☢┃stalker-general

[weary hedge]

with half the shit running around the zone i dont know if i'd trust a pipe below my ass anyway

who knows whats running around in the sewers lol let alone crawling up the pipes

[weary hedge]

be using that fancy modern type of toilet, called a hole in the ground

[polar forge]

https://imgur.com/YBFIiuM
https://imgur.com/NxxXiE7
the first image shows side activity available that say "barkeep" but when i go near the location it is the weird anomaly thing in the second image. Anyone know whats up with that?

Nvm I’m dumb lol I found it

[polar forge]

How the heck do you kill Poltergeist anomaly?? The ones that just throw random objects at you and sometimes cause elemental anomaly to spawn on you

[ornate sable]

They're invisible mutants, not anomalies. Just find them and shotgun them to death. Regular Poltergeists don's spawn anomalies, but they throw up a wall of stones as a shield if you attack them. The elemental ones (electro, fire, gas) don't have the shield, but spawn anomalies. The electrogeist is the most dangerous because of how much damage the electro anomalies do. The elemental ones are easier to spot than the regular though.

[vernal lily]

Really close but not yet there

I haven't actually finished the game. Right around this mission my game crashed because of network issues (GFN moment lol) and lost all of my save. Truly a tragic moment.

Why has it affected your mental health though? I think that's a sign of needed break.

[polar forge]

Idk how I’m supposed to tell where it is. Is it just invisible burer or something ?? I’ve killed those many times but this is different. This one threw objects at me and spawned fire anomalies on ground near me if I took cover

[vernal lily]

Looking at a list, there appears to be 7 missions after Subtle Matter. Don't know how long each of them are though.

And ah, understandable. You are close to finishing the game, but if it really is affecting your mental health, looking after yourself is more important. I hope you're ok.

[tall briar]

Thanks

[tall briar]

Which mission you on?

I hope you get ur saves issue figured out

[vernal lily]

I've seen that one, it looks like a very angry spitting ball of fire, making weird noises. Basically a regular poltergeists but instead of looking like a cloud flying around, it's fire.

[ornate sable]

If it's a fire poltergeist it will appear as a floating ball of fire. When you kill it you get to see what it actually looks like.

[vernal lily]

I ended up having to start all the way from the beginning. Currently almost done with my game, although I am not yet at Subtle Matter. Hopefully I finish soon, want to see the ending for my game.

[tall briar]

Are u doing stalker or vet

The mode

[vernal lily]

Stalker, I don't think I want to play it at vet. My current goal is speed run up to that point where I lost my save as soon as possible.

[tall briar]

I got an tip to help speed it up. Without commands,

[vernal lily]

If it involves modding I can't because Geforce Now doesn't let you mod stuff.

[tall briar]

So there is a glitch where gaffer gives unlimited 1000 credits for a mission. I abused it and got 16million credits!

You know the part for saving zallysia bar? Its that mission

[vernal lily]

Is that glitch still there? I am past that though, he didn't give me any money because a group of Corps guys killed the monolithians before I got to them.

[tall briar]

Did the mission count as complete?

[serene barn]

It’s a mutant, they’re invisible but have a visual light effect where they are, colour signifies what type. The mutants are blind and rely on like sound and movement and if they don’t know exactly where you are and you’re sitting still, they won’t throw the objects at you. You kill them like any other, cast Gun on them lol.

[vernal lily]

It did count as complete, and I got a gun. Just no money because that one side mission thing failed lol.

[tall briar]

That’s unfortunate. I did the glitch around 50 days ago. You could try to load up an save before completing it

I used tiny task macro

[serene barn]

Aw man, missed the guy saying the mutant facts lol. At least my message had something else useful in it for fighting them with a slower approach.

[tall briar]

Made it do F + space bar many times a second. Gave 1k credits each time!

Or if you want i can send a copy of my save

[vernal lily]

I think I will just follow through, kind of getting impatient. But yeah I do remember the money glitch, and during my old save spammed the hell out of it to get a lot of credits.

I'm currently on Visions of Truth mission I think

[tall briar]

What is that?

I don’t remember it

[vernal lily]

It's right after you fight with Faust

[tall briar]

Oh god that fight

I kept shooting the clones for 20 mins til I realized i needed to shoot the blue stuff

[vernal lily]

Lmao that's how I was like during my very first playthrough

[tall briar]

Have you played older stalker titles?

[serene barn]

I did that fight yesterday

[vernal lily]

I have but it has been a very long while

[tall briar]

Cool

Also

[tall briar]

Highly recommend stopping by the concrete tower east of slag heap for a very good piece of armor.

[wheat minnow]

Good morning!!

[vernal lily]

I will check it out

[tall briar]

https://youtu.be/QlQLGr3nlUs?si=n07iS63jSEKL6sHc

Goodluck, the climb to the top is annoying!

[vernal lily]

Although I have grown attached to my Zircon suit, haven't used anything else since I found it.

[serene barn]

I wonder which of the Sevas are best when like fully upgraded.

[polar forge]

I’ve seen those and electric versions too but this one is different. No visible orb or anything just red on compass signifying combat and then random objects being launched at my accompanied by strange noises and fire anomalies spawning on me. I never have experienced anything like it before. It was like hybrid poltergeist X mutant

Or like burer poltergeist hybrid lol

[tall briar]

Anyone know what the usb sticks do? I’ve collected some over time

[polar forge]

I swear I ran around for 5 minutes looking for any sign of the enemy and could find nothing. Not a single visible thing to shoot at. I can always easily see invisible enemies also like bloodsucker easy to spot. Idk what the heck this was man driving me crazy not being able to shoot it xD

[vernal lily]

Sometimes they are close enough to start spawning anomalies and throw stuff. But not enough where you can see it. I think there is one like that somewhere near Rostok? Haven't bothered to actually look for it though because got annoyed.

[polar forge]

Yes! This is exactly the one by rostok

[vernal lily]

LMAO that's funny

[serene barn]

Location?

[tall briar]

Do you guys think it is cheating to abuse inf credit glitches

Heck i could just buy out the whole zone

[serene barn]

Yeah? Lol.

[tall briar]

I have 16 million credits rn

[polar forge]

Like just before you enter rostok settlement idk how to describe exact. Actually I got a mission to take care of “freeloaders” that didn’t pay their debt to the barkeep in Rostok. They were in exact same spot as the enemy I’m talking about. Broken brick buildings

And there were children toys and dolls laying around a lot. At least more than usual lol

[serene barn]

Like on the road like more in the middle, having left the part where the freedom is?

[polar forge]

South west side I believe

Just outside south west portion of rostok no more than 100m at the most

Yeah I saw freedom guards as I left that part of Rostok if that’s what you mean

I left rostok in the direction where Brick hands out free bread

[serene barn]

If it’s the one where I think it is, it’s up in the 2nd story of a brick building you pass through, up a ladder on the left side, you pass through a corridor to get to it.

[polar forge]

Yeah that is the one. I went up there to kill the debtors for the barkeep but I couldn’t find any invisible mutant to shoot. Idk what to really look for though. I just kept trying to shoot the objects it was about to throw at me bc that’s all I could see

[fickle mesa]

I mean I’m on my 2nd playthrough and I used console commands to get a couple weapons early so I can enjoy them the whole game, not worse than that

[polar forge]

It’s a single player game who cares as long as you have fun

[tall briar]

How do you even execute commands on stalker?

[fickle mesa]

indeed

gotta download a mod for it

[serene barn]

Like you can go into the building from a doorway on the left or the right, then the right leads into a room with stairs. Then you pass through the corridor and turn right at the end into a room with machines in. There’s a ladder and it’s up there.

[tall briar]

How do you make mods for stalker2?, i know like modding other games like minecraft and stuff.

[serene barn]

In my message earlier i explained it as a ball of light in a way. Not necessarily round but you will know when you see it. Especially if it’s a fire one as I remember.

[fickle mesa]

simplest way is through vortex, install that and then you just go to the site and scroll through all the mods and it’ll install them for you

I’ve heard there may be a better mod manager but I’ve always used vortex

[tall briar]

Oh ok, but my curiosity asks how can i make my owns mods?

[fickle mesa]

I have no clue about that

[polar forge]

I swear I ran up into that building bc I already had to kill 5 or 6 guys that were hiding out in there. I cleared the entire broken brick building area even second story section. I got aggravated since the thing just kept launching stuff at me and lighting me on fire so I just ran lol I’ll try to go look for it again tomorrow. Is there any loot or reward for killing it?

[fickle mesa]

the ones I’ve seen always just look like little fart clouds

[fickle mesa]

don’t think there’s any reward, same as all mutants

[serene barn]

If you somehow didn’t see it up there then it’s likely you already looted the bag up there. Other than a stash up there I don’t think there is anything from killing it. There basically never is. Mutant drops isn’t a thing in 2.

[polar forge]

More so meant reward as in an achievement but I will just figure out how to kill it tomorrow and find out xD

Thanks for the tips

[tall briar]

Good luck stalker 🫡

[ebon blade]

I was using an upgraded Zircon suit with the Duty Sphere helmet, but I recently replaced it with the Wolfhound armor, since it has two shielded artifact slots.

[vernal lily]

Lead containers? I currently have two lead containers on my zircon suit

[ebon blade]

I'm glad you said that. I just went back, pulled out the Zircon suit and realized one of the upgrade paths that I thought was either/or was actually letting me do it all > 2 shielded like you say. The only downside is the Wolfhound has better combat, but I can get Psi protection with the Duty Sphere helmet, that the Wolfhound lacks.

[ebon blade]

I'm so used to the other games and mods where it was one path or another. I also realized the Zircon suit now gives me 5 artifact slots. I also discovered I had a newly allowable upgrade on the Duty Sphere helmet of a 20% increase in physical protection. That means it now equals (just for the head) the Wolfhound armor. Having 5 artifact slots is the best. Thanks for mentioning it.

When I was playing Call of the Zone, I had enabled in the game code to choose any helmet with any Exo. I had a Bandit Exo with 5 artifact slots that weighed 10kg. I wore the Tactical helmet with the infrared scanner. The display was in the old style Mini-Map. I guess with the new Stalker 2 HUD, we won't see that upgrade for the Tactical helmet anymore.

[kindred turtle]

[patent wadi]

do yall think gsc will ever add proper ultrawide support? having to play the game zoomed in or without any aimzoom at all because of mods breaking the aim zoom makes it no fun 😦

~mods that change fov break the aimzoom for me

[weary hedge]

just dont use the mod lol or use a different one, also play using ultrawide and never had that issue lol

[wintry pumice]

#📜┃gsc-answers message

[glad fractal]

was always had been playing ultrawide (with flawless widescreen software), didn't aware of any issue related to fov changes (with native option, not mod)

[lyric lichen]

There should be a guide on getting started modding on the stalker 2 nexusmods page, the gamma discord has basically the most active modding community for stalker 2 as well.

[sturdy verge]

Honestly I misread it as proper underwear support 😅

[warm violet]

should fix the memory leak game freeze getting 31.8gb of used ram.. crazy... i got game open, steam and discord

[charred nova]

Memory leaks are still a huge issue

In my second play through i actually had far more memory leak crashes lol

[warm violet]

i assume they know about this

[charred nova]

I hope so lol

But no jokes aside yah they know

While some memory leaks have been fixed

A vast majority still exist

[warm violet]

yippy, im part of, still has problem

[charred nova]

You spend too much time near any town in the game

Nearly 100 percent chance the game will crash

[warm violet]

im at where i just unalived ||strelok||

[wintry pumice]

"Honest"

[warm violet]

ha, non sexual

there..

[sturdy verge]

i removed it lol 😄

[charred nova]

https://tenor.com/view/i-saw-w-gus-fring-gus-gustavo-deleted-gif-25440636

[serene barn]

impressive, some Mercs in Duga actually managed to kill a Psuedogiant

this game feels evil sometimes. i had just jumped into knee high water while being in red capacity so i am full on stuck until i have all my stamina to jump, and that is when the game spawns in 4 mercs.

[hoary crest]

Something to do with the way they're allocating resources for AI makes the game chug/produces leaks. I really hope it gets sorted next patch

Even A-life spawning in a group near you can nuke the FPS

[charred nova]

Some might be fixed but I doubt it will be completely fixed

[hoary crest]

Yeah I'm a bit skeptical myself at this point, but that should be the number one focus with very little else coming into the equation

[charred nova]

I mean hey a lot of bare metal bugs are fixed at least

That’s a positive

[wintry pumice]

I will comeback to this game when they release a story DLC

[charred nova]

2028 first story dlc drops

[north holly]

Will stalker 2 come on sale in spring sale?

[charred nova]

Probably not

[gleaming bone]

I mean, it already was on a sale once, but it was -10% and will probably be a similar discount if it does happen, I'm not sure I would wait for a -10% discount. Something bigger is definitely not happening

[charred nova]

I’d say though it’s probably not worth it at the current asking price

I’d wait a while

[hoary crest]

It still has a long way to go atm

[maiden grotto]

And that's being generous.

[serene barn]

ah yes, the game spawning mercs the moment i pick up 2 red guns that put me over 140

and none of my guns is loaded and i cannot swap gun because being shot forces you out of your inventory

[wintry pumice]

see you then

[wintry pumice]

They should give a discount for all the buggy experience they put us through

[charred nova]

https://tenor.com/view/neutron-star-neutron-star-cigarette-cigarette-charlie-moist-critical-gif-18373819313414893684

[north holly]

I have changed my mind and I won't be buying this buggy mess

[maiden grotto]

Upgrade us all to the version that gives us the extra missions.

[wintry pumice]

isn't there only one atm?

[maiden grotto]

Give us that as an apology...

[cedar panther]

Is there a set ending to be the canon ending ? I assuming it either be the kaymanov or strelok ending

[charred nova]

90 percent chance it’s the skif ending

But idk how there gonna continue it none of the endings really allow for the story to keep going

[crisp cairn]

Is the is the "in search of a Guide" Hunting Mission even ment to be possible not only is there a Giant deer that eats 3 AK -74 mags but a ton of smaller mutants for good measure

[cedar panther]

I had my saiga way before it and it toke 1 mag to take the deere down . so i wouldn't know

[cedar panther]

For me the strelok ending looks to me like they could continue the story in one way or the other

[charred nova]

I mean there’s no way too

Well maybe you travel back to the center of the zone to kill strelok but

That seems kinda dumb

https://www.videogamer.com/features/stalker-2-expansions-will-surprise-players-with-fresh-perspectives-on-the-zone-reveal-devs/

[ornate sable]

I used the M860 for that one. Focus on the deer, because it keeps spawning lesser mutants.

[maiden grotto]

Well, he closes off the zone completely... Which means, monolith and everyone else, will run out of food and die of starvation...

Which ultimately means, that in years to come, the zone will be unguarded. With only mutants running wild. Streloks long term plan... Isn't exactly genius.

[charred nova]

So yah no way to continue the story

[maiden grotto]

Apart from the fact that once the guards are gone, every tom, dick, and harry will be back in again, as monolith wont be around to stop them.

[serene barn]

i feel like i remembered hearing a bit about how the Monolith doesn't need to eat

[maiden grotto]

What like a working and stable experience 🤣

[maiden grotto]

They are brain washed, brain washed, doesn't mean they can exist outside the realm of biological facts. Like the fact if you don't eat, drink, or breath, you die.

[dapper zinc]

I pre-ordered this game only for multiplayer anyone know when it's releasing?

[maiden grotto]

Not for a long time.

[crisp cairn]

Ty

[feral horizon]

So I guess there is no sausage and canned meat factory in the zone?

[maiden grotto]

Nope... Even Sid Chic is gone... End times.

[cedar panther]

Im eagerly waiting to see what they're cooking

[serene barn]

got attacked by a 4 man squad of IPSF all using PKMs

netted me like 232 rounds of 7.62x39

[cedar panther]

Have like 4and a half stack of those in my stash 😂

[serene barn]

as much as i wanna like agree, on it, we're also talking about a place where those laws are suggestions

[serene barn]

yeah i think i have maybe 3 now with those and that is after using like 500 the other day when attacking Duga

[cedar panther]

Yeah if you use the rpk it gos hard especially when using glutton 😅😅

[serene barn]

i brought Glutton out to play

[cedar panther]

does ypur glutton also has 0 recoil ?

[serene barn]

uh no, in fact i swear it kicks more this time than it did on my first playthrough back in December

[cedar panther]

idk mine is nearly spot on 😅

[misty sinew]

We are the unpaid beta testers I'm afraid

I just got the scariest bug I've seen lmao

I was talking to a stalker and I noticed a literal levitating head in the corner of the screen and when I disabled the dialogue window to check it out it straight up disappeared

My headcanon is that it was Skif tweaking out from seeing the shi in the zone lol

[cedar panther]

but something is boggling my mind why does the recoil recovery upgrades down your accuracy . ist it so that the recoil recovery should increase it since you recover quicker ? Or is that mebthinking to simple

[serene barn]

i'm putting my money on that being bugged.

[cedar panther]

Probably it literally state's in the description you can be more stable due to the quicker recovery 😅

[serene barn]

i'll admit though that it frankly feels a little pointless to have in the game unless you were to literally have a gun that is semi auto of very slow full auto

where the effct could help with lowering your point of impact to being lower

another thing i don't get is Range compared to Drop off Range like when you increase the range of a gun it should also push the range of the drop off distance out with the range increase.

[misty sinew]

Yeah it also bugged me, like isn't it like the same thing

[maiden grotto]

No they are not... Things like this play an important part in making a world believable.

The best sci-fi, fantasy, will have a world where who we ware, still remains true... Break it, and it all just becomes stupid.

[serene barn]

there is plenty of things in the game that goes against the laws, namely the anomalies lol

like those molten slag anomalies or lava whichever, they cannot simply create mass from nothing

i also feel like the electricity would also not just be able to sit on the ground or other things and for whatever reason, explode when something touches it

and the Burner anomaly wouldn't be able to just increase it's output like it does

floating shards that defy gravity

[cobalt fiber]

And magically don't cut you if you crouch

Despite being level with your head

[ornate sable]

Because you walk slower when crouching. Just walking slow normally (X key) also lets you pass through safely.

[cobalt fiber]

The topic was more anamolies that go against typical laws

That only amplifies the fact that well... they don't though, good point lmao

[cedar panther]

Yep true . stalker logic probably same as why certain optics Don't fit certain weapons 😅

[serene barn]

GSC y no 8x on my PKM hmmmm?

[maiden grotto]

Pretty much...

A silly anomaly that doesn't make sense.

Miss the old spider webbish that hung like drapes...

[maiden grotto]

That well known sniper rifle

[hoary crest]

They do with mods 😄

I run the 8x scope on a VSS, an its great fun

(the NATO one, not the PSO)

[maiden grotto]

The whole point has completely gone over your head.

Take LoTR for example, it has magics, Balrogs, Evles, and talking tree's.

But with in that, are things that keep the whole thing grounded.

Cut a man's head off, he dies, people need eat, people react and act like people, what we understand being human, is still the same in LoTR...

As I have said before, the best sci-fi and fantasy is always grounded in reality.

Anomalies are fine. They make that world unique, and artifacts, even psi radiation...

But when you start adding humans that don't need to eat just because they are brainwashed. With zero biological alterations, you enter the world of silly bs, that doesn't make sense, that ruins stuff.

So what your saying is, that noontide don't need to eat either?

[serene barn]

there is literally a thing that speeds up their healing seemingly only because they are brainwashed. the Regenerator, which we're told to get. so guess i wouldn't put it past the game to decide that they no longer need to eat.

do i think it's weird that they would not need to eat? yeah, they also usually carry a can of that meat with them, but my point is that at some point there is an NPC that talks about how they killed monolith and none of them "had any food on them" followed by him asking if they even need to eat

[mental slate]

🛣️ 🗺️ Road Map, please

[serene barn]

i just don't feel like GSC wouldn't try to make it seem as they do not need to eat to live

[hoary crest]

Just eat the Monolithian, duh

[gentle forge]

there’s food everywhere in the noontide base lol

[burnt hollow]

Has anyone gotten "unfriendly" with loners? Or are they separate factions for them depening on the zone? Im doing a murderhobo playthrough and all loners are still green when i meet them. Either something is off or the knife stealth kills arent counting unless im spotted doing them...

I have knifed A LOT of stalkers...

[drifting forge]

Why....

Get this dolga supremacist outta the Zone

[serene barn]

found another placed model of the RPD that was never finished 😭

[maiden grotto]

Exactly, a thing, and without it, they heal just like humans.

[serene barn]

so?

[deft kernel]

The implication is that if they have the ability to not feel the damage being done to them by blocking the pain receptors in their brain then i imagine the same goes for hunger and thirst.

[magic vigil]

How to evade taxes:
Step 1) go into the zone
Step 2) become sidorovich
Step 3) become extremely fat
Step 4) be a greedy mf trader
Step 5) eat chicken
Step 6) casually meet strelok
Step 7) idk how this is related
Step 8) profit

[serene barn]

the fact that there is a thing that magically enhances their healing to the point of being able to practically bring them back from injuries that would have killed them, is literally just another reason why i wouldn't be surprised if GSC would want us to think that enabled monolith soldiers doesn't need to eat.

[maiden grotto]

So?

It means they ain't nothing special, just brainwashed puppets.

[serene barn]

lol

[deft kernel]

In a place where wilder stuff happens then if someone feels hungry or not

[maiden grotto]

Exactly, and It doesn't mean they won't die though.

[maiden grotto]

You laugh, but you are the only one talking crap.

[serene barn]

except when a line is written to insinuate that they do not bring food, it is also insinuated that they don't need to eat

i'm talking crap? lol you've done basically nothing but take none of the examples of the game not being grounded in realism you have been given. to the point of talking about another damn franchise as if that one is relevant to Stalker

[gentle forge]

MARKED ONE WHAT THE HELLLLL

[maiden grotto]

That is not what it means.

How could possibly misunderstanding something so badly?

[deft kernel]

I dont think theyre completely immune but i imagine that if youre changing someones brain and body funtionally then the possibility of needing them to eat less often isnt that far of a stretch.

[magic vigil]

The zone is the best place on earth because it's a tax-free area!!

No one can catch you!
Not even the IRS!

[deft kernel]

Yes and no? Keep in mind logs from PDAs and/or quotes from characters can purely just be speculative stemming from their own perception.

[serene barn]

like that line would imply something, if what they wanted to imply was strictly only that they don't need as much as they can't feel the hunger then the line should have stayed they only had a little food on them and not nothing

[fickle mesa]

to be fair if we just kept all the firepower and military equipment that we find in the zone, why don’t we just sell it all and buy a new home, gotta be a lot of money by the end of the game

[serene barn]

the line have been referencing was from Zalissya or something. can't remember if it was an important char or random dialogue with a survivor of any monolith attack when things have gone south.

[deft kernel]

someone can kill 10 monolithians and find no food to come up with that statement, someone can kill 10 elsewhere and find alot of food and think they rely on a large diet for nutrience since they dont sleep.

Its literally just speculative perception

[serene barn]

i just don't feel like it would be beyond them to try to make us think they do not need to eat lol.

[magic vigil]

Exactly

[serene barn]

that's why i said the bit about almost always finding a can of the stew meat on them when i've killed a group

it feels like the line would imply a thing that feels like a stretch.

all while the game works in a way that also goes against said line.

[deft kernel]

I can tell you right now as a monolithian, i am overweight from all my food and i dont just mean in my backpack currently.

[maiden grotto]

No, that line implies nothing... You are reading far to much into it.

[serene barn]

can't even entertain an idea in here now, lol

[maiden grotto]

It's like fighting in a war, and your out post gets attacked 24/7, and you turning around saying...

Don't these people ever sleep?

It doesn't mean they don't sleep, It's just acerbation of the situation.

Just like Monolith in stalker, stalkers are fearful of monolith.

They are cold blooded killers, ignore the pain of wounds, best equipment, best guns...

So when you find one not caring food, it's like, don't they eat as well.

It doesn't actually mean or hints that they don't eat.

It highlights the frustration of the Stalkers at monolith.

[maiden grotto]

You can entertain a many ideas as you want.

But expect them to be called BS, if they are.

[serene barn]

we're literally playing a game with things that defies the laws of physics, and me entertaining the idea that i guess it would not be impossible in the game that the monolith wouldn't need to eat, is bullshit? breh

because why? because oh but people havvve to eat to live because they do it other things completely unrelated to the Stalker universe?

what kind of lame reason is that to shoot my idea, based on something that could have been implied by a char in the game itself. down over

[hoary crest]

I doubt it goes to the extent of them not eating, probably just not carrying food around with them

After all, why do you need to carry stuff when you're shooting people who do have food on them for going near places you own 🤷‍♂️

[maiden grotto]

So what?

Doesn't mean it has to be filled with silly BS that doesn't make sense, just because you are over thing what a line of text actually means.

[hoary crest]

An fwiw, I kill plenty of Monolithians and most of them have food on them anyway 😄

[serene barn]

i've pointed this out myself twice already

[hoary crest]

I havent been following all that closely on account of it being a rather silly thing to argue over 🤷‍♂️

[serene barn]

always the canned meat too i feel, i don't remember them having bread or sausage.

[hoary crest]

Usually I got a spoiled tin of food (mod) and a sausage, rarely bread tho

[serene barn]

i still have the 1 spoiled tin in my stash

[hoary crest]

Surprised they don't have condensed milk on em to be fair, I thought these dudes were supposed to be well funded smh

[serene barn]

i mean if you can't even feel pain, i wonder if they feel anything else. Faust described the whole thing as being about happiness so it feels confusing to think they would actually care about being happy

[maiden grotto]

Yeah, but npc's always carry 700k...

You are reading to much into too many things.

The game was released borked, it still is borked and unfinished in so many aspects.

Worry about the food the food npc's carry... is bottom of the list.

[hoary crest]

Even brainwashed lunatics arent gonna be immune from the pleasure of food. Find me one person who isnt sick who wouldn't put good food on a list of things that make them happy

[maiden grotto]

They probably have the best food in the zone.

[hoary crest]

Oh an there is a condition that causes a person to not feel pain, I think its a genetic issue though, not one induced by any sort of psychological effect. Can't 'member what its called tho

But it is a real thing

[serene barn]

i know, can't remember either.

CIPA

[maiden grotto]

That would be it.

[serene barn]

i wonder if we will ever find out what is up with The Doctor.

gotta remember to grab Ratkiller this time around

[serene barn]

hmm, another full squad of IPSF all with PKMs. 🤔

[burnt hollow]

Be sure to thank them for their generous donation to your repair-fund

[serene barn]

why does it feel like some sort of bandaid fix to there almost being a limited amount of that ammo type lol

[burnt hollow]

I really dont like the PKM so i just use the ammo as a rainy day fund when i need a cash injection for some repairs or upgrades

[maiden grotto]

The spitfire uses 7.62x whatever it is.

[shell flax]

The AK? I thought it used 5.45

[serene barn]

it uses 545

the only other gun that can use the 7.62x39 round is the Dnipro with the conversion upgrade

[shell flax]

Thought I was going insane for a second lmao

[empty hare]

Isnt the Spitfire chambered in 7.62x39mm? Every other 74U is in 5.45 but i thought that one was unique

[serene barn]

nay, i used it for an ever short amount of time because all it is, is a better AK-74U

game says it's using 545x39

[native furnace]

Yeah the spitfire used 5.45

[hardy totem]

I've seen a screenshot of it using 6.72, but I'm not sure what was going on there because in my game it was 5.45

[serene barn]

was most likely a mod to make it stronger by having it use a different round

i do feel like it was a shame that they put that mission so late in the story. it would have been nicer a bit earlier on.

[burnt hollow]

Spitfire is 5.45, always has been. It has better range, fire rate and double penetration (40% instead of 20%) compared to the regular AKm-74U

Pretty much no reason to use it when you get it though

[cedar panther]

doesn't that look wonky since its a different mechanism or does the mod ad a sliding rail to it

[serene barn]

maybe it gives it the mount of the AS VAL

[gilded viper]

e

[maiden grotto]

Nope. 7.62... I even put screen shots up in pics thread.

[shell flax]

Do you mean the Dnipro, otherwise you either modded it or misremembering

[maiden grotto]

#📸┃screens_and_videos message

Nope the Spitfire...

[frigid hill]

rainthunderspark has been warned

Reason: Bad word usage

[serene barn]

how the hell

something it wrong

[shell flax]

That’s either a mod or bug, has to be

[serene barn]

yours is listed as having 30 rounds

[maiden grotto]

My game is special, but people don't believe me.

My spitfire, does 7.62.

[shell flax]

Definitely a mod then

[serene barn]

like it's noted as having 40

[maiden grotto]

Don't know which one... I only use a ballistic mod, it doesn't change weapons

[serene barn]

i mean...it seems it does.

[empty hare]

Did it get changed in a recent update? Googled it several websites list it as 7.62

[serene barn]

there's no 762 version of it listed in the sheet either

[maiden grotto]

There you go then.

[serene barn]

i just grabbed mine like yesterday, the hell

[empty hare]

Ill report back when i eventually get it in my save, im unmodded on xbox so whatever it is there will be what its "supposed" to be

[serene barn]

the pic i posted is literally one i just took in my game

[maiden grotto]

Mate, my game... it's a new surprise everyday...

Is like it has its own zone

[serene barn]

what mod is it you use

[cedar panther]

Mine on xbox does the same ammo as the dnipro and all other aks

[maiden grotto]

Just better ballistics... That is the only one that changes the ballistics, but I don't think it changes what one a weapon fired.

[cobalt fiber]

He uses the Roggatron 2.1 build

Special build just for him

For unknown reasons

[maiden grotto]

You know it.

[empty hare]

Tbh i had hoped it was in 7.62, im a little disappointed there isn't any kind of AKMS in S2

[maiden grotto]

There is... I've got it

[empty hare]

Pls gib

[maiden grotto]

🤣 no, it's a one of a kind

[burnt hollow]

Heres a screenshot from early dec, its always been 5.45. Your mod screwed something up. Its also supposed to have a 40 round mag:
https://www.reddit.com/r/stalker/comments/1h9l7a5/the_spitfire_is_an_unexpectedly_fantastic_ar/

[serene barn]

not screwed, but it IS the mod.

[shell flax]

It’s the mod, it’s changelog literally says it was converted

[maiden grotto]

Bigger bullets, I'm happy

[serene barn]

it's listed in the changelog

[maiden grotto]

That's fair enough... Still happy with it

[shell flax]

I’ll be honest, I thought you were screwing with us for a laugh

[maiden grotto]

Never use it though.

S-15 for me.

[maiden grotto]

No... I don't do that sort of thing... my game is insane, anything is possible.

I'm Duty, I don't have a sense of humour 🤣

[serene barn]

it seems all it got was a fat damage increase but it can't really use the damage well since the penetration was not touched.

at least i would assume given how KING penetration is

[maiden grotto]

That's what she said.

[serene barn]

hmm, what gun should be my next Coupon sink

[maiden grotto]

S-15, or Integral A, .45, burst fire.

[serene barn]

i probably have no reason to use the S-15 when i run like a Dnipro or Kharod.

and i feel a little like maybe the Bizon is better than the Vector

[cobalt fiber]

I went the entire first half of the game with an AK / Cracker and the 2nd half with Clusterfuck / Cracker

[maiden grotto]

I did similar too with drowned, a lovely weapon.

[cobalt fiber]

Yeah my ward run I was running drowned too

[serene barn]

apparently there is a unique Cracker but like it looks like it doesn't have anything that is any better than a normal one. i hate uniques that aren't at all :v

[cobalt fiber]

But I have yet to finish ward as I'm into KCD ahead of buying KCD2 @ sale rn

[maiden grotto]

Is a very underrated weapon.

[cobalt fiber]

I got lucky as well get this

[serene barn]

funny, i returned Drowned on my mix run, but kept it on my Ward

[cobalt fiber]

A letter in the post, national statistics survey

£25 voucher for nothing

A knock on the door today, sit down for 30 mins tomorrow and I'll get another £25

[maiden grotto]

Your not missing out. Ward ain't worth it 🤣

[cobalt fiber]

One of those vouchers tou can redeem at multiple places like argos, Asda etc

[cedar panther]

I've used drowned till the day i found my nipro 😂

[cobalt fiber]

Keep an eye out for those letters @maiden grotto 😂

I nearly threw mine as spam

Was very surprised when the £25 actually redeemed

[maiden grotto]

Mine are usually restraining orders... I have a many a Daloris has decrees in hogwarts

[cobalt fiber]

It's randomised and houses are pulled from royal mails system apparently

A friend of mine raised a good point earlier though because I've no idea what this survey entails

[maiden grotto]

My house is blacklisted...

[cobalt fiber]

I'm half expecting to be asked "how many times do you fiddle?"

Apparently one guy had a whole 45 min survey on harassment and abuse

Randomly

But he got £50 for it

I figure I'll do the survey and buy KCD2 on the government's penny

Can't go wrong

My step son also wants me to take him to a catholic church this week, me being a lifelong atheist

That will be interesting

No idea who's put the idea in his head

[maiden grotto]

Nice... wish something like that would happen to me...

I just get stuff that takes money away.

And if I KCD2, it would still have its own zone... and bloodsuckers would still spawn.

[maiden grotto]

Well, good chance to undo the programming and explain monolith to him.

And why Duty matters

[cobalt fiber]

Forget the cumans, your village would be plundered by an army of psuedogiants

[maiden grotto]

🤣

Funny, coz is true.

Talking to a Prince and 4 of the feckers spawn in the castle, ignore everyone else, and fecking chase me.

[cobalt fiber]

And just 1 rodent hopping along for the ride

[maiden grotto]

Rat swarms and pseudo dogs...

Perfect

[cobalt fiber]

I got the "clear an enemy camp without raising the alarm" achievement because of a rat swarm

The ones that are guarding a stash early on

They spawned, I climbed the ladder and threw the grenade down and got an achievement notification

[maiden grotto]

Ait did the dirty work

[maiden grotto]

Nades... better than guns.

You can kill ratcswarms with guns though

[cobalt fiber]

I tried and failed

My favourite is when you throw a grenade and like 5 of them survive

Do you stab them? Pity them and let them live?

[maiden grotto]

Weaken them first... or they take an insane amount of ammo.

[cobalt fiber]

One rat, 5 medkits

[maiden grotto]

Terminate with extreme prejudice.

[cobalt fiber]

They're not half as scary as the rats in plague tale though

Although at least you can control rats and have them kill enemies in plague tale

[maiden grotto]

So useful then. Never played that game

[cobalt fiber]

Very good games

Linear story games but great

[maiden grotto]

They look great...

Got them free on epic... Only got epic to burn TenCents money.

[serene barn]

my Partner gun still is quest marked lol, i am at the point where i am about to go meet Dark now.

[cobalt fiber]

I'm a sucker for a good linear story

After all that's what we grew up with

None of this open world for the sake of it + a battle royale patch bullshit

[serene barn]

ooh, i played the 2nd Plague Tale game, had been free for PS+ once.

[cobalt fiber]

Requiem was so good

[maiden grotto]

Not really, but Half-Life was the main one.

[cobalt fiber]

I never cared much for multilayer when I was younger tbh

I liked swtor

And rune

COD when it was actually good (World at War, 4, MW2)

[maiden grotto]

I grew up with it all... from Atari 2600 onwards...

I bleed gaming... Just so many over the years...

New Zealand Story, Jetset Willy, Roland on The Ropes, Bubble Booble...

Things you wouldn't have ever heard of.

[serene barn]

apparently if you shoot someone and there's a guy behind them, they get splattered with the blood lol. turned a merc's gas mask all red.

[maiden grotto]

Niiiiiiice

On of the reason why I find S2's sorry so uninspiring...

When you have grown up with so much gaming... You soon learn how uninspiring many modern games are.

[hoary crest]

The mod adds a rail mount, mod is called OXA if you're interested, its on the Nexus

[lapis dock]

Unreal 1998

[astral panther]

This may be asked many times but as of March 2025, is there any news on Steam Edition upgrade paths? I'd like to upgrade to Ultimate to support the team. Love this game.

[sturdy verge]

No, other than a answer in #📜┃gsc-answers somewhere

[astral panther]

Thanks! I'll keep waiting. 🙂

[blissful sparrow]

Why does my fully decked out sofmod suck? I dont get how i can pump 100k+ into this thing with upgrades, repairs, and attachments for me to need to use 5 headshots to kill a basic enemy

[shell flax]

100k
How the hell are you putting that much in a 416 of any kind

[weary hedge]

hej

[blissful sparrow]

it looked cool plus the repair cost was insane when the game first launched it was like 400 per 1% to repair

[feral horizon]

So which game is bigger, stalker 2 or skyrim?

[timid aurora]

Waiting this long for the SDK is nuts.

[weary hedge]

its not even been that long lol like 2.x months

[timid aurora]

Copium user sighted.

Tell that to the Devs who promised on launch.

[weary hedge]

entitled user sighted, ohmygawd ive waited two months

meanwhile tons of bug fixes and other shit theyve been doing

[river chasm]

They did not promise the SDK on launch

They specifically promised it for after launch

[weary hedge]

quite a few games i can think of took more than a few months to add a modding sdk so its not abnormal imo

[timid aurora]

Well, I was was wrong on launch but still. Tired of these crappy script edits being called "mods". Only good mod is the mutant loot.

Anyone can change a configuration file.

Anyone.

I want real mod support now. Game did get boring after two times beating it :|

[hoary crest]

Thats just not true at all tbh

[frigid hill]

voracity_t has been warned

Reason: Bad word usage

[hoary crest]

OXA is f*ckn goated, as is Better Ballistics, moreover, Project Itemization is a better pickup than Mutant Loot, it has that rolled it, but also a bunch of other stuff added to loot pools an vendors

In other news, just watched two Bloodsuckers go into the Pripyat Monolith base, there is still gunfire going on, I'd say the Bloodsuckers are doing well 😄

[river chasm]

If you beat the game twice I feel like you have gotten your money's worth out of it already, at least enough to wait a little while for more updates and the SDK

[hoary crest]

SDK would be nice to have, but at this point I'd rather they sort out the performance haemorraging issues, the psi-effects taking control away from the player and mutants being stupidly spongy for no good reason

[subtle spindle]

mutants are mostly fine now i feel

[weary hedge]

Ultra Plus for a good UE mod, too

[hoary crest]

Call me old fashioned, but a fleshbag eating more than two rounds of 00 buck feels a litttle silly

Snorks are the only one aside from the two bigguns I can justify being a bit armoured

[tall briar]

And Pseudo thingys are not fair though

[tawdry furnace]

Привет

[vernal lily]

[little mantle]

hey guys, why my game lagging so much?

im trying to play STALKER 2 but i keep lagging, like 10FPS

[weary hedge]

that doesnt tell us much lol what are your specs

what settings are you using

[little mantle]

LOW LOWest. im playing on Windowed like.. 3rd smallest pixels i can play for Stalker, as for my Specs.. my CPU: AMD Ryzen 5 3600 6-Core Processor, Memory (RAM) 8GB (1 of 4 slots), GPU: NIVIDIA GeForce GTX 1650

[subtle spindle]

your pc doesnt meet the minimum requirements. the cpu is good enough but you dont have enough ram and the gpu is borderline. 8gb ram is insufficient for basically every modern game

might be able to play the game if you get more ram

[little mantle]

im actually gonna get 8GB more ram for my PC

[vernal lily]

I have a 1650 and my pc was cooked, couldn't play it at all.

[subtle spindle]

yeah i wasnt sure if a 1650 is enough

[vernal lily]

I resorted to Geforce Now till I can upgrade my pc

[little mantle]

im getting a new PC at the end of March

i dont understand though.. i saw some people play Stalker 2 on laptops without any lags

[subtle spindle]

surprise, all laptops are different

[little mantle]

Amir?

should i get another 8GB of RAM?

[weary hedge]

eh you'd need a better GPU too I'd think

[little mantle]

im too broke for another GPU 😭

[weary hedge]

where do you live? your best bet might be like the other guy mentioned, geforcenow, basically nvidia cloud gaming

req is less than 80ms ping to server, i cant use it cause i live rurally in australia, but if youre close to a big city chances are it'd work better for you

[little mantle]

imma tell you in DMs for privacy

[weary hedge]

don't need like the actual place lol just if its a big or small city you'd be able to guess if you have options there

[little mantle]

yeah ik

[weary hedge]

Europe has a lot of cloud servers but i dont know by memory where they are

[little mantle]

can i still tell you in DMs?

[wraith fractal]

fellas

whats ur wishlist for patch 1.3 :^)

[weary hedge]

Nothing in particular personally, just lots of fixes and optimisations, im happy with them just working on performance and getting things stable before adding anything too big

[river chasm]

gotta have a steady foundation

[tall briar]

highly recommend a B580

[sharp flame]

Being able to skip the tutorial on a new game if you've done it before, regardless of if you finished the game on the first playthrough

[normal sail]

I am going to say bad word Wolf

you cannot stop me.

||frick||

[wheat minnow]

Good morning!!

[ornate sable]

||gosh darn it||

[normal sail]

Duuuudee, u cannot say that, ur gonna get ban hammer

[little mantle]

hey guys, where can i show off the new PC that im gonna get? its a link

[fickle mesa]

no clue, links may be allowed but I’m not sure

in this channel I mean

[gloomy citrus]

Try #❔┃pc-specs or #pc-specs

[little mantle]

ty

[weary hedge]

highly inappropriate

[vapid galleon]

Stalker 2 is so close. They just need to bring the quality of life to stalker 2 that the older games had. I’m not buying nothing till that reach their own standards

I played this game 143 hours with PC Gamepass

This game is really lacking in content and missing a lot

[fading parcel]

I think it will take at least year to bring some real quality improvements.

[vapid galleon]

yes and then they will release dlc and then i will come back to this game but for now i think it's time to play Anomaly

[fickle mesa]

stmalkr

[serene barn]

it sounds a bit like the company hired a whole lot of new people and people with little experience and that might have something to say on the state of the game.

i hope that they will consider putting things that was cut into the game to fill it out more..

and also to let me have the damn RPD i keep seeing in the game lol. like it's almost fully functioning i hear

[ebon blade]

Longer days. 1 hour = 24 hours in game is too fast. The original games were 1 hour = 10 hours in the game.

2 hours and 24 minutes in real life playing the original games was equal to 24 hours or 1 Day in the Zone.

I leave Rostok in the morning and run a kilometer or two to the north to Buryakivka and start exploring a few houses and the next thing I know the sun is going down, and I have to return.

[vapid galleon]

I agree

[maiden grotto]

They did.

[serene barn]

when i heard that they were making sleep a feature to keep awake, i thought the day would be longer for it to warrant that but no lol. can stave it off entirely with an energy drink ike every 4 in game days. it's quite literally never an issue nor a consideration for the player to need to think about getting a nap

[serene barn]

going off that one interview i saw someone post, that Slag Heap thing sounded cool too, sad it was scrapped

[vapid galleon]

In the 143 hours I played the game, I did not see the sign in the bottom left that required me to sleep

[serene barn]

i feel like i only saw enough times i could count on one hand.

like you have to go out of your way for it to pop up

actively not have an energy drink while hauling loot lol.

the Bayun can do it to you but like it goes away when it's dead

i'd been hoping for like, being able to go out to attack a place at night or something but the day is just too short for that type of thing.

[serene barn]

i wonder if the red explosive things in the world even does anything to Psuedogiants. i've blown up like 8 with the one in X3 and it still ate like 30 buckshot and then beat my ass.

did it again, then used 50 slugs and a good bit of buckshot before it went own.

[gentle pilot]

IDK if my game is bugged or if it's the two burers' fault, but I can't find that unique Fora-221 under the Concrete Forest.

The objective marker says it should be on top of some pallets, but it's not there.

[cedar panther]

I play on xbox so im waiting for mod suport 😅

[sturdy verge]

I'll play the dlc that has streloks hair! And sid chicken at his trade 😋

[maiden grotto]

In a corridor?

[maiden grotto]

Side Chic... the story of the ever lasting chicken leg, should be a thing

[sturdy verge]

imagine a DLC of playing sid in his young days in the Zone hahahaha hustle hustle cheeki breeki hahah

[charred nova]

Sid started off in the zone by fishing

[sonic rivet]

cant install update cuz steam thinks the game is 500 gigs lol

[serene barn]

man crying Strider makes me sad

[maiden grotto]

Love it

[maiden grotto]

Fishing simulator 🤣

Need to crash some of them mutant catfish

[serene barn]

does getting out of Lab X-15 without being noticed, even do anything in the story?

[gleaming bone]

x-15, which one is that?

[serene barn]

Orbita

[gleaming bone]

oh right. this one I haven't actually tried

[serene barn]

it's just an optional objective.

i'm also noticing that these guys drop armor

like i got a falcon suit and 2 100Is

[thick vault]

havent played in 3 months, any improvements on the game overall? or still a bug fest

[versed reef]

https://tenor.com/view/movie-one-eternity-later-gif-7900643

[rare epoch]

same old bugs, same old mem leaks and same old low fps.

[cedar panther]

#📜┃gsc-answers message

Im very happy with this one . finally the saiga drum is no longer behind the ponr

[charred nova]

That’s actually hype as fuck

[harsh jungle]

fr fr

[weary hedge]

there werent many upgrades / attachments locked behind the point of no return anyway, if we are being specific and not including the armors and unique guns

specifying they've moved multiple would, by extension, have to mean the majority of them have been made available

[deep shale]

it would be nice if some upgrades where sold by traders

[charred nova]

That’s never gonna happen

[deep shale]

well its the logical place to find them first at the people who sell you the gun finding it in the field is the 2nd logical place

[cedar panther]

Hope they make the uniques available like beast and sotnyk . but assuming they specifically said attachments and upgrades i keep my hope low

But now i can finally put some massive lead holding shels in monolithians with my maxed out saiga with a drum . i swear I'll let hell loose on them 😂😂😂

[deep shale]

yeah the saiga is a beast love that thing

[cedar panther]

ive been using it since i found my first broken one and never let it go

[deep shale]

i wish there was a abakan in the game it was a favorite from the original games

[cedar panther]

maybe some day

[deep shale]

yeah i hope the expansions will add a bunch more weapons especially pistols stalker 2 seems a bit low on them

i often brought the walther p99 along as a sidearm sad to see it missing

but thats what nostalgia does i start to compare it with the old while stalker 2 brings a lot of amazing new things to the table

[serene barn]

i wonder if it's possible to get into Troposphere comm station in full stealth and get a different cutscene

[hoary crest]

MODDDDSSSSSSSSS

[plain fiber]

Re-load an earlier save and rush to pick it up, I had the same bug happen and that's what I did.

[serene barn]

probably can't because there's guards at a staircase.

[plain fiber]

AN-94 is pretty old, I could see it being replaced by one of the modern AK variants but I certainly wouldn't complain if they did bring it back.

I wish we had canted sights; they'd be really useful on things like the VSS Vintorez and I think they would add to weapon versatility and player engagement during combat.

[ornate sable]

1: Fixes to mission triggers, I completed my ward run just fine, but hearing people being progression locked it's something that must be fixed.
2: Fixes to specific spawn triggers, both location specific (guards at IPSF checkpoints respawning too fast for example) and for scripted events, where they sometimes don't spawn at all.
3: Make in-game time move slower, like Tejas said.
4: Longer NPC draw distances, at least as an option. I'd sacrifice other graphics settings if it meant I could see enemies at 150-200m
5: Fix artifacts being stuck below terrain
6: Maybe some A-life improvements, though despite everyone complaining about it it's working decently now.

[plain fiber]

Controversial A-Life take: I don't think it would be the end of the world if GSC wasn't able to implement true NPC persistence in S2.

Thinking back to my playthroughs of the original trilogy, unless I was specifically paying attention, the NPC persistence really didn't matter that much in moment-to-moment gameplay. It only really added to the immersion if I actually noticed it and even then it was mostly just a "Whoa, that's cool." moment before I moved on.

*EDIT*

Let me explain myself a bit more thoroughly:

When it comes to A-Life NPC persistence, I see it as being made up of two components:

1. The tracking of NPC's locations on the map and their current state/condition i.e. fighting, hunting mutants, artifact hunting, etc.

2. The tracking of NPC names and their loadout(s).

NPCs being properly tracked across the map and having locational persistence is extremely important and, in my opinion, a strict requirement for A-Life to be...well...A-Life.

However, that second component where NPC names and loadouts are persistent and tracked at all times, that is the component that I think could be safely dropped if it was too difficult or resource-intensive to implement in UE5.

[serene barn]

that Tan 2x optic also actually has built in Irons on the top of it too lol.

could be a little neat if it worked but eh it's just a 2x so maybe not too useful

[plain fiber]

If they can get every other aspect of A-Life and NPC behavior from the original trilogy into S2, that'll be more than enough for me.

[smoky hawk]

contorversial take refused

https://tenor.com/view/garfield-death-sad-lasagna-blow-torch-gif--garfield-death-sad-lasagna-gif-16442652701325459644

[plain fiber]

Joke's on you, I'm a former welder which means I have +25 heat resistance.

[smoky hawk]

you are not garfield

[plain fiber]

My bad for misunderstanding the meme then.

Sorry about that.

[plain fiber]

I just find myself wishing I had one for the Vintorez ever since I got the extended mag.

[serene barn]

maybe a Magnifier would have also been cool so you could run a red dot and then that so you didn't need to haul around 2 optics

[plain fiber]

Or hell, just let us remove the scope from the Vintorez and switch out the optics for something else.

[empty hare]

Or just fix the picatinny rail upgrade so we can attach whatever we want to it

[serene barn]

i feel like there used to be an 8x PSO

[plain fiber]

The GROZA shouldn't be able to mount an ACOG or any other Western optic, that's firearm sacrilege.

Let us put a PSO on it like we could in the trilogy.

[woeful seal]

Would it be lore breaking to have a pet dog?

[plain fiber]

No, Doc famously has/had a pet pseudodog as did Noah.

[woeful seal]

I would love one of them! They are the one that multiple right?

[smoky hawk]

yes

this extends to a cat

[plain fiber]

So...yes but actually no.

In the original trilogy, you had two pseudodog mutants; pseudodogs and psy-dogs. Pseudodogs were just mutated wolves or something, while psy-dogs were the ones that could make copies of themselves.

For some reason, in S2 GSC removed/never implemented regular pseudodogs and gave the name to psy-dogs. They also removed the distinct, stark white fur of the psy-dogs and gave them the brown/black fur of regular pseudodogs.

I'm hoping that this will change in the future.

[woeful seal]

Ok, thanks. If I play the other games do I find out why?

[smoky hawk]

mayhaps

[plain fiber]

I'd rather not get player pets personally, I think it'd be too much of a pain in the ass to implement. I know they did it in KCD but I just don't think it would fit in S.T.A.L.K.E.R..

[woeful seal]

The older games sound terrifying thanks and a question if the blind dogs are blind and you stand still how can they track you

I was trying to find away to avoid the dogs but they always sniff me out

[plain fiber]

In Shadow of Chernobyl it mentions that one of their mutations was their sense of smell being massively amplified; they quite literally sniff you out.

[woeful seal]

That dog in KCD is annoying as hell I tried to kill it or leave it somewhere I can not cope with all the barking. Thanks that makes sense for the blind dogs I tried to out run them but not fast enough ha

[dire heart]

what state is stalker 2 rn should i start up for the second playthrough or keep waiting for thr game to be in its best state?

[plain fiber]

Wait for the next big patch and see how things are; I think it's supposed to drop next week.

[frigid hill]

.slimestar has been warned

Reason: Bad word usage

[smoky hawk]

!ban @odd skiff scam

[frigid hill]

.slimestar has been banned

Reason: scam

[fading parcel]

I dumped already there over 300hrs waiting gsc to fix this game since release

[violet dune]

i wonder whats the number of devs working on patches

i assume majority is working on new content

[cobalt fiber]

What schools don't tell you is that Noah had 2 psuedodogs on his Arc

[sharp sierra]

I'd love to see Noah again he was crazy but a good guy.

Also just wondering what are peoples best armour drops? I've only ever had the psz7 basic military armour and the merc suit.

[maiden grotto]

Mess. But better than before

[maiden grotto]

But 4 pseudogiants... Noah had a spawning issue.

[maiden grotto]

Depends on how good they are at sowing.

[woeful seal]

Just fought two in the swamps and after winning I died to a fleshy jumping into my head. Think thats enough swamp for me for now ha

[weary hedge]

A-Life, reload/use medical while sprinting, and add binoculars.

[vapid galleon]

It's probably as you said and it's good because I don't think the game has enough problems to be unplayable right now. New content is more important. They've fixed most of the things and continue to do so. In short, it's good news that they've allocated more developers to new content

[vapid galleon]

I think we should wait for new contents and put this game aside for a while

[maiden grotto]

I hate the swamps

[woeful seal]

The tall grass makes blind dogs, boars and rats a nightmare

[weary hedge]

man I love giant field of constant mutantrapefest with zero cover to speak of

[maiden grotto]

And the rate at which they spawn

[cedar panther]

Thought they said it was ready this week

[wintry pumice]

What??? Why can't I get just Wolf as a pet? He will be guiding me everywhere

[serene barn]

who even is Noah?

[wintry pumice]

Noah the cruise master

He ran cruises for all species thousands of years ago

[serene barn]

hmm, after you go to uh Troposphere, is STC supposed to be inaccessable? like the doors are locked

[gleaming bone]

I don't remember what's troposphere but if you sided with spark and malachite was taken by ward, then yeah you can't enter

there's a bug you can go there with a guide but I wouldn't recommend, everyone's red and you cannot leave (even with a guide coz he's behind the locked doors)

[serene barn]

it's the place where you go for Strelok to figure out about where something is in.

[gleaming bone]

"to figure out about where something is in" I'm not sure what this means sorry lol

but did malachite was already taken by ward for you?

[serene barn]

the Ward holds that facility. but like i fought with the Ward to push Spark out of STC and then when i came back later, the people were there again but now the doors are locked and i am in the red with Ward's guns lol

[gleaming bone]

oh okay so you were on the ward's side. but maybe after you side with strelok and say no to korshunov, and escape the chemical plant, the malachite turns hostile again

[gleaming bone]

is this what happened? troposphere is this stalker agent programming thing? and then you escaped the chemical plant?

[woeful seal]

Yeah I killed a bunch of Fleshy, Boars and 1 Pseudogiant. I ran to a stash 246 M or Feet from where I killed them and ran back through the same area to a Pseudogiant head butting me through the tall grass ha

[gleaming bone]

I don't know if it's a bug or supposed to be but then yeah it would make perfect sense for ward to turn hostile to you, same as if you chose spark

[serene barn]

i am still with Ward, this my Ward Run, i just wanted to drop off loot, sort my gear and then have a guide take me closer to my next mission but now i have to literally run all the way to either Rostok or Chemical Plant to do that.

[sharp sierra]

God lost a load of saves wanted to redo on the edge looks at saves the next one is all the way back in siricaa

[night acorn]

Is the zylissa glitch fixed?

[serene barn]

which one

[vernal lily]

The money glitch? It looks like it.

[night acorn]

The one where all of the monoliths got stuck inside

[quiet rock]

JUST CURIOUS. Were stalker series originally voiced in russian or ukranian?

Or both?

[night acorn]

Was in Russian first

[quiet rock]

Soo are the people in stalker 2 from a specific region or it changes however they are voiced?

I kno this question is loaded rn but im just curious sorry

[night acorn]

Idk watch the behind the scene CD that came with the og copy of shadow of chernoyble

The game came out in 2007 so I'm guessing they just used the same VA for most parts of the game but could be wrong

[gleaming bone]

oh okay then def sounds like a bug

[gleaming bone]

In Ukrainain it's just official Ukrainian language, no dialects, at least from what I've noticed

[serene barn]

i almost wanna say that i remember this happening on my first run too where i was against the Ward but still had the badge

[gleaming bone]

I mean even with the badge they won't let you in on malachite after you've sided with spark. Which makes sense

[gleaming bone]

for the original trilogy, it's kinda interesting as e.g. in clear sky it's not purely russian, they also put some ukrainian words, and it depends on factions

[serene barn]

i guess, but i mean i think what i had done was save, then tell Korshunov i wasn't against them and then i ran to the place then couldn't get it

[gleaming bone]

yeah that's weird. man I am still pre-sircaa in my ward run and wanna stay it as long as possible to wait for patches but damn I did almost everything possible lol

[haughty sapphire]

hello guys for those of you who play with mods from nexus and using vortex collections.. what collections do you use and do they work with the current game version of stalker 2? There's 44 collections

[quiet rock]

Everytime i get killed by an anomaly i just quit the game. Nice way to limit my playtime

[frigid hill]

the_adas_official has been warned

Reason: Bad word usage

[quiet rock]

They really up the damage when you have a below standard armor in veteran

Wolf please😑

[outer gull]

Idk where to ask this, so I'll do it here, I purchased the Physical Collectors edition back in November last year, I knew they would only be shipped this year but don't remember the month, does anyone know if the editions are close to be shipped ?

[maiden grotto]

Good, they are supposed to be dangerous.

[indigo oriole]

U think they gonna release new patch this week ?

I’m hyped for attachments 🤣

[quiet rock]

Yeah on stalker difficult it was like “woopsy daisy that hurt a bit lemme heal really quick.” Now its HOLY MOLE I SHOULD BE MORE CAREFUL

[maiden grotto]

Is that what the Dr subscribed?

[maiden grotto]

It needs to be.

[indigo oriole]

Dr subscribed ? What’s that ?

[maiden grotto]

Attachments....

[serene barn]

prescribed?

[vernal lily]

dr

[maiden grotto]

Bigger, better, long

[hoary crest]

OXA gonna be even more mandatory now lmfao

Mind you, Project Itemization already added them all to various merchants so 🤷‍♂️

[late rampart]

Hi guys, I just found the whip, but it has 3 damage (the same as the SVU) instead of 4.8. Is there any fix for this?

[hoary crest]

Listed stats are usually inaccurate

Idk if it actually is better or not, but yeah the in-game stats dont tell the whole story, there are other values not shown

[hardy totem]

Whip is slightly better

Higher pen I think

[hoary crest]

Would make sense

[hardy totem]

Best to just compare in-game

[hoary crest]

Either way, it has a better paint-job so thats reason enough to use it

[late rampart]

huh i dont have image perms but i watched a video now and it shows that it has 4.8 of damage, i dont know why i got a worse version haha

[ornate sable]

According to the chart they both have 80 damage and 60% pen, whip has 55m range and 40m damage drop off, while regular SVU has 45m range and 35m damage drop off. Might be that the Whip has some range/dropoff upgrades already installed though.

[indigo oriole]

Yeah when u got PC it’s easy to say

[hoary crest]

Well Im sure as hell not buying a console that i might play two games on when Sony want 700 odd quid for the thing now am i

[indigo oriole]

Consoles are mid but at least u can play GTA day one if they release it 🤣. With all seriousness I wish I had PC money. To run Stalker u need rtx 5090 for 4K max

[fickle mesa]

I’m on a $900 laptop with a rtx 4050 and intel i5, but yeah I do have to play stalker 2 on medium/low

[hoary crest]

Honestly I have zero desire to play GTA6, if Rockstar is gunna charge 100 bucks for it, they can shove it right up where the sun don't shine 😂

[fickle mesa]

would prolly fry my shiz if I tried running it on max for too long

[fickle mesa]

I mean to be fair gta6 is probably the only game in existence that could charge that price and get away with it, but that’s only if it’s as good as they’re promising

[hoary crest]

Sure, but it then means other studios will take it as "the new standard" when it comes to pricing

[fickle mesa]

yeah for sure but that’s when it comes down to us as consumers to make fun of them

[hoary crest]

"oh but Rockstar did it, we can charge 100 for it"

I would hope noone buys GTA6 if its that price, but they will, in droves.

Im just gonna pirate it if its supposed to be a good game tho, f*ck paying for it

[fickle mesa]

yeah indeed, and yeah other companies will try but hopefully people are smart enough to just not buy it

[hoary crest]

They wont, giving your money to people who arent scum isnt something the modern day audience practices

GSC got my money because they developed the damn game in an active warzone, I'd say they earned a few bucks, Rockstar is so gluttonous offa GTA-online they can go eat a fat bag of dicks

[fickle mesa]

yeah I mean we’ll just have to see how good it really is, I wouldn’t mind spending $100 if it’s truly something I could enjoy for hundreds of hours like I did with gta5

but if it’s just a decent remake that forces micro transactions then yeah no lol

[magic vigil]

Gta6's going to be bad in my opinion

Maybe i'm wrong.. who knows

[fickle mesa]

yeah just gotta see when it comes out

[magic vigil]

I hope it's not going to be another cyberpunk 2077

[fickle mesa]

I’m glad I waited like 3 years to try cyberpunk yeah lol

[magic vigil]

I remember the memes at the day one

[fickle mesa]

idk about rdr or rdr2 release but I think they were decent

but this is a much larger project, either way I would expect them to not release gta6 unfinished

[magic vigil]

Yea, me too

[magic vigil]

Rdr and rdr2 are defined as very nice games

[fickle mesa]

yeah I just never tried them right on release, trying to remember if rockstar has had buggy launches before

[magic vigil]

Uhhhh....
I have to check

[unreal basin]

Are the PDAs in Chemical Plant bugged atm? Just picked up two of em and didn’t get them in my inventory?

[maiden grotto]

The biggest group of mugs on the planet ate gamers.

Just weak pathetic whiny babies, with as much backbone as a jellyfish...

To many brain rotted dribbling masses that just buy it, just because.

[maiden grotto]

No, no game is worth that much.

Only mugs would pay for it.

[pulsar moat]

I got a weapon with attachments from a dead stalker (zombified??), is that normal? its the first weapon i received that has attachments from a dead npc

[fallen latch]

was it an ar416

[pulsar moat]

nope it was a AKS-74U that had da silencer attached too it

I also wonder if you can obtain weapons that already have been upgraded too or partially upgraded

[fallen latch]

ur game modded?

[fallen latch]

there r a few places in the game with modded guns but not many

for example theres a 416 with a sight and grip up at the brain scorcher tunnel and an upgraded fora and 870 in sircaa at some point

[pulsar moat]

Mod list so far (but nothing touches the chances of them spawning guns)

https://imgur.com/a/GrME7Uh

*better item spawns only touch ammo and consumables, not weapons

Anything else either touches only mutants or doesn't touch the weapon loot that generates from killed/dead stalkers

[fallen latch]

yeah i dont know

[frigid hill]

randl1 has been warned

Reason: Bad word usage

[pulsar moat]

maybe bug lol..or maybe its intended as a rare spawn

kinda like how vanilla armor is when it drops

[fallen latch]

i assume ur playing stalker 2

[fallen latch]

pretty sure they fixed that, besides u could only do that with a bug exploit thing

[pulsar moat]

no I'm playing OGSE /s I'm playing stalker 2 ofc lol

[fallen latch]

ok cool

[pulsar moat]

armor still feels rare imo

[fallen latch]

it's only actually found in stashes or whatever, people dont drop them

[pulsar moat]

I think in the later patchnotes, they tweaked the spawns so I'm guessing it was possible to get armor from npcs. I'll try to look for the wording

[fallen latch]

i've never got that before

[pulsar moat]

aw here it is https://imgur.com/a/MgBrHiA

[fallen latch]

@ me and post it in a place where u can actually post images pls

[pulsar moat]

I got one piece of freedom armor from an npc but never again after that before modding.

[fallen latch]

u buy it or did it drop, i assume ur saying it dropped

[pulsar moat]

what place would that be? I feel like most of the channels in this server disallow image sharing...

It dropped I mean

[fallen latch]

#📸┃screenshots_and_videos

[weary hedge]

stalktua

hello, it is I. How are yall

[fallen latch]

ok, well there was an exploit to get people to drop armour
you could kill an enemy from stealth and then another of their squad would loot their gear, then killing that enemy would drop the armour
they patched it tho

[pulsar moat]

I heard about that, it's possible that enemy had armor from looting someone or something...

[fallen latch]

yeah, exactly

[maiden grotto]

Good

Yourself?

[hoary crest]

Greetings ma'am

[vernal lily]

Hello

[hoary crest]

Should get Project Itemization mate

Adds in a bunch of new stuff to loot, techs are vendors, repair kits an such an guess what, enemies have a chance of dropping armour

Amongst other junk, sometimes useful stuff, sometimes just junk

[pulsar moat]

Also if you drop a weapon on the ground, will a stalker pick that weapon up if its better than the one he is carrying? Ik they do that when looting enemy corpses

[sleek gulch]

@pulsar moat yeah, they will

[weary hedge]

RDR2 doesn't even launch half the time lol

constant out of memory errors - generally thats old game shit when things are failing to boot
typical rockstar games manages to make even RDR2 act like shit on pc

[vernal lily]

I played RDR2 without issues

[weary hedge]

So did i - and now I can't, and its a common issue you see on reddit with RDR2

If I uninstall it right now, and reinstall, I'll be able to play

then if i turn the game off and restart it, it'll start throwing out of memory errors again

over and over and over

[kindred pond]

hey guys, I am wondering how do I enable multiframe generation x3 or x4 on my stalker 2 with new rtx 5070ti, it should be done through the nvidia app, but as soon as I switch the tab to anything different from default, it switches back to "use 3d app settings".. any advice?

[gleaming bone]

it's next to rostok, there's also an artifact right?

it's normal to get stuff from scripted bodies. but it's impossible to get attachments from randomly spawned npcs

but yeah it's actually a nice place to get ar silencer early on, this stuff is not easy to find

[pulsar moat]

Outside of the village south of rostok where you find shorts pda in tgat basement.. Had a bunch of stalkers that look zombified that tried to take me out b4 getting klled by other mutants. So dk whether that was scripted

[mental slate]

🗺️ 🛣️ Roadmap, please

[tall briar]

Can someone explain each faction in stalker 2 and who they are allied with?

[wintry pumice]

no

[wintry pumice]

Its pretty much in the same condition as the road to Limansk

[ornate sable]

Seems to me they don't pick up guns dropped by the player, which is good because some times I leave guns on the ground if I'm not too far from my personal box and close to max weight, and then come back to pick them up.

[mystic isle]

I looked at the fat from stalker and realized how much it looks like a bobcat from my home town. Then remembered the eerie ass sounds they’d make in nature. It be cool if with the voice lines there be like intermediary lines where it distorts to that animal like sound. (Bobcats can sound like a woman screaming at times btw)

[weary hedge]

stalker 2 doesnt support multi-frame generation atm afaik

you can update the dlss dll though to get the new dlss 4

DLSS updater from github allows you to update the dll files
nvidia profile inspector revamped you can force the game to use the new presets if the nvidia app wont let you

[tawdry furnace]

Any1 interested in ethical hacking?

[weary hedge]

what a random question lol what are you selling 😂

digital version of a jehovah's witness knocking on your door

[ebon blade]

https://tenor.com/view/the-x-files-fox-mulder-dana-scully-leaving-goodbye-gif-17688282884731974679

[austere pagoda]

||"Suslov assembled an interesting machine - a Variometer, an electromagnetic psi-amplifier with a modulation unit. The output power was at the level of the brain in an active state, which made it possible to conduct the Caribbean Experiment to test the hypothesis of the existence of the Noosphere. I am enclosing an extract from the report.
Conditions of the experiment, an island in the waters of the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant cooling pond.||

[little mantle]

HELP-

I got 8GB for my RAM, now I have 16. But the game is still super laggy

I'm in the bar corner, and I see pixels like they are wasps around hornest nest!

[sturdy verge]

it'll show on there when strelok gets hair! 😄 😮

[little mantle]

I'm on Low graphics, 1,024x768 pixels

[sharp sierra]

So just been doing the on the edge mission for some reason Foreigner Bob appears to have an m14 with a red dot like warlocks!

[weary hedge]

bruh i told you yesterday you need a new gpu too lol

a 1650 wont do it even with 64gb of ram

[little mantle]

😭

[weary hedge]

your cpu is fine, the ram you did need an upgrade but the gpu is still just not strong enough for it

a 3060 would let you rock medium settings at least

a 12gb 3060, i mean, there were two diff versions

you honestly want something these days for future proofing to at least have 16gb of vram... but when youre from an economically disadvantaged nation (a gamepass subscription you said apparently costs you $100 usd a month), get what you can and just modify the settings to what works best

If I was a billionaire I'd buy ya a gpu and just ship it over lol making people feel good is noice

[maiden grotto]

@little mantle it would cheaper to buy the game, feck off game pass and save $$$ for a few months and get a decent pc

[weary hedge]

Though you'd probably only get a 4090 though cause if I was a billionaire i probably would have done that for tons of people already and basically emptied the 50xx series stock

[little mantle]

I'm getting a new PC at the end of month

[weary hedge]

yeah with a 4070 from memory, good choice

[little mantle]

But I won't be able to use it cause I'll have to wait for a monitor

[weary hedge]

whats wrong with your current monitor?

[maiden grotto]

Even if I had the money, nVidia can go feck themselves

[little mantle]

Too old

Non-supportive

[weary hedge]

like a crt or some shite? you can just get an adaptor if its the old uhhh, two pin rotate to tighten things

in the meantime as a temporary thing i mean

[little mantle]

Idk, I'm not really an expert

[gentle pilot]

Great, now I'm stuck with ||Warlock's gun|| in my inventory because I didn't give it back to him.

[weary hedge]

4070 has hdmi and dp connection so you need a monitor that can either take those, or an adaptor (hdmi over dp, too)

im (pretty sure) there are adaptors for hdmi to uh, two pin rotate thingy

god knows what those things are called lol two-pin rotate thingies is my go-to

[maiden grotto]

4070 are garbage, probably better off with AMD now...

If you can find one at msrp.

[weary hedge]

bruh my gpu is a saint, you take that back

[maiden grotto]

No.. you paid how much for it? How v much vram has it got?

[weary hedge]

covering her ears right now so she cant hear your hurtful words

lol its just 16gb - i was looking to upgrade just as the 50xx series launch date was announced, then i only wanted a 5070 anyway

the more i learned, they had only 16gb until you wanted to drop 2k, so i said not worth it and dropped 1.2k (aud) on a 4070 ti super

[maiden grotto]

4070 don't have 16gb

[weary hedge]

4070 ti super has 16gb

basic 4070 is trash i agree

basically going 4070 ti super -> 5070 was $xxx more expensive for basically 10-15% extra performance and the frame generation

[maiden grotto]

Oh... ti.... Still, and amd same performance almost, just 150 bucks cheaper

[weary hedge]

plus i would of had to wait till stock came out and actually stabilised (and its now three months later and still hasnt)

[maiden grotto]

I hate paper releases

[weary hedge]

true but i wanted raytracing and pathtracing

and ill admit ive always been a nvidia fan boy, never used AMD anything, nvidia/intel every time

[maiden grotto]

9070xt rt is soooo much better than before

[weary hedge]

is that the new one thats been reviewed all over yt right now? ive seen things pop up but havent watched them

[maiden grotto]

Always had nvidia, Inc 3080... then they went mental with the prices

[maiden grotto]

Yeah, the new one.

[weary hedge]

if i get a new gpu it wont be until the next generation, i think
unless a game i really really want to play comes out and forces a gpu upgrade

maybe the new elder scrolls? or fallout?

gta 6 wont be too crazy with its requirements

[maiden grotto]

The elder Scrolls and fallout will be garbage

[weary hedge]

what makes you say that?

[maiden grotto]

You'll be fine with your ti for years.

[little mantle]

:P

[weary hedge]

Man I'd be so disappointed if Fallout was ruined as a franchise. Surely not lol

It happened to Star Wars, and Lord of the Rings

Ring of Power was shit lol

[maiden grotto]

Do you honestly think they will change their engine?

It will be horrible, designed for modern day audiences lecturing people on pro-nouns, or will be insufferable

[weary hedge]

I'm not sure about that - I know they upgraded for Starfield to the newer version of their engine

I also quite enjoyed starfield 👀

100% no replay value though, whereas I could redownload Fallout 4 right now

I also don't know about DEI - Starfield didn't really have much of that from memory, and there has been a wave of pushback against that lately within the gaming sphere anyway

[maiden grotto]

Yeah, it still requires a million loading screens

[weary hedge]

Limitation of their engine, look at the flip-side, stalker

They have less loading screens but there are also things they cant do because of what they did opt for

ie we can't have 'proper' a-life like before because of how they used UE to build the game in the first place

[maiden grotto]

Like?

[weary hedge]

#☢┃stalker-general message)

thats all just parroting what another dev who looked at it noticed

the guys who did the ultra plus mod (they do tons of very complicated UE mods) say the same thing though if you ask them

#☢┃stalker-general message

[twin pike]

yikes

[maiden grotto]

I think you can do a proper a-life, just takes a lot of coding to get it done.

[weary hedge]

it requires out of the box thinking to give the player the impression they have proper a-life

#☢┃stalker-general message

[austere pagoda]

the whole navmesh idea can be negated by using navmesh streaming or runtime generatiorn for navmesh. you can also use systems to only generate navmeshes from those areas in the path the ai system takes without loading the whole area

[weary hedge]

read that dudes comments, as hes a developer himself and his comments were insightful

[maiden grotto]

So moving from ue4 to 5, means they rushed it, took the easy option and screwed themselves longterm

[weary hedge]

I don't think it's screwed, like shay just pointed out, they can do 'other' things

it just wont be like everyone expects it to be, not inherently anything wrong with that, it can still be good

[twin pike]

I wouldnt say they took the easy option, you have to remember they essentially jumped head first into an engine with little pre existing experence

[maiden grotto]

Nah they screwed themselves

[austere pagoda]

they did take the easy option

the whole system with navmesh isnt a big problem on its own since it can be negated by proper coding. the problem lies in the interactivity in those systems and how they want it to be offline due to alife

[maiden grotto]

Well, look at what we have got at the moment

[austere pagoda]

ue5 world partition and streaming can cause immense issues in the backend with ai subsystem relying on datat in those partitions

and it would require an incredible amount of process finetuning to not create hitches and such

[maiden grotto]

It's a mess that has had over 5000 fixes thus far.

[sturdy verge]

rogggggggggggggggggggggg! how are ya mate

[austere pagoda]

simple stuff like an ai controller for ai systems in a partition can break if they rely on controllers in other partitions

[maiden grotto]

Sucking on sid chic.

How are you?

[weary hedge]

i (think) they did what shay suggested above, didnt they explain it somewhere? with the 'online - offline modes' they basically only generate events within the predicted path the ai takes, which is offline a-life, and then the online a-life is what happens within the players active 100m bubble

[austere pagoda]

and to make it work it would require tons of dynamic systems during runtime

and guess what is already owned? cpu usage

[austere pagoda]

it is clear if you have been following since 2022 that the whole ai system is completely and utterly neglected

from 2020-2022 they went hard on development only to realise in 2022 that tons and tons of cuts are needed to make it work

[weary hedge]

which is what that ex-employee basically said in his recent interview

[austere pagoda]

i believe that employee fully, ive seen and heard stuff from before the several delays

[maiden grotto]

Yup, laying in my bed, sucking on that big juicy leg

[austere pagoda]

what everyone right now needs to understand is : no matter what you think alife 2.0 is, it wont be an upgrade to 1.0 it would be like a spin off. it has the spirit, the name but it wont be like the original

there are too many stuff cut and missing that what they are working towards is a varation of the simulation, it will be an illusion

[sturdy verge]

🍗 🤤🫃

[weary hedge]

looked away for two seconds and i come back to this lol

[sturdy verge]

baby blood suckers dlc when 🫃

[maiden grotto]

Then it's going to be garbage...

They have the time and money, to fix it properly, undo the the lazy stuff, and do it properly... even if it means including it as part of dlc's.

Which I would be happy to pay for.

I want the zone, not an illusion

[weary hedge]

fixing it properly takes rebuilding the game entirely

just wasnt made for a-life 1.0 to work the same way

[maiden grotto]

Not soon enough, comes with a free bloodsucker blow up

[maiden grotto]

Good, it's a project worth doing 🙂

[austere pagoda]

think about this then:

1. is render is 200m, what happens when you shoot ai in a base 200m away? how will they react? how will the zone around you impact your base clearing shenanigans? (what if a boar pack passes you and aggros, what happens to the aggro of the base 200m away).
   this would require a complete rewrite of current ai to be capable of countering these things like find direction of sniper, look for coverx return fire, flank, call for support

[maiden grotto]

That's fine...

They need to do it...

Never take the easy option.

[austere pagoda]

2. what about the moving in offline? the map is designed with pacing and ubisoft esque rewards in mind, not ai pathfinding. tell me is it logical cordon has 1 entrance northern bubble? have you seen where zaton leads? wild island and northeast of cordon both through 2 small paths, how will ai navigate that and fight for those regions? what about duga? isnt 50% cut off with walls? now what about top right cement factory? there is only 1 bridge there and it leads straight into duty base, so no other faction can migrate and have spawns there besides duty. there are a ton of regions being their own bubble

zaton for instance consists of 2 bandit type hubs, 1 varta type. how will offline alife work if icarus as well as skadovsk are main quest areas?

the whole map and quests all of it is made without a thought in alife

[weary hedge]

good point re map design, hadnt even thought of pathing issues myself, shows they never even had intention of that in the first place tbh, which i guess shows anyway since they chose what features of ue to use and what not to

[austere pagoda]

so even if ai is capable, even if ai can fight for regions. what happens to zaton? swamp? duga? cordon? wild island? lesser zone? cooling towers?

7/20 regions are limited, what about prip? thats 8 its tucked for endgame in corner. now cnpp and iron forest thats 10/20 advertised regions limited in alife

[weary hedge]

only thing i can think of is static limited a-life to boundaries for those areas

[austere pagoda]

as soon as that clicks in your head you realise there will NEVER be true alife persistence and warfare

[weary hedge]

but that wouldnt work either, for some of them like swamps

unless the ai only pathed small areas and you simulated it in other ways

[austere pagoda]

due to chokepoints and open world limitations bundled with world logic like pre and post sircaa

[austere pagoda]

then it isnt really an open world simulation but an illusion

[weary hedge]

yeah youre right, if you cant do pathing you cant properly do factions, factions need a map built for them which it clearly isnt, basically everything invalidates each other and leaves us with having to rely on illusions

[smoky hawk]

you say this as tho GSC can't manually select and place their pathfinding nodes or just make them ignore these gaps

[maiden grotto]

The map is awful in my opinion...

You can't even get to half the map, as lot of is surrounded by cliffs you can't climb...

They have an open world, they tried to force a linear route... far too much is quest locked, its a poor design.

[weary hedge]

It's not designed for long-range gunplay, just by extrapolation from what you just pointed out

so a large a-life radius was never on the cards, at least, not any sort of online radius

[austere pagoda]

its not pathfinding that is the problem it is the design of the map, the location of faction hubs, the regions tucked in corners between cliffs

from the get go we have a handfull of areas simply not capable of true alife:

1. sircaa
2. duga
3. swamps
4. pripyat
5. cnpp
6. iron forest
7. generators
   and yes all 7 count in the 20 advertised regions

[austere pagoda]

they never even thought it trough, you got snipers with massive scope zooms but bare render? they added all the cool features but when it came to implementing ai with those features they realised theyre screwed

[weary hedge]

and then the cutting nation attacked

[austere pagoda]

precisely

[weary hedge]

still a good game tho 😂 ill give them that, story still pisses me off as i dont know whats what

and maybe the cut content would have told me! 😦

[austere pagoda]

passionate group starts game -> needs funding -> gets it -> the funder puts requirements -> scope creep -> line must go up -> original idea and motives lost in the information feed and reorganization of company

[indigo oriole]

I’m not patient enough. When I read that they will add all weapon attachments in next patch I’m nervously checking discord for any update 🤣

[vapid galleon]

learn stalker lore

[weary hedge]

lmfao what, my questions arent about anything answered in the lore

The only lore about Skif is what the game gives us, too, same can be said for a ton of things

[smoky hawk]

what Im saying is you say these things as tho it is imposssible for GSC to do on a technical level when its way way more of a game balancing issue which can be corrected by trial and error
yes, you can just make AI pathfind over the hills and cliffs
in fact, hills and cliffs dont matter to SOC Offline ALife, neither in AMK, it was already a thing

you can also make the simulation stage be dynamic thru story state and thus negate offline a-life on places the player himself cant go thru, or you can NOT do that and say that stalkers CAN go to Pripyat with Degs blessing

[serene barn]

has anyone ever made a gun be fully kitted for hipfire in this? like i am wondering if it would be effective

i wish a little the crosshair was a bit more in line with what your actual accuracy will be.

[weary hedge]

thats just a misunderstanding of his position though - we were basically saying a-life won't 'be the same' as the original games, it wasnt a complaint per se, was just an observation we were discussing.

Where your part comes in, was a discussion re the 'illusion' the game developers can use to convince the audience, and ways to possibly work around being able to provide a proper working version the way people may, naively, expect

[maiden grotto]

Poor management... Just like SoC almost failed to release, thanks to poor management

[smoky hawk]

and this is my point
they can, it wont be a 1:1 recreation but they can port most if not all AMK A-life stuff

[weary hedge]

rog is however, complaining 😂

[smoky hawk]

bc

the balancing wont be 1:1

but I thought you cared more for the tech than the experience

[weary hedge]

how? what you mentioned prior was more of an illusion of a-life, in the way they will make things 'seem' to be proper a-life but realistically its not actually what people think it is

[serene barn]

these damn Corp be taking my loot :v

[weary hedge]

not that ive an issue with that, personally

[smoky hawk]

no I talked about how you CAN have AI just pass over these obstacles in offline alife, and that in fact, that was done in AMK Alife, what I talked about was tech, and that yes S2 can implement this tech regardless of how their map is

its really weird to say that A-Life wont ever be the same because the map has a lotta hills and barriers

[weary hedge]

'in fact, hills and cliffs dont matter to SOC Offline ALife'

They matter to the player though which i guess is another crux of the the discussion too, you cant realistically make all those factors work, without being deceptive in some form

a player can get on top of a hill, if youre just gonna path the ai around it, whats that mean for me?

[smoky hawk]

they dont, yes, it is not imbued into the technology of SOC Ofline ALife to care for them, they dont go around hills

[weary hedge]

i can see you plopping a hill and ruining all long-range gunplay because you dont want it and cant even render the distance (not you as in you, just, generally lol)

thus why all guns have pitiful entirely unrealistic range and damage drop offs

[smoky hawk]

so youre more concerned with how gameplay and not tech, I see

[weary hedge]

and why we didnt get nvgs and the interiors are all dark illusion to try and stop players really seeing much

[weary hedge]

i dont really mind much lol i liked the game, but devils advocate is fun

[maiden grotto]

Yes, because GSC world have screwed up. They got one sniff of money and went crazy

People just don't know how to manage projects....

Just throw money at it charge us a fortune, then release a game that is bugged to feck.

Where one of the drawing factors can't be implemented properly, because the ultimately had to rush the game.

That ain't right.

[austere pagoda]

what you say ogsr is true but it would break the immersion and that barrier of believability so hard if say the ai can ignore map stuff just to be able to do more compared to the player it would give off a feeling that the player has a form of handicap. there is also a severe problem of what is alife 2.0 in the eye of the user? as we can see for andromeda, you and me we both have a variation of what we think alife should be

[smoky hawk]

if you are very worried for it you can do this
the most notable barriers can be disconected from one another but largely a NPC can go over most barriers, as a "NPCs can clamber" thing

[oak junco]

id argue console users fucked up stalker 2

[smoky hawk]

and like I said to andromeda, I am commenting on what GSC can do with the system, purely tech, what I read from you is akin to "GSC cant do it with what they have" which I dont think is true at all

[oak junco]

consoles are weak tech

[weary hedge]

yes, but that means offline a-life is technically an illusion as youre just subverting areas that you cant do anything with, which is basically what shay said earlier anyway

[austere pagoda]

im not saying they cant, im saying that that is just 1 part of the bigger problem the biggest one being the capabilities of ai in render that is in my eyes the single biggest focus point for alife 2.0

[weary hedge]

with regions being incompatible with an alife system

most of us share opinions, its just a misunderstanding really

[austere pagoda]

after all what is a simulation of the ai and the zone if what it simulates is braindead in its actions

[smoky hawk]

so, youre saying that the entire map needs to be at the same height because the player needs to shoot at 500m away without the NPC clambering onto something?

I dont really understand the argument

[maiden grotto]

There was an interview, regarding the original stalker 2 that got cancelled.

The devs stated that they didn't want to do it on console, as it would ruin the feel of the game, or something akin to that.

[weary hedge]

No

I'm saying the game wasn't designed for the player to ever interact with anything from a distance, just like shay said the ai isnt coded to react 200m away to something you do where you currently are

You can see that in map design, you can see where developer tricks are being applied (like san andreas and the fog) to give the player a certain handicap or affect

the alife wasnt even launched at 100m, it was less, only later was it expanded

[frigid hill]

racing5566 has been warned

Reason: Bad word usage

[weary hedge]

the gun stats themselves pulled from the files show that the ranges were never designed to be high either

[smoky hawk]

yhea, thats dumb, the map doesnt have anything to do with AI capability and they can balance this to be both fair and have the tec

youre basically saying that bc its hard they shouldnt try

that its basically over

[weary hedge]

the ai side is a slightly different argument

[smoky hawk]

you can already adjust the spawn distance to a state where long range encounters can occur, you can just adjust it so that it feels good to the player while also implementing the tech that was in previous games, and is in mods

[oak junco]

that map argument is insane lol

i dont think they know how game dev works

the trilogy wasnt flat

[weary hedge]

mods do that already and its a huge performance hit most pcs consumer wise will have their fps absolutely tanked going too much over the current limit

[smoky hawk]

its not a question of impossibility, the map argument doesnt even make sense as it doesnt restictic AI nor combat, sure if you are engaging something at 200m away and it despawns its a prob, but that solution is a very clear and simple one I already said
it is more than possible, and another reason why we need to expect and demand it from GSC

[weary hedge]

online alife unless optimised a different way, they wont be able to expand it for say console players in its current state

[river chasm]

The trilogy specifically includes a lot of clever line of sight breakers and hills and buildings to make it so the player will very rarely see NPCs pop in

[weary hedge]

it doesnt restrict offline alife or offline combat, we are also discussing online alife

[river chasm]

S2... Doesn't have those in many areas really. That's one issue with some parts of the game

[smoky hawk]

the problem with the mods is that it renders everything as online A-Life, which is why it takes such a performance hit, if they enlarge the bubble a bit but employ a offline system it should, overall, be both performant and satisfactory on a tech and gameplay level

[austere pagoda]

no, i mean just what they can and cant do. yes you can implement it but like i said its not something like a plugin to the ai blueprint, it would require recoding the ai to be functional with all these stuff

[smoky hawk]

the map is only a problem here if you start tackling the issue of balancing in NPC patrols

[weary hedge]

and you cant have online alife spawning on a hill if your solution is to have offline alife bypass everything, so then none of that 'you can run into npcs youve seen' is anything but a linear rng illusion

[smoky hawk]

yes, it would, and I fully expect and need them to do so, they already have a game instance singleton to dictate states, they need to put it to work

[weary hedge]

its like star wars outlaws with the ai and their consistent pathing, but a bit more discreet

[austere pagoda]

and that is the basis of the alife problem dont you agree? if what the alife simulates is incapable of doing the most basic stuff with a decent render isnt the source not the simulation but what is involved in it?

[smoky hawk]

why cant you have NPCs that are on said hill in offline, not spawn on said hill online? especially if you push the spawn bubble so far that engagements with said AI arent feaseably essentially making the player feel like the AI was there all along