☢┃stalker-general

[polar forge]

It cost 10k coupon to repair my armor..it’s at 68% should I do it? I’ll be broke again

[steady river]

in rostok you can get ||sledgehammer|| after completing ||arena||, it melts mutants so fast because it has got better fire rate than saiga but saiga is mag fed so its just prefference

[woven wagon]

Can we install gunslinger on call of Chernobyl

[steady river]

iirc yes

[polar forge]

If I attach a suppressor to a weapon that has a muzzle upgrade attachment will the upgrade be replaced ? Or will it still count as installed

[woven wagon]

Thanks

[vernal lily]

Yeah I fell in love with Saiga, both felt same to me honestly. I went for that one because of the mag fed.

[steady river]

tbh i really enjoyed comrade chernobyl communist package for coc but sadly it got discontinued

[woven wagon]

I'll try it

[vernal lily]

Helped me deal with 7 bloodsuckers

[steady river]

damn, the times when anomaly wasnt even a thing and call of chernobyl was mod of the year

[polar forge]

I about just got caught in an emission there was no warning or anything just instantly hit lol

Funny thing it was sunrise so it started looking pink then slowly more orange/red and I thought to myself “man I hope this is just sunrise and not an emission” then literally 10 seconds later bam emission 🤣

I been playing this game for like 12 hours straight. I don’t want to get off but I have work tomorrow ):

[steady river]

i got that one in burnt forest when i was farming artifacts and i had like over 250 meters to closest hideout and had to go all the way around it to go in there

[steady river]

work can wait, the zone is calling you stalker

[polar forge]

Old me would say that and not care but now I have bills I have to pay lol being an adult sucks

[steady river]

real

[vernal lily]

real. I also got work tomorrow, very early. And yet here I am

[steady river]

id rather die to blind dogs in cordon my first day in the zone than work 9 to 5 for minimal wage 5 days a week

[polar forge]

If I had any other choice I wouldn’t be working lol

[steady river]

maybe there will be real life patch which adds the zone

so sad there wont be coop in s2

[ornate sable]

Finding a lot of cool stuff just exploring around off the beaten path.
Atop a certain science bunker, known to SoC players, there are two dead Freedomers each armed with a full arsenal of good condition guns.

[tawdry furnace]

Mhmmmmmm

[normal stream]

So are the military more akin to the Russian or Ukrainian military?

[ornate sable]

It's an international force now, but in the old games they were Ukranian military.

The camouflage pattern on their uniforms look a lot like the old Ukranian "Bytan" pattern.

Also just had the easiest Psi-dog fight ever. I saw them before they saw me, and just happened to have a Gauss on me (damaged, hauling it back to sell). One shot for each of the two Psi-dogs was enough, before they aggro'd and started multiplying 🙂

[maiden grotto]

I had a lucky encounter... got caught out in the open... it split and the first one I went for was the real one...

But I dream of taking them out before they are alerted

[steady river]

i try to avoid/run from any mutants since theres no point in fighting them as you cannot loot them, saves time ammo and money

[maiden grotto]

I do to now... mostly because they are an annoyance

[serene barn]

I think I just still kill them. I feel like just running from them feels a little weird but yeah they should have made them able to drop parts or something

[agile phoenix]

alright i wanna talk to the psychopaths who decided to but like 8 mutants and that one Pseudogiant in that mission with dark

soo much ammo wasted

[split tusk]

Or hear me out guns / ammo that they ate when they attacked a stalker earlier

[serene barn]

uh i dunno, i feel like mutants by now would know what things they can eat on stalkers

they been in the zone for like 15 or something years

[empty berry]

When is the multiplayer going to be added

[serene barn]

when it is.

there's been no date nor time frame given for it i think

[solar nacelle]

Hi, i got a min maxing question, does it matter to go beyond the bar in accuracy when upgrading our weapon?

[serene barn]

it likely does matter since many of the guns have the same bar length for things like damage or fire rate, yet they're coded to have different numbers.

like i think all the shotguns have "max" damage but they almost all do different amounts of damage.

[solar nacelle]

well, that's gonna cost a lot, thanks 🙂

[shrewd needle]

Yea, just saying cross-hair differences.

[jagged zinc]

Just do run a ton of red runs

[shrewd needle]

Well...shooting Bandits leads to reputation loss either ways, so it doesn't matter if they're hostile or not.

[jagged zinc]

If you're at that point in the game

[west zealot]

i wonder that too

[fierce nexus]

Was the Ukrainian army, but they pulled out and got replaced by the IPSF

[weary hedge]

It's not coop... So it can £€¥₩ right off TBH.

[feral horizon]

Any way to get into the dam at the bottom of the burnt forest?

[frigid hill]

lklutzl has been warned

Reason: Bad word usage

[weary hedge]

From zalissya,over ward bridge follow river's edge past the down Heineken, there is a dark souls reference and an ambush.

[ornate sable]

No I tried, it effectively functions as the map border

[feral horizon]

There is a stash in there though

[weary hedge]

If you are referring to the bottom edge of the map. Up the stairs, look to the right, hole in the wall.

[sharp sierra]

So weird question does anyone find it weird they took the folding stock from an AKMS and stuck it on the aks74u when they use the correct and identical stock on the zubr/pp19 bizon?

[subtle spindle]

iirc they tried to keep some weapons consistent with the older games and this might be an example of that

[sharp sierra]

Not really the aks74u had the correct stock in soc, CS and COP though this time they didn't use ak47 mags

[polar forge]

Yeah I know. I meant that the rep only matters for settlements/POIs afaik they will attack you in the wild no matter what

[shrewd needle]

Problem is they keep shooting me even in the settlements; Slag Heap is literally the only peaceful place; both the Brood and Commissary were always hostile and same with the massive garage opposite X-18.

[shrewd needle]

Shame they changed the polymer parts for the AK-74U in SoC to wood ones in later games.

[shrewd needle]

They tend to change things around a bit to their liking, just like how the Groza magically stopped accepting the PSO-1 despite easily using it in reality. In fact, it now fits an ACOG, which is even worse...

Trijicon might just put their head in the sand over that.

[boreal coyote]

zelenskyy looks like Dalin

[slender trench]

I'm not sure if I'm going crazy, but enemies are shooting me through walls and the armored vehicles I'm using for cover.

Has this happened to anybody else?>

[boreal coyote]

you new to the game or something? 😂

[slender trench]

No? I have over 100 hours.

[boreal coyote]

yeah thats been an issue with the NPCs since launch, thats why i asked

[slender trench]

Oh, I just started playing again with this recent update. I put a bunch of time into the game and decided to give the studio time to cook before giving it a second try. I've noticed there are still some issues, but nowhere near as bad as it was.

[serene barn]

it appears as if there is places where the devs forgot to toggle a setting on for something with some props like cars and stuff placed around because sometimes the enemies will just shoot directly at you regardless of if there is a truck there, the issue is that, their shots do go through when they shouldn't nor should they be shooting because, there's a truck in the way. i noticed this happening with a fuel truck or something in a place on the right side of Cooling Towers where there's mercs.

[slender trench]

Ah, I see. It happened to me while backtracking to the very start of the game and investigating the ship near the Fault. IPSF stalkers somehow saw me through the ship's walls and just started shooting me.

[serene barn]

they supposedly have fixed some of these issues before but it's clear still they didn't get them the right way

[slender trench]

Has anybody noticed the horde of bandits just chilling at the Train Depot in Garbage? They just stand there and stare awkwardly. Not sure if they're important since their leader has the title of "Frenchman".

Looks like their pathing broke.

[serene barn]

i know that there is a thing to do regarding them on a ward run but i don't remember anything on my not ward run i did earlier

[slender trench]

Ah, okay. That makes sense. I noticed the Ward base near the Train Depot was completely empty and figured maybe there was a quest that tied into the two.

[serene barn]

yeah i think that outpost will only have people in it if you gave the sensors to the ward guy in Zalissya as part of like one of your first real story missions there

[feral horizon]

Thanks.

[serene barn]

doing that also means you cannot enter Garbage from the north of lesser as you would not have gotten the key for the door at that checkpoint so you go through the side of Chemical plant instead to get into garbage

[polar forge]

I wiped those ppl out xD

[serene barn]

did feel a bit sad seeing there be places that you don't get sent to though depending on who you're with but i just hope it carries over so that i may get to see new places with Ward that i did not before, and uh, ideally before the game ends or something

[polar forge]

I kept exploring up past the cement factory and into cooling tower zone. This was big mistake man I have like 50 soldiers non stop coming after me and at least 5 bloodsuckers it’s never ending combat since I got here

And I just slept not even 24 hours ago and it popped up an icon saying I needed to sleep

[shrewd needle]

Same, I did it for the mission for the factory guy (forgot his name)

[weary hedge]

For me the merc base east in cooling towers felt like infinite spawns.

[shrewd needle]

Monolith hide-out in Pripyat. Nowhere else is as infinite spawn as that place. That, and the school beside it.

[shy hill]

Hello everyone, I am playing on windows 11 through Xbox game pass, I have 64gb of ram. the game is running fine until random points when it just reserves 99% of ram and freezes, this has happened atleast 5 times in a span of 30 minutes anyone know a fix for this or a workaround? Thanks 🙏

[shrewd needle]

Memory leak; driver issues? Also, post in #❔┃pc-specs - that's better place for this.

[shy hill]

Ok thanks

[polar forge]

That must be where I am. Do they have like blue camo uniforms on?

[serene barn]

there's a place that has like a 2 story building and then 2 of those long buildings with a lot of windows in them lol

[weary hedge]

Yes

[polar forge]

Yes that is exactly where I just ran from after fighting dozens of soldiers and mutants

[weary hedge]

Oh right, where the scanner and the exo is. They fight there allot.

[polar forge]

Field radiology center I think was the name of the place

[serene barn]

last time i was there a squad of some hostiles spawned while i was looting and again when i was leaving

[polar forge]

Wait there is what there??? I need to go back

[sturdy verge]

who, me?

[serene barn]

uhh no?

[weary hedge]

Big window place, exo. On the crane, scanner for achievement.

[serene barn]

you´re more in the middle up north or something at a biiig building

with a crane or something outside with a scanner on.

[polar forge]

Yeah the only cranes I see are in the middle of cooling tower area. I was in lower right corner

[weary hedge]

Lower right is merc yes.

[serene barn]

watching that video someone posted about that one guy un the UK reacting to guns in games, for Stalker 2 this time ofc, before i go back in game to continue my looting in Burned Forest or something.

[native furnace]

I would like to see more weapons added to the game

[serene barn]

i feel like there should be another semi auto pistol that is better than the UDP

[polar forge]

Anyone know where extended mag attachment is located for integral-A? I heard it was under duty base but not sure what that means exactly

[polar forge]

I want a revolver

[native furnace]

1911 would nice

[serene barn]

there is like 3 places for that mag for whatever reason. under Duty base likely means the place at Cement Factory, you can get inside from the water side.

[serene barn]

uhhhh, you do? why you no just use the revolver in the game then lol

[polar forge]

Haven’t found one yet

[serene barn]

there's like at least 3 or 4 of them found in the map or you can buy one.

[polar forge]

Must not be until later zones or something idk I’ve only been to about half the zones maybe less than that

[serene barn]

as early as one in Burning Forest which is just like, from Chemical plant and into burning. i can try to be more specific if you'd want if i can recall where i found it yesterday.

i know i found the Rhino revolver, in places like Yaniv and Malachite.

[polar forge]

Nah it’s okay I’ll find it eventually. I haven’t been to any of those zones yet xD

[serene barn]

but i found one yesterday i think it was, in Burning forest which is much earlier.

[polar forge]

Thanks I’ll keep an eye out

[native furnace]

Vilhelm svanr if you have the deluxe edition, you can go to yavin station to get a revolver

[polar forge]

I just play on game pass so I think it is standard edition

[serene barn]

that one is uniroinically worse than the default though. like it cannot fit a muzzle break for better hipfire

[native furnace]

I really don’t like using the revolvers though I just used the Mac 10

[frigid hill]

rainthunderspark has been warned

Reason: Bad word usage

[serene barn]

it's ok to make things needlessly difficult by using a shit gun, lel

that thing is literally so bad

literally would rather use a UDP over it.

[native furnace]

I’m just a better stalker brother 😎

[serene barn]

it's literally the weakest gun in the whole game love

they didn't even make it like kick a little less so you could laser people using it to at least make the use of 45 ammo justified lol

i know that realistically the gun would not be accurate in any way in full auto but like it's just comicly bad

i think maybe they could have mayyybe used a gun like the OTs-33 if they wanted like a full auto sidearm

[native furnace]

Too make better just put a red dot on then it’s the best gun in the game

M16A1 would be a good gun to add in too

[empty hare]

Based A1 appreciator

[native furnace]

BreadNButter hell yeah brother

[empty berry]

Says on steam store

[serene barn]

says what?

it's not getting Co-op. if it gets anything it'll be PvP game modes like Call of Duty or something with a map and people just kill the other team.

think the original games had that.

Co-op is when you do the story together.

[feral horizon]

I'd rather have co-op than pvp in stalker.

you could literally make a serperate co-op campaign story in stalker 2 like far cry 3.

[serene barn]

Stalker has always been about you being alone in the zone

[native furnace]

Co-op would taking away the fear factor too

[serene barn]

do i feel like it would be funny to walk around the zone as 2 people, chatting over walkie talkies or whatever we use in the zone? yeah it would. but it would also affect the atmosphere if you're making fart jokes while running to a shelter during an emission

[feral horizon]

Stalker barely has a fear factor to being with.

[native furnace]

Another fun gun too add M60

[serene barn]

eeeeh

i'd rather have the RPD already in the files working.

cough and then make the RPM-74 take 54R instead and up it's damage a bit to reflect bigger boolet cough

[weary hedge]

Co-op, not in the Zone, but here, on the Discord 🙂

Go check answers.

[native furnace]

Rain yeah RPD would be sick. They should just add a bunch of Cold War guns

[vernal lily]

Ngl stalkers would do this during an emission

[burnt hollow]

Has anyone tried a murderhobo playthrough? Like kill every stalker you run into (outside bases). Is the game completable? Maybe siding with Ward?

[sleek gulch]

Nearly 200 hours and 5 playthhroughs AND the tornado artifact still will not spawn for me!

[boreal coyote]

you're doing it wrong

[ebon blade]

200 hours and 5 playthroughs? That's about 40 hours each game. I didn't even leave the Lesser Zone for the first time until after 230 hours.

[river chasm]

40 hours is pretty fast. My one playthrough was 100 hours

[primal snow]

is there any real consequences for giving the pda to ward? i don’t wanna lock myself out of anything, ward is like the last faction i wanna side with but i heard the badge they give u is really helpful

[warped stream]

granted i reloaded a few saves, I did 3 endings in 77h

[ornate sable]

You have to follow the tornado all the way up from the garage, and be inside the eye of the tornado through the entire course. If you just wait on top of the crane and tank the hit, it won't spawn. I tried a gorillion times to do that too, didn't work. Did it once the right way, and it worked like a charm.

[shrewd needle]

OK, so what's the difference between Bullet Range and Bullet Velocity, again?

'Cause both are like...described as increasing muzzle velocity, which makes zero sense (both should literally be a single upgrade and do the same shit)...

[native furnace]

Bullet velocity just means your bullet goes faster and bullet range just decreases the damage drop off

[shrewd needle]

So, uh...which is more functional, again?

I swear, gun upgrades in S2 are nonsensical, just like earlier games.

[native furnace]

Probably bullet range in my opinion

Bullet velocity just means you don’t have to lead your shots as much

[shrewd needle]

But that combat range, though... 😖

[native furnace]

Bullet ranges the thing I always get less shot to take down someone further away

Make a safe and do some experimentation and see which one you like more

[shrewd needle]

No, my point is that the combat ranges in the game are so short...most combat happens at like...75 metres.

Unlike older games, the combat is so short-ranged, it's not even funny.

SoC had a map range (side to side) of 2 KM and snipers were STILL useful.

[native furnace]

My bad didn’t know what you meant at first

[shrewd needle]

Nah, all good; just...good to have some clarity.

So I guess bullet flatness is useful, since range is just...meh either ways. And less leading = something I'll take either ways...

[river chasm]

Unlike the old games... you mean like CS, where you more or less had to be in someone's face to hit them accurately?

[sleek gulch]

@ornate sable that method has not workout for since my first meeting with that anomaly. Tried it so many times on different playthroughs and the artifact never spawned for me.

[river chasm]

Though definitely some parts of SoC and CoP especially, snipers could be useful, but they were generally too specialized for too uncommon of a use for me to want to ever bring them.

[shrewd needle]

Uh...I've shot people just fine from a distance in CS. With both rifles and snipers.

And older games had a default 150-metre A-Life active range, which is still larger than S2's enemy spawn range of 100 metres.

[warped stream]

bolty is pretty good for mid range headshots but thats about it imo

I pretty much ran my entire playthrough with a dnipro and 2x

[shrewd needle]

Yep...though I have the Gauss Rifle and the EMR has got a much better RoF, so I'm using that, with Saiga for close-range.

[sage star]

How yall feel about the pkm

[shrewd needle]

Good bullet hose, bad gun.

[sage star]

I kinda wish they made it a bit more accurate and put the rpd in instead

[river chasm]

Not very useful, but it is entertaining

[drifting forge]

PeaKM
Keeps the roadblocks secure and the mutants out

[ornate sable]

Honesly it's fine, low damage is offset by high pen, so net result is it still shreds. Could do with a damage buff still though, and way higher durability, because its main weakness is how long it takes to draw/sling it when using medkits.

But it's not terrible.

[sage star]

I want to run the glutton but I may have to abandon having any other gun, even with 2 night stars

[shrewd needle]

'Shreds' is a major stretch.

[sage star]

Kills a chimera in one mag

[shrewd needle]

Yea, when you have a 250-round magazine, it's easy to say that. Gauss Rifle does it in 4 shots.

I'd rather use the fully automatic EMR.

[sage star]

The emr can really do that? Last time I ran it, it was just ok

[shrewd needle]

EMR has far higher damage than the PKM and it can do fully automatic. You'll still need to reload, but you'll kill it in much lower time-frames. Upgrade it with the armour-piercing as well and it will do far more damage too.

With the VSS Vintorez (that has higher damage than the PKM but far lower than the EMR), I needed around 4-6 magazines.

[ornate sable]

Ran it through the monolith gauntlet (long apt. building) in Prip just fine. High pen = shreds exo's. Not "meta" like a kharod or something, but still. 500rd glutton mag is nice too.
I'm still not saying it's very good though, but it's not terrible. It's fine.

EMR is ok vs bandits and such, fun to use with 8x scope and silencer, but still kinda meh. Held back by low pen compared with SVU and the like.

[sage star]

So in this case should I just save the 7.62 for the dnipro conversion or selling

[shrewd needle]

I mean, for exo-skeletons, you're probably right, but Chimera is a different beast and it'd shred even exo-skeleton users like nothing.

[shrewd needle]

Save the ammunition, no matter what. You won't get a lot of it.

What gun you use it in is what matters and the Dnipro, even with 7.62, is garbage.

[sage star]

Really? I thought it was kind of a late game rifle, same as the kharod

[shrewd needle]

In this game, bullets are irrelevant; the gun that fires them is all that matters. So you can have 2 guns using the same bullet doing vastly different damage based on that alone.

Game has major skill issue with ballistics. And most of us are complaining about that.

[warped stream]

conversion was ass imo

[river chasm]

Dnipro is fine, though by the time you get the ammo conversion there is little reason to use anything but the gauss rifle for other stalkers

[shrewd needle]

Gauss Rifle...vs. a large contingent of enemies?

[warped stream]

normal dnipro with ap rounds can pretty much carry imo, i was just tapping heads the whole time

[river chasm]

The enemies in this game are pretty dumb. As long as you are not stuck out in the open, you will be able to one shot them all with it pretty easily

Though you can always have a backup weapon on hand in slot 2 of course

[shrewd needle]

That's not the problem; problem is the GR's abysmal RoF. You're not surviving with the GR against anything more than 4 enemies.

[warped stream]

i mean you can if you have cover

[shrewd needle]

Only till enemies flank you.

[warped stream]

u can take so many shots its a joke

[river chasm]

I didn't have any issues maining it after reaching Pripyat. The only fight that caused me trouble after that point was granite squad

[sage star]

Often out in the zone when you get into gunfights theres either nothing or just skinny trees, I like to run the whip with an apsb

[weary hedge]

even less lol

a dnipro has a range stat of effectively 30m, and the damage drops off after 20m

[shrewd needle]

Exactly why you need high RoF + high damage on tap. The EMR is perfect, even with low magazine.

You need volume of fire; volume beats anything unless you're an aim-bot.

So simple calculation is...if you can shoot heads 100% of the time, use a precision rifle. If you need more, use volume and hence, RoF.

[weary hedge]

the way the game scales distance is odd

[sage star]

Doesnt the emr do less damage than the whip/svu?

[shrewd needle]

Game scales distance? That'd be first, NGL.

[weary hedge]

probably worded it terribly, someone explained it better a few days back

[shrewd needle]

It does more damage than almost all assault rifles and personally, I don't like the PSO-1's reticle.

[shrewd needle]

Nah, I'm making a jab at how bad the distances are for combat. Because if the game scaled distance, we'd be sniping heads from 300 metres.

[weary hedge]

wouldnt that be amazing

[sage star]

I usually keep the ak scope with me since the svu tends to have overzoom

[shrewd needle]

IKR? It's literally the Counter-Strike problem...people using an AWSM over 50 metres and calling it an achievement. 😔

[sage star]

The bullet drop is a bit much too

[shrewd needle]

That's fair. If you can use the SVD, do it; it's got far more damage than the EMR. If not, the EMR is good (and you can make it fully automatic).

Again, I just hate the SVD's reticle, so I can't use it with that. I have trouble aiming with it. And I haven't found the SVU yet.

[weary hedge]

its all to do with the A-Life range I bet, the two being limited are related somehow

[stoic sail]

So is there a bug with radiation? I seem to not get any radiation at all anymore, even without gear and artifacts...

[shrewd needle]

On the bright side, you can now explore outside the game. Especially Iron Forest and CNPP.

[native furnace]

You guys should’ve a mac10 only run it’s pretty

[sage star]

To me it seems there arent many viable long lines of sight, and like I said before the bullet drop is absurd

[stoic sail]

Well i forgot to mention i don't get radiation anymore except from the radiation that keeps you out of restricted areas , those build up quickly and you die instantly

[weary hedge]

i hadnt really thought of that, but youre right, not much LoS in the map design anyway which suggests it was never something they had thought of doing

[shrewd needle]

I'm going to throw you into the Weird Ball anomaly, I swear...

[native furnace]

[shrewd needle]

Yes, it's related to that, though...A-Life distance WILL dictate gameplay (and hence, weapon) distance.

[native furnace]

It makes you a better stalker

[sage star]

I mean the map design in general

[weary hedge]

reminds me of gaijin with War Thunder
but with WT you can tell maps used to have more open spots and gaijin just placed down rocks or trees as things became issues

with stalker - i cant tell if the game was developed as is, or if they added things as they figured they couldnt work with too big of a range

[shrewd needle]

Fine, give me semi-automatic mode and I'll use MAC-10.

[shrewd needle]

UE5 can be a POS, especially with developers not using it properly, so there might be engine issues too.

[native furnace]

Just tap fire that’s what I do

[shrewd needle]

Yea, but even then, snipers should be still workable, through any amount of foliage.

[sage star]

True

[shrewd needle]

I have motor control issues, so I can't do that easily. I generally prefer burst fire in semi-automatic mode; repeated fast-tapping (almost automatic, since I have trouble, as I said) helps a lot.

MAC would just fire fully automatic with that, so...

[native furnace]

My next Playthrough is just gonna be with basic armor and the spitfire

[weary hedge]

if youre on pc i highly recommend the blood splatter mod lol

makes a new playthrough somewhat different when youre shooting enemies from specific different directions / with different weapons to see how it changes the splatter

[shrewd needle]

I wish you good luck. Also, Spitfire = unique weapon or something?

[native furnace]

I’m on Xbox so no mods yet

[weary hedge]

hopefully yall get mods soon 😛

[river chasm]

Spitfire is the unique AKS-74U found in agroprom underground

[shrewd needle]

Fair; I'm a long way from that, I guess.

[native furnace]

They say they’re going to add them in after they do the road map thing

I got lucky with my first play through on the Xbox. When the game first came out I encounter none of the bugs other people encountered.

[sage star]

Just killed like a dozen mercs for a bottle of water, a piece of bread, and some bullets

[native furnace]

That’s a steal bro

[sage star]

I. LOVE. STASHES.

[wintry pumice]

Average Stalker after playing stalker 2

[shrewd needle]

I hate Pripyat...literally EVERYONE is a Monolith with an SVD at close range...spawning randomly...and all this at a glorious 5-15 FPS...

[wintry pumice]

That's why you should play it in the shining zone

[shrewd needle]

I do. I send very shining bullets, freshly cleaned, down my shining, chromed gun barrel and into the shining skulls of the Monolith and Bandits.

[pallid thorn]

i wish theyd enable cheats on xbox

so that way you wouldnt get stuck on locked doors that arent supposed to be locked

[native furnace]

I wish the RPG had different ammo types

[pallid thorn]

doesnt need em tbh

just needs to one shot the damn chimera

[ornate sable]

Kinda does. The one rocket it has is modelled after one with a HEAT warheat, but behaves more like HE-FRAG (low pen, big blast damage). A HEAT type warhead would have max pen, high damage to a target that's hit, but little blast damage to the surroundings.
So one rocket to one shot Chimeras, one to take out a horde of smaller enemies.

[shrewd needle]

And it doesn't...unfortunately.

[pallid thorn]

im still waiting for a 50 cal

[shrewd needle]

Forget the modelling, even the FRAG part of it is garbage.

[shrewd needle]

That's called 'Gauss Rifle'.

[pallid thorn]

i agree, the 40mm he is more effective as group clearing than the rpg is

[native furnace]

They give it a incinerate warhead

[shrewd needle]

That implies you can aim it properly...

[ornate sable]

It's not though, RPG does a lot more damage. Enough to one-shot a controller, but not enough for a Chimera or Pseudo, where its low pen means the Gauss is just way better

[shrewd needle]

It still sucks; I literally tried dealing with the Chimera at the VPC Mirror using the RPG and I died before I could fire a second shot... 😡

[pallid thorn]

i can, lol
i like 40mm explosives and got the arc nailed

[shrewd needle]

Older games, the protagonist actually used the GL sights...IDK how to use the GL sights in S2.

[pallid thorn]

there isnt any sadly

[shrewd needle]

Well, that, uh...makes aiming impossible, no?

[pallid thorn]

not really

just load up all of your 40mm, get a save, and just practice ranging it, dont forget to aim up and lob it

[sage star]

I'm stuck, I looted every stash and cant complete the main story mission since its bugged

[pallid thorn]

oof

happened to me too, and i just started over and got a different ending, thats my goal, to personally experience each and every ending.

[sage star]

For some reason dalin is just stuck underground

[feral horizon]

If they add new armor in the game they should add a Spark Exo-suit

[sage star]

Indeed

I hope it wouldnt be in some mission only stash

[native furnace]

1911

They should bring back some of the guns from the other stalker game like the sig rifle, fn2000 and the street sweeper

[shrewd needle]

F2000 dead. And no streets in the Zone to sweep. SIG might be good.

Just give me a .50 AE Desert Eagle with a variety of rounds and a suppressor and me good.

[ebon blade]

The more new weapons I come across in Stalker 2, the less I miss the older ones.

[shrewd needle]

'Less'...not 'not at all'. 😏

[ornate sable]

IPSF exo suit would be nice

[shrewd needle]

Isn't that just the Shturm?

Also, I find it funny how weapons that were rare in the original trilogy are now used by every Bandit and Loner in the Zone...like the Groza or the G36 or the Vintorez... 😖

[ornate sable]

That's supposed to be Ward, isn't it? Also DLC only

[shrewd needle]

I mean...functionally, Ward and IPSF are no different, except one is in the Zone and one is in the perimeter...

[sterile obsidian]

Weird water wasted all my 30+ meds

Trying to find it was such a chore

[vernal lily]

I never had to use any meds while looking for that

[dire breach]

Are all keypad locked doors in the game (excluding journalist content) supposed to have a PDA that says what code the door needs?

I'm noticing all guide websites give the solution immediately and never tell you where to go to find it instead

[ebon blade]

No. The Journalist stashes are not locked. They are regular stashes.

[ornate sable]

Some do, some have clues around, like numbers on buildings and such

[dire breach]

well ok, I'm not actually concerned about the Journalist stashes

I'm looking for the Duga hatch code and I technically already know it because of spoilers but I wish I knew where to actually find it

[ornate sable]

If it's the one I think it is, the code is on the box next to the hatch, but there's a little destructable box blocking parts of it

[dire breach]

wow, I've been exploring the entire complex looking for PDAs and stuff and it's literally next to the keypad? xD

[sage star]

Beril?

[ornate sable]

Something like the Berill, but as an exo suit, yes. Would look sweet with the camo I think.

[sage star]

I thought there was already an ispf exo, either brumbar or bulwark

[polar forge]

Should I head to rostok before the story takes me there? Idk if it even does but I imagine it would

[ornate sable]

Brummbär is Mercs, Bulwark is Freedom

[sage star]

I thought Liberty was freedom

[ornate sable]

It too. Freedom and Duty have two exos each

[fickle cosmos]

freedom shall perrish.

Duty over Freedom, Monolith over Duty.

[native furnace]

Go to yavin station if you want the good armor

[fickle cosmos]

the armor there is mediocre at best.

[ornate sable]

The Diamond?

[native furnace]

Yeah

[fickle cosmos]

if you really want good armor head over to jupiter and prypiat using the glitch or you can just go get some gear from red forest

there's some solid rifle's along the way and a ton of stuff, i myself went that route but now im over at the chemical plant

[ornate sable]

The Diamond exo, which you can find in Yaniv if you know the exploit, is one of if not the best exo suit in the game though.
I personally run the Liberty now instead, because I like how it looks (it's Freedom, while Diamond is Monolith), but the Diamond is in many ways better.

[charred nova]

Nah liberty better

[ornate sable]

It's got the drip for sure, but having tho choose between upgrading physical resistance and carry capacity is tough. Diamond lets you upgrade both (and also doesn't require blueprints).

I think I'll use the Operator for a bit now that I've found the blueprints for its lead containers though, it's pretty cool as well.

[polar forge]

Dang the trader at cement factory has few guns I never seen before. APSB, Rhino, Zubr-19, VS Vintar.
Also has a gas mask I never seen..Sphere M20 Helmet

Helmet probably isn’t worth it since I have Seva-D suit

Is Zubr-19 better than Integral-A?

[native furnace]

Depends one has a bigger magazine other one shoots faster

[polar forge]

Ah well I’m not paying 19k coupons for it I’ll just try to find one on the ground later or something lol I need coupons for repairs that is literally all my money goes to

[feral horizon]

So what happens if you don't use the X-7 in the last mission?

[sage star]

Who is the ruby exo supposed to belong to

[feral horizon]

It looks monolith.

I think the description says it was made from a corundum suit which is monolith armor.

[ornate sable]

I just wish the Bulwark had the sprint upgrade, it's my favorite in terms of looks because it's based on the Bulat (my beloved)

[polar forge]

I forgot I never even did the side missions in poppy field. I just used a guide to come back here about to enter for the first time

[shrewd needle]

Am I hallucinating or the Red Forest is full of psionics?

[ornate sable]

Seems to be some around the dug in tanks, yeah

[polar forge]

I’m disappointed there was no artifacts in poppy field or I just didn’t find one I guess

I saw vendors have hilka detector a bunch when I didn’t need it now I need one and can’t find anywhere. Bear is alright but I need that extra range

[vernal lily]

There's that one artifact in poppy field, but it's one of those where you only find them once and never spawns ever again.

Personally I don't much use for it. It's where if you have the artifact in your container before taking a nap, mutants will detect you much slower.

bro I can't type today

[ornate sable]

Unless you started playing before they patched out the arch artifact respawns. I've got two weird flowers. I'm gonna give one to Birch, and the other to either Harpy or Viktoria. As marriage proposals (they don't know I have more than one, of course. I need them to think they're special)

[vernal lily]

Yeah, I probably played it after that patch lol

[polar forge]

I just ran around the entire field with detector out and didn’t get a signal at all and I’m out of energy drinks it keeps putting me to sleep lol

[vernal lily]

Do the energy drinks help? They don't seem to actually help keep me awake when I am in that poppy field.

[polar forge]

Didn’t seem like they helped most of the time tbh

[vernal lily]

one more typo and I am going into a gravitational anomaly

[polar forge]

Will the poppy field eventually kill you if you keep falling asleep?

[vernal lily]

yeah I still ended up dying the same with or without the energy drinks.

and yes you will eventually just fall asleep and die.

[polar forge]

Is there really an artifact here?? There is no way..I just ran around with detector every bit of it idk how I’m missing it

[vernal lily]

No, no other artifact except for that blue flower. It is not detectable with any detector though.

[ornate sable]

Detectors don't pick up arch artifacts. There's a single blue flower in the sea of red flowers. Good luck!

[polar forge]

I never heard of arch artifact. Is it worth a lot of coupons? 🤣

[vernal lily]

I wouldn't sell it, not worth it. Unless you know for sure you won't be using it at all.

Well not worth it in terms of it won't spawn again unless some lucky bug or UETools

[vernal lily]

arch artifacts are the ones like the blue flower, weird water, etc.

[ornate sable]

Aka. altered artifacts. All the arch anomalies will have one. There's also the Weird Ball in the lesser zone. Weird Ball and Weird Flower aren't worth much. Weird Nut, Bolt, Water, and Pot are quite valuable. Weird Nut and Weird Water are both very good though, so don't sell them.

[polar forge]

Man I am not finding this thing

[ornate sable]

It's like a needle in a haystack

[vernal lily]

The flower? Trying going to those houses, it should be around/nearby one of them (outside). Forgot which one though.

[polar forge]

!! I actually found it right after I sent that last message xD

Oh so you sleep with it and it masks your scent for a period of time that’s better than nothing I suppose

Now I gotta decide if I wanna sell this orthodox icon to the weird guy that lives at poppy field or take it back to the guy that asked me to come get it

[native furnace]

You should keep it

[polar forge]

Actually I have an idea

[vernal lily]

I honestly just shot that guy , but yeah you should keep it

[polar forge]

I should keep it? Well my idea can still involve that lol

[vernal lily]

bro I just fell asleep on my keyboard

[vernal lily]

Yeah keep

Maybe I should sleep right now, but now I feel awake

[polar forge]

How long did you spend in your playthrough? I assume you have beat the game once at least?

I am ~60 hours in and I have only explored lesser zone, cordon, wild island, Zaton, garbage and cement factory. And only about half cement factory

[vernal lily]

I was talking about my irl state right now, but in my first playthrough, I was almost at the end. Then save got wiped because of netowrk issues (I use GFN)

I'm not even going to fix that misspell

[vernal lily]

I remember somewhere around 100+, haven't even left the less zone yet.

I'm currently trying to just speedrun my 2nd playthrough, since I already experience most things during my first one before it got wiped. Still pissed off about it.

[polar forge]

Dang I’d be so mad if that happen to me

[vernal lily]

Making me pull out my hairs thinking about it, but it is what it is. I tried to ignore the fact that I need to start all the way to the beginning, because really wanted to get my first ending in my own playthrough. As opposed to just looking it up online.

[polar forge]

I never even found a single artifact in lesser zone when I started the game at first. I had no idea how to collect them lol I should probably run around checking POIs

[polar forge]

Yeah I understand. I am going with my gut instinct for choices and missions usually. The important ones anyway

[vernal lily]

Usually you can find them in anomalies, but I have my detector out as I am out and about roaming the Zone. Helps catch the ones you might have missed just by walking past it.

[polar forge]

Yeah that is what I have been doing now and I have doubled my artifact finder rate at least xD

[vernal lily]

Nice lol. And if you dump all of them on the ground when you have enough, they look like christmas lights

[warped stream]

and then u run into the few places with the billions of fake artifacts around

[vernal lily]

I think I came across that one place, with a bunch of fake artifacts. There was only one real one for me.

[polar forge]

Yeah that happen to me on wild island. I eventually got real flytrap (think that was the name) but man the psi damage was insane

Does psi protection armor and psi blocker actually reduce the visual effects of psi or only the health drain or how does it work ?

[vernal lily]

I haven't actually looked at it closely with armor, but the psi blocks should also get rid of the visual effects for a bit.

[hardy totem]

I think it might increase the time before the visual effect show up, but don't quote me on that

[shrewd needle]

Not even near tanks...just randomly...I'll be going through the forest and suddenly get enemies...I kill them and realize they're hallucinations.

[shrewd needle]

Still doesn't affect the time to be affected.

[weary hedge]

Fixed the DLC weapon chest not spawning. Ran the game in offline mode, made a save by that spot in zaton or whatever, quit the game. Got internet back up, let steam startup connected to the internet. Launched the game and the chest was in that back room.

[shrewd needle]

Uh...anyone got tips for the Red Forest excavator that got moved from Jupiter in CoP to RF?

[ornate sable]

Find and kill the poltergeist before you do parkour things

[shrewd needle]

I literally no-clipped and went around the excavator and can't find that POS.

Only found 2 Teslas.

[vapid galleon]

Hello chat

[ornate sable]

One level up from where you get up the ladder, on the backside of the engine section. Electro poltergeist.

[shrewd needle]

Mind posting a screenshot? Again, I went through the entire excavator and can't find it anywhere.

[agile phoenix]

So which mutant is more powerful a chimera or a pseudogiant?

Also I wanted to ask if there is any suppressor you can put on the Kharod?

[hollow wraith]

the nerf of the Weird bottle is annoying... I can't play with my artifacts and my X7 outfit anymore 😕

[maiden grotto]

Did you do the jumping on anomalies?

[frigid hill]

emvit_ has been warned

Reason: Bad word usage

[austere cove]

is anybody aware of any mods for stalker 2 that add any belt fed 545 or 556 weapons

[wintry pumice]

......

[glad forum]

bro i downloaded gunslinger for cop and i dont have hud how do i fix it?

[tired juniper]

Is there any NPC in particular at/near Quiets Camp that has a Sniper capable of a OHKO on the Player in a SEVA suit?

Messing around killing around here, and every time i get OHKO from an unseen location by an unknown source and its driving me insane tbh.

[cobalt fiber]

Just preordered delta @last saddle

[tired juniper]

Just preordered deezNuts

[harsh jungle]

gottem

[hoary crest]

Full weapon mods are a long way out yet

[shrewd needle]

Yes, but I just kept falling through...searching helped me realize it's an FPS issue; had to reduce all settings to minimum and put resolution to 1024 X 768 AND use XeSS to go full Ultra Performance...

And again, that got solved...by doing the above. Main problem is the Poltergeist.

[maiden grotto]

If you bounce to high, you will fly straight through... you need to gently bounce and not go so high

As for the polti, you need to go up a couple of levels...

[shrewd needle]

I tried everything...nothing worked till I reduced graphics.

[shrewd needle]

I did; literally no-clipped through the entire excavator and can't find it. And that's a big phucking excavator...only found 2 Teslas roaming around.

[kindred turtle]

[smoky hawk]

you install a better mod

[last saddle]

Yeah I still need to. How you getting along in TPP

[cobalt fiber]

Traitors caravan was a bitch as always 🥴

[feral horizon]

The excavator felt like the bridge section in half life 2.

[sharp sierra]

I hope the next patch works on adding more enemies and also gets rid of the time delay for missions, it makes saving up cash a pain in the backside. Also seriously on the find artifact mission tell us what the artifact is before we accept the job!

[still current]

[polar forge]

Is this game supposed to have multiplayer ?

[charred nova]

someday

[dreamy dagger]

Nooooooooooo
rooooooooooooooooooooad
maaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaap
Gawd....

[weary hedge]

Are you asking about the roadmap? As in you are pro-roadmap?

[cobalt fiber]

I am anti roadmap

[dreamy dagger]

I am building a road but, dear Lord... I struggle to map it right

[cobalt fiber]

Took the wrong turn

[charred nova]

ERM ROAD MAPS ARE NOT INCLUSIVE ENOUGH WE NEED AN AIR MAP INSTEAD

[wet portal]

Am I the only one who doesnt care about multiplayer?

[charred nova]

most of us don't because

it will just be full of hackers

[wet portal]

And stalker has always been a single player experience. Co-Op in a stalker game would be kinda neat but theyve already said it wont have that. If it was co-op then theyd seriously have to fix A-Life 150% and increase the difficulty

[cobalt fiber]

Stalker HOC battle royale

[wet portal]

oh god kill me

[charred nova]

https://tenor.com/view/no-no-wait-wait-gif-8174347161288218584

[cobalt fiber]

Purple hair female stalkers running around with sparkly pink Saigas and dab emoting post death

[wet portal]

I'll be sweating the rainbow chrome camo SVD and Deadpool exoskeleton

[charred nova]

let me dress up as a vietnam GI

[plain fiber]

Seriously GSC, just drop the plans for multiplayer, it's not needed.

[weary hedge]

Bloodsuckers with viper 5's t bagging duty skinned players.

[agile phoenix]

Anyone else getting the glitch in the final mission when you follow Korshunov down the elevator and then when the cutscene ends he just despawns you stopping you from going forward?

[weary hedge]

I saw him teleport at the end of the scripted bit. Think you can still use the elevator.

[agile phoenix]

It’s after you kill scar and get the documents

I go down the elevator finish the dialogue we are supposed to walk over to the next elevator and find out it does not work and then he gives me a keycard to take a different route

Because he does not walk over there I cannot get the keycard

[weary hedge]

OG isn't (because it's not worth it lmao)

[charred nova]

i mean yah but

[weary hedge]

You don't give a reason to hack, then they won't hack ez

[charred nova]

yah but the russians will come in with bots

to ruin the game for everyone

you know that

[weary hedge]

That just sounds like defeatist yap

[plain fiber]

Additionally, you don't need to give people a reason to hack; plenty of people hack in games just for the sake of trolling.

@charred nova I'm sure you can attest to this point as well.

[charred nova]

YUP

[plain fiber]

Lol, missed the "P" key?

[wet portal]

If there's walls in your game, there will ba hackers

[weary hedge]

Defeatist yap

Do not bend the knee to them ✊

[plain fiber]

Or even better, GSC can drop the plans for multiplayer entirely and we never have to worry about it at all.

[river chasm]

They already sold stuff for it in the deluxe/ultimate editions so i doubt that's happening

[quick lion]

Any other gigachads in here play with HUD disabled?

[plain fiber]

Refund people for that stuff then.

[weary hedge]

Yeah nah

No defeatist attitude

[plain fiber]

Why the hell would anyone want multiplayer? It adds nothing to the game and only takes away time and resources that GSC could be using the make the base single-player even better.

[wet portal]

based take

[fickle cosmos]

was gonna do it soon.

[weary hedge]

GSC spent 3 years doing whatever prep work they were, then 2 years of intense development, then 2 years of intense cutting, I think that time and resources are not the problem.

[plain fiber]

Additionally, GSC has stated that the multiplayer will only be basic DM, TDM, and CTF; it's not even anything that a modern FPS gamer is going to give a shit about.

[ornate sable]

1v1 me on garbage, all weapons unlocked. If I lose I will accuse you of hacking

[plain fiber]

Except that two major events occurred during S2's development that undoubtedly threw a wrench or two into things:

COVID-19 pandemic

Invasion

[fickle cosmos]

did you know that covid has like 60 subvariant's of itself? lol

[ornate sable]

Stalker MP will be like Half Life MP was, I guess. It was there, and it wasn't bad or anything, but no one remembers half life for its multiplayer.
Guess that's true for TrilOGy MP too

[plain fiber]

I played Half-Life 2 Deathmatch for a bit when it was still active. It was...fine, but I dropped it pretty quickly and it certainly wasn't very memorable even with the gravity gun.

[weary hedge]

(ignores the years before, between, and after those two events)

[ornate sable]

I remember HL1 multiplayer at LAN parties, but we kinda just dropped it when we realized CS 1.6 was more fun (which to be fair was a HL mod to begin with)

[fickle cosmos]

meh, the multiplayer here will be useless to most newer players, maybe some older fans will get a kick out of it for a bit but then it will just get dropped.

[river chasm]

Well, there's still not an "after" to the invasion

[fickle cosmos]

doubt there will be an after.

[weary hedge]

Defeatist attitude

[vernal lily]

[plain fiber]

I'm not ignoring those years, I'm just saying that things happened during development that led to things getting cut amongst other problems.

[ornate sable]

ngl, the stuff on Friday kinda blackpilled me too

[fickle cosmos]

no its called attrition. in which i feel they are just tussle back and forth over territories for a few years or so lol

[weary hedge]

Nah the new stuff revealed TODAY blackpilled me 100%, not even my hopium could not save me

[polar forge]

I was just wondering if it was meant to have mutliplayer bc I clicked on someone profile and it said “exploring cordon solo”

[weary hedge]

We don't know why it's like that, there's nothing in the files, but it was promised in 2021 that there would be a multiplayer mode later

[polar forge]

I think it would be cool to explore the zone with a friend

[weary hedge]

No co-op, that we know

[polar forge]

Then what the heck would they even add multiplayer for? Surely not PvP? That would be so dumb. Not fun imo

[weary hedge]

Trilogy multiplayer is hella fun to be honest

[vernal lily]

I personally think the whole multiplayer thing should be dropped

[polar forge]

Maybe if you can play mutants vs stalkers mode would be cool

[plain fiber]

@weary hedge

• S2's development was announced/started in 2018 Apparently this is wrong, I've been told development didn't actually start until 2020.

• COVID-19 pandemic started at the end of 2019 and was in full force worldwide throughout 2020 and most of 2021

• Ukraine was invaded in 2022

• S2 released in 2024

So, out of the 6-ish year development cycle that S2 had, only TWO of those years were smooth going.

[fickle cosmos]

nmm

[fickle cosmos]

not even close to started in 2018..

[weary hedge]

Well, they had organizational problems too 🤷‍♂️ that's my point

[vernal lily]

kicks bnuuy (joke)

[weary hedge]

Literally this, apparently active development only started in 2020 with 60 people

[fickle cosmos]

..

[vernal lily]

[fickle cosmos]

Unfortunately the game was announced all the way back in 2010 💀

only almost 15 years later did we get HoC

[weary hedge]

Wait now this makes so much sense why Iassenev was brought on so "late" in development

[granite kelp]

is there a mod for the pda like in the old stalker? that is to say that we see the hands of the stalker who presses the buttons on the sides of the pda?

[fickle cosmos]

half of the game was probably in preproduction whilst they made more idea's.

[plain fiber]

Do you have a source for this? At least on Wikipedia I can't find any development start dates except for the announcement in 2018, unless I'm overlooking it.

[wet portal]

All of these reasons are why I'm willing to stick through and have faith. This is the only DEV team on earth that I can think of who has a very legitamate excuse and still delevired a better game than over half AAA titles lately

[polar forge]

It is no fair npc have better pda than skif

[fickle cosmos]

#💬┃en_offtop

[weary hedge]

Yeah today an interview with Andrei Khokhlov dropped. Ex-developer. Was level designer. Working on having it translated. Pretty cool read.

[fickle cosmos]

photo's in offtopic for whoever care's.

[plain fiber]

My guy, the S2 from 2012 is NOT the same S2 that we got in 2024...

[fickle cosmos]

yeah because it was a complete scrap but the official announcement was in 2010. so really its just a long delay to HoC

[weary hedge]

Actually he even dropped his game build which he used to apply for a job at GSC

[wet portal]

Exactly

[plain fiber]

That's....not how that works.

[fickle cosmos]

kinda is, I can't tell you how many time's something's been announced and the developers got a whole new idea so they scrapped most the game to the core and redid it all.

[wet portal]

Bro that first game was completely cancelled

[fickle cosmos]

canceled and postponed to 12/8/22, i dont know what you mean.

[plain fiber]

S2 2012 was cancelled, scrapped, and GSC itself was dissolved as a company in 2011; they didn't come back until 2014.

The majority of the people who worked on it don't even work at GSC anymore.

[fickle cosmos]

wouldn't suprise me.

birb

[weary hedge]

They apparently reused some concepts, two developers and three voice actors returned for stalker 2. That's it.

[plain fiber]

Oh that's cool then.

I'm glad they didn't re-use the exoskeleton design; the gas mask looked way too cartoony.

[ornate bear]

is the sdk out yet?

[sage star]

I've seen loners fighting snorks on the other side of the bridge to lymansk before

[charred nova]

no

[sage star]

Is there some other way to get into the pripyat base? Some npc is in the door way and I cant walk through him

[serene barn]

no it seems like if that happens you're kinda screwed. loading an earlier save might fix it but it could happen again, it seemed as it's caused by the guy becoming alerted to enemies in the area that might run nearby and then he just stops up in the doorway. i don't know what it is that GSC has done with NPCs to have them block doors this way.

[sage star]

I even tried looking for the enemies but there are none

[shadow rampart]

Shot at the locked door in lab X-18 during the anomaly battle with an RPG and it opened 😂

[sharp sierra]

Any clue if the next patch will fix stuck artifacts? I'd suggest having the artifact respawn if it's not picked up in a day or 2

[gilded shell]

why does my game just crash everytime i open it lol

[subtle zenith]

I hope they manage to get the game fixed like it should be and get it ready for ps5 release. Cant wait..

[hazy gyro]

have they still not fixed Bingo yet?!

[boreal coyote]

I have bingo

[hazy gyro]

well the percentage on xbox is still 0.05%, meaning a lot of player havent unlocked it

[cobalt fiber]

A vast majority of players probably don't care about getting it though tbf

[boreal coyote]

I'm on PC Maybe it's bugged on xbox

[boreal coyote]

I wasn't trying to get it 🤣

[maiden grotto]

I am taking bingo is an achievement

[gilded shell]

i bought this game when it first came out and im still waiting for it to be playable man

[boreal coyote]

Yeah

[cobalt fiber]

Xbox percentages aren't worth going off anyway

2.75% only for the apple shot achievement

[maiden grotto]

For grannies

[cobalt fiber]

That's one of the easiest things to get

Only 4.31% met Strelok

So

[boreal coyote]

Maybe most players didn't make it to the end cause the game broke for them

[maiden grotto]

What the hell is the apple shot achievement

[cobalt fiber]

Also a lot of xbox players would have been new to the idea of stalker and given up

[cobalt fiber]

The bandit game where there's 3 prisoners and you shoot apples above their heads

[hazy gyro]

this achievement is gonna be the death of me

[maiden grotto]

And that's a problem, release borked game, players go away.

[boreal coyote]

Just have some captain Morgans spiced rum 🥃

[hazy gyro]

lol

[cobalt fiber]

Prefer kraken

[maiden grotto]

I usually slaughter bandits on on sight

[boreal coyote]

I used to like rum but only drink whisky these days, I don't drink often though

[maiden grotto]

That's nice...

But I like me some midori too

[cobalt fiber]

You can tell how much I love the drink when I read that as "I don't drink often though enough"

[boreal coyote]

I used to like it more but I'm watching my ma live through hell atm from abusive drink 🤣 that's put me off a bit.. still smoke like a chimney though 🤣

And like I'm a straight up addict 🤣 if I do something that give me any pleasure what so ever I get full addicted so I need to be very weary of picking up habits 🤣🤣

[maiden grotto]

My Dad was an alcoholic...

Never want to end up like him, and it's amazing how easily it can grab you and you believe you don't have a problem

[boreal coyote]

Yeah it's the devil drink is 🤣

I grew up in a family of addicts like whole family, extended family and all 🤣 I used to think everyone got plastered everyday 🤣

[maiden grotto]

Fecking hell, that's not good

[boreal coyote]

But I do live in Ireland so for the sake of keeping the image alive I'll say its true and that everyone does get plastered everyday 🤣

Even the garda

[maiden grotto]

Hahaha

Bloody Irish... no change

[boreal coyote]

We have garda checkpoints where they breathalyser people and if you're sober you get arrested

[maiden grotto]

Always knew you was backwards 🤣

[boreal coyote]

Yeah you get thrown in the drunk tank but here the drunk tank is where you get put on a whisky drip and you're not allowed to be released until you're slurring your words and being racist

[wintry pumice]

Sounds like a fun place

[boreal coyote]

It's a sight to behold tbh

[maiden grotto]

The shining zone.

[boreal coyote]

For some 😉

[hazy gyro]

i hate this achievement

[boreal coyote]

Hate is a very strong word

[hazy gyro]

well i just got all the effects and still no achievement

[boreal coyote]

But does that really evoke the visceral emotion that is hate?

[hazy gyro]

pretty much

[boreal coyote]

I hate the whole game tbh, steaming pile of mediocre sh*t

Ah no its not bad

[gilded shell]

i literally have been unable to open the game for 2 months lol its so dog shit

cannot believe i payed for this

[maiden grotto]

And then the see the footage of what they are really like...

Just like Scar's ending, when the truth is revealled

[boreal coyote]

You should crash out

[gilded shell]

game has crashed enough for me

[boreal coyote]

Yeah nah but you should go mental mate

[gilded shell]

i got to play for 15 mins on launch then it updated in december and i havent been able to open the game since

[river chasm]

What did the support team say

[gilded shell]

all it says is be patient brah

[boreal coyote]

That's mental you should break your monitor and crash out

[gilded shell]

multiple people have had this exact problem for months with no fix

[wintry pumice]

[boreal coyote]

Awhh you should all crash out and break the monitors in protest

[gilded shell]

so unfunny

[boreal coyote]

I actually think you should though, I would

[wintry pumice]

Reinstalling didn't work?

[novel wave]

What are you on about 💀

[boreal coyote]

Who, me?

[maiden grotto]

Especially before they start brainwashing you

[novel wave]

Yes

[gilded shell]

reinstalled 3 times verified game files downloaded mods to skip the shader setup and nothing works it just crashes and says the shader warm up failed i have a good pc that exceeds the reccomended specs for the game too(ive also cleared the cache multiple times)

[boreal coyote]

Yeah nah just saying he should go mental mate ahh

[boreal coyote]

What you running?

[maiden grotto]

What's your setup?

[wintry pumice]

No help from support?

[gilded shell]

i don know brah but it exceeds the specs for the game i literally bought a new pc for the game and it doesnt work

[wintry pumice]

Only works with CRT monitors

[gilded shell]

i got like a 4080 and other good enough stuff to run this game

but its not even my pc its literally just the shaders failed immediately

[boreal coyote]

Oh brah

[wintry pumice]

Brah

[gilded shell]

my pc doesnt even get a chance it crashes in 1 second of opening

[maiden grotto]

You got all your drivers upto daye1?

[gilded shell]

mhm just updated them

[novel wave]

Reinstall windows, go crazy and wipe everything. Bound to work.

[boreal coyote]

Is your shaders up to date brah?

[maiden grotto]

Bios updated?

[gilded shell]

true..........

[boreal coyote]

I meant drivers lol

[wintry pumice]

Blowing on the motherboard helps is what I hear

[wintry pumice]

Is it only this game?

[boreal coyote]

Just spit on it brah

[wintry pumice]

Yeah brah

[gilded shell]

ive updated everything on my pc

[ornate sable]

What's the Shader Cache Size set to in your nvidia app-thing? Try setting it to unlimited

[gilded shell]

yep i run literally everything with no flaws besides stalker

[gilded shell]

where would that be

[boreal coyote]

Don't do that brah it causes micro stutters brah

[wintry pumice]

Did it never run? Or just stopped running?

[gilded shell]

it ran at first then the game updated and it wont open

[wintry pumice]

Which store are you using? Steam or Microsoft Store?

[weary hedge]

there is a command you can put into uh, one of the text files, that will disable shader precompilation

[gilded shell]

im using steam

[weary hedge]

might allow you to boot the game like prior when GSC disabled it

[gilded shell]

i have a mod that skips it lol still doesnt work

[weary hedge]

hm. odd issue, has to be something on your system as its not a widespread thing

[gilded shell]

(game crashes without mods too so dont blame mods)

[gilded shell]

ive googled it a lot and theres so many people with the same issue as me since that one update

[boreal coyote]

How much detowated wam do you have?

[maiden grotto]

Have to formated your pc and done a clean install?

[gilded shell]

i tried all the fixes they have asked too nothign works

[gilded shell]

14 terabites

[boreal coyote]

Jesus

[gilded shell]

90 terbaytes

[boreal coyote]

That's a lot of deowated wam

[weary hedge]

hm - so it ran the first time, compiled shaders, booted
but every time since it crashes

maybe the shaders somehow corrupted? idk? cant you clear nvidia shader cache manually with one of the nvidia external github app thingies

i remember that being a solution for an issue a few patches ago

[gilded shell]

"last shader warmup failed this an unexpected behavior that will caes temporary stutters while they are compiled at runtime this is a temporary workaround to let u you still play and enjoy stalker 2 we are extremely grateful for your patience while we are working on the issue" i fi click ok on this popup game closes if i click x it closes and if i do nothing its just a blackscreen

[gilded shell]

i just dont care enough to do all these insane fixes ill just wait til the game maybe fixes but i doubt they will fix it

[boreal coyote]

And what does task manager say when it's booting up? Is anything maxing out?

[gilded shell]

lemme check!

cpu usuage is at 15 and memory at 25

[boreal coyote]

And that's the highest its getting before the crash?

[gilded shell]

yep

[boreal coyote]

Yeah that's very VERY weird

[gilded shell]

it doesnt just randomly crash it just closes when i interact with the pop up lol

atleast an actual good game came out recently that i can play!!!(kcd2)

[weary hedge]

Okay so here are two quick things to try;

x:\SteamLibrary\steamapps\shadercache -> Delete '1643320' (Stalker 2 cache location)

Windows Search - > Disk Cleanup -> choose the drive stalker is installed to -> check 'directx shader cache' - > press okay to delete

[boreal coyote]

Turn your pc off take your ram out and put it back in, If that doesn't work then idk

[gilded shell]

i will also pour water on my motherboard to cool it down

[gilded shell]

done both multiple times

[boreal coyote]

Well no orange juice is better for that

[weary hedge]

did you delete the shader cache folder multiple times? several people say it only works if you delete it like three or four times

outside of that i give up lol

[gilded shell]

ill try that then thanks for help

[wintry pumice]

Just delete the || game folder|| , I have heard it works

[gilded shell]

it didnt crash or do a pop up its just on the health warning screen and i cant click anything

[weary hedge]

the steps to manually disable shader compilation rather than using a mod;

Press the WIN + G shortcut to launch the Run window, type "AppData" and Hit Enter.
Head over to Local > Stalker2 > Saved > Config.
For Steam Users, go inside the Windows folder. For users playing through Xbox Game Pass, go into WinGDK directories respectively.
Here, create a new text file and rename it to "Engine.ini"
Open the file, paste the following lines, and close the file after saving it.

[SystemSettings]

r.PSOWarmup.WarmupMaterials=0

[gilded shell]

the pop up showed up

[boreal coyote]

Have your tried hanging a rosary 📿 in your pc cace?

[gilded shell]

i will come back in 3 months to see if its fixed thanks for the help guys

[boreal coyote]

Never hurts to have God on your side

[wintry pumice]

Or me

[gilded shell]

first stalker game is not going good for me💔

[boreal coyote]

Blasphemy! Get him!

[wintry pumice]

The older ones wouldn't have done wonders either

[boreal coyote]

At least its not crashing as soon as you try to boot it, there was a fella in here not long ago and everytime they try to boot stalker 2 it crashes

[slender trench]

I thought they fixed burers deleting weapons.

[weary hedge]

yeeted

[native furnace]

They should add KS23 shotgun

[charred nova]

good news for all the people wanting multiplayer

https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/504592685428899851/1345914399373791243/IMG_7091.mov?ex=67c647f6&is=67c4f676&hm=ebfdd9dd20d35133eff07c7bbca77ecdd3110db697e4c16dcbddccd0ee8b6b9e&

[sage star]

I!! LOVE!!! LOOT!!!!

[fierce nexus]

твоя здобич - моя здобич

[fierce nexus]

You know I mean loot

Fr

[fierce nexus]

[tired juniper]

Anyone else died to a magic gunshot at the Military Checkpoint south of Sidorovich in the Cordon? I went down there to get a stash marked on my map, killed all the enemies in the area, and theres 2 specific bodies that as soon as i get close to them and stop to loot, i fall over dead and it says I died from a bullet. (Despite that there is no gunshot sound, and no red marker or outline on my compass to indicate there being an enemy that knows my location.)

Any ideas?

[native furnace]

Maybe you got too close to the border

[weary hedge]

It happens in a few places.

[normal sail]

It'd be a cool gun to see in the zone

[native furnace]

One shot bloodsuckers with it would be so satisfying

[normal sail]

I hope at some point soon we get the roadmap

although totally up in the air when that comes out

[versed dagger]

God going from soc to cs is such a downgrade man... First time player, just beat soc on veteran for my first playthrough, only unfair bit was in the CNPP but got through it alright. Clear sky bandits are just bullet sponges and the ballistics is all wrong, not to mention they can eat a whole ass pair of slugs and I fall apart against Makarov ammo -.-

[lilac prairie]

bought the game on release but never got off tarkov. havent watched a single youtube video to not get influenced or spoilers.

how is the game in your opinion?

I am done with tarkov for the wipe so switching things up.

basically i am just trying to decide weather i should take up stalker for the month (i play hours on every day) OR i go back to rust

[versed dagger]

Soc?

[vernal lily]

Well, it's fine honestly. It was pretty rough on launch though. Right now, from my experience, not too bad. Bugs here and there, recent patch fixes some things I think. Maybe not the best person to answer this because I am currently smooth sailing through the game with not that much bugs. People like @maiden grotto can probably give you the other experience explaination lol.

[lilac prairie]

thanks

[serene barn]

Guns were too strong in SoP so in CS and CoP they made them weaker by default but made the tech upgrades better. Iirc.

[summer remnant]

Finished the game how i can get back to the zone?

[versed dagger]

The ballistics in soc were almost perfect. They're ruined in cs.

[sudden crown]

👮‍♂️ Hello, you were speeding in the zone. How much vodka have you had?

🖕 👮‍♂️

I've had.. negative 500 vodka, sir.

👮‍♂️ Son I am Godzilla and your ASS is Tokyo.

[ornate sable]

Load a save from before the point of no return, or start a new playthrough

[vernal lily]

More than your babushka drank last night

[sudden crown]

Oh you must be fucking.. kidding me

I think what the zone needs is brown liquor. Kentucky straight rye whiskey.

And it makes you see the invisible bloodsuckers and if the controllers try to hit you they suffer damage.

[serene barn]

Aiming down sights also seems to have been bugged or just not coded correctly. I remember seeing a video on accuracy and it was not good lol.

[sudden crown]

I fought so many men at the end of this game. And they respawned.

I spent 65 armor piercing SVD rounds just to get to a save point, all headshots. Bodies everywhere.

That's when I realized.. We just exist to armor up for weak foes but the real enemy shoots us in the head.

Another thing I realized about this game is it seperates you from your allies for long times to test your loyalties but you have none given to you.

So you're critized for not helping someone but they never helped you, at all.

[versed dagger]

I'm just gonna uninstall and download cop, skip cs entirely lol

[sudden crown]

just get the xbox app and their version runs or you can demand money from xbox.

[versed dagger]

I have the Xbox version for all three games

[sudden crown]

I downloaded this game on xbox app and it's worked flawlessly.

[versed dagger]

All three games work fine. Cs is just bad lol

[sudden crown]

But I am also on a computer with AI intel chip and 4080ti

I usually separate my instances onto several pc with smaller spec and then re-upload them to my server during downtime.

[ornate sable]

Cue laundry list of mods needed to make CS playable

(I need to try it again soon, tried it vanilla on PC on release way back, but it kept crashing on me.)

[dreamy dagger]

I don't trust no Pokemon balls, foo

[maiden grotto]

Oh boy, can I lol!

[weary hedge]

ehhhh stalker over rust by far, the campaign is bit of a walking simulator at times, but once you reach a hub you can use guides (stationed at each hub) to fast travel between them

overall a fun campaign to do, with a bit of replayability there just to see the different dialogues. the story is more of a puzzle than just giving you straight answers, so it leaves a lot of questions in your head after playing

there are probably quite a few recommended mods to play with, though, but those would be personal preference really - the only things i would say are a must are better ballistics and Maklane's better gunfights

[serene barn]

I mean CoP will be similar iirc.

[vapid galleon]

[versed dagger]

Please don't tell me soc is the only good one in the whole trilogy -.-

[serene barn]

It’s not lol. It’s literally just that SoC’s guns were good by default and benefited very little from upgrades so that was changed so they benefit more from upgrades as putting money into a gun should make it feel noticeably better.

[maiden grotto]

In other words... garbage mechanics ruin again 😆

[serene barn]

I mean that’s you but I liked it better when upgrades felt worthwhile.

[weary hedge]

I didn't play them to comment lol. The only thing I'd probably play now would be Anomaly - older games generally don't do it for me if there is something similar that is 'newer'

Like, I absolutely LOVED Morrowind and Oblivion, but there is no way in hell I'd waste time to download and play them now

Fallout New Vegas had a better story in my opinion than Fallout 4 - I tried to force myself to replay vegas only like a month ago and couldn't do it. I could play 4 all day

[serene barn]

Is that not like, conflicting statements

FNV had a better story but you had to force yourself to play it but 4 with a worse story you could play all day

4 was so badly written imo. Especially the Institute. Blah blah mankind blah blah synths that is specially not humans or people according to the Institute blah blah nepotism

And having the BoS be mean and racist made me sad 😔 lol. Lyons best BoS

[maiden grotto]

Fallout 3... the rest were meh... infact, I hate Fallout 4, appalling game

[weary hedge]

my point was that its an old game with old graphics and just looks like sh*t - but it still had a better story, the story just isnt enough to make me actually enjoy playing it with everything else I qualify as a downside

I preferred Oblivion and Morrowind over Skyrim for setting and story but wont play them as they just look trash now

[maiden grotto]

Everything wrong with modern gaming...

[serene barn]

I liked some parts of it so i would not say it’s all bad. I really loved the Power Armor change going from sleek suits of armor to a whole damn chassis you get into and it close with you it it like a mech or something

[weary hedge]

we can also flip this - I prefer Hearts of Iron 3 over Hearts of Iron 4 which is graphically superior, because 4 dulls things down too much and feels too easy / linear in the sense of how things pop off, whereas 3 felt more gritty and in-depth and required far more strategy I feel

Hitman Blood Money is a tragedy - amazing game, but also looks like absolute butt crack so I play Hitman 3 lol

[surreal finch]

Yeah, 4 did not have the energy like 3 did

[weary hedge]

Also preferred 3 for story over 4, 4 just had better gunplay and looked a hell of a lot nicer

[serene barn]

I mean I have played through NV a few times and the way it looks is kind of not an issue because it’s literally an old game. I liked the gameplay and the RPG elements like a character build even though I always ended up as a JoAT build lmao.

[surreal finch]

4 had a weird story, also a bit predictable

[maiden grotto]

Three Dog

[surreal finch]

Auuuuuuuu

[weary hedge]

I honestly can't think of any older games I've tried playing other than New Vegas - I just can't get past the lack of detail in the environment, and character models colored like they used the paint fill option

Sure, the story is good... but walking four minutes over an empty desert that you can literally see is empty just doesnt do it for me anymore - back in the day, sure, cause everything else was also similar to that in a sense but covered up with different dev tricks

[serene barn]

I’d even sometimes return to Skyrim on ps console with like barely any mods if any at all.

[weary hedge]

Skyrim is still good because it hides how old it is, it looks 'okay' and youre looking at lots of different things which kind of hide you over-focusing on what looks bad

With New Vegas, you exit the doctors building and you're like, damn this games old lol

[maiden grotto]

Skyrim is a garbage that is massively overrated.

[serene barn]

And then you like go talk to people and explore and get assaulted by casadors or however it was spelled

[weary hedge]

It's good for what it is though - I can't think of many RPGs that are comparable in terms of offerings, Cyberpunk, Stalker is sort of similar but its linear whereas Skyrim was open-world with no direct ending

GTA in a sense I guess (and while we're on that subject, GTA IV is still good lol)

[serene barn]

4 just feels boring to me. Not a fan of settlement building either.

Not to mention some of the horrendous weapon models it had

All the guns being left sided or whatever

[maiden grotto]

Witcher and many others... the problem with Skyrim, is that it is so dumbed and is basically follow the marker.

[weary hedge]

The witcher is one I'd forgotten, that too (that was a step up from skyrim quality wise, too, geez)

one step or five lol

[maiden grotto]

And that fact the building was junky and you couldn't line things up... especially if the ground was sloped

[serene barn]

I don’t think having a marker to know where to go is bad

[maiden grotto]

It was the only way to know where to go...

They have you zero written information to guide you

[serene barn]

I mean what would you have wanted instead? A gps readout on paper?

Turn left at Riverwood avenue and continue for 1 mile then take a right to-

[maiden grotto]

Strawman...

[serene barn]

Strawman argument? Lol

[maiden grotto]

Yes going to insane extremes to push an argument.

Strawman

[weary hedge]

All this reminds me of is that quest in Rostok that made everyone come here and ask wtf they were supposed to go because the pathing to show it was underground was absolute gobshite

[serene barn]

And instead of retorting with a preferred alternative to a top down map and markers, you said that

[weary hedge]

Fallout had tons of locations, it couldn't really direct you somewhere without a marker unless they put something in the game like a trail to follow which they probably figured wasnt immersive

I remember they relied on the characters to tell you about where you were going and what you were going for, then the marker to tell you where it actually was cause you know, no street signs after a nukes been dropped beside your city lol

[serene barn]

Sometimes markers are needed but they damn better be accurate or at least give a good indication instead of an NPC saying somewhere that way about 5 miles out and then gives you a cone of 30 degrees

[maiden grotto]

How about not using stupid strawman arguments...

When throughout gaming history hundreds of games managed to do it, including the likes of Morrowwind.

[serene barn]

At least Skyrim had city signs lol. It was fun sometimes following them

[weary hedge]

Winterhold -> Some random distance this way

I cannot remember Morrowinds quest objective system like at all lol

[serene barn]

Not knowing where anything was. It was neat to find signs down a road saying there would be a town or city somewhere that way

Never played Morrowind, what did it do that was different from a top down map, a compass and quest markers

In terms of navigation

[maiden grotto]

Gave you clues or instructions where things were... like north of x...

Or you had to read books etc.

Or the people you conversed with were able to tell you or point you in the right direction.

Skyrim, just follow the marker

Skyrim was just so dumbed down...

[serene barn]

No Skyrim was universal.

[smoky hawk]

yhea universally bad

[serene barn]

Some of the quests would also not have a marker but the quest log had text for it iirc.

[weary hedge]

Halo Combat Evolved is another game that looks traaaaaaaaaaaaaash now lol still plays great though 😂

[smoky hawk]

the best halo game

[serene barn]

How did reading a book for directions work?

[smoky hawk]

like, words
wtf do you mean

[weary hedge]

I shouldn't laugh at that but damn, impossible task 😂

[weary hedge]

It was basically just Skyrim books but they would have actual useful information in them rather than just feeding you a new UI tooltip showing you something new to do as soon as you open it, basically.

The map was also a bit different in how it was displayed but I don't find that too much of a change

[warped stream]

blind playthrough wouldve been so fun if the game didnt just say yeah go to this specific building and b-line it

[distant spindle]

Mutants too tanky, ammo is rare, artifacts sell for almost nothing considering the price of repairs for armor and guns, prices are very high in general, CoP was perfect imo hope they balance it out and fix would be goty for sure

[serene barn]

i liked that in i think it was CS and then also CoP, that it did in fact matter who you sold things to like food items would sell for the most at people like bartenders

and in CoP stalkers in the zone would pay more for ammo and medkits i think, than the traders would.

[kindred turtle]

[weary hedge]

everytime I see CS I'm always like, oh they are talking counter strike
then i remember clear sky exists lol

[harsh jungle]

understandable I get confused too

[cobalt fiber]

Compasses were one of the worst things to happen to games tbh

[charred nova]

https://tenor.com/view/compass-gif-17733450254145188662

[river chasm]

I did miss the minimap whenever I was playing HoC

[left violet]

@wintry kelp you were asking about the missing stashes, which blueprints are missing exactly?

[weary hedge]

Roadmap coming sometime this year

[distant spindle]

Minimap was goated

[velvet crypt]

Just carried on my play through as I just bought a new gpu and I’m wondering who these guys are I’ve never seen them before but they aren’t attacking me I’ve posted a pic of them in #📸┃screens_and_videos could anyone let me know who they are my biggest guess in like Unisig or a detachment of them

[drifting forge]

Corps

Like the patch says

[velvet crypt]

Are they like a hidden faction ? I read the word cor I just couldn’t make out the rest as I’m not Ukrainian lol

[drifting forge]

No they're not hidden

Pretty common after the last update

[velvet crypt]

Yh I haven’t seen them I haven’t played since December as I was soft locked playing on a gtx1070 now I got a 3060 and run the game 70fps on epic lol

[serene barn]

went and grabbed an APSB but now idk if i wanna spend the money on upgrading it and then using it lol.

[ornate sable]

They have bases at Yaniv Station and Palace of Culture in Prypiat, but you'll find their patrols anywhere now. Degtyarev (from CoP) is their leader.

[still current]

[obtuse glacier]

It seems like the you not the only one lol

[terse ravine]

love APSB, but the durability is so bad compared to rhino can't really justify using APSB over rhino personally

[serene barn]

i was gonna use it over the UDP i been running for a long time now because that thing is still able to 1-2 shot the current level of enemies i run into regarding people at least.

been using it with a suppressor too for stealth.

[bleak drum]

Hi

Stalkers unite!

[mossy helm]

yo how some people got tester role

[bleak drum]

Secret testing I guess, but I guess its those who went to expo

[charred nova]

It’s a secret

[serene barn]

interesting, you can go to the Duga city early on with no issue

[warped stream]

paying 2 billion usd to mods

[serene barn]

i think imma see if i can get the extended MK1 mag while i am clearing the city from loot

[terse ravine]

how? if i go early i get sniped by IPSF, or monolith after signal

[warped stream]

you can go far far left and take a long way around and into the city

[serene barn]

you gotta enter at like the south road into the city.

it's the area around the Duga radar that you get shot at and the city itself has loot and stashes

well i decided to use a good bit of my coupons on kitting out another Buket but the normal one so i can put a suppressor on it and then stop carrying the UDP

[terse ravine]

UDP really needs a buff, i think its worse than skifs pistol in every way but mag size

[serene barn]

it also sucks that the unique one with a red dot, cannot use a suppressor to push it's range out more.

[weary hedge]

Does buket go in the pistol slot? Or do you then use the rhino?

[serene barn]

it doesn't and yes i am using a Rhino for my pistol slot. before i carried both pistols

taking down 2 of those damn cats with 3 slugs each using my Ram-2 feels so nice.

[serene barn]

i forgot i found out about a side mission in Duga but you cannot get the mission if you wait too long to go to Duga city so this time i am able to do it.

[maiden grotto]

The sound of music... Cool little side mission 😄

[serene barn]

man the Buket is so damn good for being such an early low cost gun.

[maiden grotto]

Although I was disappointed not to be able to mow down some prancing nun, and a annoying bunch of kids that followed her

[serene barn]

sneaking around putting 2 shots into zombie heads

i've not been to the second location for the mission yet because i am hauling loot back to Chemical then getting a taxi to Rostok

[maiden grotto]

You are walking all the way to chemical and back, to do the mission in Duga?

[serene barn]

hmmm, i am starting to notice some of the trees around Duga and the Burned Forest is doing colours

[serene barn]

yeah, i am trying to make coupons.

i only got 60k after kitting out that second Buket.

[maiden grotto]

No, you don't make coupons from Duga... You die of old age before you get any

You got for the USB and unique stuff there

[serene barn]

economy is so bad on Veteran i feel like i need to grab what i can then do return runs lmao.

[maiden grotto]

Only ever played veteran. And Duga is not the place to do it.

[serene barn]

any place with loot is the way i want to do it though

[maiden grotto]

Not Duga, because it's so god damn far from everything... It's only good to get uniques... Then After SIRCAA, and raid on Duga is over... Then you actually get loot worth the haul

[serene barn]

hmm...this feels concerning, there's more and more of the trees turning bright colours when afar

[maiden grotto]

That sucks, you using weird water?

[serene barn]

i am but like this is new

[maiden grotto]

😦

well, I hope your GPU isn't fecked

[serene barn]

yeah..i wouldn't really know what to do if it was

[maiden grotto]

I would shutdown and restart... Also, give your GPU a good clean, make sure dust is off.

Could a sign of over heating...

And if you want to make money, go to the cement factory, then go to the building to the north east, across the bridge and paste the burning house...

Endless spawns of bad guys, and you can sell at Duty's base

[serene barn]

i have no idea how to clean my pc and i am afraid of breaking things if i were to try because i would not know how to replace or anything.

i opened the task manager and looked at the uh, thing or whatever and it said my GPU was at 65 degrees

[floral stag]

well, if you don't do anything it eventually will be damaged.

[serene barn]

😔

[sturdy verge]

I like this colour 😄

[drifting forge]

Yeah the purple is nice

I don't yap enough to get out of it lol. I've had it for ages but definitely haven't even hit level 40 yet

[maiden grotto]

They made a film about the colour purple... and it had nothing to do with Sid's Chic

[drifting forge]

Yeah lol. Another factor is me being locked out of discord for the entirety of last December but still

I need to get used to the layout and start talking more. I got used to not being on here

[serene barn]

i wonder if we will ever find out why Sid turned into such an ass

[silk vapor]

is there a list of the rank/levels somewhere speaking of? i want the bright pink so bad but I feel like that's pretty far 😭

[sturdy verge]

Monolith took all the chicken!

[drifting forge]

Habar is Server Boosters

[silk vapor]

Ohhhh I see 😩

[maiden grotto]

Hate monolith more and more...

One dimensional, brainwashed hillbillies

[maiden grotto]

Monoshite 😄

[sturdy verge]

🪨 😋

[drifting forge]

Level 1 is Rookie, 10 is experienced, 25 is veteran, 50 is master and 80 iirc is legend of the zone

[silk vapor]

noted, thanks!

[vernal lily]

Interesting, looks like I'm still pretty far from master rank.

[drifting forge]

Bit of a long way to go tho. Yeah it's a big server but goddamn it'll take years for rank up . My server is small enough so it's only up to 50

[maiden grotto]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nIwrgAnx6Q8 - They so understand monolith @ 1 min dot

[maiden grotto]

I was born a legend... They put an appendix on the back too 😄

[polar forge]

https://imgur.com/2cJng80
I was just admiring the beautiful view when i saw something...let me know if you see it too! Im going to check it out xD

[sturdy verge]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sHUYEXdoAvU this one always hits hard 😦

[maiden grotto]

It's all a lie... Terminate on sight, it's for the best.

[polar forge]

Ah man can I not cross this border on the southern edge of lesser zone??

I see a giant pillar of light shooting into the sky I wanted to go check it out but I don’t think I can make it there

[maiden grotto]

You can't without mods

[serene barn]

iirc The Fault is there. it's around where you first entered the zone

[serene barn]

the music is actually kinda nice

[maiden grotto]

It's cool little mission

[polar forge]

Yeah that’s what it is I remember now. Sucks I can’t get to that massive beam of light!

Just made a quick little 30k coupons by going back to lesser zone artifact/stash hunting. (I didn’t know how to get artifacts when I first started playing XD)

[serene barn]

hmm, there's a stash i need a key to open a door for but i don't remember where it is. or if it's only available later in the game.

[maiden grotto]

But you do now 😄

[maiden grotto]

Where?

[serene barn]

Duga school, video i found shows the player walking to the school and there being a blue flag marker and the guy marked has the key

[maiden grotto]

After SIRCAA and Duga raid, the key is near the dead soldier on the stairs

[fickle cosmos]

shut it all off and use some form or alcohol preferably ispropyl i think? and then also you could use compressed air

but be very careful.

[serene barn]

i shut the game down then waited a bit before booting it up again and it seemed to help

[serene barn]

figures. hope i will remember it when i get to that point in the story.

[fierce nexus]

[warped stream]

check ur cpu temps too just incase (coretemp is goated), update drivers, etc

dusting out your pc is pretty easy too

just get like a can of air and go crazy

make sure everything is unplugged

[feral horizon]

They should bring back the old x-labs for the dlc and maybe add in some new ones. There's like 9 x-labs that we still haven't seen yet.

[polar forge]

At what point in the game should I start using other ammo types besides regular ? Or is it only needed on veteran difficulty ? (I play on stalker)

[fiery prawn]

Once you find a weapon you want to use and requires different type of ammo

[polar forge]

All my weapons can use different ammo lol I meant as in armor piercing, expansive, flat

[vernal lily]

I personally just switch whenever I start to have more of the other. Looting a lot of dead nps you'll eventually collect a lot of ammo for free. So when I starting having less of regular ammo I just switch to armor piercing, etc. Lol.

If I feel like I need an extra punch I use anything other than regular ammo, but ngl I haven't notice much of a difference other than sometimes enemies dying a few seconds faster.

[polar forge]

I have a lot of ammo in my stash I just use regular on everything so the other types are getting stacked up. But 1-2 headshots kills any enemy I come across so far so idk what the need is for other ammo. Unless late game gets harder

[fiery prawn]

Oki, got you. I use armor piercing every time I find it until I have to switch to regular again. I didn't notice too much difference between enemies, so I use it for everything xD

[vernal lily]

I honestly would just stick with whatever you're using if it's working well, till it isn't and you need something better.

[polar forge]

I just don’t like the idea of my equipment durability draining so fast xD

[fiery prawn]

Ammo affects durability?

[polar forge]

Yes

[fiery prawn]

I mean, using different types reduces durability?

[vernal lily]

damn I am just now realizing this

[polar forge]

AP & expansive say increased maintenance required. Flat says meticulous maintenance required

[vernal lily]

Interesting, I will keep this in mind now

[fiery prawn]

Oki, oki, I didn't know it. Well, I didn't run out of coupons to repair guns either, so I guess my tactic worked most of the time

[polar forge]

I finally got my coupons up to 71k (most I ever had) but I just repair my stuff and back down to 65k (still decent enough)

Also, I have been putting off this story mission for awhile now…can’t decide what to explore next. Iron forest or chemical plant?

Or burnt forest I suppose. Or I could go to swamps for story mission

[fiery prawn]

I was spending most of the coupons every time I visited a camp. I remember in a previous STALKER, I don't know which one exactly, they would rob you in the middle of the game, including money if I remember correctly. So I never got to have much stored in case I lost it xD

[fiery prawn]

Swamps is a terrible place imo. You will love it or will hate it, there is no middle ground

[weary hedge]

ayyy gta enhanced is released just as i wake up from sleepin, lubbbblyyyyyy

aw nevermind steam lied to me and just allowed me to update this time before saying its not released 😂

aw well, its midnight for UK in 10 mins, and everyone was saying it releases at midnight UK time, on the 4th

[polar forge]

Yeah I don’t like the sound of it. And I definitely remember some stalker chatting in game mentioning some crazy mutant beast called ||chimera|| I have an eerie feeling I’ll meet it there in the swamps :/ lol

I think I’m going to try to get to burnt forest and then wrap up to chemical plant

Wait will exploring all these regions early kinda ruin it for the story later?

[maiden grotto]

I hated it, I had mutant spawns every 10 feet...

It's like I had lynx deodorant that attracted every mutant in a 15 mile radius...

[polar forge]

What if I sleep with weird flower in my pouch and then go to swamps

[drifting forge]

First playthrough I went in with a VSS and SVD lmao. Very bad idea

Rapid firing the SVD into a bayun was effective tho

[maiden grotto]

Your ass hole will be 75 inches wide instead of 100 inches