☢┃stalker-general

[charred nova]

You could play that

It’s really really good

[polar forge]

Yes I love that game

[orchid kindle]

[polar forge]

And it’s on game pass. HDR look pretty good too

[austere pagoda]

alife changes like patrols and campfires is placebo, no changes there in this update

[cursive kettle]

that's hardcore stalker, tbh the real stalker is the game where you survive in the zone among the others

[edgy shell]

Have heard good things about it, but it just isn’t my game. Got a backlog spanning the last few decades though so I’m good. It’s just gamma itself doesn’t offer the main things I like in stalker - exploration and narrative

[austere pagoda]

the only change is in combat and human/mutant behaviour in regards to AI

[noble yew]

Gamma my beloved

[drifting crag]

instead of spontaneous opposing groups spawning nearby triggering a gunfight, it's just more walking patrols instead of sudden gunfight in the distance if that makes sense

[austere pagoda]

placebo

unless using my mod (not joking)

[drifting crag]

i deleted all my mods lol

[polar forge]

Bro you’re just promoting your mod 😂

[austere pagoda]

i never do, that was the first or one of the first

ive for instance never directly mentioned its name or link, word of mouth > rest

[polar forge]

Obviously not every single thing in the patch notes is just made up. That is absurd

[charred nova]

Yah he’d have to actually link it

[austere pagoda]

did not say that (about made up patch notes)

[spiral cobalt]

I really hope at some point GSC will improve the visuals even if it means adding a new graphics setting or something. I understand graphics gotta get worse to improve optimization but the game went from looking like it was from the future to a mess of the UE5 features it uses. Im not saying this to hate on UE5 but like why would they use nanite when the player can visibly watch big buildings load and deload when moving the camera, and having lumen cause trees to look unlit in for example the stormy weather

[charred nova]

If you use a mod to remove lumen

It triples your fps

[drifting crag]

oblivion remastered forced lumen kek

[sweet swan]

will most mods be obeslete now as i tried to launch my game n crashed

[drifting crag]

so unreal

[austere pagoda]

yes

[cursive kettle]

yo tbh what needs to be fixed rn is:
ALWAYS broken npc guns(In SoC all. the npcs had an almost pristine gun))
THE shoots of the enemies look like they only aim at ur head since i never heard them hit the ground but only walls
NATURE STEALTH is ass, like i could hide under sum VERY tall grass and an enemy will see me through all the grass and vegetation like nothing

[sweet swan]

r u creator of shays alife

[spiral cobalt]

The sad thing is, lumen itself can run REALLY WELL especially in newer UE5 versions, in my own project I got lumen to take up less than 2ms of render time

But it runs so bad in S2 and it doesnt even look good at all, infact its making the graphics worse rather than better

[austere pagoda]

nah that aint me

[drifting crag]

ye in stalker 2 they're always either at 50% or 25% lol

[hollow lake]

I believe the simple load order mod causes it if you have it installed...

[austere pagoda]

i make b-life cus you gotta believe in it

[cursive kettle]

LMAO

[sweet swan]

dont think i have that but thanks

[austere pagoda]

if you squeeze your eyes hard enough it might be alive

all jokes aside, yes hha

[sweet swan]

npc combat overhaul maybe

[austere pagoda]

that one needs update

[cursive kettle]

FR EVERY TIME I EXIT A BUILDING EVERYTHING TURNS IN TO 1980 PHONE GRAPHICS

[drifting crag]

sometimes i wish this game had more grenade types to break aggro with like bangs and smoke grenades to disorient the enemy

[austere pagoda]

vaseline! smear! all over the zone

[drifting crag]

then run for the bushes for concealment lol

[hollow lake]

Possible, I have it removed...

[crystal bison]

i'm stalking it

[drifting bronze]

so whats going on with cnpp? any word on if it will ever be accessable?

[austere pagoda]

its stalking time

[austere pagoda]

neverrrr

[spiral cobalt]

At worst the game looks like it is literally Unlit, and at best it just looks fine. Which makes me REALLY sad because this game was supposed to look amazing

[drifting bronze]

hope thats a joke

[sweet swan]

thats gone what about Maklane The Zone Overhaul

[austere pagoda]

wtf even dude? u want cnpp in your game that spans the cnpp zone?

stay real here its gsc /.s

[cursive kettle]

dark room with open windows= total darkness
random room with a led light= total brightness

[austere pagoda]

but seriously tho: not likely, the story is centered around other places with mentions of cnpp being emptied out and searched

[drifting bronze]

is that a bad thing? exploaring the cnpp was a staple of the prior games, i was looking forward to it before stalker 2 came out and was saddend tho

[hollow lake]

I removed it

[drifting bronze]

also the fact that they removed the clouds gotta mean something

[spiral cobalt]

Orrr the room has no light or windows but lumen is causing it to be fully lit

[cursive kettle]

fr

[austere pagoda]

no cnpp is not planned, if you got experience you can extract a map from game files to see all dlc plans

this is fully legal as its part of public available stuff

[drifting bronze]

😭

[tame gazelle]

why would we need to go to the core of the accident? nobody wants to visit CNPP in Unreal Engine 5 with insane graphics, right?...... right?

[cursive kettle]

though i always wanted to explore the cnpp but now it's totally useless since theres no meaning in entering and no meaning at all for the devs to make the inside

[spiral cobalt]

And like stormy weather the entire world is just glowing when the sky is dark i dont know how thats STILL an issue

[cursive kettle]

skill issue

[tame gazelle]

and btw there is no core :):):)

[charred nova]

It looks like a Polaroid

[warped stream]

id imagine we probably get something since it has some architecture inside and isnt just a empty box like some of the other stuff

[charred nova]

All the colors are blown out

[cursive kettle]

facts

[austere pagoda]

no it doesnt? hha

the inside is completely empty

[drifting bronze]

thats what im thinking

also its literally a staple of the series

[austere pagoda]

there are no plans for cnpp

there is a file in game folder that shows all plans INCLUDING DLC AREAS FOR SEASON PASS

[tame gazelle]

maybe we can visit fukushima

[austere pagoda]

cnpp is not part of that and was never to be a part

[warped stream]

yeah probably the first planned dlc or two

unless you're a game dev at gsc theres no way to say 100% something will or wont be in the game

[austere pagoda]

oke fine you are allowed your own opinion fair, but i think it isnt and i base this on a factor of things, one being the file they have that shows their plans

[orchid kindle]

they should make a game

[warped stream]

i respect it, i just dont think the game files available from day 1 show everything since we didnt even have a roadmap for a number for months

[austere pagoda]

but its not day 1 its from last update iirc

[drifting bronze]

i agree to an extend, but that would be stupid on thier end, CLEARLY, people want access to the cnpp, also, if it was to permanently stay innacessable, then why does the map show the cnpp and 2 areas above it as regions when you hover over the map

[drifting crag]

cn peepee

[drifting bronze]

that implies it will be playable at some point, very clearly,

[warped stream]

its also a named location on the map as well, so i dont see why we'd have the iron forest and cnpp marked if we never go there

[alpine hill]

Dont get your hopes up😔

[drifting bronze]

otherwise hovering over it wouldnt show it as a region

[lost needle]

Get your hopes up

[austere pagoda]

yeah i agree cnpp map with no accessible cnpp is funny but the reason is that areas around it are needed for story and well u cant have no cnpp at all so there u have it, being accessible is not part of the story

[tame gazelle]

it would be absolutely insane to not add CNPP to the game when the entire lore is based on that event (++ roadside picnic, stalker movie etc i know)

[drifting crag]

isn't it at the point of no return?

[austere pagoda]

you cant keep it like blank or fille it with something that isnt the cnpp so u place it but close it off due to gamedesign choices

[lost needle]

At least you visit the generatora

[drifting crag]

but it is so railroaded that we don't explore all of it

[lost needle]

Sadly you dont see them from outside

[austere pagoda]

it is purely gamedesign and narrative that made this happen and going back now doesnt fit the story

[lost needle]

I loved the design in gamma

[austere pagoda]

narrative design does not allow that shift

[warped stream]

id imagine theyd probably just leave that part blank if it wasnt gonna be part of the game imo

[drifting bronze]

yea, idk i dont wanna get my hopes up, but theyve insinuated it as a playable area in many different ways

and god i want it to be

[austere pagoda]

where? afaik development never happened on cnpp but rather areas tied to it

[drifting bronze]

a stash???????? huh

[austere pagoda]

again i would love to visit cnpp but yeah story wise now with all the stuff idk

[drifting bronze]

also its not clouded anymore

[lost needle]

Whats the lore behind the Spitfire in streloks hideout
Is it the gun that strelok uses in soc?

[warped stream]

end game spoilers > ||apparently theres a few stashes in the generators area if ur doing the ward end||

[warped stream]

thats just a old ss from 1.0

havent really played since then as i already did 3 endings and wanted the game to sit for a while

[drifting bronze]

gotcha yea i didnt go the ward route

[warped stream]

probably my least favorite ending, havent done the noontide one tho

[drifting bronze]

i technically never even got any ending

[lost needle]

I had to do the strelok one first, im happy w it tbh

[drifting bronze]

in the last mission i thing my game bugged at the end and could never figure it out so i gave up

[lost needle]

His reasoning isnt even that flawed imo

[drifting bronze]

literally after killing everyone, it told me to go somerwhere i couldnt get too

[tame gazelle]

oh this aint no spoilers oops ill look away

[drifting bronze]

nothing thats been said outside of the spoiler markers are spoilers dw

[alpine hill]

Wait so is cnpp just an empty box

[warped stream]

did u go down the elevator?

iirc you could go the wrong way and youd get softlocked

happened to me so i had to reload like 3h back

[sonic cradle]

they forgot to remove that part from the ingame changelog 😂

[lost needle]

Forgot how to tag spoliers

[lost needle]

||i mean what happened in the zone, only a couple medical advancements, zombie slaves, countless murders, every crime imaginable, probably like 10k+ dead, of course that shit had to be blocked off||

[jagged rapids]

Jesus christ the balance is bad in this patch

[shrewd needle]

Fixed an issue where Player was able to get to Prypiat ahead of time by jumping over the railroad cistern on Yaniv.
No more Gauss Rifle and Bolero after opening up the Zone?

[neat flint]

finally!

i've found the server!

[round umbra]

Is someone getting slow turning/aim speeds on xbox?

It is unplayable

[rough crater]

not a great start of 1.4 my game crashes on load

[full herald]

Is there a work around for the Shader/Russian loading screen crash?

[civic cosmos]

What the game doesnt show is the massive human trafficking ring that would form in a lawless area like that

[lost needle]

Oh yeah thats 100% also happening

[civic cosmos]

And the black market for drugs and weapons, etc

[lost needle]

I completely agree with strelok for that one

[drifting bear]

The old way was patched, the new one appeared

[coarse falcon]

What russian loading screen crash? Are you using russian crack or something?

Have you tried to verify game files?

Sometimes it helps with games after update.

[fervent robin]

enemy aimbot needs to be fixed

[coarse falcon]

Isn't whole zone "market" black tho?

[shrewd needle]

What new way?

[drifting bear]

Over the fence

[shrewd needle]

Uhm...but where?

[coarse falcon]

To Prypiat?

[drifting bronze]

No it was after the fight in that big dome circular room it was a long time ago so I don't remember exactly

Here actually I can launch the game and show you

[shrewd needle]

Yes, getting to Pripyat early...

[round umbra]

Someone got aim isseus on xbox?

[drifting bear]

https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/1336655769407459419/1371919058596794521/20250513143513_1.jpg?ex=6826dcf0&is=68258b70&hm=bcb5ed84acb4e4bb19709af8cf77b4c521e4a26aa075e7574c7767def7cbd9b0&

[coarse falcon]

Why bother with fence when you can just noclip there with one short comand?

[shrewd needle]

Damn...never thought that'd be a way. Also, you can next time upload in #📸┃screens_and_videos for proper embed.

I'll try that fence.

[shrewd needle]

Because I like having a way to not do it that way. I have a trainer; I can just teleport anywhere, but doing it normally is more fun to me.

[coarse falcon]

fair

[carmine star]

anyone test if NPCs move after not being rendered ?

[left crystal]

How big is this update?

[gritty relic]

I think 11 gbs is from what I saw but I would not know cuz I’m a stupid dirty ps5 player

[full herald]

Funny. If you experienced this issue that many have, you wouldn't ask that.

[jagged rapids]

If you play on veteran, be prepared for bulletspongie enemies

[coarse falcon]

This russian stuff confuses me. There aren't any russian loading screens in game.

[full herald]

There are after the patch. Has something to do with the game can't create shaders, then crash.

I am trying a clean reinstall but I don't think this will help. This problem is somewhat widespread.

[warped stream]

id imagine prob around 30+... I have a 110.8gb one but i think thats only because im coming off of the 1.4 testing beta and steam betas always make u reinstall like the entire game

[drifting bear]

14,3

[left crystal]

Wow the fixes seem big expected like over 50

[full herald]

I am doing a clean reinstall right now at 138.3gb.

[silent valve]

Lets see, whos finishing first 😛

[plush badge]

Anyone experienced since latest update, that the game crashes on shader warming up?

[drifting bear]

Any mods?

[full herald]

Look just above for my posts.

[plush badge]

nope, just cleared it out from mods if they caused it, but no, even on vanilla

[full herald]

Russian on the loading screen?

[plush badge]

yep

[full herald]

it's not related to mods.

[sweet swan]

yes me

[jade pulsar]

Sigh still half baked a life

[sweet swan]

i have mods though im just weeding through

[full herald]

this issue is widespread.

[plush badge]

okay so its a common problem. maybe it will be fixed quickly, who knows

[sweet swan]

so no point clearing my mods then

[plush badge]

yeah it looks like, though desolation wont start with it. so time to look for another overhaul, like Infinity. Time for a brand new start 😄

[rough crater]

mine crashes loading any older saves, new saves work and load, old do not

even ones from before any mods early in the game

[plush badge]

imma do a file check on steam, maybe it can help

yeah it looks like its time for a brand new run for everyone, read that people are unable to load prevous saves, looks like newer version is not compatible

[silent valve]

seems like pre-patch loads are not welcome

[full herald]

I am doing a clean reinstall right now. I have Steam Cloud off. We will see.

[orchid kindle]

[coarse falcon]

Russian or Ukrainian tho? Russian is really strange if true.

[full herald]

I can't tell the dif. It's one or the other.

[carmine star]

I'm having the same problem , crash on game start or right before shaders compiling

[proven kayak]

So, I finally have some hours in.
When I recall the old games, you sometimes got random random messages from other Stalkers with a distinctive Sound.
I get sometimes this sound, but no messages.
Does that mean something?
Are this messages in and I need to turn it on?
Would love to see it. It added so much liveliness to the zone.

[waxen marten]

Could you share your configs from Saved\GameSettings and after that cut them out ( save them somewhere eles) and try to launch without them?

[still edge]

Okey okey 1.4 patch looks awesome, i like that .... but where is my ALIFE? i want the alife that was promised before release.

[rigid prairie]

Stalker 1 is coming to ps plus and i want to play it

[safe folio]

Anyone else has lags when talking to npcs at the bar specifically? They are unusable for me since the fps drops to 10...

The worst offenders are the repair guy and the traders inside the hangar

[rigid prairie]

But after watching hundreds of video i still didn t understood gameplay loop

Any similar game

What o i heve to do

[proven kayak]

Its still an Early Access game sold as finished. Sadly that is.
The bones for a true successor are there, but still lots of work to do

[plush badge]

where is that "Saved" folder located exactly?

[proven kayak]

Theres no "loop".
Follow main quest some hours and explore a bit.

[rigid prairie]

Ok how is the map

[echo current]

hello People, I need a tip: should I go for a new save after this patch? any bug on old saves?

[rigid prairie]

Should i instal mod first

[proven kayak]

Digital?

[plush badge]

some people cant load old ones, and some like me cant even start the game 😄

[proven kayak]

Like what?

[waxen marten]

C/users/your username/appdata/local/stalker2/saved, as far as I remember this one

[rigid prairie]

Idk you tell me

[waxen marten]

will 2 check

[silent valve]

for what mods are you talking about? here I thought theres only the plain game....

[echo current]

that is probably because you have mods installed, I had the same problem, i clened the folder and no problems

[rigid prairie]

Nwm i will playthe story

[plush badge]

no its not, cleaned em out , problem still there

[rigid prairie]

I tought it was a single player extraction game

[proven kayak]

Depends on what you want, really. I cant tell you.
Would start Vanilla and then you decide what you want different.
Thats how I did back then

[echo current]

have you tried to check the files on steam again?

[proven kayak]

Nah

[rigid prairie]

When i diewhat happend (in the game)

[plush badge]

yes I tried, no effect

[echo current]

hum, that is an issue, when I checked the files I dowloaded some minor data and teh game ran, you can also try a freash install, but is boring as hell

[plush badge]

just tried this one, game still crashes

[waxen marten]

we are working on the hotfix

[rigid prairie]

I will play it and in the 29 of june at 17;38 europe i will telll you my opinion ot the game

[plush badge]

also the game is on russian for some reason

[silent valve]

when you're starting the game with an empty save folder it would load the stock start, but should run, I ASSume... that said, tab out a copy the last save back to folder, then switch back to game and try to load that file. Had you tried that?

[plush badge]

well as they say these days
Dont play a game on update day.

[fossil jay]

Stalker SOC has no stealth kill mechanic right?

[echo current]

I'm sure they'll fix it very soon

[fossil jay]

I really want to kill the get out of here stalker guard but I don't want Duty mad at me

[naive fable]

Can someone give me a better undstanding of whats missing for a Working a-life now? And someone tested the offline simulation?

[plush badge]

https://tenor.com/view/javier-bardem-anton-got-it-think-about-it-ok-gif-17428218

[worldly lion]

I tried warfare Mode on anomaly for giggles and monolith have attacked skadovsk.

[proven kayak]

Since I play S2 the first time intensely now, I could dig in.
Most of the things are right, but some details are so off compared to the old games.

Like the mentioned messages in PDAs
I dont like the suicidal Mutants. Flesh and Dogs stopped fighting, when they were loosing, which felt so organic.
Then you clearly feel that some groußs of mutants or humans just randomly spawn in your area and that doesnt feel good.
Its not A Life 2, its A Life 0.5

You hide bhind rocks, enemies see you.
They shoot you through walls
etc.

Its just so much what either was better in the old games or shouldnt be in a supposedly finished game.
And thats not shitting on the devs.
I know, they have it rough and they did a lot of things right.
But back then I was immersed in the Zone and now its just a good game, with so many feelings of "its almost there, its almost amazing".

[worldly lion]

Shouldnt have gone to pripyat

[weary hedge]

Guys I... I can't stalk it anymore...

[noble yew]

[charred nova]

Perhaps you should start a corn field then

Then you’d have plenty of stalks

[jade pulsar]

That's why i avoid buying s2. If I bought said game and realize the game aren't what they deliver from their promise back before the release date, refund. If not, you're too late. Eat up and enjoy the half baked game

[weary hedge]

It's best to enjoy the game while half baked

[proven kayak]

Yeah, I know.
In the end I ordered because of old Nostalgia Fan boying (still saying OG Stalker is best FPS out there), looked ok and I wanted to support the devs in those times.
Refund window is over, so I hope they get it done in the next 10 years, or Mod support will fix it.

[jade pulsar]

Gaming industry are in dire in need of help and are dying with this half bs standards from bs developers and corporation

[proven kayak]

Yeah well half of the team is still working in a warzone. I give them at least that

[jade pulsar]

That's called coping so no

[weary hedge]

I mean ngl it's the shareholders that run it aground cuz it's no longer about fun it's about profits, because everything has become a calculation, and I'm sure they sat there and said "what's the maximum return rate we will accept"

For example, if they say "we need to complete only 60% of the game to make X profits and we expect a 15% return rate, we will be happy"

[proven kayak]

My main complaint is that they sell it as a finished product.
Sell and advertise it as Early Access and its at least true.
Finished is just a lie, sadly.

[noble yew]

It's definitely not early access lol

[proven kayak]

Or as Open Beta, or whatever
Its just a label

[frigid hill]

noreplys. has been warned

Reason: Bad word usage

[silent valve]

but this concerns not only s2, but other publisher games also

[frigid hill]

majorcassette has been warned

Reason: Bad word usage

[noble yew]

[weary hedge]

Smh

[jade pulsar]

That leads to this half baked update that they can avoid it in the first place by instead go and use their own xray engine and not ue5 because LUMEN

[terse ravine]

hows performance on the new patch? is fps higher or more stable now?

[jade pulsar]

That's why i found it most modern games felt lackluster just by watching their first teaser

[still current]

[weary hedge]

I mean tbh, I still preordered because let's be f***in real, every stalker game has been a buggy mess in some way or form and I expected it. I still really enjoyed the game just as much as the others to be fair, and it was worth the pre order, but I get why people are upset

But as a rule of thumb yea,,, you should never believe the trailer. Remember no man's sky... It's kinda on you if you truly believe the hype train. It's called marketing for a reason and their job is to get you to buy the product

[proven kayak]

Buggy is not = release a Beta

this "Stalker was always buggy" is an excuse.
And we have 2025 now. Things should develop into better.

[jade pulsar]

I'm sorry to say but preordering is a way to f you up. I felt by the way you make that statement, everytime you preorder you probably have some high expectations and after that, felt a little bit of disappointment but who knows

[terse ravine]

Stalker 2 still released better than most AAA titles tbh, although the bar is quite low nowadays

[still current]

https://tenor.com/view/talking-to-the-wall-gif-25370159

[weary hedge]

But the gaming industry as a whole hasn't gone "better" I mean people don't even compress games anymore, they fire the good writers, coders, and designers and replace them with cheaper alternatives because it's all about profit margins. Hell, it's not just the videogame industry it's nearly every corporate industry right now

[full herald]

S O L V E D I did a clean reinstall with Steam Cloud off and the game loaded fine. Clearly ver 1.4 is having issue with saves before it.

[still current]

Nope

[weary hedge]

This was the second game I've ever preordered in my life. The first was dead space 2 in like 2010

[terse ravine]

yeah its quite sad seeing many great franchises from the 2000s release nothing but slop nowadays

[proven kayak]

Idk Clair Obscur was amazing, Hell is Us looks promising.
Its not all bad.
And when I complain about this title I dont need to talk about a whole industry.
And yes, I agree. I guess Microsoft or other Suits pushed the release.

[jade pulsar]

That's why everyone are telling you to realize something that a game that are objectively bad doesn't mean as an excuse to not say that the game is bad, but the game is actually bad

[weary hedge]

Like H20 just said, slop sells, and games are shit. And to be honest, my mindset is "id rather play something" than nothing, or sit there and play cod slop all FN day. Sure, it's a terrible mindset but to be honest, I haven't really played many good games lately, and this sufficed quite nicely, and I'm tired of replaying stuff.

[uncut hollow]

[naive fable]

Im sad too about the Release 😦 Pre ordered the game and now im looking every Week for a Patch. That brings me the rest of the Features. But every Patch im not really happy 😦

[hardy totem]

https://tenor.com/view/hello-chat-hi-chat-chat-goodbye-chat-bye-chat-gif-24115546

[weary hedge]

I wouldn't call the game bad, but I'd call it lackluster in several areas. I've definitely played many, many "bad" games in my lifetime. I wouldn't call this "bad" by many standards

[gloomy plover]

🥸

[jade pulsar]

You can play whatever you want but id recommend to not throw your money without a second thought. Just for your sake of advice dont do something stupid again

[weary hedge]

I make good adult money and can afford to throw some money at a franchise I like and the game wasn't an awful play, id say a solid 70/100 to be fair. Better than most games.

[gloomy plover]

[uncut hollow]

[jade pulsar]

Naw the game played good. No bugs whatsover other than the ai doing statue pose in a middle of a firefight, that's a-okay! (s)

[uncut hollow]

what adult money?

[weary hedge]

I liked the previous stalker games quite a lot, knew this one wasn't gonna truly deliver because nobody in the gaming industry right now can really live up to their promises, and decided to buy it anyway, because I liked the franchise

[uncut hollow]

Do you mean...

[weary hedge]

I work for a government funded arms company, nuff said

[uncut hollow]

[noble yew]

https://tenor.com/view/jason-bourne-identity-gif-24953824

[gloomy plover]

[weary hedge]

Throwing 80$ for a preorder is fine.

[jade pulsar]

Wow

[weary hedge]

Pretty sure I got it for like 85 exact, cuz I went through CDkeys.

As they had a discount on the preorder ultimate

[carmine star]

@terse ravinewell i cant even launch my game now so

[weary hedge]

I think the actual price tag was like what, 100 or 120?

[silent valve]

80 for standard version

[weary hedge]

There's a lot worse things to spend 80 on lmao

[uncut hollow]

LET'S

[terse ravine]

for the legends of the zone enhanced edition, is there somewhere i can see the comparison between the original and 'enchanced' versions?

[weary hedge]

Do you remember what it was for the ultimate on steam?

[uncut hollow]

Talkl about other things

[terse ravine]

or do i have to wait till the 20th

[uncut hollow]

like lore some thing

[noble yew]

Za monolita?

[silent valve]

neither nor, that was pc for steam pre order

[jade pulsar]

There's an alternative way by being smart and patiently wait for the release date and watch any first gameplay lol

[weary hedge]

Do you think strelok will take a trip to turkey to get a hair implant

[uncut hollow]

Maybe

[silent valve]

the ultimate was around 350,- or so. I bought the CE which was around 190

[uncut hollow]

He need to get that hair

[weary hedge]

Lemme check my email hold on

[vivid stone]

have vram memory leaks disappeared on 8gb video cards?

[silent valve]

Take your time

[charred nova]

Unless it was fixed in the latest update no

[weary hedge]

Ah damn that's right I cleaned my inbox out a few months ago, maybe it's on the site itself, sec

[noble yew]

Beautiful

[hardy totem]

majestic

[charred nova]

See

I knew strelok needed a mullet

[noble yew]

Mullets improve everything, it's a fact of life

[silent valve]

For what you are exactly seeking? Paid advance price vs actual?

[weary hedge]

What edition i bought and the receipt. I forgot, so I'm searching for it

[charred nova]

Breadtubers ruined the mullet

[jade pulsar]

What you guys should improve is A-Life 2.0 that you guys promised lol

[charred nova]

Strelok saved it

Bless you strelok for making the mullet cool again

[hardy totem]

mullet mod when

[weary hedge]

IIRC I pre-ordered the ultimate edition like a day before it released or a day before the pre orders closed, I can't remember lemme check ze bank

[shrewd kindle]

Penetration is gone huh? Guess they're changing the stat based on the type of bullet then?

[halcyon karma]

No, penetration still exists, but it does not show.

[uncut hollow]

💀

[halcyon karma]

3 tiers of weapons still exist.

[shrewd kindle]

That's kinda weird that they would hide it

[halcyon karma]

Penetration is going away sometime probably anyway, so yeah

[misty salmon]

That’d be better in my opinion because penetration depends on really only the gas system and rifling in a gun, the bullet matters more because of the gunpowder, wether or not it’s a steel or tungsten tip and shit like that

[hallow quest]

This a W patch ?

[misty salmon]

To my knowledge, please correct me if I got something wrong

[weary hedge]

Man I really cannot find it jeez

[clever oak]

So what's the latest for solving frame drops?

[jade pulsar]

Penetration aside. Ballistic are still none. Bullets still doesn't ricochet if you shoot in a respective angle in a hard surface

[silent valve]

So what? If you are waiting for the hard fact items you have to wait further but this should not affect your game

[carmine star]

anyone able to get past shaders?

[misty salmon]

Haven’t played in a bit but I play on Xbox so it might be different for me

Optimization issues recently?

[weary hedge]

I already beat the game with a grenades only run, not much left to do atp

Just waiting for Dee ell cee

[mystic rivet]

The range at wich the ncps despawn is at 100 meters, making sniper rifles not that useful. Will they ever change that ?

[jade pulsar]

Just wait for 1 year, if not 2 years, and then 3 years etc

[carmine star]

NVM guys had to delete simple mod loader

got past Shader comp without crash

[misty salmon]

Good shit

[weary hedge]

They are useful, just use them as easy 1 shot hip fire kills in close combat

[carmine star]

yeah, i gues the patchnotes in the menu messed shit up

[misty salmon]

Are patch notes universal for both Xbox and pc?

[tame gazelle]

hip firing a sniper in melee ranged isnt very immersive

[digital igloo]

We'll know around next year, probably. Not kidding or being facetious.

Right now the game is pretty much in Early Access state without the tag, and while it's promising, it's missing tons of balancing, optimization, and improvements that'd really be needed to call the game good.

So we're all pretty much waiting and hoping the devs live up the expectations their community has of them.

[misty salmon]

If you can’t switch to your sidearm you’d have to do it anyways, so slightly immersive but eh

[clever oak]

is that ui bug or my resolution reverts?

I try to change from 4k to 1440p and it reverts back to 4k

[digital igloo]

Also.

They've said in the roadmap that they're going to add in persistent A Life, so we'll hopefully see ranges increased once that's properly in the game.

[misty salmon]

Might be an automatic setting in steam if you’re on pc

[digital igloo]

Also, could ask them about it in #📜┃ask-gsc

[silent valve]

nice glitch into graphics... just dropped my items onto a roof to get lighter weigth for jumping across to reach the hidden stash.... as I returned to said drop location one of my weapons were fallen through the pixels and stucks now somewhere below -.-

only way to receive it back was reload previous save -.-

[dry aspen]

I think, and am fully ready for it to be called cope, that they will increase A-Life range once they add Binoculars.

That's my theory

[misty salmon]

Same thing happened my first playthrough when a cloak guy (I forget the name) yoinked my rifle from me and it just went poof

[digital igloo]

Cope is what we have left, so let me have some too.

Call of Pripyat was a huge part of my childhood, and I do want to hope that this game will live up to and exceed that.

And if not - there's always Anomaly

[silent valve]

I suddenly feel old^^

[cloud basalt]

How is the latest update in terms of performance?

[dry aspen]

About the same

Still the ocasional memory leak, and don't you dare turn your hair higher than medium

[silent valve]

bad news, I wonder when this would be solved

[marble hornet]

Are the crashes fixed

[still edge]

alife when? 1.4 is good but .... alife

[dry aspen]

Still feels like A-life 0.5 than a 2.0

[still edge]

i would say is A-life 0.012 beta version, i need alife as the older games and as they promised, come on GSC you can do it.

[silent valve]

I just encounter that the context menu would remain after changing the weapon and wont go away... man

[dry aspen]

Honestly at this point i'd be pleasantly surprised if we end up with all the features of the original A-Life, let alone extra stuff

Waiting for the day stalkers can kill something more dangerous than boars again

[uncut inlet]

They have xray vision when it comes to blood suckers though

[still edge]

not all features, i just need npc to be persistant map wide, thats alife, all npc have to be either alive or death and their corpses last for a day or two

[dry aspen]

And yet 2 blodsuckers can wipe a full exo squad. Just had that happen 5 mins ago

[uncut inlet]

Hey extra loot for you

[dry aspen]

I guess, just miss the days when i'd see a veteran duty squad take down a chimera

[still edge]

i need a npc render distance of at least 200mts and map wide npc consistancy, alife @frigid hill

[uncut inlet]

I only saw one chimera in cop and that was only during a quest

[dry aspen]

Also miss chimeras, giants, suckers being more common at night. Afaik chimeras and pseudogiants don't even spawn randomly

[dry aspen]

In CoP, once you defeat the one in Yanov they start spawning. During the day you can find them sleeping out in the brush, far away from everything. They start hunting at night.

[uncut inlet]

Pseudogiants are also 5x stronger than in the previous games, blew up 20 grenades on him and he was still alive, had to reload a save and run, because i ran out of ammo

[uncut inlet]

I see

[dry aspen]

It's insane how much HP they have. It's like GSC forgot people played on Master to avoid bullet sponges.

Stalker 2 mutants would still be really dangerous even with much lower hp imo

[uncut inlet]

15 guass rifle shots compared to 3 in cop

[orchid kindle]

how does difficulty work in cop

[dry aspen]

300 ap groza rounds to take down a chimera

[dry aspen]

higher the difficulty higher the bullet dammage across board

more precisely higher dammage from all sources

[uncut inlet]

Also blood suckers are now a tank and loud, compared to stealthy and weak, fleshes didnt attack people unless provoked, poltergeists were only found in labs. There is alot of mutant changes

[orchid kindle]

thats a nice way to do difficulty

[dry aspen]

Yep, why they didn't just use the same valuse for Stalker 2 is beyond me

[drifting bear]

They also have a specific spawn location as in s2 isn't it?

[orchid kindle]

god I hope the enhanced version is released on PS4 please God

[dry aspen]

There's one always by the train tunnel near SIIRCA, one in prypiat and one in the swamps. May be more I don't know all lairs of the top of my head

[dry aspen]

Word

[uncut inlet]

Also giant rats would attack in groups, now they atack like dogs 1 by one

[silent valve]

hm, was always a splatterfest when throwing a nade between the horde

[orchid kindle]

[dry aspen]

I really, really hope we don't get a "the team is happy with the current state of A-Life " any time soon

It wouldn't surprise me, but I hope it doesn't happen

[orchid kindle]

also do artifact prices change oh harder difficulty in cop

[dry aspen]

Prices aren't affected iirc

[orchid kindle]

ohhh and what about mutant damage

[uncut inlet]

Now they come one by one and run away from each other

Still a one shot kill each though

[silent valve]

Hm, would need more ammo and it was tricky enough to shoot them while moving entirely crazy

[dry aspen]

That is affected, yes. Dammage across the board is impacted, even stuff like campfires.

[orchid kindle]

ohhh so combat just becomes a lot faster and precise

[dry aspen]

yep

[orchid kindle]

I like that

[uncut inlet]

Endgame its all the same though you will feel very little difference, only in the early game it feels significally different

[smoky hawk]

we can cope about how GSC have a completely diff system for Alife backstage they are working on but, if they do and arent showing it? is it really there?

[winter hornet]

Has performance changed much in 1.4?

[frigid hill]

dasneedston has been warned

Reason: Bad word usage

[fickle tree]

Bricked game after patch, can't load past shader warmup without crash.

[winter hornet]

No bad words in stalker discord... What irony

[fickle tree]

Excellent.

[dry aspen]

The real A-Life was the friends we made along the way type shi. No limit to how much we want to cope tho.

[fickle tree]

guess we'll have to wait another week for the fix for the fix

[tardy rain]

You should see the modders chat over on the gamma discord

this update has destroyed morale

[smoky hawk]

discord doesnt want you saying bad words in a community server but they sure do love banning bots that ban bad people

[silent valve]

so what? the patch was not foreseen to cover mods, no?

[austere pagoda]

like it wasnt already dead before

[smoky hawk]

https://tenor.com/view/kanye-west-kanye-ye-shrug-meme-gif-5673972712848832740

I cant see it

[uncut inlet]

Oof

[winter hornet]

I'm guessing these performance optimizations weren't game changing? No one seems to be singing praise for em

[smoky hawk]

you got about 2 fps upgrade, better dlss and less instability at settlements

[austere pagoda]

TAKE IT OR LEAVE IT ⬆️

[uncut inlet]

Havent got a chance to see yet, but last time i checked, the map would drop my fps from 90 to 20

[winter hornet]

I mean settlements were dipping below 20fps basically unplayable... I think my cpu isn't up to the task

[tardy rain]

Bug fixes are always appreciated, but every step GSC has taken in terms of building on core mechanics has been a joke

• weapon mechanics: rework ballistics to make more weapons viable and satisfying to use? No, let's hide the vital penetration stat and replace it with a useless number
• Alife: rework the atrocious bubble spawner? no, lets add a list of NPC names that get ticked off the list when they die
• AI: make enemies and mutants more engaging and intelligent? no, let's add animations

[austere pagoda]

bandaid on bandaid

[tardy rain]

I made OXA because I thought this game was half-baked at release, but would really grow into something good, and OXA could be a part of that. But nothing in the past 6 months has given any evidence of a competent dev team, or a cohesive vision

For a dev team to get so bloated yet do nothing, the only explanation I can think of is they're churning out a DLC already to get more money in whilst there's some semblance of goodwill towards the game

[smoky hawk]

look, Im gonna real with you, I dont know what OXA is and if it is a mod for the game, I dont really care

games half baked wether or not you made a mod for it

[austere pagoda]

dont worry, summer is coming meaning a large amount of devs on paid leave so updates slower and smaller

[charred nova]

We’re watching a ship full of bullet holes slowly sink to the bottom of the sea

[tardy rain]

yea, not gonna lie I'm pretty devastated

[uncut inlet]

Maybe your factory will pick up the scraps

[tardy rain]

put hundreds of hours into modding and it's really hard to abandon that, but I'm finding it really hard to find the motivation to carry on

[charred nova]

I wish I worked in such a factory

[dry aspen]

It's just that it's way too little for the wait. And they treat like adding simple stuff is a huge undertaking. And most times they mention one feature as being a small part of the update and it turns out it's one of the like 2 major features of it

[uncut inlet]

Atleast mo1t semi responds to questions

[charred nova]

Need I say that in all honesty no content has been added to the game so far

[tardy rain]

hahahahahahahhaa

[charred nova]

Unless you count the new controller attack

[fickle tree]

Alright, to anybody that's having crash to desktop on Stalker 2 for gamepass at shader compilation: UNINSTALL ALL MODS.

[tardy rain]

"I don't know about that"
"You'll have to wait and see"
"I can't talk about that right now"
"The zone is full of mystery!"

[uncut inlet]

Been asking questions since release only got an answer to 1

[tardy rain]

can I pull a GSC wage now?

[charred nova]

It’s bad pr tbh

[vapid galleon]

so many years in the zone, so many years in the blood
so many team wasted of the hurricane
I saw many people wait for my mistake

[tardy rain]

its embarrassing

just delete it already

[fickle tree]

Incredibly enough, all my saves where I extensively cheated by granting myself money in the console enabler don't CTD on load

[feral spruce]

Improved impact sounds for the bolt. Hmm for me bolt sounds are completely broken after 1.4 😦

[fickle tree]

They should really disable achievements for people who use a console enabler

[smoky hawk]

people sneed about it sucking when its there, and people will sneed if its gone

such is the law of life

[fickle tree]

hey you can't just use "sneed" like its some sort of verb all the sudden

[smoky hawk]

they should remove all achivements from every platform in existance as achivements suck

[charred nova]

To be fair saying things like idk just makes it worse

[smoky hawk]

cope and sneed

[smoky hawk]

idk

[fickle tree]

[tardy rain]

I'd rather they put some work into the game than messed around with stuff like that

[smoky hawk]

thin k about it

[fickle tree]

true, I just feel sort of bad lol

[heavy canyon]

Can anyone confirm if A Life is working properly now or not?

[fickle tree]

guilty rather

[smoky hawk]

you can see thousands of salty tears from neckbearded fatsos crying because their internet award is now gone

you do not have a vision

[tardy rain]

it doesn't exist

[smoky hawk]

its not

[fickle tree]

that actually is the vision and it's hilarious

[tardy rain]

how do you tank a game so hard that the discord mod team trash talks it

[smoky hawk]

if you like something you gotta be rough with it

[charred nova]

^

[tardy rain]

yea, I get that

[sturdy verge]

that's what she said

[austere pagoda]

[fickle tree]

I imagine the developers having a case of really bad tunnel vision

[tame gazelle]

i think these are the only sane "mods" in this world

[fickle tree]

like they only focus on the current build on hand and don't think about the repercussions

[tardy rain]

I don't think they have any vision. It's the bloated corpse of stalker being dragged through some Weekend At Bernie's cashgrab

[charred nova]

Most of us are even employed or have families

Truly we are one of a kind

[dry aspen]

I still think they tried with the game. They failed for the most part, but there was an attempt at least

[uncut inlet]

Does s2 still have a problem that bases dont load in enemies until youre in the center and only then do they start spawning in slowly?

[dry aspen]

Though the main story is garbage IMO and there's no fixing that

some parts are fanfic tier

[smoky hawk]

nha parts of the Main Story and ideas are good, some other parts are tanked

[tardy rain]

tbh I thought the storyline was pretty solid, especially for a Stalker game

[smoky hawk]

its a mixmax bc of the rewirtes I bet

[tame gazelle]

tbf tho isnt it a fan project if no original dev is involved? i might be off base here but

[tardy rain]

bonus points for actually being able to understand what's going on without reading a wiki after finishing it

[charred nova]

Didn’t help the original writer of stalker died of covid in 2020

[smoky hawk]

overall I think its good they didnt copy wholesale story from S2012

[fickle tree]

Man going back to the puny vanilla flashlight after using a fusion powered 9 million lumen flashlight from the flashlight mod is such a bummer

[dry aspen]

Noontide was wasted and they seemed cool. Strelok is written really poorly.

[uncut inlet]

Scar isnt no longer a special character of the zone, hes just a retconned figure

[violet dune]

are we gaming?

[dry aspen]

Scar is based tho

[smoky hawk]

its very easy, you just need to use basic reading comprehension and understanding

[dry aspen]

I really liked scar tbh

[charred nova]

I did at first but

[violet dune]

scar is delusional

[dry aspen]

I love how delusional he is

[violet dune]

he drinks swamp water

[charred nova]

Thinking about how we could have had clear sky scar

[smoky hawk]

everytime I think about Noontide I think it is cool, until I think about the people that cosplay and like them, then I wish I could kick strider in the face and give him a weggie

[violet dune]

if DLC wont bring freedom vs duty im gonna quit

[fickle tree]

scar the type of dude to see graphite before he even tastes metal

[charred nova]

There’s nothing to like

They barely even existed lol

[dry aspen]

Strider is such a nerd... he was kinda cool in CoP. Sad they didn't go with the concept of him being Charon

[weary hedge]

So enemies still see you even crouched 150 meters far no matter the lighting, even in pitch black...you turn a corner they go alert mode...couple of mutants disappeared in front of me right after killing them...bunch of dogs take a hide behind something if you jump on top of an object even a wooden box and they go statue then they come back at your position and attack you right after you touch the ground back. Nice try.

[fickle tree]

honestly my favorite char is korshunov

[dry aspen]

Also yes, there are some things i can not say herea bout people that cosplay noontide.

even though i did it too

[uncut inlet]

Havent gotten that far yet lol

[tardy rain]

i did ward story first, then on my second I did spark... except I didn't, I did Ward again, I just couldn't disappoint ZoneDad

[fickle tree]

wha he's like one of the first people you meet

[tame gazelle]

you should use nvgs 🙂

[violet dune]

Birch is my fav char

[dry aspen]

I liked the Ward's story from the idea of death by 1000 cuts. Korshunov comes across as a retard to me

[fickle tree]

he really does seem like the only dude in the zone who actually grew up with a father

[smoky hawk]

just look at the dataminers dude

[violet dune]

im blind but you the one who cannot see

[tardy rain]

yea can't wait for the freedom vs duty DLC, featuring OVER FOUR different fights between Freedom and Duty

[uncut inlet]

If that is the case, i dont remember him. I just cleared the echo base

[violet dune]

GSC had opportunity to add new type of mutants. like huge fish with legs which only appear very close to the water

[uncut inlet]

And met trapper

[uncut inlet]

Then it would like metro exodus

[violet dune]

not huge like in metro

[smoky hawk]

Im glad you are not on the GSC team

[violet dune]

😄

[smoky hawk]

https://tenor.com/view/naotoshi-shida-cat-gif-25374780

[fickle tree]

hmmm its been a while but maybe you do meet him right around there

[violet dune]

i would add birds also who would sh*t acid on stalker

[tardy rain]

there was so much cool stuff in the concept art

[fickle tree]

I really want them to do something with the giant floating orb outside of malachite

[tardy rain]

and we got what, the 'tanky summoner' and 'swarm of rats'?

[fickle tree]

It has to do something besides just be ooooo mysterious

[smoky hawk]

what if it doesnt tho?

[fickle tree]

the cat mutants are my favorite mutants by virtue of being able to telepathically communicate with the player

[tardy rain]

i think it's a reference to roadside picnic, yet another substitute for creative vision

[violet dune]

there is a floating truck

[fickle tree]

a little disappointing

[smoky hawk]

why?

[fickle tree]

because you just expect more out of it

its like finding the pile of empty safes lol

thats what disappointment is lol

[shell flax]

There is stuff in the safe area though, it’s just a pain in the ass to get it lmao

[smoky hawk]

why?

will you ever understand why time is moving?

do you wish to?

[fickle tree]

yes actually

[noble yew]

Because the monolith wills it to

[fickle tree]

if I die before humanity cracks the secrets of space time I suppose I will be somewhat disappointed

Not in any real distress, but maybe a sigh

[violet dune]

but you had huge excitement first time you saw pile of safes and than reality check. zone is beautiful but also empty

[smoky hawk]

explaining every little thing to the point of extraneous details just robs it of mystique

Im glad they dont

[shell flax]

I got to the Safes extremely low on health and got domed by a bandit the first time

[smoky hawk]

now do more weird stuff that you dont explain

[tardy rain]

spoiler alert, consciousness is an illusion and you're just riding out the pre-determined interactions of fundamental particles that were set in motion at the dawn of time

[uncut inlet]

Same old loot, just ammo and food. Well to be fair they just added silencers to some of them

[fickle tree]

and you had some sort of expectation to some degree that there's something in those safes or some secret mystery around them to be cracked only to realize "oh. it just be that way."

[smoky hawk]

not today predeterminist
we are a free will server

[tardy rain]

that's what you think

[violet dune]

anyway, when pvp arena multiplayer stalker2 release?

[fickle tree]

but who has determined which of the infinite multiverses of decisions you reside in?

[uncut inlet]

When the game is fully released to the public

[smoky hawk]

mutliverse? what are you, a marvel fan?

[uncut inlet]

We are still in beta

[fickle tree]

multiverse/parallel universe same thing, its shorter

[tardy rain]

the same person that decides what side a coin lands on when it's flipped

[fickle tree]

this simply implies there's an omnipotent being who has already determined your course of being but only given you the illusion of free will

which is pretty dumb ngl

[tardy rain]

yes, but scrap the whole omnipotent being part

[fickle tree]

then if there is no being to make that decision, then the decision has not been made

[tardy rain]

there are no decisions, just a series of interactions that follow the fundamental rules of the universe

[fickle tree]

and an innumerable number of universe that allow for a number of incalculable outcomes

stop being so nihilist

[noble yew]

[tardy moat]

How's the patch feeling? Have we figured out if it breaks anything yet?

[tardy rain]

i mean it's literally just what I believe, and completely inconsequential to you or me. I just don't see any logical explanation for free will, it always boils down to some kind of indescribable magic

we don't talk about stalker here any more because it sucks, only philosophy

which also sucks

[noble yew]

[smoky hawk]

do you feel like your every decision is being controlled yourself?

[tardy rain]

No, which kinda sucks

Like we know behaviour is influenced by hormones, that neurological activity is the movement of electrons along structured pathways. The deeper we dig, the more we understand about the structures that dictate behaviour and instinct and so on. And all these structures are fundamentally reactive, they respond to stimuli whether internal or external. I might feel I make a decision, but that decision is the product of a physical construct that has been incrementally built over the course of years of growth and influence from external stimuli

[fickle tree]

well yeah man, anything complicated enough to elude human understanding is dismissed as magic because there literally are no other explanations

until there are

[smoky hawk]

if you understand that you yourself cannot feel this, and that humans and hormones have sponteneous embeded into them by nature and all around us everything can and does happens in a chaotic cycle then I dont understand wherein the thought that predeterminism is what rules us comes from since everything points to it being the exact opposite

[fickle tree]

Maybe free will is an illusion to a degree that we are influenced by the chemicals in our brain, but our surroundings and other factors can influence those chemicals as well

[smoky hawk]

the chemicals in our brains are erratic and wild, behaving in different ways for different people, they arent a program that will work 100% of the time the same way in the same method

[tardy rain]

That's kinda the point though; there's no cut-off between internal and external influence, other than the arbitrary one we've defined as 'self'.

[fickle tree]

its sort of like a chicken and the egg sort of scenario. Did the chemicals that influence the decision come first or did decisions you made before influence those chemicals that led you to make another decision

and so on

[tardy rain]

But there's nothing that's truly random. Unpredictable, sure, but only because we don't have the ability to gather sufficient data to determine an outcome.

[smoky hawk]

how can you prove predeterminism when you yourself cannot attest to anything you say but to preface it with a underlying trust that it is there

even if we gather all the data, with external and internal influences, wild variations occur by the nature of simple things

[fickle tree]

I'm pretty sure the double slit experiment has something to say about this

[smoky hawk]

the double split experiment raises another question, what inhherent power do humans have that upon wittinessing something it is intrinsically changed by the fact we are in that things presence

[fickle tree]

imo it basically gives actual substance to the question, "If a tree falls and no one's around to see or hear it, did it really happen?"

[smoky hawk]

you can still find the fallen tree, the question is more of a does it matter if nobody cares?

[fickle tree]

The universe is a giant continously randomly generated place that only spawns into existence when viewed by sentience

[frigid hill]

stinkycheese84 has been warned

Reason: Bad word usage

[tardy rain]

It has nothing to do with 'witnessing', it's the localization of a wave function as a result of it interacting with another

[uncut inlet]

Damn this new patch lead to existentialism

[vestal dagger]

This is actually such a bad game it has been unplayable on console for two months now I can’t even pause the game still can’t use items or weapons the audio bugs are terrible and every time I ask in the Q and A if it will be fixed I never get an answer seriously

[smoky hawk]

damn, bro plays on a console

[floral elm]

Fish react him

[crude meteor]

hallo guys i was play stalker early in launch and the devs reported devastating bug that disable A-Life. did devs fix this terrible bug?

[vestal dagger]

Damn a game that was released on console and someone plays it on console imagine that

[smoky hawk]

wild bro

[uncut inlet]

It has never been playable on console, my playstation has never been able to play it

[vestal dagger]

I’m talking about stalker 2

[uncut inlet]

Ik

[vestal dagger]

Literally haven’t been able to play for more than two months because I can’t even do anything

[fickle tree]

so are you going to tell us exactly what the problems are

?

[vestal dagger]

I did above right here

[fickle tree]

what do you mean you "can't use items?"

[vestal dagger]

Also freeze every 30 seconds sometimes for a minute at a time

[fickle tree]

or pause the game

Like you're literally in game with your gun in hand or whatever, and you can't pause? Does the start button work anytime else in game?

[shell flax]

Have you ruled out that your controller isn’t dying

[fickle tree]

Can you select a menu UI and press start on it to select it for instance?

[vestal dagger]

When I click a button to use an item it doesn’t do anything when I open the weapon wheel to take out a weapon it doesn’t work when I press pause nothing happens

[charred nova]

Tons and tons of people have all reported this issue with dead zones on controller

[shell flax]

This isn’t dead zone issues though

[charred nova]

Oh no idea then

[fickle tree]

It sounds like unbound buttons if Im imagining it correctly

[vestal dagger]

There are no binds on console

[uncut inlet]

New update unbinds your controls lmao

[charred nova]

New update unbound my moderator pay

[fickle tree]

Wasnt implying it's any fault of your own or that you could do anything, really. Just observing that's what it sounds like

[vestal dagger]

Either the buttons don’t work or it takes like 30 seconds for the game to register a button press then the game freezes

It’s been like this for more than two months though I’m just pissed

[fickle tree]

Are you on Series X or the old Xbox One?

[vestal dagger]

Series X

[fickle tree]

Idk if they make it for the old one but idk

[shell flax]

One doesn’t have S2

[vestal dagger]

I have a new controller too

[fickle tree]

It sounds like the way the game acts whenever I run out of VRAM

[shell flax]

Wired or wireless?

[uncut inlet]

Have you reported it to the stalker bug report?

[vestal dagger]

There are only wireless for series X

[shell flax]

Wrong

[vestal dagger]

Yes many times

I ask if it will get fixed in Q and A too never get an answer

[shell flax]

The fact they haven’t addressed something this serious makes me think it’s an isolated thing

[fickle tree]

I kind of wish I could see a clip of your game to see exactly what's going on but Im not gonna ask you to do that

[hollow fog]

Anyone having problems with sensitivity issues, mines set to 100 and feels like I'm barely looking around

[shell flax]

Just making sure, the controller works while playing other games right?

[fickle tree]

mouse or controller?

[fickle tree]

This and also see if the buttons work in the main menu or in any other way inside the game

[vestal dagger]

Yes it’s a new controller I’ve been playing other things just fine

Stalker is the only game this happens on

[uncut inlet]

Right before the update i had an issue with ads sensitivity jumping up suddenly then barely moving @hollow fog

[fickle tree]

Are there really no options to customize any sort of binds on the controller? Like even if they're just presets like "southpaw" or "greenthumb" or whatever?

I would try changing them if there are

[vestal dagger]

Only settings like that are invert the thumb sticks or change buttons to toggle or hold

[fickle tree]

f it why not try changing them all lol

[uncut inlet]

@hollow fog

[fickle tree]

cant break whats already broken

[vestal dagger]

This isn’t just a problem with inputs either it’s sound bugs sound cutting out or playing random or late sounds and freezing non stop trying to do anything

[fickle tree]

idk how this works on consoles but have you tried just deleting everything and redownloading it?

[hollow fog]

I had the same issue before as well, but now it's just barely moving all the time, just don't know how to fix it, started a new game and loaded saves from months ago, and still all the same

[shell flax]

Are you quick resuming

[fickle tree]

barely moving as in you're playing a powerpoint presentation?

[shell flax]

Because Quick resume completely breaks the game in my experience

[uncut inlet]

Cant confirm the new issues havent got on the new update

[fickle tree]

or as in your character is literally moving slow

It almost does sound like you guys are just having some sort of god awful memory leak or something

[shell flax]

Try moving the bar down, applying it, then reset it to full

[hollow fog]

Pretty much yeah, but it's only the look sensitivity that's affected

[vestal dagger]

I could send u a short clip if u want to see

[uncut inlet]

Did they reset your sensitivity?

[fickle tree]

That'd be cool

[hollow fog]

Just did it yeah, didn't fix it but made it a bit better I think

[uncut inlet]

Dial it up to 11

[warped stream]

we got paid in the first place!?

[uncut inlet]

Damn gsc is not paying for labor now?

[tacit jay]

I got some pickled sausage for you

[uncut inlet]

Oh damn i got a new name colour cool

3 years on this server, first new color

[indigo oriole]

Yeah this good patch but no weapons or those damn attachments or this damn player inventory window. How hard could it be to get larger window and possibility to sort it by urself or automatically. Jesus. And they fixed Prypiat jump and box near the bunker

[uncut inlet]

The game didnt brick for you, as so many have reported?

[still current]

It'll be part if the next update if I'm not mistaken

[indigo oriole]

I’ve only watched patch notes and 2 YouTube videos so I don’t have experience with this issue

[indigo oriole]

Which part ?

[still current]

Lager window thing (it's part of the roadmap points is it not?)

That's your stream?

[indigo oriole]

Oh really? Didn’t play for a long time and I forgot what roadmap contains. Thanks for refreshing my memory

[uncut inlet]

Acc was made today, its a bot

[still current]

I'd like to give the benefit of doubt every once in a while

[paper trail]

I don't know how but at some point in the development in this game I had a nice 70-120 fps with framegen on. but since the FSR 4 support implementation the performance went down really really really bad. I am playing with a i7 12700 KF and a 9070 XT and the game runs down to 40 fps with framegen just because a fight starts at a point of interest. even going around in the forest is dropping fps like crazy whats going on?

[vernal lily]

It's the second time he posted that same link now

[still current]

Yeah, he's been sent to oblivion already

Just gave it few seconds to check history

[uncut inlet]

Damn someone being a discord mod lol

[meager crag]

Ikr

He doesn't even get paid to do this

[uncut inlet]

Cant believe you would ban someone so young

[uncut inlet]

So its about power

[meager crag]

Has to be

[uncut inlet]

Is what im hearing

[still current]

Sense of duty left the chat

[meager crag]

Other reasons I see is either them respecting the owners of the server or wanting to make the server friendlier in some manner of way

So one is simping, the other is impossible with good rules

[still current]

Let's let scammers and bots run amok here for a week and see how many will fall prey to data fishing

[meager crag]

Actually, that's a great idea

Let natural selection do its job

[still current]

For the name science

[uncut inlet]

You mean like every company ever?

[still current]

https://tenor.com/view/stalker-chernobyl-chornobyl-pripyat-prypiat-gif-4739931847719887227

[vernal lily]

https://tenor.com/view/cat-ginger-cat-side-eye-cat-side-eye-chunky-gif-7882593414338052899

[meager crag]

https://tenor.com/view/korshunov-stalker-2-stalker-stalker2-ward-gif-4316907427003349762

[digital igloo]

What surprises me is just how heavily focused the game economy is on yellow guns, food, meds, and drinks.

You'd think they'd be using artifacts, but that doesn't happen.

Pity too, since they'd make for a better economy IMO.

[uncut inlet]

Yellow guns?

[vernal lily]

The ones that are about to break

Right before red

[violet dune]

do purple stashes respawn?

i want to collect all of them

[misty salmon]

Like.. replenish?

[digital igloo]

Damaged, but not to the point of being only sellable to that one guy in Rostok

[violet dune]

more like it always appear or it has limit

[misty salmon]

I’ve had like 100 on my map or something at once so probably not

[digital igloo]

Heck, even the lore seems to talk about the economy of the zone being based on artifacts, but they barely show up in that capacity.

[misty salmon]

Just gotta find the pdas

[winged agate]

yeah

[digital igloo]

And the radiant missions are...bad.

Like they don't even pay enough to afford the repairs and ammo costs they entail.

[fickle tree]

@vestal dagger hey man my bad I just watched your clip. So okay that gives me a little context, it's strange that none of your HUD or UI is showing, and that might give us a little clue

Does this happen on any other save files or just that one?

also if you hold X to show your HUD does anything happen?

[dim nebula]

[uncut inlet]

Ahh

[uncut inlet]

Wait who can i sell broken weapons to?

[digital igloo]

There's a vendor in Rostok - sits in his own shed and sells soviet weapons

[uncut inlet]

I tried selling to him at some point he wouldnt take it

[digital igloo]

He tends to take most red weapons.

Though I think he might reject the ones that are broken to the point of literal worthlessness - something like 1-2%

[vernal lily]

He won't take them if those red weapons are at 0%

[uncut inlet]

Not at zero but below yellow level definitely

[echo current]

hello people, anybody knows why teh gaem crashes after patch? it doesn't run teh shaders too, it just crashes

[vernal lily]

He def will take red weapons, not sure if it's changed in the recent update. But he always took my red weapons that were above 0%.

[vernal lily]

So far I have seen a lot of people having this issue

[echo current]

yeah, I tried to reinstall, but nothing

[still current]

Rostok trader would take anything that is not completely broken

[uncut inlet]

Good to know

I had the assumption that that trader was hauled up somewhere in pripyat

[charred nova]

No

[winter harbor]

So quality mode vs performance, how y'all feel (xbox series x)

[still current]

Nah. Some ppl never even got the chance to know about it, so it's understandable

That trader will buy anything that is not beyond repair point. I am not sure about the exact percentage, but as far ad I could see 0% is a no for sure.

[shell flax]

Quality for me

[still current]

Carried bunch of guns all the way there to end up throwing them lmao

All were 0

[uncut inlet]

I heard of such a trader beforehand, but for some reason no one at rostok would buy those weapons off of me, guess ill add that to another set of bugs i came across

[still current]

I guess it was on me for not checking

[warped stream]

i was going along with the joke

[shell flax]

I’m just glad stalker doesn’t do the ‘gun broken, crumbles to ash’ shit

[still current]

Nah, I believe you never even tried it with him. Usually, we just go to the traders near the player stash, not the one near the bar area entrance

His door is shut, so he's easy to miss, and even if you notice him later, the chance of you trying to sell broken stuff off is low cuz you already been rejected by the other fellas

[uncut inlet]

No i sold things to him, he has a conflict with another trader if im not mistaken

[still current]

Yeah, like both trying to defame each other to win clients

You could try selling some red stuff to him later and see for yourself

Try to not grab something around 5% or bellow unless you want to try how far you can get

[uncut inlet]

Yeah yeah. I definitely will thanks for the info. It is unfortunate that you cant profit from repair selling anymore like from the previous games

[shrewd kindle]

Once you get to prypiat he becomes a godsend, you make bank off of those damaged endgame guns

[charred nova]

Ik

[uncut inlet]

Im currently in zaton, plenty of weapons that are yellow. Travel to rookie village, or zalissya for easy profit

[charred nova]

All money goes to development no money left for the poor moderators

[still current]

I would love to see economy changes of this sort ngl. Like special traders for artifacts like we had in previous games. Would be nice to see repaired weapons being sold for a small profit too depending on your reputation and relation with the host faction

[cursive kettle]

tbh every freaking npc having only yellow and red guns is ridiculous, it wasn't like this back then, at least in SoC

[dry aspen]

Something is messed up with burers, getting 1-shoted in an exo

[uncut inlet]

Absolutely. I havent even been able to get other bases to be green other than the starting village and rookie village

[still current]

It actually was. You could find 70% stuff on NPCs yes, but not fully functional guns. You could also accidentally break a gun by recklessly firing at by mistake while killing the NPC holding it

It was a pain in the ass lmao

The moment I see the spark going off the gun, I would say fuck.. did I save before this?

[uncut inlet]

Faction reactions to your attire would also be welcome edition

[shrewd kindle]

Helping a faction out in fights boosts it, along with the usual side quests and radiant quests. I had every faction besides the ward and malachite in the green by the end

[cursive kettle]

lmao, still better than having npcs with red and yellow guns

[uncut inlet]

Already been doing that, nothing works

[shrewd kindle]

It takes a while

Took me like 10 side quests in the garbage and yaniv to max it out

[still current]

You could still find every single piece of gear on your own hidden somewhere (most of which are 100%)

[cursive kettle]

yes but in talking about logic, not loot, like how can a bandit or soldier shoot carelessly without jamming a red gun??

[uncut inlet]

Ive definitely done more than that, unfortunately quests dont reset until next emission so it takes a while

[dry aspen]

Ok, so if a burrer gets it's hands on a shotgun, pellets have 0 dispersion and penetrate armor

[still current]

True. It would be nice if they would also have their guns jamm. SoC did have that in earlier builds indeed

[dry aspen]

it's literally a 1-shot in any armor

[cursive kettle]

any freaking npc in the game with a shotty has 0 dispersion, like they got realistic shotguns while our pellets disperse after 5 meters

[shell flax]

Need to test it but I’m 40% sure you can shoot buerer guns

[dry aspen]

I was wearing a duty exo. Which has the highest armor rating behind monolith

[cursive kettle]

the zone is cruel, but also unbalanced and unfair ONLY for the player

[shell flax]

And they’ll drop like poltergeist projectiles

[still current]

You can not just guns. You can shoot everything to push it back I believe

Oh, burrers do send grenades back at you now btw

100% success rate too lmao

[cursive kettle]

what ap rpgs

[dry aspen]

Problem is if there are 2 shotguns in a room it's over

[cursive kettle]

that's skill issue

[dry aspen]

I did kill them in the end

[shell flax]

You’re safe on RPGs

[dry aspen]

it's hard to get a shot off on the 2nd shotgun

[still current]

How about you do it smart and rush in and take those guns temporarily ? I always literally steal those before getting shot by them, and after fight, I throw them back

[shell flax]

Still would’ve been funny if they could just slap that shit to the side, even if it would’ve been incredibly annoying

[dry aspen]

It's the small room with 2 burers where you get the Decider for the quest. Most guns are in the water, it's dark

[cursive kettle]

why does the rpg(an anti tank gun) need more than 2 rockets to take down a pseudo giant? that shi is madenof flesh, not metal, it has completely 0 sense, everything shot by an rpg should be 1 shot EXCLUSIVELY 1 SHOT, NO EXCEPTIONS

[still current]

There is a small dot that shows loot at a certain distance

[dry aspen]

I play with the HUD off

[uncut inlet]

I would have also loved to see that skifs pistol isnt marked as a quest item. I literally have no incentive to use any other pistol type weapons. Ammo is cheap, repairs cost nothing, is not affected by the burers steal, and it does the job really good. I can kill an exo without a mag dump

[still current]

I selectively enable some hud elements to make it up when I find a disadvantage, ig you still can try doing something similar at least when you meet specific encounters

[shrewd kindle]

my man

[uncut inlet]

Same makes it hard to know what status effects you have though

[dry aspen]

Yeah. wish there were some audio ques for it

they really should've leaned in a bit into the Metro ranger mode stuff

i would've loved to be able to check my mag

[shrewd kindle]

I do wish we could keep the hunger notifications but that’s really it, everything else has a pretty good tell

[uncut inlet]

Yeah agreed

[dry aspen]

It's still a little upsetting that they did not add a gas mask overlay. Literally any mod does that

[uncut inlet]

Hunger has a slight grumbling

[dry aspen]

Then again, such complex technology as an overlay would've made the unreal engine shit itself and die

[shrewd kindle]

Gas mask overlay works in metro but idk about stalker since it’s supposed to be on constantly, if it’s optional I’d be about it but I’d find it annoying after a while

[dry aspen]

Would be less annoying if most outfits wouldn't have had build-in helmets

i find that an odd choice too. Can't really mix and match anymore

Would've liked running a tactical helmet on a beril

[uncut inlet]

Would be interesting if it was removable or was a option to turn it off

[dry aspen]

Just make it a trade-off, have Skif be able to remove the mask portion of most helmets. Bettre visibility but worse protection. You could put it on when crossing rads or gas and skif wouldn't cough his loungs out while in protective gear

as for closed suits like SEVA's, that's the trade off for the best protection from anomalies. you have to deal with the overlay

Eh, but i can toss ideas all day, more important stuff will probably never get added into the game

[uncut inlet]

Absolutely

Nvgs would be nice too

[dry aspen]

It's weird how surprised they were that it was a feature like 95% of the community requested. They gave us the worse flashlight in existence, ofc people wanted something better

[violet zodiac]

1.4 patch. Get 7 FPS or less for performance on average.

[dry aspen]

and NVG's have been in the series since SoC, i think everyone was surprised they weren't in the game

Same with binocs.

I subscribe to the theory that binocs were cut just so it would be harder for people to tell how short range A-life sim is

[shrewd kindle]

Yeah I did find it neat in the little time that I played anomaly but I dunno if I could keep it going for 100+ hours straight, as long as it’s optional I’m about it

[uncut inlet]

Flashlight lighting started growing on me. The only problem i have now is enemies seem to have nvgs and i dont so it makes combat more annoying

[dry aspen]

NVG's better quality tiers and an equip animation, because if they act like a green filter was so hard to make they had to work on it for 9 months I swear to God

[uncut inlet]

Mhm. I would keep lighting of the flashlight the same, and leave that for earlygame, then as you progress through the map and story, you can get nvgs which make it easier to see in the dark. Ramp down enemies visibility at night too, so that they see as well as i do at night, unless they have nvgs. Flashlights already do well enough in caves, but i wish lighting would be better in bases so that i can talk to npcs without having them get blind from my flashlight.

[shrewd kindle]

I haven't been able to find a good tv setting for nighttime. It's either actually dark but the flashlight feels like its dying. Or it's too bright and the flashlight is useless

[uncut inlet]

I have my gamma set to 25-30 seems to be fine, enough that you can see where you are going, but low enough where enemies and anomolies are hard to spot, and low enough where flashlight allows me to see whats infront of me and so i dont accidently jump off a cliff

[shrewd kindle]

My TV can technically do HDR but it looks like shit so I stick with SDR, might be why I cant find a good middle ground

It's one of those cheap black friday sale TVs

[uncut inlet]

Ahh, my tv is from the early 2000s, makes steam deck ui yellow. Monitor have never messed with but is completely fine on its own

[tacit jay]

Run stalker through a 27 inch crt

Mmm phosphor...

[uncut inlet]

How would it look like on crt

Man now i want a crt again

[wraith badger]

hello i have stalker 2 and couldnt play on release because of performance issues is the game better now performance wise to download ?

[fading parcel]

Maybe few fps here and there.

[uncut inlet]

Ehh, map still lowers your fps to hell

[velvet summit]

I went looking and for the life of me, I couldn’t find the SOFTMOD m4, I had never heard of it until 2 hours ago and it’s not even spawned in, is there a new location for it or is it just gone from my playthrough

[misty salmon]

Yall are crazy I keep a stable 60 sometimes 65 fps which is about all I need

[uncut inlet]

Stable 90 until i open the map, where it tanks from 9-20 fps

[regal sinew]

60 FPS is decent. I know some folks who are playing CoC mods with roughly 15 FPS and they’re happy enough.

[warped stream]

really depends on what ur used to and the graphics

i was running 90-110fps on high which was alright, wouldve liked my standard 160+ though

[high gazelle]

great now the mod authors are up in arms and not updating their mods due to low moral. im hearing 'over bloated team' 'producing nothing but band aid fixes' 'no fixes for fundamental mechanic p4roblems' and my favourite 'onto dlc while there is any goodwill left for the game'

[hollow lake]

is it only me or do npc just standing on dead corpse with no looting animation after patch 1.4?

[high gazelle]

ill be honest, this game isnt worth playing without a large amount of mods 😐

[violet dune]

just wait 10 years for gamma 5

stalker 2 is like supra, its cool and fun but without mods it sucks lol

[high gazelle]

the devs spent too much time updating the orig trilogy (wonder how theyre going to support the faction wars and all the other cool stuff they introduced in clear sky)

prolly cut out 90% of what made the orig stalker games great 😐

am so dissapoint right now 😐

[violet dune]

not bad idea is just not touch game till DLC

and if DLC wont bring anything good and game will be in similar state.. well i guess it is what it is

[high gazelle]

dlc wont fix the flaws, itll just be more console garbage with extra story

[violet dune]

i assume they will bring 3-4 majors till DLC

[high gazelle]

6 months in and we still have gamepad controls

[violet dune]

6 month passed they didnt addressed flashlight, they think its great

add upgrade to weapon flashlight or something

[high gazelle]

attach spark atrifact to supercharge flashlight to more than 5m would be nice

[uncut inlet]

I think flashlight is fine as it is. But for the early game only. The problem is they didnt add nvgs, and thats why there is an issue

[violet dune]

its not fine. if you put candle in absolute dark it will light up whole room

flashlight in stalker2 couldnt light up 3 meters from u

dark and darker have better torches

[uncut inlet]

Thats outside, in caves for example i think its perfect

Maybe its just because i fiddled with the lighting so much that the flashlight has grown on me

[violet dune]

idk, for me its not enought. some upgrades could exist in game

[warped stream]

iirc we got some sort of lighting update with it that made it feel a lot better to use

looks cleaner and more usable than 1.0

used to do more harm than good trying to see enemies with it imo lmao

[violet dune]

sofmod barrel smoke would cover all screen with flashlight on lol

[uncut inlet]

For me its enough for early game, but npcs' should have as much visibility as me. If we had nvgs it would make more sense, but alas enemies can see you in the dark and you cant see them making it look like bs

[violet dune]

i used to turn off just i could see enemy at night somehow. also human enemies used to not have any flashlight and its like one way shooting

[violet dune]

yes, similar how we upgrade our anomaly detectors

[uncut inlet]

Lighting is a seperate issue though, i do not want to go into a base talk to an npc and have my flashlight making him blind bc i cant see his face without it

[uncut inlet]

Maybe but flashlights are visible in caves, so how would you handle that aspect. They cant be to bright indoors, or you will be blinded by your own flashlight

[violet dune]

i dont need them to be bright. im fine like it is if light would go deep

10-20 meters

[high gazelle]

the nvg was glorious too

(mod)

[violet dune]

they probably working on ps5 port now

[high gazelle]

switch 2

[violet dune]

this too

[uncut inlet]

They have not confirmed that

[violet dune]

they dont need to confirm it for them to work on it

[uncut inlet]

They implied they would like to but there are things preventing them from doing so

[high gazelle]

no were just sprouting more reasonings why they dont remove the console-itis from the pc version.... theyve got more console garbage to spit out

im surprised the jump key isnt a 4 second hold to activate

just changed my thumbs up to thumbs down on steam, only thing i can do really but its done.

[violet dune]

i mean its 4-major patch and we got AI combat which makes humans take cover. its kinda super base feature which should be on launch. if they put all devs to work on these patches the game is really broken

[high gazelle]

the mechanical knowledgeable devs are updagint the original games to the new engine.

3 games moved over in their entirity (minus aliife and faction wars obviously) take a large amount of time

[uncut inlet]

I mentioned this earlier, they most likely were running out of funding, and had to push it out, i have no doubt they were being pressured by microsoft aswell. On top of that their lead writer died of covid

[high gazelle]

thats why we dont have mechanical updates, just a few bug fixes here and there

[uncut inlet]

Yeah it was meant to release with the xbox series x/s with starfield also

[high gazelle]

lol that game cant be saved

[uncut inlet]

Agreed, they would have to rewrite alot of the game

[violet dune]

starfield is an example how everyone in that team dont care

another one is star citizen

they building that one from scratch 4 times now

[uncut inlet]

I would disagree, no mans sky was empty at first too, but they kept it alive and iterating upon it. Starfield in my view just wanted to emulate the feeling of playing daggerfall, but failed to do so. It didnt help that the staff started fights with their consumers

If they completely abandon it definitely cant be saved

But if they keep working on it, and actually develop their generic factions, then that would be a different story

[fierce cape]

HELP I CANT UNEQUIP WEAPONS AFTER 1.4 OR SEE THEYRE STATS 😔
First time an updates bit me in the balls and it's a little annoying.

[violet dune]

remove mods if you have

[high gazelle]

yeah rather than fix things they just removed the stats

thats trump level genius

[fierce cape]

Yeah I'm on XSX

[uncut inlet]

Regarding factions, i feel like stalker 2 has the same issue. Almost every faction in s2 is just bland. The only ones developed are the warden, sircca, and noontiders. If i hadnt played the older titles i could not tell you the motivations of the older factions that existed. How they came to be, or why certain factions are in conflict with others. They are just there because the game requires them to be there

[wanton valve]

Are all snorks male?

[ionic cliff]

has sprinting been fixed yet?

[uncut inlet]

I imagine, as every stalker in the zone is

[uncut inlet]

^

[tulip kestrel]

do you guys home there will be a looting animations for mutant loot

[uncut inlet]

When they add mutant loot

[tulip kestrel]

yeah

[wanton valve]

Reproducing by mitosis ftw

Probably the mutants that annoy me most tbh. They aren't tough, but I often underestimate how hard they hit on master and how ridiculously far they jump especially. And they're in gangs.

[uncut inlet]

I would argue that snorks are one of the possible products of over exposure to psi emissions, or a possible result of over exposure of radiation

[wanton valve]

Yeah, I know. But I joked because there are so many of them remaining after that first team of soldiers that became snorks.

[uncut inlet]

Thats the fault of stalker 2's failed a life system

[wanton valve]

Oh, I haven't played it yet. I meant even in the original trilogy, so by CoP especially.

[jolly shoal]

Has anyone reached the lucky 38 yet

[charred nova]

noon tide is developed hahaahahaha

mate your joking

[uncut inlet]

Its more developed than the older factions, and it atleast starts off with an interesting conflict

[jolly shoal]

Pseudo giant

[uncut inlet]

You understand why theyre there, what makes them who they are, and why there is so much conflict around them. Maybe not the inner politics but atleast they have that

[charred nova]

i mean they are gone before we even start to know them

[uncut inlet]

Possibly, i havent made it that far yet. Im at the point where you just meet trapper. But again if i were not to have played the previous titles, i wouldnt know who freedom is and their motivations, why they are so conflicted with duty. In s2 all ik about duty is that they are shills for the warden thats it, freedom? Whos that. Just some people who took over rostok at some point

[charred nova]

well yah all the duty/freedom stuff got cut

[uncut inlet]

Which is unfortunate, but this applies to all factions in the game, but the new ones

[wanton valve]

Looking less forward to it now. Wtf

[charred nova]

duty has like 2 quests

and freedom has zero

[uncut inlet]

Bandits are just bandits, loners are the good guys. They just turned the factions into generic reskins of eachother

[charred nova]

bandits literally don't exist

[opal belfry]

I havent played since January. Is it recommended to start a new save after all these updates?