☢┃stalker-general

[fiery iris]

👀

[hardy totem]

snork-heel jerky

[still current]

Bruh, like it's very simple. You both don't like each other? It's fine, but please don't freaking provoke each other. That's really simple. A simple channel change wouldn't hurt anybody if that would appease one party.

[fiery iris]

i feel like mutants would taste really slimy and gross

[somber rose]

Please search "off topic" and from:tejas_stalker lol

He considers 'disinformation' (memes) 'off-topic' and deletes anything he doesn't like.

He once deleted an hours worth of my posts because I said (very funnily) that Stalker is a japanese franchise.

I breathe and it ragebaits him.

[fiery iris]

i dont know man just hold your breath

cant be that hard

[somber rose]

eh, generally speaking mods shouldn't be made mods entirely because they have a facebook meme page. But that's legitimately off topic.

I hate killing ISPF guys

[fiery iris]

i lovekillinng them

they always drop lmgs for me to sell

[somber rose]

Lmgs?! Damn, late game?

[fiery iris]

depends what you consider late game

they infinitely spawn at malachite when you first go there after the duga

and they all drop lmgs

[somber rose]

• Early: Start -> SIRCAA
• Mid: SIRCAA -> DUGA
• Late: DUGA -> End

Although that interpretation is personal, and mid-game is longer because I tend to hang around there

[fiery iris]

yea so about late mid game

however i think that you can just go there whenever

i installed inf carry weight and i sat there for 30 minutes killing them

i made just over a million

and i had 7 stacks of 762x54

[somber rose]

I think npc gear changes zone-wide in vanilla based on how late you are in the game

[primal nimbus]

One time in Stalker 2, a dog chased me up a stairway in the Hotel next to the Culture place

Don’t me ask how, but know I was screaming as the dog chased me.

[somber rose]

What is the type of car that the Ward uses?

[primal nimbus]

What

[somber rose]

Annoyingly, the Ukrainian military does have a vehicle that's literally called "ward" but they don't use it in game

[somber rose]

Those cars they uses, at least off screen

[primal nimbus]

Ah okay

[cursive kettle]

im only noticing it now but, after you start the game after the prologue and encounter the 3 bandits shooting at a guy in the house, 2 of them have a double barrel shotgun that shoots infinite buckshots without reloading, which doesn't make sense

[ebon blade]

This was kind of sad:

[primal nimbus]

Where? :(

[valid oar]

I wish the visors of the SEVA suits were still opaque. I always imagined they were polarized.

[strong onyx]

I dunno how the devs write this stuff...

[stark crescent]

From a dead stalker rookie. 😭

Too bad this game isnt so deep thst you can decide to send money to his mom or something

Now his family will die

[glacial flame]

Think I had radiation poisoning or something in the tunnel to Pripyat

Tried it again earlier and it was a cakewalk

Everyone made it

Kinda miss the stress of the first run though

[obtuse veldt]

It makes sense if you think about it, many come there with the promise of getting rich out of artifacts and mutant parts, but the reality is people being a problem

Bandits, backstabbers, mercenaries who are not much different than bandits

[strong onyx]

No I mean I don't know how they create stories so sad all the time lol

[obtuse veldt]

I mean I gave the middle finger to backstabbing cunts in the zone

[strong onyx]

I wish you could do that in game, like a keybind to flip someone off lmfao

[obtuse veldt]

Didn't gave the decider cause he was the cause some other stalker died from it, killed a rookie who let his mate die from fleshes

[strong onyx]

I remember that, lesser zone.

[obtuse veldt]

Yep

[strong onyx]

What is this Legend of the Zone role for?

matter of fact...

why is the senior moderator role below content makers lol

[hardy totem]

Novice < experienced < veteran < master < legend of the zone

[strong onyx]

OH, its a level role. Ohhhh

master of what? bait?

so funni

[hardy totem]

https://tenor.com/view/funny-award-gif-24436204

[strong onyx]

The white building in rostok has some really bad anti aliasing results.

[thin apex]

aces flashlight is finally on cknsole

where was that one orange suit spawn that you could grab before going into the swamps for psi protection

it was in some train or smth I remember

did they move it

[soft shoal]

The one with the tech?

[strong onyx]

No, the one you see when near the entrance to Rostok. The gigantic tall white one.

[thin apex]

fpund tje ecologists suit I checked the wrong train cart

also something I noticed about the mosin is that since he rechmabers the bolt every time you fire if you do a partial reload he'll actually put his hand into the chamber while opening the bolt to avoid the chambered round from being discarded (unlike most Devs that just decide the gun won't discard the unshot bullet already in the gun for the sake of an easy animation)

[safe fog]

is there a thread here that we can suggest feature request? like animations, new weapons, etc.?

feature request to the devs

[dreamy plover]

I’ve noticed distant textures load much later now, especially on buildings. Do you think this is because more CPU resources are going toward the improved A-LIFE recently? if i send this to 'ask gsc' they probably wont answer they dont seem to like the tech questions much

[mild merlin]

Does anyone play this game

[maiden vault]

I do

[mild merlin]

Ok so one person still playing

[maiden vault]

you mean like stalker right

or sum

[mild merlin]

Yes the game this server is based on

[thin apex]

bruh my game didn't autosave after doing 2 objectives and after 20 minutes

I didn't know it was still 2009

[vivid summit]

I just finished stalker 2 and im pissed becouse theres no free roam after the game

[stark crescent]

The game literally tells you the point of no return

Also, imagine. You did the ward ending. The zone is as good as gone. What do you want to free roam. Regular criminals shooting each other? Mutants are docile.

[thin apex]

man sprinting thru the swamps avoiding getting stuck in the water with a chimera stalking you thru the reeds in a dark night time storm that turns into an emission is NOT fun

and for some reason my flashlight broke so I was in the darkness

[graceful dirge]

imagine my surprise playing with no HUD and I don't get the message

[stark crescent]

When going to the clear sky base? You cna outrun the chimera

The chimera is the guardian of the base.

[thin apex]

yeah I know that's what you just have to do but it's still scare because you cant look back and you know the chimera is there

it's not like we have tarkov sprinting

[charred nova]

Most of us just complain about the game all day instead of playing

[unreal basin]

Current theory for why my game kept crashing during startup yesterday is that too many mods tried to update at once

[mild merlin]

That sounds like fun

Can someone explain to me tho why this game takes up so much space

[charred nova]

Cus it’s a modern game made on ue5

Welcome to the future

[thin apex]

W I got my deadeye again

USP match my goat

[random canopy]

hey i have a question about editing weapons

in stalker 2, how to i edit the recoil and fire rate of the weapons?

[unreal basin]

Also, that real flashlight mod got ported and its really nice

[thin apex]

ask in modding chat

shay or ace or oxide or someone prolly knows

[random canopy]

wait which chat the trilogy modification or something else

[unreal basin]

EN-Mods General

[thin apex]

https://discord.com/channels/504587323577729024/1387353128268988519

[random canopy]

oh okay thanks

[thin apex]

my only slight gripe with it is when you're in a compact area and the light is only illuminating a tiny area it can be a bit disorientating

[unreal basin]

Yeah

[mild merlin]

That’s so dumb

These devs need to learn how to shrink games ffs

[thin apex]

PSEUDOGIANT IN THE SWAMPS TOOOOO?????

I was coming back and boom pseudogiant

i managed to get respite from it on a big rock

[obtuse veldt]

Yet...

[thin apex]

It took 20 9x39 rounds and 40 7.62x54 rounds

[charred nova]

It’s a wealth skill check

And wait till you see the 700 gig mod dev kit

[river chasm]

People want their games big and they want them pretty, I'm not sure what people expect

[charred nova]

People act like storage still hella money

It really isn’t

[river chasm]

Yeah especially if you catch a good sale

[charred nova]

Like I remember when I got my first ever ssd for under 100 bux for 1tb

Back in like 2017

And it was like wow that’s crazy

Now you can get 1tb ssds for like 50 dollars

[thin apex]

what I found insane though is the amount of fully rendered in 3d space you can explore that is completely inaccessible outside of the map beyond the limits of the PDA map

[charred nova]

All that nice cut content bro

[mild merlin]

I’m sorry but if they can’t shrink games and make them look good that literally is a skill issue it’s possible

[slow crypt]

???

[mild merlin]

They are just lazy

[thin apex]

there's literally like half of the total existing map worth of space above the map in the fog and beyond the map that is fully rendered in 3d modeled and walkable

[charred nova]

This entire game suffers from skill issue

[slow crypt]

It's incredible to think how alive the community was two years ago, and how STALKER 2 has practically killed it.

[charred nova]

Ik

Maybe If the game never came out we’d all be happier

Once the illusion was broken

It kinda ruined the whole atmosphere

[slow crypt]

Yeah, it's one of those games that turned out so bad it would've been better if it had never been released.

[charred nova]

Well

It’s not that bad

[mild merlin]

Shrink the game and it will be much better

[charred nova]

Let’s be real

Well that’s likely never gonna happen

Preaching to the choir

[slow crypt]

I found it mediocre. I had high hopes for the story I could've forgiven hundreds of flaws, but that really let me down.

[charred nova]

Death by 1000 cuts

[mild merlin]

I think they should shrink the size of this game

[charred nova]

[charred nova]

Why would they literally least of the games issues atm

[river chasm]

Yeah I'm sure they never thought of that

[charred nova]

If your too poor to afford 150 gigs you probably can’t run the game anyways

UNLUCKY

[mild merlin]

I can afford it just no reason it’s that size

[charred nova]

Again

Least of the games issues

[slow crypt]

And to think we still had hopes that in half a year the game would be at least somewhat optimized.

[charred nova]

Not to mention it was always advertised to be 150 gigs

[mild merlin]

It’s one of the biggest issue

[charred nova]

Literally isn’t

Lmfao

[thin apex]

hypercuuuubeeeee my beloved

[charred nova]

The games biggest issue is they need to finish it

[slow crypt]

150 GB of Unreal Store assets and trees placed procedurally.

[thin apex]

first legendary anomaly found at circus

[mild merlin]

Shrink the game more people will play

[charred nova]

Yah unlikely

[mild merlin]

Well they better

[charred nova]

Everyone who wanted to play already did

[slow crypt]

Play it? No one even talks about STALKER 2 anymore.

[charred nova]

It literally never even entered the wider internet

[mild merlin]

I forgot this game existed

[dreamy forge]

SSDs are cheap enough.. Until cartel decides that factory needs to be flooded to spike prices up again

[charred nova]

No even remotely popular YouTuber even talked about it

Beyond an insanely brief mention

[mild merlin]

Stalker 2 sucks anyways shrink the game

[charred nova]

Literally bottom of the list for things the game needs

Keep coping

[mild merlin]

It’s the biggest problem btw

[thin apex]

they are not nearly as cheap as what they were in 2022/2023

[charred nova]

How

[dreamy forge]

You can even buy 500gb USB stick for 30 lol

[river chasm]

The weirdest possible thing to get hung up on especially in the year of our lord 2025

[charred nova]

I think the fact the game isn’t finished

Is a lot bigger of a problem

[thin apex]

we used to have decent hardware ssds for like 35usd for 1tb

[charred nova]

Real

[mild merlin]

Stop insulting the big company 🤓

Devs need to learn how to optimize their game

[charred nova]

Literally never gonna happen

[dreamy forge]

Dramless QLC abominations

[river chasm]

Or you can do it over something actually worthwhile

[charred nova]

Game will only get larger

[mild merlin]

Filled with more ass

[charred nova]

Who knows

[slow crypt]

Literally, the game's size is the least of its problems. You’ve got cut missions, weapons that were removed and edited to work in a game that doesn’t load anything beyond 100 meters, broken AI, no A-Life system, optimization issues, poorly designed map, a mediocre story with boss fights there are thousands of other things to worry about besides the file size.

[charred nova]

Muh file size

[mild merlin]

That stuff doesn’t matter when people don’t keep the game because it takes up so much space

[charred nova]

They don’t keep it cus it’s not that good

[thin apex]

the mp33 which was like cheapest at the time was like bics 4 config with I forgot what controller for for 35usd was Coolio but now the bottom of the barrel is 52usd

[mild merlin]

People keep cod even tho it sucks and complain about how much space it takes

[charred nova]

People keep 200 gigs of Skyrim mods installed bro

[dreamy forge]

Eh its more about folk who sail the high seas dont like to download game again and again for each patch

[slow crypt]

If you don't have 150GB, you probably don't have a GPU that can handle STALKER 2 anyway that’s literally what you should be complaining about before even mentioning space

[charred nova]

So you literally just proved your own point wrong

[mild merlin]

I’m not even on boring ass pc lmao

[charred nova]

[mild merlin]

No I’m saying that if u shrink the game it will have more space and more people will keep it

[slow crypt]

for what

[thin apex]

also dram doesn't really matter anymore with more modern pcie 3 and pcie 4 options especially not for any gaming applications although afformentioned dram doesn't really matter much at all anyways due to stuff like hmb and pSLC cache (most prevelent with older revisions of the nm790neith map1602 eet1a config that had better seq/iops etc etc then alot of "higher end" dram optuons

[slow crypt]

Why would you want more people to play the game in its current state? XD

[charred nova]

It’s updates that are the problem anyone with sub par internet basically can’t be bothered

[mild merlin]

To play the game so then they can fix it more

Let’s shrink this game

[charred nova]

A single update for this game in Eastern Europe could take multiple days

[slow crypt]

So now we have to make a long-term investment in a title from a company with the darkest track record I know.

[mild merlin]

That sounds like a skill issue but they need to shrink this game

Stalker 2 sucks btw

[charred nova]

Incredible take

[mild merlin]

I’ve never had a bad take

[dreamy forge]

Man you 2 are really bored huh?

[mild merlin]

Who

[dreamy forge]

You

[mild merlin]

ASKED

[charred nova]

Wow this guy is a real comedian

[mild merlin]

⛹️⛹️⛹️

[mild merlin]

I’m the most entertaining thing u are gonna see since ur a discord mod

[charred nova]

Tbh I’m just gonna sit and watch till they add something of actual substance to the game

[charred nova]

I wish

[thin apex]

man I ffuckin hate snorks

[mild merlin]

I think I speak for everyone when I say this game sucks

[charred nova]

I wish stalker 2 dropped in 2028

[thin apex]

mfs jump all around

[charred nova]

You’d be surprised

Some people still coping

[mild merlin]

When is the next update

[charred nova]

Fuck if I known

Next week maybe

[mild merlin]

Ur a mod u should know this

[charred nova]

I know literally nothing

We don’t get paid so why would they tell us anything

[mild merlin]

So u do this for free???

[dreamy forge]

Literally something that someone who knows would say

[obtuse veldt]

Id rather had the game marked as early access tbh

[mild merlin]

I’d rather they fix the damn game

U WILL GET UR KOMEY WHEN U FIX THIS DAMN GAME

[obtuse veldt]

Wtf is komey?

[river chasm]

Unfortunately you're kind of a C Lister as far as weirdos to join this server until you have some legendary crash out and get banned

[thin apex]

bruh I'm getting wallbanged thru a pile of boxes

this game is not fair I can't even shoot enemies thru boxes

and my game crashes

and enemies deal so much damage now even on rookie

like having 15 enemies all wallbang you thru boxes with wallhax and aimbot with unlimited mags is not good for your health bar

[charred nova]

He’s no Derek that’s for sure

[thin apex]

turning up my difficulty to stalker literally means j die in like 5 shots (which is instant) and can happen thru walls without even exposing myself

[heavy lantern]

You got better ballistics installed?

[mild merlin]

Who

[charred nova]

Actually Derek was so long ago

90 percent of you probably don’t even know about him

[mild merlin]

I do

[charred nova]

Ight what he do

[slow crypt]

20 euros dlc whit cut content

[charred nova]

If leaks are true that’s what it is I’m afraid

[slow crypt]

The thing is, you can try the leaks, so yeah, that’s what’s in store for us.

The worst part? It was known even before the game came out.

[mild merlin]

Bro yk this game is ass when mods are talking about leaks lmao

[slow crypt]

I bet a Counter-Strike skin that this one won’t last more than a week.

[charred nova]

Most of us are fully black pilled

[thin apex]

yeah

[charred nova]

But hey some people having fun so

All the power to em

[thin apex]

I'm just doing it so I don't have to dumb 40 bullets into an enemy to kill them same with mutants

[oak junco]

Take the green pill

[thin apex]

and it mitigates the dumb power scaling with guns that use the same caliber having completely differant damage models for no reason because late game balance hurdur

the game wants me to use dumb bullpup (Dnipro) but I say nuhuh I want hk416 but game say nuhuh hk416 sucks now

I'll only use a bullpup if I get my glorious Steyr aug

[charred nova]

On a slightly more positive note

Well depends on who you ask maybe it’s negative lol

Bf6 reveal drops in 40 minutes

[oak junco]

Im excited ngl but im reserved and cautious

[charred nova]

Hope it’s got some real meat to it

Also hope this so called open beta happens long before release and that I don’t need to pay to play

[river chasm]

Hope this one isn't awful

Instead of cobbled together in a year from the remains of an extraction shooter project

[strong onyx]

Gross.

[thin apex]

what time period

[river chasm]

Modern again I think

Like 3/4

People already yelled at them hard enough in the closed testing for them to bring back class locked weapons apparently so promising at least

[charred nova]

Well not exactly

They said the open beta will have both

Open and locked class weapons

In 2 unique modes

Idk if they plan to make only one exist in the final game

[thin apex]

so we won't or will have 128 players with rpgs anymore?

it was a bit annoying in 2042 having every player with either a stinger or rpg plus that one character with the player controlled rocket

[river chasm]

I have to imagine locked will end up being much better

Everyone with anti vehicle is

[thin apex]

it was really annoying playing any vehicle because it was either having 20 AA launchers locking onto your heli/plane non stop or having 30 ants all shooting rockets at your tank

[charred nova]

Not sure we will even have 128 player

Since it honestly fucken sucked

Battlebit did it way better

[thin apex]

90% of the time it was half bots anyways

and when it wasn't was the worst because of afformentioned 128 launchers

[river chasm]

Would be pretty happy if we went back to 64, turns out that was a sweet spot

Maps had to be too big and too empty for 128

[thin apex]

128 player op lock when

[charred nova]

Battlebit did 256 and it was fucken awesome

So it can be done

Just apparently not by dice

[river chasm]

Yeah. True. Had some good ass times with that before they abandoned the game

[charred nova]

They are apparently finally almost ready to drop the update

Released a new trailer

[river chasm]

Oh shit. Here's hoping it's worth the wait

[charred nova]

But at this point

I’ll believe it when I see it cus it just had coming soon so

Fucken who knows when that might be

[sturdy jacinth]

What’s your favourite online PvP game?

[charred nova]

Ever

Apocalypse rising

Second favorite

Battlebit

[sturdy jacinth]

Ok thank you

I’m going to use external software to cheat in it

[strong onyx]

PvP mid. Helldivers 2 PvE is the way.

[charred nova]

You can harass the final 15 people playing apocalypse rising

[river chasm]

My nostalgia is still pretty strong for call of duty 2 and counter strike/CSS

[charred nova]

As the game is completely dead

[sturdy jacinth]

I’m going to 😎

Aimbot go brrrrrrr

[river chasm]

I guess you can also lump BF2 into that same era

[sturdy jacinth]

Yeah I just wanted to harass Jack😔

[strong onyx]

Helldivers. 2.

[sturdy jacinth]

In a lil bit I’m getting a new car and trying to figure out a down payment after swapping my old one in

[river chasm]

The golden era of the community hosting their own servers for games

[strong onyx]

I’d just buy one in cash, debt is lame. That’s why I have none.

[stark crescent]

Im european. No idea what debt is

Imagine having to rely on debt to have a functional economy.

[sturdy jacinth]

I’m already in debt for the one I currently have but just can’t do the payments anymore because I can’t keep playing with trains

[charred nova]

Omg bruh

[strong onyx]

Well. Uhhhh….skill issue.

[sturdy jacinth]

10 k negative equity 💀

[charred nova]

I’m typing in google sheets and I hear a loud bell

[strong onyx]

😭😭😭

[charred nova]

Scared the life out of me

Apparently my package was delivered

Lmfao

[strong onyx]

It’s the dinner bell, Jack.

[stark crescent]

Btw, you heard news about bl4? They gonna include jack again to save the game?

The theme is gonna be time travel right? So might as well include a few missions in the high time of hyperion

[charred nova]

Literally don’t care about bl4

I’m pretty tired of those games

[sturdy jacinth]

It’s ok I’m going to finagle my way into getting it down to 6 k

Going to convince them to take in my car at 30 and put a 2 k down payment then lowkey might use my line of credit I have to drop more on it so it’s sub 300 biweekly then just subject myself to torture until the line of credit is paid off

[stark crescent]

You named yourself after one of the biggest friendemies in history of story writing. Why dont anticipate bl4?

[strong onyx]

Hmmmm…

I’d just get a beater tbh. But that’s just me.

[charred nova]

That’s the funny part I didn’t

Lmao

Very long time ago

[sturdy jacinth]

I can’t without paying like 9 k out of pocket just to get rid of the depreciation of my car

[charred nova]

Crimson named me this

And it just kinda stuck lol

My actual user is Cracker Jack

[strong onyx]

Your username is crackerjack though?

[charred nova]

[charred nova]

Yah it’s a pun

Or

Play on words

[strong onyx]

Jack is in the name. So it counts.

[charred nova]

Of cheddar Jack cheese

[stark crescent]

Cheese...?

[strong onyx]

You freaking cheese head!

[stark crescent]

Your character is freaking cheese...

Change your name to cheesy jack then.

I love handsome jack. The way he was written. The way he was still the main character in tales of the borderlands. How an entire dlc was made around jack just to return some sale figures in bl3.

[thin apex]

ever heard of head cheese

[stark crescent]

I can only hope bl4 isnt going to be another ethical rightious gay friendly cringe fest.

We need to return to the dank offensive comedy that was borderlands

[charred nova]

Cracker Jack sounds cool

So I’m keeping it that way

[stark crescent]

Then change it to cracker jack

[charred nova]

Nah

It’s a server classic now

Too late to change

[stark crescent]

[tender lichen]

Morning folks.

[stark crescent]

Hi archy

[tender lichen]

https://tenor.com/view/cat-kitty-feline-meme-funny-gif-8764472215214951735

[charred nova]

https://youtu.be/pgNCgJG0vnY?feature=shared

Basically a trailer for a trailer

Come back July 31st to see something notable lol

[graceful dirge]

yeah the moment I saw "game engine footage. not actual gameplay." in the intro my excitement settled down

[tender lichen]

We just pray right.

[frigid hill]

doughybaby has been warned

Reason: Bad word usage

[graceful dirge]

okay I understand we need to have a profanity filter but come on for merely the f*** word to be triggered by that in this general chat about these M rated games c'moooon

[smoky hawk]

thats fucked up

[graceful dirge]

Anyway, I was saying something along the lines of that I do like it thematically because it feels more return to BF3/4 but just hope that it comes out feeling derived more from BFV and its new gameplay mechanics & not 2042 casual garbage

All the improvements in player movement, individual attrition, squad commands, quick TTK in base game, (though no true hardcore sucked) etc. even got manual leaning added to BFV just out of nowhere like over a year after launch to me very much welcomed, then we don't even get it on launch and of course never will for 2042 but it's okay I don't play that slop

[smoky hawk]

they are still the same
and they will remain the same until they stop h8iding behind the "its not a country its a PMC" shtick
pussies

[tender lichen]

I just want bad company 2 destruction back.

[graceful dirge]

Ya true, sadly AAA games with cuck shareholders

[charred nova]

They didn’t in 2042 funny enough

It was USA vs Russia

Flags and everything

[torn gate]

This sadness me hopefully the next patch for the mod makes getting toolkits easier

[slow crypt]

so meh

[charred nova]

Didn’t show anything lol

Literally a trailer for a trailer

[river chasm]

The usual nonsense

[charred nova]

At least we only have to wait a week

[river chasm]

Seems like the release will be pretty soon though

Legal disclaimer on their page says pre order offers expire after October 10

[charred nova]

Open beta might be

Full release is already known to be in 2026

[austere pagoda]

I am once again asking for your help:
what time length mod are u using if you are using one? not the mod name but the length ie 2x,4x,6x etc

[near sparrow]

shadowdrop no way

[strong onyx]

Q3 roadmap 😭

such a mid update, could of at least given us a roadmap 😦

[austere pagoda]

time to upload 30 pages with MOD WORKS WITH 1.5.2

[crystal bison]

WOW SUCH BIG UPDATE

[strong onyx]

It’s yugeeeee

[cyan mulch]

[river hazel]

add patch logs to the https://www.stalker2.com/news please

[brittle jay]

All 2 of em

[wanton gazelle]

I get pinged for 2 completely inconsequential fixes, smh my head.

[cinder bluff]

Two fixes? Are you for real?

[teal hull]

shouldn't have even been an official patch lmao

just toss them in

kinda surprised that we haven't seen the roadmap when they said "soon" on the 11th

[lucid charm]

Eh, they’re small fixes sure, but it is still kind of nice knowing GSC is interested in patching the inconsequential

[wanton gazelle]

Copium

[graceful dirge]

24 baby, as God intended

[lucid charm]

Perhaps, but copium tastes good

[cinder bluff]

You people legit made an announcement sound like it was a lot more worth two menial fixes.
Does anyone else feel like we are just being dragged along?

[brittle jay]

Soon is dev speak for "idk just leave me alone"

[hallow shadow]

Oh look, a patch!
Does it add Localization, so my Console-Peasant ass can finally run Loot/Craftable Zone?

[topaz plume]

"the full list of changes" - 2 things

[silent marlin]

but its 5gb

[wanton gazelle]

Considering that it's been a little under a year, and they still haven't added night vision despite mods existing for months, yes. Absolutely.

[teal hull]

don't recommend running either of those mods currently, you shoot a box and 10 billion items come out

[brittle jay]

5gb to open a door and fix 2 crashes 💀

[graceful dirge]

completely. there's no reason those couldn't just be added to the game without some whole fanfare announcement like these other updates have been deserving of, especially when they know we are sitting here waiting for the Q3 roadmap

[teal hull]

did you see the game on release? They released a hotfix like day 1 or 2 and it was the full game lmao

[fathom burrow]

mine is 3.6gb on steam

[hallow shadow]

I don’t have em loaded.
But I’d really like to.

That Author worked hard.

[lucid charm]

Mfw I break a crate and get a diamond Exo, 1 seva, an SSP suit, and 2 Seva D’S in the first 30 minutes of the game

[graceful dirge]

So much delicious loot

[teal hull]

I just have them favorited, I just want another option to repair stuff that doesn't cost 50,000 rubles every time I do a quest

[unreal basin]

Oh 1.5.2 update is here, how many mods are broke now on Xbox I wonder?

[brittle jay]

Was going off what someone else said, I haven't updated yet

[graceful dirge]

sell all that crap to buy Mosin ammo

[sharp sierra]

They need to do a suggestions page for new weapons, armour and quests

[austere pagoda]

psa: lootable zone and craftable zone on xbox are using old versions, the mod works fine and doesnt throw loot at you like people say in the more recent version, however it is waiting until its up on xbox

[lucid charm]

Sell it to who? Merchants don’t take suits and guns anymore

[graceful dirge]

4.61 XSX

[graceful dirge]

I didn't think that was intentional. I thought that was bug of currently approved version

[austere pagoda]

author obv didnt intend to throw tens of items at you for the sake of loot and craft hha

[teal hull]

maybe, but they probably know a ton of that stuff behind closed door. They had to cut an insane amount of content for the 2024 release

the stuff that's missing is obviously known and will most likely be added later

[wanton gazelle]

Pointless waste of resources. They don't care about suggestions, or simply have no time to implement them. There's core features missing since launch.

[hallow shadow]

I dunno. At that point, the Modders would just say “make it yourself”, cause unless I was coding on commission, I couldn’t dedicate my life to cranking out mods on a suggestion list.

[unreal basin]

So wait for it to be up to date before adding for my next playthrough gotcha

[lucid charm]

No offense to the dude, it’s a great concept, and I know it’s not an easy process. I’m just saying it’s a thing that happened

[teal hull]

"don't care about suggestions" when new features aren't the priority?

[graceful dirge]

yeah I've been playing with it now just for testing purposes but yeah probably better off

[unreal basin]

I’m taking a break from 2 for now, but hopefully mods options will be more when I play again

[wanton gazelle]

I don't know what point you're trying to make, but I sincerely don't see the point in loading them up with hundreds of suggestions when they haven't even implemented night vision, CNPP is still missing & AI is still (let's be real), crap.

[hallow shadow]

Are some of us forgetting that GSC is technically split into two groups?
One group is technically refugees, in another country.
The other is still holding the line, back home.

I challenge any of you to pump out a better product in similar circumstances.

[torn gate]

I think it is a bug and if not I'm going to be very poor this playthrough

[teal hull]

I mean, the game has been constantly getting bug fixes, they even added mutant skinning, I wouldn't expect a ton of features until they've caught up with the backlog (being the quests mostly)

[lucid charm]

At least we have a flashlight mod now

[austere pagoda]

its unfortunate that the mod released before craftable zone and also a version that gave an abundance of loot that has been dialed down now, its in the queue for sure! so yeah if you want the full intended experience best to wait for that version as its a large mod requiring a new game iirc

[serene barn]

what kind of update is that even supposed to be? they only fixed like 2 crashes and a buffed door and felt like it was enough to ship?

[runic minnow]

I was boutta say

[warm schooner]

A monumental 2 changes were made this update

[teal hull]

as my point above said, they don't need suggestions for any of that stuff, those were obviously planned

as I also said, they need to catch up to cut content

[wanton gazelle]

They don't need suggestions until everything that was meant to be in the game, is. Which is at least another 2 years.

[hallow shadow]

Some of yall have never tried to conduct business in a Warzone, or as refugees, and it shows.

[austere pagoda]

cut content =/= content cut but 100% planned to release eventually, it can be cut for a dozen reasons tbh

[teal hull]

I mean, NVD's are mentioned in the game, we had the hunters stand before we had skinning, and even now we don't have dynamic hunt quests

[teal hull]

yep, at least they're fixing it though, god forbid they treated it like the trilogy

imagine if stalker 2 got the clear sky treatment

[wanton gazelle]

I mean the trilogy was done by 3rd party company. They just slapped their name on it. If you're talking about EE.

[teal hull]

even SoC still has some very annoying bugs

[teal hull]

er, no. I don't know where that idea comes from

sure, they went bankrupt, but this is still the same company

if you're saying you expect the same devs over 20+ years of development, you're insane

[austere pagoda]

I am once again asking for your help:
what time length mod are u using if you are using one? not the mod name but the length ie 2x,4x,6x etc

[wanton gazelle]

The Enhanced Edition was literally done by a completely different company. Hence I'm asking you if you're talking about EE or OG.

[teal hull]

OG

[oak junco]

The og gsc left to create 4a gaming due to abuse and how greedy gsc creator was lol

[runic minnow]

Bro every company is greedy

[teal hull]

it's still the same company, that doesn't change, you can't simply write it down as a 3rd party

[runic minnow]

Modern gaming isn’t about the art it’s about the business

[oak junco]

Eh gsc was worse then normal

Look into their history

[wanton gazelle]

I'm not talking about the people who made the original stalker, my guy. I was clearly referring to EE.

[runic minnow]

Worse than EA epic games activision?

[wide narwhal]

You'd think they'd know that 7.62x39 doesn't go into a PKM then.

[teal hull]

eastern european dev companies have a history of this

[oak junco]

Ah

[hallow shadow]

Worse than EA? Worse than Bungie? Activision? Blizzard?
They’re not new.

[teal hull]

EE is still the same game, just filled with useless AI enhancements to textures that look lazy

[graceful dirge]

anyone else on Xbox having a really slow time downloading the 1.5.2 update? I usually get like 700+ mbps down wired fiber connection, When I do these speed test on Xbox it displays those speeds but seems throttled for the actual one

[teal hull]

it's not a new game lol

[runic minnow]

They sold Fortnite out for moolah and crossovers

[hallow shadow]

I’m under the impression that no one, who made this game, has actually fired any of these weapons.

But that’s not the point.

[wanton gazelle]

Nobody said it was. But it was outsourced to a different company regardless of the fact.

[teal hull]

which company

[wanton gazelle]

Mataboo lmao. A polish company.

[graceful dirge]

can you post as a poll & sticky this somewhere if It makes it easier to keep track of responses?

[wanton gazelle]

Were you not aware?

[frigid hill]

luisv0712 has been warned

Reason: Bad word usage

[austere pagoda]

i note down any response, poll will still require sending the poll link, cant even sticky in my own mod post afaik 😦

[hallow shadow]

At least they aren’t OWI.
Have you guys checked out the Euro-Jank that is Starship Troopers: Extermination?
That is a dookie developer.

They have some other CoD knockoff, Squad, or whatever it’s called.

[torn gate]

I hate you wolf

[brittle jay]

Don't have to fire a weapon to do the bare minimum research on a weapon

A single google search would provide a clear answer on this

[austere pagoda]

bro what? ICO rules

[teal hull]

don't see that anywhere, and the games are listed as GSC being the developer and publisher

[graceful dirge]

Damn wow that's unfortunate you don't have such ability, and again I personally rock the 24-hour

[teal hull]

did they outsource it or did they hire people to work for a short period of time for them?

[hallow shadow]

“You don’t need to actually handle the weapon. Just Google it”
-Spoken like a true researcher, and connoisseur of the authentic.

[austere pagoda]

i aint gonna lie bro, next mod pretty much useless for you

[teal hull]

it's not about realism, look at the trilogy guns, you'll probably die from the design

[hallow shadow]

Negative. OWI is garbage.
They’ve done less for that game, than GSC has done for S2.

[wanton gazelle]

You must be new here. Or living under a rock. GSC outsourced the original trilogy to Mataboo, Mataboo used AI to upscale the textures (poorly), censor most of the Soviet content out, and break a bunch of other things. That ended up being called the Enhanced Edition, which is also the only edition that's accessible on consoles.

[austere pagoda]

bro cmon man wth are u saying wtfff

[hallow shadow]

If it’s not about realism, why does everyone cry about MuH ImMeRsIoN?

[brittle jay]

I'm not saying NOT to use it and learn how it functions, I'm just saying they have the ability to get the ammo it fires correct from a simple google search

You're either rage baiting, or are dense as shit

[lofty dew]

new patch.

[smoky hawk]

b c they are lobotomites

[teal hull]

they outsourced mataboo to do a service then, they didn't outsource them to make anything

[hallow shadow]

Google could be incorrect. Google could tell you an AKU uses 7.62, and not 5,54.

Now, you’re SOL, because you believed what the internet told you. Instead of learning.

[smoky hawk]

they outsourced them to make the Enhanced Editions

[hallow shadow]

fallout voices intensifying
L O B O T O M I T E S

[wanton gazelle]

... The service was making EE. It's a different version of the original games.

[teal hull]

how can it be considered making it if all they did was do some terrible upscales

[fickle hill]

Paintrain

[teal hull]

as I said, that doesn't justify it being a 3rd party game

[wanton gazelle]

My God.

[smoky hawk]

they did more than upscaling but yhea, it IS terrible

[graceful dirge]

Lmao why is that? I've been wondering how editing the timescale changes for example, like how long you have to wait to get a new job from bartender etc. and haven't done much testing myself on that

[hallow shadow]

“We got an update, but it wasn’t good enough.”

Bro. These guys are literally working “away from home”.

[teal hull]

tbf, it was 2 bug fixes

[honest ferry]

any new bugs with the 1.5.2

[heavy lantern]

What's the update for? I can't find patch notes

[hallow shadow]

And there’s no silver lining in that, for you?

[teal hull]

in a lot of ways it looks straight up worse, the textures have zero life in them, especially on walls

[wanton gazelle]

There's two inconsequential fixes, it's in the announcements channel.

[hallow shadow]

Then upgrade, bro.

[graceful dirge]

yeah well whether they are at their home studio or the other one that frankly at this point they are probably pretty comfortable at in Prague, pretty lame to get stealth drop of patch with such small fixes and then no word on Q3 roadmap as if they gotta know the community isn't going to be receiving this well lol

[smoky hawk]

https://store.steampowered.com/news/app/1643320/view/525349521441423420

[honest ferry]

r you still in exiled

[smoky hawk]

want me to read it for you as well

[heavy lantern]

I mean it would be nice

[teal hull]

yes, but I don't discuss anything there

[wanton gazelle]

Please. It's like 13 words, shouldn't be too hard.

[honest ferry]

i left some time ago because jam was annoying

[teal hull]

he still is, along with the other 15 year olds that made it lol

they are quite unhinged

[heavy lantern]

Ahh it's on the steam page I had checked the stalker website I'm slow

[teal hull]

which is the entire reason it was founded, because no one else would let them stay

[smoky hawk]

https://www.naturalreaders.com/online/
here you ho

[honest ferry]

miss making fun of spraymer tho

[sturdy jacinth]

Can you read it to me 🥺?

[teal hull]

pretty sure he left actually

[heavy lantern]

STORY TIME

[teal hull]

nvm, he rejoined

[smoky hawk]

https://tenor.com/view/cat-meme-kitty-feline-kitten-gif-11096718078078430738

no

[honest ferry]

atleast he could take being made fun of unlike Jam the snowflake

[fickle hill]

Kitty got freaky

[honest ferry]

acrobatics cat

[sturdy jacinth]

Going to eat 6 rounds of 00 buck because of this tn

[heavy lantern]

Bro hit the light roll from dark souls

[formal harbor]

weird, with hilka detector even very close artifacts wont appear. am i doing something wrong?

[hallow shadow]

Bro used Lion’s Claw

[formal harbor]

i tried 1-0 distance but still nothing

[fickle hill]

Could be bugged I guess

[sturdy jacinth]

Yeah when you have the detector out, hold down left alt and press f4

That detector needs to be activated for some reason

[teal hull]

just run into the anomalies like a madman

[fickle hill]

[teal hull]

technically that would probably fix the bug too!

[formal harbor]

i tried that. no artifact + dead= lose lose situation

[fickle hill]

In big 25 people still fall for Alt F4

[honest ferry]

weird bolt will help

[sturdy jacinth]

You have to say left alt now or it doesn’t work, the people have evolved

[brittle jay]

Press the shift key 5 times

[thin apex]

big patch today

[teal hull]

anyone who chooses the spark ending had 10 years to look at scar and be like "has he become insane since clear sky?"

[sturdy jacinth]

MASSIVE patch even

[thin apex]

you know what else is massive

[sturdy jacinth]

I’m doing spark this playthrough

[honest ferry]

he probably stayed out in some more emissions

[sturdy jacinth]

Show me in DMS

[fickle hill]

NOT STICKEY KEYS

[teal hull]

he lost his chad chin

[honest ferry]

massive blowout changed him genetically

[sturdy jacinth]

Only playthrough I’m not gonna do is ward, ward sucks

[thin apex]

he might have since then you know "lost his mind" you might say

[teal hull]

he is actually insane in game though, especially when you're in the burnt forest and sitting in the vac talking to strider

[thin apex]

strelok literally shows you he's insane and the shining zone is a hoax

[teal hull]

I chose ward in my recent one, pretty happy about the story, I feel like ward is way more fleshed out than the other paths overall

[sturdy jacinth]

I called him a schizophrenic once in here and this guy tweaked out about it for 35 minutes saying I was an ableist

[teal hull]

a rare clear sky fan boy

[sturdy jacinth]

@oak junco thoughts?

[thin apex]

I called that one bald ward guy a schizo and got an essay 🥀

[teal hull]

I can not stand clear sky honestly, it's a straight inferior game to SoC in story and gameplay

[oak junco]

HORRIBLE opinon

[teal hull]

nuh

[oak junco]

Insanity

[sturdy jacinth]

Hearsay!

[teal hull]

SoC has the best story of them all, CoP has the best gunplay and artifact hunting

[smoky hawk]

absolute insane take

are you posting from a padded cell?

[teal hull]

perhaps

[smoky hawk]

all that war thunder grinding finally got to you

[teal hull]

after 4,500 hours all I want is an emission to put me to sleep before the snail does

last couple updates have been terrible too

[sturdy jacinth]

4500 hours for an L take is wild

[teal hull]

what does war thunder have to do with my padded cell trilogy opinions 😭

[smoky hawk]

you are insane, we know this because you play War Thunder, this is also the reason why you have insane and stupid opinions

[thin apex]

you cant have 4500 hours in wart hunder and not be in a padded cell

[teal hull]

sir, this is an assumption, I assure you, I have a US drivers license, therefor the state considers me sane

[smoky hawk]

its coming from me
its pure undiluted diamond hard truth spoken to me directly by god

[charred nova]

I fucken hate intel laptops so much bro

This thing is the biggest piece of shit ever

[teal hull]

dell 💫

[honest ferry]

is it yours if not steal it and sell it

i stole my company's laptop nobody noticed

fr fr

[teal hull]

probably because those things are usually 20 years old

I swear, companies and colleges are allergic to getting anything newer than 2010

[austere pagoda]

my man

[honest ferry]

nah this thing got a 8th gen intel i5

[austere pagoda]

living zone modular. alternative main mod "Battlefield Chornobyl"

[honest ferry]

definitely fine for everyday use

[teal hull]

no GPU I'm assuming

[honest ferry]

well yeah its a notebook

[teal hull]

fair

[charred nova]

Nah why would I steal this

Like stealing dirt from a park

[honest ferry]

that sad

[charred nova]

Totally dumb ass thing to do

I got an amd thinkpad p16s

That thing is fucken gas

Best laptop I’ve ever owned

Or used

For that matter

[stark crescent]

You arnt a real gamer unless you have a minimum of 4855.4 hours in war thunder

[honest ferry]

i got a p52 and its damn good

[austere pagoda]

Bro i play the snails game too wth

[charred nova]

It’s got no gpu so it runs for like 10 to 12 hours on a single charge

Goated as fuck

[teal hull]

I am convinced war thunder is for people who are scared of having nothing else to grind

[smoky hawk]

you play it bro

[teal hull]

get home for your 9-5, work a 6-12 job

[smoky hawk]

is this confession?

[austere pagoda]

idk bro my litening 2 20km atgm missiles go brrr and i enjoy it

[teal hull]

yes

I literally grind TT's just to have them sometimes

[austere pagoda]

fire and forget helicopter missiles with 8km range go brrr

[teal hull]

I've done italy ground for no reason other than "hurr durr 2a7v looks nice with .50"

[austere pagoda]

based

[honest ferry]

i stopped playing that slop after 10y

[teal hull]

I still have israel and GB to finish, same with china tier 7 and 8, but I need motivation to do those

[wanton gazelle]

I tried to get into it, but when I saw all the microtransactions, and every single YouTuber peddling their invite code, I was put off.

[teal hull]

I stopped once for like 1 year back when I had less than 2k hours

clearly intervention wasn't enough from my friends

[quiet elm]

this is the fastest ive seen gsc put out patches

[austere pagoda]

china pog, other 2 ieuw

[charred nova]

It did 2 fixes

Amazing patch

[wanton gazelle]

I mean they put some WD40 on a door hinge, that doesn't take long.

[charred nova]

[teal hull]

if GSC put out a patch every day with 1 fix, I assume this community would lose their mind as well

patch 1.5.1.1.1.11.1.1.11.1.!!!

[charred nova]

Dude

No one would play

[honest ferry]

i cant play it anymore its just massive alop as of late all they do is add 10 trillion premiums and call it a new update

[charred nova]

Because the download time would insane

[quiet elm]

i played warthunder for awhile n just realized warframe is the best f2p games will get n i weeped

[honest ferry]

look at the current update they added like 10 premiums

[teal hull]

we have evidence above to suggest that this community is effective at gaslighting themselves

[frigid hill]

nomeltsohg has been warned

Reason: Bad word usage

[charred nova]

I gaslight everyone in this chat daily

Gotta make sure the community is as toxic as possible

[quiet elm]

as far as im aware the economy is still messed up by the snail

[charred nova]

[wanton gazelle]

Bad word usage

[teal hull]

everyone has been caught off guard by the bot before

[charred nova]

Except me

[quiet elm]

bot jumpscare

[teal hull]

you come from another server and say something and get warned

[charred nova]

It’s been many moons since the bot had power over us

[honest ferry]

i would sell my wt account if i could

[charred nova]

Trade it for robux

[teal hull]

you are privileged though, we are but peasants in the eyes all of the almighty wolf

[charred nova]

[honest ferry]

i think i could atleast get 3k from it since i got rare shit there

[quiet elm]

just play warframe the grind is annoying but atleast its not forcing it down ur throat

[brittle jay]

Can we get a $5 S2 dlc that allows us to say swear words in the discord

[charred nova]

Before there was wolf all were equal under the rule of the bots

[honest ferry]

the shining zone is real

[charred nova]

Even we were not immune to his power

[teal hull]

if I sold my WT account I'd probably dump more money in star citizen like the crazed addict I am

[charred nova]

Game is ass

[teal hull]

can't have that happening

[charred nova]

Almost 1 billion dollars still total slop

[teal hull]

we were promised 1.0 in like 2020 😭

[charred nova]

Should have given poor ol me a few mil

Like just one or two yah know

[teal hull]

a worse way at looking at it is if I estimated how much I could have made in other investments with that money

[wanton gazelle]

Star Citizen was a scam from the start, not sure how it got as big as it did.

[charred nova]

They are the final boss of gas lighting

[teal hull]

honestly, dads with too much money were sold on JPG's that looked cool

[charred nova]

[honest ferry]

i want to get into DCS but my eyesight and slow reactions would get me clapped out of the air 9/10 times

[wanton gazelle]

"Hey, you can buy your own ship for $10,000! It'll be available on full launch!"

[teal hull]

still holding out for arrastra 2027 release!!!

[forest scarab]

"We fixed Shevchenko doors"
Skadovsk doors - "k, it's our time to be closed"
lmao

[honest ferry]

wait really

[forest scarab]

ye

[honest ferry]

BRUH BRUH BRUH

[charred nova]

Literally nothing ever happens

[teal hull]

I was half tempted too, but I played il-2 BoS and realized I would need to dump another $500 on stuff to have real fun in DCS

[forest scarab]

I'm trapped inside right now

[honest ferry]

so we are basically soft locked from progressing the story

[wanton gazelle]

Post the wojack

[wanton gazelle]

Yesss

[honest ferry]

WT on its way to become DCS with all the premium pacls each update

[teal hull]

it's like the lodochka door bug from the beginning

[charred nova]

I wish I could say the r word so bad

We can say retard but not the other r word

[wanton gazelle]

Rubles

[charred nova]

[teal hull]

$100 dollar premiums for a model that lacks a unique cockpit!!!

bombers have been missing cockpits for so many years now lol

and if you look at the kfir planes, a lot of them reuse the same cockpit for no reason

[wanton gazelle]

Hey at least it gets media traction from Chinese teenagers leaking outdated military specs online.

[wanton gazelle]

"Hey, we leaked Mao's Dong online, isn't it so cool? Go play WT. It's edgy."

[honest ferry]

f4 phantoms except the newer ones

[teal hull]

f-4e cockpit

[honest ferry]

gaijin has been showing that they dont care as of late and only care about money

[teal hull]

btw, have you seen that gaijin is making an extraction shooter now?

[honest ferry]

i probably funded an entire russian battalion on how much money i spent on that dogshit

no way what

[teal hull]

ye

active matter

[honest ferry]

enlisted flopped why do we need another shooter from gaijin

[teal hull]

it's really weird and honestly looks like they stole the creativity of other games and lores

[wanton gazelle]

It'll probably be just another copy pasted shooter slop. Someone makes one every week.

[honest ferry]

black ops 6 worst 110 i ever spent

i would like them back

[teal hull]

it seems to take a lot of ideas from stalker imo

[wanton gazelle]

Battle Royale game number three thousand one hundred fifty seven.

[teal hull]

not a complete copy ofc, but the idea of a zone, of anomalies, and of mutants/monsters

it just seems pretty lazy

especially coming from a russian company (that likes to work in hungary for tax reasons)

[wanton gazelle]

I guess those Russians were very hungry.

Haha

[teal hull]

ah ye, looking at it again

THEY LITERALLY STOLE THE TESLA FROM COP

[honest ferry]

who would have guessed

we should inform the EU of the sanction dodging

[teal hull]

they have a tesla in the game that is the exact as CoP

[lucid charm]

Wait how did enlisted flop? I thought it was supposed to be really good (didn’t play it)

[wanton gazelle]

Considering how long they've been doing this, I don't think EU gives a shit.

[teal hull]

the community isn't growing is a better way to put it

it's the exact opposite of war thunder
war thunder grew a lot over years, while enlisted has been stagnant mostly (outside of events)

they did a modern day event last april I think, but that's like the only interesting thing I've heard about it in a while

active matter also took the idea of the monolith faction as well

[honest ferry]

bruh

get gsc to sue gaijin maybe they dont got bankrupt

[teal hull]

the problem is, GSC went bankrupt previously, I don't actually think they can claim ownership of those things

while not illegal, this is incredibly scummy and disgusting from gaijin

jumping ship to hungary to get tax benefits, don't deal with the sanctions, all the while taking the ideas and inspirations of ukrainian devs to make their own game lol

[honest ferry]

i would love if i could thanos snap gaijin out of existence

[charred nova]

Chinese really playing hard ball when they leak the docs

[teal hull]

ohhh, they even took the general concept of bloodsuckers too

[wanton gazelle]

I like them spicy noodles.

[charred nova]

In most places you’d get a life sentence

In China they’d put a bullet in your brain

[teal hull]

I'm just waiting for a chinese person to leak the ZTZ reloads

[wanton gazelle]

Nah, they send you to the desert camps to make me spicy noodles.

[charred nova]

Fr

[teal hull]

I see lots of chinese people claim the newer ZTZ tanks can reload quicker than 6s lol

[charred nova]

They are sent to spicy noodle factory

[wanton gazelle]

Yummy

Xie xie, Ni Hao

[charred nova]

And turned into noodles

[wanton gazelle]

Eastern flavors

[honest ferry]

6.5s !

[teal hull]

they are sent to chili oil factory to forever have their eyes burn

[charred nova]

Don’t you know they reuse the chili oil

Scoop it out the sewers and reuse it

[teal hull]

the gutter richens the flavor

[strong onyx]

where roadmap? slams fists

[charred nova]

Come on bro it’s still good bro

[wanton gazelle]

I have some lao gan ma in the fridge, as well as fermented beans. Very authentic sewer flavor. Delicious.

[teal hull]

it's like blue cheese man, trust

[strong onyx]

We’re already a month into Q3, what the heck?

[charred nova]

https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/1087312673487732826/1313403866917638204/togif-1.gif

[wanton gazelle]

Next year's Q3 bro, trust me.

[charred nova]

Q3 muh balls bitch

[teal hull]

I honestly don't know what I would want from Q3 lol

[strong onyx]

Anything just anything.

[teal hull]

we aren't getting an overhaul, we aren't getting a DLC, Q3 is just gonna be more fixes

[wanton gazelle]

Night vision, CNPP, Limansk, ALife, idk. List gets pretty long.

[strong onyx]

We need more fixes though…

[teal hull]

I would love it if they focused a quarter on just quests honestly

[strong onyx]

Maybe uhhh…I dunno….performance? That would be great.

[charred nova]

How about fishing

[teal hull]

there are almost no side quests, and most main quests have you run through area after area

[strong onyx]

How about my balls?

[charred nova]

https://tenor.com/view/funny-fisherman-fish-man-hit-gif-27324127

[wanton gazelle]

Chernobyl without the power plant is like Chinese labor camp noodles without the gutter oil. Doesn't hit the same & doesn't make sense.

[teal hull]

I don't know if you want to grab whatever is in the water there

[strong onyx]

Can we blow up the reactor again?

[charred nova]

I do

[wanton gazelle]

Blow your mom up

[charred nova]

I’m gonna staple it to my armor

And it will give me super powers

[strong onyx]

I already did yours.

[teal hull]

praying for rimworld style of fishing, you get an exoskeleton

[wanton gazelle]

Damn, how'd you sneak explosives into the country?

[charred nova]

Me stapling a mutant fish to my body to gain the power to lift a car

[strong onyx]

I’m just that guy. IM the main character of this story.

[charred nova]

[wanton gazelle]

Don't cringepost pls

[charred nova]

Let’s be fucken real bitch

[strong onyx]

That’s the whole channel all the time though. Better get used to it.

[charred nova]

I’m the main character

[strong onyx]

You’re banned.

[charred nova]

Get fucked bitch

[strong onyx]

no u

But also when and where? 😌

[strong onyx]

I’ve seen worse.

Have ya seen REDDIT?

[charred nova]

Reddit who

[lapis silo]

Please don't mention that disgusting filth

[strong onyx]

Case in point, then.

[teal hull]

reddit is either anomlay/gamma questions or the purist of purists

no middle ground

[strong onyx]

Or complaining,

[charred nova]

That’s this place

[stark crescent]

new patch? OH F NO. i need to redownload the entier game AGAIN

[charred nova]

None purist will be executed

[charred nova]

It fixes 2 bugs

So gg

[teal hull]

[charred nova]

[teal hull]

I literally predicted this above

[stark crescent]

2 bugs. 10kb of code. devs forces you to redownload the entire game

[wanton gazelle]

Tonight on Bottom Gear, May forgets to add the power plant, Hammond completely annihilates the code for night vision, and Jeremy fixes a door.

[teal hull]

^

[strong onyx]

That’s Unreal Engine, to be fair.

[stark crescent]

3.6gb. huh. thats not...too bad?

[teal hull]

honestly, would have been nice if it was UE5.6

I think S2 is what, 5.1?

[stark crescent]

i think stalker 2 should have stuck with unreal 4. its way less buggy, and has the same features. with enough time, it can look as good as a ue5 game.

[teal hull]

kinda sad, maybe they'll switch eventually, cause 5.6 would fix so many issues

[strong onyx]

Yeah.

[strong onyx]

They really can’t to be fair.

[charred nova]

Heavily modified version of 5.1

[teal hull]

it would be, but I don't think UE4 can achieve the same level of detail as UE5 while running well

[stark crescent]

mechwarrior 5 is still running on unreal 4, and it looks great. modding also is easier.

[charred nova]

Honestly who even cares tbh

[strong onyx]

They can upgrade the engine but it would literally break the entire game. Every single line of code would just shit itself.

[charred nova]

Game could have Lego graphics

[stark crescent]

when you see star wars battlefront 2016 rocky maps, you will never say that another engine is better than frostbite.

[teal hull]

it's not the priority obviously, but walking around in S2 really tells you how good the world looks

[charred nova]

Eh

[teal hull]

if this was before release I wouldn't care which one it was on

[charred nova]

Stalker 2 doesn’t look very visually impressive

Frostbite engine makes more impressive graphical effects

[strong onyx]

It looks like an unreal engine game, but yeah it looks good. It just looks…realistic I guess, to an extent?

[teal hull]

tbf, I haven't played many other open world games

so my perspective is limited

[strong onyx]

Decima Engine much better.

Check out like Horizon Forbidden West from 2022, it’s still one of the best looking games imo.

[charred nova]

Like most maps in bf1 bfv or 2042 are more visually impressive than stalker 2

And I hate 2042

[strong onyx]

The devs watching us shit all over their game

[teal hull]

also, 5.1 is pretty limiting in terms of performance and lumen, lumen in 5.1 is quite unstable, which 5.6 fixes :/

[strong onyx]

The devs watching their own moderators shit all over their game

[teal hull]

they got stuck with the worst version of UE5

[strong onyx]

5.7 basically doubles the framerate, in theory.

Actually optimize the game and you could in theory triple it.

[teal hull]

already forced to run DLAA and frame gen anyways

[charred nova]

I’ll give my honest opinion till I get paid

Then I’ll do nothing but sweep for now amazing stalker 2 is

[strong onyx]

FSR 3.1 Native AA + FG here lol

[charred nova]

My honesty is easily bought and paid for

[strong onyx]

I think the anti aliasing needs work ngl,

[teal hull]

well, I wouldn't say shit talking

[strong onyx]

That gigantic white building in Rostok looks atrocious when walking around.

The game looks great until you move basically 🥲

[charred nova]

Yah your mom liked my gigantic white building too

[teal hull]

saying UE5.1 runs bad, or that lumen in 5.1 sucks isn't shit talking, the same way saying they could have achieved better with other engines is just an observation

[charred nova]

To be fair

Frostbite can’t do open worlds

Anthem learned that the hard way

Doesn’t mean visually

It’s not extremely impressive

[teal hull]

it wouldn't have the same level of grass detail is the real comparison here

[strong onyx]

You have a small pp

[wanton gazelle]

Devs don't pay attention to this chat, they let the mods handle that. That's why there's a disconnect between what they put out & what the consumer wants.

[teal hull]

UE5 does grass really well I have to say

[charred nova]

What grass detail

Stalker 2 grass looks terrible up close

[strong onyx]

Ohhhh I think they look in here sometimes, they just NEVER say anything because they know as soon as a green name pops in chat all hell breaks loose.

[torn gate]

I wouldn't say anything in this chat if I was there

[wanton gazelle]

If that's the case then boy they must be high as shit, or drunk on that premium Czech beer.

[teal hull]

ehhh, from my perspective it looks fine, much better than most games which use two 2d images and places like 5 pieces of grass

[charred nova]

Here’s some battlefield grass

[teal hull]

okay buddy, you can't beat battlefields atmosphere

[strong onyx]

Turn up the sharpness bro.

[teal hull]

BF1 and BF5 looked amazing

[teal hull]

BF5 was still a steaming pile of shit, but god did they both look amazing

[strong onyx]

Battlefield is crap now anyway, but yeah it looks good lol.

[wanton gazelle]

Again, issue with Unreal is that it's designed for mass manufacturing & ease of development. Nothing is ever perfect, because it's not personal. It's like a swiss army knife.

[charred nova]

I’m just grabbing photos off google

[wanton gazelle]

Good at many things, excellent at very little.

[strong onyx]

It’s a defective Swiss Army knife.

Send it back to the manufacture for an RMA.

[wanton gazelle]

Yeah, a rusty one.

[teal hull]

I've heard forcing the latest version of DLSS fixes a lot of these issues

[strong onyx]

I’m gonna force my DLSS on you.

[wanton gazelle]

I love fake frames. Mmm. Especially good with Chinese sewer oil spicy noodles.

[charred nova]

Frostbite engine graphically is just superior

[strong onyx]

Cyberpunk executes fake frames amazingly to be fair.

[teal hull]

nuh, play S2 with DLSS/DLAA disabled and frame gen off NOW

[wanton gazelle]

Slideshow

[teal hull]

I will smell the smoke 10 billion miles away

[strong onyx]

Won’t change anything for me.

My GPU already draws over 400w as is, so it can’t get much more heat output.

[teal hull]

it's like playing grayzone warfare without frame gen or upscaling

[wanton gazelle]

I love it when devs are incapable of optimization & completely rely on Nvidia to power their game via AI. Dystopian future.

[teal hull]

that's what games have resorted to because of laziness or lack or time

[charred nova]

Playing multiplayer games with framegen just makes you insanely disadvantaged

Erm 20 extra ms of input lag
Please

[teal hull]

the issue with grayzone is that it's almost a requirement

[wanton gazelle]

Laziness, greed, lost knowledge, firing competent employees.

[charred nova]

[teal hull]

well, more so towards the first release, grayzone does run way better now

[wanton gazelle]

I remember when S2 launched (playing with DLSS was / is mandatory), the ghosting was insane. Especially in darker areas. You'd drag your mouse & that shit was like the windows XP cursor feature where the cursor looks like it's dragging behind.