☢┃stalker-general

[violet dune]

so we waiting for patch 1.5 now?

[austere pagoda]

*3 weeks coldfix

[wide veldt]

So gun handling got “worse”

[drifting crag]

Lynx is just 2 bar handling, it doesn't show penetration at all lmao

[charred nova]

Gotta love removing the most important stat

[drifting crag]

Dnipro base no upgrades shows 2.1 bars on the handling stat

same with Kharod

[charred nova]

I’m just waiting for the sdk at this point this feels hopeless

[high gazelle]

need the ability to roll back updates via the beta

[drifting crag]

omg are the weapons not arbitrarily tiered anymore?

[charred nova]

One step forward 10 steps back

We can’t ever win

[drifting crag]

can i run GP37 against exos now??

i am so excited

[charred nova]

With no pen stat who knows

[drifting crag]

inb4 4-5 headshots to kill 😂

[violet dune]

stalker 3 soon

[arctic flower]

anyone have trouble with saved game files? so far my saves doesn't work, game crash with each load

[charred nova]

Tons of people reporting similar issues

[misty sonnet]

i'm guessing the update broke all the mods

[high gazelle]

ffs i cant even start my game

[charred nova]

You bet

Well some might look to work but

[arctic flower]

I don't use mods at all for the reason

[charred nova]

It will revert a ton of the games settings to older versions of the game

[drifting crag]

dlss has less ghosting with amd framegen i'm gonna cry

[misty sonnet]

alife fully working yet

[drifting crag]

i don't need optimization mods anymore wahoo

[charred nova]

Nope

[drifting crag]

let's go stash hunting

[spiral cobalt]

Aint no way they really had a patch note saying A life was persistent and removed it lol

[charred nova]

[wide veldt]

whats “a life”

[charred nova]

Exactly what is a life

[high gazelle]

its a myth

[carmine star]

the friends we made along the way

[charred nova]

Yah

[drifting crag]

Time to test emissions if the game still crashes with any upscaling on, such a silly bug

[arctic flower]

i hope they fix the savegame problem, i'm not going to start the game over again and again...

[spiral cobalt]

Omg they improved the tree view distance THANK YOU

[chilly ridge]

I won't be surprised if the goalpost gets shifted to A life persistence being added to Q2. Since it said it was being added at that time in the roadmap

[drifting crag]

invisible blueprint usb in inventory are still kinda there but the notification does not popup anymore

[charred nova]

https://tenor.com/view/riddler-paul-dano-new-rockstars-thumbnail-does-he-know-he-doesnt-know-gif-27552850

[chilly ridge]

I know it was said to be added in this update and changed last second, I'm just so confused.

[median nymph]

okay so after reinstalling, the game still crashes on startup

it's also completely in ukrainian for me now

[spiral cobalt]

Your mods most likely werent uninstalled when restarting. What i did was delete all of the game files manually and then verify integrity in steam

[vernal lily]

My game has been doing the opposite before patch (I haven't checked new patch yet). Wanted to keep the game in Ukrainian but kept switching back to english.

[median nymph]

I think it has to do with a console modloader I have. I'm testing that out

[spiral cobalt]

I see

[charred nova]

I’m just waiting for the game to be finished

[spiral cobalt]

I dont know what your using but I am using UE4SS and it works

[river chasm]

Pen stat no longer in weapon info? Guess I'll have to do it the old fashioned way now, by shooting enemies with them to see what feels best.

[vernal lily]

https://tenor.com/view/skeleton-gif-26826812

[sonic cradle]

Gsc will blame the intern again

[charred nova]

Yah I know I’ll be waiting till 2030

[median nymph]

I use simple modloader for a flashlight mod

[charred nova]

[chilly ridge]

Their status of employmnt definitely won't be persistent then.

[charred nova]

Insane burn

[spiral cobalt]

Is anyone getting any noticable performance improvement GPU or CPU wise? Its running alright for me but im still CPU bound at around 90fps like 1.3

I should say though my frametimes are AMAZING now previously the game hitched a lot but its a straight line now

[charred nova]

Lmfao

[spiral cobalt]

LOL

[chilly ridge]

One ray of positivity is I do enjoy the combat more now

[austere pagoda]

still bottlenecked by 100m

[violet dune]

its not intern problem. its project managers and leads who say its good to go

leads should approve is it good or not for public eye

[charred nova]

Yah bro a life is persistent up to 100m

[austere pagoda]

kch dont worry bratan, alife very important to us, please bratan stay with us, we fix alife da

proceeds with 3-4 months of ef all alife updates

[violet dune]

adds SVD just to scope to 100m

[charred nova]

Me trying to snipe but he walks 101m away from me

[violet dune]

from icarus to checkpoint is more than 100M

[austere pagoda]

bro, i send them a 9 page doc explaining the faults in these changes, one of them is the 100m bottleneck in engagements.
can you tell me the use of a sniper and assault rifle AI when they de-render at 100m?

[violet dune]

hey but they improved bolt sound

[chilly ridge]

He flew too far from the sun.

[austere pagoda]

why u think they removed pen and introduced handling? pen dont matter if you engage at most 100m

and now u got that info ask yourself: if we ever see render increase...arent these changes going to bite us in the as?

[violet dune]

priority liste:

1. improve bolt sound, make sure bolt dont go throw NPC
   ....
2. Change some settings in Alife just we could add a line in notes

[austere pagoda]

will handling matter if engagements are 200m?

[spiral cobalt]

WHY ARE SKIFS GRUNTS SO LOUD NOW

[austere pagoda]

or will it be pen at 200m that matters?

its pen right? but sike if we ever get 200m render

[violet dune]

200M unlocks in DLC

[austere pagoda]

the change here in pen illustrates it

[chilly ridge]

I'm just glad I enjoy this game enough to have this patience.

[violet dune]

Shay you worked with alife. any reason why they dont want to put 150-200m?

consoles will die or what?

[devout quartz]

Im just waiting for the mods to update 😦

I need the weight mod ASAP ROCKY

[violet dune]

or just give a slider in options so people could select and lock in consoles if they could not handle idk at this point

[drifting crag]

real stalker use ironsights at 500m

[austere pagoda]

they use the 100m render as a trigger for scripts, if u come in 100m of a script node it runs it. increasing render means activating all scripts u pass in x range

[charred nova]

Nothing spawns that far

[heavy canyon]

So is the A-life fixed now or we still getting spawns of random enemies?

[austere pagoda]

the bubble spawner also spawns in render, 100m circle around player is much easier to fill with kuchalifekuch than it is with a 500m radius one

[violet dune]

so the issue would be 5x more events could happen and cook fps

[spiral cobalt]

Tree cover is broken lol AI just stands there and repeats the crouch down/up animation if you stand still

[quaint umbra]

Skill issue

[austere pagoda]

indeed you would need to 5x all spawns to populate thew bubble

[violet dune]

holy this is some ancient coding or what...

[austere pagoda]

want pain?

[violet dune]

im already in pain

[austere pagoda]

turn on godmode, go to a map border, wait, it will spawn ALIFE outside map

increasoing the bubble means the game can spawn outside map if say your render is 500m but you are 200m from outside border wall

[violet dune]

well so they invisible event structure which is around you and no matter what it will triggers based on land/building etc

[austere pagoda]

there is no check in place to see if spawnpoint is valid or not (hence the spawns at places u just been)

its a generic spawner in a radius around you that triggers every x minutes atm

where x = about 4 minutes right now in vanilla

[violet dune]

damn

i thought map is full of events not player bubble

[chilly ridge]

I really hope they eventually completely rework that spawn system

[smoky hawk]

I wonder if the spawner bubble implementation is a thing bc a game designer got scared players would get bored if they didnt receive a kind of encounters per minute thing

[violet dune]

and player just unlocks like (fog) in 100m radius

now its worse

[charred nova]

They should just add n64 fog past 100m

[austere pagoda]

and for the ones who think amount of ai is problem:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yU1nrKXd2lA&ab_channel=iddqd

[violet dune]

i get it why they cant fix it. they need to redo everything 😄

[edgy shell]

Probably because if it didn’t exist, encounters would be rare to the point that people would also declare that a life doesn’t exist

[heavy canyon]

Gamma proves there is nothing to be afraid of

[austere pagoda]

that clip is from old testing of my mod where we pushed spawns to about 500 and we tested ranges of render all the way to 3.5km

[charred nova]

Gamma is not a bench mark of that in any way

[smoky hawk]

I mean yhea, it cant infect your computer unless you are stupid enuff to do it yourself
I am not afraid of Gamma

[austere pagoda]

in comparison to current vanilla: max of 40 and range of 100

we experienced little to no fps drops in 500 npc in the bubble

[drifting crag]

i got ambushed and they don't just mindlessly walk towards u anymore, they stay at range shooting

[austere pagoda]

we did notice massive ram usage when we changed the render in combination of the bubble

[naive fable]

The patch is Not an a-life fix? 😦

[violet dune]

so a-life wont exist till they make it from scratch and this takes years if they even have resources to do it... kinda gg

[drifting crag]

enemy weapons seem to hurt alot more

maybe it's the new weapon balancing?

shotgun pellet works as advertised now tho

[austere pagoda]

bro it exists

[drifting crag]

they still try to snipe with shotguns but all the pellets don't magically hit you at range anymore

[violet dune]

i always thought all events are placed in map and player just triggers in 100m radius, but its around player all the time..

[ornate mirage]

there's no a life in gamma either

[smoky hawk]

a gamma player doesnt have a life

[austere pagoda]

THIS IS ALIFE, THE BUBBLE SPAWNER AND THE LAIRS:
Fixed erratic behavior of A-Life NPCs after attacking enemy lairs.
Made A-life encounters a bit more rare on average.

[ornate mirage]

might be true

[sturdy verge]

Lmao mate 🤣

[austere pagoda]

there is no making alife or fixing it, what u see is what u get, read patchnotes

[charred nova]

He’s dropped the truth nuke

[austere pagoda]

Fixed erratic behavior of A-Life NPCs after attacking enemy lairs.
Made A-life encounters a bit more rare on average.
they literally state it themselfs

[austere pagoda]

wtf u even mean make alife encounters more rare? what u doing slowmotion when npc in offline?

u slowing time down around the player? cus the zone should be simulating alife no?

[ornate mirage]

im not sure why people were thinking the spawn bubble isn't an intentional design decision

[austere pagoda]

how u make the npc encounters more rare? pause them outside render? this a rollercoaster ride with quee?

the bubble spawner and all things with it is intentional like zara says

[violet dune]

ofc it is. its not like randomly happend.

[drifting crag]

damn it used to be that i was the one running away to gain more distance in gunfights now the npcs shoot at you farther now

[austere pagoda]

its here to stay forever

why u think gsc has said nothing about alife?

[drifting crag]

time to run back and get the acog from my stash lol

[sturdy verge]

Run forest run 🏃‍♂️ lol

[ornate mirage]

i also think people wildly overestimate how much it actually impacts the game, since they cite gamma of all things as having "good simulation"

[silent valve]

for me, the moving hitboxes when the enemy is running sideways does not respond the actual spot to aim.

[charred nova]

The game with the best a life system is clear sky

It’s not even remotely close

[chilly ridge]

In my experience COP

[silent valve]

also, when enemies appear, they hit you no matter where you are standing/hiding, aside from incoming grenades, which are always exactly on spot onto your position

[violet dune]

granade simulator

[ornate mirage]

WISH IT MATTERED

[smoky hawk]

the game where A-Life was at its worse? (bar S2)

[chilly ridge]

In CS it seemed so broken to me cause of the Faction war system

[smoky hawk]

COP doesnt appear as broken bc their design ethos was the surgical knife

[drifting crag]

i just used 100 bullets hitting humans at range with a reflex sight instead of one-tapping mindless walkers using only 20 or so

[silent valve]

right

[drifting crag]

pew pew pew

[sturdy verge]

Can't wait for the LOTZ update 😍 since cs was mentioned

[silent valve]

when enemies are running straight into your direction, they could be killed with aprxx. 2 shots

sideways spray and pray

[drifting crag]

i got flanked in two different directions too

[high gazelle]

hope the lotz doesnt have this enshitification that seems to be in alife!

[sturdy verge]

That's what she said

[ornate mirage]

I LOVED WHEN WORDS MEANT SOMETHING

[chilly ridge]

I'll probably get SOC on Ps5 when that releases

[snow seal]

Abusing it to get 100% good rep with every faction was a treat

[drifting crag]

they're getting smarter guys runnn

[charred nova]

Can do that in stalker 2 except with ward or spark

[sturdy verge]

Yesss ❤️

[charred nova]

You can fully befriend duty and freedom

Which shouldn’t be possible

Because taking actions that make duty like you should make freedom dislike you

Except when they don’t

[silent valve]

I'd obviously offended someone at Malachite, since that they are all red and evil to me 😄

[high gazelle]

no factions business who your friends with!

[sturdy verge]

Guess that's what happens when you are near drunks and stoned people lol

[hexed zodiac]

have they fixed the graphics on the grass and how it has flickering and looks grainy

[drifting crag]

these bloodsuckers are a bit more unpredictable with the attack patterns

their movement is smoother

[slow crypt]

are you sure?

[drifting crag]

you can still dodge if you sprint at just the right time

[hexed zodiac]

im asking

[sturdy verge]

I wanna see it suck blood from a corpse lol

[slow crypt]

aaa ok, no

[drifting crag]

their claw swipe animations are alot better

[slow crypt]

the manual lods are so much beter

[quick fern]

Sleepness system is fixed ?

[digital igloo]

Been away from the game for a while; how're the enemies this patch?

I remember them being aimbotty and bullet spongy, with little to no sense of injuries or being hit. Is that still the case?

[sturdy verge]

Gooooood!

[edgy shell]

Grass is grainy to me but that’s just cause of the checkerboard rendering due to no AA

[drifting crag]

gonna reload my save and do these encounters again lol

bandit trainyard ambush and bloodsuckers kek

[hexed zodiac]

well when i turn off upscaling the game looks a mess

[drifting crag]

but this time with a 4x optic rifle and a shotgun

[digital igloo]

So, still aimbotty and bullet spongy?

[charred nova]

If you don’t turn on fsr or dlss

The game looks even worse

Which makes literally no sense lmao

[edgy shell]

Yeah it will do since it’s optimised to run with some form of aa or upscaling, a necessary evil in my books

I’d go for the grainy look over a smudged image any day

DLSS, TAA, it all looks so much worse in comparison

[slow crypt]

dlaa

[ornate mirage]

necessary
I HATE AA I HATE AA I HATE AA

[slow crypt]

yea we all hate taa

[ornate mirage]

never looks good always a blurry mess

[edgy shell]

Still doesn’t look good to me unfortunately

[digital igloo]

Damn.

I was hoping they'd improved that bit.

Any chances they'll improve on the enemies and the economy eventually?

[ornate mirage]

I HATE ALL ANTI ALIASING
never works

[charred nova]

Bring back 3dfx fsaa

[misty salmon]

W update on my opinion

[charred nova]

[slow crypt]

is the best option, is unreal engine 5 we cant expect nothing on that

[charred nova]

At least fsaa didn’t look blurry

[slow crypt]

yep 1 nice update after 6 months

[edgy shell]

I’ll give it another shot later to see if it’s improved at all but even DLAA wasn’t it for me when I tried it

[misty salmon]

Games are hard to work on

[charred nova]

Finally a chatter who liked the update

[slow crypt]

sure, when you are working on 2 dlc....

is a very nice update

[edgy shell]

Hey don’t get me wrong I like it too

[digital igloo]

Optimization is a lost art....

[edgy shell]

I still really love the game as is

[slow crypt]

na, is a 7 / 10 game

[edgy shell]

It’s taken some time to get into the groove but I’ve found a playstyle that has made it lots of fun

[charred nova]

The game was just insanely undercooked

[misty salmon]

What’s in the ultimate edition of stalker

Is it worth one hundred bucks USD

[silent valve]

if you are a hardcore collector...

[edgy shell]

You can find more details on their site

Worth is personal to you

[slow crypt]

I don't think it's anything special, it's overrated just because it's called STALKER. and although it has potential for the future, from the story to the map, there are things I just don't like.

[digital igloo]

That's putting it mildly.

The economy doesn't work, the enemies are terminators and tanks, and I've seen tropical rainforest with less bugs; also, there's just not enough content in terms of side quests and the like, and the radiant stuff is equal parts RNG and useless.

[silent valve]

I was once insane enought to buy the fallout76 CE with the helmet into real size... aside of taking dust no further value

[charred nova]

Only 1/4 of the games side quests made it to the final game

[ornate mirage]

econony

[magic vault]

Is the medkit sound different or am I crazy? it sounds less bassy now

[digital igloo]

Yeah.

This feels like early-early access.

And the devs have their work cut out for them at this point - cause if this is all they can muster then that's really not even close to enough.

[cursive kettle]

yo i see now that Npcs have less aim bot but they have inhuman reflexes from when you peek from a side, like i aint even seeing the enemy as i slowly peek and i get shot 3 times 💀 🙏

[digital igloo]

Wouldn't even be that hard - they have artifacts right there as big money item rewards rather than metric tons of vodka and canned food

[silent valve]

^^

[smoky hawk]

hes camping

[slow crypt]

I still believe the reason we’re getting so few updates is because the development team is split working on the DLCs — something that’s been happening throughout the entire development. It really makes you think how much damage some executives can cause.

[dim salmon]

Can’t wait to get cut content sold back to us as dlc

[magic vault]

Love the update, the combat sounds seem a lot better
Taking damage and voice lines sounds feel different

[sturdy verge]

I'm gonna play it later just to watch mutants eating other mutants or people

[drifting crag]

yeah the enemies stay at range taking potshots so now you have to actually aim far with a red dot lol

[high gazelle]

the thing that annoys me is i heavily mod the game, and play almost to the end and an update breaks everything. i put the game away and come back to it, update all the mods and start a new game and play almost to the end aaaaannndd.....

[slow crypt]

yea, I love how they do that when we have access to the leak, I can see the cut weapons they're trying to hide brhu

[high gazelle]

need an update rollback method

[sturdy verge]

I need some sid chicken

[silent valve]

We need a clean pc game and no consoles^^

[sturdy verge]

Come clean my pc aye 🤪

[drifting crag]

it is such a small thing but the fight dynamic is changed a bit

no more easy headshots with the enemy just walking towards you

[silent valve]

Just type del . and you're done 😛

[charred nova]

Gotta love the consilized quick use item slots with no way to change them

[sturdy verge]

Aw such a sweetheart lol

[dim salmon]

It’s why no mod tools have been released yet, and at this point I doubt they ever will be

[high gazelle]

theres a mod for tht....

[charred nova]

Yah it’s a bandaid fix

I’ve used the mod

[austere pagoda]

[dim salmon]

Once they’re done milking it we will get a half baked excuse as to why mod tools can’t be a thing

[charred nova]

I just don’t understand why I can’t bind f1 f2 f3 f4

[onyx mountain]

why would you hide the most important stat against armored NPC's on weapons? what is the logic there? it'd be different if ammo was entirely pen based instead of split between weapons and ammo but it's not.

[charred nova]

That’s what I’m saying

[high gazelle]

cause that seperates the builds

[charred nova]

Yah that’s stupid though

[drifting crag]

i have a funny feeling that they really did rebalance the weapons bc the enemy weapons hit harder or maybe i'm just tripping

[charred nova]

90 percent of us are playing on pc

[high gazelle]

then you have no reason not to impliment pc QoL stuff and then realy, why not seperate the pc build to utilize its full potential

[acoustic kraken]

hows the performance in the new patch guys? did anything changed?

[austere pagoda]

itsa for the

[dim salmon]

[slow crypt]

What surprises me the most is that it doesn’t even feel like a massive fix. The game is better and I do like the update, but it still feels like the starting line of an alpha.

[silent valve]

stalker was originally a pure pc game, aint?

[acoustic kraken]

ye

[dim salmon]

Yes

[edgy shell]

Feels the same as it did before

[silent valve]

so first of all im glad that they dont considered cross play like at other gams

[acoustic kraken]

okay thanks, i hoped it got better a lil bit

[dim salmon]

That doesn’t surprise me at all

[chilly ridge]

I'm really glad they released it on console.

[high gazelle]

i wonder how theyre going to get clear sky working properly with its faction wars and stuff

[chilly ridge]

I loved experiancing the original trilogy finally

[charred nova]

Sure but why cripple the pc version in the process

It’s just so many little things

It wouldn’t be that hard to just let me bind all the quick use item keys

[ornate mirage]

console gaming is so insane to me

[chilly ridge]

You can still release a console version and not cripple PC

[high gazelle]

[charred nova]

THEY ARE LITERALLY IN THE KEY BINDS SECTION

[chilly ridge]

You can just have a different UI for PC

[charred nova]

you just aren’t able to bind them

[silent valve]

secondly I dont understand the devs, why they raped the game that way that it fits for consoles, just to heard the guys whining and complaining about unsensitve joystick movement. this wasnt intended to work with your crap, so get used to it....

[chilly ridge]

Like BG3

[high gazelle]

hell like borderlands

[austere pagoda]

ayo cool down people, theres too much logical thinking being done here

[silent valve]

Im not biased, I hate consoles in any way 😄

[dim salmon]

This is actually funny

What a game

[austere pagoda]

gotta be the most expensive early access game i ever got (besides tarkov beta)

[charred nova]

500 dollar physical edition

More expensive than tarkov

[silent valve]

hm, i dont consider tarkov on same level as s2

[acoustic kraken]

but also better than tarkov 😄

[ornate mirage]

yeah, tarkov is worse

[silent valve]

thx dude

[charred nova]

You’re right it doesn’t have rampant cheating problem yet

[acoustic kraken]

or is in early access for a decade with almost no steps forward

[dim salmon]

Same, don’t buy games these days especially new releases but it’s S2 and I adore the trilogy. Sad they screwed it up so badly, could have genuinely been great

[charred nova]

Even 7 days to die finally reached 1.0

[dim salmon]

But hey they sold millions of copies of a half cooked UE5 pile of garbage so I doubt they care

[austere pagoda]

same boat man, was the nail in the coffin tho for me, screw all companies pre release, lets wait and see what people say after release honeymoon

[sturdy verge]

We need rog here

[acoustic kraken]

ye meanwhile tarkov is still a sad piece of rubbish, taped together too look like fun

and im a EOD owner, they already scammed me xD

[charred nova]

He was too spicy

[sturdy verge]

😦 miss him though 😢 wish he was given another chance

[charred nova]

We was

And he wasted it

[silent valve]

bummer

[chilly ridge]

I will probably take alonger break from this game for a few months and see what comes out after.

[sturdy verge]

Coming back when mods are ready ?

[chilly ridge]

Maybe. Or when they release a few more updates

[median nymph]

turns out stalker 2 really doesn't want to start up despite removing all mods and repairing files

[sturdy verge]

Aye gotcha

[chilly ridge]

A good example of a game that gets updates is ER2. They change models and update dlcs and so once or twice every month..

[sturdy verge]

Ill probably play it when mods are sorted but for now I'm waiting for that LOTZ update on the 20th 😉

[sturdy verge]

Wait what's ER2

[chilly ridge]

I can dm you a clip. It's a indie ww2 sandbox game that has multiplayer and mainly pve with a bunch of bots

[misty salmon]

Emergency room 2

[chilly ridge]

It has a sick ost

[silent valve]

wait wut?

[sturdy verge]

Aye ill watch it

[smoky hawk]

Easy Red isnt it

[chilly ridge]

You'll have to dm me

[smoky hawk]

weird asf

[sturdy verge]

lmao

[smoky hawk]

just go on steam and search Easy Red 2

[sturdy verge]

lol okay, i almost typed emergency room 2 hahaah

[bold smelt]

Mmfgmm

[drifting crag]

a group of stalkers spawned at the entrance from where a stash was and they all had different animations of sitting and sleeping while standing lol

[bold smelt]

Got blacklisted

[gloomy nebula]

wait why did people think sdk was coming with 1.4?

[slow crypt]

Na

[drifting crag]

like as i was exiting the stash 'dungeon' they were just there waiting outside doing their own thing

[dreamy forge]

Because they heard something on bush radio and took it as promise

[charred nova]

We didn’t

[slow crypt]

Honestly, six months for this feels like very little, almost nothing — how did they even manage to release the game? Hahaha

[river chasm]

Seems like you can reliably complete the game now which is definitely a lot more than at launch

[slow crypt]

That still needs to be verified, it’s not the first time the patch says one thing and something else happens in the game.

[dreamy forge]

"Fixed an issue where Player was able to get to Prypiat ahead of time by jumping over the railroad cistern on Yaniv." Hah this wont stop me

[gloomy nebula]

youtubers

[slow crypt]

The same YouTubers who said that Stalker 2 was good?

[versed anchor]

New update came??!!

[gloomy nebula]

yeah ngl the dev is quite slow for how big the team is

[dreamy forge]

No

[charred nova]

Literally the worst change possible

[versed anchor]

Why

[charred nova]

Why would they fix that

[high gazelle]

they were busy porting the original games to ue5 and removing the alife

[sturdy verge]

i enjoyed that 😄

[dreamy forge]

Because you asked

[charred nova]

It was one of the few things that made the end game gear fun to use

[versed anchor]

What if I hadn't

[charred nova]

Yah

They dropped 1.4

[dreamy forge]

Then yes. You screwed up royally here.

[smoky hawk]

tbh, we are playing the new update, but GSC called, youre blacklisted bc youre a ulktrakill fan

[charred nova]

Owned

[versed anchor]

Meaning it's out

[versed anchor]

Bro i

[high gazelle]

is that henry?

[slim mesa]

will the performance fixed anytime , in patchnotes tey said performance improvment but the first village runs like toast and fps are still same same stutters everytime shader caching and so on

[slow crypt]

Bruh, I got shot through a wall naaaa

[versed anchor]

Helldivers

[dreamy forge]

I mean i was poking at the wall for hours until found a way so no this change wont stop me

[charred nova]

It’s just so frustrating

Why fix things that make the game more fun

[high gazelle]

and break the game while your at it 😄

[charred nova]

If you don’t want to go to Pripyat early you don’t fricken have to

[dreamy forge]

But sounds like no fix for NPCs spawning next to you ;/

[slow crypt]

50 fps zalisia 4080, same shit

[slim mesa]

wow

[charred nova]

[slow crypt]

yea new update, best game of the year yea yea

[drifting crag]

huh snorks are squishier now

and spawn way more often

[slim mesa]

ok still lazty devs still broken still unplayable until u got 5090

[charred nova]

Wow an new update for stalker 2

Goes back to playing dues ex

[smoky hawk]

what mod?

[charred nova]

Nameless mod

[hardy totem]

But... there's no fishing in Deus Ex: o

[smoky hawk]

respectable

[charred nova]

I’m sure someone could easily make deus ex have fishing

[fading parcel]

New 1.4 patch runs 1.4x FPS more

[hardy totem]

Deus Ex fishing mod when?

[slow crypt]

yea sure budy

[slim mesa]

uhm no it runs same as before xD

[slow crypt]

With every update, people show up saying the game is getting better — it’s like the same recycled joke.

[spark quest]

I wonder how long it'll take for the patch notes to not say '500+ bugs fixed'

[lost needle]

Ia that not the point of updates, to make the game better

[slim mesa]

Tested since release same place same spot first village still no fps gain still no improvemnt still laggy village with high fps drops unplayable without upscalers

[spark quest]

been 6 months now lol

[charred nova]

Come back in 2028 when the game is done

[gloomy nebula]

[spark quest]

Stalker 2 GotY Edition with All DLCs coming November 2034

[charred nova]

Or until some modders just rebuild the entire game in xray

[slow crypt]

That doesn’t mean it’s improving tell that to the Stalker 2 players. Oh wait, their numbers are dropping every day.

[slim mesa]

Stalker 2 Heart of the Garbage bin - with free Dlc Pripjat fps atomic booster and fsr 9000 x3

[lost needle]

Almost like people are finishing the game and leaving it 💔💔💔

[slow crypt]

50 FPS with a €1200 GPU is crazy. A 5 FPS improvement in 6 months.

[slow crypt]

Half the people I know can’t even start their game, let alone finish it.

[slim mesa]

😂

[fading parcel]

Only one Zone chose can play over 60fps sorry

[slow crypt]

It has fewer players than por% games from 10 years ago.

[river chasm]

Also crazy people will still spend €1200 on a GPU when 50 fps is all it'll get you in half the game that release now

[lost needle]

Drivers last updated 2007

[spark quest]

should've joined the Console Master Race

[slim mesa]

still anomaly runs better then this and looking better with mods x

[north jackal]

4080 RTX here and game runs smooth as hell...

[slow crypt]

It’s easier to blame us for others not working.

[slim mesa]

RESOLUTION AND upscalers are on or off

[lost needle]

Anomaly or gamma

[bold smelt]

Yeah but anomaly is as boring as watching paint dry and GAMMA is like pulling teeth

[fading parcel]

Of course, 5xxx series are way bugged than stalker 2 😂

[slow crypt]

gamma is anomaly

[harsh wharf]

I’m running with a 3060 RTX and I was able to finish the game with a smooth 50-60 FPS the whole playthrough

[river chasm]

Just saying the people who buy that stuff are rewarding that level of effort

[slim mesa]

both running better then this here

[north jackal]

DLSS is on, ofcourse.. There is little to no difference between it being on and off apart from FPS boost

[harsh wharf]

Didn’t the update drop just a few hours ago 💔

[lost needle]

Mfw gamma randomly crashes and have to replay the last half hour

[slim mesa]

i mean framegen fake frame whats raw perfprmance

[charred nova]

The update didn’t add anything most people would come back for

[harsh wharf]

Facts

[charred nova]

People come back for new content

[slow crypt]

Enough for me to get shot through two walls and to have memory leaks — so in such a short time, I see so many problems.

[lost needle]

I woke up to the update

[bold smelt]

I say we should kill someone as sacrifice

[charred nova]

Not for minor bug fixes and slightly improved ai

[slim mesa]

whats raw fps and resolution and settings pls

[lost needle]

Then remembered i had to do a latin test 💔

[harsh wharf]

His point was that people left because of the bad AI and the FPS am I right?
Therefore THOSE people may come back after hearing about the update

[river chasm]

That's how you know it isn't faking survival. You have to survive the X-ray crashes without quick saving whenever you want

[bold smelt]

Computer already on and running stalker as you are getting out of bed

[charred nova]

Well they’d still be unhappy

[lost needle]

I got a discord ping that the update dropped

[weary hedge]

What suggestions do you guys have for the video game industry to be better and even a good industry? Please dm me. And optionally say the sugestions here.

[bold smelt]

Are you a catholic priest who the hell still learns latin

[lost needle]

Latin is mandatory in croatian schools for the first 2 years

[slow crypt]

Not everyone settles for so little from a €60 game — they leave and come back to check regularly if it’s improved. It’s been 6 months...

[lost needle]

In some all 4 years of latin AND greek are mandatory

[harsh wharf]

Depends on the person

[bold smelt]

They should add more neco arc to every game ever

[charred nova]

I don’t think it really does tbh

[lost needle]

I stand behind this

[charred nova]

If you weren’t happy with the a life

You’d still be unhappy

[bold smelt]

Thry should do this in america because we cant fuсking speak anything but english

[charred nova]

The render distance of enemies is still 100 meters

[harsh wharf]

Some people don’t subscribe to their own confirmation bias, some people are bored, some people have friends that push them to play it, some people played the previous games, so much could happen to make someone appreciate it

[river chasm]

Tbh, spend less time and money on games, seems like seriously diminishing returns were hit long ago on that

[bold smelt]

They really should make spanish a required course from middle school onward

[spark quest]

probably because in UE5 it'd drop to 10FPS if it was increased (especially on consoles)

[charred nova]

According to Shay apparently not

[spark quest]

? who is shay, link me up

[charred nova]

So it’s a total mystery

[harsh wharf]

Here’s something: why does it need to be increased beyond 100 meters?

[charred nova]

@austere pagoda

[bold smelt]

The guy who did the rebellion?

[slim mesa]

so this update is just hot steam cool

[charred nova]

Are you series bro

[harsh wharf]

Can you answer the question?

[spark quest]

Rebel Alliance Major

[slow crypt]

A Stalker player not defending GSC and not blaming the consumers? Mission impossible.

[austere pagoda]

i got tagged

[harsh wharf]

People focus on the wrong issues gang 💔

[charred nova]

Why have snipers in a game where nothing can spawn far enough away to snipe

[slow crypt]

You really ask that? Seriously?

[austere pagoda]

what u tagging me for mannnnn i aint scrolling up to look for it

[slow crypt]

You can’t even lower the render distance below 500m in other games with snipers.

[bold smelt]

[harsh wharf]

Makes it easier to hit them at 100 meters, honestly there’s quite a few gameplay differences that someone could simply prefer with a sniper (also consider Jupiter and Zaton)

[charred nova]

You mentioned how increasing spawn and render distance for entities didn’t kill fps like most people Expected guy was asking about that

[hollow mural]

dogshit bait 2/10

[charred nova]

Why are you justifying this

[weary hedge]

What is that?

[slow crypt]

You’d sell your own mother just to justify it.

[bold smelt]

Me

[drifting crag]

there is an 8x scope in this game lol

[bold smelt]

[harsh wharf]

Because people feel the need to say that the A-Life ruins the entire gameplay like it’s the worst thing in the world (hint: it’s not)

[slim mesa]

https://tenor.com/view/fix-the-game-button-delay-broken-controllers-fifa-rage-fifa22-gif-24634178

[slow crypt]

I don’t even think is bait at this point.

[harsh wharf]

The FPS and performance drops are horrid, game needs to be optimized

[charred nova]

It’s just a symptom of the whole problem

[bold smelt]

Honestly i agree with that, alife is not nearly yhe biggest issue

[austere pagoda]

correct, we tested multiple set ups on multiple rigs for performance after release, peaking at 500 spawns per minute capped at 800 max spawns in a bubble of 3.5km around player. it was only then that we got performance issues.
having 500 npc in 100m did NOT cause performance issues. even when they where fighting

[misty salmon]

Who pinged me

[slow crypt]

(Crysis turned into Stalker 2)

[drifting crag]

scripted events and a-life spawns are different

[austere pagoda]

and when we did notice performance issues (on the 3.5km) we found out the reason for memory leak on release

[charred nova]

@spark quest

[dusk grove]

1.5 when??

[harsh wharf]

Do you know why the distance hasn’t been expanded?

[bold smelt]

Which is why the alife in the trilogy is not as good as people tout it to be

[harsh wharf]

☝️

[drifting crag]

yeah like what if those are just scripted setpieces lol

[oak star]

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[austere pagoda]

the reason was: game does not unload actors when spawned in as guards for hubs, bundled with the max vanilla of 40 actors it caused memory problems since guards would stay and they wouldnt despawn but the 40 actor cap was reached

[bold smelt]

They are

[slow crypt]

It’s not that it’s flawless, it’s just better than this thing we have.

[tacit jay]

a lot of people are confused what a-life even is lol.

[austere pagoda]

thats why the more u played (more hubs u loaded) the more u lagged on release

[weary hedge]

Neco arc i mean

[drifting crag]

in pripyat there is always the monolith cqb gauntlet and the sniper building no matter what

[slow crypt]

That’s another thing — the game’s AI and A-Life are two different things. Interestingly, I doubt Stalker 2 even has A-Life if we consider that.

[oak star]

Someone I trust for modeling work

[drifting crag]

now those are setpieces

[austere pagoda]

they are using render distance as trigger for scripts like the random quests and encounters

[blissful phoenix]

Wait I just woke up what happened?

[drifting crag]

a-life system is completely random

[bold smelt]

Gag character based off of arcueid from tsukihime

[austere pagoda]

increasing render means increasing script activation range

that will cause missions to run even if you arent nearby

[harsh wharf]

Oh I see

[bold smelt]

Im gonna assume im talking to the real scar

[weary hedge]

Please dm so i can find the messages easier. And explain each sugestion pls.

[dusk grove]

tbh if that render distance was like 1k that would be sweet asf

[austere pagoda]

it also means the game will now try to populate a bigger area on same timer so zone is even more dead

[weary hedge]

Is patch 1.4 out yet ?

[austere pagoda]

so the higher your render, the faster u need to spawn stuff

[harsh wharf]

So effectively it would run missions and activities while the player is across the zone?

[oak star]

I’ve personally worked with him on several projects, and his work has always been top-notch

[tacit jay]

ye

[austere pagoda]

this causes stability issues since constant spawning

[bold smelt]

That would be sweet but holy fuсk it would run like dogshit

[harsh wharf]

Also true, never considered that

[austere pagoda]

yes

[dusk grove]

even the trees rendering is so close, i thought nanite was supposed to smooth rendering and stuff, reduced pop in etc

[austere pagoda]

our first bug when modding was called "schizo"

[weary hedge]

so is out let's down the game and test it, hop no more memory leak problems

[austere pagoda]

schizo refers to hearing sounds of npc outside 100m render, we heard yawns

and random banter even tho it wasnt nearby

[dusk grove]

im still waiting for this game to be fixed and its been half a year, i guess kcd2 will be my game for a month or two now

[hollow mural]

if i had to guess, they just turned features on in the engine but didnt optimize for it at all

[austere pagoda]

and we ran into what people now know as "shotgun snipers" or what we called the shotgun bandito

[bold smelt]

Maybe you are just losing it

[austere pagoda]

and we realised gsc hasnt set up aggro for longer than 100m

[charred nova]

That seems like such a massive oversight that could have been easily fixed

[austere pagoda]

nor did they with anything

all values on release where placeholder since render was 100m

[ornate mirage]

awesome

[bold smelt]

Awesome

[austere pagoda]

stuff like hearing, damage, spawns

snipers had damage drop off of a truck after 100m

[dusk grove]

so having hundreds of npc and a wider radius doesnt affect performance for quite a bit thats what i read

[slow crypt]

kcd2 doing more whit less

[harsh wharf]

So in short GSC is kind of just avoiding focusing on expanding the render distance because it would be one hell of a task?

[austere pagoda]

yes, everything is tied to it even so called alife

[ornate mirage]

deltarune tomorrow

[dusk grove]

kcd2 is awesome im loving it

[slow crypt]

is one of the games of the year

[austere pagoda]

we ran into all kinds of problems when we increased it

[dusk grove]

real rpg and i love its jank, just gives it character

[dusk grove]

did you play the first one?

[harsh wharf]

That’s tragic

[slow crypt]

yeaaaa

[austere pagoda]

it didnt impact at all, only hub guards and memory leak at the time due to it

we capped at 64gb ram usage on 3.5km but 0 spawns

[polar forge]

I really hope memory leak is fixed

[austere pagoda]

all due to hub guards not despawning and being rendered due to range increase

[dusk grove]

ive been waiting years and was well worth the wait, i get like 80fps on ultra and no fg. Stalker should have been on cryengine lol

[drifting crag]

stalker 2 is elden ring with guns

[dusk grove]

and im on a laptop with 16gb ram

[gloomy nebula]

not quite but it has potential

[austere pagoda]

heres the kicker: we managed to make render and all stuff work at aprox 180m even de-aggro, bullet drop etc. the next week gsc dropped 1.1 and capped render

we had it freaking working and on video

[slow crypt]

Honestly, a development that started with 8 people and ended up with 200 developers doing more than Stalker 2 — it’s incredible how KCD achieved so much.

[austere pagoda]

i asked molit to allow us to change it back so we could finish it up but alas we got efed

[gloomy nebula]

i wish it had xp system lol

[lament smelt]

How is the game compared to launch ?

[wintry prawn]

Are you guys also a little disappointed with this patch? They didn't add any new content, and the features they added barely work. We have 6 weeks left until the end of the second quarter and still no SDK, even closed beta test hasnt started.

[drifting crag]

a big map with loot and routes you can take

[austere pagoda]

we literally had working 200m ish render with modders 😦

[dusk grove]

yeah but why

[slow crypt]

5% Better

[drifting crag]

stalker is also a platformer lmao

[austere pagoda]

because why accept 100m? in an open world game spanning over 40 square km?

[blissful phoenix]

Is there alife yet?

[dusk grove]

sdk next quarter, bet you a fiver

[carmine star]

Release DKS so modders can fix the game

[austere pagoda]

are we goldfish in a fishbowl thats 100m wide at all times?

[dusk grove]

i mean why did they cap it

[austere pagoda]

because gsc, i never got reply why

[wintry prawn]

Or 4 quarter with their updating tempo

[gloomy nebula]

yeah just give us sdk so the modders can make cools mods?

[austere pagoda]

several of us asked on reddit, discord ask gsc and dm

[polar forge]

Performance is already trash imagine if we had more radius for stuff to break our games even worse

[drifting crag]

stalker is not the super edgy tacticool game everyone thinks it is 😎

[austere pagoda]

only reply we got was:

[dusk grove]

honestly im giving this the cyberpunk treatment, not playing for 4 years until they get the final dlc, sdk and final patches

[swift scroll]

redownloaded the game, it still crashes on me 🥲

[bold smelt]

It never has been, thats only gamma (and anomaly addons)

[dusk grove]

skill issue

[austere pagoda]

a classic gsc response is all we got

[dusk grove]

because they never developed it

[austere pagoda]

that was end of december right when 1.1 released

[drifting crag]

it's actually a metroidvania type game with guns

[ornate mirage]

are you insane

[wintry prawn]

S2 development is more mysterious than Area 51 underground 👽

[austere pagoda]

to this day i raise the question in certain channels but honestly? gsc dont care and neither should we anymore

[drifting crag]

😜

[austere pagoda]

let the ship sail brothas and look back to it in a few years

[gloomy nebula]

i think we want to be able to make it that way if we want to though, thats why i dont get that arguement

[bold smelt]

Its just a very interactive VN

[drifting crag]

haha right?

[ornate mirage]

yes you should but that way sucks

[polar forge]

Or just play the game if you like it. If you don’t then don’t play

[dusk grove]

yeah this is going on the backburner, ill play gta 6 before i play this again by the looks of things

[bold smelt]

It got pretty bad before stalker 2 came out and refreshed the series identity back to the official intention

[austere pagoda]

i guarantee you alife 2.0 is months out, based on their update tempo, size and communication

[polar forge]

No point getting all worked up about a game

[wintry prawn]

1.3 came at 18 March so, we waited 2 months for a bunch of configs and fixes...

[dusk grove]

no one is worked up i dont think mane

[slow crypt]

1 year

[austere pagoda]

im not kidding when i say year 2 gold edition lol

[bold smelt]

People thought stalkwr was just single player tarkov, to the point of thinking gamma was official

[gloomy nebula]

i just think its good to be able to make the game last longer you know?

[drifting crag]

this is just an open world resident evil game but without the roundhouse kicking

[frigid hill]

zara_l12 has been warned

Reason: Bad word usage

[slow crypt]

they will run out of money

[bold smelt]

Huh

[dusk grove]

dude, some of the guys who bought the physical aint getting their stuff until 2026 😂

[ornate mirage]

yes and you can do that without shittу tacticool vasyankas

[austere pagoda]

slap a dlc on that thang

[bold smelt]

Not with me here

[slow crypt]

yea

[charred nova]

Why you think we don’t get paid

[bold smelt]

Jacktech industries

[dusk grove]

you dont deserve it thats why

[drifting crag]

i first played this game expecting a tactical shooter

what i got was a platformer with a death counter 😄

[charred nova]

That’s very rude

[dusk grove]

bunch of naughty snorks

[bold smelt]

Warned, muted, awaiting a ban

[dusk grove]

[charred nova]

My ego is in shambles

[dusk grove]

torn to ribbons, must ban the member

[charred nova]

Nah we don’t do that here

[dusk grove]

only way to revive now

[charred nova]

Only in gamma server

[dusk grove]

im only yanking ya pizzle

[spring acorn]

Stalker 2 will probably never be on PS5

[dusk grove]

you dont want it on ps5 trust me

[charred nova]

They can put it on ps5 and join the rest of us

Being disappointed

[dusk grove]

one of us

Bonum Commune Communitatis

[dusk grove]

you're my favourite moderator really jack i was only joking

actually made myself feel bad 😂

can we post gifs please

[tough remnant]

So whens 1.5

[charred nova]

No hard feelings lol

[dusk grove]

i want to start a petition

[charred nova]

Erm yah let me pull up my mod control panel

What’s this the panels blank

[dusk grove]

ex communicado

https://tenor.com/view/cringe-gif-26414875

[polar forge]

why every game it doesn’t matter what is put in a patch there will always be complaints lol

[dusk grove]

even if they fixed it, people would complain that they removed the bugs and that it was part of the games personality

[charred nova]

We have no powers to edit the server in any way

[polar forge]

They could fix everything and ppl still complain they lose 1 fps

[dusk grove]

like if they removed oblivion remaster bugs, people would actually be out with their pitchforks

[north jackal]

So persistent AI is no longer part of the patch?

[dusk grove]

1 fps each update is like 2fps lost per year!

[polar forge]

What do you mean

[dusk grove]

at gsc rates*

[north jackal]

They removed the persistent A-Life from patch notes

[polar forge]

They made NPC work even out of player range

[dusk grove]

yeah its persistant, in the 100m bubble

as long as you look at it

[slow crypt]

the combat is better

[polar forge]

It says right in the notes that NPC will now go about their lives even when “offline”

[wintry prawn]

Persistant A-life in 1.4 seems to be a massive overstatement by GSC

[north jackal]

Has it been tested

[wintry prawn]

Like overall A-life 2.0

[slow crypt]

is a masive overstatement

[graceful tree]

Anyone else’s tornado anomaly showing up as the poppy field on the PDA ?😂😅

[polar forge]

Idk bro I woke up less than one hour ago

[kind plume]

I'm waiting for 2.0 Patch to play again. Very interested in lootable mutant corpses.

[slow crypt]

it works i think

[digital igloo]

I'm guessing that's meant for a later patch now.

Honestly, just treat the game as early access at this point.

[north jackal]

I didn't know that, did i

[spiral cobalt]

Well people dont loot bodies anymore they just stand over them forever lol

[wintry prawn]

Me to its 100% like Early Access

But wiithout a proper dev communication, radio silence all over

[charred nova]

Come back in 2026

[dusk grove]

1.5 update patch notes:

• mutants now look around occasionally
• Mutants now growl at tin cans rolling around
• mutants now dont see through 5 feet of concrete
• humans now crouch
• introduced bug where humans cant move when crouched
• fixed typo of some guy in rostok bar

[polar forge]

There is no way you guys read all the patch notes

[wintry prawn]

GSC Answers is all their comms right now (or I forgot about squirrels or shooting stars reels)

[digital igloo]

2/3rds of the quests are missing, apparently.

And mechanics and other stuff are being worked on.

Early Access sums it up

[drifting crag]

Crouching bandits

[polar forge]

Unless I am seriously missing something here

[drifting crag]

They should add kicking melee for Skif

[charred nova]

3/4*

[dusk grove]

you're assuming we can all read

[wintry prawn]

There are over 50 side quest that has been cut from the game

[kind plume]

Most likely, yes. Got ultimate edition but I'm here for the long run. I'm patient.

[charred nova]

It’s over 60

[wintry prawn]

ITS OVER 9000

[digital igloo]

Wonder why TbH

We'd already waited for quite a while - could've waited longer for a better product

[dusk grove]

should introduce them as repeatable missions, but they wont

[polar forge]

They aren’t planning to add those back if I had to guess

[wintry prawn]

Investors and Microsoft, they had to release the game

[drifting crag]

They seem to have toned down the snork move where they can sometimes i-frame your bullets by doing the roll animation lol

[charred nova]

Most of them were fully fleshed out quests

Like real quests lines with duty and freedom

[digital igloo]

Well, hopefully they'll get it to a good state.

Cause it feels rather barren at the moment.

Them not putting up an ultimate edition upgrade yet gives me some hope that they're holding off on that till they've really fleshed out the game.

[dusk grove]

i feel like the sdk will be a massive disappointment, because how will they sell dlc if we can fully edit the game and make our own missions.

[wintry prawn]

Some locations are totally empty in terms of quests (like Yantar) how is this even possible in a open world game to be so empty?

[charred nova]

Or Pripyat

The most unfinished part of the whole game

[dusk grove]

im prepared for the most barebones sdk, just based on the fact that having the best sdk means reducing the amount of people who will buy the dlc

[polar forge]

Maybe those places will be future dlc story locations

[dusk grove]

im expecting like bethesda workshop on the ps5 type sdk

[warped stream]

i mean it has some quests at least and the urban aspect feels better than empty plains and forests imo

[slow crypt]

the fuking imput lag

[spiral cobalt]

I was so confused when i got to pripyat because it was literally just 2 story quests until the point of no return back in november

[charred nova]

Pripyat has zero side quests

What you on about

[drifting crag]

You know what this game needs? A P90 and an SKS or maybe even an AR-18

[warped stream]

it still has main quests?

[charred nova]

Yah that’s it

[warped stream]

lots of stuff to find too

[charred nova]

Yah and nothing to do with it

[warped stream]

idk i found pripyat more enjoyable then a few of the other zones

[dusk grove]

but it has atmosphere

[charred nova]

CUS THERES NO MORE CONTENT

[warped stream]

okay but would you say swamps is better

[drifting crag]

Or maybe even the CZ Bren

[dusk grove]

like how do you ruin swamps fr

[polar forge]

I never been to Pripyat so can’t say

[charred nova]

Swamps serves it’s purpose I’d say

[warped stream]

i hated swamps its so horrible

[charred nova]

But why give me all this end game loot in Pripyat

[dusk grove]

i was so ready to spend a long time in swamps like i do in the mods but alas i wanted to leave asap

[charred nova]

That I literally can’t use for anything

[warped stream]

stuck for 2 hours during an emission cuz an underground cellar and multiple houses didnt count as cover

[polar forge]

I spent an entire night hiding in a church in the swamps bc mutants were outside fighting each other all night long

[polar forge]

As long as you run to the place that is marked you’re good

[dusk grove]

Poopyvan Winkledonk

[drifting crag]

There is an RPG in the clear sky base and you can use that to blast the chimera setpiece

[spiral cobalt]

the swamps would be much more fun for me if skif could actually WALK FORWARD in 3 inch deep water

[warped stream]

never had anything marked as cover there lol

[polar forge]

It is a quest marker for the bunker you’re supposed to run to since it is scripted emission

[warped stream]

nah bro but his toes would get wet and thatd kill him!!!!!

[drifting crag]

I believe that the entire game is beatable with just skif’s pistol, pre-placed loot, and game knowledge

[polar forge]

Unless you were there in random loot run after story or something

[dusk grove]

idk you ever walked through 3 inches of water??? pretty haard

[warped stream]

granted id have to spawn it in, i was tempted to do a 2nd veteran run with only the revolver

[drifting crag]

Like you don’t even need loadouts, you just pick stuff up on the go and throw away after like a true stalker

[spiral cobalt]

Yeah idk what i was thinking, I mean i can barely walk though an inch myself

[warped stream]

i went to the red forest really early, grabbed a dnipro, and that carried me the entire game

[drifting crag]

Grom s-15 is sexier than the dnipro

I just wish the sotynk isn’t locked behind the point of no return

[dusk grove]

Try 2 inches with a chest rig stuffed full with cured sausage, then come back to complain about my skiffy wiffy 😬😭

[warped stream]

yeah i wouldve loved to use the groza more but the dnipro is just busted

[drifting crag]

The g-36 is way better looking than the kharod and they both accept the same attachments

Silly weapon progression tiers

[cursive kettle]

SO THE GAME IS GOOD AFTER IM PLAYING IT AGAIN BUT, PLEASE, PLEASE ADD SOME VISUAL EFFECTS IF I HAVE A MASK, I FEEL LIKE ITS NON EXISTENT AND DOESN'T HAVE ANY MEANING

[coarse falcon]

Nooo

[noble yew]

[cursive kettle]

me rn

[next lava]

im just waiting for the modding kits to release

after that modders can go wild and fix anything and add tons of shit

[cursive kettle]

on pc, on xbox it will be desert

[coarse falcon]

Still krink is the drippiest of em all.

[austere pagoda]

modders rely on what is there in order to work on top of it, if what is there is not worthwile the modder wont invest time -> starfield

[drifting crag]

Will the sdk let modders add new weapons

[austere pagoda]

extra modders rely on tools they have available, the more open the tool the more open the capabilities of the mod

[drifting crag]

Gib us P90

[austere pagoda]

so with that modders will not be able to fix s2 if the sdk is subpar and closed for most parts while the basis of what can be modded is in shambles

[cursive kettle]

where can i send suggestions for the dev team?

[charred nova]

Like we could get a metro exodus type sdk

[ornate mirage]

good lmfao

[charred nova]

Which would be basically useless

[ornate mirage]

oh yes please put more shit on my screen that prevents me from SEEING THE GAME

[austere pagoda]

better than the vaseline smear

[cursive kettle]

id say that its optional and can be disabled in settings🍞

[drifting crag]

Or an M4A1 instead of the 416 lol

[charred nova]

Milsim slop type shit

[next lava]

I want a glock and desert eagle

[austere pagoda]

new weapons depends on the sdk and what is allowed, if we cant import our own assets its gg

best we can do is reskin on existing stuff

[cursive kettle]

milsim😭 🙏
metro wasn't milsim and it is still more immersive than s2 for the little cool details over all

[orchid kindle]

hi

[charred nova]

Well yah metro has better lighting effects

[ornate mirage]

no sorry you'll be actually looking at environments this time

[austere pagoda]

if enhanced edition is something to go off: safe to say we are screwed

[charred nova]

And runs at a higher and more constant frame rate

[slow crypt]

all the non unreal 5 games has better lighting

lumen is just cancer

[cursive kettle]

Obv UE5 is the best ever engine everr💅 💅

[orchid kindle]

is the enhanced edition on last gen consoles?

[cursive kettle]

tha hell, that horse has no legs

[orchid kindle]

he's stuck......

[charred nova]

For what it’s worth they did use a custom in house engine

[edgy shell]

If it isn’t that would be crazy given how old the games are

[charred nova]

While stalker 2 uses unreal

So maybeeee the tools will be better

[orchid kindle]

It said PS4 Xbox one in the end of the trailer I mean

[opaque cipher]

Thoughts on update?

[cursive kettle]

that it is obv better than any engine ever created 💅 💅

[austere pagoda]

give me 3 games that have 1 native ue4 sdk.

[drifting crag]

the mark 1 emr also needs some buffs, it takes too long to ads with an acog for whatever reason

[austere pagoda]

and if u can do that jack: give me 1 with ue5 sdk

[cursive kettle]

a quite good upgrade but tbh i still feel like at launch sometimes

[austere pagoda]

ill be waiting

[bold smelt]

What the hell is that emoji

[opaque cipher]

Come back in 2 years

[next lava]

they should've added dragging

[orchid kindle]

[cursive kettle]

cant exit the zone anymore

[charred nova]

Oh…. Yah know that’s true….

[opaque cipher]

I put the zone in stasis

[charred nova]

[opaque cipher]

I'm still in it, but nothing is moving

[austere pagoda]

go on, chat gpt the answer, it wont even be able to answer

[edgy shell]

Squad has an sdk, does that count?

[austere pagoda]

and now realise its gsc making the first ue5 sdk and what is afaik the first open world ue sdk

[bold smelt]

[austere pagoda]

yea, squad has a pretty expansive ue4 sdk

facts can hurt dont it hha

[charred nova]

So basically just ark

[warped stream]

ark also sucks

[austere pagoda]

ark and squad and fortnite

[tame gazelle]

"Persistent A-Life: stalkers are now living their long, happy lives, unless they meet their end in the Zone as a result of their actions outside the player's view." anyone actually noticed a difference? after testing it seems that the 100m bubble is still there and once the NPCs go outside this bubble they just despawn, stop and stand in place. How is this any different

[austere pagoda]

those are the 3 but even then ark isnt that extensive

and now accept that gsc is number 4 in ue sdk and nr 1 in ue5 sdk

[edgy shell]

Honestly couldn’t tell you. As much of an optimist I am I feel this might just be a blanket placebo statement

[tame gazelle]

there are no scenarious happening with the NPCs outside the bubble once they are despawned so they cant die.

[opaque cipher]

It will never be like the OG games. Forget about it

[austere pagoda]

and with their track record...idk chief hahahha

[cursive kettle]

tf is that? nah we got nothing like that man, read it again, jus a misclick of some words prolly

[graceful dirge]

Deadzone settings on xbox finally thank you devs

[tame gazelle]

huh

[warped stream]

i just wish they made it on a modified engine instead of ue5 cuz its performance sucks

[cursive kettle]

tbh they were needed to be added waaaaaay then

[warped stream]

if we had the trilogy a-life everyone would run 10fps lmao

[austere pagoda]

oh yeah also 5.1, arguably the worst ue5 iteration

especially now with 5.4

[edgy shell]

Although when it does come out I look forward to learning s2 modding, will be an uphill climb but I’m eager

[cursive kettle]

too late, they said that there will be no modifications to the engine in the near future

[tame gazelle]

when did i ever mention the old games, im just simply asking if anyone has noticed a difference from 1.3 to 1.4? as i cant seem to find any difference at all practically

[graceful dirge]

agreed man I have already put in a few hundred hours on Xbox and after changing it I feel like I was psychotic before with how much I just coped and played on, shit was tuned excessively high

[austere pagoda]

start with ue5

[austere pagoda]

no changes there

[opaque cipher]

and im saying that you will probably never notice the difference you are looking for, because it'll never happen

[cursive kettle]

fr

[austere pagoda]

for the ones looking into s2 modding if sdk is good:

1. world partitioning
2. niagara systen
3. ofpa
4. behaviour trees

[tame gazelle]

but why add a patch note that is so important for everyone, but its not in the game? i dont get it?

[cursive kettle]

everyone says that and then they jus do maps for fortnite when they fail, don't fail

[cursive kettle]

huh

[austere pagoda]

the top 3 are most definetly used by gsc

[graceful dirge]

okay lol what so first we had penetration and then they changed it to handling and we were told it was a ui bug but now seems handling replaces penetration as a stat entirely or is it still the same? what does this mean for previous penetration and armor damage values and how that was the meta?

[edgy shell]

I’ll do my best not to

I’ve spent the last 4 years developing in unity and given the industry trend towards unreal it’s something I’ll essentially have to learn at some point anyways

[tame gazelle]

so this line is actually removed from the patch notes again? "Persistent A-Life: stalkers are now living their long, happy lives, unless they meet their end in the Zone as a result of their actions outside the player's view."

[drifting crag]

iirc in 1.3.1 it was handling but with penetration value mixed in then they changed it back to penetration label in 1.3.2 and now we have purely handling in 1.4

[tame gazelle]

is this what i just read somewhere

[cursive kettle]

it's fake news man, show a screenshot, ion believe u

[austere pagoda]

listen T, aint no alife changes here. zero, none, 0

[tame gazelle]

dm

[cursive kettle]

meh

[spiral cobalt]

That is literally so true I dont understand why GSC is seemingly against upgrading engine versions, sure theres a chance it breaks some features, but if it doesnt thats a GIANT performance improvement for everybody

[austere pagoda]

cus they delved a pit when they went with butchered custom plugins instead of built in ue features and now cant port

and the masses take it as: reee see ue5 bad reee

[north jackal]

It was there, and they removed it from the patch notes

[cursive kettle]

2 options

a guy gonna get fired

they trolled us

[tame gazelle]

so after exiting steam and going back in -> they removed this line ""Persistent A-Life: stalkers are now living their long, happy lives, unless they meet their end in the Zone as a result of their actions outside the player's view.""

[spiral cobalt]

Exactly that drives me crazy

I've been a developer in UE5 for almost 3 years now and it very well CAN run miles better

[tame gazelle]

what the fook. i actually installed it again because of it

[cursive kettle]

tho why it looks bad in s2 as engine

[austere pagoda]

bad use of engine and devtime

[cursive kettle]

dw man wait another year, were close to 2026 but dw, game will be complete in 2027

[edgy shell]

Oh damn you’re right

[austere pagoda]

its known that they removed it shortly after update release

[drifting crag]

i've only fought snorks and bloodsuckers so far and they seem to have less hp

snork took 2 shotgun shells with sledgehammer at medium range and the i-frame effect on their roll animation seems to have been toned down

bloodsucker claw swipe animations are more refined and they attack alot faster

[tame gazelle]

this is hilarious.

[edgy shell]

That’s rough

[tame gazelle]

so i got baited into installing it again, but then its all the same hahah

[north jackal]

@waxen marten Why was the Persistent A-Life fix removed from the 1.4 update patch notes

[cursive kettle]

nah what type of ammunition, and did they remove penetration Stat? bcs there isn't it anymore

[north jackal]

Yeah I even started freeing up some space on my SSD, and stopped once I found out

[austere pagoda]

like he is gonna answer that 🤣

[drifting crag]

it only took one full mag and a half of 5.45 regular to put down a bloodsucker at close range

[north jackal]

They would have no choice if we rallied everyone to spam it

[drifting crag]

using the grom s-15

[spiral cobalt]

I'm not very hopeful and dont have much knowledge on modding since I havent really done it before, but once the modding tools are actually out I want to attempt to recreate the visuals in Stalker 2 present the trailers from 2 years ago like Come to me or Bolts and bullets even

I know everyone disliked the bolts and bullets trailer for the 'downgrades' but Id say the foliage and assets look miles better than they do now

[cursive kettle]

that's still a lot, if u aimed of the upper body, if u aimed at this hairy feet then its ok

[drifting crag]

i'm a bad aim under pressure so it was just mostly upper body and not head lol

[cursive kettle]

i still see the trees as grainy pixels tho, will ur mod be available in xbox too? since the workshop gonna be in console too

[austere pagoda]

let me be thy cm for now:
"We noticed some players spotted a quick patchnote change in regards to a-life, we feel it is not the time to introduce these changes and as such have removed this change for a bigger wider change tba at later date. thank you for staying with us stalkers and we hope you will enjoy update 1.4!"

[drifting crag]

plus they go invisible fast after their little hit and run claw swipe moves

[tame gazelle]

i mean... adding A life to patch notes with a sentence like that claiming its 100% fixed and finished and then just remove it again. How many times can they actually just BS and get no shit for it

[austere pagoda]

ye good ol bait and switcheroo

[spiral cobalt]

Honestly only time will tell I havent really seen many games that can be modded well on console, but if Its possible I will certainly try

[sweet swan]

so was he update not actually in game like isit worth booting up or isit just the same ?

[charred nova]

https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/597350761730408451/1303389001276719115/charliecasino.gif

[drifting crag]

which are alot smoother now btw and they don't jump around as much when they do it

[cursive kettle]

how many rounds went-wait, ru talking ab the scripted bloodsucker in s2 that u encounter at the lab or a random bloodsucker

[drifting crag]

like their attacks feel less jank

[polar forge]

How can I submit a report for memory leak? I can’t even load my save no matter what I do within one minute my memory usage is 99% and game freeze

[drifting crag]

random bloodsucker around malachite lol

[spiral cobalt]

The combat with normal enemies feels FAR better but thats the only change I would say is worth trying, the other changes are good but nothing revolutionary

[copper spire]

maybe the real A-life 2 was the friendship we made along the way

[cursive kettle]

yo tbh i didn't see anything different for now after 1:30 hours

[polar forge]

100 hours save down the drain can’t even play the game man

[sweet swan]

was hoping for some kind of alife improvment

[hollow lake]

@austere pagoda are you going to update your a life mod for patch 1.4 or the complete zone still applicable?

[edgy shell]

There were a handful

[cursive kettle]

skill issue

[edgy shell]

A life will be an iterative thing, not just a ‘hey guys, we fixed it’ and it’s the best thing since sliced bread

[austere pagoda]

haha, gsc did no alife changes so mod still works with 1.4 as seen in mod description 🙂

[sweet swan]

new game recommended or previous save ?

[drifting crag]

the changes are not very obvious but they are there i'm not crazy lmao

and i played this game like 2 days ago before the patch

[sweet swan]

thanks for all the help to everyone that replied 🙂

[spiral cobalt]

A life improved quite a bit but i dont know whats going on with them adding "Alife is now persistent" in the patch notes then literally removing it

[hollow lake]

Yeah thought so, gonna be using yours then 😀

[charred nova]

The sheer g force of that reality is staggering

[cursive kettle]

tbh i think they did it to hook up players

[polar forge]

Isn’t that the same as saying “NPC now live their lives even when offline”

[austere pagoda]

happy to hear! dm always open for feedback

[sweet swan]

back to anomaly lmao joke

[edgy shell]

Yeah it seems odd, but then again It sounded like a nothing statement even when it was there, I just ignored it

[drifting crag]

there's still the issue of patrols and mutants spawning just beside you

[cursive kettle]

oh so this patch ab a life was non existent?

[polar forge]

Anomaly and gamma suck I’m sorry I tried them but they are terrible compared to this game

[cursive kettle]

i wish🙏

[cursive kettle]

skill issue

[sweet swan]

fact

[drifting crag]

and human patrols spawn alot more and at campfires when i walked around malachite, they were empty before

[austere pagoda]

a-life consist of 2 things;

1. the simulation of the zone and its inhabitants -> who goes where, does what,...
2. the simulation of combat engagements (combat ai) -> this is what is changed

[edgy shell]

Tbf I can’t enjoy gamma either, tried my hardest but I guess it’ll take some time to figure out what makes it fun

[polar forge]

13 year old blocked

[drifting crag]

then i went to Duga, there were more mercenary and loner patrols traveling together

[sweet swan]

gamma is kinda hard no joke

[charred nova]

If you haven’t played the new Indiana jones game

[austere pagoda]

so whereas a subsystem of a-life got an update aka the combat part, the greater a-life sim did not

[cursive kettle]

im 2 man, have some respect