☢┃stalker-general

[inland sage]

Aren't most rounds subsonic?

[ornate sable]

No.

I think they're referred to that way in the sheet because that's what they're called in the game files.

[serene barn]

maybe in some way but the idea of subs is they don't have as much powder so they don't break the sound barrier when shot so they don't make a snap when fired the same way as a normal round does.

[frigid hill]

mr.skeltal has been warned

Reason: Bad word usage

[inland sage]

Wait, which word was bad?

[serene barn]

these rounds are more likely high pressure or something similar as they have better velocity so they drop less.

[inland sage]

That word is not allowed here!

[serene barn]

it's also weird how the guy used to only list like 3 mutants as having armor but then all of a sudden it's almost all of them that do

[inland sage]

Anyways I'm delaying jumping down off this roof right now because there's a lithe dude waiting to slurp on Skif's hemoglobin.

[serene barn]

like it feels like it's hard to tell exactly which ones in actuality does have armor and then via that, when if EVER even, that you're better off with using HP ammo on literally anything at all

[patent heath]

I swear going to Pripyat is like all the npcs wearing Exos

[serene barn]

yerp

[inland sage]

First death! Killed by an explosion.

[harsh jungle]

my favorite death was me yeeting myself off a crane, dying, reloading only for my game to crash

[serene barn]

i think my first death was the first bloodsucker

[inland sage]

Hermann saying Skif will never get out of the zone like that's a bad thing.

Also, hey, it's true that every stalker has an artifact they take for granted, right?

The joke is it's the infinitely throwable bolt.

[wintry pumice]

You won't need bolts in the shining zone

[ornate sable]

tbf, 20% armor is effectively no armor, as all weapons have 20% AP or better.

The use case for HP ammo is if your gun beats the armor value of the target even with the -70% AP nerf. An upgraded Kharod or Dnipro would still have more than 20% AP with HP. But is the increased wear really worth it for your late game gun to become slightly better at dealing with dogs and fleshes?

[inland sage]

LOL
"A good friend is rarer than mama's beads"
First artifact I find after the tutorial part of the game is a Mama's Beads.

[warm hull]

I still crash I removed all the mods, and I reinstalled the game :/

[tranquil jewel]

What’s the goal of the Corps? Is it just keep Stalkers out of Pripyat, and then after SIRCAA, kill as many rock lickers as possible?

[inland sage]

Wait...does UETools add some sort of...faux nightvision?

[maiden grotto]

Once Strelok takes over and no one can get in or out.. That is all stalkers will be left with... Bring on Pseudogiant now... Not.

[drifting forge]

Like 200 hours in and I'm still looking for it

[maiden grotto]

That sucks ass... I would send it off to support with as much detail as possible.

[warm hull]

Where can I contact support?

[boreal coyote]

#📸┃screens_and_videos message shout out @simple hemlock just seen my prayers in discord and took it upon himself to make them come true asking nothing in return 🫡

[pallid thorn]

I'm sad, once more into the breach still seems to be bugged. They fixed the first door, but not the second door.

[maiden grotto]

https://support.stalker2.com/

[pallid thorn]

Also I love how the chat timer is less and less, first it was a minute, then it was 30 seconds
Now it's 15 seconds

[maiden grotto]

2 mins....

[warm hull]

thanks

[wintry pumice]

Hotfix only seems to fix specific issues mentioned in the notes

[maiden grotto]

Just need to wait for the patch to get released... And see if they address many of our concerns... like not being able to walk over logs, because every STALKER is apparently crippled in some way

[boreal coyote]

the game looks more clear on the newest patch, anyone else notice that? like the patch wiped skifs glasses

[maiden grotto]

I used AMD stuff, so no idea...

[boreal coyote]

i love walking near a chair thats fallen over makes you skip back and forth 🤣

[wintry pumice]

The zone works in mysterious ways

[pseudo lotus]

cool.
now find a friend :^)

[harsh jungle]

weeeeeeeeee

[boreal coyote]

🤣 🤣

[pseudo lotus]

I think Deggy just wants to keep people out of pripyat. Lots of dangerous and unknown stuff there, not to mention a back way to the ||generators and CNPP||

He failed to secure the town during operation fairway. Now he seeks to amend that, making it his life's goal

Not to mention, it probably helps to keep down on mutant populations if you dont ahve a bunch of stalkers passing through. leaving trash or their own corpses about

animals go where there's food, after all

[last saddle]

anyone know if rostok is actually fixed now?

[wintry pumice]

Only one way to find out

[pseudo lotus]

^

[wintry pumice]

Do the stalkers in the zone know what STALKER stands for?

[last saddle]

Scavengers, Trespassers, Adventurers, Loners, Killers, Explorers and Robbers

[bleak basalt]

Scavenger
Trespasser
Adventurer
Loner
Killer
Explorer
Robber

[wintry pumice]

hmm but is that what C-Con intended?

[graceful crypt]

That's misconception. Stalker mean 2 things. 1 means person who is in the Zone illegally and another 1 (S.T.A.L.K.E.R) is acronym

[wintry pumice]

yeah but did C-Con ever reveal what it stands for? other than to mark their agents

[maiden grotto]

That stupid dance around objects, when walking past them...

[graceful crypt]

1 sec

[maiden grotto]

C*nt Consciousness

Solved it 😄

[graceful crypt]

S.T.A.L.K.E.R. is a coded acronym, which we use to mark agents programmed for particular missions. Your mission, as our agent, was to kill Strelok and his group. They got too close to finding out things they shouldn't know. We created a network of psi-fields on the way to the Zone's center in order to recruit agents. You know one of these fields by the name of Brain Scorcher. When a stalker attempts to reach the Zone's center in order to fulfill some wish we acquire control over his consciousness, and program him to a specific mission. A mistake was made, and your mission, was to kill yourself.

There you go @wintry pumice

[maiden grotto]

Yes. According to teh patch notes.

[last saddle]

yeah i noticed just wanted to confrim. ill haver to swing by at some point and check it out

[wintry pumice]

Maybe that's why Scar is never an actual agent

[pallid thorn]

Fourth artifact I found was a hypercube 😄

[graceful crypt]

Scar was never an agent as far as the lore is concerned

[drifting forge]

Imma go play some more HoC. I'll be back in a bit

[maiden grotto]

I did find something interesting now....

Was playing with the settings with overall graphics... If you set FSR3.1 to native so the game renders at 100%... It does one of two things.

If you turn FSR 3.1 Off, you get 40-50fps at 100% render
If you turn FSR 3.1 on, you get 80-90fps at 100% render

WTAF is going on?

[last saddle]

yeah i just kept it on for now

[inland sage]

So every time I tried to do a parkour and fell to my death in that game, I was really just completing the mission?

[wintry pumice]

True but he does end up with Marshal's memory though. I guess C-Con took a huge gamble with Scar since he can't be controlled like the others

[graceful crypt]

It's commonly assumed that S.T.A.L.K.E.R is a backronym for "Scavengers, Trespassers, Adventurers, Loners, Killers, Explorers and Robbers" but thing is that this meaning isn't canon or official

[wintry pumice]

They went Inception on him

[maiden grotto]

@last saddle #MeToo - I don't know understand how the FPS doubles when both scenarios both render the full 2560x1440p with no up scaling

[wintry pumice]

and its funny how the guy we choose to help, don't provide any support in the boss fights

[terse pewter]

its crazy i beat the game but have to watch the cutscene on youtube because the game is a giant mess .

[wintry pumice]

Richter the saint

[graceful crypt]

Theres a history about that. Western publisher shortly before SoC's release in 2007 made it up and revealed it. At that time fans speculated that the title must mean something, and the publisher probably realized that they may be dissapointed when it turns out there is no actual meaning to it in the game

So they made 1 themselves. While that title does makes sense, it makes absolutely no sense in the context in which it is used in the game

[graceful crypt]

Technically every time you died Kill Strelok mission was completed

[graceful crypt]

Scar isn't "normal" person to begin with. Even in Clear Sky Kalancha/Beanpolev and Lebedev reveal that he's superhuman

[wintry pumice]

Yeah but still C-Con actually succeeded in winning him over. But I was thinking we would be having a boss fight with him even in the Spark path when he discovers Marshal's memories were transferred to him but he quietly accepts his fate

Maybe he didn't have much of a personality to begin with before getting Marshal's memory

[graceful crypt]

Dialogues do reveal his personality

[pseudo lotus]

woah man....... spoilers..........

[graceful crypt]

Same with Degtyatev

[wintry pumice]

not in Stalker 2 as all his personality seems to stem from Marshal's memories rather than his own

[wintry pumice]

This is a spoiler channel

[graceful crypt]

These characters don't have cutscenes like Strelok in SoC does but game dialogues give you plenty of insight

[pseudo lotus]

yea I know, Im joking. complaining about spoilers for a game that came out 18 years ago, lmao

[graceful crypt]

I'm generally not fan of how Scar turned out in S2 tbh

[minor wyvern]

@maiden grotto hey going back to what you said said earlier about purely playing free roam with no story at all could you explain the playthrough’s you create to keep yourself occupied in the zone? Like what’s your favorite things to do when free roaming? Curious how Stalker 2 works without any story mode at all

[graceful crypt]

I like his Clear Sky self way more

[last saddle]

not often do ppl praise sequels nearly as high

[minor wyvern]

So true. Stalker 2 be like Rocky 4

[wintry pumice]

Me too but I guess they just needed a fanatic type char to make things interesting as if Faust wasn't enough

[last saddle]

lol

[graceful crypt]

"If it dies, it dies" - players about that bloodsucker in the beginning

[near blaze]

I've been wondering about something in the late game
this might be a bug idk
so
in Pripyat when I'm supposed to "rendevou with the spark squad", I get ambushed by a very large horde of monolith soldiers, and I clear them all out, and even through out the whole game, I haven't seen a fight this large (talking 40+ dead bodies outside the appartments alone)
but even after clearing up all that, they keep spawning in, in small groups, so I wonder if I was ever supposed to meet up or just flee from the scene

[near blaze]

fr

[lost mortar]

I'm still having issues loading a save file on my xbox. The game crashes and the xbox home screen appears

[near blaze]

I KNOW GSC will have all these bum ass bugs out after a year at the most... I hope

we need a cyberpunk redemption #2

[lost mortar]

Your start wasn't that bad🤣

[still current]

All will be sorted out in time.

[lost mortar]

If all technical issues will be fixed this game will become a masterpiece

[near blaze]

true that
I'm actually very hopeful for the future of patches / upcomming DLC

and multiplayer maybe

[still current]

Multiplayer will probably be the first dlc

Who knows

[gleaming bone]

anyone done research on physical protection cap (and other stats)? Like it's capped at 5 bars or more?

[last saddle]

multiplayers gonna be a cheat fest

[lethal crest]

All cheaters just have the Heart of Chornobyl, lore accurate

[last saddle]

[near blaze]

you just got me thinking about how dumb it is to get that artifact after no point of return to not even cherish it for long

also yes

[lethal crest]

It doesn’t do anything when you equip it as far as I can tell

[near blaze]

still
no point in cherish or shelf it in your stash
or even sell it

[lethal crest]

It’d be sick to use it in the fight against Granite, they could have made that entire sequence so much tougher with that capability uplift

[near blaze]

thats true

[worldly thicket]

I used it and I like gaussed them in the head

[worldly thicket]

Capped at 5

[rose birch]

been away since release has performace got better guys?

[last saddle]

yeah its in a way better state now. still needs a bit of time tho. but playable for sure

[thorn swallow]

Some guys who knows COSSACKS 3 ???

[last saddle]

damn i havnt heard of that game since the first one lol

[thorn swallow]

Ohhhaaaaa. I love this game but GSC doesn’t care about that 😬

[last saddle]

had no idea they made that game

[maiden grotto]

Exploring every nook and cranny, finding where you can and can't go.

Artifact hunting, upgrading weapons, running missions... And waiting for updates 😄

[last saddle]

yeah a sandbox would be cool

[maiden grotto]

Needs more mission types and things to do... More underground things too...

Squeaky lights, I miss squeaky lights

[last saddle]

randomized loot would be cool too. instead of just knowing where every piece of gear is exactly

[maiden grotto]

So every time you play, you have to look and online maps are useless... Some dropped by random kills, changes every time.

[last saddle]

yup

to be fair i have found gear on bodies tho but yeah

[maiden grotto]

And a winter DLC... With thick white snow and cold mechanics... So fire drums do something, and warm the core

[last saddle]

as amazing as the game is. itll get insane later on down the road. in a good way

probably from mods but regardless

[maiden grotto]

Monster parts
More types of artifacts.
Horrors of the zone
Mission types
Anomalies
Faction ranks
And the real sized exclusion zone 😐

They could so much.

[pure zinc]

Faction Wars????🤔

[last saddle]

absolutely

[maiden grotto]

Was in Clear Sky

[pure zinc]

yeah but why not Stalker 2

[maiden grotto]

Released early, dev's didn't get the chance to finish what they wanted.

Now after selling £180+ million worth of copies, they now have no excuses not to get it done.

[trail cargo]

could anyone help out in #❔┃seeking-for-advice before i breakdown 😭

[wintry pumice]

Breakdown first

[dense sandal]

So the feb patch is the next big one y’all
Think mod support soon ?

[ornate sable]

Weird Water acquired!
...still searching high and low for the mythical legendary ultra rare "Steak Artifact" that somehow is supposed to be Common though.

[maiden grotto]

If it yellow, it's not water... 😐

[maiden grotto]

Who knows what is going to be in it... I hope they sort out the spawn rates and respawns... It's fun, they are just annoying.

[maiden grotto]

I have had a couple of those

I might have one

[maiden grotto]

I do have one - #📸┃screens_and_videos message 😄

Want it?

[wintry pumice]

I doubt we will get mod support within the first year

[pure zinc]

me fiending for dlc...

[wintry pumice]

Bloodsuckers every 5 mins

[dense sandal]

What’s y’all Gues on roadmap ?

[smoky onyx]

alife dlc when?

[maiden grotto]

Instead of 2? I will send a bottled fart to GCS... More dangerous than any gas anomaly.

[maiden grotto]

When it's ready. Which can't be soon enough

[wintry pumice]

Bikes

[maiden grotto]

Kiddie trikes...

Those baby three wheelers are just what the monolith need

[dense sandal]

Y’all think we will get it wit the patch

They must be doing a lot for to take this long but good to see bc it’s probably got alot

[smoky onyx]

it has more sausage and bread

[maiden grotto]

that is because there is a lot to fix 😄

[dense sandal]

When was the lastbig one like 2-3 months ago

[maiden grotto]

Just before Christmas

[wintry pumice]

We will probably see the patch on Saturday

[ornate sable]

Game was only released 2 months ago, last big patch was 1 month ago.

[dense sandal]

Games been out for months feels longe XD

[wintry pumice]

About 2 months

[torn halo]

is the alife fixed yet

havent played since release

[wintry pumice]

Maybe? I see groups of guys running for miles without knowing where they're going

Getting violated by Bloodsuckers

[torn halo]

still an issue?? whenever i was playing there was bloodsucker every 5 minutes or so and sometimes they came in groups and were unbelievably tanky so i just uninstalled till that and the Alife was fixed

[wintry pumice]

They still do spawn in groups of 3 sometimes and I faced that group right after exiting The lesser zone

Balance is very good
No wonder people want the shining zone

Facing without a shotty is a very bad move

[torn halo]

hows health pools of enemies now? also with hit reg, it was terrible back then. I know i could install and just see for myself but I'm trying to avoid downloading the game for hours and then not have space just to uninstall

[wintry pumice]

Humans are never the problem. Bloodsuckers are still tanky. Chimeras are much worse

[torn halo]

THEY MADE EM WORSE?

[wintry pumice]

Chimeras take way too long to die, checked the pinned comments on how much bullets it takes to kill them, should be in a google sheet doc

[maiden grotto]

I would like to see NPC's taking on politi's etc, but they never do... Just ignore each other, drinking coffee together.

Sometime the AI is as thick as brick house.

[maiden grotto]

3? you lucky fecker...

[wintry pumice]

I did fight 4 of them once, when I was on the Mission to find Faust's agent in Icarus, in an underground facility

[weary hedge]

when patchhh

[wintry pumice]

Saturday

[weary hedge]

💀

[wintry pumice]

Hold your breath till then

[harsh jungle]

dies

[weary hedge]

ded, arma reforger is keeping me satiate rn

[wintry pumice]

Plays guitar in the shining zone

[maiden grotto]

Yeah I know that place, it's to teh southwest of Icarus... And you drop down into an enclosed place...

But I have actually had 5/6 spawn on me in the lesser zone south of Zalyssia near the bus stop at the t junction to that old village... Wonderful times... LF.

[harsh jungle]

id rather not be in the shining zone thanks

[wintry pumice]

Ninja gaiden 2 black is on gamepass

[wintry pumice]

You don't really have a choice when you die in the zone. We all go to the noosphere

[harsh jungle]

crying

[wintry pumice]

Those suckers do love you

[wintry pumice]

Scar comforts you

[harsh jungle]

get away from me!!!!!!!!

[wintry pumice]

@harsh jungle
Scar embraces you

[maiden grotto]

Lynx, but I got the Aldi special version, that just attracts c*nts and monsters... Repels beautiful women, and gives you limp wrist syndrome

[harsh jungle]

yeets self into the void

[wintry pumice]

Scar laughs in Class 5 psi resistance and drags you back

[harsh jungle]

cringe

[weary hedge]

What did they fix with this patch? Garry still isn’t showing up in Yaniv.

[ornate sable]

Performance issues and shader comp crashes. Which IMO were the things that most urgently needed a hotfix patch.

[last saddle]

after finishing ||Sircaa|| i noticed theres a shit ton of fighting everywhere. does it stay this way from here on out?

would make exploring other areas i havnt been to kinda suck

[drifting forge]

It's not too bad. Just the initial attack I think

[last saddle]

so it mellows out a bit?

[drifting forge]

Yeah, except for Zalyssia. You should probably go there before the mission bugs out

[last saddle]

ok cool

i just stopped to dump shit since sircaa made me fat af

[wintry pumice]

Once it goes up, it never goes down

[last saddle]

just got two different answers there

[drifting forge]

Lol

[last saddle]

but i guess ill see

[wintry pumice]

I mean everyone starts wearing exosuits

[weary hedge]

Kinda.

[last saddle]

i dont mind them being harder. but theres literally fights every 20 yards

[wintry pumice]

And they all start to have much deadlier weapons

Ragman becomes your best friend

[last saddle]

harders enemies i can deal with but in the current state exploring anything seems like a drag

[weary hedge]

This game should have been delayed.

[last saddle]

to the point ill just wanna do main story

[wintry pumice]

There's a chance you won't see any at all

[last saddle]

lol

guess ill go see quiet then

[wintry pumice]

That's how it was for me, never got an emission after I reached Pripyat

[lapis dock]

HO-LEE SHIT

A MONOLITH. PEE-DEE-AYYY

[maiden grotto]

These artifacts at the claw are a F*CKING JOKE... Especially the ones right at the top, you just cant get to them... And the fecking respawn rate of the anomaly doesnt even give you enough time to jump across one of the claws... Feck off with BS

Big fecking difference between hard to get and fecking impossible.

[river chasm]

Korshunov's actor is a legend

[dense sandal]

What does pda stand for ?

[maiden grotto]

#📸┃screens_and_videos message - fecking joke spot... Impossible to get artifact

[maiden grotto]

personal data something

[ornate sable]

personal digital assistant, a tablet basically, but they've been around for longer.
Most places a PDA today is just a smartphone with a specialized app installed, like the "PDA" I use at work, it's just an old samsung phone.

[weary hedge]

Im alt tabbed and Im just enjoying the ambiance sounds lol

[wintry pumice]

PDA radio when...

[last saddle]

cheeki breeki

[lapis dock]

never. this isn’t anomaly, mod monkey

[wintry pumice]

I mean if you can make calls/transmission with it. Then A radio isn't far fetched

[lapis dock]

you’re right, but it’s unlikely to happen. I’ll eat a Flesh if it happens

[weary hedge]

I'm loving Stalker 2. Heading southeast from Lesser zone to the military base in search of loot. I'll keep it spoiler free. I'm finally feeling at home in the zone during my first ever, Stalker experience. I'm winning gun fights, I started off struggling with the pistol and now I am getting rounds on target. I'm running a can on my Makarov and it's now my favorite in game sidearm. I have done a few missions, but basically I'm just surviving in the zone, making a living by looting and selling goods. Lot of people at the base need to buy goods and someone has to deliver the merchandise to the stores!

[wintry pumice]

Wait till you meet your very first "anomaly"

[weary hedge]

I have. Friend if had a dollar for every time that my character has died in game, I'd own a gold painted Learjet!

[wintry pumice]

I meant bugs

[weary hedge]

I heard about some of those!

[maiden grotto]

what's god mod line in console, the BS of this game is making me have to cheat... F*CK YOU for having to make me cheat

[dense bloom]

Sooooo i've just met illyukha sparrow; gave him a detector annnd then.. whats next with this NPC ??

[gleaming bone]

how do the armor stats decrease with the armor condition? Like it just multiplies (e.g. if your armor has 5 full bars, at 60% condition it would only have 3 bars)? Or it's more forgiving

[last saddle]

it degrades stats but im unsure of numbers

btw to recap on what i was saying before about the crazy fighting going on after sircaa seems to have quieted down after an emission. maybe sleeping works too tho

[supple lodge]

May not be the place for it but I just want to say thank you to everyone, GSC and the community. STALKER to me is more than a game, it is the reflection of a dream, an effort of passion, and though there are issues, it is to me perfect. From shadow of Chornobyl to heart of Chornobyl, GSC and the community have crafted a beautiful series of games and an even more beautiful community. Thank you all.

[last saddle]

very much still explorable thankfully

[sturdy verge]

🍺 from toupee to blood sucker babies, sids chickens and doggies nibbling on ya toes @supple lodge

[supple lodge]

Especially to Sid’s chicken 🍻

[cerulean socket]

Is Diamond of Liberty exo better?

[opaque siren]

Anyone know to how be able to sleep when in SIRCCA? My game seems to be glitched

[last saddle]

only place i saw to sleep there is dalins bed

whats the glitch

[opaque siren]

Yes that's what I'm talking about, I can't sleep on Dalins bed. Ig perhaps because I'm not friendly with Ward. Yet again it's a story mission

[last saddle]

did you take the elevator to his room

[opaque siren]

Yes

[last saddle]

i did notice it had a weird activation range. best i can say is circle around it at different angles

i had to do it from the left side when looking at the foot of the bed

try playing with your FOV see if it helps

[vagrant canopy]

I hate the reflections in Sircaa....

they're so distractingly bad...

[opaque siren]

Yeah I mean I can get it to pop up the activation prompt but, it won't allow me to sleep even after changing my fov and all around where the interaction prompt is

[last saddle]

try reloading?

[opaque siren]

Oh I've tried, reloading, restarting, etc. It just doesn't work at all.

[frigid hill]

.fret has been warned

Reason: Bad word usage

[last saddle]

maybe an earlier save point. sounds pretty shit..

[gleaming bone]

they are really close

but diamond you can get much earlier if you're down to spend 10 mins of moving a box

[opaque siren]

Yeah idk at this point. Tbh I think I'll just wait till next patch

[last saddle]

guess i been one of the lucky ones. but thats a new one. never heard of that issue. ive seen ppl talkin about the bed in zalissya but that involved deleting folders and shit

[gleaming bone]

check this vid from minute 38
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6VS6ewggAB0

[opaque siren]

Well I'm playing on console. Yet again on my first playthrough it was super buggy and that's when S2 released. Idk perhaps it could be that the save is from early December

[last saddle]

possible

i held off on playing til after the patch in late december

[cerulean socket]

Thank

[opaque siren]

It just sucks that I can't sleep. But i could anywhere else. But I could anywhere else. Oh well though, I appreciate you trying to help me.

[last saddle]

np, i know you probably spent a decent amount of time on it too. but if nothing at all works you maybe just need to start over seeing as its such an early save file

could try keeping that save seperate in the meantime and hope next patch fixes it tho. or like you said just hold off a bit more

[opaque siren]

I'll most likely just wait until next patch, in #📜┃gsc-answers they said that next patch should fix main story quests. So I'll wait for that

[maiden grotto]

Is there anything special with the small mushroom field? There is a dead covered in mushroom, holding a device glowing blue... You can shoot teh device and the it glows red and that is it.

Has anyone found out what to do or is it a nothing burger?

[sweet zephyr]

would the T64BVs and T64BM Bulats scattered around the map be from operation monolith?

or later Call of Prypriat things

[lethal crest]

Fairly sure there’s T-72 and similar scattered in there too

There’s certainly a bunch of modern vehicles dug in around the Red Forest, which I and others suspect as a reference to the 2022-now Russian forces invading that region of Ukraine

[sweet zephyr]

really? I ain't see no T72s

[lethal crest]

They looked like T-72s, at least to me

I’m no tankspotter, could be anything from a T-64 to T-90

[sweet zephyr]

I find it's easiest to tell by the roadwheels

[lethal crest]

Aren’t the road wheels more or less interchangeable on anything T-55 and onwards?

Or do you mean the number of them

[sweet zephyr]

no the roadwheels aren't

T64 roadwheels are very different
I can DM you them if you are interested

[inland sage]

Huh. I came down here expecting a bloodsucker but the thing got itself killed before I arrived.

[lethal crest]

Ah, the T-64 seems to be the only ones that are different
Everything else uses roughly the same dimensions, so theoretically a T-90 could run a T-55 wheel

I’ll check the ones I’m thinking of later, it is half 3 in the morning where I am
Might not even be able to see them, since they’re dug in to trenches

[sweet zephyr]

I'm not fully sure if they're interchangable or just similar enough to look the part

[lethal crest]

I’ve definitely seen modern Russian tanks running old T-55 roadwheels, so at the very least they work well enough

[frigid hill]

gumapelvaler1an has been warned

Reason: Bad word usage

[sweet zephyr]

ah alright

[frigid hill]

kennii3175 has been warned

Reason: Bad word usage

[sweet zephyr]

Wow
2 in half an hour

Is that some flavour of a record?

[last saddle]

anyone know whats up with kolya greens pda? it has a quest marker on it but i cant read it or anything. just found the guy dead and it was on his body

[ornate sable]

Maybe it's bugged, like Bubba's PDA?

[last saddle]

yeah probably

guess its a part of my bag now lol

i did notice his name is on the list of ppl who died in zalissya

[wintry pumice]

They have very close stats but diamond is much lighter

Whereas Liberty is twice as heavy as diamond but you get +20% accuracy as a bonus

[ornate sable]

You're thinking of Ruby, maybe?

[fresh vessel]

Does anyone know why I can’t sleep in Zalissya? I just started a new game and I don’t have the status effect, there’s just a light gray ‘X’ to sleep instead of a white button. I play on Xbox btw

[wintry pumice]

Oh yeah lol

[wintry pumice]

New bug maybe

[barren cargo]

So I'm crashing right after killing korshunov, this a known thing?

[wintry pumice]

Not that I know of

[true loom]

Genuinely pretty upset the recent patch didnt fix the UI bug where an ammo pick up sound plays constantly anytime i open a container or my inventory, and ontop of that, i cant move anything in my inventory, if i want to get rid of soemthing i have to drop it on the ground, so my weapons ive spent ridiculous amounts of rubles repairing and upgrading are stuck with me until they patch it

my buddy also has the same bug so i know its not a contained incidient

:l

i also cant store anything in containers it just doesnt work now

I've got 48 hours in the save file im not about to restart i havent even beaten the game yet

havent been able to play for like a month -_-

[stray cove]

I was getting this whenever i opened my storage. It seems to resolve itself if you load a prior save. Unfortunately i couldnt tell you anything more than to save frequently and often. Luckily mine happened only a couple hundred yards outside of rostok

[wintry pumice]

Try 130 hours and all your saves get deleted

[true loom]

so its a "youre save file is this old, therefore will now start having this bug" kind of glitch

in other words once i reach like 46 hours again itll just start again regardless

literally no point to play it.

😐

[ornate sable]

Probably not?

[silk vapor]

I think it's a bug, I have it too. The literal only bug I have in my 2nd playthrough so far is this, Skif can sleep anywhere but in Zalissya

[wintry pumice]

Maybe you snore too much

[barren cargo]

I just watched two streloks enter the portal before it even appeared 😵‍💫

Took like 3 restarts to get thru korshunov crash and now streloks on shrooms

[barren cargo]

Stalker really just stands for shroom taking a-hole likes krashing every restart

[inland sage]

Sometimes This Asshole Likes Killing Everyone Randomly

[true loom]

There have been a few time based bugs already, if loading an earlier save fixes it that just means it’ll happen again once I reach the same point

[lyric kayak]

I love shrooms..

[wintry pumice]

[gleaming mantle]

I feel like Saiga-12 Drum mag is a joke

Getting put in literally before the last room where you have to shoot someone

[barren cargo]

Dude I'm struggling with that room, last dude just drops me instantly

[gleaming mantle]

Same, you either die there or die slower

[terse ravine]

theres no reason why we can't go back into the zone with the strelok or doctor ending, it makes sense why it wouldn't make sense with the ward/scar ending

wish there was a new game plus tho

[gleaming mantle]

we all do

[terse ravine]

was chat cooldown reduced or does it depend on your server level?

i remember it was 60 secs then 30 secs, now its 15 secs

[ornate sable]

Think it depends on time of day and how busy the server is?

[barren cargo]

I got a two hour cool down on memes but it's gone now

Idk what the cool down bs is

[terse ravine]

wish we could turn down particles and foliage on console, my frames get destroyed in the swamps and when theres a thunderstorm

[barren cargo]

I just been running around med kit and saiga to their faces but them dudes up top just melt

[lyric kayak]

Cooldowns p lame

[gleaming mantle]

At least they keep channel overload in check

[lyric kayak]

I'm like rank 5, far more than someone should be on a video games discord lol and theres still a 20 sec cooldown

[terse ravine]

idk if thisba known bug but I've had stashes that are supposed to have blueprints, not have the blueprints spawn in, in my current save i can't get the 7.62 conversion, and the 10% armor piecing upgrade for the Dnipro since for some reason the blueprints didn't spawn in their respective stashes

[hot minnow]

Could be fixed sometime in February I guess hasn’t happened to me

[terse ravine]

I've also had keys not spawn in a corpse for a puzzle in cementfactory

[minor wyvern]

Can mods be discussed in here or is that something strictly for the mod section? Wondering if anyone here has advice for a specific issue I have and a potential mod which solves it

[terse ravine]

i don't think it matters too much

[minor wyvern]

Which mod prevents enemies from shooting you through bushes? I have zero visibility of the enemy through bushes yet they are able to clearly see me at night from a long distance and shoot with perfect accuracy, can someone please recommend me a mod which resolves this terrible issue? Thanks

[terse ravine]

i don'treally bother with mods (yet) since they break with each patch, but there is some rebalancing mods out already

[barren cargo]

I'm unsure, im 4 days into my save, only had to wipe cache twice, only big loot issue I've had is weird bolt wouldn't spawn and my dumb self didn't make a save 200m out

[cobalt fiber]

Yes mods can be discussed

[minor wyvern]

I just needs something which makes nights be like night with less visibility for the enemy. I mean I’m crouched, slow walking and behind bushes, how can they see me from a long distance and shoot, this isn’t logical even if they had NVG’s they shouldn’t see me creeping

[barren cargo]

Def seen others have that issue tho

[minor wyvern]

Man it’s crazy

[barren cargo]

Idk how I haven't had much issues, usually im getting the worst bugs and glitches ever

[terse ravine]

I've also had stashes refill their loot 2-4 times after looting them, got like 30 medkits put of a single stash, stopped happening after i closed and reopened the game tho

[cobalt fiber]

Unless you're spamming and that it should be taking around 15-20 seconds to type out w/e anyway

You'd be surprised how many people will come in and spam pure bullshit especially in official servers lol

[minor wyvern]

Can anyone recommend a decent mod please? This 6th sense the enemy has is killing the vibe and realism for me

[sharp sierra]

I think the emissions need some work regularly getting people dying inside building just got into malachite and it's full of corpses!

[wintry pumice]

Known bug, will be fixed ||in the shining zone ||

[cobalt fiber]

Scar was nothing. MachTurbo is the true preacher of ||the shining zone||

[wintry pumice]

They need to make a Scar sticker

[cobalt fiber]

10/10 suggestion

[wintry pumice]

Look at that face and tell me, how do you not believe in the shining zone?

[cobalt fiber]

I've been replaying SOC and I've got to say other than the bullet sponge mutants it makes S2 seem so easy lol

Even the mutants aren't bad cos you can cheese 99% of the tougher ones

[terse ravine]

only pseudo giants and chimeras make sense to be bullet sponges (but should have weak spots)

[wintry pumice]

Man these bloodsuckers just refuse to step into an anomaly.

[cobalt fiber]

You can cheese the giants other than the late game/main mission one

The one with Dark

[terse ravine]

you could take out the giant with a few guass rounds

[cobalt fiber]

Also wish the rep and rank system was in S2

And mutant looting lol

[wintry pumice]

I will try it this time

Do they die instantly?

[cobalt fiber]

The radiant missions in trilogy are superior to S2 ones imo

[lyric kayak]

I figured that, I was specifically pointing out the elongated wait times - I dont need to type much of course, i'm just saying it's a strange restriction for long time members

[cobalt fiber]

You're still only a novice so you ain't yapped enough

[lyric kayak]

I need to yap more to yap less?

[wintry pumice]

Yap once a minute

[lyric kayak]

I will do my best

[cobalt fiber]

MachTurbo is a professional yapper

[terse ravine]

is experienced the highest rank from being an active chatter?

[wintry pumice]

Yes

[cobalt fiber]

Legend is

[sharp sierra]

Lol had 1 spawn in a room but there was an anomaly blocking the door so all it could do was run in circles while I shot it

[frigid hill]

🚫 trksthtmn [EN], you need to wait 3 minutes to use that command again.

[cobalt fiber]

[wintry pumice]

I thought I would get image perms right if I talked more

[cobalt fiber]

You get gif

[lyric kayak]

Even the guides have wait times

[cobalt fiber]

No slowmode tho

[lyric kayak]

[cobalt fiber]

I'm half a discord mod

[lyric kayak]

We love an unpaid job

[cobalt fiber]

Yes

I was admin for some Monopoly GO server last and I never even installed the game

100k members and then I quit cos the owners were scamming people

I bought a big goldfish yesterday and it's eaten 3 of my tropical fish already

[wintry pumice]

Survival of the biggest

[cobalt fiber]

They were only babies

[wintry pumice]

[cobalt fiber]

Arena in soc > arena in s2

[wintry pumice]

Why so?

[cobalt fiber]

I like the spectator spam

Nah there's more rounds too

They should defo add more rounds in dlc for s2

Arena is good fun

[weary hedge]

lmao

We need more gore mods, and dismemberment mods

Should be able to blow a monolith soldiers arm off with a Saiga

I'm not asking for muchhhhh 😮

[cobalt fiber]

Dismemberment would require its own limb damage system, so it is kinda asking for much lol

[weary hedge]

[wintry pumice]

Unless unreal engine already has it

Maybe it's not used here

[weary hedge]

I can't remember if Cyberpunk has dismemberment, but I also can't remember if they customised the engine

[cobalt fiber]

Nah CP didn't

[wintry pumice]

Hmm you can destroy head IIRC

[cobalt fiber]

Hmm

It's been a while

Ik you can't take legs off

[weary hedge]

EnGore
A plugin for Unreal Engine 5 that allows for the procedural dismemberment of any skeletal mesh. It's highly customizable and includes blood and gore effects.

Looks like they could add it but just didn't

[cobalt fiber]

Forget dismembering humans. I want to take a bloodsuckers head off

[weary hedge]

Imagine shooting the zombies arms off so they can't shoot at you lol

Or a bloodsuckers legs so it has to crawl around

[cobalt fiber]

Take the arms and legs off a controller and just leave it alive

[weary hedge]

LMAO

[wintry pumice]

Dismembering Sid...

[ornate coyote]

Hey guys, how is the game faring after the latest few patches? Is A-life good atm or still needs some work to feel like the old games? Can you see npcs roaming around the zone if you go atop a high place and look around with a scope?

[weary hedge]

best way to think about it is imagining the player character has a big bubble around him, which extends maybe 150-200m (cant remember)

This is the radius within which AI will spawn

Unless theyve changed it, thats how it was working

[ancient parrot]

I think they have changed it

I think it was perhaps this update

https://store.steampowered.com/news/app/1643320/view/525329871842312365

[ornate coyote]

kinda meh then huh

[crystal granite]

Michelin tires man after a week in the Zone #🤨┃stalker_memes message

[weary hedge]

they are still working on it from memory, definitely not finished yet, just 'functional' i think

Also some mods still have leftover code which can cause NPCs to spawn behind you - Axii's stealth mod is the first to come to mind

when patch

[hollow wraith]

take a new cartridge idea for shotguns the dragon's breath cartridge ideal for burning a Snork

[weary hedge]

The week after new years 2026

[limpid saffron]

Something came to my mind yesterday: ''S.T.A.L.K.E.R. 2 was truly Against The Ionized Odds''

[weary hedge]

stalker true is ionized

[weary hedge]

so nearr

[weary hedge]

Fr though, the bot In the Q&A sections said at the start of next month. I’d say probably, hopefully within the next week or so.

[pallid thorn]

Well that'd be a really cool mod, or even a feature of the game imagine blowing an arm or a leg off a pseudogiant

[weary hedge]

nahhh that would cost years of development(while modders do that in some days or hours)

[weary hedge]

btw did the graphics got better after the hotfix or nah?

[maiden grotto]

Same

[junior acorn]

Is the g36 good early game, should I stick with it? Picking guns is agonizing because you can carry so few! I want to use the vector too but I need to leave room for the over/under and it seems to have quite the repair bill

I missed the drowned rifle, I either ignored the dude or it disappears when ||Ward arrives||

Got the free scoped ak but the penetration isn't as good. Wondering if I should try and run that with a silencer or try using the VSS... but that's gonna cost a lot of ammo...

(The real MVP is Skif's pistol + silencer. Plentiful ammo and you can deal with minor mutants and enemies with little trouble.)

[weary hedge]

just swap over the new dlss dll files from cyberpunk, you can use ultra plus with renodx to enable features to work properly and streamline things

#📸┃screens_and_videos message

That's what mine looks like

or you can just wait a day or two - new nvidia driver update will be out and you can force the new dlss files through the nvidia app directly

[river chasm]

Early on for sure. Later in the game you will find better weapons but that could be a while depending on how you play

[weary hedge]

Another thing to keep in mind is there is definitely a meta when it comes to guns - for example most late game enemies have an 'armor' stat attached, making guns with higher penetration values have far more importance than guns with high damage values

I'd go as far as saying penetration -> damage even early game, as its not like youre limited from finding pseudogiants or chimeras which also have the armor stat

[maiden grotto]

G37

[maiden grotto]

Shame, it's an amazing gun

[junior acorn]

😦

Next playthrough

[weary hedge]

pft, i blame mach

[maiden grotto]

It looks like a stalker gun too, rusty an well used

[junior acorn]

I was using Vitalk's rifle for a while but the 37 is a personal favorite because I used it a lot in CoP... and Urban Terror

[ornate sable]

G36 is good, yes. Good pen, low recoil

[junior acorn]

(But I also used the vss a lot because you could find it upstairs at the burnt farmstead in the first five minutes or CoP)

(and it really did feel exotic, not something I saw in fps games before)

[maiden grotto]

I have gone for the Grom S-15, that is a lovely little weapon... Also found the FOMOD, or whatever it is called, yeasterday, that is a pretty nice weapon too.

[weary hedge]

I like the Mark 1 personally, not really the best at anything but I just like the feel of it

[silk vapor]

The SOFMOD looks so damn nice but it's super weak sadly. Definitely feels good in early game though, rn using the Groza and having a lot of fun with it

[maiden grotto]

Got high AP and does good damage... not unless the stats are borked and bugged

[silk vapor]

The SOFMOD you mean? I found it unreliable past one point in the game even landing headshots 😔 even with improvements... I have the unique Groza chambered in 5.45 though it's been a game changer in that regard

[maiden grotto]

The S-15? Yeah, I use that as my main, it's just cool and funky weapon that does some nice pop pop.

[silk vapor]

Yeah couldn't remember if it was S14 or S15 that was the special variant. Really nice and ammo efficient 👌

(and found accidentally as well because I like exploring, that's even more rewarding!)

[maiden grotto]

Same, found it in a pit near the cooling towers, apart from testing out the SOFMOD, I haven't used another weapon since. The extended magazine is game changer too... Silenced, and full upgraded. Not so great on auto though, lots of recoil.

[proud holly]

because it isn't simply drag and drop, they'll have to understand its logic first then program that

[weary hedge]

yeah, i worded it as if it was easier than it is - but my point stands they never bothered to include it in the first place

[proud holly]

or because stalker isn't about gunplay

[weary hedge]

Honestly no clue why - gore would suit stalker.

They have a whole anomally showcasing a mutant being ripped apart

[weary hedge]

I was writing up a response to this and then realised im not even sure why we are discussing gunplay itself, you can have gore and dismemberment outside of gunplay ie like the anomalies mentioned above (which was in a trailer too from memory)

[proud holly]

ok

[weary hedge]

Oh, you're one of those.

[maiden grotto]

Apart from head shots with the big sniper rifles, and rail gun, bullets don't make people explode... Maybe mutants, but the big ones when attacking... The problem then is, they will need to add all the animations, and seriously work on the AI to make it work effectively... Forgot the RPG too

[ornate sable]

Dismemberment and excessive gore is just vulgar, I don't think it's needed or that it would add anything to the experience.

[weary hedge]

Bruh back after back bad opinions 😂 the heck is going on

If I shoot a dude with a saiga point blank, youre losing half your leg like you can see videos of on reddit any second of the day

secondly, vulgar? youre in the zone man half the lore of it is f*cked up and vulgar

i dont see how walking down a corridoor filled with dead bodies and some dude playing with their skeletons which is technically a crime in most western countries is any different to a gore/dismemberment system in regards to combat, not over the top, but a possibility at least geez

[ornate sable]

Yeah it's pretty reddit

[serene barn]

i feel like fleshy gore is worse than playing with a skull like you're running around in Skyrim

but i mean it would be neat in a way to see it happen sometimes i think if you're filling the same part of a target with lead

[weary hedge]

I would honestly never have thought I'd need to convince Stalker fans that a gore/dismemberment system would be good

literal anomalies have it but yall are against combat having it

[serene barn]

we already have bodies quite literally, explode into chunks when they get into those whirlygigs or what they're called

[weary hedge]

even an rpg explosion? grenades? no? still just static untouched body?

[maiden grotto]

It's all about context... Gore for gore's sake, will add nothing to the game at all... But if it's mutant attacking and NPC for example, it doing a "gore" attack, could open it up for sustained attack.

But most games that do it, just do it for ultraviolence sake, shotguns making people explode atc etc, it just looks stupid, and becomes tiresome after a while.

[weary hedge]

no wonder ya'll dont have ward roles

THE WARD WOULDNT ACCEPT YOU ANYWAY 😂

the colonel needs real soldiers, not gore for anomalies only soldiers

[last saddle]

an rpg or grenade exploding and arm or something would be a nice touch

[weary hedge]

Tbf - a mod will eventually do it, so the devs realistically dont need to

it'll just be an optional thing to grab

[last saddle]

for sure

[maiden grotto]

Or headshots with the most powerful of sniper rifles and rail gun... Rail guns would leave big holes in people... Wouldn't necessarily be gory though.

[last saddle]

the railguns strong af but i like the sounds of the actual guns. maybe my tune will change when i find the gun

[weary hedge]

It would be nice to also have a strategy element with say, boss fights.

Instead of having a dash/dodge meta with pseudogiants, you could take off limbs and make it slower/weaker or whatever

[last saddle]

lol the jumping around like a fortnite character move

[maiden grotto]

I don't think boss fights fit the game TBH. I hate them.

[weary hedge]

i just mean like the big health pool monsters

A pseudo would qualify cause of how much health they have and the ammo they take to kill, so youre either dodging or dashing, jumping on structures or cars or whatever

i cant think of any other mobs where dismemberment would give you an advantage ,cause they all die so quickly anyway

[last saddle]

i kinda hate the dogs that make clones the most lol

[maiden grotto]

They need to make the map bigger, and finding them will super hard and rare...

There was a youtube video of cut monster from Soc... I will see if I can find it...

[serene barn]

that would be nice because lord at they annoying with how you can't really avoid their ground slams

[maiden grotto]

you get a billion of them after 1 min...

I think, it should be, if you kill a clone, the dog takes psi damage from feed back, so if you can kill the main dog, great, if not, you can still take it down from DoT

[last saddle]

i just run now lol

[frigid hill]

rainthunderspark has been warned

Reason: Bad word usage

[last saddle]

unless i get lucky and see it bleed after the first few shots

[serene barn]

brother in christ

[sturdy verge]

how dare you swear! lol

[serene barn]

i said the psi dawg is not the threat it used to be when it would make 30 clones of itself

[last saddle]

i still hate them lol

im not running around with 900 max weight like most ppl lol

[serene barn]

they only split into like 5 now and then they have a notable cooldown that often gives you more than enough time to find it

[last saddle]

geta couiple of them and you go through ammo

not saying i think its a bad mechanic. i just hate them

[serene barn]

they uses to just split way way way too much and fast.

literally 1 turned into 20 or so

[last saddle]

live and let live i say

[maiden grotto]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VKgu0aU9xHA - cut monsters etc

[wintry pumice]

In the shining zone I say!!

[dire heart]

I haven't played since a week after launch what all has changed?

[maiden grotto]

Lots bugs fixes and some stability fixes, still has issues though

[barren cargo]

Coughs in getting locked inside malachite

[sturdy verge]

yes, strelok has hair now 😄

[plain fiber]

Got it.

Did a quick read-up on DLSS just now and it sounds like it'll be better if I leave it turned off. (A performance boost isn't necessary, and I'd rather not end up with worse looking visuals.)

[weary hedge]

oh cooolllll im on xbox

:(.

[boreal coyote]

how does it look in motion though?

[weary hedge]

what's a game that looks more like stalker than stalker 2

[weary hedge]

grainy :).

[dire heart]

got a life now?

[weary hedge]

its better than the last dlss version, plus ultra plus does a lot to edit how UE is working too

I was sitting on 100fps with that, too

[simple shard]

sort of. much better approximation of a-life than at release, but still more or less a big spawn bubble with some smoke and mirrors to provide the impression of things happening away from the player

the AI itself (and corresponding NPC behavior) is still about the same, which is to say not great

[wintry pumice]

You have FSR

[simple shard]

there is still a long way to go as far as 1:1 parity with SoC or CoP a-life, which may or may not even be possible under this UE5 build

though, at the very least, it is probable that GSC will be able to produce a working facsimile that if you don't squint too hard, may reproduce and approximate similar experiences anyway

[ornate sable]

Yes, about equal to SoC

[serene barn]

was it even any different between the games

SoC had squads that would roam but the game would remember them and iirc that doesn't happen in 2, it seems to remember people were going somewhere but then it seems to unload them and then spawn a new group if you go where they were headed to from what i read and hear

[cunning plover]

When do you think they will release next big update exactly? I guess there is no chance to have it for this weekend? 😦

[weary hedge]

?

[last saddle]

the game does remember. if you go out of range and then back in they continue moving. but still not what it should be

[pearl delta]

Lots of crashes since the patch, its kinda disturbing, before this patch i had litterly 0.

[last saddle]

sent a video in https://discord.com/channels/504587323577729024/1308034504761409577 best example of early a life ive seen

[simple shard]

2 had warfare, which a lot of people loved but was actually not good and anyone who liked it is wrong

nevermind thought you meant clear sky not "stalker 2"-2, lol

[wintry pumice]

Google it

[simple shard]

#📜┃gsc-answers message

[wintry pumice]

Sus

[dense rain]

Does anyone know which games have MK18?

[mystic isle]

Contribute as much as you can I'm very curious what you guys picked and im interested in seeing the info.

[sharp sierra]

Just found the monolith gathering marker got excited as the guard had a carmel/karod and there was a load of urchins... psi emission urchins whoever came up with that is evil lol

[inland sage]

Yeah it's...phantom artifacts, that's not the only place it happens.

[serene barn]

i only found one place that would spawn fake artifacts that would mess with my head once. didn't know there was more places

[inland sage]

...I still haven't figured out getting to Solder quietly enough that I don't have to shoot my way out after.

[shrewd kindle]

Took me over 2 months but I finally beat the game lol

[maiden grotto]

No, probably not for a few months either tbh.

But the game is improving...

[inland sage]

Something that doesn't involve me killing so many IPSF troops that it would be cheaper if they had just let me in

[cerulean socket]

I love the Texan

[inland sage]

Hoo. I am flabbergasted by the ability for these random bandits to hit me from so far away with every pellet from their Toz-34s.

[cerulean socket]

Ikr? I feel like enemy accuracy is too high, especially at night or with a lot of foliage in the way

[last saddle]

how are you supposed to help solder in the hornets nest mission. dudes just walkin around?

[last saddle]

to be fair it doesnt do much damage at all from range

guess unless theyre using slugs

[maiden grotto]

But it's all the other weapons doing exactly the same thing through walls that are.

[last saddle]

yeah i did notice some walls are solid while others arent. sheetrock or wood maybe

[sweet zephyr]

audio logs ain't working for me rn

[minor wyvern]

I’ve turnt off the threat indicator but on the compass it still turns red when danger is present and I can still see the red arrows showing the enemy location, how do you turn this off completely and keep the compass?

[inland sage]

It makes me bleeeeeeed.

[last saddle]

get hit from buckshot from any range and itll probably do that

Vinca helps

[indigo oriole]

Where patch ? Xd

[maiden grotto]

It's the foilage that does me... It's like it doesn't exist... You can't use tall grass and bushes to try and outsmart/ambush/flank enemies... They just see right through it.

Whilst you're as blind AF, and can't see sh*t. I would like to think they are going to address this though.

[minor wyvern]

Getting weird audio, sound of rain is cutting out and coming back continuously but all the other sounds like footsteps remain normal

[maiden grotto]

On servers somewhere 😉

[last saddle]

you can use stealth but once they spot you yeah they do see through bushes like its non existent

[indigo oriole]

Smart boy

[inland sage]

Ooh. For once getting a PSZ-7 Military Body Armor is actually useful.

[indigo oriole]

Often I hear mutant sound after I killed them

[weary hedge]

Is the H in the transliteration supposed to always sound like a G in English? Like Ahropom - Agropom, so is Hilka - Gilka?

[minor wyvern]

saved and restarted the issue has gone.

[indigo oriole]

Not for me

[maiden grotto]

And the other thing I hate is shooting through wire mesh fencing... And all the bullets hitting the frame of the fence...

Seriously, that levels of saving James Bond in 70's films, when when all the shots miss Bond, but hit the hand rails 🤣

[last saddle]

lil dumb and dumber action

[river moth]

You wouldn't have missed if you JOINED THE WARD

[last saddle]

i did notice slavic do tend to have a hard time pronouncing H. but i use ukranian with subs. cant stand the english version

you ever hear one say alcohol. literally say alcogol

[indigo oriole]

Ooo now I saw gsc answer and they mention beginning of feb.

[weary hedge]

Nope lol. And I grew up around Serbs. Mom’s dad’s side was from the Former Yugoslavia, Serbian and Macedonian.

[last saddle]

i work with russians and hear it all the time. maybe the difference 🤷‍♂️

[weary hedge]

At least the pronounce Vodka the right way lol. We’ve got this little old Russian lady at church though. Sweetest old lady.

[minor wyvern]

Can anyone help with my question please👍🏻

[river moth]

Sure

[minor wyvern]

I’ve turnt off the threat indicator but on the compass it still turns red when danger is present and I can still see the red arrows showing the enemy location, how do you turn this off completely and keep the compass?

[river moth]

Idk lol

[minor wyvern]

Change your name😂

[river moth]

There

[last saddle]

damn ward

[minor wyvern]

I was only joking man you didn’t have to😩 but thanks anyway

[river moth]

HUH???

[last saddle]

[river moth]

Ward is on top, you just jealous

[last saddle]

my bullets say otherwise

[inland sage]

So Drowned...it's been there for ages?

[river moth]

Mane all you kill are mutes bro 😭🙏💯

[inland sage]

I mean, it is in 0 condition when you pick it up, yes?

[last saddle]

i dont discriminate

they can all get it

[inland sage]

Oof even the name of that emoji shows how much of a downer Duty is in 2.

[last saddle]

we'll have our time in future dlc

[river moth]

LOL AGREED

The ward is just better

[last saddle]

lolol

alexander got you whipped

[inland sage]

So I'm back at this guy who wants me to fish a gun out of the mud for him. Is it worth keeping Drowned?

[last saddle]

i just gave it back to em personally

[inland sage]

Yeah, but this is my second run. New game, New Skif.

[last saddle]

didnt seem worth to me but hey its a free gun

[inland sage]

A free gun you can't sell to anyone and would need to spend a lot on repairs to use.

[last saddle]

exactly

[inland sage]

Like, not even Ragman would take it.

[last saddle]

well to be fair you can sell to ragman

[inland sage]

Yeah, he won't buy under some very low percent and 0 is something he won't take.

[last saddle]

oh? well then theres your answer

[inland sage]

I'm still using Valik Lummox's AKM-74S.

[last saddle]

gun carried me a decent way

the way i see it, if it shoots it kills

cool to mss with different types of weapons anyway. up to you really

[river moth]

Never stick to the meta gng

[inland sage]

Is Valik Lummox's AKM meta?

[last saddle]

not at all but better bullets help. just degrades the gun faster

[inland sage]

Although...I may have enough to repair this Vintar I found in the Lesser Zone now that I sold those excess armors I had.

[last saddle]

headshots tho

[weary hedge]

Nah. It’s straight up worthless.

[last saddle]

good to go

[inland sage]

Well it's fixed, but I haven't got a ton of ammo for it.

Still, I feel more...stalkery having a Vintar.

[last saddle]

only downside is it does chew thru ammo fairly quickly

thats full auto for ya tho on any gun

[inland sage]

Ah! Yes thanks for reminding me to put it on semi auto.

[sweet zephyr]

pls help

[last saddle]

none of them or ones in particular?

[wintry pumice]

Ragman won't take 0% durability weapons

[wintry pumice]

Why not use Clusterfuck?

[wintry pumice]

#s2-support

[last saddle]

this dude solder straight up vanished after an emission. on the hornets nest. oh well

[inland sage]

...I haven't gotten it yet.

[wintry pumice]

You haven't found Nimble yet?

[harsh jungle]

i love procrastinating

[inland sage]

Nah I literally just left the Lesser Zone, did the thing under the Factory, and I'm heading currently to check out Diode's workshop.

...I forgot about that piece of junk anomaly.

[wintry pumice]

Nice. Just use the OP AK sniper you get from that Valix guy

[inland sage]

I will. If I run out of ammo for this Vintar.

[wintry pumice]

Yes we can see that, when you left the zone for years

[wintry pumice]

Nice. Did you get a shotgun yet?

[inland sage]

Got a Cracker I'm using. I really do love how Skif reloads it when it's empty. One shell in the side port to immediately chamber, the rest in the tube.

[wintry pumice]

Nice. No SPSA yet?

[last saddle]

yeah it is satisfying

[wintry pumice]

SPSA better and longer reload time

[last saddle]

spsa has almost the same animation but yeah shoots a lot faster

and holds 2 more shells

[wintry pumice]

Yeah you can queue up the inputs, it's like it fires them all instantly

[ornate sable]

Cr*cker gets that magazine mod though

[last saddle]

which is nice for sure

[wintry pumice]

That's why you get Saiga

[last saddle]

still on my first run and dont wanna look up locations of things. ill find it eventually (the saiga)

[wintry pumice]

You can get Saiga by doing the main quest if you pay a little bit more attention

[inland sage]

Haven't even seen one, lol. Still pretty early in run #2.

[last saddle]

been taking my sweet ass time thoroughly enjoying it

[wintry pumice]

There's one in cordon

Funnily enough, just when I got it on my second run, 3 bloodsuckers spawned on me

[last saddle]

gives you a chance to break it in lol

[wintry pumice]

I ran after killing 2

[last saddle]

lol

[wintry pumice]

Seemed like they were spawning one after another

[inland sage]

Doing Budmo now...on the one hand I hear one of the stashes has artifacts, on the other hand, why steal?

[last saddle]

think most i seen attack at once was like 5. and some other time in a tunnel system there was a few

dog eat dog world. but yeah i left them alone also

didnt really use many artifacts early game anyways cause rads

[inland sage]

Yeah what I really need before I get lead containers is an anti-rad artifact like an Urchin.

[wintry pumice]

Yeah not stealing from him is a waste of time in that quest, his rewards are crap

[last saddle]

for honor dammit

[wintry pumice]

Or get Seva V

[wintry pumice]

[maiden grotto]

I'm on my 2nd run, coz half the npc's didn't spawn on my first. My entire first game is f*cked.

[inland sage]

Hilka detector is nice but...

[wintry pumice]

Or better get the GOAT Psz9 falcon

[maiden grotto]

Seva I, you get one from Duga, before SIRCAA

[wintry pumice]

You get it from another quest too if you pay some attention

[pseudo lotus]

overrated tbh

[last saddle]

i walked out of sircaa fat af

[wintry pumice]

Seva V has a lot more rad protection and is very easy to get

[maiden grotto]

Or wonda over to Duty, at cement factary and by a bear.

[wintry pumice]

Not really, it's pretty much the strongest Armor next to x7

[wintry pumice]

You get bear pretty easily though from a side quest

[last saddle]

im still using a wanderer suit. doing me justice so far

[inland sage]

I TOLD HIM ONE STEP AT A TIME

[lament needle]

any fellow PSZ-21W Shturm enjoyers in here?

[wintry pumice]

Average Ward boy

[lament needle]

never seen the average Ward grunt wearing that tho Maybe I am special?

[wintry pumice]

Embrace Spark, Embrace the guerrilla warfare, Embrace the Falcon

[wintry pumice]

Hmm they do wear exos after Sircaa

[maiden grotto]

how many artifact slots has it got?

[lament needle]

yeah but i think thats just the basic exo repainted green and orange

[inland sage]

HAH
Okay that's pretty good. This guy gave me an artifact called Rat King.

[last saddle]

stock it has 3

[lament needle]

literally named after me

[maiden grotto]

5 total?

[last saddle]

i didnt bother fully upgrading. i try to stay over 100k at all times tho. i have 4 currently

[maiden grotto]

I barely have half that XD

[pseudo lotus]

It requires way too much money to compete with exos, and even then it just barely does.

You can put less money into an exo and get much better performance

[wintry pumice]

It definitely costs less than an exo in terms of repair....

[last saddle]

repairs cost s lot more when you go all out too fast it dwindles down quick

[minor phoenix]

dnipro or kharod? i dont know which one i should choose

[wintry pumice]

Dnipro

[inland sage]

Kharod

[pseudo lotus]

Not if you've dumped a bunch of money into the falcon, upgrading it.

My diamond exo, half upgraded, was more manageable than my fully-upgraded falcon in terms of repair costs. And performed better

[pseudo lotus]

dnipro. cheaper ammo + kharod is hideous

[wintry pumice]

I have upgraded the falcon to the fullest except for the lead container still costs less than actually running diamond

[inland sage]

Kharod is the closest I can get to My Precious XM-8.

[minor phoenix]

my issue is that the dnipro has less attachments

[pseudo lotus]

who needs a grenade launcher tho

[minor phoenix]

i mean the underbarrel shotgun is pretty cool

[wintry pumice]

You actually use that?

[pseudo lotus]

eh. I found it to be pretty underwhelming, I'd rather run a saiga or a RAM-2

[last saddle]

gives you a chance to carry a long range rifle tho without burdening yourself with weight

[minor phoenix]

no, ive only saw it at the trader in malchite, im using the spas u get from the arena

[pseudo lotus]

at that point, run a sniper and a shotgun, since the sniper fills the same role that the rifle would

[last saddle]

playstyle differences really

but im not using that. just my two cents

[pseudo lotus]

once you get past a certain point, the dnipro with standard rounds is just fine at dispatching mutants, and other 'shotgun' things. Then I run the rifle and a sniper/gauss

[last saddle]

you could go thru the entire game with an ak if you really wanted to tbh

[wintry pumice]

And the shotgun attachment doesn't take durability damage but I don't know if it passes it on the main weapon

[maiden grotto]

Is that the OZK explorers suit you are talking about?

[inland sage]

It's kind of funny to me that I got this Vintar off...a zombie I ran into in the Lesser Zone.

[pseudo lotus]

literally what I've been doing lmao

ak-74 from the intro -> Lummox's AK -> Dnipro

[minor phoenix]

so cuz i have a dnipro already i guess ima use that and upgrade it in yantar, instead of getting a kharod

[wintry pumice]

Getting a Dnipro early pretty much changes the game

Human enemies are always 2 taps

[inland sage]

WELL WELL WELL.

My first dip into the Poisonous Hole gives me a Liquid Rock.

[wintry pumice]

Lol I never get that early, always late game. But I did get a compass, thunderberry and Hypercubes early

[pseudo lotus]

Cooling tower dnipro, my beloved....
100% worth the cost of repair

[minor phoenix]

thats where i got mine, then the dual mags

[wintry pumice]

Me too

[pseudo lotus]

there's also a special 5.45 grom in a crater near there. kind of a shame, honestly- a unique weapon, completely overshadowed

[wintry pumice]

You can get the extended mag from the sphere

[minor phoenix]

Idk, i like the animations on the kharod more then the dnipro which is why idk what to choose

[inland sage]

Oh, that's funny. I put actual anti-rad into one of Bupko's stashes and it changed the outcome slightly.

[wintry pumice]

Then use the kharod since you're lusting after it

[maiden grotto]

The S15... I use it as my main.

Lovely weapon

[wintry pumice]

How?

[minor phoenix]

i aint, i just dont know what to choose cuz both are end game weapons which is what ill use probably for the rest of my playthrough

[maiden grotto]

What did you get?

[wintry pumice]

Just some money, I don't completely remember

[maiden grotto]

fair does

[minor phoenix]

interesting, i might go get that - my main issue with the grom was the 9x39 but 545 makes it much better

[pseudo lotus]

how's it compare to other 5.45 guns? I wanna main it in a later playthrough, but I picke dit up WAY too late this time. Are the upgrades good?

[wintry pumice]

It's damage is less than Dnipro

But other stats can be upgraded

[pseudo lotus]

ichresting

[wintry pumice]

Resting your itch?

[inland sage]

In my first run he complained about the vodka, and asked for real anti-rad. In this run, I put an anti-rad into one and he asked if it was me or his buddies that put that in. I said it was me, he thanked me and paid me and that was it.

[wintry pumice]

I too put vodka in there

[inland sage]

In run 3 I'm going to put anti-rad in and tell him it was his friends to see how he responds.

[minor phoenix]

can u put the extended mag on the s15? or just the s14

[wintry pumice]

Should put in a psi emitter instead

[wintry pumice]

Yes you can. All Grom attachments can be used on it

[minor phoenix]

aight thx

[maiden grotto]

I am not following the quests really, just took at far as zanton, but it seems fine, single shot is great, auto is a bit wild, but it packs a punch

[crystal granite]

Alright so I'm exploring Pripyat and I've found a Chimera guarding a red Flash Drive with Coordinates to Foundation Entrances. If I pick it up, will I mess up some side quest?

[wintry pumice]

Nope, will just make the end game mission a bit easier

[crystal granite]

Which ending tho, I'm on Ward atm

[pseudo lotus]

hows the recoil? if its lower than dnipro or other 5.45 rifles, that could give it an interesting niche

[wintry pumice]

All of them

[crystal granite]

Wanna know too, might look for the S15 if it can compare to the Dnipro

[gleaming bone]

kharod has a 5.45 upgrade (while dnipro's 7.62 upgrade is much less usable)

me myself I am still Dnipro team, I just like it more, but I'm actually curious how 5.45 kharod and 5.45 dnipro compare
I think dnipro has still a tiny bit more damage, but the actual important question is, what are the breakpoints

Like if it still takes the same amount of headshots on veteran for most enemies (monolith exos in particular), then this small damage increase doesn't really mean anything

And then you could say kharod is better because of attachments

I still haven't found a good vid comparing both weapons on 5.45 and too lazy to research myself

I like this guy but he compared 5.45 kharod and 7.62 dnipro which I think makes less sense: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xhc1w79TLxw

not one-tapping with headshots monolith exos, even with AP 7.62, kinda sucks for Dnipro

like even rhino can one tap

[crystal granite]

Did anyone else get an eerie feeling when exploring the amusement park in Pripyat? The ferris wheel etc

[weary hedge]

I get that feeling in the whole dang area

[ornate sable]

I prefer the Kharod (5.45 upgrade) over the Dnipro, though I don't have the 7.62 upgrade for the latter. Also aestethically because I just don't have a thing for bullpups.

[pseudo lotus]

nice analysis! Personally, I like the dnipro for aesthetic reasons + Ive been doing my "AK run" so the dnipro was the only choice for that.

the 7.62 upgrade is less usable, maybe. but in my personal opinion its been very reliable for me at the end-end game (my next mission is point of no return)

does kharod one-tap mono exos with AP?

[crystal granite]

I can relate

[pseudo lotus]

an upgraded dnipro with a scope has the silhouette of a halo battle rifle when I see my shadow 🙂 that makes me happy 🙂

[pseudo lotus]

I finally got to see Pripyat in decent weather. Hauntingly beautiful.

[maiden grotto]

shit, forgot to stock up on ammo XD

[plain crag]

i dont know why anyone would use anything other than SVU-MK S-3

[last saddle]

because they arent you lol

[plain crag]

oh dear that is a large number of monolithians it sure would be a shame if they all dropped within 4 seconds

[pseudo lotus]

Id rather run out of Koupons than bullets!

[maiden grotto]

ya not wrong...

They have changed the psi cats.... They now leap at you at 50 million mph

[junior acorn]

Honestly Stalker is one of the few games that lets you really get attached to your guns

Having to choose to repair them, having not too too many options like Borderlands, you use them for a while and you can upgrade a lot of them to be viable

[maiden grotto]

but they still need to ballance them properly and make much more sense, so you don;t ballistoc mods though

[maiden grotto]

Levelled weapons is the biggest load of garbage in any game, a blight upon modern gaming

[junior acorn]

That and crafting

[last saddle]

they pretty much made them tiers of early game, mid game late game which kinda sucks a bit but theyre all still kinda viable

[pale fossil]

can exoskeletons actually sprint with the upgrade? I think mine is just moving a bit faster and thats it.

[junior acorn]

Something like BioShock you get kinda attached because you keep them throughout the game, but it's not your gun, it's the BioShock gun

[ornate sable]

I've kept every single one that I've used for any period of time, even the ones that are obsolete by mid-game, like Lummox's AK.
Although, if I find Lummox again I'll give it back to him.

[lyric kayak]

I need many more machine guns

[low violet]

Does anyone have major performance drops since the latest patch? My framerate has been abysmal since the patch 😅

[last saddle]

randomly my game has mini strokes. relaunching seems to work tho

[inland sage]

Huh. Docent...didn't try to kill me this time.

I mean, my first run I got to the bit where you drop down and I thought, he's probably waiting for me with a cannon ready to remove my liver so I tossed a few grenades down ahead of me to soften him up.

[sweet zephyr]

Funny theory:
the zone isn’t real and all the protagonists are just tripping on the AI-2 medkits

[last saddle]

too much hercules

[harsh jungle]

I feel like Scar is tripping on the hardest stuff the Zone has to offer

[inland sage]

He's high on life, and Skif is going to send him to rehab.

[harsh jungle]

or to an insane asylum

[crystal granite]

Any sights compatible with the PKM? I got the Glutton but just wondering about the normal PK

[ornate sable]

Just the open collimator I think, same as on the Glutton

[crystal granite]

Ah okay thanks. Shame you can't mount the 4x ACOG

[inland sage]

Got a soul at the reloading point...it's a start.

[last saddle]

flashbang anomalies....

[plain crag]

I ran into this bug with the Diamond exosuit -- unequip it, save/reload, re-equip, go to tech and make sure the "sprint" upgrade is green, un-equip and re-equip it

Diamond is weird too in that "sprint" seems to be a module that requires sewn-on pockets to be installed first but is also mutually exclusive with sewn-on pockets? upgrade dialog is weird

[wintry pumice]

Yes

[wintry pumice]

Yeah they are annoying

[maiden grotto]

I hate that too.

I like weapons that properly viable throughout a game and fit different play styles etc.

I hate meta gaming too... As that is what everyone uses and it's boring devoid of character

[wintry pumice]

That's not Scar....

[harsh jungle]

it is

[wintry pumice]

Toz sniper is the meta

[last saddle]

wholeheartedly agree

[wintry pumice]

It is not...

[maiden grotto]

Who for 😛

[wintry pumice]

Bandits apparently are the best snipers, second only to the Duga and Ward gauss snipers

Also why are some mercenaries attacking me and others are not?

[maiden grotto]

No idea.

It's the way of the zone

[wintry pumice]

Roaming the burnt forest is annoying

Gimme a base in Duga, let whichever faction who win the Duga battle keep it

[inland sage]

If you're not overloaded, check again at the tech. The first exo I had I got the sprint upgrade but accidentally un-installed it right after and was wondering why I couldn't sprint.

[inland sage]

The ones not attacking you haven't been paid.

[wintry pumice]

And give me a photo mode to view my Armor in all of its glory

[inland sage]

They are mercenaries after all.

Oh no Skif would need to have a face then. Sometimes.

[wintry pumice]

Paid by who?

[inland sage]

Sidorovich

[maiden grotto]

Aren't mercs being paid by Strelok?

[inland sage]

Or to be more specific, Sidorovich's Turkey Leg. It's a sentient anomaly that took over Sido's body and has been scheming in the background for the entire game series.

[wintry pumice]

But I frnd Sid

[wintry pumice]

With what money?

[inland sage]

Let us take over an oil rig and build it up and call it The Outer Shining Zone

[inland sage]

Strelok was the MC of a S.T.A.L.K.E.R. game. He's filthy rich.

Actually, what's the conversion rate of rubles to koupons?

[wintry pumice]

I mean rich by doing what?

[inland sage]

Selling lots of loot. To Sidorovich.

Plus he had actual income from killing mutants due to the now lost art of 'cut off a bloodsucker's tenties and sell them to nerds'.

[wintry pumice]

Interesting that no apparent connection was made with the two in stalker 2

[wintry pumice]

We should be able to do that too

[inland sage]

I'm in hope of a DLC. There's even an empty stall in Rostok where the Mutant Hunters would have been situated.

Though what I'm really waiting for is the ability to upgrade to the deluxe(?) Edition from normal game.

[wintry pumice]

It only has a few more weapons right?

And maybe one extra side quest?

[inland sage]

There's...

A unique Rhino.

[wintry pumice]

Apparently Rhino is the best weapon for dealing with a chimera

Or Pseudogiants

[last saddle]

always armor piercing for those guys

[wintry pumice]

Lucky for them, I never carry AP rounds

[inland sage]

Rhino is the best weapon for dealing with bandits. Rhino is the best weapon for dealing with моноліт.

[wintry pumice]

Saiga pretty much kills stuff point blank with normal ammo anyway

[inland sage]

Rhino is just satisfying to use too.

[wintry pumice]

"Take this 💣 enemy of the Monolith"

[inland sage]

Late game I'm swimming in so much 9x39mm ammo it's ridiculous.

[wintry pumice]

Yeah in Pripyat almost someone in an enemy group will always carry it

[inland sage]

To some extent I like the deadeye too...the intrigue of having a USP Match.

[terse ravine]

I'm thinking of using a grom but idk if its comparable to dnipro or kharod

[inland sage]

Grom 14 or 15?

[wintry pumice]

Use Grom-S15

[terse ravine]

theres 2 different groms?

[inland sage]

I'm pretty sure the 15 isn't until Pripyat though dude

[wintry pumice]

Yes

[wintry pumice]

Nope, it's near the cooling towers

[inland sage]

I must be thinking of the wrong spot then lol

I guess I'll go grab it tonight. Later.

[wintry pumice]

Grom-15 uses the same ammo as AKs do, so you have a much better convenience in using it

[inland sage]

I swapped to the Lummox AKM though...because I got too low on 9x39 and nobody sells it yet that I've been to. I did get to the Sadness Factory though, so close enough to go grab that stuff.

Just to be clear when I say Sadness Factory I mean the Duty Base.

They're just so sidelined.

[terse ravine]

I didn't even know duty was in the game until my second playthru

[inland sage]

They're kind of like an afterthought, but that's on purpose.

[wintry pumice]

They will comeback with a bang

[inland sage]

Maybe they'll have a bigger role in S.T.A.L.K.E.R. 3: Liver of Chornobyl

[wintry pumice]

A bang in Rostok base that is

[maiden grotto]

But he does... Strelok even says that he sent the mercs after you iirc

[maiden grotto]

It is, in a pit.

[wintry pumice]

That was when you were after Dark

[maiden grotto]

Same.

[inland sage]

Wouldn't it be great if they kept to this same engine and just made the next game within 5 years of HOC?

[wintry pumice]

You mean if they don't close the company again?

[inland sage]

YES. THAT.

[drifting forge]

Yk what I would love? Stalker 2012 to be released. The vibes could be so peak. Id say it'd be more gloomy like SoC too

[inland sage]

Stalker 2142?

Just titanfall but with anomalies

[maiden grotto]

Exoand the map to the same size of teh real zone 😄

Massively deep x labs... Like unbrella in Resident Evil... that take days to explore with some seriously nasty new monsters in it, that is co-op with ya mates

[wintry pumice]

But where do you find mates?

[inland sage]

Ooh. Actually. Imagine a game where you only see sunlight twice. Once at the start, and once at the end when you finally escape the lab.

[maiden grotto]

Screw you then 😛

[maiden grotto]

They have a platform now, to make this game truly epic in on many levels

[wintry pumice]

And a third time when the building gets vaporised due to a third nuclear disaster

[inland sage]

Imagine having useful teammates with you in a lab that don't just have dumb limb-wrenching seizures just because someone put The Simpsons on, on 40 TVs at once.

[harsh jungle]

I still can’t speed thru cutscenes on my newest playthru

where is my subway surfers footage taking up half the screen

[wintry pumice]

It's a feature not a bug

[inland sage]

THEN WATCH THEM

[maiden grotto]

none of us can... only in some chat lines

[harsh jungle]

can someone release a subway surfers mod that slaps subway surfers footage on like half the screen

[wintry pumice]

Guess the real world c-consciousness got to you

[harsh jungle]

I think I’ve been watching too many shorts with subway surfers footage

[inland sage]

Hey Mach you know the stuff that happens to Dark?

[opaque siren]

Hey so I just loaded an earlier save from 30 minutes ago and it worked. I was trying a save 5 minutes before. When I tried it yesterday

[last saddle]

hell yeah good to hear

[inland sage]

When that happened it made me think of that one movie. What was it...ah. Operation Overlord.

When Fitz has his fits.

[last saddle]

the zone calls

[inland sage]

Hey you know we already had one tv series about Chernobyl why not another

[wintry pumice]

He just started break dancing that's all

[inland sage]

I thought he was going to go all crab and go after Skif like in the exorcist.

[wintry pumice]

https://tenor.com/view/shepherd-excuse-me-hold-up-you-wot-m8-gif-26022926

[inland sage]

Or like Doug Jones when they let him act without special effects in Legion.

https://tenor.com/view/ice-cream-man-legion-gif-11477215

Wait have you seen Operation Overlord?

[ornate sable]

Dougie Jones☕

[inland sage]

Because me mentioning Fitz having fits doesn't make sense if you haven't.

[inland sage]

Humanity can and should learn and advance using the zone instead of it just being a bunch of salty dudes shooting each other over things that only work in the zone

Dalin is a stupid idiot who should be punched in his stupid face though

[opaque siren]

Indeed it does

[maiden grotto]

Bloody artifact spawned at the top of a telegraph pole, like 30 feet up, in the electric field south slag heap... Like seriously, this game is trolling me big time 🤣

[inland sage]

What is the zone's number?

[dry siren]

867-5309

[inland sage]

Your phone rings, the number says 867-5309. The only sound that emerges when you pick up is the Limansk radio message. Yes I know about the song.

[charred nova]

Call that bitch and start yelling at her

She stood you up for a date

[last saddle]

you gotta have a lot of koupons to use that number

[charred nova]

What a fucken whore

[dry siren]

and a good time too

[charred nova]

fr

[inland sage]

Man, the Zone is a real homewrecker.

[dry siren]

mmmm

[last saddle]

moes?

so far so good in rostok

[dry siren]

Moe's Tavern

[last saddle]

nah nvm it ended up crashing. took a lot longer than it did before tho

memory went up to 99%

[hybrid plume]

just got a crash in rostock....nice took them january to fix this and the shader comp....yet 1 of the 2 is still broken

at this rate we will have stable game in 2030

[sweet zephyr]

who's idea was the whole swamp segment

[hidden yoke]

they knows their playerbase is a bunch of loot goblin