☢┃stalker-general

[weary hedge]

yes ward is the quickest to finish because of the above

[solar raven]

How long does it take like around an hour? Cuz then I'll take it and do stalker after it

[maiden grotto]

4

[weary hedge]

hes trolling lol

[solar raven]

I'm not bro I'm literally just asking bruh

[maiden grotto]

There are 4 endings, 3 stalker and 1 ward...

I will let you play the game and let you make your choices... It's what the game is about.

[solar raven]

Aight thanks

[sturdy verge]

69 endings in the shinning zone

[fierce nexus]

Poor Scar

Survived multiple emissions, had someone's memories planted in his head

Bro's brain must be egg salad

[mellow knot]

roadmap now

[wintry pumice]

🛣️🗺️

[mellow knot]

Promised in December

[boreal coyote]

when is fish tank back on?

[mellow knot]

Never

[boreal coyote]

why not?

[wet portal]

You get a couple different rewards that don't matter

[maiden grotto]

Pretty much

[wet portal]

Need mod to change Scar's name to Dutch now

[maiden grotto]

Pass the Dutchy on the left hand side

[sleek gulch]

I regret looking at Stalker 2 mods on YT. They have amazing flashlights and nvg.

[sturdy verge]

boringgggg nvg/flashlights, we need hair mod for strelok

[hearty hatch]

Where is faction channel on discord ? Deleted ?

[sturdy verge]

guess so

[charred nova]

https://tenor.com/view/thanos-avengers-endgame-gone-reduced-to-atoms-gif-26539274

No one was using them except for role playing and shit posting so they were purged

[sturdy verge]

good dont need to read 'dont advertise' multiple times lol

[charred nova]

They still there technically lol

[hearty hatch]

Thank for answer and why you want banned the word anomaly and gama ?

[sturdy verge]

cause they arent brilliant enough to come up with their own game

[river chasm]

RIP factions

[sturdy verge]

🤣

[charred nova]

Mostly as a joke

It never happened for obvious reasons

[hearty hatch]

Ok thank and pray Monolith

[charred nova]

Only real ogs remember this though

Ancient history

[sturdy verge]

looks familiar 😄

[charred nova]

They’ve been closed since 2021

Mostly for same reasons as faction channels

Almost no one used them

And the few that were used we didn’t have anyone fluent in the language so

Hell would break loose in there and we would have no idea

[wintry pumice]

sounds like a fun time

[charred nova]

The polish channel was particularly bad

Dudes in there were angry what felt like 24/7

[sturdy verge]

love the Polish heh

[subtle spindle]

baltic channel is crazy honestly there are 3 different languages in the baltics lol

[serene barn]

lol, saw a short with the aim of dunking on the "new" controller in Stalker 2 but ofc they're comparing being punched to it's new ranged ability that has much further range, prolly does more damage, passes through the enviroment.

and the comments seem full of Gamma fans lol.

[cobalt kayak]

debating if i want to start a fresh play on stalker 2 now that its gotten so many more patchs since launch

[serene barn]

i hope they fix the controller though, it feels weird to take away it's melee attack completely because now as soon as you're within like 8m it just spams it's new attack over and over unless you exit it's range.

[charred nova]

Why they got rid of them all

It was just asking for problems

[sleek gulch]

@sturdy verge strelok with hair is repugnant. Might as well look at the ass end of a fleshy

Plus, he's not even Duty factio

[still current]

Archived until further notice

[pallid thorn]

i felt like the controllor's melee attack was silly cus they never walked towards you

[sturdy verge]

lol i wasnt being serious btw 😄

[charred nova]

[sleek gulch]

@sturdy verge your monolith lies won't work on me.

[still current]

I barely noticed lmao, cuz it's still visible and all. I'm on mobile, so I often miss the lockmark

[charred nova]

True

[sturdy verge]

kinda want to play soc now 😄

[charred nova]

Well it took over an hour for anyone to even notice

Shows how much they were used lol

[serene barn]

i think the only logical choice was to add the roar to it's attacks and not replace the punching because that makes no sense. like not only is the roar strong as hell but it goes through the enviroment. it needs a cooldown but it also needs to know when to scream at you and when you punch you. i'm a bit bothered the devs didn't do this better

[drifting forge]

Same lol just got tempted today

[still current]

Hella, the change was justified

Less channels for scam bots to use

[charred nova]

True

[drifting forge]

Either way en_stalker is back like it should be

[boreal coyote]

who's cock do we have to dribble on to get a roadmap around here?

[sturdy verge]

who, not me? lol

[boreal coyote]

not you? you sure?

[sturdy verge]

sure, not me, who, you? lol

[boreal coyote]

i wish it was you

[boreal coyote]

i bet it'll be next week

[wintry pumice]

[frigid hill]

🚫 machturbo7, you need to wait 2 minutes to use that command again.

[boreal coyote]

id better pucker up

[still current]

Oh yeah! Revamped, but back

[frigid hill]

🚫 machturbo7, you need to wait 1 minute to use that command again.

[drifting forge]

[still current]

It didn't feel practical to have separate games channel since it'll always be discussed anywhere anyway lol

[still current]

Sensing time is a problem I see

[drifting forge]

CS channel could've stayed tho

[still current]

Even we, are not immune to commands CD

[wintry pumice]

wasn't it 30 seconds before?

[boreal coyote]

make a new channel called the petey boys just me for me and the homies

[boreal coyote]

matter fact make it so its just me in there with all the women from the server 🤣

[wintry pumice]

Finally

[still current]

Nope, commands are a different matter. It's like 2 or 3mins

Let me show you

[frigid hill]

🚫 [STOC Kot G] General Rahmi [EN], you need to wait 3 minutes to use that command again.

[still current]

3mins

As I said

[steep crystal]

Question i brought the ultimate edition yesterday and I've read that because of that I will get a question called seek and you shall find but when i go to the chest the USB isn't there do i need to finish the mission im currently on for it to appear

[boreal coyote]

yeah finish the start of the game until it lets you leave the lesser zone

[steep crystal]

Ok cool

[still current]

You checked your inventory? It should have a flash drive and taking it will start the mission (if you are talking about the journalist stashs quest).

It should start when you finish main quests around the lesser zone

I think

Like the moment you are asked to leave

[steep crystal]

Yh i am but I think I need to finish a needle in a haystack first for it to appear

[boreal coyote]

pretty sure i just told him that

[still current]

[boreal coyote]

is there an echo in here? 🤣

[still current]

Huh? I don't have to read all the channel texts if things are chill and all yk?

[boreal coyote]

im just taking the piss buddy

[steep crystal]

Oh lovely it's night this game scares the everliving shit out of me at night 😭😭

[cobalt kayak]

new playthough or na

[still current]

ik

[steep crystal]

1st time playing

[cobalt kayak]

no played at launch

[boreal coyote]

i would say nah

[wintry pumice]

not Me too?

[boreal coyote]

if i was you i'd wait until the next dlc before new playthrough, all the updates thus far are crap, the game is just boring after you've done the story. unless you like exploring for the sake of it, i spent countless hours in this game doing that and its pretty fun but even saying that it'll prob be 10x more fun if you wait

[gleaming bone]

yeah the zone still doesn't feel quite alive, but there's a LOT of scripted main & side content, easily 100 hours of playtime to explore new stuff. The zone is big and has a lot of stuff to offer

oh sorry you were talking about starting a new playthrough, yeah prolly not worth it unless you wanna explore the other side ward/spark

a lot of stuff was fixed but I agree, would wait for dlc(s) for game to feel entirely different

[feral horizon]

Zone feels more alive now. I've been seeing more random mutant fights.

I'm just gonna roll back to my x15 save and do the spark mission since I never saw the dead valley and the surface of the generators.

[dreamy dagger]

No roadmap yet

Almost 2 months
WHAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAT!
Is GSC waiting for me to buy SSD?!

[charred nova]

They are your holding us all hostage

[boreal coyote]

you dont have an ssd?

[gleaming bone]

It does feel more alive, and they did a lot of work, but it's still like 20-30% of what's needed in my opinion

also I wish they would fix the repeatable quests. this is also really annoying

and added more reasons to speak to stalkers like trade or missions. trade is entirely meaningless coz stalker buy for bad prices and never have anything interesting

would be nice to have at least a 0.5% chance to have a common artifact, at least. Then it would make sense to look

For trade I mean

[ornate sable]

Yeah I've got some borked ones as well. That and placed spawns (not A-life, but things like the IPSF squads at the sphere and cordon, certain mutants etc.) respawning too quickly are some of the things I'd like to see them fix.

[gleaming bone]

Agreed. For me Rostok & Zaton have broken. Also, I'm not sure if Sidorovich in Cordon is supposed to have any?

[ornate sable]

For me it's Rostok and Cement Factory. Harpy was broken too, but got fixed in the last patch.

[wintry pumice]

Harpy is broken anyway....

[dreamy dagger]

Never even touched one

Don't laugh at me please

[boreal coyote]

yeah no need when we have floppy disks

[dreamy dagger]

And you laughed at me...

[boreal coyote]

no? im so serious

[dreamy dagger]

https://tenor.com/view/filthy-frank-hang-myself-belt-self-defense-suicide-gif-5042034

I have a belt!

[boreal coyote]

i have an ssd

a small succulent dick

[dreamy dagger]

Let's exchange, you gimme the SSD and I won't hang myself!

Or I hang myself and you gimme the SSD!

[boreal coyote]

oh you want the small succulent dick do you?

[dreamy dagger]

Sweet Mary & Joseph....

You bully me!

@charred nova He bully...Scholarship Edition though

[boreal coyote]

bully is the worst game rockstar ever made

[charred nova]

[boreal coyote]

everyone knows it, no one says it. i'll say it it's shit

[narrow plank]

Frockstar

[dreamy dagger]

Jok, jok... you don't believe me

[charred nova]

Need ssd

[boreal coyote]

gta V is a terrible game too, most overrated game of all time

[charred nova]

WILL SOMEBODY PLEASE get this man a ssd

[dreamy dagger]

https://tenor.com/view/lebron-james-walk-out-exit-leave-me-alone-leaving-gif-17626971102629501219

[boreal coyote]

how tf does a pc even function in 2025 without one 🤣 i think you're capping

[charred nova]

He’s not

[dreamy dagger]

He isn't capping, Google
"WDC WD10EZRZ-00HTKB0"

[boreal coyote]

hmmm i dont think i will

[dreamy dagger]

Wait what I thought its 7200 RPM drive for 4 years, turns out its 5400

Lmfao

I got scammed 4 years ago and I didn't know

https://www.amazon.com/Western-Digital-Wd10ezrz-6Gbps-Internal/dp/B018RW7GS6

55 dolla

[boreal coyote]

i have a bridge for sale if you're interested?

[dreamy dagger]

I am not crossing those waters yet

[boreal coyote]

would you like to buy apocalypse insurance?

[dreamy dagger]

I have a crate of anti rad pills supplied by Seth Rogen himself

Do you sell... Goth girls?

I want 2, to have 1 spare!

[boreal coyote]

if you see him again tell him him i've a bone to pick with him

[dreamy dagger]

Oh hell yeah, free Goth Girls!

[boreal coyote]

that curly headed fk is a Christian hater and makes all these jokes about Christianity but then cries "n@zi"if someone makes a jew joke 🤢

[dreamy dagger]

We don't go there, son

[boreal coyote]

yeah thats what seth says when it gets turned around on him... 🤣

i just hate Seth Rogan🤣 i grew up liking him but these days he's like anti comedy, he got famous by doing edgy bits and edgy movies but now that he's all Hollywood he's tryna cancel the new guys that are coming up doing edgy material

what a bum

[boreal coyote]

also you cant tell me not to go there, didnt you just ask me if i would be willing to partake in human trafficking and sell you 2 goth girls?

[dreamy dagger]

Shit, got caught, I better run

[polar forge]

I can’t find a dang trader that sells 5.56x45mm M885 ammo for nothing

[charred nova]

Yah I remember I was there

[dreamy dagger]

No shit I thought its 7200 all the time

What a letdown...

[charred nova]

2021 was 4 years ago

https://tenor.com/view/you-died-gif-9059314985743771972

[ornate sable]

2015 was 10 years ago

And that was around the time most people switched to SSD for system and games.

[charred nova]

Your telling me

[narrow plank]

What happened to the faction channels?

[vernal lily]

Damn, I just realized, they're gone

[boreal coyote]

they took it away because of what you did

[narrow plank]

That sounds like a great way to start a Monolith crusade.

[boreal coyote]

i wont embarrass you publicly by bringing it up here but you know what i'm talking about

[mellow knot]

Average GSC answer: "Erm, idk"

[dreamy dagger]

Bruh

I bought a new PC in 2020, used Dual Core CPU & 2 GB GPU till late 2019

[mellow knot]

Stalker will not run on HDD, unfortunate for me

[charred nova]

They were removed because they weren’t used for anything except shit posting

They may return for events in the future though

[quartz anvil]

i have a hardrive but its mainly full of old games that run well on it but im slowly realizing an NVME just is better for new and old games

[maiden grotto]

This... It drives me nuts... Kill mutant, walks over to loot area, mutant spawns back in after three steps

[maiden grotto]

Could not agree more

[boreal coyote]

yeah but you hate everything

[maiden grotto]

Not really, love plenty of games.

Kenna Bridge of Spirits, System Shock 1 & 2, and the remake... Baldur's Gate 1 & 2...

Conflict Free Space 1 & 2... SoC, Witcher 3... list goes on...

I m just honest, and I am not blinded because a game is the next thing big thing, but it's steam pile shyte.

[charred nova]

Do you like deus ex

[maiden grotto]

Yup, played that and liked it very much

[boreal coyote]

do you like furry shades of gay? i just gifted it to a friend whos having a hard time

[charred nova]

That’s a relief just checking

Have you ever played nameless mod?

If you haven’t I highly recommend

[maiden grotto]

Nope

[charred nova]

It’s a full conversion mod for deus ex

Complete with voice acting

That’s actually really good

[maiden grotto]

Is it? Awesome, I will check it out then

[charred nova]

Yah

It’s really funny

[maiden grotto]

Thanks for the heads up

[charred nova]

It’s based around some drama that happened on the deus ex forums back in the early 2000s

Which sounds really dumb but

Just play it and you’ll love it

[maiden grotto]

okay.

[maiden grotto]

No... Never heard of it.

[charred nova]

If you did that to me

Id block you

And ban for good measure

[boreal coyote]

nah when he see's it he's gonna be over the moon

[maiden grotto]

It's always drama 😄

[charred nova]

Yes

[cobalt fiber]

[charred nova]

But it’s very funny

It’s about gamespy

[cobalt fiber]

Ahh gamespy

[charred nova]

Bet 90 percent of the people here don’t even know what gamespy is

[cobalt fiber]

Uncultured swine

[boreal coyote]

who, me?

[charred nova]

Idk you probably

[cobalt fiber]

Definitely him

[charred nova]

I didn’t know that when I was a kid why a bunch of games I liked suddenly lost online support

All gamespy’s fault

FUCK GAMESPY

ALL MY HOMIES HATE GAMESPY

[boreal coyote]

but i dont hate them

aren't we homies?

[maiden grotto]

You do, your me, and me hates them 😄

[boreal coyote]

but me dont know them

[charred nova]

To be fair gamespy wasn’t always so bad

At least from what I read

[boreal coyote]

whats the lore?

[maiden grotto]

Money currputs absolutely

[charred nova]

I wasn’t exactly there in the early to mid 2000s on pc to really use them

But ign bought them

Then sold there server hosting branch

Which makes no sense cus they bought it then nearly instantly shut it down

Which is like

Average crypto bro investment

Ahead of there fucken time

And back then basically all online games were hosted on gamespy soooooo

Most of the older ones just poof gone

[boreal coyote]

i lost my net worth on faddy coin

[charred nova]

Fun fact Nintendo used them for the Wii

Which is what took down the online services for Wii so early

[maiden grotto]

yup, ruined so much.

Just been looking for a youtube video explaining it all

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bCDjNPfpUlc This is the best one I could find for now

[cobalt fiber]

Had good fun on the Wii whilst it lasted

Re4 was wild on that

[cobalt fiber]

Youngen

[neon vale]

Is the artificial life thing ready yet? Just checking if it's time to give this game a try 🙂

[charred nova]

I got the ancient knowledge

[fierce nexus]

It's better, but still not fully fixed

It's complex, it's probably gonna take a few months

[neon vale]

Oh okay, I'll wait a while longer than. Thanks

[charred nova]

you've finally come around to my line of reasoning

hahaha

[river chasm]

There's a reason other developers have not ripped off this idea for all their own open world games, it's not easy and a lot can go wrong

[charred nova]

well comparable making an open world is like 1/3 the battle

fixing it is the other 2/3

[fierce nexus]

[charred nova]

someday the community will be possitive towards this game

but that day is not day or tomrrow or the week after that

[fierce nexus]

Fr

One day it will be
S.T.A.L.K.E.R. 2: Heart of Peak! 🗣

[charred nova]

yah when they add fishing

[fierce nexus]

[tall vector]

It's a lot less buggy than it was at launch and I genuinely enjoy it, but there's still some glitches, etc

[dreamy dagger]

'Rong

I did it, Balkan style!

[mellow knot]

runs like blin

[dreamy dagger]

But it runs

At least it isn't like one of those games that are HW-locked, folk

[charred nova]

i mean

[dreamy dagger]

Mr Bean?

[charred nova]

the performance will likely not improve that much

sadly

eu5 is just really hard to run and that probably wont change any time soon

[fickle cosmos]

listening to katyusha as i run through yantar.

[dreamy dagger]

Jack... beam me out of here, put me in bed so I can forget

JACK!

[fierce nexus]

S L E E P

[fickle cosmos]

papa please abandon this man

[dreamy dagger]

Drop me in the bin

[charred nova]

im looking at rx7s right now

[charred nova]

big surprise no one has the one i want

sigh........

[dreamy dagger]

I'm outta this glitch, see you in K-Kotn

[ornate sable]

RE4 on Wii is the best RE4 I ever played

[civic relic]

yaniv is bugging tf out its saying its under attack but its not and no1 out here is shooting at me or anything

im gonna fly over the cnpp reactor and see whats there before i even unlock that area

[low bison]

is there anyway to get strelok's armor?

[civic relic]

yeah if u kill him

duuuuude when did they add more save slots

waitdid they add more save slots

[drifting forge]

Are there more than 3?

[civic relic]

i coulda swore there was only one slot not 3 when i first started playing

[drifting forge]

It's been like that since release

[civic relic]

oh im just tripping then

[polar forge]

I think I found my new favorite weapon combo to run around with.
Lynx (svd), spsa-14 & Grom s-14. Svd is so good

[maiden grotto]

Wait until you try the S-15

[civic relic]

i do that same setup but i use a spitter instead of a grom ik its not a very powerful gun especially since im end game but i like the spitter it looks cool

[charred nova]

Same gun but it uses the most common ammo

Massive win

[low bison]

this guy is a genius

[maiden grotto]

I love it, it is one of my mains, especially with a built in RPG

Really enjoy the Integral A at the moment, .45, burst, pops most heads.. and very accurate too

[fallen latch]

a shame ap .45 isn't the cheapest, and it spits it out quick

[charred nova]

i got buckets

[fallen latch]

plus, a maxed integral plus enough ammo is a considerable weight to pay for an smg

[fickle cosmos]

shady business'.

[feral horizon]

https://www.reddit.com/r/stalker/comments/1iykbdk/all_of_the_original_stalker_game_locations_on_the/

[cosmic portal]

[feral horizon]

I think they did an overall good job on the stalker 2 map but I think they really messed on the placement of the great swamps, army warehouses, and the brain scorcher area.

[steady river]

its so annoying theres no guide in zalissya

[feral horizon]

Well there was one, but the monolith got him.

[steady river]

yeah

[feral horizon]

It kinda annoys me how the monolith blows up when its first activated but somehow all the former monolith soldiers are permanently converted.

Like in the original trilogy when strelok turns off the wish granter, the monolith soliders like strider start to come to their senses.

[river chasm]

Well I don't think it's the monolith itself that did it, the monolith was just bait basically. It's the x-lab network as a whole that seems to be doing it (and reconnecting it seems to be what causes the noontiders to go back to being monolith)

And, well, it was set up to happen that way anyway, even if that's not how it worked originally

[steady river]

.45 integral was my main anti-mutant gun but then i found rpm and its so satisfying mowing down bloodsuckers (ammo wise tho both are moneysink)

[feral horizon]

What exactly is the x-network?

I've heard that mentioned in the games but I couldn't fine a good explanation for it.

[steady river]

maybe anomalous dugout covered it as he often explains stalker lore

[feral horizon]

He hasn't made much stalker 2 content yet.

[river chasm]

It's a network of some of the project x labs that were used to study/experiment with the noosphere. you can see maps of it in a few places, but it includes x-11 (SIRCAA), the azimuth station, orbita, duga, generators, and i believe somewhere around the CNPP or cooling towers

[feral horizon]

So its the x-network that's really controlling the monolith faction.

I also heard in the game faust hacked into it.

[charred nova]

hey pal wanna buy some 45 right now only offering 30 percent off just for you

one box 100 rounds 200 bux

[river chasm]

here i found a screenshot someone took of one of the better maps in the game #📸┃screens_and_videos message

it is not really explained in the game so its just my inference mostly

but it connects Duga, SIRCAA, and the generators

[fickle cosmos]

I need 44.

[river chasm]

Its also one of the several in game maps that shows some of the cut areas, like north part of cooling towers, southwest of Duga, Jupiter factory, etc

[charred nova]

Wrong game bud

[fickle cosmos]

Sorry but I need 44 for the good ol' Magnum.

[charred nova]

stalker 2 needs 50ae

[fickle cosmos]

stalker 2 needs to give us 40mm HE.

[charred nova]

Vaporize mutants in a single shot from your hand cannon

[steady river]

and 50 bmg

[charred nova]

Why stop there

Ntw-20

Or better yet

Anzio iron works 20mm range rifle

wearing an exo suit you might be able to hold it steady

[steady river]

imagine 1 click chimera or pseudogiant

[charred nova]

Cus it weighs like 60 pounds

No im sorry

It weighs 130 pounds

Skif should wield that

[river chasm]

60 kg, you could do it with an exo

[charred nova]

Yah

Monolith won’t even know what hit em

Fuck your boring ass Gauss rifle

I got something way better

Human for scale

[steady river]

honestly im suprised how bad the m701 is without ap ammo

[fickle cosmos]

Better yet... 70mm Tank Round's.

[charred nova]

Skif couldn’t fire those with his hands

Welllllll

[fickle cosmos]

yes thats why i brung a redneck engineered tank cannon i can hold with 6 hands

[charred nova]

How much does a 70mm motor round weigh

[fickle cosmos]

like 15kg?

1-15kg i think?

[charred nova]

Im seeing 4kg

[steady river]

stealing btr from military would be enough for me lol, just driving over everyone

[charred nova]

All skif needs is a rock

And he can use them like grenades

[fickle cosmos]

I am a fanatic over the BTR-82A.

[charred nova]

Really really big grenades

[fickle cosmos]

It is not only hot, It's iconic, And an inovative design.

[charred nova]

Personally I’d never want one

Because It would cost like 1500 dollars to fill with gas

[fickle cosmos]

Personally, Get one to run over your ex-wife's children she had with another man.

[charred nova]

But gas

Make gas at home

[fickle cosmos]

but robbery and intimidation

[charred nova]

Rob the local corn field

[fickle cosmos]

yes

[charred nova]

Make bio fuel

[fickle cosmos]

while your at it, rob the poor arabian family for oil.

[charred nova]

Nah I’ll make it all my self

Will smell nice too

[fickle cosmos]

Good smelling oil?

[steady river]

just find some artifact which floods with fuel or something like that

[fickle cosmos]

DID SOMEONE SAY OIL?!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! 'MERICA! CIA SAID YOU HAVE OIL AND NUKES!!!! insert iraq

[fickle cosmos]

find the Mutated Falafel Artifact which gives infinite energy

[charred nova]

Nah nah corn fuel ethanol

[fickle cosmos]

fair point, but tea powered engine

Spiffin Brit was very factual man

[steady river]

ahh so disappointing. just found out that ward base in zaton is completely empty when playing along with spark. just some zombies hanging around

i dont want to push the story too fast but theres literally nothing to do

[fickle cosmos]

darn

[fierce nexus]

[mortal veldt]

Well I've officially finished the game

Or atleast the 3 endings possible

[river chasm]

there's 4 endings

[mortal veldt]

AAAAAAAAAAA

Ok screw it YOUTUBE

[maiden grotto]

Well, I can't get out of from under some stairs... Because every time I go to move, aim-bot wall hacks happen 😦

So tired of this 😦

[fickle cosmos]

boobtube

[fickle cosmos]

use anti-aimbot

[maiden grotto]

Doesnt work for me

[fickle cosmos]

try the working one

[polar forge]

You did 3 play throughs already?

[mortal veldt]

No, I saved at the Malachite Labs

[polar forge]

Oh idk where/what that is I’m maybe just half way through the game

[desert maple]

[keen zenith]

Did i miss something or GSC have removed the faction chats?

[cobalt fiber]

Yes they have been archived

[vernal lily]

Rip, I liked having them around

[ebon blade]

Looks like they got rid of the individual game chats, lumping everything into trilogy and or legends-of-the-zone chat.

[cedar panther]

Hey all weird question if you beat the final quest what happens after that is it as easy as thank you for playing and your effort of being a pack rat but the game is done go start over or can you keep exploring

no I've not beaten the game yet i just took the train to yaniv station 🤣🤣

[smoky hawk]

When you finish the game the game is finished

The game will tell you the point of no return if you have smth to do

[cedar panther]

wow thats really bad . why are there attachments and blue printa beyond the point of no return 🤦🏼‍♂🤦🏼‍♂

[smoky hawk]

There are no blueprints beyond the point of no return, as for attachments, the saiga12 drum mag is a very strong attachment which is why it's in there

Pripyat is not the point of no return

[cedar panther]

There is a saiga blueprint past the point of no return

[smoky hawk]

There ain't

[cedar panther]

The rebalanced stock for the saiga is found past the point of no return . although thats what youtube told me its found in the quest down below

[cedar panther]

Also redit confirms this

[smoky hawk]

I see
Submit a bug a report

[cedar panther]

I did ask it in the question channel

[cedar panther]

I added it to my already existing bug report

[sturdy jacinth]

I encountered it in 1.0 just assumed there was more past it as my game bugged like a mission later and I couldn’t do anything anyway

Funny it’s a bug though

[cedar panther]

What do you mean ?

[sturdy jacinth]

👆

[cedar panther]

Ah okay , yeah i don't get it why its placed past no return 😅

[golden gulch]

Yeah there's one blueprints past the PON, I just couldn't remember what it exactly is.
Seems like there's plan for a new game plus.

[still current]

[serene barn]

it's also only if you go via the Hotel and not the other place.

[gleaming bone]

yeah that's def a bug. But ram-2 is superior to saiga anyway

[cedar panther]

Its the rebalanced saiga 12 stock thats past pon . and let that just be the one i need for my saiga 😅

[cedar panther]

In what way ?

I've tried the ram2 but it doesn't outplay the saiga for me i rather have a magazine feed semi auto shotty than a 2 shot pump action shotty that take's a decade to reload

[golden gulch]

When dealing with human enemies I think

[serene barn]

sometimes landing more shots on target is enough for some to make a gun feel better for them, the Ram also hits harder especially the Texan.

[cedar panther]

True but thats because it's a legendary named gun and as far as i know the saiga doesn't have a legendary named version besides the pre-order one , but i don't count that in cause its not available to everyone

In the end i think its a matter of personal preference

[serene barn]

not all unique guns are better than the normal ones.

[cedar panther]

also true but most I've found yet have some tweaked stats better than the original

[serene barn]

basically all of the Edition guns too are worse versions in some cases but this was changed a little with the unlisted nerfs done to suppressors across the board.

like take the M701 Super, the Edition one can't use the Holemaker shotgun

[cedar panther]

Or are basically the same but with a different look

[cedar panther]

i asume u referring to the cavelier

[serene barn]

and previously the intergrally suppressed guns from the stashes was was worse because they only got a little more range, prolly 15% but the normal ones would get 30% when equipped with a suppressor.

[serene barn]

no that's just a unique. the one i am thinking of is called Hunter i think, it's wrapped in some cloth or something.

[cedar panther]

yea i don't have that one since its a pre-order one . and i think it makes sence if it's wrapped it wont fit . but on the other hand it could fit cause the wrap could go around the sliding rail . let call it stalker logic 😂

[serene barn]

Cav is one of the like, 2 uniques that i missed on my first run 😭

they did nerf the Holemaker though so it's not as big an issue now but it still seems like a decent enough alt gun to deal with a mutant or 2

[cedar panther]

yea i run a saiga and dnipro and the gambit as side arm .

wish i could get the missing attachments tho like the double drum for the gp37 and the coupled and drum mag for the saiga they are in the game files but yet to be found

[serene barn]

i wish a little that we had more choice in optics

[cedar panther]

agree 100% why are some locked out of some guns while they use the same sliding rail. And more different ones would be cool to

[serene barn]

i would at least wanna be able to click on a 2x on my Ram

[fierce nexus]

Saiga is better than the Ram-2 in my opinion

Simply for being magfed

Although the Ram-2 does have a higher base bullet count

[charred nova]

BORING

[fierce nexus]

[shell flax]

I prefer the Ram because it’s a weird gun and feels fun to use for me

I also used the saiga for two playthroughs

[fierce nexus]

Have you found the Texan?

It's a unique variant

[cedar panther]

There is a drum for the saigq tho in the pon but dont know how much it hold haven't been to that point yet

[charred nova]

20 rounds pretty sure

[serene barn]

it holds 20 shells. but it found pretty damn late into the Point of No Return.

PoNR is basically 2 missions, separate as you get to repair and upgrade your stuff after the first one.

[fierce nexus]

There's also a high capacity mag for the saiga

But the drum is locked to the final mission

[serene barn]

and it's like halfway through the 2nd

it's not even that i don't like the Saiga. i just found myself using more ammo when using it.

[fierce nexus]

The only weapon i have with a drum mag is Shah's Mate

Unique Viper

[shell flax]

Grab it every run now

[fierce nexus]

[charred nova]

I grabbed it

And tossed it in the box

Along with like 14 other unique weapons lol

[shell flax]

Unique I don’t use go into the collection

[fierce nexus]

Same

I don't mod Unique weapons either lol

[serene barn]

wonder what the drop off range even is on shotguns

let's see...Ram's is

6,5m

feels short but also matches how it feels in game.

Saiga's only 4,5

[charred nova]

I do some of them are cracked

[shell flax]

Short range but anything in that range is going to feel like it got hit by a freight train

[serene barn]

cannot remember if the Saiga has a Damage Falloff upgrade like the Ram does

so does Slug not even raise the damage falloff or?

[fierce nexus]

Slug should increase range and or accuracy

[charred nova]

Slugs are great but

There like impossible to find

[fierce nexus]

One pellet vs a bunch

[serene barn]

how do you have issues finding slugs

i fell like half the traders sell them.-.

only ammo i feel like is hard to get that i would use is Darts

because only like 2 traders seem to sell those.

[boreal coyote]

rain how many hours do you have in stalker 2?

[cedar panther]

My sofmod also has a drum mag . the ar416 drum can be found in the cordon in a stash on the train on the bridge

And there should be a grom s14 drum mag is probably not in game rn

[magic vigil]

My gf left me

[dusk grove]

do people not know that flashlight is also bound to the scroll wheel click (middle mouse button)?

[serene barn]

uhhhh, steam says 362

[boreal coyote]

ok so i'm genuinely curious how tf do you keep yourself entertained for that long? i've got 289 and i'm so tired of it 😂 i'll play the DLCs and stuff but for me theres no reason to play it right now

[serene barn]

i tried to do as much as i could on my first run, it took me like 8 whole days worth of hours to finish my run and that is not counting the deaths i had that set me back iirc.

i try to loot everything i can especially now that i am on Veteran and i need the money to upkeep my gear.

[boreal coyote]

but for what? you're looting to up keep gear to just keep killing? every single gunfight feels the same to me

[serene barn]

yeah i am.

i'm also not doing the same choices as last time to see what differences there is.

[boreal coyote]

i get that part but i had already done everything and all choices by 200 hours lol the rest of the time i spend exploring and now i just feel like theres nothing left to do

[serene barn]

i don't like rushing through games just because.

[boreal coyote]

me either, i always take my time

[serene barn]

by 200 hours i was still not ready to finish my first run.

i tried out almost all the guns but barely used any of the armors

[boreal coyote]

thats crazy 😂 i'd understand that for an RPG or something but this game is as shallow as a puddle

[serene barn]

meh, i like it even if it's repetitive as hell

[boreal coyote]

i like it too dont get me wrong

its just not what i expected, or what was promised

[serene barn]

yeaaaah.

[boreal coyote]

to me, its a pig with pretty lipstick

[serene barn]

i mean what exactly did they promise you feel they didn't deliver on?

only thing i feel like i was promised was A-Life

[river chasm]

I feel like I got what I was expecting, just pretty busted and unpolished

Stalker gameplay and atmosphere, big open world, new story

[serene barn]

i mean yeah seeing the announcement about the game having gone Gold, just for it to be as broken and unfinished on launch was not a good feeling.

[boreal coyote]

a sense of the zone being alive and stuff and the multiple delays made me feel like it would arrive polished as possible

[river chasm]

Well yeah, gold means they completed the release version, doesn't mean that release version is going to be great unfortunately

[serene barn]

i know that they did the things during the war and all but like they were working on it long before iirc. and i just can't feel like it really is enough of a reason that the product is in the state it is in.

[boreal coyote]

the zone just feels like a far cry map as far as encounters go, looks its a different story. the world is so beautiful. every little detail handcraft with minimal copy paste BS but thats as deep as it goes, the world has nothing going for it but looks, hence the pig with pretty lipstick comment i made

[river chasm]

From what people have said it sounds like they had to redo plenty of work which can make things messier. Like having to recast all the voice actors and redo mocap, apparently areas were cut that were part of the main story so parts had to be rewritten and remade, etc

[boreal coyote]

thats mis info they only redid the voice acting and mocap

[river chasm]

IDK I heard it in here from people who I would generally call reliable

[boreal coyote]

yeah but... trust me bro

[river chasm]

Well one of these days we will get a peek at whatever is to come for the game. Pretty confident it'll end up being exactly what I wanted it to be eventually, it's just going to take time

[serene barn]

i heard there's like 70+ side quests that is not in the game, that just feels like a lot man. that would help with having something to do.

[cedar panther]

I find the game quite enjoyable tho I'm only 4 days and 7 ish hours in this save and just got to yaniv stations quest

[gleaming bone]

dlss 4 is available on geforce now GFN already or no? Is it in S2?

[lilac prawn]

can somebody help me with IWP modpack por CoC?

[boreal coyote]

dont you get tired of that though? always buying games just to be told "trust us guys we'll eventually deliver a finished game" after they already have your money it's so annoying thats one of the reasons KCD2 is doing so well, they promised a game said it would be well polished and all that and it came out exactly as promised. a massive complex RPG with buttery smooth performance and minimal bugs, done on half the budget of stalker 2

[warm stone]

no to mention having side content like "can you tell me a joke via radio". Which is a fine addition if you already have like 40+ major side quests. But having only a few side quests and between those few there are quests that are finished within 5 mintues......meh

[cedar panther]

only thing bugging me is that my stash is all messed up and not sorting so it takes a decade to get to the bottom items 😂

[serene barn]

you got like notes for why he should trust you over literally anyone else? lol, like it just seems weird to just say "trust me" as if that really is that easy.

[boreal coyote]

yeah that was the joke...

[river chasm]

Well stuff getting cut is pretty normal even for a game that comes out pretty good. But I hope some of that gets added back at some point

[serene barn]

at least the personal stash sorts things in a way with like consumables at the top, then uh, ammo and uh attachments and artifacts then gear

[cedar panther]

Not mine mines all over the place 😂

[serene barn]

stuff like seeing things in trailers just for them to not be there or something feels annoying though.

[river chasm]

Not really but I don't make it a habit to buy games I think will release kinda busted. I happened to make an exception for this one.

[serene barn]

strange

[river chasm]

KCD2 is cool but they also had the advantage of having already made their busted game, and this one is similar but bigger

[boreal coyote]

its not normal for the games major system and the crooks of their marketing campaign to get cut though 😂 in this case being Alife 2.0

[serene barn]

like in the trailer we saw the double mag for the Kharod but like it's nowhere

[river chasm]

I think anyone who thinks A-Life is the crux of the game is smoking something but that's just me

[boreal coyote]

it was the main focus of their marketing is what i'm saying. my interest in buying the game was the story

[river chasm]

It's a cool feature but except for in clear sky maybe it was mostly noticeable if you were looking for it

[serene barn]

i think a functioning A-Life does a lot for the game when i think of the old titles but at the same time being able to see where a squad of people was on the map always felt weird to me.

[river chasm]

Did you watch any of the trailers, it was basically all shooting and story related

[cedar panther]

made a bug report about it and they said they will try to have it fixed by next update . tbh the support from gsc is by far the best one that i encountered actually trying to help you instead of giving some standard ass response of things you shpuld do but you've already done multiple times 😅

[boreal coyote]

yes i did, i was also keeping up with dev logs, were you?

[serene barn]

there is a fight playing out at that place where Varon is at but like the enemies seem to be in places that they aren't in the game like ever lol.

[river chasm]

Yeah. They talked about it vaguely a few times but it was never the main focus of the game

[boreal coyote]

i dont think you read the right thing then

[river chasm]

But there were also times we would go a year without any updates on the game so

[boreal coyote]

it was even all over their steam page but they took it all down the day before launch

[river chasm]

"all over" being a single bullet point?

[serene barn]

a part of me feels like when you make a product that has issues, you should not receive applause just for helping people with their issues.

[river chasm]

Not to say it wasn't part of the marketing, but it received a lot less focus than other things that really form the core pillars of the game

[serene barn]

as much as other games are bad with helping the community, i do not wanna change this just because others is worse.

[boreal coyote]

you're either purposely lying or dont know what you're talking about

[boreal coyote]

ask most people in here man

A-life is a pillar of stalker

[river chasm]

They're free to be wrong (except for clear sky, it matters more there because faction wars are kinda based)

[cedar panther]

True but you can give them a thumbs up for actually trying to help . sorry didn't know how to explain correctly English isn't my first language 😅

[river chasm]

But it's pretty easy to play through SoC and CoP and not realize it's even there

[boreal coyote]

yeah its called rushing through the game

[serene barn]

i feel like if no one ever explained to you in DETAIL what A-Life did in the game, you wouldn't realize what it was nor would you think about it.

[boreal coyote]

if you're just a casual player who doesn't know what Alife is you would definitely notice that the NPCs are pretty unique to other single player shooters

[serene barn]

like i just thought that maybe npcs would respawn like i never looked or noted down people's names when i would run by them or talk to them.

[boreal coyote]

but not in stalker 2 in stalker 2 it feels like you're playing farcry

[serene barn]

the faction wars thing was also strange and buggy i felt like.

[boreal coyote]

really? even with the pda leaderboard and all?

[river chasm]

Factions wars were notoriously kinda buggy, but they were still cool

Definitely the best use of the system in the trilogy at least

[serene barn]

literally zero fricks given about that leaderboard in any of the titles like it felt utterly useless to me so i genuinely did not care about it at all.

[river chasm]

Yeah I think your average player is not going to notice any of these things. Only people who get in way too deep like you and me

[boreal coyote]

i did too but just from it being there it taught me that NPCs dont respawn

[boreal coyote]

not true i was a casual player coming into stalker i knew f all about it thats what im telling you

[serene barn]

in my 2nd run of CS that i did like, last year, i remember being told to take a point in Garbage for Duty but then no one from Duty showed up after so long. i feel like they should or could have made it so you could go to their base to request to set out with a squad to take the point or at least give you a marker that was unique to say that hey these frickers are on the way to you.

[ornate sable]

I've been saying this too. It would be nice to see it get some improvements, but I wouldn't put it in the top 5 of the list of things I think needs fixed in the game.

[serene barn]

man i hate that i gotta censor myself for an 18+ game.

[boreal coyote]

you and me both

[river chasm]

It was something they said would be in the game so they need to make it work either way now.

[hoary crest]

Yep, I concurr

[boreal coyote]

yeahhhh but it has to be even better than promised on account of them lying about it being ready for launch

[serene barn]

cept, they do. they just take someone else's slot i felt. like there is not a finite amount of Stalkers in the zone. someone dies another is spawned in to do their own thing.

[river chasm]

Well what they promised was already extremely vague for the most part so anyone can interpret that in their own way

[boreal coyote]

yeah thats right but they're all named

[serene barn]

like in the faction wars, Freedom would keep sending people until they took back their base, then the base would keep sending people to take back the entry points from Dark Valley.

[boreal coyote]

i dont care if its not word for word what was promised i just want it to be fun, immersive and not so gamey, less farcry more SOC

[serene barn]

i definately didn't like it when squads would spawn in 2 behind me or anything like that lol.

[boreal coyote]

i dont want every gunfight feeling the same

[serene barn]

another issue i have with 2 is that balancing feels so bad.

like a gun is a gun.

[boreal coyote]

or when you leave a room and suddenly 4 guys spawn in the exact same room you just left 😂

[serene barn]

killed a squad, finished looting, new squad spawns, repeat.

[boreal coyote]

yes its just dumb like whyyyyyyyyy did they release like this

[hoary crest]

Said this a billion times myself, arbitrary stats thrown at weapons to justify progression sucks. I wont play without a rebalance mod for that reason

[boreal coyote]

i would have happily waited til 2026 to play this game

[serene barn]

Like it wasn’t that way in the other games

[river chasm]

Generally when you see situations like this it's because not releasing was not an option for some reason

[serene barn]

Another balancing issue I have is how they did some of the mutants.

Like it genuinely feels like they didn’t playtest some of them.

[boreal coyote]

yeah i get all that they get deadlines and stuff but its not good for the gaming industry to keep going that way and anyone who takes gaming seriously as a hobby shouldn't be accepting it

[river chasm]

Imagine you worked on this game for 6 years straight, would you want to release it like this after all of that?

[serene barn]

We’re past getting polished games but the only reason we are is because the producers won’t take their time.

[boreal coyote]

not if it was in a bad state, so what i spend 6 years just to give it to people before its done? now my 6 years was wasted because everyone is calling my work sh*t where as if i just worked one more year people would be praising me. think ofit that way

[river chasm]

Well then you can understand it's probably not a decision they made lightly. Unfortunately we rarely get to hear the full stories about how these things happen.

[boreal coyote]

imagine im a chef and im tired and ive done all this prep work making a casserole but like i said im tired so i wont bother putting it in the oven i'll just serve it instead, well sh*t the food got awful reviews and now its the next night and my place is empty

[boreal coyote]

that doesnt mean we should accept it and people certainly shouldt be making excuses on behalf of devs for it. i get for this game it might be a bit of its own case given the circumstances but its so widespread across all of gaming now so its at the point where no on eshould accept it anymore

games are not getting cheaper so why accept a huge dip in quality?

[river chasm]

Well people can always vote with their wallet, but they rarely seem to put their money where their mouth is

[boreal coyote]

thats your money mate and i'm assuming you worked hard to get it

[river chasm]

The simple answer is lots of people keep buying the games

[wintry pumice]

I heard game studios are looking to increase the base price to $100, just waiting on Rockstar to start the trend with GTA 6

[boreal coyote]

thats because the people that vote by not buying often dont talk about it but they're out there, i rarely preorder anything but i'll be honest i was tricked by this game and i did but i'm a fool for doing that

[boreal coyote]

i heard that too but i find it hilarious that companies think anyone would pay 100 quid for anything other that gta6 😂

[river chasm]

I knew this game was probably gonna be kinda busted, but again this one was a special case for me. I'm usually playing the previous year's games if anything

[wintry pumice]

hey don't forget about Ubisoft, a AAAA studio

[river chasm]

Granted it was still more busted than I was expecting

[boreal coyote]

they're about to be bought out by tencent 😂 they will maintain creative control depending on the success of their current titles in the pipline and if they dont do well the current leaders will be forced to step down

so hopefully i get a decent assassins creed game in the next 10 years

[wintry pumice]

yeah the company is owned by a single family, I doubt they will care if the company goes under as they have already seen 100s of millions in profit anyway

[boreal coyote]

which is why i dont understand why they dont just piss off at this point 😂 they a laughing stock, just go home and count your millions, go enjoy life 😂

[fierce nexus]

Ugh

Them

[wintry pumice]

Greed knows no bounds...

[fierce nexus]

Ubisoft is worse than EA

Ong

[serene barn]

i feel like that Shadows AC is seriously just them actively trying to be offensive to Japan because there is just so many things now.

like it cannot be a coincidence lmao..

[boreal coyote]

i feel like the whole series is there to offend assassins creed fans 😂

[fierce nexus]

If you want a stealth assassin game set in feudal Japan, just play Ghost of Tsushima, it's so much better

[serene barn]

i know it's a game and like you're killing people willy nilly but damn dude.

[boreal coyote]

i agree

[serene barn]

it's also funny how that guy who made shit up for their books got cancelled for it

guy had to like flee the country over it when people found out.

[fierce nexus]

Wait what

[serene barn]

there was a guy who wrote books he claimed to be historically accurate about that black guy. but then it turns out he edited like wiki pages with fake info then wrote his book with fake info as well.

and it seems that Ubislop used that book or books idk for their game when they did research

i hope Japan ends up deciding to full on go after Ubislop over the things they've done like the thing about that tomb you can loot armor from or the shrines you can destroy based on real life shrines that literally has laws for what you can and cannot do with them in media.

[fierce nexus]

Lmaaaaaooo

W H E E Z E

[serene barn]

other things is like , feudal japan, with chinese architecture lol

[fierce nexus]

Bruh

The disrespecc

[boreal coyote]

yeah they aslo used family insignias without permission too

[empty hare]

Bro no way thats real, you can loot ancient Japanese shrines (based on real life ones) in game? How is that not seen as overtly disrespectful

[serene barn]

that one like statue they had made with a destroyed tori gate which has only ever been noted in history, after Japan was nuked in WWII, hella not a good look to a culture you claim to respect

[fierce nexus]

Don't forget the broken Torii gate

You know

A reminder of

Nagasaki

[serene barn]

they also did a thing where they had props shown, that was supposed to be relevant to the game only for the things to literally be sold on like amazon.

the sword was even literally a replica of a sword from the anime One Piece

[empty hare]

Unbelievable

[fierce nexus]

Ubisoft is a joke

I've only ever finished one game from them

Ghost Recon Wildlands

[serene barn]

or that banner they stole from a real life reenactment group and they put it in the game but they removed it in the game but it was too late for their art book so it's literally in the art books because those are already printed

[empty hare]

I always forget they made Wildlands, was pretty good tbh

[fierce nexus]

Right now my bf has me playing The Division 2

[fierce nexus]

Broken clock is right twice a day

[serene barn]

now what kind of answer is that to that question in gsc answers lol

[fierce nexus]

I think it's funny the Division 2 has Stalker cosmetics right now

[serene barn]

blud wants to respond to that but not the questions i asked about when they'd to my baby the RPM-74 justice

[fierce nexus]

Mol1t is a mysterious being

[river chasm]

It was a weird question, deserves a weird answer

[serene barn]

anyway, iirc i also read the black "samurai" in Shadows will be gaey

for literally no reason.

i've also seen gameplay and it looks so bad too.

like older ACs had better combat

[fierce nexus]

From what I've seen, that guy wasn't even a Samurai

He was a glorified bodyguard

And the guy who he guarded would parade him around like a showpony

[boreal coyote]

who did he guard? calvin candy? 😂

[amber plover]

I thought they fixed the enemy spawning yet I’m not even kidding I just gunned down atleast 30-40 people and 3 bloodsuckers

Unless it’s there pathing and they all just meet up at that spot?

[serene barn]

i saw a video from someone who was sponsored to make a video on it and he said things you think would be nice but it was put over gameplay that totally did not make the game look good lol. he also just found out you can just gun spam with the black guy.

[fierce nexus]

Oda Nobunaga

He was a daimyō

[fierce nexus]

Pathing is still kinda borked I think

[amber plover]

Didn’t they also fix there accuracy as well making them less accurate? Maybe it’s because I’m end game but ngl these guys are landing there shots 😂😵‍💫

[serene barn]

they did fix their accuracy yeah.

them hitting depends on like a few factors i think? like range, visibility, light or dark

[ornate sable]

You notice it when up against enemies with the Gauss gun, because you can see where the shot goes. They miss a lot now.

[amber plover]

Hold up why can’t you jump with an exo suit?

I have the sprint mod attached

[serene barn]

should be able to jump regardless

[amber plover]

Idk that’s what I thought dropped tons of stuff tried jumping didn’t work took of the exo n could jump ,put it back on was able to few mins later couldn’t jump again maybe a bug?

Or could be my controller?

[ornate sable]

Try rebinding jump to another key and see if it works then? If possible on a controller. Would at least let you know if it's a game issue or controller issue.

[wintry pumice]

Try || uninstalling ||

[cobalt fiber]

@amber plover

Do you have weird nut equipped?

[fickle cosmos]

its not.

[lyric kayak]

Replacing all of the radio tracks with the murder junkies

[sage star]

Now I wonder why Sidorovich doesn't just use a desktop since all he does is sit down all day

[mortal veldt]

Anyone else feel satisfied when they completed the task "Kill the Strelok"?

And it only took eighteen years to do it

[feral horizon]

Why did they make strelok a jerk?

[fierce nexus]

https://tenor.com/view/stalker2-stalker-strelok-screens-gif-15908325033286483626

[ornate sable]

I'd be a jerk too if people were sent to kill me all the time

[river chasm]

He never seemed like the sort of guy who would be particularly nice to me

[grim wharf]

Why won't the quest marker get off the partner it's honestly annoying

[fierce nexus]

"Hm, Skif. You've got some curious friends here."

[charred nova]

I mean he’s pretty cool

None of my friends have built in web cams

[fickle cosmos]

anomaly detected : abnormally large forehead with receding hairline.

[fierce nexus]

True

[grim wharf]

Is the fix just reloading and try keeping it again

Because it should have the quest marker removed then again I'm starting to feel locking items to your character to be an awful idea at this point

[boreal coyote]

to quote @wintry pumice to fix you just need to|| uninstall ||

[maiden grotto]

Don't you mean play it in the shining zone.

[crystal granite]

He needs to find it first

[maiden grotto]

It's not that small is it ?

[crystal granite]

Bro, my colleague couldn't see something that was 2 feet away from them today. Don't expect ppl to find it easily lol

[maiden grotto]

It happens sometimes... I used to do that all the time....

Where the F is it?..... two feet in front of me 😄

[cobalt fiber]

Those must have been some big feet

[maiden grotto]

You know what they say 😄

[polar forge]

Am I supposed to be able to interact with the guitars I find randomly? They look like nice guitars I think I have found handful total but never can interact with them

[ornate sable]

You can pick up the one you find near your bed in the lesser zone. I guess maybe if you miss it you can pick up one of the other ones instead?

[polar forge]

Idk it won’t ever let me pick any up so I guess I missed it. Maybe can go back to pick that one up

[maiden grotto]

You can play the guitar... and badly

[boreal coyote]

sweet home Alabama

[polar forge]

I just found Open Collimator Sight and I have Grom S-14 but it won’t let me attach it..?

Says in the optic description works with Grom s-14

[maiden grotto]

Ned to upgrade the gun to support sights

[polar forge]

Ah dang I tried to upgrade at a few places and always say “this technician can’t install upgrade”

[maiden grotto]

What a song...

But I play monolith are brainwashed wally noshers 😄

[wintry pumice]

I gave up the shining zone

[maiden grotto]

how comes? did you find out it lied to you?

[wintry pumice]

Game deleted all my saves just before reaching the everlasting sunset....

[maiden grotto]

FFS!!

[wintry pumice]

Now I am helping Colonel Baldy to realise my rich overlords dreams...

[boreal coyote]

Psilocybin is how you find it friend

[wintry pumice]

what's that...

[boreal coyote]

magic mushrooms

[grim wharf]

Honestly I probably will the quest item thing is so broken I have 2 PDA, a 4.3kg gun and some sort of collar I can't get rid of

[maiden grotto]

So you have gone from fairy world, to belly barrel warming... That's sad

[grim wharf]

Like 4.3kg is a lot of space sucked away because the game doesn't wanna delist it as a quest item

[boreal coyote]

an evening with me, a fire and a handful of shrooms would restore his faith 😂

[grim wharf]

Honestly I was having a blast until saving zalynia probably butchered the name

[maiden grotto]

More like restoring your restraining order.... Our restraining order 😄

[boreal coyote]

not a chance 😂 it would be all above board

[maiden grotto]

Zalyssia 😄

And I saved all the defending and sodor at the sphere, and the game despawned all the defenders and Sodor bugged out...

And I tried 60 times to try and stop it all from bugging out..

Feck this game sometimes

[maiden grotto]

Only becaue he would to out of it to complain and remeber 😄

[boreal coyote]

sounds like a skill issue tbh

if you tried them your game would get fixed

[maiden grotto]

How can saving all the defenders, wiping out all the attackers, repeatedly... be a skill issue?

The game just kept bugging the defenders out, and Sodor is perma bugged, so couldn;t complete optional...

The game is fecked 😄

[grim wharf]

For me the problem is it won't remove the quest item marker on the partner

[boreal coyote]

sounds like a skill issue tbh

[grim wharf]

How it's the game being stupid the quest was over

[maiden grotto]

Well, you know not what you re talking about 🙂

[grim wharf]

I could handle a lot of things but the fact that quest items are broken AF that's just awful

[maiden grotto]

It's it's bugged...

I have three quest givers on my first game that I can't use anymore.

Harpy, Barkeep, and the guy at Pile Driver... All have quest markers on them and don;t give missions anymore

[cobalt fiber]

@maiden grotto

[maiden grotto]

and I have quest marker for various things like emissions

[cobalt fiber]

I'm doing it

[maiden grotto]

Can I came an try it with you

[grim wharf]

What's more weird is from what I have read partner is not even supposed to be marked for a quest

[maiden grotto]

around a fide, with a guitar and a couple of dead mutants? AKA, wallmart regulars

[boreal coyote]

someone has a drinking problem

[cobalt fiber]

Yes we'll piss on the floor a bit to immerse ourselves in a believable pub setting in the kitchen

[maiden grotto]

I love the sound of it 😄

[worn trail]

[drifting forge]

That's like, 150 .5 l bottles of kvass tho

[cobalt fiber]

And a spending one

[stark crescent]

i love how this game runs piss poorly on native resolution

[cobalt fiber]

I literally found it like half an hour ago and I've now put the order through

Had to be done

The kegs from this site are stupid price but it's the kit I want

£35 for 6L

[maiden grotto]

That ain't bad, and you can get some proper beer too

I'll pop up 😄

[cobalt fiber]

Yeah get about 10/11 pints so it's not the end of the world tbf

[maiden grotto]

Considering that pints are a fiver in most places... You can't grumble

you are basically get 10%-15% off a pint

[cobalt fiber]

And the choice of my own music, definitely a win

You know spoons turned me down more drinks after 6 pints the other week

"Responsible drinking"

[maiden grotto]

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

[maiden grotto]

Useless they are, it's why I stick indi pubs... Better beer and usually no BS wither

[cobalt fiber]

Yeah spoons is only good if you're coming home from work or just fancy a couple without having to actually verbally communicate for a beer

They'd basically blocked my table number on the app

It might have been 8 on second thought though, 3 or 4 peronis and 4 of the thatchers orange on the 2 for £5

And a southern comfort with ice to get started

[maiden grotto]

so w^nkered then 😄

[cobalt fiber]

Yeah I fucked off to another pub and had another three Stella and a can after lmao

[maiden grotto]

hahaha

[polar forge]

I just found a M701 Super but it is 28% durability. Is it worth repairing if I already have an upgraded Lynx SVD?

[maiden grotto]

My go to sniper... It can have asilencer too...

[polar forge]

Ooo nice I’ll repair right now

[maiden grotto]

I used to like a pint of snakebite black

went down, far too easy 😄

[maiden grotto]

It has a slow fire rate, but you can pop people in the head, and they just drop

[cobalt fiber]

The thatchers orange went down like juice too. Not usually massive on cider but that's good stuff

[maiden grotto]

You should try Lilli's and if you can, some Rumpy Pumpy Scrumpy which is apple juice that makes you fall over

[cobalt fiber]

Haha I like the name of that

[maiden grotto]

https://wccftech.com/stalker-2-dev-says-ue5s-nanite-and-lumen-were-the-right-bricks-to-properly-finish-the-game/

[wet portal]

Oof

[maiden grotto]

It's deadly....

the is a blackberry cider that I want to get my hands on again

[polar forge]

I got m701 repaired and had 36 rounds of .308 in my stash. Now I’m ready to pop some heads!

[maiden grotto]

You are going to like it 🙂

Also, can pop Bloodsuckers, if you can find a spot where they cant reach you

[polar forge]

I got so lucky earlier I saw 2 bodies sprinting faster than anything I ever seen in this game before. I scoped in to see bloodsuckers. They turned towards me but there was watch tower thing near me so I climbed fast and they couldn’t get me xD they were hard to hit though anytime you get line of sight on them they sprint away while cloaked. I eventually got them

That is first time I ever seen mutants out in the open world just running around

Well bloodsuckers I mean

Usually they hide in POIs

[maiden grotto]

Good thing you wantn't here from the start... some people and myself had 6 bloodsuckers spawn on us at times..

In my first game, this happened on my trip south of Zalyssia 😄

only been playing the game for an hour 😄

Does anyone know what these do?

r.LumenScene.Lighting.AsyncCompute=1
r.Lumen.DiffuseIndirect.AsyncCompute=1
r.Lumen.Reflections.AsyncCompute=1

[serene barn]

M701 Super is strong enough to body shot iirc. maybe not the strongest exo but most armors.

[maiden grotto]

Once you get used to it, head shots are common place.

I love the weapon...

Just wish you could get faction colours for your weapons

[serene barn]

oh right, another thing it does iirc, is punch through targets should you ever get to need it to

[polar forge]

I just ran into some hogs in the distance running along a hill and hit every shot at about 100m away or so. I like the feel of this weapon

The scope is very nice

[maiden grotto]

You can also add an underbarrel shotgun to it.

[serene barn]

i think the scope is an 8x

yeah the Holemaker shotgun attachment, it's not goooood but it does like, the same damage as Saiga but has an earlier drop off range to use it up close.

and it doesn't wear down either, does only use buckshot though sadly.

[grim wharf]

After 3 hours of mental brutality it finally decided not to spawn with a quest marker

[maiden grotto]

All you really need to be honest, I rarely use anything else

[polar forge]

I am using m701 + spsa + ar416 with drum magazine. And skif pistol with suppressor. I’m about half way through the game but these weapons feel like I am covered no matter what I run into

I like to swap ar416 for Grom s-14 sometimes since it has underbarrel grenade launcher. Just need to find attachments and upgrade it more before I use it mainly

[maiden grotto]

Get, the S-15 from the cooling towers area

very good rifle

[grim wharf]

Honestly I was looking at videos and even during the mission it wasn't slapped with a quest marker

[serene barn]

i think it drops off only after 4m, Saiga is like 4,5 and Ram is 6,5

[grim wharf]

Like every video showing the partner gun never had a checkmark on the item so the games logic was bad lol

[polar forge]

I don’t think I have made it that far yet but I will make sure I keep an eye out for it. Is it another version of Grom?

[maiden grotto]

but it is quicker than swapping weapons.... that is the advantage of it... if you miss with the sniper, use the underbarrel to finish it off

[serene barn]

it used to be that your gun's upgrades would carry over to the Holemaker lol so it would have a really tight spread and also benefit from like more penetration

[grim wharf]

I did compare the partner to the common equivalent and partner is way more durable without upgrades

[maiden grotto]

You, and you can get as soon as you leave the lesser zone, if you are brave enough

[maiden grotto]

did they change that then?

[serene barn]

yeah they did. it made it really strong potentially.

[sage star]

How is it against mutants?

[polar forge]

Is PSZ-5V Guardian of Freedom suit any good? I hope so bc I have spent well over 100k coupons on upgrades and repairs for this armor lol

[serene barn]

pretty good i think. i'm thinking i remember it being strong enough to 1 hit Fleshes and Boars.

[maiden grotto]

I use the SEVA...

[polar forge]

My bad let me rephrase, is guardian of freedom suit armor food for early - mid game xD

[maiden grotto]

no

[mellow knot]

Feed the mid game

[polar forge]

I haven’t found anything with better armor stats. Other than the suit at noontide base but it was only better for psi protection

[mellow knot]

Noontide suit is goated

[drifting forge]

Last playthrough I used a sunrise for most of the game until the very end so you'll be fine

[ornate sable]

It's not terrible, but you can find better stuff quite easily, all pre-wild island

[drifting forge]

Most rad protection is useless tbh. I had a fully upgraded Sunrise with a spare medium anti rad and I got no rads in almost all areas of the map

[polar forge]

Everything is so expensive Man I never can buy what I need really

[mellow knot]

Sell armor and guns

[drifting forge]

Money is very easy to get tho

[maiden grotto]

There is a very good piece of armour for free at Malachite

And A SEVA D suit. at the cage right at top... but just light, you need to be quick and lots of jumping... and you can jump off th top too

[drifting forge]

I had 200k the second day of playing in my second playthrough

[polar forge]

I’ve never had more than 40k

[drifting forge]

Loads of Spark Sevas around the place yeah

[polar forge]

I’m so confused

[mellow knot]

How? There's artifacts all over the Zone. You gotta aspire, boy

[polar forge]

I keep most artifacts I’ve only ever found like a dozen. 1/3 of them or so bug out and I can never pick them up. They fall through the map ground

The missions for anything more than 5k coupons are so stupid too. Like finding a specific artifact lol yeah I’ll likely never find that on purpose. I’ll randomly come across it one day

I’ve still only been to 5 or 6 zones all around lesser zone. Haven’t been around a whole lot yet

[maiden grotto]

Make your way over to the Cement FActory, Duties base, pretty good around there for things, and Duty are always helpful 🙂

Hang on.. The pritfire uses 7.62x39? The same as an LMG?

[drifting forge]

Spitfire is chambered in 5.45x39

[maiden grotto]

Spitfire**

[maiden grotto]

Saying 7.62x39 on the little ammo box image

[drifting forge]

Idk then

Cause it's 5.45x39 I know that for sure

[sage star]

What about the bigger ones

[drifting forge]

Definitely not much against pseudogiants. I was once ambushed by 2 of em and I put a good bit of mags into 1 from a Gauss and it just didn't drop

[maiden grotto]

#📸┃screens_and_videos message - 7.62x39 for me

[drifting forge]

Guess it got an update lol

Goddamn same stats

[maiden grotto]

I got a mini lmg 😄

[drifting forge]

Pen is a bit low for better stuff sadly but it's the best AK we have

[maiden grotto]

just use AP bullet, just rips through them

[drifting forge]

Even with that it takes upwards of almost a mag of headshots to kill someone in an exo

Like half a mag actually

[hoary crest]

Dis why you need rebalance mods

[drifting forge]

We need basically +1 or ½ pen for many weapons

[maiden grotto]

I use balistic mods... and give the same balistics to the enemies..

I like things to make sense

[drifting forge]

A unique AKM left over from the first explosion with 3 pen would be awesome

[hoary crest]

A gun should be a gun, simple as

Funnily enough, they tend to be pretty lethal and even the best ballistic helmets are gonna turn someones face and brains to jam when hit with a rifle round

[polar forge]

Shrimple as that

[drifting forge]

If you're very lucky with an Altyn or something you might get away with it just with some sort of brain damage from the impact probably

Or from the dent if it doesn't go through lol

[maiden grotto]

it should be leathal, and down to being quick and accurate and getting that first shot off....

Not pumping over 200+ rounds in the guy on the last Area match, with a couple of dozen+ headshots... and still nto dying.

Nope, that is just BS right there... A whole swimming pool of BS.

[sage star]

Where do you get attacked by 2 pseudogiants so I can avoid that area

[drifting forge]

I just had very bad luck. It's not scripted

Same with the 12 bloodsuckers very rarely in some groups. Sometimes mutants spawns are like in OWA lmao

[maiden grotto]

I had 4x Pseudogiants down in Duga, 2 scripted and 2 more spawned in 😄

[drifting forge]

Oof

[maiden grotto]

I gave up after 3rd one... just ran out of ammo and legged it 😄

[polar forge]

Should I just sell any common artifacts? I have found one uncommon & one legendary so far. I have handful of common though I don’t even use

[maiden grotto]

When I got artifact farming, I keep at least 2 of everything... But I do a lot of farming though on my travels...

This is to ensure I can pick the artifacts jobs, and just hand them in for free mone....

I sell everything that I have 3+ of.... leaving a minimum of 2

[hoary crest]

Generally keep one for anti-rad, it makes a difference to environmental factors, but aside from that only the legendary ones are really worth slotting most of the time, Weird Nut is very strong once you have that, and Weird Pot is good for keeping inventory light but truthfully outside of Thunderberry, I can't say I recommend many of them

[polar forge]

How are you able to find exactly where artifacts will be?? I’ve only been able to randomly stumble across places

[drifting forge]

3rd playthrough which Idek when I'll be doing ill hopefully find an eye and mamas beads I've been searching for so long

[hoary crest]

You learn over time which anomaly feilds have them, but if you get the Hilka detector and just travel with it in your hand, it'll pick stuff up if you're nearby one (100m detection range)

[drifting forge]

Arch artefacts are in set locations, others you just end up finding

[polar forge]

I have bear detector I sold both hilka detectors I had before

[drifting forge]

Damn

[hoary crest]

Can get another one at barkeeps, they usually sell a detector or two

[polar forge]

I thought bear was better?

[drifting forge]

It has to be my favourite along with bear

[hoary crest]

Its better for actually locating it, but less good for detecting them over distance

[drifting forge]

It depends. Always read the description

[polar forge]

What is bear max detection range

[hoary crest]

50m iirc

[polar forge]

I’ve been just running to every question mark POI and hoping it is anomaly field

I also kinda gave up on artifacts at the beginning of game for awhile bc of how many bugged out

[hoary crest]

Dunno how far in you are, but if you want a really quick run for artifacts, go Swamps with Hilka

You'll pull out like 6-7 per run

[polar forge]

I’m in swamps right now. Well by the boat places. The mission I’m on is In search of a guide

[hoary crest]

Yeah you're not far off them then

Go in light for the main mission there, absolutely do not go with a stacked inventory, you will regret

[polar forge]

So bring junk weapon and put everything else in stash?

[hoary crest]

I would'nt say junk, but you'll be there a while so be prepared for the weapon you do bring to be pretty beat up by the time you leave. Do bring something with stopping power though, don't skimp out entirely. But yeah other than that, travel with only what you need or its a struggle to get back out safely

[polar forge]

Ohhh you mean have some carry weight wiggle room when I enter

[hoary crest]

Ideally as much as you can muster yeah

[sour linden]

Is there a way to use something like UETools to spawn a specific character with their AI and stuff intact?

[hoary crest]

Theres a lot of loot to be had there, an its most effective to pull as much out in one go as you can, many of us went in with full kits and that was the eye-opener moment where you realise you can't be wandering about with anything and everything on your person at one time