☢┃stalker-general

[shrewd needle]

Also, game crashes with shader compilation, so...

[pulsar cloud]

Are there seasons in s2?

[shrewd needle]

Seasons?

[coarse falcon]

Technician at Yaniv and Prypiat can work on saiga.

[plain mantle]

nice, i didnt got there yet but i will soon, thx 2 much

[pulsar cloud]

Like winter summer etc

[shrewd needle]

No; this is STALKER, not Forza Horizon 4.

[proven kayak]

Gosh, the Bear Scanner is full green and nothing spawns...how can such a key feature not working and its happening so often.

[drifting forge]

Artefact either above or below you

[proven kayak]

Electro south of Cement has a below level or is it in the sky?
Or chemical west from Slag?
Sometimes its not working.

[weary hedge]

release patch
Patch needs patch

Shouldn't have tried to fool the computer

[vital atlas]

didnt Legends of the Zone release like 2 years ago and its already getting a "remaster"

[magic vault]

It's a PC release

[vital atlas]

ohhhh

[magic vault]

You can get it for free if you had the old games on Steam
Excluding bugfixes, it didn't seem very substantial at first. But man, looking at the comparisons speaks for itself
I'm excited :D
https://www.reddit.com/r/stalker/comments/1kncir4/original_vs_enhanced_edition_comparision_in_call/

[proven kayak]

East Yaniw station. Swamps and exploding anomalies.
Where is that basement?

[drifting forge]

Who said it was a basement

[proven kayak]

Where is that below or above?
Show me

[drifting forge]

It's probably in the floor lmao

[proven kayak]

Thanks Captain Obvious.
Thats my point.

[tacit jay]

and the "next gen" versions that were promised at release at a later date

[still current]

20 may

[tacit jay]

No, I know. I was saying that that's what these are, the next gen versions as well as the PC release

Ty tho

[frigid hill]

sentry5796 has been warned

Reason: Bad word usage

[proven kayak]

Need to ask again, just for clarification:
Are some Artifacts locked behind progress?
I saw now all, but Liquid Rock.
After 2 hours, nothing.
Had that with Thunderberry, too.
Proceeded with game, got Thunderberry spawned easy.
So I just wonder.

[shrewd needle]

• Spend 2 hours trying to get artifacts.
• Anomaly field only spawns low-end ones.
• Rage.

[proven kayak]

Rage after 1 hour, now all is just empty.

[shrewd needle]

Not for me. I'm in the Red Forest, only getting the cheap shit.

[tranquil vine]

What do you even do with artifacts that you aren't going to use? Is there a specific nps you can sell them to?

[proven kayak]

Just sell

[shrewd needle]

Hoard.

[rough island]

The first time I played stalker 2 I ran through it real fast because I play a lot of games like this fallout Metro I love apocalyptic games and this one felt really easy but the updates that have been coming out has made it so much better every little noise freaks me out so good job guys you're doing amazing GSC

[tranquil vine]

Pretty much what i've been doing

I hope they fix how spawning roaming npcs work, gettig kinda tired of getting lit up by a random squad of mercs/monolit spawning right next to me

[shrewd needle]

Well...on the flip side, you can light 'em up too.

[proven kayak]

It needs a serious A Life 2.0 and not just some AI

[tranquil vine]

Same goes for PSI-ghosts and hallucinations, very annoying having them spawn right behind you. especially the ghosts summoned by Controllers... they can spawn in the walls

[shrewd needle]

That's why you focus only on the Controller, nothing else. Otherwise you die.

[tranquil vine]

Last death happened when i opened a door, it plopped down 6 Monolit goons right behind it

it looked pretty funny

[shrewd needle]

I can imagine... 😆

[tranquil vine]

By the way, is the psi-influence caused by zombies increased if there's multiple zombies in close proximity?

[shrewd needle]

Zombies don't have any psionic influence. Only Controllers.

Man, I can't believe I'm only getting the weakest shit; not even 1 Thunderberry in 2 hours...FML.

[tranquil vine]

Bruh

[cyan phoenix]

the new update makes my game crash a ton

any fixes?

[tranquil vine]

The range on Controllers mst be insane if that's the case, i was clearing a Bunker in the red forest and it took me like 5 attempts to just get inside the thing because i kept getting smoked by psi-hallucinations

[shrewd needle]

You mean the bunker with multiple zombies outside and a couple of trenches dug in the east side of the RF?

[tranquil vine]

Yes, i had more PSI-hallucinations trying to get in then when i was actually inside and could deal with the Controller

[shrewd needle]

That seems like a bug, because that should only happen if the Controller is near you, not when you're outside the bunker.

And I don't even get psi-effects unless Controller has direct line of sight to me.

[tranquil vine]

That's why i asked if it was increased when multiple zombies where nearby, right next to the door (outside) there are four zombies and being close to them caused the PSI-hallucinations to kick in and it got increasingly worse when i attempted to enter the bunker since the game had a group of 7-8 zombies on the other side of the door

[shrewd needle]

Hmm...probably a bug.

[tranquil vine]

Could have sworn i've heard the psi soundeffects when close to stray group of zombies but now i'm not sure, the internet says that Controllers and emitters only cause psi-hallucinations.

[shrewd needle]

Yea, but only Controllers and Emitters; zombies are just zombies.

[shell flax]

Zombies might just be hanging around a Psi anomaly

Or an emitter is somewhere, I know there’s one buried in the dirt in one area

[shrewd needle]

Yea, but he's talking about the bunker (Lishchyna Facility) in Red Forest; there's no psionic anomalies there.

https://tenor.com/view/controller-attacking-stalker-stalker-2-heart-of-chornobyl-chernobyl-gif-18183294274620171019

[cinder lagoon]

Can’t launch the game it just gets to the shader comp screen and hard crashes to desktop anyone know a fix

[spiral cobalt]

Delete all files from the game in file explorer then verify integrity on steam, that's what worked for me

Will take a while though

[heavy crag]

anyone else notice much better random enemy loot after 1.4? just played a little today and picked up an uncommon artifact and an m700 off one zombie and one bandit

the bandit was using a shotgun

[brazen arch]

does the last gsc answer mean a-life still no persistent and is random spawn?

[shell yarrow]

is weird water fixed? never spawned for me and i cba to start a new game

[river chasm]

Well the actual bug that was fixed was offline NPCs not moving, the patch note description wasn't correct for that

[rose pewter]

Wake me up when a-life is fully implemented

[polar forge]

I sent a question to gsc answers asking them if they are aware of the memory leak issues that are still fairly common and it got ignored I guess. They answered questions after I sent mine. Unless it takes longer than 24 hours for them to see it

I can’t even go to Brain Scorcher to finish In the Name of Science mission. Ram usage shoots up to 99% after 2-5 minutes there and I freeze/crash. No issues as long as I stay away from there though

[dreamy forge]

I ran around there for good 40min and could not trigger leak

[brazen arch]

does anyone know if the price of trilogy will increase after the enhanced version realse?

[fervent island]

Actually, the price has increased since the EE was announced, especially in parts like South America

[brazen arch]

so, it wont increase again right. so i will wait for the next sale to buy it, im afraid that if the price will increase so the next sale still higher than normal price right now.

omg, i just checked steamstats page, the price was go almost 2x since this 14th, may.

[fervent island]

In South America the price directly multiplied

[brazen arch]

damn, i have these game on wishlist for a long time, but whenever in sale there is more game in priority than this old game.

i miss my chance

😭

[ornate mirage]

why do you even care about paying for games if you're in south america

[fervent island]

because I like it a lot S.T.A.L.K.E.R, i have hundreds of GB about S.T.A.L.K.E.R content in my disc

[brazen arch]

i really hope one day stalker gamma will come to enhanced edition so i can grab my controller, sit back and chill.

[ornate mirage]

😭 😭 😭

[gritty relic]

Last thing that will happen in stalker

[tough remnant]

Based?

[brazen arch]

after 10 hours work, mouse and keyboard game was too much for me.

[still current]

I'm crying too

[still current]

As if gamma isn't a whole modpack based on a modpack based on a mod which has nothing to with the trilogy, but rather a different engine modified from CoP to CoC and remodified from CoC to Anomaly then wax pasted to gamma

[golden fjord]

[still current]

I gave you all a shortcut to gamma history class

You should all pay me

[shell flax]

You get a Gravi as payment

[still current]

Won't fetch me more than 1000 coupons

You could at least say Urchin

Or goldfish

Or moonlight

[shell flax]

Oh no, I’m talking Clear Sky Gravi

[still current]

Like, come on

Be generous

[shell flax]

Understood, you get a bubble

[still current]

It's a third tier artifacts in all 4 games

[still current]

payment accepted

[shell flax]

Speaking of artifacts, genuinely debating 3D printing a few for a small display collection

[still current]

I would've done so if I had a printer, ngl

[shell flax]

Compass for sure but I’m trying to think which other ones that won’t be weirdly shaped (Wrenched) or too fragile

I have a bad feeling something in the Kolobok style (Kolo, Snowflake and Urchin) would just snap off pieces if I breathe on it wrong

Could also 3D print a helmet

[still current]

Well, ig I'd pick something that is not hard to make. Though, even the hard ones can be done with proper tools and such, but in your case I'd go for moonlight, stone flower, crystal flower, and similar shaped ones

New ones would be way too hard tbh

[shell flax]

Could do a magic cube or hyper cube as well

[still current]

Yeah, could be possible

Liquid rock can be hard, but still manageable

[shell flax]

Picking one from each game was my original idea but honestly it’s harder then I thought lmao

[still current]

Yeah

Start with a prototype and see how it goes

I have little experience with 3d printing, so ik a bit of how unexpected inconsistencies can arise out of thin air lmao

[shell flax]

I’ve seen videos of people’s print essentially exploding so it’ll definitely be an experience

[still current]

Well, never had the honor of such encounter lmao

I only had deformed stuff and malfunctions

Nothing closely relevant to having a printer blast

[drifting crag]

shooting a fully upgraded SVU 10 times costs 2.1k coupons to repair it

like if a gun is so expensive to shoot and maintain why bring more than 100 bullets for it, might as well save weight right?

[hardy totem]

https://tenor.com/view/rickroll-cat-singing-cat-gif-19744865

[drifting crag]

100 bullets for a 10 round mag is 10 reloads quick mafs

if you go thru 3 mags on a fully upgraded M701 Super, it costs 3k coupons to repair so i would just bring 50 rounds of .308

[shell flax]

I treat the SVU as a DMR more then a sniper lmao

Slap the 4x, fore grip and extended mag on it, increase aim speeds start taking skulls

[drifting crag]

SVU with the suppressor sounds so nice tho

yea i like the 4x PSO on it too

[shell flax]

Oh shit the SVU suppressor is up for grabs now?

Or did you spawn it in

[drifting crag]

i spawned it in bc i'm playing on an existing save this 1.4 kek

[shell flax]

Damn

[drifting crag]

i do hope the SVD/SVU suppressor is in stashes now before the point of no return

if someone discovered it, i would love to know where it is for my next playthrough

[shell flax]

I know the M701 suppressor is in stashes now before Pripyat though

I think one is on a dead sparker at the chasm near Yantar

[drifting crag]

marksman rifles are so costly to shoot lol

my coupons

[drifting crag]

I found one in red forest in the shack next to the bunker with controller and zombies, that dungeon

good to know that there is also another one in Yantar

it feels good to treat the SVU like a shotgun and just magdump on controllers, burers, and bloodsuckers with it lol

[shell flax]

How do you think I felt when I accidentally ran through a glass anomaly with my Kharod out

Blew nearly 15% of the durability off cause I wasted too much time in it

[drifting crag]

see this is why the Grom S-15 is the best rifle 😂

hits hard, uses 5.45, has a launcher, lower tier so cheaper to maintain

[shell flax]

I had just gotten a good artifact run done too and was gonna upgrade my Bulat

[drifting crag]

Sunrise Suit + Aurora Mask lol

500 something to repair the suit and the mask is pennies to repair

[shell flax]

Yes but I like the militant looking suits

[drifting crag]

yea the Bulat is cool lookin there is no denying that

[shell flax]

My only complaint? I’m stuck with the freedom one

Give me an IPSF or Corps. One in the DLC

[drifting crag]

the non-faction SEVA suit in the school in Duga is only accessible after the SIRCAA quest

like the body holding the key for the door only spawns after that questline specifically

sucks that we can't get it early

there are two sidequests tied to the Duga School it's confusing

would be nice to grab that suit before going to the Swamps but we can't

[fading parcel]

Try to use engine file from nex. site has tweaks, could help you

[tall falcon]

Hi, I haven’t played the game in nearly 6 months, have they added the new DLSS version to this? The transformer one

[north jackal]

So are persistent a-life still planned?

[proven kayak]

Another Peak game design that you cant save in front of SIRCAA Burer and that his guns have infinite Ammo 😄

[mystic rivet]

they better fix that 100 meters bubble and make A-Life good. GSC advertised A-Life, they said it will be amazing.

[coarse falcon]

There are mods for that but they might tank your performance since it's CPU heavy.

It would be nice if we could run two CPUs simultaneously as it is with graphics cards.

We need PCIe to CPU adapter. 😄

[proven kayak]

Shouldnt be a modder job.
GSC promising something they didnt deliver and which I dont see coming in the next 5 years.
How they say with every patch that A Life getting better and its just an AI working somewhat.
Stalkers walking straight into Radiation and Anomalies and die. What a joke.
Spawngroups and you still see them spawn.
Every human has perfect vision and is a sharpshooter, even through solid objects.
Single Dogs chase you like you insulted them personally.
Etc etc etc...the list goes on.
Nothing there hints to an A Life 2.0
Its just a fancy name for advertising.

[austere pagoda]

there is no mod that does that atm

[coarse falcon]

Is shouldn't but they'r damned if they do, damned if they don't. Most players doesnt have high end rigs. If you look on steam statistics a lot would float below average. So if they increase this distance (as some would like to whole map) they are going to invalidate 99% of rigs whitch would be bad.

Not even mentioning consoles.

Best middle ground would be something like "crowd density" option in Cyberpunk. You can stay at default but if you are in top 10% of rigs you have option to crank it to absolute max and hope your cooling can handle fission that is going to happen inside of your PC.

[coarse falcon]

I remember one that played with that but i'm not risking dropping below 80 fps average on my max settings tbh. I like how the game looks. So i never tested it.

[tranquil vine]

The pathing for stalkers in Rostok and Garbage is garbage (no pun intended), i've had multiple groups of stalkers spawn and instantly wander into those hot-spots.

[civic cosmos]

So it is just impossible then to have real A-life because of how performance intensive the game is visually?

Or is it actually feasible if it's something they make a primary focus for a future patch?

Like what's the actual deal with that

[tranquil vine]

I'd wager it's not feasible since so much happens in close proximity to the player, there are no events that play out through out the different zones.

[naive fable]

I hope they have more Ressources After the Release of the legends of the Zone

To Patch a life

[civic cosmos]

They need to just migrate the damn game to a more stable Unreal Engine version... if it takes a year, it is what it is, at least the game will actually be able to move forward easily afterwards

[naive fable]

I think it will take another Half of a year to make it final

Im waiting for the legends of the Zone play all the games again and than give Stalker 2 another shot

Pre ordered the physical ultimate. It's Not easy to wait i Was hyped

[tranquil vine]

I still like Stalker 2 even though i'm currently hardlocked out of the main story line, i'm just roaming the zone hoarding artifacts

[civic cosmos]

What did you do, shoot richter?

[naive fable]

Yes i played 100 hours.. I think. To this Moment but. The Not Working a life kidda suck. After a long time.

And i think i Was calm enouth to this day

[naive fable]

Only played to yaniv Station

[civic cosmos]

We need wandering traders and more biodiversity

I will ask if they plan to add those things

[naive fable]

Hopefully maybe with the dlcs

Hope that to, but first they need to fix a-life

[tranquil vine]

Well technically not hard-locked, ||I just have to one-shot the underground section of Once more unto the breach because every save made after entering the underground system can no longer load the terrain so i void out if i reload the game||

[proven kayak]

Instead of "look at us, we are so amazing, we made a huge Open World" they should have stick to Hubs and make them work.

And I am done at SIRCAA now. Instead of an overbloated story they should have invested more in the gameplay.
Stalker 1 was so great because of A Life, high risk high rewards runs, etc and a bit because of the mystery behind that story.

Where are special artifact dealers?
Why do traders not change their prices much?
Why dont we have more special gear boosted with artifacts?
Of make 1 tech who is modding stuff with artifacts. Bring them stuff, they make cool things, but with downsides.
Make rare repair kits, etc.
The game could be so good, but so much potential is just wasted behind that "Open World", that bigger than they can handle and often cringe story and that non existing A Life.

[naive fable]

I love the open World and the New Look of the game but Yeah u kidda right.

I think all this can be. But it need more time

Nevermind back to the old games with legends of the Zone

And done

[civic cosmos]

Need more food variety

Anomalous kefir salesman

[proven kayak]

Artifacts are just there for money and a bit of gameplay boost.
There should be more to them.
And the actual system is not working, right.
Why cant 2 medium anti rad cancel 1 heavy is beyond my understanding. 😄

For every thing they understand and do right you always have 1 wrong. 😄

And who designed that awful stash?
Stashtabs shouldnt be so special to make.

[civic cosmos]

Prepared meals with bonuses

[tranquil vine]

The entire inventory management is not working.

[civic cosmos]

You can thank Russia for throwing a wrench in the development process

It probably would have been everything it could have been without that happening

The good ending rarely happens for things on Earth, we have to enjoy what there is to enjoy

[proven kayak]

I know and understand that its hard to work when a Fascist army is burning down your living space.
One reason I bought Pre Order Ultimate was support money for the devs and that situation makes every critic a bit hard to write.
Nontheless they worked on it for years and things like a much too huge story while the backbones of Stalker, the world, is not so well done is a certain sign.
I guess MS Suits did their job, too.
When the war started I made a Fundraiser for Ukrainian Anarchists at the front and collected 500 Euros, so yeah, I am a full supporter of the cause.
Stalker is my most beloved FPS for all time still and as a gamer I partly enjoy Stalker 2, while the other part is very disappointing.
Atmosphere is key and it so often doesnt work.
Small things, like more lightning or more safety in key locations, like Sultansk or Rostok. Make these places more believable and not look like 20 years ago. There are mutants and other shit. More light, more guards...but yeah, could write about that all time. You see the missed potential on every corner.

You dont even have effin binoculars!
How often I stopped in Stalker and check the area ahead slowly with binoculars.
Because it was all so dangerous and it added so much.
How can that item be missing?

[north jackal]

What mods that work with 1.4?

[coarse falcon]

Updated to 1.4 obv

[north jackal]

Yeah but what a life mods

[coarse falcon]

Try going to nexusmods and typing A-life in searchbar for Stalker 2 mods. There are 6 but i'm not diving deeper into that.

or try google?

There is Moddb and probably other sites that deal with mods.

[austere pagoda]

there are currently 2 active alife mods on nexus, both capped at 100m.
one is experimental and tries some different things (FaW), the other one is targetting immersive more with a balanced approach and less experimental changes (SLZ)

[north jackal]

Which one is better

[austere pagoda]

its safe to install and uninstall any time between those mods en versions of those mods

im not going to answer that sorry, im the mod author of one of those. it would be biased approach to that question

but it doesnt hurt to try both, there is not a single chance it would harm a savefile

[coarse falcon]

I recently discovered their mod loader and it has made modding so much more convinient with adding and removing mods.

[austere pagoda]

it is STRONLGY advised to ONLY RUN ONE OF THE 2 ACTIVE MAINTAINED ALIFE MODS any older alife mod will revert alife settings to release and this could mean no human looting happens or mutant eating

[north jackal]

@austere pagoda nice you found a way to extend the offline radius simulation

[coarse falcon]

Well, running any unapdeted mod is asking for trouble if game even start.

[indigo cedar]

hey so do people who own stalker 2 get the S.T.A.L.K.E.R.: Legends of the Zone Trilogy Enhanced Edition for free or is it people who own all the old games? ,_,

[coarse falcon]

Only if you own one of old games you gey enchanced edition of it.

get*

But each one costs less then beer so there is no reason to not get them.

[indigo cedar]

ah okay so if i own all the old games i get all three of the enhanced?

nice thanks ❤️

[austere pagoda]

heh?

there is no offline simulation

[slim wagon]

maybe 1.05 will be the patch that stalker can live their happily life

[north jackal]

click on it-)
Extended offline for longer simulation outside render (no more standing still at edge of render!)

[austere pagoda]

yeah pathfinding, and like they move and stuff but not that i make stuff happen in offline like fights

cus like idk if u have it but for some people (including me) they sometimes like stop at 100m edge and dont proceed in offline

or like u see them go offline but when u go that direction minute later, they barely moved in the offline

wtf the amount of "like" i said my bad lol

[coarse falcon]

You have my "like" 😉

[dense jungle]

So if i already own the 3 games for almost 8 years or so i get each of the enhanced version for free right???

[coarse falcon]

yeah

If it is on steam or gog at least.

[dense jungle]

Eyyy cant wait for it then have finished each game like 4 times or more my dad on the other hand like twice the times he is the one that brought me to this amazing game since i was 3 (17 now)

[dense jungle]

Ye got it on steam

Cant wait 🙏

[coarse falcon]

I might give it another go tbh

But vanilla Clear Sky is best. 😄

[dense jungle]

Got exams until june 5th but i will be sure to try them around when i am free

[dense jungle]

I love clear sky is aswell even if there is the hate about it and all but still its my fav

[dense jungle]

U should man

[proven kayak]

Eh what is that BS.
I am in middle of Zaton.
Emission is called out.
I reached location in time and they dont open the doors.
Never was it like this back then.
You could always enter safe spots.
Geez.

[coarse falcon]

Where, on the ship?

I remember as once emission caught me in the open there and marker lead me to closed building (or it had hostiles). There was one spot like that.

Mission related i think.

[dense jungle]

Let me guess is it a small wooden shack by some containers or like big crains ?

Almost in the middle of the map?

U cant open it yet there is a mission for it later

Not spoiling it

[proven kayak]

No its the main Ship in Zaton.
Skadowsk

They dont let anyone in, all die outside 😄

Just normal emission, nothing fancy, no missions, etc.
They just say "Emission on the way, come in" and nobody is allowed in.

[coarse falcon]

nice

[flint gust]

hi... i have a problem with the new patch. the game lauch in ukrainian language and after lauch the title screen, he imediately crash. i lauch the checking file but not working. I reinstalled but the same thing . Is there a solution?

[proven kayak]

I managed to get to the caves in the area.
But it felt so bad.
You come out of SIRCAA alive.
Packed with loot.
On the way Snorks spawn.
Them a Chimera plus Bloodsucker.
Then Monolith.
And then they call out Emission and you make it in time and you feel so reliefed and they dont open up.
Really anticlimactic.

[coarse falcon]

never happened to me

[golden forge]

did the 1.4 hotfix come? i had a 700MB update on steam but no changelog or anything

[coarse falcon]

no update on gog for me

[vagrant basalt]

So I've had more bugs on 1.4 in 3 hours of play than in entire 1.3.2 playthrough. I bet this is so frustrating for the devs.

Also, combat is a lot harder which is great, but enemies still know where I am without seeing me.

[civic cosmos]

What is '3' sound in Ukrainian?

[drifting bear]

[trɪ]

[polar forge]

Idk enough about the issue to know why it would affect one user but not another in same area. Weird though

Maybe I’ll be able to go back eventually without crashing

[worldly lion]

i hate that in clear sky, you have to wait for another one of your faction to capture point, like i just cleared the place it got captured

[surreal mason]

Is someone here still playing SoC?

[meager crag]

Plenty of people

#⭐┃trilogy-general is the place for the TrilOG games

[surreal mason]

I'm currently playing this game, and I want to finish it... I'm currently at X16Lab

❤️

[worldly lion]

clear sky's factions war sucks

why do i have to wait for a guy to come to a base when i am the one that cleared it

[near totem]

Guys, have you tried filling your personal stash with LOTS of items?

I've been stacking weapons from the beginning, not selling at all.
I just got back to Zalissia and got to the point where the game crashes and stash is corrupted 😓☹️😭

[charred nova]

Revert to old save

[near totem]

I've sumbitted a bug report, cause it seems stash is not endless and mb auto-sort is causing issues... It's so sad, cause I just wanted to sell all of that on Rostok, which is where I've been heading at that point.

[haughty sapphire]

hey guys i get fatal crash at shader check since patch 1.4

i have some mods installed, what is the solution for the crash?

[carmine star]

@haughty sapphire simple mod loader needs to be updated if using that

[coarse falcon]

Remove mods, try, maby check game files if it persists.

[dry aspen]

I'll leave the game on ice for now. Updates while indeed birnging some improvments just bring way to little. Rest of Q2 roadmap looks like a nothingburger. Seems this is all the A-Life improvments we are getting till at least Q3. And things like increased stash tab and 2 new guns are things so small I wouldn't have bother putting them on the roadmap.

I'll probably come back to it when the first DLC drops or something like that

[quiet rock]

Sooo is it possible to finish all side quests before SIRCAA?

[magic vault]

as in "three" or the letter that looks like this?

[worldly lion]

Why aren't you selling them?

[lost needle]

Pretty sure it sounds like like you would prounounce it in english (three=tri)

[ebon bear]

Guys, anyone else has their graphic setting reset when launching the game?
I recently installed a 2nd monitor and I have this issue...

i run on Epic everythihg, my setting always reset to Low

[civic cosmos]

The letter

[coarse falcon]

There is trader in Rostock that buys "red" guns.

It is not bad of idea to hold onto them to sell them later.

[magic vault]

it's a "z" sound, same as English.
The letter itself, on its own is pronounced like "zeh" ("h" is silent)

[hardy totem]

Trying to get the bandit base occupied?

[bold smelt]

"Z"

[indigo oriole]

i found video with location of svu supressor. Any idea if they added Kharod paired magazines or Saiga D12 coupled mags ?

[worldly lion]

I meant like base as in location in general

[worldly lion]

Ah, and he pays more?

[coarse falcon]

He just pays. Better than nothing since no other trader wants them.

[lime patio]

Finally - and I'm really exhausted, because ... Damn that was Work!^^

Today I released my own ReShade Profile and I did it again, to create a Screen-Dirt-Layer from Scratch, but Gemini helped a lot.^^
The Rest was a lot of Photoshop-Stuff ... boring, but still exhausting.

Some Performance Tweaks as well included/explained- based on Software, some by Enginge.ini-Tweaks.

There ya go:
https://www.nexusmods.com/stalker2heartofchornobyl/mods/1396

[near totem]

When I did 1st walkthrough the best prices I could get were in Rostok, I think after winning the Arena I got those.
Also there’s trader who buys broken guns (red-marked ones).

[muted cloak]

does the team working on the issues with Saveganes? Saves from couple of month ago...

tried to re-name save files, same issue....

[lime patio]

I play on PC by XBox Live Service (GamePass) and I had this issue as well, but it helped me, to wipe the data completely and reinstall the game freshly.

But ... I experience engine-crashes after 30-45min ... I can set a timer for it, so because it happens continuesly, I can save before the game crashes.^^

deleate your ID

[muted cloak]

from where?

[still current]

Why would you even post the crash expression here

[lime patio]

Yes and nice - now do it twice^^

[violet dune]

what is goin on lol

[still current]

There is a submit report button you could simply press to send it to the dev team

Posting that here won't bring any difference I'm afraid

[violet dune]

better post in discord, so mods will give advise how to fix save files

[worldly lion]

RED MARKED ONES?!?!

[muted cloak]

Done already. Just wondering if the team is resolving this as I am seen hundreds of posts like this online and also youtube videos

[charred nova]

Epic games launcher

Unlucky

[lime patio]

You can be sure, that they work on it as fast as possible.

[still current]

Mods do not act as techsupport we know a bit from time to time, but we can't really help with crash expression

[wanton blaze]

Are command line mods working for anyone after the update? I use UEtools like Godmode, Ghost, and Walk to get some footage and after the update none of them work.

[violet dune]

nah, you dev. just dont want to help, just say it

[still current]

I would simply ask you to check your game for active mods (pak files in mod folder), if you have them enabled, then it might be the issue due incompatibility. You could also try and clear your shader cache, then see if it helps

[lime patio]

Of caaaaause^^ - Like you say "Dunno what winter is, I got all the year 34°C in my flat...." 🤣👍

[violet dune]

yea

i had a dream this night. GSC updated UE5.1 to 5.6, but i wake up

[charred nova]

I had a dream they delayed stalker 2 till 2026

I wake up

And sadly the game is out

[violet dune]

lol, happens

[still current]

The thing you shared is simply the crash expression [exception_access_violation] that may be caused by plenty of factors. The data fed to that expression in the log is what actually matters, not the log expression.

[violet dune]

to migrate from 5.1 to 5.6 for stalker 2 probably impossible. it would took over a year

[lime patio]

🤣
"I had a Dream that I was a giant ... but everything around me was as large as me, so regular sized...."

How Did you know that you are a giant then...

"Because my clothes were 1.000.000XL sized!"

[still current]

Yeah, and get everything wrecked

[violet dune]

dont want 1.4 patch again?

[still current]

It's not a simple matter cuz it would brick the whole thing due to changes to certain values in code or configs

[violet dune]

everything would crash

and they dont have budget to do it and time

[still current]

UE5 is a nuclear core when handling lmao

[lime patio]

The whole way some calculations are done is wiped and exchanged ... that would mean "Let's start from Scratch!" - Would be impressive, if Epic Games behind UE5 would release a simple "UE5 Converter" or "Updater", which does all the work by it's own ... man ... what would be left if we don't have dreams anymore, right?^^

[violet dune]

but in perfect world this would "most likely" remove all limits, give stability in performance, would be less resource taxing etc etc

[still current]

Well, I'm well aware of automated converters and how they work. There is absolutely no way for it to work perfectly as it will definitely leave way too much errors to be handled.

[violet dune]

s2 not using just 5.1. its very customized one

so everything would go to bin

[lime patio]

Don't write about taxes ... that is giving me goose bumps!^^

[still current]

Had similar exp with trilogy modding where a friend of mine made an auto converter to make files meet the mod config change and in the end I had to do much more work to fix the issues it caused lmao

[violet dune]

no such thing as auto converter on projects like this

[still current]

Like the stuff I manually configured worked perfectly, but the ones I used the auto converter to do were all bricked and had to be reworked

[charred nova]

Literally a generic error that means basically nothing

[muted cloak]

yep

[still current]

And it's with the ID again

[charred nova]

Just revalidate files

[still current]

Some stuff you better not share with randoms

[lime patio]

Same experience by checking Stalker 2 Logs, to be able to convert some of the commandlines and definitions into the Scalability.ini and so on, just to be able to tweak settings for some more performance.

Merging files ... nice! - Half of the entire commandlines vanished with ease and so - Let's Restart Yeah!^^

[still current]

Bruh, again

[charred nova]

Isn’t that literally a cookie

So someone could just steal there account

[tacit jay]

I'm still trying to figure out this one that i'm getting

LowLevelFatalError [File:D:\STALKER2\s2editor\Engine\Source\Runtime\D3D12RHI\Private\D3D12Util.cpp] [Line: 880] CurrentQueue.Device->GetDevice()->GetDeviceRemovedReason() failed at D:\STALKER2\s2editor\Engine\Source\Runtime\D3D12RHI\Private\D3D12Submission.cpp:910 with error DXGI_ERROR_DEVICE_REMOVED

[still current]

Yeah

Could be used

[charred nova]

Well if bro wants his account stolen i guess all the power to em lol

[violet dune]

bro this is not help-desk channel

[tacit jay]

I've uninstalled, reinstalled, uninstalled graphics drivers, reinstalled graphics drivers and other things. Wasn't having the issue before 1.4, but it seems nvidia and stalker2 aren't playng nice anymore. It's some sort of directx12 issue as far as I can tell.

[violet dune]

they fix each patch 1k of these errors, do you think we know what is it?

[still current]

It does look familiar fron somewhere lmao? Did you make sure it's not the driver? Or something related to it?

Idk, just brainstorming

[lime patio]

...whithout realizing what just happend ...
It's in this case not as traumatic as other mind-crashes, that could change things after 9 months and are able to keep you busy at least 18 years of your life, right.^^

Damn ... am I evil today^^

[tacit jay]

Yeah I uninstalled my gpu drivers and reinstalled them. I updated my drivers before 1.4, played for hours just fine lol. I might roll back my drivers and see if that fixes it.

Something pre may at least

[still current]

Yeah, it can be it. Try to use one you had no issues with cuz newer ones are wack

[charred nova]

The difference between a stop at 7 eleven and spending 2 bux

[still current]

Definitely before series 50

[tacit jay]

Nvidia has been having the issue for a few months with just crappy drivers that fail all the time.

[still current]

Cuz it's all meant for 50 cards

Main focus I mean

So yeah

Better roll back to older and more stable drivers

[charred nova]

Nvidia and Radeon is changing places

[tacit jay]

Yeah, true. I'll see what I can do

[charred nova]

Now Radeon drivers seem to work great with no issues

[still current]

Didn't remember having a crash related to drivers, but rather a weird performance once. Rolling back restored my game to its former glory lmao

[charred nova]

While nvidia drivers are basically totally none functional

In some titles

[still current]

Tbh? They ended up proving they are the best this year, so yeah

[lime patio]

That's another "Outcome" if some sort of AI is converting files ... in this case "Drivers"!^^
There were NEVER a situation, that you have to UPDATE the GPU-Firmware ... yep, then came 5000'nd Series, you are welcome.^^

[still current]

Series 50 were an absolute scam

Drivers too

Hehe

[charred nova]

The age of Radeon may be on its way I pray every day

[still current]

It is

This year was certainly not Nvidia's

Ig, it'll be on the top for years to come, at least until Nvidia get a miracle happening

[still current]

Yeah, and it's basically driver related one way or another

[lime patio]

I did an HW-Upgrade past as the 7950X3D was released and I waited, yes I was interested on a 5090 ... but after all reports and what happened "Nah thanks!".
I do not think that it will get any better on 6000'nd series because one thing is clear "nVidia doesn't lern by mistakes...".

[still current]

True

[tacit jay]

from what I understand it's basically saying myd river vanishes or something. But a reinstall of the driver should've fixed so idk. it's goofy. I'll remove my drivers and install one from december

[charred nova]

Give me the mega Radeon

[tacit jay]

since Jan 30th was the start of the series 50 ones.

[still current]

If I ever have a chance for change, I wouldn't go Nvidia anymore

[lime patio]

Wait mate ... the 10.700 XTX will bully nVidia, that's for sure ...

[still current]

You should try that

Perhaps block updates too if it was the issue

[lime patio]

• Yes this mate should get use of DDU!

[tacit jay]

Yeah that's what I used before to remove myd rivers lol

[lime patio]

Get use Of DDU, to prevent Windows for getting Driver-Updates, until you are sure it's not the problem!

[tacit jay]

I got nvidia set to auto download updates to drivers, but not install until I prompt it. I'll keep it that way and try with this.

[still current]

Idk, he can simply disable auto updates and switch to manual

[lime patio]

I use as well the application "NVCleanInstall" to setup the driverinstallation as I want it to - without the Crapware in it.

[charred nova]

10950xtx

Give me the king

[lime patio]

Some ppl life in the past without an exit ... other looking for the future, while "we" life there already^^

[charred nova]

The x1950 xtx was the last gpu ati made before the buy out

The 7900 xtx was the first time
They used the xtx name since then but it’s not the real guy

[lime patio]

There's only the XT yet - you are faster than the realtime now ... 32Gb DDR6 and way more Performance is not yet registered for a release.^^

[charred nova]

9000 series won’t get such a card it’s a stop gap value based product

[lime patio]

My fault, yes I was thinking of the 9070 XTX right now.^^

[charred nova]

Yah that is rumored to maybe happen

[lime patio]

AMD has its time, nVidia has nothing to compare to it...

No need to rush....

[cursive kettle]

yo guys, talking tbh, do you all think that the spawn bubble will eventually get removed or it's just the A-life simulator of S2? i do not hate it but tbh it seems too plain simple to generate an event instead of the zone being the zone

[lime patio]

I know what you do experience!
Yeah I think there has to be some more updates onto this!

Interactions would be great, that I could heal every Stalker on the ground ... except dead ones of cause!

In sight of this - a better reputation system, that makes sense and changes how stalkers react to me... 😁

[cursive kettle]

the only thing that sends me mad are the encounters, like 8 heavy geared military npcs spawning every 300 meters makes me wanna uninstall the game

and the insanely high blood pools of normal bandits, in Stalker soc they had such normal health pool, here theire all superman if you don't hit the head

[lime patio]

That's nothing that I experienced so far ... ooooookay... that is impressive, what difficult are you at?

Spoiler: ULTRA HARDCORE VETERAN!

Ah okay, then it's a regular thing, nothing to worry about ... 🤣

[normal sail]

They should add the ability to pet the Bayuns

[lime patio]

What about Base-Building-System like in Fallout 4?
Would be great as well.

[normal sail]

Chimera and Pseudogiant saddles would be a good idea too

Roll up to a Ward outpost and maul or crush those freeloaders

[dim summit]

will legends of the zone trilogy still be able to run on a potato laptop?

[hoary hazel]

Installed after 5months i get 70-80fps now but still drops heavy ill be back in a few months again

[dim summit]

my pc is being fixed rn

[plain fiber]

Does AMD have it's own equivalent to the Nvidia App? Even back when it was GeForce Experience, I just liked how convenient it made driver updates and settings optimization.

[fleet tartan]

1.4 update and now can't even load into the game 😭

It let me start a new game though

[lime patio]

Try to deinstall /wipe data and do a fresh installation - that helped for me.

[charred nova]

amd has literally the same thing

[cursive kettle]

it's not regular😭 🙏

[gentle thistle]

will the modding kit be in depth or basic?

[cursive kettle]

nope, since Stalker2 Devs are strange people, they prefer to keep stalker2 IDENTICAL to the trilogy games, just with simulated a life and less features.
I don't expect anything new to be added apart from guns and map parts

[cursive kettle]

idk but i assure u the the Sdk will be bugged too lol

[gentle thistle]

fr

i hope it is good though

[cursive kettle]

they need to make it at least decent on Launch

imagine waiting 3 months for it to be fixed after being released

[normal sail]

How did you look at that and think I was being serious

[cursive kettle]

bcs u look like a bemberberedrer

[chrome gazelle]

when is mod support coming to stalker 2

[cursive kettle]

when they want to, rn the things that they promised in Q2 are not in order

[devout halo]

I just reinstalled the game for the 1.4 patch and whenever I click continue my game crashes?? This was never a problem before. Is anyone else having this problem?

[cursive kettle]

God man it's jus a lil issue, get over it 🙏

and nope, in xbox is all ok

[devout halo]

Tf does that even mean 💀

[cursive kettle]

Gta3

[spiral cobalt]

Yeah happened for me too, I'm pretty sure its because of mods not properly deleting even after reinstalling. What i did was delete all of the game files and then verify integrity in steam (It will take a while)

[halcyon karma]

Priority for hotfix.

[halcyon karma]

Try this btw

[devout halo]

I didnt mod the game I tried verifying didnt work

Ill just wait for hotfix

[spiral cobalt]

I see

[halcyon karma]

backup your Stalker 2 appdata folder somewhere, then delete it, see if it works.

but make sure to back-up your folder, just in case.

[devout halo]

I already uninstalled the game I will just wait for a hotfix then reinstall it I am not really in the mood to be diagnosing it atm.

only takes like 10-15 minutes to download anyways

[halcyon karma]

only takes 1 minute to do what I suggested

[devout halo]

I uninstalled the game...

[lime patio]

It's not needed to deleate the whole folder "appdata" cuz that will brick many applications!

[halcyon karma]

I, erm, meant the Stalker2 appdata folder, obviously

[shrewd needle]

Is it me, or is there no scope for the EM-1?

[meager crag]

Yes, it's a variant of the Gauss Rifle

[shrewd needle]

Yea, but I figured one could install a scope...so much for having a Picatinny on top... 😔

[meager crag]

Afraid not, yeah

[shrewd needle]

Close-range anti-materiel cannon, though. Time to use it in place of a shotgun. 😏

[halcyon karma]

You want a scope in the underground?

[shrewd needle]

Beats the iron sights.

Also, not underground; spawned using console command to play with it.

[tacit jay]

Not that you need an update, but yeah. rolling the driver back to the december one has me running without crashing. Performance is still hinky, but it's fine. I can work with that. Least I can play!

[fleet tartan]

Same

But to be fair I let it update

Without deleting and reinstalling

So that's what I'm going to try

[gritty relic]

I hope stalker multiplayer is something like tarkov arena

[lime patio]

I got enough of extraction shooters and all kind of PvP garbage. I like to play Multiplayer CoOp ... all the rest is wasted time and there're enough games released to play such types of gameplay.

[dusk oyster]

Where are the sound files located?

[violet dune]

anyone know there to find RT reconstruction file? i only found dlss

[lime patio]

Packed/Compressed into libraries.

[potent void]

Hi all! After patch 1.4 i'm not able to select how long I want to sleep. anyone have sam prob?

[still current]

good

[halcyon karma]

Erm... you were able to select how long you wanted to sleep in 1.3?

[tacit jay]

99.9% chance it's going to be like the Og trilogy MP.

TDM, FFA, Artifact hunt, Artifact capture and so on.

[halcyon karma]

Already confirmed to be this way.

[tacit jay]

That's what I figured.

Unless plans have changed, it's been confirmed to be this since like 2022.

[peak fable]

where can i find SOFMOD gun after latest update?

[gritty relic]

The og had mp?

[tacit jay]

Yes, all three games did.

Still do, actually. You can still manage to find games I think, just gotta sync up with others.

The lotz versions and enhanced editions won't though.

[peak fable]

where can i find SOFMOD gun after latest update? its not at the typical location like before

[tacit jay]

https://www.reddit.com/r/stalker/comments/1kncfav/found_the_sofmod_in_this_location_after_update_i/

[peak fable]

thx i saw that one but the map marker here is weird...there is no cave like in the firt screenshot. ill go there again

[round gate]

Can I be Dow 6 team for twisted

[peak fable]

got it!

[tacit jay]

Nice

[still current]

Nope lmao he's probably having his memories torn up over mods and S2

[jagged rapids]

[echo nimbus]

💀 i did not mean to fully uninstall stalker 2 oh well ig i gotta wait 8 hours

[still current]

[chrome gazelle]

what is the black bubble outside of the x17 lab

[chrome gazelle]

anyone who knows what that black bubble is at x17 lab

[carmine star]

Touch it and find out

[tight forge]

Hello

How are yall

[shrewd needle]

@delicate ravine - responding here...used trainer to get 0 weight (because I'm a hoarder and IDC about weight limits). And I'm carrying 200 vodkas because that's what I looted, from stashes and enemies and so on...

[tight forge]

Is there a way to buy non stop on the usa, I wanna taste what my character drinks

[shell flax]

eBay

[tight forge]

I hope I find a decently cheap one

[shell flax]

I saw one listing for ten bucks earlier

Just make sure to vet the seller

[tight forge]

Actually not that bad, they were 30 dollars on amazon

[tight forge]

Whats that mean

[shell flax]

Make sure it’s not a fake or scam listing

[tight forge]

Oh, yeah i always read the description and check profile, i saw one for a 24 pack that was too cheap to be true, it was only 1 can

[shell flax]

I would buy some but I just blew my ‘Fun’ budget on a complete pc rebuild lmao

[tight forge]

I have 50 bucks in my fun budget, got a job interview lined up for Wednesday over the summer tho

[shell flax]

Everywhere I’ve applied has given me the run around but

I won’t lie, I’m more impressed by how smooth S2 runs on my new rig then I thought i would be

[tight forge]

Go in person, did it with little ceasers while buying the new dew flavor, now I have an interview

[grave fjord]

Where are my monolith Brothers at

[shell flax]

I was looking back in the chat, damn did that dude with the oh so reliable source about a PS5 release get banned?

Or did he delete all his stuff

[still current]

Who's that?

[vernal lily]

who

[shell flax]

Some dude came in here and started spouting nonsense about an inside source who gave him info on an S2 ps5 release

All his shit is just gone now so he either deleted it or he got banned

[still current]

Well, an inside source is basically am impossible fear lmao

[vernal lily]

Doesn't ring a bell

[still current]

I would've muted the guy tbh. Spreading false information could earn a week mute hehe

[shell flax]

It honestly read like a kid trying to sound important I won’t lie lmao

[still current]

Remember his name?

[shell flax]

Nah, all his message got nuked

Probably one of the shittest ‘leakers’ I’ve seen in a bit

Currently hunting down all the new loot stuff, I’m so happy the SVD suppressor is out in the wild now

[tight forge]

Guys my dad works at Nintendo stalker 2 is getting a 3ds release with 120 fps 4k ray tracing

[still current]

Found him, but I could barely understand the context of his claims

[frigid hill]

l3aperjr has been warned

Reason: Bad word usage

[shell flax]

Noted, various versions of shit but that one

[vernal lily]

Odd we can say the word 'shit' but not when you put the word 'bull' in front of it.

smh wolf

[still current]

@frigid hill bad wolf

He only answers Mol1t

[jagged rapids]

[shell flax]

Aight

[still current]

Never got the chance to find it

[shell flax]

It’s actually not in a too bad spot if you want to know

[still current]

Nah, I'll find it

[shell flax]

Aight

[still current]

I'm making sure to take every single stash I come across

[tight forge]

Do you know where i can find the ammo, only thing stopping me from using it more

[still current]

Only pripyat is left, literally

[still current]

Mainly stashed (random spawn)

[shell flax]

Yaniv, Pripyat and malachite sell it as well

[still current]

Some houses mid game areas might have some sitting on furniture

[kindred harbor]

Finally get to play the original stalker game with controller support.

[still current]

Other than that, you may just buy those, but buying isn't really what most do considering how hard to maintain costs especially with how much repairs and upgrades eats out of your coupons lmao

Honestly, I never even had to buy a single bullet from traders (except for buckshots). I literally have a stash full of all kinds of ammo, enough to pull me through to the end of the game heh

Remember having like 1900 ap rounds 5.45

And around 400 expansive ones

Ofc around the same of other types

[vale grail]

I got mine at the clear sky base.

All I need now is the bipod for my knife

[tight forge]

Speaking of buckshot they should do an april fools update where it gets replaced by birdshot for a day

[still current]

Hehe ppl wouldn't take the joke and rather complain about a bug making shotguns do way less damage and being nearly useless after an update lmao

[tight forge]

True, or even better do the change for like 3 hours that way the few that play during those 3 are utterly confused

[shell flax]

Nah replace jams with like a catastrophic malfunction (Squib blocking a shot) or something you need to go to a tech for and it’s only like three hundred to repair every time

[tight forge]

Skiff looking down the barrel to clear a jam

[shell flax]

I think it would be funnier if he picked up a stick and started jamming that thing in the barrel like he was trying to unclog a Taco Bell toilet

[tight forge]

That would be funnier

[fathom solar]

what if strelok didnt name strelok and who will be strelok

[weary hedge]

Good morning comrades. What's up?

[fathom solar]

its 1 pm here

[vernal lily]

It's 1 am over here

But I guess that counts

[chrome gazelle]

what is the black bubble outside of the x17 lab does anyone know

[ebon blade]

It's Stalker time, all over the world.

[chrome gazelle]

it 1:24

[still current]

Exploding guns on jamm

[shell flax]

Kentucky ballistics style

[shell flax]

Also you just know those med kits hurt like hell

Especially with the fact you’ve gotta ram them through suits

[vernal lily]

Whatever pain they have for the injury probably out weighs the pain from the med kit

[shell flax]

You shared an image of you reviving a duty dude with a med kit, the hell you mean ‘what’ lmao

[ebon blade]

Did you notice which armor I am wearing?

[shell flax]

Zircon?

[ebon blade]

Yes, with the Duty Sphere helmet with Psi Protection.

[shell flax]

One of my favorite looking helmets

[ebon blade]

Now I am wearing the SEVA-V Freedom variant

[shell flax]

It’s still funny to me that SEVA’s are airtight suits and the sleeves still visibly flap about, though I’m assuming it’s just the outer layer

[vale grail]

The sleeves are the outer layer with the armor. The inner layer is airtight.

[shell flax]

Yeah I figured

Still a funny image

[gentle olive]

How does the game feel now?

[vale grail]

I actually have no idea. I was just guessing

[vale grail]

Its feel, just not very feel yet

[gentle olive]

Gotcha, would you say there has been an improvement to A-Life and how NPC interact in combat?

or is it not as noticeable?

aka does the NPCs act more realistic

[vale grail]

I wish I could say yes

I shot myself in the foot

[gentle olive]

Well, really and truly all they have to do is get out the mod kit and everything will be fine.

Q2 Roadmap ends in June, so I think we'll be fine here really soon.

[mental relic]

is anyone elses sensitivity so sluggish since the last update?

[primal gale]

No

But the AI is still weird especially in combat

[mental relic]

mines at max and its so slow

before it was fine now its a pain

[primal gale]

Dunno bout mouse I have deathadder

[rain ingot]

You mean mouse sluggish movement?

What massively helped with that for me was just to literally set global illumination and post processing and also motion blur strength all down to low and leaving essentially everything else alone

and in my opinion it makes the game look better

[fading parcel]

Just increasing a bit LOD for trees to not see ugly popups and game eats 30 FPS

[hardy totem]

https://tenor.com/view/monkey-gif-18890916

[coarse falcon]

Time for PC upgrade.

I wonder if i should upgrade to Ryzen 9 (9900X or 9950X) or wait for their next one that they anounced.

I'm leaning for R9s personally

[dense jungle]

Me with my ryzen 7 1800x 😶

[coarse falcon]

Currently i'm running 7 5700X and it's ok.

[dense jungle]

I mean if it does what i want why should i upgrade ( got a gtx1660 super aswell)

[dense jungle]

I was planning to go for a ryzen 5 5600x

[wanton edge]

Been a while since I've been here, are npcs groups still spawning infront of the player and immediately fighting eachother

[coarse falcon]

no

[plain mantle]

do i have 2 say for the ||ward|| ending ||live is of the living to scar, or can i say eternal spring 2??||

[topaz grove]

I don't know how bout you guys, but my stalker 2 either looks beautiful or like a piece of blurry shit at some moments.

No in-between

[light crag]

Do I get the update to Enhanced Edition for free or not since I bought the old part back then on Steam

[weary hedge]

u get upgrade when u pay 10 EUR

Love spreading misinformation

[meager crag]

#📜┃gsc-answers message

Truly a STALKER topic

Not to mention political as well, so I'm afraid I'll have to delete it

No warning tho, no worries

[weary hedge]

Not cool. Especially since romania is on borders with the country where stalker took place

[meager crag]

Dems da roolz, it B wat it B

[austere pagoda]

skeeeffaaa q2 ending soon where sdk skeeffaaaaa just leak it in my dm please ty skeeffaaa

[golden pecan]

Does anyone have any tips for carry weights management in stalker 2?

[smoky hawk]

drop the food and lower your med quantity, dont carry as much ammo and carry only 2 guns

[golden pecan]

What if i need to carry/transport new gun to my stash? So much weight and the stash is always far

[smoky hawk]

then carry even less ammo

[golden pecan]

Ammo doesn't even add to +1kg right?

They are super light

Yesterday i had like 38 medkit/stim , that seems alot right?

[smoky hawk]

usually people carry 1k or around and that weight stacks, same with food, if you have 30-50 bottles of water, youre carrying too much

also, medkits and bandages weight stacks

they will very rapidly weight you down

[golden pecan]

I have like 6 sausage and fish can +6 vodka and water with 20 Bandage and maybe+25 medkit

[smoky hawk]

get 10 badnages, 10 medkits, drop all vodka and start carrying anti rad meds, drop all foor and use 3 water when you need

[golden pecan]

Does water feed hunger much?

[smoky hawk]

yhea

if I recall

it also gives you a big buff to stamina

[golden pecan]

You are saying this considering that i will always find new loot that i can use like a fish can laying around that i can instantly eat right?

[smoky hawk]

yes

food you should eath on the way as you find it

[golden pecan]

• no spoilers needed , do we only have one stash in this whole game?

[smoky hawk]

I like to keep water as a stamina giver like energizers

[golden pecan]

What about the power drinks?

[smoky hawk]

interchangable with water bottles

but beers and vodka I dont use, just antirad meds, unless the ammount of rads is miniscule wherein I just let myself flush it normally by time

[golden pecan]

Alright alright

[turbid cliff]

I carry only 3 condensed milks and survive off of my surroundings when I play. 10-20 medkits.. though reaching a point sustaining through your Artefact belt will greatly increase your survivability.

Once you reach a point of having an exoskeleton, if you play smart, most of your carry weight issues will be fixed.

[golden pecan]

Ah yes thanks for reminding me cowboy

I dont have much relics , is there a super way to find them?

I have gold fish and the 1st relic and just another 1 , i feel im not getting the areas i should search in

[turbid cliff]

Explore the zone! If you are desperate, yes there are guides on the internet.. but one of the best ways to find artefacts is to acquire the Hilka detector, and explore the zone and her beauty.

[golden pecan]

Yes i dont want to use guides i wanna go wild , but its like should i just go around and carry my little orange device? , im still in the lesser zone , is this hilka detector an early thing?

[turbid cliff]

Spotting for Anomoly clusters is always the first step.. if it’s a named Anomoly cluster, then 9 times out of 10, you will find an artefact.

The Hilka detector you’ll find a little later in the game, trust the process.. but the orange one you have will do you fine for the time being.

[golden pecan]

Any tips on where to find/pulling out the orange thing? Like in buildings or like idk the wild?

[cobalt fiber]

Ez way to get the hilka is the side quest picked up in garbage

[smoky hawk]

as soon as you get out of lesser zone the world expands and you get a ton of stuff, youre still in the tutorial

[golden pecan]

Notes , not yet there but i will go there soon

[turbid cliff]

entirely

[golden pecan]

Ahhhhh that explains alot , im exploring the area near the lesser zone

[cobalt fiber]

Defo not worth artifact hunting until you've got a better detector

[golden pecan]

Its a tiny more difficult , like far right lesser zone

[cobalt fiber]

Unless you like self torture

[golden pecan]

No comment

[turbid cliff]

It’s a process you have to trust.. no Legend of The Zone rises without learning the zone themselves.

Enjoy the process, ||and the suffering||

[smoky hawk]

artifacts have a chance to respawn in anomaly fields everytime a emission happens, however, the first emission happens at the end of the tutorial, therefore, to start farming arts you need to leave the lesser zone

[cobalt fiber]

I'd power through to garbage for the cracker alone tbh

Then bolt to the cement factory for OP armour early on

[golden pecan]

Thanks for the info guys , as for the stash , do we have many? Or i have only in zelissa

I mean personal one

[cobalt fiber]

No you have a stash in every major settlement

[hardy totem]

Your stash is accessible from all of them

It's a magic box

[golden pecan]

That is great

[cobalt fiber]

Always trust in magic boxes

[hardy totem]

Step one

[frigid hill]

shenderlla has been warned

Reason: Bad word usage

[hardy totem]

You cut a hole in the box...

[golden pecan]

Well didn't expect that is a bad word

Anyway i will keep going around the lesser zone till i go to the next one

[obtuse sentinel]

question

[meager crag]

https://tenor.com/view/tf2-teamfortress-soldier-question-engineer-gif-20340120

[obtuse sentinel]

i own all 3 stalker og games with the exception of 2 i saw on the internet that if you own all 3 ogs you get legacy of void enhanced for free correct

so why arent they on my library

on steam,do i have to wait for 20 may for them to be there or what

[meager crag]

You already answered yourself

Job done

It releases on the 20th of May, so yeah, it's not out yet

[obtuse sentinel]

i see,i thought so cause gta v enhanced was already at my library pre release so i thought all games did that

good to know

[meager crag]

Yeah, not all games do

We've got to wait a bit longer

[obtuse sentinel]

no problemo my fellow comrade

[meager crag]

Cheers

[obtuse sentinel]

cheers

[fierce nexus]

I hoard things, so it's good to have a magical bottomless box

[jolly shoal]

Like the Xbox

[amber bane]

whats up everybody, I havent player stalker 2 since december but with this latest patch should i get back into it or wait some more

[mossy vale]

Why wait? Now is best time.

[novel wave]

i'd wait till the hotfix comes

[jolly shoal]

I gave away the drowned ak on accident

[novel wave]

like sold it?

[jolly shoal]

No gave it back to the dude

[novel wave]

oh lol

[jolly shoal]

Thought it was just some crappy ak

[novel wave]

you might be able to kill him and take it back

[jolly shoal]

Too late

Gonna have to stick to the MTAR

[novel wave]

go back a save? or did you do it ages ago

[jolly shoal]

Ages

[sturdy verge]

Then it's gonna be another hotfix then another and another lol

[sturdy verge]

Fineee haha

[drifting crag]

my save is cooked, the game freezes and memory usage skyrockets when an emission starts and i've tried everything 🥲

[jolly shoal]

Duty was nice enough to die to bandits and leave me all kinds of op guns

The zone is causing an anomaly on your pc

[north jackal]

Hot fix to fix what

[north jackal]

Exactly

[novel wave]

the many current bugs

some of the many current bugs*

the bigger ones anyway

[tacit jay]

Cool thing I noticed with 1.4 is that in the lesser zone, during the lockdown. I saw a few dutiers wandering around. They helped me fight off some boars and a different group helped me kill bandits that I encountered.

[north jackal]

Was days length increased

I remember day/night cycle being way to quick

[spark pond]

A fair take?

https://www.reddit.com/r/stalker/s/3fzJiGebsX

[north jackal]

I'd say so.. I'm still really annoyed that A-Life 2.0 was back tracked on, then lied saying it was a bug.. it's just not there lol

If it was a bug or broken, surely it would have been fixed by now. But we're on patch 1.4 and still practically nothing but edits to the spawn system

[neat flint]

what'd i miss?

[spiral cobalt]

I love GSC and fuily support them but if I said that wasn't ridiculous id also be lying

[north jackal]

I love them too.. but transparency from the start would've stopped them being caught in the current web

[spiral cobalt]

I really dont understand what the point in hiding that is, all it does is make them look bad, if they were transparent about it literally everyone would have been happier

[cobalt fiber]

It is what it is

Words to live by boys

[hardy totem]

it do be like that

[smoky hawk]

buy an ad redditor

[fading parcel]

I don't think so, 4070Ti.

[coarse falcon]

PC is more than GPU but ok

[fading parcel]

You don't say

[spiral cobalt]

I did this yesterday and went from 200fps (frame gen x3) to 140fps he aint lying

[oak junco]

imagine if this game was optimized lol

[spiral cobalt]

Wouldnt that just be so crazy

[oak junco]

[fading parcel]

Crazy, and to have on native res 1440p without fg just around 40fps (i know its epic setting used but still), 4080 can make barely 60 then and high end will not even mention as thats other class.

[spiral cobalt]

Like I'd understand the low performance if the game looked like it did 2 years ago but it doesn't

I won't even mention CPU performance

[uncut inlet]

i just discovered an interesting thing in stalker 2 that i find hilarious

[spiral cobalt]

They optimized by downgrading the graphics not by actually optimizing lol

[elder palm]

does anyone know if the recent update fixed the bug where you lose all your bases after SIRCAA?

[novel wave]

Bases?

[elder palm]

bases/shelters to buy/sell things, places like slag heap and zalyssa

[plucky pasture]

Where is the updated roadmap ?

[violet dune]

if S2 was build on UE5.5 a lot of performance issues would be fixed

[fading parcel]

Yes real mess if you go dig up a bit, they should stayed on UE4 and release like 2-3 years later remaster or something in UE5. But on a side, night storms are really something, can give them that.

[violet dune]

now they bandaiding unstable 5.1 UE engine

[plucky pasture]

Why dont they just update the ue engine to unreal 5.6 coming june 3rd

[violet dune]

lol, you think its like updating app right? 1 click

[fading parcel]

It will take months to update

[novel wave]

How hard actually is it to do

[violet dune]

UE5 is an amazing piece of shit engine. which requires insane amount of work to upgrade from one verstion to another

[plucky pasture]

Ready or not updated in 3 weeks to the newest unreal what do you mean ?

[elder palm]

this is the bug im referencing and i think i need to hepl off on storyline progress to avoid this again, unless they fixed it

[violet dune]

so for GSC to upgrade to latest engine would take probably a year

[elder palm]

nvm cant paste the link

[plucky pasture]

God damn do they have like 10 employees or something ?

[violet dune]

they dont have man power or budget

[fading parcel]

Meant GSC update engine to new one.

[violet dune]

also its only PC, but Xbox all versions

most likely PS5 port soon

[plucky pasture]

Doesnt unreal engine have a built in project update feature aswell ? Ports most stuff then you gotta do the rest

[violet dune]

if you didnt work or have interest how it works you wont understand. you think few devs during weekend can upgrade 100GB game to newer version. no they cant, all the code would go out of the window. GSC use 5.1 CUSTOM UE engine. all their tools would not work with latest UE5. they would need to create new projects basicaly and import manualy and link manualy almost everything. im not a dev, but i bet its insane amount of effort.

and they would need to do all these majors patches again and test for bugs again. 😄

its kinda sad tho

game would be much stable with latest UE

[plucky pasture]

How many employees do they have ? VOID interactive has 58 and was able to update from unreal 4.27 to unreal 5.3.2 within 3 weeks

[violet dune]

hard to tell, i assume it should be around 200-300+

not pure devs, but everyone. including managers, designers, staff etc

also this question was rised in ask gsc, they said they not planning yet. i assume migration to newer engines would only happen after DLC or something, before it i dont believe they put all this effort

also ready or not game is not comparable in size or complexity to s2. UE5.1 sucks for open world, Unity sucks too even more.

[spiral cobalt]

They shouldnt stay on UE4 but they REALLY shouldnt have stayed on UE5.1 which is arguable one of the worst versions in my experience its a miracle they even made the game in that version

simply upgrading to 5.4 or 5.5 would MASSIVELY help performance on both CPU and the GPU

[violet dune]

this simple upgrade could cost them 2-3M

[plucky pasture]

Didnt they sell 1 million copys for 60$ each ?

[violet dune]

plat fees, taxes, wages, expenses

UE 5.3 would be cheaper to upgrade

but 5.5 gives a lot of good stuff

[plucky pasture]

It still would at least be 18 mil

[violet dune]

i mean it would be investment in future.

but try to sell this to shareholders 😄

[plucky pasture]

After they are done with everything on the road map

They could sell a upgrade to 5.6 as a 10 or 20$ dlc

[spiral cobalt]

LOL

[violet dune]

devs need really good reason why shareholders should invest 2-3M for new engine, for them performances issues probobly not big deal or priority

[spiral cobalt]

You know what Id buy that at this point

I dont see how it would take that much though? Its just an engine version upgrade

[violet dune]

which breaks everything

the tools they use for custom engine also breaks

[spiral cobalt]

Thats fair

[violet dune]

if upgrades was like microsoft or macos there "nothing breaks" and you get new stuff. i think GSC would already did this.

[spiral cobalt]

GSC said they dont plan on upgrading engine versions at all so I'd assume they havent tried but it probably would end up breaking quite a bit of things

[violet dune]

i bet they have direct contact with epic games

i wouldnt be surprised of some if epic games engineers even checked state of s2 engine

[spiral cobalt]

if they had direct contact with epic games I would think the game would run miles better than it currently does

[violet dune]

you think epic games just starts working for gsc from nowhere?

[spiral cobalt]

Im not exactly sure what you mean by direct contact, but I mean its not hard to see that Stalker 2 is basically the 'UE5 is bad' game if that makes sense

[violet dune]

from what i seen and what i played. i strongly believe they kinda run out of money or near running out and got microsoft pressure to release game, because they delayed it too many times. they just cut unfinished content and released.

[spiral cobalt]

Thats definitely possible yeah

But i mean they clearly are putting effort into updating the game, which begs the question why does the game still run SO bad? Its either GSC isnt working on optimization or they just dont know how to improve it further, each of those are equally as bad

[violet dune]

by direct contact i mean. if gsc not sure about something or how difficult would be implement like new engine. they could just ask epic games and they would get an answer. when you launch game it says UE engine big logo it means they have some kind of partner ship

[violet dune]

good question, i guess they fightining a lot of these bugs. they fix 1000 engine bugs and 300 new ones appear

also most likely most of the devs dont have a lot of experience with UE5

[spiral cobalt]

Well in that case id love to help them lol

But yeah every update adds additional bugs to the game lol

1.3 did, 1.2 did, last update did

[violet dune]

i think you can, they always looking for new people

https://www.gsc-game.com/index.php?lang=en&tab=career

[spiral cobalt]

Actually I meet seemingly all of those requirements maybe i will

[lime anvil]

Hey am I the only one who noticed that the Sensitivity Options on Xbox Broke after this new update? Turning it all the way up has almost no effect to how fast you turn anymore, its just slow no matter what

[spiral cobalt]

Pretty sure they are aware of that and will fix it in a hotfix if I remember correctly

[lime anvil]

Glad it got caught, wasn't exactly game-ruining speeds but after a bit you start to feel like being in the zone had an effect on your characters frontal cortex

[spring gorge]

any mods that add more to loot other then sausages and bandages?

[tacit jay]

And they would have to remake the entire game to do that. They aren't just running on Unreal engine 5.1, they are running on a heavily customized version of 5.1.

upgrading from where they are right now would mean basically starting over.

I still wish they would've stayed with Unreal 4.

[spring gorge]

thats an 11 year old engine lul

[tacit jay]

which worked perfectly fine and the most recent version of it was from 2021.

and also still looks gorgeous.

[spring gorge]

well at that point they may as well use their own x-ray

[tacit jay]

They were developing in UE4 before making the switch in 2022.

They would've been fine sticking with 4.

[spring gorge]

and have it look like ass on modern platforms I gues

[tacit jay]

Incorrect lol

[spiral cobalt]

if you were to make visuals as good as the trailers had from 2022-2023 in UE4 it would most likely run a lot worse than the game does now, or would run in UE5, since it didnt have lumen it would need some sort of Global illumination, most likely using ray tracing which would run way worse than lumen, and without it would look much worse than what it does now

[spring gorge]

shoulda use cry engine

[still current]

[spiral cobalt]

I love cry engine

[tacit jay]

Atomic heart is on UE4 and looks gorgeous. and Unreal 4 came out in 2016, it's a 9 year old game engine, not an 11 year old game engine, not that 2 years makes much difference.

Stalker 2 could've nailed the look they wanted to go for with Ue4 instead of shifting to Ue5, which came out earlier in the year in 2022.

[spiral cobalt]

Atomic heart is actually my 3rd favorite game of all time and ran/looked great, but the lack of global illumination KILLS the visuals for exteriors

Interiors use built lighting, which is something stalker would not be able to use given its map

[tacit jay]

Anyway, did anyone notice that you can see Iron forest, Chernobyl plant and Generators on the pda map now? Before they were hidden by fog of war.

[spiral cobalt]

Yeah they did that in update 1.2 im pretty sure idk why, its like pixelated now

I like it more than the clouds covering it though

[tacit jay]

I don't recall them being visible until just this update.

[spiral cobalt]

It might have been 1.3 idk but i vividly remember being in a call with a friend and thinking they changed the location or something because the clouds were gone

[tacit jay]

I thikn it was 1.3 yeah, seeing posts about it from april. Before that was covered by fog of war.

[magic vault]

The combat and the game overall feels great

[ebon bear]

Best game ever ?

[oak junco]

i agree 100%

[oak junco]

ocarina of time

[tacit jay]

But we got what we got and there's nothing to do about it

[tacit jay]

Majora's Mask

[oak junco]

another based game

[dim nebula]

[oak junco]

i wish stalker 2 was on UE4 that engine seemed not too bad from the games i played that used it

[ebon bear]

stalker 2 is perfect

[tacit jay]

I am definitely enjoying myself

Pushing About 20 hours out of having 200 in it, playing with no mods.

[ebon bear]

Only game that ever came close to my nostalgia from childhood when I used to explore unknown shit like Resident Evil 4, even Far Cry 1,2,3, and I didnt play older stalker games

[uncut inlet]

thats an opinion

[oak junco]

a unique one lol

[ebon bear]

Sure whatever, it's perfect for me yes

[oak junco]

thats fair i get where you're coming from

im glad you can have those nostalgia feelings

[tacit jay]

I'm with him. It hit that "This is stalker" feel more than Anomaly ever could.

[oak junco]

from what i played of it i agree anomaly is way to barren on its own imo

anomaly needs hundreds of mods to be good (gamma, EFP, forgotten zone or like old world custom or old world addon)

[uncut inlet]

yes and no, the gameplay maybe, but the inner politics within it is just bland. not to mention that they retconned a bunch of the mutants and factions

[tacit jay]

What lmao?

What mutants were cut that were in the OG trilogy and what Factions that didn't get wiped out on their own were retconned?

[uncut inlet]

yeah bloodsuckers were in the original trilogy stealthy and weak, now they yell at you before sprinting towards you as you fire 12 shells at it

poltergeists were only found in labs

fleshes were a neutral mutant

rats attacked in groups and not singularly

boars were head armored, now they arent

[tacit jay]

That's not a retcon
Poltergeists weren't just found in labs. CoP had them in a few places topside
Bloodsuckers were strong in CoP
Fleshes weren't neutral? I've never had a neutral encounter with a flesh.
rats weren't even in the og trilogy. They were cut from all the games, added back in via mods.
Boars are still head armored. You waste ammo shooting them in the face. Shooting them in the side is still the play

[uncut inlet]

the older factions are only there just there because the game needs them to be

[tacit jay]

Yeah that's how lore works

[tight forge]

I just went full john wick mode
I need info about nestor
I go to this plant
Very rude people there, but i tollerate it
Guy there tells me to kill tje shah or roosevelt
I already did, he doesn't belive me
I kill them all in one save

[tacit jay]

Hell yeah

[uncut inlet]

yeah but now they are just reskins of eachother

[tacit jay]

What are you even talking about 😭

[tight forge]

If the people there were just a little kinder or if he believed me i would go hunt down their pdas, but noooo, he had to be rude

[uncut inlet]

i havent encountered any poltergeists in cop
bloodsuckers were not strong in cop
fleshes were neutral, because they were supposed to be a mutated pigs
im talking about the big rats,
and boars from what ive seen are not armored

[frozen ledge]

I know what stalker 2 needs. More tornadoes

[uncut inlet]

if you didnt play the previous games, you wouldnt know freedoms and duties motivation within the story, or why they are conflicted with eachother

[tight forge]

Replace buckshot with birdshot on april fools

[uncut inlet]

loners are just the good guys, and warden are just the bad guys, the only factions to get love from the developers are the new ones, and even then they arent all that interesting

[frozen ledge]

I loved stalker 2, it needs optimization

[uncut inlet]

faction based quests are not a thing, unless you count the 2 duty ones

[tight forge]

Real

[uncut inlet]

thats a lie, i probably did encounter poltergeists, but even then poltergeists were supposed to be an enemy unique to the labs

and they werent all that common

[tacit jay]

Oh, Tushkano. Got it. My bad.
Idk about you, but every encounter i've had with Tushkano in stalker2 has them all attacking me at once, especially in 1.4. You want to clear them out cause if you don't they will swarm you and drop kick your knees. In the Og trilogy they ran at you in a straight line, in stalker2 they jump around everywhere as they approach.

Fleshes have always attacked me in any of the games I've played, they never felt neutral to me.

Boars absolutely still have strong heads. Go deal with a group of them and you'll see.

Freedom and Duty's stories have ended since Call of Pripyat, you know where they had peace together in Yaniv. In stalker 2, you can discover lore and things about them and learn why they are where they are.

It's been a decade since CoP, or more actually. A lot happens in a decade.

[uncut inlet]

they made peace im aware as there was no longer any reason to fight over the wish granter, but they still conflicted with eachother and dislike eachother heavily, the new freedom leader is just there, and duty is only described as a shill for warden. thats the only lore related things i have found in stalker 2

[tacit jay]

You learn that they were forced to continued peace after their cease fire falling apart after the events of cop. Ward came in as the new big dog and told them to stop fighting or they would wipe them all out.

It's why Freedom controls the Rostok now.

[uncut inlet]

if that is the case, i have not seen any of that, but the game also doesnt tell you any info about who these factions are and why they are there in the first place

[tacit jay]

It does, but you just have to look for it.

[uncut inlet]

i did...

and if their story had ended there is no reason why they did not disband, as their motivations for the zone were out of their hands now

[tacit jay]

90% of the reason why anyone is in the zone in the first place is for their own goals, factions are just a group of like-minded individuals. The zone still exists, therefore there is a reason for these factions to continue to operate within them.

[uncut inlet]

yeah, duty's motivation for the zone was to destroy the wish granter which happened, meaning that that faction no longer has a reason to exist

[tacit jay]

Duty's motivation is to protect the world from the Zone's expanse. As long as the zone continues to exist, then Duty has a reason to exist.

[uncut inlet]

that was why they wanted to destroy the wish granter yes , which happened, and in stalker 2 they are just described as a shill for warden, meaning why did they not just morph themselves into the warden faction

[tacit jay]

Except the zone continued to expand, so Duty still felt necessary to be around. They did not want to be roped into becoming Warden, so they keep their identity. They are just another group of stalkers with some form of goals of their own still

Hopefully DLC touches on these things.

[uncut inlet]

lets hope

because for me atleast while i enjoy stalker 2, it feels like its lacking in a lot of places, and im not talking about the lack of a life, or the frequent bugs

[tacit jay]

HAs anyone ever bothered to return to the place where you entered the zone after leaving the lesser zone?

[uncut inlet]

Yeah

[feral horizon]

The Ward did a better job at destroying the zone than the duty ever could.

[tacit jay]

Yeah, it helps to have money and the backing of a wider organization lol

[uncut inlet]

The entrance is blocked off and sometimes guarded

[tacit jay]

I'm almost to the scientist bunker that way

Just passed the barge now.

[uncut inlet]

Nothing interesting there

[feral horizon]

Also the person who founded duty basically just faked loosing communication with the military cause he just wanted his own faction.

[uncut inlet]

Cut through there trying to get to burnt forest, cut off by water

[tacit jay]

Lmao

[uncut inlet]

If you try and get to the border via cordon, you get insta killed by an unknown entity

[tacit jay]

a unseen sniper, yeah

I managed to kill the one in the tower though once lol

[feral horizon]

That happens if you try to leave the zone through the cooling towers to.

[tacit jay]

I got as far as the drainage tunnel you exit out of. Can't progress any further, but it's neat you can return here.

Was curious if there were any artifact spawns down here

[uncut inlet]

You can kill him, but you will still get shot

[tacit jay]

Yep, It's the signifier that you're trapped in the zone.

[hollow vine]

Does anyone else have the issue of artifact in poisonous hole is stuck underground and can't be reached?

[tacit jay]

I have that in Chystohalivka or w/e it's called. There's an artifact down in a cellar, but I can't reach it at all

[hollow vine]

I have the bear detector and Im standing on the artifact and it's impossible to reach :\

[heavy crag]

you sure it's not above or below you? i've been above some cave networks and pinged an artifact, had to find the entrances

oh i see above

[hollow vine]

its an open field with the poisonous hole and there is nothing above

[heavy crag]

that's a bummer, can you load a save before you got there and try again? I believe the artifact drops are randomized so it might force it to work 🤷‍♂️

[hollow vine]

i tried it a few times didn't work, plus my last save before it getting glitched was like 5 hours ago

[uncut inlet]

Should have been fixed by now

You mean in the lesser zone right, with the bloodsucker inside

[hollow vine]

no in garbage, the poisonous hole landmark it's an open field with toxic fume all over

[uncut inlet]

Oh Ik what youre talking about, can you send a screenshot?

[fleet tartan]

Ok so my armor is the Falcon armor. Before the update I was able to take quite a few bullets. Update happens. I die to a single bullet now... What's going on

[old raptor]

The bullet simply knows where it at all times n goes 4 the headshot

[fleet tartan]

Explain

[old raptor]

I was joking

[fleet tartan]

Ok so, dying to a single bullet is just the thing now? Is armor even useful by that point

[uncut inlet]

Is your armor broken?

[heavy crag]

i wish this game did a better job at letting you know when side quests were available, instead of having to wait around for a barkeep to have something new availalbe.. also if there are 3 to choose from and you come back after 1 is complete, why not able to do the other 2 then?

[fleet tartan]

Fresh repaired falcon armor.

[uncut inlet]

What kind of enemies?

[fleet tartan]

Got 4.5 armor bars. After this update I get 1 tapped

[fleet tartan]

Ward in exos

Which I have fought before and could survive about 4 bullets. Now it's a single one and I'm dead

[uncut inlet]

Its after a few days, or after an emmission, and you can only do 1 because because other "stalkers" took them, wish they did it like in the previous games where you have to do it in a limited time or another stalker would finish it for you and take your reward

[uncut inlet]

No status ailments?

[fleet tartan]

None

[heavy crag]

oh gotcha, I didn't think about that lore/immersion element - that does make sense

[uncut inlet]

Its still unfortunate that they dont tell you which artifact to find until after you take the mission

[uncut inlet]

Probably the weapon rebalance

Take it off and put it on again, and see what happens

[fleet tartan]

I assume it has something to do with this. I also tried taking off and re armoring still happened. Only final thing that could make sense is I was trying to enter the chemical plant base and maybe there is a scripted death zone if you get too close

[uncut inlet]

Also a fair point

[uncut inlet]

Report it to the devs and send your entire save folder to them

[fleet tartan]

Ok so the game is not supposed to be that hard post update?

[uncut inlet]

I cant say, i dont have that issue, to be fair im still getting random encounters with zombies and bandits

What i can say is that alot of enemies just deal way to much damage, and take very little

Pseudo giant is a great example of that