☢┃stalker-general

[wintry pumice]

It doesn't have a great effect

[polar forge]

Okay so if look like the bridge leading to burnt forest is not crossable at least pda map view. Maybe I have to go chemical first then down into forest?

[vernal lily]

My go to artifacts are hypercube and thunderberry. And that one artifact with high radiation protection. Weird water I also use for the most part.

[wintry pumice]

Yup

[drifting forge]

I like compass and then something for stamina

[vernal lily]

thunderberry is good with stamina

[wintry pumice]

[drifting forge]

Makes sunrise suit nice

[drifting forge]

Actually never found it. It's on my list of artefacts I wanna find along with eye and mamas beads

[drifting forge]

Next playthrough I plan to use the OZK Explorers suit for most of it

[maiden grotto]

Prefer the SEVA... 5x artifact slots, and two of the leaded...

Me so horney, me love you long time, kind of good 😄

[polar forge]

I haven’t found any medium radio protection yet so I just have thorn, Mica, spring & weird flower.
I have thunderberry, moonlight & flytrap in my stash

[vernal lily]

Yeah, if you stack two thunderberries it's really good if you want that quick stamina recharge. Mamas beads I never used once I found hypercube, has a much better bleed resistant.

[drifting forge]

SEVA is awesome and keeps the Stalker vibes it's just that it felt wrong not using a sunrise in my first playthrough

[maiden grotto]

Go to the cage and take some psi-piles with you

[polar forge]

Cage?

[maiden grotto]

Never used it once... TBH

[vernal lily]

Oh yeah now I remember the name of that high rad protection artifact, it's called liquid rock

[drifting forge]

Yeah that's why I used it from day 2 of playing - point of no return last playthrough

[maiden grotto]

South of the cement factory... A big massive unfished building...

You need to find the path to the top....

and yes, you can jump off the top 😄

[polar forge]

I still need to find Lantern, Crown, Horn & broken rock artifacts. All for different ppl lol

[drifting forge]

I never found the eye too

[polar forge]

Oh yes I already went there and got the armor

[vernal lily]

I just spawn in the artifacts with UETools for those sidequests lol

[maiden grotto]

Say hello to farmer Giles, he sez there be artifacts in those fields over there...

[maiden grotto]

Never spawned one... got about 80 artifacts in my locker...

[vernal lily]

I can never seem to find those that request a specific one

[maiden grotto]

but the best is given as reward for saving Zalyssia

its also the sexiest looking one

[vernal lily]

But I always have a lot of other artifacts

[maiden grotto]

you can always cancel them and try again later

[vernal lily]

nah I need the money, I am running dry because I refuse to sell anything I collect

[polar forge]

Saving zalyssia?? Is that later on in the game or something

[maiden grotto]

Well, that is... well, your fault

[vernal lily]

[maiden grotto]

Yes

After SIRCAA

have you been to wild island?

[vernal lily]

That saving Zalyssia thing seems to bug out a different way every time I start a new playthrough. First was fine, 2nd all the monoliths got themselves cornered and everyone was shooting through the wall.

[maiden grotto]

I get the bug where you save the defenders, then they all despawn out of the game and thte place is empty 😄

[polar forge]

Yes. I am on the mission where you go to the 4 beacons in swamp to get to clear sky. But I left and have been exploring other zones to try to make coupons

I made about 50k just going back and exploring lesser zone again xD

[vernal lily]

loot goblin noises

[maiden grotto]

There is good monolith suit on Wild island in a cave to the north east, near path heading north from the island

[weary hedge]

I find the swamp worse than the casino dlc from fallout new vegas

[maiden grotto]

But you need a big shiney helmet though 😄

[empty hare]

Lol im at the exact same spot doing the exact same thing

[vernal lily]

oh yeah that suit, I am still wearing and can never switch it out with anything else. Even though I have a better one in my box.

[weary hedge]

all those little bodies of water that its not obvious how to get around or cross, constant enemies, psy dogs, etc etc etc

[vernal lily]

I just like the way it looks

[maiden grotto]

I just hate the swamps.... drives me nuts... the spawn rates are pure BS

[maiden grotto]

It's a great suit pre-SIRCAA

[vernal lily]

I really dig the monolithian drip

[deft kernel]

Are you looking to join Brother?

[vernal lily]

[maiden grotto]

This is where the game goes wrong, if you were suits of certain factions, other facts act accordingly 😄

So yes, the monolith suits are the "best"... but it comes with consequences 😄

[vernal lily]

I'm technically a Freedomer, but I have noontide role

[polar forge]

https://imgur.com/Aavjqrr
I just get to Chemical Plant and find a pond and the rock in middle has this on it

[maiden grotto]

Death to the walking cabbages

[vernal lily]

I wish the npcs would at least comment depending on what suit you're wearing

[maiden grotto]

Yup, just more NPC interactions in general....

[polar forge]

I really need hilka detector back man I never should have sold both of mine

[maiden grotto]

You got a bear?

[polar forge]

Yes but the range kinda sucks

[vernal lily]

hilka 🤝 bear

[maiden grotto]

I got 3 hilka's in storage... shame their is no such thing as co-op

[serene barn]

bear is fine regardless lol, so what if the range is short, just learn what clusters spawn artifacts

[gentle forge]

i just use the echo lol

[vernal lily]

Wish coop existed so I can just be a guide

[sick rain]

Hello everyone i am wondering if anyone has found out why are there two identical keys that are both marked as quest items(cant be sold or stashed) one of the key is on the body of a zombie and the other key is on the table near the pda, both of the keys are for the door of the Lishchyna facility, i know i can just not pickup one of them but i wanna be sure that the other key isnt needed at all https://cdn.steamusercontent.com/ugc/2918651458795121/839CB8395DF07E4D060BBC3385B3CF2F9A6BFFEE/

[maiden grotto]

I would hire you, but you would never guide me a game 😄

[polar forge]

Yeah it is fine but sometimes I wish I could just run around and detect any artifact within 100m instead of like 30 or 40m

[gentle forge]

wish coop existed so i could fight other player stalkers lol

[wintry pumice]

Yeah it's weird they go for pvp but not co op

[wintry pumice]

Pvp is there

[wintry pumice]

Behelith pfp...

[gentle forge]

https://tenor.com/view/stalker-soc-kruglov-ecologist-scientist-gif-24489592

[gentle forge]

yessssir beserk number 1, also mfw chimera

[vernal lily]

In No Man's Sky would give like 99+ stacks of materials that someone needed, I loved doing that randomly if I find out someone was in need of something. Funny to watch their reaction.

I want to do that in S2 but at last, no co-op will ever exist

[gentle forge]

So what you're saying is, if there's ever coop for HoC, then I give people 99 PM pistols

[wintry pumice]

Guessing pvp will be an arena type thing

[weary hedge]

It'll probably be a separate PVP mode I'd imagine, rather than players running around in your campaign - I believe that was the reason the devs said no co-op as it would throw off the game balance, from memory

[vernal lily]

well for S2 it would be different, because I think the max stack for NMS was 99 till you had to start a new stack

[wintry pumice]

I guess they didn't want more bugs to fix

[gentle forge]

900 PM pistols then 😄

[maiden grotto]

It's going to be garbage, full of haccks and cheats... And worst of all boring...

The problem is, I would play CS2 or something... 1.6... It failed before and it will fail again.

[gentle forge]

would be interesting to see faction based open world pvp though

[weary hedge]

every game with multiplayer is full of hacks and cheats - not really any reason to argue against multiplayer tho imo

[maiden grotto]

Nope... It would be annoying

[gentle forge]

twenty monolith trolls running you and your guys screaming would be incredibly funny

[vernal lily]

me when

[wintry pumice]

Definitely won't be an open world type thing. Too much ground to cover

[ornate sable]

Could do it region by region.

[gentle forge]

https://tenor.com/view/cheekibreeki-cheeki-breeki-intensifies-stalker-bandit-radio-stalker-clear-sky-gif-24295015

[wintry pumice]

Zaton

[vernal lily]

swamps

[gentle forge]

[polar forge]

I just found another artifact..Urchin
First find in Chemical zone xD

[maiden grotto]

Nope... As I wouldn't be interested...

I would rather they spend the millions it would cost do on making the zone bigger and feel more alive, with dynamic economies and NPC interactions, play poker in bars, deadly mutant hunts... More dynamics missions, and types, like escort, assassinate, where you have to follow clues to your targets where abouts...

[wintry pumice]

It's already a pain in small areas like you see in Dark souls . It will be much more annoying in an open world setting

[frigid hill]

rainthunderspark has been warned

Reason: Bad word usage

[gentle forge]

that would be cool, and in my opinion an army of monolith players screaming obscenities whilst they raid my base would be hilarious

[serene barn]

dude sometimes the game spawns bandits in the worst places. while i am in the middle of the chemical plant chemical anomaly cluster

[errant moth]

which one is better : squad or Arma reforger

[polar forge]

Bro this is so stupid. I have ward badge but these turds at chemical plant won’t let me in -____-

[gentle forge]

but in all honesty they need to fix the memory leak, flesh out the world more etc

[polar forge]

Bro whaaaaat I just watched a stalker walking by throw a bolt like he was checking for anomaly!

[maiden grotto]

Each to their own... But the novelty will soon die off....

And people just wouldn't bother... There is no point in having an open world stalker MMO, type thing... It will just be killing each other, no artifact hunting or mutant hunting...

just kill, hacks, cheats...

In which case you make PvP arena type thing... that will be full of hacks and cheats...

And no one will play.

PvP is possible the worst thing they can do to this game... It will be a money sink of BS... A colossal waste of time, money, and resources.

[wintry pumice]

Until after a certain event in Sircaa, you won't be able to access it

[maiden grotto]

Never been able to access it all.... 😄

Due to a kill ward on sight policy 😄

[weary hedge]

cs is full of hacks and is still one of the most played games on steam like 10 years running

PUBG, Rust, GTA, rainbow six siege and COD all round out top 10 most played, all full of hackers

[maiden grotto]

So if I want to team death match etc... I would do that where it's established...

I play stalker, because I like exploring and the zone... I have zero interesting in the zone becoming a PvP stink hole.

[weary hedge]

where its established? i dont know what you mean by that

anyway as i said above, the devs have already said pvp won't be apart of the campaign open world, so it'd be a separate thing you'd have to choose to play

another side point about counter strike - most played game on steam, has one of the most notorious anti-cheats in regards to not catching cheaters

[maiden grotto]

And PUBG, Rust, GTA, COD is full of mindless idiots...

Suffering from a severe case of brain rot.

I don't care if it is a separate thing to play... It is taking money, time, and resources away from enhancing the zone...

[weary hedge]

come to think about it - kinda unusual a company like valve has such a trash anticheat system

[maiden grotto]

Which is why I don't play it anymore.

It's nowhere near as good as 1.6... It's just a horrible toxic shyte bowl.

[maiden grotto]

Because it makes them money...

[weary hedge]

I can agree with your last point - but eh, iunno how long they would keep that up, we know how most companies are with free updates, depending on how much their shareholders are chasing money

they eventually stop, because free updates doesnt earn them much cash if anything - as youre relying on new people buying

so we will probably see a few big updates as we have already, and then a pivot to selling the DLC

I don't think the world, ingame as it is, will change much going forward outside of DLC

[sturdy verge]

I miss dod deathmatch 😄 capture the flag and all too

[maiden grotto]

But people are fine with DLC... I don;t mind paying for DLC, if it made the game bigger and the zone more dynamic

[weary hedge]

I wouldn't mind it either

[maiden grotto]

As long as they kept things within the lore and sensible, and don;t start adding stupid silly stuff

[sturdy verge]

Yeah I don't mind either, might as well probably will be cheaper than takeaway 😂

[weary hedge]

realistically, and this is just theoretical, but a pvp mode could allow them to start with selling things like skins or microtransactions for multiplayer

which in turn would give them more cash to invest in what youre talking about, if they were so inclined

[maiden grotto]

This is exactly the problem... Jsut fleece us... f*ck microtransactions and all the BS that comes with it.

Yes, lets have the same cancer that is ruining the gaming industry, ruin this game too... Fecking season passes....

No fecking way... sick of that cancer being in everything.

Good old, high quality DLC, wher you get your moneys worth

[polar forge]

I am getting so frustrated. I have to get an artifact for ward guy at the place right by Chem plant. I can not figure out how to get up to it

I have ran around for 15 minutes I can get to every other spot in the area except that spot 🤣

[maiden grotto]

Or down...? There is hole in the ground you have to drop down

[polar forge]

It is floating up on the catwalk above the hole I can see it. Just can’t get to it

[maiden grotto]

screen shot it

[polar forge]

https://imgur.com/aL7oMWA
look you can see it to the left of my center dot

[maiden grotto]

yeah, you need to drop down the hole, work your way around and back up, so you can climb on to concrete thing to get to it

[polar forge]

This game does stuff ass backwards I swear 🤣 or maybe I just don’t think outside the box enough. Thanks anyway

[maiden grotto]

I have been playing computer games for 46 years... things these days are not hard for me to work out...

But the stuff in S2 is a billion times more complex than the stupid match the pillars BS in Skyrim... Yeah, lets treat games like idiots who can barely use a spoon

[polar forge]

It’s funny because I never really had issues with solving puzzles and stuff in games like tomb raider, Indiana jones, resident evil, etc. or exploring open world games to find stuff. it’s just the way this game looks idk I always miss stuff xD I’m getting better at it as I play more though

[weary hedge]

the issue is a lot of companies dont think a ton of DLC is worth a lot of investment, they'll do two or three with the exact same goal of fleecing the market for cash and then move on to something else as its ALL money motivated

[polar forge]

Stuff is so small and inconspicuous a lot In this game or it blends in so well with everything else. It’s easy to miss stuff sometimes

[maiden grotto]

I miss stuff all the time... But I am being sloppy in 2nd play through, becaue I did all the exploring in my first, and that got borked...

[weary hedge]

companies are beholden to what shareholders want, and shareholders want more income

[maiden grotto]

It's usually pushed by investors who want to line their pockets, and have been brainwashing kids since horse armour, to think that this is the norm and okay...

It's amazing how Cyberpunk 2077, Witcher, Baldur's Gate 3, didn't.

It's pure greed.

[maiden grotto]

Yup, and I say they can go do one...

[weary hedge]

Cyberpunk I think we benefited from their release and the bad PR they got - too socially conscious to then milk players for money after trying to repair their image so much afterwards

So disappointing Mass Effect died with Andromeda - I really liked Andromeda too (and no I'm not named after it, named after the galaxy lol)

[maiden grotto]

No, they did it for all their games...

Probably not anymore more, because most of great staff have left and are now pandering to DEI and ESG scores.

Lot's of indi games don't do it...

If you want to make money, then make a good game and stop listening to the d*ckheads who only want to make money at any cost.

[weary hedge]

Which I guess andromeda is named after 🤔

[weary hedge]

lots of cd project reds staff left? i dont really keep up with gaming news

[maiden grotto]

Mass Effect was okay in the first game, the rest, not for me.

[maiden grotto]

Yeah, the they started a new studio and making a new game...

And it looks amazing...

I will find it for you

[fickle mesa]

mass effect trilogy is goated

[maiden grotto]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DauErLT3OH0 @weary hedge

[serene barn]

made a small artifact run from Rostok over to Cement Factory and into Cooling Towers for 1 as well. should have a little more spending money if i need it. should prolly do the story next time.

[weary hedge]

that reminds me of the uh, god what was the movie called, with the werewolves sieging the vampire city as they run out of the forests

[vernal lily]

they took away Thane's 2nd eyelids in LE

[weary hedge]

Underworld

[maiden grotto]

Yeah, but you can see the influence of the Dev's from the Witcher series though.

It just oozes promise.

[weary hedge]

I liked the colonisation dynamics, setting up outposts and choosing their purpose, and then having it grow over the length of the game

They really didn't make the most of that and its depressing lol

[maiden grotto]

Some one on this discored mentioned a version of the Witcher 3, where the weapons are not levelled...

[weary hedge]

level scaling sucks - kinda related to what you said i guess lol

I'd prefer it being more commonplace to just give the user an option to enable or disable it

[maiden grotto]

Is this a mod?

[maiden grotto]

It should be made illegal in every country... Except Russia, becaue they deserve it.

[lunar verge]

yes W3EE redux and i highly highly recommend it

[maiden grotto]

Thanking you, I will try it out me thinks, been meaning play the game again...

[fickle mesa]

I got my loadout finished in stalker 2 but now I’m constantly almost overweight lol, guess I should be hunting for more artifacts

[lunar verge]

starting out is extremely tough so be patient until you have a handle on the mechanics. spend a good while training with vesimir in the tutorial

[maiden grotto]

They changed the combat mechanics too?

[lunar verge]

yes complete overhaul

[polar forge]

Hmm idk if I should give this soul artifact to Mateus or this professor. My gut is telling me Mateus since he offered me the job first but..idk

[weary hedge]

if its the thing im thinking of, from memory one of them pays you more

then you could shoot them and loot the artifact after without consequence

[maiden grotto]

Thanks... I will check that out.

[polar forge]

Well the professor guy that showed up by Chem tanks has 4 wardens with him. And the other guy is a warden too. Idk if I want to shoot them lol

[maiden grotto]

This is what I am rocking #📸┃screens_and_videos message

What are you using?

[weary hedge]

ah its not the one im thinking of then, i think one of those dudes was just a random stalker, cannot remember their names though

[polar forge]

The professor asked me to throw the dead warden In the anomaly but it didn’t mark it. I have no clue which he is talking about. There is multiple dead wardens

[fickle mesa]

m107 with the underbarrel shotgun and a custom rifle I found called the sofmod with an underbarrel grenade launcher + rhino revolver, my armor is still eh, no clue what I’m doing but cool guns

[weary hedge]

ah sofmod, unique AR416

[fickle mesa]

yeah it’s a bit weak but the style points are there

[polar forge]

https://imgur.com/LiZuhZ3
not sure if you guys can tell from pic but on the horizon where the ground and buildings look lit up..the lights are moving and flashing. Idk if it is buggeddd or what. But it looks kinda like headlights or an army of ppl with flashlights waving them around lol

You can see the trees on the right side of the pic all lit up. Those are flashing and moving around

[maiden grotto]

My setup?

[polar forge]

Oh yeah it must have been a bug bc it isn’t doing it anymore

[fickle mesa]

nah the rifle I’m using lol

[maiden grotto]

I also use a balastics mod, so the guns make more sense 😄

[weary hedge]

the sofmod actually has basically the exact same stats as the base AR416, just with slightly lower recoil and an extra 6m on range before your bullet drops to 0 (AR416 has a 30m range, SOFMOD has 36m)

[polar forge]

I threw warden body in a tornado anomaly thing and got an achievement for it and completed the objective xD

[maiden grotto]

What one are you using?

[empty hare]

30m range on AR416

[weary hedge]

on the flipside the sofmod costs more to repair over an ar416 (140 vs 379 per 1%)

[fickle mesa]

sofmod, custom ar416 like andromeda said, doesn’t feel great for armored targets but it looks cool

[weary hedge]

god my typing is TERRIBLE today

[empty hare]

Where are my 600m engagements in the zone? The AK-74 is effective out to 400m easily

[fickle mesa]

3-4 headshots with the sofmod to take out a guy wearing no helmet lol

[maiden grotto]

I use SOFMOD sometimes, got the extended mag, AP bullets, and you can melt Bloodsuckers

[weary hedge]

alife only works out to like 100m, no point having ranges extend over 100m

[maiden grotto]

That is why I use a ballistics mod

[weary hedge]

plus none of the games sight lines are really set up for anything long range - so just a game design choice i'd say

[empty hare]

They should've delayed S2 another 10 years to build it on Enfusion tbh

A-Life but 1500m range around each player

[fickle mesa]

so far I’m only using the mod that makes enemies less accurate at range, not fun getting sniped through cover 200m away

much less when they do it with buckshot somehow

[weary hedge]

exactly the same as an AR416, both kill every enemy in the same number of shots with both fully modded, really no point to run the sofmod outside of just 'looks' as it will cost you, at 1% durability nearly 3k more to repair it than an AR416 ( 1400 to fully repair an AR416 vs 3790 for sofmod)

[polar forge]

Holy crap I just finessed the professor and the warden both. They paid me (only 3400) but I got to keep the artifact xD

[weary hedge]

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1L6jBHJtw8AZrJZmOiFekiS2YVudHS3rQVGQN-oOaNMk/edit?gid=2000689774#gid=2000689774

all my weapon stats come from here - if you want to use it too

[fickle mesa]

yeah the main reason I’m using it is it came preloaded with the sight and suppressor, I have no clue how/where to get rifle suppressors yet

I think I’m nearing the end of the main storyline aswell, haven’t been north yet though that damn bridge

[polar forge]

I found one I think in ||cement factory|| somewhere. Either there or ||zaton||

[fickle mesa]

yeah guess I didn’t explore well enough

[polar forge]

But it doesn’t work with ar416 I don’t think

[maiden grotto]

I hate that too... It's an utter joke

[polar forge]

Dude I swear the enemy AI is insane. They never miss. If you don’t have cover you’re screwed

[maiden grotto]

You can silencers from Yaniv Station

[fickle mesa]

grenade out! grenade out! grenade out!

[polar forge]

I just found 100% durability udp, tactical pistol suppressor and extended mag for udp all in one stash

[weary hedge]

where are you up to?

[fickle mesa]

I’m amazed there’s no grenade shortage in the zone, Infact there’s way too many still lol

[weary hedge]

I think there are three missions left after you get to Pripyat

[maiden grotto]

night all, I am off...

If you are not Duty, you can all have a very bad time and I will love it 😄

[weary hedge]

Ward says bite me

gn lol

[fickle mesa]

current quest is called happiness for everyone, just went into Duga, think I’m a few away from Pripyat, looked up all the quests a couple days ago to make sure I wasn’t nearing the end already lol

[weary hedge]

ah, so you're 3/4th of the way through

[fickle mesa]

game is amazing don’t wanna finish it yet 😔

[polar forge]

You guys think Clusterfuck or VS Vintar is better?

[weary hedge]

Game has 44 missions I think, happiness for everyone is like mission 30ish

[sudden crown]

They should have sent Johnny Five to the zone.

[weary hedge]

both guns are pretty similar tbh

[polar forge]

I love cluster bc I have the drum mag for ar416 that can fit on it. But the durability drops so fast I hate to use it lol think I am leaning towards VS. only thing that sucks is it uses same ammo as my grom s-14

[weary hedge]

vintar has 35 damage vs clusters 34
cluster has 425 dps vs vintars 389
both have same pen values
vintar has a lower range (22m to 0, 15m damage dropoff vs clusters 30m/25m)
Vintar is more accurate, has more recoil, its shots have less dispersion too

[polar forge]

Idk if it would be cheaper to buy a Vintar for 21k coupons or repair the one I have that is 40% durability

[weary hedge]

repairing

[polar forge]

The dmg drops off to 0 at 22m?!?

No way that can’t be right I have sniped with it before xD I must be misunderstanding

[weary hedge]

the distance in weapon files doesnt really relate to the distance you think youre shooting ingame

its 'different'

i say the distance scaling is wack but thats confused others before, so maybe better way to describe it

A-Life will only spawn enemies out to a radius of '100m' or whatever it is, i cant remember

think back to how far youve seen ai ingame

not realistically that far - but if youve hit them with a weapon you can check it with that spreadsheet as its all scraped from the game files directly and then tested

[sudden crown]

You carry 2 SVDs and a .45.

The vintar is nice but it wont one cap the big helmet boys.

Put the SVD in their face at 10 meters? no face.

[glad fractal]

Vintar is unfortunately abit underwhelming in s2 =/

[fickle mesa]

I was thinking about replacing my sofmod with the lynx for that reason lol, just wanna one tap everything

[polar forge]

I have lynx and m701. I just like the suppressed barrel on Vintar and clusterfuk

[weary hedge]

On Veteran, with upgraded weapons and headshots on regular monolith exoskeletons (there is a regular and a heavy version)

Only one pistol headshots with 1 round, the rhino
SMGs - Buket, Spitter
Rifles - Dnipro with 7.62 conversion, Sotnyk
LMGS only do it in two shots on veteran
nearly all shotguns except for the toz and boomstick when fully upgraded will take 1 shot

[polar forge]

Buket one shot them? I’ve had my Buket in stash for so long now

[weary hedge]

All the DMRs too, except the Partner, Mark 1 and SVDM2

[fickle mesa]

I can’t put an underbarrel grenade launcher on the lynx though

not that I ever use it but like it looks cool

[polar forge]

M701 is best one tapper XD

But I only play on stalker difficulty

[weary hedge]

with AP rounds and fully upgraded - but it gets confusing if you dont know there are two tiers of exoskeleton enemies

[polar forge]

Is skif pistol better than UDP?

[fickle mesa]

I ran udp just because I hate the way the 9mm looks

[weary hedge]

skifs pistol never has to be repaired and cant be disarmed by a burer, it has higher damage

udp is more accurate with a higher range, also less recoil

[fickle mesa]

true never thought about the disarming part,

[polar forge]

It costs me to repair skif pistol what the heck

[serene barn]

What do you mean. The only 9mm pistol in the game is a “unique” UDP

[weary hedge]

you shouldnt have to repair it - if youre using a gun mod, possibly changes it

[fickle mesa]

ah forgive me I just meant the PTM, my ballistics knowledge isn’t great apparently

[polar forge]

I don’t use any mods

[weary hedge]

tbf i never use skifs pistol, it just says in the spreadsheet it has infinite durability and is free to repair lol

I use the rhino because its dope

[fickle mesa]

yeah I went from deadeye to rhino

[serene barn]

It’s wrong that it’s free to repair. It’s just such a value less gun that it barely costs anything to repair IIRC

[polar forge]

I have never really looked at durability % but it costs me 2-15 coupons to repair each time I go to technician lol idk if I’m getting ripped off or what

I’m surprised Burer can’t throw grenades back at skif honestly

[serene barn]

Upgrading guns and armor raises the value which for some reason affects repair cosy.

[polar forge]

Armor is ridiculous when it comes to repair costs. Any half decent upgrades armor costs at least a few thousands just to get it from 75% or so to 100%

[weary hedge]

the Rhino reminds me of half life, just with the crumbling animation the ai does when you shoot them lol

[polar forge]

I should have purchased rhino yesterday. I saw a vendor have it for the first time ever I think cement factory

I really like the Integral-A. I put it in burst mode and peel faces off with it lol it’s great

Wish there was more weapon variety when it comes to dealing with mutants. If you don’t have a shotgun you’re in for a somewhat long fight

Guess I have never tried to snipe mutants though. Not sure how that would work out

[serene barn]

It kinda works but shotguns are better

[sudden crown]

You know what bothered me the most about this game? there is no wisened grandmother.

[polar forge]

Wish we could find parts to craft our own weapons

[vernal lily]

I never really tried to snipe mutants unless if it's those dogs or the larger rat from a distance. Because I hate dealing with them up close.

[polar forge]

Mix and match rpk parts with ak parts or something

[sudden crown]

All you need is a .45 for everything. .45 Compact.

[serene barn]

Like the SVU, one of the better snipers only does 80 damage compared to shotguns doing like 140

[polar forge]

How much does m701 do

Bet it will bust a mutants chops up

[sudden crown]

The shotgun has enough power to drop a bloodsucker even if you're bad.

[serene barn]

Think the 701 does 160

[polar forge]

I love m701! Just very expensive to shoot for me rn lol

[serene barn]

However for some mutants you’re better off with slugs because when buckshot doesn’t land together on things like retreating bloodsuckers, you lose a lot of damage

[polar forge]

Usually just stick with lynx. Today I been running around using Fora 221 with acog scope and extended mag, saiga & udp

[sudden crown]

Do not upgrade your shotgun for slugs or you will be angry.

Basically you do the same damage but the merchants sell you expensive slugs.

[polar forge]

I go with the other upgrade path on all mine xD

Still haven’t found a technician that can upgrade my saiga or grom -_-

[serene barn]

While slugs do lower damage than buckshot it also regains some from increased penetration iirc and being a single projectile too for big headshot damage.

[fickle mesa]

I upgraded a magazine fed shotgun to slug only early on and sold it to buy a different one without realized the magazine was a special attachment

[polar forge]

Was it the cracker with upgrades and magazine you find in garbage I think kinda near slag heap?

[sudden crown]

The zone is amazing because even if you drink vodka all day and kill people.. it's still waiting for you to choose.

Will you be man or will you die like dog

[fickle mesa]

it was a cracker yeah and most likely that one I got it pretty early on, thought they were all like that then ended up having to feed each shell like a dummy

now I’m cool and just use the underbarrel shotty

[polar forge]

Yeah bro I had same exact one. On a mission I encountered burer for very first time didn’t know they could take your gun away. I guess it bugged out and my cracked with magazine vanished in thin air ):

[sudden crown]

This game was so buggy on release that I had bandit armor that looked like a can of food.

[polar forge]

I picked it up a few times but the final time some mutants attacked burer while it had my cracker in the air and it just vanished

[sudden crown]

It's picture in my inventory looked like a can of food.

[polar forge]

lol yeah I had to quit playing for almost a month shortly after this game released. I’m having so much fun now though

[kindred turtle]

Hi! Does helmet provide stats on top of armor stats? So helmet + armor is better than built in helmet+armor combo?

[polar forge]

Honestly I have no idea. I would imagine it mostly depends on what helmet you have compared to what helmet + armor combo you have

[sudden crown]

The game is still waiting for me to finish it but it's given me too much hopelessness. I cant get myself to finish it.

[polar forge]

Why not?

[sudden crown]

Because my character will never get what he wants. He doesn't even know what he wants.

[kindred turtle]

I was wondering if the bigger stat would override or is it additive, i am currently wearing the seva suit, costs a ton to upgrade im poor now :/

[sudden crown]

All around him are old men with older problems.'

They take advantage of my characters ability to defend himself. And they put him in Killzones.

[weary hedge]

yes

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1L6jBHJtw8AZrJZmOiFekiS2YVudHS3rQVGQN-oOaNMk/edit?gid=1662035416#gid=1662035416

you can see armor / helm stats here

they stack on top of each other / they dont override

[kindred turtle]

Thanks, problem with non suit armor is they usually dont provide psi protection

[polar forge]

Yeah I don’t think I have found any that do and allow helmet too

[sudden crown]

Psi protection is useless. leaves you vulnerable to attacks from other foes and that is exactly what they want.

[weary hedge]

the psi protection for those armors usually comes from the helmet if you check the sheet

[sudden crown]

Best protection from Psi is to be crazier than any thing on the map.\

[weary hedge]

you either have the full suits with armor included that have psi protection as a base
or like the medium armors, marauder suit or psz 5, no base psi resistance or helmet, but if you had the medium tier ballistic helmet you get 15% psi resistance

[polar forge]

What does psi protection even do? I still get the same bs visual effects and health drain

[sudden crown]

Nothing, it's a trick.

[fickle cosmos]

mental sanity

:3

[sudden crown]

It's the equivalent of putting tinfoil on your head in the zone and throwing your combat helmt away.

[polar forge]

Skif is far past mental sanity xD

[fickle cosmos]

yes

[sudden crown]

Skif is the most sane person there. Except he does not relax, ever truly. Because the zone is an obstacle.

It's the same desperation and hopelessness that we all seek to over-come except this time it's tangible and when you attack it you're just.. adding to it.

[polar forge]

Is burnt forest good zone to get artifacts?

[kindred turtle]

@weary hedge thanks

[serene barn]

It affects how fast you start seeing people who isn’t there and phantoms.

[feral horizon]

Skif should just live in rostok since its probably the funnest place in the zone.

[sudden crown]

Thank you Rain. Psi attacks on a sane person can undo them but Psi attacks on a murderous foe can just add to their fun.

[serene barn]

Anyway I better go sleep

[sudden crown]

Good night Rain!

I think I'll reload and join in on the fun. Last I left the game I had killed two entire buildings of monolithians and then executed two of their platoons.

[fickle mesa]

I’m getting messed up by ||Faust|| rn

[vernal lily]

[fickle mesa]

every 3 seconds there’s a nade and I gotta run out infront of 6 guys with shotty’s

[vernal lily]

shoot at his balls really. First the lamps around you, and for the final one the tiny lamp on his hip

[fickle mesa]

just let me destroy your little gadgets man, yeah I’m stuck on trying to hit his hip, 4th attempt now

[vernal lily]

Faust should be cooking dinner at my house, not shooting at me

[sudden crown]

It's a test, you just destroy the lamps and get ready because you're going to be bandaging every 3 seconds.

By the time Skif beats Faust he looks like the mummy from the movie with Brendon Frasier.

[sudden crown]

Hey just wanted to say thanks to the admins and this game for letting us come here and enjoy one another's company in breif intervals.

[mossy helm]

just got free nitro for a week just by updating the discord app, app itself gave it to me. went to check to boost the server but that option is totally locked out and unavailable, and same situation with all servers that im in. wtf

[weary hedge]

the free ones generally dont give boosts i think, i remember same situation before with a trial i got for free

gamepass this month gave me a 3 month nitro sub tho and i got two boosts with it

from the xbox apps rewards page or whatever it was

[fickle mesa]

I really need to find myself a good carry weight artifact or something, I do not feel comfortable unless I have 30 medkits bandages and thousands of ammo

[vernal lily]

The one week free trials don't have boosts I believe

[fickle mesa]

got a flytrap but it only gives +6, heard you can get to like +60

I think a lot of that is gonna be better armor though right

[weary hedge]

is there a dlc coming or can we go into the CNPP now? Its visible on the PDA now, along with the Iron forest.

there are DLC coming, which is theorised to include those regions, whether it will be in one DLC or spread out, who knows

[river chasm]

There's a lot of places that are theorized to be DLC though, so I wouldn't get your hopes up without an announcement

[weary hedge]

Like three, power plant, iron forest and maybe limansk

and they said multiple dlc, so at least 2 dlc packs

[river chasm]

cold island is another one, in the cooling pond

[weary hedge]

im just speculating, only just because the cnpp and iron forest are visible on pda

iron forest and power plant are already modelled somewhat, which is why they are theorised so much

[polar forge]

Where is rostok? I thought it was above iron forest? Is the section of white buildings richter shows you atop slag heap CNPP?

[river chasm]

No it's a bit to the west of garbage

Pretty much directly west of slag heap

[polar forge]

Oh that’s easy to get to. Someone in here told me it was above iron forest the other day -_-

[river chasm]

Not a whole lot to do there besides the arena, but the technician is useful

[fickle mesa]

just found an exosuit at rostok, it says it gives me +12 carry weight but it also weighs 12kg more than my other armor, so the same lol?

[weary hedge]

CNPP is above iron forest

[weary hedge]

and yes richter is pointing at cnpp

[river chasm]

Yeah. Iron Forest is the large substation adjacent to the power plant. It had some cool concept art in the art book.

[polar forge]

Alright that makes sense. I’m exploring burnt forest and I am very disappointed with the eastern section. Not a single artifact found yet

https://imgur.com/ZwVm7fN
Dark souls reference?? xD

[river chasm]

Yeah, just a little nod

[polar forge]

Thats so cool

[polar forge]

Is burnt forest really this bad for loot or am I not looking hard enough? The entire eastern half I’ve ran thru and hardly found anything other than couple decent guns

[river chasm]

There's a few places I found some decent loot, but it's a fairly sparse and out of the way area

[polar forge]

Is there any settlement here with bed & stash and stuff?

Also, do you think I should go back up and finish exploring chemical or head to the zone to the west of burnt forest? I’m trying to hunt artifacts mainly. I have only found one legendary. Sorry for so many questions

[fickle mesa]

man I’m nearly done with the game and haven’t found any legendaries, my artifact game is weak

[vernal lily]

no artifact rizz

[polar forge]

Finally found an artifact here! (It is a Flaw which I already found 3 of!!)

[fickle mesa]

dang I suck, bought an exosuit but it doesn’t have the sprint upgrade, figured they all would, rip 60k coupons

[polar forge]

Will emissions kill mutants too?

They do not lol

[polar forge]

Well, I found 2 flaws & a magma so far in burnt forest

[pallid thorn]

yo guys

i think i found feature no one has found out about because i havent heard about it
below your compass is a blue bar, and it measures the sound you make! it gets bigger the more sound you make.

[polar forge]

https://imgur.com/iH4sygG
WTF is this?!

[pallid thorn]

average middle eastern behavior joke

[polar forge]

Hmm I’ll test it and see. It makes sense. I am curious now

[polar forge]

Did you see the image? I have never seen anything like this so far

[pallid thorn]

no, but a favorite insult you could use in insurgency sandstorm, a simcade of the iraq war is "go F*** a donkey!"

[polar forge]

My game bugged out or something. I just had to save and quit

I’ve been playing nearly 12 hours straight again

[pallid thorn]

oh damn, and if im right, i want total credit for it lol

[polar forge]

I haven’t loaded back in yet to see. Gotta take my dog out. But at first it looked like a massive cloud of the thickest fog I’ve ever seen. When I walked near it my audio got all crackly and my frame Rate plummeted. Then I couldn’t open equipment wheel and I try to open inventory and my hud UI vanished no inventory popped up either

The place showed a building on the map I had pinged and that’s what I find when I get there lol

[fickle mesa]

game is addicting lol, I haven’t touched anything else since starting this, love me a good survival game

[pallid thorn]

whats interesting is i found a hypercube in a gravitational anomaly

[polar forge]

Crazy thing is I don’t even like survival games..nor horror games! But this one is badass!!

I guess I do like the forest and Sons of the Forest as well

[fickle cosmos]

i hate survival

[vernal lily]

I love survival games

Ark Survival I had fun playing, realistic down to picking up your own shit to use as fertilizer.

[polar forge]

I like them when they are done right (to my taste lol). Not too heavy on survival aspects but just enough to keep me on my toes

[polar forge]

I used to play ark with my younger brother a long time ago

[fickle mesa]

to me this is like fallout 4 if it did multiple drugs, and I love it

[vernal lily]

Apparently you can make a toilet in Ark, but never got a chance to build it. Spent most of my time just shtting everywhere on the beach.

[fickle mesa]

yeah my entire playtime on ark was about 5 minutes of shitting on the beach and then uninstalling sadly

[wheat minnow]

Good morning!!

[vernal lily]

I really miss my dodo bird army

[polar forge]

Good night🤣

It is 1am for me

[wheat minnow]

Hello All Members of this Server!!

[vernal lily]

hi

[polar forge]

‘Ello

[vernal lily]

[vapid galleon]

[fickle mesa]

is there really no way across the river in the burnt forest on the east side

figured I’d check the region out on my way to the lesser zone and now I gotta go all the way back north, dumb fake bridge

[jagged zinc]

You get access later in the game

[mighty pike]

Trying to get the game to run in dlss 4 override. Options greyed out in nvidia app. I'm on 3080ti. 3080ti is not supported for dlss4 or what's the issue?

[vapid galleon]

3080ti is not supported for dlss4

[polar forge]

Pretty sure only 40 & 50 series. But stalker 2 doesn’t need override anyway. It is one of the natively supported dlss 4 titles

[mighty pike]

hmm weird, I read that 30 series will have dlss 4 support

[polar forge]

Guys I am at Krugg antenna complex in Burnt forest and I was about to grab an artifact and electric ball anomaly snatched it and flew away! Am I able to get it back??

[polar forge]

Idk for sure maybe it is only frame Gen I’m thinking of. But stalker should automatically have dlss 4 enabled. It wasn’t working for awhile I don’t think. But it seems to be working now for me without having to mess with nvidia app at all. I have 4060

[vernal lily]

Wait, that anomaly snatched it lmao. Artifacts are a bit jumpy after the recent patch, but that's new.

Does it still show up on your detector

[polar forge]

I swear it did! I even reloaded quick save, I equipped all my artifacts and snuck up on it. Soon as I got on the roof it sucked the artifact into it and fly away

It showed on detector and then detector went cold after I saw it steal the artifact

[vernal lily]

"nope that's mine now"

[polar forge]

I chased it around and even when I got close it didn’t show on detector so idk what happened

I did just find my second legendary artifact though! Hexacube I think it is called

Oh wait it is Hypercube

[deep pine]

Anyone know how to skip the Soft-lock when in Dead Valley with Richter being Jesus on water?

[polar forge]

Is there any settlement/trader in burnt forest or around this zone? My gear is nearly trashed and I been up for going on 4 days straight here exploring

[deep pine]

Malachite and Chemical Plant is the closest.

[polar forge]

Is malachite to the west of burnt forest?

[deep pine]

North West most point. Above the Duga.

But yeah, everything is far away and no settlement or trader near that area.

[polar forge]

Okay I’m not sure where any of that is I haven’t made it further than eastern half of chemical plant but I will find it! Thanks

[deep pine]

Chem Plant is the closest

[polar forge]

I will survive until then. I at least got a pack full of loot worth tens of thousands

Yeah only thing is I am not allowed access to Chem plant for some reason

Exploring has been a lot better the last week or so compared to when I played at launch. There is actually mutants and npcs running around doing random stuff that you can join in on usually

Small things but still better than empty lifelessness xD

First time I ever seen 2 bloodsuckers slaughter a group of npcs then literally saunter away like they were strolling through the park lol any other time I see them they are sprinting full speed cloaked. I watched them through sniper scope this time

[topaz lintel]

yes it does, dlss 4 works with all rtx cards tts only framegen that is limited to 40/50 cards @mighty pike

you can use dlss swapper to use dlss4 i got good results although they are not officially supported

[mighty pike]

thank you for clarifying. Yea swapper is one option, sure. But why doesn't the nvidia app option work, just curious.

[topaz lintel]

no idea, perhaps nvidia wants the green light from game devs? there is a way to enable those options by modifying nvidia app's config file

[mighty pike]

gotcha, thanks

[river moth]

What

So anyways, uhhhhhh

[wintry pumice]

https://tenor.com/view/spider-man-jumping-jump-leap-leaping-gif-19894697

[deep pine]

You can only access Chem Plant if you have Ward Badge.

[ornate sable]

Only after a certain point in the story, where you're directed there for a main quest. From then on it's open. Until then, even with the badge, it's closed.

[weary hedge]

finally fookin homeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee, work can suck on my nutsack moreso than Dalin

and i cannot staaaaaaaaaaand Dalin

[limpid cloak]

I don't have the game installed rn so I don't know if this has changed, but last I tried Stalker 2 supports DLSS 4 for frame gen only if you're doing it in the Nvidia app. You can still do the usual manual DLL swap stuff to use DLSS 4 for super resolution and get way better image quality with any card from the 20 series onward

[wintry pumice]

What? It should be open if you have the badge, just gotta show it to the guys at the pontoon bridge

Even if you didn't side with ward

[vapid galleon]

[vernal lily]

They tried to shoot me to death when I tried going over there

[ebon blade]

My PDA Map says there's a pontoon bridge, but it has yet to actually appear.

[polar forge]

They won’t let me in even with badge I already tried

[polar forge]

They won’t let me in even with the badge

[maiden grotto]

After SIRCAA or bugged...

Either way it's a joke.

[maiden grotto]

How do you get the badge?

I have never got it

[vernal lily]

Do you get the badge when you show that egg head the PDA?

[wintry pumice]

You mean inside chemical factory?

[wintry pumice]

You have to show the Monolith PDA to colonel Baldy

[vernal lily]

ah, so I guess that's why I was being shot to death. I didn't showed the pda.

[maiden grotto]

Yeah, that's never going to happen 🤣

[wintry pumice]

After Sircaa, a guy near the bridge should let you cross the bridge if you convince him with the badge or just shoot him

[wintry pumice]

Why? The badge makes a few encounters a bit easy

[maiden grotto]

I just walked straight across

[maiden grotto]

Hate Ward...

[wintry pumice]

Hmm maybe he died to something else. There should be a ward boy there trying to stop you after Sircaa.

[wintry pumice]

But the badge is useful...

[maiden grotto]

Meh, not missed much and haven't sold my soul to baldy and his toy soldiers

[serene barn]

ah yes, i went to see if i could loot the dufflebags around the Red Fortress early and i could, then on my way back down the game desides to spawn bandits up there with me.-.

[vernal lily]

Bandits seems to be spawning very near the safe zone around couple of those major bases in my game lately.

[maiden grotto]

Because stupid spawn system, and zero intelligence applied to it...

Of course bandits are walk to a factions base where they are going to get recked...

Top smarts AI, right there

[vernal lily]

Yeah, making everyone go crazy. Occasionally I accidentally get caught in the crossfire and die. Happened when they seem to have spawned out of nowhere.

[wintry pumice]

I remember my first time coming out of magnetic cave, only to be riddled with bullets by these bandit scums

[maiden grotto]

Yup... like bloodsuckers in rostock... yeah. Because the place wouldn't have been cleared out regularly...

[wintry pumice]

Yeah that poltergeist near Rostok is annoying

[maiden grotto]

Oh I got 2 bloodsuckers spawn on me... when I walked out the entrance to the warehouse.

I dream of it being bandits

[wintry pumice]

Yeah they take over soon as we clear the bandits in the boiler house

[maiden grotto]

Yeah... I got plenty bloodsuckers in rostok

[vernal lily]

I saw

[wintry pumice]

You spying on Rogg?

[maiden grotto]

They keep spawning near the building, next to the platform, near the helicopter and elctro field.

Almost every time I walk past... bloodsuckers howl...

[serene barn]

speaking about Rostok and that fire polter, there was a door there that lead to a safe but i never found out how to get the key or in there

[maiden grotto]

Only friends 🤣

[wintry pumice]

Yeah me too, don't know if it's bugged

[maiden grotto]

Me neither

[serene barn]

you ever just do something that makes you feel embarassed in the game

i was running alongside a guardrail up around the Red Fortress abd then when it had a corner i turned like 20 degrees to vault over it only to realize shortly after doing so that there was no ground so i fell into the water.

[serene barn]

i also found that main menu screen recreation of uhh, what was it, SoC

[frigid hill]

_5373_ has been warned

Reason: Bad word usage

[sturdy verge]

https://tenor.com/view/multipass-freepass-gif-12760477

[solemn isle]

Did you guys just got 6mb patch on Steam?

[nova wasp]

congratulations to the team, first update that didn't patch the entire 128GB. Probably means things are not as hectic anymore

[weary hedge]

ay gta 5 enhanced released!

[serene barn]

it's dawning on me that i might have sold a unique gun, not knowing it was a unique lol.

[sturdy verge]

I was going to post that but forgot too 😂

[civic relic]

Holy crap this server has slowed down so much

I remember even 2 weeks after release it was still spammy in here hard to keep up with the chat

[maiden grotto]

Well, that is becaue people stopped playing it for various reason have no need to be here

That's problem when you release a f^cked game... people leave pretty quickly...

And there won't be an anime to save it, like Cyberpunk 2077, which is absolute garbage as a game...

[civic relic]

A small stalker film would be cool

[fickle mesa]

idk man cyberpunk is pretty amazing now, never tried it at launch but don’t see how anyone could call the game bad after all the updates, perhaps stalker will do the same and it’ll be bugless by 2029 lol

[civic relic]

Even tho theres tons of youtube films from fans it would be cool if the devs made something like a short film

[serene barn]

i really hate the damn popper anomalies.

there should never ever be more than 1 of them in one place at a time.

[civic relic]

Its stupid no anomalies are really dangerous i mean whirlpool anaomalies should kill u instantly instead u just spam jump and u barely take damagw

[fickle mesa]

yeah that’s the one anomaly I don’t even try to look for most of the time

[civic relic]

They shoulda made veteran difficulty harder whwre anomalies are truly dangerous

The hardest thing about veteran is the stupud economy

[serene barn]

gravity anomalies are weakened by having high physical protection. but the popper is not, it doesn't even feel weakened by thermal despite it lighting things on fire. it just feels a little unfair to me. like 1 is managable but 2 is not really, that and i don't think they should engage if you're not moving either

[fickle mesa]

I might try veteran after I finish the game, you pretty much just take way more damage right

[serene barn]

like how am i supposed to loot a place like that one in the Swamp with 2 at once like i will end up spending more on repairs than the consumables is worth and i don't think that's good design

[maiden grotto]

Really?

Okay, they moved pistol and snipers rifles under the "cool" branch, rather than adding cool as a dialog option to open up new dialogs, or using your cool to get discounts in shops etc.

And.... You can still become wanted, despite attacking wanted targets in POI...

To just graze the serface of an awful game...

Don;t get me wrong, walking around night city, great fun, the rest of it is a joke

[fickle mesa]

oh yeah idk how anyone can afford full price repairs honestly, I use a mod to cut the cost in half

like I would genuinely never be able to afford upgrades, I’d beat the game and still be in debt

[maiden grotto]

But it would depend who made it...

If netflix made it, it would be utter woke garbage, the zone is female, and female needs to save the zone, becaue all men are bad... And women should control everything, because all men are not only bad, they are stupid too...

[serene barn]

welp i guess i am leaving some consumables because it's just not worth the repairs

[maiden grotto]

I use cheaper repair costs, but for friendlies only, so I have to keep going back to my factions for repairs and upgrades

[empty hare]

GSC should send some devs to the actual exclusion zone to promo S2. Just some guys with go-pros and a campfire in an old barrel

First person to reactor #4 gets a free copy of S2

[serene barn]

yes i'm sure that would be safe./s

[plain fiber]

I think a series would be better, a film is limited by its run-time whereas a series (mostly) doesn't need to worry about that.

[plain fiber]

I mean, the Zone has been gendered as female by pretty much every character in the game that does that; a lot of characters seem to assign a sort of "mother" persona upon it.

Pretty sure this was even done in some of the original trilogy dialogue though I'm not 100%.

[maiden grotto]

🙄

Millions of people refer to their cars as girls... Especially on cold days when the engine doesn't start "come on girl, you can do it"... It doesn't mean the car is female.

And you know exactly what I am mean by the post, so don;t try to twist it please.

[plain fiber]

I'm not trying to twist it, don't get defensive.

[maiden grotto]

Not getting defensive, just asking politely not to... It happens far to often 😦

But yeah, if Netflix, Amazon, et al, did it, it would be a horrible woke nightmare.

[plain fiber]

The only Netflix show I can think of that was "woke" was the Witcher adaptation, and that was less of an issue with Netflix itself and more of an issue of the showrunner not respecting the source material and wanting to use the IP to create her own thing.

(This also applies to the Artemis Fowl movie.)

[weary hedge]

Oooh, an ex-gsc employee gave an interview, Andrew Khokhlov

"Up until 2020, the game was still in the world-building stage. Then the real work began, which, for me, was an absolute thrill. Everything that exists in the final game comes from the development period between 2020 and 2022. From 2022 to 2025, it was mostly about cutting content and simplifying things."

"Before the core foundation had even been fully established, the company had begun expanding rapidly, trying to cover the workload with quantity over quality. As a result, the percentage of junior-level employees was so high that you could practically smell the inexperience in the air."

"On top of that, in the six months I was gone, most of my previous work had either been lost or reworked because no one understood the massive amount of documentation I had left behind. The materials were all there, but for some reason, people just didn’t bother to look at them."

"The most interesting part was that under the Slag Heap, there was supposed to be an arch-anomaly where artifact dealers would mine artifacts and sell them on the black market. The player was sent there because of rumors that Nestor had suddenly become rich, and you had to investigate.Through the mines and underground tunnels beneath the Slag Heap, you could even access a new section of Lab X-18 under the factory in Dark Valley, which I specifically designed. But all of that got cut—just like my entire vision for the Garbage."

[plain fiber]

We're talking about that right now over in #⭐┃nospoilers_general , feel free to join us.

Apparently the translated version omits some things too.

[weary hedge]

I'll stay here, cheers though 😂 i rarely talk in that chat and don't see any reason to start now!

[plain fiber]

Well the trouble-makers are gone, plus the current conversation is relevant to the article you brought up.

[maiden grotto]

-cough- Black Cleopatra -cough- Just rewriting history...

Then there was Cowboy Beebop.

Oh, how nice it is to live in ignorance.

[weary hedge]

didnt they do it with that recent disney remake too, cannot remember the name of it? Aladdin maybe??

[maiden grotto]

Well, GSC World just gone darn fecked it up

[maiden grotto]

Disney's Snow White - Her skin was white as mud.

[serene barn]

man that sucks, that sounds cool, i woulda liked to have seen more of the Xlabs

[maiden grotto]

All we got was a stagnant potato world...

With spawn simulator that spawns something more times than Busty Barbara has been up and down, during special time in a western bar.

[deep pine]

I've been able to get in after getting the badge. The badge gives a rep boost which makes Ward soldiers not attack on sight.

[maiden grotto]

I don't understand why people are getting shot... The problem I had was the bridge not spawning until a certain point in the game...

At which point, I skipped across...

[deep pine]

Bridge won't spawn to Chem Plant if you side with Richter. Not after SIRCAA incident anyways. Bridge spawns when you side with Ward (give scanner to Zotov)

[maiden grotto]

Not really, I walked across twice, in both my games without siding with ward.

[primal snow]

are yall talking about a actual whole ass bridge that spawns in?😭

[serene barn]

they're talking about the deployed bridge made between Lesser Zone and Chemical Plant i think

[gilded shell]

new stalker update lets see if the game is playable yet

[primal snow]

oh alr that makes a lot more sense, i probably haven’t gotten that far into the game

[gilded shell]

game still crashes on launch lmaooo

[primal snow]

imo it is, i started playing again after the most recent update, AI is still mid but not spawning behind you bad anymore, its gotten better definitely playable

[plain fiber]

That's just a tiny FSR thing apparently, it's not a major update or hotfix. #☢┃stalker-general message

[gilded shell]

its factually not playable

i literally am unable to play the game for the last 2 months and ive tried anything u can think of

[primal snow]

it just crashes in the launcher?

[gilded shell]

they know about the glitch too because i get an error message acknowleding the glitch

just telling me to be patient for the last 2 months of being unable to even get into the menu

[primal snow]

that’s rough

wtf does it take 2 months to fix a back as bad as that

[gilded shell]

wish the mod to turn off the shader warmup worked

[plain fiber]

Game development takes time, and bug fixes can be difficult, especially in something as complex as this. Just put the game down and come back to it again in a few months.

[gilded shell]

id like a refund then lol but na

if i could refund the game i wouldnt complain

[primal snow]

but like what game has had a bug like that for that long tho, i dont even think cyberpunk had a bug like that for that long

[gilded shell]

a bug not allowing multiple people to play the game for 2 months straight is crazy

done all of that multiple times

[plain fiber]

Hang on.

[gilded shell]

ive already told u ive tried literally anything u can think of😭 im not trynna be rude but ive gone thru this so many times

dozens of people have told me fixes and nothing has worked

[primal snow]

have u tried asking the wish granter to fix it?

[gilded shell]

no..

[maiden grotto]

But have you formated your pc and done a clean install of the whole thing

[gilded shell]

no im not doing all that to play stalker

[plain fiber]

I don't think they'd need to do a full formatting of their PC.

[maiden grotto]

But you might have a glitch in teh sytem that might need to be corrected.

[gilded shell]

or they can fix there game

[primal snow]

real

[maiden grotto]

You'd be surprised, Windows is donkey

[gilded shell]

they know about the glitch the error message says it😭

i got to play for like a few days then they updated the game and i cant play

and so i got over 2 hours so no refund for me

[deep pine]

You don't get me. Bridge opens earlier if you side with Zotov. Bridge opens later if you side with Richter. This is still Zalissya

[maiden grotto]

Okay, never noticed, the Bridge has always been there for me, when I needed it...

I just hate all the garbage, mechanics used to guid your progress...

[deep pine]

If the north Bridge is what you are talking about, then it only opens if you side with Richter, then opens later on if you side with Zotov.

[plain fiber]

@gilded shell

• Uninstall the game

• Manually delete every left-behind S.T.A.L.K.E.R. 2 folder on your computer (hold down shift and then press delete to permanently delete a file, you can select multiple files at once and delete them the same way)

• Check for Windows updates

• Check for graphics driver updates

• Open up the command prompt in Administrator and run the following commands:

sfc /scannow

chkdsk

• Run the disk cleanup utility

• Run the defragment and optimize drives utility

• Restart your PC

• Reinstall the game

If all of that doesn't work, go to #s2-support, follow the link, and file a bug report.

[deep pine]

I would disagree. The choice tree they have for this game is not even that complex. It's always A to B then End, not one of your choice really matters here.

An example is getting the Ward Badge early locks you into Ward missions even if the game has hints that you can use the Badge while on Spark's side. But it just isn't there (Probably another cut content)

[plain fiber]

I guarantee you all of that shit is insanely complex on the code side of things; that's what I'm talking about.

[mossy helm]

why would he need to uninstall the game before trying all the rest that you wrote without or before uninstalling the game. i dont see any point of reinstalling the game at all, as long as chkdsk doesnt find issues but even then one shouldnt reinstall the game but should reinstall new drive into the computer lol

[maiden grotto]

The only choices that matter happen only a few times, when you chose to join or not join someone... in about 2 or 3 points of the game, the rest just gives you fluff

[deep pine]

Only if they had programmers that used spaghetti codes.

[plain fiber]

I'm just trying to cover all of the bases since he claims to have tried everything.

[quiet rock]

Is 6 million enough to guarantee dlcs and a sequel?

[frigid hill]

saleem6969 has been warned

Reason: Bad word usage

[mossy helm]

stalker 2 needs to be released before the new game was made lol

[deep pine]

I just finished Spark end too and the way that they had Scar give second doubts needs to be a choice for a different path, instead, its just two dialogue options that goes to the same path. Its so weird to even add the choice.

[quiet rock]

Why would u change ur mind at the end? You are a zealot at that point

[mossy helm]

imagine reinstalling windows would faster than stalker 2 at least for people with the bad internet like mine

[plain fiber]

It's possible, but I'm trying to think of and give every step I would take before saying "F*ck it" and formatting the damn thing.

[low violet]

My guy was revealed a heavy hitting truth. Pretty sure a lot of people would change their mind if they figure out "their goal" was never theirs.

[mossy helm]

well its just the game needs to be fixed , not that people need to fix their computers

[low violet]

I very much disagree on that, it is a whole lot more likely the content had to be cut to ensure the game would be ready on time. It would require a lot more dialogue and interactions.

[maiden grotto]

99% of the time quicker to format... and work from there... if you format a pc and go from a fresh install, just drivers and game and it works...

So you know somewhere you have software conflict...

If it doesn't you have got a more serious issue it might be the game or a hardware issue... Even bios are the difference between a stable game and a broken one.

It also gives you the chance to splitt your HHD/SSD into multiple partitions... like one for OS, one games, one for entertainment...

If you have to format your PC again, your games and entertainment are left alone adn already downloanded.

[plain fiber]

I think both are true.

[low violet]

Please tell me how keeping track of simple states would be difficult to code.

[deep pine]

What's the point of picking choices where theres doubt if you are not going to change in the end? Even Scar who is more of a zealot than you actually doubted his actions.

[plain fiber]

That's not what I'm talking about, but I don't have time to get into this now, I have to leave for work.

[maiden grotto]

Yup get eh bear minimum out.

[low violet]

Sad but true, however, the currently available content is huge. Hope they add the options later because currently it does feel jarring indeed.

[deep pine]

Yep, I was part of a dev team for games that are developed on UE 4, Unity, and Mono. It all boils down to how your programmer codes, even your regular QA would be able to understand it if they had comments on every state.

[low violet]

Yeah I highly doubt that GSC's devs would have issues with managing that.

[indigo meteor]

This game playable yet?

[deep pine]

Yes and No.

[weary hedge]

Always has been.

[deep pine]

You roll a dice and see if you encounter a softlock or you are able to proceed with the story.

[tawdry furnace]

Girl Motivation vs Boy Motivation

[fickle mesa]

I’m about 85% done with my first playthrough and haven’t ran into any bugs, playing on a laptop aswell

[tawdry furnace]

What's the difference

Can any1 tell me.

[boreal coyote]

when roadmap

[boreal coyote]

in what context?

[tawdry furnace]

Mhmmm...

Military

(Easy sht)

[boreal coyote]

im not in the military so i dunno but i would guess they'd both have very similar motivations in that context

[tawdry furnace]

Mhm. K thx

[boreal coyote]

why?

[indigo meteor]

Not what the consensus says

[boreal coyote]

when roadmap though

what was that lil steam update?

[burnt hollow]

I was just wondering that. Just like half a mb

[boreal coyote]

yeah 😂

[fickle mesa]

do you guys think I should upgrade a basic exoskeleton I found or wait to find a better one

eh screw it im stacked on coupons

[dusk jacinth]

6million player?

[gloomy nebula]

Fix the game and release the road map

[gentle forge]

600mb update on steam?

[quiet rock]

Its funny.

https://tenor.com/view/dark-humor-it's-called-dark-humor-big-bang-theory-gif-5001438507585251452

[quiet rock]

Truee, but you already rpd as the zealot who wanted the shining zone. Its clearly seen when you convince richter to help you out one last time.

Also whoever said the boss fights were mid, they were wrong.

[fickle mesa]

why am I locked inside of malachite lol

who forgot to unlock the front door man

is there really no other exit

ah found it finally

[quiet rock]

THEY DIDNT FIX IT? 😭

Hey can u check if u got negative rep with em for doing nothing?

[fickle mesa]

yeah idk if it’s intentional or not but I was forced to use the secret entrance

where does one check that?

[quiet rock]

PDA and hover over malchite and if its red, they didnt fix it

[fickle mesa]

nah just white

[quiet rock]

Ok good

[primal snow]

imo yea, AI is still kinda doo doo but it’s not “spawn out of thin air and behind you” bad anymore tho, besides the AI the game is very playable imo

[fickle mesa]

yeah I’m having a great time, just got a couple mods for qol, glad I didn’t play on release I guess

[primal snow]

i’m on xbox so no mods for me

[fickle mesa]

dang the main one I use just makes enemies less accurate at long range, + cheaper repairs, nothing I couldn’t live without maybe

[quiet rock]

Do you all think they ll come out with a “hard core survival” mode or is this how survival works in stalker series?

[gentle forge]

Sorry dawg I’ll unlock the door next time

[fickle mesa]

okay these cloning enemies suck, damn dog just spawned 30 copies I am not tryna guess which one is real

[quiet rock]

My favorite is the schizo cat

[fickle mesa]

I had to kill my first psuedo giant earlier, even with a dmr, sniper/shotgun and revolver he took forever to kill

[drifting forge]

Psi bayun is peak

[lime thunder]

||if you bait an npc stalker into fighting it then they target the real body||

[shell flax]

Is that actually a thing

[serene barn]

it's funny how staying still when there's a Polter is supposed to make their telekinesis miss but the one near Duga just doesn't give a damn

[quiet rock]

On this run, since im doing ward run, in gonna try to bait people into more stuff. I hope its possible lol

[fickle mesa]

I just learned you can slow walk or crouch through the knife anomaly aswell

a lot easier to just sprint through and pop a bandage though lol

[serene barn]

this one feels different actually. normally Polter's will have a cooldown for their tele but this one will sometimes throw something at me and then tele grab it again before the item even lands on the ground.

and the only way to get to where it is too is up a ladder of course. hit me as i was climbing and again right after getting to the top

[maiden grotto]

Huge? It's a potato world, where the zombies have more about them than the living NPC's...

Everything is really bare basic... Yes the game looks amazing, some of the level design is astonishing, but the mechanics, well the mechanics...

Every NPC carrying 700K... And that is just one a whole plethora of issues and lack of depth in anything.

[maiden grotto]

I just run through it, as I have cloes to a 1000 bandages.

[maiden grotto]

Which one is this?

[serene barn]

the one at Crystal SCS

[junior current]

steam update but no patch notes?

[maiden grotto]

yeah yeah, the one on the roof top

Right, I know how to help you with this one.

[junior current]

apparently the steam update was just implementing fsr 3.1 or somthing according to steam forumns

[empty berry]

???

[maiden grotto]

@serene barn You have to wait at the bottom of the ladder to the roof... make sure that anything throwable is on the other side of the fence... as soon as he throws it, run up the ladder... holding the run button I think speeds up how fast you climb...

AS soon as you get to the top, get your shot gun out and keep moving and chasing the polti down and fill it with lead... ASAP.

And the first thing you do when you get to the top, is run and heal... you will get whacked on the way up.

[maiden grotto]

FSR 3.1 was already implimented... probably something to do with FSR 4 which is coming out soon along with the new AMD cards

[serene barn]

i had already killed it by the time i said where it was lol

[cunning plover]

Yeah it's apparently something that uses "amd_fidelityfx_dx12.dll"... I hate silent updates damn! 😄 I also read it's probably FSR 3.1.3

[molten cliff]

Milk 🥛

[maiden grotto]

problem done with

[weary hedge]

Cut on the coffee lil bro. You used the symbols used in a question without actually using letter. Now if I was a gambling man, you understood nothing I said. Go check gsc answer. They already covered the question.

[covert dew]

Anyone have an idea of when the dlcs will release

[quiet rock]

6 million more copies need to be sold

[boreal coyote]

roadmap?

[boreal coyote]

today?

[maiden grotto]

When they fix the game and give something more than basic as feck.

The zombies have more nuance about them than the NPC's

[boreal coyote]

we'll know when we have the roadmap

[vernal lily]

Soon

[sturdy verge]

Rog told me in 69 days

[boreal coyote]

who, me?

[sturdy verge]

who, me ?

[boreal coyote]

who, me?

[sturdy verge]

Hurry up and get that colour purple!

[boreal coyote]

who, me? nah thats for nerds mate i'm deleting myself when that happens

i'll be buying a rope and a rickety stool

[sturdy verge]

https://tenor.com/view/rock-everythingeverywhereallatonce-gif-25516405

[serene barn]

man i wanna use the RPM so bad but it's just not practical

[fickle mesa]

after the introduction of exoskeleton enemies I just run a full one tap loadout, dmr/sniper/revolver, I don’t have time to spray lol

[maiden grotto]

I am an oracle 😄

[serene barn]

at the moment i am messing around with an M701 i grabbed in a place, then repaired it and upgraded it fully, then my Ram-2, Buket and Rhino

[maiden grotto]

I transcend space and time, spreading my knowledge, like a wounded bull in china shop 😄

[maiden grotto]

You wonna hand?

[serene barn]

i am also going to go into the swamp next time i play. i better collect artifacts while there too. i need to save up a lot to try new guns and make them better.

[boreal coyote]

nah i'd rather kill mysel....oh wait

[maiden grotto]

I would like to hear a running report...

Would sound like some com chatter during Vietnam...

"You wasn't there man, you wasn't there"

[maiden grotto]

-nudge-

[fickle mesa]

you can put an underbarrel shotgun on the m107 aswell, very fun

[serene barn]

i know, i did

it's sadly not good enough that i feel like i would use it over a Ram. drop off after only 4m, good enough damage but prolly not the best spread but maybe it doesn't matter in it's range.

i've also been carrying slugs lately for the Ram because they seem better for Bloodsuckers

hitting Bloodsuckers with a few pellets just doesn't do enough damage

[fickle mesa]

yeah takes me 2 mags of the underbarrell shotty for each one usually, worst part is just how it deselects the shotgun if you use a medkit or anything

[serene barn]

yeah it does that on anything like that

[clear robin]

Do we have mods on Xbox yet?

Beat the game a week after launch haha just waiting on mods tbh

or DLC’s

[serene barn]

it does the same damage as the Saiga funnily enough. it just doesn't have the other stats but you should be able to take 1 bloodsucker out in 5 shots or less. but it's hard if you get attacked by more than 1

[little jackal]

I don't tend to favor shotguns normally, I prefer the idea of an SMG for flexibility at close range and easier ability to deal with swarming rats rodents or dogs, but on my second playthrough I picked up the sledgehammer right away and i have to admit, it's nice to be able to just make a problem go away

[serene barn]

Rats or other weak mutants is also why i run a Buket.

[fickle mesa]

my favorite is probably still the lynx so far, one tap headshots on exosuit enemies and 10 round mag if you need to spam

[little jackal]

for sure; I would use the Spitter except that the Friend is accessible so early

I always found the SVDs underperforming vs the Mark until I get the Whip

[fickle mesa]

I run nothing for small enemies ngl I just bite the bullet and melee them or waste ammo

using a revolver on rats does feel like a waste sometimes lol

[serene barn]

a thing with guns is that while an SVU on paper has better stats it practically does not matter that it does because the enemies you should be using a sniper on all die in a round in the Lynx.

[little jackal]

ohh good point, I'll have to try that

[fickle mesa]

yeah pretty much, makes it hard to warrant using the m107 aswell, why use slow bolt action rifle that one taps when I can use semi auto rifle that also one taps

but double sniper is fun so who cares

[serene barn]

spitter can be worse in a way as it cannot use a Suppressor to up it's range. should you try to hit heads with it a little further out than it's range may be good for.

[little temple]

oooo I'm feeling those reprints are starting to get boxed up and sorted...

rubbing.hands.gif

[fickle mesa]

I finally got a good exosuit though so I can afford to carry a backup gun now atleast

more guns more fun

[serene barn]

it's still funny 1 shooting Boar with it lol.

[fickle mesa]

btw does the game lock you out after completing the story or nah? I’m about to enter Pripyat

[serene barn]

like the M701 does 160 damage, the Lynx does 70.

[fickle mesa]

that is a pretty big difference yeah

[serene barn]

yes there is a point of no return and there is no playing after the end. the zone is majorly affected by the endings so it would be weird to just let people play after the end.

[fickle mesa]

sadness, I shall explore everything before entering

[serene barn]

the M701 is also strong enough to 3 hit a Bloodsucker it seems. 2 if using AP but idk if headshots are needed for it.

[fickle mesa]

yeah I don’t think I’ve tried using it on one yet, will see if it’s better than the shotty maybe

[serene barn]

sometimes i hate fighting bloodsuckers but it feels so good when i manage to just bully one

like dodging it's pounce attack and flicking around and hitting it before it cloaks again

[polar forge]

Gonna be hard to hit bloodsucker with sniper especially bolt action

Well I guess I never try firing it without aiming in. Is it accurate in relation to center dot from “hip” fire?

[serene barn]

i did also have a fight with like 3 earlier where i had to bash a bloodsucker with my M701 because like i think my ram had been emptied and so had the M701 and the Holemaker lol. i nearly died doing that

idk how accurate it is in hipfire but i think it does have upgrades to help with the accuracy

[fickle mesa]

it doesn’t seem bad at all, I use the laser and seems to mostly always hit headshots on human enemies, although I’m usually pretty close to them but you’d be close to the bloodsucker aswell

[serene barn]

there is a unique of the gun that i want lol but it's a good bit further into the story before that even becomes accessable.

[fickle mesa]

I found my first Gauss rifle, now I just need batteries lol

[serene barn]

it would prolly also be easier fighting bloodsuckers if my mouse wasn't being annoying either not clicking or double clicking.

i bought a good bit of batteries only to then never actually like, run the gun

[polar forge]

I haven’t found Gauss rifle yet but I swear I was roaming the burnt forest last night and I heard a weapon that I never heard before. It sounded like lightning strike over and over

[serene barn]

well

Lighting strikes do happen in that region, there is several trees that get hit by literal strikes that light them on fire for a bit.

[errant shell]

Did anyone get a one megabyte patch for Stalker 2 on GOG?

[violet dune]

it was FSR update i think

[errant shell]

Oh

[tawny zealot]

Have they fixed Richter’s ghost getting stuck in the Spark ending?

[maiden grotto]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=apBWI6xrbLY

[fickle mesa]

okay so the tornadoes just kill you if you go into them, no artifact inside of them 😔

[maiden grotto]

Our survey says "Eht Ehhhh" ❌

[maiden grotto]

Awesome, is it me or have knives stamina been sorted out?

It's like I can stab more than once, and not feel like I have run a marathon...

Great stuff... Another good step in the right direction

[pallid thorn]

I found that you can sprint about 130 meters on a full bar of stamina.

[maiden grotto]

Oooo nice....

I also love the way the artifacts move around now...

I just don;t like the lagginess collecting them though... When the option to pick them up appears, and I press the key... collect the artifact, don't just stand there...

[inland panther]

i wonder is there any new content

[maiden grotto]

hopefully no... They have far too much to fix first

[wintry pumice]

Soon

[inland panther]

i was just wondering because i haven't played the game in a while because i wanted to save zalissya but there was a bug that would prevent me from doing it and so i stopped playing and zalissya was the first base you come across in the game and i wanted to save it because it holds some sort of value to me as a player

[maiden grotto]

Zalyssia is still bugged for me, but the issue you describe has been fixed...

The new one is the defenders despawning and disappearing, and the place is empty... Despite saving all the defenders.

[wintry pumice]

Fix one, another one appears. There's the new content you were asking for

[inland panther]

well for more detail the issue was that the enemies were stuck inside and even when i some what cleared them out i still couldn't progress the side quest to rebuild zalissya because neither NPC wouldn't give me the option to try and find the rest of the people of zalissya

[maiden grotto]

That's been sorted... Just new issues for people like me have arisen.

[inland panther]

i mean as long as i can rebuild zalissya i'm happy

[maiden grotto]

I would love that too, but for the moment you can't...

As the zone is an undynamic potato, that offers not much in the way of real depth...

And by that I mean, no dynamic economies, no specialisation, between techs, factions, and shops. the most rudimentary interactions of NPC's.

No real depth to the types of missions you can do, not mutant parts economy, not real faction interactions.

The game is beautiful, it is slowly getting there, but ultimately, it's just a washed potato, along way from being top quality cooked piece of food in a Micheline star restaurant.

[fierce nexus]

On GOD

Was so upset when it stayed wrecked

[maiden grotto]

The game is so much better pre SIRCAA

[fierce nexus]

For multiple reasons

[vernal lily]

[sterile grove]

Can't trigger Bingo trophy on Steam, anyone?

[fickle mesa]

I feel like every faction hates me, I was siding with scar but he didn’t like what I said so now he hates me too lol

[fierce nexus]

Such is life in the zone

[empty hare]

What does new game+ actually do? Im still on my first playthrough and not very far into it

[naive fable]

The game dont have New game + @empty hare

[empty hare]

I have been bamboozled

[fickle mesa]

I’ve heard there may be a mod for it if you’re on pc but yeah otherwise gotta start a fresh game

[naive fable]

Sorry to here haha! U can play a New game but u will keep nothing. Im sad about that too. But if we had it, i think it will destroy the economy in the game for the next run

So they dont added it

[zenith sedge]

Lol true

[empty hare]

I'd be okay with a MGS style NG+, where after you beat the game you get some minor cosmetic item. iirc the first time you beat that game you got a karate headband instead of Snake's usual hat thing

[maiden cradle]

the guy who asked the last question in gsc-answers gotta be pretty slow in the head 😭

[maiden grotto]

I've seen worse

[worldly monolith]

hiiii

[maiden grotto]

looooooooo

[feral horizon]

Found a way to get into dead valley (the beginning part of the generators) without doing point of no return.

I didn't get far though, I don't know how to cross the radiated lake.

[ornate sable]

The part that's been revealed on the map?

[mighty steeple]

are the teammates in "the assault on the duga" invincible? cuz the amount of enemies they spawn on me is a little crazy

[feral horizon]

Yeah. You go to it if you took the spark path but there is a way to get to it early. Though there isn't much there.

[ornate sable]

Cool, how'd you get in there early? I love exploration, even if there isn't much there

[feral horizon]

I just linked the video showing how in the screen and videos section.

[zenith sedge]

if you quickly shoot those lanterns around the area it stops spawning them

[weary hedge]

and thats with two years of polish too lol

[maiden grotto]

Yeah, but the polish was best buys 3 for 2 bargin bucket 😄

[topaz barn]

why is korshunov such a chill guy

[maiden grotto]

He's constantly watching my only fans stream, and digs it

[topaz barn]

how much it cost

[quiet rock]

Can anyone attest if they have seen the yaniv guide return to his post?

[weary hedge]

a few people have mentioned that particular guide bugging out, over the last few weeks

[fickle mesa]

wdym exactly, he’s been functioning normally for me, unless you’re talking about some kinda quest

[topaz barn]

y ppl need a guide to yaniv, just go there fr fr, its way easier

[quiet rock]

Before the patch he was missing once u killed the monolithina

[topaz barn]

3 flower petals and a thunderberry and you zooming

take your armor off and throw in a liquid rock for radio protection, toss in an energy drink and you going at mach fk

[fickle mesa]

I’m at the point of no return now so I assume I’ve killed most of the monolithians, still working for me up until I started no return

[quiet rock]

Ok they fixed it then

[fickle mesa]

yeah or I just got lucky lol

[quiet rock]

Or i could pay 2k to go from yaniv to rookie in 1 second

[topaz barn]

nahhhh you guys cheating

[quiet rock]

Heheh

[fickle mesa]

I come from games where I can fast travel for free to anywhere from anywhere, so limiting it to outposts is bad enough lol

I do like it though, forces you to really explore

[quiet rock]

I like it. Fast travel makes things too easy

Kcd did it well because you could get ambushed

[topaz barn]

but what if you find a chimera, theyre fun

[fickle mesa]

I never found a chimera 😔

[topaz barn]

bruuuhh missing out

[fickle mesa]

I’m thinking I’m gonna do another play through on hardest diff and try to explore more this time

[quiet rock]

When i feel like walking , i will. And yes finding a random chimera alwYs fun

[topaz barn]

ive found 4 i think

[fickle mesa]

and I’m gonna side with the ward

[topaz barn]

if you wanna find one, go to rostok and do the arena, its so good. they give you a chimera to fight

[quiet rock]

I thought u mean freeroam

If its in quests i must have found more than 3 at least

[topaz barn]

yeah in freeroam, but 1 of the four was rostok

[quiet rock]

Am i tripping or do chimeras get one shot with gaus?

[fickle mesa]

idk but these monolithians definitely do

[topaz barn]

theres one at the heli in late game in pripyat, one in the swamps on the way to clear sky, and another near a tunnel outside the swamps

[topaz barn]

i just whip out the glorious gluttony

[quiet rock]

Theres one by a tunnel near sirca or howverr u spell that

[topaz barn]

have you guys tried the gluttony

[fickle mesa]

I have not, been rocking my sweet baby lynx the whole game

I’d use the whip but scope is worse

[mighty steeple]

heyyyy guys, whats the best way to kill the bear thing in "a minor incident"?

[fickle mesa]

if you mean the psuedo giant on the tracks i got by it by aggroing it and then running back to the control room, it was considered off the tracks and couldn’t get up the stairs

otherwise just a load of ammo

[cobalt fiber]

Being at the point of no return and not running into a chimera is literally impossible

There's 2-3 mission specific

[fickle mesa]

I don’t think I’ve seen one? perhaps I’m wrong

ah those are the chimeras

that’s what I’ve been calling a “psuedo giant”, didn’t know chimera was it’s nickname

[cobalt fiber]

That's not the same thing no

[fickle mesa]

huh

yeah I see psuedo only has one head

[dry siren]

HELP, HELP NOW

[cobalt fiber]

You're forced to fight/run from 2 and forced to run from another

[fickle mesa]

the name chimera never popped up so I assumed they were the same lol, never noticed the head count

[cobalt fiber]

Also arena

[fickle mesa]

I figured chimera would be scarier 😔

[dry siren]

i am captain pronin, superstar

[mighty steeple]

ok i did this

[weary hedge]

the 'giant' part wasnt a giveaway? lol

[mighty steeple]

but now im trapped in control room

[weary hedge]

obviously its the biggest mutant you fight lol the things huge iunno how you could misunderstand what it was

[mighty steeple]

with it outside

[fickle mesa]

chug redbull and run run

or fight it like a man I suppose

[mighty steeple]

i will kill it

[fickle mesa]

idk I heard someone say chimera and something about the emission together so I assumed it was some kinda monstrosity that only showed up during emission? and besides that like I said just never noticed the name, plus you also fight a psuedo giant which looks somewhat similar and actually had a name shown

[weary hedge]

but its like average size at best lol nothing about a chimera is 'giant' 😂

then you get the big mutated beast looking thing that takes 500 rounds to take down and you didnt notice they were different 😂

lmao it makes sense if youre running but god you'd be the joke around the fire with all the other stalkers that night 😂

[fickle mesa]

hey man I just kill stuff, knowing the name of what I’m killing is boring

but yeah seriously I may have just been deep into the gaming and killed it and moved on without thinking about it lol

[weary hedge]

the pseudogiants head always gives me the heeby jeebies cause its just so creepy

[mighty steeple]

how do people kill this thing normally?

seems way to bullet spongey

[weary hedge]

just excess bullets using ap rounds (pseudogiants and most mutants use an armor stat, so armor piercing rounds are best, but yes they are very spongy)

[mighty steeple]

oh i have ap shotgun rounds

[fickle mesa]

it took me like 2 rhino mags, 1 underbarrell shotty mag, 2-3 m107 mags, and a lynx mag or two lol

with normal ammo atleast, certainly a process

[mighty steeple]

i think this is a chimeria not giant

[fickle mesa]

ah right got em mixed up again lol

[mighty steeple]

it is way to fast

[weary hedge]

a fully upgraded AR416 takes 586 bullets with AP rounds to kill a pseudogiant

and that depends on difficulty as it buffs enemy hp and nerfs player damage

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1L6jBHJtw8AZrJZmOiFekiS2YVudHS3rQVGQN-oOaNMk/edit?gid=1165972690#gid=1165972690

stats here

[mighty steeple]

so whats the point in even fighting them?

[fickle mesa]

best tip is make sure you’re not overweight at all probably, even in the yellow will make it harder

[mighty steeple]

are you meant to just run?

[fickle mesa]

to prove you’re a stalker I suppose, but realistically none, I ran right past that one tbh

[weary hedge]

like most enemies there really isnt a point other than it just being there for gameplay reasons - you dont get anything from it, the only ones you 'have' to kill are in quests realistically

[mighty steeple]

LMAO i literally got an achivement for running from it just now

love dis game

[weary hedge]

the best AR in the game for killing Pseudogiants is the Dnipro with the 7.62 ammo conversion, which drops the required bullets to 95

[harsh jungle]

my game froze while I was fighting a psuedo giant

[fickle mesa]

tis a new anomaly they added

[harsh jungle]

it works just as Todd Howard intended

[fickle mesa]

I regret not bringing backup armor for the point of no return

[harsh jungle]

I got as far as the point of no return then died to only realize I beat my dumb personal main quest of meeting Deggy

[dry siren]

burers sound like my fat uncle

[feral horizon]

What weapons combinations do you guys use for the end game? Last time I went with the kharod and the saiga.

[fickle mesa]

double sniper and revolver lol

got an automatic rifle with a suppressor in my pack for possible stealth scenarios though

for snipers I’m using the lynx (not really a sniper) and replaced my m107 with the Gauss rifle

[obtuse tapir]

I had to get better ballistics at some point

The vanilla game balance just doesn't make sense to me

[weary hedge]

Dnipro / Kharod with Saiga and a Rhino

[feral horizon]

Do you use Deggy's gun to?

[weary hedge]

Don't think I've found that one so far

[feral horizon]

You get it automatically in the strelok/doc path after you blow up the stalker program machine.

[weary hedge]

Then no - it just sits in my stash lol

[feral horizon]

it uses the same ammo as the dnipro

[weary hedge]

I'm not even sure which one is his unique lol

I normally don't swap up my loadout whatsoever to look at any other guns, not since my first playthrough a few months ago

There isn't much point choosing style over substance when it comes to say, killing a pseudogiant - so i always run the same weapons as they are more efficient

The only weapon I will (sometimes) swap in is the vss or as val just cause I like em lol

[fickle mesa]

well I found the toughest part of the game lol, one of the final quests and I’m put in a small room with like 6 guys using Gauss rifles

literally just instakilling me

[left violet]

its the granite squad

the last combat youll see in the whole game, its meant to challenge you

[fickle mesa]

yeah those mfs, brutal man

[lone cosmos]

hi guys
i have a question about whats goin on in my game.

I have liberty exo on, with no lead containers. I put 2x thunderberry, 2x hypercube 1x magic cube (5 max radiation artifacts) and there is no passive radiation build up. Been running missions and doing stuff around and still nothing. Is this a bug or intended mechanic somehow?
I just noticed that even when I hear the Geiger sound effects, I dont get the white dots on my screen anymore either.

[left violet]

heres what i did, i went to the left and gunned down the first ground guy, then camped behind the first set of boxes closest to left and peeked the snipers as they were coming out

[left violet]

any mods?

[lone cosmos]

nope

[left violet]

thats not normal then

[fickle mesa]

yeah that’s pretty much what I’m attempting, but once I clear everything and check the other side I get 2 tapped, I shall keep trying

[left violet]

also do you notice your radiation symbol getting bigger/smaller with no rad buildup

[left violet]

you on veteran?

[timid aurora]

Why was there a 6.3 MB update?

[lone cosmos]

any thoughts on a possible fix? i alreaady tried restarting the game and nothing changes. is my run just bugged?

[left violet]

can you send a screenshot, ill see whats up

[fickle mesa]

I noticed once I reached prypiat I was getting passive radiation but no actual radiation gain for a little bit

went away on its own after a while but this sounds different

[left violet]

artifacts?

also some things such as vehicles and other props give out radiation so if youre standing out on the field its not the most normal

[fickle mesa]

it was inside of the prypiat safe zone, and artifacts were stone blood, bubble, flytrap, urchin, and gravi, so all balanced for extra weight and no rads

my artifacts suck 😔

[left violet]

also psych, i used the drum saiga and sotnik with full AP for granite mission, also use scientific/army medkits cause this is the last part before generators

[feral horizon]

I just side stepped when I heard the gauss rifles charging.

[left violet]

what ending did you go with

[lone cosmos]

i havent reached prypiat yet, just red forest/yaniv area. I go next to vehicles and other stuff that should give me rad but it doesnt anymore either

[fickle mesa]

uhhhhh I have no clue man, I kinda sided with trelok I think?

[feral horizon]

For the last mission do you guys bring 2 exo suits with you and do I really need the x-7 suit?

[fickle mesa]

not sure what all the different endings are but i feel like nobody likes me anymore besides richter lol

[left violet]

so how do you start down below, with strelok, spark or ward?

[fickle mesa]

I just brought a normal armor set as backup didn’t have an exo on hand but yeah, you get a chance to repair partway through so I’m still fine

[left violet]

you shouldve spent all your money before the last mission cause you wont need it after

[fickle mesa]

yeah I do have 85k coupons leftover, but I have all I need

[feral horizon]

I in my last playtrough my diamon exo got torn up from fighting strelok and scar so I had to use the x-7 I brought with me.

[lone cosmos]

i dm'ed u a screenshot

[fickle mesa]

I was with scar at first, then betrayed him I believe

[rough laurel]

Does anyone know if it's possible to get old saves back? Like autosaves and quicksaves? Since I made a "main" save after the point of no return and cant get back. Or am I cooked?

[fickle mesa]

then I was helping trelok and betrayed him aswell lol

[left violet]

did you do the escape the cage mission

[polar forge]

I need to get to a settlement asap or my gear is shot

[fickle mesa]

I did yeah

Alr granite squad attempt #9 lol

and I’m dead

[feral horizon]

Try to side step the gauss rifles

that's what one shots you

[fickle mesa]

I am trying 😔 these guys either miss by a mile or nail me in the eyeball it seems

[left violet]

so when you went to the underground did you go polissya or cafe?

[polar forge]

Guys I’m at Krug antenna complex in burnt forest. Which way I gotta go to get to nearest settlement? I can’t get in Chem plant yet

[fickle mesa]

Rostok would be closest I suppose