☢┃stalker-general

[torn gate]

I wanna go back to my religious roots

[somber rose]

Return with me

[safe imp]

i dont know the factions well enough to pick honestly

[somber rose]

Loner

[safe imp]

that means i have only one obvious pick

yeeah

[somber rose]

You'd probably like Freedom, Noontide, or Spark

Noontide are basically pacifists

[safe imp]

dude i'm kinda hungry can you get me some food

small problem tho its 3:30 am

[somber rose]

Spoiled canned food is the best I can do

[safe imp]

i rather eat my cats

[torn gate]

Not really they just want everyone to leave them alone mostly

[somber rose]

I mean they're primarily concerned with redemption

And not aggressive.

[safe imp]

the way i've been playing stalker 2 so far is that i engage with anyone who gets suspicious of my presence and attacks me

[torn gate]

Would rather join dooty

[somber rose]

megamind

No questline

[stuck seal]

So basically you attack anything with a red icon in the compass

[oak junco]

i wish i could bring back clear sky

[stuck seal]

You can!

[safe imp]

if they attack me i attack em

[somber rose]

Clear sky had awful camo

[torn gate]

Yeah but not being aggressive doesn't mean they're pacifists they just don't wanna expand their territory

[stuck seal]

So basically anyone with a red icon on the compass

[safe imp]

again if they attack me yes

[somber rose]

Sure, but in effect in game, they're not involved in any conflict

[oak junco]

naw it works for its intended purpose (not being shot by faction members)

[torn gate]

Infairness no faction has a questline in game which makes me depressed

[somber rose]

And their goal is the provide power for everyone

[primal nimbus]

Pick Mercs

[somber rose]

Mercs and duty have the coolest PSZ-9 armor

[stuck seal]

It’s how you should play anyway, there’s no benefit to attacking factions, and no punishment for attacking hostiles

[somber rose]

Colored gas mask cannister is such a vibe

[safe imp]

i don't like attacking people who don't have a problem with me honestly

[inland mantle]

You don’t even have to be a part of a big organization to get a full auto seat for a gun. Can get them on the black market easy as long as you got cash

[stuck seal]

Well that works out because anyone you would attack have a problem with you anyway

Because like the trilogy, there are people who will always be your enemy

[safe imp]

sometimes if they really piss me off even if they're allied i'll quick save and unload about 20 buckshot in their head

[somber rose]

People who kill Oliver Swanwick deserve jail

[stuck seal]

Wish there was a passive takedown option, where instead of sneaking behind someone and stabbing them with your knife you sneak behind them and kiss them

[safe imp]

same

[somber rose]

Same. I hate killing ISPF guys just doing their job or Monolithians who have no choice.

Just want to smooch the homies

[unkempt vault]

ISPF attack for fun

[stuck seal]

Guys hear me out it would totally fit skifs character and stalker as a whole

[somber rose]

Not all of them

[unkempt vault]

The one guard post are highwaymen ooh so passive

[somber rose]

Yeah, but that's how individuals work

[stuck seal]

Their job is to literally apprehend illegal trespassers, either by arresting or killing

[somber rose]

And may be conscripts

[stuck seal]

And of course, they can make money off of that it just make money in the zone

[inland mantle]

I wish we had gun executions so you can sneak up with a suppressor end execute via chokehold headshot or something

[stuck seal]

Not IPSF, military yeah but I don’t think ipsf

[somber rose]

ISPF are made up, presumably of military from around the world. Like UN peacekeepers.

[stuck seal]

Yeah, with your suppressed weapon, you sneak up on em, whip out your gun and give them a big hug until they take a nap in your arms and you lay them to sleep gently

[safe imp]

would be nice to be able to use other melee weapons and to be able to pistol whip, also maybe make a bloody knife cause stabbing someone and seeing no blood is actually upsetting me

[somber rose]

Lawnmower blade machetes when

[stuck seal]

Seriously though suppressors aren’t that quiet so doing a takedown with one won’t help you be sneaky

[safe imp]

like why can i not rip the catalytic converter out of a car to beat the shit out of the dogs?

[safe imp]

they aren't very quiet but man they're cool 😭

i love my silenced pistol and getting headshots upon headshots

i kinda like the headshot sound but it gets annoying when fighting the mutated pigs

also its a bit too loud

[unkempt vault]

What game was it that takedowns use guns by default that are in no way quiet but the enemy doesn’t notice

[stuck seal]

Just kinda wish stealth was better all around, like being able to use foliage (you cannot use foliage in the current state of the game) and just overall more dynamic enemies but enemies that are less omnipotent and can track you through walls and such. I want to be able to actually sneak into a place without killing everyone

[safe imp]

yeah, stealth should be a better option definitely

[unkempt vault]

I can’t remember the game

[safe imp]

payday?

[unkempt vault]

No?

[safe imp]

unless by takedown you mean an animation

[unkempt vault]

Animation

[safe imp]

metro exodus?

[somber rose]

One of the better candy bars

[stuck seal]

Then again, if you shoot your gun, yeah the enemy should be riled up and make sneaking harder, but in the current state, you can sneak halfway but no matter what you do enemies will be alerted even if you do nothing

[unkempt vault]

You don’t even use your own gun you just pull out a random one and kill them and no it’s not Metro

[stuck seal]

Call of duty

[safe imp]

then i have no clue unless it's some cod bs

[somber rose]

At least in metro you can put a scope on your aks74u

[stuck seal]

Black ops Cold War

[unkempt vault]

Maybe Far Cry or some shit

[primal nimbus]

Last at least decent COD

[safe imp]

far cry uses machetes iirc

[stuck seal]

It was Cold War btw

[safe imp]

really? lol

[primal nimbus]

Speaking of Metro, Imma install Metro. Which Metro should I play first?

[unkempt vault]

No it was a stealth game

[somber rose]

2033

[primal nimbus]

Aite

[safe imp]

technically 2033, last light, exodus

[somber rose]

You play as a single character for all three games, go in order for plot

[primal nimbus]

Low how you went from Merc to Nooner to Monolithian

[primal nimbus]

Aite

[safe imp]

but 2033 is rough, you will feel how old it is. last light too. Exodus feels great to play and I loved it, other two are hard to adjust to

[primal nimbus]

Ain’t all Metro open world?

[somber rose]

I was never merc, just had the experienced role lol

Nah, it's on rails Hahahaha

[stuck seal]

Any other hints cuz I played so many stealth games most were mid the only one I think was worth my time was splinter cell and a few others

[safe imp]

no not really, exodus is the most open world

[primal nimbus]

So, Metro basically Trainside Picnic but nuked?

[somber rose]

This is an amazing joke I hate you guys

[safe imp]

it's still somewhat linear but you end up in these maps where you have your mission and side quests you can find then you keep moving to other maps etc

[unkempt vault]

Maybe it was Black Ops 6

[safe imp]

i didn't realise it was a joke honestly

[somber rose]

Trains run on rails, on rails shooter

[unkempt vault]

Yeah in BO6 you take out a gun sometimes for takedowns and the other enemies don’t notice

[somber rose]

PEARLS BEFORE SWINE

[primal nimbus]

What kind of ARs we looking at besides the AK in metro?

[safe imp]

bulldog right?

[somber rose]

Guns you make out of trash

[safe imp]

oh yeah the pipe guns

[somber rose]

Very few actually manufactured pre war guns in metro

[safe imp]

most weapons you won't find, even exodus has a small selection

[somber rose]

And bullets are currency

[stuck seal]

Even in exodus where you leave the main destruction, and weapons stockpiles should in theory be accessible

[somber rose]

2033 redux is very good, highly modernized

[unkempt vault]

The Vulkan before the Vulkan

[primal nimbus]

Hmmmmm

[safe imp]

right yeah play the redux of 2033 and last light

[unkempt vault]

I don’t remember ever seeing OG 2033 gameplay

[somber rose]

Last light was my favorite

[primal nimbus]

Thanks to a video I saw of the AEK, I’m on the belief the AEK is also in Metro

[safe imp]

i did... on my ps3 🥲

[somber rose]

I loved the faction dlcs

[unkempt vault]

I look it up now and it’s so obscure

[unkempt vault]

I loved the STALKER dlc

[somber rose]

That's technically the Ranger faction dlc Right

Stalker > Redline > Reich

[unkempt vault]

Polis Rangers I guess

[primal nimbus]

Which game

[unkempt vault]

The museum is fun I wish it had some NPC’s though not just the creepy lady

[somber rose]

Metro has many factions, Last Light, the second game, has dlcs where you can play a mission as them.

[inland mantle]

What dlc you think we’ll get for S2?

[somber rose]

Probably the ones the Russians found and datamined

[unkempt vault]

CNPP, Freedom-Duty war, Monolith ending

[safe imp]

every single AR in the games is
AK74, RPK, Bulldog (weird bullpup rifle), a werd AK modification that has a drum mag, fires in bursts of 3 and can take.. incendiary ammo?, ak74u, a weird famas clone, and something i can only assume is a weird as val clone

[inland mantle]

Which are those?

[somber rose]

Search "Secrets of Limansk"

[safe imp]

and those are not all present in all games

last light has vastly more weapon variety

[primal nimbus]

Yoooo, i wanna be a Stalker

[safe imp]

doesnt even matter cause they are mostly useless

[unkempt vault]

The Bulldog is a real thing you know

[inland mantle]

Was it just the one data mined?

[somber rose]

I love the Reich / Red Line war with Hansa just kinda chilling

[safe imp]

ah, it always kinda looked fictional to me, never took a good look at it

[somber rose]

Limansk, CNPP, Iron Forest, freedom and duty, unknown how many dlc

[unkempt vault]

Last Light and/or Exodus let you make your AK into an RPK but the Bulldog is a real gun

[inland mantle]

Makes sense that that’s going to be a dlc, the Jupiter factory, iron forest, CNPP and limansk is the are currently blurred/fogged

[somber rose]

Limansk isn't nearly as complete a Jupiter or the CNPP, but yes.

Just a few buildings, like North Korea's propaganda village from the 80s

[inland mantle]

It might be underneath all the fog up there. But we can definitely see more of that part of the map than at launch. They teasing it

[somber rose]

There's also the Oasis in very low poly form right outside the map

[primal nimbus]

I’m real curious on what’s going on with Limansk

[inland mantle]

Probably a new location with some side quests later

[somber rose]

If you turn on the radio in the tower right next to the bridge to Limansk it's nothing but screaming, so probably not good things.

[primal nimbus]

I know. The radio next to the dead sparker?

[inland mantle]

Oh what? I gotta go check that out

[somber rose]

Yeah, spooked me out, Red Forest always has though

[inland mantle]

Oh wait I know the one. Red forest with the collapsed bridge?

[primal nimbus]

Yeah, a Malachite scientist got curious with Limansk so he tasked a Sparker to observe it

[somber rose]

My favorite thing about Stalker 2 is the jumbled map from previous games. Just looking around and being "wait a minute this looks familiar WOAH"

[inland mantle]

Yeah that scream was creepy af. Bet you anything it maybe stealth/horror related based off that

[somber rose]

Found my old base in Yanov yesterday

The plot, supposedly, has also been data mined, so be careful with spoilers

[inland mantle]

I’m not looking into it any further. Don’t wanna spoil anything

[somber rose]

Wise man

[primal nimbus]

I played Stalker 2 first then Clear Sky. Got my mind blown with the locations in both games

[somber rose]

Stalker 2 has flaws but the writing is mostly good.

Every CoC successor I always played as a former Monolithian seeking redemption, so them adding Noontide was cool as hell for me.

[inland mantle]

And if lymansk wasn’t going to be a future location, why have the location as bridge to lymansk and not just a reference

[safe imp]

Iron man dies get spoiled

[fickle hill]

Speaking of clear sky how many people collected lebedevs pda?

[inland mantle]

And the blurred area next to the cooling towers would be the Jupiter tower and CNPP with the iron forest surrounding eh?

[somber rose]

Jupiter is far to the west. Iron forest surrounds CNPP mostly.

[inland mantle]

CNPP is that jumbled road and buildings clear of fog on right of Pripyat?

[stuck seal]

I thought they were blurred because zone interference

[somber rose]

That's generators, in some endings you go there

[primal nimbus]

The one of Nimble killing Ghost and Fang?

[fickle hill]

yeah

[stuck seal]

Like that lake in red forest

[inland mantle]

Oh ok gotcha, where on the map is the CNPP and iron forest?

[somber rose]

Directly below Generators is the plant, directly above garbage is the iron forest

[inland mantle]

Wonder if we’ll get to go to the plant and iron forest

[stuck seal]

Kinda funny how garbage, which sits in the way of multiple areas before connecting to the cnpp, is just south of it in stalker 2

[somber rose]

Probably Iron forest-> plant. Iron forest is just the electrical transformer substation for the CNPP 4's grid output

Probably full of electrical anomalies, but not many structures

[stuck seal]

I’m under the impression that the campaign itself is incomplete, yeah we have endings but there most likely plenty of other missions planned that never made it

[somber rose]

A lot was cut to make release.

[inland mantle]

Hopefully eventually we get CNPP/iron forest as a dlc, lymansk for another, and some brand new locations too

Maybe something to do with the ecologists?

[stuck seal]

Which ones

[inland mantle]

Any ecologists, maybe dlc that sends us on a mission to an unexplored area full of brand new mutants and anomalies to search for powerful artifacts picked up on a scanner or something

[somber rose]

Kiev. We're going to rebuild Skif's apartment like John's house in red dead 2.

[inland mantle]

And some new dangerous anomalous mutants

[inland mantle]

“This rock owes me a new home”

[fickle hill]

Stone?

[stuck seal]

We are going to rebuild skif, with modern medicine, he will come back stronger, faster, better

[unkempt vault]

So

C-consciousness

[safe imp]

i hope the new dlc is a cozy base building addon 😍😍😍 let me build my ideal perfect stalker base 😊😊😊 add labubus and dubai chocolate it needs to be cozy 💅🏻

#zoneinspo on pinterest

[stuck seal]

We never go north of the cnpp, which makes sense for two reasons, first is that “The North” was always seen as the goal, the danger, the terror of the zone that the player must reach, so we never go more north than the cnpp. Second reason is, well, more north of the cnpp and you’re no longer in Ukraine so…

For a game set in ukraine, going more north in the zone past the borders doesn’t make sense

[safe imp]

is there any specific reason why we can't just leave the zone in the games? i did not pick up on that yet in my limited playtime

[stuck seal]

Strelok needs to kill the Strelok, scar needs to kill the Strelok, Deggy needs to kill the mf that shot down those choppers (there is no mf) and skif is broke af

[safe imp]

so there's no reason other than free will

[inland mantle]

Maybe that’s the perfect dlc, ecologists send you there cause they picked up something extremely powerful, and you gotta go get it. Finding powerful mutants never seen that are anomolous in nature

[stuck seal]

Each one has a goal and they are determined to meet that goal

And deggy is literally in the military so he has to accomplish his mission

[stuck seal]

I would assume the northern sector of the Zone is probably hell on earth considering no one has ever went there, cnpp plenty of people have went near and came back from places like pripyat but more north past the plant? Nope, either it’s a living nightmare or there’s literally nothing there

[stuck seal]

I mean Strelok could try to leave the zone, but he has no memory of who he is, what would he do? Does he even remember that there’s a world outside of the zone? Scar is in the zone to make money, and the events of clear sky is just another job, so he’s not gonna just dip and miss out on money, and Degtyarev has his orders from command, I mean, he journeyed through the zone that far, he’s not just gonna randomly turn back because Zaton is too scary or something

[somber rose]

You're going to wake up in a cart going to Helgrad

[inland mantle]

Would be cool as a dlc to find out though, if it is a living hell then that could mean we gotta pick a faction to go with and set up a base camp and figure out what’s going on. Could make for a great large scale dlc

I’d like a good challenging dlc that’s full to the brim with hell

[stuck seal]

I kinda want them to rebalance mutants before that happens

[inland mantle]

Which mutants?

[stuck seal]

I feel like on veteran, some mutant types are just so annoying to fight, a challenge can still feel good, but the mutants do not feel good

[inland mantle]

I think chimera could use more of a buff, pseudogiants are good, bloodsuckers are just annoying pests after the first nerf, psuedodogs and burgers good

Buff chimera damage but less health imo

Pseudogiant is meant to be a giant tank though

My main issue with bloodsuckers honestly is they are way too predictable. They always follow the exact same path after knocking you down. They go around and then beeline from the front

They don’t even try to flank

[somber rose]

Hear me out on a DLC:

• Strelok's ending is canon

• The zone is isolated by an impenetrable wall of psi energy, appears black externally, it's still expanding.

• SIRCAA and Malachite remnants that were outside the zone when it sealed team up to acquire data from within the zone to prevent further expansion

• They manage to open up a portal anomaly that drops you into the Lesser Zone

• It's pitch black except during emissions, which regularly occur

• The factions, now without resupply, are now engaging in a faction war for the last remaining resources

• You must find and finish the goal of the original game, kill the Strelok

[stuck seal]

For me, it’s the little things that make it annoying, like how bloodsuckers can hijack your camera and make you turn in random directions, making it impossible to fight multiple of them, dogs, both blind and psi, phase through you when they charge, psi dogs have no weakness other than shoot till none are standing, snorks can immobilize you with a single, instant animation, and grenades seek to do nothing against any of the boss mutants like burers and chimeras. The boss mutants themselves I don’t have a problem with other than the chimeras and giants tankiness

In sure this was all intentional for GSC so I doubt they want to rebalance any of that

[inland mantle]

I think the dogs phasing is just a bug that needs fixed, but bloodsuckers the key is to keep on the move and watch their predictable pattern. But guaranteed we’ll get a mod that does mutants how they canonically are

[stuck seal]

I have no problem with the bloodsuckers attacks

It’s their dumb roar that takes control of your camera and moves it in random directions that annoys me

[inland mantle]

No they are just way too predictable in movement. They should be squishy, extremely aggressive and unpredictable

[stuck seal]

Especially when there’s two of them and one is just going to town on you because you can’t get your gun on it

Like I remember how when a bloodsucker roared, I tried to turn my camera right, but it went left

Like what

A disorienting effect and slowed movement is completely fine, but hijacking your camera is something that I can’t even justify

[inland mantle]

Yeah that needs fixing for sure

That seems to be the GSC way though. I think a mod will come to rebalance all mutants to their canon state

GSC seems like they want to rely on modders like most other companies now. Every game is getting official mod support now

[ornate lake]

i wonder if the dlc will bring us to CNPP

[inland mantle]

Hopefully iron forest, CNPP and Lymansk

And I’m really hoping the area north of CNPP

For a big dlc

[ornate lake]

That would be nice

im so glad i finally beat stalker 2

[inland mantle]

If you read higher in the chat, the location bridge to lymansk has a radio and if you change frequency it’s just a lot of loud eerie screams

[ornate lake]

oh woah didnt even know that

[inland mantle]

And lymansk was data mined as first dlc

Probably a horror themed dlc about something scary going on there

[ornate lake]

id love a horror themed dlc

or maybe monolith themed dlc

[inland mantle]

https://tenor.com/view/the-road-to-el-dorado-both-both-is-good-gif-8304204

[ornate lake]

i wanna get the other stalker 2 endings, but idk if i even can

[stuck seal]

Yeah something scary, like mercs with rpgs

[unkempt vault]

The game doesn’t quite have that charm anymore does it

[stuck seal]

And a crashed hind

[ornate lake]

i think the game has the charm

[stuck seal]

Woops my mistake

[unkempt vault]

Instead you get a crashed MI-17

[stuck seal]

Meant to reply to myself

But yeah a decade isn’t that long of a time when you think about it, and what was in Lymansk before was zombies, mercs, monolith, and very angry military

[inland mantle]

That’s scary but I was thinking some sort brand new mutant themed thing. Judging by the screams on the radio, I don’t the people there would freak out over some gun toting mercs or monolith. Gotta be something bad

[ornate lake]

that one cut mutant in the artbook

[stuck seal]

Lymansk has been empty for a long long time

Every since the first disaster pretty sure

[tawny pewter]

Let’s see if I get banned for the facts,

https://youtube.com/shorts/bOzTPwNA1HM?si=eB5v4DzrmMJb4rx4

[inland mantle]

Yeah with just occasional merc and monolith patrols. Those wouldn’t explain the blood cutting screams over the radio though

[stuck seal]

Psi interference echoing sounds from either during the first or second disaster

[ornate lake]

the kadavar needs to be added ngl

[stuck seal]

Could be that there’s a new psi emitter and it’s in lymansk, and it’s zombifying some people and converting others

[inland mantle]

Why bother going there as skif though if it’s still just the odd patrol from before

There’s gotta be something new to make the doc worthwhile

[stuck seal]

Why go anywhere as skif

Half the content on the map can be ignored if you want to just follow skifs interests

[inland mantle]

Yeah but I mean storywise why go to there. Scar went there to stop stalkers from getting to the center of the zone, and strelok blew up the bridge. Can’t have the exact same plot of just stopping stalkers

It’s gotta be something new, something good

[stuck seal]

Scar went there because he had no psi protection so red forest was a no go

Or something like that

I mean like I said, psi emitter, zombies, maybe even controllers or other psi mutants, they moved in when the mercs, monolith, and military left

Other than that unless there’s some huge plot point, nothing else makes sense

[inland mantle]

Oh right right nvm he went to stop strelok with clear sky. Hell maybe the dlc will be like a part 2 with strelok being the antagonist again

But mind you strelok went through there to get to the CNPP, no need for him to be back in lymansk

[stuck seal]

But you wouldn’t go to Lymansk for that

If I recall correctly scar had to go through Lymansk because going through the brainscorcher was certain death, meanwhile Strelok had proper protection so he could go right through

Scar had to take a detour to get to the center, while Strelok went the fast way

[inland mantle]

Yeah lymansk was scars way of getting to strelok. I can’t think of a good reason why skif would have to go there for a dlc though

[stuck seal]

It would have to be a side story where someone asks skif to help them

And whatever they need help with is in Lymansk

[inland mantle]

True, but wasn’t all the research take from lymansk? What help could be wanted

[stuck seal]

Has to be something not related to the trilogy, because if we just look at the trilogy, Lymansk is a one and done thing

Has to be something new

[primal nimbus]

Eh

[stuck seal]

If you want to still look to the radio for hints, the only thing the radio could hint at is something related to psi energy or the noosphere

As psi effects sometimes produces screams like that which plays in the radio

[echo nimbus]

i found the mod that was breaking mutant loot and i'm kinda surprised it was an increase carrying capacity mod lmao

[unkempt vault]

Most mods are outdated yes

I just didn’t use some from a pack that I saw were in fact outdated the rest were apparently fine

I’m gonna have to find MO2 support because I know it doesn’t compute by just clicking on the game folder

There aren’t that many so it won’t be a problem to switch it up really

[tawny pewter]

I mean it’s true.

[primal nimbus]

Still gonna play the game, despite the game’s issues. The company is flawed, I know.

[tawdry oar]

i would love subtitles for the radio pls

[inland mantle]

I’d love for a radio able to be played off of the PDA. Liston to some guitar while wandering

Hardbass radio station 🔥

Bring out the old PKM and play hardbass while fighting a chimera would be sweet

[tawny pewter]

Same.

[inland mantle]

Same here. I’ve played games made by worse companies that are worse games in themselves. This game keeps improving with each update. If cyberpunk could go from its launch to now, so can S2

[echo nimbus]

cyberpunk on launch was brutal 💀 tbf stalker 2 on launch wasn't that bad for me basically only issues were fps (cause my laptop was old anyways) and the protecting zalisya quest and my whole save getting bugged (not that big of an issue tho ngl)

[strong onyx]

Getting ready to buy a new rifle, oddly enough. After buying a new handgun. My asscheeks hurt.

[ebon blade]

What rifle? What handgun?

[inland mantle]

Where do you find the PKM large ammo box?

[inland mantle]

Yeah exactly, if cyberpunk can make a comeback then stalker can definitely become great

[strong onyx]

Hellcat Pro for the handgun, looking at one of PSA's rifles, I've always wanted to try one.

[echo nimbus]

def given that this game similar to cdpr is good about mod support as well i have no doubt in like 2-5 years it'll be really really good

[shell flax]

Eyeing either a PSA AK or a JAKL for the future

[ebon blade]

The New York NFL shooter had a PSA.

[strong onyx]

Really? What a dick.

https://palmettostatearmory.com/psa-16-mid-length-5-56-nato-1-7-nitride-13-lightweight-hex-m-lok-moe-ept-stealth-rifle-odg.html

I'm looking at this one to be specific, don't wanna break the bank on this one and I wanna go "budget" because who doesn't love budget rifles?!

[strong onyx]

JAKL goes hard.

I dropped $760 on my Hellcat between the five magazines, optic, and the holster I'm having made. It'll be my new EDC.

[shell flax]

I’m looking at 5.45 AKs because the FFL near me can actually order some

[strong onyx]

This handgun goes hard as hell, I'm in deep love already, its seriously tiny compared to my CZ and carries the same 15+1!

[shell flax]

Also one without furniture because I want to customize the looks with some Midwest industries stuff

[strong onyx]

I need to order more carry ammo, mine is quite old by now.

https://underwoodammo.com/9mm-luger-p-90gr-xtreme-defender-solid-monolithic-self-defense-ammo-816-1/

I use this.

[shell flax]

Either this or I recreate Combatant

Or Bes’ rifle, Special

[strong onyx]

90GR vr 127GR from the likes of Federal HST.

[strong onyx]

Why not both. heh...

[shell flax]

Because my medication is fondling my wallet enough right now

[strong onyx]

I spend too much on guns...

[shell flax]

If I do recreate combatant, I might try and get a Berill cosplay together

[strong onyx]

Yep, knew it was a PSA soon as you sent the photo, didn't even need to see the logo.

Shame, too. Looks like a nice rifle.

[ebon blade]

Just because he had one, does not mean anything negative to PSA. They're very popular.

[strong onyx]

I was more thinking why did he have to go and do that when he could of given that rifle to me instead and it would of been well used in my collection for less...nefarious purposes.

PSA is a great company.

They actually give a crap about their customers for starters.

They also have "shall not be infringed" plastered all over their website which is just a massive W.

[ebon blade]

@safe imp Do you see the Bloodsucker shimmer in the doorway?

@safe imp See how the second Bloodsucker is coming in right after the dead one?

[inland mantle]

They really have to add a ukranian to English translator when you aim or look at ukranian writing. Had to google code for a stash because I can’t read ukranian

I can hardly read Russian lol

[inland mantle]

I hope it don’t take 5 year 😂

[ebon blade]

Which one? https://palmettostatearmory.com/springfield-armory-hellcat-pro-osp-9mm-3-70-15rds-distressed-flag-bronze.html

[strong onyx]

None of these, didn't buy it from PSA.

https://grabagun.com/springfield-armory-hellcat-pro-osp-9mm-3-7-barrel-17-rounds-w-viridian-rfx-green-dot-5-mags.html

This listing.

[ebon blade]

They seem to have good prices on them.

[ebon blade]

Nice. I'm so glad you didn't say a Glock or 1911.

[strong onyx]

They didn't seem to have the same buindles are grabagun did.

[strong onyx]

I do not own a Glock currently, overrated af.

1911's are cool but not as a carry gun imo.

$579 for all that is a pretty dang sweet deal.

Basically a P365 but better because it isnt a SIG.

Getting really tired of their shenanigans as of late.

[ebon blade]

https://www.nhpr.org/nh-news/2025-07-23/sig-sauer-pistol-air-force-shooting-death

[strong onyx]

Saw this, SIG sucks right now.

[shell flax]

1911’s are also crazy expensive. If I’m slinging out 1k+ for a pistol I’ll grab an HK

[strong onyx]

Why the military is still using that weapon after everything I'll never know. That weapon is NOT SAFE and needs a total and complete recall.

[shell flax]

Tagged the wrong message

Shit

[strong onyx]

I knew what you meant anyway lol

[shell flax]

Though I’m also debating picking up a shotgun

Either a Benelli Supernova or a DP-12 (because I like weird guns)

[strong onyx]

I'd like a Maverick 88 at some point, looks like a fun lil shotty.

[inland mantle]

Same, everything I’ve seen about the M18 isn’t good. How they haven’t been mass recalled and sales banned is beyond me

[strong onyx]

SIG is a dogpoo company.

P365 has the Hellcat Pro, which is smaller anyway, easier to modify too. Rifles we have PSA, so what good is SIG?

[still current]

[inland mantle]

Their older handguns like the P226, P220, P229 are good. It’s their newer stuff. Cheap and dangerous. I’ve fired a P226 and they are very comfortable and safe. It’s my favorite one from their line

[strong onyx]

That is fair.

[ebon blade]

I bought this from the same company that makes the Maverick 88.

[still current]

This MF shoots slugs right?

[strong onyx]

Looks like crackhead energy. I like it.

[inland mantle]

Somewhere along the lines SS got cheap and stopped caring. Theres a reason why everyone buys HK and Glock nowadays. I’d pick a USP compact over a Glock though but glocks are nice

[strong onyx]

Glock is puke, too. They never innovate.

Nice, yeah. But everyone else is doing the same thing now. :/

[shell flax]

I’m waiting for the day KelTech hits their really heavy stash and tries their hand at a 4 gauge shotgun

[inland mantle]

They don’t, but just like the 1911 if it ain’t broke don’t fix it. That being said, a lot of glocks aren’t any good around 40 meters accuracy wise

[strong onyx]

They also miss a lot of QOl features of newer guns.

Hellcat Pro VS Glock 43x, the Glock loses big time.

It isn't even fair to compare the two.

[shell flax]

VP9

[inland mantle]

I’ve heard that new hellcat pro is wicked fun to shoot, akin to a staccato 2011

[strong onyx]

my new one is sitting next to me, maybe a bit bias but compared to the 43x this thing slays.

[shell flax]

I could grab a PSA dagger for cheaper pricing AND more modification potential

[strong onyx]

i love the freakin finger groves, the flush magwell both of which the 43x does not have, the flush extended mag which the glock also does not have, the grip imo is way beter and the gun itself looks better too. Pretty sure its ever so slioghtly smaller also.

[inland mantle]

How’s the grouping at 30-40 meters? Run an optic?

[strong onyx]

Then of course Glock 43x is 10+1, compared to the Hellcat Pro's massive 15+1 and even 17+1 with the extended.

[ebon blade]

It can. Anything they can put in a shotgun shell.

[strong onyx]

haven't shot this particular one yet, waiting on a holster for it from JMCK, but I've shot one once and I remeber I fell in love with it and it become sorta my dream carry gun tbh.

the grip is so good.

[inland mantle]

If we didn’t have such strict laws here I’d love to buy one. Only shot pistols but it’s tough to even be able to get one now. And can only take to the range and gotta let cops know when you are where and what route

[shell flax]

If it seats, it yeets (at least once lmao)

[strong onyx]

where you at?

[inland mantle]

Does the hellcat pro have an option of a flared magwell?

[strong onyx]

im indiana and we have.......very few gun laws lol

[inland mantle]

Canada here and strict af

[strong onyx]

nah

not that I know of anyway, hasn't been an issue from my limited testing with it, the magwell is INSANE byu the way

you can full tilt the gun SIDEWAYS and the mag literially flies out of the gun on release.

[inland mantle]

What I do have is a Finnish tikka t3 hunter chambered in 300 WSM. Tikka has the smoothest action I’ve ever used on a bolt action. It’s just as smooth as a $2500 custom fluted bolt out of the box for $1200, and has a sub MOA grouping as well. Hand loads can shoot a toonie at 400 yards easy

[strong onyx]

so no hellcat pro in canada?

[inland mantle]

That’s awesome. Some handguns they start sticking BAD when tilted sideways

[thin apex]

tikka t3x series my goat

[inland mantle]

Maybe, I have to look into exactly what I need now. They changed the laws, need a special permit for them. Want to get it just range shoot handguns

[strong onyx]

yeah nah it just flies out of the side its crazy, never seen ANY handgun that has a release THAT BUTTERY before.

[thin apex]

i wanna either get a tikka t3x lite/varmint in 22 250 or bergera b14 hmr/humbhole in 22 250 or 6.5 PRC

[strong onyx]

ive just been picking it up and playing with it, bad habit dont do that. the magzine is super satifying lmao

[inland mantle]

Them tikkas are like butter. For a superlite rifle even 300 WSM doesn’t have much felt recoil. Mines the T3 hunter, before they changed a few things so have aluminum recoil lugs instead of steel, polymer bolt shroud and little heavier stock

[inland mantle]

I’m really hoping I get a chance to shoot one, Springfield is a very good brand. I was very much debating on getting one of their hunting rifles sometime

The model 2020 looks really nice

I’ve thought about keeping the 300 WSM for big game and getting something a little smaller for deer and whatnot. Heard 6.5 is good and bad, depends on the person

[strong onyx]

They make good guns, for sure. hellcat pro may be the most impressed ive ever been with a handgun thus far.

[inland mantle]

What’s the price tag on them?

USD

[shell flax]

Random idea: how much money do you think it would cost to recreate Riemman (the unique vector one of the upgraded editions gives you)

[strong onyx]

For the Hellcat Pro? Typically approx $600 by itself but grabagun is running a crazy good deal on them right now.

[inland mantle]

About 31k for the smg, 4-6 for optic and 5? For the foregrip

[strong onyx]

https://grabagun.com/springfield-armory-hellcat-pro-osp-9mm-3-7-barrel-17-rounds-w-viridian-rfx-green-dot-5-mags.html

this is the one I bought.

[shell flax]

31K? Brother I can buy a vector for less then 2

[inland mantle]

Only $600? Man that’s like 8-900 CAD for that. That’s pretty damn good

[inland mantle]

Oh you mean to recreate it irl. I thought you meant in game lol

[strong onyx]

its one of the best CC weapons on the market right now, top three for sure.

[shell flax]

I’d be stuck with the goof ass civilian (unless I buy an FRT ) but still

[inland mantle]

Not sure what the custom parts would run ya for the barrel shroud/rail, optic maybe $800? Grip $2-300

Depends on brand really

[shell flax]

The Eotech i would have to slap on (because be honest, it looks the best on it) would be around that 800 mark

[inland mantle]

Eotech or acog look amazing on it

[strong onyx]

I can’t afford those two lmfao

[shell flax]

Truthfully I think the custom furniture would be the one to munch my wallet the most lmao

[strong onyx]

Can’t justify that much for just an optic ngl.

[inland mantle]

Absolutely that will be the most expensive part

[shell flax]

Monstrum optics, like 200 for a prism optic

[inland mantle]

I’m going to take a wild guess and say just for the custom furniture probably 2-3k

[inland mantle]

Nah probably 1-2 actually

[strong onyx]

Holosun is also decent, obviously…then Viridian is what I have on my Hellcat Pro since it came with the gun. RFX11. Seems to be pretty dang decent.

I’ll have to get to the range and get it zerod as soon as I can.

[shell flax]

Actually, I’m seeing price tags in the 50’s for LPVOs on monstrum

It ain’t top of the line, blow your balls off quality, but it’ll work

[inland mantle]

Quick Look and an eotech exps3-0 is about 1500 for you guys, 2k for me

Holy they’ve gone up in price

[shell flax]

The FFL I’m near has an exps3 for 650

[inland mantle]

Crimson Trace are really good. I’ve got one of their 4-16x42 scopes on my rifle and it’s crystal clear. They got solid construction and lifetime warranty

[shell flax]

You sure you aren’t looking at hybrid sights?

[inland mantle]

That’s without the G33 but I just found one on another site for 1100 here so 650 there seems accurate. Last site was out to lunch

I thought 1500 for a holo was absurd

[shell flax]

Last site was out to rob you Jesus

[inland mantle]

No doubt. Gotta be careful on sites, lotta guys have overspent way too much

How do you guys feel about muzzle brakes? I haven’t used one yet but I’ve heard they are fantastic for keeping a rifle grounded but way too loud out to the sides

[still current]

Coin shells confirmed?

[ebon blade]

Like currency coins?

[still current]

Anything that fits

Cents

Maybe

[ebon blade]

https://www.alloutdoor.com/2020/06/17/shooting-pennies-shotgun/

[kindred fable]

Hey, will we, the mortal ones, ever get the ability to post vids and screenshots in stalker2/trilogy generals?

That would be kinda cool...

[safe imp]

if i could see the shimmer at all in my game I wouldn't have nearly as much of a problem with them

[ebon blade]

We all see it. I don't know why you can't. Do you wear glasses? Do you have trouble with your vision?

[safe imp]

i legitimately sent a clip showing it doesn't show up..

[inland mantle]

^^ can confirm, I see in my game but his clip shows nothing

[safe imp]

I've encountered 4 so far, there has never been any visual indication of them being there, it's most likely just a bug on gamepass together with the really common bug of enemies spawning right on top of me

[ebon blade]

Gamepass? Series S?

[safe imp]

pc

last time i found one i tried with and without fsr / upscaling, I'm on full medium settings and there was nothing regardless

also weirdly enough going from all low to all medium had 0 impact on my performance

even though I'm gpu bound

[safe imp]

yeah what

[ebon blade]

What do you consider low graphics?

[safe imp]

the low graphics preset?

besides the upscaling setting

i changed it to xess ultra quality +

[ebon blade]

Don't you have an RTX 4080 or something? Why would you set your graphics so low?

[safe imp]

i have a 6750xt

i was on all low because it was running very bad in the intro tutorial part, but then it was way better in the actual game so i changed it up to medium

[ebon blade]

Sorry. I was confusing you with another person that's been complaining daily.

[safe imp]

the 5070 guy?

[ebon blade]

Artem

[safe imp]

oh idk names

[ebon blade]

The Pink guy.

[safe imp]

i Remember nothing about them besides having a 5400g and a 5070 and having their gpu be used by like 30% at most

anyways yeah, the invis indicators do not show up in my game and it's been quite difficult but I've managed to kill them regardless

sadly it takes a lot of ammo since i cant see exactly where they are i just have to guess, either that or i uust run away

[ebon blade]

The game is not meant to be easy. All the Stalker games are brutal and you will die a lot.

[safe imp]

okay, sure, but why is that a response to me experiencing a bug?

[ebon blade]

As I keep saying, get your back in a corner. If you try to run, you will not see them until they hit you.

[ebon blade]

I don't think you have a bug. I think you are not using good tactics on them, and you just run crazy trying to get away.

[still current]

no answer atm

[safe imp]

i promise you've had this conversation 🥲 i met em near houses and I've tried it, there are almost no footprints showing and they are still invisible with no indication at all about their presence

the only time they show up if I'm in a corner is when they leap on me to knock me down

i don't mind if you don't believe me, you don't experience it clearly, unfortunately I do, it is what it is, I still can survive them it just takes more effort

[ebon blade]

No. They have a channel for the public to do that which is just made for that.
You can forward your screenshots or video here, when you want to talk about it.
Moderators generally post screenshots here to help people with discussions.
We also post stuff to keep Stalker-general from being just a wall of endless text.

[frigid hill]

czechdeath has been warned

Reason: Bad word usage

[still current]

"Having trouble in yaniv station. I get there as usual to sell and repair and there are some hostiles on the radar. Yaniv goes on alert and the guards start shooting at them. But all of the sudden Yaniv turns red and they all start shooting me, Im just standing there not even weapon in hand what the fuck"

[ebon blade]

You are almost never going to see footprints unless you are in or near bodies of water.
You never answered my early question. Do you wear glasses. Do you have vision trouble?

[sage dew]

@ebon blade Hey man! Nice to see you here

[safe imp]

i do wear glasses yes. Why does that matter here?

i got a short clip of the thing happening, and you saw it since you replied to a message right below it. Why do my glasses matter?

[still current]

Answer to that is that you misfired at deggy's boys while fending off monoliths. It's easy to do that as you may shoot one in the heat of battle, so I suggest you either be extra careful, or let them fight on their own and join when or if they are all dead

[ebon blade]

Why wouldn't it matter? Your vision is impaired, and you are telling me you can't see stuff everyone else can.

[safe imp]

alright man, yet another mod just trolling

[sage dew]

Must have happened some time ago, becuase it has been a while since I was shooting anywhere near the Yaniv station - damn

[still current]

Yeah. You may have shot them the first time you got there as there is a usual monolith spawn few moments before meeting richter at the water tower.

Lure everyone out and send them to the noosphere if you have to

[sage dew]

Tejas is veteran modder, moderator and a pillar of STALKER comunity - been playing stalker when 60% of todays players were still in dipers. Hardly trolling

[ebon blade]

No one is trolling you. I see both shimmer and a footprint in your video. It happens very, very fast.

[ebon blade]

Hey! Good to see you here. Trying to teach someone how to fight Bloodsuckers in Stalker 2.

[sage dew]

Gosh hecking darnit! xD

[safe imp]

yeah man idk, it's just not there. It's not really up to an opinion. There is a single footprint but there is no shimmer there

[still current]

it's a joke btw

[sage dew]

could be a lost cause

[sage dew]

https://tenor.com/view/joke-missed-over-my-head-gif-26041934

[ebon blade]

Your example of the cave was the first scripted Bloodsucker event in the Lesser Zone.
It's suppose to be difficult and scare the crap out of you. It's outside you will see better shimmer.

[safe imp]

next time i see one outside I'll start recording

[ebon blade]

https://tenor.com/view/joke-missed-over-my-head-gif-26041934

[ebon blade]

I'm just here to help you. Bloodsuckers are not meant to be easy.

If you get low on the ground, they can't knock you over as easy. Or standing up on things.

[safe imp]

you keep saying it but all i see is a really annoying enemy, and one that doesn't even work properly on my side

plus i don't know if you can "stun" them by firing? because two shots of my Toz seem to not affect him much at all in his running

[ebon blade]

Your weapons are going to be crap at the beginning of the game. Your best bet is the Cracker shotgun, then switch to full auto Viper. Aim for the torso not head.

[safe imp]

but the viper does nothing to them i thought? two full mags to their chest and no reaction

[ebon blade]

You're wounding them. They're just tough MFs.

[grim wharf]

Your first mistake was thinking the viper was gonna do anything

[safe imp]

whatever, i just cant see em and next time i meet one I'll record it

[grim wharf]

The viper when I played basically tickled them

[ebon blade]

I've killed them with my Viper. It helps to use the shotgun too.

[sage dew]

In STALKER2 every mutant as a boss xD

[grim wharf]

While true I'm talking purely using the viper

[sage dew]

Dont forget to use expansive ammo too - that helps

[grim wharf]

It's best to use guns with better penetration

Not sure if that changed with updates though

Been like 4 months since I played or something

[sage dew]

my best early bloodsucker defense was a tuned up SPAS 12 (forgot the ingame name)

You will need to dump entire mag into one, but it will stop them - dont forget that they run on all 4s when charging you so corach down to meet them at their level and then unload everything as fast as possible

(playing on veteran - cause no master avalible)

What I would love to see in S2 is deepening of game mechanics regarding consumables. Would be funny if drinking alcohol made bloodsuckers decloack when they cause bleeding when you are drunk - It would also be funny as hell if you could distract dogs and tuscanos and maybe flashes by throwing a sacauge xD

[inland mantle]

Man that’s some Witcher universe shit with the alcohol and I’m all for it

[sage dew]

xD

[inland mantle]

Have the wierd water and carry PKM and always see them

[sage dew]

Dont have weird water yet- when I was at the luring lights it didnt trigger for me, I just had strong psi field there, but no lights no puzzle. Gotta return there that was in version 1.0 maybe 1.2 max

[inland mantle]

I always sell any of the wierd artifacts as I don’t like the drawbacks. I prefer to use liquid rock, hyper cube and another I can’t remember name of

[sage dew]

PKM irks me, when NPC uses it he just holds the trigger scratches is butt with it and the bullets just all land in my forhead, while I grab GLUTTON the custom version and I just shoot circle around them no matter how hard I try to stabilize it

Resting weapon like in ARMAIII would be nice feature too

[inland mantle]

I love the PKM with BB mod, but man they gotta tone down the recoil. They don’t kick like that irl. I want a mod (console player so not sure if it will happen) that makes all guns ads and reload speeds more realistic speeds, brings recoil of all guns to realistic amounts, and restores proper fire rate to guns like the ak-74 and as val that are too slow

[sage dew]

But than we could crack open the whole can of wroms and requests would be infinite, double scopes, prone, rolling, etc etc.

[inland mantle]

Prone would be much appreciated for stealth

As val is the gun that irks me the most currently. Way too much recoil and fires way too slow. Also can’t put collimator/open collimator

[sage dew]

There is whole entire list of inconsistencies with the guns, wrong caliber, wrong firing mods, wrong mag sizes, wrong power, wrong relaibility (like for exampe pm makarov, that should be weak yet nearly unbreakable gun xD)

[sage dew]

I have picked up val with colimator - custom weapon forgot the name

[inland mantle]

That’s why I love BB, makes guns the right caliber except for uniques and brings damage range and velocity to more realistic levels

[ebon blade]

Sounds good. Just be patient and keep at it. Expect to get your ass kicked a lot early game.

[inland mantle]

Trophy, I accidentally sold mine. I thought I had it stashed

[sage dew]

It also makes spitfire more OP than PKM and makes rhino useless xD

[safe imp]

so far I've been more than fine the only times I've struggled is with that bloodsucker and when bandits spawn on top of me, or when I'm randomly spotted by 30 people because one person noticed me. So basically three non functioning mechanics lol.

[inland mantle]

I wouldn’t say rhino is useless, works extremely well on mutants with expansive ammo. But I’ll still choose the kora

[sage dew]

no I mean with BB mod rhinos damage got halved cause 9x39 ammo - that reflect other damages of other guns using it which is fair, but makes rhino weak xD

[inland mantle]

Download Shay’s living zone. That will solve your spawn issue

[safe imp]

I'm on gamepass i doubt it would work?

[sage dew]

I got wierd bug with living zone where I was suddenly unable to loot mutants

[inland mantle]

Oh yeah that’s true but expansive good for mutants with BB still. Humans I use as val and kora with expansive for most mutants, and PKM for the big guys

[inland mantle]

I’m on Xbox gamepass and works fantastic, I use the gold edition. Hopefully works for you

[safe imp]

thank you for the, i think, 10th picture of your game

[safe imp]

I'll take a look, do i get it from nexus or from the in game browser

[inland mantle]

In game browser

[sage dew]

Makes some mission shootouts like in circa monolith room and later faust fight near impossible, as GSC relayed on the damage and health mechanic being so arcade that when you switch to more hardcore mod that corrects the gameplay you get shot to swiss cheese in seconds - which is as it should be, but it softlocks you xD

[ebon blade]

Do you see how it is uncloaking? You can see the eye sockets and nose still cloaked.

[inland mantle]

I’m cringing at the thought of the Faust fight. Hopefully BB works to rebalance those fights in specific a bit

[safe imp]

i know man, i know, i know, it just does not happen for me.

[inland mantle]

Tejas Troller 😂👍🙏

[ebon blade]

It really happens very fast. You have mere microseconds to see it and react.

[sage dew]

Maybe with the mod that disables the enemy stuns it could be better, but Im not sure if it is on workshop or avalible for xbox

[safe imp]

respectfully, I'm just gonna ignore you from now on

[ebon blade]

Your choice. Let me know when you change your mind.

[sage dew]

Faus fight somebody, suggested I use RPG on him ... I shot him twice with it and both times the RPG clipped right thru his chest and exploded behind him xD I nearly shoved my keyboard thru the monitor

@ebon blade is Dez on here? Last time I talked to him he wasnt very happy with S2 - and showed me some images from what could have been - and for 2 weeks I wasnt very happy with S2 either xD

[inland mantle]

Someone might make one for Xbox. As long as I’m able to get a mod as said above that makes guns fire rate, ads and reload speed proper, should be able to heal through the fights even with BB

Less time reloading and more healing

[ebon blade]

This doesn't help, when I'm trying to help someone who is very frustrated and new to the Stalker games.

[inland mantle]

I can smell the sarcasm from here man you ain’t fooling me

[quick fern]

Sleep system work now ?

[sage dew]

IM currently downloading the zone creation kit ... it has 600gig ... send help!

[sage dew]

Nope

[ebon blade]

Last time I talked to Dez a few months ago, he said they were going to work on Stalker 2 : Lost Alpha. In other words, the original abandoned Stalker 2 concept.

[inland mantle]

I haven’t seen the guy in here today who last night, unknowingly got sent to a chimera by me and ran out of ammo

[quick fern]

With oxa mod it does. Very well

[sage dew]

That checks out! Just dont let him do any animations or cinematics xD

[sage dew]

oxa mod? dont know that

[inland mantle]

Ouch lol what’s the download time on that

[sage dew]

7 days

[quick fern]

Is very good mod. Look, you dont regret

[sage dew]

is that on nexus?

[quick fern]

Yes

[sage dew]

I see

[ebon blade]

You can't smell anything. I'm just as frustrated with the situation as the person I'm trying to help.
I just don't think he understands that I'm talking about just microseconds to see things.
It's like he is expecting a Bloodsucker to start waving a red flag from 50 meters that it's coming. (The last line was sarcasm. None of the others were)

[quick fern]

Have nvg, more weapon attachment, x-lab esclusive things and more

[inland mantle]

If you can make a mod in the sdk and port to console that makes guns great again for fire rate, reload speed and ads speed and no camera zoom on ads, I would be eternally grateful, and for the first time ever praise the monolith. And send you all my artifacts 😂

[sage dew]

I am aiming to make a master difficulty mod

with metro like hardcore gameplay focus

to ballance that faster reloads and other actions would probly be needed

[inland mantle]

I don’t get what you mean though truth be told, anytime I encounter a bloodsucker I don’t even have to wait for it to uncloak. I can see it’s blur a mile away and just shoot while it darts for me. They are just pests at this point

[inland mantle]

I wish I had a pc so I could just make the config edits I want myself

[sage dew]

ew @ebon blade you use a reticle?

[inland mantle]

https://tenor.com/view/what-the-heck-is-that-kevin-hart-cold-as-balls-what-is-that-confused-gif-18321342

[ebon blade]

I guess so.

[ebon blade]

https://tenor.com/view/what-the-heck-is-that-kevin-hart-cold-as-balls-what-is-that-confused-gif-18321342

[sage dew]

Good wish to have, man xD

[inland mantle]

One day I’ll get a pc 😂 I could have recently but I bought a hunting rifle lmao

[daring tusk]

Who can give me the save in the newbie village before going to laboratory x3, standard edition.

[inland mantle]

A laptop would be sufficient enough to download the sdk and make config edits and port them would it not?

Cause I can probably borrow a laptop and learn how to do that stuff

[safe imp]

i mean you could use a phone to type stuff technically

[safe imp]

what's x3?

[inland mantle]

Wouldn’t be able to download the zone dev kit though. Nowhere near enough space

[safe imp]

ooh with a dev kit nvm

[daring tusk]

laboratory x3

[inland mantle]

Would need it to make config edits no? (I’m “special” when it comes to anything pc)

[safe imp]

i don't know how mod configs are made

if they're just xml, yaml etc you could edit them from your phone, but to upload them as a separate mod you'd likely need this dev kit thing

[inland mantle]

Like literally all I want to be able to do is edit individual guns fire rates, ads speed reload speed and remove camera zoom for ads. Even a dummy has to be able to do that right?

[sage dew]

bhahaha what? you want to mod stalker on your PHONE? xD

[inland mantle]

No laptop for config edits

[sage dew]

and no they arent xml or yaml

those are .cfg format if I am not mistaken

xml are maybe used for text sheets for dialogues and ui etc, not sure

[safe imp]

still most likely possible to edit from a phone but yeah, you'll need the whole kit to upload them i bet

[sage dew]

to upload them on steam workshop sure

[safe imp]

besides without a pc how would you download the files

[sage dew]

to do classic mod, you just need an unpacker to extract the files form your installed game as usual

[safe imp]

unless you can download the files from the in game workshop from out the game

[sage dew]

dont need workshop files

[safe imp]

well i thought he was trying to edit an existing mod

[primal nimbus]

I now have Metro downloaded

But playing CS2 rn

[safe imp]

enjoy your non-consensual HvH matches

[sage dew]

sounds dirty

[inland mantle]

@somber rose I know you hate console so I think I’ve decided to switch to pc. Do you think I’ll be able to get 60-120 fps 4k on a MacBook Air? Looks pretty good for a first pc to play games on, and won’t be rooted to one spot

My only concern is whether or not it has a good enough fan

[somber rose]

bait

[inland mantle]

Nah just don’t want it to overheat

[somber rose]

The worst part is, since you're a console player I can't tell if you're serious

But I will assume genuine intent

No, a macbook air is not sufficient. The minimum requirements are pretty significant.

Nor is a macbook air considered a pc

[inland mantle]

Yeah nah you called me on the bait lol

[somber rose]

I can never tell when it comes to console players, but I don't want to gatekeep to that extent to shoot down genuine interest in becoming a fellow master-racer

[safe imp]

if this didn't look completely totally fake i would throw you in the Zone irl

[inland mantle]

I do genuinely want to switch to pc when able to afford it. Console has me right now because here it costs significantly less to just grab a console vs build a pc

[safe imp]

I've seen one too many people try installing microsoft flight simulator on their office work laptop
and the only thing stopping them was "its 150 gigs and i have 240 gb of space.. can you help me clear the space?" and they never stopped to think about it any more

my brother's girlfriend bought a samsung office work laptop and was gonna buy Hogwarts legacy on steam, thank god i stopped her

[safe imp]

eh, paying for online and very overpriced games kinda gets you there, plus most games not being truly moddable

[safe imp]

if you didn't mention 4k this would've almost been believable, but you should've said "looks like a pretty nice lookin laptop and its apple so..."

[viral rivet]

So hows the game doing? Havent played since release, is it more stable and are there more fun mods. Or should i just wait another 6 months or so to play it and hope the SDK is fully functional?

[primal nimbus]

HvH? Hero vs Hero?

[safe imp]

hacker vs hacker

[primal nimbus]

Ah

[viral rivet]

Exodus Sam's DLC is top tier. Highly recommend playing it if you get the chance

[inland mantle]

Facts, I’m a little off my troll game

[safe imp]

when you play premier at any level you have an almost 100% guarantee of having a cheater in your lobby

if you're top 1000 the percentage is officially 100%, there's more cheaters than legit players, number 1 and 2 are blatant cheaters and so are most of the people there

valve's too busy releasing skins and ugly animations to care. CS2 as a whole has made my opinion of valve as a game company plummet way down

its been almost 2 years and the game still feels worse than cs:go in every single aspect besides graphics

[primal nimbus]

Agreed

[safe imp]

i used to love playing wingman with my friend i was legendary eagle in wingman then cs2 dropped and the game was ruined i just had to quit 💔

[lucid charm]

Breaking into Pripyat to loot the city ahead of schedule< Breaking into Pripyat to loot that monolith sniper who’s been taking potshots at me

[primal nimbus]

< Both

[primal nimbus]

[inland mantle]

Not me beelining from lesser zone entrance to garbage all the way to Pripyat early for free endgame guns and exo suits

[charred nova]

Good morning chuds

[inland mantle]

Is it even possible for GSC to patch every single Pripyat early exploit without a literal physical barrier across the train

[inland mantle]

https://tenor.com/view/morshing-fishning-mornishing-fishorning-gif-19863131

[charred nova]

It’s insanely annoying

Pripyat early is literally the best way to enjoy the content currently in the game

[meager crag]

https://tenor.com/view/richard-watterson-richard-chad-hello-hello-chat-gif-22704677

[charred nova]

https://tenor.com/view/chatting-xqc-xqcchatting-xqcow-gif-24843240

[meager crag]

https://tenor.com/view/crazy-fives-clone-trooper-fives-star-wars-clone-wars-gif-25445851

[inland mantle]

Exactly. I love going there not only to explore and loot, but the trader there usually has the best stock of ammo for sale

[charred nova]

Well no it’s cus there’s no more game once you reach Pripyat

Because all the content in Pripyat was cut

[inland mantle]

That’s why i go there first and do my exploring and looting, and then do everything else so then when I get there it’s just for the missions. Hopefully they end up restoring a good majority of cut content

[hardy totem]

https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/504592685428899851/1397342374618857583/pop_richter_glorp1.1.gif

[inland mantle]

Storywise, I get why Pripyat is supposed to be inaccessible, but for a game with no ability to play after the end, Pripyat should have been made accessible always, with the blockage being a thing triggered after a quest closer to that point

Or yknow, just not cut all the content that was supposed to be there and the rest of the game

[meager crag]

Imagine building your game around a NV style ending

Cringe

[inland mantle]

Yeah I’m not a fan of the permanent end. Storywise it makes no sense to keep playing but for gameplays sake why

Have the ending cutscene showing what happens from your choices, but then just let us continue playing after for the sake of enjoying the game

I like to finish a main quest and then just wander and explore everything on the map when it’s all areas unlocked

[charred nova]

Don’t enable fly and god mode in Pripyat at 3am

Worst mistake of my life

[inland mantle]

What happened….

[charred nova]

It’s a secret

[inland mantle]

You can’t just do that lol

Tell us not to do it and then not say what happened

[charred nova]

The secret will make you black pilled

Like the rest of us

[inland mantle]

Black pilled?

Never heard that term

[charred nova]

https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=Blackpill

[inland mantle]

Urban dictionary comes to the rescue again lol. I swear the amount I’ve had to use that the last few years. Let me guess, flew out of bounds to see absolutely 0 content, just bland empty world space where there should be stuff?

[charred nova]

Nope

Not that bad

[inland mantle]

Or, a fully fleshed out active area that we can’t access

[charred nova]

The unfinished remains of the large cut areas of Pripyat

[inland mantle]

How big is Pripyat supposed to be

[charred nova]

NDA

[inland mantle]

Oh god, I can just imagine that what we have is just a shell of what it’s supposed to be

[charred nova]

The shining zone holds the answers you seek

[inland mantle]

Wait, I NEVER SAW THE FERRIS WHEEL THAT RICHTER MENTIONED

[charred nova]

[inland mantle]

I’ve been there. It gave no answer to the true size of Pripyat

Oh god now I want to know what Pripyat was supposed to look like finished. We’ll get it eventually right?

[fallen latch]

it should have some barrier of entry

coz nor aint gonna let skif in for nothing, so I'd imagine skif has to do some real important or substantial thing to get into pripyat

which invents interesting ways gsc can make skif do some big favour or join them in some big mission maybe to get skif across the border

[inland mantle]

So if the game files show that we only have 1/4 of content, will we ever get the remaining content?

[fallen latch]

probably, or why did we download it?

if it's in the download, it makes sense for it to be used at some point

[fallen latch]

of which would be really sick and I really wanna see that, coz whatever nor could possibly want skif's help with to get him through the border HAS to be cool and fun

[fallen latch]

[inland mantle]

So we can hope. We’re almost a year into the game and still needing optimization, alife fixes and bug fixes. I want to be optimistic and hope that while they are fixing the existing game, they’ve had a team fixing all the cut content so they can add everything in one huge update, but I’m not sure what they could be doing

Could be why updates take so long between, if they are making sure the cut content is working with the fixes for existing content before rolling the updates out

[fallen latch]

yeah possibly

i mean it's a huge game, with possibly 20 year old code so i get why updates take so long

besides, cdpr managed to turn cyberpunjk around after years so I've no doubts gsc will be able to do just that, if not better
not even saying this game is as bad as cyberpunk is, i'm just hoping for better optimisation and performance

[thin apex]

16 years of development and it still came out raw 🥀

[fallen latch]

is what it is, it's a lot better than it was a year ago

[inland mantle]

That’s true but I’m just finding it hard to be optimistic when the game literally has 1/4 of the content it’s supposed to. The game that people paid for, is missing a large majority of the game

I’m just going to hope that one day we get an absolutely massive update with news from GSC that most of the cut content has been added

[fallen latch]

definitely down the line, they're not going to waste it

[inland mantle]

If it takes too long though, couldn’t they just use the content in the next stalker game?

[fallen latch]

possiblyyyy, probably not

maybe a part 2? stalker 2.5? but not a full seperate game

[inland mantle]

I don’t think players want to wait 4 more years to have the game we were supposed to at launch

[fallen latch]

no, and that's fine

but i think the game's going to improve vastly over the next few years so I'm sticking around

besides, i love this game so much so i want as much as I can get

[inland mantle]

I will too because it’s a good game, but can’t put too much time in right now because of hardly anything to do besides explore. Once the game actually gets all of its cut content and everything, I’ll be playing the shit out of it

For now it’s more of a space/time filler for me

[thin apex]

for a game called heart of Chernobyl we don't get an awful lot of being in the heart of Chernobyl

might as well call it shadow of Chernobyl and call SOC HOC instead

[inland mantle]

Cause chornobyl apparently is supposed to be way bigger. I forgot it’s supposed to have an amusement park that we don’t have. Richter gave us a coin for a ride

Plus other areas

[fallen latch]

fair enough

[inland mantle]

It’s a shell. It’s like comparing a city to a village

[fallen latch]

yeah, all the foggy covered bits, plus lamynsk? leminsk? laminsk? you know what i mean

[inland mantle]

Lymansk is supposed to be the first dlc, at the bridge there’s a radio full of screams. And iron forest and CNPP are blurred, not fog meaning that’s an area that will be accessible

[fallen latch]

that's exactly what I mean, it's gonna be coming

for that i'm happy, plus I will be dropping the money for ultimate edition when u can upgrade to it so i can use more stuff

[inland mantle]

Probably as dlc, but the rest of Pripyat is supposed to be base game. Plus 3/4 of side missions, guns missing that have models like AKM and rpd, other locations etc

Probably new mutants too and stuff

[fallen latch]

yes, there's lots to be excited for

goes back to my thought that the game's gonna be SOOO much better in a few years

[inland mantle]

Rostock gun dealer has a wood furniture AKM that I want badly

[fallen latch]

i'm wishing for better vanilla performance as well, my 4060 laptop lovin it (90 degrees c)

[inland mantle]

“You just need to have a little goddamn faith Arthur”

[fallen latch]

ikr, they gonna bring back 7.62 by 39 fr

[fallen latch]

exactlyyyy
see it's gonna happen

[inland mantle]

Yeah same. I’m on series x on performance mode and whilst I get 60fps, a lot of tree branches blue and so do npc outfits lots

[fallen latch]

yeah, I just can't run a good dlss setting so all my vegetation and hair and stuff looks pretty bad

[inland mantle]

It’s still in game, Dnipro has a conversion for it but since launch it’s been rare af. I get maybe 200-300 rounds per playthrough

[fallen latch]

nope, they changed that to 7.62 by 54

[inland mantle]

Unless I’m not supposed to get any

How did I get 7.62x39 then??? The green ammo box of 7.62

[fallen latch]

and it does like 2.5 bars of damage maxed LOL
which is ridiculous, still can't 1hk exos with ap tho

[inland mantle]

Anomaly I guess

[fallen latch]

now that's a good question

[inland mantle]

Another anomaly

[fallen latch]

truee

[inland mantle]

For now play S2 now and then and keep up with the news on it. Wonder what 1.6 will bring us

[fallen latch]

I used it last i completed the game (yesterday)
it honestly feels like a nerf coz it doesn't 1hk exos (even though it does more damage i'm pretty sure)
but the ammo is so much heavier

[fallen latch]

me too, maybe u will be able to buy ultimate and enhanced apart from the base game

[inland mantle]

Yeah I have no clue why they scrapped 7.62x39, especially since we have an AKM and rpd model in game that will utilize that cartridge

[fallen latch]

yeah, maybe they're just shelving it for now

i wish 308 was cheaper/more abundant, i wanna use the mark 1 and m701 more

in my whole playthrough i found 220-ish high quality 308, which is not goooood

[inland mantle]

Same with 7.62x54. I have 700nrounds which cost well over 150k, and can burn that in a PKM easy

So I just use the mosin

[fallen latch]

100%, the lower versions of both should be far far cheaper

and the high qual should be more abundant, and maybe cheaper in the higher level base sales people

[inland mantle]

Yep especially considering it’s cheap af to mass produce ammo, Soviet rounds should be cheaper in general than nato rounds given how close to the manufacturer we are

[fallen latch]

like it should be cheaper at yaniv and pripyat coz that's when ur gonna need it, most likely
i still don't know why so many lower level sellers sell the mark 1, considering how expensive even the lower level of 308 is

besides, i got EVEN LESS lower quyality 308 than higher in my entire playthrough

[fallen latch]

ESPECIALLY base level 7.62x54, that's been in use for like 150 years now it should be everywhere everywhere

[inland mantle]

I honestly can’t believe our current experience is what was intended. I feel like since we’re missing 3/4 content, we’re probably missing a ton of what was intended for economy and everything else too

[fallen latch]

yeah, ahembloodsuckersahem

[inland mantle]

Yup 9x18x 7.62x39 and x54, 5.45 should all be cheaper af with nato being expensive

And more than 200 rounds of Soviet at a vendor

[fallen latch]

well, not stupidly expensive

[inland mantle]

No just more so than Soviet

[fallen latch]

yeah, they should have palets of that stuff

[inland mantle]

The current game can’t be the intended experience

[fallen latch]

100%, again smth they deff gonna fix (i hope

[inland mantle]

If not, at least we got official mod support. Easy to alter vendor loot amounts and prices

I want a mod for realistic ammo amounts on corpses. You can’t tell me other stalkers don’t hoarde hundred of rounds like I do in the zone

[fallen latch]

exactly, from the amount of ammo they shoot off at skif, they do not have every single time, >15 bullets in their gun and on their body combined
maybe zombies do, but not stalkers and certainly not the ward

[obtuse veldt]

You know what is funny?

Enemies with guns that don't jam, yet when they die, poof!

Pretty damaged guns

[inland mantle]

Yes! Enemy weapon jams when?

[fallen latch]

exactly, and you're not telling me NOBODY in the zone maintains their gun, not even the ward? or strelok???

[inland mantle]

In a warzone a gun is your life, take better care of it than yourself lol

[inland mantle]

Between enemies hoarding hundreds of rounds, counting how many they fire off I would say a realistic amount of Ammon a corpse should range from 30-200

[fallen latch]

100%, yet most of the guns you pick up are ~40% durability, like are we serious?

all of this is for balancing reasons, which makes sense
but come on, it also doesn't make sense at all

[inland mantle]

True. I find it funny because stalker is meant to be a story driven shooter with progression at its core, but most players want a hardcore realistic experience

With no false progression, just grab a gun ammo and shoot, not worrying that your ak-74 does do nearly as much damage as your malyuk, which use same cartridge

[fallen latch]

i suppose for that we've got metro hardcore
and possibly mods for this game

[inland mantle]

Guaranteed both pc and console will be flooded with realism mods

And I’ll be standing there cash in hand like fry. “Shut up and take my money”

[fallen latch]

me
too

[inland mantle]

Being optimistic, I can’t wait for this games future. Being pessimistic, I hope it happens/don’t want to wait 5 years for what launch was supposed to be

Either way time will tell

[fallen latch]

right you are

[inland mantle]

Maybe the shining zone isn’t a place, but a mindset. The shining zone is what we make of the zone itself. We can keep it in the dark or let it shine

[kindred fable]

At the beginning you won't be able to fight them effectively. Then you can deflect their attacks with shotguns that hold more than 2 shells and make them run away to prepare for another one and then repeat till they die... Although I do agree that mutants are very annoying here and many times it feels like you are just tanking them without putting any thought to the combat.

[inland mantle]

The shining zone will reveal its secrets in due time

To the worthy stalkers who stuck around to see

[kindred fable]

By 3/4 you mean that we already have 3/4 or that we are missing 3/4 of them quests?

[inland mantle]

Missing 3/4 of content

[fallen latch]

scar the entire game - "trust me bro"

[inland mantle]

Pretty much yep 😂

[fallen latch]

he's that kid, gets super pissed when everyone else doesn't believe his weird stories

[kindred fable]

And that's based on what? Hope you won't say that it's AI overview again...

[inland mantle]

No, apparently the game files show that we only have like 1/3 or 1/4 of content that the game was supposed to have as a full launch

Missing areas, guns, side quests, locations etc

[kindred fable]

Interesting... Well, if that's true and the devs are promising to finish lots of cut content then I hope my second playthrough will feel like I'm playing a new game...

[inland mantle]

Like pripyat should be way bigger

[inland mantle]

I hope we get one big fat update one day with the missing 3/4 of content. I would shit myself if we did

[fallen latch]

gets locked in a psi-pod thing

[kindred fable]

I haven't been there yet but what do you mean exactly? Are you saying that there's a part of it that is covered by clouds (in the map screen) and in the future it might be introduced to the game? Or do you mean that not everything we already see on the map screen is accessible by the player?

[inland mantle]

That there’s areas covered that we should have access too. One of the mods went god mode and flew and saw large unfinished areas of pripyat. For example there should be a huge amusement park with the Ferris wheel that richter refers to in slag heap

Pripyat was a city, and what we have in game is a small town

[obtuse veldt]

There is also an anomalous area that has a rupture

At west

[inland mantle]

Yup that as well

We are missing so much content

[obtuse veldt]

Too many suspiciously lethal radiation areas

Like they don't want us to be there

[kindred fable]

Sounds very promising. The map is huge already but I wouldn't mind some expansion... Especially if they'll make interesting A-Life systems

• All the possibilities for modders to tell their stories in the Zone

Anyways, need to keep my expectations in check

I'll keep playing thinking that the current version is pretty close to the final one and that way I won't be disappointed even more than I already was on the release

[violet dune]

u are all sound like Scar in game. delusional

[kindred fable]

Nah, that's the people that were defending the game on launch

[obtuse veldt]

I was legit complaining about a lot of things

Performance, game breaking bugs, missing assets

Side missions not working properly

Til date I keep reporting the damn bugs I find

At least they reply you asking for files and a video of what's happening

[austere pagoda]

3/4 content cut is based off the leaked build, current build does not showcase this amount of cut stuff fyi

so in that 3/4 is conceptual designs, prototypes, test beds etc

[obtuse veldt]

Now I got a figure wtf is triggering crashes on emissions but it's correlated with story radio voice lines

[austere pagoda]

saying 75% of the game is cut based on leaks is an overstatement

[obtuse veldt]

It's more like 50%

[austere pagoda]

from actual things they planned to release and not just concepts? yeah prob 40-50% is my guess

i would argue on top of 40-50% there is 20-25% in stuff that never really got any massive traction and the rest of % we got

[obtuse veldt]

I hope we can see the return of artifact infusions on weaponry or gear

But in a much advanced level than it was on previous games since it has been 10 years

[dry spade]

Hi, So with FSR 3.1 Frame gen only consumes more VRAM in this game with it on? Anyone tested it? I am using dlss perf + fsr 3.1 FG, will disable it later to see

[solar lotus]

I use FSR FG and at FSR Native AA and run pretty well (weird visual artefact if you move the camera very fast)

got 100 - 120FPS with FSR FG

[thin apex]

enemies just get bottomless mags when fighting skif

Ive literally had a guy with a toz fire like 6 or 7 shots at me back to back

[fallen latch]

ur system?

[solar lotus]

7800XT

[fallen latch]

makes sense, i should try amd's magic next I play

[solar lotus]

at max settings 1080p, so at 1440P should get 100FPS with FG more than 120FPS that I got

[fallen latch]

dayum, wish I was you

[solar lotus]

I was from 570 just befors S2 release, yeiks

[fallen latch]

yeesh

[solar lotus]

life changer

[dry spade]

Ty did you noticed increased vram usage with it on? I have low vram

[fallen latch]

i could get an egpu

i wonder what i'd upgrade to tho

[charred nova]

E gpus mostly suck which is the sad bit

Unless your device has an oculink port

Which is even more sadly extremely uncommon outside of China only devices

[fallen latch]

I could use it for my rog ally as well

[solar lotus]

I use SAM (Rezise bar for AMD) so yeah the VRAM usage for me is more higher than normal, I'm around 9Go vram usage (1080p, max settings)

[dry spade]

Ok guess will turn if off to see ty

[solar lotus]

what gpu you got ?

[fallen latch]

ignore that

[solar lotus]

np

[fallen latch]

[low bison]

for some reason in the cordon each time i get close to rookie village my game keeps crashing with the code EXCEOTION_ACCESS_VIOLATION 0x0000000000000000000000

i guess ill just stay away form there until they fix it

[charred nova]

Validate game files

[honest ferry]

nice i had this happen in pripyat

your save is corrupted i started new one no issues

[obtuse lodge]

Yo i havent played in awhile have they ported any cool mods for stalker 2 yet?

[graceful dirge]

Assume you mean Xbox? https://mod.io/g/stalker2?platforms=xboxseriesx

[obtuse lodge]

Yeah

[graceful dirge]

most of those on the popular page are pretty sweet especially Better Ballistics, the Shay overhauls, Ace (Feliche) enhancements, Lootable + Craftable Zone etc. has been a number of days since we have gotten any more ported though, hoping GSC does another batch soon

[low bison]

i have done it i also reinstalled the game

nothing changed

i honesty dont want to make a new game because ive spent like 30 hours on the last slot

wtf

[thin apex]

does craftable zone work now?

from what I remember you couldn't actually craft and it was bugged

also tbh lootable/craftable zone just adds wayyyyy too much clutter and stuff and you go to break 1 medkit box and it just explodes with 15 items and atleast 7 differant types of rags and you fill up 80kg of inventory space in 5 minutes

[graceful dirge]

I think that's in part because Xbox is still running an outdated version. waiting on GSC to approve the updated one that fixes overabundance + finding endgame armors

[graceful dirge]

I thought so but was still maybe missing some icons as well as some items weren't working

[thin apex]

I usually run unforgiving zone to lessen the loot a bit and I still get back to base with immense surplus of bandages, medkits, booze, water, energy drinks, food, certain ammo etc

[obtuse lodge]

Oh nice seems like i have to install it again thx

[stuck seal]

A lot of the mods feel off to me, like they have cool stuff but then have some negatives, like some mods just straight up cheat and let you carry more or make things hyper cheap, some of them “improve a life” but then do things like increase gear durability by like 100% or something

How I see it, you can’t pick and choose so that you can have simply an improved stalker 2 experience, anything that improves something, also changed core mechanics or balancing

[strong onyx]

Mods?

Guessing not?

[charred nova]

Damn that usually fixes it

[thin apex]

I hope someone can find a way to mod in a way to look around while sprinting similar to tarkov/Arma etc

[stuck seal]

You mean free look

[smoky hawk]

I am sorry but you cannot mod bitches into your life

[thin apex]

and something that felt a bit weird to me too is how skif has like a 10 second 100m sprint (while loaded with like 60kg of booze) and he absolutely ZOOMS but also at the same time his stamina dies in 100 meters too

[stuck seal]

Eh free look is overrated in a lot of games, sometimes a game has freelook and I never use it, because I’d rather aim my gun at what I want to see rather than just my head

[thin apex]

I want the speed of running away with the ability to see the bloodsucker that is chasing me

[graceful dirge]

There are always going to be those ones that make the experience easier but you can still be selective and take the ones that make it harder, for example, I only use better ballistic so I don't use the shay weight mod version because I find it way too casual.

[stuck seal]

You don’t have to see the bloodsucker, it’s always going to be on your behind no matter what

[thin apex]

how far is it though

[stuck seal]

It’s close enough to smell the last thing you ate

[graceful dirge]

https://mod.io/g/stalker2/c/lost-to-the-zone#description I have been putting together a mod collection that's PC and Xbox friendly though of course a lot of these ones are waiting on Xbox approval, playing with these has definitely made it harder and more enjoyable without some of the unnecessary fluff add-ons like you were saying

[thin apex]

it also at times feels clunky to be forced into walking when you reload especially with pistols that can definately be reloaded on the go

[graceful dirge]

yeah I am very much appreciating the staged reloads but in general I do agree, I wish that sprint didn't cancel it because there are totally some of those reloads you could do while sprinting quick handgun mag swap versus PKM belt lol for example but I guess they just want to balance across the board

[stuck seal]

That’s the thing, on console it’s only those mods, the only mod I see that doesn’t do it is better ballistics

But even the bronze gold mod I forgot what it’s called, says it improves a life or something but then changes like a bunch of other things

[thin apex]

it can feel a bit annoying since most mutants fights are literally just running for your life evading them and then reloading you just have to sit like a stunned deer and hope the mutant doesn't stun you with some attack before you are allowed to run/evade again
(the segmented reloads does help alot though since you can dump the mag, run, put a new mag in, run and then chamber a round or whatever)

unless you're in an area that has boxes or cars or whatever to jump on

sometimes you get caught in the middle of no where or in a cave though

[graceful dirge]

Well, I don't know exactly what sort of experience you are looking for (or specifically the kinds of changes you mean also being included with the shay gold) but in general most of these the goal is going to be to make the game more alive with greater depth, Not sure what you in this case define as improved but to me personally that has become one that changes balance as well as core mechanics because I don't love the simplicity at times of vanilla and this is after 1000+ hours of enjoying it that way

[graceful dirge]

especially when a lot of these mutants attack you by leaping at you, it feels like they are jumping through you and they have pathing & collision issues

[obtuse veldt]

Honestly though, a horror mod standalone for stalker 2 can work

[graceful dirge]

yeah and then they go hide away from you or run the moment you have your aim trained on them because they know somehow lmao

blind dog should be there barking feral at me when I'm on top of a box, not hiding around a corner waiting for me to come down

[obtuse veldt]

The shelter at wild island while it's dark oof ..

[stuck seal]

Don’t like making the game easier by lowering stats for things, or turning it into milslop by lowering your health to like 2hp or something and requiring you to take a medical course just to patch a bullet wound

[graceful dirge]

dude for real I got terrified one time coming back through there and it was totally empty after SIRCAA, and then somehow there was a goddamn zombie inside scared the shit out of me and it wouldn't even let me draw my weapon in there to be able to kill him, he sprayed me down in the mechanic room

[stuck seal]

Especially in a game where enemies see you through foliage and half the map is flat wilderness

[obtuse veldt]

Like you got a crappy pistol, stuck at everlasting night and darkness and gotta find a way out while being hunted by mutants and zombies or something else too!

[graceful dirge]

So essentially you want better ballistics that doesn't work against you lol

[obtuse veldt]

Your lamp would be limited by batteries and going dark for too long would cause madness and causing you go unconscious like in Amnesia

[graceful dirge]

I don't know what can be done with enemies seeing through foliage but agreed that combined with framedrop is what made me uninstall the Realistic Forest mod for now

[charred nova]

Tarkov players will never feel the touch of a women

[stuck seal]

There’s a reason why you have quite a large healthbar with certain armors, it’s because there’s not a lot of cover when you’re out and about, and a life will make enemies appear when you’re in places with little cover, which is why the health and such is they way they are in vanilla. If you change how health works without changing the way ai works it’s just going to be annoying not intriguing

[graceful dirge]

I wish psi-exposure and for that matter radiation exposure too had longer lasting effects and you'd actually have to find yourself visiting a doctor to be cured fully of them instead of just using another item you just smashed a box and found 10 of

[stuck seal]

Maybe if you don’t have proper protection, but if you do have proper protection it shouldn’t affect you that much

Make the early game harder basically

[obtuse veldt]

Like using vodka and taking care of it like SoC and ca

[meager crag]

Based

[obtuse veldt]

Probably to restore your mental health

[meager crag]

Sadly, I don't play it

[graceful dirge]

I do agree the worst instances of that are when you are just moving between points of interest and A life decides to just drop in a squad ready to aggro on you and no cover in between, definitely so much worse with better ballistics. Also I have not experienced it personally but generally heard some of the main story campaign can be grueling because it's just built for you to be more of this one man army taking shots like crazy and of course that's just not possible with better ballistics

[obtuse veldt]

Taking health damage is dumb and should had other kind of damage imho

And it heals back so fast...

[graceful dirge]

For that matter, I wish they had given us a true master difficulty on launch which in my eyes should have been like the way Metro handles ranger hardcore with minimal HUD and glass cannon damages for you and enemies like Better Ballistics, though I guess the game segments would have to be changed a lot for just that difficulty again with all of the one men army stuff they make skif do

[stuck seal]

Exactly, stalker 2 like the trilogy is built like an arcade game, it’s going to play like one, if you don’t want it like an arcade game, you can’t just change one or two stats, you have to redesign the game

[obtuse veldt]

And the fact that people would point their guns at you when you shoot phantasms should be a thing

[lucid charm]

better ballistics monster balancing makes fighting poltergeists the most frustrating shit ever

[stuck seal]

And I don’t disagree with it, I personally believe stalker should be arcadey with realistic elements, especially in a story driven setting like all the games, I think turning it into a simulator just pulls away from the world building, story, and combat. You can’t fight off a platoon of monolith like in the office in CoP if the first monolith you see shoots you in the arm and now you can’t fight and have to run away to spend a whole minute healing your arm.

[lucid charm]

they got the zoomies

[thin apex]

they would have to give you the 1911 instead of skifs pistol the Makarov is too reliable to be considered crappy

[ornate lake]

no

[thin apex]

yuh

[ornate lake]

never

[thin apex]

they should just make a gamma mod pack sequel and turn stalker 2 into tarkov too

[obtuse veldt]

Id rather see a standalone mod, in a horror survival setting

[stuck seal]

You steal sidorovichs chicken and now he’s after you

[thin apex]

circa 2030

[sage dew]

that would be funny Sidirovich just walking thowards you all the time always thru anomalies, locked doors water radiation but when he gets you, you die so hard the game deletes all your save files xD

[obtuse veldt]

Where is my chicken stalker?

[sage dew]

no no no "Veer is maaj chickeen staaalkeeer?"

[charred nova]

We are discord mod we have a natural women repelling properties

[stuck seal]

You know what though I can actually see this, you’re a loner in one of the first groups to ever explore Pripyat or another place in the center of the zone, your group gets ambushed by monolith, and now you must try to get out alive as the monolith hunts down the survivors of your group

[thin apex]

bro survived the trip to pripyat without getting his brain scorched

[meager crag]

So SoC's end game but it's just Pripyat?

Besides, we know either everyone died, didn't advance any further or went back, seen how there are no Stalkers in Pripyat during the events of CoP, only after finishing the game

[thin apex]

you wouldn't even be able to make it to pripyat/the CNPP area without getting your brain scorched or "wish granted"

[meager crag]

SoC tho

[thin apex]

until mr main character strelok cams by

but even then you wouldn't be "the first" group who "didn't" know about the monolith

[meager crag]

That would be the first

Strelok's group was obviously the first

Same with Monolithians

[thin apex]

I mean you theoretically going to the centre of the zone after strelok opened it

[meager crag]

CoP fr