☢┃stalker-general

[maiden grotto]

They do really... I wouldn't mind finding one eating a freshly killed prey, of tending to it's nest or what ever... Other than walking or standing around like a spare pr*ck at a wedding... Seeing bloodsuckers acting how they would is what make's the game world feel alive...

[patent heath]

Blind dogs, somehow know where you going despite sneaking from them

[hoary crest]

Yeah it would make sense to keep it simple, cuts down on resources needed and frees them up for running the rest of the game, the only time complex stuff would need to come into play would be when they're rendered. I would imagine you could even have the number rendered worked into the offline system sos to not overwhelm the CPU at any given time

[sly sluice]

But for something like passive alife they could run it at like 1 tick per second, in their own native code, then read it in as a json or sqlite database or such even, in worst case.

[hoary crest]

Nah not at all, if something "dies" in the offline mode, just spawn a corpse in that location when the player reaches that area kinda thing. There would be no need for things to interact in an offline state aside from adding or removing markers (NPCs)

[sly sluice]

But I do think they have engine problems.

[plain fiber]

I think offline A-Life in the original trilogy also ran on a tick system.

In fact, I think it actually was 1 tick per second.

[sly sluice]

But that's more from the way towns cut fps in half even though it's all npcs doing nothing

[plain fiber]

Looking at video footage of the faction war stuff in Clear Sky, NPC movements on the map seemed to happen at about 1 tick per second.

[hoary crest]

Nuking the hair setting down to low helps a bunch with that in my experience so it could be down to how they're animated or summat maybe

[sly sluice]

Hair broke my game at high. 3ish fps when it was high, but that was when I was close to NPCs

[patent heath]

This game is quite demand.
Require higher specs and somehow hard to reach 60 FPS

I love this game really, but I'm not waste my money just to get better performance cuz of UE5

[hoary crest]

I found it a bit weird that was even a setting we could adjust ngl, never seen it i think ever in anything else so its obviously performance-impacting to a large degree or there wouldnt be a setting for it

[hoary crest]

Yeah checks out

[sly sluice]

The hair slowdown is probably also memory or too many gpu calls for that bus or somesuch

[plain fiber]

A few years ago I know Nvidia had some special hair physics thing that you could turn on in some games.

Apparently it was super performance intensive; I think it was PhysX related.

[sly sluice]

Well, it's UEs version of nvidia hairworks I guess. Used to nuke your fps in games like witcher 3

[plain fiber]

Yeah, that thing.

[hoary crest]

Nvidia and adding superflous fluff to gaming ¬.¬

Remember SLI?

Neither does anyone else 😄

[sly sluice]

They are trying to add their own proprietary things so no one can compete fairly, unfortunately with rtx they were pretty successful

[plain fiber]

Doesn't AMD have an RTX equivalent?

[hoary crest]

Well.. sort of, they were successful for a bit, now there are numerous software solutions that do the same thing

[plain fiber]

I'm hesitant to switch away from Nvidia just because I still read about compatibility and driver issues with AMD.

[sly sluice]

Sure, but then it's a equivalent and not the same software running. Can't compete on a even playing field

[hoary crest]

Not gonna lie, I'm goin Intel when it comes to sorting out a new rig

More competition in the GPU market is only a good thing

[sly sluice]

If amd has bad drivers and compability intel will make them look good

[plain fiber]

I'm definitely switching to AMD for the CPU for my next build.

GPU....yeah I'm probably still going to stick with Nvidia.

[hoary crest]

Been hearing decent things about thier recent offerings 🤷‍♂️

[patent heath]

Is Ryzen mix with RX good tho?

[plain fiber]

Pretty certain there's no issues running an AMD CPU with an Nvidia GPU.

[sly sluice]

You mean ryzen with radeon cards?

[patent heath]

yep

[sly sluice]

Sure. AMD makes the best CPUs these days and you're not forced to use windows 11 too

But for GPUs I think our best hope is that someone in china steals a nvidia design and they start making clones in china. Nvidia has managed to get everyone to use their software so other designs cant compete

[plain fiber]

Seems like that's the only way to break the complacency of Western tech giants nowadays.

[sly sluice]

Sadly desktop power users are probably the most complex use case there is, making software hard

[hoary crest]

Need more chip manufacturers for sure. TSMC doing nearly everything is stupid

[sly sluice]

Like linux is great, when its a server doing one single thing. With 35 standard applications and 10 games you want to run without extra bugs, not so much. Server is actually a lot easier

[plain fiber]

Depends on whether or not SteamOS comes to desktops.

[sly sluice]

If you're starting a Ai (or any kind of compute) company, you can probably patch it to run on amd or intel gpus.
But as a power user that wants to run everything you want, you need nvidia

[cobalt fiber]

Just seen this

[static swallow]

https://vm.tiktok.com/ZNeoj3grK/

[boreal coyote]

can i send you unsolicited DMs?

[last saddle]

jesus, that fight with ||faust|| is pretty bad..

[wintry pumice]

I don't know man, sounds sus

[wintry pumice]

The toughest enemy in that fight is the fps

[last saddle]

learned that the hard way

[inland sage]

Well that's new. I've never seen this gun before. The Special.

Well, just Special, really.

...wait why are there two.

[indigo meteor]

very poorly optimized for sure

[wintry pumice]

You're supposed to save that guy and he's supposed to give you that gun but it's bugged

[inland sage]

Ohhhhh, yeah he's just dead in the building lol

[wintry pumice]

Instead he just gives you money.

[inland sage]

Still, it's neat to find new things on my second run.

[wintry pumice]

Yeah, you're supposed to save him when you go close to the building the first time but you can barely hear him. Lost another NPC like that because the game is too sensitive on the distance

[inland sage]

I saved him last time around

Like Spiderman says, everyone gets one.

I do like this gun

[hoary crest]

Well I've spoken to you before and you've sent more than one message in this server so go nuts, no funny stuff though 😂

[wintry pumice]

You can also get a SPSA shotgun near by

[inland sage]

Yeah but this is a unique gun, and I've got the magazine cracker from that one mission anyways

[last saddle]

sledgehammer from the arenas pretty nice

[inland sage]

Ahh, yeah I have to progress the story more to get more arena fights.

[cobalt fiber]

@hoary crest I've banned him mate

[hoary crest]

Nice nice, better safe than sorry. To be fair it was so obvious that it was gonna be a scam I didn't hang about in the DM to find out

[cobalt fiber]

Aye people try their luck all the time it's daft

[inland sage]

Ohhhhh, wait. They DM'd me earlier, but I just ignore DMs from people I don't know.

[wintry pumice]

SPSA has more penetration

[raw jasper]

Something else has also more penetration

[wintry pumice]

Big pete?

[last saddle]

giggity

[raw jasper]

Wha happen

[pale fossil]

were any of you disappointed with the quest to use the|| scanner that deactivates anomalies to access prypiat?||
i was convinced it was gonna|| stop the freaking tornado! that'd be epic.||

[wintry pumice]

I don't know who was banned, just trying to figure out who

[raw jasper]

To get banned on here is kind of an achievement on itself

[last saddle]

probably someone part of the monolith

[drifting forge]

That's smart. I'll talk to anything smarter than a tree

Unless it's an ent. Hell yeah I'd talk to an ent

[cobalt fiber]

Monolith are exempt from bans, mutes, kicks and generally any form of punishment

[cobalt fiber]

Don't need spoiler tags in here mate. Wouldn't be the same without the tornado though

That and the fire whirl looked amazing

[hoary crest]

No, some random who had sent exactly one message in here

[dire heart]

do enamies still spawn on top of you?

havent played since launch

[wintry pumice]

No, now they spawn behind you

[dire heart]

so wait for alife for my second playthrough?

[last saddle]

its a lot better than what it was. main missions get a little crazy at times tho

as far as exploring the zone its decent

[wintry pumice]

Nah just kidding, except bloodsuckers all other enemies spawn at a distance

[last saddle]

if its your second playthrough tho id just wait

[dire heart]

at launch sniper rifles was the most useless guns ever because everything just spawned on top of you

[last saddle]

yeah i didnt play at all at launch cause of that. much more doable now

[dire heart]

at launch i had to make 3 diffrent saves to just finish the game because i kept getting soft locked

[hoary crest]

Console or PC? Because if PC there are numerious A-life mods that help whats already there.

It is there in vanilla now, but its not by any stretch finished

[last saddle]

if you made it through the game at launch id say youd like it a lot more now

[dense quartz]

Hoe significiant was the recent patch ?

[pale fossil]

rostok stopped crashing

in fact, i did not have a single crash since the latest patch, but - about two or three times my game started lagging like crazy, i'm talking dropping to 3-4 fps and staying in those values, even in menu, one time i couldn't even exit the game the standard way.

this might also be related to new nvidia driver update, maybe.

other than that the game runs pretty good.

[cobalt fiber]

Keep hearing complaints about latest nvidia update

[pale fossil]

Startup shader compilation issues are resolved on my end, before the last patch it would fail basically every time.

[civic relic]

is there nowhere to buy rpg ammo. especially before getting to pripyat? im at the faust fight and have an rpg but no ammo and i really really wanna just go at him with 10 rpg shots ezpz lol

il just google stash locations for it haha

[wintry pumice]

2 or 3 in clear sky base. 2 in Wild Island in the location when you encounter the 2 burers

[inland sage]

Ahhh I'm so lost in this stupid vents basement

[civic relic]

hmmm im too lazy to walk all the way thru the swamps again tbh. i forgot to go find the clear sky base when i was there earlier i dont think i even seen it on the pda

[wintry pumice]

hmm does the Yaniv vendor have RPG?

[civic relic]

I dont think so il have to check.agaim i think only in pripayt

[violet dune]

RPG needs some gore

i want to see limb spread

[wintry pumice]

I mean they already have gore, but for some reason it doesn't work for RPG or grenade

[civic relic]

bro i hate when theres groups of stalkers and half are friendly half arent i keep thinking there all friendly from far away and end up getting blasted on while the other half just watch

[wintry pumice]

yeah if its Ward or Spark or Mercs that's shooting at you, other stalkers won't help

[civic relic]

hmmmm i noclipped into the duga area before the faust fight and found some stalkers fighting 2 pseudogiants. whats weird is there is basically no one here other than other than that

yooooo wtf this guy is giving me unlimited army medkits and i cant even open the door to the tunnel now

[pallid raven]

hi stalkers i need help,The game closes just when you open it and it doesn't throw any errors, it just closes and I have no idea why.

[civic relic]

cant even remember the last time i encountered a bug like that. i never got any softlocks or any serious bugs on my 2nd playthrough so far

[pallid raven]

plis??? any?

[inland sage]

I think this artifact spawned inside the ground :(

[wintry pumice]

@pseudo lotus also has this same problem, sadly no solution to this as of now

[last saddle]

is it the one in wild island?

[wintry pumice]

It can happen anywhere

[last saddle]

thats why im asking

[wintry pumice]

I encountered once such artifact near zalissiya under the old mill

just gave up and left

And I have 3 compasses, 3 Hypercubes, 3 Thunderberries now...

[inland sage]

Nah, it's at the fire anomaly area just north of the clear sky swamp

I know the wild island one is in a cave that kills you

[wintry pumice]

you mean the one surrounded by cliffs?

[inland sage]

Because I tried to get it once. Yes, that one. Okay, I tried to get it three times.

[wintry pumice]

It usually spawns 2 artifacts at the same time

No idea why that's the only anomaly field that does this

[inland sage]

Ooh, thanks. The other one was a magma.

[inland sage]

Now that I'm right by the swamps with the mission to go into them active, time for a 1km run to the skadovsk instead.

It's almost time to spend another stalker mortgage on 9x39mm ammo to feed my vintar addiction

...well also the rhino

...after I spend three stalker mortgages repairing my bulat

@wintry pumiceTHIS IS THE BEST
HAHAHAHA I ALWAYS SUFFER FROM THIS SO MUCH THERE'S A FULL SQUAD OF...
ENEMIES
CURRENTLY DYING FROM A FLASHBANG ANOMALY

[wintry pumice]

Flashbang anomalies actually being useful? Heresey

[hoary crest]

Flashbang anomalies are the only one that makes an area a hard pass ngl

I still dont know whats in that little town in the swamps 😂

[inland sage]

Which map section is wandering lights in again?

[violet zodiac]

Flashbang anomaly should be replaced with a different type of anomaly.

Games should be fun. And that is not fun.

[inland sage]

It should be a variation on floating electric ball anomaly that chases you, flashbangs you once then resets position.

[violet zodiac]

Agreed

[hoary crest]

Zaton

[wintry pumice]

yeah I saw that and tried to get the loot there, but the anomaly even followed me into the building and the loot was up in the ceiling and I was like nope and bolted. Its the only anomaly that is so annoying

[last saddle]

nothing worth while at all from what i remember

bout to get smacked in the face with a repair bill from the shining zone after going through the stashes in duga

[charred nova]

shining zone projector broken

gonna need to replace it

[last saddle]

better off that way

[inland sage]

Hey wait, that's not a projector, it's a psi-installa-

[last saddle]

why did malachite turn red after the attack on it?

i didnt even kill any of them

[smoky hawk]

after the attack, the director disappeared and the new director, the woman at the desk, hit up a deal with Ward

[last saddle]

im still able to fast travel here tho but im locked inside lol

[dense sandal]

Go out by the tunnel scar used

[smoky hawk]

yes bc if you do you will be killed on sight by Ward

[last saddle]

pffft at least they could try

[terse ravine]

zame thing if you fast travel to the chemical plant

one you step out the merchants shop you get shot at

[sonic rose]

I think that it should be some kind of weird poltergeist

[last saddle]

pretty sure i just found a zombie thats a vendor. that or hes taking too many stims

nvm some sort of ambush

[inland sage]

Okay so, WHY, when I talk to the Sultan after I kill Kalyna's mercenaries, are BOTH of the possible questions I can ask him WHAT ABOUT KALYNA. It could be just one...

[frigid hill]

cement_drinker has been warned

Reason: Bad word usage

[dull tulip]

bruh
what i WAS saying was how bad the final section of the game was. Went from STALKER to Bethesda through pretty much the entire last 3rd of the game.
Gonna wait for mods now so hopefully the last few sections are cleaner or i can just chill in the zone without the forced allegiances and hostile safe zones

[onyx bobcat]

stalker is now woke, they brought women into the game.

[last saddle]

wouldnt go that far

[charred nova]

Yah but it’s bad ass women

Women but epic

[limpid cloak]

If you mean bugs, do you have a save started before 1.1?

[vapid galleon]

[hidden yoke]

stalker games has the tendency to make the last part as bad as possible

i played through CS and SoC, both game has it last part gave me the worst experience ever

[dull tulip]

nah i mean design. The enemy spawns are terrible, there's way too many of them and everyone and their grandma is rocking an exosuit. Story feels rushed especially at the end, a lot of the characters are just dropped by the plot after a second and the ||granit team|| section is probably the worst section in the entire game

The first 2 thirds of the game are actually really good imo, and the open world was a little flat but to be fair i did play that part close to release when A-life didn't work at all, but the end of the game could not feel more artificially difficult and after a certain point mutants just ceased to exist

[limpid cloak]

Absolutely agreed on all points. Spawn rates in the northernmost areas of the map are basically broken, and the final sequence of missions after the point of no return feels like a highlight reel rather than a proper lead up to the end

In gameplay I actually dislike the entire chain of boss fights in the final two hours. Agree with you that those last room(s) were probably the worst of them all though

Well, maybe the forced pseudogiant fight in a closed-off room was worse to get through, but the Granite room at the end was definitely worse to actually play

[hidden yoke]

Granite room section is bugged btw. They are confirmed to not 1 shot you

[young field]

They were using AP gauss round

[limpid cloak]

Still a pretty sad bug to encounter, sigh

I think I got shot almost through a wall once in that fight

[hidden yoke]

the section where there are 2 granite gauss gun on the cat-walk was abysmal

[dull tulip]

yeah those "bosses" were incredibly unfun. way too spongey and most of the fighting was just sitting behind one bit of cover with a rifle and poking the shield until it dropped. Scar was probably the least egregious of them all, but was still more annoying than engaging

@hidden yoke yeah i heard of the bug, only happened to me once at least but was still annoying just fighting that many gauss rifles and exos with next to no cover. Was just shoving syringes in my arm and spraying

[young field]

It was hard to beat them up in highest difficulty

[hidden yoke]

so, that section at least, you can kill 1 enemy and then hide until the door open

That's how i beat it

[limpid cloak]

I did the same with both the door-opening encounters with Granite lol

[young field]

I just killed them 🗿

Why do you evade when you kill them

[hidden yoke]

the wall that you're coming from, has no collision . So i wasn't taking any chances

[frigid hill]

dark_dezo_f has been warned

Reason: Bad word usage

[young field]

I just keep doing peak and hide constantly with gauss rifle, and i was playing in low resolution lol

[hidden yoke]

they can pen through that wall

[dull tulip]

i had Deggy's gun and the M701 Hunter with around 1000 rounds of AP so i just went for the head, but if i went through it again (unlikely tbh) i would just run for it

[hidden yoke]

oh don't talk to me about low frame rate. JESUS, fighting with 10fps in that section was an experience

[young field]

... i did that.

[limpid cloak]

Scar was... okay but shockingly unexciting given the build up.

Maybe I can blame myself for this too but I found the Strelok fight to be the joint second or third worst fight in the game since the safest way to do it is to just camp out in the tiny corridor you teleport into and chip at him bit by bit. You can kill him without ever engaging with any of the boss mechanics aside from his Sonic cosplay

[young field]

My pc runs 1060 3gb VRAM and i7. Dude i was dying inside

[young field]

You could just shoot em with gauss and boom all done

Idk how did i even managed to see ending twice with my pc.

[vapid galleon]

Yes, most of what you said is true and the Pripyat sections are good in my opinion and they allow you to wander around Pripyat as much as you want before the game ends and it is truly one of the most tense and beautiful areas of the map. I really love the atmosphere of Pripyat. It's like someone is watching you with a sniper at all times. I think if Zone were real, it would be impossible to do what Skif did on such a map :D because your chance of not dying is less than 1% and you can even die from a blind bullet. What do you mean by Granit Team, isn't it the part that resembles the ending of the first Metro game right? First we enter a huge void and the spawn of the Monoliths was really ridiculous, man, that was the place where I got the most rage in the game

[hidden yoke]

don't you guys love the TRUE stalker experience

[young field]

Yeah being slapped by 3 bloodsuckers at once?

[hidden yoke]

where the last part of the game always suck

[hidden yoke]

3 bloodsuckers...

[dull tulip]

STALKER fans seething when Anomaly players just have fair fights

[vapid galleon]

The game is very nice as it is and is open to development and growth. There are really opportunities to add a lot more cool stuff and improve things. They should use the full potential of this universe like Anomaly

[young field]

Tbh we could expect for DLCs to explain more stories, or even better, new ending for new dlc

Like for example, the guy who saved strelok in SOC can return from DLC, like as the main character of DLC storyline

[dull tulip]

Yeah, Granit was the final section in X7, definitely the worst experience i've had in any STALKER game

[young field]

Linmansk is teasered in game

[wintry pumice]

Scar definitely would love some female company in the shining zone

[wintry pumice]

where is Linmansk?

[vapid galleon]

Bloodsuckers die easily, it's not very scary except for the first parts of the game. Only 2 pompshells and all you need is 1 bandage and 1 medkit for 3 bloodsuckers

[young field]

Near yaniv, it's currently blocked by radiation but if you activate radio near the entrance, you could hear screaming in the radio

[wintry pumice]

You mean the people singing in joy?

[young field]

Uh... keep in mind that my stalker 2 have low fps and resolution to find them and shoot them before they stagger me and gank me

[young field]

this guy's head got melted by emission ig

[vapid galleon]

Unfortunately, we do not judge the game based on low fps and graphics

[dull tulip]

DLC will be good but i'm more excited for the modding. Gonna be cool when people start really fleshing out the world. Best thing with Unreal is how much potential there is compared to even Anomaly for modding

[vapid galleon]

same I think ++

[young field]

How can i aim properlt when framerate is 10fps and stutter as hell lol

[limpid cloak]

The Limansk DLC will just kill me lol. I don't do too well with properly scary games (including the original trilogy)

[young field]

Imagine new mod weapons and reload animations

[wintry pumice]

Nah your hearing got damaged in the emission, the people singing want you to sing with them

[young field]

I somehow never got scared unless its like jumpscard

[vapid galleon]

yes we need limansk

[young field]

What can we even get from limansk ngl

[wintry pumice]

Probably a new type of mutant

[vapid galleon]

broooo 🔥 Does Stalker 2 currently support mods? I wonder what the people who made Anomaly are doing now :D

[young field]

Maybe new faction

[wintry pumice]

that gives you no reward for killing

[young field]

[young field]

Imagine ukraine army returns and saying 'go home ISPF'

[dull tulip]

they're dropping a modding toolkit in the near future, there's a few mods out there now already. Next time i play it i'm getting the mutant loot mod so i can just return to my simple hunter life

[wintry pumice]

That's not happening, then the game would lose its 2 black guys and that's a big no no

[limpid cloak]

That's the thing though. The first three games were terrifying for me but Stalker 2 just hasn't been scary

[young field]

Uh official mutant looting might come in near future. They have some cut contents bc they had to release it fast

[young field]

Trilogy is scary yeah lol

[vapid galleon]

Rather than new mutants or new factions, we need more diversity in items (weapons, food, etc.) and animations, and of course a good artificial intelligence, because it is very boring to eat stans while 10 people are shooting at you at the same time in a war, and in this state, 'faction war' I can't think

[wintry pumice]

maybe you just got desensitized

[young field]

Maybe... mutant food cooking...

[limpid cloak]

I went from noping out of first snork encounter in SoC to daily snork memes

[wintry pumice]

what do you think sausages are made of?

[young field]

Snorks ain't that scary when you legit got a saiga

[limpid cloak]

This sequel putting 3.2 million bloodsuckers in our faces is part of the desensitization definitely lol

[young field]

Uh. A corpse of Bandits

[wintry pumice]

Its made of Bloodsucker tentacles, crushed with Flesh's meat

[young field]

Mmm gonna be tasty...

[dull tulip]

true, the mod just enables the cut content for now. Until it does get added though it makes hunting actually worthwhile rather than wasting more money on ammo than you earn from the mission

[young field]

Ngl what u want is a chicken leg that we can actually eat

[young field]

Ong fr

[wintry pumice]

where? Sid won't give me his chicken supply

[young field]

Sry sidrovich ate em all

[limpid cloak]

Stalker 3 is just people raiding Sido's chicken farm to escape anomalies outside in Skif's ending

[young field]

LOL

GSC hire this man for main story writer

[weary hedge]

dawn of the dead shopping mall stronghold, but this time you all die to bloodsuckers inside the mall

[young field]

What about dying by a pseudodogs

Ngl pseudodogs in stalker 2 is SO ANNOYING.

ITS HARD TO SHOOT THEM DOWN WHEN MY FRAME IS DROPPING TO NEGATIVE AHHHHH

[dull tulip]

Pseudodogs had some broken DPS if they just sat next to your heel and kept chomping, but psi-dogs were ultra annoying. I know they got nerfed since i fought them but unless you won the lottery and picked out the real one right away you were locked into a 5-10 minute fight with all the clones

[young field]

A reason if i see pseudodogs in the field, i just run away unless it's like forced to fight bc of quest or smh

[hidden yoke]

i got a psi-dog killed a chimera in my game

i was hella confused

[young field]

Bruh i guess psi-dog is most op mutant ingame

Chimera lost their job now

[hidden yoke]

i don't know how, but that psi-dog killed the chimera in like 10 seconds

[weary hedge]

dey took our jerbssss

[wintry pumice]

Chimera can attack only one at a time, psi dog can just keep producing clones

[ornate sable]

The real one will try to keep distance and hide away, so go for the one not coming directly for you. It's worked for me few times, but I won't pretend it's easy.

[weary hedge]

every time i sit down its a decision between War Thunder, Stalker or Cyberpunk

Lately Cyberpunk has been winning, but I do feel like I want to play Stalker every time 😂

[hidden yoke]

the problem is, the chimera die REALLY fast

[dull tulip]

from my experience 3-4 of the clones would do the same, and a few times (the arena fight with a psi-dog for instance) it would join the herd and run straight at me. Again, i played before they nerfed the cloning so no clue if that's still the case or not but more often than not i would just wait for it to start spawning a new wave then mag dump it

[pale fossil]

I don't remember where I got all of them but I ended my game with 13 rpg rockets in my stash, I think I fired like 2 or 3.

[limpid cloak]

I never got to fire a single round lmao

Also never used the grenade launcher. Only started using gauss rifle in the last few fights

[young field]

tbh explosives except grenades are not really used much

[limpid cloak]

Even grenades were mainly reserved for rat hordes for me

[young field]

i used RPG to skip faust boss fight lol

[limpid cloak]

I'll have to try that if I replay this lol

[young field]

it's guaranteed one shot kill

[young field]

Just make sure you try to direct hit them with RPG better safe than sorry lol

[limpid cloak]

Can the RPG one shot chimeras and pseudogiants?

[young field]

RPG was used to kill chimeras and pseudogiants in trilogy, but i never tested that

[ember dirge]

Hey does anyone know when mods will be available on console more specifically Xbox series? If so just @ me or dm me

[pale fossil]

i played with Maklane's mod so pseudogiant probaby has lower HP there and I think it easily ate one RPG and then maybe dropped after the 2nd one, but honestly its hard to shoot them with rockets while you're running away from them.

[pale fossil]

i meant to reply to this

in other words, definitely not pseudogiants, chimeras maybe but good luck hitting a chimera with RPG, unless you're cheesing it from a rooftop or something.

[limpid cloak]

True. I literally have never equipped the RPG so I guess weapon ready animation would be really long too?

[pale fossil]

it is and it makes sense but on the other hand it makes RPG kinda useless.

[limpid cloak]

I feel like longer-range weapons like RPGs and the marksman/sniper rifles aren't that useful in Stalker 2 - which is odd considering these are usually more on the overpowered side in open-world shooters

Broken stealth and aimbot AI part of the problem

[low violet]

Did they change the last fight? Currently stuck in a loop as I just get one tapped through the wall by a gazzilion gaus rifles 🥰 Fully upgrade exo armor + compas and they one shot me just because they feel like it.

It used to be possible but now I can't even enter the fight anymore

[pale fossil]

yeah unmodded ai aimbot is hell.

[limpid cloak]

Same for me, but I cheesed it by killing one of the dudes on the ground floor then waiting til I hear a door open. Then I just sprint through the room and at most just kill one enemy in my way

[bold barn]

Hey yall just wondering will the game get any better "enhanced" DLSS tech soon? (i got a 4060 Ti and im letting it suffer) (feel free to ping)

[low violet]

Wouldn't be a stalker game without a final fight like this hahaha

rushing seemed to work too

now going for a modded playthrough, anyone got any recommendations?

[gloomy citrus]

Not sure if theres any mod that changes something major about the game.

[low violet]

I think I'll just go with Maklane's overhaul, heard a lot of good things about it and then download some of the additional mods like mutant loot

[boreal coyote]

patch today?

[boreal coyote]

maklanes overhaul is great, pair it with some kind of Alife mod and it makes the combat feel really nice

[low violet]

Awesome, thank you for the recommendation, is shay's a-life mod any good?

[boreal coyote]

yeah thats the one i use after trying a couple, i have a few mods that go nicely with them, like a blood/gore mod, ledge grabbing, faster ads stuff like that, i can send you my folder if you like?

[cobalt fiber]

No ETA. Roadmap will likely shed some light when released

[boreal coyote]

is there a roadmap to tell us when the roadmap is out?

[cobalt fiber]

Roadmap for the roadmap's roadmap coming soon

[boreal coyote]

soon soon or just soon?

[cobalt fiber]

Need a roadmap to answer that sorry

[boreal coyote]

i need some vodka

[cobalt fiber]

https://youtu.be/WCq1cLpyJdA?si=twlK1NVYf0_18g-s

This was a tune

[gentle pilot]

I got to ||Prypiat|| and man, it's HELL

[cobalt fiber]

Pripyat is great

[gentle pilot]

I came in woefully unprepared.

Turns out that a SEVA-D suit, Saiga-12, Rhino and SVU are not enough to deal with the endless Monolithian onslaught

(I did get a Wolfhound suit later on, but yeah)

[sly sluice]

already have the best weapons

[gentle pilot]

Sure as hell doesn't feel like it. I shot a guy 7 times in the face with a Saiga and he just got back up.

[sly sluice]

need slugs

[gentle pilot]

I am running slugs

I guess I just suck lol

[wintry pumice]

Regular buckshot works just fine too

You probably do need a better Armor like the Falcon or the diamond exoskeleton

[sly sluice]

I think for me usually 2 shots of buck in their general facial direction

[wintry pumice]

bomi the veteran yapper

[cobalt fiber]

Bunch of yappers

[wintry pumice]

Wow, the game is also putting out the location info of where we are at in game in Steam

[crystal granite]

It's fun actually

[cobalt fiber]

^

[low violet]

My fav part of the game too, always on edge

[crystal granite]

@gentle pilot go to the Kindergarten where the Diamond Exo is. It's a Monolith NEXUS lol 😆 good fight and lots of loot to sell to Bison

[crystal granite]

Also, better swap the SVU for an assault rifle (Kharod or Dnipro, maybe the S-15) cause the SVU ain't exactly suitable for close up. Or if you wanna keep the sniper, there's a Gausss not too far from the Palace, in the Theatre

[cobalt fiber]

Running with the Drowned in my ward playthrough

[crystal granite]

If you upgrade the Diamond you get like +25.6kg, help yourself with artifacts and you're set you can carry sniper and ar too

[crystal granite]

Lol I gave it back to the guy didn't know it's good 😆

[cobalt fiber]

Just doing the story in this pt though. No exploration this time around

Drowned is good cos of the minimal jamming yeah lol

[crystal granite]

Scar fight coming up, man it's annoying the Heart of Chernobyl doesn't do shịt to protect you like why did I even pick it up from Strelok

[cobalt fiber]

Scar fight can be cheesed

Save at the doors then load

The zombies won't wake up

[crystal granite]

That's what I did

Cool thx

[cobalt fiber]

Or just let him kill you and load last save lmao

[limpid cloak]

Wait is that why my fight was easy lmao

[cobalt fiber]

Yeah the zombies usually wake up and attack you

[limpid cloak]

I saw the zombies light up red on the compass and start the get up animation but they never got up for real aside from one or two at the very start

[cobalt fiber]

Yeah lmao that's the one

[limpid cloak]

Accidental cheesing lol

[cobalt fiber]

It doesn't make it dead hard but considering Scar can one shot you it makes it a damn sight easier

[crystal granite]

It's annoying af fight

[cobalt fiber]

The whole ending segment is a ballache tbh

[boreal coyote]

skill issue

[cobalt fiber]

Death room with granite lol

[crystal granite]

I wish I had my RPG I'm using the Gauss on Scar and it's a bịtch still

[cobalt fiber]

I just spammed grenades in death room every timr

I've got 3/4 endings at this point

[limpid cloak]

Felt like gauss was too slow for Scar fight tbh

[cobalt fiber]

Little burned out so not been playing my ward pt much

[limpid cloak]

Good ol Saiga in the face was more soothing

[cobalt fiber]

I loaded back to orbita and doc to get the other endings tbh

Started ward from the start cos of the differing missions throughout + side missions that are ward only

Been replaying the og trilogy though

[low violet]

I mean it provides you with health regen

[crystal granite]

I didn't know, thx

[cobalt fiber]

Is this your first ending @crystal granite

[crystal granite]

Also, how tf lol? He's dead now but it took me ages before 😂 weak old man

[crystal granite]

Yes

[low violet]

The bane of my existance, just managed it though haha

[cobalt fiber]

Try to see if you have an auto at orbita so you don't have to replay completely for the other endings

Ward is the only one worth a fresh pt

Everything else is the same up until late game

I went Strelok > Skif > Scar

[limpid cloak]

TIL. I wished it could turn me into Sonic like it did with Strelok though lmao

[crystal granite]

My other save is where you get to choose to kill the Ward ot Spart troops. About 24/5hrs in

[cobalt fiber]

If you spam some grenades and then run to the right near the door you can manipulate cover so granite on the upper level can't hit you

Then you can either run through after killing the lower level ones or take out the upper

[cobalt fiber]

Tbh you can just run through main missions in no time from there

Ward pt has a nice mission earlier than that where you go on a raid in a location that is otherwise friendly and quite dead in other pts

[limpid cloak]

I shot one guy on the ground floor, moved back into cover in the "vent" and sat there until I heard a door creak open

Then ran out, shot the other ground floor dude outside the door and the one inside, and that was that

Failed the Granite Squad objective but it didn't matter which was weird

[cobalt fiber]

Yeah I just got through the door when I could on my first lmao

It's tough but its doable if you manipulate cover

AR for lower level and gauss for upper

[limpid cloak]

For a final combat encounter I thought killing all of them would be the most basic of requirements, so that was a piece of weird design I appreciate given the one-shot bug

[crystal granite]

Ffs the game didn't save properly

[cobalt fiber]

Ward pt is actually quite good tbh I didn't expect it to be

Sided with Zotov too

[magic vigil]

I need help in order to run stalker shadow of chernobyl on a macos

[crystal granite]

I got to the room with the anomalies after fighting Scar, and the thing bugged out after I threw a bolt in it....game crashed ffs

[cobalt fiber]

Yeah that room is bugged @crystal granite

[wintry pumice]

The heresey

[cobalt fiber]

Go straight upstairs, get document and jump balcony at the end

[magic vigil]

I KNOW

[crystal granite]

It's a shame man, Zorov, the Major, shame

[crystal granite]

Well you're goes my playthrough I guess. Least till they patch it

[wintry pumice]

Try the #pc-specs channel

[cobalt fiber]

Don't bother with the anamolies just run straight upstairs. Document on table, jump balcony and go through the door

[pale fossil]

funny, an anomaly in that room yeeted me out of the map

[cobalt fiber]

Yeah same

[wintry pumice]

Me too

And then deleted all my saves

[cobalt fiber]

You just have to rush out. There's nothing of interest other than the documents anyway

[magic vigil]

Alr

[crystal granite]

Anyone knows what the stale bread from Scar and record player from Richter do? They're marked as quest items

[pale fossil]

couldnt even press ESC. But when I force quit and tried again it didn't happen, I got through the room easily.

[crystal granite]

Grant the patch then, and no, don't materialise it in the Shining Zone

[lethal vortex]

I need that patch so much

[pale fossil]

what do you need patched?

[lethal vortex]

mainly performance

[cobalt fiber]

https://tenor.com/view/stalker-gif-18174868

[pale fossil]

whats your resolution and fps target?

[lethal vortex]

2k, I would like to run the game at least at 60fps without stutters (I have an RTX 4080)

As soon as I get to Rostok it gets unplayable

[pale fossil]

I'm on 4070 tis and I beat the game without major performance problems, rostok stutters sometimes, sure but it's not like there's a lot of action in it. well... besdes Arena i guess. I didn't play that yet.

I recently manually swapped dlss DLLs for the new ones and it seems to work great, i even turned on framegen which previously seemed to do a lot of tearing but now it's almost not noticeable

[lethal vortex]

Fact is, I get long stutters every few seconds in Rostok, if I turn framegen on of course those will still be there as 0x1 is still 0

[pale fossil]

what driver are you on?

[lethal vortex]

Don't know why but I hadn't those issues at launch, sure it didn't run nice but it didn't stutter

[lethal vortex]

latest

[low violet]

what are your graphics settings?

[pale fossil]

i have a worse gpu and running on basically highest possible settings, even dlaa and I get stutters but very rarely, its weird

[vapid galleon]

some settings medium, some high, 1080p, dlss quality, fsr fps boost on, RTX3060 + i3 12100f

sometimes 60fps sometimes 80fps varies depending on the regions on the map

[low violet]

try one of those optimizer mods, works wonders

[pale fossil]

there might be some performance problems that are particular to some missions or game states or something

[weary hedge]

when will a patch not be 90gb download

[limpid cloak]

The last one wasn't that big was it

[pale fossil]

the download was about 10-13 gb, but 130 disk space required for patching

[lethal vortex]

it's how ue games work, today there was a patch for FF7 Rebirth (they updated a dll) and I had to extract the whole 180gb game again

[gentle token]

idk where to ask this but how can I disable the notifications of media channel? I did already on discord but I don't want to get tagged anymore

[lethal crest]

Do we have any idea when the deluxe & ultimate upgrades are going to drop?
I got the pre-order bonus, but I'd like to get my hands on the other uniques (especially the Margach D-12 and Lullaby)

[wintry pumice]

aren't they already out?

[lethal crest]

The editions are, yeah, but the ability to upgrade my pre-order standard edition to Deluxe or Ultimate is not

[wintry pumice]

You can get them ||in the shining zone ||

[lethal crest]

https://tenor.com/view/office-shutup-sun-springbreak-shut-gif-5307233

Every single time
The damned Shining Zone

[wintry pumice]

The Shining zone is where the game runs without any bugs

[pale fossil]

spoilers

[silk vapor]

Oh it will be a thing? 👀 I'm definitely doing that

[lethal crest]

GSC said before launch they'd do it at some point, so I was asking if we had an ETA

It'll probably be on the roadmap, which is soon™️

[sturdy verge]

Can't wait! I want that ultimate 😄

[pale fossil]

what even is magrach

i doubt it's better than my machinegun-caliber dnipro

oh, is it a saiga? maxed out default saiga is pretty OP anyway.

[minor wyvern]

Anyone getting game crashes after updating to the new NVIDEA driver? If that’s the reason maybe I should roll back the driver. Just curious if anyone else has this issue

[lethal crest]

It’s a Saiga that’s lighter as far as I can tell

I mostly want the quad rail fore-end, it looks cooler than the stock Saiga one

[pale fossil]

i'm getting this #☢┃stalker-general message

[minor wyvern]

I did look at rolling back the driver via device manager but the roll back button is greyed out so I have no idea how to go to the previous driver now

[pale fossil]

you can just uninstall the whole thing, i would recommend using DDU if you're able to do that. then reinstall again

How often do you get crashes?

[minor wyvern]

Will give it a shot thank you, upon re-installing will it give me an option to select the previous driver? I’m getting them constantly now, I play for 5 mins and it crashes

[pale fossil]

you can pull the older driver from techpowerup

[minor wyvern]

Many thanks

[pale fossil]

https://www.techpowerup.com/download/nvidia-geforce-graphics-drivers/

maybe nvidia has some official archive but it's always pain to find such things
TP is legit

[abstract hatch]

GSC gib pach wit NVGs pls i rlly rlly want

[hoary crest]

Reshade presets are a thing ya know

[minor wyvern]

From what I can see the previous was released March 27th 2018, is this correct or am I too far back? I need the previous one and I’m on windows 10 64bit

[pale fossil]

you must be in the wrong section, hold on i'll look

[minor wyvern]

Thank you👍🏻

[pale fossil]

on the link provided just scroll down in the section Version history. There's 566.36 WHQL (December 5th, 2024) Download
these installers are universal - win10-win11-64bit-international

[minor wyvern]

Legend appreciate your help

[pale fossil]

i'm kinda doubtful this will help but it might

[minor wyvern]

Is there a way to figure out what’s causing the crashes via the report? Is there a place I can send the files to be checked out or can I look and see myself?

[pale fossil]

not that i know of, if prompted for, just send a report to gsc and hope for the best

[minor wyvern]

Rolling back the driver is my best bet at this point. Will give it a shot once I’m home

[austere pagoda]

no it sucks

[low violet]

Hahaha, would be a shame if it's already in the mod folder then

[austere pagoda]

for the ones reading later: im joking, won't sell you my mod tho, either install and try it yourself or don't. all good with me :p

[gentle pilot]

Why doesn't Bonesetter in Yaniv sell psi-block? Is he stupid?

[violet dune]

what is ur mod?

[austere pagoda]

b-life

🐝

[indigo oriole]

Who sells 9x39 AP ? That’s the Better question 🤣

[austere pagoda]

idk, i dont play vanilla haha
also just look up Shay on nexus, got 4 mods but the one apollo talked about is a-life @violet dune

[violet dune]

Shay is your mod?

[austere pagoda]

^^

[violet dune]

its cool mod, i will gonna use it on new playthrough

[austere pagoda]

ahhh haha all good man thx ❤️ dont have to if you dont want, all gucciiii

[violet dune]

im waiting for major update to drop, i used a-life extended on first playthrough

[austere pagoda]

oohhhhhh hahaha

[inland sage]

I kind of wish more had been done with Siirca

[hoary crest]

Yeah, It would have been nice to be able to get back into its wreckage after the sh*t hit the fan and steal some of their science projects

[low violet]

Been playing with the mod on today, absolutely love it. Didn't know how much it would change but it certainly feels a lot more alive for me

[inland sage]

Well they say they can synthesize artifacts but we never really get into that concept.

[hoary crest]

It would have been a bit OP to have the player be able to take one of every artifact out of SIIRCA though so I understand why they didn't elaborate on that too much

[rare lily]

Hey this is a place for S2 go to #legends-of-the-zone

[inland sage]

No, I don't mean just give the player artifacts, but maybe some sort of further...elaboration? I was actually kind of hoping some of those artifact holders would be...empty, and that the player could sell or give them the artifacts they don't have examples of.

[austere pagoda]

ikr hahahaha ive been in talks with people that came from alife extended what a world of difference, btw what version 1 or 2?

[inland sage]

I wanted to do more actual stalkery stuff for SIRCAA.

[hoary crest]

Oh yeah no actually that would have been cool

[inland sage]

As is they just send Skif into this situation they have because they consider him expendable

I feel like the segment of the game in Sircaa is too short

[wintry pumice]

He wants you to die so that he could study your body

I just wonder why sometimes they put a bed but not a stash. What is it costing them?

[terse ravine]

sometimes the stash is next to the merchants

[wintry pumice]

Not talking about bases

The beds in Duga and Sircaa

[terse ravine]

those are for the main mission

[wintry pumice]

Yeah so?

What does it cost them to put a stash next to it?

[frigid hill]

neko07176 has been warned

Reason: Bad word usage

[hoary crest]

Yeah that annoyed me a bit too, specifically the Duga ones

[sleek gulch]

GSC hurry up with the patch I'm literally dying of ligma!!!!!!!!!!!!

[boreal coyote]

still no patch 🤣 wtf

[minor wyvern]

I think I’ve figured out what’s causing the crashes. let’s say you have a save file on slot 1, you play and you introduce or remove a mod during playthrough, then the game crashes constantly after that, you create a new game save on slot 2, you play and there’s no crashes. So the specific save file becomes corrupt due to a mod change. Not the entire game. Is that the way save files work?

[boreal coyote]

i dunno i constantly move mods in and out and im not having that issue

ive noticed that mainly mods that add new items like mutant loot are the ones that caused crashes for me so maybe its that?

[maiden grotto]

I thought it would be today, but oh well...

[smoky hawk]

if you have a mod that adds items, and you are using saves from those mods, then it will crash as the game is expecting to find those items and cant find them, therefore stops its operation

if you have these mods installed, you need to delete saves and start a new game

[boreal coyote]

kcd2 is out tomorrow, i was hoping to play the new patch on here before its out

[minor wyvern]

Gonna do a new save and remove most of the mods and just keep a few and that’s it

[minor wyvern]

I need a new save with the mods I have, and not change them or add to them

[maiden grotto]

Never played it... Don't think I ever will...

[minor wyvern]

I think the dynamic weather mod fk’d it all up tbh

Gonna start fresh n it’ll be all good👍🏻

[wintry pumice]

Poor Henry

[vernal lily]

I'm excited for kcd2, but going to see if I can finish the first game. My old pc barely could run it, haven't tested with the pc I have now yet.

[inland sage]

I prepurchased kcd2 gladly because Henry is coming to see us again

[plain fiber]

Gonna have to wait to buy KCD2 unfortunately. I don't think my current computer can run it, or at least not comfortably.

[inland sage]

If my computer can't run it, I'll suffer and wait until I have a better one in the far flung future

Augh, attacked by the most dangerous mutant in the zone

Blind dogs.

[pale fossil]

depends on the mod. some mods affect just state of the game whenever it's played, not the save file.

[inland sage]

Hm. I think part of why clusterfuck takes so much durability damage has to do with its built in suppressor.

...I'm not gonna be looting these bandits I just shot to death because the area they were in is so irradiated

[boreal coyote]

i hope you, its so great 💯

[inland sage]

Are NPCs not subject to radiation?

[boreal coyote]

they slowly go bald

[inland sage]

Except for Sidorovich, he does it in reverse

[boreal coyote]

imagine though 🤣 you see a group leave the rookie village in the morning, hair blowing in the wind and they come back that evening bald as Heinsberg🤣

[maiden grotto]

That is another thing this game needs, NPC's interacting more realistically in teh world... Had to two friendly NPC's walk into an elctricfield and die, because of their good awful AI that makes them morons. They don't find routes around things, they barely interact in the world with anything...

The game is beautiful, no doubt, but the rest of the game is 3/10 at best.

[vernal lily]

Just checked and it looks like the first game is on Geforce Now. Looks like I will be able to play it, lol. I hope the 2nd game will be available later also.

[inland sage]

So! Wandering lights will just spawn one weird water, right?

[wintry pumice]

Probably to offset the range and damage it provides for using such a common ammo

[inland sage]

I don't think Prof Zaretskyi is having a good time.

[wintry pumice]

Yup

[inland sage]

It won't ever spawn another one, like the Bulba does with the weird ball?

either way I have 120 carry weight max now and Skif is appropriately drunk

129 with a flytrap on as well

[wintry pumice]

From what I hear, arch artifacts don't spawn again unless you sell them

[wintry pumice]

140 is the highest

[inland sage]

That...isn't right. I never sold my first weird ball, and I got a second one from Bulba with it still in my inventory.

[wintry pumice]

Then I don't know maybe they do respawn

[cobalt fiber]

Waiting for sale myself

[inland sage]

Though I don't see any purpose to having a second weird water. I am curious to see if it makes Skif more drunk, and maybe it has better anti-rad that can stack with itself than say, a liquid rock in another slot.

But liquid rock has max chem protection, so that's pretty useful for a good spread.

[inland sage]

Ah, I prepurchased it because of the...well, the stuff you get if you prepurchase. I figure if I'm willing to buy it anyways, why not do it while I get a benefit from buying it now.

[last saddle]

only things you seem to get are things that make the game easier. but i get it

[cobalt fiber]

@last saddle no more snake

[last saddle]

nah stalker got me in a mood

til delta comes lol

really is such a good game. sure it has some bugs but man the entire map design is so well done

[sharp stream]

No roadmap blin :((

[last saddle]

i like me some crepes :p

[inland sage]

Unique questline, I guess?

[maiden grotto]

Not really fussed to be honest... Road maps just pander to people who think they are more important than they actually are... Whilst destroying any surprises at the same time.

[last saddle]

yeah i thought the same with stalker but all i got was stashes that give me slightly better loot

[gleaming bone]

when patch

[maiden grotto]

today 🙂

[inland sage]

This is kind of funny. Zombies and bloodsuckers and snorks in a big free for all fight against each other.

[wintry pumice]

What stuff

[maiden grotto]

Place your bets 😄

[cobalt fiber]

Yeah it's sound I'm a bit burned out half way in my 2nd playthrough but having done 3 endings

So went back for a bit of soc

Also replaying control

[vernal lily]

you get preorder stuff if you buy before release day. I haven't looked into it though so idk exactly.

[last saddle]

was actually thinking about playing through phantom pain after my playthrough of this is done

[inland sage]

'unique questline leading to its own armor set' is the gist? IDK, I'm buying it anyways without waiting for a sale so there's no point in not buying it before it comes out and getting that stuff.

[cobalt fiber]

Make a save @ orbita and you can get 2 of the other endings ez

[wintry pumice]

Why? You don't get enough pain from this game?

[last saddle]

if i remember i will

[inland sage]

Anyways the winner in the fight is, surprising nobody, Skif.

[gleaming bone]

sunrise suit on garbage, vintar on swamps, that's it. Also, a cool icon on backpack in-game. Nothing crazy

[cobalt fiber]

I did a new one for Ward but did that for the other 3

[last saddle]

honestly things have been a breeze. only fight that annoyed tf out of me was faust cause of the lag

[vernal lily]

For me, it was either the stalker 2 ultimate or kcd2. But because of financial strain of only able to afford one of them, I went with stalker. plus I haven't even finished the first kcd game anyways.

[gleaming bone]

why not 3? I think orbita is where we make the first choice that influences the ending. If you save before, you can get all. Unless you mean savign after the choice

[inland sage]

I didn't finish off the bloodsucker because I got distracted by a gunfight between duty and bandits, and it seems to have fled.

[last saddle]

but im still not done. been trying to explore as much as i can but it does get a little tiresome.

[cobalt fiber]

If you haven't gone ward up to then I think a fresh pt for Ward is better

As differing missions

[vernal lily]

I already got the early bird ultimate lol. But here I was talking about a different game.

[gleaming bone]

yeah that's true, I'm doing 2nd playthrough now and it's ward. Many differences

[maiden grotto]

I found Faust fight not to bad... just shot everything that moved in the head.

It was the wards guy, that was the annoying one for me, as it had fecking bugged... and stupid necklace BS...

[cobalt fiber]

All the other 3 are exactly the same up to orbita

[last saddle]

was exploring duga lastnight. had to kill 3 pseudogiants at the same time. was kinda nutty

[maiden grotto]

You lucky git, they never flee when I am around...

[inland sage]

Ooh, you can get a Rhino at the distribution substation in the burnt forest.

[gleaming bone]

wow that's crazy. I'm yet to encounter pseudogiants "in the wild". Only had one at cordon and with collar in red forest. And well the one u see for split second at sircaa lol

[cobalt fiber]

Very early on with the raid on bandits was great

[inland sage]

39% durability though

[gleaming bone]

rhino is quite easy to get tbh, there's one at yaniv and I think at yantar too, both are ez

[maiden grotto]

Big closed off military place? sort of in the middle of Duga, behind the antenna?

[cobalt fiber]

You can't encounter many giants in the wild. Bloodsucker village has them

[last saddle]

yup

[maiden grotto]

That is where I had 4 of them 😄

[last saddle]

kinda near the school

[gleaming bone]

yeah I loved it a lot too, many choices you can make, even get the 5th secret cutscene at the slag heap

[cobalt fiber]

Ward pt is surprisingly good tbh

I held off cos it was the faction I was least interested in

[vernal lily]

I just finished the fight with Faust last night and ngl I am kind of disappointed. I already asked in a different channel, but if this was his last appearance, I am kind of disappointed. Still on my 1st playthrough, trying to actually finish the game. But still tempted to find every stash on the map (that I can get to).

[inland sage]

I bought a Rhino from the cement factory my first visit there lol, I don't want to mess about with going up to Yantar yet.

[gleaming bone]

I think ward is the easiest path to take. You get 2 more bases compared to the spark path, have less trouble overall

[last saddle]

thats where im at also. its so time consuming. but hey whats the rush i guess

[gleaming bone]

There's much more to the game than just Faust, a lot of cool stuff

[cobalt fiber]

Yeah I was with strelok originally, then changed my favourite to Kaymanov. Spark final as it's just a load of shite and then Ward

[gleaming bone]

1 (or 2 times depending on ending) we go to orbita are my favorite

[inland sage]

I kind of wish the overburdened indicator would turn yellow once you've hit the red meter of carry weight.

[gleaming bone]

Yeah I am willing to bet my money that Kaymanov's/Skif's ending will be the canon one

[vernal lily]

I know, but just a little disappointed because didn't really see much of his character. I just thought I was going to see more towards the end.

[maiden grotto]

Where you get the unique M701 rifle, the Cavalier

[inland sage]

Did someone say unique M701?

[maiden grotto]

Yes

[gleaming bone]

Same, I thought there's a small difference like it becoming less transparent (like with hunger), but no don't think so. A lot of QoL that could be done

[vernal lily]

the fight was also painful to finish because the massive fps drop I experienced, kept dying because of that.

[gleaming bone]

Cool character tbh

[vernal lily]

Every time I used my scope fps shat itself lol

[gleaming bone]

yeah that sucks, I play through geforce now coz, well, macbook, if you have 5ghz you could try it too

[cobalt fiber]

I agree. Second pt especially you realise that it was the ending that was foreshadowed too

Like hinted at through dialogue throughout the story

[vernal lily]

I use geforce now too. I guess my wifi was having a bad day during that moment or something

[cobalt fiber]

Even the first bit with Dalin's interview

[hoary crest]

*Spork

[cobalt fiber]

I enjoyed the documents you pick up through Kaymanov ending too

There's a lot of extra documents through the Kaymanov ending tbh

[last saddle]

i havnt found one that isnt broken and i aint repairing one lol

[last saddle]

oh wait yes i did. im not sure where i found it

[maiden grotto]

I found one, somewhere... good condition, then I up graded it.... It's a slow fire, but it takes most things down in one shot, including body 🙂

And it actually feels very satifying when firing 🙂

If it's the Cavalier, then that would be in Duga.

[last saddle]

so far i been using the Fora 221 and the sledgehammer. no issues

throw a 2x on it good to go

[inland sage]

...You can get one in the arena fight if you're willing to do the drop it before you turn in your stuff cheese.

[gleaming bone]

do you use free? just buy 1 month of ultimate it's not that bad. if it was wifi, you would not see connection to what you do in-game

[maiden grotto]

My two fav are the S-15 and the Decider, both very nice weapons, the Saiga, and the M701 sniper.... That is all my ranges sorted 😄

[gleaming bone]

You mean Skif's ending was foreshadowed? In Kaymanov's words or others? The docs are amazing yeah

[inland sage]

Ah, the Decider. When I found that in my last run...I actually uhhhh, I took it to the cement factory and had it repaired to 100% and then gave it to the guy.

[last saddle]

and the pistol that you get from sircaa

[inland sage]

Gambit?

[last saddle]

yeah

[maiden grotto]

You can, I don;t call it cheese though, as think of it as part of the winnings, seeing as the game gives you very little for achieving things

[maiden grotto]

That was disappointing... It hits like a damp fart

[last saddle]

i know the revolvers strong i just dont like using it

i shoot things in the head and they die lol

[gleaming bone]

SVU, Saiga, Dnipro are my favorites, excited to use M701 and Texan will probably love them too. Buket is fun especially with how early you get it

[maiden grotto]

Skif's pistol is a joke, makes the other pistols pointless, which is why I use a different one 😄

[last saddle]

m700 kicks ass honestly

[gleaming bone]

depends on how far you're in the game / your difficulty. On veteran, only snipers & rhino can one-shot headshot everyone

[inland sage]

I'm only on stalker this run

[last saddle]

i mean sure sometimes i have to double tap or maybe a few extra but its better than duming all round into mid section

[inland sage]

I don't feel like I'll want to do a run where I get one-shotted by poltergeists tossing cardboard boxes at me while I'm in a fully upgraded diamond exo

[last saddle]

the ai are pretty much retarded so lol

[gleaming bone]

Doesn't actually happen. Even endgame enemies with gauss don't one shot on veteran if you have good armor

And poltergeist don't one shot even with mid armor

[maiden grotto]

They should have made the game one difficulty level only, that being fecking hard and balanced it correctly around that...

It's insane that SMG's have better pen that assault rifles... just better all round really.

[last saddle]

never got one shotted by poltergeist ever. but if you already have damage done to you then yeah

[gleaming bone]

Yeah, if you're in the open it's so *** stupid. Aimbots that can see through all the greenery. When I encounter enemies in the open I often just run, or find a cover asap

[maiden grotto]

I love the Busket, with the big fat silencer on the end 😄

pop pop pop

[inland sage]

I died to that pseudogiant at containers once because it stomped inside a container I was standing on, and then before I could get up it hit me with a teapot.

[last saddle]

all you need is acover and they pretty much funnel to you or walk around asking where you went lol

[gleaming bone]

yeah it's really satisfying and really good for how early you get it, like even some endgame monolith exos have a buket too lol

[vernal lily]

I am currently on that 6 month plan. I don't know, my connection was fine until that fight. Fps seemed to be tanking every time I tried to use the scope that I was using. After it was over game ran fine with no issues.

[gleaming bone]

hmm could be a bug, but ultimate has 4080 and fps shouldn't be tanking from a scope

was it recent? I feel like they were mentioning some bug about scopes in bug fixes. But not sure

[vernal lily]

Last night

[gleaming bone]

Hmmm weird, maybe just a coincidence idk. But yeah could be

[maiden grotto]

She said...

[inland sage]

Ragman would give me 1040 koupons for this 39% Rhino. Not enough. I'm going to fix it instead and give it a nice home inside my stash.

[gleaming bone]

damn 39, 1% away from being yellow lol

[vernal lily]

I am using the performance one, I think, not their highest plan.

[maiden grotto]

Wy i use mods... It's a bit of a joke 🙂

[gleaming bone]

yeah the game is poorly optimized, I'd advise to get the ultimate plan with 4080, for 1 month it's like 20-25 bucks depending on taxes

in 1 month you can finish the game easily

[vernal lily]

I can't do that lol. But oh well, I don't have much issues anyways with their performance plan so. I also prefer to take my time to finish a game.

[gleaming bone]

also nice username земляк))

[last saddle]

if youre trying to see everything the gsame has to offer the game takes over 100 hours dunno how ppl calim to have done it in 30+

[vernal lily]

I played stalker 2 on launch, still haven't finished my first playthrough.

[maiden grotto]

becasue liars or main quest only

[gleaming bone]

yeah depends on what you prioritise, just doing the main quest on lowest difficulty I think 20-40 hours is totally doable

my 1st playthrough I was trying to see everything but then got too excited about the story so after like mid-game I just speedran the story lol, so now in my 2nd playthrough I explore everything even more including locations I almost didn't touch like cement factory, cooling tower, jupiter, pripyat, chemical factory

kinda crazy how story never leads you to cooling tower and almost doesn't lead to cooling towers (only in 2/4 or 3/4 of endings and only a small part)

[vernal lily]

This is what is happening to me right now, but I think I can hold off the excitement to see the ending for now. Seeing so many stash markers on my map and ignoring them is mildly bothering me lol. I have to go find them 😅

[last saddle]

i feel you

was doing that lastnight. made zero story progression because of it lol

[vernal lily]

Finding unmarked stashes is also great

[last saddle]

found some nice blueprints and gun parts tho

theres also random little events y ou run into

[vernal lily]

Sometimes I just sit in game and enjoy the atmosphere while I drink, so a lot of hours is because of that too.

[gleaming bone]

idk I was disappointed by the stashes too often, like sometimes you have a cool puzzle that takes you half an hour, and then you just get a regular random generated stash + a usb flash for smth meaningless that you're never going to use...

[last saddle]

is there a spot to buy hercules btw? always need that shit

[gleaming bone]

so I'm now cheesing a little by checking mapgenie for where the good loot is, but try not to look up solutions and anything else

[gleaming bone]

I read that some doctors sometimes sell it but yeah it's not easy to get it

[vernal lily]

Yeah, they can be disappointing. But it's just me that has to discovered everything that's bothering the back of my brain if I ignore them. Happens to me in a lot of games with large maps.

[last saddle]

i mean finding duds is part of the game tho. sometimes you get lucky. sometimes you spend mad ammo on shit

[inland sage]

Is more widespread distribution of Hercules not based on story progress?

[last saddle]

nah i find them randomly throughout my exploration

[inland sage]

I mean with doctors selling it

[last saddle]

i havnt bought any at all

[vernal lily]

Someone was selling them, I bought it a couple of times. But forgot who it was. It was not in the early locations though, that I know.

[last saddle]

the amount of money you can mke selling all the crap including half way broken guns. you make more than enough to keep yourself going

my stash is pretty much a free shop when it comes to ammo and shit

[vernal lily]

I need some psy blocks, can't find who sells them yet. The amount of times I got my brain scorched while I was exploring and going into doors/tunnels that I randomly come across.

[last saddle]

yeah i dunno if its my armor but psi doesnt seem to affect me much so i dont really use them

some randoms spots ill get halucinations but not much

and the stupid dudes with the weird heads. all they do is pull you in and it does nothing lol

[vernal lily]

Just a few days ago I got stuck in a death loop because I ran out of psy block and was low on health. Autosave saved at the wrong moment. Eventually I did get out of this place, barely. It was some door in the red forest, forgot the location.

[last saddle]

yeah that could def suck

[lethal crest]

The bunker on the east with the controller, probably
Could you not revert to a previous save?

[last saddle]

theres a burer in a bunker thats full of guns. holy shit i hated that guy

[vernal lily]

I didn't save scum like I sometimes do. The earliest save was a bit too far away from where I was at. Couldn't find an autosave that was any closer.

Partially my fault I suppose, because I just bolted towards red forest as soon as I could go over there, excited to see how it looked in this game.

[last saddle]

full of exo suit wearing assholes lol

[vernal lily]

I wonder if they're heavy, someone could possibly just kick them like a football.

[last saddle]

wheres the perfect lightning bolt when you need em

i would think an exo would give you better stability tho but in reality who knows

[last saddle]

oh i read that wrong lol. yeah little shits

[wintry pumice]

🦏

[inland sage]

...brain fart
"S.T.A.L.K.E.R.: Go"
AR game for phone where you take pictures of mutants

[maiden grotto]

No, just the .45, silenced with the red dot. Suits me fine

[wintry pumice]

Is suppressing even worth it? I usually see enemies get alerted pretty quickly when you kill one of them anyway

[maiden grotto]

It helps...

[wintry pumice]

It definitely does help wear down the weapon faster

[maiden grotto]

Well, I got a better degrade mod that slows the rate of weapon and armour wear, because the vanilla rates are insane, so it doesn't bother me that much.

[ornate sable]

Yes, depending on situation you can get plenty of kills that way before the surving enemies notice anything. At least if you go for headshots.
Also it increases range.

[maiden grotto]

I wouldn't mind the game have more realistic ballistic either, even if it means enemies can one shot me in the head...

As long as all this see through sniper BS came to the end, and enemy AI and myslef could use the grass, bushes, or any terrain to try out smart each other.

[vernal lily]

lmao

[maiden grotto]

What is the green artifact in this load out? Furthest one to the right - #📸┃screens_and_videos message

[last saddle]

stalker snap

[maiden grotto]

Stupid AI - Monsters are smart enough to know when they can't reach you... but not smart enough realise that 99% of them dying might mean they are in a bit of trouble and that other prey might be a more worth pursuit.

[last saddle]

wouldnt mind a last stalker standing throwing in the white flag

[maiden grotto]

Or beating a tactical retreat or something.

[last saddle]

is there any point in destoying random psi emitters that are placed around the map? outside of the quest

[terse ravine]

i think they're supposed to cause hallucinations, but for some reason they're not

[last saddle]

i would think its your armor but havnt tested it

how do you get to the east side of the swamp? do i need to go all the way south and swing back up

[terse ravine]

you need to destroy 4 psi emmiters or it'll just keep teleporting you outside the east side

[maiden grotto]

They have added grasshoppers to the game.

[wintry pumice]

They do, if you stand around them long enough

[left flume]

anyone know what song richter is singing when you meet him at the slag heap

[wintry pumice]

Don't look it up

[last saddle]

if it isnt Anastymoza then it dont matter

def the poster song of stalker 2. at least imo

[inland sage]

I googled it.
Apparently it's this.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=hiYRBCqdVh8

Or at least, that's the song in the trailer which I assume is just...his song he sings.

[low violet]

Did anyone else ever have the sofmod AR to not spawn? Is there a specific condition tied to it that I might have just not triggered yet?

[maiden grotto]

Nope, should be able to get regardless... I got it when free roaming.

[low violet]

it is not there for me, I 1000% know I am at the right location. The box has the ammo ontop of it, bandages are there but the sofmod is just not there.

tried reloading the save as well, it still is not there : (

[maiden grotto]

must be bugged then... 😦

[last saddle]

is it on the ground around the boxes?

[weary hedge]

Are you sure you haven’t been there before and forgot?

[inland sage]

But why would they take the gun and not the ammo/bandages?

[last saddle]

does have a very stock look to it

maybe sold without realizing

[low violet]

100% sure I have not been there as I didn't discover zaton yet on this save

[last saddle]

from what im seeing it could be on the ground. if not there maybe clipped thru the ground

[low violet]

idk, it literally just isn't there. I tried reloading from wild island as well and ran all the way

it is 100% not on the ground, and not in the crate either. Tried throwing a nade to see if that would move it but also no luck

is there an error log somewhere where I could see if it might have accidentally conflicted with any of my mods? Don't think it can because all other unique weapons just spawn fine.

[wintry pumice]

I stole it

[wintry pumice]

If you're on PC, you can just use UEtools mod to spawn it

[low violet]

yeah fair, will do : (

thanks!

[inland sage]

Hey Mach, speaking of UEtools...it's not possible to give myself The Competitor, is it?

[hoary crest]

Its not all that great under vanilla balancing anyway not gonna sugar coat it

Like all the other AR's, it degrades extremely quickly

[low violet]

I have mods to balance it out

[hoary crest]

alright nice 🫡

[low violet]

really enjoying the modded playthrough tbh

[wintry pumice]

If it's accessible by command then yes

Yeah Sofmod seems weird in that it doesn't really standout in terms of stats, the only point in having it because of its unique suppressor

[hoary crest]

Not unless you own the edition with it in, otherwise it will crash your game

Same for all the various edition weapons/suits

[wintry pumice]

Really?

[hoary crest]

Yep, if you look at the formID spreadsheets they're clearly marked as such

It'll only be so long before someone makes them into a downloadable mod anyway, at least if the devs dont at least give people the means to upgrade to other editions

Mind you there is exactly one weapon in there I care about getting personally, an thats the shorty VAL

[inland sage]

...so there's this locked door in malachite

There doesn't seem to be anything...in the small room behind it? I just sort of hurled myself face-first through the window glass.

[civic relic]

yeah idk whats up with that i did the same thing there lol

speaking of locked doors though. im at duga about to kill faust and every door is locked that im supposed to go through so i gotta use UE tools to noclip thru

[wintry pumice]

Yeah, I threw bolts there. There was a spark guy and an IPSF guy but they were standing there

[civic relic]

bro the stealth in this game is completely fked up. i am stealthing around with a freaking sniper rifle shooting stalkers like its a silenced pistol where no one around me hears the gun shot at all

[vernal lily]

Sometimes I had enemies just stand in front of me and do nothing. Easily got rid of them with my pistol, but his buddies nearby did eventually agro.

[inland sage]

Oh, huh. The Falcon suits counts as a suit with high psi protection for the swamps.

[civic relic]

man idk whats going on but sometimes i will drop a whole mag of my sniper at an enemy and 0 bullets will hit not even at long range i have no idea what it is

[inland sage]

Which sniper?

[civic relic]

SVDM-2

idk maybe cuz im getting shot at im flinching i really dont know

[inland sage]

How far? Ah, yeah the flinches can hurt too.

[civic relic]

not far at all like idk 30-40 meters

[junior lava]

Mhhhh what about increasing the aim speed of the RPG? Would that makes sense to you?

I mean, not too much, just to make it a bit more viable vs pseudogiants and somewhat, vs chimeras

[last saddle]

rpg is great for giants

[cobalt fiber]

Aiming time is fine. Skif isn't built like Arnie

And even Arnie struggles

https://tenor.com/view/happy-ayutha-pooja-arnold-schwarzenegger-heroes-gif-hollywood-gif-13768401820019360728

[last saddle]

best weapon to use against giants tho is to just run away lol

[cobalt fiber]

I watched a clip on FB earlier

Dude dropped like 50 grenades mid chase with psuedogiant

Giant comes in the room and he shoots the grenades

[last saddle]

yeah but who tf carries around 50 grenades lol

[cobalt fiber]

Lmao

His fps dropped to about 1 and froze for a sec lol

[last saddle]

i bet

[cobalt fiber]

Wish I copied the link

The only giants you need to kill are the arena one with Dark and the telekinesis one for a collar tho

Pripyat one you just run

[last saddle]

a lot of those videos people are using crazy mods. like having 900 max weight

[cobalt fiber]

Bloodsucker village just cheese it with the house

[last saddle]

yeah i mean i will if im just feeling up to it but its best to just not even bother. mostly wasteful

[cobalt fiber]

You can cheese the collar one too tbf

If you get in a specific spot on the containers it'll run and get stuck for 5s each time

[civic relic]

yoooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo

letting faust help u up actually kills u??????????? i gotta do the fight all over again fr?????

[inland sage]

lol wut

[cobalt fiber]

https://tenor.com/view/wilk-z-wall-street-the-wolf-of-wall-street-laugh-lmao-ha-ha-ha-gif-22086762

Imagine choosing to let him help you

[civic relic]

yeah... in the cutscene after u kill faust if u accept his help to lift u up he just lets u drop

[inland sage]

Top kek

[cobalt fiber]

Unlucky man

[inland sage]

That's a real troll on the dev side

[civic relic]

well my 1st playthru i did the oppisite i climbed up myself but this is 2nd playthru but dude i atleast got an achievment for it and i do want to 100% this game

[cobalt fiber]

Yeah the achievement is worth it tbf

The fight ain't bad thi

Few shots and it's done

[last saddle]

thats pretty funny lol

[cobalt fiber]

Don't bother with the clones

[civic relic]

yeah its honestly not a hard fight at all now that i know exactly what to do since its 2nd playthru though i still feel like i kinda cheated by getting that exo suit from yaniv super early and i am on veteran difficulty

[last saddle]

waiting to see a knife only playthrough on that part lol

[cobalt fiber]

Man granite on vet was fun

I'll probably jump into my ward pt post patch

[last saddle]

yeah same

[cobalt fiber]

Need the collar thing fixed cos I got cheated out of that quest and achievement lol

People need to chill though lol they read early Feb and expect it on the 1st

[last saddle]

[shrewd kindle]

2 RPG shots = Faust begone

[last saddle]

how many ppl carrying an rpg with 2 rounds to that fight. especially on a first run

[civic relic]

man i had 2 rpg ammo that i wasted elsewhere earlier before the fight

[shrewd kindle]

I always carried an rpg once I got it lol

[last saddle]

takes up too much space

[civic relic]

i used my sniper though it was ezpz to just shoot the thing on fausts hip

[last saddle]

im not using any mods tho

unpopular opinion maybe but i probably wont til grok gets his hands on it lol

[shrewd kindle]

No mods for me either, not because I dont want to but because I cant 😦

[last saddle]

savage for running around heavy constantly then lol

[shrewd kindle]

I was rocking like 2 night stars until I found an exo iirc

[maiden grotto]

what anomalies are they found in again?

[shrewd kindle]

I think grav ones? I always went on a route across the map picking up every artifact I saw so I’m not too sure

[ornate sable]

Grav yeah

[frigid hill]

skiprat has been warned

Reason: Bad word usage

[maiden grotto]

well... Duty mission giver is f^cked for me... Saved before I took the mission though, I think certain types of missions bug, before you even take them, destined to f*ck your game over regardless.

[indigo meteor]

This game fixed yet?

[maiden grotto]

Like f*ck it is

[jagged zinc]

Yes

Already on my 2nd PT and it is not that bad tbh

[inland sage]

Okay, what's the deal with the SKD factory?

The SKD Assembly Unit. Does it stand for Stalker Killing Droid Assembly Unit?

[weary hedge]

https://videocardz.com/pixel/amd-releases-fsr-3-1-3-and-anti-lag-2-plugins-for-unreal-engine-5-5
anyone know if this will be included?

AMD FSR 3.1.3 for UE5

[simple shard]

No, but it is technically playable

[flint plover]

weri

Anomaly has voice chats but th4e opffical game dont and wont

fix ur shit this is a JOKJE

[last saddle]

what? lol

[river chasm]

They don't have any sort of professional image to maintain so they don't have to care if a voice chat is moderated or not

[west gale]

is there a bunch of pop in since 1.4? I swear I've never noticed pop in until last patch.

[maiden grotto]

Well, I managed to get Duty mission give unbugged, luckily, the mission to find the artifact (lantern), still worked, found a lantern artifact, took the mission, handed it in, got 10,000K and cleared the two fecked missions.

Happy days.

[oak junco]

only thing thats a joke is this spelling lol

go back to anomaly trilogy never had that modslop

[inland sage]

Oh, right, there was an emission. Now the sadness factory is a loot pinata.

[maiden grotto]

Sadness factory?

[inland sage]

Cement Factory, where Duty is based. There's literally a pile of 4 corpses right next to the tower Voronin is in.

Up to 6...7...

Admittedly corpse 11 isn't a duty guy

12 isn't either but 13 and 14 are.

Up to 20 corpses now from that emission

[maiden grotto]

Hahaha... yeah, that's ma base... I can't believe, npc's are still being wiped out by emissions.

A lot of the time I leave a shelter, and a couple of npc's are still walking outside...

😦

Wow!!

Did you mail the doors shut

[inland sage]

They just don't even try to take cover

[maiden grotto]

Appalling AI

[inland sage]

Some of it is due to issues with the design of the duty base that makes it impossible for certain guard posts to actually get to cover during an emission.

[shrewd kindle]

Duty’s just that hardcore, won’t abandon their posts even during a blowout

[maiden grotto]

Not had that problem, and had several emissions

[inland sage]

Okay it's a...few more than 20 corpses this time around

[inland sage]

Another reason I call it sadness factory is they have a bloodsucker under the base and all they did was block it in

[vernal lily]

I just had a bunch of mercs die because they just stood outside while the emission was happening.

[inland sage]

I was taking cover from an emission once and saw a Duty guy just stop like...5 feet short of being in cover, unzip his pants, and just pee against a wall for the entire emission.

[vernal lily]

Lmao

[inland sage]

The other sad thing about the cement factory is most of the guns I loot from their emission corpses...go to Ragman.

[inland sage]

See the thing about that is I have never seen this issue at any other base but the cement factory.

...uhhh, that's not normal...
I have my bolt out and it's...wobbling around independently of Skif's hand.

[hoary crest]

That is glorious 😂

[inland sage]

I threw it and it fixed.

[weary hedge]

I think this too

It's almost as if NPC's can screw up early on, maybe their spawns or certain triggers not working or something

[inland sage]

...wind's howling

[jagged zinc]

What are you talking about?

[wintry pumice]

NPC dialog

People are turning into NPCs waiting for the patch

[upbeat basin]

real, imagine if shoc came out today

[inland sage]

Oh neat, for a change I noticed a tripwire instead of bumbling into the grenade.

[terse ravine]

does the ratkiller come with an ext mag built in?

[jagged zinc]

It is a bit odd tbh

[wintry pumice]

Everyone is odd in the zone

[inland sage]

I ran through the bit with the swamp chimera fast enough I didn't actually...see a chimera, I guess?

[wintry pumice]

Me neither, I did the screen go red and maybe heard a scream but I didn't see the chimera as I bolted hard towards the house and weirdly the emission didn't start until after passing the house

[inland sage]

...is there supposed to be a stash or something near Powerplug at the ranger station?

[ornate sable]

I saw it briefly, it hit me once, and then A-life spawned a pack of dogs and I guess they fought among themselves? Other than one dog nibbling at my feet I got to the hut pretty much without interruption from there.

[terse ravine]

which merchants sell 7.62?

[wintry pumice]

Yaniv?

[naive fable]

hey guys, anyone any idea when the update well be released? this week before friday?

[pine anvil]

has a life been fixed

[weary hedge]

has your entitlement been fixed!

lmao im just joking, not fully - still a work in progress i'd say

[vapid galleon]

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[crystal granite]

Which one? 7.62x54r or 7.62x39?

If it's 54r then you can get them in Yaniv and Pripyat, maybe Cement Factory too but I'm not 100% sure on it

If it's 7.62x39 then you won't be able to buy it. You can only scavenge it from enemies who were using a PKM or find it in the world

[terse ravine]

Hopefully 7.62x39 gets added to merchants soon

[crystal granite]

Yeah and hopefully they re chamber the PKM in its original caliber. As someone who's into weapons technology and different Com Block weapons, seeing a LMG originally chambered in 7.62x54r be fed an intermediate AK cartridge rubs me the wrong way

That's like if the devs released an M2 Browning, but chambered it in .50 Beowulf instead of reg .50 BMG Still a 50 but vastly different

[gleaming bone]

for now, there's one place in rostok where you can get a custom PKM and more than 500 bullets, like more than 10 kilos of ammo lol

[serene barn]

because they for whatever reason made a 7.62x39 round, similar to 556 or 545 weigh as much as the bigger x54 and 308 rounds for quite literally? no reason whatsoever and it bothers me immensely

[frigid hill]

m1r4689 has been warned

Reason: Bad word usage

[patent heath]

Yeah imagine

Wearing high end top notch armor suits with an upgrades
Comes with legendary artifacts boosting bleed and physical resistance

Getting bleed by a Tushkano

[serene barn]

i think the bleeding related things in the game only make it heal faster but doesn't seem to prevent it from happening any less.

[patent heath]

Been noticing some stalker players ranting about Stalker 2 bad launch

The trilogy's no difference but who's to judge

[pale fossil]

the glutton is useless, just as any PKM
great to have all that ammo for a dnipro mod though

[gloomy citrus]

While they do have valid points, sometimes the complaints got a little bit too much or too far.

[pale fossil]

people get tilted, i understand pretty much all the criticism, but its how you present it

[patent heath]

Even Grok himself says he dissapointed by Stalker 2
Due to fake A-life immersive or some shit

[gloomy citrus]

Too far as in calling out devs. Seen that a couple times and those who did got banned immediately I think.

[pale fossil]

i don't see how this is relevant.

[serene barn]

i absolutely hate how dirty they did that gun in 2. i loved it in like CoP and i think in CS too? it's really annoying to see how they butchered it in 2 for literally no reason like they could just have gotten the RPD working but it isn't, despite their claims about how the game went Gold, a term used for when a game is ready yet it obviously was not ready at all for the market when it came out and still has issues now. i feel so lied to about that whole statement when we all know what we got

[pale fossil]

see, this is what i mean about presenting criticism

[gloomy citrus]

Yeah that's fair.

Waiting for someone to insult devs so I can mute them hhhhhh

[serene barn]

saying that the original games weren't better on launch is just needlessly downplaying that this game should have been better and they weren't honest about the state of it.

[pale fossil]

what statement exactly was dishonest?

[serene barn]

this guy's. like the original games are old really old. saying that it's to be expected that a game in 2024 would also be bad on launch because the older titles were too is not right lol.

[pale fossil]

nobody is saying you should have expected this

[serene barn]

releasing a game that is so close from being properly made is just never going to be okay to me. i pay for a product and i expect it to work as advertised.

[pale fossil]

they couldnt postpone any more so they released. so what?

[serene barn]

they couldn't but they could and should have been upfront about the issues with the game before people bought the game and found out the hard way how lacking it has been.

[proven hollow]

let's just say the game could've been more functional on release

[pale fossil]

yes. that is true.

[serene barn]

like if they had just been up front and told us that they know it's not actually ready but they cannot push it further and to please bear with them as they will fix it to make it the game they wanted it to be. then i wouldn't have felt so cheated.

[pale fossil]

that's not how marketing works.

[serene barn]

marketing works by being dishonest lol.

[hidden yoke]

marking work tbh

[pale fossil]

you werent cheated, you paid a standard game price for a game with 100+ hours of proper content.

yes the release was bugged and it was fixed and its getting fixed more.

[smoky hawk]

Griga is wrong for not sending you a personal email excusing and explaining himself

[serene barn]

the AI is bad, there was quest blocking issues, there's no sign of A-life at all in the game other than in the files and the way things would spawn in randomly around and in front of you is not what i paid for though.

my issue is that they weren't upfront about the state of the game despite fully knowing it is lacking.

[pale fossil]

got it, they should have said - our game is bad and theres no alife, now go buy it.

[serene barn]

not to mention the performance issues with Ram leaks turning the game unplayable and how much frames fluctuate.

[pale fossil]

i've played 150 hours so far

[hidden yoke]

people could ask themselve the same question, which is, Would they tell everyone their own game is bad, buggy mess with all those problem listed. WILL people buy the game

[serene barn]

my steam says 285 hours.

[gloomy citrus]

I'm waiting for DLC to release. Hopefully by the time that happens, S2 will run perfectly smooth.

[serene barn]

had 8 days of time on my save file before i got around to finishing the story.

[pale fossil]

i just dont understand why are you so tilted

[serene barn]

i am tilted because the game is lacking

and that they didn't acknowledge it was, until people had found out after buying it.

[indigo oriole]

No patch today. Maybe Friday ?

[pale fossil]

alright

[serene barn]

i feel a bit worried about the DLCs like how long will we be waiting for getting the ones we were promised when the base game needs a whole lotta work before those should be out.

[pale fossil]

were any dlcs even announced?

[limpid cloak]

Not with specific details, but they were

[gloomy citrus]

Be patient my man. They're going towards the right direction. Community managers are busy forwarding bug reports to the devs. That's why Mol1t rarely answer #📜┃ask-gsc questions ever since the game is released.

[serene barn]

they were promised in the ultimate editions yeah.

i just want more notable fixes done before i start another run man.

[gloomy citrus]

Understandable, I wish those fixes come soon.

[gleaming bone]

what about releasing SDK? Why it wasn't released yet

[serene barn]

like i'd want AI that doesn't stand in the open like target practice. i'd want enemies not shooting or seeing me through things. maybe some change to mutants so they don't just detect you when you're within a radius around them.

i'd also like a buff n overhaul of the RPM-74 🥺

[patent heath]

Maybe a dlc on Limansk and CCNP

I miss the Sig 556 and FN F2000