☢┃stalker-general

[limber lark]

boots up the game after installing patch
sees its still broken
boots up mods to enjoy my time
simple as

[last saddle]

goldfish

[crystal granite]

It's his game, what you getting so heated about?

[vernal lily]

I have a pet goldfish

[last saddle]

hes making a statement about something he gave no time to test

makes no sense

[crystal granite]

One patch won't fix the issues hos mods prolly do. Need more patches to make the use of mods obsolete

[cloud basalt]

My game is just about to finish updating wooooooo

[last saddle]

you gotta at least give it a test run tho. to actually make a valid point

[limber lark]

hes not testing waaa waaa

• I tested it

[vernal lily]

Tfw not home right now, so can't play game till several hours later

[maiden grotto]

Get in still got Lens and and his twin Lens 😄

[last saddle]

his point is his wall wont provide him with imediate. welp hes gone.

[limber lark]

all he did was the one thing he told me it must all be that
are you playing the game or just responding to me?

[last saddle]

im talking on discord as you are

[vernal lily]

Don't know what is going on but I think I'll come back later

[crystal granite]

If i had mods I'd mod the game too. I'd take more comfortable playthrough over a patch which won't fix much

[shrewd kindle]

It'll still be the same when you come back

[limber lark]

ima go back to muh game have fun running the chat

[crystal granite]

Wise decision, I'll prollh dip too. Let em have it

[last saddle]

will do. have fun playing something you think is dogshit

[maiden grotto]

Yeas, but at a least a small fraction of boys did boy did survive the process, which is why they are all men....

Because it is only tiny fraction that can survive... And not no females witch at all...

[crystal granite]

It's less dogshit with mods

[last saddle]

lol

[pale fossil]

"Witcher 4 will flop" lol. Of course it will.

[vernal lily]

So the general concensus is that the update sucks?

That's what the chat looks like, based on me glancing

[last saddle]

pretty sure ppl are in here just to whine no matter what. patch dropped maybe 30 min ago

[silk vapor]

try it yourself- don't use this discord chat as everyone's experience

[hot basin]

Do I have to start a new game or something? I keep crashing when I click continue

[vernal lily]

I'm not even home right now lol. So I was just wondering.

[still edge]

still no alife improvement, i will have to wait for another patch

[silk vapor]

for me it seems to run fine and performance's better, can't check all the bug fixes in one go obviously but it's been fine :D

[hot basin]

Nvm its loading now for some reason

[vernal lily]

Plus it will be many hours later till I actually get to play. But oh well.

[crystal granite]

Either way, you all have fun loosing your cool over bs. All I'm saying is

• Witcher 4 is gonna be a mess (either way you look at it)
• S2 needs mods
• NVGs in S2 would be cool

[maiden grotto]

And two years ago people said the the same about UBIsoft...

Look where we are now.

[still edge]

witcher 4 is going to be a mess, all the good developers from the OG cdpr jumped ship long long time ago

[mellow knot]

woker 4

[still edge]

the woker 4

[pale fossil]

I guess Cyberpunk is not woke but witcher 4 is

[reef kite]

Fixed issue when a grenade could deal damage to Burer when the shield was active. GG WE ARE COOKED

[last saddle]

lmao i said the same thing

[maiden grotto]

yeah, the DLC was woke as feck..

[sturdy verge]

was it a sleep?

[still edge]

cyberpunk is already in a universe where depravity is the norm , it makes sense the way it is

[drifting bear]

Cyberpunk players have really weird taste in mods xD

[still edge]

witcher game is about medieval fantasy and now they have DEI devs who surely will try to teach us about gender

[vernal lily]

Damn we def cooked

[pale fossil]

The depravity of being a woman

[still edge]

https://tenor.com/view/sigma-gif-15449497793648793961

[maiden grotto]

A game based on an alternative medieval Europe, will look like the arrival lounge of Heathrow airport 😄

[pale fossil]

whatever. you guys are cooked. good luck with women.

[silk vapor]

you guys are delusional it's actually crazy

[last saddle]

they get a good feel from getting ppl to agree with em

[vernal lily]

Buh

[boreal coyote]

just had 6 enimes spawn outside a building as soon as i entered it lol

[maiden grotto]

Not addressed the spawnign simulator then D:

[boreal coyote]

nope 🤣

[pale fossil]

where

[lethal vortex]

does it run better now?

If someone actually managed to download 255gb of patch in 40 minutes

[boreal coyote]

military checkpoint cordon

[still edge]

alife didnt got any update , it makes sense because they have to do the biggest part of the alife update, disable the spawn by radius, put everysingle npc on the map in offline mode, and make everysingle npc on the map travel even if the player is 3 km away.
That update cannot be made in pieces

[maiden grotto]

I'm fecked then.... Back to the vasaline mod I go.

[pale fossil]

thats most likely scripted for a reason, its a gateway to the zone

[ornate sable]

Scripted NPC spawns aren't A-life spawns

[last saddle]

best bet is to play it yourself and then decide. but you can also listen to a hate fueled discord also

[boreal coyote]

nah thats cope Alife isnt meant to work that way

[maiden grotto]

But they could have made the current itteration of the stand... actually sensible... And not something design to just p^ss people off.

They can have all the time in the wrold to get A-life working, just don;t f^ck me off in teh mean time

[bleak drum]

PATCH RELEASED THIS IS NOT A DRLL

[warped rover]

Praise the Monolith

[pale fossil]

read this #☢┃stalker-general message

[boreal coyote]

they should have been there waiting for me, not spawning in

[last saddle]

its a script

[bleak drum]

ITS BIG ETS GOOOOOOOOOOOOO

[pale fossil]

you know its a videogame, right?

[boreal coyote]

it doesnt matter what you call it its dogsh*t

[still edge]

no , the alife update cannot be deliver in parts, it has to be one big update, if they deliver an big update in different patches, the game will break for months.

[ornate sable]

Some of the spawn scripts could need some work though, ngl.

[maiden grotto]

So the 4x Pseudo giants is duga was scripted? I don;t have a problem to much with scripted stuff, even then it stinks of BS most of the time, it's the spawnign simulator that is the real problem.

[last saddle]

i havnt given the new patch a proper go at all to even see anything noticeable yet but im playing now. started fresh

[pale fossil]

this is what a non-braindead take looks like

[vernal lily]

Think it would be funny to pull up stalker 2 in class right now

[inland mantle]

How is the new patch in terms of rebalanced pistols? Did they get nerfed or buffed?

[boreal coyote]

yeah exactly just saying its scripted doesnt means its good 🤣 theres way more interesting ways to script encounters other than i walk in a building and people just spawn right outside like what 🤣

[maiden grotto]

So fix the stand in they have at the moment... like not spawnign things on me every 60 secs...

4x Pseudo giants in Duga....

10 Bloodsuckers to travel 200 meters....

[coarse wharf]

any obvious improvements to general performance from those that have booted it up?

[boreal coyote]

no lol

[last saddle]

sammy choosing to opt out of it all makes more and more sense as the days go

[vernal lily]

En general no spoilers chat dumpster fire as usual

[last saddle]

lol

[inland mantle]

Now the big question…does console have mods yet after the wait?

[last saddle]

dont believe so

[inland mantle]

Dang, waiting for them to add mod support so we can have some of the fixes/rebalance pc has had

Economy still rough

[last saddle]

most ppl ive seen using mods still hate everything so

[vernal lily]

Sucks I can't even mod because of GeForce. But at least I can run the game I guess, because without my pc cooked.

[inland mantle]

No mods that fix stuff, add new toys and gear? New mutants?

I’d like a few actual ak besides the 74m and 74u

[last saddle]

i dunno i havnt tried modding just yet. waiting for more of the gsame to complete first

[mellow knot]

the flashlight shadows are ...

[inland mantle]

Same, waiting for it to be fixed before another playthrough. Glad I gamepass the game and not buy yet

[inland mantle]

Not good?

[last saddle]

doing my 2nd run now. trying a veteran run. but i enjoyed my first playthrough also so i guess im the wrong person to ask for a wholeheartedly hate the game response

[coarse wharf]

good thing KCD2 is keepign me entertained. i can wait for another big stalker patch, hopefully with more a-life/open world additions

[last saddle]

but i still say it needs more time

[mellow knot]

pixelated very

[inland mantle]

This is my first stalker game and started in veteran day one…due to bugs/pre nerf mutants, I got violated

[maiden grotto]

for good reason for the large part

[inland mantle]

Wow, after this wait for patch expected more. Have in game picture of the shadows? I’ve yet to update

[last saddle]

could also argue theres a reason to like it. but i see your point

[chrome jay]

Nice patch 🇺🇦

[last saddle]

out of all the new games to come out i dont play any of them like i do this. but doesnt mean much. everyone has an opinion of it

[maiden grotto]

Oh... have the just updated the update 😄 I am downloading the patch again 😄

[mossy helm]

oh ive spoke about it 3 weeks ago or so, ive realised how op it is with the weight limits, it made even for me a huge hoarder to loot and bring stuff around way too easy. but now the question is how bad it got nerfed?

[limber lark]

ironic because you have just been here yapping.
you should play the new patch

[last saddle]

ill just do both like ive been doing

[karmic ice]

Finally the patch is here les goo

[last saddle]

god forbid ppl see others enjoying the game here

[fluid beacon]

Downloaded 2 patches, Col. Korshunov still invisible for me though, just a floatingg AK swinging about where he should be during the cutscene

[maiden grotto]

I have nothing against people enjoying the game at... You know that...

As you also know the other side very well 😄

Like, I am downloading the patch again 😄

[last saddle]

nah i know but some ppl start foaming out their mouths over it

[boreal coyote]

who, me?

[shrewd kindle]

How’s the ai after the aiming nerf?

[last saddle]

them

do i dare play through this time.. in english? lol

[shrewd kindle]

Cockney deggy says no

[limber lark]

breh has just been shaft riding the patch and anyone that isnt agreeing with him must not be having "fun"
im sitting here playing the game watching this nonsense on my second monitor bro really knows how to make a dumpster fire.

[last saddle]

ive not give it enough time to even give a proper say on the matter. as ive stated already

still in the intro

[acoustic shell]

Any weapon balances? Or is Skif’s pistol and the shotgun still the top guns

[last saddle]

so far ive noticed zero difference at all. which is w.e to me

[cobalt fiber]

Think breh needs to take a step back and breathe

[shrewd kindle]

They changed pistol balance

[shell flax]

Is the USP finally not crap?

[limber lark]

if i cared enough to go back through the chat feel free to see his reddit level behavior
either play the game
or dont comment like your the czar of it
/shrug

[last saddle]

heres hoping

[shrewd kindle]

Not sure how but jack was saying skiffs gun ain’t the end all be all anymore

[autumn hearth]

USP was never crap

[ornate sable]

I'll try it out later tonight. From the notes apparently the Anti-Rad portion of it got nerfed? It used to be good enough to cancel out 4 max rad artifacts - like it was 4 times as good as Liquid Rock, not even counting its weight increase properties.

[shell flax]

Comparatively I mean

Oh hey, promotion lmfao

[autumn hearth]

👍

[cobalt fiber]

If you've a problem with people voicing their opinions this isn't the place for you sunshine

[last saddle]

nah dude youre just mad cause i dont agree with you. i dont even use reddit lol

[cunning plover]

Guys, don't fight. Praise the monolith!

[maiden grotto]

Not really, I have been speaking to him for about month, he knows how this game if for reliablity, he has just found a way that works for him...

I use mods too, they have improved the game massively for me...

But there are some serious serious flaws in this game... He knows exactly how bad they are.

[cobalt fiber]

Fret is the chillest dude here he isn't arguing with anybody lol

[limber lark]

is cool say what you like, but if your spewing poopies then dont get mad to say it smells

[cunning plover]

First sign to recognise a smart person! 😄

[vernal lily]

Never

[cobalt fiber]

^

[last saddle]

yeah i cant do it

[vernal lily]

Deggy's English VA makes me want to jump into an anomaly

[cobalt fiber]

I tried it up to Solder and the cockney accent threw me more than anything else

[shrewd kindle]

Scar and Korshunovs English VAs do a decent job, everyone else ehhh

[cobalt fiber]

What about Sid

[coarse wharf]

game is unplayable with english to me

[shrewd kindle]

True I forgot about the fat toad

[vernal lily]

Lmao Sid 😭

[cobalt fiber]

Sid is goated in any language

[maiden grotto]

No... Ukrainian with subtitles... English voice acting is baaaaaaad...

It's almost as bad as bugs in my game...

I have had to go bacl wo wild Island now and do the east check point and everything in Zalyssia again 😄

I am going backwards... I am travelling further and further back into the story]

[vernal lily]

I sometimes just play the game in all Ukrainian

[cobalt fiber]

Did you know the original Sid also voiced the Monolith in soc

[ornate sable]

Korshunov and Striders English VA's are amazing

[limber lark]

we have entered the reddit echo chamber, cya commonsense the no lifers are chatting
Ima go back to playing the game insted of yappin about it.

[shrewd kindle]

Sid’s controlling the monolith confirmed

[cobalt fiber]

Go ahead I'll give you a timeout to help considering you wanna continue being a prat

[vernal lily]

Sid is the main antagonist all along

[still current]

I said this week

[mossy helm]

@cyan latch turim tikraji ziurkena tarp musu 😄 ty turejom, panasu kad isbanino ji 😄

[last saddle]

goat

[cobalt fiber]

I said soontm

[last saddle]

so what exactly are the main differences with veteran? cant tell so far

[coarse wharf]

the voice you hear as you're fighting through the CNPP?

[cobalt fiber]

Yeah

[boreal coyote]

i listen to that as i go to sleep

[shrewd kindle]

Enemies have more health do more damage, guns degrade quicker everything’s more expensive and sells for less

[last saddle]

fair enough

[shrewd kindle]

You get hungry faster too

[last saddle]

more reason to use my items lol

there an achievement for it?

[shrewd kindle]

I didn’t get one when I beat the game on vet so I don’t think so

[last saddle]

[maiden grotto]

I am finding I am playing the Irreversible film version of the this game... Where you start at the end of the game, forcing you play the game backwards playing each chapter in reverse order.

And yes, Irreversible is a French film that starts at the end plays each scene in reverse order...

And yes, the film is a master piece.

[vernal lily]

All for nothing so you're saying

[last saddle]

the ol bejamin button effect

[hollow sable]

any new quests + new content in the new update or all fixes?

[last saddle]

electrical anomaly almost one shotted me so theres that

[maiden grotto]

just fixes.... dont expect new content until the game is stable

[shrewd kindle]

It feels good seeing dudes wearing sunrise suits and trench coats in the zone again instead of all exos

[vernal lily]

That's a relief lol

Doesn't make sense everyone to have exos

[mossy helm]

yeah this one needed nerfing for sure

[maiden grotto]

Nope Yaniv is still 100% empty for me regarding guards...

Every single one has de-spawened still...

Please, just go though and repopulate them

[vernal lily]

Going to see if the game will run on my University's wifi

My work laptop probably will be screaming after the first few minutes

[last saddle]

you ever catch back up after losing that progress lastnight?

[mossy helm]

i wish they had original voice actor for english sid.

[shrewd kindle]

No more free fast travel if you have a good reputation with the guides in the endgame, not a huge deal though since you should be rich by that point

[vernal lily]

No, trying my best to cheese my way through but it's difficult since I have to go back and forth between Nexus and GeForce. So I just gave up and decided to play main missions only.

[worldly raptor]

i love gamma

[last saddle]

fair enough

[shrewd kindle]

It’s still rainy in prypiat 😦

[last saddle]

can of worms that statement. but i also do too lol

[maiden grotto]

And all my mission givers that were bugged, are still bugged

[last saddle]

damn

[vernal lily]

Playing it on rookie so I can at least get to where I last left off fast enough, hopefully.

[maiden grotto]

How hard is is it to force a rest of the NPC's in bases...

[vernal lily]

I think around where I meet Deggy I'm going to play the game normally. Because that's where I was before this mess happened.

[sleek gulch]

No new controller sensitivity and deadzone options. Plus, flashlight is still garbage. WWWHHHYYYYY?!?!

[cobalt fiber]

You might need to revert back to an earlier save for the fixes and instances to change

Worth a go

[last saddle]

poor rog lol

[maiden grotto]

That is abotu 100 hours of game play in my first play through... that is not an option as I don;t have saves going back that far...

[last saddle]

new start! lol

[cobalt fiber]

Ah man I make saves constantly as I go

[maiden grotto]

200 hours in to my new start... not looking good their either...

[last saddle]

[cobalt fiber]

This is why I waited for my ward run til patch

[maiden grotto]

I do... But I hit the limits and need to delete

[cobalt fiber]

Although I'm running through isolation

Also fret I got it wrong yesterday

[last saddle]

yeah doing my ward run now. gonna be tough abiding by it

[cobalt fiber]

Aliens Fireteam Elite is the one that looks shit and is a shooter

Dark Descent is the turn based by Focus Ent

It's also free on game pass which is neat

[last saddle]

ill add it to the wishlist. wait for a sale

[cobalt fiber]

Fireteam Elite has good reviews but the idea of a shooter turns me off

It was marketed as you're basically shooting the shit out of multiple xenomorphs constantly

[maiden grotto]

@mossy helm go do one... Child

[cobalt fiber]

Sounds like that one Resident Evil spin off that flopped

[last saddle]

gtfo gives me resident evil vibes

[cobalt fiber]

You do shoot the shit out of everything in dark Descent but that's turn based strat so it works

Graphics also look great

[maiden grotto]

That is an amazing game 😄

[last saddle]

yeah its fun

[cobalt fiber]

https://youtu.be/1RBHmsKl624?si=wrZ6AfNZchKEJY1X

Focus Entertainment are also usually quite good

[shrewd kindle]

EYY the rain actually went away after a minute, felt weird seeing the sun after like 20 hours of constant rain

[last saddle]

yeah def looks like an xcom thing. which is good

[cobalt fiber]

Yeah I'm gonna play after isolation dlcs

[frigid hill]

skiprat has been warned

Reason: Bad word usage

[cobalt fiber]

Gonna watch mack from wab's video on it

Funny him

Moody bastard

I imagine @maiden grotto is a fan of WAB because a lot of the criticism sounds on a similar level

[last saddle]

rog should def do game reviews lol

[mossy helm]

he is one cringy fella

[cobalt fiber]

Hes been at it a long time WAB

I remember when he was just streaming with his mate

[maiden grotto]

I don;t even know who WAB is?

[ornate sable]

WAB?

[last saddle]

similar to wap

[frigid hill]

mrorange5948 has been warned

Reason: Bad word usage

[maiden grotto]

Says the guy who has been neg repping my posts, because your two braincells barely function.

[frigid hill]

nicolas.9954 has been warned

Reason: Bad word usage

[maiden grotto]

not related to fap 😄

[last saddle]

For some ppl maybe lol

[mossy helm]

stop crying for once jesus christ

[maiden grotto]

No.

[serene barn]

I’m only just starting my update now because I was sleepinggg

[manic owl]

Did anyone back the board game?

[hot basin]

Do I restart my run to see the changes or is it fixed after loading in now?

[frigid hill]

silvineas has been warned

Reason: Bad word usage

[last saddle]

Pop a non stop. Have you going for 3 days easy

[boreal coyote]

whats this 11gb update that im downloading now?

[mossy helm]

does anyone know why they used Vilnius in a thumbnail in one type of ammunition?

[shrewd kindle]

Probably a hotfix

[maiden grotto]

FFS!! Will shut up complaining about it for once

[cobalt fiber]

English reviewer on YouTube mate

[last saddle]

I actually looked it up and found nothing

[cobalt fiber]

You'd love him because he has the same outlook on games and modern gaming

Give him a watch mate

He's my one and only go to reviewer

[raven sphinx]

Infinite Psi-hillusination bug after a sertain "point" in the game is fixed. OMG I CAN TURN MY AUDIO BACK UP AGAIN. and things dont kill me 24/7 the time i spawn in.

[maiden grotto]

Fair enough, never heard of him... Might check him out... Check out his levels of rant

[cobalt fiber]

I find myself having a good laugh but unfortunately for all the wrong reasons because he's spot on about the industry and state of gaming

[simple shard]

i got hyped when i saw the flashlights cast shadows note, by far the most important area regarding improvement
turns out ya its basically the same though, and because the light and camera are mounted the way they are you also barely see shadows anyway so even that part is sort of whatever
don't get me wrong I'm glad shadows are real now, but the flashlight is still ass ya

[mossy helm]

same, even asked in reddit even on a lithuanian forum - no answer.
asked mol1t by the #📜┃ask-gsc and was ignored lol

[serene barn]

Welp my phone can’t show the patch notes while I’m unable to be at my pc to read them there.

[maiden grotto]

Awesome news 😄

[raven sphinx]

i could not play the game for 2 weeks

[maiden grotto]

I know, I remeber you talking about it last time and that is : D a big smiley happy face for you 😄

[serene barn]

I’m already wondering how much the update broke but we don’t know yet. Someone said they broke vsync

[mellow knot]

update again?

[frigid hill]

furianoah has been warned

Reason: Bad word usage

[mellow knot]

silence wolf

[vernal lily]

Ay don't say that to Saleem

[mellow knot]

he really likes braincell talking

[maiden grotto]

I like bragging I have more

[last saddle]

Guess one thing pvp will be good for is settling wars with ppl we disagree with

[woven tundra]

all I have to say to this is ya

[violet dune]

another patch?

[vernal lily]

More braincells doesn't always mean smart. Look at a whale and a jumping spider. The spider can do more strategy thinking than the whale.

[mossy helm]

long time ago when i used to go to the school, two classmates of mine went into a verbal fight and one suggested to go outside to fight physically and the other answered to go for a match 1vs1 on counter strike xDDD never will forget that one, made me laugh and still does after 16+ years or so

[last saddle]

Lol which one did they opt for

[raven sphinx]

https://tenor.com/view/yes-gif-22712908

[mellow knot]

he's asserting himself. Sigma with infinite aura

[maiden grotto]

Why can't rate people posts?

[vernal lily]

What the sigma (in squidward voice)

[mossy helm]

the fella who suggested counter strike was laughed off by the rest of the class for being pussy 😦 i didnt make fun of him even that it was funny, i actually respect people who are against violence

[last saddle]

Feel bad for kids today. 🔫

[mossy helm]

especially the ones who could do a lot of damage but chooses peace instead of violence - the most respect goes to them lol

[maiden grotto]

never looked at killer whales then.

[last saddle]

Gettn punched in the mouth sometimes is needed but yeah kudos to the kid for trying

[mossy helm]

today is even worse i guess

[vernal lily]

It's called making a comparison. Large brain doesn't always mean smart, no need to describe a specific species.

[last saddle]

Pretty sure he's being sarcastic lol

[cobalt fiber]

What's with the Rog hate today

[maiden grotto]

No but two brainscells in human mean a thick tw^t...

[vernal lily]

I just like to pull strings here it's funny when he's angry

[cobalt fiber]

Rog is one of us

[cobalt fiber]

You will like me when I'm angry

[last saddle]

There is only darkside here

[cobalt fiber]

Hulk LAUGH!

God that was cringe

Wtf am I doing

[vernal lily]

😩

[cobalt fiber]

https://tenor.com/view/gun-shoot-me-gif-14188290

[last saddle]

Lol

Buncha hooligans i tell ya

[mossy helm]

well this chat turned to be interesting indeed lol

a plotwist that no one expected

[cobalt fiber]

Got 2 films left of the Alien franchise then it's onto Predator

Covenant which I've never seen

[frigid hill]

th3nero has been warned

Reason: Bad word usage

[cobalt fiber]

Is it shit @maiden grotto ?

[last saddle]

Wolf's on a roll today

Never ending cycle. Comes and goes

[leaden bear]

I didn’t see anything in the patch notes about the weird bolt anomaly’s spawn being fixed :(

[cobalt fiber]

@maiden grotto know I love you but that one was a bit much and don't want to see you timed out so I've got rid

[last saddle]

The problem is there's a lack of guitars here

[serene barn]

huh, steam said it was a 127gb update and it's already done or maybe it wasn't.

[cobalt fiber]

Steam for you

[last saddle]

Mine was 22gb

[cobalt fiber]

It wasn't 127gb

Even DLC wouldn't be 127gb lmao

[silk vapor]

I've got a 22GB one and then a small 11GB one

[serene barn]

felt quick regardless, maybe my internet provider really did forget to cap my speeds so i am getting 900mbps instead of the 90 ish i used to

[cobalt fiber]

Steam being Steam

[maiden grotto]

Weird water?

[vague coral]

cant enable frame generation anymore. Anyone having this issue too? geforce 4080

[last saddle]

Kossacks

[cobalt fiber]

All water is weird if you drink from the tap

[weary hedge]

2 patches and my problem isnt fixed
support is still "aware" of the problem
actually kms

[cobalt fiber]

Rip

Shall I make a gofundme for the headstone?

[mossy helm]

im actually scared to even try the game lol

[weary hedge]

tbh ima just put thiis game down for half a year and come back prolly lmao

[mossy helm]

actually was planning to do something similar

3 weeks passed, 5months and 1 week to go i guess lol

[maiden grotto]

Same with my first play through, mission givers still bugged and can't get new missions for them, population a yaniv is gone... and Zalyssia... Malechite and The old pump station in red forest...

No NPC's except for shops and things

[cobalt fiber]

Rog's been automatically moved to his own very strange build of the game that just doesn't like to cooperate for some reason

[weary hedge]

I just want to 100% this game on a save bruh

[leaden bear]

I was one of the lucky few that had minimal bugs but I can’t complete one of the achievements because my weird bolt artifact is bugged. Still pisses me off lol

[maiden grotto]

COMPUTER SAYS NO 🤣

[lyric kayak]

I'm waiting till they have both dlc out before I try that shit

[molten cliff]

Just me or I got even better performance then before? I am locking in 60 fps on high 1440p.

[weary hedge]

if 2 more patches go by and this isnt fix im creating my own zone in a nuclear crashout

[molten cliff]

my monitor can go only to 60 but still

[silk vapor]

it got better for me too, I wasn't expecting it

[cobalt fiber]

Just remember. You may leave the zone, but you must remain a discordian

[frigid hill]

dizzyiteen has been warned

Reason: Bad word usage

[weary hedge]

@molten cliff im playing with a 4090 on a 30hz monitor

[last saddle]

Feels smoother for me so far

[lyric kayak]

Running 60fps w no bugs really on a piece of crap free xbox

[frail sinew]

Any other Xbox Series X users not able to start the game?

[maiden grotto]

Yeah, I can laugh about it at times, other times, it makes me sad, because that game I have done so much, my weapons, the first thing of experiencing things... and my First playthrough is the one I want to complete, to experience everything first hand.

[leaden bear]

You can’t change current reality and the ZONE kick you out.

[maiden grotto]

I get abotu 10fps more than I did before 😄

[last saddle]

Well one good thing for ya lol

Even tho youres already ran great lol

[molten cliff]

Wild, I spent my entire money on my rig and forgot abt the monitor issue so I am stuck with 1440p 60hz for now with a 4070.

[maiden grotto]

I can see all those empty places in their glorious beauty 😄

[last saddle]

Unofficial early access

[maiden grotto]

and replay the same part of the game over and over and over again...

Seriously, I going to throw a party if I mange to get past Zalyssia and Sphere without it de-spawning NPC's and bugging out, emissions, and all the other hell I get 😄

I might even do a charity stream for broken stalkers 🤣

Oh, Once I have had dinner, I going to check if they addressed the problem of AI running towards grenades...

That is thing I have noticed a lot in Zalyssia...

grenads gets thrown by Monolith, NPC's flock to it like like flies around around sh^t.

[molten cliff]

If I turn off v-sync ofc I get this performance:

1440p High Setting DLSS = Graphic
FPS: 127 GPU: 95% 61c 10501 MHz CPU: 27%

[mellow knot]

lucky lad. I can't top 40

[last saddle]

anyone know what was up with the second smaller patch? whatd they not release all of it in the first one

[serene barn]

ugh i hate reading unexplained changes. "rebalanced pistols and silencer attachments"

[maiden grotto]

you should never play v-synch, just rather tell your GPU not run faster than the refresh rate of your monitor

[last saddle]

sometimes you have to with screen tearing. but usually better off without it

[molten cliff]

ye but sadly without it I would get screen tearing.

[maiden grotto]

Yeah, it doesn;t tell what they have changed and why... Just that they have changed it

[maiden grotto]

60Mhz monitor?

[serene barn]

could have been a nerf and we wouldn't know.

[molten cliff]

ye 1440p 60hz sadly

saving up for a new monitor soon

[maiden grotto]

Might be better off running it closer to native, at epic... and slowing it down so it matches the refresh rate of your monitor better

as long as you don;t run ito the issue of running out of VRAM

[molten cliff]

Ohh gotcha i'll try it out, I only got abt 12 gb of vram.

I am a broke student so I don't got much on me for upgrade until couple of months lol

[maiden grotto]

I run 1440p epic native and it uses less that 12Bg... its 8Gb that has the issue of running out...

Not so much the 3070, as it has 256bit bus which helps smooth things out, but 4060, have a 128bit bus.. and it causes issues at 1080p... someone actually knows a mem scrubber that you run in the back ground to deal with the issue...

but if you got 12Gb, it's not a thing to worry about.

let me know how you get on.

Would be interested to know

[mossy helm]

meanwhile crying in 8gb 😦

[maiden grotto]

I have 20Gb on my 7900xt, I get 80-100 fps native, depending on where.

So what cries in 8Gb are you talking about?

[molten cliff]

So with everything on epic I am at FPS 66 GPU: 93% 63c 10501 MHz CPU: 52% But with V-Sync off I kinda still see bit of the screen tearing just not too much then before.

[steel bronze]

I am a bit confused, everybody talking about 2 seperate patches and mainly seeing it having 130gb, while I only had one that was around 27gb whats up with that?

As far as patch goes, I was excited to finish my first playthrough tonight - spent around 150 hours on this one doing everything in the zone, just to get massive memory leaks a top of ||red fortress||

[maiden grotto]

awesome... There is a way to limit FPS in S2 without using V-synnch... Or at should be.

[steel bronze]

also there is a bunch of Stalkers spawning during the ||monolith|| fight

[slender fern]

How's a-life this patch

[ornate sable]

22gb download, 130 for the unpacking/install

[steel bronze]

Thanks

[molten cliff]

Idk my monitor is weird even with fps limit it still does it unless it allows me to put custom and set it to 59 frames

[ornate sable]

Wolf ate my message for some reason, but anyway the latest changelog in the pinned googledocs table mentions

Developers added "CoverPiercing" stats to all guns for both player and NPC's which dictate guns ability to penetrate certain objects like wood and steel panels.
Would be interesting to see which guns can actually pen which kinds of cover.

[maiden grotto]

Its not the monitor and there is no settings on it that will help... It would have to come from the PC side unless you one with G-Sync or whatever.

Don't mess around the setting of your monitor though.

[mossy helm]

how can you even play with vsync on. for shooter games always keep it off. i personally never use it in any games at all. and i always go for 100 fps even if i have to lower down the visual settings

[maiden grotto]

I can;t even give 100 to people, it keeps stopping adding thumbs up etc...

[molten cliff]

because it wouldn't make a difference when I got a 60hz monitor just without it will get a screen tearing.

[flint plover]

Well, these patch notes are disappointing so far...

[molten cliff]

For some people

I am still waiting for multiplayer

[flint plover]

Well. Suppose I'll wait until after work to actually judge. But so far I don't see anything substantial improved on the so called "A-Life" or NPCs even rendering past 125m yet lol

[maiden grotto]

@molten cliff Go into options...

Go to frame rate..

Make v-sync off
Turn frame rate onto 60

that would stop the tearing, but not the issue that v-syn cause

[molten cliff]

ye I did that already I still had screen tearing from limiting to 60 with v-sync off.

It's just a small amount tho not too much

[maiden grotto]

Yeah, thats not helpful

but does it play better?

[molten cliff]

For other games that has custom value set when I put them to 59 frames it runs with no screen tearing with v-sync off. This is happening to all games I play with this weird monitor.

[maiden grotto]

have you got your monitor set to 59 fps in Windows?

[molten cliff]

ah f.. I realize it was set to 59.95 hz... Now it's set to 60 hz

[mossy helm]

back in the days i had 60hz monitor both for my standalone and my laptop but even then never used vsync. is the input lag/delay not an issue to you?

[maiden grotto]

Working better now?

[molten cliff]

oh yeah it is, I just wish I got this type of performance before I beat the game.

I can try to do other endings but ye

[maiden grotto]

Awesome, glad to help...

you know there is a draw distance mod you can use for trees and grass?

https://www.nexusmods.com/stalker2heartofchornobyl/mods/207

If you have room to spare on your card, which I think you have, not to mention using upscaling..

You can stop the pop ins of different tree's etc

Give it a go

[sleek gulch]

Anyone know what weapon buffs or nerfs happened?

[maiden grotto]

no fecking idea...

Right, off to get dinner on, get some drink and enjoy my evening 😄 until I start playing this again 🤣

[molten cliff]

I mean it's a tweak for 4090 users and my 4070 is wayy behind it 😭

[maiden grotto]

I use a 7900... that is nowhere near a 4090...

give it ago, use upscaling... you can delete the file if it doesn't work

[jolly wing]

What is the "new controller ability" ?

[mossy helm]

bro you have 4070 and 60hz monitor 💀

[molten cliff]

Aye I got a big deal on that card 😭 I just putted entire money on the rig then the monitor

Which I will upgrade soon once summer starts and my school ends I'll get some money for the monitor

[mossy helm]

that makes sense tho, pc is always the priority and monitors are cheapier so more easily to get anyways.

i own 3070 8gb and other than constant crashing after some updates the game runs pretty smoothly for me and managed to get 80-100+ fps with pretty nice graphics

[worldly raptor]

YOU STOLE MY NAME!

[mossy helm]

what is your cpu by the way?

[maiden grotto]

up, down, left, right

[serene barn]

yeah i feel like a "roar" doesn't explain what it does

[maiden grotto]

It's the aftermath of the controller eating a vindaloo..

[serene barn]

only other Roar ability is the Bloodsucker one that frankly did not need to have been a thing at all especially when you let more than 1 bloodsucker attack a player at once.

[mossy helm]

and like million saleems that exists too lol. i guess you was born as first with this name 😄
meanwhile im using it just as an internet nickname, my real name is not even close to be similar

[molten cliff]

for cpu I only got ryzen 7 9800x I also had a lil deal on it too.

[serene barn]

i really wish it was common place to explain what changes you did like giving numbers for things and such like stop being needlessly lazy and confusing the players/customers with vague fixes

[mossy helm]

why do you say "only"? its a pretty powerful cpu lol

[maiden grotto]

All it does is antagonise people, who then have to wait for a youtube streamer to put the effort in to, tell us the information...

Because making things easy to understand is just far too simple

[molten cliff]

idk much abt amd cpu's 😭

[maiden grotto]

Doesn't matter to me much... need to wait for version 1.1.5 now, to see if they address the bugs plaguing my games.

@Maxim your cpu is fine. but have you turned on SAM? and some other things? In your BIOS.

[serene barn]

literally like why can't companies just spell things out so the casual players won't need to wait on content creators to figure the changes out.

like man it's so annoying

[molten cliff]

SAM? Never heard of it so I mite have to turn that on?

[mossy helm]

me neither but i dont own it and never did xD you should tho lol

[molten cliff]

😭

[maiden grotto]

SAM = Smart Access Memory, It helps with information being sent between the CPU and GPU (mainly for AMD), But SAM can help a little on nVidia cards.

It's the same as Resisable BAR for Intel.

is your CPU a 9800x3d or just a 9800x?

[molten cliff]

It's the 3d one but also that SAM thing isn't it same as Re-size bar?

[maiden grotto]

It is the same RE-size BAR...

Turn it on... can be handy and every little helps

[molten cliff]

oh then I already have it on then

[sleek gulch]

Honest question: What did you guys do to learn to speak computer whiz? What manuals or classes did you take to become more tech literate? Because, I am tired of dragging and dropping my doom mods, and I need to understand what type of gaming pc to look for.

[molten cliff]

youtube

[maiden grotto]

Decades of f^cking my PC up

[mossy helm]

well you own a pretty decent computer if you dont work for sure, just need to upgrade the monitor and good to go

[mossy helm]

internet, the almighty google

[molten cliff]

yep

[obsidian kayak]

Does anyone know if patch 1.2 has already been released for the Xbox? I will download the game again

[molten cliff]

I heard abt the 50 series but I also heard 50 series is more into AI? So playing older games that doesn't support DLSS mite not run well?

[vernal lily]

Youtube really, but I'm still small brain when it comes to most tech stuff.

[maiden grotto]

Build your own PC... You will be able to build a better PC, than you can buy, as you will be paying 300-400 more on top or more... for getting other people to build it and profit margines

And if you have mate, who knows how to build them, get them round to help you, and by them beer....

Aftwards, not before... drunks friends building PC's can be a game of Russian Roulette

[summer remnant]

Another big update here? 10 gb to dowloaded🤦‍♂️

[maiden grotto]

@sleek gulch Do not buy anything until the 9070xt drops... it liks like it will be $200 cheaper than 4070ti Super, but somehere between a 4070ti super and 4080-super in performace according to leaks... AMD have said they are wrong, it's going to be faster.

So wait for the reviews and the costs to drop. before deciding on anything.

[indigo oriole]

Yaniv guide still not there for me

Did u notice some big changes ?

[vernal lily]

Is that guy still gone lol

[maiden grotto]

I have nothing 😄

Yaniv is barren.... There is literally no people other than shops and services.

Luckily, I have still have Garry, but I have 100's clones as well just running around shouting Garry at me....

[indigo oriole]

What clones ? 🤣

[maiden grotto]

Gary from Fallout 3 😄

[indigo oriole]

I thought Gavin from red dead redemption

[last saddle]

lol

[indigo oriole]

Now I can officially say that this game is very broken. I need to wait 6 months at least to play it

[maiden grotto]

But I do have clones in Zalyssia... I have Lens and his twin brother Lens... Identical they... Even fix exactly the same things 😄

[indigo oriole]

I wish I could get drum magazine for saiga and coupled mags for kharod

[maiden grotto]

Saiga is easy

you can get the extended mag, just over the train wall in Yaniv... Just have to deal with the controller roaming around

[serene barn]

it's annoying in a way when they showed things like the coupled Kharod mag in a trailer and then didn't put them in the game lol

[maiden grotto]

they put lots of things in the trailers... Like a working game 🤣

[sleek gulch]

Garbage update

[last saddle]

game deserved so much better. its a shame

[vernal lily]

Garbage? That slump place needs no new improvement

[white chasm]

It ain't fully fixed stalker if I can't see a random squad in cordon that I later see again dead in Malachite being torn apart and dragged by fleshes and watching that thru binoculars from 300m away
Still I know how hard it is to make a game, and I know that developers are doing anything in their power to improve the game. Hopefully what I wrote above will be possible someday.

[last saddle]

distant dream. but one way or another im sure itll happen

at least the wokeness is absent

[serene barn]

frankly i don't care about groups being able to roam that far around because i literally would not remember their names even if they were alive and you can't see the name on bodies iirc

[last saddle]

big win from what ive been seeing lol

[vernal lily]

What wokeness? Lol

[last saddle]

exactly

[vernal lily]

I don't understand really, what's the big deal unless it's just obnoxious. The Zone is the Zone.

[last saddle]

its not in the zone at all is all im saying

just the zone and stalkers

[silk vapor]

so what is "wokeness" to you?

[vernal lily]

I don't understand the usage of the word and people having an issue with it. Whatever "that is".

[last saddle]

rather not discuss that just glad its not in stalker

[vernal lily]

[silk vapor]

:)

[serene barn]

it's basically forced and annoying inclusion for no reason other than inclusion for people who don't even play the games.

[last saddle]

dont attack me my bad for that damn

[serene barn]

typically it's about sexuality of characters and their identity.

[silk vapor]

the thing is a lot of people draw a line at the "forced" here that starts as "exists"

when an entire character's personality is about this, that's bad writing. Otherwise, it's inclusion. inclusion is good. thanks.

[serene barn]

it's like how Ubisoft decided their first game in Japan i think, just HAD to be about a black man who's gay iirc to some source i remember seeing.

AC Shadows.

[cobalt fiber]

But there are females in the zone

WOKE L GAME

[vernal lily]

Not enough women in the Zone, but the men are fine too

[silk vapor]

he literally existed? sexuality i don't know but he was based over a historical figure lol

[cobalt fiber]

Forget patch when

Harpy romance when

[serene barn]

another case where things were "woke" was Concord where characters looked bad as if to show people don't always look hot and attractive but literally no one that actually plays games wants to see themselves in a character for the character being ugly.

[vernal lily]

Richter romance when

[white chasm]

Actually I don't like that all other npcs have first and last name while important characters are only allowed to have names composed of nicknames. Like you need to earn the privilege to use your nickname or just name? Because I don't think that Skif earned that privilege while being novice at the zone. That's something that doesn't feel right. Like I think that most people coming to the zone would like to stay anonymous

[cobalt fiber]

👎 had I been allowed I'd have shot Richter post intro

[silk vapor]

what you guys call wokeness is what bad writing is. for example Rainbow six's current direction.

[vernal lily]

Crying right now

[cobalt fiber]

Tbf I'd have shot a lot of people on sight had it been doable

[serene barn]

oh he did just not in the way they claimed him to have. the guy who wrote books on the guy was even outed as having made that stuff up to sell and lied about it being true so badly that japan basically killed off his reputation and things so he had to like flee the country.

[cobalt fiber]

New Vegas style

[serene barn]

the amount of disrepsect towards Japan that Ubislop has done with AC Shadows is a whole lot and it's not okay.

[cobalt fiber]

Ghost of Tsushima on the other hand was spectacular

[last saddle]

lol i wouldnt mind if there was a few more tbh

[serene barn]

honestly idk how it works with nicknames like it's just to make important chars to the game's story etc stand out more

[cobalt fiber]

Them names have gotta be randomly generated

Come across an elite stalker with a name like Chez Cheese

[last saddle]

some of them are for sure

[silk vapor]

Max Sleepy is a real one

[vernal lily]

Cheeze It basically

[cobalt fiber]

https://tenor.com/view/cheese-gif-25732604

[vernal lily]

The almighty Cheese

[serene barn]

Dragonage Veilguard or what it's called is another game that had an agenda where a char was something regarding identity but instead of going with a lore term, they used a real life one and they're also super obnoxious about it too from clips i saw, that is just plain bad representation.

literal war is happening and they decide to drop that they're non binary right then and there and then argue about it

[last saddle]

seeing that mixed review for recent reviews hurts

understandable but man the game is just good

[serene barn]

what, Veilguard?

[last saddle]

stalker

[serene barn]

nuhuh

[cobalt fiber]

Reviews are sheep mentality

[last saddle]

dont trust most reviews these days anyways but it deserved better

[cobalt fiber]

One person says something the rest follow

[serene barn]

tried to post a snippet of my 285,7 hours on steam

[cobalt fiber]

Baa Baa black sheep have you a good review

[silk vapor]

The funniest thing to me is always review bombing like..... People with more than one brain cell will just look at all reviews not recent ones

[serene barn]

i am absolutely not here to say the game is straight up bad

i am here to acknowledge the flaws it has because it does have them and a good bit frankly.

[last saddle]

its not but its like an early access launch that called final

[cobalt fiber]

People used to hate on dayz but now it's heiled as a masterpiece

Same with CP

[last saddle]

day z is what made me buy a pc years ago lol. maybe i just liked bad games

[drifting forge]

Im just happy HoC is finally out. You don't like it? Play it later lol

[cobalt fiber]

Before I played real dayz i played a San Andrea's MP dayz server lmao

[serene barn]

CP did actually go and fix a whole lot though which is good but the facts are that too was not ready for the market.

[drifting forge]

Not Stalker without bugs

[last saddle]

wow lol

[white chasm]

[last saddle]

whats CP?

[cobalt fiber]

Cyberpunk

[last saddle]

ah, game wasnt really bad imo but wasnt great either

[serene barn]

i'd assume we were on Cyberpunk 77 or what it's called full title

[vernal lily]

2077

[last saddle]

launch was a mess tho

[silk vapor]

Launch was such a mess yeah 😦

[serene barn]

wasn't bad, you must not have seen how it performanced on grand scale on the old gen consoles and other things, i sure did lol, it was absolutely horrendus

[noble yew]

Only on consoles, and who cares about them 8)

[last saddle]

only company i ever seen really redeem themselves is hello games with no mans sky. still pumping out new content til this day

[cobalt fiber]

See

[vernal lily]

NMS the goat

[cobalt fiber]

I finished CP at launch then I'm mid play through now too

It was fucked but I enjoyed it even at launch

[last saddle]

i played it day 1 i know hwo it was lol

[sharp flame]

Yo new patch looks pretty spicy

[serene barn]

wasn't it literally, so bad, that Sony straight up yeeted it from their store?

[vernal lily]

I heard Cyberpunk was a dumpster fire on launch so didn't play it till everything seemed fine.

[last saddle]

seems to be a pattern anymore

[white chasm]

I am happy with what I have currently. Waited so long for the game to release, and nobody will tell me to not have fun while playing it. Even on 10 fps, crashing every 15 min I still love the game and want to discover every secret

[vernal lily]

Enjoyed the game, I think I'll play it again

[last saddle]

i feel the same way. although my game doesnt run too bad at all

[sharp flame]

Pretty sure cyberpunk had to redo a lot of the game after years of development already, especially when they added celebs to the game

[low bison]

THE PATCH IS HERE

thank god

[sharp flame]

An this patch adds shadows to the torch light, among a heap of nice changes

[vernal lily]

Bread

[last saddle]

i really didnt notice much different with the headtorch

[white chasm]

On older patches it kept having lag spikes and on last patch it kept crashing more often, I already see huge improvements since originally release

[low bison]

thank you john stalker

[iron solar]

What exactly was the pistol rebalance?

[sharp flame]

I just hope they can upgrade the engine from 5.1 to 5.2 or something or even 5.3 eventually

[last saddle]

probably just not to have skifs pistol be the best one

[low bison]

what do they mean "silencer attachments rebalance?"

[last saddle]

if you use an uzi as a sidearm that works pretty well

[last saddle]

good question lol

[iron solar]

That too. Does it degrade the weapon less now? Less range?

[sharp flame]

Probably in line with the fixes for stealth, perhaps the silencers now are actually viable for stealth

[ornate sable]

It already was though

[last saddle]

they worked for stealth before tho?

[serene barn]

seeing a video of the npc looting bodies thing and it feels kinda nice to hear them at least apologize for taking things lol

[silk vapor]

ohh, do they? that's such a nice atmospheric addition

[ornate sable]

Pistol and SMG silencer recieved a nerf to distance from 30% to 15% but recieved reduction in durability cost per shot from 15% to 10%
Rifle silencer also now share the same stats as pistol silencer with 15% range and 10% per shot durability cost

[last saddle]

theyre supposed to heal eachother now too

[rapid pollen]

how come DLSS wasnt updated to latest version in the new patch?

[silk vapor]

oh yeah that's nice, felt so bad coming across a bunch of stalkers just walking past their mate on the floor writhing lol

[quiet rock]

Hows the update. Cant play it yet

[sharp flame]

You can force the new dlss 4 through the nvidia app

[last saddle]

lol yeah

[rapid pollen]

i know but still weird they didnt update it now that Nvidia said it would be on the day 1 list aswell 🙂

[quiet rock]

Btw did they fix the repution system bug with malchite?

[serene barn]

source?

[violet dune]

i use dlss4, its sharp

[serene barn]

they did that before just apparently not reliably.

[iron solar]

Hopefully this means the Cluster unique gets affected by this change

[last saddle]

not sure thats a bug after a certain quest they just hate you

[ornate sable]

Changelog in the googledocs, pinned comment.
Which sources directly from the game files I think

[civic swift]

Otherside Picnic expansion when

[sharp flame]

Might be apart of next patch, they were already working on this patch before dlss 4 became a thing

[violet dune]

who did this doc, god damn

[quiet rock]

They said it was. If you did good things with them, it would decrease the score

[last saddle]

ah, havnt seen that so im not sure

[sharp flame]

Pda faction rep tab when?

[quiet rock]

PLEASE

[rapid pollen]

maybe yea, i just find it weird because its a simple thing for them to swap out real quick 🙂 but atleast you can do it manually yourself until then

[vernal lily]

That's pretty interesting

[serene barn]

ah so they wrote in the patch notes that it was changed for pistols and then didn't mention it being changed for other things as well? how annoying man.

[quiet rock]

They said small arms so maybe smgs fall into it

[jade wadi]

Ah finally... SHADOWS!

[vernal lily]

The voices in my head crawling out in this new update

[sharp flame]

Also depends on your gpu (I think) dlss 4 is a rtx 50 series thing, older cards can use it, but I thought they only had to add dlss support, then its up to the consumer an nvidia (Im not sure entirely how it all works)

[violet dune]

i feel like some of these features we want will be only in DLC

[quiet rock]

6 changes with malachite so maybe one of those things involved the negative rep

[violet dune]

in DLC we need a bit of duty and freedom war, am i right ?

[low violet]

Yes they adressed that issue

[rapid pollen]

some people do call the new Multi frame gen DLSS 4.. but both the new transformer model (the thing most Nvidia cards can use) and then Multi framegen (50 series only) is called DLSS 4 really 🙂

[quiet rock]

Where is the faction choosing channel?

[cobalt fiber]

#👥┃faction-choice

[sharp flame]

Ohh, yeah that makes sense... Also just for the record, I think multi framegen is big dumb an not even a good gimmick

[cobalt fiber]

choose freedom

[sharp flame]

Dlss is fine though

[cobalt fiber]

🐐

[sharp flame]

Choose Monolith, we have a Monolith disc

[cobalt fiber]

I say, as a follower of the monolith

Woops

[last saddle]

lol

[quiet rock]

I ll switch to noon later. Strider is my goat.

[vernal lily]

Real

[violet dune]

noonphere is the goats

[last saddle]

they could have been anyway

[silk vapor]

how I wish we had secondary missions for them 😔

[sharp flame]

Whosphere

[sturdy verge]

ill switch to SIN if they ever become part of it 😄

[vernal lily]

WobbleSphere

[ornate sable]

I like Dutyfree

[vernal lily]

French fries

[last saddle]

chips?

[ornate sable]

Duty Fries

[jolly canyon]

How’s the new patch boys?

[sharp flame]

Kinda hope one of these patches adds more side quests, a mutant parts trader with chain quests that unlocks repeatable quests exclusive to mutants

[violet dune]

french fries cooked with airfryer 🥰 🥵

[vernal lily]

😩

[last saddle]

its a start. def not the savior tho

[sharp flame]

Thinking of 1.0-2.0 as a shadow early access

[jolly canyon]

Agreed. Killing so many mutants in this game, feels like there should be some more hunting or profit or story involved to it all.

[worldly venture]

they fixed the faust's corpse?

[vernal lily]

I would be excited to hunt blood suckers if this were the case

[sharp flame]

Also after playing kcd2, I must say, devs please please please make stashes actually worth it 😦

[violet dune]

i want some kind of savages in the zone who eats other human flesh or mutants...

[vernal lily]

That would be me wait a minute-

[jolly canyon]

Every session I kill like 10+ bloodsuckers just running around doing stuff

[jolly canyon]

Some stashes are really good. Some are total crap

[violet dune]

like freaks from wrong turn movie

[sharp flame]

psst "hey stalker, you mind fetching me a bloodsuckers head, its for research purposes"

[last saddle]

simple but effective

[vernal lily]

Bloodsuckers are just very dangerous calamari

[sharp flame]

The stashes for the ulti edition weapons (was it ulti or preorder either way) to get the skinned weapons was actually pretty decent, getting the blueprints is also pretty nice, but yeah gear wise its like 90% cheeks

[last saddle]

bloodsuckers are kinda pushovers but still a waste of ammo

[vernal lily]

Probably taste good breaded and deep fried

[vernal lily]

Just slap them silly with a shot gun

[sturdy verge]

i miss selling boars foot, blood suckers tenacles etc

[last saddle]

lemme thow a tentacle on a stick and cook it

[jolly canyon]

The preorder stashes are OP but some of the regular stashes are quite good. Theres on at malachite for instance that gives excellent armor. There are also usually better items in ‘named’ stashes from specific quests or whatever

[sturdy verge]

lemme smoke a controllers body part and see if i get its powers for a second 😄 like Zweed

[vernal lily]

Stalker kabab around the camp fire session when

[sharp flame]

Now if the devs wanted to get a little dark, surface level bloodsuckers most of the time, but underground there would be some form of evolved bloodsucker, avoids sunlight an all (basically think the I am legend creatures but with a scarier bloodsucker face)

[jolly canyon]

Controller brain jerky

[last saddle]

now we're talkin

[vernal lily]

Imagine taming a burer

[serene barn]

eeeh the Preorder stashes are like ok but the thing is that some of the guns are basically worse because they can't fix things the default ones and and they armors also also standard ones like the Monolith Seva suit is just a normal seva in stats.

[sturdy verge]

send it out to look for gold lol

[last saddle]

theyd probably be pretty chill

[violet dune]

marshmallows in the zalissya with bois next to warlock bar

[jolly canyon]

You can get a lot of them pretty early on without too much trouble which makes them feel pretty strong imo

[serene barn]

the M701 stash too can't fit the Holemaker shotgun either because the rail is wrapped

[vernal lily]

I want a burer homie

[ornate sable]

Usually, if they're hard to get to (require some form of puzzle to unlock, or lots of jumps or keys) they're good. If they're just found lying around, they typically contain just enough to get you home if you're running out of medkits or something.

[jolly canyon]

Imagine having a burer pet and when you need to fight you just drop three rpks out of your inventory for him to shoot

[sharp flame]

Yeah exactly

[last saddle]

except for the one in the swamp with all the flash anomalies. useless stash and a pain in the ass at that

[sharp flame]

Devs laughed making that stash

[last saddle]

lol

[serene barn]

i really hope they'll buff my RPM-74

[vernal lily]

😂

[sturdy verge]

yeah i bet they laughed when i ran off and jumped into a small pond and drowned 😄

[jolly canyon]

The most disappointing stash I did was the one on the helicopters where you need to jump on the moving propellers and avoid the whirly anomalies. All that just for some ammo and medkits, no gun, no blueprint even

[sharp flame]

I kinda hoped they would have a bit more gear to change out, like backpack, gloves maybe... I just like changing gear haha

[vernal lily]

Skif should be able to swim. He just starts drowning when the water is higher than his ankle.

[jolly canyon]

Zone water is molasses, step in a puddle and you can’t move

[last saddle]

yeah it does slow you down a ridiculous amount

[serene barn]

some times it would make sense that he can't because like if you're hauling 70kg of loot and your suit is drenched that thign becomes HEAVY

[last saddle]

i get certain swampy areas but man

[vernal lily]

But the frogs, they swim fine

[jolly canyon]

The swamp is basically a no go zone for me lol I am never going back there because wayyyy too much water to avoid

[serene barn]

like Skif will literally sometimes carry as much gear as a 20+ year old male weighs on him

[last saddle]

its actually not that bad. i thought the same when i went there for the main story. avoided it and decided to go back and wasnt nearly as bad as i expected

[jolly canyon]

Hmm. Maybe I could, there are like 5 stashes there I never even did

[vernal lily]

To a marine that weight should be nothing, even in water. But maybe not swamp Zone water.

[last saddle]

just try and go early morning so you can actually see lol

[serene barn]

honestly even to a marine i feel like 70kg would be too much

[jolly canyon]

Kinda disappointed with my glutton. It’s cool but makes you so immobile and that kind of sucks when I feel like its primary purpose is killing big mutants

[serene barn]

the Glutton is kinda bad.

[jolly canyon]

Yeah I was excited to use it and then it ended up being meh

[shell flax]

Glutton is more of a show piece imo, looks and sounds cool but it’s just so heavy it’s not worth it

[serene barn]

they really did not do the gun justice when they malnourished it with 7.62x39, made it recoil as if it was on 54R and do damage like a mid later game AR. but having the ammo weigh like it's big ol rounds of 54R or 308 for literally no reason

[wise fjord]

how many gb is the new patch

[eternal tiger]

Around 20

[sour sun]

24gigalybits

[sharp flame]

Does steam still download the whole game for the patch?

[wise fjord]

not bad thought it would be another 60gb patch

[silk vapor]

Didn't do it for me at least

[eternal tiger]

It shouldn't 💀

I was a little offput when I first played yesterday, but now I'm a little further in the story and I'm growing to really like it despite the flaws

[sour sun]

Sadly no update on the A-Life, specifically the spawning. pointless draw distance if they spawn in within 30m

optics are a waste of time

SVD is pointless

[jolly canyon]

SVD still kinda slaps tbh.

[grim wharf]

After being away for a month I'm impressed it runs so much better now

[cosmic portal]

i play it on gamepass and havent had any update yet ? idk

[jolly canyon]

Like I understand and agree with the critique and think the draw distance or spawn distance or whatever needs to be way larger so you can actually do some sniping, but the svd is still really good if you can get headshots. It’s cost effective too

[shell flax]

SVD and SVU slap, hell I use the SVU as a DMR after it’s upgraded enough, thing snaps into ADS

[grim wharf]

As I said haven't played in a month so never got the updates

[smoky ginkgo]

I love the SVD. The M701 has this little extra « ooooooph » feeling when you score a hit, but bolt action can put you in a tricky situation if you get some enemies running towards you

[sleek gulch]

New feature was added with patch 1.2: A copy of an enemy's gun will float on their corspe - all the time.
Also, npcs still get stuck on objects making them moonwalk, and gun butting is still useless as it has no proper reach. Atp, rather just stand still and reload like always
Dropping this game for the rest of 2025. I've had my fill of the Zone.

[serene barn]

i wish so badly that the MK1 was better too

[last saddle]

still havnt tried that one. i gotta get around to giving it a shot

[cosmic portal]

i finished the game with no artifact using spas12 and apsb with ap ammo

[jolly canyon]

Which is the mk1? Is that the weak dmr that shoots .308s?

[serene barn]

honestly unless you're fighting bandits it really isn't worth using.

[shell flax]

The 416 is a massive heartbreak to me, I love the M4/AR style looks on guns (though I wish the extended mag was the 60 round double stack instead of a goofy drum)

[last saddle]

yeah

[jolly canyon]

Yeah that thing is trash lol.

[serene barn]

even with AP ammo the MK1 needs like 2 headshots on Diamond Exos

[last saddle]

i just like using rifles

[jolly canyon]

Clusterfucc is better

[shell flax]

Petition to let us use the 8x optic on other guns

[serene barn]

i feel like it's kinda lame to make a rare and limited ammo type lik the 308 and then only have 1 gun that it is viable in because the MK1 just simply is not.

[jolly canyon]

I don’t like needing to use super expensive and kinda hard to find ammo in a gun that isn’t even doing big damage

[serene barn]

and you can only get the extended mag for it all over in Duga and then the 8x in Pripyiat where the gun no longer performs well

[last saddle]

yeah thats why i didnt use it but id like to at least give it a go

[cosmic portal]

all guns works if you shoot straight but ii true

[jolly canyon]

Seriously. Makes more sense on a bolt action anyway

[serene barn]

i really wanted to use it because i have a thing for that style of gun but man.

[last saddle]

yeah same

[shell flax]

Hopefully for future content we get more .308 love, GSC has a pretty fat list of rifles to choose from lmao (Give me a Tavor 7)

[serene barn]

also apparently they gave the Controller a new ability where it Roars and stuns you if you get close so seemingly bumrushing it with a shotgun will no longer be as easy but likely still doable.

[jolly canyon]

M1A is a super cool weapon irl so I also wanted it to be good

[shell flax]

Can’t stun lock me if I dump a Ram 2 into its gray matter

[cosmic portal]

anyone eslse found another pistole in 9x18? i only found one and it not even listen in the game guns

[vernal lily]

I always threw grenades anyways

[sturdy verge]

is it true in the new update, we can marry strelok and sid now?

[shell flax]

APSB, thing is a complete monster

[serene barn]

what gun is it that you claim is not listed?

[cosmic portal]

not that one

[jolly canyon]

Apsb is a beast. Chews through ammo

[vernal lily]

Yes confirmed, my friend just messaged and said it's true

[cosmic portal]

it like a green pistole that you can only loot at some guy i think

[shell flax]

Also anyone who’s been on the update, how’s the UDP handle with pistol rebalances?

[cosmic portal]

a version of the usp i think in 9x18

[jolly canyon]

I wanted the usp to be good so badly that’s always been my go to pistol

[serene barn]

proof? anything actually useful in determing what gun it is

[sturdy verge]

i havent tested the new update, i decided to pick having a long nap instead 😄

[cosmic portal]

it shoot 9x18 and was the only pistol that did

[serene barn]

hmm, there's no USP in 9x18, there is one in 9mm though.

[cosmic portal]

that one

[shell flax]

You mean 9x19?

[serene barn]

Gambit is the name of the 9mm USP

[cosmic portal]

oh yeah my bad

[shell flax]

That’s gambit, krivenko’s gun

[last saddle]

i used the gambit til i beat the game only cause i liked it lol

[serene barn]

it's bad, it's worse than a normal one because it does less damage.

[cosmic portal]

oh that right

[last saddle]

thing just looks cool

[shell flax]

Give us a beretta

[jolly canyon]

He means gambit

[cosmic portal]

there only one in the whole game ?

[serene barn]

also apparently they nerfed the USP and the PM so they have damage drop off earlier now.

[shell flax]

Yes

[jolly canyon]

Shoots 9x19

[serene barn]

while buffing the ABSP's drop off or something

[shell flax]

9x19 has like, three guns total lmao

[cosmic portal]

the absp is the best pistole

stronger then ak

[serene barn]

i wish it had a semi auto but it can be sort of if you do quick tabs when shooting

[cosmic portal]

yeah it full auto

[last saddle]

you have to headshot with it tho

[timber anchor]

guys

[cosmic portal]

with all the guns

[jolly canyon]

The revolver is decent tbh. If you can land headshots it’s pretty deadly close range against stalkers

[last saddle]

but thats most guns anyway

[timber anchor]

i played C.O.P. but what do you guys think is the best stalker?

[sturdy verge]

sid is the best stalker

[cosmic portal]

havent tried it mutch but i will in my next game

[timber anchor]

i meant the game

[sturdy verge]

i know haha

[timber anchor]

sid?

[jolly canyon]

I cleared out like 15 mercs at one point with just the revolver. It’s very good for fighting inside

[timber anchor]

is that an abbreviation?

[last saddle]

sidorovich

[timber anchor]

@sturdy verge

[sweet zephyr]

Have ARs been buffed?

[timber anchor]

bro i mean whats the best S.T.A.L.K.E.R. game

[serene barn]

no it's burst.

[timber anchor]

because months ago they told me call of pripyat but idk

[jolly canyon]

Call of Pripyat

[timber anchor]

why so

[cosmic portal]

yeah i know but when you shoot fast it kinfa goes auto

[last saddle]

the best stalker is the one you like the best. to each their own

[cosmic portal]

it even faster then auto

[timber anchor]

yeah but enthusiasts opinions are importwnt, people who played them all

[jolly canyon]

Fun asf gunplay, good story, good mechanics, bigger areas so less load screen, best mods

[cobalt fiber]

Covenant is amazing @maiden grotto

Such a strange change of pace for a direct sequel

[timber anchor]

but the story is different from all the other games

[cobalt fiber]

@last saddle veteran fret 😎

[timber anchor]

youre a ukranian secret agent bruh

[jolly canyon]

I like the story a lot in CoP I think it’s very interesting

[cobalt fiber]

Its like anything. Sequels always deviate and leave holes

[jolly canyon]

I mean SoC is the classic and the first I played and it is amazing but with CoP I really fell in love with the series

[cobalt fiber]

I'm watching through all of the Aliens and there's points where it seems like the xeno de evolved after a certain point. There's things that don't add up along the way. It's similar to Stalker 2 vs Trilogy and the holes

It just happens

[timber anchor]

how is the SoC story? can you tell me it in a nutshell?

[serene barn]

how would you know if it's faster than full auto when there is no full auto for it to compare it to lol.

[last saddle]

yup

[jolly canyon]

Kill the Strelok

[timber anchor]

come on

[sturdy verge]

kill the hair

[cosmic portal]

ok 😅 it aint full auto im just saying it shoot pretty fast for a burst gun that it

[jolly canyon]

Play the game and find out man I’m not gonna spoil it for you lol it’s a good story

[serene barn]

it'd be cool if the Mac10 was harder hitting

[cobalt fiber]

Resurrection was ok. Alien v Predator was surprisingly good, AVP2 was shit. Prometheus OK but different, causes issues with plot holes and evolution and Covenant is the same but an improvement on Prometheus

[timber anchor]

i didnt want you to spoil me anything i wanted to know how the game is based, do you choose your own faction or you start as a stalker

[cobalt fiber]

It's the same with Stalker 2 and these changes like with Strelok, Scar, some of the overall atmospheric plot holes

[timber anchor]

ive heard clear sky is cool because you join factions

[cobalt fiber]

Doesn't mean it's shit

[jolly canyon]

You start as a stalker later you can join faction should you want to

[cobalt fiber]

It's very hard to be consistent whilst moving forward

[cosmic portal]

mac10 just good to waste bullets lol

[ornate sable]

You wake up with amnesia, Sidorovich sends you out on a quest, barkeep asks you for secret documents, you get cutscenes that tell you who you are, eventually things happen at the Chornobyl powerplant.

[timber anchor]

which factions can you join

[timber anchor]

you can visit the powerplant?

[cobalt fiber]

Freedom or Duty but you don't join them

[jolly canyon]

Duty, freedom

[ornate sable]

In SoC? Yes, final stage of the game is set there.

[last saddle]

[cobalt fiber]

CNPP part is also a massive ballache

Lol

[timber anchor]

so nothing new

[jolly canyon]

It’s cool tho the first time

[timber anchor]

i wish i can join monolith so bad

[jolly canyon]

The game is from like 06 lol no nothing new

[cobalt fiber]

It's a pain in you want true ending tho

[cosmic portal]

anyone got their game crash at some mission where there alots of anomaly in a warehouse? toke me 15 time to complete it otherwise it would crash

[timber anchor]

you didnt understand what i meant

[cobalt fiber]

You were vague so how do you expect it to be interpreted?

[timber anchor]

do yall like it?

[jolly canyon]

Bro is trolling idk

[last saddle]

watch a few videos on it if you arent getting the answers you want

[timber anchor]

how

[jolly canyon]

I didn’t like clear sky personally. Lots of people loved it tho

[cobalt fiber]

Nerd emote cos I make more sense 🤡

[timber anchor]

really? why so

[sturdy verge]

yee why i did it with the whole Sid best stalker 😄 haha

[cobalt fiber]

In a lot of ways soc was superior

[jolly canyon]

I didn’t really like the faction mechanics and felt the balancing was off. Also it just didn’t give me that stalker feel idk

[cobalt fiber]

Clear sky thi

[timber anchor]

what mechanics also whats the balancing youre talking about, also where are you from? juliae is a latin name are you italian like me?

[last saddle]

[ornate sable]

Tried playing it after release way back when, couldn't finish it or even get out of the swamp because it kept crashing.
I'll revisit it once I've had my fill with S2. Apparently there are a bunch of mods now that actually makes it playable?

I've visited some of the areas later though, they were included in a mod I played for SoC a while back (not Anomaly), swamp, red forest, and limansk.

[last saddle]

i need to play thru the triology myself tbh

only one i own is CoP tho

[wintry pumice]

Bro talked too much, that even Wolf made you purple

How's the patch everyone? Everyone off to the shining zone yet?

[last saddle]

nah wolf trys taking that away

[wintry pumice]

Lol it seems the arena quest wasn't connected to Sircaa after all

[cobalt fiber]

The last part of it is later on

The chimera

[wintry pumice]

I didn't do Sircaa yet but now it's available

[cobalt fiber]

Hmm

It's piss easy too tbh

Get on the crates, drop to lure, rinse and repeat

[sleek gulch]

I hate myself. I'm reinstalling S2. The sudden cold front and the need to play with barely any hud or ui is haunting me. I'll never escape

[wintry pumice]

The hate is real

[ornate sable]

Def gonna try with reduced HUD next time.

[wintry pumice]

Yeah , I switched to single shot with kharod, carefully shooting it before I run Outta ammo. Here's hoping the chimera isn't too smart

[jolly canyon]

damn u already deleted it?

[sleek gulch]

@jolly canyon yeah, the new update brought nothing new but an extra bug where dead enemies have a copy of their gun floating on thier corpse.

[cobalt fiber]

brought nothing new

[last saddle]

shaders def take a bit longer than they did before

not crazy long just noticeable

[cobalt fiber]

Movie companion

She did have a big fluffy grey sister but she got ran over a few months back 😢

[last saddle]

horrible

[cobalt fiber]

Her coat was amazing

@dapper rock

[maiden grotto]

I hate myself for not unistalling it

[cobalt fiber]

I hate myself after nutting too

https://tenor.com/view/ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-happy-funny-śmiech-gif-22074544

[wintry pumice]

So do I

[maiden grotto]

Whatever takes ya fancy... I just want photos

[indigo meteor]

The new update help quite a bit or?

[maiden grotto]

Done the square toot of feck all for me so far 😄

[maiden grotto]

I might as be slamming ma d^ck in a fridge door and be done with it.

[cobalt fiber]

🤣

[indigo meteor]

Wut

[wintry pumice]

But the fridge door has rubber padding though?

You should try it with the door at the entrance to your house

[wintry pumice]

Strelok fits everywhere

[maiden grotto]

not inmy house, not enough space in the hallway 😄 I need positioning room in the kitchen 😄

[wintry pumice]

Bro's really put some thought into it...

[maiden grotto]

I do it when I want to do something more relaxing than playing S2 with bugs 😄

I find it more enjoyable 😄

But I just been playing Portal 2 with a mate, going through it for the first time in co-op

[wintry pumice]

TBH, they released the game 3 months earlier than they should have. They could have saved a lot of time and reputation

[real scaffold]

where can i find the title update

[maiden grotto]

brilliant game...

[last saddle]

yeah portal 2 is great

[wintry pumice]

It's in the shining zone

[real scaffold]

ty

[cobalt fiber]

Michael Fassbender is such a phenomenal actor

[maiden grotto]

It's the way they set spawns... They made them far to quick and far too often...

You clear and area, and you get like 30 seconds before everything spawns back again... It's like WTF!!

That squarely on teh devs, just not giving a F, and thinking players will enjoy being f^cked over and over again...

[real scaffold]

Still no freaking nods unbelievable

[violet dune]

on reddit i found they made longer days and shorter nights, i didnt notice this in patchnotes

[maiden grotto]

I will just use a mod and make it 4 hours... $ hours is good... It's a nice balance

[real scaffold]

thats good

[wintry pumice]

They supposedly fixed the infinite military spawn near rookie village

[wintry pumice]

They don't put all the changes they make there. Which is a bummer

[violet dune]

it still nice they considering on this matter

[last saddle]

what do you mean where can you find it

[cobalt fiber]

Still no freaking shakes unbelievable

[real scaffold]

i found it but the update notes

[violet dune]

yes, but this one should have been highlight, a lot of people mentioned it

[real scaffold]

i just want nods man

[maiden grotto]

I haven't tested the spawns yet....

I still haven't had my empty zone repopulated and my borked mission givers that did give mission any more in my first play through

I need to go all the way back to quiets old place, just after rescuing the Dr and do the whole of Zalyssia and Sphere over again, to 1) get my despawned NPC's back, and to get through Sphere again without spawnign an emission and borking the main quest line... In my 2nd play through

Been trying to do this for a week now

[wintry pumice]

Yeah aren't particularly exciting as they don't really increase enemy spawn rate or difficulty

[wintry pumice]

Barkeep missions seem to be fixed

[last saddle]

im on steam so they just show them there but if youre on console or w.e just google it, first thing that popped up were the notes

[maiden grotto]

Nope, neither is Harpy.

Yaniv, Zalyssia, and the Old pumping station place in red forest, just north of the mine, to the east is still empty too.

[wintry pumice]

I mean I haven't got to them yet but at least the mission symbol is no longer showing on the map

[maiden grotto]

and I don't have a save as there is about 100 hours of game in there, so quick saves etc all gone

[wintry pumice]

Mine too

[real scaffold]

im new to the game but wtf do i against anomalies?? like the first mission on the boat, I just keep on dying

[maiden grotto]

for you, not for me. It has done nothing for me.

[maiden grotto]

run

[real scaffold]

thats it??

[wintry pumice]

It's not for you but for me
A new line to break up

[maiden grotto]

You can stay... but it's not an anomaly

[wintry pumice]

The one in the boat is not an anomaly but a mutant. Just run for now

[last saddle]

if you mean where you keep getting things thrown at you theres a poltergeist inside the boat

just kill em thru the window

[wintry pumice]

Yeah he's not killing that with the meagre bullets we have at the start

[last saddle]

i did

[wintry pumice]

Lies

[maiden grotto]

Nope... We can, becaue we are nuts and put our characters in stupid and terrible danger 😄

[last saddle]

lol wtf?

had to shut off that annoying radio