☢┃stalker-general

[weary hedge]

Agreed. That shit is the same size as stalker 2😂

That size is the only reason im not replaying it anytime soon

[spare canopy]

Yep, pretty much... It's just a reason to fleece people.

Hate it

[hallow shadow]

BRUH and they didn’t even do anything.
They just plasti-dipped it in a UE skin, and said “done!”

[weary hedge]

Pretty much. I was disappointed to find out there’s no new content :/

[hallow shadow]

That’s why it’s huge.
The UE mascara it’s wearing.
That’s why it’s heavy.
All that makeup.

[weary hedge]

Also no plans of dlcs

[spare canopy]

I tell you what a good remake was... System Shock

[hallow shadow]

THAT BLEW MY MIND.

[weary hedge]

Never played this. What’s it about?

[hallow shadow]

I had never played it before.
But man. I was back on my Half Life days so fast.

[spare canopy]

Oh this and that...

[hallow shadow]

So… You’re trapped in a ship. Held hostage by a rogue AI.

[spare canopy]

And the greatest antagonist ever...

[hallow shadow]

Shodan goes H A R D

[spare canopy]

Makes glados look like a kinder garden teacher

[weary hedge]

I love the graphic style. Might have to give this a go tonight

[hallow shadow]

System Shock is considered a fatherly figure to immersive shooters.
Like… It was the first one.

That game will not hold your hand, Zev.
Be ready.

[spare canopy]

ruined it though, when they moved away from unity to UE...

[spare canopy]

I still go the original on 9 floopy discs

[hallow shadow]

Daaaang.

[weary hedge]

lol I’ve played most retro games. I’m surprised I’ve never seen this. What order should I play ?

[hallow shadow]

System Shock, then System Shock 2.

[spare canopy]

system shock - system shock 2

but play the 1994 version first

and if you like retro games... Fade To Black

[hallow shadow]

That game is nuts.

You’ll get lost as hell, dead as hell, mad as hell.

It’s cool as hell.

[weary hedge]

Sounds like my cup a tea. I’m excited to hop in.

[hallow shadow]

If you’ve been itching for a good, harrowing “first playthrough” of anything.
System Shock will deliver.

[spare canopy]

And the puzzles are actually puzzles that require actual working out

[hallow shadow]

Yeah, you need at least 3 braincells.

I only have 5. So I barely made it out.

[spare canopy]

I played the puzzles on hardest... mind processing is required

[hallow shadow]

Blegh.

[weary hedge]

Hell yeah. I’ve been itching for a good puzzle. Haven’t had to actually put my mind to something in a game since dark souls and hollow knight

[hallow shadow]

WHEN YOU CANT EVEN SAY
MY NAME

HAS THE MEMORY GONE,
ARE YOU FEELING NUMB?

[spare canopy]

Oh... and the game doesnt tell you where to go... or anything... you need to listen to the logs carefully... and explore the feck out it

[weary hedge]

Best game I’ve played that shows no hand holding is Morrowind. That game takes fking ages to beat.

[hallow shadow]

Not a joke.
You will be lost as hell.

That map is absolutely confusing, until it’s not.

[spare canopy]

system shock is on another level.

[weary hedge]

Perfect 😍

[hallow shadow]

System Shock is Stalker 2 levels of challenge. Without being able to ping your objectives on a PDA.
Git gud, or git ded.

Shodan spares none.

[spare canopy]

in three weeks a broken man returns... I dont know what to do 😄

[weary hedge]

It’ll probably take longer I’ve got a lot of shit on my plate but I appreciate the suggestion deathgaurd

[spare canopy]

and do go to youtube for help.... just don't... It will spoil it...

[weary hedge]

Stalker 2 is running simulator and try to out heal the aimbot

[hallow shadow]

It feels like Half Life.
You’re just a person.
Stuck, and everything wants to kill you.

The map makes no sense, and you’re relegated to literally finding clues.

Whenever you get to this game, it will not disappoint.

[weary hedge]

More games need to implement that fr

[spare canopy]

It's a proper map too... It's not linear...

[hallow shadow]

Breakpoint tried.
But.. Ubisoft has sucked for a while.

[hallow shadow]

Yeah. You’re in a big place.

[weary hedge]

Ubishit has been in the gutter for a long time 😂

[hallow shadow]

I’m currently slaying Casa Blanca, in Bolivia.
Wildlands was their last good game.

[weary hedge]

Wildlands and all the splinter cells are great games.

[charred nova]

I mean Nintendo is the new Ubisoft

Haven’t you heard

[weary hedge]

Greedy bastards

We need to strip all their IPs and throw them in the garbage. That way nobody has to waste money on their consoles

[charred nova]

I mean they have started releasing games with day one dlc

So they have truly scrapped the bottom of the barrel

Like it’s honestly beyond disgraceful

[primal nimbus]

Truly the Joshua Graham moment of all time

[weary hedge]

Couldn’t agree more. They went from being one of the most beloved and first big gaming companies to the biggest pieces of shit on the block.

[dry siren]

my feet hurt

[spare canopy]

Dont come crawling to me

[charred nova]

Like I saw the latest direct and I’m like wtf am I doing even buying this console man

90 percent of the games I want to play won’t even come out till 2027

And they will probably cost 80 dollars

[hallow shadow]

I can’t wait to be executed, in 2027 because I named my dog. (Nintendo now owns the patent for naming animals)

[primal nimbus]

Don’t worry, Ubi will still out-Ubi us all

[weary hedge]

Pretty much lmao. I mean donkey Kong bananza is pretty rad compared to its last recent titles. But you can’t convince me the new Mario kart or party is worth its price. And the 80 price change is just absurd man.

[spare canopy]

What?

[charred nova]

The new Mario kart is a ghost town online already

Because the online component of the game is literally terrible

[weary hedge]

It has a cool concept but nobody wants to pay for Nintendo plus. Biggest cash grab ever.

[charred nova]

No

They artificially ruined the online mode

And when people found a work around

[hallow shadow]

It’s a joke.
Nintendo owns “summoning for help” as a patent.

[charred nova]

Patched it out

So no one plays

Because people can’t play the way they want

Long story short you can’t play traditional 3 lap tracks

Except as a 1/4 chance

80 percent of people only want to play 3 lap tracks

So now that you can’t

Basically everyone has just said welp fuck this and just gone back to Mario kart 8

It’s 80 dollars for 3x the content

And a functional online mode

[weary hedge]

Damn that’s lame. Mario kart 8 is better anyway. I enjoyed the levels more.

[charred nova]

Like it’s a fucken joke

They have said no you will like the content we made

Even if the content we made sucks

also the open world is literally just the botw map

[weary hedge]

It’s never Nintendo’s fault. They are saints and know what they are talking about 😂

[charred nova]

With the hot and cold regions swapped

The rest of the map is literally almost a carbon copy

[weary hedge]

Underdeveloped slop that supposed to be this genius new idea

[charred nova]

Like guys I get it

Your proud of this map

Bravo but it’s been almost 10 years

I don’t wanna see it anymore

[weary hedge]

Pretty much. They act like their projects are made for themselves then complain when people don’t appreciate what they are delivered like huh

[charred nova]

Like the only thing I’m here for is splatoon at this point

[hallow shadow]

I just want Heart Gold and Soul Silver to be parted to Xbox.

[hallow shadow]

And the Fire Emblem games.

[weary hedge]

Nintendo will burn with their products unfortunately

[hallow shadow]

Oh, and Golden Sun, too.

[charred nova]

Your in la la land buddy

[hallow shadow]

Shhhhh.

It’s called TBI. I’ll be ok.

[weary hedge]

We will get flying cars before you start seeing their shit on other platforms or our planet will be reduced to carbon poisoning

[hallow shadow]

I know. I know.
I just wanted to save the good games, first.

[charred nova]

They are already saved

[hallow shadow]

Then those silly Suits can get their comeuppance.

[charred nova]

I just can’t tell you where

[hallow shadow]

THEYRE STORED IN THE BALLS

[weary hedge]

At least emulation exists

[charred nova]

Yup

[hallow shadow]

I need a good emulator site.

[weary hedge]

Until Nintendo finds out and knocks down your doors like that one dude 😂

[charred nova]

Can’t give you that here

[hallow shadow]

So I can play that old shit without a Gameboy.

Nintendo had better have brought level four plates.

“Do you have Lv 4 Plates?”
“We have a warrant”
“You didn’t bring enough coffins.”

[charred nova]

Look man just makes me wanna get more into cars

At least they can’t take the car away from me when they don’t wanna support it anymore

Unless it’s a Tesla

[weary hedge]

I can’t believe they actually swatted a dude because he sponsored emulation 😂

[charred nova]

But then you bought a Tesla so you kinda asked for it

Throw rocks at all Tesla drivers

MORE MONEY FOR ME

[dry siren]

I LOVE AVENGED SEVENFOLD

[charred nova]

Centerfold like the song from the 80s

[weary hedge]

You look like you’d be in their band

[dry siren]

:3

[weary hedge]

I was a Green Day child

[dry siren]

never in question, lethal injection

[fickle hill]

I guess I will be the Winger guy here

[wooden walrus]

I saw space marine 2 was at a decent price, and was about to get it

but then I saw the reviews and I was like "eh, ynow what"

"I probably have other games to play"

[primal nimbus]

Driving to work and to home hits diff with Green Day

[weary hedge]

Hell yeah it does

[primal nimbus]

Nearly zoned out lost in thought listenin

[weary hedge]

They’ve got so many bangers

[ebon blade]

https://tenor.com/view/when-i-come-around-green-day-billie-joe-armstrong-blue-lennye-gif-20559584

[honest ferry]

peak

[primal nimbus]

Boulevard of Broken Dreams driving home 🔥

[pale ocean]

Is there a legendary electric artifact?

Or is not in the game yet? I just find it strange that I haven’t seen one in my many (far too many) hours playing.

[weary hedge]

Best ur gonna get is “Glare” which provides strong protection against electrical anomalies.

[pale ocean]

Okay. I was just curious honestly. I’ve had one of those before but I don’t really need it now.

The discovery suit has plenty for now.

[weary hedge]

Yeah it’s weird they didn’t include that. I imagine the thunderberry was supposed to include that trait but maybe we will see it in a dlc or future patch.

[graceful dirge]

Yeah Thunderberry is the only Legendary artifact spawn from Electro anomalies & just gives max stamina regen nothing for electrical protection

[pale ocean]

If I had to hazard a guess I’d say it’s with the first DLC. Or whenever Lymansk comes up.

That’s just me spitballing though.

[weary hedge]

Possibly. It’s strange most legendaries include 2 bonuses but not thunderberry.

[pale ocean]

Liquid Rock has three.

[weary hedge]

That too

[pale ocean]

Thanks for correcting me on that earlier, whoever did that.

It’s honestly the best one to have, I think.

[wooden walrus]

Isn't the dingleberry legendary?

[graceful dirge]

In general, I'd love to see further diversification of a lot of these artifacts but I guess what I'm really seeking would need a mod for like https://www.nexusmods.com/stalker2heartofchornobyl/mods/1071 to give them greater individuality and more unique traits than the simpler buffs we have now. Maybe vanilla shouldn't be quite this complicated but it's lame that we have so many artifacts & only the handful of modifiers they have besides unique arch-artifacts, and so many repeats on effect combos

[pale ocean]

Yes.

[honest ferry]

hypercube kinda peak

[pale ocean]

Yuuuup.

[honest ferry]

no spamming bandages

[pale ocean]

Hypercube
Compass
Thunderberry
Liquid Rock

And…anything else you wanna throw on top for flavor.

[wooden walrus]

Oh yeah wait someone else mentioned it before, just didn't see it

[honest ferry]

wierd water so you can stack em all

[pale ocean]

Discovery suit gets 3 protected slots off rip. They’re upgrades though. And they ain’t cheap.

[honest ferry]

diamond exo you can do without weird water

[pale ocean]

What does that do again?

[weary hedge]

I’d love to see more diversity aswell but I’m not sure that’s something GSC would implement. They’ve already laid out the whole system for us. This is how artifacts have worked in every game. The most I’d see them doing is adding new artifacts/anomalies that provide a new benefit.

[graceful dirge]

I've come to really love the incoming bullet damage is translated to instant stamina regen of Weird Ball for getting into cover in a panic especially now playing with Better Ballistics

[honest ferry]

remove all the negative effects

[pale ocean]

I’ll be honest, never bothered to go for any other the arch-artifacts.

[pale ocean]

HuH¿

[weary hedge]

They don’t really help a lot late game. Even mid game if you know what ur doing. But they are cool lol

[honest ferry]

at the cost of limiting your carry weight to 80kg

[weary hedge]

The bolt is pretty handy tho

[pale ocean]

Aaaaaand there’s the catch.

[pale ocean]

That tornado terrifies me…

[honest ferry]

you can go over that if you dont mind blurry vision from being drunk

[weary hedge]

Same with the nut

Might aswell use hypercube tho if you got it

[graceful dirge]

Yeah agreed pipe dream at this point but probably the case considering they don't even wanna give us hard stat values instead of the weak-max scale, adding increased durability as new artifact ability was welcomed, I'd love to see more maybe something for psi-protection but yeah probably gonna be more like few added abilities instead of total overhaul though at least we have good mods for that already cries in console

[pale ocean]

Anyone else use Craftable Zone?

[shell flax]

Weird water no longer completely eliminates rads

[graceful dirge]

Yep still loving it even though my console version def severely outdated with this mod upload hiatus

[honest ferry]

insane

[pale ocean]

On console too, but it STILL slaps.

[honest ferry]

so they made it useless

[shell flax]

It’s a weight artifact on roids, it shouldn’t completely tear out any draw backs of literally all artifacts

[pale ocean]

Do you know of any guaranteed Advanced Tool Kit spawns?

[graceful dirge]

Looking forward to the current updates, the temp/base system he's also working on, and eventually the OxA console release. Game is gonna be in a sweet place for my tastes once we start getting more mods again & of course all the goodies GSC has in store

[pale ocean]

That’s the only one I need.

[shell flax]

1.6 is gonna be juicy, especially since, iirc, zone kit phase 2 is dropping so modders have even more tools

[graceful dirge]

Hmm I'll have to check, think I have one of them in my stash but I don't recall atm where I got it from

[pale ocean]

I actually got all mine from doing jobs for Barkeep.
Basic Tools
Expert Tools
Medicine Tools
Gunsmithing Tools

[shell flax]

My money is on Thursday either this week or next for 1.6

[pale ocean]

I pray that it’s this week.

[graceful dirge]

Oh damn wow huh I wasn't aware that was even possible, like as rewards for the random jobs?

[pale ocean]

From the fetch jobs he gives. He basically tags a stash for you to go get. There’s an item for him in it but the rest is YOURS.

I once found an exoskeleton in one.

REALLY early game too.

[graceful dirge]

Ahh gotcha very cool thank you for that! Will have to get started on that then, just been roaming a lot exploring and hunting mutants to save parts for when I eventually mosey over to Malachite

[pale ocean]

Found the tools sitting near the stashes.

Because Barkeep’s stash coords are ALWAYS premium.

[graceful dirge]

Ha same was playing Craftable Zone like day of its release before it got tuned down some and finding damaged endgame armors, some of which I stashed away and still have but not nearly rich enough to afford fixing & using them. Was hilarious to see full Exo pop out of a crate that couldn't possibly have that inside of it and has felt like a cheatcode having a Veles detector from that too before even leaving Lesser Zone

[pale ocean]

Wait, I think you might be on the old version of the mod. Even on console. Pretty sure the author changed that in the latest version. But honestly I thought that was more fun anyway.

Made stashes…fun to find…huh…weird.

foreshadowing

[graceful dirge]

I do think I'm on whatever most current one was approved before GSC stopped for a while because it hasn't been like that since, though I opted to still play on the save I had started from then instead of starting anew with the tuned patch for that cheeky boost of some tasty later-game loot right away

[stark crescent]

5 years 😭 people dont survive that long in the zone

[pale ocean]

Truuuuue!

I deleted the save I had back then though. Oh well.

[ebon blade]

Just be more active here, especially with Stalker 2 out, and you'll be Master Rank in no time.
Be aware that Master Rank being able to post images, is new to just happening this summer.

[graceful dirge]

You're not missing out that much certainly didn't feel like NG+ start. I feel like at this point the Veles is the only late-game item I'm still using, because all of those later weapons and armor spawned damaged & now so broken + expensive to repair with where I'm at in the game so back to Sunrise suit & AK-74 baby, very grateful how great they have been with Better Ballistics enabled

[shell flax]

I’m happy I can use my 416 and G36 constantly in BB

[pale ocean]

I use the 2 part mod that has Shay’s QoL tweaks. Makes repairs much cheaper and makes looting and selling guns more viable.

[shell flax]

Predator (trappers gun) just becomes a nuke in shotgun form for some reason though lmao

[pale ocean]

I crafted the drum mag for the G36. It’s…insane.

[primal nimbus]

Next run is gonna be modded and using Sopmod

[pale ocean]

I wanna try to consistently run Glutton.

[frosty zenith]

OXA and Better Balistics make Sofmod very fun

[shell flax]

I’m probably gonna do a vanilla run once 1.6 drops until mods are back up to date

Also so I can dick around with NVGs and a kora with the extended mag

[pale ocean]

I so wish you could get to Prypiat before the story lets you.

[shell flax]

You can, multiple places to jump the boundary

[pale ocean]

That Saiga with the drum mag is just…sitting there.

[primal nimbus]

All you need to know

[primal nimbus]

Before GSC Monolithians keep you out.

[pale ocean]

Mind helping a fellow stalker?

[graceful dirge]

I do love those features of it plus the better stamina, but personally don't love the carry weight boost makes it too ez for me to just go Fallout mode and literally take everything. I recognize how helpful it'd be with all the extra loot of Craftable Zone, but that's one place I will lean into handicapping myself more for immersion sake & to not become full-on loot hoarder which I am already guilty of.

[shell flax]

I think though once 1.6 drops, I’m gonna do a military themed run with the Berill
(And the Kora)

[graceful dirge]

But Craftable Zone random junk loot been great for making quick buck, take everything from a corpse to sell to some lone stalker who wants the junk as trade for his 700 koupons, food + meds and then just killing his ass taking everything back and doing it to the next poor soul

[pale ocean]

It’s honestly not worth keeping everything. It actually slows the game down.

[shell flax]

Vatislavovych has a few shorts on where to hop the boundary

[pale ocean]

Is it truly useful to lighten how much you’re carrying in order to jump these better?

[shell flax]

What

[pale ocean]

Like, do you jump better when carrying less? Or is it just the bulky suit?

[shell flax]

It’s 2 AM and I have the brain power of a Snork with Alzheimer’s currently so bear with me

[graceful dirge]

Yeah I've spent way too much time in the inventory especially early on when I was more guilty of that. Now I only tend to take things I need or of some greater resell value, but I do still regularly find myself doing the >take everything, sell to guy, kill guy and take everything back to sell again method to acquire more meds and food when in the field away from hive stash for a while

[pale ocean]

Same here. Take all the time you need.

[shell flax]

No, I don’t think weight effects jump height afaik

Just stamina drain and sprint level

[pale ocean]

Sprint level?

[graceful dirge]

I gotchu lemme get a clip, method I've been using since launch still works as of 1.5.3 here

[shell flax]

After a certain threshold you slow down and, further into the Loot Fat Scale, you can’t sprint at all, only power walk

[pale ocean]

Ah. You’re right.

And if I’m not tweakin’ I think if you carry less you sprint faster. Tried to test this earlier actually but again, might be placebo.

[graceful dirge]

#📸┃screens_and_videos message

[pale ocean]

How much weight were you carrying?

[pale ocean]

I have to try this right now.

TOOOOOAD WE’RE GOIN TO YANIV!

[graceful dirge]

That was with 55.3 out of 90.5 almost into yellow but still green on weight

[pale ocean]

Oh man. Yeah I should be good. Just over 28.

[graceful dirge]

The realization that you can walk on top of those angled barbwire fences littering the Zone lets you do some pretty cool parkour tricks into otherwise inaccessible areas. Actually being in that locked-in courtyard at the foot of the Duga was so cool, but you could not imagine the overwhelming disappointment to realize of course not only there's no ladder to climb, but also the entire base of the structure has no collision and you clip right through it

For that matter there are a number of ladders in inaccessible areas that are non-functional, the ability to climb a ladder is seemingly not baked into the physical structure itself but must be enabled manually

[pale ocean]

…now what about the CNPP?…any way to get there that you’ve found?

This is totally doable btw.

I just suck at platforming.

[graceful dirge]

Only with the use of an insane invincibility glitch I found in 1.2 jumping out of map by Yaniv Tornado then spamming heal & antirad back and forth till I was beyond the radiation kill boundary, I have sadly not been able to replicate but have explored CNPP pretty extensively as well as the Iron Forest, Generators, and many other inaccessible areas being invincible.

[graceful dirge]

Lol it's tougher than it looks damn slippery fence. That's just a perfect run I happened to record a while ago for reference sake, certain I would be struggling with it more right now

[pale ocean]

I know! Uuuuugh! I suck at platforming so muuuuuch.

[molten knot]

When 1.6

[weary hedge]

15 minutes and 28 seconds

[pale ocean]

If he turns out to not be joking I’m gonna ****** myself.

[graceful dirge]

Honestly don't even understand it lol because I didn't realize I was invincible until I jumped off the roof of the Jupiter plant well out of bounds & survived, and then when I loaded back some saves into the Red Forest even like an hour or more back from when I jumped out of the map by Yaniv, I was still invincible on those too and now subsequently invincible on all of the saves I make from those, though I noticed manually fast traveling does disable it so that's the trade-off is have to wander everywhere but have unlimited exploration potential as far as kill boundaries go, but it's a shame you get physically stuck & can't move in water because you of course survive submerged as well

[weary hedge]

It’s about to happen get ur popcorn 🍿

[graceful dirge]

Still invincible on those same saves even now on 1.5.3 really strange but very fun to play around with & speedrunning an ending literally running past everyone was hysterical experience

[pale ocean]

So no pre-download? 😂

[hallow shadow]

In ten hours, I’ll have been awake for 48 hours!

[weary hedge]

God damn bro go to sleep

[hallow shadow]

I wanna.
In a bit.

Super Earth needs me.

Also have just been teaching my buddy how to play Wildlands and Breakpoint.

[weary hedge]

Oh hell yeah that’s what’s up😂

[hallow shadow]

But I’m not making it ten hours. Maybe another two.
I’m going to bed.

I could, but I ain’t really got a reason to.

[weary hedge]

Get some sleep. Your body and mind will thank you when you wake up

[hallow shadow]

Maybe

[pale ocean]

Don’t ask how but I may come back from trying to platform my way to Prypiat with…an RPG.

[primal nimbus]

You what?

[pale ocean]

Literally was on some rando Monolitian who interrupted me trying to platform. 😂

Now I have a rocket launcher.

[pale ocean]

And I just fixed it. Still can’t buy rockets though.

[pale ocean]

Smash.

Bro why does no one sell rockets?

Can’t even craft em…

[hardy totem]

How is he gonna succ the blood if the blood is vaporized though?

[weary hedge]

Gotta find em

[pale ocean]

Bros gonna lick the ground when it settles! 😂

[pale ocean]

But where though? Haven’t seen any in any stashes.

Don’t tell me I gotta go back into the swamps.

[weary hedge]

https://mapgenie.io/stalker-2-heart-of-chornobyl/maps/the-zone

this should help with specifics.

[pale ocean]

Needle in a haystack. Fantastic.

[weary hedge]

It’s a big world champ.

[pale ocean]

I know. And I love it. Can’t wait til it gets even bigger.

[weary hedge]

You can also search specific items in the link above^

[pale ocean]

Still looks like they’re hella finite. I’ll just wait tbh.

Close to 300 hours in total…

[pale ocean]

And we’re really just getting started. That’s crazy.

[hallow shadow]

What be a Pirate’s favorite letter?

[lucid charm]

C

They sail the seven C’s

[hallow shadow]

You be right, homie.
A pirates favorite letter be the sea.

[indigo oriole]

Any info about mods for Xbox ? Are they coming ?

[smoky hawk]

hopefully not

[primal nimbus]

Wallahiiiiii

[kindred fable]

They are trying to come up with some automated system for adding mods so they don't have to add them manually

[indigo oriole]

Is this coming with 1.6 patch ?

[quaint umbra]

If the next patch can't do my taxes I am uninstalling

[ebon blade]

In that case, you should uninstall now.

[frosty zenith]

Do we know what 1.6 adds beside NVG and night/dark Overhaul for enemy vision?

[lament pelican]

stashes rebalance, new gamepad settings, new anomaly, Kora extended mag, new side quest (Gonta?), local save backup restoration

based on the roadmap, maybe also: new weather scenario (fog?), extended day/night cycle, binoculars

[quaint rampart]

Didn't they mention more side quests like plural ?

[ebon blade]

I hope not fog. I hate fog more than any other weather change.
Fog is cool for about a minute, then you never want to see it again.

[wooden walrus]

1.6 will tickle your butthole

Trust me my uncle works at Nintendo

So far 2 modes and 3 speeds but datamines show possibility for dlc in the future

[frosty zenith]

That sounds like many mods breaking - OXA with its NVGs, mods about stashes and if extended day and binoculars come then also mods like Longer Days will probably break

[wooden walrus]

Gamewithdave did mention he had to disable every single mod he had for the testing

However since there's modders within the testers it's possible they're already onto things

[frosty zenith]

Oh no
And I just started new playthrough with 12h in

[wooden walrus]

But yeah I'd advise setting manual updates on steam if you're planning on playing with mods in the near future

[frosty zenith]

I do hope so, but based on my experience with any modded game, everytime there is bigger update that changes important parts that bigger mods cover it means incompatibility

[wooden walrus]

Just set the game to update only when I tell you to, and when it does just set your steam to offline

I guess that's the best way to keep a game from updating

[wooden walrus]

To me the question is not "if" but "how long"

Oh right, setting the manifest to read only still works maybe? https://www.reddit.com/r/Steam/comments/mfqt0j/is_there_a_way_to_stop_updates_entirely/

[frosty zenith]

I will probably just stop playing until update and then get new playthrough with OXA Prototype (currently on Standard)

[wooden walrus]

I might start a prototype run honestly, cause I've tried like 5 unlimited runs and I've just kept restarting over and over and over like the idiot that I am

[worn drum]

[frosty zenith]

I was wondering how good Unlimited/Inifinity is

[wooden walrus]

Really really good if you're into what it offers

The problem i have with it is the same problem I have with every realistic damage overhaul

Which is to say, game's not made to be played with one

[frosty zenith]

How it is compared to say Misery for CoP?

How hard it is when it comes to getting money, gear etc. Is it hard for sake of being hard and cluttered with useless items and so on

[frosty zenith]

Why? I had a blast with Better Balistics

[wooden walrus]

I personally appreciate the fact that it deflates the loot and stash system without gammafying the game with a bajillion needs and items

[frigid hill]

ottomic has been warned

Reason: Bad word usage

[wooden walrus]

Cause they turn fights like the wish granter at sircaa into cancer

That, every "fight" right after a convo, the zalissya defense fight

There's a ton of moments that have been balanced with skif being able to facetank an ak74 mag

[frosty zenith]

Alright, I can give you that, I forgot about that one

Only other one I really had problem is the one quest from Ward at Icarus, where you get into cave with 4 guys

[worn drum]

you think that's bad, try it with unforgiving zone.

and bb.

[quaint rampart]

I want snow

[wooden walrus]

That, after the waste disposal facility, that other with the bandits trying to scam you near detention center, the akopyan side mission, the death squad at shelter after sircaa, sultan's boat mission

Some are better than others and with npc combat overhaul you can kinda ameliorate it but yeah

[frosty zenith]

I had no problems there to be fair, the most deaths due to guns and Better Balistics I had was the burer at Duga

[worn drum]

sometimes you just gotta hand over some koupons so you can shoot them in the back.

that's why it'd be cool to pick up a pda and get koupons for it.

[wooden walrus]

This is a perfect example as to what i mean #📸┃screens_and_videos message

[worn drum]

digital currency.

[frosty zenith]

Yeah, thats bad, which is weird because for me it also was problematic but not to this point
Although I had fully upgraded Survey with protection Artifacts at that point so there is that

[wooden walrus]

Unlimited integrates fubar, which imo is a harsher overhaul than BB, and also makes it so you get tougher enemies in general. Which is completely besides the main point of the mod and shouldn't be a part of it imo

Then again you can just merge BB in and it's mostly fine

But you'd lose unlimited's weapon upgrades and such which is really nice, so it's a bit of a coin toss tbh

Imo the stash and loot system, as well as the scarcer ammo, scanner and artifact rebalance, weapon upgrades, vendor balancing and such? Chef's kiss. Amazing. Make it vanilla.

Combat wise though, it just clashes with the game's occasional dogshit mission design.

It's not the fault of the mod for the most part though.

[wooden walrus]

I did manage to beat that mission and get a good zalissya defense after that on one playthrough, but each took me like 2 hours of retrying.

I restarted, partly because I was tired of having to retry every other fight, and when i got to those I just went god mode on.

Ain't nobody got time for 50 retries

[frosty zenith]

Hm, I had no problems with Zalissja with BB, although I restarted because they killed medic iirc

[wooden walrus]

The problem I had was that 4 out of the 5 loners you get got vaporized before I even managed to reach the village

[frosty zenith]

Fair, when I got there there were 2 loners in the central building defending against like 20 Monolithians

[wooden walrus]

And that means you're effectively 1v5ing groups where 2 shots will absolutely kill you

It was frustrating enough the first time where I had to run in and apply shotgun directly to forehead to each group as they spawned in cause that was the only way to get a good zalissya outcome

[frosty zenith]

Everytime I have a talk with people about stalker and some missions and bugs I am wondering if Zone decided that I get normal playthrough where only like 1 or 2 bugs appear and nothing gets fubar

[wooden walrus]

I love this game to bits and I even think some of the high concept for some missions is good, but the execution is always invariably shaky

The general loop of the game is at odds with quest design in a lot of places, which is kinda bizarre

Very fallout 4 school of design

but anyway, unlimited: highly recommended with some caveats

[frosty zenith]

Good to know
It does work with OXA Standard, doesnt it?

And I know that author didn't touch DLC content (guns and armor) but are they still there so you can pick them up and sell or are they gone?

[wooden walrus]

It's got a patch for oxa standard.

[still current]

Oxide Arsenal I think

A patch

For the mod maybe

Best ask the author

[wooden walrus]

There's also the rusted dawn modpack that integrates both plus a few more but I haven't touched it (though afaik the unlimited version on that is vit down some)

[still current]

@tardy rain

[wooden walrus]

I have no idea. Don't have any dlc.

[frosty zenith]

Well then I guess there goes my new playthrough and I will wait until patch and updates to mods drop

And then go for Unlimited with OXA and few other stuff

[wooden walrus]

I wanted to give rusted dawn a go but nowadays I'm just trying to go with as few mods (and as modular a setup) as possible

[frosty zenith]

I get a lot of mods but they are mostly small mods that change one or two things (beside OXA and BB of course) so I have it quite modular and update-break-resistant
Thats what also is making me hesitant about Unlimited/Infinity - its a big mod and any bigger patch or update might make entire playthrough go down the drain

[wooden walrus]

even better, right now most adjustments to statics require a new game

however I've never been forced to restart a playthrough due to unlimited

for the most part, if you're playing with unlimited you can say goodbye to static spawns until you hit weapon stashes after sircaa

vendors still have armor, but for the first half of the game you're going to be limited to a rather small pool of weapons and accessories which is kinda lame but it is what it is

at least it wants you to play with the stock options, instead of vanilla's lummox-shah's-drowned/combatant-mag shotgun handouts

[frosty zenith]

After enough playthroughs spawning MP5 and Merc Suit is not a crime and I can roleplay a cool merc!

How is the progression when it comes to gear? I know that in vanilla you can get OP stuff really fast if you run a little (Falcon, Seva-D or I or V, etc same with weapons like Trophy, Sofmod, Saiga at Cementary)

[wooden walrus]

you can mostly kiss static spawns goodbye. Which is like 40% of the reason I play unlimited to begin with

I think even the more high rank statics don't even spawn until you get up to a certain point of the story, but I haven't tried to sequence break or anything.

on the one hand it kinda sucks because I think having a guaranteed random unique at some point at the beginning would go a long way to spice up the early game, but it is what it is

there's one unique I think the mod author forgot about that I do make a point of grabbing and it does really feel nice to have access to when you get to it lol

[frosty zenith]

I am listening intently

[wooden walrus]

and the stash rebalance system is to me incredible

[frosty zenith]

That thing with PDA hacking?

[wooden walrus]

oh I'll tell you in DMs whenever you get it lol, don't want him to find out just in case

yeah the pda system is really good. Like, stashes will usually be empty which does detract from sticking your face into every single derelict building you come across, which at first is a bit lame

but you will accrue stashes across the entire map, so there'll be points where you'll organize expeditions to go clear them out

It does feel as if you're raiding the stash of some poor schmuck you randomly wasted instead of just tripping over backpacks full of stuff every couple minutes

[frosty zenith]

That sounds fun, I don't go into every building normally, so maybe this will make me go for some proper explorations due to knowing where stashes are (after getting coords)

[wooden walrus]

right, and after sircaa you get higher level stashes for valuables, weapons, armor, blueprints, intel

[winged cobalt]

wel helloooo theeer

how y'all doin

[winged cobalt]

im glad im not the only one who does that

[wooden walrus]

I think the wildest thing of running unlimited is like, actually having to buy food from time to time lol

'cause you're not getting free everything all the time

[frosty zenith]

Good good, kinda want that. I always have a lot of stuff in my chest so everytime I get back from exploring I just throw 10+ food items into it and forget about them

[wooden walrus]

it's not incredibly hard or grindy but you do sometimes have to keep it in mind, it's great

[frosty zenith]

That Merc Operator gameplay with silenced MP5 and USP

[winged cobalt]

DAMN

i love the MP5, SD, Kurz any version of it

[frosty zenith]

Hell yeah
It hits way better to infiltrate Sphere with silenced MP5 and USP than AK or Boomstick

[winged cobalt]

there's two ways, ak goes boom boom or mp5 goes psst psst

[frosty zenith]

Yes
Only better thing I had was assaulting Sphere after SIRCAA with SOFMOD and AP rounds. Just clearing it like a pro was fun

[weary hedge]

SOFMOD is 🥰

[frigid hill]

bullseye14.88 has been warned

Reason: Bad word usage

[ocean sorrel]

Dang

[stark crescent]

F u y s s o a b

That is how you outsmart the AI

[primal nimbus]

Get wolf’d

[devout jolt]

[wooden walrus]

can I offer you a pregman in these trying times

[quaint umbra]

Are you prgenetate?

[wooden walrus]

pragent

[weary hedge]

hi babe

[fervent robin]

Hello

[wooden walrus]

chat will you still love me when I'm no longer young and beautiful

[west salmon]

Are you in your Summertime Sadness?

[cerulean bough]

Any news about the release of the next patch?

[solemn jewel]

the patch is the friends we made along the way wating for NVG upping the gamma of the game to see something

[exotic glacier]

Sure honey. Just send another 1000€. Me love you long time.

[wooden walrus]

I am absolutely dumbfounded as to how people can have difficulty seeing at night right now

like, these are gamma 45% #📸┃screens_and_videos message

#📸┃screens_and_videos message

[thick kite]

Hulo guys

[hardy totem]

https://tenor.com/view/hello-hi-hy-hey-gif-8520159980767013609

[still current]

https://tenor.com/view/hello-hi-hy-hey-gif-8520159980767013609

[dull crag]

When you encounter a pseudo giant, whats the best way to fight it? Find higher ground?

[weary hedge]

High caliber armor piercing rounds (preferably a sniper) or lots of boom

[still current]

Nah

Best simply try to kill it as fast as possible

You gotta lure it in a place where it's movement is limited while keeping your distance in order to have enough time to recover from stun attacks

Well, high ground could be a little helpful, but the ai will always move out of sight when you do that

[hallow shadow]

Can it break down doors? I’d make it chase me, through corners.

[still current]

So, it would be painful to keep following it while making sure to not fall near it

[hallow shadow]

I wish mines were a thing. So I can drop them as I’m running away.

[still current]

I think anomalies could still work if you can lure it that far

[hallow shadow]

BET

[plain fiber]

Jesus dude, I'm sorry that happened to you.

If that was actually true then yeah, that would explain things as well.

@hallow shadow I keep seeing you typing, you want to say something? Chat's dead right now so you have the floor.

[hallow shadow]

Wrong chat.

But thank you for your vigilance.
You are an attentive and sweet human.
Here, have a forehead kiss.

I saw a Pre-Download for some Helldivers update.
I thought my Chat Box was my Search Bar.

[plain fiber]

*Insert that GIF from Futurama here with that robot: Oh dear. Might I give master a tender kiss on the forehead?*

And then he's crushed.

Humor!

[hallow shadow]

But yeah. I turned on my Box, and say some 751Mb “Pre-Download” for Helldivers, and was trying to Google what the hell.

[lofty dew]

my little pony is a tragic misrepresentation of horses and i think whoever made the show should be arrested and the show be taken down globally

[plain fiber]

Uh...

[hallow shadow]

My ex wife was heavy into MLP.
Her favorite is Fluttershy, and that’s all I remember.

[lofty dew]

i think MLP is a psyop

[hallow shadow]

Most modern media is

[lofty dew]

TRVKE

[plain fiber]

Not a bad character to have as your favorite. Was nice to see that they actually developed and grew her character in the show.

[hallow shadow]

I have never actually sat and seen it.
I just know she liked only one horse.

I haven’t seen her since 2015, though.

[plain fiber]

That's about when that generation of MLP was at its heyday so that makes sense.

Good luck watching it legitimately though, last I knew the streaming rights for it were all over the place.

Netflix used to have up to just before the final season and a bunch of the spin-off shows, and for some reasons Hulu had the final season.

[hallow shadow]

Oh, I have no desire.
I barely watch tv.
I barely find joy in turning my Xbox on.
I hate having been born.

But I’m about to go to a planet (Helldivers) and subject these stupid Bots to involuntary democratic reformation (systematic disassembly)

[wooden walrus]

much like rick & morty, mlp was an upper-mid show with an absolutely unhinged fanbase that gave it a bad rap all around

[plain fiber]

involutary democratic reformation

Sounds like a line from Liberty Prime.

[hallow shadow]

Rick and Morty fans are insufferable.

[plain fiber]

Honestly I think Friendship is Magic (the generation of MLP that caused the whole thing to explode in popularity) sat in the mostly-good tier.

[hallow shadow]

I watched it. I enjoyed it.
But I cannot glaze that show like the majority fanbase does.

[hallow shadow]

That’s what my ex wife watched. Friendship is Magic.

Or, she preferred the “older” stuff? I dunno.
I just kinda stayed away from Bronies.

[plain fiber]

Yeah, that's the one that lead to Bronies being a thing.

[hallow shadow]

I was super right wing, back then. Deep in my army days.

[wooden walrus]

I kinda wanted to watch it because people spoke rather well of it when it came out

[hallow shadow]

Apparently the “good show” was previous to FiM.
Something to do with a new writer, or artist.

[wooden walrus]

then I had the unfortunate circumstance of frequenting the escapist forums circa 2009

[plain fiber]

Really? To my knowledge FiM is the one that's considered the "good show". It did have a showrunner switch-around halfway through its running iirc.

[wooden walrus]

that was a very specific and aggravating exposure to only a tier above "tumblr" when it comes to circles of brony hell

[hallow shadow]

I’m barely remembering what my ex used to say.
I have no real experience.

[plain fiber]

I had no idea the Escapist forums had a contigent of Bronies. I frequented that site pretty frequently because of Yahtzee and Zero Punctuation.

[weary hedge]

Psyop is an interesting rabbit hole

[wooden walrus]

pretty sizeable, unfortunately. Then again the escapist forums were like a cringe magnet

[plain fiber]

I said this before, but I think that FiM's popularity came from the fact that it was a legitimately good, well-made, well-written (mostly) show, made by people who chose to make something that could appeal to the older siblings and parents that would inevitably be forced to watch it.

I also saw the standalone movie for it, and it's a legitimately beautifully animated film.

[hallow shadow]

I don’t know much about it.
How did we get on Bronies?

Who replied to that ages old message?

[plain fiber]

My fault.

[hallow shadow]

Ahhhhh. Fair enough.

At least you have the courtesy to scroll up, a bit.

[plain fiber]

Expressed sympathies towards the person who said they faced predation from a Brony.

[hallow shadow]

He’s a good kid.

[weary hedge]

https://tenor.com/view/vietnam-good-morning-vietnam-robin-williams-gif-5379373

[plain fiber]

No link embed for you.

Sympathy banana: 🍌

[weary hedge]

I don’t care 😂

I send the links anyway lmao

[hallow shadow]

I’m here to farm Chat Exp for gif perms.

[wooden walrus]

you will have a sympathy banana and you will enjoy it

[plain fiber]

Yeah, I have additional motivation for being here and talking to people.

GIVE ME IMAGE/GIF/EMBED PERMS

[hallow shadow]

These White Phosphorus NVG screenshots go HARD

That shit is gonna be awesome.

[wooden walrus]

don't particularly care but an update would indeed be pretty dope

kinda piqued about that stash rebalance situation, although I am bracing for disappointment

makes new loot generator .cfg "look guys we revamped the stash system"

tweaks sensor files "look guys we reworked how enemies detect you now"

[weary hedge]

What are they doing?

[wooden walrus]

idk, all we have to go for is that 1.6 will have a "stash rebalance"

[hallow shadow]

Yeah. Any specifics on that Stash stuff?

[wooden walrus]

#📜┃gsc-answers message

[hallow shadow]

Fair.
I’m pumped for anything, really.
The game isn’t bad, it’s just underdeveloped.

[weary hedge]

Huh. Interesting. I wouldn’t be against a nerf. I don’t touch most the shit that I put in there 😂

[obtuse veldt]

^^^

[plain fiber]

I just want them to not suck.

[hallow shadow]

The random stashes?
Yeah. I pretty much find those to just be “shit to sell”

[plain fiber]

Stashes in the original trilogy had good shit in them way more frequently than the S2 stashes do.

[wooden walrus]

I'll be honest, long as Unlimited is a thing I really couldn't care less about what they do to the vanilla stash system lmao

[weary hedge]

Ohhhh we are talking about the stalker stashes

[plain fiber]

What'd you think we were talking about?

[wooden walrus]

however, if they did a substantial rework that other mods could benefit from, that would indeed be kinda cool

[weary hedge]

Personal stash

[hallow shadow]

The player chest, probably.

[dry siren]

all's said and done, i'm fine now

[wooden walrus]

to me it's always seemed like the game was meant to have only like, a third of the total stashes you encounter

[weary hedge]

You can beat the game without even touching those stashes. They are kinda just there lol

[dry siren]

still dislike them though

[wooden walrus]

'cause there's so many that are essentially just in slightly different spots of the same general area

[plain fiber]

I think there are almost 10 stashes just at the Slag Heap.

[hallow shadow]

All the good shit sits next to the Stashes.
It’s weird.

[wooden walrus]

both the insane amount of (frankly unbalanced) freebies scattered around and the sheer volume of stashes are both imo the two worst offenders in terms of meta-progression and replayability

[plain fiber]

It's like a weird hybrid of how stashes worked in SoC and CS, and CoP.

In CoP, pretty much every stash was just out in the open and findable without the coordinates, but in SoC and CS, they were all in containers and required coordinates.

[wooden walrus]

I'm playing radiophobia now and you'll get stash info when looting bodies

[hallow shadow]

Static spawns will do that, too.
Everyone has a “formula”, a way to play, their preferred “gearing up” practices.

[wooden walrus]

so it's kinda unlimited lite

[hallow shadow]

We all, eventually, play the same way almost every time.

[plain fiber]

You wanna see unbalanced stashes though, look no further than CoP.

[wooden walrus]

yeah yeah when I say "freebies" I'm referring specifically about the static spawns

[hallow shadow]

I love logging in to Elden Ring, and saying “new build time!” And always end up with a Str/Fth Claymore build.

[weary hedge]

They really set you up🤣

SVD off rip

[wooden walrus]

which is weird as hell 'cause they can just be randomized on game start so I don't get why they went with static spawns, and the unbalanced as hell static spawns in the vanilla game on top of that.

[plain fiber]

I want stashes to be better, but I do not want them to go CoP-tier with them.

[weary hedge]

I think stashes in HoC are more of a touch on environmental storytelling rather than an effect on gameplay itself

[wooden walrus]

one day, mark my words

[weary hedge]

Besides the select few that give the player a big step up like suits or unique weapons

[wooden walrus]

one day I'll manage to whittle down unlimited to just the stash and loot system, with no ballistic overhaul, and no enemy stats, and no bs like that

and everyone will love it

[plain fiber]

Yeah, like in SoC and CS, except that the stash contents don't ever match their description in S2.

S2 Stash Description: "Finally found something I can retire off of!"

*Opens stash to find one bottle of vodka, two pieces of mouldy bread, a sausage, and one 9x18 bullet*

[hallow shadow]

I hate that.

I leave all that purple shit on my map.

[plain fiber]

And before someone says "Uh but what if someone just looted the good shit before you got there?", I will remind you that we never see any evidence of anyone else finding these stashes before we do.

[hallow shadow]

They’re actually decent “waypoints”, I mark Stashes near places I wanna check out.
But I almost never grab the stash. It’s just inflationary crap.

[weary hedge]

Yeah it’s known GSC got lazy with s2 lol

[obtuse veldt]

Agree with Stashes sucking badly

[graceful dirge]

Leave one of the original items in there so you can stash things in it and keep the faded map icon for reference because we still only have 11 possible map markers to drop in vanilla

[plain fiber]

I don't think it's as black & white or simple as laziness, but I really don't want to start that conversation again.

[obtuse veldt]

Instead of finding a decent amount of AP/expansive ammo, it's a mix of this and other random crap

[weary hedge]

Let’s just leave it at they got ahead of theirselves. 👍

[plain fiber]

Amongst other factors, yes.

[obtuse veldt]

Or even finding new weapons

Or new armor

[wooden walrus]

in unlimited the base you'll find on most stashes is like, a chunk of bread and an expired can lol

then with basic pdas you'll get what you would on a normal stash in vanilla

[plain fiber]

expired can

Mmm, botulism.

[shell flax]

A drink, a meal and the game telling you to end it as my buddy says

[wooden walrus]

and then you'll get high grade pdas from like monolith and stuff which will have weapons armor valuables etc

[obtuse veldt]

That makes more sense

[wooden walrus]

it feels like you're raiding some schmuck's stash

[hallow shadow]

Some PDAs should be linked to higher quality stashes.

If Bandits are bandits, they would have stolen stuff.
Dead Mercs/IPSF/Wardens would probably have nice shit tucked away.
Like that Bulat suit in Army Warehouses.

[wooden walrus]

not that you're just tripping over free shit just laying all over the zone

[plain fiber]

It'd be nice if they brought back NPC ranks and have it where Expert and Veteran Stalkers have higher quality stashes.

[plain fiber]

Freedom and Duty too, even in their weakened states.

[hallow shadow]

And some Loners end up finding some neat shit.

There’s no real reason these stashes are so dookie.

I can’t wait.

[plain fiber]

Expert and Veteran Loners should have decent stashes too. Maybe have Experienced-ranked guys potentially have something good as well.

[obtuse veldt]

Id rather be lucky and find a random exo, than already knowing the location tbh

[hallow shadow]

I need Transmogrification.

I want that trenchcoat armor the bandits and IPSF wears.

But. Only the looks.
I want my Falcon stats.

I also want a revamped melee system.

Skif swings that knife like a newborn.

Gimme a Claymore. I need R2-Poke

[obtuse veldt]

You want to explode them with a mine?

[plain fiber]

I think MISERY for CoP added in a hatchet.

I'm with you on trenchcoat though, I want that drip.

[obtuse veldt]

I like though the improvised traps from stalkers

Grenades and broomsticks, although the broomsticks need some fixes as it doesn't process damage at times

But I really want back mines

[wooden walrus]

that was what originally made me look up mods to remix the static spawns

'cause I stumbled into a freedom suit right next to Shah's that essentially rendered the meta progression on armors moot for like 4 tiers worth

completely for free

[static light]

Does anyone know if they're adding more playable area at some point? I been flying around with noclip and there's some interesting stuff out of bounds

[obtuse veldt]

It's kinda dumb

[graceful dirge]

I've been enjoying the crowbar reskin but really need extended melee range mod to come to console to match it

[wooden walrus]

so I was like "okay so every time I start a game I just need to come here and I don't need to worry about armor until the exos. Cool".

[static light]

I got the diamond suit with the box trick before they removed it

[obtuse veldt]

There is a development map 40% of the map is missing

[wooden walrus]

what's weird is that the game natively already supports randomization of static spawns so I have no idea why they didn't even add an option for that

but I guess that's just a byproduct of the pre-launch chaos this game went through

[static light]

That makes sense, I figured as much since some of the areas look under development

[wooden walrus]

whenever we get map modding tools I guess it'll be easier to just do stuff with static spawns and stashes, right now it's a gigantic pain in the nuts unfortunately

[obtuse veldt]

I already thought of some area being free DLC the others though will be paid likely

[obtuse veldt]

Don't forget that someone will start with making Lost Alpha 2

[wooden walrus]

good luck with that lol

[static light]

I will make a fallout settlement out of bounds in the woods somewhere

[fervent island]

Without DLCS?, i don't think.

[weary hedge]

Bruh being able to build would be fking awesome

[hallow shadow]

A companion system.

[coral shadow]

the crafting mod is wild, i can craft items that are not added to the base game,lIke the double drum mag for the G36

[graceful dirge]

https://discord.com/channels/504587323577729024/1404418274904510586 a work in progress, from the legend @median sapphire creator of craftable zone too

[wraith latch]

Hello everyone!

“New” stalker here. I started to play with S.T.A.L.K.E.R. last year when the Heart of Chornobyl came out and planning to play with the other games as well. Which one would you recommend go gor after I finish the HoC? Or should I start from the first released game?

Thank you 🤍

[quaint rampart]

Shadow of Chernobyl -> Clear Sky -> Call of Pripyat -> Stalker 2

If you want to do it in lore order somehow

Fixed actually. I thought you said Shadow of Chernobyl at first

[wraith latch]

Alright,so the lore timeline goes straight during the years? Glad to hear. Then I think I'll just buy them in a bundle and start to go down the rabbit hole 😄 Thank you for the answer ☢️

[hallow shadow]

Good luck!

[wooden walrus]

no, it kinda goes backwards actually lol

CS is a prequel to SoC and CoP is the earliest of all in the timeline

[fervent island]

CS it's the first in lore.
CoP is the last in lore.

[wooden walrus]

right, sorry, CS is 2011, SoC is May 2012 CoP is August 2012 (in the timeline)

[fervent island]

SoC possibly it's between may-june of 2012, there's a incoherence in-game (between the date of PDA) that imply that atleast is late may on some point of the game.

[wooden walrus]

I read someone say that CoP was actually the earliest which to me sounded all wrong but I probably misread them

I'll be the first to admit that CoP is the game I've played the least

mostly 'cause every time I start I'm like "man, I should play the previous games before this one" and will invariably run into some problem with the previous games and I'll end up doing nothing -_-

[weary hedge]

You find out CoP is the latest in the trilogy after encountering Strelok in the game and finding out he’s already been to the wish granter.

[wraith latch]

Ohh don't worry I'm a patient and persistent player😄

So

Clear Sky➡️Shadow of Chernobyl➡️Call of Pripyat➡️Heart of Chornobyl?

[weary hedge]

Chronologically yes.

[plain fiber]

I'm pretty sure at least some of that was always intended for DLC, but yeah there is stuff that's missing that should be there.

I'm hopeful that it will come in the future. (Please God, let S2 turn out like NMS where we get years of support, updates, and other cool shit.)

[plain fiber]

Chronologically yes, as tec says, but I strongly advise against playing them in this order. The main reason being that Clear Sky introduced a lot of gameplay and visual changes that weren't present in SoC, and going from having them to not is rather jarring and unenjoyable in my opinion. Plus, with the loss of those features, it makes the games play a bit differently.

[primal nimbus]

CS for the ears.
SoC for the Soul.
CoP for the eyes.
HoC for the Shining Zone.

[fervent island]

CoP for the eyes

[primal nimbus]

Burrowed a bit off a YT comment I saw

[plain fiber]

Clear Sky is for the eyes. It's got the highest fidelity graphics and nicest color scheme of the whole trilogy.

[wraith latch]

Okay,Then I’ll just play them as they were released. 😇 Thanks for all of you for the helpful answers 🤍

[obtuse veldt]

Amen to that!

[weary hedge]

Have fun. If you need any help or looking for a place to talk about the trilogy this would be your place

#⭐┃trilogy-general

[winged cobalt]

helo stolkr

[hallow shadow]

“You’ve Cheeki’d your last Breeki, Skif.”
-John Stalker

[primal nimbus]

You’re welcome. Good huntings, Stalker!

[stoic tiger]

Is stalker 2 more playable recently? I saw an article about it another performance patch coming out

[primal nimbus]

Idk

[thick kite]

Yo

[tacit agate]

last time i checked its pretty fine atleast on xbox

[thick kite]

At this point, I gave up on the storyline, I now have one objective, that is, hitting a milly and calling a day, and I will open the "new bank of Rome" in Rostok so I can exchange the coupons into Ukrainian rubles.

I just hate that a perfect game like this is just a buggy mess, if they focus more on the bugs then the gameplay not even the story would be Insanely great.

[stoic tiger]

Thanks for the heads up!!! I’m prolly gonna start a new game soon

[tacit agate]

yeah stalker 2 got me into the game but i decided to nab the og 3 for like 10 bucks on steam so im playing thru them rn

[primal nimbus]

Ngl, out of the 4, I enjoy 2’s gameplay the most but the other 3 have better stories

[tacit agate]

yeah but sometimes that feel of the old guns can feel really fun and its kinda easy getting used to x to sprint

[primal nimbus]

I play the games on Xbox.

The jank just kinda feels offish to me. Out of the 3, I like Clear Sky’s faction wars the most

[stoic tiger]

I wish they had faction wars in SoC

[primal nimbus]

Well, Clear Sky came out after SoC soooo

[hallow shadow]

“Privates, if you fall from my rappel tower.. I promise. You will bounce at least once. There’s tire shreds at the bottom.”
-Drill Sergeant

[crimson condor]

Least overencumbered playthrough of mine

[primal nimbus]

First one to pass out in the Zone gets- [Insert consequence of passing out in the Zone first.]

[crimson condor]

Eaten

[stoic tiger]

So true LMAO XD

[tacit agate]

the choice of being really fast and having no loot or being absurdly slow with more gear than you know what to do with

[ebon blade]

There are artifacts to help you carry more weight, but they each act differently in the green-yellow-red band area.

In other words, the artifacts that help you carry the most weight, don't necessarily give you the greatest increase in the green band.

You have to test each one and look at the green-yellow-red band area. Keeping in the green means your stamina is best for sprinting.

[dry siren]

MOTHERF

[obtuse veldt]

True stalkers are overencumbered with lots of loot

If you are not overencumbered often, you are doing something wrong.

[ebon blade]

The Thunderberry artifact is your best friend.
It doesn't increase your stamina when you are running,
but what it does, is increase your stamina being recharged.
You run, your stamina goes down, you pause for the recharge.

[obtuse veldt]

true, i just eat a lot of drinks and well... that screws over my hunger

[ebon blade]

You can equip two Thunderberries at a time, but more than two doesn't help as much.
Before you find the Thunderberry artifact, your best bet is to buy and drink energy drinks.

[obtuse veldt]

yeah, having a lead container is a MUST

good thing Lead containers are now a thing, a thing i hated on originals is that you couldnt get the benefits without an antiradioactive artifact

[rancid tundra]

Prick

[drowsy gorge]

That colonel was the reason I chose the ward. Not sure who I'd side with next. I'm thinking of spark, haven't played in a while

[ebon blade]

Name calling is not allowed. This channel is not here for you to "tag" it.
If you have something to say about the game, say it. Stop posting spam.

[drowsy gorge]

What bad words can't we say?

And too many warnings would lead to a ban, I'm sure?

[tacit agate]

thats pretty cool

[dry siren]

that stalker is a spy

[ebon blade]

If you are contributing here and talking about the game and use profanity, most likely, nothing will happen.
However, there are people that appear, say nothing about the game and use profanity, those will be acted upon.

[fickle hill]

[obtuse veldt]

Whats with all these bot warnings damn

I can smell the salt a mile away phew!

[fickle hill]

They can't learn to say it in a comfortable way or they're just saying the N word

[obtuse veldt]

Dang i dont have a saiba momoi emoji

[fickle hill]

[ebon blade]

Wolf is a bot, set up to warn people about the usage of certain words.
What is not allowed is to use malicious profanity towards other members.
If you use profanity because you are frustrated with something happening in
your game, that is understandable. You may still get the warning so don't worry.

[fickle hill]

That and bot warnings don't mean a thing only custom warns hold weight

[ebon blade]

https://tenor.com/view/momoi-momoi-saiba-blue-archive-momoi-blue-archive-point-gif-1074915807633549645

[obtuse veldt]

That one i was looking for!

IF you know!

you know...

[fickle hill]

[ebon blade]

I didn't know. I used reply > gif search > saiba momoi > first result.

[fickle hill]

Head on a stick

[ebon blade]

Mustard or Ketchup?

[fickle hill]

Ketchup ON THE HAND OF DEATH

[static light]

This game is turning me into a dog hater. I didn't think it would be possible but it managed

[fickle hill]

Gotta kill them all

[static light]

Annoying lil shits and I swear they know where I'm aiming bc they'll do their silly zero g serpentine maneuver when I'm about to shoot em

[fickle hill]

I feel the same I could only wish to have a flamethrower to pest control them away

[obtuse veldt]

Wait until you gotta deal with psydogs

2 or 3 psydogs are a nightmare

[static light]

The psydog I just save scum and I empty my mag in em before they can do the shadow clone jutsu

[obtuse veldt]

Problem is when there are 2 of them

[static light]

That would be great for rats too

[obtuse veldt]

or 3

[fickle hill]

I took an order from Harpy and there were 2 of em and I packed them both with a Dragonov fast fingers

Turn that sniper into a full auto and gottem both

[ebon blade]

It's usually the one farthest away, when it starts producing phantoms.

[obtuse veldt]

Now if they added the cut off dwarfs and the cut off zombies back in game

[static light]

I try to get up high and snipe em

[obtuse veldt]

at least for DLC

[static light]

I remember there was an izlom enemy in earlier games that looked like a slenderman

[obtuse veldt]

ah yeah that one too!

[ebon blade]

Look for the one that runs back and forth in the background
and not necessarily the ones coming towards you, for the most part.

[obtuse veldt]

Hoping to see them on "The secret of Limansk DLC"

[fervent island]

Izlom was a discarded mutant of Oblivion Lost and Shadow of Chernobyl.

[fickle hill]

Actually just today when I was walking to the Duga to grab more stashes at a time to wait for more barkeeps to get Duty down to white I have 20 rats just strolling across Malachite

[static light]

Yeh it was shoc

The tushkano rats are so weird, they will follow you forever. Sometimes I'll randomly have one attack me out of nowhere after I killed a bunch of them like 5 minutes ago several kilometers away

[tall knoll]

Would anyone like this game to be online? for an online version of it

[fickle hill]

I had one at sircca when I was about to take the elevator it was just following me around like a dog

[obtuse veldt]

saw them onm Lost Alpha too, their attacks were kinda buggy

[fervent island]

Could be good see more references to the discarded content in HoC, i know that several themes on the plot are inspired (directly or indirectly) on discarded content and that perhaps there's a mention of Messer (protagonist of Oblivion Lost).

[static light]

Haha yeah that one, the first time I saw it freaked me out

Cuz it looks like a human from a distance

[fickle hill]

So this is what Fent and coke does to a person

[fervent island]

Too, was planned that in Oblivion Lost there an neutral izlom that can talk with the player, and other unique mutants as an neutral pseudo-human (yes, pseudohuman), according the things that i remember from desdocs and/or content maps of 2003-2004.

[static light]

Hmmm

Idk how I feel about the rat swarms they added, bc theirs basically no effective way to fight them except nades, but when you get em all with one nade it is very satisfying

[tall knoll]

@ebon blade Can you add me to a ticket please?

[graceful dirge]

I was so hoping the Izlom would return especially with its representation in the official board game

[ebon blade]

I don't know what kind of ticket or request you are asking for.

[fervent island]

I would like talk about some discarded content of HoC but, Grigorovich Rules.

[tall knoll]

ill dm you

[ebon blade]

The creator and owner of GSC sold the company to a Ukrainian multi-millionaire.
Only the younger Grigorovich and his wife, who gave us Stalker 2, remain with GSC.

[fervent island]

Yes.
Maria Grigorovich is the responsible of the existence of HoC, and Evgeniy Grigorovich being the director of the project.
Maxim Krippa is the BOSS and Sergey Grigorovich if i remember correctly atleast until some time ago was developing "defenses for ukraine", now sergey grigorovich apparently it's making an new game/IP.

[ebon blade]

Maxim Krippa

[fervent island]

Vibes of sergey grigorovich having the face of strelok as self-insert.

[ebon blade]

Strelok was supposed to be the vibe of the Stalker from the Stalker movie (1979)

[fervent island]

And as plus Scar it's based on Stalker from Stalker.

[fervent island]

There's an conceptual art of Clear Sky where Scar it's almost identical, but with gigachad-jaw.

[fickle hill]

Mmm a Mosquito lamp

[fickle hill]

Mutated Man screaming at clouds

[obtuse veldt]

I FOOKIN HATE CHROMATIC ABORRATION

[primal nimbus]

Most sober Freedomer:

[pale ocean]

Really is a shame they haven’t added 🌲 yet…

If you know, you know.

[hallow shadow]

My man has the Weird Water kicking.

[hallow shadow]

“His weed really was magical. It made him, and my Koupons disappear.”
-Ganja, Rostok

But yeah. Skif needs a Smokey treat.

[ebon blade]

Nope. This is the effect of a Bloodsucker scream and attack.

[ebon blade]

No Freedomers are present in this side of the Zone, except zombified.

[still current]

!ban 1378689648326480034 spam troll... .

[frigid hill]

Dummy#0000 has been banned

Reason: spam troll... .

[ebon blade]

Did he return? I thought he left earlier.

[hallow shadow]

Oh shit. Someone else got nailed?

[still current]

Nah. It's an ID ban

[ebon blade]

Yes, I found the other conversation about this. Thanks.

[hallow shadow]

ID ban?
There’s more than one kind?

Asking for a friend.

Well. There’s also Temp Bans.
I copped a 7-Day in another server.
Didn’t realize.
So I came back in, on the 8th day, thinking I was sneaky. (Wasn’t gonna chat. Just wanted to see the Updates)
Another mod smoked me, for ban evasion.

Then the original mod invited me back.

[hardy totem]

https://tenor.com/view/hes-back-gif-8275005

[drifting bear]

I’d show who Dalin resembles more

[hallow shadow]

Dalin weirds me out.
Poor dude really seems like he wants to be the good guy.

It’s like he rides a really fine line between Mad Scientist and Misunderstood

[molten knot]

Which upscaler should i use with a nvidia gou

[ebon blade]

https://tenor.com/view/memecoin-chinese-dog-gou-gougang-gif-9341980659120004839

[molten knot]

https://tenor.com/view/stop-screwing-around-richard-adler-south-park-s3e4-e304-gif-21551413

[ebon blade]

I've never seen this person before.

[molten knot]

Sigh

[ebon blade]

https://tenor.com/view/stop-screwing-around-richard-adler-south-park-s3e4-e304-gif-21551413

[molten knot]

He he

Is dlaa good for a 4070

[molten knot]

So i shpuld use dlss on my card

But what lebel of quality

Dlss balanced, dlaa

[ebon blade]

DLSS 3.5 if you have it.

[molten knot]

Im talking about the in game quality setting

[weary hedge]

Good night stalkers. Love y’all

[hardy totem]

Minor role in Brooklyn 99, but the resemblance is uncanny

[wooden walrus]

okay, so DLSS is a supersampling method, I don't know if you're familiar with what that means

but essentially, supersampling means the internal resolution of the game will change to accomodate for drops in performance.

(not quite but as an approximation)

you can see the percentage right below the setting. "High" for example is 66% I think "balanced" is 58, etc

DLAA is 100, meaning, basically DLSS will do the antialiasing but otherwise the resolution of the textures will be 100%. This is obviously the most performance intensive method.

the other options will render the textures at less resolution by default, and will also prioritize FPS more or less. "Balanced" will dump texture quality faster if FPS suffers

my recommendation would be to keep it at "balanced" and if you're happy with your GPU load, then take it up to "quality"

What I do in games is, I usually will go for "high" preset, dumping a few options to "medium" that I know I don't super care about like shading, shadows, reflections, sky, clouds, volumetrics, etc. See what's the overall load

you then tweak it until more or less you're happy with the settings, and the supersampling is a bit like your suspension. Helps smooth things over as you encounter different scenes that can cause some strain on the FPS

(in stalker 2 you will inevitably drop your FPS massively in hubs, don't worry about that, just keep your eye on your GPU load)

The steam overlay can offer some statistics on your gpu and cpu loads, I personally prefer libre hardware monitor, because you can graph it out

also if you have an nvidia card, the nvidia app can "optimize" the game for you. It usually sucks but you can try that for the lols. In the case of my 5060ti it sets a few options up to "epic" and, honestly? It runs pretty well. I just don't need most options at "epic".

[umbral herald]

He's an idealist, no? Probably a sheltered, good kid with above-average means, with positive goals but not enough experience with bad people, that gets used by not-as-idealist powerful people. Maybe I've missed some things, but that's my take. He doesn't seem as evil and sociopathic as other renowned scientists in the Zone (maybe Hermann would disagree).

[stark crescent]

Good morning stalkers.

[stark crescent]

For most common gamers, the difference between a "high" and an "epic" are as close to as not noticable, while its impact is noticable.

And of course, some options have a much higher impact that others. I think rdr2 recommended put textures always on highest even on low end graphics, while it puts shadow quality at lowest.

[wooden walrus]

yeah usually textures is the last thing you want to lower

[hallow shadow]

Snork wasn’t having it.

[wet portal]

Hello all

Been a while

I fired up S2 for the first time in months the other day... Seems a lot has gotten better. Still feels... Empty. But much better overall

[wooden walrus]

mfw an exclusion zone feels empty:

[wet portal]

Also noticed some of my mods are broken AF so I may just clean install and restart, sucks loosing 100 hrs

[honest ferry]

snorkel

[wet portal]

Dorkel

[wet portal]

Late game is barren of stuff to do

[ebon blade]

That can happen if you rush to the end and miss so much of the game.

[umbral herald]

I get what you're saying, MCP. I think most of us here do, even Otto, though Otto likes to poke fun every now and again. 😁

[ebon blade]

I didn't even leave the Lesser Zone until after 200 hours.

[molten knot]

So could i run dlss on quality and use epic textures and high shadows and high effects?

[umbral herald]

Modded or unmodded? That's an insane number, and I also like to explore every nook and cranny in such games* (to be fair, S2 might not be the best for incentivizing this due to what exploration typically yields, IMHO).

[ebon blade]

The Lesser Zone has way more content than most people realize.
Most Players are too much in a hurry doing the main missions and then
leaving the level, as soon as they can. There is so much more to explore instead.

[wet portal]

I did everything in the Lesser zone in 89hrs

I'm still not yet to pripyat at 100hrs, haven't even seen the Red Forest and I already feel bored

It all feels like filler. I could've easily gone there by now, quest telling me to, but still finishing up other areas

[ebon blade]

How many factions did you meet in the Lesser Zone?

[wet portal]

Dude I don't remember that was over a year ago

I finished every quest in the Lesser zone

[ebon blade]

I'll give you an example of why I asked that.
The first time I went to the Boiler House, it had Bandits.
A return visit it had more Bandits. Then Loners a couple of times.
Next it was taken over by mutants. Later I ran into the Duty Faction there.
After visiting and finding Duty a few times, I found it occupied by Freedom.
Freedom was there a few times but the next visit I was ambushed by Mercenaries.
My point being, if you go some location once or even twice, you're not seeing the big picture.

[hallow shadow]

So… When do we get Battlepasses?

[weary hedge]

Admin, please ban for profanity😁

[hardy totem]

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

[ripe gate]

Thats actually confirmed to come when we also get major optimisation updates!!! ||(so never)||

[wooden walrus]

I would personally go with high textures, high effects, medium shadows, dlss in quality, and adjust as necessary as you play

[molten knot]

Why medium shadows?

[wooden walrus]

I personally don't care much about shadows and they are pretty gpu intensive

but again, you can tweak things as you go

I don't even know what cpu and gpu you're using, I'm just giving you a baseline to go with

that's the great thing about computer gaming, you spend like 4 times more than a console and in exchange you keep having to stop playing to keep fiddling with options for not that much gain in the end

that's why pc gamers call ourselves "the master race", because we need to make it sound like any of this pain in the balls is remotely worth it

[molten knot]

Im using r75800x 3d

[stark crescent]

And im using the intel x9000 KGB

[worldly wigeon]

Where’s stalker 4 at 😛

[molten knot]

Skill issue

[weary hedge]

Morning stalkers ☕️ hope everyone has a good day

[hallow shadow]

Wait… Really?
But… Those are generally synonymous with “seasonal” content.

Unless GSC plans to heavily monetize multiplayer cosmetics… What would a Stalker “Battlepass” look like?

[hallow shadow]

Awww. Good morning!

[spare canopy]

Good moaning, I was p*ssing by your door, when I heard two shats.

[hallow shadow]

I’m currently on the toilet.

So like… If you’re here.
I hope you have lvl 4 plates.

[spare canopy]

Ever watched a british programme called Ello Ello?

[hallow shadow]

I have not.

Last British show I watched (knowingly) was Mighty Boosh like… A decade ago.

[spare canopy]

Watch it... And get a Dr on call cause you will die laughing

[hallow shadow]

Netflix? YouTube? Prime?

[spare canopy]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fYNXMWRdCx0

Maybe torrent

[hallow shadow]

I haz no PC.
But I’ll check it out.
Lemme save that link on a Note.

So I made it partway through. Stopped when an Ad popped up.

I wasn’t expecting that.
It’s like… The British version of American toilet humor.

Love it.

“How many pairs of Knock- I mean knickers?”
“Fartteen.”

[spare canopy]

Brilliant stuff, it just insanely funny and witty and so so clever

Heir Flick

[hallow shadow]

Having spent a few years in Europe, this was beautiful.

Most Americans don’t grasp Euro-Humor (from nearly any nation)

[spare canopy]

and the funny thing was... it was on at 18:00 on a saturday... I is a national instituations 😄

[hallow shadow]

YES

[spare canopy]

Roman Catholic farter

[hallow shadow]

Bless the French

[spare canopy]

🤣

oh, if you want to avoid adverts on youtube... Go firefox with ublock origin

and just use the browser.... Zero adverts

[hallow shadow]

I have an iPhone.

[spare canopy]

can you not use firefox on iphone?

[hallow shadow]

And I don’t think my Xbox will let me use Fox.

I dunno if my phone will do that.

I’ll look into it.

[spare canopy]

ublock origin might be for your browser... It is useable on a number of browsers

[hallow shadow]

Safari, I think.
I have Google, or… I keep getting told to download google.

I just don’t feel like messing with my phone like that.
It’s all I’ve got.

But, I’ll be YouTubing the hell out of this.

The Brits make the funniest words for things. I truly find it fascinating.

Boot (trunk)
Blozzer (self explanatory)

[spare canopy]

I would try an find away of watching the whole series

[hallow shadow]

I also like the way they say “Garage”, and I’m also aware that the British say “aluminium” as opposed to America aluminum.

[spare canopy]

The beauty of the English language

And a lot of gallows humour too

[hallow shadow]

Ohhhh yeah.

Never been to the UK, though.

[spare canopy]

Not as good as it once used to be

unfortunately, it's lost a lot of character

I have fallen down an Allo Allo rabbit hole 😄

[umbral herald]

Ooooo, auto-lean toggle coming in 1.6, nice.

[hallow shadow]

I like the auto-lean… But I wish it didn’t happen on every surface, and at the most oblique of angles.

Trying to shoot, from some spots, makes skif lean in the most detrimental of ways.

[static light]

I like the far cry style auto lean and you can auto blind fire around corners too if you don't aim

[graceful dirge]

100% I like the way the auto-lean can have you add more gradual angles, but part of problem is that it's so aggressive on every surface even when you are some distance back from it

#📸┃screens_and_videos message I tried bringing attention to this a while ago with example video and tagging @waxen marten because def an issue easier demonstrated that way vs. maybe getting it picked for #📜┃gsc-answers but not sure if that ever got worked on yet

It's great that you raise weapons when too close to cover, but the system needs to recognize individual barrel length as a factor as to when this happens & that could factor in with how the auto-lean activates as well. As I stated in that blurb with the video, DayZ uses this system and every weapon has a unique length at which it raises from cover, which gives both better sense of immersion and depth & presents a tactical advantage from using shorter weapons behind cover

[waxen marten]

Yeah, we are looking into what to do with auto-lean in future, and in 1.6 toggle is coming

[graceful dirge]

Thank you for the response, have tried to keep my @ tags minimal and relevant but it's really wonderful to hear directly that some different solutions are being explored, 1.6 can't come soon enough!

[wooden walrus]

did you see the spoiler on the message you replied to

[hallow shadow]

No?

[wooden walrus]

the last two words are covered by a spoiler box. Click it and it will disappear

showing that battlepasses are not confirmed, he was just ... making a joke about the game never being optimized I guess?

kinda hard to pinpoint what was he trying to say, but point is, battlepasses are not confirmed for this game.

[pseudo gate]

Ah, everything except new stuff is being revealed in qna
We know about NVGs, and a bunch of QoL stuff, but the new stuff......

[wooden walrus]

well patch is releasing within a couple weeks at most so you'll have the chance to see for yourself.

not that there's a whole lot of new stuff besides the nvg and sdk, rest sounds more like tweaks and rebalancing

[pseudo gate]

True that, but I'm itching for those additional quests in empty areas
Was recently roaming around duga and burnt forest and there is so much.....not there
Aswell as Yaniv and Pripyat itself
Sheesh, Jupiter is like, a stretch you barely remember

[wooden walrus]

oh yeah we're getting a couple sidequests that's right

and one new anomaly that apparently is pretty hard to find

all that's nda, I'm guessing more for spoiler reasons

I wouldn't expect a huge amount of sidequests but afaik they're releasing the narrative tools on the sdk so that probably means people will start making sidequests and whatever soon enough

[tame gazelle]

coming up on 12 months since release and i still cannot turn off the fawking shiot that is auto lean.

please.

[stark crescent]

Some games call this a gameplay feature and simply wont add a toggle afterwards

Imagine someone complaining tetris only has 2 bars and a ball. And says something like "ugh, after 50 years, they finally add the option to change sound volume"

Gamer entitlement.

[umbral herald]

Back in my day, there was no lean, nevermind auto-lean.

[stark crescent]

And now we have lean, and then there is this guy complaining about it not having a toggle.

Its like. Just...finding stuff to complaint about.

If you want to complaint about something. Complaint about something real.

Like why are the mcdonalds hamburgers a freaking euro 80?!

Back in my day, you could get 1 for just 1 euro

They better feed that goddamn cow beer to make it that much more expensive.

[pseudo gate]

But the thing is, I want that sweet developer intended experience....
And master diff, altho I asked and they answered in QA that it is not happening in 1.6

[wintry pumice]

Back in my day, we played Stalker in real life

[pseudo gate]

Also the most annoying thing ever, you can't collect all USBs on ward path....
Why, just why

[umbral herald]

Thought to add to this discussion, but now you just made me crave junk food (and I have just eaten). 🥲

[tame gazelle]

We're getting closer to the real 1.0 launch bois

[pseudo gate]

Ahaha okay we're so back

[tame gazelle]

done are the days of being a paid beta tester

[lethal locust]

How much teaser for this 1.6.. my god..

[tame gazelle]

paying********************

[quiet elm]

oh hell yeah

[wintry pumice]

Did they fix save files getting deleted issue yet?

[quiet elm]

stash rebalancing

[fresh storm]

"Look more carefully, or you might miss something"

My loot goblin ass: take all

[tame gazelle]

Looks Bread..........

[wooden walrus]

You can very easily make a difficulty preset for master. I have no idea why people are waiting for that

[quiet elm]

im so overencumbered

[wooden walrus]

just take the modifiers from the OGs and apply them to veteran difficulty, ta-da, master diff.

[pseudo gate]

Because I'm expecting more than tweaked numbers

[obtuse veldt]

Oh my, finally an interesting loot...

[storm magnet]

what happened to 1.4 and 1.5?

[jolly wing]

New NVG sloth!

[crystal bison]

nice

[wooden walrus]

the difficulty on every single stalker game up to now has been tweaked numbers. The difficulties in stalker 2 so far are tweaked numbers. I would strongly expect it to be tweaked numbers.

[fresh storm]

Anomaly/EFP broke me so out of habit I grab everything thinking I could break it all down for parts

[obtuse veldt]

Expect tankier enemies and higher damage, while also even lower loots

[wooden walrus]

I'm not sure but I would say nothing outside of the difficulty presets .cfg is affected by difficulty

loot generators have ranks, but not diffs afaik

[umbral herald]

Great eye, brother!

[smoky hawk]

they have already released

[pseudo gate]

Can a man have a dream of overtime healing instead of instant one, importance of sleep and drawbacks firm chugging energy drinks like you want to burn your health bar in 2 years