☢┃stalker-general

[safe imp]

never seen it happen anywhere else honestly

[weary hedge]

what specs

[silent valve]

The real joke is, even you'll skip via pressing space... the reload time is as you hadnt done it 😉

[still current]

There is a skip option already

Came with 1.5

[safe imp]

ryzen 5 7600, rx 6750xt 12gb, 32gb ddr5 6000mhz ram

[chrome jetty]

Literally Apex

Marvel Rivals

[chrome jetty]

Oh, sweet

[silent valve]

Senseless by used alternative time to load the game at mine

[safe imp]

i havent played apex in more than a year, i have never played marvel rivals

[chrome jetty]

I still don't have the chance to play the new updates because i still need to fix my internet connection

[weary hedge]

time for an upgrade

[safe imp]

definitely not lol

[chrome jetty]

I just named a few that do shader compiling like S2

[safe imp]

at least it's significantly faster than the first time, that took so long

[still current]

First load after game or driver update will be slower than usual. It doesn't mean something is wrong with your game or your hardware, so just let it load this time and it'll be faster then next. Ez

[chrome jetty]

Obviously with less time, due to the weight of the game

[safe imp]

no game or driver update tho

[still current]

Then, do a shader cache cleanup and let it load from scratch again. Perhaps something is wrong ig

[grave wyvern]

Then you’re cooked bro try another game like tarkov

[safe imp]

ew no

[still current]

If tarkov is a good game, then I'm a scientist with unlimited fortune.

[safe imp]

why would it need to compile them again though, my hardware and software is the exact same so why not save them like most games do? unless it's not actually shader compilation

[chrome jetty]

You could also do a complete clean of your computer, both in terms of hardware and OS, that was the best choice i made when i changed OS

[safe imp]

if it's regular game loading then it would make sense

[chrome jetty]

Re-Read what i said, plus you can skip it

[grave wyvern]

Both facts seem reasonable Mr Scientist

[chrome jetty]

Or do i copy-paste my answer?

[chrome jetty]

Let's not talk about the cheaters

At least there is co op

But it still runs like shit ngl

[safe imp]

you said "it happens to other games", doesn't answer why it needs to be done if most games don't need to do it
i can't imagine skipping it will lead to a good experience in-game either

[chrome jetty]

Scroll up again

^

[still current]

There are many reasons for it to bug, so just do a small cleanup through disk manager (go to your c: or whatever, right click mouse, and select cleanup.)

[grave wyvern]

Smh deko, can’t ready or some10? 😵‍💫

Read *

[still current]

Or through NVIDIA control panel ig (increase allocation if needed)

[safe imp]

i understand shader compilation is done for optimization purposes, there is no reason to have it happen every time on open if all it's doing is getting shaders, shader compilation files can be saved as cache and then re loaded instead of being recompiled. Now if it's doing moer than just loading the shaders, then it makes sense

[grave wyvern]

Or hear me out… he can download league of legends and live happily ever after

[still current]

Nobody likes that game it's pure dogshit

[chrome jetty]

You can still press the skip button

[safe imp]

tarkov definitely sucks

[weary hedge]

definitely yes lol

[safe imp]

still missing the point. It's fine, i think most of the mods here struggle getting the point of stuff

[silent valve]

Has NO time saving effect

[grave wyvern]

I hate tarkov, trash game, still hit though

[chrome jetty]

Do you want me to throw a bestemmia?

[safe imp]

confidently wrong

[still current]

If that so, then me saying tarkov is shit is fact by scientific decree

[chrome jetty]

You can still install mods ig

Back when it released there were mods that skipped shader compiling

[safe imp]

😱 😵 😵‍💫 🤖

[weary hedge]

ive bought a 5080 with an Ultrawide Oled monitor so that I could play the binding of isaac as usual

[grave wyvern]

I have a scientific degree, does that count?

[still current]

Only what was confirmed to work in current version of the game or ones that are officially updated by their authors

[still current]

No

You'd need at least 5 PhDs

[grave wyvern]

And by scientific degree I mean computer science, it’s got the term yanno 😈

[silent valve]

True, but the more mods the more complicated it gets after next major patch, I suppose

[grave wyvern]

Need a couple life times for 5 phds

[chrome jetty]

Literally a 2kb mod

[still current]

Not if you are a scientist

[grave wyvern]

But is a scientist a PhD?

[still current]

No, I'm speaking equivalents

[grave wyvern]

I thought we were reverse engineering

Anywho, if u are a scientist, you are a PhD by methodological reasoning, good day to you all

[still current]

Scientists are proclaimed by research done, articles, and or books in scientific fields. You'd need a specific PhD in a specific field to rightfully call yourself a scientist tho

Good day

[grave wyvern]

https://tenor.com/view/wrong-drumpf-trump-stupid-gif-6220235

[still current]

Too much Off-topic already hehe

[still current]

Even wolf said no to that

Wolf is also a scientist since tarkov is a good game

He found a way to not explode in a campfire

Carrying a 2kg worth of explosives

[grave wyvern]

Quite the imagination we have here

[silent valve]

here I thought he is just a traveller

[still current]

[safe imp]

"tarkov is a good game" might be worse than saying call of duty is a good game series

[silent valve]

CoD is a random lucker game

[safe imp]

i mean, tarkov has some cool mechanics but wow the company sucks and the community sucks even more

[grave wyvern]

Bro are you god objectifying your opinion like that

[still current]

Can you be tossed into a fire in a camp while having a 2kg explosives box on you and not explode? Huh? Only wolf managed to do it. He's clearly a scientist

[safe imp]

huh?

[grave wyvern]

Eh?

[still current]

Move on aye

[grave wyvern]

https://tenor.com/view/wrong-i-think-you-should-leave-with-tim-robinson-incorrect-you-got-it-wrong-false-gif-8877109044393951791

[pearl sable]

whats going on ere

[silent valve]

He just got wolf'ed 😄

[still current]

It's a sarcastic discussion anyway heh

[grave wyvern]

Yeah but his hate is no sarcasm ☠️ he really hates tarkov and that’s ok

[still current]

Anyone beside us, CMs, and Content makers would be wolfed anyway

So, it's not just him

[grave wyvern]

But what’s more important is how good league of legends is lately

[still current]

[still current]

Fuck it

I'm out

[silent valve]

I really hate consoles all the way and thats also ok for me^^

[still current]

I hate it too, so 🤷

Most ppl here do too

[grave wyvern]

And that’s ok, but don’t forget where ur roots are from

[still current]

My roots?

[grave wyvern]

Even I can agree with that one, does Nintendo switch 2 count?

[still current]

As far as ik it's north Africa

Lmao

Bit asian

And greek

Mixed blood

[grave wyvern]

I think the term you speak of is mutt

Or more nicely put, muggle

[still current]

I don't bite tho

[silent valve]

Im dont familiar with that...

[forest scarab]

So do I understand it correctly that Spring is far superior to the Night star? Cause Spring enhances the "green zone" of your weight, thus you can sprint with no fines with like 59 kgs, while the NS gives you plus to the max weight, but doesn't deal with the green zone, thus you will start to get a reduction right after 50 kilos

[grave wyvern]

Im a pure blood Viking

[still current]

Everyone has different roots, all that matters is whats more relevant

Even you

[grave wyvern]

https://tenor.com/view/donald-trump-wrong-not-right-gif-14695153867752834726

[still current]

Thank you wolf

Wolf knows better as I said

[grave wyvern]

I haven’t gotten that far into the story yet

I only know alpha

[charred nova]

Basically if it doesn’t compile them before hand it will do it while your playing causing massive lag spikes for the first 30ish minutes your playing

So instead it does it all at once before you start playing

[safe imp]

i understand what shaders and shader compilation are, that's why i'm confused as to why it happens every time the game is opened

[charred nova]

It takes extra long the first time

Should be much faster after time afterwards

How long it takes depends on how fast your rig is

[hardy totem]

With my rig the speed really depends on how hard I throw it

[charred nova]

True

[cyan mulch]

really fast for me to with my rig

[cedar bronze]

someone help me run this gawd damned game on my 5600g 😭

I've a 5070 but the game's so cpu bound, it like runs at 30fps on the hubs..

the gunplay feels so bad with all the input lag

[cyan mulch]

My question is why do you have a 5070 with a 5600g

[cedar bronze]

old pc got new gpu upgrade

[cyan mulch]

Thats a bottleneck

[charred nova]

That’s how it runs for everyone upgrade to 5700x3d

That’s literally the only solution lol

[cedar bronze]

damn..

question.. why is it so cpu intensive?

[cyan mulch]

Your running a cpu that support ddr4 3200 you need a upgrade

[safe imp]

on my pc it runs at around 60 to 70, in the first hub, outside it's smooth 144 on medium graphics with xess set to ultra quality+

[cyan mulch]

Because of NPC's and ALIFE

[safe imp]

without xess i get like 50 in the hub and around 110 outside

[charred nova]

Poorly optimized physics calculations related to npcs

[cedar bronze]

for me, upscaling makes no diff, my gpu barealy gets to 60% usage

[safe imp]

that's because you have a new gpu and an old cpu

[cyan mulch]

You have a bottleneck my man, You need a better cpu

[charred nova]

Your cpu is massively holding you back sorry

[cedar bronze]

oh cmon, that's not THAT old. ddr4 is still relevant.

[safe imp]

i also have fsr enabled

[safe imp]

i mean clearly not

[cyan mulch]

But with the speed of 3200?

[cedar bronze]

oki, a 5800x would be ok right?

[cedar bronze]

why would ram speed even matter?

[safe imp]

cause you're loading things wdym

[charred nova]

If you don’t get a cpu with v cache it’s a waste of time

[safe imp]

id say you should get an am5 motherboard and redo the whole setup besides your gpu but that is definitely costly

[cedar bronze]

uha, cache might be the issue.. true

[safe imp]

i don't have an x3d and my cpu is on around 60 to 70 and my gpu is at 100

[charred nova]

X3d cpus are orders of magnitude more powerful for gaming compared to the regular cpus

[cyan mulch]

AI Overview
Faster RAM speed is desirable because it allows for quicker data transfer between the CPU and RAM, improving overall system responsiveness and performance, especially in tasks that demand heavy computation or multitasking. This leads to faster application loading times, smoother multitasking, and potentially enhanced CPU performance in certain scenarios.

[charred nova]

Actually I think bro is hosed

They have discontinued all the 8 core am4 v cache CPUs

[cedar bronze]

if that were an option, i wouldn't be askin these question. I jus don't have the budget, plus My pc runs ALL other games very fine, yes there's cpu bottleneck sometimes but it's never this bad. This performence is straight up weird to me.

[charred nova]

They ran out

You can always massively overpay on eBay

[safe imp]

the game is very cpu demanding due to all of the stalker life stuff going on all around you, it's just how it is

[cyan mulch]

STALKER 2 is heavily CPU intensive

There are rarely games that are cpu intensive as stalker 2 is

[safe imp]

it could certainly be made better and it might improve in the future but that's how it is at the moment

[safe imp]

i thought they were releasing a new one

[cedar bronze]

u are missing the point, the 3200 mhz rams have ran games like cyberpunk 2077, oblivion remastered (majorly unoptimized game btw) and so many other stuff. It has clearly been capable, and from what I see, stalker 2 npcs are good but in no way an improvement over the afformentioned games.

[cedar bronze]

ic ic, ok, thanks. got it

[safe imp]

neither of those games have the kind of npc mechanics stalker has

[cedar bronze]

Imma try to find a second hand one maybe to run a few months.

[cedar bronze]

bethesda's
"radient ai" thingy is very similar to A Life no?

[safe imp]

cyberpunk's NPCs walk on the road and despawn when you don't see them, oblivion remastered NPCs are barely capable of pathfinding to you

[cyan mulch]

Cyberpunk has fixed npcs paths thats alot diffrent from what you have in stalker 2

[charred nova]

Nope they sold all the remaining silicon they had

[safe imp]

nowhere near as similiar

[charred nova]

The only skus you can still buy new are the 5600x3d and 5500x3d

[safe imp]

stalker's is much more in depth, all oblivion does is have people have set routines and sometimes they get mad and have fights

[cyan mulch]

If anything i'd call it a poor mans A-Life

[safe imp]

and remastered literally made them dumber on that side

[cedar bronze]

ic ic. ok ok

[safe imp]

is there a way to increase carry weight?

[cyan mulch]

Artifacts

Or do suit upgrades

There some upgrades on some suits that let you carry more weight or a upgrade that recudes that armor wight so you have more in your inventory

[cedar bronze]

I wish they gave us an option to limit the radius of how much range around me ALife is active on. 🥹

[safe imp]

you're also running a G series cpu which is significantly worse than non-G cpus
i never understood why people buy these genuinely

[cyan mulch]

I know you think you might want that but trust me, A-Life is a huge part of the game if you reduce it to much you will barely see any

[safe imp]

it would be a better purchase to buy an older cpu that's not G instead of a newer G series one

[cedar bronze]

it's a old system. i didn't even have a gpu back then. I'm not demanding the system. I'm jus sayin it'll be nice to have for us poor ppl

[safe imp]

oh yeah if you didnt have a gpu then G for sure

the ai calculations are definitely a bit much and they kill CPUs, i'm sure there's something in the works to optimise it, but sadly for now it it what it is

it makes sense the upscaling tech doesn't help you if you're so cpu bound

[cedar bronze]

basically in 2022, my whole pc kinda died on a power surge, I needed a pc asap for work so I bought an apu, and the the radon igpu could run valo fine on 1080 so I got the g.

I'll try to get a 5900x or 5800x if I can find one, or I guess I'm stuck at 29 fps every gunfight with humans

[safe imp]

i don't think those will be a huge upgrade honestly

[cedar bronze]

yup, I was so confused at first cus my cpu is way stronger than the recomended gpu on steam page, then I realized the min cpu requirement was a 5600 and I realized I've 16mb l2, that's probably the issue

[charred nova]

You need v cache

[safe imp]

not necessarily, you just need a decent cpu, or v cache

[charred nova]

A decent cpu for am4 is v cache

[safe imp]

oh yeah for am4 for sure

[cedar bronze]

oh, I need the x3d.. uff.. they're so unavailable

[honest ferry]

9800x3d too weak

[charred nova]

Your 1 year too late to the party

[cyan mulch]

yeah i have zero clues about AMD cpus so i won't talk

[safe imp]

try a Celeron

[cyan mulch]

NO

[safe imp]

try a core duo

my first real pc had that and a 1030 lol

[charred nova]

Reason no buys Intel anymore is because of x3d

[cyan mulch]

AMD will never enter my house

[safe imp]

intel is good in the gap between am4 and am5

[cyan mulch]

Other then the base console components

[charred nova]

You’ll always be lackin then

[safe imp]

you can get really good prices on intel cpus that sit nicely inbetween there

[charred nova]

[safe imp]

but as soon as you get into am5 price range anything am5 is better and cheaper

[charred nova]

Intel CPUs have sucked for years

[cyan mulch]

Maybe, but at list a 5 year old does not write the drivers

[honest ferry]

same what i said to myself and then eneded up getting amd

[safe imp]

does stalker 2 run on linux? could be worth a try if your cpu usage is so bad

[charred nova]

Intel literally purged all of there drivers completely in 2019

[honest ferry]

intel still cant beat the x3d chips in gaming performance

[charred nova]

Every single legacy bios for Intel products was destroyed over night

[honest ferry]

cant wait to see what they will release this year

[safe imp]

stuck in 2016 final boss

[cyan mulch]

But i never had a single intel driver issue 🤣

[safe imp]

and I've never had an issue with amd chipset drivers lol

[charred nova]

How would you have a driver issue with a cpu

That sounds like an achievement tbh

[honest ferry]

you can only have lower performance/crashes/gradual degradation

[cyan mulch]

system instability, performance problems, or even complete system crashes

[safe imp]

intel 14000k microcode bugs throwback:

[charred nova]

Happened to my buddy

His 14900k even with the bios update

[safe imp]

sounds like a 14000k

[charred nova]

Died due to silicon rot

[safe imp]

new elden ring debuff

[charred nova]

Installed him with a 9800x3d all his problems went away

[honest ferry]

nah you will pay insane amount for the core ultras and have less performance than on the x3d chips

[cyan mulch]

Yeah my i7-13700K id doing a fantastic job 👍

[safe imp]

can you believe some 14 gen cpus are still having overheating issues? intel claimed they found a fix 4 times now

[honest ferry]

13th gen is the last non issue ridden intel serie of cpus

[charred nova]

No

[honest ferry]

there were some but nowehre close to the 14th

[charred nova]

They are also riddled with the rot issue

[safe imp]

no they were affected but their problem was fixed early on

[charred nova]

So they say

Buttttttt

[honest ferry]

12900k

[charred nova]

As I just said it seems to happen anyways

[safe imp]

14th gen mostly but yeah

I've seen plenty of people have 14th gen issues in tech support

[charred nova]

But any system instability with Ryzen in modern day is caused by your motherboard

[honest ferry]

you will buy the socket 1851 cpu and you will like less performance for more money!!!

[charred nova]

Like I know my asus board

Is known for being a little wacky

[safe imp]

Intel also can't seem to settle on a chipset

[honest ferry]

ASrock boards cooking the 9800x3d was a cuase for concern

[safe imp]

they keep making new motherboard types cause they keep messing it up

[honest ferry]

this year we are getting a new one so they compleatly abandoned the 1851 ultras

[safe imp]

shocking!

[charred nova]

Amd is actually afraid of the new nova lake

[safe imp]

but intel is better and more stable btw

[honest ferry]

intel is collapsing

[charred nova]

Because it will have an Intel version of v cache

[honest ferry]

they cancelled the chip plant in germany was half way done

[charred nova]

They were afraid enough they shelled out the big bucks for the flagship tsmc 2nm mode

[safe imp]

yeah amd is slightly overpriced on the 3d cache cores, they should be scared

[honest ferry]

comeback of intel surely

[safe imp]

the only thing i believe intel can do now is their graphics cards, they seem very promising

[charred nova]

I wouldn’t hold my breath amd is cooking up a monster

[thin apex]

they're not continuing with LGA1851? that seems absurd

[honest ferry]

no

[safe imp]

you will buy a new motherboard every 2 minutes and you will like it

[thin apex]

I wouldn't even consider modern ARL to be bad hardware especially for encoding/enterprise/IMCs

[charred nova]

Broken silicon leaked that 7ghz with increased ipc may be the target for zen6

[honest ferry]

Klaus Schwab talking

[safe imp]

we don't really need more ghz 😭

[honest ferry]

you will own nothing and be happy

you will eat ze bugz and live in ze pod

[charred nova]

We do

More ghz more better

[safe imp]

at this point we need cache and more efficient thermals

[thin apex]

do you mean the instability?

[safe imp]

yeah the cpus melting themselves

i believe in the ARM uprising with snapdragon, they just need time but arm is the future 100%

[honest ferry]

i mean they went around bragging about finally patching the ultras performance issues when people got to test it barely any improvement in some games even less performance

[thin apex]

they didn't melt themselves but also if someone had not undated their bios or was using a damaged chip and didn't warrenty it then that would explain why

[safe imp]

it still happens with updated bios versions

[charred nova]

Cache doesn’t scale infinitely

[thin apex]

they arnt able to just reverse damage but you are able to just get a warrenty and replace it

[charred nova]

It’s why dual ccd CPUs don’t have cache on both ccds

[safe imp]

apple kinda proved arm is the future now we just need it to slowly be used more

m series chips are ridiculously efficient

snapdragon for sure can do it i believe in them

[thin apex]

snapdragon can NOT do it

[honest ferry]

apple lied they said the m4 chip will have near equal graphics processing power to the 4090

[fallen latch]

apple on smth

[safe imp]

they must

[charred nova]

They did the test assuming the 4090 could only use like 150 watts

[safe imp]

i can run faster than usain bolt. quick, cut one of his legs

[honest ferry]

and then again half of the games dont work on mac os

[cyan mulch]

How many games do you even have ported to the mac os

[safe imp]

not many, and emulating x86 is still not ready

[honest ferry]

estimated 6x less on mac

[charred nova]

They do now

They released a translation layer

For metal api

[safe imp]

oh what? it can't be good though right

[charred nova]

Ehhh

[safe imp]

i would've heard about it if it was

[charred nova]

It works better in some things than others

[honest ferry]

probably still doesn't fully utilise the specs

[charred nova]

Like you can launch cyberpunk

At 20fps

[cyan mulch]

sounds exactly the Linux of the steam os lol

[safe imp]

i think the bad cpu guy should try linux

[charred nova]

Oh no that’s way better than metal

[safe imp]

proton is insane

[honest ferry]

holy gaming power

[safe imp]

everything I've tried under Linux runs incredibly better, and my Linux install was on a sata ssd my Windows is on an nvme

[cyan mulch]

I have a steam deck, It goes around and comes around some games run better or worse

[safe imp]

that's cause it's a handheld

[honest ferry]

i need to oc my 3090ti

[safe imp]

limited power, try steamos or bazzite on your PC lol see the difference

[charred nova]

They don’t oc much

You can thank Samsung for that one

[honest ferry]

indeed

i can get 200mhz more out of it then it starts crashing

[safe imp]

i Will overclock my 3090ti to +2000mhz

[charred nova]

I could only get 30 from my 3090

Thing was a turbo nugget

[safe imp]

i Will explode

[charred nova]

It could do like 2000 on the memory though

[safe imp]

i haven't overclocked in a long time never really saw benefits that were worthy

[honest ferry]

i managed 75mhz and 200 on memeory

runs hot in my itx case

[safe imp]

i could try it a little on my 6750xt, though I don't see OCing in a good light

[charred nova]

The 7900 xtx was the oc king

[safe imp]

like my temps are okay i don't go above 85° even on stress tests so i could handle a bit more

[charred nova]

With a 700 watt power limit and water

It could oc by 30 percent

[safe imp]

my case is huge i could fill it with water

[honest ferry]

i simp for the founders edition i think i will get a 4080 or 4090 founders next

[charred nova]

I think they are insanely ugly

[honest ferry]

4080s are dirt cheap rn

[honest ferry]

i like my 2.5kg metal bricks

i can bludgeon someone to death with one

[charred nova]

They don’t look cool

Asus makes better looking brick cards

[honest ferry]

i dont agree i like minimalistic

[charred nova]

They are minimalistic

It’s literally a giant block

[safe imp]

fe cards look disgusting 😭

[charred nova]

[honest ferry]

they arent founders!

[charred nova]

The last cool founders card

[honest ferry]

everyone has their opinion

[charred nova]

Was the 2080 super

Everything after that wouldn’t touch with a 20 foot pole

[honest ferry]

i had a guy offer me 700 for it because he collects FE cards

[safe imp]

google "minecraft immersive engineering steel ingot" and put that against a 4090 fe

or better graphite ingot from extreme reactors

[honest ferry]

4090 fe looks like an iron ingot

that protoype 4090 titan card bruh its so thick its 4 slots

[safe imp]

feels more like brutalism than minimalism

[honest ferry]

soviet onion

[safe imp]

the united carrots

[charred nova]

Like this is just way cooler

And I know a lot of people hate brick cards

[safe imp]

bit tachy maybe

[charred nova]

But as far as brick cards go

Way better

[honest ferry]

too flashy for me

[safe imp]

look up yeston 7700xt then lol

[honest ferry]

[safe imp]

id personally cover the backplate with white paint cause i don't like the anime BS but the front of the card looks really cool

[honest ferry]

i wanted the red devil 9070xt white

[safe imp]

most yeston designs are amazing, the 5070 looks great

[charred nova]

I have the red devil in black

[honest ferry]

its all white

[safe imp]

800€ lol

[charred nova]

So true

[honest ferry]

that looks like a child 😭

[safe imp]

yeah the anime is the only thing I'd wipe out

the designs look really cool, the anime is pretty lame

[charred nova]

That gpu is apparently scented

It smells like the ocean

I’m fucken serious

[safe imp]

so sea salt

[charred nova]

[safe imp]

it's probably on the pink stuff on the fans

still their designs are sick minus the anime

[honest ferry]

sea salt where are you

[safe imp]

their 9060xt is so tachy lol

[charred nova]

They also made this

Evga inspired

[safe imp]

that looks like a valorant skin, still though really cool

[honest ferry]

man i always wanted the evga 1080ti

[charred nova]

Just buy one

They are basically worthless now

[honest ferry]

put it on display real

[safe imp]

that would fit so well in one of those super ugly "Gaming Cases" from 2015-2018 where they were really weird shapes

i could never get the hype for those, man they were ugly

[charred nova]

Hey

The base pro pyramid case was cool okay

[honest ferry]

Bass pro shop

[safe imp]

that's not what i meant

https://www.pcspecialist.co.uk/forums/threads/ugly-cases.26260/ take a gander lol

especially look at the blue one scroll down a little

[honest ferry]

kinda like the coolermaster ngl

[safe imp]

its not even the ones im referencing but man they're bad

[honest ferry]

dubai 5 star hotel

[safe imp]

microwave 😭

[charred nova]

Like tell me that’s not cool

[safe imp]

it is cool but like your pc will blow up

[charred nova]

You gotta water cool it

[safe imp]

looks like there isn't much space for that

but yeah it looks like if you air cool you'll maybe run an i3

[charred nova]

Nah

[safe imp]

https://www.trendhunter.com/amp/trends/aftershock-pc-case this is almost what im referencing

it just looks like a tornado unfortunately hit your setup to me

[charred nova]

I mean it’s like abstract art

[safe imp]

if i catch anyone selling an used PC with cases like this one I'm asking for money to take it

[honest ferry]

my back is killing me

[safe imp]

sorry i was a bit harsh

[charred nova]

https://www.azza.gg/collections/unlimited

They make some cool cases

[honest ferry]

and tomorrow 16h journey awaits

[charred nova]

The cube is sick

[charred nova]

16 hour drive!

[honest ferry]

thankfully not im taking the bus

[charred nova]

Dude no fun

[safe imp]

only ugly one is the opus on first glance

[charred nova]

I’d have driven the whole way

[safe imp]

which exact city and bus stop are you going to?

[safe imp]

I'd have walked

[honest ferry]

driving 16h on the highway is 😴

[safe imp]

put a brick on the accelerator

[charred nova]

In an auto maybe

[honest ferry]

buy tesla to drive itself

[safe imp]

15 dead

[charred nova]

When really get that bored you can just rev match between top gear and the one below back and forth

[honest ferry]

but 1 week on the beach will be nice

[charred nova]

Infinite fun

[safe imp]

gearbox roulette

[honest ferry]

moneyshift it

[languid root]

Monolith <>

[safe imp]

who will die first, you, the gearbox, or everyone around you

[honest ferry]

you cant kill a god, just as you cant get rid of the sky above

[charred nova]

Probably none of the above unless it’s a ford or a dodge

[honest ferry]

ford will break down

[safe imp]

quickly downshift to 2nd gear from 5th to make your engine clear up all of the debris

and the pistons

[honest ferry]

shit out all the broken pistons

[charred nova]

You can depending on how fast your going

And how high your rev limit is

[languid root]

Forever Monolith is GOD

[safe imp]

we are not in a v10

[fallen latch]

clear out the carbon deposits
or the deposits of engine components in ur engine, pfft who needs those

[charred nova]

We might be in a Honda though

[safe imp]

that'll make it so vtec kicks in and you get a boost of 400 hrsprs

[fallen latch]

average honda at 9k rpm at 120kph

[safe imp]

get to 8000rpm 5th gear in a civic then downshift to 4th, it's like activating burst nitrous in nfs unbound

[charred nova]

Not even that hard core Into Hondas

There Ight but much rather have other things

[honest ferry]

my work car yelling at me going 120 in 5th

[safe imp]

give me a lexus

[blazing fox]

Does someone have good gun mod recommendations? (Anomaly) I can't type on Anomaly server for some reason that's why I'm asking here

[safe imp]

i love the story of lexus its so stupid

toyota just kinda forgot to tell people "hey we can make luxury performance cars too, not just small cars" so they had to make up a fake brand

[honest ferry]

i think lexus has some nice cars

[safe imp]

they definitely do

besides suvs i dont like suvs at all man they're boring

just go for volvo at that point

[fallen latch]

i really like their version of the corolla

[honest ferry]

tho personally i kinda want a kia stinger gt when im done with apprenticeship

[fallen latch]

kia broooo
are they that good?

i want a '01 impreza or wrx so bad

[honest ferry]

kia stinger is nice

[safe imp]

i like the suzuki swift as a whole

[honest ferry]

blows out a piston on high rev

[fallen latch]

i think i just need a subaru, then my life is complete
stingers look cool but I'm not a kia fan, maybe it's coz they use stingers where i live as cop cars

[safe imp]

hard to believe all these cars are in stalker

[fallen latch]

yeah, if u redline it at every stoplight smh

[safe imp]

the rx7 treatment

[fallen latch]

u just haven't seem em, that's why
they're all in strelok's garage

[safe imp]

rx8*

[fallen latch]

eesh

[honest ferry]

replacement for the death trucks

[safe imp]

so when i finish the game i get a lancer evo IX?

[fallen latch]

yup, u get to tokyo drift out of the zone

[charred nova]

True for both

[safe imp]

rx8 more so

i never liked the rx8 purely based on its looks, so ugly to me, supra mk4 v2

[fallen latch]

i actually like the rx8 cosmetically

[honest ferry]

rx8 had the rotary right

[safe imp]

last rotary

caused the death of it cause people just didn't understand how to use them

[honest ferry]

there is some nice rx 7s on sale

[fallen latch]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mazda_MX-30

[honest ferry]

old ones

[safe imp]

rx7 spirit 🤤

[honest ferry]

1989

[charred nova]

Yah where Japan

[fallen latch]

mmrfhhh
so expensive tho now

[charred nova]

You can’t even import them yet

2 more years

[safe imp]

sure u can just dont tell the authorities

[honest ferry]

my system craves white monster rn

red interior

[charred nova]

Not even worth imo

I’d feel bad modifying it

[honest ferry]

look at this one Mazda RX-7 für 12.777 € https://share.google/sVcEs79v2erfvCifT

[safe imp]

nismo gtr r34😍

[honest ferry]

bruh

[fallen latch]

vanilla ahh (kidding, r33's more my thing tho

[charred nova]

If you got like 3 million bux sure

[honest ferry]

first time i am gonna say that i like red interior in a car

[safe imp]

lancia delta integrale 😍

[fallen latch]

true, i'd just put suspension, wheels tires n all that
maybe an exhaust, and if i had infinite money a re-amemiya body kit

[safe imp]

old alfa romeo 33 stradale... i don't have 45 million € tho

[fallen latch]

group b baby
i'd rather the crazy quatro, 5 cylinder is actually the sound of my soul

[charred nova]

The stock turbo system are insanely unreliable

So I’d throw it straight in the trash

[fallen latch]

true, the twin turbo i've heard aint it

[charred nova]

They are fun

Till they break

Which they will

[fallen latch]

aren't they alll

[charred nova]

Replace it with one big turbo

No more problems

Or get a tri rotor

[safe imp]

lambo miura...

[fallen latch]

exactlyy

[safe imp]

my actual basic pick is a mclaren p1, but i like it specifically in purple

[fallen latch]

everyone wants supercar this and hypercar that
i got realistic goals

[dry siren]

i love my toz-34

[dry siren]

VAZ-2106

[fallen latch]

my fave car

[fallen latch]

la da

[dry siren]

ZAZ-968M :3

[safe imp]

Nissan stagea with the gtr kits looks so fire

[safe imp]

i like pistol gameplay a lot like a looot

any game i play i love going in with a silenced pistol

sadly in this game the stealth seems a bit scuffed

[charred nova]

I think they are frankly just lame

[fallen latch]

it's good now, I think it's working fine

[charred nova]

If it can’t modify them

Why bother

I don’t want a collectors item

I want a car that’s extremely fun to drive first and above all else

Manual gear box 3 pedals

[fallen latch]

me too, there's no character, they all look the same, and you're automatically percieved as a dumbahh for driving one
I could go on...
I just want my old small japanese rally cars man

[safe imp]

I've always wanted to set up a big fallout 4 modpack centered around realism, removing the RPG part and making guns real and lethal, i love the world but I can't stand the rpg gameplay

[dry siren]

Clear Sky is my favorite

i can snipe duty with the AKS-74U

[safe imp]

supercars are kinda boring but i really like reading about the technology used in them

the aks bullet drop seems a bit extreme to me in stalker 2 i picked up one with an acog attached and the bullet drop is crazy

[dry siren]

i wanna buy a real over & under shotgun

[safe imp]

what's over and under?

[dry siren]

they're like 500 bucks in my area

[charred nova]

If I had to pick 2 cars and only 2 I’d have a 2006 wrx sti and a 1991 rx7

[dry siren]

one barrel over the other, like the toz-34

[safe imp]

ooh okay

[fallen latch]

great choices
i'd have an 01 sti and something else coz i like too many other cars

[charred nova]

The 01 is cooler looking but mechanically it’s a massive downgrade

Which is a huge bummer

[safe imp]

id love a vector with a big mag and those silencers that sit nicely and look like an extension of the barrel

could be a fake one i just like the aesthetic of it

make it white

[fallen latch]

i don't care tbh, i think the 01 is the best looking and it captures my heart the most

im not going to be speeding, i wanna keep driving LOL

[dry siren]

i want a 1984 VAZ-2106 and a 1976 GAZ-24

i love my little buckets on wheels

[safe imp]

id like a lancer evo X and a lotus exige, but as daily id drive a golf

[charred nova]

It’s not about speeding it’s about knowing where to do it

[safe imp]

mkbhd moment?

[fallen latch]

trueee (allegedly)

[dry siren]

i do the same

[fallen latch]

ALLEGEDLY

[meager crag]

Real

[dry siren]

sometimes i go 60+ in a 40 zone

[safe imp]

as someone said, speed doesn't kill you, its suddenly coming to a stop that does

[fallen latch]

truest statement ever

[charred nova]

I know such a place it’s a 34 mile mountain pass in the middle of a forest

[dry siren]

the road's too damn straight to go so slow, and no one lives on it

[charred nova]

No one around for miles at night

No one ever goes there

The cops don’t either

They figure if you crash your dead anyways so who cares

[meager crag]

Cops? I thought those were a myth made up to make people scared

[charred nova]

[safe imp]

living in italy speeding and getting away with it is as hard as winning the lottery

[dry siren]

georgia state patrol 🪦

[safe imp]

0% chance of escaping

[charred nova]

Unlucky

Massachusetts drivers past like 10pm

The fast lane is typically going 100mph or more

I once saw a guy going probably 140 maybe even more in a civic

Bro was insane

[fickle hill]

NOT THE CIVIC

[charred nova]

Civic drivers are insane bro

[fallen latch]

average civic driver

[meager crag]

You can speed over here without much fear of getting caught, at least where I come from

Police doesn't exactly exist

But the roads are usually busy enough so you don't really do or at least I don't

[charred nova]

You also live not too far from the autobahn

Life is so unfair

[meager crag]

Bruh I'm not from Germany

[charred nova]

Yah but you live close to it

[meager crag]

Go to Germ, I guess?

[charred nova]

I can’t drive my car to autobahn

Unfortunately no one has yet built a car tunnel from North America to Europe

[meager crag]

I call skill issue

[charred nova]

Yah it is skill issue

They should do it

[meager crag]

Fr

[charred nova]

Technically it was planned at some point

To make a tunnel from Russia to Alaska but

Big surprise

That didn’t happen

[meager crag]

Wow, that really surprised me

Didn't see that one coming

[fierce sequoia]

Thank God

[charred nova]

Wow bro

Talk about fun police

[meager crag]

For cars and motorcycles tho. It'd be the most Nod thing ever bro

[charred nova]

You could go from like Canada to Greenland to Iceland and then some northern uk islands and then the uk

[meager crag]

And then you wouldn't have a Highway Patrol but Underwater Patrol

[charred nova]

Yes

And under water hotels probably

And gas stations

Would be extremely cool to see but you’d need to find like 500 billion dollars

And also get a whole bunch of countries to all agree

[wary geyser]

Why im feeling like shader compiling take longer than it used to

[stark crescent]

cause it really does

just skip it man. game will load in perfectly when ur ingame

im playing the outer worlds rn, after i played stalker 2, and im suprised how smooth the game loads the save, no issues at all 😅

[thin apex]

atleast stalker wasn't made by bethesda

otherwise you would go to enter slag heap and get hit with a minute long load screen

goes to enter random building in wilderness, boom load screen, and then it's just 2 rooms the size of a studio apartment

[meager crag]

It'd be called the Ash Heap in that case

[stark crescent]

depends which game. fallout 4 wasnt that heavy on the loading screens. i dunno why they did that with starfield

[primal nimbus]

Wtf showed up at Rostok and Freedom’s Leader and Bogey are interrogating a Freedomer. Wtf’s going on.

I just did Half Life arc at SIRCAA and came back to this shit.

Alex Frei’s the dudes name

[thin apex]

starfield was so aggregious it wasnt even funny, load screen out of your ship, load screen for essentially every building and you had to watch like 3 seperate lsod screens whenever you TPd to a new planet and the game didn't even let you actually fly to a new planet you would just TP

and despite none of the buildings interiors being rendered the environment looked like literal ass especially the home planet when you look at the horizon from your apartment or at the waterfall it looks like it's from 2004

[stark crescent]

i agree, it wasnt much of an improvement over fallout 4. its obvious the think tank of bethesda was drained by the time they made starfield.

[thin apex]

the most annoying thing is that it had some really really good in depth side missions storylines that felt like their own story and had lore and game implications and weren't just a, hey I lost my (thing) go get it for me

[slow crypt]

cop be like

[stark crescent]

i liked the ship building!

too bad you couldnt do much flying around. like you said, you couldnt exactly fly yourself from one planet to another

[thin apex]

I wanted elite dangerous levels of ship flight/space exploration

that game was so cool especially in VR

[primal nimbus]

Generally curious about what I asked earlier:

Myklukha and Bogey started interrogating Alex Frei over something. However, I have it in Ukrainian dub with EN sub, a nearby Freedomer’s line canceled out what I was reading. Best I got was Frei got caught hanging near Chemical Plant for something. Could anyone fill me best in?

[cold wadi]

is there any way to optimize the game better? im brand new 120 fps and 50 1% low on a 5080

[stark crescent]

resolution?

[cold wadi]

3440x1440

[honest ferry]

no fg?

[stark crescent]

4k

120 fps on 4k seems very good to me, actually

[cold wadi]

i mean

its nice FPS, but doesnt feel like real fps, stutters, feels choppy?

[kindred fable]

I don't really remember the exact lines but, basically, he was a rat trying to sell the info about freedom in other places. The thing is: Myklukha was giving him deathinformation so it didn't hurt them

Yeah, they are letting him go too, saying that nobody will accept him anywhere anyways and he won't last long... Something like that

[cold wadi]

and no i dont use frame gen

[stark crescent]

well sure, that stutter is because the game is unoptimized as hell, and has trouble with loading in game assets. dont know if you notice the long shader preloading taking place

[cold wadi]

yeah i let them preload, isnt there a way to improve this stutter? it feels constant

it doesnt feel like im playing on a 5080 for sure

[kindred fable]

Currently there are no real solutions and nobody knows if all these problems will be solved in the future

[stark crescent]

cant really fix game upoptimization and memory leaks, thats something the devs need to fix. or waiting for a modder to figure out the difficulties and fix it that way

[cold wadi]

alr thanks for feedback, saw somewhere disabling gsync was positive?

[stark crescent]

can try lowering objecty details and environment draw distance. should limit the stutters

[primal nimbus]

This is the first time I encountered this, out of all 3 play throughs. I should’ve known there’s more to Bogey missing from his usual spot next to Ganja.

[stark crescent]

still. game is a mess. cant fix that

[cold wadi]

xD well yeah i hope it gets sorted, got a lot of good potentional

[stark crescent]

last time i saw such poor optimization was...

mass effect andromeda.

oh god. force developers to use a new engine, and they didnt even had any tools to work with that engine, so they had to make those themselves as well.

[cold wadi]

UE5 games is known for this uhhh bad optimized stuff though

[stark crescent]

its why the 2017 star wars battlefront didnt had a campaign. DICE literally couldnt make a campaign cause they couldnt make the characters move cinematic and shit.

[cold wadi]

have seen 1 decently good UE5 game and thats arc raiders

good fidelity engine, horrible for the daily gamer

[smoky hawk]

so its a bad engine

[stark crescent]

stellar blade?

[kindred fable]

The issue here is that most problems come from stuff that can be done outside of the engine so lots of stutters, fps drops and such (In stalker 2) aren't really UE5 issues (although I hate Lumen and Nanite)

[cold wadi]

havent played it

[stark crescent]

stellar blade still uses unreal 4. thought it used 5

[cold wadi]

splitgate 2 also, UE5 arena shooter with texture loading issues, unstable asf fps

so yes, bad

[unreal orchid]

Hi guys

[kindred fable]

Stalker 2 should've been made on godot

[stark crescent]

black myth wukong is on unreal 5. havnt played the game so i cant say if it has the same shadow issues stalker has

[smoky hawk]

vbery good question
would S2 be worse? prob...

[cold wadi]

ue4 is more stable then 5 yeah, 5 looks insane, but like every game released this year using UE5 have performance issues

[cold wadi]

very hard game to run

[stark crescent]

and borderlands 4 will use a heavily modified version of unreal 5, so it wouldnt be a good comparisment

since they use different art style and all

[cold wadi]

can be as low as 46 fps with framegen off on a 5080*

[stark crescent]

elder scrolls oblivion remastered is on unreal 5 appearently

[cold wadi]

i played like 10 minutes and got confused 👍

i mean been a bad year off unoptimized games imo

[stark crescent]

its weird how sony's team is able to provide better optimized playstation ports than people making games specific for pc

i guess thats their entire tactic. in a market saturated with bad games, and their consoles losing market share, they atleast got quality as a one up on others

playing the waiting game, and doing this now. i mean, stellar blade sold a million copies in just 3 days. and that alone was enough to be a third of all copies sold for the entire lenght the game is released.

sure, pc gamers have the choice of games. but theres a difference between one game to the other. we can play a hundred bad pc games, it still wouldnt matter if we can get that 1 good game.

anyone seen that new animation from goddess of victory? the quality is so good.

it really gets your blood pumping

[cyan mulch]

BANG BANG BANG PULL THE DEVIL TRIGGER

[vestal pine]

Its been a while everyone

[wary goblet]

[kindred fable]

Wasn't the last of us blamed for being a bad port?

[primal nimbus]

When did that become an addition to Stalker 2 tho? I doubt its been there since launch

[kindred fable]

I don't know, I've only left the Lesser Zone after 1.5 patch was released

[primal nimbus]

Danggg

[stark crescent]

hmm. released april 3rd this year. steam reviews seem to be very positive.

[stark crescent]

i think i did remember reading people had problems with it. but those problems dont seem to be there now

[kindred fable]

Fair enough

[stark crescent]

which is a good thing

means the company who did the porting listened to the issues and fixed them

[lucid charm]

I’m not near my Xbox right now but I saw something about a patch 1.6 is it out yet, or has it just been announced

[kindred fable]

Not out yet

Probably will be out in 2-3 weeks

But nobody knows for sure

Maybe even longer than that

[lucid charm]

Not the answer I was hoping for, but it is appreciated nonetheless.

[stuck seal]

Can other ammo types still be used even if you do a caliber change upgrade. Like I know when changing the integral you have to use .45 but for like the three line, it says it needs high quality to function properly. Can you still use ball ammo for it?

[kindred fable]

Just save before buying the upgrade and check it out for yourself

[stuck seal]

That’s true

[lucid charm]

You can use armor piercing (green) and HQ (purple) but you can no longer use the base ammo

At least with the mosin

[stuck seal]

Just found it odd that a few guns say caliber change when it’s really just the type of ammo

I was giving the mosin as an example even if I don’t use it but I noticed it with the shotguns too which I already knew about since I got those kinds of upgrades in the trilogy

[placid vault]

question regarding mods support, is there any chance for large scale mods like so many back in the original trilogy or additional content are all that can be allowed?

[stark crescent]

maybe news about 1.5.2

but we arnt close to a 1.6. unless gsc fixed so many issues that 1.5 brought us and are so proud of it they call it 1.6 😅

[smoky hawk]

that is what we hope and what is expected, and what GSC said they want to allow

[fickle hill]

1.5.3?

[fierce nexus]

[inland mantle]

1.6 is likely the update next month, delayed from June. Haven’t heard anything about an update in between 1.5 and 1.6

1.6 fixes over 1700 bugs and issues, increases performance and fixes remaining alife issues

If 1.6 goes as planned we should finally see some of the 3/4 cut content start coming back

Wouldn’t get hopes too high though

GSC could definitely use some transparency with the community, let players know what’s happening

[regal plinth]

ive got the psz-12v bulat armor which i spend 50k on upgrades, and now i found an exoskeleton (at streloks place) is it worth swapping to and upgrading it? it has 1 tick less physical protection, but considerably better in almost every way just little heavier

[ebon blade]

You didn't give me that much detail. You've answered your own question as to how and why.

[stark crescent]

the updates in between are called 1.5.1 and 1.5.2 😅

fixing some bugs that were bugging the main story missions

[inland mantle]

I know that but we’ve gotten nothing on if we do get an update between. AFAIK update 1.6 was delayed from June to August, makes no sense to update between when 1.6 does so much

[carmine star]

ok

[inland mantle]

1.5.3 I mean

Might go straight to 1.6 next month now instead of any smaller hotfixes, since 1.6 is supposed to fix over 1700 issues

[stark crescent]

but why call it a delayed update? you cant set a time on when an update is finished. or not. or if it even comes. people need to put that entire idea of a roadmap out of their head cause all it does is create more disappointments.

[inland mantle]

I agree to a degree, but it’s nice for players to at least see a roadmap cause it shows that the devs are trying to stick to a somewhat set schedule, not making us wonder and wait for fixes and content

[stark crescent]

before roadmaps, believe it or not, we didnt had roadmaps. that idea came around the same time call of duty and free to play shooters started to introduce gamba mechanics like battlepasses. ever since then, a community of a game starts to demand something like roadmaps, and all that does is put unneccesary expectations and strain on a developer

[inland mantle]

I’d rather see that a dlc is supposed to come at q3 next year opposed to eternally wondering if it will ever happen

[bronze igloo]

where do i get ammo and better guns etc at the start

[stark crescent]

yea, but thats an expected release date for content. not an entire roadmap. a roadmap is nothing more than a company's internal memo of what is left to do

[inland mantle]

We didn’t need roadmaps before because games came out finished and first dlc was already half baked at launch, with plans set in motion for the last two

[bronze igloo]

the only trader i know sells vodka and beer with food

[stark crescent]

in zalissya? the best weapons you can get is probably the mp5 and the toz-34

[inland mantle]

But that shows player at least what the devs plan to do. Right now we have no clue what’s coming to the game at all content wise, whereas a roadmap tells us what content to expect ‘eventually’

[bronze igloo]

in the lesser zone where do i get ammo

[inland mantle]

GSC could have first dlc ready to roll out in march 2026 but we have no clue

[stark crescent]

mostly, in the form as random loot, or looting from random bandits.

[bronze igloo]

yes but isnt there a way to buy it?

[stark crescent]

yes. the trader in zalissya

[bronze igloo]

where is he?

[stark crescent]

there are 2 traders. one for weapons. one for booze

[bronze igloo]

ye i want the one for weapons

[inland mantle]

Loot every single building cave and tunnel, every corpse and buy the ammo you need from traders when you come across them. Loot loot loot. Sell what you won’t need and hoard everything else. And stashes, loot every stash

[fierce nexus]

You want Hamster

He's in Zalissya

He's across from the bar

[cyan mulch]

there is a Desert Eagle mod 😮

[bronze igloo]

whats zalissya is it in lesser zone?

[fierce nexus]

Yes

It's the first settlement that the main story takes you

[stark crescent]

zlissya is literally the first settlement you go to lol

[inland mantle]

Yep and apparently that was made in sdk

[fierce nexus]

Look for Hamster, he trades weapons

[bronze igloo]

im at the bar rn with the people at the campfire

where do i go now?

[stark crescent]

yes, move a little further. the trader is in the white building to the right of the road heading north

[fierce nexus]

It's the building across the road with the yellow sign

It's got the windows boarded up

[stark crescent]

he should show up on the map either way.

[fierce nexus]

You can also sleep in there

[stark crescent]

yes. that building also has your stash and a bed

[bronze igloo]

oh ye it is i thought that building was abandoned

[inland mantle]

And don’t forget to grab the guitar off the bed to the left of yours

[fierce nexus]

No, that's the stash spot and weapons vendor

Most of the buildings in Zalissya are occupied in some way

[frigid hill]

jeruzalemisreal has been warned

Reason: Bad word usage

[cyan mulch]

But it sounds like the pmm 🙁

[stark crescent]

f you wolf

[inland mantle]

You’ll do well to explore every inch of every building you come across. You’ll miss a lot of loot and secrets if you don’t

[stark crescent]

half the game is about you looting everything that isnt nailed to the walls

also, be a huge freaking a-hole. kill everyone. there are no concequences.

[inland mantle]

That’s a limitation of UE5. Audio is a big issue for mods on the engine. Probably still working that out

[stark crescent]

theres this mission where you need to gather a heirloom. you can trade that heirloom with someone else for a weapon. so you do that. then you kill the guy, grab back the heirloom, and still finish the quest. so you get both a weapon and a reward out of it

[inland mantle]

And keep every single unique. You can’t get them twice

[stark crescent]

true.

[cyan mulch]

I assume it replaces the pmm also? and does not add it as a extra gun right?

[inland mantle]

No it’s probably a new gun added into the vendor and loot lists

[stark crescent]

when you enter the cordon, you need to save a stalker that is downed. he carries a unique ak-74 spetznaz. kill him. there are no consequences. just kill him and take the unique

[inland mantle]

You can assume it’s a new standalone gun unless it says something like “pm replacer” or “as lavina replacer”

[cyan mulch]

Aight, Thanks hopefully thats the case

[stark crescent]

this game rewards you being an absolute dick, with loot.

cause there are no concquences. the only ones you need to be friendly with, are the settlements themselves. have a good standing with them, so it costs less to upgrade and you get more money when selling stuff

but outside of the settlements, you can pretty much murder everyone and everything

[inland mantle]

I kept the decider and then killed the guy just because he’s a sleezy guy who left that guy to two burers

[nimble shore]

is there any way into the weird psi-house on the outskirts of Zaton, near Wild Island?

[stark crescent]

psi house?

[nimble shore]

posted an image of it in #📸┃screens_and_videos

(nvm after like 10 minutes, skif did a vault animation into it)

[cyan mulch]

army man can't climb

[nimble shore]

he climbs when he feels like it
which isn't often

[cyan mulch]

yeah 98% is not often you mean

[nimble shore]

so theres basically nothing in here, just one real noontide zombie, and no loose loot or stashes I can find. Has cool rug art tho

[cyan mulch]

Yes enjoy the art

[honest ferry]

give me compass game

[safe imp]

any way to disable auto leaning besides mods?

[still current]

Auto leaning?

[safe imp]

yeah

[inland mantle]

You mean when you lean at a corner? No, can’t disable

[safe imp]

unfortunate.. it's so annoying

[still current]

Leaning is keybinded tho?

[safe imp]

have you not played this game

[rapid crystal]

Hi everyone, do you think it would be nice to implement ammo reloading in the Tarkov-style magazines?

[safe imp]

absolutely not

[kindred fable]

When you are close to the edges of your cover and click the right button you lean automatically

[kindred fable]

Hope they won't do it in the vanilla game but I bet somebody will create a mod like this, sooner or later

Not a fan of inventory management, crafting and all the other stuff like that...

[inland mantle]

I hope crafting becomes an official feature, but reloading magazines nah

[rapid crystal]

in hardcore level implement this feature... it will be a full-fledged survival game

[safe imp]

definitely don't do that

[cyan mulch]

There's gamma for that, But i don't want that in the vanilla game

[safe imp]

i would appreciate a hydration system, but definitely don't do that

[inland mantle]

Unless they made a hardcore mode operate from the game, at menu choose hardcore survival or regular gameplay

[still current]

Ah, cover shooting stance?

Never called it leaning, so ig that's why I asked

[kindred fable]

I mean, crafting can be nice. I liked crafting in the other game, Darkwood. I just don't like it when it's grindy and involves spending hours in the inventory/crafting interfaces

[safe imp]

i mean it leans

but yeah i dont really like that feature at all

[still current]

My only leans is left and right. I'd rather call the other one cover shooting position

[kindred fable]

Maybe? It's same as manual leaning, just does it automatically, sometimes when you don't want to do it

[safe imp]

it also leans left and right

[still current]

Doesn't mean you all have to call it the same

[safe imp]

effective now, it does mean that

[still current]

True

[rapid crystal]

yes.. i mean exactly this in hardcore mode make the game full survival..

[still current]

I came across it by accident lmao

[still current]

[safe imp]

man why do enemies always have just 3 bullets loaded in their gun when you kill em

[inland mantle]

I’d like to see a hardcore survival modewhere crafting is important, hydration, bandages only stop bleeding and don’t heal, alcohol doesn’t heal radiation, damage is realistic across all calibers etc

[kindred fable]

Because otherwise the balance would be even easier than it is

[still current]

Controlled drop

[safe imp]

oh its kind of a dumb question, i know why it happens it just scratches a part of my brain that doesnt like it

[kindred fable]

Yeah, I get that. But it is what it is – the game wouldn't be that fun if you could kill one stalker, loot one stash and become a millionaire

We live in a society or something...

[still current]

There used to be a bug where you can find 30 extra rounds on every zombified NPC carrying a 5.45 weapon I ended up having around 5000 when I stopped looting any more rounds of that caliber (except for expansive and AP ofc since I only use those anyway)

[kindred fable]

Reminds me of KCD1 where some archers had hundreds of arrows for some reason

[safe imp]

ooh you can hit medkit boxes 😭 i just figured that out

[still current]

Remember that

[still current]

https://tenor.com/view/laugh-out-loud-laugh-ridiculous-hilarious-lolz-gif-17376550074772904877

[obtuse veldt]

I have something to confess

[cyan mulch]

How did you survive in the zone so far?

[obtuse veldt]

It's been a while since I updated my Nvidia drivers and game runs better and looks better

[safe imp]

i looted a lot of heals from stashes and bandits lol

[obtuse veldt]

[safe imp]

i've had so many medkits on me i had to use a stash

[obtuse veldt]

Hopefully GSC takes in consideration the implementation of infusing weapons/attachments/gear with artifacts

[inland mantle]

Idek how that would physically work. It’s one thing to carry it in a pouch but how you gonna fuse a gun and a rock

Guess you can make a fallout style rock-it-launcher that launches artifacts 😂

[safe imp]

oo found extended mag for my silenced pistol im happy

[inland mantle]

Take all those useless eye artifacts and launch them at a burer just for them to get launched back

[safe imp]

let's say you can crush it down into a powder and put it down the barrel

[kindred fable]

Ah, you've just started playing... Hope you'll enjoy it, lol

[inland mantle]

I want GSC to take into consideration that an optic meant for a picatinny rail can go onto any picatinny rail. Regardless or what gun said rail is attached to. I can attach a night force scope to a wooden bat if I please

The fact that we can’t put a collimator sight on an as val, or an acog on ak-74 is ridiculous

[honest ferry]

oh boy 3x bloodusckers and me with a sunrise suit its over

[safe imp]

i bought a holographic score thinking it would improve the sights but it's so bulky i'm genuinely better off without it

scope

[rapid crystal]

I think the attachments are adapted to the weapon. The developers don't want anyone doing weird things with the weapons.

[inland mantle]

Holographic is more of a mid range sight meant for focusing on a target, but collimator is a close range meant for fast target acquisition. That’s what bugs me so bad about the attachment system. Why can’t we have a collimator and an acog that we can swap

[safe imp]

it doesnt feel like it's meant for anything it makes the gun worse to use (at least for me)

iron sights are way cleaner cause there's nothing right above the sight (i tried to put it on the viper)

[inland mantle]

That makes no sense though just because, in reality you can put a red dot on a sniper for urban combat

SVD with a 2x red dot for urban combat, as Val with collimator for fast target acquisition etc

[low bison]

game keeps crashing and i keep getting EXCEPTION_ACCESS_VIOLATION reading address 0x0000000000000000

[inland mantle]

It just makes sense to be able to put a collimator and open collimator on the as van because of the range it’s meant to be used, close to mid. And there’s a rail upgrade on the lavina, but nothings been able to be attached since launch ffs. Trophy is the only way to have a sight on lavina

But we can put red dot on mosin Nagant 🤦‍♂️

Also…why no bayonet attachment for mosin and AK-74

[rapid crystal]

the bayonet is a good idea 👍🏻

[lucid charm]

Don’t forget a foregrip on the mosin

For some reason

[inland mantle]

It’s cursed. GSC has some cursed mechanics in S2

I can’t wait for a console version of AXO when it eventually happens

SoonTM

Mosin Nagant can have American red dot and tactical foregrip and a muzzle brake? But as Val can’t have American/russian red dot. Just pso, which is hitting the max range it’s meant for

[rapid crystal]

The stelth system needs to be completely overhauled in the next update... enemies can see you from far away and inside bushes

[inland mantle]

I believe 1.6 is supposed to better address stealth gameplay. What we need is individual alerts and not whole groups, as well as yes cover via foliage and terrain

And prone position

[safe imp]

i was gonna say, it's a bit annoying that the second one guy sees you everyone knows where you are even if you sneak and move out

[inland mantle]

I’m excited for the game coming Mudang two hearts because it’s a super stealth game like ghost recon. You get caught by an enemy and you can take him out without the whole compound being alerted just because he spotted you

[rapid crystal]

at least in the bushes as cover.. the enemies still see you in the bushes even if you have the flashlight off... incredible..

[safe imp]

also adjusting to light changes should be way faster

[jovial sable]

you again

[inland mantle]

I just talked about this the other day. I was in Pripyat with a bintorez in a dark apartment complex and monolith were across the street in another building. My flashlight was off and I didn’t miss any shots, all headshots. First guy down and they all started shooting at me. Concealed in darkness, subsonic suppressed rounds and yall knew my exact location?

[inland mantle]

ACE working on a flashlight improvement and a mod to relight the world and sources

[safe imp]

the flashlight i personally do not know what's wrong with it though i've seen multiple people disllike it

[inland mantle]

Excited to see what it does, individual sources need better lighting and so does world light

[rapid crystal]

Yep.. and the stealth mode needs to be completely reworked. Embarrassing.

[inland mantle]

Too much tunnel vision, there’s no sense of the light bouncing onto anything behind it. Shine it down a hallway and the walls aren’t lit up much, no light particles in the air in the open. It’s just tunnel light

He’s working to make it fade out more in an area

[safe imp]

someone in the first safezone didnt make it to a house in an emission and died, and he had an artifact on him lol easy loot ig

also i think every reload animation should be changed to one that preserves the mag, it makes no sense to have animations that throw away mags in such a world, kinda breaks immersion every single time i reload a gun

[kindred fable]

My biggest issue with it is that it's too weak. Original games had a much better one

[safe imp]

oh it is a bit weak yeah

[kindred fable]

That's kinda true, not the first time I see people pointing this out

[safe imp]

i just found a random hole and went down it into a super dark sewer or somethng, found some guy dead and he had two guns and a pistol and i very quickly thought "wait if he died with this stuff there's something BAD here"
and i didnt even have time to finish thinking that, cause i started hearing a million rats

[obtuse veldt]

Stalker SoC had a gravi infused chaser

It's been over 10 years, some major progress can have been done

[rapid crystal]

Throwing full magazines on the ground makes no sense, if a player is used to always reloading nah.. if you reload before the end you lose the ammo..

[safe imp]

even if they're empty, you'd want to keep them theoretically

[rapid crystal]

so that in the safe zone you can manually reload the magazines with ammo, in hardcore mode.

Is there anything known about multiplayer?

[obtuse veldt]

Nothing but bet is some pvp like original

[inland mantle]

That’s right forgot about the combat chaser

Yeah should def be a thing. Put a fireball chunk into spsa-15 for dragons breath buckshot

[obtuse veldt]

It should have drawbacks like

[inland mantle]

Yeah like the combat chaser. It had one less round in the mag than the regular chaser making it a low mag gun but the highest damage shotgun

[obtuse veldt]

Increased weight, decreased reliability, decreased mag capacity, higher recoil, lower handling, lower fire rate, slower reloads, more spread, etc.

[wise depot]

Bro I installed the gachizone mod without knowing what it was

My mind is now scrambled

[safe imp]

how do you install a mod without knowing what it does?

[wise depot]

I thought it was based off of youtuber shitposts due to the thumbnail

It turns out I was wrong, very wrong

[kindred fable]

I hope they won't touch it before fixing the base game itself (or, at least, I hope that its development won't affect them fixing the base game)

[snow seal]

This was the msot beautifully crafted scare I had ever gotten. It spooked me really bad

[sturdy jacinth]

Yep, Mo1lt messaged me personally, it’s dropping tmr at 5pm est

[wise depot]

It piss me off that they promised multiplayer and after about a year they still haven't released it

Half the reason I bought this game is for the multiplayer

[graceful dirge]

need Ready or Not reload system, can not only check your mag but you can do normal reloads to save the mag and put it to the back of the stack or quick reloads which drop the mag, but you can actually pick them back up if they still have ammo

[wise depot]

They haven't even told us how it will look like

[kindred fable]

Yeah, that's understandable

[kindred fable]

I'd hate tarkov/ready or not/arma 3 reloading in stalker

Just touch up them animations and that's all, leave that micromanagement bullshіt for mods like gamma or something

[shell flax]

No yeah, it wouldn’t fit stalker

A mod? Fair enough

Actual base game? Nah, Stalker has never been realism, mag checking and shit like Insurgency or RoN

[wise depot]

I hope people would make more mods for s2

I expected for their to be much more after a month