☢┃stalker-general

[scenic scaffold]

New Game Start mod lets you play in the duty faction

[drifting forge]

He's a bіtch lol
Proper serious wheelchair bound colonel who just doesn't give a shit

[maiden grotto]

Great series of games... with a coherent story.

[plain fiber]

I have 2033 sitting on my shelf right now but I still haven't read it. Maybe that'll be my next one once I've finished the Lovecraft omnibus.

[maiden grotto]

I know, but I want it to be vanilla... I want the devs to make the game right, not us.

[maiden grotto]

Got some good stuff there.

[scenic scaffold]

I enjoyed Metro Exodus overall as a linear narrative experience with survival kinda sprinkled in.
but compared to STALKER is way more what i want in a game than metro.

[scenic scaffold]

just try ittttt you know you wannaaaa

[maiden grotto]

Of metro was an open world... and the devs just built the whole metro for you to explore... and above ground...

Then set the story inside that, and allow you to approach missions from any directions

[scenic scaffold]

i think it was more the actor cause it sounded like anime tier voice acting

[drifting forge]

What language?

[scenic scaffold]

If they had that as it's own game, i'd be down to try it.

[maiden grotto]

Nah, I'm fine, but my game are fecked anyway.

[maiden grotto]

I think ì would never leave... especially if it had vr support

Nappies not included

[scenic scaffold]

Sleep in a shelter in game and hopefully don't get robbed

there's a youtuber that does that, he sleeps with the VR in a map filled with baddies and wakes up getting attacked and it's so freakin funny

[plain fiber]

What language were you playing in? Because I made sure to only ever play those games with the Russian VO.

[maiden grotto]

Yeah, there is courage of some guy trying stalker 2 in VR....

Massive code brown alert.

The game nearly killed him. It was bloodsucker just outside the science station at the beginning of the game.

I nearly died laughing

[maiden grotto]

The only way

[plain fiber]

Reminds me of when SovietWomble played Alien Isolation in VR; at the end of the game he literally broke down in tears because it was such a terrifying experience.

[maiden grotto]

I have to see that

It's why I won't play that game in vr

[plain fiber]

It's on his YouTube channel.

I'm off to bed now, have a good one.

[maiden grotto]

Is just a nope.

[maiden grotto]

You too

[scenic scaffold]

I did english cause I didn't like how big the subtitles were so i turned them off.

I try to play with the least amount of HUD and UI as possible.

[fickle cosmos]

aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa

[marsh iron]

would be amazing to have a hotkey for UI toggle

[solemn ibex]

I have just rememembered during this boss fight I could not get out the image of a roadrunner out of my head. MEEP MEEP. I am not sure if developers did it intentionally

[boreal coyote]

#📸┃screenshots_and_videos message

happy paddys day everyone

[maiden grotto]

You too mate

... me 😄

[boreal coyote]

@cobalt fiber especially to you ya plastic paddy ❤️

[boreal coyote]

what?🤣

[maiden grotto]

Rog 2.0... ma clone 😄

[boreal coyote]

oh thats right lol

[maiden grotto]

Anyway, I need ma beauty sleep... Off to the land zzzz'z for me....

So 16 years then? See ya then

[boreal coyote]

sleep well sir

[polar forge]

I have been roaming the map on foot all the way from Zaton to red forest just to avoid the swamp story mission 🤣

[boreal coyote]

mate i wish i could do the same

[polar forge]

Why can’t you ?

[boreal coyote]

i really wanted to love this game but i cant :{

i do love it in a sense but i cant help feeling the disappointment

💔 💔

[polar forge]

I think I recognize your pfp from somewhere

[boreal coyote]

whe i play something like kcd i can see that each quest is powered by passion and i wish i feel the same with stalker

[boreal coyote]

its just my dog, he's a middle weight all Ireland boxing champion

[polar forge]

Yeah some of the missions feel bland and npc lifeless. But idk I got used to it mostly now. Especially if I just roam and explore to loot up and make coupons. Story missions can be fun too but all the little side missions that lead to main story progression do feel like they drag on and on

[polar forge]

Think I have been talking in kcd server when you were in there. That’s where I seen your pfp iirc lol

[boreal coyote]

they made an amazing map i can agree with that

[boreal coyote]

possibly bro i chat in there sometimes

you like kcd2?

[weary hedge]

kingdom come was an amazing game but theres very little to really experience

feature wise, i mean

[boreal coyote]

what maks you say that?

[boreal coyote]

oh yeah i guess you're kinda right

[weary hedge]

I just remember there werent many weapons or items ingame, so you maybe did a hop skip and jump and you were fully equipped by crafting, just the best gear are hidden behind quests / finding blueprints

[boreal coyote]

but personally for me kcd2 is the best game since rdr2

[weary hedge]

you visit all the small cities (they are pretty damn small and there arent many of them) and there isnt anything new to see civilisation wise beyond that

nothing really interesting happens mechanics wise throughout the game too, other than unlocking skills pretty much everything stays the same as you progress

[boreal coyote]

yeah i agree but i gotta say their dedication to making quality side quests is unmatched imo

[weary hedge]

yeah the quests were nearly all top tier in design imo, plus the game world itself was breathtaking on maxed settings

[boreal coyote]

have you played kcd2?

[weary hedge]

yeah lol

[boreal coyote]

ok i just wasn't sure if you meant one or two imo there both great but 2 is just another level of amazing but i can recognise that its not for everyone

[weary hedge]

I liked it, I just found it boring after a few hours and realising how little it had to offer outside of the quests, which are really only if youre interested in the story, or the game world itself which lets face it once youve ridden five hours through it youve seen pretty much everything anyway

[polar forge]

Nah bro you gotta keep playing

[boreal coyote]

i disagree tbh but it is subjective what's interesting to me might not be interesting to and vise versa you but thats ok

[polar forge]

I’m 92 hours in and I haven’t even made it to ||the second map yet|| all just explored in first region and I haven’t made it to trosky castle either. There is so much to do/see

It just takes awhile to get into the groove of how to go about finding stuff, etc

[weary hedge]

I know what you're saying but I don't classify walking down a new dirt path as 'so much to do and see' as youre technically seeing the exact same things, with maybe a different bandit on the road

[boreal coyote]

my first playthrough was similar, i played like 75 hours before getting to the wedding in semine lol

[weary hedge]

i maxxed out my char with wemod before ever doing the wedding, and went from there (thus how i know the equipment on offer is lacking in terms of quantity)

[polar forge]

Brooo you ruined your experience doing that. Imo anyway

[weary hedge]

everyone says that but i enjoy it 😂

gtg to work, have a good day guysss

[boreal coyote]

im a bit of a writer tbh so i just appreciate the good dialogue and such but of course not everyone is not going to enjoy a game for the writing alone

[boreal coyote]

oh yeah you're aussie right? its almost 2am for me lol

[polar forge]

It’s 9:48pm for me

[boreal coyote]

damn🤣

[boreal coyote]

you aussie?

i would kill to live in Australia❤️

[polar forge]

No I live in America

[boreal coyote]

ohhhh shit you said pm lol

#📸┃screenshots_and_videos message

Last one 🤣 happy paddy's day stalkers

[river chasm]

Cheers!

[boreal coyote]

im so fked up lol 🤣

[vernal lily]

rog2.0 reveal

[boreal coyote]

the face reveal of the decade 🤣

[drifting forge]

Maaan

I thought you were a dog

[vernal lily]

[boreal coyote]

up the ra boys 💪 ❤️ 😂

i think we'll do the bong next

last one, lil bong hit for the boys, happy paddys day stalkers goodnight

[vernal lily]

[slender trench]

Am I crazy? Or does the Deadeye have worse stats than the UDP Compact?

[vapid galleon]

🤫

Actually stats don't really matter when it comes to pistols, just play with whatever you like

[zenith egret]

I like just using a UDP Compact. Dirt cheap to repair and upgrade with being pretty good as well

[vapid galleon]

This is USP right?

[zenith egret]

Based on, I believe

[vapid galleon]

Doesn't feel like a USP but it's a nice pistol

[wintry pumice]

And Australia would love to kill you

[weary hedge]

lmfao complete opposite timezone you asked that to, too 😂

Basically everyone is in front of the USA time-wise lol

[distant spindle]

Skif's pistol OT

Game definitely needs a lot more side quests shame there is no faction dynamic and faction story lines

[vapid galleon]

+1

[ebon blade]

That's all I'm doing. One side mission after another.

[distant spindle]

I am aswell but there isn't a lot of side missions imo

Seems like they intended for them to be a lot more numerous and versatile maybe with future updates we'll get more

The game has huge potential hope they use it fully

[wintry pumice]

Horny Mykluha

[mellow knot]

High hopes, my G

[distant spindle]

I know

[solemn ibex]

Squads with Gauss Rifles at Cordon is expected?

[ebon blade]

I once zapped a Monolith from the roof of the Fishing Hamlet, that was standing in front of the blockhouse at the Village Ruins (Marshes) at over 500 meters, with a gauss rifle.

[solemn ibex]

I played the game in Russian, so I don't know the locations you mentioned, but sounds impressive

[lilac trellis]

A dream told me 1.3 releases today

[dusky sequoia]

I believe this guy

[dusky sequoia]

what the hell is your banner bro ?

[vernal lily]

[plucky pasture]

Hardware ray tracing ?

[vernal lily]

You would prefer what I have right now, than the one I had temporarily a few days ago.

Tbh I was about to change it to a different character, but people's reactions have been funny I might as well keep it longer.

[floral elm]

🚬

[boreal coyote]

yeah a patch dropped just now with it, buttery smooth 15 fps

[maiden grotto]

Really?

[charred nova]

If I hear hardware ray tracing again I’m gonna level a city block

https://tenor.com/view/chudlogic-chud-logic-evil-gang-evil-gif-11587451429599961940

[boreal coyote]

road map?

[subtle spindle]

the lumen genuinely looks shit id and ofc the game doesnt run well maybe it would run better with hardware rt

[charred nova]

No it would be

Your right

I’m just tired of hearing about it

[weary hedge]

download ultra plus, makes it far better

yes yes i know its a mod and the game should look better by default, but do it anyway lol worth it

[subtle spindle]

not sure if i could run that, what exactly does it do?

[weary hedge]

its a ue mod, far too much to write here but fixes the lighting and a ton of performance improvements

https://www.nexusmods.com/stalker2heartofchornobyl/mods/484?tab=description

[subtle spindle]

do you use it? what gpu do you have

[weary hedge]

4070 ti super, and yes i cant play without it

[subtle spindle]

i have a 4070, hmmmm

[weary hedge]

it has lower visual settings too, i run it on high/epic for most things, with ingame set to epic too

What's new?
While v3 of Ultra+ brought significant improvements to the lighting overall, we were limited in trying to force engine variables to account for issues with the game assets themselves. v4 introduces a completely new method that modifies the game assets via the PostProcessVolumes and greatly enhances the quality of lighting by making it more diffuse and "bounce" farther as you would expect light to do. This is not possible to do by just changing engine variables.

The lighting configuration has been completely overhauled. It was getting to be a bit unwieldy before and we were using some hacky methods to make the lighting better. Now there are 3 lighting configurations available in the settings:

• LightingMode
  • standard - this mode is the most vanilla and does not change the default look of the foliage which can be overly bright and glowy. All of the quality enhancements provided otherwise are available
  • standard_fix_foliage - this mode is simply the standard mode with a fix for the color and diffusion of foliage lighting
  • advanced - this mode applies a couple of settings that change the way the diffuse lighting is calculated - it is not necessarily superior to standard mode, there will likely be scenarios where one or the other look better but this mode should handle multiple light sources a little bit better as well as have more proper diffusion on foliage
• LightingQuality
  • low - only use this mode if you are struggling for FPS, it is the lowest lighting resolution available
  • standard - the default configuration that should perform generally well
  • high - a minor performance hit and a bit of a higher resolution lighting cache - it will require more VRAM
  • epic - a more significant performance hit with higher resolution lighting and higher resolution lighting cache - it will require more VRAM
  • epic_alt - similar to epic with a higher resolution lighting cache and slightly lower resolution than epic
  • epic_alt2 - similar to epic_alt but with has the highest lighting resolution of all modes
• LightingAO
  • Lumen - uses the Lumen AO methods that have the highest quality but also the most noise - if you are having shimmering issues with foliage which can happen particularly with DLSS4 then another mode will resolve your noise issues - if you can use ray reconstruction it will resolve the shimmering foliage
  • SSAO - traditional method that produces a more "game" like ambient occlusion that is also the least realistic
  • GTAO - more of a global estimation of ambient occlusion that is closer to the realism of lumen
    Performance should be on par or better than it was before depending on your configuration.
    Note that the ray reconstruction exclusive lighting modes have been removed.

thats just their latest update

[subtle spindle]

doesnt sound too bad, im gonna try this

[weary hedge]

#📸┃screens_and_videos message sircca pic with ultra plus, but that was a few updates ago

[subtle spindle]

the improvements to how foliage looks are particularly attractive to me since everything looks very bad from further away

[weary hedge]

the foliage has a few different options too, so you can reduce pop-in, but they are vram intensive

they also have a custom auto exposure to fix the wonky ingame one

comes with tons of fixes lol honestly 11/10 recommend it for anyone with a PC reading

[subtle spindle]

oh yeah that effect is also pretty annoying

are the watermarks in your screenshot from the ray reconstruction dll?

[topaz barn]

how the heck did gsc revive itself

[scenic scaffold]

I try to shill U+ all the time and people just want to play vanilla and complain. 🤷‍♂️

[spark pond]

Where patch? 🦧 🦧 🦧

[weary hedge]

no i turned that on using a registry file that comes with nvidia profile inspector, not related to rr or any mods

its just to check if you were running the latest dlss preset, now its outdated as you can force it through the nvidia app

[dry aspen]

Personal take, Stalker 2 really misses the mark when it comes to mutants, while some do have interesting attacks fighting most of them seems to boil down to spamming medkits while you get knocked down since for some reason developers still think stunning the player is a fun mechanic. Also just seems like mutants lost a lot of nuance, and are just hyper agressive, dogs don't back down and fleshes are no longer cowardly, there doesn't seem to be tougher mutants that come out only during the night and such anymore. And by god the game loves to spam bloodsuckers, they've lost any scare factor by the sheer ammount and just are annoying.

Not to mention that it seems like stalkers stand 0 chance against anything more than boars and fleshes regardless of rank and gear, i've seen squads of exo suited stalkers struggle to take out one bloodsucker, while in previous game i've seen Duty squads take out Chimeras.

[scenic scaffold]

https://tenor.com/view/patchie-lord-of-the-rings-gollum-scream-shout-gif-16599857

RIP gifs

[maiden grotto]

Sid Chic...

[gleaming bone]

what is this map?

[river chasm]

Map of the great swamps from clear sky

[gleaming bone]

all fair points

[maiden grotto]

Swamps in clear sky, were much better.

[maiden grotto]

Let them cook. I would rather them get it right, than rush it and get it wrong, making a bigger mess.

Just chill, it will be released, when it's ready

[river chasm]

Rushing them will only lead to more mistakes, especially if they get burned out

[misty sinew]

Anyone with ultraplus installed please explain this to me. If it's a performance mod why am I getting worse frames on 7900xtx 😭 Are there some settings to tweak I'm not aware of?

[maiden grotto]

Uninstall it and find out. See for yourself

[misty sinew]

Yeah just did that

[plush lake]

The game still needs lots of fixing to achieve the greatness that the original trilogy have

[maiden grotto]

Same problem?

[wintry pumice]

||Hardware ray tracing ||

[charred nova]

https://tenor.com/view/nuclear-catastrophic-disastrous-melt-down-gif-13918708

[hoary crest]

What specs is your machine btw? Middle of the road or high-end?

[weary hedge]

mine? 4070 ti super, 14900k and 64gb ram

[hoary crest]

Ah yeah ok, so "performance enhancing mod" is a bit of a misnomer with those specs

[weary hedge]

so pretty much a gen old with everything - and no, i run it on high settings, it has lower versions which focus on visual improvements while also improving FPS. You just won't get 'amazing' visuals like my screenshots, but still better than vanilla

'My goal with Ultra+ mods is that everyone can enjoy the games we love, and provide that last 10% polish that game devs often don't get the time to. This means this mod is for all PCs, high and low.

In the vanilla S.T.A.L.K.E.R. 2, cut-scenes are the only thing that run at true epic quality (but they are capped at 30 fps). With Ultra+, you will now get cut-scene quality in-game, however this does have a cost.

I've taken great care to adjust the in-game graphics menus so they scale better. However this means if you have a 4070/4080/3090/7800, you might struggle to run everything at Epic now. This is by design.

Per "What this Does" above, I have:

Improved performance of cut-scenes without reducing visual quality (some settings were wasted)
Moved many cut-scene settings to Epic
Adjusted Low, Med, and High graphics settings so they scale sensibly for everyone

As a general rule:

Epic: Targets 4090/7900/etc. cards
High: Targets 4070/4080/3080/3090/7700/7800/etc.
Med: Targets 4050/4060/7600/3070/1650/etc.
Low: I'm not sure how low things will go yet, this game is pretty heavy on GPU, but let me know, and I will do my best to get it working!'

so it doesnt just target high end systems at all, its pretty customisable to what the user has

[mellow knot]

A-Life is being developed right now. It has always been a lie, an illusion. It's been months and they can't get performance right

[misty sinew]

The hardest pill to swallow may be the fact they will never fix performance because it's impossible with UE5/they don't know how lol

[weary hedge]

Sad but true, that baked in ghosting is what does my head in. Isn't it epics job to fix the engine?

[subtle spindle]

yeah performance isnt gonna get that much better even with many updates i dont think people have accepted that

[misty sinew]

I'm out of loop with GSC talking with community; have they ever actually addressed the performance issues directly?

[gleaming bone]

afaik there also were some major updates to ue5 but gsc can't update coz they made a lot of custom changes and porting all of it would be too hard

[gleaming bone]

yeah

[misty sinew]

I wanna kms, I uninstalled it and now the lightning in my game is broken xD

I love UE5
I love UE5
I love UE5

[gleaming bone]

do you have any other mods? that's weird

[misty sinew]

I've a shit load of mods, but they're mostly retextures/balance changes and new items. I also have that Stalker 2 Tweaks and Improvements mod installed perhaps this may be the culprit...?

[gleaming bone]

you can post screenshots to #📸┃screens_and_videos , maybe someone will help (I play without mods)

[maiden grotto]

FFS!

You might have to do a fresh install... and delete the stalker2 folder from the hidden folder in my documents

[misty sinew]

y tho?

I mean I could do that no problem but does the ultraplus really dig in that deep into the game's engine

[crude quarry]

Try to verify integrity of game files through Steam

[misty sinew]

i'll try it out

[maiden grotto]

Who knows. It could be something to do with saves being corrupted...

PC do strange stuff these days

[maiden grotto]

This first

[weary hedge]

did you install the fg addon?

FSR3 grame gen

[misty sinew]

"ONLY REQUIRED FOR NVIDIA 4000 SERIES GPUS"
I don't even have an nvidia card

[weary hedge]

yes i misspoke but that doesnt answer my question whether you got it or not lol

[misty sinew]

No I thought you'd understand that from the description of the file on the literal modpage lol

[weary hedge]

say that to the dudes who have done that and then asked for help in the ultra plus discord (which is where you should be asking this as the actual creator is active there rn lol)

https://www.nexusmods.com/site/mods/1139 you can use this to edit the settings, too

mine are here - #📸┃screens_and_videos message

[mellow knot]

Mol1t needs to stop giving hope. No way 1.3 drops today as he said

[misty sinew]

Aight verifying files fixed the issue, thank goodnes, but I'm staying away from that mod lol

[gleaming bone]

it's 6 pm in prague already, 7 pm in kyiv... hmmm

[weary hedge]

also, yes, this, ultra plus does NOT play nice with anything that says it alters performance, or touches the engine.ini etc etc etc

its recommended to delete most of that stuff

'Engine.ini mods
Ultra+ is a complete reconfiguration of Unreal Engine. It is not a simple Engine.ini, it modifies many configuration files within UE.

Understand that we see many (most?) Engine.ini mods copying some settings from Ultra+ mods without properly understanding how they work (and without crediting us, read the MIT license guys, c'mon it's easy).

Ultra+ is not compatible with engine.ini mods. You're always welcome to ask us about specific Engine.ini commands in the Discord.

Note that many "optimisation" mods are also now packing the Engine.ini into pak files. Ultra+ is not compatible with these either.'

[waxen marten]

I am Copium ambassador

[floral elm]

MOL1T OUR LORD SAVIOUR WE LOVE YOU

[mellow knot]

We would love you, if your info came true. If 1.3 drops today, i send feet pics

[native crescent]

damn ultra+ does make the game look a lot better but the increased latency is horrible, the game already has 30fps latency when at 120fps

maybe once they fix the horrendous performance issues or they get the latency in line with other games it will be goated

anything below 100 fps just feels like frame generation even if its off

[weary hedge]

lemme log in and check mine cause it doesnt feel that bad for me

[native crescent]

with reflex enabled at 100 fps I run at like 35ms latency

[gleaming bone]

is it measurable?

[native crescent]

nvidia overlay displays it, i dont know how accurate it is but the latency def is noticeable

[misty sinew]

Yikes

[native crescent]

r.OneFrameThreadLag=0 makes it a lot better, but I drop a ton of fps because of cpu limit

[weary hedge]

mines around that too, you feel that? lmao feels fine to me, das crazy

[native crescent]

Compared to other games at 100 fps its horrible imo

like its playable but anything less than that feels way too floaty for me

[gleaming bone]

you got latency numbers for other games at 100 fps? (just curious)

[misty sinew]

How do you even track moving targets heads with that

[native crescent]

ill check, but its def noticeably faster

[maiden grotto]

Fake frames... and people lap it up.

[native crescent]

im not frame generating

[warm stone]

yay patch today (but no a life improvements in it)

[native crescent]

frame gen just sucks in that game the latency is horrible

[mellow knot]

It is the only wae

[native crescent]

I got lucky with a 5080 so the game does run without it

[mellow knot]

Yeah but on Ultra?

[native crescent]

yeah, ultra dlss quality runs at 100+

[mellow knot]

damn, the gen leaps do exist (they don't, another illusion)

[native crescent]

except in the towns because somehow a 9800x3d is too slow for this basic ass AI

[native crescent]

well the latency is still horrible you probably need 200+ to make it feel decent

[mellow knot]

Who would've thought a stationary NPC that can't leave the building would kill any hardware

[warm stone]

i do aa with 5080

[native crescent]

yeah dlaa is def doable once they fix the latency issue

[mellow knot]

I use Framegen so I can run at Ultra + 100% resolution scale. You get used to Framegen, and then you can't go back. Another Nvidia illusion. they are like C-COn

[native crescent]

i use frame generation in mh wilds in that game its actually just perfect

[mellow knot]

So it's GSC's fault. Bring the stakes!

[native crescent]

i dont really know what they did to make 100 fps feel like 30 dude

[gleaming bone]

did you get it at msrp? lol

[weary hedge]

you get used to it is probably the more accurate response, i was just ingame playing with it and when you focus / look for it, you do notice it

[native crescent]

yeah, i had a script running and got a founders

[gleaming bone]

oh wow, that's nice

glad for you buddy

[maiden grotto]

What a state for the industry top be in, when people have to do that.

I just wait until they drop in price, months after release.

Scalping should be made illegal

[native crescent]

yeah its completely fucked, I was on a 1080ti tho so I really did not want to wait that much

[gleaming bone]

if you waited 6 months for them to drop in price, then might as well wait 1.5 more years for the next release
I sometimes have this thinking lol

[native crescent]

next gen might also actually bring a performance uplift

[maiden grotto]

Your not wrong in many cases.

But with 50 series, almost no uplift at all. Just v maybe rt performance

[native crescent]

I didnt have another gen in me tho especially with every game now requiring ray tracing capable cards

[maiden grotto]

Although, fully, the 9070xt will put some pressure on nvidia...

One process stop being insane and meet msrp

[weary hedge]

ultra plus in cyberpunk has crazy path-traced bounce lighting with ray tracing, plus a new type of path tracing (ReGIRDI+ReGIRGI)

Ultra Plus aint no modders to sleep on lol

[native crescent]

im trying to get latency numbers in other games right now but for some reason the overlay just shows N/A in every game except stalker 2

every game I tried feels noticeably more responsive at 100fps than stalker 2 tho

[wintry pumice]

Nah, Nvidia won't care as they're making shit ton of money with their AI chips

[upbeat cliff]

People cried a lot about lack of optimization in it, yet there's only one game that plays in 2k at stable 80 fps with framegen and FSR on Quality on high settings on my 3060ti - and it's not Stalker...

[native crescent]

for me it runs worse without frame gen, but it does feel 5x more responsive even with it on and while it still has a ton of graphical artifacting issues its nowhere near lumen

[maiden grotto]

But that looks to be back firing ith the recently release of AI that doesnt need the hard ware... nVidia lost billions 😄

[native crescent]

stock price is kinda imaginary, they are still making record profits, I think deepseek existing will actually turn out good for them in the long run

you can still make it run faster with better hardware, and now normal people can also just run it locally at home

sadly my 5080 the self proclaimed AI graphics card doesnt have enough vram to run deepseek 💀

[hoary crest]

Consumer market isnt worth sh*t to Nvidia at this point tho

[distant spindle]

1.3 just dropped ?

[native crescent]

me when i lie

[upbeat cliff]

https://steamcommunity.com/games/1643320/announcements/detail/831582351143207688?snr=2___\

[boreal coyote]

they're likely more focused on robotics eh? the margins for selling GPUs must be awful

[floral stag]

when multiplayer?

[lapis dock]

Does this mean that mutants won’t spontaneously run away when you climb on top of things, now?

[oblique cove]

oh no a patch, everyone launch the game as fast as you can so you wont have to update 120GB kekek

[south crypt]

new death screens update before gta 6 is crazy

[warm violet]

i hope the patch fixes memory leak

[lapis dock]

GTA zoomers when they have to wait a single year (They’ve weren’t around for E3)

[frigid hill]

nomeltsohg has been warned

Reason: Bad word usage

[quiet elm]

thank u gcs for fixing the access violation

[boreal coyote]

do you know what year it is?

[weary hedge]

tons of changes in patch, nice

[quiet elm]

that bugged stopped me from progressing

[wintry pumice]

Yeah but they will keep the hype going or ride it out till it dies

[weary hedge]

Archiartifacts rebalance:

Weird Water: decreased radiation protection.
Weird Nut: increased bleeding degeneration speed, further slowed down healing with equipped artifact.
Weird Flower: Increased smell masking effect.
Weird Ball: increased stamina gain, increased maximum weight of the artifact, but slowed down weight gain when being shot.
Weird Kettle: Debuff received from consuming food is now not random, and corresponds to specific type of food.
Non-Stop Limited Edition energy drinks now have an additional special effect when used with Weird Kettle.

[wintry pumice]

Good thing I uninstalled the game then

Nerfed weird water is not weird at all

[maiden grotto]

Patch 1.3 dropped

[weary hedge]

Added multiple new death screens that vary based on the cause of the death.
Improved facial animations in the mainline.
Improved audio obstruction for mutants' sounds.
Improved the positioning of various sounds.
Added a new night music theme for Slag Heap.
Added music for the elevator in SIRCAA.
Added missing localizations for tutorials.
Added descriptions that explain what is the difference between armor-piercing and expansive ammo.
Improved some bullet-caused decals.
Improved the visibility of enemies at nighttime by increasing the intensity of the NPC flashlights.
Improved the shadows cast by the player's flashlight.
Several attachments and upgrades have been moved from “point of no returns” end game sequence to Prypiat stashes.
Updates and fixes of NPC movement and shooting animations.
Added option to change Melee weapon attack button in control settings.
Added additional idle animations for NPCs with weapons drawn.
Added new VFX animals and a new type of a visual anomaly.

Damn big changes

[hasty solstice]

why alife made more rare on average?

[sturdy verge]

Thought it was patch 69

[maiden grotto]

With trump... enjoy it now 🙂

[sturdy verge]

What? Are you saying to 69 with... 😂

[maiden grotto]

Yup, patch 1.3 has dropped

[wintry pumice]

Added music for the elevator in Sircaa, I see the devs had their priorities straight

[night acorn]

Lowering the radiation protection for weird water is bs

[maiden grotto]

Yup yup

[boreal coyote]

"added music to the elevator in sircca"🤣 if thats not proof of this game being in beta then i dunno what is

[sturdy verge]

Only with sid

[upbeat cliff]

early access age

[lapis dock]

Thank god for the NPC flashlight change

[crude quarry]

Does the sound designer should work on Alife too?

[night acorn]

Did they fix the light legit being fkn useless? It doesn't do sht

[native crescent]

the squirrel was never real

[boreal coyote]

no 🤣

[quiet elm]

alife this a life that how about we focus on the real issues like performance before stuff like that

[lapis dock]

While I’m here. Anyone know where I can get advanced gear upgrades? I got my Dnipro and Exoskeleton, but don’t know where to get upgrades

[unreal helm]

Hello, ladies and gentlemen.

[weary hedge]

Yaniv

[sturdy verge]

The squirrels were in the shining zone nibbling on our toes

[native crescent]

alife is unfixable if a 9800x3d is already not enough to run basic villages

[quiet elm]

alife is good n all but why have it if the game doesnt run good

[lapis dock]

Cheers

[maiden grotto]

And a sid chic strap on.

The drum stick of fun

[weary hedge]

you also need to find blueprints for some upgrades, which are in certain spots around the world (in case you didnt know, but i assume you do being far enough in to have a dnipro)

[quiet elm]

stop bullying the devs for alife n let them work on whats actually needed

[sturdy verge]

🥁 😂 😂 😂

[quiet elm]

i could give less of damn about alife bc some people cant run the game

[lapis dock]

When are they going to make anomaly frogs inspectable like artifacts?? These are the things the STALKER community NEEDS.

[boreal coyote]

they should have done that before releasing the game though no?

[native crescent]

it might just be impossible with ue5

[weary hedge]

microsoft pushed them to release the game afaik

[quiet elm]

ue5 is trash

[sturdy verge]

Leave britney aloneeeee

[hoary crest]

Omw to put bullet holes in Monolith troopers

[native crescent]

ue5 is just such a shitter engine, its a huge shame that everybody is switching to it now

[lapis dock]

Yee I have like 5+ days of playtime lol

[quiet elm]

u could try ur best to optimize the game but ue5 is trash

[upbeat cliff]

I can run the game at stable 30 fps in 2k on mid-range setup, don't care about toaster PCs and Series S, give me proper a-life

[boreal coyote]

well none of us asked for ue5, this sounds like a dev problem not mine

[wintry pumice]

Yup , I want NPCs fighting in the distance sounds too.

[native crescent]

maybe ue5.5 fixes every ue5 issue copium copium

[quiet elm]

[sturdy verge]

Me too, I want to see them steal someone's chicken after fighting.

[fading ledge]

Is stalker 2 finally playable (fov!) with an ultra wide monitor with Patch 1.3? 🤓

[lapis dock]

Every game on UE just feels like reskinned Unreal Tournament and I’m tired of pretending they don’t

[hoary crest]

Maybe we'll get Bloodborne2 this year an all 😂

[upbeat cliff]

Well proper audio ambience is important

[quiet elm]

anyways stalker 2 is amazing it just needs alot of work

[lapis dock]

I can FEEL the Fortnite in STALKER 2

IM NOT CRAZY

[weary hedge]

i have an ultra-wide and it works? what aspect ratio are you using? I'm 21:9 3440x1440

[sturdy verge]

Only if a skin is sids chicken

[boreal coyote]

its good, wouldnt say amazing

[inland sage]

Nerfed weird water again?

[native crescent]

if you turn on lumen in fn you can simulate the stalker experience because everything starts shimmering and you can see the lighting calculations in real time

[lapis dock]

Sid chickenleg lore

[inner hinge]

So mutants are even deadlier but health remains unaffected and there is still no reward for fighting them. All I got to say is why keep them tanky at this point

[maiden grotto]

1970's pawn sound track in the background... proper waka waka music....

[fading ledge]

Im using a crg9, so 5kish, 32:9

[lapis dock]

Collars

[weary hedge]

damn lol

[lapis dock]

Jokes aside, mutant parts should come back. They eat ammo, and I’d like to be reimbursed

[pale fossil]

it says 280.4 GB lmao ||, I know, the actual download is ~40GB but I bet our low-speed-internet/low-disk-space bros already suffered strokes||

[lapis dock]

“Just run away”
No one actually avoids fighting in stalker unless they’re highly outnumbered. Stop the cap 🖐️

[distant spindle]

I honestly don't know why they even touch the artifacts just let them be and fix the core issues...elevator music

[maiden robin]

Dang they just fixed a whole bunch of issues I didn't even know existed

[lapis dock]

Devs when you’re dying in 6 shots instead of 5
(The game is horribly unbalanced)

[hoary crest]

I uhhhh... I do.. Ballistic mod makes standing out in the open shooting at stuff incredibly stupid lol

[inner hinge]

Apparently it is being floated about but I think even that won't make mutants worth it as they are just far too tanky

[elder obsidian]

but where are the squirrels ?!

[upbeat cliff]

Added new VFX animals and a new type of a visual anomaly.

[boreal coyote]

go outside, you'll see loads

[maiden grotto]

Because bullets are insanely costly

[lapis dock]

“I do” 🤓
“I’m also playing modded” 🤓🤓🤓

[hoary crest]

Don't... there is a bloody group of them in the tree outside my digs an the little fuckers are gone whenever the air-gun is loaded 😂

[hoary crest]

Ahhhh you're one of them...

Noted

[native crescent]

the worst is when suddenly the rat king appears in your game and sends his entire legion of rats at you

[boreal coyote]

mate im with you, there's some nested nearby and my dog will not stfu! 🤣 he wants them fkers badly 🤣

[lapis dock]

I swear I saw lizard crawling away towards the water when walking through the red forest the other day

[sturdy verge]

Nibbling on my toes

[hoary crest]

Legit tree rats

[native crescent]

the game has frogs but you cant kill them

[upbeat cliff]

Let me tell you a secret - there're frogs in game

[shrewd kindle]

Giant mutated sugar gliders should be added in the dlc

[lapis dock]

“One of them”?

I made a comment about vanilla, then you rebutted with a comment about a modded game??

[gloomy nebula]

still no a life fix is crazy

[inner hinge]

I think stalker 2 is a great visual upgrade but still far off of being a good sequel to the original games

[lapis dock]

I don’t have any problem with mods, for the record.

[hoary crest]

You didn't mention vanilla, stop moving goalposts to justify yourself.

[boreal coyote]

it aint happening mate

[shrewd kindle]

What about B life?

[lapis dock]

nice b8 m8

[boreal coyote]

next week

[elder obsidian]

old are gold , still a lot to reach COP

[hoary crest]

A-Life's B-Side 😄

[weary hedge]

You thinking what I'm thinking, A Life?
I think I am, B Life!

[hollow pawn]

performance is improved? memory leak is fixed? If this is not the case it is not worth reinstalling the game

[misty sinew]

"Made mutants movements during combat smoother. "
Absolutely goated actually

[hoary crest]

We can only hope, bunch of stuff was causing memory leaks before

[sleek stratus]

no a-life no sdk info :<

[bitter dawn]

fr tho

[torn prism]

Shame that night time is the same. Miss my nvgs

[elder obsidian]

i was waiting to complete the game this far but hey i think im doing it now coz this is far far away to be complete it.

[inland berry]

Any1 still have problem with four winds achievement?

[elder obsidian]

im still waiting the best patch but i think this is it

[shrewd kindle]

Anyone with super internet test how much brighter they made the flashlight yet?

[hoary crest]

I hope not a lot tbh, the darkness was a super rare and much appreciated design choice, not many studios have the stones to make a game have actual darkness

[boreal coyote]

they didn't touch it, NPCs flashlights got a change but not the players

[boreal coyote]

only dayz and tarkov

[hoary crest]

P'much yeah

[torn prism]

Damn, no nvgs either. Might just mod the game to get increased daylight because I'm sick of the night

[upbeat cliff]

Just finish it once and move on, then remember you have it in your library when they release "Complete edition" with patch 2.0

[slender trench]

That's a massive list of patch notes.

[lapis dock]

Brightness is fine. It’s the range. We need NVG

[hoary crest]

Ya'll wanting NVG's, I just want staged reloads :/

[lapis dock]

FOR REAL

[shrewd kindle]

I kinda agree on the range part, flashlights fine indoors but outdoors it’s pretty useless

[lapis dock]

You might also just need to tweak your image sliders. The defaults were terrible for my TVs

[elder obsidian]

any recomendation mods to new start ?!

[fickle tree]

Whenever you're walking along the zone and suddenly your sensitivity goes super low like it's hard to turn, and you start hearing weird echo-y noises, are those pockets of psi-radiation?

[brazen arch]

What does level art improvement mean guys?

[shrewd kindle]

I have already, if I tweak it any brighter then night starts to look like blue day

[frank fjord]

STALKER 2: Desolation

[lapis dock]

Shadows in this game are really intense no matter what, however.

[inner hinge]

What I would like to be done for stalker 2 is persistent A-Life like in the og trilogy, mutant health slashed in half, mutants and NPC doing stuff such as scavenging, setting up bases and artifact hunting then finally get an economy rework

[fickle tree]

Also is there any significance to the random pockets of psi-radiation or is it just an aesthetic touch

[lapis dock]

They already do all of this but bases. Bases are the big one that’s missing

Mutants are also much softer than launch

[fickle tree]

mutants would be so much less annoying to fight if they dropped literally anything you could sell

[shrewd kindle]

I can’t imagine them nerfing mutant health anymore than they have, you end up shredding them once you find an auto shotty

[inner hinge]

Most pockets are around locations of great tragedy or the location had it in previous games

[lapis dock]

Let’s not pretend like mutants had good drop rates in the OG trilogy. Usually there would be ONE designated mutant in a group that dropped something. And that’s if you were lucky to see a large enough pack

[indigo meteor]

1.3 patch fix the game

[cunning plover]

"Fixed memory leaks issues when navigating inventory/looting menus (e.g. opening Player stash at Rostok)."... damn... it took 3 FULL MONTHS to fix this. o.o"

[fickle tree]

I think there's a very thin one between the garbage and wild island you run into when you have to go there for the first time, almost like it's a threshold

[inner hinge]

This is bait because you know its not true and mutants are still far too tanky

[next phoenix]

Any change to the zubr-19 blueprint locked behind the spark faction mission? Is there any way to get it when siding with Ward?

[inner hinge]

I recently played the COP and there the blood suckers can be taken down in 2 shotgun shots

Like how did we go from that to 2 magazines

[misty sinew]

I play with maklane mutants or whatever it's called and it's really nice, feels nice flicking on swarming dogs or taking down a bloodsucker with a few headshots

[fickle tree]

the big kicker for me is - forgive me, because it's been like a decade since I've played the original STALKER games, but didn't mutants used to drop body parts that could be sold?

[river chasm]

Only in SoC

[fickle tree]

like it wouldn't even bother me so much that they're bullet sponges if they at least incentivized fighting them a little

[lapis dock]

I’m speaking from experience. Maybe I’m just very unlucky

[river chasm]

A middle ground would be nice since the trilogy mutants could be pushovers a lot of the time

[lapis dock]

I think mutant health is fine for most of them. But some, like the Psidog, could use a lot less

[inner hinge]

Only the first game had that but the next 2 games made them manageable or gave insensitive to fight higher level mutants as they guarded loot or had a mission to take them out to reduce their threat in the area and gives you enough money to upgrade your equipment instead of just replacing your ammo

[plain fiber]

Speaking of, normal pseudodogs need to be brought back and the Psy-dogs need their distinctive white fur again.

[fickle tree]

I see

[inner hinge]

Most mutants are victims of the zone not the big bad while humans are the real threat

[lapis dock]

My main problems with S2 mutants is that they’re a lot less lively. They’re very robotic, and uninteresting to fight

Binoculars really need to come back. Studying enemies and locations from afar to learn about them was a big part of the trilogy. And I miss it a lot

[inner hinge]

Stalker 2 AI is very much a rushed job

[mellow knot]

they had 8 years buddy

[inner hinge]

Yeah and wonder why they didn't work on the ai more

[mellow knot]

the performance is gatekeeping the AI

[ornate sable]

Not really needed after you get your first rifle scope though, which you get early with the Lummox AK

[inner hinge]

When you have a comparison to your own older games having better AI there is something going wrong in development

[misty sinew]

I wonder how much of these issues are related to the game also being released on consoles

[lapis dock]

No one wants to say it, but I think that the map is simply too focused on being realistic, instead of being good levels to play in

[mellow knot]

opinion rejected

[river chasm]

The locations are fine but the spaces between them can be kinda meh

[lapis dock]

NPCs just don’t have a lot of interesting obstacles to move around, so they go in straight lines

[misty sinew]

Needs more trees tbh

[elder obsidian]

140.96

[lapis dock]

Maybe I’m ignorant. But that’s what I’ve sensed so far

[mellow knot]

yeah the chernobyl zone has far more trees irl

[misty sinew]

Yeah that's what I'm saying. There's a looot of forest there

[lapis dock]

In my homeland, we have a saying…

[inner hinge]

Most locations feel empty because NPCs and mutants don't periodically fill them

[elder obsidian]

i want to save the game

[plain fiber]

Well according to that recent interview with a former dev, development didn't actually start until 2020. Plus they also had that server room fire that unfortunately did result in data loss, which means that a lot of stuff probably has to be rebuilt from scratch.

[lapis dock]

Yeah. As I’ve agreed before, base filling is a must

[lapis dock]

Be careful, Snake!

[mellow knot]

painful to hear. i dunno how they managed to actually release stamker (guess we'll see in the documentary)

[lapis dock]

*Sdallgerr

[inner hinge]

I kinda feel stalker 2 should have been delayed a year or 2 just to make the ai and A life this game deserves

[plain fiber]

In that same interview, they also apparently only had 60 people working on the game at the start, whereas now they have 400-500 employees or so.

[lapis dock]

I would have waited

[mellow knot]

where did they get the money to fund stalker? From Krippa?

[lapis dock]

Though I’m not a purely stalker fanatic, so the wait wasn’t the same for me!

[plain fiber]

GSC might not have been able to afford to do that. I suspect that they released the game in the state they did due to financial pressures and possibly pressure from outside sources like Microsoft.

[hoary crest]

Microsoft

[inner hinge]

The original trilogy did quite well and they got sponsored from Microsoft

[plain fiber]

I wouldn't be surprised if he fronted some of his own money for development considering he bought an ownership stake in the studio, but I think the majority of their funding came from Microsoft.

[mellow knot]

oh yeah, they like spending money on everything. Good thing Micropebis invested in smth good for once. Stalker 2 made far more money than idk, hellblade 2. Or south of midnight probably

[inner hinge]

Feels a bit like a repeat of cyberpunk 2077 but here I am just not sure if the stalker 2 Devs got the same ability to bring it back to what it should have been

[mellow knot]

ok. stalker 2 isn't a cybergoy situation

[inner hinge]

Stalker 2 was profitably

[inner hinge]

I would say it is very close as stalker 2 released with performance issues and broken ai just like cyberpunk 2077 maybe not as apparent but still a major issue for a premium priced game from a respected studio

[plain fiber]

I'd prefer that we be in a NMS situation, which considering the things I've seen GSC saying in interviews, makes me think we are.

[mellow knot]

Respected studio? LMAO L GSC

[inner hinge]

Wait isn't NMS and cyberpunk situation the same more or less or are you talking about how long they want to support the game for free

[plain fiber]

I don't considering it the same because NMS got a bunch of huge content updates (and still is) for completely free and the length of time they've been supporting the game post-launch is far longer than what Cyberpunk got.

[real shoal]

bro the moment I click continue to game it crashes now XDDDDDDDDDDD 1200 fixes BTW

[inner hinge]

Cyberpunk would most likely have gotten that but seem like they got taken over by I know better than the player Devs some time ago and they decided to stop support for cyberpunk 2077 despite literally regaining all support and getting a loyal fan base who would have probably bought any and all DLC for years

[native crescent]

cyberpunk isnt like nms because that game still isnt anywhere close to what they promised

its a pretty ok game tho

[plain fiber]

that game still isn't anywhere close to what they promised

Which one, NMS or Cyberpunk?

[native crescent]

cyberpunk, they promised a lot of AI features that never made it to the game

[plain fiber]

Gotcha, I never followed the development of the game so I'm unaware of what was promised and what wasn't.

I think the main problem is that they announced the game way too early. They should have waited until it was actually close to completion.

[native crescent]

I played it for the first time when they changed the skill tree and I thought it was okay, imo people overhype it a lot

[maiden grotto]

Then proced to make the game worse, more like GTA, rather than enhancing on Cyberpunk.

[cloud basalt]

Damn this game got a nice performance boost for me

[inner hinge]

They announced the release date too early and took a million shortcuts during development

[native crescent]

it was supposed to have wall running too I think

[cloud basalt]

That was a prediction

[gleaming bone]

Mol1t did not, in fact, lie. Our copium captain

[plain fiber]

People thought it was supposed to be like GTA when it was really supposed to be an RPG.

[native crescent]

its not a great rpg but its def better than other recently released rpgs

[mortal pivot]

Another "big" patch and still no A-Life improvement. Looks like stalker 2 is going to sit on the shelf for a while

[plain fiber]

Major A-Life improvements are probably going to require their own dedicated patches.

[maiden grotto]

I laughed so hard when they move sniper rifles and pistols into the cool tree... Like WTAF!! How can you be cool 200 meters away with a sniper rifle...

They completely lost the plot 😄

[junior acorn]

Anyone know if the consta-spawning bloodsuckers thing got fixed? Last time I had a chance to play they got me after every anomaly run

[maiden grotto]

only way to find out, is to play and try it. It literally just dropped 30 mins or so ago

It's nice to be back in this room...

En off topic is full of nut jobs and ass*holes

[maiden grotto]

What is it with this cat stuff?

[vernal lily]

I wonder if it's the same in the UA chat, haven't checked yet.

[junior acorn]

Wish I could, haven't been able to game much lately

[vernal lily]

Cat

[maiden grotto]

I don't understand Ukrainian, but I wish I did.

[random star]

No screaming Kot

[inner hinge]

I hope they tell us when they plan to do a focused patch because the last few have been blanket patches and me personally would like to see one area brought completely up to snuff then they move onto the next

[vernal lily]

Going to go over there right now and report back

[maiden grotto]

the game keeps crashing for people, and stuff is still broken

[sharp sierra]

5 and a half hour to go before the patch is downloaded....

[maiden grotto]

You will get there...

[timid aurora]

SDK

[inner hinge]

Man living on kilobyte data speed

[misty sinew]

Lmao 5 times crashed tryna load a save. Maybe I shouldn't have put in 6 godzillion mods lol

[vernal lily]

UA no spoilers chat pretty much dead unfortunately

[gleaming bone]

Is it just me or 1.3 patchnote is a bit underwhelming? Seems like they reused some stuff from previous patches (like weird water giving less radio protection now and so on)

[granite kelp]

OK, I start my game, I can't get my weapons out lol, does that happen to you too?

[vernal lily]

I hope they did, because if they nerfed weird water again, it's not even going to protect you against weak rad artifacts.

[gleaming bone]

Yeah like, they already nerfed it to the lowest possible state. So I think they just repeated it

But hey, the longer patchnotes are now on their website. That does look better
https://www.stalker2.com/en/news/patch-1-3

But it's a bit weird that e.g. in AI section they put a lot of bug fixes, whereas in the past the boring bug fixes were in their own section, and AI and so on were for some real changes

[misty sinew]

Do you have OXA installed?

[maiden grotto]

great, that gives confidence going forward, that they actually have a clue what they are doing.

Hint.... massive dose of sarcasm

[granite kelp]

no i uninstal all mod

[gleaming bone]

Anyone knows what does "level design" / "level art" improvements really mean?

[smoky hawk]

probably because this update had bery little A-Life additions, being more so relegated to fixes and attunements

[maiden grotto]

maps and probably textures etc

[smoky hawk]

they changes some map stuff around, shuffled some other, youll have to find it out

[gleaming bone]

oh crap, my bugged artifacts are not bugged anymore. they actually give me radiation now. well that's a bummer coz I left all of my antirads at the base lol

so that's the first thing I noticed in 1.3

[subtle spindle]

id imagine its something like fixing some floating props and small stuff like that

[maiden grotto]

Can shoot you in the dark now 😄

[granite kelp]

ok it's good i thinks just a mod made my binds crash,

[vernal lily]

I hope I get the chance to see what's up with the patch before I have to be away from home for the entire day.

[indigo oriole]

Hey did anyone found new attachments locations ?

[gleaming bone]

but wait... it also seems like they fixed the repeatable quests from bartenders??? coz I just got "mission completed" from bartender in rostok (and he was bugged for me)... that would be actually amazing

[gleaming bone]

yeah I had 3 max rad arts on me lol

[maiden grotto]

Ooops. take em off and you wont cook 😄

[vernal lily]

Artifacts

[rough crater]

i seem to have lost dlss framegen option, it seems to be fsr framegen only now for me

[wraith forge]

why i take no damage, eventhough i have full radiation meter???? please help its game breaking!!

[gleaming bone]

#s2-support

[misty sinew]

Is targeting reticle always enabled for someone else after the patch

[low bison]

WOAH STOP COMPLAINING

i wish i had that anomaly 🙏

[granite kelp]

Where can we report a bug please?

[river chasm]

#s2-support

[maiden grotto]

Really?

does this mean? I have my quest givers back?

Nope. My quest givers are still fecked

have to wait for another patch

[river chasm]

Not all fixes may be retractive unfortunately

[lyric pike]

Is the patch released on XSX yet?

[gleaming bone]

haven't checked yet

but already see a new bug. the weapon/armor comparisons just don't show for me when hovering

oh man, will it ever end

[maiden grotto]

So that is 200 hours down the drain, of my first play through, In the game I want to experience everything first... like completeling the game.

[maiden grotto]

It's shocking really... Kudos, for fighting the fire, but it should never have been in this state in first place.

[lapis dock]

I’m still shocked that anyone expected CP77 to be anything revolutionary when it was made by the same studio that made The Glitcher 3

[boreal coyote]

ok this has to be a troll right? i'm not a Witcher fan, never played it but isn't is regarded as one of the best games ever?

[river chasm]

Yeah though in retrospect I think it's mostly that the quality of the writing is pretty high. I've always been kinda lukewarm on the gameplay

[hoary crest]

If you don't mind playing a game that looks like its assets were made by studios that had nothing to do with one another 😄

[serene barn]

why does this update list things i feel was done in the previous one? like nerfing the radio effect on Weird Water? and why did they seem to make stuff like the Nut and Cup even less desireable?

[hoary crest]

Fckin patchwork-ass game

[river chasm]

Still bait but there's a point there

[maiden grotto]

It was released in a poor state... But fair dues, they fixed it.

Then the real devs left, formed a new company and nor CDPR is a laughing stoke of woke shyte 😄

[gleaming bone]

nut also has stronger bleeding stopping effects, no?

[serene barn]

so they say but, Hypercube already has max

[maiden grotto]

Probably nerfed.... But is probably full of tadpoles now... Mainly from the EN off topic thread... bunch of weird freaks in there.

[serene barn]

so unless they made it even better than a Hypercube i wouldn't wanna use it because they also nerfed the healing rate from the Nut even more than before too.

[maiden grotto]

I think Hyper cube is better to be honest... has a secondary effect

[serene barn]

it is better lol

[rough crater]

anyone else lost dlss framegen option?

[serene barn]

it's only an issue if you can't mitigate the rads

[gleaming bone]

max for an artifact. It does not in fact stop any bleeding instantly, takes time. Maybe nut stops instantly. That's just speculation tho, need someone to check

[maiden grotto]

Nope... AMD, no issues

[hoary crest]

Havent had it for a while

[maiden grotto]

Not instantly, but a bit quicker... not worth carrying though

[gleaming bone]

yeah, kinda weird to make arch artifacts so weak

[rough crater]

FSR is really bad in comparison so i wonder what happened

[maiden grotto]

Not had a problem with FSR

[hoary crest]

I would assume its been sidelined due to a tech issue, but yeah, FSR is not great. Choppy with lots of input delay

[gleaming bone]

but yeah I really like having hypercube. still have bandages with me for when I need to heal a little bit, but not having to use both medkit and bandage after taking high damage & bleeding is a nice time saver. Also, really nice with bloodsuckers

[rough crater]

yes a problem with FSR because its quality is very poor compared to DLSS

[gleaming bone]

fsr 4 is still bad? or it's not out yet? wasn't following

[hoary crest]

FSR4 is menna be a massive improvement, but its not present in S2 yet

[maiden grotto]

Never really noticed.

Runs fine for me, and I play in 1440p, with a draw distance mod

[cedar panther]

And anyone fpund the saiga drum and rebalanced stock yet ?

[rough crater]

i dont think 4 is out

[maiden grotto]

Anything that has FSR 3.1 is automatically upgraded

[random star]

I don't think the drum is out yet,as for the stock nah

[smoky hawk]

its a AI solution, of course it looks bad, what are you expecting

[cedar panther]

they been moved from the ponr to prypiat stashea

[rough crater]

bad compared to dlss, i want my dlss framegen back >_>

[random star]

Where

[maiden grotto]

Those fake frames... That only work if your frame rate is high enough to avoid input lag... Then it's number go up and thats it.

[maiden grotto]

have to find them

[rough crater]

cool, im not asking opinion about it, i know what it does

[serene barn]

what even is these debuffs you get from eating food when you use the Weird Cup?

[cedar panther]

they stated this in the patch mote " several attachments and blue prints moved from thw point of no return to stashes in prypiat so i assume there where more all along so maybe the double drum for the gp37 and drum for the grom s14 , coupled saiga mags go on and on

[random star]

Ok maybe you're right, tomorrow I'll scavenge all of Prypiat and I'll tell you any updates

[nimble idol]

What do I do with those electronic callers someone PLEASE

[maiden grotto]

Becomes a mission at some point, during the main quest.

[cedar panther]

I wont be playing til an good hour from now its 45+ gig and it gos a whopping 60mb/s 😂😂 I'll be playing in 2 hours

[maiden grotto]

Can;t for the love of me, remember when though

[serene barn]

i wonder what additional gear they've put in the zone is.

[cedar panther]

If mine is done i go on a hunt for sure i still need to pick prypiat clean haven't touched the game since i hit the point of no return since then been waitin on the update

[cedar panther]

Everything that was pas thw ponr

[maiden grotto]

Who know, my game is still bugged, with quest givers, and so I have to wait for another patch

[cedar panther]

i hope also beast and the other guns

[random star]

If you do get any updates,notify me

[cedar panther]

sure I'll do

i also already let iamwaved on yt know from the update if it comes to loot guides hes the one ypu need

[random star]

Good to know, I'll keep an eye out for his channel

[maiden grotto]

YES!! Artifacts fallen through the map are back... Well, at least the one I had 😄

Big Kudos

[serene barn]

idk because it was listed as a separate thing from them moving the PoNR things

[serene barn]

i'd just get something else in the meantime.

[cedar panther]

Okay okay im wondering now

[rustic granite]

just updated the game to latest version, now all the weapons i have dont appear in my hands but i can still shoot them lol

[cedar panther]

all i hope is they fixed the sorting from the stash thats was my biggest issue

[rustic granite]

this game has got more issues than gamma with 500 mods dayum

[serene barn]

the fact they're repeatedly fixing issues in the thousands each update is....bad

[river chasm]

Well, it's better than not fixing those issues, though we've said many times before here that ideally the game should have been delayed for a while longer and this is why

[smoky hawk]

Would you complain if they were merely fixing 100 issues each patch? Yes

[misty sinew]

Gee if only they could release a finished product

[crystal beacon]

Anyone tried the new update yet? If they have does the performance seem any better?

[maiden grotto]

Artifacts back to be stationary.... boring

[misty sinew]

It's gotten much better SURPRISINGLY, on my rig 7900xtx/7800x3d

[crystal beacon]

How much h would you say? I'm on series s so obviously it'll still suck lol. But I just want it to be bearable

[misty sinew]

Damn I'm sorry but I haven't measured EXACT frames but the game feels much smoother and I'm sure the amount of frames went up drastically for me in certain areas without npcs. And I'm not even using framegen mind you

[crystal beacon]

Well I guess I'll find out anyway

[fading parcel]

NPC still toss grenades all around and shoot you over anything every moment knowing where you are?

[lapis dock]

Oh yeah I was exaggerating. It has fantastic writing, but the gameplay is really stiff and awkward

[random star]

Understood, game isn't any better

[serene barn]

i think the fact it's in the thousands in several of them is a sign of the state the game is in. buy you go undermine that i guess.

[maiden grotto]

HAHAHAHAHAHA!!

#📸┃screens_and_videos message

Looksa like another patch incoming soon 😄

[cedar panther]

I wonder what "added new gear all around the zone" mean . does that mean the missing attachments or new weapons new suits

[random star]

I hope,but knowing GSC,it's either nothing or nearly nothing

[maiden grotto]

Who knows, don't care... The game is still a disaster burger.

[cedar panther]

Time will tell

[weary hedge]

So? New patch bad? Also how big is it?

[deep pine]

New patch underwhelming to say the least...

[soft plover]

So they only nerfed the radiation from weird water?

[deep pine]

They even nerfed A-Life generation... which was already almost non-existent....

[ornate sable]

The extended patch notes on the website mention blueprints previously locked behind the point of no return being relocated to the open world.

[ornate sable]

Because Roggatron kept complaining about too many spawns, so it's actually his fault.

[cedar panther]

The pat h nptes shared here say the moved them to stashes in prypiat now im confused asf 😂

[weary hedge]

Are you guys mething? The bloodsuckers spawn 3 at a time constantly. In my game at least.

[boreal coyote]

this is how i'd describe kcd1 too, there's a great game there but you have to be willing to tolerate heaps of bs to see it

[maiden grotto]

That's because I was getting them every minute... It more like a run the guantlet 😄

[maiden grotto]

Same thing... They got moved from the point of no return.

[maiden grotto]

Happens to lots of people... My current bloodsucker kill count is in the 1000's

[serene barn]

Stashes in the city itself is still the open world.

[polar forge]

Dude I just got to location with bunch of rocks and artifact. Well there is handful of zombie guys. No problem to kill. Well one is bc he is inside a rock able to shoot me but I can’t shoot him!!!
If I try to move out from behind cover to get artifact he just lasers me and my health is gone instantly. Idk what to do man this is so frustrating

[cedar panther]

Iknow but here they particular say stashes in prypiat and on the official site they say added gear around the whole zone . that made me confused

now I'm finally done downloading lets see if they fixed the stash . fingers crossed

unfortunately the stash is still screwd ffs

[wind nymph]

I don't know if I'm tripping out or not, but in this new update are the item pickup animations gone?

[river chasm]

My guess is more locations have had some hidden items added

[river chasm]

Only artifacts had them before, except in cutscenes

[wind nymph]

Okay, I thought that but I wasn't sure. Figured I'd ask everyone before I put on the tin foil hat lol

[warm stone]

if you were on "epic" settings they simply made the "epic" (the generic overall quality slider) preset to set the hair quality to high. Which is the most taxing settings of all.

[warm stone]

I would be suprised if they added new weapons or suits. Its probably the same things just added to new locations as well.....

[devout halo]

Hey haven't played in a while, did they fix Zalissya falling after successfully completely On The Edge?

[river chasm]

Depending on how long yeah there's been a lot of On the Edge fixes in the last several big patches

[devout halo]

So if I load my old save will Zalissya be there or do I have to make a new game...

[river chasm]

Though idk if they work retroactively once the quest is started or ended

[shrewd kindle]

“Increased durability for unique weapons found on missions” guess the clusterfuck is going to be more durable than a wet napkin now

[polar forge]

i soooo wish we have photo mode in game :/

[dense quartz]

Fellow stalkers, how does the new update feel so far ?

[cedar panther]

Its probably that 😅

[crude quarry]

Depends on what you expect from it. There's mostly bug fixes, nothing new

[wise inlet]

hi bois just thinking they said that the online and co op will be there or am i worng dose anything online will ever come ?

[warm stone]

so where are the squirrels? I cant find them. Also nothing about that in the patchnotes

[polar forge]

Squirrels?

[warm stone]

they did advertise before the release of patch 1.3

[crude quarry]

Prypiat park and CIRCAA

[warm stone]

to be honest some free content addition would be very welcome, new weapon, suit etc....anyway we will probably get there but not in 2025

[river chasm]

late in the year if anything

[acoustic shell]

Updates look more like they broke the game 😂 and nerf’d everything

[hollow bloom]

anyone find any of the new attachments yet?

[maiden grotto]

If we are insanely lucky

[maiden grotto]

Nope... but found the invisible guns

[hollow bloom]

lol haven't had that issue yet somehow

[maiden grotto]

New stealth upgrade, for some of us.

Awesome feature.

[polar forge]

I think SEVA-I suit is best out of the three SEVA suits I have. But I can’t decide if I want to sell SEVA-V & SEVA-D suits now or keep em in stash in case I need them later 🤔

I have 78k coupons but I’m about to repair and upgrade so that will go quick lol

[maiden grotto]

Normal SEVA, looks the best, cheaper to maintain...

5 slots still, 2 leaded.

[maiden grotto]

That's just for cleaning the barrel

🤣

[lapis dock]

Nahhh you gotta pay at least 5k for the oil alone

[polar forge]

i got all this loot from a run from rostok to red forest and back https://imgur.com/Apr2joe

[polar forge]

there is normal SEVA suit?? Is that the one at noontide base?

[lapis dock]

That’ll net you 10k after repairs

[empty hare]

Wait a minute

[maiden grotto]

Is that all?

[lapis dock]

There are at least 2

[river moth]

Do we know which are all the accessories that got added?

[maiden grotto]

Get given it at the Zalyssia missions Post SIRCAA

[thick vault]

Any fix for invisible rifle?

[polar forge]

Also found sphere m20 helmet, high capacity mag for zubr-19

[maiden grotto]

Nope... wait for patch for the patch... which may need another patch. That will certainly need another patch to fix.

[polar forge]

I only had missions in zalyssia at start of game. I have been puttin off swamp missions for a week now just exploring the rest of the map

[maiden grotto]

There is a SEVA-D at the top of the cage

But it's just not as good... 1 less leaded slot.

[polar forge]

Yeah that is where I got mine. I am mad I installed another artifact container then found SEVA-I suit a bit later -_-

I am about to go get magic cube and I’ll have 30k coupon reward from barkeep

[maiden grotto]

SEVA I, is okay... ugly as hell though

[maiden grotto]

Niiice

[polar forge]

I have grom s-14. About to upgrade it a bit to at least fit optic on it. But I don’t have extended mag for it. Wonder if I should just keep it in stash and stick to combatant since I have it Max upgraded and 3 attachment for it.

Actually, if I upgrade gun to have muzzle brake and then apply suppressor attachment do I still get the recoil/spread reduction from muzzle upgrade? Or does suppressor override it

[maiden grotto]

Don't... get the grom s-15 from the cooling towers, much better

Uses common ammo too

[polar forge]

It should cost much to install rail for optic though should it? Just to hold me over until I can get S-15? I can’t stand iron sight on AR

[maiden grotto]

Yes, it's in a pit, just north of the burning house.

Cement factory is nearest base.

Just go across the bridge.

[polar forge]

Dang I was just over there I think that is near the merc base? The two long buildings where they spawn endlessly? I had to kill them all and run for my life last time I was there

[maiden grotto]

Before that. There is a big pit in the ground

S-15 is there

[polar forge]

Alright I’ll try to find it real quick

[maiden grotto]

Is not hard to get.

[flint plover]

I don't see anything in the patch notes saying NPCs will render past 125m... I mean i'll try the game when it finishes downloading but if I see a damn model unable to render past 125m or whatever it is guess I'll just uninstall and open up Anomaly again.

Game is gonna be completely dead by the time they get this thing working decent.

[maiden grotto]

I fear this might be the case.

[wintry pumice]

Oh it is

[flint plover]

Yeah they're already down to averaging what 3500 people?

If this is the case just release the damn modding tools so the fans can fix your crap lol

[wintry pumice]

Mod tools can't fix fundamental problems

[flint plover]

I'

[river chasm]

what does a dead game mean for a single player game exactly

[river sapphire]

I bought the game to support the devs and give them more time to bake it in the oven🤷‍♂️

[flint plover]

Nobody is playing it. It had a average of almost 50k players at any given time shortly after release and that was on Steam alone

To be fair, the second I heard it was coming to consoles I knew the game fked.

[wintry pumice]

Whatever I say

[river chasm]

Yeah, and then people play the game and then stop when they are done with it

[flint plover]

When it's 2025 and you can't render models past 125m that's sad

[maiden grotto]

No replay value... I paid the original to death. With and without mods

[river chasm]

That's how games work normally unless they're multiplayer

[flint plover]

And what you mean modders can't fix fundemental problems? When tools are released they'll have access to everything they need to work on AI

AI is the problem.

[polar forge]

Should I fast travel to cement factory and go from there?

[maiden grotto]

AS.... Artificial Stupidity

[maiden grotto]

Yeah... not unless you fancy a treck

[flint plover]

I was playing Anomaly the other day just watching Stalkers do their thing for a while. It was pretty cool lol. You can't do that sadly on S2.

[maiden grotto]

I find anomaly too anal, it's too indepth.

It needs to take a chill pill.

[river chasm]

inventory simulator

[flint plover]

I want a Read Dead Redemption 2 overhaul and make it Stalker. AI would be amazing lol

[polar forge]

I forgot I gotta go get this magic cube first then I can go get the gun

Also, if I add any marker on my map other than the default one, it doesn’t show on my compass at all.

[flint plover]

Have you played Into The Radius? I think managing my inventory is the funnest part of that game lol

[polar forge]

Pretty sure someone made fallout 4 mod that turned it into stalker. Looked pretty sick

[river chasm]

VR makes it more entertaining at least

[maiden grotto]

But I love living worlds in general. Can sit and watch em for hours.

I love the atmosphere of 2077, but the game is poor now.

[polar forge]

I just finished cyberpunk playthrough (my first) a couple weeks ago. Definitely one of the best games I have ever played

[flint plover]

Can't go back to aweing over my hideout in Stalker after actually playing with my guns in Into The Radius lol

[acoustic shell]

🙀🙀🙀

[maiden grotto]

Had the potential to be, then they lost the plot.

[polar forge]

Phantom liberty was even better than base game imo. And now you can even start new game and choose to start at beginning of phantom liberty. Pretty cool

[maiden grotto]

But they screwed the skill tree, killed builds, and stupid gta loot drops, and moved pistols and sniper rifles to the cool tree...

Because what's cool, 250 meters away from your target so no one can see it?

And you still get wanted at POI for being 1 foot outside some artificial area.

[frigid hill]

tomasaurusrekt has been warned

Reason: Bad word usage

[flint plover]

Yeah I had it, deleted it to make room for other games. Then went to install again and the guy took everything down

[maiden grotto]

I just can't stand the game now. My opinion of course.

[polar forge]

I never played it before 2.0 so I have no idea what it was like before. But most ppl I talk to about it say they made more improvements than downgrades

[flint plover]

is it back up?

[polar forge]

Oh I’m not sure I have never used that mod myself. Just saw YouTube video awhile ago for it

[lapis dock]

What is it with modders and erasing their uploads when they drop the project?

[maiden grotto]

Their choice and there is obviously a reason.

[lapis dock]

I just think it’s strange how common it is. It’s an engrained part of the culture.

[flint plover]

I dunno but I guess there's one called Fallout Anomaly now, I'm downloading Fallout 4 now to try it. Screw waiting on S2 to download only to be disappointed I'll give it another year to cook lol

Videos look great

[lapis dock]

I’m really sad that the New Vegas active ragdoll mod got discontinued and deleted. It was super cool

I’ll link its channel in #💬┃en_offtop

[flint plover]

I've never been a Fallout player. Hope this drags me in lol. Only thing I love about Stalker 2 right now is how great the map is. You can explore for days. From what I've heard I'll be in glory in Fallout 4. I just never got into as it wasn't realistic enough. Fallout Anomly seems to address this lol

[peak lichen]

if you want really hardcore fallout, play fallout 4 frost or fallout nv dust. that’s the good stuff

[thick vault]

Is the mouse janky and acting weirdly for anyone else?

[flint plover]

Plus I'm a gun freak, I hate futuristic crap. This Fallout Anomly seems to have M4s, AKs, and everything in between

Messing around with my equipment and armory in Contractors Showdown VR has been a wet dream lmao

[fluid beacon]

Anyone else still have the invisible colonel in the AK dissemble cutscene, I don't want to have to start over the story but atm I'm soft locked cause I can't see him.

[peak lichen]

like never before in a game have i celebrated finding a chessboard that i can burn for cooking food with. that’s like next levels of post-apocalyptic bleakness

[lapis dock]

The first two fallout RPGs primarily use irl weapons with a few original fictional power weapons

[flint plover]

whoa wait, it's that hard? crap I might need to try!

[lapis dock]

Fallout’s a fractured franchise. There’s no real “true” Fallout game other than the first one, technically

[thick vault]

Mouse going crazy right now, out of nowhere it goes to left and right. What’s going onnnnn

[lapis dock]

Every game from 2 onward had less and less original team members. And it’s kinda grown into its own thing

[peak lichen]

it is that hard. even the combat is nail-bitingly intense almost rivaling the best stalker fights and there's also a sanity mechanic you have to worry about

[lapis dock]

hardcore fallout is missing your damage rolls against the first Rat in Fallout 1, and then dying before you even leave the tutorial cave.

[peak lichen]

frost also just feels like the best parts of outdoors metro to me with the insanely bleak nuclear winter setting and whatnot

[lapis dock]

https://tenor.com/view/vaporize-fallout-critical-energy-weapon-gif-9272184112815648083

Embed failure.

We should go to #💬┃en_offtop before we get killed by the mods

[peak lichen]

hell you can make it even better by installing a mod for gas masks, where you have to actively hunt for filters if you intend to adventure topside. makes it that much more intense. there's also a mod where you have to find sufficiently warm clothing but i couldn't be bothered to try it since it sounds a bit too micromanage-y for me

[peak lichen]

oh yeah true LOL

[maiden grotto]

That's place is full of nut jobs, who don't understand basic English.

Your fine here, as long as its not politics

[patent heath]

so how Stalker 2 rn

[maiden grotto]

A steaming pile

[polar forge]

Well, i got to the location i thought was gonna be magic cube..turned out to be Wrenched. Some piddly common artifact 😡

They changed artifact locations or has it always been random? I thought certain locations had specific artifacts no matter what

[maiden grotto]

Random I think

[polar forge]

https://imgur.com/7jikmUP
are these able to be killed?

https://imgur.com/f7kZNKq
also, i saw this weird looking place on the horizon. Tried to go there and if you get within certain distance you'll just die to radiation. Bummer

[maiden grotto]

Nope

[maiden grotto]

There is always a way.

[polar forge]

What direction is that gun in from cement factory?

[maiden grotto]

Just north of the burning building across the bridge.

Big hole in the ground with a couple of anomalies at the bottom.

[ember flame]

Just got killed by a kinetic sausage anomaly

[maiden grotto]

?

[ember flame]

I dropped a sausage and the game didn’t like it

[maiden grotto]

What?

[ember flame]

I died

[maiden grotto]

Yes... but what kinetic sausage?

[flint adder]

new patch forces you to have a target reticle

[wintry pumice]

whose sausage

[lapis dock]

MY SAUSAGE

[wintry pumice]

how you liking the patch? all ok?

[maiden grotto]

🤣

[lapis dock]

https://tenor.com/view/are-we-blind-rogue-one-krennic-discord-reaction-gif-8941760437528251299

[maiden grotto]

No.

[polar forge]

Is it a pit with fire anomalies?

[maiden grotto]

Yes

[lapis dock]

I’m still riding the high from the 20+ ’s I got on a meme in #🤨┃stalker_memes

[wintry pumice]

I see it has brought joy to you

[maiden grotto]

Artifacts fallen through the floor, fixed... from what I have seen.

Missions, bugged, invisible guns

[polar forge]

https://imgur.com/GMELtJ0
this pit?

[maiden grotto]

If punching your nuts is the only alternative

[maiden grotto]

Yes, think that's the one, you skirt round the edge with path leading down

[polar forge]

Nvm I think I found the right one. With excavator next to it?

[lapis dock]

Who darkened your heart?

[maiden grotto]

A list so long, it would take a life time to finish 🙂

[polar forge]

I got it thanks

[wintry pumice]

why not upload it to #📸┃screens_and_videos ?

[polar forge]

I almost died to the fire down there I opened stash and didn’t realize i was in fire range and my hp drained so fast 🤣

[lapis dock]

Edgy.

But I understand.

[maiden grotto]

Awesome. Enjoy, it's a great weapon.

[wintry pumice]

That's why you have a hypercube on you

[polar forge]

Never knew that channel exist & I don’t have enough slots nor radio protect artifacts to use legendary yet

[wintry pumice]

Get the Falcon?

[maiden grotto]

I have been playing games for 46 years... I have a life time of experience...

[polar forge]

The falcon? Idk what that is

[maiden grotto]

You trying to bankrupt him

[wintry pumice]

an armor, pz9 falcon or something

[fresh flicker]

who plays stalker redux?

[polar forge]

Oh I am using SEVA-I suit now

[wintry pumice]

that would be the diamond exo

[lapis dock]

I’ve been playing games for 20 years. I have… my …lifetime of experience.

[maiden grotto]

Not played stalker for years...

Tried it a few weeks ago... toggle to run... instant uninstall

[wintry pumice]

Falcon offers max physical and radio protection I think

[lapis dock]

the toggle run off button:

[wintry pumice]

Probably the next best thing compared to Diamond exo finanically speaking

[maiden grotto]

Forever catching up.

[lapis dock]

What about when you’re a skeleton, and I’m 60

[maiden grotto]

Yeah, changed SoC run, to toggle... not push.

I hate nothing more in games, than toggle to do something.

[lapis dock]

Toggle crouch is good idk.

[wintry pumice]

https://tenor.com/view/matrix-upload-neo-gif-16837099

[lapis dock]

On controller at least. Some games are better with hold on PC

[maiden grotto]

Then I would be the happiest man dead, learned all that I could learn.

[lapis dock]

You’re probably right.

[wintry pumice]

I mean would be happy without seeing Bloodborne on PC?

[maiden grotto]

I use space for crouch... keeps my thumb busy

[lapis dock]

Lemme guess. Numberpad aiming?

[maiden grotto]

Mouse... use side Mouse button for jump

[lapis dock]

Go to the asylum please

[lapis dock]

Look it up

[wintry pumice]

I use controller

[maiden grotto]

Been using that combo for 35 years

[lapis dock]

THE NUMPAD AIM
THE NUMPAD AIM IS REEEAAAALLL

[polar forge]

#📸┃screens_and_videos message
look what i just found!!

[lapis dock]

Would Luffy use XBOX or PlayStation

[maiden grotto]

You went north... How's your new S-15

[polar forge]

Well I haven’t used it yet since its condition is very low. But I am going to head back to repair it now!

[maiden grotto]

So instant poverty

[dire breach]

I don't see anyone mentioning any crosshair bug yet, is it just me then? I have it disabled in options but it still shows in-game

[polar forge]

Also, even the technician in rostok can not apply upgrades to my saiga and other weapons..why is this?

[maiden grotto]

Never use it.

[lapis dock]

@wintry pumice answer the question 🔫

[dire breach]

you have it disabled too then?

[elder obsidian]

hey i cant disable the gun dot !! why disable bottom doesn't works.

[lapis dock]

The entire HUD is buggy for me. Sometimes I have to pause and unpause to refresh it

[dire breach]

ah see, someone else has it too

[maiden grotto]

Yup. Aim for everything except shotguns

[polar forge]

What the heck you can’t sprint with exoskeleton??

[dire breach]

gotta upgrade for it

[lapis dock]

Too heavy. Needs upgrades!

[maiden grotto]

Nope it needs an upgrade... and that one, can't get it.

[elder obsidian]

they fix one thing and break another ...

[maiden grotto]

Only exo that can't run

[maiden grotto]

Is a cascade 🤣

[dire breach]

I don't want to be too harsh on the devs but hey, it happens

[elder obsidian]

i just disable the HUD

[wintry pumice]

Neither, he would pirate the game on PC

[dire breach]

hope it's a quick single line of code and they release a hotfix tomorrow or something

[polar forge]

Okay so what is even the benefit of an exoskeleton

[lapis dock]

Good answer

[lapis dock]

Carry weight. That’s what it’s made for

[maiden grotto]

I would do that, if they gave me a watch, and an actual compass to use, that fits in a utility slot

[dire breach]

and more bullet protection

[polar forge]

And lots of physical protection it seems. Actually had good protection all around

[wintry pumice]

Depends on the exo, some have more carry wieght. one gives you weapon accuracy

[lapis dock]

I really hope GSC never makes the exo suit into power armor

[polar forge]

Oh no..an emission and I can’t sprint !!

[dire breach]

well you have the time on your PDA, though it would be nice if it was quicker to open and close

[lapis dock]

Snake. If you put the exoskeleton into your backpack, you will regain the ability to sprint!

[polar forge]

I barely made it in time but I made it ! 🤣 150m to nearest structure when emission call came in. Could have been worse

[polar forge]

Wouldn’t I be naked?

[maiden grotto]

I know, but pulling out a compass and lining up north, working out which way you need to... would for me, be more immersive

[lapis dock]

Well, er. Sometimes a soldier has to step out of their comfort zone to complete the mission!

We’re counting on you Snake.

[polar forge]

I didn’t know you could remove armor completely actually

[wintry pumice]

uhh you just need the sprint upgrade

[wintry pumice]

https://tenor.com/view/yes-no-gif-21780817

[polar forge]

The stalker next to me just said (as an emission is starting) “ahh my knees are killing me. It’s gonna rain. Either that or an emission is coming”

[maiden grotto]

Do now... let flap free as you run for safety... should give random blunt damage, to smaller mutants, slapped by the free willy.

[wintry pumice]

[dire breach]

similarly I wish we could see all statuses by opening the inventory no matter the HUD settings, so if you have it disable you gotta check the inventory to see them instead of relying on the toggle mod

[maiden grotto]

Can't got the Duty version.

[wintry pumice]

Poor Duty, broke af

[lapis dock]

That one made me laugh the first time I heard it

[wintry pumice]

The Knee detector

[elder obsidian]

i need that brou

[maiden grotto]

Meh, not into ego's anyway...

Love my SEVA

[wintry pumice]

SEVA V is good for early game

near max rad protection and good number of slots available without any upgrades

[maiden grotto]

I use it for end game...

And got better ballistics, with npcs do the same damage back.

You want to see what I rock?

[wintry pumice]

Sounds like a trick question

[dense sandal]

How we feeling with the patch

[maiden grotto]

It's not... can give you my only fans link if you want 😄

[polar forge]

#📸┃screens_and_videos message
should i explore this place now ? maybe i should finally head into swamps now that i have good gear. Continue story

[wintry pumice]

[wintry pumice]

yeah sure why not, I can learn from the great Rogg

[polar forge]

Man I really love saiga & clusterfuck but their durability sucks so much

[maiden grotto]

They call me the Jolly Rogga, skull and cross kno.... You get the picture...

and remeber, no such thing as mind bleach

@wintry pumice - This is what I currently rock... End game, post SIRCAA and all that

#📸┃screens_and_videos message

[wintry pumice]

lol you are brave, rocking a GP37

[maiden grotto]

Why? AP rounds, headshoots, single fire, pop pop, bye bye

[wintry pumice]

I stopped looking for any other ARs after getting Dnipro

[polar forge]

18.5k coupons to repair grom S-15…this is a robbery!

[wintry pumice]

This whole game is a robbery

[maiden grotto]

I just prefer guns that feel right

Come down to one of the channels, I'll share me screen and you can see my collection of goodies I have

[polar forge]

I think I’m just going to sell all artifacts that aren’t radio protection, weight reduction or endurance

Or legendary. Definitely keeping those

[maiden grotto]

Why?

[polar forge]

So are any attachments that say they fit for grom S-14 work with the S-15? Bc I don’t see any that say for S-15

& @maiden grotto I need coupons plus I never use any of the artifacts that provide anomaly/elemental protection

[maiden grotto]

You need an artifact collection like this #📸┃screens_and_videos message

[polar forge]

How many hours did it take to collect All those?

[maiden grotto]

200 hours 😄

[polar forge]

And how do you even earn coupons if it isn’t from selling artifacts?

[maiden grotto]

I sell all artifacts I have more than 2 of, I save the rest, for artifact missions, just take one and 99% of the time, I already have it...

I also spend a lot of time dragging yellow weapons back, I use weird water, for when I am returning, and load myself up

[violet dune]

im getting weird glitches in distance. i was on garbage top spot and looking at cnpp iron forest is glitching lol

[polar forge]

I have only found weird flower so far
I just spent 70k coupons on repairs/upgrades dropped me down to 15k. Now I am already back to 75k xD

[maiden grotto]

Weird Ball is next door to Zalyssia... Weird water, the one you want, is in Zaton

[polar forge]

I just have Urchin, Flytrap & weird flower equipped in my armor. Haven’t felt the need to use any other artifacts at all since armor does decent job of protection and I don’t really get caught in anomalies to take dmg anyway

[polar forge]

Dang..I need to explore better I guess. I spent dozens of hours in each of those zones

[maiden grotto]

Oh, you will find out.

[polar forge]

If I have muzzle upgrade on my gun and then I put suppressor attachment, does that remove the recoil/spread decrease from muzzle upgrade??

[maiden grotto]

Weird water only appears at 10pm for a lil while... so you need to be in the right spot at the right time

[maiden grotto]

Not as far as I am aware, only upgrades do that

[polar forge]

Wait so if I install lead container in my armor then I don’t even need radio protection artifact equipped??

[vestal dagger]

Devs really dropped the ball on this update audio is broken tons of glitches visual and bugs in general game keeps freezing for up to 30 seconds at a time

[maiden grotto]

That sucks, I just have the invisible gun stealth bug.

[maiden grotto]

Only for slots that have lead containers

[polar forge]

That’s crazy. I been playing 6 hours straight now and haven’t had any issue. Other than one enemy being inside a rock and able to shoot me but I couldn’t shoot him. But running 125m away and coming back fix it. My game running great actually

I play pc game pass version

I also have a really good computer idk if that makes difference

[vestal dagger]

Im on Xbox so im guessing pc doesn’t have those problems

[plucky gazelle]

guys

[polar forge]

Oh I’m sure pc has plenty of problems. Just me personally I have only ever experienced one issue. And that is memory leak. But a simple verify & repair game files fix it

[plucky gazelle]

stalker 2 is now 200 gb?

[polar forge]

So SEVA-I suit only has one lead slot I think. If I pay for it that is