☢┃stalker-general

[wintry pumice]

[river moth]

How dare you

[harsh jungle]

nuh uh

[river moth]

How dare you disrespect korshunov's bald head like that...

[boreal coyote]

he's a sheep

[harsh jungle]

deggy isnt a sheep

[cerulean socket]

Honestly Ward is the lesser of two evils

[river moth]

I will make yaniv guide banish from y'all's save so you have to walk all the way to pripyat

[frigid hill]

lakashi3495 has been warned

Reason: Bad word usage

[cerulean socket]

Also Korshunov is awesome

[river moth]

Ward is the goat, these people are just BLIND to the fact that the zone is a POOP STAIN on this planet.

[cerulean socket]

Yeah but artifacts are cool and stuff

[harsh jungle]

Degtyarev's Corps is better IMO

[cerulean socket]

I wish we could side with duty or freedom

[river moth]

They're part of the POOP STAIN. They should NOT exist, just like the whole zone.

[cerulean socket]

Hell even a evil Monolith path would be cool

[river moth]

DEATH TO THE MONOLITH!!!!!

[cerulean socket]

Woe, thunderberry upon ye

[river moth]

Sure it's cool to have allat boost in pretty much anything... BUTTTTT... We cannot allow ANYONE to have those kinds of power.

WHY ARE PEOPLE LEAVING THE WARD????

[harsh jungle]

they dont like korshunovs bald ahh head

[cobalt fiber]

Death to all Wardens

[zealous goblet]

FO4 so far is a superior game than stalker 2. they got alot of work to do still i wouldnt even try to compare the two atm

[river moth]

No.

[cobalt fiber]

They're also 2 very different games and thus a comparison can't be drawn regardless

[river moth]

One's clearly more fun than the other though

[cobalt fiber]

That's like comparing The Spongebob Movie game on the Wii to New Vegas

[zealous goblet]

it took more then 1k hours for FO4 to no longer be fun so?

[cobalt fiber]

You're not allowed to enjoy something if another person doesn't

[zealous goblet]

both games are great in their own way.

[river moth]

Yes sir 🫡🫡

[cobalt fiber]

Bare in mind your criticism is coming from somebody who thinks a Ward playthrough is fun so

[river moth]

WOAH WOAH, CALM DOWN, I NEVER SAID IT'S FUN 😤

[cobalt fiber]

I should hope not 😤

[river moth]

I did say it's the ONLY CORRECT ONE 🤑✅✅

[cobalt fiber]

🚫 Correct playthrough will be when we get a heavily modded one where we can play as Monolith

[wintry pumice]

And Strider lives

[cerulean socket]

Fallout 4 is hollow and has incredibly unsatisfying combat and weapon design

[cobalt fiber]

So did NV but we all cream over it

[maiden grotto]

no.

[maiden grotto]

That will never happen, as the who point of monolith is that they are controlled.

[cobalt fiber]

I don't want to control them, I just want to bring death to its enemies

[wintry pumice]

I tried the zubr today, it was deadly

[cobalt fiber]

I've been dying off with a hangover all day

22 pints last night

[wintry pumice]

Stay hydrated, it will pass

[maiden grotto]

You deserve it 😄

[cobalt fiber]

First time out properly in ages

[maiden grotto]

So you went mental 😄

[cobalt fiber]

Mrs was fuming I didn't get back until gone 3

And was convinced I must have found a lass

[wintry pumice]

Drunken debauchery

[cobalt fiber]

Did have some lass asking me to go back her cousins with them but I'm a good lad even if we are planning a split

[ancient frost]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vrdtj14ov1Y

[cerulean socket]

NV had a good story unlike 4 and honestly I don't find the gunplay that bad

At least in NV choices matter

[cobalt fiber]

But you're jumping on someone about a comparison made between FO4 and S2 which is ridiculous but the only valid point you've had is gunplay in terms of the comparison

Choices don't matter in S2 either lol

Surface level consequence that has no real bearing

[wintry pumice]

In Fo4 choices do matter, you can destroy pretty much all the factions

And play to see the results

[cobalt fiber]

It was the hi son who is called father in f4 for me

[wintry pumice]

[cobalt fiber]

I had good fun with F4 when it first dropped tbh

We weren't spoiled back then and could still enjoy something for what it was

Now everyone's too self entitled to have fun with something that by definition is meant to be just that

Too much complaining and nay saying

I don't like FO76 but I don't bash people who enjoyed it

[wintry pumice]

FO76 is too boring

[civic relic]

uhhhh guys when does that mission start for the 2 scientists near malachite that eventually gets u the gauss gun? did it on my 1st playthru i forget when it happens and map genie wont even show it on the map

[cobalt fiber]

When you leave malachite

[civic relic]

ahhh ok thanks cool i was just worried i might of missed it somehow but i only recently just got to the malachite base

[cobalt fiber]

Yeah you get a radio call post malachite fight

[weary hedge]

when patch

[ancient frost]

erly feb

[novel quarry]

fun to mod into into hard survival type game and play in vr but yeah otherwise kind of mid

[wintry pumice]

I gibe you hope false, it out come in February Saturday 1st

[peak lichen]

is the exoskeleton better than seva-1? seva's stats look a bit better after getting a few upgrades for it so idk

[weary hedge]

which exoskeleton? there are like five or six

SEVA might be better off-rip as most exo's you cant sprint with right away, you need to upgrade them and its the last upgrade

[peak lichen]

the one that's just called "exoskeleton", the one you can find in x3 after meeting strelok

[wintry pumice]

Probably the base one. Leave it, get Diamond exo skeleton

[weary hedge]

I haven't tried it but just from memory, you could probably put items in one armor and then put that armor in your inventory as weightless storage lol

[stray cove]

Are there any loot randomizer mods out there? Looking to make my second run more interesting

[hoary crest]

Not a randomizer per-se, but Project Itemization cobbles together a bunch of mods that add new items, mutant loot and such stuff, might fill the gap.

Makes the economy a bit less of a drag to deal with too

[novel quarry]

MHM randomizes almost all drops

(Modular Hard Mode) its difficult tho nothing like the base game

[peak lichen]

man this questline about getting to pripyat feels so stupid when i've already been there and can go there with a guide lol

[opaque siren]

Bruh I just had 2-3 hours of gameplay get corrupted 😭

[weary hedge]

Bruh

[pseudo lotus]

did you get there thru sequence breaking, tho?

[peak lichen]

not sure if it was "sequence breaking", i just parkoured on top of the train cars behind yaniv and went from there

[pseudo lotus]

yea, youre technically not supposed to do that. lol!

[peak lichen]

oh 😭 it felt like a semi-intentional shortcut bc it wasn't that hard to do LOL felt kinda like the tree jump from dark souls 3 so it didn't feel "wrong" to do

oh well it didn't break the game for me or anything so it's all fine XD

[inland sage]

So the poppy field can game-over you, yes?

[marble onyx]

Kill? Yes

Energy drinks will keep u awake, even water counts

[wintry pumice]

Deggy is disappointed with you

[young field]

why zalisya have a huge FPS drop to me all the time 😭

[analog widget]

Hi everyone

I'm really enjoying the game on PC, but ran into a save corruption problem. I had played through most of the game, siding with the doctor, killed Strelok, and right after I killed Scar, my save games were corrupted / deleted. The game crashed, and then when trying to restart, I was asked whether I wanted to use Microsoft Game Pass's save or my local saves. After clicking Xbox Cloud's save, it deleted all my .sav files. The only thing I think it left untouched was the listing file for the saves I used to have

Is there anyone who would please be willing to share their Xbox / Steam / GOG save game file, please? Even if it's from the start of Prypiat, I would really appreciate it. I've logged over 120 hours on the game, just to have my saves deleted less than half an hour from the ending 😕

[long shuttle]

is ray x engine better in AI then UE?

[wintry pumice]

I lost all me saves too

[analog widget]

Sorry to hear it

[wintry pumice]

But I started playing again from scratch, since now I know where to go and all but its unlikely our saves will be retrieved despite there being a cloud back up system

[ornate sable]

Backed up my saves now, just in case

[wintry pumice]

I hope they all get deleted

[analog widget]

I was hoping to get someone else's save game near the end. I know for sure Microsoft rekt my saves

I just don't have 40 hours of time to start from my last backup 😕

[rough island]

just bought the trilogy in what order should i play them

[peak lichen]

chronological order is clear sky, shadow of chernobyl, call of pripyat but playing them in order (soc, cs, cop) is probably your best bet since clear sky won't make as much sense without having played soc

[rough island]

ok ty

[gilded bough]

#📸┃screens_and_videos message meanwhile in stalker land people survive being shot in the head

I mean... technically you can survive brain injuries... but like... I don't think they'd be standing and talking to your right after

[weary hedge]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1OxkCyx3Vr8

Back to Gamma.

[proud minnow]

Unreal engine can have good AI too , I think this game did not have enough testing and just got directly released in rush which is why the AI is kind of weird major problem of ue5 is that its kinda unoptimized , even marvel rivals run poorly

Ai is mostly coding right

[hidden yoke]

Behavior tree, so in a way

[storm reef]

Am I the only one that wishes stalker 2 had stalker gamma indepth medical and weapon system 😅

[sturdy verge]

probably not

[weary hedge]

there are a few save games on nexusmods

[subtle spindle]

engines can help a bit with ai but 90% of it is what the devs write themselves. their navigation can be managed by the engine but afaik thats pretty much it

[hidden yoke]

i did have a look at it, it will make me don't want to play the game

[analog widget]

Awesome, thank you 🙂 I didn't know that

[hidden yoke]

i'm already spent most of my time traveling, i don't want to do that PLUS healing

[honest sandal]

Yes, but crafting a statemachine or behavior tree that doesn't bend the CPU over and goes in dry is an artform.

I don't think they had long to cook on specific behaviors. Particularly the mutants. The hide and evade behavior doesn't have any cooldowns or timers that moderate it. So mutants run and hide the very instant that they can no longer find a pathing solution. It's quite jarring.

[gilded bough]

the guy reviewer is kind of an idiot - honestly sounds like he didn't actually play the game

[hidden yoke]

GAMMA look like a pain to play tbh

[honest sandal]

My criticism of stalker 2 is it is sorta anemic. Unless you absolutely love the mainquest and concept of open worlds alone. It's sorta just ports over the very simple gameloop from 17 years ago but spreads it even thinner.

[weary hedge]

when patch

[hidden yoke]

basically, the entire franchise

[peak lichen]

holy hell the final level in this game sucks as hard if not harder as in the previous stalker games, i love fighting unfair amounts of bs monolith

only thing it needs now is "idi ko mne" x64744

[sturdy verge]

never played gamma before but tbh spent like 1 min watching this video and it didnt really do anything for me.

[weary hedge]

Difficult yes but I think then just play anomaly don't think it's as hardcore, or og Stalker with the graphical mods and animations, either way every experience is better than Stalker 2, if you actually want a persistent world that's alive where NPCs are actively doing things on their own, where you have endless and many different types of quests then the OG stalker is the way to go, I will wait a year to play Stalker 2 again, at least CSG is listening, but for now I have requested a refund.

[weary hedge]

The difference is a world that isn't scripted, NPCs can loot, execute, revive eachother, prone, so much more, ALife is completely persistent with NPCs always doing stuff so nothing just spawns in, it actually just resumes, all NPCs have quests, NPCs in Stalker 2 "talk to the boss, talk to the boss, talk to the boss"

In the end Stalker 2 is far from a finished game

[peak lichen]

once you get past the hobo phase it's really good imo

[weary hedge]

Not to mention everything having wounded animations

And you'll always come across NPCs you have met along your journey be it dead or alive, they also send messages when people pass away saying condolences to eachother or when there's some action in the world they speak about it.

[sturdy verge]

perhaps i can find another person that reviews it in a way that it doesnt bore me.

[weary hedge]

I sort of agree with this - though I guess at the same time it's good to know what to expect, and that things are consistent. The gunplay feels better to me though, in terms of things changing

[sturdy verge]

someone a bit more 'passionate' about it in a better saying

[weary hedge]

Watch this short video on ALife it doesn't even cover 5% of what I am talking about, but this alone just shows it's not the same game or what Stalker fans expected...

https://youtube.com/shorts/56Bb-sf2qd4?si=RBWdt4Wd_r-u5Bs6

[weary hedge]

The major thing is ALife, NPCs just aren't alive, just random spawns, that you can't see doing tasks on the map, that don't communicate with each other, or who you won't get missions from rather all side quests in the new Stalker 2 are scripted pre made missions...

[sturdy verge]

seen this clip before and yes i definitely remember AL being way better, I still remember years ago saying out loud' WOW its dragging that body!' or 'what is that crunching sound?' doggies eating someones feet.

[hidden yoke]

it's still very tedious to play, that's my point

[weary hedge]

Stalker 2 will get there, just isn't there yet.

[weary hedge]

Agreed but that's Gamma alone just return to the OG games most mechanics are there especially ALife, or anomaly I don't think is difficult like Gamma.

[hidden yoke]

again, my point is, most of the mechanic they added on is annoying and tedious, not that it's difficult

[weary hedge]

In any case I have refunded just so I can get Kingdom come 2, just want a world to immerse myself in for now.

[peak lichen]

finally beat stalker 2 with the strelok ending, that was,,,,,, something

[peak lichen]

fair enough, not everyone's cup of tea. it's quite different and definitely more tedious than regular stalker

[sturdy verge]

oh yeah it will in time 🙂

[weary hedge]

Also I really appreciate CSG listening to the fans addressing all their concerns.

[sturdy verge]

niceeee! mine was skifs ending, I love the ending song so much

[weary hedge]

Streloks quite a character eh

[sturdy verge]

csg? as in cs cs?

[peak lichen]

i was a bit surprised of him actually getting into the pod, wasn't exactly sure what he was going to do. probably going to do doctor ending next bc i felt so bad for killing him 😭

[weary hedge]

Haha GSC

[sturdy verge]

the one i felt really bad for was when i decided to kill the two(in the 3 captains mission) 😦

[weary hedge]

Lmaoooo just wait until you do the next playthrough and then suddenly start wondering who Kaymanov really is

[peak lichen]

i was going to do three captains but the quest bugged and instantly showed both sultan and beard as killed bc i had visited the cranes before

tbh skimming through the other endings i think strelok's ending is probably the "good" ending

[sturdy verge]

they all still felt like a wish granter ending to me, power, greed, control etc

[crystal granite]

So, I've got to the point of choosing Polissya or Olimpia and Korshunov said if I got any other business to tie up I better do it. Is that the point of no return?

[weary hedge]

Yessir

[sturdy verge]

yesss

[crystal granite]

Man that game felt short

looks at over 3 days of playtime

Gonna do some stuff in Zaton first then

[sturdy verge]

nice nice, i took a break but i will deffo play again as i want to finish all the achievements 😄

[gilded bough]

gamma is good - you can have it be like an RPG where you skill up and unlock rewards - but it's buggy and prone to crashes

[sturdy verge]

ohhh i like that, the whole skill up etc etc

[crystal granite]

Best of luck, I'll probably put the game down after that, cause I honestly expected better in terms of story. This is one of the less engaging and interesting game stories that I played

[boreal coyote]

did you play the trilogy?

[wintry pumice]

Get Weird water

But don't ask where the water comes from

[crystal granite]

I already got it. I have weird nut/bolt/water/ball

[crystal granite]

No I didn't

[abstract hatch]

You need to get the weird pot too, but not the one ganja is smoking

[crystal granite]

Why? What does it do? I run the thunderberry so it better be worth it

[wintry pumice]

[wintry pumice]

No more hunger, I think

[crystal granite]

Graphics are abysmal (imo)

[abstract hatch]

And gives off constant psy radiation if i remember correctly

[crystal granite]

With the weird water I don't mind a few kgs of sausage. I usually carry 6 or 7 sausages and 6 cans of food

[crystal granite]

So what, you get constant psi demons if you don't insulate it in a lead container?

[wintry pumice]

There's an achievement for getting all weird artifacts

[boreal coyote]

its almost like they're ancient lol, so did you play them or nah?

[wintry pumice]

And getting weird pot is a nice experience

[crystal granite]

No I haven't, and I won't most likely

[crystal granite]

Nice experience? I don't wanna wake up in a den with my ass sore 🤣

[boreal coyote]

well that explains why you're not into the story then 🤣

what did you think of the zone?

[crystal granite]

Imo these days after so much time passed since last game, they should've done it in a 'easy to get into' way w/o having to go back and play those ancient titles

[crystal granite]

Interesting, but too small, engagement are too close, enemies have aim bot, a-life ain't functioning, it all feels like Fallout 4 to me

[boreal coyote]

its all there tbh, if you talk to enough NPCs you'll pretty much hear all the story of the trilogy, i think they decided to put in optional dialogue because most people playing already know

[crystal granite]

I did hear a lot of the og story from NPCs, doesn't change the fact I'm not a fan. For an open world game, this was a let down

[boreal coyote]

too small really? i thought the opposite at times, movement is pretty limited so it felt big to me

[boreal coyote]

fair enough i guess

[wintry pumice]

What's a bloodsucker or two in the zone

[sturdy verge]

🫃

[crystal granite]

Yeah but then you have a bunch of 6/7 enemies detect you (non existent stealth + broken detection) and it turns into Modern Warfare. I'd like more authentic gunfights, insurgency sandstorm/hell let loose over longer distances, 2,3 hundred metres

[wintry pumice]

Skif has bad eye sight and probably brian damage too

[crystal granite]

Fast travel would be good, I'm sure mods will do it cause I don't see devs expanding on it outside the guides

[wintry pumice]

Guide fast travel is fine, just wish they would add one for Duga

[boreal coyote]

so play those games 🤣 they already have great long distance combat, same with arma. but i do get your point about broken ai and non existent stealth, its inexcusable

[wintry pumice]

We are stalkers goddamnit, we need to be stealthy

[crystal granite]

I'll just go back to Hell Let Loose and CoD, wait for an update to Stalker

[sturdy verge]

yeah we are 'suffering'! lmao

[boreal coyote]

honestly if you do that, you'll enjoy it a hell of a lot when you come back. they clearly rushed it, i wish i waited but i was already invested in it by the time it got annoying and i fixed a lot of the things i didn't like with mods

[sturdy verge]

no ragrets

[mellow knot]

rostok memory leak is alive and well. why they lying

[crystal granite]

Same here. I was looking for a diff game, picked it up on GP and by the time it felt annoying/started getting to me I was way too invested as well

[crystal granite]

Maybe the early Feb big patch will fix it

[sturdy verge]

why you always lyingggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggg

[frigid hill]

andro2725 has been warned

Reason: Bad word usage

[cobalt fiber]

https://tenor.com/view/why-lying-gif-24920467

[abstract hatch]

I think you get constant pay demons even if you put it in a led container

[abstract hatch]

Yeah, i know, it's worse than before for me if anything, game froze 3 times in 5 minutes, but only when im selling stuff or go through my stash

[weary hedge]

why dey lyyyinnn

why da hell dey lyinggggg

side comment : never personally had an issue with memory leaks lol

[crystal granite]

Yeah no thanks then lol

[gilded bough]

-find sausage that's been rolling around in dirt, unknown how old it is, I proceed to eat it-

[lethal crest]

99 bugs in the code, 99 bugs
Patch one out, change it around
122 bugs in the code

[civic relic]

lol i just jumped into an anomaly and flew into the void and my game crashed

[lethal crest]

Pay demons?
Are those just copies of Ragman?

[jagged zinc]

That's happened to me 3 different times

[abstract hatch]

Psy* my bad

[lethal crest]

I know it’s just a typo, I was making a joke

Imagine that though, hundreds of Ragmen and Sidoroviches attacking you for your coupons

[boreal coyote]

psi*

[inner hinge]

Warhammer 40k be ruining our spelling with their copyrightable words

[weary hedge]

122 bugs in the code, 122 bugs
patch one out, change it around
153 bugs in the code

Bethesda's secret motto

[lethal crest]

Now, sometimes, fixing one fixes dozens

I wrote a Python script at one point for a lark, playing around with that

I was testing whether I could make a loop in a function halt based on a global variable altered within the function
And I decided to make it print this out, increasing or decreasing the number of bugs by a random amount weighted so it was close to -1 over time

[novel timber]

ive just got an emission at the start of escape from the cage, i just got put in the cage and i cant get out and for some reason u still die in there

[sturdy verge]

no worries just put some English mustard on it 😄

[peak lichen]

holy hell the strelok fight was annoying 😭 i can hear that "still alive ???? not for loooOoOngg" in my head still

[remote cairn]

Hello im new to this server

[sturdy verge]

Hi

[novel timber]

is anyone getting missing parts of cutscenes? like the strider background, or seeing through darks eyes?

like its not being rendered properly

its a gamepass thing 😦

[gleaming bone]

on veteran no, kharod has less damage than dnipro. to one-tap you need a sniper (svu/m701) or rhino, maybe shotgun if you're close. I don't think anything else one-taps on veteran the brown helmet monolith exos. I would say SVU is a must for point of no return on veteran. I got advised by a friend and idk what I would do without it lol

the fact that vintar / lavina with super heavy 9x39 don't one tap on veteran, while rhino does, is kinda silly IMO. In past games these guns where the highest class, and now they are kind of midgame damage-wise, and it's even worsened by the rare, heavy and expensive ammo. Using them doesn't make much sense

on the other hand, otherwise we'd have no reason to use "real" snipers, so maybe it's good

[gleaming bone]

the SVD that Strider gives you (idk name in English) also one-taps btw. It's a tiny bit worse in stats than SVU but is totally usable, the difference doesn't change much

^ Lynx

[violet dune]

strelok fight was some kind of dc/marvel type bs... same with kornoshov

[pseudo lotus]

korshunov was easy. AP 7.62 glutton to the facce

[violet dune]

i mean fight itself, im not saying it was difficult

i know they have to be "boss fight" but, it didnt clicked for me

[gleaming bone]

oh and gauss. obviously. If you have it, might not be a bad idea to take it. But you'll get a good one there anyway, at some point

[peak lichen]

korshunov jumping around like great value iron man was kinda funny

[inland saffron]

свосвосвосвосвосвосво

[violet dune]

yea, those super powers doesnt fit in stalker. they could done something like synthetic prototype artifacts or fight it self could be more like chasing, counter attacking. for me faust fight made more sense

[peak lichen]

it was still plausible as some ultra upgraded exoskeleton tomfoolery imo but true. faust fight was peak indeed

tbh i don't really like how faust was the only major character to have a somewhat meaningful death scene. korshunov was a bit well done but scar's death felt laughably insignificant in comparison

[violet dune]

also strelok fight scripted badly. strelok runs around and goes to hide in the same place. so you can just wait on the spot and clap him

[peak lichen]

i'm a little bothered about strelok not dropping some insane line after being killed LOL also yeah the scripting was a a bit wonky. bro also took more buckshot than a pseudogiant

[civic relic]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0c7MMSxCULo

[serene barn]

definitely did not enjoy fighting strelok. just way too spongey and he moved around too much too quickly and being at sub 20 frames did not help either

[sharp turret]

They could have went full bioshock and let skif use artifacts for superpowers too

Superhero faust, strelok and korshunov came out of nowhere

[maiden grotto]

Pounds per Square Inch...

Stalker 2 is a high pressure hose simulator.

[gilded bough]

getting really tired of crap spawning every 5 seconds - a- life clown house in this game
for example I'd be looting some hovel in burnt forest and a poltergiest spawns, then 5 boars, then 5 mercs, then 6 bandits, then 6 mercs....

found some mod that expands spawn distence - it's from last year but maybe it still functions

[maiden grotto]

Welcome to the club, I have hated it since I started playing, shortly after release....

Fecking joke system

[wintry pumice]

Not really

[maiden grotto]

A-Life really can't come soon enough

[gilded bough]

in some places it's not so bad but in other spots it's atrocious

[maiden grotto]

I had 2 Psuedogiants spawn on me in Duga, after killing 2 Psuedogiants 😄

[novel timber]

ive heard it is via reddit post with all saying happens with them due to being on gamepass pc

[wintry pumice]

I doubt it's because of gamepass, because they put the same version of code everywhere

[wintry pumice]

They just love you

[maiden grotto]

I'm a lovable guy

[gilded bough]

[maiden grotto]

Come to me baby 😍

[maiden grotto]

I didn't think there was enough ammo in the game 😄

[peak lichen]

say farewell to your weapons' durability

[maiden grotto]

That's not popcorn 😄

[last saddle]

its puffed canned meat

[maiden grotto]

I ran out on the 4th one, went out through the guard house, to the north 😄

I killed 3, I got my badge 😄

[gilded bough]

just get 9999 weight carry mod and bring spare guns with you for when your weapons wear down

[pallid thorn]

has the contents of canned meat been released into the lore yet? or is it still mystery meat

[wintry pumice]

It's probably Flesh

And boar meat

[woeful seal]

I am new and love this game

[wintry pumice]

Wait till you see the real anomalies

[maiden grotto]

like sids chick

[inland sage]

Pink flesh...with ears.

[polar epoch]

Anyone's else's stalker takes 5 mintues before you can open anything after you load into a game

[woeful seal]

Its scary enough don't need anything extra

[wintry pumice]

PC?

[polar epoch]

Yes

It's a nightmare

[gilded bough]

what are your specs?

[maiden grotto]

Not really.... It could and should be far worse 😄

[inland sage]

Does this include the time it takes to compile shaders?

[polar epoch]

The shaders take about 10 mins

[gilded bough]

what are your specs? are you low on storage?

[polar epoch]

Ryzen 9 5800x 16gb of ram. Rtx 4070. About 1TB of storage is free

[woeful seal]

Your a Veteran so I understand ha. Any tips on how I deal with the mutant dog that creates copies of himself?

[polar epoch]

I optimised the game to recommend settings which is epic. Lowered it down to medium but that still don't work 😂

It runs fine after it's all loaded up bar the occasional frame drops but I have to give like 20 minutes before I can even play the game

Playing via steam rather than game pass. Playing it on game pass made it look like I was playing Roblox and couldn't do anything

[maiden grotto]

Jump on to something, then they go hide... Then play musical high spots, draw them out until you find the main one, then unleash nades and shotgun on them... Or an accurate assault rifle

[gilded bough]

bit low on RAM - try adjusting your nivida shader cache size - game should make them the first time around and restarts should just be checking to make sure the files exist

with the memory leaks in this game even 64GB isn't enough

[woeful seal]

Thanks and I know you kill them with just a knife haha

[maiden grotto]

No I don't, I hate the things... and I am lazy... Nades are great for blowing up dogs 😄

[violet dune]

holy scalpers going for 6-7k usd on 5090 LOL

[boreal coyote]

ive seen some great traps set for scalper bots where theyre selling a picture of the 5090 for like 6K because the scalper bots dont read the description telling them its a picture they just see, that its a 5090 available for purchase lol

[violet dune]

i saw something on X i think.

description was "Selling picture of 5090"

[dull apex]

Hey, why did my STALKER update on XBOX?

Anyone know what they updated today?

[violet dune]

dreams and hopes

[wintry pumice]

grenada

[violet dune]

the one who runs away or stand still is the main dog

[gilded bough]

I gotta remember to be careful opening to ammo boxes - apprently in the stalker universe hitting a grenade with a knife causes it to explode

[lilac sandal]

Use a shotgun and just use Skif's home-made guiding system to annihilate the real dog before it pops out its cousins.

[sturdy verge]

lol you always crack me up hahah

[raven hornet]

guys does anyone what to do if i have a bug when doing quest on the edge

[woeful seal]

Thanks for all the tips 🙂

[raven hornet]

"get supplies from hamster" at this quest the door is locked

[echo river]

Is there an English version of the stuff posted in media?

[wintry pumice]

the real dog bleeds when you shoot it and keeps bleeding unlike the clones who are all fresh

[echo river]

Most enemies have the same weakness.

Wait till they charge you head on
Then side step.
Turn 90 degrees
And depending on game either shotgun of choice or knife them

Mutants anyways

[lilac sandal]

Can I do the Roly Pollies on them?

[echo river]

Idk what that means

For mutants that the above doesn't work for i try running and throwing grenades a littlw in front of my feet

[raven hornet]

thanks for the answer guys

[maiden grotto]

Wow! I just found an artifact on a zombie... Meat Chunk, okay, it's the lowest of the low, but still, a nice surprise...

[maiden grotto]

Forgot that bit..

[vapid galleon]

my game is crashed again... it's happened 8 times after than last update and after the game crashes, I don't want to start in again

[kindred onyx]

https://tenor.com/view/psy-ahhh-gangham-sstyle-oppa-ass-gif-11058273

[maiden grotto]

Now my game 2nd game has bugged out, lost the mission giver at Cement Factory for Duty...

This update had better fix this.

[vernal ingot]

Anyone had the bug where Lens disappears when attempting to turn in “The Lost Boys” quest? He won’t return even after emissions

[hot minnow]

Maybe soon

[gilded bough]

how do dogs open doors? -_- wtf

[inland sage]

If big tube can open door, dog can open door.

[inland sage]

Door handle doesn't work, door frame is broken, whole thing just swings freely

That's why all the doors in the game can be opened either in or out

[gilded bough]

rubbish, the door has a lock, I had to unlock it, it works

[idle saddle]

Does anyone have a video where a stalker shoots the trader on one of the bases and everyone starts shooting each other? It also had bass boosted bandit radio music on it

[inland sage]

Is there any lore for how high anomalies spawn above the zone?

[gilded bough]

high enough to take down planes and helicopters

[inland sage]

Because I'm just thinking of a dude jumping out of a plane in a fancy suit with a parachute, doesn't care about the plane since he set it on autopilot to jump out, has some fancy instruments to avoid anomalies on the way down, trained and skilled enough to be the next Major Degtyarev...then he just lands in the poppy field and that's it. 😴

[plain fiber]

Please elaborate, I want to make sure I respond correctly.

[unkempt vault]

I have a question: SIRCAA. What’s with that name? It sounds like Czerka from Kotor.

Is it like Kotor where the name is a pun because it’s the name of the symbol for money in Star Wars and it’s an amoral Megacorp testing WMD’s? I think that’s what it is

[crystal granite]

The Scientific Institute for Research of the Chornobyl Anomalous Area

[unkempt vault]

I know the name but is it a jab?

[maiden grotto]

Why would they be the same?

All you want is more guns, but more guns is not going to add much to this game. They will probably add some in the DLC. But the game doesn't need more, so I don't care whether they do or not.

There literally is no need for more gun at this point, they can't even balance what they have got correctly at this moment in time.

If you want more guns, install mods.

And it's silly argument that just because S2 is new game, there for it "must " have more guns than the first game. No, it doesn't.

And like I said even if they put more guns in, just the ones "YOU" want? What if I don't want them and want different ones? Is my opinion less or more important than yours? 99% of the time, the people who cry for more guns, are the same one's that cry that they didn't add the right one's when they do.

The game doesn't need more guns, it needs better game play, mechanics, and a great number of many more things before "more guns"

[crystal granite]

Right now the game needs fixes of existing content more than anything else.

I'm all game for new content, but it's important to balance adding new stuff, with fixing existing things first. Especially if there are big issues to tackle

[last saddle]

unless they wanna add sleeping bags/minor cooking

[maiden grotto]

Exactly... But also, "more guns" adds nothing to the game at all, other than "more guns", no mechanics, missions, additions, ways to approach teh game, it doesn't make the game more dynamic, more alive...

It's just guns, that's it.

[crystal granite]

Also what's the fun in using these new guns, if the AI will beam you from far away regardless. Oh you're running a suppressor? Cool, the crap stealth system and mad detection will ruin it anyway

Fix the AI, then we can talk gunfights

[last saddle]

i dont get how people keep saying they got sniped from across the map. i havnt had it happen at all unless im at a border and its scripted

[crystal granite]

Not exactly 'sniped' more like the AI has crazy accuracy levels, and when you take them out, you see they had a sawn off and they kept hitting you with what seemed like all pellets from 60,70,80m away

[vernal lily]

I am not sure where to ask this, but anyone know why my voice over language and screen resolution are not saving? I have to set them everytime I start the game. I play on GeForce Now.

[last saddle]

would you rather them stand still and do nothing?

[weary hedge]

when patch

[wintry pumice]

meh supressors are useless against human enemies, for the most part. Almost all of the human enemy groups I encounter are very closely knit together that they always see where the bullet comes from

[last saddle]

if its the only gun they have. shoot that shit

[crystal granite]

No, but all of them turning at once and having pin point accuracy ain't exactly ideal either, is it? Some more realistic approach would be better

[lethal crest]

How do you get into the Rostok Depot outside of missions?

The hole on the wall between the barns is blocked off

[last saddle]

dont stand in a wide open space when you see multiple enemies

[weary hedge]

if they see you through walls they see you through terrain

[weary hedge]

no sheet

[last saddle]

and supressors tend to work from my experience at least

[wintry pumice]

I also learned to love the firing sound of Dnipro

[maiden grotto]

Exactly... It's "NICE" to have new guns, but the game doesn't "NEED" new guns.

Once the bugs are fixed, there is lots of stuff they need add, like my dynamic interactions with NPC's and not just A-life, but more to actually interact with them, like more missions, card games around camp fires and bars, why does every NPC have 700K? More and better ways to interact with the environment, being able to step over logs, better climbing mechanics... So much much more...

[crystal granite]

Well sheet really? Didn't know

[wintry pumice]

Now moved on to Zubr 19

[last saddle]

im playing on stalker difficulty for what its worth tho

[wintry pumice]

me too

But I can't stalk anyone in this game

[weary hedge]

real

[last saddle]

wouldnt call it perfect but it does work

[maiden grotto]

You just can't use the terrain to out smart them or change position, they just know where you are... So much tall grass, bushes, and thick vegitations... You can;t see them, but they sniper headshot the shyte out you though.

[weary hedge]

i mean they see you even if you're under the world, that's what i mean

[crystal granite]

Idk who designed the enemy AI, but that shıt needs either a redesign or a tone down

[last saddle]

i hide around a corner and they just give up in like 5 seconds 🤷‍♂️

[weary hedge]

do you have any mods on

[last saddle]

not a single mod

[maiden grotto]

It feels like a place holder

[weary hedge]

then youre just lucky or smt, Ai always pushed me and sniped me with buckshot shotguns

[crystal granite]

Literally

[weary hedge]

or a complete termination

[last saddle]

if they dont give up they walk right into a shotgun blast

[crystal granite]

How to trigger the Three Captains mission? I did the job for Sultan by getting his briefcase, but now Sonya doesn't have anything else. I just get the 'what's new in the Zone' option

[lethal crest]

Have you done the mission for Beard too?

[last saddle]

but ppl play differently. a lot of ppl sprint around jumping and shit when you can be a tad bit patient

[maiden grotto]

I just gave up on my 2nd play through... I got the blue mission marker bug with the guy at Duty's base. Hand the mission in, the marker wont go away, and I can never more get missions from him.

Fecking annoying as feck.

[crystal granite]

No, but I will now. Thanks 👍

[crystal granite]

That sounds rough af man. Hopefully that 'big patch' will fix some of this bs

[last saddle]

i did notice emissions can bug quests out too. or something even as stupid as going in before they finish talking on a radio

[wintry pumice]

yeah I got it too but thankfully after he turned green

[maiden grotto]

Hopefully. I am 99% sure they will, being positive.

The game is going to epic, when it's finally finished being made... It's not bad for a beta release 😄

[crystal granite]

"Get that toy gun outta my face"

Said a bandit at the Sultansk seeing my unholstered upgraded Dnipro while holding a bare AKS-74U 😂 😂

[crystal granite]

proceeds to outdo Star Citizen as the longest beta in history

[wintry pumice]

Fearless Bandit

[maiden grotto]

The guys are green for me, at the Duty Base, but still, I like taking missions from there... I can't do it no more.

[crystal granite]

Then he shall die braver than most

[wintry pumice]

Also I don't understand the story that keeps going among the bandits in the area that ward provided them with those weapons but why?

[crystal granite]

Idk how they turned green for me. All I did, was help them clear the warehouse of bandits, and they were cool with me entering their base n all. Their guide is cool

[wintry pumice]

Oh yeah I remember the shotgun squad

[crystal granite]

I came back some time later and they were green

[wintry pumice]

"Let's a have a vareity of weapons that will help kill enemies in different ranges" Nope, f*ck it we ball with shotgun

[crystal granite]

I also helped random Duty squad taking down a psi dog and maybe healed a few guys that were downed in random encounters but that's all

[maiden grotto]

I can't get the Slag Heap green in my 2nd game though 😦

[crystal granite]

Never tried tbh. Did a job or two for Boozer and that's it

[wintry pumice]

yeah it me around 10 quests to make them green

[last saddle]

yeah my towns arent turning green neither but prices seem to be the same as if they were green. reps def messed up

[crystal granite]

Malachite is still red

[wintry pumice]

yeah its definitely worth getting Yaniv and Rostok green

[crystal granite]

Hawaiian and the guide are green, but the guide disappeared 😦

[wintry pumice]

Apparently the guide in Yaniv is affiliated with the Loners, that's why he was green before I even got there

[crystal granite]

Rostok os green enough

Has anyone ever met Mykluykha?

[wintry pumice]

yeah because both are affiliated wit Loners faction, so if you made Zalissiya friendly then Rookie village and the weapon trader in chemical plant and the 2 guys in Yaniv all turn green

[wintry pumice]

yeah, he hangs out at the rooftop

[crystal granite]

Will have to check next time I swing by

[wintry pumice]

he doesn't have much to say, his dialog only changes after Sircaa I think

[crystal granite]

I ain't even spoke to him yet and I'm at the point of no return, so we might have a longer convo

[wintry pumice]

I tried to kill him but alas game wouldn't let me

[crystal granite]

If I could kill whoever I want, this game would be awful lot shorter

[wintry pumice]

Its a nice detail, but when an emission starts, he comes inside the building

[crystal granite]

Block the door

[wintry pumice]

Hmm maybe I will next time

[crystal granite]

It'd be cool if we could predict when the next emission hits

[wintry pumice]

all other faction leaders are usually inside but Mykluha is different

[inland sage]

Meet Richter for the first time, put a bullet in him, go home.

[wintry pumice]

another feature I didn't notice until my second playthrough is that when an emission starts the take shelter quest automatically points to the nearest shelter

[inland sage]

This nearest shelter isn't necessarily accessible.

[crystal granite]

Nah, wait till he tell you where to find Scar. Off them both

[wintry pumice]

which one you talking about?

[inland sage]

I remember it pointed me to a place that was locked once and I had to run somewhere else, not quite sure where.

[wintry pumice]

was it in the burnt forest?

[inland sage]

I honestly don't remember, if it happens again I'll ping you and say the location

It might have been near vent

[wintry pumice]

ah in the swamps?

[inland sage]

...is the spot called vent in the swamps?

The one with the locked door and the weird underground area.

At the time I hadn't yet found the entry to that underground area

[river moth]

Screenshot??

[crystal granite]

Add another bug, when talking face to face with ringmaster, Skiff's voice sounds like he's talking over the radio

[inland sage]

I'm not...in game right now

[wintry pumice]

yeah that gets unlocked when you do the Ward playthrough I think. yog go there for a quest

[river moth]

OBVIOUSLY 🤑💯

[crystal granite]

That's where Faust is, no?

[inland sage]

No, the one when you're looking for uhhhh, dude man who was from Icarus?

[river moth]

Mane what

[wintry pumice]

Sush Ward boy. Did you kill some innocent stalkers today?

[wintry pumice]

Faust's minion

[river moth]

Nah nah nah, they tried crossing the bridge without permission 😤😤😤

Plus I gave them warning shots so it's really their fault...

[inland sage]

Hey you didn't even kill them anways, it was the Monolithians that finished them off.

Hey who wants brain

[wintry pumice]

Poor Monos, after all the hard work they put in, they are right back where they escaped from

[inland sage]

Once you've died for the first time in a save slot, Skif is dead and the rest of that save slot game is just his subtle matter imagining how things could have gone differently.

[crystal granite]

Did you find the Shining Zone yet, eh Sparky?

[river moth]

LLLLL

[wintry pumice]

Game didn't let me . It deleted my saves before the Granite squad fight

[inland sage]

It wanted to save you from that suffering.

[river moth]

Next time listen to me and don't trust ex-monolith 😤🤑💯💯

[inland sage]

Man it gets so much worse if you look closely at Strider

[maiden grotto]

What isnt

[inland sage]

Strider trying so hard to use that AK to prevent himself from becoming monolithian again

[wintry pumice]

I am getting close to seeing that again...

[maiden grotto]

What's special about him?

[crystal granite]

So, what did you all tell Strider? Truth, or lie?

[wintry pumice]

Truth

[crystal granite]

Nothing, just want to put a face to the name

[inland sage]

So from what I understand...you can't save Spirit if you don't side with Ward?

[maiden grotto]

Ok, I recognise the name, just no idea what for though or where from.

[crystal granite]

Who?

[wintry pumice]

yeah its a weird thing, because you do have the regenerator on you but you can't use it on him unless you do ward story

[maiden grotto]

Mykluykha?

[inland sage]

...Spirit. The guy who was guiding stalkers into Pripyat on the side, former monolithian who happened to be in a psi shielded area when the signal went out.

So he didn't go all...

[crystal granite]

Oh him, yeah I saved him after the regenerator meant for Strider wasn't needed anymore

[inland sage]

So are we supposed to be like, sad about killing Richter and Scar and Strelok and Dalin and whatnot? What bothered me was Kolya Green.

I went and helped him with the monolithians trying to kill him but he turned on me.

I thought, oh maybe I'll shoot him in the leg to knock him down and then we can talk but I used my sidearm which just removed his legs and killed him.

[crystal granite]

I'm just siding with Korshunov, anyone who gets in our way can eat lead

[last saddle]

i still have his pda and cant get rid of it cause its marked as a quest item

[river moth]

Yoyoyo ward boi here, you should totally join the ward yo

[drifting forge]

Nuh uh

[maiden grotto]

I kill them all... They are member berries, I hate member berries

[river moth]

NOT YOU AGAIN, NOOOO

[river moth]

Js lemme spread my propaganda in peace 😭

[drifting forge]

Nah

[last saddle]

alexanders yes man huh

[inland sage]

...this monolith sticker is almost nearly close to being tempting enough for me to revive my nitro. But not quite close enough to being almost nearly maybe possibly there.

[crystal granite]

His will, eternal. Our duty to protect Him, eternal. Monolith, eternal

[drifting forge]

I come back to the server and it's infested with Wardens and im supposed to not do anything?

[river moth]

Ofc you can do something...
JOIN US 🤑💯👉💯

[crystal granite]

And Monolithians

[crystal granite]

Anyway to convert the name from rank colour to faction colour and emblem?

[drifting forge]

Monolithians were always popular. Especially during the 2024 faction war. Didn't expect Wardens

[drifting forge]

No

Only for Rookies

[wintry pumice]

[crystal granite]

Now that's dumb af

[frigid hill]

baaaal44 has been warned

Reason: Bad word usage

[drifting forge]

At veteran it gets cheeki breeki tho

[river moth]

There are only 300 wardens and the number keeps going down somehow, i need to REVIVE THIS FACTION!!!

[wintry pumice]

We have more members than you Ward boy

[crystal granite]

Hmmm, Monolith is a W but the temptation of some iv damke is strong

[river moth]

Wait until I come up with some advertisement...

[wintry pumice]

I can't believe people choose IPSF as a faction....

[drifting forge]

Id totally have a Monolith cosplay but the only way I'm getting urban trousers is maybe straight from America next time I go. I do have a Polish urban pmc shirt but it doesn't exactly fit. Better for Corps

[crystal granite]

They have a shoot on sight from me (mainly cause they shoot at me too)

[inland sage]

How do we choose faction?

[drifting forge]

Faction choice channel

[wintry pumice]

#👥┃faction-choice

[inland sage]

I have made my choice.

[maiden grotto]

?

[river moth]

WARD JOIN WARD, WE HAVE GAMBLING AND BEER

[inland sage]

The best choice. The CLEAR choice.

[wintry pumice]

Dead faction...

[drifting forge]

Bandits have more of both

[wintry pumice]

No more base for Bandits

[river moth]

But ours is not irradiated and made from scraps 😎

[crystal granite]

Urban flecktarn by any chance?

[drifting forge]

Channel called faction choice

[wintry pumice]

Heard Bandits are in bed with Bloodsuckers

[hybrid ruin]

When the graphics card is loaded at 100%, the frame rate drops, what should I do to fix it?

[crystal granite]

Bro whaaaaat? No way bro just did that

[inland sage]

Speaking of bandits. Is it actually possible to use the bar at the...the place where the Shah is?

[wintry pumice]

uninstall the game

[maiden grotto]

CAnt see it

[drifting forge]

Never seen it tbh. I only buy trousers from 1 shop tbh

[inland sage]

#👥┃faction-choice

[wintry pumice]

after you kill the Shah by showing his gun I think

[maiden grotto]

Thanking you

[drifting forge]

Makes it stronger

[crystal granite]

Which place? Some army surplus? I have an old set of m2010 uniform I use for airport, might need to see for some more stuff

[drifting forge]

Militaria.pl . My size is M or L Long depending on the trousers

[crystal granite]

No way bro chose Clear Sky

[drifting forge]

Recently I got some MM-14 in from them

[crystal granite]

I know it, been to the one in Gdynia before

[last saddle]

depends on your specs but dlss and fsr works wonders

[maiden grotto]

DUTY

[last saddle]

damn right

[hybrid ruin]

when the graphics card is not loaded, the fps is more than 60, but when the load is above 90%, the fps drops to 20-25.

[crystal granite]

Are there any Freedom members here? 😂

[maiden grotto]

No, I gimped them all, and they are all currently bitting gag balls

[last saddle]

whats your gpu

[crystal granite]

Lmao 🤣

[drifting forge]

Server before HoC used to be full of freedom lol. Lot of people disappeared idk

[crystal granite]

Anyone knows how to fix the radio voice bug? Skif sounds like he's talking through a radio

[hybrid ruin]

1660 super

[last saddle]

i usually relaunch when that happens

[crystal granite]

Either to get some weed or take some up the ass, that's what Freedom boys do best

[weary hedge]

when patch

[wintry pumice]

hopefully Today

[weary hedge]

no, i want it the next month

[drifting forge]

Honestly I like freedom in HoC. They were a bit too much in the rest of the games but now it's a faction I could see myself joining but knowing me I'd probably leave and go back to being a Loner

[inland sage]

Hmmm

[wintry pumice]

the hell...

[crystal granite]

Idk where u at but 'today' is nearly over lol

[last saddle]

try lowering the graphics?

[weary hedge]

is ps5 more powerful than a xbox series s?

[harsh jungle]

idk

[wintry pumice]

I live in the future, I am already into the month of Love

[weary hedge]

rn are 21:13

[last saddle]

pretty sure they said early februrary for next patch

[weary hedge]

nah, may 2026

[harsh jungle]

rn 15:13 for me

[crystal granite]

Land down under?

[harsh jungle]

disgustang

[crystal granite]

20:13

[weary hedge]

december?

[inland sage]

Faust, chosen one, Faust.
Faust, shining one, Faust.
Brings the bounty to the zone through the wardens, through the rains,
Praise, monolith, show no fear.
Faust, chosen one, Faust.

[weary hedge]

Ha, ur slower than me then, i get info earlier than u

[wintry pumice]

lol no, but a lot of countries in Asia are already have been past midnight

[wintry pumice]

the hell?

[hybrid ruin]

I play on medium, but on low graphics settings the same problem occurs.

[maiden grotto]

you are running out of VRAM, for sure.

Lower your settings, but also use FSR to upscale. Will help you bucket loads

[last saddle]

probably better waiting for optimization tbh

[weary hedge]

i like miners in caves

[maiden grotto]

I don't like miners at all... To young for me 🤨

[vernal lily]

[weary hedge]

wut

[last saddle]

lol

[wintry pumice]

[crystal granite]

Drake also likes miners, but I think his are spelled differently

[weary hedge]

he likes N||poro||rs

[last saddle]

tell me you glaze kendrick without telling me you glaze kendrick

[crystal granite]

Oh, found a Clusterfuck, that any good?

[inland sage]

It's the best but it does lose durability a bit quick

[wintry pumice]

the best sniper in game because of the ammo it uses but has poor durability

[maiden grotto]

It's okay, every time you fire the thing, you have to rebuild the gun

[weary hedge]

tf is that

[wintry pumice]

you can only fire 600 shots IIRC

[crystal granite]

So a glass cannon. I'll keep my gauss then, thx

[wintry pumice]

an AR416 sniper rifle

[wintry pumice]

Gauss has less durability than Clusterfuck

[inland sage]

Clusterfuck is still great. I forget if it has wear reduction mods.

[wintry pumice]

infact Clusterfuck lasts twice as long as Gauss 😏

[crystal granite]

I wish Gauss had mods. All over found was the extended mag

[wintry pumice]

that's the only one

[maiden grotto]

so powerful it doesn't need them

[lament mist]

OG stalker games got a update?

[crystal granite]

Nice, Three Captains didn't bug out

[wintry pumice]

yeah they got remastered in Unreal engine 5

[weary hedge]

what the clusterfuck is that

[weary hedge]

HELL NAH

[crystal granite]

AR416 with a sniper scope

[wintry pumice]

An AR416 turned into a single shot sniper rifle

[weary hedge]

they added mods

[wintry pumice]

HELL YEAHHHH

[weary hedge]

Im gonna controll u to piss while ur at school

[wintry pumice]

I haven't been to school in 14 years

[weary hedge]

mutants are so boring and not scary at all, like, you know what makes a game scary? the sounds, the performance and tge graphics, one of these things needs to be suuuper optimized to at least feel somewhat scared

[sharp sierra]

Wait just had an IPSF patrol run into a load of freedomers and they only shot at me. Had similar things with mercs are they only hostile to the player

[wintry pumice]

IPSF shoots all loners

[crystal granite]

Honestly, the only thing that would make me feels uneasy is a pseudogiant. Mainly because I doubt I'd have enough ammo on me to take him down

[wintry pumice]

Mercs are 50 50

[sharp sierra]

Yeah but seemed fine with freedom

[inland sage]

OKAY MACH

[wintry pumice]

[inland sage]

I died to an emission. @wintry pumiceGame called for me to take shelter in a building just to the southwest of the Chemical Tanks, which is south of the chemical factory.

I found no entry point to the building.

[crystal granite]

I'll head to SIIRCA, wanna check the place out after it went uber bad

[wintry pumice]

did you see a shelter marking on the building?

[inland sage]

Yes, the objective marker led me to this building. I'll show in #📸┃screenshots_and_videos since I can't image post here.

[weary hedge]

if tactic existed in this game i wouldn't mind the health pools of rn

[inland sage]

I took the screenshot after running north to another shelter point.

[wintry pumice]

hmm it might have been meant for shelter but I guess they forgot to unlock the doors . you also should see if there are buildings around with the home symbol drawn using a white chalk

[inland sage]

It doesn't have doors, is the thing. There aren't locked doors, just...walls shaped like doors.

[wintry pumice]

hmm that is weird guess game is trolling us.

[inland sage]

There's an interior, I can see it, but the access point must be elsewhere.

[weary hedge]

do a ss of what u see

[wintry pumice]

Besides isn't the trader and guide building close by?

[wintry pumice]

or a video

[inland sage]

...no? Not really close by.

there's just a stash on the roof

[wintry pumice]

did the emission start when you were near the chemical tanks?

[inland sage]

I was a bit south of them

There doesn't seem to be any decoration to the interior, just an open space really.

[wintry pumice]

hmm you can also get into the underground area in the tanks to escape from the emission but I guess the game thought an unenterable building was better

[crystal granite]

I wanna get back inside siirca, is there a way?

[wintry pumice]

UEtools mod

[inland sage]

...I'm only slightly disappointed that, well. It seems the lightning strike that ignited a tree when I entered burnt forest for the first time in my first run of the game, wasn't scripted to happen just when I got there.

[crystal granite]

Also, speaking of inaccessible shelter. The railway building at siirca is inaccessible. Just had an emission and I can't get inside the marked building

[wintry pumice]

yeah these need to be reported

[inland sage]

Maybe we can gather a list of all of them with map locations to report in a single bundle.

[wintry pumice]

https://tenor.com/view/jesse-jesse-pinkman-he-cant-keep-getting-away-with-this-breaking-bad-walter-gif-11328503629570473915

[crystal granite]

That's like Christmas for the devs. Having all the locations served on a silver platter w/o having to search for em

[inland sage]

They've got a lot on their plates, I figure if we can help with things like this it'll, y'know, help. Plus make things get fixed more quickly.

[gentle pilot]

I need a better suit; currently still stuck with a SEVA-D

[crystal granite]

Look up Diamond Exo, just be ready to fork out 15k in upgrades to enable sprinting

[inland sage]

Hmmm. I can't read.

It looks like it says...
Hikomy
He Bip

[gentle pilot]

Noted. I can never find any exosuits...

[sly sluice]

Better be something good here when i need to run around to 3 facilities to find the parts of the code

[gentle pilot]

You might find TWO bottles of vodka instead of just one

[crystal granite]

Here https://youtu.be/Ea8u7dLJaoI?si=Gv-1lMS9vsIz4LKl

[last saddle]

hit or miss. usually miss. but hey thats being a stalker for ya. exploring. or you can take the fun out and use google

[wintry pumice]

get PsZ91 falcon

[inland sage]

Usually the best thing you'll find in a stash is either next to it or just blueprints.

When they fill out stashes and want something better than usual, they'll just place the item on a surface next to, near, or sometimes on top of, the stash itself.

[crystal granite]

In the stash: sausage

[sly sluice]

Yeah...

[last saddle]

honestly be nice if stashes were somewhat randomized

[gentle pilot]

Oh?

[wintry pumice]

Its in Malachite, next to the Malachite base. Gives you the best physical protection in the non exo category

[sly sluice]

Yes and less like, semi-junk like sausage

[last saddle]

true but then again finding a crazy stash everytime would be a bit ridiculous with the amounts of stashes they have. kinda has to be duds too

[wintry pumice]

Imagine!! A duffel bag full of Sausages

[inland sage]

The whole point of a stash is a stalker, well, stashing some things they don't want to keep carrying, to lighten their weight.

[wintry pumice]

But we can't keep stashes except in the base....

[frosty sparrow]

I love some messages on the stashes! Some are too funny

[sly sluice]

Well, it was content, Something to do when I did most quests

I notice alife seems so different from release now

[frosty sparrow]

Search how to get the diamond exo suit. Wasn’t difficult just takes awhile and alot of items if you really want it

[inland sage]

You can. You just have to remember where you put things.

[last saddle]

yeah its better for sure but still not all the way

[wintry pumice]

Our damn PDA should be able to remember it or I think we can just mark it

[sly sluice]

Getting diamond exo feels a bit like cheating imo (If you dont find it on your own)

[last saddle]

yeah thats why i havnt looked things up like that

[wintry pumice]

Yeah I am not using Diamond, until after Sircaa, it costs too much to repair

[last saddle]

ill find it naturally im sure

if not ill beat it in what im wearing lol

[sly sluice]

Repair is optional

[last saddle]

rare chance but you can find exos on bodys too

[wintry pumice]

Not rare, there's a way to make it happen

[sly sluice]

Actually I think that was the biggest problem around release with the economy, people think repair is mandatory because it's too long since they played SoC. It's a luxury for your favorite guns and suits, you get plenty new ones to use

[inland sage]

A stash marking method for the PDA map would be really useful, create your own stash markers with notes.

[wintry pumice]

Repair is needed, with what the endgame enemies hit? you definitely

[last saddle]

well ppl were also looking up where it is right after leaving the lesser zone then complaining about repair prices

[sly sluice]

Like for the first part of the game, you find/get free whole better suits all the time

[inland sage]

It's not that difficult to keep your things repaired if you do it every time you go to a town and always have something to sell.

[last saddle]

yup

[inland sage]

Try to always be thinking of encounters in terms of how much it will cost to repair your gear after and if the loot you see is worth the carry weight.

[sly sluice]

Maybe the first town shouldnt even have a repair guy at first so people intuitively switch gear instead

[wintry pumice]

not enough to repair your armor and your guns. The money you normally come into is always abysmal

[inland sage]

YOU WANT TO GET RID OF LENS? NEVER!

[sly sluice]

He can get a epic entry scene with a rpk or something later instead

[inland sage]

He already lost a leg how much more do you want to TAKE from this poor man

[wintry pumice]

He dies anyway after the Monolith assault

[sly sluice]

haha, spoilers, but not mine

[inland sage]

You...monster. You FAILED to SAVE LENS?

[last saddle]

yeah i think lens is still alive?

[inland sage]

I may have been working for Ward but not even I'm so heartless as to not get the surgical kit for Mr. Doctor Stalker.

[wintry pumice]

Game didn't let me . It was the will of the shining zone, it was too bugged to complete it fully. Was only able to save some of Zalissya

[sly sluice]

i never saw any bugs with lens surgery kit but the whole assault being bugged was all people talked about here around release day

[wintry pumice]

Warlock never gave me the quest to get Hamster out of the bunker but the item need to unlock it wasn't there...

I didn't get the quest from the medic either

So Lenz went to the shining zone

[inland sage]

The Shinning Zone...

[last saddle]

i had them all but i did this all recently

i know launch was way worse

[wintry pumice]

I only got the quest to kill Lyonya and the Monolithians on the cliff

[inland sage]

Man it's so weird to see shootouts between two groups. They just all die from grenades.

[last saddle]

lolol

[wintry pumice]

NPCs use grenade way too much

[last saddle]

standing 20 feet apart chuckin nades

[sly sluice]

I guess current has different Zalissya bugs

[wintry pumice]

They can throw grenades accurately to our feet while we fumble to throw it even remotely close to them

[plain fiber]

I'm not asking for more guns immediately, any feature/content addition that I suggest is meant for after the majority of the bugs have been ironed out, performance is in a good place, and A-Life is fully functional.

[weary hedge]

when patch

[wintry pumice]

Feb 14

[weary hedge]

ill completely trust what you said and if not true i will report u with your chickens

[last saddle]

it is functional i just hate the distance at which things spawn. regardless if im gonna be making shots that far off. itd be a nice touch

[wintry pumice]

They wanna ruin Valntine's day

[sly sluice]

I imagine it can be done simultaneously. Different teams

[wintry pumice]

can't wait for multiplayer co-op

[sly sluice]

For a new gun, you mostly need modeling, sounds and animations. The programming is minimal and not likely to cause bugs

[weary hedge]

nuh uh, they said no co-op

[wintry pumice]

hope its cross platform too

[maiden grotto]

That's the one I am currently using 😄

It's great

[inland sage]

What's wrong with the SEVA-D?

[last saddle]

yeah the seva will def carry you a nice way

[sly sluice]

Seva D has way too little phys imo

[inland sage]

I'm suffering with the PSZ-9 Military Body Armor right now.

[wintry pumice]

They did say multiplayer will be added

[last saddle]

think its pvp only

[wintry pumice]

oh

[weary hedge]

look gsc answers, no co-op they said

[silk vapor]

anyone knows why malachite is locked for me? I do have a bunch of passes but I can't enter through the like small entrance building, the door's locked before I even see the guard. 😔

[sly sluice]

Making a game like this coop is kinda hell

[inland sage]

Man, co-op would be so much better than some sort of cod-nonsense team fight.

[sly sluice]

It would be awesome though

[last saddle]

i mean a sandbox coop would be cool. but story would make things too easy

[sly sluice]

But you remember stalker 1 multiplayer?

[inland sage]

I don't, because I never did it lol

[weary hedge]

nuh uh, cod team fight is today's sense of gaming, they will add battle Royale, a battlepass and levels

[inland sage]

Into the hell pit! Any guesses on which artifact I'll get?

[last saddle]

only reason im iffy about pvp is i know damn right its gonna be full of cheaters

[sly sluice]

They will never, imagine how mad people would be

[inland sage]

The answer was Pebble.

[sly sluice]

To be fair stalkers CoD-style pvp loses most of the charm of the game and I remember on stalker1 sooo much cheating too

[last saddle]

flying around the map in maxxed out armors one tapping

[sly sluice]

I guess it was more counterstrike style than CoD style

[wintry pumice]

They keep saying MP but not co op. But they also don't say PvP either and they say gear will be transferrable

[wintry pumice]

in the swamps?

[plain fiber]

I mean, there's a lot more that I want than just more guns but I digress.

I'm not asking for more guns now; every feature/addition/gameplay change that I suggest is for after bugs have been mostly squashed, performance/optimization is in a good place, and A-Life is fully functional.

And no, the idea of a sequel having more "stuff" than its' predecessors is not silly. A good sequel is supposed to build off of what came before; it should not feel like a downgrade and it should not feel like stuff is missing.

There are no specific guns that I want, the only gaps I really see in the current arsenal are:

* Only three 5.56 assault rifles when before we had five, and a lack of proper weapon progression compared to the original trilogy and current Warsaw Pact/Eastern weapons.

* No NATO/Western equivalent to the 9x39 weapons. (Again, not asking for a caliber equivalent, just something that fits in the same "slot" or role as those weapons)

* Only four pistols when before we had nine.

Those are the only weapons that I am requesting.

I don't care in the slightest what specific guns GSC decides to pick if they decide to follow through on something like this, and I don't think such a request is unreasonable either.

[plain fiber]

Animation as well.

I'm fine waiting for something like this anyways since GSC has put a lot of attention to detail into what weapons we do currently have.

[last saddle]

main thing wrong eith weapons atm are they made them like swords in an rpg. some are just way stronger than others. imo

like a double barrel is lame but that shit should blast your head off

[plain fiber]

Guns in the original trilogy seemed to sort of base their effectiveness around their caliber. It wasn't to the same degree as mods, but it was similar. I think weapons were at their best though once upgrades and repairs were introduced, because then there really was almost no limit to a weapon's viability.

Like there was nothing stopping you from taking an AKS-74U all the way to the CNPP or Pripyat if you really wanted to, especially in CS and CoP.

[last saddle]

yeah i mean thatd be sweet

[crystal granite]

Richter or Ducat from Skadovsk

[maiden grotto]

Need proper ballistics, that make the guns make sense.

[sly sluice]

Yeah, a bit more caliber focus would be good

[wintry pumice]

Gimmie a mini gun

[last saddle]

to be fair tho it is pretty much an rpg at the end of the day. but yeah could def be tweaked

[wintry pumice]

And give me a truck to drive

[sly sluice]

But then again the penetration of say a vector doesnt seem to help me at all, need to carry 600+ rounds, so until data miners did their thing I thought it worked like stalker1 where 9mm ammo itself has a lower penetration stat

[last saddle]

main reason i havnt used any sub machine gun at all

[wintry pumice]

Truck kun must get the attention he deserves

[wintry pumice]

Zubr 19 is good

[sly sluice]

To be fair, they have never been good, and they shouldnt be

[plain fiber]

SMGs feel almost as pointless as they did in the original trilogy, at least to me. There are so few scenarios in which I find myself wishing I had one.

[wintry pumice]

Zubr 19 is very good

[inland sage]

Burnt Forest Conflagration.

[crystal granite]

I was hyped for the integral A, never use it

[plain fiber]

Actually I take that back, an SMG would be perfect for clearing buildings in Pripyat and Chernobyl-2.

[honest sandal]

The weapons and armor stats are just kinda slapped on there. Like scared rats on a glue trap. No rhyme or reason. It's obvious that there was never time to balance anything. Thus we have things like a nerf dart trajectory on an anti material rifle.

[plain fiber]

We have an anti-material rifle?

[inland sage]

No, we don't.

[crystal granite]

Think he means the gauss

[plain fiber]

That's what I thought. I'm like, what weapon in the game fires anything close to an anti-material round?

@crystal granite Would the gauss rifle actually qualify as an anti-material rifle?

[sly sluice]

SMG/PDW is/should be just a cheaper, a bit lighter option instead of a assault rifle, which could be useful early game when you're face unarmored enemies and struggle with ammo.

[plain fiber]

MP5 was sold off as soon as I found an AKS-74u.

[sly sluice]

But what I wonder is why to endgame enemies have bukets, shooting the worst ammo in the game?

[wintry pumice]

But its the most widely available ammo

[plain fiber]

Because 9x18 has broken damage values.

[sly sluice]

It does?

[plain fiber]

Yeah, if I remember correctly 9x18 does more damage and has better pen than .45.

[crystal granite]

It's the closest we got to one. Considering it pierces though any armour without a problem, it's pretty plausible it would take down a choper too. So it's basically an AMR yeah

[wintry pumice]

Ratkiller with 9x18 is the most dangerous SMG

[plain fiber]

Someone posted a chart with all of this, no idea where it was posted though.

[wintry pumice]

check pins

[crystal granite]

Prolly reddit

[plain fiber]

Good point, forgot the gauss could take down a chopper.

My apologies.

[sly sluice]

It could make sense that they HAVE them as a sidearm but why would someone with a 150k worth exo in the ending mission use a 1500 gun with the poverty ammo and not have a more wpowerful gun as well

[wintry pumice]

Being frugal

[plain fiber]

Eh, 9x18 isn't poverty ammo, just pistol ammo.

[inland sage]

They spent all their koupons on the exo, they need to use the poverty ammo.

[sly sluice]

It's the cheapest and (supposed to be) weakest ammo

[inland sage]

Also...the Duga is guarded before it gets all monolithed up?

[last saddle]

i think the uzi can be equipped as a sidearm. which is kinda neat

[inland sage]

Nobody cares if I go ramboing across the Duga killing all those guards, right?

[crystal granite]

I have a fully done exo and I'm going in with a Dnipro, Texan, Rhino and Gauss, with AP ammo

[inland sage]

Be brave, go in with 3 rhinos instead.

[crystal granite]

Skiffs pistol?

[wintry pumice]

If you can get in...

[sly sluice]

Skifs pistol is OP. Kinda dumb

[plain fiber]

@honest sandal I keep seeing you typing, go ahead and say your piece my dude.

[maiden grotto]

As I said to you before, the pistols made way for more shotguns and SMG's', and I said previously they will probably release more with DLC... The game doesn't "need" more weapons, they would just come under the nice bracket.

[wintry pumice]

Plot damage

[last saddle]

i stopped using his pistol a min ago. other ones just look cooler lol

[inland sage]

Huh. Instakill snipers, eh?

[last saddle]

and headshots tend to work well regardless.

[honest sandal]

Huh, oh. I was gonna correct anti material, but it didn't seem necessary. The snipers are sorta, pool noodle launchers regardless.

[last saddle]

except for the last fight of the arena lol

[sly sluice]

In stalker1 you always had bad 9x18 pistols, and it's a kind of "crap ammo", any weapon that can put rounds downrange you find at first like mp5 is 9x19, then its a special treat when you find a smg that can use this cheap ammo but by then you have AKs and no ammo problems for them

[wintry pumice]

yeah but there is another way in the south west you can get in

[sly sluice]

SVD/SVU are really good and they actually have ammo availible and good against mutants too

[honest sandal]

It's not the damage values, it's like the weird dissonance between high caliber, and it being so low velocity.

[plain fiber]

Technically not sniper rifles if I remember correctly.

Not that you can't snipe with them though.

[honest sandal]

Marksman rifle, sniper. It all really doesn't matter with an 85 meter draw distance.

[sly sluice]

You could say they are DMRs, but then there's only one sniper rifle in the game + gauss

[plain fiber]

Yeah, hopefully the NPC spawn distance can be brought up to original trilogy levels.

200m if I remember correctly.

I like sniping with the Vintorez even though it's not a sniper rifle or even a DMR as far as I know.

[honest sandal]

It sorta weird how the game is much larger on paper. But the actual 'live' part of the game is much much smaller.

[last saddle]

m700 is a fun gun to use even tho it may not be the most practical

[wintry pumice]

its probably the high detail on these npc that's stopping them from spawning them beyond 85m

[sly sluice]

Yeah i tried a vintorez, needed 3 headshots to kill, stopped trying it
Silencer doesnt help when I cant kill enemies fast, and they twitch when shot, so no way I can just 3-tap quickly
So they will see me.

[maiden grotto]

It's my sniper rifle of choice... I love it, and you can silence it... And the enemies just fall over

[last saddle]

yeah its satisfying for sure

[sly sluice]

The games biggest performance problem on good PCs is around NPC AI, so it makes sense.

[honest sandal]

My money is that it's classic unreal engine blues. Where the animation graph makes for really cool looking movements. But the overhead per unit is high.

Can't render them, because all their animation states sucks cpu.

[maiden grotto]

That's because the ballistics are fecked, and like most other things in this game, they don't make sense at all... Mainly, IMO, they are just place holders for now and will get updated later.

[frigid hill]

machturbo7 has been warned

Reason: Bad word usage

[sly sluice]

In towns is where the game gets slow, I dont think it's CPU single core but rather some memory bus thing, but it can't handle so many npcs in the same area clearly

[wintry pumice]

ficked

[plain fiber]

Fooked.

[last saddle]

yeah towns are def the most problematic

[plain fiber]

Fyked.

[wintry pumice]

you can type fick . ITs the same thing as f*ck but in german

[last saddle]

fuckina

[plain fiber]

Fook is f*ck but from Northern England.

[maiden grotto]

Don;t get slow downs to behonest, never have done... But then i am using AMD.

[crystal granite]

CLARKSOOOOON!

[sly sluice]

I dont wanna be like that but... Unreal engine is waaaay overhyped and xray engine and creation engine overblamed

[plain fiber]

And then I just imagine fyke being Scandinavian or maybe Scottish.

[maiden grotto]

Southern 😄

[sly sluice]

What CPU and around what fps do you get in say rostok?

[plain fiber]

Idk man, I remember SovietWomble taking the piss out of two Northerners he was playing with and I swear that's how they said f*ck.

[honest sandal]

Unreal engine is a fine engine. The problem is epic advertises and markets to management like it's features are magic bullets that don't require senior programmers and developers to wrangle.

[crystal granite]

Fụck

Haha it worked lol

[plain fiber]

Luckily for us, Dimitri Iassenev, the guy who literally invented A-Life, is still with GSC.

The downside is that he's deployed in the war last I knew.

[last saddle]

im tellin wolf on you

[wintry pumice]

well 4 commits in the last day, we getting something major guys

[plain fiber]

Then again, not all of S2's development took place during the war, so who knows.

[last saddle]

well they relocated to the czech republic, no?

[wintry pumice]

yeah

[plain fiber]

Isn't part of the team still in Kiev though?

[last saddle]

im not sure

[wintry pumice]

probably, I guess they still have to pay some sort of tax to Ukrainian gov

[plain fiber]

I remember reading they had a server room fire during the company move.

[sly sluice]

A lot of people just think that unreal solves every problem and games with "older" engines owe all their problems to the old engine

[last saddle]

to be honest i personally think graphics have been good for a min.

be nice if theyd learn to master where we are instead of improving reflections and what not

[wintry pumice]

Problem with using custom engines, you need people to specifically maintain it, but with Unreal this isn't a problem

[sly sluice]

But like you said, it takes a lot of wrangling of engines too. Maybe even convincing them to patch it to enable you to do what you need.

I dont think anyone outside gsc knows why npcs slow the game down so much right now, even when they aren't really doing much. My guess is they needed to use some kind of bloated engine script to run their routines that should really be done at a lower engine level, but it's not supporting what they need to do, and this takes a lot of memory operations and can't be kept in CPU cache

[plain fiber]

I've always understood "offline" A-Life to effectively be a spreadsheet performing calculations in the background, even in UE5 I feel like that wouldn't be super resource-intensive.

[sly sluice]

I agree.

But I mean the "online" routines that cuts my fps in half in a settlement

[plain fiber]

Yeah, hopefully they can figure out how to optimize "online" A-Life well enough to increase the radius and get everything running smoothly.

Improvements and additions to NPC behavior would help too.

[sly sluice]

Yeah, they can, but performance even with 20 npcs fighting outside never gave me a very noticable slowdown. But towns slow down a lot even though nothing is happening.

[plain fiber]

Oh, apparently Bloosuckers at least do have a "feeding on a dead body" animation, but it's not drinking the blood, it's like tearing off pieces and eating them.

[plain fiber]

I've been busy with other things and haven't been able to test it myself yet, but the couple of times I was in Rostok were where I saw the worst "town" performance drops.

[last saddle]

yeah rostok hurts. but i was able to do the arena today without getting game crash somehow

[honest sandal]

It should on paper. Be an extremely low resolution version of the map, a basic a* pathfinding algo, A half dozen checks, and maybe a few random number calls.

[last saddle]

probably cause its underneath

[sly sluice]

Programming can be tricky. If say 50 npcs is too much, might make it flush cache, because it's a script that uses a lot of memory as a baseline, on every frame, then performance will hurt a lot

[plain fiber]

Well everything in "offline" A-life is non-rendered, so that helps. Hell, they might only need a 2D version of the game map since it's effectively just points moving on a grid.

[sly sluice]

i have a 5900x and 64gb ram (4 sticks) so my single core perf isn't bad but my memory speed isn't great, so that's why i think it's ram bus limitations

But in high performance programming, you always have to consider ram is "slow"

[honest sandal]

Not even a grid is needed, just a node tree where the distance between nodes are known.

[sly sluice]

But I wonder if npc routines are ran per frame?
Would be senseible to run them at maybe 10 or 15hz

[gilded bough]

I hate those electrical balls that follow you around if you have artifacts equipped - because taking them all out and putting them back in is annoying

maybe someone will make a mod to make them stop following

let's just pretend I take them out and put them back - I don't want to keep doing it every time I run into them

[gilded bough]

if they aren't on screen it's not question of frames

whatever they're doing offscreen is CPU usage

basically they gimped their A-life system to reduce CPU strain to prevent game stutter

and the results are abysmal

I tried a mod someone made to increase min and max spawn distance, and it kinda works.... except it's outdated and/or bugged so factions that should be fighting aren't - ward and duty would completely ignore hostile monolith - but other than that it actually worked quite well to reduce obnoxious spawning near you

[inland sage]

I hit quicksave, attempt jump, die, load back in earlier than expected. I missed the 'game cannot be saved right now' message.

[last saddle]

lol that sucks

[inland sage]

I had to use way too many medkits against that group of bandits that I wasn't even sure was real and not psi hallucinations because my shotgun jammed and I couldn't see shit lol

[inland sage]

Also I'm pretty sure the game couldn't be saved because there was a bloodsucker over somewhere in the immediate distance but with several obstacles between us that meant it would never go after me in that spot.

[last saddle]

yeah if you have agro at all theres just no saving

[crystal granite]

Alright, what the fụck is up with the spawn logic in the down below mission?

[plain fiber]

Honestly I've been taking a little break from the game and not playing a lot until the next big patch.

[crystal granite]

3/4 dudes spawning constantly aight after I clear em out, and getting beamed with shotties across the walkways

[last saddle]

yeah i get the feeling ill beat it before it gets better which is w.e

probably come back to it next dlc

well definitely

[plain fiber]

Well I'm also beta testing an indie title right now, and I need to play the preceding title since I didn't have the money for it until now.

[sly sluice]

How do you know? They're clearly doing something, and often. NPCs move and act the same wether they're visible or not.

[gilded bough]

because frames render what's on the screen so it has no relation to what you're viewing - but increased load on the CPU can mean slower frame generation due to impacted communication between GPU

[sly sluice]

Never really agreed with this. A-life in vanilla stalker wasn't much better in a noticable way, it was never anomaly war mode (Except in Clear sky where it kinda was)

[sly sluice]

You always need to decide some kind of timing, though. Like a separate async clock that tries to run at ~10hz for example, or you do checks per frame

[gilded bough]

those games were a lot less complex and graphically intense so the computational load wasn't as significant, it's not a fair comparison, and it dosesn't seem much better because they cut content and gimped the system to make the game run better but as a result you have enemies spawning almost ontop of you non stop

[gilded bough]

you don't decide timing, that's not how any of that works - the game runs and it either can or can't put out enough frames you're targeting based on the hardware and system load

sounds like you're thinking of old 3D games that were tied to frequency cycles of the CPU and that caused problems when CPUs got faster

[sly sluice]

In my 2 playthroughs I never had this problem, maybe they would spawn close but it was always in a direction I hadn't looked for a while so it was a plausible "Oh, those stalkers snuck up on me without me noticing"

[gilded bough]

some areas have a higher spawn fequency or something, it happens in certain locations more than others

go to a military checkpoint and you'll have military units spawning near you non stop

and if you got to a certain spot on the map you'll have certain factions spawning non stop, like bandits, stalkers, and then whatever mutants are listed for that location

[sly sluice]

I mean the npc logic, not the physics or movement speed. The npcs have to be doing different checks X times per second, for example to see if they can see an enemy. The timing of this won't make the game go faster or slower, It will just give the npc faster or slower reaction speed. But I feel pretty confident they're all checking something since in places where there's so many npcs doing nothing, it slows down so much

[sharp sierra]

So the sawmill talk to scar is bugged for me, I've been going around exploring, doing side missions and stuff is there any fixes or do I just wait for the patch

[last saddle]

for most bugs ive ran into ive loaded an earlier save and been good to go

and its usually stupid crap like grabbing said item before talkin to this dude

[crystal granite]

My game bugged at the down below mission. It tells me to get back to the control panel but when I do nothing happens. I shot Dalin, Korshunov told me to go to the panel, and even when the indicator shows zero metres still nothing progresses forward.

I reloaded a quicksave and still no good. Anyone got any tips on this? Xbox Series X if that helps

[unkempt vault]

The AI pathing is so gamey

[weary hedge]

when is patch

i turner on the xbox, played 20 mins, got nausea and anger for the grainy graphics and Ai's aim, turned off the xbox

[pale fossil]

can you turn off sharpening on xbox?

[weary hedge]

there are no graphic settings on xbox, only brightness, contrast and hdr

[pale fossil]

oof

[weary hedge]

yea, and probably never be, even with mods

[pale fossil]

that's a console for ya

[weary hedge]

im just poor

[last saddle]

better than nothing

[weary hedge]

fr

[sly sluice]

Something cool that could be added is more RP like KCD. To make you want to eat more normally, sleep at night, etc

[weary hedge]

what's kcd

[sly sluice]

Kingdom come deliverence

[weary hedge]

oh nah that's too much work and money, modders could do that but that's not on the scope of the devs

[last saddle]

only time ive gotten the sleepy icon is after each match of the arena. but i do drink energys regularly

energys may as well be cocaine

[sly sluice]

I also think it's out of scope for them but it wouldnt be very expensive to make sleep have a wake up time, need sleep every 36 hours, make every bed sleepable etc

[lyric kayak]

Non stop has me on the uberman sleep schedule

[weary hedge]

nah that's not the "priority" rn, just drink a Energy drink and ur good for 2 days

[last saddle]

the sleepable beds thing would be nice. maybe get woken up to an attack if in a shady area

[sly sluice]

Hunger is so wonky though, I have eaten like 4 times in 3 hours

[lyric kayak]

I'd rather just have the AI behave how they used to

[last saddle]

yeah regaining stamina costs hunger

it is def too much tho

[sly sluice]

Yes, skif eats tons and tons
Never needs fluids, though

[gentle pilot]

||Wish I found out sooner...||

[last saddle]

thats why they have food available pretty much everywhere

[weary hedge]

buttt, the new ue5 engine is bettewwww, is more reliableeeee, it has less bugssss, its freaking shittey ahhh piece of engineeee

[wintry pumice]

Still will help with the repair costs compared to exo suits

[weary hedge]

real, we have water in the game, why not make a water stat

[sly sluice]

哈哈哈 thats what i said earlier, "new engine" is so overrated

[last saddle]

because it goes towards hunger lmao

[weary hedge]

broken

[sly sluice]

People think "old engine bad and buggy, new engine good"
Stalker1 and bethesda games bad because old engine. Need new engine.

[last saddle]

old ,new w.e
just give us non broken games pls

[weary hedge]

in what Engine gamma mod is developed? x ray one?

[lyric kayak]

This Unreal has me about to Unalive

[sly sluice]

Yes Gamma is still just stalker1 (xray) with mods

[gentle pilot]

Yeah, but let's not pretend that the X-Ray engine was very good either

(I'm not trying to start a fight, I'm just saying)

[lyric kayak]

I just wanna see mutants eat people, and Stalkers act kinda human

[gentle pilot]

100% agreed

[sly sluice]

Yeah it (xray) has tons of problems, but a new, "industry leading" engine isnt fixing that much because they have to wrangle it to do what they want

[weary hedge]

MAN, LIKE, the devs could make a wonderful game on Xray engine, more optimised than gamma, but this brainrot ahh mindset of "new engine is better" is literally destroying the game industry

[sly sluice]

That's my experience from coding, using frameworks means wrangling them and they might not support what you need to do, then you have to work around them which can be very slow, or try to convince the devs to accept the patch to the framework with what you need, they say they don't want it...