☢┃stalker-general

[mossy ginkgo]

isnt still ok, it wont never be ok to remove or censor things just for a war or anything, that just shows that the essence of a project can be modify just bc a conflict of interest, that shows that devs just they limit the work to the understanding and assimilation of a single demographic when the saga has already been embraced and loved by many countries and cultures around the world, censoring is stupid, knowing that what is censored, not only happened, but also makes the identity of the work as important as it is for everyone, only shows the immaturity and lack of professionalism that GSC has to manage the saga today, and it is pathetic.

fr

[oak junco]

Gsc accusing people not happy with subpar product of being russian is the same as Israel calling you antisemitic when you say stop blowing up Palestinian kids

[mossy ginkgo]

thats the matter, whoever is administrating gsc rn is tearing appart in front of us a legendary triology and a saga that all we love, and is not cool at all

[tacit jay]

This is the exact same thing that happened when the console ports released lol

[slow crypt]

I’m going to share the screenshots; they complain about the Russians, and they’re even worse.

[lament pelican]

I understand if folks have zero emotional connection to the situation, thats fine

[oak junco]

Gsc isn't the Ukranian military

I'm focused on the games and gsc scummy moves

[drifting bear]

When you buy the Echanced Edition, you also get the vanilla version of the game

[oak junco]

We can't glaze them cuz the war hold companies accountable

[mossy ginkgo]

why ppl keep mixing the war with the matter of gsc just sucking at managing the games rn?

[uncut inlet]

But they published propaganda for them here

[mossy ginkgo]

that is, dumb, and suspicious

[mossy ginkgo]

fr?

[dreamy forge]

Shh dont ruin good thing to be upset about

[lament pelican]

Not sure how old are you, I hope you are very young though. They have devs who are in service and who died in this war. Not to mention other indirect influences the war can bring.

[serene barn]

i just heard that the original trilogy games have been delisted now. is that really a thing?

[uncut inlet]

Yeah they advertised stalker 2 with volkswagon and sent the vans to war

[tacit jay]

Man.. it's gonna be weeks before I can chat in here again without facepalming lol

[uncut inlet]

Apprently yeah

[serene barn]

Brother..

[shell flax]

From steam search, type it into google and you’ll find em still

[uncut inlet]

Ehh metro did the same thing

[dreamy forge]

"you'll get the classic three games for free when you purchase S.T.A.L.K.E.R.: Legends of the Zone Trilogy Enhanced Edition."

[mossy ginkgo]

they push you to get the new games to get the og ones, and thats a quite difference of prices

[serene barn]

sure but Metro didn't really feel like the downgrade these sound like, nor were they stupidly censored either were they?

[dreamy forge]

So can we get over this now?

[mossy ginkgo]

lol, thats so darn true

[uncut inlet]

I mentioned rhat earlier, but they probably censored the original games too

[charred nova]

This is truly the end times

[uncut inlet]

I still spent 200$ to have last light complete edition in my library

[serene barn]

metro Redux was the first time was able to play metro back on the PS4 when they came out. i've played those 2 titles through like 7 times each.

[charred nova]

I can’t actually believe this has happened

[dreamy forge]

Just turn around and run

[mossy ginkgo]

apparently no, community cannot let this pass by, its critical to de stalker history in general, without mention el bodrio de juego que es stalker 2

[lament pelican]

btw there are still so many rus audio in the game even if you select ua in settings

[shell flax]

The bundle is still 40 bucks

[mossy ginkgo]

this changes everything 🫣

[charred nova]

Alright ladies

[dreamy forge]

Have not changed original games in any way

[charred nova]

Settle down

https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/1360416200999567400/1374447426034864209/Screenshot_20250520_140251_Steam.jpg?ex=682e156a&is=682cc3ea&hm=4228bd4cedfebfbd7bbeb0c88080064b90f88279e4fdc4289157b84b95cf4430&

You can still buy it

[shell flax]

Yep

[dreamy forge]

And "you'll get the classic three games for free when you purchase S.T.A.L.K.E.R.: Legends of the Zone Trilogy Enhanced Edition." from their FAQ

[charred nova]

Oh

Well then what’s the problem

[mossy ginkgo]

yep

[tacit jay]

which is the same price as the og trilogy together

[charred nova]

Alright you guys getting me all amped up over nothing

[dreamy forge]

Welcome to internet

[shell flax]

This is why I do my own research first lmao

[tacit jay]

The "censorship" happened last year when the console ports released lol, we already went over this the first time, idk why anyone is surprised that the Enhanced versions are missing it.

[charred nova]

Because no one cares about the console plebeians

[shell flax]

Honestly I think it’s more the new stuff

[charred nova]

But when it happens to the full chested pc gamers

[tame gazelle]

wtb a 24gb card + 9900x3d i can touch this game again. a 3070 just breaks with fg and without im stuck om 59 fps

[charred nova]

Then we get mad

[lament pelican]

there will be mod to bring back rubbles if someone reaaly care about that stuff anyways

[mossy ginkgo]

didnt know, im new at this server, but if thats true, its incredible that ppl really made that pass by

[uncut inlet]

Console didnt get the original version

[dreamy forge]

*Peasants. SMH dont dirty plebs name

[mossy ginkgo]

you dont even want to know how its with an 3050

[charred nova]

Okay fair that was uncalled for

[uncut inlet]

Propaganda

[tired surge]

some people in this group add me on discord am gonna some stalker vc group

cus this one doesnt have vc

[tame gazelle]

i cant even imagine, this shiot so unstable does it even run with that

[charred nova]

It does you just gotta reach level 2 first

[weary hedge]

Hey guys I got some questions about mods on console specifically Xbox series X. I am confused about which order the mods should load in. Some of them seem to crash my game and some of them seem to cause problems like UI being inncorect

[charred nova]

Gotta reach rank of experienced

[uncut inlet]

No lv 10

[tame gazelle]

trying to think of a game i know that has worse frametimes than this one

[charred nova]

Meant rank 2

[mossy ginkgo]

ding ding ding, messy 15 fps, with all settings at minimum at 720p

[uncut inlet]

Ahh

[tired surge]

yeah not level 2 cus i already have level 2

[charred nova]

But yah level 10

[serene barn]

this doesn't have VCs? then what is the Voice category for?

[tacit jay]

The consoles got the version of the originals that had soviet and russian imagery removed, as well as replacing ru with koupons and everything esle that people are complaining about. We went through these complaints the first time.

The og games on pc are untouched, they are as they are. The Enhanced versions are the console versions with enhanced visuals [ai upscaled I guess?] and controller support, among other things.

We went through this last year in march. People bitched for like a month then forgot all about it.

[uncut inlet]

Yeah making it not original, but changed right?

[tired surge]

i wanna talk with some people like not message them

[serene barn]

is it really rank 10 for getting access to VCs? lol

[uncut inlet]

Spam here then

[charred nova]

No one cared back then cus it was on console

Lmao

[tired surge]

😦 cant

[mossy ginkgo]

it is pretty funny how ppl talk about censor the og games like is was not a big deal

[charred nova]

Like I don’t wanna be that guy but

[tacit jay]

It's really not a big deal

[charred nova]

90 percent of the mates here are on pc

So when the console guys come to complain no one has ever really cared

[tame gazelle]

guys focus! we have to be united in our whining, its stalker 2 thats the issue. (please)

[charred nova]

Look bro

[uncut inlet]

All of it is

[brittle mortar]

This censoring is fucked, plain and simple

[charred nova]

We are back to complaining about stalker 2 tomorrow

Today we complain about this

[shell flax]

I’m on both so I use console for S2 and my other games, boot up the PC for stalker mods

[charred nova]

[tacit jay]

I mean the pc games got negative reviews from it when it happened and their discussions forums were filled with russians being uber buttmad and also came here being uber buttmad.

[tame gazelle]

its a rap! (trap)

[tired surge]

yeah

[uncut inlet]

Stalker 2 was banned in russia lol

[tacit jay]

I'm not talking about stalker 2 😭

[charred nova]

This is the main point yes

[mossy ginkgo]

it is, that shows that GSC is willing to manipulate anything in its company in order to look good with the rest of the popular opinion, that's how strong that damage can be, and they may have done the same with Stalker 2 by putting so much graphic load to distract you from the other details of the game, it's truly a big deal

[charred nova]

I mean the games them selves run like crap and look like crap

[serene barn]

i just finished redownloading all of Stalker 2 the other day, just for them to make another update lol, ended up just uninstalling like 3 other games on steam for the update.

[charred nova]

Which is also a pretty big problem

[tired surge]

shut up am croatian it not same anymore removing soviet culture , art enemies being bulletsponge

[mossy ginkgo]

yeah, now its a real problem, you are starting to get it

[weary hedge]

There is something i don't get about stalker

[brittle mortar]

I'm just gonna stick with the originals

[tacit jay]

Oh no! Game company that owns the IP and made the games, made changes to the games! The end of the world is upon us!!!!

[shell flax]

This is also why I play S2 on Xbox

[charred nova]

Exactly now all the pc chuds are mad

[tame dune]

its so stupid to remove russian in my opinion like why

[sturdy verge]

Oh no! Let's eat some sid chicken 😄

[tame dune]

you already have it

[mossy ginkgo]

you talk like you knewed the saga with stalker 2 tbh

[charred nova]

If it was just the Va but they left everything else

[tame dune]

the signs from what I saw

[shell flax]

In a month steam workshop is gonna be overflowing with mods, so there’s that at least

[charred nova]

And all the hammer and sickles apparently

[tame dune]

thats also stupid it breaks all the zone emerission

[mossy ginkgo]

thats the only hope, workshop, for uncensor things and get the games to a next level, all 3 games got the workshop upgrade arent they?

[tame dune]

it needs to have those soviet things to feel like chernobyl

[topaz scarab]

i love stalker

[tired surge]

yeah

[uncut inlet]

You can almost say its an anomaly

[charred nova]

Yah we all did before stalker 2 released

[weary hedge]

Can someone help me pls?

[charred nova]

[tired surge]

nah gamma and anomaly has dead city and in dead city there is lenin statue

[tame dune]

I think that is needed

[mossy ginkgo]

LOL

[tame dune]

I dislike lenin but I think its needed

[charred nova]

I think no one likes communists

[uncut inlet]

You think modders will remove then too?

[charred nova]

We all agree communism bad

[shell flax]

Isn’t there a statue in S2 but it’s just covered in bird shit or something

[charred nova]

Soviet Union that’s a no go bad guys all around

Never the less

They existed

[uncut inlet]

We? Are you saying that because youre a commy?

[mossy ginkgo]

thats what essence is about, stalker have that details that shows you that ukraine were part in sometime to the urss, but now is a nobody land

[charred nova]

Caught me red handed

[gloomy harbor]

Wait what is going on?

[charred nova]

Lmfao

[uncut inlet]

Red handed?

[tame gazelle]

reds

[charred nova]

But jokes asides

It’s important to what the zone was

[tired surge]

urss ?

[mossy ginkgo]

stalker 2 is just a bunch of graphic assets instead a game, and gsc released the og 3 games with the russian censor that the same 3 games had at console versions

[tame dune]

Russian isnt my first language (trasianka is but it isnt really a langauge most belarusians speak it as their first) buts its the language i speak the most in

[charred nova]

This is a hard topic to continue

Because it’s generally heavily frowned upon

[mossy ginkgo]

Unión de Repúblicas Socialistas Soviéticas, mb was in spanish, soviet union

[tired surge]

alright my bad

[gloomy harbor]

Oh? I mean I like stalker 2 in its current state sure there are issues but I mean they have been pretty good when it comes to updating it

[uncut inlet]

The zone hates russia so much they removed all soviet remnants when the zone was nade

[gloomy harbor]

And I’m saying this in perspective of someone playing on the worst tech you could be besides maybe a low end pc (series s)

[tame dune]

and to protest the russian government they stopped speaking russian

[charred nova]

Currently everyone is pissed about the new release of the og games

[mossy ginkgo]

at least they are working actively at stalker 2, that is the only hope of getting the game fixed

[charred nova]

Which have been censored and have blur applied to them

So people are mad

[tame gazelle]

the devil is in the details; you can hover over ammunition in your bag and it highlights the gun -> if you hover over your gun it doesnt highlight the ammo, but it does if the gun is in storage.... --- there are alot of coding like this in the game, which has convinced me every patch is a 1k+ bugfix than adding another 1200 bugs on top.

[charred nova]

I’m bad

[gloomy harbor]

The original games having Russian censorship I can’t really speak much on as I’m personally not Russian or Ukrainian however I get it partially why they would prefer to do that

[tame dune]

if they actaully did something good with the enhancing like idk Rome total war remastered with graphics like that it would have been fine

[charred nova]

What

[tired surge]

no i was trying to say something else my bad

[uncut inlet]

No most still speak russian if they havent been shot yet by the russians

[charred nova]

No worries

[tacit jay]

Someone got to the wishgranter and said no to the commies and now the zone is clear of it.

[tired surge]

@charred novanah this new trilogy is not that cool be honest

[charred nova]

It’s not

[gloomy harbor]

I do wish that stalker 2 had a mixed language option though so that everyone wasn’t just British for whatever reason

[charred nova]

I literally fully agree

[uncut inlet]

Thats what i said

[mossy ginkgo]

lol, official lore rn:

[mossy ginkgo]

everyone does ig

[tacit jay]

thank you holy monolith for killing the commies

[tired surge]

bulletsponge enemies blurry . removed currency SR bruh

[tame dune]

like Surzhyk or like some speak russian some speak ukrainian

[tired surge]

I LIKE IT

[tacit jay]

No you don't, you just spent all this time complaining about it

[lament pelican]

I mean, every building in the Zone is still Soviet-style architecture, with murals and so on. It's not like you're running around skyscrapers, apart from Sirca, obviously.

[tame dune]

if I complain more I can get the veteran role

[gloomy harbor]

Exactly the zone being where it is it seems very weird that there are no Slavic accents of any kind or even just partial sayings to fit the area

[weary hedge]

Anyone can help me with some questions?

[tacit jay]

Probably, what's up

[tame dune]

skif sounds like a teenager ngl (the english)

[novel wave]

plot twist: he is

[charred nova]

I mean hey this may be a mess but

[mossy ginkgo]

you better not, that guy is actively trying to killing himself, let it be

[charred nova]

Have you played the new Indiana jones game

It’s pretty good

[mossy ginkgo]

fireeeeeeeee 🔥🔥🔥

[tame gazelle]

everythign is all over the place, my frames included.

[tame dune]

I only play lego indiana jones

[mossy ginkgo]

its funny that indiana jone runs on my 3050 but that stlaker 2 crap doesnt

indy game is made in ue5 too isnt?

[gloomy harbor]

Lmao

[tacit jay]

No

[gloomy harbor]

Alr guys I’m gonna pray my game doesn’t crash this time

[mossy ginkgo]

that explains everything then

[tacit jay]

Indy is made in Motor/ Idtech 7

[mossy ginkgo]

gl, youll need it

[gloomy harbor]

YEAHHHH IT WORKED

[mossy ginkgo]

you are at xbox s?

[gloomy harbor]

Yup

[mossy ginkgo]

dope

[gloomy harbor]

Somehow I managed to stop it from crashing by pausing and saving after the part where the game crashes usually

[still current]

[alpine hill]

Someone tell cdkeys to step up their game

No stalker keys has me sad🥲

[charred nova]

That one’s good too

[uncut inlet]

You can buy them on steam, russian version from what i understand goes for 700$

[weary hedge]

Any help pls? Please ping me

[brisk osprey]

Yo guys, are there gonna be edition upgrades?

[tame dune]

downgrades

[tacit jay]

Depends on your point of view.

[frigid hill]

tf2gamer252 has been warned

Reason: Bad word usage

[tacit jay]

Lmao get wolf'd

[alpine hill]

How would i do this

[cursive kettle]

i saw sum clips and i thought it was cod lmao

[uncut inlet]

Easiest way is to go look on someones profile who has it and get on the page from there

[brittle mortar]

what I was trying to say before I got censored for using a word that is used in the games that this is server is about. I've been informed that Cheeki Breeki has been removed from the "enhanced" editions...... are you kidding me?

[heady geode]

Hi, I just want to know if there was an announcement here that has been removed since? I've seen a screenshot of a post from McCulkin and I was wondering if it was real or fake.

[tacit jay]

Has it been removed, or did you just take someone's word that it had been removed and now are just repeating whatever it is they said?

[honest rock]

Any advice for starting my first game of stalker shadows of chornobyl

[warped stream]

get ready to miss a lot of shots

[cursive kettle]

search help in your self, sometimes your self is way more useful than asking others and losing hope, but don't spam this too much here

[honest rock]

Kool

[weary hedge]

I meant about games

[cursive kettle]

Good hunting stalker

[tame dune]

I ownder does this do anything

[honest rock]

You to brother

[cursive kettle]

what game

[weary hedge]

Stalker series

[shell flax]

Stops scam bots mainly from what I’ve seen

[cursive kettle]

i already completed it and it seems to have different endings

[brittle mortar]

kill the soldiers at the train bridge, easy way to get an early game assault rifle

[shell flax]

While occasionally sniping some poor bastard and giving me a laugh

[cursive kettle]

i did this at the 2nd playthrough of the game today and it was useful af, i have 4k coins rn

[cursive kettle]

Do as much Side quests as possible, you need those money

for me, side quests are better than main missions overall

[tacit jay]

Go artifact hunting, use bolts all the time and be careful near anomalies.

[tame gazelle]

good hunting stalker. s2 uninstalled, saving money for a disgustingly beast PC since its needed, and waiting for a DLC or two. ilu all

[cursive kettle]

brother in SoC you Dont have the lil detector 🙏

[tacit jay]

You can still hunt artifacts in Shadow of Chornobyl lmfao. You just don't need a detector to do it.

[still current]

Wrong place to chat about trilogy. Use the proper channel

[tacit jay]

That's how I make all my money when I hit the bar is going artifact hunting.

[still current]

#⭐┃trilogy-general

[cursive kettle]

ik, i thought u meant with detector, and btw artifacts just pop up in front of me when i do side quests and are very visible so "hunting" isn't the right term if theire so easy to find,but ig i was too rushed

[uncut inlet]

This is general no?

[cursive kettle]

tbh ur half right and half wrong, this channel is called "Stalker general".
in theory we can chat about all the Stalker games made by GSC

[still current]

Nope

[cursive kettle]

if we wanna chat about specific things about the trilogy or don't wanna see general slop we head to that channel

[still current]

It's stalker2 general

[cursive kettle]

ion see 2🙏

oh wait

[cursive kettle]

im stupid, ur right

dayum gimme time to realize 🙏

[still current]

I mean, I can't believe that I needed to show this

Haha

[sturdy verge]

😂

[cursive kettle]

this means @uncut inlet is stupid too tho so i aint the only oneosnwsomwosneej

[uncut inlet]

Im not stupid, im officially cool as @charred nova Had crowned me with it

[cursive kettle]

Im the only one then, rip

[brisk osprey]

For stalker 2

[cursive kettle]

tbh The new enhanced edition in ps5 looks amazing but i cant deny i still want more mods🙏

[still current]

Wdym?

[honest rock]

Thank you for the advice and before you ask yes i have the merc armor

[cursive kettle]

does the warn system ban or mute at some point or just sends the warn message and that's it

[cursive kettle]

les go

[charred nova]

This is true he can’t be stupid he’s officially cool

Which makes him automatically correct

[still current]

It's more of an archive. It also takes down sus links to make the server safer

[still current]

Bullshit

At least this once

[magic marten]

I don’t know if this is the right channel for it but I tried installing soc enhanced and it says „An unexpected incident has occurred in the zone
We would like to apologise for this.
Do you want to send an anonymous error message to the developers?
This helps us investigate the crash and fix the problem so that the zone becomes safer for all STALKERS.
Error messages include the memory extract, a screenshot, and the log file.“
I hope it makes sense I used google translate and it sometimes makes no sense
Do I have to deinstall the original to play it?

[alpine hill]

So basically the verdict is to buy the original trilogy and use a graphics mod

[cursive kettle]

Basically, you're playing stalker

[charred nova]

Yes sir

[magic marten]

No I’m stuck at the loading thing and then there is the error

[cursive kettle]

peak stalker experience

[gentle junco]

Had the same thing happen like 25 min into playing soc

Turns out it was a dx11 issue, try rebooting your pc

[cursive kettle]

hear me out, add Butter-flies

[tame dune]

like can you get banned or something if you get wolfed to many times

[tacit jay]

Can't wait to get back home to play more stalker 2

[uncut inlet]

Wolf gives you a kiss and guides you to the wishgranter

[cursive kettle]

every time i enter s2 to enjoy sum Life in the zone i quit 5 mins after i see the awful ghosting TAA

[tame dune]

but im a minor

[tacit jay]

Skill diff

[cursive kettle]

better

[uncut inlet]

[still current]

Old bot used to do that, but not wolf. We try to be fair not to let a bot decide on contexts, just rather note them for us to use when need be.

[tame dune]

does anyone get warned for the bad word rule in the english channels

[still current]

Well, those are internal matters, so I won't speak more of it.

[still current]

Yeah, warns are registered and can not be removed. It sticks as an infraction, and thus, stay.

[uncut inlet]

Ik how to overide the bot

[tame dune]

Ua channels you talk about politics but no bad words en channels no politcs but bad words are fine Perfectly balanced

[uncut inlet]

Like fuсk for example

[charred nova]

I mean if we tried to start banning or muting for politics

We’d have to mute the entire chat atm

[tame dune]

@frigid hill @frigid hill @frigid hill ban them ban them

[charred nova]

[tame dune]

the ukrainian off top should be renamed to political chat (joke)

[charred nova]

Not for me to say

[uncut inlet]

So we can as long as we do it collectively

[charred nova]

To a point yes

[uncut inlet]

[charred nova]

Until you start talking about acts of violence or similar

[uncut inlet]

Wait but wanting to shoot monolithians is fine? Seems like a double standard

[charred nova]

Those guys aren’t real

[still current]

[tame dune]

#justiceformonolithians

[uncut inlet]

Fake news

[cursive kettle]

Monolith needs to fall and burn

should i give a try to s2 again? it's just that the aim bot of the bots it's just so annoying, i play on veteran and i really hate that i peek for 0.1 second and a bot alredy hits me 3 times

On soc is waaaay different

[still current]

Political discussions are primarily prohibited for what it can cause, not because it's politics yk. Whenever ppl start having those discussions, it always ends up with fights and chaos, and thus, it is prohibited for that very reason in theory

[uncut inlet]

When they remove skifs pistol as a quest item yes

[tame dune]

im not saying its bad that politics are prohibited im saying its funny that the ukrainian one allows it but no bad words but english is fine with bad words but no politics

[cursive kettle]

let's hope S2 will not require gamepass for online access to multiplayer, i bought it at full price so i don't want to spend more money on a subscription

[uncut inlet]

Ukranian politics consists of calling russians orcs, what did you expect

[uncut inlet]

It will be free, as it was supposed to be a free update

[cursive kettle]

no, it does not mean that the "access" will be free too, just the update

[still current]

We have independent moderation let's say. Each side moderates as need be.

[tame dune]

yeah ik

[tacit jay]

If you're on consoles you will need whatever service connects you to online on that console

Literally every multiplayer game works this way for the last 30 years.

[cursive kettle]

nope, there are a ton of games which are online only that don't have game pass subscription obligation

[tacit jay]

Free2play games, yes. This isn't a free2play game

If you don't want to pay for an extra sub then buy the game on PC and play multiplayer there.

[magic marten]

Best advice I’ve ever heard u changed my live thanks

Except without mods bc my pc will die

[chrome gazelle]

is stalker 2 getting mod support today

[carmine star]

sure

if you say so

[tacit jay]

Yeah, totally. Along with the PS5 release for sure!

[split osprey]

Hi, guys. Sorry for bothering y'all but someone know why is S.SoC Enhanced Edition is so blurry? I already turned off FSR, motion blur and DoF but its still blurry... Is the remasters uses TAA by default? Someone can help?

[uncut inlet]

Its enhanced blur

[chrome gazelle]

does stalker 2 get mod support today

[oak junco]

There's no helping tbh it's ai slop just play the og

[uncut inlet]

Oh they just upgraded it via ai? Thats kinda sad

[split osprey]

Oh ok guys... Thanks for help, maybe if i install some reshade effect like CAS.fx or LumaSharpen.fx can help but donno for sure

[shell flax]

Mataboo is lazy

[river crag]

I cant even play the enhanced edition of shadow of chornobyl, i open it and it opens a dark window screen then error bugtrap popup, i report and closes :c. I tried verify files and multiple fixes by reading steam forums but nothing helps

[split osprey]

Whats ur PC specs?

[river crag]

i just checked seems that i dont meet the specs to play it, cause i can run very well the original game but not this remaster edition. My pc its a intel i3 4170 with 8 gb of ram and i use my integrated graphics. I through it will be the same to play as the original. Guess ill stay with the originals

[uncut inlet]

Not a remaster, its "enhanced"

[tacit jay]

No

[river crag]

i through it was a remaster cause it says better graphics and effects and upscaling textures and some tweaks

[uncut inlet]

The tweaks consist of censorship. Remaster implies they remade the game

[oak junco]

There's still legacy bugs in the enhanced edition

[river crag]

remade the game? that isnt like a remake?

[tacit jay]

I stg lmao

[uncut inlet]

No what i mean is they remade the game faithfully to the original. Here they just applied graphical upgrades and censorship

[oak junco]

^

[whole crest]

another disappointment from modern gsc

i didnt hear about the censorship what got censored?

[uncut inlet]

Russian Language was removed, a bunch of assets, like a monument to lenin

[whole crest]

ah

[uncut inlet]

Basically anything related to russia or ussr was removed

[whole crest]

odd they would remove the lenin statue i mean its untouched chernobyl from the ussr days

[uncut inlet]

Again censoring

[tame dune]

its so stupid

[tacit jay]

Lmao

[sturdy verge]

Lol can't believe I won

Nice hhahaha

[tacit jay]

What did you win

[sturdy verge]

#enhanced-giveaway

[austere pagoda]

ohhh nvm

[uncut inlet]

Congrats

[sturdy verge]

Ty 😄

[tacit jay]

Congrats, dude. Hope you have fun.

[sturdy verge]

Already own it lol and playing soc atm 😄

I just dragged a military soldier from check point to sid like the old days with a bunch of ak's 😂 😂

[tacit jay]

Heck yeah

[uncut inlet]

Yeah scam gsc

[tepid hull]

Is logging into mod io on enhanced edition of SoC for ps5 not working for anyone else?

[charred nova]

And apparently new ones

[slate portal]

what happens once we win the give away? no one dm me

[sturdy verge]

Probably because they are all a sleep 😴

[charred nova]

Tbh idk the real point of giving this away like

90 percent of y’all got it already

[lament nova]

Might have figured out what people are complaining about... it's anti alias making the game blurrier looking. just change the AA setting either turned off or check the other option, and instantly fixed...

but I know it's too much effort to check the settings and far easier to just drop a review instead.

(Trilogy)

[shell flax]

Like people claiming S2 still doesn’t have Deadzones lmao

[sturdy verge]

Looks better for sure cheers

This lyonya moose is looking at me all dodgy like

[lament nova]

Yea. 100% better. But I'm still trying to figure out why the original game looks so bad right now. It's a new pc and for some reason looks worse than it was on the old one. probably some weird setting on

trying to get a comparison side by side pic you know

[sturdy verge]

Aye good idea

[lament nova]

There we go, got that OG game fixed too, it has problem with depth of field causing it to be massive blue for distant objects... now just need to wait for day so it's about the same time of day for both pictures

[uncut inlet]

Its also ai upscaling making alot of text not legible

[frigid hill]

dr.pestilence has been warned

Reason: Bad word usage

[lament nova]

do you have a different upscaler then? It looks pretty good to me. far better than the original

[uncut inlet]

Not me, but some people have screenshotted and posted it here

[lament nova]

I'm looking at the original right now and comparing it to a screenshot I took just a moment ago

[uncut swan]

Is there a reason why Nexus isn't allowing me to log in?

[lament nova]

that would be the AA setting, not the upscaling itself... the default AA sucks

even turned off looks better

[uncut inlet]

No like text not actually being correct

Imagine if metro 2026 will censor the entirety of russia

[sturdy verge]

the antialiasing? if so i put fxaa instead of Mlaa(that one was blurry looking)

[lament nova]

either off or switch to the other, both looked better to me

[tacit jay]

why would we know?

[charred nova]

I’m still pretty sure

The game has to disclose it was made using ai right?

Isn’t that steams rules

[lament nova]

AI upscaling or the entire thing?

[tacit jay]

I mean upscaling doesn't mean AI usage.

[charred nova]

Who

[tacit jay]

Tate Mcrae

[charred nova]

Never heard of em

[tacit jay]

Neither have I

[sturdy verge]

who? whooooo are you who who

[charred nova]

Seems like a white girl singer like Taylor swift

[uncut inlet]

Is that andrew tates new love interest?

Looks like a hooker

[uncut hollow]

wtf

[lament nova]

There, made a side by side comparison for Pripyat. Couldn't get the weather to cooperate though so the lightning conditions are different. But I think we can still see the difference nonetheless

https://discordapp.com/channels/504587323577729024/524231625039413249/1374502865913118850

[gloomy harbor]

I do pray one day I’ll be able to mod the console versions of lotz as well as pc, Well not to the same extent obviously but yk what I mean

The operatordrewski videos are getting to me

[lament nova]

Also the FOV seems to be different by default, hence why it looks less zoomed in

[uncut inlet]

Didnt he stop doing s2 videos

[gloomy harbor]

Yeah think so but his gamma and anomaly videos are so fire

Though I expect he will prolly make more s2 videos in the future when the game has aged a little bit

[ocean magnet]

are the invisible guys that attack 2 at a time on like the 2nd side mission way out of my level range or do i just suck

[lament nova]

Moved to correct channel: https://discordapp.com/channels/504587323577729024/1331275991066349578/1374504233260421252

[uncut inlet]

Bloodsuckers attack like any other mutant, just deal more damage

And go invisible

[ocean magnet]

im fine wiht the damage, im just dumping mag after mag into them and its not doing anything, are they intentionally immortal? is there a trick to damaging them?

[uncut inlet]

12 shells into them to kill 1

[ocean magnet]

jesus

[lament nova]

they do die if you keep shooting... you're probably missing a lot

[ocean magnet]

i am definitely not supposed to be here yet thats like half of my entire ammo supply

[uncut inlet]

You should see the pseudo giants

[ocean magnet]

ill stick ot the main quest for now, thanks folks

[lament nova]

pseuodo giants, more like Mag dump Pit Boss

[uncut inlet]

I spent all the ammo i had on the one in the red forest, bastard was still alive, added with like 15 grenades

Probably my entire stash worth of ammo is not enough

[lament nova]

and the health was already bad in all of the 3 older games, but at least it was still somewhat acceptable when using a proper gun

[uncut inlet]

15 guass rifle shots in s2 compared to 3 in the previous ones

[lament nova]

That is just massive oof

[uncut inlet]

Plus an unavoidable stun

[ocean magnet]

that would make sense if its like...a world boss

24 shells into things that run 30 miles an hour at the beginning of the game feels like an oversight

[uncut inlet]

They were never made to be all that strong, in the previous games they were really weak but they were very stealthy too

Now they just yell at you

[chrome gazelle]

has stalker 2 got mod support yet

[uncut inlet]

Not official

[chrome gazelle]

did they say when xbox will be getting it

[uncut inlet]

Yeah but not yet

[ocean magnet]

im totally cool with high lethality. bullet sponges are kind of an antithesis to a survival horror game though where the point is to only have a limited inventory, especially this early, i am probably in the minority here though

[uncut inlet]

Human enemies arent though

@ocean magnet i recommend sticking with skifs pistol, literally no reason to use any other side arm

[ocean magnet]

still got it and its silecned, no worries there

i think the human enemies have a perfect design, one bullet to the head

[uncut inlet]

Zombies always take 2 no matter what weapon you use

[ocean magnet]

these invisible dudes are way overtuned hp wise

[uncut inlet]

Alot of mutants are

[ocean magnet]

i see

[gloomy harbor]

Tbh the big iron hits like a truck with a single headshot you can take out most humans though you can’t silence it I don’t think

[marsh pelican]

The bane of my existence in S2.

[uncut inlet]

What i mean is you wont need any other, its super cheap, weighs nothing, ammo is cheap, repairs are cheap, damage is great, you cant get rid of it, so why use anything else?

[ocean magnet]

easy: because i need a dozen shotgun shells per mutant apparently 😛

[gloomy harbor]

True

[tepid hull]

I opened op SoC: ED on ps5 and the ui was all broken

[marsh pelican]

Also am I the only one who gets bandit that seem to have Ak's with insane penetration. Like... How can you shoot through a literal bus - the full length???

[uncut inlet]

@ocean magnet also you will later come upon an enemy which can disable your weapon, but cant disable skifs pistol

[gloomy harbor]

I do hope they bring back the open chat from the older games seeing other stalkers communicating was so immersive

[marsh pelican]

I'm just hiding and some cheeki breeki mf shoots me from 112m penetrates a full bus and headshots me without seeing me...

[charred nova]

you guys should join vc

so we can all complain together

[uncut inlet]

When i get home from work

[charred nova]

based

[dense moat]

Can someone please tell me that stalker 2 is coming to PlayStation five soon?

[main gyro]

Is it me or does the dev team keep treating PC players like Console players?

[dense moat]

Will it ever be on PlayStation 5?

[charred nova]

no plans

[dense moat]

😭

[uncut inlet]

They want to, that depends on microsoft

[main gyro]

Honestly, forbid the PS5 and switch to PC master race.

[charred nova]

by the time it comes to playstation it might finally be finished

[dense moat]

But I thought that Microsoft doesn’t own GSG

[uncut inlet]

Or leave alpha testing

[uncut inlet]

They struck a deal to get funding for the game

[dense moat]

😭

[main gyro]

I heard they won't even allow a custom weapon mod on the workshop in the Enhanced Editions lmao.

Or some weapon list or something.

[sturdy verge]

Ok

[tight forge]

Same here, mine also have shotguns that feel like they use slugs as pellets

[shell socket]

Ngl I didn't expect to win

[uncut inlet]

And yet i cant do the same, it seems like they got rid of the ability to shoot through walls to hit an enemy as i can no longer kill that way and my achievement doesnt track it

[feral horizon]

So the remaster looks kinda blurry? is there a way to adjust this in settings?

[sturdy verge]

Do these look blurry still? #📸┃trilogy-screenshots message

[feral horizon]

I guess they look fine. Maybe I need to change a few settings. Though the blur isn't as bad as the steam reviews are making them out to be.

[sturdy verge]

Yeah been messing with the settings for a bit in advance still not where I want it but getting closer and sometimes foggy weather in game doesn't help lol

[feral horizon]

It looks like they added things in that didn't need to be in the originals. Like why does og stalker need frame generation.

[quiet rock]

why are soldiers that hang out with duty suddenly trying to shoot me?

they seem like stalkers but i dont get why they are agro while duty is chill. this is pre SIRCAA and doing alpha bravo missions

they cant be spark either

[sturdy verge]

#📸┃trilogy-screenshots message lol yeah

[quiet rock]

im wearing a spark armor though.

[feral horizon]

The type of armor you wear doesn't make faction shoot at you if you're wearing the armor of their enemy.

I walked into the cement factory wearing freedom armor just fine.

[sturdy verge]

That loner has a crush on me

[feral horizon]

So what's the best graphic settings for the enhanced edition? Also does the faction war work better in enhanced clear sky?

[shell flax]

Are they wearing camouflage or tan and green

[fluid dove]

Can anybody help me out because I don't know how to download the mods for PS5 for stalker on mod.io

[acoustic kraken]

was the og stalker game so blurry as the enhanced editions rn? like its hard to see anything

[oak junco]

No the enhanced editions got hit with Ai slop

Play the ogs instead

[acoustic kraken]

it has a weird filter on top right? like im playing stalker 2 with frame gen and it looks like that but i dont even have frame gen enabled on OG

i love that they remade the games but man they really kinda fcked up the launch, i was really hyped to jump into clear sky just to see... well i see nothing xD

[oak junco]

Its like weird and blurry due to being low res upscaled the OGs are so much more crisp then this

[charred nova]

Zero blurring

Crispy image

And ultra high frame rates

[acoustic kraken]

i mean thats normal 😄 its an old game and i get my 180 fps but its so blurry like motion blur but when i stand still

[charred nova]

The originals you can get nearly 1000 fps

[acoustic kraken]

meanwhile i struggle to get over 50 frames with stalker 2 xD but thank god for frame gen

[charred nova]

Framegen isn’t a fix

It just hides the problem lmfao

You still have the same amount of input lag

Actually you have more input lag

Because games can’t register inputs on generated frames

[acoustic kraken]

i know but its playable for me you know 🙂 i take everything to enjoy stalker im just stiff dissapointed GSC cant really optimize stalker 2

[charred nova]

You and everyone else

It’s all we talk about

[acoustic kraken]

i mean how old is the game? past 6 months now? still non playable without frame gen on so many devices

AND THEY RECOMMEND A 1060 AS MIN RQUIREMENT

[charred nova]

It’s still unplayable with framgen

Because it doesn’t fix input lag and latency

Which is the main problem

Framgen just makes it worse lol

[acoustic kraken]

i mean its not that bad of an issue for me since its a singleplayer game but i get the complaint. we all just want 60 constant frames to play. maybe ue5.6 is the saving grace

[leaden wadi]

this is peak

[charred nova]

What is

[leaden wadi]

YOU

[charred nova]

Oh why thank you

Very kind of you to say

[vernal lily]

https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/561149828503961600/1374497153623396402/image0.gif

[acoustic kraken]

hes right! i mean you are a mod but dont glaze anything over xD

[charred nova]

We don’t

[leaden wadi]

true stalkers are friends

[charred nova]

Probably why we’re all gonna be removed tomorrow

[acoustic kraken]

you get tariff!

[leaden wadi]

is john gsc executing you or something

[charred nova]

Dunno we’ll see

[vernal lily]

high probability

[charred nova]

We stood for what we believed in

[leaden wadi]

enhanced editions... finally... a reason to replay CLEAR SKY...

[charred nova]

That’s what matters

[acoustic kraken]

YES! thats what im saying.

i still dont get why clear sky is so hated in the community.

[charred nova]

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

[vernal lily]

https://tenor.com/view/you-died-cat-comedy-funny-shaky-cat-crawling-cat-gif-21392489

[leaden wadi]

swamps

[acoustic kraken]

they are not that bad. stalker 2 are by far worse

[charred nova]

The originals are even better still

[leaden wadi]

when i played stalker 2 i tried to ||hide from the scripted emission in the swamps by going into a run-down building on my way to the clear sky base instead of the clear sky base itself||

[acoustic kraken]

when stalker 2 shadow of clear sky?

[leaden wadi]

pro tip this does not work

[acoustic kraken]

you too? i was stuck for 40 minutes until i googled it and i really just needed to run through xD

[charred nova]

I wish it was January 2024

Things were much better back then

[leaden wadi]

yeah, i just reloaded and went the full way after realizing i was taking emission damage

[charred nova]

Much more positive

We didn’t know how all this would turn out

[leaden wadi]

i got the "taking it for granted" achievement from that because it broke all of my stuff lol i had no choice but to reload

astronomical edit save

[acoustic kraken]

btw if yall need a break from stalker i can recommend atomfall, its also really fun

[leaden wadi]

is it true that it's online only

i've been looking at atomfall a bit but some people were saying it required an internet connection despite being singleplayer

[acoustic kraken]

i havent had an issue with that. i dont think its online only

[oak junco]

I never understood single player games that require online

[leaden wadi]

they want your data for money purposes

[acoustic kraken]

me neither, but we all know why 😄

[acoustic kraken]

no its not just that its especially in case of a remake or remaster so they can revoke your access on the old game and force you to buy the new game.

[bold smelt]

they should make me mod to ban you

[leaden wadi]

and also data for money purposes

[acoustic kraken]

if stalker was made by EA or ubisoft it would be online only and then they would kill the old games and charge you for the enhanced editions hat came out today

[frigid hill]

hawtdawgie has been warned

Reason: Bad word usage

[charred nova]

https://tenor.com/view/brad-pitt-deal-yeah-right-agreed-i-would-make-that-deal-gif-15679299

[patent abyss]

Enhanced versions of Stalker already in steam library, so big!

[jagged rapids]

[charred nova]

too bad it sucks!!!!!!!!!

[bold smelt]

have FUN

[acoustic kraken]

GSC is the goat tho, we just get the enhanced editions for free which is big W and not standard anymore. big props to them

[leaden wadi]

7 S.T.A.L.K.E.R. entries in my library. they're multiplying bro.

[patent abyss]

Enhanced sidorovich is always loved regardless of game quality

[bold smelt]

tbh i think thats a big L because it means new players will be playing the enhanced editions

[charred nova]

7 in my library only 3 are good

[leaden wadi]

soon we'll get stalker trilogy enhanced² edition and there will be ten stalkers in my library

[charred nova]

math doesn't math here

[acoustic kraken]

cant you buy the old ones anymore?

[chrome gazelle]

so is the diamond exoskeleton no longer able to gotten

[bold smelt]

you can buy them but they are delisted meaning it is not easy

[leaden wadi]

i assume the censorship of the USSR stuff in the landscape remains present?

[bold smelt]

you have to buy them through another friend owning the OGs

[charred nova]

they removed every single sign that had russian text on it

not replaced

REMOVED

[bold smelt]

unless they give the OGs when you buy EE but i doubt it

[vernal lily]

What does enhanced Sid even look like

[leaden wadi]

DAMN?! achievements though ...

[vernal lily]

I haven't opened the game yet

[bold smelt]

according to bulba they also removed the RU dub in its entirety

[acoustic kraken]

ah thats dumb. i mean you probably get keys for it but everyone should play the OG games like i did when i was 10 xD

[bold smelt]

the funniest thing to me is the specs

[charred nova]

yup they removed cheeki breeki

[patent abyss]

Ukraine dub still?

[bold smelt]

because like half of the stalker fanbase (at least before S2 released) are from developing countries that cant even run EE

[vernal lily]

We all getting cheeki breekied tomorrow

[leaden wadi]

ee

[charred nova]

all of the ambiant stalker dialog

was mostly in russian

so all of that is now gone

[bold smelt]

people like bulba do not know UA, he is belarusian

[patent abyss]

bruh

[leaden wadi]

are they working on remaking it in ukrainian?

[chrome gazelle]

is the diamond exoskeleton Not.
Obtainable anymore

[patent abyss]

because of conflict?

[bold smelt]

yes

[charred nova]

who cares just play the orginals

[patent abyss]

kind of dumb

[sturdy wind]

Im so disappointed at GSC rn

[charred nova]

they run better and can look better with mods

[vernal lily]

Go back to ogs

[charred nova]

we were so dissapointed we doomed our selves

[vernal lily]

I want to resume cotz since I already started on that

[charred nova]

better to die for the cause than to live as a rat

[bold smelt]

i believe every complaint i see because they are coming from diehard fans that would like
never critisize GSC in the past

[sturdy wind]

We doomed ourselves for trusting new GSC

[patent abyss]

Like, even if because of conflict, it's just language. How many conflicts have been involving english speaking combatants, but they are not censored????

[charred nova]

so

dude

[leaden wadi]

your honor english is simply TOO COOL

[charred nova]

the CNPP sign

[bold smelt]

stalker 2 originally had an RU dub in development as well

[charred nova]

THEY REMOVED IT

the massive stone sign is gone

[bold smelt]

before russians got banned from this server at least

[leaden wadi]

are you messing with me rn

[charred nova]

nope

[vernal lily]

I get why people don't want to use a language because of a conflict, but what they did with the enhanced version is not it

[leaden wadi]

bruuuh what the hell

[patent abyss]

seriously??

[bold smelt]

the international chats (PL, ES, DE, etc.) got hidden, the RU chat got completely nuked
its just gone, deleted

[leaden wadi]

okay that's sludge. they gotta work on remaking that stuff in ukrainian.

[charred nova]

its never gonna be the same

[patent abyss]

[leaden wadi]

at least something will be there lol

is the area where the CNPP sign was just EMPTY now?

[bold smelt]

this server used to be trilingual, you can see it in much older announcements

[charred nova]

yup

[leaden wadi]

diabolical

[leaden wadi]

what was the third language?

[charred nova]

https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/524246444560089099/1374511175571607642/image0-1.jpg?ex=682e50c9&is=682cff49&hm=1fc2294a7ffd91b7413e255ef9557f47b56ec0b6bc59ff1d24544a4c1d80b171&

[vernal lily]

lmao

that image again

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

[charred nova]

its literally true

[sturdy verge]

Lol

[vernal lily]

Making it a sticker

[leaden wadi]

oh right yeah it was russian

my brain is working well right now guys

[heady wind]

Pathetic from GSC. I am not even talking about removing ru stuff - the game is a blurry mess, weird UI glitches, somehow they removed OG dialog fonts. Just why???

[charred nova]

i just wanna go back

[sturdy verge]

Lolol

[charred nova]

put me back before the war and all this

this place was peak

[bold smelt]

yeah i can kinda get the removal of the RU stuff, but the upscaling just looks bad

[charred nova]

[bold smelt]

luigi

[charred nova]

so the thing is

its historical

all that stuff is there in real life

[honest crow]

so i see the game has negative reviews, I dont notice the blurs people are referencing, unless im blind. I will say my only complaint so far is I cant hotkey meds and bandages to my side mouse buttons

[leaden wadi]

yeah i think i'll only get around to playing the enhanced editions if they at least remake the removed stuff in ukrainian

[sturdy verge]

Womp womp

[charred nova]

the zone is a frozen place frozen in the year 1989

[patent abyss]

#📰┃announcement message

I believe this was the last announcement that was also in russian

[charred nova]

its a testimate to the failure of the soviet system

that allowed it to happen

[patent abyss]

The announcement afterwards was relating to a member hack from a russian thing, and after then they only did in english and ukrainian

[sturdy wind]

STALKER 2 was already a disaster, broken lore, trash optimization, and now with the LOTZ release, they’ve pretty much hammered the final nail in their own coffin

[charred nova]

yah that was literally the day the war started

💀

[bold smelt]

its the one afterward, i remember this server completely went to shit for like 6 months after this announcement #📰┃announcement message

[leaden wadi]

chat i actually liked stalker 2. the story wrapped things up in a way i thought was super cool

like how ||the place strelok goes to in SoC's true ending is just an illusion||

[charred nova]

i miss the old scar

[vernal lily]

https://tenor.com/view/stalker-2-stalker-scar-spark-meme-gif-6112129495284371231

[charred nova]

[bold smelt]

russians invaded the UA chat and made it unusable, so the UA chatters all went to EN chats and made them unusable for EN chatters

[leaden wadi]

what ||changed consciousness & brain injuries|| do to a man

[sturdy wind]

I think many fans already know about that, before the release of S2

[jade roost]

anybody has the link for the steam workshop modding guidelines?

[leaden wadi]

true but it was so well done imo

[charred nova]

was

was it though

[leaden wadi]

imo

[leaden wadi]

RULE 1
no sex

[honest crow]

I mean for us with the og trilogy, this enhanced edition is seperate and free, so like, not the biggest issue in the world that its broken, but it is a little sad to see. I think given time it might be nice to see that ingame mod support stuff working, taking out the chornobyl sign is weird could they not like translate the sign instead? I dont get it, it is also weird that like, its not like we were dying waiting for a remaster to come out, why didnt they just take some more time on it

[leaden wadi]

RULE 2
please no sex

[jade roost]

woke game

[charred nova]

idk if its posted on here

i don't think it is

[uncut inlet]

Roadside picnic pfp

[charred nova]

ive heard the workshop mod rules are apparently pretty strict so

idk lol

[honest crow]

witnessed

[jade roost]

I wanna read it in detail

like what can and cannot fly in there

[oak junco]

The enhanced editions are woke imo

[honest crow]

why?

[charred nova]

they could have and we all would have grumbled lightly and moved on

[oak junco]

Removal of russia stuff

[charred nova]

but instead they just removed it

[leaden wadi]

lol it lowkey looks funny that "call of prypiat" & "call of pripyat" are right next to eachother in my library now, alongside "chernobyl" & "chornobyl"

[charred nova]

along with EVERY SINGLE SIGN that had russian on it

[bold smelt]

the UA chatters also dont sound happy about the product

[leaden wadi]

chornobyl i can understand but prypiat looks fundamentally unserious in latin script

[charred nova]

no one who actually cares about stalker is

[uncut inlet]

Well gotta boost ukrainian patriotism somehow

[oak junco]

I don't think anyone is happy about this tbh

[charred nova]

like

id like to make it very clear

[bold smelt]

wouldnt that be like the opposite of woke because its censorship

[oak junco]

5 more gorbillan dollars now

[charred nova]

ukraine is the victim in all this

[honest crow]

I respect the changes to ukrainian speling, like i was shhocked to see agroprom is now ahroprom i think? I think thats cool, I do this its a bit lazy to remove all russian references instead of just replacing signs and stones with ukrainian spelling, that is a huge fumble

[uncut inlet]

Woke censors, but youre right that isnt woke

[charred nova]

i do not in any way shape or form support the actions of the russian government i openly condemn them

[patent abyss]

"On 24 February 2022, Russia invaded Ukraine, starting the largest and deadliest war in Europe since World War II, in a major escalation of the conflict between the two countries which began in 2014." - Wikipedia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russian_invasion_of_Ukraine)

Announcement that I had linked to was on 28th February 2023

[leaden wadi]

i'd rather it say "call of Прип'ять" in my steam library instead at that point

[oak junco]

Likewise

[bold smelt]

woke censors in a very different way

[charred nova]

oh well i guess im owned then

[jade roost]

is it true they renamed Pripyat?

[oak junco]

I wouldn't mind if they removed all the signs etc if they atleast remade new signs in Ukranian atleast

[patent abyss]

Not owned, just had to check the dates

[uncut inlet]

They took down statues of confederates

[leaden wadi]

yeah they changed names to ukrainian spelling

[bold smelt]

i got around the chernobyl vs chornobyl debate by training myself to call it czarnobyl

[jade roost]

so Prypiat?

[leaden wadi]

yea

[bold smelt]

i support putting them in museums rather than destroying them

[slow crypt]

STALKER: Lost Chromosomes Edition

[sturdy verge]

Lol

[bold smelt]

shut it vlad romanian

[patent abyss]

the previously chicken kievs in our shops in the uk have since been changed to chicken kyivs, since a year or maybe more now

[sturdy verge]

So dramatic 😂

[charred nova]

the zone is a museum

[vernal lily]

stalker: don't know what the hell they're doing edition

[honest crow]

I havent checked, I have noticed the game is shadow of Chornyobly which I like cus it represents how they spelled stalker 2, and Ahroprom, damn I am sad to see the negative reviews, I thought the game looked decent, obvious you can still probably hop on OGSR or autumn aurora for a better time but still, I think they will update it

[bold smelt]

resurrect stonewall jackson and throw him into the zone

[sturdy verge]

Channel is full of mocking birds lol

[bold smelt]

what

who

[charred nova]

i think the main thing with the russian and soviet stuff in the zone is

[oak junco]

https://tenor.com/view/grey-catbird-gray-catbird-bird-gif-351616213709218687

[honest crow]

I just got here to probably talk about the same subjects everyones been talking about all day haha

[charred nova]

it stands as monument to the failure of the soviet system

[bold smelt]

yes
im pretty sure thats the entire point of making the old games so soviet

[leaden wadi]

EPIC keyboard error

[patent abyss]

I didn't even know there was a remaster til I saw there was a "What's New" post on my steam library for Stalker

[uncut inlet]

Weve been having the same conversation for 3 days now

[slow crypt]

roadside picnic

[charred nova]

so i do not understand why you would censor it

[honest crow]

thats how it was with stalker 2 updates, every 5 minutes someone startrs the conversation up again " is a life fixed?"

[halcyon moth]

What the hell is going on there

[charred nova]

it literally stands to openly show how terrible the soviet system was

[honest crow]

witnessed

[uncut inlet]

Talking about gay game made by gay devs

[oak junco]

Fr it showed who caused this aswell

[leaden wadi]

it's taking a while to fix, because there's only one person working on it. it's me. guys please give me time i'm going as fast as i can

[bold smelt]

because the vision changed to a more patriotic ukrainian one so they removed stuff that would undermine that

[leaden wadi]

-# i am joking

[sturdy verge]

Like that one who won't stop talking about their ex 😂

[charred nova]

its history though

[oak junco]

Who even asked for stalker to become Ukranian propaganda tbh we just wanted the og vision updated

[slow crypt]

The fact that this improved version of the new trilogy runs at the same FPS as Metro Exodus with full RTX at 1440p says a lot.

[leaden wadi]

i haven't checked here since the CNPP first busted, what's the context to this one

[uncut inlet]

No were just stuck in a toxic relationship

[honest crow]

lol what, a life? take your time buddy sculpt it until its a marvel

[bold smelt]

i wouldnt go so far as to call it propaganda

[still edge]

the more i think about S2 alife, the more i realize , alife will never be like the OG games, its so much work left

[uncut inlet]

Hey if russia is known for having an unpredictable past why cant ukraine

[slow crypt]

it is

[radiant blade]

I will fix A-Life if you pay

[oak junco]

True maybe that's a strong choice of word

[halcyon moth]

So it's mean you in gay community now. Congratulations You are LGBT now

[bold smelt]

you are romanian, opinion discarded

[leaden wadi]

we're all fixing a life

[slow crypt]

Precisely because I'm Romanian, I'm impartial — I hate everyone equally.

[uncut inlet]

Yay im in the lets get big titties squad

[charred nova]

you gotta make a life first

[vernal lily]

gsc needs to fix their a life that's what it is

[sturdy verge]

If only I had a life

[oak junco]

Based ngl

[leaden wadi]

nah dawg you get B-Life

[charred nova]

after i get banned from here ill have my life back

[honest crow]

you know how like oblivion cooked they said they used the og engine as the brain but unreal engine as the body, do you think that wouldve been possible with the xray engine?

[still edge]

what alife , if it doesnt exist yet

[charred nova]

i can move on from this go back to school fix cars for a living

[leaden wadi]

you get Half-Life brochacho

[charred nova]

live the dream

[bold smelt]

you aint gonna get banned for criticizing them (i hope)

[charred nova]

finally find some happiness

[oak junco]

You never know with this new gsc

[sturdy verge]

Sid chicken life

[bold smelt]

nah we need you guys around to be funny

[slow crypt]

There was an NVIDIA RTX Remix project it failed.

[still edge]

but we have photorealistic graphics that gets so stale after 1 month of playing S2

[charred nova]

we went pretty hard in mod chat

[leaden wadi]

@gsc you guys get zero milfs. none

[bold smelt]

yellow jack would look sick too

[charred nova]

the odds are like 80 percent we get banned

[oak junco]

I'm a "Russian" in gsc eyes cuz im critical of enhanced editions lol

[charred nova]

20 percent we survive

[leaden wadi]

they're not recovering from this one chat

[sturdy verge]

Oh well shit happens people move on

[honest crow]

guys its simple really, GSC will just make stalker 3, and it will cut back on graphics and open world, but in exchange will give us A-life 3.0

[slow crypt]

"I have a better chance of getting a knife in Counter-Strike than experiencing a good launch from GSC.

[uncut inlet]

Thats exactly what it has become, just look at previous announcements. They sent an entire ad of cars to a war zone

[halcyon moth]

Manipulations

[leaden wadi]

i will have to manually forgive them

[wanton gazelle]

You see, the military in the zone decided to run around the place & repaint all the signs to sound slightly different. It totally makes sense.

[leaden wadi]

nah dawg they stole the signs

[vernal lily]

As you seen in that chat, my friend who's a Ukrainian is also a russian based on gsc slimy eye balls.

[oak junco]

Todd howard would just say dragonbreak and gg

[oak junco]

Which is INSANE

[wanton gazelle]

I think the whole renaming thing is petty as hell, but the trilogy apparently runs like butt so who cares.

[slow crypt]

It looks so blurry that I have myopia now.

[oak junco]

Scar needs prescription glasses man

[charred nova]

even i do

and im so blind i can't see 6 inches in front of me with out my glasses

[oak junco]

I felt this

[uncut inlet]

Imagine if 4a removes anything related to russia in metro 2026

[honest crow]

Am I crazy, I didnt noticed much blur ive played soc until garbage so far

[oak junco]

I'm blind as hell without my glasses

[bold smelt]

the renaming thing i kinda get but also cant wrap my head around

[still edge]

thats the stalker 2 we shouldve got ,photorealistic graphics is so damn boring, its just cool for a couple of hours until you realize its just boring ass graphics

[oak junco]

They will remake the game in like Nebraska or something

[charred nova]

despite all that bad

some good happened

https://github.com/bazik210/xray_2?tab=readme-ov-file#x-ray-engine

[leaden wadi]

i stole your vision, i think? i used to need glasses when i was younger but my eyes developed more later on & now i don't need them.

[bold smelt]

i can understand adjusting the UA captions (and maybe RU captions because thatd be hilarious) but adjusting the EN captions just comes off as baffling

[honest crow]

I think its the open world aspect that made it rough, I imagine a-life is a whole life easier to code and simulate when areas are broken up by loading screens

[bold smelt]

what is this

[uncut inlet]

Glukhovsky has a comic in ny taking place in the same universe lol

[charred nova]

xray 2.0

in the flesh

[bold smelt]

ok but that would be awesome though

[honest crow]

isnt there some modded SoC with a new 64 bit engine or somthing, monolith engine? sint that was ogsr uses or something

[charred nova]

there is also open xray

[uncut inlet]

Anomaly?

[charred nova]

which mods like true stalker use

[leaden wadi]

fake stalker

[charred nova]

and let me tell you true stalker may be hot ass

but the graphics in that mod

are wild

wayyyyyyyyyyyyy better than the new EDs

[honest crow]

yeah the anomaly engine? so do you think this Xray 2.0 will cook harder

[charred nova]

yah

[leaden wadi]

i got softlocked because i couldn't find this one antagonist guy in the tunnels he sends you to but he could nuke me through the walls

[charred nova]

its literally xray

but even better

[bold smelt]

https://youtu.be/Mb1FMUlpsPU?si=omG3_e9gtMqiI8LS

[charred nova]

https://youtu.be/Mb1FMUlpsPU?si=omG3_e9gtMqiI8LS

[honest crow]

True stalker did look great, honestly true stalker with some A-life would be a pretty solid game

[charred nova]

no lol

[leaden wadi]

holy shit i've been looking for this

[charred nova]

true stalker is just a terribly written slop fest

[uncut inlet]

Why is lotz trilogy named that way anyway. Its the strelok trilogy

[halcyon moth]

No one said that criticism new update= be russian bot. But there really is review bombing from them

[charred nova]

no

not really

if you read literally any of the reviews

[uncut inlet]

With great factions

[charred nova]

its very clearly not russian bots lmfao

[honest crow]

to be fair I didnt get very far lol so ididnt know aboutthe writting, I iddnt find the first few quests to be that bad other then that it intentionally makes you walk back and forth

[charred nova]

there is a side quest

there is 30 minutes of walls of text

[oak junco]

^

[charred nova]

and long unskippable cut scenes

[uncut inlet]

Which game?

[leaden wadi]

authentic to the original trilogy

[oak junco]

Gsc is using the war as a cover against criticisms

[charred nova]

true stalker

[uncut inlet]

That a mod?

[charred nova]

with no voice acting lol

yes

[leaden wadi]

even more authentic

[charred nova]

its a mod called true stalker

after i got like 10 minutes in i just started skipping

[leaden wadi]

okay but when are we getting fake stalker

[charred nova]

its so insanely wordy

every single response from you

[honest crow]

fake stalker unrioncally the best mod every made incoming

[charred nova]

is like an entire 100 plus word paragraph

some are so large they barely fit on screen

lmfao

[leaden wadi]

i bet my left testicle that it's only half as long in russian

[charred nova]

probably true

[lilac grove]

hows stalker enhanced

[uncut inlet]

Yeah most words would just change their prefix's and suffix's to make it shorter

[lilac grove]

mb wrong channel

[leaden wadi]

something something ESL

[rapid spade]

One message removed from a suspended account.

[leaden wadi]

every single bit that happened to be in the russian language

[charred nova]

all russian or soviet signs or statues

[rapid spade]

One message removed from a suspended account.

[charred nova]

with a small handful of exceptions

[leaden wadi]

signs, dialogue, whatever, it's gone

[charred nova]

no more cheeki breeki

its gone

[leaden wadi]

they have this emote still though

[rapid spade]

One message removed from a suspended account.

[lilac grove]

whyd they change it from chernobyl to chornobyl

[honest crow]

well ill prob keep playing SoC enhanced just for the Achievments, or until I notice the glaring issues, i guess ill open my menu to heal manually thats my only gripe, I do notice some text issues from time to time

[charred nova]

literally why bother

[rapid spade]

One message removed from a suspended account.

[lilac grove]

NO MORE CHEEKI BREEKI???

[charred nova]

a visual overhaul mod for the orginals

is a better game

[honest crow]

ukrainian spelling, they changed the names of locations as well

[uncut inlet]

Just SAM them in

[oak junco]

Play the og games guys

[halcyon moth]

Oh you think? Let's forget hacker attacks every day, threatening to the devs

[charred nova]

yup its gone

[uncut inlet]

Not worth playing the enhanced

[rapid spade]

One message removed from a suspended account.

[vernal lily]

I don't have a problem with that ngl, but removing the entire sign and everything in the game does not make any sense lmao

[lilac grove]

ass enhanced edition

[charred nova]

its not its just true

[honest crow]

SAM? what does that mean

[lilac grove]

yeah i dont really care, more of just a curiosity question

[oak junco]

Everywhere gets hacked daily hell innocent Russians get banned for just existing here lol

[wanton gazelle]

It's like Activision cutting out all the German stuff from a WWII game. Makes just as much sense to be honest. Yeah it might be offensive, but you should still keep it as part of history. Nobody is walking around Chernobyl and thinking "Wow, these Russian speaking fellas are such awesome people!"

It's pathetic.

[uncut inlet]

Steam achievement manager

[charred nova]

its a monument to the failure of the soviet system

[rapid spade]

One message removed from a suspended account.

[leaden wadi]

these renegade guys seem cool. i hope they don't eviscerate me with a sawn-off

[honest crow]

why is that cope? there are some stunning visual overhauls, I liek the achievments tho I wanna flex that I have all 3 games perrfected on my steam account lol

[charred nova]

due to the mod rules

i don't think you even can

[lilac grove]

oh i guess they changed it cause chernobyl was like the russian localization of the ukrainian chornobyl

[honest crow]

what you mean like, just brute force complete all of them?

[lilac grove]

does the enhanced edition atleast look good

[charred nova]

no

[wanton gazelle]

Pretty much, so it only makes sense to leave the language as is. Making the monument of Soviet failure be covered in Ukrainian makes zero sense. It's almost a self own.

[charred nova]

its mostly ai upscaled

[vernal lily]

https://tenor.com/view/muerto-gif-16250174877271582365

[charred nova]

lol

[leaden wadi]

are you fr

[uncut inlet]

It allows you to cheat in achievements or reset them,

[charred nova]

https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/1336296465387229246/1374452138008117278/image.png?ex=682e19cd&is=682cc84d&hm=aa3b95b765aa459483563e0cbb8a6e49ab0e831f7071b8c67cd01864918e1051&

thats enhanced