☢┃stalker-general

[serene barn]

think i found a bot account in here 🤔

[primal snow]

is the ram-2 any better?

[serene barn]

the Saiga and the Ram-2 mostly perform similarily. one is weaker, and shoots faster and reloads faster, and the other hits harder, shoots slower, reloads slower but holds more ammo, has a better range and less pellet dispersion making it more accurate.

[terse ravine]

i feel like mutants should have hp from easy mode, but damage from hard mode

[primal snow]

alr, funny enough i haven’t actually used either despite finding a saiga, it was in red quality when it dropped from nimble and costed 13k and i didn’t wanna part with 13k when the SPSA is good enough for me currently

[primal snow]

all the mutants are kinda easy if you just get in their face and mag dump them with a shotgun but i feel like that’s the only really effectively way i know of

well besides the pseudo giant, can’t really fight it like that

[serene barn]

@chrome jetty i got a suspecious user dming me with a "proposal" about becoming something of theirs lol, does that sound like a known scam type of bot response because it sounds new to me. idk if you just want a name of the account or the ID if there's like a watchlist or something you mods use.

[terse ravine]

i just run away from mutants whenever possible

[chrome jetty]

Send it in dms

I'll take a look at it

[terse ravine]

also recently I've had a problem where human corpes despawn a few seconds after they're killed

[high hull]

meow

[serene barn]

it's also costly to upgrade and i think the earliest who can is the Tech in Yaniv. so you're not in a hurry.

i think upgrade costs stay the same

but repairs will be more expensive i think on Veteran

[kindred turtle]

hopefully we get mutant meat/trophy as a sort of reward.

[river chasm]

No details yet but they did say they are looking at ways to make killing mutants rewarding in some way

[kindred turtle]

pretty much pointless to kill mutants currently, waste of ammo and durability. I try to avoid them at all costs

Im still currently in the swamps in the main mission so Money is still kinda hard, i did a return trip though and farmed anomalies, just got enough for repairs and Seva suit upgrades lol

[terse ravine]

is there anything worth going to the swamps for? its miserable traversing thru it

[serene barn]

there's like 3 artifact spawns in there

and there's a GP37 in there too if you wanna use one, it's a decent enough gun.

[crystal granite]

Yo

The game still in shambles?

[serene barn]

i mean

in certain parts absolutely.

[terse ravine]

i got about 200hrs into it rn, but I'm waiting for the DLCs before i hop back in

[crystal granite]

Jeez, meaning the update didn't do shit

[crystal granite]

I did 1 playthrough roughly 70+/80ish hrs and I had enough

[sage star]

That'll be next year

[terse ravine]

yeah its pretty rough

[terse ravine]

gonna be 2 years I'm going to wait for both confirmed DLCs

[crystal granite]

Waiting a year for a singleplayer game dlc is diabolical

[cobalt fiber]

https://tenor.com/view/the-boys-butcher-gif-9581937692910259251

[sage star]

Means lots of updates

[crystal granite]

Attention will wain after 6 months

[sage star]

I would

[terse ravine]

actually i might wait for the next gen xbox before i hop back in so i can actually run it at 60fps

so 5 years minimum

should be enough time for S2 to be fixed and content complete

[crystal granite]

Ill wait for console mods

[serene barn]

i mean, it probably did but the facts are the game has SO MANY ISSUES that one update or a few just simply is not enough

[wintry pumice]

[kindred turtle]

Gp37 is a poor gun, by the time you reach swamp you should have better weapons like clusterfc or Decider, I use clusterfc for its penetration and abundant ammo but very expensive to repair

[wintry pumice]

I was fooled by it's looks

[serene barn]

i remember feeling like the GP was better than the Fora.

i do know the unique Fora in the base game, does slightly more damage than the Normal Fora.

[kindred turtle]

Fora outshines GP in any possible scenario in stalker 2 specially the Decider a unique Fora

[wintry pumice]

I don't know, Dnipro is just a short distance away, better get that

[kindred turtle]

better stats and much cheaper ammo

[serene barn]

or maybe it's the other way that the Fora does more damage than the GP.

yeah so according to the sheet, the Fora does a whopping, 1 point more of damage over the GP.

[kindred turtle]

hopefully we can get some sort of balance in the future making earlier guns to be viable in late game

[serene barn]

and then if you make it use 556 it then becomes 1 point weaker than the GP.

they also seem to share penetration stats but the GP has more range, like it has 35m and drop off at 25m compare to Fora's 30 and 22

GP also has a higher accuracy stat

[kindred turtle]

the way the weapons are balanced currently makes the game feel very linear, you can feel once you found a better gun on the next area. It makes the previous weapons obsolete

[kindred turtle]

are we talking about the 2 guns fully upgraded or its base stats?

[serene barn]

that i am not sure of.

likely just base stats because some guns have different upgrades and you can't really list things when there's 2 trees on most of them

[kindred turtle]

tbh i havent used/upgraded the GP and Fora but I used and upgraded the Decider but ditched it for Clusterfc

also found a saiga somewhere in Zaton, a perfect pair

[serene barn]

the Fora also shoots faster iirc so i think i remember feeling it used more ammo

[kindred turtle]

where are you currently in the story? have you finished the game? Im still trekking to swamp

[serene barn]

Clusterfuck has less than half the durability of a normal AR416, but does 34 damage instead of 16, and has double the penetration.

[kindred turtle]

revisited anomaly sites here and there for money, upgrading the seva suit costed me a ton

[kindred turtle]

yes, that also means less ammo needed, the less you fire the less you repair

[serene barn]

it does

[kindred turtle]

I just use the saiga for closer ranges and CF for mid to long range encounters, the +50 ammo drum is God send

[crystal granite]

That or the Kharod should be the go to

[serene barn]

it's like how if a gun takes 3 rounds to kill, but 2 with AP, then AP means your gun is less worn even if the AP rounds have an increased wear rate because the increase is not = to another shot's

[kindred turtle]

yes you are right, because you shoot less and do not waste your shot because that thing needs alot of money to repair

and 556 is not rare so theres plenty to go around.

[serene barn]

yeah i think i would even say it's better than a VSS

the VSS does 1 point more of damage.

[kindred turtle]

but the ammo is the problem, VSS doesnt drop that much

[serene barn]

they have the same penetration by default too

Clusterfuck has better range too

[kindred turtle]

what weapon are you currently using?

[serene barn]

the VSS does have a little more than double the durability when it comes to wear and tear from shooting it but that seems like it is the only stat that really matters here that it has over the Clusterfuck

[serene barn]

uhhh, a Kharod, Saiga i kitted out yesterday and maybe a PKM

[kindred turtle]

you are on the late game part now, Im still in the swamps hahaha. I guess Im still currently midgame or almost midgame i think.

found a Seva suit and pretty much been using it till i get a better one

[serene barn]

i think i am only like 3 story missions ahead of you if you're in the swamps lol.

hmm, or maybe more

uh, swamp, there, that place, then Chemical plant for my playthrough, then Duga. 4 missions or so ahead.

[kindred turtle]

its taking me a bit of time to progress the story because i take missions on each bases to get them to green, atleast i dont have to pay a guide to go to zalissya.

Side missions. I mean. got a few more i believe in the Zaton

[serene barn]

pay a guide to go to Zalissya?

[kindred turtle]

yes because I have a good standing there(green) they pay more for the stuff i sell

[serene barn]

ok so, they don't

green should only mean that you pay less to repair

[kindred turtle]

you pay less for repairs/upgrades and they also pay more on the stuff you sell

[serene barn]

because i had a guy in Rostok as green, noted down what i paid for a 40mm and it stayed the same until i got past a point in the story where it seems the value has gone up slightly

[kindred turtle]

i guess its 25% more value(or less for repairs)

[serene barn]

i am almost certain that you do not pay less for upgrades nor buying from them.

[kindred turtle]

try selling/buying on a different area beside rostok, and compare it to zalisyaa or slagheap

[serene barn]

also you said 25%

[kindred turtle]

although i dont buy ammo from NPC

yeah if im not mistaken

[serene barn]

at the start of my run i sold medkits for 46, now i can sell them for 48

[kindred turtle]

saw this on a post "At "White Friendly" selling items at the primary firearms vendor will receive a +15% return. At "Green Friendly" the technician will give you a 25% discount to all repair costs."

[mellow knot]

music in game is so quiet. Shame really, the OST is really good, especially on Wild Island

[serene barn]

and that 40mm grenade was like 1510 and now it's 1480 or 90

[kindred turtle]

guides will be cheaper as well

[kindred turtle]

are we talking about|| ragman||? his prices stay the same

[serene barn]

the guides thing sounds right because i pay like 573 or something to go to some places with the one at Rostok

[serene barn]

no Ragman is ONLY for red guns, he pays less than the other trader and the woman

imma boot up, see if i have any main traders left who isn't green lol

[kindred turtle]

Making them green makes farming abit less tedious

a 15% increase in profit is very much welcomed after hauling a bunch of stuff on nearly max weight limit ( i dont even have an artifact yet that increases weight haha)

[serene barn]

There’s an artifact in Zaton that will help massively if you want

[serene barn]

ok so

Trader at Malachite pays 48 for a medkit, she's white rep

Rostok arms trader pays 48, he is green

green armor trader, also 48

Ragman, green, only pays 32

@kindred turtle ^

as for repairs, shot a round out of my fully upgraded Rhino revolver. white tech at malachite wanted 45, green tech at Rostok wants 34

[kindred turtle]

Do they pay differently for guns/artifacts? i failed to notice any price differences by selling medkits but pretty sure they pay differently for sausages. Heres a link Ive also found @serene barn

https://www.reddit.com/r/stalker/comments/1h4op52/stalker_2_item_value_chart_best_value_per_kg/ this is for selling stuff

[serene barn]

the main traders will pay the same for Artifacts too

Green main trader at Malachite pays 12.602 for a legendary artifact

that used to be aout 600 less but i am noticing that i now sell things for slightly more as i have passed a point in the story.

[kindred turtle]

maybe different zones have different prices? buying power?

[serene barn]

green main rostok trader also, pays 12.602

different values between zones is not a thing no

[kindred turtle]

Hmm try to check on my part of the zone in the boat base. For now I go rest at the campire its 2 am here, Good Hunting Stalker! @serene barn

[serene barn]

apparently the Rostok medic also pays full price for the medkits

[kindred turtle]

Ill try to check*

[serene barn]

white medic also pays 48.

[misty sinew]

Change my mind but anyone who came up with the bloodsucker roar and trip mechanics should not be hired in the gamedev lmao

Jesus also the popper anomaly

never in my life I've thought I'd be raging in a singleplayer game

[weary hedge]

Flash bang is rubbish and that kite bollocks controllers can do now.

[misty sinew]

Cool concept but horrible execution

[serene barn]

why would i, you're not wrong.

[misty sinew]

Shi looked cool one time in the prologue to impress tourists but is soo annoying to deal with if there's 4 bloodsuckers on you lol

[serene barn]

i've literally complained about the same things

also i am noticing they removed the RPG rocket from a old dead body's crotch in a story location, sad lol

[serene barn]

hmm, my game is freezing up more lately.

[river chasm]

Wdym it's pretty trivial to dodge once you understand how it works

Never bothered me again after that

[serene barn]

idek if it's Stalker or Steam that is acting up because when it happens then the steam window will also crash

[river chasm]

Agree on the roar attack for the bloodsuckers though

[serene barn]

it's an issue when there is a popper in a place with loot, even worse if there is 2 as you just factually, do not have the time window to loot the items with 2 there.

[misty sinew]

Yeah but it get tricky if there's more than two bloodsuckers on you at once lol. constants roars so I can't make distance/dodge and stuns

[serene barn]

i think they meant the popper

given you quite literally cannot dodge the roar

[weary hedge]

True. The Rostok memory leak takes my steam down too.

[serene barn]

i just picked up a mission from Barkeep, and i killed the guys he wanted me to but like, their bodies seemingly just despawned as soon as they died.-.

[lyric kayak]

The bloodsuckers roar?

[serene barn]

yeah. if you're in combat with them, you cannot dodge it

[lyric kayak]

Yeah, i've been playing on higher difficulties and its very annoying dealing with 3 at a time (at most places i deal with them)

Sometimes they just slaughter me outright, and I wear exos

[gloomy nebula]

Please work on the game

[serene barn]

man what is up with these guys' bodies just despawning on killing the last one..

[misty sinew]

I've also ran into this issue on the newest patch

[serene barn]

i also noticed that when i accepted the mission it said the pay woukd be 5k, but when i finished it, i got a pop up for 8k

[ornate sable]

They increased how much you get from some missions, but I guess they didn't update the dialogue text when you accept the mission

[frigid hill]

fbl7546 has been warned

Reason: Bad word usage

[echo gust]

Everybody stop what you're doing - a bad word

[serene barn]

i feel like they must've added something to that filter because it looks like it's in all the channels. like one of the scams lol

[magic vigil]

[weary hedge]

The roar-jump-attack-juggle. Highly effective.

[weary hedge]

And the body markers still show,but the bodies are gone. Have you been getting the double weapons too?

[serene barn]

no the markers are gone too, they full on despawned as soon as i killed the last one. i tried a few times to get their stuff by leaving one alive and i did it because 1 got wounded by the RGB i threw into the room.

and yeah the floating guns happen a few times

has anyone who uses anything that'd let you no clip, gone up to that sniper in Rostok to see if he has anything noteworthy on him?

[maiden grotto]

Nope

[serene barn]

oh wow. so in Rostok, there is an encounter between a loner and a freedomer where the freedomer sold some bandits a stash but they used the guns in the stash to kill their friends and the freedomer is saying it's not his fault but the loner is livid and starts shooting him, he won and then when i talked to him he says he's going to kill a kingpin that idk the name of, Pedal something maybe, turns out i already killed him so i told him and then when i got away from there he calls me up saying he checked and the guy really is dead so he thanked me and sent me some coupons. i wish there was more of this stuff in the game, i like that sort of thing

[lyric kayak]

An important guy for you to kill that you happen to kill already by happenstance? - Personally I hate that, it reminds me of New Vegas

[serene barn]

i don't even know at what point i would have met the guy either.

but like this was not a mission, a quest, it was just an encounter that is scripted to happen there when you get close lol.

[lyric kayak]

Reminds me of when I met that loser Caesar - Who was he again? Guy that likes Romans?

[serene barn]

what about him

[lyric kayak]

Just the idea of killing guys I dont even bother knowing- And then some idiot thanking me later for killing him

[maiden grotto]

I know the guy you mean... Set his entire faction up after the Roman Empire.

I killed him

[lyric kayak]

Bit of a peeve of mine, its kind of retarded

[cobalt fiber]

Ave to caesar

[maiden grotto]

Slap

[lyric kayak]

These plot imporant NPC's cant even live like theyre important - Like Caesar, they just sit in tents telling you background crap nobody cares for - He dies for this a majority of the time, because he's just- Nonsense, as a person he is nonsense lol

[cobalt fiber]

It's a shame so much got cut in NV cos legion run should have been fleshed out

[serene barn]

you can't get to that guy though without being sent there as part of the main questline....if you don't manage to understand the guy's importance then it's entirely on you because you absolutely get it explained to you

[cobalt fiber]

Caesar isn't nonsense though I can't agree with that

[lyric kayak]

The same goes for most STALKER characters though. What makes them think they deserve to be special in reality - People dont give a shit for legacy

[maiden grotto]

Makes burning them to the ground, so much nicer.

[cobalt fiber]

The whole idea behind the factions in NV was that no man or woman was right or wrong

[lyric kayak]

New vegas factions are all described as nonsense, failed mimics of former civiilizations

[cobalt fiber]

Yes but Caesar wasn't necessarily bad

[serene barn]

none of the factions in NV was just, good.

[cobalt fiber]

I'd take Legion over the NCR any day

[serene barn]

the dude is literally evil lmao.

[cobalt fiber]

Always swing a golf club at House

[lyric kayak]

He was, same as NCR, just a violent unstoppable force based on ideas he didnt even invent

[cobalt fiber]

Fuck House

[maiden grotto]

I burned them all to the ground.

[cobalt fiber]

Yes Man is probably the worst ending though

In terms of the fate of the Mojave

[lyric kayak]

From House to Caesar to even the vault dwellers and homesteaders from before the bombs fell, the entire, confirmed outcome of Fallout is war, and the people who make it dont change

[serene barn]

the yesman one feels like it could go really badly lol.

[cobalt fiber]

Courier can't sustain it

[lyric kayak]

House ending is basically just the real life Marilyn Monroe ending

[serene barn]

AI that controls a literal army of heavily armed robots, decides to reprogram itself to be more, assertive.

[cobalt fiber]

I always play as a real bastard so it's never gonna end well going yes man. Not for the people

I did a nice guy run once and it was just very boring

[lyric kayak]

I always liked my new vegas outcomes when they favored me personally, because then it actually works out for the average person too

[cobalt fiber]

Idk how people do it

[lyric kayak]

But if I serve some greater purpose everyone suffers every time

[cobalt fiber]

Should have just let Ulysses have his way

[primal snow]

yea, the major theme of FNV is old world blues

[lyric kayak]

Dreadlock nihilist hivemind

[primal snow]

literally used it for a dlc name to

[cobalt fiber]

OWB was a phenomenal dlc at that to9

The best one

[lyric kayak]

You can also just leave the world alone and like - Just let a homie grow some crops and raise a family ' Thats an option

[cobalt fiber]

You know what else is fun

[serene barn]

i feel like Lonesome Road could have been written better.

[lyric kayak]

(Ulysses backstory btw)

[cobalt fiber]

Kill all the ghouls instead of sending them on their way

[serene barn]

that whole, you the player is at fault for a whole place with functioning settlements and stuff came to an end but you didn't really do it because it happened before you the player got control of your own actions. bleh

[primal snow]

in terms of civilization the legion actually would probably be better to live under, their literally supposed to mimic the roman empire which was cruel and evil in war but their lands were peaceful and prosperous as a result and we have proof of that considering it’s said that many traders literally prefer legion lands because their peaceful unlike the NCRs

[maiden grotto]

For Duty

Mutants must die.

[lyric kayak]

Except that theyre an entirely automated autocracy thats erased entire states of people for state secrets and propagandic means

[cobalt fiber]

Legion also sorta makes sense given that it was said that most couriers were members of the legion

[lyric kayak]

People act like because the Legion is archaic, theyre incapable of lies lol, theyre simple, not stupid

[cobalt fiber]

@lyric kayak is a profligate

https://tenor.com/view/fallout-gif-13722871772856055676

[serene barn]

i mean, under Caesar, women were just breeding cattle. i never got the feeling he would have respected them in any way so i can't really see that he would have been good to live under

[lyric kayak]

Do not speak to me of heresy, I was there when the scripts were written

[primal snow]

the actual roman empire did that to, they stripped tribes and victims of their conquering and integrated them into their society

[serene barn]

that and if you as a man was weak you'd be killed if you just want a reason if you're a guy

[lyric kayak]

Yes thats the point of caesar, to display a failed empire and all of its views in a revival scenario - Its been done a lot

[cobalt fiber]

One thing we can all agree on

Tunnel snakes rule

[serene barn]

the faction i liked the from a standpoint of values, is Lyon's BoS from 3 lol

[primal snow]

that is if ur a target of the legion, that being their enemies, tribals, or raiders, as long as ur aren’t apart of a group they target you’d probably be left alone tbh, like good springs in the legion ending

[lyric kayak]

Tunnel Snakes!

[cobalt fiber]

Snake? Snake?! Snaaaake?!

[serene barn]

nah even if you were in the legion, if you had issues you'd be killed.

like you get hurt in battle? suck it up, here's some salve

[lyric kayak]

The propagandic part of the legion remains the same as it was before christ though, just like with the ancient Brittanians, the empire tells its people there are no enemies left, but even inside its own borders, its chaos

[primal snow]

i wish we had more legion content bc more questions would be answered about that kinda stuff 😭

[cobalt fiber]

There was meant to be

A lot was cut

[serene barn]

literally the only faction i remember in Fallout that is good as a whole feels like Lyon's BoS

[lyric kayak]

The Legion is told to have no old but its own dissenters like Ulysses, and even Graham and the Legate himself - Its a crusade guised as a revival, which has been done, even historically

[serene barn]

the Minutemen in 4 were alright but were very, if you don't help us we will let you die, in practical terms

[primal snow]

funny enough lyons were actually the true outcasts bc the outcasts followed the principles of the BoS

[cobalt fiber]

The Minutemen were annoying as shit though

[frigid hill]

twxx has been warned

Reason: Bad word usage

[maiden grotto]

Kill them on sight

[lyric kayak]

The NCR is a false diplomatic office based on profit and war coated in a flavorful layer of lies, same goes for the legion, if you go by the Legions values

[serene barn]

Lyon's understood that if you don't help people, there won't be anyone left at some point and then all your other things don't matter.

[cobalt fiber]

I got u @primal snow

[primal snow]

thanks 🙏

[lyric kayak]

But I meet Strelok here in the Zone and he acts as if he's bulletproof

A man's reputation is just his own propaganda, the moment he loses his strength he doesnt deserve a following

I think DMX said something like that once

[hoary crest]

Based Lyons

[serene barn]

seriously though

like what is your tech hording good for if everyone you robbed of tech ends up dead because you did that

[hoary crest]

I mean, I don't see it effecting the muties much ima be honest

[primal snow]

big reason why i don’t like the brotherhood, the chapters that follow the original ideals all suck

[vapid galleon]

Hello chat

[primal snow]

also the xenophobia 😭

[serene barn]

it just feels like the creator of the BoS had values and then they got twisted over time.

[lyric kayak]

Even as a Freedomer I understood the Brotherhood of Steels perspective in being more isolated after Lyons- He was a traitor after all

[serene barn]

maybe it's because i don't understand just how bad ghouls smell like but dawg, they're immune to radiation, something your world is LITTERED with. they have their use man.

[hoary crest]

I would imagine putting a ghoul in powerarmour would result in mincemeat from the servo pressure, but hey ho what do I know

[lyric kayak]

But even after all of this ethics chasing I felt Lyons fight, even if he won was for nothing, because the Enclave has damn clones on the Moon anyway!

Autumn isnt dead- They cloned him! (and Gucci Mane)

[serene barn]

like realistically you wouldn't be able to just whip up fresh Radaway from some herbs, you'd need the tech and stuff. so your supply is limited. Ghouls don't need it to survive when coming back with loot from an irradiated place.

[hoary crest]

The dregs of humanity being reduced to mere scavengers

[lyric kayak]

In lore they sort of do actually, Ghouls use radaway sometimes to prevent going feral or offsetting it

[serene barn]

the lore in what game?

[hoary crest]

Though you would think that at least some pre-war scientists who got Gholified is probably still knocking about somewhere, mightaswel put em to use as they'd understand a lot of the old world tech better

[lyric kayak]

3 starting off- Theres a ghoul doctor in some highly irradiated area of the map

[serene barn]

because idk if i can accept anything in the show as actual lore because some things just sounded made tf up.

[lyric kayak]

The show I wouldnt accept either lol, I'd be sparing to accept even 3 as real lore tbh - But ghouls do have a way to offset going feral, i'm just not sure of all the sources off the top of my head

[serene barn]

a ghoul doctor in an irradiated place, in Fallout 3? hmmmmmm

[lyric kayak]

But radiation increases and accelerates that going feral risk

[serene barn]

see idk if i feel like that makes sense because it feels weird when something is good for them but also is bad.

like ghouls heal with radiation, but it also makes them go Feral? meeeh

[lyric kayak]

Well as its put radiation has no immediate effect on them - It doesnt heal them off the cuff either, like Charon doesnt heal off Rads - But it does other things

They get varying results, but radiation is definitely canonically known to accelerate ghoulification

[serene barn]

well in Fallout 4, if you're in a place with radiation ghouls literally heal. using the Gamma gun on them? heals.

and there is literally the whole thing about the Glowing Ones too who literally heal Feral ghouls in 3 and NV iirc.

[lyric kayak]

Right ' But its also incredibly rare a glowing one hasnt gone feral - Continued exposure in lore is also different to game mechanics of course, with also prolonged exposure to consider

[serene barn]

like then it would be because only Ferals are healed by the rads which would make more sense but idk if it really would because they just lose their minds and become extremely primitive and animalistic

[lyric kayak]

Right - Not that im denying you but radiation has a lot more effects than the surface level, that we can agree on

So the Brotherhood really never had a reason to deny Ghouls aside from the factor of their own safety, its kind of moronic they never accepted ghouls

But you also wouldnt want to be Lyons, and just be giving water to poor people and wasting your time

[serene barn]

i feel like it's the same with Super mutants too like if the super mutants would stop being hostile of course.

[cobalt fiber]

Hey smoothskin

😏

[lyric kayak]

Bit more of a stretch but basically. yeah

[unreal basin]

So does anyone mind explaining what the bug with Malachite is and should I wait till it’s patched before progressing past Act 1?

[lyric kayak]

Mutants are just a side effect of the Brotherhoods reasoning - They shouldnt even bother killing mutants. Just confiscate the reckless tech that made them

[serene barn]

i meant their uses

got attacked on my way to Agroprom by some IPSF or what they are, and i shot someone with my Saiga and he stumpled backwards into a whirlygig

[mental slate]

Man I'm really looking forward to the expansions. I want to do more dungeon delving in weird laboratories and metros. I loved the feeling of almost being lost in the later facilities in Shadow of Chernobyl.

I'm not sure if anyone will get this comparison but it was like in OG ES2: Daggerfall, with the generative dungeons being one of the purest survival horror experiences

[maiden grotto]

I'm just looking forward to the game working 🙂

[mental slate]

Works plenty well from start to finish with latest patches. But I'm guessing you're talking about the sandbox features.

[maiden grotto]

No no... both my play throughs are bugged to feck.

The depth of the game is another issue, that will be addressed in time

[mental slate]

What are the bugs blocking your playthrough?

[cobalt fiber]

Heh

[maiden grotto]

Would you like to real off the list?

[serene barn]

i've literally kept seeing people talking about doors not opening on their Ward runs and Ghosts of people not moving on their Spark runs lol.

[last saddle]

anyone care to talk me off the fence of buying monster hunter

main thing i heard is its stupid easy. which is a big turn off

[mental slate]

I've finished the game twice, and the only progress block I had on the first playthrough was in Zalissya when the doors to the townhall wouldn't open during the attack.

[serene barn]

while i haven't looked into or much, that feels like the first i hear of it in terms of difficulty

[mental slate]

The co-op system is bunk, the game is over priced, the performance is bad, bad-faith microtransactions, and it probably should have just been a new expansion for MH:W instead of a new game.

[last saddle]

dont care for co-op tbh but yeah the performance thing is something else ive heard a lot about. but i played through stalker and loved it lol

reviews are hard to trust nowadays

[mental slate]

I'm biased too because when the game comes down to just grinding for new gear, it gets stale fast. After the main story or quest is done, I don't stick around the game too long, so it's just not for me really. I enjoyed Monster Hunter Rise and Sunbreak a lot, but again the endgame is just not for me unless there's new activites or story.

[last saddle]

fair enough

[serene barn]

i feel like the only time i heard performance was an issue, it was for pc

[mental slate]

Yep, bad PC port. It was always a console centric game for sure.

[last saddle]

ill probably just scoop it up

[mental slate]

One of the reviews that summed it up for me was that it felt very corporate. And once I found out it has no cooking Felynes, I refunded immediately.

[last saddle]

that i can believe. in other words woke

is there cooking at all?

there def is. its MH

[mental slate]

Yes

[last saddle]

but yeah capcom isnt what it used to be

[mental slate]

It would be cool if Stalker had cooking

[last saddle]

yeah, wouldnt be very useful i guess but still a cool feature

[mental slate]

I think the only good thing they have been doing is the last RE games have been bangers

everything after RE6 has been really good IMO

[last saddle]

havnt tried them. but the remakes were fire

[mental slate]

Psy dog stew would be good

[serene barn]

i wouldn't really want Stalker to have cooking

like it wouldn't add much to the game. like we already have food in the game, almost everyone we kill hhas a snack on em

[maiden grotto]

No, but you still better food mechanics etc

[mental slate]

Fleshes rack o' ribs

[serene barn]

i'd rather want new things instead of just another source of food

[last saddle]

food should be harder to come by but i understand why they did it this way

[maiden grotto]

Most of the food you find, should be rotten

[wintry pumice]

It should have cooking, we kill so many things, atleast some of them should be cooked

[mental slate]

Yeah I just mean for the immersion factor, similar to MH, the cool animation and details, and the sort of reprieve

[wintry pumice]

Bandit stew sounds nice

[mental slate]

Maybe there could be an animation of sharing the food with your brats and taking vodka shots

[maiden grotto]

Because everything is so unbalanced and basic, you couldn't put anything else in its place.

[serene barn]

do i think that cooking feels like it would fit in the universe? yeah of course it would, we already know that people are eating literally at least 3 of the mutants in the game.

[mental slate]

I think there should be less food and water and drinks, but also your stamina and other meters take longer to diminish

[last saddle]

yeah pretty much

[serene barn]

i absolutely hate that Skif, a trained soldier, can only sprint 20meters when you're in the red lol.

[mental slate]

it's hard to sprint with 80kg on your back, lol

[serene barn]

i'm sure it is but like.

20 meters.

[frigid hill]

rainthunderspark has been warned

Reason: Bad word usage

[mental slate]

i think you should still be able to sprint, but you take health damage, because you are damaged your vertebrae

[last saddle]

the artifacts do help with that but yeah it is cut short

[maiden grotto]

Or swiping a knife, was as energetic as running a marathon.

But I think this has changed now tbf.

[serene barn]

i wish they didn't fuk up endurance with making it only affect your recovery

[serene barn]

what has changed?

[mental slate]

You can only swing your knife like 4 times, yeah that is dumb

[ornate sable]

A trained soldier who's spent the last years in front of the TV eating frozen pizza, and 80kg on his back? Feels about right IMO.

[last saddle]

lol

[mental slate]

Knife is weak already, shouldnt cost so much stamina at all for balance reasons

[last saddle]

knife works ok on dogs

[serene barn]

the stamina drain of your actions depends on your weight colour.

[last saddle]

or rats

[mental slate]

Yeah sitting at home swigging beers and eating garlic coils all day isn't good for cardio

[last saddle]

never heard the term garlic coils if youre talkin about garlic knots

[serene barn]

why the shit are you saying it like he's fat

[mental slate]

garlic coils, aka kielbasa

[last saddle]

oh sausages apparently lol

[serene barn]

being in the red makes your slashes use like half of your 3 bars

[mental slate]

Maybe the first expansion will a prequel showing how Skif lived for the 6 months before the anomaly blew up his house, turns out he was a gamer playing CS and chain smoking

[serene barn]

i also hate that if you're in red and you're in deep water, it uses all 3 bars just to jump

[mental slate]

Yeah it's annoying but it makes sense, i encourage you to try wearing 80kg on your back in waist high water and jumping

or jumping in waist high water in general, lol

[serene barn]

my issue with it is that you get COMPLETELY stuck in that water

like if you can touch the bottom you can walk but not in the game

[maiden grotto]

Knife isn't a stamina drain... but was wearing a thunderberry

[serene barn]

it is a stamina drain though, what do you mean

[maiden grotto]

What do think I mean?

I wasn't running out energy like before.

[serene barn]

the stamina that is used hasn't been mentioned in any patch notes

i feel like it just depends on how much weight you're carrying

like if you're in green it takes like half a bar, if you're in yellow it takes like 3/4 a bar

[maiden grotto]

And?

They made 5000+ fixes, most of which hasn't been mentioned in patch notes.

[serene barn]

the key point was that being at different capacity levels dictate the amount used for actions like sprinting, jumping, bashing and swinging the knife

[unreal basin]

So does anyone mind explaining what the bug with Malachite is and should I wait till it’s patched before progressing past Act 1?

[maiden grotto]

Like I said, I was using a thunderberry... so could have been that.

[lyric kayak]

Eh, a ghoul is worth much less than a set of power armor and theyre equally as rare, nobody with any power has any use for ghouls in a practical sense

[serene barn]

even with a Thunderberry, if you're in red while trying to stab some dogs or Rodents you're screwed. if you're not standing still or have toggled walking, you're taking forever to regenerate th stamina needed for a knife swing and i don't like that it works that way. especially when the game can just decide to spawn in a Rodent horde while you're hauling loot

[serene barn]

idk why you're even talking about power armor now.-.

[lyric kayak]

Every use a ghoul has- power armor makes up for, Danse brought that up

[serene barn]

Power Armor does not make you immune to rads

[lyric kayak]

Ghouls are useful, but not in Fallouts timeline, most factions reach power by the time radiations done, and even then most have a workaround

And- It kind of does. Brotherhood tech is just rad-immune, they've said so

[unreal basin]

Where is that ever stated?

[lyric kayak]

Fallout 4, you can avoid most of the main story and glowing sea with T-45

[serene barn]

it does not make you immune lol.

[unreal basin]

Game mechanics, also you can still die from radiation in power armor

[serene barn]

it just makes you highly resistant

and what do you need to use power Armor? now you need a Fusion Core.

[unreal basin]

Run into enough end game gear equipped Children of Atom to find out the hard way

[serene barn]

and those are limited, i don't believe we know of a faction that has the tech to produce new Fusion cores, closest would be The damn Enclave

[lyric kayak]

Ghouls are more limited than power armor by BOS standards

[serene barn]

that one Fusion Core recharger from Fallout 76 is not cannon either

that feels like such a weird statement

[unreal basin]

Was it ever stated that the design retcon got rid of the Micro-Fusion packs that power armor in older games used?

[lyric kayak]

It's not, the brotherhood has a limitless supply of power armor and a power supply, obviously, its been made canon several times over

[serene barn]

we have more power armors than there is ghouls.. i uh, yeah idk how the flip they would even know this as a fact

that is literally just like having plot armor....

[unreal basin]

If they had a limitless supply then why the heck aren’t all there knights equipped with it

[lyric kayak]

Well yeah, Bethesda loves the BOS, theyve been invincible since 3

[unreal basin]

Also that limitless supply of T-60 is gonna run out once they run out of T-45s to retrofit

[lyric kayak]

There are actually, part of becoming a knight is getting armor, some just dont earn it in the field in time like Rhys

[serene barn]

i feel like you're straying away from whether things in the game would be realistic lol.

[lyric kayak]

Nooo, I promise i'm not being bias, Bethesda wrote the Bos to be like this by 3.

[serene barn]

like i been talking about it from if i think these things made any sense in a realistic setting

[unreal basin]

Do some people still think X-01 and APA Mk1 are the same armor?

Cause that got changed with a bit of lore in 76

[serene barn]

which one is the APA MK1 again

[unreal basin]

Enclave Armor from Fallout 2

[lyric kayak]

I can promise you the brotherhood is written to be inherintly flawed and overpowered, by the end of 3 even, they have insane resources and influence, from armor to fuel to newly salvaged tech

[serene barn]

the uhh, one with like a fan on the back?

[unreal basin]

Yea

[serene barn]

i always viewed them as different

they look different, very.

[unreal basin]

X-01 got retconed into being the prototype for APA Mk1 in 76 which I’m glad for

[serene barn]

my faviourite looking Enclave PA is either the "Black Devil" type or Hellfire

[unreal basin]

It also means APA Mk1 didn’t get retconed into using fusion cores

[lyric kayak]

X-01 and all of these armors have an exact invention spot in time though yk, so the tech's all there

Enclave and Brotherhood of Steel have immense power and influence that you as a player cant have influence on

[unreal basin]

I’m still kinda upset about hellfire being retconed to being a prewar design in 76

[lyric kayak]

Enclave has cloning facilities on the moon, pre-America ties, they invent a new Deathclaw variant every 25yrs

[unreal basin]

Tbh I rather go with a Exosuit from STALKER than Fallout pa, seems less maintenance intensive

[serene barn]

i mean...

[lyric kayak]

Honestly a huge power difference but STALKER exo wins. Power armor is famous for being used in short deployments

[serene barn]

we don't even know how an Exo skeleton is given power nor how long it would last.

that and i feel like Power Armor would also take a bullet a bit better than an Exo skele would

not to mention maybe the PA operator would also take a round better than the Exo operator lol

[lyric kayak]

Yeah the power difference is obvious, and vast

[unreal basin]

Yeah but it’s probably cheaper than replacing the entire limb piece of armor when its broken beyond repair

[serene barn]

like in Fallout lore, the fuison cores would basically never run out

in game they do for a balance reason because Power Armor is really good in the games

[unreal basin]

I’d rather not carry a possible mininuke on my back into an actual combat scenario

[lyric kayak]

Clearly power armor from Fallout regardless of variant is capable of shredding through Exo like tissue - Exo is more capable, reliable, usable in every aspect

Power armor is obviously stronger and more durable

[unreal basin]

How tuff are STALKER Gauss rifles compared to Fallout’s?

[serene barn]

i wonder what a Power Armor chassis would look like if it did not have holes lol

man i despise Fallout 4s Gauss Rifle model

[lyric kayak]

I'd say STALKER has much stronger anomalous weapons than fallout, because fallouts anomalous things are mostly just unique and different, while STALKERS are stronger, innately legendary

[serene barn]

so many of 4s guns just look terrible

[unreal basin]

Isnt the STALKER Gauss Rifle just an anti-tank rifle to the extreme?

[serene barn]

Stalker Gauss Rifle is practically an anti material gun.

[lyric kayak]

As much as i hate to reference it, Fallout 76 has alot of impressive canon weapons to Fallout thatd put STALKER to shame

[serene barn]

i went and talked to the Ward Tech at the Chemical Plant after the failed attack on Duga

and apparently the Ward, maybe not as a whole, do not know about the Gauss Guns

[unreal basin]

I want to progress past Act 1, but I’m worried about the Malachite bug I’ve seen multiple people here mention

[serene barn]

he basically asked what kind of weapon punches a clean uniform hole through armor and the man wearing it.

[lyric kayak]

If Scar, a reputal meth head can make Guass rifles as dangerous as they are I can only imagine a reputable scientist having one

[unreal basin]

I imagine they’re probably quite rare by that point in time right?

[serene barn]

the Gauss Rifles have always been rare.

[unreal basin]

As in single digits number of them?

[lyric kayak]

To be realistic, if youre comparing the Fallout and STALKER universes here, its going to be a complex comparison with a lot of factors before anyone is satisfied

[serene barn]

well maybe not no. it does however seem that these ones are a different version of them with how much they have changed from the old games

when i get a Gauss Rifle this run i will likely start to carry it. mostly just for mutants maybe

[lyric kayak]

But if Fallout and STALKER are being compared, i'd only like to say- Duty needs to do a better job, the BoS would be very dissapointed

[unreal basin]

So is it safe for me to progress past the SIRCCA mission or is doing that gonna bug my game if I dont wait for the next patch?

[serene barn]

idek what bug you've been on about

[unreal basin]

Some people have been saying theres a bug where Malachite stc turns perma hostile after SIRCCA

[cobalt fiber]

No it doesn't

Malachite turns hostile after Malachite defense

[serene barn]

while it does happen after SIRCAA

[cobalt fiber]

[serene barn]

it is several missions past that.

[unreal basin]

So I’m good to progress then, man I keep getting worried about bugging my current play through like my first one was

[cobalt fiber]

SIRCCA has the potential to mess up Zalissya defense dependant on an emission unless it was fixed which i don't think it was

And there's a single side quest in Duga that's inaccessible after SIRCCA

[unreal basin]

Ive done the Duga sidequest, Sound of Music right?

[serene barn]

yeah

[unreal basin]

So if a emission happens before I go to Zalissya after SIRCCA it’ll bug out?

[cobalt fiber]

Fairly sure it's still a thing but basically

The emission was messing up the AI

So they'd all be stuck inside and wouldn't come out

There was a workaround to save Zalissya but you'd still end up losing the tech

[unreal basin]

So do the Wild Island mission for Doc after helping Zalissya?

[cobalt fiber]

I'd bomb it straight to zalissya from sircca yeah

[unreal basin]

Alrighty then

[cobalt fiber]

If it bugs out you basically have to keep going in/out of Zalissya but not going too far so that it fails

It's painful lol

[unreal basin]

Probably gonna side with Ward cause Scar, lets just say he does not give me good vibes, also because I can’t side with the Noontiders for the rest of the game

[cobalt fiber]

And not really worth it considering you only save 2 notable people anyway

My final pt is ward

But I got into KCD again for a completionist run since

[unreal basin]

I’m gonna go now before I see a spoiler for the other Acts

[serene barn]

apparently you cannot save Hamster still

[cobalt fiber]

Poor hamster

[serene barn]

despite them saying they fixed that in a patch

[cobalt fiber]

Yeah lol

[unreal basin]

Should I just wait till the next patch?

[cobalt fiber]

When I last played you could only complete 2 of the defense objectives too

The guys on the hill being one

Couldn't fetch the gun

I'm waiting for significant patches before continuing my ward pt

I rushed KCD the first time so I've committed to all side quests so that'll take me a while

We'll see if and when

[serene barn]

i was really looking forward to having him live this 2nd run too....

[unreal basin]

Back to my AC6 restart run then

[serene barn]

back when i did the mission sometime in uh, prolly Dec, i was able to find the gun and the tools just fine but Hamster would die as if scripted.

[cobalt fiber]

The first time I played it went fine other than one quest

The collars bugged out as I had all but 1. The snork near garbage was already dead and game didn't register me looting the collar

That really wound me up at the time

[serene barn]

but now i got the tools just fine, then i kept the gun, Hamster died as soon as the assault starts as if scripted annnnd i CANNOT GET RID OF THAT DAMN GUN

[cobalt fiber]

It felt like I was being punished for doing heavy exploration as I'm unsure if I did in fact kill the snork but left the collar for later

[serene barn]

i am literally in X-5 and this damn thing still is quest marked.

[unreal basin]

I’ll probably do some artifact hunting to finish out some weapon upgrades and then setup fir the Swamp mission then just wait to do it till the bugs are patched

[serene barn]

i turned in all 4 collars to Dupalov when i met him today

at least i think 4 is what there is.

Controller, Psidog, Snork, Psudo

🤔

which ones do you even see during the mission with Nightingale?

there's also the PsiCat

[cobalt fiber]

The psudo one man...

What a trip that was

I cheesed it hopping from one container to another

He'd get stuck in a corner for 3 seconds each time

[ornate sable]

Got him stuck in one place after jumping on a container, then dumped some mags of saiga slugs into him until he died.

[serene barn]

back when i did that the first time last year, it had no cooldown on the telekinesis move....

it would just throw the objects with no warning

[cobalt fiber]

See we say he

What if it's a she

[serene barn]

it died

[cobalt fiber]

Kinda feel bad for them

Can't do anything with those arms

[serene barn]

i killed the one in Bloodsucker Village earlier today too

it was a good fight too lel, did wear down my Saiga a good 20% as i shot like 50 shells through it and used a few mags of my Kharod but at least i didn't take hits

[low bison]

uhhh guys i dropped skifs pistol im not sure how but i clicked drop and it just vanished

[drifting forge]

What is Ward doing in the Zone 💀

[terse ravine]

burers can sometimes pull skifs pistol out of your inventory

[lyric kayak]

Gay shit

[drifting forge]

Real

[serene barn]

hmm, is there a way to get a Burer to respawn?

[drifting forge]

Loading a save

[terse ravine]

scripted mutants respawn in their locations

[serene barn]

i was thinking about if it would be possible to get a Burer to yoink my Quest marked Partner gun...this thing just does not lose the quest marker, it's bugged and it's pissing me off

[unreal basin]

Any of yall ever encounter 2 Psuedogiants at Bloodsucker village?

[serene barn]

no, only time i fought 2 at once was those mobile labs in Prip

[unreal basin]

I just hope I don’t get a repeat of 3 chimeras in the swamp at once…

[drifting forge]

Holy shit yes

[ornate sable]

I did. Got there late in my playthrough, guitar guy was already dead on the ground and the Pseudo was there. I went there looking for it to test my gauss gun though, only realized half way through that I was fighting two of them.

Only 1 at mobile labs in Prip and at Duga though.

[drifting forge]

How the hell does a gauss not do anything against them too lol

[serene barn]

how much damage does the Gauss do again

hmm, looks like 500

with 80% armor pen

[ornate sable]

500 on paper, with 80% pen?
According to the chart it should need 8 hits to kill a Pseudogiant, but I've taken them down in 3-6. 3 with all hits to the head (the one at mobile labs, never even got close to me before it died). Again, chart says it has no headshot multiplier, but it seems like it does to me.

[serene barn]

would prolly not be the first time the guy got something wrong

i saw the sheet back when it said only like 3 mutants had armor.

[ornate sable]

It seems high pen adds a lot of damage somehow, not sure exactly how the calculations work. Lots of modifiers I guess.

[serene barn]

and he still has all PKMs listed as doing 20 damage when iirc, Beast is listed in game as doing more

[feral horizon]

I think the small patch from today imroved the A-life. I saw 3 bloodsuckers running around in zaton. I've never seen that before.

[serene barn]

i've seen 2 of them do that like, a few weeks ago

they also run like they've got a damn mission i tell you.

[ornate sable]

Seen that before too, from a distance. I let them keep running, they never aggro'd.

[serene barn]

sometimes the game spawns them in outside of their aggro range

[ornate sable]

Also, was there a patch today? Doesn't seem like I got one on my end.

[serene barn]

and it's funny how many times it's happened and i instinctively just assume it's a guy

because the other times i see a Bloodsucker it's already told me loudly that it's coming for me already

[feral horizon]

Its like 6 megabytes.

[harsh jungle]

I opened a stash and got yeeted into the void

[ebon blade]

Where?

[vernal lily]

[pallid thorn]

is the afsb bugged for anyone else? everytime i ads and fire it stops aiming. i play on xbox, and its the only gun that does it

[harsh jungle]

below duty’s base

[harsh jungle]

[ebon blade]

The safe underground, beneath the Trader?

I found the bar stash more difficult.

[harsh jungle]

yea I got yeeted into the void

[hoary crest]

Waiting for shader compilation after updating drivers is so painfully long ¬.¬

[ebon blade]

Always make a manual save before you enter any underground.

[harsh jungle]

ok

[ebon blade]

In fact, you should make frequent manual saves at all times. Especially before taking a job, going to a PDA location for a job or main/side mission and/or while traveling.

You never know if you might be in some location where there is no shelter for an Emission.

[ornate sable]

True for any stalker game. Always make manual saves.

[slender trench]

Jesus. I just found Glutton and this thing is absolutely massive. It weighs just over 40 pounds.

Does anybody know if anybody has asked the dev team about removing scopes from unique weapons?

[ornate sable]

If you unload it, it's not that heavy actually. 500rds weigh a lot!
And yeah, would be nice if we could add/remove optics more freely.

[river chasm]

Uh... okay

[slender trench]

Thanks!

[ornate sable]

I will fill my cup with coffee and just not spill it if you can avoid bumping into me, thanks.

[slender trench]

Sounds like something Freedom would say.

[wintry pumice]

Instead of coffee, fill it with vodka

[vernal lily]

[ornate sable]

Do both. Appropriate mixing ratio is when you can put a coin in the bottom of the cup, and still barely see it when it's full.

[vernal lily]

Real

[primal snow]

bruh

can we like get this guy executed? @charred nova

[charred nova]

yah

[primal snow]

thanks 🙏

true legend of the zone fr fr

[charred nova]

[wintry pumice]

Damn it, what did I miss?

[charred nova]

some guy posted a thug orgy gif

[wintry pumice]

Bot?

[charred nova]

nah probably just some dude who was like 14

and thought it would be epic and based to post lol

[wintry pumice]

If people wanna do something epic and based, they should follow Scar

[charred nova]

https://tenor.com/view/people-who-don't-know-vs-people-who-know-those-who-don't-know-vs-those-who-know-gif-18075947697117816471

[ornate sable]

Scar is based and schizo-pilled

[wheat minnow]

Good morning!!

[stark crescent]

wtf..my stalker 2 had a small update and it didnt had to redownload the entire game. did gsc finally figured out how to update their game

[north holly]

Hello

Why a slowmode to chat?

[ebon blade]

Was there something you were trying to say faster?

[north holly]

Not really but why is there slowmode in ever single channel?

I feel this is the reason why most of the time server is dead

[fickle mesa]

man screw the arena, clone jutsu dog is so annoying

[north holly]

Hello brother

[weary hedge]

Saiga is better anyway.

[fickle mesa]

I’ve been enjoying the ram a lot tbh, saiga too good

[weary hedge]

The RAM is for when slug and buckshot saiga are tired.

[fickle mesa]

something about deleting a bloodsucker in 2 seconds with the saiga just gets boring eventually lol

[weary hedge]

If they keep coming 3 at ones, it's the only tool for the job.

[ornate sable]

Even so, the Saiga just makes it a bit too easy when 3 suckers should be a very tough fight.

[vernal lily]

I just deemed them annoying at this point after that time where 7 spawned in and came at me at once. So now I just want to delete them asap.

[weary hedge]

Does this games achievements only work if you have a internet connection?

[ebon blade]

The Steam achievements do.

[weary hedge]

Wank actually. What if you want to play offline?

[frigid hill]

rainthunderspark has been warned

Reason: Unspecified

[serene barn]

lol ok.

[ebon blade]

Cease this conversation immediately or be muted. I've warned you to get back on topic.

[ebon blade]

As far as I know the connection has to be active for Steam, to get input when you meet the requirements for an achievement.

[weary hedge]

Well I have it now for the arch artifacts... Moving on.

[boreal coyote]

what did you do? 😂

[maiden grotto]

Type something.

[boreal coyote]

who, me?

[indigo oriole]

Is true they will add missing weapon attachments ? Or even saiga drum mag available earlier?

[serene barn]

the Saiga drum is only available past the point of no return.

[indigo oriole]

No sit ?

[serene barn]

And it’s unknown whether they will add the unobtainable attachments too

[serene barn]

I don’t know what that is supposed to mean

[indigo oriole]

Thx anyway

[drifting forge]

Wait there are unobtainable ones??

Ik the sniper suppressor is hard to get but I didn't know about any more

[serene barn]

Drum mag for the GP37, dual mags for the Kharod, SVD/SVU suppressor

[drifting forge]

Huh

They really should be added. G-36 deserves a buff lol

[serene barn]

There’s also cut or not yet working guns like a mosin or the RPD machine gun

[drifting forge]

Yea

Btw how do you mount the PSOP-6 to guns. I remember finding it in my first playthrough a while ago but it didn't work

[serene barn]

It only works on a few guns, I don’t remember if they need a mount for it given it’s a dovetail or something

[maiden grotto]

Why do people call it gp36?

Is gp37.

[drifting forge]

GP-37 + G-36

[maiden grotto]

Just GP-37

[drifting forge]

Yeah that's the in game name but imo that's how people confuse it

[weary hedge]

Mosin was seemingly cut in early stages due to how unfinished the model is while RPD is fully in the game but missing configs meaning it got cut close to release

[serene barn]

It’s bothering me it did because i would have loved to have a middle ground between an ar and machine gun instead of a nerfed and hugely impractical PKM

[peak yacht]

Can you only get one special (the gun)

I am only asking because I seem to have picked up two from some random dead guy in corden

[maiden grotto]

Everything about the ballistics in this game is wrong.

[serene barn]

like why is the 7.62x39 as heavy as a sniper round? don't they know this lol

i also just found like, almost 500 if not 500 rounds of it in a place in my Ward run, neat, did also see an extended mag for the SVU but for some reason it's not a thing you can grab sadly.

[serene barn]

the guy is supposed to just have 1, he did for me, but for some people he had 2

[peak yacht]

Oh cool thanks

[white bough]

people like you is the reason Africa is struck by famine and India is worshipping cows

[serene barn]

nu-uh

[frigid hill]

_serjojo has been warned

Reason: Bad word usage

[slender trench]

What really irks me is the Lynx. It has a scope that you can't remove, and, while having more penetration than its normal counterpart, it has reduced range. Using the scope at long-range feels awful because of the insane universal bullet drop, but not being able to remove the scope makes it awkward to use in mid-range engagements due to flinching when shot.

[serene barn]

i mean i looked at the range stat and it's not really that bad

it has 50% more pentration but 25% less range it seems

[slender trench]

It feels like the bullet drop is worse than the fully modified AK74 with a scope.

[serene barn]

i don't think i ever really shot at people from far enough away that i noticed drop....

[slender trench]

It could be that I've not found much ammunition for the rifle yet. I do have about 70k saved up, but I'm going to dump it into upgrades after progressing the main story a bit further. I'm trying to refrain from buying ammo.

[serene barn]

idk if the sheet has any stats for bullet drop

only gun i actually noticed drop on was the 9x39 guns like VSS and AS

[slender trench]

Yeah, subsonic ammo. It's like that for the other games in the trilogy as well.

I find it really weird how the Rhino uses 9x39

[serene barn]

idk if the Grom has the same drop at the suppressed 9x39 guns

[slender trench]

Probably not. The weapons are not at all how they would realistically perform. 9x39 would behave somewhat similarly from weapon to weapon, with some variations based on the weapon's design, but a modder poked through the game files and basically found that weapons use no such logic whatsoever. Guns in S2 dictate overall stats, rather than the ammunition.

[serene barn]

i wish a little that the Grom was better than it is

[slender trench]

Oh, no. Is it trash? It was my favorite weapon in Shadow of Chernobyl.

[frigid hill]

oleksa27 has been warned

Reason: Bad word usage

[serene barn]

i remember liking the unique one that took 545 instead

there is something like it in 2 as well. but it just doesn't have very good stats

However, it does still have the grenade launcher and I don’t know if the grenades are worse than 40mm but they’re lighter so it probably wouldn’t be bad to use if enemies are grouped.

[slender trench]

I still need more practice with the launcher. It's been tricky trying to guesstimate the arc. I recall the Grom (Groza) having some bullet drop in the prior games, but you could compensate for that with upgrades. From my experience so far, it's difficult to discern which ranged upgrade (muzzle velocity/damage falloff/range/flatness) is best for any given situation because they are all appear really similar to one another, but seem to impact overall performance in small ways. Maybe I'm overthinking it when trying to optimize any given weapon.

[cedar panther]

Well after 5 days and 23 minutes i have finally reached down below. And before i go in ima wait out what next weeks update is gonna bring to the table

[slender trench]

Despite the game's many flaws and questionable design decisions. I think it's going to shape up really well in the coming months and years. It has really a good foundation. The community is going to go nuts when modding support is released, if Anomaly/Gamma is any indication.

[serene barn]

generally i'd skip on velocity if you can because unlike the old games, Stalker 2 only has a draw distance of 100m and most of your fights happen well within those 100m

i don't know exactly what the difference on drop off range and just range is however...like idk why that needed to really be 2 different things.

[slender trench]

Right? It seems some range upgrades could be consolidated to reduce confusion.

[serene barn]

it frankly feels a little like they did that to give an illusion of choice..

i think i remember the Kharod having a drop off upgrade with just 7%...

idk if it means like 7% of the drop off range is pushed out further to make it drop off later than normally

[maiden grotto]

A 7% upgrade is a clue to what it does.

[kindred turtle]

cant find|| bobber in schevchenko after 3 captains, only found beard living with sultan|| anybody knows what happened?

[serene barn]

i feel like you're missing the point

[cedar panther]

Im also looking forward to mods on console first mod i would download is to carry more and to have more choice in gun customization like more sights and maybe some new mag types if they are there

[maiden grotto]

No... it's easy to understand.

[serene barn]

like the Kharod by default has a Drop Off range of 25m, idk what the first range stat really means but 7% of 25m doesn't really sound like a lot.

and if Range does the exact same thing then the range upgrade is just better factually

[maiden grotto]

It's not.

[serene barn]

the upgrade was not Range but Armor Pen but it could have been. like i just don't get the difference between Range, and Drop Off Range. if Range would push it's drop off point anyway

[serene barn]

it's not what, 25m?

[kindred turtle]

so uhh does anyone got an answer or i just got bugged or something

[maiden grotto]

Not a lot... come on man... you make a point saying it doesn't sound a lot.

Then I post is not, what do you honestly think I could be talking about...

It's not bread.
It's not sausage

[serene barn]

kay

[kindred turtle]

Did ||Bobber disappear after the 3 captains quest? he still have the icons but no one on the counter/stand||

[unreal basin]

Should I even bother grabbing the Fora mags part in the Swamps if U already have one?

[serene barn]

you mean the extended Fora/Kharod mag? i mean if you already have 1, a 2nd would either just collect dust or be worth a bit of coupons

[unreal basin]

I just don’t want to stay any longer in the Clear Sky parts of the swamp, and I don’t want to come back later

[maiden grotto]

Keep them... just incase you lose the weapon... Burger pulls it out your hand and its lost the the abyss.

[serene barn]

if you're not in the habit of quicksaving regularily

[unreal basin]

I do

I’m gonna grab it, just so I don’t have to deal with swamp stash markers later

[last saddle]

new stashes always pop up. even from looting bodies

[unreal basin]

New ones just spawn from looting bodies I know, most of em are showing up in Pripyat for me currently

[serene barn]

hmm, i feel like the PKM kicks more than it did when i played back in Dec

[maiden grotto]

But you can find stashies before they appear on the map... I have lost count of the number of stashes that have nothing in them, becaue I have cleared it out.

[last saddle]

yeah you def can

they never end tho

you can go to the same stash twice and it be restocked if you keep randomly looting etc

[serene barn]

i've only had already looted stashes a few times

[sage star]

Still crazy to think Skif does all this because is apartment blew up

[serene barn]

supposedly all he's been doing before that was selling dud artifacts on the black markets.

it's hard to know how well off he was from it.

does seem a little weird that he would go to a place that he was literally always warned about yeah

[narrow violet]

Does anybody played Stalker CoP CooP by chance ? I want to download it to play with my little bro

[weary hedge]

I thought he was just doing pmc merc work.

[serene barn]

he used to serve in some unit but he was never in the zone from what i understood.

[weary hedge]

Yeah, I also understood he was never in the zone.

[narrow violet]

He served in the army and even was in a war but he never was in the zone

[serene barn]

like idk, i feel like the reasoning behind him leaving to literally go to the zone without any real clue about what he is even doing there

is just a bit, weird......

[sage star]

I assumed by doing odd jobs there wasnt any deeper meaning for that

Oh and the army let him keep his gun, a bit odd

[narrow violet]

Well the only thing he had (his apartmant) was destroyed by something from the zone wich so a logical idea would be that to find the one who is reponsible and make him for it i mean i would do the same

Well about the gun yes its wierd but maybe he bought it on black market

[serene barn]

the issue with that is that, how would he know, that SOMEONE happens to be responsible for an anomaly/artifact appearing in his apartment, which is well out of the Zone's area?

Hermann only ever tells him they can recharge artifacts using the scanners and that's really it.

[smoky hawk]

it's not uncommon to keep Honorary Weapons given to you for great achivements during service

[serene barn]

like i don't feel like he went into the Zone, knowing anything about SIRCAA nor that they would want the artifact he happens to have

[sage star]

In Ukraine?

[smoky hawk]

yes

[maiden grotto]

Well, the zone is a secret I guess...

The first thing you do is go to the authorities...

And of course, an artifact, destroying a house outside the zone, would have turned the head everyone who had heard of the zone.

And for his artifact, he would have been made very Rich.

There was no way he needed to go zone at all.

[narrow violet]

Well...

Idk he might have had an artifact that he thougth that have been spent and wanted to sell tomorow but in reality it wasn't

Well anyway i still got blocked at Clear Sky working for the C-con

[serene barn]

well the artifact was, spent, like they run out of power when outside of the zone, it's why they call them dud artifacts because they run out

[narrow violet]

Yes but what if it faked its dud state ?

[maiden grotto]

But this one wasn't

[serene barn]

Skif knows about artifacts as he sells them on the black market, he knows that they run out of power when outside of the zone.

the arch artifact also does run out as when you give it to Hermann to put into the scanner, it no longer is glowing.

and then in the zone, we recharge it.

[narrow violet]

Yes thats why i said that the artifact may have been faking being a dud

And got on power randomly

[serene barn]

idk what you really mean here lol

[maiden grotto]

Then he can afford to buy a new house.

And he also knows that it is no ones fault.

[narrow violet]

Well yeah this seems logic

[serene barn]

we do not know if selling funny thingymabobs that doesn't do anything, is a lucrative business

he makes it sound as if that apartment was all he had so he must not be well off.

[narrow violet]

Sorry i made a typo up there

Well i bought an apartmant recently and they are not cheap he might have spent all his money on buying it

And selling duds and taking part time jobs just to have money for day to day living ?

[last saddle]

maybe skif just likes shooting things

[serene barn]

i mean my apartment i am renting in did cost a good bit up front but nothing i feel like would have taken so long to afford

[narrow violet]

Maybe it was his only money or it was the money he got payed for fighting in the war

[ornate sable]

Because you're renting it

[narrow violet]

And he was so angry for losing the only thing that he loved to some shiny rock in his laundry basket

[serene barn]

i don't know if like, insurance would be able to cover the damage so maybe he went because he had to pay for the damages caused by the artifact blowing up his apartment

[narrow violet]

Yeah this could be another logical answer

[serene barn]

imagine calling up the office and trying to explain it in a way that makes it clear that it was not your fault while also having them believe that a glowing rock that materilized out of thin air is why your place blew up

[narrow violet]

Or maybe he knew the guy who were selling artifacts on the market and through that guy he made connections to Hermann for answers to why the "dud" exploded his home

[frigid hill]

dipmynugget11 has been warned

Reason: Bad word usage

[vast frost]

||just killed saust it took me ages to realise i only had to shoot the lantern on his hip now i feel like a pro for just using a revolver the whole fight lol||

[narrow violet]

|| I had the same probleme i felt so dumb after i realised it was basic gaming knowledge ||

[shell flax]

It also might be him wanting some extra cash in case it happens again

I just picture it as Skif, now realizing it could happen again, letting some paranoia kick in so he wants to have a safeguard in case of future freak anomalies

[serene barn]

typical, i just got to Faust and then my game freezes up.

i dunno if it's the game, or steam somehow, or my pc, it's just been happening more the past like 2 weeks or so

what gun is even good against Faust anyway

shotgun up close seems to be really good on breaking the thing

that choice you get after breaking it feels so dumb still, like what were they thinking.

[weary hedge]

Faust is literally why I don't start a new game. I used cluster to shoot all the emitters and shotgun up close.

[vast frost]

Any gun just shoot his lamp on his hip and it ends the fight

[vast frost]

if you choose to take his hand you get to join the monolith

[serene barn]

i did that the first run

man my game froze again...

idk how but it even seems to mess with other windows like my browser and another time it was discord, the hell

[vast frost]

thats why you play borderless windows so you can tab out

[serene barn]

i still can though

like i can tab and hit the stop button in steam

but idk why it's doing any of this and it bothers me. like why can't tech just tay exactly why it does a thing

and now all of a sudden my browser is missing an extension.-.

it went back when i l closed that window.

anyway so i took my Glutton PKM with me for the Duga raid and i've almost run 500 rounds through it and taken hits while i used it and it's only down to 72% condition, not bad

[hardy totem]

Second time fighting him I just 'nade spammed him lol

Easy peasy

[summer bloom]

havent played since launch is performance better? are memory leaks gone? does the game still run horribly after sirrca?

[serene barn]

i put some bursts into the thing with the PKM then switched to my Saiga

the first time i did it i had to fill that thing with mags while having doodoo performance.

it was much less of a struggle this time somehow despite me being on Veteran diff

[vast frost]

I Used a revolver coz im a legend in the zone

took me 12 shots

[maiden grotto]

The octopus is always watching.

[serene barn]

hmm, i feel like i put much more damage than just 12 rhino shots into it but eh

[hardy totem]

Different difficulties perhaps?

[vast frost]

im on veteran

[serene barn]

i mean the first time it felt like it took so many shots, on Stalker back in like december last year

[hardy totem]

I think I used buckshot rhino on my first run and it taking more than that too

Maybe they rebalanced

[serene barn]

then now, on Veteran, using a Saiga and some PKM bursts did it quickly enough, still had to take out some monolith to live but it went much quicker. but just 12 shots of a rhino feels like less than i spammed with the saiga lol

[vast frost]

the lantern is the same as the ones that u shoot at the beginning it takes like 7 shots to blow them up u just got to be very accurate at hitting it on faust

[hardy totem]

Saiga is such a powerhouse...

[serene barn]

also Korshunov just had me going "jeez" lol.

Saiga is listed with what, 140 damage, Rhino is what, 160?

and for whatever reason, using Buck you lose 8% of the damage.

Sorry you what Dalin

[vast frost]

how do you see the number value

[hoary crest]

I guess I need to start a new game, performance this patch is god-awful

Every few steps FPS tanks and input delay goes through the roof. How is it worse than last patch?

Weirder yet, opening and closing PDA sorts it out, then it crops up again ten feet later.

[serene barn]

there's a google sheet from someone who's been doing datamining or something on the game, where he lists out damage numbers, armor pen and other stats that the game doesn't tell you very well.

[vast frost]

PC must be a load of wank

anyone know why X18 brain scorcher isnt enterable in stalker 2 also why cant i go to the CNPP or limansk

[hoary crest]

An yet it was running fine last patch... ¬.¬

[gentle forge]

…DLC areas bruh

[vast frost]

but like DLC when?

[gentle forge]

I know just as much as you do lmao

[cobalt fiber]

[gentle forge]

[weary hedge]

they havent given a date,

Iron Forest and CNPP are pretty likely to be DLC regions

[vast frost]

i tried to go to limansk lol and it had a massive rad wall and a strange radio playing horrific screams coming from limansk

[weary hedge]

Maybe Limansk too

[cobalt fiber]

Probably

[vast frost]

well we are expecting 2 DLCs since it suggested them to be coming with the ultimate edition which i bought as per pre ordering the game

[cobalt fiber]

Yes

[vast frost]

My quewstion is why would we have the brain scorcher in the game if X19 isnt enterable

and X7 isnt even a lab its just malechite

[weary hedge]

a lot of things were cut, who knows if it was ever enterable

"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."

Just based on this, other x-locations may have originally been in-game, but got removed before release

[vast frost]

5797821 stash hint

[serene barn]

man, i was checking out a place with the hallucination of artifacts, then a group of like 5 IPSF spawn and then an emission happens and i run to the nearest marker

[vast frost]

the devs will remember this code and run but if your upside down its easy to get turnt around - good luck stalker

[serene barn]

and it's like only 1 room in the building that counts right and it starts damaging me while inside and then when i get to the room, i notice the several npcs there are hostile mercs..

[vast frost]

happens to me all the time i love camping a building during an emission and seeing losers try and get safe not knowing im aiming at the door

[serene barn]

hmm, killed 3 monolith and one had a saiga, never seen them use that before.

[vast frost]

They use all warsaw weapons dude

i miss the hanging moss anomaly man

made everything look nice in anomaly

[serene barn]

made it to the room again but now there was only 1 Merc.

so after the fight at Malachite, that hub is never usable again for repairs and the trader?

even on a Ward run?

[vast frost]

idk bro its usable for me and im sided with the zone after i killed a bunch of ward trying to get in

its only usable when u return to malechite out of despawn range

[serene barn]

the first run i did i helped basically all the factions but for Malachite i was against the Ward, then after that i couldn't get back in.

and now i have helped the Ward but the people who was there is no longer there and i was wondering if they come back because it feels a bit annoying if they don't when it's a place i would do repairs maybe and sell my loot and now i can't even travel from there either so i gotta run all the way back to Rostok when i'm done with looting the now opened parts of Duga.

[unreal basin]

Huh didn’t get a Zalissya radio message instantly after leaving the tunnels under SIRCCA

[slender trench]

I've noticed that certain quests or encounters haven't triggered on this playthrough. Not sure if its an RNG thing, or maybe a bug the devs are sorting out.

[cobalt fiber]

You don't you get it as you make your way towards zalissya

Before the bridge

[unreal basin]

Before the patches I was getting it as soon as I left SIRCCA, now I’m guessing Ill get it as I approach Quiet’s place?

[serene barn]

I don’t remember when I got the radio message but I know I went to Wild Island first to help the guy there before I went to Zalissya then I went to Sphere

[unreal basin]

All I know is I’m down to 2 army medkits, and my saiga jams after 5 shots

[serene barn]

I wonder what gun we were once supposed to get from Khors but never do.

[unreal basin]

I always assumed its that Vintars you find in Quiet’s place near the note?

[serene barn]

You find his pda in the bunker though, or too.

[unreal basin]

I’m misremembering again great

[serene barn]

Besides it makes no sense why Quiet would have your gun, from Khors lol.

[unreal basin]

I think I’m gonna have to resort to the Deadeye cause my Saiga’s durability is almost red

[serene barn]

Sometimes when I have been using the Saiga today against people, it doesn’t feel all that good lol. Maybe I should just use slugs more

More and often did I need to fire off a 3rd shot today.

[slender trench]

Slugs make a difference. Buckshot disperses in a cone. Slugs are a single projectile.

[serene barn]

Well I know that but still.

[unreal basin]

Eh, I’ve gotten good enough with headshots where I don’t really need slugs

[serene barn]

Felt like a range thing or maybe I didn’t hit enough pellets.

[serene barn]

Issue is that the Saiga only has like 4,5m before it drops in damage

[unreal basin]

Really? Huh haven’t noticed that

[serene barn]

This can be extended I believe but I had times where it didn’t feel like it was working

[slender trench]

I've noticed that some shotguns have upgrades that make the buckshot dispersion "tighter" and more accurate over longer distances. Considering that most shotguns don't have much range, its damage falls off considerably over a distance. Buckshot relies on being close to the enemy because you end up hitting with more of the pellets.

[serene barn]

Meanwhile the Ram-2 has a 6.5m before dropping damage

[slender trench]

The saiga is really good in close-combat, but I've not really found a tech that can upgrade it to bother using slugs. I just use the Rhino for tougher mutants - considering its crazy damage output.

[serene barn]

Well I’m never really sure if it helps with Aimed shots or not but the Ram-2 can get so tight in hip fire it’s crosshair becomes a ring lol

Sometimes when shooting snorks when I was in X5 I also felt the Saiga had too much spread

[slender trench]

So far, I think the best mid-range weapons are the Fora-221 and the unique Integral (Riemann, I think its called) you get from getting the special edition. The Fora has an absurd amount of spread reduction and recoil reduction, making burst-firing headshots great.

[serene barn]

I just use a fully kitted Kharod. Full recoil control.

[unreal basin]

Welp, got to the stash on Wild Island and swapped my Saiga for my Dnipro till I can get it fixed

[slender trench]

I've yet to find the Kharod.

[serene barn]

I do feel like the devs should look into how attachments work on guns like it seems if your gun has reduced weight, that will carry over to the attachments too.

And then there’s the issue with at least the 203 where switching to it for no reason, makes you like 1kg heavier. This was able to lock me in place too when I was going around with like 139,5kg of gear.

[unreal basin]

The Operator Exo is the Ward one right?

[serene barn]

Yes

[unreal basin]

Planning on using it since I’m doing a Ward run

[serene barn]

A part of me is considering one of the Exo’s with the accuracy upgrade this time because it sounds like it could be useful

Anyway I better get some sleep before I get up for work

[unreal basin]

F, emission started as I grabbed the emitter on Wild Island

I think an Emission has always started everytime I’ve entered that underground part with an SVD in it

[serene barn]

If you’re worried about it messing with zali then quick save, load earlier save, hard save , load quick save and see if it did mess with it.

It’s unlikely to really mess with it though as you’re in another region

[unreal basin]

I gotta a hard save before I saved Lodohka

Uh Lodochka’s not in his bunker?

[weary hedge]

F

lol seeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeean

[unreal basin]

I thought the bugs with Lodochka got fixed?

Did the Emission f up him moving to the bunker?

The quest says he’s in it but he isn’t

[weary hedge]

it does that most times a character bugs out lol it'll tell you to go somewhere but nothing is there or nothing happens, at that point you either use a mod to force it or load a prior save

[unreal basin]

I’ll reload a quick save and wait for the emission to end before grabbing the emitter then

That fixed it

[vast frost]

why are cats so tanky man

[quiet holly]

I think after latest patch my game become too easy even on veteran difficulty, I dont even have to use armor pircing bullets to easily kill armored enemies, Did they change something in dificulty in latest patch

[cobalt fiber]

Some rebalances were made as of 1.2

https://store.steampowered.com/news/app/1643320/view/579378232238800945

Nothing overly drastic

[quiet holly]

Yea but as you said nothing drastic, I do have artifacts for physical protection but it was not like this easy...

[unreal basin]

Is Hamster supposed to disappear after defending Zalissya? Cause he’s just gone for me

[harsh jungle]

I had hamster duplicate himself thru mitosis when I last did that quest

[sharp sierra]

Is kolya green a loner at the northern checkpoint surrounded by monolith supposed to be hostile?

[unreal basin]

He’s just gone, not dead, also the Technician guy isn’t on the bed anymore, I got the medical kit for him, dies he move back into shop later?

[blissful sparrow]

Hey i have a question, i played stalker 2 when it first came out and kept playing all the way until ||faust fight, i lost zalyssia and overall the game was super buggy at this point|| since the bug fixes and patches are implemented, should i restart and give it a new perspective? or continue playing on my save currently. I think im at the halfway point but if im not i would rather restart and replay it with the new systems

[gleaming bone]

restart would only make sense if you reeeally wanna save zalissya or wanna try a different spark/ward path, IMO

[unreal basin]

Ok, Hamster and the technician are back in Zalissya, game was waiting god me to leave so it could change how the place was set up

[fickle mesa]

man I completed all the side missions for zalissya after defending it besides one and when I left to go do it the quest just failed, not sure if it’s because I left the lesser zone or just another bug

only bug I’ve had across multiple playthroughs atleast

[harsh jungle]

I think playing Bethesda games for several years lowered my standards for how buggy games are lol

[unreal basin]

Uh, ever since defending Zalissya I’m not getting notes when I pick up pdas and stuff

[fickle mesa]

yeah I see a lot of people calling this game horrible and unfinished but like I’m enjoying the hell out of it either way

[ornate sable]

I've been playing a lot of Ultimate Admiral Dreadnoughts the past years, and compared to it Stalker 2 is a diamond in the rough, while UAD is just... rough... (and 3 years after release VS 3 months for S2!)

I've enjoyed almost all my 200 hours in the zone immensely, despite some bugs, so much so it might be my favorite fps of the decade.

[ebon blade]

Agreed. There are so many little things to enjoy.

I love seeing all the moths flying around lights at night. makes the Zone feel real.

[ornate sable]

One of the things I love the most is just coming across places that aren't really part of a side or main quest, but they're almost set up to be and it turns into a little adventure anyway. Like the Lischyna Facility and the big excavator in Red Forest, or getting the codes to open locked safes and doors at various places through puzzles or something.

[ebon blade]

Oh yeah. I'm big on all the places you get to go, that are exaclty as you say. No main or side mission involved, but a dead body here, some supplies there, a location that you would otherwise have no reason to go to.

I like how you can be in the middle of nowhere, and come across another party of Loners, Duty, Freedom or Ward, and you can join them in whatever direction they go in.

[harsh jungle]

same fr

[slender trench]

I just realized... enemy footsteps aren't a thing ._.

[ebon blade]

Yes, we don't have a sound meter and the audio warnings like the previous three games.

[slender trench]

That is shocking, honestly.

[ebon blade]

Yep. This isn't your grandfather's Stalker.

[slender trench]

Back in my day, we had Ecologists in Yantar 👴

[ebon blade]

I'm about to go to Yantar. I'm assuming the Mobile Lab is gone or deserted?

[slender trench]

It might be because I went there very early on. There's a simple "puzzle" to get inside the bunker.

I noticed that some areas are utterly abandoned if you go there before a quest leads you there.

Probably some weird A-Life shenanigans that the devs are trying to work out. It's better than it was, but it is still rough.

[sage star]

I finally kill enemies with stash locations on them, they're under agroprom.

[ebon blade]

I still haven't done the main mission entering Garbage, However I've been to the Slag Heap, Cement factory and Rostok. Just doing lots of side missions.

[empty hare]

Same, i just finished ad astra per aspera (psi beacon in Swamps) but have been to basically everything south of the red forest. Duga is my next stop after doing some artifact hunting in Zaton

[slender trench]

Rostok is awesome. What used to be Wild Territory is fun to explore and see how they changed stuff. So far, my favorite places are Wild Island and Zaton.

[empty hare]

Zaton is comfy af, idk why i like just walking around there so much

[slender trench]

Visiting classic locations and seeing how they've changed is an experience.

Zaton has always had a beauty about it. Just something about sunrises and sunsets in that hilly swamp of a region is cozy.

[ebon blade]

I've been to Quiet's Camp (Noontide) as instead of leaving the Lesser Zone for Garbage, I went to the Cordon, explored the Noontide Trader's base and then went to Garbage.

[slender trench]

I've kind of branched out all over the place. There are a few regions I haven't been to yet. The Chemical Plant and the southwest areas I've not touched.

Red Forest is also pretty cool. It's drastically different.

[ebon blade]

I don't have an Exoskeleton yet as I am wearing the Wolfhound armor.

[empty hare]

Can Red Forest be entered before a certain point in the main story? I just assumed the radiation was scripted to kill you if you weren't far enough into the main quest

[ebon blade]

I entered the Red Forest last night with armor that had no Psi protection. The radiation didn't kill me but I got phantom Stalkers that were attacking me. I had to leave.

[slender trench]

Yeah, you can wander up there after you're able to leave the Lesser Zone. It's not as ptsd inducing as it is in the other games. It's oddly tranquil.

[empty hare]

I assume Pripyat is locked though, definitely gonna check out the forest

[slender trench]

Brainscorcher isn't a thing anymore, unless it's somehow relevant later in the game.

Yeah, Pripyat and a few other places on the map are censored. You can try to get into Pripyat, but I don't think that's going to work out very well.

[ebon blade]

Noontide sold me an Ecologist suit with Psi protection but it's terrible for combat. that's why I'm wearing the Wolfhound armor I got in Rostok.

[slender trench]

I know there are helmets that provide a great deal of psy protection. I've been meaning to test whether or not its better to use those helmets with regular suits, rather than full-body suits that have the helmet included.

I've been using the Wolfhound as well for a while. I've stockpiled a bunch of money to upgrade a helmet, a suit, and some weapons once I progress further in the story.

[ebon blade]

I was wearing an upgraded Monolith Zircon suit (no psi protection) with the Duty Sphere helmet (psi protection) but I jumped to the Wolfhound since it had 2 shielded artifact slots and better combat protection. Downside is no Psi protection.

I should just carry the Ecologist suit to switch to when I need Psi protection. It has 5 artifact slots but only one is shielded.

[kindred turtle]

Hi, does bobber disappear after 3 captains quest or i just got bugged, the ship seems to be abandoned

[ebon blade]

I don't know the answer to that but hopefully someone will come along that can answer that.

[slender trench]

I'm kind of surprised that vodka doesn't give you even a little psy-protection.

[ebon blade]

I didn't even try. I wasn't ready to really explore the RF, as I was just following some Loners going north. I just noped out of there and went back to Rostok.

I just can't believe there are so many armors that have zero psi protection, even after upgrading them.

[feral horizon]

You think some of the armor should get re-balanced? Like buffing some of the exo-skeletons so you have more of a reason to use them over Diamond.

[eternal garden]

you guys think we’ll ever get night vision

[feral horizon]

I hope

[eternal garden]

i’ve mostly been waiting for updates to return back to the game, i’ve done pretty much all the content and so once a life has a couple updates i’ll probably return

[feral horizon]

I decided to start a fresh game and only side with the ward.

[ebon blade]

It's just sad there are so many low-level and mid-level armors that people never see because they rush through the game straight to the Exos.

[feral horizon]

For that, they just have to patch the game to where you can't jump the fence to pripyat or jump on top of the spark bunker.

If that happened the only exo you could get is the one at the cooling towers which is the worst one.

[ebon blade]

I guess they are easy to get for the type of person that is more interested in the destination, than the journey getting there. In other words people that only care about the ending.

[eternal garden]

it’s just how games are played now, many people start games with an ign guide open

[river chasm]

I felt some weariness in my bones when I saw how fast people uploaded artifact farming guides

[quick kernel]

i shidded in my pants and i sat in it

[cobalt fiber]

No

[quick kernel]

ok my bad king

[empty hare]

Goddamn it idk why that made me lose so hard, almost woke my kid up

[native furnace]

Kind of wish we can explore the CNPP

[native furnace]

[weary hedge]

i wonder how the zone gets new supplies of toilet paper

place is already shit enough as it is, and two weeks in you cant wipe no-mo lol

[fickle mesa]

probably the same way they get all their grenades whatever that is

so many grenades

[vernal lily]

What's the solution for the people in the Zone when the toilet is clogged