☢┃stalker-general

[shrewd needle]

Is Pripyat access the point of no return or can you still free-roam?

[inland sage]

I did get a funny battery gun though.

[lilac sandal]

Is there a warp portal there or something?

[inland sage]

You can still free-roam. There's a guide even. I don't know about getting back via guide but you can leave.

[drifting forge]

Idk I'm not with the Ordo Malleus

[lilac sandal]

Dank farrik! Well alrighty then...

[inland sage]

Oh there's...no upgrades for the gauss gun?

[inland sage]

In...head? Heads come off?

[worldly thicket]

No scrat it’s rare

[lilac sandal]

Nah I'm just kidding, but you could stuff loot in a body and carry that body.

Loot goblin tactic right there

[inland sage]

Right now I'm trying to reach a stash

[hazy gyro]

well, I got the run stalker, run achievement, and I was nowhere near chimera

[plain crag]

is there a way to tell what stash is referred to by a pda? I'll "get one" on a PDA but it seems like the stash PDA "names" are randomly generated no matter what the PDA note is titled or says

[worldly thicket]

Send it

[inland sage]

Oh, neat. I found it. The hole.

I jumped in the hole. Good thing I quicksaved first because there is no escaping the hole.

[worldly thicket]

Hehehehehe

[pseudo lotus]

At least the stash box is close to everything….

[inland sage]

Eh why is not Clear Sky an option?

Anyways this stash in the enerhetyk palace of culture is proving its name true. Hard to find stash. Because I can't. FIND IT.

Death 52 fell to death.

Death 53 fell to death.

[dense quartz]

Thats most likely because you liked Stalker Clear Sky

[inland sage]

Death 54 fell to death.

Death 55 fell to death.

Death 56 fell to death. I need this stash.

[inland sage]

I wonder if this will crash the game.

Well...it didn't crash the game. Some serious lag, but no crash. And it got the door open. I dropped 240 or so grenades and then shot one of them. From a vaguely safe distance.

[charred nova]

clear sky is the best game so this poll is just wrong

[dense bloom]

Sledgehammer Sounds of music sidequest, in duga, he is nowhere.. is it normal ? do i have to come later ? i did the fasut main quest in duga

[charred nova]

[dense quartz]

DAMN IT

[shrewd needle]

Am I missing something or is SIRCAA HQ like...straight out of Minority Report/Cyberpunk 2077 futurism?

[shrewd needle]

Man of culture, Jack, but no.

[dense bloom]

OK, its bugged..

[charred nova]

its always worked for me

[dense bloom]

https://www.reddit.com/r/stalker/comments/1hn04ln/the_sound_of_music_side_quest_trouble_to_trigger/)

I think its because i picked up the PDA before meeting him.

[charred nova]

that was not what i was shrugging but

im not familiar with this side quest

[dense bloom]

if someone else wonder why this quest is bugged, cuz of main quest in siirca.. i knew this quest will provide quite a few quest bugs, so far its my first one.

[worldly thicket]

Drop them all at once

[worldly thicket]

HEY BUDDY MINE FIRST

[charred nova]

your poll sucks L bozo

[worldly thicket]

Really damn you won’t be alive much longer Im the new protagonist

[charred nova]

would you like to test this theory

[worldly thicket]

Yes

[worldly thicket]

I’m gammas protagonist

[charred nova]

!tempmute @worldly thicket 1m ego death

[frigid hill]

.herr.dachs has been muted for 1 minute

Reason: ego death

Muted until · Jan 17, 2025, 2:07 AM

[charred nova]

MOGGED

[worldly thicket]

/load mostrecentsave

/console commands /kil handsome jack

[charred nova]

/console commands /godmode

[sturdy jacinth]

!ban @charred nova

[frigid hill]

🚫 somethingunique, you can't use that.

[worldly thicket]

Ok buddy it still works through and guess what your not the protagonist but you can’t use console commands

[charred nova]

i would use it right back at you

but it would actually work on you

[sturdy jacinth]

I tried to help bro 😔

[charred nova]

ik

[sturdy jacinth]

One of these days, wolf is going to have an aneurysm and let me do it, when that happens it’ll be funny

[worldly thicket]

Im gonna try

!ban @charred nova Not having a low taper fade

[frigid hill]

🚫 .herr.dachs, you can't use that.

[charred nova]

fucken low taper fade lmfao

[dense bloom]

!ban @dense bloom

Adios !

[vast mortar]

Yo, guys

[cobalt fiber]

Peak

[dense bloom]

hmmmm im so goated, the command itself didnt want to kick me out, AH !

[vast mortar]

Anyone know why Richter is so emotional at Yaniv?

[solar cobalt]

Because the zone doesn't love him like us and Strelok apparently

[vast mortar]

Poor baby

[solar cobalt]

In his dialogue for me he was saying how he's guided people to death and then Strelok the zone loves and just lets him waltz through it, poor guy I tried my best to console him as Skif

Also funnily enough, if after that conversation you hit F to talk to him, he'll give you a free vodka bottle. If you wait for his dialogue to finish and hit F again, he keeps giving you bottles. I did it until I had about 30 bottles before I realized there was no point because you get showered in vodka anyways

[timber kindle]

What mod manager would you recommend for stalker 2?

[hidden yoke]

seems like the "Back to the Slag Heap" bug where you go to the sawmil but softlock (Scar doesn't spawn) only happen if you don't do it immediately

when the game despawn richter, it also despawn Scar for some reason

[inland sage]

I GOOOOO into a hall and I get controller-whammied, so I run up, and I buckshot it to death. I go into a room and I loot a little, I go outside
Controller

[sturdy jacinth]

Low taper fade

[shrewd needle]

How do do a melee attack with a weapon in hand?

[worldly thicket]

Ward or monolith at x15

[frigid hill]

maxthemamagen has been warned

Reason: Bad word usage

[dry siren]

I LOVE BEING A BANDIT 🗣️

ueheheheh loners bewaaare, you're in for a scaaare

[inland sage]

It would...improve my life in the zone considerably if there were a lot less access to string, grenades, and grenade-shaped cups that can be attached to walls at low points.

[worldly thicket]

Sir wArd or mono at x15

[dry siren]

bandit

[worldly thicket]

Ward or mono

[dry siren]

BANDIT

[worldly thicket]

CHOOSE WARD OR MONO

[dry siren]

BANDIIIIIIT

[worldly thicket]

@inland sage ward or mono

[dry siren]

@inland sage bandit

[worldly thicket]

B or a

[inland sage]

Ooh, a building with heads on spikes in front of it. I'mmabouttomakeanameformyself.

[dry siren]

b a ndit

[worldly thicket]

So b which is ward

[kindred turtle]

Is the controller a bit spongy? Took me a bit to kill it with spsa14 shotgun

[dry siren]

b as in bandit

[inland sage]

OR I AM EVENTUALLY HOW MANY FLIGHTS OF STAIRS DO I HAVE TO TAKE

[worldly thicket]

U went to backrooms

[hoary crest]

Did someone say bandit?

[dry siren]

BANDITBANDITBANDITBANDIT

[inland sage]

...oh there's just-
There's just a door at the top. With a code mechanism. WITH EIGHT DIGITS.

[hoary crest]

We are multiplying 😄

[worldly thicket]

I gotchu what’s ur location

[hoary crest]

Soon the bandits will own this server

[worldly thicket]

Ik all the codes

[inland sage]

I dunno, Just Getting The Code feels lame, do you have...a hint as to where I might find the code instead?

[dry siren]

yes, and soon the ChNPP

[worldly thicket]

Gotchu where u at

[inland sage]

Just south of the CSC, in an apartment building type place.

[worldly thicket]

I need a map pic

[inland sage]

There's a stash called 'Makeshift Hiding Place'. Ah, I'll do it in screenshots.

OH LORD JAYSUS

That actually startled me there, lol. Just a flesh, but I turned just in time to see it jumping right into my face.

[worldly thicket]

Picture

[inland sage]

Picture?

#📸┃screenshots_and_videos since I can't post images here.

[worldly thicket]

Of map

@inland sage so either I can give you the code unless you have found like 30 notes across the entire zone

[inland sage]

That sounds like a lot of effort, I'll go the lazy route this time lol

[pseudo lotus]

Real stalkers just leave the stash and pretend they never saw it

[worldly thicket]

I can jst dm you the notes and you can figure it out Jst send me some combos when you find it and I’ll give u the right one cause it’s bugged

[solar cobalt]

Can't begin to count the number of stashes behind doors that I decided to leave for my full exploration playthrough when the game is at peak

[inland sage]

It would be pretty helpful if the...passwords we know would show up on the screen when we are trying to input them.

[worldly thicket]

@inland sage sent notes in dm Jst send me codes h think could be right and I’ll let you know

[hazy gyro]

which ending would you guys want me to get? the strelok ending or the skif ending?

[worldly thicket]

Strelok

[pseudo lotus]

I think strelok should be everyone’s first playthru

[paper sand]

I think most trilogy players will go strelok the first time

[pearl minnow]

i defended zalysia but i’m stuck on the celebration that gaffer gives after and the mission doesn’t end should i keep playing or will the town go away

[paper sand]

Make a save just incase but I sleep and fast traveled away and it was fine, was also fine when I left normally

[pearl minnow]

okay thanks also the stash’s to save lens disappeared but i know he’s not super important but i’d like to save him if possible

[paper sand]

You need to save him earlier, best to do that one ASAP

[pearl minnow]

true oh well it was a mess even trying to do the defend stuff i don’t feel like going back now

[worldly thicket]

I killed em by accident

[paper sand]

Yeah I mean you don't really go back there so not a big loss

[worldly thicket]

It is it’s a major point near late game objectives

[paper sand]

Zalissya? Not really, when you goto cordon you might have a longer walk but that's 1 mission

[pearl minnow]

i had to go back to my save after sirca and get to zal before an emission happened to even get inside the town hall was a big headache especially with all the gear i had on me

[shrewd needle]

Anyone?

[still edge]

V , and if you spam it , it does it in combo

[shrewd needle]

What does 'V' do in vanilla configuration?

[mental bronze]

I just got done with 'happyness for everyone' and ran into a Spark called Hollywood, after some jibber jabber he invites me to take a bag of loot but when I open it they get mad, has anyone else encountered this?

Oh evidently it was the wrong bag 🙃

[inland sage]

I think I'll just...mark this mountain of corpses and move on.

[still edge]

V key?

[inland sage]

Well these repairs will cost more than a new house for Skif

I think I'll spare myself some of it for now and just stash the clusterfuck and use something else.

[shrewd needle]

Yes, you said V is for melee gun butt, but I have rebound all my keys, so IDK what V does in vanilla.

[inland sage]

Poor thing's at 0% after a handful of magazines.

[worldly thicket]

I’m think I accidentally doing strellock ending

[inland sage]

It feels appropriate to be shooting Monolith with the Lynx.

[worldly thicket]

What lynx

[inland sage]

The...Lynx sniper rifle?

It's funny because spoilers ||the Lynx is the rifle Strider used when he was a monolithian sniper||

[quartz obsidian]

I had the Lynx for awhile, now it’s in the trunk

[worldly thicket]

Oh I use the rpg as my sniper

[quartz obsidian]

I just found a mint condition one in a stash near the containers

[inland sage]

Okay I'll admit they got me there

I wasn't expecting the contents of that stash.

[worldly thicket]

Yo is it just me or does dalin slightly resemble Zelenskyy

[worldly thicket]

Where

[quartz obsidian]

I’ll have to take a look again tomorrow

Maybe north?

[forest fulcrum]

abyone have a fix or workaround for no being able to accept side quests from Arkhyp Lichen ?

[inland sage]

Eh, I believe you may just need to...progress further in the story?

[worldly thicket]

But anyways is it Jst me or does dalin resemble zlensky

[forest fulcrum]

ive done the doctor quest

[inland sage]

That should have done it then, 🤷‍♂️

[hot minnow]

Is the guardian of freedom suit still broken?

[worldly thicket]

Ew freedom user

[crystal granite]

People use that?

[hot minnow]

Would like too, especially considering it has two lead lined spots, but can’t seem to find a tech that can install the last one

[crystal granite]

I'd rather have 1 lead spot than wear Freedom stuff

[hot minnow]

Regardless of one’s disposition of freedom it’s a bug I was asking about

[worldly thicket]

I’d rather have 0

Tbh don’t use lead lined just use weird whata

[forest fulcrum]

are there nvgs in the game?

[hot minnow]

Weird water isn’t a good artifact

[worldly thicket]

R you stupid or are you stupid

[hot minnow]

Carry weight artifacts give better weight without the screen effects

[hoary crest]

Just wear the Armoured Bandit Jacket like a real chad smh

[worldly thicket]

It removes all radiation cuh like 99% except like insta kill area

[crystal granite]

I run around in a 💎

[worldly thicket]

Including artifacts

[hoary crest]

They do not give better weight unless you have multiple, but I agree bad artifact because it makes something that should be a consideration totally non-existent (rads)

[hoary crest]

Virgin exo user vs chad Bandit Armour user smh

[hot minnow]

Screen effect is a massive downside not worth it for me

[worldly thicket]

Hey this guy kinda gets it that’s why we use it removes rad and we pay in a little screen effect

[hoary crest]

I want rads to have more of a presence, not less of one. I don't even bother to go and get Weird Water, or any of the other Weird artifacts for that matter

[worldly thicket]

The screen effect isn’t even bad it’s way less than vodka unless you have bad motion sickness it will be fine

[hot minnow]

Considering I can barely see during the night anyways I’d rather not have an extra blurry effect

[crystal granite]

Bandit fashion ain't just my thing lol I still got a stashed Convoy from Korshunov and a suit of Duty armour

[hoary crest]

Only Liquid Rock + Thunderberry. The prior so I can use the latter

[worldly thicket]

It’s not blurry I can Jst tell the side of the screens moving

[hot minnow]

It puts a blue/orange hue like youre drunk

[hoary crest]

Alright I can respect the Convoy, but I'd be lying if I said Exos being generally better than everything else in every respect didn't annoy me quite a lot

[worldly thicket]

What if it does I have never seen it my nights are dark and it dosent hurt me

But I’ll prob try and get thunder berry next

[hot minnow]

Fair enough, weight isnt a massive concern for me, it’s more endurance which thunderberries only help with and unfortunately they give radiation

[crystal granite]

Well it is meant to be the next step up from your general suit of armour. There's a display piece over at SIIRCA that explains an experimental 4th gen exo used by the Ward

[hot minnow]

But after that im going guess that the suit is still bugged lol

[crystal granite]

Haven't been drunk since I've switched from vodka to anti rad meds. Keep finding it and it weighs less

[worldly thicket]

It’s the endurance I need

[hoary crest]

I'm aware of what its meant to be, its just a case of stats being tied to progression so tightly annoys me in nearly every game, but each to thier own.

Truth be told I gave up using anything but early game armour and entirely on using Phys' resist artifacts because it defeats the point of the harsh balancing I'm using a mod for

[worldly thicket]

We talking abt the water and it isn’t as bad

[hot minnow]

Anti rads are wayyyy better

[frigid hill]

poperumpus has been warned

Reason: Bad word usage

[worldly thicket]

All this guy has is non goated ideas

[hot minnow]

😂 all I said was thunderberries are a pain to get only found one so far no naughty words allowed 😔

[worldly thicket]

I’m prob gonna do that one strat to Jst reload

[hoary crest]

Kinda also wrong, the anti-rad effect on the Water is also stronger than any other option

If you can stomach the visual effect and it messing with your aim, its OP as sh*t

[worldly thicket]

Why would I even use weird rock

[hoary crest]

Retaining difficulty. Trust me, with certain setups, between armour and artifacts you can make Veteran feel like its easier than Rookie, which is just boring at that point

[crystal granite]

Need this exo #📸┃screens_and_videos message 😂

[crystal granite]

I'll play Veteran next, cause Stalker is easy. Items are crazy plentiful

[forest fulcrum]

wish ammo on the bodies were a bit more

[worldly thicket]

I need a artifact loadout but I don’t got a good one Jst got water and compass with diamond exo

[hoary crest]

Items are just as plentiful in Veteran, that does'nt really change, though if you want an actually difficult experience, the only way you're getting it is with mods, at least until/if GSC add a master mode

[crystal granite]

Yeah. Dude sprays and sprays and then has 3 bullets and a sausage (if you're lucky)

[worldly thicket]

Anyone got an artifact loadout

[forest fulcrum]

mutant drop would be nice too wasting 3 mags for nothing sometimes

[hot minnow]

Gotta get hypercube

[hoary crest]

If you want to be borderline immortal just find more Compass'. Weird Nut also if you want to remove bleeds from being threatening as well as radiation

[worldly thicket]

But uh weird nut kinda sucks I would get double less stamina

[hot minnow]

Doesn’t weird nut work best if ur standing still?

[hoary crest]

It does'nt effect your stamina?

And no @hot minnow thats the Ball

[forest fulcrum]

anyone have a good farming method for aRTIFACTS

[worldly thicket]

Heheheh so uhh I don’t I have the wata gonna go with compass and weird nut

[hot minnow]

There’s a very good route between garbage and cement factory on reddit

[hoary crest]

Swamps. Its by far the best place, its small, everything is condensed and you'll get 7-8 out each run

[worldly thicket]

Wrong one I’ll stop by the tower soon

[worldly thicket]

Sent one in screens n videos

[forest fulcrum]

Is it completely random or do some areas have a higher yield of dropping rare ones?

[worldly thicket]

Where do I get uhh bunches of compasses

[hoary crest]

All RNG

[hoary crest]

Grav' anomalies, same as where you found the first one. It also, you know, tells you on the item card 😂

[worldly thicket]

I mean like yeah but any spots that are fast To grind also how the hell do I tell them apart

[hot minnow]

I use the second route on this list good variety of anomaly types. https://www.reddit.com/r/stalker/s/PovNYOUAL4

And it ends at the duty base for quick selling

[worldly thicket]

I’m thinking 2 compass 2 hyper

[hot minnow]

I only use 1 hyper, haven’t tried two. Also with compasses I do believe that it gives 2 bars on physical defense bar and it maxes at 6 so depending on ur armor you may not wanna use multiple

[worldly thicket]

Pretty sure it stacks over btw and hypercyves should stack if not all compass’s

Or not

I wonder what artifacts I should get for decent ahh I got weird water 1 comp and 2 hyper cube what do I want for the last slot oh weird bolt

[hoary crest]

Wherever there are grav anomalies.... You tell them apart, because they're not fire or toxic anomalies

[worldly thicket]

I only need 1. Cause I got diamond

[hoary crest]

I cannot partake in this conversation any longer, I can feel my braincells dying. Good luck yall

[worldly thicket]

Your gonna stay here and explain why I need multiple compasses

[hoary crest]

You don't even need one. Its a buffer if you play the game like its CoD, if you use cover you don't even need an Exo

[worldly thicket]

Should I Jst keep my exo on or go fro full comp bad armor

[hoary crest]

Depends if you want an easy game, or a hard game. Treat it like you would Elden Ring. If you wanna feel like a god, use as much of the broken sh*t as you can get your hands on, if you want to feel like a Stalker in the zone who beats the odds, don't

[hot minnow]

Play how you want tbh

[forest fulcrum]

for apb is it better to go for range mods or pen ?

[shrewd needle]

Till enemies flank you and your cover is gone.

Then you play it like Doom 3.

[shrewd needle]

You have a Diamond Exo-skeleton, what are you asking another armour for?

[hot minnow]

Liberty better 😎

[trail fiber]

I am gonna need to make a plan on how im gonna go from Red Forest to Cordon

[trail fiber]

Is a diamond exo-skeleton good armor

[hot minnow]

Def top 2

[trail fiber]

Ah so its good and invulnerable from stalkers i heard

[worldly thicket]

Bro stop having mid opinions the diamond is better same with weird water

[trail fiber]

Or idk what it is about i just seen a short about it

[hot minnow]

Liberty has higher physical damage 😂

[worldly thicket]

By not even a quarter of a bar plus Jst have a compass on you in case your durability goes down

[hot minnow]

So you have to have an artifact to rival freedom superiority?

[worldly thicket]

This guy is worse then scar in s2 I’d rather join ward then side with freedom or even touch their gear

[hot minnow]

Bro doesn’t like the zone

[worldly thicket]

I don’t like freedom I’d rather join renegades

[forest fulcrum]

are some anomaly fields bugged im at the one south of cement factory and the thing just isnt appearing

[hot minnow]

Repping monolith and talking about factions haha

[hot minnow]

Sometime anomalies won’t spawn an artifact if that’s what u are referring to

[worldly thicket]

Monolith is best freedom is worst

[forest fulcrum]

says it there on the detector

[hot minnow]

Join monolith and lose all identifying personality traits!

[hot minnow]

Could be underneath or above u typically if I can’t find it it’s on a different level

[worldly thicket]

Eheheh Atleast I will survive forever compared to your puny couple of days left to live in the zone before we or another faction takes your puny freedom out

[forest fulcrum]

ist the one north of Daredevil path south of cement factory

[hot minnow]

Until the next random guy comes in and kills yall again. Imagine losing to one guy

[hot minnow]

Is that the electrical field one?

[worldly thicket]

Cough cough plot armor

[hot minnow]

Excuses!

[worldly thicket]

We would win if no plot armor lol anyways you want a free zone you would just make more criminals make more deaths from the zone make more family’s die due to wanting riches

[forest fulcrum]

wind

[hot minnow]

Monolith literally kills anyone who isn’t monolith 😂

[worldly thicket]

Ok ok hear me out how the hell does the military not control the zone like they got money money money

[hot minnow]

Is there like a helo there?

[hot minnow]

Guess it’s not worth their time anymore, but I mean isn’t Ward technically a government organization?

[worldly thicket]

Exactly we repel you guys so you won’t come back we protect our leaders there’s a reason why we have the zone for our great c con

[hot minnow]

C con is dead!

[worldly thicket]

Hehehe he might be for you but for us he is still alive and fighting

[hot minnow]

Strelok ended it, you are letting hallucinations from a random blind man lead you!

[worldly thicket]

You might just have puny minds yet we can see it all while you just see riches

[hot minnow]

Says the man who can only utter “For the monolith”

[worldly thicket]

exactly you puny humans don’t see how precious the zone is you only want to help others use it

[hot minnow]

Freedom is the only non robotic faction that wants the zone to stick around!

[worldly thicket]

we are the only righteous faction in the zone unlike you puny freedom you jst want it to be free let anyone come in let people ruin the natural beauty like the rest of the world however we won’t let this happen for the MONOLITH

[hot minnow]

Kinda crazy that yall suck so bad that two factions that hate each other come together to fight yall

[worldly thicket]

You are all united under riches

[hot minnow]

United to keep the zone from being a holocaust by you guys lol

[worldly thicket]

We are trying to protect the zone wait a second maybe I’ll become the next Sherlock

[hot minnow]

Protect the zone from free will

[worldly thicket]

Wait a second I aheva ok my Emotions wait a second I have an idea I’m going to kill you that will end this once and for all

[worldly thicket]

Protect the zone from getting to peoples heads

[hot minnow]

Good luck! Couldn’t even take zalissya, not even gonna touch the border of rostok

[forest fulcrum]

yep

[worldly thicket]

I have better idea I will leave the monolith I will form a faction to protect people from the corn LOL I mean zone

[hot minnow]

Could be inside the helo or like on it

[hot minnow]

Corn is VERY dangerous 😂 but good luck leaving a faction where you are literally brainwashed

[worldly thicket]

I will be better border protection

[hot minnow]

New faction: I.C.E.

[worldly thicket]

I am strelock

[worldly thicket]

I shall take over ipsf defend the zone but keep the beauties might even open a museum

[hot minnow]

Could be wrong but don’t think Strelok likes the monolith

[worldly thicket]

He was monolith

I have full thought I know how to destroy the monolith just gotta tap into the noospshere

[worldly thicket]

the monolith made me think monolith was the right path but I somehow regained thought and realized freedom was hello brother

[hot minnow]

Haha glad you came to ur senses

[worldly thicket]

Yes brother

[mental bronze]

Something feels screwy with the new spawner. Before I'd see friendlies and mutants and occasionally they'd fight each other, now I'm mostly getting enormous packs of hostiles (albeit mutant and human), but like 7 snorgs just appearing out of nowhere

Used to only appear in like 2s or 3s except for special occasions

[meager ore]

[worldly thicket]

[meager ore]

[worldly thicket]

[sweet root]

7 Snorks sounds about right

[meager ore]

[worldly thicket]

I SWEAR TO GOD DONT POST IT ONE MORE TIME

[sweet root]

Anly less snorks and wouldnt be scary

[meager ore]

[forest fulcrum]

easist place to farm thunderberry

[ornate sable]

Reloading Point, near the Cement Factory. It's where I found mine, and it's an easy place to farm.

[keen terrace]

I mean, it's random

No guarantee that there is gonna be exactly thunderberry

[safe rover]

spawning in your face in the middle of a field too...very lore friendly, very demure

[ornate sable]

Of course not, but it can spawn there, and it's a pretty easy anomaly field to farm. Especially if you're on good terms with Duty at cement factory and just sleep there.

[forest fulcrum]

whats the distance I shoould quiksave?

[weary hedge]

bruh, does anyone else get freaked out by that tornado thing

ive got that phobia, i forget its name, truly massive things kinda freak me out, like being beside a whale or some crap, the deep sea, etc (everything except space, oddly enough, or objects such as skyscrapers)

anyway, god that tornado was cool from a distance but the closer i got the more uneasy i felt about it

then i realised it kinda moves in a pattern and i ended up just noping the hell out of there and couldnt do it

[sharp turret]

Same

[sharp turret]

i got the impression that it actually chases after you

[weary hedge]

i kinda ran down one side and watched it from a building move away - i used that gap to run to another building in a different spot and just watched it for a few minutes before getting out of there lol

[sharp turret]

Whenever I was out of cover it seemed to be moving towards me so i thought thats how it works

[wintry pumice]

there is a way to get inside it, which is basically what you need to do to get the bolt

[smoky ginkgo]

It has a very precise pattern

[lethal totem]

I'm so pleased with this game so far

[lethal totem]

Just like the originals which i also played on release, it feels like a game i can slow play for the next 10 years

[bright moss]

.

[plain fiber]

Anomaly field in Zaton that's only active at night, it's Northeast-ish of the Sultansk/Skadovsk.

Make sure you save before you go looking for it, apparently it has several different spawn locations within the field. Someone on the subreddit made a little guide that shouldn't be hard to find, it let me grab the artifact in only two attempts.

[crystal granite]

There should be a year round open season to hunt Freedom members

[crystal granite]

@worldly thicket

[hoary crest]

The artifact there isn't a great deal of use anyway in all fairness

The best one of the Weird artifacts is the Pot anyway, because it reigns in Skif's voracious appetite for sausage and condensed milk 😂

[forest fulcrum]

are npc patrols too strong rn? I just got sandwiched between 2 monolith patrols all in exo in the chemical zone and I cant even engage them at distance with a scope because of how accuarte these guys are at range

[hoary crest]

Just your average bot accuracy moment. You on PC?

[forest fulcrum]

yeah

[hoary crest]

https://www.nexusmods.com/stalker2heartofchornobyl/mods/113 Install this, tones em down a bit. They're still lethal, they're just less likely to instantly paint the walls with your brains at 100m

[forest fulcrum]

thanks I might get the mutant one too that reduces HP

[hoary crest]

Honestly? I would recommend "Better Ballistics" if you want better game balance, it makes the guns a lot more deadly for both you and NPC's, ofc the side effect of that is that it makes mutants a lot less tanky

You'll absolutely find that you die much faster with the hardcore version, but so does everything else, so the playing feild becomes even.

Also I recommend "Better Explosives" too, as it makes grenades and the RPG behave more like you would expect them to

[forest fulcrum]

his mutant overhaul looks more punishing than vanilla hah

[weary hedge]

Better Ballistics is a dope mod, highly recommend

[sturdy verge]

Lolol I read overwalls, cian

[weary hedge]

so im trying Stalker SoC and it seemed bad as hell the first 30 mins, but now that Im putting the time on it its enjoyable, i like the rewards for explorations and the hidden treasures

[sturdy verge]

Hey marked one you are a legend! Enjoy it 🙂

[weary hedge]

tho the mods dont make it that different, i feel like i just installed blank space lol

[sturdy verge]

I didnt bother with mods tbh it's beautiful vanilla ❤️ well for me

[weary hedge]

and im already looking forward to Clear sky version, tho i first gotta earn another 20 dollahrs

[forest fulcrum]

The most annoying thing for me coming from games like tarkov is how the HK416 can be so trash compared to the kharod

[weary hedge]

i was thinking like: aw damn, i cant play stalker2 on ps5, but i remembered i had an xbox series s, now i can play all of the stalker series

[sturdy verge]

SOC and COP are my fav ❤️ cs is okay but for some its better 😄

[hoary crest]

Well thats what the mod does. Balances weapons by caliber instead of by progression.

Said it before in here, damage values justified by progression seldom ever works outside of properly sci-fi games. A firearm should behave like a firearm, progression be damnned

[ebon scroll]

hey everyone. not sure if its the right place to ask, but if my exe shows still 5.1.1.0 does it mean i dont have the latest patch?

[forest fulcrum]

so will the new values on the mod reflect on the weapon stats how do I tell what ammo type is doing damage now ?

[weary hedge]

what's good ab COP?

[hoary crest]

Should do yeah

[forest fulcrum]

So in theory the ball ammo from the dnipro should be the same as the ak74

[sturdy verge]

My man flint Magpie 😛 lololll Noah 😄

[weary hedge]

What about stalker 2? apart from the graphics, hows the story and immersion?

[hoary crest]

They'll be very similar yeah, there are some minor differences, such as the Dnipro being a little better than an AK, simply due to it being more modern, its true for many guns with multiple in the same "type", but the differences are generally so small that you can just run what you want to run without suffering for it

[forest fulcrum]

if you speak ukrainian its amazing and its 8/10 in english

[sturdy verge]

for me ehhh it could have been better so i give it a 8/10

[hoary crest]

Even if you don't speak Ukrainian, you still wanna use that VO. No disrespect to the English VA's, but it should be in Ukrainian

[forest fulcrum]

they would have gotten 10/10 if the actors had an accent thats eastern european having guys with scottish accents makes 0 sense

[sturdy verge]

I will have to play it again with just Ukrainian and eng sub then 😄 for my 5th time😂

[hoary crest]

Story is good though, has its moments of being very clever and the immersion is up there with the best you can possibly expect out of a game in this day an age

[weary hedge]

well uhh ill see ab that in like 1 year lol, i have the money to spend, but i dont want to spend them all on games yk, so like after i bought SoC, i made a budget of 20-40€ dollars(that i gotta earn and not take from my part)

[sturdy verge]

tho i have a feeling when the story expans comes itll get wayyyy better! there is some very special people mentioned that i would love to see again, zulu, red and a couple more

[hoary crest]

I recommend it yeah, its a good time, makes me wish I could learn it, but short of going there, I doubt that'll ever happen on account of both me being an extreme dullard and it being a complex language

[forest fulcrum]

with that ammo mod does the ak74 have the same damage as the dnipro?

[weary hedge]

hows the map of all stalker games after SoC? is it like the same level system as SoC or some version change?

[hoary crest]

#☢┃stalker-general message

[sturdy verge]

i think its best you play SoC, cs then CoP and when you come to stalkers2 youll see and when you run into areas or people you it will give you a different feeling then what someone would feel if they never played the og ones. Sentimental and beautiful with a touch of that lovely zone eeriness all in one 😄

[weary hedge]

yikes ig

i could've bought legends of the zone on sale for 20 dollars but uhh i cant buy things online and i couldn't wait lol

[sturdy verge]

try cdkeys?

[weary hedge]

what are those?

[forest fulcrum]

why is there no NVGs in the game ?

[sturdy verge]

they are just not for us 😛 haha

[weary hedge]

what stalker youre talking ab?

[forest fulcrum]

stalker 2

[sturdy verge]

i have no idea but maybe there is a answer somewhere in #📜┃gsc-answers 😄

[weary hedge]

oh well uhh sad ig,maybe they already reached their budget or smt

[forest fulcrum]

hah seems like such a big thing to leave out when half the time in game is pitch black

[sturdy verge]

or it could be in a future DLC who knows tbh

[weary hedge]

aw man dlcs are so overrated

[sturdy verge]

honestly i just went to sleep in mah bed for morning to come in game

[forest fulcrum]

DLC is 1 nvg monicle and we all have to share

[weary hedge]

lmao

[sturdy verge]

well like cian said no nvg so i didnt have patience for all that nonsense lol

[weary hedge]

i mean yea ok but if i buy the game i dont want to buy additional content that was meant to be added

[forest fulcrum]

and weapon toreches would have been nice if we dont have nvgs haha

[sturdy verge]

if you buy ultimate youll get the story expans and dlcs etc etc

[weary hedge]

nooooo

[sturdy verge]

its okay i get it, im very particular too on what i spend on games 😄 regardless if its 'great' or not

[weary hedge]

if like stalker 3 will come out as different 40€ dlc's ill not buy it for sure 💀

Btw yayy its finally weekend

[sturdy verge]

They gotta fix the game here first lmao 🤣 and the two story expansion, dlcs. Speaking of this game we can't see what's changed but I do see some changes 4 hours ago and such on on steamdb 😄 patch soon maybe

[weary hedge]

the exploded powerplant is only In SoC?

[hoary crest]

If you want that, you need to look at Reshade presets, at least for now.

Think we can probably expect them to get implemented in the long term though

[cobalt fiber]

One would imagine and hope they were part of cut content, in which case we might be in luck down the line

[forest fulcrum]

Anyone recommend the A-life extension mod?

[hoary crest]

https://www.nexusmods.com/stalker2heartofchornobyl/mods/1122 This one

[nova flicker]

Probably GSC didn't have enough time and decided to implement it later. There is a night vision upgrade for duty armor in the file called "UpgradePrototypes.cfg "

[wintry pumice]

how do they know I am not monolith? even though I am wearing their armor

[indigo oriole]

No patch today ?

[wintry pumice]

No new bugs today is how you should see it

[hollow sable]

guys where is the dark valley supposed to be on the map?

or its not in the game?

[crystal granite]

That's one thing that put me off using the SVD I got from Strider. You get hit too much at distance

[peak nymph]

How hard is the hardest difficulty?

[forest fulcrum]

I got that mod that was recommended its alot better now the spray is increased and is they have non rifle weapons they will close distance instead of shotgun sniping

[crystal granite]

There's no mods on Xbox atm so I'll have to wait

[forest fulcrum]

yeah that sucks

[warm stone]

I'm stunned how they managed to squeeze 450 radio songs into the game...

[sturdy verge]

lmao

[forest fulcrum]

is there a reason the HK couldnt take the holemaker they are literally the same rails

[crystal granite]

I need a G3 in the Zone

[forest fulcrum]

G3?

[crystal granite]

Heckler & Koch G3 battle rifle

[forest fulcrum]

I think a Scar H would be better

[weary hedge]

afaik a lot of the decisions around weapons were gameplay related

[forest fulcrum]

Just hope some more mods come out

[white cairn]

Hi guys, I have a question, only to me at this time the game is going bad?

[crystal granite]

Dp27/28

[weary hedge]

what do you mean

Is mod.io site installed in other stalker versions too other than SoC?

[forest fulcrum]

they will have to be chambered correctly most of the LMGs in game have the wrong caliber

[white cairn]

until a few days ago the game was running perfectly, now it has like freeze hits

[hoary crest]

There are some bangers in there too

[warm stone]

they should maybe add loudspeakers to bases so you can hear them constantly. An "mp3" player might work as well, but I have mixed feelings when I think about it. Like how it affect stealth, can introduce more bugs etc.....

[crystal granite]

For a game set in Ukraine, there's a surprising lack of Soviet weapons. Like Mosin, DP lmg, etc. Especially since we see them pop up a lot in the current conflict over there

[weary hedge]

check what mods you have installed or see if you didn't close the game for a long period of time? i dont have S2 tho so idk

[hoary crest]

Probably by design considering the situation

[crystal granite]

In mods we trust then

[crystal beacon]

Anyone know when anything about an upcoming update?

[hoary crest]

Be like that it do be

[warm stone]

I'm hoping they will add some new weapons to the game, like the FT 200M from the original one, or the beretta

[white cairn]

I'm playing without a mod is that the weird thing

[hoary crest]

Do you have a personal stash full of crap?

[white cairn]

I discovered the problem there was V-Sync on and I had turned it off. 🤣

[hoary crest]

That'll do it 😄

[sturdy verge]

hahhahahahahahahahaahah

[weary hedge]

Here I was googling around trying to find a fix for ya, and it turned out to be vsync

typical vsync

[crystal granite]

Angry man's buzz saw when

[hoary crest]

Not gonna lie, if we do see more weapons, I wanna see more weird sh*t like the KSG lol

[crystal granite]

We have it, Texas shotgun is based off of the KSG. We also have a standard model too at better vendors

[hoary crest]

I know lol, I meant more weird sh*t like that, using it as a pre-existing example

[sturdy verge]

someone in here mentioned a crossbow, but honestly within 10 mins there will be many stalkers with arrows all over there bodies from me.

[hoary crest]

A crossbow would be fantastic ngl, I would be so down for that

[crystal granite]

PTRS/PTRD

[weary hedge]

I just want an steyr aug or a fn90

[sturdy verge]

same same, paydirt

[hoary crest]

Yeah all of those would be pretty neat.

Also wanna see a proper big-bore AMR that you can't fire from the shoulder, but I see that as somewhat unlikely to happen. Though having an Alligator would be fantastic

[crystal granite]

If u want a bullpup try dnipro

[weary hedge]

the dnipro is a mainstay within my loadout lol

[crystal granite]

The Zone is gonna devolve from Gauss Rifles, GP37's and M416's down to the cool old WW2/Cold War shit lol and I'm all here for it

NPC naming system needs to change tho. Killed a few IPSF dudes and out of 5, like 4 had the rank of Captain

[hoary crest]

I'm still waiting to find an NPC called "Pvt Parts" 😄

[crystal granite]

I'm looking for Cpt. Price

[hoary crest]

That'd be a good one, also Gun'Sgt Hartman

[gleaming mantle]

Could anyone explain what the first cutscene with Korshunov and Dalin in Slag Heep depends on? One time Korshunov threw me on the floor and the other time he welcomed me and said something like welcome back soldier. In both instances i completed the Lesser Zone quests siding with the Ward.

[crystal granite]

Luftwaffe pilot Erich Hartmann?

[sturdy verge]

found out that strelok will get hair before him?

[hoary crest]

No lol 😂 Full Metal Jacket's drill Sergeant

[sturdy verge]

or is he getting you ready for agatha room?

[crystal granite]

Forgot that one lol, was thinking bout other one 😆

[hoary crest]

"Bullsh*t! I bet you could suck a golf-ball though a garden hose!"

[crystal granite]

Lol, I pulled the trigger. That lil cig exchange while talking was a neat part

[wintry pumice]

what did you do when you tried to attack the depot?

[hoary crest]

100% would share a ciggy with the actress who plays Agatha 😏

[wintry pumice]

[crystal granite]

Yeah, but I think he's hoping for a different kind of sucking 🤣

[sturdy verge]

ohhh i just found her on yt LOL me too me tooooo

cool she's in a band 😄

[crystal granite]

Brothers, resist the temptation, resist the infidel, focus on what's important

[forest fulcrum]

is the weird ball worth running ?

[gleaming mantle]

i assisted them after talking to korshunov overlooking it. I wiped out the bandits and went straight for slag heep.

[wintry pumice]

no like what approach did you take?

and why are you playing ward 2 times in a row....

[wintry pumice]

[silk vapor]

You have 4 possible different cutscenes for Slag Heap in total afaik. 2 if you gave the sensors to Zotov and 2 others if you gave them to Richter. All cutscenes are dependent on whether or not you kill ward soldiers at any point I believe

At the depot if you kill ward soldiers even by accident you'll get the Colonel mega angry lol, otherwise indeed he's all friendly

[weary hedge]

Sounds like a statement an agent would make

[crystal granite]

No Wardens fell by my hand. Scars soldiers however.... Shame I had to put down a few Wardens by the Duga, but I guess a quick bullet to the head beats being a zombie

[wintry pumice]

Ward scum should be put down....

[crystal granite]

Lol, since when is Freedom called the Ward?

[gleaming mantle]

one bugged out and had to restart, and for the approach, again, i sided with them and met up with the assault squad, after which we wiped out the bandits at the depot, if thats what you meant?

as for the Ward sensors and soldiers, i handed the sensors to Zotov and have never attacked any Ward soldiers. Although, after assaulting the depot, a random hostile Ward squad spawned while i was looting the dead bandits at the depot. This was very odd as, again, i didn't attack any Ward soldiers before and the hostile squad was just attacking me next to other friendly soliders that i had just attacked the bandits with I didn't return fire and didn't kill any of them but instead just ran away to Slag Heep.

Sorry for the essay.

[wintry pumice]

what?

[weary hedge]

Ward isn't Duty or Freedom

[crystal granite]

Having a laugh. I'd happily shoot at both Spark Troops and Freedom, but not at Duty or Ward

[silk vapor]

Oh that is odd, but could explain why the colonel was scripted to be angry. But that random hostile squad sounds like a bug, it's weird indeed if you sided with them entirely

[wintry pumice]

yeah then as someone said earleir, its probably you killing those ward boys is what casued the colonel to be angry

[gleaming mantle]

The only thing that comes to mind is the fact that during the assault, some Ward soliders from the assault squad died to bandits.

[gleaming mantle]

i never killed any of them thats the thing, so its probably the bugged hostile squad that ruined it

[silk vapor]

In my first playthrough some wardens fell to the bandits but I still got the "good" cutscene. I think what you had was a weird bug yea 😦

[wintry pumice]

Duty and Spark are fine imo. Freedom is doing their own thing so I am not really worried but Ward needs to be put back in their place

[crystal granite]

I had some spare med kits so I picked up the ones I could

[silk vapor]

Oh and while I'm here I love the behind the scenes stuff for STALKER 2 I hope we get more of those 🙏

[wintry pumice]

yeah that's probably it

[crystal granite]

Gives you good rep, if I see a patrol and someone gets downed, I generally help. Yesterday it was a Duty man I saved

[gleaming mantle]

Alright so does this effect my standing with the faction? Will i be able to go to chemical factory later on without being attacked? What about the ending?

[sharp turret]

does scar also have different cutscene moods or is he always the same kind of crazy?

[silk vapor]

No worries about any of this, it's still early game and doesn't change anything regarding your later path choice! Chemical I think only opens super late though I never got into it as a friendly in my path even having started with the ward. Lol

[wintry pumice]

That's not completely Scar....

[smoky ginkgo]

Sometimes he is worse

[wintry pumice]

you won't be able to enter Chemical plant till after the events of Sircaa.

[sharp turret]

doesnt matter for the ending. you can kill 1000000000 wards and still get their ending

[weary hedge]

I still haven't decided a trajectory for my current playthrough
I did Skif first, followed by Ward

I guess I'll try Strelok next

[crystal granite]

Yeah after that. You meet with Korshunov, Dalin and Agatha

[wintry pumice]

Lets find the Shining zone brother...

[smoky ginkgo]

The only emotional but non-completely crazy Scar is right after the brainwash room if you side with him. He then sounds … at peace

[weary hedge]

Strelok beating his head against a brick wall right now asking why he gave us a big ass monologue about the shining zone being an illusion 😂

[wintry pumice]

Love the variations in cutscenes based on what you do, though I would like more action scenes like the one where Khors attack us

[wintry pumice]

He's a defective agent, I wouldn't trust his words

[crystal granite]

I like the live cutscenes. Saw a video where dude filled a room with food cans and ak's and Korshunov was disassembling an AK lol

[silk vapor]

All the best cutscenes imo involve Skif being attacked amusingly enough lol. they feel so cinematic

[sharp turret]

agent says what

[wintry pumice]

Scar is not an agent, he only has his memories messed up, otherwise he would have died when he saw all those TVs

[sharp turret]

he tweaks out when you turn on the tvs during the boss fight against him

[weary hedge]

He's the whole reason people don't like my theory about C-Con being real, same as subtle matter lol

Strelok is one of the only main 'sources' of C-Con being dead, everything being bs, etc etc

[cobalt fiber]

Hate to say it but faction choices and reputation aren't that in depth. You'll side with one of two factions dependant on one or two decisions made during dialogue in set missions.

[hidden yoke]

is strelok still losing his memories?

[weary hedge]

People just take him for what he says, but they won't do that for half of the other factions lol

Then again, Strelok WAS the old protaganist, I was thinking about it earlier that it would make sense in some form if he is still integral to the story (basically I'm saying, his ending could be the canon ending)

[cobalt fiber]

After starting my Ward playthrough I'm even more inclined to think Kaymanov ending is going to be the one. Even moreso than before. Dialogue via news interview with Dalin foreshadows the events

[hoary crest]

That cutscene was one of the most impressive I think I've ever seen in a game. Betheda can't even put the bolt on the correct side of a rifle and GSC does an accurate strip-down and rebuild of an AK like its nothing.

So good man

[weary hedge]

I also don't understand how the C-Con representative is able to parrot to you events that happened after Strelok did what he did

They tell you how the connection was disrupted, how they lost their ability to affect certain things, etc

If C-Con and the Representative are just a program, and as the game says, 'they retain only their memories up until death'

How would they have any new information?

[cobalt fiber]

I'd only really analysed from Orbita onwards after going back to do the Kaymanov ending (twice) and Spark - I did Strelok first - but even from the get go the Kaymanov ending and the effects are foreshadowed

[weary hedge]

So many things are said / shown / happen within the game that contradict each other. Such a shit show, honestly, trying to figure things out lol

[silk vapor]

Honestly, it might sound stupid but although I would like the Strelok ending to be the canon one, the Doctor's seems hinted to be canon to me just by the final cutscene... a song plays with lyrics and all in the final cutscene, it's a cue imo it feels more dramatic/important than the others

[cobalt fiber]

It's like somebody else said the other day. Unfortunately Strelok's time is up too, the zone has changed and him with it. It'd also make sense given the internal changes at GSC in the sense of the team now vs then. Out with the old and in with the new

In an essence STALKER 2 is a love story to the fans akin to Once Upon A Time In Hollywood being Quentin Tarantino's love letter to Hollywood

Unfortunately some of the issues with lore shows a love as though two opposites have got together. And contrary to popular belief, two opposites don't always mix like bread and butter

[wintry pumice]

Noosphere is made of information, since Faust can interact with it despite being alive I think he must be still under the control of the monolith or a copy of it resided in him

[wintry pumice]

I think so. I picked up a tape where he records who he is what he is doing and all

[hidden yoke]

that could be why he doesn't remember the doctor save him (could be)

why would you want to kill the person that save your live

[sturdy verge]

'my name is strelok, i used to have hair but the zone changed that and Sircaa, I must stop project X hair removal'

[weary hedge]

oh, i just realized stalker 2 is 60 dollars on xbox💀

[wintry pumice]

no gamepass?

[forest fulcrum]

its worth every dollar

Ive sank 110 hours already im just past the sircaa questline for noontide

[sharp turret]

damn do you not fast travel or sth?

i clocked 75 hours for the whole game with all the sidequests i could find

[forest fulcrum]

I do I just explore

[weary hedge]

That's what I was attempting to get at, too. There is a big twist here somewhere, and most people aren't seeing it.

Actually quite good writing, there has to be either another game coming or post-ending DLC cause it's definitely not an 'ending' with how it felt.

Someone's lying and ima open the game and use my mark 1 to figure out who

[sharp turret]

the writing was good. the only thing i didnt like was the whole scanners and alpha artifact plotline becoming kinda irrelevant later

[smoky ginkgo]

Also, if you chose Ward ending, you had some special lines in the Journalist’s PDA. Implying there are multiple generators complexes built all around the planet.
Making the multiple zones a very natural path

[vapid galleon]

I love so much Stalker fanmade edits!

[forest fulcrum]

the ward seem scummy to me

[wintry pumice]

That's because they are, they don't realise it yet themselves. Agatha or the board is simply playing them all

[weary hedge]

The Ward is basically our version of Black Rock, basically just a private military company funded by whoever Agatha works with / for

[sharp turret]

oh i think the journalist questline bugged out for me. where there supposed to be more stashes and messages from him after swamps?

[wintry pumice]

supposed to be all over the zone I think

[sharp turret]

i took the swamp stash with his pendrive and the quest didnt continue

[hoary crest]

Agatha is hot and Korshunov is a certified G, Ward best faction, I will suffer no dissenting opinions on the matter 😄

[weary hedge]

Also, most of wards soldiers are hired mercenaries, you learn during the game

most of them are there for money, not a cause

[smoky ginkgo]

He spent too much time in reactor’s 4 building

Maybe he should have asked the Wish Granter “I want to get my mid-teenage years hairline back”

That’s a wish I could do too actually 👀
makes a note for himself

[sturdy verge]

yee this is why i also have 343.9 hours lol and other reasons haha

[forest fulcrum]

Im a sucker for cult factions

[hoary crest]

Yep... and me.. 😄

The 90s feel so long ago now jesus..

[sturdy verge]

then i hope they bring in SIN 😄

[smoky ginkgo]

Once you get all his stashes from the whole zone, you get an extra message, inviting you to go to Prypiat for the final one. It includes the code to enter the door.

[smoky ginkgo]

Oh dear
No
Please
No more Lost Alpha
Noooooooooo

[forest fulcrum]

im in x3 lab I just knoiw theres some jumpscares in here

[hidden yoke]

i saw that, the only time Skif put the Heart of Chornobyl into the machine was in Kaymanove ending

The rest of the ending used the old one.

[smoky ginkgo]

You can join Spark, that’s a start 😋

[silk vapor]

The journalist stashes are only 2 in the preorder bonus, the ones scattered all over the zone are exclusive to the ultimate edition of the game iirc

[sturdy verge]

yeah that ugly puke colour sunrise and some vss

[silk vapor]

The sunrise suit is so good for early game though

You can get a lead container on it quite early (along with all its other good stats) and that helps a lot but yeah not a big fan either sadly 😭

[river chasm]

This was how I felt too, though it does end up being relevant in retrospect at least

[weary hedge]

yes but uhh, how do i make 60 dollars 💀, ill use the gamepass ig, i cant go down my 200€ line

[sharp turret]

how does it become relevant? they didnt need the alpha at all they could just go to the generators

[river chasm]

Tbh I am still kinda piecing it together but near the very end of the game ||If you choose Doctor's side, some of the notes in his secret room mention his involvement in the business with the scanners||

[wintry pumice]

Alpha artifact is what brought Skif into the zone

[smoky ginkgo]

That’s very true !!
I just realized that.
Otherwise, the Heart of Chernobyl, which is the name of the game, is merely of any importance

[hidden yoke]

now, who know wtf is Scar artifact do other than just there

[cobalt fiber]

Well Strelok uses the heart himself in his ending

[hidden yoke]

true, so we have 2 endings that actually used the heart of chornobyl

[sturdy verge]

dang i never noticed only did the ending to get an achievement.

[wintry pumice]

I couldn't even complete an ending because the game deleted my save files after Scar's discovery about his memories

[hidden yoke]

so we still have 2 candidates for the true ending. But it seems like skif's ending is still going to be canon, as in, it flashbacked to the very beginning of the game.

[river chasm]

I think it is the one that ties together the themes of the game the most too

[hoary crest]

How do I make a poll? Im curious to see how many votes each ending gets

[sharp turret]

maybe they will pull some deus ex 2 shit and make all the endings canon

[hazy gyro]

have honestly been thinking about it a bit, but i think i wanna play for the canon ending in the game: project Y

[hidden yoke]

scar's ending don't have any direction i'm afraid

[smoky ginkgo]

The Strelok ending sounds like a dead end, or a great opportunity for some STALKER : battle royale bs

[hidden yoke]

i got scar ending first and it was depressing

[gloomy citrus]

Skif ending is most likely the canon one. Since the "Embrace" song plays when the cutscene starts.

[sharp turret]

like agatha got control of the anomalous energy, strelok took over monolith, scar got to have his grill and faust created more zones throughout the world

its not mutually exclusive

[smoky ginkgo]

Ward kinda turns the spotlight outside. Like, “STALKER : Hitman”, where you hunt agents here and there across the globe. Could be fun, but doesn’t sound at all like a Stalker game

[sharp turret]

use reactions under a post

[hidden yoke]

strelok ending lead to "how to kill strelok" storyline, Scar... i have no idea (everyone died), idk what to do with Agatha other than pulling some plot armor bs, and then we have world wide zone (which lead to more stories)

skif ending might let the devs create more stories to come vs other ending with a 1-off story

[fallen latch]

the ward's one is my fave in terms of what actually happens, versus skif's ending

[hidden yoke]

imagine even more different mutants from other places

[fallen latch]

probs dlc, maybe as far as new protag in a zone in another country

[hidden yoke]

i'm still not putting off the "Skif is a C-con agent"

[agile lantern]

Is there any reason to keep the PDAs and the Notes?

[fallen latch]

not unless u are forced to i think

[hidden yoke]

Korz did say some of the STALKER has escaped to the mainland so why not Skif??

[forest fulcrum]

Ima merc spark first chance I get I wanna side with noontide

[fallen latch]

so very true, ur cooking

[rugged gulch]

They get copy over to your pda. You can sell them

[cobalt fiber]

I extremely doubt dlc will introduce a new protagonist and especially won't be a whole new location. Lymansk, Iron Forest and CNPP most likely

[fallen latch]

means ur closer to noontide when they turn back into monolithians

[fallen latch]

most likely, still very cool and i'm still excited for that potential

[forest fulcrum]

I chose them at SIRCAA and ive been killing them ever since its not satisfying

[fallen latch]

yeah, if there was a noontide ending i would take it, love my boy strider, deepest character imo

[sharp turret]

best ending for noontide is to go with spark and chill with them in the shining zone

[cobalt fiber]

Other locations would be different games but we're talking years away. I still hope we stay in the same one though

[cobalt fiber]

I don't fancy the idea of Stalker: New Vegas

[forest fulcrum]

strider rip

[fallen latch]

or maybe just another location/country that isnt america or eastern europe for once

[fallen latch]

[cobalt fiber]

In that case I don't fancy the idea of STALKER: New North Korea

[river chasm]

I am trying not to get too far ahead of myself. It took so long to get one true sequel after all 😅

[cobalt fiber]

It's not Faust ending though

[fallen latch]

could be literally anything lol

[wintry pumice]

let me vote multiple answers damn it

[forest fulcrum]

I might have messed up faust ending dont you kill him on the rooftop ?

[sharp turret]

my poll my rules

[river chasm]

Though I can at least say that with the way the game ended I would be happy enough if it were the last one. It was a complete story

[fallen latch]

you kill him (maybe (you kill him actually (or do you?

[wintry pumice]

no you don't

[forest fulcrum]

I see.....

[fallen latch]

for the monolith

[silk vapor]

To be fair I align w you, depending how you read it it does feel like Faust played you and won

[river chasm]

He's as dead as anything can get in the zone I guess

[forest fulcrum]

Faust doesnt feel like the villan

[fallen latch]

truee

[harsh jungle]

yesn’t

[fallen latch]

i mean he's done pretty villainy stuff but it's gonna take more dlc or explanation after to see if he's really gonna be the new villain

[silk vapor]

Not the villain but someone extremely determined to "free the zone" who also was caged literally and figuratively and therefore wants Skif (a neutral party) to get into the pod. That's how I kinda read it

[cobalt fiber]

Faust was never the villain

[silk vapor]

After the caged dogs don't know what freedom is comment that comes twice in the game...

[fallen latch]

idk about thattttttttttttt

[harsh jungle]

then who is the villain

[cobalt fiber]

Agatha

[fallen latch]

i think all parties at some point become the villain ngl, apart from skif, for the most part

[river chasm]

It's not exactly a story of clear heroes and villains

[harsh jungle]

I don’t like Agatha

[forest fulcrum]

The ward opresses veryone they encounter

[hoary crest]

Thats a stretch lol

[hidden yoke]

i hate faust tbh

[river chasm]

Most people have some understandable motivations but they also pretty much all do terrible things at some point. They all try to manipulate you

[fallen latch]

i dont even know if she's really human, right?

[hoary crest]

Tbh I dont think villains exist in this story personally, no matter which side of the table you sit at, everyone is kind of a d*ck lol

[forest fulcrum]

The initial bar scene had my mind made up they are classic military use you for what your worth until they finish and then get rid of you

[cobalt fiber]

His methods were wrong, his goals were not. The man wasn't evil, just misunderstood 😢

[harsh jungle]

idk either

[hoary crest]

He will throw you off the top of the Duga radar if you give him the chance 😂

[hidden yoke]

there's no villains in stalker 2, if that's the case then Skif is a literally an Evil lord or something.

he's literally murder everyone he saw

[fallen latch]

coz scientist guy from the start sorta hints in ward's ending that she's, idk, more powerful than just a simple human

[harsh jungle]

Geneva Convention? More like Geneva Suggestion. - Skif, probably

[fallen latch]

no he doesn't, all of that is a psy illusion and you're the one letting yourself go, he's not really there and you taking your hand off to reach out for nothing is what makes you fall

[forest fulcrum]

That is a test tho hes looking to see if you have the fight to carry on what hes doing

[cobalt fiber]

My Skif really did kill everybody. Oh I can let you survive for a reward? OK, I'll take the reward and then shoot you anyway

[obtuse veldt]

I'm still wondering if DLC will unlock a new ending?

[cobalt fiber]

Unlikely

[silk vapor]

Agatha is sus she's the only blonde person in the entire Zone

[forest fulcrum]

Faust doesnt ask for help he carves his own path in the zone which is admirable

[fallen latch]

gotta be a mutant

[harsh jungle]

she’s more sus than an imposter from Among Us

[cobalt fiber]

I think the DLC will serve to fill in the blanks and answer the unanswered personally

[fallen latch]

he's probably a monolithian so idk if it's his ownnnn pathhhhh

[obtuse veldt]

Like I think DLC might somehow connect Agatha for us to kill her/it perhaps?

[hoary crest]

Thats a fair point, but still. He goes out of his way to f*ck you over in multiple parts of the game, also he screws over all of his "friends" pretty badly

[cobalt fiber]

On the topic of new protagonist for dlc. You know what would be cool?

Playable Faust dlc

[forest fulcrum]

all the agatha symps in here tryna get the clap cheeks questline

[hoary crest]

Yes. What of it?

[sharp turret]

would be cool to have the dlc be a sequel right after the faust ending. the map would be the current zone but with teleporters that take you do areas in the new zones all over the world

[fallen latch]

true, and him offering his hand is one way of screwing you over, but in that instance if you've figured it out you won't fall for it

[harsh jungle]

I am a Certified Agatha Hater ™️

[fallen latch]

literally showed my friend this game and first thing he said was who's that whatever girl (ofc to agatha) and being like whoohh mann

[cobalt fiber]

Harpy > Agatha

[hoary crest]

True, though I did at least see what the outcome of letting him "help" was the second time round. Needless to say I was not all that amused in regards to having to do the bossfight again 😂

[fallen latch]

i fell for it the first time then instantly figured out it was a hallucination after and helped myself up the second time lol

[hoary crest]

Never trust the guy who has heavy cultist vibes, history teaches us its a bad idea 😂

[fallen latch]

10/10 harpy

[harsh jungle]

Deggy is better than Agatha fr fr

[fallen latch]

i mean he literally is literally trying to lead a new cult and succeeds

[cobalt fiber]

One thing that didn't make sense to me was this strange friendship/bond/connection that Skif seems to have with Strider post death. They knew each other for 5 mins

[fallen latch]

richter is literally perfect ur crazy that man is extremely appealing, scar is goofy and fun and would consider if he wasnt yknow... yeah

[sharp turret]

skif got striders brain fried again. strider came close to killing skif.

[cobalt fiber]

Nah Richter is annoying af cos he's whiney

[silk vapor]

Realest statement maybe ever

[hoary crest]

I dunno if its that strange, Strider is pretty grounded and the only character that could be called "good" at any point. Sure Korshunov is relatable and pretty human, but Strider actually appears to have morals, which I would recognise were I in that situation

[cobalt fiber]

Waa waa I'll never be a real guide waa

[forest fulcrum]

some guys in here would destroy the zone to clap agatha cheeks

[harsh jungle]

I’d destroy the zone for Deggy

[fallen latch]

what those are real concerns any normal person would have, self doubt with something that means alot to him

[vapid galleon]

Guys, is there night vision in Stalker 2? I've played the game for 115 hours and I'm not sure that's really all the content. Not in the sense of story and map; in terms of items such as weapons, anomalies, food, and helmets. Because there is a lot that can be inspired by the mods of the first Stalker games. Food animations etc... I think the animation and content (as items) shouldn't be this much. And I love this game so much

[hoary crest]

Look man, I'm starting to feel judged for no apparent reason here and I resent it 😄

[silk vapor]

Hey to be fair he actually has a character arc regarding that. His entire life is the zone, he messed up and blamed himself, and along the course of the game, exchanging with skif makes him more confident in himself again, to the point he's the one guiding you at the end. I found it neat. He's the only character Skif takes that much time trying to comfort and it works :]

[vapid galleon]

:D

[fallen latch]

exactlyyyy
love richter
that's why i hate the wards ending GRRRRR

[cobalt fiber]

He does have a nice arc but personally I found him irritating

[fallen latch]

ward's would be my fave ending if it wasn't for that

[cobalt fiber]

Take this, enemy of the monolith

[fallen latch]

i am one of the monolith

[hoary crest]

I do find it interesting that he regrets his mistakes and is like a mirror to Nimble who only gives a sh*t when confronted about it (how convenient)

[cobalt fiber]

In that case...

Onward warriors of the Monolith, avenge your fallen brothers, blessed as they are in their eternal union with the Monolith.

[fallen latch]

onward to cleanse the zone once more.

[hoary crest]

Oh hey I'm purple now

[vapid galleon]

I think the ending of Strelok is the real ending

[cobalt fiber]

DLC for playable faust. Everybody gets wrecked, monolith conquers all

Canon ending

[hoary crest]

@weary hedge Beat ya to embed perms 😄

[fallen latch]

i've not done strelok's ending so i cant say but the results seem like skif would not want to be a part of that

[weary hedge]

LOL

[fallen latch]

this is the real answer and should be

[vapid galleon]

The Russian audio of this is very cool and thought-provoking

[fallen latch]

sounds like that star wars general huks or whatever his name is's speech in german

[fathom nest]

nobody even realized the typo in rule 11 lol

[cobalt fiber]

It doesn't hit right in English

[fallen latch]

i'd say someone who isn't english natively wrote it so it's understandable

[fathom nest]

he did a good job though

[fallen latch]

no talking in this game hits right in english, mine's on Ukrainian with english subtitles

[fathom nest]

why is slowmode 30s?

[cobalt fiber]

When I first booted it up it was in English. Then I heard Hermann

👎

[fallen latch]

yeah ruins the immersion if speech is in not what it should be LOL
no offence but the VA's don't even have slavic accents really so it doesnt sound right at alllll

[cobalt fiber]

Solder is a cockney you'd expect to see alongside Danny Dyer in a sequel to The Football Factory

Zone Street Hooligans

[river chasm]

Well to me it at least makes sense that IPSF guys would have all sorts of accents

[fallen latch]

true, but how often ingame do you come across ispf dudes

[pseudo lotus]

I wish being friendly with the ward stopped hostilities with IPSF.

[cobalt fiber]

The guy who wants you to get his mates body from a field of anamolies but goes crazy if you steal (even if you're hidden...) is Scottish too

Hide behind a rock to steal his stuff. No line of sight. Instantly scolded in Scottish

[fallen latch]

yeah so maybe i could go to the border place and not get shot

[cobalt fiber]

Sufficed to say I killed him

[inner hinge]

Sadly something got to get the quality cut when moving the studio across countries

[fallen latch]

i didnt have the heard to steal decider or drowned ngl, idk how im so concerned about it coz 0 consequences but when it comes to it im like ok here's your gun im sorry

[fallen latch]

the rest of the game is pretty perfect, it's not like metro with it's character animations being dogwater

[cobalt fiber]

Did you at least steal from the stashes

I forget the name. The one who's mates want you put vodka in his stashes

[fallen latch]

which? random ones, yes but ones to do with quests no
oh no i was good and didn't

[inner hinge]

The guy in the garbage is actually lying the drowned is his he just put on a show to make you get it

[cobalt fiber]

In fairness I did put vodka in them. I just stole everything else

[fallen latch]

i meant i know it's his but i didnt have the heart to steal it from him, even if he did put on a show so he didnt have to wade into the lil creek

[inner hinge]

He attacks you if you do that

[fallen latch]

ill do that on my next playthrough (i said that last time and in fact i did not

[cobalt fiber]

Yeah. A for effort

[inner hinge]

But the drowned isn't his it is just a rifle that has been in the water for a very long time

[cobalt fiber]

I always opt to kill everyone anyway. Give me those PDAs

[fallen latch]

really??? oh i'm an idiot, yeah lolmineyoink for next time

surprised noone took it before, maybe they just thought it wasnt worth it to get their feet wet somehow

really sad you cant put any form of red dot on the full sized ak

[inner hinge]

You will realise he is lying cause the weapon description is that it has been in the water for a long time but the guy will shout at you that he just dropped it into the water

[fallen latch]

that didnt occur to me, wow, or i must'nt of read the description

[vapid galleon]

what :D really?

[fallen latch]

lol cant wait for the free ak with coupled mags and nade launcher on my next playthrough

[inner hinge]

Yes and it should be obvious he is full of shit because he is hanging out in the garbage the worst of the zone

[vapid galleon]

yeah thank you

[inner hinge]

Plus a unique gimmick where it rarely if ever jams no matter the condition

[fallen latch]

ikr, sick, cant wait lol

[fallen latch]

surely they fix this in future, maybe making the same setup with the dovetail on trophy and the red dot

[vapid galleon]

The Russian voices in the video I uploaded to https://discord.com/channels/504587323577729024/524231625039413249 sound very good

[inner hinge]

I hope we get more weapons in the zone in a free update as there are still a few old classics missing

[fallen latch]

fs2000? or f2000, that one
maybe special to dlc

[forest fulcrum]

what does eternal spring or life is for living mean?

[vapid galleon]

hope so

[fallen latch]

huh? where did you hear that

[hoary crest]

You missed out, you get to meet him later on and he's drunk out of his skull 😄

[forest fulcrum]

Its a decision i have with scar

[cobalt fiber]

Eternal spring aligns you with Scar. The latter doesn't

[inner hinge]

Gonna take some time for a Russian voice of stalker 2 cause nexus is banning mods that include Russia saying it is incentive as there was apparently a high quality Russia AI mod that was available for a short time before it was banned

[cobalt fiber]

If you choose life is for the living you will not be on Scar's side or be enroute to the spark ending anymore

[forest fulcrum]

nice

[vapid galleon]

idiot**s

[crystal granite]

That pathetic sack of sh*t ate a bullet early on from me. Weasel trying to escape punishment

[inner hinge]

Subtle matter is purgatory and siding with scar makes people live within it

[cobalt fiber]

I would make a hard save just before entering the pod and making that decision though. Makes it easier to go back and get the other ending

[crystal granite]

Yep. Nexus also took down a mod for Marvel Rivals which turned cpt America to cpt Trump

[forest fulcrum]

Im not siding with scar does getting out of the lab quietly have a major effect on the story ?

[hoary crest]

Wait really? Thats hilarious, both because that mod was a thing and because they banned it 😂 I dislike the orange man as much as the next guy, but thats funny

[cobalt fiber]

Before you exit, reload autosave from before the convo and hard save. Then you can go back and do the spark ending for the sake of it + achievement later

[crystal granite]

I'm not surprised that Nexcunts banned it. Used to be good back in Fo4 modding days, clearly shows its face now. They also took down cpt Biden mod too

[cobalt fiber]

Take you about 2 hours if you just smash missions when you revert back

[hoary crest]

Even with F4 its been going down the hill in recent years. Started round about the time they decided anything you upload to the site is their property

[vapid galleon]

thx for info bro

[sharp sierra]

Definitely needs fixing like picatany and dove tail mounts are designed to be universal so you should be able to fit an acog to your mp5, a red dot to your revolver and a kobra to your AK or even svd.

[crystal granite]

Also apparently any sort of political alignment is bad. Yet I see plenty of rainbow mods with flags. Also a side boob is enough to be taken down

[inner hinge]

The discord mods got control of it and now abuse their power like all discord mods eventually do

[crystal granite]

Fecki*n tw@ts

[cobalt fiber]

Yes I am already feeling an inclination to abuse my powers

[hoary crest]

Yeah.. i can understand removing mods that preach hate or something like that, but catering to one side of the political spectrum over all the others is not a good look

[cobalt fiber]

[fallen latch]

exactly, second worst is only being able to use a dumb 2x on the rhino, like come on

[crystal granite]

Correction, feck*n nexus tw@ts

[hoary crest]

Shh, let me put the x8 on my Rhino

[fallen latch]

dunno bout that... i've seen a lot of interesting cyberpunk mods

[inner hinge]

There are also a lot of paedophilia mods on there that don't seem to be getting banned

[hoary crest]

OXA is the mod you need if you want more varied attachment options though

[fallen latch]

nnnahhhh that's what i meant ONLY a 2x???? lemme fit that sweet 8x on there for maximum zoomage

[crystal granite]

Left and PDF files go hand in hand

[hoary crest]

I dunno about that chief, I'd say the Catholic church aligns more to the right than the left 😂

[crystal granite]

Liberal DA's need their drives looked at

[wintry pumice]

yeah Nexusmods seem to be very political. Hopefully some truly non-political mod site will show up

Just saw a video of Dirge for the planet with Strelok cutscenes , he seems very worried about his receding hairline that he's basically convulsing

[hoary crest]

Sadly, as far as moderating goes, you're generally hard-pressed to find people who are impartial, because most of the impartial people don't care for power. Not always the case, the mods here seem pretty chill, but its a very common problem

[cobalt fiber]

Let's chill with the circumvention and bordering hate though. Nothing wrong with the original conversation but bordering on breaching rules where I'd then have to be a killjoy in a few messages. I'm sure I don't need to make specific @s just chill if you've been doing it

[wintry pumice]

how did you become veteran?

[inner hinge]

Moddb is far less political but isn't as popular due to UI not being updated also most modders seem to have forgotten about it

[hoary crest]

I merely existed for long enough (I yap too much)

[cobalt fiber]

It's a badge to show he's got verbal diarrhea

[hoary crest]

Yeah, what he said^

[wintry pumice]

will try that

[wintry pumice]

he even begged the wish granter to stop him balding

[vapid galleon]

yeah absolutely

[inner hinge]

It is actually where you can get Anomaly which is a great but difficult stalker game

[fallen latch]

i would if i was him

[vapid galleon]

I got the Experienced role, but I want the Free Stalkers role to appear 😅

[wintry pumice]

yeah they override it.... I was free stalkers too

[forest fulcrum]

does anyone here actually like scar?

[hoary crest]

Nope

[wintry pumice]

Me

[vapid galleon]

[vapid galleon]

All groups have their fans and Freedom is a really nice faction

[fallen latch]

i like his goofyness, he's fun but toward the end he goes a bit... yeah

[wintry pumice]

He's not just Scar...

[inner hinge]

The gen z personified faction

[forest fulcrum]

sadly cant side with freedom or duty maybe a dlc later down the line?

[fallen latch]

exactly

[wintry pumice]

I would join Duty but sadly I can't

[hoary crest]

Would not be shocked if we get a faction wars type DLC at somepoint

[vapid galleon]

you can be

[wintry pumice]

Its Marshal or the c-con who you should be hating

[forest fulcrum]

makes sense like taking back rostock

[fallen latch]

maybe a freedom or duty dlc, more unique freedom and duty gear and maybe a new duty/freedom base unlock or new missions, etc

[forest fulcrum]

Duty are pretty cool

[vapid galleon]

There are no such things in Stalker 2. Everyone starts from the same place

[fallen latch]

yeah boooo cc

[wintry pumice]

Actually what happens to Ozersky after meeting the Rep?

[fallen latch]

i think kills him if u side with the ward up to that point
might have the wrong guy

[cobalt fiber]

I like Scar

Clear Sky Scar

[vapid galleon]

Yes, but it didn't look very cool in Stalker 2. Because it looks like something that can't do anything and constantly causes soldier casualties. I think factions are not done very well in Stalker 2. But Duty is a really cool faction and you can choose it as the role in this discord

[wintry pumice]

I was with Scar at that point, loved killing Ward boys. It was one of the toughest encounters yet

[fallen latch]

yeah the old factions dont really matter seemingly in stalker 2

[vapid galleon]

yeah, just for endings...

[cobalt fiber]

But the Monolith remains supreme

[fallen latch]

only a few old factions matter for endings

[vapid galleon]

:D

[fallen latch]

the monolith always remains supreme, for the monolith

[forest fulcrum]

operator exo better than diamond?

[cobalt fiber]

No

[astral portal]

I am gonna get freaky with all the stalkers

[vapid galleon]

@charred nova I got the Experienced role, but I want the Free Stalkers role to appear Why I can't?

[cobalt fiber]

Not much he can do. It's an admin thing. Role order would need changing

[vapid galleon]

@young magnet

[cobalt fiber]

Don't do that 🙃

[wintry pumice]

he's only a mod, can't do much

[vapid galleon]

they need to fix this...

[wintry pumice]

They need to fix the bugs first or atleast get me my saves back...

[hoary crest]

The meta armour is the Armoured Bandit Jacket

[vapid galleon]

😂 yes, absolutely

[wintry pumice]

sus...

[hoary crest]

Shh, you can trust me. Veteran aint I, I wouldn't lie to the rookies. Just ignore the fact I have the Bandit role

[maiden grotto]

Major Disaster
General Bullsh*t
Seaman Spray (in the navy)

[dense sandal]

Is s2 safe on pc?

[hoary crest]

*Seaman Staines (If you know, you know)

[maiden grotto]

Roger the Cabin Boy.... Ooooo I say

[hoary crest]

F*ck we're old 😂

[maiden grotto]

Yet stil Childish

[hoary crest]

Who wants to grow up anyway? Wheres the fun in that

[maiden grotto]

Yup....

You also can't forget.... Master Bates

[hoary crest]

100% Legendary show, you know our folks were chuckling in the background at the time 😄

Its funny looking back at old cartoons an stuff from the 90s, so much goes over your head at the time an then years later you're like "Oh" 😂

[maiden grotto]

Indeed 😄

You asked the question, why are you laughing? Parents replied.... Don;t worry about it, it's nothing.

[hoary crest]

Truly the best time to have grown up in, no wonder that era of people have such a good sense of humour

[maiden grotto]

Childrens TV that was made for adults is the best....

[crystal granite]

@vapid galleon I'd like to see a video of that playing in an RU recruitment centre

[maiden grotto]

Could not agree more 🙂

Stuff today is stagnant and clean

[hoary crest]

Grew up with some of the best and most interesting music and all, absolute W

[crystal granite]

We live in the snowflake era

[hoary crest]

Our parents would probably have said the same 15 years ago 😄

[maiden grotto]

With Slobadan Madic Ubic at the counter.

[vapid galleon]

? :D whats that means

[crystal granite]

Dude, I could go on and on for hours about this shit, but all I'll say is from 2025 till iirc 2035, the generation will be called Generation Beta. All the participation trophy culture and softness creates beta offspring

[hoary crest]

Not my circus so I don't care all that much truth be told, stuff changes over time, let the youngsters have thier time same as we did

[crystal granite]

Have the Monolith audio play in a recruitment centre lol cause the Monolith is drawing in new recruits just like a recruitment office irl

[cobalt fiber]

https://tenor.com/view/michael-scott-steve-carell-the-office-cringe-gif-17778800

[maiden grotto]

Traumatised from lack of soy milk

[hoary crest]

F*ck, I miss gold-top milk, not seen it in years now

[vapid galleon]

:D

[cobalt fiber]

Not all of them are that bad. My kids are 2, 10 and 12. None of them are soft arses

[ornate sable]

Here it's illegal to call anything milk that doesn't come from a cow (or other mammal I guess)

[crystal granite]

I'm 23, my siblings are 14 and 9, and thankfully they won't be soft either

[maiden grotto]

There is hope

[hoary crest]

Awh he's a baba 😂 What it would be to be 23 again

[cobalt fiber]

All my little man's mates come out with the sort of stuff we came out with as kids. It gives me hope that some of them are still little savages

[crystal granite]

Lemme guess, mid 40's?

[hoary crest]

Eyy, good on em

[maiden grotto]

I just liek full fat milk... Because it's milk and not this watered down wet stuff.

[hoary crest]

Early 30s, I'm not that old, christ

[cobalt fiber]

It's that veteran tag

[maiden grotto]

50 at the time of next birthday... I am ancient 😄

[wintry pumice]

no, it does things like making changing wall papers to a collection of mutants

[hoary crest]

Respect 😄

[crystal granite]

Lol my bad 😂 kinda gave that vibe after I saw the other dude say he's got 3 minis

[cobalt fiber]

I'll blow your mind. I'm only 29

[vapid galleon]

[hoary crest]

Damn son, you got em out early. I haven't even settled down yet 😂

[crystal granite]

I could not man

[cobalt fiber]

I never was good at wrapping

[maiden grotto]

Been gaming since the Atari 2600 came out in the 70's...

[crystal granite]

Man's really sticking to the 'house, wife, 3 kids and a dog before 30'

[hoary crest]

Lmfao, if it makes you feel better I'm not sure I can even have kids, as I'm also bad at remembering the ol' rubber 😂

[dense sandal]

How bad is the performance

[maiden grotto]

Well, you a need supply of fresh organs for ya black market trade...

[hoary crest]

Suppose there's always the chance some kid turns up at my doorstep asking for 18 years worth of child support though aha

[crystal granite]

Cyberpunk scavs enter the chat

[maiden grotto]

Please... Scav's are for lovey dovies

[hoary crest]

Its alright, I'll just sell one of my kidneys as "slightly used" (they're very used)

[crystal granite]

Kidneys 'very used'
Liver 'inoperable'

[cobalt fiber]

You'd be surprised how many parents keep their kids in now too. It's not even the kids that are the issue, little man and a lot of his mates live within 10 mins of the nearest park yet only 2 or 3 are actually allowed to go

[maiden grotto]

Keep it a trophey of a well lived life...

[cobalt fiber]

Most of them do nothing outside of school. It's all part of the issue

[hoary crest]

Thats about the size of it... Man we used to party hard. Miss those days

[crystal granite]

I'm very protective of my siblings too. With thr shit going on these days, not surprised

[hoary crest]

Thats pretty sad yeah. Back in the day we were mostly left to our own devices, you do something stupid and hurt yourself? Well you learned a valuable lesson in not being a d*ck

[wintry pumice]

depends your PC

[cobalt fiber]

I let mine go to the park with his phone. My mum used to let me get about everywhere, I'd go to the cinema with my mates and that on our own and that was a good hour. It happened back then too but it was in the media less

Also try and push them to stay active. Little man's in a football club now, just moved to division 2. Eldest does horse riding shows

[crystal granite]

Man the amount of times I came back home with a busted limb or something, bleeding like a pig, only to get patched up and be back out by dinner

[cobalt fiber]

Baby's a bit tricky. Delayed walking due to autism and got diagnosed T1 diabetes last month

[crystal granite]

Shit man that's rough. Mate of mine is dealing with a similar situation. Autism and weakened immune system. Stay strong man

[hoary crest]

Yep, just a case of "you'll live" and off you trot. Kids are durable little f*ckers when it comes to injury. Remember slipping off a trailer and smashing a few of my teeth out on the A-frame lol, week or so of a puffy face and was right as rain

[cobalt fiber]

Luckily she's not non verbal but there are defo delays there. Not walking at 2, she can stand but just isn't interested or lacks the confidence. Going through physio rn. The diabetes is rough but is what it is

[weary hedge]

the hell are you guys doing as kids, been sitting here reading this chat like yall had whack ass lives lmao

[hoary crest]

Best of luck to her, thats a sh*t draw to have pulled :/

[maiden grotto]

They ar designed to to get hurt... It's the advantage of being long, learning to climb trees etc etc....

Get to 50 and stairs are looking like evil MF'ers

[crystal granite]

Idk where you's grew up guys, but Poland in the early 2000's was a W for me. Pretty much what you said, get banged up, well shit watch out next time or "want me to bust the other knee also to even it out?" Man I want back

[hoary crest]

Even in your thirties you start to eye stuff with a bit more suspicion than you would have done a decade prior, I can only see that getting worse as time goes on

[crystal granite]

Today, parents will go panic mode over a single scratch...

[hoary crest]

Uk for me, but yeah, similar story. Would love to go back, but sadly time isnt reversible, if it was we'd be a lot richer than we are eh? 😂

[cobalt fiber]

Meanwhile my eldest fell off her bike a year ago. Told her to stop being mard and whinging because that's how we were...

Turned out she broke both wrists 🙃😂😂

[haughty umbra]

how do i revert to a previous version of stalker 2

[dense sandal]

Still Tryna figure out what to get

[hoary crest]

Average Dad moment 😂 "Whoops, misjudged that one a bit..."