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if we're following bethesda logic
I want my nuka-world equiv to be a funny bandit in a closed off location and then go back to being a good guy when its over
Imagine Paradox book. Charge $60 for game, then keep making money via DLCs. 😏
also base building.
Y’all coping
Base building? In S2?
Base-building? In STALKER?
Some of the towns barely run, as is.
Paradox adds like 2 mechanics that should’ve been base game and forces you to pay 40 bucks for it
a modder kinda got base building into anomaly so.......... maybe.........
STALKER = being a hobo running around with eldritch artifacts.
Like I said...print money.
Everyone I read from says the new Stellaris AI is 'stupid' and they still put the game out (post 4.0).
So yea, basically money-printing machine.
In Victoria 3 i remember they added Spheres of Influence (which you’d think would be a base game mechanic since the entire game is about trade and being a world power and etc) but then they made you pay 30 dollars for it
I’m not saying “impossible”, I’m just saying this game is gonna need a bit more tweaking, tuning, and cleaning for that kinda thing.
And I bet enough people paid for them to keep it going. 😏
I bought it I’m not even gonna lie
Whales.
Imagine calling them 'towns'. They're basically glorified homeless shelters.
There’s literally a Victoria 3 paid dlc that just adds a new train texture
WTF? A texture?
It’s like 3 bucks but still
It’s kinda odd that people want base building when some people have blasted through the game in no time at all
Paying for a TEXTURE???
Yeah it adds a new train texture
There’s isn’t enough to do for base building.
The “radiant” quests only carry you so far.
I just had a bird faceplant into my window
Who is radiant
Probably from disbelieving that it costs $3 for a texture.
Go check on it. It may have broken its neck.
really, people want base building to have a new fast travel in the western zone 
It flew off
“Radiant” the repeatable you can get from the bartenders.
You mean
Jobs
My bad. Wrong wording.
I didn’t know semantics was a hill people wanted to die on.
I can see one use.
A 'shelter' where you get to mount PKMs with unlimited ammunition (but with reloading) and you get endless hordes of mutants of all kinds. Mutants can knock down PKMs while you get to ensure they keep running and survive as long as possible.
Building an immediate Emission shelter, maybe.
complete with lego building sound effects
One of the CoP mods already has a wave defense mode
Meh, there's enough buildings for that; no base-building needed.
Paid dlc though
Yea, but in S2, you can FINALLY aim the PKMs...
ridable burer dlc
It’s like when the newest cod added the intervention in the game and charged 20 dollars for the original sound pack
I could aim them just fine
We don’t even have our own faction, cannot recruit followers.
Base building feels.. Weird.
Can't aim PKM in CS/CoP, though.
I’ll be the leader of noon
Noon ain’t bad.
Half the ideas that people here be putting out are weird
Can’t wait to smoke Faust.
you need to turn on the brainscorcher, and the "noon" path begins
Everyone tried to smoke Faust. He still won.
That's broken.
If it were me there instead of Skif I’d have won
Not unless the SIRCAA plot is fixed.
you use the base building mechanics to repair the brainscorcher, using rare materials mined from Yantar rocks
I don't think I want more fanatics, thanks.
You're able to teleport strait to the institute afterwords
I already faced death in Pripyat with the Monolith, I do NOT want the 'Scorcher' to ever become active again.
if you don't want to be shot, just become them 5head
Coward
More like tired. 😔
Brainscorcher but instead of turning people into zombies it makes loners have some common sense and get out of the zone
Shooting at endless waves of Monolith is unfunny.
The economic state of the world can’t be that bad in Stalker where you have to go to the zone just to make money to own a house
Reverse Engineer the scorcher to bring back the zombie at the top of the Shelter, begginning a new chapter of the Noon
with two guys, one of which was never monolith
TBF, that's Hermann's doing. And Skif being silly.
Skif only went into the Zone because you can’t claim “Apartment destroyed by Artifact” on Insurance.
Man fr just wanted a house
The Zone is all he has.
He was probably promised a quick and easy pay for the experiment, but he of course got stuck in the zone because of it
Because Hermann. Slimy ass.
I play (roleplay) from that perspective.
The rest of the Zone isn’t my business. The Zone will exist long after I’m dead, and existed before I was born.
“I don’t wanna be here I just want a house”
Hermann was cooler in CoP
He should be thrown into a whirlgig
The entire world of STALKER was cooler before S2.
Only reason Skiff went to the zone was because he had already sas mouthed everyone outside of it
Yup. “I just want my life back, yall can have this craziness.
S2 ruined a lot of shit...
Hermann hugs you when spared tho
cute idiot
S2 ruined the sci-fi feel
shocked that didn't trigger the language filter
Can't blame him. He came this close to death.
Hermann? The guy passing out Scanners, pretending not to know?
He gets a “failure drill”.
“Stalker 2 ruined everything” fans when the “brother it’s not that deep” enjoyers enter the room
Eh, that's still there...you've got the technology that's basically unworkable in reality, like functional exo-skeletons, Gauss Rifle and such.
Brother its NOT that deep
I like the gameplay and think the characters are endearing
good enough for me
nah
Stalker wasn’t made to be realistic.
Gauss rifles work irl… they just have to be huge
I think it might've been another test by SIRCAA...to see where the 'hand out Scanners' may lead.
they really changed that when they tried to give a more reallistic feel to the game
Yes, I'm talking about the in-game Gauss Rifle which is firmly fictional.
I remember the Ward guy being pissed at Hermann.
Like Hermann was playing him.
I also hate the ward, but still. Hermann is just some Corporate Goon, to me.
IDK, I didn't feel much of a difference since, even in trilogy, you spend half the time going through 3-decade-old equipment. That's rusted and junked.
actually not
Forget yall im joining monolith
I haven't noticed a big difference tbh, all the tech and what not i've seen feel very Stalker
Hermann was working behind SIRCAA's back.
But SIRCAA's backers might've known, since Agatha isn't too concerned.
stalker equipament for 2012 was kinda good
On today’s episode of “That Escalated So Quickly”
Uh...it's the same equipment in S2, though?
yes and no
Thank you for joining brother
Nvm I’m going back to Noontide
Hermann going behind SRICAA’s back does not mean he wasn’t out for his own purposes.
Aaaaand he betrayed us
“Betrayed” ah yes I betrayed the zombies
What are those large choppers in choppers field called, I’ve seen em before, are they actually in the real exclusion zone (or WERE they actually there at one point)
Pretty much
He was. I'm saying that SIRCAA's backers might've known it and did nothing because they might've had their own ulterior purpose from what Hermann was doing.
They wouldn't be concerned with Hermann earning some side cash, but the resources he'd bring in (like Skif) that they could use for their own purposes via manipulation or whatever would've mattered a lot.
The monolith fanboys were so very annoying when the game first came out
Some people find comfort in brainwashing.
I like monolith because i have the same brain cells as them
So none
See?
Yeah basically
Can I take that quote?
Yeah?
I remember all the monoliths hating on me for liking Noontide
ngl i'm pretty tired of Monolith, a part of why I liked Noon so much is because they're a twist on them
Good; I'm using it from now on.
“What do you mean you don’t wanna be a zombie?”
Yeah nah im sorry but we gotta beef now
how to explain...
I mean... 😆
the equipament was really advanced for 2012 back then
Politely but firmly
but for S2 set in 2022 it's not
But it still is advanced, even in 2025.
Says the guy aligned with the bandits
The pm, the most advanced weapon humanity has ever built
I have a very simple reason for liking Noon
Is it because they’re handsome
Their outfits look cool
Oh
Skif's Makarov is...interesting.
I actually find it hilarious how they make skifs pistol better than a USP
It does more damage than 45 acp
Only in vanilla.
Ah yes 9x18 Makarov is totally doing the same thing that a USP is doing
It’s like the reverse of master difficulty in the trilogy
Bandits aren't major story characters used for endgame fodder, they're just silly little guys!!!
Yeah i am gonna mess with mods
Better Ballistics. Does the job.
MP5 is still screwed for me; .45 version does more damage than some rifles.
Ima use my skyrim mod techniques on stalker and see if i can make a game better than the devs
I already have the CJ bloodsucker mod because you cant go wrong with that
He’s gonna add nudie mods so the 5 women in the game are just busty
Man. I haven’t played, or modded Skyrim in so long..
N- NO
I heard modded skyrim and that’s the only thing I saw in my head
Bro is gonna make UUNP Skif Armor.
Skimpy Richter mod when
Oh yeah the loathsome weirdo mods
I'm going to bleach my eyes and pretend I never read any of this.
“Exoskeletons are now CBBE compatible”
Why are 90% of Skyrim and FNV mods just nudie mods
Says a lot about fallout fans….
So Visa and MasterCard can censor them.
There’s the 10% that actually add improvements to the game then there’s the other 90% that are just HAH LOOK AT THIS NAKED WOMAN
Bethesda*
Yep
anomaly that makes your bust twice the size of your head
More like 'Beth-Ass-Da', amirite?
AAAAAAAA YOU GOT THEM WITH THAT ONE AAAAAAAAHAHAHA
Judging by the fact that Starfield is in no better of a state than Stalker 2… Yes.
Im dying on the inside
wait until you found that anomaly have a butplug addon
what
Is it the knife
Pushdagger but that
no, a addon that makes the thing vibrates when you take damage or killed
OH
The… What..?
you guys need to find actual women
I can't stop laughing...
Wait werent we supposed to not talk about this stuff
Stalker 2 mod where you can kiss all of the important characters
The… Who?
It’s not THAT hard
e-girl playing as Monolith so its going off 24/7
Id vote for that mod
Skif just making out with Dalin while Noontide gets brainwashed again
True
based
It’s not Cheeki Breeki.
It’s Cheaky Smoochi
You people got issues, honestly...
also, anomaly is the only place to have sex mods
We didn’t need to know that
Don’t remind me of the metro 2033 mods
Yeah
When you get blown up, and shot at, enough times… Your sense of humor gets… To evolve..
NOT TO THIS! 😆
Freedom in spirit
Oh no I’m just autistic
Yeah stalker 2 made me lose all of my sanity
I literally couldn't stop laughing...
Same. XD My recruiter made me omit that I had ADHD/knew what Ritalin was.
to play stalker you alread need to have a bad sanity after all
What branch
That implies any of these noobs had sanity, to start with.
wait
people without autism play stalker?
Idk what you’re talking about I’m fully sane and I play stalker
I remember when i was considering joining and my recruiter just kept telling me to deny deny deny if anyone ever asked me if i had any health problems in the past
In all reality, it would take a special kind of ol bravery to just walk into Mordor, I mean the Zone.
Army. Military Police.
Ah im going marine infantry
Or just a lot of alcohol
how are you sure? crazy people normally don't think they are crazy
Cossack’s has entered the chat
Illicit drugs
Cocaine.
Shrooms aren’t “illicit”.
But crack is
The stalker crack conversation
Crack is a weird word
Crackin open a cold one
Crak makes more sense
Florida Stones
Never thought STALKER's server would get to this level of degeneracy, NGL...
adhd is awesome
i'm currently high on legal meth that makes me normal(er)
Xanax?
They have legal now?
Brother THEYVE HAD legal
I thought it was all illegal?
It’s medication that has an altered amphetamine in it.
Not legal drugs.
But, still, legal drugs.
Amphetamines still amphetamines
Pharmaceuticals are confusing.
American pharmaceuticals.
I'm still on meth
its not very much, and its very controlled
but it do be
Gonna try and find some Panzerchockolade
heh. these bandits must have been professional mercenaries outside of the walls. brings me back to the good ol' days...
Good ol days?
mhm. your humor hasnt evolved enough, it seems. get shot some more.
He has no humour. He's Mewtwo.
I’m just wondering why you refer to as good ol days
I don’t have to have the same perceptions as you do, to still have a sense of humor.
One must never mistake the laws of their tribe as the laws of the universe.
- Robert Heinlein
kinda funny if you remember that mercs in stalker are basically hobos that dies of hunger
Bandits, too. They’re just “Spacers”, like Starfield.
and people say sarcasm always gets over my head.
You guys excited for Outer Worlds 2?
bandits are more trustful than mercs
Bro. I’m still confused as to what good ol days. What are you referring to?
it was just a meaningless joke -.-
In the sense that I can always trust them to shoot at me, yeah.
a bandit hardly will shoot another bandit, but a merc shooting another merc is basically a common thing
Actually...a Bandit uses the TOZ-66. They neither maintain their weapons, nor can aim. So they're more likely to shoot their fellow guy.
Hell yeah. Loved the first one
i always wondered about that. it really seems like you see alot of merc groups gunning for each other. but alot of times, i see the corps running through rostok and yantar and attacking mercs
I’ve been playing grounded 2 aswell. Amazing game. It’s a shame they aren’t releasing more content sooner
while mercs will kill other mercs just to steal their artefacts
Them, engaging each other, has no bearing on how often they engage me.
But you right.
But Mercenaries will only kill as part of their job. Bandits will shoot for fun.
also, since you mentioned equipament, mercs equipament in trilogy are really bad
equipment
Mercenaries literally use the AR-15...and USP.
they basically uses decades outdated suits and bad rifles like l85 just for being cheap
Fun or sheer greed for loot to add to their hoarding ways😂
ACAB includes the grammar police. There cops too.
compared to the tracking equipment that specnaz uses
I mean, it beats the Bandit weapons. The L85 is far better than the TOZ-66...
Also, Mercenaries are private operators; Spetsnaz gets outfitted by the government with unlimited budget.
wow. cant help a man teach how to pronounce a word without having a glorified reddit user point you out for being grammar police
Some people don’t have English as their first language.
I didn’t know semantics was a hill people liked dying on.
Tbf there’s really no point in pointing out one’s flaws in speech if you can understand what they are saying. It’s okay bro
Well now you do, I also like dying on that hill
Never under-estimate peoples capabilities at being inane.
I don’t like dying on that hill.
But I pick and choose when I feel like holding it.
How about we evacuate language-hill and go back to talking stalker?
Aformative
Needs Custer for that. 😏
sorry for not being birth in a english speaking country 
he said equipament twice, thought i would just correct it. didnt knew it would cause those who are easily offended to react so hostile towards me for it 😔 you are the reason why people are less helpful towards others
yes, let's stalker some people social media
Helpful tip: Don't help unless someone asks.
"i was just being helpful"
"freaking grammar police nazi scum bastard" 😭
This is why that one duty guy wants us to get out of here
It’s not that deep. Just think before you speak. now let’s get back to the subject at hand ❤️Stalker❤️
yea, and that is why the world is going to shit, i guess. why would you help someone, its narcistic unless they ask for it
Bros. We got warned, and my Mute literally just got lifted.
Dont mess this up for yourselves.
jesus christ
I mean...better safe than sorry, so...yea...
Need MOAR guns in STALKER.
Give me my ZM LR-300.
Honey Badger.
Dam he just gout out of the slammer, bandit irl
more GUNS and MORE life
And more fixed plot.
that can't be fixed
i see a guy dying on the streets. should i ask before or after he dies if he wants help? 😭
The story has already been wrote unfortunately 😔
why do we have medical professionals. they help people without permission all the time smh
Ask before. Over here, you can end up in trouble for helping someone because the cops will question you like a criminal. 😏
And the term fixed is subjective, everyone wants to be a master story writer but only in a way that they like
Cease and desist, Stalker. The Ward won’t ask twice.
how dare they cut into someone and fix up an artery without their concent.
The story can be un-wrote.
Let’s breath in and breath out and remember it’s okay bro don’t worry we’ve already moved on
the only way to fix that would be remaking all the maps and rewriting the story...
Map is good. Only story needs fixing.
If only. Nothing a little expansion won’t fix
What does fixing mean
nah, some places positions really don't makes sense compared to the og games
I mean...considering the entire plot of HoC, an explanation won't fix anything.
Yea, but original games had bad map, NGL...I prefer S2's map.
for exemple the degtyarev path that he did in cop in S2 map
They wanted to make it closer to the real thing pretty sure, that’s what they wanted to do, theyre not gonna go back on that
I meant expansion. But yeah i agree. An expansion would still be greatly appreciated
I think that the developers would have made a map much more similar to what we have now if they were not faced with the technical and design constraints of the time
and it still very different from the real thing
Yea, but at least not as bad as the original games.
They’re still not gonna go back on that
the original games maps are not made to have a reallistic positions
the map is fine, but the way how shaders and textures are loaded in leaves alot to be desired. the dev lacks experience with an actual open world. the way they designed the game to load in assets is very inefficient.
the main problem of they changing it is that makes some story related stuff just don't makes sense in S2
Basically every modern game, TBF.
Yea, but this was a bad thing.
Agreed. The optimization needs a lot of work
Yeah like CoP makes no sense now, but we can’t change it
We can’t change anything really, so complaining about something that will not change is rather silly
soc and cs too
So emissions give headaches?
that's what she tells you?
They make my legs ache
S2 story just don't works with the old trilogy story
metro exodus had smaller maps, but even then, i dont remember that game ever having problems with loading in assets. and some area's were very detailed.
There’s a difference between complaining and expressing/sharing discomfort about the game. I don’t expect it to get changed. It’s just nice to talk about with people who have the same issues
and theres my veteran tag
Well, I did say modern games. Metro is still relatively old.
Yeah but like you say fixing but what is it that needs fixing
What exactly without using a general term
eh. enhanced edition came out in 2021. i mean. 4 years. sure.
Congratulations.
EE released just a few months ago
Still the old game...I meant actual modern games, developed since 2017 and later.
So dalin designed the exos?
Hell yeah Brodie congrats
only thing coming to mind would be kingdom come deliverance then. but that one runs on cryengine, i believe
Cause if Dalin designed the exos then how did duty and everyone else get their hands on them?
gen 1 and gen 2 exo's yea. they were simply taken from scientists and soldiers.
Yeah but in the exhibit at Sircaa it says Dalin designed them
The ones at the exhibit
That’s a nudge towards that model
Exos in the trilogy were prototypes that were sold off from what I know, couldn’t be fielded, they weren’t practical, but stalkers found use in them
So Dalin is a genius or
He designed a model of exo suit not all of them
Yeah I get that
To an extent actually yeah
He just made the design, it was proof tested by analytics and built in a factory
no, exos in the trillogy are not prototypes
I need Skif to be able to run on walls like Titanfall.
I need skif to learn how to swim
they are basically the best stuff that you can get in terms of lore
I need Skif to reload faster.
Skif was a Marine. He knows how to swim.
But no Marine wants to swim in full kit.
I need skif to stop being so damn hungry
He’s a growing boy.
what are you talking about? skif cant swim
Well he NEEDS to
I’ve seen skif swim
Skif’s background is a UA Marine.
yea, but skif cant swim. i know, because i drowned my skif atleast on 20 different occasions
You had a defective skif
He can swim.
Just not wearing three weapons, a MOPP suit, gas mask, and backpack full of crap.
Refund it and get a new one
Turn your skif in well give you a new one
I could do it tho
that doesnt make sense, hes a marine, he is taught how to swim with full on gear.
No.
Skif can even swim in game too
You'll drown with full gear.
Modern military vests come with pull-cables to prevent the wearer from drowning.
he's eepy
Smh so much for a marine bros not even amphibious
It’s more practical to exclude swimming all together especially when there’s only like one part of the game it would come in handy
Plus people would use it to skip stuff
Skif also can’t swim when he’s naked explain that
Skif is not amphibious, he's marshy at best.
Skinny dipping in Zaton and swamp
There aren’t enough places to swim.
And the water is irradiated.
These “swim” people would still die.
But you can already go anywhere, so can't skip anything.
Least I swam
Straight into the afterlife.
I’ll just slough my intestines out of my anus for the next week
you also gotta factor in the pseudotrouts
Skif needs a posse of loners to follow around but they don’t carry stuff or fight they just patronize and compliment him every minute
The… What..?
I swear the factory area is locked up with the only way to get in being a bridge
Pseudo-dog. Pseudo-giant. Pseudo-trout.
So if Dalin is such a genius how did he mess up the experiment huh
Pseudo-deez.
Cement Factory?
Fanaticism
The experiment in-game is broken plot, not exactly Dalin's mess.
At least there aren’t Psuedo-Vultures and Psuedo-Mosquitoes.
i mean, there are natural phenomena that can explain why stuff cant float in water. like how in some waters, gas rises from the ocean floor, creating bubbles, which lowers the water float efficiency.
Soon.
Are there even Mosquitos in Ukraine
but so far, the rivers in the zone seem to be mostly normal
I think so it’s been a minute since I’ve been that way but it’s got a river surrounding it
Also salinity has a factor.
Easier to float in salty water.
Skif can’t swim because the water is full of job applications
I think Cement Factory is connected by masses of land, so...not just a bridge.
I think Skif just never learned how to swim
I just think assuming one can swim with all that equipment is silly.
he bluffed his way through marine school
Skif doesn't swim in water because he wants to swim in money for a new home.
He got someone else to take his tests
Not as uncommon as people might think
Yall just seem to have no idea how much some of this stuff weighs.
He can’t swim when naked
Who goes swimming in the Zone?
Skif
I think GSC don’t want him to swim because they’re hiding something from us
Everyone.
also. doesnt matter. because zone magic. you have artifacts that lower gravity pull on you, making you lighter.
Why?
Cause I like a good relaxing swim
Because radiation jacuzzi.
Zone magic wouldn’t save you from drowning like that.
Yeah and I bet the water is always warm
It's cold, but the radiation heats you up.
or he pees as soon as he enters the water
Is water wet?
A decent suit is actually not comfortable. CBRNE equipment is NOT mobility-friendly.
Wonder how cold it would be in the zone, people don’t seem to mind the weather
It's the Zone, so I'm not sure.
Who said he’s wearing CBRN
I mean everyone is wearing ballistic armor so I guess that would keep them warm
For me he’s wearing khaki shorts and a polo
He's saying that even if you ditch every bit of equipment, remove your suit and all and go for a swim, you still drown.
If you upgrade your armor, that weighs more.
You have two primary weapons, and a pistol, and a bag chock full of red bull and vodka.
Probably because the water is irradiated.
Yes, but the point being that the weight argument doesn't hold.
water isnt wet. water is a liquid. it can make something wet.
That wouldn’t make me drown I’d just slough my intestines out after I got done swimming
Lead boots
What other kind of “suit” protects you from Zone dangers?
Birthday suit
Idk I’ve heard rubber protects from a lot of dangers
You would die, in the water, due to exposure, faster than you would drown.
Just wear bread suit.
A rubber would’ve protected us from you. 😛
So then your argument still doesn’t hold up
Why do mercs shoot skif on sight?
I’m an ai
BRO
You just wanna die in the water? Go ahead.
Because they know Skif is better.
To protect their dividends
only real OG stalker 2 fams would remember this. oh right. cant post stuff here
They wanna rob him
Skif is too much of a competition
Huh
@hardy totem post the bread armor here
Post in #📸┃screens_and_videos and link here. Noob.
Lemme find a pic first
BREAD
BREAD!
do you think the bread in the zone is fresh or is it like stale moldy bread that’s been sitting there for years
That Psi protection is insane.
Description says bread is fresh.
WTF? That's real?
[1;33m BREAD
What’s Skif’s definition of fresh though
B R E A D
I’d assume it depends where you got the bread but most of it has got to be stale asf
It was at launch
I mean he was a marine I’m sure he’s used to fresh bread being hardtack
it was a real armor up to patch 1.2. i think 1.3 fixed it
So true lol
I'm PRETTY sure all the inventory definitions are 'narrator' ones...Skif...well...he's UAMC, so anything goes, since Military are taught to survive on crap.
Barkeep bakes bread though the quality of such bread is questionable
Damn...bread armour...
On rare occasions NPCs would loot eachother's armor, if it was armor that was usually unobtainable it might have showed up like that
I mean all of the bios are just skifs inner thoughts about the thing right?
That's in the PDA. The inventory descriptions are not Skif's.
The voices in his head
Devs saw that and said hell yeah that passes as armor😂
freedom has a baker in rostok
I mean, stack enough bread and you can stop a nuclear explosion.
comes with its own side quest and everything
Why is he called that
Do you think we’re actively playing as skif or are we listening to a story about skif
Roosevelt is the guy in the 'eloquent' hideout, right? Where the Bandit is too eloquent for the Zone?
I honestly don’t know.
Proc-Gen naming.
Kinda like a Borderlands thing
Commissary? That’s where I found him.
Yea, that. Brood being the Shah's, I think.
We are just along for the ride
It’s skif retelling the story to some medieval peasant as they’re both in the after life
Who’s the trader who’s underground in the bunker thingy
Sidorovich
Chicken-eating slime-bag.
Ain’t no way
the colonel
Yup. They picked up too many Rads trying to swim.
I don’t remember these guys names
Wait a minute HIS NAME IS LITERALLY ON THE SCREEN
He probably can't read. 😏
john stalker
I don’t remember their names
You gotta play SoC
S2 is my first game in the series.
Names matter, though.
Me too
Not when you can just describe them and everyone knows who you’re talking about
You people got to play trilogy before S2.
Let’s play a little game of guess who I’m talking about
you gotta play them all to understand it
Word. The trilogy is so damn good
I mean, 'Sidorovich' is better than 'chicken-eating slime-bag that rips everyone off'.
at least you gotta play gamma, it's like, basic lore
Stalker 2 sale where it includes the trilogy for free
Egotistical guy who controls Ward
Barkeep.
John wick
Fancy suit guy who inadvertently turns Noontide into Monolith
Borov.
Dude who follows you around everywhere and is your friend that’s in every bit of promo material for this game
Donald Trump
Korshunov?
Psycho-dog.
Richter?
Dalin
He doesn't like remembering names.
Idk i legitimately don’t remember the guys name
Kinda wish richter was actually like a mentor character rather than someone you can be with if you side with that ending
The dude who wakes you up, and gives you the Bolt?
Strelok
Nimble
Sorry, I have no idea what's going on, I just got done cooking a pot of gumbo for my brigade
Bon appetit.
Must be nice be big pot of gumbo!
Gumbo Brigade
Hard to find ingredients for that in Ukraine
What’s your name translate to?
Also yeah I imagine andouille sausage wouldn’t be easy to find
Nothing in particular, it's just Dag
I used to do stuff like that, when I was in Germany.
I’d go buy some stuff, make some low country boil, and feed my MPs on shift.
NGL, I read that as MP5...'feed my MP5 on the shift.'
Had to improvise a lot, but fortunately we do have imported Ninja products here and there
That’s the life😂
Do you guys also eat gumbo out of styrofoam cups?
The other joes hated me, cause the barracks smelled like seafood.
We have bowls
Yeah you’re not eating it right
Everytime I’ve had good creole/cajun food its come from crappy styrofoam cups
And plastic spoons
You’d do just as well, serving it in a mug.
Well, we're being rotated soon, might as well have a decent meal
Rotated?
Be safe, brother. Glory to Ukraine.
Into combat roles
I didn’t actually like… serve so
Troops rotate in and out of service. Else they'd go insane.
I hate to be the guy who said he would have but that’s kinda what happened to me had some family stuff go down it doesn’t matter
Best of luck to you brother. My heart goes out to you warriors
We had problems with long rotations early in the invasion, but it's stabilized more since then
When I saw rotated I just saw the gif of the shark getting flipped
Same, but 2 sharks. One rotates in to kill, other rotates out to feed.
In the American army it’s called “1/3 up, 2/3 down”
So you don’t wear your forces out.
No there’s this gif of a diver straight putting a shark on its nose so it stops attacking him
Damn... 😔
And a black border comes around it and it freeze frames and it says “get rotated idiot”
That's just a GIF...troop rotations are honestly needed.
Kharkiv oblast has been under many air raids recently, had some drone strikes here in Chuhuiv
You speak English well are you from Ukraine or did you like volunteer?
For like… Whole nights at a time.
Or can you even divulge that I know there’s opsec and stuff
How does that work? Like...let's say you got 100 people, in total, so how does that ratio go?
If America only has 100 troops I think we’re just sending all 100 of them at that point
That must be terrifying. I can’t imagine having to worry about that overnight
No, I'm talking from a troop-rotation perspective.
First, there’s more to it than that.
Those 100 would have to be a maneuver element.
Unless only having 100..
1/3 are up, and conducting maneuver operations.
1/3 is resting, 1/3 is rear-defense.
Are Ukrainian rations good at least?
American army also prefers to fight when out numbering their opponents.
3:1
I'm using 100 as an example, not literal. So just...wondering how it works.
If 100 go out, and only 30 come back, America still says victory.
That’d be debilitating imo, you get shot at and almost blown up all day and then you sit down to eat and your ration is just garbage
Yea...a soldier's life is worth nothing. 😔
Like veggie omelet
Better than what a lot Russian troops are having to deal with. It’s sad but I don’t want to get too heavily into it in this chat…for respectful reasons
Are the Koreans still over there or did Kim draw them back?
I do t think that MRE is in rotation anymore.
I hadn’t seen it in my years (2011-17)
Wrong server for political chat.
I spent a lot of time in the US before the full-scale invasion
They’re still there.
It’s not but I was using it as an example
Let’s not get into that
You get to where you can finally eat after getting shot at all day and you just have a crappy veggie omelet
A lot of times we bring our own stuff, or whatever we can buy at stores
Some troops are lucky to have a ration, at the end of a fight.
But I see what you mean.
Is that Joshua Graham in your pfp or am I tweaking
So you don’t have MREs or anything just whatever you can find?
30,000 being sent soon
Yeah
It varies between units, we generally have a mix of MREs and store bought food, lots of energy drinks and stuff like that too
Literally still one of the greatest games a man can play today
I wish MRE was a Stalker Consumable.
Or more variety of food.
Absolutely
So you just have like cans of sardines
pretty much
Mre would fit in well
Lots of canned or dried foods I presume
Coffee in the trenches? lol
There's an air raid right now, but no drones or missiles predicted yet
Absolutely, though I personally don't like coffee
I mean, why not?
That’d suck too, you get done getting shot at and then you get a wonderful can of ¢99 Vienna sausages
Dude are you actually in a war zone I just came back what did I miss 😭
It was a joke. That’s been a common thing to keep troops on alert for a long time
Takes time to make.
Heat, and water.
Just crack open a Red Bull, and start firing.
Nothing sucks as long as you adjust to the food or like it.
I bet chocolate is great as long as it hasn’t melted in your pocket
Then you’d have chocolate fingers
Ah...well, I was thinking what if someone was having coffee in the trenches but put the cup above the trenches, on the main ground...
Enemy forces see the coffee cup and everyone does an impromptu cease-fire to drink coffee together. Both sides, just...pulling up and having coffee and tea and anything.
Too hot for chocolate.
Get some granola, or something.
Straight candy is bad for the trooper.
Get fuel
We usually keep them in plastic bags or boxes when we're in buildings or trenches
there are talks of a new front opening in north slobozhansky. kursk. a new type of turtle tank being used there
If only. Petty governments and politics say otherwise tho…
How hot is it in Ukraine I kinda assumed it was always temperate
Yea, but if every single soldier stopped obeying them...what could they do?
I always thought it was cold
It's been relatively hot here, ~80⁰ in Fahrenheit
Russia has started doing some unspeakable things…
Hence, it requires collective disobedience...so...yea... 😔
And what’s the coldest it gets?
Turtle tanks have limitations, they're usually easy targets
That’s war sadly “and war… war never changes “
Sub 0?
Question maybe the fine community can answer. I have never made or even attempted to make any mods what so ever for any game so i dont have a clue as to the difficulty of what im about to ask, however would it be doable to mod stalker 2 into a coop game? My buddy and I was under the impression a long time before the game came out that stalker 2 would have a coop mode and we was super excited. TIA for your answer to the question.
Yeah nah I wouldn’t be able to fight in the cold, I’m from the Deep South so like humidity and hot sun that’s nothing for me but when it starts snowing I’m tapped out
It’s disgusting. Can’t believe we’ve evolved into such measures as humans
Afghanistan, when I was there, was -30-50
Kinda like Minnesota.
Into the negatives, makes operations harder, around -4⁰ Celsius
I don't think STALKER would ever work as a co-operative game. Whether trilogy or anything else.
I live in GA.
Honestly we are a plague to the planet
Smith was right.
Anyways, I must go
Stay safe bud
The Covenenat were right.
Good night 🤙🤙
Stay safe man
Couldn’t agree more. We are a plague to all that we touch
there should be some amount of multiplayer released for stalker 2 but it is very likely going to be a round based versus kinda deal probably
Never played Halo, so...
We was thinking it would be cool to play coop for the side quest but the main quest i dont think would work so well
Love goes out to you brother. Remember who you are ❤️
Everything is affected by our destructive nature
Be safe, Svyato! If I may!
Yea...STALKER has always been a single-player experience.
as far as it's understood, you need to set out to build a game with multiplayer in mind if you want to actually make it multiplayer in UE5, can't just staple it on
Love the covenant
Aren’t there still bombs in fields in France from ww1
Yep
I think so anyway
Yeah…
first games are held out by spit and hope, which is imo the reason they aren't multiplayer to begin with
We are horrible things
People just gotta stop being so selfish
I don’t think its people in a whole
Absolutely
otherwise you can bet your ahh the milsim airsoft gang would be all over it
I believe most people are alright its just the few
Corpos are greedy
I’ll tell you why I hate corpos
I mean at the end of the day we’re all human but yk
People are not born bad.
At least, not in my opinion.
That’s like saying pit bulls are born evil.
Yeah most people are but there’s too many people with power and money with a bad mindset
We may be born impulsive, but not evil.
That is a learned behavior. Thrust upon us by the dawn of agriculture, and industry.
I watched them burn cities to the ground and turn dreams into fuel for a nightmare struggle for a currency we made up
Exactly. We have to tame ourselves and become humble servants to the greater good of humanity
I don’t think agriculture or really industry is the problem just the people who control it
The mega companies
The greedy ones
And the corrupt governments
So every one?
Yep
The uk government law was never about protecting children
This is where I tap out
It was about surveillance
It’s sad every country has to deal with this and suck it up and adapt to what they are given
Yeah
We’re like fish in a tank
Powerless
Except I care for my fish unlike the govern
Facts and there’s a whole ocean outside our fish tank but we are too collected on the idea of making our fish tank better and more controllable
The zone within stalker puts a lot of that into good perspective. Which I absolutely love.
Isn’t Eastern Europe really good at pickling foods?
I’m saying this cause I’m eating some pickles right now but like
Isn’t Eastern Europe good at pickling
Absolutely. India is the earliest to start the pickling of vegetables but Egypt and Greece mastered the art
Stalker is life
What is Eastern Europe like
I’m Western European irish/british
Isn’t Eastern Europe really good at preserving a lot of foods
Meats, veggies, fruits. Cause of all the winter and stuff
It’s awesome but like. I’ve only ever seen a part of Czech, and Romania/Transylvania.
I’m American.
Coool
I wouldn’t know but there’s alot of lovely individuals in here who would. From what I’ve seen that’s been shared with me is that it’s amazing. Lots of flourish in most parts but pale during the winter
Was stationed i. Germany.
Been to Kosovo. Croatia.
You were a soldier !!!
Macedonia. Poland. Belgium.
Yes absolutely
I love America but it does instill a bit of arrogance in us, which is why I try to be as open minded as I can be towards foreign nations
I mean we’re all just people, at the end of the day nations are just made up jargon to complicate things
Once we realize that we aren’t the center of the earth… Things get easier.
True that
Thank you for ur service. My father was also station in Germany during is time in the army
i mean most of my favorite things aren't even made in america
We are all brothers separated by angry humans
I’m a huge fan of German, and Korean engineering.
Japanese as well
japan makes like 80 percent of my favorite things
I’m not proud of being an Imperial Milk-Drinker.
But I’m grateful for what it taught me.
Same. Most of my favorite things are from Asia or Mexico
My welder is so nice.
I mean I love America you’ll never hear me hate on American products but yk
look i really looked into it a lot
MERICAN NICE
We are handy folk that’s for sure
Do you guys think the atom bomb was a good invention
i thought the snap on hate was real but
in all honesty
its kinda not justified
there tools are insanely expensive yes
but.......
they are also typically the best of the best
We are all human and we should take care of each other
yall need to try German tools
I bet. I’ve seen that it turns people in to respectable self made adults and that’s great.
I hate on American products. Mostly automobiles.
The average American vehicle can’t handle driving the autobahn.
what tools do germans specialize in
I’ve never really used tools
You’d be better off buying a VW/Beamer.
I like my Ford… given it is from the 80s so its a different method of engineering but still
anything i guess
Axes
Bosch makes pretty much everything
But I’m still VERY young . But then again tools are fun
i need some examples so i can look up a comparison
Yall make good glue I’ll give you that 😂
look at bosch
I’ve got an ‘07 Sierra. But you won’t catch me trying to go 135kph all the time.
i will only ever buy japanese cars
I won’t buy anything newer than like 2014
well they don't do so much tools as they do car stuff
'84 Mercedes baby been driving it for 10 years
Imports are better.
like if you wanna talk like bosch abs systems for example
Idk my ford from 1989 is so much simpler than anything made today
German driving is nice.
people will pay 10k dollars for a top model bosch made abs system
no? they make tools mostly and appliances
As soon as I can I’m taking lessons
No right on red, though. If I remember correctly.
fuck your right
They are nice but the Mitsubishi cars I’ve driven have bad overheating issues over long travel distances which is a hindrance to my lifestyle lol
i forgot they make fridges and stuff
mitsubishis are dog shit cars
they are a walking corpse of a brand
When Japan gets the car right they get it right… when it’s not right then it’s horrid
GOTTA GIT YOU A HONDA
Swag is a big factor so on that note gotta be a classic for me 
Indeed. Their engines could use some work😭
SMOKIN OPPS IN A HONDA 🔥🔥🔥
Buy a 1985 Toyota Pickup. The 22r can be worked on by a toddler
japan brought us the rotary engine 
i learned on my 1995 miata
Honda on top for sure
: 
one of the best 5 speeds ever made
Buy a Toyota pickup, drive it to my house.
I’ll weld an LMG mount to your bed.
too bad it can't hold power
Look bro if it’s good enough for Islamic extremists it’s prolly good enough for you
gotta weld in a new floor first

So true ahahahaha
Technicals are not just for Muslims, but you right.
old toyotas are insanely rust prone
But they mastered its use
Just a little extra plating.
Isn’t the US looking into getting a technical made?
We had a truck on my FOB. used to carry troops around.
One of the wheels fell right off the axle.
I love their little campers they got over there. Always wanted to get one imported
who made the truck
Also buy a Ranger
gm?
Buy a 1994 Ford Ranger if it’s good enough for Hank hill it’s good enough for you
Toyota.
oh
btw if you ever so those rim hubs on the side of the road
those are all from toyotas

Camry Graveyard.
they are made of plastic
Ram better (Jk don’t kill me)
so they tend to just fall off
at speed
or if you hit a bump or something
they will just fly off
Talk to me when ram figures out how to make a transmission
That was like 2012
They’ll be out of business by then😂
jeep and dodge are mega shitters imo
Dodge been in business since 1900 and they still don’t know how to make a transmission
they are mechanical disasters
The Dodge Dart has the same engine as the Fiat 500.
I can’t believe jeep is still around
If I remember correctly.
Have yall seen the new modernized Bronco?
Does it make you gag, too?
The only reason jeep is still around because they still parade around as “military” vehicles
dodge was like what if we just stopped making the v8 people liked
WDYM NO ONE WANTS TO BUY THE CAR NOW
Haven’t been used in the military since like the early 80s
And a lot of Americans still eat that crap up
WTF WE DIDN'T SEE THIS COMING AT ALL

okay guys we put a v6 in there instead are you happy now?
I drove the MATV in Afghanistan. Not a jeep.
I kinda like it, it’s better than what Chevy did with the blazer
still no sales
So damn bizarre
The new Blazer is also ugly. You right.
I mean I wish they put a V8 in it instead of a goofy little V6
But at least it’s turbo’d
At least it’s not a bunch of four-bangers.
I love my Sierra. But it’s not v8.
if we wanna talk american v8s you buy a corvette or a mustang
cough From a stolen ford design cough
the ls is a gm design
they spent over a billion dollars on it
I have 058 stenciled next to the Sierra logo.
(Spartan Linda, from Halo)
lol
It’s based off the 351 Cleveland
wait, there's an actual multiplayer mod for stalker 2?!
Love me a corvette
I love me an LS1, but corvette could be prettier.
Sorry 351 Windsor not Cleveland
and it's been out since December?!
bro the c5 fucks
what you on
I wanna get my hands on an Opel GT.
I mean… I respect that. I just find them to be aesthetically displeasing.
I’m very “Fashion Souls” oriented.
That car is so damn sexy
The best truck engine ever made is the Ford 300 and that’s just facts
How I wish I had a 300
It’s so old, and funny.
“Poor man’s Corvette”, is what a German man told me.
but im pretty sure its an auto so ick
Too bad everyone wants a billion dollars for a F150 with the 300
Pfff let us have our taste😂
I wanted his car so bad.
I just already had one.
i want a repu
IM NOT LIKE THOSE GUYS
Couldn’t afford a second car, and my wife.
That’s just another Japanese mini truck
once i graduate im gonna need to buy a truck
So, I only have one truck, and no wife.
no its not lol
Livin the American dream 😂
Gotta get you a little Acty.
One of them Bongo Trucks.
I love mini trucks
Made by a Japanese company though
She divorced me, when I was in Germany. Tried so hard to find a German wife c
What motor does it have
a rotary
Interesting design
I’d drive the absolute dogshit out of that.
That power train wouldn’t last a week.
When I was thinking about joining my Recruiter was going through a divorce and he told me “I wish I’d had found a Japanese woman when I was stationed there they never leave there husbands”
no parts for it either so just install a rx7 gear box and dif
Mini truck bro
thats a regular truck
Truck is truck.
@fleet latch Haven't tried it so I would ask around, but apparently there's a multiplayer mod for s2 that kinda works: https://stalker2.mp/
thats a mini truck^
That’s a modern mini truck
BONGO TRUCK
I want one of these 😂
that truck is not even remotely the same size as the repu lol
The repu was sold in the 70s wasn’t it?
Everywhere in Korea and Afghanistan.
Look at american full sized trucks from the 70s and compare it to the Repu
Those things will run forever.
well yes and no
its a rotary
so if you run it stock
it will not last very long
Ahhhh.
unless the orginal owners knew to premix odds are its totally cooked
well the seals are
and you can replace those thankfully
I don’t know how they work. I just know I’ve seen them go tooling across Afghanistan, and through Korean cities like it was nothing.
its a 13b but with carbs
which makes it a completely unique engine
that was only used in that truck
Hmm
I wonder how much they cost
all other 13bs are direct injected
Then look at things like the Ford Courier, Datsun Truck, the Chevy Luv
Two goats, and an MRE?
Deal
i do too but the good ones are very hard to get
I’m pretty sure the Ford Courier and Mazda Repu are actually based off the same chassis I could be wrong though lemme dig a bit more
the only ones that are road legal are typically 50hp or more
and those are the ones that are difficult to get
Shit if I could get my hands on one in the US I’d put money into it
like subaru made this super nice one
that was super charged 58hp
those are goated if you can get em but they aren't common
As pretentious as Subie drivers are, those cars aren’t entirely garbage.
Yeah the only difference between the Mazda Repu and the Ford Courier is the badging and the Rotary actually
they named a anime character subaru
lol
i drive one
5 speed manual no turbo
REPU is actually an acronym for “Rotary Engined Pickup”
really wish it had the turbo
No turbo?
yes
DIFFERENT CAR
its a base model impreza sport
Ford and Mazda have done that forever
Dang, dude
The Mazda B Series is just a Ranger but rebadged
How old is it?
That’s not bad. Still a reliable car.