☢┃stalker-general

[inland mantle]

Most in Europe still. My family hasn’t been in Canada long

[quiet yew]

In Poland all nobility voted for the king. 5-10% of people were nobility. It was a worthless tittle.

Although it did make us the most democratic for hundreds of years.

99% of Polish nobility had no more rights or money than peasants.

[inland mantle]

We eat a lot of wild game here. Moose, deer and elk. Not so much for veggies as they are so expensive, want to get a garden going next year for potatoes and carrots, asparagus

[somber rose]

Hopefully I had ancestors in the German Peasants war that went around offing nobles until they got put down hard.

[quiet yew]

And in some ways it was crazy democratic. A single person in parliament could declare and end and not a single thing passed before could be passed.

Then parliament was dismissed without a government for at least a year

It gave any single random noble which really was anybody full veto power over anything. Kinda caused a lot of problems bc other countries bribed our nobels.

[quiet yew]

You ever play eu4? It does make me think how much better I’d be for the UK I’d the monarchy would’ve been forcibly removed instead of constantly reforming and now it’s this mild tumor you can’t get rid off.

I don’t like nobility or royalty lol. Although I do like history

[somber rose]

EU4 is a little bit disappointing to me mechanically. I prefer Victoria

[quiet yew]

Damn that’s a hot take lol. Well I just wanted to use that as an example. They’re basically weak af nothing close to an enemy army.

Notice how much easier peasants are to put down than pretender rebels. Theirs a good reason lol. Training and equipment and money go a long way.

Also why slave revolts never really worked until we fought a country splitting war.

[somber rose]

Victoria 2 was my jam as a kid, as well as Hoi2. These days I mainly do Victoria 3, Stellaris, or OWB for Hoi4.

Something about EU just seemed abstract to me.

[sage dew]

AN act of Mercy "Do not kill any monolit soldiers" ... I sneak thru and half way thru I hear a bloosucker spawning in somewhere and kills a monolith soldier - is this game trolling me?

[thin apex]

yes

[somber rose]

Incredibly bad luck

[sage dew]

It also looks like the monolithians are shooting each other

cause the bloodsucker spawns somewhere behind a wall or something it is doing its stun attack and the monolithians are running around like crazy

I sneak thru but then I hear them shooting

and I start seeing dead monolitians, no bloodsucker anywhere, but still near

[somber rose]

If you save inside the facility, for whatever reason, it'll replace 2 of the Monolithian Zombies with Noontiders who begin shooting them

[frigid hill]

czechdeath has been warned

Reason: Bad word usage

[sage dew]

OH no ... bad word usage xD

What the Fudge?

[somber rose]

It's just if you load the save inside, supposedly. I haven't encountered this myself, as I'm incredibly skilled and always get through without killing anyone first try.

[livid cave]

love being on lab x16, shooting off all of my ammo on zombies and snorks, then coming back with no rifle ammo for bandits

geronimo bay victims are treated better than players of this game 💔

[sage dew]

I just loaded earlier save in yaniv, went all the way there, saved before I get in to the dusty cable tunnel building on the surface went all the way thru 3x every time, monolith starts shooting each other

bugged in to hell - maybe next playthru I will be skilled like you @somber rose

[somber rose]

Sorry to hear that brother, unfortunately all I know is what other people have claimed, not having it on my end means I have no way of knowing what causes it beyond hearsay.

That being said, at least killing folks on this mission has no bearing on the story.

[fallen latch]

Button to skip the starting cutscene?

[somber rose]

Walk away to get a snack. It's disabled atm

[sage dew]

Alt+f4

works every time

[livid cave]

alt-tab to steam, press the “stop” button to stop the cutscene, very easy fix how do you not know this?

[sage dew]

Well unless AI wipes out all the humans in next 2 months I will be playing S2 again and on new PC aswell, so ... theres hope I will be able to do this cursed mission again without killing the monobrains... Also it is funny how devs lobotomized them for the mission They are running around flashlights on, searching everyhwere, and I am sneaking without light and those guys just stand 30cm away from me and dont see me, or they are aiming at me but not shooting for good 30 seconds giving me all the chances I have to sneak away - they are trying really REALLY hard to help me make the mission, but then they poop the bed and shoot each other (cause bug)

They are suppose to be chilled during this mission right? Doing their thing - like in Metro exodus

[somber rose]

Biggest issue with stealth is when it's effective you can't see anything either lol

[sage dew]

thats why we need you know what?

NVG

GSC are surely teasing us with binoculars and NVGs seeing NPCs have them and use them too (atleast the binoculars)

[thin apex]

the enemies torches are just non existant even when they're turned on

asuming the enemies even have torches sometimes they dont

[thin apex]

also if you're on PC just get oxides expanded armoury it adds NVG and if you're on console then go whine to oxide to do the process to get it ported to console

[fallen latch]

How to skip, not stop. Can you read?

[somber rose]

Enemy flashlights work for me.

[livid cave]

it stops the cutscene and moves onto the next part :)

[thin apex]

sometimes they arnt turned on at night from the looks of it for me and even when they are sometimes you can't see any light coming from the enemy in pitch black just like a little dot of light when you get close

[somber rose]

Sometimes.

[sage dew]

PC over here I hate consoles xD

[thin apex]

go install OXA then and go get your nvg

plus other things Included in oxa

[sage dew]

Its like macGaming - instead of proper big ass burger with quality beef medium rare

[sage dew]

keep hearing about oxa - but I always 1st time play games vanilla and for the next I play with mods

[alpine kiln]

the clankers arent getting us

[sage dew]

time will tell

[cedar bronze]

I switched up my 5600g with a 5600x and the game runs a lot better, e

[vapid holly]

I'm waiting until the AI is fixed to finally play the game, is it the case ?

[graceful dirge]

Just gonna repost my comment because this gets asked daily here: The major improvements to offline A-life as of 1.5 can be found in this video with transparent testing & facts https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=je-VV87hJKg though I recommend using one of the Shay living Zone mods to further improve your experience and do take note, we are still currently limited to 100m player bubble for online/offline a-life rendering range

and NPC online/combat AI got a nice improvement in 1.4, details from about 2-8 minutes in on this video. Similarly I would recommend using letswoolgather NPC combat overhaul for more unique combat encounters https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=hM0Uv0yHAxY&t=1s&pp=2AEBkAIB

So for me & many the answer is yes at least to a notable degree, but they are not all the way there yet

[vapid holly]

Oh sorry I should've checked first, and I guess I'll wait still. What made Stalker for me my favorite game was the exceptional AI which further improved the immersion, so I want it to be near perfect in order to play it

[graceful dirge]

they have certainly been improved since launch but are definitely not as good as the AI in the original games so would give it more time in your case too

[gray finch]

Good morning stalkers

[chilly bloom]

Petition for the spanish version of stalker 2 add a setting that is chancla mode and changes the knife to be a sandal

Or just all versions

[shrewd needle]

A sandal can't kill.

[charred nova]

Sure it can

If you bash someone with a block of wood hard enough they’d probably die

Same thing

[shrewd needle]

Much less than a knife, though.

A knife can stab, a knife can slash, a knife can do a lot more than a sandal.

[hardy totem]

Sandals can deliver catastrophic slaps to the face

[stuck seal]

The sandal anomaly

[meager crag]

With enough speed, anything can become a weapon

[hardy totem]

In theory you could cook a chicken with a sandal

[dreamy dagger]

They never teased us with NPCs having NVGs...

[dreamy dagger]

Sidorovichrist

[sage dew]

Haha what? every advanced suit that is not seva or exo has NVGs on the helmet

[obtuse veldt]

You have no idea of the power of La Chancla

Thing is more powerful than a rpg

[sage dew]

https://www.reddit.com/r/stalker/comments/1gyqzdw/why_is_this_drunk_piece_of_shit_wearing_an_nvg/#lightbox

[dreamy dagger]

You think they cut out NVG for the player on purpose to bring it back 1 year later?

Sidorovichrist, boss

[fickle hill]

Realistically helmets and hoods that are combatable like telegraph in Pripyat or sphere helmet as an example

[sage dew]

I think they didnt have time to implement it to the level of quality they managed to do the other things (weapons, consumable items) I do belive they will bring them "back" in a later update/patch along with other things.

[dreamy dagger]

2 years later maybe

There was no need to funk around with the squrrels and crap, time spent there could've brought wonders spent elsewhere

Whole situation with the game lacking content is... funnily said, LUDACRIS!

[thin apex]

yeah cos the 5600g is a glorified 5500 with an igpu it has half the cache of the 5600/x/5700x etc
too many people mistake 5600g for 5600+G when it's actually 5500+G

amd was just a bit silly

[shrewd needle]

That is true.

[violet dune]

daily reminder, u are all delusional - scar 2025

[hardy totem]

Thanks, I almost forgot

[plain fiber]

I know GSC has confirmed they have more work planned for A-Life, I assume the same is true for the general AI.

[nocturne plume]

So hows"s stalker 2 performance wise these day? I played it on release but the performce plus crashes sort of spoilt it for me.

[thin apex]

[strong onyx]

Game doesn't typically crash unless you have a GPU overclock in my experience, game is extremely sensntive to GPU overclocks for some reason even if its a atable one.

[nocturne plume]

how is the general performace like fps wise?

[strong onyx]

better then launch, still not where it needs to be.

[pseudo gate]

There are voicelines for traders advertising NVGs in game files, so that's definitely was cut

Same as mutant loot and special hunter traders
Sometimes it feels like we got 60% of a game

Like with Noontide, why do they even have a reputation meter without a possibility to increase it to green?

[strong onyx]

I'm pretty sure you can but there isn't much of a point, at least for wild island.

[pseudo gate]

Idk how, noone there gives any missions, the only way I can think of is to lure mutants to Noontide patrols, get noontiders downed and heal them for reputation, but I can't imagine the tedium

[strong onyx]

From what I understand the place would get attacked quite a lot, not sure if it still does.

But yeah not much of a point to get green rep there tbh...

[pseudo gate]

It's just weird to build them up so much to then just kill them off effectively mid game

[strong onyx]

Storyline.

[pseudo gate]

They are easily most interesting faction in the game and they feel underexplored af

[thin apex]

honestly I forgot how short the noontide era was in stalker 2 cos I took forever on my first runs

it felt like I blazed thru meeting noontide to monolith in like 5-10 hours which also has my messing around with some stuff in zaton

i wish there was more story that happened before sircca since the only stuff you do is lesser zone, garbages wild island, zaton and swamps then the entire zone gets flipped on its head

[charred nova]

Me wife when she catches the living room chair going at 100mph

[pseudo gate]

Even okay, we kill them at SIRCAA, the whole "monolith is back" is not present
We have whole 1 defence of Zalissya and 1 quest in cooling towers, some radiochatter in garbage, and also aftermath of monoliths breakthrough to Pripyat although we don't really see it

[meager crag]

Impossible, you're a janny. You'll never find true love

[pseudo gate]

That should've been game shaking event where we understand that everything is really bad

[charred nova]

True

[charred nova]

I’ll never cause domestic violence with rizz like this

[still current]

Poor jack

[acoustic orchid]

Do you think we will see any updates on the roadmap next week?

[pseudo gate]

Anyone's guess

[acoustic orchid]

Seems to be swept under the carpet

If it gets to mid August they will switch to H2 Update

[devout belfry]

hello, I got to the final mission in the game but I cant complete it. I keep getting a memory leak every 2 mins and am forced to kill the game through task manager. The game eats up all 32 gigs of Ram

any fix?

[charred nova]

No

[acoustic orchid]

How come?

[oak junco]

I dont feel like dropping it this month sorry

[charred nova]

I’m fully black pilled and have no faith

But here’s a cute dog instead

[shrewd needle]

Power aboose.

[nova zephyr]

Anyone know of any way to "fix" anomaly fields that have spawned an artifact underground. I don't mind missing out on a single artifact but I have a couple of different locations where the artifact has spawned underground and the field itself is now dead for any future artifact collection.

[obtuse veldt]

Hmm the annoying artifact spawn in a impossible to pickup bug due being out of bounds

[wary geyser]

Fsr4 look really bad on quality mode lol

[frigid hill]

drip_goose_123 has been warned

Reason: Bad word usage

[nova zephyr]

Yes, Is there any way to fix it (Eg, Can the anomaly spawn be reset by any game event for example)

[obtuse veldt]

I just noclip into it

Until GSC fixes the spawns, I'll just cheat with console

[shrewd needle]

Same. Just noclip.

[acoustic orchid]

Awe thanks yeah I am losing patience now. Might move onto another game on the channel 🤣

[still current]

[lament pelican]

BF6 is hot now. Halo is getting a beefy update soon.

[acoustic orchid]

Problem is on Youtube so many are covering BF6 but Halo is a great shout 👍🏻

[mortal sail]

Spark is so cool, too bad the idea isn't great. Kill ward. That's it? So boring

[meager crag]

Kill Ward and find Shining Zone

[obtuse veldt]

They better prepare a STALKER 2 prequel when the Ward started a great war and explains everything that happened to the original Spark as well how Freedom, Duty and the corps fought against their control

As well free stalkers

Too many questions about how did the Ward manage to control the zone

[mortal sail]

Yeah, why ward and not duty, for example

I just killed every ward member i saw, so...

Maybe if they had less than infinite members, they would be dead

So that explains much

[obtuse veldt]

If you put attention to what stalkers comment about the Ward is that they hate them, one of them is a master stalker known as Wolf

They have done really questionable stuff

[mortal sail]

Indeed, their snipers are doing some weird stuff

[somber rose]

Ward seems good on the first glance, I just don't like who they're working for.

[tough bay]

They seem like they could be fit for becoming a second Clear Sky

saddens me how forgotten of a faction they are

[somber rose]

They were small and now they're dead

[tough bay]

They had force to fight through Monolithians and reach the CNPP which no other faction has really been able to do

Only faction I can think of would be the OG military

[somber rose]

Plenty have since

[tough bay]

like?

[somber rose]

The climax of SoC was the military/duty/freedom and others rushing the CNPP

and fighting one another too

[tough bay]

Only the military managed to actually reach the CNPP iirc

which is a faction with more resources than any in the zone

[somber rose]

I mean considering how many people were rushing the center, it really wasn't any individual faction

[tough bay]

during the ending sequence of SoC I could only spot the military at the southern CNPP

[somber rose]

When you see a space shuttle in space, did it get there alone?

All the factions rushing the center of the zone, while in opposition to each other, are certainly a force multiplyer that helped penetrate Monolith defenses

[tough bay]

missing the point

[shrewd needle]

I mean...both of you are right.

[tough bay]

to clarify

I think saying Clear Sky was a "small" faction is undermining what they acomplished

and that its simply wrong with what weve seen

[somber rose]

small meaning very few members

[tough bay]

which I also dont agree with

[somber rose]

They're explicitly described as such like over a dozen times

[tough bay]

small at the start of CS? Sure I guess but during the Limansk sections theyre noticeable more numerous

[somber rose]

Every time they're described it's described as a small faction. Nimble explicitly says this when you ask him about it

It was a handful of scientists and dudes they hired.

[shrewd needle]

Actually, no; at the start of CS, you're at the camp. There's plenty of both seen and unseen members out in the Swamps.

[somber rose]

"I joined Clear Sky by accident. I was sinking in a marsh one day when these guys pulled me out and took me to their base. I had a chat with Lebedev, and the man made a lot of sense. He knows more about the Zone than others would care to hear about. The clan seems to have a worthy goal, so I joined up and started doing what I could to help."

This implies that they weren't even well known when they were operating.

And the very few that made it to the center of the zone, thanks for the recruits

[shrewd needle]

But either ways, in SoC, everyone rushed to the CNPP, but Duty and Freedom are both idiots, so they get stuck infighting amongst themselves and in Pripyat, the loners are facing the heavy Monolith resistance (and I have serious doubts that Strelok killed every single Monolithian).

Meaning that only the military had the resources (no matter how under-equipped, APCs and helicopters beat exo-skeletons any day) to get through to the CNPP while the others got left behind.

Besides, the military only got to the entryway of the CNPP's bridge; they couldn't get further; Strelok only got in due to everyone being distracted, meaning less to kill (out of total).

And finally, the emission...

[somber rose]

Yes, but the rest of the factions entering the battlespace is a force multiplyer for anyone trying to reach the CNPP

[shrewd needle]

But that's what I'm saying...only the military actually got to CNPP, everyone else got stuck in Pripyat because of the Monolith resistance. Strelok only got through because he basically didn't care for anything else AND followed the military.

[smoky hawk]

everytime I think that Clear Sky is cool I think of all the 14 year old who lack a personality that cling to it and feel like they need to get bullied

we need to kick dirt in their face

[shrewd needle]

Skill issue.

[somber rose]

For instance, Chinese military doctrine during Korea emphasized a strategy called "One Quiet Two Loud" Where two diversionary attacks that were 'obvious/loud' divided enemy forces and gunfire in order for the third 'quiet' attack to succeed

[shrewd needle]

But this. No even even gets through the stadium, much less into CNPP.

[somber rose]

No one could have done it alone, I don't think.

[shrewd needle]

Yes, they didn't. The military broke through to the CNPP on their own and Strelok followed.

[somber rose]

It's because they view it as the 'unambiguous good/competent' faction

[shrewd needle]

TBF, they are...till S2 destroys that lore. 😔

[somber rose]

they don't understand that it's much cooler to be entranced around a pile of garbage with your bros

[shrewd needle]

Actually, it's much cooler to be Noontide.

[tough bay]

I think they were small compared to when they were pushing through Limansk and the hospital

[smoky hawk]

I know they view it as the hands in the dirt ecologists, this just proves to me that they do need to be bullied, but harder than before

[somber rose]

Oops I spilled Psi everywhere, welcome back

[shrewd needle]

Not happening.

[shrewd needle]

Like I said, the camp only has limited numbers of CS members; there's others in the Swamps, both seen and unseen.

At the time of Limansk, they're all focused on one goal.

[somber rose]

I think they were always meant to be shady

[tough bay]

Ok yeah I get what you mean

[shrewd needle]

Also, I'm confused.

In CS, Limansk is like...a ghost town but one that's turned into a fortress for the Monolith, the Bandits, the Military and basically anyone else not CS and the Mercenary group you travel with.

WTF happened between CS and S2 that led to the horror movie scene from the outpost?

[somber rose]

Oh and also siding always with the faction you perceive as the closest to good is boring

Side with whoever is most interesting

[shrewd needle]

Then I side with the Bandits and perceive them to be the closest to good. 😏

Now cope!

[somber rose]

🤷‍♂️

[smoky hawk]

bandits are just cooler loners

[shrewd needle]

I mean, they run concentration camps, murder people for fun, rob them blind in the middle of nowhere and so on...

...though, TBF, Sultan does a lot better than that, NGL.

[somber rose]

based

[tough bay]

If I were to guess after the events of CS the monolith cleaned up Limansk and destroyed any access to it

[shrewd needle]

So based that they get shot at by everyone involved.

[somber rose]

I ran concentration camps for ghouls in Fallout 4 due to my inability to exclude them from the settlement system

Please report to the drive in movie theater for processing

You gotta do what you gotta do

[shrewd needle]

That's not what I'm asking.

What I'm asking is that in CS, Lymansk is a ghost town; no one's living there and Scar and the Mercenary team already cleared Lymansk out, meaning the Monolith would only be using it as a fortress.

So what happened between then an S2? The audio in S2 is of mass torture, mass rioting and so on...like, if it's empty, what's the transmission of? And if it's not empty, what is there?

[tough bay]

I mustve missed that I guess

[shrewd needle]

NGL...for all the peace that people preach IRL, their choices in games sometimes disturb me.

[shrewd needle]

It's at the bridge to Lymansk (same place as in CS); you go up to the watch-tower that's now broken even further and listen to the radio.

[somber rose]

Eh, do what's fun or interesting. Irl I just wouldn't let ghouls into my settlements, but the game forces me to take more drastic actions.

[tough bay]

Ill keep that in mind when I reach the Red Forest next time

[shrewd needle]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lv2PXC6DlAQ

[shrewd needle]

The fact that Lymansk doesn't exist in S2 makes it even more creepy.

[tough bay]

Okay I watched the video

[shrewd needle]

Yea, but peoples' morality in real life is a stark contrast to all the war crimes in games they commit...and man, it's jarring.

[somber rose]

what if, hear me out, the two are completely disconnected and separating fiction and reality is an important life skill

[shrewd needle]

There's a difference between separating reality and fiction...and dividing one's morality into multiple parts as convenient.

But, perhaps, that discussion is for #💬┃en_offtop.

[tough bay]

Limansk was home to multiple Psi installations so Im guessing they were turned on after CS, It could also be interferance from the spacial anomalies present there or it could be the large emission seen at the end of CS or a combination of all 3

[shrewd needle]

I mean, it's quite obviously the sounds of people, so it can't be interference.

Like I said, it's basically the sounds of mass torture, mass panic and so on. Like setting an entire city on fire and watching people scream.

[tough bay]

People trapped in spacial anomalies and the spacial anomalies interfeering with the radio

[somber rose]

I don't think so lol

[tough bay]

We know the spacial anomalies are torture from CoP

[shrewd needle]

Well, I mean the other kind of torture, you know.

[shrewd needle]

Most don't.

[somber rose]

I'm the type of dude who volunteers at food banks, but in Fallout I slavery maxx

[tough bay]

psycological torture is generally worse than physical torture

[shrewd needle]

Yes, and I understand that (and am more than capable of differentiating between fiction and reality).

[somber rose]

I genuinely think the inability to roleplay may be some sort of mental difference in the vein of people without inner monologues

[shrewd needle]

I know. Just wondering what happened between CS and S2 that led to the radio transmissions.

[shrewd needle]

That's too many assumptions (a lot of which are incorrect).

[tough bay]

Im guessing we will find out if a DLC set in Limansk is ever released

[somber rose]

goody two shoes smh

[tough bay]

untill then we can only speculate

[somber rose]

I will name one of my ghoul concentration camps in your honor

[shrewd needle]

Nah.

[shrewd needle]

That'll be the day...

[somber rose]

Indeed, it would require playing fallout 4 again

[shrewd needle]

I mean, speculation is fun. Especially considering Forester's dialogues from CS.

[tough bay]

Its what I love about STALKER

There is so much to speculate about

[shrewd needle]

I mean being honoured by having a concentration camp named after me will be the day...

And not in a good way, NGL.

[shrewd needle]

IKR? Even if the S2 lore is crap (I know they tried, but it's just not good enough), they did get the little things like these just right, like the trilogy.

And I'm just shuddering from the horrors unleashed once that bridge comes down.

Which is even worse because the controls are on the Lymansk side.

[somber rose]

It's okay, they're not people

[shrewd needle]

By that logic...neither are you. 😏

[tough bay]

In terms of lore CS and CoP are the stronger games, SoCs true ending basically just telling you what the zone is kinda sucked imo

But yeah the little things in S2 are great

[shrewd needle]

Because it revealed the mystery...so yea. Though that was inevitable.

[tough bay]

Yeah but the way it just gives you it on a silver platter in the FIRST GAME

[shrewd needle]

And the best part, unironically, is that Skif is basically like the guy from Doom 3...he sees a SHIT ton of horrors and never once fades. No reaction to ANYthing.

[somber rose]

https://i.gyazo.com/dbe7b80c00ef885404064779dcd8bb03.png

[shrewd needle]

I'm pretty sure part of it was publisher enforcement, since TVTropes says that SoC was going to be a lot more expansive and have multiple story branches, but THQ (or whatever) decided that it should be linear.

Because, of course, we need the stupidity of publishers and OF COURSE they have to meddle.

[shrewd needle]

Time to Colossus you!

And the best part is I'm actually playing Stellaris right now. 5X costs, 25X crisis...

[somber rose]

I bet you've never purged a pop in your life

[shrewd needle]

Why purge when they can work for you? 😏

Especially since population is the biggest problem.

The best torture...is a day job. And the best purge...is purging their time. 18 hours in the mines.

[somber rose]

supporting slavery irl, smh

[shrewd needle]

Man, Discord is so banning me for this... 😆

[shrewd needle]

Would.

[inland mantle]

How does one get veteran role?

[shrewd needle]

By talking too much, like me.

[inland mantle]

Ah what’ll level? Think I’m at 20 now lol

[shrewd needle]

I don't remember; I got this role like...years ago.

[shrewd needle]

WTF? I've been level 25 for years now? How do I see my level?

[inland mantle]

How does one hit level 70 lmao

[shrewd needle]

By talking too much.

[inland mantle]

By being master yapper of the yappingtons 😂

[shrewd needle]

OK, how do I see my level? Seriously...

[inland mantle]

!wolf

Nope that didn’t work

Do you have a DM from wolf?

[obtuse veldt]

Being master of chit chat

[shrewd needle]

Nope, no PM. Wolf only does things here. Or...wait.

[inland mantle]

I get private messages from wolf when I level

[shrewd needle]

Ah, yea...I'm level 49.

[inland mantle]

Your almost there

[shrewd needle]

WTF? 10,000 XP to level?

[shrewd needle]

I got here by talking to much years ago. OCD.

[shrewd needle]

Very cheesy.

[inland mantle]

I like cheesy food

[shrewd needle]

Time to chop up an artifact and sprinkle on your cheese. 😏

[shrewd needle]

Free mutation.

[inland mantle]

Maybe it will cure my recently receding hairline

[shrewd needle]

Or your biohazard nature.

[tough bay]

I wonder which artefacts taste the best

[shrewd needle]

Obviously, the Oasis.

[inland mantle]

Wierd nut?

[shrewd needle]

That's a nut. Not food.

[inland mantle]

https://tenor.com/view/it's-fine-if-you-didn't-get-it-abe-weissman-tony-shalhoub-the-marvelous-mrs-maisel-it's-okay-if-you-did-not-understand-it-gif-8495816839727984056

[shrewd needle]

Funny...I just got my own Gauss Rifle from Prometheus! 😏

[tough bay]

Idk Im not sure about the Oasis being the best tasting artefact

[shrewd needle]

The Oasis basically exists in a utopia in the middle of the Zone.

[ebon blade]

https://tenor.com/view/it's-fine-if-you-didn't-get-it-abe-weissman-tony-shalhoub-the-marvelous-mrs-maisel-it's-okay-if-you-did-not-understand-it-gif-8495816839727984056

[shrewd needle]

I did actually not get it, NGL.

[tough bay]

What about the Heart of Chornobyl... it looks like its strawberry and blueberry flavoured

[ebon blade]

Obviously, the Meat Chunk.

[shrewd needle]

Ah, yes, solved, except I'm vegetarian.

[inland mantle]

May the monolith forever protect your innocence

[shrewd needle]

NGL, that works. But then you become the Variometer.

[somber rose]

Isn't the mission to take back the sphere a Ward one? The one where you get the emitter

[shrewd needle]

No, enlighten me. Now.

[inland mantle]

It was a joke that was sexual in nature. You asked what artifact would taste best and I said wierd nut

[somber rose]

https://tenor.com/view/stalker-stalcraft-dance-gif-13257141

[shrewd needle]

Don't you go to the Sphere either ways, along with the Noon base?

[tough bay]

Is Stalcraft even good?

[somber rose]

I think this may be a bug

[ebon blade]

Does that mean your Skif is also a vegetarian?

[shrewd needle]

Oh...oh...thanks for ruining my appetite.

[somber rose]

Nah, the gif has nothing to do with Stalcraft, do not play it

[shrewd needle]

Yes, only bread. Never sausage.

[tough bay]

Just curious, what gave Stalcraft its reputation?

[shrewd needle]

I don't think it's a bug; just different mission providers and besides, it clearly says that the signal comes from 2 places.

[somber rose]

It looking retarded and derivative

[somber rose]

The mission description says the colonel sent you.

[tough bay]

Okay but seriously, Im asking about how it is to play

[shrewd needle]

Yea, but wouldn't that only do so on the Ward path? On other paths, it'd be different descriptions?

[somber rose]

I'm on a Spark/Skif run and it still says Colonel Korshunov sent me, hence my belief it's a bug.

There's no need for two emitters and the cutscene with scar after only shows one

[shrewd needle]

Probably forgot to change the description, NGL.

[shrewd needle]

Scar breaks one and you use the other in Duga, I think. Or at least somewhere...?

[somber rose]

He has a train full of them.

I think this mission is supposed to be for Ward runs only.

[shrewd needle]

I know, but I think that the game makes Skif use his one, the one in his inventory.

[somber rose]

Both get removed upon quest completion.

[shrewd needle]

But even on Ward run, you go to Noon base? Or did I mix things up there?

[somber rose]

Not sure, never got that far in a Ward run

[shrewd needle]

Fair enough.

[somber rose]

https://i.gyazo.com/a837dc123e33f8cf6f561991051b3317.png

I wish this loadout was viable past SIRCAA with better ballistics

[tough bay]

3rd round of the arena giving you the wrong ammo type for the M701

[ebon blade]

https://i.gyazo.com/a837dc123e33f8cf6f561991051b3317.png

[ebon blade]

Why not carrying the Monolith AR, Monolith Shotgun and Monolith Viper?

[somber rose]

one gun can do all jobs

[ebon blade]

I have to have a shotgun for mutants. Otherwise you chew thru too much ammo.

[somber rose]

With better ballistics they're much less tanky, plus shells/slugs are heavier

[ebon blade]

I really haven't fooled with them, but it appears all the Monolith weapons may be cheaper to repair.

[somber rose]

Indeed, at the cost of being worse than their baselines

[ebon blade]

Even after upgrading them, you are saying they are inferior to their standard counterparts?

[somber rose]

Unmodded absolutely, lower damage output across the board. Cheaper though. Fewer upgrade options as well.

For instance, unmodded, the Monolith AR does 20% less damage than the regular one

[ebon blade]

That makes no sense (not what you're saying but what GSC did).
Why give the Player in the Collectors and Ultimate editions,
for the pre-order bonuses, all the inferior Monolith weapons?

[somber rose]

I'm not sure, perhaps to avoid accusations of power creep with collector's editions?

[shell flax]

I just saw them as small boosts until you could get the better ones

[somber rose]

I dislike the weapon tiers and all my favorite guns are tier one, unfortunately.

[ebon blade]

GSC gimped the SSP-100M. It has 0 Psi Protection.

[somber rose]

Currently the Duty and Merc PSZ-9s also have no psi protection, I think this is a bug.

[ebon blade]

Yes, they should at least have a small amount instead of nothing.

[somber rose]

At least the same as their repsective helmets

[ebon blade]

Both these suits should have had some Psi Protection.

It does look like some type of bug to have zero.

[inland mantle]

It is a bug, they area supposed to have two and a smidge bares like the falcon, falcon having a bit higher protection in something else

Iirc falcon has the highest physical?

I believe GSC even confirmed that it’s a bug being fixed

[inland mantle]

Is that D12 shotgun and gabion worth buying the better edition? Can you remove the foregrip from gabion?

That D12 looks deadly though

[inland mantle]

And that’s why I love the BB mod. Any gun is good. Too bad that GSC didnt make the guns all caliber based similar damage, with getting higher caliber guns later on

Starting with 9x18 and 9x19 caliber guns and getting better

[somber rose]

As do I, but the game is not balanced for it, conversations where you're fighting many people immediately after are death sentences a lot of the time

[inland mantle]

Yeah that’s true, and I hope BB addresses that issue somehow, maybe by making the damage for those guys vanilla?

I’m not sure how else they could address that

[somber rose]

Or a brief post-conversation invincibility

[inland mantle]

That could be a thing as well, give like 5 seconds to find cover

Maybe 10 because someone might not know it’s becoming a fight

[somber rose]

The conversation usually tells you tbh

[inland mantle]

Some people don’t take social cues very well 😂

[somber rose]

then how will they learn

[inland mantle]

Fair point

[somber rose]

Maybe so many people are unable to read social cues irl because it's not life or death

[inland mantle]

I have a feeling many people wouldn’t survive an apocalyptic situation because they can’t read social cues

Be put in a life or death situation and think everything’s fine

[latent cloak]

i am the client mercenaries talk about

[inland mantle]

Hello Mr client

[latent cloak]

https://tenor.com/view/piccolo-dbz-dragon-ball-piccolo-standing-on-tower-tower-gif-13558229454457057953

[somber rose]

like when I tell ghoul settlers to report to my Drive In Movie Theater 'settlement' in fallout 4

[inland mantle]

The one in far harbor?

[somber rose]

Nah, the one right under Sanctuary is my death camp uh reservation

[inland mantle]

You leave the mole rats alive don’t ya

[somber rose]

Mostly just fences and flamer traps tbh

[inland mantle]

Good taste

[somber rose]

Man I haven't played that game in like 5 years

[inland mantle]

Been about a year for me, but i think I did my last playthrough. Not many mods being made for it anymore, still lots of crashes downtown and after playing newer games I just can’t stand the gunplay anymore either

Played into much now. Same with Skyrim. And oblivion remastered graphics ruined Skyrim for me

[somber rose]

Graphics rarely ruin games for me, especially if you can mod them to be better

As much as I enjoyed Oblivion, the setting of Cyrodiil doesn't hold up too well in that game

[inland mantle]

I enjoy the setting but there could have been more variation. I like oblivion better because of the guilds, quests, and rpg elements and whatnot, but Skyrim wins for dungeon variety and map size and towns

Wish I had pc so I could try out the lorerim mod pack. Looks amazing

[somber rose]

Todd Howard should never have seen Lord of the Rings

[inland mantle]

True that lol. Can’t deny that the writing, VA and quests are better though same with guilds

And rpg elements. Skyrim got dumber down a lot imo except for world design and dungeons

[still current]

[somber rose]

https://tenor.com/view/savlian-matius-imperial-elder-scrolls-oblivion-bethesda-gif-17725930

[still current]

https://tenor.com/view/savlian-matius-imperial-elder-scrolls-oblivion-bethesda-gif-17725930

[inland mantle]

But morrowind is the monolith of the elder scrolls. Not everyone gets it, not everyone likes it. But, the true fans stay loyal

[ebon blade]

https://tenor.com/view/piccolo-dbz-dragon-ball-piccolo-standing-on-tower-tower-gif-13558229454457057953

[latent cloak]

thank you tejas

[oak junco]

peak

[oak junco]

piccolo is by far one of the biggest aura farmers

[ebon blade]

Finally got Yaniv Station to turn Green! Yay!

[oak junco]

nice work!

[stuck seal]

I guess just by doing jobs for harpy?

[ebon blade]

Yep. Side-Missions, just like I got STC Malachite to turn green.
Still haven't gone to Zaton yet. My goal was to get Faction bases green.

[stuck seal]

Part of me wishes traders would give you a discount if their base is green, if they do I haven’t really noticed the difference

Then again I rarely buy large amounts of things from traders

[inland mantle]

They absolutely do, discounts on vendor goods (weapon, ammo etc) better repair prices and better fast travel prices. Can get a place that’s normally 4k for 1500-2000

[amber peak]

Had the pleasure of reading roadside picnic recently, what a book, the games and movie really do the book justice

[stuck seal]

Ah nice

I didn’t notice the discount in repair prices, I play on veteran where you get less money so repairs especially on higher end stuff are bad for my wallet, so I never exactly noticed the difference as whether it was grey or green the repair costs hurt quite a bit

[inland mantle]

I would play with Shay’s qol mod if you don’t mind mods, 50% is balanced perfectly so even on veteran it’s a more fair economy all around. Vanilla is absurd and there’s no shame in a mod to rebalance the economy

[chilly bloom]

Yunno i wish i had a gas mask irl

[inland mantle]

If you use the one that has Bb built in that also balances ammo damage and prices. Pistol calibers nice and cheap

[chilly bloom]

I used to have one but i traded it for a

I forgot

[stuck seal]

Yeah but I don’t like the increased carry weight and other stuff it changes

[inland mantle]

Been trying to find an authentic GP-5 with original filter (minus the asbestos)

[chilly bloom]

I had an czech M10 gas mask with tear gas filters

[inland mantle]

Nice! I love the look of the m10. Bulky but badass

[chilly bloom]

Yeah

I would have not had smoke in my lungs today if i kept it lmao

[inland mantle]

I should get a GP-5 and do a snork costume for Halloween at the bar 😂

[chilly bloom]

Dont go into a car that has a smoke bomb in it

[chilly bloom]

YEAAAHH (i hate snorks)

But id have to splatter blood all over me and wear short pants

Oh nvm

[stuck seal]

You should also remove a portion of your muscles and skin

[chilly bloom]

Im already skinny so that works

[inland mantle]

Go big or go home

[chilly bloom]

Yeah

[inland mantle]

I’m built more like a burer in more recent years though, so ima be a psi wizard

[chilly bloom]

Also dr dalin is a guy a hate now

[inland mantle]

Well between a snork and burer

[stuck seal]

For Halloween someone should be a bandit group but their gun is real and the other members of their group are actual robbers

[chilly bloom]

I got to that part of the story which annoyed me because strider was a very cool character and i may have to fight him now :<

[chilly bloom]

AAAAA AAAAAAAAAA

Sorry im scared of monolith

[stuck seal]

Every man breathes his last breath, every road leads to an end, every stalker in the zone will conclude their story, and it isn’t always a happy conclusion

That’s the truth of the zone

[chilly bloom]

Yeah

Its the truth of life really

[stuck seal]

I actually don’t mind what happens to a lot of the characters, you can’t expect everyone in the zone to live a long happy life and make it out

Then again, I do feel like stalker 2 is a little on the darker side because you can barely save anyone, even like the random “go find this lost stalker” always ends in you finding a corpse, you can’t save anyone

I feel like that’s because GSC couldn’t implement escort mechanics for some reason, so they just make any lost person you have to find dead

But they could’ve done what CoP did and when you rescue certain characters it fast travels you and that character to where they need to be

[regal vine]

Stalking it

[stuck seal]

And by it, let’s justr say, my kolobok

[chilly bloom]

Like

Idk gnight

[gray finch]

She stalker on my clear till I sky

[sudden crown]

Can I paint a world where you are the stalker but you're trying to keep a diabetic woman alive that knows the answers to the Zone.

[jovial sable]

Is there a mod to hide the HUD to take screenshots?

[jovial sable]

nvm, you don't need mods for that, I'm an idiot

[distant hamlet]

Is there a mod to pet the forbidden doggo yet?

[distant hamlet]

Wrong doggo but ok lol

[distant hamlet]

Ah yes bravo 6 going bark

[obtuse veldt]

I wonder what's the value of a coupon converted to USD?

The zone economy is wack tbh

[cyan mulch]

That pizza would be good right now to be honest

[ebon blade]

It made Scar chill.

[ebon blade]

The Zone is all about hardship. Repairs and upgrades are astronomical.
The idea being, you are so desperate, you'll undertake dangerous missions.

[inland mantle]

Good idea on paper, not so much gameplay wise. A majority agree that prices are way too inflated, with doing stuff hardly covering if at all, replenishing lost ammo and repairing gear

Nevermind modding guns and gear

There’s hardship and then a word I cannot say

I find Shay’s Qol 50% balanced, especially with BB because ammo price depends on caliber, and repair costs are not nearly as ridiculous but can still get expensive, and buying the guns themselves/modding is still expensive. Go on a loot run and you at least make some decent profit as long as you don’t bust all of your gear every time

[dry aspen]

I wonder if we'll ever get the cut parts of the Slag Heap back. There's a whole network of tunnels as well as a back entrance that are for the most part there just unaccessible

Then again with how much content has sadly been cut I doubt that, as well as other cool stuff will ever see the light of day again

[ebon blade]

Wolf is ready, if you are.

[still current]

Shit?

[inland mantle]

Rapeage

[ebon blade]

Then you need Shay’s QoR Mod.

[inland mantle]

I do, I was saying it’s good to have because vanilla is so unbalanced in economy

[ebon blade]

You totally missed my joke.

Look at the spelling I used for Shay's Mod.

[spiral warren]

cheeki breeki

[hollow pier]

The best

[somber rose]

Tbh, I just give myself a ton of ammo when I start a game

[thin apex]

I find it very like *eloquent" to purposely restrict my items to make it more entertaining and create new situations out of the desperation of resources

always having everything you could ever need is boooorrring

[stuck seal]

I plan long trips and only take like 7-8 medkits

“Man I’m low on health, and I only have one medkit left, how could that be? What idiot only put 7 medkits in my inventory”

“Oh wait, that’s me”

[thin apex]

I usually only carry 5 or 10 at most

5 medkits 10 bandages and with Unforgiving zone so bandages don't heal just stop bleeding plus there's less lying around eventhough I still end up finding like 40 by the time I'm back at base

[inland mantle]

I could never, if I give myself everything I need I eliminate 3/4 of the game other than doing missions

[somber rose]

I need money to upgrade and repairs, there's still a game loop, but ammo is something that I usually find tedious to amass

[inland mantle]

True but then there’s not really any risk of going into a place you thought was clear of enemies, running out of ammo and having to knife them all to death. It’s fun having no ammo and praying for a loot box to give you enough ammo to have on the way to a settlement. But I’m never usually in that predicament as I sell literally every gun and ammo i don’t use, as well as use vintar with headshots so 250 bought rounds last plenty of time

Early game I only use the USP and hoard other ammo since .45 is cheap and plentiful

[somber rose]

With better ballistics and using non-meta armor, knifing is not an option

[inland mantle]

Absolutely is, wait around a corner and peak and wait for them to get close and then rush them and back to cover

Won’t work against monolith exo but by then should have thousands and thousands of rounds

[somber rose]

I can carry 500 rounds total without running into weight limit issues

[inland mantle]

I didn’t even get to the sawmill yet to meet scar and I’m 20 hours in with 9k total of 9x39 and 3k .45 and 700 7.62x54 for mosin

[thin apex]

9x19 and 9x18 and 5.45 is much more plentiful then 45

[somber rose]

Many enemies are entirely stationary, especially at the big set-piece battles

[inland mantle]

With BB 9x18 is weak though so .45 works best along with 5.45

[thin apex]

9x19 absolutely wrecks on bb

[inland mantle]

Vanilla yeah, though I use a mod for better aggression and tactics. Enemies will split off and flank

[thin apex]

you can like 3 or 4 shot exoskeleton monolithians

[austere pagoda]

I NEED ACTIVE TESTERS FOR PC ASAP, LMK IN DM

[somber rose]

No I mean they're on a rooftop with no access.

[thin apex]

rahhh new Shay mods

[inland mantle]

I haven’t run into any like that except for Pripyat except maybe two but I’ve always got some gun with ammo from looting

[austere pagoda]

yeah in like ducking 5 months with current test tempo lol

[somber rose]

For instance, when you first 'kill' faust, trying to exit that room is a nightmare with better ballistics to escape Duga day 1

[inland mantle]

Fair enough but I’m not there yet on this playthrough, but I’ve got enough ammo for a monolithian army

[inland mantle]

What ya got cooking???

Any day there’s a Shay mod it’s a good day

[somber rose]

We all find our own way to satisfying difficulty.

[austere pagoda]

might as well say it since i need testers asap and as many as i can

it's called "missions" [wip name] and its a (semi) randomized mission/quest generator based on main quest progress and player wealth

but i need to test each concept of the over 10 mission types (modes) on as many devices as i can to test if it works well

[somber rose]

Will I break any quests if I go to Pripyat hospital early? Hopped the fence

[hardy totem]

haven't heard about it, so do share if something like that happens. I'm assuming you made a hard-save before?

[somber rose]

diamond exoskeleton secured before duga

[hardy totem]

yeah that makes life a bunch easier

[somber rose]

will probably still use Zircon suit and aurora mask

[hardy totem]

Diamond too pricey to maintain?

[fiery iris]

oh my god

shaytech the goat🥹

[warm yacht]

Stalker is so awesome sauce

[austere pagoda]

its still very, veryyy far out, needs TONS of testing and hopefully phase 2 will hav some functionality for text

[still current]

Me too

[cedar cedar]

Hi, would u guys be interested in making some stalker art on wplace? it's like r/place but on the world map

[fiery iris]

all i ask is that theres actually long mission and not just

go here and come back get reward

[austere pagoda]

well thats one of the mission types

it's not quest in the traditional sense as there is still lots of annoying parts holding me back, what can be done is tbh substantial enough imo to invest time in

[fiery iris]

i mean yeah just one of them is fine im just happy to see a missions mod at all

maybe you could do something with the npc interactions mod

like if u find a scientist they could send you on a mission to get an artifact

[thin apex]

[errant fjord]

https://tenor.com/view/monkey-gif-12991529148607409250

[willow holly]

Is pickled watermelon a thing?

[boreal wasp]

Theres probably pickled everything in ukraine

[smoky hawk]

Pickling stuff is very common to.make it last longer

[onyx saddle]

Mmmwatermelon.. херсонський артефакт

[ashen nebula]

Wait u cant talk about other games in this chat right?

[onyx saddle]

I should get watermelon again some time

[young juniper]

Yo is the announcement for the drinks?

[ashen nebula]

?

[young juniper]

Idk wtf else watermelon relates to other than the orange non stop idk dude

[ashen nebula]

Water melon is a melon that has water

But watermelon actually is a fruit

So idk

[violet dune]

can we have radioactive watermelons in the zone?

[ashen nebula]

Just put watermleon in a random swamp and u got urself ur final meal i think

[violet dune]

but this way u need to import fresh watermelons, i want zone watermelons

[hallow shadow]

Pickled Watermelon, Canned Dog Food, and some Vodka.
Breakfast of champions.

I wish America had Mezzo Mix

That is a tasty drink, along with Milkis.

[hallow arch]

I want too play the game but I am too broke sadge

[small sequoia]

All that blended together and boiled into some abomination of a "food"

Yum

[oak junco]

If there is a pro to this the longer it takes for you to get the game the more bugs get fixed and sales get deeper id personally wait until the games half off

[small sequoia]

Also some shrooms that have 50% chance to be fine and other 50% give rad

[ashen nebula]

Just put watermelons on some zone swamp and youll get a radioactive watermelon

?

Oh mushroom gambling is pretty sus

Like why gamble your life once?

In stalker ofc

[small sequoia]

Eating one mid fight with hope that it will heal but it gives half of rads meter

[ashen nebula]

Hmm thinking about it it might be worth it

If u got a vodka or smth

[oak junco]

watermelon infused vodka for stat boosts

[ashen nebula]

😭

[ashen nebula]

Basically a alholic watermelon or smth

[small sequoia]

Watermelon thrown into arch-anomaly turns it into Strange watermelon

[ashen nebula]

Small 50% chance it wont shock you and kill you

Or 100% who knowa

[thin apex]

500 cigarettes and a monster energy

[hallow shadow]

Monster tastes like butt.
I don’t eat butt, but if I did. I bet it would taste like monster.
(Funny, cause cigarettes taste worse)

And I’m a smoker.

[shrewd needle]

Skill issue.

[gusty wagon]

How is pickled watermelon? Never tried it

In my state people like to put chili flakes called tajín

[hardy basin]

Pickled watermelon taste like pickled watermelon

[primal nimbus]

Remember.

Eating a pickled melon’s faster than reloading.

[thin apex]

your melon killing skills are remarkable

[gusty wagon]

That makes so much sense now

[coral flame]

hey so im trying to play through clear sky now on my Xbox Series X
i played through CoC last year (was amazing), but i heard these enhanced editions have keyboard and mouse support on console now?

how does it work, ive mine plugged in now but so far theres nothing

[fossil hare]

standing in the middle of zalissya and the durability of every equipped item is going down, dont have any artifact equipped, no radiation. Any idea how to fix this?

[coral flame]

nevermind!! fixed itself ig!! aw man i forgor about the cool ass custom cursor

[frigid hill]

krutko.denys has been warned

Reason: Posted an invite

[thin apex]

not taking any form of damage?

[fossil hare]

no, i found a reddit thread that had the same issue on the same mission, i reloaded the save like 10 times and it finally stopped happen

[frigid hill]

v10talya_agregat_ has been warned

Reason: Posted an invite

[thin apex]

bruh moment

[slender ledge]

Pickled watermelon

[pure canyon]

does anyone know the frequency of emissions? and/or do they trigger while sleeping?

[stark crescent]

Emissions work on the psi level, so between 264.3 and 322.4 hertz. Allowing them to pass through dense bone structure. Which is why they cant pass through concrete, but will hurt like a splitting headsche in direct view with the source.

Also, i made that up. Emissions are made up. Psi is made up

[tardy rain]

I was under the impression that sleeping just sets the in-game clock X hours ahead

But I don't know that for a fact

[frigid hill]

krutko.denys has been banned

Reason: scam

Dummy#0000 has been banned

Reason: scam

[hardy totem]

Already left, but not coming back now

[obtuse veldt]

Wtf with all these scambots ..

[graceful fossil]

Greetings Stalkers

[grim wharf]

Rip

So what's the state of A-LIFE

[strong onyx]

Tagging for watermelon day and not an update is vile 😭😆

[dusky sequoia]

Roadmap in 5 micro seconds

[strong onyx]

Somehow I doubt that.

We’re almost halfway through Q3 with no sign of a roadmap, something tells me we aren’t getting one, at best we’ll get a Q3 and Q4 at the same time.

[hardy totem]

they wildin'

[dusky sequoia]

We're getting a Q3 roadmap at the end of Q3 detailling 1.5.3 (fixing 3 bugs and adding 5 new story softlocks)

[solar hare]

a

[latent cloak]

where is limansk in stalker 2?

[obtuse veldt]

West of Red Forest

[timid siren]

What about development of Zone Kit SDK?

When at least VERY approximately there gonna be editing levels support? Or C++ classes source codes.

[dusky sequoia]

SDK v2, you can now change the color of trees

[tough bay]

A burer just pulled my Three Line underground

[timid siren]

Meaning textures? Aka red / dried / default green.

[latent cloak]

thank you i thought they didnt include it because the cit oesnt exits

[obtuse veldt]

The placeholder for the city exists, but its not coming soon, first CNPP and Iron Forest, then Limansk and western Prypiat probably

[lucid charm]

any new mods on console? also hello how are we today?

[timid siren]

Limansk most probably will be DLC

[obtuse veldt]

It better be free DLC

or if not

[timid siren]

Standard practise. Just for you to know Clear Sky at its times also contained many things which planned but not released at Shadow of Chernobyl

[lucid charm]

hoping for some of the old complexes to open up too, like the brain scorcher facility and yantar

[strong onyx]

😭😭😭

[lucid charm]

are they necessary? no, but it wold be neat

[strong onyx]

Doubt it’s going to be free to be honest, only CDPR is that based.

[warm schooner]

Oh awesome a new stalker 2 update, this one took a bit longer I wondered where it wa-
Oh
Pickled watermelon day

Welp

[still current]

https://tenor.com/view/monkey-gif-12991529148607409250

[echo zodiac]

How do I get that tag

Got it

[still current]

Edit your profile

[obtuse veldt]

You got melons

[still current]

What's summer without melons

My keyboard accidentally typed the most cursed thing I saw in ages lmao

[obtuse veldt]

When you noclipping and reach cursed radiation areas

[inland mantle]

What is with the watermelon announcement? Is that supposed to be a hint at something or silly?

[chilly bloom]

Its kinda like

[inland mantle]

Like……..wot

[chilly bloom]

Yeah

[cyan mulch]

I've seen banned ppl

What happend?

[inland mantle]

Ah, I get your meaning. It is the equivalent of when a person starts walking around clucking like they are crazy, and everyone is watching like wot going on

[still current]

Compromised accounts

Ppl lost to random links on other servers

Not questioning their intelligence, but damn

[fickle hill]

They found the secret in uncle tom's cabin

[still current]

Glad we have wolf to save the rest

[hardy totem]

Wolf is doing well with the current selection of links we're seeing

[still current]

Wolf literally does some real heavy lifting

Based wolf

[still current]

We kinda made sure he does

Thanks to Mol1t

[cyan mulch]

Can i question it?

[still current]

Up to you wouldn't stop you tbh

[fickle hill]

I am dumb and yet there are people dumber than me

[still current]

Idk, I give them the benefit of doubt.. some did really miss click

[hardy totem]

Yeah but finding ways to autodetect bots that don't flag normal users hasen't been easy

[shrewd needle]

Iron Forest and CNPP are fully modelled...except for interiors. Lymansk isn't even modelled...

[still current]

Aye

Glad it's working well for all of us

[cyan mulch]

ppl can be painfully unsmart

[inland mantle]

I always like to say, I’m not particularly intelligent but most people I meet I have to talk slow, and that worries me

[hardy totem]

Smartn't

[obtuse veldt]

Almost fully modelled, some details are still missing, minor ones, but still missing.

[shrewd needle]

Yea, but with Lymansk, the entire town is missing.

[obtuse veldt]

True

[shrewd needle]

That makes it even creepier. Especially with that radio transmission.

[inland mantle]

Does that mean we may get CNPP and iron forest first contrary to the leak of lymansk being first dlc?

[obtuse veldt]

We getting CNPP and Iron forest first

[shrewd needle]

I'm not holding my breath for either.

[obtuse veldt]

Limansk isnt modeled at all tbh

[shrewd needle]

Lymansk doesn't exist.

Space Anomaly ate it.

[inland mantle]

Do you think they will be actual dlc, or just new areas added to explore anytime with new quests and stuff there?

[cyan mulch]

Think the dlcs going to be mid game or post?

[inland mantle]

Unless they allow you to play after the ending, mid

[shrewd needle]

I'd rather be able to explore anytime, especially with Richter's dialogue.

[obtuse veldt]

New areas to explore with new quests, my bet is there is a Duty base in CNPP

[shrewd needle]

I don't think that'll ever change and besides, only CoP allowed that; SoC and CS both ended once you got to the CNPP.

[obtuse veldt]

with Zulu there

[cyan mulch]

This is not the case at the moment, You get teleported back before the last mission

[shrewd needle]

And I think game disables free roam after going to Pripyat underground?

[inland mantle]

I’m aware and that’s what mean, if dlc took place post ending then we would need the ability to play after the end

I hope we get more Pripyat to explore too. It’s too small and missing lots

[obtuse veldt]

not exactly, you find garry a bit later in prypiat

[cyan mulch]

Did not question if you knew it or not hehe, Just wondering if we will know that the cannon ending threw dlcs

[obtuse veldt]

but after taking a certain game point, he leaves until the final mission is done

[shrewd needle]

I'm talking about S2, not CoP.

[obtuse veldt]

oh that... yeah its disabled, never tried to noclip after returning to the palace of culture

[inland mantle]

Ah gotcha. TBH I think the canon ending is the ward one. Skif makes nothing about his goals clear except for wanting a new home

[shrewd needle]

I mean, the Red Fortress is a free-roam location, might be worth trying to break out, NGL.

[shrewd needle]

He has no other goal.

[cyan mulch]

I think its a full circle that strelok enters the pod

[obtuse veldt]

uhmm i tried to break out when i was guided by richter, and well... surprise radiation 🫠

[shrewd needle]

Ah, yes, the fake radiation that permeates the Zone...

[inland mantle]

That’s what mean, he doesn’t say anything other than wanting a home

[shrewd needle]

Thanks, GSC, for broken game mechanics...

[obtuse veldt]

Freeroam after an ending should be a thing tbh

[shrewd needle]

I know, but I'm saying he doesn't want anything else; he's got an existential crisis at 25.

[obtuse veldt]

Hoping we get that in future patches

[fickle hill]

Just like Far cry

[shrewd needle]

I mean, all the endings imply a catastrophe and in the Ward ending, you leave the Zone.

Just like in CS and SoC, there's no logical reason to keep free-roam.

CoP makes sense since Degtyarev can choose to remain there. And does, regardless of choice, in the ending slide.

[cyan mulch]

Techneclly he left and came back

[shrewd needle]

That's not me implying free roam shouldn't exist, just saying why.

[obtuse veldt]

Probably it would be best if a random stalker took over his loot

[shrewd needle]

Yea, but my point is that Degtyarev's choice to remain in the Zone (the one where you, the player chooses) can be interpreted as that; story-wise, it makes sense.

Whereas in all other games, it doesn't.

[shrewd needle]

Does he even have loot? 😏

[obtuse veldt]

His personal storage?

[shrewd needle]

That's called 'backpack'. 😏

[obtuse veldt]

yeah... backpack...

[fickle hill]

His 30 kg rug sack

[shrewd needle]

Infinite weight. 😏

[obtuse veldt]

Also...

[shrewd needle]

'Cause, you see...I don't trust one other soul in the Zone to not steal Skif's shit.

[obtuse veldt]

Its a pocket dimension

[shrewd needle]

Yea, but Space Anomalies exist, so...

[tough bay]

Cardan engineered storage box

[shrewd needle]

Just like the one that ate Lymansk.

[shrewd needle]

Cardan couldn't even make a car. He ain't making a storage box.

[obtuse veldt]

He did a signal jammer though

[shrewd needle]

And the Gauss Rifle.

[obtuse veldt]

ah yeah... Project 62

[shrewd needle]

And he still did nothing else. I want my Zone-proof car!

He and Nitro did a shit job at making a car. Even HL2 had a car!

And that's a linear game.

[obtuse veldt]

But HL2 didnt have the anomalies unlike STALKER .-.

[tough bay]

portal storms

[obtuse veldt]

engineered anomaly

not uncontrolable ones like in the zone

[shrewd needle]

HL2 had the Gravity Gun. With dark energy.

Can't get more anomalous than that.

[shrewd needle]

Actually, not engineered; those portal storms happened from the explosion of the Citadel's dark energy reactors (both above and below).

So it's basically a future Chernobyl.

[obtuse veldt]

...

You got a point

[shrewd needle]

Also, HL2 is set in Eastern Europe...I was almost going to say that maybe City 17 was built on the ruins of Chernobyl.

[tough bay]

Arent the first STALKER games also inspired by Half Life?

[stark crescent]

There have been a couple of data breaches lately.

[shrewd needle]

Sort of, with the constant FPS view. But with cut-scenes.

[obtuse veldt]

We got gordon freaking freeman on STALKER SoC

he fooked up

[tough bay]

and the crowbar in STALKER 2

[shrewd needle]

Yea, he probably got tired of being stuck in limbo after EP2...and ended up on a trek through Chernobyl.

With Adrian Shepard's Desert Eagle.

[obtuse veldt]

Wonder who paid back the crowbar?

[hardy totem]

I can't believe they retconned Gordon selling his crowbar for a can of tourist delight

[shrewd needle]

No one. It's just a memorial now.

Probably got ripped off, like Strelok can in Dark Valley.

[shrewd needle]

TBF, a crowbar isn't much use against a Bloodsucker or a Pseudogiant.

But a can of Tourist's Delight can give enough energy to trek to the nearest shanty town.

[tough bay]

Well it wouldnt be just any crowbar

It would be Freemans crowbar

[obtuse veldt]

It seems the combine wont even get close to the Zone

Its too f***ed for their tastes

[tough bay]

The Zone has local teleportation, the Combine would take control of the zone asap

[shrewd needle]

Here's the thing...Freeman can use the crowbar on anything, but Zone mutants eat things like that for breakfast.

It's aliens vs. mutants, man...mutants always win.

[stark crescent]

If the story of half life is to believed, the combine's invasion force would have trampled over the zone. So many soldiers it would clog up the anomalies 😅

[obtuse veldt]

The zone has

PSI radiation
freaky mutants
Radiation
Freaky ass anomalies changing over time
EMISSIONS!
PSY STORMS!!

[shrewd needle]

If the Combine couldn't wipe the Resistance for 20 years, I doubt they'll be able to deal with the Zone...

[obtuse veldt]

They would understimate the Zone, when basically the zone kicks you out!

[shrewd needle]

It took what, Kleiner, the Vances, Barney and a couple others to run an entire network against the Combine? Mossman not counted since she's a double-agent.

[stark crescent]

You dont understand. The main invasion force left after earth surrendered. What we are fighting now are humans turned combine with alien support vehicles.

[tough bay]

The force on earth is literally just a occupational force, its nothing compared to what they would send if they knew local teleportation existed inside the Zone

[shrewd needle]

But that's the thing...even after 2 decades of Earth ownership, they can't deal with the Resistance.

And with the closure of the portal in EP2, the invasion force isn't coming.

[stark crescent]

The entire story of half life is weird to begin with. Why not completely wipe out humanity and occupy it with your own slaves

[shrewd needle]

Because free slaves are better than growing more slaves in vats.

[stark crescent]

In no way are free slaves better than mind controlled slaves

[shrewd needle]

It's still powerful enough to basically enslave everyone with almost zero effort till Freeman shows up, so...that 'occupational force' is not low-end.

Also, don't forget those over-powered Advisors. Psionic, flying bugs that can wipe the shit out of everything.

[shrewd needle]

I meant free in terms of cost, not free will.

Humans are already existing slaves. It's far more resource and time-consuming to grow your own slaves otherwise.

[obtuse veldt]

We are getting a bit offtopic here dont we?

[shrewd needle]

No one cares; besides Freeman is in STALKER, so it's on-topic.

[stark crescent]

They give humans food that stopped reproduction. In 50 or so years they were all gone anyway

[shrewd needle]

Nah, I'd expect vats and cloning to exist. It's an inter-dimensional empire, can't run on a constantly dwindling supply of slaves.

Easier to do it like the Matrix (turn the dead into soup to feed the ones in the vats).

[stark crescent]

rise and shine mr Skiff. rise and shine. not that i wish to imply you have been sleeping on the job. no one is more deserving of a rest and all the effort in the world would have gone to waste until... well... lets just say your hour has come again. the right stalker in the wrong place can make all the difference in the world.

[shrewd needle]

Oh, also HL2 and episodes introduce the Combine stalkers too...especially that train in EP1.

So yea, completely on-topic!

I wonder what happens if Combine stalkers meet Zone stalkers.

[shrewd needle]

Well...Skif woke up and Dalin screwed up and now we got a global Zone.

Yes, I consider both Skif's ending and Ward's ending to be canon. Though it'll be REALLY fun if they decide to go the Mankind Divided route of 'all endings happened'.

[obtuse veldt]

You know, Dracula should become the next guide in Zalissya if saved

Just for the shits n giggles

[plain fiber]

@shrewd needle Yeah, the occupying Combine forces on Earth seem incredibly weak when you consider that the main, actual Combine forces conquered the entire planet in only 7 hours. (Or was it 17 hours?)

[hardy totem]

7 hour war, and city 17

[plain fiber]

Thanks, haven't played the game since 2014. Apologies.

[hardy totem]

No apologies neccessary^^

[jagged carbon]

I want to get a cat and name him skif

Seems like a funny name

[shell flax]

Random idea: do you think it would be feasible to make a life size topaz scanner as a lamp?

[hardy totem]

All depends on your time, knowhow and money

[obtuse veldt]

Until the cat starts doing weird shit like start praying to a rock

[jagged carbon]

[fickle hill]

If it's grey it's monolith colored

[plain fiber]

'Sup you sons of bitches?

[hardy totem]

https://tenor.com/view/stalking-gif-23099546

[full finch]

I have a question, im new to the game and I am curious if I messed something down the line up. An emission happened and I ran into a local shelter I think near wild island and a dog with a beeping collar rushed into the building. I got scared thinking it was a bomb so I started shooting it and I killed it. When it died it dropped an electrical collar that has the red tag for story items or important items (like skiff's pistol or a mission objective item). Did I accidentally kill a quest npc's dog or did I just kill a random dog and I don't need to worry?

[hardy totem]

No, you're good

[plain fiber]

It's a quest dog but you're supposed to kill it.

[hardy totem]

https://tenor.com/view/surprise-tool-mickey-mouse-mickey-clubhouse-gif-18764497

[plain fiber]

[full finch]

Thanks! I hope the quest isnt messed up, but if it is I won't worry. I wonder if I am gonna have to admit to a guy his dog scared me and I "accidentally" mag dumped it lol

[plain fiber]

Did you grab the collar from its body? That's the quest item.

[hardy totem]

Nah, I had several of those collars before the mission they're needed for finally showed up

[plain fiber]

I have a bunch too.

So, the other day I tried explaining that Trapper going mutant hunting wasn't a character inconsistency with his CoP depiction, but I gave up pretty quickly. Just not worth the effort.

[hardy totem]

Eh, people always find something to bicker about on that front

[full finch]

Yeah, I grabbed it a while ago

[plain fiber]

How old was he supposed to be in CoP? He mentioned he wanted to stop hunting because he was getting too old, but he doesn't look like he's aged a day since CoP. Every other trilogy character looks like they've aged somewhat at least.

[obtuse veldt]

I think he mentioned he returned cause he was missing the hunt

[timid siren]

In my walkthrought Trapper died 'cause off emission accidently staryed during mission with dear.

Hardly believe devs read this chat, but quest npc are... strangely vulnerable sometimes.

I mean, what a hell QA's do?

Last patch by thr way

[obtuse veldt]

And also mention he'd rather die hunting than retiring out of the zone

[obtuse veldt]

Oh deer, that's a new one

[timid siren]

))))))

[plain fiber]

Right? It's not difficult to explain, nor is it a character inconsistency.

[obtuse veldt]

Probably was never reported for him to head up to the nearby cave in case of emissions

[obtuse veldt]

Many stalkers miss the old days

It's not a rare case

[plain fiber]

Oh I know, I've been in the Zone for a long time myself.

I think when I first played SoC and the rest of the trilogy, it was...2011? I know CoP was the most recent entry and I don't think GSC had shut down yet.

[timid siren]

Looks like so.

Don't want to be be a 'D' word but sometimes I really get lost why some things go to release untested.

I mean, I am also developer, but in civil aviation. Before each deployment there is such a thing as regression testing on all the platforms.

If in short, checking all the possible scenarios (usually using automated scripts or manually) before release.

[plain fiber]

QA is probably much more strict and thorough for civil aviation than in game development.

It also doesn't help that this is an open-world game, which are very complex. Getting them bug free is significantly more difficult than your non open world game from what I understand.

[obtuse veldt]

Bugs get fixed when people report and redact exactly how do happen, as there are many variables that are unexpected to conflict with other scenarios

[timid siren]

Yeah... I suggest so. On other hand, open world RDR2 for instance possesed extreme level of quality from release. So... I dunno.

Not to mentioned however rockstar failed heavily with GTA remaster, so looks like things may differ

[obtuse veldt]

They ask for that reason the save file folder to comprehend what is going on

[fiery iris]

do you guys think stalker 2 could have a comeback like cyberpunks?

[fickle hill]

Probs not

[plain fiber]

Rockstar also has over 2,000 employees and is a subsidiary of a company (Take-Two) with over 12,000 employees.

GSC has 500-ish employees if I remember correctly, so while they certainly aren't small, they aren't huge either.

[fickle hill]

Medium

[plain fiber]

Probably, though I'd prefer a No Man's Sky-style comeback since that would mean we get years of free, cool content updates in addition to paid DLC.

[timid siren]

Even now with all the fixes it is pretty solid product.

Gameplay formula is solid (although lacks in depth in some aspects but not something modders could'nt do).

[plain fiber]

GSC might end up doing at least some of that stuff themselves too. There is apparently some stuff in the code for a "Master" difficulty, which considering how the difficulties are in S2, would probably be akin to a New Vegas-esque Hardcore mode.

[timid siren]

For the beginning it worth add couple of traders / guides to levels)

[plain fiber]

We need a base or something over in the Burnt Forest region imo. It's such a pain in the ass to loot both it and Duga currently.

[timid siren]

Totally agree. Currently playing at Duga and created a handcrafted version of guide.

When in certain areas I simply input XTeleport console command with preset coordinates and take something like -1000 money during each travel.

I mean, game has to be fun first of all, right?)

[inland mantle]

Would the only things it could change is the heal over time? Already have hunger and ammo weight, only thing they could add is thirst in which bottled water is everywhere

[obtuse veldt]

Don't forget the beer and Vodka

[inland mantle]

👆

We def need a difficulty though that makes it hardcore survival and gets rid of the progressive damage system and makes damage between us and enemies equal with realistic values for caliber

[obtuse veldt]

You mean Master

[inland mantle]

Make the zone harsh with every enemy encounter a possible death sentence. But also somehow balance fights like faust

[obtuse veldt]

Where enemies use AP ammo

[inland mantle]

That depends exactly on what master does

If master is just veteran but even tankier enemies then that’s not good

[shrewd needle]

As long as enemies can be reasonably killed and don't need 69,420 bullets of 5.56 to the head to die.

[inland mantle]

Does the game file master difficulty show that it’s supposed to work the same as the trilogy?

[timid siren]

...that very monolithian in exo taking 7 bullets from ak in his head to die

[shrewd needle]

Yea, but exo-skeletons make sense; they're supposed to be tanky.

I mean regular ones.

[timid siren]

Agree. But from gameplay perspective they hardly have to be at anyone)))

[inland mantle]

It’s ridiculous cause even a .22 will kill instantly to the head without armor. An armored head shouldnt take multiple 5.56 assuming they don’t ricochet, which isn’t a mechanic

[shrewd needle]

I mean normal enemies not being tanky.

[shrewd needle]

TBF, it's the Zone...I'd expect exo-skeleton helmets to take at least 2-4 shots of 5.56.

[inland mantle]

Def not AP though as that’s the whole point, one shot of AP maybe multiple of regular

[shrewd needle]

Yea, I'm talking regular; I'd expect AP to down them in 2 (since they're supposed to be a challenge + the armour would be reinforced).

Plus, nothing like a double-tap.

[timid siren]

For me it would be great if all the weapons were more or less equal and it would be only a matter or choice which weapon to use.

Swithicning them each couple of raids.

But I understand that is too personalized view

[obtuse veldt]

Master balancing:

Thirst is now a thing
Bandages don't heal you anymore.
Food and medkits healing is no longer immediately and it's over time.
More enemy spawns than usual.
Enemies will start improving their armor and weapons occasionally.
Mutants have new abilities.
Enemies start using AP ammo or expansive often.
Energy drinks no longer totally remove drowsiness.

[shrewd needle]

Yes, that's the thing...proper ballistics. Which a lot of people want.

[inland mantle]

Better ballistics mod is what you want then

Makes damage caliber based and more realistic

[shrewd needle]

Honestly, I love Better Ballistics; I can die in a little amount of damage, but on the flip side, so does everyone else.

And honestly, ever since I got used to it, I don't die as much either. Even after being shot at.

[inland mantle]

Exactly. I love that mod for that

[shrewd needle]

Yea, but even that has limitations; the guns need a fundamental re-working.

[inland mantle]

I play a lot more carefully now having it and scout more

[shrewd needle]

The main problem is enemies having 100% accuracy WITH PHUCKING BUCK-SHOT at 100 metres.

It's like being fired at by laser slugs.

[inland mantle]

That’s not the guns though that’s the AI. Ai need a rework to not have aimbot

[shrewd needle]

Yea, that's what I'm saying; even if you re-work the guns, the AI is broken as shit.

I can live with the 100-metre radius, but like...at least have some smort AI...that doesn't shoot laser slugs.

[inland mantle]

I pray that 1.6 fixes everything we need but I remain skeptical

[shrewd needle]

Probably not till 2.0 or even 3.0...

[timid siren]

Real life shotguns hit at 300m. But when in game you are the one who shooting a cigarette wrap became invulnarable at 50m

[inland mantle]

20 years later

[obtuse veldt]

Or a 4.0

[shrewd needle]

Yes, but buck-shot is supposed to spread out. Buck-shot would NOT hit beyond 50 metres.

Slugs and darts would, but they're obviously different. Enemies use regular buck-shot and still score head-shots from insane ranges.

[shrewd needle]

Insert 'it's been 84 years' GIF.

[inland mantle]

Yeah buckshot is super accurate til 45 meters roughly, slugs can get a good 80

[shrewd needle]

Choke-dependent, but yea.

[inland mantle]

Realistically shotguns aren’t that inaccurate with full choke

No choke for slugs though obviously

[shrewd needle]

Right, but it's just metal balls. Multiple of them...you never getting beyond 50 metres of reliable accuracy.

[inland mantle]

That’s what I’m saying, irl with a shotgun with full choke you can get a small spread at 45 meters but people always think buckshot is like birdshot

[timid siren]

More cool is that they aim your head while in bushes at night with head lamp turned off.

These moments my back starts burning not only 'cause summer.

[shrewd needle]

TBF, it acts that way in games, unless it's NPCs, which get the longer end of the stick. 😆

[shrewd needle]

Well...welcome to AI not having any concept of light and dark. Or vision, at all. 😏

[fiery iris]

its good imo but theres nothing to do

[inland mantle]

Nah hardly any game does shotguns a realistic way. It’s always the off screen wide spread with the range I can spit 😂

[shrewd needle]

No, I mean games treating buck-shot as bird-shot.

And yes, range is always atrocious as shit.

[inland mantle]

Oh gotcha

[shrewd needle]

Though, NGL...shotguns do best at close range (and games seldom have realistic ranges, else we'd be having Counter-Strike maps with Aztec being like...5 KM long in one direction).

[inland mantle]

We need a flashlight to see into a dark building meanwhile npc can see us in the darkest tunnel with their super vision like a cat

[shrewd needle]

Yep...AI only sees pathing nodes and you. 😏

[inland mantle]

They definitely do but it will still do the job if a guys within pistol range if that’s all you got

[inland mantle]

AI going to see me hit close game if GSC don’t fix them 😤

[shrewd needle]

Yep. Though in all games...shotguns don't make me cringe as much as snipers.

Imagine doing barely 2-4X zoom and shooting .338 (meant for long-range shooting) at like...100 metres.

[shrewd needle]

AI still smug that you wasted money on game. 😏

[inland mantle]

Tbf, a lot of urban snipers still use high caliber rounds, usually in a bullpup sniper with low mag optics

Can use a 300 WSM within 150 yards, or fire out to 1500 yards whichever you need

[shrewd needle]

Right, but you'd expect sniping to start at 300-600 metres and not the 100 metres of Aztec or Dust 2.

All those 'professional' AWSM players make me cringe as well.

[shrewd needle]

Give me AR-50 with an ACOG. 😏

[inland mantle]

Yeah it does happen closer, but usually further out

[inland mantle]

Nah we need an Alexander arms .50 Beowulf

[shrewd needle]

All those 'pistols' are rifle-sized...WTF?

[timid siren]

Viper 5 for fights at plain field vs AI hitting at 400m with pm

[shrewd needle]

AI = Terminator. No recoil, no spread, no wind deviation, no coriolis effect, no bullet drop, no aero-dynamic drag, no barrel degradation, no jams, no stove-pipes, no barrel explosions, no extraction failures, no aim problems, no...no...

[timid siren]

Seriously, sometimes I started thinking mid range riffles with irons and collimators are useless here.

Dozens of ammo to hit a small head or beefy (meaning simply ANY) mutant

[shrewd needle]

I mean...that's what shit ballistics do to you. It's why Better Ballistics is essential.

In vanilla, I had to use the VSS Vintorez as an AR to kill enemies reliably and even then, it took 2 magazines (10-round) to destroy Bloodsuckers.

[timid siren]

Agree... just don't understand how could devs not see it during playtests.

[shrewd needle]

I'm pretty sure it's deliberate, unlike older games.

[timid siren]

The harder = more realistic?

[shrewd needle]

No, the whole system is based around 'progression'...also, yes.

So apparently, having to shoot 500 bullets at a Pseudogiant = 'more difficult' rather than 'frustrating' to them.

[inland mantle]

You’d think at this point devs would understand that a majority of players prefer realism over progression and just make games more realistic and make progression secondary

[shrewd needle]

If they did, would the three of us be wallowing about it? 😏

[inland mantle]

Nah we’d be enjoying the game instead of yapping in discord lol

Waiting for realism mods

[timid siren]

Well. Maybe with all that AREAs, Gammas, Dead Airs and NLSd we deserved that

[shrewd needle]

Can't argue, TBH.

[quiet yew]

stalker SOC what happens if you refuse after accepting a job

[shrewd needle]

Sidorovich shoots you in the face.

||That's a joke, please don't actually believe it.||

[timid siren]

Agree. At some point he will shoot in a face regardless.

[shrewd needle]

IKR? That slimy bastard.

Actually, he might just hire someone to do it, since he can't stop filling his face with chicken.

[somber rose]

Civil aviation is much stricter in regards to QA but also much easier to test

You're not exactly selling software to a billion people with different hardware and software configurations

I'm also a dev, but in semiconductors, and I consider game dev to be one of the most difficult paths there is.

[tough bay]

Sidorovich putting anything down but his bloodpressure

[shell flax]

Picked up a second copy on Steam so I can mod it more in depth and not worry about deleting my Xbox saves in the future

[shrewd needle]

Exactly.

[shrewd needle]

Imagine not buying on GOG...

[quiet yew]

Stalker SOC what happens if you double up on Stone Bloods the artifact that gives you +200% health

[quiet yew]

Wolf gives me the jobs but yeah lol

[shrewd needle]

#⭐┃trilogy-general...

[quiet yew]

I posted to their too. I made sure to share that it’s SoC I’m talking about so no confusion

[shrewd needle]

Yea, but this channel is exclusively for HoC, so asking in multiple places is unhelpful.

But to answer; mutiple artifacts = added effects.

[somber rose]

Valve is probably the greatest gaming company to presently exist.

[shell flax]

I’m not setting up a completely new profile for a new thing

[shrewd needle]

GOG superior. No DRM, full ownership.

[shell flax]

Riveting

[shrewd needle]

Not really, but I have no energy to debate that right now.

[somber rose]

I will not tolerate disrespect of our lord Gabe Newell

[shrewd needle]

Man just bought a yacht company for $400 million, made by ripping off everyone, because he 'respects the sea'.

He's a corporate capitalist like anyone else. No better.

[somber rose]

Steam is 'ripping off everyone'? lol

I've been on the internet a long time, no company has treated me as well as Steam has.

[ashen nebula]

What did i miss

[ornate sable]

The guy legit likes the sea and boats and stuff though. I'm sure GOG is fine, but I've never ever had a problem with Steam.

[fickle hill]

[hallow shadow]

Building boats sucks.
Smallest boat I ever helped build was a 63.5ft yacht.

[somber rose]

Steam built PC gaming massively, and have treated us fairly despite essentially being a monopoly. It's provided a platform for indie creators to spam us with anime visual novel slop.

[shrewd needle]

$5 pay-wall (for basic features), walled garden (especially with the Workshop), the store itself being a DRM, the massive casino called the 'market-place'...

[ashen nebula]

Isnt 80s music is more like jazz and yk the choir thingys idk right?

[shrewd needle]

And that's just a few things. Laugh all you want; I'll take any other store over Steam.

[somber rose]

A 5 dollar pay wall for what? I've never had to pay such a thing.

[hallow shadow]

I love me some 80’s now.

[shrewd needle]

Maybe check up what 'limited accounts' are? And what they can't do.

[hallow shadow]

WHEN YOU CANT EVEN SAY MY NAME!