☢┃stalker-general

[warm palm]

Does anyone know here how the f i hide from the emission while im in the sphere building with loads of heavy armor guys ..

[wintry pumice]

Yeah but it's a huge waste at the start though

[wintry pumice]

After Sircaa?

[last saddle]

you lose everything you start with anyways so may as well use em

[wintry pumice]

You can save them if you know how

[warm palm]

Yes after sircaa lik no youtuber get a emission at that point in the sphere but my ah does

[last saddle]

im not doing that

ammo is everywhere anyway same with guns

[maiden grotto]

I just shot it to bits with the AK, from the top at the back of the boat... just waited for it to come down the stairs, and said hello to it with my little friend...

I drop me trousers and it died laughing 😄

[real scaffold]

bet bet

[wintry pumice]

Stay inside a concrete building or the main building. You should be fine.

[warm palm]

And where is that i tried by those beds by that guy we need to talk with

[wintry pumice]

Haven't you been to the sphere before ?

[maiden grotto]

You want my emissions?

I had 2 leaving SIRCAA, one in Zlayssia and one in Sphere, both time whilst trying to deal with monolith 😄

my game hates me...

I think I have my own special copy 😄

I have also had boars and Psi-dogs spawn too 😄

[warm palm]

I have only i didnt had a emission upstairs

[noble yew]

you only lose the quest items, you can put the rest of the stuff in one of the nearby containers and keep it all after the cutscene

[wintry pumice]

Is the basement area not accessible?

[maiden grotto]

and blind dogs...

[last saddle]

yeah i know its just a cheese i dont like to use

[wintry pumice]

No cheese. It's called using

[warm palm]

But then i should go alot saves back to find the basement and wait for the emission..

[last saddle]

def an exploit lol. youre meant to start with the pistol

[noble yew]

not really an exploit, you dont really get anything crazy in the beginning anyhow

[last saddle]

dont care if ppl do it just saying i dont use it. no new players gonna randomly shove their guns into a safe before that cutscene

[wintry pumice]

Not really. If you have nothing to be robbed off, you can't be robbed

Unless you're dealing with organ harvesters

[hazy gyro]

i need to ask, did that patch fix Bingo for most people?

[maiden grotto]

No really... I hate Polti's... Death to the lot of them...

you lose most of the stuff and ammo, the AR416, you pick up you cant keep, along with the ammo....

Just kill the polti with it... save the AK and it's ammo in the container.

And it's not cheesing it, they put it there for reason, which is why some of it saved, and some of it isn't.

FOR DUTY

[last saddle]

guess im a masochist

[noble yew]

i am for sure, all the mods i have make everything harder and reduces overall loot lol

[maiden grotto]

Nah... I am the one that is that...

Gonna try and Zalyssia again 😄

[last saddle]

lmao 🫡

[boreal coyote]

these flashlight shadows are pathetic 🤣 i should have kept the mod

[elder obsidian]

is that bad ?

[boreal coyote]

yeah its barley noticeable and the light itself is still sh*t

[elder obsidian]

ufff

[boreal coyote]

tbh this whole update was not worth waiting for at all, unless you're someone that was having issues with quests or whatever

[wintry pumice]

Yeah I don't know why the AR416 and the green AKM just vanish even if you keep them in the safe

[maiden grotto]

Even then, it hasn't helped me at all 😄

[boreal coyote]

they've improved nothing gameplay wise as far as i can tell, still a mediocre game

[maiden grotto]

and the flashlight has no range 😦

[noble yew]

lol

[warm palm]

Im there where you need to power off the sphere like why there a emission..

[wintry pumice]

I want QoL improvements

[maiden grotto]

they need to add about another 25% on

[wintry pumice]

Yeah but you have to wait it out anyway

[warm palm]

Yeah where in that basement ?

[elder obsidian]

stalker games always had the best ligths effects and the best IA. what happened

[misty hamlet]

game still runs like cheeks :(

[elder obsidian]

no DLSS4 ?

[wintry pumice]

Just get inside the basement where you meet with Sodler for the first time. You should be safe from the emissions

Or embrace your inner Mono and enjoy the emission

[maiden grotto]

They put a personal stash box at Quiets old place.

[boreal coyote]

people are praising them online like what? im sorry but this is a huge disappointment 🤣 this update did nothing but the bare minimum, it allegedly made the game working and were supposed to praise them for that? its too little too late for those of use who have already completed the game while wresting with their bugs and stuff this update gives us no reason to play again, huge L for gsc imo they deserve no praise for this

[last saddle]

Good

[maiden grotto]

I can go face monolith armed like a fecking beast noe

[boreal coyote]

anyone who disagrees is just coping sorry boys back to kcd2

[drifting forge]

Just play later. You don't have to play now

[noble yew]

see ya

[boreal coyote]

thats the plan

[cobalt fiber]

Just finished Covenant. Phenomenal

[dull bridge]

Bare minimum is bait. This patch is yuge.

[cobalt fiber]

Shame Disney gave Ridley Scott the boot when buying Fox

[boreal coyote]

cope bro patch is huge= they fixed bugs that should have never been in the game on launch lol if thats what you find acceptable then ok buddy 🤣 ive higher standards than that

[sweet zephyr]

you seem like the kinda person to do a spin before laying down like a dog or something

[dull bridge]

I never said that, broski. I just found your framing a bit silly.

[noble yew]

theres 0 reason to interact with him, hes either trolling or an idiot, prolly a mixture of both

[boreal coyote]

oh good one....

[maiden grotto]

Hasn't stop throwing emissions at me.... but at least this is way out side Zalyssia, so should effect anything.

[cobalt fiber]

Nearly every game has bugs at launch

Saying a game shouldn't have bugs at launch is like saying meat shouldn't have fat on it when packaged

[maiden grotto]

we are up to 5000 now? or somethign silly like that 😄

[cobalt fiber]

4999

[sweet zephyr]

oh pigbetey or whatever his name was has been typing for a while
I'm soooooo scared

[dull bridge]

[maiden grotto]

Everything all falls down, just one out, feck it all, no point 🤣

[cobalt fiber]

You need to chill out @sweet zephyr

[boreal coyote]

bruh of course they do but they dont all launch with over 100 game breaking bugs where half the player base cant finish it lol wtf do you mean

[cobalt fiber]

I mean what I said bud idk

[boreal coyote]

bruh whats your deal

[sweet zephyr]

sure thing!
thanks for holding me back there

[boreal coyote]

are you 12?

[sweet zephyr]

3 hours of sleep and 5 hour energy

[cobalt fiber]

I mean if the pair of you carry on arguing like a pair of prats a timeout will be what's holding you back

[boreal coyote]

no need to get all in the feels when we are talking about a video game like

[simple shard]

this patch did well highlighting how much progress there really is still left to go towards a polished 1.0 state. not that nothing was fixed here, but for people who have already beaten the game and are looking for a reason to continue a second run or whatever, probably check back in like 8 months or so

[cobalt fiber]

You can have disagreement and/or a debate without getting bent up and being downright childish

[simple shard]

For people who were blocked from finishing the game in general, hopefully this patch pushed things into a state workable enough for them to be able to continue

[boreal coyote]

apparently not everyone can lol

[lyric kayak]

Everyone in the Zone so mean

[cobalt fiber]

There are issues and I get what you're saying about the state it was released in but I'm just happy progress is being made

[sweet zephyr]

i'm not engaging anymore for any mods to see

[cobalt fiber]

Nothing we can do to change what's already happened unfortunately

[shrewd kindle]

It kinda feels like they made the enemies tracers brighter, I can see every little pellet now when I’m getting shot at by a dude with a shotgun

[dull bridge]

Modern gaming, unfortunately... It is what it is. At least they're doing work!

[boreal coyote]

and thats my point really, if the game was busted for you then this patch might be good but for everyone else its just meh, its nothing

[dull bridge]

Or maybe it's always been this way, I've just forgotten.

[cobalt fiber]

^

[warm palm]

I can tell u havent play stalker 2 yet.. the basement door is locked so ... i guess i got a bug..

[maiden grotto]

Different people have different issues.

My first play through is utter fubar... It needs patching, nothing yet.

[cobalt fiber]

It is what it is. Words to live by regardless of the circumstances

[simple shard]

it's not a glamorous patch, no, which I'm sure is disappointing for many. The harsh reality we're looking at is months of slow-seeming rework, which, you know, bummer, but there is plenty of other stuff to do until then

[wintry pumice]

Wow I guess I must have imagined playing the game. You've really got bigger brains than a

[cobalt fiber]

It'll be like Cyberpunk and everyone will be shouting from the rooftops how great the game came along and how it feels fresh and completely different

[shrewd kindle]

“They don’t think it be like it is, but it do”

[boreal coyote]

and that sucks man, it gets tiring buying unfinished games just to hear promise after promise

[quartz galleon]

Hi, does anyone else can not like... open the game since last patch? i am wondering if it could be my PC or game problem i need sugestions

[cobalt fiber]

Error codes?

[boreal coyote]

nah i dont see it with this one, i had faith but its fading man, they've proven nothing

[cobalt fiber]

It took CP ages tbf

[dull bridge]

Cyberpunk took a while.

Like... Idk, years for me.

[quartz galleon]

i dont know, i think is general i just tried to open another game and it does not open, it says that the game is executed but the game window does not appear

[cobalt fiber]

Tried the usual hard reboot of the PC?

[maiden grotto]

You know what I hate about this current A-life spawn simulator... is when you waalk out side a safe house immediately after an emission... And there is squad of stalkers casually walking around the corner of a wall....

Because the good damn fecking sack of sh^t that is the spawn simulator doesn't even give you 10 sec's after an emission and start throwing things at, friendly or not.

No common sense at all...

The update has done feck all to address this.

[boreal coyote]

i understand but i dont see it for gsc, cyberpunk had everyone talking about a huge spotlight and a lot of pressure to fix it, whos talking about stalker? nobody

[terse ravine]

anyone know what balance changes were made to pistols and pistol silencers? its mentioned in the patch notes, but no specifics

[simple shard]

ya, from a consumer perspective it's completely understandable to feel disappointed and/or taken advantage of, it's not unreasonable to expect delivery of the promised product after parting with cash for it, regardless of the state of the industry and the typical release state of games there's no justification for it.

Just a crappy situation really, the reality is that there was never going to be any other way the game saw release at all, and now we simply have to wait and hope for the eventuality that GSC keeps their promise to deliver eventually, although goalposts have a tendency to be moved for what's considered "complete" once the game is actually out as well unfortunately

For me, the money I spent was fine for the hours of entertainment I got out of it. I won't say I'm enthusiastic about how the launch turned out, but it's an easy enough slight to let go and forget about it for the next year while GSC works out their business (or not)

[dull bridge]

And we still have the multiplayer to look forward to! 😄

[simple shard]

personally i would rather be dead than play competitive multiplayer in a stalker game. but for the people interested in that, I'm glad they have it to look forward to

[grim wharf]

Apparently there was a patch out today as well

[maiden grotto]

@ DEVS - Add a 5 min call down of f^cking on spawns after an emission...

Because it's fecking BS walking out side after one, and seeing a f^cking 100 stalkers having a fecking party...

Use your fecking brains.

[grim wharf]

Must have picked up the last 2 patches because I never had the one in January

[dull bridge]

Yup! Hotfix probably?

[boreal coyote]

yeah dont get me wrong i enjoyed mine too but i had to really grit my teeth and beat my face into a brick wall in order to enjoy it 🤣 is it just me or has the gaming industry become a church? you must give your money and have faith that things will get better and if you say anything bad about the all mighty developer may all their followers shout you out of existence lol

[grim wharf]

Why they are just happy they lived to see another day

[grim wharf]

Thought it was until I looked it up

[dull bridge]

What happened?

[grim wharf]

But it's a full on patch with fps and A-Life fixes

[maiden grotto]

They should all be dead... and time should allow for STALKER's to get back out and start exploring... Giving an illusion of a living zone...

Not spawn BS, time and time again

Becuase it tells me they have feck all to address spawing problems

[grim wharf]

Maybe they are a special case like scar

https://www.windowscentral.com/gaming/stalker-2-just-got-a-huge-patch-1-2-update-with-over-1-700-fixes-a-new-attack-for-one-of-its-scariest-mutants-and-more

[maiden grotto]

I just walked out on a squad of 6 stand Freedom... walking aroudn the corner having a chat... Near Quiets place..

Complete BS, I was in the only safe building within 400-500 meters

[grim wharf]

If you wanna take a look at the patch notes

[noble yew]

brother this is the official discord where they released the patch notes lol

[grim wharf]

Really

[maiden grotto]

I don't need to look at the patch notes, I was on hear when they dropped.

[grim wharf]

Never seen the patch notes section here honestly

[noble yew]

reading is hard sometimes i guess

[maiden grotto]

its linked through the announcement channel

[boreal coyote]

i am the patch notes

[grim wharf]

Oh it's in the announcements section

I'm not around too often so that's my bad

[maiden grotto]

no worries...

Back to my spawning BS simulator 😄

[cobalt fiber]

No need

[grim wharf]

Yeah I'm normally working on original Xboxes and game modification so I lose track of what's going on

[noble yew]

sorry mom

[cobalt fiber]

Man I miss the original xbox/ps2 era so much

No battle royale, no skimping on story for multiplayer, no wokeness, just good old fashioned fun

[grim wharf]

I sometimes post what I'm working on in offtopic

[boreal coyote]

no waiting for them to fix the game after you've bought it

[cobalt fiber]

[grim wharf]

Funny enough PC and Xbox started game patches

[boreal coyote]

yeah but back then they werent used as a crutch, they would do everything possible to make it so you dont need a patch to play

[cobalt fiber]

A time where DLC was pushed into new games instead of an update because updates weren't a thing

[grim wharf]

When Xbox Live was a thing on original xbox you could download update installers and Halo 2 had a dashboard update installer embedded in Halo 2

[cobalt fiber]

Watching Romulus @maiden grotto

[dull bridge]

Todd Howard's Oblivion started the whole DLC trend, or so it is said.

[cobalt fiber]

Let's see how bad Disney butchered the best sci-fi horror franchise

[grim wharf]

Dlc was also a thing on original xbox so it started with PC and Xbox

[weary hedge]

Have they fixed the issue where the game breaks itself at duga and doesn’t let you progress so u just get trapped in that tiny little area

[grim wharf]

Example Kotor 1 had the yavin station DLC you could buy through Xbox live and run with a installer a number of other games had DLC as well including Splinter Cell, Rainbow six, WrestleMania 21 and others

[cobalt fiber]

What a game Kotor was

[shrewd kindle]

It was better than I expected

[maiden grotto]

😦

[cobalt fiber]

I hope I feel the same

[grim wharf]

I helped with getting KOTOR 2 to run in forced 720p 16:9

[cobalt fiber]

I'm worried about the references to old films. Nods are cool but I hope it isn't done in a shitty way

And that it carries itself well as its own entry

[grim wharf]

I also helped test aspects of the ported content restoration mod to original xbox too

[cobalt fiber]

I really did hope the next Alien would be a Covenant sequel because there was potential there + the timeline would be closed nicely

[maiden grotto]

So they place Koyla Green in the building at the Eastern check point you have a chance to save him...

But he is now hostile to you...

So do you something that makes sense, then make him hostile so have to kill someone you are friendly with

fecking great

[grim wharf]

The problem with Kotor in general being forced into 720p is similar to the issue on PC where GUI and menus fail to size properly so you have to manually fix all of that which is easy enough because it's the same layout as PC

[last saddle]

i had that dudes pda in my inventory til i finished the game. just showed up as a quest item the entire time

found him dead or i killed em and didnt notice 🤷‍♂️

[shrewd kindle]

Most of the nods are subtle besides one really glaring exception, you’ll know what it is immediately lol

Actually 2

[cobalt fiber]

Is it the one that's in the trailer? The "let go of her you bitch"?

[shrewd kindle]

That’s the second one I was thinking of lol

[maiden grotto]

They changed it, originally he was outside, standing on teh box...

So you go into help him, and he shoots you... Feckign stupid game

[cobalt fiber]

In the very first scene when they're eating the little table decoration is straight from Covenant heh

[last saddle]

what do you mean they changed it? like what is the actual goal of him? cause i couldnt do anything with the pda

guess ill find out furing this playthrough anyway

[maiden grotto]

before he stood downstair on box outside.... and gets slaughtered...

Now he is standing upstairs of the building in teh Eastern Checkpoint...

But he is hostile to you, when he is surrounded Monolith, you kill em all he attackts you.

[grim wharf]

I did post screenshots of the fixes in offtopic if you guys are interested it was a lot of work but I enjoyed it

[last saddle]

ah i see, did you get the pda too then?

[maiden grotto]

Didn;t bother picking it up I want to know why someone who is supposed to be friendly with me, attacks me, when I kill all those that are shooting at him...

Taking off monolith armour to see if that changes anything.

[last saddle]

lmk

only thing that annoys me using the ukrainian voices are the subtitles are finicky af. like you have to be in a certain range even if you can hear it

[maiden grotto]

nope... regardless of what you are weaoing, if you kill on the monolith, the guy shoots you...

[last saddle]

well then

[maiden grotto]

which makes no sense

games written by 12 year olds

[last saddle]

ptsd?

[maiden grotto]

not really, you kill all the monolith

[last saddle]

there was one other guy i cant remember his name who i really didnt wanna kill but he made me

[maiden grotto]

You get the call from teh guy for help, you are not gonna take me down... so you help him kill everyone and he is still hostil, when he is a Loner.

Seriously, what's the point in changing the location of where he spawns to something more survivable, the force you to kill him anyway?

what's the fecking point... you might as well left it as it was

[shrewd kindle]

Yeah that’s why I played on English my first playthrough, didn’t wanna miss any info. the rest are gonna be in Ukrainian now though

I started a new playthrough this morning and using an exo suit for so long has given me some bad habits lol

[primal snow]

i’ve been giving the game sometime before i played it so the bugs and all that get fixed, did they fix the in game economy?

[pliant raven]

After this update, did anyone miss any items? My exosuit is gone, my character is wearing just a "bandit jacket"

[last saddle]

started fresh so i couldnt tell you

[maiden grotto]

The game is still spawning stuff on.... Had leave the guy at the Eastern Check Point, get to the other side and the game spawns a group of bandits...

Why the feck kis the game spawnign bandits around Zalyssia when monolith are attacking...

Can these fecking Devs do anything right?

Seriously, I have lost all patience with them... Some moron in a position, is a retard and making stupid game dev Descisions....

The game is a fecking a mess, with descision made by idiots.

[last saddle]

kinda feels nice using shit guns again

[ionic cliff]

I might be blind but did the fixes finally include being able to sprint for longer than 5 seconds?

[sleek gulch]

Yeah yeah yeah, I love when enemies still spawn 10 meters away from me! Yeh yes, makes a no-HUD run needlessly hard. Totally won't turn some ui back on yay same issues yay.

[last saddle]

5 seconds?

why do i feel like im playing a different game half the time

[flint plover]

Welp, that was dissapointing. They should just stop using the "A-Life 2.0" buzzwords now. Nothing happens outside your little 150m bubble. Shit the game doesn't even render NPCs past that point. Wtf...

[maiden grotto]

Everyone in feck Zalyssia is hostile to you now....

[ionic cliff]

Yes. Speaking of how fast the bar drains compared to other stalker games and other games in general. So that part is still im there i take it?

[last saddle]

yeah i mean it can be altered depending on your weight and atrifacts. also a short period after energy drinks

[last saddle]

@rog lol

[ionic cliff]

Yeah okay but then its still the same. My point is i think the system is ridiculous. Energy drinks in CoP for instance would just reduce the drain rate, not give a flat increase. Essentially in a massive world you need your basic sprint to actually work.

[ionic cliff]

Ah. In that case no reason to get back to the game yet. Shame! 🫠

[vernal lily]

So using the guide for free was a bug this entire time? I thought it was because you got them green, based on someone here.

[last saddle]

they technically do still travel you just cant see it. but if you get close enough theyll still be there moving along

[maiden grotto]

I have lost it...

I hate this game now.... how the f*ck can these idiots devs, feck up so badly...

[vernal lily]

Just got home, now I will see what the fuss is all about with this patch.

[flint plover]

I've followed them walking themselves into a lake to die. They aren't even scripted to follow a route to trade area or anything. They lazily made them walk a straight line lol

[last saddle]

never seen them walk into their deaths but i have seen them walk right next to the giant water orb anomaly and take no damage

[flint plover]

Yeah I watched them walk as a group into a lake and all die 1 by 1. lol so lazy

[last saddle]

we need a damn therapist in this room

[flint plover]

Thank God I have Anomaly and the modpacks. I'll have to hold off on S2 indefinitely

[cedar panther]

All i care for is of my stashbox got fixed cause if it didn't the game still useless for me

[vernal lily]

Anomaly

[wide robin]

116gb for a patch what a joke

[last saddle]

its not 116 gigs

[flint plover]

Anomaly is more Stalker than S2 at this point. At least AI exists

[cedar panther]

21gigs on xbox

[last saddle]

there was one for 22 and another for a little less than 11

[wide robin]

116gb on my xbox series x

[vernal lily]

What's with some people's large patch size. Mine was around 24 gigs

[wide robin]

Wish I could send photo

[flint plover]

That's just the size it requires on your SSD. The download itself is only around 20

[maiden grotto]

I have seen NPC's run towards grenades and through anomalies and just die... there mates walk on, and don't responded, despite 3 of then all getting killed.

NPC's are fecking morons, just brain dead idiots with intellectual power of a sh*t in a bucket.

the AI in this game is non existent.

[last saddle]

then dont die to them

[wide robin]

I still have to download 116gb regardless

[flint plover]

This video shows how bad Stalker 2 AI is vs 17 year old Stalker AI
https://youtu.be/t1zM3ePkYPo

[wide robin]

Or it won't update

[last saddle]

i get it tho. but there really isnt any game that i think ai is great in tbh. like none. closest ive seen is tarkov ai

[wide robin]

Stupid people don't understand you can't make update sizes close to how much the game size is, its ridc

[last saddle]

and thats not saying a lot

[vernal lily]

buh

[last saddle]

def using a lot more meds on vet

[maiden grotto]

No, there are plenty of games with some good AI.

that react to what is going on around them.

[last saddle]

i dont think there are any that make it feel real. they all seem to have quirks. that being said they do need work

[maiden grotto]

it's the way UE5 works... sometimes they have to replace entire files and those files can be GB big

[wide robin]

Yeah but people are just gonna delete the game and download the smaller file which is the game with the update already

[flint plover]

I just do that when Squad updates. It's literally faster.

[frigid hill]

mffm_gypsy has been warned

Reason: Bad word usage

[maiden grotto]

There is a massive difference between quirks, and no intelligence at all.

Like running towards grenades, not using cover, not avoiding anomalies, taking forever and a day to respond to the presense of mutants...

It's appaling in S2... I hope they improve it, as of right now it is joke.

[wide robin]

2025 is needs to stop ✋️

[flint plover]

Gaming industry as a whole needs a reset tbh

[wide robin]

113%

[wide robin]

All this sh*tyy games like atomfall and south of midnight, industry makes me sick

[last saddle]

hurts my soul working for ward

[maiden grotto]

But it wont, becuase to fool will just go out an by regardless... Then cry like babies when the next game doesn;t work and wonder why.

Or got people that will spend whatever and don;t care, becaue spending $100 on a gmae is nothing to them, but the rest of the gaming community can't afford that...

Gaming is cesspit of sh^t.

[maiden grotto]

I can't even do that... I can't even rescue zalyssia at the moment.

[frigid hill]

.fret has been warned

Reason: Bad word usage

[last saddle]

the hell? i dont even think i said a cuss word there

shit

thought it may be that. nvm

[vernal lily]

You can say shit here but not the F word on this server, lol

[maiden grotto]

I saved the game at 5 in the morning... just loaded the game, it now 2 in the afternoon 😄

[last saddle]

yeah kind of odd

[last saddle]

gsc just messin with you at this point

[maiden grotto]

are there console commands to bring NPC's back to life?

[dense quartz]

Soooo How is the patch guys ?
How are the shadows hows alife ?
How different does the game feel with 1.2 ?

[last saddle]

now much difference at all tbh

[maiden grotto]

Rather punch myself in the face 😄

[vernal lily]

Can't even play game right now because my internet refuses to cooperate

[grim wharf]

There's a guy you had to get psi components for I'm curious how long does it take for him to contact you that the armor is ready

[dense quartz]

Wait so the patch actually made the game worse?!

[maiden grotto]

And Dracula has died again... is there a console comand to raise dead NPC's?

[last saddle]

didnt make it worse, but didnt change much

[grim wharf]

It feels a little better on my end less frame drops and rostok doesn't crash the game

[hot basin]

The scream from the controller is pretty cool

[maiden grotto]

even at the end of the battle Zalyssia this game spawns in a big fat squad of bandits...

Dev's go do one.

just had to reload from a save point, becuae I just dont want to deal with them

because why would bandits be wanding a round when monolith have been attacking the area...

It's just pathetic

the way the defence is set up is pathetic, where the Monolith are is pathetic, no tactical thought applies to the fight what so ever...

Just dump a load of monolith in the area, dump some defenders....

Who gives a f^ck about things making sense, and applying tactical nuance to anything.,...

[sleek gulch]

Devs still haven't fixed a single leaf blocking all your shots while the enemy's bullet will pass through the leaf and damage you.

🤷‍♂️

[hoary crest]

Idk, I dont think thats unlikely a scenario, bunch of townsfolk and monolith fighting one another, bandits probably see that as an easy opportunity to nick some free sh*t, pick off members of each side whilst they're busy with others

Idk why anyone really cares about saving Zalyssia anyway tbh, theres nothing there 😄

[last saddle]

which mission is the point you should save so you can see all 4 endings? legends of the zone?

[grim wharf]

I liked the battle

I don't care too much for run and gun games

[last saddle]

doing a 2nd playthrough fully but would rather not do a 3rd and 4th i dont think

[grim wharf]

I just like the combat and exploring

[last saddle]

yeah its def good fun

[sick token]

Hey guys, so I play Stalker: 2 through Linux on GOG. How can I tell what game version I have in-game?

[maiden grotto]

@last saddle will how many problems I have had with Zalyssia and Sphere over the last week.

It's just not funny anymore.

[last saddle]

yeah rog has had it rough for sure. kinda nutty

[harsh jungle]

I haven’t even beaten the game once lol

[last saddle]

im off work til the 24th so im taking full advantage lol

[maiden grotto]

Neither have... 400 hours... first play through 200 hours game borked beyond all hope...

2 play through, 200 hours, can't through Zalyssia and Sphere without issues... beeen stuck here for a week

in fact I am going to show people my issues with Yanic etc

[last saddle]

at this point why not just say F zalyssia

dont recall it being part of the main mission?

[harsh jungle]

I beat my own variation of the “main quest” and never looked back

[last saddle]

well exept at the beginning

[harsh jungle]

it’s right after sircaa iirc

[maiden grotto]

Because I want to save Zalyssia, I done it once,and I want to do it again. Then I need to do sphere, but that got bugged as well...

[harsh minnow]

Looking forward to better Alife improvements in the next patch hopefully

[last saddle]

Well you're def one dedicated mf

[maiden grotto]

as my first game I couldn;t do it, becuase it was bugged to feck

[last saddle]

Seeing as I'm doing a ward run now I'm just gonna be a complete dirt bag this run

[maiden grotto]

#📸┃screens_and_videos message

this is the mission bug I have got, it tells you to hand in the mission, but gives you no option to hand it in... and you just can't get more missions from them.... They are jsut dead to me basically.... But I have already handed it in, and got the reward... No way to fix it, all using console does is remove the blue icon

I have 3 NPC's like this, Barkeep, Harpy, and one other...

[wary ibex]

We need brighter flashlights and dynamic muzzle shadows please 😄

[last saddle]

Damn so.ething must have went wrong during the mission. No idea what you could do

Console commands maybe?

[maiden grotto]

Nope been like this for a long time, about 100 hours of game play

[vernal lily]

I tried that, it just takes the quest off your list, those sellers Rog mentioned still didn't give me any more sidequests.

[sleek gulch]

Shoutout to the day 1 glitch of the entire hud completely dissappearing for no reason and only comes back when you pause then unpause. It's still there

[last saddle]

I have a feeling a lot of it is tied to emissions or taking action during dialog

[maiden grotto]

They spent 50-80 million on what?

They saw the money and went mental and forgot to make the game

[last saddle]

Bad employees or management i guess lol

[vernal lily]

but idk you really have it worse here lmao, I didn't really encountered that many issues myself.

[terse ravine]

how come the mist anomaly underground and house doesn't protect you from emissions?

[maiden grotto]

probably management.... SoC needed someone to come in save them then as they was making a mess out of it.

[terse ravine]

usually its the suits making the terrible decisions

corporate business making the most important decisions when they've never played video games in their lives

[maiden grotto]

But at least my population has returned at Yaniv 😄

something positive

[shell flax]

Garry still borked?

[frigid hill]

.fret has been warned

Reason: Bad word usage

[terse ravine]

red forest has so many psi zones, gotta pop so many psi blocks if i wanna explore

[maiden grotto]

My Garry is back....

[last saddle]

wth? i literally didnt say a cuss word again

[shell flax]

Wolf is very trigger happy and tends to misread things

[frigid hill]

.fret has been warned

Reason: Bad word usage

[last saddle]

i said sh*tty and not shit. my bad

[terse ravine]

i really liked wolfs lines with the rookie stalker when he's talking about strelok

[shell flax]

Ass bagel

[last saddle]

the house has to have boarded windows or it wont work. even being undneath it. kinda lame i know

[shell flax]

It’s incredibly inconsistent lmao

[last saddle]

if it has a window open youll just fry

[terse ravine]

in the duga theres a little shed with grate windows and it still protects me from emissions

[frigid hill]

l3aperjr has been warned

Reason: Bad word usage

[last saddle]

yup

[vernal lily]

💀

[last saddle]

glass windows are dangerous 🤷‍♂️

[terse ravine]

are emissions just a huge blast of psi radiation?

[last saddle]

kinda wish they looked a little more badass

[grim wharf]

I think that's the concept

[shell flax]

They get the job done, though my one thing: add an explosion in the distance to coincide with the BOOM

[maiden grotto]

My entire population at pile driver, is gone, and the shop/mission giver is bugged, like HArpy and BArkeep...

#📸┃screens_and_videos message

[last saddle]

piledriver was empty to me too except for 2 guys when i first went. the 2nd guy left and then it was just the vendor. figured it was supposed to be that way since its a small building

the quest is also not acceptable until you do a certain main mission first

should be able to go back and get the side quest after meeting with the doctor

[maiden grotto]

That is bugged, there are supposed to be a load of people downsstairs in the room 3/4 and about 3/4 outside

[last saddle]

oh, didnt even realize that

[maiden grotto]

Neither did I until I went through my second play through

I will see if I can show you

[cedar panther]

Well they sort of fixed my stash it no longer crashes my game bit it stil doesn't sort it . items still are all over the place

[slender fern]

How's a-life after the patch?

[last saddle]

even on videos of pile driver the towns empty aside from the vendor. id like to see that if you have it

[last saddle]

honestly i cant tell anything different with a life currently

[slender fern]

Played at launch, decided to let it cook for a while. Worth waiting or is it all chill now?

[last saddle]

i did the same but decided to play it in early january and ive been playing it since. i personally love it now. but it does still need work

doing a 2nd run now

a lot of ppl are still pissed and think its shit so id say just give it a go and see what you think

[terse ravine]

anyone know what balance changes were made to pistols and pistol silencers? its mentioned in the patch notes, but no specifics

[maiden grotto]

Here you go - #📸┃screens_and_videos message

People outside doing press ups, guys inside, then you got the guy up stairs giving out missions...

The game is utterly fecked and I have no idea what the blew the money on... £80 million, it should have been epic from the go.

[last saddle]

is that during early story or something? not sure if something causes them to leave or be killed like the ppl who were hunting for the doctor

lore wise maybe. i dunno

i didnt go there early at all. went during the story of the game

[maiden grotto]

nope, in my first game, there was only three people outside, and the all de spawned after I killed the stag.

It was bugged from the get go...

And until the patch... that was, exactly what Yaniv was like...

Just no one around... I had to do the whole defence of Yaniv with no help at all from teh guards.... there wasn't any 🤣

[last saddle]

yeah thats crazy. guess ill see how it is next this time around. maybe ill go early and check it out. still in the lesser now

[maiden grotto]

The game has broken me completely.... It has actually tainted my love for STALKER.

[last saddle]

[maiden grotto]

Nothing they do make sense... Like Koylo Green at the Eastern Checkpoint out of Zalyssia.... If you run straight to him no firing, he is hostile to you, and he will shoot you, there is no option to help him, calm, or do anything... The moved teh NPC from teh box outside, into the upstairs of the building...

And you can;t save him.... What was the fecking point? Why move him, if moving him, just means you have to shoot him?

[last saddle]

"Damaged during the battle with Monolith, this PDA contains a recording that sheds light on the reasons behind the stalker’s desperate act." is what his pda says from his body. pretty sure hes supposed to attack you but its def bugged cause the pda is a quest item that you cant do anything with

dudes a paranoid mess for some reason

[coarse wharf]

getting terrible ghosting and weird visual artifats since latest patch. no problems previously

[last saddle]

there was one point where i had ghosting out of nowhere too. think a reload fixed it if i recall correctly

[maiden grotto]

Yeah, I think the people that were around him turned into monolith...

Even if you kill all the Monolith, you can;t help him... Maybe if you leave him and come back... Once he has calmed down..

But there is no point in giving him a chance to survive his friends turning on him, if you end up killing him instead

Could have been an option for another questline, dealing with aftermath of so many friends and comrads of people turning back into monolith... there was nothing...

But then Monolith should never have come back in the first place.

[last saddle]

yeah that ones def bugged for sure

[weary hedge]

How big is this patch? My game is shows it has to redownload the entire thing?

[deep pine]

24.5 gb download, patching takes a long time too

[weary hedge]

Ok thanks.

[maiden grotto]

Kolya Green still hostile, you still get a quest locked PDA, just a waste of time

[last saddle]

good times

[deep pine]

Negative Nancy right here

[maiden grotto]

?

😦

Relaoding is still shyte.

[vernal lily]

Just patiently waiting for my internet to stop sharting itself so it can update the game

[maiden grotto]

By more mice for the go faster wheel 😄

[vernal lily]

🐁

[maiden grotto]

The game is stunning though, and the experience around Zalyssia, has been smoother and a lit less time was required to get through it...

[deep pine]

Shader Compile 5 mins to finish? Anyone else having this?

[last saddle]

not 5 mins but noticeably longer than it did before

[vernal lily]

Still waiting for my internet to free me from this prison lol

[last saddle]

damn

[deep pine]

4m 40s for me.

I timed it because I was watching a video lol

[last saddle]

if i had to give a rough number 1 min or so maybe slightly longer

used to be like 30 secs

is it just me or do the storms look better

might just be cause things are running a little moother

[plain star]

i lost some of my game archievements, am i the only one with this issue?

[last saddle]

you had achievements removed? never heard of that in any game

[plain star]

yeah its actually weird

[deep pine]

My installed mods still work without updating them. That makes me happy.

[plain star]

after the update i had some archievements removed and other actually unlocked lol

[last saddle]

anotha one~

add it to the bug counter

[maiden grotto]

It resets, should be quicker from now on.

I have ghost enemies, that stand there but not active... and when you shoot them nothing... then they become active and instantly hostile... destroying any sense of stealth...

And there is nothing you can accept alert everyone...

Friendly NPC's de-spawn in Zalyssia again...

I just give up.

[low bison]

everytime i die my game crashes

[vernal lily]

Ironman mode

[silent grove]

Is DLSS Override in the Nvidia App working for you guys? I can only override Frame Generation to the newest one, but not Super Resolution - is that normal?

[jade moss]

22gb update. no nods

[maiden grotto]

Well, I have removed STALKER 2 from my PC... I give the game a 1 out of 10...

Sick of this broken sh^t.

[maiden grotto]

And they don't even tell you how the made balancing changes.

[jade moss]

there was a mod in nexusmods that just skipped shader compiling entirely which made load times reallllly fast

[vernal lily]

Cries in GeForce

[last saddle]

does anyone know if you need to keep one of each artifact for the achievement or just find them?

[vernal lily]

No idea, but I would hope not.

[maiden grotto]

I'm off, night all.

[last saddle]

later

[low bison]

[plain star]

happened to me for using FSR frame gen mod v.90

[low bison]

i fixed it

a mod i had installed bugged me

[gloomy citrus]

Greetings stalkers. How's the major update so far?

[ornate sable]

Good so far. Seen A-life NPC wearing different kinds of armor (not just exos), and my stuck Harpy sidequest got unstuck. Barkeep and Hera sidequests still stuck on "Return to Barkeep/Hera" though. I'll see if they get unstuck later.

[sleek gulch]

On my 5th run, and I still fail the side mission to rescue Star's men. Only on my first playthrough was the mission counted as a success. Idk what's going on since I do the same method, and even alert some guards on all different runs.

[wintry pumice]

Then don't die

[wide robin]

If I buy the deluxe edition for stalker 2 but I'm on the mission before I go to pripiyat at the end can I still go do the side content dlc

[wintry pumice]

Did you save his only guy who still alive?

[sleek gulch]

In all 5 runs. Technically, 4 since siding with Duty excludes you from that mission. But, yeah, it even check marks when I save him. Yet, only my first run did he survive for whatever reason.

@wintry pumice ^

[hidden yoke]

isn't he in the factory near slag heap?

i saved and killed him for like 3 - 4 times

[reef herald]

You should find or buy each artifact. You shouldn't keep 'em for the achievement. People often keep it cos it's easier to track which one you are still missing.

[woeful spade]

What dlc? There is no dlc

Out of curiosity what is that bonus dlc in deluxe or ultimatw version of game? Can't find a trace of it in web

[wide robin]

Apparently one side mission only so far

That's what I'm referring too

Also says mutiplayer skins and badges

[mental relic]

God damn, my game crashes now when ever i open the pda

[dapper rock]

Omg
Cat

Omg
Cat

[wintry pumice]

You can't side with Duty at all in this game...

[woeful spade]

I dunno, it seems like that side mission is the collar one however I don't have a deluxe or ultimate edition and still did it...

[wide robin]

I did it as well

[civic relic]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xnfTcpw1r9M

dude is there update? patch? this yt vid says new 121gb patch?

[woeful spade]

Then the ultimate and deluxe are scams

[ornate sable]

22gb download, 120-something gb install, at least it was for me.

[civic relic]

well why tf didnt i get it?

[ornate sable]

The side mission is the Journalist thing

[wintry pumice]

you are not worthy

[frigid hill]

iambored0486 has been warned

Reason: Bad word usage

[wintry pumice]

depends on the platform. On console it took me around 116GB, might be lower for steam

[civic relic]

wolf fk off will ya

[wintry pumice]

you on xbox?

[ornate sable]

Oh, yes I'm on Steam. No idea how stuff would work on xbox or ps or nintendo64 or other platforms.

[wide robin]

Defs a scam I did the nightingale quest and didn't buy any dlc

It's only guns, suits and loot stuff for content

[civic relic]

pee see

[wintry pumice]

Steam or MS store?

[civic relic]

steam train

[wintry pumice]

hmm maybe you turned off the updates or something?

[civic relic]

hell nah i havent touched any steam settings in months

[wintry pumice]

Perhaps game is telling you find someone to touch on Valentine's day

instead of playing this game

[civic relic]

well thatl never happen so just gimme my update please i want A-Life 2.0

[dusky sequoia]

Why 108 bit of the zone was not in the game. This ost is GOATED 😭

[wintry pumice]

They did make some improvements to A-life

[fading parcel]

Game still is not playable. Even major fixes and stuff for AI, doesn't make much difference; maybe NPCs are now in the Zone but combat is messed up - NPC still engage on it even if you are covered 100m behind building, covers are not done, they shoot you in bushes, behind covers as super sniper sight, toss granates all over, not taking covers again and so on... Everything that devs doing is messing around with any hard fixes yet.

Am goin to play Starfield instead, at least Bethesda fixed it at least with using over 100 community mods

[barren cargo]

Honestly my games worse than it's ever been, just played for 3 hours, ran into 2 groups of ai humans and 2 bloodsuckers, everything is bugged out, I just duped a bunch of detectors off Hawaiian, idk wtf is going on but I'm going to bed

[vernal lily]

I am seeing a lot of grass hoppers

That one side quest where you retrieve a body from someone in a gravitational anomaly, dude who asked me to do it keeps yelling at me that I am stealing from the pockets even though I am not. So I just get no payment.

[cobalt fiber]

I hope these complaints are being sent in the form of a bug report and not just being posted and lost on Discord

[violet zodiac]

Anyone else get a black screen when launching the game now?

[ornate sable]

Bubbs, in the lesser zone?

btw, I just realized, Bubb's PDA is finally no longer a quest item!

[vernal lily]

I already did, but was just saying on here. This quest didn't bug out previously.

[cobalt fiber]

Are you searching him?

[vernal lily]

I just said I wasn't lol, his buddy just yells at me that I am when I pick him up.

[cobalt fiber]

No you didn't. You said you're not stealing.

Searching and stealing are two separate things

[vernal lily]

Well, that's what I meant my bad. Wasn't searching him or anything, he yells anyway.

[cobalt fiber]

Strange

[vernal lily]

Yeah it's that guy

[cobalt fiber]

I just kill him before looting his friend anyway

[vernal lily]

It's not a big deal for me either, but finding it strange because this was perfectly fine before patch.

[frigid hill]

troskiii has been warned

Reason: Bad word usage

[sturdy verge]

😏

[raw jasper]

Should I do a new save for the update to take hold or should it be fine ?

[wintry pumice]

I would probably wait for a DLC

[raw jasper]

Wtf xD I ain't waiting that long

[cosmic portal]

Good night Stalkers

[sage dew]

oKAY GUYs found safe combinations for all tree, the private, liutenant and the sergeant, but ... still does not work...

[weary hedge]

oooh another huge update

[sage dew]

I combine their numbers, according to how they are written in the note. by the rank, top down, by the rank bottom up ... just doesnt work...

any advice

[weary hedge]

19 57 26

[sage dew]

yeah what the hell xD

thanks

[wintry pumice]

You will || in the shining zone ||

[sturdy verge]

heh i started a new save/game for fun 😄

[raw jasper]

I think that's what I will do

It's just I'm starting to start a new game every patch ...

[sturdy verge]

i have a long list with all the artifacts with checkmarks of ones i found, still a good amout left that i havent 😄

[raw jasper]

How many hours do you have ?

[sturdy verge]

so yesterday when i started again i found two i havent marked 😄 , i have 352.3 hours 😄 you?

oops haha lol

[sturdy verge]

?

[raw jasper]

You didn't do all the artifacts right? How many hours do you have in the game , I'm curious

Okay so in 350 hours you didn't have all the artifacts ??? ....

[sturdy verge]

i have a few left i just checked i think like 5 or something 😄

[raw jasper]

Holy sheisse

[sturdy verge]

says on steam 46 out of 58 achievements so far lol

i deffo know which artifacts most likely missing is the arch ones 😄 and that one famous one i really want.. liqiud rock 😉

[raw jasper]

Liquid rock eh ?

[sturdy verge]

yes bl keep getting the same ones i already have

[wintry pumice]

you should be having a higher chance to get it as you approach the end game

In chemical anomalies

[raw jasper]

Chemical anomalies
-south of chemical plant
-under windmill in Zalissya
-west of Duty base
-north of Rostok in poisonous hole

I'm missing some but those are the main ones

Hardest anomaly to do is the multi flashbang one east of Yaniv station

[sturdy verge]

there were times i missed out on some as well as they spawned inside a building or behind a wall etc

no matter how many times i restarted it or loaded up a old save haha 😄 so i gave up went elsewhere 😄 but this was long ago so its probably different now.

[fluid yoke]

How’s the new patch?

[summer remnant]

Pretty good so far

[sturdy verge]

dunno ill see in a bit as started a new one for fun.

[blissful surge]

Torn between starting a new save for this patch update or just waiting for console mod support.

[raw jasper]

Console mod support ain't happening soon. 3-4 months still to go

[raw jasper]

I tried doing all the ones I knew I one go, it's almost impossible. Emissions will happen way before you do all of them

[sturdy verge]

#📸┃screens_and_videos message 😄 and ah okay

[weary hedge]

and it wont be all the mods either, just like skyrim they are limited by what microsoft allows

im not sure which type of mods specifically it affected (outside a generic answer like overhaul modifications which wouldnt be relevant here anyway) but I know xbox does have limitations for mods

I remember with Fallout you couldn't get the good graphics overhaul modifications

As well as armorsmith and weaponsmith extended for the modern guns

[raw jasper]

Most likely no major file changes. We will be able to have configs addons and adding scripts/logics. In other words we will be able to have extra weapons, extra stuff in general. We won't be able to create new quests , add major game changes like story changes and such. Most likely environmental will be allowed. But are you gonna be able to turn the campaign off and have a Anomaly experience? Very unlikely for Xbox.

[fickle cosmos]

hm

[weary hedge]

It's more specific than that too, as from memory file size was also limited

so some guy on nexus might have a ultra nice mod you want but he himself doesnt want to make another version for console users

just file size as an example, that same logic could carry over to any existing mod

[raw jasper]

I'm no intern or dev so I dont know how many GB we will have for console. Arma has a healthy 24gb ish. I wouldn't see why we could have something similar and have mod packs like Misery, OGBS or whatnot

If misery does his modpack for S2 again xD

[weary hedge]

I'm no dev either and haven't had a console for years 😂 I just remember, at least regarding file sizes, that was a reason given back when I used to own a console and was downloading skyrim / fallout mods

It could well have changed (or it could have just been a developer throwing out their own reasoning and being wrong)

Mod support should definitely be a thing for more games though

[raw jasper]

Arma has a bigger mod size support for being a Xbox first title. Playstation doesnt have any mods right now on Arma but apparently it's coming. Now Stalker 2 is a Xbox exclusive so we could have something pretty sick and gnarly this time around :)))

[fickle cosmos]

b o o m

[fickle cosmos]

theres always that one good samaritan a year or two later.

[raw jasper]

What I would love to see is Grok challenging himself and making a console mod for Stalker 2. Could be unlikely tho.

[smoky hawk]

Yea he'd get someone else to do it then incorporate himself into it

[cobalt fiber]

Some gripes with Alien Romulus @hazy flint

Android and the speech impediments based on damage makes 0 sense when you look at severely decapitated androids in the past

[raw jasper]

It is what it is at this point xD

[cobalt fiber]

An OP plasma rifle with auto assist that apparently the colonial marines had but did not have in entries set years later in timeline

Xeno "dogs" being present despite literally evolving from a dog and no dogs on Romulus

The way a xenomorph is "birthed" is wrong

[fickle cosmos]

i speak android

[cobalt fiber]

Entertaining watch, not so entertaining plot holes

[wintry pumice]

I knew it!!

[fickle cosmos]

give me orange give me orange give me apple i eat orange orange eat you. - le famous zone chipmunk

[cobalt fiber]

Time it takes for xeno blood/acid to burn through shit randomly slows down when convenient for "stare at me I saved you" moments

[wintry pumice]

Damn AI bots infiltrating Discord..

[raw jasper]

Queen Xeno is caked up apparently, big gyat

[fickle cosmos]

i am actually AI plus premium deluxe platinum gold, thank you very much.

[cobalt fiber]

Disney butchering franchises as per usual

[raw jasper]

Can you make ... a latte cappuccino?

[wintry pumice]

Shush AI, you will speak when you are spoken to

[cobalt fiber]

The pacing is also shit

[fickle cosmos]

i can email you a latte cappucino made of paper

[cobalt fiber]

Post xeno is far too rushed

Look at me I've got a rifle the marines didn't have 1000 years later so I'll just butcher everything in 10 minutes

Bore off

[fickle cosmos]

"I am your soldierrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr".

[raw jasper]

Oh no its r3tarded 😦

[fickle cosmos]

sir i am an AI made in india by androidus woidus i do not know what you are saying?

[raw jasper]

Ah yes , "Welcome to Microsoft, how can I help you?" 😂

[fickle cosmos]

something smell's offly fishy about this customer..

[raw jasper]

I like tuna sandwiches okay ? Stop judging :/

[fickle cosmos]

auto-insert prabhat text to speech voice from xbox Hello Sir my name is PrAbHaT how may i assist you today? i will need the 3 digits on the back of your credit card to proceed with services today ma'am sir sir!

[fickle cosmos]

i like AI gamerfart fuel, we do not judge.

[raw jasper]

How are you so on point with this ? This is hilarious 😂😂

[fickle cosmos]

AI has detected, 1 S.T.AL.K.E.R in your wall please maybe consider shutting off your console and calling the powice

[raw jasper]

"THEY ARE IN ZE ATTIC !!"

[fickle cosmos]

prabhat again xd sir, in order to fix your PC you need to go to your local publix and get 2 500$ google giftcard's, please scratch off the stuff hiding de code and then read it out to me so i can fix your compooter

[fickle cosmos]

"FIND MASON!"

[raw jasper]

Sublime just the way I like my dose of scam in the morning

[fickle cosmos]

sir in the morning i prefer a cold gallon of chocolate milk with a 64 pound burger.

[raw jasper]

"WHAT ARE THE NUMBERS MASON !!! WHAT DO THEY MEAN ???!!!"

[fickle cosmos]

they.. they mean.. they mean something.

[raw jasper]

I just remember the numbers almost made you kill Kennedy ... Woods is a cripple now

[fickle cosmos]

ah i figured it out!! it's the IRS's number's of how many children they are gonna send into poverty!

[wintry pumice]

Bring me Sidorovich's head!!

[sturdy verge]

that second video i post, i played that song at the cage building in cement factory after hearing the stories from Captain Gromov about those old duty guys 😦 its really beautiful up there during sun rise and sun set! think there is a limited energy drink up there as well

[fickle cosmos]

not kennedy.. i shot him out of great great great great great great grandpa's cannon back in 1674

[fickle cosmos]

sidorovich is dating makarov, no can do. unless you wanted the can.

[raw jasper]

I almost cried when I heard that story, must've been one hell of a view too

[raw jasper]

50,000 people used to live here... now its ghost town

[fickle cosmos]

you mean 50,000 coal miner's who DONATED their lives to the soviet motherland?

[raw jasper]

"Oï !! Suzy!"

[fickle cosmos]

"Oiii!! Get his head' out the oil barrel and throw 'em overboard!"

[sturdy verge]

indeed 😦 then you would hear shooting down there from a distance either bandits vs duty or group vs boars lol. Would use my scope pretending its some binos 😛 haha

[fickle cosmos]

is that my adopted brother? :0

Story goes they threw a fish in the Bog with some Pepper's and he became a big ol' plant hence why the water was so hot.

[raw jasper]

Sometimes I cook beans with dry sausages irl. I get comfy I'm my blanky. Get a SVD and then I choose a building in Pripyat and snipe Monolith while listening to some campfire stalker guitar on Spotify.

Last time I did that I fell asleep 😂

[fickle cosmos]

i'll take the dry sausage's attached please, 2 to go.

[raw jasper]

Dry sausages and beans is the best bro

[weary hedge]

sitting in front of a lake in kingdom come deliverance 2 while youre eating is pretty ambient too, ngl

[fickle cosmos]

hold the bean's, pass the gas.

[raw jasper]

Hell it must be ! Didn't try the game yet

[fickle cosmos]

medieval dynasty building a slave house trying to figure out how to enslave people is way more ambient.

you just scream louder and rock harder on drugs than my man A.H lol

[weary hedge]

they really did a good job on it, honestly

[raw jasper]

I have to try it someday, gotta

[fickle cosmos]

Oi laddy he did say in front of a lake, Not in a burning keep 'ey!

this is why you keep 27 fire extinguisher's on you,

Attention all S.T.A.L.K.E.R's we are now hiring for potato farmer's in the newest hub of Vladivostok!

[raw jasper]

Very weird question : do you think they will be selling land in Ukraine after the war ?

[fickle cosmos]

sell the country to a random african nation like morroco or smth, they'll enjoy the free land more.

[weary hedge]

looks like they already are, just its to america so they wont call it that :p

resources is the same thing, outside of that its not valuable

[raw jasper]

Sheisse... sounds peaceful tho you know ? Growing something, small village , quiet all around.

[fickle cosmos]

lack of common man? never thought to be possible

[weary hedge]

most australians would freely say you can have alice springs if you want it

[raw jasper]

Alice springs ?

[weary hedge]

exactly 😂

[fickle cosmos]

you can have queensland while your at it

[sturdy verge]

ngl sometimes i fall a sleep to the stalker 2 menu song and last night to some brain scorcher zombification session LOL

[weary hedge]

i was about to say, tasmania too, then i felt bad cause of the fires

[fickle cosmos]

nah double it give it to the next person

[weary hedge]

then i laughed cause i saw on the news today they were making a huge deal out of tasmania getting 'international assistance'

then they say its just new zealand lmao

that would of been like reporters in the US making a big deal out of guatemala sending firefighters to california

[fickle cosmos]

bruh,

so international that its like 200 miles away in the same continent 🍆

[maiden grotto]

https://youtu.be/RZ2oXzrnti4?feature=shared

[fickle cosmos]

ill be back here when papa is alive again or i have purpose

[elfin vine]

I can't sleep to stalker 1 pause theme. It's so loud

[weary hedge]

I just walked around at night with my dog in the game - first time I'd done so, so I didn't have my torch out.

Heard the guards abusing my dog in the distance, several of them chasing him around, i dont know if he entered a restricted area or something

so they chase him back towards me, then two more guards aggro on my dog when hes beside me so i pulled my sword out lmao turned out it was all because i didnt have a torch

[left violet]

garry is still missing after 1.2 but patch notes say they fixed it

[serene barn]

sometimes i've listened to some guy playing Stalker and Metro songs on guitar while wearing some gas mask. it's interesting how some of the songs work universally but some of them like don't work for Stalker but just for Metro lol

[stark marsh]

Stalker 2 if dropped Combat theme 3²:
Literally goty

[earnest dirge]

did they change anything with the cnpp or iron forest bc its blurry now instead of cloudy same with genorators but we can go there

[smoky hawk]

Are you using a save from before or after you got the quest

[serene barn]

if it wasn't for the google sheet guy, i wouldn't know that the PM and USP is now worse as their damage drops off earlier than they used to, but idk why someone like JuiceHead said that they're not better when that isn't true lol.

[left violet]

after, im at PONR

[smoky hawk]

Because he doesn't do research 👍

[smoky hawk]

To proc a change you need to regress to a save before picking up said quest

To reset scripting

[serene barn]

i mean in fairness the fact you have to go into the game files and be able to read them, is really not something i wanna hold against him

[left violet]

im already too far in, too much progress to lose like side quests, blueprints and all that

[serene barn]

like this change should have been spelled out in the patch notes, period

[smoky hawk]

Only way

[smoky hawk]

I do

[left violet]

honestly they should try something like a respawn of every previoulsy bugged character

[smoky hawk]

He's a bad ytbr
Many like him
What to do? Stop watching him

[serene barn]

idk some of the parts he showed was fine

like showing how enemies aren't lasering your ass in the dark now

[maiden grotto]

Same for me, about 100 hours would be lost in first game, if I had any saves left from back then.

[left violet]

honestly ill prolly restart the whole game to complete every side mission and get everything i missed before

[fervent bobcat]

Does the stalker 1.2 patch finally include dlss 4.0 support for all rtx cards ?

[left violet]

nope

[fervent bobcat]

https://tenor.com/view/wtf-joe-pesci-pesci-what-gif-10718026964868693743

[maiden grotto]

Of course, it goes without saying, Disney are the equivalent of having explosive Diarrhoea with no toilet with saving distance in busy street...

Not just sh^t, but the worse kind sh^t you can imagine...

Disney even threatened to sue a family who's child died, because they wanted to put Spiderman on his grave stone.

Anyone who gives money to Disney is a straight up mf c.....

[maiden grotto]

I did that too... And I still cant get out of Zalyssia and Sphere...

Even after the update, the game is still de-spawning the defenders... Whilst at Sphere, Monolith have spawned, but they are not active... So when you shot them, you do zero damage, then they come alive, but you have alerted all of them, then the x-ray vision BS starts....

The game is still spawning NPC's 1 sec after an emission has ended, so when you leave the safe spot, you have stalkers walking around like an emission means nothing to them...

Pile Drive, Rostock, and Yaniv mission givers are broken still...

The games AI is appalling...

The game is fecking sh^t... I uninstalled it, last night, and my job now is to advise people not buy the game, because of the very high chance their entire experience will be borked...

[kindred turtle]

Hello! Just reached cordon and was wondering if the AK is good till end game, got a fully upgraded gun though forgot the name found it in a side quest with 2 burers

[maiden grotto]

Nope... and you might as well uninstall the game and come back to it in few years, the game is a mess, the AI, Story, mechanics...

It's all completely broken

[last saddle]

You can use a pistol til the end if you really wanted to. But there are better choices

[smoky hawk]

next patch hopefully we can see a total removal of these technologies

[kindred turtle]

Well, we can always lower our expectations

[smoky hawk]

it isnt

get better guns

its part of the gameplay loop

[maiden grotto]

Expecting something you paid £60 to actually work

[maiden grotto]

A loop that was designed by 12 year olds.

[kindred turtle]

Got it for free so I'm good.

[charred nova]

Removed and replaced with physx

[last saddle]

Don't worry about min max. Use w.e gun works for you

[kindred turtle]

Thanks, already got a better one, just wondering if it still viable till endgame for immersion

[maiden grotto]

Ain't you the lucky one...

Seriously, the game will be far more enjoyable in the future... It's a complete mess at the moment, but if you want to go for it, do it.

[left violet]

wym the mission givers are broken

[maiden grotto]

You hand the missions in, and the mission marker doesn't go away...

So you can't get anymore missions from them - This what I get

#📸┃screens_and_videos message

There literally is no option for new missions, or hand in the old one (as you have already done that), so they are bugged forever more and I have lost three so far...

Rostok, Pile Driver, and Yaniv.

[serene barn]

should prolly not state an issue as if it affects literally everyone lol.

[maiden grotto]

But it does effect lots peoples, especially those with older play throughs.

My first play through is completely ruined and bugged to F.

My 2nd one is not much better, and I am not going to start a 3rd game...

The story is sh1t, the AI is sh1t, mechanics are sh1t, game loop is sh1t, balance is sh1t, a-life is sh1t due to it being a BS spawn simulator, the economy is sh1t...

It's a £50-£80 million sp^nk fest, as I have no idea what they spent that money on, as it wasn't the game.

[smoky hawk]

not only is it not but its also not immersive bc (??????)

[noble yew]

You're playing in old saves from previous patches and wondering why you're having issues???

[serene barn]

Trak that does not make any sense.

[smoky hawk]

it could, maybe Griga was thinking of SOC when he was 12

[serene barn]

the new patch should be fixing the issues of old saves

[maiden grotto]

You would think that.

[charred nova]

That’s kinda hard

[smoky hawk]

what trak says makes sense since you need to refresh the mission scripting, thus why using old saves may cause issues

[serene barn]

it should but it seems it doesn't for some things still.

[noble yew]

Playing on an old save will only compound the issues you have, starting a new game is the best bet for a solid experience

[maiden grotto]

That is why they had to get someone in to get SoC sorted and released, because that entire development process was a mess too.

[serene barn]

it might be but like that'd suck. i restarted my first run after 5 hours to stuff my prologue gear into a safe before getting robbed but i would be mad if i had to discard 100 hours

[maiden grotto]

twice.... not just once...

[noble yew]

I've restarted each patch and each one has been a vast improvement to the previous

[charred nova]

Except they broke a life in the new patch

[smoky hawk]

what probs you getting

[maiden grotto]

well, good for you... i have already put in about 400 hours, mainly fighting bugs...

Why should I have to start a 3rd time, becaue the Dev's are too inconpetant.

[charred nova]

Games spawning buckets of enemies near me

Like I finish looting one batch

Another instantly spawns

[smoky hawk]

use your legs not your weapon

[noble yew]

You don't have to pal, I'm just saying you're experiencing all these things that others aren't because you're on an old save with issues still existing from a previous patch

[charred nova]

I’m trying to loot bruh

[maiden grotto]

And spawning instantly after emissions, so when you walk out side, people were partying outside 😄

[charred nova]

Game isn’t suppose to spawn 50 ward troops on me in less than 10 minutes

[smoky hawk]

then kill them, the game is giving yolur more loot

[charred nova]

Yes but it’s not suppose to happen

[maiden grotto]

And any developer with an ounce of talent, would be able to solve these issues with the need of people starting new games.

[charred nova]

[smoky hawk]

I really dont see the issue, maybe you should sell your mazda, that should solve it...

[charred nova]

Game shouldn’t spawn me 50k coupons worth of loot just for fun

[noble yew]

You don't think they're trying to? They're just doing this specifically to upset you

[smoky hawk]

preferably, to a european man, in portugal

[charred nova]

You’d need a new engine

Cus the one it had blew up

[smoky hawk]

so, pay twice, once for the engine the other to the state

https://tenor.com/view/rage-frustration-breaking-keyboard-asian-rage-gif-25728336

[maiden grotto]

That's because your a fan boi, and fan bois have first degree brain rot.

We established this before.

[noble yew]

Lol, anyone who disagrees with me is a big stupid wah wah wah

[charred nova]

Engine in states isn’t that much

It’s like 1.3k

Add like 400 on top

[smoky hawk]

https://tenor.com/view/thief-thief-the-dark-project-dark-project-constantine-trickster-gif-27941738462695426

[charred nova]

To replace all the rubber seals

[noble yew]

Keep screaming into the discord with your problems I'm sure it will help rog

[charred nova]

https://tenor.com/view/joke-missed-over-your-head-gif-8604199

[maiden grotto]

🤣

You wished 😄

[maiden grotto]

Nah, I called him out before...

He is a fan boi

[charred nova]

We’re gate keepers

[smoky hawk]

me bc I dislike new ppl
jack bc he cant get the car to turn on

[maiden grotto]

Don care what you are...

Fan boi's are fan boi's, and they have first degree brain rot.

[charred nova]

My brain isn’t rotted

I’m completely aware of what the game is

[smoky hawk]

tbf, jack did buy a RX7

[charred nova]

I want to

[smoky hawk]

rog may have a point

[maiden grotto]

Then you are not a fan boi's, you're a fan.

[charred nova]

Poisoned my mind

I don’t want it bro

I NEED IT

[noble yew]

https://tenor.com/view/ugh-no-gif-23059222

[serene barn]

me casually just liking the game but acknowledging the issues it has. still put nearly 300 hours in on only 1,5 playthroughs

[charred nova]

I mean just add physx

Would fix most of the performance issues

[maiden grotto]

Wow! You can use gifs, amazing what two braincells can achieve.

[charred nova]

https://media.discordapp.net/attachments/535052160442826752/1067055104450117683/F50B056F-8249-43E1-A013-DECBD69EA64C.gif

[maiden grotto]

Oh right so threating violence to a poster.... Amazing....

[charred nova]

Dude what

Get over your self man fucken hell

[serene barn]

i'll prolly start a new run next week.

[maiden grotto]

Was joking....

[serene barn]

going to do a Ward run where i will be mean to people and do mean things like, not return guns they tried getting back or cancelling their trial of life over unique ones :3

[charred nova]

Get the unique mk1 emr

[serene barn]

it's my plan

[charred nova]

Even thought from what I can tell in the new patch

[serene barn]

even if it sucks 😔

[charred nova]

It’s stats are now exactly the same

As the regular version

[maiden grotto]

Ooooo I gong to get a nice yummy fressh cream scone Mmmmmmmmmm

[maiden grotto]

Is that an improvement, or a downgrade... Just never used them at all

[smoky hawk]

https://tenor.com/view/big-floppa-for-bk-gif-25780630

[serene barn]

i will also go and get the AKU from that guy in uh, what's it called, the place Sid is in

[charred nova]

They buffed the mk1 emr

But likely forgot to then also buff the unique version

[smoky hawk]

rookie village

[serene barn]

no the like region

[maiden grotto]

Okay...

[smoky hawk]

cordon

[serene barn]

right, i was thinking Concord for some reason lmao but it didn't feel right

[maiden grotto]

Indeed

[charred nova]

Because they made the regular version have the same stats

[serene barn]

source being?

[charred nova]

Me because I checked

The unique mk1 use to have higher stats than a regular one

Now it doesn’t

Base model was buffed

[maiden grotto]

Nom nom nom nom nom nom nom

[serene barn]

idk i feel like that would or should have been mentioned in the patch notes, even just vaguely

[charred nova]

I promise it be true

Unless they reverted it in the full release

This is possible

[serene barn]

the guy that has that whole sheet thing doing didn't write about it in the changelog nor in the damage sheet

[charred nova]

Maybe it was only in the pre release

Damn

[serene barn]

in the sheet it seems to always have done like 55 damage, what did you see?

[kindred turtle]

Did they ever make a full list of fixes or just the general one that was advertised

[maiden grotto]

They left a lot out of the patch notes....

It had 1700 fixes...

People would still reading it for the next week.... So they probaly just put the most important ones in.

[charred nova]

The unique and standard model had exactly the same stats

[serene barn]

it bothers me immensely that the devs cannot manage to spell out things that would be rather import like what things they're changing to equipment like the game is all about equipment like tell me what you done to it god damn

[serene barn]

yeah, but Partner had much more health and some more durability.

[charred nova]

Does it have improved stats in terms of

Damage range

Etc

[serene barn]

1500-1950 hp and 450 dura to 586

[maiden grotto]

All devs do it....

As games require so many fixes, as games are just rushed to meet deadlines and the games are released fecked...

Not all games, but most games now are like that.

We're gamers, so who gives a feck right?

[serene barn]

but the damage is the same in the sheet.

[charred nova]

Oh

Maybe I’m crazy then

[serene barn]

other guns that are practically the same is the RPM-74 and Glutton.

[charred nova]

I swear it use to have better stats in other ways

[serene barn]

i really wish it did because it's a 308 rifle....it bothers me so much that it's so so weak like the M701 Super does 160 damage shooting the same round, it's almost 3x the damage of the MK1 and that is just so stupid and makes no sense.

[charred nova]

Especially when the lynx and whip exist

[maiden grotto]

That is because the game is set around progression, and none of the weapons make sense... As it is not based around ballistics, which is what it should be.

[serene barn]

the Whip was very nice, especially with the 20 rounder mag i found in Prypiat

but iirc, the Lynx is worse than the normal rifle.-.

[maiden grotto]

I only use the M701, it's the only Sniper that actually feels like it can hurt something

[serene barn]

it has drop off at 240m compared to the default SVD's 320m

that being said it might not be the issue one would think with the game only showing you things like what, 100m away from you or what it is?

[maiden grotto]

It's 100 meter draw distance....

[serene barn]

wheeze, right

[crystal granite]

You see the dude in announcements tearing up cause of 1 drone?

[charred nova]

The whip was bugged when I played

The final upgrade just couldn’t be installed

No tech in the game could install it

[crystal granite]

I used Lynx, Whip and Gauss

[lapis grove]

https://tenor.com/view/lloyd-kaufman-troma-gif-25686697

[maiden grotto]

The balisitics in the game are just awful...

Ak's should be viable to the end game, as the Dnipro fire the same round, it should be the accuracy and other things that improve with the better guns.

[serene barn]

i mean it likely was for me too, idk but it worked just fine anyway with all the rest of em.

[spark hedge]

happy valentines day loves, NOW WHERE THEM UKRAINIAN WOMAN

[serene barn]

i only used the Gauss after getting Scar's.

[maiden grotto]

Gauss, is just a silly wepaon, Lynx never really tried, and I think I might have tried the whip, but I wasn't wearing leathers at the time.

[serene barn]

safe to say i slept on it but like, thing is heavy. 7kg always.-.

[maiden grotto]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yZEV_KQgi10

[last saddle]

I agree with the gauss being silly

[crystal granite]

Dnipro is based on a Ukrainian rifle. All you need to know really

[charred nova]

You got birch in rostok and the women in yaniv station

Damn it

Stupid gloves

[charred nova]

You got birch in rostok and the women in yaniv station

[maiden grotto]

Harpy in Yaniv.

[charred nova]

That’s her name

[serene barn]

what do i have those 2 for?

[crystal granite]

She old. Vicki in Malachite

[charred nova]

I meant to reply to the other guy

[charred nova]

Oh true

Forgot about her

[maiden grotto]

And the mama on the Salty...

[crystal granite]

I don't wanna get sat on 😂 might as well be going for Lizzo with that one lol

The ships ballast tank

[lunar verge]

this patch has barely made anything feel any different. im so dumb for getting swept up in the hype and preordering this game

[maiden grotto]

Nah Lizzo is annoying... And I would feed her to a whirly gig anomaly in not time...

Mama, 10 pints of snake bite black, could work

[crystal granite]

Yeah game is in a shịt state man

[maiden grotto]

Yup, I uninstalled mine last night.

Had enough of it

[serene barn]

the worst part about wanting to start a new run for me atm, might be remembering where the USBs are stashed at because idk if i wanna use the map for them lmao

[crystal granite]

I went back to Starfield. 100GB of mod space. I got nearly 600hrs on modded Fallout 4 with only 2GB of mod space so I'm having fun turning Starfield into SW universe. Mix of Republic and Empire timelines depending on which world you visit

[timid aurora]

Gib SDK >:(

[maiden grotto]

That is why I hat that my first game is bugged into oblivion... I spent a lot of time exploring and using the PDA to find POI, i.e. Things on the map that could be something...

That all go ruined, and no my 2nd game is bugged, the sh1t AI, and everything else.... The game is dead to me now

[serene barn]

Starfield is probably one of the games i feel embarassed about the hours i put because it's just bad.-.

[timid aurora]

Cool

[maiden grotto]

I might go back to Darktide, also playing Portal 2 with a friend for the first time.

[crystal granite]

Modded it isn't that bad. Plus I'd rather play that than S2

[crystal granite]

Darktide crossed my mind too

[tepid osprey]

Play the new Kingdom Come Deliverance, its great 🙂

[lunar verge]

im honestly dumb founded. does it feel like a tech demo to you guys? like how could someone play it and think its ok to charge money for this

[crystal granite]

Well, maybe after orange man tells the angry little man in Kiev to wave a white flag thr devs will have some time to focus on the game

[serene barn]

i got like 500 hours on there. i wanted to explore but like, it's not fun when locations are just copy paste galore. and the perks are bad too and poorly done. saw a video on them in testing and it was not good. nor did i like having to give up on all my gear and ships just to start a NG+ so i only ever did get into NG+1 and then stopped playing.

[crystal granite]

6 to 12 months too early

[maiden grotto]

Skyrim and Fallout 4, killed it all for me... the engine never developed and it was the same buggy shyte, that required people to fix their game that cost them £50+

Bethesda is a joke company now.

[maiden grotto]

At least it works.

[serene barn]

i mean i still loved Skyrim.

[timid aurora]

#💬┃en_offtop

[crystal granite]

Pls don't kill me...I never played skyrim 🤣

[serene barn]

i played on PS consoles and never reeeeally had issues with them on there i feel.

[crystal granite]

This chat goes off topic every 2 mins, chill

[timid aurora]

No

[maiden grotto]

I put 400 hours an the more I played it, the more dumbed down I saw it for, how basic it was...

Why couldn;t I kill the women at the head of theives guild? I fecking hate theives

[maiden grotto]

Done yourself a favour... The game treats you like a 2 year old

[crystal granite]

I take Bethesda games not as proper games but massive sandboxes for me to roleplay in using mods

[lunar verge]

witcher 3 with enhanced edition is unbelievably good, im uninstalling this and going back to that

[serene barn]

i do think that characters being unkillable maybe shouldn't have been what it was but like eh.

[crystal granite]

Oh don't remind me...Witcher 3 was goated

[weary hedge]

I preordered S2 gold edition, got to SIRCAA in the first few days and then gave up because of the many issues. Still hoping it will get playable with the proper A-Life the community deserves.

[lunar verge]

i started it 3 times and couldnt finish it, with this overhaul i cant put it down

[crystal granite]

Aren't there mods that alter character essential status? I know in Fallout 4 there's a mod which allows you to kill Preston Garvey

[warm stone]

soo, whats your opinion about the new patch?

[maiden grotto]

It's an amazing game... but the biggest frustation for me, is levelled weapons...

Weapons should never be levelled, a steel swoard at level one, is the same steel sword at level 50

[serene barn]

most of my issues i had with Stalker 2 from launch was performance issues and then bugs with Zalissya where you gotta defend it and Hamster flopping over dead when entering a building. enemies insta spotting me and shooting me through walls and objects,

[weary hedge]

still not what I expected

[lunar verge]

is sirca that base that you enter from underground and fight your way out? because that was the nail in the coffin for me, that felt so so so unfinished i just couldn't go on

[crystal granite]

YES YES YES

Not being able to use a sword cause it's 5 levels above you or armour was crazy bad decision making by the devs

[weary hedge]

yep

[maiden grotto]

Then they did it in Cyber punk 😄

[weary hedge]

and I was there when the right stick was still drifting its own directions when shooting

[crystal granite]

I don't remember CP havign level reqs for guns and I play since launch

[lunar verge]

enter enhanced edition, the entire game is unleveled and every relic sword is 1 of a kind unique that needs to be first restored by the master swordsmith

[weary hedge]

it does actually

[warm stone]

I'm quite happy that they resolved one of the bugs I have reported (Detector left hand, right hand bolt, switch to pistol and the detector "disappears" for a second"). Also the medkit stash refinment is nice, It was odd how medkits just floated above the medkit stash once opened. Stealth seems to be a bit better as well

[maiden grotto]

100% did... i found level 4 guns, when I was level 3, you find an amazing legendary weapon... and it was level 4... could use it when you was level 30 😄

[crystal granite]

It's fun seeing the entire (nearly) discord collectively agreeing that the game is shịt

[maiden grotto]

Now I like the sound of that, but I don't want to giv CDPR any of my money now 😦

[weary hedge]

maybe not the level but specific stats like for the Erebus smg

[crystal granite]

Especially with Witcher 4 on the way

[crystal granite]

That true. I went for Canto Mk6 cause I was on my tech build and just hacked everything that I could

Aight lads I'm off back to work. Have a good one and pls, don't send kamikaze drones to chernobyl like the Russians did, we don't want molt to cry more in the announcements tab lol 😆

[lunar verge]

i feel sorry for the people that worked hard, im sure it wasnt their wishes to have it released in this state. i saw some gems, like the world and locations genuinely seemed to be cool, it almost makes it worse because the potential for looting and rewarding exploration is so high, but nope heres a bandage and a sausage in this incredibly well artistically designed hideout

its just so disjointed, at every turn the game is at odds with itself. id feel a lot worse if they werent so sneaky and selling us hopes and dreams

[crystal granite]

Monolith. C-Con. It's a play on nostalgia all I'm sayin

[warm stone]

Does any of you know what does this Weapon reload animation cancel listed in the patch notes mean?

[lunar verge]

i think its for the underbarrels

couldnt cancel before, now you can

[warm stone]

what do you mean? What can I cancel?

[serene barn]

underbarrel things was mentioned yes but i think i read another line that seemed to be general guns

[lunar verge]

the weapon reload animation...

[weary hedge]

instareload

[serene barn]

i hope they get around to making reloads staged instead of what the word for them atm is right now

[warm stone]

Underbarrels are still jank to use: Skif doesnt remember the weapon's underbarrel was used, so once you heal you have to reswitch to underbarrel. Also once the animation finished (transition to underbarrel or back) you have to wait additional 1 2 sec otherwise if you press fire it will fire the mode you were switching from

[lunar verge]

really

[maiden grotto]

The broken story is testiment to this...

It's like they took all things from the previous games nd went we need to incluse all this...

When really the approcah should have been... What were the ramifications at the end SoC, what would the zone be now, and lets make the story excellent and consistent with previous events...

Like monolith no existing... And not using Noontide more is massive mistake, they should have been the good guys to thwart Ward plans to take what they can from zone, then destroy it, for further their political aims elsewhere.

Nope, we get member berry after member berry.

Appaling on all accounts, whether that be story, mechanics, balance, AI, A-life, the BS spawn simulator...

[lunar verge]

you want staged reloads when the things your shooting feel like csgo training bots

[warm stone]

Not to mention that the underbarrel shotgun for the Sniper rifle (M701 i think) will spawn a bullet (every time) next to the weapon if you run out of shotgun ammo and press fire.

[serene barn]

i wish a little that switching to the underbarrel was faster than holding the key like maybe if i double tabbed it would switch as that feels like it would be faster

[serene barn]

idk what that means lol, are the bots accurate or not

[lunar verge]

sorry bro but im not a stalker fan, i have no idea about past events

[maiden grotto]

Or.... listen to me... binding it too a key or a mouse botten... so you like have to press the button once to turn it on or off.

[serene barn]

last time i mapped anything to my 2 buttons on the side of my mouse they stopped working after like half an hour

[maiden grotto]

Well, take a galaxy, make a hole as big as it... That is how big the plot holes are. It;s all you need to know

[warm stone]

You cant rely on the animation. You have to check the ammo counter, because if you rely on the animation you see "ok animation finished, fire" but it will fire using the previous mode. Every single time i have to watch the ammo counter change to the different ammo type.

[lunar verge]

well thats disappointing, i thought that was something the game actually had going for it

[maiden grotto]

Yup sloppy programming

[serene barn]

i wanted to map quick use buttons to the 2 on my mouse but the game said no more after 30min so i had to go and revert to default keys for quick use and then i had to lean with z and c

[serene barn]

what does that have to do with switching from Rifle to grenade launcher/shotgun?

[lunar verge]

like, the game has a fkn ballistics model for WHAT, what is the point in all these weapon upgrades and mods

[serene barn]

the upgrades is to make the gun perform better than a normal one. lol

[lunar verge]

i dont think any amount of patching or tweaking is going to fix this game, it doesn't know what it wants to be, it was like different departments at GSC never communicated with eachother

[warm stone]

for example you have a rifle that has an underbarrel launcher attached to it. Normally during an intense firefight you would look at Skif's hand, how he changes to the other weapon mode (to underbarrel or from underbarrel), but if you "rely on watching the animation to finish since you are in a hurry to use the weapon in the other mode" you will end up firing the mode you were changing from. That is because after the transition animation finished -if you pay attention to the right side ammo counter display- the game still adds a 1-2 second delay to this, meaning animation finished yet you have to wait additional 1- 2 seconds for the game to "register" the change. Really breaks the immersion. I hope I was able to make you understand what im trying to express (sorry its a bit hard to describe)

[lunar verge]

threw a bunch of weapons created by one group into a bunch of enemies created by another group into a world created by another group and no one decided to check how these different things would play together

[warm stone]

This makes every attachment a chore to use. Or not to use at all, or preparing that "ok now i will use the underbarrel since the game has this feature".

[smoky hawk]

the shooting and gunplay feel quite similar to how it was in the OG games, what is the issue?

[serene barn]

my "issue" was based on the delay between hitting the key and the animation to switch starting. not about when i can fire the attachment.

[lunar verge]

the shooting and gun play isnt the issue

you could have the best gun play in the world, if its taking place in mine craft it doesnt mean much does it?

[warm stone]

sorry. Yeah, thats another chore...

[smoky hawk]

so the problem is the open world, sorry if its bc Im catching the argument midway but what are you talking about

[serene barn]

the shooting feels better than the trilogy but gun balance feels worse. like an AK should always do something when putting shots into something, or the HK416 which has like how many uniques? like 3 or what it is.

[smoky hawk]

if you are shooting your AK at a late stage enemy, it should feel underpowered

[warm stone]

The main problem with stalker 2 lies at the too few items/weapons/quests yet very large open world. At least different unique guns maybe some lore collectibles would have made things a bit better

[inland mantle]

Not trying to hate on the devs but how can this be sold as triple a game when new update breaks things? My game now runs like crap after update, and after looting a body my hud disappeared completely

[maiden grotto]

Well, I will fill you in with jist of it. So you understand.

Monolith ended at the end of SoC, as it was C-Con that was controlling. As it was C-Con that created both the wish granter and Monolith.

The wish granter was a death trap, to lure in STALKER's to their death, so that C-Con, who opened up a link to noosphere, could control it, as the experiment all went wrong and they lost control... So all the time C-con job, was to hold back the noosphere. And when emissions happens, that was the scientist losing control before could regain control.

So the Wish Granter was created to act a lure, so STALKERS would leave C-Con alone to do there thing, as such Monolith was created to spread the myth of the Wish Granter to fool STALKER. They made to lethal killing machines, rambling about monolith and the Wish Grant, to add more credence to this illusion, the death trap.

So when Strelok kill C-con (Strelok is the bad guy), monolith collapsed and no longer existed, hence the rise of noontide. The zone also grew more wild and deadly.

The whole idea that monolith could come back was just a member berry joke, as there was nothing to control them, C-con was dead, and all the machines were shut down and the Wish Granter didn't control anything thing. It literally feed STALKERS an illusion as it killed them.

The only time the monolith could have come back was one someone got in the last pod... But that would do nothing, as 7 people couldn't control effectively, not sure what one would do.

The other problem is... Even if you argued that C-con was now in the noosphere, okay fine... In wish case, why did Monolith collapse as people who were controlling them would still be alive and Noontide would never have been a thing and zone would never have got more dangerous and wild.

[lunar verge]

you're all good, I'm mainly venting my disappointment at preordering this game based on the small clips of combat we got in the lead up trailers. It seemed dynamic and fun but instead its empty and broken

[inland mantle]

Ak should be powerful, is a 7.62x39mm. Same with the svd, 7.62x51 isn’t a weak round

[serene barn]

that is the thing though, it SHOULD NOT feel underpowered lmao. it is AK, it hurt. this whole balance thing is just artificial because guns that shoot the same round does more damage because somehow the round has more penetration.

[lyric kayak]

STALKER. It's been 3 days of this. We're worried about you bro.

[serene barn]

the AK is 545 and the SVD is 7.62x54R

[smoky hawk]

the AK is a early to early mid game weapon, it should not feel powerful
it is below the 2 other 5.45 weapons in the game, you SHOULD upgrade and use better weapons on harder enemies
this is the basis of stalker
wtf are you talking about my guy

https://tenor.com/view/max-payne-max-payne3-facepalm-gif-22724865

there is no 7.62 AK

[serene barn]

in the trilogy the AK was fine when hitting heads but it is much worse now and thus it is artificial balance.

[mellow knot]

The ramifications are everywhere: Ward, SIRCAA, Strelok, Subtle Matter, Scar, etc...

[maiden grotto]

Just explaining it to someone who doesn't know the lore from the previous games, it's all cool.

[smoky hawk]

it is called, gear progression, and it is one of the pillars of stalker, archoning back to its RPG roots

[inland mantle]

5.45 my bad I forgot there is no AKM. Still hurts. Still powerful

[serene barn]

it is literally not a part of STALKER lmao

[smoky hawk]

if I throw a ball at you, it will also hurt
but that is real life, the balancing in stalker is not built this way

[maiden grotto]

And?

It doesn;t excuse the massive plot holes that is the Wish Granter and Monolith

[smoky hawk]

if your argument is that bc bullets are deadly in real life, the game should mirror this and strive for a economy and balancing that fits real life
then I dont care what else you have to say really

[mellow knot]

What holes

[serene barn]

it's literally not how it worked in the older games. guns just worked in the older games, they did about the same damage but had better stats in accuracy and range.

[maiden grotto]

Go do one.

[inland mantle]

This is hardcore survival game, every gun should feel powerful. Obviously 9x18 hardly touch giant mutant but people, dogs etc, anything works. .22 rimfire kills with one well placed shot

[lunar verge]

howcome i completely explored and turned out the ghost town sircaa base and then when i am leaving there on a mission its flooded and i literally kill about 60 dudes, why even let me go in there if its just going to be empty, its bad design

[smoky hawk]

it literally is how it worked in the older games, if you tried to storm the CNPP with a AKMS youd be dropped in a few

[smoky hawk]

this is an action game it is not a hardcore survival game

stalker is not a hardcore survival game,

did you play, the stalker games?

[maiden grotto]

Don't think... plot holes 😄

[serene barn]

pretty sure the AK would 2 tab the Monolith just fine in SoC.