☢┃stalker-general

[shrewd needle]

Actually, I was discussing why most games with rain are set in monsoon/pre-autumn, and we had a pretty amicable discussion till this guy drops in, refuses to read the context and goes off on a rant.

[spare canopy]

The whats your argument?

How does rain determine season, if it rains in every season?

[shrewd needle]

Yea, I've yet to see rain happen in any month except for June to September. I presume it's reverse for the southern hemisphere, but that's a different topic.

[torn gate]

Ohh I see well I'm just gonna let you two go at it

[spare canopy]

Thats just not true aat all.

[shrewd needle]

Nah...he's just inane because again, he didn't even read the argument.

He's just going on 'you're talking BS' without understanding the point.

[oak junco]

GSC should bring back NFTs and introduce blockchain gaming for MP

[shrewd needle]

That's been true for the 3+ decades I've been on this planet. I sure as hell don't live on Mars or Europa, for the record.

[spare canopy]

Good for you, coz the depends on where you are in the world, some places are sunny all year round, even winter... So once again, WTH are talking about?

[oak junco]

lets just drop this

[spare canopy]

You have the problem of living in a small bubble and thinking it applies to rest of the world. I am from teh UK, and rains every bloody season, almost once every bloody week.

[shrewd needle]

Uh...I never denied that?

[shrewd needle]

Sure? Again, never denied that?

[spare canopy]

Then why are you coming up with the rubbish that if it rains in games it must be pre-autum... what a fundamentalyy silly thing to say.

[shrewd needle]

"Everything is fundamentally silly because it rains in the UK every week, so every game must have an indeterminate season."

Most places don't have rain during winter. I sure as hell have not seen winter time in open-world games that have rain, like GTA or S2.

[spare canopy]

That is yet another silly thing to say.

[oak junco]

why is this still going on lol

[shrewd needle]

Here's my question...if it's silly, why are you dropping in?

[torn gate]

Idk but it's something to watch at least

[shrewd needle]

Just ignore and move on? Why are we arguing?

[sterile radish]

yall should take this to dms if this is gonna keep at it

[oak junco]

true lol

[spare canopy]

Maybe cause someone it talking nonsense, and I am debating the point

[shrewd needle]

I'll just ignore him if he drops in unannounced.

[oak junco]

id do it in dms tbh its not stalker 2 related anymore

[sterile radish]

yeah

[spare canopy]

It's public place, surely you can accept that?

[shrewd needle]

You know what's S2 related? The fact that we no longer have any Desert Eagles in the Zone.

[shrewd needle]

I was referring to the whole 'take it to PMs' part, which, as usual for you, you didn't read.

[torn gate]

Anyways I always found it weird that there isn't any spark or scientists roaming around the map without mods

[oak junco]

Wait what fr ?

[shrewd needle]

Really? I've seen them in free roam.

Spark, yes, scientists no. Except for the one guy stuck in the Garbage maze.

[austere pagoda]

[sterile radish]

I rarely see them as well

[austere pagoda]

[torn gate]

I never saw a single scientist or spark member roaming around in alife before I downloaded the living zone

[shrewd needle]

That do be weird, NGL.

[oak junco]

shay saving stalker 2 fr

[austere pagoda]

call me shayback of notre dame the way i carry it on my back

jk jk

[spare canopy]

I can I like that... It's refreshing not to have some old cliched weapons that appear in every game.

One of the few things that GCS got right

[shrewd needle]

Shayback Of The Zone.

[spare canopy]

In what way?

[oak junco]

GSC should honestly give you some of the proceeds of stalker 2 for fixing it

[austere pagoda]

im just kidding with above, plz dont screengrab and cancel me

[oak junco]

pioneering the modscene

[shrewd needle]

I like Desert Eagles and considering we have a bloody Python/Raging Bull mash-up that fires 9 X 39 and shows .45 ACP in the chambers...I'd rather have a proper Desert Eagle, even if modified for .45 ACP.

[oak junco]

i want a colt python revolver ngl

[austere pagoda]

while playing war thunder cus sweden top tier go brrr

[oak junco]

Peakden.. good choice haha

[torn gate]

I actually found a gun fight in-between a group of monolithians vs freedomers, scientists, and stalkers a few minutes ago too

[austere pagoda]

my gripen brings all the atgm with litening 2 to the yard

and theyre like, back to the hangaarrrrr

[oak junco]

im suffering in hell as a 10+ US GRB main

[austere pagoda]

[austere pagoda]

AHAHAHA CLICKBAIT AND KVT PREMIUM SPAMMM

[oak junco]

2S38, Christian II and those damn Fuji mfs

[austere pagoda]

me looking at my christian 2 right now

[oak junco]

[spare canopy]

I loved the DEagle CS over the years, but I just got bored of seeing it in everything... I am sick of seeing it in Tarkov.... Just sick of the weapon

[austere pagoda]

[oak junco]

i hate the clickbait so much i wish they stopped at the KVT

i get uptiered alot and my team is full of them

[shrewd needle]

May be, but I'd still have more guns than less. And I'd also prefer a 'Glock with balls', to be honest. A Glock 18C with a Beta C-Mag sounds JUST right for the Zone, shooting 9 X 19 P+ ammunition.

1200 RPM of hot-loaded ammunition is going to put down anything short of a Burer.

[torn gate]

I heard Glock with balls what's happening

[shrewd needle]

It's just a Glock with a Beta C-Mag...it looks like a penis with balls.

[gusty condor]

Pretty sure he means that one 100 round mag for guns

[shrewd needle]

You can look it up; I'm not posting here.

[torn gate]

This is why I like guns

[shrewd needle]

There's already a Beta C-Mag for the G36 in-game, just unused.

[shrewd needle]

And that's why, we need moar guns and moar tacticool.

[spare canopy]

I liked the M320 in SCP 5K, 5 7... They are couple of good pistols... I would like to see more, but I would like to see something original.

[gusty condor]

Oh that’s what that type of mag is called

[torn gate]

I don't know squat about them but I still like them

[shrewd needle]

I've not played SCP, but I guess the M320 is the grenade launcher? And yes, I'd prefer the Five-SeveN along with the P90.

[torn gate]

Let's hope either the modders or gsc themselves add more

[shrewd needle]

Beta is the name of the company (I think), and C-Mag stands for Century Magazine, since they hold 100 rounds.

[shrewd needle]

Don't worry; always a good time to learn more.

[gusty condor]

That makes sense

[cursive kettle]

true, i want a desert eagle that kicks like crazy, i want NVG, i want 300 more guns that fill the game with variety, more gear and Equipment Animation for when you equip something, and also a backpack slot

[shrewd needle]

NVG and infra-vision (thermal vision) are sorely needed; it's funny that a game that's so much of a tactical shooter lacks such basic shit even in exo-skeletons.

[gusty condor]

They should add some fn guns to stalker

[shrewd needle]

The new FN EVOLYS is honestly just too beautiful to not have in-game.

[cursive kettle]

Large capacity mags are obsolete in real life since they weigh more and you can carry way less of them than normal mags, and also they jam way more

[gusty condor]

I haven’t seen that gun, I’ll go look rn

[shrewd needle]

Yes, but when you're dealing with a Bloodsucker, you're going to go through rounds quickly. And even militaries use LMGs...no reason for lack of extended magazines.

[shrewd needle]

Trust me, it's a truly beautiful LMG.

[gusty condor]

Omg I’m in love with that lmg

[shrewd needle]

Told you.

[gusty condor]

It looks very similar to the new sig lmg

[spare canopy]

It's a short pistol, but very nice feeling

[shrewd needle]

Don't get me wrong, I don't mind other LMGs, but the EVOLYS is just...perfect.

[cursive kettle]

thas why we need a M249 SAW

[spare canopy]

I will look it up, I might have got the wrong namne for it

[shrewd needle]

Oh, the SIG...I confused it with the launcher, since I think there's a launcher by the name of M320 too, think stand-alone and successor to the current M203.

[shrewd needle]

Nah, we need something heavier. Like the M240. Nothing like firing full-power rounds.

[cursive kettle]

huh? lemme search it 1 sec

[shrewd needle]

M240 is the 7.62 X 51 variant of the M249.

[cursive kettle]

ohhhhh yea that too but it would be SOOOOO heavy

[gusty condor]

They should also add the sig Mcx spear, that gun would shred

[shrewd needle]

But you don't need anything else once you have that. Just mow everything down with full-power rounds. Bonus points if you use an ACOG with it.

[shrewd needle]

Yea, that's nice too; it could actually be an upgrade for the HK416; sitting the middle ground between that and the G36.

[spare canopy]

Yeah, Sorry itt's the P320. Lovely weapon to use. It's my go to pistol in the game

[cursive kettle]

recoil and liability

[shrewd needle]

Yea, the '320' confused me, since they tend to be a pain with labelling, NGL.

[shrewd needle]

I mean...everything has trade-offs, even the existing guns, so...plus, with an exo-skeleton, you'd be able to nullify the recoil.

[gusty condor]

I’m not sure about an upgrade for it because it changes the caliber with .227 fury, essentially turning it into a battle rifle

[shrewd needle]

Not a literal upgrade, I mean an upgrade in the weapon hierarchy. The HK416 being the lowest-tier, then the SIG, then the G36.

[cursive kettle]

lowk with an exo skeleton you should be able to carry 40+ without any upgrade

[spare canopy]

https://collectorsfirearms.com/product/sig-sauer-p320-pistol-9mm-pr68880/ That is what they look like, and they are s*xy little beasts

[shrewd needle]

That's my point; with an exo-skeleton, you could basically carry a mini-gun without losing a breath.

[shrewd needle]

I think I've seen them? US Military trials? M17 and M18, I think?

Might be mixing up names, so forgive me for that.

[spare canopy]

No idea... Never heard of the before, until I played SCP

[gusty condor]

Well I’m not sure it would be in the ar category because it is a much stronger weapon with a low mag capacity , maybe like a low tier sniper/dmr

[shrewd needle]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SIG_Sauer_M17

[spare canopy]

All I know is, they are now my pistol of choice

[shrewd needle]

Replacement for the Berettas they use.

[shrewd needle]

No, you'd have the SIG in 5.56, with an option to upgrade it if you want.

[cursive kettle]

fr, tho to balance it I'd add that it pushes your body back

[shrewd needle]

Don't need balance, honestly. Also, being pushed back is both bad gameplay and non-immersive in an exo-skeleton.

[gusty condor]

Ohh I see what you mean now, the base would be 5.56 and you could upgrade it to be in .227 fury

[cursive kettle]

in real life, even a light minigun can't be handled even by strong or professional shooters

[shrewd needle]

Yes, but in-game, we have exo-skeletons. They should handle a minigun easily; an M240 would be cake-walk.

[spare canopy]

okay so the M17 and M18 are varients of the P320... niiiice

[cursive kettle]

the exos are attached to your body, the kinetic force needs to go somewhere

[shrewd needle]

Yes, replacing the Berettas, hence I've seen them. Well, on the internet, at least.

[cursive kettle]

M9's are my fav lowkey

[shrewd needle]

Yes, it's called damping systems...which exo-skeletons would have to be able to haul weight.

[spare canopy]

I want one, but I live in the UK... It sucks sometimes

[shrewd needle]

They forgot the M9 after CoP.

[shrewd needle]

I live in India, weapons are basically inaccessible in any way or shape or form.

[cursive kettle]

1 thing is shooting smt on your shoulder and another is having it pending on your arms

[shell flax]

I’d like to see the HK P30 hand gun for some 9mm love

[unreal basin]

Doesn’t Korshunov kick apart a metal railing while wearing a exo in a cutscene ?

[spare canopy]

Does the Ruby Exo have better recoil control, 50% or somethign like that

[shrewd needle]

For a normal human, yes. For an exo-skeleton user, no.

[gusty condor]

Yes

[shrewd needle]

One of them does; I don't remember which one. But it might be the Ruby.

[cursive kettle]

bamboo-

[shrewd needle]

Yes, that's the point of exo-skeletons, to increase strength massively.

[unreal basin]

Operator Exo has a 20% accuracy buff upgrade

[shell flax]

The Ruby and Operator exos have arm supports for accuracy

[shrewd needle]

You'd be easily able to haul weight and be unaffected by even a minigun, so an M240 would be a cake-walk.

[cursive kettle]

theire still attached to your body so it's just an assist

[spare canopy]

It's the Ruby... But then I dont use exo suits... I stick with SEVA - V

[unreal basin]

Controlled bursts with a minigun while wearing a stalker exo I’d believe, but not full auto

[shrewd needle]

They have their own weight and again, even normal people don't get pushed back by an M60 (same calibre), so an M240 would not push back either.

And with an exo-skeleton, you're immobile if you want.

You're forgetting how powerful exo-skeletons actually are.

[shell flax]

Also a lightweight minigun is still forty pounds

[cursive kettle]

i did not said that an m240 would push you back, i said a minigun would

[shrewd needle]

Right, but the point is that with an exo-skeleton, the recoil would be a non-issue.

[shrewd needle]

Minigun fires 7.62 X 51, same as an M60 and an M240. No more recoil than either of those.

[unreal basin]

No, recoil is still a issue with regular rifles from what I remember of lore

It’s just halved I think?

[shrewd needle]

Yes, it is. My point being that people in reality, without exo-skeletons, can shoulder and fire the M60, meaning that with an exo-skeleton, they could fire it with zero effort and zero recoil.

Same for the M240, same for the miniguns.

[spare canopy]

you want one of these for miniguns - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jkcyHUHfrLA

[unreal basin]

Theyd still have recoil, it just be halved, so still a problem

[shrewd needle]

That'd depend on the damping systems of the exo-skeleton, TBH.

[unreal basin]

It also depends what type of rounds the gun’s firing

[shrewd needle]

But it still wouldn't push you back.

[unreal basin]

High enough fire rate and it would

[shrewd needle]

If it doesn't push back non-exo-skeleton users, it's not going to push back users of those.

[shell flax]

Also again, weight. Even with weird water on top of the Exo that is still a lot of weight from just the gun. You add in the sheer amount of ammo you’d need for the minigun to fire for more then five seconds and it wouldn’t be worth it at all

[shrewd needle]

7.62 X 51?

[unreal basin]

This

[shrewd needle]

Yes, but I'm not saying I want a minigun; Engineer said that an M240 would be a pain to wield, so I just compared, that an exo-skeleton user would easily haul a minigun, so an M240 would be zero issue.

[unreal basin]

Nothing justifies giving a exo user a minigun if they’re overcumbered by ammo

[shrewd needle]

This.

[unreal basin]

Recoil is still a problem

[small quest]

is lex the legend bugged for anyone else?

[shrewd needle]

I'm aware, but it's not a problem that would push the user back, even when using an M240.

[cursive kettle]

bro, as i said again and again, if a minigun isn't mounted on something firm, it will push back or more, remember that you're shooting it by making it pend my your amrs, it isn't mounted on your shoudler, and exo-skeleton just assists your strength, it doesn't maximize it, it's like benching 300kg thinking that your exo will help but the only thing that the exo does is pushing your arms, not the weight, so your arms would pretty much snap and just break at some point., it ain't Call of duty advanced warfare, those exo skeletons were completely sci-fi, the Stalker exos are too, but they don't make you a super human with super strength, they can reduce something but at some limit, and you're the limit

[spare canopy]

Well, their are lots of things in this game that dont make sense, like having a 140 kg hard limit on what you can carry.

Raather silly if you ask me.

[shrewd needle]

Of course, but again, I'm comparing...a minigun could be HAULED by the exo-skeleton, the M240 would be much easier to haul due to lower weight, lower RoF and a generally more ergonomic handling.

Meaning an M240 would NOT push the user back upon firing in full-auto.

[shell flax]

140kg is a hellish amount of weight for a single dude to carry around still in active combat

[cursive kettle]

bro im talking about THAT minigun, not the M240, that's a machine gun dummy

[shell flax]

I agree the weight is a strange choice but that isn’t light lmao

[shrewd needle]

Yes, but I was talking in context; my original point was that instead of M249, we need the M240. Then you said that recoil would be an issue, hence I brought up the minigun as a comparison, that weight would not be an issue. And the lower RoF would also reduce the issue.

[spare canopy]

but with exo and artifacts... If you are built carry, the trade off is, you losing out on something else.

there shouldnt be a hard limit, just consquences of choices

[shrewd needle]

To set the consequences, you need limits, though?

[cursive kettle]

Your exo can manage a M240 machine gun, just not a M134 minigun

[unreal basin]

You still get heavy to the point you cant move either way

[shell flax]

Oh definitely, it’s why I don’t use weight artifacts anymore, I find survivability to be more important then MORE LOOT

[shrewd needle]

Yes, hence I said that we need an M240 for full-power firepower rather than the half-assed M249 that's just a 5.56 with a box magazine.

[neon socket]

Indeed. I can't start his quest even though i have the blue marker

[spare canopy]

No, it just means, if you pick one thing, you cant pick the other things... and other things might be armour to save ya ass

[unreal basin]

I just kill Lex, or should I say Snag?

[small quest]

just facing the wall for me and floating in the air?

[shrewd needle]

But you should be able to pick anything, honestly.

[neon socket]

exactly

[shell flax]

Walk up
Mag dump
Loot
Kill his cronies

[small quest]

brillo he was working in earlier patches...

[shrewd needle]

No. Stay at a distance. Shoot them in the head. Loot.

[unreal basin]

I don’t remember what he did to me in the earlier games, I just remember hating him after something

[shrewd needle]

He was in CoP, tried to rip off Degtyarev and stole his stuff.

[neon socket]

If i shoot him I won't get the stash

[cursive kettle]

if this is the duty's tactics i see why theire marked as silly military wanna be Faction

[shrewd needle]

His stash has nothing.

[unreal basin]

Odds are the stash just has food or ammo

[shell flax]

Not duty, just me

[shrewd needle]

No. Just bread and a broken pistol.

[small quest]

stash is bread, always bread

[neon socket]

and a note/pda?

[shell flax]

A broken Makarov and a load a bread

[shrewd needle]

Note that tells you to not trust strangers. That's it.

[unreal basin]

Think I’m gonna do Sparks ending last out if all of em

[cursive kettle]

lowkey i want a stash mod that makes stashes WAAAAAAAY more hard to find, but more rewarding, Not Armours tho, just guns or a lot of ammunition, so it's balanced

[small quest]

is the train depo bandit place also bugged? Everyone standing around in basically tpose

[shrewd needle]

Yes, end the game on an eternal nightmare.

[unreal basin]

Gonna finish my Ward playthrough , then do one of the other 2

[spare canopy]

Nah, nothing should be the best at everything, pros and cons to everything.

[shell flax]

^

[torn gate]

The best ending you mean?

[shrewd needle]

That's not what I said; I'm saying that you should be able to pick up anything but then end up crippled once you can't haul.

[young juniper]

Hey is dynamic weather not downloading on Xbox for anyone else? Cause it looks really good and I cant get it to download

[unreal basin]

Tbh, I have so much gear in my current playthrough I’m skipping stashes now

[shrewd needle]

Spark's ending is the best? That's news.

[cursive kettle]

close open game

[unreal basin]

If they don’t have blueprints

[young juniper]

Affirm thanks

[torn gate]

Yeah definitely

[shrewd needle]

I guess you'll find out just how good it is.

[torn gate]

Just don't listen to the other guys

[unreal basin]

Might try and get Commandant in my next playthrough

[shrewd needle]

I've already seen all the endings.

[unreal basin]

Its just a AK that you repair less often correct ?

[torn gate]

Your eyes lie

[shrewd needle]

All of them have the same durability, AFAIK.

[shrewd needle]

Nah, Korshunov opened my eyes.

[unreal basin]

What’s special about Commandant then?

[shrewd needle]

Paint job.

[unreal basin]

I meant stat wise

[shrewd needle]

That's the neat part. All 'special' guns are just paint jobs.

[spare canopy]

That's just confused me, as I have not mentioned anything not being able to pick anything... Just pointing out there should be no hard weight limit of 140, and if you did make your exo-suit carry more than that, even with artifacts, the consequences must be less armour or resistence etc in other areas.

[cursive kettle]

Idk why, i feel like MP will be the coolest feature to come or the worse ever

[shrewd needle]

You said that you shouldn't be able to pick anything once you hit your weight limit, unless your phrasing confused me.

[unreal basin]

No, Whip has better stats fully upgraded than my old fully upgraded regular SVU

[torn gate]

Nah listen my best man scar

[cursive kettle]

but, if it isn't only about looting then seeing and chillin with some stalkers would be so good

[torn gate]

I always sold the whip every time I got it

[shrewd needle]

OK, that's one exception. The AKs, though, are all the same.

[unreal basin]

The scoped ak unique does less damage than a regular one

[spare canopy]

CO-OP MP, would be the greatest thing ever, but a PVP MP, would be the worst thing ever according to all my friends that II have spoken to. Due to hackers.

I only play Tarkov in PVE, as cheaters have just ruined the game.

[shrewd needle]

Also, maybe I might have differences since I use Better Ballistics, so almost all weapons have fully realistic ballistics which means same calibre does same damage, so, uh...

[cursive kettle]

co op Mp will not happen, molt announced it

[shrewd needle]

Maybe I'm wrong there.

[spare canopy]

I know, that is why this game will never be as great as could be... They just make poor decision after poor decision.

[shrewd needle]

NVGs and infra-vision will be the best decision, I know.

[cursive kettle]

think about it, it could be great lowk, stalkers wander alone and find friends, there can be 2 options :it becomes like dayz(kill on sight every person you see) or way better

[strong onyx]

large loot inventory got deleted and no alternatives 😦

[cursive kettle]

(dayz option is the bad one)

[shrewd needle]

I mean...S2 makes a good point about there being no friends in the Zone, only mutual interests.

Even Skif keeps getting back-stabbed for helping people.

[cursive kettle]

wym

[strong onyx]

its a mod

...it was a mod I mean...

[cursive kettle]

true,OMG IMAGINE PUTTING AN UNIVERSAL BOUNTY TO YOUR FRIENDD

[shrewd needle]

You mean the box size or weight limit change?

[strong onyx]

the former, might be able to change it myself through a tweak

[shrewd needle]

Imagine having friends.

"I don't have friends, I got family." ||Yes, I just had to.||

[spare canopy]

Yeah, now take off the rose coloured glasses, and think about all the hackers, cheaters, gankers etc etc...

It will just be a death match, and being STALKER will be impossible as all people down will spawn camp the anomolies our whatever and snipe everyone...

And if it is team deathmatch, than hacks, hacks, and more hacks.

[cursive kettle]

huh? infinite carry weight it's still there

[compact breach]

Hello how is the game right now i found thats its free on gamepass, i remember it was really buggy when it came out according to reviews

[shrewd needle]

Didn't they change the box size in 1.5?

[cursive kettle]

True

[strong onyx]

Ehhh, that’s not a huge deal tbh. It’s mostly RNG anyway.

[cursive kettle]

it's meh, it's not worth 60 dollars absolutely, but it's not bad either, it needs to cook more

[strong onyx]

Uhhh, maybe they did…

[shrewd needle]

Don't say that; someone will suggest adding cooking mechanics to the game by mis-understanding your point. 😏

[gusty condor]

Eh, technically the kora and night stalker have the same stats, but the night stalker is chambered in 9mil and does the same damage, making it better

[spare canopy]

cook for another 5 years, and the AI, might figure out how to open a door and not die in emmisions

[cursive kettle]

there already are

[shrewd needle]

The 1.5 trailer showed that specifically.

[strong onyx]

Maybe that’s why it got deleted 😭😭

[shrewd needle]

Yea, probably since redundant.

[strong onyx]

Ok that makes more sense then. Oops.

[shrewd needle]

Same for the USP...the .45 and the 9 X 19 do the same damage, which is nonsensical.

And the funny part is they do far less damage than the 9 X 18 Makarov. Like, .45 should be shredding compared to 9 MM.

[cursive kettle]

9mil should not deal the same damage of a 45. acp, non sense

[shrewd needle]

Yea, but it does in S2; even with the USP and SMGs. Hell, Makarov does more damage than some rifles.

Major skill issue.

[gusty condor]

I know but that is how it is in game 🤷‍♀️

[spare canopy]

I don't see the point to be honest... I want to why there is so much fresh food around the zone and nothing is rotten. I would have thought the whole point of bases like Yaniv, Rostok, and Cement Factory, was they would have been the only place with access to fresh food... But nah... You can go from 10st to half ton in a day.

[shrewd needle]

Use Better Ballistics. Fix that. Die in 2 shots. Consider life fulfilled.

[gusty condor]

Is that on console?

[shrewd needle]

Probably not; I found on Nexus.

[gusty condor]

Damn

[cursive kettle]

there will be/there are mods that remove completely the easy way to find food and expand the hunger Stat in to a more detailed one

[cursive kettle]

yes

[shrewd needle]

Considering how frequently Skif gets hungry...I prefer the extra food, NGL.

[cursive kettle]

don't affirm things you don't know

[shrewd needle]

I clearly said 'probably', so where am I wrong?

[cursive kettle]

anyone would take that as a no

[shrewd needle]

And that's my fault if someone takes words the wrong way?

[cursive kettle]

ye

[shrewd needle]

Since IDK about consoles, I kept the possibility open that it probably might not be on console.

[cursive kettle]

[spare canopy]

Yeah mods... But IMO, you shouldn't really need mods for that, the devs, should have been able to figure it without screwing it up. It just feels like a tick box, coz other games have it, or it was part of a mod for SoC or something... It just actually feel like it was part of the design process.

[shrewd needle]

Skill issue on their part, then.

[cursive kettle]

but you don't know, so you can't say no nor yes

[shrewd needle]

That's why I said 'probably', which resolves any conflict.

[gusty condor]

Oh alright

[cursive kettle]

but doesn't mean that you can slightly confirm something you're unaware of

[spare canopy]

If they are on console, just say peasant and get an upgrade. Then you can have it for sure.

lol!

[shrewd needle]

Yes, well...consoles have never had modifications for ages, so you can't blame someone for thinking they don't have a specific modification.

So cope.

[cursive kettle]

"did the other unit place the mines, sergeant?"

"probably"

"what does that even mean?"

if you don't have yes or no as a response, you gotta say idk, or you mislead people

[shrewd needle]

Imagine equating life-or-death situations to game modifications that should've been part of the base game to start with.

[cursive kettle]

it was an example

[shrewd needle]

Not a very good one. Definitively.

[spare canopy]

Yeah, the game should have had better baallistic models from teh start, but nah, poor development choices and it's about progression locks... Which should never have been the case.

[cursive kettle]

"did your brother add salt to pasta while it was boiling?"

"probably"

"did you seen it or not? because i might add more if he didn't"

it's still your mistake to not clarify what you know and don't

[shrewd needle]

For once, we agree on this completely.

[shrewd needle]

Which I did, and I can't help if you or someone else prefer to make a mountain out of a sand castle.

[spare canopy]

I think you'll find we might agree on a lot more things.

[shrewd needle]

Hopefully.

[fading hemlock]

just had about 6 or so monolithians assault the cordon, what a mistake that was for them, the entire village started blasting into defense mode, it was glorious.

[cursive kettle]

well you could've just abandon replying to me instead of giving me tail lowk

[shrewd needle]

Blame the OCD. I do and unfortunately, it still remains.

[cursive kettle]

what's OCD

[spare canopy]

Obsessive Compulsive Disorder

[shrewd needle]

A virus.

Eating my brain alive. And yet, it never goes away.

[cursive kettle]

[shrewd needle]

This. People with OCD have trouble giving up.

I try to, but...well...

[cursive kettle]

isn't it a good thing tho in some ways

[gusty condor]

Tools of c-con in a nut shell(im joking disorders and such like that are no joke)

[shrewd needle]

Not if you can't control it.

[shrewd needle]

It's fine; I've stopped taking offence to a lot of shit and I've heard a lot of shit flung at me for various reasons.

[cursive kettle]

ohhhhhh i remember a vid of that, a dude was trying to center something in his house and he couldn't stop even if he tried

[shrewd needle]

Yes. Mine would be on a mild level, since I'm fully functional, but when it comes to arguments...I, uh...lose it.

It's why I've been here for 2 hours instead of playing Starfield.

[spare canopy]

Got a mate with it... he cant stop completing a game until he has done everything and got all the achievements

[cursive kettle]

what if someone just says you right, but they don't change their own ideas about it?

[shrewd needle]

I used to do that till my brain finally realized that achievements don't matter, so now I just 100% games and in most cases, leave them unfinished because my ADD means I forget.

[cursive kettle]

Starfield is fallout on space with spaceships

[shrewd needle]

That's fine; my brain just needs a way to exit, and honestly, it's on me to fix it, not someone else.

[shrewd needle]

I haven't played Fallout, so I can't say. But the ship-building sucks.

And the weapons suck more than S2.

[spare canopy]

Starfield is a brown substance that needs to be flushed from reality

[shrewd needle]

The actual brown substance can be used as fertilizer. Starfield can't.

[cloud carbon]

Any new console mods
Or are there still 27

[cursive kettle]

it's an arcade game and the guns aren't even logical, i can understand that it's sci fi but the guns have completely no sense in design and functionality

[spare canopy]

Yet another thing, we completely agree on.

[cursive kettle]

Sadly 27

[shrewd needle]

Exactly. And changing the firing mode (because fire selectors don't exist) changes the damage, just like in Cyberpunk 2077.

[cursive kettle]

they don't add more on weekends

[cursive kettle]

cb2077 at least is cool, i didn't play it but id wanna

[shrewd needle]

Yea, but the gun mechanics are atrocious in both games, though guns in CP2077 are at least useful, for the most part. Starfield just has bullet sponges.

[cursive kettle]

and lmao Rainbow six just became free, imagine all the people that spent money on a game that seemed like a swat simulator and ended up being a sweat arcade shooter

[sterile radish]

took some cooling tower images

[spare canopy]

It was, before they releaed PL... and ruined the game...

I am playing Cyberpunk Red with ma mates, absolutely loving it... CDPR completely dropped the ball, and should never had made it more like GTA

[shrewd needle]

They ruined the game the moment they separated armour from the clothes. Now I might as well walk around naked.

Just give me clothes I want and put armour plates in them like John Wick!

Also removed some attachment points from some guns, like scopes from the precision rifles and LMGs, which is stupidity at its peak.

[spare canopy]

And silly loot drops, and moved pistols to cool, and completely messed teh skill tree, despite the skill tree needing changing... And they made all the old cool weapons like death & taxes completely useless... and made the weak points in feet etc...

[cursive kettle]

ohhhh, yea not buying anymore ig

[shrewd needle]

And the worst part is people actually love it more after PL than before...like, granted, some systems were broken, but like...what?

[cursive kettle]

why every game after 2020 sucks man, covid ruined gaming

[shrewd needle]

Every game since 2014 sucks. Rare gems exist, but otherwise most games are mediocre.

[spare canopy]

The sheep watched the anime, and the their brains rotted away.

[spare canopy]

System Shock Remake?

[cursive kettle]

nah there are still gems lowk, Rdr2

[shrewd needle]

The anime made me want to kill myself...not because there was anything wrong (it was great), but the SANDEVISTAN...got ruined! Like...the trails exist in anime to show slow-motion, but they actually put those ugly trails in the game instead of the teleportation that it'd look like in normal time...

[spare canopy]

Of course, just few and far between

[shrewd needle]

I'll be honest, I've never played any System Shock games.

[cursive kettle]

anime was pretty uhh, kool but i pretty much forgot about it easily

[shrewd needle]

The funny part is they actually show the Sandevistan teleportation in the anime...when David shoots that enemy upside down on a mission with the new guy who gets killed.

The game ruined it so badly, it's not even funny.

[spare canopy]

Play the remake... It doesn;t hold your hand... you can die trying to figure a puzzle out, becuase time doesn;t stop becaue you are working on it. So enemies can still kill you... and the puzzles actually require brains to figure out

[shrewd needle]

I mean, there's an emotional arc in there (though I guess I could relate to that) and the one song that's the prequel to Edgerunners is truly a beautifully-told story about a now-dead member of the group.

[spare canopy]

The RPG we are playing is playing the official adventure after the anime with some of the characters, it's be very cool 😄

[shrewd needle]

I wanted to; I've just had IRL problems and a lack of space.

[cursive kettle]

imagine if there was a call button in the top right and you could call all the server members at same time

[shrewd needle]

That's just Discord. Or Zoom. Or Skype.

[cursive kettle]

127k members is normal to call?

[spare canopy]

lack of space? remove S2 😄 you wont miss much 😄

[shrewd needle]

Trust me...humans will find a way to implement the worst ideas.

And then someone will make creative use of them that'll make everyone else look like the biggest idiots in the galaxy.

[shrewd needle]

Hell no; I actually like S2. Well, not the atrocious gun-play, but I do; besides, I've yet to finish streaming that fully.

[spare canopy]

what else can you get rid of, and replace it with System Shock?

[cursive kettle]

i wonder if we are gonna get engine upgrades, i hate this lumen and nanite

[shrewd needle]

Nothing currently, because I lost a whole HDD. Had to back shit up to a couple of shady sites just to avoid losing data.

[spare canopy]

ahhh sh*t

[shrewd needle]

No.

[cursive kettle]

rip, can modders do smt ab it?

[shrewd needle]

With the complete ModKit, maybe? Doubtful, though, without the game's source code.

[spare canopy]

The game needs it, as it using the worst version UE5

[shrewd needle]

Honestly, engine upgrades are not like a car where you just drop in another engine...it's like re-building a car from scratch, so...I don't think it'll happen.

Besides, with the whole fiasco of the 'Enhanced Edition' instead of S2 fixes...

[spare canopy]

Of course not, but the game deserves it and needs it.

What we have at the moment is appalling... Should never have moved away from UE4

[shrewd needle]

I agree, but my point is that it's just so much work, it won't happen for a LONG time, if at all.

Like...it's replacing the ENTIRE engine...I'm pretty sure that's a shit-ton of work.

Even something like Black Mesa took years to build, and that was a ground-up re-make.

[fickle hill]

Don't worry we'll get that in stalker 3 when UE6 comes out

[shrewd needle]

I'd rather they don't use UE at all. Too many games are using UE these days.

I miss the days when game companies built their engines in-house.

[fickle hill]

I wouldn't know it could be just easy or budget reasons

[spare canopy]

I know... But it is very expensive now.

[shrewd needle]

I know...it is budget reasons.

[shrewd needle]

Yea, but on the flip side, you don't have to pay someone else and know exactly how your own shit works, meaning less issues, less time wasted and a better game, meaning more buyers, meaning more money.

And, you can use that same engine for future games, reducing effort massively. Look at Valve and the Source engine...now Source 2, but still...modular, functional and works.

[vernal yew]

I love that idea but also some of them aren't that good anyway! For example when getting veles detector you can also find gravi artifact at swamps which also adds max weight tolerance but gives more radiation and I don't need that because I barely have any loot running and stamina isn't that big of the problem

[ebon blade]

This is what I left the Marshes with, going to the Cordon for the first time (Always go at night)

[vernal yew]

Upgrade list for suit?

Hover mouse over it pls

And why did you get 2 same suits?

[ebon blade]

Look at the numbers. 60 Bullet Proof Protection. Anomaly protection 18.

[vernal yew]

I insist of keeping artifacts even if all npcs pay same prices for them but I want to know for sure

[vernal yew]

I like that but how am I going to know which upgrade names you used on upgrade tree

[ebon blade]

If you are with Clear Sky when they take the Machine Yard, you are rewarded with an armor. They are not the same suit.

[vernal yew]

I seem not to be confused with Chernobyl

But this one's interesting and annoying at same time

[vernal yew]

I forgot what was machine yard?

[shrewd needle]

The large building in the north-east part of the Swamps.

[vernal yew]

Is it that small village when exiting to cordon?

[vernal yew]

The farm with tractors?

[shrewd needle]

In the north, not south.

[vernal yew]

With viper 5 ammo loot?

[shrewd needle]

Uh...I think so? I don't remember, but you can find 5.45 ammunition there.

It's basically a farm with a covered roof. Massive.

[ebon blade]

You are still asking questions about Clear Sky in the wrong channel.
You are in the Stalker 2 channel. For Clear Sky questions, go here: https://discord.com/channels/504587323577729024/1308038416562126879

[shrewd needle]

I got an S2 question. Why doesn't the Machine Yard exist in S2?

[vernal yew]

Okay let's move! When you are ready! I tried going there but you came here

[shrewd needle]

They got the Church, the Burnt Farmstead, the CS Base, everything...but not the Machine Yard.

[vernal yew]

Ready to go?

[shrewd needle]

The village at the south is also missing. The tunnel in CS with the Veles is missing too. So are the tracks where you find Scar's VSS Vintorez.

And so is the entrance to SIRCAA (which'd be the entrance to Ahroprom in CS).

[spare canopy]

The Source 2 engine is also outdated.

[shrewd needle]

But it's functional...which is what matters. And it's much lower weight compared to UE games. Whether storage or performance.

[drifting forge]

Here's a better question: where the hell is like half of Jupiter lmao

[feral horizon]

Its crazy how you can get one of the best suits super early in clear sky. I got it just from selling the standard clear sky suit they give you and 2 artifacts.

[spare canopy]

Well, TenCents owns UE now, so they can all F off. If I ever develop agame, I am not using UE

[spare canopy]

You can get a lot of good stuff early in SoC too.

[shrewd needle]

Uh, I think most of Jupiter has been scattered across the map, with the Jupiter Factory now being moved to its correct location...though yea, both Jupiter and Pripyat are missing half their maps.

[shrewd needle]

Eh, I'm not worried about Tencent.

[shrewd needle]

Should've kept it; good protection for a while.

Unless you mean the 3A (I keep forgetting which is the better and which is the worse).

[feral horizon]

I'm referring to the CS-3a body armor which is the one they give you for free after they gain control of the swamps. I sold that and 2 artifacts to get the CS-1 body armor in my current clear sky enhanced game.

Its crazy cause that armor can be used all the way to the late game so you don't even need to do the faction war.

[ebon blade]

Originally GSC did not make the CS-1 armor appear,
until you got it as a reward for helping Clear Sky take the
bridge to Limansk. That was too little too late, so they changed it.

[shrewd needle]

Yea, like I said, I keep forgetting which is better and which is worse.

[ebon blade]

CS-1 is the best, with 60 BP protection.
However, Call of Pripyat changes it for the worse.

[shrewd needle]

Fair, now I got it. And yea, CoP changes quite a few things, TBH...pain.

But at least it HAS CS...S2 doesn't even have anyone from CS, except NImble.

Novikov disappeared, everyone else lost too...no Cold, no other people... 😔

[ebon blade]

Cold is now the leader of Clear Sky in "Call of the Zone".

[shrewd needle]

Yea, but that's third-party...I wanted them to be in S2. 😔

[feral horizon]

He's also the leader in anomaly/GAMMA.

[cursive kettle]

who's cold

[feral horizon]

Cold is the bartender of the clear sky base.

In mods he re-builds clear sky and becomes the leader.

[cursive kettle]

dayum

[ebon blade]

That's because all major Mods like Anomaly and Gamma,
are based upon Team Epic's base mod "Call of Chernobyl".
Anomaly and Gamma are famous for stealing all the hard work
of many other Mods, big and small, and mashing it all together.
"Call of the Zone" is the enhanced version of "Call of Chernobyl",
created by the deceased Doctor X. Anomaly and Gamma are
full of the work of Doctor X with added quests and other jobs.

[feral horizon]

Is call of the zone's gameplay closer to the original games or does it also have a crafting system where you have to grind early before going to the upper parts of the zone.

[ebon blade]

Anomaly and Gamma are famous for crafting and grinding.
If you enjoy finding gun and armor parts all over the Zone
and grinding to put them together, CotZ is not for you.

[feral horizon]

Ok so call of the zone is basically anomaly before anomaly.

[ebon blade]

Anomaly is stepping on the grass right outside the Rookie Village
and then dying of radiation poisoning because you can't afford a medkit.

[feral horizon]

How is call of the zone different?

[crystal quartz]

yo guys, anybody know when 1.5.1 is planned to be released?

[oak junco]

god no

call of misery and last day are anomaly before anomaly

[magic vault]

I think it'd be cool if there was a unique game over screen image for being killed by each faction.

[oak junco]

https://www.moddb.com/mods/doctorx-call-of-the-zone you can read all of cotz features here

[ebon blade]

Call of the Zone allows you to choose 1 of 9 Factions,
then choose your loadout from several and then choose
your starting point from several. You can have the X-Labs
as part of your game or not. You can choose to go it alone
or you can choose to have Companions go with you everywhere.
There is no crafting. There are no gun or armor parts to grind.

[oak junco]

also Features:

• Dynamic, repeatable storyline and hundreds of custom tasks.
• Dynamic population and a-life, the Zone is far more alive and unpredictable.
• Dynamic faction relations; the politics of the Zone are constantly in flux.
• Dynamic anomalies that spawn in random locations and change position with every blowout.
• Dozens of new task types including: big-ass brawls, area searches, hidden target manhunt tasks, sniper tasks, guide tasks, big mutant hunt tasks, interceptor tasks, designated target tasks, dynamic brawls, prisoner snatch tasks, as well as “reverse” tasks where the player helps NPC’s complete their tasks or where the player is the assassination target being hunted by bounty collectors!
• Added modified storyline tasks from the original Stalker series and Call of Chernobyl story mode.
  theres alot more but you can read the page

prob the second best freeplay mod the first being stason 6.05

[feral horizon]

So basically it's gameplay is closer to the og games.

[oak junco]

yes

[feral horizon]

Not gonna lie I've restarted so many games in anomaly and then gamma cause I felt like I kept messing up.

[oak junco]

i feel that tbh but thankfully with cotz it feels closer to the trilogy then it does a hardcore experience i have alot of fond memories of cotz

[feral horizon]

I finally manged to get medium armor and a g36 rifle in my current gamma game so I feel more confident going into the upper parts of the zone.

This why I roll my eyes when I see someone try to claim anomaly is better than stalker 2.

stalker 2 may have lacked a-life for a long while and was buggy but at least the gameplay was way more forgiving.

like it actually has some balance.

[crystal quartz]

GAMMA is CS;Source from Stalker games

[ebon blade]

I forgot to mention the DFR - Dynamic Faction Relations.
They constantly change due to your actions and off-line actions.
This means your allies and enemies change as you play. The numbers
go up and down so they are not fixed for the whole game. You can do
things to increase the numbers to go from neutral to friendly and likewise
things can happen to change an enemy to an ally and vice versa.
This can be great if one Faction has weapons and armor you want.
Hence the "Dynamic" part of the Faction relations changing.

[feral horizon]

So is call of the zone a standalone game or do you need call of pripyat to play it?

[cursive kettle]

dam there are 1k mods on nexus and only 100 on mod.io sob

[vestal pine]

why are the boat doors stuck. took me an hour of doing a glitch jump to get inside,and the doors dont work either

[cursive kettle]

it's a bug that came in 1.5

[vestal pine]

well no duh. this game is worse than cyberpunk rn

[vestal pine]

is there any fix? bc i have to come back here soon

[cursive kettle]

save and load that save again, it happened only once to me, then they always opened

[vestal pine]

yeah no.

the doors to get outside are broken

[vestal pine]

rebooting the game dont work either

[cursive kettle]

ig u gotta cope with it till new hotfix arrives

[vestal pine]

didnt it take over a month last time

like it took them 2 months to fix the unopening lab door on wild island

[cursive kettle]

new hotfix should arrive in Wednesday

[oak junco]

Standalone

I posted the link to the moddb page if you scroll up in chat

[vestal pine]

gamma is so damn fun

[oak junco]

Have you played many other mods ?

[frigid hill]

woomyapocolypse has been warned

Reason: Bad word usage

[vestal pine]

thats crazy

[oak junco]

?

[vestal pine]

srry,i got a bad word warning for a mispell

or i dont even know what i typed lol

gamma took me like 2 days to install on my old gaming laptop.and after 2 weeks the game would corrupt every time i turned off the laptop

gamma is so worth it when it works tho

[weary hedge]

Doing a ward play through and this first assault on the Duga is a genuine medieval torture method

[vestal pine]

the swamp was worse. first playthrough ur 100% gonna be starved of medkits dying to that big mutant on the bridge atleast 20 times

[primal nimbus]

Does Warden play through.
Is a Sparker.

[vestal pine]

worse than any souls game swamp. and thats an achievment

[gusty condor]

Oh yeah I hated that, the psi part is really annoying

[sterile radish]

just use like a shotgun or the svd to take out the emitters

also, does anyone have any recommended settings for xbox series s display

[cursive kettle]

65-70 contrast

45-50 brightness

and uhh if forgor the hdr settinsh, gamma to 20%

[sterile radish]

thanks. my settings look sloppy rn

[gusty condor]

I’m on Xbox series x is this good for me aswell?

Cus my game looks extremely dull and gray

[cursive kettle]

ye ig, it should look way better on x

[cursive kettle]

bcs u have high gamma and brightness

[cursive kettle]

can you show me the hdr Settings if you have em?

[sterile radish]

I dont even use hdr. my tv’s incompatible

I’m looking forward to getting a monitor soon

[cursive kettle]

oh then idk if it will look decent like mine, how does it look rn

[sterile radish]

will try when I get home, running some errands rn

[cursive kettle]

i have giant tv

[gusty condor]

Same

[cursive kettle]

almost 3 am rn

[sterile radish]

timezones..

[gusty condor]

Damn it’s almost 9 pm for me

[sterile radish]

2:45 PM for me

[cursive kettle]

2:46 am here

[sterile radish]

I’m gmt-10

[gusty condor]

Guys I got 3 exoskeletons which ones are the best. ruby, diamond, and brummarbar

[sterile radish]

diamond

[cursive kettle]

RUBY? LEMME SEE HOW RUBY IS LIKE, diamond is best btw

[sterile radish]

I recommend selling brummabar as you cant even input a sprint module

[gusty condor]

I just got off stalker 😔

[sterile radish]

but if you’re a collector, its up to you

[cursive kettle]

imma search it

[sterile radish]

its the one monolithan’s use late game

[gusty condor]

Yeah I’m probably gonna keep it

[gusty condor]

Hi nuka

[fierce nexus]

Hello, congrats on the rank up

[gusty condor]

Thanks

[cursive kettle]

Ruby exo is sooooo basic, like, all. the exos look the same lowk aside from operator one, sp boring

[fierce nexus]

[cursive kettle]

huh, i found one at a monolith's base and it was called Diamond exo, not ruby

[torn gate]

I went to camp Icarus and found it abandoned with only some zombies and after killing them 4 spark members set up camp at the entrance just hanging out. I left to do some side quests and came back to find the spark members moved down to the ward outpost and the camp overran with mutants meaning they got chased out by them. Later after another side quest I have 10 spark members and I feel like those mutants are gonna get ran out of that camp

[fierce nexus]

That's the best one

[torn gate]

Which I found really cool

[gusty condor]

You get the ruby exo by the corp base in Pripyat

[cursive kettle]

Lowkey i don't like having the best items in the game, it makes the gameplay dull since everything becomes easy, that's why i deleted my playthrough where i had all the late game gear and weapons in early game

[sterile radish]

really?

[cursive kettle]

at prypriat

[fierce nexus]

True

[sterile radish]

I like mixing my loadouts a bit. sometimes I go full-exo or sometimes merc and marauder for the feel of it

[cursive kettle]

also, you actually realize that you don't need to upgrade or get more koupons anymore since you already have enough and you don't need to search for better guns, it just dies, unless you wanna do the story

[cursive kettle]

im doing a collectors run in veteran mode, not rn but im doing it, imma need to obtain all. the artifacts, tho maybe i fuked up by selling some, idk if they were unique artifacts

[sterile radish]

are you tryna do the collect all artifacts achievement?

[sterile radish]

miracle hoarder

[cursive kettle]

nope, I'm using mods so i cant

[sterile radish]

oh, gotcha

[unreal basin]

Hmm, use the English vo in my next playthrough, yay or nay?

[sterile radish]

either way, if you’re trying to farm artifacts, try the tunnel by the depot, ribs in the lesser zone, or even the brood in garbage and the burning building in the cooling towers

[fierce nexus]

Did you do your first playthrough in UA?

[unreal basin]

All previous and my current one yes?

[fierce nexus]

Might as well do English next time

Switch it up

[unreal basin]

Wonder if the english vo for the mutant parts dialogues will work with mods?

Question, do the floating Glass shards anomalies ever show up in any form in the older games? I can’t remember

[fierce nexus]

No

That's a new one

[unreal basin]

Thought so

[fierce nexus]

Just like those godforsaken flashbang anomalies

[unreal basin]

I hate that they don’t show up on the Veles or are detected at all

[fierce nexus]

Yeah

Gotta love the veles tho

[unreal basin]

I’m happy my current playthrough didn’t get softlocked at Wild Island post Sircca like all my previous ones, got the Pripyat pass from Yaniv today

[violet dune]

Q3 roadmap this week righjt?

[fierce nexus]

Unlikely

At least I haven't heard anything about it

[cursive kettle]

nope, hotfix 1.5.1 is this week

[gusty condor]

I thought those were old?

[unreal basin]

Double checking here, a armor set with max physical protection stacks with compass artifacts’ protection correct?

[fierce nexus]

Nope

[vestal pine]

@cursive kettle a emission happened and since no doors worked everyone outside died lol

[gusty condor]

Oh, I was playing a couple of months ago when I first started and I could have sworn I had seen them

[vestal pine]

hope that wont softlock my game lol

are there any quest npcs that are outside of the shevecko?

and the door works now lol

[sterile radish]

flashbang anomalies have been here since the start of the game no?

[fierce nexus]

Not in the previous games

[harsh plume]

Am I late to the game or, has everyone else found the Light version of Duty’s armor, think it’s called the recruit suit?

Never seen it before, at all

[sterile radish]

right

[sterile radish]

thought you meant just s2

[strong onyx]

Strange question, attachments from unique weapons - the attachments themslves arent unique right? Just ordinary attachments?

nvm, figured it out.

[grizzled karma]

Do legendary artifacts respawn after an emissions?

[charred nova]

They can

[grizzled karma]

When can we combine weird bolt and weird nut?

[charred nova]

Never

[fierce nexus]

panicked screaming

[gusty condor]

https://tenor.com/view/plnkfr1day-spongebob-explosion-boombayah-gif-22208529

I can’t send gifs😔

[ebon blade]

https://tenor.com/view/plnkfr1day-spongebob-explosion-boombayah-gif-22208529

[strong onyx]

rip Real Weapon Names Global mod, its cooked.

[gusty condor]

Thank you

[strong onyx]

thats a shame...

[summer heart]

Just gonna poke here again just incase anyone happens to see this and know how to fix it, i already have a ticket through emails but its been a few weeks of back and forth with no luck yet.
i cant launch the game it just kinda crashes immediately without actually having any window popup, just a simple unreal engine crash,
ive been able to play in the past on pretty high settings, my specs arnt a issue here, stuff i have tried include:

reinstalling the game, verifying the game files, restarting pc, updating graphic drivers, updating windows to the newest version, deleting the pipeline cache, deleting the config and game settings folder aswell, and of course running it as admin

[charred nova]

Bro had me thinking he just posted for a crypto scam for a second

[summer heart]

[charred nova]

What gpu do you have

[summer heart]

yeah no
i played way back on launch originally, took a break because life got busy, so didnt really remember about it until like 1.5 came out just a bit ago, but ever since then havent been able to get anywhere

[summer heart]

ive got a 3080 with 10 gigs of vram

[charred nova]

Roll back your drivers

The current nvidia drivers are busted

[summer heart]

yeah tracks, i keep having to go back and forth for different games

i miss the days when things wernt this complicated with "semi modern" hardware

[charred nova]

It’s not just get a Radeon

Then it just works

That’s what I did

[summer heart]

i have to stick with nvidia i do 3d for a living

[charred nova]

just have both

[summer heart]

eh fair enough

but yeah, what version of the drivers?

[charred nova]

I’ve heard the December 7th 2024 drivers but

I’d probably try something a little newer than that

Crazy to live in a world where Radeons have working drivers

The worlds gone crazy

[summer heart]

there is no dec 7th drivers, only one for 05 and 10

il just do the dec 5th ones

yuh so that didnt work

[charred nova]

Did you validate the game files

[summer heart]

not after updating the drivers, il try that now

[gusty condor]

Wait can you only buy the shield of duty exo, I’ve been looking on a map and can’t find it.

[summer heart]

still same issue unfortunately

[sterile radish]

I’ve tried the trader at the cement factory countless times and found nothing

[north fjord]

Is there anywhere to still buy the Physical Game? The only options I'm seeing are highly inflated.

[fickle hill]

Do you have him green or white?

[sterile radish]

green

[fickle hill]

Yep the shield of duty is a downgrade? since it's 20 kg

[sterile radish]

I’m a collector kind of guy, I like collecting every exosuit in the game

[fickle hill]

Yeah I been trying to get it too

I have pretty much all the upgrades I just wanna know if it sprints

Shield of duty is a pain since you can't find it

[jade mulch]

Why am I locked out of the sultansk

I killed some dudes for the sultans briefcase and when I returned the door wouldn’t open

[jade mulch]

Thrift store

[fierce nexus]

Known bug

Try reloading

[jade mulch]

Just did

Door stuck!

[primal nimbus]

https://tenor.com/view/counterstrike-csgo-door-stuck-knife-lit-gif-13501025

[fickle hill]

Try the back door

[jade mulch]

There’s only one entrance jit

[fickle hill]

Nope there's 2

[jade mulch]

Where at, I was on the roof and nada

[fickle hill]

It is on top but if the back door don't work then uh-oh

[gusty condor]

The article I read on the wiki said it was sold there, could be bad rng

[jade mulch]

The stalker jank doesn’t leave even a decade later

[fickle hill]

Well go to another safezone and take a guide to the sutansk

[fierce nexus]

таке життя в зоні

[primal nimbus]

PLEASE!

[jade mulch]

UBEY! UBEY UBEY!!

Oh wait wrong game

[summer heart]

time to wait till the support team wakes up again and responds to the email thread to work on getting my game working again, curse timezones

[fierce nexus]

[gusty condor]

In theory did Skif really have to do the main quest if he just wanted a new house?

[fierce nexus]

Bro didn't have renter's insurance

[jade mulch]

Чики Брики Пальчик Викин

[fickle hill]

I mean with how much he was getting paid for doing main quests he could of left 4 missions in

[gusty condor]

Or just done a lot of side missions for artifacts

[jade mulch]

A man finds a stash full of cash and asks, “how much is this in coupons?”

[jade mulch]

I barely use artifacts because the ones I find suck butt

[gusty condor]

Just farm for the legendary ones

[jade mulch]

Also I need to find a celliate for owl

[fickle hill]

Or did what nimble did Auction stuff

[jade mulch]

Or something like that, do you know where I can get one. Perchance?

[gusty condor]

Where you can get artifacts?

[fickle hill]

If it's an artifact it's perchance

[fierce nexus]

Anomaly zones

Look for a spot with a bunch of anomalies and pull out your detector

[gusty condor]

Yeah I know that, I was seeing if that was he was asking about

[jade mulch]

Celliliate or whatever the hell it is, I had found one previously in an acid field

[fickle hill]

In that case a chemical anomaly

[fierce nexus]

Just keep checking chemical anomalies

[jade mulch]

Imagine opening a hilka detector where the sun don’t shine 🤤🤤🤤

[fierce nexus]

Veles is best detector fr

[gusty condor]

Use this link, it’s a map of all the items in the zone, you can make it show the anomaly fields and artifacts. https://mapgenie.io/stalker-2-heart-of-chornobyl/maps/the-zone

[jade mulch]

https://tenor.com/view/squid-game-gi-hun-player-456-squid-games-squid-game-season-1-gif-6405523381529091775

[gusty condor]

It just appeared in my inventory at one point, I don’t know why

[jade mulch]

Ahh dude map genie is my goat in tarkov

[gusty condor]

Still it is a good detector

[jade mulch]

Also holy shit the stalker map is huge

[jade mulch]

I like the bear detector

[gusty condor]

Yeah it has a lot of stuff

[fierce nexus]

There's a quest that gives you one

[gusty condor]

Oh that is probably what I got it from

[fierce nexus]

It's every map combined

Plus extra for S2

[thin apex]

90% of the time I carry the super big radio tower stick with a large radius when I'm freeroaming but if I'm at an anomalous zone I pull out the veles because using the big radio tower stick detector sucks

[jade mulch]

Yes indeed

[rain ingot]

With the Xbox thing going on what’s that mean for stalker 2?

[jade mulch]

Does it just sniff out anomalies but not where they are

[jade mulch]

What do you mean

What Xbox thing

[rain ingot]

The 9000 people that got layed off

[gusty condor]

I think that’s all of Microsoft, hopefully gsc didn’t get affected

But it could have just been the core Microsoft employees

[thin apex]

the big long one just tells you the distance from artifacts which the distance blinks on the screen every few seconds

it sounds easy to use, it's not

it's only good because it has the largest radius and is omnidirectional

[jade mulch]

It’s only Microsoft and Microsoft companies if I do recall

[gusty condor]

The veles and bear are the easiest to use bye far

[jade mulch]

The bear shows you the general direction of the artifact

But to be honest, my favorite is the base echo detector

[torn gate]

And a lot to see

[jade mulch]

Isn’t there always?

I like to check every nook and cranny

[torn gate]

You my friend are a true stalker

[jade mulch]

Can you even call yourself a true stalker if you haven’t happened upon someone’s fully loaded stash?

[torn gate]

Exactly my murder hobo friend

[sterile radish]

back when it was like patch 1.3, I’ve been getting 2 cuirass exosuits in stock at the same time. so, I’m pretty sure that other exo should’ve been the shield of duty

[strong onyx]

My shaders refuse to compile, great.

All this because my steam decided to completely implode on itself multiple times

[still current]

Crashing or not?
I'd suggest you clear your shader cache and that's all you need to do to have it loading back I think.

[strong onyx]

Only did it once for some reason. Odd.

Launching the game a second time it didn’t do that. Steam has been fixed already, I had to piece it back together over the course of three hours.

Not cool valve.

[still current]

It can happen if game gets interrupted often while loading. It'll either go super slow or not load at all, and that's due to shader cache either being small, or existing cache being in a meh condition haha

I meant the shader stuff btw, not steam

Never had a problem with it as far as I am aware off

[honest ferry]

mm

[torn gate]

Some one ban him 😭

[honest ferry]

how do i get roles

by yapping about how great monolit is

[torn gate]

#👥┃faction-choice

[honest ferry]

thanks

[torn gate]

Np

[wise depot]

Nah, his method is the zone

Seems legit

[wide veldt]

Got another scammer in my dms again called emmyson

Why cant i just get a dm from a real mod maker

•_•

[gloomy citrus]

Guy is banned, please dont click on any suspicious link in this server.

Thanks for the report.

[wide veldt]

I dont even interact with them but i keep getting them

Sometimes

[honest ferry]

O great Monolith thank you for your service

[gloomy citrus]

Such is the will, of the Monolith...

[wide veldt]

Once more mods are out ill try replaying the game again since dark is to dumb to know how to walk through a hallway

But im still going to kill the people like the ward and the monolith always

[honest ferry]

[wide veldt]

hopefully someone makes a good lmg sometime

[honest ferry]

i need to play the older games stalker 2 is actually my first and only because friend made me buy it

and i am in love

[gloomy citrus]

There are countless standalone mods too you can play for free.

Depending on what you prefer.

[honest ferry]

whats the stalker anomaly thing

he mentioned it aswell

[gloomy citrus]

Anomaly is a freeplay mod which resulted from a series of freeplay mods.

Started from Call of Pripyat as the base game, then made into Misery or Call of Chernobyl.

[honest ferry]

friend says its hardcore stalker

[golden haven]

I love stalker 2 over the last games, like I get that lower graphics make it funky and scary, but I've killed more blood suckers in s2 than the other ones lol

[wide veldt]

More like call of corrupted save file

Or broken save

Like mine

[honest ferry]

the 3 bloodsucker gangbang 😭

yesterday almost got mauled but thanks to duty soldiers being there i had some help

[golden haven]

I like that there's an environment that's alive with stuff, I feel like the last games had too many random mutant dog or boar fights out in the wild, s2 is mainly bloodsuckers in the wild

[thin apex]

biggest annoyance with the trilogy is how its not actually like open world

[wide veldt]

But then u shot the soldiers right

[honest ferry]

they died

[wide veldt]

Good

[golden haven]

And I love that I overcame my fear of bloodsuckers, despite them being invisible its easier to predict their movement in s2

[golden haven]

How

[gloomy citrus]

CoP has the best open world elements in it. You get side quests here and there including random encounters.

[honest ferry]

i am in the late late game where everything is expensive af to repair and pripyat is mostly looted

[gloomy citrus]

Which is why its the base game for most freeplay standalone mods.

[honest ferry]

is there any mods that make the game even more immersing

[wide veldt]

Gun holding positions and stuff yes

[sterile radish]

better ballistics, etc

[gloomy citrus]

For S2? Dont know any.

[honest ferry]

got that one

[gloomy citrus]

Never used mods for S2

[golden haven]

I got stuck in the swamps in CoP and mainly stayed their for artifacts and combat with bandits, i feel like there wasn't much to do outside the swamp

[wide veldt]

Better ballistics?

[honest ferry]

dont have

[wide veldt]

QoL?

[honest ferry]

tried never using again

broke my economy

[wide veldt]

How so

[golden haven]

Yeah, buy a ticket to Poland and take a bus to Chernobyl, SMH how much immersion do you need? Brain eating amoeba level immersion?

[honest ferry]

after i uninstalled it everything is back to being expensive to repair but the selling prices are low af

like 12k for legendary artifact low

[wide veldt]

Just build a nuke and set it off u will have all the emersion u need

[honest ferry]

maybe after the war me and friend want to go

[sterile radish]

I mean, theres shay’s living zone to kinda improve the a-life spawns

[golden haven]

S2 helped me get rich, and I felt like the economy system was meant to give a sense of abundance, the last games feel like soviet union scarcity vibes in the economy

[honest ferry]

it broke the spawns for me i got ward spawning the corpus base in pripyat every time i go there

[sterile radish]

yikes

[honest ferry]

not infront but directly inside

[sterile radish]

I had warden’s spawning in the sultansk, including mercs

[golden haven]

Been there last year, skipping this year and could go next year

[honest ferry]

isnt it occupied by the invaders

[golden haven]

It's 2025, 3 years and the enemy is still hasn't taken full control of the east of the country

[honest ferry]

i like the red forest easter egg with the trenches

[golden haven]

I pray that chernobyl erupt if they ever reach near it

[honest ferry]

smart ruskis digging themselves in most irradiated forest

[golden haven]

Put tnt near elephants foot and blow it up when they arrive hahaha

[torn gate]

Chernobyl just explodes for the second time to spite the Russians

[honest ferry]

the anomalies will start spawning

[golden haven]

Can't wait

[torn gate]

Lucky for me it isn't broken the spawns (yet) so yay

[golden haven]

To see zombie ruski

[torn gate]

I can't wait for real bloodsuckers to spawn irl

[honest ferry]

I will go create monolith and larp as monolithian in cnpp

за монолит

[torn gate]

I'll create a cult who likes wearing blue

[sterile radish]

what kind of blue?

[golden haven]

The zone has to be recruited to work for us and we will pay the zone to create outbursts wherever you tell it

We can have an army of zones

Next war will be known as the "zone war"

[honest ferry]

i really started liking strider but damn they did him dirty

[sterile radish]

one of the best characters in the whole game

[honest ferry]

stabbed

[torn gate]

The shining kind

[honest ferry]

the shining zone

[torn gate]

Put respect on Richter's name

[sterile radish]

yes, him too

[golden haven]

Why does every stalker eat the same exact thing, sausage, canned meat, bread, water, energy drink, there are no desserts 🫠

[honest ferry]

sausage and bread delicacy of the zone

[golden haven]

I mean its just carbs and sodium, not enough protein in them sausages, but like are they stuck in the 90s? It's such a soviet food choice

That's what they served kids in school during the soviet union

[honest ferry]

condensed milk is the real trasure not the artifacts

[golden haven]

Why not add like a corridor to the outside world and bring freshly baked goods, tasty pastries and ready to eat meals...

[honest ferry]

worth fcking up sircaa just for their condensed milk stockpile

[sterile radish]

thats just the zone brother

[fiery iris]

we say this like the bread dont exist

[honest ferry]

ward has a entire buffet in chemical factory

[golden haven]

It's such a cope, I'd die eating bread and sausage everyday rather than by a blood sucker

[honest ferry]

croissant and shit but we cant eat it

[sterile radish]

freshly baked bread in rostok 🤤

[golden haven]

That means there should be an outside door to the mainland, why are all paths leading deeper into the zone and none to the outside

In rostok

The same bread you find in a box underground

Nothing is fresh if it can be stored in the zone

[sterile radish]

doesnt the ward have access to helo’s? they could be just bringing them through the zone there

[golden haven]

Right

They get to leave and you dont

[sterile radish]

police of the zone

[torn gate]

I would raid a whole ward base to get some chicken if I was a stalker

[golden haven]

It's like they are the hosts of a squid game gone wrong but still get to run their game undetected

I think 99% of people in the zone don't know what a chicken looks like at this point

[sterile radish]

the ward and the IPSF are connected as sort of advisor’s and could potentially let the ward in-and-out of the zone for supply runs

the zone is illegal after all

[golden haven]

Yeah

[honest ferry]

man im so happy that mosin got added

[torn gate]

That one fat man in the bunker in rookie village definitely does (I forgot how to spell his name)

[sterile radish]

an-94 when

[honest ferry]

such a nice early to mid story sniper

[torn gate]

Desert eagle when

[golden haven]

He is the 1%

[honest ferry]

i mean you can use it late with high grade ammo but why when the other better snipers exist

m701

[golden haven]

All the fish in the zone is dead

[sterile radish]

svu on top

[sterile radish]

there is mutated catfish y’know

[honest ferry]

nuh i like my bolt action

[thin apex]

sidorovich or smth

[torn gate]

Mutated catfish is better than bread again

[thin apex]

cooling tower catfish

[torn gate]

Yeah I'm pretty it was

[golden haven]

And it can speak, but unlikely useful for any practical mean

[honest ferry]

fire whirl catfish

[sterile radish]

true

[torn gate]

Oh right it's Monday now gsc will probably add more mods on Xbox by the time I'm up

[sterile radish]

it’d be cool if there was an f-2000 like the one from clear sky

[golden haven]

The attachments go crazy

[thin apex]

hopefully they add aces flashlight mod, BB mutants, OXA, unforgiving zone etc

[sterile radish]

real

[torn gate]

What's OXA?

[thin apex]

oxides expanded armoury

[torn gate]

Ohh

[sterile radish]

wait, more weaponry?

[thin apex]

adds nvg, more scopes, laser sights, grips, muzzle attachments etc

[torn gate]

I'm all in just for the nvg

[sterile radish]

seriously. I wanna modify my exo’s so bad

[honest ferry]

ok i need that

[thin apex]

https://www.nexusmods.com/stalker2heartofchornobyl/mods/939

[sterile radish]

also for seva’s

[thin apex]

that's the mod page if you want to read

[honest ferry]

pogg

[torn gate]

Same but I'm all the way in Zaton and only the corps technician can do it

[sterile radish]

just go to sultansk guide. or if you’re a real stalker, walk it

[honest ferry]

harpy

[thin apex]

also actually it doesn't seem to add new scopes just increases the compatability of alot of optics

[sterile radish]

awh

[honest ferry]

https://youtu.be/SzI-9LnbCyk

[torn gate]

It's midnight I don't remember names anymore

[honest ferry]

walk it out strelok

[sterile radish]

bolero’s the technician in prypiat

[torn gate]

Why use a guide when you can walk (I don't have enough coupons)

[honest ferry]

assembling a list of pretty women in the zone 💀

[torn gate]

I saw at most 3 women in the whole zone

[thin apex]

there's women in the zone?

[sterile radish]

I only know sonya, agatha, harpy and the one trader in rostok

[thin apex]

the only woman I remember is the one in the boat
oh yeah and the Rostok trader

[honest ferry]

harpy vicky birch atleast look good and arent babushkas

[sterile radish]

and the one in malachite

[torn gate]

They'll all probably kick my ass

[honest ferry]

vicky

[sterile radish]

yeah

[thin apex]

oh yea she's mean

[honest ferry]

mean scientist girl

[sterile radish]

why’re we talking about fictional women in the zone all of a sudden

[molten nacelle]

Gsg are adding new console mods rn

[torn gate]

Favorite waifu

[sterile radish]

okay bro

[torn gate]

YES 🙌

[honest ferry]

i should get my vro into stalker so he stops playing cringenite

but the brain is rotten what can i say

[sterile radish]

that game’s braindead, be fr

[torn gate]

I think that'll make the smoking worse when he runs into Freedom

I thought you meant Cigarettes

Damn it

[honest ferry]

i mean i can see he is kinda interested because he comes in my room sits on my bed and watches me play at times

[torn gate]

He's half way there already

[sterile radish]

did you play any of the trilogy?

[honest ferry]

9y when bloodsucker sneak up on him

[honest ferry]

sadly no stalker 2 first game and only because friend made me buy it

[sterile radish]

😔

[honest ferry]

he was right once again he got me into cyberpunk aswell

[torn gate]

I made my 12 year old sister play a few weeks ago with similar results

[sterile radish]

you should get into metro

[honest ferry]

one day

[honest ferry]

traumatised for life

[torn gate]

I saw what her search history I think she was already traumatized

[honest ferry]

😭

[sterile radish]

mutants?

[honest ferry]

what is it brainrot

[torn gate]

Y'all heard of the coffin of Andy and leyley

Because I wish I still didn't know 💔

[sterile radish]

k I’ma head out now. also, give me suggestions on what I should take screenshots on

[torn gate]

What about the red forest this time?

[sterile radish]

sure. anything in particular like landscape, atmospheric?

[torn gate]

That big crane in the middle of the region since I never got too close to there before

[sterile radish]

great idea, will do tomorrow

[torn gate]

Okie dokie 👌

[sterile radish]

anyways, night

[torn gate]

Night stalker

[honest ferry]

oh the incest thing

💀

[torn gate]

The less said about it the better

[honest ferry]

yeah thats bad

[torn gate]

Anyways what mod do y'all want gsc to put on Xbox soon?

[honest ferry]

my bro makes me wanna do eternal sleep with the brainrot he watches on full volume

[torn gate]

He sounds like my 8 year old brother

[honest ferry]

they are close he turned 9 in January

as soon as new brainrot drops he knows of it

the other day i was at the community pool and heard couple of lets say late teens talkin in gen alpha slang

[torn gate]

I usually only hear little kids or pre-teens say that slang

And I usually kick them in the face

[honest ferry]

i fear for my generation

i am a gen z i thin

[torn gate]

Same and I want most of my generation to get a lobotomy sometimes

[slim wagon]

PATCH WEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEK

[honest ferry]

damn lets hope they fix the ragdoll slingshot

[thin apex]

weirdest thing is that wasnt even a thing on launch

like i did 2 runs near launch and never had that issue then this run its like every couple of kills

[honest ferry]

i am torn about it on one hand i find it hilarious at other annoying because i cant loot them

[smoky hawk]

it isnt surpising that a new bug is a new bug that wasnt around at launch?

[torn gate]

I wonder what mods are gsc adding to the mod browser today

[honest ferry]

man why i gotta work

[torn gate]

Money

[honest ferry]

money to finance chernobyl trip fr

gotta get my hands on real life diamond exoskeleton

[torn gate]

I need to find a blood sucker and keep it as a pet

[honest ferry]

half of the shift is over another half to go

[honest ferry]

like doctor scherba

he tricked me

want me to be part of his experiment

[torn gate]

I'm starting to like this doctor

[cursive kettle]

oh yeah, happens to me too lmao

[honest ferry]

i was in the duga region emission struck i couldn't find cover anywhere

had to backtrack 20minutes

like the other day in pripyat i was in a basement of a commie block but emission dont care

[cursive kettle]

lowk it's your problem, tho the game should add some under ground shelters ngl

[honest ferry]

but that doesn't make sense i am underground in enclosed environment

[cursive kettle]

ohh mb i didn't read the part that you were inside a mission

[cursive kettle]

wait u died underground?

[honest ferry]

yes

in basement of a building

[charred nova]

Are you on intel by chance?

[honest ferry]

why would a processor be doing such thing

[charred nova]

Intel 14th/13th gen are are tick time bombs

They cause massive instability