☢┃stalker-general

[hardy totem]

Hope he gets well soon

[golden gulch]

Lorewise the mutants(including the Burrer) are way more nightmare fuel than in-game.

[crude ice]

"Hey man, I need your 2293 emailed to the org box before you leave for the day, mmkay?"

[shrewd needle]

Go to Volkhov. Nightmare for real.

Also, I love how there was a Burer there in CoP as well...maybe it's the same Burer...

[west hill]

is there a list of stalker 2 mods to have?

[worldly lion]

tbh i like clear sky

it has a vibe i like

[fierce nexus]

Glorp gang

[fierce nexus]

You mean PEAK Sky?

[worldly lion]

i love the clear sky faction but it broke my heart to read the documents in call of pripyat

[fierce nexus]

Ye

[worldly lion]

anyways do you know a mod that improves the gunplay in the game?

[shrewd needle]

Just wait till you read the S2 documents.

[worldly lion]

oh hello, do you know how to delete mods from clear sky?

[shrewd needle]

Not really...though there's #🔩┃trilogy_modifications for that.

[unreal abyss]

STALKERS
I AM B-B-b-BACK!

[dreamy dagger]

das my shit

[dreamy dagger]

in da wack

[versed radish]

Hello, is there a bug report category for S2 please ?

[marsh iron]

see pin message in #❔┃seeking-for-advice

[versed radish]

Thx

[feral horizon]

I think the wolfhound armor is corps armor.

[hardy totem]

Wolfhound armor is mercenary armor

[dusty isle]

Buddy, no. But I do love that pfp

[shell flax]

Give me a Corps version and make it so the upgrade tree isn’t goofy like the Spark one

[rancid dune]

yeah, I want their armor as its all rather unique armor except for the coat one, it would be cool if we could get it as a useable armor

[worldly lion]

CS-1 body armor my beloved

[granite scroll]

Guys, am I the only one who can't play cuz of constant crashes after latest patch?

Already had 140h without any issues and never changed hardware nor software

[gilded dune]

do i get the enhanced editions for owning the original games or something?
they just popped up in my library

[oak junco]

yes they are free if you own the og trilogy

[gilded dune]

huh
thats cool

[worldly lion]

i somehow got clear sky enhanced edition on working on my laptop, its on a line so thin that the game freezes if i drop my gun

actual insanity

[shadow sage]

is it allowed to discuss the stalker 2 development builds here?

[feral horizon]

Oh well in that case the corps need their own exo. Thought wolfhound was corps armor since they sell it. Also corps and mercs use similar shades of blue

[wide timber]

how to do spoiler thing?

[drifting forge]

Yo

[drifting forge]

|| on either side of the message

[wide timber]

ok thanks

[drifting forge]

They have one. You can get it in a journalist stash

[wide timber]

anyone else have problem with crashing after ||you pick the side of the ward or spark|| i’m on xbox

[unreal abyss]

Dobry Wieczór, Polish Strelok

[drifting forge]

Siema

[hardy totem]

they have their own exo, the shturm if I'm not mistaken

[worldly lion]

was palying stalker clear sky when my game crashed in the red forest, my last save was in the agroprom underground.

[hardy totem]

it didn't autosave when you entered the map...?

[worldly lion]

no.

[hardy totem]

OR or EE?

[worldly lion]

what do those acronyms stand for

[hardy totem]

original release or enhanced edition

[worldly lion]

or

[hardy totem]

...why are you not getting autosaves...?

[worldly lion]

i dont know

i just dont

i have to make manual saves too, like go in the menu and press "save game"

because every time i press f5 it overwrites my last quicksave

[hardy totem]

yeah that's normal

but in vanilla you should also get autosaves when you enter a map

pc release

[worldly lion]

yeah idk i used to get autosaves but for some reason my game screwed itself over

i swear im gonna get that strelok fella, for scar and the marked one

[ebon blade]

The Wolfhound armor is sold in Rostok with the Freedom Trader.
It's a decent mid-level armor, that is only lacking Psi Protection.

[pearl jolt]

My dad bought me adidas pants, should I buy a gas mask?

[ebon blade]

Ask here: https://discord.com/channels/504587323577729024/524229636599840769

[pearl jolt]

Thx

[spare canopy]

Have they fiddled with the gun play on the EE?

The soldiers at the gate house are bullet sponges. ADS, on target, and one of the took 50 shots to down.

Could be a res issue? sights not lining up properly?

Whatever it is, can you fix it, it's really annoying and not how I remember it at all.

This is using a basic AK, using 5.45x39 ammo

taking two full clips at almost point blank, with an AK is just BS.

But just like everything GSC touch, they always seem to F it up.

[feral horizon]

Thought it was only sold in pripyat. I heard it from an armot tier list video so either they were wrong or something changed in a patch.

[worldly lion]

8/40

[ebon blade]

I don't think anything has changed, as I bought it long ago.
However, it doesn't appear for sale, every time you talk to the Trader.
Based upon the other armors for sale and the frequency the Wolfhound
armor appears, I would say it is the rarest, least seen item that she sells.

[spare canopy]

F U GSC, for screwing up everything you touch.

Point blank headshots not registering in SoC EE. It was never like this, how can you constantly F things up so consistently.

[feral horizon]

Nvm I was wrong. He does say you can get it from Birch in rostok. https://youtu.be/ycavz7JXl9c

[oak junco]

💀 how did they mess that up thats bad

[feral horizon]

Speaking of armor in stalker 2, Does anyone actually buy armor in this game?

[still current]

https://tenor.com/view/morgan-freeman-gif-24496452

[ebon blade]

Why are you posting in the Stalker 2 channel, about the previous games?
If you have questions or need help on the EE versions, post here: https://discord.com/channels/504587323577729024/1308038416562126879

[ebon blade]

I haven't bought any of the low-tier armors, since they are found free everywhere.
I have bought several of the mid-tier armors, just to upgrade them to see what they did.
However, most of the time, I decide the upgrades are a waste of money, compared to what I have.
Then I will go back to an earlier save before I spend it on upgrades, and sometimes before I buy the suit.

[golden gulch]

I did buy the Liberty Exoskeleton from Rostok trader.
I actually like it very much, it's a side grade to the Diamond, problem is it need blueprints which can only be pick up at Pripyat and the Diamonds require none to reach its full potential.
The 2nd easiest and the 2nd soonest exoskeleton you can get your hand on.

[feral horizon]

But you can just get that thing in pripyat. Or did you buy it before pripyat?

[golden gulch]

You can get the thing in Pripyat, or buy it after the 2nd Duga mission.

Part of me is kinda happy they nerfed the Falcon with the latest patch so I have more reason to switch the Liberty sooner.

[dusty isle]

Quite literally my fav movie, have an iron giant tat on my right arm

[golden gulch]

I bought the damn thing in Rostok lmao

[feral horizon]

Isn't that very pricey? I never felt like buying armor and weapons from shops since they're are so many places to explore that have free armor and weapons. I feel like Clear Sky and Call of Pripyat did a better job at making you have to buy armor from shops.

[golden gulch]

True, but when I saw it the first time, I was like "I need it", so I bought the thing, was a nice upgrade from my Corundum suit.

[feral horizon]

I just got the diamond suit from the spark bunker as an upgrade from the corundum suit. The free stuff is just too good in stalker 2.

[wide timber]

what gun is better in your opinion the Dnipro or the kharod? i need help picking between em

[feral horizon]

Those are like two of the top guns for me. Dnipro is probably better at mid to short range combat and kharod is better for long range and you can put a grenade launcher on it.

You could always try using both if you're not using the saiga.

[wide timber]

see i was thinking about running both of them but what sense would it make to run 2 assult rifles? wouldnt it be better paired with a sniper or shotgun????

[feral horizon]

You can run both. Really just boils down to what you wanna have fun with.

Use the Kharod as your long distance weapon and the Dnipro for mid to short range.

[wide timber]

alright thanks ✅

[feral horizon]

Also if you're on the Strelok/Doc story path, you get a gun from degtyarev that outclasses the Kharod and I think the Dnipro to.

[wide timber]

i just got to yaniv in the strelock thing

[feral horizon]

you get it during the point of no return.

[golden gulch]

Which make sense for the type of ammo it use i guess?

[wide timber]

kharod ammo is expensive unlike the Dnipro i have like 1800 ammo of the Dnipro and like only 200 for the Kharod

[gentle olive]

Literally praying for the day Q2 releases....I feel like I have no desire to play other games right now..

[wide timber]

bro idk why but i keep getting jumped by like packs of bloodsuckers before close to launch there used to be like 1 its better tho makes fights more fun

[ebon blade]

I'm not really seeing much difference in the past 6 months.
Bloodsuckers usually hunt in pairs, but I've been jumped by one many times.
The most I have had attack me, was a group of four at once, that luckily for me
only had one way to get at me, as I had a building to my back for better protection.

[wide timber]

i mean maybe becuase i went from strolling around like garbage and like near rostok to like past the red forrest

[shrewd needle]

@wide timber - #📸┃screens_and_videos message

Well, the real Zone is as empty as well.

[ebon blade]

If you go in any direction long enough, in any territory, eventually you will run into Bloodsuckers.

[lofty valley]

cnpp must be in-game for free

[ebon blade]

If you see it, it's in the game.

[pearl jolt]

How do I get infinite money in stalker shadow of Chernobyl?

No weight too if possible pls

[shrewd needle]

Use a trainer.

[shrewd needle]

Imagine using a gun that requires 30 seconds just to reload... 😔

[ebon blade]

Imagine using a gun with two barrels, that delivers twice the damage with every shot.
It actually only took 11 seconds to load 14 rounds, so 30 seconds is an exaggeration.

[teal shadow]

did they make a new way to mod the game or do I still have to manualy load all the mods into the pak folder

[shrewd needle]

It still shoots one shot at a time, not both barrels at once.

Also 11 seconds is still too long. 😔

[ebon blade]

You can always use the sawn-off shotgun. It reloads in a second or two, if that's the most important thing to you.

[median oak]

Switching to your secondary shotgun is faster than reloading!

[ebon blade]

I carry a shotgun, an SMG, an assault rifle and a sniper rifle.

The SMG is much more useful than carrying two shotguns.

[median oak]

Eh, in my hands sure, but not in anyone else's.

Everyone else is too incompetent to be trusted with weapons.

And WAAAAAY too degenerate.

Letting people talk to A.I. was the gravest mistake possible.

[shrewd needle]

I actually use the magazine-fed Remington 870 or the Saiga. I'd actually prefer a full rifle build, but...mutants are mutants.

[shrewd needle]

Doubtful. Like, I suck at handling guns and I still haven't done more than 1-2 friendly-fire cases in S2.

[smoky hawk]

gun handling wouldve prob felt better if the fps was better...

[vapid galleon]

[frigid hill]

siema_ has been warned

Reason: Bad word usage

[severe mural]

why are mutants so cringe in this game its actually aggrivating

[smoky hawk]

use a shotgun

and a dictionary

[severe mural]

oh no a typo

[hardy totem]

Killing mutants with a dictionary would be... unorthodox

[smoky hawk]

no, you should learn what ajectives are bc I have absolutely no idea what you wanted to say when you called them "cringe"

[severe mural]

too fast, too much health, too pointless cuz they aint giving any loot

[severe mural]

dont you fell like they are too op for what they do in the game?

[smoky hawk]

no, you just aren't good at the game

[severe mural]

bro who cares how good am i

there aint no real thing that can take a buckshot to the head point blank

and these things are withstanding rockets

and then just running around like its not a big deal, it wasnt like that in the old games so i dunno

[smoky hawk]

I bet you could, since it wouldnt hit anything essential

[severe mural]

ur a discord mod 💀

[vapid galleon]

How many years in the Zone?
How many years in the Blood?

[smoky hawk]

and worst, I do it for free
but at least I dont suck at games and complain about it

[severe mural]

what

[severe mural]

ye sure buddy go on playing on easy

[smoky hawk]

maybe you should since the tushkanos are beating your ass

[severe mural]

ye it was actually 2 bloodsuckers in yaniv

and i really dont know why were they so fast

[smoky hawk]

bro having problems with the bloodsuckers LMAO

[severe mural]

i really dont understand what dont you get

they kick ass on veteran and just go on to run a marathon xd

[smoky hawk]

I understand you very easely, get better at the game

simple as

[severe mural]

okay ig

[severe mural]

also do you know can you get inside the spark bunker early?

[smoky hawk]

havent played 1.4 in a while, dont know

[severe mural]

thx

[frigid hill]

fosko_ has been warned

Reason: Bad word usage

fosko_ has been banned

Reason: scam

[oak junco]

this aint good optics man

[smoky hawk]

https://tenor.com/view/uni-cat-gif-16508948274886257497

Idk
get better at the game, in a well intention way?

[charred nova]

https://tenor.com/view/skillissue-skill-issue-gif-22125481

[oak junco]

modders will rebalance and make S2 peak one day

[smoky hawk]

port Left 2 Die to Stalker 2

1 not 3

[spiral cobalt]

I gotta be honest I miss how stupidly overpowered they were at launch where it took like 20 slugs to the head to kill 1 bloodsucker

Made them actually feel scary

[severe mural]

well imo they should just beat a lot of damage be kinda rare give something u can sell for some money to at least cover the cost of the bullets, and not take 20 slugs to kill

[spiral cobalt]

That's fair, thankfully next update will add looting for him

[severe mural]

finally

but its still kinda a long time for such a basic thing to be added

still love the game tho

[spiral cobalt]

Yeah I feel like these updates are taking a LONG time for what they are actually adding it's 6 months after launch and there aren't many new things just improvements to everything

I mean sure please do fix the game to a point it's playable but id say the game is pretty stable now bug wise

[severe mural]

man the first time i beat the game in patch 1.01

it was literally unbeatable xd

[spiral cobalt]

I think I beat it in patch 1.1 or something because I was trying to do as much as I could before beating it

I still haven't gotten each ending

Only 3 out of 4

[severe mural]

ye same i had best gear and stuff but umm the granite squad didint spawn and i kinda forced my way on with ue tools, i did the ward ending then

[spiral cobalt]

I did have the awful zalissya defend bug and I had no clue I could even save it until people mentioned it, even though I ran to zalissya right after I heard gaffer

[severe mural]

SAME BRO i managed to find a reddit thread and do stuff with ue tools too

also what do you think about the endings? cuz i am at the end of my second playthrough and i dont know which one should i do, strelok, or doctor

[still current]

Gamma 2 kind of rebalance? in that case, I hope I won't be around to see such carnage

[oak junco]

There's many other mods with better balance that aren't gamma lol

Saw a video short of a chimera taking over 200+ 5.56 ammo to kill thata so goofy

[scenic scaffold]

just use Modular Hard Mode Standard and your game is 10x more balanced than vanilla will ever be

vanilla rains loot like it's a action looter shooter borderlands rip off my god

i beat the story again now im doing a MHM New Game Start (main mission disabled) running quests and artifact runs. Peak survival sandbox experience

8 months later and the story is BARELY functional

insert dogass skill issue joke here

[scenic scaffold]

ignore gamma haters bro. They have some weird vendetta against fun or something

[smoky hawk]

Saying gamma haters hate fun is a very funny thing to do ngl

[scenic scaffold]

ik, cause it's probably the highlite of your dayt

[smoky hawk]

If reading dumb stuff people say on the internet was someone's high of their day
They'd be a very happy person

[oak junco]

But fr gamma isn't the be all end all for mods it's really only one notable western mod all the eastern ones I've played so far have fantastic balance

Like ogse on master is pretty solid

Op2, teamlite, legends return etc

[scenic scaffold]

It isn't, but it's modularity literally makes it to where you make the game how you want or you just installed it without knowing what you're doing.

[smoky hawk]

So, it makes you do the work yourself and you like it for it

Lol

not only is it freeplay slop, you do it for free

[scenic scaffold]

these are not good arguments lmao

[smoky hawk]

Op2 good balancing?

[oak junco]

Combat is super deadly on both sides

Its balanced in that way

[scenic scaffold]

it's crazy someone will put EFFORT and TIME into things they think are FUN

[oak junco]

Like merc fight in garbage is deadly for you and them you gotta be ready to 1 tap or get 1 tapped

[spiral cobalt]

I havent done strelok yet but im pretty sure thats the canon one (Please dont spoil it), I've done all of the other 3 and I dont really think I have a favorite although ||Scar's ending was pretty weird and didnt explain a thing for me||, I feel bad for anyone who got that ending on their first playthrough lol

[ornate mirage]

i dont care about modularity i want a vision and balance

[scenic scaffold]

well then good luck lmao

never going to get it in vanilla

[ornate mirage]

not even talking about the fact that balancing something as a player is not feasible

[ornate mirage]

vanilla has vision

[scenic scaffold]

they half-assed their own vision

they downgraded their game to doodoo

[ornate mirage]

???

i am talking about the trilogy

[scenic scaffold]

im specifically talking s2

[ornate mirage]

and even in case of s2, that would be better than a glorified vasyanka that gamma is

[oak junco]

Ogse is the real stalker 2..

[scenic scaffold]

any mod is better than vanilla stalker lmao. the balance in the series is not good

[oak junco]

You mean stalker 2 right ? Cuz the vanilla trilogy was good

[scenic scaffold]

the original trilogy i think has "better" balance. it's fine

[ornate mirage]

SoC actually knows how to do progression, unlike 90% of the mods, be it freeplay slop or story mods

[oak junco]

Expect the il86 💀 AWFUL RIFLE

[scenic scaffold]

but it's still too "arcadey"

[ornate mirage]

i mean yes, that is the design

[oak junco]

Its always been an arcade shooter

This isn't a milsim or tactical series

[scenic scaffold]

and that is not my preference which is why mods will always be better

🙂

[oak junco]

You've been corrupted by tacticool slop

[scenic scaffold]

i don't like putting 20 bullets into a single npc's head. that's not fun. lmao

[ornate mirage]

your preference doesn't work within stalker, proven by how gamma completely fuсking fumbles it
but yes i do understand

[oak junco]

Idk headshots put people down pretty quick even on master

[scenic scaffold]

Eh, the milsim / survival open world sandbox perfectly works with the zone. i don't see how it doesnt.

The playerbase, the content creators, the amount of money that's being donated for a STALKER CO-OP experience (with and without mods) that is making a crap ton of money tells me other wise

[ornate mirage]

if with milsim you mean damage working more realistically then no, at least with gamma's implementation it just doesn't work
its gameplay crumbles the instant you get a sniper rifle, allowing you to hide behind covers and not engage with anything, meanwhile mutants can be dealt with just by using a starter pistol

gamma turns the game into a cover shooter, and not a particularly interesting one

[scenic scaffold]

50% of stalker players use GAMMA apparently. according to the steam data im looking at. it's not like it's some sort of minority or super exclusive thing. if the game is unbalanced, you can literally just adjust it. but ik probably a majority of people that download it don't know how to move mods in and out and adjust values. 🤷

[halcyon karma]

Lmao

[scenic scaffold]

It is what it is, ig. I'm having a blast with it and modded s2 lmao

[ornate mirage]

???
what do you mean steam data

[scenic scaffold]

online players for the trilogy vs GAMMA users.

[oak junco]

Since you're a content creator idk if you're allowed to have your own opinions but s2 deff needs more time to cook and modders will fix gsc sloppiness

[ornate mirage]

gamma is a standalone, non-steam mod, where are you pulling the numbers from

anyway "lots of people play it" and 'they're having a blast" aren't defences of the game, those are justifications you need when feeling insecure in enjoying something other people criticize

[oak junco]

https://youtube.com/shorts/wVQxOi6RiEI?si=y27gO0pIuS5-K-tf like this is awful gameplay lol

200-246 5.56 rounds to kill a chimera

[halcyon karma]

Since you're a content creator idk if you're allowed to have your own opinions

you think GSC has us CCs here as slaves?

[scenic scaffold]

I mean, that goes both ways bud.

[ornate mirage]

???

[smoky hawk]

You spend 5 days doing work a modded should've done for you only to get a still bad mod not as bad, I merely play a better mod

[halcyon karma]

Yes S2 needs fixing, but modders won't fix the game. They can enhance it, but it's really really hard for individual modders to "fix" such a project

[scenic scaffold]

skill issue

[oak junco]

Bro we haven't forgot the leaked message from gsc staff so its hard to be sure if they want you to have set in stone opinions about stalker 2 aswell as the ee trilogy

[smoky hawk]

Great skill issue you have
But the first step towards being better is assuming ones mistakes

I believe in You

[oak junco]

Its not the worst balanced game but theres deff room for improvement

[scenic scaffold]

okay bud

[smoky hawk]

I will add you to my prayers

[scenic scaffold]

thank you. you are so kind.

[smoky hawk]

🙏

[scenic scaffold]

mods you recommend?

[halcyon karma]

???
This is one specific scenario where they have their own motives.

We aren't forced to do anything and they don't restrict us from saying anything. (Besides stuff like testing enviroment talk)

[halcyon karma]

He will say NLC cringe.

[oak junco]

Thats good to know atleast

[smoky hawk]

Huuu, right out of the bat I heard the new SFZ was quite good but I haven't gotten around to it, it has an en mode already

[scenic scaffold]

just because "lots of people played vanilla" and are "having a blast" doesn't mean it's a objectively better experience for everybody lmao

[oak junco]

I gotta try sfz soon

[scenic scaffold]

There was a mod for S2 that put together a fully working quest/sidequest/objective system when talking to NPC's and i forgot wtf it's called.

[ornate mirage]

where did i state that "vanilla is objectively a better experience for everybody" was the point of my argument
if i were to argue that i'd cite like, better design and genre differences

but i am not, i am criticizing gamma's gameplay and how applicable "milsim" gameplay is to stalker, it does not even mean you cannot enjoy the modpack, it just means that the gameplay sucks

[scenic scaffold]

sounds like we're going in circles. or are going to. so im just gonna add this emoji cause it seems to be important

[ornate mirage]

[velvet mulch]

How's stalker enhanced edition for you guys?

[dreamy dagger]

It better never came out

[native heart]

what's stalker game is about?

[austere pagoda]

[charred nova]

It’s about uh

Magic rocks and stuff

[quaint umbra]

Are they self-tumbling rocks?

[smoky hawk]

exploring the secrets of a twisted contained zone where reality is breaking down

[hardy totem]

it's about ''bread''

[pine ferry]

I wish they had more guns in stalker 2 tbh

[oak junco]

I wish we had the an94 back man

[austere pagoda]

i wish we had alife

[pine ferry]

Nah but like shit old weapons too

[dreamy dagger]

I wish we had a kick-ass AI

Something to really stand out in the game and be proud of existing... but 400 people don't seem to have been able to do it. Sadge.jiff

[dusty isle]

2 more guns being added to S2 this month 🙂

[pine ferry]

I want more then 2 😭 oh well waiting for that modding up date

[severe mural]

this game just memory leaked on me 3 times in a row

all during a bossfight

[charred nova]

Welcome to stalker 2

[severe mural]

also i have 2 fausts pendants

now 1 after using it..?

[acoustic orchid]

Been on holiday for a week. Anything exciting happened in the zone?

[ripe falcon]

not really, things are quietly brewing

[ripe falcon]

yeah it's a bug

[river chasm]

Just awaiting 1.5 later in the month

[midnight wagon]

I'm so over using bandages in clear sky that I just have a bunch of health artifacts just to counteract bleeds

[vapid galleon]

[noble sage]

hello im having a problem with my games Graphics with grainy and flashing foliage and im not seeing this problem with anyone else can someone point me in a direction to get some help plez

[raven hawk]

hi, i don't know if this is the right chanel for this but; i like ttrpgs and i been trying to make my own game system so that my friend who don't play videogames can enjoy stalker, the only thing is, i been so engorged in making the game that i haven't though of a fun story, so, what better place to ask for help then a place full of stalker fans (does this count as offtopic?)

[acoustic orchid]

Yeah hopefully we see it soon. But I think around the 15th-20th June it could drop but I could be wrong

[noble sage]

can anyone help

[acoustic orchid]

What Pc do you have?

[wide timber]

in the mission in the nameof science how long do i have to wait for the reward?

[noble sage]

i have a 2080 ti and a i9 9900K cpu and 32gb ram

[plush badge]

When modding comes, we gonna get tons od gins bro just like the older stalkers

[noble sage]

so im not sure if its my specs not being good enough ive be trying running it on lower Graphics like mid or high

[pine ferry]

Actually can't wait 😭

[weary hedge]

Ви можете знайти моди на nexus, щоб оптимізувати гру для ПК нижчого класу
/You can find mod on nexus to optimize the game for lower end pc

[noble sage]

What is a lower end pc for this game lol or is my stuff just that outdated

[acoustic orchid]

Sent you a message with some setting tweaks hope it helps

[noble sage]

Thank you

[weary hedge]

2070 i run just fine

[acoustic orchid]

Even on high-end PC's, performance can be hit or miss. You need to play around with the settings. Good luck, Stalker.

[faint monolith]

u can download mods for potato pc lol

[noble sage]

thank you guys @acoustic orchid ill give those settings a try and if that doesn't work @faint monolith can you maybe point me at a mod or two

[wraith fractal]

im tweaking for 1.5

[still current]

Avoid mods atm

The new patch will be here real soon (according to #📜┃gsc-answers ) so, it'll be wise to keep any mod out until then or else it'll mostly cause problems with the new patch

[wide timber]

in the mission in the nameof science how long do i have to wait for the reward?

[drifting bear]

It's a bit long because he will only contact you once you've completed a certain main mission

[wide timber]

i’m on the last mission the one of no point of return

[drifting bear]

oh

[wide timber]

i was afk for like 30 mins and nothing changed i even reloaded the save 3 times

[drifting bear]

Probably a bug 🤷

[wide timber]

bruh

[acoustic orchid]

Hopefully we see the update around the 15-20th June🙏

[frigid hill]

giggle_shitter556 has been warned

Reason: Bad word usage

[worldly lion]

what are renegades doing all the way in the red forest?

also why is swearing not allowed

[drifting forge]

Some is some isnt

[worldly lion]

f word?

seriously?

[drifting forge]

Fuсk isnt allowed

[worldly lion]

1984

[drifting forge]

Nuh uh

[worldly lion]

great, my game keepscrashing when im trying to load limansk

(the save i made called limansk)

and its not like my save system is broken or anything it specifically crashes when i try to load my save in limansk

[meager crag]

No cussing allowed, sir. This is a Monolithian server

[drifting forge]

[meager crag]

https://tenor.com/view/stalker2-stalker-strelok-screens-gif-15908325033286483626

[drifting forge]

[white vortex]

is there a stalker 2 modding channel or is that a seperate discord

[violet dune]

will be added after SDK drops

[acoustic orchid]

Will be added on here plus the content makers will be showcasing on their channels

[worldly lion]

aparently i am not allowed to die in limansk or else my game crashes everytime i load a save

how nice.

[worldly lion]

i just want to stop strelok man, why does this game do this to me

[wide timber]

question does skif end up ||leaving the zone || in the strelock ending?

[river chasm]

Uhhh ||No, Strelok makes it pretty clear anyone who tries will be killed on the spot||

[worldly lion]

Welcome to north korea

[wide timber]

ok so i’m not a fan of this ending

i thought he would be nice and let 1 slip through yk

[still current]

Actually? It's not really clear whether he does or not, but the higher chance of him being stuck seems more likely. Unlike other individuals, Skif was rather treated without aggression after all, but the whole rest of zone is another matter. From what we saw, the zone were closed off, and thus skif is still trapped there unless strelok allows him out (possible outcome since he commanded monolith to not interfere with him.)

[wide timber]

yea i wish like in new vegas after the ending you chose it like shows what happened with each settlement

[still current]

Well, I do wish to know what happened too, but it's kinda clear in that ending. Strelok became a tyrant and thus, most are likely to parish.

Some might accept his rule over the zone, but most would keep fighting the monolith as they were anywag

[wide timber]

yea but what if they like defeated stelock?

[spare canopy]

They would have just have to wait a few months anyway. Once the food runs out, because no one leaves or enters there would be nothing to protect zone anyway.

And all the Psi emmiters have been turned out, the monolith, shut down again, about 2 mins after it was started, so Strelok ain't got no way of creating new monolith.

Me thinks he hasn;t thought this through very well.

But then characters are only as smart as the writers, and no one in this game, makes any sense or does sensible things.

I mean, it was clearly pointed out that Skif had a unique artifact turn up at his house, why go through all rubbish at the start, when Ward could have simply turned up, brought it off him, for the price of a house and the recharge it themselves, seeing as the guy that drove him to the zone worked for ward anyway.

[shell flax]

Ignoring the fact Hermann went rogue and wasn’t ‘Working for the ward’, Why would the Ward and SIRCCA just automatically assume some random ass stalker had The most coveted artifact in their whole plan? Just because an artifact is unique doesn’t mean it’s the Alpha, it could’ve wound up being something like one of the altered items

Hermann himself points out that assuming Skif had the Alpha would’ve been an incredibly stupid idea

[twilit osprey]

Hi everyone, the "Deceive the Deceiver" mission went fine except Where is Agopyan?
I went back to the place I first found him and he's not there nor is he dead.
I'd appreciate any help
Thank you

[wide timber]

you know i think you could always grow food and stuff and plus when you pick ||spark or ward when the guy captures you|| he said something about the monolith already in mainland and escaped the zone would that mean strelock now has control over those stalkers?

[polar forge]

I just killed myself by knifing an ammo crate and there was grenades inside. Blew me up

[ebon blade]

I remember that one. Didn't kill me but came close.
What armor were you wearing?

[polar forge]

Fairly well upgraded SEVA-I suit

[subtle spindle]

strelok doesnt need a new monolith, theres already enough soldiers to protect what needs to be protected. x7 also has crateloads of preserved food just for this purpose. im sure if granite could last for this long they can make it a few more months. as for stalkers outliving strelok, i doubt it.

[ebon blade]

I can't remember how far back that was suit wise,
I was most like wearing the Monolith Zircon armor
fully upgraded with an upgraded Duty Sphere helmet
Or the Light Mercenaries armor with the Tactical Helmet.

[polar forge]

I got this armor less than halfway through the game. It was in one of the first areas with large scale buildings thats all I remember. Its got good physical protection and just a bit less radio protect compared to normal SEVA. Idk if have some armor that is bit better but this has lead containers which I need lol

[ebon blade]

I'm currently wearing the SEVA-V (Freedom) which I found much better than the SEVA-D (Duty) upgraded.
I haven't progressed far enough to see the SEVA-I, but I think I read it is the best of the three mentioned.

[magic vault]

Is the M10 good? I always struggled getting any use out of it, it chews through ammo so quickly yet the damage seems pitifully low

[pearl jolt]

The doom slayer of the zone

[ebon blade]

I used it briefly in the pistol slot, when I had a crappy shotgun and needed it as backup against Bloodsuckers,
However, the accuracy was crap for anything beyond right next to you, so it's use was limited to a backup defense.

[magic vault]

I hope devs buff it in some way, or at least remodel the suppressor so it doesn't look like airsoft

[knotty flame]

hiiiiiiiii

[shrewd needle]

In the vanilla game, it's not good for anything except point-blank. And at that point, you might as well use a Remington/Saiga or any shotgun, honestly.

Also, I love how everyone (including Skif) is basically stupid enough to not unfold the MAC-10's stock. Like...SERIOUSLY? For that matter, folding stocks could've been a good option in the attachments panel, where you fold and unfold stocks as the situation demands, with appropriately higher and lower recoil respectively.

They missed a good thing there, especially with the MAC-10, the Kiparis and the AK-74U.

[vapid galleon]

[magic vault]

I think the collapsed stock makes sense, since you can place it into the pistol slot

[shrewd needle]

Unfolding the stock doesn't change the weapon, though.

[magic vault]

I don't really understand what you mean. I'm saying it's more compact folded, so it seems logical you can use it as a pistol, in its dedicated pistol slot

Funnily enough, some early development Shadow of Chernobyl versions had inventory icons for weapons with their stocks folded, though that was never in any final versions obviously

Anyway, Kiparis seems way too good, better than most earlier guns. Though I haven't tried it after the 9x18 nerf

[subtle spindle]

the only reason why you would ever fold a stock on a gun is for it to take up less space but since that isnt a consideration in this game i dont think that adding folding stocks would make sense

[vapid galleon]

How many years in the Zone?
How many years in the Blood?

[graceful timber]

Hello! Should I write about bugs?

[vapid galleon]

yes

but remember that mods are ready to defend the game

[oak junco]

Id write and report them aswell so they could potentially get fixed

[shrewd needle]

It would; as I said, using the attachments menu, you could fold/unfold the stock as needed. Would be even better if the stock was auto-folded inside buildings and then opened up when outside.

[shrewd needle]

My point was unfolding the stock doesn't turn it from a pistol into a rifle; it still remains a pistol.

[subtle spindle]

if youve played any game that has folding stocks you know that its at best a feature for larpers

[shrewd needle]

I mean...a game where weapon handling matters is one game where stocks would matter. It's not Counter-Strike.

[subtle spindle]

no

[shrewd needle]

Yes. There's a reason stocks exist.

[subtle spindle]

yes

for storage.

[shrewd needle]

No.

[subtle spindle]

... we live in different realities

[shrewd needle]

Stocks exist to stabilize the firearm, else even long-ass sniper rifles wouldn't be using stocks.

And a game where weapon handling matters, stabilizing the firearm matters.

[subtle spindle]

oh i think i misunderstood you

i thought you were trying to justify the feature of folding/unfolding stocks rather than stocks in general

the issue is that 99.5% of the time the stock should be unfolded in combat so theres just little reason to have that feature when storage isnt a consideration

[shrewd needle]

Yes, except the MAC has it's stock folded, which makes zero sense for anyone who's in the Zone, especially since weapon handling is such a big part of the game.

Hence I was trying to justify the feature in my original point. It would make a lot of sense to have the ability to fold/unfold stocks on the fly, so that you could use the MAC-10/Kiparis/AK-74U to have the ability to fold/unfold their stocks (since AFAIK, only they have foldable stocks).

When folded, the weapons could handle much better/faster but have severe recoil (obviously); good for compact areas like interiors or other cramped spaces. Outside, where there's plenty of space, the stock could be unfolded; worse/slower weapon handling, but far better recoil control and accuracy.

[subtle spindle]

stalker 2 doesnt have detailed enough weapon handling to make either of the weapon states distinct enough. folding stocks also generally arent used in combat which is what my previous comments were about

folding stocks are almost exclusively used for storage, if you are in a tight space there are other solutions

[shrewd needle]

Then maybe the MAC should have a permanently unfolded stock and better firing considering it's fully automatic with no semi-automatic mode.

Like...it's honestly unusable unless you've got some serious trigger-control skills, and even then, the recoil throws the aim off.

[subtle spindle]

thats a better solution. theres not really a need to create some extra system that only tacticool larpers would ever care about

[shrewd needle]

I mean, either works for me; I just cringe at the fact that everyone, from a lowly Bandit to a special forces soldier uses the MAC-10 like a noob... 😔

(Yes, I'm OCD over such things)

[subtle spindle]

not like the wire stock helps all that much to mitigate the recoil of that gun

[shrewd needle]

It's still better than treating it like an actual pistol (same goes for the APSB, NGL). Some support better than no support from shouldering it.

[toxic flint]

Stalker is a hyped game. I'm currently playing Stalker SoC EE and I'm shocked at how much this game has been hyped. While Stalker has enormous potential, the way it was released is a disaster. You can clearly see how GSC struggled more and more the further you progressed through the maps. For me, the definitive turning point was the map "Armywarehouse" and the faction war between "Duty" and "Freedom." After liberating the base from the "Freedom" faction, the "Duty" faction returns to its small wooden hut instead of taking over the fortified base and clearing the way to the Chernobyl nuclear power plant, which was actually hinted at by the spam of "Duty" at the beginning of the maps, which has even been steadily increasing since the map "Brain Scorcher." However, these are only spawn points, not a faction war. Stalker SoC repeatedly used these spawn points, and there's no sign of A-Life. Then the unbelievable happened. GSC discovered their mistakes through player feedback and implemented these improvements in Clear Sky, but released it as a standalone game and not as DLC for Stalker SoC. This way, Stalker SoC could have benefited from the improvements and offered consistent gameplay from start to finish. No. If Anomaly hadn't tried to further Stalker SoC's potential, where would we be? Yes, right there. GSC is tinkering around with A-Life 2.0 in Stalker 2 as if they haven't learned anything. They haven't even given their monsters a coherent ecosystem; no, they continue to happily spawn as bots. Stalker has good combat AI that's limited to a certain radius, but that's it, folks. Until GSC makes a bit of an effort, please don't hype it up so much.

[smoky hawk]

the mac has its stock folded, for style

[oak junco]

Did you get chatgpt to type this and you're stupid for playing and comparing soc ee to the real soc

Soc ee is slop

[shrewd needle]

Meh.

[oak junco]

Also claiming gsc learned from their mistakes with clear sky with releasing an even more broken game is crazy haha

[shrewd needle]

TBH, CS had some good gameplay features, but yea...broken game, NGL.

[toxic flint]

Stalker is cheap, no matter if SoC EE or OG (a few Russian meshes missing do not make a difference), no matter what part of Stalker, but it is a mod who shows Stalkers potential. Anomaly. A mod.

[oak junco]

Anomaly is the worst freeplay mod bro

Try expanding your horizon lol

[toxic flint]

GSC has been struggling with Stalker for 15 years, which is almost worse than "The Days Before."

[shrewd needle]

I mean, at least GSC released the game...

And S2 has a shit ton of problems, but it's still a good game.

[toxic flint]

Just saying, maybe the should sell the franchise to a more taleneted group of developers

[oak junco]

If you think anomaly shows the potential of stalker you haven't played really any stalker mods

[shrewd needle]

OK, so why don't you do the development?

[severe mural]

well stalker 2 is a downgrading basically everything from the earlier games besides the graphics

[shrewd needle]

'Everything'?

I mean, NGL...I do miss the health regenerating artifacts, but seriously?

[toxic flint]

it is a struggle

[oak junco]

Teamlite, call of the zone, legends return, stanson coc mods are ALL better then anomaly and that's not even talking about story driven experiences

[floral elm]

Gunplay is way better, also no loading screen is cool

[shrewd needle]

This. Loading screens are only good for linear games like Doom 2016 and Spec Ops: The Line...and games like Half-Life avoided those as well, even if linear.

[severe mural]

okay ye u guys are right bout the loading screens these were annoying af

[toxic flint]

Sell Stalker to a talented and motivated developer, so gamers have something to be happy about

[oak junco]

Loading screens dont even exist if you have an ssd

[shrewd needle]

Actually, S2 has shit ballistics, NGL...original had logical ballistics, S2 is where an AS Val does less damage than a pistol, which has to be the biggest ballistic joke of this decade.

[shrewd needle]

TBH, not everyone has an SSD.

[oak junco]

Fair counterpoint

[toxic flint]

you can'T make war at your door and games happen at once

[shrewd needle]

Again, you do the development if you don't like it.

[oak junco]

Stop with the war excuses lol half their studio isn't even in Ukraine

[floral elm]

True, balancing and drop off is worse but gunplay itself i way better. It was one of my biggest downsides in originals

[toxic flint]

Look at Far Cry, Crytek sold it, because they knew they were not capable of continuing

[severe mural]

and logical balance of economy and enemies

[shrewd needle]

That's not even the best part. Best part is war started in 2022, so GSC had a decade before that (CoP was in 2012)...

[oak junco]

Fr haha

[severe mural]

and after the war started none of it was in ukraine i think xd

[shrewd needle]

Yea, economy definitely needs to change, but enemies are fine. Enemies are only tanky because of the shit ballistics.

[oak junco]

Gsc likes to use the war as a shield against criticisms

[severe mural]

like all ukrainians ig

[oak junco]

But as paying customers we have a right to criticize imo

[shrewd needle]

War didn't even exist before 2022 (I know there's Crimea and all, but it's not like it is today).

[severe mural]

i paid 50 bucks for a game i can criticize it all i want xd its my copy

[shrewd needle]

Far Cry is being made by Ubisoft and everyone hates Ubisoft currently.

Real talent right there.

[oak junco]

Ubisoft is COOKED

[toxic flint]

Stalker development is COOKED

[oak junco]

Bro they made 2 nft games after starwars outlaws

[oak junco]

Better then Ubisoft

[severe mural]

everyones better than ubi

[shrewd needle]

No, I agree; I'm just saying that the bad ballistics ruin everything. If they fixed the ballistics (like how Better Ballistics does), it'd be so much more playable.

[subtle spindle]

yeah half their studio isnt in ukraine cuz they moved half of their staff to prague while developing the game lol

[shrewd needle]

Honestly, that award goes to EA. Ubisoft is struggling, EA makes slop and STILL isn't struggling.

[severe mural]

but they becamse shit since the woke
regime

stalker 2 has the same problem as cyberpunk had

[toxic flint]

who is going to save Stalkers potential, GSC won't do it

[shrewd needle]

I'm starting to feel Kiwi is a troll.

[severe mural]

these games were realesed like 70% done xd

[floral elm]

I agree it needs to be reworked

[subtle spindle]

no one

[shrewd needle]

Same with No Man's Sky; they promised too much and under-delivered.

[oak junco]

100% imo

[oak junco]

Eastern modscene

[shrewd needle]

YOU SAVE THE POTENTIAL IF YOU'RE SO CONCERNED!

FFS...I hate such people.

[shrewd needle]

Bethesda moment. 😆

[severe mural]

starfield

[oak junco]

Jekan will save us..

[subtle spindle]

half of the games identity is the culture it was made in. if you give the game to a foreign dev team the game isnt stalker anymore

[severe mural]

modders

will save it

[subtle spindle]

its not that complicated. and if you think that creating games is just about what dev teams are good or not youre looking at it wrong

[severe mural]

they already kinda did lol theres a lotta cool mods fixing gsc bullcrap

[toxic flint]

you will remind this discussion xmas 2026, when Stalker 2 with the DLCs you bought still is crap, like the other games.

[severe mural]

i want the multiplayer

[toxic flint]

just hype it

[subtle spindle]

lol just look at all of the other studios that pass around IP like its a ball. halo was given to a different dev team, look where it is now

[oak junco]

Just play English translationed mods while you wait

[shrewd needle]

TBH, there's no saving Starfield.

[severe mural]

ye i know

[toxic flint]

GSC will try to quench out the most money they can get, they are not going for the best Stalker game

[cyan heart]

blablablablablablablablablablablablabla

[shrewd needle]

They're just trying to troll; don't feed them.

[severe mural]

most games these days come out unfinished bad overhyped overpriced etc have you seen how much a new cod costs xdd

[subtle spindle]

-anomaly fan

[oak junco]

It takes me back to the og days

Their name is pixelfetish afterall

Hip fan confirmed

[toxic flint]

Stalker SoC OG was crap, inspired by half-life, and they never finished it, seven YEARS of struggle.

[severe mural]

also boss fights in stalker 2 are totally pointless

and annoying

[subtle spindle]

go on

[shrewd needle]

That's because apart from the Pseudogiant and the Chimera, there aren't supposed to be bosses.

Trying to turn regular humans into boss fights is where it goes to shit.

Korshunov/Scar taking more bullets to die than a Chimera is next level. Strelok zooming around is even worse.

[subtle spindle]

in stalker 2 the bossfights dont work because the combat is far too clunky

[shrewd needle]

I mean, game development kept getting worse after 2013-2014.

[subtle spindle]

if you are being shot at you basically cant move which ruins any fun in these bossfights. you can also do one thing at a time at most which doesnt help

[toxic flint]

Dying Light was released 2014 and their approach is much more impressive than Stalker, and we are talking about Developers from Poland

[severe mural]

yes devs stopped carring about optimalization or anything, they just take for granted that we the idiots will buy their shit games xd

[severe mural]

i love techland they still make good stuff

[shrewd needle]

It's not even that; it's about how requirements keep going through the roof.

I still remember how people used to talk about game developers having to fit their games in 640 KB. Like...Doom 1994 had to run on some pretty low specifications.

Now, developers have GBs of RAM and TBs of storage and GHz of computing power and they think they can just abuse it because no limits.

If they were forced to make games in 2 GHz, 4C/8T CPU, 8 GB of RAM and 1 GB of VRAM, they'd get in line pretty fast.

But...you've got idiots buying 5090s...so why not, eh?

[toxic flint]

GSC maybe deals with Nvidia to sell more GFX

[shrewd needle]

Oh, shut it already.

CP2077 dealt with them more. Bloody NVIDIA tech-demo.

[subtle spindle]

its not that simple
in no other time have people been able to use the same graphics cards for so long. in the early 2000s youd be lucky if you were able to use the same gpu for 2 years. the issue is that developers are forced to work around this relative stagnation, and since people have already gotten used to it now its weird that games can have higher requirements

[toxic flint]

what a mess, dear Stalker fans, it brings tears into my eyes. GSC is perhaps the culprit

[shrewd needle]

I mean...the stagnation is that modern games don't look any better and still have increasing requirements. If anything, the requirements should be lower due to better optimization and technologies.

[toxic flint]

Nationalism never turned out to be good

[subtle spindle]

but in 2025 as soon as someone says "forced raytracing" everyone is riled up. i dont think people were this mad when 3d accelerators (a whole new pc part for certain people) were introduced

[floral elm]

Dying light 1 was amazing, while DL2 is quite similar to stalker becouse it took it a year to get into proper shape

I still like DL2 A LOT

[shrewd needle]

Not everyone has or can have an RT-capable card + having baked lighting is just fine.

[subtle spindle]

i mean code doesnt magically run better after a few years pass, in fact the opposite is expected

[subtle spindle]

this isnt what people said when games started requiring 3d accelerator cards lol

[toxic flint]

frankly, Dying Light has more content and is much more impressive than Stalker 2, it has been released 10 years before!

[ornate mirage]

yes unnecessary rt is totally comparable to the birth of 3d graphics as a concept

[subtle spindle]

you cant bake lighting for destructible environments

[shrewd needle]

I mean...lighting is just one facet wheras 3D acceleration is changing the entire dimension from 2D to 3D.

[shrewd needle]

Right, but most games don't have destructible environments.

[subtle spindle]

shadow maps, dx10, whatever, name any graphics feature. RT has just become a boogeyman that people blame everything on

[oak junco]

isnt battlefield the most notable one ?

[shrewd needle]

It' not even that RT itself is a problem, but you need the hardware and more than that, it's a MASSIVE performance hog.

[subtle spindle]

well doom now does and yet people are still mad that it requires RT capabilities

[toxic flint]

looks real but play like pooh

[unique ore]

to get "the four winds" achievement what do i need to do?

[oak junco]

most people dont have good RT cards

[shrewd needle]

I haven't played BF or Dark Ages.

[shrewd needle]

Yea, because what Based said...and what I said about RT requiring some serious power to run well.

[floral elm]

Well it did receive a lot of post release support from techland which I really like in their games. To fairly judge it I believe we should give as much time of post realase support to stalker 2 as well

[subtle spindle]

btw RT capable hardware has been available for 7 years

im pretty sure doom dark ages runs on a 2060

[oak junco]

running and being good are two different things

[shrewd needle]

Me, personally, I talk from the perspective of being an iGPU gamer.

[toxic flint]

im out, see you folks xmas 2026 and you will be headbanging against a wall if you continue to stick to GSC

[oak junco]

get that 2060 to do pathtracing in 2077💀

[floral elm]

Ok

[shrewd needle]

That's a troll, so good riddance.

[subtle spindle]

idk how you wouldve reacted when software rendering stopped being a thing in the 2000s

[oak junco]

i feel rt is still a good few years out from being peak

[shrewd needle]

I mean, I could still game on those iGPUs?

[unique ore]

wto get "the four winds" achievement what do i need to do?

[floral elm]

I know I was just hoping for actual discussion, especially since I believe DL2 and Stalker 2 do share a lot of similarities

[subtle spindle]

gaming on an integrated gpu is the equivalent to refusing to buy a 3d card

[shrewd needle]

#❔┃achievements-discussion...

[shrewd needle]

I know...but discussing with the wrong person. Probably a bot.

[subtle spindle]

i think its mostly because devs have been forced to have both raster and RT in their games

[shrewd needle]

That is me; I can only play S2 because I got an A750 for free. Else iGPU only.

[oak junco]

their name was pixelfetish you wont have a real convo with them at al

[uncut hollow]

Intel GPU
I laff

[oak junco]

true yeah which sucks

[shrewd needle]

Game runs. What more matters?

[oak junco]

they arent bad gpus if you look at specs

[floral elm]

Yea I'm in the middle of a boring uni class so I didint pay attention to everything he was saying haha

[meager crag]

'Sup Chads

[subtle spindle]

.... and now when devs actually start fully embracing the tech the people with 7+ year old gpus start crying

[uncut hollow]

I mean they got backfired by AMD on CPUs

[floral elm]

But yea Doom TDA is amazing and surprisingly well optimised

[shrewd needle]

Can understand; but hey, still good conversation here except for that bot.

[uncut hollow]

now Getting backfired by Nvidia

[shrewd needle]

id can definitely optimize their games.

[shrewd needle]

Yea, but I'm running an A750 and apart from some issues, I've had no problems with gaming. Major problem is lack of VRAM.

[floral elm]

I'm overall amazed how they delivered so much over the last 9 years

Well except Doom eternal DLC's they were kind of rushed I think

[uncut hollow]

like all of them has

AMD, Nvidia...

[subtle spindle]

this is what happens when a studio fosters a good culture. they actually let their creatives do their work

[shrewd needle]

And the thing with Mick Gordon...

[floral elm]

Whole Ancient gods should have been a sequel

[frigid hill]

lihacc has been warned

Reason: Bad word usage

[shrewd needle]

Yea, my point is that the A750 has had no other problems; gaming works just fine.

[subtle spindle]

damn i typed shit ton but without the space...

[shrewd needle]

Nicely done.

[oak junco]

just vibing before work wbu ?

[floral elm]

True, it's a shame how it all turned out. But I'm glad that new soundtrack in TDA still holds up very well

[shrewd needle]

TBH, I don't really prefer the new Doom games; I prefer the originals and Doom 3.

[oak junco]

i personally support intel gpus as more competition is better for the consumer

[floral elm]

I need to try doom 3, it's good horror shooter apparently

[shrewd needle]

Haven't played, so I'll defer to you. And I agree, the right soundtrack can make all the difference.

[shrewd needle]

Doom was always horror to me, so I love it.

[oak junco]

look how sloppy nvidia is now with ai being their bread and butter and amd not wanting to compete at the top end

[shrewd needle]

Not if prices remain high.

[oak junco]

fr thats not ideal

[shrewd needle]

NVIDIA is not a GPU company anymore, it's now an AI company.

[subtle spindle]

AMD doesnt want to compete in any sector lol

[shrewd needle]

I'm a cheap-skate either ways; I'll only game on iGPUs unless I get dGPUs for free. 😏

[subtle spindle]

90 series has been a complete letdown with AMD being unable to supply GPUs at competitive prices

[oak junco]

👑 aint nothing wrong with that ngl

[shrewd needle]

FINALLY! Someone understands. 🙏

[oak junco]

i wonder if AMD will ever cook up another 7900xtx

[severe mural]

i have 7800xt its cool

[oak junco]

if you can save thousands why not

[shrewd needle]

That's what we get due to Silicon Valley having the monopoly. If each country...hell, continent even, had its own GPU manufacturers...we'd have a lot more.

[severe mural]

and was cheap, drivers are kinda bad

[oak junco]

are they getting better though?

[severe mural]

drivers?

[charred nova]

X1950 xtx needs a squeal

[shrewd needle]

I can certifiably say Intel dGPU drivers have gotten only a little better. And that's on Alchemist; IDK about Battlemage.

[oak junco]

yeah

[severe mural]

marginally better, but im expiriencing some weird stuff with discord and the browser getting like fractured? idk how to say that

and kinda frozen but not really? like half the application is frozen and half is not and it updates, when i looked for help they said its some windows stuff but i kinda blame the gpu ig

[shrewd needle]

Browser might not like hardware acceleration.

[shrewd needle]

I have that with Discord too. And honestly, Discord is a POS.

[meager crag]

Training, except there's a strike over here, so I have to travel an hour and a half longer because I have to hop trains

[subtle spindle]

silicon valley isnt the issue, its the geopolitical situation of taiwan. taiwan isnt gonna give up its high tech chip manufacturing capabilities anytime soon because it needs a reason to be protected by other countries

[oak junco]

man thats a bummer you got such a big delay

[shrewd needle]

Taiwan is simply a fabrication unit...the actual IP is held by Silicon Valley.

[meager crag]

Where I usually could just go with a relatively straight line to my destination, now I've got to travel to the other side of the country, go with a bus and then go from all the way East to the middle of the country

[subtle spindle]

yes
and the IP means very little if literally the only place that the chips can be made is in taiwan

like there is nothing nvidia can do to expand production. everything depends on TSMC

[shrewd needle]

That's why I said that if each place had its own fabrication...

[subtle spindle]

and you know why thats not happening anytime soon

[shrewd needle]

They have money; they can set up their own fabrication units. And ASML can be broken up to ensure others can make fabrication units as well.

[shrewd needle]

Yea, just saying.

[subtle spindle]

fabrication units with what litography machines lol

[shrewd needle]

TSMC isn't the only one who makes chips, are they? Samsung, ASML and Intel have their own too.

[subtle spindle]

tsmc has all of the best ones. sure there are other places where chips are manufactured but the best ones are made in taiwan. its a difficult situation thats not gonna change anytime soon

[subtle spindle]

TSMC makes the best chips

[shrewd needle]

Well...then we make do with what there is.

[severe mural]

guys, when you played stalker 2 what armor did you use mostly?

[shrewd needle]

PSZ-7 Military Armour, then the Freedom one (IDK if it's the Wind or Guardian), then the Bulat, then the Diamond Exo-Skeleton.

And the SIRCAA suit from the Journalist for anomalies.

[severe mural]

okay thanks

[shrewd needle]

Also, upgrade those suits properly for Physical Protection; bullets are the biggest pain in the Zone.

[severe mural]

im just asking i beat the game in a maxed out diamond exo

[shrewd needle]

Time to smack you. 😔

[severe mural]

for like a third time... earlier i used the seva 1

[severe mural]

whyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy

[shrewd needle]

Already beat the game and still asking... 😔

[severe mural]

jusr for fun

[severe mural]

and what guns did u use

[shrewd needle]

Nah, but seriously...I go by the Physical Protection first. And that puts all other armours out of the picture.

[severe mural]

yes cuz u cant walk into anomalies either way so just protect urself from bullets

[shrewd needle]

In vanilla S2, Skif's Makarov/APSB for pistols, Remington 870/Saiga for shotguns and VSS Vintorez for the rifle/sniper combinations; all other weapons are shit.

With Better Ballistics, all weapons become viable, though the modification requires some fine-tuning.

[dusty isle]

Then why didn’t you use the PSZ91 Falcon? I found it to be the best armor outside of exos, and you can get it from the start of the game if you run to malachite

[severe mural]

the falcon is weird cuz i couldnt find why people say its better than the seva I

[shrewd needle]

Because I didn't run to Malachite at the start and I found the Freedom suit first.

[shrewd needle]

SEVA is mid-range. Spark SEVA has good ballistic protection, but otherwise...

[dusty isle]

also SVU is wayyyyy better than vintorez late game

[shrewd needle]

Yea, but I used the VSS as an assault-rifle/sniper rifle.

[severe mural]

ye ye i was talking about the spark one

[dusty isle]

Well you don’t have to run there at the start, that would be just weird and not fun. I pick it up when the story brings me to malachite because why not upgrade my suit?

[shrewd needle]

Still mid-range. SEVA is like between the PSZ-5 and PSZ-7 series of armours.

PSZ-5 is basically low-end, 7 is mid-end and 9 is high-end with exo-skeletons being the top-end.

[severe mural]

the first second i could leave the lesser zone i ran to yaniv for the seva 1 cuz playing on veteran just makes you eat dirt after 2 gunshots

[shrewd needle]

Here's the thing...I haven't even met Nestor (or even Korshunov yet; Ward path). I prefer to loot the map before starting the story, and as I said, I got the Freedom suit first. Besides...need the money to upgrade armour.

[shrewd needle]

I mean...vanilla game is a lot more survivable than with Better Ballistics...just abuse the save mechanic as much as possible.

[severe mural]

idk bosses took atleast 600 bullets to the head to die and everybody is a csgo esports player when it comes to aim

they dont wait and they dont miss was actually annoying

[shrewd needle]

Oh, I know...I know. AI = literal aim-bot in this game.

Use cover and abuse the save mechanic as much as possible. Developers removed the far superior 'save during combat' option, but you can still save constantly to avoid dying during a fight as long as you're not in combat.

[severe mural]

the balance was bad cuz i had like a million medkits food energy drink etc but i had to scavange for ammo and ammo only??? also i couldnt upgrade anything till late game cuz all my loot went on REPAIRING THE SUIT

[severe mural]

thats what i did

[shrewd needle]

That's why I use a trainer; no more degradation.

[severe mural]

i have only the spark ending left but i dont think i will do it

[shrewd needle]

Eh, try it, at least. If feeling brave, use Better Ballistics.

[severe mural]

i dont think i will but im actually curious to try gamma or smth like that

[shrewd needle]

Not bad, NGL. Let us know how that goes.

[austere pagoda]

try mhm

[dreamy plover]

I asked GSC if it's possible to port the game to UE 5.6 to offload the cpu and give more resources to a-life... let's see what they say

[subtle spindle]

an engine upgrade might be impossible at this point but i really hope that its not

[dreamy plover]

i looked it up and even with c++ modifications and a large game it would take them around 1 - 2 months

[oak junco]

Might be the only thing to save this game

[subtle spindle]

🤔 interesting

might be doable but i dont think it will fix everything lol

[oak junco]

Wish they just focused on xray 2 engine

[dreamy plover]

it can keep all the bugs, all i want is a-life then they can tweak the rest

[subtle spindle]

might make the game look and run better but everything else still needs to be improved. but its still a worthwhile upgrade

[subtle spindle]

oh god not this again

[oak junco]

Goofy post

Bet you it would run way better then unreal slop 5

[dreamy plover]

maybe for stalker 3 in 2045

[oak junco]

UE5 so bad 4090 and 5090s struggle to run this game natively

[subtle spindle]

yeah we all know how stable xray is

no bugs no issues huge seamless maps

[oak junco]

Way more stable then s2

Who cares about open world though esp when you got 100 meter spawn bubbles

I rarely crashed in the trilogy

Yet stalker 2 has months of complaining

[dreamy plover]

if they updated the engine to xray 2 you think we'd still get a sectioned map? dont think so

[subtle spindle]

og stalker had patches too

[hardy totem]

TrilOG only really starts crashing when I'm pushing the limits

[oak junco]

Same

Its way more stable then s2

[subtle spindle]

when xray 2 was being worked on after cop i dont think a seamless map was even considered lol

at least i assume they planned on using a new engine

cop already struggles a bit sometimes with the map size it has i doubt they couldve kept using a similar engine

after stalker 2 development was restarted someone had to go out and find people who could work on the game as well as investors who would support the game. i doubt that many publishers would want to support a project that has no engine and a completely fresh dev team

this is probably the main reason why they went for ue4 and later moved to ue5

[weary hedge]

The engine is bad or the GPUs are bad because of Nvidia fake frames technologies ?

[oak junco]

The engine is bad

[subtle spindle]

its a bit of both

[oak junco]

Its why I said native performance without ai

[weary hedge]

UE5 is a brand new engine pushing the limits in visual, only bad part is that Nvidia or AMD, they both stuck to fake frames instead of raw performance.

So... there you have it... advanced graphics engine vs slow hardware.

[oak junco]

Idk if its that black and white lol

[subtle spindle]

ue5 isnt flawless but the stagnation in the gpu space definately isnt helping. as well as the constantly increasing prices, so people end up using 5 year old gpus

[weary hedge]

Is as simple as i say it

[oak junco]

Its not though

[subtle spindle]

"ue5 is bad"
"its not that black and white"
💀

[weary hedge]

Back in the day we had raw performance hardware, now we have dumb fake frams software

[oak junco]

I mean a 4090 or 5090 should run this game EASILY natively

[weary hedge]

what did you think will happen ?

[subtle spindle]

im pretty sure it does just not on 4k probably

[weary hedge]

when you push fake frames instad of raw performance ?

shet happens... you pay for fake frames only and slow raw performance

[subtle spindle]

native means basically nothing if you dont specify the resolution lol

[oak junco]

2k or 4k

These cards cost thousands gsc just doesnt optimize their game

[subtle spindle]

4090 should easily run 2k lol

[weary hedge]

No card today can run UE5 native 4K at max settings. This tells you how slow the hardware is.

[austere pagoda]

[weary hedge]

Nvidia is making now more money on Software AI scallers than raw performance hardware lol

[subtle spindle]

lol

[weary hedge]

You pay for software lol

[oak junco]

Struggles to get 82 fps

[subtle spindle]

you know nothing about this just look up the numbers

[subtle spindle]

4090 does 4k60 which is mid but eh

[tame gazelle]

is nightvision gonna drop in a dlc pack i have to pay for

[oak junco]

Gsc is cooked if they sell us nvg lol

[subtle spindle]

i read 98 avg fps

[austere pagoda]

what yall want nvg even for? to see the shotgun bandit shooting you at 90m in dark? much cool

[tame gazelle]

yeah who knows ill just keep on making my 50th set in blender (doesnt take that long) and pretend its ingame via a reshade

[weary hedge]

You can download a UE5 engine graphics demo, not a game, but graphics demo, where you have most of the engine tech on, and you will see how slow a RTX 4090 really is at native 2k or 4K just for an idea if you want to find out exactly that.

[austere pagoda]

imagine blaming ue5 for the state this game is in

[subtle spindle]

did threat interactive tell you this

[weary hedge]

huh ?! wtf is threat interactive ? I tell you how to test a GPU vs last gen graphics engine. Or run 3DMark 2025 if you are alergic to UE5.

[tame gazelle]

i did right after release aswell, but after playing several UE5 games after Stalker 2 -> the engine is not at fault sadly

[subtle spindle]

its just that youre awfully confident and dont seem to know what youre talking about

[austere pagoda]

you can easily spot the people who know nothing about this fact if the first thing they do is blame ue5 😅 good on you for finding out and being honest ❤️

[subtle spindle]

its always these people who just go for the most obvious boogeyman

[tame gazelle]

they are patching like 2k bugs every patch -> while creating 1k new ones probably this is just gonna be an endless cycle of fixing -> bugging -> fixing > bugging

[austere pagoda]

early access

how will the release version differ from early access?: on 1.0 release we are planning on having full alife 2.0 and npc persistence as well as new mechanics like nvg or binoculars

read that out loud and tell me it doesnt sound fitting

[tame gazelle]

there are so many hilarious things happening in this game that is just so inchoherent

[weary hedge]

I run Stalker 2 mostly at 150 FPS 3440X1440p max out DLSS 4 Quality injected in the game, because the game use a old DLSS version making game looking like crap instead of sharp and crisp. And i have no issues with it so far.

[tame gazelle]

im glad for you, and that its working out. but im not sitting here complaining about stuff and not tried to fix it myself, chaning to dlss 4 was someof the first thing i did when it released. the game is still incoherent, buggy and messy imo.

[weary hedge]

So far was ok for me, only problem i had was that abomination of Nvidia App overlay crashing the game 😂 Once i disable it, more frames and stability start to come 🤣

I also have Win 11 twicked, where i disable a tone of metrics, and a bit of hardware OC there too...

If you come here with default Win 11 and start craying about game or UE5 being shet, you are silly 😄

[tame gazelle]

a spade is a spade

[weary hedge]

Some people wants a plug'n play PC, well this is not how things works in PC world of gaming.

[austere pagoda]

this gave me an aneurism

[weary hedge]

Take a pill or deal with it.

Joking "if you have problems running a PC, just buy a console"

[hardy totem]

https://tenor.com/view/report-calling-the-police-im-disturbed-gif-14028290

[oak junco]

I blame ue5 and this new gsc both are not good

[oak junco]

It is technically i built my 4070ti pc and just started gaming

Paid a company like 80 bucks and everything has a warranty

[uneven barn]

you guys need to learn that x-ray engine is a really outdated engine, and something like x-ray 2.0 will never gonna happen

not saying that unreal 5 is the best option, but the rest aren't that better

[dry spade]

I think that dlss 4 only works wit dlss swapper right? Tried using nvidia app but i think it not changed to real latest ?

[weary hedge]

oke.....

[weary hedge]

Yeah, Nvidia App is puppy crappy do not use that, use the swapper.

[dry spade]

One more thing, i assume forcing latest FSR 4 for grame gen with dlss swapper works too? Cant find any good test comparison

[weary hedge]

I do not own a AMD Radeon card so i do not know.

[dry spade]

yeah me too, but fsr works for both, will test to see

[oak junco]

Id rather unity lol

[subtle spindle]

nooooooo

unity can look good but it cant support open world games with the amount of detail stalker requires

[still current]

UE5 is still better than unity despite all

[oak junco]

Stalker shoulda never been open world ngl

[subtle spindle]

also no

[hardy totem]

Low bar...

[weary hedge]

Not FSR 4, that only works with RDNA 4 (AMD Radeon 9000 series). Is not even working with older AMD cards.

[dreamy plover]

I agree 100%. I played it today for 2h after a 5 month break and there still a lot of bugs that break the immersion. E.g. npc bullets flying through a 5 metre thick machinery, or npc just knowing where you are 50% of the time to name a few

[pine coral]

i still can't find stets leech

[acoustic orchid]

Looking to buy a decent PC for Stalker 2 for patch testing. Could anyone recommend the best places to look?

[eternal steeple]

I just got Stalker 2 and it certainly feels... different, than the previous three games. Which isn't a bad thing or anything but does have a bit of a different atmosphere to me

[drifting forge]

Yeah main things for me are the vibrant colours and engine swap

Nice vibes still

[eternal steeple]

This also plays a big factor, but all of the new players in the zone like Ward and Spark, as well as a couple other new additions give it a newer identity compared to the original three where the big names were present in all three games. Maybe the exception being Clear Sky to one game, and mentioned by name only in Call of Pripyat. Though dialogue with random stalkers in Heart of Chernobyl seems to imply that the zone is in a stage of both heavy decaying and change from the status quo that persisted for so long between Shadow of Chernobyl, Clear Sky, and Call of Pripyat. Again, none of this is necessarily bad. It depends on the person's tastes, I guess.

[drifting forge]

1 main thing i hate is that factions aren't as fleshed out as in the Trilogy. Lacking quests and many just are like a side thing tbh

[dreamy plover]

There are games with amazing sequels that feel just like the original, only updated with extra content. That’s what I was expecting - but s2 isn’t that.

[drifting forge]

Like Duty was just thrown into the corner of the map with like 2 quests total. You barely even see them

That's the thing I hate

Otherwise love it

[eternal steeple]

This is criticism I have heard a lot and makes me a little sad to hear. I will clarify I am not too far in the story because all I have done is explore, and decided I would give my first impressions here and maybe see some insight from others. I wouldn't say the game is bad because of what you stated, though for me as someone who has grown to both love Duty and Freedom, hearing their marginal presence makes me big sad

[pine coral]

tbh, cement factory needed like some inclusion in the main story imo.

[drifting forge]

I have around 230 hours. They were kinda pushed to the side sadly

[eternal steeple]

That is definitely the impression I'm getting. But still, I find the game enjoyable

[drifting forge]

Oh yeah, the game is sick and nobody can convince me otherwise

[pine coral]

i love the game despite it's flaws. Cause well, i love playing it

if a game is fun to play, then it's a good game imo.

[eternal steeple]

This is a joke and I obviously know why they did it but not being able to vaporize anything in an instant with your knife like in the original games is agonizing

I need to 1v1 a bloodsucker with my knife to conserve ammo

[drifting forge]

I've done it. Fun

After taking out the other 6 with my makarov lol

[eternal steeple]

The guns in the games intro is there any way to keep them via the safe or are they just sent to the shadow realm after you complete the intro sequence

[drifting forge]

You can keep the AKS-74Us

[eternal steeple]

I was wondering because after getting a few hours into the game exploring and doing a handful of side missions I keep thinking back and wondering why I didn't test out using the safe shortly after the intro

[pine coral]

tbh stalker 2 is -100 cause you can't throw a grenade at sidorovich

[drifting forge]

[fierce nexus]

Marked one, what the hell?

[eternal steeple]

Why does Skif not have binoculars is he stupid?

[edgy shell]

He just zooms in with his eyes

That’s what happens when you right click with no weapon out

[eternal steeple]

With the godlike aim of human enemies you'd think they had built in periscopes in their brains. Makes combat more intense I guess

[edgy shell]

I see you’ve just started playing based on your comments earlier?

[eternal steeple]

Yeah. Major issues so far are that enemies are phenomenal sharp shooters, the game is detrimentally dark visually, and I sometimes get jumpscared by the occasional flesh because I am a wuss. Other than that, pretty fun game.

The last part isnt a detriment to the games quality, I'm simply just a pushover and easily jumpscared

[edgy shell]

Yeah I get that tbh. I feel like they should take an approach of making enemies less accurate in general but raising per hit damage, helldivers 2 style

[fierce nexus]

Human enemies often are much harder to take out than mutants

I only really struggle with human enemies

[edgy shell]

Cause with the current system you need to perfectly line up a prefire when peeking to not be damaged but the sight sway ends up offsetting it enough to where they almost always get a shot off first

[eternal steeple]

No seriously is there actually a way to make the game bright enough that im not walking blindfolded? Everything I've done so far still makes it just the slightest bit too dark still

[edgy shell]

Aside from adjusting brightness and contrast, it could just be your monitor

[eternal steeple]

It probably is tbh

But I'll live, it's not like combat is unbeatable. It makes for tense shootouts, even if I am naturally terrible at lining up shots

[edgy shell]

The framerate isn’t doing anyone any favours on that front

[eternal steeple]

I sometimes forget to turn off my flashlight when sneaking near enemies

[fierce nexus]

Yeah I agree it could be your monitor, the game has never been THAT dark for me

[lofty dome]

Console? In pc you just headshot them.. they line up for you since the human enemies ai are just "a" without "i" meanwhile the mutants are just frustrating bullet sponge and every mutant having the same weakness which is high ground 😆 🤣

[edgy shell]

And sprinting

[fierce nexus]

I dunno, human enemies kick my ass on the regular lol

[edgy shell]

If anything mutants are just carry weight checks

[fierce nexus]

Mutant loot is coming soon

Bad for me, more things to hoard

[eternal steeple]

I did notice that mutants like fleshes are spongy, but to be fair I've been using Skifs pistol and "trying" to line up headshots on them. Or face shots, I guess.

[edgy shell]

Won’t really make a difference for me

Well, I can’t imagine fighting them would be a net positive, so I’ll still play around avoiding them as I have done since I started

[lofty dome]

Mutants loot are amazing... it gave you an actual reason to hunt Mutants, plus you can sell them.

[drifting forge]

That, no sprinting and realoading at the same time and the hunting rifle being extremely nerfed makes early game mutants a big threat

[fierce nexus]

Kinda hope someone adds a hunting mod

[edgy shell]

Only if what you can get covers and exceeds the ammo cost to kill them, in which case yeah I could see it being fun

[fierce nexus]

To give incentive to hunt mutants aside from just killing them for no return aside from some money

[eternal steeple]

I've noticed that mutants are also a little more slippery in this game, and actually put up a fight compared to their straight line running like in the original games, which is a pretty fun improvement

I guess the exception is bloodsuckers in the original, they do mostly the same as they do in the new game. Run up invisible, attack, run away and usually rinse and repeat

[edgy shell]

But the framerate just makes it that much tougher

[eternal steeple]

Fair enough

Why doesn't Skif has the original games OP knife is he stupid?

[edgy shell]

I do like how each of the mutants has their own fighting style. While it’s mostly side to side sprinting, there’s some nice variation still to their movements

[eternal steeple]

Yeah in the opening hour of the intro I got bullied by a single Flesh and a Bloodsucker, admittedly I was not well prepared nor expecting either

[coarse falcon]

Shame they nerfed fleshes so much. Maybe give them 30% less hp compared to 1.0. Then pack of those round bois was nothing to sneeze at.

[edgy shell]

One thing about the game so far that’s tough to follow is the story. I’m trying to remember everyone and all these events but there are so many moving parts it’s required a notebook to keep track

[golden gulch]

Patch when ?

[coarse falcon]

When ready 😄

[verbal plaza]

I quit stalker 2 dawg I am not dealing with wall hacks strealok

I shot bro 50 times point blank range with a shotgun bro brushes it off hell nawh ima just watch the endings on yt dawg

[acoustic orchid]

Be a few weeks but it should be before the end of June

[wide timber]

how long did it take you guys to get your first ending?

[marsh iron]

(180hrs)

[wide timber]

i did 104 but i didnt do every side quest i did most of em i think kinda rushed though pripyat too

[warped stream]

Think it took me ~70h for my first ending, ~95 for 3

[marsh iron]

I found out too late that some side quests that didn't trigger for me could be fixed by a game restart, so those would be for a second playthrough

[still current]

90hrs? I didn't particularly rush through until late game

[drifting forge]

100 hours give or take both playthroughs

[rugged yew]

Good afternoon

[hardy totem]

greetings

[rugged yew]

Im wondering if anyone here can help me out wiht a graphical error from one of the original non EE games? I get ugly shadow banding and flickering when I have SSAO on in Clear Sky

[hardy totem]

best chance of finding an answer is asking in #⭐┃trilogy-general

[rugged yew]

Thanks.. damn I was looking for a channel for the first 3 games but my blind ass didnt see it

[hardy totem]

there's a lot of channels

[solemn ibex]

who believes all the things planned for Q2 would be in 1.5

[ebon blade]

I've been playing since the very first patch.
No ending yet.
Probably seen about 1/3 of the map.

[acoustic orchid]

Hopefully we see mutant loot and a-life tweaks

[violet zodiac]

When is this game getting new content. Instead of bug fixes and performance improvements that do neither? Whole lot of waiting for marginal improvements. Maybe more quality of life aspects like reworking inventory management and the weight of items to be less chore like would help retain players. Or improving stealth so enemies can't spot you through terrain, dense foliage and objects? Adding in actual gore system so it does not feel like you are shooting cardboard targets. Even some persistent blood splatter would be good. Reworking the flashlight so it actually illuminates enough area. Loot for mutants would be good too. Vendors selling all types of ammo. Attending to those remaining memory leak issues.

Whole long does it take?

[twilit osprey]

Dave I'm on the Deceive the Deceiver side quest but when I try to find Agopyan.....he's not sleeping nor is he at the Bar in garbage. How do I finish this quest?

[floral elm]

I think they'll mangę to pull it off by the end of Q2, perhaps some things will be added later on by the end of the month or somwthing

[still current]

Me

[feral horizon]

I just want to be able to get into the iron forest and CNPP already.

I can wait for the jupiter plant and limansk.

[still current]

We all do, but we gotta wait either way

[still current]

✅

[feral horizon]

Just feels like a giant tease since they're listed on the map. The jupiter plant is at least not listed yet.

[still current]

Well, not entierly intended, but yeah. Some of these stuff do be left there to tease too

Idk which case is ours, but it does act as a teaser either way even if not intended

[feral horizon]

I don't get what' the deal with the iron forest since that was just a small location in CoP.

Why move it and make it a big location and then not finish it.

[still current]

Symbolic area despite its size. It'll act some part in the dlc expansion (obviously).

Probably lab stuff

Will we play an after math, or another story? That's the question I have circling in my mind

[feral horizon]

I guess it would be weird if the iron forest was open right away since if we had it right away, we could get to the cnpp from garbage.

[still current]

And I kinda believe both

If strelok's ending is Canon, we may get a continuity for that story

Like, skif trying to undo the damage he done after helping get to the pod

[feral horizon]

You could also continue off Skif's ending to, like he gets freed from stasis similar to how gordon freeman was freed at the start of half life 2 episode 1.

[still current]

Visiting an x lab under Jupiter or iron forest

Who knows

[eternal steeple]

Strelok mentioned? Well, I guess I can simp even more than usual for the character

Strelok my beloved

[feral horizon]

I don't think you could make a continuation off the ward ending. A continuation of the spark ending would be interesting.

[still current]

CNPP will probably be the final place before stalker to definitive ending

It is right to guess that strelok would make that place unapproachable

And somewhere in the sarcophagus, another lab can be found

Control center was changed to another place in S2

With the pods and all

[feral horizon]

So this is unrelated but how much cut stuff from shadow of chernobyl was added into stalker 2? Cause I know the generators and the truck graveyard in yantar were suppose to be in SoC and they're even in stalker anomaly/GAMMA.

[weak epoch]

Does anyone have a controller setup that’s playable for anomaly

Like sprinting and weapons and stuff

[eternal steeple]

Sorta random but with Skif now being added to the protagonist list of all four games, who would you all say is your favorite one

[jolly shoal]

John stalker

[fierce nexus]

[ebon blade]

The Truck Cemetery in Yantar (Stalker 2) was never supposed to be in SoC.
In fact, its origin has nothing to do with GSC.
It was a creation by Team Epic, the mod team that made Call of Chernobyl.
Call of Chernobyl was created as a template or base mod, to be used by others.
Most modern Stalker mods, like Anomaly, Gamma and many others, use Call of Chernobyl as the platform they added tweaks and content to.
GSC was so impressed with CoC's Truck Cemetery level, it was added to Stalker 2.

[feral horizon]

That's cool to know. The meadow level in GAMMA kinda looks similar to all the random towns in stalker 2 in between areas. I think it would be cool if stalker 2 added other scrapped areas like darkscape and dead city.

[golden pecan]

I wanna yap with someone about stalker 2

Im not attacking the game or being toxic or something , im enjoying my 25h so far and not yet to Finnish, but i dont feel the side quests or the side buildings are that fun , its almost the same , fight the invisible dude , find a bag that has 40 bullets 3 medkits and 5 bandages , and its always alot of traveling hoping to find something new and then its just the same , im i not getting something right? Maybe i need a different pov?

[ebon blade]

I believe the Gamma people also stole several levels from Lost Alpha (2014) of which I think the Meadow level is one of them renamed.

[feral horizon]

I need to play lost alpha

[ebon blade]

25 hours is a blink of an eye.
There are more side-missions, given by Traders, Bartenders and other NPCs of a wider variety.
However, in the Lesser Zone, not so many.
Give the game more time.

[golden pecan]

Im on a mission to get some kind of mutant collar to a professor , i dont remember names now , but as i said , i just felt the side quests are all the same , im playing the games on veteran and not even rookie

[ebon blade]

You'll get some better side-missions in Rostok, the Slag Heap and the Cement Factory.

[oak junco]

Meadow is actually in stanson coc mod aswell I like that map

[ebon blade]

I'm not familiar with the Stanson Mod.
What is that?

[oak junco]

https://www.moddb.com/games/stalker-call-of-pripyat/downloads/stalker-call-of-chernobyl-1422-by-stason174-v603-database-files this one's a little outdated but 605 version is on the ccon server

"This is a compilation of mods known as "Call of Chernobyl by stason174" with fix 6.03 and the OPTIONAL 64-bit engine upgrade (unstable). Very popular in the Russian community. This is the latest version. Essentially it is CoC 1.4.22 + MLR 8.3 (compared to Anomaly's MLR 6.2 for example) + DoctorX Dynamic quests + more dynamic quests + STCoP 2.9 + improved graphics + a ton of optional addons including Enhanced Offline Combat (EOC) which is like a better optimized Warfare. No Misery BS here!"

its a pretty unique sounding freeplay im gonna check out once I beat ogse

[ebon blade]

Where is the Meadow level located in the game?

[oak junco]

Let me load it up and I'll ping you in #📸┃trilogy-screenshots uses different variations of maps aswell

[still current]

Replicas. The original concept can be found basically in older builds tho.

Same as most cut stuff

Excluding truck cemetery as far as ik

[still current]

Still came after LA

[uneven barn]

truck cemetery is a map made for coc

[oak junco]

That's fine was just saying I saw it there aswell as its a neat little map

Meadow the type of map you'd wanna base build imo

[still current]

There is another level that was cut and it was called village (forgotten village) or something like that. Idk, it kinda feels like zalisiya but revamped and expanded

It's still part of soc in MP

Playable map

That one was originally intended to be part of SP

In concept at least

[still current]

Yeah ik haha

I wanted to say that for clarification anyway

[oak junco]

I need to check this out

Would be cool to watch a vid on all the cut content and changes leading up to release

[still current]

There are the old Yantar, old bar (I think it was called pripyat outskirts), old swamps, darksape (darkolina I think), generators, old cordon, old garbage, lab x-10, and dead city.

Plenty of cutcontent aside from levels

[rapid topaz]

Please add pacifist update gsc everyone can walk around not hurt each other

[gloomy citrus]

What?

[oak junco]

Isnt there a godmode already ?

[gloomy citrus]

Thats just like asking to remove all the anomalies from stalker.

So the game became Tarkov.

[oak junco]

there is that mod for anomaly lol

[gloomy citrus]

Pretty sure its possible for everyone not to shoot at each other. Just edit faction relations.

[fervent island]

darkdolina is dark valley.
"Old bar" is Stalker Bar, Pripyat Outskirts is an total conversion of Stalker Bar made by Dezowawe Team.

[ebon blade]

Everything you mention is found in Lost Alpha (2014)

[still current]

There is a reason I left those in () since my memory may always fail me, but aside from those, the rest is what is there to say and I doubt I made a mistake in that regard. Point is that stalker got some insane amount of cutcontent

[wide timber]

so i was on google maps for fun looking at pripyat and stuff but then i see a town called chernobyl and i only thought there was the power plant does anyone know if people still live in chernobyl the town? when i went into street view i saw some people but the date was 2015

[oak junco]

Wikipedia says "Since then, although living anywhere within the Chernobyl Exclusion Zone is technically illegal, Ukrainian authorities have tolerated those who have taken up living in some of the city's less irradiated areas; Chernobyl's 2020 population estimate was 150 people."

Im curious to see this years numbers

[wide timber]

yea the reviews on the Chernobyl nuclear power plant were funny tho

[oak junco]

It's got reviews ? I gotta check haha

[wide timber]

a solid 4.5 stars lol

7 of them mention the monolith

[oak junco]

[river chasm]

I don't know how many are left but there were some people who pretty much never left

[ebon blade]

https://www.popularmechanics.com/science/animals/a64969223/chernobyl-dogs-dna-rapid-evolution/

[hardy totem]

Strong selective pressure, increased mutagenic rate, yeah that checks

[ebon blade]

That's never going to happen by GSC.
There might be a Mod eventually to do that,
however that's something few people would want.

[acoustic orchid]

Best to find a slightly older save and restart the quest it should complete but is buggy.

[magic vault]

possible weapon spoiler
||There's a (seemingly) supposedly modernized version for the 1911||

[gritty helm]

alright, hopefully they will add more

[golden gulch]

Forgot to say thank you.

[acoustic orchid]

No worries more updates on my channel 😀

[golden gulch]

So a 9mm pistol????

[oak junco]

9mm 1911 should be .45

[magic vault]

It's probably .45 in it's regular variant

[smoky hawk]

modernised?

does he know?

[oak junco]

we need AN-94..

[hardy totem]

We needs more machineguns

https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/544757291682103300/1367224622529122325/mood.gif

https://tenor.com/view/rambo-sylvester-stallone-suns-out-guns-out-ready-aim-fire-machine-gun-gif-5120447

[oak junco]

Ngl fr we do m249 saws and m60s

[hardy totem]

M240

[spare canopy]

One of the things that I loved about STALKER, was that it had a lot of weapons, that were never used in other games.

I would like it to continue this weapons, new weapons? Yeah, I am up for that. The same weapons that appear in so many other games, nah, just boring.