it’s only like 50k per repair for me

[wintry pumice]

Why do you want an SDK

[wintry pumice]

You haven't upgraded the exo?

[worldly thicket]

I have

[hollow sable]

i have a highly upgraded daimond exosuit and i just got a regular exosuit
is it worth it to fully upgrade the exosuit or i should just sell it

[indigo oriole]

U got exo ? Falcon is 25K if I get to many suprise spawns with aimbot npc

[vernal monolith]

im using one armor and 5 guns right now for the meme. usually 3 guns. on pc so i just use dev console to add a 0 to quest rewards lol

i like shooting everything so it gets expensive shrug

[maiden grotto]

Who was it who asked for a Veles earlier?

You can get on from Lichen in teh Red Forest

[flint wyvern]

Very good. Have to bring that paperweight regardless

[worldly thicket]

It’s like all the sprint ones and not lead ones n stuff I got the main ones

[wintry pumice]

Sell the regular, diamond is valuable

[hollow sable]

should i use it over the daimond variant?

[shrewd needle]

To reverse-engineer the Zone and its secrets...to unfog the Iron Forest, the CNPP and the Generators...!

[ornate sable]

Yes. You'll pick up a decent upgraded 5.45 rifle there, so you can just not bring one and use the one you find there. But bring a good shotgun (you'll find a decent one there too, though)

[worldly thicket]

Cnpp will be a dlc

[hollow sable]

i guess the daimond is better

[indigo oriole]

I would be bored quickly playing that way but thx for being honest

[wintry pumice]

To find sidorovich's source of chickens gasps

[shrewd needle]

Doubtful, considering how much of the Zone is under the fog.

[worldly thicket]

Iron forest has a save file alrdy

[hollow sable]

and limansk

[wintry pumice]

Ruby is better but it weighs like a crap ton

[shrewd needle]

What do you think the Emissions are for? The Generators aren't there for the Earth's noosphere...they're there to find Sidorovich's chicken source and not finding them on time led to the Zone's creation!

[worldly thicket]

It will unless they only want the iron forest as a dlc

[shrewd needle]

I mean it's doubtful they'll make DLCs like that...they'd have to add massive areas to the game seeing the land area under fog...

[indigo oriole]

Exo is crap. I don’t like the look of it. Falcon is a way to go

[frigid hill]

a.z.t.e.c. has been warned

Reason: Bad word usage

[hollow sable]

i mean the best exosuit is either daimond or ruby

[worldly thicket]

They know it’s already molded and has a save file why would you have a save file for an inaccessible area

[vernal monolith]

not even sure what set it off but ok lol

[indigo oriole]

Naah falcon is

[flint wyvern]

Should I upgrade from the Cracker Kharod & Dead eye before SIRRCA or amIalright

[worldly thicket]

If you save in iron forest the save says iron forest

[hollow sable]

what about cnpp?

[shrewd needle]

You can't go INSIDE Iron Forest, to start with...

[wintry pumice]

Why are you using cracker still?

[indigo oriole]

U good

[worldly thicket]

Cheats also THEY ARE HIGHLITED WHEN YOU GO OVER THEM

[flint wyvern]

Good question. Send me on a mission for a better option.

[vernal monolith]

looks like you turned down the free mutant deleter saiga

[flint wyvern]

What you talking about bout Willis?

[wintry pumice]

Did you not see the one on the floor near Nimble when you confront him?

[shrewd needle]

Yea, because the areas are physically modelled...that doesn't mean there's any missions or anything there and the CNPP is like...nothing more than a shell of thin model walls...Reactor #4 is literally not even solid at the roof and there's a fire burning there since SoC...so it's almost non-existent.

[flint wyvern]

Guess ….not?

[hollow sable]

limansk has distinct buildings

[worldly thicket]

Yeah it’s makes sense it’s in dev but there’s save files and also what areas are hughlited when you go over them only ones that you can go to not the fog they are highlighted

[wintry pumice]

Either you can go back to the cave to get it or go to Yantar to get saiga

[shrewd needle]

Right, but still inaccessible and I doubt a small DLC will be able to fix that...you'd need to add those areas properly and they're massive...

[wintry pumice]

Wait can you go back to the cave?

[flint wyvern]

Anyway you could be a bit more cave specific

[worldly thicket]

Hol on I’ll ping you in media it wouldn’t be small

[flint wyvern]

I don’t remember their names lol. Really not in it for the story sorry to say

[wintry pumice]

The place where you confront Nimble? Or just get the one in Yantar

[flint wyvern]

Is the one in Yantar free. Cause that’s a good price

[vernal monolith]

the one you dove into with a dozen snorks in it

[plain crag]

does anyone know if (enemy/random NPC) armor/weapons scales with your own? just finished my first playthrough and somehow ended up with a Diamond exoskeleton, SVU-MK S-3, and a Saiga D-12 and at that point literally everyone that wasn't a Bandit was in full exoskeleton and the game just became a "just headshot everyone with the SVU because anything else takes forever"

[wintry pumice]

Yup google it, there should be a video on how to reach it

[flint wyvern]

Awesome tyvm

[shrewd needle]

There's no 'scaling' in this game, all loot is random.

[plain crag]

I mean what they're equipped with, not what they drop

[worldly thicket]

@shrewd needle is cnpp a region currently accessible nun uh is iron forest nun uh

[shrewd needle]

Still same thing.

[wintry pumice]

After the awakening of the Monolith, everyone wears exo

[hollow sable]

guys are there any main missions in yantar?

[worldly thicket]

Holy crap you are so so smart why would the devs code region names if they are inaccessible

[wintry pumice]

Nope

[frigid hill]

ascelina has been warned

Reason: Bad word usage

[shrewd needle]

And all the area to the north/north-east of CNPP and the Generators?

[hollow sable]

what about side missions

[wintry pumice]

Nope

[shrewd needle]

Technically, they also 'coded' A-Life before not including it in the game, so...

[plain crag]

Late game feels very "Be wearing an exoskeleton and have a sniper rifle or just die" especially against ||Granite||

[worldly thicket]

If they wanted to use it they would have it as red forest yaniv in prypyat

[wintry pumice]

Just goes to show why everyone fears the Monolith

[smoky ginkgo]

TIL that Red Fortress is actually CNPP's unfinished reactors 5 and 6
you can roam around the entire roof, including the reactor building, if you climb on the top of the stairs and jump on various roofs and railings
fantastic view on the rest of the plant and the sarcophagus

[hollow sable]

hmmm what about jupiter

[shrewd needle]

Wait, EVERYone? Or just everyone in Monolith?

[wintry pumice]

Nope, not that I remember

[smoky ginkgo]

everyone, give or take a few guys here and there

[shrewd needle]

Yea, but #4's roof is not fully solid and the interior doesn't even exist...

[wintry pumice]

Every faction wears exos after that, except for bandits as they're poor and sometimes maybe the IPSF too

[plain crag]

"you gotta kill these dudes to progress -- btw they're on an elevated platform above you that is literally inaccessible without console commands and there's 3 of them using Gauss rifles, hope you have one or at least a one-hit-headshot-capable sniper rifle and are wearing an exo because if you specced anything else you're dead"

[worldly thicket]

Not to mention 2 dlc confirmed

[shrewd needle]

A moment of the silent for the Limansk exo-skeleton Bandit... 😔

[smoky ginkgo]

yeah, and the map itself isnt accessible besides mods
while Red Fortress is explorable, despite being juste an emtpy shell ... it's still a really nice place to explore

[plain crag]

I don't think the point-of-no-return combat sequences were very well thought out lmao

[shrewd needle]

Well...we'll see about that when they arrive.

[wintry pumice]

They said that it's a bug, but don't know when it will be fixed

[shrewd needle]

I doubt Clear Sky is ever getting 'fixed'...well, any of the original trilogy, that is.

[worldly thicket]

Coded never included big hint

[smoky ginkgo]

and there's what seems to be an RBMK reactor lid under construction in the SKD building just east of the Red Fortress, very nice spot too 😄

[worldly thicket]

Exactly also why would they have areas for Jst a sliver of it and highlight fog with. Them

[shrewd needle]

Yea, I used a trainer to go through into the Iron Forest and CNPP once I got to the Garbage...didn't know they were actually inaccessible and at firs thtought the fog was like GTA fog which'd reveal with travel...but since theyr'e inaccessible, I had to trainer myself in.

Honestly, it was eerie in the Iron Forest and CNPP is...CNPP, with the sole exception of a trio of Bandits spawning on the roof, where Strelok fought through in SoC...was interesting, but the lack of anything moving or sometimes even basic infrastructure made it a bit bland.

[shrewd needle]

Like I said, we'll see when DLC arrives. Till then...I'm considering both the CNPP and Generators as a lost cause.

[smoky ginkgo]

Generators isnt a lost cause, since you can visit the place in 2 out of 4 endings

[shrewd needle]

I mean free-roam accessibility and general existence in the world, not just in cut-scenes.

[wintry pumice]

Not all of them?

[smoky ginkgo]

you're right, all 4, but only 2 endings have an exterior visit too

[wintry pumice]

Ward ending huh

[plain crag]

yeah i snuck into the CNPP early in the game and im like "ooo im in a high level hard area" and i walked around and got a few artifacts and was like "wow this place aint what it used to be huh"

[smoky ginkgo]

Ward and Scar

[shrewd needle]

There's artifacts in CNPP?! 'Cause I sure as hell found no anomalies or artifacts there or Iron Forest or Generators.

[wintry pumice]

Hmm

[smoky ginkgo]

Scar's path is much, much more impressive visually speaking, when you get there
stood there in awe for several minutes IRL 😄

[plain crag]

fire whirl, for one

[smoky ginkgo]

Regarding the rest of the map, especially CNPP and Iron Forest, I'm not worried that it will come. It's very nearly there.
And there's also the Cooling Pond that might appear, there's some room under the clouds, east of Cooling Towers and north of SIIRCA. It's mentionned in PDA entries, as the home of lab X-6 : the place where they started the Caribbean Experiment in 1995

[ancient frost]

now my grandpa and my papa want to game with me plz boys ill buy 2 more extreme copy's i need co-op

[trim vector]

Well, finished the game. Thanks to the Dev's for the many hours of fun I've had with this. Just err, dial back the OP boss fights next time 🙂

[shrewd needle]

Yea, the areas are all physically-modelled...but making them functional, free-roam maps...

[shrewd needle]

I'll check if I ever feel like heading back in to see what's there. Was just a pain through the constant radiation-induced white-fog in the sides of the screen, TBH.

[smoky ginkgo]

that's the main reason I enjoyed some mods in older STALKER games, being able to explore the CNPP freely

Also had a bug in Clear Sky, where Strelok just stood there without moving at all. Killed everyone, saved, and spent hours roaming around, checking every roof, peeking in the sarcophagus, ...

[vernal monolith]

turns out the fix to granite squad not spawning was.. load an even earlier quick save lol

[mental bronze]

Did you by chance mean the vs vintar? I cant seem to find this one

[worldly thicket]

Yo guys

[vernal monolith]

didnt mean to reply to another message oop

[worldly thicket]

Should I get the weird bolt to sell

[plain crag]

no they were spawning, my complaint was just "these fights (particularly on Veteran) are built around a very specific weapon and armor build and if you dont have that you're kind of just hosed or are going to have a fun time reloading this fight after death about 45 times"

[vernal monolith]

@plain crag no im aware what your concern was, i was saying when i joined an hour ago that Granite squad specifically were not loading in so i was soft locked in a room near the end of my ward playthrough

figured it out tho

[plain crag]

ah, i experienced many bugs on my playthrough but that wasnt one of them

[worldly thicket]

How

[shrewd needle]

Yea; I just use the real names of the guns...so yes, the 'Vintar'. Much higher powered than the AS Val (Lavina), if you compare.

[vernal monolith]

loaded an earlier save and ransacked the place speedrun style and for whatever reason that prompted the wave to start when i got back in the room

[shrewd needle]

Read about that bug on the Wiki...I'm using Sky Reclamation, so I guess I won't get the bug, but OTOH, I guess there's post-story free-roam, unlike S2, so there's that.

[smoky ginkgo]

I kinda agree.

First time I went there, I didn’t pick the EM-1 nor any Gauss rifle, no sniper either, just a GP37 and a SPSA-14. It was a long and painful crawl til the end, especially after siding with Strelok : means you’re missing a very useful artefact …
I came back for the other endings with gauss ammo, picked the EM-1, M701, SPSA and Vintar with AP rounds. Felt much, much easier. And way funnier !
(All played on veteran)

Speaking of Vintar 9x39 AP rounds, no trader has any in stock. Checked everywhere … except Roosevelt and Shah, since I’ve wiped their camps, torches their belongings, and drank their blood.

[vernal monolith]

man i wanna 100% this game but going back for all the notes just seems so painful lol

[worldly thicket]

Oh no I could never

[wintry pumice]

Even if you side against Strelok you still have a good chance of not getting the artefact because in my case his body just vanished

[shrewd needle]

All ammunition I use was looted from the world...stashes, corpses, everything. MapGenie useful.

[mental bronze]

Do upgrades significantly increase repair costs?

[smoky ginkgo]

I’m nearly never running out of ammo, except for 9x39 AP. Even going full headshot in semi-auto ends up eating my reserve…. And I can’t find a trader that can give me a refill. I do buy a few buckshots every now and then tho

[worldly thicket]

Compass is op max physical protection

[shrewd needle]

Well...I guess that one mirrors reality...AP being too expensive to shoot. 😔

[vernal monolith]

enemies with gauss rifles dont seem to care about weird ball or compass.. or diamond exo lol

[shrewd needle]

Gauss Rifle is not meant to give a shit about anything except killing everything in its range. Well, one at a time.

[sharp turret]

I think it cares about hit location

[smoky ginkgo]

There are some “semi scripted” enemies also.
Like a Ward guy near Red Fortress if you go there before the main mission, or another near the Malachite building. They have Integral-A and they one-shot you and your diamond exo from 65 meters, no questions asked lol
There’s a Monolith sniper in Yaniv also, like that

[shrewd needle]

Just shoot explosive slugs through it. 😏

[sharp turret]

Im pretty sure ive survived a gauss hit sometimes on veteran. Was wearing diamond and magic box. Most of the time it 1-shot me though

[shrewd needle]

I'm long way from Gauss Rifle, TBH.

[sharp turret]

You can get one as a reward for the vodka questline

[vernal monolith]

it's not so much the gauss 1 shotting me in pripyat/generators. it's moreso that there are always a squad/full horde of enemies so if one gauss hits the other guys laser me before i can duck and hit a stim

i get more annoyed by the pixel accurate death squads tbh. noticed it a lot in the weird shaped corridors in last mission

[smoky ginkgo]

I definitely survived more than once against gauss hits (playing on vet with Diamond exo, + one Compass)
I guess it depends on where they hit …

[shrewd needle]

Where, though?

[sharp turret]

You cant miss the vodka questline i think

[smoky ginkgo]

There’s a brand new one in Pripyat, and you can loot them pretty often up there

[shrewd needle]

I'm still at the 'Go to Azimuth Station' part...

[vernal monolith]

it's a side quest and you have to pick the option to help the guy further which requires that you destroy the jammer or w/e it is instead of interacting with it. i initially made the mistake of interacting with it to SHUT IT OFF and shot it right after but it was too late lol

[smoky ginkgo]

It’s not only gauss, I think some enemies are buffed.
I got insta-deleted by M701 also, SVD MK2, and …… Integral-A.
One shot, a brand new exo and 100% health, poof you’re gone
(while I survived multiple times from M701 and SVD hits)

[sharp turret]

Way further ahead of you then

[plain crag]

yeah "you're walking into a room with mezzanine floors above you covered by metal on either side and the moment you walk in 3 exosuit guys with gausses ether you while the guys with assault rifles that spawn in the same floor as you keep you from having any hope of aiming at the gauss guys guns and also you cant get up to the floor the gauss guys are on and also these guys have to die before you progress"

like I had a gauss, diamond exosuit, and several physical protection strong artifacts so it wasnt too too awful but i was like "man if I didnt i'd have to reload this fight 45 times"

[shrewd needle]

Back into the room before that room and shoot by peeking in, then?

[plain crag]

there's a dropdown so you're stuck

[vernal monolith]

i got annoyed and literally spawned in another 200 batteries for my gauss and just started jiggle peeking that hallway lol

i had to replay that specific part to fix the granite squad issue

[smoky ginkgo]

Last fight ?
This one was unfair I agree

[worldly thicket]

How am I supposed to get rosevelts stash at duty outpost near reactor

[plain crag]

im fine with a fight being hard but in an open world game with lots of weapon options it kinda felt like "i hope you built this particular way, have a gauss and found a diamond exoskeleton because we clearly built this fight around you having all these things, without it you're hosed"

[plain crag]

its ||in the same room/building as the bar|| ||look for ladders||

[mental bronze]

Who can upgrade a dnipro?

[drifting forge]

Harpy

And the dude in Pripyat

[sharp turret]

To be fair a saiga was all i needed to blast through granite on veteran and you get 2 new modden saigas in there

But i did have upgraded diamond and phys resist artifacts. If you go in without those it can be a massive pain

[maiden grotto]

3x blood suckers, pack of fleshies, squad of ward, 1x squad of other faction... friendly faction jsut stood there and everything else just went mental at me 😄

[maiden grotto]

Basically unkillable... a walking tank

[inland sage]

Pripyat is...annoying so far. I think I've murdered at least a few dozen monolith in this one building alone.

The bodies are piling up like firewood. My lootbrain has malfunctioned. There's so much loot but I can't take even close to all of it.

[drifting forge]

One building spawns infinite

[lilac sandal]

Put loot in the head of an enemy, carry head full of loot, profit.