☢┃stalker-general

[oak junco]

already banned

[still current]

took it down

[oak junco]

i sniped that mf haha

[wintry pumice]

[oak junco]

i wish there was a way to delete all messages at once

i hate going through all the channels 1 by 1

[still current]

I did it before you hehe

[oak junco]

nice work on getting that bot

[tepid osprey]

There should be an option to delete all messages from upto the past 7 days. Might be how the server is set up as to why that option doesn’t pop up

[wintry pumice]

Wolf was sleeping

[ebon blade]

He does like to chill.

[cerulean elm]

we gonna have stalker 3 before this next patch?

[maiden grotto]

does he always die?

[wintry pumice]

Well you can end the side quest earlier by only doing a few things but he always will be camped out there

Better to kill him. One of the two characters I feel sad for dying

[maiden grotto]

I can't remember why I would need to kill him

[wintry pumice]

Because he's a monolithian, he gets reawakened after Sircaa

[maiden grotto]

Oh FFS!! That's why...

Need to get a replacement for Zalyssia after he dies...

[wintry pumice]

Yeah but there is none afaik

[little jackal]

any chance we might open a voice channel where we might stream the game(s)?

only asking because I'm too incompetent to get twitch working properly rn

[maiden grotto]

I know... It jsut sucks

[wintry pumice]

Isn't there already a voice channel here?

[little jackal]

maybe I'm simply not worthy to see it haha or too dumb to find it.

(looking again) yeah, if it's there I don't/can't see it

[maiden grotto]

Yup there is, 10 of them right at the very bottom

[bleak mantle]

why is slomode still on

[little jackal]

the bottommost thing I can see is the Factions Hub category

[wintry pumice]

I think it was on since I joined, earlier it was 1 min

[bleak mantle]

doesnt seem like it's necessary anymore

[cobalt fiber]

Go to channels & roles and enable the voice channel category

[bleak mantle]

how many in game hours do you all have? i only have 80

[cobalt fiber]

First playthrough I think just under 100h

[bleak mantle]

nice

[cobalt fiber]

Now I'm rushing a Ward playthrough just doing main missions with the odd side mission sprinkled on

[maiden grotto]

Should be under that... Only other thing I can think of is level not high enough... I.e spend time in teh community first before being allowed to go insane in voice

[cobalt fiber]

Like Varan. Didn't bother with Shah or Roosevelt. Just killed Varan from the get go

[maiden grotto]

Or follow this

[charred nova]

The more people who die the better

[cobalt fiber]

Yes

[bleak mantle]

i'm still on my first play through, though i'm waiting for some more patches to fix things

[charred nova]

If my options are kill one man or kill 50 I’m killing 50 every time

[maiden grotto]

As long as they are monoith

[cobalt fiber]

Then go back and kill the 51st for the sake of it

[little jackal]

understood 🫡

[charred nova]

By end of my first play through I’d probably killed like 500 monolith soldiers

[maiden grotto]

Still not rnough

[charred nova]

Honestly super unrealistic

How many monolithians can there really be

[cobalt fiber]

My favourite part is turning in missions for rewards and helping people only to kill them afterwards for optimal reward

[wintry pumice]

Yoo

[charred nova]

Based as fuck

[cobalt fiber]

I just took out some guys for you, here's that thing you were after. Thanks for the coupons. Blam

[maiden grotto]

Game feels too crowded at times...

Fallout 4 issues... Supposed to be a wasteland, but the thing feels like down town Manhattan

[cobalt fiber]

Ward playthrough is infuriating

[bleak mantle]

makes things more interesting, an empty world is a boring one.

[charred nova]

Ik I feel like a massive cunt all the time

So I’ve just dedicated my self to the bit

[cobalt fiber]

Get out of Lesser. Go to chem plant. "Yeah go inside, Koroshunov is waiting". Go inside. Koroshunov is in fact not there, Ward start shooting me

[charred nova]

Might as well just kill and steal from everyone

[little jackal]

lol got'em

[charred nova]

Dude real

[cobalt fiber]

The best thing about the playthrough is Koroshunov's mocap though

Best facial mocap of all the characters

[maiden grotto]

No...

[charred nova]

Dude it sucks if you go full ward

You don’t get the unique gun

[bleak mantle]

yup

[charred nova]

At the garbage

Like wtf

[cobalt fiber]

Yeah i found that odd

[charred nova]

I bent my self over backwards for you dumb mfs

[wintry pumice]

Combatant?

[little jackal]

||shah's mate||?

[charred nova]

Made all the most illogical decisions

[cobalt fiber]

I've been running with Drowned this time though

[charred nova]

No the ak

[charred nova]

Yes

[cobalt fiber]

Drowned is very very good for jamming

[charred nova]

I killed the shah with shahs mate

[bleak mantle]

people would most definitely complain if the world felt empty

[charred nova]

Which gave unique dialog

[little jackal]

oh yeah that makes a lot of sense
SAME

[wintry pumice]

Hmm I guess it pales in comparison with the penetration of Dnipro

[charred nova]

I’ve been using the unique vector

And it’s kinda insanely goated

It can delete most mutants in a single mag

All but the most powerful of mutants fall to the power of the vector

[cobalt fiber]

Defo due a replay of the OGs when I'm done with the ward pt cos it's been a ride but not one I can do again yet

[maiden grotto]

Love that gun... It's the one I use, but with ballistic mods... AK's should have one of the highest armour pen of all the assault rifles... The gun can shoot through solid walls, but loses out on accuracy.

But nah stalker 2, guns about a potent as a fart in a bubble bat and some SMG rinses it...

So ballastic mods, then you can run around with AK's and feel like stalker

[wintry pumice]

I never used smg in my play through

[cobalt fiber]

Can't say I'm looking forward to the Strelok fight for a third time

[maiden robin]

Same lmao. I made it a point to do so. Honestly feel like it should have been an achievement

[cobalt fiber]

Not that it's difficult. Just annoyingly long

[maiden grotto]

I just walked up to him and blasted him in teh face with a SPAS... Instant pizza face

[wintry pumice]

Even with Gauss?

[charred nova]

The gauss kinda blows

[cobalt fiber]

^

[charred nova]

Compared to the whip it’s honestly bad

The damage isn’t what it should be

Especially on max difficulty

Exo suit monoliths can walk off multiple body shots from the gauss

[cobalt fiber]

When I ran through the spark ending I didn't even grab the gauss

[maiden grotto]

When really the head should be missing after the first

[cobalt fiber]

To be fair I didn't use the gauss when I did Kaymanov and Streloks ending till Scar drops his either

Scar fight was also too damn easy

[wintry pumice]

The Colonel would have been annoying to deal without it though

[cobalt fiber]

If you quick save before going into the little arena room the zombies don't even wake up

[maiden grotto]

I hated that fight.... f-ing boss fights... get lost...

[cobalt fiber]

Eh that one wasn't too bad

Cover and clusterfuck got it done

[inland sage]

Colonel...Sanders?

[maiden grotto]

Mine was bugged, all my nades were duds

[inland sage]

Oh the clusterfuck. Is it just me or is that gun stupidly fragile? It seems like it degrades so fast. Does getting shot degrade your equipped weapon?

[charred nova]

Why the whip plus ap is better

[wintry pumice]

Yes, he throws fried chicken at you

[charred nova]

It’s about the same effectiveness

But it can be rapid fired

The worst boss though is scar

It’s so unclear what your suppose to do had to look it up cus like

Basically all his attacks just instantly kill you

[wintry pumice]

No, you are shooting using the gun is what's causing the durability damage. It little durability

[maiden grotto]

I hate guass fired it once and thought it was stupid weapon... hated it SoC too... Just a silly little weapon...

I use M701 as a sniper... One shot's most things

[charred nova]

The m701 is bad

The whip is a million times better

But it’s very fun to use

That i agree with

[maiden grotto]

But I use ballistic mods, so maybe in the vanilla game... But I find the M701 to be fine with ballistic mods

[charred nova]

It’s fine in vanilla

It’s just shit compared to other options

Since it’s slow

[maiden grotto]

That's fine... being nearly 50, it's something I can keep up with 🤣

[charred nova]

Well fuck man

Can’t argue with that

[maiden grotto]

hahahahaha

[inland sage]

Wolf deleted my stuff because he's rude. I fought a lot of monolithians and my stuff broke.

[inland sage]

Are we firing bullets covered in dirt or what, a gun should still be good after a few hundred rounds go through it.

[maiden grotto]

I tried the others, and meh, the gun just didn't feel right for me... Maybe play styles or whatever...

but my main weapon is drowned... 90% of my kills is with this.

[maiden grotto]

The game wear and tear is insane...

[wintry pumice]

Not this one, since it does high damage and is a sniper and the ammo is pretty common, I guess devs wanted to balance it somewhere

[cobalt fiber]

Funnily enough I didn't realise it barely jammed until you mentioned it the other day. Then figured I'd use it for my ward pt. Shockingly good

Don't think I used it at all in my first

I was still using the scoped AK until about Malachite lol

Actually it was malachite because that's when I realised how bad it was

[drifting forge]

I'm still using AK-74M past the first duga encounter lol

[inland sage]

Oh, DROWNED! That's the gun that the guy dropped into the ravine near slag heap, right? I gave everyone their guns back when they had lost them and needed them back. So far. Drowned and decider really. And whatever that Zalissya guy's gun is.

[drifting forge]

Just cheap and fits my style

[maiden grotto]

meh (regarding the scoped one, found at the top of the tower)... there is the scope at the end of the crane at the slag heap.... But you get the taped mag, so it's reload is like real quick

[charred nova]

i hate those quests

[cobalt fiber]

In the end I was just running clusterfuck and cracker all the way

[maiden grotto]

I think he is lying two faced butt muncher... I think the gun has been there for sometimes...

[charred nova]

because you are reawarded with literally nothing for doing the right then

[cobalt fiber]

Didn't even use the saiga just stuck to the cracker

[charred nova]

and there is no negatives to just stealing them

[drifting forge]

Based

[maiden grotto]

Mag upgrade?

[cobalt fiber]

And in most cases also killing them

[charred nova]

its like

why present me with the option of giving it back

[drifting forge]

Can still easily take out hordes of bloodsuckers. You just have to learn how to use it properly and the reload

[charred nova]

when my reward for doing so is like

wow ty bro

and he runs away

[cobalt fiber]

It was the one you get when you meet richter pretty sure it's got the mag already

[charred nova]

like mf where's my money

honestly one of the best mods ngl

[cobalt fiber]

Idk why I never switched to the saiga just didn't feel the need lol

[maiden grotto]

I just think it fires to slow...

[charred nova]

is the mod that lets you take attachments off unique weapons

the fact the attachments are welded on unique weapons is so stupid

[cobalt fiber]

Downside to being a console peasant these days is I can't get mods rn

Also uetools tbh

[charred nova]

some of them are rendered uselsss because of that

[cobalt fiber]

Got locked out of in the name of science for the most bizarre reason and could have done with uetools

[charred nova]

like the only unique mk 1 emr in the game

has a red dot welded onto it

making it completely useless

[drifting forge]

Id love to take the PSO off of an SVD

[charred nova]

theres a mod that makes that possible

[drifting forge]

Hell yeah

[charred nova]

actually i may have lied

because i dont think they have iron sights

[drifting forge]

F

[maiden grotto]

Come join us

[cobalt fiber]

I gave it up cos of lack of space and one of the kids wanted it

Do miss it

It'll be very strange playing soc on the xbox when I do a replay

[charred nova]

xbox 💀

[cobalt fiber]

Yes

I know

It pains me more that I gave the little man the pc cos all he uses it for is fortnite and roblox

Wasteful

[charred nova]

just give him the xbox

it can play both

[heavy crag]

question - I haven't played too much and have visited Icarus only twice, looks like theres a bed / stash here but it's in lockdown? Sometimes some zombies are here to kill. It looks like there were other vendors here at one point? do they come back?

[maiden grotto]

No idea, never knew it had shops etc... I only go there to kill things

[weary hedge]

No. The camp is under lockdown and is inhabited by zombies now.

[trail fiber]

I think I found that tornado anomaly

Oh God I found the diamond exoskeleton hell yeah

[maiden grotto]

Whre did you find it?

[trail fiber]

Is the diamond exoskeleton good?

[maiden grotto]

yes

[trail fiber]

Spark Bunker, Yaniv

[trail fiber]

Does it make you slow too?

[charred nova]

stock yes

but it can be upgraded with sprint

[maiden grotto]

yup, on the roof.... Good armour

[maiden grotto]

First upgrade

[crystal granite]

I'm on Xbox Series X, does anyone else have any issues with Pripyat constantly reading in the textures? Even in Performance mode? Like I can look at a buildings across from the Palace of Culture and they're reading in, same for rwst of the city

[trail fiber]

How much is it for sprint?

[charred nova]

20k or something

[crystal granite]

I've been running it for the past 60 something hours since I got it. After you upgrade it a little, it's the best (imo)

[crystal granite]

7.5k for Sewn-on Pockets and 15k for Hydraulic Amplifiers for Servos. And yeah you got to install the pockets first, since they're a hard requirement to install the amplifiers unfortunately

[crystal granite]

Did you follow the story or did you do the box trick?

[trail fiber]

Story, I was here and I thought it was somewhere else but decided to check the top of the bunker

[crystal granite]

Ah, I did the box trick

Ffs Yaniv guide is gone. Does anyone know if its a bug, or did he die in the Monolith attack? His icon is still there

[frigid hill]

yo_bossman has been warned

Reason: Bad word usage

[crystal granite]

Piss off Wolf

[hot minnow]

How dare you use curse words in a mature games server!

[weary hedge]

It’s a bug.

[crystal granite]

Well sh*t, so it's a trek through the red forest and then Yantar

Idk about you but there's something about Yantar that makes me dislike it a lot. I don't like being in that part of the map

[weary hedge]

Neither do I, it’s like Prypiat Jr.

[crystal granite]

Yeah something definitely feels off about it. Idk what exactly, but there's that feeling in the air

Found the f*cking Thunderberry!

[bleak wadi]

How old do you think cononel Korshunov is?

[crystal granite]

Looks to be in his 40s

[weary hedge]

Now chug down a whole case of energy drinks to give Skif an anxiety attack lol

[crystal granite]

Lmao 🤣 that's one thing I'll need to carry less of

[weary hedge]

I put my exo back in my stash and switched out for my other armor to farm artifacts. I forgot how much I needed energy drinks before using the thunder berry. That stays with my diamond exo.

[crystal granite]

I prefer to stay in my exo, especially with the increased protection I installed

Plus I like that Monolith look

[weary hedge]

I’m too cheap to want to keep paying for the repairs, even with all my koupons lol.

[crystal granite]

The missions pay for it. Also all the loot I haul back and sell

I'm about to go hunting for weird water, and if it emits radiation, I'll install my 3rd lead container

[maiden grotto]

Got 4 of them 😄

[crystal granite]

Do you know if the Compass in the Claw is still bugged?

[maiden grotto]

You know what I would like to do... be able to join friendly squads in what they are doing... Maybe they are going to fight a mutants and fancy some extra help...

Add a bit life into the game... and if you are really good, maybe they get back incontact with you and start asking for help and more often.

@crystal granite Never got mine from the claw so wouldn't know. I think I got mine from the Promin CMD factory

[crystal granite]

Life you want? 10 man IPSF patrol with PKMs enough life for you? All shooting at you? Bur yeah, these are good ideas and the game definitely needed more time to implement ideas like this

Was lucky there was a bloodsucker nearby to take their attention

[left flume]

anyone have the picture of dalin next to zelenskyy

[maiden grotto]

There is a difference between life and BS spawn simpulator.... In rostock and a group snorks have spawned and 2x bloodsuckers...

Sick of this spawning BS....

SKD Assembly Factory near the cooling towers, went to explore, the squads of bandits and military kept spawning like a squad a minute, then mutants joined in...

F*CK THIS SPAWNING SH1T...

Just because too many modern gamers complain the game is boring if something doesn;t happen ever 2 minutes.... F----K OFF.

It's ruining the atmosphere of the game and I feel more like I playing Doom...

Want the world to feel "alive" not filled with "BS"

[crystal granite]

I agree. I don't need a skirmish every 2 mins or something trying to eat me in between. I got stuff to do, and places to be. If I want to pick a fight, I know where to look

Actual life in this game is largely missing and that's a major downside

[maiden grotto]

The thing is, you never bump into things, it's always spawning around you, you know, as soon as spawns Bloodsuckers they are bee-lining to you as they already know where you are...

I have killed hundreds of the things, they are just frustrating now, rather than something to be feared...

And when they have fixed the game and make it how it is supposed, I will probably be playing something else... And the entire experience has been forever fecking ruined... Because I already know most stuff, it wont be surprise, and it's shame...

People who will get the game on sale in 2 years with get the best experiences... All we are getting is bugged, half finished shyte show, that will one day hopefully be an epic game.

You only get once chance to experience the game for the first time, when everything fresh and wonderous...

Too many games today just fecking screw players over and the mojority of the time it is the fecking investors fault.

[shrewd needle]

Consider the constantly-spawning BS as the Zone's challenge. 😏

[crystal granite]

Hard to disagree, many investors are pushing for a quick release and a return on the investment

Not bumping into stuff and getting pin pointed by enemies is annoying. At least future players will (hopefully) get to play a fixed game and experience it all properly thanks to early players (us) finding all this mess a problem and finding all the bugs too foe the devs to fix

[crystal granite]

It's challenging my patience alright

[maiden grotto]

Put it feels like I am doing a job and paying for the priviledge to do it.

[crystal granite]

Got the weird water first try, happy days

[shrewd needle]

You don't have to tell me; I get 2 BS spawning on me every single time I stop for 2 minutes.

I've just resorted to treating it as part of the game now...getting frustrated won't kill them, so just dump them with the VSS Vintorez and get going.

[eager magnet]

this game is complete garbonso

[crystal granite]

I'm considering carrying the PKM with me to just spray them off. I carry the Dnipro, Texas, Gauss, & Rhino atm

[crystal granite]

Tell me about it. Definitely needed another year in the oven

[shrewd needle]

All you need is one extended magazine for the VSS Vintorez due to the high damage...1 per BS. I usually get 2, so I spend 2 magazines. It's much easier than carrying around an LMG.

And the Vintorez is infinitely more useful for EVERYthing.

[maiden grotto]

I cleared an area, now let me explore it... Rather than this 90 sec BS or whatever it is...

Seriously, I had to fight 4 fecking Pseudo giants, to get the cavalier.... F*ck off.... I earned the right to the gun, when I killed the two when you first turn up... Why spawn more on me...

No, your just making me not want to play this game more and more....

[crystal granite]

Got double mags with AP rounds for the Dnipro atm

[maiden grotto]

someone's been around the cooling towers 😄

[shrewd needle]

Well, this game has no ballistics, just gun-dependent damage values, so snipers will wipe the floors with ARs (including the AS Val, which is supposed to just be a Vintorez with a larger stock magazine). Trust me, none of the ARs are any good for this.

[maiden grotto]

Did you get your Dnipro frmo the top of the cooling towers? Some great views from up there

[crystal granite]

Yessir 😄 enjoyed playing guitar at the top and jumping down. It was a triple for me, Dnipro, joined mags and the weird nut

[maiden grotto]

Yup 😄

did you look down into the fire anomaly?

[crystal granite]

It was epic

[maiden grotto]

#📸┃screens_and_videos message

[crystal granite]

Might give it a go later on

[crystal granite]

You can't beat that. The Yaniv tornado has got nothing on the cooling towers fire tornado

[shrewd needle]

At least Yaniv tornado doesn't require climbing. 😏

[maiden grotto]

They have really cocked this up... They really need to sit down, take a deep breath and just go through this shyte and fix it...

[crystal granite]

I already missed on the weird bolt cause the corpse that got yeeted has long despawned along with the pda

So the Yaniv tornado is nothing more than a local anomaly to me now

[shrewd needle]

Hopefully...somehow, original games did better at this than S2, but...it's not over yet, so I'm hopeful, but I don't expect much, NGL.

[wintry pumice]

What does the body have to do with the bolt?

[shrewd needle]

Can't get more than 1 bolt?

[crystal granite]

Apparently there's some pda on it that mentions the bolt. And reading it makes it spawn the first time

[wintry pumice]

Definitely no. I never read anything, I was able to get it just fine

[crystal granite]

Will have to see then, since I'm already out artifact hunting

[wintry pumice]

Hmm

[maiden grotto]

I am going to give them the time they need, I have hope, it is clear it has been a labour of love, but they need to finish the game...

In no way, do I believe that this is what they wanted

[shrewd needle]

Also, am I missing something or exo-skeletons require plenty of prints to even be upgradable at all?

[crystal granite]

Wym plenty of pdas? Like blueprints?

[maiden grotto]

Lots of blue prints yeah, including the run one

[shrewd needle]

Hopefully not, but if the game remains as it is (not just bugs but gameplay itself, then it'll be problematic.)

[shrewd needle]

Yea, prints...my bad. Also, 30-second slow-mode can die.

[maiden grotto]

Yup, they can go F themselves if they don't fix this mess, I wont get the DLC's and it will become another dead IP... Just like so many other games and TV, films, books...

I mean, how does it feel to see all your favourite things go up in flames?

It's been a decade of desolation.

[river chasm]

I think the guns need some rebalancing but the gunplay more or less works how I was expecting it to

[shrewd needle]

Well...after EA screwed up the entire NFS franchise...I've stopped expecting anything from companies any more...it's just shit games on the corpses of older great games.

If GSC fixes the mess, it'll honestly be a first. Won't renew my faith, but I'll definitely appreciate them for it.

[crystal granite]

Pretty much me and Space Marine 2. After 13 years all the devs and GW came up with was constant repetition and barely any new content. That's not what I paid for, I'm out

[shrewd needle]

Yea, NO HUMAN in the world is supposed to survive a 9 * 39 round to the face, so no...the gun-play is wrecked with bullet-sponges and bad ballistics.

[maiden grotto]

I know how you feel...

[crystal granite]

I was offered the Palace Edition (or whatever it's called) if the newest NFS for like a tenner or so, still didn't buy it

[river chasm]

Thank god this isn't the real world

[rancid spoke]

I’m just starting the game

[river chasm]

Though the 9x39 guns are definitely underpowered mostly

[maiden grotto]

We need a stalker support group... I'm Roggatron, I have been a stalker fan for 18 years

[shrewd needle]

Unbound is garbage, especially with the anime/cartoon crap shoved into highly realistic graphics. Not that I care for the graphics, but it sticks out so badly...NFS has been gone since Criterion took hold...

[crystal granite]

Idk if anyone here played Insurgency Sandstorm but I wouldn't mind combat being more like that game had done it

[shrewd needle]

Unrealism is not an excuse for blatantly breaking the suspension of disbelief. And I doubt any game is good with bullet sponges.

A pseudo-giant is a bullet sponge. A regular bandit is not. An armoured exo-skeleton is not.

[crystal granite]

I had a time trial for it, and I agree. It's not NFS...

[maiden grotto]

The zone might be an improvement 😄

[river chasm]

IDK man I played 100 hours and it never bothered me, I think it may just be a matter of taste

[shrewd needle]

IKR? I've not played it yet, but watched enough (and have played Heat and Payback) and yes, NFS is just dead since the original MW. There've been some good elements, but the series died the day EA killed Black Box Games.

[crystal granite]

I'm 78hrs in and I feel like some enemies shouldn't be able to eat multiple Dnipro rounds to the face. Plus with everyone and their dog wearing exos, it ain't getting easier

[maiden grotto]

You expect teh guns to do the job they was designed to do... It allows players to play the way they want too.... If you like sniping, then sniper rifles need to be sniper rifles, assault rifles are the same...

But they are not... They are garbage...

[shrewd needle]

I've played as much, if not more, along with the entire trilogy, so, uh...I think I know something slightly, if not much. The original games had even worse bullet sponges, but enemies still died to head-shots unless armoured there.

When an unarmoured bandit survives a shot to the head (which, let's be honest, he never would, even with a pea-shooter)...yea, something's broken.

[maiden grotto]

That is another thing now, the amount of exo suits... It is breaking the immersion of the game...

Go back to Zalyssia or slag heap, every nooby is an armoured tank, with a good damn sawn off shot gun? So they can afford the best armour in the game, but can't afford a decent weapon?

[crystal granite]

With everyone locking onto you the moment they see you (stealth is trash) and unload all at once with pin point accuracy, good luck sniping. I tried, and all that happens is you get hit constantly when trying to aim

[shrewd needle]

I tell you, man...VSS Vintorez. That'll solve most, but not all of your problems (you'll still be dumping magazines, but fighting each enemy for much shorter).

[river chasm]

I mean I have played probably 1000+ hours of the original trilogy including various mods, so it is not like I'm unfamiliar with the series

[shrewd needle]

Imagine sniping enemies in a game where 100 metres is the spawn distance. 😆

Also, I've seen WITH MY EYES how enemies as far as 50-75 metres literally were aware of where I am and came running towrds me. With accurate fire from shotguns at that range...while I shot multiple 9 * 39 to their heads just to down them...

Bloody unarmoured Bandits costing me my health...when you're downing multiple med-kits in a single fire-fight... 😡

[crystal granite]

Sniping is essentially non existent in this game. Which is a shame cause I like the Lynx and the Whip. I carry a gauss rifle with me, but I rarely use it. The amount of penetrable cover is crazy, and the moment you peek out to aim, you get riddled with aim bot bullets

[shrewd needle]

Send me a Gauss; I need it desperately.

[maiden grotto]

Seen it myself... Had 2x bloodsuckers spawn in the anomaly field in Promin SMD factory... appear, scream, and come straight at me...

The bots for CS 1.6 were more advanced than this.

[river chasm]

Once you get the gauss the game is pretty much on easy mode except against enemies who also have a gauss

[crystal granite]

Prometheus Movie Theatre in Pripyat. Underarm a grenade under the locked door and pick it up from the table. Bison and Wreck sell ammo

[shrewd needle]

IKR? I played tons of Counter-Strike: Condition Zero and the bots move so realistically, even if everything is not up to par...their entire pathing and moving to target and hunting for enemies is so well-done!

[crystal granite]

Gauss helped me kill the giant when looking for Strelok

[shrewd needle]

I haven't even done Azimuth Station in Wild Territory yet, so not getting to Pripyat any time soon. Though I might just bee-line there and use the train to get over.

[maiden grotto]

Still think, that Pseudogiants should take a squad to take down...

I should not be able to take down 4 in one go.... I should pulp on the floor somewhere with some blind dog chomping and flat crown jewels

[crystal granite]

Do the anomaly jump and go to the Palace. Then you can fast travel with Telefraph. Just make sure you take the ling way round once you're over cause there's a radiation field on the south east side

[crystal granite]

That shit should need an RPG to put to sleep

[shrewd needle]

Will do, thank you (will check YT and get along if stuck). 🙏

[maiden grotto]

yeah, I had one, but not enough ammo 😄

I wsa expecting 2... not 4...

[shrewd needle]

4 RPGs. No less.

And that's the thing...the tank is not spongy but the sponges are all tanks. I just fought one of those mutant mooses in the Helicopter Base in Burnt Forest...something that should take, at most, 1 magazine of SPAS-12 took me far more. Same for human enemies. Even the Chimera took like...5-6 magazines of the Vintorez...

[river chasm]

Hmmm. If you shoot it in the unarmored parts of its body it should go down relatively fast

[trail fiber]

Im going to pripyat

[shrewd needle]

I'll be honest, it was my first moose and I'm not used to fighting them at all...so IDK the tactics, TBH.

[crystal granite]

Here you go. I personally used the anomaly glitch (you can find one between two overturned train carriages) and this vid also includes the safe way to get to the Palace https://youtu.be/u5MY46ox-_M?si=n4bkgn9CtjKFlAWD

[river chasm]

I happened to stumble on one from behind and unloaded my shotgun into its rear and it died before it could even react

[maiden grotto]

Those stags have weird armour on them, so yeah, they should be touch and be a bit spongy...

The mutants attacks should be far more dangerous and do way more damage...

Quality over quantity

[crystal granite]

I got the achievement for killing every mutant, and man I hate Chimeras and Giants

[maiden grotto]

Saiga elbow deep 😄

[shrewd needle]

Thanks a lot; I'll use this and get to Pripyat early as I can.

Also, where would I find Gauss Batteries? Like, are they sold at Yaniv or do I need to scour Pripyat for this?

[river chasm]

It was a surprise for both of us to be sure

[shrewd needle]

Agreed, but when you take multiple shotgun magazines...it's...eh, a bit too much. I'd say 1 magazine of SPAS-12 or 2 of the magazine-based shotguns and I'm still good.

[crystal granite]

Bison in Pripyat or Wreck in Yaniv should have them

[shrewd needle]

I only got Chimera due to NPCs...they and I distracted it together and I kept shooting my Vintorez...5 magazines, at least.

[crystal granite]

Here, a little bonus 😉 I found it just cause the story led me there. Maybe you can find it early. Doubles the ammo capacity per mag https://youtu.be/IJO-fJ1EHrA?si=8C5hcQScr5r4BGCQ

[shrewd needle]

Time to go on a Gauss Hunt. 😏

[crystal granite]

I killed a Chimera in an arena fight in Roatok. Fight no.4

[crystal granite]

1 shots the IPSF which constantly spawn and try to kill ya

[shrewd needle]

I never got that...I did 3 fights and number 4 didn't show up, even after sleeping twice. Someone said that doing a mission will reset it, so I'll see then, after Azimuth Station.

[ornate sable]

Yeah, did the same tonight

[crystal granite]

Fight no.4 unlocks iirc after SIIRCA. Not 100% sure but somewhere around that time. Just keep progressing through the story

[shrewd needle]

Need to loot the map first. 😏

[maiden grotto]

Mine open immediately.... Just waited a day or something silly like that

[crystal granite]

It was story locked for me. Progressed far enough and it unlocked. Blasted through that one, and no.5 dude got stuck behind his little podium, and the rhino took care of his head

[shrewd needle]

Wait, so fight 4 is Chimera in that little warehouse?

[crystal granite]

Yup

[maiden grotto]

Maybe I started it all after SIRCAA

[crystal granite]

Iirc you get a Dnipro and a Duty suit

[maiden grotto]

Number 3 I think... Exo suit is number 4

[crystal granite]

Nah, fight no.3 is you vs either mutants or the 7 dudes where you're given the m701 super. Tyrant is no.5

[shrewd needle]

Nah, I already finished 3 fights...fight 3 is multiple combatants at once against you. With the Remington 700.

Fight 2 is mutants and 1 is 2 vs 2.

[crystal granite]

That was so damn easy like it's criminal. I picked off 4 and wounded the fifth before they closed in

[maiden grotto]

II can't remember the order, the Muty was before the Exo who in my game needed 80 million headshot...

Never even gave me enough ammo to kill it with the shotty, so switch to the assult riffle...

[shrewd needle]

I got shot once, but wiped them all with the R700 without even breaking a stride...only had to move for someone hidden behind a box. Literally walk in the park.

Mutants were the real challenge, especially with that 'Boomstick'. Think it was a psy-dog too...

[crystal granite]

Yeah that mutie fight was bs

[maiden grotto]

Yup, with a million dogs runnign around

[shrewd needle]

Fight 1 is 2 vs. 2...you fight with a useless team-mate and 2 opponents.

Fight 2 is mutants with psy-dog.

Fight 3 is 7 opponents vs. you with Remington 700.

Fight 4 and 5, IDK.

[crystal granite]

The whole psy-dog idea was crazy af. I hate the damn thing

[shrewd needle]

IKR? Not enough ammunition and that POS kept replicating like nanites replicating themselves. 😡

Worse in the open world, NGL.

[crystal granite]

Fight 4 is you vs Chimera with a Dnipro and Duty armour

Fight 5 is you vs Tyrant. Choose the "Let him choose" and you'll get the Rhino revolver. You'll also be wearing the IPSF ballistic armour

[shrewd needle]

Chimera is going to be a nuisance, since I'm bad at fighting mutants. 😖

[maiden grotto]

Jump on the boxes and stay off the ground... unless moving fromn one or the other to draw him out

[crystal granite]

Movement and headshots, don't let it claw you. It does high damage

[shrewd needle]

Yea, the one in the open was a literal nightmare (as it should be)...and that leap attack is just...pain. One swipe cost me half my health!

Also, for Roggatron...boxes are fine, but don't mutants just run behind items and hide if you're off the ground?

[crystal granite]

I was fighting a Chimera in the Swapms when the Emission warning came through. I was like fuuuuuuuuu*ck

[maiden grotto]

That was just garbage...

[crystal granite]

Gotta lure them out then hop back on, or run around the box as not to let them hit you

[shrewd needle]

You're not supposed to fight that one, just run to the Clear Sky base...that's kind of a scripted event that's supposed to drive the urgency of getting to safety (badly done, I agree, but that's the point).

[crystal granite]

Literally worst timing ever

[maiden grotto]

It's scripted... When I first did it, I hid in the glass anomaly... Leaves you alone

[crystal granite]

Can't exactly run with that thing on your ass constantly

[shrewd needle]

Right, but as Roggatron and I said...it's scripted, so you don't have a choice. You try to fight it, you'll DEFINITELY die. Worth taking a swipe and keep moving than duel it out in an emission, honest.

Also, I went to the Swamps in free roam and no Chimera there, so I guess only for that mission.

[crystal granite]

Well damn, I killed it then ruined my Diamond and Texas running from the Emission into Fausts bunker popping med kits like a hobo does with pop tarts. Glad I found a second one and fixed the Texas

[shrewd needle]

Man got skills! That's even better than just running, and I know it's a pain. But skills!

[maiden grotto]

Your not supposed to have diamond armour by then or the texan 😄

I didn't have enough energy drinks, ammo, or anything else useful... Had loads of items too, so short sprints only (yellow) so far, but not that far.... Nearly though the PC out the windows with that BS

[crystal granite]

And a damn good gun from pripyat. Guide coming your way https://youtu.be/YfdYMeQ5tZ4?si=kbub_sxIOo0zbSV4

[shrewd needle]

Yea, I'm keeping all those guides and heading to Pripyat this time before Azimuth...definitely getting that Gauss Gun before I move anywhere in the story.

Just wishing the entire map was open from the start (discounting Iron Forest/CNPP/Generators, since they don't even exist in free-roam).

[crystal granite]

I used the anomaly jump to get to Pripyat early for the Texan, and the box trick to jump on top of the bunker for the diamond

[crystal granite]

One more thing, just be ready cause upkeep will cost ya. These are endgame items where you're technically well off so the pieces to fix them are higher

[shrewd needle]

I love exploring, so I used a trainer to nullify the map-edge radiation and went all the way to Jupiter and got an exo-skeleton...so technically, cheated, but still found by regular exploration (with some help from MapGenie). And used Harpy to upgrade the sprint, so that's one good thing.

[maiden grotto]

I used the box trick... but this time I got a jump mod, so I can jump onto higher things... as Scif jumps like he has no legs

[shrewd needle]

Well...the sheer number of humans and their equipment around me should pay off the costs. Especially since mutants are now useless for anything except wasting ammunition.

[shrewd needle]

Better than Shepard from Mass Effect...man has no knees and can't even jump even a single centimetre. At least Ryder did much better with the jump jets in Andromeda.

Also, Skif can jump just fine while being over-loaded, so man's 'short but strong' type. 😏

[maiden grotto]

garbage mechanics....

Bob - "Oh look, a twig"

Charlie - "f*ck, that's a 6 mile detour"

[crystal granite]

Here is the second location for the Diamond Exo, this time in Pripyat. I had to get it cause I ruined the other one to 0% in an Emission and the Chimera fight I mentioned earlier and didn't have 50+k to fix it https://youtu.be/b3ag3K3oVIw?si=TlUupkY0EQR7_Gbo

[maiden grotto]

I wouldn't be surprised if it wasn't the fault of Health And Safety- "you haven't got the certificate that lets you step over that twig. You never know, it could have your out, you'll have to walk around, sorry"

Fecking health and safety BS.

[shrewd needle]

At least he can vault and mantle over low obstacles...that was my biggest pain in older games, when your character wouldn't use his hands to climb something that could easily be done.

[shrewd needle]

Well...the Zone IS hazardous to health, after all. Even a twig can just be a poltergeist's weapon...acting as John Wick's pencil and going through your head in a painful manner.

Peak example with Degtyarev nannying everyone who wants to go to Pripyat.

[maiden grotto]

Immersion breaking is what that is.

[crystal granite]

Don't even mention poltergeists, hate chasing down those junk yeeting, legless bastards

[shrewd needle]

Dude...I keep running into them in places where I can't even find them...the electric/smoke ones just blend in with the surroundings and the fire ones just hid where I couldn't see them...in a BASEMENT of a burnt house.

I hate those with passion. Also, that Red Forest cemetery Potergeist can't even be killed, since it's in out-of-bounds area.

[crystal granite]

A burer takes 1 headshot from a gauss rifle, a poltergeist takes a texan mag if cause he keeps running

[maiden grotto]

Yes, it has telekinetic powers, but at least make they have to see you

[shrewd needle]

Yep...or a couple of grenades or even Skif's pistol...but Poltergeists are pure evil.

[crystal granite]

Wow, stuck in a small building about 50 metres from the Yaniv tornado during an Emission. Telling ya, it's quite the experience

[maiden grotto]

game says no

[shrewd needle]

Show pictures in #📸┃screens_and_videos or didn't happen.

[crystal granite]

Will do, needs to upload

[maiden grotto]

right, night for me... catch you later

[shrewd needle]

Wait. Asked in #📸┃screens_and_videos.

[crystal granite]

Goodnight, stalker

[maiden grotto]

Am I getting hugs?

And it's cooling towers 😄

[shrewd needle]

Get out of here for the night, stalker!

I'll be honest...I want Sidorovich to say that after you mess up his business by saving that other trader's life in Cordon...Sid gets annoyed when you get to his bunker and tells you first to 'Get out of here, stalker'.

Then, on another prompt, he finally relents since he loves money more than grudges, that POS.

[cobalt haven]

You guys think the bread in the zone is a form of sourdough?

[shrewd needle]

In the Zone, the bread itself is an anomaly. But edible.

[crystal granite]

Here you go #📸┃screens_and_videos message

[shrewd needle]

Yep, just saw...not getting that in the little fire inside the tower, are you? 😏

[crystal granite]

The Fire Tornado in the cooling towers is better than the Yaniv one. Frankly, I'm surprised i was allowed to get that far outside without taking damage from the Emission

[shrewd needle]

Right, but the view for the Yaniv Tornado during an emission...like, it's massive!

[crystal granite]

I like watching tornado content in YT, and i can tell you, tornados in low light conditions are something different

[inland sage]

Hm. If I'm using a Dnipro, what would be better? Coupled magazines or the extended one?

[crystal granite]

I use coupled

[inland sage]

Then I'll try that out.

[bleak wadi]

When will we see the DLC roadmap for stalker 2?

[crystal granite]

If you got it from the cooling towers,coupled mags are close by. After you help father Valarian (behind the tower in that anomalous zone with bubbles) he points you to his stash with the coupled mags

Man, grabbing that weird bolt is difficult

[inland sage]

Ah, what I meant was, I have both, and was wanting to know which to use.

[crystal granite]

Ah okay, I also have both but I stick with the coupled ones

[inland sage]

Also I haven't seen that Valarian guy yet...I don't think?

[crystal granite]

He's in a rail car north of the cooling towers

[shrewd needle]

With coupled magazines, you'd need to reload at the same interval, but with extended, you'll reload slightly less than usual. Less reloads are always preferable over faster ones.

[crystal granite]

Got the Weird Bolt, finally!

[inland sage]

Now get the weird nut and combine them!

[crystal granite]

So, Thunderberry, Weird Water and Weird Bolt in one sitting, that's a good hunt

[crystal granite]

Already have it 😄

[inland sage]

If only you could put them together. That would have been a nice addition, artifacts interacting with each other.

[crystal granite]

Well for now, all we get is counteracting

[inland sage]

In more than just, using one artifact to cancel out the rads of another, I mean.

[ornate sable]

That would be so cool, combine them to get both effects in one slot, but with some negative effect to compensate

Maybe pour the weird water into the weird pot. Add the weird flower to it to make weird tea?

[shrewd needle]

How do I increase scrolling speed in the inventory? Especially with the pixel-thin scroll bar?

[crystal granite]

Praise the Monolith

[inland sage]

Then drink to praise the monolith!

[shrewd needle]

So, shoot the inventory full of lead...got it.

[crystal granite]

Man the weird water makes the world oh so very orange lol

[jagged zinc]

My bug report will be in the next patch 👀

Let's go!!

[crystal granite]

Talk about recognition lol

When is the next patch? Monolith knows this game needs one

[jagged zinc]

Nah i made a report a month ago for On The Edge cause I got soft-locked so I figured I'd let the team know

[jagged zinc]

Not sure

[trail fiber]

May luck be on my side when I discover pripyat

[crystal granite]

Wym? It's not like you're discovering America

[ornate sable]

Cool!

[jagged zinc]

I got sent an email saying it'll be fixed so wwwwww

[crystal granite]

Anyone knows where to buy psi-block? I don't wanna run around controller areas all the time just to find them

Stocked up like crazy in X5 but running low again

[timid harbor]

hey does anyone know of any companion mods for stalker 2?

[jagged zinc]

I wish the game had followers

[crystal granite]

Lol if someone could make Richter into a companion that would be laughable 😆

[timid harbor]

i would love to be able to have my own small little clique of stalkers to hang out with

[crystal granite]

Zotov, since the man sacrificed himself

[restive sentinel]

Has anyone noticed that the English subtitles are inaccurate as hell when playing in Ukrainian?

[trail fiber]

I mean in stalker 2 because I never been to pripyat

[ornate sable]

I think the English subs are matched to what the lines are in English (otherwise it would be weird if you had English audio + subs)

[crystal granite]

That's what I meant. Long as you can handle yourself in a fight, and got some good gear & plenty of ammo, you'll be fine

[restive sentinel]

Yeah, but it's still weird and it would be better if they have better translated subtitles

[crystal granite]

You see the state the game launched in? Clearly, ironing out the details wasn't high on their priority list

[restive sentinel]

No shit, but it's still something worth talking about

[timid harbor]

anyone know of any modders working on something with companions tho?

[crystal granite]

Plenty of worse stuff out there atm. They fix that, then they can add subtitles accurate to the letter for all I care

[restive sentinel]

Talking about it isn't going to make them dump a patch changing all the subtitles, calm down, lilbro

[ornate sable]

Ehh, then they'd need two sets of English subs, one set that matches Eng voices and one that matches UA voices. And two sets of subs for all other languages too.

[crystal granite]

What? It's you who's complaining about subs, like i said, I care about other stuff, subs are low on both debs and my lists

[restive sentinel]

I said 1 thing, you're the one who is bitching about whatever without actually saying anything

[trail fiber]

I have a diamond exoskeleton, SPSA with nearly 300 shells and a kharod

[crystal granite]

Just pointing out there's more pressing stuff

[crystal granite]

Sounds good to me. Once you're in, you can pick up a Texan shotgun

[restive sentinel]

To you, yeah, to me, I'm concerned with all of it, if you don't care, then stop replying

[ornate sable]

It's fine to point out stuff that's not very important too, because hopefully even minor things will be added to the fix it-list sooner or later.

[restive sentinel]

That isn't hard to do at all, you just translate Ukrainian properly into any one language, and then just use that to translate into all the others, I've done it before for other projects

[inland sage]

...Wolf probably won't let me say the line. I'm just picturing Billy Butcher running into a Bloodsucker. Well well well, if it ain't the invisible...you know the rest.

[restive sentinel]

Plus, it's horrible hearing their names in Ukrainian and then reading the English version of the name, for some of them. Strelok isn't even pronounced strelok in Ukrainian.

[ornate sable]

But what I'm saying is that, at least for the English subs, it's mor important that it completely matches the Eng VA than the UA VA, because that would be really really weird if you played with Eng VA and Eng subs (which a lot of people do!). I use UA VA and Eng subs, but I don't understand enough Ukranian to notice any discrepancy. I also appreciate that the names are in English because I know Strelok as Strelok and Scar as Scar and so on, from the old games. I'd have no idea who any of them were if they didn't use their English names.

[weary hedge]

They can be inaccurate playing with english VA's too lmfao

I remember noticing a few moments where the subtitles didn't line up - i just ended up turning them off

[restive sentinel]

Doesn't matter, it's totally possible to have 2 separate sub tracks. For the second part, they could put their original names in brackets initially, or they could go back to having the PDA actually giving us information about anomalies, factions, characters etc

[restive sentinel]

English dub is really bad

[timid harbor]

is there a stalker anomaly/gamma modding server?

[restive sentinel]

Scroll down in the channels

[timid harbor]

none of the channels in this server suggest the existance of such a thing

[weary hedge]

it wouldnt be in this server - GSC didnt make anomaly, they prob have their own discord server somewhere

[peak nymph]

Idk if it’s just me but sometimes the enemies in this game feel like they have perfect aimbot and I’m fighting the special forces or something

[heavy crag]

NPC blocking my only entrace into the gathering hall or whatever in the starting town after defending it in a side mission

[novel quarry]

lol feels like it esp at close ranges sometimes

[peak nymph]

I’ll be two floors up they have AK’s and SMGs and a tiny window to hit me and just about 20% of my skull because the rest of me is blocked and somehow they got every shot? Like these dudes need to be a military or something they are better than professional shooters 😭

[trail fiber]

Well I am inside pripyat but I do get a bad vibe here

Like when I am wandering around pripyat, I feel like im being watched by something in the dark inside the building

This area is like a maze I see

Okay now I sound crazy talking to myself

[peak nymph]

It’s actually mostly peaceful allot of enemies here and there but not much as you’d expect. TIP if you see a hole in a wall up above and a locked door don’t throw a grenade in that hole and open it

[weary hedge]

Better Ballistics fixes some of that, if you're on PC
It has Maklane's Better Gunfights as a prereq, both help a lot

[peak nymph]

I’m not unfortunately it’d be nice to have that, really hard fighting the special forces

[trail fiber]

Oh okay, I was in a intense fight with zombified stalkers killing the psi-dogs and a controller just chilling, I was searching for coordinates of the foundation

[simple shard]

Anomaly and gamma each have their own servers, completely separate from this one. Easy to find them with a Google if interested

[trail fiber]

So my plan was kill controller, search the dead bodies for it, haul ass around and mess with the psi-dog clones

[dense sandal]

been awhile since a patch no?

[rare path]

[hoary crest]

23rd was the last one

[hidden yoke]

that mean they are focusing on a bigger patch rather than a small one

[hoary crest]

Not much reason for them to push out hotfixes at this point unless something significant breaks with a patch, so yeah a bigger one is probably likely

[dense sandal]

idk if its ok to ask but hv they moved away from you know or they still near it

[hidden yoke]

they did break the shader compiler but at the same time, you can skip it

[mellow knot]

No patch. GSC fell off

[weary hedge]

Well.. just happaned to me... first biggest bug//glich or WhatYouWantToCall it.. Iwas running like hell is on my tail ( monolithians) and didnt see an anomaly (gravity)... well ..game decide to crash and i was sended under the map.. to like 2 bilions meters or so(i have screenshot) It's funny..:D

[trail fiber]

Howdy

[lethal crest]

God I hate the stairway of death at the end of the game

[lethal crest]

Had that happen to me a couple times, it’s an integer underflow I think

[peak nymph]

I found 2 unique assault rifles from some dude that I was suppose to save, and he died and I figured I may as well see what he had, checks out he had 2 “special” assault rifles that being the name of it, and I’m definitely not loading back a save for sure is that suppose to happen? I had never seen the gun before not even on YouTube, I found it at the pig farm on cordon inside the bigger factory bit on the dude cowering away. Both had max durability and has a sight and built in suppressor

[craggy mango]

i finally made it to pripyat after 130 hours in game and been playing on off since release

[cobalt fiber]

I kinda liked the granite segment

[lethal crest]

0.8% of players on Xbox have completed the Ward ending
And I am happy to say that I am now one of them

My save file had 4 days and 2 hours of playtime on it

[lethal crest]

Granite squad were easy to wipe, much easier than the damned stairway

I just stayed up on the elevated platform you come into the room on and gunned them down from up there

Burned through like 500 rounds, jammed my Kharod & Dnipro so many times, but in the end I did manage it

[cobalt fiber]

I went into it with the clusterfuck and wasn't too bad. Take the ones that can get to you out and then snipe the rest from below

[lethal crest]

The view of the Sarcophagus from the Mi-8 made it all worth it though

[cobalt fiber]

Will be going through it again soon when I wrap this final pt up

Final for a while anyway

[lethal crest]

I do wonder why the Ward doesn’t use Western helicopters like the Blackhawk or Merlin, or gunships like the Hind

A Hind seems like it’d be a very valuable asset for the assault on Prypiat, especially since you could smack Monolith strongpoints at range with Spirals

[warped kestrel]

Man we really need a new patch

This next one better be massive or something

[warped kestrel]

Yea he just drops two of them if he dies. Pretty sure he is supposed to give you one if you save him. He has two so he will still have a gun after giving it to you (I assume).

[wintry pumice]

yeah but he doesn't give you the gun when you save him

[warped kestrel]

Bc then why would they need us, the player, to go in and kill everyone?

[wintry pumice]

Monolith snipers are deadly....

[warped kestrel]

Also using a helicopter in the zone is kinda stupid anyway. If an emission goes off while it’s flying that close to the center they are going to die.

[lethal crest]

Because you can’t launch a guided missile deep in the Foundation, or have a burst of autocannon fire sweep a building

You still need infantry to clear positions, but other assets operate in support of them

[lethal crest]

The Ward already fly Mi-8s in the Zone
There’s one touched down outside their FOB in Prypiat, and multiple in the Chemical Plant

[warped kestrel]

The issue is you didn’t suspend your disbelief the second you saw anomalies or the main character that can soak thousands of bullets and be fine.

[warped kestrel]

Yea I know, it’s a stupid idea for them to be doing that. Insane risk with very small rewards.

[lethal crest]

Air assault is pretty much the only way to get any decent size of force into Prypiat without the cooperation of Yaniv

[lethal crest]

That’s a bad excuse, and you know it

Suspension of disbelief lets me believe in the Noosphere, Subtle Matter, Anomalies, Mutants, and the Zone as a whole

It does not erase my knowledge of combined arms, especially when I see so many reminders of it, like the BMPs at the Sphere entrance and all over the place

[warped kestrel]

Brother they have fully functioning APCs, they can easily destroy Yaniv and the half thrown together barricade they have with no issues.

[lethal crest]

An assault on Yaniv would be far more costly and riskier than an air assault

The Ward landing in Prypiat was costly enough, a battle in Yaniv has a realistic possibility of being even worse

[warped kestrel]

Well suspension of disbelief should let you believe in the Emissions that will fully disable a helicopter for 2-3 minutes while it free falls to it’s death. It’s just a horrible strategy if you’re trying to be realistic. The helicopters they bring to Pripyat got lucky and was poorly planned. (Or the ward just don’t care about their soldiers lives)

[torn veldt]

Im on the quest a minor incident and no mutant spawns at the detention center for the collar, does anyone know a fix

[lethal crest]

Is that the one where you need just the one collar?
There’s other locations where you can pick one up

There’s a Pseudogiant that drops one at Containers IIRC

[torn veldt]

is containers the mission that barkeep sends you to kill the bandits

[lethal crest]

Yep
The one where you go to check on the squads

[torn veldt]

i just did that, but yes i need one

[torn veldt]

hopefully i have the ammo to kill a psuedogiant

[lethal crest]

Good luck
Saiga with expansive slugs should work

Hide in the building, it couldn’t get in there when I tried

[torn veldt]

9i dont have a saiga, just a dmr and the sledgehammer spas-12

[open inlet]

Best way to get loot is to wait for emission to to a door wait there then the emission kills the npcs and you take the loot

[torn veldt]

the one with the stairs up?, it could get inside

[open inlet]

Not kidding that little cheesy way works

[crystal granite]

There's plenty of npc wanting to fill you with lead. If you're even half decent at combat, you'll be flush with coupons in no time. Just go out there and loot them. You can also grab artifacts on the way

[open inlet]

Also btw the guy in the poppy fields who asks for the icon I can’t be the only one said sure I’ll give it to you then shoot him after he gives you the gun and take the icon back to the owner

[crystal granite]

Haven't done that quest yet

[torn veldt]

what areas work best, like where are you going to find most of your enemies

[open inlet]

I just left the lesser zone I’ll tell it gets more extreme

[plain kiln]

Man I am itching for that next patch baaad

[open inlet]

@crystal granite be honest with me how many times have you died

[crystal granite]

Well have fun, I'm running around Pripyat

[open inlet]

I think my last count was 42 or 43

[devout leaf]

haha yeah,same as u,i waiting next patch tooo

[crystal granite]

78/9hrs in, about 90ish times cause I kept running round radiation and places I shouldn't hunting for gear early game

[plain kiln]

I started a new game while I wait because my 50 hour save has three side quests blocked rn

[devout leaf]

i have some problem too,on my side quest ,save zalissya,all ppl on there already dead even i finish that quest haha

[crystal granite]

I never really cared much for that place, but I got this quest on ky way to check the Sphere so I stayed for all the loot I'll take from the dead

[forest fulcrum]

it sucks that they didnt really think of post story gameplay

[crystal granite]

They didn't think about a LOT in this half baked game

[forest fulcrum]

hopefully they add it later down the line

[devout leaf]

i feel bad when all ppl on there dead bruh,lesser zone is place i feel comfy haha🤣

[forest fulcrum]

they did mention DLC and expansions to the map which would make sense to do it then

[crystal granite]

Yeah either NG+ or like some ppl were suggesting post finale free roam

[devout leaf]

i agree with u, half baked,not well baked🤣🤣

[crystal granite]

I feel comfy around garbage/chem plant

[river chasm]

Well, the story doesn't really allow a post game

[forest fulcrum]

NG+ doesnt fit the game but freedom post story would have been nice

[crystal granite]

Anyone else gets the heebie jeebies when walking through Yantar? The place just feels off

Which is weird cause I've been up n down the map, Pripyat included, but Yantar has that odd vibe to it..idk why

[sturdy verge]

only when i see new patch bugs come out

[devout leaf]

just cant wait for next patched so baaad

[crystal granite]

Devs be like "hey look we fixed some random small things nobody asked for"

[sturdy verge]

ill run through yantar again soon 🙂

[forest fulcrum]

have they said what the multiplayer will be like?

like dayz type of thing or what?

[sturdy verge]

who knows and dayz is poo

[forest fulcrum]

true something like tarkov would be cool

[sturdy verge]

I miss when it was a Mod ^_^

[hazy gyro]

anyone know a good place to get the Goodnight achievement?

[open inlet]

What stalker game do get to build your little base

[hazy gyro]

and bingo?

nvm, found the perfect place for bingo: stone village

still need to find a good place for goodnight

[noble oak]

None. You can do that in one of the standalone mods though.

[cobalt fiber]

Afternoon

[smoky ginkgo]

That’s been my favorite part in all stalker games. The SoC Yantar gives me the creeps every time

[weary hedge]

today imma buy stalker 2🤺

[gloomy citrus]

I hate to say it but its Gamma.

You dont really build your base but rather decorate it.

Look for an empty house then decorate it yourself.

[smoky hawk]

there are NO stalkers games that include base building

or building of any kind

[hidden yoke]

i think people just mod their old stalker games and forgot it was modded

"These features in the old game was so good", it was mods

[empty terrace]

Man I had a hilarious bug with that 'cause I payed Hamster merc to get him to join the others but didnt return the rifle to Warlock, so he wouldnt talk to me. Long story short when the quest ends Hamster and his merc had a stroke and collapsed to the floor. Funny thing is next time I was in Zalissya Hamster was alive and I could trade with him. Such is life in the Zone I guess

[wintry pumice]

probably died to an emission?

[gloomy citrus]

hmm

[lilac sandal]

Such is life in Tertium...

[acoustic shell]

Jesus, when are they going to buff the weapons…

[river chasm]

Most of them I think are pretty fine, but the RPG and 9x39 rifles could certainly use a buff imo

[torn veldt]

man thios game is making me TREK

makes me go to wild island from malachite then right back to duga

[maiden grotto]

For very good reasons...

[lilac sandal]

Build Garrisons or Outposts so you can just spawn there without needing to walk across the map.

[torn veldt]

what?

[lilac sandal]

Yeah, just place down an outpost or if you have supplies, build a Garrison.

[warped stream]

I love spreading misinformation!

[crystal granite]

The Garrison is red, enemies are near

[lilac sandal]

Sorry, I meant 50 supplies!

[crystal granite]

Commander is an idiot, he dropped the supplies on the wrong grid

[lilac sandal]

Ah hell, better get your Loner squad to fall back and defend the point then!

[hoary crest]

The Emperor is displeased

[sturdy verge]

I heard it was 69 supplies

[crystal granite]

We need a bombing mission on the previous point

[lilac sandal]

Ah hell! We also lost the damn Garry!

[strange atlas]

whos garry!

[hoary crest]

This is so cursed man 😂

[lilac sandal]

What if I offer the Corpse Emperor cans of Gelatinous cubes and Condensed Milk?

[crystal granite]

The command chat is a mess! Everyone's talking!

[sturdy verge]

🐌

[harsh jungle]

the guy from vault 108

[lilac sandal]

I think one of the SLs lives inside a damn wind tunnel

[crystal granite]

CSGO comms lol 😆

[strange atlas]

isnt garry from source?

[lilac sandal]

The one that's always bloody hot!

[crystal granite]

Garrison aka Garry from HLL

[lilac sandal]

Garrison Newman? Yeah I think so

[crystal granite]

Man that game is good but it can be infuriating at times

[lilac sandal]

It is satisfying getting to Satchel Charge a tank and only killing one squad in the process.

[strange atlas]

the real garry is the garry we make along the way

[lilac sandal]

Is that the Magic shine talking?

[strange atlas]

im garry the magician , i garranty you the best

[lilac sandal]

Become a Lobotomite, bitte.

[strange atlas]

nein

[crystal granite]

Taking out a tank feels especially satisfying when the idiots push ahead of the infantry lol cause you know they're gonna catch heat on team comms when they die "told you not to push!"

[lilac sandal]

They always forget to advance with the infantry and get a boom in the butt

[crystal granite]

Cowsheds skirmish. We took out a lone sherman and held the place for the whole game with a pzIV. No cohesion on the enemy team whatsoever

[lilac sandal]

The enemy team must've been green as hell

[crystal granite]

Or you get an annoying pos who locks their squad and solo operates a tank, those shouldn't be allowed. Any crewed vehicle should need a full crew to use

[crystal granite]

Kasserine 2.0 just this time in Europe. Those yanks didn't pull another sherman out till late game

[lilac sandal]

Ok your use of Kasserine is a damn good show! Kudos!

[crystal granite]

I like my references

[ornate sable]

The Skibidi Toilet guy?

[strange atlas]

what did you say

[crystal granite]

Keep that sh*t out of here lol

[maiden grotto]

I see base building has reared it's ugly head again... Pffft

Other than that, anything happening?

And hello

[vapid galleon]

Hello chat

[crystal granite]

How we doing?

[maiden grotto]

About as well as a fart in a bubble bath 😄

[crystal granite]

Lmao

Haven't heard that one before

[icy drum]

So has there been any update on when Xbox will be able to have mods? Or the potential next update?

[crystal granite]

Haven't heard anything about next update. As for the mods, let them fix the game first, then get the mod support going

[warm stone]

zoom out completley on the PDA map, and it will show you the Zone names. Hover over one and it will have a ? mark. What does that mean?

[iron ice]

can someone help me ?

[crystal granite]

Maybe undiscovered area?

[still current]

So? What's the question?

[crystal granite]

With what?

[inner hinge]

Why do people do that where they say can someone help then disappear

[crystal granite]

Fr, like just say the question don't beat round the bush

[still current]

[crystal granite]

@iron ice so you need the help or not? Speak up

[iron ice]

I´cant find a body in cement forest

[crystal granite]

What body? What forest? Cement factory or red forest? Which quest? Gotta be more specific

[still current]

Any body should be displayed in the hud. So, are you sure you are looking for a body?

Also, they to make a clearer question if possible

[inner hinge]

Are you in the underground of the facility

[crystal granite]

Check if you turned on body markers in your display settings. You should have an X on your compass

[iron ice]

in concrete forest . I need a key for a sttash and the body does´t apear

[crystal granite]

There is no concrete forest. There's either a Red Forest or Cement Factory iirc

[warped stream]

theres also the Iron Forest but that area hasnt been implemented yet, you can get stashes in those areas :/

[inner hinge]

The concrete forest is the place with silos in the cement factory area

[iron ice]

yeah and i´cant find a body for the stash

[dense sandal]

So stalker has dots between the letter des it stand for something

[inner hinge]

Check the stash name and look it up online could be the key is far away

[ornate sable]

Is it the one under ground?

[crystal granite]

Scavenger, Trespasser, Adventurer, Loner, Killer, Explorer, Robber

[iron ice]

I can talk to a moderator or something ?

[dense sandal]

Ooh that’s cool thxs^^

[iron ice]

I see a video where is the key but the body isn't there

[weary hedge]

could be a bug, lots of those

my colonel korshunov or whatever it is, has so far been invisible my entire playthrough

[iron ice]

Is a stash where u find a nice shotgun

[crystal granite]

You seriously wanna bother a mod over a stupid stash? Use Google

[vagrant mulch]

New patch? This week?

[crystal granite]

dunno

[smoky hawk]

wassup watcha need

[iron ice]

Let me dm u

[smoky hawk]

they are alraedy open

[iron ice]

I can't

[smoky hawk]

my DMs are open

[warm stone]

if you havent been to that zone, the name of that zone won't be displayed

[crystal granite]

Fair enough, I got it all uncovered so it's been a while yk

[iron ice]

So what now ?

[crystal granite]

Man u really need a hand to guide you every step? Jeez

[iron ice]

Its a bug

[crystal granite]

Welcome to Stalker 2, we got plenty of those

[warm stone]

it was mainly to avoid copyright issues with the Stalker wording. No wonders the Scavenger trespassers...etc words are a bit of an "afterthought"

[dense sandal]

Ah I still like it

[warm stone]

I think it's not even in the game. Its just accepted as Stalker(s) and thats it

[maiden grotto]

I set myself up last night go for a long walk from Rostok to Yaniv, in a pre-SIRCAA free roam, but the problem is, I just can;t be asked.

I just feel nothing to put the effort in, as it will be, just BS spawn after BS spawn and wallhack bots...

I feel disallusioned with it all 😦

[crystal granite]

For me, I wouldn't be as bothered with constant spawns if they weren't aimbot. Like idk who designed the AI for enemy bots but that shit is through the roof

[cobalt fiber]

@iron ice

https://www.reddit.com/r/stalker/s/8k2TrF0Yzt

Have you done this

[terse ravine]

the key on the corpse didn't spawn when i was in the concrete forest

[dusty lion]

Haven’t played in like a month cause game is still broken

[cobalt fiber]

There's also no need for anyone to get funny with someone for struggling. God forbid you find yourself in a similar position

[smoky hawk]

why are you asking me
Im a discord mod not a game developer

https://tenor.com/view/el-risitas-juan-joya-borja-ratones-coloraos-laugh-meme-laughing-man-gif-24899295

[terse ravine]

idk ima do the skif ending then ima wait couple years for the patches

[cobalt fiber]

Steam forums saying body was found yeeted outside or on the roof

Idk tho I'd say revert save

It's to do with the body getting ragged about by the poltergeist by the sounds

Do a bug report init

[cobalt fiber]

When patch ?

[strange atlas]

why patch?

[iron ice]

bugs ?

[cobalt fiber]

[vapid galleon]

[strange atlas]

he didnt get it

[cobalt fiber]

bug

s

[quartz obsidian]

Greetings fellow stalkers

[fluid beacon]

Is sotnik better than upgraded kharod?

[weary hedge]

The Sotnyk is probably the best AR in the game, when compared in their base forms

It has the highest penetration value of all the ARs at 3.3

[fluid beacon]

So sotnik and gauss is like endgame?

[weary hedge]

Yes - The Sotnyk you literally receive in the last mission, its locked to ward/spark playthroughs too.

The gauss i think can be found a lil bit earlier with some luck - though the last mission also features a unique gauss rifle

[fluid beacon]

Yeah I just picked up Sotnyk from table

[weary hedge]

installing stalker 2 rn

i bought it for full price (60€)

enjoy - there are a ton of mods available on nexus, which you'll end up browsing if youre on PC

[weary hedge]

xbox, sad

Does anyone play S.T.A.L.K.E.R. here?

[weary hedge]

i have SoC version

[weary hedge]

Same

[elfin vine]

There is a monolithian sniper just to the right of Yaniv Station, is he invincible?

[weary hedge]

and stalker 2 ig but still cant play it

oh damn

[weary hedge]

not familiar with that one in particular / cant remember, but there are invincible monolith snipers in the game, duga is the first place that comes to mind

after attack on duga, they leave

its basically used as a deterrent to keep you out of areas

[proud minnow]

in stalker 2 how to be stealthy at night

[weary hedge]

turn off your flashlight
if youre on pc, install Axxi's stealth mod from nexus

actually nvm - just remembered thats outdated

[trail fiber]

Good morning fellow stalkers

[proud minnow]

i do that the indoor get completely black I was doing the second main misison in which u have to go to lab died like 40 times (also gamepass player)

[vapid galleon]

guys SVU have silencer?

[strange atlas]

pls if you use 1 channel dont use another one with the same thing, double answers is not double knowledge

[proud minnow]

my bad

[weary hedge]

i just want whoever coded wolf to know
I dislike you, i dislike you so hard lol

[maiden grotto]

You remind me of the Patch (What Patch?)
The Patch with the power (What power?)
The power of Make do (Who do?)
You do (Do what?)
Remind me of the Patch

[weary hedge]

I'll cut down what I typed;

https://www.nexusmods.com/stalker2heartofchornobyl/mods/711

Use this to fix the blackness indoors, it installs reshade but it doesnt use any of their stuff, it just uses the api to load it

use it only if you have a HDR monitor though, you need to turn hdr on ingame to use it

[maiden grotto]

If you don;t fire them, they are very quiet 😐

[frigid hill]

siriuslyvega has been warned

Reason: Bad word usage

[proud minnow]

i am on gamepass if this work i will look at it tomorrow, Thanks otherwise will wait if they do something in patch (nvm my monitor not support hdr)

[weary hedge]

i dont see why it wouldnt but, best of luck

[proud minnow]

wait that means nexus mods can work on gamepass?

[strange atlas]

yes

[sand marsh]

Hey, I have an issue with "Down below" - the game crashes after the cutscene in the monitoring room. I've launched the game without mods and the issue still persists, so it's not mod related. This bug was supposed to be fixed, according to the devs. Is there any workaround or do I have to still wait for the patch?

[strange atlas]

c:/xbox(or how you named your xbox folder) Stalker 2 / content/Stalker2/content/Paks
there you make a folder namked
~mods

there you put the PAK Files not the whole folder/zip

[fluid beacon]

Yes I use them all time

[strange atlas]

used the weird water for 1 h thinking were the duck is the psi coming from, oh yeah now i know

[vapid galleon]

Why are you giving such a stupid answer? If you don't know anything about the game, you don't need to talk

[lethal crest]

Do the guards just detect you no matter what when doing the Richter route for Seven Seals?

Certainly feels like it
No matter what I do I always need to go loud shortly after after dealing with Solder

[cobalt fiber]

Yeah

Can sneak in not out

[lethal crest]

Bloody hell
Now I understand the appeal of going with the Ward for this mission

Getting stealth on the surface then fleeing through the tunnels would be nice

[maiden grotto]

Because I like to be silly....

If you want me to be serious, if you don't know how to use google stay off the internet and don't play games.

[cobalt fiber]

Ward isn't much better mate. Doing ward playthrough and the stealth is horrific in that mission

I ended up just wiping them all out in the end

[maiden grotto]

When I first did it... I went through the front doors... Then out the back door and through the sewers 😄

[cobalt fiber]

I'd also forgotten just how many rodents there were at the labyrinth later on

Did that last night again and felt never ending

[ornate sable]

Silenced Skiff's pistol carried me once I got down to the basement, one headshot at a time without them being alerted, but I had to go loud on the surface first.

[maiden grotto]

I just grabbed the two artifacts and hid somewhere... Rodents and Bandits don't like each other.

[maiden grotto]

Me and silence don't do to well... So I just murdered everything that moved and as loudly as possible...

[lethal crest]

Also, can you get into the basement after the mission ends?

I think I forgot to grab the extended mag before bolting for my life

[ornate sable]

Extended for the pistol or the AK? You can get to the AK mag later, not sure about the pistol mag, but I guess maybe? I think I remember there being another extended pistol mag at the little IPSF base near the northern checkpoint too.

[lethal crest]

For the pistol, I grabbed the AK mag before even starting the infiltration to make going into the Ribs easier

[maiden grotto]

Yes, but it depends on which way you came out... So if you came out the front/back of the building then you can go back in that way. If you left by the sewers, then you can go back in through the sewers.

It seems that which ever way you went first, one of two doors will remain permanently closed, blocking the other way out.

[trail fiber]

Well I might be screwed in the foundation

[inland sage]

So for my diamond exo, should I go with segmented protection to all titanium or lightweight materials to aramid helmet?

Ah, only all-titanium is incompatible with the other one.

[elfin vine]

Gauss vs Super?

[crystal granite]

Gauss

[inland sage]

Oh wow. Hot damn. So I've been stuck on the side quest to get all the collars, because I couldn't find the snork with the collar on. I just found it. At the ELECTRIC FIELD.

563 meters away from the quest location.

[crystal granite]

I went Segmented > Lightweight > All-Titanium

[crystal granite]

Lol, cause the quest marker is just a suggestion

[inland sage]

I also found a thunderberry at the same time.

[crystal granite]

Hell yeah, now go grab yourself a lead lined container on your diamond

[inland sage]

Finally, I no longer need rely on human souls to...I've got 4 actually.

[bleak wadi]

Korshunov workout video. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=isPvBKsLh6Q

[pine beacon]

Hey, i've been delaying buying stalker since im scared my pc wont run it how i would like to experience the game, atm im running a i7-9700k and an amd 5700 xt, these specs are listed as 1080p 60fps, is that really the case?

im kind of used to gaming on atleast 120+fps, and some games even 2k with a bit lower fps, so i dont rly want to ruin my experience if i go sub 60 frames..

[warm stone]

9700k will be weak, can't tell about radeon video cards.
Outside of towns (hubs and places with numerous houses and such) CPU will be fine, but once you enter those towns......Unless you have FG enabled: My guess is 40 30 FPS
If you plan on ugprading: CPU wise amd all the way.

[vapid galleon]

I have RTX3060 + i3 12100f. I get between 60-100fps with 1080p high settings

[pine beacon]

Thanks for the response lads, its kinda funny i waited a long time for stalker 2 but i dont wanna ruin it with the specs i have atm, might wait till i do a pc upgrade, and hey, maybe by then some cool mods are already out + ive read some buggy stuff still, so it wont hurt ig, just cant get spoiled ^^'

[warm stone]

If you are ok with downgrading graphics settings your 5700xt might be able to handle it but I dont know whether you can enable frame generation on that card. Without Frame Generation the game is F'd somewhat. Even 9800X3d CPU cant run it at 60 FPS in towns. Only way you can get around bad frames in town is by using framegen.
"Bad" framerate. If someone is ok with 40 - 60 FPS then its allright. (Im completley fine with that, but I know people who are like 500+ fps at bare minimum otherwise it's just a picture showcase and also we are not living in 2020 anymore, where 60 fps is ok)

[pine beacon]

Well i was a longtime tarkov player aswell but since last update, some maps i just cant play so quit aswell, looks like i really need a new cpu + 32g ram and heck, if i would do that, i would also just buy a new gpu at that point aswell, and exactly, playing shooters at 60 kind of throws me off (spoiled ig) haha

[warm stone]

7800x3d or 9800x3d all the way if you are gaming only
Intel lost the gaming scene with their "bad" cpus. (Ive been using intel for 20+ years for gaming, but since amd ryzen and 3d cpus the game changed)

[pine beacon]

yeah the amd cpu's seem to be on top atm, but im still doubting my gpu + ive had a long time issue with amd drivers, guess im one of the "unlucky" ones

[cobalt fiber]

Snork was dead for me so couldn't progress in my first pt despite looting the collar off it

Had me fuming for a couple days

[lethal crest]

I got an Intel Z690 board just before AM5 launched, and upgraded to a 13600K when AMD launches had made their prices drop

For the top end, absolutely X3D is unparalleled (and intel’s chips were just ridiculously power hungry on the high end, while X3D is so efficient)
But when you go down a little, it all comes down to price:performance

[exotic viper]

i'm in the red forest and I came across this rock structure with some sort of floating swarm. It's about 250m west from the Pile Driver location. A bunch of random psi NPCs (the ones that phase away when you search the body) started shooting. Is there a mutant around that I need to kill? Can't seem to find it.

[inner hinge]

Red forest is one of a few locations that can create psi illusion just by being there

[sharp sierra]

Well damn Roosevelt is still bugged been exploring the zone instead of the main missions so this is rather annoying

[ornate sable]

Bugged how? Also you don't need him for any main mission. If it's the one from Varan, just kill Shah instead ||(or just kill Varan and let the kingpins live for now)|| also also ||having Roosevelt alive will be helpful later||

[crystal granite]

||I did the optional missions from Varan, then killed the asshole cause je was gonna betray me anyway. Roosevelt is cool with me after I left him alone at the Comissary||

[sharp sierra]

Goes hostile upon detecting me, he should talk to you quite rationally instead of opening up with his aks74u. Apparently this bug was fixed

[gaunt kayak]

has there been any word on upcoming updates?

[weary hedge]

there has not

[wintry pumice]

Just kill varan when you talk with him. It's a waste of time to do what he says anyways as he will always betray you

[supple pier]

don't be scared, you'll be fine

[junior jetty]

[sharp sierra]

First time I did the quest I got money from rosevelt and I did rather like the conversation with a guy who was sane and had fallen on hard times. Personally I'd expand on that with a few PDAs and make it clear that his fall from Duty was a willing one that he was ordered to do to get round the treaty and he now had buyers remorse from it.

[lilac sandal]

Honestly even at low graphical settings, Stalker 2 still looks good

[maiden grotto]

Don't forget you can FSR 3.1 too

[crystal granite]

Yo I've been browsing gamepass and I see that Atomfall is releasing in March. Lol by the looks it's something like Stalker in North England lol 😆 ngl I'm intrigued

[ornate sable]

Maybe the NPC's will speak English with Ukrainian accents?

[crystal granite]

That would be laughable 🤣

My only concern is it's from Rebellion. Sniper Elite grew stale af for me, so I hope this won't be another game that feels like SE reskin. I see it's first person and I honestly got no clue what to expect

[maiden grotto]

Yup, because the zone already exists in the UK, it starts in teh south like Brighton and Lands End, going as far north as John O'groats.

It has some heft mutants around the midlands and Manchester

[crystal granite]

Especially with SE 6 being yet another "we drop this guy in France" story. Like hell drop him to Scandinavia or Germany not France again. Ehhhh Rebellion getting lazy

[elfin vine]

How do I get image permission

[maiden grotto]

don't know...

@crystal granite - just watched a trailer for it, looks awful... STALKER 2 feels like a post apocalyptic wasteland... Exactly how the UK looks now.

[visual elm]

Become a moderator.

[uncut hollow]

Talk more and get "Experienced" role

[crystal granite]

All you lads need is Sellafield going Chernobyl mode and you're basically the Zone

[elfin vine]

Cool
I have the role

[crystal granite]

But then Ireland will be the Zone's DLC map, so not that good i guess

[maiden grotto]

We don't need that anymore 😄

We have plenty of Fleshies, blind dogs, and Pseudogiants who have lived on a diet of kebab and chips, with very limited vocabulary.

It's already here baby!!

[cobalt fiber]

Speaking of Ireland, rewatching Love/Hate at the mo. What a show

[crystal granite]

Are Clarkson, Hammond and May the guides?

[crystal granite]

Never heard of it, but enjoy

[maiden grotto]

Hell no, we would never get any where and may would get lost and end up as zone legend

[cobalt fiber]

Irish crime drama, very gritty. It's on ITVX

[crystal granite]

"As dawn broke, the peace and serenity of this beautiful Zone morning was shattered by the bellows of a wild mutant"

"CLARKSOOOOON!!!!"

[maiden grotto]

LMFAO

That is one of the greatest things I have ever read.

[crystal granite]

What can I say, the memeworthyness (it ain't a word idc lol) of these 3 is off the scale

[maiden grotto]

Genius... I would watch a TV series with them in it, set in the Zone...

Would probably die laughing

[ornate sable]

pseudogiant banging a drum CAM ON MONERLITH, SCOR SOM FAHKIN GOALS!

[crystal granite]

That would be the single greatest piece of media ever to be created in the history of Mankind 🤣

[crystal granite]

Monolith United vs Freedom City

[maiden grotto]

With freedom sing this to monolition fans.

"You're sister is mother
You're brother is father
You all bang one another
the Monolith Family"

[crystal granite]

Spark FC vs Ward Rovers

"What you think of Ward?!"
"Shit!"
"What you think of shit?!"
"Ward!"
"Thank you!"
"That's alright!"

[maiden grotto]

Great, football in the zone 😄

The crowed are strangle quiet 😄

[crystal granite]

Look what I found #🤨┃stalker_memes message 😂

[crystal granite]

And then a new anomaly pops in the middle of the pitch

"Hey ref, we got a pitch invasion!"

[maiden grotto]

Duty sing towards Loner Rangers

"Gimme gimme gimme a loner from Rostok
Only got one arm, coz they're always knocking one off

Gimme gimme gimme a loner from Rostok
Always alone and they smell like baboons"

[crystal granite]

Myklyukha and Sidorovich in the background trying to outdo the other by selling terribly overpriced water and sausage

[lilac sandal]

How about this? Water Sausage.

[terse ravine]

got notification about iron fortress but its unaccessible

[crystal granite]

Iron forest will be in a future dlc. It popped up for me too cause I got close to it while exploring. You can do the same for the cnpp if you reach the bridge of death

[maiden grotto]

And Cut Me Own Throat Dibbler out doing the both of them, after trying to expand his business out side of Ahnk Morpork

[maiden grotto]

That brings up some disturbing images 😄

[crystal granite]

Now that we talking sports, how about blood sport?

Coliseum in the Zone. Monolith, Ward, IPSF, Duty, Freedom, Sparks, Bandits and Loners. You let them all in at once. Who's left standing when the dust settles?

My coupons are on the Monolith, Ward and either IPSF or Duty being the last ones left and they'd have to duke it out between themselves

[terse ravine]

is there an underground area in the duty base? couldn't find a way down, but theres a stash marked on my map 10m under the lowest point i could get in the duty base

[maiden grotto]

yes, sewer sytem thing under the base access from the river to the west

[crystal granite]

I think Monolith would win since those guys are like walking tanks

[maiden grotto]

Loners, as the hate each other so much everyone would forget them 😄

[crystal granite]

Is there a way to shoot Richter?

He gave me a whole ass monologue about him holding out hopes till the last minute that I wouldn't side with the Ward, and how I don't understand the Zone, etc.

Ngl I'm kinda tired of that guy. My choices are my choices and you ain't got no say in it

Man's seriously trying to act like my second conscience

[icy drum]

I did ward ending first and just did the spark ending. Probably gonna do the skiff ending next

[river chasm]

Doesn't mean he has to like it either

[crystal granite]

Doesn't mean he has to like my bullet either. If I can give it to him w/o aggroing a faction I'll do it

[icy drum]

By siding with the ward you pretty much fight everyone else

[maiden grotto]

Unfortunately no... He would be that I would shoot... But I would also like to shout faust as he walks out on the noontide base...

Absolutely hate the fella...

Wish there was a noontide ending where they take over the zone and keep it for themselves, with maybe you become part of them 😄

[maiden grotto]

Nah, not monolith...

[icy drum]

And with the ward ending you do kill Richter

[crystal granite]

Thay I can live with. I feel okay siding with Korshunov & Co. It's just certain characters piss me off more than others

[crystal granite]

Thank you

[crystal granite]

sad idekumne noises

[icy drum]

I just plan to get every ending over time. Ward one was just the first one I did, and the spark one was interesting

[maiden grotto]

But I hate Ward, so that is never going to happen 😄

Hate Faust, Strelok drives me nuts, and the Skif ending is WTF, that is silly....

So I chose the secret ending, don;t do the mission with the point of no return and stay a STALKER, then those people are either dead, and can;t do anything as I have all the bits and they are all screwed.

[crystal granite]

I hated the mission in the swamps, and how he fried all of the Ward in the First Battle of the Duga, but that conversation atop of radar was great

[icy drum]

Like I said I simply plan to get every ending

I'm pretty sure it's actually an achievement. Or at least there's one for every ending

[maiden grotto]

I think there is too 😄

I think I am going for the world record of playing the game without actually finishing it 😄

[crystal granite]

I still wish for a more Monolith centred playthrough. Idk like you get captured or some sh*t and get put in front of the rock again. And you can either fight your way out of their base or join em

[icy drum]

Eh I just wish noontide played a bigger role in the game

[crystal granite]

Ngl they were such a side piece it was crazy how little they meant as Noontide.

Does anyone know what happens at Wild Island? I chose to go to the Sphere instead

[maiden grotto]

The game does have some great story bits, ngl. But over all, they are all meh...

I kind of like the idea of noontide redemption arc, And Strelok, Faust, Ward, and other have been completely corrupted and gone someone unhinged for spending years in the zone and needed saving from themselves...

But nah, no nuanced story telling... and having an option like this... No option to save Strider, no thanks.

[maiden grotto]

The entire thing is bugged as far as I am concerned. You get a mission to save the people inside by turning on air vents things, and there is no one inside at all... So like what's the point.

[crystal granite]

I was surprised when Striker got killed by the Doc. I was like "I just got this out of a Monolith ridden clinic without killing anyone, and now he's dead?"

I did give the regenerator to the other ex monolith spark guy which hated my Ward guts but accepted it anyway

[river chasm]

Turning on the vents is to prevent yourself from choking when you go to retrieve the emitter

[crystal granite]

Oh that's what happens? Cause Go to Wild Island quest disappeared for me after I checked the Sphere out first

[terse ravine]

if you go strait for the emitter you take damage over time from suffocation?

[river chasm]

In some area, is my understanding, from gas. But I never tried to go without turning them on

[maiden grotto]

I know, it just makes no sense though... You destroy the emitters, but they still remain monolith... The emitters are their to keep them connected, destroying them and Duga should mean they are freed once again... But they are not...

It just doesn;t sit right with me.

[crystal granite]

The whole game story doesn't sit well with me. Too many holes in it, not enough logical answers

[maiden grotto]

I think the conversation got as far as yeah bring monolith back, member berry... When I think a more nuanced approach would have been the demise of the mental state of the other big characters in the game after spending a decade or more in the zone, highlighting how it was slowly twisting them from being exposed to decades of emissions and psi-radiation etc.

With the old monolith trying to come to terms with what they had done, yet can't remember, end being one's that do the right thing by the zone/end of story/or whatever... They could have still done all the other endings for the other characters, but they should have been corrupted someone how, got what they wanted, but not how they envisaged it.

I am not saying I am right, just that is what I would have want a more nuanced approach to the story, rather than ticking member berries and expecting to be enough

[hot minnow]

Any guesses on the next patch date or the roadmap release?

[maiden grotto]

Don't really want a road map, as it will spoil the surprise...

But as for the patch, just going to have wait until it ready. And I would prefer they got it right, rather rushing it, and getting it all wrong, leading to more issues...

[crystal granite]

To me, the story is all at a surface level, if I can call it that. It's not complex or touching.

You side with these guys, those guys hate your guts. You side with those guys, they'll hate your guts. You side with THEM guys, everyone will hate your guts.

We'll add some crazy science stuff, brainwashed super soldiers and sprinkle in mutants and different types of radiation

I said it before and I'll say it now, I feel like I'm playing a slightly different version of Fallout

[hot minnow]

I’d agree with waiting, but there were multiple bugs “addressed” last patch that ended up not being fixed. Some communication would be nice

[crystal granite]

Maybe they're proving more difficult to fix than originally thought, or some other fixes interfere with and block theese particular ones. Them 1s and 0s not adding up right

[maiden grotto]

I am 50 years old, we never got anything when I was growing up, unless you got gaming mags like Zero.

No communication is fine, it's called just getting on with that they are doing and it is all fine.

Just come on here and chat, let of steam and it will all be cool in the end... Unless your in the boiler.

[hot minnow]

Shouldn’t we strive to improve from older times? I get it, not worried, but seems like people are getting a tad frustrated

[crystal granite]

Who knows, he may be inside Reactor no.4, seconds from the disaster

[maiden grotto]

But demanding informnation is not improving anything... And it also starts treading on the toes of start promising things or saying they ultimately can''t ultimately do, then people will cry like babies and start calling them liars.

The best thing to do, is just wait and see what happen and when it does, report any issues so they can then address them next time.

[crystal granite]

I do get your frustration about lack of comms, but I don't expect much communication from the devs, I really don't. They can't stay on top of things, game is still in bits, and nothing has been said. Fixing a rushed game that should've spent another year in development ain't easy, and I doubt they'll admit that. They'll prolly keep quiet till they have something worth releasing

[hot minnow]

I agree think that’s what’s going on

[hazy gyro]

so i just saved a freedom guy call moth from a bloodsucker. he was the only survivor with two bodies nearby. says they were out there for a simple reason: go here, do this. tho i looked at a pda on one of the bodies and it says they were actually out there to kill loners allied with sidorovich. so i got three choices: walk away, blackmail him, or kill him. i tried black mail and he did pay but was gonna tell the other nerve about this. what are your opinions?

[crystal granite]

Should've blackmailed him and then put a bullet in him

[hazy gyro]

funny thing, i actually did just that, but i reloaded a save from a few minutes ago to think if it was a good idea. now i know

[crystal granite]

You're a loose end, you're in the know, and, depending on if you've done business with the man or not, potentially affiliated to Sidorovich. And you're a loner too, so add it all up and you're essentially a prime target for a hit squad. Gotta silence the lone witness

[maiden grotto]

I shot him the face and turned him to a pizza head...

[hazy gyro]

didn’t think about it like that. now i AM gonna blast his face off with my newly acquired “sledgehammer”

[crystal granite]

Heh, ironic eh? Killing a freedom member with a gun acquired from Rostok

[maiden grotto]

I don't think I have ever brought a gun from there.... I tried to buy some armour from the pretty lady, but she turned me down, so I wanted a refund.

[hazy gyro]

i didn’t buy it, i got it from the arena side quest

[maiden grotto]

The sledghammer?

[crystal granite]

I did the Arena missions, managed to cheese the gear from fights and and keep it by dropping it at the door before having to return it and shooting it past the guy, and the traders were always chill with me

[crystal granite]

Yeah it's the final prize for fight no.5 when you beat Tyrant in the Rostok arena

I personally prefer the Saiga or the Texan but the Sledgehammer ain't bad if you don't have access to Pripyat yet

Hmmm.....speaking of shotguns. We need more ways to break the Geneva Checklist. How about Dragon's Breath shells filled with flichettes?

I bet the bloodsuckers would disapprove

[hazy gyro]

unique Spas 12

well i screwed up. i accidentally sold the merc sniper rifle and ill have to load a save probably an hour ago. meaning ill have to do the arena side quest all over again

[hazy gyro]

is it worth doing just to get it back?

[crystal granite]

I used the Lynx from Strider, also got the Whip and now I'm rocking the Gauss

[maiden grotto]

Never good...

Anything unique just goes straight into my trunk

[crystal granite]

However sniping in this game is so bad, cause the enemies spawn on top of you, or have aimbot and keep knocking you off target by peppering you with perfect hits from a distance

[hazy gyro]

eh, i’ll just keep going. theres plenty of fish in the sea

[crystal granite]

Yeah, that's what I told myself after seeing her get into that Benz

[maiden grotto]

Exactly. I never picked up the drowned in my first game... 2nd time, I told the guy to go do one and kept it

[maiden grotto]

Female bait... Tart some up, tie em to a post and wait... That is perfectly PC... Fresh meat bait...

[crystal granite]

Shame we don't have more realistic engagement distances. If they attack me with ARs, 250-300ish metres should be the average, unless you're in an urban setting. Double that for the PKM, and maybe around 750/800m for the sniper rifles

[maiden grotto]

Zone to small though... those distances would work in a zone 50x50 miles... or something stupid like that

[crystal granite]

And remove the crazy aimbot, add actual spread and bullet drop

[maiden grotto]

This more than anything

[crystal granite]

AI generated terrain between the major developer made population centres could take care of that. With a fast travel system, 50x50 wouldn't be an issue

[maiden grotto]

Probably, but the game will be something 1Tb, and I would be fine that.

[crystal granite]

How about the textures get progressively generated as you get further in a certain direction. Depending on your elevation, you'll only see as far as the horizon

[spice spoke]

guys i found an infinite money glitch but i dont know what exactly causes it

but gaffer is essentially allowing me to just claim quest rewards an infinite amount of times, after you do some of the mini quests after helping fend off the monolith attack

[maiden grotto]

Just report it GCS and get them to fix it, just use there official report page wheich I have no idea what it is

[summer burrow]

https://support.stalker2.com/hc/en-us/requests/new

[maiden grotto]

Sound good, but it all depends on what they can do with UE5 and finding it's limitations. For now, getting the game fisnished is of most importance...

In a massive map, I would also allow for co-op for up 4 players with friends in a PVE... In this case, Pseudogiants will need all 4 players to take it down

[crystal granite]

Idk how it is for you, but in Pripyat the building textures don't like to read in properly. Takes some time for the block shaped blurr to actually become a block

As for coop, I'd love that. Without a companion system or an option to go out on joint patrols with your faction of choice, there isn't much in terms of socialising in the Zone. And you can't spend the whole game talking to Boozer at the Slag Heap

However I do get that UE5 is being overused like mad these days, especially with its limitations showing, the game needs to be finished first

[terse ravine]

the film grain like fizzyness is the worst part of UE5 imo

[maiden grotto]

I would also force walking, so you are just a bunch of friends walking somewhere, to do something and you get all that chat along the way, bump into some other stalkers, mutants... or an emission pop's... could be intersting...

Very dangerous missions, but very high rewards that take sometime to do.

Or artifact hunting, camp clearence of bandits

[maiden grotto]

It's blight on most games.... Just because L4D2 etc had it, doesn't mean everything has to have... Like motion blur... get lost, I don't use it, never will.

Stop rely on gimmick and get creative.

[crystal granite]

I wouldn't go with walking. If a squad needs to do something further away, nobody would want to walk for an hour just to get there

[maiden grotto]

Yeah I get that.

Anyway, Night all... Need ma booty sleep... So see ya in 6 years 😄

[dusk grove]

Efp or gamma?

[rapid parrot]

Is EFP good? I’ve watch a bunch of gamma vids but have never seen one on EFP, only heard others talk about it

[dry siren]

maybe

[hazy gyro]

i know that screwed up with the merc, but would you say the lynx and the whip are better?

[pallid thorn]

yo apparently mods could be cominig to stalker 2 on xbox and thatd be cool af for me as a xbox player

[inland sage]

So I was going to another spot and fell off a 5 foot tall ledge and died to death of fall damage so now I don't have a thunderberry.

[hazy gyro]

one of the many flaws of the game: ridiculously stupid fall damage

[terse ravine]

going into a teleport anomaly and its spawns me above a pillow anomaly, but i die from fall damage before it activates

[inland sage]

I'm thinking back to Lost Boys now...
"This is why I hate living in the zone...all the damn vampires."

[hot basin]

Next update when?😁

[orchid narwhal]

whats yalls subway order

[void python]

I’m on the mission once more unto the breach and the door after you clear the checkpoint is locked does anyone know how to fix this?

[void python]

Stalker 2

[novel quarry]

yeah, by default less grindy, easier, more stalkers/high stalker population and comes with mags redux by default. its just different basically. its more combat focused sort of i guess you could say

[trail fiber]

Howdy

[dusk grove]

Steak and double cheese, capsicum, red onion, jalepeno, lettuce, chepotle and sweet onion sauce.

[keen lagoon]

Black forest ham on the cheese jalapeño bread with mayo, jack cheese, lettuce, tomato, banana peppers, pickles, red onion, mustard on top lightly toasted.

[inland sage]

23:07...still waiting for this scanner to be available to activate lol

[trail fiber]

Okay I think strelok is my nightmare

Im trying to fins him but I think he bugged out

[vale olive]

Used the wooden crate you have to push to the bunker in order to get the diamond exoskeleton sooner, and I have no regrets

[dry siren]

zip up your pants

[trail fiber]

Yeah im deleting stalker 2, strelok is being a pain in the ass with me, using anomalies, him going back and forth mocking me which is gonna make me slowly lose my mind

[weary hedge]

😂

If you're on console, turn your difficulty down

Console difficulty values, increasing just scales NPC health pools

[trail fiber]

I know what to do but ugh and yes you can mock me i already don't know what to do so laugh it up

[weary hedge]

Wasn't really mocking you, just understand the frustration so it made me laugh as I know how you're feelin

[trail fiber]

I already have it on rookie, im at the ending but strelok is going back and forth back and forth like its a game of tag ffs