☢┃stalker-general

[fickle cosmos]

yes

there is another method actually but it is not to be told in fear of GSC removing it ;-;

[charred nova]

Yah it’s kinda stupid this is the best way to enjoy an exo suit in stalker 2

[fickle cosmos]

well

spark bunker in yaniv, just push a box and enjoy your new exosuit

[charred nova]

You can’t get one with sprint till you go to Pripyat

[fickle cosmos]

spark bunker bug has a diamond exosuit

[hidden yoke]

you still enjoy like, 50 hours if you get the exosuit normally, or am i missing something

[charred nova]

Where

Once you get to Pripyat the games over

[hidden yoke]

ye but, i still go around explore rather than speedrun the game

[fickle cosmos]

yaniv has one but otherwise yeah its all prypiat

[hidden yoke]

there's one in subtle matter quest

it's the operator exosuit

[charred nova]

Oh

Well that one’s Ight

[fickle cosmos]

Operator's chill ngl

[hidden yoke]

ye, and to my knowledge, you still have around 20 - 30% content left when you did subtle matter

[charred nova]

Still I’ll probably always go to Pripyat early

Until it’s completely patched

I wanna build my kit asap

And enjoy it for as long as possible

[hidden yoke]

i spent around like 50 hours or more after i found my first exosuit near yaniv, and my friend spent 100 hours or more for his first exosuit

[fickle cosmos]

there is a secret spot to it so if it get's patched ill let you in on the secret

[charred nova]

If there was content in Pripyat it wouldn’t be a big deal but

Pripyat is dry as a desert

[hidden yoke]

i'm now trying to switch off exosuit and used Zircon armor instead

[charred nova]

Why would you ever do that

[fickle cosmos]

W man, i used the SSP-100

[hidden yoke]

seems like the best armor

[charred nova]

Liberty exo best

[hidden yoke]

why not, i'm playing video game

LET ME BE A MONOLITH PLEBS

[charred nova]

You can’t be

The game would just end

[fickle cosmos]

give me communism or give me death!

[hidden yoke]

all i need now is a best helmet

[charred nova]

Freedom is anything but communists lol

[fickle cosmos]

how.

[charred nova]

Monolith have no free will

[fickle cosmos]

so?

[charred nova]

How do you play as someone with no free will

[fickle cosmos]

faq da monolithian supervisor

[charred nova]

You would join the monolith and game would just end

Bad ending lol

[fickle cosmos]

yes

[hidden yoke]

I'M THROWING A GRENADE BROTHERS

[fickle cosmos]

or get the ending from walking out of the place.

[hidden yoke]

skif must be a monster to kill both STALKER agent and col

like he's not human

[fickle cosmos]

skif is not hooman, skif is.. bread

[hidden yoke]

you just can't convince me he's a normal human stalker.

[charred nova]

He’s a time god

[hidden yoke]

my man having 80KG on his back and doing parkour like nothing

[fickle cosmos]

he is KGB putin

[charred nova]

Skif has precognition

[fickle cosmos]

he has spacemarine genetic

[hidden yoke]

my man walked into an anomoly and go "tis but a scratch"

[charred nova]

Save and reload

[hidden yoke]

nah, i have around 100 meds at home

[fickle cosmos]

214 here

[charred nova]

I got nearly 300

[fickle cosmos]

yessirrrrrrrr

[hidden yoke]

oh i just notice my stash box appear at Quiet trade base?

Is this new?

[fickle cosmos]

idk

[boreal coyote]

what brain cells? nah mate 2 at best

[charred nova]

Oi dick head SHUTTT UP

jk love you

[boreal coyote]

you're lucky you're so handsome

[maiden grotto]

It's not a bug, it a reward for time and patience...

[charred nova]

I love getting ads for Airbnb

There like bro

You could get a room big enough for your whole family

Yah for like 5x the price of a hotel room

[maiden grotto]

Hello Bro, How am I doing?

[charred nova]

With an 800 dollar cleaning fee

You cloned bruh

What happened

[boreal coyote]

we're doing terrible, only 2 brain cells between us

[sturdy verge]

one of my fav two are here rog 1.0 and rog 2.0 😄

[charred nova]

Thing 1 and thing 2

[sturdy verge]

https://tenor.com/view/bananas-in-pyjamas-bananas-in-pajamas-b1and-b2-running-going-away-gif-15872025

[frigid hill]

bigpetey1997 has been warned

Reason: Bad word usage

[maiden grotto]

That many 😲

Wooooooooow!! We can do so much now.... We like two DX2-33 making one DX2-66

we rockin'

[boreal coyote]

1.0? if only this shi*y game was ready for 1.0

[charred nova]

486 reference

[fickle cosmos]

what da haillllllllllll

[charred nova]

I get that reference

[boreal coyote]

i dont

[charred nova]

Your not old enough or strange like us

[weary hedge]

I had a 486, didn't get the reference.

[maiden grotto]

That's beciase versions 2.0 are never as good as the original

[fickle cosmos]

papa how do i become master?

[boreal coyote]

yeah 2.0 is a very shallow character

[charred nova]

You reach level 50

[fickle cosmos]

i wanna be a master sensei like youu : D

[charred nova]

I’m a legend of the zone

[fickle cosmos]

what if i bribe you for level 50-..

[sturdy verge]

you kiss agatha or toes idk

[charred nova]

I can’t give roles

[fickle cosmos]

awh mann-.. can he remove them

[charred nova]

No

[maiden grotto]

You go straight to ma dungeon of feather ticklers

[boreal coyote]

i was sure to tell everyone that they only had 2 braincells in your abscessed 😎

[fickle cosmos]

i 'on like them feather tickla's

[maiden grotto]

"Soon precious"

😄

[maiden grotto]

You gave that much... Thank you for being so generous on my behalf.

Appreciate, job well done.

[charred nova]

Dude I can’t believe they made this reference

[sturdy verge]

don't look it up but rog 2.0 cried every day for you

[charred nova]

Invincible just did fucken reference to Highlander

Amazing

[fickle cosmos]

homelander and highlander brotherein's

[charred nova]

Highlander

The movie from the 80s

[fickle cosmos]

drugas

[maiden grotto]

but alas, I can't stay for long, I have a friend arriving for my birthday and I need to clean the radiator before I hand cuff him to it for a couple of days.

Can't wait, it's what friendship is all about...

[charred nova]

Where he pulls out the bottle of wine from 1762 and says

1762 a good year

They did that line

[maiden grotto]

Awesome.... Not the usual cheese line of "there can be only one"

[gleaming bone]

happy birthday pal

[charred nova]

Dude I can buy a Hyundai on amazon

What

First I’m hearing

[maiden grotto]

Thank and adios peeps

Got shyte do.... so that playing stalker 2 for 10 mins 🤣

J/king

[fickle cosmos]

i can buy a tesla on wish

[charred nova]

Gas Hyundais are some of the worst cars on the road

[fickle cosmos]

yeah

[charred nova]

Only car that can blow up its engine at 45k miles

Rx8 is more reliable

[fickle cosmos]

get a toyota Camaree or whatever its called

[charred nova]

I bought a Subaru

[fickle cosmos]

how do i get past fire anomalies? TwT

[fickle cosmos]

word of the wise and holy cracker man.

[charred nova]

I do wish I got a slightly different Subaru but

It is what it is

I just need to fix or replace my project car

[solar raven]

Guys does anyone know where is the diamond skeleton blueprint

@charred nova Do you know where is the diamond exoskeleton blueprint bro?

[sturdy verge]

happy bdayyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy rog ❤️

[maiden grotto]

Thank you mateo 😄

[weary hedge]

You can't just say blueprint buddy. The blueprint for what on the exo?

[charred nova]

He did say but stop helping him

He can use google and YouTube

Ask a real question instead of some shit that’s result number one on google

[neon frigate]

Daily reminder to love and cherish ilya naishuller

[solar raven]

I can't find vids of it all I find is other exo's blueprints plz help with the diamond exo blueprint

Oh it doesn't have any blueprints bruh
I thought it had some blueprints cuz from an old vid I watched before that I can't find now
Nvm

[cobalt fiber]

[charred nova]

You have to be trolling

That took me 5 seconds

If you can’t do this much our society is fucken doomed man

[boreal coyote]

i think you might be a better rog 2.0 than me 🤔

[charred nova]

Truth hurts

[boreal coyote]

i agree but i don't like to say it, you have no problem saying it so you're better

[charred nova]

Should have seen me at my old job

Some people man if the word hate was written on every inch of dna in mg body

It wouldn’t even amount to 1 percent of the hate I felt for some of those dumb ass fuckers

[boreal coyote]

sounds like you might be in the closet? i hear it is a very common cause of deep rooted rage issues 🏳️‍🌈 😉

[charred nova]

Nah with out my meds I don’t feel the need to stop

Yah know

lol

[boreal coyote]

like SSRIs?

[charred nova]

Uh nah

[boreal coyote]

oh just joking? 🤣

[charred nova]

But those mates deserved it trust me

Come heckle me and boy

Come talk mad shit about the other team members in our department and it’s like

[boreal coyote]

you were a stand up?

[charred nova]

Well no

Cus we’d get fired

Can’t start yelling at people

Even if they totally deserve it

[boreal coyote]

i can in my job but i'm blue collar scum

[charred nova]

We assembled particle accelerators

[boreal coyote]

my workplace gets very heated lol

oh sh*t 🤣 fkin nerd over here 🤓

[charred nova]

You ever played cruelty squad

[boreal coyote]

no?

[charred nova]

Oh there like the dna scrambler

If you found your self in the path of the beam

They make semi conductors

I just say particle accelerator easier for people to picture

Or understand

[boreal coyote]

it would scramble my DNA and i'd morph into a Chinese woman right?

[charred nova]

No you’d die of rad poisoning

In like a week

[boreal coyote]

thats less funny that i hoped

[charred nova]

High energy particles fuck you up

So would the arsenic but that’s secondary

[boreal coyote]

i want to be able to say fk give me perms?

[charred nova]

The beam would imbed arsenic into your flesh

[boreal coyote]

jesus

[charred nova]

So instead of dying in a week you’d die in like 5 minutes

But despite how scary they sound there very safe

[charred nova]

I can’t im afraid

[boreal coyote]

if you're into all that kinda stuff there's this game series called stalker that you might like, its got pretty good si fi

[charred nova]

No way fr

[boreal coyote]

i'm so funny

[weary hedge]

The game is fire homie... As in dumpster fire. I can't back that up. Was having fun till the psi killed me.

[charred nova]

I think you mean see

[boreal coyote]

its sea

[weary hedge]

Diesofcringe.

[charred nova]

https://tenor.com/view/engerland-slow-gif-22795800

[weary hedge]

What were they thinking with the see business.

[charred nova]

Idk but they should add a race track and cars to the game

[hoary crest]

But you can buy a car already?

[weary hedge]

Car with a 50cal gun. For when you and the bois hit the zone.

[charred nova]

To go fishing of course

[weary hedge]

That and owning the boars.

[charred nova]

Yes

[solar raven]

No I'm not bro I swear bro
I thought the grey icon needed blueprints to be able to modify it
Cuz yk all other icons are white and are clickable

[lime nest]

I wanna play stalker but I don't wanna start over but I'm don't wanna deal with the PDA bug DX SOME ONE HALP

[solar raven]

Load an older save

Also how much hours you got?

[boreal coyote]

who, me?

[lime nest]

Iirc six or seven days? But have tons of ammo and armor and a exosuit

[solar raven]

So why won't you load an older save?

[lime nest]

I made the mistake of relying on auto saves

Soo yeaaa

[lyric kayak]

We ball

[wintry pumice]

In the shining zone, yes

[charred nova]

Mash f5 constantly

[wintry pumice]

[desert maple]

[serene barn]

i wonder what is up with those group of Ward in the Chemical plant base that always is hostile to you

[wintry pumice]

yeah you can't get in until after sircaa

[frigid hill]

nightmare_redclaw has been warned

Reason: Bad word usage

[lime nest]

Well I chose to restart getting back to where I am will be a pain in the butt, though I've been itching to explore the zone again and a buddy of mine got me into cod so I'm in a shooty shooty mood

[serene barn]

i was able to walk around and grab loot but the doors were locked and there was 2 groups of them who was hostile while the rest didn't give a damn

[polar forge]

Is it worth to repair armor? I wanted to add new artifact slot but durability is too low. It is 55% and cost all my coupons to repair :/

[serene barn]

i wonder a little if they nerfed the Weird water unintentionally hard because it used to be able to drain your rads so fast but now it feels like it can't even do it if you're just negative weak

[weary hedge]

So the rain stopped today. Was able to get linux,obs,discord and steam sorted. Now to download S.T.A.L.K.E.R.2.

[weary hedge]

I had the water and liquid rock and rads meant nothing. So the nerf make sense.

[fierce nexus]

[serene barn]

when you go from having 4 lead containers on a diamond Exo and having probably all of the legendary artifacts, to having a SEVA with only a single lead slot and just 1 legendary and the bottle no longer seems to clear rads off you at all. like use a medium radio+ artifact and a medium radio- artifact and i am ok there. but idk, i feel like it should be able to counter 2 medium radio-s

[weary hedge]

ayyyy time for some stalkerrrrr

2am is peak mutant killing hour

[serene barn]

It’s really annoying how hard it is to have spending money in Stalker 2 on Veteran lol. Spent like 3k on repairing my Spas, 2 on my suit and 800 on my pistol and Buket’s.

[vernal lily]

You used to be able to sit in the water without taking any rad damage with Weird Water before the nerf, lol.

[fierce nexus]

Fr

[serene barn]

went to a stash in a tunnel and it literally felt like the snorks in there was respawning much faster than they should ahve been.

it also sucks when i know that it's going to cost me a lot to repair the spas

[weary hedge]

i just got banned from the ufc undisputed forever server for saying mike tyson lost to jake paul 😂

well first i got told to shut up then i got banned lmao

that'd be like being banned here for saying Ward sucks 👀 and i think we should institute this as a rule, because Wards the best

Noontiders banned on sight

[cobalt fiber]

Tyson was such a clown for that

Pulling punches and literally giving tips in the ring

Boxing is aids now

[weary hedge]

lmao did he really? i didnt keep up on what was said after

i know he threw the fight but thats about it

[serene barn]

killed like flipping 16 snorks in that damn tunnel at the Military warehouses.

[charred nova]

Creator clash 3 is gonna be a massive flop

[solar raven]

Auto saves are good but you should balance it
Like autosaves legit saved my run like 2-3 times

So you said you have a 6-7 day long run so you can get some hacking engine if your on pc and if your not on pc then beg for GSC to save your ass

[weary hedge]

https://tenor.com/view/spongebob-ban-pubg-lite-banned-rainbow-gif-16212382

lmao the no gifs always catches me out 😂

[lime nest]

Yea, sadly im on console so I screwed my self

[cobalt fiber]

Maybe I should become a youtuber so I can fight Jake Paul

[solar raven]

Bro is the Chemical plant base bugged or smth cuz I had to use some bugs to enter it and after I entered it I cannot enter the building with the traders and is it like story based or smth or is that a bug also the guards start shooting me when I get into the base not all of em only some

[weary hedge]

yeah it unlocks throughout the story

[vernal lily]

I'm freezing outside atm can't really help right now

[cobalt fiber]

Tbf in my day I wasn't bad doing little amateur tournaments at gyms and shit

[weary hedge]

its a closed Ward base that doesnt allow outsiders in - eventually you get a ward badge to be allowed in, depending on what route you take

[cobalt fiber]

I'm too young for the Pauls tho

Not near enough to retirement age yet

Still makes me laugh he lost to Tommy Fury who's also an abysmal fighter

[rocky lava]

Are there emissions/blowouts in priypiat?

[cobalt fiber]

If only Harpy gave Skif a bl...

Oh blowouts yeah

Yes there are emissions

[rocky lava]

Damn they can’t handle the true

[rocky lava]

To horny jail with you!!! BONK!!!

[rocky lava]

We’ll…shit…

[woeful seal]

Has anyone figured out best combo for the bandit jacket? I have liquid rock but still having issues radiation and you can't have led containers on that armour

[rocky lava]

You need better armor

[cobalt fiber]

Why you using bandit jacket fr

Go cement factory and get the seva d

[weary hedge]

man they should have called it the Sema D

[rocky lava]

Probably a bandit lover

[weary hedge]

such a good opportunity for a joke and they missed it 😂

[ornate sable]

Even with the badge they won't let you in until after a certain event (you get a mission to go there then)

[weary hedge]

there are gore mods now

[woeful seal]

I have a Seva armour but trying to switch it up rather than been forced into wearing an armour hazmat suit or exo suit. Trying to see if i can make it work with the bandit armour sets

[weary hedge]

well, blood mods to make splatters better

[rocky lava]

I remember that pretty neat

[serene barn]

went somewhere for loot but the trip has me slowly walking back to a trader while my gear is damaged and i feel like i won't come out with more money lol.

[rocky lava]

Damn feels bad man I feel ya

[serene barn]

it's becoming a little too clear that upgrading your gear is more likely to hurt you than help and i very much dislike that idea.

[rocky lava]

Ya I can see that I lose my money then get poor again nooo!😭

[rocky lava]

My reaction exactly

[vernal lily]

Harpy cute tho ngl

[charred nova]

Harpy best girl

[still current]

[cobalt fiber]

Fishing and Harpy romance option

All that matters

Romantic fishing trips with Harpy in the zone

[vernal lily]

Fishing with Harpy

[rocky lava]

she is pretty not gonna lie

[woeful spade]

nah I want to do some research with Viktoria

[charred nova]

Modders better get on that

They got ai can make her say anything you want now

Wait

Maybe that’s not a good thing

[charred nova]

[serene barn]

sadge, i had to put 5 rounds of 308 into a snork to put it down and the first shot was even a headshot while it didn't detect me

[vernal lily]

Snork moment

[silk vapor]

today in my 2nd playthrough I made it back from the swamps/clear sky. it was STILL a harrowing experience

that pseudogiant guarding an artifact depleted my ammo reserves it was the opposite of an epic fight. rlly funny to me still

[shell flax]

Snorks either die in like one hit or just bulldoze through bullets just kick you in the shin and then die

[charred nova]

They got blood 2 hit reg

[serene barn]

i really wish the MK1 was better like it feels funamentally wrong to make a 308 underperform so severely

[vernal lily]

I think I am just running past the pseudogiant in the swamps because I hear it, but never see it. But who knows on my 2nd playthrough.

Or was it a chimera, I think it was. Got an achievement but no giant cat

[serene barn]

scripted Chimera spawn, it's supposed to be your introduction to them. then after that they can start spawning

[rocky lava]

It’s really not a good idea

[vernal lily]

Somehow I never seen it still even during that encounter and afterwards too lmao.

[weary hedge]

probably spawning underground lol

[vernal lily]

[serene barn]

welp, on my way back to Rostok i had to fight off 2 bloodsuckers so now my gear is even more worn, uggggh

[weary hedge]

just change difficulty before repairing so its cheaper - if the game makes it difficult just subvert it lol

a custom difficulty option would be nice - enemy damage, player damage, weight

[serene barn]

i think i had 16k coupons when i set out for the trip the first time. since then i made 2 return trips for the rest of the gear.

my Spitter Buket is so worn it costs nearl 2500 to repair

my UDP is just 111, my Sledgehammer Spas is 5610

600 for the rounds i ran through that into a snork and a few bandits in the MK1

3077 for my seva suit

and that leaves me with 36k

1650 for a mod, 3875 for another, 7750 for more armor pen.

5750 for a laser

down to just under 7k now. ;-;

[cobalt fiber]

Laser 👎

Most pointless upgrade

[serene barn]

idk i like the hipfire increase

[charred nova]

More accuracy always good

[stone sluice]

Prices get way worse. Repaired my armor from 40% for 17k

[torn moat]

Heyo! Just joined the discord

[vernal lily]

[cobalt fiber]

Finally picked cyberpunk back up

Halfway through phantom lib

Forgot how good this dlc was

[vernal lily]

I really need to start on that dlc, haven't tried it yet.

[cobalt fiber]

I stopped cos I was badly burned out from doing all the side gigs and ncpd hustles

Smashed them all out and it got tedious

But the dlc is something special

[vernal lily]

It's been a while since I played the base game, maybe the dlc will be interesting.

[torn moat]

Definitely recommend the DLC!

[lyric kayak]

I keep stopping Cyberpunk halfway through to play something else. I have the same problem where I complete mostly side missions

[torn moat]

I went through once at release and again for 2.0 + DLC and it was like a whole new game

[cobalt fiber]

I did the same lol

Then got hella burned out running through 2.0 up to point of no return + all side gigs and hustles

[vernal lily]

It happened to me too for a bit, but eventually I did finish the game at least once. Same thing with KCD, lol. Spent most of my time doing something else. Then got burnt out.

[cobalt fiber]

So now I figure is a good time to finish up PL

Tbh they did add a load more side gigs to 2.0

[torn moat]

Oh yeah I think I skipped a bunch of the hustles 2nd time around

[cobalt fiber]

So it's very easy to get burned out if you rush into it

It's probably a better idea to do half side gigs and stop at point of no return of base, then start PL and finish up base stuff after

[weary hedge]

if you want something different for cyberpunk, download the ultra plus mod and then grab the entire mod collection listed on that mods page

adds path traced lighting, animated projection adverts, makes reflections look absolutely amazing etc

https://www.nexusmods.com/cyberpunk2077/mods/10490?tab=description

[vernal lily]

I think I'll pick up the dlc today, see how it is. Got no work tomorrow so planning to stay up all night.

[weary hedge]

dlc comes with a dope gun too, the erebus

[serene barn]

hmm, found a place that looks like an anomaly or something.

[cobalt fiber]

Yeah glad I picked it back up tbh

Really enjoying it again

Good job I did or I'd have left it for ages

[serene barn]

looked liked rock spires and there's Psi around it.

found another one, odd, i never saw those before. they also have like floating rocks around them

[outer sonnet]

I'm playing my second playthrough artifact are falling through the ground have any of you got this happen in your game.

[rocky lava]

Yup me sometimes pisses me off

[sleek gulch]

@outer sonnet it's an uncommon bug since launch. They can fall under the terrian, or pass through a wall. Although, the former problem can be manageed by hugging the wall and mashing interact

[rocky lava]

Ah ok thanks

[serene barn]

Saving before you get to the cluster can also reposition the artifact or like give you a chance to grab it before it flies somewhere it’s unreachable

[rocky lava]

Good thinking

[sleek gulch]

Do any OG stalker fans really believe S2 will be "saved" by adding binoculars to watch mutants walk in a small area? They may engage with npcs from time to time, but they don't do much but fight. It's neat, but not that very immersive since the Zone is completely hostile.

[serene barn]

It’s been helping me a lot yeah.

[crystal granite]

Lack of replayability is really killing this game. Make a hard save halfway through, and you get to experience all the endings. Past that, nothing

[vernal lily]

Fishing update

[crystal granite]

Tsar Fish from Metro Exodus

[serene barn]

I heard there was supposed to be like 70 or something side quests but only like sub 20 got put in

[vernal lily]

Zam

[crystal granite]

Why am I not surprised?

[crystal granite]

Damn

[woeful spade]

https://tenor.com/view/hd-smirk-gif-7206957141966421326

[charred nova]

https://tenor.com/view/hd-smirk-gif-7206957141966421326

[woeful spade]

Hell yea....Viktoria p*rn here we go

[charred nova]

I should keep my mouth shut sometimes

[woeful spade]

yes maybe you should

[serene barn]

hmm maybe some of these late region misc missions are worth doing

[rocky lava]

Yes extra loot yes

[serene barn]

my worry was that my repairs wouldn't be covered. but i just took a mission to kill mutants, that turned out to be Corp Zombies. they're well enough armed so while i took some hits i should be able to make a profit, once i reboot my game because it's running at 5 fps

[solar raven]

What's your specs

[serene barn]

why

the game dropping to 5 fps shouldn't be because of my specs

[deep pine]

There's a lot of reason why you'd drop to 5 fps and most of them would be hardware related or bottlenecks.

It could also be memory leaks, read/write issues, overheating, etc.

[serene barn]

a 3070 something and some I5 CPU, my performance feels all over the place and maybe i should lower my settings too but i am too stubborn to do so.

[deep pine]

You can try lowering things like Shadow and Hair if you are only having issues if there are a lot of NPCs around you.

[serene barn]

the frame drops appear basically anywhere but the 5 fps thing is usually in the hubs

[river moth]

Prob cause all of the assets

[vernal lily]

Omg Sammy you're here

[river moth]

Who?

[vernal lily]

Are you a different Sammy

[river moth]

Wym?

[vernal lily]

[river moth]

No idea mane, I'm just a stalker 🤷‍♂️

[vernal lily]

Nah you're that Sammy

[deep pine]

I don't like Frame Gen but it does help keep the frames up. DLSS would also help, doesnt look as great, but helps.

[river moth]

What Sammy? 🤔

[serene barn]

but i did also just have to restart because the 5 fps thing happened at a place i went to kill those zombies at, on underpass or what it is all the way east of Yaniv Station.

[vernal lily]

The Sammy

[river moth]

My name isn't Sammy though, i just get called Sammy, no idea who actual Sammy is

[vernal lily]

Welcome back new Sammy

[river moth]

Back? I was never here before...

[vernal lily]

I see you're a Loner now, good choice

[river moth]

No like seriously, I haven't been here before

You're confusing me for someone else 💯

[vernal lily]

Your pfp is exactly the same tho

[river moth]

The same? The same as who? That's my dog...

[vernal lily]

I need to walk home through this freezing weather, see you all later.

[river moth]

Good luck bro, get home safe

[vernal lily]

Nah, you are the Sammy. Used to be Ward.

[river moth]

Ohhhhhhhhh, you're talking about the ward boy?

[vernal lily]

Roggy is back too

[rocky lava]

Yes we know

[river moth]

I mean I'm new here so I wouldn't know 🤷‍♂️

[rocky lava]

Always helpful Sammy…as ever jk

[shrewd needle]

In the Cement Factory, there's 'The Cage'...is it possible to disable the Monolith Antenna up top?

[outer sonnet]

Thank you

[deep pine]

Best Guess for what MDST is?

[rocky lava]

Sorry I got nothing

[deep pine]

Wondering if the Ukrainian side is also spelled MDST

[rocky lava]

Possibly it is

[serene barn]

wonder if i should keep the SVU i just found.

i know the unique one is better but i am not far into the story yet.

[river moth]

Don't even use snipers

[serene barn]

i used the unique one when i got it, it's very good.

[cobalt fiber]

🚨

[river moth]

Ew ward sucks

[rocky lava]

Noontide rules!

[wintry pumice]

Ward boy, is that you?

[neon frigate]

Terrible take tbh... sigh...

[shrewd needle]

Anyone?

[serene barn]

i don't remember what you're talking about

[shrewd needle]

There's a massive unfinished building called 'The Cage' in the Cement Factory...with extreme levels of psionic emissions.

[charred nova]

just noticed

looks like the grace period for benefit of the doubt is over on steam

[shrewd needle]

Hey, Jack.

[silk vapor]

There's an armour on top, demands to do some platforming and using a lot of psi block

[shrewd needle]

Psi-block doesn't work. It's just constant med-kits.

But my point is that can the Monolith antenna be disabled?

[serene barn]

i don't remember if it can

[silk vapor]

I think I remember shooting it I usually do this if I can't reach it..

[serene barn]

but you can definately get up there and iirc at the top it should stop and then you just jump back down in the middle

[shrewd needle]

That's the thing...I tried shooting, I tried grenades, I tried everything but the antenna just seems to be a static object...like, indestructible, as building walls...

Just hoped I could disable the psionic emissions...

[shrewd needle]

Yep, but that works when there's an emitter in the middle...this one had nothing, just empty space.

[serene barn]

if i wasn't going to to lie down for the night i would prolly have gotten on, then ran to a hub then travelled there and done it lol.

i might tomorrow because armor sells well even on Veteran difficulty.

[river moth]

Who?

[drifting forge]

Bros gone back to the light

[rocky lava]

Cute dog 🐕

[wintry pumice]

Ah it is you. I guess you don't remember much after being brainwashed by the Monolith

[drifting forge]

Im sticking to bandits until at least rank up

[river moth]

Nah man, you got me mixed up for someone else

[rocky lava]

Ah nuuu…cheeki breeki Iv…damke

[wintry pumice]

It's alright. I remember

[rocky lava]

What breed is your pfp?

[river moth]

Pomeranian, his name is Tobey

[rocky lava]

We’ll he’s adorable ☺️

[river moth]

Remember what m8? I'm just a stalker...

[last saddle]

c-con got em

[river moth]

Got who? I'm new here 😭

[wintry pumice]

Yes, you were a stalker, stalking Korushnov very closely is what I heard

[drifting forge]

Still a while lol

[river moth]

Korshunov? Why would a follow the leader of the ward 😭💀💀

[wintry pumice]

Sammy keeps lying...

[drifting forge]

Would probably be around lvl 40 if I didn't have technical issues in December

[river moth]

About what?? I'm new here 😭😭😭😭

[rocky lava]

I have intel I got from monolith

[wintry pumice]

You joined in January

[rocky lava]

Stop it! Your making him cry! 😭

[serene barn]

does certain choices like if you show Scar the Monolith pda even actually matter as opposed to if you don't?

[river moth]

No idea what you're talking about...

[rocky lava]

Bluds schizophrenic…I feel your pain 😭

[last saddle]

those who know, know
but welcome to the zone lol

[vernal lily]

Damn C con really did get him

[rocky lava]

Get your shit and get out

[river moth]

Y'all are insane 😤

[shrewd needle]

Well, I generally keep any unique armours...so not selling unless I got a duplicate.

[rocky lava]

Sadly that’s true

[shrewd needle]

That's why Agatha loves 'em...easier to make agents out of. 😏

[rocky lava]

TO HORNY JAIL WITH YOU!!!

[wintry pumice]

Nope. But you do get a badge from Korushnov if you show it to him, which does make things easier

[vernal lily]

Do you basically skip the whole Spark thing if you show him the pda? I showed the schizo guy the pda still though lol.

[shrewd needle]

But I never was. It's you who should be in that jail, falling in love with SIRCAA and the Ward too much.

[rocky lava]

Screw the ward! I don’t care about them! Lol

[terse ravine]

Korushnov single handingly made ward my favorite faction

[fierce nexus]

The Ward

Are the opps

[river moth]

Fr

[fierce nexus]

Wasn't sad at all when I bodied ward

Ong

[shrewd needle]

Says the rat king...

[serene barn]

Korshunov is one of the cooler characters. Actually feels badass and seems to be what someone who has a private military would be like. And his taste in guns are good too.

[shrewd needle]

He's got a bloody AKS...like...if that's 'taste'...

[serene barn]

Not when you fight him iirc.

His personal gun is like a modified RPM-74 with a holo sight and it takes 545 ammo while basically having the same stats but a bit more damage for some reason.

[harsh jungle]

mans bald

and probably a boomer

[serene barn]

Likely

[harsh jungle]

he’s probably gonna mess up the economy too while he’s at it

[vernal lily]

Lmao

[serene barn]

Tomorrow I’m going to fight that collared psuedogiant and I am not looking forward to it at all as I’m on veteran and it’s going to cost me to repair my gear after surely.

Anyway off to bed.

[vernal lily]

Maybe you'll get lucky and like in my game, the pseudogiant will just be dead the next day.

[harsh jungle]

I fr gotta stop afking this stupid fallout 76 event

[serene barn]

My first playthrough I fought it alone but I want to let it out against the bandits this time

[shrewd needle]

Ah, yes, the 'gun statistics that make no sense' issue.

[rocky lava]

Silence!

Ward spawned behind me in priypiat safe area?

[vernal lily]

[shrewd needle]

Cope, Mr. Scav.

[rocky lava]

You have amnesia! Lol

[shrewd needle]

Says the guy with Dead Space dementia.

[rocky lava]

Ok that’s a good comeback we’ll done ✅

[shrewd needle]

OK, so where the phuck do I upgrade the SSP-100M SIRCAA?

Not even Harpy upgrades that...

[rocky lava]

Bison maybe

[shrewd needle]

Bison who?

[low bison]

is there anyway of getting the deluxe content through buying a dlc or do i have to buy the whole game again?

[rocky lava]

The chocolate man

[wintry pumice]

Biden

[rocky lava]

Biden blast!

[last saddle]

currently there is no way of upgrading. but i think i remember hearing something about them adding the ability to upgrade in the future

[low bison]

JOAWFJEAWDJAQWDJAWD WHYYYYYYYYYYYYYYY

[shrewd needle]

He dead.

[low bison]

[cobalt fiber]

Finally

[gleaming bone]

should this really be usable in all channels?

[vernal lily]

lol

[gleaming bone]

who else got 1+ month of sub in GFN?

my ultimate sub was supposed to end tomorrow, instead it's until 31st of march, I think coz they do some system maintenance

"System maintenance in progress. Billing is waived while we transition payment services and your account remains in good standing. GeForce NOW will be free for existing paid users during this transition time. Some functions are unavailable during this time"

[vernal lily]

oh yeah that, I am on their 6 month plan, they just gave me 1 free month. Yeah it's because of them switching their payment service thing.

[sturdy verge]

yee same

[weary hedge]

cant use GFN in WA unless you wanna play on a 2080 lol

or play with a 80+ms input delay

[astral portal]

skibidi game 👍

I touch myself to this game

24/7

[fiery shore]

is stalker worth playing yet? does it hold up to Stalker GAMMA, or still a mess?

Ive put off playing this because of initial bad reviews and broken features and the game seemingly not even being as good as a modded 20 year old game, does the game still need work?

For GAMMA, the life in the zone was the biggest thing for me. the game felt alive, immersive, and unscripted because of the AI behaviours. The initial issues with the AI put me off.

Is the AI good? Does the zone feel alive? How many bad bugs still exist? Should i even download it, or wait longer until mods/patches fix it?

[vernal lily]

rip

[vernal lily]

hold up to gamma what? gamma not a stalker game. Go play that then lol.

[river chasm]

To this day I remain somewhat confused about what makes gamma in particular feel alive to people, the NPC spawns and camps get fairly predictable, not much different from vanilla

[sweet zephyr]

what's the coolest looking series of suits in the stalker series in y'alls opinions

[grim wharf]

Stalker 2 is pretty good I don't base a game off of mods from a prior game as it's not exactly a fair comparison

People just seem to go oh hey this mod in their prior game was beautiful did they make the new game like it when it was never part of the game to begin with

[fiery shore]

the ai in particular. its not like im comparing the entire 300 mods to stalker 2, just the AI not being barebones, and actually being interesting.

thats why my entire message is about the AI.

[fiery shore]

For GAMMA, the life in the zone was the biggest thing for me. the game felt alive, immersive, and unscripted because of the AI behaviours. The initial issues with the AI put me off.

Is the AI good? Does the zone feel alive?

[fiery shore]

one of the most popular posts today on the reddit is complaining about the AI so figured id ask here for more opinions. one user says "The A-Life is non-existent and broken. We can talk about this for hours. It's just not a true Stalker game in my opinion. Hoping GSC fixes the AI and the spawn/render distance."

[grim wharf]

A-Life is in the game though it was never removed

[deep pine]

There was a modder that explained how S2 has a fake A-life system. It was discussed before the last big patch so not sure what updates they made in regard to the current a-life.

[fiery shore]

hes not saying it was removed, but that its implementation is horrible

[grim wharf]

Well yeah they moved from their own engine to unreal engine 5 everyone should have expected issues

[deep pine]

It was essentially a radial spawner that didnt work like the last games.

[grim wharf]

I mean A-Life was built upon their own engine but when you move engines like that things aren't as compatible

[deep pine]

It wasn't even supposed to be moved like copy pasta anyways. I bet they did have an A-Life 2.0 in place but it was such a resource hog in a barely optimized game that it made it unplayable so they scaled it down to where it has some presence but extremely gimp'd.

[grim wharf]

Honestly I never seen the value in A-Life anyway I played the original 3 and it's just an NPC spawner nothing more

[weary hedge]

it still is, they just beefed the distance and now track ai moving around or summin summin

[deep pine]

From what I know, the original A-life had multiple NPCs or groups tasked to move to waypoints. The NPCs can die during their movement even if you are in a different zone.

[sweet zephyr]

liking gamma is fine, but people who's only perception on stalker is gamma are insufferable

[weary hedge]

i think one of the biggest issues with AI immersion is like, the first town you go to Zallisya or whatever, leave a building and all the AI guards spawn on top of each other

[deep pine]

Never played Gamma, not sure how that works.

[sweet zephyr]

even worse if they only know gamma and that godawful fan film

[weary hedge]

their coats flapping like they literally just descended from the clouds above

just some physics issue they never managed to fix - as for the guards god knows why they are up each others butts

the movement doesnt seem very immersive either, turn around and youll have a caravan of people walking behind you in the distance

always hella close together and not really looking around at all - the ai just seems very, eh, rudimentary

[astral portal]

I love touching myself to this game

I always have to clean my screen after I play this game because of the amount of love liquid I shot on my screen

[deep pine]

Clear Sky AI was wonky at best. It was a spawner that sends factions to capture a base at intervals no?

[astral portal]

gallons of my sweet juicy love liquid on my screen when i play this game too much!!!

sometimes I can't even see my screen

gallons of freaky juice on my screen, NON-STOP, every second, I love this game, if mother nature allowed it, I would bare this games children

[weary hedge]

richter lover

[vernal lily]

real question is, who's on the screen 🤔

[astral portal]

just the game, the game itself

[weary hedge]

lmao faust - its all just power fantasy

[vernal lily]

😩

[astral portal]

when I load up the game, BOOM, I shoot a load onto my screen

[weary hedge]

like nnnnngh yeah brainwash those fools, UGGH JUST LIKE THAT

that made my stomach hurt from laughing lmaooo

[astral portal]

is that game good? yesss stalker! how good is that game! yes stalker!!

[deep pine]

He's probably talking about that liquid ball by Malachite

[vernal lily]

Mods looking at this chat with extended eyeballs

[astral portal]

HOW GOOD IS THAT GAME, STALKER!!!???

they need to tone the awesomeness of this game down

[weary hedge]

[astral portal]

I got my own sperm bank just from playing this game

[weary hedge]

in case youre wondering i doubt you'd be able to breed a mutant

[astral portal]

I'd make it work

[weary hedge]

lmfao

[astral portal]

THEFREAKYWAYUP ALWAYS MAKES IT WORK

[drifting forge]

Didn't expect the server to be active lol

[vernal lily]

checks profile
not a Freedomer

Hm, this behavior is weird

[astral portal]

which mutant has a level 10 gyatt?

[weary hedge]

the Hawk Tuah Snork is just a myth, it cant hurt you

[weary hedge]

now im thinking of snooki

[drifting forge]

Damn, freak activation when it's morning lol

[astral portal]

Make sure to answer honestly everyone

[vernal lily]

Tbh humans are my type, not mutants

[lament ruin]

Does the guy that answered the new questions even know anything about the game? All he did was dodge the question

[astral portal]

talking to me?

[lament ruin]

No blood suckers?

[drifting forge]

Mol1t?

[lament ruin]

About the gsc answer channel

[drifting forge]

He's a community manager. Lot of stuff is still under NDA and stuff

Server classic at this point. The rock is peak

[lament ruin]

Yeah, all the answers just felt useless

[astral portal]

mmmmmm

[drifting forge]

Ofc they'll be tho

[astral portal]

50 Lashings For Malcum

[lament ruin]

Welp, we just have to wait

[lament ruin]

It is what it is

[drifting forge]

Either way I have to go to sleep if I'm gonna wake up tmrw actually technically today ig. Gn guys

[astral portal]

okay, make sure freakywayup doesn't bite

[loud spear]

i am new idk where to post this but can anyone help me the game keep crashing after it show this

[deep pine]

Shows what? You wont be able to post media here.

[loud spear]

ahh ok i will sent it in console bug reports then

[weary hedge]

#📸┃screens_and_videos you can post media too

[deep pine]

Is it Chernobyl or Chornobyl. I've always thought it was Cher

[vernal lily]

[vernal lily]

Chornobyl is the Ukrainian pronunciation, makes sense to use that

[deep pine]

Good to know

[eternal tiger]

just finished the ward ending yesterday

i turned on the english voiceover instead of ukrainian and man im going back to ukrainian even if i dont understand it lol

[oak junco]

@astral portal no horny polls man take that freak shit to the gamma server

[vernal lily]

[mortal veldt]

Out of curiosity, does Malachite's doctors/employees ever get over their grudge? Everyone else in the world who sells or has anything is "Hey! Friend! Welcome back! What can I do for you?"

But the Malachite people "Oh... You..."

[astral portal]

you are a little late to the party man

[vernal lily]

[oak junco]

better late then never ong

[astral portal]

it was like 10:39 or something

[oak junco]

no it wasnt lol

less then an hour ago

[astral portal]

that's cool, looks like someone shat in his cereal

[oak junco]

funny guy

[astral portal]

you are the unfunny guy, the guy who ruins every party, the neighbor who files the noise complaints on a saturday night

[vernal lily]

@astral portal do seeing the trees from S2 on your screen make you do that

[astral portal]

"all the leaves are brown, (all the leaves are browwnnnn) and the sky is grey (and the sky is grey)"

[oak junco]

im the based guy keeping the server not cringe with talks of level 10 male mutant and animal gyatt

[vernal lily]

lmao I'm wheezing

[oak junco]

same lol

[grim wharf]

Exactly my point

[astral portal]

it feels like that one guy, "Gentlemen, this is democracy manifest!, What is the charge? Eating a meal? A succulent Chinese meal?"

[oak junco]

https://media.discordapp.net/attachments/873359353825091635/1095452913880551524/steamuserimages-a.akamaihd2.gif

[astral portal]

oh sooo funny using a stalker gif, hilarious

[sweet zephyr]

Never trust a mod made by a French person

[vernal lily]

What are your thoughts on the floating tree

[astral portal]

jesus man be unique or sum shit man

[oak junco]

lol relax bro

[astral portal]

I also got a huge tree... my thing, when I say my thing, heh, let's just say my Hilka Detector

I'm always stroking my Hilka Detector

[vernal lily]

he just needs to play some stalker 2 and let out some steam

[oak junco]

fr

[astral portal]

heh... let out some freaky radiated liquid

[sweet zephyr]

I’m… completely out of money after fighting Faust

[vernal lily]

Faust mentioned

[sweet zephyr]

Can’t repair my equipment or buy new ammo, let alone at the same time

[astral portal]

I'm completely out of freaky juice after playing stalker 2

[sweet zephyr]

Luckily scar will just give me a new suit after the next mission is done

[ornate sable]

Time to get some loot or artifacts to sell

[sweet zephyr]

My inventory was full of the spoils of war and still not enough

[astral portal]

I got a huge zilka detector in my pants

[sweet zephyr]

Hm… maybe I should finish the Rostock arena

I was saving it for something like this

[oak junco]

no one cares

[astral portal]

the artifacts do

they make it go "beep beep beep"

[oak junco]

https://tenor.com/view/side-eye-dog-suspicious-look-suspicious-doubt-dog-doubt-gif-23680990

[vernal lily]

Were you here when we had that artifact tier list voting? You would have had fun with that.

[fiery shore]

BRO?

[vernal lily]

Liquid rock and kolobok is S tier to me if you know what I mean

[mortal veldt]

So yeah, the Malachite personnel, do their "orange" icons ever change?

[raw jasper]

That Whirlwind is like wind and shit , S tier, and comes from gravitational anomalies therefore must have a good suck, so you know it's good 👌

[vernal lily]

real

[weary hedge]

if you side with ward they do eventually from memory? i might be confusing that though

[mortal veldt]

I think I've reached that point. "I'm with you" or [Escape]

Saved there before luckily XD

[low bison]

honestly i think the ruby exo might be better then dimond

the 20% accuracy is really great

[deep pine]

As long as you keep killing Ward soldiers, it wont go below orange.

[lime nest]

Can someone tell me what the world SDK means?

[shell flax]

Software Development Kit iirc

[tawdry furnace]

Mhm

[lime nest]

Ah

[haughty bison]

Anyone else feel that there are some strong inspirations from Half Life in these games?

Sometimes I get flashbacks of moments.

[torn moat]

It honestly feels like halfway to a half-life 3 tbh

[haughty bison]

When you enter that one anomaly and pop out a few times I remembered a similar incident in HL...1?

[torn moat]

Stalker 2 that is. The old games felt closest to HL 1/2 than any other games and getting S2 was almost like getting HL 3 to me

[torn moat]

Yes true! Near the end with the teleporters in lambda core

[ornate sable]

Definitely!

With some old school Resident Evil puzzles thrown in

[haughty bison]

One of the enemies that launch at you reminded me of the crabs. It's eerily similar. Just larger.

[torn moat]

Haha yeah I can totally see the fleshes being like overgrown meatier head crabs

[weary hedge]

Fleshes, I feel the same.

[haughty bison]

I spent like 20 minutes earlier today trying to kill one of those big guys that kept knocking me down. Finally made my way on top of a rock. I'm not even mad. Somehow I was enjoying getting beat down like Andre the Giant had a grudge against me.

[weary hedge]

Pseudogaints are rough.

[haughty bison]

Honestly wasn't a fan of the first game once I realized that areas were kind of instanced. I'm more impressed with this as it goes on.

[ornate sable]

First thing I did after getting the Gauss gun was to go out and look for Pseudogiants. That gun definitely makes them easier to fight.

[raw jasper]

First game had way more odd jobs though, I wish we could have more stuff unrelated to side quest or main quest so we can litteraly just do our thing in the Zone. Faction wars, camp defenses against mutant hordes, seeing main hubs getting exchanged between factions without playwr input (Rostok becoming Duty then Freedom taking it back)

I know they are fixing the game. But just cant wait to see them be creative instead of repairing

[haughty bison]

Yea kind of sucked that they give you one side mission and then tell you they have nothing

[ornate sable]

You can do endless sidemissions for barkeeps, you just have to wait a bit after completing one before you can ask for a new one.

[raw jasper]

They will give a odd job again but you have to do something else for a while. A day or 2

[haughty bison]

Ah, I guess I can jump from one to the other then

[raw jasper]

Yup

[dreamy pilot]

Malachite finally changed for me after the recent patches, they’re white and aren’t pissed off at me atm

[raw jasper]

It's just from what I saw in the game I just know the devs could go crazy in this game. Break the mold of "we keep for other title" kind of mentality. I want to be overwhelmed by the possibilities. I felt like this with Cyberpunk, they kind of delivered throughout the years when they repaired it but it was still falling a little bit short

[haughty bison]

My experience was apparently rare. I had one bug on release of Cyberpunk.

[ornate sable]

Most regions have a couple unique non-repeatable sidequests too though, like The Lost Boys, Three Captains, etc. And I feel these are a lot more interesting than the "fetch artifact/kill bandits" kind of repeatable barkeeper sidequests. Would like to see more of these.

[haughty bison]

S2 has been crashing a lot for me. It craps itself sometimes if I change graphic settings too. Things sometimes start rising up and floating, etc lol.

[sage dew]

How come that NPCs ignore emissions now?

[ornate sable]

Seems like some do, some don't, and some just don't make it in time?

Seeing quite a few dead guys around hubs now during emissions though, and not just Duty at the Cement Factory, but Freedom in Rostok too, and even Ward at Chemical.

[weary hedge]

I want to get the merchants and guides green as soon as possible, but I have to wait. That inconvenient, but it was achieved. Well I lost Malacite, because I teamed up with some smuggling cultist.

[sage dew]

I got hit by emission at the Quiet trader. Monolithans all around the building and upstairs, where the emissions kills you and they were just standing around, even outside - emission hit them, and they just causually ignored it, nobody died, nobody ran away ... thats kinda sad I remember seeing NPCs taking shelter before

did the new update break it? or are Monolithans imune? Or are they brokenxxD

[haughty bison]

I've seen NPCs run into a building I'm in after a fight that I had to run away from after emissions

Would be funny to see them abandon combat and run like hell

[sage dew]

Pretty normal in prev stalkers - or the mods ... tho not sure if they ran away from combat

[haughty bison]

Or say something like "I'll get you afterward"

[sage dew]

gonna report that... I think its pretty important immersion breaking detail/bug

[serene barn]

Idk if it’s a thing but iirc lore wise the monolith is immune to the emissions I think. I feel like I remember hearing them talking about it in 2.

[sage dew]

They are?

I thought only Scar is

[haughty bison]

like those crazy rad worshippers in Fallout?

[serene barn]

And I think the issue with some of the people who isn’t taking shelter in the right places is because they don’t seem to “know” what is considered a shelter by the game

[serene barn]

No he was simply resistant but he still died if you got caught in one.

After surviving 2 that is

[sage dew]

I dont think the game knows either. Cuase I hid in the mobile shelter thingy at cordon and was OK, but when emmision hit me in the caves with the snorks near the chemical plants I died despide being pretty deep underground also, you are in a building and one room is fine, the room next to it you die if you go there during emission, like what is the difference? xD sometimes holes in roof are fine, heck even in a wall, sometimes you stand 2m from a window and you die ...

[serene barn]

Yeah I too got a feeling that they didn’t have enough shelter considered locations in the game.

[sage dew]

I mean there is enough places that would be a good shelter, but somehow arent

[serene barn]

That’s what I mean

[terse ravine]

is there anything worth going to the swamps for?

[sage dew]

Atmosphere

[serene barn]

Plenty of locations should be safe but the devs didn’t make them.

[haughty bison]

Imagine being out in the middle of the swamp during one like I was earlier today, hiding from one of those giants

[ornate sable]

I've gotten shelter popups on my compass that have been buildings I couldn't enter, so maybe that's part of it. Their pathing is trying to take them to some underground location they're standing on top of, so they just stand there. Maybe.

[terse ravine]

have the swamp mission coming up, but don't wantbto revisit it at all once i finish it

[sage dew]

Man I loved swamps eversince they were cut from Shoc xD

[serene barn]

I think it has some USBs for modifications and a few clusters for artifacts an some other loot.

[sage dew]

such nice feature in Oblivion Lost trailers - even had dope "mirror" effect for the water (map with skybox flipped and placed under the original map) early 2000s shenenignas xD looked amazing for 2003

[weary hedge]

i just gained like 10fps enabling rebar support lmao

[sage dew]

what is rebar?

[weary hedge]

goddamn mobo manufacturers needa enable it by default i stg

[terse ravine]

half life 2 has amazing lighting even after 20 years

[weary hedge]

stands for resizable bar

"Resizable BAR" (Base Address Register) is a PCI Express technology that allows a CPU to access the entire GPU frame buffer at once, essentially giving it more flexibility to transfer data to the graphics card, potentially improving gaming performance by enabling faster access to larger chunks of video memory (VRAM) at a time; it's often referred to as "Smart Access Memory" or "Clever Access Memory" depending on the manufacturer"

[sage dew]

Yes but I am talking Stalker xD the half-life 2 era stalker back in 2003 2004

[sage dew]

nice

[terse ravine]

didn't SoC release in 2006?

[sage dew]

My dude its a game that was worked on since 2000 and in 2003/4 there ware major announcements and trailers and the game was called STALKER oblivion lost - dive in to YOUTUBE and check it out - amazing stuff

[weary hedge]

if your mobo supports it, its in bios settings

with mine i had to enable 'above 4g decoding'
and then enable 'above 4g mimo'

then it allows you to enable rebar in the bios

AMD uses rebar a lot more often than nvidia does, its off by default on most mobos afaik

[sage dew]

hmm I have MSI X7 mb - thats a board from 2015

but hey I will check if it maybe has that? ... I had build "future proof" PC back when DOOM2016 was announced xD and later I upgraded to 32 ram and got 2080ti. along with 4ghz i7 it was fine till STALKER 2 xD even CP77 runs decent 60-80FPS 1440p with RT and all the nice things on ultra/epic

[haughty bison]

I didn't even know that game existed. I thought the last game was the first one.

[vapid galleon]

what the...

[sage dew]

Yeah it was super ambicious early stalker. Where surprise surprise lots was promissed and later in development hell got cut. Like the swamps, rat swarms, buerers, karlick, mutated cat, drivable vehicles and so on...

[sage dew]

What?

[vapid galleon]

he got most underrated GPU :D

[sage dew]

2080ti is fkin hercules XD but its third one xD I 2 previous ones burned out when I was playing Kingdom Come (the first one) - there was a controversy with nVidia 20 series that they were proned to do that - to glitch out or burn out. bad luck

I got them early 2018 I think ... definetly before the pandemic

[haughty bison]

My 1060 was running games at 1440

[sage dew]

I am surprised how well it handles new games actually. I expected to have to upgrade for CP77, but it just powered thru. Yes its not 4k at 200FPS pathtraced, but what GPU does THAT now days? And STALKER2 I get solid 60FPS at 1440p with DLSS and FSR framegen all on high to med - untill I get to hubs xD in hubs like rostock the game turns in to a nice stalker comic where I scroll thru nice pictures with ambient audio and OST xD

[sage dew]

Yeah but no RT features for 1060 xD

[haughty bison]

$1000 card now gets you about $200 worth of upgrade

RT needs to die

[sage dew]

thats why Im waiting for 60 series - and also becasue I am broke now

[weary hedge]

im also waiting for 60 series before i upgrade again, 4070 ti super still going good lol

[sage dew]

Disagree - RT is great. nvidias play to monopolize it via using RT chips - thats what needs to die - the corporate greed... dont worry it will end up as physX did

give it few more years and more progress in opensource RT renderers

[sage dew]

How is the price for 4070ti? still used car? xD

[weary hedge]

i think it was $1200 when i got it a month or two ago, but thats AUD

[sage dew]

oh Australlia? xD

[weary hedge]

yeah so prob like $900 usd or something

[sage dew]

Summertime! We have winter over here at europe and WW3 1000km east - its great. We should move to NZ - AU has too large and too scary spiders xD

[weary hedge]

lmao went from 100% gpu utilisation on a 3060 12gb to 100% utilisation on the 4070 ti super 😂

And summers over now

[sage dew]

thats weird my 2080ti has around 70% even in hubs where CPU is sweatting bullets hitting the 100% and 80C

[haughty bison]

Did you guys ever see that movie where a group went into the Chernobyl zone in a van I think and encountered creatures or something

[sage dew]

Chernobyl diaries

https://www.imdb.com/video/vi3718815769/?playlistId=tt1991245&ref_=tt_ov_ov_vi

[weary hedge]

I also feel cpu is working harder then gpu on stalker 2.

[haughty bison]

Yea that's it

[sage dew]

Never seen that - the trailer was too LOLzy too american

[haughty bison]

It was actually pretty decent

[sage dew]

Yeah poor CPU utilisation - I hear its UE5 early version problem along with optimalisation on the GSC side - upgrading to 5.5 should fix a lot of issues and (after the massive debug taking like 4 months) it would really help STALKER2

[haughty bison]

When I've looked at I've seen very little cpu/gpu usage both

[sage dew]

NASA computer?

[haughty bison]

7080x3d/3070. Game actually runs pretty smooth at 1440/high.

Biggest problem is the crashing with that error about "device removed"

[serene barn]

let out the psuedogiant in the red forest and it killed almost all the bandits i left behind but i don't know if they actually did kill it or if the game just ran it's thing because i ran away to look for a path to get to some loot while they fought

[weary hedge]

Remember to take the necklace from the pseudogaint.

[serene barn]

game completely froze up and then i had to restart the game.

[weary hedge]

SMH, maybe it should have been a early access title.

[serene barn]

and now the giant is winning and it's somehow not low on health either.

[latent ferry]

anyone encounter a crash at the CNPP when they try to pick up the weird nut artifact?

[serene barn]

you can't get to the CNPP in this

[latent ferry]

the cooling tower at the firewhirl anomaly gamer

[sage dew]

I have a hunch that they will add NPP with some DLC - or maybe not with mixed reivews xD

[serene barn]

this fight is so annoying, why the hell does it all of a sudden have what seems to be full health after being shot at by all those bandits.

[sage dew]

There were also more locations like 70% done in leaked 200GB build from 2023

[latent ferry]

I have never seen the bandits do meaningful damage to it. I've done that one twice now (second playthrough) and it was honestly harder the second time

[serene barn]

they literally just seemingly managed to kill it with 1 bandit surviving but then my game froze up completely and i had to hit the stop button in steam but now it's like at full health with all the bodies laying around

[weary hedge]

Got it on my second try. Somehow didn't realize the place is on fire.

[latent ferry]

got it no trouble but everytime i do the game crashes i got further this time i do believe its AMD FSR 3.1 and my Nvidia GPU butting heads shame to I was getting almost 90 fps with fsr

[serene barn]

i really wish they had left the thing where you can avoid the groundpound by jumping because being knocked down is so annoying. like you can't do anything

[vernal lily]

Looks like I am encountering chimeras properly now

[weary hedge]

For me the pseudogaint body blocked to bandits from leave the storehouse they use as a house. After a whole lot of ammo, go to get the collar. They start shooting.

[weary hedge]

Like in elden ring.

[serene barn]

i really dont feel like the game needed a stun lock mechanic on top of their attacks, as if they don't hit hard enough

[weary hedge]

Two words... Three bloodsuckers.

[weary hedge]

Isn't there like 3 in the game?

[serene barn]

i am entirely serious too. it's bullshit.

[vernal lily]

I used to just not see them at all lol

[serene barn]

Chimera's is only supposed to spawn in when you've been introduced to them in the Swamp when you go there to find the Clear Sky base.

[weary hedge]

Don't think FSR is the problem. I can whine all day that it should be abolished, sure. Does it cause ghosting and looking rubbish, sure. But I am not sure it causes crashes with Nvidia hardware.

[vernal lily]

Do they not spawn after that? I am in that area right now, doing that quest. Could have sworn I saw another one.

[latent ferry]

it was the fsr shame to it was doing so much better for pumping out some extra frames compared to DLSS

[serene barn]

ugh....the first time i did this fight on Stalker diff, i was using a Cracker with the mag upgrade but now i have the unique Spas and it's fully kitted out and yet this is such a struggle

[serene barn]

they spawn after the introduction as i said.

i remember fighting one at a tunnel near SIRCAA

[weary hedge]

1 at the train tunnel close to sirca, 1 at the clear sky base, 1 at the chopper in pripyat and 1 at the electric dish where you get gangster.

[vernal lily]

So it hasn't been spawning for me this entire time before this patch . Well my zone was somewhat peaceful.

[weary hedge]

Alright, well it's the first I hear of it.

[frigid hill]

rainthunderspark has been warned

Reason: Bad word usage

[weary hedge]

Now I sort of want to know what it was about.

[serene barn]

the fuck-er knocked me down then threw a thing at me while i was down

[weary hedge]

And if you stand on something, does it run away and hide?

[serene barn]

it doesn't matter if i do

it has Polter powers

[weary hedge]

Oh right,my bad.

[serene barn]

it's actually kind of amazing in a way just how terribly they've balanced the mutants i feel. it's like they didn't actually play the game to realize that "hey, this feels unfair"

finally, dude.

[latent ferry]

actually its probably frame gen not the FSR its self

[serene barn]

killed some people who had decided to hit a Corp patrol, i think that will give me some profit as i barely got hit and i killed like 8 guys and gfrabbed all of their things. gonna have guide take me to Rostok to cash in my mission then dump my stock of red guns on Ragman for some coupons that will hopefully net me enough for repairs and an upgrade on some of my guns

[sage dew]

Ragman buys broken guns?

[serene barn]

he buys red guns, unless they're fully at 0%

[lethal crest]

Yeah, down to like 1% durability IIRC

It’s the only reason I visit him at all

[sage dew]

HAH didnt know that - I just tried to sell some red guns at the start in lesser zone, nobody wanted them so I started ignoring anything in red xD

[lethal crest]

Man is as big a dick as Sidorovich, prices are so much worse for normal stuff

[sage dew]

I visit him cause he sells 9x39 for my VSS vintorez *vintar >.>

[serene barn]

he wants like 2k for a box of 30 tho, that's a lot on Veteran

[vapid galleon]

👍

[weary hedge]

That's why, for everything else, you use the other vendors at rostok.

[serene barn]

went to Duty base at Cement Factory and an emission hit and i went out and looted like 15 bodies or more.

[charred nova]

https://tenor.com/view/deus-ex-deus-ex-jc-shame-gif-26245854

[serene barn]

i also went near the fire cluster and killed some mercs and then on my way back i got hit a lot by Boars so that trip might not have been worth doing lol, paid like 9k for repairs

[cobalt fiber]

https://tenor.com/view/money-tekken-gif-22877309

[serene barn]

the MK1 i have seems to be doing alright against these not super armored guys i am seeing

i wish a little that random npcs would acknowledge it when you help them in fire fights

[charred nova]

I wish the mk1 was better

[solar raven]

Guys help how to find artifact

#📸┃screens_and_videos message
I keep searching and cant find anything

[serene barn]

went to that cage place in cement to grab the suit and other things at there and maybe my suit has something else than a lead container but it's like beating the SEVA-D suit in everything.

[solar raven]

nice but dude can you plz help me ive been 15 mins searching for the artifact in the same place

[weary hedge]

Will go check now.

[serene barn]

why do you keep asking em for things lol, but where?

[solar raven]

#📸┃screens_and_videos message Blue circle

[weary hedge]

What's Europe's version of the ESRB? This game is age gated in your region right?

[serene barn]

i forgot what it's called

[weary hedge]

I am literally insinuating, by law, that you might not play this game my man.

[serene barn]

it's down the end of that whole cluster around the fire truck i think.

[solar raven]

ok thanks lemme check

[serene barn]

i was there earlier, killed some mercs that spawned and then took some more damage looking for whatever was there for me.

[weary hedge]

I believe the artifact fell through the floor.

[cobalt fiber]

[serene barn]

that is possible too, idek if an emission would respawn the artifact if that happened. i tend to just quicksave before i go near a cluster in case it does happen.

[serene barn]

where was this relevant to like, anything?

[solar raven]

its not it becomes further from the artifact when I go to the fire truck why is getting artifacts that hard I even went to do the tasks to get the Bear artifact and thought it would become much easier

[solar raven]

bru

so you wanna tell me this is the 3rd time artifacts keep falling through the floor?

[serene barn]

i mean it is easier with a bear as it gives you distance and direction unlike the Echo and Hilka but the artifacts do seem a lot more jumpy now since i had played back in Dec.

[weary hedge]

Compared to the first scanner, bear is better.

[weary hedge]

The one with the screen that shows anomalies is convenient.

[serene barn]

i used the Hilka this run a little but i got so annoyed with it that i bought a Bear from Duty only to then be given one not long after by the scientist in Wild Island for doing that mission with the zombie there.

the Vales detector is beyond convenient lul, it's extremely useful because it also shows you their Area of Effect.

[charred nova]

I’ve never used it because

[weary hedge]

Know that bandit camp in lesser zone, the fuel silo one... I never got a artfact there. They always fall through the map.

[solar raven]

bruh the fire pushes the artifact away but I saw its namw its called fireball is fireball a legendary guys?

[charred nova]

You get a bear before you get a hilka every time

And the bear is just better

[weary hedge]

No

[charred nova]

I genuinely don’t know what the point of it is when you can easily get a bear hours before the hilka

[serene barn]

on the way to the poppy field? yeah i've had them fall into the silo but i have other times gotten something there. in fact i got my first Thunderberry on my first run there.

you can steal a Hilka from a stash from a mission you get in Garbage in the Slag Heap by some guy's drinking. that's what i did

[charred nova]

They need to make it possible to get a hilka in the lesser

Before I’d ever use it lol

[solar raven]

hilka is good bc its range is 100 meters and artifacts get chosen to spawn when your 100meters near it so you can make a save near the artifact like 100 meters away so once the hilka starts detecting you know thr artifact is already chosen

hilka + veles is the best combo

[charred nova]

Why would I ever carry multiple detectors

Let alone switch between them

[solar raven]

cuz hilka has the most range

[charred nova]

Who cares

[deep pine]

True Stalkers care

[solar raven]

Da

[charred nova]

True stalkers use there eyes to figure out the likely spot of an artifact

Damn there’s a lot of anomalies here

Probable an artifact near by

[deep pine]

Stop following Lex the Legend

[charred nova]

I killed him

[weary hedge]

Random guy in the field wants to buy a scanner from me. Well, I have a scanner you can buy, but it's not on me.

[charred nova]

Is that a thing

[solar raven]

yo guys do anomalies near the artifact determine which artifact theie gonna drop or is it completely random like fire anomalies drop fire artifacts and acid anomalies drop anti rad artifacts or is it random

[weary hedge]

Burning forest.

[cobalt fiber]

Why swll them a scanner when you can just kill them and take their coupons

[charred nova]

Because they don’t drop coupons

Would make the game too easy

[cobalt fiber]

Yes sell, kill, take ya shit back

Win

[charred nova]

True

[solar raven]

Where can I do that?

[charred nova]

Except most of the wondering stalkers want to kill me except freedom and duty for some reason

[cobalt fiber]

I stopped trying to distinguish factions from afar at one point

Just started killing everything

[charred nova]

I would but

friendly factions give a repair discount

[weary hedge]

First 80 hours of my playthrough was 3 bloodsuckers. So when soldiers and bandits showed up to kill me, I was relieved.

[serene barn]

i got 24k coupons rn, all my gear is repaired. maybe it's time i do my next story mission now.

i...

[wintry pumice]

hilka has higher range, keep hilka on all the time. When you get close use bear

[charred nova]

Again why would I do that

[weary hedge]

Farm artifact to 80k, then do the story mission.

[serene barn]

i just saw a blooduscker sprinting through the Duty base.-. like inside of it but it didn't seem to attack anyone.

[weary hedge]

Yo lads, we get it. You min-max. Or you can keep a map or just remember where they spawn... Save the bag space... Jesus!

[serene barn]

meh, i will be grabbing guns in the story mission, it's at the WSP place.

[weary hedge]

Happened to me in the noontide base, looks like they honor the no shoot zones.

[charred nova]

Like idk I feel that if I bring out my
Detector and just walk towards the middle of the anomaly cluster

[serene barn]

i feel like maybe i should drop a gun but idk which one lol.

[charred nova]

I’ll find the artifact 100 percent of the time

[charred nova]

The least valuable one

[serene barn]

like i carry 3 main guns and 2 sidearms.

[charred nova]

Why

[serene barn]

Buket, MK1, Spas

[charred nova]

I just use the side arm as what ever I don’t have

So if I got no sniper I bring the rhino

If I got no auto I bring the apsb

[serene barn]

Buket is cheap to repair, Spas kills mutants and the MK1 is my sniper atm when i can dome people with the acog and the supressor i found the other day

[charred nova]

You don’t have a lynx ?

[serene barn]

my sidearms is a UDP with a suppressor and the extendo mag and a Rhino fully kitted out with a 2x

no i don't.

[charred nova]

Damn well to be fair lynx kinda bad

[serene barn]

i have a SVU but like, it's a lot of coupons to kit it out like i would want to do