☢┃stalker-general

[worldly thicket]

Yeah and if you can survive getting pounced on

[rancid herald]

Yeah you cant dodge those is my issue

[worldly thicket]

Yeah it shouldn’t be one shot with max phys prot

[acoustic orchid]

Yeah once you are down you are in for it 😂

[rancid herald]

i cheesed it in arena..by jumping off and on a box so it de-aggros... but that doesnt work anymore probably

[worldly thicket]

Arena I somehow didn’t get knocked down so I didn’t die in that fight once

I just went around the box

It got confused hit and got stunned

[rancid herald]

adding more creative artifacts instead of just stat boosts

[worldly thicket]

They need more

[rancid herald]

like each shot has 30% chance to explode , can self injure took this from anomaly

invisibility but drains artifact , waiting for few days for full recharge

Or if you bleed you gain extra stamina speed, the more you do not bandage yourself the harder the bleed but bigger the buff , until you stop it
something unique

[sterile idol]

they should add a dodge mechanic, would make fighting mutants more fun imo

[tame gazelle]

cant reload bug, cant shoot bug, buildings missing floors.. i cant

[rancid herald]

That would be cool but it sounds too op, maybe high stamina cost
Like a Dying Light 1 type dodge hold backwards + space bar to sidestep

[cursive kettle]

what stalker 2 random ahh fake friend fans would say: skill issue chimera is the best mutant in game and GSC made such a wonderful game-- Ahem

[cursive kettle]

dodge mechanic like dying light would be neattt, tho we are only mere humans, ADD IT TO THE EXO THEN

[rancid herald]

i mean if they dont eventually modders will

that could be an upgrade path for exo because its hard to move in a huge asz exo suit

or if ur in the green bar of carry weight without exo you could do it urself

just spewing ideas

[fierce nexus]

[cursive kettle]

lowkey, i just Want the game to be more realistical about damage, so im waiting for such mods on Xbox, first of all the ai's should have a human reaction time and way lower sensitivity, the people that say: "its ok for me" "i shoot them the same way" are just people that eat whatever they get thrown at, compare the trilogy Npc's aim to what S2 Npc's have, the difference is very visible

[tame gazelle]

i love how u can get an exoskeleton 2 hours in the game but u cant upgrade it before YANIV 😂 😂 😂 😂 😂 😂 😂

[cursive kettle]

huh? wym, where u get it so early? i go to prypriat early game for them

[rancid herald]

be happy u got an exoskeleton

[cursive kettle]

You can get 5 in prypiat, lowkey they aren't that special or rare

[rancid herald]

yeah i use the realistic ballistic mod, i thought they would've went the route of master difficulty in OG games, everyone is squishy and everyone can die quickly you and them

[cursive kettle]

True, but, the thing that its still present is their x-ray vision and reaction time, which i hate

[rancid herald]

at #📜┃gsc-answers they said they are discussing difficulty options hardcore mode so...maybe?

[cursive kettle]

i dont want them to be sped and slow af, but, the millisecond they see your pixels they just hit you immediately

[cursive kettle]

Idc, ab any mode or anything, what it's purpose if the logic is to make damage higher and economy lower?

[rancid herald]

i agree, they should move a bit faster as humans, their movement feels very sluggish when they run and take cover etc , but when they move to shoot its instantly

[cursive kettle]

they should speed up the animation when they take out the gun lowk

[cursive kettle]

stalker diff for now is best choice if you want something balanced

[rancid herald]

master difficulty was in the og trilogy, everyone was prone to death
Mutants were especially scary, could two shot you easily
But if you had the reaction time you could kill the bloodsucker with a shotgun instantly close range

[tame gazelle]

duty exo up in cooling towers

[rancid herald]

This balancing is much more fitting instead of spongy enemies, even you late game you can become a tank that could endure a lot of damage

[cursive kettle]

I know what you mean, but in S2 the difficulty is just making the game more unfair, not challenging

[rancid herald]

Yea thats why im saying its better in the trilogy

[cursive kettle]

duty exo is the worse ngl, better going up to prypriat

[tame gazelle]

S2 difficulty is annoying not hard - agreed.

[cursive kettle]

i can't wait for little mods that remove animations for healing or eating, when mutants knock you down and when they stun you, theire too annoying

and can modders just like, modify the overall graphics? not textures but like, What GSC is using rn to create all the shaders and resources for resolution etc

[rancid herald]

i dont know exactly , but the weather overhaul mod brang back the fog weather which was cut from the game

[cursive kettle]

yeah that mod is such a good addition, but idk what settings do i need to have for a perfect experience since the game gives you goofy unbalanced settings of brightness and contrast

[rancid herald]

i think my fav mod is the one where ur inside interior and when u look outside it isnt a flashbang

[cursive kettle]

ig ur in pc then

[rancid herald]

ye

[feral horizon]

Shame it sucks. Freedom got the better exo.

[languid sky]

As if right now im playing through the xbox pc game pass would it be better for me to buy it on steam to mod better through nexus?

[rancid herald]

on consoles u gotta wait for the mods to come a bit, GSC looking to streamline the process

[cursive kettle]

ik

[cursive kettle]

The monolith exo is the best lowk

[rancid herald]

if u feel like u like the game enough support it through steam, but i think u can still mod with game pass edition

[languid sky]

You can i just want to make sure im installing them right bc idk wtf im doing when it comes to the files on my pc

[tame gazelle]

just added sprint to it and it works good

[cursive kettle]

to the duty? nope u can't, it doesn't have that option, it's the cuirrass exo right?

[feral horizon]

Diamond is the best but liberty isn't too far behind.

[cursive kettle]

hm

[languid sky]

Are the xbox pc game pass and steam version of the game different

[rancid herald]

also yaniv station isnt that early game its a bit further to the north lol

@tame gazelle

u said 2h in the game u got an exo, thats just ur luck that u stumbled upon it

[steady solar]

For mods yes @languid sky

[languid sky]

o7 41 dollars outa my paycheck

[steady solar]

Yeah I was playing on PC gamepass, but you cant even boot the game when trying reshades. I was irritated lol

[worn sonnet]

I play everyday, maybe some mod threw it off. I'll update if it does it after installing again

[cursive kettle]

lowk i didn't got such update, in these months i didn't even play and when 4 days ago i booted up the game i jus had all of them alredy installed with no memory space problems, o have a Series S

[sharp lake]

are there any achievements related to difficulties in this game?

stalker 2

[cursive kettle]

idk ab that, i only knew ab it in the trilogy

[cursive kettle]

why don't you check in the game? i mean, the achievements should be visible

[sharp lake]

if its there its hidden. and i really dont feel like looking at a list to get spoiled on thhings.

[rancid herald]

nope, but it has ending based achievmenets , i recommend u save every 5 main quests

[tame gazelle]

and when did i say it was

btw what is this cone bug enemies got? they got a literall CONE out of their gun

[sharp lake]

I have a game breaking bug and im gonna try and go back a little and get to where i was to see if it fixes itself.

[cursive kettle]

wym cone?

[tame gazelle]

tagged u

[rancid herald]

at yaniv

[cursive kettle]

Anyone knows the most immersive options for brightness, gamma, contrast etc?
i really can't find smt balanced, the base options are just bad

[hazy haven]

What does physical protection do exactly? I got a Compass artefact for maximum physical protection... but how it will affect me?

[wide veldt]

Keep it

[cursive kettle]

keep it, i sold it since i have the best exo but, it jus occupies a spot on my artifact slots, i prefer the weight and stamina ones

tho you gotta have a lead container or u will be completely exterminated by radiations

[hazy haven]

yeah but i asking what is it actually doing to your avatar

am I going to be resistant to the muttants?

[wide veldt]

Was qol mod and shays npc interactions updated? Why am i getting a pop up on my save

It says mods mismatched detected

[cursive kettle]

nah dww, idk what's that but game works for me

[cursive kettle]

it makes you more resistant in general

[stark crescent]

if you have workshop mods, they update all the time. and steam mostly auto updates. so when you load the save, it can say the version of a mod mismatches

[edgy shell]

Bullets and mutant hits

[subtle bison]

I am now king von

[acoustic orchid]

What are your top five mods?

[sharp gulch]

all of mine

[subtle bison]

I have two desert eagles. Big Ben and Black Kite. A Sig. AK. TRS. An 94 And finally the Chaser.

I got rid of the Enfield. That gun was as reliable as the armor from Doom 3.

[acoustic orchid]

Smooth 😂👍

[acoustic orchid]

Nice

[versed reef]

If you're on veteran it makes it so you might NOT get oneshot in the last few fights by everything that moves

[sharp gulch]

Inf just released a brand new overhaul called Stalker Unlimited

[versed reef]

Is there a mod that enables all ultimate edition content for standard editions yet?

[acoustic orchid]

Wow what is it?

[sharp gulch]

https://www.nexusmods.com/stalker2heartofchornobyl/mods/1453

[acoustic orchid]

Very nice might need a new play through

[sharp gulch]

itll take a bit till he cleans up everthing for things to be smooth

also it will be a very hard experience

[cursive kettle]

#1 better ballistics
#2 QoL 50%
#3 Dynamic Weather
#4 Crowbar
#5 Shay's living zone Silver

im on xbox S

[acoustic orchid]

Nice hopefully more mods soon

[cursive kettle]

WHAT IS ITTT TELL MEHHH

[cursive kettle]

Let's hope, i want enemies and mutants to be super deadly , but More fair

i want tacticool weapon handling so bad

[acoustic orchid]

Yeah we could do with hardcore mode

[cursive kettle]

Nah, if they don't fix The Npcs first, the hardcore mode is a upgrade to the veteran mode, just more damage and less economy

[acoustic orchid]

Need the npc fix soon

[wide veldt]

Im on the legends of the zone and im supossed to talk to dark but this whole facility is a maze and i dont know how to get back to him

[sharp gulch]

soonTM

[cursive kettle]

Sob

i hope they add that along side the More realistic forest mod

[proud minnow]

Tacticool weapon positioning shays living zone Gold better balistic and dynamic weathers are my favourite must have mod and also steam deck pda lol

[wide veldt]

Wish there was something to just make me fly so i could just finish this mission

[proud minnow]

And when I reach zaton i just download stamina mod too because its too slow otherwise

[cursive kettle]

lowkey Zaton is a shi walking simulator region, i hate it, the worse region in the game, 0 guides

[proud minnow]

I never understood what shays living zone Gold do but it creates more life and events in my gameplay

[proud minnow]

swamp is the worst zaton 2nd worst

I hate swamp because water slow u down and narrow lands in corners means more walking

[cursive kettle]

ohh yeahh ur right, i forgot about swamp since i hate it

[smoky hawk]

I'm sure the game will gain 10k players when modders figure out a way to overlay funny shorts moments on the bottom of a player's screen

[proud minnow]

And also the glass anamoly which comes in way

[cursive kettle]

hell nah that's so brainrot and tik tok ahh attention spam

[smoky hawk]

Says the guy who can't deal with walking in stalker

[proud minnow]

I think by 2.0 most of issues will be fixed but player count depend on how well it runs on rtx 3060 which is the most popular gpu among pc owners

Usually if the game dont run decent on 3060 and require high req it have low players

[cursive kettle]

80% of gameplay in S2 is walking, and it's boring in S2 mostly, if im exploring some cool place like prypriat it's ok, i can walk for hours, but, walking back and fourth A to B for hours? nah

im ok With SoC, at least that game is more entertaining

[wide veldt]

Speed mods when

[cursive kettle]

Hmmm, nah it would break immersion for me imo

[smoky hawk]

I call it, brain rot

[proud minnow]

Just need random events in between like fights , stalkers hunting mutants , artifacts etc , walking merchants then it would add to immersion and make it more engaging

[cursive kettle]

if that's what you think is brainrot then i can't contradict your 1 way mind ig

[proud minnow]

alife do that by bringing some fights between

[smoky hawk]

Alright I need you to have one meal without either your phone or a television

[cursive kettle]

i dont want events, this goofy ahh spawn bubble breaks immersion so badly, because i know that all of those enemies and npcs just spawned out of no where in some meters, i hate it

[proud minnow]

The spawning i dont have any problem if they just spawn 2-3 dogs but they sometimes spawn too close its better if they spawn it further so u cant see would look more organic

[cursive kettle]

i never eat breakfast, lunch and dinner with my phone, but i admit that at lunch and dinner i watch television with my family

[smoky hawk]

Absolutely mind broken, it's over for you

I'm sorry man, we're gonna need to intern you

[cursive kettle]

oh dam

[proud minnow]

Like i was fighting putegreist thing after completing swamp main quest and about 8 crawling zombies type of mutants came to attack me

[cursive kettle]

Are you saying that you're ok with Simulated A-life? that ain't it bro, it ain't.
S2 is mainly sponsored for the life of their npcs, and turns out that, the trilogy of decades ago had better Ai

[smoky hawk]

The trilogy had a cut down AI that isn't representative of the idea people have of A-Life, you could say 1.5 matches trilogy levels of simulation rn

You need to demand Alife 2.0 be better than AMK really

[proud minnow]

Yeah im ok coz i never played a stalker game before and fallout kinda work like that and rdr2 events also spawned randomly

[cursive kettle]

nah, you're saying that the mutants of right now, hunt offline, have a hunger Stat and get have a injured animation?
You're saying that every stalker that spawns(away from you) has a life with a important objective? (not conquering camps)

[proud minnow]

So im just habitual , all it matters it that make it look organic and genuine instead of obvious that they are infinitely spawning and im killing

[smoky hawk]

I'm saying the offline Alife we have right now is a close approximation to the offline Alife we could find in soc and cs

[proud minnow]

Slso they shouldnt spawn too many dogs 9 dogs is alot

[cursive kettle]

by close approximation you mean by 10 or 20% probably

[smoky hawk]

good thing not too many ppl think like this

[smoky hawk]

No, I mean the original games only had limited NPC walking outside loaded in maps, which is similar to 1.5 with stalkers only really walking outside of the online bubble

Also in SoC and CS mutants weren't simulated in offline mode

[proud minnow]

I mean i wouldnt have problem with the og alife too its just that i havent played stalker game before so i dont miss it that much

[smoky hawk]

Even if you didn't play them you should still be asking for what they promised you

[proud minnow]

Also if they stop spawn system wouldnt zone become empty and lonely becoz everyone will slowly die

[smoky hawk]

Are you assuming Alife wouldn't spawn squads and mutants?

[proud minnow]

Well i never watched demo or trailer so im not aware what they promised

[cursive kettle]

i jus searched on Google before doing that question and the ai overview confirms it, i mean it took those information by the Dave YouTuber that it's here too and reddit, tho i admit ot looks sus

[proud minnow]

Yep

[smoky hawk]

I don't know if you mean the info I said on the OG games or the S2 stuff, but like I said before, you should expect a level of complexity over AMK

[proud minnow]

Tbh my most major issue rn is optimization and lighting thats it

[cursive kettle]

back in trilogy the npcs spawned somewhere, not like S2 tho

[proud minnow]

There are lot of other issues but those two i hate em

[smoky hawk]

ALife should, theoretically, spawn a mutant squad or stalker squad when another dies to keep a level of entities in the zone, not close to each other tho

[cursive kettle]

i still don't believe this till we still have this event spawn bubble, im more impressed to see dead corpses laying around hinting that a shout-out happend than seeing it happen only when im there

[proud minnow]

Ohh so to summarise the difference between old alife in old games and this new one its that both uses spawn system but old one just kept population stablr and spawned it randomly in far poi and not close within 100 m

[cursive kettle]

it seems that in S2 the entities can be infinite if you just walk around triggering events and spawning ppl

and why are the factions so downgraded in S2? they look useless lowkey, everyone looks the same

[smoky hawk]

A-Life was supposed to simulate stalkers and mutant squads outside maps you were loaded in, so if you were loaded in map A you would still have a simulation of a stalker squad in Map B running, and you expand that by scripting stalkers and mutants with stuff for them to do and gun for, that is the idea
Horribly cut down in SoC BC it was too heavy, CoP further removed AI complexity, and S2

[smoky hawk]

Factions got a lot of them cut off

[cursive kettle]

what ab CS

[proud minnow]

Damn this sounds like bethesda games simulation in skyrim

[cursive kettle]

yes but, there's no system ab it other than hostility and some green things

[smoky hawk]

Offline Alife in CS was similar to SoC, with the exception that faction wars only happens online

CS made improvements to the combat AI most importantly

And animation system

[cursive kettle]

i wonder why didn't they do the same thing to CoP if the Engine was the same

[proud minnow]

I just faced one major problem with alive in early games when u go to military base if u kill the people there go unferground come back all of them respawn and fighting loop can get infinite if u dont move fast enough

[smoky hawk]

Sure but it's more like an NPC from the other side of the map.is still being simulated as opposed to in Skyrim random encounters spawning outside of your view outside of simulating schedules for permanent npcs

[sharp lake]

I love the simulation where i headshot someone and they fly to the moon. whats that one called?

[proud minnow]

So all they have to do is just have a Ai spawn in garbage when ur in lesser zone and vice versa?

[smoky hawk]

CoP was rushed and made with a lot of new talent, when old talent left, they weren't interested in AI and it wasnt necessary for their story on rails take on stalker, in fact, it was contradictory so they cut a lot of it off
In one part to not break scripting, in second because they didn't know how to work with the AI

[smoky hawk]

Chornobyl Space Program

[misty salmon]

Hello guys

[cursive kettle]

it seems like S2 was the successor of those happenings as well

[smoky hawk]

No you wouldn't be simulating it if you just spawned it nor would it be a automated system if it was forcefully done with a trigger

[smoky hawk]

S2 got a lot more from SoC and CS than CoP

[proud minnow]

What was exactly promised in alife 2.0?

[smoky hawk]

A system close to AMK with expanded NPC interactions depending on their factions

[cursive kettle]

i mean, Npcs have only 1 option of dialog

and 0 interactions other than trade maybe

[smoky hawk]

Yea, now if only VAs weren't a requirement for feeble brains

[proud minnow]

whats amk?

[cursive kettle]

i still don't understand what you mean by more interactions in S2

[smoky hawk]

First overhaul mod for SoC restored a lot of cut content including ALife and expanded on it

[proud minnow]

Ah

[smoky hawk]

Not player interactions, interactions with other AI they would meet, for example I recall we were told factions would try to take control of each others camps depending on story progress and squad condition

[proud minnow]

But i dont get it how they messed up on that , it was just abit of coding

Reverse engineering the old could have helpef no?

And then they could expand on that

[smoky hawk]

It's not just a bit of coding to be fair
I assume for an engine with native garbage collection that handles mass entities not so well, UE was probably sweating with it's implementation

[proud minnow]

I have heard that UE struggle with open world , but for AI its pretty damn good

[smoky hawk]

If the game has massive memory leaks and chugging problems with rostok, trying to simulate the zone would be worse

Especially with all necessary parameters

[proud minnow]

Memory leak is fixed now though

[smoky hawk]

Not what I hear

[oak junco]

Nope people still facing leaks

Even after 1.5

[proud minnow]

There still are memory leaks? In 1.2 i faced them every hour in 1.5 i didnt face any at least till swamps

[oak junco]

It seems to be there but more uncommon now but its deff getting better

[smoky hawk]

Hopefully we can take a peek at A-Life logic with newer versions of the SDK, otherwise, bleak

[proud minnow]

To be fair unreal engine is just engine optimization and all is on devs its a free open source and giving u everything to do it handles ai well too
It just struggle with open world but games like exp33 and finals and arc raiders as i heard runs well

Im sayin it handle ai well coz i have seen very impressive tech demos and free models in yt

[smoky hawk]

Still a bad engine

Alright now that I cursed Tim I can go sleep

See ya

[proud minnow]

I mean what choice they have , developing a new engine would take huge time and cost

And graphically unreal engine 5 is best no doubt

[still edge]

ue5 is a mess of engine , tries to push the bar on graphics doing all the calculations horribly and having 0 regards of performance

[proud minnow]

Performance wise it sucks

too high end

[still edge]

making a game in xray or ue4 wouldve been a better choice

look at fromsoftware they sill make game in an old engine, gamers dont care about photorealistic graphics

[river chasm]

I've had a lot fewer issues with it in more recent releases

[proud minnow]

But then graphics would be trash compared to this

[oak junco]

Who cares about graphics

[still edge]

nobody cares about graphics

[proud minnow]

but i care

[still edge]

you are the 1% of the gamers

[oak junco]

You can put makeup on a pig but its still a pig

[proud minnow]

I want good graphics with good performance

[still edge]

and there is a chance what you actually care is artistic design not graphics

[oak junco]

Shadow of chernobyl still looks better then stalker 2 ngl it has soul

Stalker 2 lacks that soul

[still edge]

metro exodus has amazing artistic design and graphics and has way way better performance than stalker2

[oak junco]

Metro was made by the actual gsc though

[proud minnow]

Metro exodus is a good game

[still edge]

all the lighting mombojombo wouldve been taken care of with a simple dynamic lighting like in gta 4

[tame gazelle]

4x flash spawns in the face - whoever made the flash anomaly is an insane person

[proud minnow]

But look at cyberpunk that game had photorealistic graphics good gameplay mechanics and story just forget launch coz they made mistake of not delaying it

[still edge]

we didnt need these blurry stuttering photorealistic graphics

[oak junco]

Stalker 2 feels like a lumen and nanite tech demo

[still edge]

cyberpunk doesnt have photorealistic graphics thats with mods

[proud minnow]

it do looks close to real life i meant

The lighting and all that stuff

[still edge]

not at all , it looks awesome ,but by no mean cyberpunk wants to be photorealistic

[proud minnow]

My point is that game had good graphics and gameplay

Its just on devs

If they delayed the game and released when it had all features and not early access it would have been better

Same problem was with nms and cyberpunk

Although i agree gameplay is most imp part

[still edge]

good graphics and photorealistic graphics are very very different thing. we got photorealistic graphics at the expense of alife and performance

[proud minnow]

hey at least they are improving alife lol

[still edge]

yes, i wish it was complete so we can enjoy s2, im still kinda mad at the release of the game , they shat the bed

[tame gazelle]

ok im at the bog poppers spot south easth of yaniv - i run to the artifact dodging every flash anomaly - arriving at the artifact and it despawns (??) and goes underground and then some random ukrainian music starts playing over it while i only see its light but cant loot it? what the heeeeeeell is going on in this game

[proud minnow]

They should have delayed it and released the game as 1.5 at worse that would have made game playable and more enjoyable then it was at launch

[still edge]

stalker game is very important for me , not having alife did numbers to my heart

[cloud carbon]

Will mods for xbawx drop on like a schedule
Or is it just when modders release them for xbawx

[frozen nimbus]

Hello fellow Stalkers, I have a... Bit of a unique playstyle...

[proud minnow]

But UNREAL ENGINE as a tool is very good for development it is a versatile engine optimization is different story 5.6 however is lot better due improvements done by cd and epic

[cloud carbon]

The bot told me I leveled up and scared me

[frozen nimbus]

Where can I post clips?

[still edge]

maybe one day ue5 will get far better in performance and then it will be reliable

[proud minnow]

Developing own engine would take time and lot of money UE open source anyone can change its source code and u have all the modern tech

[still edge]

also i think we might get stuck in terms of graphics, i mean what else can be done after photorealistic? thats the ceiling

[proud minnow]

I think making option for hardware lumen may ease load on CPU and can help perf gain but idk anything about graphics just a general guess

5.6 port can also help too

[still edge]

and if thats the case , thats a good thing, i dont really care about getting better graphics , since years ago i much more prefer good gameplay and story over better graphics

[frozen nimbus]

Uh... Excuse me?

[proud minnow]

Yeah nothing after that its just what art style you use my personal fav are the one they use in exp33 and final fantasy

[still edge]

i excuse you

[frozen nimbus]

Ok

Do u know where I can post clips 🥺

[proud minnow]

U can post clips in off topic

[still edge]

#💬┃en_offtop

[frozen nimbus]

But it's a stalker clip, why would it be off topic?

[proud minnow]

No option lol

No media is allowed here sadly

Or if it is its for privileged people with roles haha

[proud minnow]

Modders release their mods but gsc has to approve them thats why it takes time

[frozen nimbus]

I found an Orb of distortion east of this Car park, I know this is a anomaly, how do I... Handle it?

[proud minnow]

Bro how u are playing stalker on phone? Thats cool as hell

I also want to try that

[frozen nimbus]

Being as broke as the average stalker will make you do magical things

[proud minnow]

Can u run gta5 on phone too?

Seeing u running stalker on phone reminds me when i was young and seeing clickbait videos running gta 5 on phone xD

[frozen nimbus]

That depends of the device really, with how my device works, I can only play games up to the early 3D era, I've developed a reputation in TES and Fallout, playing Numerous Bethesda games in mobile.

[proud minnow]

Thats dope

Now days apple also doing something with iphone and running resident evil ac mirrage etc

And netflix did something with GTA san

[frozen nimbus]

I've already completed Morrowind, Fallout 3 and New Vegas, so now I'm migrating to Stalker to tread new ground.

[proud minnow]

Have u tried delta force on mobile?

[frozen nimbus]

Maybe I'll try Metro too if I can come up of a way to run it.

[frozen nimbus]

Delta force? The Garena game?

[proud minnow]

Yep

Its a nice game for timepass lol

[frozen nimbus]

Not tried it yet, very ambitious game tho, but right now I want to focus on what PC games I can shove into my device.

[spark tree]

The more I think about it the more I feel like stalker 2 on ue4 would’ve been cooler

[cursive kettle]

@frozen nimbus go to #📸┃screens_and_videos for posting images and clips

[spark tree]

Or pull a valve and make X-ray engine 2

I would actually like to see X-ray 2 engine

[cursive kettle]

bro spreading misinformation

[proud minnow]

Just speculated xD

[cursive kettle]

Sadly never, this is S2 in UE5, the max we can get is an upgrade, not an engine switch that would completely overhaul the game

[spark tree]

I think stalker 2 does look pretty but at the cost of performance

[proud minnow]

With xray im not sure but with ue4 it could have looked at best like delta force which also looks good for ue4 game and would be better in performance

Out of all ue4 games i played delta force had best graphics

[spark tree]

Stalker 2 is genuinely beautiful but I would’ve preferred a more stylized look

[proud minnow]

Stalker 2 also uses 5.1 which is literally first version of UE5

[spark tree]

Tbf (yes I know I’m comparing a AAA company to gsc) but valve made source 2 and games that utilize it are beautiful

I’m sure it would be insanely hard to make X-ray 2 but it would differentiate the game from other games

[proud minnow]

I didnt see much change between csgo and cs2 cs2 just looks more bright

[frozen nimbus]

Seriously tho, how do I deal with anomalies, I know there's good money to be made in that orb of distortion, how do I grab it?

[spark tree]

I mean cs2 has sharper lighting, shadows, and tesselation

Although csgo might also have tesselation I forgot

[cursive kettle]

at the cost of unoptimization

[spark tree]

Also I wish stalker 2 wasn’t so blurry of staticy

[proud minnow]

It do looks better but u need to see it very deeply but its because i expected more graphics leap coz i thought they updating after 10 years

[spark tree]

I mean look at half life Alyx

Not just better graphics but stuff like procedural glass

[proud minnow]

Half life alyx was amazing game

[spark tree]

It was

I’ve played through it tons

[proud minnow]

It was really beautiful and best looking VR game ever made until mfs came

[spark tree]

Exactly

I can’t wait for half life 3

It’s real I’m not crazy I swear

[proud minnow]

You know each half life was both a game and tech demo using every modern tech which was their , i wonder what things we can see in half life 3

Now we have lumen path tracing rtgi rt shadows etc etc

[spark tree]

If half life alyx was already beautiful I can’t even begin to imagine hl3 and the new technology it has

[proud minnow]

i also cant believe its been so long since hl3

Like seriously why did it take so much time to make chapter 3

[spark tree]

It makes me so happy to see how they ||changed the ending of episode 2||

[proud minnow]

Half life is the most iconic game ever made bcoz if it wasnt made then pc gaming wouldnt be as big as it is rn

[spark tree]

It’s such a genius idea and shows how strong ||gman|| really is

[proud minnow]

In that time period all companies were thinking gaming can only be done on consoles

[spark tree]

Plus I hated seeing what happened to Eli

[proud minnow]

There were leaks that hl3 was in testing this year hope it comes out soon

[spark tree]

Oh yeah I remember hlx

Or wait was it hlx or something else

[violet dune]

HL4 soon

[jolly shoal]

Xbox has mod support

Let’s go!!!

[lapis silo]

A lot of people have quite the opposite opinion

[violet dune]

it would be

[spark tree]

Wait really

[lapis silo]

It was controversial when HLA came out

[spark tree]

Oh yeah I think I remember

[lapis silo]

But then again, basically anything is controversial

[spark tree]

I mean it not only shows how strong he is to rewrite the story, but to manipulate people into doing what is beneficial to either him or his benefactors

[lapis silo]

But it makes no sense

Was half life 2 an alternate reality then?

It is kind of lazy

[spark tree]

I mean it’s a possibility considering how wacky the half life universe is

It’s not meant to make entire sense, the gman as is makes no sense

Like for example Evangelion, it makes no sense at times but it’s not meant to

[cursive kettle]

id want to say to you all to stop being off topic but, lowkey this topic is better than S2

@warped stream there's a bot

[warped stream]

!ban @slow karma scam

[frigid hill]

coolertrapper has been banned

Reason: scam

[cursive kettle]

Ohh yikes

[warped stream]

Does that not delete it

[cursive kettle]

Nope

[warped stream]

wtf is ts discord

[cursive kettle]

Bread

[spark tree]

Oh yeah sorry I forgot about off topic channel 😅

[cursive kettle]

nah dw at least chat is alive

[spark tree]

True

I just saw the clear sky propaganda in the memes channel why are they using Bart Simpson 💔

[spare canopy]

Yeah, but teh HL devs managed to keep the story coherent through all of their games... GCS can barely get it coherent in one game

[sharp lake]

Literally just beat Stalker 2 on veteran boys.

[spare canopy]

Eh wat?

[spare canopy]

Only ever played S2 on veteran. But congratulations 🙂

[spark tree]

Look at meme and art of the week

[sharp lake]

I also only played it on veteran. game was crashing constantly at the end i was about to lose my mind.

[spare canopy]

The game is still in Beta... Maybe Alpha test

[spark tree]

I think s2 is gonna be really good in the future but it’s gonna be a cyberpunk situation, hopefully they can make the zone more interesting and optimized

[sharp lake]

Yeah. judging by the achievements no one has beaten this game to bug test it.

[spark tree]

Phantom liberty went crazy it gave me hope for dlc in games

I think that the story of s2 is good, maybe not as good as the trilogy but still good

But it did feel a little boring when it was just running back and forth

[spare canopy]

I hated PL. It turned Cyberpunk into a cheesy GTA game, with stupid loot drops, and so much more...

They even compltely screwed the skill tree, put pistols under cool... and so much more,. Like killing off all the old unique weapons

[spark tree]

Ok but cool spy mission stuff (also we should probably take this to off topic)

[spare canopy]

Well, it is on topic, as it highlights what happens when Dev's don't keep to the lore and feel of the game. They ruin it. And GCS, have a good track record of ruinign things.

[spark tree]

Like in the trilogy too?

I’m sorry I’m decently new to the community I started learning from anomaly/gamma, played stalker 2, and am now playing modded soc

[spare canopy]

Not really, hate CoP, as that just meh at best.

SoC and CS is where it is at.

[spark tree]

I’ve been enjoying radiophobia

I did buy soc though maybe I’ll play the actual thing I just have never been a huge fan of playing older games

[spare canopy]

That sounds like someone has a fear of x-rays

[sharp lake]

Feels good to have beaten all the stalker games and some of the big mods

[spark tree]

Honestly though I’ve tried to like old games like original half life, soc, etc. but each time I just can’t seem to enjoy it

[spare canopy]

I wish I had waited to play S2... Then waited for a mod to remove the story... Then play, and I know I would have had a 100% better experience.

[spark tree]

They’re revolutionary but not my thing

[spark tree]

What do you do without the story though, the most you can really do is random encounters, side quests, and jobs

That’s kinda one of my big gripes about s2 is that there isn’t much to do when you’re not doing a side quest or main quest

Hopefully dlc fixes that (ofc after optimization)

[spare canopy]

Exactly... Explore, artifact hunt... I would also like a mod that cuts the number of stalkers, makes the area more wild, but have a lot more random missions, special monster hunts, poker in the bars, join factions and deal with the consequences.

[spark tree]

I wish there was a task board on your pda so you could pick up jobs without having to find them

[spare canopy]

That's becuae the game is incomplete, it's basically an Alphs

[sharp lake]

As a STALKER fan i would say it was a good game. Couldnt ask for much more without turning into a cookie cutter ubisoft open world game

[strange dust]

I wouldn't go as far as saying its in alpha

[spare canopy]

Plenty of things they can add to the game. It's just about if the have any nuance to add it, and do so without screwing it up.

[spark tree]

Actually I’m curious because I couldn’t think of much what do you think could be added

[spark tree]

I’d kill for stalker 2 to get these graphics (even though it’s a concept and not actual gameplay)

[frozen ledge]

But not your wife. You still got work to do

[spark tree]

At least i think? The footage looks too smooth to be gameplay

[spare canopy]

It probably was gameplay footage, but probably from UE4

[spark tree]

God man ue4 is so goated

[sharp lake]

played through the whole game 4k max settings

[spark tree]

I wish I could lol

I forgot what engine was metro exodus made on

That game is beautiful

[sharp lake]

i need to give that one another shot. it was kind of jank when it came out to.

i beat the first two

[spark tree]

I need to finish it, I finished the vr game which was amazing

Made me jump constantly

[spare canopy]

lol

[spark tree]

No because one of the sections the spiders crawl on your mask it’s freaky

When you’re not being freaked out by spiders you’re getting jumped by everything else

[sharp lake]

i beat the only two games i wanted to play this year on my new computer. now what?

[spark tree]

Are the two games before exodus good? I haven’t seen much on them

[sharp lake]

yeah they are good

both redux versions of the first two games on cdkeys for 4 something dollars

[fierce nexus]

NVG's and binoculars would be nice

[fierce nexus]

2033 and Last Light? Both are peak

[spark tree]

Ok I hope for both, I was thinking more about quests and side stuff

Nvg is my big thing, binoculars should come when a life is completely implemented

[fierce nexus]

The first 2 games are linear

There's some side stuff, but not as much as exodus

[spark tree]

Do yall think that a life is even possible on ue5? It’s already hard to run because of one big connected map

[spark tree]

Oh no I meant s2 sorry

[fierce nexus]

Oh, stalker has 3 other games

[spark tree]

Oh I know I mean like what could gsc implement to make the zone more interesting other than a life

Like in terms of jobs you can do and stuff to do besides side quests and main story

[fierce nexus]

Uhh.... maybe some more new enemies, perhaps a new side mission type

New guns are always fun

[spark tree]

Add those tiny baby things that were scrapped

[sharp lake]

its crazy how much work they put into the game though

[spark tree]

The like tiny thing that was like a baby zombie

[fierce nexus]

Bring Limansk back

[spark tree]

Good dlc idea, i happened to notice generators also being decently modeled

[fierce nexus]

Yee

And the area around the CNPP

[spark tree]

I saw someone theorizing we go to the cnpp to lab x19 or something?

Another faction war between duty and freedom

[fierce nexus]

Not sure

You can't go to the CNPP in the base game

[spark tree]

Yeah but if it was dlc maybe?

[fierce nexus]

It's blocked off by IPSF

[fierce nexus]

Could be

They have DLC planned

Also multiplayer is coming eventually

[spark tree]

Yeah I look forward to it, hopefully we can get a big optimization focused patch sometime soon 🙏

Though my 6650xt and 5600g kinda tank it tbh, I use frame gen though

[fierce nexus]

[spark tree]

I think it would be cool to be like an actual online ranking system kinda like the old games

[fierce nexus]

Maybe there will be

We don't know anything about it yet

Other than the fact that it's not coop

[spark tree]

Co op seems really hard to implement for a game like s2

[fierce nexus]

They said it would ruin the atmosphere

[spark tree]

I think the best they could do is let you have npc squads to come with you

[fierce nexus]

Yeah

Or hire a stalker

[spark tree]

That too, one of my biggest hopes for a-life is the news system where they talk about recent events like if bandits are under attack by someone or if someone got bit up by some dogs

[frozen nimbus]

I was tasked to crush a boar lair by wolf, while killing boars, I got ambushed and killed by a few "Soldiers"

[frozen nimbus]

I thought "This won't slide" so I went to war with the Soldiers, a dozen deaths, a few dead stalkers and hundreds of spent ammunition later, I killed every soldier that was from that camp.

[spark tree]

From what I’ve seen the a-life is actually better in 1.5 but they still tend to lose interest in your really easily

[spark tree]

Deserved, I hate those guys

[fierce nexus]

Good thing they didn't have Vova Vist with them

[frozen nimbus]

I pinged u for a few screenshots

If you're wondering why I'm listing their names, It's for Trophy hunting purposes, keeps me entertained.

[spark tree]

Why doesn’t skif just ||shoot Faust on sight he had every chance ||

[frozen nimbus]

A few friendly stalkers died in the big shootout, but hey, there's casualties in war, and atleast Wolf is still alive.

[subtle bison]

A bit shy. But uh, i guess this is for the developers. Stupid ass question. I've got a final project that is about environmentalism, and it could be just about anything. I was wondering if it is alright if I used the franchise for my final paper?

[frozen nimbus]

One thing that puzzles me, why is the Military going Kill-on-sight on Stalkers?

[frozen nimbus]

I'm just a dude walking down the street looking for magic shit what's their deal?

[spark tree]

Ok that’s sick asf what are you gonna talk about specifically

[subtle bison]

The zone itself.

[spark tree]

Cuz they hate fun

[austere pagoda]

magic

[spark tree]

Nice

[frozen nimbus]

Legit tho, what's the reason

Are we like... Trespassing? Are stalkers Terrorists?

[austere pagoda]

walking merchants hmm ive seen that before

[subtle bison]

The faction as well. Because the entire game is what happens when you screw over or control nature and play God. Something my instructor had shown in our lessons time and time again.

[frozen nimbus]

Ah, a fellow Battle brother

[fierce nexus]

I don't see why they would have a problem with it, but I don't wanna ping a GSC member lol

[fierce nexus]

Terrorists? Not really. Criminals? Absolutely

Stalkers are hella trespassing

[frozen nimbus]

Makes sense, the Zone is well.. dangerous, ofc is closed off to the rest of the public.

[spark tree]

I mean stalkers are defined as people who sneak past military into the zone

[frozen nimbus]

nyways

[frigid hill]

redwoodhaven has been warned

Reason: Bad word usage

[frozen nimbus]

:0

[spark tree]

The zone has gotta be one of the most genius fictional places because of its themes and atmosphere

[frozen nimbus]

Nuh uh, Brain rot's a thing, bad world building. 😔

[spark tree]

Grrrr

Introduce brain rot to the zone: slime all monolithians

What if they turned brain rot into a cult and used it to fight against the monolith by rotting it out of their brains

[magic vault]

Completely agree

[spark tree]

Brilliant idea I know

[frozen nimbus]

They use a powerful ancient artifact called "YouTube Kids" to achieve this.

[spark tree]

Put those radios to good use and play skibidi toilet over it

[dapper pivot]

王八蛋

[sharp lake]

lmao imagine thinking CoP was bad

[spark tree]

Use mustard to defeat the monolith and only then will this truly be our stalker shadow of clear sky pripyat chornobyl

[frozen nimbus]

Since I've wiped out the soldiers, it's time I visit that lil camp of theirs down the road and see if I can find more loot

[spark tree]

And then Faust is gonna be angrily tapping his foot in the corner while strelok skif and scar all dance together

[frozen nimbus]

Do dropped Items despawn in Stalker SoC?

[spark tree]

Am I the only one that feels like a schizo when I try to talk about stalker to anyone else

[dry siren]

i might be buying a TOZ-34 lookalike in real

[spark tree]

Like no one knows about this series outside of people who discovered anomaly/gamma or played the trilogy/s2

[spark tree]

Hell yeah

[dry siren]

it's a Trinity Arms, in 12ga

$1,450

[spark tree]

Yeah that’s out of my price range ngl

I really need to get a job…

[wide veldt]

Crazy how someone would pay alot like that for a shotgun of all guns

[ruby gale]

How's everyone today

[spark tree]

Pretty good, how about you

[ruby gale]

Kinda what I was thinking, thats a bit much for a double barrel

[dry siren]

it's a nice rifle

shiny wood furniture, no dents or scratches

[sharp lake]

stalker 2 just needs a new game plus

[spark tree]

True

[ruby gale]

Might as well buy a benelli at that point

[spark tree]

Do yall think stalker 2 will age well?

[ruby gale]

Trust me, a lot have been wanting it, its like a cyberpunk situation

[ruby gale]

Depends on the direction the devs take, so far its not bad

[spark tree]

That’s what I think

If they continue adding optimization, guns, nvg, binoculars, a-life, etc. it’ll be amazing

And dlc too since they have that planned

[sharp lake]

Faster movement has got to be an option to.

Im 41 years old i aint got time for hours and hours of running

[ruby gale]

Movement feels just fine to me, I dont have all the time to play either

[ruby gale]

Community modders will probably do the nvg part themselves, i just want thermals because of all the bushes/trees

[spark tree]

Honestly I hate just running around though, I wish there was more to do

[spark tree]

Thermal scopes and stuff would be cool

[sharp lake]

I think i will enjoy exploring more on normal

[ruby gale]

Exploration is a big point in the game, I like walking around

[tacit jay]

if you want more than the one fresh bread, you can just find them on freedomer corpses.

[spark tree]

I like the atmosphere but the zone just feels a little empty besides some cool sights

Ofc I do love how it looks and the sights are amazing but idk

[sharp lake]

plenty of ubi games out there 😄

[ruby gale]

Feel like thats kinda the point, im sure once the ai is a bit less jank there'll be more interactions

[spark tree]

On second thought maybe it isn’t so bad 😅

[ruby gale]

Ubisoft bombed far cry with 6

[sharp lake]

yeah 6 wasnt the best one in the series

it was fun co oping it with my friend i guess

[spark tree]

Was 6 terrible or just not close to the others?

[ruby gale]

They did pretty much the opposite of what made 5 good

6 was hot garbage compared to the other games

[spark tree]

But like was it a bad game?

[sharp lake]

If youre a far cry fan and get a good deal on it id say play it

[tacit jay]

I didn't think it was a bad game.

[sharp lake]

it was unfair coming after FC5 it was just to good

[ruby gale]

I just didnt like it, I played to ng+ and haven't touched it since

The ammo reserve, attachments, and different "versions" for weapons sucked

Plus the different ammo types were pretty much useless

[sharp lake]

get it on cheap and find a friend to play co op with. youll have a decent time

[spark tree]

Another thing I would like to see in s2 is a better way to tell people apart

I know colored armor but it’s still kind of hard sometimes, maybe a little icon like that one mod shows up when you point your cursor?

[ruby gale]

Yeah that'd be nice, instead of aiming at an npc for a bit waiting for them to do something

[spark tree]

yeah

[ruby gale]

Thats how I ended up in a building with a squad of 5 enemies because they didn't do anything until we were all inside

[spark tree]

i know they cant go back on it since it would make no sense. but ue4 stalker 2 wouldve gone crazy

i think it was those cinematic trailers but that was beautiful

[ruby gale]

Insurgency sandstorm is evidence a game doesn't need the newest engine to be peak

[spark tree]

the darker graphics are amazing especially for stalker

hopefully someone can replicate it with reshade, clikrad is probably the closest to it at the moment

[ruby gale]

It looks really good when inside a building at night looking for enemy flashlights

Haven't played stalker in a bit though, been on a crew motorfest kick

[spark tree]

that and the destructible environments like boxes and stuff, which would be almost impossible to use in ue5 due to performance

ue4 mightve been able to handle it idk im not a big tech guy for engines

[ruby gale]

Well given the level of destruction battlefield games had it should've been fine

[spark tree]

im just wondering where stalker will go after 2, i guess it all depends on the canon ending for this game

and dlc too if that ends up being super important

[ruby gale]

I think the dlc is just the multiplayer thing, I haven't heard much else

[spark tree]

we still got like limansk, cnpp, generators, all that

cnpp is kind of a husk without the wish granter but it could have a lab still??

[dapper pivot]

i just expect , an hunt the artifact gamemode for stalker 2 multiplayer

[spark tree]

ok that would be really cool

[ruby gale]

Apparently its a pvp thing

[spark tree]

maybe arena??

[ruby gale]

I can't remember much

[dapper pivot]

and its easier, to develop and not break anything else my expectations included.

[ruby gale]

Doesn't make sense to do a pvp thing compared to an actual co-op campaign

[cedar plinth]

Guys im playing the mission where you get into Ward base and do something for Strelok and my game just frozes, i can hear sounds its like that for 1 minute and then turn off

what could be the reason and does someone has the same problem?

[dapper pivot]

extraction gamemode like arenabreakout would work but gaijin already making that ...with artifact hunt in mind. so why bother

[spark tree]

i would recommend reporting this just in case and asking for advice in #❔┃seeking-for-advice

[ruby gale]

Who knows, if it is a pvp thing i dont have high expectations for it, just dont see it gaining traction

[spark tree]

im new to the server so that could be wrong mb

[cedar plinth]

Thx, absolutely forgot about this channel

[ruby gale]

I play games like stalker to avoid competitive stuff, not my scene, work is enough stress for me

[dapper pivot]

the game its called active matter if you want to take a look at it .... https://activematter-game.translate.goog/en/?_x_tr_sl=en&_x_tr_tl=es&_x_tr_hl=es&_x_tr_pto=tc

[ruby gale]

I should probably get back to the racing

Check back in in a bit

[cedar plinth]

You want to be racist huh

[frozen nimbus]

What year does CoS take place in?

[fierce nexus]

?

[frozen nimbus]

Oh switched the words up, SoC, shadow of Chernobyl

[fierce nexus]

Oh

2012

[frozen nimbus]

2009!?

[fierce nexus]

2012 sorry

[frozen nimbus]

2012!?????

Shit, I thought this game took place in the 1980's.

[fierce nexus]

Nope, 2012

6 years after the second chornobyl disaster

[frozen nimbus]

Oh I was thinking of the first Chernobyl boom

[fierce nexus]

Clear Sky takes place in 2011, and Call of Pripiat is later on in 2012

[frozen nimbus]

Man, while I'm out here sucking dirt and taking bullets, some jerk is playing on an Iphone 😔

[fierce nexus]

Stalker 2 takes place sometime in the 2020's

We don't know exactly what year, just that it's after 2020

[frozen nimbus]

That means that in Stalker, among us is canon. :0

[fierce nexus]

I suppose it does lol

[lapis silo]

Doesn't the calendar in Skif's room say the date?

[frozen nimbus]

Skif? The dude with the best Pistol in Stalker 2?

[lapis silo]

Yeah, in S2

[frozen nimbus]

How he got his hands on a Makarov made from Stalinium is beyond me 😔

[lapis silo]

He was part of the marines

[fierce nexus]

Yeah, it says 2021

But they don't say how much time passes between then and him entering the zone

[lapis silo]

But he sadly can't swim

[frozen nimbus]

Imagine having enough trash to deal with in the zone and you get COVID 😔🙏

[lapis silo]

It probably wasn't much

[vital condor]

I mean at most a few weeks or months so 2021 or 2022 (if it was year's end)

[fierce nexus]

Yee

Bro just wanted a new apartment

[lapis silo]

Simple man

[fierce nexus]

Good ole Yevhen

[vital condor]

Hey who knows, he might have gotten a house which is even better

[fierce nexus]

Troo

25 years old and man's already been through it

[ebon blade]

Nope. Not sticking my hand up that ass.

[tacit jay]

I found a freedomer named Oleh Mexico

[rain ingot]

why is Nvidia Reflex removed from stalker 2? its not in nvidiaprofileinspector. Anyone encounter this issue?

[spark tree]

why are bloodsuckers so caked up

[ebon blade]

What do you mean by "caked"?

[gusty condor]

I mean it will still get you coupons

[ebon blade]

I'm joking. I skinned him.

[spark tree]

i cannot inform you any further because of my employers

[spark tree]

deserved, i hate bloodsuckers

[ebon blade]

In urban slang, the term "caked up" is primarily used to describe someone, often a woman, who has a well-endowed body type, particularly referring to large buttocks or "ass." This is sometimes associated with having "well-developed gluteal (“cake”) muscles" or having "large buttocks," even as a "diss or a compliment".

[spark tree]

this is gonna be on your 2025 brainrot quiz stalker

[ebon blade]

That was an answer from Google AI.

[spark tree]

oh my god of course ai said that

[ebon blade]

Speaking of Cake: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F_HoMkkRHv8&list=RDF_HoMkkRHv8

[spark tree]

ive been listening to that song for forever

thats like the only cake song i listen to tbh

[umbral chasm]

uh hello?

[spark tree]

hi

[umbral chasm]

sup

[sterile radish]

finna venture into the swamps for a gun attachment, wish me luck

[umbral chasm]

good night and good luck man

[spark tree]

oh god i hate the swamps

i mean i love the atmosphere but if there was a hell on earth it would be that god forsaken place

[umbral chasm]

how do i get the novice role?

in this server

[spark tree]

for faction you go to #👥┃faction-choice

[umbral chasm]

i alr have it

i mean i already chose my faction role

[spark tree]

oh mb

i dont know any others i think its just with time on the server

[fierce nexus]

Reach level 10

[umbral chasm]

ty

[fierce nexus]

Just keep talking

You'll get it eventually

The zone do be zone-ing

[umbral chasm]

can i post memes here?

[gusty condor]

What attachment?

[sterile radish]

gp37 dual-drum mag attachment, but it isnt here

[weary hedge]

Does installing mods and uninstalling them reenable achievements, or does your save file get marked as cheated?

[marsh iron]

if you have a Save with mods enabled, that Save will be labelled "Mod+" (and will have achievements disabled going forward); Disabling all mods and loading a previous Save without said label, achievements should work then

[surreal aurora]

So I think I finally found the place where "the musician" (Bolshak) was supposed to be in the game. It's not 100% one-to-one, but the placement of items, location, doors and such are there. So about 95% the same.

[strong onyx]

I was talking with someone on Reddit and they suggested adding suppressor durability. What do we think? It makes total sense imo.

[ebon blade]

When your weapon gets repaired, that includes all attachments.

[strong onyx]

So remove that part of it.

Suppressors are too easy to come by imo, and they last forever. They don’t ever break. It should be separate imo. They just feel too common to me.

You can get one for free in the first hour of gameplay. I dunno seems a bit much to me personally.

[ebon blade]

That would be an unnecessary complication to have scopes, suppressors and extended magazine to be a separate item to wear down and need to be repaired individually.
Repairs are already expensive enough, without having to pay additional fees for attachments.

However, if someone wants to make a Mod for that, so be it.

[sharp lake]

never repaired attatchments once in my playthrough

[strong onyx]

👀

[strong onyx]

Neither have I, and repairs honesty aren’t that expensive and you can find suppressors everywhere. You don’t have to repair a scope/dot because it…shouldn’t need it? I own several have never done any form of maintenance on them. The biggest part of it is just zeroing them.

[sharp cosmos]

I'm barely making ends meat fixing up my gear after clearing out whatever group of ruffians some random bar owner asks me to save darn it. Don't makes me pay more.

[strong onyx]

Huh…I’ve never really had an issue with repairs, does the difficultly scale the cost?

[sharp lake]

i think so

plus quest rewards are a lot less

[sharp cosmos]

To him who has much more will be given. From him who has little will be taken even what he has. Smh.

[strong onyx]

Hmmm…I play on Stalker. Veteran is too intense for me. I’m a dirty casual.

[sharp lake]

I just beat it on veteran tonight. i made myself do it. im looking forward to putting it on normal and just exploring and shiht.

[sharp cosmos]

First run was on stalker and second run was on vet. Now I'm doing a slow one with a lot of freeplay in Vet and it's not that insane. I'm just broke a lot.

The only thing that gets insane on vet is the end game battles. Imo

[frozen nimbus]

I have enough weaponry to arm half the stalkers in SoC, now where the hell do I sell all of this?

[strong onyx]

I always pick up and sell weapons.

[sharp cosmos]

Just be the Santa Claus of rookie stalkers and hand it over to them. Or I think you can sell to the barman at Rostok lol

[strong onyx]

It’s where most of my money comes from lol.

Rostok the biggest town?

[sterile radish]

largest market

[sharp cosmos]

Hardly "big" but it's a natural hub yeah.

[frozen nimbus]

I got a 100 pounds of guns back at Noob village, you mean to tell me I gotta haull all that to Rostov?

[strong onyx]

What’s the largest town? I haven’t made it that far I’ll admit. I’ve mostly been running around exploring the map.

[sharp cosmos]

You might be able to sell em to Sid as well?

[frozen nimbus]

Who is sid

[sharp cosmos]

Otherwise get to stepping Hermano

[sharp lake]

you can sell stuff at any of the outposts with vendors

[sharp cosmos]

Sidrovich

[strong onyx]

Grab that carry weight artifact.

[frozen nimbus]

That fat dude at the very start?

[sharp cosmos]

Muscular*

[frozen nimbus]

I thought you couldn't sell stuff to him

[sharp cosmos]

Yeah him lol

[gusty condor]

You can just put the guns in you personal chest and fast travel to Rostock to sell them

[frozen nimbus]

Fast travel? Never heard of it

[sharp cosmos]

He's in SoC no personal chest and can't fast travel to Rostok.

[mental rose]

Im a new stalker and im trying to play stalker 2 but it keeps crashing, what settings can i use to fix this?

[gusty condor]

You go the guide, his icon looks like a compass

[frozen nimbus]

@gusty condor

[frozen nimbus]

Coincidentally enough, the 100 pounds of guns I have are all in a chest literally Infront of Sidrovich

[sharp lake]

I was having major crashing issues at the end of the game today. Clearing the shader cache worked long enough for me to finish it.

[sharp cosmos]

I'd try posting this over in the advice sub brother.

[mental rose]

thanks brother

[sharp cosmos]

🫡

[frozen nimbus]

Also Stalker is the first game I've played that had the balls to say the R-word

[strong onyx]

I mean, it’s a game tbh. It’s not real, I don’t see an issue. We have games that throw around the n-word like Mafia III.

[sharp cosmos]

Well if you're playing SoC the game I think came out before the use of that word got a lot of cultural backlash.

[sharp lake]

People that beat the game on veteran. how many deaths did you have by the end?

[sharp cosmos]

S2? I think I was closing in on 300

But it was a Ward run where I did nearly nothing in terms of side activity.

[sharp lake]

ok. heres a question. if i do a ward run does is there a lot of bespoke missions for them? or does the game basically play out the same.

[sharp cosmos]

There are pretty significant changes based on who you are working with. But the main core events still happen relatively the same, just sometimes approached from a different way. There are several quests that are outright different though. Each run has a few.

[sharp lake]

Does Stalker 2 have a quest system like Skyrim where you can get endless generic quests to make money?

[sharp cosmos]

The first time at Duga is an example of the quest being basically entirely different except for the fact that you go to the Duga.

[sharp cosmos]

Yes. There are several characters at major hub points that give generic quests that refresh every day or two.

Along the lines of the companions with "go to x hold and beat this guy up"

They usually offer 3 jobs (regardless of which you go to) and the 3 quests offered are usually some variation of

1, Go to X and kill this group of guys (who are spawned in for the purpose of the quest)
2, Go to X and pick up this item and bring it back, usually you'll fight a mutant at the place you pick it up.
3, Find X artifact and bring it to me.

You then choose one of the three and go do it.

[sharp lake]

How many achievments do you have in the game?

[sharp cosmos]

Me personally? Or how many are there?

[sharp lake]

You personally

[sharp cosmos]

Lemme check for you boss.

[sharp lake]

i think there are 58

[sharp cosmos]

I have 38 of the 58

[gusty condor]

Currently what is you guy’s favorite weapon, currently for me it would have to be the Kharod, svu, or the night stalker

[analog galleon]

M1A all day

[sharp lake]

IDK its hard to say. IDK discussing weapons will be a spoiler for some who are really anal like me 😄

[sharp cosmos]

Make that 39, I saw one that was super easy to do and grabbed it before turning off the game lol

[sharp cosmos]

The little smg, S-2.

[gusty condor]

Bucket?

[sharp cosmos]

Yeeeeee

[sharp lake]

yeah that thing is pretty good

[analog galleon]

Man if we got an MP7A2 I’d never put it down

I love the Vector don’t get me wrong but the A2 just makes me grin like an idiot

[sharp cosmos]

It's my standard end game gun and you can get it within like 5 seconds of being in the zone lol.

[sharp lake]

i never got my pre order bonus vintar

[sharp cosmos]

You gotta find em in the journalist stashes I think? Unless it's a different thing in which case I haven't a clue.

With the new update, S-2 Bucket and the Mosin "three line rifle" is the true elite loadout.

Get your guns within the first hour of arriving in the zone and simply never change them lol.

[sharp lake]

idk the three line rifle is only good for so long

[gusty condor]

Alright I’m gonna go to bed so I can wake up early and play stalker

The true grind

[sharp cosmos]

I'm using it rn in pretty late game. Having a grand ol' time.

Sleep well

[gusty condor]

Thx man, night guys

[sharp cosmos]

Just fully upgrade and stick to those headshots brother. No problem.

[sharp lake]

I just started using that M101 Super or whatever when i had enough ammo saved up for it.

[sharp cosmos]

I've been trying out some different weapons just for fun but end of the day gotta stick with ol' faithful

Bucket, Mosin, Skif's pistol, knife. Handful of trashy grenades. And I'm zoneing all over the place.

Tho the new 1911 is sick too.

[sharp lake]

Yeah I love the weapons and animations in s2

[sharp cosmos]

The new reloading stuff is super smooth

[sharp lake]

They put a crazy amount of work into S2. Game must have been in development forever

[sharp cosmos]

Ahahahaha

Only thing that would make it better is if he said it and did this while looking at the duty leader.

[crisp cairn]

Indeed

It was a mess at Launch but it was still better than i expected it to be for the most part (a life being far more A than I being the only major exeption)

[violet zodiac]

This game still has upgrade blueprints locked behind faction main missions? I can't access the underground hidden stash in Duga between the Vehicle Park and Military unit. Now I read online that stash which contains the Anatomical Adjustment blueprint can online be accessed via the Happiness for Everyone mission for Spark. So you can only acquire all 77 blueprints if you do the Spark route for the main story. Does not seem fair?

[summer hedge]

guys, has anyone asked the developers about the trees? Compared to the "this is not paradise" trailer, there are far fewer trees on the terrikon , and they are not as diverse. I wonder if there will be any improvements in this regard.

[sharp lake]

its never to late to start spamming them on discord with that question

[sharp cosmos]

You could try doing a word search on the gsc-answers sub and see if it was answered perhaps? I haven't seen anything about it myself but I don't look at it too often.

[gusty nexus]

The only tree related question was in 2024 two months before the game came out.

[sharp cosmos]

Ayyy bro did the search for you, too easy. You could try asking yourself though!

[summer hedge]

so my time has come 🙂‍↕️

[sharp cosmos]

You were born for this mission soldier.

[summer hedge]

ask questions about trees, and if there are more questions on this topic, they may answer them…or not

[frozen nimbus]

How do I fast travel in SoC.

[sharp cosmos]

You don't. Gotta use those Lamborfeeties

[torn gate]

Is that a uzi pfp?

[vernal yew]

Who is expert of cs here?

Clear sky

[torn gate]

I never used the fast travel often in s2 so at least I'll already be used to that part

[sharp cosmos]

I'm not an expert but I played the game lol.

[sharp cosmos]

Better to walk and soak in all the zone has to offer brother 💪🏻

[vernal yew]

Man how can I send video here? It contains my question

I remember they had channel for that where is it?

[sharp cosmos]

I'd go to trilogy screenshots

[torn gate]

Fast travel is for the weak

[vernal yew]

Can I dm the video?

[sharp cosmos]

You know what? Sure man I'm bored enough tonight. Go for it.

[vernal yew]

I suffer with clear sky and bleed ton

[sharp cosmos]

Oh, is that all it is?

[vernal yew]

I have no clue which upgrades to prioritize

Sure I can get kevlar or plus maybe integrity

But if I recall correctly I miss out on night vision

[sharp cosmos]

In clear sky sometimes you gotta just use multiple bandages for a wound. Plus upgrading to better armors. Are you in the early game?

[vernal yew]

And I suffer in a night and bleed

[vernal yew]

Yes early swamp stage

[sharp cosmos]

Yeah well in the swamp your armor is a jacket and a dream, so the hits are gonna be rough.

Keep playing and you'll get yourself some better armor.

[vernal yew]

I remember one time I had C's 3 and man it was suffering

[sharp cosmos]

Embrace the suffering of the swamps, let it wash over you and fill your body. Then you will be prepared for the rest of the Zone.

Such is the Will of the Monolith

[vernal yew]

I were playing soc so good

😢

[torn gate]

Peak

[sharp cosmos]

Well my brother, the marked one woke up in a nicer place than Scar did. It's hard out there for a pimp. But you will survive.

[frozen nimbus]

Because you're the 10th person to ask, I'm gonna change it to spite ALL of you

[torn gate]

I was gonna say that show is good

[vernal yew]

Back to my questions anyways could you specify about my video I sent to you?

[frozen nimbus]

There, PFP has changed 😊

[torn gate]

You belong in the swamp for that

[sharp cosmos]

Why does Zelda look so nervous

[frozen nimbus]

With shrek!? Lesgoooooo

[sharp cosmos]

I shot you an answer back

[torn gate]

Ngl there is a stalker 2 mod that puts Shrek in the swamps

[frozen nimbus]

I got this thing that says it boosts HP by 200, how do I use it?

[cursive kettle]

Yo a quick question, prypriat isn't limited when you're supposed to go to it right? since in early game, seems like 30% of it is locked by radioactive zones

[sharp cosmos]

Should just be able to use the action button/key on it if it's a med.

[frozen nimbus]

It's an artifact?

[cursive kettle]

i mean, does it look like?

[sharp cosmos]

It's open but the path there is full of hot spots. But once you get there it covers most of the the area that was pripyat and outskirts

[frozen nimbus]

Red and crumpled up

[sharp cosmos]

If that's the case, same thing applies. Put it on your belt by using the use key/button and it should work for you.

[cursive kettle]

see if it has negative effects

bcs it would rise your rads if it would

[shadow vale]

For the monolith

[vernal yew]

I found solution let all teammates die loot them and sell gear from enemy or friend and then hunt flash drives and artifacts

Since they insulted me and stripped me to a jacket

[sharp cosmos]

Yes Brother

[sharp cosmos]

Gotta do what you gotta do.

[cursive kettle]

peasant, loot early game prypriat, get best gear and weapons, sell all. the weapons of the monolith you encounter, you're rich

[frozen nimbus]

Also I bought this black armor with all the loot I got, looks like a black hoodie

[cursive kettle]

bro- armor is like everywhere in this game, buying it wasn't so wise-

[vernal yew]

It is clear sky

[cursive kettle]

wym?

[vernal yew]

You said loot prpyat your quote

[frozen nimbus]

Really? I can't seem to loot off armor from anyone

[cursive kettle]

ohh i thought u were talking ab S2

[sharp cosmos]

You can't loot it off people most of the time

But most armors in the game can be found at certain locations on the map.

[vernal yew]

Gotta add you simple talker♥️

Request sent

[cursive kettle]

there are stashes and points of interest, if you explore the map instead of doing only side quests and main quests, you'll find out that 90% of the Op gear can be found only by exploring the map

the cooling towers have the dnipro(best gun in the game imo) and a duty exo skeleton

lowkey i obtained the saiga not by continuing in the story but by exploring the red forest i think

[sharp cosmos]

Get a bucket s-2, a three line rifle, some Spark armor. Then you're truly ready to game.

[frozen nimbus]

First, are we talking about the same game?

[sharp cosmos]

Yes he's talking about s2.

[frozen nimbus]

IM PLAYING SHADOWS OF CHERNOBYL RAAAAAH

[sharp cosmos]

Ohhhhhhhhh I'm tripping

You can still however find a lot of stuff on the map in SoC

There's a merc suit in rookie village iirc

At the top of the house near where wolf is at the back.

And then in garbage there is another suit and gun hidden up in two different high places.

[frozen nimbus]

Garbage is a huge place

[sharp cosmos]

It's not /that/ huge. But to be specific i think the gun is on top of a tall ladder at the place with all the broken down vehicles to your left after you first come in and walk a bit forward. And the suit is at the train station.

There's more in Dark Valley, there's more in Rostok etc etc. Just gotta look around, usually in places high up as I remember.

[cursive kettle]

OHHH WHY DONT U SPECIFY ITT THIS IS STALKER 2 TALK NOT TRILOGY AGH

[cursive kettle]

ok?

[frozen nimbus]

Trilogy > S2. 😔 /j

[sharp cosmos]

L take

[timid bramble]

hi, could someone write and advise me a mod pack for stalker 2 that improves the gameplay and adds a lot of new content? I've already completed stalker twice and I want to do 3 but with a large number of mods

[sharp cosmos]

I don't know how many mods there are yet that add a lot of new content since the game is so new. But I would advise checking on YouTube for some recommended mods list. I know that Kontrakt Wolf and GameWithDave have videos on this topic.

[frozen nimbus]

I pinged u

[summer hedge]

with the current modkit, or rather its imitation, not much can be done, and there aren't many mods

[sharp gulch]

You can try Stalker Unlimited, it's on Nexus

[shadow vale]

[timid bramble]

Oh thanks, I didn't know this mod existed, I've only seen stalker infinity which is typical for vanilla so I'll have to play this one, I also played desolate but somehow I didn't like it so I'll definitely try this one

[rain birch]

Is there still a way to get into prypiat? The old way of jumping over the train car doesn't seem to work anymore

[worn sonnet]

What's up with the glitches in the swamp every time I go through a shake over water halfway through the shake the game glitches so bad I'm afraid it's about to crash. And when I look at my map it's spending me to a diff shack, Everytime.

[umbral chasm]

guys I need places to hunt artifacts in stalker anomaly

DON'T name garbage please

[cursive kettle]

uhh maybe garbage?excluding garbage there's garbage

[cursive kettle]

there is

[cursive kettle]

yo, is it possible to make a mod about making the game look like the trailer? i mean in colors, because now im in the swamp and i seen where the trailer was shot and yea, S2 looks more colorful and for kids than it looked in the trailer

[sharp gulch]

Unlimited is Infinity 2.0 pretty much. Same author

[sharp gulch]

If only. I know an extremely good reshade (although I don't use reshades) you could try

Makes it much more toned down on the colors and stuff

[cursive kettle]

Yea but, im talking ab if it would come on xbox

[rain birch]

Bestow upon me your wisdom

[cursive kettle]

ill send in dms the parkour position

[timid bramble]

I know, I read that it only adds a few new things to the game and the gameplay improvements are the same as in infinity

[sharp gulch]

Ah damn. For Xbox the best you have is dynamic weather overhaul which I try to make the coloring and lighting a bit more grounded

[cursive kettle]

Yea it does smt but, i cannot find some good brightness, contrast and gamma options, the game base ones are bad af

[sharp gulch]

Are you using HDR?

[cursive kettle]

uh lemme see

oh yea, sRGB(LDR)

oh wait it's not that maybe

[sharp gulch]

Is HDR enabled ? Should be under that

[cursive kettle]

but yea i have hdr options

[sharp gulch]

Contrast: 65-70%
Brightness 45-50%
Gamma: 10-20%

Try around those setting and see if you can get some nice colouring

[cursive kettle]

the only thing i don't have already settled is gamma which i have at 30

lemme put it to 20

what ab hdr options?

[sharp gulch]

Well you have a TV I'm guessing so here it really depends on which model, so something like black point -2 to 0 and HDR brightness to 30ish or less for my monitor is fine

You should look for your TVs max nit brightness and set the white point between 80% and the max value

TVs usually have 1000nits

[cursive kettle]

oh dam, lemme try, thanks for putting dedication in helping meh

[sharp gulch]

I lurk and spend too much time on this discord now

[cursive kettle]

uhh for white point i got 2 to 20 option

2 options, no %

[sharp gulch]

Huh? Interesting it's not a range from 0 to 1000?

So only 2 or 20 I'm a bit confused

[cursive kettle]

i have black level 1 to 100

[sharp gulch]

Wtf consoles are quite different then

[cursive kettle]

1 sec lemme put my television language to English

uhhh nope, there aren't language options💀

[sharp gulch]

I tagged you on an image of how it should normally look

[cursive kettle]

okk

[cursive kettle]

OHHH BRO I THOUGH T U MEANT TELEVISION OPTIONS NOT GAME-

[cursive kettle]

btw yea i have it at 1000

it looks sharp ngl

tho unfortunately all this orange in my screen makes me feel like im in some hunting simulator game in the wild than an apocalyptic game sadly

[sharp gulch]

Lmaaaoo sorry bro

[surreal aurora]

how/when does the malachite mutant hunt board reset? The mutants it wants me to hunt either rarely drop cuts or are really rare but require more than a few.

[ebon blade]

I've just seen the Flesh/Pseudodog/Controller menu so far.
I haven't been able to get the needed quantity for each yet.

I've also noticed that they don't show up as a PDA side-mission.

[surreal aurora]

I got poltergeist, pseudogiants, turned both in and got a heafty chunk of coupons for both.

Then it actually reset after a while. But I've been stuck with rodents and horneads. Rodents seem plentiful but lately they don't drop any cuts. Hornheads one pays out a ton, but it wants 6 and aside from a few locations I have no clue where to find another 5.

[north jackal]

Can mutants attempt to enter places like rostok and the loner camp in cordon?

[silent valve]

Until now I saw never any kind of mutants near or into all camps

[north jackal]

Small camps outside of main areas I've seem attacked but zalyssia I've never seen attackedvfor example

[silent valve]

Small camps maybe, but not the bigger ones, which are additionally guarded like Rostok, Slag Heath or other big camps

[ebon blade]

I've had Bloodsuckers enter Rostok and kill the Freedom sentries at the west and east entrances.

[north jackal]

Oh damn nice! Did this only happen after 1.5

[silent valve]

Was that a defending mission like against the monoliths in Zalyssia?

[ebon blade]

No, it happened before. Before and after 1.3 and 1.4.

[surreal aurora]

I've seen fleshes attack the gates at rostok, but easily killed by sentries.

[edgy shell]

Bloodsuckers wiped them all out for me haha

[cursive kettle]

aaaaand yea, i cant continue story, the dalin's bed says i cant sleep since im in ailment state but i have no danger bar so, i cant continue the story anymore, i loaded the save again and it doesnt work

[frozen nimbus]

SoC, I like the hardcore aspect of stalker, I like it's atmosphere, what I don't like is that it has no fast travel, I'm expected to haul 60 pounds every goddamn fight I'm in just to sell it all for 1/10th the price 😔

[cursive kettle]

hell yea today theire adding so many mods!

[cursive kettle]

imma test realistic deaths heheg

[drifting forge]

That doesnt mean youre in danger? Go eat or whatever, it wants you to have no negative effects

[edgy shell]

Radiation is one too so make sure you don’t have artifacts that give you more radiation than it protects from

[cursive kettle]

Yea i solved it, why eating tho removes danger?

[molten pier]

Hello, is it around the railway station area or in a complete different one? I'm looking for several pipe around but nothing so far

[vapid galleon]

Gas Mask is one of the coolest gear in Military

[drifting forge]

Youre starving

[proud minnow]

can someone add a mod which replace fake name of guns with real life names

[smoky hawk]

fake fan uses real names

[proud minnow]

Huh?

[oak junco]

im a real fan and prefer real names

[smoky hawk]

Real fake fan

For shame

[oak junco]

id love if all games used real brand names however i doubt anyone would be cool with having all games going up to cover liscening fees

[oak junco]

i am the biggest fan here.. no one is above me and ALL are beneath me..

[smoky hawk]

You blaspheme, that existence is me

[oak junco]

we shall meet on the mountain for a duel to prove who is #1..

[smoky hawk]

We shall saber duel for this honourous title

[oak junco]

challange accepted..

[frozen nimbus]

Nuh uh

[oak junco]

[frozen nimbus]

I can sniff it, yes yes yes, we are in numerous Servers together, Elder scrolls, Fallout... Cats... And now Stalker.

[oak junco]

based fellow openmw and daggerfall unity mutuals

[molten pier]

Hey guys! Does someone know where the new location of the sofmod is? Not the exact spot so i can search a bit, but a general location. I know it's not in the railway station anymore.

[frozen nimbus]

U are a wanderer, just like me, going from fandom to fandom, looking for the perfect game

[oak junco]

that i am

[frozen nimbus]

When I finish my journey here in stalker, I will migrate to Metro.

[oak junco]

same i gotta try that franchise out i bought the trilogy on gog while back

[cursive kettle]

i bought metro redux for 5€,it gave me the definitive editions of both metro 2033 and metro last light

[fading sundial]

Anyone got my trouble before? Had been playing for 6 hours, saved several times during that time, crashed and boom, lose all progress that day

[sharp gulch]

W game series. Up there with STALKER for me

[cursive kettle]

i just quitted playing the story 1 min ago, i deleted all my progress (i alredy was after SIRCAA) and im just gonna wait a mod that let's m3 survive in the harsh zone instead of this goofy ahh story